WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.120 --> 00:00:05.719 Welcome to Katie r. H Garden Line with Skip Rickard's. 2 00:00:07.080 --> 00:00:21.920 Crazy trim. Just watch him as many things to seep 3 00:00:22.239 --> 00:00:23.879 brasy in great. 4 00:00:25.320 --> 00:00:26.399 Gas again. 5 00:00:28.600 --> 00:00:31.039 Back again, not a sign. 6 00:00:32.880 --> 00:00:33.200 Gas. 7 00:00:36.920 --> 00:00:42.479 Good morning, gardeners, Good morning hope you are having a 8 00:00:42.520 --> 00:00:47.520 wonderful morning already. For me, a wonderful morning starts off 9 00:00:47.560 --> 00:00:52.719 with quiet and uh, a cup of coffee, a little 10 00:00:52.719 --> 00:00:55.799 time to think. That's a that's a good thing. Oh, 11 00:00:55.840 --> 00:00:57.359 we'll start it off easy this morning. 12 00:00:57.399 --> 00:01:00.479 I wanted to, uh, well, first time you get the 13 00:01:00.520 --> 00:01:02.600 phone number in case you would like to call. Sometimes 14 00:01:02.640 --> 00:01:04.719 we have people that are sitting there seem like then 15 00:01:04.760 --> 00:01:07.159 we come on, they jump on the phone. That's good. 16 00:01:07.200 --> 00:01:11.000 At least it gets you no waiting access of to 17 00:01:11.200 --> 00:01:14.200 get your questions in seven one three two one two 18 00:01:14.400 --> 00:01:18.599 KTRH seven one three two one two KTRH. I was 19 00:01:18.680 --> 00:01:23.640 walking through a lawn, Saint Augustine lawn this week and 20 00:01:24.000 --> 00:01:26.599 was looking just kind of looking down at it at 21 00:01:26.760 --> 00:01:29.879 you know, some of the things going on, and noticed 22 00:01:30.079 --> 00:01:33.159 quite a bit of gray leaf spot. Still. Gray leaf 23 00:01:33.159 --> 00:01:38.079 spot is a fungus, and one thing that is kind 24 00:01:38.079 --> 00:01:43.079 of a principle of most fungal problems is that it's 25 00:01:43.680 --> 00:01:47.879 primarily environmentally driven. There are such a thing as having 26 00:01:47.959 --> 00:01:51.760 a disease come in, you know, like we had a 27 00:01:51.799 --> 00:01:55.560 coronavirus came in to the country from outside the country. 28 00:01:55.840 --> 00:02:00.400 But in general, our plant diseases are here already, already 29 00:02:00.400 --> 00:02:04.319 in your your landscape, and they just don't take off 30 00:02:04.400 --> 00:02:07.400 because the conditions aren't right. And so gray leaf spot, 31 00:02:07.439 --> 00:02:11.319 the conditions are moisture on the surface of the grass 32 00:02:11.319 --> 00:02:17.120 blades and warm temperatures, not necessarily hot temperatures, but warm temperatures. 33 00:02:17.159 --> 00:02:20.280 That's why it's primarily an early in the summer disease, 34 00:02:20.319 --> 00:02:23.159 although we can get it anytime when you create the 35 00:02:23.240 --> 00:02:26.800 right conditions. So the analogy I use for this with 36 00:02:26.879 --> 00:02:30.599 fungi is imagine, you know, you've got a water spicket 37 00:02:30.639 --> 00:02:33.360 coming out of your house over on in a shady spot, 38 00:02:33.960 --> 00:02:38.360 and it started to leak around the connection and it 39 00:02:38.439 --> 00:02:40.759 was spraying a miss that was going back on the brick. 40 00:02:41.800 --> 00:02:44.280 If you let it do that for a few days, 41 00:02:44.280 --> 00:02:46.759 After about a week or so, you're going to notice 42 00:02:46.840 --> 00:02:50.840 algae growing on your brick. Where did that algae come from, Well, 43 00:02:50.879 --> 00:02:54.520 it was it's everywhere, but it's not growing because on 44 00:02:54.599 --> 00:02:56.560 a dry brick surface, algae is not going to grow, 45 00:02:56.560 --> 00:02:59.199 but you keep it moist and suddenly here goes the 46 00:02:59.240 --> 00:03:03.879 algal grow. Right, that's how funge i work in the lawn. 47 00:03:04.879 --> 00:03:08.439 So when you overwater, actually, let me change that. When 48 00:03:08.439 --> 00:03:12.319 you water too frequently, you promote gray leaf spot in 49 00:03:12.319 --> 00:03:15.520 your lawn. And what happens when it rains every day 50 00:03:15.560 --> 00:03:17.719 for a week, Well, that's not in your control, but 51 00:03:17.840 --> 00:03:20.120 that is what you would expect to start to happen. 52 00:03:20.599 --> 00:03:23.199 And nine Fiss has a product called Eagle that is 53 00:03:23.280 --> 00:03:25.159 kind of a go to, and it's the reason I 54 00:03:25.280 --> 00:03:27.800 like it for gray leaf spot and some other diseases 55 00:03:27.840 --> 00:03:30.840 as well, is because it's systemic. You put it down 56 00:03:30.879 --> 00:03:32.759 as a granule, it goes in the soil, the roots 57 00:03:32.800 --> 00:03:35.280 take it up, and it helps fight that. The primary 58 00:03:35.319 --> 00:03:39.400 things I recommend for take all root rot are systemic. 59 00:03:39.639 --> 00:03:42.120 They put them on the soil, they come up into 60 00:03:42.159 --> 00:03:44.560 the plant, and they fight the plant from the inside. 61 00:03:44.960 --> 00:03:48.080 So it instead of being like a surface protectant, you 62 00:03:48.120 --> 00:03:50.759 spray it on a leaf so a spore can't land 63 00:03:50.840 --> 00:03:53.439 and infect that leaf and create a spot. This is 64 00:03:53.479 --> 00:03:55.639 something we get in the plumbing of the plant and 65 00:03:55.680 --> 00:03:57.759 it prevents it from the inside. And those work a 66 00:03:57.759 --> 00:04:00.479 lot better, and some of those even have the ability 67 00:04:00.560 --> 00:04:04.639 to do what we call curative function, where you have 68 00:04:04.719 --> 00:04:06.680 the start of a disease and it just shuts it 69 00:04:06.719 --> 00:04:10.560 down from the inside. Anyway, that's a lot but Eagle. 70 00:04:10.599 --> 00:04:12.599 By the way, if you're looking for night Foss products, 71 00:04:12.639 --> 00:04:15.000 you're going to find Knight Fash products at places like 72 00:04:15.080 --> 00:04:17.800 Langham Creek Ace Hardware that's on five twenty nine up 73 00:04:17.839 --> 00:04:22.800 there in the Copperfield neighborhood. If you head to RCW Nursery, 74 00:04:22.839 --> 00:04:26.720 you find Nitrovoss products. The Tumball Parkway and Beltway eight 75 00:04:27.319 --> 00:04:30.560 and down in Angleton include Lake Hardware stores there, Velasco 76 00:04:30.639 --> 00:04:34.199 and on Dixie Dry. Both of those locations sell nitrovis products. 77 00:04:34.240 --> 00:04:39.240 But the best thing with fungi is to get ahead 78 00:04:39.279 --> 00:04:42.279 of them. That's true of the No, we're not in 79 00:04:42.319 --> 00:04:44.920 the cool season when we have the big brown patch 80 00:04:45.879 --> 00:04:51.000 circles take lss large patch circles. But once those circles appear, 81 00:04:51.040 --> 00:04:52.720 it's kind of late to put a funge aside down. 82 00:04:52.759 --> 00:04:56.319 I mean, stop more circles from happening. But you tend 83 00:04:56.319 --> 00:04:58.319 to already have a mess that you got to live 84 00:04:58.360 --> 00:05:00.759 with all winter because grass is going to grow and 85 00:05:00.800 --> 00:05:03.560 fill those brown circles back in in the winter time. 86 00:05:04.319 --> 00:05:08.279 So ahead of time, preventative, preventative, preventative. If you know 87 00:05:08.319 --> 00:05:12.040 you're having fun goal problems, preventative is the best way 88 00:05:12.079 --> 00:05:16.959 to do it. After the fact, we just don't have 89 00:05:17.000 --> 00:05:21.439 the same effects. So anyway, that is grey leaf spot. 90 00:05:21.560 --> 00:05:23.560 Hopefully it won't be a problem if you go to 91 00:05:23.639 --> 00:05:27.240 my lawn care schedule. I have two schedules on my website, 92 00:05:28.160 --> 00:05:29.800 and I know some of you have heard me say 93 00:05:29.839 --> 00:05:31.759 this a bunch, but we always have new listeners or 94 00:05:31.800 --> 00:05:36.959 people that aren't listening when they listen. There is Skip's 95 00:05:37.519 --> 00:05:40.759 lawn care schedule, which is how do you grow a 96 00:05:40.800 --> 00:05:44.439 beautiful lawn, So it's fertilizing and air rating and mowing 97 00:05:44.519 --> 00:05:47.399 and watering and the products you use for fertilizing and 98 00:05:47.439 --> 00:05:50.839 when you apply them. And then on the other side, well, 99 00:05:50.879 --> 00:05:53.839 on the other schedule, I print mind two sided like 100 00:05:53.920 --> 00:05:57.600 that on card stocks. Real handy to keep around is 101 00:05:57.600 --> 00:06:01.439 the lawn pest Disease and we'd management Schedule one is 102 00:06:02.079 --> 00:06:06.920 for insect problems and disease problems for preventing weeds that 103 00:06:07.000 --> 00:06:10.240 would be like a pre emergent and cultural practices that 104 00:06:10.360 --> 00:06:13.800 prevent weeds and then for killing existing weeds, and both 105 00:06:13.800 --> 00:06:16.079 of those schedules, by the way, they offer you synthetic 106 00:06:16.160 --> 00:06:20.560 and organic options, so you have options there as well 107 00:06:20.600 --> 00:06:23.920 as some advice as you go along. So anyway, yeah, 108 00:06:23.959 --> 00:06:27.000 so you look for gray leaf spot and on my schedule, 109 00:06:27.079 --> 00:06:31.079 I've got it in starting a little bit into April 110 00:06:31.160 --> 00:06:35.560 all the way through the latter part of July, which 111 00:06:35.600 --> 00:06:37.800 is our primary season where we see the gray leaf 112 00:06:37.839 --> 00:06:40.120 spot and not stretching the borders a little bit out. 113 00:06:40.160 --> 00:06:42.319 But you never know the year, so it can happen. 114 00:06:44.199 --> 00:06:48.560 So there's that, that's for sure. I hope that schedule 115 00:06:48.639 --> 00:06:50.680 is helpful to you. I'm about to do a little 116 00:06:50.720 --> 00:06:55.519 bit of an update to it, just in talking with 117 00:06:55.600 --> 00:07:01.439 folks and looking at some of the situations, and I 118 00:07:01.639 --> 00:07:03.279 just think I'm gonna move I'm gonna do a little 119 00:07:03.279 --> 00:07:06.000 bit of an adjustment here and there. It's not big, 120 00:07:06.360 --> 00:07:09.240 it doesn't amount too much in terms of you using it, 121 00:07:09.680 --> 00:07:12.560 but I just think we can tweak some things just 122 00:07:12.600 --> 00:07:14.959 a little bit. I wish there was a way to 123 00:07:15.000 --> 00:07:18.199 get more information on a page, because sometimes just to 124 00:07:18.199 --> 00:07:21.360 say here's a disease, go spray this is not adequate 125 00:07:22.120 --> 00:07:25.839 in terms of really helping people minimize problems. You've heard 126 00:07:25.879 --> 00:07:31.560 me say this before, but when we have a problem 127 00:07:32.800 --> 00:07:36.519 that is affecting our lawn, almost always there is something 128 00:07:36.560 --> 00:07:41.199 in the process of preparing to plant, planting and caring 129 00:07:41.240 --> 00:07:44.360 for plants and the plants you choose that could be 130 00:07:44.399 --> 00:07:48.720 done to help avoid the problem. Those are called cultural practices. 131 00:07:49.480 --> 00:07:54.279 And I don't think in terms of there's a bug, 132 00:07:54.439 --> 00:07:58.040 here's a spray, That's how I kill it. Only, Okay, 133 00:07:58.360 --> 00:08:02.120 there's times for that. In general, there's so much that 134 00:08:02.160 --> 00:08:05.399 we do to take the number of times we need 135 00:08:05.439 --> 00:08:08.879 to spray or apply granules down to a minimum, and 136 00:08:08.920 --> 00:08:10.800 that's what we want to do. We don't want to 137 00:08:10.800 --> 00:08:13.040 be a pesticide treadmill, where I don't care if it's 138 00:08:13.120 --> 00:08:15.839 organic or synthetic treadmill. You don't want to be on 139 00:08:15.839 --> 00:08:18.959 that treadmill if you can avoid it, and good cultural 140 00:08:19.000 --> 00:08:23.120 practices help you avoid that. That's what we're looking for. Okay, 141 00:08:23.480 --> 00:08:25.319 So hopefully that makes a little bit of sense. But 142 00:08:25.759 --> 00:08:30.199 just to remember that that usually when problems appear, you 143 00:08:30.199 --> 00:08:34.000 can look backwards in time and see things that could 144 00:08:34.039 --> 00:08:36.840 have been done to minimize them. A good example of 145 00:08:36.840 --> 00:08:39.919 that is weeds wherever sunlight hits a soil nature plants 146 00:08:39.919 --> 00:08:42.399 of weed. That's just a fact. Your long gets thin, 147 00:08:42.639 --> 00:08:46.799 you're gonna have weeds pop up, and so dense healthy lawn, 148 00:08:46.960 --> 00:08:51.480 mow water, fertilized, dense healthy lawn helps avoid most weed problems. 149 00:08:51.519 --> 00:08:53.919 Not all, but most we're not talking about. You know, 150 00:08:54.519 --> 00:08:56.960 you have no problems. If you do everything right, you 151 00:08:57.000 --> 00:09:00.879 still have problems. But why not minimize it instead of 152 00:09:01.360 --> 00:09:03.519 every time you go outside you got to spray or 153 00:09:03.519 --> 00:09:06.440 apply something to try to kill whatever is trying to 154 00:09:06.519 --> 00:09:12.120 kill your plants. Makes sense to me. The folks at 155 00:09:12.120 --> 00:09:17.360 Pierscapes have created a just a wonderful set of options 156 00:09:17.840 --> 00:09:23.840 to help Houston area homeowners have a gorgeous landscape. 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It's amazing. 177 00:10:23.360 --> 00:10:26.879 Two eight one three seven oh fifty sixty two eight 178 00:10:26.919 --> 00:10:31.159 one three seven o fifty sixty piercescapes dot Com. I'm 179 00:10:31.159 --> 00:10:33.480 gonna take a break. I'll be right back when you 180 00:10:33.519 --> 00:10:44.799 get hot outside. Mm hm, so time to find some waterfolks, boy, 181 00:10:44.840 --> 00:10:48.360 I tell you that how many of you loved Maybe 182 00:10:48.399 --> 00:10:50.559 you still do? You don't you know? You don't have 183 00:10:50.559 --> 00:10:52.000 to mid out. You can tell me. I won't tell 184 00:10:52.000 --> 00:10:56.320 anybody running through the sprinklers outside, remember that? How about 185 00:10:56.320 --> 00:10:59.879 slipping slides? Little plastic on the ground and have some 186 00:11:00.120 --> 00:11:03.480 on Yep, that's summertime and you never get too old 187 00:11:03.519 --> 00:11:06.480 for that. By the way, I'm officially giving us all 188 00:11:06.519 --> 00:11:09.639 permission to run and play in the water when we 189 00:11:09.679 --> 00:11:12.559 want to. You know, there's times when I've got a 190 00:11:12.559 --> 00:11:14.320 picture of one of my daughters and we were in 191 00:11:14.360 --> 00:11:17.399 the garden and I was asking her to water, and 192 00:11:17.440 --> 00:11:18.919 I looked over there and she had one of those 193 00:11:19.080 --> 00:11:22.639 handguns that sprays, you know, a missed kind of showery 194 00:11:22.679 --> 00:11:25.159 missed out, and she had it pointed straight up in 195 00:11:25.200 --> 00:11:28.320 the air, and it was just like she's standing under 196 00:11:28.360 --> 00:11:31.320 a waterfall and she's having the best time. I guess 197 00:11:31.320 --> 00:11:34.000 my plans were getting watered a little bit. But anyway, 198 00:11:35.000 --> 00:11:37.600 water gotta have it, especially when you live done here 199 00:11:37.600 --> 00:11:41.000 in the summertime. You're listening to the Guardline. I'm your host, 200 00:11:41.120 --> 00:11:43.000 Skip Richter, and we're here to help you have a 201 00:11:43.080 --> 00:11:47.480 beautiful garden, hopefully a beautiful landscape as well, and a 202 00:11:47.559 --> 00:11:51.320 bountiful one whether you're growing vegetables or flowers or herbs 203 00:11:51.440 --> 00:11:54.559 or just a gorgeous lawn. We want you to have 204 00:11:54.639 --> 00:11:57.039 success with that. That's why we're here. You can give 205 00:11:57.039 --> 00:11:59.840 me a call seven one three two one two Kati 206 00:12:00.159 --> 00:12:02.440 r H seven one three two one two k t 207 00:12:02.720 --> 00:12:05.679 r H. I've got some things in the emails. The 208 00:12:05.279 --> 00:12:08.960 way I work that here, I'm not able to type 209 00:12:09.000 --> 00:12:11.720 out answers to all the emails. Just too many people 210 00:12:12.080 --> 00:12:15.120 that can send me emails and I just can't. I 211 00:12:15.200 --> 00:12:17.360 just don't have the time with my other projects and 212 00:12:17.360 --> 00:12:19.480 things to be able to do that. And so what 213 00:12:19.519 --> 00:12:21.200 I ask is that if you want to ask a 214 00:12:21.279 --> 00:12:24.519 question and a photo would be helpful, please please do 215 00:12:24.639 --> 00:12:27.519 send it and then call in. We've got a number 216 00:12:27.519 --> 00:12:29.360 of people that have sent me some photos that'll be 217 00:12:29.399 --> 00:12:32.480 calling in, and what we'll do is I'll have time 218 00:12:32.519 --> 00:12:34.159 to look at the photo and then when they call 219 00:12:34.279 --> 00:12:36.080 we can talk about it. And you know what I 220 00:12:36.159 --> 00:12:40.159 found that when somebody describes something, and it may be 221 00:12:40.279 --> 00:12:43.279 me describing something to you, and then in your mind's 222 00:12:43.320 --> 00:12:46.720 eye you picture it and then you actually see it 223 00:12:46.759 --> 00:12:49.519 in a picture, it's like, Okay, that's not what I 224 00:12:49.639 --> 00:12:51.679 was picturing at all. And that happens to me a lot. 225 00:12:51.759 --> 00:12:53.799 You know, someone says, well, I got this plan and 226 00:12:53.919 --> 00:12:57.080 it's whatever, and then when I see the pictures, like, 227 00:12:57.279 --> 00:13:01.799 oh okay, well that's different. Pictures are important. Right, picture's 228 00:13:01.799 --> 00:13:04.639 worth a thousand words. So when you send me a picture, 229 00:13:05.039 --> 00:13:08.159 I ask couple of things. One, make sure it's in 230 00:13:08.279 --> 00:13:12.039 good sharp focus. If I see I've had people hold 231 00:13:12.279 --> 00:13:14.960 a weed or something up in their hand and take 232 00:13:15.000 --> 00:13:18.000 a picture and the camera focuses on the background and 233 00:13:18.039 --> 00:13:21.879 not on the weed. Well, fuzzy pictures give fuzzy answers, 234 00:13:21.919 --> 00:13:23.519 and you don't want a fuzzy answer. You want a 235 00:13:23.519 --> 00:13:26.840 sharp answer, an accurate answer, and so good sharp pictures 236 00:13:26.879 --> 00:13:28.960 are important. Check them for you send them. Get as 237 00:13:29.000 --> 00:13:32.120 close as you can to things that may need to 238 00:13:32.159 --> 00:13:35.240 be examined, like here's this little grass seedling coming up 239 00:13:35.279 --> 00:13:37.759 in the lawn. Well, you got to get really close 240 00:13:37.799 --> 00:13:39.600 for me to see that. Other I'll just say, yeah, 241 00:13:39.600 --> 00:13:41.360 that's some kind of grass and I don't know what 242 00:13:41.440 --> 00:13:46.759 it is. And so close whenever you can, when that's appropriate. 243 00:13:46.799 --> 00:13:50.279 Sometimes a picture of the overall setting is important. That 244 00:13:50.600 --> 00:13:54.960 helps me a lot. And then finally, when you send it, 245 00:13:55.039 --> 00:13:57.440 if you can attach it to the email rather than 246 00:13:58.080 --> 00:14:01.480 rather than embed it in the text. When I'm trying 247 00:14:01.480 --> 00:14:03.960 to do radio walk into your gum at the same time, 248 00:14:04.240 --> 00:14:06.159 it's just easier for me to click on it and 249 00:14:06.200 --> 00:14:09.080 open it when it's an attachment that's a little paper 250 00:14:09.080 --> 00:14:14.039 clip symbol, that is a little easier. I can't open 251 00:14:14.080 --> 00:14:16.200 them out of the text bit anyway, if you could 252 00:14:16.240 --> 00:14:18.440 do that, that that just helps a little bit for 253 00:14:18.519 --> 00:14:20.639 me to do it. So anyway, there you go, send 254 00:14:20.679 --> 00:14:23.159 a picture, follow up with a phone call, and we 255 00:14:23.200 --> 00:14:27.480 will help get you success. And that is a service 256 00:14:27.559 --> 00:14:32.279 that I think is really valuable because you know, a 257 00:14:32.320 --> 00:14:34.720 lot of people see problems like there's spots in my 258 00:14:34.840 --> 00:14:38.799 lawn and then they go to a store and just say, yeah, 259 00:14:38.799 --> 00:14:43.000 I need something for lawn disease, and maybe you get 260 00:14:43.039 --> 00:14:45.200 a product, but it's not the right product for the 261 00:14:45.240 --> 00:14:48.600 disease you have. And especially true for weeds. We had 262 00:14:48.639 --> 00:14:52.480 a lot of a bazillion different weeds and although there 263 00:14:52.480 --> 00:14:56.039 are products that control a lot of weeds, there is 264 00:14:56.080 --> 00:14:59.679 not one product that fixes everything. And so it's kind 265 00:14:59.679 --> 00:15:01.559 of going the doctor. You know, you say doctor, I 266 00:15:01.600 --> 00:15:03.639 don't feel well, and he starts writing you a prescription. 267 00:15:04.039 --> 00:15:06.240 Say wait a minute, how can you write a prescription 268 00:15:06.679 --> 00:15:09.399 for a quote I don't feel well. We need to 269 00:15:09.440 --> 00:15:12.200 know why I don't feel well, then write me a prescription. 270 00:15:12.559 --> 00:15:15.559 That's kind of how it is with recommending insecticide or 271 00:15:15.559 --> 00:15:20.200 fungicide or herbicide, And that is true whether it's synthetic 272 00:15:20.360 --> 00:15:23.000 or organic. You need to know what you're going after 273 00:15:23.240 --> 00:15:25.759 in order to have success, and then the timing and 274 00:15:25.799 --> 00:15:29.799 on it. So anyway, there's a little spiel hopefully that 275 00:15:30.000 --> 00:15:33.159 will make sense. But it is a free service. You 276 00:15:33.200 --> 00:15:36.679 can do that as often as you like. Send me 277 00:15:36.720 --> 00:15:39.759 the photos, follow up with questions on garden Line and 278 00:15:39.799 --> 00:15:43.960 we'll be happy to help you that way our phone 279 00:15:44.039 --> 00:15:47.480 number seven one three two one two five eight seven 280 00:15:47.600 --> 00:15:50.279 four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. 281 00:15:50.320 --> 00:15:54.399 Guess what I was doing this morning at four am? Well, 282 00:15:54.519 --> 00:15:57.080 I was. That's a little earlier than I normally get 283 00:15:57.159 --> 00:16:03.480 up for the show. So I'm a barbeque a brisket 284 00:16:03.559 --> 00:16:07.879 on a barbecue this morning. I've got a nice barbecue 285 00:16:07.879 --> 00:16:10.519 pit that got from Ace Hardware as a matter of fact, 286 00:16:10.960 --> 00:16:13.799 and it's a pellet grill, so it you know, feeds 287 00:16:13.799 --> 00:16:15.879 the little pellets in and so you can set it 288 00:16:15.919 --> 00:16:19.080 where it just like cooks for ten hours if you want. 289 00:16:20.320 --> 00:16:22.919 It's amazing what comes out of it. But anyway, I 290 00:16:22.960 --> 00:16:25.360 was out, I'd gotten it spent. It's spent the night 291 00:16:25.399 --> 00:16:28.039 in the refrigerator after having all the rub applied to it, 292 00:16:28.120 --> 00:16:30.879 and now it's out there and it's slowly working its 293 00:16:30.879 --> 00:16:33.919 way through. We'll have it tonight. But Ace Hardware has 294 00:16:34.000 --> 00:16:36.120 so many good options for that. I talked to someone 295 00:16:36.240 --> 00:16:39.000 yesterday who was a Big Green Egg fan, and I 296 00:16:39.120 --> 00:16:41.639 want to tell you something. And now this is just 297 00:16:41.679 --> 00:16:45.720 my opinion, but Big Green Eggs are a cult. It 298 00:16:45.840 --> 00:16:49.600 really is a cult. I'm pretty sure because everybody I 299 00:16:49.720 --> 00:16:53.200 know that has a Big Green Egg, it's like that's 300 00:16:53.240 --> 00:16:55.240 all they could talk about. That's all. I mean, it's 301 00:16:55.279 --> 00:16:57.759 just like that's the only barbecue pit that exists. I 302 00:16:57.799 --> 00:17:01.399 get it, and it's a wonderful, branderful brand. But they've 303 00:17:01.440 --> 00:17:02.919 got you know, you got to Ace Hardwer. You're going 304 00:17:03.000 --> 00:17:05.440 to find Tragger, which is pellet grills and things. You're 305 00:17:05.480 --> 00:17:08.799 going to find Rectag, which pellet grills and things. You're 306 00:17:08.799 --> 00:17:13.400 gonna find Weber and other brands and all the stuff 307 00:17:13.680 --> 00:17:15.240 that you need to go with them, you know, the 308 00:17:15.240 --> 00:17:19.240 little meat probes that tell you the temperature. Ace Hardware 309 00:17:19.480 --> 00:17:23.319 is set up for making indoor and outdoor living more pleasant. 310 00:17:23.960 --> 00:17:27.599 It is, and I have found so many things there 311 00:17:27.920 --> 00:17:30.319 that have just made it nice. I mean, when I 312 00:17:30.359 --> 00:17:33.279 say indoor and outdoor, let's do outdoor living. How about 313 00:17:33.279 --> 00:17:35.400 a string of lights on the patio. We set some 314 00:17:35.480 --> 00:17:38.079 of those up so in the evenings when it finally 315 00:17:38.160 --> 00:17:39.960 cools off enough in the summer to want to be 316 00:17:40.000 --> 00:17:42.880 a little outside, you just turn on the lights and 317 00:17:42.920 --> 00:17:45.680 you go out and you enjoy the evenings out there. 318 00:17:46.519 --> 00:17:50.319 Maybe another thing that we've done is, you know, setting 319 00:17:50.440 --> 00:17:53.599 up the different lawn furnitures and things that make it 320 00:17:53.680 --> 00:17:56.039 kind of nice to recline. Ace Hardware's got you covered 321 00:17:56.079 --> 00:17:59.000 on a lot of that as well. And then when 322 00:17:59.039 --> 00:18:02.559 it comes to fan or any other thing. My daughter 323 00:18:02.640 --> 00:18:04.720 and son in law put a fan up on their 324 00:18:04.759 --> 00:18:07.880 back patio that just kind of oscillates, rent sits under 325 00:18:07.920 --> 00:18:10.799 the eaves and oscillate. It makes it such a nice area, 326 00:18:10.960 --> 00:18:13.079 so pleasant, and Ace has got you covered on all that. 327 00:18:13.119 --> 00:18:16.519 Maybe your deck needs receiling, don't let those things go 328 00:18:16.640 --> 00:18:21.119 too far before you do the redo the preservation of 329 00:18:21.160 --> 00:18:23.960 the wood on that deck. Ace has got you covered 330 00:18:23.960 --> 00:18:27.200 for all of that. And then of course gardening, all 331 00:18:27.279 --> 00:18:30.119 kinds of gardening, lawn care of the fertilizer stuff on 332 00:18:30.160 --> 00:18:34.000 my schedule for past weeks, Diseases and fertilizers. You're gonna 333 00:18:34.039 --> 00:18:36.759 find it. ACE Hardware. You can go to ACE Hardware Texas. 334 00:18:37.119 --> 00:18:41.039 Don't forget Texas. ACE Hardware Texas dot com. That is 335 00:18:41.799 --> 00:18:45.400 our regional ACE Hardware group. Here on garden Line. ACE 336 00:18:45.440 --> 00:18:48.880 Hardware Texas dot Com. You're gonna find stores like Ospas 337 00:18:48.920 --> 00:18:52.359 ACE on Kirkandal up in the Woodlands, All Seasons, ACE 338 00:18:52.480 --> 00:18:56.319 up in Willis on Interstate forty five North, just up 339 00:18:56.359 --> 00:18:59.759 in Willis Chambers, ACE on Broadway Street. Down in Galveston 340 00:18:59.799 --> 00:19:04.599 Bay on Seventh Street north south east west Central. ACE 341 00:19:04.640 --> 00:19:07.680 Hardware has got you covered. Go to Acehardware Texas dot 342 00:19:07.720 --> 00:19:10.599 com and find some cool stuff. By the way, when 343 00:19:10.640 --> 00:19:13.720 you're in there too, guys and ladies who do the 344 00:19:13.799 --> 00:19:18.640 do it yourselfers, check out all the quality tools things 345 00:19:18.640 --> 00:19:24.119 from Blackendecker, stan Lee, Oak, Milwaukee Craftsman, and de Walt, 346 00:19:24.160 --> 00:19:29.079 for example. They've got you covered. I'm looking here at 347 00:19:29.119 --> 00:19:33.039 the clock. Later on today we're gonna have someone from 348 00:19:33.079 --> 00:19:36.079 Mosquito Dunks in and we're going to talk about Mosquito 349 00:19:36.160 --> 00:19:38.720 dunks and how they work and some of the specifics 350 00:19:38.720 --> 00:19:41.000 of them. You know, I talked about sitting outside, boy 351 00:19:41.079 --> 00:19:44.359 can Mosquito has ever spoiled the show there. Mosquita dunks 352 00:19:44.400 --> 00:19:48.079 are a little beige donut floats in water. It takes 353 00:19:48.119 --> 00:19:50.599 them about a month to fully dissolve and go away, 354 00:19:51.000 --> 00:19:54.880 and they release a bacteria that kills mosquito larvae. And 355 00:19:54.960 --> 00:19:58.079 they work and you can find them everywhere. Feed stores 356 00:19:58.200 --> 00:20:02.880 are independent nurseries, gardens, ace hardware stores. Mosquito dunks are 357 00:20:03.440 --> 00:20:06.759 critical in the Southeast Texas area to have to go 358 00:20:06.799 --> 00:20:10.119 through summer because it will rain and mosquitoes can reproduce. 359 00:20:10.880 --> 00:20:17.839 We'll be right back after a short break. Alrighty, welcome 360 00:20:17.880 --> 00:20:20.359 back to garden line. Good to have you with us, always, 361 00:20:20.599 --> 00:20:22.920 always good to have you with us. I have two 362 00:20:22.960 --> 00:20:25.240 happy well, I got a bunch of happy places, but 363 00:20:25.640 --> 00:20:27.960 two primary happy places for me is being out in 364 00:20:27.960 --> 00:20:31.640 the garden, being out in the landscape mesum with plants, 365 00:20:31.799 --> 00:20:35.599 digging in the dirt, having fun, and talking to gardeners. 366 00:20:35.839 --> 00:20:38.960 I love visiting with gardeners. Gardeners are in buy and 367 00:20:39.039 --> 00:20:40.839 large and I've you know, I had a career for 368 00:20:41.039 --> 00:20:44.599 thirty five years and Agrolife Extension Texan and Agrolife Extension 369 00:20:44.599 --> 00:20:49.000 Service as a county horder culturist, and I wish I 370 00:20:49.039 --> 00:20:51.000 had a little counter on me as to how many 371 00:20:51.039 --> 00:20:54.359 gardeners I talked to over all those years. But I'll 372 00:20:54.400 --> 00:20:58.119 tell you this, gardeners, buy and large are just nice people. 373 00:20:58.279 --> 00:21:01.480 They're just good people. You know. They've chosen a hobby 374 00:21:01.799 --> 00:21:06.480 that is laid back, natural, if you will, and they're 375 00:21:06.519 --> 00:21:08.480 just good to talk with and they're fun and they're 376 00:21:08.480 --> 00:21:11.079 excited about it. And when you're a gardener, you aren't. 377 00:21:11.359 --> 00:21:15.119 You have to be to some degree a hopeful optimist 378 00:21:15.440 --> 00:21:19.240 because you pick up these little pieces of detritus called 379 00:21:19.319 --> 00:21:22.799 seeds that just look like what is that. I mean, 380 00:21:22.799 --> 00:21:24.440 there's like a little piece of a leaf or a 381 00:21:24.519 --> 00:21:26.880 chunk of bark that fell off. I mean, there's tiny 382 00:21:26.880 --> 00:21:29.559 little things and you put it in the ground and 383 00:21:29.599 --> 00:21:32.319 when you look at that seed, a gardener sees tomatoes 384 00:21:32.559 --> 00:21:37.440 or a gardener sees zenias or sunflowers or whatever, and 385 00:21:37.480 --> 00:21:39.480 you put it in the ground and it comes up, 386 00:21:39.759 --> 00:21:43.960 and it's just that whole process is renewing, fun process. 387 00:21:43.960 --> 00:21:46.799 I love talking to gardeners. Gardeners and good people by 388 00:21:46.799 --> 00:21:51.119 and large. They're just a really, really good group. So 389 00:21:51.200 --> 00:21:54.160 that's part of that happy place that I'm talking about 390 00:21:55.480 --> 00:21:58.359 in my landscape. Sometimes I like to talk about what 391 00:21:58.400 --> 00:22:01.119 I'm doing in the landscape. Maybe some of you are 392 00:22:01.440 --> 00:22:06.279 going through the same things. I do a constant weed patrol. 393 00:22:06.920 --> 00:22:10.519 Not that I'm out there just to find weeds, but 394 00:22:10.839 --> 00:22:13.759 every time I walk through the yard, my eyes just 395 00:22:13.839 --> 00:22:17.759 after a while, you know, they sort of subconsciously you 396 00:22:17.839 --> 00:22:21.240 see weeds. Have you ever heard about somebody that is 397 00:22:21.599 --> 00:22:24.440 good at finding counterfeit bills? You know, they handle so 398 00:22:24.519 --> 00:22:27.759 much real money that a bill comes through and there's 399 00:22:27.799 --> 00:22:30.640 just something about it that they notice something's wrong here, right, 400 00:22:30.720 --> 00:22:34.839 because it's just automatic. Well, that's how I am with weeds. 401 00:22:34.960 --> 00:22:37.160 And I'm walking through my lawn and I'm just seeing 402 00:22:37.200 --> 00:22:38.880 that there's a weed over there, there's a weed over 403 00:22:38.880 --> 00:22:42.440 there or here. You know, earlier it was annual bluegrass. 404 00:22:42.559 --> 00:22:45.640 Oh gosh, that's a mess, and those little seat heads 405 00:22:45.720 --> 00:22:48.000 on it, I just could spot them, and I just stop, 406 00:22:48.160 --> 00:22:50.359 reach down, get to the bottom of it, pull it 407 00:22:50.359 --> 00:22:52.880 out of the ground, and keep walking. And wherever I 408 00:22:52.920 --> 00:22:54.599 get I got a handful of weeds or something, I 409 00:22:54.640 --> 00:22:58.240 throw them in a bucket. And it's just an ongoing 410 00:22:58.279 --> 00:23:01.119 thing to do that. And if you do, you can 411 00:23:01.160 --> 00:23:05.240 actually do a lot in controlling weeds without waiting until 412 00:23:05.240 --> 00:23:07.359 you have this big weed problem, and there's giant, ugly 413 00:23:07.400 --> 00:23:10.880 weeds everywhere, and now you're out there digging them up 414 00:23:11.000 --> 00:23:13.359 and pulling them all all up, and it's just this 415 00:23:13.680 --> 00:23:16.319 major hot mess with the fire ants and the one 416 00:23:16.359 --> 00:23:20.599 hundred degree sun eating your lunch. And so just think 417 00:23:20.640 --> 00:23:23.680 about that, just a small patrol. I don't even go 418 00:23:23.799 --> 00:23:26.559 out to pull weeds. I just am going around from 419 00:23:26.559 --> 00:23:28.279 here to there to get a garden hose, to walk 420 00:23:28.319 --> 00:23:30.440 into the garden, to go over here and plant something 421 00:23:30.519 --> 00:23:34.599 or whatever. All right, just a thought. Let's head out 422 00:23:34.720 --> 00:23:37.880 to Brookshire now, and we're going to visit with Ken 423 00:23:37.920 --> 00:23:42.000 this morning. Hello Ken, and welcome to garden Line. Hey, welcome. 424 00:23:42.440 --> 00:23:45.519 I'm new to the area and well move here in 425 00:23:45.599 --> 00:23:47.000 January from New Mexico. 426 00:23:47.559 --> 00:23:50.720 So the soil is much different. We have clay, yeah, 427 00:23:50.720 --> 00:23:51.240 but lit'sten. 428 00:23:51.279 --> 00:23:53.599 I have a bottle brush that we had a bare 429 00:23:53.640 --> 00:23:56.440 backyard new house, so planted old plants. We bought a 430 00:23:56.440 --> 00:24:01.680 bottle brush planeted about March. It seemed healthy, seemed healthy, 431 00:24:01.680 --> 00:24:04.200 and then about two months of them, about forty five 432 00:24:04.279 --> 00:24:07.599 days ago, one of the center branches just turned brown 433 00:24:07.839 --> 00:24:11.279 and died. And I thought, well, maybe something happened and 434 00:24:11.720 --> 00:24:13.480 didn't think to the rest of the plant looks good. 435 00:24:13.960 --> 00:24:15.319 And now I've got two more. 436 00:24:15.160 --> 00:24:19.920 Branches that have turned brown and are dying again. The 437 00:24:19.920 --> 00:24:22.519 rest of the plant looks good. It seems to beginning 438 00:24:22.599 --> 00:24:24.720 enough water. So I'm trying to figure if you might 439 00:24:24.799 --> 00:24:27.400 know maybe roots stimulate or I don't know. 440 00:24:29.200 --> 00:24:32.359 That's very, very unusual. First of all, welcome, welcome to 441 00:24:32.400 --> 00:24:37.279 the greater Houstonario. Gladt here it rains over here. I 442 00:24:37.359 --> 00:24:39.319 don't know if you've ever noticed what those big puppy 443 00:24:39.400 --> 00:24:42.839 great things in the sky actually can drop water. Unlike 444 00:24:42.880 --> 00:24:45.839 some parts up New Mexico, you get up in the 445 00:24:45.839 --> 00:24:48.920 mountains and you get a little more frequent rains. But anyway, 446 00:24:49.599 --> 00:24:54.839 kidding aside the bottle brush or any plant like that, 447 00:24:54.880 --> 00:24:59.480 where you're seeing selective dying out of branches, follow that 448 00:24:59.519 --> 00:25:03.680 branch downward with a really good close examination, and where 449 00:25:03.880 --> 00:25:06.880 you know, here's here's living branches and then there's there's 450 00:25:07.079 --> 00:25:08.680 a dead one. Does that dead one go all the 451 00:25:08.720 --> 00:25:11.279 way to the ground. Is it its own shoot or 452 00:25:11.319 --> 00:25:13.720 does it attached to a living branch? And if it 453 00:25:13.759 --> 00:25:17.720 attaches to a living branch somewhere in there, you're either 454 00:25:17.759 --> 00:25:20.920 going to see like borer holes with an insect that's 455 00:25:21.000 --> 00:25:23.720 chomping through it and cutting the water supply off to it. 456 00:25:23.920 --> 00:25:26.799 Or you may see a canker like sunken areas of 457 00:25:26.839 --> 00:25:30.079 the bark or split bark where the bark has died 458 00:25:30.119 --> 00:25:33.279 back and the inner wood is exposed. There's going to 459 00:25:33.359 --> 00:25:36.319 be something like that that has caused that branch that 460 00:25:36.359 --> 00:25:37.880 I if it goes all the way in the ground, 461 00:25:37.960 --> 00:25:39.519 it could be a couple things. It could be its 462 00:25:39.519 --> 00:25:43.680 own plant. Sometimes growers will stick there orfore plants in 463 00:25:43.720 --> 00:25:47.160 a pot and it grows just as a single bush, 464 00:25:47.480 --> 00:25:50.319 but it's really several plants, and so you may have 465 00:25:50.480 --> 00:25:53.960 lost an individual plant, but the other plants are alive 466 00:25:54.039 --> 00:25:59.200 and fine. So do the Sherlock Holmes can and see 467 00:25:59.240 --> 00:26:03.519 if you can figure out which of those things is happening. 468 00:26:03.920 --> 00:26:05.839 But it's going to be one of the above. It's 469 00:26:05.880 --> 00:26:07.880 going to be a borer insect, it's going to be 470 00:26:07.880 --> 00:26:11.160 a canker disease killing the bark. It's going to be 471 00:26:12.839 --> 00:26:17.160 a it's its own plant and maybe a root rot 472 00:26:17.480 --> 00:26:19.519 kind of thing going on with it. But it's gonna 473 00:26:19.519 --> 00:26:20.119 be one of those. 474 00:26:21.240 --> 00:26:24.839 Okay, all right, well, great, that's great, And give any 475 00:26:24.839 --> 00:26:28.000 suggestions for an avocado tree that might grow in this climate. 476 00:26:29.319 --> 00:26:31.359 Oh, there's some great ones. There's some great ones. You're 477 00:26:31.359 --> 00:26:36.000 out at Brookshire. If you go over to Nelson Water 478 00:26:36.119 --> 00:26:41.400 Gardens in Katie there, if you're at Interstate ten Katie 479 00:26:41.440 --> 00:26:44.480 Fort Ben Road, you go north, it's in Katie Katie 480 00:26:44.519 --> 00:26:46.519 Fort Ben Road. You go north. It's not very far. 481 00:26:46.640 --> 00:26:50.319 Nelson's just on the right, and they're a great nursery. Uh, 482 00:26:50.480 --> 00:26:54.240 And they will have avocados there, and so you know, 483 00:26:54.319 --> 00:26:56.319 you might call him. It could be that they the 484 00:26:56.400 --> 00:26:59.079 last ship have got sold out or something, but it's 485 00:26:59.079 --> 00:27:02.440 worth a visit anyway. But but they will sell you 486 00:27:02.480 --> 00:27:06.720 the kinds that grow here and that that's very important. 487 00:27:06.759 --> 00:27:09.359 And that's why I love our independent nursery so much, 488 00:27:09.400 --> 00:27:11.799 because you know, they're not a box store that just 489 00:27:11.839 --> 00:27:15.000 gets shipments all over the country and may or may 490 00:27:15.039 --> 00:27:18.400 not have stuff that should be planted here. So yeah, 491 00:27:18.839 --> 00:27:22.039 Nelson Water Gardens can do that. And and those varieties 492 00:27:22.200 --> 00:27:26.599 are are hardier than normal avocados than the regular store 493 00:27:26.640 --> 00:27:33.359 bought has avocado kind of thing. Okay, and you're still 494 00:27:33.359 --> 00:27:36.480 going to have to protect yeah, let me said one thing. 495 00:27:36.519 --> 00:27:38.839 You're still going to have to protect an avocado when 496 00:27:38.880 --> 00:27:42.400 we have our colder temperatures that can occur occasionally. Okay, 497 00:27:42.799 --> 00:27:45.000 so they're not fully hardy, Okay, go ahead. You had 498 00:27:45.039 --> 00:27:45.680 another question. 499 00:27:46.200 --> 00:27:49.319 We we live in an age way and all of 500 00:27:49.359 --> 00:27:52.079 them require a live oak in the frontry. I have 501 00:27:52.119 --> 00:27:56.000 a live oak, never owned one before. It seems to 502 00:27:56.039 --> 00:27:58.920 be doing good. It's green, it's it doesn't grow very fast, 503 00:27:58.960 --> 00:28:02.359 and I guess that's just the nature of the beast. 504 00:28:02.839 --> 00:28:05.319 What type of water do I need to do anything 505 00:28:05.359 --> 00:28:06.640 more than usual for it? 506 00:28:07.640 --> 00:28:11.079 Then? You know, I got to let me U. Can 507 00:28:11.119 --> 00:28:12.680 you hang on for just a little bit. I need 508 00:28:12.680 --> 00:28:14.240 to go to a break. Let me come back, because 509 00:28:14.240 --> 00:28:16.519 that's a little longer answer than I have time for. 510 00:28:16.839 --> 00:28:18.680 So just hang on a second. We'll be back with 511 00:28:18.720 --> 00:28:21.680 you in just a second. Here, ken, I'll be right back. Folks. 512 00:28:22.240 --> 00:28:25.200 All right, folks, welcome back. Good to have you with us, 513 00:28:26.359 --> 00:28:29.559 Good to have you with us this morning. 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Let's go back out here to Ken 544 00:30:05.960 --> 00:30:08.880 and Brookshire. So Ken, you've got a live oak tree 545 00:30:09.359 --> 00:30:12.759 and you're talking about watering and having success with it. 546 00:30:13.119 --> 00:30:15.920 The number one thing we can do to make our 547 00:30:15.960 --> 00:30:18.960 trees go faster is to get the grass competition away 548 00:30:18.960 --> 00:30:20.960 from them as far away as we can. 549 00:30:21.519 --> 00:30:21.680 Now. 550 00:30:21.720 --> 00:30:24.039 I know there's things esthetically that are not You know, 551 00:30:24.079 --> 00:30:25.559 if you have a little live oak and you go 552 00:30:25.680 --> 00:30:28.359 twenty feet out in all directions with a malt, that's 553 00:30:28.400 --> 00:30:31.000 not going to be pretty in the landscape, but that's 554 00:30:31.039 --> 00:30:33.319 what the tree would like for you to do. But 555 00:30:33.880 --> 00:30:37.119 just getting the weeds away from the base in a 556 00:30:37.200 --> 00:30:41.039 nice thick Moltz. Trees want a forest floor around their 557 00:30:41.119 --> 00:30:45.480 root system, not pasture grass in their eyes, and so 558 00:30:45.599 --> 00:30:49.000 that's one number two. When you water a good deep soaking, 559 00:30:49.039 --> 00:30:50.920 it's going to take at least an inch maybe a 560 00:30:50.920 --> 00:30:54.319 little more water to thoroughly wet that soil deeply. A 561 00:30:54.359 --> 00:30:57.480 newly planted tree, a fairly new the first couple of 562 00:30:57.599 --> 00:31:01.359 years especially needs a good soaking, primarily in the area 563 00:31:01.440 --> 00:31:04.599 underneath the branch spread of the tree. That's where the 564 00:31:04.640 --> 00:31:08.079 focus of the watering should be. But that's important. And 565 00:31:08.119 --> 00:31:11.000 then fertilizing is important, but not as important as the 566 00:31:11.039 --> 00:31:14.599 first two. But fertilizing at a moderate rate gets you 567 00:31:14.640 --> 00:31:17.680 a lawn fertilizer. Look at how thick that trunk is, 568 00:31:18.200 --> 00:31:21.720 and for every inch of trunk thickness, you give it 569 00:31:21.720 --> 00:31:26.160 one or two cups of lawn fertilizer sprinkled around the tree, 570 00:31:26.519 --> 00:31:28.960 and not just at the base of the tree, but 571 00:31:29.039 --> 00:31:32.200 in a circular area around it. Watered and really good. 572 00:31:32.559 --> 00:31:37.079 But the nutrients are the third most important thing. The 573 00:31:38.119 --> 00:31:41.640 lack of competition and good soaking. So it never lacks 574 00:31:41.640 --> 00:31:44.839 for water because in the early stages you want it 575 00:31:44.839 --> 00:31:47.160 to grow as fast as you can. That's different when 576 00:31:47.240 --> 00:31:48.720 it becomes a big, mature tree. 577 00:31:49.119 --> 00:31:52.680 Okay, so what's the easiest way to measure the water 578 00:31:52.880 --> 00:31:55.240 inches wise? If I want to, like, put the hose there, 579 00:31:55.319 --> 00:31:56.400 let it soak for a while. 580 00:31:57.759 --> 00:32:00.759 Yeah, it's hard with a hose. If you have a 581 00:32:00.759 --> 00:32:02.920 little sprinkler, any kind of a rain gauge, and if 582 00:32:02.960 --> 00:32:04.920 you don't have a rain gauge, any kind of straight 583 00:32:05.000 --> 00:32:09.319 sided pinto bean can or cat food can or tuna 584 00:32:09.319 --> 00:32:12.599 fish can will be your rain gate. There's a device 585 00:32:12.960 --> 00:32:17.559 called the tree hugger sprinkler here in this area, and 586 00:32:18.200 --> 00:32:23.599 I'm not sure if they have those out at Nelson 587 00:32:23.640 --> 00:32:26.279 Water Gardens or not. They might they might have those 588 00:32:26.319 --> 00:32:29.160 out there. But a tree hugger sprinkler is a little 589 00:32:29.160 --> 00:32:32.799 green thing that's hinged and you put it up to 590 00:32:32.839 --> 00:32:35.440 the tree and it's a circle that goes around the tree. 591 00:32:35.720 --> 00:32:38.519 There's different sizes of it. You hook your hose to it, 592 00:32:39.039 --> 00:32:40.880 and you could even put a timer on your hose, 593 00:32:41.240 --> 00:32:43.480 and if you have a brand new tree, you can 594 00:32:43.480 --> 00:32:46.079 set this thing where it just barely the sprinkler just 595 00:32:46.119 --> 00:32:48.079 barely comes up a couple of inches and goes right 596 00:32:48.119 --> 00:32:50.759 back down, and you're watering that root ball, which is 597 00:32:50.799 --> 00:32:53.880 important early on, and then you turn it up more 598 00:32:53.880 --> 00:32:56.079 and more to where eventually you can water a very 599 00:32:56.079 --> 00:32:58.240 big circle. Maybe your tree's five years old and you're 600 00:32:58.240 --> 00:33:00.559 still trying to get it to grow fast, right uh, 601 00:33:00.559 --> 00:33:03.359 And so that would be another another possibility. 602 00:33:04.559 --> 00:33:07.079 Okay, well, thank you for all the hints and helps 603 00:33:07.119 --> 00:33:08.839 and and uh we'll learn. 604 00:33:08.920 --> 00:33:14.039 Uh we're learning about clay and yeah, well and it's 605 00:33:14.160 --> 00:33:16.480 it's typically a black clay out there, by the way, 606 00:33:16.480 --> 00:33:20.319 I was just looking Katie. Ace Hardware has those, as 607 00:33:20.480 --> 00:33:24.079 does Sinco ranch Sinco Ranch Ace Hardware. Both of those 608 00:33:24.680 --> 00:33:28.839 have they carry the tree huggers. If you're looking great, 609 00:33:29.160 --> 00:33:33.440 I'll head out there. Actually today they're open. All right, 610 00:33:33.680 --> 00:33:36.119 you take care, thanks for the call. Welcome to Texas, 611 00:33:36.200 --> 00:33:38.359 and just hang around garden Line. We're going to help 612 00:33:38.400 --> 00:33:40.680 you get up to speed on how to have success 613 00:33:40.720 --> 00:33:41.200 around here. 614 00:33:41.559 --> 00:33:43.359 Well, we're watching and then I saw you out in 615 00:33:43.319 --> 00:33:45.200 the Channon Gardens when you're out there doing this speek. 616 00:33:45.240 --> 00:33:48.160 We were out there getting a lot of our plants 617 00:33:48.160 --> 00:33:51.480 and trees and brushes and bushes and flowers. 618 00:33:51.480 --> 00:33:53.960 So we're taking your advice. Isn't that a great place? 619 00:33:54.799 --> 00:34:01.279 It's a great a great place. Yeah. Oh, well, that's gardening. 620 00:34:01.319 --> 00:34:03.240 Is that there's a wing of the Betty Ford Clinic 621 00:34:03.279 --> 00:34:06.559 for gardeners and the gardening in general is addictive, by 622 00:34:06.559 --> 00:34:10.559 the way, and China Gardens has tree huntor sprinklers too. Okay, 623 00:34:10.760 --> 00:34:14.119 super all right, well, thank you, all right, take care 624 00:34:15.880 --> 00:34:20.639 bye bye. Yeah, that is we warned you. Gardening is addictive. 625 00:34:20.679 --> 00:34:23.679 You know anything that's that's as much fun as gardening. 626 00:34:23.679 --> 00:34:27.920 As you start getting going, you know what happens some people. 627 00:34:28.440 --> 00:34:32.079 Here's here's the levels of gardening. There's the I want 628 00:34:32.119 --> 00:34:34.199 it to look pretty out there. I'm gonna have somebody 629 00:34:34.239 --> 00:34:37.800 to do it. That is one. The next level is 630 00:34:38.039 --> 00:34:40.519 I'm gonna have somebody to do some things, but I 631 00:34:40.559 --> 00:34:42.440 want to get out and dabble and you know, get 632 00:34:42.480 --> 00:34:44.719 some dart under my fingernails out in the flower beds 633 00:34:44.760 --> 00:34:47.400 and the garden and stuff. That's another level of gardening. 634 00:34:48.039 --> 00:34:51.320 And then it proceeds into the danger zone. That's where 635 00:34:52.159 --> 00:34:58.280 you are revamping stuff, turning up your building structures to 636 00:34:58.320 --> 00:35:03.639 hold vines, to create an ar utrellis, and you start, well, actually, 637 00:35:03.639 --> 00:35:08.199 there's a four stage and this is where I'm sorry, 638 00:35:07.320 --> 00:35:10.840 it's this is where people need professional help. And that 639 00:35:11.000 --> 00:35:13.840 is when you find a plant that you're obsessed with, 640 00:35:14.000 --> 00:35:17.679 kind of like me and Okra, and you just dive 641 00:35:17.719 --> 00:35:20.119 into it and you become and I don't want to 642 00:35:20.119 --> 00:35:23.159 pick on any society members or anything, but you have 643 00:35:23.239 --> 00:35:28.519 one species, you know, and you have every existing variety 644 00:35:28.559 --> 00:35:30.719 of that species, and when a new one comes out, 645 00:35:30.760 --> 00:35:33.280 you got to have that. And then in the final 646 00:35:33.360 --> 00:35:36.840 stages of this, we need to make a medical warning 647 00:35:36.880 --> 00:35:40.119 commercial for this. Anyway, in the final stages, you're actually 648 00:35:40.199 --> 00:35:44.239 crossing the plants to breed your own new varieties of 649 00:35:44.280 --> 00:35:46.880 that species. That's the stage I've hit with Okra It's 650 00:35:47.000 --> 00:35:51.840 it's I need intervention. I love messing with plants. And 651 00:35:52.239 --> 00:35:54.480 you know, I'm joking about this as if it's a problem. 652 00:35:54.519 --> 00:35:56.480 It's not a problem. It's fun. We have a good 653 00:35:56.480 --> 00:36:02.960 time doing it. But oh boy o boyl boy, that's gardening. Well, 654 00:36:03.000 --> 00:36:05.360 here comes some music. I means we're about to put 655 00:36:05.400 --> 00:36:08.079 this hour in the books. Hey, if you want to 656 00:36:08.119 --> 00:36:10.199 be first up on garden Line when we come back 657 00:36:10.679 --> 00:36:14.159 seven one three two one two k t r H. 658 00:36:14.239 --> 00:36:15.840 Seven one three two one two k. 659 00:36:15.920 --> 00:36:16.360 T r H. 660 00:36:16.480 --> 00:36:19.360 Let us help you have success, get to the bottom 661 00:36:19.559 --> 00:36:23.119 of the kinds of questions that you might have on gardening. 662 00:36:26.039 --> 00:36:27.599 Today would be a good day, by the way, to 663 00:36:27.599 --> 00:36:30.000 get out and visit some of our garden centers. You know, 664 00:36:30.039 --> 00:36:31.960 we're talking about some of them today on the phone 665 00:36:32.000 --> 00:36:35.199 with with folks that call in. But We have great 666 00:36:35.239 --> 00:36:41.039 independent garden centers here and it's just listen, I've seen 667 00:36:41.519 --> 00:36:46.360 for years gardeners do things right, make mistakes, and on 668 00:36:46.360 --> 00:36:51.039 on and on. An independent garden center is free expert advice, 669 00:36:51.440 --> 00:36:54.159 a place filled with plants that want to grow here 670 00:36:54.199 --> 00:36:56.480 and people that want to help you have success and 671 00:36:56.559 --> 00:37:04.559 know what they're talking about. Hey, good morning, Good Sunday morning, gardeners. 672 00:37:05.400 --> 00:37:08.639 Glad to have you with us today. We are talking 673 00:37:08.679 --> 00:37:14.760 about gardening. Uh seven krh. So you reach me here 674 00:37:14.840 --> 00:37:16.960 so you can ask kind of questions you want to ask, 675 00:37:17.440 --> 00:37:19.760 kind of try to cover a little bit of everything. Uh. 676 00:37:19.760 --> 00:37:22.599 For those of you down in the in the southeast 677 00:37:22.760 --> 00:37:27.880 Houston region, Moss Nursery is is the go to premiere 678 00:37:27.920 --> 00:37:31.719 place down that direction. It's over in Seabrook, Texas, and 679 00:37:31.880 --> 00:37:35.039 uh it's on Toddville Road, by the way. Everybody that 680 00:37:35.119 --> 00:37:37.000 lives over there or has for a while knows about 681 00:37:37.000 --> 00:37:40.159 Moss Nursery because it's just the place has been around 682 00:37:40.239 --> 00:37:43.599 for seventy years. It's a family operated and it's eight 683 00:37:43.679 --> 00:37:47.559 acres in size, by the way, my gosh, and it's huge. 684 00:37:47.719 --> 00:37:50.119 Allow yourself some time because it's fun. It is a 685 00:37:50.320 --> 00:37:54.400 blast to go through Moss Nursery, just turning every corner 686 00:37:54.440 --> 00:37:56.519 to see the next thing. There's always going to be 687 00:37:56.639 --> 00:37:59.960 cool yard art and pottery and plants and pottery thing, 688 00:38:00.239 --> 00:38:04.000 all kinds of great pottery over there. The plants selection 689 00:38:04.360 --> 00:38:07.519 is everything you could possibly want. Do you need shade plants? 690 00:38:07.559 --> 00:38:10.079 Do you need succulents? Do you need fruit trees? Do 691 00:38:10.159 --> 00:38:12.440 you need shrubs? Do you want things that bloom in 692 00:38:12.480 --> 00:38:15.800 the heat of summer? Do you want things that produce 693 00:38:16.679 --> 00:38:20.840 like edible vegetables and flowers? Mean, excuse me, herbs. Well 694 00:38:20.960 --> 00:38:23.599 you need flowers too, by the way. But anyway, they've 695 00:38:23.639 --> 00:38:26.039 got you covered and it's a fun place to shop. 696 00:38:26.079 --> 00:38:28.199 While you're there, check out some of the quirky stuff. 697 00:38:28.199 --> 00:38:31.039 You know, Jim is always bringing in some unusual things 698 00:38:31.440 --> 00:38:35.800 from his travels and whatnot. And then they have the artwork, 699 00:38:35.880 --> 00:38:40.159 the quirky design t shirts that he's created. There's one 700 00:38:40.239 --> 00:38:43.320 called the eyeball plant, and you just got to see it. 701 00:38:43.320 --> 00:38:46.639 It is a very unusual thing, but you know, that's 702 00:38:46.960 --> 00:38:50.400 that's Moss Nursery. It's everything you would possibly need in 703 00:38:50.440 --> 00:38:54.480 a garden center. And even more. Moss Nursery. Seabrook, Texas 704 00:38:54.599 --> 00:39:00.400 m aas nursery dot com, maas nursery dot com. Let's 705 00:39:00.440 --> 00:39:03.599 go to the woodlands. Now we're going to talk to Mike. Hello, Mike, 706 00:39:03.920 --> 00:39:04.800 Welcome to Guardline. 707 00:39:06.079 --> 00:39:09.599 Hell say, good morning. I was listening earlier this morning 708 00:39:10.320 --> 00:39:12.599 and you were describing what I think is a grave 709 00:39:12.639 --> 00:39:17.440 leaf spot, and I lost connection right before you, you know, 710 00:39:17.719 --> 00:39:20.480 said what to do treat that grayley spot? 711 00:39:21.480 --> 00:39:27.320 Okay, I mentioned eagle turf fungicide. It's a granule. You 712 00:39:27.360 --> 00:39:29.960 put it down on the soil, watered in, it's taken 713 00:39:30.039 --> 00:39:32.760 up by the roots and that fungicide gets all in 714 00:39:32.760 --> 00:39:35.559 the plant and then when the disease tries to attack it, 715 00:39:35.559 --> 00:39:39.559 it doesn't let it. It shuts it down. Now, it 716 00:39:39.599 --> 00:39:42.920 doesn't take a lawn full of leaves with the gray 717 00:39:42.960 --> 00:39:45.480 spots on them and make the spots go away. The 718 00:39:46.119 --> 00:39:49.639 infection you have there in those spots that that's killed area, 719 00:39:49.719 --> 00:39:51.960 that it's dead area, it's going to still look like that, 720 00:39:52.639 --> 00:39:56.719 but it does prevent additional infection and it shuts those 721 00:39:56.760 --> 00:40:01.719 infected spots down. So it's it's better as a preventative, 722 00:40:01.960 --> 00:40:04.639 But if you don't get it down as a preventative, 723 00:40:04.719 --> 00:40:07.039 at least get it in as soon as you can 724 00:40:07.559 --> 00:40:13.599 to shut it down. Great, thank you, Yeah, you bet, 725 00:40:13.719 --> 00:40:16.719 Thanks for the call. Appreciate that. By the way, it's 726 00:40:16.760 --> 00:40:21.119 a night fast product called Eagle. All righty, let's head 727 00:40:21.159 --> 00:40:24.760 now to Houston and talk to Carter. Hey, Carter, welcome 728 00:40:24.760 --> 00:40:25.360 to garden Line. 729 00:40:26.320 --> 00:40:31.280 Good morning, Skip. I have a power bed full of 730 00:40:31.400 --> 00:40:34.480 seniors that I've planted from seed. I do this every 731 00:40:34.559 --> 00:40:38.159 year and they do great. I like it because the 732 00:40:38.280 --> 00:40:42.840 plants grow tall. In fact, they're almost they're probably about four. 733 00:40:42.599 --> 00:40:43.480 Feet tall now. 734 00:40:44.239 --> 00:40:51.119 But I love it, and so do all the neighbors. 735 00:40:49.840 --> 00:40:56.599 They've gotten powdery mildew, and I wanted to know what's 736 00:40:56.679 --> 00:40:59.519 the best thing to help treat it. 737 00:41:01.039 --> 00:41:05.920 Yeah. Powdery mildew is an unusual fungus in that most 738 00:41:05.920 --> 00:41:08.719 fungi I want the leaves to be wet. That's when 739 00:41:08.760 --> 00:41:12.320 the spores sprout and grow and create problems. Powdery mildew 740 00:41:12.320 --> 00:41:15.440 doesn't want wet leaves. It wants high humidity and mild 741 00:41:15.559 --> 00:41:18.800 It likes milder temperatures a little bit more, but high 742 00:41:18.880 --> 00:41:23.679 humidity so that if you plant things really dense and 743 00:41:23.800 --> 00:41:26.519 so there's not good air movement in there, there's a 744 00:41:26.559 --> 00:41:29.159 lot of extra humidity that kind of hangs around you 745 00:41:29.199 --> 00:41:32.000 tend to have worse powdery mildew. You know from that. 746 00:41:33.800 --> 00:41:36.599 I think there are some zenias that have some resistance 747 00:41:36.639 --> 00:41:38.920 to it, and I couldn't name a cultivar now, but 748 00:41:38.960 --> 00:41:41.440 in the future, as you look for seeds, just check 749 00:41:41.480 --> 00:41:44.239 for that and see if you can find anything that 750 00:41:44.360 --> 00:41:49.440 has some resistance to it. One of the safest ways 751 00:41:49.760 --> 00:41:53.360 to fight powdery mildew with a spray is to use 752 00:41:53.480 --> 00:41:57.800 nam oil it's the name oil. Now. When it gets hot, 753 00:41:58.360 --> 00:42:01.280 oils can burn plain, So you want to do it 754 00:42:01.320 --> 00:42:02.199 early in the morning. 755 00:42:02.960 --> 00:42:03.039 Uh. 756 00:42:03.360 --> 00:42:07.039 They will eradicate the powdery mildy you have. Any damage 757 00:42:07.039 --> 00:42:10.079 to the leaf will not be fixed. It'll it's damaged. 758 00:42:10.159 --> 00:42:13.320 It'll stay there. Uh. And then for a little while 759 00:42:13.440 --> 00:42:16.360 they're protecting against powdery mildew. So you will need to 760 00:42:16.400 --> 00:42:20.519 repeat and eam oil sprays periodically, uh, if you want 761 00:42:20.559 --> 00:42:25.000 to maintain that. There is also on the organic side, 762 00:42:25.440 --> 00:42:31.199 there is a biological fungicide called serenade like singing to 763 00:42:31.280 --> 00:42:35.920 somebody's serenade. Uh, And that one is it's pretty effective. 764 00:42:36.000 --> 00:42:39.760 It's a type of a bacillis like BT kills insects. 765 00:42:40.000 --> 00:42:43.840 Serenade is a bacillis that kills powdery mildew and some 766 00:42:43.880 --> 00:42:48.079 other funk, some other fungi, and then there's several synthetic 767 00:42:48.280 --> 00:42:50.079 products that will control powdery mildew. 768 00:42:51.400 --> 00:42:54.320 All right, well that's very helpful. I can't think I'll 769 00:42:54.360 --> 00:42:58.000 trust if I can early. 770 00:43:00.440 --> 00:43:06.280 Okay, Well, just remember that coverage is take how long 771 00:43:06.280 --> 00:43:08.400 does it take to how long does it take to do. 772 00:43:08.360 --> 00:43:11.880 What to kill the fungus? 773 00:43:13.679 --> 00:43:16.639 Pretty pretty much that day it's it's killing because all 774 00:43:16.639 --> 00:43:19.559 it's doing is killing the surface. You know, it doesn't 775 00:43:19.559 --> 00:43:21.719 go in the plant. It's not a systemic that goes 776 00:43:21.719 --> 00:43:28.400 in the plant. But it coverage is critical parter when 777 00:43:28.400 --> 00:43:32.239 you're doing this. If you spray and one leaf of 778 00:43:32.679 --> 00:43:36.559 zenia blocks the spray from hitting the leaf below it, 779 00:43:36.639 --> 00:43:39.880 let's say, uh, there won't be protection on the leaf 780 00:43:39.920 --> 00:43:43.320 that didn't get coated with the kneem oil or with 781 00:43:43.440 --> 00:43:45.639 the basilla's subtlest. 782 00:43:46.199 --> 00:43:51.679 All right, okay, serenade, thank you very much. This is helpful. 783 00:43:51.960 --> 00:43:58.159 You bet, thanks appreciate it. Well, thank you. I appreciate 784 00:43:58.199 --> 00:44:03.039 that you take care if you are looking to really 785 00:44:03.079 --> 00:44:06.320 take a lawn that is struggling, that's thin, and you 786 00:44:06.360 --> 00:44:08.800 know your water in your furlight. It just isn't doing 787 00:44:08.840 --> 00:44:12.719 well well. It may be soil compaction in glay soils. 788 00:44:12.719 --> 00:44:16.239 That's even a likely thing. Year Round Houston dot Com 789 00:44:16.679 --> 00:44:19.960 are specialists when it comes to cororating your soil and 790 00:44:20.000 --> 00:44:24.920 then compost top dressing following the cororation. Cororation opens up 791 00:44:24.920 --> 00:44:28.039 holes in the soil that gets oxygen in the root system. 792 00:44:28.039 --> 00:44:30.960 We say it breathes life down into the root system 793 00:44:31.000 --> 00:44:33.800 in a sense. Compost top dressing some of it falls 794 00:44:33.800 --> 00:44:36.239 in those holes, some stays on the surface, and it 795 00:44:36.320 --> 00:44:41.320 decomposes in time. It's microbially rich and your lawn responds. 796 00:44:42.079 --> 00:44:44.000 Someone sent me pictures of the lawn the other day 797 00:44:44.440 --> 00:44:47.000 that they had done a corroration compost top dressing in 798 00:44:47.119 --> 00:44:50.960 and it was like good night. It was beautiful, absolutely beautiful. 799 00:44:51.239 --> 00:44:54.760 Year Round Houston covers the area inside the Beltway and 800 00:44:54.880 --> 00:44:59.199 the website is the name Year Round Houston dot Com. 801 00:44:59.480 --> 00:45:02.320 Eight three two eight eight four fifty three thirty five 802 00:45:02.480 --> 00:45:06.159 eight three two eight eight four fifty three thirty five. 803 00:45:06.280 --> 00:45:08.119 I need to take a little break here and when 804 00:45:08.159 --> 00:45:11.079 I come back, rufous In Cove, you'll be our first up. 805 00:45:12.199 --> 00:45:14.440 All right, folks, welcome back. Good to have you with 806 00:45:14.519 --> 00:45:16.760 us here on Guardline if you have a question, you 807 00:45:16.800 --> 00:45:18.599 can give me a call seven one three two one 808 00:45:18.679 --> 00:45:22.800 two kt RH. If you did not do summer fertilizing yet, 809 00:45:23.039 --> 00:45:25.320 it's still okay to get it done. It's a good 810 00:45:25.360 --> 00:45:28.960 time to do it. Nitropos Super Turf the silver bag 811 00:45:29.199 --> 00:45:32.639 from Nitropos. It's a nineteen four to ten fertilizer gradually 812 00:45:32.719 --> 00:45:37.519 releases for like sixteen weeks or four months essentially, and 813 00:45:37.559 --> 00:45:39.039 that'll carry you all the way up to our fall 814 00:45:39.079 --> 00:45:42.519 fertilization at this point, especially when you're returning those clippings. 815 00:45:43.239 --> 00:45:45.599 It gradually feeds, which is the way you want to 816 00:45:45.639 --> 00:45:50.039 feed your turf in the summertime. It well, plants take 817 00:45:50.119 --> 00:45:52.599 up nutrients every day. They don't take up a year's 818 00:45:52.599 --> 00:45:55.719 worth of nutrients in one week and then start it 819 00:45:55.760 --> 00:45:57.840 at the rest of the time. You want a fertilizer 820 00:45:57.880 --> 00:46:00.599 that feeds low and that's what Nitropos does. You're gonna 821 00:46:00.599 --> 00:46:03.679 find Nighto Foss products at places like a hardware city 822 00:46:03.679 --> 00:46:07.119 I'm Memorial Drive. You're gonna find night Foss products at plants, 823 00:46:07.079 --> 00:46:09.400 twell Seasons on two forty nine. You're gonna find them 824 00:46:09.440 --> 00:46:11.880 at Bearings Hardware and West Timer and on this and 825 00:46:11.960 --> 00:46:15.440 that and the M and D H Hardware ACE Hardware 826 00:46:15.480 --> 00:46:19.360 up there in Rosenberg area. M and D all places 827 00:46:19.360 --> 00:46:22.800 that carry Night to Foss products. Let's head out now 828 00:46:22.800 --> 00:46:26.199 to the phones. We're gonna talk to Rufus in Cove, Texas. Hey, Cove, 829 00:46:26.880 --> 00:46:28.960 Rufous from Cove. How's it going. 830 00:46:30.400 --> 00:46:31.199 Going real good? 831 00:46:31.360 --> 00:46:31.559 Yeah? 832 00:46:31.840 --> 00:46:34.159 I found a bug this morning on my trip to 833 00:46:34.199 --> 00:46:38.440 go after coffee again. It's about maybe two inches long, 834 00:46:39.400 --> 00:46:44.639 half inch wide, maybe border inch better, Dick. It's black. 835 00:46:45.400 --> 00:46:47.920 It's got two big old eyes on the front end, 836 00:46:48.920 --> 00:46:51.360 and I got white rings around. This thing is black 837 00:46:51.440 --> 00:46:55.239 with white stripes down. It would look great as for 838 00:46:55.400 --> 00:47:00.280 a fingernail for a zombie. Have you ever seen anything like? 839 00:47:01.920 --> 00:47:06.360 Yes, Uh, it's a it's a kind of a type 840 00:47:06.480 --> 00:47:11.840 of an iron beetle. Oh gosh, I'm trying to think 841 00:47:11.880 --> 00:47:15.760 of the name, the specific name of those. But yeah, 842 00:47:15.800 --> 00:47:18.000 those two big eyes. I guess that's supposed to scare 843 00:47:18.079 --> 00:47:21.800 things off the way that it works. Uh gee, I 844 00:47:21.840 --> 00:47:24.000 can't come up with the specific name of it, but 845 00:47:24.039 --> 00:47:28.559 it's it's larva or bore and wood. It's it's one 846 00:47:28.599 --> 00:47:32.239 of the things that bores in interior into the wood. 847 00:47:33.800 --> 00:47:36.039 Yeah, so. 848 00:47:37.480 --> 00:47:40.440 Well, I don't think it does pine. I think it. 849 00:47:40.559 --> 00:47:42.159 I think it would be hard woods. 850 00:47:42.079 --> 00:47:45.119 Specifically, right right, that's that's what it looked like. Personal thought, 851 00:47:45.119 --> 00:47:47.239 will chip off the tree and I'm going I didn't 852 00:47:47.239 --> 00:47:53.400 have that much wind last night. Yeah, well for zombie fingernail. 853 00:47:54.400 --> 00:47:57.480 Yeah, I know, it's kind of cool. There's a number 854 00:47:57.519 --> 00:48:00.920 of different beetles that are larger like that that are 855 00:48:01.000 --> 00:48:05.199 very unique. Gosh, trying to think of the name of 856 00:48:05.239 --> 00:48:08.159 that specific beetle, and it is escaping me right now. 857 00:48:11.079 --> 00:48:12.960 I'll think of it. I'll think of it in a minute. 858 00:48:13.079 --> 00:48:14.719 But yeah, it looks like it has eyes. 859 00:48:14.760 --> 00:48:14.920 You know. 860 00:48:15.000 --> 00:48:17.480 That's one of the things in nature, they that that 861 00:48:17.639 --> 00:48:21.280 nature does to help things scare off. It's it's I 862 00:48:21.280 --> 00:48:23.679 think it's called a click beetle. Is it alive? Did 863 00:48:23.679 --> 00:48:25.239 the one you found? Is it alive? Still? 864 00:48:26.400 --> 00:48:26.599 Yeah? 865 00:48:26.599 --> 00:48:30.360 It is kind of he's acting like he's going it 866 00:48:30.360 --> 00:48:32.559 looks like he's going to the final stage of life. 867 00:48:32.800 --> 00:48:34.199 But when I went to get him, I got a 868 00:48:34.239 --> 00:48:37.239 container and he did jump, but jumped in my container, 869 00:48:37.320 --> 00:48:38.800 So right now. 870 00:48:38.840 --> 00:48:43.679 Okay, yeah then yeah, one of the names I know, 871 00:48:43.719 --> 00:48:45.239 which when you're talking about now that one of the 872 00:48:45.320 --> 00:48:48.199 names for that is called the eyed click beetle because 873 00:48:48.199 --> 00:48:49.800 it has eyes and if you will lay it on 874 00:48:49.880 --> 00:48:55.519 its back, it will pop the hinge between its thoraxin's abdomen. 875 00:48:55.599 --> 00:48:58.119 It pops it and it flips it up in the 876 00:48:58.119 --> 00:49:00.159 air so it can land on its feet. You know, 877 00:49:00.280 --> 00:49:02.599 some beatles lay there and wiggle their legs in the 878 00:49:02.639 --> 00:49:06.960 sky and can't turn over. The click beetles click, yeah, 879 00:49:07.000 --> 00:49:09.599 they do. They the clickbians can do. That's called the 880 00:49:09.639 --> 00:49:14.000 eyed click beetle that you're looking at. And you said 881 00:49:14.000 --> 00:49:19.519 it jumped or no it's not, and there's not a 882 00:49:19.559 --> 00:49:24.599 way to no bottom the fast answers. No, they're just 883 00:49:24.639 --> 00:49:26.840 not a practical way to control them. The amount of 884 00:49:26.880 --> 00:49:29.400 damage you're getting from them is not a big deal. Uh, 885 00:49:29.440 --> 00:49:32.920 don't worry about it. Careful when you pick them up though, 886 00:49:32.960 --> 00:49:35.079 they've they've got a set of jaws on the front, 887 00:49:36.360 --> 00:49:39.360 So don't stick your hand in front of its mouth, 888 00:49:39.760 --> 00:49:45.599 all right, man, thanks a lot, rufus, Take care. Yeah, 889 00:49:45.800 --> 00:49:48.480 nature is so cool. So many unusual things out there 890 00:49:48.480 --> 00:49:52.239 in nature that is that is a cool deal. Kids 891 00:49:52.280 --> 00:49:55.320 will think that is really wake especially the click You 892 00:49:55.320 --> 00:49:57.960 know that there's several kinds of click beetles that we 893 00:49:58.079 --> 00:50:01.119 run into in our landscapes and you lamb on their 894 00:50:01.119 --> 00:50:04.079 back and they just like it's like they just pop 895 00:50:04.199 --> 00:50:06.880 this little hinge and it flips them right over. It's 896 00:50:06.960 --> 00:50:11.360 kind of cool. The folks that Nelson Plant Food have 897 00:50:11.480 --> 00:50:13.400 so many lines. They got the turf Star line, which 898 00:50:13.400 --> 00:50:16.079 are the things you use for your lawn, a turf 899 00:50:16.320 --> 00:50:20.559 Star several great products in that line. They've got the 900 00:50:21.159 --> 00:50:25.880 nutri Star line, which is specifically products for a type 901 00:50:25.920 --> 00:50:28.719 of plant. Like there's a nutri Star for vegetables. There's 902 00:50:28.760 --> 00:50:30.920 a nutri Star for bougain via. If you've got a 903 00:50:30.960 --> 00:50:33.119 bougain villa and you want to give the proper kind 904 00:50:33.119 --> 00:50:36.559 of fertilizing and the right ratios to it. Nelson Nutrastar 905 00:50:36.599 --> 00:50:40.199 bougain Va is the one for palms and ornamental grasses. 906 00:50:40.239 --> 00:50:42.239 And by the way, did you know palms are actually 907 00:50:42.280 --> 00:50:45.079 a grass type plant. They're not broad leaf plants like 908 00:50:45.159 --> 00:50:49.800 other trees. They are essentially a more kin to grass. Well, 909 00:50:49.920 --> 00:50:53.559 Nutristar palm and ornamental is just for those. There's neutral 910 00:50:53.639 --> 00:50:57.519 Stars for Plumeria. There's lots of different nutri Star lines 911 00:50:57.559 --> 00:51:00.320 from the folks at Nelson Plant Food, and all you 912 00:51:00.360 --> 00:51:02.880 have to do is go to your local garden centers, 913 00:51:03.000 --> 00:51:05.599 and typically that's where you're going to uncover and counter them. 914 00:51:05.639 --> 00:51:07.800 You'll find them sometimes at ace hardware stores. You're going 915 00:51:07.840 --> 00:51:10.760 to find them at feed stores. They're widely available here 916 00:51:10.760 --> 00:51:13.400 in the Greater Houston area. There's about a dozen places 917 00:51:13.440 --> 00:51:16.239 around town that will let you refill the jars and 918 00:51:16.320 --> 00:51:19.039 refill stations where you go in, you take your empty jar, 919 00:51:19.480 --> 00:51:22.320 you fill it up. It's more economical and you avoid 920 00:51:22.440 --> 00:51:25.559 throwing away more plastic, which we all do too much 921 00:51:25.599 --> 00:51:30.920 of that already. So Nelson Plant Food Nutral Star lines 922 00:51:31.239 --> 00:51:36.280 specifically for the plants that you're going after. And you 923 00:51:36.400 --> 00:51:42.400 gotta fertilize. That's something that people don't really, I think 924 00:51:42.800 --> 00:51:45.800 consider enough. A lot of times, you know, I get 925 00:51:45.840 --> 00:51:48.519 calls and say, well, my plant's there, it's growing, it 926 00:51:48.519 --> 00:51:52.039 looks okay, but it just really isn't taking off. And 927 00:51:52.079 --> 00:51:54.199 then you throw a little fertilizer right and suddenly it is. 928 00:51:54.280 --> 00:51:56.320 And you would think, well, that's it. By news, you fertilize, 929 00:51:56.320 --> 00:51:58.800 it makes plants grow. But a lot of times people 930 00:51:59.039 --> 00:52:03.360 don't consider the fact that you know, in nature, plants 931 00:52:03.360 --> 00:52:07.199 are growing on the decomposing organic matter and the mineral 932 00:52:07.280 --> 00:52:10.360 content of the soil that's dissolving away off the little 933 00:52:10.679 --> 00:52:15.559 essentially rock soil particles. And that's fine, you get a 934 00:52:15.639 --> 00:52:18.280 nice even growth and everything. But when you're trying to 935 00:52:18.320 --> 00:52:20.559 push something along. You may be planting a sweet corn 936 00:52:20.559 --> 00:52:22.440 in your garden and you're trying to get the most 937 00:52:22.519 --> 00:52:25.880 yields you can out of it. That takes an extra 938 00:52:25.920 --> 00:52:29.360 boost of nitrogen more than one actually in the course 939 00:52:29.400 --> 00:52:32.880 of that crop being grown. And so when we fertilize, 940 00:52:33.039 --> 00:52:35.880 we get more of that. When you've got a flowering plant, 941 00:52:36.320 --> 00:52:38.639 that is it flowered really good and now it's just 942 00:52:38.760 --> 00:52:41.159 kind of dwindling down. A petinues tend to do that 943 00:52:41.360 --> 00:52:45.239 as it as they go into their season. You fertilize 944 00:52:45.280 --> 00:52:47.119 and you think, well, I don't I don't want leaves. 945 00:52:47.159 --> 00:52:49.960 I want flowers, but flowers you have to have leaves, 946 00:52:50.559 --> 00:52:55.920 And so supporting and promoting new growth creates more foliage. 947 00:52:56.039 --> 00:52:58.880 Those are solar panels that capture the sun and make 948 00:52:58.920 --> 00:53:02.960 plant food, and then you see more flowers and you 949 00:53:03.000 --> 00:53:07.400 see more fruit on your plants. So even though you 950 00:53:07.440 --> 00:53:10.280 look at fertilizers and it's kind of in people's minds 951 00:53:10.320 --> 00:53:12.960 that well, I'm gonna produce flowers, I need lots of 952 00:53:13.000 --> 00:53:16.639 the middle number and not so much to that first number. No, 953 00:53:16.880 --> 00:53:21.199 you you actually need you need both. And yes, phosphorus 954 00:53:21.199 --> 00:53:25.519 is important for roots and for flowering and whatnot, but 955 00:53:26.199 --> 00:53:29.960 nitrogen is important too, So keep your plants boosted in 956 00:53:30.079 --> 00:53:33.360 order to maintain good growth and good health. Don't overdo it. 957 00:53:33.480 --> 00:53:36.199 Never overdo it. It's kind of like us. We can 958 00:53:36.239 --> 00:53:40.199 eat too much, especially of certain things. And although I'd 959 00:53:40.320 --> 00:53:45.840 rather not hear that, but good good nutrition for success. Hey, 960 00:53:45.840 --> 00:53:47.400 our phone number if you'd like to give me a call. 961 00:53:48.119 --> 00:53:51.599 Seven one three two one two kt r H seven 962 00:53:51.639 --> 00:53:54.599 one three two one two ktr H. I was out 963 00:53:54.599 --> 00:53:58.519 on my patio yesterday and it was late in the day, 964 00:53:58.719 --> 00:54:03.480 the time when meskis go nuts. I mean, you know 965 00:54:03.559 --> 00:54:06.159 they I've had mosquitos in the backyards are bad. I 966 00:54:06.239 --> 00:54:08.840 was afraid that when my little granddaughter came outside, they 967 00:54:08.840 --> 00:54:10.360 were going to grab her, pick her up and take 968 00:54:10.360 --> 00:54:13.880 her across the fence to some other huge, huge mosquitoes. 969 00:54:13.960 --> 00:54:18.519 Lots of mosquitoes yesterday I did. I don't think I 970 00:54:18.559 --> 00:54:22.360 had one, and that's unusual not even have one. And 971 00:54:22.400 --> 00:54:25.280 it's because I've got the mosquito buckets from pest Bros. 972 00:54:25.519 --> 00:54:28.320 And they're in my landscape and they're maintained. That's what 973 00:54:28.320 --> 00:54:31.000 pest Bros does. Pest Bros. Comes out each month to 974 00:54:31.079 --> 00:54:37.400 maintain those buckets for you. And you know the way 975 00:54:37.400 --> 00:54:40.239 they work two things. Number one, they make the mosquitoes 976 00:54:40.280 --> 00:54:43.320 come to the bucket and then they mosquitoes lay eggs 977 00:54:43.360 --> 00:54:46.559 in the water. And in the water is two things. 978 00:54:46.639 --> 00:54:49.760 One ascent that the mosquito smell that makes them go 979 00:54:49.800 --> 00:54:52.400 to the buckets. Just like mosquitoes are attracted to our 980 00:54:52.440 --> 00:54:56.119 carbon dioxide out of our breath, they're also attracted to 981 00:54:56.159 --> 00:54:59.199 the especially the smell in these buckets. They go there, 982 00:54:59.199 --> 00:55:01.880 they lay eggs. A lot eggs hatch into larva that 983 00:55:01.880 --> 00:55:05.000 will never become mosquitos. It shuts them down. While they're there, 984 00:55:05.000 --> 00:55:08.440 the mosquito picks up granules, not granules, little dust particles 985 00:55:08.840 --> 00:55:11.159 off of a screen that it sits on in the bucket. 986 00:55:11.719 --> 00:55:15.119 And when it flies off, everywhere that mosquito lands on water. 987 00:55:15.400 --> 00:55:18.760 You know, mosquitoes can literally land on water. Some of 988 00:55:18.800 --> 00:55:21.599 that particle gets in the water and now that water 989 00:55:21.880 --> 00:55:24.320 can't grow mosquitos either. And this is safe. It's not 990 00:55:24.360 --> 00:55:27.280 gonna kill you know, birds and the family pet or 991 00:55:27.360 --> 00:55:29.159 cat that goes out and drinks some of the water. 992 00:55:29.519 --> 00:55:32.519 This is good stuff. And then there's a fungus that 993 00:55:32.559 --> 00:55:34.880 gets on its feet. Can you tell I'm getting excited? 994 00:55:34.960 --> 00:55:38.000 Anytime fire ants or mosquitos are suffering, I get excited. 995 00:55:39.000 --> 00:55:42.559 And that fungus within a week kills the mosquito itself. 996 00:55:42.599 --> 00:55:45.360 So we wanted to live long enough to go out there, 997 00:55:45.480 --> 00:55:49.559 and all those water places that we don't even know about, 998 00:55:50.039 --> 00:55:52.480 I want those shut down too. That's how the buckets work, 999 00:55:52.480 --> 00:55:55.800 all right. Pestpros doesn't just do mosquito buckets. They do termites, 1000 00:55:55.800 --> 00:55:59.199 and they do cockroaches inside, and they do rats in 1001 00:55:59.280 --> 00:56:04.719 the outside of the varmints and stuff. The pestbros dot com, 1002 00:56:04.840 --> 00:56:08.159 thepestbros dot com. That's the website, thepestbros dot com. If 1003 00:56:08.199 --> 00:56:09.840 you want to get MC call get a quote two 1004 00:56:09.920 --> 00:56:13.800 eight one two o six forty six seventy two eight 1005 00:56:13.880 --> 00:56:16.599 one two o six forty six seventy They cover the 1006 00:56:16.639 --> 00:56:18.719 greater Houston area, and by greater I mean all the 1007 00:56:18.719 --> 00:56:21.880 way from Texas City down south up to the Woodlands, 1008 00:56:21.920 --> 00:56:24.239 from Baytown on the east, all the way west to 1009 00:56:24.320 --> 00:56:27.800 the Kadi area. If you hear my voice pest Bros. 1010 00:56:27.840 --> 00:56:31.239 Probably comes to your house Dpestbros dot com two eight 1011 00:56:31.320 --> 00:56:34.719 one two o six forty six seventy. I'm telling you, uh, 1012 00:56:35.320 --> 00:56:39.199 nothing kills every mosquito. You know, there's always mosquitos flying 1013 00:56:39.239 --> 00:56:43.880 in from places. But this is amazing. I've never seen 1014 00:56:43.880 --> 00:56:45.199 anything like it. And now I used to get the 1015 00:56:45.239 --> 00:56:48.400 foggers and nuke my landscape, you know, to kill everything. 1016 00:56:49.039 --> 00:56:51.199 I didn't. I hated it. I didn't want to do that, 1017 00:56:51.519 --> 00:56:55.639 but my gosh, you know. And then there's the misquita, 1018 00:56:55.800 --> 00:57:01.840 the diseases mosquitoes spread around. Ugh. Anyway, time for me 1019 00:57:01.920 --> 00:57:04.079 to take a break here in just a second. If 1020 00:57:04.119 --> 00:57:05.960 you'd like to give me a call, be first up 1021 00:57:06.000 --> 00:57:08.480 coming off the break. If you're the fastest to dial 1022 00:57:08.800 --> 00:57:12.360 seven one three two one two kt r H. That's 1023 00:57:12.400 --> 00:57:16.039 seven one three two one two kt rh. We'll be 1024 00:57:16.119 --> 00:57:18.079 back with your calls. And I want to talk just 1025 00:57:18.119 --> 00:57:21.159 a little bit about fruit growing and some things that 1026 00:57:21.199 --> 00:57:23.960 I've noticed in terms of calls and emails from people 1027 00:57:24.119 --> 00:57:27.920 trying to grow fruit. So stick around. We'll be right back. 1028 00:57:28.760 --> 00:57:34.360 All right, we're back. Welcome back to garden Line. We're 1029 00:57:34.360 --> 00:57:36.079 here to help you have success. If you'd like to 1030 00:57:36.079 --> 00:57:38.360 give me a call. We can help work through some 1031 00:57:38.480 --> 00:57:41.360 issues in the garden or some questions or maybe and 1032 00:57:41.440 --> 00:57:43.679 this is fun. You know, not everything in gardening is 1033 00:57:43.719 --> 00:57:47.719 a problem. Maybe we can suggest some plans or some 1034 00:57:48.239 --> 00:57:52.840 approaches to success with plans that that is fun. Here 1035 00:57:52.880 --> 00:57:56.719 here's the thought. This is something that I probably ought 1036 00:57:56.760 --> 00:57:59.760 to talk about this more. But when you do a 1037 00:57:59.840 --> 00:58:04.320 line landscape, you often are looking at you're in a 1038 00:58:04.400 --> 00:58:06.760 garden center and you're seeing all these pretty flowers. Ooh, 1039 00:58:06.800 --> 00:58:09.199 I like that, I like that, And maybe you're taking 1040 00:58:09.239 --> 00:58:12.239 it to the level of well combining the colors that 1041 00:58:12.280 --> 00:58:15.320 are pleasing to you, or some plants that are taller, shorter, 1042 00:58:15.519 --> 00:58:17.880 and you know, so when you look at a back fence, 1043 00:58:17.960 --> 00:58:19.800 you've got some taller plants in the back and some 1044 00:58:19.920 --> 00:58:22.199 shorter ones in the front. So esthetically it looks good 1045 00:58:22.239 --> 00:58:25.599 to you. But think about the four seasons. The four seasons. 1046 00:58:26.599 --> 00:58:29.559 We live in a mild climate, and even in winter 1047 00:58:29.639 --> 00:58:32.039 here we can have color and we can have plants 1048 00:58:32.079 --> 00:58:36.079 that are interesting. The cinnamon colored exfoliating bark on a 1049 00:58:36.199 --> 00:58:39.840 Natchez krpe myrtle is beautiful in the winter time. Do 1050 00:58:39.840 --> 00:58:41.960 you see what I'm talking about? And then there's flowers 1051 00:58:42.000 --> 00:58:45.079 and stuff. Think about all four seasons. In spring, it's 1052 00:58:45.119 --> 00:58:47.880 easy to get blooms. Everything's blooming in spring, it seems like. 1053 00:58:48.360 --> 00:58:50.920 But there are also things that bloom through the summer. 1054 00:58:51.000 --> 00:58:53.320 They are very tough here, they can make it here. 1055 00:58:53.360 --> 00:58:55.599 And then we have things that only bloom in the fall. 1056 00:58:55.760 --> 00:58:58.119 They pop up for their show in the fall season. 1057 00:58:58.679 --> 00:59:01.280 So when you put in your lands, always be thinking 1058 00:59:01.320 --> 00:59:03.679 about and as you you know, may come home every 1059 00:59:03.719 --> 00:59:05.840 day and you look at your landscape through the seasons, 1060 00:59:06.199 --> 00:59:09.039 look at what's missing, you know. So and typically in 1061 00:59:09.079 --> 00:59:13.559 our Houston area landscapes, summer becomes a sea of green, 1062 00:59:13.840 --> 00:59:18.199 green grass, green groundcovers, green shrubs, green trees. And where's 1063 00:59:18.199 --> 00:59:20.079 the color? Well, green's the color. Okay, where are the 1064 00:59:20.079 --> 00:59:23.360 other colors? So think about the four seasons when you 1065 00:59:23.400 --> 00:59:27.639 plan your landscape. Let's seat out now to Marene in 1066 00:59:27.840 --> 00:59:30.800 Lakeside of States. Hello, Marene, welcome to garden Line. 1067 00:59:31.800 --> 00:59:32.280 Thank you. 1068 00:59:33.719 --> 00:59:37.079 I have a thought in my head and it was 1069 00:59:37.159 --> 00:59:40.320 more expensive than the other and I thought, you know, should. 1070 00:59:40.079 --> 00:59:42.199 Call in and ask. And so here's my question. 1071 00:59:43.079 --> 00:59:46.920 When using mulch, I wanted to do my beds in 1072 00:59:46.960 --> 00:59:49.719 the front and I know it has a delicious smell 1073 00:59:49.840 --> 00:59:52.719 to me, more than some other things that we put 1074 00:59:52.800 --> 00:59:56.239 in place, but it was quite a bit more expensive. 1075 00:59:56.360 --> 01:00:02.239 So what is the value in using the feedar mulch. 1076 01:00:02.639 --> 01:00:03.960 Is it a repellent for. 1077 01:00:06.000 --> 01:00:09.639 Insects versus another one with just getting wood chips or 1078 01:00:10.719 --> 01:00:12.199 some other ria mulch. 1079 01:00:12.920 --> 01:00:16.840 Yeah, cedar mulch is it's pretty initially the color, but 1080 01:00:16.880 --> 01:00:18.400 as it ages it turns. 1081 01:00:18.119 --> 01:00:22.599 Gray like, Oh, I'm not really much concerned about the color. 1082 01:00:23.000 --> 01:00:23.760 I just want to. 1083 01:00:23.679 --> 01:00:26.760 Protect my plants, so I'm planning to do two inches. 1084 01:00:26.880 --> 01:00:28.400 So I did two inches. 1085 01:00:28.559 --> 01:00:31.000 Unless you tell me I need to do more. 1086 01:00:31.719 --> 01:00:33.840 Well, I'm just giving you the overall on ceedar. The 1087 01:00:33.880 --> 01:00:36.159 other thing is the scent is nice, but the scent 1088 01:00:36.239 --> 01:00:39.599 doesn't last forever either. And as far as the depth 1089 01:00:39.719 --> 01:00:42.840 deep enough to block all the sunlight out, depending on 1090 01:00:42.880 --> 01:00:46.800 the size of the chips the particles of mulch, if 1091 01:00:46.840 --> 01:00:51.079 it's very small in size compared to large in size, 1092 01:00:51.199 --> 01:00:53.480 you would need less to block out the light. Well, 1093 01:00:53.480 --> 01:00:55.960 if you've got big old chunks like pine bark chunks, 1094 01:00:55.960 --> 01:00:58.280 for example, you need to make it deeper in order 1095 01:00:58.360 --> 01:01:01.480 to fully block that light. Uh. And then the other 1096 01:01:01.559 --> 01:01:04.079 thing about this eater is it's a little slower to 1097 01:01:04.119 --> 01:01:08.159 decompose a little bit, but that depends too on particle size. Uh, 1098 01:01:08.159 --> 01:01:11.239 there's not right wrong and that it is more expensive. 1099 01:01:12.719 --> 01:01:15.840 Okay, Well in one case I was I could have 1100 01:01:16.000 --> 01:01:21.079 but did not, gotten ten bag four bags for ten dollars, 1101 01:01:21.320 --> 01:01:26.480 whereas I got ten bags for sixty five dollars. 1102 01:01:28.000 --> 01:01:31.360 Okay, so I didn't think Yeah, ricing. 1103 01:01:31.440 --> 01:01:34.199 Why if I was watching my dollars, But I don't. 1104 01:01:35.000 --> 01:01:37.079 I'm not. That's not what I'm doing for gardening. 1105 01:01:37.159 --> 01:01:41.000 You have to do what's right for me smell wise. 1106 01:01:41.119 --> 01:01:44.920 Look, yeah, marine, I would say, it comes down to 1107 01:01:44.960 --> 01:01:46.440 what do you want? What do you want to look at? 1108 01:01:47.079 --> 01:01:50.400 And and uh, and then you you make the financial 1109 01:01:50.440 --> 01:01:55.239 balance between your options. That then but it there's not 1110 01:01:55.360 --> 01:01:57.559 a right or wrong on this. Just put mulch down 1111 01:01:57.599 --> 01:02:01.039 thick enough to block the weeds and hold that. That's all. 1112 01:02:01.079 --> 01:02:04.599 Moisture and temperature more appropriate. Okay, The next question is 1113 01:02:04.639 --> 01:02:08.119 really what it does? Okay Fusia plants. 1114 01:02:08.159 --> 01:02:14.519 Fusia plants are not known for this area, so I'm 1115 01:02:14.559 --> 01:02:17.199 not doing well with it. But if I wanted to 1116 01:02:17.239 --> 01:02:23.159 get another one, where would you say arbrogate or well? 1117 01:02:24.719 --> 01:02:28.840 Yeah, but but I don't get fusia. Now, Fusia is 1118 01:02:28.880 --> 01:02:32.039 a gorgeous plant in the spring, and you get to 1119 01:02:32.159 --> 01:02:34.679 enjoy it for about fifteen minutes when you get home. 1120 01:02:36.800 --> 01:02:41.000 I'm exaggerating what happened though, Yeah, well that's what happens. 1121 01:02:41.920 --> 01:02:43.599 It was gone. 1122 01:02:43.880 --> 01:02:46.639 Well, I know, I know, and I'm exaggerating, but I'm 1123 01:02:46.679 --> 01:02:48.880 trying to make a point. You know, if you want 1124 01:02:48.920 --> 01:02:51.159 something that you get more more bang for your buck 1125 01:02:51.199 --> 01:02:53.800 in terms of time. There's so many other you know, 1126 01:02:53.840 --> 01:02:55.400 you go to a place like Arbigate, you're going to 1127 01:02:55.480 --> 01:03:01.039 find tons of hanging basket color options that just laugh 1128 01:03:01.119 --> 01:03:04.239 at summertime heat. So I would go that route. I 1129 01:03:04.280 --> 01:03:08.199 love few shit. It's a beautiful flower. But unless you 1130 01:03:08.320 --> 01:03:11.440 just got money to spend on changing out baskets, I 1131 01:03:11.480 --> 01:03:14.199 don't think it's a great choice. Hey, Marine, thank you 1132 01:03:14.360 --> 01:03:18.519 very much. I appreciate, appreciate call to all right, you 1133 01:03:18.599 --> 01:03:23.400 bet you take care? Yeah, that's the case. Southwest Fertilizer 1134 01:03:23.480 --> 01:03:27.559 Corner Abyssina and Renwick in Southwest Houston is your one 1135 01:03:27.599 --> 01:03:30.239 stop shop for everything you need as far as supplies 1136 01:03:30.239 --> 01:03:35.079 and tools equipment for your gardening, okay fertilizing. Ever, fertilizer 1137 01:03:35.199 --> 01:03:37.239 is ever kind of out of my mouth is a 1138 01:03:37.280 --> 01:03:42.079 Southwest Fertilizer. 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You go my website 1149 01:04:17.119 --> 01:04:20.119 guarding with skip dot com. Look at the weed wiper. 1150 01:04:20.239 --> 01:04:22.320 You can build one of those. Bob's got the tool 1151 01:04:22.400 --> 01:04:24.559 you start with to build it, the graber tool you 1152 01:04:24.599 --> 01:04:28.280 start with. It's all there. Southwest Fertilizer dot Com, corner, 1153 01:04:28.320 --> 01:04:33.639 Abyssinett and Runwick. Really friendly service, really great quality products 1154 01:04:33.639 --> 01:04:36.880 and a selection like none other. Seven to one, three 1155 01:04:36.960 --> 01:04:43.480 six six six, seventeen forty four. I was visiting with 1156 01:04:43.519 --> 01:04:46.880 somebody the other day who was bragging on Affordable Tree Service. 1157 01:04:46.920 --> 01:04:50.440 Affordable Tree Service Martin Spoonmore's company. You've been hearing about 1158 01:04:50.440 --> 01:04:53.920 Affordable Tree Service. Gosh, Randy talked about them for years 1159 01:04:53.960 --> 01:04:58.159 and years. They had been around doing this for a 1160 01:04:58.280 --> 01:05:00.559 very long time, and they know what they're doing. That's 1161 01:05:00.559 --> 01:05:02.679 the bottom line. You can give them a call seven 1162 01:05:02.760 --> 01:05:05.920 one three six ninety nine two six sixty three. If 1163 01:05:05.960 --> 01:05:07.960 you want to know more about their services, you can 1164 01:05:08.000 --> 01:05:13.480 go to the website aff Tree Service dot com. There 1165 01:05:13.519 --> 01:05:17.159 you'll learn that they do consultations, bids are free. Uh, 1166 01:05:17.239 --> 01:05:20.000 they do pruning, they do deep root feeding, they do 1167 01:05:20.119 --> 01:05:22.719 pest and disease control. If you need a stump ground, 1168 01:05:22.760 --> 01:05:25.480 they do that. And if you're gonna do any construction 1169 01:05:25.559 --> 01:05:27.199 around her toe, if you are gonna mess with the 1170 01:05:27.239 --> 01:05:30.000 tree's root system, that includes dropping a sidewalk on top 1171 01:05:30.000 --> 01:05:32.760 of it, that includes digging a trench within the branch 1172 01:05:32.840 --> 01:05:35.440 broad of the tree, have them come out and do 1173 01:05:35.559 --> 01:05:39.960 preconstruction care to protect that extremely valuable part of your landscape, 1174 01:05:40.000 --> 01:05:43.760 that tree. They know what they're doing. Seven one three 1175 01:05:43.800 --> 01:05:46.800 six nine nine two six sixty three. It's a family business. 1176 01:05:46.800 --> 01:05:49.199 You're probably gonna talk to Martin's mom when you call 1177 01:05:49.639 --> 01:05:52.199 gardenline customers are their priority. You're telling them you heard 1178 01:05:52.199 --> 01:05:54.440 about it on garden Line seven one three six nine 1179 01:05:54.559 --> 01:06:02.159 nine two six six three. I was taking care of 1180 01:06:02.239 --> 01:06:05.599 some plants. I've got some plants that haven't been fertilized 1181 01:06:05.599 --> 01:06:07.800 while they're in containers, and you know containers are it's 1182 01:06:07.840 --> 01:06:10.880 even more important to fertilize because that's a confined root 1183 01:06:10.920 --> 01:06:12.920 system and they don't have a large boume of soil 1184 01:06:12.960 --> 01:06:16.440 to draw nutrients and water from. And what did I do. 1185 01:06:16.480 --> 01:06:19.519 I grab my Microlife Biomatrix orange label. It's a seven 1186 01:06:19.559 --> 01:06:22.159 to one three. That's what I typically use indoors because 1187 01:06:22.159 --> 01:06:25.480 it doesn't smell at all, and it's a nice organic 1188 01:06:25.559 --> 01:06:29.000 fertilizer highend nitrogen to boost the foliage growth, which most 1189 01:06:29.000 --> 01:06:32.760 are indoor plants or foliage plants. But I was doing 1190 01:06:32.800 --> 01:06:35.960 some fertilizing outside on some plants that were struggling, and 1191 01:06:36.039 --> 01:06:39.079 I grab my Microlife Ocean Harvest. That's a blue label. 1192 01:06:39.119 --> 01:06:42.840 That's a fish based fertilizer of four to two three fertilizer. 1193 01:06:43.360 --> 01:06:45.840 Mix it in water, give them a dose. I'll probably 1194 01:06:45.840 --> 01:06:48.599 do it about three times, maybe a week and a 1195 01:06:48.639 --> 01:06:51.519 half apart. Something like that. Just to get them a 1196 01:06:51.639 --> 01:06:54.239 really good boost. They're going. It's not gonna burn plants. 1197 01:06:54.239 --> 01:06:57.000 These aren't salt based fertilizers. You can find out about 1198 01:06:57.039 --> 01:06:59.679 more of the Microlife fertilizers and where to find them, 1199 01:06:59.719 --> 01:07:02.320 which I'll save you some trouble. It's everywhere, uh but 1200 01:07:02.480 --> 01:07:07.079 Microlife Fertilizer dot com, Microlifeurleisure dot com. I'll take a 1201 01:07:07.079 --> 01:07:09.360 little break here and we'll be back for our last 1202 01:07:09.400 --> 01:07:12.599 segment of this hour. There you go, a little George 1203 01:07:12.599 --> 01:07:14.920 straight for you this morning on garden Line. Hey, our 1204 01:07:14.960 --> 01:07:17.559 phone number seven one three two one two k t 1205 01:07:17.719 --> 01:07:20.840 r H seven one three two one two k t 1206 01:07:20.960 --> 01:07:24.920 r H. If you have metal furniture or metal ornament 1207 01:07:25.519 --> 01:07:29.800 or anything metal outside in your landscape, you need to 1208 01:07:29.840 --> 01:07:33.000 call Houston Powder Coders to have them turn it into 1209 01:07:33.039 --> 01:07:36.679 something special, I mean, really nice. I grew up with 1210 01:07:36.719 --> 01:07:39.880 those tubular metal chairs. You know, they kind of came 1211 01:07:39.920 --> 01:07:42.880 in primary colors, you know, like red and blue and whatnot, 1212 01:07:42.960 --> 01:07:45.679 yellow and whatnot. Uh, And you could kind of bounce 1213 01:07:45.719 --> 01:07:48.679 on them because the metal tubes curved that none of 1214 01:07:48.760 --> 01:07:51.880 those things well, after a while, they they're rusty. The 1215 01:07:51.920 --> 01:07:55.199 bolts are rusty. You take them into Houston powder coders, 1216 01:07:55.480 --> 01:07:58.639 and they will put in new, fresh stainless steel hardware. 1217 01:07:58.840 --> 01:08:02.440 They will give them a nice coating and it's brand new. 1218 01:08:02.719 --> 01:08:05.159 It is like brand new. Same thing true with those 1219 01:08:05.159 --> 01:08:09.599 little expanded metal outdoor metal table furniture and chairs. Same 1220 01:08:09.599 --> 01:08:11.800 thing as true with some metal that's hanging on the 1221 01:08:11.800 --> 01:08:14.000 back fence or the side brick of your house. You know, 1222 01:08:14.039 --> 01:08:17.800 something decorative and ornamental. If it's metal, they can coat it. 1223 01:08:18.000 --> 01:08:21.279 You're talking about cast iron, wrought iron, aluminum patio furniture. 1224 01:08:21.760 --> 01:08:25.359 They do the repair that's needed. The little welding here 1225 01:08:25.359 --> 01:08:27.359 and there might be needed. They can do some of that. 1226 01:08:28.199 --> 01:08:34.239 Houstonpowdercoats dot Com two eight one six seven six thirty 1227 01:08:34.279 --> 01:08:38.239 eight eighty eight two eight one six seven six thirty 1228 01:08:38.239 --> 01:08:41.159 eight eighty eight. We're going to head now to Southwest 1229 01:08:41.199 --> 01:08:44.359 Euston and talk to Carolyn this morning. Hello Carolyn, welcome 1230 01:08:44.399 --> 01:08:45.720 to garden Line. 1231 01:08:45.960 --> 01:08:50.159 Thank you. My ochre seeds have just come up. They're 1232 01:08:50.199 --> 01:08:50.920 in a container. 1233 01:08:50.960 --> 01:08:52.760 Oh boy. 1234 01:08:53.520 --> 01:08:57.640 The containers twelve inches high and sixteen inches across at 1235 01:08:57.680 --> 01:09:01.279 the top, but about six inches across at the bottom. 1236 01:09:02.039 --> 01:09:02.279 Well. 1237 01:09:02.680 --> 01:09:06.399 The fertilizer that I have is Scott Super bloom or 1238 01:09:07.199 --> 01:09:12.039 has to grow six twelve six How much should I 1239 01:09:12.560 --> 01:09:16.079 how much should I put in? And how how frequently? 1240 01:09:17.720 --> 01:09:20.199 Yeah, you've got to go with what the label says 1241 01:09:20.560 --> 01:09:23.239 on these because you know different concentrations. The has to 1242 01:09:23.319 --> 01:09:26.399 grow is a Medina product, and that one you're not 1243 01:09:26.439 --> 01:09:28.119 going to burn your plants with it, so it's not 1244 01:09:28.279 --> 01:09:33.159 so critical to get it just right. But just follow that. 1245 01:09:33.239 --> 01:09:37.199 They'll they'll tell you on the label. I'm wanting to 1246 01:09:37.239 --> 01:09:41.239 say that the has to grow is an ounce per gallon, 1247 01:09:41.800 --> 01:09:46.479 but I that don't read the label to be sure 1248 01:09:47.279 --> 01:09:50.720 that's right. Okay, that is that's what I would do, 1249 01:09:50.880 --> 01:09:53.159 and then and then water with that, and I would 1250 01:09:53.239 --> 01:09:55.960 water with that. Now you're going to grow the oakrah, 1251 01:09:56.119 --> 01:09:59.479 how long in these containers? Are you going to transplant 1252 01:09:59.520 --> 01:10:00.279 it out? Or what? 1253 01:10:01.199 --> 01:10:01.359 No? 1254 01:10:01.520 --> 01:10:04.600 That that they'll stay there? Will that size? 1255 01:10:04.600 --> 01:10:04.920 Okay? 1256 01:10:04.960 --> 01:10:10.840 T take care of three okra plants. 1257 01:10:11.560 --> 01:10:14.319 Tell me the top is wider than the bottom and 1258 01:10:14.399 --> 01:10:18.279 the depth. Tell me the width and the depth again, please, the. 1259 01:10:18.319 --> 01:10:22.239 Depth is twelve twelve inches, The width at the top 1260 01:10:22.359 --> 01:10:23.760 is sixteen. 1261 01:10:24.920 --> 01:10:32.520 Okay, and at the bottom it's about six right, Okay, 1262 01:10:32.560 --> 01:10:35.439 you can grow okra in that. I don't if you 1263 01:10:35.520 --> 01:10:39.159 try three okra in that you better be water in 1264 01:10:39.239 --> 01:10:43.720 it at least twice a day. Also, that's a narrow base, 1265 01:10:43.880 --> 01:10:45.840 and so when the wind blows, it's gonna blow it 1266 01:10:45.840 --> 01:10:48.640 over really easy. Is that okra gets taller, so you're 1267 01:10:48.640 --> 01:10:53.520 gonna need some way to stabilize that. But I would 1268 01:10:53.520 --> 01:10:56.800 say if you tried three in there, you just gotta 1269 01:10:56.800 --> 01:10:58.600 be real comfort because they're going to go into stress 1270 01:10:58.680 --> 01:11:02.920 really fast because that is a very small volume of soil. 1271 01:11:03.000 --> 01:11:05.760 Even for one okra, you can do it. One time 1272 01:11:05.760 --> 01:11:09.359 I grew okra in in a solo cup, a red 1273 01:11:09.479 --> 01:11:12.840 solo cup got about twelve inches tall and it had 1274 01:11:12.880 --> 01:11:16.159 an okra pod on top. So if you keep it moist, 1275 01:11:16.279 --> 01:11:17.920 you can grow okra in a lot of things. But 1276 01:11:17.960 --> 01:11:20.199 the problem is keeping it moist, it just pumps that 1277 01:11:20.319 --> 01:11:27.039 root ball dry so fast. You're still with me, Carolyn, Well, 1278 01:11:27.119 --> 01:11:30.439 I think I think we lost her there anyway, But 1279 01:11:30.560 --> 01:11:32.760 that was the bottom That was the bottom line. It 1280 01:11:32.840 --> 01:11:35.319 kind of covered the things we were talking about. Anyway, 1281 01:11:37.279 --> 01:11:40.680 planks for all seasons. It's the garden center that's there 1282 01:11:40.880 --> 01:11:44.439 on Tomball Parkway Highway to forty nine, right where it 1283 01:11:44.479 --> 01:11:47.159 comes into Luetta or just north of that. So if 1284 01:11:47.199 --> 01:11:49.880 you're going north. Let's say, just for sake of example, 1285 01:11:49.920 --> 01:11:53.800 you're from Houston going north toward Tumble, you exit Luetta, 1286 01:11:53.920 --> 01:11:56.319 cross over Lueta, and it's on the right hand side 1287 01:11:56.359 --> 01:12:00.800 right there. It just faces two forty nine. Since nineteen 1288 01:12:00.840 --> 01:12:05.479 seventy three. The Flowery family, they've been doing this a 1289 01:12:05.520 --> 01:12:09.039 long time. They know this area and their customers know them. 1290 01:12:09.039 --> 01:12:11.079 That old region. I mean, everybody knows about plants for 1291 01:12:11.119 --> 01:12:13.039 all seasons, and they go there and they depend on 1292 01:12:13.119 --> 01:12:17.239 them because they're experts. You know. That's that independent nursery 1293 01:12:17.279 --> 01:12:20.520 thing I talk about all the time. You walk in there, 1294 01:12:20.600 --> 01:12:23.920 you're talking to gardeners who garden where you live, who 1295 01:12:23.920 --> 01:12:26.800 garden the same area you live in, that have been 1296 01:12:26.840 --> 01:12:32.920 around for decades, seeing new species, new plant varieties. They 1297 01:12:32.960 --> 01:12:35.239 know what works and what doesn't work. 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What kind 1336 01:14:51.039 --> 01:14:52.600 of questions do you have? What are we going to 1337 01:14:52.640 --> 01:14:56.800 talk about when we come back. Well, well, welcome back, 1338 01:14:57.800 --> 01:15:00.600 Welcome back to Gardenline. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and 1339 01:15:00.640 --> 01:15:03.479 we are here to help you have success in the garden. 1340 01:15:03.840 --> 01:15:06.479 One of the things we deal with in summer here 1341 01:15:06.520 --> 01:15:11.720 in the greater Houston area are mosquitoes. You know mosquitos, right, 1342 01:15:12.880 --> 01:15:16.640 and there is a simple little product out there called 1343 01:15:16.680 --> 01:15:18.880 mosquito dunks. You hear me talk about mosquito Dunks all 1344 01:15:18.880 --> 01:15:23.199 the time. I've asked Heather stick Me from Mosquito Dunks 1345 01:15:23.680 --> 01:15:26.279 to come on as a guest this morning and we're 1346 01:15:26.279 --> 01:15:28.920 going to kind of pick her brain and talk about 1347 01:15:28.960 --> 01:15:33.359 all things related to mosquitoes and so, Heather, are you there, 1348 01:15:34.359 --> 01:15:39.079 I'm here. Good morning, Skip, good morning. Thanks for coming on. 1349 01:15:39.119 --> 01:15:43.439 I appreciate you taking some time out to talk about mosquitos. 1350 01:15:43.479 --> 01:15:47.199 I said earlier this morning that mosquitoes can be so bad. 1351 01:15:47.520 --> 01:15:49.720 One time I went outside with my granddaughter and I'm 1352 01:15:49.720 --> 01:15:51.680 pretty sure they tried to pick her up and carry 1353 01:15:51.680 --> 01:15:54.560 her across the fence to the neighbors yard. It's like 1354 01:15:55.399 --> 01:15:56.319 a ton. 1355 01:15:56.159 --> 01:16:02.600 Of mosquitos, I'm going to say, bart of Texas. So 1356 01:16:02.640 --> 01:16:04.520 they can be pretty nasty creatures. 1357 01:16:04.560 --> 01:16:08.800 For sure, they are nasty. They are nasty creatures. And 1358 01:16:08.800 --> 01:16:12.000 by the way, folks, if you have a question about 1359 01:16:12.079 --> 01:16:16.359 mosquito mosquito control, using mosquito dunks and things, give us 1360 01:16:16.399 --> 01:16:19.479 a call this hour. Either Heather or I will try 1361 01:16:19.479 --> 01:16:21.960 to put our heads together here and I help you 1362 01:16:22.000 --> 01:16:25.079 with that. If it's other kinds of gardening questions, if 1363 01:16:25.079 --> 01:16:27.239 you'll hold off, I'll start taking those again from the 1364 01:16:27.319 --> 01:16:29.960 nine to ten o'clock hour this morning. So that's kind 1365 01:16:30.000 --> 01:16:31.439 of how we're going to do things. But any kind 1366 01:16:31.439 --> 01:16:34.840 of mosquito related things, just feel free to give us 1367 01:16:34.880 --> 01:16:39.119 a call. Well, Heather, thanks again for coming on. I'd 1368 01:16:39.159 --> 01:16:41.720 like you to tell us a little bit about the 1369 01:16:41.720 --> 01:16:43.079 product mosquito dunks. 1370 01:16:43.359 --> 01:16:49.479 First of all, sure, So, mosquito dunks resemble a small, 1371 01:16:49.800 --> 01:16:51.560 beige looking type of donut. 1372 01:16:51.800 --> 01:16:53.680 They're round in shape, and. 1373 01:16:53.640 --> 01:16:57.199 They're designed to float on the surface of standing water 1374 01:16:58.000 --> 01:17:00.079 to control mosquito larvae. 1375 01:17:00.760 --> 01:17:02.720 So they dissolve over a period. 1376 01:17:02.359 --> 01:17:05.880 Of time and they kill that larva before they become 1377 01:17:05.920 --> 01:17:09.640 those pesky, flying, biting, disease carrying adults. 1378 01:17:11.279 --> 01:17:15.960 Okay, nice, that's uh, that's a good thing. You know, 1379 01:17:16.000 --> 01:17:19.520 anytime a mosquito suffers, I'm happy. So I'm glad to 1380 01:17:19.560 --> 01:17:27.399 hear we have we have a disease to control mosquitos. 1381 01:17:27.439 --> 01:17:31.640 Correct, So, mosquito dunks are made of a bacterium called 1382 01:17:31.680 --> 01:17:35.720 bt I. That's a very short way of saying Bacillis 1383 01:17:35.800 --> 01:17:38.279 therengientis subspecies is raelianss. 1384 01:17:38.920 --> 01:17:39.880 BTI is a lot. 1385 01:17:39.720 --> 01:17:43.279 Easy because tight exactly exactly. 1386 01:17:44.000 --> 01:17:47.359 So essentially it acts as a gut disruptor and it 1387 01:17:47.439 --> 01:17:50.640 prevents those larva from feeding if they don't feed, they 1388 01:17:50.640 --> 01:17:54.199 don't develop, and again they don't turn into those biting. 1389 01:17:53.880 --> 01:18:00.479 Adults right right, And so the anywhere there's stagnant water, 1390 01:18:01.000 --> 01:18:05.359 mosquitoes can reproduce. It's amazing how little water it takes 1391 01:18:05.600 --> 01:18:08.640 for mosquitoes to reproduce, as. 1392 01:18:08.439 --> 01:18:12.079 Little as a bottle capfull of water. Yeah, they don't 1393 01:18:12.079 --> 01:18:12.520 need a lot. 1394 01:18:12.640 --> 01:18:15.239 So think about that. Think about that. We get rains 1395 01:18:15.239 --> 01:18:18.600 around the Houston area, and you know, maybe you're good 1396 01:18:18.640 --> 01:18:22.640 at going out and dumping out the bird bath periodically 1397 01:18:22.680 --> 01:18:25.960 to keep mosquitoes from breeding in there. But what about 1398 01:18:26.039 --> 01:18:28.880 the you know that hollow tree where water gets in 1399 01:18:29.000 --> 01:18:31.399 and you got standing water in an old hollow section 1400 01:18:31.560 --> 01:18:33.880 on a tree, or what about other areas where you 1401 01:18:33.960 --> 01:18:38.239 just kick it in and drain it out. That's where 1402 01:18:38.279 --> 01:18:40.920 things like these mosquito dunks come in handy. One of 1403 01:18:40.960 --> 01:18:43.079 the one of the things I think people don't make 1404 01:18:43.119 --> 01:18:51.640 this connection. But you mentioned bacillistheringiensis israeliensis strain israeliansis. Everybody 1405 01:18:51.800 --> 01:18:54.880 that's a gardener pretty much knows about BT. And when 1406 01:18:54.920 --> 01:18:58.039 we say BT, we're talking about a strain called Kurshtaki 1407 01:18:58.439 --> 01:19:02.520 that kills caterpillars spread on foliage. Caterpillars eat it, caterpillars 1408 01:19:02.520 --> 01:19:05.199 get sick and die. This is a different strain of 1409 01:19:05.239 --> 01:19:08.239 BT that works on mosquitoes, and I believe it works 1410 01:19:08.279 --> 01:19:10.279 on fungus nuts too. Is that correct? 1411 01:19:11.119 --> 01:19:13.279 That is correct? That is correct. 1412 01:19:13.319 --> 01:19:18.399 So we make a product for caterpillar lepidopterrid species, the 1413 01:19:18.520 --> 01:19:24.199 Christaki version, but okay, guy, which is different is toxic 1414 01:19:24.279 --> 01:19:28.279 only to mosquito larva, black fly larva, and fungus gnat larva. 1415 01:19:29.000 --> 01:19:32.039 So if you have in your houseplants and you have 1416 01:19:32.079 --> 01:19:37.199 trouble with fungusnats, our mosquito bits will work to control 1417 01:19:37.279 --> 01:19:39.199 those those nasty pests. 1418 01:19:41.000 --> 01:19:43.359 That that is a that is a good point and 1419 01:19:43.399 --> 01:19:46.439 a lot of people, especially when you keep your pots 1420 01:19:46.680 --> 01:19:50.399 wet a little too wet, that wet potting soil, you're 1421 01:19:50.479 --> 01:19:53.119 gonna find fungus nuts showing up. They will find it 1422 01:19:53.199 --> 01:19:56.479 and there'll be a problem. And putting the little mosquito 1423 01:19:56.479 --> 01:19:58.680 bits it's the same thing as a mosquito dunk, just 1424 01:19:58.720 --> 01:20:01.560 small granules, right, That is correct. 1425 01:20:01.640 --> 01:20:03.720 They're formulated just a little bit differently. 1426 01:20:04.760 --> 01:20:09.680 So bits better in house plants or for broadcast application 1427 01:20:10.279 --> 01:20:13.560 large areas outside where it might be difficult to float 1428 01:20:13.560 --> 01:20:18.119 a dunk. The bits are ideal for houseplants and control 1429 01:20:18.159 --> 01:20:19.039 of fungus nats. 1430 01:20:19.039 --> 01:20:25.119 Good good well, And that is that is helpful. I 1431 01:20:25.199 --> 01:20:29.399 know too that, for example, in the basins underneath of 1432 01:20:29.600 --> 01:20:33.319 outdoor plants on the patio, those little catch basins, we 1433 01:20:33.399 --> 01:20:35.880 often have standing water in there when you're watering enough 1434 01:20:35.920 --> 01:20:38.840 to keep that thing alive on hot summer days. And 1435 01:20:38.920 --> 01:20:41.560 boy is that ever a good mosquito breeding area. But 1436 01:20:41.600 --> 01:20:44.640 you can't quite get a dunk inside those little basins. 1437 01:20:44.720 --> 01:20:49.359 Usually bits are a great application for that. 1438 01:20:51.079 --> 01:20:55.359 Okay, okay, mosquito bits and grandinous mosquito dunks. And they're 1439 01:20:55.399 --> 01:20:59.560 all from the companies called some Responsible Solutions, right, that 1440 01:20:59.680 --> 01:21:06.399 is good, good well. I know that those people that 1441 01:21:06.399 --> 01:21:10.720 have dealt with mosquitoes before definitely are concerned about it. 1442 01:21:10.760 --> 01:21:14.159 And we should be concerned because there's some pretty serious 1443 01:21:14.199 --> 01:21:18.199 diseases that mosquitoes carry. I don't know if you're an 1444 01:21:18.199 --> 01:21:22.800 expert on mosquito disease caused diseases, you are transmitted diseases, 1445 01:21:23.279 --> 01:21:26.199 but you probably have some thoughts on that as well. 1446 01:21:27.279 --> 01:21:30.800 Sure, we know that mosquitoes can carry disease like West 1447 01:21:30.880 --> 01:21:37.199 Nile virus zica in you know more southern climates. Other 1448 01:21:37.239 --> 01:21:41.000 parts of the world, Dungey fever can be a problem, 1449 01:21:41.920 --> 01:21:44.760 But we are seeing a little bit of an increase 1450 01:21:44.840 --> 01:21:48.840 in mosquito born illness here in the States. So in 1451 01:21:48.920 --> 01:21:53.760 most cases, yeah, it's relatively treatable. 1452 01:21:54.560 --> 01:21:56.239 People develop some kind of flu. 1453 01:21:56.199 --> 01:22:00.239 Like symptoms, body aches, joint pain, headache, things like that, 1454 01:22:00.359 --> 01:22:04.760 but it can be very serious and mosquito bites. Mosquitos, unfortunately, 1455 01:22:05.319 --> 01:22:09.199 are considered one of the world's deadliest animals, so they 1456 01:22:09.239 --> 01:22:13.760 can transmit disease that can result in death. 1457 01:22:14.079 --> 01:22:16.600 And I want to I want to just repeat what 1458 01:22:17.399 --> 01:22:19.880 you just said there, because I recently read a book 1459 01:22:20.479 --> 01:22:24.680 about some of the essentially the plagues of history, you know, 1460 01:22:24.800 --> 01:22:28.840 everything from the Black Death to you name it, and 1461 01:22:28.960 --> 01:22:34.159 several of those were mosquito based transmitted issues in those 1462 01:22:34.199 --> 01:22:37.199 plagues of history, and not just a plague going through 1463 01:22:37.239 --> 01:22:39.760 but the things that just exist in tropical areas and 1464 01:22:40.119 --> 01:22:45.039 kill millions of people over time. And to say mosquitoes 1465 01:22:45.279 --> 01:22:49.960 are one of the world's most dangerous animals is striking 1466 01:22:50.079 --> 01:22:52.760 that it's really true. When you look at the number 1467 01:22:52.760 --> 01:22:56.000 of deaths through history that have been caused by mosquitoes, 1468 01:22:56.039 --> 01:22:59.720 I think it exceeds everything else as far as creatures 1469 01:23:00.039 --> 01:23:01.159 are concerned. 1470 01:23:00.760 --> 01:23:02.000 I believe you are correct. 1471 01:23:02.119 --> 01:23:05.920 Yes, yep, they're pretty small, but they can be deadly. 1472 01:23:07.319 --> 01:23:09.640 They sure can. Well, I'm going to take a little 1473 01:23:09.640 --> 01:23:12.720 break here and we'll come back with you, Heather in 1474 01:23:12.800 --> 01:23:14.680 just a moment. If you can hang on for one second, 1475 01:23:15.159 --> 01:23:17.399 we would like to continue this discussion. I got plenty 1476 01:23:17.399 --> 01:23:20.199 more things I'd love to talk about, so we'll be 1477 01:23:20.279 --> 01:23:26.439 right back. Folks. Alright, yeah, yeah, you knew I had 1478 01:23:26.439 --> 01:23:30.479 to play buzz off mosquito with the topic we got today. Hey, 1479 01:23:30.520 --> 01:23:33.359 welcome back, Heather. It's good to have you back. I 1480 01:23:33.399 --> 01:23:39.199 wanted to continue on with a few questions, if that's okay. 1481 01:23:38.359 --> 01:23:44.159 The BT I the type of BT that's in mosquito dunks. 1482 01:23:45.560 --> 01:23:47.800 Can you tell me kind of how it works? How 1483 01:23:47.800 --> 01:23:50.119 does it kill a mosquito? Some people kind of like 1484 01:23:50.199 --> 01:23:51.760 to get into the nerdy part of this. 1485 01:23:52.840 --> 01:23:53.159 Sure. 1486 01:23:53.359 --> 01:23:57.680 So, essentially, it acts as a gut disruptor. So as 1487 01:23:57.720 --> 01:24:01.239 those as the female mosquitos lay the eggs, the eggs 1488 01:24:01.319 --> 01:24:05.199 hatch into larva in the water, and they're filter feeders, 1489 01:24:05.520 --> 01:24:08.880 so they ingest micro organisms and anything that's in the 1490 01:24:08.920 --> 01:24:15.279 water in the water column that the ti dissolves off 1491 01:24:15.359 --> 01:24:21.560 the mosquito dunk and as the mosquito ingests that again, 1492 01:24:21.680 --> 01:24:26.479 because it acts as a gut disruptor, it basically kills them. 1493 01:24:26.680 --> 01:24:28.520 They're not able to feed and they die. 1494 01:24:30.439 --> 01:24:33.640 That's interesting. So the function in a mosquito larva is 1495 01:24:33.640 --> 01:24:38.840 the same as regular BT is in a cuterpeller, disrupting 1496 01:24:38.920 --> 01:24:42.520 the gut. That is good. Hey, we have a callar here. 1497 01:24:43.680 --> 01:24:46.239 I'm gonna let's head over to a collar Jay in 1498 01:24:46.279 --> 01:24:50.119 the woodlands. Jay, I think you had some mosquito questions. 1499 01:24:51.439 --> 01:24:56.560 Yeah, good morning, darnedest thing. Yeah, I've got mosquito craps 1500 01:24:56.680 --> 01:24:58.920 in the front yard, you know, the one whard has 1501 01:24:58.960 --> 01:25:01.479 the UV at a track and the fan blows them down. 1502 01:25:02.279 --> 01:25:05.840 Same thing in the backyard the first time. And I've 1503 01:25:05.880 --> 01:25:08.199 lived here since two thousand and eight. I'm having a 1504 01:25:08.239 --> 01:25:11.520 lot of mosquitos inside my house. I mean, I am 1505 01:25:11.560 --> 01:25:17.319 getting eaten alive. I've checked windows, I've checked for you know, screens, 1506 01:25:17.640 --> 01:25:20.680 I've checked everything. But how was that happening? 1507 01:25:20.680 --> 01:25:23.760 And what can I do about it? We make a 1508 01:25:23.880 --> 01:25:26.720 couple of comments and I'll pass the baton to you 1509 01:25:26.840 --> 01:25:29.720 if you'd like to add anything to it. I've noticed 1510 01:25:29.800 --> 01:25:33.159 mosquitos like to gather around the entrance to my house. 1511 01:25:33.239 --> 01:25:35.520 Like the front door is kind of an entrance set 1512 01:25:35.560 --> 01:25:38.800 in with the area, and they gather there. So every 1513 01:25:38.840 --> 01:25:40.520 time we open and close the door, even if we 1514 01:25:40.600 --> 01:25:43.159 try to be fast, it's just like they're right there, 1515 01:25:43.279 --> 01:25:45.880 and it's almost like it pulls them in. I don't 1516 01:25:45.920 --> 01:25:49.439 know of any way a mosquito would breed or develop 1517 01:25:49.760 --> 01:25:53.039 like inside your house, but somehow they would be coming 1518 01:25:53.039 --> 01:25:55.159 in from the outside. Heather, do you have any thoughts 1519 01:25:55.199 --> 01:25:55.560 on that? 1520 01:25:56.479 --> 01:25:59.560 Yeah, I unless you have an area of standing water, 1521 01:25:59.680 --> 01:26:01.920 I would think it would be difficult for them to 1522 01:26:02.000 --> 01:26:02.960 breed indoors. 1523 01:26:03.520 --> 01:26:05.239 They are likely coming in from the. 1524 01:26:05.199 --> 01:26:09.159 Outside, particularly if you've got shady areas where they like 1525 01:26:09.199 --> 01:26:12.199 to harbor near your entryways. 1526 01:26:13.760 --> 01:26:13.920 Hm. 1527 01:26:14.720 --> 01:26:19.840 Okay, the back door is fairly sunny, but now the 1528 01:26:19.840 --> 01:26:22.239 front doors in shade. I rarely go out the front door. 1529 01:26:23.159 --> 01:26:26.520 I mean, I've got access to cosplosives with that help. 1530 01:26:29.600 --> 01:26:34.159 Oh boy, this sounds like we're going to Caddyshack Land here, Jay, 1531 01:26:35.520 --> 01:26:38.920 with you take because this is like Moby Dick. The 1532 01:26:38.960 --> 01:26:42.520 mosquitoes are the big white whale, and you've becoming obsessed there. 1533 01:26:42.359 --> 01:26:47.159 With the pretty much pretty much. But basically just just 1534 01:26:47.239 --> 01:26:50.279 wave them out and just try to shoo them away 1535 01:26:50.359 --> 01:26:51.439 when I'm going in and out. 1536 01:26:52.920 --> 01:26:55.119 It maybe just be a little observant, you know of that. 1537 01:26:56.159 --> 01:26:58.319 We we have dogs that go in and out the 1538 01:26:58.359 --> 01:26:59.800 door all the time. They think they have to be 1539 01:26:59.840 --> 01:27:02.479 out side over five minutes and uh so we do 1540 01:27:02.560 --> 01:27:04.560 a lot of door opening, and probably more than we're 1541 01:27:04.600 --> 01:27:07.880 conscious of. But I don't know what else to tell 1542 01:27:07.920 --> 01:27:14.479 you on that somehow they're coming in though. So yeah, okay, 1543 01:27:14.840 --> 01:27:16.600 well a lot of ideas. I think Heather and I 1544 01:27:16.680 --> 01:27:20.119 both said, you bet, thank you, Ja, I appreciate appreciate 1545 01:27:20.159 --> 01:27:25.720 your call very much. Okay, Uh, let's uh Heather, we 1546 01:27:25.760 --> 01:27:28.319 win to run over to another call right here. Somebody's 1547 01:27:28.319 --> 01:27:32.760 got an idea mosquitoes. We talked to Adolph in Menville. Hey, Adolf, 1548 01:27:32.800 --> 01:27:33.960 got some thoughts here. 1549 01:27:34.600 --> 01:27:38.960 Yes, sir, good morning. I wanted to ask you, uh, 1550 01:27:40.239 --> 01:27:45.079 does the mosquitoes spray the county sprays for mosquitoes. Does 1551 01:27:45.119 --> 01:27:51.000 that affect the the garden pints? For example, I had 1552 01:27:51.039 --> 01:27:56.680 a couple of rue plants. They're beautiful, yeah, and now 1553 01:27:56.720 --> 01:28:01.439 they're they're kind of dying off. Well it kind of 1554 01:28:01.479 --> 01:28:03.199 will be I don't know. 1555 01:28:03.239 --> 01:28:03.439 If it. 1556 01:28:05.680 --> 01:28:09.960 Go ahead, yes, sir, well, I'll comment on it, and again, Heather, 1557 01:28:10.000 --> 01:28:12.880 if you want to add something, please do. Uh the 1558 01:28:13.239 --> 01:28:15.520 sprays they use for those the trucks going down the 1559 01:28:15.520 --> 01:28:18.279 street and whatnot, Uh, they're not going to do that 1560 01:28:18.359 --> 01:28:21.399 to your plants. And they just they dissipate very you know. 1561 01:28:21.800 --> 01:28:24.880 I guess if someone took and just sprayed a liquid 1562 01:28:25.159 --> 01:28:28.880 right onto a plant, you might have something. But the 1563 01:28:29.239 --> 01:28:31.800 kinds of things they're using are not that way. They 1564 01:28:31.880 --> 01:28:35.399 could not go spraying stuff that's going to damage plants 1565 01:28:35.439 --> 01:28:37.600 up and down the street. That would be a big mess. 1566 01:28:41.199 --> 01:28:45.520 Yeah, yeah, I wouldn't think so. I just wondered why 1567 01:28:45.920 --> 01:28:48.119 all of a sudden it seemed like, yeah, maybe it 1568 01:28:48.199 --> 01:28:49.159 was just a coincidence. 1569 01:28:49.199 --> 01:28:54.560 I don't know any other thoughts, any other thoughts on that. 1570 01:28:56.520 --> 01:28:58.680 I would say it's just a coincidence. 1571 01:29:00.079 --> 01:29:02.800 Their spring is an insecticide and not a herbicide, so 1572 01:29:02.880 --> 01:29:07.039 you it shouldn't have any damaging effect to landscape. 1573 01:29:07.199 --> 01:29:13.640 Okay, all right, all right, good, thanks a lot, appreciate it. 1574 01:29:13.720 --> 01:29:16.800 Right off, Heather, we had a caller came in and 1575 01:29:16.920 --> 01:29:19.680 just left the message and he thought maybe the mosquitoes 1576 01:29:19.760 --> 01:29:23.159 and this is this goes for the previous caller. Uh 1577 01:29:23.640 --> 01:29:28.000 might be coming in through plumbing vents, So I don't 1578 01:29:28.159 --> 01:29:31.960 know exactly how where that process would work. I don't 1579 01:29:31.960 --> 01:29:34.039 know what would bring them in through there, unless there's 1580 01:29:34.039 --> 01:29:37.199 some of our carbon diox arbill breathing out is going out. 1581 01:29:38.319 --> 01:29:39.439 I'm not certain either. 1582 01:29:39.560 --> 01:29:42.279 My brother is actually a plumber, but I can't afford 1583 01:29:42.279 --> 01:29:45.399 to him to ask him, so I could ask you. 1584 01:29:46.159 --> 01:29:49.319 Oh, he charges family. Don't you get the family right? 1585 01:29:49.399 --> 01:29:50.079 At least Heather? 1586 01:29:52.359 --> 01:29:55.840 But I'm not sure, but I'll add, okay. 1587 01:29:55.880 --> 01:29:56.319 You might know. 1588 01:29:57.720 --> 01:30:01.760 That's that's kind of that's kind of interesting. Now with 1589 01:30:01.880 --> 01:30:05.119 the bits you were talking earlier about the dunks, which 1590 01:30:05.119 --> 01:30:08.359 are the little mini donuts that we float, last about 1591 01:30:08.359 --> 01:30:10.720 a month. With the bits, I think you're wanting to 1592 01:30:10.760 --> 01:30:13.039 reapply those about every week or two, right. 1593 01:30:13.680 --> 01:30:17.920 That is correct. We recommend for best control that you 1594 01:30:17.960 --> 01:30:22.359 apply about every seven to fourteen days. They're designed to 1595 01:30:22.399 --> 01:30:25.720 control very quickly, so they'll begin to kill mosquito larva 1596 01:30:25.760 --> 01:30:27.359 within twenty four hours. 1597 01:30:28.439 --> 01:30:30.039 You know, they don't last. 1598 01:30:29.880 --> 01:30:33.039 Quite as long as the dunks, so reapplication every seven 1599 01:30:33.119 --> 01:30:35.319 to fourteen days. 1600 01:30:35.520 --> 01:30:39.600 Yes, okay, So interesting thing about mosquitoes is when the 1601 01:30:39.640 --> 01:30:41.920 water is moving they tend out to be as big 1602 01:30:41.960 --> 01:30:44.960 of a problem. They like stagnant still water, especially water 1603 01:30:45.039 --> 01:30:50.399 with decomposing organic matter in it. And so there, you know, 1604 01:30:50.439 --> 01:30:52.680 a lot of people utilize that. I've seen a little 1605 01:30:52.720 --> 01:30:55.319 thing you float in bird baths that just makes ripples 1606 01:30:55.439 --> 01:30:58.640 and the water. Funny little thing, but it just it 1607 01:30:58.720 --> 01:31:01.560 just keeps the water ripple and it kind of helps 1608 01:31:01.600 --> 01:31:04.920 to cut down on yeah, cuts down on them a lot. 1609 01:31:04.960 --> 01:31:08.239 You can't you can't do that practically all over the landscape. 1610 01:31:08.239 --> 01:31:13.199 But that is interesting. Now, these this bt i basilosthere 1611 01:31:13.239 --> 01:31:17.399 gensis Israelian, the bti and mosquito dunks. It does not 1612 01:31:17.520 --> 01:31:21.079 hurt people or pets or birds or you can put 1613 01:31:21.159 --> 01:31:23.239 in your coy pond or you know, if you got 1614 01:31:23.880 --> 01:31:26.840 goldfish in a pond or little thing outside. It's not 1615 01:31:26.880 --> 01:31:31.199 gonna hurt livestock. It's not gonna hurt beneficial insects, birds 1616 01:31:31.279 --> 01:31:35.000 or any of the wildlife. That's correct, right, that is correct. 1617 01:31:35.079 --> 01:31:38.680 It is toxic only to mosquito larva, black fly larva, 1618 01:31:38.760 --> 01:31:44.159 and fungus net larvae, so it won't harm pets, wild life, fish, livestock, 1619 01:31:44.720 --> 01:31:46.199 any none target species. 1620 01:31:48.119 --> 01:31:52.479 Good. Now, when it rains, there's all these places that 1621 01:31:52.840 --> 01:31:55.720 maybe we don't notice. Everybody knows that old tires catch 1622 01:31:55.760 --> 01:31:59.840 water and that's just mosquito heaven to go breed there. 1623 01:32:00.399 --> 01:32:04.000 But there are other places that sometimes we see water, 1624 01:32:04.199 --> 01:32:07.600 such as like a little kid's kiddie pool, you know, 1625 01:32:07.600 --> 01:32:10.760 a little plastic kids set in the water pools and 1626 01:32:10.800 --> 01:32:12.520 you put water in it and you go away, and 1627 01:32:12.560 --> 01:32:15.640 you think, well, you know, I'll change that. It hadn't 1628 01:32:15.680 --> 01:32:18.439 been there very long. But it doesn't take mosquitos long 1629 01:32:18.520 --> 01:32:21.079 to go through their life cycle, does it. 1630 01:32:21.079 --> 01:32:24.399 It really doesn't. It's just a couple of days. So 1631 01:32:24.720 --> 01:32:27.600 you know, a lot standing water is key. 1632 01:32:28.720 --> 01:32:31.439 But you're right, there are often places where people don't 1633 01:32:31.439 --> 01:32:35.039 look where they're collecting water. So a lot of times 1634 01:32:35.079 --> 01:32:39.199 people don't look up your gutters if they're clogged, can 1635 01:32:39.239 --> 01:32:40.319 collect standing water. 1636 01:32:43.000 --> 01:32:48.279 Yeah, that that is amazing. I'd like to just remind 1637 01:32:48.319 --> 01:32:52.479 people of that because it just doesn't take long at all. 1638 01:32:53.199 --> 01:32:56.640 And there are a number of different species of mosquitos too, 1639 01:32:57.359 --> 01:32:59.680 and we don't we have more than one species here 1640 01:33:00.079 --> 01:33:03.560 leave in our area. Any thoughts about some of the 1641 01:33:03.600 --> 01:33:04.800 species we're dealing with. 1642 01:33:06.239 --> 01:33:09.159 You know, I am not quite as familiar with the 1643 01:33:09.239 --> 01:33:12.560 number of species that you have in Texas or in 1644 01:33:12.600 --> 01:33:15.880 the Houston area specifically, But you're right, there are a 1645 01:33:15.960 --> 01:33:21.239 number of different species. Yeah, the benefit to dunks and 1646 01:33:21.319 --> 01:33:24.600 bits is that it will control all of them, so 1647 01:33:24.920 --> 01:33:28.199 it's there you go. It's not just specific to one 1648 01:33:28.239 --> 01:33:31.159 species or another. It will control all mosquito larvae. 1649 01:33:32.720 --> 01:33:35.319 That's that is good. That's kind of what I was 1650 01:33:35.640 --> 01:33:41.520 thinking as in asking that I I do know that. Well, 1651 01:33:42.000 --> 01:33:44.319 all of you listening to me, you've had time where 1652 01:33:44.319 --> 01:33:46.800 you go out and it's like they're really big mosquitoes 1653 01:33:46.880 --> 01:33:50.560 landing on you. And then there's a time maybe a 1654 01:33:50.560 --> 01:33:52.319 little further away from rain or something, where you see 1655 01:33:52.359 --> 01:33:55.359 these little tiny mosquitos that are landing There's Those are 1656 01:33:55.399 --> 01:33:57.960 just two examples of some of the different species that 1657 01:33:58.000 --> 01:34:01.319 we see here in this area. I'm up against a 1658 01:34:01.359 --> 01:34:05.039 heartbreak here in twenty seconds, Heather, I want you to 1659 01:34:05.079 --> 01:34:06.920 come back, and I'd like to shift gears a little 1660 01:34:06.920 --> 01:34:09.079 bit and talk about some of the other products that 1661 01:34:09.119 --> 01:34:13.600 you guys at Summit Solutions have some at Responsible Solutions, 1662 01:34:13.920 --> 01:34:16.119 and I just think it's great that we have something 1663 01:34:16.159 --> 01:34:19.359 that doesn't hurt all the things we care about outside, 1664 01:34:19.920 --> 01:34:22.520 but it does take out the mosquitos you know, to 1665 01:34:22.520 --> 01:34:25.479 have an organic option like that is wonderful. Folks will 1666 01:34:25.479 --> 01:34:30.079 be right back, all right, welcome back, Welcome back to 1667 01:34:30.119 --> 01:34:33.760 garden Line. This hour, we are visiting with Heather Stickney 1668 01:34:33.920 --> 01:34:38.680 from Summit Responsible Solutions. They are the makers of Mosquito 1669 01:34:38.760 --> 01:34:44.079 dunks and Mosquito Bits, which are one of the best, safest, 1670 01:34:44.479 --> 01:34:48.079 most common sense ways I can think of to stop 1671 01:34:48.159 --> 01:34:52.279 mosquito larva from developing and turning into those nasty, adult, 1672 01:34:52.640 --> 01:34:56.479 flying and biting mosquitos that we have to deal with. Heather, 1673 01:34:56.600 --> 01:34:59.279 welcome back to garden Line. It's good to have you back, 1674 01:34:59.319 --> 01:35:01.439 and I want to to shift gears for a moment 1675 01:35:01.840 --> 01:35:04.479 outside of the mosquito dunks and bets and tell us 1676 01:35:04.479 --> 01:35:06.920 about some of the other products that you guys carry. 1677 01:35:06.960 --> 01:35:09.800 I generally don't talk about those a lot online, so 1678 01:35:10.319 --> 01:35:11.479 I'd like to hear about some of that. 1679 01:35:12.640 --> 01:35:16.520 Sure, so we talk about mosquito dunks and mosquito bits 1680 01:35:16.600 --> 01:35:21.520 as being a great way to control mosquito larva. Unfortunately, 1681 01:35:21.720 --> 01:35:25.039 there is no fail safe way to eliminate mosquitos from 1682 01:35:25.079 --> 01:35:28.479 your yard completely. Controlling the larva is a good way 1683 01:35:28.520 --> 01:35:31.960 to do that, but when you do have those adults 1684 01:35:32.000 --> 01:35:34.680 that you want to try to control. We make a 1685 01:35:34.960 --> 01:35:39.840 product called Mosquito and Net Barrier, which is a permethron 1686 01:35:40.079 --> 01:35:44.560 based spray. Permethron has been widely used in mosquito control 1687 01:35:44.680 --> 01:35:48.399 for many, many years, and that will actually help knock 1688 01:35:48.520 --> 01:35:54.399 down and control that adult population. So you can kill 1689 01:35:54.439 --> 01:35:57.760 the adults, and you can kill the larva using a 1690 01:35:57.760 --> 01:36:00.960 combination of the dunks and bits and then the mosquito 1691 01:36:01.039 --> 01:36:01.840 and that barrier. 1692 01:36:03.600 --> 01:36:07.079 Okay, now, is this something you're just spraying the mosquito 1693 01:36:07.119 --> 01:36:10.039 and that barrier in the air, or are you like 1694 01:36:10.079 --> 01:36:12.840 spraying surfaces Like we were talking a while ago about 1695 01:36:12.840 --> 01:36:14.920 how at my house the back door is kind of 1696 01:36:14.960 --> 01:36:17.960 inside and I just see mosquitos kind of they love 1697 01:36:18.039 --> 01:36:19.880 hanging out in there in the hot, hot part of 1698 01:36:19.920 --> 01:36:22.920 the day. Or would I be spraying the bricks and 1699 01:36:22.920 --> 01:36:25.520 stuff with it so that if they lay in they 1700 01:36:25.560 --> 01:36:26.960 get it on them or what? 1701 01:36:27.680 --> 01:36:30.199 Really, where you want to apply it is in your lawn, 1702 01:36:30.600 --> 01:36:34.479 so on your grass, and then on areas where mosquitoes 1703 01:36:34.720 --> 01:36:38.520 might rest, so on vertical surfaces like fences. They like 1704 01:36:38.600 --> 01:36:44.279 to harbor in bushes, shady areas. They're not really strong flyers, 1705 01:36:44.279 --> 01:36:46.680 so they're more low than high. 1706 01:36:47.000 --> 01:36:50.279 But okay, areas where they made harbor during the day. 1707 01:36:51.760 --> 01:36:55.880 Oh well, and I know around our area the shrubs 1708 01:36:55.960 --> 01:36:57.880 around the house. You know, everybody wants to have shrubs 1709 01:36:57.880 --> 01:37:00.800 around the house, and that during the day when it's hot, 1710 01:37:01.279 --> 01:37:05.119 that's that's where the mosquitoes really tend to gather. You know, 1711 01:37:05.199 --> 01:37:08.439 for us in the kudo parts of the day, they 1712 01:37:08.439 --> 01:37:09.920 get that break at the end of the day when 1713 01:37:09.960 --> 01:37:12.760 we want to go outside, so do they, and that's 1714 01:37:12.760 --> 01:37:15.279 when they show up on the patio to spoil the show. 1715 01:37:16.000 --> 01:37:18.279 But so you would use the mosquito in that barrier, 1716 01:37:18.800 --> 01:37:22.000 sprang it onto the foliage of those of the plants, 1717 01:37:22.239 --> 01:37:26.479 the shrubs and things. Yeah, that makes sense. I get that. 1718 01:37:26.680 --> 01:37:30.880 Anything else or go ahead, go ahead. But you were 1719 01:37:30.880 --> 01:37:31.720 going to add some well. 1720 01:37:31.600 --> 01:37:33.439 I was going to say, with respect to the mosquito 1721 01:37:33.439 --> 01:37:36.159 and net barrier, you know, you don't have to worry 1722 01:37:36.159 --> 01:37:40.119 about harming your landscape plants. Again, it's an insecticide and 1723 01:37:40.159 --> 01:37:43.239 not an herb aside, so it shouldn't do any damage 1724 01:37:43.239 --> 01:37:43.960 to your plants. 1725 01:37:45.399 --> 01:37:51.439 Okay, all right, any other kinds of products to talk about. 1726 01:37:52.520 --> 01:37:55.359 You know a lot of times people will use a 1727 01:37:55.560 --> 01:37:59.640 skin based repellent to help keep mosquitoes off of them, 1728 01:38:00.439 --> 01:38:03.279 something like a beet or something that's been EPA approved 1729 01:38:03.359 --> 01:38:07.560 as a skin based repellent. Yeah, it's hard to keep 1730 01:38:07.600 --> 01:38:10.760 covered up when you're outside, especially in Houston in the 1731 01:38:10.760 --> 01:38:16.119 summer months, but keeping your person protected with longer layers helps. 1732 01:38:17.399 --> 01:38:20.960 We make a product called Green Armor insect Repellent, which 1733 01:38:21.000 --> 01:38:24.119 is designed as a clothing and gear treatment, So you 1734 01:38:24.159 --> 01:38:30.239 can actually treat your pants, your shoes, your socks, your shirts, 1735 01:38:30.319 --> 01:38:36.479 your ball caps, backpacks, tents, canvas chairs that you might 1736 01:38:36.560 --> 01:38:40.520 use outside sit in with this product called green Armor. 1737 01:38:40.920 --> 01:38:46.920 It works as a repellent and it will also kill mosquitoes, ticks, 1738 01:38:46.960 --> 01:38:52.760 which can be problematic, gnats, I'm sorry, mites, and chiggers. 1739 01:38:53.239 --> 01:38:56.000 So just sort of an added layer of protection to 1740 01:38:56.079 --> 01:38:57.159 skin based repellent. 1741 01:38:58.720 --> 01:39:01.039 Okay, So that's the kind of thing that you would like, 1742 01:39:01.199 --> 01:39:05.960 spray it onto these surfaces and let it dry for 1743 01:39:06.000 --> 01:39:11.119 a little bit before then using them yourself. Like whether 1744 01:39:11.159 --> 01:39:14.960 it's a some item of a clothing or like you're 1745 01:39:15.000 --> 01:39:18.159 mentioning a tent or a backpack or something like that. 1746 01:39:18.720 --> 01:39:19.319 Is that correct? 1747 01:39:19.319 --> 01:39:22.439 That is correct? That is correct. You'd spray the garment 1748 01:39:22.520 --> 01:39:25.279 thoroughly or the equipment thoroughly. 1749 01:39:25.039 --> 01:39:28.159 Allow it to dry and then you're able to use it. 1750 01:39:29.720 --> 01:39:33.439 So it's kind of a neat product. It will treat 1751 01:39:34.159 --> 01:39:37.239 I believe, up to seven full outfits and will last 1752 01:39:37.439 --> 01:39:39.520 up to six weeks even after washing. 1753 01:39:40.159 --> 01:39:41.279 So if you're someone who. 1754 01:39:41.199 --> 01:39:48.640 Likes that is significant. Yeah, that is really significant. Okay. So, 1755 01:39:48.840 --> 01:39:53.840 and not just mosquitoes, but other crawlers, ticks and chiggers 1756 01:39:53.880 --> 01:39:55.800 and mites and things as well. 1757 01:39:55.880 --> 01:39:58.680 Right, that is correct. That is correct? 1758 01:39:59.399 --> 01:40:02.119 So nice, you know, and can be used at any 1759 01:40:02.159 --> 01:40:04.920 time in the season. We're talking a lot about mosquitoes now, 1760 01:40:05.000 --> 01:40:09.920 but in the fall if people are out hunting, you know, 1761 01:40:10.039 --> 01:40:13.399 in terms of controlling against ticks, it's a great it's 1762 01:40:13.439 --> 01:40:14.079 a great option. 1763 01:40:16.039 --> 01:40:20.119 Okay. Nice. Well, that's that's good. Uh So is there 1764 01:40:20.119 --> 01:40:22.720 anything else that I should be asking about a product 1765 01:40:22.720 --> 01:40:23.960 wise that you'd like to tell. 1766 01:40:23.840 --> 01:40:27.800 Us about, you know, right off the top of my head, 1767 01:40:27.840 --> 01:40:29.119 I can't think of anything. 1768 01:40:30.199 --> 01:40:30.319 Uh. 1769 01:40:30.600 --> 01:40:35.560 Well, I've I've been to your I've been to your website. Uh, 1770 01:40:35.800 --> 01:40:37.920 the summit, by the way, we should give that if 1771 01:40:38.000 --> 01:40:41.439 if people want to learn more about uh, these products, 1772 01:40:41.479 --> 01:40:45.479 you can go. Uh, I'll let you summit Responsible Solutions 1773 01:40:45.520 --> 01:40:46.640 dot com. Is that correct? 1774 01:40:47.439 --> 01:40:48.359 That is correct? 1775 01:40:50.199 --> 01:40:54.960 Okay, some Responsible Solutions dot Com. I was, I was 1776 01:40:55.000 --> 01:40:57.560 at the website and I saw a product that I 1777 01:40:57.560 --> 01:40:59.800 I know we're off target here or off topic here, 1778 01:40:59.840 --> 01:41:01.840 but I just have to ask you about it, and 1779 01:41:01.840 --> 01:41:05.319 that is called deer band repellent capsules. Do you guys 1780 01:41:05.560 --> 01:41:06.239 still have those? 1781 01:41:07.239 --> 01:41:07.720 We do? 1782 01:41:08.159 --> 01:41:08.520 We do. 1783 01:41:08.560 --> 01:41:12.520 It's kind of a unique option for repelling deer from 1784 01:41:12.600 --> 01:41:13.800 your yard and from your land. 1785 01:41:13.880 --> 01:41:18.800 Yes, yes, And that's one thing I've that caught my 1786 01:41:18.880 --> 01:41:22.479 attention is the uniqueness of it. 1787 01:41:22.479 --> 01:41:26.680 It is encapsulated go ahead. 1788 01:41:26.399 --> 01:41:31.960 Go ahead, No, I'm going to hear you say it. 1789 01:41:31.960 --> 01:41:38.159 It's an encapsulated coyote urine. So while odorless to humans, 1790 01:41:38.840 --> 01:41:42.560 deer have a much stronger sense of smell, so it 1791 01:41:42.880 --> 01:41:46.279 triggers in them a predator response. They think there's a 1792 01:41:46.319 --> 01:41:50.760 predator in the area, and they stay away. So basically, 1793 01:41:50.800 --> 01:41:54.359 you drop the capsule about every ten feet or so, 1794 01:41:54.680 --> 01:41:58.199 water it in, it webs out, and that scent reaction 1795 01:41:58.399 --> 01:41:59.560 will keep the deer away. 1796 01:42:01.399 --> 01:42:03.479 And I hear it works pretty good on on on 1797 01:42:03.640 --> 01:42:06.520 rabbits also a lot of people have rabbits coming in 1798 01:42:06.560 --> 01:42:07.880 to chew on things in the yard. 1799 01:42:08.520 --> 01:42:11.600 Rabbits, armadillo, I don't know if armadillo are a problem 1800 01:42:11.600 --> 01:42:13.880 in Houston, but it will keep those away as well. 1801 01:42:17.039 --> 01:42:20.800 All right, well, I'm pretty sure listeners that you've never 1802 01:42:20.840 --> 01:42:26.680 heard the words encapsulated coyote urine before on Guarden. When 1803 01:42:26.720 --> 01:42:28.399 I saw that, I just thought, Okay, I got to 1804 01:42:28.439 --> 01:42:31.439 ask other about this. This. Yeah, this is crazy. 1805 01:42:31.479 --> 01:42:34.279 I'm just glad I'm not the one who makes the product. 1806 01:42:34.840 --> 01:42:37.840 Oh my gosh. Yeah, I have so many questions, none 1807 01:42:37.880 --> 01:42:47.039 of which I need to go into right now. Anyway, Yeah, okay, Well, anyway, 1808 01:42:47.359 --> 01:42:49.840 that that's all very very cool stuff. So there's a 1809 01:42:49.840 --> 01:42:53.560 mosquito on that barrier that you spray on things, uh, 1810 01:42:53.600 --> 01:42:57.680 and it kills and repels them from from the area. 1811 01:42:57.960 --> 01:43:02.039 And then the green armor intectral hellan as well. So 1812 01:43:02.159 --> 01:43:04.600 let's see here, we're I'm in another break. We got 1813 01:43:04.600 --> 01:43:06.479 one more short segment. If I can get you to 1814 01:43:06.520 --> 01:43:08.119 hang on, can you hold on for a little longer 1815 01:43:08.159 --> 01:43:12.000 for us, come back one more time? Certainly, Thank you, Heather. 1816 01:43:12.439 --> 01:43:16.359 All right, we'll be right back, folks. All right, welcome back, folks. 1817 01:43:16.840 --> 01:43:21.760 We are visiting with Heather Stickney from Summit Responsible Solutions. 1818 01:43:21.800 --> 01:43:24.680 They're the makers of mosquito dunks that you hear me 1819 01:43:24.720 --> 01:43:28.279 talk about all the time here on garden Line. A 1820 01:43:28.479 --> 01:43:35.520 natural natural product that is a disease of mosquito larva. 1821 01:43:35.720 --> 01:43:38.039 So you put it in and put them in water, they 1822 01:43:38.039 --> 01:43:41.560 float along. They released that type of BT. By the way, BT. 1823 01:43:41.720 --> 01:43:43.840 You know we have BT for caterpillars. This is a 1824 01:43:43.840 --> 01:43:47.640 different strain of BT that kills mosquito larva and also 1825 01:43:47.720 --> 01:43:52.239 kills fungus gnats and Heather, what was the what was 1826 01:43:52.279 --> 01:43:59.960 the other thing? Did you say blackfly larva or what was? Okay? Good? Yeah, 1827 01:44:00.239 --> 01:44:03.159 And by the way, these are approved for use in 1828 01:44:03.319 --> 01:44:06.800 organic production, so if you you know, if someone has 1829 01:44:06.840 --> 01:44:09.920 an organic operation, this would be a type of a 1830 01:44:09.960 --> 01:44:14.279 product that could be used for that. How long will 1831 01:44:14.319 --> 01:44:19.079 they last? How long do they retain their potency? Heather, 1832 01:44:19.720 --> 01:44:22.000 if someone had mosquita dunks, maybe they bought them two 1833 01:44:22.039 --> 01:44:23.119 years ago or something. 1834 01:44:24.039 --> 01:44:28.720 Sure, they retain their potency really indefinitely, as long as 1835 01:44:28.720 --> 01:44:29.560 they stay dry. 1836 01:44:30.319 --> 01:44:37.239 So as long as they stay dry, that is correct. Good, Well, 1837 01:44:37.560 --> 01:44:40.319 I think that it sure makes sense, you know, to 1838 01:44:40.439 --> 01:44:43.880 just have them all the time hanging around the place. 1839 01:44:44.119 --> 01:44:47.479 I tell people that you just get them and if 1840 01:44:47.479 --> 01:44:49.960 you have some extra just hanging on the wall, you're 1841 01:44:49.960 --> 01:44:52.319 gonna need it later, and when you want it, you 1842 01:44:52.359 --> 01:44:53.840 don't have to run down and buy. You've already got 1843 01:44:53.880 --> 01:44:56.079 some there and you can just go out and use them. 1844 01:44:56.880 --> 01:45:00.680 I think we have a thing in gardening. Uh, I'm 1845 01:45:00.720 --> 01:45:03.880 having some fun here with the listeners and you, but 1846 01:45:04.000 --> 01:45:06.960 we have a thing here in gardening called gorilla gardening. 1847 01:45:07.039 --> 01:45:09.159 And basically what it means is gardeners good on the 1848 01:45:09.199 --> 01:45:12.279 sidewalk and they drop flower seeds in the sidewalk cracks, 1849 01:45:12.760 --> 01:45:15.279 or they stick a little fruit plant over in a 1850 01:45:15.319 --> 01:45:19.039 corner somewhere, and it's like they're they're out there doing 1851 01:45:19.079 --> 01:45:22.920 all this gardening stuff as they walk through town. I 1852 01:45:22.920 --> 01:45:26.199 think maybe we need to be gorilla mosquito controllers. You know, 1853 01:45:26.319 --> 01:45:29.520 you can climb over the fence at night and throw 1854 01:45:29.600 --> 01:45:32.960 mosquito dunks into your neighbor's stagnant water that they won't 1855 01:45:32.960 --> 01:45:39.319 deal with. And it's pretty I know you are just 1856 01:45:39.560 --> 01:45:42.880 get some granules and sling them over the fence. No, seriously, 1857 01:45:43.279 --> 01:45:47.079 you know, to offer to I am serious about what 1858 01:45:47.119 --> 01:45:49.359 I'm about to say that that was a joke, but uh, 1859 01:45:50.159 --> 01:45:54.479 to offer even to give your neighbors some bits or 1860 01:45:54.560 --> 01:45:57.199 dunks to put in in some water or something like that. 1861 01:45:57.319 --> 01:45:59.960 It makes sense for you because you don't want them 1862 01:46:00.039 --> 01:46:03.039 mosquitos breeding across the fence line and then flying over 1863 01:46:03.039 --> 01:46:06.279 to your place. And so the more you can get 1864 01:46:06.319 --> 01:46:09.560 neighbors to cooperate and to do these sort of things too, 1865 01:46:10.199 --> 01:46:11.840 the better off it'll be at your house. 1866 01:46:13.319 --> 01:46:14.000 Absolutely. 1867 01:46:14.720 --> 01:46:17.359 And again, you know, anyone who uses dunks or bits 1868 01:46:17.399 --> 01:46:21.600 can feel confident that they're only killing mosquito larvae. They're 1869 01:46:21.640 --> 01:46:27.680 not other beneficial insects, any wildlife. It's probably one of 1870 01:46:27.720 --> 01:46:31.479 my favorite things about the product. It does what it's 1871 01:46:31.600 --> 01:46:37.119 supposed to do very effectively without causing any other harm. 1872 01:46:37.479 --> 01:46:41.960 That that is really interesting. Just to nerd out a 1873 01:46:42.039 --> 01:46:47.840 little bit here on mosquitos. Why do mosquitoes bite us? 1874 01:46:47.920 --> 01:46:50.359 You know, I mean, we know they want our blood, 1875 01:46:50.399 --> 01:46:54.560 but why do they bite us? What's going on there? 1876 01:46:55.439 --> 01:46:58.359 So one of the interesting things about mosquitos is that 1877 01:46:58.520 --> 01:47:01.880 it's only the females who bite. 1878 01:47:02.439 --> 01:47:05.159 And I'm gonna let that one just I'm gonna let 1879 01:47:05.199 --> 01:47:08.039 that go. I have lots to say about that, but 1880 01:47:08.199 --> 01:47:10.479 we're gonna let it go. That my gift to the 1881 01:47:10.560 --> 01:47:14.680 listeners today, And you go ahead. I figured it's okay 1882 01:47:14.720 --> 01:47:19.159 because in a honey, yeah, in a honeybee colony, it's 1883 01:47:19.199 --> 01:47:21.279 only the females that do any of the work. The 1884 01:47:21.319 --> 01:47:24.199 males just lay around the hive all day, so there's 1885 01:47:24.199 --> 01:47:25.359 a balance to nature. 1886 01:47:26.039 --> 01:47:30.439 Go ahead, absolutely, But the females require a blood meal 1887 01:47:30.520 --> 01:47:33.720 to lay their eggs. So that's why there, that's why 1888 01:47:33.720 --> 01:47:37.039 they're biting. They're getting ready to lay their clutch of 1889 01:47:37.079 --> 01:47:41.159 eggs in standing water and start the population all over again. 1890 01:47:41.760 --> 01:47:46.359 So that's it. 1891 01:47:47.199 --> 01:47:50.039 That's it. That's it. Well, it is kind of interesting 1892 01:47:50.399 --> 01:47:54.399 and something something we haven't talked about and I is 1893 01:47:55.640 --> 01:47:58.600 dogs and heartworms. Here on the Gulf Coast. Heartworms are 1894 01:47:58.680 --> 01:48:02.520 a serious problem dogs. If your dog is without heartworm 1895 01:48:02.560 --> 01:48:06.239 protection for a month, they can be in a life 1896 01:48:06.399 --> 01:48:10.199 threatening problem. That and the vets are always saying keep 1897 01:48:10.239 --> 01:48:13.960 your dog, especially the Gulf Coast, keep your dogs protected 1898 01:48:14.000 --> 01:48:17.279 on heartworms. Well, heartworms are spread by mosquitoes as they 1899 01:48:17.359 --> 01:48:20.159 do the blood feeding on the dogs, and so this 1900 01:48:20.199 --> 01:48:23.399 would be yet another benefit of using the dunks and 1901 01:48:23.439 --> 01:48:26.079 things to keep the mosquitoes down. It's for your for 1902 01:48:26.159 --> 01:48:32.520 your your pets like that. Absolutely anyway, fun fact, uh so, 1903 01:48:32.880 --> 01:48:36.720 uh one one other kind of curiosity and I have 1904 01:48:36.840 --> 01:48:41.239 heard mosquito folks talk about this before. But why is 1905 01:48:41.239 --> 01:48:44.800 it that mosquitos itch when they when they do their 1906 01:48:44.880 --> 01:48:48.279 feeding on you? Why is that an itchy thing? Do 1907 01:48:48.319 --> 01:48:49.479 you want to comment on that? 1908 01:48:50.439 --> 01:48:54.399 Sure, so when they bite, they are injecting their saliva 1909 01:48:54.479 --> 01:48:58.199 into you and it triggers a systamine response in the body. 1910 01:48:58.840 --> 01:49:01.840 So your body text that sali but it knows it's 1911 01:49:01.880 --> 01:49:05.319 not supposed to be there, and that histamine response is 1912 01:49:05.359 --> 01:49:06.479 what causes the itch. 1913 01:49:08.760 --> 01:49:12.039 What a pleasant thought. Mosquitoes are spitting in my arm 1914 01:49:12.119 --> 01:49:15.880 and spitting in my neck and okay, that's gross, but 1915 01:49:16.680 --> 01:49:21.640 I yeah, but only you know the ten year old 1916 01:49:21.680 --> 01:49:23.479 boy in me is having a lot of fun with 1917 01:49:23.560 --> 01:49:26.640 the coyote urine pellets and all these other silly things. 1918 01:49:27.479 --> 01:49:31.279 Thanks for thanks for playing playing along for that. But 1919 01:49:31.560 --> 01:49:33.920 this is this is a great product, folks. Again, you 1920 01:49:33.960 --> 01:49:39.800 can go to uh summit, give me the website again. 1921 01:49:40.279 --> 01:49:41.680 I want to do not's it wrong? 1922 01:49:41.880 --> 01:49:48.039 Summit res Summit Responsible Solutions dot com. 1923 01:49:48.279 --> 01:49:51.720 Okay, now in the greater Houston area, in my listening area. Uh, 1924 01:49:51.840 --> 01:49:55.159 there are so many places you can find the Summit 1925 01:49:55.279 --> 01:49:58.159 solution products. You know, the mosquito donks and mosquito bits 1926 01:49:58.199 --> 01:50:01.680 for example, are you go to our ace hardware stores. 1927 01:50:01.840 --> 01:50:03.760 They're all over I are you. We got a ton 1928 01:50:03.800 --> 01:50:06.439 of those. You go to our garden centers that you 1929 01:50:06.479 --> 01:50:09.279 hear me talk about, North, South, East, Western, Central here 1930 01:50:09.279 --> 01:50:11.640 in Houston, all of them they carry the mosquito dunks. 1931 01:50:12.640 --> 01:50:14.880 You know, you go to feed stores. We got a 1932 01:50:14.880 --> 01:50:17.319 lot of feed stores that are sponsors that are just 1933 01:50:17.560 --> 01:50:21.640 they're really good about carrying quality products, and they're going 1934 01:50:21.720 --> 01:50:25.359 to carry the mosquito dunk products or mosquito dunks mosquito bits, 1935 01:50:25.560 --> 01:50:28.039 now you know the different. Remember the dunks float on water. 1936 01:50:28.479 --> 01:50:30.520 You can break them up if you need a smaller 1937 01:50:30.640 --> 01:50:33.039 chunk of a dunk, but they float on water about 1938 01:50:33.039 --> 01:50:35.800 thirty days, covering one hundred square feet, doesn't matter how deep, 1939 01:50:35.840 --> 01:50:37.920 because the mosquitoes are all floating up there at the top. 1940 01:50:38.520 --> 01:50:41.800 And then the mosquito bits give a faster action, don't 1941 01:50:41.880 --> 01:50:43.840 last as long. But if you need to just swing 1942 01:50:43.840 --> 01:50:46.520 a bunch of bits over a larger area, you know 1943 01:50:46.560 --> 01:50:49.399 your neighbors swamp in the backyard, you could do that 1944 01:50:50.000 --> 01:50:53.439 and approach with the bits. Heather, thanks so much the music. 1945 01:50:53.520 --> 01:50:54.560 I don't know if you can hear it, but it 1946 01:50:54.600 --> 01:50:56.560 means that I've got to quit talking here pretty quick. 1947 01:50:56.600 --> 01:50:59.159 This being great having you on today. I appreciate you 1948 01:50:59.199 --> 01:50:59.640 coming on. 1949 01:51:00.600 --> 01:51:01.680 Thank you for having me. 1950 01:51:03.399 --> 01:51:06.760 All right, Will you take care and folks, I'll be 1951 01:51:06.840 --> 01:51:09.479 back at the nine o'clock hour. If you got any 1952 01:51:09.520 --> 01:51:12.600 gardening questions, now's the time to call in. Seven to 1953 01:51:12.640 --> 01:51:17.560 one three two one two kt RH. 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That's the bottom line. 1965 01:51:57.560 --> 01:52:00.000 You can go to their website Arctic Houston dot com. 1966 01:52:00.039 --> 01:52:01.720 You can give them a call eight three to two 1967 01:52:01.920 --> 01:52:05.279 five eight six twenty eight ninety three. They will come out. 1968 01:52:05.319 --> 01:52:07.720 They serve the whole region here. They will come out 1969 01:52:07.880 --> 01:52:10.279 and they can do things like put radiant barrier in 1970 01:52:10.319 --> 01:52:13.159 the attic to keep it thirty degrees or more cooler 1971 01:52:13.319 --> 01:52:16.159 up there. They can put an attic fan in. Then 1972 01:52:16.199 --> 01:52:18.720 when it heats up a little bit with heat and humidity, 1973 01:52:18.760 --> 01:52:21.840 the fan comes on either one heat or humidity. And 1974 01:52:21.920 --> 01:52:25.560 you don't want a hot humid attict growing mold or 1975 01:52:25.600 --> 01:52:28.119 other things. That fan comes on, and I mean it 1976 01:52:28.159 --> 01:52:31.640 starts moving the air fifteen hundred qubic feet per minute 1977 01:52:32.319 --> 01:52:35.239 and gets all that extra hot air one hundred and 1978 01:52:35.239 --> 01:52:38.000 fifty degree or more air up there and moves it out. 1979 01:52:38.319 --> 01:52:41.399 That saves They can go in and do some ceiling 1980 01:52:41.479 --> 01:52:44.920 up of the places in your house where air can 1981 01:52:44.920 --> 01:52:46.880 come through the walls. For example, you go around to 1982 01:52:47.079 --> 01:52:49.039 if you've ever taken the wall plate off of a 1983 01:52:49.079 --> 01:52:52.479 plug or a switch, there's space there. It's not air sealed. 1984 01:52:53.359 --> 01:52:55.880 Have you ever looked, maybe you replaced a ceiling fan 1985 01:52:55.920 --> 01:52:58.560 and you took that little flange off the ceiling, there's 1986 01:52:58.600 --> 01:53:01.119 a gap there. And when you're talking about one hundred 1987 01:53:01.119 --> 01:53:04.479 and fifty degrees above that ceiling, and then you're down 1988 01:53:04.760 --> 01:53:07.279 in your house trying to keep it cool. When they 1989 01:53:07.319 --> 01:53:09.239 go in and do all that ceiling it's like taking 1990 01:53:09.439 --> 01:53:11.680 a window in your living room that's sitting there open 1991 01:53:11.720 --> 01:53:14.319 and heat's coming in and it's closing the window. It 1992 01:53:14.479 --> 01:53:19.279 really works. Artican solutions solutions all kinds of ways. They 1993 01:53:19.319 --> 01:53:22.800 can help you take that nice cool air that you 1994 01:53:22.880 --> 01:53:28.439 paid for and keep it in your house. Eight three, two, five, 1995 01:53:28.479 --> 01:53:32.039 eight six twenty eight ninety three. Let's go to spring now, 1996 01:53:32.239 --> 01:53:35.079 and we're going to visit with Julie. Hey, Julie, welcome 1997 01:53:35.119 --> 01:53:35.880 to Gardenline. 1998 01:53:36.680 --> 01:53:39.399 Hi, Skip, thanks for taking my call. I enjoy your show. 1999 01:53:40.399 --> 01:53:41.000 Can you hear me? Go? 2000 01:53:41.119 --> 01:53:43.640 Well, because I have it on speech, I sure can, 2001 01:53:44.079 --> 01:53:47.079 so I can write, I can hear you. 2002 01:53:47.279 --> 01:53:51.039 So we have dogs and we walk. 2003 01:53:51.239 --> 01:53:55.800 Along our green belt and back there there's a lot 2004 01:53:55.800 --> 01:53:59.840 of lantana and a lot of passion buying like toun, 2005 01:54:01.640 --> 01:54:05.239 and so I wondered if I could I wanted to 2006 01:54:05.279 --> 01:54:08.680 get some of those from back there and put into 2007 01:54:08.720 --> 01:54:09.520 my yard. 2008 01:54:10.079 --> 01:54:11.680 So I wanted tips. 2009 01:54:11.319 --> 01:54:15.119 On how I could be successful in doing that, and 2010 01:54:15.319 --> 01:54:17.600 also some of the passion vine. 2011 01:54:17.640 --> 01:54:19.920 You know, it's all like real viny, and. 2012 01:54:19.840 --> 01:54:25.960 It's in areas that are like intertwined with lots of stuff. 2013 01:54:26.359 --> 01:54:28.520 I think I'd found one area where I think I 2014 01:54:28.560 --> 01:54:33.359 can get actually to the ground and get some of it. 2015 01:54:34.039 --> 01:54:36.319 But I was also wondering if it would be possible 2016 01:54:36.359 --> 01:54:39.239 to maybe do it from a clipping, which I tried 2017 01:54:39.279 --> 01:54:41.239 once before and I was unsuccessful. 2018 01:54:43.159 --> 01:54:48.279 Okay, I have never tried to do to root cuttings 2019 01:54:48.399 --> 01:54:53.279 of passion vine, but I just can't imagine that you couldn't. 2020 01:54:53.439 --> 01:54:56.880 I would think that would be possible. One thing you 2021 01:54:56.960 --> 01:54:59.159 might want to try, just to make a little leisure 2022 01:54:59.199 --> 01:55:00.920 on you is if you I have some passion vine 2023 01:55:00.960 --> 01:55:04.279 back there, get you a big container, well container could 2024 01:55:04.279 --> 01:55:06.960 be a gallon size or whatever, and take the passion 2025 01:55:07.039 --> 01:55:10.960 vine and bend the vine down near the container, lower 2026 01:55:10.960 --> 01:55:14.119 it down to there, bend it so that it sort 2027 01:55:14.159 --> 01:55:16.880 of cracks the vine but not breaks it. You know, 2028 01:55:16.960 --> 01:55:20.039 like your elbow. If you make your elbow your arms straight, 2029 01:55:20.159 --> 01:55:22.800 and then bring it to a ninety degree angle that 2030 01:55:22.920 --> 01:55:26.479 elbow right there, that's the wound on that vine. When 2031 01:55:26.479 --> 01:55:29.680 you do that and place that under the surface in 2032 01:55:29.720 --> 01:55:32.239 your container, you could set a brick on it. You 2033 01:55:32.279 --> 01:55:35.239 could take a bent coat hanger U shaped and pin 2034 01:55:35.319 --> 01:55:38.199 it down into the container and then wet that container 2035 01:55:38.239 --> 01:55:40.279 and keep it moist. You could even put a little 2036 01:55:40.279 --> 01:55:43.520 trail of water underneath it, and in time that wound 2037 01:55:43.600 --> 01:55:45.960 or callous and then root. And I think that would 2038 01:55:45.960 --> 01:55:48.920 be a good way to get that passion vine to root. 2039 01:55:49.119 --> 01:55:51.560 When you do a cutting, you've now removed it from 2040 01:55:51.600 --> 01:55:55.079 all nourishment, all water, and it's touching. Go trying to 2041 01:55:55.079 --> 01:55:57.319 get a quick root down before the thing dries up 2042 01:55:57.359 --> 01:56:02.880 and dies. With this technique I just described, it's called layering. 2043 01:56:04.359 --> 01:56:07.720 It's easier to root viiny types of things that way. 2044 01:56:07.760 --> 01:56:10.079 So you might try that, or digging it up passion. 2045 01:56:10.439 --> 01:56:13.239 If this is wild passion vine, it's gonna roots, sucker 2046 01:56:13.359 --> 01:56:16.600 and you're gonna get it's gonna be coming up all over, 2047 01:56:17.359 --> 01:56:19.359 and so you ought to be able to dig one 2048 01:56:19.439 --> 01:56:20.520 up pretty easily. 2049 01:56:20.239 --> 01:56:25.439 Too, Okay, okay, And then the lantana just try to 2050 01:56:25.560 --> 01:56:29.079 just get a big area around it, because I mean, 2051 01:56:29.079 --> 01:56:32.319 it grows so profusely out there. I'm thinking, hopefully he'll 2052 01:56:32.359 --> 01:56:33.840 growth that way in my yard. 2053 01:56:34.880 --> 01:56:37.720 Yeah, probably, it probably will. I would I would cut 2054 01:56:37.720 --> 01:56:41.760 it back significantly, even if you ended up cutting almost 2055 01:56:41.760 --> 01:56:45.399 all the leaves off, get as much of the root 2056 01:56:45.439 --> 01:56:47.399 as you can. But you know, you don't have to 2057 01:56:47.399 --> 01:56:50.720 get a five gallon bucket of roots. And then put 2058 01:56:50.720 --> 01:56:53.319 it immediately before it dries out, even dip the roots 2059 01:56:53.319 --> 01:56:55.760 and water to get them nice and moist. Put it 2060 01:56:55.800 --> 01:56:58.119 in a bucket of whatever you're gonna grow, potting so 2061 01:56:58.239 --> 01:57:00.720 or whatever, and then put it in a very bright, 2062 01:57:00.800 --> 01:57:04.600 shady spot, maybe on the east side of the house 2063 01:57:04.680 --> 01:57:08.399 morning sun or wherever it gives morning sun and afternoon shade, 2064 01:57:08.920 --> 01:57:12.199 because it's gonna then have to develop new roots and 2065 01:57:12.239 --> 01:57:14.319 start to send out a shoot. And if you dig 2066 01:57:14.359 --> 01:57:17.000 it and have all those leaves on it, you've taken 2067 01:57:17.039 --> 01:57:18.920 off a lot of the roots and digging it no 2068 01:57:18.960 --> 01:57:21.520 matter how careful you are, and all those leaves are 2069 01:57:21.520 --> 01:57:24.079 pumping out water and they're gonna shrivel and turn brown, 2070 01:57:24.159 --> 01:57:27.880 and you've actually gone more backwards than just digging it, 2071 01:57:28.399 --> 01:57:31.079 cutting it back to about six inches high, and then 2072 01:57:31.159 --> 01:57:34.359 letting it restart from there as if it were let's 2073 01:57:34.359 --> 01:57:35.760 say you went back there right now and you just 2074 01:57:35.800 --> 01:57:37.840 cut some off about six inches high, it would come 2075 01:57:37.880 --> 01:57:40.079 sprouting right back out of the ground. That's kind of 2076 01:57:40.079 --> 01:57:40.720 what we're doing. 2077 01:57:42.279 --> 01:57:45.479 Okay, Okay, I will I will give that a try. 2078 01:57:47.159 --> 01:57:51.800 Alright, have fun, Okay, all right, you take care. You 2079 01:57:51.880 --> 01:57:54.920 bet appreciate the call. You're listening to Guardenline our phone 2080 01:57:54.960 --> 01:57:59.239 number seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy 2081 01:57:59.239 --> 01:58:02.560 four are so one three two one two Kate t. 2082 01:58:03.000 --> 01:58:03.520 R H. 2083 01:58:03.800 --> 01:58:06.159 Can go about it that way as well. You know, 2084 01:58:07.119 --> 01:58:12.479 I am becoming quite a backyard bird enthusiast. I never 2085 01:58:13.359 --> 01:58:17.359 was a burder, nothing against it, just never kind of 2086 01:58:17.399 --> 01:58:22.039 became a hobby of mine until I started focusing on 2087 01:58:22.880 --> 01:58:24.920 all of the ways you make your backyard a more 2088 01:58:24.960 --> 01:58:28.159 pleasant place to sit out and enjoy. And I've talked 2089 01:58:28.159 --> 01:58:31.520 about this before, but our gardens are more than just 2090 01:58:31.800 --> 01:58:34.560 visual color. That that's what we tend to think of. 2091 01:58:34.720 --> 01:58:37.560 You think of landscape. You look, it's pretty, okay, that's 2092 01:58:37.600 --> 01:58:41.680 that's good, that's important. But there's sense. There's fragrances from 2093 01:58:41.720 --> 01:58:45.680 flowers that make it an added layer of enjoyment. There's 2094 01:58:45.760 --> 01:58:49.560 the sounds like a bird's and we love sitting outside 2095 01:58:49.640 --> 01:58:51.640 and hearing the sounds of birds, and then the visual 2096 01:58:51.760 --> 01:58:54.199 course of watching the birds fly around and they're antics 2097 01:58:54.239 --> 01:58:58.159 and stuff. Wild Birds Unlimited is the place you need 2098 01:58:58.319 --> 01:59:01.239 to go. And there's several reasons I say that. Number One, 2099 01:59:01.239 --> 01:59:06.000 they got quality products. Wildbirds Unlimited sells quality feeders, quality 2100 01:59:06.399 --> 01:59:11.439 bird houses, and quality bird seed. Bird feed. Okay, we're 2101 01:59:11.439 --> 01:59:14.960 talking about blends. Like right now, they have the only 2102 01:59:15.000 --> 01:59:18.479 place you're gonna get nesting super blend as Wildbird's Unlimited, 2103 01:59:18.479 --> 01:59:20.960 and it's perfect for this season. We still have birds 2104 01:59:21.039 --> 01:59:24.800 nesting out there. Very it's designed for that. They you know, 2105 01:59:24.840 --> 01:59:26.960 when we go into the winter season, there'll be different 2106 01:59:27.039 --> 01:59:32.760 kinds of seed blends and you know, things like bark 2107 01:59:32.840 --> 01:59:35.720 butter that's smeared on bark and whatnot. There's a lot 2108 01:59:35.760 --> 01:59:39.439 of options from Wildbirds Unlimited, but it's quality. When you 2109 01:59:39.479 --> 01:59:43.760 buy a pound of bird feed or seed at Wildbirds Unlimited, 2110 01:59:43.800 --> 01:59:45.520 you get a pound of stuff that goes into the 2111 01:59:45.520 --> 01:59:49.000 bird especially the no mess blends where even the sunflowers 2112 01:59:49.039 --> 01:59:51.720 have the seeds taken off. It's not a bunch of 2113 01:59:51.840 --> 01:59:54.920 junk that's thrown in there because it's cheap to add, 2114 01:59:56.000 --> 01:59:57.760 and then the birds kick it out and donate it. 2115 01:59:58.039 --> 02:00:01.600 Wildbirds Unlimited has six stores right in Houston area. There 2116 02:00:01.720 --> 02:00:05.239 is the Cypress Store on Barker Cypress. There's the Pearland 2117 02:00:05.279 --> 02:00:08.600 Store on East Broadway, the clear Lake on El Dorado Boulevard, 2118 02:00:08.640 --> 02:00:11.960 and Clare Lake. In Kingwood. There is a wild Bird's 2119 02:00:12.039 --> 02:00:15.319 Unlimited on Kingwood Drive and then in West Houston on 2120 02:00:15.479 --> 02:00:18.319 Memorial Drive and in Southwest Houston on bel Air. So 2121 02:00:18.760 --> 02:00:22.560 lots of good places to go. Wild birds unlimited. That's 2122 02:00:22.560 --> 02:00:25.119 what you need to do. Time for me to take 2123 02:00:25.119 --> 02:00:27.239 a quick break. When we come back, Logan and Katie, 2124 02:00:27.239 --> 02:00:31.319 you'll be our first stop. You haven't heard Ryan Reynolds 2125 02:00:31.840 --> 02:00:39.760 and Ferrell. Seeing that you have, you've missed a comedy routine. 2126 02:00:40.199 --> 02:00:43.079 Pretty funny, Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds. We're gonna go 2127 02:00:43.079 --> 02:00:46.119 out to Katie now and talk to Logan. Hey, Logan, 2128 02:00:46.439 --> 02:00:47.439 welcome to garden Line. 2129 02:00:48.359 --> 02:00:49.880 Hey, good morning, how you doing. 2130 02:00:51.399 --> 02:00:54.119 Good? Good? How can we help the day? 2131 02:00:55.279 --> 02:01:00.159 I have a Saint Augustine lawn. My runners of the 2132 02:01:00.159 --> 02:01:05.279 Saint Augustine have started. Within the last I'd say three weeks, 2133 02:01:05.319 --> 02:01:08.319 they started growing more on top than whenever. On most 2134 02:01:08.399 --> 02:01:11.560 they kind of stand up stuff like that. They're not, yeah, 2135 02:01:11.640 --> 02:01:16.079 growing down and embedding themselves right. 2136 02:01:16.079 --> 02:01:19.960 Right, So there's nothing to do about it. It happens 2137 02:01:19.960 --> 02:01:22.279 in my lawn here and there, and I usually will 2138 02:01:22.319 --> 02:01:25.439 go in and just kind of pull that runner away 2139 02:01:25.479 --> 02:01:28.079 from the direction it came from, you know, and break 2140 02:01:28.119 --> 02:01:32.880 it off, get it either. It happens a lot as 2141 02:01:32.880 --> 02:01:36.479 our lawns get dense and become very thatchy, and a 2142 02:01:36.479 --> 02:01:39.840 lot of watering, nice warm temperatures and a lot of 2143 02:01:39.840 --> 02:01:44.960 fertilizing increases the growth rate of grass. And so what 2144 02:01:45.079 --> 02:01:47.720 happens is, you know, Saint Augustine is like a bunch 2145 02:01:47.720 --> 02:01:50.800 of runners just crawling around on top of the ground. 2146 02:01:51.439 --> 02:01:55.359 Unlike Bermuda or Zoezia, they also have underground and so 2147 02:01:55.680 --> 02:01:57.720 with those runners on top of the ground, they start 2148 02:01:57.760 --> 02:01:59.439 to climb on top of each other. So the more 2149 02:01:59.520 --> 02:02:02.920 runnerth you get, the faster it grows. The more you know, 2150 02:02:02.960 --> 02:02:04.840 you just kind of put all your fingers together like 2151 02:02:04.920 --> 02:02:06.920 one stacked on top of the other. The more it 2152 02:02:07.000 --> 02:02:09.119 just starts to do that and a shoot comes out, 2153 02:02:09.159 --> 02:02:11.760 and if it gets pointed upward, you know it doesn't 2154 02:02:11.800 --> 02:02:13.600 have the mindset of oh I got to go back 2155 02:02:13.640 --> 02:02:17.199 down again necessarily, and it just ends up on the surface. 2156 02:02:17.880 --> 02:02:23.039 So some correoration with compost top dressing can help reduce 2157 02:02:23.159 --> 02:02:27.720 thatch layers and get that to go away over time. 2158 02:02:28.159 --> 02:02:33.199 Cutting back on nitrogen fertilizing your fertilization rates or frequency 2159 02:02:33.520 --> 02:02:36.960 also helps, and then watering enough to keep the lawn 2160 02:02:37.039 --> 02:02:40.039 healthy but not just pushing it. You know, with a 2161 02:02:40.079 --> 02:02:43.960 lot of extra unnecessary water. Those are all steps that 2162 02:02:44.119 --> 02:02:46.920 can help move it in the other direction. But it's 2163 02:02:46.960 --> 02:02:49.000 not a black and white issue where you do this 2164 02:02:49.119 --> 02:02:55.199 and the runners all go down to the soil again. Okay, yeah, 2165 02:02:55.279 --> 02:02:59.800 all right, that's what's happening. Sure, yeah, that's why it's happening. 2166 02:03:00.239 --> 02:03:02.239 And just got a part of the deal with that 2167 02:03:02.279 --> 02:03:05.960 grass especially, So thanks a lot. I do appreciate your call. 2168 02:03:06.600 --> 02:03:10.359 Appreciate you called logan. Uh, you're listening to guard Line. 2169 02:03:10.800 --> 02:03:13.680 My phone number here on garden Line is seven one 2170 02:03:13.720 --> 02:03:17.359 three two one two kt r H seven to one 2171 02:03:17.439 --> 02:03:21.560 three two one two k t r H. Now, Uh, 2172 02:03:21.800 --> 02:03:25.720 if you are wanting an organic type product for a 2173 02:03:25.840 --> 02:03:29.279 fast feed on your lawn in the summer, a real 2174 02:03:29.359 --> 02:03:32.199 quick feed, the folks at Night Trust have put together 2175 02:03:32.279 --> 02:03:34.439 one and it's called sweet Green, and sweet green is 2176 02:03:34.439 --> 02:03:38.960 eleven percent nitrogen uh, and it dissolves away real fast, 2177 02:03:39.039 --> 02:03:42.239 got high carbon content, so microbs love it. They love 2178 02:03:42.520 --> 02:03:45.319 the carbon. Uh. And you put it down, you watered in. 2179 02:03:45.680 --> 02:03:47.880 My next door neighbor actually put down some sweet green 2180 02:03:47.920 --> 02:03:50.199 a while back, and we were talking across the fence 2181 02:03:50.199 --> 02:03:53.159 the other day and he was just saying, man, I 2182 02:03:53.199 --> 02:03:56.279 mean that that stuff works, and it did. I mean 2183 02:03:56.279 --> 02:03:58.920 it's beautiful lawn, it's green. Now, that's not a slow 2184 02:03:58.960 --> 02:04:02.039 release like the Night Silver bag the super Turf Sweet 2185 02:04:02.079 --> 02:04:05.159 Green is. It's going to release and it's going to 2186 02:04:05.199 --> 02:04:07.199 give you quick results. You don't want to overdo it. 2187 02:04:07.399 --> 02:04:10.800 No fertilizer should be overdone. But what I would do 2188 02:04:10.840 --> 02:04:12.560 if I were going to use the Sweet Green, I 2189 02:04:12.600 --> 02:04:15.000 would it would be, well, let's break it up and 2190 02:04:15.039 --> 02:04:16.760 let's do a little bit now and a little bit, 2191 02:04:16.840 --> 02:04:18.479 you know, maybe four weeks from now and a little 2192 02:04:18.520 --> 02:04:21.000 bit four weeks from then, and you can do small doses. 2193 02:04:21.319 --> 02:04:23.560 I like it because if you just need to give 2194 02:04:23.600 --> 02:04:27.119 a real quick result, some of the slow releases are 2195 02:04:27.159 --> 02:04:30.359 going to spread that feeding out over time and maybe 2196 02:04:30.399 --> 02:04:31.840 you need to get in. I need to give that 2197 02:04:31.960 --> 02:04:35.560 lawn a shot of nitrogen. Get this thing going. Swegering's 2198 02:04:35.560 --> 02:04:38.000 perfect for that, and it works really well. And again, 2199 02:04:38.600 --> 02:04:40.760 you know I talk about slow release and the advantages 2200 02:04:40.840 --> 02:04:43.039 of it, Well, you take a quick release and you 2201 02:04:43.159 --> 02:04:45.840 just break it up into smaller applications and you accomplish 2202 02:04:45.920 --> 02:04:48.960 the same thing. I just for paralyze them more often 2203 02:04:49.399 --> 02:04:51.079 to do that. Now, where do you get night Foss 2204 02:04:51.079 --> 02:04:53.800 products a lot of places, a lot of places. You 2205 02:04:53.840 --> 02:04:56.000 go to Fisher's Hardware down in Baytown, if you're up 2206 02:04:56.000 --> 02:04:59.760 in Brenham Plants some thing carries night Foss products plans 2207 02:04:59.800 --> 02:05:02.720 for all seasons on two forty nine, right where Luetta 2208 02:05:02.800 --> 02:05:06.439 comes in to two forty nine. That is a company 2209 02:05:06.479 --> 02:05:09.000 that carries them as well. Ur CW Nursery carries night 2210 02:05:09.039 --> 02:05:12.600 Foss products. Go up into the KD area KTA Is 2211 02:05:12.640 --> 02:05:15.039 Hardware on Pin Oak and kt at Sincle Ranch on 2212 02:05:15.119 --> 02:05:17.600 Mason Road, both of those places where you're going to 2213 02:05:17.640 --> 02:05:22.159 get night Foss products. Sweet Green being a night Foss product. 2214 02:05:23.359 --> 02:05:25.399 If you have some questions you like to visit about 2215 02:05:25.439 --> 02:05:28.279 on garden line seven one three two to one two 2216 02:05:28.800 --> 02:05:32.000 k t r H seven to one three two one 2217 02:05:32.079 --> 02:05:35.159 two k t r H, give us a call and 2218 02:05:35.199 --> 02:05:38.640 we can talk about that. I mentioned before one of 2219 02:05:38.680 --> 02:05:40.840 the breaks amitted ago that I want to talk about 2220 02:05:40.840 --> 02:05:42.760 fruit trees a little bit. Get a lot of questions 2221 02:05:42.760 --> 02:05:45.800 on fruit trees, and this summer I've gotten several questions 2222 02:05:45.800 --> 02:05:48.239 from people that said, my fruit tree is not producing. 2223 02:05:48.479 --> 02:05:51.279 It's not producing well. Maybe a fruiter here or there 2224 02:05:51.359 --> 02:05:53.880 or whatever, but is not producing well. What are some 2225 02:05:54.000 --> 02:05:56.560 reasons for that, Well, here are some reasons for that. 2226 02:05:56.840 --> 02:06:00.800 Number one, they have to be pollinated, and so if 2227 02:06:00.840 --> 02:06:04.520 you kill all the bugs, the insects, the pollinators insects 2228 02:06:05.319 --> 02:06:07.840 like honey bees and others, where you're not going to 2229 02:06:07.840 --> 02:06:10.640 get the pollen transfer. And so that's a possible cause 2230 02:06:10.640 --> 02:06:14.880 of it. Some fruit trees require two different varieties to 2231 02:06:15.000 --> 02:06:19.159 cross pollinate in order to set fruit. They're not self fruitful. 2232 02:06:19.279 --> 02:06:21.760 They have to have a different variety to pollinate them. 2233 02:06:22.159 --> 02:06:24.680 That would be true of apples. A lot of pears 2234 02:06:24.720 --> 02:06:29.119 are that way, most plums are that way. Peaches are 2235 02:06:29.199 --> 02:06:32.760 not they're self fruitful. Pigs self fruitful, you're not going 2236 02:06:32.840 --> 02:06:34.720 to worry about that. Grapes you don't have to do 2237 02:06:35.399 --> 02:06:39.159 varieties for grapes or for per semmons, you know, for example. 2238 02:06:39.239 --> 02:06:41.920 So there's both kinds of fruit, but that is one. 2239 02:06:42.399 --> 02:06:45.039 So if you have a variety and it doesn't have 2240 02:06:45.079 --> 02:06:47.720 a partner, and it needs a different partner to pollinate, 2241 02:06:48.159 --> 02:06:50.079 then you're gonna have to find a different variety and 2242 02:06:50.119 --> 02:06:54.600 planet planet so they could pollinate each other. Another possible 2243 02:06:54.640 --> 02:06:58.680 cause is lack of sunlight. Sun shines on leaves. Leaves 2244 02:06:58.680 --> 02:07:03.680 are solar panels. Solar panels fuel energy production in the plant. 2245 02:07:03.760 --> 02:07:08.039 That the energy is called carbohydrates. So in sun you 2246 02:07:08.119 --> 02:07:10.840 get a lot of carbohydrates, means you get more fruits 2247 02:07:10.840 --> 02:07:15.520 at and you get more fruit development, more blooming, and 2248 02:07:15.600 --> 02:07:20.039 more fruit development. Okay, So as your tree goes into 2249 02:07:20.119 --> 02:07:22.319 less and less sun, the tree is still living, it 2250 02:07:22.359 --> 02:07:25.640 looks okay, but the bloom production goes down, and so 2251 02:07:25.920 --> 02:07:28.279 that could be another reason why we're not seeing fruit. 2252 02:07:28.640 --> 02:07:31.279 And then there's there are other reasons, like the wrong 2253 02:07:31.399 --> 02:07:35.439 number of chill hours in the variety. Sometimes stresses can 2254 02:07:35.479 --> 02:07:38.119 have an effect on that and cause some things tend 2255 02:07:38.159 --> 02:07:41.159 to abort. For someone a real bad about aborting fruit 2256 02:07:41.880 --> 02:07:45.319 or early on, not later in the fruit's life, but 2257 02:07:45.640 --> 02:07:48.159 early on. So those are a few other things you 2258 02:07:48.239 --> 02:07:52.720 might want to consider. Let's head out now to Pattison 2259 02:07:52.840 --> 02:07:55.920 and we're going to visit with Susan. Hey, Susan, welcome 2260 02:07:55.960 --> 02:07:56.680 to garden line. 2261 02:07:58.079 --> 02:08:01.000 Hey skip, good morning, Good Sunday morning. I have some 2262 02:08:01.119 --> 02:08:03.199 azmite I want to put down, and I notice we 2263 02:08:03.279 --> 02:08:05.359 have some rain coming up next week. 2264 02:08:05.399 --> 02:08:06.479 I don't think it's going to be. 2265 02:08:06.560 --> 02:08:08.560 You know, huge amounts, but I didn't know if I 2266 02:08:08.560 --> 02:08:10.439 should wait till after the rain or it would it 2267 02:08:10.479 --> 02:08:12.079 be a good idea for down with the rain water 2268 02:08:12.199 --> 02:08:12.439 it in? 2269 02:08:13.720 --> 02:08:16.359 Yeah, no, let the rain water it in. You do 2270 02:08:16.439 --> 02:08:18.760 want to get that down and let the rain water in. 2271 02:08:19.039 --> 02:08:22.720 Follow the label carefully on the application amounts and try 2272 02:08:22.760 --> 02:08:24.720 to get as even as a spread as you can. 2273 02:08:24.840 --> 02:08:28.960 Anytime you're using you know, standard fertilizers, the three numbers 2274 02:08:29.000 --> 02:08:33.920 on the bag, or micronutrient supplement like that azamite. You 2275 02:08:34.319 --> 02:08:36.920 want to get good covers. The more even you spread it, 2276 02:08:37.239 --> 02:08:39.880 the better off your results are going to be. So 2277 02:08:40.159 --> 02:08:43.159 for me, I put it out at a way lower 2278 02:08:43.239 --> 02:08:46.159 rate than you think going Let's say north south, and 2279 02:08:46.239 --> 02:08:49.399 then go go east west. And if you have a 2280 02:08:49.439 --> 02:08:52.880 little left over, that's okay too. You can set the 2281 02:08:53.079 --> 02:08:55.600 thing down less and apply it over the he's real 2282 02:08:55.720 --> 02:08:58.119 even spread Whatever you can do to even that spread 2283 02:08:58.119 --> 02:08:59.159 out is helpful. 2284 02:08:59.439 --> 02:09:03.239 Okay, All right, now you said I heard you say 2285 02:09:03.279 --> 02:09:05.119 north south, and then either my phone. 2286 02:09:04.920 --> 02:09:06.039 Broke up or something that. 2287 02:09:05.920 --> 02:09:07.760 What what did you say up to the north south? 2288 02:09:08.680 --> 02:09:11.000 Well, what what I was trying to say is put 2289 02:09:11.000 --> 02:09:12.880 it on both ways. You know, if you do if 2290 02:09:12.920 --> 02:09:15.199 you do it one way, let's say it's east west, 2291 02:09:15.279 --> 02:09:17.439 north south, It doesn't matter the directions. Just as you're 2292 02:09:17.439 --> 02:09:20.439 doing in one direction, you can you can have stripes 2293 02:09:20.439 --> 02:09:22.680 through your lawn where maybe it did that movie laps 2294 02:09:22.800 --> 02:09:26.119 between those and so when you spread it out and go, yeah, 2295 02:09:26.159 --> 02:09:29.800 it just evens it out. Just anything always I say, 2296 02:09:29.840 --> 02:09:32.119 it's you can always go over the lawn again with 2297 02:09:32.159 --> 02:09:35.079 your spreader. But if you put too much out at 2298 02:09:35.079 --> 02:09:38.319 a time, now you've got the problem. Okay, I got 2299 02:09:38.359 --> 02:09:40.319 to add more than I should have had to put 2300 02:09:40.319 --> 02:09:42.840 on in the first place, and and it's just better 2301 02:09:42.880 --> 02:09:44.840 to go light and then go back over it in 2302 02:09:44.880 --> 02:09:45.680 a different direction. 2303 02:09:47.079 --> 02:09:48.279 That makes total sense, okay. 2304 02:09:48.479 --> 02:09:50.600 And this is okay for flower bits too, right. 2305 02:09:51.840 --> 02:09:54.319 Oh yeah, you can use as might and anything vegetable gardens. 2306 02:09:54.359 --> 02:09:57.159 I like it gardens because you want you want things 2307 02:09:57.239 --> 02:09:59.600 you're eating to have all the full set of nutrients. 2308 02:09:59.640 --> 02:10:04.479 And you bet sure. All righty cool, thank you so much. Well, 2309 02:10:04.520 --> 02:10:08.199 good good luck with that. Take care. Yeah. MAT's a 2310 02:10:08.239 --> 02:10:10.880 good product available in a lot of places too, by 2311 02:10:10.880 --> 02:10:13.039 the way. You can get it at feed stores and 2312 02:10:13.159 --> 02:10:15.479 garden centers and A'ST hardware store. I mean, there's a 2313 02:10:15.560 --> 02:10:18.079 lot of places they carry that. He's a mite. In 2314 02:10:18.119 --> 02:10:20.239 our area, we're gonna have to take a little break 2315 02:10:20.239 --> 02:10:23.800 here for the news. Uh. When I come back, Stephen 2316 02:10:23.960 --> 02:10:27.720 Rosenberg and Martha and Menville you'll be our first two up. 2317 02:10:28.199 --> 02:10:30.520 Look forward to visiting with you back on Garden Line 2318 02:10:30.880 --> 02:10:33.279 if you've got some questions. Seven one three two one 2319 02:10:33.319 --> 02:10:36.680 two k t r H seven one three two one 2320 02:10:36.760 --> 02:10:41.600 two five eight seven four. Hey, welcome back to Garden Line. 2321 02:10:41.640 --> 02:10:45.640 Good to have you with us. We're going to head 2322 02:10:45.640 --> 02:10:49.399 out now to Rosenberg and talk to Steve. Hi. Steve, 2323 02:10:49.760 --> 02:10:50.720 welcome to garden Line. 2324 02:10:50.800 --> 02:10:54.560 Hie, good morning. How are you today? 2325 02:10:54.720 --> 02:10:57.119 Well, I'm doing great. How are you doing? 2326 02:10:58.119 --> 02:10:59.039 I'm doing good. 2327 02:10:59.119 --> 02:11:03.000 I'm calling you to give me some extra work that 2328 02:11:03.039 --> 02:11:04.680 I'm going to have to do in this hot sum 2329 02:11:04.680 --> 02:11:05.439 but that's okay. 2330 02:11:05.920 --> 02:11:09.119 I Well, it's good that you're calling knowing I'm about 2331 02:11:09.119 --> 02:11:10.800 to increase your workload. 2332 02:11:12.119 --> 02:11:12.840 That's right. 2333 02:11:13.439 --> 02:11:17.560 I purchased a home and while it was on the market, 2334 02:11:17.600 --> 02:11:19.920 the lawn was somewhat neglected. 2335 02:11:20.600 --> 02:11:23.039 It is Bermuda grass. 2336 02:11:24.239 --> 02:11:30.760 And the soil was very compacted, so I did some 2337 02:11:30.800 --> 02:11:31.600 liquid humorate. 2338 02:11:32.800 --> 02:11:35.159 I try to stay with organic. 2339 02:11:34.760 --> 02:11:39.600 As much as possible, and I use a a Medina 2340 02:11:39.680 --> 02:11:41.479 product that I've used for years and seem to have 2341 02:11:41.479 --> 02:11:44.000 good luck with But one thing that had happened in 2342 02:11:44.079 --> 02:11:47.479 the in this transition is is the weeds really kicked 2343 02:11:47.520 --> 02:11:50.640 in and so I think what I have is is 2344 02:11:51.199 --> 02:11:58.199 a lot of johnsngrass mixed in and I really identified. Yeah, 2345 02:11:58.279 --> 02:12:00.880 I think so it's what it appears to be because 2346 02:12:00.920 --> 02:12:02.840 and the reason why I came to that to places, 2347 02:12:03.239 --> 02:12:05.119 at first I thought it was crab grass. 2348 02:12:05.680 --> 02:12:10.479 I went at it with a herbicide for Bermuda lawns. 2349 02:12:10.880 --> 02:12:15.119 Ultimately was a two four debased product which worked really 2350 02:12:15.159 --> 02:12:18.680 well on the clover and other things. But this particular 2351 02:12:18.760 --> 02:12:21.119 weed that I like, I say, I think it's a 2352 02:12:21.199 --> 02:12:25.119 Johnson grass did not respond at all to that product. 2353 02:12:25.680 --> 02:12:27.560 So I'm trying to figure out what it is that 2354 02:12:27.600 --> 02:12:30.520 I could spray, because if I could spot treat it, 2355 02:12:30.640 --> 02:12:33.439 I would, but it's pretty pervasive. 2356 02:12:33.560 --> 02:12:34.920 So that's why I'm. 2357 02:12:34.760 --> 02:12:40.479 Calling, Well, there's not a way to kill Johns grass 2358 02:12:40.800 --> 02:12:44.439 in a grass lawn without killing the grass lawn as 2359 02:12:44.479 --> 02:12:48.640 far as a spray, and I know you'd rather do organic, 2360 02:12:48.720 --> 02:12:51.840 but organic or synthetic, there's not that option. If you 2361 02:12:51.840 --> 02:12:55.359 go to my website gardening with Skip dot com, what 2362 02:12:55.439 --> 02:12:59.760 you'll find there is a thing called a weed wiper. 2363 02:13:01.000 --> 02:13:03.600 And have you ever been to the website any chance? 2364 02:13:04.840 --> 02:13:07.800 I have not. I just moved to the area. 2365 02:13:07.960 --> 02:13:11.239 Okay, good well gardening with skip dot com. When you 2366 02:13:11.279 --> 02:13:14.840 go to the website, there is a all publications, right, 2367 02:13:15.119 --> 02:13:17.840 you're the top there all publications and when you go 2368 02:13:17.960 --> 02:13:20.880 to that and scroll down, you'll see skips homemade weed wiper. 2369 02:13:21.399 --> 02:13:23.600 And it basically is a grabber tool, one of those 2370 02:13:23.640 --> 02:13:25.439 things you used to get a jar off a shelf. 2371 02:13:25.920 --> 02:13:28.560 But it's made with suction cups. You can buy those, 2372 02:13:29.600 --> 02:13:32.319 so you know you're in Rosenberg. You're really close to 2373 02:13:32.399 --> 02:13:35.880 Southwest Fertilizer on the corner of Bissinet and Runwick in 2374 02:13:35.960 --> 02:13:41.359 Southwest Houston and Bob Sellso's grabber tools. They're not that expensive. 2375 02:13:41.800 --> 02:13:43.600 You take it and I'll show you how to put 2376 02:13:43.800 --> 02:13:47.239 sponges on it, and then you would wipe a product 2377 02:13:47.319 --> 02:13:50.279 or you would soak those sponges in a product that 2378 02:13:50.399 --> 02:13:53.800 kills johnsngrass. And because Johnson grass comes up higher than 2379 02:13:53.840 --> 02:13:57.479 your Bermuda grass without even bending over. Those little tools 2380 02:13:57.479 --> 02:13:59.960 are about three feet long. You can just reach down 2381 02:14:00.479 --> 02:14:02.000 with a cup of coffee in one hand and the 2382 02:14:02.039 --> 02:14:03.960 tool in the other and walk through your yard and 2383 02:14:04.079 --> 02:14:06.840 just kind of squeeze it and pull those sponges up 2384 02:14:06.840 --> 02:14:10.239 against the leaves of the Johnson grass and it'll translocate 2385 02:14:10.319 --> 02:14:11.840 down and kill it. And you may not get it 2386 02:14:11.880 --> 02:14:14.199 all in the first time you do it, but on 2387 02:14:14.239 --> 02:14:16.399 another Saturday morning or something, you just go out in 2388 02:14:16.439 --> 02:14:18.439 there and you do that and you can get rid 2389 02:14:18.479 --> 02:14:19.800 of it. And I know you got a lot of it. 2390 02:14:19.840 --> 02:14:22.920 But there's just the only other option to you would 2391 02:14:22.960 --> 02:14:26.079 be to squirt a herbicide on it and have dead 2392 02:14:26.119 --> 02:14:28.920 spots in your Bermuda grass that would then have to 2393 02:14:28.960 --> 02:14:32.720 grow back in. That's an option. I think. This other 2394 02:14:32.800 --> 02:14:35.520 option is Oh wow, I like the weed wiper. That's 2395 02:14:35.520 --> 02:14:36.640 why I came up with that. 2396 02:14:37.880 --> 02:14:39.680 Sounds great. Thank you so much. 2397 02:14:41.359 --> 02:14:44.920 All right, man, you take care. Welcome to the area, 2398 02:14:44.960 --> 02:14:46.960 by the way, and thanks for listening. Thanks for listening 2399 02:14:47.000 --> 02:14:52.840 to Garbline. I appreciate that. All righty, Medina products. You 2400 02:14:52.880 --> 02:14:55.760 mentioned Medina products. There are so many great Medina products 2401 02:14:55.800 --> 02:14:58.119 out there. You know, you've heard me talk about the 2402 02:14:58.159 --> 02:15:01.239 hashtro grow six twelve six plant fe It's got that 2403 02:15:01.319 --> 02:15:04.760 hygh phosphorus number, which a lot of times when I'm transplanting, 2404 02:15:04.920 --> 02:15:07.920 just soak the plants in with that do it about 2405 02:15:07.960 --> 02:15:10.920 twice more a week. Apart, there's the Medina Plus and 2406 02:15:10.920 --> 02:15:14.359 the Medina Plus has that original Medina Soil Activator, a 2407 02:15:14.359 --> 02:15:19.079 great product, plus forty different trace elements including things like 2408 02:15:19.920 --> 02:15:22.720 certain types of minerals like iron and zinc and magnesium 2409 02:15:22.760 --> 02:15:26.760 and so on, other kinds of plant influencing substances, you know, 2410 02:15:26.960 --> 02:15:32.600 things that affect plant growth. Hormone type ingredients and vitamin 2411 02:15:32.680 --> 02:15:35.720 type ingredients are in it. It's going to give you 2412 02:15:35.840 --> 02:15:40.000 better growth, better development, therefore better fruits at you get 2413 02:15:40.000 --> 02:15:42.159 better blooming out of it, and you use that for 2414 02:15:42.199 --> 02:15:44.159 transplants also if you want to, if you want to 2415 02:15:44.199 --> 02:15:46.479 go that route, there's a lot of great Medina products 2416 02:15:46.479 --> 02:15:49.600 out there. They got the humate humic acid. It comes 2417 02:15:49.600 --> 02:15:51.359 in a liquid, but most of these come in a 2418 02:15:51.439 --> 02:15:54.720 quart and in a gallon size. But the liquid humus 2419 02:15:55.159 --> 02:15:59.479 humate liquid humus from Medina is an excellent product. Humus 2420 02:15:59.479 --> 02:16:04.479 is the final decomposed stage of organic matter composts, and 2421 02:16:04.640 --> 02:16:08.640 it contains the humic and the fulvic acid that are 2422 02:16:08.800 --> 02:16:12.319 excellent for working on soil structure and helping that soil 2423 02:16:12.359 --> 02:16:16.359 have a good developed structure and for doing things that 2424 02:16:16.520 --> 02:16:23.000 really stimulate the soil microbial content, the microbial populations of 2425 02:16:23.039 --> 02:16:26.279 the soil. That is what that humic acid can do. 2426 02:16:26.399 --> 02:16:29.159 All of those are Medina products, and all of them 2427 02:16:29.159 --> 02:16:31.079 are so widely available to take a whole show to 2428 02:16:31.119 --> 02:16:34.040 tell all the places you can buy Medina products here 2429 02:16:34.079 --> 02:16:38.600 in the Houston area, feed stores, garden centers, ace hardware stores, 2430 02:16:38.879 --> 02:16:40.879 and on and on and on down the list. And 2431 02:16:40.920 --> 02:16:43.600 I was talking about Southwest Fertilizer a second ago. Yes, 2432 02:16:43.680 --> 02:16:47.719 Southwest Fertilizer, of course, also has a wide variety of 2433 02:16:47.760 --> 02:16:52.000 Medina products. We're going to head now out to Manville, 2434 02:16:52.040 --> 02:16:55.479 Texas and talk to Martha. Hello, Martha, welcome to garden Line. 2435 02:16:56.399 --> 02:17:00.440 Yeah, thanks Gip for taking my call. And is calling 2436 02:17:00.479 --> 02:17:04.120 about the peach trees, fruit trees in my backyard. The 2437 02:17:04.200 --> 02:17:06.840 leaves are turning yellow and some of them are dropping 2438 02:17:06.920 --> 02:17:13.440 to the ground and on my fish, okay trees and grapefruit. 2439 02:17:13.559 --> 02:17:17.719 I have an apple tree, also an orange tree. 2440 02:17:18.719 --> 02:17:22.879 Okay. And is this yellowing happening on Is it it's 2441 02:17:22.920 --> 02:17:25.680 happening on all those species that you mentioned, Is that correct? 2442 02:17:25.799 --> 02:17:26.000 Well? 2443 02:17:26.120 --> 02:17:33.079 Yes, yes, okay, okay, So it's probably the older leaves 2444 02:17:33.239 --> 02:17:36.319 that you see turning yellow. And older, meaning if you 2445 02:17:36.520 --> 02:17:38.719 if you look at a shoot coming out with leaves 2446 02:17:38.719 --> 02:17:40.799 on it, the ones out toward the end those are 2447 02:17:40.799 --> 02:17:42.799 the newest ones, and the ones further back on the 2448 02:17:42.840 --> 02:17:46.079 shoot are the oldest ones. When older leaves turn yellow 2449 02:17:46.159 --> 02:17:50.920 and fall off, it usually is related to a fluctuation 2450 02:17:51.120 --> 02:17:54.879 in so moisture. Plants get way too wet, the roots 2451 02:17:54.879 --> 02:17:58.319 are soggy. They can't get oxygen. That's a problem. Plants 2452 02:17:58.319 --> 02:18:00.920 get too dry and they can't get water, that's a problem. 2453 02:18:00.959 --> 02:18:03.319 I don't know if you have Apothus ivy in your house, 2454 02:18:03.360 --> 02:18:05.399 but if you ever let it get dry and then 2455 02:18:05.479 --> 02:18:07.760 you water it, the old leaves turn yellow. After that 2456 02:18:07.879 --> 02:18:10.680 it perks back up, but the old leaves get cast off, 2457 02:18:11.200 --> 02:18:14.920 and so water fluctuations can do that to plants. It 2458 02:18:15.000 --> 02:18:18.000 could be a lack of nitrogen, but the way you're 2459 02:18:18.040 --> 02:18:21.120 describing it as turning yellow and falling off doesn't sound 2460 02:18:21.159 --> 02:18:23.280 like a lack of nitrogen to me. I think it's 2461 02:18:23.319 --> 02:18:24.840 a sole moisture issue. 2462 02:18:26.040 --> 02:18:29.479 Yeah, because before rain I thought maybe it needed water. 2463 02:18:29.639 --> 02:18:31.479 But you know, we're getting a lot of rain and 2464 02:18:31.520 --> 02:18:35.200 there's still the only tree that's not turning leaves not 2465 02:18:35.319 --> 02:18:37.239 turning yellow is the apple tree. 2466 02:18:38.559 --> 02:18:41.399 Okay, all right. Well, you know, the soil could be 2467 02:18:41.440 --> 02:18:44.159 different different areas. One spot could stay a little wetter. 2468 02:18:44.239 --> 02:18:47.200 There's there's a lot of factors, but I think that's it. 2469 02:18:47.280 --> 02:18:49.479 And I like to put a big mulch area around 2470 02:18:49.479 --> 02:18:52.760 my fruit trees because that helps moderate that soil temperature. 2471 02:18:52.760 --> 02:18:55.479 But it also keeps the weeds away so they're not 2472 02:18:55.600 --> 02:18:58.840 stealing the water from the soil, and so that if 2473 02:18:58.959 --> 02:19:01.879 you may want to increase mulched area around them, Martha, 2474 02:19:01.920 --> 02:19:04.360 I'm gonna have to run for a break here, but 2475 02:19:04.680 --> 02:19:07.520 I hope that helps. I'm ninety nine percent sure we're 2476 02:19:07.520 --> 02:19:10.440 looking at something in terms of soil moisture. You may 2477 02:19:10.440 --> 02:19:12.479 have to dig down with a little hand trial about 2478 02:19:12.840 --> 02:19:15.840 four to six inches and feel the soil and see 2479 02:19:15.879 --> 02:19:19.040 if it's adequately moist too soggy, too dry, you know, 2480 02:19:19.079 --> 02:19:21.799 whatever it is. But I do appreciate you calling in 2481 02:19:21.879 --> 02:19:25.319 this morning. Thank you very much. Okay, you welcome, bye bye. 2482 02:19:25.440 --> 02:19:28.319 All right, all right, I gotta go to a break, folks. 2483 02:19:28.360 --> 02:19:33.040 We'll be back with our last segment of the day. Well, well, welcome, 2484 02:19:33.639 --> 02:19:37.200 welcome back to Garden Line. Got our last segment of 2485 02:19:37.239 --> 02:19:41.559 the day. Here, last segment of the weekend. I appreciate 2486 02:19:41.639 --> 02:19:44.360 you listening to guarden Line. I don't take the fact 2487 02:19:44.799 --> 02:19:47.079 for granted that we got folks that are taking time 2488 02:19:47.120 --> 02:19:49.559 out in their data listen to garden Line. Hopefully we 2489 02:19:49.600 --> 02:19:53.079 are keeping it informative and a little bit enjoyable as 2490 02:19:53.120 --> 02:19:55.920 we go through there. If you would like to give 2491 02:19:55.959 --> 02:19:58.000 me a call, I've got time for a call. Maybe 2492 02:19:58.040 --> 02:20:01.959 two right now if you hurry. Uh seven one three 2493 02:20:02.120 --> 02:20:05.079 two one two ktr H seven one three two one 2494 02:20:05.159 --> 02:20:09.520 two KTRH. ACE Hardware Stores are you know, their motto 2495 02:20:09.639 --> 02:20:12.120 is ACE is a place and you can just kind 2496 02:20:12.120 --> 02:20:14.200 of fill in the blank after that. ACE is the 2497 02:20:14.200 --> 02:20:17.680 place for all kinds of standard hardware needs, you know, 2498 02:20:17.799 --> 02:20:21.920 traditional hardware, things like plumbing and lighting and wiring and 2499 02:20:21.959 --> 02:20:25.520 switches and paint and on and on the hardware stuff. 2500 02:20:25.840 --> 02:20:28.479 ACE is also the place for indoor and outdoor living. 2501 02:20:28.799 --> 02:20:32.079 ACE is a place for quality tools. ACE is a 2502 02:20:32.120 --> 02:20:36.520 place for the things that you need to maintain your property, 2503 02:20:36.559 --> 02:20:40.200 the equipment, the tools and things like that. ACE Hardware 2504 02:20:40.239 --> 02:20:44.600 Stores just they serve the community. Not too long ago, 2505 02:20:44.639 --> 02:20:49.000 we're talking someone from ACE about the fact that they 2506 02:20:49.040 --> 02:20:52.879 serve the Children's Texas Children's Hospital here in the Houston 2507 02:20:52.920 --> 02:20:56.040 area with fundraising that they do coming up. This is 2508 02:20:56.040 --> 02:20:57.399 a little further out, but I want you to be 2509 02:20:57.399 --> 02:21:00.719 aware of this coming up. ACE is having an event. 2510 02:21:00.879 --> 02:21:02.840 It is I know it's far out, but to stick 2511 02:21:02.879 --> 02:21:07.559 with me here October twelfth, Sunday, October twelfth, from five 2512 02:21:07.719 --> 02:21:10.399 thirty to eight thirty pm. And basically what it is, 2513 02:21:10.920 --> 02:21:15.440 it's Ace at Top Golf. You've been to Top Golf before. 2514 02:21:15.559 --> 02:21:19.639 I love Top Golf to support Texas Children's Hospital through 2515 02:21:19.760 --> 02:21:24.680 the text through the Children's Miracle Network Hospitals. It's really 2516 02:21:24.719 --> 02:21:27.520 a great cause. And as we heard on the other 2517 02:21:27.559 --> 02:21:33.159 day at Bill murphon from the acepon JOHNS. Rude talking about, 2518 02:21:33.440 --> 02:21:38.360 you know, the transforming stories about lives, kids lives here 2519 02:21:38.399 --> 02:21:42.239 in the greater Houston area. So the Texas Children's Hospital 2520 02:21:42.239 --> 02:21:46.159 serves nearly five million patients annually. So when you support 2521 02:21:46.200 --> 02:21:50.120 this cause, ninety percent of your money to Texas Children's 2522 02:21:50.120 --> 02:21:53.200 Hospital goes to patient services, one percent to charitable care, 2523 02:21:53.239 --> 02:21:56.639 and one percent to eight education, one percent of research. 2524 02:21:56.680 --> 02:21:58.879 But basically it's going it's going to the kids and 2525 02:21:58.920 --> 02:22:01.879 all the proceeds stay right here in Texas. So why 2526 02:22:01.879 --> 02:22:04.559 am I talking about all this? Well, the ACE Hardware 2527 02:22:04.639 --> 02:22:08.600 Texas Retailer Group, my group here in the greater Houston area, 2528 02:22:08.680 --> 02:22:12.159 and other Ace Hardware stores they're going to be sponsoring 2529 02:22:12.280 --> 02:22:17.040 on Sunday, October twelfth, five thirty to eight thirty an 2530 02:22:17.120 --> 02:22:21.959 event at Top Golf, a fundraiser. Maybe your organization would 2531 02:22:22.040 --> 02:22:25.280 like to talk about supporting that, being a sponsor or 2532 02:22:25.280 --> 02:22:28.040 a supporter of that. All you got to do is 2533 02:22:28.159 --> 02:22:35.159 reach out. Here is a email Okay, Brick at Acehardware 2534 02:22:35.200 --> 02:22:41.000 dot com, Brick at Acehardware dot com, and here is 2535 02:22:41.040 --> 02:22:44.840 the phone number two eight one two two three fourteen hundred. 2536 02:22:45.040 --> 02:22:49.159 Two eight one two two three fourteen hundred. Some of 2537 02:22:49.200 --> 02:22:51.920 our Ace Hardware stores in our Houston area, part of 2538 02:22:51.920 --> 02:22:56.479 our Ace Hardware Texas Retailer Group, are heading this up. Again. 2539 02:22:56.600 --> 02:22:59.120 It's further out there, but maybe you've got a company 2540 02:22:59.239 --> 02:23:01.319 or an organization and then you want to help with us. 2541 02:23:02.040 --> 02:23:04.719 Maybe you are just interested and you love, you know, 2542 02:23:04.760 --> 02:23:07.239 going out to Top Golf and having some fun out there. 2543 02:23:07.239 --> 02:23:08.840 They can tell you more about it that I'm telling 2544 02:23:08.879 --> 02:23:11.159 you here, by the way, that the location is going 2545 02:23:11.200 --> 02:23:14.680 to be the Top Golf at five sixty Spring Park 2546 02:23:14.799 --> 02:23:18.239 Center Boulevard in Spring, Texas. Top golf at five sixty 2547 02:23:18.319 --> 02:23:21.680 Spring Park Center Boulevard in Spring, Texas. So go check 2548 02:23:21.680 --> 02:23:24.280 them out and be a support for that. What it's 2549 02:23:24.360 --> 02:23:29.239 fun and it's a really really good cause. We are 2550 02:23:29.280 --> 02:23:31.559 now going to go out to the woodlands and visit 2551 02:23:31.600 --> 02:23:34.680 with Deb. Hello, Deb, Welcome to garden Line. 2552 02:23:34.959 --> 02:23:36.200 Hey scare, how are you? 2553 02:23:38.159 --> 02:23:40.280 I'm great? Thank you? What's up today? 2554 02:23:40.479 --> 02:23:40.879 Hey, Adam? 2555 02:23:41.520 --> 02:23:42.159 Quick question? 2556 02:23:42.680 --> 02:23:45.040 So we're getting ready to go out on a vacation 2557 02:23:45.280 --> 02:23:46.479 for this little over. 2558 02:23:46.399 --> 02:23:47.159 A couple of weeks. 2559 02:23:47.280 --> 02:23:49.879 And I have some potted plants that I set up 2560 02:23:49.879 --> 02:23:52.840 an independent sprinkler on, you know, a little timer thing 2561 02:23:52.879 --> 02:23:57.120 from my water spicket and a hose, and I'm thinking 2562 02:23:57.200 --> 02:24:00.719 I might need to fertilize them. What's a good potted 2563 02:24:00.840 --> 02:24:03.639 plant outdoor? Potted plant fertilizer. 2564 02:24:05.719 --> 02:24:07.639 Tell me a little bit about the plants. What kind 2565 02:24:07.639 --> 02:24:09.079 of plants are we talking about here? 2566 02:24:09.559 --> 02:24:12.360 Oh, you had to ask me that question. I have 2567 02:24:12.440 --> 02:24:18.239 a kind of a ginormous, ginormous lantana that really probably 2568 02:24:18.239 --> 02:24:22.159 needs to be repotted. I have some asparagus ferns. 2569 02:24:22.520 --> 02:24:22.879 I have. 2570 02:24:25.840 --> 02:24:30.360 Some little teeny uhunias that kind of thing. 2571 02:24:30.600 --> 02:24:35.200 Okay, okay, I would get a Nelson color star. You 2572 02:24:35.200 --> 02:24:39.479 can find Nelson color Star lots of different cases. Nelson 2573 02:24:39.520 --> 02:24:42.200 plant Food color Star is the name of it, and 2574 02:24:42.360 --> 02:24:45.040 uh to follow the label on how much you put out. 2575 02:24:45.680 --> 02:24:49.200 Don't overdo it, but you could put a little on there. Uh, 2576 02:24:49.440 --> 02:24:52.879 if you've got water that is dependably being applied to 2577 02:24:52.920 --> 02:24:56.399 the pots, then that you'll be good. You'll be good 2578 02:24:56.440 --> 02:24:59.040 to go. If you wanted to go a little more 2579 02:24:59.079 --> 02:25:03.600 conservatively on it. There is a product from Nelson called 2580 02:25:03.680 --> 02:25:08.959 Genesis and it is a more of an organic type 2581 02:25:08.959 --> 02:25:13.079 fertilizer as opposed to be an AsSalt based type fertilizer. 2582 02:25:13.479 --> 02:25:15.799 And so that would be fine, but just you know, 2583 02:25:15.879 --> 02:25:19.520 any fertilizer, especially the synthetics, their salts and so they 2584 02:25:19.520 --> 02:25:22.280 dissolve and they release and they're available. Color Stars is 2585 02:25:22.319 --> 02:25:25.000 going to give you a longer feed time. But the 2586 02:25:25.040 --> 02:25:27.360 main thing you need for those plants is water. Make 2587 02:25:27.399 --> 02:25:31.200 sure your watering system is working. Whether they get fertilizer 2588 02:25:31.319 --> 02:25:33.799 or not is not as important as whether they get 2589 02:25:33.840 --> 02:25:37.680 water or water. And yeah, yeah, as the water. And 2590 02:25:37.799 --> 02:25:41.239 so what you've given me is mostly color blooming plants. 2591 02:25:41.280 --> 02:25:44.559 That's why I suggested color Star. You know, the asparagus, 2592 02:25:44.600 --> 02:25:47.760 fern and foliage plants like that they'll benefit from it too. 2593 02:25:49.239 --> 02:25:51.040 Okay, all right, sounds good. 2594 02:25:51.079 --> 02:25:57.079 Thank you, all right, have fun on vacation, and good 2595 02:25:57.159 --> 02:25:59.760 luck with your plants as you come back. Thanks a lot, 2596 02:26:00.000 --> 02:26:03.479 all right, thank you, all right, Bye bye bye bye, 2597 02:26:04.879 --> 02:26:08.479 Oh vacation. Oh I wish we had another break. We 2598 02:26:08.520 --> 02:26:12.440 could play vacation by the Go Gos, Right, that'd be 2599 02:26:12.479 --> 02:26:15.639 a good song to follow up. Hey, you are listening 2600 02:26:15.680 --> 02:26:18.399 to guard Line and we're wrapping up today. We appreciate 2601 02:26:18.479 --> 02:26:22.280 you listening in. I am here every Saturday and Sunday 2602 02:26:22.319 --> 02:26:25.559 morning from six am to ten am. Don't forget. You 2603 02:26:25.600 --> 02:26:27.840 can listen to past garden Line shows. You can go 2604 02:26:27.920 --> 02:26:31.479 to the website KTRH website, go to the garden Line 2605 02:26:31.520 --> 02:26:33.920 page and you can listen live there. You can also 2606 02:26:33.959 --> 02:26:36.600 listen to pass shows there. You can also go to 2607 02:26:36.639 --> 02:26:39.559 my website which I keep telling you guys about gardening 2608 02:26:39.680 --> 02:26:42.920 with skip dot com. There's a place to click on 2609 02:26:43.040 --> 02:26:44.799 right at the top. There, there's a place to click 2610 02:26:44.840 --> 02:26:48.040 and listen to guarden Line live or past shows. You 2611 02:26:48.040 --> 02:26:50.559 can get the iHeartMedia app. That's the way I listen 2612 02:26:50.600 --> 02:26:52.959 to garden Line and other shows. Okay, I have the 2613 02:26:53.000 --> 02:26:56.120 iHeartMedia app there and I can listen to pass shows, 2614 02:26:56.559 --> 02:26:59.360 listen live. It's on my phone. My phone's always with me. 2615 02:26:59.440 --> 02:27:01.479 I may not be around a radio, but I'm always 2616 02:27:01.520 --> 02:27:05.559 around my phone. iHeartMedia app. A little white square with 2617 02:27:05.600 --> 02:27:09.120 a red circle inside makes it easy. Well, thank you 2618 02:27:09.120 --> 02:27:12.120 for being a listener. I do want to just re 2619 02:27:12.200 --> 02:27:15.920 mention again that our sponsors or the reason you get 2620 02:27:15.920 --> 02:27:17.719 to listen to garden Line, the reason I get to 2621 02:27:17.760 --> 02:27:22.079 be on guarden Line, the sponsors or the reason anyone 2622 02:27:22.280 --> 02:27:26.520 watches TV or listens to radio, and thank them when 2623 02:27:26.559 --> 02:27:30.239 you go see our sponsors. Support our sponsors, they are 2624 02:27:30.360 --> 02:27:33.200 the reason that's why we get to listen for free. 2625 02:27:33.879 --> 02:27:35.920 I hope you have a great week out in the garden. 2626 02:27:36.040 --> 02:27:40.159 Remember do all the things that help plants thrive, but 2627 02:27:40.239 --> 02:27:41.440 mostly have fun.