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Speaker 1: Sid Good morning, so good Saturday morning.
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Speaker 1: Congratulations on being up at this hour to join us
Speaker 1: on Garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we
Speaker 1: are looking forward to visiting with you about the things
Speaker 1: that you're curious about in your garden. Maybe you've got
Speaker 1: a strange insect, a strange spot on the leaf, you
Speaker 1: need a plan identified or diagnosed or whatever. We can
Speaker 1: do all those sort of things here. Just welcome to
Speaker 1: give us a call at your convenience and tell us
Speaker 1: what you would like to talk about. You know, the topics.
Speaker 1: I can tell you the things I'm getting emails about,
Speaker 1: things I'm getting calls about, the things that typically are
Speaker 1: on people's minds at this time of the year. But
Speaker 1: it's mostly about what you care about, what you're interested about.
Speaker 1: What are the issues that you're having in your garden. Well,
Speaker 1: let me give you a phone number so you can
Speaker 1: give us a call seven to one three two one
Speaker 1: two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one
Speaker 1: two five eight seven four. That's how you get here
Speaker 1: on garden Line. If you have been struggling with some
Speaker 1: different aspects of lawn care, gardening or whatever, let's see
Speaker 1: if we can get down to the bottom of it
Speaker 1: and do some diagnosis. Some of you have sent a
Speaker 1: photo in during the week ahead of your phone call.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that that is how I most like to
Speaker 1: do it. That way when you call me. I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to picture something you know in my head that
Speaker 1: you're describing, because I find that that doesn't always line
Speaker 1: up really good when I try to picture what somebody
Speaker 1: is describing. Well, it looks like the rain has led
Speaker 1: off for a little while now, and we sure did
Speaker 1: get plenty of it, I tell you. Compared to last year,
Speaker 1: where we were so blazing hot for so long with
Speaker 1: no rain, this year has been different. Up to now,
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to jinx it or anything by saying that,
Speaker 1: because you know, summer does bring its droughts, and it
Speaker 1: does bring it certainly brings its hot weather, which we've
Speaker 1: yet to experience here. I think it's going to be
Speaker 1: that way a little bit this week. It's going to
Speaker 1: warm up quite a bit. And so just a reminder.
Speaker 1: If you have plants that you put in, let's say,
Speaker 1: in the last few months, this is a good time
Speaker 1: to remind yourself that those root systems are still quite limited.
Speaker 1: You pulled it out of a cylinder in a pot
Speaker 1: full of a pot full of soil, and the roots
Speaker 1: were all within that cylinder of soil. When you put
Speaker 1: it in the ground, they start to move out into
Speaker 1: the soil around them. But that's a gradual process over time.
Speaker 1: And so we have to remember that that plant still
Speaker 1: has an artificially small root system because we grew a
Speaker 1: pot and we have to continue to water it, and
Speaker 1: we need to water it where the roots are, so
Speaker 1: you may see, well, I certainly want to water that
Speaker 1: original cylinder area, but a little bit beyond it as well.
Speaker 1: When you water, and I've seen people make the mistake
Speaker 1: of they reach around out and feel the soil and
Speaker 1: it's moist, but that's the soil, you know, foot away
Speaker 1: from the plant system, and they're not roots out there yet,
Speaker 1: depending on how long ago you plant it, and so
Speaker 1: always focus that water on the area where the original
Speaker 1: cylinder was and then gradually moving out, you know, certainly
Speaker 1: six inches foot even two feet as the months go
Speaker 1: on from that area, making sure that has water because
Speaker 1: we're trying to keep that plan alive, but we're also
Speaker 1: trying to help it thrive. That is our goal, and
Speaker 1: summertimes a stressful time. You can plant in summer. You
Speaker 1: can go to the garden centers this weekend and get
Speaker 1: you some good plants, bring them home and plan them.
Speaker 1: And if you take care of them right and take
Speaker 1: care primarily means give them adequate watering during these first months,
Speaker 1: they will have success. And remember that we are now
Speaker 1: in August. September is also a summer month here in
Speaker 1: our area. And then in October we typically start to
Speaker 1: see a little bit better of a break from the
Speaker 1: heat a little bit at the end September, but it's
Speaker 1: not that much. It's temporary typically, so we've got several
Speaker 1: months really that a summer warm season annual will look
Speaker 1: good in your landscape. And if you drive around town
Speaker 1: look at landscapes, there are a sea of green. There's
Speaker 1: green grass, green trees, green shrubs, green ground covers. You see.
Speaker 1: You get the idea put some color in there, and
Speaker 1: you can do it. You know, if you plant marigoles,
Speaker 1: or if you plant angelonia, if you plant any foliage
Speaker 1: plants that have bright colors, they're gonna look good for
Speaker 1: a good while. You're gonna get plenty out of them.
Speaker 1: So it's still a good time to get planting done.
Speaker 1: And those plants will go away when the first frost comes.
Speaker 1: They are warm season annuals, not cold season annuals, and
Speaker 1: we can continue to plant those. If you've never planted
Speaker 1: stuff that blooms in the fall, it's still a good
Speaker 1: time to plant that. That stuff will start blooming, some
Speaker 1: of it toward the end of August. I'm a lot
Speaker 1: in September and even in October and fall flowers are
Speaker 1: beautiful in the landscape, and so go ahead and get
Speaker 1: some of those started. Sometimes sometimes I think about the
Speaker 1: fact that in spring, everybody's a gardener, you know, everybody
Speaker 1: is planting the things that are going to look good
Speaker 1: in spring. That's an easy time, but think of your
Speaker 1: landscape all four months the year. I may talk about
Speaker 1: that a little bit more here in just a bit.
Speaker 1: Right now, we're going to go out to the phones
Speaker 1: and talk to Dave. Hello, Dave, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 9: Good morning, Thank you very much. I have a neighbor
Speaker 9: and he's a real good guy. The problem is that
Speaker 9: give me probably about probably about two or three months ago,
Speaker 9: he burned a big patch of his of his front
Speaker 9: lawn with fertilizer. It don it looks like he lit
Speaker 9: it on fire now now as not as brown and black.
Speaker 9: And only thing that's thriving with there are the weeds.
Speaker 9: We were talking the other day. How would he repair
Speaker 9: it and and get rid of the weeds.
Speaker 1: It depends on what the weeds are, and then he
Speaker 1: has options. For someone with no tolerance to weeds, then
Speaker 1: you would need to use either a grassy or a
Speaker 1: broad leaf we control product, or something that kills both
Speaker 1: to get rid of them existing weeds. If there's no
Speaker 1: lawn there, he could use something that kills everything, or
Speaker 1: that just kills grass if they're grassy weeds, and then
Speaker 1: follow that up with plugging in some sod around them,
Speaker 1: or filling it in. However he wants to go about it,
Speaker 1: watering it, and really good sod will still establish quite
Speaker 1: well right now. This weather is fine for our warm
Speaker 1: season turf if you water it, and that would be
Speaker 1: one option. Some people are a little less or a
Speaker 1: little more tolerant of the green and the weeds, and
Speaker 1: they don't want to spray, and so if the areas
Speaker 1: are huge, you can't do hand pulling. If they're not
Speaker 1: so big, some hand pulling is an option, or you
Speaker 1: can just get in there and rototill them a little bit,
Speaker 1: pull those weeds out, get them by the way, rake
Speaker 1: it smooth, and then put the sawed in. So that'd
Speaker 1: be another option. But if it's a perennial weed, Dave,
Speaker 1: I would I would either very carefully hand dig it,
Speaker 1: which I suspect people are not going to want to
Speaker 1: go do, or and then but I would I would
Speaker 1: spray it because it's just going to come back. Rototilling
Speaker 1: doesn't necessarily kill perennial weeds.
Speaker 9: With the saw grow with the saw grow all right
Speaker 9: in that area where because like I said, you put
Speaker 9: too much fertilizer down would fertilize.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the reason The reason excess excess fertilizer hurts is
Speaker 1: one of two reasons. If it was a weed and feed,
Speaker 1: which this was definitely not the time to be using that,
Speaker 1: then there may be some residual from the herbicide that
Speaker 1: was in the product. It was just fertilizer, then it's
Speaker 1: just a salt burn, and a good drenching with water
Speaker 1: will wash that away, just like if you sprinkle table
Speaker 1: salt real strong in your lawn and you kill grass
Speaker 1: with it. You just desolve it and wash it away
Speaker 1: with some fishings, good flushings.
Speaker 9: You'll be glad to hear that. He'll be glad to
Speaker 9: hear it back, and that's what he's been doing. So okay,
Speaker 9: thank you very much.
Speaker 1: All Right, Dave, thanks a lot, appreciate your call very much.
Speaker 1: Bye bye. Well, we're going to take a little break
Speaker 1: here and i'll be right back. The number if you'd
Speaker 1: like to give us a call seven one three two
Speaker 1: one two fifty eight seventy four, and we're going to
Speaker 1: talk about the things that are interesting to you, maybe
Speaker 1: questions that you have. If you give us a call
Speaker 1: seven one three two one two kt r h uh
Speaker 1: insects will invade our turf at times and they give
Speaker 1: you significant damage. That our prime insects season, it's really summer,
Speaker 1: mid to late summer especially, that's when chinchbugs attack. As
Speaker 1: we get a little further into the summer is when
Speaker 1: we would see if we're going to see it a
Speaker 1: significant sod webworm attack. Nitrofoss has a product called bug
Speaker 1: Out Max. Bug Out Max is designed to deal with
Speaker 1: insects like that. It's a granule, You spread it out,
Speaker 1: you water it in. It releases the product off the
Speaker 1: granule and insects that are down there in the thatch,
Speaker 1: like chinchbugs, that's where they hide, like sod webworms, that's
Speaker 1: where they spend their day, come out evening to do
Speaker 1: their feeding on the leaves. It'll hit them hard, it'll
Speaker 1: knock them out, and within forty eight hours it's pretty
Speaker 1: much done. It's work, but it's going to keep working
Speaker 1: all summer. It lasts, it does last, so you don't
Speaker 1: have to do it over and over again. Don't do that.
Speaker 1: Just give it a good application and you'll be good
Speaker 1: for the rest of that season. You're going to find
Speaker 1: that product as well as other Nitrofoss products. It bearings, hardware,
Speaker 1: both the one on buss and up the one on
Speaker 1: Westheimer Plantation ace out there and Katie carries it as
Speaker 1: well as does Hiden and feed on I forty five
Speaker 1: North on that area a stupener airline. Actually they carry
Speaker 1: nitrofoss bug out Max as well. Talking before going in
Speaker 1: to break about a number of things, we were talking
Speaker 1: about the importance of continuing to have good color in
Speaker 1: our landscapes. And just because it's summer doesn't mean our
Speaker 1: landscapes have to turn into a sea of green. They
Speaker 1: just don't. And you can fix that by planting good
Speaker 1: heat tolerant plants. And there's a lot of them out there.
Speaker 1: And our good garden centers, you know, the mom and
Speaker 1: popsy independent garden centers. I talk about it on garden Line.
Speaker 1: They have the expertise to point you to the right plants,
Speaker 1: the places the person. Sometimes you go out and talk
Speaker 1: to somebody that was not even working in the plant
Speaker 1: world for the previous years of their life and they
Speaker 1: just show up and suddenly they got to answer plant questions.
Speaker 1: You get that quality of answer that you would expect
Speaker 1: from someone that just doesn't have the knowledge. Our independent
Speaker 1: garden centers it is not that way. For example, Plants
Speaker 1: for All Seasons. Plants for All Seasons is a garden
Speaker 1: center where they've been doing this, the Flowery family since
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy three. I would say they've got a few
Speaker 1: years in the business. And when you go in there,
Speaker 1: I don't care if you've got a brown thumb or
Speaker 1: a green thumb or what color thumb. They will help
Speaker 1: you find success by pointing you to the right plants,
Speaker 1: telling you how to care for them. You got a
Speaker 1: problem with something you bought and it's now bug is
Speaker 1: eating it or whatever, bring it in. Bring the bug in,
Speaker 1: let them see or take a picture of it, and
Speaker 1: they will know what to do. And if a product
Speaker 1: is necessary, they'll tell you which one actually works, and
Speaker 1: that is important. You can take them photos or whatever
Speaker 1: you want now. They're located just north of Luetta on
Speaker 1: FM two forty nine. That's Tombol Parkway. So if you're
Speaker 1: going up toward Tomba, you just exit Luetta, crossover Luetta
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Speaker 1: Two eight, one three seven six sixteen forty six two
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Speaker 1: Plants for All Seasons dot com. We're going to go
Speaker 1: to the phones. Now to Manville, Texas and talk to Adolf.
Speaker 10: Hello, Adolf, Yes, sir, good morning.
Speaker 11: A question about.
Speaker 9: How to prevent and maybe you.
Speaker 10: Were just talking about it, infestation of I guess the
Speaker 10: worm that gets into the canna and it ruins the
Speaker 10: beautiful leaves, Yes, and the plane itself.
Speaker 1: So once a little moss lasy egg and it hatches
Speaker 1: out into the caterpillar, that caterpillar will move inside the
Speaker 1: canna whirls, you know as a kenna leaf comes out.
Speaker 1: It's it's world. It's a rolled up like you roll
Speaker 1: up in the newspaper, and so they get inside there,
Speaker 1: so step you spray on the outside doesn't get to them.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you can, you know, turn your nozzle and squirt
Speaker 1: some stuff down in that whirl. But BT will kill them,
Speaker 1: and spend no said, will kill them. I think I
Speaker 1: would probably go with Spindo said, because it does soak
Speaker 1: into the leaf tissue, but which BT doesn't do. And
Speaker 1: so even a caterpillar feeding from the other side of
Speaker 1: the leaf that you sprayed can be controlled with it.
Speaker 1: But you got to stay with it because once they
Speaker 1: get in there and tie it all together where the
Speaker 1: leaf weren't unfurl, and it's just they can do significant
Speaker 1: damage and it's easier to catch them early. So I
Speaker 1: would say at the first sign of any holes in
Speaker 1: the leaves, you should probably start that spraying.
Speaker 12: Okay, when when would that be.
Speaker 10: Do they attack in a certain time of year or
Speaker 10: is it early spring or just well.
Speaker 1: It's it's warm seas, it's warm season, and I've seen
Speaker 1: them at different times, so there's not really a you know,
Speaker 1: on June first spray for this past it's a just
Speaker 1: you don't know when they're going to show up, and
Speaker 1: they may not show up. I had cannis for years
Speaker 1: that didn't have a problem, and then all of a
Speaker 1: sudden one year they found bit and so I start
Speaker 1: having to deal with them. So you just you know,
Speaker 1: it's nature, So just kind of watch for it and
Speaker 1: see did they get hard last year? Did they get
Speaker 1: your canos last year?
Speaker 11: So last year and this year?
Speaker 1: Okay? Uh So I would probably start watching for them,
Speaker 1: certainly by the time we get to about April even
Speaker 1: and especially in May and June. But somebody who doesn't
Speaker 1: have them could suddenly get them even now.
Speaker 10: Okay, And what did what did you say to.
Speaker 1: You to you use okay, I would use something spin
Speaker 1: Spino said, s P I N O S A D
Speaker 1: like sad ah. That's that is a liquid. Now there
Speaker 1: are synthetic pesticides that will kill them too. Most people
Speaker 1: would rather, you know, go with something that's a little
Speaker 1: more natural as their first choice, and I think in
Speaker 1: this case that would do the trick. Sometimes we don't
Speaker 1: have a great natural option, but with this we do.
Speaker 10: Okay, Now, if if a worm does get in there,
Speaker 10: and I'll see the leaf all curve up, yeah it's
Speaker 10: it's I guess it's kind of late. But would you
Speaker 10: suggest that I just cut yes leaf all together?
Speaker 1: And yes, I would just cut it off. I would
Speaker 1: cut it off below that. If you want to cut
Speaker 1: it off at the ground, you could. But if you
Speaker 1: just want to cut it off below that and get
Speaker 1: it in the trash and get it out of there,
Speaker 1: because you don't know, maybe a pupil stage already, it's
Speaker 1: about to come out as an adult moth. So that's
Speaker 1: called sanitation, just getting the getting the bad stuff out,
Speaker 1: and that certainly is legit. Now that alone is not
Speaker 1: going to be a solution to can of leaf rovers
Speaker 1: because he ended up cutting up your whole patch of Canni's.
Speaker 1: But just when you got one there, if you're like, okay,
Speaker 1: this one, I can't get to this one, you can
Speaker 1: cut that out if you want. But there's no problem
Speaker 1: with just just spraying once you know they're there, just
Speaker 1: about once every week or ten days, just spray with
Speaker 1: the spinosa, get it on the leaves. You may need
Speaker 1: to use a spreader sticker because kenna leaves water tends
Speaker 1: to ball up, beat up on the leaf and roll
Speaker 1: off U and so a spreader sticker would help get
Speaker 1: that spread out. So when the when the pest arrives,
Speaker 1: you've got good.
Speaker 10: Coverage and the sticker is what some.
Speaker 1: Well, now there's a there are some spreader stickers, one
Speaker 1: called Turbo. I believe Turbo. I'm trying to think of
Speaker 1: some other names. But any you go to a good
Speaker 1: Ace hardware store, you're going to find spreader stickers out
Speaker 1: in your area.
Speaker 12: Okay, yeah, there's one in Pariland. Okay, thank you much?
Speaker 1: Sure is there's several of them down there? All right?
Speaker 1: If all right? Well, thanks a lot, appreciate the call.
Speaker 1: Thank you, yep, CANi Lee rollers boy that essentially I
Speaker 1: have a video I to post that online to our
Speaker 1: Facebook page a video of a wasp eating a canile roller,
Speaker 1: and wasps are the number one The number one food
Speaker 1: for wasps is caterpillars. And so when we have caterpillars
Speaker 1: that we don't want, you know, not butterfly of them maybe,
Speaker 1: but when we have caterpillars we don't want, like a
Speaker 1: candi leaf roller or a webworm, wasps are out there
Speaker 1: getting them. And so we you know, you see wasp,
Speaker 1: we think it's going to sting me. I got to
Speaker 1: kill the nest. Well, if you're allergic to them, I
Speaker 1: understand the health concern. If the nest is right where
Speaker 1: you got to walk into the door every day, I
Speaker 1: understand the concern. But if they're not bothering you and
Speaker 1: they're off to the side, just know that's what they're
Speaker 1: doing all day, capturing caterpillars, bringing them back to the
Speaker 1: to the nest. I think I had mentioned this before
Speaker 1: on Garland, but we heard once that some entomologists in
Speaker 1: the Midwest with a extension system there they estimated seven
Speaker 1: thousand caterpillars a year at a good with a good
Speaker 1: large sized wasp nest. That's a lot of caterpillars. I
Speaker 1: mentioned ACE hardware when we were visiting there with Adolph.
Speaker 1: Ace Hardware's are all over the place. So if you
Speaker 1: heard me say that you got forty of them to
Speaker 1: shoes from. You just go to Ace Hardware dot com.
Speaker 1: That's where you'll find the store locator and you can
Speaker 1: get a little map of all the Ace hardwares that
Speaker 1: are all over the Greater Houston area. Now when you're
Speaker 1: when you're looking for anything to control pests, anything to
Speaker 1: control diseases, maybe it's mosquitoes. Boy, we got them now
Speaker 1: there They have hatched out somewhere in my neighborhood and
Speaker 1: I go outside and they're waiting. Well, the mosquito dunks
Speaker 1: to stop the larvae, or a foger or whatever you're
Speaker 1: using to control mosquito, it's at Ace Hardware. They carry
Speaker 1: it all fire ants I'm seeing Barman where I was
Speaker 1: in my yard. I didn't know I had them there
Speaker 1: because they were underground. They're not visible at that point.
Speaker 1: And with the rain, here comes the soil, I say,
Speaker 1: boiling to the surface. You know, it's just the little
Speaker 1: mound starts to grow up out of the ground. Fire
Speaker 1: ant baits. There's a lot of good firet baits, both
Speaker 1: synthetic and organic options for fireant control at ACE Hardware,
Speaker 1: as well as everything else you need to have a
Speaker 1: bountiful garden and a beautiful landscape. Ace makes it really easy. Well,
Speaker 1: it looks like it's time for me to take another break.
Speaker 1: I will be back in just a moment if you
Speaker 1: want to give us a call. Seven one three two
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Speaker 1: weird to talk about the things that interest you. What
Speaker 1: what would you like? Maybe you're looking at your landscape
Speaker 1: and let's just say you have to close your eyes
Speaker 1: when you drive in every day because things aren't looking
Speaker 1: so great. I talk to people all the time like that. Heck,
Speaker 1: there's times when I come back from a VIC I've
Speaker 1: been away and it's like, oh, man, I know what
Speaker 1: I got to get doing. Well, if you're trying to
Speaker 1: improve things, maybe you would like some more color in
Speaker 1: the last day. Maybe you would like some new beds
Speaker 1: that really frame the home that really you know, whatever
Speaker 1: is of interest. You know, people drive around town and
Speaker 1: they see stuff and they go that is gorgeous. I
Speaker 1: take a picture of it, and that'll be your guide
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Speaker 1: the rains we've been having a while back, they can
Speaker 1: fix that, make the drainage better, so you can grow
Speaker 1: plants that need good drainage. Do you want landscape lighting?
Speaker 1: Maybe you just like the way that the beds and
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Speaker 1: and we're gonna go to Edwina and Hello Edwin, and
Speaker 1: welcome to Guardenline.
Speaker 13: Thank you for taking a call.
Speaker 14: I'm calling a back that I have.
Speaker 13: A volunteer in my gardens. It it grew up freestons.
Speaker 13: I did not plant it. It has little teeny tiny
Speaker 13: flowers look like incredibly miniatured daisies, and.
Speaker 15: Then it developed little green.
Speaker 13: Fairies or balls or whatever, and then it falls to
Speaker 13: deck and I have no clue what it is.
Speaker 1: Is it a vine or is it like on upright
Speaker 1: stalks or what plant form is?
Speaker 13: It's just upright stacks long stins.
Speaker 1: Okay, you know I want to there are bazilion plants
Speaker 1: out there. And I think the best way for me
Speaker 1: to give you an accurate answer would be for you
Speaker 1: to send me a photo or photos. Okay, do take
Speaker 1: some photo, Take something up really close, you like, with
Speaker 1: your hand in the photo, or something that shows me sighs.
Speaker 1: So if I see those little flowers, I know exactly
Speaker 1: how big they are. Anything that shows size like that.
Speaker 1: Take a picture of the whole thing from a distance, too,
Speaker 1: and I'll be happy to give you an id. And
Speaker 1: are you wanted to get rid of it or you
Speaker 1: just want to know what it is?
Speaker 13: Oh, I didn't want to get rid of it. I
Speaker 13: just find it fastly. But it's a little teer. It
Speaker 13: came out of dirt, and I'm assuming some bird that
Speaker 13: drops the thing in all right, all.
Speaker 1: Right, well, all right, Chris will give you my email
Speaker 1: to send them to and and I'll be happy to
Speaker 1: if I see it soon enough, I'll talk about it
Speaker 1: on the show today. If not, you know, I can
Speaker 1: reply to you just in the email. All right, Thank you,
Speaker 1: appreciate appreciate your call very much. Let's go now to
Speaker 1: friends would and talk to Connie. Hello Connie, welcome to
Speaker 1: garden Line.
Speaker 14: Thank you, good morning, nutcrass is my bane. It's growing
Speaker 14: in the floor stick ever, and I can't bend over
Speaker 14: to pick it up and pull it out. And since
Speaker 14: they don't still glad to say it anymore, the substitute
Speaker 14: called round up doesn't work.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's right, and really glefsate didn't either. It mainly
Speaker 1: was a top burn and nuts edge is a complicated
Speaker 1: creature and I actually I thought i'd have it up
Speaker 1: by this weekend. I'm almost done with a publication on nutsedge.
Speaker 1: There's purple nutsedge and yellow nut sedge, and they each
Speaker 1: they're different in some ways that are important to know
Speaker 1: when you're going to control them. And I'm going to
Speaker 1: put that up on my website. It should be up
Speaker 1: early this coming week. Also going up on the website
Speaker 1: is how to build a weed wiper. It's a free
Speaker 1: thing on how to build a weed wiper, and that way,
Speaker 1: it's basically a stick with sponges on it that allow
Speaker 1: you to wipe the product on nuts edge without getting
Speaker 1: it on desirable plants. And if you have a giant patch,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to spray that. There are products. Where
Speaker 1: is the nuts sedge growing?
Speaker 14: It's growing by itself, through the moult, and I have
Speaker 14: stick molts. Okay, I don't have to worry about surrounding plants.
Speaker 1: Okay. Well, then there's a product called Manage. In fact,
Speaker 1: there's a there's a couple of products out there. One
Speaker 1: of them is called Manage, and Manage is very effective.
Speaker 1: It's probably the best product at managing nutsedge that we have,
Speaker 1: and you can find it. There's another product that is
Speaker 1: the set. In fact, there's you know what, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm take that Manage back. I was just thinking about
Speaker 1: something else. It's called sedge hammer. But sedge hammer plus
Speaker 1: is available in a lot of different places. You are
Speaker 1: down in the Friendswood area, you can probably get it
Speaker 1: at any of your ACE hardware stores, and there's a
Speaker 1: number of ACE hardware stores in your area. But sedge hammer,
Speaker 1: just think of a hammer killing your sedge. It's easy
Speaker 1: to remember. There are other versions. High Yield has a
Speaker 1: nutsedge control, Martin's has a nutsedge control, Monterey has a
Speaker 1: nutsedge control. Just go to a place and knows what
Speaker 1: they're talking about, like an ACE Hardware down in your
Speaker 1: area and ask for something for nuts edge. But a
Speaker 1: sedge hammer is the easiest, probably to tell them about.
Speaker 14: Okay, I will do that, all right.
Speaker 1: Now. That said, as we go through the year, the
Speaker 1: effectiveness of products varies, and the most important time to
Speaker 1: control nutsedge is when in the spring, when the new
Speaker 1: shoots come out, when they have three to five leaves,
Speaker 1: you need to start on them. Then it hits a
Speaker 1: point when it gets past five leaves that it's not
Speaker 1: taking products down. The products will kill the top. They
Speaker 1: won't go down and kill the nut like they will
Speaker 1: early on. So this is going to be one you
Speaker 1: need to stick around for. And I just would say
Speaker 1: my website is gardening with skip dot com. That's where
Speaker 1: my schedules are. This will be up early this week,
Speaker 1: and I would encourage you. The long version is for pages,
Speaker 1: but it has a lot of information that you really
Speaker 1: need to know and think about. Uh. And then I'll
Speaker 1: have a short version that's just a one sheet. Here's
Speaker 1: what you do. But either way you go about it,
Speaker 1: check those out so you make sure when you go
Speaker 1: after it you're not wasting your time and money.
Speaker 16: Right right right, all right.
Speaker 14: Complicated creature it.
Speaker 1: Is, and it's not easy. It's one of the number
Speaker 1: if you were to look around the world at the
Speaker 1: top five weeds. That's one of them. That's one of them.
Speaker 1: All right, Thank you, Connie, I appreciate I appreciate you
Speaker 1: call very much. We got to run to a break.
Speaker 1: When we come back, Lynn, you'll be our first up.
Speaker 1: Glad you're with us today. Looking forward to talking to
Speaker 1: you about the things that are of interest to you
Speaker 1: to help you have a more bountiful garden and certainly
Speaker 1: a more beautiful landscape. If you're looking for a natural
Speaker 1: fertilizer product that would give your lawn a really good
Speaker 1: and quick boost. By the way, Sweet Green from Nitrovoss
Speaker 1: is a product that'll do that. It's a molasses based product,
Speaker 1: and being molasses based, it's going to provide carbon, which
Speaker 1: anytime organic gardeners know this. When you put molasses in
Speaker 1: the soil, it gives a boost of beneficial microbes in
Speaker 1: the soil by being a source of carbon for them. Now,
Speaker 1: Sweet Green by Nitrofoss is eleven percent nitrogen, so it's
Speaker 1: a good boost you're going to want to put about. Generally,
Speaker 1: I would say we would put ten pounds of it out.
Speaker 1: I think if it were me, this is my advice
Speaker 1: on it right now, I would do half of it
Speaker 1: now because you don't need all of that at one time,
Speaker 1: So about five pounds per thousand square feet right now,
Speaker 1: and then six to eight weeks later do it again
Speaker 1: with the other five pounds, and that will give you
Speaker 1: a more even feed across the summer season. Makes it
Speaker 1: a little easier to do that. You're going to find
Speaker 1: night Foss products like sweet Green at Enchanted Forest, which
Speaker 1: is out in the Richmond Rosenberg area RCW Nursery up
Speaker 1: on Tomball Parkway, FM two forty nine. They have it
Speaker 1: up there as well, and I would say maybe one
Speaker 1: other place growers Outlet up in Willis. How about that.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of places I could name. Sweet green
Speaker 1: is widely available, and being a product from Nitrofos, you
Speaker 1: know you're going to find it in a lot of
Speaker 1: different kinds of garden centers, feed stores. Certainly places like
Speaker 1: Ace Hardware Store, StAst Fertilized, they all carry products like
Speaker 1: sweet Green from Nitrofos. We're now going to head out
Speaker 1: to sugar Land to talk to Lynn. Hello, Lynn, welcome
Speaker 1: to guard Line.
Speaker 17: Good morning. Say my high biscus this year have been
Speaker 17: absolutely gorgeous, and yesterday I noticed there's white powder or
Speaker 17: on the ends of some of the stems and at
Speaker 17: the base of some of the flowers. Okay, it's fat pottery.
Speaker 1: M If you kind of poke around in it, you
Speaker 1: may find some little bugs in there crawling around a
Speaker 1: little uh, kind of cottonknee bugs, just plump little bugs.
Speaker 1: If you find that and you're not squeamish, take your
Speaker 1: thumb and forefinger and just squish them and kind of
Speaker 1: push down and then slide your thumb to the side
Speaker 1: just to kind of squish them out that. If you
Speaker 1: see kind of a pinkish goo, that's mealy bugs that
Speaker 1: you're seeing, and meaie bugs are a challenge. There are
Speaker 1: some other plants or bugs that can cause that powdery look,
Speaker 1: but mealy bugs, if it's hibiscus, that will be the
Speaker 1: first one that I would think about.
Speaker 17: Me I think there is I think there are some
Speaker 17: something in that pottery I took.
Speaker 1: Not tell right. So medibugs have a lot of coating
Speaker 1: on their body, waxy stuff coming out, and it's just
Speaker 1: almost impossible to get a spray on them. If you
Speaker 1: were going to try to spray, I would say insecticidal
Speaker 1: soap or horticultural oil or even nam oil squirted directly
Speaker 1: on that little group of mealybugs would be something to try.
Speaker 1: The oils, I would not. I would move it out
Speaker 1: of the sun, the direct sun to use those, because
Speaker 1: it's going to be blazing hot this week, and we
Speaker 1: oil on plants or soap on plants when the sun
Speaker 1: is shining, and that good but horticultural lobient option. If
Speaker 1: it were mine, I would take a strong water pistol
Speaker 1: gun for the hose, you know those little spray guns. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I would put my hand behind it and I
Speaker 1: would just try to blast them off of there. They're
Speaker 1: not going to land on the ground and go crawl
Speaker 1: back up on the plant, at least not to any degree.
Speaker 1: And I would physically remove them. They do natural enemies,
Speaker 1: excuse me. Whenever you spray pesticides, you often kill natural
Speaker 1: enemies too, and then the media has become even more
Speaker 1: of a problem. So the blast with water or the
Speaker 1: just the spray of oil directly onto those particular critters
Speaker 1: is important anytime you find them anywhere, if it's just
Speaker 1: on the ends of a shoot somewhere. Printing it out
Speaker 1: is also a good idea. Just get them out of
Speaker 1: the area, because again they're hard to control with sprays.
Speaker 17: Oh great, Well, yeah, that's absolutely gorgeous. But I did
Speaker 17: take a pose and use the jet spray and spray
Speaker 17: all said. I took a scott tell to to see
Speaker 17: if I could see anything in it, but I didn't.
Speaker 17: And also, if I can say go ahead.
Speaker 1: I was going to, Well, if you blast them as
Speaker 1: good as you can, once it dries, you look back.
Speaker 1: It wouldn't hurt to get a little cotton swab and
Speaker 1: put some rubbing alcohol on it and just kind of
Speaker 1: dab it in there, because that will cut through that
Speaker 1: and kill them. Also so that some people use a
Speaker 1: Q tip, I think that's a little too tedious for me,
Speaker 1: but whatever works for you. But the main thing is
Speaker 1: you're just there. You know, you don't have an acre
Speaker 1: of hibiscus, So you got a plan or two or three,
Speaker 1: and you can do some regular checking and prompt control
Speaker 1: because they tend to stick around.
Speaker 17: All right, that's great. Let me say one more thing.
Speaker 17: Yesterday I had Tears Landscapes put in a French train
Speaker 17: and they did a fabulous top job.
Speaker 1: Well that's wonderful to hear. I'm glad here. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: expect anything less, but they really are good at that.
Speaker 1: So good for you. You're going to be able to grow
Speaker 1: more stuff back there.
Speaker 17: Well I needed it, Chris Well, thank you very much.
Speaker 1: Yes, you bet, thank you. I appreciate that. Collin, thanks
Speaker 1: for that report on them too. If you're up in
Speaker 1: the Tombol area and you're looking for a feed store,
Speaker 1: D and D feeds out west of town. D and
Speaker 1: D Feed carries ever fertilizer I talk about on guarden line.
Speaker 1: They have a good supply. They have a good supply
Speaker 1: of pest management products inside as well. D and D
Speaker 1: Feed is going to carry those soil products like from heirloom,
Speaker 1: the age leapmo compost, the rose soil, the fruit berry, citrus,
Speaker 1: veggie and herbs. All those you're going to find them
Speaker 1: at D and D Feed. They have a selection of
Speaker 1: plants seasonally out front also, but when you go inside,
Speaker 1: that's where you're going to find a lot of things
Speaker 1: to help you have a beautiful, bountiful garden and landscape.
Speaker 1: D and D Feed just to the west of Tomball
Speaker 1: on twenty nine to twenty. Their number if you'd like
Speaker 1: to give them a call two eight one three five
Speaker 1: one seventy one forty four to eight one three five
Speaker 1: one seventy one forty four. Head out now to Steve
Speaker 1: and Tomball.
Speaker 4: Hello, Steve, hey, Skip, Hey, I'm in a constant war
Speaker 4: here with the storm leaf feed or at. I got
Speaker 4: some block and I called in a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 4: You were going to send me the recipe to mix
Speaker 4: with it, and.
Speaker 3: I just used it.
Speaker 1: Did you send me an email? Did I get an
Speaker 1: email from you?
Speaker 4: I gave it to your skull cleaner, you call clean?
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna put you on
Speaker 1: hold and ask you to do that again. I do
Speaker 1: not remember seeing an email, So just send me a
Speaker 1: fresh one, and that way it'll be on the top
Speaker 1: of my list, and I'll send you what you do,
Speaker 1: how you do it, what you mix and everything, how
Speaker 1: to go about it, and we'll make sure and get
Speaker 1: that covering for you. Okay, okay, yeah, all right, I
Speaker 1: apologize for that if we didn't get that done the
Speaker 1: first time. Yeah, leave cut our ants. They're not something
Speaker 1: to mess with. Well I hear the music. That means
Speaker 1: we're putting an hour in the books here on garden Line.
Speaker 1: Just a reminder, if you go to my website Gardening
Speaker 1: with Skip dot com you'll find my lawncare our guides
Speaker 1: in there. That would be the lawn care schedule, which
Speaker 1: is bowing water and fertilizing, you know, how do you
Speaker 1: care for your lawn? And then the other schedule is
Speaker 1: the pest disease and we'd management schedule and that's how
Speaker 1: do you deal with all the things that want to
Speaker 1: mess up your lawn. And so you can find either
Speaker 1: of those. By the way, both of them have organic
Speaker 1: and synthetic options out there for you. We put the
Speaker 1: product's names on the label that we would recommend for
Speaker 1: the particular things you run into. It just makes it
Speaker 1: easy to go shop to turn them out, take them
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Speaker 1: Welcome the Garden Laws. We are glad you're with us today.
Speaker 1: We're here to talk about the things that interest you.
Speaker 1: What is that well, give us a call seven one
Speaker 1: three two one two k t r H seven one
Speaker 1: three two one two k t r H. That talking
Speaker 1: to earlier about I was mentioning the fact that our
Speaker 1: landscapes are sea of green and the importance of you know,
Speaker 1: putting some color in the landscapes. And I know it's
Speaker 1: it's hot outside, and I know you know that takes
Speaker 1: the enthusiasm out of gardening for gardeners, but the morning
Speaker 1: hours are still good times to be out and to
Speaker 1: take care of things in the lawn and landscape, and
Speaker 1: whether you're planting new plants or in establishing getting them
Speaker 1: going so you can still have that beauty. Don't wait
Speaker 1: till fall to have beauty, or if you're dealing with
Speaker 1: problems in the landscape and now's the time to get
Speaker 1: out there. There's a saying that the best fertilizer or
Speaker 1: the is the footprints of the gardener, and what that
Speaker 1: basically means is the more you get out in your garden,
Speaker 1: the better your garden is going to do. That basically
Speaker 1: is what it amounts to, and it's for a lot
Speaker 1: of different reasons. I would say also the best pest
Speaker 1: and disease control is the footprints of the gardener. And
Speaker 1: when it comes to diseases, we have very few things
Speaker 1: that are curative in the way of sprays. We have
Speaker 1: things most fungicides specterocides and things are preventative. They do
Speaker 1: best at preventing, especially fungicides when it comes to that.
Speaker 1: So I've noticed in lawns these last few weeks, with
Speaker 1: all the rain and cloudy weather that comes with rain
Speaker 1: that we had, there has been an uptick in gray
Speaker 1: leaf spot in Saint Augustine. Gray leaf spot is a
Speaker 1: little well it's the name says it. It's a little
Speaker 1: gray spots on the blades of Saint Augustine grass. Now,
Speaker 1: from a distance, you may look at it and it
Speaker 1: kind of has a yellowing look to it. It's just
Speaker 1: something because there's very yellow leaves in it. Those are
Speaker 1: leaves that have a lot of spots on them, and
Speaker 1: if you get up close and look at it, you
Speaker 1: can see those spots. I mean they're everywhere. Now people say, well,
Speaker 1: where did it come from. Well, it's ubiquitous. And that's
Speaker 1: true of a lot of diseases. And an example I
Speaker 1: get this isn't a disease, but if you had brick
Speaker 1: on the side of your house in a shady area,
Speaker 1: there's no algae on the brick. But if you start
Speaker 1: if you had a mester going and it kept that
Speaker 1: brick wet or moist suddenly you would see algae growing everywhere.
Speaker 1: Where did the algae come from. It's out there, it's
Speaker 1: in the environment. You just gave it the environment that
Speaker 1: it wants to thrive. And the same is true with diseases.
Speaker 1: When you shade Saint Augustine a lot, when you increase
Speaker 1: the humidity, you keep the leaves, the grass blades wet
Speaker 1: longer periods of time. Gray leaf spot's going to be
Speaker 1: a problem. Excessive amounts of nitrogen also push the grass
Speaker 1: toward certain problems like gray leaf spot. So when you
Speaker 1: see that in the lawn, there's a couple of things
Speaker 1: you can do. People want to spray it, and you
Speaker 1: can spray to prevent further infection, but you're not going
Speaker 1: to cure the spots that are there. And I had
Speaker 1: some in my lawn a little bit earlier when we
Speaker 1: had that kind of rain we were having, and I
Speaker 1: just keep going, just mow it and keep going. The
Speaker 1: grass comes back in and it ends up looking pretty good.
Speaker 1: In fact, it might right now if I went out,
Speaker 1: I'd have to get on my hands and knees down
Speaker 1: in there to find that old gray leaf spot infected blades.
Speaker 1: But if you want to spray, you have to use
Speaker 1: a fungicides bit. It's better with any fungicide treatment to
Speaker 1: be preventative because once you have the spots, it's not
Speaker 1: going to cure it. It's not going to make what's
Speaker 1: their goal away. It just prevents additional infections. I hope
Speaker 1: that makes sense. That is kind of the bottom line
Speaker 1: on when we're dealing with certain kinds of disease problems.
Speaker 1: But if you see that gray leaf spot, then that
Speaker 1: is a good sign that you know it's been those conditions.
Speaker 1: I'm going to do a little right up on it.
Speaker 1: And you know what I'm going to do in order
Speaker 1: to have some gray leaf spot to do in the
Speaker 1: right up, go out to a corner of my yard
Speaker 1: and throw a piece of plywood on the grass. Just
Speaker 1: leave it there on the grass. What does that do?
Speaker 1: That shades it and that creates the perfect humidity chamber
Speaker 1: underneath there for disease proliferation. Leave it on there for
Speaker 1: about a week and then pick it up. Maybe not
Speaker 1: at full we just check it periodically, but you will
Speaker 1: start to see gray leaf spot all over those leaves,
Speaker 1: and so I can get some really good pictures of it.
Speaker 1: It's not gonna kill my grass. I guess if I
Speaker 1: left the plywood long enough, it would. But that just
Speaker 1: proves the point of what causes that disease to proliferate
Speaker 1: because underneath that that plywood piece of ply with that,
Speaker 1: you're going to see the disease, where right around it
Speaker 1: you didn't. What's the difference environment, the environment that promotes
Speaker 1: or the environment that doesn't promote the disease. Well, hopefully
Speaker 1: that made a little bit of sense. You were listening
Speaker 1: to Gardenline. I'm your host, Skip Richter. Our phone number
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Speaker 1: By the way, having a beautiful lawn is a goal
Speaker 1: for many people. I mean, lawns are the carpets of
Speaker 1: our landscape. And Medina has a new product that's part
Speaker 1: of their hastrogro line called super Grow Plus. Medina super
Speaker 1: Grow Plus. It's a sixteen zero two fertilizer sixteen O
Speaker 1: two that's the ratio of nutrients or the amount of
Speaker 1: nutrients on it. It contains about a fifth of the
Speaker 1: nitrogen in a slow release form, which is nice. It
Speaker 1: contains a lot of other cool stuff like seaweed extract
Speaker 1: and molasses and humic acid and an iron in a
Speaker 1: keylated and when you're seeing yellowing areas of your lawn,
Speaker 1: I would get some hash to grow Supergrow Plus. It
Speaker 1: hooks up to a garden hose, covers about four thousand
Speaker 1: square feet. It'll take you about ten minutes. It takes about
Speaker 1: ten minutes to just run over that area that one
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Speaker 1: folier feed along with it going down in the ground
Speaker 1: and the roots take it up too. That's all happening
Speaker 1: with has to Grow Supergrow Plus widely available, like all
Speaker 1: Medina products are, that is one that is new. I'm
Speaker 1: pretty excited about it. I think it's a really good
Speaker 1: addition to their line. In fact, this week coming week,
Speaker 1: I've got some areas where I'm going to go out
Speaker 1: and use that again on my lawn because of the
Speaker 1: results that we see. Our phone number if you'd like
Speaker 1: to give me a call seven one three two one
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Speaker 1: kt r H. You hear me talking about birds all
Speaker 1: the time, and I have a bird feeder that has
Speaker 1: a little camera in it. My kids gave it to
Speaker 1: me a couple of Christmases ago, and it's got a
Speaker 1: little camera in it and you hook up. You got
Speaker 1: an app on your phone and whenever a bird lands,
Speaker 1: it takes a picture, and it also take videos. It's
Speaker 1: pretty smart. It knows you know just how to how
Speaker 1: to do that, and you get some really good close ups.
Speaker 1: I mean it's almost like, you know, you look through
Speaker 1: one of those those peep holes in your door where
Speaker 1: you can see who's standing outside your house, and then
Speaker 1: they put their face up to the people. That's kind
Speaker 1: of what the birds look like, except that it's not
Speaker 1: such a FISHII effect in it. But I was at
Speaker 1: my granddaughter with me and we were taking a look
Speaker 1: at some of the email messages or the notifications I
Speaker 1: should say that I got saying somebody's been at your feeder.
Speaker 1: And so it's kind of cool, pretty exciting. We've seeing
Speaker 1: all kinds of birds. You can collect them. It'll also
Speaker 1: it has some other cool features in it. But the
Speaker 1: bottom line is I had to put some new fresh
Speaker 1: feed in and when I went out to do that,
Speaker 1: I noticed that there was a lot of moldy feed
Speaker 1: down in the bottom from all this rain, I hadn't
Speaker 1: checked it in a while, so you want to wash
Speaker 1: that out really good. You know, birds can get diseases too,
Speaker 1: and so you always want to keep those feeders clean
Speaker 1: and you want to use a quality feed. That is important,
Speaker 1: and that's where Warbirds Unlimited comes in. Most cheap feeds
Speaker 1: out there are going to contain a lot of the
Speaker 1: little red bebies. That's a type of seed that birds
Speaker 1: don't particularly care for. They kick it on the ground
Speaker 1: and they don't care for it. So when you buy
Speaker 1: a pound of that feed, you don't get a pound
Speaker 1: of bird food. You get some on the ground and
Speaker 1: then some in the birds. Warbirds Unlimited feeds are not
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Speaker 1: birds for various times of the year. They have it
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Speaker 1: if you walk into Wallbirds, I'll tell you which one
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Speaker 1: you if you get frustrated with squirrels getting out and
Speaker 1: eating all the bird seed and you've tried everything squirrels
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Speaker 1: really works. Took a little video of at the other day.
Speaker 1: I'm on post on Facebook that it's just you know,
Speaker 1: squirrels just can't get in. They just don't get into it.
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Speaker 1: here in the Houston area. What's time for me to
Speaker 1: take a break. I'll be right back and as we
Speaker 1: come back, John and Tomball you'll be our first up.
Speaker 1: As well as if you are dealing with weeds in
Speaker 1: your landscape, it's because you're allowing the sunlight to hit
Speaker 1: the soil if they're coming from seed, and you got
Speaker 1: to keep the soul surface covered. That's called maltching. That's
Speaker 1: what the forest does. That's what nature does. And when
Speaker 1: that happens, you don't have as many weed problems. And listen,
Speaker 1: when it's ninety five plus degrees outside, I want to
Speaker 1: be out there pulling weeds right well. Landscaper's pride has
Speaker 1: got you set. They've got a number of different high
Speaker 1: quality products that are mulches that go on the surface
Speaker 1: that help, and I've talked about those for weeks now,
Speaker 1: different various ones. There's a number also of quality soil
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Speaker 1: made recycle composted plant material. It's got a neutral pH
Speaker 1: and it releases its nutrients back into the soil. Black
Speaker 1: Humus is a dark, rich organic mix of composted pine
Speaker 1: bark with loamy topsoil. Helps will hold water in that
Speaker 1: soil mix, and it's great for a brand new bed
Speaker 1: or for renovating a bed as well, does well in
Speaker 1: pretty much any growing condition. Mushroom composts. Those of you
Speaker 1: are familiar with mushroom composts know that it's really a boost.
Speaker 1: It's regionally sourced here, it's composted with age pine, and
Speaker 1: that product also really stimulates organic activity. Someday I have
Speaker 1: to tell you a story about mushroom compost and the
Speaker 1: difference it made in a test we did a while back.
Speaker 1: Landscaper Spride's got that Gardener's Magic's organic pine based mix,
Speaker 1: Got Humus, got screen pine composted rice holes chicken pillet fertilizer,
Speaker 1: which is going to give you about a three month release.
Speaker 1: It's really ideal for raisbed gardens and container gardens, all
Speaker 1: from Landscaper's Pride and you can just go to their
Speaker 1: website Landscaperspride dot com to find out where you can
Speaker 1: purchase it near you, and there are many many places
Speaker 1: that carry it here in the greater Houston area. We're
Speaker 1: going to go now out to Tomball, Texas and talk
Speaker 1: to John.
Speaker 3: Hello, John, good morning, Skip.
Speaker 1: I'm doing well.
Speaker 3: Thank you good.
Speaker 11: So.
Speaker 18: My problem is it's not necessarily Carolina creeper, but it's
Speaker 18: one of the creeper vines. Basically, there's a traveling route
Speaker 18: about about as big around as my thumb that it'll
Speaker 18: send up shoots that have pointed, diamond shaped leaves and
Speaker 18: about clusters of five or six. And I'll used a
Speaker 18: couple of different herbicides and I'll burn the top down,
Speaker 18: but I'll never get something that it's not playing that
Speaker 18: that traveling route.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'll pull them up.
Speaker 18: I'll pull that root and it's ten feet long.
Speaker 1: Okay. So I think what you're talking about is something
Speaker 1: called pepper vine, but it doesn't really matter which it is.
Speaker 1: What you're gonna want to do is get a product
Speaker 1: containing trichlope here t r I c l O p
Speaker 1: y r, and you you can spray it on the leaves.
Speaker 1: You can use a wiper applicator to put it on
Speaker 1: the leaves, and you can also use a little sponge
Speaker 1: brush to paint it if you will. The product product
Speaker 1: straight in this case, and the brush along the vine
Speaker 1: itself so that vine is very thin skinned and that
Speaker 1: tricl a peer soaks in and it will kill it
Speaker 1: that way as well. But you have to stay with
Speaker 1: it because it's got so much underground crawling around structure.
Speaker 1: Just one application is not going to go through and
Speaker 1: kill everything all the way back wherever the vine came
Speaker 1: originally came from. So just stay with it. But when
Speaker 1: it comes up, if you do that each time, you'll
Speaker 1: knock it way back and you'll eventually win. But t
Speaker 1: r I c l O p y r is the ingredient,
Speaker 1: and you'll find it in poison ivy killers and stump
Speaker 1: and brush killers, and the brands and the names are varied,
Speaker 1: but that's the ingredient to look for.
Speaker 3: Okay, very good, Well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're up there. Like in Tombo, if you've got
Speaker 1: to D and D feed on twenty and twenty west.
Speaker 1: They're going to have a tricle appear out there.
Speaker 3: Very good, All right, much appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Thank you for your help, you bet, thank you. I
Speaker 1: appreciate your call. Let's see here, get to our next call.
Speaker 1: We're going to go to talk to Ken out in Magnolia. Hello, Ken,
Speaker 1: Welcome to.
Speaker 12: Gardline, Boria.
Speaker 19: Sir, how are you?
Speaker 20: Thanks for taking my call? All right, thank you for
Speaker 20: taking my call.
Speaker 9: What my issue is is I have.
Speaker 20: A Kalopenia plant that was doing really well and it
Speaker 20: all of a sudden, I noticed that the leaves were
Speaker 20: starting to droop a lot, and I thought it was
Speaker 20: a water issue. Check the soiled soil was fine and everything,
Speaker 20: and I think what it may be is it may
Speaker 20: be root rot. Is there any way too, Is there
Speaker 20: any way of taking care of that?
Speaker 1: Not really with something that's a little warm seedan you're
Speaker 1: like a kalopena would be. It may be root rot.
Speaker 1: It could be some other things. There are diseases that
Speaker 1: plug the plumbing of the plant. They get inside the
Speaker 1: structures that take water from the roots to the top.
Speaker 1: It could be one of those, and there's not a
Speaker 1: good control on that edible plant. Uh, okay to control that.
Speaker 1: It could be nematodes and the soil. Nematods can be
Speaker 1: a real problem for plants as well.
Speaker 19: Okay, if it's yeah, yes, or go ahead. I'm sorry now,
Speaker 19: I'm just gonna say if it's that, yes, go ahead, yeah,
Speaker 19: all right.
Speaker 1: If it's if it's nematods, uh, there's not a cure
Speaker 1: for it, but there's things you can do over time
Speaker 1: to control their numbers, to lessen their numbers. But the
Speaker 1: main thing would be don't plant anything there that gets
Speaker 1: nematods for the next several years, and and and take
Speaker 1: out the steps. But you would have to get some roots,
Speaker 1: kind of wash them out of the ground to take
Speaker 1: a look at them, because they're gonna have lots of
Speaker 1: little hard knots or bumps on them, like a string
Speaker 1: of pearls, but much uglier than that.
Speaker 20: Okay, okay, all right, well I appreciate it. I'll try
Speaker 20: that any Thank.
Speaker 1: You, and a ken if you if you want to,
Speaker 1: if you want to take pictures of what you see
Speaker 1: and send it to me, I'll be happy to take
Speaker 1: a look. So I can put you on hold if
Speaker 1: you would like, and when you get some pictures like
Speaker 1: the roots and you want to know is this nematodes
Speaker 1: or whatever? Just you just email them to I'll put
Speaker 1: you on hold.
Speaker 20: And okay, I'm actually.
Speaker 18: Driving, so sent a man a different time.
Speaker 12: That's okay, but I appreciate it, sir.
Speaker 3: Thank you very much.
Speaker 9: Imp great date you met.
Speaker 1: Good to talk to you. Let's see we need to
Speaker 1: run out now to Orange, Texas and talk to Joey.
Speaker 21: Hey, Joey, hey, boss Hey, I got a lemon tree
Speaker 21: that's grown back after the freeze, and.
Speaker 3: I was wondering if I could uh graph that.
Speaker 20: If so work, I could get a graph from.
Speaker 1: You would just have to find somebody that has what
Speaker 1: you want to graph to it. You can pretty much
Speaker 1: probably graph pretty much any kind of citrus to it
Speaker 1: that you want. But if you want another myerline under
Speaker 1: some thing and you're just doing it for your backyard
Speaker 1: home plant that I think that that's fine. You just
Speaker 1: you gotta find somebody that Scott one and what you'll
Speaker 1: do is you want to use at this time of year,
Speaker 1: you'll want to use a tea bud and you can
Speaker 1: go online to find out how do you do tea buds?
Speaker 1: And then I would I would do that near the
Speaker 1: bottom of the plant, wrap it up really good with
Speaker 1: something to hold the moisture in, and then once you
Speaker 1: see there's still life in the bud that you put in,
Speaker 1: then you end up kind of breaking the top over
Speaker 1: and that forces that bud to push out in a row.
Speaker 1: But that's that's what.
Speaker 9: You do, okay.
Speaker 22: And I can do that like a couple of different spots.
Speaker 12: Would that be okay?
Speaker 1: You could? I would do two on it, and not
Speaker 1: by one under the other, but like one on one side,
Speaker 1: one on the other. And if you fail, you'll get
Speaker 1: reach sprouting of the rootstock, and then you can try
Speaker 1: it again in the wintertime, late winter or something. You
Speaker 1: can do something a cleft graph that works really well too,
Speaker 1: or even in the spring.
Speaker 9: Yes, sir, all right, okay, Dan, yes, sir.
Speaker 23: I appreciate you.
Speaker 1: Hew both all right, Joey, thanks a lot. I like
Speaker 1: that lemon question and orange Texas that isn't citrus. I
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Speaker 1: by the way, Eric and Cyprus, Bread and sugar Land
Speaker 1: and John in League City here I need to go home. Hey,
Speaker 1: welcome back to garden Line, your host, Skip Richter. We're
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Speaker 16: Skip, good morning. Do you prefer on landscape bids the
Speaker 16: use of pine mark mulch or hardwood malt? And in
Speaker 16: putting it in? Are you an advocate of removing the
Speaker 16: leaves and old mulch? Are just going on top of it?
Speaker 1: Good questions?
Speaker 16: Uh?
Speaker 1: One is fine either mulch is fine. Pine bark tends
Speaker 1: to be a little slower to decompose, so it lasts
Speaker 1: a little bit longer, but that can be a plus.
Speaker 1: But also the fact that mulch is decomposing is building
Speaker 1: that soil over time, and so I don't see rapid
Speaker 1: decomposition is really a big deal. Certainly not a big negative.
Speaker 1: So either way you can go is just fine. As
Speaker 1: far as whether you remove old stuff, no, put the
Speaker 1: new stuff on top. Think about the forest. Every year,
Speaker 1: new leaves fall on top of the old leaves that
Speaker 1: were just laying their dead dry, and now those covered
Speaker 1: leaves begin to decompose and every bit of organic matter
Speaker 1: releases all the nutrients that are in it back into
Speaker 1: the soil, stimulates microbial, beneficial microbes, and just makes the
Speaker 1: root zone much much better. So yes, leave the old,
Speaker 1: don't pull it out.
Speaker 16: Okay, Well, thank you.
Speaker 1: I appreciate your appreciate your question. We're going to go
Speaker 1: now to Cyprus and talk to Eric. Hello.
Speaker 11: Eric, Hey, Skip, I got a couple of things I
Speaker 11: want to ask you about. First. This last spring, I
Speaker 11: got my first crop of burweed in the backyard. I'd
Speaker 11: never seen it before. I've got kind of a sparse backyard,
Speaker 11: and I'll be darn at that stuff didn't just pop
Speaker 11: up everywhere, and uh, once it gets mature and you
Speaker 11: start walking on it, it is not fun to get
Speaker 11: that people and those things out of your feet. So
Speaker 11: my question for you is what do I do to
Speaker 11: kill it? Maybe for the next season it it burned
Speaker 11: off and disappeared kind of Uh, but I've got I've
Speaker 11: got kids running around the backyard, and I've got an
Speaker 11: above ground pool, So I'm thinking, I really don't. You know,
Speaker 11: it's not friendly the bare feet. So what's your best
Speaker 11: your solution.
Speaker 1: You're you're saying, uh, Eric, that that the plants themselves
Speaker 1: of the weed are pretty much gone, now right, Is
Speaker 1: that what you're telling me?
Speaker 12: Yeah?
Speaker 11: Yeah, once it got hot, they just shrilled up. But
Speaker 11: then again there's still those birds. They don't disappear necessarily,
Speaker 11: but they okay, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: So basically, you know you're not gonna get the birds
Speaker 1: out of the of the lawn that are already there,
Speaker 1: and that certainly is a lot of seeds, so it
Speaker 1: will be back. The number one thing you need to
Speaker 1: do is the mow water fertilized regimen that builds the
Speaker 1: densest possible lawn. The denser your lawn the less sunlight
Speaker 1: hits the soil, the less bur weed seed can sprout
Speaker 1: and successfully establish a plant. I suspect that last summer's
Speaker 1: heat and drought did a little bit of thinning in
Speaker 1: your lawn and probably opened the door for this year
Speaker 1: to be such a rough year with those. But so
Speaker 1: if you go online, I don't know if you've ever
Speaker 1: downloaded my schedule from gardening with Skip dot com, but
Speaker 1: it tells you exactly when and what to apply and
Speaker 1: how to mow and water and everything to have that success.
Speaker 1: So that's number one. Number two is you can use
Speaker 1: a pre emergent herbicide if you feel like you still
Speaker 1: you know you haven't achieved that fully deep denslan. A
Speaker 1: pre emergent herbicide will prevent wheat seeds from germinating. And
Speaker 1: we talk about barricade from nitrofoss that will control grassy
Speaker 1: and broad leaf weeds. With each product you use, it's
Speaker 1: not like every weed out there it'll kill, you know,
Speaker 1: there's some that it's better at than others. There's a
Speaker 1: product called Gallery that is focused just on broad leaves
Speaker 1: but doesn't control grassys. The barricade will do both. So
Speaker 1: if you try something and you don't feel like you
Speaker 1: had the success you needed, you may want to switch
Speaker 1: to something different. It may be better against that weed.
Speaker 1: But either way, on my schedule that now this I'm
Speaker 1: talking about the other schedule now, the pest disease and
Speaker 1: wheat management. It tells you exactly the products to use
Speaker 1: and when to apply them because you've got to get
Speaker 1: in before the the burweeds sprouts.
Speaker 11: I've been kind of stingy on the on the chemicals
Speaker 11: in the backyard because I've got pets back there they
Speaker 11: go around and two on the grass. And then of
Speaker 11: course I mentioned already grandkids. So any of these or
Speaker 11: most of these safe after you apply. I mean, I
Speaker 11: know there's the spray that's going to get on the
Speaker 11: planet itself, and then there's the granule it's just going
Speaker 11: to kind of be on the on the ground. But
Speaker 11: that's that's been my main concern.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I understand, and and people have different opinions about that.
Speaker 1: There's certainly any chemical, whether it's used to control weeds
Speaker 1: in the lawn or suffuse around the house, even can
Speaker 1: be dangerous if if your exposure to it is great enough,
Speaker 1: or they use it in certain ways. You shouldn't Uh,
Speaker 1: so that I'll lead that decision for sure up to you.
Speaker 1: But if you wanted to go with an organic product,
Speaker 1: the only one out there that has some success is
Speaker 1: gluten meal. The problem with corn gluten meal is due
Speaker 1: to things in nature I won't bore you with, but
Speaker 1: basically too much moisture, soul moisture. It often is not successful.
Speaker 1: But that's the organic pre emergent option that's on my schedule.
Speaker 1: I still thought that the turf density really is what
Speaker 1: you're going to want based on listening to your question there, Eric,
Speaker 1: And you could also do if it's compacted and it's
Speaker 1: a clay, you could have it aer rated and do
Speaker 1: accomplished top dressing that stimulates density and growth as well,
Speaker 1: So that would be another option for you.
Speaker 11: Yeah, there's some large sections where there's no there's no more,
Speaker 11: say in Augustine, it's like mostly crab grass. So I'm
Speaker 11: thinking it's going to be a dig it up and
Speaker 11: side some of these sections because there's no recruit and.
Speaker 1: Do it now may soon because grass can can root
Speaker 1: in in this hot weather. You just have to when
Speaker 1: you sod for the first week, you're gonna water it
Speaker 1: twice a day and not too much water, but water
Speaker 1: twice a day, then water once a day for the
Speaker 1: next week, and then gradually wean it off. But you
Speaker 1: can get sod to take and if you've got big areas,
Speaker 1: there's no getting the turf dense because there's no turf,
Speaker 1: so definitely sodding it now would be important.
Speaker 11: All right, And this is an area where that gets
Speaker 11: it gets kind of flooded when it rains. I mean,
Speaker 11: my yard can have inches of water. So if it
Speaker 11: goes fresh sod with that liluin it, you think it
Speaker 11: is a wet period After that.
Speaker 1: Well, a wet period not so much. You know, if
Speaker 1: it's under water for a week, that's not good. But
Speaker 1: I think based on what we're saying, making sure you
Speaker 1: get grass down where there's not grass, and then everywhere
Speaker 1: you can make it as dense as you can, that's
Speaker 1: really going to be your way out of this. Hey,
Speaker 1: I got a really quick if you yeah, thank you
Speaker 1: very much, appreciate call uh. Our phone number is seven
Speaker 1: one three two one two k t r H. When
Speaker 1: we come back, John and John. We got two John's
Speaker 1: win in Crosby won in League City. You're the first
Speaker 1: two guys out. Welcome back. To garden Line. I'm your host,
Speaker 1: Skip Ricord. We're here to answer gardening questions. All you
Speaker 1: got to do is call us at seven one three
Speaker 1: two one two k t R H. And we're gonna
Speaker 1: run right out here to League City, Texas and talk
Speaker 1: to John. Welcome to garden Line, John, Good morning, Skip.
Speaker 24: Hey.
Speaker 25: I apologize if you've answered this question probably a thousand
Speaker 25: times by now, but I think I have what it
Speaker 25: looks like brown patch. It's a circular yellowish area and
Speaker 25: although I thought that was only in cooler temperatures, but
Speaker 25: it looks like brown patch anyway, first you think it
Speaker 25: is brown patch, and then secondly will this Will this
Speaker 25: go away on its own with the heat unless rain,
Speaker 25: or or do I need to treat this area?
Speaker 1: So it could be brown patch or it could be
Speaker 1: another brown patch. The genus is Rhizoctonia, and there are
Speaker 1: a number of different rhizoctonias that will attack your lawn.
Speaker 1: There's one they refer to as summer patch. It's a
Speaker 1: little different strain of the disease, but it really doesn't
Speaker 1: matter which it is. We have had cooler temperatures, not
Speaker 1: fall cooler temperatures, but our summer we had some days
Speaker 1: that were didn't make it past the mid eighties. And
Speaker 1: so with all the wet conditions were right and we
Speaker 1: saw a little bit of it crop out, I would
Speaker 1: not worry about it right now. You're not going to
Speaker 1: fix where it's already infected. It'll regreen, new grass blades
Speaker 1: will come back in there, and so I would just
Speaker 1: say focus on don't over water your grass shouldn't need
Speaker 1: water in more than once a week if it's got
Speaker 1: a decent root system, if you're not dealing with some
Speaker 1: take all root rod or some other disease, once a
Speaker 1: week should be enough at the most twice a week.
Speaker 1: But give it a good soaking early in the morning
Speaker 1: so it dries out then as the sun comes up
Speaker 1: and shine on it. And I think you can just
Speaker 1: grow your way out of this one.
Speaker 25: Okay, you don't think this is something that's gonna get
Speaker 25: worse if as long as the weather stays a little warmer, I.
Speaker 1: Don't think so, No, I really don't. And so now
Speaker 1: if if there's something I'm not aware of, like maybe
Speaker 1: there's a water leak in that area and it's just
Speaker 1: staying real wet and there's other issues going on, well
Speaker 1: those kind of things that's outside the box. But in general, uh,
Speaker 1: the rizectonia diseases, with proper watering and some good warm temperatures,
Speaker 1: you shouldn't you shouldn't be seeing the issues continue with that, Okay.
Speaker 25: And if it did start to grow, what would you
Speaker 25: recommend I treat it with?
Speaker 3: On what five?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's a good question. On my on my
Speaker 1: schedule which is online at gardening with Skip dot com.
Speaker 1: You can go read it, download it. In fact, I
Speaker 1: encourage everybody to just download it and have it on
Speaker 1: your computer or print it out in the garage. So
Speaker 1: if you look where we talk about fungicides for the
Speaker 1: large patch or brown patch, nightro Fast has something called
Speaker 1: Total brown Patch Control, and they have another product called
Speaker 1: Eagle Microlife has a product that has got brown patch
Speaker 1: in the name of the product, and they are looking
Speaker 1: instead of for chemicals to control it, they're looking more
Speaker 1: at microbial activity to help suppress that in their product.
Speaker 1: So you've got organic and synthetic options, you know, for
Speaker 1: dealing with some of these diseases. But I'm telling you,
Speaker 1: if it were my yard, I don't think I would
Speaker 1: bother worrying about spraying it. But if you need to
Speaker 1: it's on the schedule. Okay, thank you very much. All right,
Speaker 1: thanks for the call, appreciate that you wish you well
Speaker 1: getting that under control. I'm sure it will will, bet
Speaker 1: that it will fix itself. Now we're going to go
Speaker 1: to Crosby and talk to another John. Welcome to Guardline, John.
Speaker 26: Thank you for taking A year ago, I bought aload
Speaker 26: of mulch and put around my Mexican heather, my hedges
Speaker 26: and my trees.
Speaker 3: This year everything is dead.
Speaker 1: How do I neutralize that mulch? Well, I would be
Speaker 1: very surprised if putting mulch around a tree just killed
Speaker 1: it like that that fast. That doesn't sound right. When
Speaker 1: you put the mulch out, did you smell anything like
Speaker 1: ammonia or kind of a sulfury swamp gas smell, a
Speaker 1: sewer smell or anything like that.
Speaker 3: I don't remember.
Speaker 1: It was over a year ago. Yeah, okay, Well, I
Speaker 1: don't think it's the multch that did it. Why now
Speaker 1: you're saying how many plants? Is it more than one tree?
Speaker 3: I have a maple tree that killed it.
Speaker 21: I had Mexican heather around the front of my house
Speaker 21: in front of the hedges, and it killed everything that
Speaker 21: I put the maultchround.
Speaker 1: Was this a store bought mult or was this something
Speaker 1: you got from somebody who ground up a bunch of
Speaker 1: trees and dumped it in your driveway or what.
Speaker 3: It was?
Speaker 12: A bolt mulch.
Speaker 19: I don't know where the guy got it, but I
Speaker 19: bought a pickup load.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well there, you know there's there is the possibility
Speaker 1: of toxic mults and toxic composts and products and stuff
Speaker 1: when people don't do it right. That's why we take
Speaker 1: great pains to talk about like airloom soils and landscaper's
Speaker 1: pride and nature's way up in the Conro area because
Speaker 1: they do it right. But it's possible to have those
Speaker 1: kinds of things, and it's possible for those to kill plants.
Speaker 1: But usually you know, you've kind of like when you're
Speaker 1: putting it out, you're going, man, this stuff stinks really bad,
Speaker 1: and you know something's a little bit wrong. You know,
Speaker 1: I at this point, I don't think I would worry
Speaker 1: about it. And so long that a lot of the
Speaker 1: things that happened because inappropriate decomposing of the product. Uh,
Speaker 1: they've kind of run their course and it should be okay. Now,
Speaker 1: if you wanted to pull it all out and put
Speaker 1: fresh melt in. You could, but I don't know an
Speaker 1: ongoing issue that if you put it out that long
Speaker 1: ago that would still be around to be a concern.
Speaker 1: So that that's my two cents worth on it. Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've just got to replan everything. That's a shame. I
Speaker 1: hate to see that happen. I appreciate you. Call John,
Speaker 1: you take care. Yeah, I was talking about while ago
Speaker 1: about Microlife has their brown Patch product in a bag.
Speaker 1: Microlife has a number of different products. You know. They
Speaker 1: got the Green which is the one we think of
Speaker 1: as the lawn fertilizer six two four, which you can
Speaker 1: use for anything you want, the Humans Plus which is
Speaker 1: zero zero four, which is an excellent product for helping.
Speaker 1: Just think of it as concentrated comple in a bag.
Speaker 1: Microlife also has a lot of really quality liquid products.
Speaker 1: You can get a fish emulsion type product called Ocean Harvest.
Speaker 1: They have a seaweed type product. They also have their
Speaker 1: Biomatrix that's an orange labeled bottle. I use it a
Speaker 1: lot for houseplants. It's not just for ausplants. I could
Speaker 1: be using it outside. I don't know why. I just
Speaker 1: kind of started using an own houseplants on winter. And
Speaker 1: you know it's excellent for all kinds of things. It's
Speaker 1: full of microbes like all microlife products are. And so
Speaker 1: you know you're doing the thing I always say, and
Speaker 1: that is what brown stuff before green stuff. In other words,
Speaker 1: get the foundation right, get the soil right, make the
Speaker 1: microbes happy, which makes the roots happy, and then when
Speaker 1: you have your plants, they're going to thrive. Microlife Fertilizer
Speaker 1: dot com is the website. If you want to find
Speaker 1: out where to get it. I can just tell you this.
Speaker 1: It's widely available all over the place. We're going to
Speaker 1: head now out to Paul. Hello, Paul, Welcome to Guardenline.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 27: I have a story about a neighbor that built a fence,
Speaker 27: readywood fence on their driveway between my house and theirs,
Speaker 27: and then they put a some kind of vine or
Speaker 27: something I don't know, and it's crossing over to my
Speaker 27: house and climbing the brick wall. Okay, I want to,
Speaker 27: you know, knock it out on my side.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I'm hearing music playing, so I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: you as quick an answer as I can. I think
Speaker 1: you're going to need to use a product containing triclop
Speaker 1: here t R I C l O P y R. Now,
Speaker 1: hand removal is an option, but that's a lot of work.
Speaker 1: And I'm suspecting from your question you're wanting to spray it.
Speaker 1: So if I'm wrong, let me know. But trike clop
Speaker 1: here is in products like poison ivy killer that's a
Speaker 1: woody vine. It works on that brush and stump control products,
Speaker 1: and you just know that. Don't spray it on your lawn.
Speaker 1: Don't spray on any broadly plant you like, like a
Speaker 1: shrub or a flower or whatever, because it will kill
Speaker 1: those two. But that would be your best bet. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna put you on hold. If we're done, you can
Speaker 1: head out. If not, hang around. We'll talk when we
Speaker 1: come back.
Speaker 6: Welcome to CAZy r H Garden Line with skin rickards.
Speaker 7: Just watch you as.
Speaker 1: Many things. Hey, Welcome back to garden line and a
Speaker 1: good day for gardening. You know that every day is
Speaker 1: a good day for gardening. I mean people say, what
Speaker 1: if it's pouring down rain outside, Well, do you have
Speaker 1: house plants? Do you want to start some sea? Do
Speaker 1: you want to read some cuttings indoors? See what I'm
Speaker 1: saying it's always a good day for gardening, even learning
Speaker 1: about gardening or talking about gardening, which is what we're
Speaker 1: doing here seven one three two one two fifty eight
Speaker 1: seventy four. If you would like to talk about some
Speaker 1: things going on around your garden and your landscape, I'm
Speaker 1: going to head straight out to Friendswood and talk to Mark. Now,
Speaker 1: Hello Mark, and welcome to garden Line. Coll Hey, Mark,
Speaker 1: you're on garden Line.
Speaker 23: Oh Hi, good morning.
Speaker 22: Sure is joy your show? I'm Prince Wood and uh
Speaker 22: we cut down a couple of chuck init great myrtles
Speaker 22: when we bought the house. They're probably twenty five foot
Speaker 22: doll something like that, and it was we can have
Speaker 22: it with our patio cracking him. So we cut up
Speaker 22: down about six months ago. And now we're having large
Speaker 22: bushes just come out of the malts in the where
Speaker 22: they were located, and I wondered, is there something that
Speaker 22: can pour off those bushes to killing.
Speaker 1: Well, you don't even need to use that much product.
Speaker 1: What you need to get is something that contains the
Speaker 1: ingredient trichlope here t R I c l O P
Speaker 1: y R tracle peer is found in poison ivy control products.
Speaker 1: It's found in brush control or some of them will
Speaker 1: call stump and brush remover. Whatever it is you're gonna
Speaker 1: you're gonna find tricle peer present in that product. You're
Speaker 1: out there in Richmond Rosenberg area, you got plantation Ace
Speaker 1: it's not too far from me. You got some great
Speaker 1: garden centers out in that area, so it's easy to find,
Speaker 1: easy to find that product. The way to use it
Speaker 1: is you can spray that on the foliage and it'll
Speaker 1: take it up and go down in it and do
Speaker 1: the job. You can also cut things off, like when
Speaker 1: you first cut that stump off, if you had put
Speaker 1: triple here right when you cut it, same day, same hour,
Speaker 1: but trickle up here around the outside edge of that
Speaker 1: cut stump, all that fresh wound would have taken it
Speaker 1: in and you can kill it things that way too
Speaker 1: with it. If you've got desirable plants alex that are nearby,
Speaker 1: I would excuse me mark that are nearby, I would
Speaker 1: avoid spraying because it can drift over and it'll kill
Speaker 1: lots of things, not just stuff you don't like.
Speaker 22: Okay, would that be at ACE Hardware.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you can get that at ACE Hardwhere you've got
Speaker 1: a plantation Ace. That's probably pretty close to you out there,
Speaker 1: and okesman Rosenberg for example.
Speaker 23: All right, well, surety, thank you listening to these morning
Speaker 23: shows on the weekends for decades, and sure you appreciate
Speaker 23: what you done to carry on.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you. I appreciate comments and thanks for being
Speaker 1: a listener. Take care, good luck to getting that under control.
Speaker 1: We're gonna now head out to Richmond, Texas. Well we're
Speaker 1: just kind of excuse me, not Richmond, Texas. What did
Speaker 1: I do here? Oh? Finding the right button here to
Speaker 1: Riah Richmond. We're going to talk to Alex. Hello Alex,
Speaker 1: and welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 3: Thanks give good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 16: Hey.
Speaker 28: So I've got an elm tree. It's planted a couple
Speaker 28: of years ago. It's maybe five inches in diameter. And
Speaker 28: when Hurricane Barrel came through between the rain and the wind,
Speaker 28: I can see the top of the roots, and if
Speaker 28: I actually push on the tree, it does move slightly underground.
Speaker 28: I just want to know if I need to get
Speaker 28: tea posts and restake it, or just kind of cover
Speaker 28: it with some composts and let the roots do their
Speaker 28: thing underground.
Speaker 1: So this tree is not leaning way over, it's just moving.
Speaker 1: Is that right.
Speaker 28: Yeah, sure, not not a lot of lean though. It's
Speaker 28: just it's just slightly wiggily when I when I push
Speaker 28: on it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, other people are going to have issues like this,
Speaker 1: so I'm going to answer a little more than your
Speaker 1: question because I know we have other folks listening, and
Speaker 1: one size doesn't fit all. When a tree has been
Speaker 1: in the ground, let's say three years or less, we
Speaker 1: say you can stand them back up, stake them in place,
Speaker 1: and you're going to need to leave the stake there
Speaker 1: for a good while, uh, and it'll be it'll eventually
Speaker 1: get strong again. If it's been in the ground longer
Speaker 1: than that, which yours probably has, right, then we always say, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't lean them back up again, but.
Speaker 28: Yours is because it's been there about two years.
Speaker 1: Oh too. Okay, Well, then what I would do is
Speaker 1: I would get some with that size trunk, I'd probably
Speaker 1: get some guy wires in this case. Normally I like
Speaker 1: the three sixty tree stabilizer, but this is a huge
Speaker 1: tree with a canopy that's pretty strong, so you could
Speaker 1: use the stabilizers if you use two or three of
Speaker 1: them on it, or you you just use the wires
Speaker 1: but pull it into place, and you're going to need
Speaker 1: to leave these there. If it can move a little bit,
Speaker 1: that's good. You don't need it to just be totally immovable,
Speaker 1: but just a little little motion in the wind is okay.
Speaker 1: And it's going to take a long time for it
Speaker 1: to establish a strong supportive root system because roots will
Speaker 1: grow out, but there'll be little, tiny roots, and you know,
Speaker 1: they're not enough to support the tree. What it had
Speaker 1: was not enough to support it with the wind we had.
Speaker 1: So I would say this may be a two year
Speaker 1: or longer, probably three year process of you letting it
Speaker 1: get a good root system before you turn it loose
Speaker 1: to stand on its own in the wind. But in
Speaker 1: the meantime, especially as we get into the second year,
Speaker 1: letting that trunk move a little bit helps create that
Speaker 1: resiliency that you want. All right, so I appreciate it.
Speaker 28: We'll Plantation have that true stabilizer Plantation Marwak.
Speaker 1: They probably do. It's widely available. Plant that's the year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Richmond Plantation Ace probably has that out there. I'm trying
Speaker 1: to think of who else carries it down in your area.
Speaker 1: I know, if you if you come up to Southwest
Speaker 1: feed and fertilizer which is in southwest Houston, kind of
Speaker 1: sugar land direction. They have it there too, So just
Speaker 1: come around and see plantation a' is gonna be a
Speaker 1: lot closer to you, so you might want to start that,
Speaker 1: but then I know you can get it southwest. Good do.
Speaker 28: I'll take plantation then, Shannon, Thanks, Gip.
Speaker 1: I appreciate it, all right, good take care? All right,
Speaker 1: let's see here. We are going to go ahead and
Speaker 1: go to Houston area and talk to Carol.
Speaker 29: Hello, Carol, Hi, good morning. I am having trouble.
Speaker 15: With basket grass.
Speaker 29: Started out as a little spot in one corner. Had
Speaker 29: pulled it up, thought we had it under control, and
Speaker 29: it just seems to keep traveling and taking over the yard.
Speaker 29: We've used weed killer that doesn't hurt Saint Augustine but
Speaker 29: just kills the weeds. But once again, when we get
Speaker 29: some good rain, it seems to revive itself and travel further.
Speaker 29: And the latest we used was a I think it
Speaker 29: was a crab.
Speaker 15: Grass powder okay, and has.
Speaker 29: A touch of cinnamon in it, I believe, and that
Speaker 29: kills it, but we never get the grass back before
Speaker 29: it pops up again, okay, and then it moves farder.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, Carol, I'm up against the heartbreak, so you
Speaker 1: hang on and when we come back, we'll dive into
Speaker 1: this one. By the way, did you email me about
Speaker 1: this or not? Because I got an.
Speaker 29: Email this, Yes, I did, I send photos?
Speaker 1: Okay, good, all right, we'll be right back, folks, if
Speaker 1: you want to give us a call and get on
Speaker 1: the board. Chris seven kat r h. I'm good heavy
Speaker 1: with us. We are going to jump right back into
Speaker 1: our conversation with Carol about basket grass. Okay, Carol, I
Speaker 1: saw the photos and yeah, yeah, plenty of it. Basket
Speaker 1: grass is very difficult to deal with. The cinnamon product agrillon,
Speaker 1: I believe is effective at just turning it black quickly
Speaker 1: and burning it back, but it does come back from that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And what you've got some big areas where there's essentially
Speaker 1: a no Saint Augustine. And so if you leave that gap,
Speaker 1: let's say the vacuum, nature likes to fill up the
Speaker 1: vacuum with weeds and uh so, uh A couple of
Speaker 1: options hand digging, which I know you're not going to
Speaker 1: do that in the amount of area you got, but
Speaker 1: that is one control where you get out every route
Speaker 1: thing you can get out of there and just pull
Speaker 1: it all out. That is a more thorough way than
Speaker 1: a lot of others.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: There are only two products that seem to work on it.
Speaker 1: And by the way, basket grass when you get over
Speaker 1: on the east coast and it's a it invades forests.
Speaker 1: I mean, it is a bad weed, and they they
Speaker 1: have tried everything they can on it, and it's kind
Speaker 1: of come down to Glyphos eight, which is the product
Speaker 1: in roundup, or something called clethodim C L A T
Speaker 1: h O d I M. The brand name. First of all,
Speaker 1: Clethod is going to be very hard to find. But
Speaker 1: the brand name is grass Out Max herbicide. Okay, it
Speaker 1: kills grasses as round Up does too, So when you
Speaker 1: use either of those, you're going to kill basket grass
Speaker 1: and Saint Augustine. But that's the sacrifice and then you
Speaker 1: come back in with SOD to reside those areas right
Speaker 1: on top of where it was. Oh okay, either Some
Speaker 1: people don't like using Glyphos and it's fine.
Speaker 16: Uh.
Speaker 1: The clethendem agrissell grassout Max grass out Max. I don't
Speaker 1: know why. Well, anyway, that is going to be hard
Speaker 1: to find you might let's see you are okay, you
Speaker 1: might try calling Southwest Fertilizer and they have it, or
Speaker 1: or just get the glip was available everywhere, but now
Speaker 1: round Up is being put out with ingredient other than
Speaker 1: glyph ess. It's actually several ingredients in the new Roundup
Speaker 1: and so you would have to purposefully study labels to
Speaker 1: make sure you're getting the glacoys if you're going to
Speaker 1: get basket grass control. So basically it's kill, kill everything
Speaker 1: and replant in those areas.
Speaker 29: Okay, well we'll definitely give that one a try.
Speaker 1: Okay, you take care.
Speaker 15: I appreciate it.
Speaker 14: Thanks.
Speaker 23: Bye.
Speaker 1: Oh man. Uh you know, ACE Hardware is also a
Speaker 1: great place where you can find and all kinds of products.
Speaker 1: And you know ACE is they're all over the place.
Speaker 1: I don't care what part of the listening area you
Speaker 1: are in, there's going to be an ACE Hardware near you.
Speaker 1: We have forty stores in the Greater Houston area and
Speaker 1: they always are going to carry products that you need
Speaker 1: for your lawn, your garden, your landscape. ACE Hardware is
Speaker 1: the place to get good quality products in a wide
Speaker 1: variety for landscapes that includes tools and hoses and it
Speaker 1: includes the things you need on your patio, like a
Speaker 1: barbecue pit, for example, like a string of lights to
Speaker 1: make things look really nice out there on a summer evening.
Speaker 1: And certainly right now mosquito control and fire and control.
Speaker 1: The floods of rain have really brought those to the forefront,
Speaker 1: and you've got to get out there and deal with it.
Speaker 1: And you walk into an ACE Hardware and you say, look,
Speaker 1: I got mosquitoes. What are the options that I have?
Speaker 1: And they're going to tell you. They're going to show
Speaker 1: you the mosquito dunks that you put in standing water,
Speaker 1: They're going to show you fogers, they're going to show
Speaker 1: you mosquito repellents and a lot of other options for mosquitoes.
Speaker 1: And fire ant control. The time to get your bates
Speaker 1: out to control fire ants, that's the best you know.
Speaker 1: There's both organic and synthetic baits and you have options
Speaker 1: there as well as direct mount treatment controls. So you
Speaker 1: just have to get out and take care of it
Speaker 1: early on. And now's a good time to do that.
Speaker 1: And ACE Hardware is a good place to get it.
Speaker 1: And all the fertilizers I talk about here on Guardline,
Speaker 1: you're going to find those at ACE Hardware stores as well.
Speaker 1: Go to Ace Hardware dot com and look for the
Speaker 1: store locator and it will tell you where the stores
Speaker 1: are near you. It because a really nice, big old map,
Speaker 1: and you get a lot of options when it comes
Speaker 1: to Ace Hardware. We're going to go now to talk
Speaker 1: to Claudia.
Speaker 24: Hello, Claudia, Hi, thank you for taking my call and
Speaker 24: stick you about brains and fire ant control and whatnot.
Speaker 24: I have mushrooms, a lot of mushrooms We've been dealing
Speaker 24: with even before Barrel came through, especially around my Create myrtles.
Speaker 24: So I've been fertilizing regularly. So I'm not sure if
Speaker 24: I'm maybe overfertilizing. I'm not sure if that's even a thing,
Speaker 24: but I just want I've been just taking them out
Speaker 24: as much as I can. It's just books sightly, not
Speaker 24: very curve appealing, but I just wanted to get some advice.
Speaker 1: Okay. Well, So as far as fertilizing, I've got a
Speaker 1: schedule online that tells you how often to fertilize and
Speaker 1: the products that work best, and so you're welcome to
Speaker 1: download that or just look at it on my website, okay,
Speaker 1: And I'd follow that don't over fertilize, but fertilize everything
Speaker 1: is you know what they say, everything in moderation, whether
Speaker 1: it's the mount of food we eat or the mind
Speaker 1: of fertilizer we put on our lawns. So follow that.
Speaker 1: As far as the mushrooms, they are not disease. The
Speaker 1: ones you're seeing are not in disease of anything. What
Speaker 1: they are doing is they're decomposing organic matter under the surface.
Speaker 1: And one of mushroom's biggest jobs is to take what
Speaker 1: was once living organic material and turn it back into dirt,
Speaker 1: back into soil, and so it's actually a sign that
Speaker 1: good things are happening under the surface.
Speaker 12: Now.
Speaker 1: I know people don't like the looks of them. There's
Speaker 1: no spray for them. They're just if you want to
Speaker 1: go in and remove them, that's fine. I like to
Speaker 1: kind of this is sort of tongue in cheek joking,
Speaker 1: but if you've got a good golf club, you can
Speaker 1: have a lot of fun out there with the mushrooms
Speaker 1: in here you are, So that's another maybe that'll make
Speaker 1: you feel better, But seriously, it's just part of nature,
Speaker 1: and we're going to see more of them again when
Speaker 1: we get into fall. Get a little bit of cool
Speaker 1: front and some rain, they're going to pop up again.
Speaker 1: But right now it's just the weather that is rotted
Speaker 1: all on and they should sort of dissipate a while
Speaker 1: until the weather conditions are right again for them to
Speaker 1: set up send up more mushrooms.
Speaker 24: Okay, just just to kind of follow up on that,
Speaker 24: does does the mulge have something to do with that
Speaker 24: is too much multch? Did that have something to.
Speaker 1: Do or it's not. No, it's not too much mult
Speaker 1: But there is a fungal network that grows in that
Speaker 1: mult starting to decompose it, and that my seleial network
Speaker 1: is what they call it. When it is the right conditions,
Speaker 1: it basically fruits or sends up its spore producing structures
Speaker 1: so it can reproduce itself.
Speaker 16: Uh.
Speaker 1: And that would be the mushrooms that you see. So
Speaker 1: it's there. It's everywhere. You don't even see mushrooms. It's there.
Speaker 1: It just when the conditions are right, they pop up.
Speaker 1: And so, yes, you see that in molts. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of different kinds of things that pop up in multch,
Speaker 1: but they're they're not a they're not a concern.
Speaker 24: For your plan as Okay, Well, thank you. I will
Speaker 24: take a look at your fertilizing schedule. I appreciate it my.
Speaker 1: Call you bet you bet well. That fertilizing schedule and
Speaker 1: the past disease and we'd management schedule are on the
Speaker 1: website Gardening with Skip dot com Gardening with Skip dot com.
Speaker 1: You can find them there. There's also articles, you know, seasonally,
Speaker 1: I'll put things up. I'm about to put up several
Speaker 1: things that most listeners are going to want to go
Speaker 1: look at. One of them is an extensive description write
Speaker 1: up on nuts edge. People call it nutgrass nuts edge.
Speaker 1: It's like four pages of information. It's a lot, but
Speaker 1: there are details that if you're really going to go
Speaker 1: after nuts edge, it would be helpful to know, Like
Speaker 1: did you know there's a purple and a yellow nut sedge?
Speaker 1: Did you know the way they produce the tubers the
Speaker 1: nuts is different? Did you know that there's times at
Speaker 1: the year on a nuts edge plant where you can
Speaker 1: effectively control it, and then there's times of the year
Speaker 1: where you're not going to get effective control. And there's
Speaker 1: products and they differ in what you can use and
Speaker 1: so on. So anyway, what are the organic options, what
Speaker 1: are there synthetic options for controlling nut set. I'll also
Speaker 1: have a one pager on nuts edge. For those of
Speaker 1: you who do not want to read all the details,
Speaker 1: just tell me what to do. There will be a
Speaker 1: one pager for that. And then I'm putting up a
Speaker 1: publication on a weed wiper. So when you have weeds
Speaker 1: that are growing among your desirable plants, how do you
Speaker 1: spray them without getting spray on your desirable plants? And
Speaker 1: some people use a shield so you kind of like
Speaker 1: have a think of it as a board or whatever
Speaker 1: you want. Some people like cut the bottom out of
Speaker 1: a milk partner and put that over the spray nozzle
Speaker 1: and that way they can set it down and no
Speaker 1: spray escapes. There's ways to do that, but my weed
Speaker 1: wiper is also a good option. You can reach in
Speaker 1: there and get the product right on the weed without
Speaker 1: touching your plant. And for people that would rather go
Speaker 1: garden more organically, typically the products you use on a
Speaker 1: weed wiper are not going to be organic products they make.
Speaker 1: They could be, but at least you're putting a minimum
Speaker 1: out and you're getting it just on the surface of
Speaker 1: the weeds foliage, and you're not spraying it out everywhere.
Speaker 1: And getting it all over the swell and putting a
Speaker 1: lot of product in the environment. So anyway, just some
Speaker 1: things to be watching for early next week. They'll be
Speaker 1: up on the website. I'll talk about them next weekend
Speaker 1: when we come back as well. If you live done
Speaker 1: in the League City area, and when I say League
Speaker 1: City area, I mean clear Lake City, elkam Into, Reale, Lamark, Baycliffe, Dickinson,
Speaker 1: Santa Fe. Leake City Feed is your hometown feed store
Speaker 1: now a phone number two eight one three three two
Speaker 1: sixteen twelve, the hours Monday through Saturday nine to six,
Speaker 1: closed on Sunday. You know, at League City Feed you're
Speaker 1: always going to find every product you need to manage
Speaker 1: things in your landscape. I've been talking about tricle up
Speaker 1: here today. A lot they've got that at League City Feed.
Speaker 1: They have the fertilizers I talk about at Lee City Feed,
Speaker 1: and you get the old time service carry the sacks
Speaker 1: out or whatever the products are to your car for you.
Speaker 1: And it's just a good opportunity to find what you need.
Speaker 1: And it's easy, easy to get to. It's just a
Speaker 1: few blocks south of Highway or of Highway ninety six
Speaker 1: on Highway three in League City. Stop by there, say hi,
Speaker 1: tell them hello, and find what you're looking for. It's
Speaker 1: time for me to take a little break and that's
Speaker 1: what we're going to do right now. Garden Line, thanks
Speaker 1: for joining us today. I'm your host, Skip Richter. And
Speaker 1: what are we here for. Well, we're here to help
Speaker 1: you have a more bountiful garden and a more beautiful landscape.
Speaker 1: That's what it comes down to. Gardening is the best
Speaker 1: hobby I think in the whole world. And I'm biased,
Speaker 1: but that doesn't mean I'm wrong. I just want to
Speaker 1: say that. So get out there and let's have success.
Speaker 1: You know a lot of people feel like, oh, I
Speaker 1: have a brown thumb, I can't grow anything. No, you
Speaker 1: don't have a brown thumb. You have an uninformed thumb.
Speaker 1: And we inform thumbs here on garden Line. And the
Speaker 1: more you learn, the more you understand what the simple
Speaker 1: basics are that plants need, the better success you can have,
Speaker 1: and we point you to that kind of information. We
Speaker 1: point you to the garden centers where you can find
Speaker 1: the best selection and the best advice before and after
Speaker 1: the sale. Here in the area, we talk about the
Speaker 1: kind of places that carry a lot of products the
Speaker 1: feed stores, the hardware store, the basically the Ace hardware store,
Speaker 1: Southwest Fertilizer, all those kinds of places where you're going
Speaker 1: to find exactly what you're looking for. For example, Southwest,
Speaker 1: I'll just use that as an example. Southwest is a
Speaker 1: place where I like to say they don't have it,
Speaker 1: you don't need it, because they have it. They have
Speaker 1: the widest selection I know of in the whole region
Speaker 1: of any kind of thing, whether it's to kill weeds,
Speaker 1: to deal with pests, to deal with diseases, to fertilize
Speaker 1: your lawn. If you hear me say a product fertilizers,
Speaker 1: pest control, whatever on Guardline, they have it at Southwest Fertilizer.
Speaker 1: If it's synthetic, they have it. If it's organic, they
Speaker 1: have it. It's the place you can go for everything
Speaker 1: that you need. Again, knowledgeable people. They can look at
Speaker 1: a sample, they can look at a photo. They can
Speaker 1: point you to something that you need. They won't sell
Speaker 1: you something that's not going to work. They won't sell
Speaker 1: you something you don't need. It'll advise you on that.
Speaker 1: Do you need tools and eighty foot wall of tools
Speaker 1: in Southwest? Do you need the new cool kneeling bench.
Speaker 1: I say nude. It's I haven't had it in my
Speaker 1: whole life, but I'll tell you this, it's a top
Speaker 1: five tools of all the tools I own. Top five
Speaker 1: kneeling bench. It falls up, you pop it open. It's
Speaker 1: real easy. You can set on it like a seat,
Speaker 1: or you can flip it over and kneel down on
Speaker 1: it and the legs become handles to get back up.
Speaker 1: Remember that if you're anywhere north of forty and you
Speaker 1: go out gardening all Saturday and you're up and down,
Speaker 1: you don't realize it, but a hundred times, yeah, you
Speaker 1: wake up the next morning in your body has a
Speaker 1: few things to say about that. Well, the nailing bench
Speaker 1: will change your life, change your gardening life. It's a
Speaker 1: really cool took at Southwest Fertilizer. Of course they have
Speaker 1: them there Southwest Fertilizers on the corner of Businet and
Speaker 1: Runwick Businet and Runwick in Southwest Houston. You can go
Speaker 1: to the website Southwest Fertilizer dot com, you know, or
Speaker 1: just just swing by there and check it out. You
Speaker 1: find a lot of cool things. For example, when you're
Speaker 1: at Southwest they're going to have Nitrofoss's Superturf. You've heard
Speaker 1: me talk about Nitrofoss super Turf a number of times
Speaker 1: here on guarden Line. It is a product designed by
Speaker 1: Nitrofos to provide a gradual feeding over a long time.
Speaker 1: It's the silver bag by Nitropos. The only silver bag
Speaker 1: of fertilizer I'm aware of anywhere is Nitrovas Superturf, and
Speaker 1: that's certainly here in the Houston area. That's the one
Speaker 1: you're going to find. Nitrovas Superturf is a nineteen four
Speaker 1: to ten fertilizer. It's going to give you a gradual
Speaker 1: release over three months or more. So you do it
Speaker 1: if you haven't done, if you haven't fertilized this summer already,
Speaker 1: put that thing down now, but go ahead and get
Speaker 1: it done, because it's going to carry you all the
Speaker 1: way into the fall fertilization. Now it is going to
Speaker 1: buy gradually feeding. It's going to cut down on your
Speaker 1: mowing by about twenty five percent because you don't have
Speaker 1: this flesh of growth like if you use something that
Speaker 1: was immediately available. It is designed for our soils, it's
Speaker 1: designed for our climate, and it's easy to find Superturf.
Speaker 1: It's going to be at places like Plans for all
Speaker 1: seasons on two forty nine, the Southwest Feed and Fertilizer
Speaker 1: that I was just talking about. Or if you're in
Speaker 1: Brennam plants and things carry it as well as other
Speaker 1: nitrofoss products. Superturf is an excellent product and it'll work
Speaker 1: very well on your lawn. You are listening to garden Line.
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Speaker 1: all you have to do is give us a call.
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Speaker 1: you about it. And let's just they lead you to success.
Speaker 1: That that is my goal is I want. I want
Speaker 1: gardening to be fun for you. It just really frustrates
Speaker 1: me and breaks my heart when I hear gardeners or
Speaker 1: someone say, yeah, I tried growing stuff and everything died
Speaker 1: and didn't work. Or I grew tomatoes and I never
Speaker 1: got a tomato and we can fix that. Give us
Speaker 1: a call. We will help you have success. That is
Speaker 1: what we're here for. You never fail at gardening. I
Speaker 1: need you to hear me about that. You never fail
Speaker 1: at gardening. You only temporarily don't succeed. And if you
Speaker 1: stay with it and if you figure out what went wrong,
Speaker 1: you can have success. It's not that difficult. It can
Speaker 1: be done. I don't want people to feel like they
Speaker 1: have brown thumbs. There no such a thing. I don't
Speaker 1: want people to feel like that they can't grow anything.
Speaker 1: That you know that whatever it's it's it's always a
Speaker 1: start over and you need to understand something too. I
Speaker 1: don't care how good of a horticulturist you are. You
Speaker 1: kill plants sometimes. Someone once said one of the best
Speaker 1: horticulturists in the country, and many years ago, he said,
Speaker 1: to be a good horticulturist, she got to kill a
Speaker 1: lot of plants. And so that's your permission to kill
Speaker 1: some plants. As you get better and as you learn,
Speaker 1: nature throws us curves and we have to deal with that.
Speaker 1: Every year is different, which I think is kind of
Speaker 1: part of the fun of it because we get to
Speaker 1: keep challenging. Plus it gives us something else to gripe about,
Speaker 1: as if we needed that. We can complain about the weather.
Speaker 1: But if you just get your boots back on and
Speaker 1: head back out there and get your rotortailler or your spade,
Speaker 1: get rid of the plant you got, and let's start
Speaker 1: over again. You will have success. Stick with it. I've
Speaker 1: talked to somebody recently that was having problems with their soil.
Speaker 1: They were just having an issue with soil, and we
Speaker 1: talked about, you know, what could you do to help it?
Speaker 1: About bottom line in time, as you can turn any
Speaker 1: area into your version of Eden around your place. I
Speaker 1: hope you'll I hope you believe that, and I hope
Speaker 1: you give us a call on guard Line and let
Speaker 1: us help you do just that. We're going to head
Speaker 1: out to Crosby, Texas now and talk to Gerald.
Speaker 30: Hello, Gerald, good morning. Now are you well. I have
Speaker 30: a problem with my front yard. I mean it's got
Speaker 30: every kind of grass there is to be had growing
Speaker 30: in it, a Bermuda, Johnson, and plus weeds. I've got
Speaker 30: that Virginia button weed and clover and some kind of stuff.
Speaker 30: It's kind of a purple liish looking stuff. Okay, it
Speaker 30: just kind of spreads and I need to know what
Speaker 30: I can put on that to kill the weeds and
Speaker 30: help the grass grow. I mean I put my neighbor
Speaker 30: told me that that stay green furlized that you can
Speaker 30: get from lows will kill the button weed. And it did.
Speaker 30: It killed some other but it didn't. It didn't even
Speaker 30: bother the clover. In fact, I think it helped it
Speaker 30: grow more. And that other weed, I don't know what
Speaker 30: it is.
Speaker 1: But all right, so Gerald, this is gonna be a
Speaker 1: little bit of involved question and I have to go
Speaker 1: to a break, so hang on. When we come back,
Speaker 1: we'll tackle it and try to help you turn that
Speaker 1: that place around and get what you're looking for out
Speaker 1: of it. Thank you very much. Just hang on with
Speaker 1: me and I'll be right back. Okay, all right, we're
Speaker 1: gonna take take a break, Folks. When we come back,
Speaker 1: we'll be with Gerald. Steve, you're next up. If you
Speaker 1: would like to be on guard line seven one three two,
Speaker 1: two fifty eight seventy four.
Speaker 2: Hey Ward me, I'll got the same hot.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the guard line. Good to have you
Speaker 1: with us. We are going to head back out to
Speaker 1: Crosby and continue our discussion with Gerald.
Speaker 3: Gerald.
Speaker 1: Uh, it sounds like you kind of have the history
Speaker 1: of weeds going on out there in the lawn. As
Speaker 1: you were starting to name things, I think if you've
Speaker 1: got a decent amount of lawn still left, like let's
Speaker 1: say with then you know there's not areas bigger than
Speaker 1: about a foot apart where lawn can crawl back in.
Speaker 1: You can go at it with controlling the weeds and
Speaker 1: as you bring the turf back in, try to do both.
Speaker 1: If you've got big areas that are just mostly weeds
Speaker 1: wider than a foot or so apart, it may be
Speaker 1: better to just go in and get rid of everything
Speaker 1: in that area and then put some resow or plugs
Speaker 1: back in to start working your way across. And you
Speaker 1: can do that progressively through your lawn if you don't
Speaker 1: want to tackle the whole thing at once, or you
Speaker 1: can take it all on at once. But the various
Speaker 1: weeds that you mentioned johnsyngrass, You mentioned Virginia button weed
Speaker 1: and some others, and those are all those are all
Speaker 1: pernicious weeds that aren't real easy to get rid of.
Speaker 1: Using the right products is important because some things will
Speaker 1: kill your Saint Augustine too, and you don't want that.
Speaker 1: But most of the weeds you mentioned are broad leaf.
Speaker 1: Most of them are broadly and so a broad leaf
Speaker 1: weed control product would be probably a way to consider going. Okay, Now,
Speaker 1: the thing about thing about broad leafs in the heat
Speaker 1: is most products that are on the market that are
Speaker 1: for spraying onto existing broad leaf weeds will really hurt
Speaker 1: Saint Augustine when the temperature is above eighty five and
Speaker 1: we now for a long time above eighty five. So
Speaker 1: that would mean in spring and in fall is your
Speaker 1: opportunity to do some weed tackling with those products. There's
Speaker 1: one that is called Celsius, like the temperature, that is
Speaker 1: not cheap. It is pricey, but it's pricey because it's
Speaker 1: a special product. You can use it in warmer weather.
Speaker 1: I still would do it early in the morning, and
Speaker 1: it is very effective against things that are hard to
Speaker 1: kill like Virginia button weed. Even with Celsius, you may
Speaker 1: not need to make two applications on your button weed
Speaker 1: starting when you first start to see a good stand
Speaker 1: of it coming up in spring, but those those would
Speaker 1: be your your options either way, you're going to be
Speaker 1: at it for a while. But yeah, that's what that's
Speaker 1: my first thoughts.
Speaker 30: Okay, so just maybe you know, even get into like
Speaker 30: a weed and feed, wouldn't knocked some of that stuff out.
Speaker 1: I would I would not do that I think in
Speaker 1: a situation, I in general, I prefer to use separate
Speaker 1: fertilizer and weed control. Separate them. And the reason is
Speaker 1: each weed and feed it has a certain kind of fertilizer,
Speaker 1: and it has a certain kind of weed control, and
Speaker 1: maybe the one it has doesn't control the weed you have.
Speaker 1: Do you see what I'm saying. And the timing and everything.
Speaker 1: Sometimes the weed and feeds, if it's a pre emergent,
Speaker 1: the timing can be a little off as to when
Speaker 1: you would want to fertilize and when you would want
Speaker 1: to put on a premerge, and it may not be
Speaker 1: the same. Uh So I would I would rather go
Speaker 1: at this separately, you know. I mean, if it could
Speaker 1: come down to you send me a bunch of pictures
Speaker 1: of the different weeds you got, we could take a
Speaker 1: look at them and I could say, okay, start with
Speaker 1: this one and let's get everything you can. But it's
Speaker 1: also legit in situations where it's just almost all weeds
Speaker 1: in areas to just go ahead and start from scratch,
Speaker 1: start over and put some side in and go go
Speaker 1: with it that way, even if it meant doing it
Speaker 1: a little at a time to spread the work and
Speaker 1: the time and the cost out over time.
Speaker 30: Yeah, all right, I think, thank you.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that you bet. Bye bye. We are now
Speaker 1: going ahead. Let's who's been waiting here? Steve and East Houston. Hey, Steve,
Speaker 1: welcome regard line.
Speaker 3: Hi.
Speaker 31: Yeah, hey, good morning, Skip. I'd like to I'd like
Speaker 31: to cut back my land leaf coreopsis.
Speaker 1: It is through blooming, okay, is that you can cut
Speaker 1: it back?
Speaker 12: Okay?
Speaker 1: I mean, but you had some more to the question.
Speaker 1: I believe, no that I.
Speaker 12: Guess that was.
Speaker 13: I just didn't.
Speaker 31: I guess I was reluctant to cut it back because
Speaker 31: I'm afraid that if I cut it back, we have
Speaker 31: another cost twelve weeks, sixteen weeks of growing something like
Speaker 31: that before we get a freeze or anything like that.
Speaker 31: So I didn't want to harm the plant.
Speaker 1: I see. Yeah, well, let's see Caryopsis. A lot of
Speaker 1: times we refer to them as TICKSI that's another name,
Speaker 1: because it's a wildflower as well as a garden flower.
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's it's a good tough plant. But
Speaker 1: it does have its season, which is pretty much what
Speaker 1: you're telling me has happened there with it. I would me,
Speaker 1: damn trying to think of the best weight to suggest
Speaker 1: something for it. It is going to have I replant
Speaker 1: mine each year, and so I don't if you tried
Speaker 1: cutting it back. If you could go back cutting all
Speaker 1: the twiggy stuff out down to where there's actual foliage,
Speaker 1: it's got a strappy foliage. Follow that with a little
Speaker 1: sprinkling a fertilizer and then a good soaking, a good soaking,
Speaker 1: and that would allow you to give a boost of
Speaker 1: the plant to come back out and maybe you'll get
Speaker 1: a little bit more blooming out of it that way.
Speaker 1: That's that certainly is worth a try if you feel
Speaker 1: like your plants are in decent health.
Speaker 31: Okay, all right, I'll try that. And I call it
Speaker 31: nutgrass just just a broad leaved weed killer.
Speaker 1: No, I can't answer nutgrass and in a quick answer
Speaker 1: online on the air, but I'm gonna give you my
Speaker 1: website and if you write this down gardening with Skip
Speaker 1: dot com. Early this next week, three different things are
Speaker 1: going up that all address dealing with nutgrass, and I
Speaker 1: would encourage you to take a look at those, because again,
Speaker 1: it's it's a little more complicated than just go spray
Speaker 1: this on it. Uh, the go spray this on it.
Speaker 1: Answer is to use a product called sedgehammer. Sedge hammer,
Speaker 1: but I would rather you take a look at this
Speaker 1: publication I'm putting up before you go out and start spraying.
Speaker 1: I think you'll you'll do a better job with whatever
Speaker 1: you choose to do.
Speaker 31: Then, Okay gardening with Skip dot Com.
Speaker 1: That's right, that it's okay gardening with Thank you? All right,
Speaker 1: thank you very much. Appreciate appreciate your call very much.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, let's see here. Where do we go next? Uh,
Speaker 1: We're going to go to Devanna up there in Katie
Speaker 1: And it looks like we're going to talk about the
Speaker 1: same thing, Divanna.
Speaker 15: Yes, I recently had a cleanup done in my yard
Speaker 15: that they removed the nut sedge.
Speaker 11: That I had.
Speaker 15: Now that the beds are clean, should I go and
Speaker 15: spray it with the sedge hammer.
Speaker 1: No, you have to spray that on existing nutsedge.
Speaker 15: Okay, okay.
Speaker 1: Depending on the kind of nut sege you have. There's
Speaker 1: a product called image I m Age that is very effective.
Speaker 1: But it was you spray it on the foliage, but
Speaker 1: it also about twenty four hours later you watered in
Speaker 1: and it also has root activity. But in landscape beds.
Speaker 1: There are a number of plants that it can damage,
Speaker 1: and so you have to read the label to see
Speaker 1: what you can and can't use it around. But that's
Speaker 1: one that even if you don't have the nutsedge up there,
Speaker 1: you could spray, you could water it in. I would
Speaker 1: wait until you had something to spray before you do.
Speaker 15: It, Okay, Well, I just wanted to keep it, you know,
Speaker 15: controlled now now that the beds are cleaned.
Speaker 12: Yeah, so I'll just wait.
Speaker 1: Yes, go look at my stuff online at gardening. We
Speaker 1: skipped dot bom. As soon as I can get it
Speaker 1: up there, I will. It will be early in the
Speaker 1: week at the latest.
Speaker 12: Uh all right, thank you, Yeah, you bet.
Speaker 1: And it will be back and you will be up
Speaker 1: for about But that's okay. We're just informing you with
Speaker 1: that publication on here's how you do it. But you
Speaker 1: just have to remember when Nut SAIDs you can't stop
Speaker 1: you can't stop it. You you bet? Thank you very much.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that.
Speaker 16: All right.
Speaker 1: I hear music. So Ken, I'm friends with Steve your park.
Speaker 1: We're gonna come to you when we get back from
Speaker 1: this break. Yeah. Nut's edge is a formidable foe. And
Speaker 1: that's why I'm putting three different things online about it.
Speaker 1: It will help you, uh, a little bit of a
Speaker 1: sordid way to put it. But I like to tell
Speaker 1: people when you go after nuts edge, it's like you're
Speaker 1: trying to drown it. You got to hold it under
Speaker 1: water until a bubble squid coming out, because if you
Speaker 1: let it up, it takes a gulf of air and
Speaker 1: you're right back where you started. And a lot of
Speaker 1: you been right back where you started with unsuccessful attempts
Speaker 1: tape control that such, we'll be right back.
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Speaker 1: Well, come back, welcome back to guard Line. Hey, it's
Speaker 1: good to have you with us today. I appreciate you
Speaker 1: listening in and we are gonna start this hour. First
Speaker 1: of all, I wanted to tell you about Jorges Hidden Gardens. Now,
Speaker 1: those of you that are down south of Houston, this
Speaker 1: is a local garden center. We call them the Mom
Speaker 1: and Pops and this is and it's the independent garden
Speaker 1: center that's down in Alvin, Texas. Now you probably heard
Speaker 1: about Horayes before. I don't know if you've heard been,
Speaker 1: but you need to go visit. They're open on Fridays
Speaker 1: from nine to three, and on Saturdays from eight to four,
Speaker 1: and on Sundays from eight to four, so it's easy
Speaker 1: on the weekends to find time there that you can
Speaker 1: go in and check things out. There on Elizabeth Street
Speaker 1: in Alvin, just south of Highway six Elizabeth Street, So
Speaker 1: those of you in Alvin and Santa Fe, Dickinson Hillcrest,
Speaker 1: Algoa Arcadia, how about Alta Loma, this is your hometown
Speaker 1: garden center just real close by there. Seasonally through the
Speaker 1: year they got all kinds of things. You know, there'll
Speaker 1: be times where there's tomato plants and other kinds of
Speaker 1: vegetables and herbs and whatnot. They always have a good
Speaker 1: selection of fruit trees, fruit trees that are lower chill
Speaker 1: that do well down in that area. I know this
Speaker 1: past year, I was so impressed with the Peggy Martin roses.
Speaker 1: If they had already on little trellis'es that did good
Speaker 1: krape myrtles. Lots of different trees and things, and they
Speaker 1: carry that three sixty tree stabilizer that you hear me
Speaker 1: talk about from time to time. Hojrges Hidden Gardens on
Speaker 1: Elizabeth Street down in Alvin again Fridays ninety three, Saturdays
Speaker 1: eight to four, Sundays eight to four. We're going to
Speaker 1: head to the phones now and I'm going to head
Speaker 1: to friends Wood and talk to Ken. Hello, Ken, Welcome
Speaker 1: to garden line. Hey, good morning, Skip.
Speaker 8: Can you hear me?
Speaker 1: Okay, yes, sir?
Speaker 32: Yeah, Hey, So yeah, I've got a beautiful, you know,
Speaker 32: Saint Augustine grass yard and over probably the last ten years,
Speaker 32: been using you know, popular chemical companies here to fertilize
Speaker 32: and set aside and all that. And you know, in
Speaker 32: my mind, these companies are always over fertilizing, and ultimately,
Speaker 32: you know, every year my yard is I guess, you know,
Speaker 32: I see things. I think it's insects or fungus or whatever.
Speaker 32: But every year it's gotten a little worse, and you know,
Speaker 32: I think we finally, my wife and I've decided that
Speaker 32: it's take all root rot. And this year it's been
Speaker 32: really bad, I guess because of all the rain and
Speaker 32: you know, everything that we've read, it's like there, we're
Speaker 32: just in a really bad place and it's really hard
Speaker 32: to control. And you know, I so anyways, I'd like
Speaker 32: to hear your thoughts. I have some other thoughts about
Speaker 32: how to turn it around, but I really wanted an
Speaker 32: extraored opinion.
Speaker 16: Right.
Speaker 1: Well, there's not a there's not just a one step
Speaker 1: on controlling and take all root rot. If you go
Speaker 1: to my schedules online at gardening with skip dot com U,
Speaker 1: there is a whole row across there that's kind of
Speaker 1: shaded light brown tan colored and it's the disease row.
Speaker 1: And you'll notice that in the spring there is an
Speaker 1: optional application for take all in March through early April
Speaker 1: UH and then in the fall. October and November are
Speaker 1: two important times to treat for take all. Root rot.
Speaker 1: One of the most effective products for take all and
Speaker 1: it's on it's on that schedule if you go. If
Speaker 1: you go and look at it is the ingredient azoxystrobin
Speaker 1: and it's a z O x y S t r
Speaker 1: O ezoxystrobin. Now that that is important. Also important is
Speaker 1: proper aeration of the soil. Compost top dressings are helpful
Speaker 1: for that. Any kind of a microboile enriched fertilizer is
Speaker 1: also going to be helpful for that. There's a product
Speaker 1: and i'd have to go look look for it. But
Speaker 1: it's by fertil and it contains micro nutrients. It's it's
Speaker 1: got not just iron, but it's got molebdenum, it's got zinc,
Speaker 1: and it's got manganese in it and iron I know,
Speaker 1: and zinc and it When take All hits a grass plant,
Speaker 1: it kills the roots and if you don't have root tips,
Speaker 1: you're not able to take up some of these micronutrients,
Speaker 1: like iron, for example. So what it's like doing is
Speaker 1: it's like bypassing the root system. When you put it
Speaker 1: in a hose in sprayer and spray it on your plant.
Speaker 1: That does not cure take All, but it's like being
Speaker 1: in the hospital and you can't eat. They give you
Speaker 1: an IV until you can eat. And so it's the
Speaker 1: IV to foldy or spray it with your hoseen sprayer.
Speaker 1: So that is part of the process. Using the azoxystrobin
Speaker 1: is part of the process. And there's there's different forms
Speaker 1: of azoxystrobin. One is called heritage. There is another one
Speaker 1: I think it's I believe it's a disease X. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to think of which of the products. But anyway,
Speaker 1: just look for a zoxystrobin. Yeah, and so those things
Speaker 1: water it more often, you know, I talk about water
Speaker 1: in once a week, maybe twice a week when you've
Speaker 1: got to take all a light. Watering a little more
Speaker 1: often is helpful because it lacks the root system, the
Speaker 1: deep extensive root system, so you're having to pamper it
Speaker 1: along a little bit more. I'd rather not wader that often,
Speaker 1: but when you're lacking roots, that keeps the plant from dying.
Speaker 1: To give it, yeah, water, all of those are steps.
Speaker 1: Anything you do to acidify the surface of the soil
Speaker 1: would be help. Is iron helpful in that iron is
Speaker 1: helpful if it's in a form they can use now.
Speaker 32: Soil wise, you're saying acidify the soil, and I you know,
Speaker 32: we've certainly read about that, and that's where composts can.
Speaker 1: Help, right. Composts can help. There are some research by
Speaker 1: an m up in Dallas where peat moss purchasing it
Speaker 1: by those bales. It's like compress square plastic covered bales
Speaker 1: of peat moss. There are three point eight cubic feet
Speaker 1: that covers about one thousand feet a third of an
Speaker 1: inch deep, and so you have to work out getting
Speaker 1: it out there. But that's sounds like that's a.
Speaker 32: Tough thing to deal with, and we've read about that,
Speaker 32: and there's a couple of companies here in Houston. I
Speaker 32: guess that's specialize in, you know, very specific compost for
Speaker 32: this issue.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, that's right. You're you're a little bit outside
Speaker 1: the edge of BMB turf Pros. But I would give
Speaker 1: them a call. They're there. Number is seven to one
Speaker 1: three two three four fifty five ninety eight. Now they
Speaker 1: specialize in compost, stop dressing, quality compos stop dssing. I
Speaker 1: don't know if they would be able to put the
Speaker 1: peede out or not, but I've done it myself just
Speaker 1: by breaking it up into a into a wheelbarrow, making
Speaker 1: little piles around, and then using a rake upside down
Speaker 1: to break from that plan to spread it around a
Speaker 1: little bit. So those are all things that help, and
Speaker 1: you just have to stay with it, that's the bottom line.
Speaker 32: Yeah, I guess I was thinking about you've mentioned aeration,
Speaker 32: and for sure, you know, I'm you know, I've been
Speaker 32: feeling this for a while. You know, it gets it
Speaker 32: just gets squshy, squishy underneath your feet when you're mowing,
Speaker 32: you know, whether I guess because the roots are going away,
Speaker 32: but yeah, I think I was thinking about this this
Speaker 32: spring actually aerating, just fall aeriating and then actually raking
Speaker 32: in sand and the peat moss.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not an official recommendation, but I would I
Speaker 1: could also see using a wettable sulfur in a hose
Speaker 1: in sprayer mixed not a hose end. Yeah, hose hose
Speaker 1: insprayer to just go over the lawn and acidify that
Speaker 1: runner area right at the top of the soil. So
Speaker 1: that'd be another option. Hey, im against a hard break here, Kim,
Speaker 1: but hopefully that gives you some tools to keep working
Speaker 1: on it. Don't hesitate to call back over time. If
Speaker 1: we need to continue this conversation, I'd be happy to
Speaker 1: do that. You take care, all right, folks, time for
Speaker 1: a break. If you'd like to call seven one three
Speaker 1: two one two kt r H, I'll be right back
Speaker 1: you with us. So we're going to hit the ground
Speaker 1: run in here. A while ago I was bench BnB
Speaker 1: turf pros. Some of you may have heard it and
Speaker 1: was like, Okay, what did that? What do they do?
Speaker 12: Well?
Speaker 1: BnB, they're south of Houston and they cover an area
Speaker 1: that goes I don't know about as far. Let's say
Speaker 1: to the west as sugar Land and north as Missouri City,
Speaker 1: all the way across to Pearland and then down to
Speaker 1: places like Iowa Colony or Coola, Sienna, Fresno, that whole
Speaker 1: area down there. They do top dressing and they do
Speaker 1: core aeration, and so to have them come out is
Speaker 1: really a boost for your lawn. Core aeration helps get
Speaker 1: oxygen on the soil and helps break up compaction top dressing,
Speaker 1: compost top dressing. And by the way, they only use
Speaker 1: the highest quality compost top dressing like Ciena Maltch for example,
Speaker 1: that is high quality stuff they use that they use
Speaker 1: the fertilizers like Microlife that we talk about here on Guardline.
Speaker 1: They only use top quality products and companies that I
Speaker 1: trust here on guarden Line. BnB turf Pros, you're not
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Speaker 1: sure that they listen to you and they have a
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Speaker 1: to Danny. Hello, Danny, good morning morning.
Speaker 33: Hey, I've got a I got a problem with crab
Speaker 33: grass in my Saint Augustine. Grass and everything I read
Speaker 33: about or see is not for use on Saint Augustine.
Speaker 12: You get any.
Speaker 1: Suggestions, well, killing grass and grass is pretty much impossible
Speaker 1: to do once they're both growing. Like whatever you would
Speaker 1: spray on crabgrass that's growing would hurt your Saint Augustine.
Speaker 1: So what we do with crabgrass? You got two things.
Speaker 1: First of all, fortunately it's grass and it's green, so
Speaker 1: if you mow it, it doesn't look as bad as
Speaker 1: some weeds could. Because you're in the meantime, you're going
Speaker 1: to try to grow your Saint Augustine denser and denser
Speaker 1: by mowing, watering, and fertilizing and that's my lawn care
Speaker 1: schedule online. Then you will want next spring in actually
Speaker 1: in February to put down a pre emergent herbicide, and
Speaker 1: that's on my lawn pest disease and weed management schedule.
Speaker 1: I make a list of what you can use out
Speaker 1: there and like barricade, for example, and you put that
Speaker 1: down and watered in, and then you do it. You're
Speaker 1: gonna have to do it again as we get probably
Speaker 1: to about May may June, because the product I put
Speaker 1: out doesn't last forever, and crabgrass will sprout all summer,
Speaker 1: and so you want to stop it from sprouting later.
Speaker 1: But the pre emergent is the way to stop it.
Speaker 1: But really, ultimately, if you're not building density, you're just
Speaker 1: going to continue to have wheat problems popping up.
Speaker 9: Okay, okay, I understand. I appreciate it. Thank you very much.
Speaker 1: You bet good luck. I wish you well. With that.
Speaker 1: We're going to now go out to Samuel and Sugarland.
Speaker 1: Hey Samuel, good morning, Welcome to guard Line. Yeah morning,
Speaker 1: thank you.
Speaker 12: So I got a little dilemma. Maybe you can give
Speaker 12: me some I guess I kind of have the same
Speaker 12: issue that your last caller had. But I think I
Speaker 12: got a little worse because I've been using True Green.
Speaker 12: I hate to say their name on there, but I
Speaker 12: haven't seen a lot of results that come out every
Speaker 12: six weeks. And I got the same issue with crabgrass.
Speaker 12: I got like four leaf clover looking okay grass just
Speaker 12: about every kind of week you can see is is sprouting.
Speaker 12: I fertilized twice a year. I guess I need to
Speaker 12: fertilize a little more, but it's taken over my yard
Speaker 12: and I don't know what else to do. I use
Speaker 12: the scott stuff, but out in sugar Land, it looks
Speaker 12: like the grass that we have out there isn't top notch.
Speaker 12: It's kind of the Saint Augustine stuff.
Speaker 1: Okay. So a couple of things you just heard me
Speaker 1: probably talk about BnB turf pros coming out and doing
Speaker 1: core aeration and compost top dressing. That, okay, is very
Speaker 1: helpful for getting your lawn denture and getting it going.
Speaker 1: If the lawn in general just don't look good, you
Speaker 1: know it needs some help. Maybe it's a heavy clay soil,
Speaker 1: because you got quite a few heavy clay soils out
Speaker 1: there in sugar Land, right, So mowing, watering and fertilizing.
Speaker 1: That's my lawn care schedule and it's online at gardening
Speaker 1: with skip dot comets free to download. And then I
Speaker 1: have a lawn pest disease and we'd management schedule. That's
Speaker 1: the one you also need to download. It starts in
Speaker 1: the spring. It tells you right when to apply the
Speaker 1: pre emergence and when to and what to apply, and
Speaker 1: then it tells you with post emergence like I've already
Speaker 1: got weeds up, Now what can I use to kill them?
Speaker 1: I'd much rather you go with one of the products
Speaker 1: on there. I know you're naming a bunch of brands
Speaker 1: and things out there. There's a bazillion things out on
Speaker 1: the market. I'm focusing on the ones that I know
Speaker 1: will work for you. And so that doesn't mean something
Speaker 1: else won't work. It just means I don't know, I
Speaker 1: mean it, who knows. We'd have to talk about the
Speaker 1: specific one.
Speaker 12: It is it about? Is it not? I don't mean
Speaker 12: to catch off? Is it uh non productive to use
Speaker 12: the uh A service that comes out? Are they not
Speaker 12: results focused?
Speaker 2: I mean?
Speaker 12: Or is it more of a fact.
Speaker 1: You know, without getting into companies and stuff a service
Speaker 1: with with people that they hire that know what they're
Speaker 1: doing can do a very good job. You can also
Speaker 1: do it yourself either way you choose, or you could
Speaker 1: download my schedule and you could tell them this is
Speaker 1: what I to use. I want you to put this
Speaker 1: down and you tell them what to use. They may
Speaker 1: argue with you, but you can always hire somebody else
Speaker 1: if they're not going to be.
Speaker 12: I got you, yep, yep, Okay, all right, I guess
Speaker 12: I'll look at your schedule there, look at what you're
Speaker 12: using and get better shot. I mean, I'm sitting on
Speaker 12: no right now.
Speaker 1: So yeah, well, you know, we got a number of
Speaker 1: things mow water and fertilized are critical. Do it properly.
Speaker 1: It tells you on the schedule how to do that.
Speaker 1: And then if you're going to do accomplos stop dressing
Speaker 1: or an aeration, that's also on that same schedule, the
Speaker 1: long care schedule, getting those done can be helpful too.
Speaker 1: So there's a lot of ways we can approach this.
Speaker 1: The goal at the end is just get that grass
Speaker 1: growing faster and green and healthy, and that takes care
Speaker 1: of the majority of your WEAD problems. And then when
Speaker 1: you have things that it doesn't take care of, which
Speaker 1: there are things that it won't take care of. You
Speaker 1: can go after those with a specific product that I
Speaker 1: would recommend for those problems.
Speaker 12: Okay, okay, I'll get a look at your website. I
Speaker 12: love your show. I appreciate the info.
Speaker 1: All right, happy, happy to help. Let's see where we're
Speaker 1: going now. We've got a lot of board here we're
Speaker 1: trying to clear out. Let's go to Houston area, tuc To. Rick. Hello, Rick,
Speaker 1: Welcome to garden line.
Speaker 12: Yeah, no more. I've got an issue with is back
Speaker 12: on an issue with a.
Speaker 34: Sandy leaf put in the groundcover in my front bids
Speaker 34: and I'm noticing it's getting a yellow leaf spots on it.
Speaker 20: Overwatering or is it that something different?
Speaker 1: It's a groundcover that is did you have a name
Speaker 1: for it?
Speaker 34: Sandy leaf?
Speaker 1: They call it sandy leaf, Oh, san leya fig. Probably
Speaker 1: it's got a run sandpapery leaf. Yeah, that's probably the Okay,
Speaker 1: that's a ficus type plant that grows as a groundcover.
Speaker 1: When it's showing some yellow, probably the it's on the
Speaker 1: oldest leaves. If a little suit sticks up, it's got
Speaker 1: a bunch of leaves on it, it's gonna be on
Speaker 1: the older ones typically, and that could be a fluctuation
Speaker 1: in soul moisture gets a little dry and then it
Speaker 1: gets water and stuff. Probably not a disease unless it
Speaker 1: were some sort of a root rot from excessive soil moisture,
Speaker 1: soggy soggy conditions. There's I've never seen a leaf spot
Speaker 1: become a problem on that on that plant. Uh so
Speaker 1: I'm gonna guess that it could just be a lack
Speaker 1: of nitrogen too, But that plant is so tough even
Speaker 1: without a lot of nitrogen. It should it should look okay.
Speaker 34: Yeah, well, so it's good. It's okay in the shade
Speaker 34: and sun.
Speaker 12: So that's why I figured, I don't know why.
Speaker 34: I'll go watering it or so okay, so just uh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: And you can always dig down about three inches of
Speaker 1: a little babe in your hand and feel the soil.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, you can feel the interesting dry
Speaker 1: and moist and if it's if it's wet, then definitely
Speaker 1: don't need a water. If it's getting a little on
Speaker 1: the dry, set give it some water. But that's not
Speaker 1: a picky plant, so it's not like you got to
Speaker 1: get it just right. It's not a hydrangeur or something
Speaker 1: but you got to keep just happy. So actually, that'll
Speaker 1: do it. I throw a little nitrogen, a little omfertilizer
Speaker 1: on it. You can do that and that'll kind of
Speaker 1: boost it, give it a little extra growth. I just
Speaker 1: wouldn't do that past about August. I'd get that done
Speaker 1: now rather than later done.
Speaker 12: Okay, okay, thank you, Sary.
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Speaker 1: phones right away. Here we've got some folks have been waiting.
Speaker 1: Talk to Gary first in West Houston. Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 3: Gary, all right, thank you. Skip two quick questions.
Speaker 26: One on my zoijow, which is you know, really thick
Speaker 26: and fairly healthy except for some weeds here and there.
Speaker 26: When I put down granular fertilizer nitrofoss what have you.
Speaker 26: It's so thick that the fertilizer lays on top, and
Speaker 26: I wanted to make sure I didn't burn anything or whatever,
Speaker 26: and I would basically have to walk around and drill
Speaker 26: it down into the grass with a jet spray.
Speaker 3: How careful do I have to be in doing that?
Speaker 26: Or is just wetting it and let it sit there
Speaker 26: on top of the grass not a bad thing?
Speaker 1: Well, good, good question. First of all, congratulations on having
Speaker 1: turfed dence. That's impressive. So so yeah, yeah, you must
Speaker 1: have a very fine texture zoysia, something like Xeon or Emerald.
Speaker 1: Yeah it's Emerald, Emerald, Emerald. Okay, Well, so you can
Speaker 1: water it in. You can water it and it should
Speaker 1: dissolve the particles you met the water a little while
Speaker 1: and then a little bit later water again. It should
Speaker 1: dissolve and move on in. And that would be better
Speaker 1: than just leaving it on the surface, because that's where
Speaker 1: you would get a salt burn from a salt based
Speaker 1: synthetic type fertilizers like you're talking about. I don't you know,
Speaker 1: I don't think raking it in in any way is
Speaker 1: going to be practical. And plus that's a lot of
Speaker 1: work to have to rake your lawn because you fertilized it.
Speaker 1: So I think that's probably your best bet is to
Speaker 1: is to give it a good soaking, watering and let
Speaker 1: it work its way in, you know it almost I
Speaker 1: don't know. I'm just are you doing a lot of
Speaker 1: mowing and fertilizing and watering of the lawn. I'm kind
Speaker 1: of curious about the level of density you're getting.
Speaker 3: I haven't done. I haven't overfertilized it at all.
Speaker 26: As a matter of fact, it's probably been two months
Speaker 26: and nuts because I was using Imperial. I didn't I
Speaker 26: didn't have any slow release. I wanted to get rid
Speaker 26: of the Imperial. So I don't mind doing it every
Speaker 26: couple of months. But I am mowing it if I can.
Speaker 26: I I mow it once a week with a real mower,
Speaker 26: and I let the long guys do it once a
Speaker 26: week because they've got a bagger, you know. So it's
Speaker 26: kind of a twice a week thing. And I'm keeping it.
Speaker 26: Try and keep it almost to an inch you know,
Speaker 26: inch and.
Speaker 1: A half cover. Okay, now that's making now, now that's
Speaker 1: making some sense. Yeah, yeah, you're and the other I'm
Speaker 1: not surprised as sitting on top.
Speaker 15: Yeah.
Speaker 26: And the the other quick question I had was, and
Speaker 26: somebody talked about crabgrass earlier. But Image has a product
Speaker 26: says it kills sets, and it says on it it
Speaker 26: kills crabgrass and that it's safe you know for a
Speaker 26: zoision as some other lawns. Does it really kill crab
Speaker 26: grass or not?
Speaker 1: Well, if it has got on the label, then there
Speaker 1: it does. The thing the label doesn't tell you is
Speaker 1: how good it is. You know, there's things that are
Speaker 1: labeled like for nuts edge that is like, for example,
Speaker 1: image is only fair against yellow nutsedge, but it's good
Speaker 1: against purple nutsedge. And so depending on the counter nuts
Speaker 1: sage you have. This is going back to the fact
Speaker 1: that I'm putting these this information up there because sometimes
Speaker 1: a good quick answer is not the most accurate answer.
Speaker 1: But that may be part of it there, and with
Speaker 1: any weed that's going to be the case. So crabgrass,
Speaker 1: image should do a pretty good job. Image has It
Speaker 1: has effect on the foliage of the weed you're putting
Speaker 1: it on, but it also has root effect. So when
Speaker 1: you spray image after twenty four hours, you want to
Speaker 1: put on about a half inch of water and that
Speaker 1: moves the product then down into the soil because it's
Speaker 1: already soaked into the foliage spray. Then it moves the
Speaker 1: extra down in the soil where it will affect the roots.
Speaker 12: Uh.
Speaker 1: And so it has a double way that it works
Speaker 1: after those. But again depends on the kind of nutsedge.
Speaker 26: Yeah, okay, yeah, and for and for nut size yourself,
Speaker 26: I mean such hammer Plus say it's safe to use
Speaker 26: on the zoisa, especially for spot treatment and that other area.
Speaker 1: Sedge hammer spot yeah.
Speaker 3: Summer, it's good for people that got.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it does, right, And sedge hammer is a brand.
Speaker 1: Sedgehammer Plus is a brand which, by the way, already
Speaker 1: has a surfactant in it. Uh. There are other versions
Speaker 1: of that same ingredient, halo sulfron. Monterey has one called
Speaker 1: nutgrass Killer. Two High Yield has nutsedge and horse tail control.
Speaker 1: Martin's has nutsedge Eliminator, and all of those are the
Speaker 1: same ingredients and so one. Yeah, it does it is
Speaker 1: it's good to excellent on both yellow and purple. That's it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, thank you very much, Skip, have a great
Speaker 3: have a great right.
Speaker 1: Well, it sounds like you need to call better homes
Speaker 1: and gardens and have come take a picture of you
Speaker 1: and your lawn out there.
Speaker 3: I got a.
Speaker 26: Yeah, I got a lot of pictures on my lawn
Speaker 26: on my phone. So I'm a freak, all right, I'm
Speaker 26: obsession of it.
Speaker 1: Thanks Skip, all right, you're one of those lawn rangers.
Speaker 1: Thanks a lot. I appreciate appreciate your call. Gary, appreciate
Speaker 1: that very much. Uh, let's see, We're going to see
Speaker 1: if we can get take care of James and sugar Land.
Speaker 3: Here.
Speaker 1: James, you got about a minute left. How can we.
Speaker 21: Help continuing the discussion on uh take all patch? Is
Speaker 21: it worth trying to treat it now? You say in
Speaker 21: the spring and in the fall, But do you put
Speaker 21: anything out now?
Speaker 1: You know, I had my neighbor and I both had
Speaker 1: a little take all in a part of our yard,
Speaker 1: and I did treat it recently. The effect of that
Speaker 1: treatment is not as good as treating it at the
Speaker 1: times on my schedule, but it helps a little, And
Speaker 1: so I went ahead and did it because I'm trying
Speaker 1: to shut it down. I'm pretty much throwing everything but
Speaker 1: the kitchen sink at it.
Speaker 16: That's why it is.
Speaker 1: The one disease that kills your lawn. And so that's a.
Speaker 20: Well, what about.
Speaker 21: Okay, if I need to put out sawd am I
Speaker 21: wasting my time until I can figure out if I
Speaker 21: can get this under control.
Speaker 1: No, no, you can put out the sod. Just keep
Speaker 1: it as healthy as you can. Take All is an
Speaker 1: opportunist disease. When you stress your grass with shade, with
Speaker 1: certain kinds of weed killers, with compacted soil and so on.
Speaker 1: With drought, that's another one. Uh, then take all gets
Speaker 1: the chance to move in and attack. Otherwise the grass
Speaker 1: is somewhat resilient against it. Hey, I've got to run
Speaker 1: to another break. But yeah, that lay on it, stay
Speaker 1: on it. That's the way to get ahead of it.
Speaker 1: You take yes, sir, you take care, James. We'll be
Speaker 1: right back. Cool stuff. Hey, welcome back. We're glad to
Speaker 1: have you with us. Nelson Plant Food is a creator
Speaker 1: of some of the best fertilizer products that you're going
Speaker 1: to find for whatever you want to grow. I mean,
Speaker 1: they've got their turf Star line, things like Bruce's Brew.
Speaker 1: Bruces Brew is a product that is going to be
Speaker 1: a quick release product you can use anytime of the year.
Speaker 1: And we talk about slow releases. Slow releases are fine,
Speaker 1: like Nelson's Slow and Easy. You can take a quick release.
Speaker 1: You can divide up the application into smaller applications, or
Speaker 1: what we normally use is we talk about using Bruce's
Speaker 1: Brew like in the springtime and in the fall time
Speaker 1: as we're getting going on our lawns. It's an excellent product,
Speaker 1: very very excellent product. Now when we're talking about fall
Speaker 1: that is when we look at their carbo load product.
Speaker 1: That's one coming up and I'll talk about that more,
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Speaker 1: bit on the Nutri Star and Nature Star line. The
Speaker 1: nutri Star is a tree and shrub line that is
Speaker 1: excellent for all kinds of well Nutrire Star is a
Speaker 1: number of lines. They've got the tree and shrub, which
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Speaker 1: of tree, any kind of shrub, any kind of woody vine.
Speaker 1: That is what you need Nutrastar, tree and shrub to do.
Speaker 1: Five different sources of nitrogen in that product, by the way,
Speaker 1: and you can feed them three or four times a
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Speaker 1: you plant a tree, your goal is how soon can
Speaker 1: I hang a hammock in that thing? Get it growing
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Speaker 1: I want to head out now to Deer Park and
Speaker 1: we're going to talk to Steve. Hello, Steve, welcome to Damline.
Speaker 8: Yes, hey, Skip, I sent you an email and yes
Speaker 8: I was wondering you had a chance to look at it.
Speaker 1: Yes I have. And that is called dovewed and doveweed weed.
Speaker 1: It's an annual opportunist. It's kind of caught in between
Speaker 1: grasses and broad leaf control. So things that kill grasses
Speaker 1: mer or may not work. Things that kill broad leaf
Speaker 1: marmorn not works. It's very difficult to manage dove weed.
Speaker 1: Usually once you have it, then we're we're talking about
Speaker 1: applying something to kill everything in that spot, like a
Speaker 1: Glacis type product would do. It kills the doveweed to
Speaker 1: kiss the grass. It kills everything. But you're just going
Speaker 1: in and you're creating a clean slate to start over
Speaker 1: uh pre emergence. Most of the pre emergence available in
Speaker 1: the in the retail market just are not going to
Speaker 1: work on that particular weed very well. But the products
Speaker 1: that do work landscape care companies have access to, but
Speaker 1: those are pricey. There we spend one hundreds of dollars
Speaker 1: or more on some of those products, and so are
Speaker 1: it'd be nice to have a pre emergent to just
Speaker 1: prevent the little annual seeds of doveweed from coming up.
Speaker 1: But I just don't to know of a good one
Speaker 1: that's been proven effective so on that particular weed. So
Speaker 1: that leaves us with the alternative.
Speaker 8: A weed and feed wouldn't take care of it, would it?
Speaker 1: No, Because that's going to either be a pre emergent
Speaker 1: or a post emergent. And I would rather feed when
Speaker 1: it's time to feed, and weed when it's time to weed,
Speaker 1: and separate those out because this this weed is a
Speaker 1: good example there are products that are not going to
Speaker 1: touch it. In weed and feeds, there's pre emergent weeden
Speaker 1: feeds and you're not going to touch it. There's going
Speaker 1: to be some post emergent weeden feeds that don't have
Speaker 1: what it takes to really knock it out. It just
Speaker 1: you don't get satisfaction. And I don't want to hedge hedge.
Speaker 1: I don't want to send you out there to buy
Speaker 1: something that's not going to give you the results you're
Speaker 1: gonna need.
Speaker 8: So I need a glass of fate product.
Speaker 1: Glyphosate glyphose a Now, okay, get out, wait until it's
Speaker 1: not so hot to do it, or do you need
Speaker 1: to do it right now? You could do it well,
Speaker 1: I do it now. Start early in the morning when
Speaker 1: it's cool, and just spray over it. Just know that
Speaker 1: glyphase kills broad leaf and grassy wheat. Now round Up
Speaker 1: these companies frustrate the heck out of me because they
Speaker 1: confuse things. It used to be that round Up had glyphosate.
Speaker 1: Now round Up has two or three other things instead
Speaker 1: of glyphosate in it, so you would have to find
Speaker 1: glyphos aide. It's in a lot of different brands to
Speaker 1: put out there on it. But just know this, if
Speaker 1: it's green and you get it on the green tissues,
Speaker 1: glyphosate is going to kill your grass. It's going to
Speaker 1: kill it any flowers nearby that you let it drift onto.
Speaker 1: So you want to be careful when you apply it.
Speaker 8: Okay, all right, now every side?
Speaker 1: Yeah, and the only alternative. And in the picture you sent,
Speaker 1: I couldn't tell for sure, but it looked like it's
Speaker 1: almost one dove weed. So that would be one where
Speaker 1: I would say, yeah, I just go spread. You could
Speaker 1: also go in and with a hoe slicing about a
Speaker 1: half inch under the surface. Just hoe it all out
Speaker 1: of there. But you're still going to have seeds that
Speaker 1: then re sprout. You got to be ready to go
Speaker 1: with that. Maybe you would then receive those areas because
Speaker 1: they're pretty large too. You can't wait on grass to
Speaker 1: crawl in from the sides of areas that large. It
Speaker 1: takes too long. So I just throw that as another area.
Speaker 1: Another option for people that don't want to use a
Speaker 1: harvest that product, such as clapsate.
Speaker 8: I know you're probably running out of time. But if
Speaker 8: I waited and let it go into winter and then
Speaker 8: it died back for the winter I suppose, and then
Speaker 8: treated it in the spring, would it be easier or
Speaker 8: hard work be a mistake neither.
Speaker 1: It's an annual, so you'd be getting it back from
Speaker 1: seeds in the spring. You know what, There is one
Speaker 1: other product I can't believe I didn't think of this.
Speaker 1: There's one other product. It's Agrilawn. It's a cinnamon based
Speaker 1: product that's in a round paper canister and you turn
Speaker 1: it upside down and you shake the cinnamon onto the weed.
Speaker 1: The weed needs to be wet, so you need to,
Speaker 1: you know, turn on the water hosen, just get it wet,
Speaker 1: and that makes the cinnamon stick to the weed and
Speaker 1: it'll turn it brown, I mean black, it just really fast.
Speaker 1: Now that product is say one more time, agri lawn,
Speaker 1: a g agroln lawn. But like I said, you're mixing.
Speaker 1: It's not liquid, it's not a granule you put out.
Speaker 1: It is a canister of cinnamon dust. Think of it
Speaker 1: that way. That's the best way to think of it.
Speaker 1: And you if you've got wet weeds, it will not
Speaker 1: kill your Saint Augustine. But if you got wet weeds,
Speaker 1: it'll kill it. And so it may be a little
Speaker 1: ex if if you've got a big area, because this
Speaker 1: is a it's like a one pound canister and you're
Speaker 1: literally dusting all the weeds with it.
Speaker 8: And so okay, that sounds like a good option.
Speaker 1: I think it will give you very fast results and
Speaker 1: I think that's probably what I would do. But in
Speaker 1: the meantime, let's either plug in grass, sod in grass,
Speaker 1: or do whatever we can to cover bear soil because
Speaker 1: this weed's just going to keep coming back every year.
Speaker 8: Okay, all right, thank you, you have a good weekends.
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