Speaker 1: Welcome to Katie r. H Garden Line with skimped Richard's.
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Speaker 2: Sun Well, good morning, Good Sunday morning, gardeners. Stop glad
Speaker 2: you're joining us this morning. We got plenty of gardening
Speaker 2: stuff to talk about today. We had a great time
Speaker 2: yesterday out at Arbor Gate. I don't uh tell you
Speaker 2: that place was hopping, and you know it was just
Speaker 2: like people were hauling stuff at one end and trucks
Speaker 2: are coming in the other end. It was. It was
Speaker 2: a busy day and a good reason for it too.
Speaker 2: I mean, good selection out there. But the weather, oh
Speaker 2: my gosh, it was incredible. Nice nice day. So thanks
Speaker 2: for folks at Arbrogate, for Beverly and all the team
Speaker 2: there for having me out. Had a good time. Thanks
Speaker 2: for everybody that came out too. I enjoyed visiting with you.
Speaker 2: And it's always kind of fun when people come up
Speaker 2: to ask questions. Happens on the radio too, of course,
Speaker 2: but you know someone's walking toward you that you eye
Speaker 2: contact ice meat, and all of a sudden they reach
Speaker 2: in their persure their pocket and out comes this little
Speaker 2: zip lock bag with plant material in it, and it's
Speaker 2: kind of like a mystery gift, you know, you open
Speaker 2: it up and let's see what this one is. And
Speaker 2: so we had some really good, really good questions that
Speaker 2: came out as well. So anyway, I have to I
Speaker 2: have a confession to make this morning. My garden needs help.
Speaker 2: It needs me to actually be a gardener, not just
Speaker 2: a guy who talks to other people and helps them
Speaker 2: with their garden. And so that is my plan for
Speaker 2: this week. I've got a number of projects that we're
Speaker 2: working on, a lot of planting that still needs to
Speaker 2: be done. And you know, the sooner you plant, the
Speaker 2: better off you're going to be because it's easier when
Speaker 2: plants have a little bit of a head start on
Speaker 2: the heat. You can plant on the hottest day of
Speaker 2: the year in the middle of summer, but it's touch
Speaker 2: and go. You got to keep that root ball moist
Speaker 2: without keeping it too wet. And think about that. So
Speaker 2: when the pot you bought from the nursery, the container,
Speaker 2: when it goes in the ground, that whole root system
Speaker 2: is still You might as well have just stuck the
Speaker 2: pot in the ground because that's where all the roots are,
Speaker 2: so when you water, you need to think about that
Speaker 2: water in that little area. And now does that mean
Speaker 2: you drench it every day? No, you will kill a
Speaker 2: plant that way, especially in a clay soil because think
Speaker 2: about this. Dig a hole in a clay soil and
Speaker 2: fill it full of water. Does it all run right out?
Speaker 2: Of course not. It sits there, and it sits there
Speaker 2: and it's it's there. It takes a long time for
Speaker 2: water to move out of a clay and when you
Speaker 2: put a plant in the ground in a clay hole,
Speaker 2: that is what happens. So you you've kind of got to,
Speaker 2: uh do some bed prep ahead of time to have
Speaker 2: good success. And that would mean uh, mixing some organic
Speaker 2: material down into the soil. If you're putting in a
Speaker 2: raised bed, get you a good quality bed mix, put
Speaker 2: it on the ground and go for it that way.
Speaker 2: Uh you know, make then dig the hole. Okay, then
Speaker 2: you're digging a hole into mixed soil and things are
Speaker 2: just going to go better. And some plants just absolutely
Speaker 2: can't take wet feet and we can put we can
Speaker 2: plant those. I like to say plant them on top
Speaker 2: of the ground. And by that what I mean is
Speaker 2: imagine that You're going to put in a zella in
Speaker 2: the ground, for example, and you got this clay hole. Uh,
Speaker 2: And it's like, nah, that's that's not good long term,
Speaker 2: probably going to stay too well down there. So you
Speaker 2: set the azella on top of the ground and then
Speaker 2: you bring a bed in around it. Now that that
Speaker 2: is a little bit of a ridiculous example, but it
Speaker 2: creates the mental picture that I want to create with you,
Speaker 2: is your plant is above the soil level. What I'll
Speaker 2: usually do is spread out some good quality bed mix,
Speaker 2: mix it in a little bit with the soil that
Speaker 2: I have. That creates kind of a transition zone. So
Speaker 2: it's not like you're going from potting soil to solid
Speaker 2: clay and then continue filling the bed with the bed
Speaker 2: mix and then dig the hole to plant the plant.
Speaker 2: But in essence, that plant is like above or a
Speaker 2: little bit at least above the original soil level. And
Speaker 2: that helps when we get our gully washers or frog
Speaker 2: stranglers as they say. And it happens here, it sure does.
Speaker 2: Now in a container, you want a quality mix. And
Speaker 2: I talk about jungle land all the time, jungle land
Speaker 2: flour and vegetable planting soil goes into a good container,
Speaker 2: and a good container means that it has a drain
Speaker 2: holes and it has adequate volume of soil capacity to
Speaker 2: support that plant during the heat. The hotter it gets,
Speaker 2: the more water plants need. The container is the entire
Speaker 2: root system of available soil and moisture. So I've had
Speaker 2: containers that had water twice a day because the plants
Speaker 2: were big, the containers were small, and it was hot,
Speaker 2: and you just need to think about that. The bigger
Speaker 2: your container, the better off you are. But Jungle lends
Speaker 2: a quality mix to put in there. It's got decomposed
Speaker 2: organic matter and four different sources of it actually Canadian
Speaker 2: blomb pede and microhizal fungi to help those plants thrive.
Speaker 2: Now you can find nitro fross products like the Jungle
Speaker 2: Land distributed by Nitroros. You've fded plants and things at
Speaker 2: in Brennam. You head down to Clute, Dixie Drive, Lake Hardware,
Speaker 2: They've got it down there, Fishers Hardware and Baytown Alexander
Speaker 2: another place you find quality night foss products. I would
Speaker 2: encourage you this year. I always trying to give you
Speaker 2: some ideas or things like, hey, have you tried this
Speaker 2: have you considered this before, Consider some big beautiful mixed
Speaker 2: container plantings. And I don't care if you go and,
Speaker 2: you know, get the most expensive, beautiful, giant glazed pottery
Speaker 2: in the world, or if you just get a big
Speaker 2: old black nursery bucket and plant in it. Get a
Speaker 2: big container and fill it full of mix and put
Speaker 2: different kinds of plants in it. And if you need inspiration,
Speaker 2: Arbrogate would be a good place for that. I was
Speaker 2: out there yesterday and they had combo planters that had
Speaker 2: all kinds of different things in them. And you walk
Speaker 2: by and you look at it and you go, I
Speaker 2: like that, or you know what, I like that plant
Speaker 2: in it, But I like these over here too, and
Speaker 2: it's like it gives you inspiration. And a mixed planter
Speaker 2: is like bringing the garden beds right up to the
Speaker 2: house or bringing them to your patio. I have mixed
Speaker 2: planners for shady areas. I have mixed planners for sunny areas.
Speaker 2: You just choose the plants accordingly, and a quality nurse
Speaker 2: she's going to help you do that. Like Arburgate, Arbrogate
Speaker 2: up and Tomball. For those of you who weren't out
Speaker 2: there yesterday, Arburgate is on twenty nine to twenty just
Speaker 2: west of Tomball and it's easy to get to and
Speaker 2: when you park, remember to park in the back. That's
Speaker 2: the best place to park out there. Also, I just
Speaker 2: want to tell you that next Saturday, May seventeenth, at
Speaker 2: ten am, Angela Chandler is going to be doing a
Speaker 2: program on tropical dazzlers. This would be a good one
Speaker 2: for mixed containers too, or just single plant containers. Bold beauties,
Speaker 2: you know, like Allocasia and colocasia. Think about people call
Speaker 2: elephant ears that kind of plant kalladiums in a shady spot.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, you can have a gorgeous kalladium container
Speaker 2: Zantho soma. If you like showy plants thrive in our climate.
Speaker 2: It never gets too hot and humid for them. They
Speaker 2: laugh at that. They love that. Go to Angela's class
Speaker 2: Tropical Dazzlers next Saturday ten am. All you do is
Speaker 2: call Arburgate and they'll tell you about it and get
Speaker 2: you signed up for it. It's a ten dollars per
Speaker 2: person and it's limited seedings, so don't delay. If you're interested,
Speaker 2: go ahead and give them a call. Time for me
Speaker 2: to go to a little break here when we come back,
Speaker 2: we'll talk to you perhaps. All right, y, welcome back
Speaker 2: on a good Sunday morning. Good to have you with
Speaker 2: us here and garden line. I want to ask you
Speaker 2: to think about soil and nutrients a little differently. And
Speaker 2: here's what the It's a common concept that when I fertilize,
Speaker 2: I'm feeding my plants. So you know, it's like you
Speaker 2: give them a low fertilizer, they suck it up and
Speaker 2: grow and do whatever they do, and then you got
Speaker 2: to give them a little bit more and do that. Well,
Speaker 2: that does happen, But think instead, turn that around and
Speaker 2: think of your soil as a bank account. And every
Speaker 2: nutrient and the soil that plants have to have, if
Speaker 2: it's not there in adequate quantities, it limits plant growth.
Speaker 2: There's twenty something nutrients that plants can take up and use,
Speaker 2: but if one of them is limited, that's as much
Speaker 2: as the plant can grow. So you're building the sole
Speaker 2: bank account when you fertilize. Some plants, some nutrients like
Speaker 2: nitrogen go away. They don't stick around. They volatilize or
Speaker 2: taken up by microbes or washed away, and nitrogen especially,
Speaker 2: but others stick around a while. But it's the bank
Speaker 2: account you're trying to build. And if you fill that
Speaker 2: bank account with all the nutrients that the plants need,
Speaker 2: you're going to have plant success because when they want
Speaker 2: to make withdrawals, and they make them every day, they're there.
Speaker 2: Asamite is a trace mental supplement that does just set okay.
Speaker 2: It has things like boron in it or you know
Speaker 2: other micro nutrients that you would never think, oh, I
Speaker 2: need to go fertilize my law with boron now. Azemite
Speaker 2: has the micros that they need. But it's building the
Speaker 2: bank account. That's why you can do it anytime of
Speaker 2: the year. You don't have to just do it during
Speaker 2: fertilizer season. It's just easier when you're not fertilizing your
Speaker 2: lawn to go ahead and bring it, bring the hopper back,
Speaker 2: fill it up with as mite, and go out and
Speaker 2: do that again with the asmite Asmytexas dot Com for
Speaker 2: more information build your soul's bank account. Let's head out
Speaker 2: to a task Acita now and we're going to visit
Speaker 2: with Jim. Hey, Jim, welcome to Guardline.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you very much, sir, and I hope you're
Speaker 1: having a great day. Here's a question root bound. Okay,
Speaker 1: I've got a thirty down by tech I just bought,
Speaker 1: and I want to plant it right, and then all
Speaker 1: the other plants I just bought. I'm you're doing my
Speaker 1: whole front yard. Okay, about twenty plants. Now? Do I
Speaker 1: do the same process with every plant?
Speaker 4: In other words, when I.
Speaker 1: Buy a new plants and it's in the container and
Speaker 1: it's been for a while, don I separate those roots
Speaker 1: and cut certain ones that are tangled up?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Well, I'll say yes. It's most important on trees
Speaker 2: and to somederground shrubs where you can have a root
Speaker 2: going around in a small circle. Maybe it was in
Speaker 2: a gallon pot, let's say, and it made a gallon
Speaker 2: size circle around the trunk. And then as a trunk
Speaker 2: and the root get old bigger, they strangle each other.
Speaker 2: The root strangles the trunk. But it's also important to
Speaker 2: get plants to establish well. Roots that are all wrapped
Speaker 2: up in a pot aren't going to unwrap underground. So
Speaker 2: I'll cut mine. I plan one the other day, and
Speaker 2: I cut it in three or four places vertically used
Speaker 2: a little box cutter knife. If it's bigger roots, you
Speaker 2: need little pruners in there, but don't be afraid to
Speaker 2: cut them. Just like if you cut a branch on
Speaker 2: a tree, what happens is it sprouts out two or
Speaker 2: three more branches from where you cut it. That's what
Speaker 2: happens in the ground, and it'll happen within a couple
Speaker 2: of weeks. It'll start sprouting new roots and those go
Speaker 2: right out and establish faster. So don't be afraid to
Speaker 2: cut those, especially those circling roots.
Speaker 1: Is basically the same process with every plant that you planate.
Speaker 2: Yes, but you know, if you're putting in a little
Speaker 2: tomato plant and it's not super root bound, I mean
Speaker 2: you sometimes people use their little fingers to tease the
Speaker 2: roots apart a little bit, but to the degree it's
Speaker 2: root bound, it's more important. I'll just put it that way.
Speaker 2: But I generally look and if roots are all wadded up,
Speaker 2: I just kind of loosen them up a little bit.
Speaker 2: If it's a little small perennial or annual or something
Speaker 2: like that.
Speaker 1: Right, and on you to thank you, sir, and have
Speaker 1: a great day.
Speaker 2: You too, and thanks for your calls. Have a great Sunday.
Speaker 2: Nature's Way Resources has been making quality mixes for a
Speaker 2: long time, and it you know, it's it's almost like
Speaker 2: like boutique mixes if you will, I mean they they
Speaker 2: I talk about garden mix or garden bed mixes. Well,
Speaker 2: Natures has a bunch of them. You know, they've got
Speaker 2: like the roast soil, They've got soil for vegetables and
Speaker 2: herbs or fruit trees or whatever. There's a number of
Speaker 2: different mixes. They have one called Garden Light Mix and
Speaker 2: it basically is a little higher and composted organic matter.
Speaker 2: Therefore it's a little bit lighter and so if you
Speaker 2: need something with some extra excellent drainage, it can do that.
Speaker 2: It's got lead, more composts in. It's got some topsoil
Speaker 2: and mortar sand just to provide good loose strangers beca. See,
Speaker 2: that's one that's one of the many products that they
Speaker 2: carry there. It Nature's way. When you go talk to them,
Speaker 2: whoever you talk to there, you know, they've got a
Speaker 2: lot of folks that really know what they're doing. You
Speaker 2: talk to Ian, you can talk to Leo or some
Speaker 2: of the others, and you just say, look, this is
Speaker 2: what I want to grow. What do you recommend for that?
Speaker 2: And they're going to be able to tell you what
Speaker 2: to use and why. And you can do it by bulk.
Speaker 2: You can do it by the bag. You can go
Speaker 2: pick it up, you can have it delivered. You can
Speaker 2: find the bags in a lot of garden centers around town.
Speaker 2: So just remember too that Fungal Friday. Every Friday is
Speaker 2: Fungal Friday. It's fungo based compost, which is a high
Speaker 2: quality organic product. Ten percent off bags, twenty percent off
Speaker 2: bulk at Nature's Way. Here's how you find out more
Speaker 2: about them, how to find them, how to get a
Speaker 2: hold of them, everything, Nature's Way resources dot com, Nature's
Speaker 2: Way Resources dot com. Try it out. I I you know,
Speaker 2: I talk about all the time that if I'm recommending
Speaker 2: some product, it's because I've used it, and I just
Speaker 2: some of these, you know, natures we have so many
Speaker 2: products it takes a while to get through them all.
Speaker 2: But just picked up some other things the other day
Speaker 2: for some new beds. We're putting in a couple of
Speaker 2: new mulches. I hadn't tried from them, and we're trying
Speaker 2: those out now, just to make sure you know that
Speaker 2: the claims are true. Of course, I have no doubt
Speaker 2: about that them being true. I just like to try
Speaker 2: it and you know what I find out when I
Speaker 2: and this is true. Now I've got book knowledge. I
Speaker 2: went to school, I got a master's in horticulture. I
Speaker 2: got the book knowledge. But it is it's on knowledge
Speaker 2: that is so very important, you know, I don't. I'm
Speaker 2: not dissing book not I'm just saying that when I
Speaker 2: try something, I learned things that I didn't know. I
Speaker 2: didn't know. You know, they say you don't know what
Speaker 2: you don't know. That's true. So when I start trying something,
Speaker 2: it could be a new plant that I'm trying out,
Speaker 2: and I may have it in a little too much shade,
Speaker 2: or maybe I put it in more shade than I
Speaker 2: thought it would take, and it performs well, and I
Speaker 2: learned something, And I encourage you to do that out
Speaker 2: in your garden. There is no don't think about failing
Speaker 2: or not failing. Really believe me on that one. Don't
Speaker 2: think about failing or not don't worry about that. Do
Speaker 2: everything you can to have success. But if something isn't
Speaker 2: doing good, it's okay. You've learned something, and oftentimes you
Speaker 2: can fix it. One time, I had a rose bush
Speaker 2: that was in a spot that was a little too shady,
Speaker 2: and it bloomed, but it was like, eh, not that great, Okay,
Speaker 2: So one fall I dug it up and I moved
Speaker 2: it to another spot that had more sun, and boy,
Speaker 2: it was happy there. And that's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2: You learn and you try new things, and you get
Speaker 2: better and you grow, and it's all part of the
Speaker 2: cultivating of the earth. And with all the wonderful plant
Speaker 2: options we have, oh my gosh, so many plants, so
Speaker 2: little time. That's how I like to look at it. Anyway, Yeah,
Speaker 2: there you go. Nitropas Superturf is their product for slow
Speaker 2: release summer fertilizing. And when I say slow release, I
Speaker 2: mean like sixteen weeks. It's going to be releasing nitrogen
Speaker 2: out slowly and it's got on the nutrients and as well.
Speaker 2: It's a nineteen four to ten fertilizer. It's going to
Speaker 2: be releasing those out slowly over time during that period
Speaker 2: and you get nice even growth through your lawns. It's
Speaker 2: the silver bag from Nitrofoss. It's easy to find when
Speaker 2: you walk into a store. You're going to find night
Speaker 2: Foss products at places like Fisher's Hardware down there in
Speaker 2: Baytown in Angleton, in Lake Hardware, Angleton on Velasco. I
Speaker 2: go to Clare Lake M and D and Clare Lake
Speaker 2: on Bay Area Boulevard some other places you'll find nitropas,
Speaker 2: superturf and other nitrofoss products. I need to get out
Speaker 2: and do some more land fertilizing. I haven't fertilized one
Speaker 2: of my lawns. Haven't fertilized in quite a while. And
Speaker 2: I say one because my lawn is a big experiment.
Speaker 2: I have four different kinds of grasses. I know you're
Speaker 2: thinking that must look horrible. No it doesn't. I have
Speaker 2: two Saint Augustine's in the front with a big driveway
Speaker 2: in between them, so you kind of don't. No, it's
Speaker 2: not like, you know, it looks like a checkerboard or anything.
Speaker 2: But I'm learning about two new Saint Augustine varieties as
Speaker 2: a result of that. So there we go in the back,
Speaker 2: two different Soisier varieties, trying those out in some sunny spots,
Speaker 2: some shady spots. We have two golden retrievers, which when
Speaker 2: they talk about the petty patter of little feet, these
Speaker 2: guys are like, I don't know the trampling of a
Speaker 2: buffalo herd. So if you want to test a grass.
Speaker 2: You can rent my dogs and they will tell you
Speaker 2: if it can hold up or not. But it's all
Speaker 2: part of the learning curve and I enjoyed doing that.
Speaker 2: Have you ever been out to antigurosm for him? It's
Speaker 2: up north of Brenham in Independence, Texas and it is
Speaker 2: an awesome, awesome place. I love the anti g rosing
Speaker 2: for him. You go there and you're going to find
Speaker 2: pretty much any kind of roads you can imagine. I mean,
Speaker 2: they have an awesome collection right now. They got a
Speaker 2: deal going on bue twenty something different roses that are
Speaker 2: on a good little sale if you jump out there
Speaker 2: and take advantage of it. And there's some really good
Speaker 2: ones in that group too. I was looking over their
Speaker 2: list thinking I haven't tried that one yet. Also, don't
Speaker 2: forget that today is, let's see, today's Mother's Day. Be
Speaker 2: a good time to run out there and grab a
Speaker 2: rose to bring for mom. Also, on Memorial Weekend, which
Speaker 2: is May twenty four and twenty six, tax savings on
Speaker 2: water conserving products, so that'd be a good day to
Speaker 2: plan getting out and getting some shopping done. If you
Speaker 2: haven't been there, you need to go go to the
Speaker 2: website Antique Roseemporium dot com Antique Rose Emporium dot com.
Speaker 2: There you'll find out about events like their beneficial insects
Speaker 2: seminar and kids activities on May seventeenth. You need to
Speaker 2: follow them on Facebook and Instagram because they're always posting
Speaker 2: some really good stuff there as well. But when you
Speaker 2: go to the website Antique Roseemporium dot com you can
Speaker 2: find out a lot more about them. They got some
Speaker 2: great perennials and other plants also that just thrive here
Speaker 2: and it is such a fun place to visit. Take
Speaker 2: some friends with you. In fact, if you want to
Speaker 2: give them a call nine seventy nine eight three six
Speaker 2: fifty five forty eight, they can give you more information
Speaker 2: on your visit. But I promise you this is a
Speaker 2: beautiful place and you have a very very good time.
Speaker 2: Plus you need to leave room because you're going to
Speaker 2: want to bring a lot of plants on once you
Speaker 2: see those things growing out at the Antique Rosenporium. Must
Speaker 2: must visit Destiny. I'm gonna take a little break. We
Speaker 2: will be right back. We'll head to forest in Galleria
Speaker 2: first and then the rest of you for your calls
Speaker 2: at seven one, three two one two fifty eight seventy four.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to Guardline on a nice Sunday. Glad to
Speaker 2: have you listening with us today this morning. Won't you
Speaker 2: get a cup of coffee and go outside for just
Speaker 2: a minute. It's starting to get light, which is about now.
Speaker 2: I believe it's just brightening up pretty good out there. Uh,
Speaker 2: and just listen, listen to the birds. It is the
Speaker 2: most soothing thing. It's one of those nature sounds that
Speaker 2: I just love and it's like therapy for me just
Speaker 2: to listen to the running sound of running water and birds.
Speaker 2: I love that Wildbird's Unlimited here in the Greater Houston
Speaker 2: area is a place to go to bring the sounds
Speaker 2: in to your landscape. Folks at Wildbirds Unlimited have every
Speaker 2: kind of equipment you need, from bird feeders to the
Speaker 2: little bird baths, to quality quality bird seeds and blends.
Speaker 2: Right now, they've got the seed of the season. I
Speaker 2: guess the blend of the season is Nesting Super Blend
Speaker 2: and it's only available at Wildbirds Unlimited. It's got all
Speaker 2: the things in it that birds love and need when
Speaker 2: they are doing things like laying eggs and bird young
Speaker 2: birds are developing in need that calcium for support in
Speaker 2: their skeletal development. You can get Nesting super Blend with
Speaker 2: loose seed bags or seed cylinders or compacted cylinders, however
Speaker 2: you want to go about it, and you can get
Speaker 2: it anywhere at one of the six wild Birds Unlimited
Speaker 2: stores in the Greater Houston area. That includes the one
Speaker 2: in Cypress up on Barker Cypress, the one in West
Speaker 2: Houston on Memorial, the one in south West East Snow
Speaker 2: in bel Air in Paarland on Broadway, in clear Lake
Speaker 2: on El Dorado in Kingwood on Kingwood Drive. Why there,
Speaker 2: make sure and check out my favorite humming bird feeder,
Speaker 2: which is the wild Birds Unlimited hygh Perch hummingbird feeder.
Speaker 2: You can see all the birds. It's a little flat
Speaker 2: feeder where you can see all the birds when they
Speaker 2: come to it. It's really simple to use and clean
Speaker 2: and everything like that. So I like it so much,
Speaker 2: which isn't a surprise, because I love going to Wildbirds
Speaker 2: in Limit already do Let's see, we're gonna go out
Speaker 2: to the galleria now and we're gonna visit with Forest
Speaker 2: this morning. Hey, Forest, welcome to guard Line.
Speaker 5: Thank you Skip. I've got an issue with my tomatoes.
Speaker 5: I'm finding little holes where it looks like things are
Speaker 5: boring into it. I think it might be a caterpillar
Speaker 5: or a worm problem, and I'm wondering what your Yeah,
Speaker 5: what your recommendation is for putting on that to prevent that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it could be a tomato pinworm, or it could
Speaker 2: be one There's several caterpillars that will chew on a tomato,
Speaker 2: and pinworms make a little tiny holes. Some of the
Speaker 2: worms will tend to push in right up where the
Speaker 2: klyx where the tomato attaches. They kind of squeeze in
Speaker 2: there and go in. Others just grab the side of
Speaker 2: a tomato and chump their way in BT, Bacillis threne
Speaker 2: gensis is the ingredient in a number of brands of sprays.
Speaker 2: BT is one natural worm or a caterpillar disease, and
Speaker 2: so you spray it. Caterpillars get sick. Nothing else gets sick,
Speaker 2: which is a nice thing about BT. But you got
Speaker 2: to use it pretty often. It only lasts a day
Speaker 2: or two in the environment, and then you need to
Speaker 2: respray it periodically to make sure that you get them
Speaker 2: spray the foliage and the fruit.
Speaker 6: I have some I have some nme oil.
Speaker 5: Does nem oil have that in it?
Speaker 2: No, it doesn't. It is that neme oil is also
Speaker 2: a natural product. It would work really well when you're
Speaker 2: smothering mites or aphids or even young scale crawlers that
Speaker 2: are out and about name works it? Actually, you know
Speaker 2: what would name kill a I don't, okay. There's two
Speaker 2: forms of name for us. One is the name oil,
Speaker 2: which they squeeze the oil out of the seed of
Speaker 2: the plant, and that's what you're purchasing. The other is
Speaker 2: the ingredient as a direct and it is found in
Speaker 2: the name tree, but it's an extracted ingredient that comes
Speaker 2: out of it, so they they're different. That as a
Speaker 2: directing form might do a good job for you. The
Speaker 2: oil form for this particular problem, I don't think would
Speaker 2: be as good of a job.
Speaker 5: But you mentioned you mentioned said BP is the active
Speaker 5: ingredient in the in the other chemical.
Speaker 2: Yeah, B as in boy teas in tom B t
Speaker 2: O B. Yeah. There's a lot of brand, a lot
Speaker 2: of brands of that. You go into any A's hardware store,
Speaker 2: you know, garden Center, they're gonna know what BT is.
Speaker 6: Got it all right?
Speaker 7: Thank you, sir?
Speaker 2: Having good morning. You bet for us. Now, you know
Speaker 2: on guardline we don't charge for advice, but I do
Speaker 2: expect to see half the tomatoes at the station sometime
Speaker 2: this summer, so we'll call it even.
Speaker 1: Thank you guys, take care, Sorry.
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Speaker 2: to visit a little bit this morning about some free
Speaker 2: tree questions that I've been hearing. Got some yesterday when
Speaker 2: I was out at Arburgate, and I hear these from
Speaker 2: time to time, and I just remember, you know, I
Speaker 2: need to mention the more because I mentioned something on
Speaker 2: the radio and you're not listening now. You may be
Speaker 2: listening in five minutes from now or later today, later
Speaker 2: this morning. But when it comes to fruit trees, a
Speaker 2: lot of fruit trees pollinate themselves, meaning that an insect
Speaker 2: can move the pollen from one flower on the tree,
Speaker 2: or we even within a flower to the other flowers
Speaker 2: and so you don't need to have a second pollinator variety.
Speaker 2: Some tree like well figs, for example, don't even need pollination.
Speaker 2: The kind of fig we grow here doesn't need pollination.
Speaker 2: If you go out to California, a different type of
Speaker 2: fig out there that is pollinated by a little wasp,
Speaker 2: but ours don't need it here. But if you are
Speaker 2: going to grow a lot of citrus, trees are going
Speaker 2: to be self pollinating in terms of they don't. You
Speaker 2: don't have to have two different varieties of satsuma orange
Speaker 2: to have oranges. And then there are trees that peaches
Speaker 2: are self pollinating. By the way plums mostly there is
Speaker 2: a plumb or two that doesn't need a pollinator. But
Speaker 2: in general it's better if you plant too. That's true
Speaker 2: blueberries too, whether it's rabbit eye blueberries Southern high bush blueberries,
Speaker 2: the two primary kind we grow here. If it's just
Speaker 2: one variety, you can get some blueberries, but if you
Speaker 2: plant two varieties you will get bigger and more blueberries.
Speaker 2: And the reason is a little nerd alert here, but
Speaker 2: I think it's interesting. Blueberries can have dozens of seeds
Speaker 2: inside and in any fruit. When a seed is successfully
Speaker 2: pollinated in forms you're going to end up getting a
Speaker 2: release of a hormone from that seed that makes the
Speaker 2: fruit get bigger. If you see an apple that's lopsided,
Speaker 2: cut through it sideways and you'll see the seed is
Speaker 2: dead on that side, that's not growing. Okay, So more pollination,
Speaker 2: more seed development in a blueberry means bigger berries. And
Speaker 2: that's true of a lot of kinds of fruit too.
Speaker 2: So two for pollination. Apples, you gotta have pollinators. Pears
Speaker 2: for all practical purposes, have two for pollinating, and you
Speaker 2: kind of go through all the fruit and see, but
Speaker 2: check on that before you purchase fruit. A good unpop
Speaker 2: garden center, independent garden center like you hear me talk
Speaker 2: about on garden Line. They're gonna know, they're gonna know,
Speaker 2: and they are gonna send you in the right direction
Speaker 2: on that. So you don't even have to worry about.
Speaker 2: Just ask them. They'll make sure you get set up right.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna take a little break here. We'll be back
Speaker 2: with your calls in just a moment. All right, Welcome
Speaker 2: back to garden Line on a lovely Sunday morning. Good
Speaker 2: to have you with us. Hey, I have a tip
Speaker 2: for summer vines. Vines. We do not use vines enough
Speaker 2: in our landscapes here in this area, we don't. And
Speaker 2: there's so many good vines out there, and you know,
Speaker 2: there's vines for pretty much every situation. There's old, tame vines,
Speaker 2: you know, like the flowering pea vine that is sun nice.
Speaker 2: People use the flowers to flavor drinks, and then there's
Speaker 2: vines that like. Coral vine is one of my favorite vines.
Speaker 2: It blooms late in the summer and early fall. It
Speaker 2: basically is coming out of a sweet potato like structure underground.
Speaker 2: But the only thing about coral vine is it likes
Speaker 2: to run, and it will run like a kindergartener on
Speaker 2: the first day school. You gotta be careful, don't just
Speaker 2: let it take over. But if you have it on
Speaker 2: antin contained structure, it is wonderful. And boy, are you
Speaker 2: supporting pollinators They will that place will be that thing
Speaker 2: will be a buzz but beautiful fruit. Anyway, I was
Speaker 2: thinking about that added enchanted gardens down in Richmond Rosenberg,
Speaker 2: they've got a nice selection of vines. There's one called
Speaker 2: snail vine that looks it's curled up kind of like
Speaker 2: a snailshell, and you have to use your imagination a
Speaker 2: little bit, but it's pretty cool. Things like passion vine
Speaker 2: a beautiful, beautiful vines. So many good options out there.
Speaker 2: Mexican flame vines another good one. Put them on an
Speaker 2: arbor for shade. Plan them where they can cover a
Speaker 2: west wall for saving on your electric bill. We need
Speaker 2: to use vines, more annual vines, perennial vines, woody vines.
Speaker 2: There are so many options. You ought to did that.
Speaker 2: By the way, if you get a chance, go to
Speaker 2: Enchanted Gardens Richmond and find out more about the garden center,
Speaker 2: how to get there, everything you need to know. It's
Speaker 2: open today from ten am to four pm Monday through
Speaker 2: Saturday eight am to five pm. Lots of beautiful plants there.
Speaker 2: Let's head out to Cove, Texas and we're gonna speak
Speaker 2: to Dnnis this morning. Hey, Dennis, welcome to gardline.
Speaker 7: Thank you, Skip. I sent a couple of pictures. They're
Speaker 7: the same thing. I meant to take pictures last evening
Speaker 7: and then for good. So it's still a little dark
Speaker 7: this morning, but I got a big tree and just
Speaker 7: one limb. I saw this yesterday I was doing yard work.
Speaker 7: All the leaves are practically they're just shriveled up brown
Speaker 7: right fall, and the rest of the tree is fine.
Speaker 7: I examined the limb, you know, all the way down
Speaker 7: and I can't see like any damage to the limb itself,
Speaker 7: you know. And he's like it's broken away at the
Speaker 7: base like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I saw that email in the photos and
Speaker 2: your description. There's a plumbing problem. Something has just shut
Speaker 2: off the flow of water nutrients to that branch. Now,
Speaker 2: I can't tell you what it is. I mean, it
Speaker 2: could be little tiny holes of a bore in there.
Speaker 2: It could be a stem canker somewhere along the branch
Speaker 2: or something else. I would take your thumbnail and kind
Speaker 2: of scratch the bark back on that branch. It's early
Speaker 2: enough to where it may not be fully browning yet,
Speaker 2: but it will be, and probably that whole branch is
Speaker 2: going to need to come out down at the ground level.
Speaker 2: Oh just cut that branch out of the tree. Now.
Speaker 2: Any other pruning you're doing, you're going to want to
Speaker 2: sterilize those punters just in case. So get you some
Speaker 2: ly salt and after you proNT it, clean them up
Speaker 2: and spram with lisoalt to get make sure you kill
Speaker 2: anything on it. That way, if you were to cut
Speaker 2: on another branch, you wouldn't If that the canker is
Speaker 2: the problem, you wouldn't be spreading it. But that that's
Speaker 2: what I would do, all.
Speaker 7: Right, okay, and I where I cut it? Is there
Speaker 7: anything that it would be useful to put you know,
Speaker 7: where I make the cut, any kind of I don't know,
Speaker 7: killing agent or something.
Speaker 2: Need to do any of that.
Speaker 7: Okay.
Speaker 2: Now, figs are vigorous, you should get some more unless
Speaker 2: you just have a root rot in the ground, and
Speaker 2: then that's a whole different monster. We don't have a
Speaker 2: good way to control root rots on figs to be just.
Speaker 8: To be blunt about it, that's only the one branch.
Speaker 7: So I'll remain hopeful.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, something that's as far as it goes, Yes, sir,
Speaker 2: thank you, Dennis, appreciate your call this morning. Uh Nelson
Speaker 2: plant Food. They have a number of products, you know,
Speaker 2: the church Star line for the lawn, the bags of fertilizer,
Speaker 2: and then they have the nutri Star which is specific
Speaker 2: to different kinds of plants. The one I want to
Speaker 2: talk about is nutristar citrus fruit and avocado food. So basically,
Speaker 2: if it grows something you eat, the fruit you eat,
Speaker 2: this is for it. I don't care if it's a
Speaker 2: percimin or a fig or a plumber, a pair or
Speaker 2: you know, grape vines or avocados or lemons and limes
Speaker 2: and oranges, and it's a fruit and this is for that.
Speaker 2: Especially formulate. It's got a balance ratio of nutrients, promotes
Speaker 2: vigorous growth, good root development, and therefore you're going to
Speaker 2: get better production. This formulation also includes micro nutrients that
Speaker 2: help prevent some of the common deficiencies that we can
Speaker 2: see on some of our fruit plants. Nelson plant Food,
Speaker 2: nutri Star citrus fruit and avocado food comes a little jar.
Speaker 2: You're going to find it at garden centers, sometimes these
Speaker 2: hardware stores. Sometimes these stores they set on a lot
Speaker 2: of different places, but it's one worth having. If you
Speaker 2: have some fruit trees. Good list a little bit here,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go. We can head out to Clear Lake
Speaker 2: and talk to joy this morning. We got an orchid
Speaker 2: event coming up down there south in excuse me, the
Speaker 2: Galveston Bay area. Hey, Joey, are you there?
Speaker 6: Yes, this is Joyce all right?
Speaker 2: Can you give us the details on this? Yes? I can.
Speaker 2: Can you give us the details on this orket event.
Speaker 9: Yes, today's the last day and it's our it's otis
Speaker 9: anniversary of the Galveston Bay Orchie Society Orchid Show.
Speaker 2: Okay and okay.
Speaker 9: Today from ten am to four pm. It's free admission,
Speaker 9: free parking, and we have raffle and silent auction and
Speaker 9: with that vendor selling very unusual orchids, not the usual
Speaker 9: one lets you see at the big box stores and
Speaker 9: all that. So let me give you the address. It's
Speaker 9: at the Webster Civic Center, three to one, one Pennsylvania Avenue, Webster.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, Webster Civic Center. Just folks, just get
Speaker 2: your maps out, maps out up and find the uh
Speaker 2: and the Orchid Show. Give the hours again one more
Speaker 2: time today.
Speaker 9: Ten am to four pm.
Speaker 2: Ten to four And were there recent people on hand
Speaker 2: that you can ask questions about orchids and maybe learn.
Speaker 10: A lot more.
Speaker 9: Yes, yes, all right, all right, Well we have for
Speaker 9: them and everything, all the information they need. Yes, looks
Speaker 9: like it.
Speaker 2: Might be a good place to grab a quick Mother's
Speaker 2: Day gift.
Speaker 9: Well, that's exactly right, and that's what a lot of
Speaker 9: people have been doing it.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, Joy, thank you, thanks for the call
Speaker 2: in that report. I appreciate that. All right, Orchid Show,
Speaker 2: Webster Civic Center. I think I said that right this morning.
Speaker 2: All right, folks, that'd be a fun thing to get
Speaker 2: out and do. Well, let's see here, we got it.
Speaker 2: We don't have much time, so it looks like I'm
Speaker 2: gonna have to hold the next call until we come
Speaker 2: back for the next hour. I want to let's see
Speaker 2: this when we come back, I want to visit with
Speaker 2: you a little bit about success with the lawns and
Speaker 2: some of the steps and stages and things to watch
Speaker 2: for that we're looking at right now. In the meantime,
Speaker 2: you got a minute, go to my website, gardening with
Speaker 2: Skip dot com and look at the lawn schedules. There's
Speaker 2: one for lawn care, which is basically mowwater, fertilized and
Speaker 2: micronutrients and aeration, all the things you do to make
Speaker 2: that lawn healthy and pretty and vigorous and dense. Okay.
Speaker 2: The other schedule is basically everything that goes wrong in
Speaker 2: the lawn from the standpoint of pests and diseases, weeds
Speaker 2: that you may want to prevent, or weeds that you
Speaker 2: want to kill that are actually growing currently and those
Speaker 2: two schedules are free to download. They tell you products
Speaker 2: to use for various things that are out there. They
Speaker 2: include organic and synthetic options for those of you who
Speaker 2: want to go one way or the other on that.
Speaker 2: But they're free. And check out that website. I think
Speaker 2: you'll find some interesting information. We keep adding to it.
Speaker 2: We just put some things up recently that I'll talk
Speaker 2: about a little bit later in the show today. But
Speaker 2: when we come back, I want to talk about some
Speaker 2: secrets on lawns like that if I can get through
Speaker 2: the phone calls when we get back. I hope you're
Speaker 2: having a good Sunday morning, and I do hope that
Speaker 2: this afternoon you get a little bit of time and
Speaker 2: or break get by one of her garden centers. They
Speaker 2: are just burgeoning with beautiful plants right now. It looks
Speaker 2: so good and there's so much inspiration. That's one of
Speaker 2: the things that I like to do is go to
Speaker 2: garden centers and get inspiration. See new plants, see new
Speaker 2: ways of combining plants. I like to drive around town too,
Speaker 2: for the same reason. You know, very if possible, when
Speaker 2: I go somewhere, I don't use the major thoroughfare. You
Speaker 2: know if I'm going through a town, I'll zigzag through
Speaker 2: streets just because you never know what you're going to say.
Speaker 2: And that includes a good, the bad, and the ugly.
Speaker 2: And I've got pictures to show to prove it. But
Speaker 2: you always you get some inspiration when you see what
Speaker 2: other people have done. Maybe it's just the shape of
Speaker 2: a bed, maybe it is a particular plant, maybe it's
Speaker 2: a combination of plants. What is appealing esthetically to you,
Speaker 2: And so keep an eye out when you drive around,
Speaker 2: go see botanical gardens, and like I said, go see
Speaker 2: garden centers, and it's been inspiration. Excuse me for you
Speaker 2: to have success with what you do. Take a little
Speaker 2: break here, we'll be back and with your calls. All right,
Speaker 2: welcome back to the garden Line. Hey, thanks for joining
Speaker 2: us this morning. We got a lot of things to
Speaker 2: talk about this morning. I was mentioning before we went
Speaker 2: to break that I don't want to make a couple of
Speaker 2: comments about lawns. And right now we are transitioning into
Speaker 2: the warm season. It's it's kind of it doesn't feel
Speaker 2: like right now, but it's cool. I appreciate the cool.
Speaker 2: Don't complain because that's going to change. But in the
Speaker 2: warm season, our grass is everything's happening fast down in
Speaker 2: the soil. Microbes are going crazy. There's organic matter and
Speaker 2: they're decomposing it, and all kinds of things are transitioning
Speaker 2: in the soil and making the grass really happy. And
Speaker 2: all you got to do is add water, as they
Speaker 2: put it, when we don't have water, good soaking on
Speaker 2: a periodic basis is important. People miss water, miss water.
Speaker 2: They overwater, and they miss water lawns. That happens a lot.
Speaker 2: And what I mean by miswatering, well, when you're going
Speaker 2: to spend money on drinking water and you're going to
Speaker 2: squirt it out there on the lawn, you want to
Speaker 2: get every straw, every bit you can out of every drop.
Speaker 2: And so if you squirre Let's say you take an
Speaker 2: inch of water, which is about what a lawn needs
Speaker 2: during a week in the absence of rainfall, and you
Speaker 2: put an inch on at one time by watering a
Speaker 2: while letting it sit for forty five minutes, watering a
Speaker 2: while letting it sit forty minute. You know, like that
Speaker 2: cycling soak is what they call it. That one inch
Speaker 2: basically almost all gets in the soil. You know, some
Speaker 2: evaporates off the foliage of the grass at the end
Speaker 2: when you quit watering. But on the other hand, if
Speaker 2: you took that inch and divide it into four quarter
Speaker 2: inch irrigations, you would barely with the soil at all.
Speaker 2: I mean hardly at all to be on the grass blades,
Speaker 2: to be in the thatch, and it just wouldn't with
Speaker 2: the soil well at all, And each of those then
Speaker 2: would evaporate all away, so you get very little water
Speaker 2: in the soil when you do a little squirt on
Speaker 2: a frequent basis. It's better to give it a good
Speaker 2: soaking and then to let it dry out in between waterings.
Speaker 2: When I say dry out, I don't mean go into
Speaker 2: stress and die and all that. I just mean to
Speaker 2: really get to the point where that grass needs a
Speaker 2: drink of water, okay. And by doing that, that soil
Speaker 2: volume that was full of water from that one inch
Speaker 2: soaking then begins to bring air back in as as
Speaker 2: the grass uses the water and pulls it out of
Speaker 2: the soil, and those spaces that had water in them
Speaker 2: now are filled with air, which means oxygen down into
Speaker 2: the root system. When you constantly keep it soggy wet
Speaker 2: at the top. You're not going to get oxygen down
Speaker 2: in the root system, you're not going to get the
Speaker 2: healthy grass. You are going to increase disease, and you're
Speaker 2: wasting your money on water. What else can I say that?
Speaker 2: That's the bottom line water wisely, and it's not that
Speaker 2: hard to do. I'm sure I'll be talking about it
Speaker 2: as we go through the summer, but water wisely, let's
Speaker 2: head out to Jim in a tascasita. Hey, Jim, welcome
Speaker 2: back to Gardenline.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you very much, sir. And the question is
Speaker 1: is it asthma nite. The comparison to ozma cot is
Speaker 1: that basically the same group no.
Speaker 2: No. Ozma coat is a sulfur coated product that looks
Speaker 2: like a little bbes and it has depending on what
Speaker 2: kind of ozma, know what you buy, it can have
Speaker 2: different nutrient groups in it, but it's primarily the macro
Speaker 2: nutrients primarily that that you're putting out with the osma
Speaker 2: cote and then it gradually releases those into the soil
Speaker 2: over time. The warmer it is, the faster it releases.
Speaker 2: So it may say it's going to last four months
Speaker 2: on the label, but not in summer. Here in Texas
Speaker 2: not in our area. So that's that. Azemite is a
Speaker 2: trace mineral supplement. It's not codd it's not made to
Speaker 2: be slow released, and it doesn't need to be because
Speaker 2: it goes down in the soil and is there in
Speaker 2: the bank account for the grass to get it when
Speaker 2: it wants it.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much, sir.
Speaker 2: All right, good luck with that, Thank you, sir. You know,
Speaker 2: maybe I ought to maybe I ought to talk about
Speaker 2: fertilizer a little bit in some of the forms and
Speaker 2: and why we do what we do. That that'd be
Speaker 2: another good topic for today. Grows Outlet and Willis Is
Speaker 2: it's it's a unique garden center. Okay. First of all,
Speaker 2: you can go to the website Growers Outlet in Willis
Speaker 2: dot com. Growers Outlet in Willis dot com. It's on
Speaker 2: Highway seventy five, just south of Willis. You go to
Speaker 2: the website and they put their availability up there so
Speaker 2: you can see what they have in stock. And they
Speaker 2: also put their pricing up there, which is really rare
Speaker 2: for anybody to do. I mean, they takes a lot
Speaker 2: of work to keep up with all of that, but
Speaker 2: they do. It's a place where you can go and
Speaker 2: find every kind of plant you can imagine, and if
Speaker 2: you want to follow them on social media, they're always
Speaker 2: doing little tours through the garden, I mean the nursery,
Speaker 2: showing you what they got growing in the greenhouses and
Speaker 2: other things. Every kind of plant you can want, fertilizers
Speaker 2: from Microlife, Nitropos Medina for example, products to control pests
Speaker 2: and disease and weeds and whatnot. I would just like
Speaker 2: to have you take a look at their macho fern
Speaker 2: hanging baskets. They have a lot of different kinds of
Speaker 2: hanging baskets, beautiful flowering hanging baskets, but the macho fern
Speaker 2: is just the big fern, I mean, and it can
Speaker 2: get big and boy, you can buy smaller ones from them,
Speaker 2: but when one of their macho firms ferns gets big,
Speaker 2: I mean it's it's like five feet across or something's huge.
Speaker 2: Beautiful baskets and they have them there. They've got a
Speaker 2: good gift shop too, with lots of home and garden
Speaker 2: related items, so you ought to check them out. Growers
Speaker 2: Outlet in Willis dot com. Pretty much any kind of
Speaker 2: plant you're going to want to grow, great availability. As
Speaker 2: we go through the seasons, and you can go online
Speaker 2: to that website, Growers Outlet in Willis dot com and
Speaker 2: learn a whole lot more about them. Let's see, We're
Speaker 2: going to run out now to Lakeside Estates and visit
Speaker 2: with the Maureene this morning. Hello Maureene, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 11: Thank you very much. I think I have a simple question,
Speaker 11: and it's really an identity problem. I have runners traveling
Speaker 11: in an area which got intense heat last year, and
Speaker 11: plus my lawn person really cropped it. So I'm dealing
Speaker 11: with the question that these runners are filling in an
Speaker 11: area I had called in and asked you and he said, no,
Speaker 11: don't put any sad long time of the year, and
Speaker 11: so these runners are sort of filling in. But I
Speaker 11: have normal hYP grass and then I have these runners
Speaker 11: which flat, so my lawn person is not able to
Speaker 11: laun you know, to cut properly. So what should I
Speaker 11: be doing pulling those runners out and putting in a
Speaker 11: piece of sod that looks like grass.
Speaker 2: Well, Maureen, for me to really help you, I need
Speaker 2: to see them. I need to see what we're talking about.
Speaker 2: When if you will take some pictures, I'll put you
Speaker 2: on hold and Alhandro. Give you an email and say
Speaker 2: me those pictures, and then after you send them, come
Speaker 2: back this morning and let's talk about it where I
Speaker 2: actually can see for sure what we're talking about, because
Speaker 2: I don't want to lead you in the wrong path.
Speaker 11: That sound good, Okay, I'll take a picture.
Speaker 12: Yep, sounds good.
Speaker 11: I'll hang on.
Speaker 2: Thank you appreciate that very much. Uh. ACE Hardware stores
Speaker 2: are all over the greater Houston area. And when I
Speaker 2: say all over, i'm talking about you know, you go
Speaker 2: to you go over to Orange, you go down to Rockport, Texas.
Speaker 2: I mean they are all over the greater Houston area.
Speaker 2: There is the the Jnr's ACE up in Porter Lake
Speaker 2: Conrace Hardware on Highway one oh five. Down in Siga
Speaker 2: Ranch on Mason Road. I got an ACE Hardware store
Speaker 2: down there, as well as one in north On North
Speaker 2: Austin and Brenham, Texas. ACE is the place you're looking
Speaker 2: for fertilizer. You're looking for some product to control weeds,
Speaker 2: pester or diseases. Maybe you looked at my schedule and
Speaker 2: you go, hey, I need this product. Go to your
Speaker 2: local ACE Hardware store and ask them about it. They
Speaker 2: probably have it. You can go to Acehardware dot com,
Speaker 2: ACE Hardware dot excuse me scratch that. We want our
Speaker 2: local ACE Hardware stores here, Ace Hardwaretexas dot com. Acehardware
Speaker 2: Texas dot com, and you can find the Acehardware stores
Speaker 2: throughout this region where you can find everything you need
Speaker 2: for the lawn, for the garden, for beautifying indoors and outdoors.
Speaker 2: Ace Hardware. If you're planning on doing some outdoor development
Speaker 2: of the patio with barbiecue bits and stuff like that,
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, go to Ashardware Texas dot com find
Speaker 2: out more. I'm going to take a little quick break here.
Speaker 2: We'll be right back with your calls in just a moment.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to the garden Line. Thanks for joining us
Speaker 2: this morning. Appreciate you listening in. I hope you're having
Speaker 2: a good Sunday morning so far. You know, it rained
Speaker 2: and it rained and it rained this past week, and
Speaker 2: a lot of areas got a lot of rain, and
Speaker 2: everywhere you get a little bit of water, standing mosquitoes
Speaker 2: are going to breed and we are on the verge
Speaker 2: of a big outbreak here coming up. That's just what
Speaker 2: happens in our area because we do get a lot
Speaker 2: of rain. Mosquito dunks are made to fix that. They
Speaker 2: are not a poison in the sense of some chemical
Speaker 2: to kill mosquitos. They are a disease of mosquitos. And
Speaker 2: now I have a bird drinks out of it, your
Speaker 2: family cat, if ladybug goes up to it, or anything,
Speaker 2: it doesn't affect them. It affects mosquitos. And mosquito dunks
Speaker 2: are small beige donuts. They float in water. One dunk
Speaker 2: covers one hundred square feet about thirty days of protection
Speaker 2: there and it really works well. And what some people
Speaker 2: will do is they'll take one and kind of hit
Speaker 2: it with a little hammer and break it up into
Speaker 2: little crumbles and throw those around in small spaces. Maybe
Speaker 2: you got a little a bird bath or the plant
Speaker 2: reservoirs underneath plants that whole water. Boy, mosquitoes love to
Speaker 2: breathe those. But whatever you do, get dunks them in
Speaker 2: the house, be ready to go. And because mosquito season,
Speaker 2: we're in for months of it here. And if you've
Speaker 2: got stagnant water, you will have mosquitos, and mosquito dunks
Speaker 2: will make sure you do not have mosquitoes growing in
Speaker 2: that water. Easy to find them sold in bead stores,
Speaker 2: ace hardware stores, garden centers. You go down Southwest Fertilizer
Speaker 2: and find them. They're easy to find. We're going to
Speaker 2: head out to Brownsville now and talk to John. Hello, John,
Speaker 2: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 4: Good morning Skip.
Speaker 13: I have a question about using art Do you have
Speaker 13: an opinion on using artificial intelligence to I don't know,
Speaker 13: diagnose something that you see, or identify or you know,
Speaker 13: anything to do with plan.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good question. So there are lots of
Speaker 2: forms of artificial intelligence if you're looking for the diagnostics.
Speaker 2: I see these ads where they show a picture of
Speaker 2: a leaf that's brown, and it's like they took a
Speaker 2: picture of it and this app told them what was wrong.
Speaker 2: And I've looked at what it says is wrong, and
Speaker 2: there's no way they can know that. It's just what
Speaker 2: they took a picture of. Could be several things, and
Speaker 2: so people think it's handy, and if they don't understand plants,
Speaker 2: they're going to think, oh, well, this is the truth.
Speaker 2: And it isn't all the time. And I can't speak
Speaker 2: to every app and every form of AI, but in general,
Speaker 2: be very skeptical of that sort of thing. Now, there
Speaker 2: are forms of AI, such as like a facial recognition
Speaker 2: kind of thing where it can look at well. Google
Speaker 2: has something called Google Lens and I use it a lot.
Speaker 2: But if you can isolate the plant you want identified
Speaker 2: maybe by a bloom or by leaves, unless it's just
Speaker 2: a really common looking leave, it does a pretty good job.
Speaker 2: It does real good on insects too, but it just
Speaker 2: looks at the form and it searches all through you know,
Speaker 2: Google Seed and heard everything over the years. It searches
Speaker 2: through everything and it says, this is what I think
Speaker 2: it is, and it often gives you several options, and
Speaker 2: even if it doesn't find the exact insect, at least
Speaker 2: you go, oh, this is the family of insects, and
Speaker 2: you can kind of look into it a little more yourself.
Speaker 2: But I use that there are plant apps too early on.
Speaker 2: I tried a bunch of them, and they seem to
Speaker 2: be more for other areas than for our area here.
Speaker 2: But that is not fair for me to make that
Speaker 2: as a permanent, ongoing statement. I'm sure they've gotten better,
Speaker 2: but because I use Google NS, I just don't I
Speaker 2: don't worry about all the other apps. But I'm sure
Speaker 2: there's some good ones out there. Okay, well, I appreciate it. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I talked about one the other day the other day.
Speaker 2: For birds, you out in the morning and you're sitting
Speaker 2: there listening to all these birds, you can open the
Speaker 2: the what's it called Merlin app It's free from Cornell University,
Speaker 2: and it'll listen to the songs and you'll just start
Speaker 2: to see birds appear on your screen the name I
Speaker 2: heard this bird, I heard that bird. That's pretty cool
Speaker 2: stuff too. So there's a lot of good coming with AI,
Speaker 2: as well as some real concerning things. But it's getting better. Okay, Well,
Speaker 2: thank you very much, all right, sir, you bet yeah,
Speaker 2: take care. Appreciate your call. Place well, Seasons is the
Speaker 2: place where people go for advice and for quality plants
Speaker 2: and products too. It amounts to that. I like the
Speaker 2: fact that when you shop the garden center, as you
Speaker 2: go to a checkout, you have to go into where
Speaker 2: the fertilizers and the soils and things like that are
Speaker 2: because brown's up before green stuff. Right, don't go home
Speaker 2: with a plant without going home with this stuff to
Speaker 2: make that soil, that foundation for your plant a success.
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Speaker 2: to get to and when you walk in there, you
Speaker 2: can take them a picture. You can take them a
Speaker 2: little sampled in a bag. They'll look at it, identify it,
Speaker 2: and then tell you what to do for it. They're
Speaker 2: true lawn and garden experts. You can go to the
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Speaker 2: a call to eight one three seven six one six
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Speaker 2: four six. Let me make here. I wanted to We
Speaker 2: had a question a while ago about about some fertilizer specifics,
Speaker 2: and I want to I want to make some comments
Speaker 2: about that plants need nutrients, and there's you know, it
Speaker 2: depends on the count that you you read, but there's
Speaker 2: around twenty different nutrients that plants need, and some some
Speaker 2: things are only used at certain times in a plant's
Speaker 2: life or at certain stages and things. But in general,
Speaker 2: just say I run twent nutrients that a plant is
Speaker 2: going to need. Those nutrients come in many forms, many
Speaker 2: of them in multiple forms, and there's forms plants can
Speaker 2: get and there's forms plants can't get. You could have
Speaker 2: a let's say, an azalea or gardena that's showing iron efficiency,
Speaker 2: just clear as a bell with yellow new growth at
Speaker 2: the ends of branches, and you send a sauce sample
Speaker 2: in and they say, there's lots of iron in the soil. Now,
Speaker 2: how can that be. It's because a higher pH and
Speaker 2: or hyphosphorus has made that iron a form that's unavailable
Speaker 2: to the plant. Nitrogen goes through forms. There's nitrode, there's ammonia,
Speaker 2: and bacteria and other processes in the soil are constantly
Speaker 2: changing the form of nitrogen. The nitrogen the air you're
Speaker 2: breathing is about seventy eight percent I think nitrogen something
Speaker 2: like that. Well, you set a houseplant on the table
Speaker 2: in this seventy eight percent nitrogen air, and it's not
Speaker 2: going to turn green because it can't get the endto molecule.
Speaker 2: The nitrogen that we breathe in every day way more
Speaker 2: than what we breathe in of oxygen. But bacteria can
Speaker 2: transform things. There's bacteria in the soil that can take
Speaker 2: air nitrogen and can turn it into a form plants
Speaker 2: can use, and it's constantly evolving in the soil in
Speaker 2: that way. So when we look at fertilizers, we just
Speaker 2: need to realize that in that fertilizer are nutrients in
Speaker 2: hopefully in a form that plants can use or that
Speaker 2: microbes can use to break that down. So if you
Speaker 2: have a synthetic fertilizer, typically a salt based fertilizer, it
Speaker 2: gets wet, it dissolves, and those nutrients go out there
Speaker 2: for the plants to be able to take up. An
Speaker 2: organic type fertilizer, it is in an organic form, but
Speaker 2: in that form something like nitrogen gets released as microbes
Speaker 2: work on it into the soil and a form plants
Speaker 2: can use. That's how nature runs. I mean, long before
Speaker 2: there were fertilizers around, Nature is doing fine just taking
Speaker 2: care of its plants and the soil, you know, by
Speaker 2: the beautiful natural system that was designed to take care
Speaker 2: of plants as organic matter decomposes. But when a plant
Speaker 2: takes something up, it's going to take it up in
Speaker 2: whatever form of that nutrient that the plant can take up,
Speaker 2: whether it's potassium, or nitrogen or magnesium, you know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying, So are phosphorus, and so those forms are
Speaker 2: out there and they're available and there they typically in
Speaker 2: many cases are kind of cycling and changing around. Now
Speaker 2: a lot of the micronutrients, if they're in the right
Speaker 2: form that plants can take up. I said that about
Speaker 2: iron a while ago. Uh, those need to be in
Speaker 2: the sole bank account, as do other nutrients. And just
Speaker 2: be aware of the fact that you get a gully
Speaker 2: washer rain and you're going to lose some nitrogen because
Speaker 2: it's going to wash away. Nitrogen on the surface is
Speaker 2: going to volatilize and go off as a gas. That's
Speaker 2: something that can happen too, and there's ways we lose
Speaker 2: nutrients like that. But our goal is to build that
Speaker 2: sole bank account. And then there are things called slow
Speaker 2: release fertilizers, and these are done in a number of forms.
Speaker 2: There's different chemistries if you will, that can release slowly.
Speaker 2: I mentioned a sulfur coated products that are little prills
Speaker 2: as type of fertilizer that slowly It's like little pits
Speaker 2: and holes in the coating around that that the nutrients
Speaker 2: inside can get wet from moisture and then they can
Speaker 2: leak out and make it available to plants. There's other
Speaker 2: forms that microbes have to break down. There's other forms
Speaker 2: that are totally well. They don't respond to getting wet
Speaker 2: and water. There's a different way that those typically nitrogen
Speaker 2: can release, and that's where we get some of the
Speaker 2: really slow releasing nitrogens. And when you see these products
Speaker 2: that are going to feed for months, that's probably what's
Speaker 2: going on in those. You don't have to worry about
Speaker 2: all of that, but just be aware that the soil
Speaker 2: is a bank account and these nutrients are in different forms.
Speaker 2: A soil test is always helpful. I recommend fertilizers all
Speaker 2: the time here on guarden Line that are your general guide.
Speaker 2: Probably going to work on ninety five percent of people's
Speaker 2: yards is exactly what they need, right, But there's always exceptions.
Speaker 2: If for whatever reason in the past, your yard was misfertilized,
Speaker 2: or the type of soil you have just didn't have
Speaker 2: that nutrient and adequate numbers, you may need a little
Speaker 2: different combo for your yard, but a soil test would
Speaker 2: tell you that, and that's why I recommend getting your
Speaker 2: sol tested. You can go to my website Gardening with
Speaker 2: skip dot com. Gardening with skip dot com. There is
Speaker 2: a SOL testing publication on there, tells you how to
Speaker 2: do it, tells you how to get to the form,
Speaker 2: tells you how to send it in, and that is
Speaker 2: your foundation. You have to do that every year, just
Speaker 2: maybe over five years. Just check on it and make
Speaker 2: sure you're in the right ballpark so that you fertilize
Speaker 2: intelligently rather than going with the probably in most cases
Speaker 2: good advice, but not the best answer for your specific yard,
Speaker 2: because your yard may be different than your neighbors because
Speaker 2: of past fertilization. All right, well, that's a lot of
Speaker 2: information right there. We're gonna take a little break here.
Speaker 2: I speaking of those, I wanted to mention Ciena Maltz.
Speaker 2: That is the place you go for the quality brown
Speaker 2: stuff that sets the foundation for success. You can go
Speaker 2: to their website Sienna Maltz dot com. They're down near
Speaker 2: Highway six and two eighty eight south of Houston. Just
Speaker 2: go to Sienna Maltz dot com. You can find out
Speaker 2: how to get there. Whether it's compost or bedmixes or
Speaker 2: multches or fertilizers. Everything you need for the foundation for
Speaker 2: success is at Sienna Maltz. Go check it out cienamultch
Speaker 2: dot com. All right, now, welcome back to the Guardline.
Speaker 2: Good to have you. We've got a lot of things
Speaker 2: to talk about today, including what you want to talk about.
Speaker 2: Give me a call seven one three two one two
Speaker 2: ktr H seven one three two one two KTRH. Will
Speaker 2: is it about whatever kind of horticultural topics that you
Speaker 2: might have? I was talking about nutrients going into that
Speaker 2: break there. Microlife is the number one selling organic fertilizer
Speaker 2: in the Greater Houston area. This is a six two
Speaker 2: four bag, the green bag that I'm referring to. It's
Speaker 2: a standard, you know, elephant in the room with Microlife
Speaker 2: fertilizers used on lawns by people for many, many years now.
Speaker 2: Microlife's been around for over thirty five years. And when
Speaker 2: you look at a product like the sixty four the
Speaker 2: green bag, you're getting a three one to two ratio
Speaker 2: of nutrients, which isn't the ratio that grass takes up
Speaker 2: nutrients in, so it makes sense for the lawn. They
Speaker 2: also have products for acid loving plants. They have products
Speaker 2: for if you're growing fruit trees and things. They make
Speaker 2: special products for various kinds of plants. And they have
Speaker 2: both the granular that we put out with the spreader
Speaker 2: around the yard, and then they've got the containers that
Speaker 2: are granulars that are smaller. They're not the big bags,
Speaker 2: but they're smaller containers. And then they have liquid products.
Speaker 2: And the liquid products include a lot of different things.
Speaker 2: You know, in granules, you can get the humates plus
Speaker 2: concentrated compost in a bag to put out with your
Speaker 2: lawn fertilizer just not a don't think of it as
Speaker 2: a fertilizer. Think of it as a product to help
Speaker 2: improve the soil and nutrient availability. But with the liquids,
Speaker 2: you can get products that are just specifically certain microorganisms
Speaker 2: that are beneficial to plants, that help fight disease and things.
Speaker 2: They built their product line around using nature principles in
Speaker 2: order to help make plants healthy and more successful. Whether
Speaker 2: you're trying to grow fruit or vegetables, or flowers or
Speaker 2: a lawn or trees or shrubs. Microlife's got products for everything,
Speaker 2: and they work. Microlafertilizer dot Com that's the website. Check
Speaker 2: them out. You're going to find them everywhere. It's hard
Speaker 2: to walk into a place that doesn't have microlafe fertilizer
Speaker 2: these days, and that is a good thing. We're going
Speaker 2: to go now out to Lakeside of States and talk
Speaker 2: to Marine. Hello, Marine, got your photos.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 11: I tried to take it face down, and then I
Speaker 11: realized I had to take it sort of squatting down
Speaker 11: so you could see the difference that it's making in
Speaker 11: the lawn appearance.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I can see it. So here, here's here's
Speaker 2: the here's the first thing I see every other than
Speaker 2: a little bit of weed here in weeds here and there. Uh,
Speaker 2: that is all your Saint Augustine lawn. The upright grass
Speaker 2: is the established hasn't been damaged or hurt grass coming up.
Speaker 2: Those runners that are flat and going out across that's
Speaker 2: Saint Augustine trying to fill back in. Something killed the
Speaker 2: grass in that area and now it's trying to regrow
Speaker 2: runners into that area. I see iron deficiency, which is
Speaker 2: probably due to a disease called take All Root Rot.
Speaker 2: If you go to my schedule on my website, it's
Speaker 2: gardening with skip dot com. Look at the disease schedule
Speaker 2: for lawns and you'll see take All Root Rot. Mentioned.
Speaker 2: October is the big month for controlling it. But something
Speaker 2: I think would be helpful for you to do right
Speaker 2: now is if you can get some peat moss, the
Speaker 2: compact peat moss and spread it out over those areas
Speaker 2: about a third of an inch thick, just a little bit,
Speaker 2: but spread it out and then water it in really well.
Speaker 2: And then your next step is to get a product
Speaker 2: from Fertiloan that is liquid iron and other micronutrients from Furloan.
Speaker 2: It's a gray bottle by fur Loan, liquid iron and
Speaker 2: other micronutrients. Follow the label and Follier spray that grass
Speaker 2: with that in those areas because it's struggling. What's happening
Speaker 2: is the roots are dying back down the runner and
Speaker 2: the grass is trying to stretch out grow as fast
Speaker 2: as it can to get new roots in the ground,
Speaker 2: but the disease is also catching up those And by
Speaker 2: using the fertilough, you're going to sort of bypass the
Speaker 2: fact that it doesn't have the roots that take up
Speaker 2: a lot of these nutrients. You're going to kind of
Speaker 2: fold your feed your grass in a sense with those nutrients.
Speaker 2: So I would do those two things, and then in
Speaker 2: October look at my schedule and it tells you what
Speaker 2: to use. You want a product. The first thing it's
Speaker 2: listed is called a zoxystrobin. It's on the schedule. We
Speaker 2: don't have to write it all down now, it's there,
Speaker 2: just a prontout and you want to treat it in
Speaker 2: October and again in November to try to get ahead
Speaker 2: of this. Anything you do to prevent stress gives that
Speaker 2: grass the best chance of surviving.
Speaker 11: Okay, I've been busy writing it down. It sounds like.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 11: Now I listen to you every moment that I can
Speaker 11: when you're on the air, so I don't catch you
Speaker 11: today exactly, so I'll listen again and thank you so
Speaker 11: much for your health.
Speaker 2: Okay, well you bet, you bet, and take some take
Speaker 2: some pictures of this process. I'd like to see how
Speaker 2: it goes for you. So if you don't mind that,
Speaker 2: maybe in the future, this is gonna this is gonna
Speaker 2: take a while, and you may even see before I
Speaker 2: got the patients.
Speaker 12: But if I yeah, no, I'll handle that.
Speaker 11: Because I trust you. Gardening is a wonderful process, but
Speaker 11: it's slow.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm good, I'm good.
Speaker 12: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Thanks Marie, appreciate that. Thanks very much. Nelson Water Garden
Speaker 2: and uh Nursery out there in Katie four Ben area.
Speaker 2: Uh not Katie for Ben and Katie. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Sometimes those two go together out of my mouth. Nelson's
Speaker 2: is a destination garden center. It really is.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: When you go out there, you're going to see, of course,
Speaker 2: water gardens and all the things. Some things they invented,
Speaker 2: like the disappearing fountain out there. If you want a
Speaker 2: water garden, they can come put one in for you.
Speaker 2: Are they can tell you how to do it yourself.
Speaker 2: Even those some of the little disappearing fountains are just
Speaker 2: grabbing go. Makes it real easy to have the sound
Speaker 2: of water, which is so important out there in the
Speaker 2: garden center. They are open today from eleven to four
Speaker 2: with twenty five percent off of a number of things
Speaker 2: including roses and fruit and citrus trees and some of
Speaker 2: the decorations you like the cast stone animals and fountains
Speaker 2: and stepping stones and those self contained glazed fountains that
Speaker 2: I'm talking about. Twenty five percent I was a really
Speaker 2: good deal. All you gotta do is head out to
Speaker 2: Katie Go north on Katie Fort Ben Road and it's
Speaker 2: just up the street a little bit on the right
Speaker 2: hand side. You can't miss it. When you're there, you're
Speaker 2: gonna find awesome plant selection. You're going to course find
Speaker 2: the water garden selection and everything from fish and plants
Speaker 2: to whatnot. If you got little kids, take them with
Speaker 2: you and tell the folks at Nelson that you would
Speaker 2: like your kids to be able to feed the koyfish.
Speaker 2: And in the back there's a pond where you can go.
Speaker 2: They'll show you the'll give you kids a little handful
Speaker 2: of food and they can go feed the cooy and
Speaker 2: it is the coolest thing. They will really kids will
Speaker 2: really well, I really enjoy it. But then I'm still
Speaker 2: trying to figure out what i want to be when
Speaker 2: I grow up. So anyway, but it is a really
Speaker 2: really cool deal and it's a fun time to go out.
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Speaker 2: Good to have you with us. Uh. When it comes
Speaker 2: to success with plants, you hear me think You hear
Speaker 2: me say things all the time like Brownston up before
Speaker 2: green stuff, which basically just means, don't PLoP a poor
Speaker 2: plant into an unprepared plot. Peter Piper picked a peck
Speaker 2: of pickle peppers. Prepare the soil, give it a foundation,
Speaker 2: let those roots hit the ground running, and you have success.
Speaker 2: That's an example of the kinds of things that I say,
Speaker 2: because that is what works. It is easy to get
Speaker 2: excited about flowers and vegetables and fruit trees and you
Speaker 2: bring them home and you're dreaming about the production that
Speaker 2: they're going to have. It is sometimes for some people
Speaker 2: hard to get excited about soil. You know, it's a
Speaker 2: big pile of dirt to them, and so like, well,
Speaker 2: I want flowers, I don't mess with all that. Well,
Speaker 2: if you want flowers, you better give them a foundation
Speaker 2: for success. If you want fruit, if you want vegetables,
Speaker 2: it's all about the soil. And I say all about
Speaker 2: and you're probably thinking, well, it's about water, and it's
Speaker 2: about fertilizer, and it's about sunlight. Yes, yes, yes, I
Speaker 2: get that, but everybody understands that. But the soil is
Speaker 2: the foundation. That's where it all comes from. I mean,
Speaker 2: if you're going to build a house and you're going
Speaker 2: to go out there to a field and start laying
Speaker 2: two by fours on the ground and nailing them together,
Speaker 2: that is not going to be a house that lasts
Speaker 2: or does very well. Right, You've got to have a
Speaker 2: good foundation for success. Soil is the foundation is It
Speaker 2: is what you build from. It is not something you
Speaker 2: plant and your plants struggling and then we try to
Speaker 2: fix it without digging up the plant. It's so much
Speaker 2: easier to get it right before you plant. I've talked
Speaker 2: to several people that are redoing their lawns this summer
Speaker 2: and they're taking time, number one, to get rid of
Speaker 2: the weeds that are there, because it's way easier to
Speaker 2: get rid of weeds before you plant the lawn then
Speaker 2: once you got long grass in there, because then sometimes
Speaker 2: you can hurt the grass trying to control the weeds.
Speaker 2: They are filling in low areas, you know, getting you
Speaker 2: a good lawn fill mix. It could be kind of
Speaker 2: a topsoil mix. It could be kind of a sand
Speaker 2: with a little bit of compost sprinkled into it. There's
Speaker 2: a lot of blends that, but getting those areas filled
Speaker 2: in and level because the more level it is, number one,
Speaker 2: the prettier it is. But your lawnmower isn't you know,
Speaker 2: bumping and bouncing and gouging and you know, as it
Speaker 2: goes up and down or drops in a hole and whatnot,
Speaker 2: getting all that leveled out is important and then bring
Speaker 2: your side in and do a good job of that.
Speaker 2: We had some great sad producers. We're fortunate we live
Speaker 2: here on the Gulf Coast and so we've got we've got,
Speaker 2: you know, the sod factories right down around us here
Speaker 2: and lots of good varieties, good availability, and some of
Speaker 2: the new varieties are really exciting. I'm trying out some
Speaker 2: new things myself. I'm about to put in another yard
Speaker 2: for my daughter and we're going to be trying some
Speaker 2: things out in there and just learning and experimenting with them.
Speaker 2: But sod is it's not difficult to grow if you
Speaker 2: give it what it wants. Just like any plant, SOD
Speaker 2: wants mainly sunlight. That's the number one thing we see
Speaker 2: go wrong. Lack a soil prop is also a factor.
Speaker 2: And heavy clays that are compacted from the piti pattern
Speaker 2: of not so little feet. That is another thing that
Speaker 2: can create problems for and once a grass plant gets stressed,
Speaker 2: then it's more likely to get sick. It's like us.
Speaker 2: You know, if you're healthy, you eat right, you exercise,
Speaker 2: you get the idea that whole nine yards and you
Speaker 2: go out, you gather with a bunch of people, maybe
Speaker 2: someone's coffin in the room. I don't know. Your body
Speaker 2: has a little bit more resilience to it. I mean
Speaker 2: you won't get sick. It just means it's less likely,
Speaker 2: depending on what sick means. But if you don't take
Speaker 2: care of yourself, you're not sleeping, you're not eating right,
Speaker 2: you're not exercising. Your body is not a resilient, strong organism,
Speaker 2: then you're more likely to get sick. Same thing with plants.
Speaker 2: Take all root rot in lawns, for example, that is
Speaker 2: primarily a secondary invader of stressed grass. That's the main thing.
Speaker 2: It's not like takeoll just flew through the neighborhood and
Speaker 2: landed in your yard and now it's tackling your grass.
Speaker 2: It's a ubiquitous problem. But when the grass gets stressed,
Speaker 2: suddenly you see take all root rot move in and
Speaker 2: start to attack it. And it's because that disease has
Speaker 2: an opportunity. When that grass gets weakened from shade, from compaction,
Speaker 2: from you know, wear and tear, from a use of
Speaker 2: certain chemicals that weaken the grass, I can also open
Speaker 2: the door for take all to have a chance. There's
Speaker 2: a disease of oaks called hypoxylan canker that kills the tree.
Speaker 2: I mean it kills the tree at least major limbs,
Speaker 2: if not the whole tree. That disease is everywhere. I
Speaker 2: talked to a plant pathologist one time who told me,
Speaker 2: you go out in the forest and you sample an
Speaker 2: oak tree, and you can find the hypoxylin organism out there.
Speaker 2: It's in nature. It's out there. But when that tree
Speaker 2: gets stressed, then hypoxyla moves in and kills a tree.
Speaker 2: Well what caused the death of that tree? Well, you
Speaker 2: could say hypoxylon, or you could say stress that led
Speaker 2: to it. And once the disease gets in, it's too
Speaker 2: late for the tree. I saw a tree one time
Speaker 2: an oak tree. It was perfectly healthy oak tree, post
Speaker 2: oak in this case. And they put a pin around
Speaker 2: it and filled it full of goats. I guess they
Speaker 2: wanted the goats to have shade. And they stomped and
Speaker 2: trumped and put their little feet up on the trunks
Speaker 2: and stuff. And that tree turned a toast and it
Speaker 2: was a poxlin canker and it why did that happen? Well,
Speaker 2: stress and the disease got its chance. Now I've been
Speaker 2: spending some time talking about this, but it's an important concept.
Speaker 2: Keeping getting the soil right, keeping our plants healthy, choosing
Speaker 2: things that aren't likely to get sick. Those are all
Speaker 2: secrets to success with that. For your lawns, if you
Speaker 2: haven't done your summer fertilizing, it's time to grab you
Speaker 2: some night topass Superturf nineteen four to ten, nineteen four ten.
Speaker 2: It's going to feed your lawn for sixty weeks during
Speaker 2: the summer. It's easy to find superturf because it's a
Speaker 2: silver bag. And so whether you go to a hardware
Speaker 2: stores or south Its fertilizer, or you go to a
Speaker 2: garden center, you go to one of our feed stores
Speaker 2: here on Guardline, Superturf's easy to find. You're going to
Speaker 2: find it at places like my Swell Seasons right there
Speaker 2: on Highway to forty nine. You're going to find it
Speaker 2: at D and D Feed up there in Tumble. Go
Speaker 2: down to Laport Fisher's Hardware on Broadway Street. You'll find
Speaker 2: nitrofass products there as well. As The main thing is
Speaker 2: get it done and then return your clippings and recycle
Speaker 2: those nutrients that you are putting down, and you're going
Speaker 2: to see success probably in fact, if you do the
Speaker 2: clipping return, you may not if you fertilize at this point,
Speaker 2: you may not need to fertilize again before the fall application.
Speaker 2: If you use something like superturf and return your clippings
Speaker 2: at RCW Nurseries the other day, and you know RCW,
Speaker 2: it's just a great nursery. It's been around since nineteen
Speaker 2: seventy nine. That is a long time. Was that forty
Speaker 2: six years? If I did the math right, that's a
Speaker 2: long time. The Williamson family opened it. They still run it,
Speaker 2: and they also have Williamson Tree Farm, that family up
Speaker 2: there in Plantersville and they sell those trees, among other
Speaker 2: places at RCW nurseries. So you get quality trees that
Speaker 2: need to grow here, that want to grow here, that
Speaker 2: are the type you want a plant. They'll plant them
Speaker 2: for you. You can get a smaller one planet yourself. The
Speaker 2: selection is outstanding on trees and on shrubs, and then
Speaker 2: you can just keep going. You know, they are well
Speaker 2: known by rosarians for their roses. Every time I pull
Speaker 2: up and the summertime, first thing I see is Boogain
Speaker 2: v is just look fantastic. They are awesome. They have
Speaker 2: beautiful vines, annuals and perennials. Everything you need to know.
Speaker 2: Just go by there. They're at the corner of Beltway
Speaker 2: eight and Highway two forty nine. It's easy to get to,
Speaker 2: very easy access, and you're going to find people that
Speaker 2: know what they're talking about. They can guide you and
Speaker 2: help you and a good selection at RCW Nurseries RCW
Speaker 2: nursery dot com, corner of Tombo Parkway and belt Way eight. Uh,
Speaker 2: I've got a little I got a break coming up
Speaker 2: right here. I can't go into too much at this point.
Speaker 2: If you'd like to give us a call and maybe
Speaker 2: be first stop, or if you call sooner enough when
Speaker 2: we come back from break seven to one three two
Speaker 2: one two kt r H seven one three two one
Speaker 2: two kt rh. That makes it easy to get in
Speaker 2: and we'll visit with you about the things you're interested in.
Speaker 2: If your question might involve a diagnosis, or I might
Speaker 2: need a photo, like, well, there's a bug on my
Speaker 2: plant and I don't know how to describe it. Well,
Speaker 2: there's a lot of bugs on plants. Send me a
Speaker 2: picture first. Uh my grass is dying. What does it
Speaker 2: look like, Well, it looks like dying grass. Okay, send
Speaker 2: me a picture first. It helped me in order to
Speaker 2: help you. You give me a picture and I can
Speaker 2: do it now. It's got to be into good our focus,
Speaker 2: and especially with things we're trying to identify that are smaller,
Speaker 2: Get up as close as you can and take the
Speaker 2: picture from as close as you can. It's not the
Speaker 2: only picture, but one of them really close up so
Speaker 2: I can see it and identify it. Make sure it's
Speaker 2: in sharp focus. If you send me a fuzzy picture,
Speaker 2: you're going to get a fuzzy answer. And you don't
Speaker 2: want fuzzy answers. We want to get it accurate, we
Speaker 2: get it right. I want to waste your time and
Speaker 2: money on products and treating and doing whatever you're going
Speaker 2: to do. If we're not on the right track, so
Speaker 2: help me help you with a good sharp focused photo.
Speaker 2: All right, just call out one Hundro, my producer. He
Speaker 2: can get you an email if you want to send
Speaker 2: a photo, and I do ask if you send emails,
Speaker 2: you need to follow up with a phone call. And
Speaker 2: I'm not able to type out just too many emails
Speaker 2: to type out the answers and things to everything, and
Speaker 2: some things are more involved. It would take a long
Speaker 2: time to write it out. So follow up with a call,
Speaker 2: simple as that. Okay, here's the number again, seven to
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Speaker 2: one three two one two k t r H. It'll
Speaker 2: be back. Welcome back to the guard Line on a
Speaker 2: beautiful Sunday morning. I hope you are enjoying today. Glad
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Speaker 2: listening in You got any questions you'd like to ask?
Speaker 2: Seven one three two one two k t r H.
Speaker 2: I was visiting with Cliff Carson from Year Round Houston
Speaker 2: dot Com the other day, Year Around Houston dot Com
Speaker 2: that's a company, that's the website. Uh. These guys are
Speaker 2: specialists when it comes to core aeration and compost top dressing.
Speaker 2: We're actually standing in a yard where we're I was
Speaker 2: doing some filming and stuff. As they did the aerration
Speaker 2: and the cost compost top dressing and whatnot. I talked
Speaker 2: to the person who actually owned the place, uh two
Speaker 2: or three weeks to maybe three weeks later, and they
Speaker 2: were just talking about how the yard was coming in
Speaker 2: so nice. It was filling in. They had had some
Speaker 2: kind of die back in some areas there's gaps and
Speaker 2: you know where sunlight hits the soil, nature plants of weed,
Speaker 2: and so you got to get that lone dense and
Speaker 2: compost top dressing following corperation is a very important way
Speaker 2: to do that. They come out, they take care of
Speaker 2: the job. If you're inside the Beltway, that's the primary
Speaker 2: area I talk about for year round Houston dot com.
Speaker 2: Inside the Beltway. Go to the website year round Houston
Speaker 2: dot com or give Cluff a call eight three to
Speaker 2: two eight eight four fifty three thirty five eight three
Speaker 2: two eight eight four fifty three thirty five. They'll get
Speaker 2: back with you and get a good quote. Get out
Speaker 2: there and get that job done, so you'll set your
Speaker 2: line up for success to be well on its way
Speaker 2: to success. Let's head out to Sugarland now and we're
Speaker 2: going to talk to Judy. Hello, Judy, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 12: Good morning, scip. I want to fact, I want to
Speaker 12: thank you for coming to the Sugar Creek Goar Club
Speaker 12: last month. Everybody enjoyed you so much. I want to
Speaker 12: book you again.
Speaker 2: Well, that was a that was a good group. I
Speaker 2: mean you guys got quite a group there.
Speaker 12: Yes, they were around seventy seventy five people there. I think.
Speaker 2: I felt I felt out numbered.
Speaker 12: Yes, I do have some.
Speaker 2: Your next talk, Well, how can I help this morning?
Speaker 12: Yes, I am having any problem with worms on my tomatoes.
Speaker 12: My neighbor John has just been a John and Carol
Speaker 12: had been wonderful neighbors to me, and they have mixed
Speaker 12: up some inseexicidal soap that I have sprayed on numerous times.
Speaker 12: And I appreciate that seat. But there is there something
Speaker 12: else I shoul should be doing.
Speaker 2: So when you see leaves being eaten, when you see fruit,
Speaker 2: you know, with a little caterpillar hole in it or something.
Speaker 2: The product called b t that's it's actually the ingredient
Speaker 2: name b as in boy teas and tom It's sold
Speaker 2: in many brands, but it is an organic control of
Speaker 2: caterpillars only, and so it's a really good one to use.
Speaker 2: You're not going to hurt any of the good guys
Speaker 2: in the garden. But it only lasts a couple of days,
Speaker 2: so you need if you spray it. Let's see spray today,
Speaker 2: you would probably again on Wednesday or Thursday, want to
Speaker 2: spray again. And maybe you do that two or three
Speaker 2: times over a couple of weeks. And you ought to
Speaker 2: be able to break that cycle and enjoy your fruit
Speaker 2: rather than the caterpillars enjoying your fruit.
Speaker 12: Great, because they had been really getting into my tonatoes too,
Speaker 12: and you know, shame. Also, what do I do soil
Speaker 12: when it's time to pull the tomato plants up?
Speaker 2: Usually when I when I'm transitioning from one crop, if
Speaker 2: we can use that ag word for a garden, when
Speaker 2: one crop to another, I will put about an inch
Speaker 2: of composts down and mix it into the soil and
Speaker 2: then go on with the next crop. Just so you're
Speaker 2: transitioning to maybe three times during the year in an
Speaker 2: area whether it's flowers or gard or vegetables. H and
Speaker 2: just just about an inch of composts mixed in and
Speaker 2: about all you need to do.
Speaker 12: Okay, good enough, Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Hey, thank thank you for the call. I appreciate that
Speaker 2: very much. Okay, you're listening to garden Line the phone
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Speaker 2: If you haven't been done to Moss Nursery, you need
Speaker 2: to go. I keep telling you this. I don't care
Speaker 2: where you live. It is worth a drive down to Moss.
Speaker 2: This this is a unique place. Okay. We're talking about
Speaker 2: eight acres cram full of gorgeous plants, eight acres to
Speaker 2: wander through, and wander is the right word for it.
Speaker 2: You're gonna go around corners and see statuaries and fountains
Speaker 2: and pottery and oh gosh, just stuff you would never
Speaker 2: expect to see, like a carved wooden canoe hanging from
Speaker 2: the ceiling of one of the pottery sheds. It's just
Speaker 2: it's a cool place. It's fun. And Jim is very
Speaker 2: eclectic and he has all kinds of unusual things, so
Speaker 2: you're gonna find like ask him to show you his
Speaker 2: quirky t shirts. The eyeball plant that's one of them.
Speaker 2: He designed it, and it's just it's just off the wall.
Speaker 2: It's just different, you know, not the same old same.
Speaker 2: Oh they're flowering things everywhere there at Moss Nursery. Hanging baskets. Gosh,
Speaker 2: they have gorgeous hanging baskets, beautiful plants of all kinds.
Speaker 2: The house plant greenhouse alone is worth the drive down.
Speaker 2: It is full of tropicals and of succulence. You know,
Speaker 2: maybe you want a string of fill in the blank,
Speaker 2: they've got them. They've got them all there. A really
Speaker 2: good selection of houseplants and then things that are more
Speaker 2: tropical that for example, stackhorn ferns, beautiful staghorn fringing. Buy
Speaker 2: a small one already mounted to a board. They have
Speaker 2: some huge ones as well. It takes a long time
Speaker 2: to get them to that stage. But it's just the
Speaker 2: place to go and see all kinds of things that
Speaker 2: maybe you didn't expect to see. And whether you're looking
Speaker 2: for flowers from as lissam to zenias a to z
Speaker 2: they've got them there. But check out the hanging baskets.
Speaker 2: That's really listen. Moss Nursery is not just another garden center.
Speaker 2: This seventy year old family operated place is well worth
Speaker 2: it because they got everything you need for your landscape,
Speaker 2: for your garden and the interior homescape. Remember we homescape
Speaker 2: our plants with house plants as well. Moss Nursery maas
Speaker 2: Nursery dot com two eight one four seven four twenty
Speaker 2: four eighty eight. Two eight one four seven four twenty
Speaker 2: four eighty eight. Someone was asking me a question the
Speaker 2: other day about where can I get and it was
Speaker 2: some product that you know, they'd look for and looked
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Speaker 2: if you listen to the guardline, you should know the
Speaker 2: answer to that. The answer Southwest Fertilizer. I don't care
Speaker 2: what the question is. The answer Southwest fertilizer. If they
Speaker 2: don't have it, you don't need it. Really, ninety foot
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Speaker 2: tools you need? Their quality tools too? By the way,
Speaker 2: on ninety foot wall of tools, if you go on
Speaker 2: my website and see Skip's weed wiper. This a little
Speaker 2: thing I invented. It's easy to build. Bob's got the
Speaker 2: grabber tool. That has the section cups that you need
Speaker 2: to build the weed wiper, he's got it there. You
Speaker 2: grab one off the wall, he's got him there. You
Speaker 2: hear me brag about the kneeling bench, he's got him there.
Speaker 2: It's just everything that you would need product wise, from
Speaker 2: fertilizers to insect control, disease control, weed control, we'd prevention.
Speaker 2: If you need help identifying something, let them get your
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Speaker 2: looking at, they know what the products are and what
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Speaker 2: take a break and we'll act with your calls. All right,
Speaker 2: we're back, we're back. Yeah, you got a gardening question,
Speaker 2: you'd like to give me a call? Seven one three
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Speaker 2: two one two k t R H you hear me
Speaker 2: talk about airloom soils all the time, and it's because
Speaker 2: airloom Soils has quality products. They do, you know, whether
Speaker 2: it's their rosen bloomers blend. Think of it as a
Speaker 2: rose type soil, but a soil for anything that blooms. Really,
Speaker 2: you know, we talk about rosas, but rose is good
Speaker 2: for a lot of things. They got the works Potting Sauce,
Speaker 2: Outstanding Cactus and succulent kind of a gritty mix for
Speaker 2: things that need extra good drainage like cactie succulents. They
Speaker 2: got the Veggie Nerd Mix, Fruit and berry and citrus Mix,
Speaker 2: Landscape bed mix. I mean, I could just go on
Speaker 2: and on and on. They also have a product that
Speaker 2: you can buy bulk and have them deliver it to
Speaker 2: you and it's called a lawn mix. The lawn mix
Speaker 2: is a very economical product that if you're redoing a lawn,
Speaker 2: you should get a delivery of this and use it
Speaker 2: to fill in low spots to kind of smooth out
Speaker 2: over the soil to get ready to lay that grass down.
Speaker 2: It is an excellent product. You can buy it as
Speaker 2: a QB card Supersac, you can have it as a
Speaker 2: delivery I believe they do both on those So however
Speaker 2: you want to go about it, just if you're going
Speaker 2: to redo a lawn, their lawn Mix Bulk QB card
Speaker 2: is the way to go. It really is. It's outstanding now.
Speaker 2: Of course, airloom soils is available by the bag and
Speaker 2: all kinds of garden centers all over the place. You
Speaker 2: can go to the website airloomsoils dot com airloomsoils dot
Speaker 2: com find out where you can get it. Or you
Speaker 2: can just flat go out to porter and pick it up.
Speaker 2: You can pick it up, take your truck or trailer
Speaker 2: out there and get some, or you call them and
Speaker 2: have them delivered to you in a supersac or just
Speaker 2: a dump truck drump drop right there on your driveway.
Speaker 2: However is most convenient for you, that's how you do it.
Speaker 2: But the main thing is just do it and you're
Speaker 2: not gonna be disappointed with an airloom solce product. Every
Speaker 2: time I try one and grow something in it, it's like, yeah,
Speaker 2: that stuff or that's what we're talking about when I
Speaker 2: say building a foundation, brown stuff before green stuff. Airlom
Speaker 2: soils perfect for just that. I was redoing a bed
Speaker 2: this past not this past week, couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 2: doing some revamping of it and whatnot, because you know,
Speaker 2: you have to continue to maintain soil over time. It
Speaker 2: didn't mean every day you're doing something. It just means
Speaker 2: you need to build up a bit. Whether it's a
Speaker 2: potting soil in a pot, they tend to decompose down
Speaker 2: and it helps just spruce them up and get some
Speaker 2: fresh material in there, top it off and make sure
Speaker 2: that the plants continue to have good drainage and everything
Speaker 2: they need. And I was trying out some different products
Speaker 2: on it. I'm always experimenting with something or the other,
Speaker 2: and I discovered that I was in a container actually
Speaker 2: in the specific case I'm telling you right now where
Speaker 2: the container had been there for years and I had
Speaker 2: topped it off with some stuff several times. But I
Speaker 2: dumped it out because I was going to use the
Speaker 2: container for something else. And I noticed at the bottom
Speaker 2: the soil had really decomposed a long way. I wasn't
Speaker 2: a humus yet, but it was getting there, and it
Speaker 2: was very tight. Very if it was watered a lot,
Speaker 2: it'd be a little on the mucky side, you know,
Speaker 2: not really draining as well as it could and it
Speaker 2: just reminded me. Sometimes people say, can you reuse potting soil?
Speaker 2: Well off, you can. If the plant died of a
Speaker 2: root disease or a fungal disease, root rot something like that,
Speaker 2: Or if you got nematodes in it, because maybe they
Speaker 2: came in with some soil or on a plant or something,
Speaker 2: then I wouldn't reuse it, don't even think about reusing it.
Speaker 2: But if it's just one like my case, where to
Speaker 2: you know, it kind of decomposed a little further, I
Speaker 2: could just get something a little on the chunky side.
Speaker 2: I put it in there, mix it in real good,
Speaker 2: you know, a decomposed bark, a little bit of rosemex
Speaker 2: or anything like that, and just rejuvenate it and keep going.
Speaker 2: And think about this. I hear people say sometimes potting soil,
Speaker 2: don't don't use old potting soil, you know, like it's
Speaker 2: out there, it's gone bad or something. Well, what does
Speaker 2: nature do?
Speaker 8: You know?
Speaker 2: How is nature designed to work? Do somebody go in
Speaker 2: the forest and clean out all the old decomposed stuff
Speaker 2: because it's been there for years?
Speaker 8: Right?
Speaker 2: No, it just so it just gets better and they
Speaker 2: drop new leaves on the top and nature gardens from
Speaker 2: the top down, whether it's grass clippings on a lawn,
Speaker 2: whether it's grass leaves out in a meadow, whether it's
Speaker 2: tree leaves in a forest. Organic matter falls on the
Speaker 2: ground in some cases, like roots, they literally rot underground
Speaker 2: when they die. But it builds the soy out, it
Speaker 2: opens up channels, and it just gets richer and richer
Speaker 2: and richer. And so use those principles in your landscape,
Speaker 2: I would say, and I'm not meddling here. You do
Speaker 2: what you want at your yard, but I would never
Speaker 2: let a grass clipping or a leaf leave my landscape.
Speaker 2: Those are valuable. They are very valuable. And you can
Speaker 2: run over our leaves with a lawn mower. If you've
Speaker 2: got a little grinder, you can use that, but chop
Speaker 2: them up so they stay in place, and use them
Speaker 2: as mulch everywhere you can. In my garden pathways, one
Speaker 2: leaves every year. I don't know how many bags of
Speaker 2: leaves I bring home. My neighbors are so nice they
Speaker 2: back and for me and put them out at the curb,
Speaker 2: and I just bring them home and I use them
Speaker 2: as an all weather pathway. And I can tell you
Speaker 2: this after about a couple of years of that, and
Speaker 2: actually just one years enough you can scrape those dead
Speaker 2: leaves off the surface and there's some good stuff underneath
Speaker 2: there in that pathway. So put nature to work for you.
Speaker 2: Put your grass clippings back in your lawn. If if
Speaker 2: it rains and rains and you can't mow and the
Speaker 2: grass is knee high, all right, bag it. But use
Speaker 2: those clippings. They can be laid out on a bed
Speaker 2: as a surface mulch. I don't put them thicker than
Speaker 2: about an inch, because you don't want them to just
Speaker 2: get all gooey and messy like they would in a bag.
Speaker 2: But spread them out and use them. Mix them into
Speaker 2: the soil your rotor tillings. No reason you couldn't use
Speaker 2: grass clippings. Mix them right in the soil and make
Speaker 2: your lawn better. That's all I'm saying. Then, look, organic
Speaker 2: matter decomposes, just add more. That's how that works. I
Speaker 2: hope that's helpful for you. Hey, if you'd like to
Speaker 2: give me a call, and that'll be a good time.
Speaker 2: We've got open lines seven one three two one two
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Speaker 2: r H intended forest. I hope you've been there. If
Speaker 2: you have it, you need to go. It's a garden
Speaker 2: center down there in the Richmond Rosenburg area. Specifically, it's
Speaker 2: on FM twenty seven fifty nine just south it kind
Speaker 2: of in between Richmond and sugar Land, but south of
Speaker 2: I sixty nine. They have a great selection of plants.
Speaker 2: But today in Mother's Day, you know that if you're
Speaker 2: looking for a perfect gift or an outing, maybe to
Speaker 2: take mom and go out and do they have some
Speaker 2: cool stuff. Maybe Mom likes rosebushes or tropical hibiscus. Oh gosh,
Speaker 2: those are gaudian beautiful, A wide variety of perennials. Salvia
Speaker 2: is a milkweed, necanation, a lot more maybe herbs. Moms
Speaker 2: into herbs. How about an herb plant or just some
Speaker 2: herbs to scatter around in the landscape or in the garden.
Speaker 2: They have gift cards from intended forests that are a
Speaker 2: nice gift for really anybody that's a gardener in your list.
Speaker 2: And you got to see the fairy gardens. Take your
Speaker 2: kids out to see that. They're fairy garden items are
Speaker 2: fun for kids and adults. They've got one, you have
Speaker 2: to go see it. It's kind of the left of
Speaker 2: the building. There there's a big tree and it's like
Speaker 2: ferry gardens all around it. On the ground they're really
Speaker 2: cool little miniature gardens. So anyway, you need to get
Speaker 2: out there. Though last time I was out there again,
Speaker 2: I'm always surprised at just how extensive their herb selection is.
Speaker 2: I'm always surprised at the selection of butterfly attracting plants,
Speaker 2: both the flower plants that the butterflies go the flowers for,
Speaker 2: but also the larval food sources. So if you want butterflies,
Speaker 2: you need to feed the babies. Okay, So milkweed feeds monarchs,
Speaker 2: passion vine feeds the gulf fritillary. A number of different
Speaker 2: things feed various types of butterflies, So don't just plant
Speaker 2: for the adults to have nectar plant to raise their
Speaker 2: young as well. And Enchanted forest specializes in not for sure,
Speaker 2: great selection of trees and shrubs too, And it's fun.
Speaker 2: It's a fun place to visit. I love the big trees. Gosh,
Speaker 2: you know when it gets hot and you know it's
Speaker 2: like it's hot, go there and enjoy shopping underneath those big,
Speaker 2: beautiful spreading trees. It's cool, literally cool compared it's been
Speaker 2: out in the sun. So on garden line, I generally
Speaker 2: give advice. I try to stay kind of general in ways,
Speaker 2: like here's some principles that plants want, but sometimes we
Speaker 2: have to get down to specifics on specific things that
Speaker 2: you need to provide for plants. And as you give
Speaker 2: calls to garden, as you call in, I'll be guiding you,
Speaker 2: you know, specifically in the situation that you have. Someone
Speaker 2: called earlier today and asked about AI as a way
Speaker 2: to is it dependable? Can you use it? And the
Speaker 2: problem with answering is it dependable, It's just there's there's
Speaker 2: so many kinds of AI and so many levels. A
Speaker 2: lot of times as AI is learning, it's not very
Speaker 2: good and misses a lot of things. But as it
Speaker 2: gets better and with some applications, it's amazingly good. But
Speaker 2: I wouldn't depend on it too much. And that's kind
Speaker 2: of what I was saying earlier. There's a lot of
Speaker 2: gardening advice out there. Sometimes I feel like, as a
Speaker 2: horticulturist that I kind of understand how a doctor might feel,
Speaker 2: because everywhere a doctor goes number one. Everybody when they
Speaker 2: find out he's a doctor or she's a doctor, they
Speaker 2: start pointing at something on their body, going, so I
Speaker 2: got this sore right here that you know, and so
Speaker 2: suddenly they get to give free advice where they go.
Speaker 2: Number two, people have a lot of medical opinions. You know,
Speaker 2: they may feel like this kind of an oil or
Speaker 2: this kind of a I don't know, a supplement, or
Speaker 2: is what they need. And the doctor's got to be
Speaker 2: sitting there going, Okay, I hear what you're saying, but
Speaker 2: you know, there's there's always a yeah butt and that's
Speaker 2: kind of what the doctors think. And well, I feel
Speaker 2: that because people always give me advice on plants, and
Speaker 2: I said, listen, I'm not going to sit there and
Speaker 2: be the integrate and say no, you don't know what
Speaker 2: trum about. I know what I'm talking about. But I
Speaker 2: hear a lot of advice and I see it online
Speaker 2: and I just want to My public service announcement today
Speaker 2: is gardening friends. Don't let gardening friends get their advice
Speaker 2: just off of social media. Now, if it's a good,
Speaker 2: dependable source on social media, yes, but oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: I have quit going to Pinterest because it's like it
Speaker 2: makes my eyes bleed to look at what people put
Speaker 2: on there. In fact, I could do a whole talk
Speaker 2: and somebody, I'm gonna do this somewhere, I don't know where.
Speaker 2: I'm going to do a whole talk just on what's
Speaker 2: wrong with this picture? And I'll take I'll take pictures
Speaker 2: of social media things and put them out there and
Speaker 2: say what's wrong with this? What you know, and just
Speaker 2: kind of teach people what the foreign things. I saw
Speaker 2: the other day a rose it was I called Bengal
Speaker 2: tigers stripe or something, and it had stripes that were
Speaker 2: it just it's not true. There's no such plan as that.
Speaker 2: And there's a couple of accounts out there that are
Speaker 2: doing this all the time, and they drive me nuts,
Speaker 2: like pouring a ton of rose seeds into a crack
Speaker 2: in the sidewalk and then showing a picture of a
Speaker 2: wall full of roses that are in full bloom, and
Speaker 2: it's basically one rose that has been copied and pasted
Speaker 2: all over the wall. It's like no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 2: So anyway, there I griped. I have more griping to
Speaker 2: do about that, but I'll let you go from now,
Speaker 2: take a little break, and we'll be back. It looks
Speaker 2: like with Diana and Cyprus, all right, now you're thinking
Speaker 2: that's not Simon Garfunkel, right.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 2: I play that occasionally as a way to remember Randy.
Speaker 2: The bed is called the Lemonheads. That's right, there's a
Speaker 2: band called the Lemonheads. All right. Randy was a good
Speaker 2: friend I beloved here. I know many of you listened
Speaker 2: to him for twenty five plus years here on guard Line,
Speaker 2: and we miss him. But every now and then we're
Speaker 2: just gonna remember back those days. Good good friend. All right, folks. Well,
Speaker 2: the other day I was out in my yard and
Speaker 2: I was looking at a patch of a regano in
Speaker 2: a raised bed, and I was looking at it. These
Speaker 2: little bugs are coming crawling out of the air. It
Speaker 2: looked like ants, and I looked at him, but they
Speaker 2: had wings, And what it was was a fire ant
Speaker 2: mating flight. A fire ant mating flight. So basically, these
Speaker 2: fire ants, after a good rain or something, they'll come
Speaker 2: to the surface. The reproductives have the wings. They fly
Speaker 2: up in the air. Male and female ants fly up
Speaker 2: in the air. They mate until several hundred feet up
Speaker 2: in the air. Now, first of all, how do you know,
Speaker 2: how do some entomologists know they have a hot air
Speaker 2: balloon and They go up in the air one hundred
Speaker 2: feet and have binoculars and go up there's two hey Louis,
Speaker 2: take it up another fifty feet. I don't know how
Speaker 2: they know how high they fly up in there and mate,
Speaker 2: but they do. And then they fall to the ground.
Speaker 2: The female falls at the ground, digs in the ground,
Speaker 2: and here we got another fireance mess started. That's what happens.
Speaker 2: And when we get these rains they are spreading. Termites
Speaker 2: do the same thing. Termites will fly out the hovery
Speaker 2: reproductive flight. I'm told that they go way up in
Speaker 2: the air too late at night. Uh. And how do
Speaker 2: you avoid this? You call pest bros. Pest bros can
Speaker 2: control fireance, they can call termites, they can control household pests,
Speaker 2: they control mosquitoes outdoors. They've got it all covered and
Speaker 2: they know how to do it effectively, and they do
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Speaker 2: I don't care if you live down in Texas City,
Speaker 2: if you live up in the woodlands. If you live
Speaker 2: way over western Katie or to the eastern Baytown, you're
Speaker 2: in pest Bros Region depestbros dot com. We're gonna go
Speaker 2: now out to Cyprus and talk to Diana. Hey, Diana,
Speaker 2: I got the pictures finally, and I'm ready to talk.
Speaker 14: About Okay, go ahead to see if you had an
Speaker 14: opportunity to look at them.
Speaker 2: I sure did. Yeah. So, first of all, the azaleas,
Speaker 2: what I notice is as you move away from the house,
Speaker 2: the plants get worse, uh, And the bed is real
Speaker 2: high up by the house, and then as it kind
Speaker 2: of goes down, it's a lower bed, and that's where
Speaker 2: the worst problem is. What I see is symptoms of
Speaker 2: iron deficiency and of roots just struggling. And it could
Speaker 2: be maybe soggy soil conditions. Maybe down there it's a
Speaker 2: little lower and the roots are in a wetter area
Speaker 2: than they are higher up. I don't know exactly why,
Speaker 2: but it is struggling on that end. That's also the
Speaker 2: north end of the row. If I'm not mistaken, I
Speaker 2: believe that's the east side of your patio. Either way,
Speaker 2: it is struggling along. So you may need to put
Speaker 2: some sides on the bed a little bit so you
Speaker 2: can build it up a little better and raise those
Speaker 2: plants on that end. Probably way to fall to do that,
Speaker 2: and you may need to replant one of those. Looks
Speaker 2: real bad down there, but that may be a longer
Speaker 2: term solution. Otherwise, you could use a keylated iron keylated iron,
Speaker 2: apply it especially to the yellowing plants. That may help
Speaker 2: some to fix some of the yellowing, but it's not
Speaker 2: going to solve the problem of soggy wet soil. So
Speaker 2: that would be my suggestions on those particular plants. The
Speaker 2: roses are really hard for me to make out in
Speaker 2: the pictures what's going on. I see the lack of vigor.
Speaker 2: It looks like some leaves have been chewed off, but
Speaker 2: I can't from the distance really tell that for sure.
Speaker 2: Uh whenever, oh, well, we put them out.
Speaker 14: I have four I have four uh roast bushes that
Speaker 14: were that we've had, you know last year that I
Speaker 14: had mentioned to you and we Those were put in
Speaker 14: when we moved into our home, which was a new build,
Speaker 14: and they were all doing the fine up until about
Speaker 14: last year. So I don't know if it was the
Speaker 14: trauma of the poplet of going through a freeze and
Speaker 14: then a draft situation and that they eventually turned black
Speaker 14: and we had to they just died. I mean I
Speaker 14: pulled them all up and then I just wanted to
Speaker 14: buy two to put in to replace them because I
Speaker 14: didn't want to take that chance again. And they and
Speaker 14: they're starting to do that where they lose the leaves.
Speaker 14: But I know we have bunny rabbits and that's the
Speaker 14: that's another concern that maybe they're eating the foliage off
Speaker 14: the leaves.
Speaker 2: Well, I guess it's a possibility. I don't know what
Speaker 2: kinds of plants rabbits eat, uh you know, and uh
Speaker 2: so that may or may not be the case. Are
Speaker 2: these roses in full sun or are they getting quite
Speaker 2: a bit of shade?
Speaker 14: They're mostly in full sun.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 14: They're right along the back wall of our of our
Speaker 14: property have a bird bath in the clean and then
Speaker 14: but it's went on either side and you know, you
Speaker 14: can tell this there's new foliage, I mean, leaves coming in.
Speaker 14: But then something seems to happen to them. Would as
Speaker 14: last year, and we took out all that old soil,
Speaker 14: the mulch and everything, and we placed with some of
Speaker 14: that good soil that you'd recommended and mulish, and so
Speaker 14: we were hoping that then all this has happened, and
Speaker 14: now so our holidays in this prens is another story.
Speaker 2: All right, You're off to a good start. One thing,
Speaker 2: real quick observation. That soil looks like it's pretty high
Speaker 2: up on that brick, and you need to get it
Speaker 2: down below the wheepholes for sure. That's how termites get entrance,
Speaker 2: and you want to be able to see if they're
Speaker 2: building a little mud nest going up in there. It's
Speaker 2: one of the things the entomologists will do from the
Speaker 2: pest control company. But it looks a little high. But
Speaker 2: that's that's an aside. Just to keep in mind, I
Speaker 2: would say i'd get a good rose fertilizer, or you
Speaker 2: know what, You can use a lawn fertilizer on those
Speaker 2: roses too. Just put about a quarter cup of fertilizer
Speaker 2: around each rose and a big old four foot diameter circle.
Speaker 2: If it's an organic fertilizer, you can use a lot
Speaker 2: more than that. If it's a synthetic, I wouldn't go
Speaker 2: above about a quarter cup. And that's that's actually quite
Speaker 2: a bit. But sprinkle it all around. Just don't dump
Speaker 2: it in a circle or anything. Sprinkle it around and
Speaker 2: then scratch it into the surface with a little rake
Speaker 2: or something, and then water it in really good. And
Speaker 2: I think you can push some vigor on that if
Speaker 2: it's getting good sunlight, and then let's see how they do.
Speaker 2: And as far as if it's rabbits, you know, I
Speaker 2: don't know on that.
Speaker 15: The fire.
Speaker 2: Finally, the hollies, and I've got a break. Come in here.
Speaker 2: The hollies. Nothing causes the lack of leaves and a
Speaker 2: straight line across the bottom of the bushes. That's related
Speaker 2: to insects or diseases or nutrients or anything like that.
Speaker 2: So something else is going on. I don't know if
Speaker 2: if rabbits eat holly leaves or not, but you know,
Speaker 2: it might be worth trying. You there are catch alive traps,
Speaker 2: the box traps where you can lurd things and capture
Speaker 2: them and then took them somewhere else to relocate. Yes,
Speaker 2: if you feel like that's the problem, that is work
Speaker 2: in trouble. But at least that way you would know
Speaker 2: what the problem was for sure.
Speaker 14: But anyway, okay, well on that back on the rose bushes,
Speaker 14: that's on a back on the very back of our property,
Speaker 14: and it's a brick wall that's put in by the
Speaker 14: developers and so it's not up against the house and
Speaker 14: there's no weepoles in that, so it's just good no wall. Yeah,
Speaker 14: but I'll try.
Speaker 12: Some of those.
Speaker 14: I have used the Neilson's uh fertilized on that, you know,
Speaker 14: pretty much like what you suggested. So I already did that.
Speaker 14: So I'm hoping that maybe maybe by chance they'll come out.
Speaker 2: Okay, keep them, keep them adequately moist.
Speaker 14: Six years we've lived here, you know, so this is
Speaker 14: all just kind of a curve last year.
Speaker 2: Keep keep keep those adequately moist without keeping the assagi
Speaker 2: not soggy, but adequately moist. And we'll see how that
Speaker 2: turns out. I got to run, but thank you. I
Speaker 2: appreciate your call very much. We'll be right back, folks. Alrighty,
Speaker 2: we're back. Welcome back to guardenline. Hey, if you got
Speaker 2: a gardening question, give me a call. Seven one three
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Speaker 2: are familiar with Buchanan's Plants, you know they're on Eleventh
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Speaker 2: what have we can talk about next? I have a
Speaker 2: confession to make. There's a saying that the cobblers kids
Speaker 2: go barefoot. Have you ever heard that? The guy that
Speaker 2: makes shoes, doesn't have time to make his kid's shoes. Okay,
Speaker 2: it's true. In horticulture, I have not planted okra this year.
Speaker 2: I know, I know what's wrong with me. You know.
Speaker 2: I thought that I was so obsessed with okra I
Speaker 2: was gonna have to, I don't know, go wherever you
Speaker 2: go when you're maybe the Betty Ford Clinic has an
Speaker 2: okra section or something. But seriously, but I just had
Speaker 2: been too busy to get out there and do it.
Speaker 2: So that's going to happen this week. I'm going to
Speaker 2: get the okra in the ground. You know, just because
Speaker 2: summer comes and it gets blazing hot doesn't mean we
Speaker 2: can't plant things in the vegetable garden. There's a lot
Speaker 2: of great vegetables that thrive in hot, hot, sunny conditions.
Speaker 2: Okra is one. Another one is malabar greens. Malabar greens,
Speaker 2: they're a little bit, a little bit on the slippery side,
Speaker 2: as people say salaimey. I prefer to say musilaginous because
Speaker 2: it sounds better anyway. But it's a good one, a
Speaker 2: very good There is molokia, which is popular and a
Speaker 2: lot of Middle Eastern and some other areas around that
Speaker 2: whole region really, But it's a great green with rice
Speaker 2: dishes and lamb and different things like that. I grow
Speaker 2: that in my garden. Purslain greens. Yes, there's perslaine weed,
Speaker 2: there's personalaine flowers, and there's just vegetable types of perce
Speaker 2: lane that are grown for eating that can take the
Speaker 2: heat as well. We got many other options. A maringa.
Speaker 2: It's actually a little tree. You can cut it back,
Speaker 2: make a bush out of it. The foliage kind of
Speaker 2: has a nutty taste. I like actually use it in smoothies.
Speaker 2: Adds nutrients and a unique flavor to the smoothie. But
Speaker 2: you can cook it as well. Lots of good greens.
Speaker 2: There's no reason to stop gardening. In vegetable gardening in
Speaker 2: the summer. We got a lot of good options. And
Speaker 2: if you want give me a call, maybe I ought
Speaker 2: to put something on the website, make a note of that.
Speaker 2: That'd be good. Summer greens and summer vegetables would be
Speaker 2: a good addition to the website, a good handout for that.
Speaker 2: If you had planted a tree, you need a tree hugger, sprinkler.
Speaker 2: I mean if you planted a tree ten years ago,
Speaker 2: you still need a treeoggor sprintler. Here's why, goes around
Speaker 2: the tree. If it's a brand new tree, you barely
Speaker 2: turn it on and it waters that root cylinder that
Speaker 2: you just put in the ground, keeps it alive and well.
Speaker 2: If it is a big tree, you turn it on
Speaker 2: a lot and you can water as big of an
Speaker 2: area as you want. To rescue those established trees during grout.
Speaker 2: Not just rescue them, but keep them growing fast. That's
Speaker 2: very important. Rosarians love this product too. It's good for
Speaker 2: roses as well. You're going to find it a lot
Speaker 2: of places. Southwest Fertilizer of course has its single ranch
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Speaker 2: Leake City Feed Arborgate, Nelson Water Gardens and Nurseries, adding
Speaker 2: in Katie RCW Nurseries, Warren Southern Gardens and kingwo Of
Speaker 2: Garden Center adding Kingwood and go down to Richmond Rosenberg
Speaker 2: area and Chenny Forest and Channing Gardens all carry tree
Speaker 2: hugger sprinklers. Get you one. You need to have it,
Speaker 2: keep it in the garage because it is not only
Speaker 2: great for new trees, but helping those established trees to
Speaker 2: grow faster and better. That is important. It's all about water,
Speaker 2: all about water. That is where our trees get into trouble.
Speaker 2: You know, we do fertilize trees, and I do, and
Speaker 2: it's important. It helps. But you know the research that
Speaker 2: I've seen fertilizing isn't a huge thing on trees. I mean,
Speaker 2: it helps, but it's not like you know, if you
Speaker 2: just fertilize a lot that trees are going to grow
Speaker 2: trice as fast. But water really matters. Water stresses and
Speaker 2: things really slow it down. And you know, when you
Speaker 2: plant a tree, your goal is to hang a hammock
Speaker 2: in it as soon as you can. So we got
Speaker 2: to get that thing growing right. That's important. When you
Speaker 2: fertilize your lawn, the trees get the nutrients from that
Speaker 2: because their roots are up in the top foot of
Speaker 2: soil primarily. Yes, I know, forget the image you've seen
Speaker 2: online or on the side of a tree truck that
Speaker 2: makes the tree look like a mirror image top and bottom.
Speaker 2: No trees have a spreading fat lat root system goes
Speaker 2: out about about twelve inches deep. The majority of the
Speaker 2: root system is twelve inches deep, and then the top
Speaker 2: as what the top is so up in that grass
Speaker 2: area you got a lot of tree roots. So for example,
Speaker 2: you get this superturf I keep talking about from Nitrofoss
Speaker 2: Superturf nineteen four ten. When you fertilize your lawn with that,
Speaker 2: it's releasing all summer and it's helping your lawn. But
Speaker 2: there are nutrients that those trees are also getting from it,
Speaker 2: and they will benefit from that as well. When we
Speaker 2: fertilize our lawn, there is a benefit to the trees.
Speaker 2: Superturf releases slowly, which is what I like about it.
Speaker 2: It's going to go about sixteen weeks out or four
Speaker 2: months and it works well. And you're going to find
Speaker 2: it where you find other night foss products. For example,
Speaker 2: go to Langham Creek a hardware on on FM five
Speaker 2: twenty nine right there in the backside of Copperfield, katie
Speaker 2: As hardware on Penoak, the Ace hardware on Mason Road too.
Speaker 2: On a single ranch is going to have it. You're
Speaker 2: just going to find it in a lot of different
Speaker 2: places that sell nitofoss products like Fisher's Hardbrown sophomore done
Speaker 2: in Pasadena. Well, let's see here, it's a little too
Speaker 2: short uh time here for me to start another discussion
Speaker 2: of something, So we're gonna move out of this session.
Speaker 2: We got one more hour left today. If you'd like
Speaker 2: to give us a call, in fact, if you'd like
Speaker 2: to be on the first up, if you call now
Speaker 2: and just don't mind hanging through the top of the
Speaker 2: hour news seven one three two one two KTRH, you
Speaker 2: can be one of the first ones up when we
Speaker 2: come back. We'd love to visit with you about the
Speaker 2: questions that you have and to help you have success.
Speaker 2: You know, gardening is supposed to be fun and if
Speaker 2: you do the right things, if you learn to think
Speaker 2: like a plant, if you can find out what a
Speaker 2: plant wants and give it that, your thumb looks greener
Speaker 2: to everybody because you're just giving a plant what it wants.
Speaker 2: That is all that it amounts to. So, h let's
Speaker 2: give you some tips on that. Let's have success with that.
Speaker 2: I want to remind you my website, gardening with Skip
Speaker 2: dot com. Gardening with Skip dot com, you'll find my
Speaker 2: two laun care schedules, lun Care and lawn pest Weez
Speaker 2: and disease schedules. On there you'll find some other good things.
Speaker 2: In fact, when I come back, I want to tell
Speaker 2: you a little bit about some of the things that
Speaker 2: we have put up recently on the schedule. I have
Speaker 2: a number of questions that have come up regarding things,
Speaker 2: and when I get a question over and over, I'll
Speaker 2: probably create a little factiont on it and stick it
Speaker 2: up there on the schedule, And I mean on the website.
Speaker 2: That way you could download it wherever you are bookmarket.
Speaker 2: I hope you bookmark the website Gardening with Skip dot com.
Speaker 2: That lots of good information on there based on the
Speaker 2: kinds of questions that people ask. Some things it's hard
Speaker 2: to fully answer on the air. I mean, it takes
Speaker 2: too long, too much detail, and when you say it
Speaker 2: people doesn't you know, we don't retain stuff. I forget
Speaker 2: stuff by the end of conversation sometimes. But when you
Speaker 2: can get a printed out of it, then that way
Speaker 2: you've got reference. That's what we're about. When we're back, Hey,
Speaker 2: Leslie in Baytown, you're gonna be our first stop. Good morning, gardeners.
Speaker 2: What are we going to talk about today? Well, that's
Speaker 2: up to you. At this point oh. I actually have
Speaker 2: a few things I want to add too. But one
Speaker 2: of the questions you have, how can we help you
Speaker 2: have success? And listen, how can we help you have fun?
Speaker 2: Gardening should be fun. It should be It is not.
Speaker 2: You know, we don't live in the days where if
Speaker 2: our crop fails are going to start the death. Okay,
Speaker 2: so we can the pressures off. We are just learning
Speaker 2: and having fun out in the garden and enjoying being
Speaker 2: out with the nature. I was talking to somebody yesterday
Speaker 2: when I was at the arbor gate and we were
Speaker 2: just talking about the fact of how therapeutic gardening is,
Speaker 2: and you know, all the benefits and stuff, and then
Speaker 2: you know, you're just talking about getting outside in the
Speaker 2: garden and just being there and nature and plants and
Speaker 2: how it made them feel. Well, that's true. Well let's
Speaker 2: do this. Let's head out to Baytown now and we're
Speaker 2: going to talk to Leslie. Hello, Leslie, welcome to garden Line. Hey, Rick,
Speaker 2: how are you doing. I'm doing well. I'm doing well.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 9: I wanted to ask.
Speaker 16: I'm gonna have a really really big pot and I'm
Speaker 16: putting two two gallons shrimp plants in there, and I
Speaker 16: wanted to know what I can put in that big,
Speaker 16: big pot. I want to say, it's like forty gallons
Speaker 16: just take up space besides just a bunch of potting soil, Like.
Speaker 6: What's a good mix?
Speaker 8: Okay, Pete Moss.
Speaker 2: Well when you say a big pot, what are what
Speaker 2: are we talking? How big? How far across? You know,
Speaker 2: as the biggest steering.
Speaker 16: Three feet across, about three feet across, two feet down?
Speaker 14: Because I want these shrimp plants to just grow and
Speaker 14: grow and grow.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, the more soil you have, the better plants
Speaker 2: will perform, and the less stressful they'll be when things
Speaker 2: get dry. You know, if you if that's a big pot.
Speaker 2: You know, but if you take away too much of
Speaker 2: the soil, the roots don't have that volume of soil
Speaker 2: to take water and nutrients out of, and you're gonna
Speaker 2: be water more often and so on. So that that's
Speaker 2: the first thing I understand that there can be too
Speaker 2: much area to buy all the soil to fill the
Speaker 2: whole thing. So if it's that size one thing you
Speaker 2: can do. There's a couple of ways to go about this.
Speaker 2: One way would be to take some plastic bottles, you know,
Speaker 2: like the two liter coke bottles, like the little drinking
Speaker 2: water bottles. Screw the caps on tight and just let
Speaker 2: them be full of air. Put them in the bottom
Speaker 2: and fill up a bunch of volume just just with that,
Speaker 2: and then you can throw your soil in. I mean,
Speaker 2: if you wanted to put something over them, you could.
Speaker 2: I would just throw the soil in around them, and
Speaker 2: so they're taking up whatever percentage of soil of space
Speaker 2: you need them to, and then fill in the soil
Speaker 2: in around them. Okay, okay, that's great.
Speaker 10: That's what I wanted and easy, and yeah, there you go.
Speaker 10: Well I appreciate it, you bet you too.
Speaker 2: You take care. I did that one time. I had
Speaker 2: those chimney liners, those terra cotta type clay. Uh they're
Speaker 2: they're sort of rectangular to square, but but they have
Speaker 2: rounded corners, you know what I'm talking about. Anyway, they
Speaker 2: stand about, oh gosh, three feet high something like that.
Speaker 2: And I was gonna put some little flowers in the top. Well,
Speaker 2: those flowers don't need roots that are three feet deep,
Speaker 2: and so I put a bunch of those in the
Speaker 2: bottom of those bottles. And then actually, in this case,
Speaker 2: I laid a piece of hardware cloth that little square
Speaker 2: inch stuff you put underneath the rabbit cage. I cut
Speaker 2: a piece out to fit perfectly in there and set
Speaker 2: it on top of them. And then I took a
Speaker 2: little liner that was like weat fabric and put it
Speaker 2: on top of the soil, I mean on top of
Speaker 2: the wire. And then when I feel it was soil,
Speaker 2: the soil didn't fall all in because I just didn't
Speaker 2: need that much soil, okay, And that's what I did.
Speaker 2: And then that way, when I had to clean it out,
Speaker 2: it was easy to dump it over and get the
Speaker 2: bottles out of the way and easy to go. So.
Speaker 2: But in general, be careful about replacing soil because the
Speaker 2: more you have, the happier those plants will be, especially
Speaker 2: in the summer hot weather conditions. Medina products are widely
Speaker 2: available and have been for a very long time here
Speaker 2: in the Greater Houston area. Medina Plus is an example
Speaker 2: of that. You know, the original Medina sial activator has
Speaker 2: been very popular customers for a very long time, and
Speaker 2: then they added the Medina Plus which is fortified with
Speaker 2: essential micronutrients and seaweed extract, so you still get all
Speaker 2: the natural soil building advantages of the Medina hastergro or
Speaker 2: excuse me, Medina sal activator. I'll but you also have
Speaker 2: these extra ingredients which make it too a good folier
Speaker 2: feed for plants, tree shrubs, for lawns. The seaweed extracts
Speaker 2: are in there. They help plants with achieving their maximum
Speaker 2: growth and yield potential. And it's just a good product.
Speaker 2: You should have it on hand. I like the Medina
Speaker 2: has to grow six to twelve six plant food, which
Speaker 2: I primarily use for trenchplanting. It has other uses. That's
Speaker 2: just the one where I most use. It's got a
Speaker 2: lot of phosphors in it, good for root development and
Speaker 2: so on. Whatever you do when you go with the
Speaker 2: Medina product, try it out, see how it works for you.
Speaker 2: I know you're going to be happy with it. And
Speaker 2: they're so widely available that I don't even have to
Speaker 2: have to tell you where to get them because they're everywhere.
Speaker 2: I always see those when I go into feed stores
Speaker 2: and hardware stores like ACE and garden centers and places
Speaker 2: like that. Medina products I was looking at. I follow
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Speaker 2: because it always tells you what's going on, what they're
Speaker 2: doing in various locations and so on, and a Kingwood
Speaker 2: Garden Center and Warren Southern Gardens. Those are two that
Speaker 2: are out there in Kingwood. I don't know how Kingwood
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Speaker 2: Warren's is on North Park Drive, Kingwood Garden Center is
Speaker 2: on Stone Hollow Drive. Both of them are open seven
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Speaker 2: to get out there. This afternoon. Let's head out to
Speaker 2: Friends with now and we're going to talk to Alan. Hello, Alan,
Speaker 2: Welcome to garden Line. Hey, Skip, how you doing today?
Speaker 2: I'm well, thank you. How can we help.
Speaker 1: I've got a question about my miracle berry.
Speaker 2: I've had trouble getting it to put on any berries.
Speaker 6: I'm starting to think I should call it it's a
Speaker 6: miracle if you get a berry.
Speaker 2: Bush that's good, miracle berry? Do you have another name
Speaker 2: for that?
Speaker 1: I don't, but it's one of those where you taste
Speaker 1: something sweet, you eat the berry and it tastes sour.
Speaker 2: It flips the flavor opposite.
Speaker 1: That's why they called it a miracle berry.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 15: And last year I got two berries and I took
Speaker 15: care of them, and then birds got them before I
Speaker 15: could get them.
Speaker 2: Oh, I think I know what you're talking about. I
Speaker 2: think I know it's called there's a miracle fruit that
Speaker 2: I've heard of before. Makes might be a yeah, it's
Speaker 2: it's a They one time they thought that it might
Speaker 2: be a good way to create a natural, non caloric sweetener,
Speaker 2: kind of like sweeten low kinds of things, but a different,
Speaker 2: different ingredient for it.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 2: The The plants need good sunlight. They don't want to
Speaker 2: grow in a lot of shade. They're very not a
Speaker 2: lot of pests and diseases. You can get meatlely bugs
Speaker 2: and spider mites on them sometimes about the only ones
Speaker 2: I'm familiar with. But you just need to keep them
Speaker 2: adequately moist that that is important. They they don't need
Speaker 2: to dry out. Uh if given time. Their root system
Speaker 2: is adequate, you know, for for mining the soil for
Speaker 2: nutrients and creating a nice, good root system. But the
Speaker 2: bottom line is just fertilize them lightly as you go along.
Speaker 2: They like it a little acidic. So if you want
Speaker 2: to get you a fertilizer for azaleas and camellias and things,
Speaker 2: that would be fine. You could you could just do that. Uh,
Speaker 2: you know a lot of people grow yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: the Microlife the one for acid loving plants would be good.
Speaker 2: I'm hearing that. I got to go to a break here,
Speaker 2: but they can growing containers but at least at least
Speaker 2: twenty gallons and give them a good quality potting mix
Speaker 2: and some of the Microlife type fertilizers. That's the right
Speaker 2: ratio for this particular plant as well. Thanks thanks man
Speaker 2: for the call. So I have to run all right,
Speaker 2: you get a free break from weeds for the year
Speaker 2: if you can name that band. There you go, you
Speaker 2: name it, and no weeds will come up in your lawn. Okay,
Speaker 2: all right, whoever believes that, call in with the name
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Speaker 2: When I sugon with some of the folks from Nelson
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Speaker 2: part of the turf Star line, and we were just
Speaker 2: talking about the details of different kinds of fertilizers, especially
Speaker 2: the nutri Star line that's specific kinds of plant foods,
Speaker 2: you know, hibiscus and flying tropicals is one example. Bruce
Speaker 2: Is Brew is unique. We talk about early in my
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Speaker 2: put it down, you water it, and the nutrients are
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Speaker 2: them up pretty quick. Then they're slow release that we
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Speaker 2: they really stimulate them in the soil. Keeps the soil
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Speaker 2: have healthy grass, less vulnerability to pests and weeds. U
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Speaker 2: garden Line.
Speaker 6: That's nice. Good morning, Skip.
Speaker 2: How you doing. I'm well, all right.
Speaker 6: Hey. I treated my lagustriums with some backanhol because of
Speaker 6: the fungus that I get on them. And right after
Speaker 6: that I got a white powdery substance and I thought
Speaker 6: it was just the residue from the deck and all,
Speaker 6: but now it's spreading. So I'd like to know how
Speaker 6: to treat this white powdery mildew stuff that's on the
Speaker 6: leaves spread.
Speaker 2: Well, it probably it probably is powdery mildew. There are
Speaker 2: some lagustrims that can certainly suffer from that, as well
Speaker 2: as other plants. The organic end of it is to
Speaker 2: use the horticulture oil and spray over the surface of
Speaker 2: the leaves and it kills the pottery mildew that's growing
Speaker 2: on the leaf surface. Now, once it starts to malform
Speaker 2: leaves and discolor the leaves. Uh, you're not going to
Speaker 2: cure that, but you can prevent additional infection for a
Speaker 2: longer term. A product called Belton b A Y L
Speaker 2: E t O n be Leton is a synthetic that
Speaker 2: is soaks in. It soaks into the tissue and it'll
Speaker 2: give you longer control of the powdery mildew. But there's
Speaker 2: your options organic ins that I.
Speaker 8: Can use you the one so alrighty, And this is
Speaker 8: not fatal the planet.
Speaker 6: It's just going to be depolage.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is. The foliage forms, it deforms it because
Speaker 2: it can't grow normally.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 2: And it causes some kind of staining brown. Sometimes you'll
Speaker 2: see that in some plants. It's just an ugly but
Speaker 2: if it if it's bad enough, it's taking away the
Speaker 2: solar panels that the plant needs for energy. So by
Speaker 2: taking away the leaves. So that's the concern with powder,
Speaker 2: they'll do other than the aesthetic.
Speaker 6: All right, fantastic. I appreciate you.
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Speaker 2: head now to Brenham, Texas and talk to rister. Hey, rister,
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Speaker 4: Good, good morning. I'm having a continuous problem with the
Speaker 4: oak tree, large nice oak tree in my front yard.
Speaker 4: I thought I had rectified a problem by this weedying.
Speaker 4: The suckers that were coming off the roots stand out
Speaker 4: from the tree about ten twelve feet right at the
Speaker 4: top of the ground. Then suckers would come off of that,
Speaker 4: and I was just knocking them off with a weed
Speaker 4: eater for a long time, and that seemed to reduce it.
Speaker 4: But then I put mulk on top of it about
Speaker 4: three inches deep, and now they're just coming up everywhere.
Speaker 4: And I'm afraid to put a thought about putting wipe
Speaker 4: out or something on them that said that might hurt you,
Speaker 4: treat it would do.
Speaker 2: That's a good that's yeah, you can't. You can't kill
Speaker 2: them like that. There's not a lot to do for it.
Speaker 2: The more you disturb soil, that includes like you know,
Speaker 2: putt a little rotor tiller bed in there or something,
Speaker 2: or over watering a lot, and when you have flower
Speaker 2: bed at the base, you're watering a lot. Those kind
Speaker 2: of things make the suckers occur. Even faster and more.
Speaker 2: But there's there's not a way to just kill that sucker.
Speaker 2: I mean, you could burn the leaves off of it
Speaker 2: with a with a product that's toxic or you know
Speaker 2: that burns the foliage, but that doesn't change anything. It'll
Speaker 2: just keep growing with new leaves. There is a product
Speaker 2: called sucker stopper, sucker stopper. It's not really easy to find.
Speaker 2: I'm sure they probably have it at a Southwest fertilizer.
Speaker 2: But if you can treat a sucker at the base
Speaker 2: after you cut it off, it is a hormone that
Speaker 2: is the plant't don't regrow shoot here, and it's not
Speaker 2: like forever, but it is a suppressive thing that it
Speaker 2: would probably help a little bit on this. Typically I
Speaker 2: would recommend it for like the base of crape myrtles
Speaker 2: where you get all those shoots coming out of the
Speaker 2: base for that, But you might try sucker.
Speaker 4: Stuff all the mulch on top of it to get
Speaker 4: to that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you want to get down to
Speaker 2: where it's going to rea sprout for Yeah, it is.
Speaker 2: There's not a good That's why I said not a
Speaker 2: good answer to it. It's not Some people will put
Speaker 2: a really nice groundcover fabric, a good heavy one over
Speaker 2: the base and then put a weighted mulch over that.
Speaker 2: You know, it could be gravel or something like that,
Speaker 2: and that will hold them down. They just won't be
Speaker 2: able to come up and do much. But you know,
Speaker 2: you got to. It's a challenge to be able to
Speaker 2: control them. Unfortunately, some not all live oaks. Some live
Speaker 2: oaks are really prone to that.
Speaker 4: All right, long routes. That does it. I'm just going
Speaker 4: to live with it, I guess, isn't that. I thank you?
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, sir, thank you. Sorry I couldn't give
Speaker 2: you a nice, easy solution today. You take care, appreciate,
Speaker 2: appreciate your call.
Speaker 15: UH.
Speaker 2: Affordable Tree Service is the company we send people to
Speaker 2: here on Guardline. Affordable Tree has been around a long time.
Speaker 2: It's a family owned operation. So when you give them
Speaker 2: a call, you're probably going to talk to Martin's mom
Speaker 2: Martin Spoon Moore, that's his company and it is a
Speaker 2: family business. You can you can dial them up. Just
Speaker 2: go to seven one three, six nine two six sixty three.
Speaker 2: Probably talk to Martin's mom. Tell her you heard about
Speaker 2: us on guardline. Because Guardline customers are their priority that's
Speaker 2: seven one three six ninety nine two six six three.
Speaker 2: And it doesn't matter what you need. Do you need
Speaker 2: uh pruning or deep root feeding or pest control, disease control,
Speaker 2: stump grinding uh? And the most important is reconstruction care.
Speaker 2: And I say that because by the time people get
Speaker 2: out there in trench or put down a driveway over
Speaker 2: a tree's root system, the damage is done and there
Speaker 2: we can try to help them, but way better to
Speaker 2: call Martin's team first and have them come on out.
Speaker 2: Affordable Tree Service seven to one three six nine nine
Speaker 2: two six six three. I'll be right back with Marty
Speaker 2: from Fairfield. All right, here we go, Welcome back to
Speaker 2: guard Line. We are in our last half hour of
Speaker 2: the weekend. If you'd like to give me a call
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Speaker 2: the time to do it. As they say, speak now
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Speaker 2: gonna go out to Fairfield now and talk to Marty. Hey, Marty,
Speaker 2: welcome back.
Speaker 9: Hi, good morning. Hey.
Speaker 17: That guy just reminded me about his little oak trees
Speaker 17: that are growing out of the gardens. I've been weading
Speaker 17: for a couple of years, but yesterday I started pulling
Speaker 17: him out with some fires. We get the whole route
Speaker 17: all the way down if you grab him right there
Speaker 17: at the soil.
Speaker 18: I thought i'd share that.
Speaker 9: Okay, anyway, work great for me.
Speaker 2: Well, that sounds like a plan. Thanks for that report.
Speaker 2: Are you pulling straight up or are you kind of
Speaker 2: pulling at an angle or what works best for you?
Speaker 17: Well, I tried to pull them straight up and and
Speaker 17: then I I kind of whiggled them a little bit
Speaker 17: sometimes if they were real tough to get out, and
Speaker 17: it just however, I could get him out. I got him,
Speaker 17: and I'm it's a lot that I have to get up,
Speaker 17: but it works.
Speaker 8: It works for me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, thank you. I appreciate that all. Hopefully
Speaker 2: he's hopefully h Rouster's still listening. All right, take care. Uh.
Speaker 2: You know, it's interesting with with weeds. I do a
Speaker 2: lot of him pulling of weeds and I'm shipping off
Speaker 2: a tree roots or tree suckers here. But it's just
Speaker 2: because you know, I take your good care of my lawn.
Speaker 2: By and large, I don't have a lot of wheat issues.
Speaker 2: You know, there's some that come in, but by and
Speaker 2: large I don't let them go to seed if at
Speaker 2: all possible, And that saves me a lot of trouble
Speaker 2: because you know, what do they say one years of
Speaker 2: weed is ten years of seed or something. So I
Speaker 2: try to do that. But anyway, I've learned that. You know,
Speaker 2: some weeds have spreading root systems, like a grassy type
Speaker 2: clumping weed has a fiber spreading root system. And on those,
Speaker 2: if you grab them real load to the ground, hold
Speaker 2: on to them and kind of wiggle your hand back
Speaker 2: and forth as you pull, you'll kind of hear the
Speaker 2: individual little tiny roots ripping and tearing as you do that,
Speaker 2: and they come right out. If you grab them and
Speaker 2: try to pull, it just breaks off a lot of times.
Speaker 2: But that sideways wiggle as you pull works good. Here
Speaker 2: I am giving advice on how to pull a weed
Speaker 2: or for crying out loud anyway, what does life come to? Anyway?
Speaker 2: That works for me. Then there's roots, the weeds that
Speaker 2: have tap roots, and the fall aster, oh boy, we'll
Speaker 2: be here this fall. That one has a tap root,
Speaker 2: and so you got to get a good base pull
Speaker 2: on it and the tap root comes right out. If
Speaker 2: the soil is moist. It is amazing how much weed
Speaker 2: pulling you can do. And I've been through the yard
Speaker 2: a bunch of times with a five gallon bucket and
Speaker 2: my handy dandy kneeling bench getting weed pulling done. And
Speaker 2: so now can you pull Virginia button weed? And that
Speaker 2: doesn't work that way Other than getting the little buttons
Speaker 2: with the seeds out, that's about the only benefit that
Speaker 2: that does. You're not going to get the weed itself.
Speaker 2: Can you pull dollar weed over crying out loud, No?
Speaker 2: Or dichondra no, absolutely not, But a lot of weeds
Speaker 2: you can. And right now I still have some annual
Speaker 2: bluegrass going to seed, little tiny plants that have escaped somehow.
Speaker 2: You see them when they put the little seed head up.
Speaker 2: Every one of those is coming out of in my yard.
Speaker 2: I am not going to deal with that anymore. Just
Speaker 2: stay on it and get the job done. But it's
Speaker 2: kind of therapeutic for me. It's one of the things
Speaker 2: in life where you know, you work for a little bit,
Speaker 2: you stand up, you look around, you see what you've accomplished.
Speaker 2: That's therapeutic, I think. So anyway, I like that, Well,
Speaker 2: let's go out to clear like now we're going to
Speaker 2: talk to Jim. Hey, Jim, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 1: Hey, hey, good morning. How are we doing.
Speaker 2: We're doing well? Thank you? Good good. Hey.
Speaker 19: I've got a mulberry tree fifteen foot with about a
Speaker 19: four inch pace, and I grew it from a little
Speaker 19: sprout got to be about three foot and then I
Speaker 19: transplanted it out of the pot. But any rate, every
Speaker 19: season it sprouts out beautifully, the leaves of healthy, looking
Speaker 19: nice and green. And about a month or so after that,
Speaker 19: some disease or something just hits it. All the leaves
Speaker 19: start turning brown, patchy and falling off.
Speaker 15: And it happens every season. Next season sprouts out beautifully,
Speaker 15: leaves fall off.
Speaker 2: What happens after the leaves fall off, because obviously the
Speaker 2: planet didn't die. What do you see next? Yeah?
Speaker 15: Actually, I've noticed after they all fall off, they actually
Speaker 15: start to sprout again.
Speaker 2: Uh huh. And does a second set of leaves do that?
Speaker 7: Well?
Speaker 15: I I guess they do. Maybe maybe it gets late
Speaker 15: in the season and I don't notice, but they do
Speaker 15: sprout out again. And honestly I can't remember what happens
Speaker 15: after that. I just look a frustrated to it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, that that is curious. So you can get
Speaker 2: leaf spots on mulberry leaves, that's a possibility, but that
Speaker 2: generally doesn't turn the whole leaf brown. It's strange that
Speaker 2: the whole leaf is turning brown. You know, my brain's
Speaker 2: out there searching the periphery of possibilities here, and I'm
Speaker 2: thinking things like, well, does it coincide with when you
Speaker 2: put a certain kind of herbicide out on your lawn? Maybe?
Speaker 2: Or you know what else can we connect this too
Speaker 2: to try to find an answer. If it were a
Speaker 2: root rot, the plant wouldn't come back. If it didn't
Speaker 2: enough to knock all the leaves off, it would kill
Speaker 2: the plant. So it's not a root rot. I don't
Speaker 2: think it's a folio disease. If the whole leaf is
Speaker 2: turning brown, if you get in brown spots, maybe a
Speaker 2: bacteria or fungus can do that. Yeah, that's weird. I
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 15: It seems to be spotty in the beginning of the process,
Speaker 15: but eventually it just all turns brown eventually.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, maybe send me some pictures of it when
Speaker 2: you see it happen, and let me look at Maybe
Speaker 2: if I look at it, I can go oh, I
Speaker 2: know what that is. You know, but right now I'm
Speaker 2: drawing other than my kind of example there, I'm kind
Speaker 2: of drawing a blank on it. So but I'm going
Speaker 2: to put you on hold and Alejandro give you an
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Speaker 2: David in Houston. Hang on, you're gonna be our very
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Speaker 8: Good morning. How are you today?
Speaker 2: Doing well? Thank you?
Speaker 8: I have a oak tree, and I'm not sure the
Speaker 8: variety that was growing in my backyard and a couple
Speaker 8: of years ago I had to transplanted to the front yard. Okay,
Speaker 8: the tree when I transplanted, it was about three foot tall.
Speaker 8: Now it's at least six foot. Last season we had
Speaker 8: branches from halfway up to the top of the tree.
Speaker 8: And this spring, after the winter, I've got leaves and
Speaker 8: branches growing from almost ground level all the way to
Speaker 8: the top. So what caused that? And Quinn, can I
Speaker 8: trim those extra branches and leaves or should I trim them?
Speaker 2: Is the original one? Is it dying? Or is it
Speaker 2: still as healthy as it ever was?
Speaker 8: Oh, it looks as healthy as it ever was. The
Speaker 8: all the leaves or vibrant green from the from the
Speaker 8: base all the way to the top.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, I would I would leave the original one,
Speaker 2: the tall one, the one that was doing real well
Speaker 2: for you, and I'd cut all the rest of them
Speaker 2: back as close to where they attached as you can.
Speaker 2: Sometimes someone will hit a long tree, young tree like
Speaker 2: that with a weed eater or a lawnmower or something
Speaker 2: and damage the bark and it and that is almost
Speaker 2: like a semi pruning of it, and then it's cutting
Speaker 2: off tissues and so the tree will rea sprout from
Speaker 2: the base as if you just cut it off. But uh,
Speaker 2: and I just want to make sure we still got
Speaker 2: a good trunk there sounds like we do, so I
Speaker 2: take all the others off. I don't know what caused it,
Speaker 2: Maybe it was a nick or something from machinery, but uh,
Speaker 2: you want to cut all those off and just have
Speaker 2: a single trunk coming up. And then if you can
Speaker 2: give it a multched area, David, that is even better.
Speaker 2: Trees hate grass. They grow in forests with leaves on
Speaker 2: the ground. So the bigger the multch bed, the happier
Speaker 2: and faster that tree is going to grow.
Speaker 8: Okay, do I need to put up the grass around
Speaker 8: the base of the tree before I put the molts down?
Speaker 8: Or just put the moltch down right on top?
Speaker 2: Is it Saint Augustine?
Speaker 8: I believe so, yeah, Yeah.
Speaker 2: You can pull it. Yeah, I'd pull it out about
Speaker 2: a foot away from the trunk because you don't want
Speaker 2: to palm. You don't want to palm multch against the trunk.
Speaker 2: But if you put it out of foot the way,
Speaker 2: mow it or weed eat it, weed eat it down
Speaker 2: real low, real low, and then you just you can
Speaker 2: cover it with a good thick mulch and if it
Speaker 2: blocks light out, Saint Augustine's not going to come through it.
Speaker 2: But if you know, if you have any doubts, you
Speaker 2: can just you know, get that grass out in the
Speaker 2: bigger area. But but that mult bed, that forest floor
Speaker 2: environment of decomposing launch is tree heaven, tree heaven. So
Speaker 2: that's the best thing you can do for the tree. Yeah.
Speaker 8: Now, when pruning those those small branches and leaves from
Speaker 8: the base to about half way up, should I do
Speaker 8: that now or just wait until the tree goes dormant
Speaker 8: in the winter.
Speaker 2: I would do it now. I would get rid of
Speaker 2: them because you want all the growth to go in
Speaker 2: what's left so the sinner you get to walk. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and wherever you have a shoot coming up, there's gonna
Speaker 2: be little dormant buds around the base of it. That's
Speaker 2: that's how trees we sprout. You know, you got just
Speaker 2: bark on the side of a tree and suddenly a
Speaker 2: branch comes out. Well, that was a bud. That's a
Speaker 2: sleep down underneath there. And so you want to cut
Speaker 2: those out at the very base, not leaving even an
Speaker 2: inch stub. I mean, cut them out at the base
Speaker 2: to minimize the re sprouting. There's a product called sucker
Speaker 2: stopper that is a plant tormone that you apply and
Speaker 2: it tells the plant not to regrow. Shoot right there,
Speaker 2: right then? Okay, So if you get too much of
Speaker 2: a problem with suckering, you may want to try sprain
Speaker 2: some of that on it, but I don't think it'll
Speaker 2: be necessary. I think if you just keep them removed,
Speaker 2: don't let them come up, I think you'd be all right.
Speaker 8: Okay, all right, we listen. I appreciate your help.
Speaker 2: Thank you, sir. Yeah, thanks for pasionally waiting. Good to
Speaker 2: talk to you today. I hope you have a good
Speaker 2: rest of your weekend. All right, all right, folks, we're
Speaker 2: gonna now, let's see, I've got one more call where
Speaker 2: I'm on. Yeah, I've got time for a call here.
Speaker 2: We're going to take one more call here in just
Speaker 2: one second. And in the meantime, just a little few
Speaker 2: tips out in the lawn, landscaping garden. Always maintain a
Speaker 2: good thick layer of mulch. Never tear the old mulch out,
Speaker 2: and you don't have to replace multch again, you know,
Speaker 2: as like I was saying about putting soil earlier. In nature,
Speaker 2: nobody replaces mulch. The design is that leaves fall on
Speaker 2: top of old rotting leaves and it just gets better
Speaker 2: and better. So when you need to add mulch ad maults,
Speaker 2: don't take the olmulch out. It's just getting good. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's it's gonna become part of the soil at that time.
Speaker 2: That's how nature does it, so no need to take
Speaker 2: it away, Just add mulch. Is it. If the mulch
Speaker 2: is chunky, you gotta make it thicker because you're trying
Speaker 2: to block all the sunlight from getting to the soil.
Speaker 2: The finer texture to mulch is the less deep it
Speaker 2: needs to be to block the sunlight from the soil.
Speaker 2: So I'm not going to give you. I mean, the
Speaker 2: real time is about three inches for mulch, but I've
Speaker 2: seen times rowing a little deeper in that, and I've
Speaker 2: had times where I didn't have to go that deep. Anyway,
Speaker 2: Let's go to Lake Palestine now and we're going to
Speaker 2: talk to Nancy. Hey Nancy, calling from far away.
Speaker 18: Good morning, how you doing today?
Speaker 2: I'm well, thank you, good great.
Speaker 18: I've seen cheese and pictures. I've got able to see them.
Speaker 2: When did you send those?
Speaker 18: About a minute minute and a half ago?
Speaker 2: Oh okay, they haven't come through yet. Maybe you send
Speaker 2: them to the wrong place. I'll wait and see, maybe
Speaker 2: they'll pop up. Let's let's go ahead with the call.
Speaker 2: And because we're not real kind of short on time,
Speaker 2: so let's see if I can help you without the pictures.
Speaker 18: Okay, okay? Is Isaiah's I am using them? The Dina
Speaker 18: partucts and Isaiah and they have gone crazy. They lose
Speaker 18: lose their way, but they look like just really sprawly
Speaker 18: goofy bush because they've just gone crazy. Should I should
Speaker 18: I cut those back?
Speaker 8: Now?
Speaker 2: Are they are they in a lot of shade, a
Speaker 2: deep shade or is it pretty bright shade?
Speaker 18: B they have done and they break all right.
Speaker 2: So if if you've got lanky, gangly shoots, now's the
Speaker 2: time to cut them off. And you don't want to
Speaker 2: do any more cutting. Once we get past about June,
Speaker 2: because zella needs time to regrow shoots and set flower
Speaker 2: buds on it in late summer and fall for next year.
Speaker 2: So you can do printing to shape or to bring
Speaker 2: gangly shoots and bounds now if you.
Speaker 18: Okay, great, great. And the other thing was only tomatoes
Speaker 18: since there they're big now, but they've got the very top.
Speaker 18: Something is eating the tops hot. I had a friend
Speaker 18: so that it might be a cutworm. I guess this's
Speaker 18: where that picture would help a lot.
Speaker 2: Well, a cutworm isn't going to feed up there. What
Speaker 2: that may be is something called a tomato hornworm. And
Speaker 2: they start as little tiny caterpillars, as all do caterpillars do,
Speaker 2: but they can grow up into something the size of
Speaker 2: your little finger. I mean, they get bad, and at
Speaker 2: that stage you can see them. They are the color
Speaker 2: of the foliage. So when you see areas of a
Speaker 2: plant without any folk with foliage missing, what you need
Speaker 2: to do is just go in and look for that cutworm.
Speaker 2: The music's gonna start playing. We're gonna be out of
Speaker 2: time today, but I would do a very careful search
Speaker 2: wherever foliage is missing and find that booker and uh,
Speaker 2: and there's no need to spray for him, you just
Speaker 2: pick them off.
Speaker 18: Oh, thanks so much.
Speaker 2: Have a great week, all right, Nancy, you too. Thanks
Speaker 2: appreciate the call. All right, folks, there you go. Another
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