WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.640 --> 00:00:05.240 Welcome to Katie r. H Garden line with Skip Rickard's. 2 00:00:06.599 --> 00:00:20.399 Crazy gas can trim just watch him as well. Many 3 00:00:20.800 --> 00:00:29.719 things to seep baas great gass back again, not a 4 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:43.200 sun glass gas the sun beamon down a dreams. 5 00:00:43.719 --> 00:00:45.960 Starting treating. 6 00:00:47.719 --> 00:00:53.520 Alright, folks, good morning, good Saturday morning. On uh what 7 00:00:53.880 --> 00:00:55.759 let's say a fault. We're gonna call it a fall day. 8 00:00:55.799 --> 00:00:58.119 Where we are the calendar says it's fall, or at 9 00:00:58.200 --> 00:01:00.320 least it's close enough to it to call it that. 10 00:01:00.399 --> 00:01:02.600 I know, you go outside and it's where did these 11 00:01:02.600 --> 00:01:06.040 temperatures come from? Well, welcome to Houston, Texas, Welcome to 12 00:01:06.040 --> 00:01:09.200 Southeast Texas, Welcome to most of the state. In fact, 13 00:01:09.400 --> 00:01:11.239 we have what we call false fall. Get a little 14 00:01:11.239 --> 00:01:13.760 breeze through here, had one the other day. Everybody thinks, 15 00:01:13.879 --> 00:01:17.200 yes at last, and then summer comes back for low wall. 16 00:01:17.280 --> 00:01:19.640 That's just part of the deal. But fall is coming. 17 00:01:20.400 --> 00:01:23.519 And one thing that is important to remember is that 18 00:01:23.680 --> 00:01:27.599 if you want to have a successful fall planting season, 19 00:01:27.680 --> 00:01:29.599 you got to look at the calendar and not the 20 00:01:29.640 --> 00:01:31.719 temperature at the moment and do what you got to 21 00:01:31.719 --> 00:01:34.319 do when it's time to do it. For example, now 22 00:01:34.439 --> 00:01:38.159 is an excellent time to plant things like marigoles for 23 00:01:38.280 --> 00:01:41.560 a beautiful fall season. They'll last all the way up 24 00:01:41.599 --> 00:01:43.879 into the first frost and that'll turn them to toast 25 00:01:44.359 --> 00:01:45.719 and then you pull them out and put in your 26 00:01:45.719 --> 00:01:49.560 cool season plants. That is a strategy and they work really, 27 00:01:50.040 --> 00:01:55.239 really well. I was checking out Jorges Hidden Gardens recently 28 00:01:55.319 --> 00:01:59.000 and oh my gosh, he has got some beautiful, beautiful miracles. 29 00:01:59.519 --> 00:02:01.959 The you know, the deep orange ones, the kind of 30 00:02:01.959 --> 00:02:04.680 in between orange and yellow and the full yellow ones 31 00:02:05.359 --> 00:02:08.800 and marigoles in the summer, or spidermight magnets. But when 32 00:02:08.879 --> 00:02:11.599 we hit fall like this spidermight populations due to the 33 00:02:11.680 --> 00:02:14.520 day length changes and temperatures and things, they're starting to 34 00:02:14.520 --> 00:02:16.879 go down and they sort of disappear and they're not 35 00:02:17.000 --> 00:02:20.599 a big deal in the fall. So your miragles glow, 36 00:02:20.840 --> 00:02:24.800 they will way out glow your mums that you put out, 37 00:02:24.800 --> 00:02:27.479 and we know falls for mums and asters, that's an 38 00:02:27.520 --> 00:02:32.080 awesome time. Don't forget miracles. That's a good quick instant 39 00:02:32.159 --> 00:02:34.400 color in the landscape that, like I said, I'll carry 40 00:02:34.400 --> 00:02:36.400 you all the way to fall. Yeah, or hey, for 41 00:02:36.439 --> 00:02:39.159 those of you haven't been out there. They're on Elizabeth 42 00:02:39.199 --> 00:02:44.120 Street in Alvin, Texas, and just go check it out. 43 00:02:44.400 --> 00:02:48.199 They they're easy to get to, and he's always got 44 00:02:48.319 --> 00:02:50.840 cool things. He's huge trees. I was looking at some 45 00:02:50.879 --> 00:02:55.039 of his magnolias are just giants of the magnolias, so gorgeous, 46 00:02:55.319 --> 00:02:58.360 absolutely beautiful, beautiful. And they have a lot of other 47 00:02:58.400 --> 00:03:01.400 trees that right now, you've just gotten some more peaches, 48 00:03:01.560 --> 00:03:04.280 the peaches that grow down south. So you know, fruit 49 00:03:04.280 --> 00:03:07.000 trees have a certain thing called chilling requirement. And if 50 00:03:07.039 --> 00:03:09.560 you were to take a peach that grows let's say 51 00:03:09.639 --> 00:03:12.800 up in Huntsville, Texas or Dallas or whatever, and try 52 00:03:12.800 --> 00:03:15.240 to plant them down here, they wouldn't get enough winter 53 00:03:16.199 --> 00:03:20.960 winter chill. It's a forty degree hours in that range. 54 00:03:21.599 --> 00:03:24.080 But Ray's got the ones that grow down south, And 55 00:03:24.199 --> 00:03:27.560 so go by there and check it out. Fall is 56 00:03:27.599 --> 00:03:30.560 an excellent time to plant a container grown fruit tree, 57 00:03:30.639 --> 00:03:33.000 like a peach, for example. He's got plenty of those 58 00:03:33.400 --> 00:03:36.879 as well. And while you're by there, check out some 59 00:03:36.919 --> 00:03:38.840 of his other things that. Hey, he's got those tree 60 00:03:38.840 --> 00:03:43.080 stabilizers to hold your tree in place when you plant 61 00:03:43.159 --> 00:03:45.639 any kind of a new tree, and they work so 62 00:03:45.639 --> 00:03:47.240 so well. You hear me talk about those all the 63 00:03:47.280 --> 00:03:50.120 time here on garden line. I was out in my 64 00:03:50.199 --> 00:03:53.400 garden a harvesting okra again yesterday. I think I've told 65 00:03:53.439 --> 00:03:57.560 you before I do okra breeding, okra crossing, and I'm 66 00:03:57.599 --> 00:04:01.639 always I think it's fun. I enjoyed doing a little 67 00:04:01.639 --> 00:04:04.199 bit of plant breeding, because when you create something new, 68 00:04:04.319 --> 00:04:08.199 it's something that didn't exist before that you created. Now, 69 00:04:08.240 --> 00:04:10.479 you can't just cross new things and then take the 70 00:04:10.520 --> 00:04:12.360 seeds out and go here. I'm going to name all 71 00:04:12.400 --> 00:04:15.240 these seeds a different variety name. It takes a while 72 00:04:15.280 --> 00:04:19.040 to develop something worth keeping and that stable. In other words, 73 00:04:19.040 --> 00:04:21.639 when you get somebody seeds, what they plant ends up 74 00:04:21.639 --> 00:04:25.920 producing the kind of flowers or fruit that you were 75 00:04:25.920 --> 00:04:28.720 hoping that they would. But anyway, I was out doing 76 00:04:28.759 --> 00:04:31.959 some of that and just noticing my okra has a 77 00:04:31.959 --> 00:04:35.480 bunch of aphids on it, and they were mostly all 78 00:04:35.560 --> 00:04:38.439 cast skins. You know, aphids shed their skin like a 79 00:04:38.480 --> 00:04:41.319 snake does, and so you see these little dried aphid 80 00:04:41.360 --> 00:04:43.000 skins all over, and I was looking for a living 81 00:04:43.040 --> 00:04:46.279 aphids and there were very very few, and I saw 82 00:04:46.399 --> 00:04:50.279 why I had some surfit fly larva on there. There 83 00:04:50.519 --> 00:04:55.720 was a crypt beetle, a skimness crypt type. It's a 84 00:04:55.720 --> 00:04:58.639 little tiny type of lady beetle. Their larva were on there, 85 00:04:58.639 --> 00:05:00.720 and then there were some regular lady beadle larvae and 86 00:05:00.759 --> 00:05:03.480 they were just munching out. They just cleaning up my 87 00:05:03.519 --> 00:05:06.120 aphed problem for me, and that's always good. You know, 88 00:05:06.560 --> 00:05:08.720 sometimes you're wondering if the cavalry is going to ride 89 00:05:08.759 --> 00:05:12.759 in to rescue the fort before before it goes under, 90 00:05:12.920 --> 00:05:16.439 and boy, they sure did this time for me. Keep 91 00:05:16.439 --> 00:05:18.160 that in mind when you're out there in the gardens, 92 00:05:18.600 --> 00:05:21.480 that it's not just you versus the pests. It's not 93 00:05:21.879 --> 00:05:25.800 just you versus the pests. That is an important lesson 94 00:05:26.199 --> 00:05:29.240 to learn. I love getting out and watching that. Sometimes 95 00:05:29.240 --> 00:05:31.439 I'll see a few pests on a plant and I'm 96 00:05:31.439 --> 00:05:32.759 just kind of well, I'm not going to hurry up 97 00:05:32.759 --> 00:05:34.439 and spray. I just want to watch and see what's 98 00:05:34.480 --> 00:05:36.800 going on. You learn a lot that way. You know, 99 00:05:36.800 --> 00:05:38.560 at some point you got to step in if it's 100 00:05:38.600 --> 00:05:40.839 going to become a big problem, got to take care 101 00:05:40.839 --> 00:05:44.079 of things. But in the meantime, take advantage of that 102 00:05:44.160 --> 00:05:47.560 opportunity to learn. That's all part of you know, organic 103 00:05:47.600 --> 00:05:50.680 gardening and whether you know, if you are not an 104 00:05:50.800 --> 00:05:55.680 organic gardener, maybe you just it doesn't matter you use organic, 105 00:05:55.759 --> 00:05:59.079 you use other things, but you're not just organic. At 106 00:05:59.160 --> 00:06:02.560 least consider the principles of organic gardening because that is 107 00:06:02.720 --> 00:06:08.279 very very important. Those principles. Whether you garden using synthetics 108 00:06:08.399 --> 00:06:11.639 or not, those principles of organic gardening are still things 109 00:06:11.680 --> 00:06:14.360 you should follow. Like I just talked about, why get 110 00:06:14.360 --> 00:06:17.199 out there with a spray and kill the lady beetle larva, 111 00:06:17.680 --> 00:06:22.079 the skimness or cryptbet larvae a type of lady beetle 112 00:06:22.360 --> 00:06:24.879 the what do I else say? Oh, the surfit flies 113 00:06:24.879 --> 00:06:27.399 were on there, and there's also lace wings that will 114 00:06:27.439 --> 00:06:30.480 be on there too. Why kill those when they're doing 115 00:06:30.560 --> 00:06:33.560 work for you? Whether you use an organic like soap 116 00:06:33.639 --> 00:06:36.639 that will kill them or a synthetic, why do that? 117 00:06:36.959 --> 00:06:39.079 Why not work? Learn how nature works, and work with 118 00:06:39.240 --> 00:06:42.040 nature as best you can. That's what microlife fertilizer is 119 00:06:42.079 --> 00:06:46.040 all about. Microlife has, in every way, shape and form, 120 00:06:46.480 --> 00:06:51.639 designed their products to build quality soil loaded with microbes, 121 00:06:51.920 --> 00:06:55.279 microbes that are good ones. You know, not every bacteria 122 00:06:55.360 --> 00:06:58.920 is bad. Many types of bacteria are good. They're good 123 00:06:58.920 --> 00:07:01.160 for the roots, are good for the soil. You know, 124 00:07:01.160 --> 00:07:05.240 there are bacteria that actually produce any biotics that help 125 00:07:05.279 --> 00:07:08.879 protect the plant roots. There really are, absolutely there are, 126 00:07:09.399 --> 00:07:11.800 and it's really cool stuff. So you get something like 127 00:07:11.959 --> 00:07:16.040 micro grow liquid, for example, that comes in a quart, 128 00:07:16.199 --> 00:07:20.399 comes in a gallon jug, kind of a maroon label, 129 00:07:20.519 --> 00:07:23.360 you know. Microlife labels all their stuff by color, and 130 00:07:23.399 --> 00:07:26.000 it's kind of the maroon label one, So naturally I'm 131 00:07:26.240 --> 00:07:28.680 drawn to that one. But seriously though, I mean, it's 132 00:07:28.680 --> 00:07:32.399 not a fungicide. It's not like a fungicide to kill fungus. 133 00:07:32.399 --> 00:07:37.639 What it is it has eight extremely dominating beneficial microbes, 134 00:07:38.000 --> 00:07:42.160 the Streptomyces, the Trachiderma, the Bacillus, all of those good 135 00:07:42.199 --> 00:07:47.360 guys that are out there helping fight against problem disease 136 00:07:47.720 --> 00:07:52.439 microbes but also colonizing those surfaces of the plant. So 137 00:07:52.600 --> 00:07:55.120 it's just a hostile environment for them to try to 138 00:07:55.120 --> 00:07:58.959 move into. It's kind of like being a rabbit and 139 00:07:59.000 --> 00:08:01.279 moving into a penful the coyotes. It's not going to 140 00:08:01.399 --> 00:08:03.959 end well, right, So when of course they're the good 141 00:08:03.959 --> 00:08:05.839 guy and bad guy are kind of turned around, you 142 00:08:05.879 --> 00:08:08.680 get the idea of what I'm talking about. Micro Grow 143 00:08:08.959 --> 00:08:12.240 Liquid a from Microlife. You can go to Microlife Fertilizer 144 00:08:12.279 --> 00:08:14.839 dot com and find out more. Well, it's all every 145 00:08:14.879 --> 00:08:16.600 time for me to take a break. Hey, hang around, 146 00:08:16.639 --> 00:08:21.120 I'm going to be right back at a time. Lard line. 147 00:08:21.279 --> 00:08:24.360 Glad you are joining us today. I'm your host, Skip Richter, 148 00:08:24.519 --> 00:08:26.920 and we are here to answer your gardening questions. The 149 00:08:26.959 --> 00:08:28.480 way I like to put it is, we're here to 150 00:08:28.480 --> 00:08:31.639 help you have a more bountiful garden and a more 151 00:08:31.680 --> 00:08:35.159 beautiful landscape. And gardening is a fun hobby. And if 152 00:08:35.200 --> 00:08:37.639 you're not having fun, let's talk. We got to fix 153 00:08:37.679 --> 00:08:41.639 that because this is not something that we fret about 154 00:08:41.639 --> 00:08:44.320 and comment that we have brown thumbs. You don't have 155 00:08:44.360 --> 00:08:47.080 a brown thumb. If anything, you got an uninformed thumb. 156 00:08:47.120 --> 00:08:49.759 And that's why we're here to inform your thumb. It 157 00:08:50.080 --> 00:08:52.600 just turns greener and greener as you inform it. I 158 00:08:52.639 --> 00:08:54.480 think that's kind of one way to look at it. 159 00:08:55.000 --> 00:08:55.120 Uh. 160 00:08:55.240 --> 00:08:57.399 I do enjoy visiting with you. And since this is 161 00:08:57.440 --> 00:08:59.200 a calling show, wouldn't it be helpful if I gave 162 00:08:59.200 --> 00:09:01.440 you a number to call and didn't do that the 163 00:09:01.440 --> 00:09:04.679 first segment? So here we go. Write this down, stick 164 00:09:04.720 --> 00:09:07.080 it on the refrigerator wherever your phone is, or however 165 00:09:07.080 --> 00:09:09.559 you want to go about it. Seven one three two 166 00:09:09.639 --> 00:09:13.639 one two k t R H seven one three two 167 00:09:13.799 --> 00:09:17.720 one two K T R H. You can give us 168 00:09:17.759 --> 00:09:20.159 call from wherever you are. We get calls sometimes from 169 00:09:20.200 --> 00:09:23.559 pretty far away folks that listen to the show, and 170 00:09:23.600 --> 00:09:26.519 we're glad to take the time to help you find 171 00:09:27.039 --> 00:09:29.279 the best way to success. Maybe it's a plant or 172 00:09:29.320 --> 00:09:31.639 a bug or a disease that needs to be identified 173 00:09:31.879 --> 00:09:36.120 and some sort of control suggested. Maybe it is a 174 00:09:36.600 --> 00:09:40.399 plant or disease, excuse me, a plant that you need 175 00:09:40.879 --> 00:09:44.639 suggestions for what to put in area, like do I 176 00:09:44.720 --> 00:09:47.080 what will grow in the shady kind of area on 177 00:09:47.279 --> 00:09:49.759 the north side of the house, you know, and so on. 178 00:09:50.120 --> 00:09:53.200 We'll help you fix that. We'll give you some ideas 179 00:09:53.279 --> 00:09:55.120 to do that kind of thing, you know. Or maybe 180 00:09:55.120 --> 00:09:58.799 it's just other kinds of general advice. What's wrong with 181 00:09:58.919 --> 00:10:01.200 my lawn and what's wrong with my trees? The two 182 00:10:01.279 --> 00:10:04.440 biggest teas of the three t's the third ones tomatoes, 183 00:10:04.480 --> 00:10:06.720 by the way, that make the phone ring here on 184 00:10:06.879 --> 00:10:10.279 Garden Line and at your county Agro Life Extension office too, 185 00:10:10.320 --> 00:10:13.679 in all two hundred and fifty four counties here in Texas. 186 00:10:14.480 --> 00:10:16.759 We I've been doing this for thirty five years, and 187 00:10:16.840 --> 00:10:20.000 I'm telling you, uh, number one, I can pretty much 188 00:10:20.039 --> 00:10:22.399 tell you what calls are going to be during each season, 189 00:10:22.440 --> 00:10:25.320 because I've been a lot of seasons, many I have 190 00:10:25.399 --> 00:10:29.679 been many moons answering gardening questions. But at the same 191 00:10:29.759 --> 00:10:33.080 time there's always new questions. I had some last week. 192 00:10:33.440 --> 00:10:35.879 It's like, Yeah, I had never been asked that before. 193 00:10:36.639 --> 00:10:39.360 That's a good question. And then people are always coming 194 00:10:39.440 --> 00:10:41.759 up with new plants. You know, it seems like we've 195 00:10:41.799 --> 00:10:44.360 discovered every plant there is now. No, no, no, there's a 196 00:10:44.399 --> 00:10:49.399 whole bunch more we have yet to experience. So anyway, 197 00:10:49.919 --> 00:10:52.519 give us calls seven one three two one two fifty 198 00:10:52.519 --> 00:10:56.519 eight seventy four, I wanted to mention plants for all seasons. 199 00:10:56.639 --> 00:11:00.639 Up on Tomball Parkway Highway to forty nine, just north 200 00:11:00.679 --> 00:11:02.480 of Luetta, right there on the side of the road. 201 00:11:03.080 --> 00:11:06.759 That has been a garden center for that general community 202 00:11:06.879 --> 00:11:09.559 since nineteen seventy three. Now they have people that travel 203 00:11:09.559 --> 00:11:12.200 aways to get there because it's that kind of garden center. 204 00:11:12.320 --> 00:11:14.240 You're going to find everything you need right now. It's 205 00:11:14.320 --> 00:11:19.480 fall season, so stock up, find the things you want 206 00:11:19.519 --> 00:11:22.399 to do to make your landscape glow this fall, and 207 00:11:22.480 --> 00:11:25.600 they've got it all of there. They also have excellent advice. 208 00:11:26.399 --> 00:11:28.879 They have excellent service and they can point you to 209 00:11:28.919 --> 00:11:31.519 the product that you need that fixes the problem. It's 210 00:11:31.639 --> 00:11:34.600 not like some of these stores you never hear about 211 00:11:34.600 --> 00:11:39.120 on garden Line that are national chains where they've got 212 00:11:39.120 --> 00:11:41.240 a wall full of stuff and nobody in the store 213 00:11:41.279 --> 00:11:43.279 that knows what they're talking about when it comes to 214 00:11:43.360 --> 00:11:46.799 which product for even knows which pest or weed you're 215 00:11:46.840 --> 00:11:50.080 bringing in. Not Appliants for All Seasons. You get the 216 00:11:50.120 --> 00:11:54.480 service that you need accurately, and they are just experts 217 00:11:54.519 --> 00:11:56.799 at that. Plants for All Seasons dot com is the 218 00:11:56.840 --> 00:12:01.320 website get your green on there at Plants for All Seasons. 219 00:12:01.840 --> 00:12:04.200 I'm going to head out now to Brian and we're 220 00:12:04.200 --> 00:12:09.759 gonna excuse me to Cyprus and talk to Brian. Hello, Brian, Good, 221 00:12:09.799 --> 00:12:10.919 Welcome to garden Line. 222 00:12:11.799 --> 00:12:13.440 Good morning, thanks for taking my call. 223 00:12:13.720 --> 00:12:14.679 I have a question. 224 00:12:14.759 --> 00:12:18.279 Yes, sir, my wife and I have a Bradford pear 225 00:12:18.399 --> 00:12:22.440 tree and it is a beautiful tree. And my long 226 00:12:22.480 --> 00:12:26.320 guy came by yesterday and I know you're not supposed 227 00:12:26.360 --> 00:12:29.799 to cut the trees at a certain time of the year, 228 00:12:30.960 --> 00:12:35.360 and the gentleman had removed some of the branches, the 229 00:12:35.440 --> 00:12:40.279 low line, the low branches and my wife is thinking 230 00:12:40.360 --> 00:12:42.240 that it's going to cause a tree to go in 231 00:12:42.399 --> 00:12:46.039 shock because of the fact that it was not dormant 232 00:12:46.480 --> 00:12:51.039 when the tree limbs were cut, and with that going 233 00:12:51.080 --> 00:12:52.240 to be the case with this. 234 00:12:52.159 --> 00:12:57.000 Tree shot, I wouldn't know. I wouldn't I wouldn't use 235 00:12:57.000 --> 00:12:59.759 the term shock for it. What will happen is, since 236 00:12:59.799 --> 00:13:03.799 it's still warm, that tree will has buds around that 237 00:13:03.919 --> 00:13:06.240 cut that are going to now push out and start 238 00:13:06.279 --> 00:13:09.240 to grow. That's just what trees do in response to pruning. 239 00:13:09.919 --> 00:13:13.279 And then when a cold comes you may get cold 240 00:13:13.360 --> 00:13:17.120 damage to that succulent new growth coming out. But if 241 00:13:17.120 --> 00:13:19.799 that happens, you just print out the new growth because 242 00:13:19.840 --> 00:13:22.120 you remove that they remove the limbs, so you don't 243 00:13:22.159 --> 00:13:24.320 need little sprouts all over the place in that same 244 00:13:24.399 --> 00:13:28.679 spot in winter. Just remove any sprouts that formed there 245 00:13:28.919 --> 00:13:31.600 around those cuts. It's not that not the right time 246 00:13:31.639 --> 00:13:33.480 to prune. They should they should know better than that. 247 00:13:34.039 --> 00:13:36.559 But it's not the end of the world on the tree. 248 00:13:36.600 --> 00:13:38.000 It's not going to go into any kind of a 249 00:13:38.000 --> 00:13:38.759 shock or anything. 250 00:13:39.559 --> 00:13:41.000 So it's not going to kill it. 251 00:13:41.080 --> 00:13:45.320 Since it was like one hundred frees yesterday, Okay, good deal, 252 00:13:45.799 --> 00:13:46.360 It'll be fine. 253 00:13:46.399 --> 00:13:48.639 People. People Perune, twelve months out of the year. 254 00:13:49.639 --> 00:13:51.559 Okay, cool, all right, thank you so much. 255 00:13:52.840 --> 00:13:55.039 All right, Brian, thanks a lot. I appreciate that. 256 00:13:55.080 --> 00:13:55.480 Thank care. 257 00:13:56.200 --> 00:14:00.320 You're you bet you're listening to Guardline. I'm your host, Brick. 258 00:14:00.559 --> 00:14:02.399 If you'd like to give us a call and ask 259 00:14:02.480 --> 00:14:05.480 a question about gardening, we happy to handle that. Seven 260 00:14:05.519 --> 00:14:08.240 to one three two one two k t R H 261 00:14:08.399 --> 00:14:12.159 seven to one three two one two kt r H. 262 00:14:12.639 --> 00:14:12.759 Uh. 263 00:14:13.639 --> 00:14:17.200 I was out in the backyard this week and it's like, okay, 264 00:14:17.240 --> 00:14:20.600 it's late September, and mosquitoes were out there after me. 265 00:14:20.639 --> 00:14:23.440 It's like, what, uh, what's going on here? I mean, 266 00:14:23.440 --> 00:14:27.600 come on, man, we need a break. Well. I went 267 00:14:27.639 --> 00:14:31.000 to the garage and guess what, I didn't have any 268 00:14:31.039 --> 00:14:33.360 mosquito dunks in my garage. I'm the guy who talks 269 00:14:33.360 --> 00:14:36.200 about mosquito dunks all the time and mosquito granules, the 270 00:14:36.240 --> 00:14:39.759 bits that they use the same Summit Responsible Solutions sells 271 00:14:39.799 --> 00:14:42.679 us both of them, and I didn't have any. So 272 00:14:42.679 --> 00:14:45.279 I gotta go run and get some. Because anytime you 273 00:14:45.360 --> 00:14:48.200 got standing water, and you will have standing water after 274 00:14:48.240 --> 00:14:50.720 a rain, it's going to be somewhere in gutters. It's 275 00:14:50.759 --> 00:14:52.639 going to be in the You know our well, our 276 00:14:53.000 --> 00:14:56.000 bird baths always have standing water underneath the catch basins. 277 00:14:56.000 --> 00:14:58.039 On your pot you got standing water. And then some 278 00:14:58.080 --> 00:15:00.279 people just have areas that don't drain. Well, a little 279 00:15:00.320 --> 00:15:02.639 bar ditch behind the house, and here they come. You 280 00:15:02.679 --> 00:15:04.840 throw a mosquito dunk in there and for it'll cover 281 00:15:04.879 --> 00:15:07.720 one hundred square feet and it'll last about a month, 282 00:15:07.840 --> 00:15:10.600 which takes us into a little bit of a cooler 283 00:15:10.639 --> 00:15:14.519 season here. You always just keep those things in the garage, 284 00:15:14.639 --> 00:15:17.440 keep them handy, you know, storm wherever you want storre 285 00:15:17.440 --> 00:15:19.480 them in the house if you want. But mosquito dunks 286 00:15:19.519 --> 00:15:22.679 are a disease of mosquitos, isn't that cool? It only 287 00:15:22.799 --> 00:15:27.840 affects mosquitos and fungal gnats, both of which fungus gnats, 288 00:15:27.840 --> 00:15:31.320 we don't like either one of those. So a bird 289 00:15:31.399 --> 00:15:33.799 drinks of water, it's okay. The pet drinks the water, 290 00:15:33.919 --> 00:15:37.639 it's okay. A lady bug drinks it's okay. It only 291 00:15:37.679 --> 00:15:44.559 affects mosquitoes. Mosquito dunks and mosquito bits. They really really work, 292 00:15:44.759 --> 00:15:48.559 and it's the simplest way to deal with mosquito. Breeding 293 00:15:48.720 --> 00:15:51.799 areas or rainburrow will be another example. A hole in 294 00:15:51.840 --> 00:15:53.720 a tree. You got a tree, a little hollow spot. 295 00:15:54.039 --> 00:15:57.639 Rain's going in there, and it's standing, and mosquitoes think 296 00:15:57.720 --> 00:16:01.360 that is heaven as a breeding spot, and they they'll 297 00:16:01.440 --> 00:16:03.440 drop their eggs right in there. And here come the 298 00:16:03.440 --> 00:16:07.399 mosquitoes out to spoil your little late day party one evening. 299 00:16:07.879 --> 00:16:10.080 Mosquito dunks is the way we get away with that. 300 00:16:10.240 --> 00:16:12.440 And so here I am the guy saying you got 301 00:16:12.440 --> 00:16:15.879 to get mosquito dunks, and I didn't have any to 302 00:16:15.919 --> 00:16:18.840 go to the store, gets more mosquita dunks. You are 303 00:16:18.879 --> 00:16:20.559 listening to garden Line if you'd like to give us 304 00:16:20.559 --> 00:16:23.679 a call seven one three two one two kt r 305 00:16:23.960 --> 00:16:27.399 H seven one three two one two kt r H. 306 00:16:27.559 --> 00:16:31.159 That makes it really really easy get a hold of us. 307 00:16:32.159 --> 00:16:32.320 Uh. 308 00:16:32.679 --> 00:16:36.639 Someone was asking me about azamite, and I, you know, 309 00:16:36.759 --> 00:16:40.480 I sometimes I'll say things online and sometimes I'll get 310 00:16:40.480 --> 00:16:42.759 a call right after I say something and it'll be 311 00:16:42.759 --> 00:16:45.960 the same question I just answered. And that's okay. I'm patient, 312 00:16:46.120 --> 00:16:49.519 I can do that, but I'm it reminds me that 313 00:16:50.320 --> 00:16:53.720 sometimes we don't listen. I've been told I don't listen. 314 00:16:54.519 --> 00:16:58.080 We're going to leave that where it is. But anyway, 315 00:16:57.399 --> 00:17:01.679 I've talked about a lot of times, and the question, 316 00:17:01.799 --> 00:17:05.519 you know, was, is that like fertilizing in the fall. Well, 317 00:17:05.960 --> 00:17:09.960 it's okay, it's putting nutrients down, but I don't think 318 00:17:10.000 --> 00:17:13.480 of it in the sense of fertilizing that most people 319 00:17:13.839 --> 00:17:16.480 when they say fertilizing, they're thinking, I'm going to put 320 00:17:16.480 --> 00:17:19.960 those big three numbers nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium three numbers 321 00:17:19.960 --> 00:17:21.440 on a bag. I'm going to put it out and 322 00:17:21.440 --> 00:17:24.200 it's going to boost my lawn to grow. That's what 323 00:17:24.240 --> 00:17:27.799 the nitrogen especially does. Well, it's not that you put 324 00:17:27.839 --> 00:17:31.119 asmite down and it doesn't like push new growth. It 325 00:17:31.200 --> 00:17:34.720 builds the bank account of the soil with micronutrients needed 326 00:17:34.759 --> 00:17:38.160 in trace amounts, so that when your plant roots need it, 327 00:17:38.480 --> 00:17:42.759 when you're fertilizer, when you're nitrogen pushes growth. There are 328 00:17:42.799 --> 00:17:47.279 all the other things that are necessary to make plant leaves, roots, stems, fruit, 329 00:17:47.359 --> 00:17:51.440 flowers and everything else the plant has, they're the nutrients 330 00:17:51.519 --> 00:17:53.240 necessary to do that in the bank account. And that's 331 00:17:53.279 --> 00:17:56.440 how as might works. So just think of it as 332 00:17:56.559 --> 00:17:59.599 a trace mineral or a micronutrient however you want to 333 00:17:59.720 --> 00:18:03.440 turn for your plants. It also, I think it's good 334 00:18:03.480 --> 00:18:06.480 in a vegetable garden, because when we eat vegetables, we 335 00:18:06.519 --> 00:18:11.160 want a good quality nutrient source there. We want the minerals, 336 00:18:11.200 --> 00:18:14.119 all the minerals that our body needs. And I'll put 337 00:18:14.119 --> 00:18:18.079 it out in the vegetable garden probably, I think generally, well, 338 00:18:18.079 --> 00:18:20.880 in a lawne you're going to use a forty four 339 00:18:20.920 --> 00:18:23.400 pound bag will cover about six to twelve thousand square feet, 340 00:18:23.400 --> 00:18:26.440 and a vegetable garden about ten pounds per thousand is 341 00:18:26.480 --> 00:18:28.519 what I would put out about ten pounds per thousand 342 00:18:29.039 --> 00:18:32.720 in the vegetable garden. But I you know, not that 343 00:18:32.920 --> 00:18:35.359 difficult to do. Just don't put it in the same 344 00:18:35.480 --> 00:18:39.240 hopper as your fertilizer because particle size is different. But 345 00:18:39.720 --> 00:18:42.599 it's far to put your fertilizer out for fault. Portrays 346 00:18:42.720 --> 00:18:44.559 might out for fault. It's a good time to do it. 347 00:18:45.759 --> 00:18:49.200 Hopefully that clarifies a little bit if they're if you're 348 00:18:49.240 --> 00:18:52.640 having a little misunderstanding about it, that will clarify things 349 00:18:52.960 --> 00:18:58.079 a little bit for you. So I mentioned I was 350 00:18:58.119 --> 00:19:03.000 out doing some grow work and harvest and stuff. I've 351 00:19:03.000 --> 00:19:05.880 got a bunch of weird summer vegetables in the garden, 352 00:19:05.960 --> 00:19:08.519 things that most people don't grow, you know, there's vegetables 353 00:19:08.599 --> 00:19:14.279 like molakia. Now, if you're from anywhere from Mideast, across India, 354 00:19:14.279 --> 00:19:18.039 Pakistan through that whole region in there, molechia is very popular, 355 00:19:18.200 --> 00:19:21.279 a very popular vegetable. It's used in a lot of 356 00:19:21.400 --> 00:19:25.240 lamb and rice dishes and other things. But I like 357 00:19:25.319 --> 00:19:27.759 to grow it because it laughs at summer. I've got 358 00:19:27.759 --> 00:19:31.200 malabar another one. It laughs at summer. It's a very 359 00:19:31.279 --> 00:19:35.640 large kind of fleshy leaf plant a little it's mucilaginous, 360 00:19:35.720 --> 00:19:39.400 which thickens, helps thicken soups thick and smoothies too. By 361 00:19:39.400 --> 00:19:42.000 the way, I have what else is in the garden 362 00:19:42.079 --> 00:19:46.799 right now? Oh gosh? Anyway, some emoranth. There's a type 363 00:19:46.799 --> 00:19:48.920 of amorant that has an edible leaf that I grow. 364 00:19:49.559 --> 00:19:55.200 The There's a type of silosha. Actually people call everything 365 00:19:55.279 --> 00:19:58.119 spinach that's not spinach, and they call the silosha that 366 00:19:58.200 --> 00:20:02.759 we Egyptian spinach. I don't know why, but anyway, have 367 00:20:02.880 --> 00:20:04.920 some of that out there and a number of other things, 368 00:20:04.920 --> 00:20:07.079 and I'm out picking mostly. I just picked the leaves 369 00:20:07.119 --> 00:20:08.920 and use them in smoothies and things. Because you're getting 370 00:20:08.960 --> 00:20:11.640 vitamins and nutrients and minerals from all of those things, 371 00:20:12.119 --> 00:20:14.079 and I know it's not time to plant them now. 372 00:20:14.119 --> 00:20:17.359 We're going into cool rather than warm. But when summer comes, 373 00:20:17.440 --> 00:20:20.759 just remember you can grow vegetables twelve months out of 374 00:20:20.799 --> 00:20:22.799 the year here. You know, there's a trade off no 375 00:20:22.799 --> 00:20:25.079 matter where you live and what you can grow. But 376 00:20:25.279 --> 00:20:28.839 down this far south in the country, we have truly 377 00:20:29.000 --> 00:20:31.920 twelve months of growing that we can do. And there 378 00:20:31.920 --> 00:20:34.559 ought to be something you can bring into the kitchen 379 00:20:34.720 --> 00:20:37.880 and put into a healthy diet every month of the year. 380 00:20:38.160 --> 00:20:41.119 Here in this area, we're fortunate in that way. Let's 381 00:20:41.160 --> 00:20:43.440 head out to the woodlands now and we are going 382 00:20:43.519 --> 00:20:46.200 to talk to Mike. Hello, Mike, Welcome to garden Line. 383 00:20:47.920 --> 00:20:48.680 Hello, good morning. 384 00:20:48.759 --> 00:20:51.720 Oh Mike, Hey Mike, I did it. I did it again. 385 00:20:53.480 --> 00:20:56.079 I get talking and I forget that it's time for 386 00:20:56.119 --> 00:20:58.160 a break. I am going to have to put you 387 00:20:58.200 --> 00:21:00.599 on hold to come right back to my ologies. If 388 00:21:00.839 --> 00:21:01.440 you can hang on. 389 00:21:03.200 --> 00:21:07.359 Good morning, ship. I have a white fly infestation. That's 390 00:21:07.519 --> 00:21:12.480 uh some my myer limbit, my tea lime and across 391 00:21:12.519 --> 00:21:15.480 the yard of my high business. Uh you know, I'm 392 00:21:16.599 --> 00:21:19.839 watching some videos and I put some bike fendron on 393 00:21:19.920 --> 00:21:24.480 it yesterday and they also suggest like meem oil with 394 00:21:24.480 --> 00:21:27.559 with I guess like some soap in it or what 395 00:21:27.640 --> 00:21:30.359 do you what do you suggest for the white flies. 396 00:21:31.680 --> 00:21:34.480 So so the white flies that you see flying around, 397 00:21:34.480 --> 00:21:36.759 the adults, that's when everybody knows they have white flies. 398 00:21:37.160 --> 00:21:39.839 That's the obvious stage. It's hard, you know, because they're 399 00:21:39.880 --> 00:21:41.880 flying around. It's hard to do a lot to kill them. 400 00:21:41.880 --> 00:21:44.279 But but there are insecticides you put on the plant 401 00:21:44.319 --> 00:21:47.160 and they land and get exposed to them, and you've 402 00:21:47.160 --> 00:21:51.200 done some of that. They lay eggs and then the 403 00:21:51.319 --> 00:21:53.920 eggs hatch out into larva that are under the leaf 404 00:21:54.000 --> 00:21:55.960 that you don't really see. They're there if you look. 405 00:21:56.079 --> 00:21:58.960 But and then there's larva turned into pupa that kind 406 00:21:58.960 --> 00:22:02.160 of look like miniature fish scales stuck to the leaf, 407 00:22:03.359 --> 00:22:06.240 very tiny, and then they come out as adults. So 408 00:22:06.319 --> 00:22:11.079 in those first three stages, egg, larvae, and pupa, you 409 00:22:11.119 --> 00:22:14.079 can spray upward from underneath the plant with like a 410 00:22:14.119 --> 00:22:19.079 horticultural oil. Insecticidal soap will help against especially the larval stage. 411 00:22:20.119 --> 00:22:22.599 But you have to turn the spray or nozzle up 412 00:22:22.759 --> 00:22:25.839 to spray upward underneath the leaves and get the bottoms 413 00:22:25.839 --> 00:22:28.119 of the leaves and you can shut them down there. 414 00:22:28.880 --> 00:22:33.720 Those are are easier to get to stages than the adults. 415 00:22:34.039 --> 00:22:36.720 But either way you go about it, just keep in 416 00:22:36.759 --> 00:22:39.119 mind the life cycles so that you don't just wait 417 00:22:39.359 --> 00:22:42.759 until you see the adults to try to spray. It's 418 00:22:42.839 --> 00:22:44.920 harder to you know, they fly around, it's harder to 419 00:22:45.000 --> 00:22:47.319 hit them and do as much good as you can 420 00:22:47.400 --> 00:22:48.680 on the first three stages. 421 00:22:50.119 --> 00:22:53.480 So if I, if I, you know, applied the buck 422 00:22:53.519 --> 00:22:57.039 fin print yesterday, would you do it like again tomorrow 423 00:22:57.200 --> 00:22:58.640 or would you. 424 00:22:58.599 --> 00:23:02.640 Do that stuff last that lasts a long time? Mike, I, 425 00:23:02.680 --> 00:23:04.640 you know, I haven't looked at a label, but I'm 426 00:23:04.680 --> 00:23:07.759 a little surprised that by friend therene's label for citrus. 427 00:23:08.200 --> 00:23:08.319 Uh. 428 00:23:08.359 --> 00:23:10.319 And you always want to be careful with things, you know, 429 00:23:10.519 --> 00:23:12.599 especially when it's on a crop you're gonna eat. 430 00:23:12.920 --> 00:23:13.119 Uh. 431 00:23:13.160 --> 00:23:15.440 But it may it may be. I just that I 432 00:23:15.480 --> 00:23:18.240 didn't realize there was a bivenron that you could use 433 00:23:18.279 --> 00:23:18.839 on ceterrius. 434 00:23:18.880 --> 00:23:23.480 But these are very small. Yeah there there's there's there's 435 00:23:23.480 --> 00:23:24.200 no fruit on these. 436 00:23:24.200 --> 00:23:27.359 They are only like a year old, so gotcha. 437 00:23:27.519 --> 00:23:31.240 Yeah, that's OK. But so would you would you just 438 00:23:31.279 --> 00:23:33.000 an em oil and soap thin instead? 439 00:23:34.319 --> 00:23:37.960 I would? And and on the name there's there's two 440 00:23:38.000 --> 00:23:40.680 types of name. One is the oil and it'll say 441 00:23:40.680 --> 00:23:42.720 that when you look at the ingredient on the label. 442 00:23:43.279 --> 00:23:43.480 Uh. 443 00:23:43.519 --> 00:23:47.240 And the other one is ASA directin begins with a 444 00:23:47.359 --> 00:23:50.440 z A that is an extract out of that nem 445 00:23:50.440 --> 00:23:54.799 oil that has the insecticide in it. So the oil 446 00:23:54.960 --> 00:23:59.119 kills like oils killed by smothering pests. The ASA directing 447 00:23:59.279 --> 00:24:04.160 forms kill by putting a natural insecticide on the leaf 448 00:24:04.200 --> 00:24:07.319 that soaks into the tissue so that when things feed 449 00:24:07.400 --> 00:24:10.279 on it, they get that as a direction. So I 450 00:24:10.279 --> 00:24:12.880 would do the oil form. I just think it's a 451 00:24:12.880 --> 00:24:15.119 little bit better for this particular pest. 452 00:24:16.720 --> 00:24:20.359 Would I'm concerned with the oil and the you know, 453 00:24:20.400 --> 00:24:22.119 the heat that we have. You know, if I did 454 00:24:22.119 --> 00:24:25.000 it early in the morning, like this morning, Uh, it 455 00:24:25.039 --> 00:24:28.720 should be fine for you know, you know it. Should 456 00:24:28.319 --> 00:24:31.680 you do it in addition to the bipendrone. 457 00:24:31.079 --> 00:24:31.400 Then. 458 00:24:34.279 --> 00:24:37.920 Well I would, just because you're trying to knock these 459 00:24:37.920 --> 00:24:41.680 things out completely, and there there were those two products 460 00:24:41.720 --> 00:24:44.960 are working in a little different ways. With a bifenthron, 461 00:24:45.000 --> 00:24:48.640 you're poisoning them. With the oil, you're smothering eggs, larvae 462 00:24:48.640 --> 00:24:52.319 and pupa. All three that are all under the leaf. Uh. 463 00:24:52.359 --> 00:24:55.400 And so if you see why I'm saying saying, go 464 00:24:55.400 --> 00:24:57.240 go with the oil to on that mix. 465 00:24:57.559 --> 00:24:59.759 Yes, okay, perfect, thank you. 466 00:24:59.799 --> 00:25:02.480 And and they have they have a lot of natural enemies. 467 00:25:02.480 --> 00:25:04.880 And one problem we get into when we start spraying 468 00:25:05.079 --> 00:25:08.000 is we kill some white flies, but we also kill 469 00:25:08.079 --> 00:25:11.440 their natural enemies, and so, uh, you know, there's that 470 00:25:11.519 --> 00:25:14.480 kind of a good news bad news thing there in 471 00:25:14.519 --> 00:25:17.680 the mix. So I always try to avoid killing good 472 00:25:17.720 --> 00:25:20.359 guys as much as possible because that just makes our 473 00:25:20.440 --> 00:25:21.039 job harder. 474 00:25:22.200 --> 00:25:26.440 Right, I understand that, you know that's it does affect 475 00:25:26.480 --> 00:25:29.279 like bead and stuff like that. And these are these 476 00:25:29.319 --> 00:25:33.160 are expensive uh trees, you know, and they've started to 477 00:25:33.559 --> 00:25:36.839 you know, their leaves are curling and dying, so I 478 00:25:36.880 --> 00:25:39.160 know that they're attacking the plant pretty good. 479 00:25:40.599 --> 00:25:42.839 Well, you know, Mike, if you're seeing if you're seeing 480 00:25:42.880 --> 00:25:45.680 curling of the leaves, I would also look real carefully 481 00:25:45.720 --> 00:25:50.920 at those curling leaves for trails, serpentine trails going all 482 00:25:50.960 --> 00:25:53.559 the way through the leaf. They'll they'll be like a 483 00:25:53.559 --> 00:25:57.559 little black thread through the trail as well, skinnier than 484 00:25:57.599 --> 00:26:02.119 the width of the trail. There's an insect that eats 485 00:26:02.160 --> 00:26:05.559 through the leaf between the upper and lower surfaces called 486 00:26:05.599 --> 00:26:08.880 the leaf minor and citrus gets us and it causes 487 00:26:08.960 --> 00:26:12.279 the new growth to curl and to get silvery looking. 488 00:26:13.279 --> 00:26:15.960 So you may also have that. Now, if you have that, 489 00:26:16.960 --> 00:26:21.680 then the name the as a directin type of name 490 00:26:22.000 --> 00:26:24.279 would be the one to use because it goes into 491 00:26:24.279 --> 00:26:27.519 the tissue and the thing chomping the inside of the 492 00:26:27.599 --> 00:26:30.359 leaf will be affected by the asidactin. 493 00:26:31.079 --> 00:26:34.519 I probably should have help. So the others whie flies, 494 00:26:34.799 --> 00:26:37.279 the curling leaves, and then there's there's leaves that have 495 00:26:37.920 --> 00:26:40.039 look like a mold on them, you know, like a 496 00:26:40.039 --> 00:26:42.680 really dark mold on them. So I don't know. 497 00:26:42.640 --> 00:26:47.880 Okay, that's well, that's connected to the white flies, which 498 00:26:47.920 --> 00:26:51.920 anything sucks juices out of leaves, basically peas out sugar water, 499 00:26:52.440 --> 00:26:56.119 and that's aphid scale, white flies, mealy bugs, all of 500 00:26:56.119 --> 00:26:58.960 those create that sooty mold. But the city mold is 501 00:26:59.000 --> 00:27:02.400 more just if you spray sugar water on your citrus leeves, 502 00:27:02.440 --> 00:27:05.000 you would start to see a build up of sooty molt. 503 00:27:05.720 --> 00:27:09.759 So that that's just a secondary indication in this case 504 00:27:09.839 --> 00:27:15.960 of your white flies. All right, great, all right, good 505 00:27:16.039 --> 00:27:16.480 luck with that. 506 00:27:16.599 --> 00:27:16.759 Now. 507 00:27:16.839 --> 00:27:19.119 You know, when we answer gardening questions on guardline. All 508 00:27:19.160 --> 00:27:21.079 I ask is that you bring me half of the produce. 509 00:27:21.119 --> 00:27:23.839 When those centras start to produce, just drop it off 510 00:27:23.839 --> 00:27:25.839 with KTRH Studio and we'll call it. 511 00:27:25.759 --> 00:27:27.759 Even we'll do it. 512 00:27:27.799 --> 00:27:32.240 Thank you, Thanks a lot, Mike, appreciate that our phone 513 00:27:32.279 --> 00:27:35.440 number seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy 514 00:27:35.440 --> 00:27:39.160 four seven one three two one two five eight seven four. 515 00:27:39.400 --> 00:27:41.559 When was the last time you're at it in Chana gardens? 516 00:27:41.640 --> 00:27:43.200 I want to tell you what's there now? If you 517 00:27:43.240 --> 00:27:45.079 go out now, what are you going to see out there? 518 00:27:45.119 --> 00:27:47.559 You're going to see all kinds of cool stuff. But 519 00:27:47.599 --> 00:27:49.559 there's one particular thing that you got to get the 520 00:27:49.640 --> 00:27:53.119 kids out there to do. They can they had the 521 00:27:53.279 --> 00:27:57.400 fixens to build your own scarecrow. It's really cool. So 522 00:27:57.680 --> 00:27:59.799 you basically you buy the supplies you're going to get. 523 00:28:00.079 --> 00:28:03.079 You're going to bring your old clothes, you know, some 524 00:28:03.240 --> 00:28:05.279 old clothes that are on their way to goodwill or 525 00:28:05.359 --> 00:28:10.240 whatever or even less less attractive than that. You bring those. 526 00:28:10.279 --> 00:28:12.480 They're going to get you the skeleton of it, which 527 00:28:12.519 --> 00:28:16.119 is basically you know, the stick that goes inside. They're 528 00:28:16.119 --> 00:28:18.160 going to give you the stuffings for it. They got to, 529 00:28:18.240 --> 00:28:20.200 you know, all the stuff you need to put together. 530 00:28:20.279 --> 00:28:22.680 Scarecrow is like a little kid and kids can do 531 00:28:22.720 --> 00:28:25.480 this and it is fun. You know, there's a little 532 00:28:25.559 --> 00:28:28.440 video online if you go to the the Anchinna Gardens. 533 00:28:29.359 --> 00:28:31.599 Some of their social media and whatnot tells you how 534 00:28:31.640 --> 00:28:34.680 to do that, whether it's Instagram or Facebook, and your 535 00:28:34.759 --> 00:28:37.920 kids can build their own scarecrow for decorating for fall 536 00:28:37.920 --> 00:28:42.680 harvest season, both through Halloween, Thanksgiving. All of that. It's 537 00:28:42.720 --> 00:28:46.720 really cool. And they also have a supply. They have everything, 538 00:28:46.720 --> 00:28:48.839 so I never know what to talk about with them, 539 00:28:49.119 --> 00:28:52.440 but they have a supply of things called airplants. Airplants 540 00:28:52.519 --> 00:28:54.559 are things like ball moss. Have you ever seen ball 541 00:28:54.559 --> 00:28:58.000 moss up in trees or southern moss that hangs down. Well, 542 00:28:58.039 --> 00:29:00.519 airplants are like that, but they have all kinds of 543 00:29:00.599 --> 00:29:03.920 exotic types of airplanes. Now, if you can't crun airplant, 544 00:29:03.960 --> 00:29:05.759 I can't help you. You're gonna have to go buy 545 00:29:05.759 --> 00:29:09.000 silk plants or something, because it's so easy. You just 546 00:29:09.039 --> 00:29:12.559 dunk them in water basically. But they've got cool stuff 547 00:29:12.640 --> 00:29:15.799 like that for those For the plat person who has everything, 548 00:29:15.880 --> 00:29:18.799 I bet they don't have talentsius, which are the airplants. 549 00:29:18.920 --> 00:29:20.359 Let's take a little break here by the way, and 550 00:29:20.440 --> 00:29:24.200 Jenny Gardens is on FM three fifty nine. The website 551 00:29:24.240 --> 00:29:26.880 it's on the Katie Fullsher side of Richmond. The website 552 00:29:26.960 --> 00:29:31.200 is Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. They are open today 553 00:29:31.200 --> 00:29:33.200 from eight to five Tomorrow from ten to four. Go 554 00:29:33.359 --> 00:29:35.359 check this out. Take the kids with phone number if 555 00:29:35.359 --> 00:29:37.480 you'd like to give me a call seven one three 556 00:29:37.559 --> 00:29:40.880 two one two kt RH seven one three two one 557 00:29:40.920 --> 00:29:43.880 two k t RH. You know, we love feed stores 558 00:29:43.920 --> 00:29:46.240 here on guard Line. And for those of you down 559 00:29:46.359 --> 00:29:49.039 in the Greater League City area. When I say Greater 560 00:29:49.160 --> 00:29:52.160 League City, I mean Santa Fe, Webster, Clare Lake City, 561 00:29:52.160 --> 00:29:55.440 elkam Into Real Sandling on the Mark Baycliff, Dickinson. This 562 00:29:55.559 --> 00:29:57.799 is a hometown feedstore for you guys. It's been around 563 00:29:58.119 --> 00:30:00.559 for forty years down there and it if she that 564 00:30:00.680 --> 00:30:03.000 old time service that you would expect, you know, the 565 00:30:03.039 --> 00:30:06.960 third generation now Thunderberg's run in that feed store and 566 00:30:07.279 --> 00:30:09.200 I love going in there. And when you go in, 567 00:30:09.519 --> 00:30:12.200 by the way, they're open Monday through Saturday from nine 568 00:30:12.799 --> 00:30:15.279 to six and closed on Sunday. So if you need 569 00:30:15.319 --> 00:30:17.319 to get some shopping done, this weekend. Now's the time 570 00:30:17.319 --> 00:30:19.039 to get down there and do it. I like that 571 00:30:19.119 --> 00:30:21.359 six pm because every day after working, just swing buy 572 00:30:21.400 --> 00:30:23.519 and get what you need. Here's a phone number two 573 00:30:23.559 --> 00:30:26.400 eight one three three two sixteen twelve. You're going to 574 00:30:26.480 --> 00:30:29.000 find all the things you need to control pests, weeds 575 00:30:29.000 --> 00:30:31.720 and diseases, premium pet foods that they have there. If 576 00:30:31.720 --> 00:30:34.279 you got backyard chickens, they got you covered on all 577 00:30:34.319 --> 00:30:38.119 the supplies you need for that. And they have every 578 00:30:38.119 --> 00:30:40.720 fertilizer and some of the soil blends that I talk 579 00:30:40.759 --> 00:30:44.960 about here on Guardline. How much more could you want. 580 00:30:45.000 --> 00:30:48.279 It's time for fall fertilization, So swing by League City 581 00:30:48.319 --> 00:30:51.000 Feed and grab the ones you need for the fall, 582 00:30:51.319 --> 00:30:54.359 whether you're gardening organically or synthetic or however you go 583 00:30:54.400 --> 00:30:58.119 about it. League City Feed's got you covered. For example, 584 00:30:58.400 --> 00:31:02.319 they have you know, night fross Ha their three step program. Now, 585 00:31:02.400 --> 00:31:06.319 the Nitropus three step is basically a fertilizer, a weed 586 00:31:06.400 --> 00:31:10.359 control and a fungus a disease control. So fertilizer that 587 00:31:10.480 --> 00:31:15.319 is the Nitropos Fall Special Winter Riser Fall Special Winderizer. 588 00:31:16.039 --> 00:31:19.799 It is. It's got plenty of that potassium that we 589 00:31:19.880 --> 00:31:23.480 need in order to build cold heartiness and to help 590 00:31:23.720 --> 00:31:28.039 that grass come out stronger in the spring. Remember spring growth, 591 00:31:28.359 --> 00:31:31.319 the first earliest spring growth on your grass is based 592 00:31:31.319 --> 00:31:34.039 on stored energy, not what the roots are taking up. Then, 593 00:31:34.400 --> 00:31:37.559 so your fall fertilization is critical for winter hardiness but 594 00:31:37.640 --> 00:31:41.200 also for spring growth. Then it has the barricade which 595 00:31:41.240 --> 00:31:43.799 prevents all the cool season weeds that will be sprouting 596 00:31:43.839 --> 00:31:46.319 in October and November. So you want to get that 597 00:31:46.400 --> 00:31:50.640 stuff down in October. Just follow my schedule online gardening 598 00:31:50.680 --> 00:31:53.200 with skip dot com and you'll find that. And then 599 00:31:53.240 --> 00:31:56.359 the third of the three steps is the Nitrophus eagle 600 00:31:56.640 --> 00:32:01.880 turf fungicide. That's a systemic products into the grass tissues, 601 00:32:02.079 --> 00:32:06.000 so when the disease tries to attack, it has its protectant. 602 00:32:06.079 --> 00:32:10.000 They're already built into the plant. Now, brown patch or 603 00:32:10.079 --> 00:32:13.920 large patch as it's now called, it's going to appear 604 00:32:14.000 --> 00:32:15.559 when we get a little cold front in here, in 605 00:32:15.599 --> 00:32:17.640 some rainy, cool weather. You're going to start to see 606 00:32:17.640 --> 00:32:20.279 the circles. You have to get down ahead of that 607 00:32:20.599 --> 00:32:23.359 in order to have success. Don't wait until the circles appear. 608 00:32:23.720 --> 00:32:26.359 Follow my schedule. Get it on early October is what 609 00:32:26.400 --> 00:32:29.559 I would recommend for that to have success. Now you're 610 00:32:29.559 --> 00:32:32.000 going to find night Foss products at Court Hardware and 611 00:32:32.039 --> 00:32:35.400 Stafford Katie Ace Hardware. You'll find them at Plants Something, 612 00:32:35.759 --> 00:32:38.279 Plants and Things up in Brenham and up in Willis 613 00:32:38.319 --> 00:32:42.680 at the Growers outlet. Also, we're going to go now 614 00:32:43.160 --> 00:32:46.720 to talk to Carl. Hello, Carl, where are you calling from. 615 00:32:48.440 --> 00:32:51.640 I'm in the west part of Houston, the Gaalleria tangle 616 00:32:51.640 --> 00:32:52.240 Wood area. 617 00:32:53.400 --> 00:32:56.680 Okay, good, how can we help today? 618 00:32:56.839 --> 00:33:00.640 Well, I've got three clear Era that are about two 619 00:33:00.799 --> 00:33:03.680 years old and have done well, but recently, over the 620 00:33:03.759 --> 00:33:09.480 last few weeks, they've all started dropping leaves, some more 621 00:33:09.559 --> 00:33:15.480 extensively than others, and it just seems like they're watering 622 00:33:15.519 --> 00:33:17.960 the plants around them. I've got some camellia that are 623 00:33:18.000 --> 00:33:21.640 planted in the same bed along with the holly hedge. Okay, 624 00:33:21.839 --> 00:33:25.279 everything seems to be doing well except those clear Era, 625 00:33:25.480 --> 00:33:29.240 and one of the three is like, it's really more 626 00:33:29.240 --> 00:33:31.319 affected than the other two. But they're all kind of 627 00:33:31.319 --> 00:33:32.279 doing the same thing. 628 00:33:33.559 --> 00:33:35.799 All right, Well, something's going on in the roots. Claire 629 00:33:35.880 --> 00:33:38.920 is an evergreen, but evergreens do drop their leaves, whether 630 00:33:38.960 --> 00:33:41.680 it's a pine tree or a clare or any other evergreen. 631 00:33:42.000 --> 00:33:44.480 The leaves only live so long and they have cycles 632 00:33:44.519 --> 00:33:47.559 where they drop them. But what you're having happened there 633 00:33:47.680 --> 00:33:51.599 is a little out of sinc It could be dry roots. 634 00:33:51.759 --> 00:33:54.599 It could be damage to the roots, physical damage to 635 00:33:54.640 --> 00:33:57.319 the roots. It could be soggy wet conditions where the 636 00:33:57.400 --> 00:34:00.240 roots can't get oxygen they start to die. Then it 637 00:34:00.400 --> 00:34:02.839 essentially is like dry roots. Because you don't have roots, 638 00:34:02.880 --> 00:34:05.519 you can't take out water. It's gonna be one of 639 00:34:05.559 --> 00:34:07.759 those things going on. It could be a root rot 640 00:34:08.000 --> 00:34:12.679 disease that's around them. It's hard to know for sure. 641 00:34:12.760 --> 00:34:15.480 If you were to have one that was pretty much 642 00:34:15.519 --> 00:34:17.519 gone and you look at us like, this thing is 643 00:34:17.800 --> 00:34:22.039 not coming back, don't wait until it's completely brown. Pull 644 00:34:22.039 --> 00:34:24.559 it up and take a knife and slice down through 645 00:34:24.599 --> 00:34:27.400 the trunk, bark at the base, you know, and just 646 00:34:27.440 --> 00:34:30.320 like you're whittling it down, and look underneath the tissues. 647 00:34:30.400 --> 00:34:33.119 Instead of being creamy white, you'll see some streaking of 648 00:34:33.159 --> 00:34:35.920 brown and gray in there. That's a sign that you 649 00:34:36.039 --> 00:34:38.480 had a root a root disease. Or when you pull 650 00:34:38.480 --> 00:34:40.000 it up you to see all the roots are rotted. 651 00:34:40.079 --> 00:34:42.400 You have green leaves on some green leaves still left 652 00:34:42.440 --> 00:34:44.360 on top That's why I say, don't wait too long. 653 00:34:45.119 --> 00:34:47.079 And then you see rotted roots. Now you know what 654 00:34:47.119 --> 00:34:49.360 you're dealing with, and you could go get a drench 655 00:34:49.519 --> 00:34:53.079 of a fungicide to drench over them. But because those 656 00:34:53.199 --> 00:34:55.719 causes are so different, I hate to send you out 657 00:34:55.760 --> 00:34:57.800 to buy a product when that may not be what 658 00:34:57.880 --> 00:34:58.320 you need. 659 00:34:59.320 --> 00:35:03.880 Yeah, see what I'm saying. Do you have someone that 660 00:35:04.000 --> 00:35:07.360 you could recommend that could maybe come by and take 661 00:35:07.400 --> 00:35:11.119 a look at them and if they need to be replaced, 662 00:35:11.159 --> 00:35:13.960 would have the knowledge to put something in there that 663 00:35:14.000 --> 00:35:16.679 would thrive in an area? Seems like these beds they 664 00:35:16.719 --> 00:35:18.519 face the north side of the house, and it just 665 00:35:18.559 --> 00:35:21.719 seems like I have trouble gaining other things. 666 00:35:21.960 --> 00:35:26.559 I just think brow, I understand. Yeah, you know, you 667 00:35:26.559 --> 00:35:28.360 just need to find a good landscape. I don't have 668 00:35:28.400 --> 00:35:31.119 someone that I'd recommend specifically for your area. 669 00:35:31.199 --> 00:35:31.400 For that. 670 00:35:31.519 --> 00:35:35.280 I'm sorry about that. Uh. You can send a plant 671 00:35:35.360 --> 00:35:38.000 up to the plant clinic at A and M. You 672 00:35:38.039 --> 00:35:40.280 shake all the soil that can off box it up, 673 00:35:40.639 --> 00:35:43.039 ship it up there and they'll they'll tell you exactly 674 00:35:43.079 --> 00:35:46.880 if it's a disease what it is. But other than that, 675 00:35:48.599 --> 00:35:50.000 you know, it would just be a matter of finding 676 00:35:50.039 --> 00:35:52.360 a good landscape that knows what they're doing. And I 677 00:35:52.360 --> 00:35:53.599 don't have a tis. 678 00:35:54.360 --> 00:35:56.719 If we find out though, all right, the problem, if 679 00:35:56.719 --> 00:35:59.719 we if you correct the problem and treat it, will 680 00:35:59.760 --> 00:36:02.679 be plants likely survive or are they probably going to 681 00:36:02.760 --> 00:36:03.679 need to be replaced. 682 00:36:04.679 --> 00:36:07.119 If you catch it early in the process, you can 683 00:36:07.119 --> 00:36:10.119 probably save them. If it's too far along, there's not 684 00:36:10.239 --> 00:36:12.960 much left to save done in those tissues, but it's 685 00:36:13.000 --> 00:36:15.320 worth the dry. Dig down with your hands in the soil, 686 00:36:15.360 --> 00:36:17.760 feel the soil about four inches deep and see does 687 00:36:17.760 --> 00:36:19.840 it feel soggy or does it feel a little dry. 688 00:36:20.639 --> 00:36:23.320 I don't think it'll be dry right now, but it 689 00:36:23.400 --> 00:36:26.440 might be, so just kind of check that if you 690 00:36:26.519 --> 00:36:29.440 just want to be you know, take Since you don't 691 00:36:29.440 --> 00:36:33.119 have a magical cure right here, you could just get 692 00:36:33.119 --> 00:36:35.880 a drench and put it on and drench it down 693 00:36:35.880 --> 00:36:42.119 in there. But go by Southwest Fertilizer. They're pretty close 694 00:36:42.159 --> 00:36:45.880 to you out there in Southwest Houston, and they're going 695 00:36:45.960 --> 00:36:47.719 to have a wide right Tell them what you have. 696 00:36:47.800 --> 00:36:49.599 Tell them. We talked on guardline. You might have a 697 00:36:49.679 --> 00:36:51.639 root right in it. That would be the only other 698 00:36:51.679 --> 00:36:52.639 thing I could suggest. 699 00:36:52.679 --> 00:36:56.320 Carl, Okay, all right, thank you for your good luck. 700 00:36:56.480 --> 00:36:58.800 Yes, sir, I wish you. Wish you well with that. 701 00:36:59.800 --> 00:37:02.599 If you need help with a landscape, you know, maybe 702 00:37:02.639 --> 00:37:04.679 you want to redo some plants, maybe you want some 703 00:37:04.719 --> 00:37:07.159 more drought tolerant plants, maybe you just want to beautify 704 00:37:07.199 --> 00:37:10.599 an area. Pierscapes as a company, we recommend you consider. 705 00:37:11.119 --> 00:37:13.360 Peerscapes has been doing this a long time. Go to 706 00:37:13.400 --> 00:37:16.440 their website piercescapes dot com. You're going to see the 707 00:37:16.480 --> 00:37:19.599 work they do. They do drainage work. If you need 708 00:37:19.920 --> 00:37:22.760 an area that's poorly drainfix, they'll do it. They work 709 00:37:22.800 --> 00:37:25.880 on irrigation systems to get them right. They can do 710 00:37:26.000 --> 00:37:29.039 hard scapes, they can do landscape lighting. They can create 711 00:37:29.079 --> 00:37:33.000 patios and outdoor barbecue areas that you just wouldn't believe. 712 00:37:33.519 --> 00:37:36.559 Pierscapes dot com is a website and I encourage you 713 00:37:36.639 --> 00:37:39.199 to take a look. They also do quarterly maintenance wherever 714 00:37:39.280 --> 00:37:41.920 quarter they come in and weed and fertilize and check 715 00:37:41.920 --> 00:37:44.719 your irrigation and change out the color. So you know 716 00:37:44.760 --> 00:37:47.199 we're going into fall now it's time for new color change, 717 00:37:47.199 --> 00:37:49.519 and then for winter we'll have a color change. They'll 718 00:37:49.559 --> 00:37:52.000 do all that. Add mulch to your beds. All from 719 00:37:52.079 --> 00:37:56.239 Pierscapes at peerscapes dot com. We're going to go now 720 00:37:56.280 --> 00:38:01.280 to Manvil and talk to Adolf. Hello Adolf, good morning. 721 00:38:03.400 --> 00:38:04.079 For simmons. 722 00:38:04.559 --> 00:38:09.360 Hey, yes, sure, uh yeah, I'm sorry. I'm just going 723 00:38:09.400 --> 00:38:11.280 to let you know. We've got a short time here. 724 00:38:11.320 --> 00:38:13.280 So for simmons, how can we help? 725 00:38:14.199 --> 00:38:20.760 Yeah, they're those the colored right now and most of 726 00:38:20.760 --> 00:38:26.039 the leaves are gone. It take a long time to. 727 00:38:28.079 --> 00:38:28.639 Bite them. 728 00:38:29.280 --> 00:38:31.679 Cut them off. Now. 729 00:38:31.840 --> 00:38:34.760 Now here's what you do. There's two types of per simmons. 730 00:38:35.000 --> 00:38:39.559 Some are astringent, some are non astringent. The astringent types 731 00:38:39.679 --> 00:38:42.079 pucker your mouth and you got to let them get 732 00:38:42.119 --> 00:38:46.039 pretty soft before they are ready to eat. I would 733 00:38:46.119 --> 00:38:47.920 leave them on the tree as long as you can. 734 00:38:48.639 --> 00:38:50.400 If we haven't had a freeze, bring them in, put 735 00:38:50.440 --> 00:38:52.960 them in the freezer overnight, take them out, let them thaw, 736 00:38:53.920 --> 00:38:56.360 do it again, freezer overnight, come out, let them thowt 737 00:38:56.400 --> 00:38:58.519 If it's a if it's an a stringent type, if 738 00:38:58.519 --> 00:39:01.840 it's a non astringent type, once it turns really nice 739 00:39:01.960 --> 00:39:04.880 deep color orange that you can pick them and eat them. 740 00:39:04.920 --> 00:39:07.679 At that stage, you just have to figure out which 741 00:39:07.760 --> 00:39:09.719 type you have. If you want to hang around through break. 742 00:39:09.760 --> 00:39:12.199 We can continue the discussion, but we got to go 743 00:39:12.280 --> 00:39:12.599 for now. 744 00:39:13.360 --> 00:39:15.199 All right, thank you. 745 00:39:15.360 --> 00:39:19.400 Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Skip rictor. 746 00:39:27.920 --> 00:39:28.840 Just watch him. 747 00:39:29.079 --> 00:39:35.880 All right, folks, welcome back to garden Line. We're going 748 00:39:35.920 --> 00:39:37.800 to jump right into it here. We got plenty of 749 00:39:37.800 --> 00:39:38.840 things to talk about. 750 00:39:39.440 --> 00:39:39.599 Uh. 751 00:39:40.079 --> 00:39:43.000 I was at at Arborgate not too long ago and 752 00:39:43.480 --> 00:39:45.920 just checking out what they have, what's going on out there, 753 00:39:45.960 --> 00:39:49.199 And you know at the arbor gate there is always 754 00:39:49.239 --> 00:39:52.079 always something going on. I mean they stay stocked up 755 00:39:52.199 --> 00:39:55.639 on whatever plant is suitable for the season. So I 756 00:39:55.719 --> 00:39:58.559 don't matter what it is. Vegetables. Do you need vegetables? 757 00:39:58.639 --> 00:40:00.960 I hope you do it. Fall all vegetables the best 758 00:40:01.239 --> 00:40:04.320 season at all of all for growing vegetables, it is. 759 00:40:05.000 --> 00:40:07.400 How about herbs, Fall is the best time to plant 760 00:40:07.440 --> 00:40:10.239 all your perennial herbs and arbrogates. Stocked up on that. 761 00:40:10.679 --> 00:40:13.239 If you're looking for decorations, if you're looking for just 762 00:40:13.400 --> 00:40:17.239 your indoor supplies for holidays, you know, from gourmet things 763 00:40:17.280 --> 00:40:20.760 to gifts to whatnot. We've got Thanksgiving coming up here, 764 00:40:20.840 --> 00:40:25.119 and certainly all the decorations outdoors for you know, everything 765 00:40:25.119 --> 00:40:28.800 from Halloween to harvest season. Arbigate's got that all loaded up. 766 00:40:28.880 --> 00:40:31.280 You just need to go. If you've not been, you 767 00:40:31.360 --> 00:40:33.719 need to go now. I'm a horticulturist. I'm into their 768 00:40:33.719 --> 00:40:36.199 plants and the products that they have, like their one 769 00:40:36.239 --> 00:40:39.559 two three easy system for soil for anything with roots. 770 00:40:39.559 --> 00:40:42.920 It's a fertilizer for anything with roots. It's the compost 771 00:40:43.000 --> 00:40:47.280 for anything with roots, which is everything we grow. But 772 00:40:47.360 --> 00:40:50.320 you ought to see the gift shops. They are gorgeous. 773 00:40:50.440 --> 00:40:53.400 They are gorgeous, and we've got all kinds of holidays 774 00:40:53.440 --> 00:40:55.239 coming up here as we go through the rest of 775 00:40:55.280 --> 00:40:58.199 this year. And I promise you when you get into Arbrogate, 776 00:40:58.199 --> 00:40:59.920 you're going to see things that's like this is the 777 00:41:00.159 --> 00:41:03.400 perfect gift for so and so fill in the blank. Right. 778 00:41:03.719 --> 00:41:07.760 They absolutely are loaded on everything that you can imagine 779 00:41:08.119 --> 00:41:10.480 like that. Plus when you go to Arburgate, you get 780 00:41:10.519 --> 00:41:14.920 excellent advice, advice from people who know what they're talking about. 781 00:41:15.480 --> 00:41:18.719 Beverly and Kennon and the whole team out there at Arburgate. 782 00:41:19.039 --> 00:41:21.360 They are experts. I talk to them all the time. 783 00:41:21.440 --> 00:41:24.119 Sometimes we collaborate on questions that have come up from 784 00:41:24.440 --> 00:41:28.039 a customers, like here's a very unusual questions. They are 785 00:41:28.119 --> 00:41:30.599 up to speed on all that kind of stuff, and 786 00:41:30.960 --> 00:41:34.000 I just to really appreciate working with them because they 787 00:41:34.079 --> 00:41:36.719 are the kind of folks that love plants, they love people, 788 00:41:36.920 --> 00:41:39.719 and you will really love your trip when you go 789 00:41:39.800 --> 00:41:43.440 out to Arburgate there on the west side of Tombull. 790 00:41:43.519 --> 00:41:45.679 For those of you haven't been there before, it's twenty 791 00:41:45.800 --> 00:41:48.239 nine to twenty. That's the farm to market going west 792 00:41:48.280 --> 00:41:51.440 out of Tombull on the left hand side. Arburgate dot com. 793 00:41:51.480 --> 00:41:53.880 Go to that website Arbrogate dot com find out more 794 00:41:53.880 --> 00:41:57.199 about it, but mainly go out there and get ready 795 00:41:57.239 --> 00:42:00.920 for fall. At Arburgate. I'm going to go now to 796 00:42:01.239 --> 00:42:05.800 Jersey Village and if I can get my there, we go. 797 00:42:06.239 --> 00:42:08.920 We're going to talk to George. Hello, George, welcome to garden. 798 00:42:09.199 --> 00:42:12.920 Good morning, Stiff, Good morning. I got some sweet potatoes 799 00:42:12.960 --> 00:42:15.400 that I've had in the ground since about APO is 800 00:42:15.519 --> 00:42:18.000 up and then the leaves are everywhere, So I just 801 00:42:18.039 --> 00:42:19.840 wondering when do I harvest those boogers. 802 00:42:21.760 --> 00:42:24.719 Sweet potatoes don't ripen, so you can harvest them whenever 803 00:42:24.760 --> 00:42:27.760 you want. Now, generally you want them to get a 804 00:42:27.840 --> 00:42:30.280 decent size to them, right, and so we leave them 805 00:42:30.280 --> 00:42:32.920 a little bit longer, you want to harvest them before 806 00:42:33.079 --> 00:42:36.159 we have a frieze, because as those roots swell up, 807 00:42:36.239 --> 00:42:38.800 the ground cracks open and the cold air can get 808 00:42:38.800 --> 00:42:42.760 in there and actually damage some of those potato parts 809 00:42:42.760 --> 00:42:45.800 that are up near the surface. But anytime you want 810 00:42:45.800 --> 00:42:48.320 to harvest them, I would get, you know, a little 811 00:42:48.599 --> 00:42:51.000 your fingers and some soil, a little trol or whatever 812 00:42:51.119 --> 00:42:53.039 kind of scrape the sow back and see what kind 813 00:42:53.039 --> 00:42:55.360 of roots you got. Do you need a little longer 814 00:42:55.760 --> 00:42:58.599 or are they good to go? Maybe you harvest one 815 00:42:58.679 --> 00:43:02.360 hill and then harvest another hill. There's not a right 816 00:43:02.440 --> 00:43:04.719 or wrong on that one. Just don't wait until it's frisen. 817 00:43:05.880 --> 00:43:07.719 And then one other thing. We were in South Padre 818 00:43:07.800 --> 00:43:10.079 Island two weeks ago and hanging out on the beach 819 00:43:10.159 --> 00:43:12.400 and stuff, and there are a bunch of butterflies there. 820 00:43:12.760 --> 00:43:14.760 So my buddy says, you know what they have these 821 00:43:14.760 --> 00:43:18.079 butterflies doing there in South Podia Island. So and I 822 00:43:18.159 --> 00:43:20.119 and I told him your story about they were swimming. 823 00:43:20.239 --> 00:43:22.599 They came flying across the Gulf of Mexico for some 824 00:43:22.719 --> 00:43:27.960 stupid reason. So no, no, we were impressed with that 825 00:43:28.079 --> 00:43:28.760 pretty something. 826 00:43:30.119 --> 00:43:32.480 Yeah, I don't know what they who knows why they 827 00:43:32.519 --> 00:43:34.800 were there. I'm not a butterfly expert, but the butterflies 828 00:43:34.800 --> 00:43:36.760 are going the other way. They're heading to Mexico here 829 00:43:36.800 --> 00:43:37.280 this fall. 830 00:43:37.719 --> 00:43:37.840 Uh. 831 00:43:38.000 --> 00:43:41.159 They're fueling up at our houses right now and heading 832 00:43:41.199 --> 00:43:41.559 that way. 833 00:43:42.159 --> 00:43:42.280 Uh. 834 00:43:42.599 --> 00:43:45.000 So, I don't know why they were in Galveston. Maybe 835 00:43:45.360 --> 00:43:47.800 maybe they just had a little vacation time. They wanted 836 00:43:47.800 --> 00:43:50.880 to go to the beach. Yeah, oh South Padre Okay, 837 00:43:51.199 --> 00:43:55.760 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. That's a big, big wayfair 838 00:43:55.920 --> 00:43:58.960 station for for butterflies and hummingbirds. 839 00:43:58.960 --> 00:44:01.039 And that's amazing, amazing. 840 00:44:01.119 --> 00:44:06.199 Yeah, all right, sounds fun. Thanks all right, George. Thanks, appreciate, 841 00:44:06.320 --> 00:44:09.320 appreciate you calling. Our phone number is seven one three 842 00:44:09.440 --> 00:44:12.679 two one two five eight seven four seven one three 843 00:44:12.719 --> 00:44:15.840 two one two fifty eight seventy four. Listen. 844 00:44:16.000 --> 00:44:16.119 Uh. 845 00:44:16.920 --> 00:44:21.239 Turf Star. It's a it's a lawn fertilizer, turf Star 846 00:44:21.599 --> 00:44:25.519 from Nelson Plant Food and turf Star has it's a 847 00:44:25.559 --> 00:44:28.159 series of fertilizers. The turf Star you need to be 848 00:44:28.159 --> 00:44:29.800 looking at right now. You can do one of two. 849 00:44:29.840 --> 00:44:32.559 You can do Bruce's Brew, which is any month of 850 00:44:32.559 --> 00:44:35.440 the year. But I'm gonna talk about carbol Load. Carbol 851 00:44:35.480 --> 00:44:39.760 Load is a product that is designed with the higher 852 00:44:39.880 --> 00:44:44.159 potassium content and a little lower nitrogen. That's what we 853 00:44:44.199 --> 00:44:45.880 want to do in the fall. I'll talk a little 854 00:44:45.880 --> 00:44:50.039 bit later why that is. But you put it down now, 855 00:44:50.199 --> 00:44:52.039 it gets into your plant, and just think of it 856 00:44:52.079 --> 00:44:55.599 as this. It's like putting anafreeze into the plant. It 857 00:44:55.679 --> 00:44:58.719 makes it more cold hearty. Potassium plays a huge role 858 00:44:58.840 --> 00:45:02.599 in cold heartiness of any plant. Also, by going into 859 00:45:02.599 --> 00:45:06.199 fall strong, it comes out strong, and carboload is designed 860 00:45:06.239 --> 00:45:10.159 for that. You will benefit from your fall carboload application 861 00:45:10.599 --> 00:45:13.159 in the spring when the grass starts to green up 862 00:45:13.199 --> 00:45:16.719 and grow, because your fall application will be fueling that 863 00:45:16.840 --> 00:45:20.360 early green up and growth of the Saint Augustine grass 864 00:45:20.480 --> 00:45:23.800 or zoizia or bermuda, whatever you are growing. It also 865 00:45:23.880 --> 00:45:27.760 contains a pre emergent herbicide. Now, because of that, you 866 00:45:27.800 --> 00:45:29.559 want to make sure and get that done early. If 867 00:45:29.599 --> 00:45:32.199 you look at my schedule, fall fertilization is all through 868 00:45:32.239 --> 00:45:36.679 the month of October. Well, get it done in early October. 869 00:45:36.719 --> 00:45:38.679 If you're going to do the carboload, get it done now. 870 00:45:38.760 --> 00:45:40.880 You can even do it late September, which is where 871 00:45:40.960 --> 00:45:44.039 we are right now. From now on into the early 872 00:45:44.079 --> 00:45:47.400 part of October, get that down because you want when 873 00:45:47.440 --> 00:45:50.639 the weed seed start to germinate for winter, which is 874 00:45:50.679 --> 00:45:55.559 the hindbitten chickweed and carpet weed, annual bluegrass, all the 875 00:45:55.559 --> 00:45:57.840 different things like that. You want to have that carboload 876 00:45:57.880 --> 00:46:01.280 down with that pre emergent down. Now. Nelson Products has it, 877 00:46:01.360 --> 00:46:04.199 and Nelson products are widely available, easy to find them. 878 00:46:04.360 --> 00:46:07.679 But just remember for your fall fertilization that carbe load 879 00:46:08.320 --> 00:46:12.840 and get it down sooner rather than later. All right, 880 00:46:12.880 --> 00:46:15.440 I hope that makes sense. It's important to make sure 881 00:46:15.480 --> 00:46:18.960 and get that done. I was talking to somebody just 882 00:46:19.039 --> 00:46:22.199 the other day, just in fact, yesterday who had a 883 00:46:22.199 --> 00:46:26.880 tree problem. I do a little consultat consulting here with folks, 884 00:46:26.920 --> 00:46:29.400 and I was out on a site looking at a 885 00:46:29.400 --> 00:46:32.880 tree problem that they had, and I was looking at 886 00:46:32.880 --> 00:46:36.000 the pruning job that had been done, and it was 887 00:46:36.119 --> 00:46:38.960 not a good pruning job. They had some big wounds 888 00:46:38.960 --> 00:46:42.159 that were not healing. They left stubs, they cut some 889 00:46:42.199 --> 00:46:44.239 things too close to the trunk. They didn't know how 890 00:46:44.280 --> 00:46:47.760 to prune. That's why I keep telling you guys, call 891 00:46:47.840 --> 00:46:51.800 Martin spoon Moore at Affloridable Tree Care and listen. Martin 892 00:46:51.840 --> 00:46:53.800 does a good job. That's why he stays busy. And 893 00:46:53.840 --> 00:46:56.760 that's why you don't need to wait until, oh it's February, 894 00:46:56.760 --> 00:46:59.920 winter's almost over. It's too late. I mean the guys, 895 00:47:00.000 --> 00:47:02.280 it's going to stay booked up all the time for 896 00:47:02.440 --> 00:47:05.119 some period of time. If you want to make sure 897 00:47:05.199 --> 00:47:07.719 and get into the best pruning time, that's October through 898 00:47:07.719 --> 00:47:10.679 February here in our area. You need to call Martin 899 00:47:10.719 --> 00:47:12.719 now and get on the schedule. Tell him you heard 900 00:47:12.719 --> 00:47:14.960 about on guarden line. Helps you get up to the 901 00:47:14.960 --> 00:47:15.960 front of his list. 902 00:47:16.719 --> 00:47:16.840 Uh. 903 00:47:16.960 --> 00:47:18.639 And but you got to get on the schedule. We'll 904 00:47:18.719 --> 00:47:21.320 fall in winter pruning. He'll prune him, he'll do deep 905 00:47:21.400 --> 00:47:24.559 root feeding. He'll check the overall healthier trees. If you 906 00:47:24.599 --> 00:47:27.480 see any movement at the tree base or roots, in 907 00:47:27.519 --> 00:47:30.360 other words, that that tree is kind of lifted up 908 00:47:30.400 --> 00:47:32.880 from the storms and the wet soils that we had, 909 00:47:33.119 --> 00:47:34.519 you can kind of see that as it kind of 910 00:47:34.559 --> 00:47:38.639 lifts up. You know, it's obvious tree leaning. And in fact, 911 00:47:38.679 --> 00:47:40.559 the site I was on had that kind of condition. 912 00:47:41.280 --> 00:47:44.000 You need to call Martin. Here's here's the number seven 913 00:47:44.079 --> 00:47:47.400 one three, six nine nine twenty six sixty three. That's 914 00:47:47.480 --> 00:47:52.239 seven one three, six ninety nine two six sixty three. 915 00:47:52.280 --> 00:47:54.760 If Martin or Joe don't answer the phone, you've called 916 00:47:54.760 --> 00:47:57.400 the wrong number. Seven one three sixt' nine nine twind 917 00:47:57.440 --> 00:47:59.920 your landscape. You can give me a call it three 918 00:48:00.239 --> 00:48:03.559 two one two fifty eight seventy four. And if you've 919 00:48:03.599 --> 00:48:06.079 listened to garden Line once, you have heard me talk 920 00:48:06.119 --> 00:48:09.920 about the importance of building your soil. That is where 921 00:48:10.039 --> 00:48:13.199 success starts. I know, you go into a garden center. 922 00:48:13.360 --> 00:48:15.480 I go into garden centers and see all the color 923 00:48:15.519 --> 00:48:17.280 and it's just like, I gotta have one of all those. 924 00:48:17.719 --> 00:48:21.159 That's what attracts me. Not a bag of mulch or 925 00:48:21.199 --> 00:48:24.440 soil mix or bed mix off to the side. But 926 00:48:24.519 --> 00:48:26.599 the most important thing in that garden center are the 927 00:48:26.599 --> 00:48:29.559 products that build your soil, and then come the plants 928 00:48:29.599 --> 00:48:31.880 that go into it. Yes, we want those plants to 929 00:48:31.920 --> 00:48:35.880 be beautiful. But if you want success, why not build 930 00:48:35.880 --> 00:48:39.599 a bed with roses and bloomers blend from heirloom soils 931 00:48:39.880 --> 00:48:42.480 or with veggie and herb mix for vegetables and herbs, 932 00:48:42.559 --> 00:48:44.920 and it works good for flower bits too, by the way, 933 00:48:45.119 --> 00:48:48.159 from heirloom soils, or with fruit berry and citrus mix. 934 00:48:48.519 --> 00:48:51.480 Why not fill your containers with cactus and suculent mix 935 00:48:51.639 --> 00:48:54.639 if it's cactire succulents or with the works potting soil. 936 00:48:54.800 --> 00:48:56.639 All of those are from heirloom soils. I want to 937 00:48:56.639 --> 00:48:59.159 tell you something going on this week. This is a 938 00:48:59.000 --> 00:49:04.119 a kind of a short deal. But at the Porter Location, 939 00:49:04.239 --> 00:49:06.800 which is where airloom soil is made up in Porter, Texas, 940 00:49:07.159 --> 00:49:09.760 they have a limited time special. You can either go 941 00:49:09.840 --> 00:49:11.960 up there and pick it up or you can have 942 00:49:12.039 --> 00:49:14.320 them deliver it. And you need to listen carefully. This 943 00:49:14.920 --> 00:49:18.199 airloom soils rosesoil, which is good for any kind of 944 00:49:18.280 --> 00:49:21.639 landscape beds that you have, heirloom soils, rose sooil or 945 00:49:21.800 --> 00:49:25.199 veggie and herb mix in bulk. When you go up there, 946 00:49:25.239 --> 00:49:28.199 you'll receive a free bag of Microlife six to four 947 00:49:28.320 --> 00:49:31.559 the Microlife fertilizer. Now you can go to the web 948 00:49:31.639 --> 00:49:34.880 to Airloomsoils dot com to learn all about it. If 949 00:49:34.920 --> 00:49:39.000 you want to know about that particular location, then go 950 00:49:39.079 --> 00:49:42.599 to rock inmlts dot com. That's rock the letter in 951 00:49:43.400 --> 00:49:47.679 malt dot com. Rockinmltz dot com. That's the Porter location. 952 00:49:48.159 --> 00:49:50.440 There's a soil yard up there, you know where they 953 00:49:50.519 --> 00:49:54.039 do the airlom sols. They have the Rock materials as 954 00:49:54.079 --> 00:49:56.840 well up there, so anything you need to deliver it 955 00:49:56.920 --> 00:49:58.599 or go pick it up, but go ahead and do 956 00:49:58.639 --> 00:50:00.599 it now. It's a short term. Plus you need to 957 00:50:00.599 --> 00:50:04.079 get the beds made quick heirloom. So this is you 958 00:50:04.119 --> 00:50:07.119 get the rose soil by bulk or the veggiean nerb 959 00:50:07.159 --> 00:50:10.159 mix by bulk, pick up her delivery. You receive a 960 00:50:10.159 --> 00:50:14.199 free bag of Microlife six to four, which you'll also 961 00:50:14.320 --> 00:50:16.639 need when you get those products. We're going to go 962 00:50:16.719 --> 00:50:19.400 back to the woodlands now and talk to Mike. Hey, Mike, 963 00:50:19.440 --> 00:50:21.599 we got some more questions on white flies. 964 00:50:23.000 --> 00:50:26.000 Yeah, it's a follow up question. I spread to buy 965 00:50:26.079 --> 00:50:29.000 syndroyn yesterday. I think it got on my time plant. 966 00:50:29.360 --> 00:50:31.920 Would you throw that away or not eat it for 967 00:50:31.960 --> 00:50:32.360 a while? 968 00:50:32.639 --> 00:50:32.880 Yeah? 969 00:50:32.920 --> 00:50:37.679 And then second I would yeah, throw it away. 970 00:50:37.800 --> 00:50:39.800 Yeah. I don't take a chance on that. I mean it. 971 00:50:40.320 --> 00:50:42.639 I could never tell you to do something that's not 972 00:50:42.760 --> 00:50:44.920 according to the label and then put it in your mouth. 973 00:50:44.960 --> 00:50:47.719 I mean that, that would be malpractice on my part. 974 00:50:47.880 --> 00:50:48.840 So yeah. 975 00:50:48.880 --> 00:50:51.840 And then secondly, they recommend worm castings to put in 976 00:50:51.920 --> 00:50:54.800 the same plants that have the why the white fly infestation? 977 00:50:55.159 --> 00:50:56.639 Can you tell me what that would be for. 978 00:50:58.280 --> 00:51:01.159 Worm castings? Are loaded with micro First of all, they're 979 00:51:01.199 --> 00:51:05.239 also high in nutrients. When things go through a worm's gullet, 980 00:51:05.320 --> 00:51:10.000 it's basically taking organic matter, breaking it down, digesting it, 981 00:51:10.079 --> 00:51:12.599 and releasing all the good stuff that's in it. And 982 00:51:12.639 --> 00:51:16.320 so worm castings are just they're like a compost on steroids. 983 00:51:18.159 --> 00:51:20.800 Okay, I see it can burn roots, so it must 984 00:51:20.800 --> 00:51:23.199 be like a you know, pretty rich. 985 00:51:24.599 --> 00:51:27.000 You would have to use a lot to burn roots. 986 00:51:27.079 --> 00:51:29.400 I would, I would, but you don't need that much. 987 00:51:29.440 --> 00:51:32.400 That's you know, they're not cheap, and so I would 988 00:51:32.400 --> 00:51:35.280 just put a little bit out, follow the instructions on 989 00:51:35.320 --> 00:51:38.920 the bag there. But you're you got a pretty enriched stuff. 990 00:51:38.920 --> 00:51:41.320 It's not quite the level of like a bag of 991 00:51:41.360 --> 00:51:45.039 fertilizer in terms of concentration, but it's above compost in 992 00:51:45.119 --> 00:51:50.440 terms of concentration. Great, thank you, all right, you bet, 993 00:51:50.599 --> 00:51:53.480 thanks Mike. Hey, Mike, you're up there in the woodlands. 994 00:51:54.199 --> 00:51:56.079 I keep forgetting to mention. Today I'm going to be 995 00:51:56.119 --> 00:51:58.920 at A and A Plans and Produce out there in Montgomery. 996 00:51:58.960 --> 00:52:00.719 I know that's not your back door, but it's not 997 00:52:00.800 --> 00:52:03.280 too far away. I'll be there after the show today. 998 00:52:03.320 --> 00:52:05.159 So if you get a chance, just swing on by, 999 00:52:05.199 --> 00:52:07.000 I'd love to meet you. And if you got any 1000 00:52:07.000 --> 00:52:08.920 samples or plants you want to bring by for us 1001 00:52:08.920 --> 00:52:11.280 to look at, give us some eye to eye face 1002 00:52:11.320 --> 00:52:13.480 to face time to get that done. I just want 1003 00:52:13.559 --> 00:52:15.000 to mention that for I turned you loose. 1004 00:52:16.119 --> 00:52:21.079 All right, thank you. 1005 00:52:19.639 --> 00:52:24.320 You bet bye bye. All right, folks, if you were 1006 00:52:24.400 --> 00:52:28.199 up in the Tomball West of Tomball twenty nine to twenty, 1007 00:52:28.480 --> 00:52:30.400 there's a lot of new neighborhoods that have gone in 1008 00:52:30.440 --> 00:52:32.960 out there. D and DE Feed Store is your hometown 1009 00:52:32.960 --> 00:52:35.440 feed store out there. You know they've got all the 1010 00:52:35.440 --> 00:52:39.039 fertilizers we talk about. They've got soil blends we talk about. 1011 00:52:39.079 --> 00:52:40.599 And when I say that, what I mean is like 1012 00:52:40.719 --> 00:52:43.760 age leaf, moll compost, I'm heirlooms rose soil. They're fruit 1013 00:52:43.800 --> 00:52:45.920 berry and citrus mix and veggie nerve mix. I was 1014 00:52:46.000 --> 00:52:47.960 just talking about. You can buy it by the bag 1015 00:52:48.000 --> 00:52:51.119 of D and D Feed. Do you want a night 1016 00:52:51.199 --> 00:52:53.920 to five fertilizer like sweet Green or super Turf for 1017 00:52:54.039 --> 00:52:57.840 the Imperial or the Saint Augustine's Weed and feed things 1018 00:52:57.880 --> 00:53:01.920 tree intra barricade for the for the the pest problems 1019 00:53:01.960 --> 00:53:04.360 that you have. D and D Feed carries all of that. 1020 00:53:04.599 --> 00:53:07.679 Plus they just their feed store. They have quality feeds, 1021 00:53:07.760 --> 00:53:10.840 quality feed for your pets too. By the way, they've 1022 00:53:10.880 --> 00:53:14.400 expanded the store and it's just a nice place to visit. 1023 00:53:14.519 --> 00:53:17.360 It's really convenient and easy swinging out twenty nine to 1024 00:53:17.400 --> 00:53:21.320 twenty just out west to Tom Ballaway's and you're gonna 1025 00:53:21.320 --> 00:53:25.760 find what you need there. Absolutely, they and good friendly 1026 00:53:25.800 --> 00:53:28.239 service too, by the way, is what you would expect 1027 00:53:28.440 --> 00:53:31.679 from D and D feed. I was talking about that nitross, 1028 00:53:31.760 --> 00:53:35.800 you know, the the nitrofoss one to two three completely 1029 00:53:35.840 --> 00:53:40.159 easy system that is called they call it the Texas 1030 00:53:40.440 --> 00:53:43.360 three step. You probably heard of the Texas two step, right, 1031 00:53:43.599 --> 00:53:46.880 we're talking about the Texas three step, And what is that. Well, 1032 00:53:46.920 --> 00:53:51.039 it's a fertilizer. It is a weed control and it 1033 00:53:51.119 --> 00:53:55.360 is a disease control. So the fertilizer is their fall fertilizer. 1034 00:53:55.440 --> 00:53:59.559 It has got a good boost of the potassium the 1035 00:53:59.599 --> 00:54:02.840 third in it. That's what creates winter hardiness and helps 1036 00:54:02.840 --> 00:54:05.639 your plant come out stronger in the spring. The second 1037 00:54:05.679 --> 00:54:11.559 step is the weed control product that's barricade. You got 1038 00:54:11.559 --> 00:54:14.519 to get it down before weeds germinate. They will germinate 1039 00:54:14.559 --> 00:54:17.360 in October. I don't know exactly when I'll tell you 1040 00:54:17.360 --> 00:54:20.079 two things. Number one, it varies between weed species a 1041 00:54:20.119 --> 00:54:23.239 little bit. And number two, it's very dependent on the weather. 1042 00:54:23.800 --> 00:54:26.239 Weeds don't have calendars, and they look, oh, it's time 1043 00:54:26.280 --> 00:54:29.079 to germinate. When it cools off, get a little rain. 1044 00:54:29.440 --> 00:54:32.159 That's when those cool season weeds sprout and begin to grow, 1045 00:54:32.280 --> 00:54:34.679 just like our blue bonnets do the same thing. You 1046 00:54:34.760 --> 00:54:36.639 got to get the barricade down before them. So do 1047 00:54:36.719 --> 00:54:38.920 that early in the month of October. You can go 1048 00:54:39.000 --> 00:54:41.760 ahead with the fall fertilizing from night fruss as well, 1049 00:54:41.840 --> 00:54:44.559 right now, if you'll do that. And then finally, the 1050 00:54:44.599 --> 00:54:48.159 third one is the eagle turf fungicide. Egle turf fungicide 1051 00:54:48.599 --> 00:54:52.880 is a product that will get in the grass as 1052 00:54:52.880 --> 00:54:57.000 a systemic okay, so it moves into the tissues of 1053 00:54:57.039 --> 00:55:00.199 the grass. And when it does that, then when the 1054 00:55:00.280 --> 00:55:03.920 brown patch or large patch tries to infect, you've already 1055 00:55:03.960 --> 00:55:08.039 got in the system of the plant the protectant against that. 1056 00:55:13.400 --> 00:55:16.599 Excuse me, I lost my mic there for just a moment. 1057 00:55:16.840 --> 00:55:19.920 But anyway, that eagle turf fungicide is what needs to 1058 00:55:19.920 --> 00:55:21.679 be done ahead of time. It's also going to be 1059 00:55:21.719 --> 00:55:24.519 helpful for take all root rot which its primary infection 1060 00:55:24.679 --> 00:55:26.480 period and control period is going to be in the 1061 00:55:26.480 --> 00:55:29.320 fall nitopas three step No where do you get it? 1062 00:55:29.320 --> 00:55:32.280 Well Bearings Hardware both on Bessinet and Reck and west 1063 00:55:32.280 --> 00:55:34.960 Timer have it. You go to RCW Nursery you're going 1064 00:55:35.000 --> 00:55:37.280 to find it. Lake Hardware and Angleton and the one 1065 00:55:37.320 --> 00:55:41.400 in Lake Jackson and Alspa Hardware or Ace Hardware up 1066 00:55:41.440 --> 00:55:44.800 in the Woodlands is also going to have your nitrofoss texas, 1067 00:55:45.039 --> 00:55:48.199 your three step one two three, the fall special winter riser, 1068 00:55:48.400 --> 00:55:52.679 the barricade for weeds, and the Eagle Turf fungicide for diseases. 1069 00:55:52.800 --> 00:55:55.920 That makes it really really easy. Hey, if you would 1070 00:55:56.000 --> 00:55:57.840 like to give us a call, our phone number here 1071 00:55:58.039 --> 00:56:02.079 is seven to one three two one two ktrh. That's 1072 00:56:02.119 --> 00:56:06.599 seven one three two one two kt r h. 1073 00:56:08.360 --> 00:56:08.599 Uh. 1074 00:56:09.239 --> 00:56:13.559 Green Pro is a company that will take care of 1075 00:56:13.599 --> 00:56:18.000 your compost, top dressing and your deep core aeration. Now 1076 00:56:18.079 --> 00:56:21.880 what is core aeration. You can rent aerators that sort 1077 00:56:21.880 --> 00:56:24.199 of push a hole in the soil and that sort 1078 00:56:24.239 --> 00:56:27.079 of squeezes the soil out against the walls of the hole. 1079 00:56:27.639 --> 00:56:30.320 Meaning it's not the ideal way to do it. It's 1080 00:56:30.440 --> 00:56:33.440 better to have a hollo tyme errator that goes down 1081 00:56:33.519 --> 00:56:36.280 and punches into the soil and pops out a core 1082 00:56:36.320 --> 00:56:39.719 of soil and leaves it on the surface. It aerates, 1083 00:56:39.880 --> 00:56:43.840 it makes roots just very happy by bringing oxygen down 1084 00:56:43.880 --> 00:56:45.760 in there. And then you follow that with a compost 1085 00:56:45.760 --> 00:56:48.199 top dressing and that falls down to the holes. So 1086 00:56:48.239 --> 00:56:50.920 now you've got organic matter decomposing down in there. It's 1087 00:56:50.920 --> 00:56:54.960 a way to gradually, over time help your soil just 1088 00:56:55.000 --> 00:56:58.320 get better and better and better, and greenpro can do that. Now, 1089 00:56:58.360 --> 00:57:02.159 Greenprose serves an area about forty five miles from Magnolia. 1090 00:57:02.559 --> 00:57:06.119 Within that range, so we're basically talking northwest Houston. If 1091 00:57:06.159 --> 00:57:09.280 you look at Interstate forty five and Interstate ten, that's 1092 00:57:09.320 --> 00:57:12.920 basically the area so Spring and Cyprus, the Woodlands, Conroe, 1093 00:57:12.960 --> 00:57:16.960 willis down or over to Magnolia and up in Montgomery 1094 00:57:16.960 --> 00:57:19.920 off to the west and then down to Katie West 1095 00:57:19.960 --> 00:57:24.039 Houston kind of central area and north central Houston that 1096 00:57:24.280 --> 00:57:27.599 is basically at the northwest quadrant by Greenboro. Now right 1097 00:57:27.599 --> 00:57:29.920 now through fall, they're going to aerate your lawn for 1098 00:57:29.960 --> 00:57:34.599 free when you purchase a compost top dressing service. Now 1099 00:57:34.679 --> 00:57:37.360 the price is start at five seventy five plus tax. 1100 00:57:37.679 --> 00:57:41.119 It's heavy duty or not heavy duty. It's very high 1101 00:57:41.199 --> 00:57:45.199 quality equipment that can do this job right and then 1102 00:57:45.239 --> 00:57:48.280 haul in the compost around and everything. That is an 1103 00:57:48.320 --> 00:57:50.519 expense for them to do. But you have to do 1104 00:57:50.559 --> 00:57:53.360 a two yard minimum for this offer. So if you 1105 00:57:53.400 --> 00:57:56.679 do a two yard minimum of compost, they will come 1106 00:57:56.719 --> 00:57:59.159 out and they will not charge you for the aeration, 1107 00:57:59.599 --> 00:58:02.719 but you pay for the just the compost top dressing service. 1108 00:58:03.159 --> 00:58:06.480 Two eight one three five one forty seven thirty three. 1109 00:58:06.559 --> 00:58:09.159 Let me say that again. Two eight one three five 1110 00:58:09.280 --> 00:58:13.119 one forty seven thirty three. Or go to the website 1111 00:58:13.480 --> 00:58:21.280 greenpro dot net, greenpro dot net. When was the last 1112 00:58:21.280 --> 00:58:24.679 time you were at Nelson Watergardens. I love going on 1113 00:58:24.880 --> 00:58:28.840 Nelson Watergarden. You know, it's actually Nelson Nursery and Watergardens. 1114 00:58:28.880 --> 00:58:31.400 I think of them because they've always been a nationally 1115 00:58:31.440 --> 00:58:35.119 known watergarden place. But they have an outstanding nursery out 1116 00:58:35.119 --> 00:58:37.920 there as well. Fall is here and they are loaded 1117 00:58:38.000 --> 00:58:40.320 up on everything that you would need. They have one 1118 00:58:40.360 --> 00:58:43.039 of a kind plants, they've got pots, the fish, the fountains, 1119 00:58:43.079 --> 00:58:46.239 the disappearing fountains, which are my favorite of all the 1120 00:58:46.280 --> 00:58:49.079 things out there, of the types of fountains, but they 1121 00:58:49.079 --> 00:58:51.400 can get you stocked up. They're at eighty Fort Ben Road, 1122 00:58:51.719 --> 00:58:55.079 just north of it Katie Freeway, So you head out 1123 00:58:55.079 --> 00:58:57.599 west on it. When you get to Katie Fort Benroad, 1124 00:58:57.639 --> 00:59:00.000 turn north and it's just a hop skipping and jump 1125 00:59:00.199 --> 00:59:05.000 up the street there. Nelsonwatergardens dot Com. Check out that website, 1126 00:59:05.079 --> 00:59:07.679 follow them on social media. This is the kind of 1127 00:59:07.679 --> 00:59:09.760 garden center that you want to take friends to. It's 1128 00:59:09.760 --> 00:59:12.079 a destination and you just have to get there to 1129 00:59:12.119 --> 00:59:14.679 see what I'm talking about. But they're ready to go 1130 00:59:14.760 --> 00:59:18.039 for fall. Stocked up. A good place to visit. I'm 1131 00:59:18.079 --> 00:59:19.880 going to take a quick break when I come back. 1132 00:59:20.000 --> 00:59:22.079 Ronnie and Kim, you'll be our first. Good to have 1133 00:59:22.159 --> 00:59:25.039 you with us today. We are talking all kinds of 1134 00:59:25.079 --> 00:59:27.519 things gardening. I appreciate you tuning in if you've got 1135 00:59:27.519 --> 00:59:30.599 a question. Seven to one three two one two fifty 1136 00:59:30.639 --> 00:59:33.599 eight seventy four. When it was the last time you 1137 00:59:33.639 --> 00:59:36.599 were at Buchanan's Garden Center in the Heights. That's that 1138 00:59:36.679 --> 00:59:40.400 garden center right there on Eleventh Street in the Heights, 1139 00:59:40.559 --> 00:59:42.679 and it is just a special place. And those of 1140 00:59:42.719 --> 00:59:45.159 you who have been there that you know that, let 1141 00:59:45.199 --> 00:59:47.119 me give you. I want to give you their website. First, 1142 00:59:47.119 --> 00:59:49.440 they're located on eleven Street, but you need to go 1143 00:59:49.559 --> 00:59:54.880 check out the websites Buchanans Plants dot com, Buchanansplants dot 1144 00:59:54.880 --> 00:59:59.039 com when you walk in there. They specialize in native plants. 1145 00:59:59.079 --> 01:00:02.280 In fact, the proper name I should say is Buchanan's 1146 01:00:02.400 --> 01:00:05.480 Native Plants. That is the name of the garden center. 1147 01:00:05.559 --> 01:00:08.239 They have way more than native plants. But when it 1148 01:00:08.239 --> 01:00:10.440 comes to natives, I don't know anyone that has the 1149 01:00:10.880 --> 01:00:15.280 diversity of selection and expertise in native plants. They have 1150 01:00:15.400 --> 01:00:17.159 natives that are just from the Houston area. They have 1151 01:00:17.239 --> 01:00:20.480 natives that are from the region. Whatever you need, they 1152 01:00:20.519 --> 01:00:23.199 can set you up. Now. When it comes to dealing 1153 01:00:23.239 --> 01:00:26.639 with issues in the garden, they have plenty of products 1154 01:00:26.679 --> 01:00:29.840 to help fight anything that you might be dealing with. 1155 01:00:30.039 --> 01:00:32.800 And they lean toward the organic side of things. You know, 1156 01:00:32.840 --> 01:00:35.480 they have a wide variety of stuff organic and non organic, 1157 01:00:35.800 --> 01:00:38.199 but they lean toward that direction and I think that 1158 01:00:38.280 --> 01:00:39.960 makes it nice for those of you want to garden 1159 01:00:39.960 --> 01:00:44.800 more naturally. For example, they have some excellent information on 1160 01:00:44.840 --> 01:00:47.239 the website. That's why you need to subscribe to the 1161 01:00:47.280 --> 01:00:50.719 newsletter too. Lots of good information. For example, there was 1162 01:00:51.000 --> 01:00:54.079 a whole list the other day of native seeds that 1163 01:00:54.159 --> 01:00:57.280 you can plant now that are favorites of pollinators, that 1164 01:00:57.360 --> 01:01:01.440 are wildflower seeds, that are seed for bird lovers that 1165 01:01:01.480 --> 01:01:04.800 attract the birds into the landscape. They just know what 1166 01:01:04.840 --> 01:01:07.000 they're talking about. They've been doing this a good while 1167 01:01:07.280 --> 01:01:10.159 and they're experts in at Beginnis Plants on Eleventh Street 1168 01:01:10.719 --> 01:01:13.440 in the Heights, all the products you need for success 1169 01:01:13.440 --> 01:01:15.559 in your garden. They know to begin with the soil 1170 01:01:15.880 --> 01:01:17.920 and then move on to the plants and they can 1171 01:01:18.000 --> 01:01:21.400 get you set up with both of those. I'm going 1172 01:01:21.440 --> 01:01:23.239 to head now out to the phones and talk to 1173 01:01:23.320 --> 01:01:28.239 Ronnie ed Magnolia. Hello, Ronnie, welcome to Garden Line. Lawrence, yep, 1174 01:01:30.079 --> 01:01:33.199 I'm good sir. How can we help Hey? A couple 1175 01:01:33.199 --> 01:01:33.719 of questions. 1176 01:01:33.800 --> 01:01:36.280 Yip talking a lot to I hear you this morning 1177 01:01:36.360 --> 01:01:40.119 on pre emergence. I've got a partical garden and need 1178 01:01:40.280 --> 01:01:42.360 to get an idea of when I should put the 1179 01:01:42.360 --> 01:01:45.159 pre emergent down and what you recommend. 1180 01:01:47.320 --> 01:01:50.639 You know, Ronnie, I just don't recommend pre emergence for 1181 01:01:50.679 --> 01:01:54.079 a vegetable garden. And now there are probably a product 1182 01:01:54.199 --> 01:01:56.639 or two out there that's labeled for use in vegetables. 1183 01:01:57.239 --> 01:01:59.519 But what I find is we're doing so much soil 1184 01:01:59.559 --> 01:02:02.079 disturbing all the time as we pull out one set 1185 01:02:02.079 --> 01:02:04.960 of plants and plant another one and whatnot, that they're 1186 01:02:05.079 --> 01:02:07.880 just not a good practical, you know, way to go 1187 01:02:07.920 --> 01:02:12.320 about that. I recommend multing, multing, multing, you know, just 1188 01:02:12.440 --> 01:02:15.000 always keep the sole surface covered with mult except when 1189 01:02:15.000 --> 01:02:17.719 you pull the multi back to plant seeds or transplants. 1190 01:02:18.480 --> 01:02:20.440 I think that's the best way to go about it 1191 01:02:20.760 --> 01:02:23.880 as opposed to the pre emergent route. 1192 01:02:24.000 --> 01:02:27.000 I think I'm probably shot myself in the foot. Last 1193 01:02:27.000 --> 01:02:30.719 couple of years, I put down treth land and try 1194 01:02:30.800 --> 01:02:34.559 to keep the broad leaf plants away from it. But 1195 01:02:34.960 --> 01:02:37.360 I didn't get a real good response out of that. 1196 01:02:38.800 --> 01:02:41.559 Well, and that's just another thing about pre emergence and 1197 01:02:41.599 --> 01:02:44.639 a vegetable garden. If you're planning seed, the pre emergent 1198 01:02:44.719 --> 01:02:47.960 works to not let seed grow and develop and make 1199 01:02:48.000 --> 01:02:51.400 a plant. And so that's another issue that, yeah, you 1200 01:02:51.400 --> 01:02:53.440 can run into. I would stay away from it. 1201 01:02:54.719 --> 01:02:56.880 How it works pretty good? 1202 01:02:56.960 --> 01:03:02.239 Huh, well who does? But a hoe is my punishment, 1203 01:03:02.440 --> 01:03:04.239 you know what I call I have a term I 1204 01:03:04.400 --> 01:03:07.159 use that used to tell my kids grown up, Uh, 1205 01:03:07.280 --> 01:03:09.920 it's called stupid tax and that's what you pay when 1206 01:03:09.960 --> 01:03:13.039 you do something stupid. And if I'm sticking right, you 1207 01:03:13.079 --> 01:03:16.199 don't mulch my soil. My stupid taxes, I get to 1208 01:03:16.199 --> 01:03:19.960 grab a hoe and go chop weeds, so I try 1209 01:03:20.000 --> 01:03:21.480 to avoid that. But I just. 1210 01:03:23.400 --> 01:03:26.800 I thought, everybody go ahead from West Texas. Every falling 1211 01:03:26.840 --> 01:03:29.119 boy in West Texas was raised with a whole handle 1212 01:03:29.159 --> 01:03:30.000 in his hand. 1213 01:03:30.480 --> 01:03:33.360 Uh yeah, I have. I can tell you right where 1214 01:03:33.400 --> 01:03:34.960 the blisters for him too on that. 1215 01:03:37.679 --> 01:03:38.000 Uh. 1216 01:03:38.119 --> 01:03:40.760 Also, uh, I like what you was talking about the 1217 01:03:40.800 --> 01:03:45.480 heirloom souls over and uh may I've been putting in 1218 01:03:45.480 --> 01:03:48.320 a rose soil mixed with compost in the years, you know, 1219 01:03:48.400 --> 01:03:51.440 top off my end ground and above ground gardens. So 1220 01:03:51.440 --> 01:03:53.519 I might try some of that over at h at 1221 01:03:53.519 --> 01:03:55.400 heirlooms all that vegetable meetings. 1222 01:03:55.639 --> 01:03:57.880 Yeah, I think, well, now, if you're gonna do it, 1223 01:03:57.960 --> 01:03:59.320 now's the time you get a free bag of the 1224 01:03:59.360 --> 01:04:01.639 micro life you throw in there that even though we 1225 01:04:01.679 --> 01:04:03.920 think of it as a lawn fertilizer, it is excellent 1226 01:04:04.000 --> 01:04:05.960 for vegetable gardens. That's their green bag. 1227 01:04:07.119 --> 01:04:10.800 Second question, that's be my first year to really have 1228 01:04:11.079 --> 01:04:15.880 my greenhouse up and running now it's like a seven, 1229 01:04:15.920 --> 01:04:19.559 but twelve walking in when should I start planning my 1230 01:04:19.639 --> 01:04:22.320 sablings and they get them up and as you I 1231 01:04:22.360 --> 01:04:23.840 can transplant them into the garden. 1232 01:04:25.199 --> 01:04:28.199 Now, hurry up, get it done. It's a little you know, 1233 01:04:28.280 --> 01:04:32.519 even with things like the cool the broccoli and bluey vegetables, 1234 01:04:32.519 --> 01:04:34.519 it's even a little bit late to get going on those. 1235 01:04:34.559 --> 01:04:36.239 But you can still do it. You can still do it. 1236 01:04:36.880 --> 01:04:39.239 And then lettuce and spinach and things, if you can 1237 01:04:39.239 --> 01:04:41.360 get them in a spot that's a little cooler. It's 1238 01:04:41.360 --> 01:04:42.960 hard to do that in a greenhouse, but if you 1239 01:04:43.000 --> 01:04:46.320 can do that, that's better. But that would be yes 1240 01:04:47.280 --> 01:04:53.400 spring garden, Oh for spring. I generally start planting beginning 1241 01:04:53.440 --> 01:04:56.400 of January. The way I like to tell people is 1242 01:04:56.480 --> 01:04:58.760 when you have family over for the holidays and they 1243 01:04:58.760 --> 01:05:00.559 don't leave, it's a good excuse to get out of 1244 01:05:00.559 --> 01:05:02.159 a house. Go get that done. 1245 01:05:02.239 --> 01:05:07.039 Okay, okay, January, all vegetables in would be good to go. 1246 01:05:07.039 --> 01:05:10.440 With, well all of it, like your your cool seasons, 1247 01:05:10.519 --> 01:05:15.039 but your tomatoes and peppers and eggplant in the area 1248 01:05:15.079 --> 01:05:18.159 where you live in I have will plant in January, 1249 01:05:18.199 --> 01:05:20.880 and then basically I may have a little bit older 1250 01:05:20.880 --> 01:05:23.440 transplant it's a little bigger, stronger before it goes out. 1251 01:05:23.480 --> 01:05:25.840 But that's just fine. Hey man, I got to run. 1252 01:05:25.840 --> 01:05:28.400 I got a phone board full of phones here, but 1253 01:05:28.800 --> 01:05:31.079 I appreciate it, and good luck with that out there. 1254 01:05:31.480 --> 01:05:34.920 Appreciate Thank you for the call. Yes, sir, you take care. 1255 01:05:36.199 --> 01:05:39.639 The folks at Medina have been you know, they've been 1256 01:05:39.679 --> 01:05:42.639 Gardenline sponsored since the nineteen fifty since before it was 1257 01:05:42.679 --> 01:05:45.239 even called garden Line. They were around doing that. And 1258 01:05:45.280 --> 01:05:48.159 those of you who know Medina products, you're very familiar 1259 01:05:48.519 --> 01:05:50.920 with Medina the hash to grow. Well, do you know 1260 01:05:50.920 --> 01:05:56.199 about Medina plus Medina plus basically think about Medina Plus 1261 01:05:56.320 --> 01:06:01.760 as Medina soil activator plus. We're talking about trace eneroals. 1262 01:06:01.760 --> 01:06:04.079 We're talking about things like side of cainan, which is 1263 01:06:04.119 --> 01:06:08.559 a natural hormone that occurs people typically. That's one reason 1264 01:06:08.599 --> 01:06:12.480 we used seweed extract on it, Magnesium, iron, zinc, just 1265 01:06:12.800 --> 01:06:15.800 on and on and on. It's loaded Medina plus. So 1266 01:06:15.880 --> 01:06:17.360 if you want to put a plant in the ground 1267 01:06:17.360 --> 01:06:19.280 and water it in really good and get it going, 1268 01:06:20.239 --> 01:06:23.119 use Medina plus one ounce per gallon, it's all it takes, 1269 01:06:23.199 --> 01:06:25.280 and just pour it right over the plant leaves and 1270 01:06:25.360 --> 01:06:28.400 all drench that root system and help it get started 1271 01:06:28.519 --> 01:06:32.079 falls planting time, whether it's a vegetable garden, an herb garden, 1272 01:06:32.119 --> 01:06:36.599 a flower bed, trees and shrubs. Get some Medina plus. 1273 01:06:36.599 --> 01:06:39.119 Have it always on hand. Anytime you need a plant. 1274 01:06:39.159 --> 01:06:40.719 You can use it as a folier. It's not going 1275 01:06:40.760 --> 01:06:44.280 to burn your plants. Just fine Medina Plus from the 1276 01:06:44.320 --> 01:06:48.239 folks at Medina. We're going to now go to Kim 1277 01:06:48.480 --> 01:06:52.039 in Alvin. Hello, Kim, welcome to garden Line. 1278 01:06:53.119 --> 01:06:55.079 Actually is Ken Kenneth. 1279 01:06:55.280 --> 01:06:58.119 Oh, Ken, Ken, Welcome to Guardline. Sorry about that. 1280 01:06:59.320 --> 01:07:03.119 I can't lower my or raise my voice at high anyways. 1281 01:07:03.480 --> 01:07:07.760 Uh hey, I got a large live bulk that's in distress. 1282 01:07:07.920 --> 01:07:08.280 I know you. 1283 01:07:08.639 --> 01:07:10.599 I don't know if you're familiar with trees. I'm trying 1284 01:07:10.599 --> 01:07:12.599 to find an arborist or something, but I've got a 1285 01:07:12.599 --> 01:07:15.239 lot of branches that are starting to do their bear 1286 01:07:15.480 --> 01:07:18.519 the tip, you know, and I don't want to lose it. 1287 01:07:18.519 --> 01:07:23.400 It's it's a beautiful, beautiful tree and it's uh right now. 1288 01:07:23.400 --> 01:07:26.119 Don't mess around, Yeah, don't mess around with trees that 1289 01:07:26.159 --> 01:07:28.719 you got to take care of. Affordable tree is the guy. 1290 01:07:28.840 --> 01:07:31.280 The man's name is Martin Spoon Moore and I'm going 1291 01:07:31.360 --> 01:07:33.039 to give you a phone number. Do you got a penhandy? 1292 01:07:33.960 --> 01:07:39.840 I'm ready, huh seven to one three six nine two 1293 01:07:39.960 --> 01:07:44.199 six six three. If you want the website, it's eight 1294 01:07:44.480 --> 01:07:48.840 f F Tree Service dot com a F F Tree 1295 01:07:49.159 --> 01:07:52.480 Service dot com and he can get you fixed up. 1296 01:07:52.599 --> 01:07:55.239 You need to call him soon, though, because you need 1297 01:07:55.239 --> 01:07:57.400 to get on the schedule. Telling me you heard about 1298 01:07:57.400 --> 01:07:59.800 it on Guardenline and you heard that you can get up, 1299 01:07:59.840 --> 01:08:02.000 move up in the list a little bit being a 1300 01:08:02.039 --> 01:08:05.920 guardline caller, and make sure that you get that done, 1301 01:08:05.960 --> 01:08:09.119 because yes, take care of that tree. Hey, I'm hitting 1302 01:08:09.119 --> 01:08:11.559 a hard break. If you need to hang on afterward, 1303 01:08:11.639 --> 01:08:14.440 that's fine. If that's it. I do appreciate the calls 1304 01:08:14.559 --> 01:08:17.439 right to have to go so quickly. Here we're back 1305 01:08:17.880 --> 01:08:22.399 back again. If you are in the area of Magnolia, 1306 01:08:22.680 --> 01:08:25.319 Spring Creek Feed Center is your hometown feed center. It's 1307 01:08:25.359 --> 01:08:28.279 on twenty nine seventy eight FM twenty nine to seventy eight, 1308 01:08:28.319 --> 01:08:30.520 just a few minutes away from Grand Parkway Highway two 1309 01:08:30.600 --> 01:08:33.159 forty nine. You're going to find there the full line 1310 01:08:33.159 --> 01:08:36.119 of fertilizers, you know, the turf Star, the Microlife, the 1311 01:08:36.199 --> 01:08:39.560 Nitroposs and whatnot. They've got it all there anything you 1312 01:08:39.640 --> 01:08:42.680 need for your lawn and your garden, whether it's controlling weeds, pests, 1313 01:08:42.720 --> 01:08:45.359 or diseases. When you walk in, one thing is one 1314 01:08:45.359 --> 01:08:47.199 of the things I really like about Sprint Creek Feed 1315 01:08:47.279 --> 01:08:49.720 is they're so friendly. Number One, you walk in and 1316 01:08:49.760 --> 01:08:51.720 the first thing you do is your jaw drops open 1317 01:08:51.720 --> 01:08:54.600 because it's such a cool, beautiful place inside with all 1318 01:08:54.720 --> 01:08:57.800 kinds of stuff. You know, this isn't just an old 1319 01:08:57.880 --> 01:09:02.079 feed store. This is like a really special place purchasing 1320 01:09:02.119 --> 01:09:05.000 gifts and everything you can imagine. But they have a 1321 01:09:05.039 --> 01:09:07.880 garden center that has everything you need for success and 1322 01:09:07.960 --> 01:09:10.439 friendly folks to greet you. If you're FFA or four 1323 01:09:10.640 --> 01:09:15.359 h They've got discounts for those kiddos raising livestock, animals, military, 1324 01:09:15.479 --> 01:09:18.359 senior citizens, also discounts for you as well. They can 1325 01:09:18.439 --> 01:09:22.279 special order again. They're on twenty nine seventy eight in 1326 01:09:22.319 --> 01:09:26.600 the Magnolia area Spring Creek Feed. We're going to go 1327 01:09:26.640 --> 01:09:30.239 now to David up in the Woodlands. Hello David, Welcome 1328 01:09:30.279 --> 01:09:31.000 to garden Line. 1329 01:09:32.000 --> 01:09:35.840 Good morning, and thanks for taking my call the skip. 1330 01:09:35.840 --> 01:09:40.479 I had a quick question about a Foxdale farm. We 1331 01:09:40.600 --> 01:09:46.239 planted one originally all six weeks ago. All of a sudden, 1332 01:09:46.920 --> 01:09:51.279 about all three weeks ago, it started turning brown, and 1333 01:09:51.720 --> 01:09:54.880 I initially thought it was from my yard guy killing 1334 01:09:54.880 --> 01:10:00.840 Wieds with roundup. It continued and finally pulled it out, 1335 01:10:02.479 --> 01:10:06.840 bought a second one that's fairly large Foxdale. Bought a 1336 01:10:06.880 --> 01:10:12.760 second one, replanted it in the same position. Within about 1337 01:10:13.079 --> 01:10:16.359 eight days, the second one is starting to have the 1338 01:10:16.399 --> 01:10:20.600 same symptoms of the leaves turning light color, then panned, 1339 01:10:20.800 --> 01:10:28.199 then basically dying. So I pulled it out yesterday, put 1340 01:10:28.239 --> 01:10:34.199 it in a pot, and this morning it's multiplied two 1341 01:10:34.279 --> 01:10:40.880 fold in dying from dying. Can this be compomination in 1342 01:10:40.880 --> 01:10:42.439 that particular part of the ground. 1343 01:10:44.159 --> 01:10:48.600 Well, there are some products that you know they One 1344 01:10:48.640 --> 01:10:51.439 of them is called like it's a ground clear, meaning 1345 01:10:51.479 --> 01:10:53.800 you put it down and it kills anything that's grown there. 1346 01:10:53.840 --> 01:10:58.239 It's gonna grow there, And so if they misused a 1347 01:10:58.279 --> 01:11:01.079 product like that, it could be that kind of contamination. 1348 01:11:02.039 --> 01:11:04.359 If it was you said round up, right, is your 1349 01:11:04.359 --> 01:11:05.920 guest was your guests? 1350 01:11:07.159 --> 01:11:11.039 I do not know what great however, he would have 1351 01:11:11.079 --> 01:11:13.319 done the entire front bed and. 1352 01:11:15.279 --> 01:11:20.199 Issue. Yeah, sure, well the roundup would not be persistent 1353 01:11:20.359 --> 01:11:23.000 like that, killing the next plant you plant. So it's not. 1354 01:11:23.159 --> 01:11:26.920 It's not that if it were rounded to what to dry, 1355 01:11:27.079 --> 01:11:29.039 some sort of root rot. I don't know what to 1356 01:11:29.079 --> 01:11:30.920 tell you on that one. That's a pretty tough plan. 1357 01:11:31.680 --> 01:11:31.960 Uh. 1358 01:11:32.000 --> 01:11:35.000 And so we don't really worry about pampering it a lot. 1359 01:11:35.800 --> 01:11:41.359 But if something's wrong underground, Yeah, something's wrong underground too wet, 1360 01:11:41.399 --> 01:11:43.640 too dry, or a root rot. And I can't I 1361 01:11:43.640 --> 01:11:45.720 don't have a crystal ball to know what, but to 1362 01:11:45.760 --> 01:11:48.600 dig down. If you dig down four inches and feel 1363 01:11:48.600 --> 01:11:51.800 the soil and it's kind of soggy, then it's too wet, 1364 01:11:52.079 --> 01:11:55.039 if it could be too dry. But they're pretty resilient 1365 01:11:55.119 --> 01:11:57.920 on drought. And but if if it were drought that 1366 01:11:58.119 --> 01:12:00.920 killed it, it would probably die back and then come 1367 01:12:00.960 --> 01:12:04.640 back because it's got underground storage tubers that can fuel 1368 01:12:04.680 --> 01:12:05.600 my growth. 1369 01:12:06.199 --> 01:12:10.680 And it was loaded with tubers. Just talking about yeah, 1370 01:12:10.800 --> 01:12:12.079 look like a peanut plant. 1371 01:12:13.279 --> 01:12:16.000 Yeah, Well, cut back all the dead, kind of watch 1372 01:12:16.079 --> 01:12:19.159 the watering, and hopefully it'll come back. That's about as 1373 01:12:19.239 --> 01:12:21.079 far as we can go on, you know, just based 1374 01:12:21.119 --> 01:12:23.039 on not being there and picking up the plant and 1375 01:12:23.039 --> 01:12:26.199 looking around at it and stuff. But hopefully it'll bounce 1376 01:12:26.279 --> 01:12:29.800 back for you. 1377 01:12:28.039 --> 01:12:28.359 All right. 1378 01:12:29.880 --> 01:12:35.399 They are they are unbelievably resilient normally yes, and that's 1379 01:12:35.439 --> 01:12:39.359 why I was so surprised this thing. I went, you 1380 01:12:39.399 --> 01:12:40.920 don't have to worry about. 1381 01:12:41.960 --> 01:12:44.880 You bet, I understand. Hey, I'm gonna have to run, 1382 01:12:45.279 --> 01:12:46.800 But thank you for the call and I hope that 1383 01:12:46.920 --> 01:12:49.319 hope you can get that turned around. Thanks a lot 1384 01:12:49.600 --> 01:12:53.640 for that call. Appreciate that, David. Uh three sixty tree 1385 01:12:53.680 --> 01:12:56.680 stabilizer is something you've heard me talk about. And fall 1386 01:12:56.920 --> 01:12:59.399 is four planting. This is the season when if you're 1387 01:12:59.399 --> 01:13:01.720 going to put a t and do it in the 1388 01:13:01.760 --> 01:13:06.079 fall October November or just the ideal for fall planting, 1389 01:13:07.039 --> 01:13:09.720 do in December January too if you want. But get 1390 01:13:09.760 --> 01:13:12.399 your three sixty tree stabilizer. It grabs a hold of 1391 01:13:12.399 --> 01:13:15.640 the tree trunk loosely to allow movement, which is very important. 1392 01:13:16.079 --> 01:13:18.760 You can put a post in, you can put hammer 1393 01:13:18.920 --> 01:13:21.159 a t post in if you want, and it'll attach 1394 01:13:21.239 --> 01:13:24.560 to those You're going to find them at Jorgeshaden Gardens 1395 01:13:24.560 --> 01:13:28.600 don in Alvin Up at Arborgate in the Tomball area. 1396 01:13:28.680 --> 01:13:32.439 Buchanus Native Plants in the Heights RCW Nursery where two 1397 01:13:32.520 --> 01:13:34.840 forty nine comes into belt wag eight plants for all 1398 01:13:34.880 --> 01:13:38.279 seasons on two forty nine Southwest Fertilizer down Southwest Houston. 1399 01:13:38.319 --> 01:13:42.520 These are all places that carry the three sixty tree stabilizer. 1400 01:13:43.239 --> 01:13:45.720 I would not plant a tree in the fall without 1401 01:13:45.720 --> 01:13:49.159 getting one. They are their new invention in the last 1402 01:13:49.159 --> 01:13:52.560 few years and they just really really work and they 1403 01:13:52.600 --> 01:13:55.039 take care of your tree. They hold it right, but 1404 01:13:55.359 --> 01:13:57.960 they also allow movement so you don't have stuff cutting 1405 01:13:57.960 --> 01:14:02.760 into those branches. Stea tree stabilizers. If you're going to 1406 01:14:02.800 --> 01:14:04.800 plant a tree, you need to get one of those 1407 01:14:04.840 --> 01:14:07.239 two and they last. You can use it over and 1408 01:14:07.279 --> 01:14:10.479 over again. We're gonna go now to Mike in the Woodlands. Hey, Mike, 1409 01:14:10.520 --> 01:14:11.479 welcome to garden Line. 1410 01:14:12.920 --> 01:14:18.039 Good morning, Skipp. Yeah, I've actually moved to tom Also, Hey, 1411 01:14:18.159 --> 01:14:21.760 I just moved into a brand new home. And anyway, 1412 01:14:23.159 --> 01:14:26.720 it has a hybrid. 1413 01:14:26.279 --> 01:14:26.880 Bermute that. 1414 01:14:29.079 --> 01:14:30.920 I'm wondering if you're familiar with that. 1415 01:14:31.600 --> 01:14:35.399 It's tough. It has hybrid. What I didn't catch that. 1416 01:14:36.359 --> 01:14:37.039 It's it's. 1417 01:14:38.520 --> 01:14:40.720 And the name of it is called it's called tiff 1418 01:14:40.960 --> 01:14:42.039 tough t I you. 1419 01:14:42.079 --> 01:14:45.640 Know, okay, okay, Mike, you're cutting out a lot, But 1420 01:14:45.720 --> 01:14:48.119 I know what you're asking about. What is the specific 1421 01:14:48.199 --> 01:14:49.000 question about that. 1422 01:14:48.960 --> 01:14:56.239 Bermuda well, well, it's been been dorm well it's been 1423 01:14:56.680 --> 01:14:59.239 the house was I noticed that, so it. 1424 01:14:59.279 --> 01:15:00.319 Got very little care. 1425 01:15:00.680 --> 01:15:04.239 I have a lot of thatch and a half and 1426 01:15:04.359 --> 01:15:07.279 I'm just wondering if this winter if I put. 1427 01:15:09.399 --> 01:15:10.760 An narration over that. 1428 01:15:13.159 --> 01:15:15.680 Mike, I'm sorry, I'm gonna I'm gonna do my best 1429 01:15:15.680 --> 01:15:18.039 to answer, but you're cutting out so much. I'm just 1430 01:15:18.079 --> 01:15:21.600 getting bits and pieces. If you're gonna do corrooration, that's 1431 01:15:21.600 --> 01:15:24.279 a good thing. Follow it with a compost top dressing, 1432 01:15:24.439 --> 01:15:27.840 break it down in there really good. And all you 1433 01:15:27.920 --> 01:15:31.079 need to do going into winter is a fall fertilization 1434 01:15:31.319 --> 01:15:35.840 with a product designed for fall fertilization, and that would 1435 01:15:35.880 --> 01:15:38.439 be your best bet in getting off to a really 1436 01:15:38.479 --> 01:15:42.720 good start. Okay, I'm sorry, I'm just not able to 1437 01:15:43.239 --> 01:15:46.119 hear any more on it, Chris, If you will go on, 1438 01:15:46.279 --> 01:15:49.039 if he wants an email to email his question or 1439 01:15:49.039 --> 01:15:52.720 some photos, we can take it from there, Mike. But sorry, 1440 01:15:52.840 --> 01:15:56.359 just the audio just just wasn't working on that. When 1441 01:15:56.399 --> 01:15:58.000 was the last time you went down to in Channet 1442 01:15:58.039 --> 01:16:01.800 Forest down in the Richmond Rosenberg. You know, Enchanted Forest 1443 01:16:02.119 --> 01:16:04.880 is one of my favorite garden centers in the whole area, 1444 01:16:04.960 --> 01:16:09.000 and The reason is it just always has a stock 1445 01:16:09.279 --> 01:16:11.680 of the best plants in the world. I mean just 1446 01:16:12.000 --> 01:16:15.439 everything you need. Like right now, you're not thinking maybe 1447 01:16:15.439 --> 01:16:17.720 about house plants, but here comes one or right a 1448 01:16:17.840 --> 01:16:20.800 good time to stock up on houseplants. And oh my gosh, 1449 01:16:20.840 --> 01:16:24.920 they have some gorgeous plants, absolutely beautiful ones. Do you 1450 01:16:25.000 --> 01:16:28.159 need little starts for the potatoes, for shallots, for yellow 1451 01:16:28.199 --> 01:16:31.039 onions and garlic and white onions and red onion. They've 1452 01:16:31.079 --> 01:16:33.760 got all of that ready to go, and now's the 1453 01:16:33.800 --> 01:16:36.359 time to get them in the ground. So take care 1454 01:16:36.399 --> 01:16:38.800 of those things. Make sure you do that. Are you 1455 01:16:38.800 --> 01:16:41.359 into desert roses? Boy, they are the hot items. It 1456 01:16:41.399 --> 01:16:44.039 seems like everybody's talking about desert rose. If you don't 1457 01:16:44.039 --> 01:16:47.119 know what they are, go buy and chanted forest and say, 1458 01:16:47.239 --> 01:16:49.720 let me see these desert roses. Skip what was talking about. 1459 01:16:50.279 --> 01:16:55.560 They're beautiful, They're very tough, succulent, they don't require a 1460 01:16:55.560 --> 01:16:58.359 lot of pampering for them to do well, and they 1461 01:16:58.560 --> 01:17:01.840 just bloom beauty. They're not a true rose, it's a 1462 01:17:01.840 --> 01:17:04.359 different kind of plant. I'm more of a succulent type 1463 01:17:04.359 --> 01:17:06.760 of plant. Do you want fall color with crotons and 1464 01:17:06.880 --> 01:17:09.960 many many other things. They've got that. Do you want 1465 01:17:09.960 --> 01:17:13.720 to plant a tree, Hey, consider a Chinese fringe tree. 1466 01:17:13.840 --> 01:17:16.079 They've got plenty of those that been shenting for us. 1467 01:17:16.319 --> 01:17:19.840 And it blooms in the spring with a honey like fragrant, 1468 01:17:19.920 --> 01:17:25.239 little shaggy white ballooms so beautiful, so beautiful. By the way, 1469 01:17:25.319 --> 01:17:28.079 the first pumpkins are there too, along with mums and asters. 1470 01:17:29.800 --> 01:17:32.279 And in fact, you better take your pickup and have 1471 01:17:32.359 --> 01:17:34.520 a friend brother pickup because there's so many things you're 1472 01:17:34.520 --> 01:17:37.319 going to want to haul home from engended for us, 1473 01:17:37.359 --> 01:17:40.319 including these fertilizers that I've been talking about and the 1474 01:17:40.359 --> 01:17:44.319 products for fall. They got them all. Well, you are 1475 01:17:44.399 --> 01:17:47.159 listening to Garden Line. We're gonna take a little break 1476 01:17:47.159 --> 01:17:49.359 here for the news and we will be back. I 1477 01:17:49.399 --> 01:17:51.640 hope you will join us again. I just want to 1478 01:17:51.640 --> 01:17:55.800 remind you that on October fifth, Saturday, Oba Organic Horticulture 1479 01:17:55.840 --> 01:17:58.600 Benefits Alliance is putting on so you want to grow 1480 01:17:58.680 --> 01:18:02.479 your own good food program. They're gonna have doctor Bob Randall, 1481 01:18:02.520 --> 01:18:06.720 who is an expert who's author of UH Year Round Gardening, 1482 01:18:06.760 --> 01:18:08.239 which is a book you need to have if you're 1483 01:18:08.239 --> 01:18:11.279 going to vegetable garden too. But it's gonna be on 1484 01:18:11.399 --> 01:18:21.359 October fifth, from eight to three. 1485 01:18:18.520 --> 01:18:29.079 Trim just watch him as many spot. 1486 01:18:36.399 --> 01:18:37.199 Not a sign. 1487 01:18:41.920 --> 01:18:45.800 Hey, welcome back, welcome back to the guard Line. Good 1488 01:18:45.840 --> 01:18:49.960 to have you with us today. We were rolling here 1489 01:18:50.079 --> 01:18:52.680 into our next the eight o'clock hour. Here we got 1490 01:18:52.800 --> 01:18:55.600 a couple of a couple more hours, this one and 1491 01:18:55.680 --> 01:18:58.520 the next one to go after that. Don't forget. I'm 1492 01:18:58.520 --> 01:19:01.279 gonna be up at A and A Plant and Produce today. 1493 01:19:01.359 --> 01:19:04.359 I will be there from twelve Noon've got time twelve 1494 01:19:04.439 --> 01:19:07.000 noon to two pm. I'm going to be given away 1495 01:19:07.039 --> 01:19:11.600 samples from the folks at Nelson Fertilizer and the folks 1496 01:19:11.640 --> 01:19:19.720 at excuse me, pardon me, unprofessional to cough on the 1497 01:19:19.880 --> 01:19:22.920 radio Medina. Folks at Medina, and the folks at Nelson Fertilizer. 1498 01:19:22.920 --> 01:19:24.640 We've got some really cool stuff. Nelson's got some of 1499 01:19:24.640 --> 01:19:28.479 their drag canisters, the granules of Drive fertilizer becoming a 1500 01:19:28.520 --> 01:19:30.840 little one pound canisters. Got a few of them there. 1501 01:19:31.159 --> 01:19:33.680 And also the folks at Medina are providing some of 1502 01:19:33.720 --> 01:19:36.800 their liquid products, those in type products that they have, 1503 01:19:37.279 --> 01:19:39.439 so come by you might win one of those. We'll 1504 01:19:39.439 --> 01:19:42.159 have some other things to provide for you as well 1505 01:19:42.199 --> 01:19:46.520 to take home consolation prizes. Bring me samples of plants 1506 01:19:46.600 --> 01:19:49.359 to identify, to diagnose, put them in a ziplock bag, 1507 01:19:49.439 --> 01:19:52.760 so suck then and crawl away. Bring things on your phone. 1508 01:19:53.000 --> 01:19:56.279 Let's talk about it. Listen. If you're in the Montgomery 1509 01:19:56.399 --> 01:19:58.920 County area in general, anywhere up there, I hope you'll 1510 01:19:58.920 --> 01:20:01.159 swing by. If you want to come from a little 1511 01:20:01.159 --> 01:20:04.479 further than that, sure, good to have you as well. 1512 01:20:05.239 --> 01:20:08.960 You know, Lake Conroy area has a lot of beautiful 1513 01:20:08.960 --> 01:20:12.439 gardener homes that just I always like visiting up in there. 1514 01:20:12.840 --> 01:20:15.039 Swing by, let's talk about some of the things going 1515 01:20:15.079 --> 01:20:17.319 on on your area. I hope you will always like 1516 01:20:17.359 --> 01:20:22.199 to meet folks that listen to Garden Line. While you're 1517 01:20:22.279 --> 01:20:25.720 up there, you can stop in because you know, A 1518 01:20:25.800 --> 01:20:28.000 and A Plants and Produce is always going to have 1519 01:20:28.199 --> 01:20:32.399 your nitrofoss products like the three step program. I was 1520 01:20:32.439 --> 01:20:35.119 talking about this earlier. But the three steps are a fertilizer, 1521 01:20:35.800 --> 01:20:38.680 a weed control, and a disease control one two, three, 1522 01:20:38.880 --> 01:20:41.119 and it's all done in the fall. The fertilizer is 1523 01:20:41.239 --> 01:20:44.720 Nitroposs Fall Special. It's a winter riser. What does that mean. 1524 01:20:44.760 --> 01:20:47.800 It means it's got higher potassium in it and that 1525 01:20:47.920 --> 01:20:50.600 helps strengthen the plant going into the cold weather. It 1526 01:20:50.840 --> 01:20:54.159 also means they've got the weed control, which is barricade 1527 01:20:54.359 --> 01:20:57.600 to prevent the weeds. It's much easier to prevent weeds 1528 01:20:57.880 --> 01:21:01.399 from ever sprouting and establishing then to wait until spring 1529 01:21:01.439 --> 01:21:04.359 when they're blooming, choking out, the grass, shading out, the 1530 01:21:04.399 --> 01:21:06.960 grass taking over, and you're trying to use a post 1531 01:21:06.960 --> 01:21:08.880 emergent on them. It's better to do it in the 1532 01:21:08.880 --> 01:21:12.279 fall with barricade. Also in the falls, when the big 1533 01:21:12.319 --> 01:21:15.880 brown circles appear, brown patch and when take all root 1534 01:21:15.920 --> 01:21:18.520 rot has one of its main infection periods of the 1535 01:21:18.600 --> 01:21:21.920 year in the fall, and that's why we have nitroposs 1536 01:21:21.960 --> 01:21:27.640 eagle turf fungicide systemic. Now ahead of time. You got 1537 01:21:27.680 --> 01:21:30.000 to do these things ahead of time. Don't wait until 1538 01:21:30.039 --> 01:21:33.640 the brown circles appear. Do it before they appear. That's 1539 01:21:33.680 --> 01:21:37.319 early October. Get that done, barricade. Don't wait until the 1540 01:21:37.319 --> 01:21:41.159 weeds sprout. Do it before they sprout. That's early October. 1541 01:21:41.199 --> 01:21:43.960 Get that done that way, when they sprout through the 1542 01:21:44.000 --> 01:21:46.960 rest of October and November. They can sprout even later, 1543 01:21:47.560 --> 01:21:49.720 but you have that barricade down that's doing the work 1544 01:21:49.760 --> 01:21:51.720 for you. And then the fall fertilizer. You want to 1545 01:21:51.720 --> 01:21:54.720 get it down before the grass just it gets cold, 1546 01:21:54.720 --> 01:21:57.279 and the grass didn't taken much of anything up. Get 1547 01:21:57.279 --> 01:21:59.359 that done, one, two, three, you're going to find it 1548 01:22:00.039 --> 01:22:03.439 a hardware stores all over the place to jen Ace 1549 01:22:03.479 --> 01:22:07.079 Hardware City up on Memorial Drive, Gym's Hardware, Montgomery, Stanton 1550 01:22:07.079 --> 01:22:10.279 Shopping Center in Alvin, and also Done and enchanted for us. 1551 01:22:10.359 --> 01:22:12.479 I was talking about them a minute ago. Done in Richmond. 1552 01:22:12.720 --> 01:22:16.800 They carry the nitrofost products. Let's head out the phones now, 1553 01:22:16.920 --> 01:22:19.159 and looks like we're going to go to Montgomery and 1554 01:22:19.199 --> 01:22:22.000 talk to Justin. Hey Justin, welcome to guardenline. 1555 01:22:25.079 --> 01:22:26.039 Hey, Skip, thanks. 1556 01:22:25.880 --> 01:22:32.800 For con hear me great, Yes, sir, so I have 1557 01:22:33.640 --> 01:22:35.079 I've got some Saint Augustine. 1558 01:22:35.119 --> 01:22:36.680 That's that's hurting pretty bad. 1559 01:22:36.760 --> 01:22:37.279 I sent you. 1560 01:22:37.800 --> 01:22:40.039 I sent you a few pictures via the email. 1561 01:22:41.640 --> 01:22:46.600 Yes, and okay, so it looks pretty good up until 1562 01:22:46.680 --> 01:22:50.359 I would say, probably about a month and a half ago, 1563 01:22:50.520 --> 01:22:53.039 I was I was pretty proud of how great it was. 1564 01:22:53.800 --> 01:22:57.600 And then yes, suddenly a few brown spots kind of 1565 01:22:57.920 --> 01:22:59.880 kind of started popping up here and there, kind of 1566 01:23:00.119 --> 01:23:05.279 circular type type or maybe an oddly shaped circle. 1567 01:23:05.399 --> 01:23:07.600 And then they just kind of spread, and now it 1568 01:23:07.800 --> 01:23:09.359 just doesn't look good at all. 1569 01:23:09.880 --> 01:23:12.239 So I'm trying to, yeah, what I can do maybe 1570 01:23:12.279 --> 01:23:13.960 going into the ball. 1571 01:23:14.199 --> 01:23:18.920 Yeah, and I'll just mention I did lay. 1572 01:23:18.720 --> 01:23:22.039 Down in the in the spring some of the the 1573 01:23:22.119 --> 01:23:26.399 nitropoths and kind of per the schedule, and and I 1574 01:23:26.399 --> 01:23:29.319 think I laid down the preventter and then the natural 1575 01:23:29.399 --> 01:23:32.159 pos So yeah, yeah, that's all I got. 1576 01:23:32.239 --> 01:23:35.640 Well, all right, so the this is a this is 1577 01:23:35.680 --> 01:23:36.319 a fast one. 1578 01:23:36.439 --> 01:23:36.560 Uh. 1579 01:23:36.800 --> 01:23:40.000 The bottom line is there may be chinchbugs involved, but 1580 01:23:40.039 --> 01:23:43.399 there's definitely take all root rot involved in this grass, 1581 01:23:43.960 --> 01:23:46.880 and both of them kill grass. Some of those areas 1582 01:23:46.920 --> 01:23:50.000 that are fully brown, I don't think there's a living 1583 01:23:50.119 --> 01:23:53.720 runner in those areas. Some that are yellow, there's a 1584 01:23:53.840 --> 01:23:57.000 runner that's soon gonna die even if you try to 1585 01:23:57.039 --> 01:23:59.520 stop it. But then you do have some areas where 1586 01:23:59.520 --> 01:24:03.439 you can it'll prevent the progression by getting down a 1587 01:24:03.479 --> 01:24:07.880 product to control it. I mentioned the nitrofoss eagle funge 1588 01:24:07.880 --> 01:24:10.520 a side. I would do that. I would just go 1589 01:24:10.520 --> 01:24:12.279 ahead and do it right now. Let's see you are 1590 01:24:12.800 --> 01:24:14.479 yeah Montgomery, Yeah, I would go ahead and do that 1591 01:24:14.600 --> 01:24:17.640 right now. Get that eagle to a funge a side down. 1592 01:24:19.079 --> 01:24:22.279 You may need to. In fact, I would repeat Eagle 1593 01:24:22.560 --> 01:24:27.680 again in late October or early November, just because we 1594 01:24:27.800 --> 01:24:30.560 got to shut this down as best we can. I 1595 01:24:30.600 --> 01:24:35.199 would grab a product that contains micros in a sprayable form, 1596 01:24:36.399 --> 01:24:39.760 and you just have to you know, you are up 1597 01:24:39.760 --> 01:24:42.960 in the Montgomery area, by the way, Come by and 1598 01:24:43.000 --> 01:24:45.119 see me today at A and A Plants and Produce 1599 01:24:45.239 --> 01:24:48.600 and bring me a sample of that. I want a 1600 01:24:48.640 --> 01:24:50.399 sample of sick grass, so I want it to be 1601 01:24:50.479 --> 01:24:55.479 yellow but still alive. Well, four by four plugs slick goodness, 1602 01:24:55.960 --> 01:24:58.880 Slip it into a quarter gallons uplock and bring it by. 1603 01:24:59.000 --> 01:25:01.880 Let me look and one hundred percent here, I'm about 1604 01:25:01.960 --> 01:25:03.840 ninety five, but let me be one hundred percent. Heure, 1605 01:25:04.239 --> 01:25:07.399 I'll take a look at the sample there. But a 1606 01:25:07.520 --> 01:25:11.279 micro sprayable I know Ferdlom has one. I don't know 1607 01:25:11.319 --> 01:25:14.279 the name they put on it, but it says micronutrients 1608 01:25:14.319 --> 01:25:18.319 on it, and that is basically like an IV for 1609 01:25:18.479 --> 01:25:21.920 grass that's lost its root system. To get the nutrient 1610 01:25:22.000 --> 01:25:25.199 right into the grass. Put it on a hose, end sprayer, 1611 01:25:25.439 --> 01:25:28.000 get it sprayed, and be ready to do it again 1612 01:25:28.079 --> 01:25:30.640 this fall and again. What we're trying to do is 1613 01:25:30.680 --> 01:25:33.239 stop something that is very far pro grassed right now 1614 01:25:33.880 --> 01:25:36.039 to save whatever grass we can, and you're gonna need 1615 01:25:36.039 --> 01:25:38.920 to plug. Be ready to plug some in next next spring, okay, 1616 01:25:39.960 --> 01:25:40.479 I will. 1617 01:25:40.720 --> 01:25:41.880 Hey, skiff, thank you. 1618 01:25:41.960 --> 01:25:45.840 I really appreciate it. You bet. We're late enough now 1619 01:25:46.159 --> 01:25:48.720 to where chinchbugs should be declining. But you might get 1620 01:25:48.720 --> 01:25:50.479 on your hands and knees and look in some of 1621 01:25:50.479 --> 01:25:52.840 the areas that are still green and see if you 1622 01:25:52.880 --> 01:25:54.600 see some. If you do, let me know if you're 1623 01:25:54.640 --> 01:25:56.720 able to come out today and we'll talk about those 1624 01:25:57.359 --> 01:26:00.520 out there. Thanks, thank you for that all, folks. I 1625 01:26:00.600 --> 01:26:02.439 got to go to a break. I'll be right back. 1626 01:26:02.600 --> 01:26:05.520 ACE Hardware Store, you know, is the place to go 1627 01:26:06.079 --> 01:26:08.600 for the fertilizers that I'm talking about. It is the 1628 01:26:08.600 --> 01:26:11.159 place to go for some of the soil blends that 1629 01:26:11.199 --> 01:26:13.479 we talk about here on Guardline. If I talk about 1630 01:26:13.680 --> 01:26:16.680 control pests or diseases or weeds. ACE is going to 1631 01:26:16.720 --> 01:26:21.560 carry those products because they make sure that when you 1632 01:26:21.600 --> 01:26:23.720 walk into an ACE, whether you need stuff were inside 1633 01:26:23.800 --> 01:26:27.199 the house, you know, paint and plumbing and lighting and 1634 01:26:27.239 --> 01:26:29.199 all those kinds of things you would expect from a 1635 01:26:29.199 --> 01:26:32.119 hardware store, you can also walk outside the house and 1636 01:26:32.119 --> 01:26:34.840 get everything you need to and that would include the 1637 01:26:34.880 --> 01:26:38.439 fall fertilizer that's needed to be put down now. Your 1638 01:26:38.439 --> 01:26:41.399 local Ace Hardware stores got them in stock. The fall 1639 01:26:41.399 --> 01:26:44.479 fertilizers I recommend on garden Line are there at the 1640 01:26:44.520 --> 01:26:47.159 forty Ace Hardware stores here in the Greater Houston area. 1641 01:26:47.439 --> 01:26:50.560 Go to Ace Hardware dot com, find the store locator 1642 01:26:50.600 --> 01:26:53.840 and find the store near you. I've griped about mosquitos 1643 01:26:53.880 --> 01:26:56.560 earlier at my house, Well they've got the mosquito dunks 1644 01:26:56.600 --> 01:26:58.800 there and they've got other kinds of foggers and things. 1645 01:26:58.840 --> 01:27:00.640 If you want to have a little out are gathering 1646 01:27:00.640 --> 01:27:02.960 and the mosquito are still around, you can take care 1647 01:27:03.000 --> 01:27:06.399 of that. Fall is the time to control fire ants. 1648 01:27:06.560 --> 01:27:09.199 You knock them out in fall with a bait. That's 1649 01:27:09.359 --> 01:27:12.720 very important to get that done soon because then coming 1650 01:27:12.760 --> 01:27:16.920 out in spring you will have significantly reduced, if not eliminated, 1651 01:27:16.960 --> 01:27:19.560 the fire ants on your property. So whatever you need 1652 01:27:19.600 --> 01:27:22.640 for the outdoors to make them enjoyable, Ace Hardware's got 1653 01:27:22.640 --> 01:27:26.239 you covered, including I love to talk about the barbecue 1654 01:27:26.239 --> 01:27:28.239 pits because they have so many cool ones and I 1655 01:27:28.319 --> 01:27:33.079 love doing outdoor grilling, especially in the fall months. At 1656 01:27:33.079 --> 01:27:35.720 ACE Hardware you're listening to Guardenline, and we're going to 1657 01:27:35.760 --> 01:27:38.920 head out now to Robert and Conroe. Hello, Robert, welcome 1658 01:27:38.920 --> 01:27:39.720 to garden Line. 1659 01:27:40.840 --> 01:27:41.479 Are you skipped? 1660 01:27:41.479 --> 01:27:42.000 Can you hear me? 1661 01:27:43.359 --> 01:27:43.560 Yes? 1662 01:27:43.600 --> 01:27:43.880 Sir? 1663 01:27:44.079 --> 01:27:47.479 Hello, Yes, I'm here. Can you hear me. 1664 01:27:49.199 --> 01:27:49.399 Yes? 1665 01:27:49.600 --> 01:27:54.199 I have construction built in May and uh, you know 1666 01:27:54.279 --> 01:27:57.239 it's all fresh sawd But I pulled out the live 1667 01:27:57.279 --> 01:28:00.640 oak and I gave it back to the builder, and 1668 01:28:01.039 --> 01:28:07.279 I put in a red bud forest PNC okay, and 1669 01:28:09.520 --> 01:28:14.560 beautiful red bud purple burgundy leaves around my stade. 1670 01:28:14.600 --> 01:28:14.760 Right. 1671 01:28:15.119 --> 01:28:19.640 And but to keep to keep that sod alive, I've 1672 01:28:19.680 --> 01:28:24.239 been watering like crazy and uh and I think I'm 1673 01:28:24.279 --> 01:28:26.000 over water in my forest pans. 1674 01:28:27.399 --> 01:28:29.119 All right, here's what you need to do to keep 1675 01:28:29.159 --> 01:28:31.439 sod alive. You just have the water a little bit. 1676 01:28:31.760 --> 01:28:35.479 You don't need to create deep drenching of the soil. 1677 01:28:36.199 --> 01:28:40.079 You're just trying to keep those upper a few inches moist, okay. 1678 01:28:40.520 --> 01:28:43.199 And so when you water, if you're water in every day, 1679 01:28:43.319 --> 01:28:45.399 you're not putting an inch and a half on every day. 1680 01:28:45.439 --> 01:28:48.159 You're just putting a little bit on each day to 1681 01:28:48.239 --> 01:28:50.680 keep that side. And as the temperatures cool off, you 1682 01:28:50.720 --> 01:28:53.920 can way back off that. But the demands right now, 1683 01:28:54.000 --> 01:28:56.000 we're just trying to get a root system from the 1684 01:28:56.039 --> 01:28:59.039 sod into the ground, and all that takes is enough 1685 01:28:59.079 --> 01:29:02.319 moisture to have available moisture for those roots. More is 1686 01:29:02.359 --> 01:29:02.920 not needed. 1687 01:29:04.359 --> 01:29:07.159 Well, I'm more concerned about my forest pansy because the 1688 01:29:07.239 --> 01:29:10.840 leaves are turning yellow and they're dropping off and it's 1689 01:29:10.880 --> 01:29:14.039 not even you know, the first day of ball yet. 1690 01:29:15.079 --> 01:29:18.760 Well, transplanting could have been part of the reason for that. 1691 01:29:18.800 --> 01:29:21.199 There's always a little bit of a transplant shock when 1692 01:29:21.239 --> 01:29:23.800 you do a plant. Let's hope that's what it is. 1693 01:29:23.840 --> 01:29:26.600 There's nothing to do right now for it, other than 1694 01:29:27.199 --> 01:29:30.479 to make sure the root ball has moisture. But it's 1695 01:29:30.520 --> 01:29:34.079 not soggy, and you're gonna have to go out and 1696 01:29:34.119 --> 01:29:36.199 the best way to find out is just dig down 1697 01:29:36.199 --> 01:29:39.439 beside the rootball where the old root ball was, where 1698 01:29:39.600 --> 01:29:42.199 it was just put in the ground, and feel the 1699 01:29:42.239 --> 01:29:44.800 soil and if it's moisture good, you're good. But all 1700 01:29:44.880 --> 01:29:47.359 you need is water that root ball for right now, 1701 01:29:47.600 --> 01:29:49.760 you're just trying to keep it alive until it gets 1702 01:29:49.840 --> 01:29:52.119 roots in the ground and then as soon as you 1703 01:29:52.119 --> 01:29:55.199 can back off the lawn watering. You know, in a 1704 01:29:55.279 --> 01:29:57.720 couple of weeks, you can be already backing off that 1705 01:29:57.840 --> 01:30:00.319 lawn watering. So I can't tell you if it's too 1706 01:30:00.359 --> 01:30:02.359 wet or not wet enough, but I can tell you 1707 01:30:02.399 --> 01:30:05.560 the root ball in this ninety degree temperature is pumping 1708 01:30:05.640 --> 01:30:09.600 water fast. And even though the soil is moist around it, 1709 01:30:09.680 --> 01:30:12.520 that root ball, the only roots that tree has, or 1710 01:30:12.520 --> 01:30:15.199 that cylinder that went into the ground, that's only they 1711 01:30:15.199 --> 01:30:17.479 haven't moved into the soil yet. So you got to 1712 01:30:17.560 --> 01:30:20.560 keep water in that cylinder spot that went in the ground. 1713 01:30:20.600 --> 01:30:22.600 That that's my best advice for you, Robert. 1714 01:30:23.760 --> 01:30:27.520 And then I've found a little looking spider with white 1715 01:30:27.520 --> 01:30:28.960 dot on the tree. 1716 01:30:30.199 --> 01:30:34.439 No concern and no concern. Spider's not a concern, No, 1717 01:30:34.760 --> 01:30:42.239 not at all, not at all. Well, it's it's okay. 1718 01:30:42.359 --> 01:30:44.399 I mean, if the whole tree loses its leaves, that's 1719 01:30:44.439 --> 01:30:46.479 a concern for the reasons that I you know, I'd 1720 01:30:46.479 --> 01:30:48.920 already mentioned. But all that's in your power right now 1721 01:30:48.960 --> 01:30:50.800 is to make sure the root ball stays moist but 1722 01:30:50.880 --> 01:30:53.479 not soggy wet, and and and and I think I 1723 01:30:53.520 --> 01:30:55.960 advised you on the my best suggestion for how to 1724 01:30:56.000 --> 01:30:58.960 do that, I've got to run show for some of 1725 01:30:59.000 --> 01:31:02.000 the calls. I wish you well. I hope you can 1726 01:31:02.000 --> 01:31:04.000 save that to you. That is a beautiful, beautiful type 1727 01:31:04.000 --> 01:31:06.920 of red bud. I think you've picked a good one. 1728 01:31:07.439 --> 01:31:11.319 Thanks for that call very much. You know, the storms 1729 01:31:11.319 --> 01:31:13.880 you had this summer scared folks a lot because we 1730 01:31:13.920 --> 01:31:17.319 went for a long time without power twice this summer. 1731 01:31:17.560 --> 01:31:20.039 And everybody's interested in the generator, and for good reason. 1732 01:31:20.119 --> 01:31:22.720 It's good to have a generator, a whole house generator, 1733 01:31:22.800 --> 01:31:26.439 especially in quality home products. That is what they do, 1734 01:31:26.600 --> 01:31:28.600 that is what they specialize in. You can get a 1735 01:31:28.680 --> 01:31:32.279 quality generat generator. They got some trade in specials. Just 1736 01:31:32.319 --> 01:31:35.439 when you call them, ask them about that. It's seven 1737 01:31:35.600 --> 01:31:40.279 one three quality. 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That's why they have over fourteen thousand and 1748 01:32:07.560 --> 01:32:11.159 five star reviews and they've won the Better Business Bureau's 1749 01:32:11.960 --> 01:32:16.960 Top Customer Service Award eight times. Quality Home Products go 1750 01:32:17.000 --> 01:32:21.880 to qualitytx dot com or doll seven to one three quality. 1751 01:32:22.640 --> 01:32:25.239 I'm going to run now out to sugar Land and 1752 01:32:25.279 --> 01:32:28.359 we're going to talk to Debbie. Hello, Debbie, good morning. 1753 01:32:29.079 --> 01:32:31.880 Hi. I'll try and make this quick. I am I'm 1754 01:32:31.960 --> 01:32:35.000 having issues with my yard. And I was totally convinced 1755 01:32:35.000 --> 01:32:37.800 it was grubworms because when I reached over to pull 1756 01:32:37.920 --> 01:32:41.960 up the dead grass, it came up a lot of it, 1757 01:32:42.319 --> 01:32:45.600 you know, all the runners, and so now I'm kind 1758 01:32:45.640 --> 01:32:48.359 of questioning it. After listening to you, I'm like, do 1759 01:32:48.399 --> 01:32:51.279 I have root rod or fungus or grubs? Is there 1760 01:32:51.319 --> 01:32:54.600 any way to tell? 1761 01:32:55.000 --> 01:32:59.439 Well, if you take a square foot of sod and 1762 01:32:59.520 --> 01:33:02.239 slide little shovel underneath it, just like you're going to 1763 01:33:02.319 --> 01:33:04.880 lift it up, and you look right there in the soil, 1764 01:33:05.000 --> 01:33:07.800 it would take five to seven grubs per square foot 1765 01:33:07.920 --> 01:33:12.079 for that to be the problem. Root rots are very 1766 01:33:12.760 --> 01:33:15.640 uncommon on your on your turf. I would think it's 1767 01:33:15.720 --> 01:33:21.960 not a root rot. Okay, Well, I did. 1768 01:33:21.399 --> 01:33:23.720 Well it was fung aside grubs root rot. But let 1769 01:33:23.760 --> 01:33:26.479 me tell you this. I did the shovel in between 1770 01:33:27.039 --> 01:33:30.279 the good grass and the bad grass. Somebody suggested that 1771 01:33:30.359 --> 01:33:32.560 put it on the edge of you know, and I 1772 01:33:32.640 --> 01:33:35.279 did that in three different spots, and I really didn't 1773 01:33:35.359 --> 01:33:39.359 see any grubs. But does the grass do the same 1774 01:33:39.399 --> 01:33:41.520 thing if it was fung aside? Would it pull up 1775 01:33:41.520 --> 01:33:44.479 in big sections when you reached your hand down to 1776 01:33:44.560 --> 01:33:46.279 grab it, because there's all the roots. 1777 01:33:46.039 --> 01:33:49.720 Are When you say pull up, are you talking about 1778 01:33:49.800 --> 01:33:52.199 all the grass blades come off of the runners or 1779 01:33:52.199 --> 01:33:55.279 are you talking about the runners themselves all come up? 1780 01:33:55.920 --> 01:34:03.079 All the runners come up? Huge spot, go ahead? 1781 01:34:03.159 --> 01:34:06.159 Yeah, well, it could be grubs, but again it's going 1782 01:34:06.239 --> 01:34:08.880 to take five to seven to do enough damage per 1783 01:34:08.920 --> 01:34:11.880 square foot in order for grubs to be the cause 1784 01:34:12.000 --> 01:34:16.159 and warrant treatment. We are really late to be treating 1785 01:34:16.159 --> 01:34:18.199 for grubs. In fact, I would say too late at 1786 01:34:18.199 --> 01:34:20.960 this point to be getting anything out of a grub treatment. 1787 01:34:21.000 --> 01:34:23.479 It could be taken root rot could be a number 1788 01:34:23.479 --> 01:34:26.560 of things. Let's see, you're located in where, oh you're 1789 01:34:26.600 --> 01:34:27.680 done with sugarland? 1790 01:34:31.119 --> 01:34:32.880 What's your belt going to take us out? 1791 01:34:33.000 --> 01:34:37.479 Looking? Well, I tell you I just don't think it's grubs. 1792 01:34:37.840 --> 01:34:40.239 If it pulls up real easily, I think it may 1793 01:34:40.239 --> 01:34:42.119 be take all root rot or it could be a 1794 01:34:42.119 --> 01:34:45.640 combination of both. One doesn't eliminate the other, but I 1795 01:34:45.680 --> 01:34:47.479 think it's take all root rot. You may want to 1796 01:34:47.520 --> 01:34:49.880 take a little section of it in the six zone 1797 01:34:50.479 --> 01:34:53.119 and and put it in a zipli gallons up lock 1798 01:34:53.159 --> 01:34:55.439 and take it over to Southwest Fertilizer and have them 1799 01:34:55.479 --> 01:34:57.560 take a look at it there and see what they see. 1800 01:34:58.399 --> 01:35:01.159 Uh my guess is take all and they either way 1801 01:35:01.199 --> 01:35:03.359 it is, they're gonna have the product, the right product 1802 01:35:03.439 --> 01:35:05.960 for it. That'd be my best, quick guest. Unless you 1803 01:35:06.000 --> 01:35:07.319 want to jump in a car and go on a 1804 01:35:07.319 --> 01:35:09.720 little vacation today and come up to A and A 1805 01:35:09.800 --> 01:35:13.720 Plants and Produce in Montgomery, bring me your sample. I'll 1806 01:35:13.720 --> 01:35:15.239 be happy to look at it for free. 1807 01:35:15.520 --> 01:35:16.479 I wish I could. 1808 01:35:16.760 --> 01:35:23.960 Oh my gosh, Okay, all right, well thanks just so much. Yeah, yeah, sure, 1809 01:35:24.159 --> 01:35:27.880 I tell you what see you were in. Let's see, sugar, 1810 01:35:28.199 --> 01:35:32.039 I'm going to be in Wharton, Texas next weekend, which 1811 01:35:32.079 --> 01:35:34.720 is down in your area. Well still a drive, but 1812 01:35:34.800 --> 01:35:37.800 it's at least southwest, So anyway, at the Wharton feed 1813 01:35:37.840 --> 01:35:39.840 ace hardware. So if you want to wait and do it, 1814 01:35:39.880 --> 01:35:40.600 then all. 1815 01:35:40.560 --> 01:35:42.199 Right, Okay, thank you. 1816 01:35:42.279 --> 01:35:45.159 That's that's talking to you. Bet. Thank you. Debbie. Appreciate 1817 01:35:45.159 --> 01:35:49.640 the call. I appreciate that very much. H RCW nurseres 1818 01:35:50.119 --> 01:35:52.960 is the garden center up there where Beltway eight and 1819 01:35:53.000 --> 01:35:55.960 two forty nine come together. Now you know RCW. They've 1820 01:35:56.000 --> 01:35:58.039 been there a long time. They're the place to get 1821 01:35:58.039 --> 01:36:01.000 fruit trees. They're the place to get roses, selection aroses 1822 01:36:01.119 --> 01:36:04.560 longer than any I've ever seen, the place to get 1823 01:36:04.560 --> 01:36:06.720 color plants and house plants even. I mean, they have 1824 01:36:06.800 --> 01:36:09.000 it all right Now, I want to talk about their 1825 01:36:09.000 --> 01:36:11.399 trees because they grow their own trees up in Plantersville. 1826 01:36:12.039 --> 01:36:16.880 They've got fifteen percent off trees at our CW Nursery. 1827 01:36:16.920 --> 01:36:20.279 That is an outstanding sale. They have a large variety 1828 01:36:20.279 --> 01:36:22.479 of trees too, every kind of tree that needs to 1829 01:36:22.479 --> 01:36:26.279 get planted here, they've got them. Okay, seven gallons all 1830 01:36:26.319 --> 01:36:28.560 the way up to two hundred gallons. And by the way, yes, 1831 01:36:28.560 --> 01:36:29.640 you don't have to pick up a two in our 1832 01:36:29.680 --> 01:36:32.479 gallon tree. They'll complant that. They'll come plant trees for 1833 01:36:32.520 --> 01:36:35.039 you as well. They got Mexican white oaks. There are 1834 01:36:35.039 --> 01:36:39.800 some gorgeous other magnolias. Just swing by there and check 1835 01:36:39.840 --> 01:36:42.960 them out. But do it now for two reasons. Fifteen 1836 01:36:43.000 --> 01:36:46.239 percent off and there is not a better time to 1837 01:36:46.279 --> 01:36:48.880 plant these trees than fall. It gives them the most 1838 01:36:48.960 --> 01:36:51.359 time possible. We were just talking about that red bud 1839 01:36:51.840 --> 01:36:55.640 that Robert had planted up in Conroe. You know, when 1840 01:36:55.720 --> 01:36:58.239 you get a plant planted in the fall, it has 1841 01:36:58.439 --> 01:37:01.960 until next summer to get that root system ready to 1842 01:37:02.039 --> 01:37:04.720 go for summer so it can survive and you're not 1843 01:37:04.840 --> 01:37:07.600 watering just the cylinder like we were talking about, by 1844 01:37:08.039 --> 01:37:11.920 the time it gets hot again. RCW Nurseries, Tomball Parkery 1845 01:37:12.000 --> 01:37:18.000 go to RCW nurseries dot com. RCW nurseries dot com. 1846 01:37:18.159 --> 01:37:23.560 We're gonna head up to Magnolia now and talk to Mike. Hey, Mike, Hey, 1847 01:37:23.600 --> 01:37:26.439 Skip Hey, how can we help? 1848 01:37:27.319 --> 01:37:29.680 Got about a one year old peppermint peachtree I got 1849 01:37:29.720 --> 01:37:32.720 at the arbor gate and I'm looking for some advice 1850 01:37:32.800 --> 01:37:34.960 on what to fertilize with and frequency. 1851 01:37:36.359 --> 01:37:39.399 Okay, I would treat that tree like it was a lawn. 1852 01:37:41.199 --> 01:37:43.199 The main thing you're going to want to do is 1853 01:37:43.239 --> 01:37:47.319 when spring comes and new growth is beginning, you want 1854 01:37:47.319 --> 01:37:49.800 to fertilize it, and I would use just a turf 1855 01:37:49.840 --> 01:37:53.079 type fertilizer. Arborgate has one there they've got as part 1856 01:37:53.079 --> 01:37:55.720 of their one two three system. You can grab that, 1857 01:37:56.000 --> 01:37:58.159 you put it out there on it. I would put 1858 01:37:58.199 --> 01:38:02.760 about two cups per inch of trunk diameter of the 1859 01:38:02.920 --> 01:38:07.760 Arborgate fertilizer. Okay, sprinkle it in a circle a little 1860 01:38:07.800 --> 01:38:11.640 bit wider than the branch spread of the tree. Okay. 1861 01:38:11.680 --> 01:38:13.399 So if you got one that's the size of a 1862 01:38:13.439 --> 01:38:15.720 broom handle, we're gonna say that's about an inch thick, 1863 01:38:16.119 --> 01:38:18.520 So we get two cups. If you got one, when 1864 01:38:18.520 --> 01:38:20.640 that tree is the size of a coke can, it's 1865 01:38:20.640 --> 01:38:24.159 going to get about six cups a fertilizer because it's 1866 01:38:24.159 --> 01:38:26.760 about three inches in diameter. Just use your thumb and 1867 01:38:26.880 --> 01:38:28.800 use the trunk of the tree to tell you for 1868 01:38:28.920 --> 01:38:33.119 every thumb with but two cups of Arborgate fertilizer on 1869 01:38:33.199 --> 01:38:37.039 that tree. Be with us our phone number here if 1870 01:38:37.039 --> 01:38:38.720 you'd like to give me a call seven one three 1871 01:38:38.800 --> 01:38:42.880 two one two fifty eight seventy four, or if you 1872 01:38:42.960 --> 01:38:44.960 like to dial by letters. Make it easy seven to 1873 01:38:44.960 --> 01:38:49.479 one three two one two kt r H. That makes 1874 01:38:49.520 --> 01:38:52.439 it easy, easy to do. We're happy to visit with 1875 01:38:52.479 --> 01:38:54.439 you about whatever kinds of things we can do to 1876 01:38:54.479 --> 01:38:57.000 help you have success. I was telling you earlier about 1877 01:38:57.520 --> 01:39:01.039 Nelson plant Food. They have the car carbo Load, which 1878 01:39:01.079 --> 01:39:03.479 is their fall fertilizer. And the reason they call it 1879 01:39:03.600 --> 01:39:09.520 carbo load is infall, your grass hopefully is producing carbohydrates 1880 01:39:09.640 --> 01:39:12.159 which helps it be winter hardy and helps it have 1881 01:39:12.199 --> 01:39:15.439 the energy to take off in the spring. That's why 1882 01:39:15.479 --> 01:39:18.119 they call it carbo load, because it helps your grass 1883 01:39:18.159 --> 01:39:21.520 to do just that. Now all, they also have a 1884 01:39:21.560 --> 01:39:23.279 product that I want to I want to tell you it. 1885 01:39:23.279 --> 01:39:28.399 It's called Nelson Nutristar Genesis. Genesis is a transplant product. 1886 01:39:28.479 --> 01:39:30.640 It comes in a plastic jar with a screw top load. 1887 01:39:31.720 --> 01:39:34.720 If you will use it anytime you're transplanting a plant 1888 01:39:34.840 --> 01:39:38.319 to mix in to the soil of what you're putting 1889 01:39:38.319 --> 01:39:41.840 the plant into. So, for example, I used to I've 1890 01:39:41.880 --> 01:39:43.920 told you this, I've used it before for tomatoes. You 1891 01:39:43.960 --> 01:39:46.479 buy a little six pack of tomatoes, you bring them home, 1892 01:39:46.600 --> 01:39:48.079 and you're going to grow them out a little further, 1893 01:39:48.159 --> 01:39:50.520 maybe put them in four inch pots or something bigger. 1894 01:39:51.039 --> 01:39:55.680 You just mix this genesis into that potting mix and 1895 01:39:55.720 --> 01:39:58.560 then transplant them into it and they will do very well. 1896 01:39:58.600 --> 01:40:01.560 You can do that with a a container of plants, 1897 01:40:01.600 --> 01:40:05.359 a patio container. Anytime you're going to plant a patio 1898 01:40:05.399 --> 01:40:09.319 container of plants, puts some Genesis nutri Star genesis from 1899 01:40:09.399 --> 01:40:12.239 Nelson's into that mix. If you're gonna put a rosebush 1900 01:40:12.239 --> 01:40:14.479 in the ground, same thing, mix it up in the 1901 01:40:14.800 --> 01:40:17.279 Normally I will tell you don't put fertilizer in the 1902 01:40:17.279 --> 01:40:20.119 planting hole. This is an exception. This is a natural 1903 01:40:20.119 --> 01:40:23.720 type fertilizer. It's loaded with microhizo backteria other fungi. It's 1904 01:40:23.720 --> 01:40:25.840 not going to burn your roots. And you're not just 1905 01:40:25.960 --> 01:40:27.920 dumping it and then setting the plant on it. You're 1906 01:40:27.960 --> 01:40:30.520 mixing it into the soil around that plant and then 1907 01:40:30.560 --> 01:40:33.119 putting the plant in the ground and you will have success. 1908 01:40:33.159 --> 01:40:37.520 Just another quality product from Nelson Plant Food and they 1909 01:40:37.680 --> 01:40:41.479 have a good stock of those Nelson products also up 1910 01:40:41.479 --> 01:40:45.359 there at Ana Plants and Produce, which is on the 1911 01:40:45.439 --> 01:40:47.840 east side of Montgomery on Highway one oh five, where 1912 01:40:47.880 --> 01:40:51.359 I'll be today from twelve to two. Twelve to two, 1913 01:40:51.520 --> 01:40:54.079 So come on out, let's head to the phones now 1914 01:40:54.159 --> 01:40:56.000 and we're going to go to Friendswood and talk to 1915 01:40:56.079 --> 01:40:59.800 Costas Hello, Costas, Welcome to garden line morning. 1916 01:41:00.000 --> 01:41:02.159 It's a great day to day here. 1917 01:41:03.279 --> 01:41:05.279 How you bet fine? 1918 01:41:05.279 --> 01:41:09.680 I have a question. I have some citrus trees, which well, 1919 01:41:09.920 --> 01:41:12.479 they died in twenty twenty one or so I thought. 1920 01:41:13.399 --> 01:41:18.840 Once the oranges and the tangerines were gone, the rootstock 1921 01:41:19.079 --> 01:41:22.039 started coming up, and I was thinking of grafting it 1922 01:41:22.840 --> 01:41:28.720 with some other citrus variants. Its September October, bed time 1923 01:41:28.800 --> 01:41:33.600 to think about grafting, or should I wait until February March. 1924 01:41:35.520 --> 01:41:38.600 I I'd wait a little bit. In the spring, you 1925 01:41:38.640 --> 01:41:42.439 can do a tea bud to graft them. It's budding them, 1926 01:41:42.720 --> 01:41:47.800 same idea, but during the cool season while they're not 1927 01:41:48.159 --> 01:41:51.720 growing very much and starting to grow a little bit 1928 01:41:51.760 --> 01:41:54.600 in the spring where it's not cold anymore it's warming up. 1929 01:41:55.239 --> 01:41:58.560 Then you could do also a cleft graft. That's a 1930 01:41:58.560 --> 01:42:02.680 different kind of graph. Citrus tea buds and cleft graphs 1931 01:42:02.720 --> 01:42:06.039 are both good ways to go. Depends on how big 1932 01:42:06.279 --> 01:42:07.960 I think stock is. 1933 01:42:10.039 --> 01:42:14.840 It's actually it's it's about four years old and it 1934 01:42:14.920 --> 01:42:23.000 has grown about five feet four feet and uh, I 1935 01:42:23.039 --> 01:42:27.720 was thinking of using the cleft versus the t but 1936 01:42:29.760 --> 01:42:33.119 and I have a little piece of equipment that can 1937 01:42:33.239 --> 01:42:38.359 clip actually the scion from the tree and then clip 1938 01:42:38.680 --> 01:42:43.840 the the the negative if you will at the uh, yes, 1939 01:42:44.760 --> 01:42:47.640 little stock and then join them. 1940 01:42:47.880 --> 01:42:51.199 Yes, and so left. But I know what you're talking about. 1941 01:42:53.680 --> 01:42:56.880 So that means I can do cleft now or wait 1942 01:42:57.000 --> 01:42:57.560 until spring? 1943 01:42:57.720 --> 01:43:03.279 Yeah, you could uh it it actually are the are 1944 01:43:03.279 --> 01:43:05.840 these and containers are in the ground. I didn't catch 1945 01:43:07.199 --> 01:43:10.359 ground in the ground. Yeah, I think I would wait 1946 01:43:10.439 --> 01:43:12.960 until spring. You could try one now if you want to, 1947 01:43:13.079 --> 01:43:14.520 and then if it didn't work, just go down a 1948 01:43:14.560 --> 01:43:16.119 little lower and try it again on the spring. 1949 01:43:17.520 --> 01:43:18.520 Best part I could do that. 1950 01:43:18.680 --> 01:43:25.239 Thanks, all right, thanks scus appreciate. I appreciate here, Yes, sir, 1951 01:43:25.479 --> 01:43:27.439 you bet that's good. 1952 01:43:27.760 --> 01:43:27.920 Uh. 1953 01:43:28.800 --> 01:43:31.119 I talk about all these products all the time, and 1954 01:43:31.119 --> 01:43:32.920 and people often say where do you get it? Where 1955 01:43:32.920 --> 01:43:35.159 do you get it? And who has that? And sometimes 1956 01:43:35.159 --> 01:43:37.880 these products are kind of specialty that I'm talking about. 1957 01:43:38.119 --> 01:43:40.960 You know something that's just not for sale everywhere. Well, 1958 01:43:41.000 --> 01:43:43.760 if you go to Southwest Fertilizer, it's for sale there. 1959 01:43:43.840 --> 01:43:45.840 I mean, if it's a product that works, it's on 1960 01:43:45.920 --> 01:43:48.920 the market. Bob's going to have it, because, as I 1961 01:43:49.039 --> 01:43:51.479 like to say, if he don't have it, you don't 1962 01:43:51.520 --> 01:43:54.720 need it because he has everything every kind of product 1963 01:43:54.760 --> 01:43:57.560 you need. Do you grow organically or do you just 1964 01:43:57.640 --> 01:44:01.359 grow however, organic or synthetic. Either way, Bob's got that 1965 01:44:02.520 --> 01:44:05.760 all the lines of fertilizers that we promote, and then 1966 01:44:05.840 --> 01:44:10.479 some he has herbicides, fungicides, insecticides. You need a tool. 1967 01:44:10.600 --> 01:44:13.560 Do you need mulches and composts and soil amendments like 1968 01:44:14.119 --> 01:44:17.520 the asmight I talked about, or Nature's Way or airlim soils. 1969 01:44:17.680 --> 01:44:19.520 They've got all that kind of thing. Even has some 1970 01:44:19.560 --> 01:44:22.159 plants out front seasonally, the kind of plants that are 1971 01:44:22.159 --> 01:44:25.319 appropriate for the season. We're coming to the end of 1972 01:44:25.399 --> 01:44:28.079 mower season. Why you go by there, just drop off 1973 01:44:28.119 --> 01:44:30.399 your more blades, have them sharpen them in the back. 1974 01:44:30.760 --> 01:44:32.960 Have they have a little repair shop for all kinds 1975 01:44:33.000 --> 01:44:37.960 of you know, lawn care equipments. Yeah, you go to 1976 01:44:38.439 --> 01:44:40.720 Southwest Fertilizer, give them a call first, ask them the 1977 01:44:40.800 --> 01:44:42.840 questions you need to ask seven to one to three 1978 01:44:43.239 --> 01:44:46.760 six six six seventeen forty four seven one three six 1979 01:44:46.880 --> 01:44:54.039 sixty six seventeen forty four Southwest Fertilizer dot Com. Head 1980 01:44:54.119 --> 01:44:57.600 now to Cleveland and we're going to talk to Cynthia Hello, Cynthia, 1981 01:44:58.560 --> 01:44:59.199 good morning. 1982 01:44:59.239 --> 01:44:59.840 How you doing. 1983 01:45:01.279 --> 01:45:02.199 I'm well, thank you. 1984 01:45:03.399 --> 01:45:05.600 I just want to thank you. I learned so much 1985 01:45:05.600 --> 01:45:07.520 from your set, your Saturday show. 1986 01:45:08.720 --> 01:45:09.920 I love being outside. 1987 01:45:09.960 --> 01:45:11.680 I love messing with my plants. 1988 01:45:12.159 --> 01:45:15.399 But the issue I'm having right now is I have 1989 01:45:16.640 --> 01:45:22.159 althea's and rows of sharing and week before last they 1990 01:45:22.159 --> 01:45:27.479 were just beautiful, blooming like crazy. Their leaves really looked good. 1991 01:45:28.279 --> 01:45:31.159 And now I've got several of them that leaves all 1992 01:45:31.199 --> 01:45:35.720 just kind of turned yellow. The flowers just kind of wilted, 1993 01:45:35.840 --> 01:45:37.720 and it's they look like they're gonna die. 1994 01:45:37.760 --> 01:45:39.319 I don't know what to do with them. 1995 01:45:40.920 --> 01:45:44.840 Very strange. I would check the soil, see if it's 1996 01:45:44.880 --> 01:45:47.840 soggy wet down there. Do you just dig down a 1997 01:45:47.840 --> 01:45:50.119 few inches, a little bit out from the bush, not 1998 01:45:50.199 --> 01:45:52.239 too far. How long have these been in the ground. 1999 01:45:53.680 --> 01:45:57.600 I just planted in the last spring, so they're still 2000 01:45:57.680 --> 01:46:00.880 there's still small there, may be about maybe about two 2001 01:46:00.880 --> 01:46:01.479 foot tall. 2002 01:46:02.800 --> 01:46:06.680 Okay, well they you know, I have noticed a lot 2003 01:46:06.680 --> 01:46:09.039 of plants are starting to do that, especially when they 2004 01:46:09.079 --> 01:46:11.359 get a bit on the dry side. And we're still 2005 01:46:11.399 --> 01:46:15.359 having really high demands with ninety degree temperatures on these plants. Right, 2006 01:46:16.000 --> 01:46:17.880 I think that's probably all it is, just a little 2007 01:46:17.880 --> 01:46:19.720 bit of an early leaf drop. I've got some crape 2008 01:46:19.760 --> 01:46:22.479 myrtles that are doing the same thing because I'm kind 2009 01:46:22.479 --> 01:46:26.079 of chinchy with the water, and so I think that 2010 01:46:26.359 --> 01:46:30.159 they're probably going to be okay based on what I've 2011 01:46:30.199 --> 01:46:34.000 heard from you. There's no other info or situation going 2012 01:46:34.039 --> 01:46:36.199 on there. They're probably gonna be okay. 2013 01:46:36.600 --> 01:46:37.760 Okay, good good. 2014 01:46:38.079 --> 01:46:41.079 I didn't know if I just needed to just stop 2015 01:46:41.119 --> 01:46:44.359 watering them all together, because I'm like you, it's been 2016 01:46:44.479 --> 01:46:47.239 so hot that you go out there and they're kind 2017 01:46:47.239 --> 01:46:49.079 of wilted a little bit, so you give them water 2018 01:46:49.279 --> 01:46:51.880 and then it's like, okay, I don't want to kill them. 2019 01:46:52.000 --> 01:46:56.039 Well, right, do the little ghettle trial dig down four 2020 01:46:56.079 --> 01:46:58.880 to six inches, feel the soil, and that'll be your 2021 01:46:58.920 --> 01:46:59.920 answer right there. 2022 01:47:00.159 --> 01:47:02.039 Okay, okay, all right, thank you. 2023 01:47:02.000 --> 01:47:04.880 So good luck with that, Cynthia, thank you for the call. 2024 01:47:05.079 --> 01:47:07.039 It's time for me to run to a break and 2025 01:47:07.079 --> 01:47:09.239 I will be back for our last segment of this 2026 01:47:09.279 --> 01:47:10.960 hour in just a moment. 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Bnbturfpros dot com or 2058 01:48:48.960 --> 01:48:52.000 excuse me, BnB turf Pros is the name of the company. 2059 01:48:52.199 --> 01:48:55.840 The website doesn't have the end. It's bb turf pros 2060 01:48:55.880 --> 01:48:59.119 dot com. And the phone seven one three two three 2061 01:48:59.199 --> 01:49:01.920 four fifty five ninety eight. We're going to go now 2062 01:49:01.960 --> 01:49:05.800 to Frida in Pasadena. Hello Frida, welcome to garden Line. 2063 01:49:07.119 --> 01:49:11.560 And thank you. I had a sister in law who 2064 01:49:11.680 --> 01:49:14.199 she's much more of a gardener than I am, but 2065 01:49:14.279 --> 01:49:17.279 she gave me what she called a butterfly plant. And 2066 01:49:17.720 --> 01:49:22.079 I was out watering the grass and I noticed a 2067 01:49:22.119 --> 01:49:24.760 little what I thought was a little butterfly, a little 2068 01:49:24.760 --> 01:49:27.319 tiny butterfly, and I told her I was so excited 2069 01:49:27.359 --> 01:49:30.319 because the blue of the plant and I thought I 2070 01:49:30.359 --> 01:49:33.760 had a butterfly. She said, no, that's a I think 2071 01:49:33.800 --> 01:49:35.720 she called it a sode worm that she said it'll 2072 01:49:35.800 --> 01:49:37.680 kill they'll kill your grass and nothing fast. 2073 01:49:38.359 --> 01:49:39.880 So okay, how big was it? 2074 01:49:40.039 --> 01:49:40.199 What? 2075 01:49:41.399 --> 01:49:43.319 Yeah? How big was it? What color? 2076 01:49:44.399 --> 01:49:44.640 It was? 2077 01:49:44.680 --> 01:49:44.960 White? 2078 01:49:45.399 --> 01:49:49.520 And it was that's the size of it. Maybe maybe 2079 01:49:49.800 --> 01:49:51.560 a quarter, not quite as big as a quarter. 2080 01:49:52.479 --> 01:49:54.960 Okay, Well, that wasn't a side web worm. There are 2081 01:49:54.960 --> 01:49:56.600 a lot of different moths that are out there in 2082 01:49:56.640 --> 01:49:58.800 the landscape. Side web worms are going to be dark, 2083 01:49:58.840 --> 01:50:02.399 almost a town brown kind of color, and they're going 2084 01:50:02.479 --> 01:50:04.760 to be small. They're the size of your you know, 2085 01:50:04.800 --> 01:50:07.560 your little fingernail, just about I mean, they're not very big. 2086 01:50:08.560 --> 01:50:11.720 And yeah, so yeah, I don't I don't think that 2087 01:50:11.840 --> 01:50:13.680 was it. Now, if you walk through your lawn and 2088 01:50:13.720 --> 01:50:17.520 there's all these little moths like I described that are 2089 01:50:17.560 --> 01:50:19.520 just taking off and they fly a little bit and 2090 01:50:19.520 --> 01:50:22.119 they settle back in the lawn as you're walking, that 2091 01:50:22.199 --> 01:50:24.720 may be side web worms, but they're they're not white, 2092 01:50:24.880 --> 01:50:25.920 and they're not that big. 2093 01:50:27.399 --> 01:50:30.760 Oh I had a little bone Offut I don't know 2094 01:50:30.960 --> 01:50:31.560 a little math. 2095 01:50:33.239 --> 01:50:36.560 There's a hundred billion types of moths out there, So yeah, yeah, 2096 01:50:36.560 --> 01:50:38.880 I just don't think it was side web worm. Based 2097 01:50:38.920 --> 01:50:40.640 on what you said, But but do what I said, 2098 01:50:40.640 --> 01:50:43.439 walk through the lawn and if you see what I'm describing, 2099 01:50:43.640 --> 01:50:45.239 then maybe side web worms. 2100 01:50:45.520 --> 01:50:47.479 Yeah. Well, she told me the same thing, and I 2101 01:50:47.520 --> 01:50:49.560 went out, walked through the lawn and I didn't see anything. 2102 01:50:50.239 --> 01:50:51.039 She told me the same thing. 2103 01:50:52.000 --> 01:50:54.800 Then you just gave me the wrong color, I guess, 2104 01:50:55.279 --> 01:50:56.520 not the thing, I guess. 2105 01:50:56.600 --> 01:50:57.880 Yeah. 2106 01:50:58.119 --> 01:51:01.239 I had a hibiscus, you know, and I talk to 2107 01:51:01.239 --> 01:51:04.239 you about this, and it did have meal mealy worms 2108 01:51:04.319 --> 01:51:08.119 or meta bugs, And like you said, I just went 2109 01:51:08.159 --> 01:51:11.039 in and pulled all of my good a even took 2110 01:51:11.039 --> 01:51:14.119 the plants out with the roots and picked off meala 2111 01:51:14.159 --> 01:51:18.079 bugs and then I used okay, the alcohol on you know, 2112 01:51:18.119 --> 01:51:20.680 some cotton on it, and I even sprayed with it. 2113 01:51:20.800 --> 01:51:24.439 She what she gave me. But uh, and it's looking 2114 01:51:24.520 --> 01:51:27.479 pretty good. But it's getting some yellow leaves every now 2115 01:51:27.520 --> 01:51:30.039 and then. So that's that's what I was concerned about, 2116 01:51:30.119 --> 01:51:31.279 is the yellow leaves. 2117 01:51:32.279 --> 01:51:36.279 Okay, Uh, Well that if it's the older leaves, the 2118 01:51:36.319 --> 01:51:38.640 oldest ones as you go down the branch toward the bottom. 2119 01:51:39.039 --> 01:51:42.239 Uh though that's not unusual on those, they go through 2120 01:51:42.239 --> 01:51:45.199 fluctuations and so moisture and the older leaves will turn 2121 01:51:45.279 --> 01:51:47.960 yellow plus we're hitting we're on the doorstep of fall. 2122 01:51:48.039 --> 01:51:50.520 Some of those leaves are pretty old and and they're 2123 01:51:50.640 --> 01:51:52.720 they're going to come off. If you're just losing a 2124 01:51:52.760 --> 01:51:54.720 few leaves, I wouldn't worry about it. Just make sure 2125 01:51:54.760 --> 01:51:58.279 the so moisture stays out of quickly moist Okay. 2126 01:51:58.399 --> 01:52:02.960 Okay, Well there's too some of the little ones flecked 2127 01:52:03.000 --> 01:52:05.000 out there? Was it because I didn't have water in 2128 01:52:05.079 --> 01:52:05.720 that or something? 2129 01:52:06.840 --> 01:52:08.800 Yeah, I'll tell you what. I'm going to put you 2130 01:52:08.840 --> 01:52:11.399 on hold and our my producer will give you an email. 2131 01:52:11.479 --> 01:52:13.920 Send me some pictures of those in good sharp focus, 2132 01:52:13.960 --> 01:52:16.239 and if I see anything, I'll let you know. Thank 2133 01:52:16.279 --> 01:52:19.119 you very much, Fred. I appreciate your call, and I 2134 01:52:19.159 --> 01:52:22.199 know you're enjoying that, uh, that plant very much. That's 2135 01:52:22.199 --> 01:52:24.720 a beautiful plant, all right, folks. 2136 01:52:24.880 --> 01:52:25.000 Uh. 2137 01:52:25.279 --> 01:52:28.039 Our phone number is seven one three two one two 2138 01:52:28.159 --> 01:52:30.800 k t RH. For those of you out in the 2139 01:52:30.880 --> 01:52:33.960 Kingwood area. Oh my gosh, you got Warren Southern Gardens 2140 01:52:34.000 --> 01:52:37.920 and Kingwood Gardens. They got new citrus in incredible selection. 2141 01:52:38.199 --> 01:52:40.800 They got new fig trees in including some varieties you 2142 01:52:40.840 --> 01:52:44.279 may not have heard of before. Fall vegetables around, new 2143 01:52:44.319 --> 01:52:47.199 shipment of cactus and some really rare things like the 2144 01:52:47.640 --> 01:52:50.439 variegated chin cactus. Yeah, I know you haven't heard of 2145 01:52:50.439 --> 01:52:53.800 that one, and ghost cactus have arrived there. If you've 2146 01:52:53.840 --> 01:52:56.279 got a planner, they've got all the plants you need 2147 01:52:56.319 --> 01:52:58.640 to create a beautiful fall planting. Or how about this, 2148 01:52:58.840 --> 01:53:01.760 drop your planter off and let them do it for you. 2149 01:53:01.880 --> 01:53:04.720 They can do that as well. Five dollars off Microlife, 2150 01:53:04.760 --> 01:53:08.960 five dollars off Microlife brown Patch and also sweet Green 2151 01:53:09.359 --> 01:53:12.600 from Nitrofoss and asamite through the end of this month, 2152 01:53:12.680 --> 01:53:15.840 so time's running short on that one. Pick one of 2153 01:53:15.840 --> 01:53:18.439 those up, you know you need those anyway, five bucks 2154 01:53:18.439 --> 01:53:21.039 off a bag. And then there's just a plain little 2155 01:53:21.119 --> 01:53:24.720 sale on Bugginator and Nitrofoss, superturf and other things. And 2156 01:53:24.800 --> 01:53:28.680 a great thirty percent tree sale for limited time on 2157 01:53:28.800 --> 01:53:30.600 any of the trees they carry, and they have some 2158 01:53:30.840 --> 01:53:34.239 beautiful trees. And also while you're there, grab you a 2159 01:53:34.239 --> 01:53:36.880 tree hugger to hold on to those trees and help 2160 01:53:36.920 --> 01:53:42.399 them stand firm enough to get well well established. We're 2161 01:53:42.399 --> 01:53:46.159 going to head out now to Spring and talk to Chuck. Hello, Chuck, 2162 01:53:46.560 --> 01:53:49.720 welcome to garden Line. Good morning, sir, how are you 2163 01:53:51.159 --> 01:53:54.119 and well? And I got your pictures. You know, you 2164 01:53:54.159 --> 01:54:02.439 want to know what that is. Yeah, that's spurge, prostrate spurge, spurge. 2165 01:54:02.520 --> 01:54:04.640 If you look at the picture you sent me, every 2166 01:54:04.760 --> 01:54:07.640 little bump on there is either a flower or a 2167 01:54:07.680 --> 01:54:10.399 seed pod. And that's why spurge is such a problem. 2168 01:54:10.600 --> 01:54:14.520 It produces a bazillion seeds and they come up, and 2169 01:54:14.560 --> 01:54:16.399 so the only thing you can do for it is 2170 01:54:16.520 --> 01:54:19.520 pull it up. And if it's in the bricks, you 2171 01:54:19.560 --> 01:54:22.319 can do what they call flame weeding, those little devices 2172 01:54:22.319 --> 01:54:26.439 that hook up to approping little propane canister, and you 2173 01:54:26.439 --> 01:54:29.119 can do that, or put a pre emergent down a 2174 01:54:29.319 --> 01:54:34.760 barricade from nitrophoss. Spurge is listed. Prostrate spurge is listed 2175 01:54:34.760 --> 01:54:38.880 on the label of barricade. Spurge likes warm weather to germinate. 2176 01:54:39.039 --> 01:54:40.560 So you don't go ahead. 2177 01:54:41.600 --> 01:54:43.800 Oh, I was just gonna say, I haven't. I've got 2178 01:54:43.840 --> 01:54:47.319 my barricade, so we're already there. 2179 01:54:48.439 --> 01:54:51.239 Yeah. Well, you can put barricade down for fall, for 2180 01:54:51.319 --> 01:54:55.079 your cool season weeds, but for spurge next spring in 2181 01:54:55.199 --> 01:54:58.319 early March, put the barricade down and then I would 2182 01:54:58.359 --> 01:55:04.680 apply it again about sixty days later, maybe little maybe ninety, 2183 01:55:04.720 --> 01:55:07.039 but somewhere in there sixty to ninety days, depending on 2184 01:55:07.079 --> 01:55:09.920 how much you use the first time. Put barricade down again, 2185 01:55:10.399 --> 01:55:13.680 and that helps prevent that spurge from getting started. So 2186 01:55:13.920 --> 01:55:16.479 coverage first, it's good, and even. 2187 01:55:17.720 --> 01:55:19.760 Because this is the first time I've had to deal 2188 01:55:19.840 --> 01:55:22.640 with it since we lived here, which has been decades now, 2189 01:55:23.319 --> 01:55:26.640 and I realize everybody's going through it. Is there a 2190 01:55:26.680 --> 01:55:28.680 liquid Oh yeah, they can help me. 2191 01:55:30.920 --> 01:55:34.079 Well, there's a liquid form of that, but I don't 2192 01:55:34.119 --> 01:55:37.079 know where you would get it. Even the granules. Fine, 2193 01:55:37.119 --> 01:55:39.399 you put the granule out, you water it in, and 2194 01:55:39.439 --> 01:55:41.720 the product comes off the granule and goes into the 2195 01:55:41.760 --> 01:55:44.479 soil surface. So just get the regular barricade. That's all 2196 01:55:44.479 --> 01:55:46.039 you need, you bet. 2197 01:55:46.239 --> 01:55:47.920 Thank you for putting a fresh fu. 2198 01:55:47.920 --> 01:55:52.640 All right, mine, Thanks appreciate that check. Good luck with 2199 01:55:52.760 --> 01:55:55.439 getting that under control. That can be a challenge. Hey, folks, 2200 01:55:55.840 --> 01:55:58.600 I want to mentioned earlier the OBA program so you 2201 01:55:58.600 --> 01:56:02.479 want to grow food is October fifth, from eight to 2202 01:56:02.600 --> 01:56:04.600 three thirty. What I didn't tell you is if you 2203 01:56:04.640 --> 01:56:08.680 want more information and to register, go to obaonline dot org, 2204 01:56:09.279 --> 01:56:13.399 h b A online dot org. Today from twelve to 2205 01:56:13.399 --> 01:56:17.279 two I'll be at Ana Plants and produce in mongomery. 2206 01:56:17.600 --> 01:56:19.800 All of you up northn part of the listening area, 2207 01:56:19.800 --> 01:56:22.760 come out and see me. Let's talk. Let's help you 2208 01:56:22.800 --> 01:56:25.159 have a bountiful garden and a beautiful landscape. 2209 01:56:26.119 --> 01:56:28.720 Our H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of 2210 01:56:28.760 --> 01:56:33.079 the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to 2211 01:56:33.279 --> 01:56:37.000 kt r H Garden Line with Scip Richter's. 2212 01:56:45.000 --> 01:57:11.760 Just watch him as All. 2213 01:56:59.199 --> 01:57:02.920 Right, folks, we're back in the saddle again. Listen, we 2214 01:57:02.960 --> 01:57:04.840 got one hour left today and we are going to 2215 01:57:04.880 --> 01:57:07.960 hit the ground running here this hour to answer your 2216 01:57:08.000 --> 01:57:12.279 gardening questions. I was outside enjoying my feeders. By the way, 2217 01:57:12.279 --> 01:57:15.600 the hummingbirds just keep bringing their friends to my feeder. 2218 01:57:15.680 --> 01:57:19.119 I started off with one hummingbird, and then later there 2219 01:57:19.119 --> 01:57:23.239 were two and they just sitting here looking around yesterday 2220 01:57:23.319 --> 01:57:25.960 and out in front taking care of some lantanas I have, 2221 01:57:26.039 --> 01:57:28.079 and they're there. They're on a vitex that I have 2222 01:57:28.199 --> 01:57:30.760 out there. I've got a turk's cap, which is a 2223 01:57:30.840 --> 01:57:33.840 native plant with big red flowers. You know, hummingbirds love that. 2224 01:57:34.079 --> 01:57:37.720 It's like a neon sign for them. And then of 2225 01:57:37.720 --> 01:57:40.920 course at the feeders, if you want to attract hummingbirds, 2226 01:57:41.159 --> 01:57:44.039 go buy Wallbirds Unlimited and get there. They have a 2227 01:57:44.119 --> 01:57:47.239 number of beautiful hummingbird feeders now work, but I have 2228 01:57:47.359 --> 01:57:49.159 the High Perch. It's my favorite one. I actually have 2229 01:57:49.199 --> 01:57:52.279 a couple of different models from them and they work well. 2230 01:57:52.319 --> 01:57:55.119 You can go to WBU dot com, which stands for 2231 01:57:55.199 --> 01:58:01.159 Walldbirds Unlimited WB dot com Forward Slash Houston Forward South 2232 01:58:01.159 --> 01:58:04.880 Houston tells you the six Wallbirds stores here and it 2233 01:58:05.000 --> 01:58:07.600 is bird time. I mean there are the orioles have 2234 01:58:07.640 --> 01:58:10.159 been coming through. We of course got the hummingbirds feeling 2235 01:58:10.279 --> 01:58:13.479 up to cross the Gulf of Mexico. There's always things 2236 01:58:13.479 --> 01:58:16.039 to be done there at Wabirds Unlimited. I was down 2237 01:58:16.079 --> 01:58:17.600 at the One and Clear lag the other day and 2238 01:58:18.000 --> 01:58:20.199 a couple of people were in their shopping. What kind 2239 01:58:20.199 --> 01:58:21.880 of feed we'll keep the squirrels out? 2240 01:58:21.920 --> 01:58:22.079 Well? 2241 01:58:22.079 --> 01:58:24.680 There, I feed with pepper in it, both the cylinders, 2242 01:58:24.720 --> 01:58:27.159 the little hard cylinders that the birds peck the seeds 2243 01:58:27.159 --> 01:58:30.560 out of, and loose bird seed to keep the squirrels 2244 01:58:30.600 --> 01:58:33.159 out of your bird feed I've got a squirrel excluding 2245 01:58:33.159 --> 01:58:36.520 feeder from Wild Birds. It is my favorite bird feeder 2246 01:58:36.560 --> 01:58:39.640 that I own because it really works, and I think 2247 01:58:39.680 --> 01:58:42.159 I get as much enjoyment watching the squirrels not be 2248 01:58:42.199 --> 01:58:43.800 able to get into it as I do watch the 2249 01:58:43.840 --> 01:58:47.159 birds getting into it. But all of that's from wildbirds. 2250 01:58:47.239 --> 01:58:49.960 That's the place you need to go. You will be inspired, 2251 01:58:50.000 --> 01:58:51.680 I promise you. In fact, I might out our will 2252 01:58:51.720 --> 01:58:55.479 warn you. It can be addictive. It really can. It's 2253 01:58:55.560 --> 01:58:59.720 a lot of fun bringing music into your landscape. We're 2254 01:58:59.760 --> 01:59:03.800 going to go to northwest Houston now and talk to Debbie. Hello, Debbie, 2255 01:59:03.800 --> 01:59:04.920 welcome to garden Line. 2256 01:59:05.560 --> 01:59:07.960 Hi, good morning, Thank you for taking my call. I 2257 01:59:07.960 --> 01:59:11.399 have two quick questions I believe I have. It looks 2258 01:59:11.439 --> 01:59:15.159 like birds of paradise. It's a very tall succulent in 2259 01:59:15.239 --> 01:59:20.680 it plants, and it has a white, fragrant flower and 2260 01:59:20.680 --> 01:59:21.319 it's beautiful. 2261 01:59:21.399 --> 01:59:22.399 Right now, When can. 2262 01:59:22.359 --> 01:59:24.479 I cut that back? Because it's kind of out of control. 2263 01:59:26.039 --> 01:59:27.359 You say it's a bird of paradise. 2264 01:59:28.880 --> 01:59:31.960 I think it is. It's almost looks like a gladiola, 2265 01:59:32.039 --> 01:59:34.960 but it's white, and it is a beautiful flagrant flower. 2266 01:59:36.119 --> 01:59:38.439 It's succulent. How I mean, I don't know when I 2267 01:59:38.439 --> 01:59:39.279 should cut it back. 2268 01:59:40.800 --> 01:59:43.800 Okay, I'm just not for sure that we're talking about 2269 01:59:43.800 --> 01:59:48.279 the same plant. But in general, if you've had it 2270 01:59:48.319 --> 01:59:50.119 more than a year, did it die to the ground 2271 01:59:50.159 --> 01:59:51.319 in the winter or did it. 2272 01:59:51.319 --> 01:59:53.640 Stay above and then it came right back. 2273 01:59:53.760 --> 01:59:57.479 Yes, okay, I would wait until it dies down, and 2274 01:59:57.520 --> 02:00:00.680 then I would cut it back. Cut the dead out 2275 02:00:01.039 --> 02:00:02.960 sometime after it dies down, if you can stand to 2276 02:00:03.000 --> 02:00:05.680 look at it all winter with the dead stuff. Sometime 2277 02:00:05.760 --> 02:00:08.199 that dead material helps protect the base of the plant 2278 02:00:08.199 --> 02:00:09.920 a little bit. Or if you want to, just cut 2279 02:00:09.960 --> 02:00:11.760 it out so it looks better and then throw a 2280 02:00:11.760 --> 02:00:13.239 little bit of a little bit of multa over the 2281 02:00:13.239 --> 02:00:15.119 base just to kind of insulate it a little bit. 2282 02:00:15.680 --> 02:00:18.439 That way, whichever plant we're talking about, we've were covered. 2283 02:00:18.479 --> 02:00:19.279 We've got our basis. 2284 02:00:19.319 --> 02:00:20.039 Great. Okay. 2285 02:00:20.680 --> 02:00:23.720 Second question, I have a beautiful laurel oak and I 2286 02:00:23.760 --> 02:00:26.920 can't find another one anywhere. I guess they don't grow 2287 02:00:26.960 --> 02:00:30.840 them anymore here. What would be comparable to a laurel oak? 2288 02:00:30.880 --> 02:00:32.119 Would it be a willow oak? 2289 02:00:32.239 --> 02:00:35.760 Something with little bitty leaves like this one? Unless you know. 2290 02:00:35.680 --> 02:00:39.520 Where I can get Well, have you tried, RCW? 2291 02:00:40.720 --> 02:00:42.479 I have, and they don't have it. 2292 02:00:42.960 --> 02:00:49.000 Yes, they didn't have it. Okay, Uh, let's see laurel oak. 2293 02:00:50.720 --> 02:01:01.840 I say, what, Yeah, well, yeah, it will. Maybe they 2294 02:01:01.840 --> 02:01:04.119 may have run into some issues. I don't know, but 2295 02:01:04.239 --> 02:01:05.760 I would call them and ask him about it and 2296 02:01:05.760 --> 02:01:07.800 ask them what they would suggest as a replacement that 2297 02:01:07.880 --> 02:01:10.520 fits that description or and they would be I'm sure 2298 02:01:10.520 --> 02:01:12.479 they'd be happy to point you to somewhere else that 2299 02:01:12.680 --> 02:01:15.319 might have it. If they don't, I would go back 2300 02:01:15.359 --> 02:01:17.319 to them because they are more up to date on 2301 02:01:17.359 --> 02:01:19.760 who carries what and what they carry and everything than 2302 02:01:19.760 --> 02:01:23.159 I am. But that you went to the right place 2303 02:01:23.239 --> 02:01:25.920 to begin with, because rcwas to go for those. 2304 02:01:26.000 --> 02:01:29.159 Okay, thank you so much. I appreciate it, all right, thank. 2305 02:01:29.000 --> 02:01:33.039 You, all right, Debbie, thank you appreciate that. Uh. You 2306 02:01:33.079 --> 02:01:36.199 know I I talk about the Nitropos three step program. 2307 02:01:36.279 --> 02:01:39.760 It's a it's a fertilizer that is a fall fertilizer. 2308 02:01:39.760 --> 02:01:44.159 It's called Nitrofoss Fall Special. The mix and nutrients in 2309 02:01:44.239 --> 02:01:47.880 it is perfect for giving your grass winter heartiness and 2310 02:01:47.920 --> 02:01:51.439 supporting initial growth in the spring. Second step is weeds 2311 02:01:52.000 --> 02:01:55.239 Nitrofoss barricade. You have to get it down before the 2312 02:01:55.279 --> 02:01:58.840 fall weeds germinate, which would then become your big time 2313 02:01:59.119 --> 02:02:02.319 weed problems in the If last spring you had weeds 2314 02:02:02.319 --> 02:02:04.880 that were just taken over the lawn, those would have 2315 02:02:04.880 --> 02:02:10.159 been prevented by an October fertilization. Excuse me, October barricade 2316 02:02:10.199 --> 02:02:14.800 application because that's the germination window. So do that. Number 2317 02:02:14.840 --> 02:02:20.640 three fungicide eagle turf fungicide. It's systemic. Again, you got 2318 02:02:20.640 --> 02:02:23.399 to do it ahead of time. Listen. We control and 2319 02:02:23.479 --> 02:02:27.359 disease control is like playing baseball. I bet you're wondering, 2320 02:02:27.359 --> 02:02:29.800 where's he going with us? Here's how it's like that. 2321 02:02:30.359 --> 02:02:33.079 If you're batting and you wait until the pitcher has 2322 02:02:33.119 --> 02:02:36.920 the ball in his mitt, it's too late to swing. 2323 02:02:37.199 --> 02:02:40.640 Is that that makes sense? Right? You gotta swing before 2324 02:02:40.720 --> 02:02:43.159 the ball gets to you in order to hit it right, 2325 02:02:43.479 --> 02:02:45.560 because here comes the bat and here comes the ball 2326 02:02:45.600 --> 02:02:49.039 and they meet and go over the fence. Nitrophiz barricade 2327 02:02:49.039 --> 02:02:51.079 and nitrophas eagle or that way you want to hit 2328 02:02:51.079 --> 02:02:53.159 the home run. You got to get them down. So 2329 02:02:53.239 --> 02:02:55.920 when the problem shows up, when the weed is starting 2330 02:02:55.960 --> 02:02:59.199 to germinate, barricade is saying no, no, no no no. When 2331 02:02:59.359 --> 02:03:02.279 brown pat or large patch or take off patches trying 2332 02:03:02.319 --> 02:03:06.359 to infect eagle is a eagle, turfundicide is saying no, no, no, 2333 02:03:06.359 --> 02:03:10.960 no no. That's how that works. Nitrofis Texas three step 2334 02:03:11.119 --> 02:03:14.039 widely available. You're going to find it added in Chennet Gardens. 2335 02:03:14.079 --> 02:03:16.199 You're going to find it a shade of Texas up 2336 02:03:16.239 --> 02:03:18.840 there in the woodlands, plants for all season. Talmball Parkway 2337 02:03:18.920 --> 02:03:20.600 is going to have it. A and A plants and 2338 02:03:20.680 --> 02:03:25.279 produce another place you can get nitrofoss product products like 2339 02:03:25.359 --> 02:03:27.159 the three step you know. I'm going to be at 2340 02:03:27.159 --> 02:03:29.199 A and A today, by the way, from twelve to two. 2341 02:03:29.319 --> 02:03:30.880 Please come out and see me if you live in 2342 02:03:30.880 --> 02:03:34.199 that area, if you got plant samples, bring me. You're tired, 2343 02:03:34.279 --> 02:03:37.720 you're weary, you're suffering, masses yearning to be diagnosed. I 2344 02:03:37.760 --> 02:03:42.560 will help that and provide you something to remedy the 2345 02:03:42.640 --> 02:03:44.720 problem that you might have. Because A and A's got 2346 02:03:45.000 --> 02:03:47.720 all the Nightfis products, all the Nelson products, all the 2347 02:03:47.760 --> 02:03:50.960 micro life products, all the airloom soils, Nature's Way, leaf 2348 02:03:51.039 --> 02:03:54.319 mold compost fine, and they have the whole thing. They 2349 02:03:54.359 --> 02:03:56.399 got to clean up. A crew that'll come in and 2350 02:03:56.520 --> 02:03:58.520 fix up your landscape for you up there in the 2351 02:03:59.000 --> 02:04:02.239 If you were in the Conroe area, just come out 2352 02:04:02.239 --> 02:04:04.359 to an A. Let's talk, let's f forget what's wrong, 2353 02:04:04.600 --> 02:04:07.319 Let's suggest some plants for you. Let's have a good time. 2354 02:04:07.359 --> 02:04:10.960 And while you're there, grab your night Foss three step program. 2355 02:04:11.359 --> 02:04:13.560 Let's head out now to Rose Sharon and we're going 2356 02:04:13.600 --> 02:04:16.279 to talk to Susie. Hello, Susie, welcome to garden Line. 2357 02:04:16.920 --> 02:04:17.920 Hell are you? 2358 02:04:19.600 --> 02:04:22.439 I'm doing what I'm doing well? Hey Susie, I'm I'm 2359 02:04:22.479 --> 02:04:24.560 coming up on a hard break. I keep doing this. 2360 02:04:24.640 --> 02:04:27.680 I get so excited taking calls and then the producer says, 2361 02:04:27.760 --> 02:04:29.399 you need to shut up. Skip, We got to go 2362 02:04:29.439 --> 02:04:31.720 to break. Can you hold just for a little bit 2363 02:04:31.760 --> 02:04:32.920 and I'll come right back to you. 2364 02:04:34.000 --> 02:04:37.119 Sure you love me? 2365 02:04:40.520 --> 02:04:44.600 Funny song. Hey, You're back with garden Line and I'm back. 2366 02:04:44.640 --> 02:04:46.359 We're going We're going to talk about all kinds of 2367 02:04:46.439 --> 02:04:49.079 things in the last segments we got today, I got 2368 02:04:49.079 --> 02:04:51.000 a lot more information I'm trying to get to here. 2369 02:04:51.159 --> 02:04:53.880 First of all, I want to remind you that if 2370 02:04:54.000 --> 02:04:57.840 you are looking for a quality mix for uh growing 2371 02:04:57.960 --> 02:05:02.319 roses and shrubs, that would be rose mix from Landscapers Pride. 2372 02:05:02.359 --> 02:05:07.520 You know Landscapers Pride their regional local organization here that 2373 02:05:08.119 --> 02:05:12.079 transforms what used to be living organic materials into magic 2374 02:05:12.359 --> 02:05:15.279 for the soil. Rose mix is an example. They have 2375 02:05:15.319 --> 02:05:18.880 their premium potting mix. It comes loaded with a nutrient 2376 02:05:19.039 --> 02:05:23.159 source in it. That's just a really good combination. Premium 2377 02:05:23.159 --> 02:05:27.640 potting mix. Indoor plants. Outdoor plants use the same thing topsoil. 2378 02:05:27.760 --> 02:05:29.640 You got some lower areas in your lawn, maybe you 2379 02:05:29.720 --> 02:05:32.039 lost some areas along you're gonna have to reside. Now's 2380 02:05:32.039 --> 02:05:35.399 the time. Get some landscapers Pride topsoil. Put it out 2381 02:05:35.399 --> 02:05:37.079 there in the lower areas, fill it up, get it 2382 02:05:37.119 --> 02:05:39.800 all leveled out so when you're running the mower after 2383 02:05:39.840 --> 02:05:42.800 you get your new lawn in, you don't hit bumps 2384 02:05:42.840 --> 02:05:45.199 and gouge out the grass and everything. It makes it 2385 02:05:45.319 --> 02:05:48.439 smooth and easy. And then finally, of course black velvet 2386 02:05:48.520 --> 02:05:50.720 mult it's always a good mult is not just for 2387 02:05:50.800 --> 02:05:53.000 hot weather. Mult is for twelve months out of the year. 2388 02:05:53.039 --> 02:05:56.079 And black velvet is beautiful. It is not dyed, it 2389 02:05:56.159 --> 02:06:00.560 is naturally black velvety color and it works really really well. 2390 02:06:00.640 --> 02:06:03.880 Another product from Landscaper's Pride. And you're gonna find these 2391 02:06:03.920 --> 02:06:06.359 products all over the place. You know they're widely available. 2392 02:06:06.359 --> 02:06:09.079 You can go to Landscaperspride dot com find out more 2393 02:06:09.119 --> 02:06:11.479 about it, or I tell you what how about rundown 2394 02:06:11.520 --> 02:06:15.720 to Ciena Maltch. Ciena Maltz carries Landscaper's Pride black velvet. 2395 02:06:15.800 --> 02:06:17.720 You can get it right there. You know, Sienna is 2396 02:06:17.760 --> 02:06:22.479 a place for quality materials. They you need bulk deliveries 2397 02:06:22.479 --> 02:06:24.680 and things. Do you need any of the fertilizers that 2398 02:06:24.720 --> 02:06:27.880 I talk about on guardline. Basically as I say, brown 2399 02:06:27.880 --> 02:06:30.960 stuff before green stuff, Ciena Malt is the brown stuff place. 2400 02:06:31.399 --> 02:06:34.520 They're down near Roach Sharon, just north of Roach Sharon 2401 02:06:34.520 --> 02:06:37.800 on FM five twenty one. I would suggest you right 2402 02:06:37.840 --> 02:06:41.840 down there their website address because that's the fastest way 2403 02:06:41.880 --> 02:06:43.840 to find out how to find them, how to call them, 2404 02:06:44.199 --> 02:06:48.800 and a lot more information Sienna Mulch dot com. Sienna 2405 02:06:49.119 --> 02:06:52.840 Mulch dot com. You can pick up those fall fertilizers 2406 02:06:52.880 --> 02:06:56.039 that I've been talking about while you're down there at 2407 02:06:56.199 --> 02:07:00.720 Ciena Maultch. Friendly Folks is just an easy, easy place 2408 02:07:00.840 --> 02:07:03.239 to shop and they take care of you and you 2409 02:07:03.319 --> 02:07:05.279 know when you leave with the product from there, it's 2410 02:07:05.319 --> 02:07:07.840 going to be a good product that does what it's 2411 02:07:07.840 --> 02:07:10.920 supposed to do in your garden and in your landscape. 2412 02:07:11.640 --> 02:07:14.079 Let's see, I'm going to go now to if I 2413 02:07:14.119 --> 02:07:18.520 can find the right mouse. Susie, thanks for patiently waiting. 2414 02:07:18.600 --> 02:07:23.399 I'm still doing I'm still too excited to pay attention 2415 02:07:23.479 --> 02:07:26.560 to the clock. So it's your turn. Now, how can 2416 02:07:26.600 --> 02:07:27.159 we help you? 2417 02:07:28.000 --> 02:07:32.079 So I have two questions. They have some two year 2418 02:07:32.119 --> 02:07:37.000 old orange trees in the ground. Last year they froze back, 2419 02:07:37.760 --> 02:07:41.239 came up from the root. They're about two feet fall now. 2420 02:07:41.720 --> 02:07:43.520 Now I'm not going to protect them this winter. 2421 02:07:47.880 --> 02:07:50.239 They they froze down how far? 2422 02:07:51.359 --> 02:07:56.520 All the way down and they came out. 2423 02:07:54.439 --> 02:07:59.680 And tell me the plant again that you had. 2424 02:07:59.600 --> 02:08:02.159 Orange orange trees. 2425 02:08:02.359 --> 02:08:06.239 I'm sorry, I asked that wrong. What type of orange, 2426 02:08:06.239 --> 02:08:08.039 what varieties or anything? Do you know. 2427 02:08:09.920 --> 02:08:10.520 Valencia? 2428 02:08:10.560 --> 02:08:16.760 I believe Okay, that was probably grafted, and so when 2429 02:08:16.800 --> 02:08:18.880 it comes back from the roots, it may be very 2430 02:08:18.960 --> 02:08:22.680 very thorny, indicating you lost the valencia and now you 2431 02:08:22.680 --> 02:08:27.000 have the rootstock. Is it really thorny or is it not? 2432 02:08:28.479 --> 02:08:30.000 You know, I haven't really noticed. 2433 02:08:31.279 --> 02:08:34.640 Okay, well go check that because before we get protecting stuff, 2434 02:08:34.640 --> 02:08:36.640 we want to make sure you still got your valencia. 2435 02:08:37.399 --> 02:08:40.760 But you may have some shoots and some have thorns 2436 02:08:40.800 --> 02:08:42.880 and some don't, and the ones with thorns will be 2437 02:08:42.920 --> 02:08:47.079 coming from lower toward the ground on the stump. If 2438 02:08:47.359 --> 02:08:49.640 you have a valencia, then you're gonna need to be 2439 02:08:49.640 --> 02:08:51.960 able to cover it up and put heat underneath it. 2440 02:08:52.399 --> 02:08:55.920 And if you will go to my website Gardening with 2441 02:08:56.439 --> 02:09:02.199 Skip dot com Gardening with Skip you when you get there, 2442 02:09:02.399 --> 02:09:06.439 you're going to find a publication and yet to scroll 2443 02:09:06.520 --> 02:09:08.640 down a little bit. It's there if you say view 2444 02:09:08.680 --> 02:09:13.560 all publications on the website. It talks about just the 2445 02:09:13.680 --> 02:09:16.119 season to be freezing, that's what the name of it is. 2446 02:09:16.880 --> 02:09:19.720 And it talks about hair protect plants against the cold, 2447 02:09:20.039 --> 02:09:22.520 and it gives you all the detailed instructions. 2448 02:09:23.239 --> 02:09:26.840 So there are thorns in it, but it looks like. 2449 02:09:28.640 --> 02:09:35.119 The leaves came out of a main artery and it 2450 02:09:35.840 --> 02:09:36.439 got more. 2451 02:09:37.119 --> 02:09:43.760 Okay, let me ask you this. So, Susie, when you 2452 02:09:43.800 --> 02:09:47.439 look at the leaves, are they single leaves or are 2453 02:09:47.479 --> 02:09:49.920 they in sets of three? 2454 02:09:53.239 --> 02:09:55.680 There's single leaves mostly. 2455 02:09:58.039 --> 02:10:02.920 Okay, Well, let's assume it's of Valencia Worth protecting the 2456 02:10:03.600 --> 02:10:06.159 jury and judge Jury still out a little bit on 2457 02:10:06.199 --> 02:10:08.880 that one with me. But go to the website find 2458 02:10:08.880 --> 02:10:11.720 my freeze publication. It's on there. It's free and it 2459 02:10:11.760 --> 02:10:14.960 goes through all the details of how to cover them, 2460 02:10:15.000 --> 02:10:17.600 how to protect them, how to add heat underneath the cover, 2461 02:10:17.760 --> 02:10:20.119 anything you might need to do when it's going to 2462 02:10:20.159 --> 02:10:22.319 get cold enough to kill that tree again. 2463 02:10:23.399 --> 02:10:27.000 Right, And then my next question is I have a 2464 02:10:27.119 --> 02:10:30.720 black diamond grape myrtle which is about two years in 2465 02:10:30.760 --> 02:10:31.279 the ground. 2466 02:10:33.000 --> 02:10:33.920 I cut it back. 2467 02:10:34.479 --> 02:10:37.800 Then the leaves that come out they look normal, and 2468 02:10:37.840 --> 02:10:42.840 then by now they're all by. 2469 02:10:45.359 --> 02:10:48.640 Yeah, there's an insect that's sucking juices out of the 2470 02:10:48.680 --> 02:10:54.000 plant and basically excreting a sugary substance that's falling on 2471 02:10:54.039 --> 02:10:56.760 the foliage and then the black soot grows on there. 2472 02:10:57.239 --> 02:10:59.520 So the soot isn't the problem. It's you got to 2473 02:10:59.520 --> 02:11:02.840 find the end sec. It could be scale. That's the 2474 02:11:02.920 --> 02:11:05.399 most likely one is creat myrtle bark scale. 2475 02:11:05.920 --> 02:11:06.039 Uh. 2476 02:11:06.159 --> 02:11:10.359 And that would require a systemic insecticide put down to 2477 02:11:10.399 --> 02:11:13.880 be taken up so that when the bug sucks juices 2478 02:11:13.920 --> 02:11:17.000 out of the plant, it's getting poisoned juice from inside 2479 02:11:17.000 --> 02:11:20.840 the plant, Okay, And that that would be the approach 2480 02:11:20.920 --> 02:11:24.039 to that. Now the aphids would be the same solution. 2481 02:11:24.680 --> 02:11:27.079 Could be white flies, mealy bugs, lots of things. Can 2482 02:11:27.119 --> 02:11:30.560 it can create sooty mold. I think you're probably dealing 2483 02:11:30.560 --> 02:11:34.159 with creat myrtle bark scale and a systemic would be 2484 02:11:34.239 --> 02:11:36.479 the solution for that. Now, if you can find an 2485 02:11:36.520 --> 02:11:40.600 ace hardware stowing nearby. Uh, and there's one over oh gosh, 2486 02:11:40.600 --> 02:11:46.119 one over in Alvin I know area. Oh great, well 2487 02:11:46.119 --> 02:11:48.680 then then you're you're good to go. All you need 2488 02:11:48.720 --> 02:11:51.000 to do if if you're already you know in that 2489 02:11:51.079 --> 02:11:53.640 area is go over on West Willis Street and Patco 2490 02:11:54.680 --> 02:11:58.600 Hardware and Lumber is going to have a product. And 2491 02:11:58.840 --> 02:12:02.439 the ingredient is in meadow cloprid. But instead of trying 2492 02:12:02.479 --> 02:12:05.079 to write that whole word down, just it's I am, 2493 02:12:05.439 --> 02:12:10.199 I d O I mid dough and that is the ingredient. 2494 02:12:10.359 --> 02:12:13.560 That means it's a systemic that you drench into the ground. 2495 02:12:13.600 --> 02:12:15.399 The crank myrtle takes it up and it will it 2496 02:12:15.399 --> 02:12:16.399 will kill the scale. 2497 02:12:17.640 --> 02:12:20.239 So is it too late to plant mandibles in the ground? 2498 02:12:22.840 --> 02:12:29.439 Uh? Mendavella's is what you job? Yeah, you know you're 2499 02:12:29.439 --> 02:12:32.199 pretty far south, but uh it's a little bit risky. 2500 02:12:32.279 --> 02:12:34.399 That's not a very cold hearty plant at all. 2501 02:12:34.680 --> 02:12:38.920 So I think if. 2502 02:12:37.159 --> 02:12:40.000 You can, yeah, in a pot, you can roll it 2503 02:12:40.039 --> 02:12:42.479 into the garage when it's going to be cold, you know, 2504 02:12:43.239 --> 02:12:46.319 and protect it that way. Just need one of those 2505 02:12:46.359 --> 02:12:52.039 little dollies they call them. Okay, good, all right, Well, 2506 02:12:52.079 --> 02:12:54.359 sounds like you're set up to go. Hey, thanks for 2507 02:12:54.520 --> 02:12:56.359 thanks for the call, Susie, appreciate that. 2508 02:12:56.439 --> 02:12:57.039 Thank you. 2509 02:12:57.039 --> 02:13:03.279 You take care you bet psolutely. Yeah, we're talking about 2510 02:13:03.319 --> 02:13:06.119 ACE Hardware, the one down there Patco, Ace Hardware and 2511 02:13:06.199 --> 02:13:08.640 West Willis Street. You know Ace Hardware. There's forty of them. 2512 02:13:08.680 --> 02:13:10.520 So it makes it easy when someone calls and they 2513 02:13:10.520 --> 02:13:12.159 need a product, I don't care where they are. I 2514 02:13:12.319 --> 02:13:14.479 just send them to an ACE Hardware because I know 2515 02:13:14.720 --> 02:13:17.199 at ACE you're going to find every fertilizer I recommend 2516 02:13:17.239 --> 02:13:19.680 on Guardline, you're going to find all the things you 2517 02:13:19.720 --> 02:13:22.119 need to control past weeds and diseases out in your 2518 02:13:22.199 --> 02:13:26.720 landscape to make a beautiful lawn, a beautiful, bountiful garden. 2519 02:13:27.520 --> 02:13:30.359 Ace Hardware is the place, they say, that's the motto, 2520 02:13:30.439 --> 02:13:33.439 ACE is the helpful place. Well, it's the place for 2521 02:13:33.520 --> 02:13:37.079 your lawn and your landscape and your vegetable garden as well. 2522 02:13:37.640 --> 02:13:41.479 Acehardware dot Com find the store locator. It's as simple 2523 02:13:41.520 --> 02:13:44.000 as that. Find the one near you, mark it on 2524 02:13:44.000 --> 02:13:45.800 the map because you're going to want to shop there. 2525 02:13:46.560 --> 02:13:50.880 We're going to head now out to Bob in Friendswood. Hello, Bob, 2526 02:13:50.920 --> 02:13:55.680 welcome to garden Line. Hello, thank you. I have two 2527 02:13:55.880 --> 02:13:57.720 small trees that have problems. 2528 02:13:58.279 --> 02:14:04.560 One's a Cleveland pair and it got a web on it, 2529 02:14:04.760 --> 02:14:06.439 which I looked on Google and it said it was 2530 02:14:06.479 --> 02:14:09.159 some kind of caterpillar. So I got the web off 2531 02:14:09.239 --> 02:14:12.680 and sprayed it with a super soap which seemed to 2532 02:14:13.119 --> 02:14:15.800 I don't see anything on it, but all of the 2533 02:14:15.920 --> 02:14:20.399 leaves in conjunction with the web that was created. All 2534 02:14:20.439 --> 02:14:25.279 of the leaves are black around the edges and slightly curled. 2535 02:14:25.960 --> 02:14:28.680 And this was about two months ago and they it 2536 02:14:28.760 --> 02:14:29.960 hasn't really improved. 2537 02:14:31.680 --> 02:14:38.000 Okay, so I'm hearing two things. Maybe I'm not hearing correctly, 2538 02:14:38.039 --> 02:14:41.159 but tell me if I'm not. The webbing is going 2539 02:14:41.199 --> 02:14:44.159 to be due to an insect, and it's probably going 2540 02:14:44.239 --> 02:14:47.439 to be a fall web worm. They can do that. 2541 02:14:48.520 --> 02:14:51.039 Tent caterpillars do it in the earlier in the season. 2542 02:14:51.600 --> 02:14:53.479 It could be a fall web worm. If you're seeing 2543 02:14:53.600 --> 02:14:57.239 black and leaves, then that's due not to the insect, 2544 02:14:57.319 --> 02:14:59.960 and it should be a different cause than the web 2545 02:15:00.880 --> 02:15:03.479 That should be due to a disease called fire blight 2546 02:15:03.800 --> 02:15:08.359 that kills entire shoots. And the leaves don't initially fall off, 2547 02:15:08.399 --> 02:15:11.000 they just hang their chocolate black brown colored. 2548 02:15:13.079 --> 02:15:15.920 Yeah, it's just all around the edges that the leaves 2549 02:15:15.960 --> 02:15:20.479 themselves are green, but they're still slightly spurled. 2550 02:15:21.800 --> 02:15:24.439 Okay, well, then we're going to go to one more thing. 2551 02:15:24.960 --> 02:15:27.600 When you see the edges and margins, the tip and 2552 02:15:27.680 --> 02:15:30.960 margins of the leaf start to brown, that's due to 2553 02:15:31.079 --> 02:15:34.960 something is wrong in the plumbing of the plant. It 2554 02:15:35.000 --> 02:15:39.119 can occur due to different causes. For example, if you 2555 02:15:39.159 --> 02:15:42.239 had borers that were in the trunk that were preventing 2556 02:15:42.359 --> 02:15:45.119 water from the roots to reach the top, it could 2557 02:15:45.119 --> 02:15:48.760 cause that. If you over applied a salt based fertilizer 2558 02:15:48.880 --> 02:15:52.479 and burned roots, you could cause that. If you had 2559 02:15:52.560 --> 02:15:56.000 drought conditions it could cause that. And if you had 2560 02:15:56.479 --> 02:16:01.479 soggy conditions so that roots lacked oxen and dyed, you 2561 02:16:01.560 --> 02:16:05.079 might see a symptom like that. Also, I can't tell 2562 02:16:05.079 --> 02:16:07.079 you which of those is doing it on your tree, 2563 02:16:07.119 --> 02:16:10.560 but pears are very prone to that. And in many 2564 02:16:10.600 --> 02:16:13.600 cases with pears it's not a big deal. It's not 2565 02:16:13.880 --> 02:16:17.680 meaning you're about to lose the tree. They can show 2566 02:16:17.720 --> 02:16:21.359 that symptom, but something is stressing that tree. The other 2567 02:16:21.399 --> 02:16:23.319 thing I would I would just check and watch for 2568 02:16:23.479 --> 02:16:25.720 is make sure there's not a root at the base 2569 02:16:25.760 --> 02:16:29.560 of the trunk that is strangling the trunk. That happens 2570 02:16:29.560 --> 02:16:32.520 sometimes a root grows in a circle around the pot 2571 02:16:32.600 --> 02:16:35.120 they were growing the tree in, and then they keep 2572 02:16:35.159 --> 02:16:37.440 moving it to bigger pots, and the trunk gets bigger 2573 02:16:37.440 --> 02:16:40.639 and the root gets bigger, and suddenly the roots starts 2574 02:16:40.680 --> 02:16:44.120 squeezing and embedding itself into the trunk. And that also 2575 02:16:44.239 --> 02:16:47.559 is a problem that's common with ornamental pears like the Cleveland. 2576 02:16:48.959 --> 02:16:52.559 Okay, how do I actually check for that without digging around? 2577 02:16:52.920 --> 02:16:54.760 Go to the base. Yeah, I go to the base, 2578 02:16:54.799 --> 02:16:56.559 take a little hand trowel, maybe get you one of 2579 02:16:56.559 --> 02:16:59.360 those squirt pistols on the end of the water hose, 2580 02:16:59.680 --> 02:17:02.159 and just blast soil out of the way. You're only 2581 02:17:02.200 --> 02:17:04.799 going to need to dig down about three inches. Looking 2582 02:17:04.840 --> 02:17:07.120 around the tree, you'll see it. If it's in there. 2583 02:17:07.440 --> 02:17:09.600 The trunk will have swollen out, and they'll be right 2584 02:17:09.600 --> 02:17:13.000 below that swelling something that's squeezing in. So it's like 2585 02:17:13.040 --> 02:17:15.200 it goes out and then it comes back in, and 2586 02:17:15.239 --> 02:17:17.120 that's a sign of an embedded route. 2587 02:17:17.799 --> 02:17:22.040 Okay, Okay, Well, it sits in the very moist area 2588 02:17:22.120 --> 02:17:24.239 of the yard, so it may be part of its 2589 02:17:24.280 --> 02:17:24.920 problem too. 2590 02:17:26.639 --> 02:17:31.319 It's unlikely, but if it's wet enough, that can be 2591 02:17:31.319 --> 02:17:33.879 a problem. Yeah, it's pretty wet. 2592 02:17:34.600 --> 02:17:41.200 Second problem tree is a small peach tree that we planted. 2593 02:17:41.639 --> 02:17:44.319 I guess this is its second year. It produced fruit 2594 02:17:45.040 --> 02:17:49.559 right off of that. Okay, but now it's looking limp 2595 02:17:49.879 --> 02:17:52.200 and the leaves have turned yellow, and it. 2596 02:17:52.319 --> 02:17:57.639 Just all right. Yeah, I'm going to run to a break. 2597 02:17:57.719 --> 02:17:59.799 When we come back, let's tackle the peach tree. When. 2598 02:18:00.120 --> 02:18:02.000 Look forward to helping you with that, folks. I'll be 2599 02:18:02.200 --> 02:18:07.440 right back. Good to have you with us today. We 2600 02:18:07.680 --> 02:18:09.799 enjoy talking to you about the things that are of 2601 02:18:09.840 --> 02:18:12.719 interest to you. I want to mention that, you know, 2602 02:18:12.760 --> 02:18:14.840 talk about brown stuff. And for those of you that 2603 02:18:14.920 --> 02:18:18.120 live up in the northern part of the area, Nature's 2604 02:18:18.159 --> 02:18:21.360 Way Resources is right in your backyard. And Nature's Way 2605 02:18:22.120 --> 02:18:26.600 is the birthplace of things like rose soil and leith 2606 02:18:26.639 --> 02:18:31.000 more compost for example, and many other types of quality products. 2607 02:18:31.040 --> 02:18:34.520 John Ferguson started that many years ago and now his 2608 02:18:34.639 --> 02:18:39.559 son Ian running the place, and the quality just continues 2609 02:18:39.719 --> 02:18:42.799 with the products that they have. They have got their 2610 02:18:42.920 --> 02:18:46.120 fungal compost sales still going on. It's called Fungal Friday. 2611 02:18:46.319 --> 02:18:49.760 Every Friday, you can say twenty percent off of their 2612 02:18:49.799 --> 02:18:53.959 fungal compost. So that is a very good deal. And 2613 02:18:54.000 --> 02:18:56.440 remember we talk about leap mool compost as a compost 2614 02:18:56.479 --> 02:19:00.559 top dressing. Fungal compost is also suitable to use accomplosht 2615 02:19:00.559 --> 02:19:04.200 top dressing if you don't do that. Also, one more thing. 2616 02:19:04.440 --> 02:19:08.159 I'm going to be there on the tenth of October 2617 02:19:08.399 --> 02:19:13.079 Nature's Way Resources. That's Interstate forty five north almost to Conro, 2618 02:19:13.280 --> 02:19:16.639 right where the road from Well fourteen eighty eight comes 2619 02:19:16.639 --> 02:19:18.799 in from the left hand side from Magnolia, you turn 2620 02:19:18.920 --> 02:19:21.520 right and go to Nature's Way. It's called the Fall Festival. 2621 02:19:21.799 --> 02:19:25.360 They're going to have Latin food, local vendors, certainly plant sales, 2622 02:19:25.719 --> 02:19:29.479 live music, children's activities. It's going to be a shindig. 2623 02:19:30.120 --> 02:19:33.239 That is officially a shindig. Go look that word up. 2624 02:19:33.959 --> 02:19:35.879 I'll be there doing a Q and A from eleven 2625 02:19:35.920 --> 02:19:38.680 thirty to one thirty and there'll just be a lot 2626 02:19:38.719 --> 02:19:41.639 of fun stuff going on. So the whole deal itself 2627 02:19:41.680 --> 02:19:45.120 goes from nine thirty to two at Nature's Way Resources. 2628 02:19:45.280 --> 02:19:49.040 Here's the phone number nine three six two seven three 2629 02:19:49.280 --> 02:19:53.239 twelve hundred. Nine three six two seven three twelve one 2630 02:19:53.319 --> 02:19:56.760 hundred gets stocked up this fall Fall is for building 2631 02:19:56.760 --> 02:19:59.600 the soil, because fall is for planting twenty percent off 2632 02:19:59.639 --> 02:20:04.959 fungal compost only on Fridays, but every Friday Fungal Friday 2633 02:20:05.000 --> 02:20:08.040 sale at Nature's Way Resources. We're going to head back 2634 02:20:08.079 --> 02:20:11.559 now to I think we were talking to Elizabeth. Is 2635 02:20:11.559 --> 02:20:14.840 that correct? I go back to the right call. Yes, 2636 02:20:15.360 --> 02:20:17.120 Hello Elizabeth, Welcome to garden. 2637 02:20:18.120 --> 02:20:18.799 Good morning. 2638 02:20:19.040 --> 02:20:22.600 I have a question. Okay, I have some very big 2639 02:20:22.760 --> 02:20:25.280 oak trees in my front yard. I live in Sugarland, 2640 02:20:25.840 --> 02:20:28.719 well it seems, and I've tried all the things like 2641 02:20:28.760 --> 02:20:33.239 putting compost and putting mulch and all that sort of 2642 02:20:33.239 --> 02:20:36.520 thing at air rating. But I have an area around 2643 02:20:36.520 --> 02:20:40.239 that tree that my grass just doesn't want to grow. 2644 02:20:40.520 --> 02:20:44.639 So I've tried everything, and I'm wondering if I put 2645 02:20:45.159 --> 02:20:49.559 gypsum mixed in with some compost, willout break up that 2646 02:20:49.639 --> 02:20:52.479 sort because it's like concrete. I you know, I dig 2647 02:20:52.520 --> 02:20:54.159 it up. I put the air raidar and all of that, 2648 02:20:54.280 --> 02:20:57.000 and it still reverts back to this hardness. 2649 02:20:57.840 --> 02:21:03.360 I got you, Okay, Gypsum only helps a clay if 2650 02:21:03.360 --> 02:21:06.760 the clay is high in sodium, and in your area, 2651 02:21:06.920 --> 02:21:09.639 I don't think you have really high sodium water when 2652 02:21:09.680 --> 02:21:11.399 you wash your hands at the sink. Is it like 2653 02:21:11.440 --> 02:21:13.079 you can't get the soap to come off and they 2654 02:21:13.120 --> 02:21:19.120 just stay slick even though yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, so 2655 02:21:19.319 --> 02:21:21.840 I no, don't don't worry about that. You know, the 2656 02:21:21.920 --> 02:21:25.920 aeration is helpful, but I would always keep decomposing organic 2657 02:21:26.000 --> 02:21:29.760 matter on the surface of the soil. Always have composts, decomposing, 2658 02:21:29.840 --> 02:21:32.799 mulch decomposing, And that's the best thing you can do 2659 02:21:32.840 --> 02:21:33.719 for those oak trees. 2660 02:21:35.239 --> 02:21:37.920 Yes, very enormous. I mean I've lived in this house 2661 02:21:37.959 --> 02:21:40.600 twenty years and they were reasonable when I moved in, 2662 02:21:40.920 --> 02:21:43.040 and now they're giants. 2663 02:21:43.639 --> 02:21:46.520 All right, Well, just just make them think they live 2664 02:21:46.559 --> 02:21:49.760 in a forest. That's what oaks want. Any tree wants 2665 02:21:49.799 --> 02:21:53.200 to have its the whole ground under the tree covered 2666 02:21:53.200 --> 02:21:56.200 with rotting leaves and bark and anything else organic. 2667 02:21:57.319 --> 02:21:59.799 I just don't ever, you know, yes, I just don't 2668 02:22:00.680 --> 02:22:02.319 take it away when you know, rake it up and 2669 02:22:02.319 --> 02:22:04.399 throw it away. I keep it on there, you know, 2670 02:22:04.440 --> 02:22:08.159 all those leaves and whatnot that fall down. Yeah, okay, well, 2671 02:22:08.200 --> 02:22:09.440 thanks very much, I will do that. 2672 02:22:10.719 --> 02:22:13.360 Well, you're doing the right thing, obviously. You moved in 2673 02:22:13.440 --> 02:22:15.120 and they keep getting bigger. They must like you. 2674 02:22:15.120 --> 02:22:16.159 Elizabe they're huge. 2675 02:22:16.319 --> 02:22:16.879 They're huge. 2676 02:22:16.959 --> 02:22:17.440 They're huge. 2677 02:22:17.639 --> 02:22:22.239 Okay, thank you so much, thank you very much. Yeah, 2678 02:22:22.360 --> 02:22:26.639 appreciate that a lot. Yeah, it is. It is true. 2679 02:22:26.920 --> 02:22:28.959 Nature knows how to take care of soil. You know, 2680 02:22:29.719 --> 02:22:32.440 I tell you what. Let me well, I'm gonna come back. 2681 02:22:32.479 --> 02:22:34.840 I want to talk a little bit about soil and 2682 02:22:35.000 --> 02:22:37.680 organics and stuff like that. Right for right now, I'm 2683 02:22:37.719 --> 02:22:39.120 just gonna I want to keep moving. 2684 02:22:39.559 --> 02:22:39.680 Uh. 2685 02:22:40.200 --> 02:22:44.239 Microlife fertiliser products. They have a product called Soil and 2686 02:22:44.280 --> 02:22:47.639 Plant Energy. Soil and Plant Energy is a combination of 2687 02:22:47.719 --> 02:22:52.719 humic acid and molasses. In other words, microbe food. Microbes 2688 02:22:52.760 --> 02:22:55.760 love carbon, and when you get humid and fuvic acid 2689 02:22:55.840 --> 02:22:59.239 combined with molasses, you got some good stuff for the 2690 02:22:59.280 --> 02:23:03.600 microbe in the soil. It is an excellent product. It's 2691 02:23:03.600 --> 02:23:06.000 got over sixty three different minerals in it. Very safe. 2692 02:23:06.040 --> 02:23:08.280 You're not going to burn with it. It's a microlife product. 2693 02:23:08.360 --> 02:23:10.840 It's natural. It doesn't take much, just two to four 2694 02:23:10.879 --> 02:23:13.920 ounces per gallon. You can spray the foliage. You can 2695 02:23:13.959 --> 02:23:16.440 do it as a folier. You can also put it 2696 02:23:16.479 --> 02:23:18.920 down on the soil, drench it into the soil. Either 2697 02:23:18.959 --> 02:23:21.319 way is good. It's just another one of those liquid 2698 02:23:21.360 --> 02:23:25.159 products from Microlife. This one happens to be the hot 2699 02:23:25.200 --> 02:23:28.120 pink label. You know, I was kind of going by color. 2700 02:23:28.200 --> 02:23:30.200 I love doing that because it makes it easy you 2701 02:23:30.280 --> 02:23:32.399 have to memorize a name. Look for the hot pink label. 2702 02:23:32.479 --> 02:23:36.399 Microlife Soil and Plant Energy go to Microlifefertilizer dot com 2703 02:23:36.799 --> 02:23:38.799 and you can find out about all their products. And 2704 02:23:38.799 --> 02:23:42.200 I can tell you this, they are widely available when 2705 02:23:42.239 --> 02:23:45.680 you are out shopping for places, at places I talk 2706 02:23:45.719 --> 02:23:48.840 about on garden Line, there is a very high likelihood 2707 02:23:48.879 --> 02:23:51.479 that they're going to carry the Microlife line of products. 2708 02:23:51.760 --> 02:23:53.520 We're going to now go to sugar Land and talk 2709 02:23:53.559 --> 02:24:01.399 to Don. Hello, Don, Welcome to garden Line. Do we 2710 02:24:01.479 --> 02:24:04.719 have a Don? All right, I'm gonna put Don back 2711 02:24:05.120 --> 02:24:08.639 on hold. There we'll come back to you Don. We're 2712 02:24:08.639 --> 02:24:10.680 going to go to Parland and talk to Kay. Hello. 2713 02:24:10.680 --> 02:24:14.799 Okay, Hi you, good morning, Skip, good to talk morning again. 2714 02:24:14.920 --> 02:24:18.239 Thank you for taking my call. I have I bought 2715 02:24:18.280 --> 02:24:22.959 a rosemary plant, a small one, and it has grown exponentially, 2716 02:24:23.120 --> 02:24:25.600 and a friend of mine wanted to get a cutting, 2717 02:24:25.639 --> 02:24:28.920 and she took a cutting and it's starting to go south. 2718 02:24:29.159 --> 02:24:34.879 And I just wondered if how do you propagate a cutting. 2719 02:24:36.200 --> 02:24:39.719 All right, So here's what you do. By the way, well, 2720 02:24:40.079 --> 02:24:42.840 go ahead. Rosemary is very easy, easy to propagate. You 2721 02:24:42.879 --> 02:24:45.639 want to get new growth out toward the end. Don't 2722 02:24:45.639 --> 02:24:48.799 get old, chunky hardwood, but it can be a little witty, 2723 02:24:48.879 --> 02:24:51.840 but out toward the end. You want to take cuttings 2724 02:24:51.840 --> 02:24:54.680 that are about I would say three inches long, and 2725 02:24:54.760 --> 02:24:58.079 take the leaves off the bottom half the cutting. Dip 2726 02:24:58.159 --> 02:25:01.079 that cutting in a rooting hormone. Can buy rooting hormone 2727 02:25:01.120 --> 02:25:04.319 power powder. I have it any kind of a garden 2728 02:25:04.360 --> 02:25:07.440 center place. Dip it into the powder and then make 2729 02:25:07.479 --> 02:25:09.840 a little hole. Take I take a pencil and make 2730 02:25:09.879 --> 02:25:12.799 a hole in the rooting mix and put it in 2731 02:25:12.840 --> 02:25:14.959 there so that when you push the cutting in you're 2732 02:25:14.959 --> 02:25:17.920 not wiping all the powder off, and then just gently 2733 02:25:17.959 --> 02:25:22.000 push the mix up against it. I will take pearl 2734 02:25:22.040 --> 02:25:25.360 light and mix it with a potting soil type material, 2735 02:25:25.440 --> 02:25:29.479 about two or three parts of pearl light to one 2736 02:25:29.520 --> 02:25:32.399 part of the potting soil. Because you want optimum drainage, 2737 02:25:32.520 --> 02:25:36.079 not mucky soggy. Needs good oxygen down around that cutting. 2738 02:25:36.600 --> 02:25:38.760 Put a clear cover over it and put it in 2739 02:25:38.840 --> 02:25:42.280 a bright area, but not direct sunlight. It needs lots 2740 02:25:42.280 --> 02:25:45.440 of light, but the sun will cook it inside that 2741 02:25:45.520 --> 02:25:49.120 clear cover. So if you do all that, rosemary will root. 2742 02:25:49.280 --> 02:25:52.920 It is a very easy to root plant given that process. 2743 02:25:53.000 --> 02:25:57.319 Okay, well I started out. I took one down close 2744 02:25:57.360 --> 02:26:00.520 to the base because there were three or four ranches 2745 02:26:00.559 --> 02:26:02.280 off of that, you know, and I thought, oh, that 2746 02:26:02.319 --> 02:26:03.360 looks a good one. 2747 02:26:04.479 --> 02:26:07.079 Guess all right, well, good well, good luck, good luck 2748 02:26:07.120 --> 02:26:09.440 with it this next try. And thank you very very 2749 02:26:09.520 --> 02:26:11.879 much for that call. I'm gonna run. Let's see what 2750 02:26:11.920 --> 02:26:14.239 time is that I've been doing this wrong? Old Yeah, 2751 02:26:14.280 --> 02:26:16.799 I better hold off Don and Ralph. You'll be our 2752 02:26:16.840 --> 02:26:20.399 first two up when we come back from break here 2753 02:26:20.559 --> 02:26:24.000 in just a tiny second or two. Stick with us. 2754 02:26:24.079 --> 02:26:25.760 I got a few more things I want to talk about. 2755 02:26:25.799 --> 02:26:28.479 I'm gonna make a little room today to address a 2756 02:26:28.479 --> 02:26:30.559 couple of issues that I think will be very helpful 2757 02:26:30.639 --> 02:26:35.079 for you. So hang around for tuning in. We got 2758 02:26:35.120 --> 02:26:37.040 plenty of things to talk about. We're gonna run straight 2759 02:26:37.079 --> 02:26:40.200 out to talk to Don in Sugarland. Hello Don, and 2760 02:26:40.239 --> 02:26:41.079 welcome to garden Line. 2761 02:26:41.840 --> 02:26:45.719 Good morning, Skip. I got two questions. One went over 2762 02:26:45.840 --> 02:26:49.319 south was fertilizer. I got some celsius and because I've 2763 02:26:49.319 --> 02:26:52.399 got all of this is your weeds that come up, 2764 02:26:52.440 --> 02:26:55.319 and especially the Behao grass, and I think it will 2765 02:26:55.399 --> 02:27:00.120 cut kill the Behayo grass. Uh you suggested man that 2766 02:27:00.120 --> 02:27:03.520 they didn't have that. But anyway, I said, it's okay 2767 02:27:03.559 --> 02:27:06.159 to spray as long as you don't and it's not 2768 02:27:06.200 --> 02:27:09.040 going to absorb into my citrus trees as long as 2769 02:27:09.079 --> 02:27:10.280 it's passed the drip line. 2770 02:27:10.319 --> 02:27:11.040 Do you agree with that? 2771 02:27:12.760 --> 02:27:16.520 Yes. In fact, if just don't get it on the 2772 02:27:16.559 --> 02:27:19.280 foliage of the citrus and don't apply so much that 2773 02:27:19.360 --> 02:27:21.440 you're drenching the soil, that would be a waste of 2774 02:27:21.479 --> 02:27:22.920 celsius anyway. And it's not cheap. 2775 02:27:23.000 --> 02:27:24.559 No, it's too expensive for that. 2776 02:27:25.920 --> 02:27:27.959 Yeah. Yeah, well all you got to do is barely 2777 02:27:28.000 --> 02:27:28.959 with the foliage. 2778 02:27:29.239 --> 02:27:32.399 Yeah, okay, But I got all these different weeds that 2779 02:27:32.479 --> 02:27:35.399 have just I don't know, it's dollar weed and all 2780 02:27:35.399 --> 02:27:40.799 this other kind of stuff that comes up. Also, there's 2781 02:27:40.840 --> 02:27:45.159 a little green weed and it has a little yellow insert. 2782 02:27:45.559 --> 02:27:47.440 I don't know what they called it. I showed them 2783 02:27:47.479 --> 02:27:50.639 all that stuff. But hopefully that'll kill that. But I 2784 02:27:50.719 --> 02:27:54.159 have these probably one hundred foot Italian cypress, and I 2785 02:27:54.200 --> 02:27:56.799 mean they're brown all the way to the top. So 2786 02:27:58.200 --> 02:28:00.719 I guess it's just they're dead. Just have to cut 2787 02:28:00.879 --> 02:28:02.799 down they're dead. 2788 02:28:02.879 --> 02:28:06.399 Italian cypress, like junipers and pine trees and other things 2789 02:28:06.440 --> 02:28:10.600 like that, when the needles are in the case of 2790 02:28:10.639 --> 02:28:14.239 Italian cypress, a little scaly leaves die. It cannot re 2791 02:28:14.319 --> 02:28:17.360 sprout from that spot on the branch. You have to 2792 02:28:17.399 --> 02:28:20.280 have green foliage. So in other words, if you took 2793 02:28:20.280 --> 02:28:22.479 out Italian cypress and you cut all the branches on 2794 02:28:22.479 --> 02:28:25.239 one side off, it would always be a dead side 2795 02:28:25.559 --> 02:28:30.799 the no new growth can come out there. Yeah, so brown, 2796 02:28:31.280 --> 02:28:32.680 that's one reason why I don't like it. 2797 02:28:32.760 --> 02:28:36.840 Tight go ahead and so the whole tree is dead 2798 02:28:36.920 --> 02:28:40.719 even though you like cut all the branches off, it 2799 02:28:40.760 --> 02:28:43.479 would never come back out, correct. 2800 02:28:43.680 --> 02:28:45.879 Yeah, any other tree, you know, if you took any 2801 02:28:45.879 --> 02:28:48.000 tree and you took a chainsaw on turned it into 2802 02:28:48.000 --> 02:28:50.479 a hat rack, it would just re sprout out everywhere 2803 02:28:50.520 --> 02:28:53.399 you cut. If you take a cedar, a juniper, an 2804 02:28:53.399 --> 02:28:56.159 Italian cypress, a pine tree, and you do that, it's 2805 02:28:56.200 --> 02:28:58.479 going to be a hat rack. It is not able 2806 02:28:58.520 --> 02:29:00.280 to re sprout like other trees. 2807 02:29:00.719 --> 02:29:01.319 Well, thank you? 2808 02:29:02.399 --> 02:29:04.879 Uh did it in when that drought? 2809 02:29:05.000 --> 02:29:05.280 Not in? 2810 02:29:05.399 --> 02:29:08.040 Water? Is the thing enough in it? 2811 02:29:08.440 --> 02:29:08.559 All? 2812 02:29:08.600 --> 02:29:08.719 Right? 2813 02:29:09.120 --> 02:29:09.399 Well? 2814 02:29:09.520 --> 02:29:12.079 I'll cut it down, all right, all right. 2815 02:29:12.000 --> 02:29:15.200 Well, good luck with it. Thank you, yes, sir, thank you. 2816 02:29:15.280 --> 02:29:18.799 I appreciate the call very much, Thank you very much 2817 02:29:19.159 --> 02:29:26.520 for that. I just wanted to make some comments about organics. 2818 02:29:26.799 --> 02:29:29.399 A lot of times people will talk to me about 2819 02:29:29.399 --> 02:29:31.120 our like, I want to be an organic gardener, and 2820 02:29:31.159 --> 02:29:34.200 so I'm going to use organic pesticides, and that's fine, 2821 02:29:34.360 --> 02:29:37.319 that's part of organic gardening. But organic gardening is in 2822 02:29:37.399 --> 02:29:40.479 the soil. It's about the soil. That's where the movement 2823 02:29:40.520 --> 02:29:42.760 began and that's where the heart of it still is. 2824 02:29:42.959 --> 02:29:45.319 It's not just changing the bullets in the gun, like 2825 02:29:45.399 --> 02:29:50.920 I'm going to quit buying synthetic pesticides and buy organic pesticides. Again, 2826 02:29:51.000 --> 02:29:54.520 that's part of the deal with organics, But it's the soil. 2827 02:29:54.639 --> 02:29:57.959 If you don't get the soil right, you're not You're 2828 02:29:58.000 --> 02:30:00.000 going to be struggling. Your plants are going to be 2829 02:30:00.079 --> 02:30:04.040 struggling to survive, and then you do have more disease problems, 2830 02:30:04.040 --> 02:30:07.040 you do have more insect problems. Begins with the soil. 2831 02:30:07.159 --> 02:30:12.479 The brown stuff composts in the soil, organic matter, good drainage, quality, 2832 02:30:12.719 --> 02:30:16.840 nutrient ingredients, and the soil bank account that helped provide it. 2833 02:30:17.559 --> 02:30:20.280 After that, when you run into problems, Yes, if you 2834 02:30:20.280 --> 02:30:23.920 want to use inseexticidal soap or some other organic pesticide, 2835 02:30:24.200 --> 02:30:27.559 that's fine. But don't just start with how to kill 2836 02:30:27.559 --> 02:30:29.239 the bug, how to kill the disease, how to kill 2837 02:30:29.239 --> 02:30:31.920 the weed. Start with the soil. That is what organics 2838 02:30:32.079 --> 02:30:36.799 is all about. I'm gonna run northwest Houston now and 2839 02:30:36.840 --> 02:30:39.520 talk to Ralph. Hello, Ralph, welcome reguard line. 2840 02:30:40.479 --> 02:30:44.079 Good morning again. I found my front yard. You told me, 2841 02:30:44.799 --> 02:30:47.760 I guess gonna have to get somebody to soil is 2842 02:30:47.799 --> 02:30:51.120 so hard in there, and I tried different things and 2843 02:30:51.239 --> 02:30:54.840 I cannot beat it. I need to get the saint 2844 02:30:54.879 --> 02:30:57.239 all good thing to grow. And I'm on my bike. 2845 02:30:57.319 --> 02:31:02.159 You are fine with the front yard, Okay, got to okay. 2846 02:31:03.079 --> 02:31:07.319 Bottom line, Ralph, get get a good core aeration done. 2847 02:31:07.399 --> 02:31:10.600 Open up some holes into that hard ground. It needs 2848 02:31:10.639 --> 02:31:13.159 to be moist when they do it, so the the 2849 02:31:13.159 --> 02:31:15.559 the air raidor can get down in and do it. 2850 02:31:16.000 --> 02:31:18.600 And then put a little fine dressing, a compost, real 2851 02:31:18.680 --> 02:31:21.879 fine compost over the whole thing. Let it work its 2852 02:31:21.920 --> 02:31:24.520 way in. And that is the single best and first 2853 02:31:24.520 --> 02:31:26.959 thing you can do to get that lawn going again, 2854 02:31:27.239 --> 02:31:30.440 that's where I would start. Certainly fertilizers important, Certainly water 2855 02:31:30.520 --> 02:31:33.120 is important, but let's start to work on that hard 2856 02:31:33.159 --> 02:31:41.159 soil you're talking about, well near the aor yeah, yeah, 2857 02:31:41.280 --> 02:31:44.440 you can. Sometimes the ones you rent aren't the best ones. 2858 02:31:44.799 --> 02:31:46.360 You can hire somebody to come in and do it. 2859 02:31:46.399 --> 02:31:48.239 But if you want to do it yourself, you can 2860 02:31:48.559 --> 02:31:50.479 find a place to rent one and do it. But 2861 02:31:50.559 --> 02:31:53.040 it's a lot of hard work to do it. So 2862 02:31:53.120 --> 02:31:56.159 I would I would recommend hiring somebody. 2863 02:31:58.000 --> 02:32:04.399 I'm fighting this. It's done good and everything else, all right, 2864 02:32:04.440 --> 02:32:04.799 give me. 2865 02:32:05.319 --> 02:32:09.520 All right, here's what okay, got a penhandy, Yes, got 2866 02:32:09.520 --> 02:32:14.840 a penhandy two eight one two eight one three five 2867 02:32:15.000 --> 02:32:18.479 one three five one forty seven thirty three. And I'll 2868 02:32:18.479 --> 02:32:21.760 give you that again two eight one three five one 2869 02:32:22.319 --> 02:32:26.319 four seven three three. And the companies called green Pro 2870 02:32:26.879 --> 02:32:29.479 they do an excellent job and they serve your area. 2871 02:32:30.280 --> 02:32:32.559 I hope that helps. I'm gonna have to run to 2872 02:32:32.639 --> 02:32:33.840 another call here, pretty qreat. 2873 02:32:34.079 --> 02:32:34.920 I appreciate it. 2874 02:32:34.959 --> 02:32:37.079 You're good, Joe, Thank you, Bye. 2875 02:32:37.959 --> 02:32:40.319 Thank you. I appreciate I appreciate that a lot. We're 2876 02:32:40.319 --> 02:32:44.159 gonna go to Tomball and talk to Marianne today. Hello, Marianne. 2877 02:32:44.159 --> 02:32:45.120 Welcome to garden. 2878 02:32:44.879 --> 02:32:48.680 Line, and hello, I'm calling to find out if you 2879 02:32:48.719 --> 02:32:52.639 can help recommend a product to control Virginia button weed. 2880 02:32:53.120 --> 02:32:54.399 It's we're really having a. 2881 02:32:54.360 --> 02:32:56.879 Problem with it in our Saint Augustine grass and we 2882 02:32:56.920 --> 02:32:58.120 can't get control of that. 2883 02:33:01.079 --> 02:33:04.360 Okay. The product I would say will give you the 2884 02:33:04.399 --> 02:33:12.079 best results is called Celsius, like the temperature Celsius. It 2885 02:33:12.120 --> 02:33:16.000 comes in small packets. It's not cheap, but a small 2886 02:33:16.040 --> 02:33:18.200 packet makes a gallon, and a gallon goes a long 2887 02:33:18.239 --> 02:33:20.559 way because you're not applying it to everywhere in the 2888 02:33:20.600 --> 02:33:25.639 lawn your spot treating the Virginia button weed. Now we're 2889 02:33:25.680 --> 02:33:28.600 going into fall. You could try doing it now, but 2890 02:33:28.719 --> 02:33:32.200 the most important thing is next spring when you start 2891 02:33:32.239 --> 02:33:35.600 seeing the Virginia button weed, spray it with celsius and 2892 02:33:35.639 --> 02:33:42.079 be ready to repeat that spray about I would say 2893 02:33:42.120 --> 02:33:44.920 three or four weeks later. You may have to do 2894 02:33:44.959 --> 02:33:48.719 a repeat of it. It's not an easy weed to control, 2895 02:33:48.760 --> 02:33:52.000 but Celsius in research trials has done better than anything 2896 02:33:52.040 --> 02:33:54.120 else at controlling Virginia button weed. 2897 02:33:55.600 --> 02:33:59.239 Do you recommend somewhere to buy that or do they 2898 02:33:59.239 --> 02:34:00.280 sell it online? 2899 02:34:00.639 --> 02:34:01.920 Where should I I would go? 2900 02:34:02.520 --> 02:34:05.879 If you're in tombul Arbor Gate. I'm ninety percent sure 2901 02:34:06.000 --> 02:34:07.319 carries celsius. 2902 02:34:07.719 --> 02:34:08.879 Okay, that's close. 2903 02:34:10.639 --> 02:34:12.319 Yeah, I think I think you're going to find it 2904 02:34:12.360 --> 02:34:15.479 out there. I find it at d and de Feed 2905 02:34:15.520 --> 02:34:21.159 as well. But I would start there and and just remember, 2906 02:34:21.559 --> 02:34:23.520 look at how much you need, because you may not 2907 02:34:23.639 --> 02:34:25.879 need to use the whole packet. So you could do 2908 02:34:26.000 --> 02:34:29.440 a half gallon and use half the packet and then 2909 02:34:29.520 --> 02:34:31.239 you'd have half left to do it again. 2910 02:34:31.799 --> 02:34:32.000 Uh. 2911 02:34:32.079 --> 02:34:33.879 You know, if you've got a five acre lawn and 2912 02:34:33.920 --> 02:34:37.479 it's solid rudinia button weed, well then you need a 2913 02:34:37.520 --> 02:34:41.840 lot more than that. But most people, you know, yeah, 2914 02:34:41.920 --> 02:34:42.360 go ahead. 2915 02:34:42.639 --> 02:34:45.040 We do live in a rural area where it's it's 2916 02:34:45.040 --> 02:34:47.879 about an acre and a quarter. But but it's just 2917 02:34:48.120 --> 02:34:51.200 it just takes over like carpet. And first we thought, oh, 2918 02:34:51.239 --> 02:34:52.840 well this is pretty and we can rip it up. 2919 02:34:52.840 --> 02:34:55.120 But then it comes back with the vengeance and we 2920 02:34:55.200 --> 02:34:58.200 tried the uh we'd be gone, the work that we'd 2921 02:34:58.239 --> 02:35:00.879 be gone and it and it killed the grass and 2922 02:35:00.920 --> 02:35:03.000 then the button we was just coming back. Will the 2923 02:35:03.040 --> 02:35:06.040 celsius kill the grass as well? Should we panic if 2924 02:35:06.040 --> 02:35:10.319 we see it die? Or will it kill the grass 2925 02:35:10.440 --> 02:35:11.479 or no? 2926 02:35:11.600 --> 02:35:14.079 It will not. It will not. Okay, No, it kills. 2927 02:35:14.280 --> 02:35:15.559 It kills a weed, not the grass. 2928 02:35:15.600 --> 02:35:18.280 All right, Okay, thank you appreciate it. 2929 02:35:18.600 --> 02:35:21.360 You bet, you bet, Marian, thank you very much for 2930 02:35:21.440 --> 02:35:23.399 the call. I want to take a moment for you 2931 02:35:23.479 --> 02:35:26.079 right out of time here and just talk about something 2932 02:35:26.120 --> 02:35:28.360 about fall fertilizing. I talk about it all the time. 2933 02:35:28.440 --> 02:35:30.639 I say it's important. Here is what you need to know. 2934 02:35:30.799 --> 02:35:33.879 Through the year, we are pushing our lines with nitrogen. 2935 02:35:34.159 --> 02:35:37.319 That's what they need the most of spring and summer 2936 02:35:37.959 --> 02:35:40.440 for good growth and health. When we come to fall, 2937 02:35:40.520 --> 02:35:42.680 we want them to slow down, and so we are 2938 02:35:42.760 --> 02:35:46.559 fall fertilizers. The nitrogen is lower, the potassium is higher. 2939 02:35:46.600 --> 02:35:49.000 That's the third number on the back. First number goes down, 2940 02:35:49.159 --> 02:35:53.239 third number goes up. That is a fall fertilizer. It 2941 02:35:53.280 --> 02:35:57.200 creates inter freeze in the grass plant. It creates carbohydrates, 2942 02:35:57.680 --> 02:36:00.639 and when you do that, your grass is more cold, hardy. 2943 02:36:00.879 --> 02:36:04.399 But even more important is in spring when the new 2944 02:36:04.440 --> 02:36:08.159 growth starts out. It's stored energy that's doing that, and 2945 02:36:08.280 --> 02:36:12.200 that is where the fall fertilization kicks in strong with 2946 02:36:12.319 --> 02:36:15.760 that new spring growth. Again in the spring, then we 2947 02:36:15.840 --> 02:36:18.879 begin the nitrogen fertilizers again as things warm up and 2948 02:36:18.920 --> 02:36:22.000 the grass is growing. But fall fertilization is the most 2949 02:36:22.000 --> 02:36:27.559 important fertilization of the year. And that's why. All right, folks, 2950 02:36:27.719 --> 02:36:29.959 you've been listening to Garden Line. I'm about to jump 2951 02:36:30.000 --> 02:36:32.319 in a car and guess where I'm going to Ana 2952 02:36:32.360 --> 02:36:35.600 Plants and Produce in Montgomery, Texas on the east side 2953 02:36:35.760 --> 02:36:39.239 on one oh five. I hope everybody listening up north, 2954 02:36:39.280 --> 02:36:42.479 certainly northwest. Heck, I don't care where you're coming. If 2955 02:36:42.479 --> 02:36:44.760 you're coming from Galaston, come on to save me at 2956 02:36:44.799 --> 02:36:47.840 Ana Plants and Produce in Montgomery. Bring samples. This is 2957 02:36:47.879 --> 02:36:51.280 your chance to get an eye to eye with me. Diagnostics, 2958 02:36:51.360 --> 02:36:55.079 recommending products, bring me pictures of that landscape area that 2959 02:36:55.120 --> 02:36:56.879 aren't doing well. Let's talk. I'm going to be giving 2960 02:36:56.920 --> 02:37:01.840 away the fertilizer product from and the canisters from Neilson 2961 02:37:01.879 --> 02:37:06.760 Plat Food, and also some really cool stuff from Medina Products, 2962 02:37:06.760 --> 02:37:09.120 some of their liquid hose en products. So you come 2963 02:37:09.159 --> 02:37:12.000 win some stuff there and also pick up the supplies 2964 02:37:12.040 --> 02:37:14.879 you need today and a while you're there, twelve to 2965 02:37:14.959 --> 02:37:18.639 two today, be there a B square see you. Thanks 2966 02:37:18.680 --> 02:37:20.719 for listening to the Guardline. We'll be back tomorrow morning,