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Speaker 4: Alright, folks, good morning, good Saturday morning. On uh what
Speaker 4: let's say a fault. We're gonna call it a fall day.
Speaker 4: Where we are the calendar says it's fall, or at
Speaker 4: least it's close enough to it to call it that.
Speaker 4: I know, you go outside and it's where did these
Speaker 4: temperatures come from? Well, welcome to Houston, Texas, Welcome to
Speaker 4: Southeast Texas, Welcome to most of the state. In fact,
Speaker 4: we have what we call false fall. Get a little
Speaker 4: breeze through here, had one the other day. Everybody thinks,
Speaker 4: yes at last, and then summer comes back for low wall.
Speaker 4: That's just part of the deal. But fall is coming.
Speaker 4: And one thing that is important to remember is that
Speaker 4: if you want to have a successful fall planting season,
Speaker 4: you got to look at the calendar and not the
Speaker 4: temperature at the moment and do what you got to
Speaker 4: do when it's time to do it. For example, now
Speaker 4: is an excellent time to plant things like marigoles for
Speaker 4: a beautiful fall season. They'll last all the way up
Speaker 4: into the first frost and that'll turn them to toast
Speaker 4: and then you pull them out and put in your
Speaker 4: cool season plants. That is a strategy and they work really,
Speaker 4: really well. I was checking out Jorges Hidden Gardens recently
Speaker 4: and oh my gosh, he has got some beautiful, beautiful miracles.
Speaker 4: The you know, the deep orange ones, the kind of
Speaker 4: in between orange and yellow and the full yellow ones
Speaker 4: and marigoles in the summer, or spidermight magnets. But when
Speaker 4: we hit fall like this spidermight populations due to the
Speaker 4: day length changes and temperatures and things, they're starting to
Speaker 4: go down and they sort of disappear and they're not
Speaker 4: a big deal in the fall. So your miragles glow,
Speaker 4: they will way out glow your mums that you put out,
Speaker 4: and we know falls for mums and asters, that's an
Speaker 4: awesome time. Don't forget miracles. That's a good quick instant
Speaker 4: color in the landscape that, like I said, I'll carry
Speaker 4: you all the way to fall. Yeah, or hey, for
Speaker 4: those of you haven't been out there. They're on Elizabeth
Speaker 4: Street in Alvin, Texas, and just go check it out.
Speaker 4: They they're easy to get to, and he's always got
Speaker 4: cool things. He's huge trees. I was looking at some
Speaker 4: of his magnolias are just giants of the magnolias, so gorgeous,
Speaker 4: absolutely beautiful, beautiful. And they have a lot of other
Speaker 4: trees that right now, you've just gotten some more peaches,
Speaker 4: the peaches that grow down south. So you know, fruit
Speaker 4: trees have a certain thing called chilling requirement. And if
Speaker 4: you were to take a peach that grows let's say
Speaker 4: up in Huntsville, Texas or Dallas or whatever, and try
Speaker 4: to plant them down here, they wouldn't get enough winter
Speaker 4: winter chill. It's a forty degree hours in that range.
Speaker 4: But Ray's got the ones that grow down south, And
Speaker 4: so go by there and check it out. Fall is
Speaker 4: an excellent time to plant a container grown fruit tree,
Speaker 4: like a peach, for example. He's got plenty of those
Speaker 4: as well. And while you're by there, check out some
Speaker 4: of his other things that. Hey, he's got those tree
Speaker 4: stabilizers to hold your tree in place when you plant
Speaker 4: any kind of a new tree, and they work so
Speaker 4: so well. You hear me talk about those all the
Speaker 4: time here on garden line. I was out in my
Speaker 4: garden a harvesting okra again yesterday. I think I've told
Speaker 4: you before I do okra breeding, okra crossing, and I'm
Speaker 4: always I think it's fun. I enjoyed doing a little
Speaker 4: bit of plant breeding, because when you create something new,
Speaker 4: it's something that didn't exist before that you created. Now,
Speaker 4: you can't just cross new things and then take the
Speaker 4: seeds out and go here. I'm going to name all
Speaker 4: these seeds a different variety name. It takes a while
Speaker 4: to develop something worth keeping and that stable. In other words,
Speaker 4: when you get somebody seeds, what they plant ends up
Speaker 4: producing the kind of flowers or fruit that you were
Speaker 4: hoping that they would. But anyway, I was out doing
Speaker 4: some of that and just noticing my okra has a
Speaker 4: bunch of aphids on it, and they were mostly all
Speaker 4: cast skins. You know, aphids shed their skin like a
Speaker 4: snake does, and so you see these little dried aphid
Speaker 4: skins all over, and I was looking for a living
Speaker 4: aphids and there were very very few, and I saw
Speaker 4: why I had some surfit fly larva on there. There
Speaker 4: was a crypt beetle, a skimness crypt type. It's a
Speaker 4: little tiny type of lady beetle. Their larva were on there,
Speaker 4: and then there were some regular lady beadle larvae and
Speaker 4: they were just munching out. They just cleaning up my
Speaker 4: aphed problem for me, and that's always good. You know,
Speaker 4: sometimes you're wondering if the cavalry is going to ride
Speaker 4: in to rescue the fort before before it goes under,
Speaker 4: and boy, they sure did this time for me. Keep
Speaker 4: that in mind when you're out there in the gardens,
Speaker 4: that it's not just you versus the pests. It's not
Speaker 4: just you versus the pests. That is an important lesson
Speaker 4: to learn. I love getting out and watching that. Sometimes
Speaker 4: I'll see a few pests on a plant and I'm
Speaker 4: just kind of well, I'm not going to hurry up
Speaker 4: and spray. I just want to watch and see what's
Speaker 4: going on. You learn a lot that way. You know,
Speaker 4: at some point you got to step in if it's
Speaker 4: going to become a big problem, got to take care
Speaker 4: of things. But in the meantime, take advantage of that
Speaker 4: opportunity to learn. That's all part of you know, organic
Speaker 4: gardening and whether you know, if you are not an
Speaker 4: organic gardener, maybe you just it doesn't matter you use organic,
Speaker 4: you use other things, but you're not just organic. At
Speaker 4: least consider the principles of organic gardening because that is
Speaker 4: very very important. Those principles. Whether you garden using synthetics
Speaker 4: or not, those principles of organic gardening are still things
Speaker 4: you should follow. Like I just talked about, why get
Speaker 4: out there with a spray and kill the lady beetle larva,
Speaker 4: the skimness or cryptbet larvae a type of lady beetle
Speaker 4: the what do I else say? Oh, the surfit flies
Speaker 4: were on there, and there's also lace wings that will
Speaker 4: be on there too. Why kill those when they're doing
Speaker 4: work for you? Whether you use an organic like soap
Speaker 4: that will kill them or a synthetic, why do that?
Speaker 4: Why not work? Learn how nature works, and work with
Speaker 4: nature as best you can. That's what microlife fertilizer is
Speaker 4: all about. Microlife has, in every way, shape and form,
Speaker 4: designed their products to build quality soil loaded with microbes,
Speaker 4: microbes that are good ones. You know, not every bacteria
Speaker 4: is bad. Many types of bacteria are good. They're good
Speaker 4: for the roots, are good for the soil. You know,
Speaker 4: there are bacteria that actually produce any biotics that help
Speaker 4: protect the plant roots. There really are, absolutely there are,
Speaker 4: and it's really cool stuff. So you get something like
Speaker 4: micro grow liquid, for example, that comes in a quart,
Speaker 4: comes in a gallon jug, kind of a maroon label,
Speaker 4: you know. Microlife labels all their stuff by color, and
Speaker 4: it's kind of the maroon label one, So naturally I'm
Speaker 4: drawn to that one. But seriously though, I mean, it's
Speaker 4: not a fungicide. It's not like a fungicide to kill fungus.
Speaker 4: What it is it has eight extremely dominating beneficial microbes,
Speaker 4: the Streptomyces, the Trachiderma, the Bacillus, all of those good
Speaker 4: guys that are out there helping fight against problem disease
Speaker 4: microbes but also colonizing those surfaces of the plant. So
Speaker 4: it's just a hostile environment for them to try to
Speaker 4: move into. It's kind of like being a rabbit and
Speaker 4: moving into a penful the coyotes. It's not going to
Speaker 4: end well, right, So when of course they're the good
Speaker 4: guy and bad guy are kind of turned around, you
Speaker 4: get the idea of what I'm talking about. Micro Grow
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Speaker 4: dot com and find out more. Well, it's all every
Speaker 4: time for me to take a break. Hey, hang around,
Speaker 4: I'm going to be right back at a time. Lard line.
Speaker 4: Glad you are joining us today. I'm your host, Skip Richter,
Speaker 4: and we are here to answer your gardening questions. The
Speaker 4: way I like to put it is, we're here to
Speaker 4: help you have a more bountiful garden and a more
Speaker 4: beautiful landscape. And gardening is a fun hobby. And if
Speaker 4: you're not having fun, let's talk. We got to fix
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Speaker 4: and comment that we have brown thumbs. You don't have
Speaker 4: a brown thumb. If anything, you got an uninformed thumb.
Speaker 4: And that's why we're here to inform your thumb. It
Speaker 4: just turns greener and greener as you inform it. I
Speaker 4: think that's kind of one way to look at it.
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Speaker 4: We I've been doing this for thirty five years, and
Speaker 4: I'm telling you, uh, number one, I can pretty much
Speaker 4: tell you what calls are going to be during each season,
Speaker 4: because I've been a lot of seasons, many I have
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Speaker 4: time there's always new questions. I had some last week.
Speaker 4: It's like, Yeah, I had never been asked that before.
Speaker 4: That's a good question. And then people are always coming
Speaker 4: up with new plants. You know, it seems like we've
Speaker 4: discovered every plant there is now. No, no, no, there's a
Speaker 4: whole bunch more we have yet to experience. So anyway,
Speaker 4: give us calls seven one three two one two fifty
Speaker 4: eight seventy four, I wanted to mention plants for all seasons.
Speaker 4: Up on Tomball Parkway Highway to forty nine, just north
Speaker 4: of Luetta, right there on the side of the road.
Speaker 4: That has been a garden center for that general community
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Speaker 4: You're going to find everything you need right now. It's
Speaker 4: fall season, so stock up, find the things you want
Speaker 4: to do to make your landscape glow this fall, and
Speaker 4: they've got it all of there. They also have excellent advice.
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Speaker 4: the product that you need that fixes the problem. It's
Speaker 4: not like some of these stores you never hear about
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Speaker 4: I'm going to head out now to Brian and we're
Speaker 4: gonna excuse me to Cyprus and talk to Brian. Hello, Brian, Good,
Speaker 4: Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 6: Good morning, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 7: I have a question.
Speaker 8: Yes, sir, my wife and I have a Bradford pear
Speaker 8: tree and it is a beautiful tree. And my long
Speaker 8: guy came by yesterday and I know you're not supposed
Speaker 8: to cut the trees at a certain time of the year,
Speaker 8: and the gentleman had removed some of the branches, the
Speaker 8: low line, the low branches and my wife is thinking
Speaker 8: that it's going to cause a tree to go in
Speaker 8: shock because of the fact that it was not dormant
Speaker 8: when the tree limbs were cut, and with that going
Speaker 8: to be the case with this.
Speaker 4: Tree shot, I wouldn't know. I wouldn't I wouldn't use
Speaker 4: the term shock for it. What will happen is, since
Speaker 4: it's still warm, that tree will has buds around that
Speaker 4: cut that are going to now push out and start
Speaker 4: to grow. That's just what trees do in response to pruning.
Speaker 4: And then when a cold comes you may get cold
Speaker 4: damage to that succulent new growth coming out. But if
Speaker 4: that happens, you just print out the new growth because
Speaker 4: you remove that they remove the limbs, so you don't
Speaker 4: need little sprouts all over the place in that same
Speaker 4: spot in winter. Just remove any sprouts that formed there
Speaker 4: around those cuts. It's not that not the right time
Speaker 4: to prune. They should they should know better than that.
Speaker 4: But it's not the end of the world on the tree.
Speaker 4: It's not going to go into any kind of a
Speaker 4: shock or anything.
Speaker 9: So it's not going to kill it.
Speaker 8: Since it was like one hundred frees yesterday, Okay, good deal,
Speaker 8: It'll be fine.
Speaker 4: People. People Perune, twelve months out of the year.
Speaker 6: Okay, cool, all right, thank you so much.
Speaker 4: All right, Brian, thanks a lot. I appreciate that.
Speaker 10: Thank care.
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Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 4: I was out in the backyard this week and it's like, okay,
Speaker 4: it's late September, and mosquitoes were out there after me.
Speaker 4: It's like, what, uh, what's going on here? I mean,
Speaker 4: come on, man, we need a break. Well. I went
Speaker 4: to the garage and guess what, I didn't have any
Speaker 4: mosquito dunks in my garage. I'm the guy who talks
Speaker 4: about mosquito dunks all the time and mosquito granules, the
Speaker 4: bits that they use the same Summit Responsible Solutions sells
Speaker 4: us both of them, and I didn't have any. So
Speaker 4: I gotta go run and get some. Because anytime you
Speaker 4: got standing water, and you will have standing water after
Speaker 4: a rain, it's going to be somewhere in gutters. It's
Speaker 4: going to be in the You know our well, our
Speaker 4: bird baths always have standing water underneath the catch basins.
Speaker 4: On your pot you got standing water. And then some
Speaker 4: people just have areas that don't drain. Well, a little
Speaker 4: bar ditch behind the house, and here they come. You
Speaker 4: throw a mosquito dunk in there and for it'll cover
Speaker 4: one hundred square feet and it'll last about a month,
Speaker 4: which takes us into a little bit of a cooler
Speaker 4: season here. You always just keep those things in the garage,
Speaker 4: keep them handy, you know, storm wherever you want storre
Speaker 4: them in the house if you want. But mosquito dunks
Speaker 4: are a disease of mosquitos, isn't that cool? It only
Speaker 4: affects mosquitos and fungal gnats, both of which fungus gnats,
Speaker 4: we don't like either one of those. So a bird
Speaker 4: drinks of water, it's okay. The pet drinks the water,
Speaker 4: it's okay. A lady bug drinks it's okay. It only
Speaker 4: affects mosquitoes. Mosquito dunks and mosquito bits. They really really work,
Speaker 4: and it's the simplest way to deal with mosquito. Breeding
Speaker 4: areas or rainburrow will be another example. A hole in
Speaker 4: a tree. You got a tree, a little hollow spot.
Speaker 4: Rain's going in there, and it's standing, and mosquitoes think
Speaker 4: that is heaven as a breeding spot, and they they'll
Speaker 4: drop their eggs right in there. And here come the
Speaker 4: mosquitoes out to spoil your little late day party one evening.
Speaker 4: Mosquito dunks is the way we get away with that.
Speaker 4: And so here I am the guy saying you got
Speaker 4: to get mosquito dunks, and I didn't have any to
Speaker 4: go to the store, gets more mosquita dunks. You are
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Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 4: Someone was asking me about azamite, and I, you know,
Speaker 4: I sometimes I'll say things online and sometimes I'll get
Speaker 4: a call right after I say something and it'll be
Speaker 4: the same question I just answered. And that's okay. I'm patient,
Speaker 4: I can do that, but I'm it reminds me that
Speaker 4: sometimes we don't listen. I've been told I don't listen.
Speaker 4: We're going to leave that where it is. But anyway,
Speaker 4: I've talked about a lot of times, and the question,
Speaker 4: you know, was, is that like fertilizing in the fall. Well,
Speaker 4: it's okay, it's putting nutrients down, but I don't think
Speaker 4: of it in the sense of fertilizing that most people
Speaker 4: when they say fertilizing, they're thinking, I'm going to put
Speaker 4: those big three numbers nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium three numbers
Speaker 4: on a bag. I'm going to put it out and
Speaker 4: it's going to boost my lawn to grow. That's what
Speaker 4: the nitrogen especially does. Well, it's not that you put
Speaker 4: asmite down and it doesn't like push new growth. It
Speaker 4: builds the bank account of the soil with micronutrients needed
Speaker 4: in trace amounts, so that when your plant roots need it,
Speaker 4: when you're fertilizer, when you're nitrogen pushes growth. There are
Speaker 4: all the other things that are necessary to make plant leaves, roots, stems, fruit,
Speaker 4: flowers and everything else the plant has, they're the nutrients
Speaker 4: necessary to do that in the bank account. And that's
Speaker 4: how as might works. So just think of it as
Speaker 4: a trace mineral or a micronutrient however you want to
Speaker 4: turn for your plants. It also, I think it's good
Speaker 4: in a vegetable garden, because when we eat vegetables, we
Speaker 4: want a good quality nutrient source there. We want the minerals,
Speaker 4: all the minerals that our body needs. And I'll put
Speaker 4: it out in the vegetable garden probably, I think generally, well,
Speaker 4: in a lawne you're going to use a forty four
Speaker 4: pound bag will cover about six to twelve thousand square feet,
Speaker 4: and a vegetable garden about ten pounds per thousand is
Speaker 4: what I would put out about ten pounds per thousand
Speaker 4: in the vegetable garden. But I you know, not that
Speaker 4: difficult to do. Just don't put it in the same
Speaker 4: hopper as your fertilizer because particle size is different. But
Speaker 4: it's far to put your fertilizer out for fault. Portrays
Speaker 4: might out for fault. It's a good time to do it.
Speaker 4: Hopefully that clarifies a little bit if they're if you're
Speaker 4: having a little misunderstanding about it, that will clarify things
Speaker 4: a little bit for you. So I mentioned I was
Speaker 4: out doing some grow work and harvest and stuff. I've
Speaker 4: got a bunch of weird summer vegetables in the garden,
Speaker 4: things that most people don't grow, you know, there's vegetables
Speaker 4: like molakia. Now, if you're from anywhere from Mideast, across India,
Speaker 4: Pakistan through that whole region in there, molechia is very popular,
Speaker 4: a very popular vegetable. It's used in a lot of
Speaker 4: lamb and rice dishes and other things. But I like
Speaker 4: to grow it because it laughs at summer. I've got
Speaker 4: malabar another one. It laughs at summer. It's a very
Speaker 4: large kind of fleshy leaf plant a little it's mucilaginous,
Speaker 4: which thickens, helps thicken soups thick and smoothies too. By
Speaker 4: the way, I have what else is in the garden
Speaker 4: right now? Oh gosh? Anyway, some emoranth. There's a type
Speaker 4: of amorant that has an edible leaf that I grow.
Speaker 4: The There's a type of silosha. Actually people call everything
Speaker 4: spinach that's not spinach, and they call the silosha that
Speaker 4: we Egyptian spinach. I don't know why, but anyway, have
Speaker 4: some of that out there and a number of other things,
Speaker 4: and I'm out picking mostly. I just picked the leaves
Speaker 4: and use them in smoothies and things. Because you're getting
Speaker 4: vitamins and nutrients and minerals from all of those things,
Speaker 4: and I know it's not time to plant them now.
Speaker 4: We're going into cool rather than warm. But when summer comes,
Speaker 4: just remember you can grow vegetables twelve months out of
Speaker 4: the year here. You know, there's a trade off no
Speaker 4: matter where you live and what you can grow. But
Speaker 4: down this far south in the country, we have truly
Speaker 4: twelve months of growing that we can do. And there
Speaker 4: ought to be something you can bring into the kitchen
Speaker 4: and put into a healthy diet every month of the year.
Speaker 4: Here in this area, we're fortunate in that way. Let's
Speaker 4: head out to the woodlands now and we are going
Speaker 4: to talk to Mike. Hello, Mike, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 12: Hello, good morning.
Speaker 4: Oh Mike, Hey Mike, I did it. I did it again.
Speaker 4: I get talking and I forget that it's time for
Speaker 4: a break. I am going to have to put you
Speaker 4: on hold to come right back to my ologies. If
Speaker 4: you can hang on.
Speaker 12: Good morning, ship. I have a white fly infestation. That's
Speaker 12: uh some my myer limbit, my tea lime and across
Speaker 12: the yard of my high business. Uh you know, I'm
Speaker 12: watching some videos and I put some bike fendron on
Speaker 12: it yesterday and they also suggest like meem oil with
Speaker 12: with I guess like some soap in it or what
Speaker 12: do you what do you suggest for the white flies.
Speaker 4: So so the white flies that you see flying around,
Speaker 4: the adults, that's when everybody knows they have white flies.
Speaker 4: That's the obvious stage. It's hard, you know, because they're
Speaker 4: flying around. It's hard to do a lot to kill them.
Speaker 4: But but there are insecticides you put on the plant
Speaker 4: and they land and get exposed to them, and you've
Speaker 4: done some of that. They lay eggs and then the
Speaker 4: eggs hatch out into larva that are under the leaf
Speaker 4: that you don't really see. They're there if you look.
Speaker 4: But and then there's larva turned into pupa that kind
Speaker 4: of look like miniature fish scales stuck to the leaf,
Speaker 4: very tiny, and then they come out as adults. So
Speaker 4: in those first three stages, egg, larvae, and pupa, you
Speaker 4: can spray upward from underneath the plant with like a
Speaker 4: horticultural oil. Insecticidal soap will help against especially the larval stage.
Speaker 4: But you have to turn the spray or nozzle up
Speaker 4: to spray upward underneath the leaves and get the bottoms
Speaker 4: of the leaves and you can shut them down there.
Speaker 4: Those are are easier to get to stages than the adults.
Speaker 4: But either way you go about it, just keep in
Speaker 4: mind the life cycles so that you don't just wait
Speaker 4: until you see the adults to try to spray. It's
Speaker 4: harder to you know, they fly around, it's harder to
Speaker 4: hit them and do as much good as you can
Speaker 4: on the first three stages.
Speaker 12: So if I, if I, you know, applied the buck
Speaker 12: fin print yesterday, would you do it like again tomorrow
Speaker 12: or would you.
Speaker 4: Do that stuff last that lasts a long time? Mike, I,
Speaker 4: you know, I haven't looked at a label, but I'm
Speaker 4: a little surprised that by friend therene's label for citrus.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: And you always want to be careful with things, you know,
Speaker 4: especially when it's on a crop you're gonna eat.
Speaker 13: Uh.
Speaker 4: But it may it may be. I just that I
Speaker 4: didn't realize there was a bivenron that you could use
Speaker 4: on ceterrius.
Speaker 12: But these are very small. Yeah there there's there's there's
Speaker 12: no fruit on these.
Speaker 4: They are only like a year old, so gotcha.
Speaker 12: Yeah, that's OK. But so would you would you just
Speaker 12: an em oil and soap thin instead?
Speaker 4: I would? And and on the name there's there's two
Speaker 4: types of name. One is the oil and it'll say
Speaker 4: that when you look at the ingredient on the label.
Speaker 14: Uh.
Speaker 4: And the other one is ASA directin begins with a
Speaker 4: z A that is an extract out of that nem
Speaker 4: oil that has the insecticide in it. So the oil
Speaker 4: kills like oils killed by smothering pests. The ASA directing
Speaker 4: forms kill by putting a natural insecticide on the leaf
Speaker 4: that soaks into the tissue so that when things feed
Speaker 4: on it, they get that as a direction. So I
Speaker 4: would do the oil form. I just think it's a
Speaker 4: little bit better for this particular pest.
Speaker 12: Would I'm concerned with the oil and the you know,
Speaker 12: the heat that we have. You know, if I did
Speaker 12: it early in the morning, like this morning, Uh, it
Speaker 12: should be fine for you know, you know it. Should
Speaker 12: you do it in addition to the bipendrone.
Speaker 11: Then.
Speaker 4: Well I would, just because you're trying to knock these
Speaker 4: things out completely, and there there were those two products
Speaker 4: are working in a little different ways. With a bifenthron,
Speaker 4: you're poisoning them. With the oil, you're smothering eggs, larvae
Speaker 4: and pupa. All three that are all under the leaf. Uh.
Speaker 4: And so if you see why I'm saying saying, go
Speaker 4: go with the oil to on that mix.
Speaker 12: Yes, okay, perfect, thank you.
Speaker 4: And and they have they have a lot of natural enemies.
Speaker 4: And one problem we get into when we start spraying
Speaker 4: is we kill some white flies, but we also kill
Speaker 4: their natural enemies, and so, uh, you know, there's that
Speaker 4: kind of a good news bad news thing there in
Speaker 4: the mix. So I always try to avoid killing good
Speaker 4: guys as much as possible because that just makes our
Speaker 4: job harder.
Speaker 12: Right, I understand that, you know that's it does affect
Speaker 12: like bead and stuff like that. And these are these
Speaker 12: are expensive uh trees, you know, and they've started to
Speaker 12: you know, their leaves are curling and dying, so I
Speaker 12: know that they're attacking the plant pretty good.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, Mike, if you're seeing if you're seeing
Speaker 4: curling of the leaves, I would also look real carefully
Speaker 4: at those curling leaves for trails, serpentine trails going all
Speaker 4: the way through the leaf. They'll they'll be like a
Speaker 4: little black thread through the trail as well, skinnier than
Speaker 4: the width of the trail. There's an insect that eats
Speaker 4: through the leaf between the upper and lower surfaces called
Speaker 4: the leaf minor and citrus gets us and it causes
Speaker 4: the new growth to curl and to get silvery looking.
Speaker 4: So you may also have that. Now, if you have that,
Speaker 4: then the name the as a directin type of name
Speaker 4: would be the one to use because it goes into
Speaker 4: the tissue and the thing chomping the inside of the
Speaker 4: leaf will be affected by the asidactin.
Speaker 12: I probably should have help. So the others whie flies,
Speaker 12: the curling leaves, and then there's there's leaves that have
Speaker 12: look like a mold on them, you know, like a
Speaker 12: really dark mold on them. So I don't know.
Speaker 4: Okay, that's well, that's connected to the white flies, which
Speaker 4: anything sucks juices out of leaves, basically peas out sugar water,
Speaker 4: and that's aphid scale, white flies, mealy bugs, all of
Speaker 4: those create that sooty mold. But the city mold is
Speaker 4: more just if you spray sugar water on your citrus leeves,
Speaker 4: you would start to see a build up of sooty molt.
Speaker 4: So that that's just a secondary indication in this case
Speaker 4: of your white flies. All right, great, all right, good
Speaker 4: luck with that.
Speaker 11: Now.
Speaker 4: You know, when we answer gardening questions on guardline. All
Speaker 4: I ask is that you bring me half of the produce.
Speaker 4: When those centras start to produce, just drop it off
Speaker 4: with KTRH Studio and we'll call it.
Speaker 12: Even we'll do it.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Thanks a lot, Mike, appreciate that our phone
Speaker 4: number seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy
Speaker 4: four seven one three two one two five eight seven four.
Speaker 4: When was the last time you're at it in Chana gardens?
Speaker 4: I want to tell you what's there now? If you
Speaker 4: go out now, what are you going to see out there?
Speaker 4: You're going to see all kinds of cool stuff. But
Speaker 4: there's one particular thing that you got to get the
Speaker 4: kids out there to do. They can they had the
Speaker 4: fixens to build your own scarecrow. It's really cool. So
Speaker 4: you basically you buy the supplies you're going to get.
Speaker 4: You're going to bring your old clothes, you know, some
Speaker 4: old clothes that are on their way to goodwill or
Speaker 4: whatever or even less less attractive than that. You bring those.
Speaker 4: They're going to get you the skeleton of it, which
Speaker 4: is basically you know, the stick that goes inside. They're
Speaker 4: going to give you the stuffings for it. They got to,
Speaker 4: you know, all the stuff you need to put together.
Speaker 4: Scarecrow is like a little kid and kids can do
Speaker 4: this and it is fun. You know, there's a little
Speaker 4: video online if you go to the the Anchinna Gardens.
Speaker 4: Some of their social media and whatnot tells you how
Speaker 4: to do that, whether it's Instagram or Facebook, and your
Speaker 4: kids can build their own scarecrow for decorating for fall
Speaker 4: harvest season, both through Halloween, Thanksgiving. All of that. It's
Speaker 4: really cool. And they also have a supply. They have everything,
Speaker 4: so I never know what to talk about with them,
Speaker 4: but they have a supply of things called airplants. Airplants
Speaker 4: are things like ball moss. Have you ever seen ball
Speaker 4: moss up in trees or southern moss that hangs down. Well,
Speaker 4: airplants are like that, but they have all kinds of
Speaker 4: exotic types of airplanes. Now, if you can't crun airplant,
Speaker 4: I can't help you. You're gonna have to go buy
Speaker 4: silk plants or something, because it's so easy. You just
Speaker 4: dunk them in water basically. But they've got cool stuff
Speaker 4: like that for those For the plat person who has everything,
Speaker 4: I bet they don't have talentsius, which are the airplants.
Speaker 4: Let's take a little break here by the way, and
Speaker 4: Jenny Gardens is on FM three fifty nine. The website
Speaker 4: it's on the Katie Fullsher side of Richmond. The website
Speaker 4: is Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. They are open today
Speaker 4: from eight to five Tomorrow from ten to four. Go
Speaker 4: check this out. Take the kids with phone number if
Speaker 4: you'd like to give me a call seven one three
Speaker 4: two one two kt RH seven one three two one
Speaker 4: two k t RH. You know, we love feed stores
Speaker 4: here on guard Line. And for those of you down
Speaker 4: in the Greater League City area. When I say Greater
Speaker 4: League City, I mean Santa Fe, Webster, Clare Lake City,
Speaker 4: elkam Into Real Sandling on the Mark Baycliff, Dickinson. This
Speaker 4: is a hometown feedstore for you guys. It's been around
Speaker 4: for forty years down there and it if she that
Speaker 4: old time service that you would expect, you know, the
Speaker 4: third generation now Thunderberg's run in that feed store and
Speaker 4: I love going in there. And when you go in,
Speaker 4: by the way, they're open Monday through Saturday from nine
Speaker 4: to six and closed on Sunday. So if you need
Speaker 4: to get some shopping done, this weekend. Now's the time
Speaker 4: to get down there and do it. I like that
Speaker 4: six pm because every day after working, just swing buy
Speaker 4: and get what you need. Here's a phone number two
Speaker 4: eight one three three two sixteen twelve. You're going to
Speaker 4: find all the things you need to control pests, weeds
Speaker 4: and diseases, premium pet foods that they have there. If
Speaker 4: you got backyard chickens, they got you covered on all
Speaker 4: the supplies you need for that. And they have every
Speaker 4: fertilizer and some of the soil blends that I talk
Speaker 4: about here on Guardline. How much more could you want.
Speaker 4: It's time for fall fertilization, So swing by League City
Speaker 4: Feed and grab the ones you need for the fall,
Speaker 4: whether you're gardening organically or synthetic or however you go
Speaker 4: about it. League City Feed's got you covered. For example,
Speaker 4: they have you know, night fross Ha their three step program. Now,
Speaker 4: the Nitropus three step is basically a fertilizer, a weed
Speaker 4: control and a fungus a disease control. So fertilizer that
Speaker 4: is the Nitropos Fall Special Winter Riser Fall Special Winderizer.
Speaker 4: It is. It's got plenty of that potassium that we
Speaker 4: need in order to build cold heartiness and to help
Speaker 4: that grass come out stronger in the spring. Remember spring growth,
Speaker 4: the first earliest spring growth on your grass is based
Speaker 4: on stored energy, not what the roots are taking up. Then,
Speaker 4: so your fall fertilization is critical for winter hardiness but
Speaker 4: also for spring growth. Then it has the barricade which
Speaker 4: prevents all the cool season weeds that will be sprouting
Speaker 4: in October and November. So you want to get that
Speaker 4: stuff down in October. Just follow my schedule online gardening
Speaker 4: with skip dot com and you'll find that. And then
Speaker 4: the third of the three steps is the Nitrophus eagle
Speaker 4: turf fungicide. That's a systemic products into the grass tissues,
Speaker 4: so when the disease tries to attack, it has its protectant.
Speaker 4: They're already built into the plant. Now, brown patch or
Speaker 4: large patch as it's now called, it's going to appear
Speaker 4: when we get a little cold front in here, in
Speaker 4: some rainy, cool weather. You're going to start to see
Speaker 4: the circles. You have to get down ahead of that
Speaker 4: in order to have success. Don't wait until the circles appear.
Speaker 4: Follow my schedule. Get it on early October is what
Speaker 4: I would recommend for that to have success. Now you're
Speaker 4: going to find night Foss products at Court Hardware and
Speaker 4: Stafford Katie Ace Hardware. You'll find them at Plants Something,
Speaker 4: Plants and Things up in Brenham and up in Willis
Speaker 4: at the Growers outlet. Also, we're going to go now
Speaker 4: to talk to Carl. Hello, Carl, where are you calling from.
Speaker 11: I'm in the west part of Houston, the Gaalleria tangle
Speaker 11: Wood area.
Speaker 4: Okay, good, how can we help today?
Speaker 11: Well, I've got three clear Era that are about two
Speaker 11: years old and have done well, but recently, over the
Speaker 11: last few weeks, they've all started dropping leaves, some more
Speaker 11: extensively than others, and it just seems like they're watering
Speaker 11: the plants around them. I've got some camellia that are
Speaker 11: planted in the same bed along with the holly hedge. Okay,
Speaker 11: everything seems to be doing well except those clear Era,
Speaker 11: and one of the three is like, it's really more
Speaker 11: affected than the other two. But they're all kind of
Speaker 11: doing the same thing.
Speaker 4: All right, Well, something's going on in the roots. Claire
Speaker 4: is an evergreen, but evergreens do drop their leaves, whether
Speaker 4: it's a pine tree or a clare or any other evergreen.
Speaker 4: The leaves only live so long and they have cycles
Speaker 4: where they drop them. But what you're having happened there
Speaker 4: is a little out of sinc It could be dry roots.
Speaker 4: It could be damage to the roots, physical damage to
Speaker 4: the roots. It could be soggy wet conditions where the
Speaker 4: roots can't get oxygen they start to die. Then it
Speaker 4: essentially is like dry roots. Because you don't have roots,
Speaker 4: you can't take out water. It's gonna be one of
Speaker 4: those things going on. It could be a root rot
Speaker 4: disease that's around them. It's hard to know for sure.
Speaker 4: If you were to have one that was pretty much
Speaker 4: gone and you look at us like, this thing is
Speaker 4: not coming back, don't wait until it's completely brown. Pull
Speaker 4: it up and take a knife and slice down through
Speaker 4: the trunk, bark at the base, you know, and just
Speaker 4: like you're whittling it down, and look underneath the tissues.
Speaker 4: Instead of being creamy white, you'll see some streaking of
Speaker 4: brown and gray in there. That's a sign that you
Speaker 4: had a root a root disease. Or when you pull
Speaker 4: it up you to see all the roots are rotted.
Speaker 4: You have green leaves on some green leaves still left
Speaker 4: on top That's why I say, don't wait too long.
Speaker 4: And then you see rotted roots. Now you know what
Speaker 4: you're dealing with, and you could go get a drench
Speaker 4: of a fungicide to drench over them. But because those
Speaker 4: causes are so different, I hate to send you out
Speaker 4: to buy a product when that may not be what
Speaker 4: you need.
Speaker 11: Yeah, see what I'm saying. Do you have someone that
Speaker 11: you could recommend that could maybe come by and take
Speaker 11: a look at them and if they need to be replaced,
Speaker 11: would have the knowledge to put something in there that
Speaker 11: would thrive in an area? Seems like these beds they
Speaker 11: face the north side of the house, and it just
Speaker 11: seems like I have trouble gaining other things.
Speaker 4: I just think brow, I understand. Yeah, you know, you
Speaker 4: just need to find a good landscape. I don't have
Speaker 4: someone that I'd recommend specifically for your area.
Speaker 11: For that.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry about that. Uh. You can send a plant
Speaker 4: up to the plant clinic at A and M. You
Speaker 4: shake all the soil that can off box it up,
Speaker 4: ship it up there and they'll they'll tell you exactly
Speaker 4: if it's a disease what it is. But other than that,
Speaker 4: you know, it would just be a matter of finding
Speaker 4: a good landscape that knows what they're doing. And I
Speaker 4: don't have a tis.
Speaker 11: If we find out though, all right, the problem, if
Speaker 11: we if you correct the problem and treat it, will
Speaker 11: be plants likely survive or are they probably going to
Speaker 11: need to be replaced.
Speaker 4: If you catch it early in the process, you can
Speaker 4: probably save them. If it's too far along, there's not
Speaker 4: much left to save done in those tissues, but it's
Speaker 4: worth the dry. Dig down with your hands in the soil,
Speaker 4: feel the soil about four inches deep and see does
Speaker 4: it feel soggy or does it feel a little dry.
Speaker 4: I don't think it'll be dry right now, but it
Speaker 4: might be, so just kind of check that if you
Speaker 4: just want to be you know, take Since you don't
Speaker 4: have a magical cure right here, you could just get
Speaker 4: a drench and put it on and drench it down
Speaker 4: in there. But go by Southwest Fertilizer. They're pretty close
Speaker 4: to you out there in Southwest Houston, and they're going
Speaker 4: to have a wide right Tell them what you have.
Speaker 4: Tell them. We talked on guardline. You might have a
Speaker 4: root right in it. That would be the only other
Speaker 4: thing I could suggest.
Speaker 11: Carl, Okay, all right, thank you for your good luck.
Speaker 4: Yes, sir, I wish you. Wish you well with that.
Speaker 4: If you need help with a landscape, you know, maybe
Speaker 4: you want to redo some plants, maybe you want some
Speaker 4: more drought tolerant plants, maybe you just want to beautify
Speaker 4: an area. Pierscapes as a company, we recommend you consider.
Speaker 4: Peerscapes has been doing this a long time. Go to
Speaker 4: their website piercescapes dot com. You're going to see the
Speaker 4: work they do. They do drainage work. If you need
Speaker 4: an area that's poorly drainfix, they'll do it. They work
Speaker 4: on irrigation systems to get them right. They can do
Speaker 4: hard scapes, they can do landscape lighting. They can create
Speaker 4: patios and outdoor barbecue areas that you just wouldn't believe.
Speaker 4: Pierscapes dot com is a website and I encourage you
Speaker 4: to take a look. They also do quarterly maintenance wherever
Speaker 4: quarter they come in and weed and fertilize and check
Speaker 4: your irrigation and change out the color. So you know
Speaker 4: we're going into fall now it's time for new color change,
Speaker 4: and then for winter we'll have a color change. They'll
Speaker 4: do all that. Add mulch to your beds. All from
Speaker 4: Pierscapes at peerscapes dot com. We're going to go now
Speaker 4: to Manvil and talk to Adolf. Hello Adolf, good morning.
Speaker 15: For simmons.
Speaker 4: Hey, yes, sure, uh yeah, I'm sorry. I'm just going
Speaker 4: to let you know. We've got a short time here.
Speaker 4: So for simmons, how can we help?
Speaker 15: Yeah, they're those the colored right now and most of
Speaker 15: the leaves are gone. It take a long time to.
Speaker 4: Bite them.
Speaker 15: Cut them off. Now.
Speaker 4: Now here's what you do. There's two types of per simmons.
Speaker 4: Some are astringent, some are non astringent. The astringent types
Speaker 4: pucker your mouth and you got to let them get
Speaker 4: pretty soft before they are ready to eat. I would
Speaker 4: leave them on the tree as long as you can.
Speaker 4: If we haven't had a freeze, bring them in, put
Speaker 4: them in the freezer overnight, take them out, let them thaw,
Speaker 4: do it again, freezer overnight, come out, let them thowt
Speaker 4: If it's a if it's an a stringent type, if
Speaker 4: it's a non astringent type, once it turns really nice
Speaker 4: deep color orange that you can pick them and eat them.
Speaker 4: At that stage, you just have to figure out which
Speaker 4: type you have. If you want to hang around through break.
Speaker 4: We can continue the discussion, but we got to go
Speaker 4: for now.
Speaker 12: All right, thank you.
Speaker 1: Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Skip rictor.
Speaker 16: Just watch him.
Speaker 4: All right, folks, welcome back to garden Line. We're going
Speaker 4: to jump right into it here. We got plenty of
Speaker 4: things to talk about.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 4: I was at at Arborgate not too long ago and
Speaker 4: just checking out what they have, what's going on out there,
Speaker 4: And you know at the arbor gate there is always
Speaker 4: always something going on. I mean they stay stocked up
Speaker 4: on whatever plant is suitable for the season. So I
Speaker 4: don't matter what it is. Vegetables. Do you need vegetables?
Speaker 4: I hope you do it. Fall all vegetables the best
Speaker 4: season at all of all for growing vegetables, it is.
Speaker 4: How about herbs, Fall is the best time to plant
Speaker 4: all your perennial herbs and arbrogates. Stocked up on that.
Speaker 4: If you're looking for decorations, if you're looking for just
Speaker 4: your indoor supplies for holidays, you know, from gourmet things
Speaker 4: to gifts to whatnot. We've got Thanksgiving coming up here,
Speaker 4: and certainly all the decorations outdoors for you know, everything
Speaker 4: from Halloween to harvest season. Arbigate's got that all loaded up.
Speaker 4: You just need to go. If you've not been, you
Speaker 4: need to go now. I'm a horticulturist. I'm into their
Speaker 4: plants and the products that they have, like their one
Speaker 4: two three easy system for soil for anything with roots.
Speaker 4: It's a fertilizer for anything with roots. It's the compost
Speaker 4: for anything with roots, which is everything we grow. But
Speaker 4: you ought to see the gift shops. They are gorgeous.
Speaker 4: They are gorgeous, and we've got all kinds of holidays
Speaker 4: coming up here as we go through the rest of
Speaker 4: this year. And I promise you when you get into Arbrogate,
Speaker 4: you're going to see things that's like this is the
Speaker 4: perfect gift for so and so fill in the blank. Right.
Speaker 4: They absolutely are loaded on everything that you can imagine
Speaker 4: like that. Plus when you go to Arburgate, you get
Speaker 4: excellent advice, advice from people who know what they're talking about.
Speaker 4: Beverly and Kennon and the whole team out there at Arburgate.
Speaker 4: They are experts. I talk to them all the time.
Speaker 4: Sometimes we collaborate on questions that have come up from
Speaker 4: a customers, like here's a very unusual questions. They are
Speaker 4: up to speed on all that kind of stuff, and
Speaker 4: I just to really appreciate working with them because they
Speaker 4: are the kind of folks that love plants, they love people,
Speaker 4: and you will really love your trip when you go
Speaker 4: out to Arburgate there on the west side of Tombull.
Speaker 4: For those of you haven't been there before, it's twenty
Speaker 4: nine to twenty. That's the farm to market going west
Speaker 4: out of Tombull on the left hand side. Arburgate dot com.
Speaker 4: Go to that website Arbrogate dot com find out more
Speaker 4: about it, but mainly go out there and get ready
Speaker 4: for fall. At Arburgate. I'm going to go now to
Speaker 4: Jersey Village and if I can get my there, we go.
Speaker 4: We're going to talk to George. Hello, George, welcome to garden.
Speaker 7: Good morning, Stiff, Good morning. I got some sweet potatoes
Speaker 7: that I've had in the ground since about APO is
Speaker 7: up and then the leaves are everywhere, So I just
Speaker 7: wondering when do I harvest those boogers.
Speaker 4: Sweet potatoes don't ripen, so you can harvest them whenever
Speaker 4: you want. Now, generally you want them to get a
Speaker 4: decent size to them, right, and so we leave them
Speaker 4: a little bit longer, you want to harvest them before
Speaker 4: we have a frieze, because as those roots swell up,
Speaker 4: the ground cracks open and the cold air can get
Speaker 4: in there and actually damage some of those potato parts
Speaker 4: that are up near the surface. But anytime you want
Speaker 4: to harvest them, I would get, you know, a little
Speaker 4: your fingers and some soil, a little trol or whatever
Speaker 4: kind of scrape the sow back and see what kind
Speaker 4: of roots you got. Do you need a little longer
Speaker 4: or are they good to go? Maybe you harvest one
Speaker 4: hill and then harvest another hill. There's not a right
Speaker 4: or wrong on that one. Just don't wait until it's frisen.
Speaker 7: And then one other thing. We were in South Padre
Speaker 7: Island two weeks ago and hanging out on the beach
Speaker 7: and stuff, and there are a bunch of butterflies there.
Speaker 7: So my buddy says, you know what they have these
Speaker 7: butterflies doing there in South Podia Island. So and I
Speaker 7: and I told him your story about they were swimming.
Speaker 7: They came flying across the Gulf of Mexico for some
Speaker 7: stupid reason. So no, no, we were impressed with that
Speaker 7: pretty something.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know what they who knows why they
Speaker 4: were there. I'm not a butterfly expert, but the butterflies
Speaker 4: are going the other way. They're heading to Mexico here
Speaker 4: this fall.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: They're fueling up at our houses right now and heading
Speaker 4: that way.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 4: So, I don't know why they were in Galveston. Maybe
Speaker 4: maybe they just had a little vacation time. They wanted
Speaker 4: to go to the beach. Yeah, oh South Padre Okay,
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. That's a big, big wayfair
Speaker 4: station for for butterflies and hummingbirds.
Speaker 5: And that's amazing, amazing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, sounds fun. Thanks all right, George. Thanks, appreciate,
Speaker 4: appreciate you calling. Our phone number is seven one three
Speaker 4: two one two five eight seven four seven one three
Speaker 4: two one two fifty eight seventy four. Listen.
Speaker 17: Uh.
Speaker 4: Turf Star. It's a it's a lawn fertilizer, turf Star
Speaker 4: from Nelson Plant Food and turf Star has it's a
Speaker 4: series of fertilizers. The turf Star you need to be
Speaker 4: looking at right now. You can do one of two.
Speaker 4: You can do Bruce's Brew, which is any month of
Speaker 4: the year. But I'm gonna talk about carbol Load. Carbol
Speaker 4: Load is a product that is designed with the higher
Speaker 4: potassium content and a little lower nitrogen. That's what we
Speaker 4: want to do in the fall. I'll talk a little
Speaker 4: bit later why that is. But you put it down now,
Speaker 4: it gets into your plant, and just think of it
Speaker 4: as this. It's like putting anafreeze into the plant. It
Speaker 4: makes it more cold hearty. Potassium plays a huge role
Speaker 4: in cold heartiness of any plant. Also, by going into
Speaker 4: fall strong, it comes out strong, and carboload is designed
Speaker 4: for that. You will benefit from your fall carboload application
Speaker 4: in the spring when the grass starts to green up
Speaker 4: and grow, because your fall application will be fueling that
Speaker 4: early green up and growth of the Saint Augustine grass
Speaker 4: or zoizia or bermuda, whatever you are growing. It also
Speaker 4: contains a pre emergent herbicide. Now, because of that, you
Speaker 4: want to make sure and get that done early. If
Speaker 4: you look at my schedule, fall fertilization is all through
Speaker 4: the month of October. Well, get it done in early October.
Speaker 4: If you're going to do the carboload, get it done now.
Speaker 4: You can even do it late September, which is where
Speaker 4: we are right now. From now on into the early
Speaker 4: part of October, get that down because you want when
Speaker 4: the weed seed start to germinate for winter, which is
Speaker 4: the hindbitten chickweed and carpet weed, annual bluegrass, all the
Speaker 4: different things like that. You want to have that carboload
Speaker 4: down with that pre emergent down. Now. Nelson Products has it,
Speaker 4: and Nelson products are widely available, easy to find them.
Speaker 4: But just remember for your fall fertilization that carbe load
Speaker 4: and get it down sooner rather than later. All right,
Speaker 4: I hope that makes sense. It's important to make sure
Speaker 4: and get that done. I was talking to somebody just
Speaker 4: the other day, just in fact, yesterday who had a
Speaker 4: tree problem. I do a little consultat consulting here with folks,
Speaker 4: and I was out on a site looking at a
Speaker 4: tree problem that they had, and I was looking at
Speaker 4: the pruning job that had been done, and it was
Speaker 4: not a good pruning job. They had some big wounds
Speaker 4: that were not healing. They left stubs, they cut some
Speaker 4: things too close to the trunk. They didn't know how
Speaker 4: to prune. That's why I keep telling you guys, call
Speaker 4: Martin spoon Moore at Affloridable Tree Care and listen. Martin
Speaker 4: does a good job. That's why he stays busy. And
Speaker 4: that's why you don't need to wait until, oh it's February,
Speaker 4: winter's almost over. It's too late. I mean the guys,
Speaker 4: it's going to stay booked up all the time for
Speaker 4: some period of time. If you want to make sure
Speaker 4: and get into the best pruning time, that's October through
Speaker 4: February here in our area. You need to call Martin
Speaker 4: now and get on the schedule. Tell him you heard
Speaker 4: about on guarden line. Helps you get up to the
Speaker 4: front of his list.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 4: And but you got to get on the schedule. We'll
Speaker 4: fall in winter pruning. He'll prune him, he'll do deep
Speaker 4: root feeding. He'll check the overall healthier trees. If you
Speaker 4: see any movement at the tree base or roots, in
Speaker 4: other words, that that tree is kind of lifted up
Speaker 4: from the storms and the wet soils that we had,
Speaker 4: you can kind of see that as it kind of
Speaker 4: lifts up. You know, it's obvious tree leaning. And in fact,
Speaker 4: the site I was on had that kind of condition.
Speaker 4: You need to call Martin. Here's here's the number seven
Speaker 4: one three, six nine nine twenty six sixty three. That's
Speaker 4: seven one three, six ninety nine two six sixty three.
Speaker 4: If Martin or Joe don't answer the phone, you've called
Speaker 4: the wrong number. Seven one three sixt' nine nine twind
Speaker 4: your landscape. You can give me a call it three
Speaker 4: two one two fifty eight seventy four. And if you've
Speaker 4: listened to garden Line once, you have heard me talk
Speaker 4: about the importance of building your soil. That is where
Speaker 4: success starts. I know, you go into a garden center.
Speaker 4: I go into garden centers and see all the color
Speaker 4: and it's just like, I gotta have one of all those.
Speaker 4: That's what attracts me. Not a bag of mulch or
Speaker 4: soil mix or bed mix off to the side. But
Speaker 4: the most important thing in that garden center are the
Speaker 4: products that build your soil, and then come the plants
Speaker 4: that go into it. Yes, we want those plants to
Speaker 4: be beautiful. But if you want success, why not build
Speaker 4: a bed with roses and bloomers blend from heirloom soils
Speaker 4: or with veggie and herb mix for vegetables and herbs,
Speaker 4: and it works good for flower bits too, by the way,
Speaker 4: from heirloom soils, or with fruit berry and citrus mix.
Speaker 4: Why not fill your containers with cactus and suculent mix
Speaker 4: if it's cactire succulents or with the works potting soil.
Speaker 4: All of those are from heirloom soils. I want to
Speaker 4: tell you something going on this week. This is a
Speaker 4: a kind of a short deal. But at the Porter Location,
Speaker 4: which is where airloom soil is made up in Porter, Texas,
Speaker 4: they have a limited time special. You can either go
Speaker 4: up there and pick it up or you can have
Speaker 4: them deliver it. And you need to listen carefully. This
Speaker 4: airloom soils rosesoil, which is good for any kind of
Speaker 4: landscape beds that you have, heirloom soils, rose sooil or
Speaker 4: veggie and herb mix in bulk. When you go up there,
Speaker 4: you'll receive a free bag of Microlife six to four
Speaker 4: the Microlife fertilizer. Now you can go to the web
Speaker 4: to Airloomsoils dot com to learn all about it. If
Speaker 4: you want to know about that particular location, then go
Speaker 4: to rock inmlts dot com. That's rock the letter in
Speaker 4: malt dot com. Rockinmltz dot com. That's the Porter location.
Speaker 4: There's a soil yard up there, you know where they
Speaker 4: do the airlom sols. They have the Rock materials as
Speaker 4: well up there, so anything you need to deliver it
Speaker 4: or go pick it up, but go ahead and do
Speaker 4: it now. It's a short term. Plus you need to
Speaker 4: get the beds made quick heirloom. So this is you
Speaker 4: get the rose soil by bulk or the veggiean nerb
Speaker 4: mix by bulk, pick up her delivery. You receive a
Speaker 4: free bag of Microlife six to four, which you'll also
Speaker 4: need when you get those products. We're going to go
Speaker 4: back to the woodlands now and talk to Mike. Hey, Mike,
Speaker 4: we got some more questions on white flies.
Speaker 12: Yeah, it's a follow up question. I spread to buy
Speaker 12: syndroyn yesterday. I think it got on my time plant.
Speaker 12: Would you throw that away or not eat it for
Speaker 12: a while?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 12: And then second I would yeah, throw it away.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I don't take a chance on that. I mean it.
Speaker 4: I could never tell you to do something that's not
Speaker 4: according to the label and then put it in your mouth.
Speaker 4: I mean that, that would be malpractice on my part.
Speaker 4: So yeah.
Speaker 12: And then secondly, they recommend worm castings to put in
Speaker 12: the same plants that have the why the white fly infestation?
Speaker 12: Can you tell me what that would be for.
Speaker 4: Worm castings? Are loaded with micro First of all, they're
Speaker 4: also high in nutrients. When things go through a worm's gullet,
Speaker 4: it's basically taking organic matter, breaking it down, digesting it,
Speaker 4: and releasing all the good stuff that's in it. And
Speaker 4: so worm castings are just they're like a compost on steroids.
Speaker 12: Okay, I see it can burn roots, so it must
Speaker 12: be like a you know, pretty rich.
Speaker 4: You would have to use a lot to burn roots.
Speaker 4: I would, I would, but you don't need that much.
Speaker 4: That's you know, they're not cheap, and so I would
Speaker 4: just put a little bit out, follow the instructions on
Speaker 4: the bag there. But you're you got a pretty enriched stuff.
Speaker 4: It's not quite the level of like a bag of
Speaker 4: fertilizer in terms of concentration, but it's above compost in
Speaker 4: terms of concentration. Great, thank you, all right, you bet,
Speaker 4: thanks Mike. Hey, Mike, you're up there in the woodlands.
Speaker 4: I keep forgetting to mention. Today I'm going to be
Speaker 4: at A and A Plans and Produce out there in Montgomery.
Speaker 4: I know that's not your back door, but it's not
Speaker 4: too far away. I'll be there after the show today.
Speaker 4: So if you get a chance, just swing on by,
Speaker 4: I'd love to meet you. And if you got any
Speaker 4: samples or plants you want to bring by for us
Speaker 4: to look at, give us some eye to eye face
Speaker 4: to face time to get that done. I just want
Speaker 4: to mention that for I turned you loose.
Speaker 12: All right, thank you.
Speaker 4: You bet bye bye. All right, folks, if you were
Speaker 4: up in the Tomball West of Tomball twenty nine to twenty,
Speaker 4: there's a lot of new neighborhoods that have gone in
Speaker 4: out there. D and DE Feed Store is your hometown
Speaker 4: feed store out there. You know they've got all the
Speaker 4: fertilizers we talk about. They've got soil blends we talk about.
Speaker 4: And when I say that, what I mean is like
Speaker 4: age leaf, moll compost, I'm heirlooms rose soil. They're fruit
Speaker 4: berry and citrus mix and veggie nerve mix. I was
Speaker 4: just talking about. You can buy it by the bag
Speaker 4: of D and D Feed. Do you want a night
Speaker 4: to five fertilizer like sweet Green or super Turf for
Speaker 4: the Imperial or the Saint Augustine's Weed and feed things
Speaker 4: tree intra barricade for the for the the pest problems
Speaker 4: that you have. D and D Feed carries all of that.
Speaker 4: Plus they just their feed store. They have quality feeds,
Speaker 4: quality feed for your pets too. By the way, they've
Speaker 4: expanded the store and it's just a nice place to visit.
Speaker 4: It's really convenient and easy swinging out twenty nine to
Speaker 4: twenty just out west to Tom Ballaway's and you're gonna
Speaker 4: find what you need there. Absolutely, they and good friendly
Speaker 4: service too, by the way, is what you would expect
Speaker 4: from D and D feed. I was talking about that nitross,
Speaker 4: you know, the the nitrofoss one to two three completely
Speaker 4: easy system that is called they call it the Texas
Speaker 4: three step. You probably heard of the Texas two step, right,
Speaker 4: we're talking about the Texas three step, And what is that. Well,
Speaker 4: it's a fertilizer. It is a weed control and it
Speaker 4: is a disease control. So the fertilizer is their fall fertilizer.
Speaker 4: It has got a good boost of the potassium the
Speaker 4: third in it. That's what creates winter hardiness and helps
Speaker 4: your plant come out stronger in the spring. The second
Speaker 4: step is the weed control product that's barricade. You got
Speaker 4: to get it down before weeds germinate. They will germinate
Speaker 4: in October. I don't know exactly when I'll tell you
Speaker 4: two things. Number one, it varies between weed species a
Speaker 4: little bit. And number two, it's very dependent on the weather.
Speaker 4: Weeds don't have calendars, and they look, oh, it's time
Speaker 4: to germinate. When it cools off, get a little rain.
Speaker 4: That's when those cool season weeds sprout and begin to grow,
Speaker 4: just like our blue bonnets do the same thing. You
Speaker 4: got to get the barricade down before them. So do
Speaker 4: that early in the month of October. You can go
Speaker 4: ahead with the fall fertilizing from night fruss as well,
Speaker 4: right now, if you'll do that. And then finally, the
Speaker 4: third one is the eagle turf fungicide. Egle turf fungicide
Speaker 4: is a product that will get in the grass as
Speaker 4: a systemic okay, so it moves into the tissues of
Speaker 4: the grass. And when it does that, then when the
Speaker 4: brown patch or large patch tries to infect, you've already
Speaker 4: got in the system of the plant the protectant against that.
Speaker 4: Excuse me, I lost my mic there for just a moment.
Speaker 4: But anyway, that eagle turf fungicide is what needs to
Speaker 4: be done ahead of time. It's also going to be
Speaker 4: helpful for take all root rot which its primary infection
Speaker 4: period and control period is going to be in the
Speaker 4: fall nitopas three step No where do you get it?
Speaker 4: Well Bearings Hardware both on Bessinet and Reck and west
Speaker 4: Timer have it. You go to RCW Nursery you're going
Speaker 4: to find it. Lake Hardware and Angleton and the one
Speaker 4: in Lake Jackson and Alspa Hardware or Ace Hardware up
Speaker 4: in the Woodlands is also going to have your nitrofoss texas,
Speaker 4: your three step one two three, the fall special winter riser,
Speaker 4: the barricade for weeds, and the Eagle Turf fungicide for diseases.
Speaker 4: That makes it really really easy. Hey, if you would
Speaker 4: like to give us a call, our phone number here
Speaker 4: is seven to one three two one two ktrh. That's
Speaker 4: seven one three two one two kt r h.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 4: Green Pro is a company that will take care of
Speaker 4: your compost, top dressing and your deep core aeration. Now
Speaker 4: what is core aeration. You can rent aerators that sort
Speaker 4: of push a hole in the soil and that sort
Speaker 4: of squeezes the soil out against the walls of the hole.
Speaker 4: Meaning it's not the ideal way to do it. It's
Speaker 4: better to have a hollo tyme errator that goes down
Speaker 4: and punches into the soil and pops out a core
Speaker 4: of soil and leaves it on the surface. It aerates,
Speaker 4: it makes roots just very happy by bringing oxygen down
Speaker 4: in there. And then you follow that with a compost
Speaker 4: top dressing and that falls down to the holes. So
Speaker 4: now you've got organic matter decomposing down in there. It's
Speaker 4: a way to gradually, over time help your soil just
Speaker 4: get better and better and better, and greenpro can do that. Now,
Speaker 4: Greenprose serves an area about forty five miles from Magnolia.
Speaker 4: Within that range, so we're basically talking northwest Houston. If
Speaker 4: you look at Interstate forty five and Interstate ten, that's
Speaker 4: basically the area so Spring and Cyprus, the Woodlands, Conroe,
Speaker 4: willis down or over to Magnolia and up in Montgomery
Speaker 4: off to the west and then down to Katie West
Speaker 4: Houston kind of central area and north central Houston that
Speaker 4: is basically at the northwest quadrant by Greenboro. Now right
Speaker 4: now through fall, they're going to aerate your lawn for
Speaker 4: free when you purchase a compost top dressing service. Now
Speaker 4: the price is start at five seventy five plus tax.
Speaker 4: It's heavy duty or not heavy duty. It's very high
Speaker 4: quality equipment that can do this job right and then
Speaker 4: haul in the compost around and everything. That is an
Speaker 4: expense for them to do. But you have to do
Speaker 4: a two yard minimum for this offer. So if you
Speaker 4: do a two yard minimum of compost, they will come
Speaker 4: out and they will not charge you for the aeration,
Speaker 4: but you pay for the just the compost top dressing service.
Speaker 4: Two eight one three five one forty seven thirty three.
Speaker 4: Let me say that again. Two eight one three five
Speaker 4: one forty seven thirty three. Or go to the website
Speaker 4: greenpro dot net, greenpro dot net. When was the last
Speaker 4: time you were at Nelson Watergardens. I love going on
Speaker 4: Nelson Watergarden. You know, it's actually Nelson Nursery and Watergardens.
Speaker 4: I think of them because they've always been a nationally
Speaker 4: known watergarden place. But they have an outstanding nursery out
Speaker 4: there as well. Fall is here and they are loaded
Speaker 4: up on everything that you would need. They have one
Speaker 4: of a kind plants, they've got pots, the fish, the fountains,
Speaker 4: the disappearing fountains, which are my favorite of all the
Speaker 4: things out there, of the types of fountains, but they
Speaker 4: can get you stocked up. They're at eighty Fort Ben Road,
Speaker 4: just north of it Katie Freeway, So you head out
Speaker 4: west on it. When you get to Katie Fort Benroad,
Speaker 4: turn north and it's just a hop skipping and jump
Speaker 4: up the street there. Nelsonwatergardens dot Com. Check out that website,
Speaker 4: follow them on social media. This is the kind of
Speaker 4: garden center that you want to take friends to. It's
Speaker 4: a destination and you just have to get there to
Speaker 4: see what I'm talking about. But they're ready to go
Speaker 4: for fall. Stocked up. A good place to visit. I'm
Speaker 4: going to take a quick break when I come back.
Speaker 4: Ronnie and Kim, you'll be our first. Good to have
Speaker 4: you with us today. We are talking all kinds of
Speaker 4: things gardening. I appreciate you tuning in if you've got
Speaker 4: a question. Seven to one three two one two fifty
Speaker 4: eight seventy four. When it was the last time you
Speaker 4: were at Buchanan's Garden Center in the Heights. That's that
Speaker 4: garden center right there on Eleventh Street in the Heights,
Speaker 4: and it is just a special place. And those of
Speaker 4: you who have been there that you know that, let
Speaker 4: me give you. I want to give you their website. First,
Speaker 4: they're located on eleven Street, but you need to go
Speaker 4: check out the websites Buchanans Plants dot com, Buchanansplants dot
Speaker 4: com when you walk in there. They specialize in native plants.
Speaker 4: In fact, the proper name I should say is Buchanan's
Speaker 4: Native Plants. That is the name of the garden center.
Speaker 4: They have way more than native plants. But when it
Speaker 4: comes to natives, I don't know anyone that has the
Speaker 4: diversity of selection and expertise in native plants. They have
Speaker 4: natives that are just from the Houston area. They have
Speaker 4: natives that are from the region. Whatever you need, they
Speaker 4: can set you up. Now. When it comes to dealing
Speaker 4: with issues in the garden, they have plenty of products
Speaker 4: to help fight anything that you might be dealing with.
Speaker 4: And they lean toward the organic side of things. You know,
Speaker 4: they have a wide variety of stuff organic and non organic,
Speaker 4: but they lean toward that direction and I think that
Speaker 4: makes it nice for those of you want to garden
Speaker 4: more naturally. For example, they have some excellent information on
Speaker 4: the website. That's why you need to subscribe to the
Speaker 4: newsletter too. Lots of good information. For example, there was
Speaker 4: a whole list the other day of native seeds that
Speaker 4: you can plant now that are favorites of pollinators, that
Speaker 4: are wildflower seeds, that are seed for bird lovers that
Speaker 4: attract the birds into the landscape. They just know what
Speaker 4: they're talking about. They've been doing this a good while
Speaker 4: and they're experts in at Beginnis Plants on Eleventh Street
Speaker 4: in the Heights, all the products you need for success
Speaker 4: in your garden. They know to begin with the soil
Speaker 4: and then move on to the plants and they can
Speaker 4: get you set up with both of those. I'm going
Speaker 4: to head now out to the phones and talk to
Speaker 4: Ronnie ed Magnolia. Hello, Ronnie, welcome to Garden Line. Lawrence, yep,
Speaker 4: I'm good sir. How can we help Hey? A couple
Speaker 4: of questions.
Speaker 18: Yip talking a lot to I hear you this morning
Speaker 18: on pre emergence. I've got a partical garden and need
Speaker 18: to get an idea of when I should put the
Speaker 18: pre emergent down and what you recommend.
Speaker 4: You know, Ronnie, I just don't recommend pre emergence for
Speaker 4: a vegetable garden. And now there are probably a product
Speaker 4: or two out there that's labeled for use in vegetables.
Speaker 4: But what I find is we're doing so much soil
Speaker 4: disturbing all the time as we pull out one set
Speaker 4: of plants and plant another one and whatnot, that they're
Speaker 4: just not a good practical, you know, way to go
Speaker 4: about that. I recommend multing, multing, multing, you know, just
Speaker 4: always keep the sole surface covered with mult except when
Speaker 4: you pull the multi back to plant seeds or transplants.
Speaker 4: I think that's the best way to go about it
Speaker 4: as opposed to the pre emergent route.
Speaker 18: I think I'm probably shot myself in the foot. Last
Speaker 18: couple of years, I put down treth land and try
Speaker 18: to keep the broad leaf plants away from it. But
Speaker 18: I didn't get a real good response out of that.
Speaker 4: Well, and that's just another thing about pre emergence and
Speaker 4: a vegetable garden. If you're planning seed, the pre emergent
Speaker 4: works to not let seed grow and develop and make
Speaker 4: a plant. And so that's another issue that, yeah, you
Speaker 4: can run into. I would stay away from it.
Speaker 18: How it works pretty good?
Speaker 4: Huh, well who does? But a hoe is my punishment,
Speaker 4: you know what I call I have a term I
Speaker 4: use that used to tell my kids grown up, Uh,
Speaker 4: it's called stupid tax and that's what you pay when
Speaker 4: you do something stupid. And if I'm sticking right, you
Speaker 4: don't mulch my soil. My stupid taxes, I get to
Speaker 4: grab a hoe and go chop weeds, so I try
Speaker 4: to avoid that. But I just.
Speaker 18: I thought, everybody go ahead from West Texas. Every falling
Speaker 18: boy in West Texas was raised with a whole handle
Speaker 18: in his hand.
Speaker 4: Uh yeah, I have. I can tell you right where
Speaker 4: the blisters for him too on that.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 18: Also, uh, I like what you was talking about the
Speaker 18: heirloom souls over and uh may I've been putting in
Speaker 18: a rose soil mixed with compost in the years, you know,
Speaker 18: top off my end ground and above ground gardens. So
Speaker 18: I might try some of that over at h at
Speaker 18: heirlooms all that vegetable meetings.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think, well, now, if you're gonna do it,
Speaker 4: now's the time you get a free bag of the
Speaker 4: micro life you throw in there that even though we
Speaker 4: think of it as a lawn fertilizer, it is excellent
Speaker 4: for vegetable gardens. That's their green bag.
Speaker 18: Second question, that's be my first year to really have
Speaker 18: my greenhouse up and running now it's like a seven,
Speaker 18: but twelve walking in when should I start planning my
Speaker 18: sablings and they get them up and as you I
Speaker 18: can transplant them into the garden.
Speaker 4: Now, hurry up, get it done. It's a little you know,
Speaker 4: even with things like the cool the broccoli and bluey vegetables,
Speaker 4: it's even a little bit late to get going on those.
Speaker 4: But you can still do it. You can still do it.
Speaker 4: And then lettuce and spinach and things, if you can
Speaker 4: get them in a spot that's a little cooler. It's
Speaker 4: hard to do that in a greenhouse, but if you
Speaker 4: can do that, that's better. But that would be yes
Speaker 4: spring garden, Oh for spring. I generally start planting beginning
Speaker 4: of January. The way I like to tell people is
Speaker 4: when you have family over for the holidays and they
Speaker 4: don't leave, it's a good excuse to get out of
Speaker 4: a house. Go get that done.
Speaker 18: Okay, okay, January, all vegetables in would be good to go.
Speaker 4: With, well all of it, like your your cool seasons,
Speaker 4: but your tomatoes and peppers and eggplant in the area
Speaker 4: where you live in I have will plant in January,
Speaker 4: and then basically I may have a little bit older
Speaker 4: transplant it's a little bigger, stronger before it goes out.
Speaker 4: But that's just fine. Hey man, I got to run.
Speaker 4: I got a phone board full of phones here, but
Speaker 4: I appreciate it, and good luck with that out there.
Speaker 4: Appreciate Thank you for the call. Yes, sir, you take care.
Speaker 4: The folks at Medina have been you know, they've been
Speaker 4: Gardenline sponsored since the nineteen fifty since before it was
Speaker 4: even called garden Line. They were around doing that. And
Speaker 4: those of you who know Medina products, you're very familiar
Speaker 4: with Medina the hash to grow. Well, do you know
Speaker 4: about Medina plus Medina plus basically think about Medina Plus
Speaker 4: as Medina soil activator plus. We're talking about trace eneroals.
Speaker 4: We're talking about things like side of cainan, which is
Speaker 4: a natural hormone that occurs people typically. That's one reason
Speaker 4: we used seweed extract on it, Magnesium, iron, zinc, just
Speaker 4: on and on and on. It's loaded Medina plus. So
Speaker 4: if you want to put a plant in the ground
Speaker 4: and water it in really good and get it going,
Speaker 4: use Medina plus one ounce per gallon, it's all it takes,
Speaker 4: and just pour it right over the plant leaves and
Speaker 4: all drench that root system and help it get started
Speaker 4: falls planting time, whether it's a vegetable garden, an herb garden,
Speaker 4: a flower bed, trees and shrubs. Get some Medina plus.
Speaker 4: Have it always on hand. Anytime you need a plant.
Speaker 4: You can use it as a folier. It's not going
Speaker 4: to burn your plants. Just fine Medina Plus from the
Speaker 4: folks at Medina. We're going to now go to Kim
Speaker 4: in Alvin. Hello, Kim, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 6: Actually is Ken Kenneth.
Speaker 4: Oh, Ken, Ken, Welcome to Guardline. Sorry about that.
Speaker 6: I can't lower my or raise my voice at high anyways.
Speaker 6: Uh hey, I got a large live bulk that's in distress.
Speaker 12: I know you.
Speaker 6: I don't know if you're familiar with trees. I'm trying
Speaker 6: to find an arborist or something, but I've got a
Speaker 6: lot of branches that are starting to do their bear
Speaker 6: the tip, you know, and I don't want to lose it.
Speaker 6: It's it's a beautiful, beautiful tree and it's uh right now.
Speaker 4: Don't mess around, Yeah, don't mess around with trees that
Speaker 4: you got to take care of. Affordable tree is the guy.
Speaker 4: The man's name is Martin Spoon Moore and I'm going
Speaker 4: to give you a phone number. Do you got a penhandy?
Speaker 4: I'm ready, huh seven to one three six nine two
Speaker 4: six six three. If you want the website, it's eight
Speaker 4: f F Tree Service dot com a F F Tree
Speaker 4: Service dot com and he can get you fixed up.
Speaker 4: You need to call him soon, though, because you need
Speaker 4: to get on the schedule. Telling me you heard about
Speaker 4: it on Guardenline and you heard that you can get up,
Speaker 4: move up in the list a little bit being a
Speaker 4: guardline caller, and make sure that you get that done,
Speaker 4: because yes, take care of that tree. Hey, I'm hitting
Speaker 4: a hard break. If you need to hang on afterward,
Speaker 4: that's fine. If that's it. I do appreciate the calls
Speaker 4: right to have to go so quickly. Here we're back
Speaker 4: back again. If you are in the area of Magnolia,
Speaker 4: Spring Creek Feed Center is your hometown feed center. It's
Speaker 4: on twenty nine seventy eight FM twenty nine to seventy eight,
Speaker 4: just a few minutes away from Grand Parkway Highway two
Speaker 4: forty nine. You're going to find there the full line
Speaker 4: of fertilizers, you know, the turf Star, the Microlife, the
Speaker 4: Nitroposs and whatnot. They've got it all there anything you
Speaker 4: need for your lawn and your garden, whether it's controlling weeds, pests,
Speaker 4: or diseases. When you walk in, one thing is one
Speaker 4: of the things I really like about Sprint Creek Feed
Speaker 4: is they're so friendly. Number One, you walk in and
Speaker 4: the first thing you do is your jaw drops open
Speaker 4: because it's such a cool, beautiful place inside with all
Speaker 4: kinds of stuff. You know, this isn't just an old
Speaker 4: feed store. This is like a really special place purchasing
Speaker 4: gifts and everything you can imagine. But they have a
Speaker 4: garden center that has everything you need for success and
Speaker 4: friendly folks to greet you. If you're FFA or four
Speaker 4: h They've got discounts for those kiddos raising livestock, animals, military,
Speaker 4: senior citizens, also discounts for you as well. They can
Speaker 4: special order again. They're on twenty nine seventy eight in
Speaker 4: the Magnolia area Spring Creek Feed. We're going to go
Speaker 4: now to David up in the Woodlands. Hello David, Welcome
Speaker 4: to garden Line.
Speaker 19: Good morning, and thanks for taking my call the skip.
Speaker 19: I had a quick question about a Foxdale farm. We
Speaker 19: planted one originally all six weeks ago. All of a sudden,
Speaker 19: about all three weeks ago, it started turning brown, and
Speaker 19: I initially thought it was from my yard guy killing
Speaker 19: Wieds with roundup. It continued and finally pulled it out,
Speaker 19: bought a second one that's fairly large Foxdale. Bought a
Speaker 19: second one, replanted it in the same position. Within about
Speaker 19: eight days, the second one is starting to have the
Speaker 19: same symptoms of the leaves turning light color, then panned,
Speaker 19: then basically dying. So I pulled it out yesterday, put
Speaker 19: it in a pot, and this morning it's multiplied two
Speaker 19: fold in dying from dying. Can this be compomination in
Speaker 19: that particular part of the ground.
Speaker 4: Well, there are some products that you know they One
Speaker 4: of them is called like it's a ground clear, meaning
Speaker 4: you put it down and it kills anything that's grown there.
Speaker 4: It's gonna grow there, And so if they misused a
Speaker 4: product like that, it could be that kind of contamination.
Speaker 4: If it was you said round up, right, is your
Speaker 4: guest was your guests?
Speaker 19: I do not know what great however, he would have
Speaker 19: done the entire front bed and.
Speaker 4: Issue. Yeah, sure, well the roundup would not be persistent
Speaker 4: like that, killing the next plant you plant. So it's not.
Speaker 4: It's not that if it were rounded to what to dry,
Speaker 4: some sort of root rot. I don't know what to
Speaker 4: tell you on that one. That's a pretty tough plan.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 4: And so we don't really worry about pampering it a lot.
Speaker 4: But if something's wrong underground, Yeah, something's wrong underground too wet,
Speaker 4: too dry, or a root rot. And I can't I
Speaker 4: don't have a crystal ball to know what, but to
Speaker 4: dig down. If you dig down four inches and feel
Speaker 4: the soil and it's kind of soggy, then it's too wet,
Speaker 4: if it could be too dry. But they're pretty resilient
Speaker 4: on drought. And but if if it were drought that
Speaker 4: killed it, it would probably die back and then come
Speaker 4: back because it's got underground storage tubers that can fuel
Speaker 4: my growth.
Speaker 19: And it was loaded with tubers. Just talking about yeah,
Speaker 19: look like a peanut plant.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Well, cut back all the dead, kind of watch
Speaker 4: the watering, and hopefully it'll come back. That's about as
Speaker 4: far as we can go on, you know, just based
Speaker 4: on not being there and picking up the plant and
Speaker 4: looking around at it and stuff. But hopefully it'll bounce
Speaker 4: back for you.
Speaker 11: All right.
Speaker 19: They are they are unbelievably resilient normally yes, and that's
Speaker 19: why I was so surprised this thing. I went, you
Speaker 19: don't have to worry about.
Speaker 4: You bet, I understand. Hey, I'm gonna have to run,
Speaker 4: But thank you for the call and I hope that
Speaker 4: hope you can get that turned around. Thanks a lot
Speaker 4: for that call. Appreciate that, David. Uh three sixty tree
Speaker 4: stabilizer is something you've heard me talk about. And fall
Speaker 4: is four planting. This is the season when if you're
Speaker 4: going to put a t and do it in the
Speaker 4: fall October November or just the ideal for fall planting,
Speaker 4: do in December January too if you want. But get
Speaker 4: your three sixty tree stabilizer. It grabs a hold of
Speaker 4: the tree trunk loosely to allow movement, which is very important.
Speaker 4: You can put a post in, you can put hammer
Speaker 4: a t post in if you want, and it'll attach
Speaker 4: to those You're going to find them at Jorgeshaden Gardens
Speaker 4: don in Alvin Up at Arborgate in the Tomball area.
Speaker 4: Buchanus Native Plants in the Heights RCW Nursery where two
Speaker 4: forty nine comes into belt wag eight plants for all
Speaker 4: seasons on two forty nine Southwest Fertilizer down Southwest Houston.
Speaker 4: These are all places that carry the three sixty tree stabilizer.
Speaker 4: I would not plant a tree in the fall without
Speaker 4: getting one. They are their new invention in the last
Speaker 4: few years and they just really really work and they
Speaker 4: take care of your tree. They hold it right, but
Speaker 4: they also allow movement so you don't have stuff cutting
Speaker 4: into those branches. Stea tree stabilizers. If you're going to
Speaker 4: plant a tree, you need to get one of those
Speaker 4: two and they last. You can use it over and
Speaker 4: over again. We're gonna go now to Mike in the Woodlands. Hey, Mike,
Speaker 4: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 20: Good morning, Skipp. Yeah, I've actually moved to tom Also, Hey,
Speaker 20: I just moved into a brand new home. And anyway,
Speaker 20: it has a hybrid.
Speaker 6: Bermute that.
Speaker 20: I'm wondering if you're familiar with that.
Speaker 4: It's tough. It has hybrid. What I didn't catch that.
Speaker 21: It's it's.
Speaker 20: And the name of it is called it's called tiff
Speaker 20: tough t I you.
Speaker 4: Know, okay, okay, Mike, you're cutting out a lot, But
Speaker 4: I know what you're asking about. What is the specific
Speaker 4: question about that.
Speaker 20: Bermuda well, well, it's been been dorm well it's been
Speaker 20: the house was I noticed that, so it.
Speaker 11: Got very little care.
Speaker 20: I have a lot of thatch and a half and
Speaker 20: I'm just wondering if this winter if I put.
Speaker 6: An narration over that.
Speaker 4: Mike, I'm sorry, I'm gonna I'm gonna do my best
Speaker 4: to answer, but you're cutting out so much. I'm just
Speaker 4: getting bits and pieces. If you're gonna do corrooration, that's
Speaker 4: a good thing. Follow it with a compost top dressing,
Speaker 4: break it down in there really good. And all you
Speaker 4: need to do going into winter is a fall fertilization
Speaker 4: with a product designed for fall fertilization, and that would
Speaker 4: be your best bet in getting off to a really
Speaker 4: good start. Okay, I'm sorry, I'm just not able to
Speaker 4: hear any more on it, Chris, If you will go on,
Speaker 4: if he wants an email to email his question or
Speaker 4: some photos, we can take it from there, Mike. But sorry,
Speaker 4: just the audio just just wasn't working on that. When
Speaker 4: was the last time you went down to in Channet
Speaker 4: Forest down in the Richmond Rosenberg. You know, Enchanted Forest
Speaker 4: is one of my favorite garden centers in the whole area,
Speaker 4: and The reason is it just always has a stock
Speaker 4: of the best plants in the world. I mean just
Speaker 4: everything you need. Like right now, you're not thinking maybe
Speaker 4: about house plants, but here comes one or right a
Speaker 4: good time to stock up on houseplants. And oh my gosh,
Speaker 4: they have some gorgeous plants, absolutely beautiful ones. Do you
Speaker 4: need little starts for the potatoes, for shallots, for yellow
Speaker 4: onions and garlic and white onions and red onion. They've
Speaker 4: got all of that ready to go, and now's the
Speaker 4: time to get them in the ground. So take care
Speaker 4: of those things. Make sure you do that. Are you
Speaker 4: into desert roses? Boy, they are the hot items. It
Speaker 4: seems like everybody's talking about desert rose. If you don't
Speaker 4: know what they are, go buy and chanted forest and say,
Speaker 4: let me see these desert roses. Skip what was talking about.
Speaker 4: They're beautiful, They're very tough, succulent, they don't require a
Speaker 4: lot of pampering for them to do well, and they
Speaker 4: just bloom beauty. They're not a true rose, it's a
Speaker 4: different kind of plant. I'm more of a succulent type
Speaker 4: of plant. Do you want fall color with crotons and
Speaker 4: many many other things. They've got that. Do you want
Speaker 4: to plant a tree, Hey, consider a Chinese fringe tree.
Speaker 4: They've got plenty of those that been shenting for us.
Speaker 4: And it blooms in the spring with a honey like fragrant,
Speaker 4: little shaggy white ballooms so beautiful, so beautiful. By the way,
Speaker 4: the first pumpkins are there too, along with mums and asters.
Speaker 4: And in fact, you better take your pickup and have
Speaker 4: a friend brother pickup because there's so many things you're
Speaker 4: going to want to haul home from engended for us,
Speaker 4: including these fertilizers that I've been talking about and the
Speaker 4: products for fall. They got them all. Well, you are
Speaker 4: listening to Garden Line. We're gonna take a little break
Speaker 4: here for the news and we will be back. I
Speaker 4: hope you will join us again. I just want to
Speaker 4: remind you that on October fifth, Saturday, Oba Organic Horticulture
Speaker 4: Benefits Alliance is putting on so you want to grow
Speaker 4: your own good food program. They're gonna have doctor Bob Randall,
Speaker 4: who is an expert who's author of UH Year Round Gardening,
Speaker 4: which is a book you need to have if you're
Speaker 4: going to vegetable garden too. But it's gonna be on
Speaker 4: October fifth, from eight to three.
Speaker 2: Trim just watch him as many spot.
Speaker 5: Not a sign.
Speaker 4: Hey, welcome back, welcome back to the guard Line. Good
Speaker 4: to have you with us today. We were rolling here
Speaker 4: into our next the eight o'clock hour. Here we got
Speaker 4: a couple of a couple more hours, this one and
Speaker 4: the next one to go after that. Don't forget. I'm
Speaker 4: gonna be up at A and A Plant and Produce today.
Speaker 4: I will be there from twelve Noon've got time twelve
Speaker 4: noon to two pm. I'm going to be given away
Speaker 4: samples from the folks at Nelson Fertilizer and the folks
Speaker 4: at excuse me, pardon me, unprofessional to cough on the
Speaker 4: radio Medina. Folks at Medina, and the folks at Nelson Fertilizer.
Speaker 4: We've got some really cool stuff. Nelson's got some of
Speaker 4: their drag canisters, the granules of Drive fertilizer becoming a
Speaker 4: little one pound canisters. Got a few of them there.
Speaker 4: And also the folks at Medina are providing some of
Speaker 4: their liquid products, those in type products that they have,
Speaker 4: so come by you might win one of those. We'll
Speaker 4: have some other things to provide for you as well
Speaker 4: to take home consolation prizes. Bring me samples of plants
Speaker 4: to identify, to diagnose, put them in a ziplock bag,
Speaker 4: so suck then and crawl away. Bring things on your phone.
Speaker 4: Let's talk about it. Listen. If you're in the Montgomery
Speaker 4: County area in general, anywhere up there, I hope you'll
Speaker 4: swing by. If you want to come from a little
Speaker 4: further than that, sure, good to have you as well.
Speaker 4: You know, Lake Conroy area has a lot of beautiful
Speaker 4: gardener homes that just I always like visiting up in there.
Speaker 4: Swing by, let's talk about some of the things going
Speaker 4: on on your area. I hope you will always like
Speaker 4: to meet folks that listen to Garden Line. While you're
Speaker 4: up there, you can stop in because you know, A
Speaker 4: and A Plants and Produce is always going to have
Speaker 4: your nitrofoss products like the three step program. I was
Speaker 4: talking about this earlier. But the three steps are a fertilizer,
Speaker 4: a weed control, and a disease control one two, three,
Speaker 4: and it's all done in the fall. The fertilizer is
Speaker 4: Nitroposs Fall Special. It's a winter riser. What does that mean.
Speaker 4: It means it's got higher potassium in it and that
Speaker 4: helps strengthen the plant going into the cold weather. It
Speaker 4: also means they've got the weed control, which is barricade
Speaker 4: to prevent the weeds. It's much easier to prevent weeds
Speaker 4: from ever sprouting and establishing then to wait until spring
Speaker 4: when they're blooming, choking out, the grass, shading out, the
Speaker 4: grass taking over, and you're trying to use a post
Speaker 4: emergent on them. It's better to do it in the
Speaker 4: fall with barricade. Also in the falls, when the big
Speaker 4: brown circles appear, brown patch and when take all root
Speaker 4: rot has one of its main infection periods of the
Speaker 4: year in the fall, and that's why we have nitroposs
Speaker 4: eagle turf fungicide systemic. Now ahead of time. You got
Speaker 4: to do these things ahead of time. Don't wait until
Speaker 4: the brown circles appear. Do it before they appear. That's
Speaker 4: early October. Get that done, barricade. Don't wait until the
Speaker 4: weeds sprout. Do it before they sprout. That's early October.
Speaker 4: Get that done that way, when they sprout through the
Speaker 4: rest of October and November. They can sprout even later,
Speaker 4: but you have that barricade down that's doing the work
Speaker 4: for you. And then the fall fertilizer. You want to
Speaker 4: get it down before the grass just it gets cold,
Speaker 4: and the grass didn't taken much of anything up. Get
Speaker 4: that done, one, two, three, you're going to find it
Speaker 4: a hardware stores all over the place to jen Ace
Speaker 4: Hardware City up on Memorial Drive, Gym's Hardware, Montgomery, Stanton
Speaker 4: Shopping Center in Alvin, and also Done and enchanted for us.
Speaker 4: I was talking about them a minute ago. Done in Richmond.
Speaker 4: They carry the nitrofost products. Let's head out the phones now,
Speaker 4: and looks like we're going to go to Montgomery and
Speaker 4: talk to Justin. Hey Justin, welcome to guardenline.
Speaker 11: Hey, Skip, thanks.
Speaker 7: For con hear me great, Yes, sir, so I have
Speaker 7: I've got some Saint Augustine.
Speaker 22: That's that's hurting pretty bad.
Speaker 4: I sent you.
Speaker 6: I sent you a few pictures via the email.
Speaker 22: Yes, and okay, so it looks pretty good up until
Speaker 22: I would say, probably about a month and a half ago,
Speaker 22: I was I was pretty proud of how great it was.
Speaker 22: And then yes, suddenly a few brown spots kind of
Speaker 22: kind of started popping up here and there, kind of
Speaker 22: circular type type or maybe an oddly shaped circle.
Speaker 6: And then they just kind of spread, and now it
Speaker 6: just doesn't look good at all.
Speaker 22: So I'm trying to, yeah, what I can do maybe
Speaker 22: going into the ball.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and I'll just mention I did lay.
Speaker 22: Down in the in the spring some of the the
Speaker 22: nitropoths and kind of per the schedule, and and I
Speaker 22: think I laid down the preventter and then the natural
Speaker 22: pos So yeah, yeah, that's all I got.
Speaker 4: Well, all right, so the this is a this is
Speaker 4: a fast one.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 4: The bottom line is there may be chinchbugs involved, but
Speaker 4: there's definitely take all root rot involved in this grass,
Speaker 4: and both of them kill grass. Some of those areas
Speaker 4: that are fully brown, I don't think there's a living
Speaker 4: runner in those areas. Some that are yellow, there's a
Speaker 4: runner that's soon gonna die even if you try to
Speaker 4: stop it. But then you do have some areas where
Speaker 4: you can it'll prevent the progression by getting down a
Speaker 4: product to control it. I mentioned the nitrofoss eagle funge
Speaker 4: a side. I would do that. I would just go
Speaker 4: ahead and do it right now. Let's see you are
Speaker 4: yeah Montgomery, Yeah, I would go ahead and do that
Speaker 4: right now. Get that eagle to a funge a side down.
Speaker 4: You may need to. In fact, I would repeat Eagle
Speaker 4: again in late October or early November, just because we
Speaker 4: got to shut this down as best we can. I
Speaker 4: would grab a product that contains micros in a sprayable form,
Speaker 4: and you just have to you know, you are up
Speaker 4: in the Montgomery area, by the way, Come by and
Speaker 4: see me today at A and A Plants and Produce
Speaker 4: and bring me a sample of that. I want a
Speaker 4: sample of sick grass, so I want it to be
Speaker 4: yellow but still alive. Well, four by four plugs slick goodness,
Speaker 4: Slip it into a quarter gallons uplock and bring it by.
Speaker 4: Let me look and one hundred percent here, I'm about
Speaker 4: ninety five, but let me be one hundred percent. Heure,
Speaker 4: I'll take a look at the sample there. But a
Speaker 4: micro sprayable I know Ferdlom has one. I don't know
Speaker 4: the name they put on it, but it says micronutrients
Speaker 4: on it, and that is basically like an IV for
Speaker 4: grass that's lost its root system. To get the nutrient
Speaker 4: right into the grass. Put it on a hose, end sprayer,
Speaker 4: get it sprayed, and be ready to do it again
Speaker 4: this fall and again. What we're trying to do is
Speaker 4: stop something that is very far pro grassed right now
Speaker 4: to save whatever grass we can, and you're gonna need
Speaker 4: to plug. Be ready to plug some in next next spring, okay,
Speaker 4: I will.
Speaker 11: Hey, skiff, thank you.
Speaker 4: I really appreciate it. You bet. We're late enough now
Speaker 4: to where chinchbugs should be declining. But you might get
Speaker 4: on your hands and knees and look in some of
Speaker 4: the areas that are still green and see if you
Speaker 4: see some. If you do, let me know if you're
Speaker 4: able to come out today and we'll talk about those
Speaker 4: out there. Thanks, thank you for that all, folks. I
Speaker 4: got to go to a break. I'll be right back.
Speaker 4: ACE Hardware Store, you know, is the place to go
Speaker 4: for the fertilizers that I'm talking about. It is the
Speaker 4: place to go for some of the soil blends that
Speaker 4: we talk about here on Guardline. If I talk about
Speaker 4: control pests or diseases or weeds. ACE is going to
Speaker 4: carry those products because they make sure that when you
Speaker 4: walk into an ACE, whether you need stuff were inside
Speaker 4: the house, you know, paint and plumbing and lighting and
Speaker 4: all those kinds of things you would expect from a
Speaker 4: hardware store, you can also walk outside the house and
Speaker 4: get everything you need to and that would include the
Speaker 4: fall fertilizer that's needed to be put down now. Your
Speaker 4: local Ace Hardware stores got them in stock. The fall
Speaker 4: fertilizers I recommend on garden Line are there at the
Speaker 4: forty Ace Hardware stores here in the Greater Houston area.
Speaker 4: Go to Ace Hardware dot com, find the store locator
Speaker 4: and find the store near you. I've griped about mosquitos
Speaker 4: earlier at my house, Well they've got the mosquito dunks
Speaker 4: there and they've got other kinds of foggers and things.
Speaker 4: If you want to have a little out are gathering
Speaker 4: and the mosquito are still around, you can take care
Speaker 4: of that. Fall is the time to control fire ants.
Speaker 4: You knock them out in fall with a bait. That's
Speaker 4: very important to get that done soon because then coming
Speaker 4: out in spring you will have significantly reduced, if not eliminated,
Speaker 4: the fire ants on your property. So whatever you need
Speaker 4: for the outdoors to make them enjoyable, Ace Hardware's got
Speaker 4: you covered, including I love to talk about the barbecue
Speaker 4: pits because they have so many cool ones and I
Speaker 4: love doing outdoor grilling, especially in the fall months. At
Speaker 4: ACE Hardware you're listening to Guardenline, and we're going to
Speaker 4: head out now to Robert and Conroe. Hello, Robert, welcome
Speaker 4: to garden Line.
Speaker 12: Are you skipped?
Speaker 13: Can you hear me?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 14: Sir?
Speaker 4: Hello, Yes, I'm here. Can you hear me.
Speaker 14: Yes?
Speaker 13: I have construction built in May and uh, you know
Speaker 13: it's all fresh sawd But I pulled out the live
Speaker 13: oak and I gave it back to the builder, and
Speaker 13: I put in a red bud forest PNC okay, and
Speaker 13: beautiful red bud purple burgundy leaves around my stade.
Speaker 14: Right.
Speaker 13: And but to keep to keep that sod alive, I've
Speaker 13: been watering like crazy and uh and I think I'm
Speaker 13: over water in my forest pans.
Speaker 4: All right, here's what you need to do to keep
Speaker 4: sod alive. You just have the water a little bit.
Speaker 4: You don't need to create deep drenching of the soil.
Speaker 4: You're just trying to keep those upper a few inches moist, okay.
Speaker 4: And so when you water, if you're water in every day,
Speaker 4: you're not putting an inch and a half on every day.
Speaker 4: You're just putting a little bit on each day to
Speaker 4: keep that side. And as the temperatures cool off, you
Speaker 4: can way back off that. But the demands right now,
Speaker 4: we're just trying to get a root system from the
Speaker 4: sod into the ground, and all that takes is enough
Speaker 4: moisture to have available moisture for those roots. More is
Speaker 4: not needed.
Speaker 13: Well, I'm more concerned about my forest pansy because the
Speaker 13: leaves are turning yellow and they're dropping off and it's
Speaker 13: not even you know, the first day of ball yet.
Speaker 4: Well, transplanting could have been part of the reason for that.
Speaker 4: There's always a little bit of a transplant shock when
Speaker 4: you do a plant. Let's hope that's what it is.
Speaker 4: There's nothing to do right now for it, other than
Speaker 4: to make sure the root ball has moisture. But it's
Speaker 4: not soggy, and you're gonna have to go out and
Speaker 4: the best way to find out is just dig down
Speaker 4: beside the rootball where the old root ball was, where
Speaker 4: it was just put in the ground, and feel the
Speaker 4: soil and if it's moisture good, you're good. But all
Speaker 4: you need is water that root ball for right now,
Speaker 4: you're just trying to keep it alive until it gets
Speaker 4: roots in the ground and then as soon as you
Speaker 4: can back off the lawn watering. You know, in a
Speaker 4: couple of weeks, you can be already backing off that
Speaker 4: lawn watering. So I can't tell you if it's too
Speaker 4: wet or not wet enough, but I can tell you
Speaker 4: the root ball in this ninety degree temperature is pumping
Speaker 4: water fast. And even though the soil is moist around it,
Speaker 4: that root ball, the only roots that tree has, or
Speaker 4: that cylinder that went into the ground, that's only they
Speaker 4: haven't moved into the soil yet. So you got to
Speaker 4: keep water in that cylinder spot that went in the ground.
Speaker 4: That that's my best advice for you, Robert.
Speaker 13: And then I've found a little looking spider with white
Speaker 13: dot on the tree.
Speaker 4: No concern and no concern. Spider's not a concern, No,
Speaker 4: not at all, not at all. Well, it's it's okay.
Speaker 4: I mean, if the whole tree loses its leaves, that's
Speaker 4: a concern for the reasons that I you know, I'd
Speaker 4: already mentioned. But all that's in your power right now
Speaker 4: is to make sure the root ball stays moist but
Speaker 4: not soggy wet, and and and and I think I
Speaker 4: advised you on the my best suggestion for how to
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Speaker 4: I'm going to run now out to sugar Land and
Speaker 4: we're going to talk to Debbie. Hello, Debbie, good morning.
Speaker 5: Hi. I'll try and make this quick. I am I'm
Speaker 5: having issues with my yard. And I was totally convinced
Speaker 5: it was grubworms because when I reached over to pull
Speaker 5: up the dead grass, it came up a lot of it,
Speaker 5: you know, all the runners, and so now I'm kind
Speaker 5: of questioning it. After listening to you, I'm like, do
Speaker 5: I have root rod or fungus or grubs? Is there
Speaker 5: any way to tell?
Speaker 4: Well, if you take a square foot of sod and
Speaker 4: slide little shovel underneath it, just like you're going to
Speaker 4: lift it up, and you look right there in the soil,
Speaker 4: it would take five to seven grubs per square foot
Speaker 4: for that to be the problem. Root rots are very
Speaker 4: uncommon on your on your turf. I would think it's
Speaker 4: not a root rot. Okay, Well, I did.
Speaker 5: Well it was fung aside grubs root rot. But let
Speaker 5: me tell you this. I did the shovel in between
Speaker 5: the good grass and the bad grass. Somebody suggested that
Speaker 5: put it on the edge of you know, and I
Speaker 5: did that in three different spots, and I really didn't
Speaker 5: see any grubs. But does the grass do the same
Speaker 5: thing if it was fung aside? Would it pull up
Speaker 5: in big sections when you reached your hand down to
Speaker 5: grab it, because there's all the roots.
Speaker 4: Are When you say pull up, are you talking about
Speaker 4: all the grass blades come off of the runners or
Speaker 4: are you talking about the runners themselves all come up?
Speaker 5: All the runners come up? Huge spot, go ahead?
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, it could be grubs, but again it's going
Speaker 4: to take five to seven to do enough damage per
Speaker 4: square foot in order for grubs to be the cause
Speaker 4: and warrant treatment. We are really late to be treating
Speaker 4: for grubs. In fact, I would say too late at
Speaker 4: this point to be getting anything out of a grub treatment.
Speaker 4: It could be taken root rot could be a number
Speaker 4: of things. Let's see, you're located in where, oh you're
Speaker 4: done with sugarland?
Speaker 5: What's your belt going to take us out?
Speaker 4: Looking? Well, I tell you I just don't think it's grubs.
Speaker 4: If it pulls up real easily, I think it may
Speaker 4: be take all root rot or it could be a
Speaker 4: combination of both. One doesn't eliminate the other, but I
Speaker 4: think it's take all root rot. You may want to
Speaker 4: take a little section of it in the six zone
Speaker 4: and and put it in a zipli gallons up lock
Speaker 4: and take it over to Southwest Fertilizer and have them
Speaker 4: take a look at it there and see what they see.
Speaker 4: Uh my guess is take all and they either way
Speaker 4: it is, they're gonna have the product, the right product
Speaker 4: for it. That'd be my best, quick guest. Unless you
Speaker 4: want to jump in a car and go on a
Speaker 4: little vacation today and come up to A and A
Speaker 4: Plants and Produce in Montgomery, bring me your sample. I'll
Speaker 4: be happy to look at it for free.
Speaker 5: I wish I could.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, Okay, all right, well thanks just so much. Yeah, yeah, sure,
Speaker 4: I tell you what see you were in. Let's see, sugar,
Speaker 4: I'm going to be in Wharton, Texas next weekend, which
Speaker 4: is down in your area. Well still a drive, but
Speaker 4: it's at least southwest, So anyway, at the Wharton feed
Speaker 4: ace hardware. So if you want to wait and do it,
Speaker 4: then all.
Speaker 5: Right, Okay, thank you.
Speaker 4: That's that's talking to you. Bet. Thank you. Debbie. Appreciate
Speaker 4: the call. I appreciate that very much. H RCW nurseres
Speaker 4: is the garden center up there where Beltway eight and
Speaker 4: two forty nine come together. Now you know RCW. They've
Speaker 4: been there a long time. They're the place to get
Speaker 4: fruit trees. They're the place to get roses, selection aroses
Speaker 4: longer than any I've ever seen, the place to get
Speaker 4: color plants and house plants even. I mean, they have
Speaker 4: it all right Now, I want to talk about their
Speaker 4: trees because they grow their own trees up in Plantersville.
Speaker 4: They've got fifteen percent off trees at our CW Nursery.
Speaker 4: That is an outstanding sale. They have a large variety
Speaker 4: of trees too, every kind of tree that needs to
Speaker 4: get planted here, they've got them. Okay, seven gallons all
Speaker 4: the way up to two hundred gallons. And by the way, yes,
Speaker 4: you don't have to pick up a two in our
Speaker 4: gallon tree. They'll complant that. They'll come plant trees for
Speaker 4: you as well. They got Mexican white oaks. There are
Speaker 4: some gorgeous other magnolias. Just swing by there and check
Speaker 4: them out. But do it now for two reasons. Fifteen
Speaker 4: percent off and there is not a better time to
Speaker 4: plant these trees than fall. It gives them the most
Speaker 4: time possible. We were just talking about that red bud
Speaker 4: that Robert had planted up in Conroe. You know, when
Speaker 4: you get a plant planted in the fall, it has
Speaker 4: until next summer to get that root system ready to
Speaker 4: go for summer so it can survive and you're not
Speaker 4: watering just the cylinder like we were talking about, by
Speaker 4: the time it gets hot again. RCW Nurseries, Tomball Parkery
Speaker 4: go to RCW nurseries dot com. RCW nurseries dot com.
Speaker 4: We're gonna head up to Magnolia now and talk to Mike. Hey, Mike, Hey,
Speaker 4: Skip Hey, how can we help?
Speaker 18: Got about a one year old peppermint peachtree I got
Speaker 18: at the arbor gate and I'm looking for some advice
Speaker 18: on what to fertilize with and frequency.
Speaker 4: Okay, I would treat that tree like it was a lawn.
Speaker 4: The main thing you're going to want to do is
Speaker 4: when spring comes and new growth is beginning, you want
Speaker 4: to fertilize it, and I would use just a turf
Speaker 4: type fertilizer. Arborgate has one there they've got as part
Speaker 4: of their one two three system. You can grab that,
Speaker 4: you put it out there on it. I would put
Speaker 4: about two cups per inch of trunk diameter of the
Speaker 4: Arborgate fertilizer. Okay, sprinkle it in a circle a little
Speaker 4: bit wider than the branch spread of the tree. Okay.
Speaker 4: So if you got one that's the size of a
Speaker 4: broom handle, we're gonna say that's about an inch thick,
Speaker 4: So we get two cups. If you got one, when
Speaker 4: that tree is the size of a coke can, it's
Speaker 4: going to get about six cups a fertilizer because it's
Speaker 4: about three inches in diameter. Just use your thumb and
Speaker 4: use the trunk of the tree to tell you for
Speaker 4: every thumb with but two cups of Arborgate fertilizer on
Speaker 4: that tree. Be with us our phone number here if
Speaker 4: you'd like to give me a call seven one three
Speaker 4: two one two fifty eight seventy four, or if you
Speaker 4: like to dial by letters. Make it easy seven to
Speaker 4: one three two one two kt r H. That makes
Speaker 4: it easy, easy to do. We're happy to visit with
Speaker 4: you about whatever kinds of things we can do to
Speaker 4: help you have success. I was telling you earlier about
Speaker 4: Nelson plant Food. They have the car carbo Load, which
Speaker 4: is their fall fertilizer. And the reason they call it
Speaker 4: carbo load is infall, your grass hopefully is producing carbohydrates
Speaker 4: which helps it be winter hardy and helps it have
Speaker 4: the energy to take off in the spring. That's why
Speaker 4: they call it carbo load, because it helps your grass
Speaker 4: to do just that. Now all, they also have a
Speaker 4: product that I want to I want to tell you it.
Speaker 4: It's called Nelson Nutristar Genesis. Genesis is a transplant product.
Speaker 4: It comes in a plastic jar with a screw top load.
Speaker 4: If you will use it anytime you're transplanting a plant
Speaker 4: to mix in to the soil of what you're putting
Speaker 4: the plant into. So, for example, I used to I've
Speaker 4: told you this, I've used it before for tomatoes. You
Speaker 4: buy a little six pack of tomatoes, you bring them home,
Speaker 4: and you're going to grow them out a little further,
Speaker 4: maybe put them in four inch pots or something bigger.
Speaker 4: You just mix this genesis into that potting mix and
Speaker 4: then transplant them into it and they will do very well.
Speaker 4: You can do that with a a container of plants,
Speaker 4: a patio container. Anytime you're going to plant a patio
Speaker 4: container of plants, puts some Genesis nutri Star genesis from
Speaker 4: Nelson's into that mix. If you're gonna put a rosebush
Speaker 4: in the ground, same thing, mix it up in the
Speaker 4: Normally I will tell you don't put fertilizer in the
Speaker 4: planting hole. This is an exception. This is a natural
Speaker 4: type fertilizer. It's loaded with microhizo backteria other fungi. It's
Speaker 4: not going to burn your roots. And you're not just
Speaker 4: dumping it and then setting the plant on it. You're
Speaker 4: mixing it into the soil around that plant and then
Speaker 4: putting the plant in the ground and you will have success.
Speaker 4: Just another quality product from Nelson Plant Food and they
Speaker 4: have a good stock of those Nelson products also up
Speaker 4: there at Ana Plants and Produce, which is on the
Speaker 4: east side of Montgomery on Highway one oh five, where
Speaker 4: I'll be today from twelve to two. Twelve to two,
Speaker 4: So come on out, let's head to the phones now
Speaker 4: and we're going to go to Friendswood and talk to
Speaker 4: Costas Hello, Costas, Welcome to garden line morning.
Speaker 14: It's a great day to day here.
Speaker 4: How you bet fine?
Speaker 14: I have a question. I have some citrus trees, which well,
Speaker 14: they died in twenty twenty one or so I thought.
Speaker 14: Once the oranges and the tangerines were gone, the rootstock
Speaker 14: started coming up, and I was thinking of grafting it
Speaker 14: with some other citrus variants. Its September October, bed time
Speaker 14: to think about grafting, or should I wait until February March.
Speaker 4: I I'd wait a little bit. In the spring, you
Speaker 4: can do a tea bud to graft them. It's budding them,
Speaker 4: same idea, but during the cool season while they're not
Speaker 4: growing very much and starting to grow a little bit
Speaker 4: in the spring where it's not cold anymore it's warming up.
Speaker 4: Then you could do also a cleft graft. That's a
Speaker 4: different kind of graph. Citrus tea buds and cleft graphs
Speaker 4: are both good ways to go. Depends on how big
Speaker 4: I think stock is.
Speaker 14: It's actually it's it's about four years old and it
Speaker 14: has grown about five feet four feet and uh, I
Speaker 14: was thinking of using the cleft versus the t but
Speaker 14: and I have a little piece of equipment that can
Speaker 14: clip actually the scion from the tree and then clip
Speaker 14: the the the negative if you will at the uh, yes,
Speaker 14: little stock and then join them.
Speaker 4: Yes, and so left. But I know what you're talking about.
Speaker 14: So that means I can do cleft now or wait
Speaker 14: until spring?
Speaker 4: Yeah, you could uh it it actually are the are
Speaker 4: these and containers are in the ground. I didn't catch
Speaker 4: ground in the ground. Yeah, I think I would wait
Speaker 4: until spring. You could try one now if you want to,
Speaker 4: and then if it didn't work, just go down a
Speaker 4: little lower and try it again on the spring.
Speaker 14: Best part I could do that.
Speaker 4: Thanks, all right, thanks scus appreciate. I appreciate here, Yes, sir,
Speaker 4: you bet that's good.
Speaker 14: Uh.
Speaker 4: I talk about all these products all the time, and
Speaker 4: and people often say where do you get it? Where
Speaker 4: do you get it? And who has that? And sometimes
Speaker 4: these products are kind of specialty that I'm talking about.
Speaker 4: You know something that's just not for sale everywhere. Well,
Speaker 4: if you go to Southwest Fertilizer, it's for sale there.
Speaker 4: I mean, if it's a product that works, it's on
Speaker 4: the market. Bob's going to have it, because, as I
Speaker 4: like to say, if he don't have it, you don't
Speaker 4: need it because he has everything every kind of product
Speaker 4: you need. Do you grow organically or do you just
Speaker 4: grow however, organic or synthetic. Either way, Bob's got that
Speaker 4: all the lines of fertilizers that we promote, and then
Speaker 4: some he has herbicides, fungicides, insecticides. You need a tool.
Speaker 4: Do you need mulches and composts and soil amendments like
Speaker 4: the asmight I talked about, or Nature's Way or airlim soils.
Speaker 4: They've got all that kind of thing. Even has some
Speaker 4: plants out front seasonally, the kind of plants that are
Speaker 4: appropriate for the season. We're coming to the end of
Speaker 4: mower season. Why you go by there, just drop off
Speaker 4: your more blades, have them sharpen them in the back.
Speaker 4: Have they have a little repair shop for all kinds
Speaker 4: of you know, lawn care equipments. Yeah, you go to
Speaker 4: Southwest Fertilizer, give them a call first, ask them the
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Speaker 4: now to Cleveland and we're going to talk to Cynthia Hello, Cynthia,
Speaker 4: good morning.
Speaker 9: How you doing.
Speaker 4: I'm well, thank you.
Speaker 9: I just want to thank you. I learned so much
Speaker 9: from your set, your Saturday show.
Speaker 5: I love being outside.
Speaker 9: I love messing with my plants.
Speaker 23: But the issue I'm having right now is I have
Speaker 23: althea's and rows of sharing and week before last they
Speaker 23: were just beautiful, blooming like crazy. Their leaves really looked good.
Speaker 23: And now I've got several of them that leaves all
Speaker 23: just kind of turned yellow. The flowers just kind of wilted,
Speaker 23: and it's they look like they're gonna die.
Speaker 5: I don't know what to do with them.
Speaker 4: Very strange. I would check the soil, see if it's
Speaker 4: soggy wet down there. Do you just dig down a
Speaker 4: few inches, a little bit out from the bush, not
Speaker 4: too far. How long have these been in the ground.
Speaker 23: I just planted in the last spring, so they're still
Speaker 23: there's still small there, may be about maybe about two
Speaker 23: foot tall.
Speaker 4: Okay, well they you know, I have noticed a lot
Speaker 4: of plants are starting to do that, especially when they
Speaker 4: get a bit on the dry side. And we're still
Speaker 4: having really high demands with ninety degree temperatures on these plants. Right,
Speaker 4: I think that's probably all it is, just a little
Speaker 4: bit of an early leaf drop. I've got some crape
Speaker 4: myrtles that are doing the same thing because I'm kind
Speaker 4: of chinchy with the water, and so I think that
Speaker 4: they're probably going to be okay based on what I've
Speaker 4: heard from you. There's no other info or situation going
Speaker 4: on there. They're probably gonna be okay.
Speaker 24: Okay, good good.
Speaker 23: I didn't know if I just needed to just stop
Speaker 23: watering them all together, because I'm like you, it's been
Speaker 23: so hot that you go out there and they're kind
Speaker 23: of wilted a little bit, so you give them water
Speaker 23: and then it's like, okay, I don't want to kill them.
Speaker 4: Well, right, do the little ghettle trial dig down four
Speaker 4: to six inches, feel the soil, and that'll be your
Speaker 4: answer right there.
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, all right, thank you.
Speaker 4: So good luck with that, Cynthia, thank you for the call.
Speaker 4: It's time for me to run to a break and
Speaker 4: I will be back for our last segment of this
Speaker 4: hour in just a moment. And when I come back,
Speaker 4: Freda and Chuck you, hey, welcome back to Garden Line.
Speaker 4: I appreciate you listening in today. We have plenty of
Speaker 4: more things to talk about, So hang with us here.
Speaker 4: We got ways to go yet. If you need your
Speaker 4: lawn air raided, I'm talking about the core aeration where
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Speaker 4: to Frida in Pasadena. Hello Frida, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 21: And thank you. I had a sister in law who
Speaker 21: she's much more of a gardener than I am, but
Speaker 21: she gave me what she called a butterfly plant. And
Speaker 21: I was out watering the grass and I noticed a
Speaker 21: little what I thought was a little butterfly, a little
Speaker 21: tiny butterfly, and I told her I was so excited
Speaker 21: because the blue of the plant and I thought I
Speaker 21: had a butterfly. She said, no, that's a I think
Speaker 21: she called it a sode worm that she said it'll
Speaker 21: kill they'll kill your grass and nothing fast.
Speaker 4: So okay, how big was it?
Speaker 21: What?
Speaker 4: Yeah? How big was it? What color?
Speaker 8: It was?
Speaker 24: White?
Speaker 21: And it was that's the size of it. Maybe maybe
Speaker 21: a quarter, not quite as big as a quarter.
Speaker 4: Okay, Well, that wasn't a side web worm. There are
Speaker 4: a lot of different moths that are out there in
Speaker 4: the landscape. Side web worms are going to be dark,
Speaker 4: almost a town brown kind of color, and they're going
Speaker 4: to be small. They're the size of your you know,
Speaker 4: your little fingernail, just about I mean, they're not very big.
Speaker 4: And yeah, so yeah, I don't I don't think that
Speaker 4: was it. Now, if you walk through your lawn and
Speaker 4: there's all these little moths like I described that are
Speaker 4: just taking off and they fly a little bit and
Speaker 4: they settle back in the lawn as you're walking, that
Speaker 4: may be side web worms, but they're they're not white,
Speaker 4: and they're not that big.
Speaker 21: Oh I had a little bone Offut I don't know
Speaker 21: a little math.
Speaker 4: There's a hundred billion types of moths out there, So yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: I just don't think it was side web worm. Based
Speaker 4: on what you said, But but do what I said,
Speaker 4: walk through the lawn and if you see what I'm describing,
Speaker 4: then maybe side web worms.
Speaker 21: Yeah. Well, she told me the same thing, and I
Speaker 21: went out, walked through the lawn and I didn't see anything.
Speaker 9: She told me the same thing.
Speaker 21: Then you just gave me the wrong color, I guess,
Speaker 21: not the thing, I guess.
Speaker 13: Yeah.
Speaker 21: I had a hibiscus, you know, and I talk to
Speaker 21: you about this, and it did have meal mealy worms
Speaker 21: or meta bugs, And like you said, I just went
Speaker 21: in and pulled all of my good a even took
Speaker 21: the plants out with the roots and picked off meala
Speaker 21: bugs and then I used okay, the alcohol on you know,
Speaker 21: some cotton on it, and I even sprayed with it.
Speaker 21: She what she gave me. But uh, and it's looking
Speaker 21: pretty good. But it's getting some yellow leaves every now
Speaker 21: and then. So that's that's what I was concerned about,
Speaker 21: is the yellow leaves.
Speaker 4: Okay, Uh, Well that if it's the older leaves, the
Speaker 4: oldest ones as you go down the branch toward the bottom.
Speaker 4: Uh though that's not unusual on those, they go through
Speaker 4: fluctuations and so moisture and the older leaves will turn
Speaker 4: yellow plus we're hitting we're on the doorstep of fall.
Speaker 4: Some of those leaves are pretty old and and they're
Speaker 4: they're going to come off. If you're just losing a
Speaker 4: few leaves, I wouldn't worry about it. Just make sure
Speaker 4: the so moisture stays out of quickly moist Okay.
Speaker 21: Okay, Well there's too some of the little ones flecked
Speaker 21: out there? Was it because I didn't have water in
Speaker 21: that or something?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll tell you what. I'm going to put you
Speaker 4: on hold and our my producer will give you an email.
Speaker 4: Send me some pictures of those in good sharp focus,
Speaker 4: and if I see anything, I'll let you know. Thank
Speaker 4: you very much, Fred. I appreciate your call, and I
Speaker 4: know you're enjoying that, uh, that plant very much. That's
Speaker 4: a beautiful plant, all right, folks.
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Speaker 4: going to head out now to Spring and talk to Chuck. Hello, Chuck,
Speaker 4: welcome to garden Line. Good morning, sir, how are you
Speaker 4: and well? And I got your pictures. You know, you
Speaker 4: want to know what that is. Yeah, that's spurge, prostrate spurge, spurge.
Speaker 4: If you look at the picture you sent me, every
Speaker 4: little bump on there is either a flower or a
Speaker 4: seed pod. And that's why spurge is such a problem.
Speaker 4: It produces a bazillion seeds and they come up, and
Speaker 4: so the only thing you can do for it is
Speaker 4: pull it up. And if it's in the bricks, you
Speaker 4: can do what they call flame weeding, those little devices
Speaker 4: that hook up to approping little propane canister, and you
Speaker 4: can do that, or put a pre emergent down a
Speaker 4: barricade from nitrophoss. Spurge is listed. Prostrate spurge is listed
Speaker 4: on the label of barricade. Spurge likes warm weather to germinate.
Speaker 4: So you don't go ahead.
Speaker 25: Oh, I was just gonna say, I haven't. I've got
Speaker 25: my barricade, so we're already there.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, you can put barricade down for fall, for
Speaker 4: your cool season weeds, but for spurge next spring in
Speaker 4: early March, put the barricade down and then I would
Speaker 4: apply it again about sixty days later, maybe little maybe ninety,
Speaker 4: but somewhere in there sixty to ninety days, depending on
Speaker 4: how much you use the first time. Put barricade down again,
Speaker 4: and that helps prevent that spurge from getting started. So
Speaker 4: coverage first, it's good, and even.
Speaker 25: Because this is the first time I've had to deal
Speaker 25: with it since we lived here, which has been decades now,
Speaker 25: and I realize everybody's going through it. Is there a
Speaker 25: liquid Oh yeah, they can help me.
Speaker 4: Well, there's a liquid form of that, but I don't
Speaker 4: know where you would get it. Even the granules. Fine,
Speaker 4: you put the granule out, you water it in, and
Speaker 4: the product comes off the granule and goes into the
Speaker 4: soil surface. So just get the regular barricade. That's all
Speaker 4: you need, you bet.
Speaker 25: Thank you for putting a fresh fu.
Speaker 4: All right, mine, Thanks appreciate that check. Good luck with
Speaker 4: getting that under control. That can be a challenge. Hey, folks,
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Speaker 4: two I'll be at Ana Plants and produce in mongomery.
Speaker 4: All of you up northn part of the listening area,
Speaker 4: come out and see me. Let's talk. Let's help you
Speaker 4: have a bountiful garden and a beautiful landscape.
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Speaker 4: Right, folks, we're back in the saddle again. Listen, we
Speaker 4: got one hour left today and we are going to
Speaker 4: hit the ground running here this hour to answer your
Speaker 4: gardening questions. I was outside enjoying my feeders. By the way,
Speaker 4: the hummingbirds just keep bringing their friends to my feeder.
Speaker 4: I started off with one hummingbird, and then later there
Speaker 4: were two and they just sitting here looking around yesterday
Speaker 4: and out in front taking care of some lantanas I have,
Speaker 4: and they're there. They're on a vitex that I have
Speaker 4: out there. I've got a turk's cap, which is a
Speaker 4: native plant with big red flowers. You know, hummingbirds love that.
Speaker 4: It's like a neon sign for them. And then of
Speaker 4: course at the feeders, if you want to attract hummingbirds,
Speaker 4: go buy Wallbirds Unlimited and get there. They have a
Speaker 4: number of beautiful hummingbird feeders now work, but I have
Speaker 4: the High Perch. It's my favorite one. I actually have
Speaker 4: a couple of different models from them and they work well.
Speaker 4: You can go to WBU dot com, which stands for
Speaker 4: Walldbirds Unlimited WB dot com Forward Slash Houston Forward South
Speaker 4: Houston tells you the six Wallbirds stores here and it
Speaker 4: is bird time. I mean there are the orioles have
Speaker 4: been coming through. We of course got the hummingbirds feeling
Speaker 4: up to cross the Gulf of Mexico. There's always things
Speaker 4: to be done there at Wabirds Unlimited. I was down
Speaker 4: at the One and Clear lag the other day and
Speaker 4: a couple of people were in their shopping. What kind
Speaker 4: of feed we'll keep the squirrels out?
Speaker 14: Well?
Speaker 4: There, I feed with pepper in it, both the cylinders,
Speaker 4: the little hard cylinders that the birds peck the seeds
Speaker 4: out of, and loose bird seed to keep the squirrels
Speaker 4: out of your bird feed I've got a squirrel excluding
Speaker 4: feeder from Wild Birds. It is my favorite bird feeder
Speaker 4: that I own because it really works, and I think
Speaker 4: I get as much enjoyment watching the squirrels not be
Speaker 4: able to get into it as I do watch the
Speaker 4: birds getting into it. But all of that's from wildbirds.
Speaker 4: That's the place you need to go. You will be inspired,
Speaker 4: I promise you. In fact, I might out our will
Speaker 4: warn you. It can be addictive. It really can. It's
Speaker 4: a lot of fun bringing music into your landscape. We're
Speaker 4: going to go to northwest Houston now and talk to Debbie. Hello, Debbie,
Speaker 4: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 9: Hi, good morning, Thank you for taking my call. I
Speaker 9: have two quick questions I believe I have. It looks
Speaker 9: like birds of paradise. It's a very tall succulent in
Speaker 9: it plants, and it has a white, fragrant flower and
Speaker 9: it's beautiful.
Speaker 8: Right now, When can.
Speaker 9: I cut that back? Because it's kind of out of control.
Speaker 4: You say it's a bird of paradise.
Speaker 9: I think it is. It's almost looks like a gladiola,
Speaker 9: but it's white, and it is a beautiful flagrant flower.
Speaker 9: It's succulent. How I mean, I don't know when I
Speaker 9: should cut it back.
Speaker 4: Okay, I'm just not for sure that we're talking about
Speaker 4: the same plant. But in general, if you've had it
Speaker 4: more than a year, did it die to the ground
Speaker 4: in the winter or did it.
Speaker 9: Stay above and then it came right back.
Speaker 4: Yes, okay, I would wait until it dies down, and
Speaker 4: then I would cut it back. Cut the dead out
Speaker 4: sometime after it dies down, if you can stand to
Speaker 4: look at it all winter with the dead stuff. Sometime
Speaker 4: that dead material helps protect the base of the plant
Speaker 4: a little bit. Or if you want to, just cut
Speaker 4: it out so it looks better and then throw a
Speaker 4: little bit of a little bit of multa over the
Speaker 4: base just to kind of insulate it a little bit.
Speaker 4: That way, whichever plant we're talking about, we've were covered.
Speaker 4: We've got our basis.
Speaker 24: Great. Okay.
Speaker 9: Second question, I have a beautiful laurel oak and I
Speaker 9: can't find another one anywhere. I guess they don't grow
Speaker 9: them anymore here. What would be comparable to a laurel oak?
Speaker 21: Would it be a willow oak?
Speaker 9: Something with little bitty leaves like this one? Unless you know.
Speaker 4: Where I can get Well, have you tried, RCW?
Speaker 9: I have, and they don't have it.
Speaker 4: Yes, they didn't have it. Okay, Uh, let's see laurel oak.
Speaker 4: I say, what, Yeah, well, yeah, it will. Maybe they
Speaker 4: may have run into some issues. I don't know, but
Speaker 4: I would call them and ask him about it and
Speaker 4: ask them what they would suggest as a replacement that
Speaker 4: fits that description or and they would be I'm sure
Speaker 4: they'd be happy to point you to somewhere else that
Speaker 4: might have it. If they don't, I would go back
Speaker 4: to them because they are more up to date on
Speaker 4: who carries what and what they carry and everything than
Speaker 4: I am. But that you went to the right place
Speaker 4: to begin with, because rcwas to go for those.
Speaker 9: Okay, thank you so much. I appreciate it, all right, thank.
Speaker 4: You, all right, Debbie, thank you appreciate that. Uh. You
Speaker 4: know I I talk about the Nitropos three step program.
Speaker 4: It's a it's a fertilizer that is a fall fertilizer.
Speaker 4: It's called Nitrofoss Fall Special. The mix and nutrients in
Speaker 4: it is perfect for giving your grass winter heartiness and
Speaker 4: supporting initial growth in the spring. Second step is weeds
Speaker 4: Nitrofoss barricade. You have to get it down before the
Speaker 4: fall weeds germinate, which would then become your big time
Speaker 4: weed problems in the If last spring you had weeds
Speaker 4: that were just taken over the lawn, those would have
Speaker 4: been prevented by an October fertilization. Excuse me, October barricade
Speaker 4: application because that's the germination window. So do that. Number
Speaker 4: three fungicide eagle turf fungicide. It's systemic. Again, you got
Speaker 4: to do it ahead of time. Listen. We control and
Speaker 4: disease control is like playing baseball. I bet you're wondering,
Speaker 4: where's he going with us? Here's how it's like that.
Speaker 4: If you're batting and you wait until the pitcher has
Speaker 4: the ball in his mitt, it's too late to swing.
Speaker 4: Is that that makes sense? Right? You gotta swing before
Speaker 4: the ball gets to you in order to hit it right,
Speaker 4: because here comes the bat and here comes the ball
Speaker 4: and they meet and go over the fence. Nitrophiz barricade
Speaker 4: and nitrophas eagle or that way you want to hit
Speaker 4: the home run. You got to get them down. So
Speaker 4: when the problem shows up, when the weed is starting
Speaker 4: to germinate, barricade is saying no, no, no no no. When
Speaker 4: brown pat or large patch or take off patches trying
Speaker 4: to infect eagle is a eagle, turfundicide is saying no, no, no,
Speaker 4: no no. That's how that works. Nitrofis Texas three step
Speaker 4: widely available. You're going to find it added in Chennet Gardens.
Speaker 4: You're going to find it a shade of Texas up
Speaker 4: there in the woodlands, plants for all season. Talmball Parkway
Speaker 4: is going to have it. A and A plants and
Speaker 4: produce another place you can get nitrofoss product products like
Speaker 4: the three step you know. I'm going to be at
Speaker 4: A and A today, by the way, from twelve to two.
Speaker 4: Please come out and see me if you live in
Speaker 4: that area, if you got plant samples, bring me. You're tired,
Speaker 4: you're weary, you're suffering, masses yearning to be diagnosed. I
Speaker 4: will help that and provide you something to remedy the
Speaker 4: problem that you might have. Because A and A's got
Speaker 4: all the Nightfis products, all the Nelson products, all the
Speaker 4: micro life products, all the airloom soils, Nature's Way, leaf
Speaker 4: mold compost fine, and they have the whole thing. They
Speaker 4: got to clean up. A crew that'll come in and
Speaker 4: fix up your landscape for you up there in the
Speaker 4: If you were in the Conroe area, just come out
Speaker 4: to an A. Let's talk, let's f forget what's wrong,
Speaker 4: Let's suggest some plants for you. Let's have a good time.
Speaker 4: And while you're there, grab your night Foss three step program.
Speaker 4: Let's head out now to Rose Sharon and we're going
Speaker 4: to talk to Susie. Hello, Susie, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 24: Hell are you?
Speaker 4: I'm doing what I'm doing well? Hey Susie, I'm I'm
Speaker 4: coming up on a hard break. I keep doing this.
Speaker 4: I get so excited taking calls and then the producer says,
Speaker 4: you need to shut up. Skip, We got to go
Speaker 4: to break. Can you hold just for a little bit
Speaker 4: and I'll come right back to you.
Speaker 15: Sure you love me?
Speaker 4: Funny song. Hey, You're back with garden Line and I'm back.
Speaker 4: We're going We're going to talk about all kinds of
Speaker 4: things in the last segments we got today, I got
Speaker 4: a lot more information I'm trying to get to here.
Speaker 4: First of all, I want to remind you that if
Speaker 4: you are looking for a quality mix for uh growing
Speaker 4: roses and shrubs, that would be rose mix from Landscapers Pride.
Speaker 4: You know Landscapers Pride their regional local organization here that
Speaker 4: transforms what used to be living organic materials into magic
Speaker 4: for the soil. Rose mix is an example. They have
Speaker 4: their premium potting mix. It comes loaded with a nutrient
Speaker 4: source in it. That's just a really good combination. Premium
Speaker 4: potting mix. Indoor plants. Outdoor plants use the same thing topsoil.
Speaker 4: You got some lower areas in your lawn, maybe you
Speaker 4: lost some areas along you're gonna have to reside. Now's
Speaker 4: the time. Get some landscapers Pride topsoil. Put it out
Speaker 4: there in the lower areas, fill it up, get it
Speaker 4: all leveled out so when you're running the mower after
Speaker 4: you get your new lawn in, you don't hit bumps
Speaker 4: and gouge out the grass and everything. It makes it
Speaker 4: smooth and easy. And then finally, of course black velvet
Speaker 4: mult it's always a good mult is not just for
Speaker 4: hot weather. Mult is for twelve months out of the year.
Speaker 4: And black velvet is beautiful. It is not dyed, it
Speaker 4: is naturally black velvety color and it works really really well.
Speaker 4: Another product from Landscaper's Pride. And you're gonna find these
Speaker 4: products all over the place. You know they're widely available.
Speaker 4: You can go to Landscaperspride dot com find out more
Speaker 4: about it, or I tell you what how about rundown
Speaker 4: to Ciena Maltch. Ciena Maltz carries Landscaper's Pride black velvet.
Speaker 4: You can get it right there. You know, Sienna is
Speaker 4: a place for quality materials. They you need bulk deliveries
Speaker 4: and things. Do you need any of the fertilizers that
Speaker 4: I talk about on guardline. Basically as I say, brown
Speaker 4: stuff before green stuff, Ciena Malt is the brown stuff place.
Speaker 4: They're down near Roach Sharon, just north of Roach Sharon
Speaker 4: on FM five twenty one. I would suggest you right
Speaker 4: down there their website address because that's the fastest way
Speaker 4: to find out how to find them, how to call them,
Speaker 4: and a lot more information Sienna Mulch dot com. Sienna
Speaker 4: Mulch dot com. You can pick up those fall fertilizers
Speaker 4: that I've been talking about while you're down there at
Speaker 4: Ciena Maultch. Friendly Folks is just an easy, easy place
Speaker 4: to shop and they take care of you and you
Speaker 4: know when you leave with the product from there, it's
Speaker 4: going to be a good product that does what it's
Speaker 4: supposed to do in your garden and in your landscape.
Speaker 4: Let's see, I'm going to go now to if I
Speaker 4: can find the right mouse. Susie, thanks for patiently waiting.
Speaker 4: I'm still doing I'm still too excited to pay attention
Speaker 4: to the clock. So it's your turn. Now, how can
Speaker 4: we help you?
Speaker 26: So I have two questions. They have some two year
Speaker 26: old orange trees in the ground. Last year they froze back,
Speaker 26: came up from the root. They're about two feet fall now.
Speaker 26: Now I'm not going to protect them this winter.
Speaker 4: They they froze down how far?
Speaker 26: All the way down and they came out.
Speaker 4: And tell me the plant again that you had.
Speaker 24: Orange orange trees.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, I asked that wrong. What type of orange,
Speaker 4: what varieties or anything? Do you know.
Speaker 24: Valencia?
Speaker 4: I believe Okay, that was probably grafted, and so when
Speaker 4: it comes back from the roots, it may be very
Speaker 4: very thorny, indicating you lost the valencia and now you
Speaker 4: have the rootstock. Is it really thorny or is it not?
Speaker 24: You know, I haven't really noticed.
Speaker 4: Okay, well go check that because before we get protecting stuff,
Speaker 4: we want to make sure you still got your valencia.
Speaker 4: But you may have some shoots and some have thorns
Speaker 4: and some don't, and the ones with thorns will be
Speaker 4: coming from lower toward the ground on the stump. If
Speaker 4: you have a valencia, then you're gonna need to be
Speaker 4: able to cover it up and put heat underneath it.
Speaker 4: And if you will go to my website Gardening with
Speaker 4: Skip dot com Gardening with Skip you when you get there,
Speaker 4: you're going to find a publication and yet to scroll
Speaker 4: down a little bit. It's there if you say view
Speaker 4: all publications on the website. It talks about just the
Speaker 4: season to be freezing, that's what the name of it is.
Speaker 4: And it talks about hair protect plants against the cold,
Speaker 4: and it gives you all the detailed instructions.
Speaker 24: So there are thorns in it, but it looks like.
Speaker 26: The leaves came out of a main artery and it
Speaker 26: got more.
Speaker 4: Okay, let me ask you this. So, Susie, when you
Speaker 4: look at the leaves, are they single leaves or are
Speaker 4: they in sets of three?
Speaker 24: There's single leaves mostly.
Speaker 4: Okay, Well, let's assume it's of Valencia Worth protecting the
Speaker 4: jury and judge Jury still out a little bit on
Speaker 4: that one with me. But go to the website find
Speaker 4: my freeze publication. It's on there. It's free and it
Speaker 4: goes through all the details of how to cover them,
Speaker 4: how to protect them, how to add heat underneath the cover,
Speaker 4: anything you might need to do when it's going to
Speaker 4: get cold enough to kill that tree again.
Speaker 26: Right, And then my next question is I have a
Speaker 26: black diamond grape myrtle which is about two years in
Speaker 26: the ground.
Speaker 24: I cut it back.
Speaker 26: Then the leaves that come out they look normal, and
Speaker 26: then by now they're all by.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's an insect that's sucking juices out of the
Speaker 4: plant and basically excreting a sugary substance that's falling on
Speaker 4: the foliage and then the black soot grows on there.
Speaker 4: So the soot isn't the problem. It's you got to
Speaker 4: find the end sec. It could be scale. That's the
Speaker 4: most likely one is creat myrtle bark scale.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 4: And that would require a systemic insecticide put down to
Speaker 4: be taken up so that when the bug sucks juices
Speaker 4: out of the plant, it's getting poisoned juice from inside
Speaker 4: the plant, Okay, And that that would be the approach
Speaker 4: to that. Now the aphids would be the same solution.
Speaker 4: Could be white flies, mealy bugs, lots of things. Can
Speaker 4: it can create sooty mold. I think you're probably dealing
Speaker 4: with creat myrtle bark scale and a systemic would be
Speaker 4: the solution for that. Now, if you can find an
Speaker 4: ace hardware stowing nearby. Uh, and there's one over oh gosh,
Speaker 4: one over in Alvin I know area. Oh great, well
Speaker 4: then then you're you're good to go. All you need
Speaker 4: to do if if you're already you know in that
Speaker 4: area is go over on West Willis Street and Patco
Speaker 4: Hardware and Lumber is going to have a product. And
Speaker 4: the ingredient is in meadow cloprid. But instead of trying
Speaker 4: to write that whole word down, just it's I am,
Speaker 4: I d O I mid dough and that is the ingredient.
Speaker 4: That means it's a systemic that you drench into the ground.
Speaker 4: The crank myrtle takes it up and it will it
Speaker 4: will kill the scale.
Speaker 24: So is it too late to plant mandibles in the ground?
Speaker 4: Uh? Mendavella's is what you job? Yeah, you know you're
Speaker 4: pretty far south, but uh it's a little bit risky.
Speaker 4: That's not a very cold hearty plant at all.
Speaker 24: So I think if.
Speaker 4: You can, yeah, in a pot, you can roll it
Speaker 4: into the garage when it's going to be cold, you know,
Speaker 4: and protect it that way. Just need one of those
Speaker 4: little dollies they call them. Okay, good, all right, Well,
Speaker 4: sounds like you're set up to go. Hey, thanks for
Speaker 4: thanks for the call, Susie, appreciate that.
Speaker 24: Thank you.
Speaker 4: You take care you bet psolutely. Yeah, we're talking about
Speaker 4: ACE Hardware, the one down there Patco, Ace Hardware and
Speaker 4: West Willis Street. You know Ace Hardware. There's forty of them.
Speaker 4: So it makes it easy when someone calls and they
Speaker 4: need a product, I don't care where they are. I
Speaker 4: just send them to an ACE Hardware because I know
Speaker 4: at ACE you're going to find every fertilizer I recommend
Speaker 4: on Guardline, you're going to find all the things you
Speaker 4: need to control past weeds and diseases out in your
Speaker 4: landscape to make a beautiful lawn, a beautiful, bountiful garden.
Speaker 4: Ace Hardware is the place, they say, that's the motto,
Speaker 4: ACE is the helpful place. Well, it's the place for
Speaker 4: your lawn and your landscape and your vegetable garden as well.
Speaker 4: Acehardware dot Com find the store locator. It's as simple
Speaker 4: as that. Find the one near you, mark it on
Speaker 4: the map because you're going to want to shop there.
Speaker 4: We're going to head now out to Bob in Friendswood. Hello, Bob,
Speaker 4: welcome to garden Line. Hello, thank you. I have two
Speaker 4: small trees that have problems.
Speaker 10: One's a Cleveland pair and it got a web on it,
Speaker 10: which I looked on Google and it said it was
Speaker 10: some kind of caterpillar. So I got the web off
Speaker 10: and sprayed it with a super soap which seemed to
Speaker 10: I don't see anything on it, but all of the
Speaker 10: leaves in conjunction with the web that was created. All
Speaker 10: of the leaves are black around the edges and slightly curled.
Speaker 10: And this was about two months ago and they it
Speaker 10: hasn't really improved.
Speaker 4: Okay, so I'm hearing two things. Maybe I'm not hearing correctly,
Speaker 4: but tell me if I'm not. The webbing is going
Speaker 4: to be due to an insect, and it's probably going
Speaker 4: to be a fall web worm. They can do that.
Speaker 4: Tent caterpillars do it in the earlier in the season.
Speaker 4: It could be a fall web worm. If you're seeing
Speaker 4: black and leaves, then that's due not to the insect,
Speaker 4: and it should be a different cause than the web
Speaker 4: That should be due to a disease called fire blight
Speaker 4: that kills entire shoots. And the leaves don't initially fall off,
Speaker 4: they just hang their chocolate black brown colored.
Speaker 10: Yeah, it's just all around the edges that the leaves
Speaker 10: themselves are green, but they're still slightly spurled.
Speaker 4: Okay, well, then we're going to go to one more thing.
Speaker 4: When you see the edges and margins, the tip and
Speaker 4: margins of the leaf start to brown, that's due to
Speaker 4: something is wrong in the plumbing of the plant. It
Speaker 4: can occur due to different causes. For example, if you
Speaker 4: had borers that were in the trunk that were preventing
Speaker 4: water from the roots to reach the top, it could
Speaker 4: cause that. If you over applied a salt based fertilizer
Speaker 4: and burned roots, you could cause that. If you had
Speaker 4: drought conditions it could cause that. And if you had
Speaker 4: soggy conditions so that roots lacked oxen and dyed, you
Speaker 4: might see a symptom like that. Also, I can't tell
Speaker 4: you which of those is doing it on your tree,
Speaker 4: but pears are very prone to that. And in many
Speaker 4: cases with pears it's not a big deal. It's not
Speaker 4: meaning you're about to lose the tree. They can show
Speaker 4: that symptom, but something is stressing that tree. The other
Speaker 4: thing I would I would just check and watch for
Speaker 4: is make sure there's not a root at the base
Speaker 4: of the trunk that is strangling the trunk. That happens
Speaker 4: sometimes a root grows in a circle around the pot
Speaker 4: they were growing the tree in, and then they keep
Speaker 4: moving it to bigger pots, and the trunk gets bigger
Speaker 4: and the root gets bigger, and suddenly the roots starts
Speaker 4: squeezing and embedding itself into the trunk. And that also
Speaker 4: is a problem that's common with ornamental pears like the Cleveland.
Speaker 10: Okay, how do I actually check for that without digging around?
Speaker 4: Go to the base. Yeah, I go to the base,
Speaker 4: take a little hand trowel, maybe get you one of
Speaker 4: those squirt pistols on the end of the water hose,
Speaker 4: and just blast soil out of the way. You're only
Speaker 4: going to need to dig down about three inches. Looking
Speaker 4: around the tree, you'll see it. If it's in there.
Speaker 4: The trunk will have swollen out, and they'll be right
Speaker 4: below that swelling something that's squeezing in. So it's like
Speaker 4: it goes out and then it comes back in, and
Speaker 4: that's a sign of an embedded route.
Speaker 10: Okay, Okay, Well, it sits in the very moist area
Speaker 10: of the yard, so it may be part of its
Speaker 10: problem too.
Speaker 4: It's unlikely, but if it's wet enough, that can be
Speaker 4: a problem. Yeah, it's pretty wet.
Speaker 10: Second problem tree is a small peach tree that we planted.
Speaker 10: I guess this is its second year. It produced fruit
Speaker 10: right off of that. Okay, but now it's looking limp
Speaker 10: and the leaves have turned yellow, and it.
Speaker 4: Just all right. Yeah, I'm going to run to a break.
Speaker 4: When we come back, let's tackle the peach tree. When.
Speaker 4: Look forward to helping you with that, folks. I'll be
Speaker 4: right back. Good to have you with us today. We
Speaker 4: enjoy talking to you about the things that are of
Speaker 4: interest to you. I want to mention that, you know,
Speaker 4: talk about brown stuff. And for those of you that
Speaker 4: live up in the northern part of the area, Nature's
Speaker 4: Way Resources is right in your backyard. And Nature's Way
Speaker 4: is the birthplace of things like rose soil and leith
Speaker 4: more compost for example, and many other types of quality products.
Speaker 4: John Ferguson started that many years ago and now his
Speaker 4: son Ian running the place, and the quality just continues
Speaker 4: with the products that they have. They have got their
Speaker 4: fungal compost sales still going on. It's called Fungal Friday.
Speaker 4: Every Friday, you can say twenty percent off of their
Speaker 4: fungal compost. So that is a very good deal. And
Speaker 4: remember we talk about leap mool compost as a compost
Speaker 4: top dressing. Fungal compost is also suitable to use accomplosht
Speaker 4: top dressing if you don't do that. Also, one more thing.
Speaker 4: I'm going to be there on the tenth of October
Speaker 4: Nature's Way Resources. That's Interstate forty five north almost to Conro,
Speaker 4: right where the road from Well fourteen eighty eight comes
Speaker 4: in from the left hand side from Magnolia, you turn
Speaker 4: right and go to Nature's Way. It's called the Fall Festival.
Speaker 4: They're going to have Latin food, local vendors, certainly plant sales,
Speaker 4: live music, children's activities. It's going to be a shindig.
Speaker 4: That is officially a shindig. Go look that word up.
Speaker 4: I'll be there doing a Q and A from eleven
Speaker 4: thirty to one thirty and there'll just be a lot
Speaker 4: of fun stuff going on. So the whole deal itself
Speaker 4: goes from nine thirty to two at Nature's Way Resources.
Speaker 4: Here's the phone number nine three six two seven three
Speaker 4: twelve hundred. Nine three six two seven three twelve one
Speaker 4: hundred gets stocked up this fall Fall is for building
Speaker 4: the soil, because fall is for planting twenty percent off
Speaker 4: fungal compost only on Fridays, but every Friday Fungal Friday
Speaker 4: sale at Nature's Way Resources. We're going to head back
Speaker 4: now to I think we were talking to Elizabeth. Is
Speaker 4: that correct? I go back to the right call. Yes,
Speaker 4: Hello Elizabeth, Welcome to garden.
Speaker 24: Good morning.
Speaker 3: I have a question. Okay, I have some very big
Speaker 3: oak trees in my front yard. I live in Sugarland,
Speaker 3: well it seems, and I've tried all the things like
Speaker 3: putting compost and putting mulch and all that sort of
Speaker 3: thing at air rating. But I have an area around
Speaker 3: that tree that my grass just doesn't want to grow.
Speaker 3: So I've tried everything, and I'm wondering if I put
Speaker 3: gypsum mixed in with some compost, willout break up that
Speaker 3: sort because it's like concrete. I you know, I dig
Speaker 3: it up. I put the air raidar and all of that,
Speaker 3: and it still reverts back to this hardness.
Speaker 4: I got you, Okay, Gypsum only helps a clay if
Speaker 4: the clay is high in sodium, and in your area,
Speaker 4: I don't think you have really high sodium water when
Speaker 4: you wash your hands at the sink. Is it like
Speaker 4: you can't get the soap to come off and they
Speaker 4: just stay slick even though yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, so
Speaker 4: I no, don't don't worry about that. You know, the
Speaker 4: aeration is helpful, but I would always keep decomposing organic
Speaker 4: matter on the surface of the soil. Always have composts, decomposing,
Speaker 4: mulch decomposing, And that's the best thing you can do
Speaker 4: for those oak trees.
Speaker 3: Yes, very enormous. I mean I've lived in this house
Speaker 3: twenty years and they were reasonable when I moved in,
Speaker 3: and now they're giants.
Speaker 4: All right, Well, just just make them think they live
Speaker 4: in a forest. That's what oaks want. Any tree wants
Speaker 4: to have its the whole ground under the tree covered
Speaker 4: with rotting leaves and bark and anything else organic.
Speaker 3: I just don't ever, you know, yes, I just don't
Speaker 3: take it away when you know, rake it up and
Speaker 3: throw it away. I keep it on there, you know,
Speaker 3: all those leaves and whatnot that fall down. Yeah, okay, well,
Speaker 3: thanks very much, I will do that.
Speaker 4: Well, you're doing the right thing, obviously. You moved in
Speaker 4: and they keep getting bigger. They must like you.
Speaker 3: Elizabe they're huge.
Speaker 27: They're huge.
Speaker 3: They're huge.
Speaker 4: Okay, thank you so much, thank you very much. Yeah,
Speaker 4: appreciate that a lot. Yeah, it is. It is true.
Speaker 4: Nature knows how to take care of soil. You know,
Speaker 4: I tell you what. Let me well, I'm gonna come back.
Speaker 4: I want to talk a little bit about soil and
Speaker 4: organics and stuff like that. Right for right now, I'm
Speaker 4: just gonna I want to keep moving.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 4: Microlife fertiliser products. They have a product called Soil and
Speaker 4: Plant Energy. Soil and Plant Energy is a combination of
Speaker 4: humic acid and molasses. In other words, microbe food. Microbes
Speaker 4: love carbon, and when you get humid and fuvic acid
Speaker 4: combined with molasses, you got some good stuff for the
Speaker 4: microbe in the soil. It is an excellent product. It's
Speaker 4: got over sixty three different minerals in it. Very safe.
Speaker 4: You're not going to burn with it. It's a microlife product.
Speaker 4: It's natural. It doesn't take much, just two to four
Speaker 4: ounces per gallon. You can spray the foliage. You can
Speaker 4: do it as a folier. You can also put it
Speaker 4: down on the soil, drench it into the soil. Either
Speaker 4: way is good. It's just another one of those liquid
Speaker 4: products from Microlife. This one happens to be the hot
Speaker 4: pink label. You know, I was kind of going by color.
Speaker 4: I love doing that because it makes it easy you
Speaker 4: have to memorize a name. Look for the hot pink label.
Speaker 4: Microlife Soil and Plant Energy go to Microlifefertilizer dot com
Speaker 4: and you can find out about all their products. And
Speaker 4: I can tell you this, they are widely available when
Speaker 4: you are out shopping for places, at places I talk
Speaker 4: about on garden Line, there is a very high likelihood
Speaker 4: that they're going to carry the Microlife line of products.
Speaker 4: We're going to now go to sugar Land and talk
Speaker 4: to Don. Hello, Don, Welcome to garden Line. Do we
Speaker 4: have a Don? All right, I'm gonna put Don back
Speaker 4: on hold. There we'll come back to you Don. We're
Speaker 4: going to go to Parland and talk to Kay. Hello.
Speaker 5: Okay, Hi you, good morning, Skip, good to talk morning again.
Speaker 5: Thank you for taking my call. I have I bought
Speaker 5: a rosemary plant, a small one, and it has grown exponentially,
Speaker 5: and a friend of mine wanted to get a cutting,
Speaker 5: and she took a cutting and it's starting to go south.
Speaker 5: And I just wondered if how do you propagate a cutting.
Speaker 4: All right, So here's what you do. By the way, well,
Speaker 4: go ahead. Rosemary is very easy, easy to propagate. You
Speaker 4: want to get new growth out toward the end. Don't
Speaker 4: get old, chunky hardwood, but it can be a little witty,
Speaker 4: but out toward the end. You want to take cuttings
Speaker 4: that are about I would say three inches long, and
Speaker 4: take the leaves off the bottom half the cutting. Dip
Speaker 4: that cutting in a rooting hormone. Can buy rooting hormone
Speaker 4: power powder. I have it any kind of a garden
Speaker 4: center place. Dip it into the powder and then make
Speaker 4: a little hole. Take I take a pencil and make
Speaker 4: a hole in the rooting mix and put it in
Speaker 4: there so that when you push the cutting in you're
Speaker 4: not wiping all the powder off, and then just gently
Speaker 4: push the mix up against it. I will take pearl
Speaker 4: light and mix it with a potting soil type material,
Speaker 4: about two or three parts of pearl light to one
Speaker 4: part of the potting soil. Because you want optimum drainage,
Speaker 4: not mucky soggy. Needs good oxygen down around that cutting.
Speaker 4: Put a clear cover over it and put it in
Speaker 4: a bright area, but not direct sunlight. It needs lots
Speaker 4: of light, but the sun will cook it inside that
Speaker 4: clear cover. So if you do all that, rosemary will root.
Speaker 4: It is a very easy to root plant given that process.
Speaker 5: Okay, well I started out. I took one down close
Speaker 5: to the base because there were three or four ranches
Speaker 5: off of that, you know, and I thought, oh, that
Speaker 5: looks a good one.
Speaker 4: Guess all right, well, good well, good luck, good luck
Speaker 4: with it this next try. And thank you very very
Speaker 4: much for that call. I'm gonna run. Let's see what
Speaker 4: time is that I've been doing this wrong? Old Yeah,
Speaker 4: I better hold off Don and Ralph. You'll be our
Speaker 4: first two up when we come back from break here
Speaker 4: in just a tiny second or two. Stick with us.
Speaker 4: I got a few more things I want to talk about.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna make a little room today to address a
Speaker 4: couple of issues that I think will be very helpful
Speaker 4: for you. So hang around for tuning in. We got
Speaker 4: plenty of things to talk about. We're gonna run straight
Speaker 4: out to talk to Don in Sugarland. Hello Don, and
Speaker 4: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 17: Good morning, Skip. I got two questions. One went over
Speaker 17: south was fertilizer. I got some celsius and because I've
Speaker 17: got all of this is your weeds that come up,
Speaker 17: and especially the Behao grass, and I think it will
Speaker 17: cut kill the Behayo grass. Uh you suggested man that
Speaker 17: they didn't have that. But anyway, I said, it's okay
Speaker 17: to spray as long as you don't and it's not
Speaker 17: going to absorb into my citrus trees as long as
Speaker 17: it's passed the drip line.
Speaker 11: Do you agree with that?
Speaker 4: Yes. In fact, if just don't get it on the
Speaker 4: foliage of the citrus and don't apply so much that
Speaker 4: you're drenching the soil, that would be a waste of
Speaker 4: celsius anyway. And it's not cheap.
Speaker 17: No, it's too expensive for that.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, well all you got to do is barely
Speaker 4: with the foliage.
Speaker 17: Yeah, okay, But I got all these different weeds that
Speaker 17: have just I don't know, it's dollar weed and all
Speaker 17: this other kind of stuff that comes up. Also, there's
Speaker 17: a little green weed and it has a little yellow insert.
Speaker 17: I don't know what they called it. I showed them
Speaker 17: all that stuff. But hopefully that'll kill that. But I
Speaker 17: have these probably one hundred foot Italian cypress, and I
Speaker 17: mean they're brown all the way to the top. So
Speaker 17: I guess it's just they're dead. Just have to cut
Speaker 17: down they're dead.
Speaker 4: Italian cypress, like junipers and pine trees and other things
Speaker 4: like that, when the needles are in the case of
Speaker 4: Italian cypress, a little scaly leaves die. It cannot re
Speaker 4: sprout from that spot on the branch. You have to
Speaker 4: have green foliage. So in other words, if you took
Speaker 4: out Italian cypress and you cut all the branches on
Speaker 4: one side off, it would always be a dead side
Speaker 4: the no new growth can come out there. Yeah, so brown,
Speaker 4: that's one reason why I don't like it.
Speaker 17: Tight go ahead and so the whole tree is dead
Speaker 17: even though you like cut all the branches off, it
Speaker 17: would never come back out, correct.
Speaker 4: Yeah, any other tree, you know, if you took any
Speaker 4: tree and you took a chainsaw on turned it into
Speaker 4: a hat rack, it would just re sprout out everywhere
Speaker 4: you cut. If you take a cedar, a juniper, an
Speaker 4: Italian cypress, a pine tree, and you do that, it's
Speaker 4: going to be a hat rack. It is not able
Speaker 4: to re sprout like other trees.
Speaker 11: Well, thank you?
Speaker 17: Uh did it in when that drought?
Speaker 6: Not in?
Speaker 17: Water? Is the thing enough in it?
Speaker 5: All?
Speaker 11: Right?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 17: I'll cut it down, all right, all right.
Speaker 4: Well, good luck with it. Thank you, yes, sir, thank you.
Speaker 4: I appreciate the call very much, Thank you very much
Speaker 4: for that. I just wanted to make some comments about organics.
Speaker 4: A lot of times people will talk to me about
Speaker 4: our like, I want to be an organic gardener, and
Speaker 4: so I'm going to use organic pesticides, and that's fine,
Speaker 4: that's part of organic gardening. But organic gardening is in
Speaker 4: the soil. It's about the soil. That's where the movement
Speaker 4: began and that's where the heart of it still is.
Speaker 4: It's not just changing the bullets in the gun, like
Speaker 4: I'm going to quit buying synthetic pesticides and buy organic pesticides. Again,
Speaker 4: that's part of the deal with organics, But it's the soil.
Speaker 4: If you don't get the soil right, you're not You're
Speaker 4: going to be struggling. Your plants are going to be
Speaker 4: struggling to survive, and then you do have more disease problems,
Speaker 4: you do have more insect problems. Begins with the soil.
Speaker 4: The brown stuff composts in the soil, organic matter, good drainage, quality,
Speaker 4: nutrient ingredients, and the soil bank account that helped provide it.
Speaker 4: After that, when you run into problems, Yes, if you
Speaker 4: want to use inseexticidal soap or some other organic pesticide,
Speaker 4: that's fine. But don't just start with how to kill
Speaker 4: the bug, how to kill the disease, how to kill
Speaker 4: the weed. Start with the soil. That is what organics
Speaker 4: is all about. I'm gonna run northwest Houston now and
Speaker 4: talk to Ralph. Hello, Ralph, welcome reguard line.
Speaker 27: Good morning again. I found my front yard. You told me,
Speaker 27: I guess gonna have to get somebody to soil is
Speaker 27: so hard in there, and I tried different things and
Speaker 27: I cannot beat it. I need to get the saint
Speaker 27: all good thing to grow. And I'm on my bike.
Speaker 27: You are fine with the front yard, Okay, got to okay.
Speaker 4: Bottom line, Ralph, get get a good core aeration done.
Speaker 4: Open up some holes into that hard ground. It needs
Speaker 4: to be moist when they do it, so the the
Speaker 4: the air raidor can get down in and do it.
Speaker 4: And then put a little fine dressing, a compost, real
Speaker 4: fine compost over the whole thing. Let it work its
Speaker 4: way in. And that is the single best and first
Speaker 4: thing you can do to get that lawn going again,
Speaker 4: that's where I would start. Certainly fertilizers important, Certainly water
Speaker 4: is important, but let's start to work on that hard
Speaker 4: soil you're talking about, well near the aor yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: you can. Sometimes the ones you rent aren't the best ones.
Speaker 4: You can hire somebody to come in and do it.
Speaker 4: But if you want to do it yourself, you can
Speaker 4: find a place to rent one and do it. But
Speaker 4: it's a lot of hard work to do it. So
Speaker 4: I would I would recommend hiring somebody.
Speaker 27: I'm fighting this. It's done good and everything else, all right,
Speaker 27: give me.
Speaker 4: All right, here's what okay, got a penhandy, Yes, got
Speaker 4: a penhandy two eight one two eight one three five
Speaker 4: one three five one forty seven thirty three. And I'll
Speaker 4: give you that again two eight one three five one
Speaker 4: four seven three three. And the companies called green Pro
Speaker 4: they do an excellent job and they serve your area.
Speaker 4: I hope that helps. I'm gonna have to run to
Speaker 4: another call here, pretty qreat.
Speaker 7: I appreciate it.
Speaker 27: You're good, Joe, Thank you, Bye.
Speaker 4: Thank you. I appreciate I appreciate that a lot. We're
Speaker 4: gonna go to Tomball and talk to Marianne today. Hello, Marianne.
Speaker 4: Welcome to garden.
Speaker 28: Line, and hello, I'm calling to find out if you
Speaker 28: can help recommend a product to control Virginia button weed.
Speaker 5: It's we're really having a.
Speaker 28: Problem with it in our Saint Augustine grass and we
Speaker 28: can't get control of that.
Speaker 4: Okay. The product I would say will give you the
Speaker 4: best results is called Celsius, like the temperature Celsius. It
Speaker 4: comes in small packets. It's not cheap, but a small
Speaker 4: packet makes a gallon, and a gallon goes a long
Speaker 4: way because you're not applying it to everywhere in the
Speaker 4: lawn your spot treating the Virginia button weed. Now we're
Speaker 4: going into fall. You could try doing it now, but
Speaker 4: the most important thing is next spring when you start
Speaker 4: seeing the Virginia button weed, spray it with celsius and
Speaker 4: be ready to repeat that spray about I would say
Speaker 4: three or four weeks later. You may have to do
Speaker 4: a repeat of it. It's not an easy weed to control,
Speaker 4: but Celsius in research trials has done better than anything
Speaker 4: else at controlling Virginia button weed.
Speaker 28: Do you recommend somewhere to buy that or do they
Speaker 28: sell it online?
Speaker 24: Where should I I would go?
Speaker 4: If you're in tombul Arbor Gate. I'm ninety percent sure
Speaker 4: carries celsius.
Speaker 24: Okay, that's close.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I think you're going to find it
Speaker 4: out there. I find it at d and de Feed
Speaker 4: as well. But I would start there and and just remember,
Speaker 4: look at how much you need, because you may not
Speaker 4: need to use the whole packet. So you could do
Speaker 4: a half gallon and use half the packet and then
Speaker 4: you'd have half left to do it again.
Speaker 14: Uh.
Speaker 4: You know, if you've got a five acre lawn and
Speaker 4: it's solid rudinia button weed, well then you need a
Speaker 4: lot more than that. But most people, you know, yeah,
Speaker 4: go ahead.
Speaker 28: We do live in a rural area where it's it's
Speaker 28: about an acre and a quarter. But but it's just
Speaker 28: it just takes over like carpet. And first we thought, oh,
Speaker 28: well this is pretty and we can rip it up.
Speaker 28: But then it comes back with the vengeance and we
Speaker 28: tried the uh we'd be gone, the work that we'd
Speaker 28: be gone and it and it killed the grass and
Speaker 28: then the button we was just coming back. Will the
Speaker 28: celsius kill the grass as well? Should we panic if
Speaker 28: we see it die? Or will it kill the grass
Speaker 28: or no?
Speaker 4: It will not. It will not. Okay, No, it kills.
Speaker 4: It kills a weed, not the grass.
Speaker 28: All right, Okay, thank you appreciate it.
Speaker 4: You bet, you bet, Marian, thank you very much for
Speaker 4: the call. I want to take a moment for you
Speaker 4: right out of time here and just talk about something
Speaker 4: about fall fertilizing. I talk about it all the time.
Speaker 4: I say it's important. Here is what you need to know.
Speaker 4: Through the year, we are pushing our lines with nitrogen.
Speaker 4: That's what they need the most of spring and summer
Speaker 4: for good growth and health. When we come to fall,
Speaker 4: we want them to slow down, and so we are
Speaker 4: fall fertilizers. The nitrogen is lower, the potassium is higher.
Speaker 4: That's the third number on the back. First number goes down,
Speaker 4: third number goes up. That is a fall fertilizer. It
Speaker 4: creates inter freeze in the grass plant. It creates carbohydrates,
Speaker 4: and when you do that, your grass is more cold, hardy.
Speaker 4: But even more important is in spring when the new
Speaker 4: growth starts out. It's stored energy that's doing that, and
Speaker 4: that is where the fall fertilization kicks in strong with
Speaker 4: that new spring growth. Again in the spring, then we
Speaker 4: begin the nitrogen fertilizers again as things warm up and
Speaker 4: the grass is growing. But fall fertilization is the most
Speaker 4: important fertilization of the year. And that's why. All right, folks,
Speaker 4: you've been listening to Garden Line. I'm about to jump
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