Speaker 1: Welcome to Katie r. H Garden Line with Skip Rickard's.
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Speaker 5: Good morning, gardeners, Good morning hope you are having a
Speaker 5: wonderful morning already. For me, a wonderful morning starts off
Speaker 5: with quiet and uh, a cup of coffee, a little
Speaker 5: time to think. That's a that's a good thing. Oh,
Speaker 5: we'll start it off easy this morning.
Speaker 1: I wanted to, uh, well, first time you get the
Speaker 1: phone number in case you would like to call. Sometimes
Speaker 1: we have people that are sitting there seem like then
Speaker 1: we come on, they jump on the phone. That's good.
Speaker 1: At least it gets you no waiting access of to
Speaker 1: get your questions in seven one three two one two
Speaker 1: KTRH seven one three two one two KTRH. I was
Speaker 1: walking through a lawn, Saint Augustine lawn this week and
Speaker 1: was looking just kind of looking down at it at
Speaker 1: you know, some of the things going on, and noticed
Speaker 1: quite a bit of gray leaf spot. Still. Gray leaf
Speaker 1: spot is a fungus, and one thing that is kind
Speaker 1: of a principle of most fungal problems is that it's
Speaker 1: primarily environmentally driven. There are such a thing as having
Speaker 1: a disease come in, you know, like we had a
Speaker 1: coronavirus came in to the country from outside the country.
Speaker 1: But in general, our plant diseases are here already, already
Speaker 1: in your your landscape, and they just don't take off
Speaker 1: because the conditions aren't right. And so gray leaf spot,
Speaker 1: the conditions are moisture on the surface of the grass
Speaker 1: blades and warm temperatures, not necessarily hot temperatures, but warm temperatures.
Speaker 1: That's why it's primarily an early in the summer disease,
Speaker 1: although we can get it anytime when you create the
Speaker 1: right conditions. So the analogy I use for this with
Speaker 1: fungi is imagine, you know, you've got a water spicket
Speaker 1: coming out of your house over on in a shady spot,
Speaker 1: and it started to leak around the connection and it
Speaker 1: was spraying a miss that was going back on the brick.
Speaker 1: If you let it do that for a few days,
Speaker 1: After about a week or so, you're going to notice
Speaker 1: algae growing on your brick. Where did that algae come from, Well,
Speaker 1: it was it's everywhere, but it's not growing because on
Speaker 1: a dry brick surface, algae is not going to grow,
Speaker 1: but you keep it moist and suddenly here goes the
Speaker 1: algal grow. Right, that's how funge i work in the lawn.
Speaker 1: So when you overwater, actually, let me change that. When
Speaker 1: you water too frequently, you promote gray leaf spot in
Speaker 1: your lawn. And what happens when it rains every day
Speaker 1: for a week, Well, that's not in your control, but
Speaker 1: that is what you would expect to start to happen.
Speaker 1: And nine Fiss has a product called Eagle that is
Speaker 1: kind of a go to, and it's the reason I
Speaker 1: like it for gray leaf spot and some other diseases
Speaker 1: as well, is because it's systemic. You put it down
Speaker 1: as a granule, it goes in the soil, the roots
Speaker 1: take it up, and it helps fight that. The primary
Speaker 1: things I recommend for take all root rot are systemic.
Speaker 1: They put them on the soil, they come up into
Speaker 1: the plant, and they fight the plant from the inside.
Speaker 1: So it instead of being like a surface protectant, you
Speaker 1: spray it on a leaf so a spore can't land
Speaker 1: and infect that leaf and create a spot. This is
Speaker 1: something we get in the plumbing of the plant and
Speaker 1: it prevents it from the inside. And those work a
Speaker 1: lot better, and some of those even have the ability
Speaker 1: to do what we call curative function, where you have
Speaker 1: the start of a disease and it just shuts it
Speaker 1: down from the inside. Anyway, that's a lot but Eagle.
Speaker 1: By the way, if you're looking for night Foss products,
Speaker 1: you're going to find Knight Fash products at places like
Speaker 1: Langham Creek Ace Hardware that's on five twenty nine up
Speaker 1: there in the Copperfield neighborhood. If you head to RCW Nursery,
Speaker 1: you find Nitrovoss products. The Tumball Parkway and Beltway eight
Speaker 1: and down in Angleton include Lake Hardware stores there, Velasco
Speaker 1: and on Dixie Dry. Both of those locations sell nitrovis products.
Speaker 1: But the best thing with fungi is to get ahead
Speaker 1: of them. That's true of the No, we're not in
Speaker 1: the cool season when we have the big brown patch
Speaker 1: circles take lss large patch circles. But once those circles appear,
Speaker 1: it's kind of late to put a funge aside down.
Speaker 1: I mean, stop more circles from happening. But you tend
Speaker 1: to already have a mess that you got to live
Speaker 1: with all winter because grass is going to grow and
Speaker 1: fill those brown circles back in in the winter time.
Speaker 1: So ahead of time, preventative, preventative, preventative. If you know
Speaker 1: you're having fun goal problems, preventative is the best way
Speaker 1: to do it. After the fact, we just don't have
Speaker 1: the same effects. So anyway, that is grey leaf spot.
Speaker 1: Hopefully it won't be a problem if you go to
Speaker 1: my lawn care schedule. I have two schedules on my website,
Speaker 1: and I know some of you have heard me say
Speaker 1: this a bunch, but we always have new listeners or
Speaker 1: people that aren't listening when they listen. There is Skip's
Speaker 1: lawn care schedule, which is how do you grow a
Speaker 1: beautiful lawn, So it's fertilizing and air rating and mowing
Speaker 1: and watering and the products you use for fertilizing and
Speaker 1: when you apply them. And then on the other side, well,
Speaker 1: on the other schedule, I print mind two sided like
Speaker 1: that on card stocks. Real handy to keep around is
Speaker 1: the lawn pest Disease and we'd management Schedule one is
Speaker 1: for insect problems and disease problems for preventing weeds that
Speaker 1: would be like a pre emergent and cultural practices that
Speaker 1: prevent weeds and then for killing existing weeds, and both
Speaker 1: of those schedules, by the way, they offer you synthetic
Speaker 1: and organic options, so you have options there as well
Speaker 1: as some advice as you go along. So anyway, yeah,
Speaker 1: so you look for gray leaf spot and on my schedule,
Speaker 1: I've got it in starting a little bit into April
Speaker 1: all the way through the latter part of July, which
Speaker 1: is our primary season where we see the gray leaf
Speaker 1: spot and not stretching the borders a little bit out.
Speaker 1: But you never know the year, so it can happen.
Speaker 1: So there's that, that's for sure. I hope that schedule
Speaker 1: is helpful to you. I'm about to do a little
Speaker 1: bit of an update to it, just in talking with
Speaker 1: folks and looking at some of the situations, and I
Speaker 1: just think I'm gonna move I'm gonna do a little
Speaker 1: bit of an adjustment here and there. It's not big,
Speaker 1: it doesn't amount too much in terms of you using it,
Speaker 1: but I just think we can tweak some things just
Speaker 1: a little bit. I wish there was a way to
Speaker 1: get more information on a page, because sometimes just to
Speaker 1: say here's a disease, go spray this is not adequate
Speaker 1: in terms of really helping people minimize problems. You've heard
Speaker 1: me say this before, but when we have a problem
Speaker 1: that is affecting our lawn, almost always there is something
Speaker 1: in the process of preparing to plant, planting and caring
Speaker 1: for plants and the plants you choose that could be
Speaker 1: done to help avoid the problem. Those are called cultural practices.
Speaker 1: And I don't think in terms of there's a bug,
Speaker 1: here's a spray, That's how I kill it. Only, Okay,
Speaker 1: there's times for that. In general, there's so much that
Speaker 1: we do to take the number of times we need
Speaker 1: to spray or apply granules down to a minimum, and
Speaker 1: that's what we want to do. We don't want to
Speaker 1: be a pesticide treadmill, where I don't care if it's
Speaker 1: organic or synthetic treadmill. You don't want to be on
Speaker 1: that treadmill if you can avoid it, and good cultural
Speaker 1: practices help you avoid that. That's what we're looking for. Okay,
Speaker 1: So hopefully that makes a little bit of sense. But
Speaker 1: just to remember that that usually when problems appear, you
Speaker 1: can look backwards in time and see things that could
Speaker 1: have been done to minimize them. A good example of
Speaker 1: that is weeds wherever sunlight hits a soil nature plants
Speaker 1: of weed. That's just a fact. Your long gets thin,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have weeds pop up, and so dense healthy lawn,
Speaker 1: mow water, fertilized, dense healthy lawn helps avoid most weed problems.
Speaker 1: Not all, but most we're not talking about. You know,
Speaker 1: you have no problems. If you do everything right, you
Speaker 1: still have problems. But why not minimize it instead of
Speaker 1: every time you go outside you got to spray or
Speaker 1: apply something to try to kill whatever is trying to
Speaker 1: kill your plants. Makes sense to me. The folks at
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Speaker 1: to help Houston area homeowners have a gorgeous landscape. Now.
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Speaker 1: do quarterly maintenance for you. So maybe it's just your yards.
Speaker 1: Are you there and they come in, They look at
Speaker 1: your flower beds and things. They do the any weed control,
Speaker 1: any mulching that's needed. They make sure the irrigation is
Speaker 1: working right. And that's an important thing to do because
Speaker 1: it is getting hot here. I need to take care
Speaker 1: of that all those general maintenance things and they do
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Speaker 1: you make with them. They can do a color change
Speaker 1: every quarter if you want, or they can do one
Speaker 1: color change or two color changes a year, meaning, Okay,
Speaker 1: the pansies are starting to melt in the heat, let's
Speaker 1: put in some warm season fly that sort of thing.
Speaker 1: They also can do significant revamps of your landscape, from
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Speaker 1: to just adding lighting or fixing a poorly drained area
Speaker 1: or dealing with the irrigation. Piercescapes dot Com is the
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Speaker 1: gonna take a break. I'll be right back when you
Speaker 1: get hot outside. Mm hm, so time to find some waterfolks, boy,
Speaker 1: I tell you that how many of you loved Maybe
Speaker 1: you still do? You don't you know? You don't have
Speaker 1: to mid out. You can tell me. I won't tell
Speaker 1: anybody running through the sprinklers outside, remember that? How about
Speaker 1: slipping slides? Little plastic on the ground and have some
Speaker 1: on Yep, that's summertime and you never get too old
Speaker 1: for that. By the way, I'm officially giving us all
Speaker 1: permission to run and play in the water when we
Speaker 1: want to. You know, there's times when I've got a
Speaker 1: picture of one of my daughters and we were in
Speaker 1: the garden and I was asking her to water, and
Speaker 1: I looked over there and she had one of those
Speaker 1: handguns that sprays, you know, a missed kind of showery
Speaker 1: missed out, and she had it pointed straight up in
Speaker 1: the air, and it was just like she's standing under
Speaker 1: a waterfall and she's having the best time. I guess
Speaker 1: my plans were getting watered a little bit. But anyway,
Speaker 1: water gotta have it, especially when you live done here
Speaker 1: in the summertime. You're listening to the Guardline. I'm your host,
Speaker 1: Skip Richter, and we're here to help you have a
Speaker 1: beautiful garden, hopefully a beautiful landscape as well, and a
Speaker 1: bountiful one whether you're growing vegetables or flowers or herbs
Speaker 1: or just a gorgeous lawn. We want you to have
Speaker 1: success with that. That's why we're here. You can give
Speaker 1: me a call seven one three two one two Kati
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Speaker 1: r H. I've got some things in the emails. The
Speaker 1: way I work that here, I'm not able to type
Speaker 1: out answers to all the emails. Just too many people
Speaker 1: that can send me emails and I just can't. I
Speaker 1: just don't have the time with my other projects and
Speaker 1: things to be able to do that. And so what
Speaker 1: I ask is that if you want to ask a
Speaker 1: question and a photo would be helpful, please please do
Speaker 1: send it and then call in. We've got a number
Speaker 1: of people that have sent me some photos that'll be
Speaker 1: calling in, and what we'll do is I'll have time
Speaker 1: to look at the photo and then when they call
Speaker 1: we can talk about it. And you know what I
Speaker 1: found that when somebody describes something, and it may be
Speaker 1: me describing something to you, and then in your mind's
Speaker 1: eye you picture it and then you actually see it
Speaker 1: in a picture, it's like, Okay, that's not what I
Speaker 1: was picturing at all. And that happens to me a lot.
Speaker 1: You know, someone says, well, I got this plan and
Speaker 1: it's whatever, and then when I see the pictures, like,
Speaker 1: oh okay, well that's different. Pictures are important. Right, picture's
Speaker 1: worth a thousand words. So when you send me a picture,
Speaker 1: I ask couple of things. One, make sure it's in
Speaker 1: good sharp focus. If I see I've had people hold
Speaker 1: a weed or something up in their hand and take
Speaker 1: a picture and the camera focuses on the background and
Speaker 1: not on the weed. Well, fuzzy pictures give fuzzy answers,
Speaker 1: and you don't want a fuzzy answer. You want a
Speaker 1: sharp answer, an accurate answer, and so good sharp pictures
Speaker 1: are important. Check them for you send them. Get as
Speaker 1: close as you can to things that may need to
Speaker 1: be examined, like here's this little grass seedling coming up
Speaker 1: in the lawn. Well, you got to get really close
Speaker 1: for me to see that. Other I'll just say, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's some kind of grass and I don't know what
Speaker 1: it is. And so close whenever you can, when that's appropriate.
Speaker 1: Sometimes a picture of the overall setting is important. That
Speaker 1: helps me a lot. And then finally, when you send it,
Speaker 1: if you can attach it to the email rather than
Speaker 1: rather than embed it in the text. When I'm trying
Speaker 1: to do radio walk into your gum at the same time,
Speaker 1: it's just easier for me to click on it and
Speaker 1: open it when it's an attachment that's a little paper
Speaker 1: clip symbol, that is a little easier. I can't open
Speaker 1: them out of the text bit anyway, if you could
Speaker 1: do that, that that just helps a little bit for
Speaker 1: me to do it. So anyway, there you go, send
Speaker 1: a picture, follow up with a phone call, and we
Speaker 1: will help get you success. And that is a service
Speaker 1: that I think is really valuable because you know, a
Speaker 1: lot of people see problems like there's spots in my
Speaker 1: lawn and then they go to a store and just say, yeah,
Speaker 1: I need something for lawn disease, and maybe you get
Speaker 1: a product, but it's not the right product for the
Speaker 1: disease you have. And especially true for weeds. We had
Speaker 1: a lot of a bazillion different weeds and although there
Speaker 1: are products that control a lot of weeds, there is
Speaker 1: not one product that fixes everything. And so it's kind
Speaker 1: of going the doctor. You know, you say doctor, I
Speaker 1: don't feel well, and he starts writing you a prescription.
Speaker 1: Say wait a minute, how can you write a prescription
Speaker 1: for a quote I don't feel well. We need to
Speaker 1: know why I don't feel well, then write me a prescription.
Speaker 1: That's kind of how it is with recommending insecticide or
Speaker 1: fungicide or herbicide, And that is true whether it's synthetic
Speaker 1: or organic. You need to know what you're going after
Speaker 1: in order to have success, and then the timing and
Speaker 1: on it. So anyway, there's a little spiel hopefully that
Speaker 1: will make sense. But it is a free service. You
Speaker 1: can do that as often as you like. Send me
Speaker 1: the photos, follow up with questions on garden Line and
Speaker 1: we'll be happy to help you that way our phone
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Speaker 1: Guess what I was doing this morning at four am? Well,
Speaker 1: I was. That's a little earlier than I normally get
Speaker 1: up for the show. So I'm a barbeque a brisket
Speaker 1: on a barbecue this morning. I've got a nice barbecue
Speaker 1: pit that got from Ace Hardware as a matter of fact,
Speaker 1: and it's a pellet grill, so it you know, feeds
Speaker 1: the little pellets in and so you can set it
Speaker 1: where it just like cooks for ten hours if you want.
Speaker 1: It's amazing what comes out of it. But anyway, I
Speaker 1: was out, I'd gotten it spent. It's spent the night
Speaker 1: in the refrigerator after having all the rub applied to it,
Speaker 1: and now it's out there and it's slowly working its
Speaker 1: way through. We'll have it tonight. But Ace Hardware has
Speaker 1: so many good options for that. I talked to someone
Speaker 1: yesterday who was a Big Green Egg fan, and I
Speaker 1: want to tell you something. And now this is just
Speaker 1: my opinion, but Big Green Eggs are a cult. It
Speaker 1: really is a cult. I'm pretty sure because everybody I
Speaker 1: know that has a Big Green Egg, it's like that's
Speaker 1: all they could talk about. That's all. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: just like that's the only barbecue pit that exists. I
Speaker 1: get it, and it's a wonderful, branderful brand. But they've
Speaker 1: got you know, you got to Ace Hardwer. You're going
Speaker 1: to find Tragger, which is pellet grills and things. You're
Speaker 1: going to find Rectag, which pellet grills and things. You're
Speaker 1: gonna find Weber and other brands and all the stuff
Speaker 1: that you need to go with them, you know, the
Speaker 1: little meat probes that tell you the temperature. Ace Hardware
Speaker 1: is set up for making indoor and outdoor living more pleasant.
Speaker 1: It is, and I have found so many things there
Speaker 1: that have just made it nice. I mean, when I
Speaker 1: say indoor and outdoor, let's do outdoor living. How about
Speaker 1: a string of lights on the patio. We set some
Speaker 1: of those up so in the evenings when it finally
Speaker 1: cools off enough in the summer to want to be
Speaker 1: a little outside, you just turn on the lights and
Speaker 1: you go out and you enjoy the evenings out there.
Speaker 1: Maybe another thing that we've done is, you know, setting
Speaker 1: up the different lawn furnitures and things that make it
Speaker 1: kind of nice to recline. Ace Hardware's got you covered
Speaker 1: on a lot of that as well. And then when
Speaker 1: it comes to fan or any other thing. My daughter
Speaker 1: and son in law put a fan up on their
Speaker 1: back patio that just kind of oscillates, rent sits under
Speaker 1: the eaves and oscillate. It makes it such a nice area,
Speaker 1: so pleasant, and Ace has got you covered on all that.
Speaker 1: Maybe your deck needs receiling, don't let those things go
Speaker 1: too far before you do the redo the preservation of
Speaker 1: the wood on that deck. Ace has got you covered
Speaker 1: for all of that. And then of course gardening, all
Speaker 1: kinds of gardening, lawn care of the fertilizer stuff on
Speaker 1: my schedule for past weeks, Diseases and fertilizers. You're gonna
Speaker 1: find it. ACE Hardware. You can go to ACE Hardware Texas.
Speaker 1: Don't forget Texas. ACE Hardware Texas dot com. That is
Speaker 1: our regional ACE Hardware group. Here on garden Line. ACE
Speaker 1: Hardware Texas dot Com. You're gonna find stores like Ospas
Speaker 1: ACE on Kirkandal up in the Woodlands, All Seasons, ACE
Speaker 1: up in Willis on Interstate forty five North, just up
Speaker 1: in Willis Chambers, ACE on Broadway Street. Down in Galveston
Speaker 1: Bay on Seventh Street north south east west Central. ACE
Speaker 1: Hardware has got you covered. Go to Acehardware Texas dot
Speaker 1: com and find some cool stuff. By the way, when
Speaker 1: you're in there too, guys and ladies who do the
Speaker 1: do it yourselfers, check out all the quality tools things
Speaker 1: from Blackendecker, stan Lee, Oak, Milwaukee Craftsman, and de Walt,
Speaker 1: for example. They've got you covered. I'm looking here at
Speaker 1: the clock. Later on today we're gonna have someone from
Speaker 1: Mosquito Dunks in and we're going to talk about Mosquito
Speaker 1: dunks and how they work and some of the specifics
Speaker 1: of them. You know, I talked about sitting outside, boy
Speaker 1: can Mosquito has ever spoiled the show there. Mosquita dunks
Speaker 1: are a little beige donut floats in water. It takes
Speaker 1: them about a month to fully dissolve and go away,
Speaker 1: and they release a bacteria that kills mosquito larvae. And
Speaker 1: they work and you can find them everywhere. Feed stores
Speaker 1: are independent nurseries, gardens, ace hardware stores. Mosquito dunks are
Speaker 1: critical in the Southeast Texas area to have to go
Speaker 1: through summer because it will rain and mosquitoes can reproduce.
Speaker 1: We'll be right back after a short break. Alrighty, welcome
Speaker 1: back to garden line. Good to have you with us, always,
Speaker 1: always good to have you with us. I have two
Speaker 1: happy well, I got a bunch of happy places, but
Speaker 1: two primary happy places for me is being out in
Speaker 1: the garden, being out in the landscape mesum with plants,
Speaker 1: digging in the dirt, having fun, and talking to gardeners.
Speaker 1: I love visiting with gardeners. Gardeners are in buy and
Speaker 1: large and I've you know, I had a career for
Speaker 1: thirty five years and Agrolife Extension Texan and Agrolife Extension
Speaker 1: Service as a county horder culturist, and I wish I
Speaker 1: had a little counter on me as to how many
Speaker 1: gardeners I talked to over all those years. But I'll
Speaker 1: tell you this, gardeners, buy and large are just nice people.
Speaker 1: They're just good people. You know. They've chosen a hobby
Speaker 1: that is laid back, natural, if you will, and they're
Speaker 1: just good to talk with and they're fun and they're
Speaker 1: excited about it. And when you're a gardener, you aren't.
Speaker 1: You have to be to some degree a hopeful optimist
Speaker 1: because you pick up these little pieces of detritus called
Speaker 1: seeds that just look like what is that. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's like a little piece of a leaf or a
Speaker 1: chunk of bark that fell off. I mean, there's tiny
Speaker 1: little things and you put it in the ground and
Speaker 1: when you look at that seed, a gardener sees tomatoes
Speaker 1: or a gardener sees zenias or sunflowers or whatever, and
Speaker 1: you put it in the ground and it comes up,
Speaker 1: and it's just that whole process is renewing, fun process.
Speaker 1: I love talking to gardeners. Gardeners and good people by
Speaker 1: and large. They're just a really, really good group. So
Speaker 1: that's part of that happy place that I'm talking about
Speaker 1: in my landscape. Sometimes I like to talk about what
Speaker 1: I'm doing in the landscape. Maybe some of you are
Speaker 1: going through the same things. I do a constant weed patrol.
Speaker 1: Not that I'm out there just to find weeds, but
Speaker 1: every time I walk through the yard, my eyes just
Speaker 1: after a while, you know, they sort of subconsciously you
Speaker 1: see weeds. Have you ever heard about somebody that is
Speaker 1: good at finding counterfeit bills? You know, they handle so
Speaker 1: much real money that a bill comes through and there's
Speaker 1: just something about it that they notice something's wrong here, right,
Speaker 1: because it's just automatic. Well, that's how I am with weeds.
Speaker 1: And I'm walking through my lawn and I'm just seeing
Speaker 1: that there's a weed over there, there's a weed over
Speaker 1: there or here. You know, earlier it was annual bluegrass.
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, that's a mess, and those little seat heads
Speaker 1: on it, I just could spot them, and I just stop,
Speaker 1: reach down, get to the bottom of it, pull it
Speaker 1: out of the ground, and keep walking. And wherever I
Speaker 1: get I got a handful of weeds or something, I
Speaker 1: throw them in a bucket. And it's just an ongoing
Speaker 1: thing to do that. And if you do, you can
Speaker 1: actually do a lot in controlling weeds without waiting until
Speaker 1: you have this big weed problem, and there's giant, ugly
Speaker 1: weeds everywhere, and now you're out there digging them up
Speaker 1: and pulling them all all up, and it's just this
Speaker 1: major hot mess with the fire ants and the one
Speaker 1: hundred degree sun eating your lunch. And so just think
Speaker 1: about that, just a small patrol. I don't even go
Speaker 1: out to pull weeds. I just am going around from
Speaker 1: here to there to get a garden hose, to walk
Speaker 1: into the garden, to go over here and plant something
Speaker 1: or whatever. All right, just a thought. Let's head out
Speaker 1: to Brookshire now, and we're going to visit with Ken
Speaker 1: this morning. Hello Ken, and welcome to garden Line. Hey, welcome.
Speaker 6: I'm new to the area and well move here in
Speaker 6: January from New Mexico.
Speaker 1: So the soil is much different. We have clay, yeah,
Speaker 1: but lit'sten.
Speaker 6: I have a bottle brush that we had a bare
Speaker 6: backyard new house, so planted old plants. We bought a
Speaker 6: bottle brush planeted about March. It seemed healthy, seemed healthy,
Speaker 6: and then about two months of them, about forty five
Speaker 6: days ago, one of the center branches just turned brown
Speaker 6: and died. And I thought, well, maybe something happened and
Speaker 6: didn't think to the rest of the plant looks good.
Speaker 1: And now I've got two more.
Speaker 6: Branches that have turned brown and are dying again. The
Speaker 6: rest of the plant looks good. It seems to beginning
Speaker 6: enough water. So I'm trying to figure if you might
Speaker 6: know maybe roots stimulate or I don't know.
Speaker 1: That's very, very unusual. First of all, welcome, welcome to
Speaker 1: the greater Houstonario. Gladt here it rains over here. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you've ever noticed what those big puppy
Speaker 1: great things in the sky actually can drop water. Unlike
Speaker 1: some parts up New Mexico, you get up in the
Speaker 1: mountains and you get a little more frequent rains. But anyway,
Speaker 1: kidding aside the bottle brush or any plant like that,
Speaker 1: where you're seeing selective dying out of branches, follow that
Speaker 1: branch downward with a really good close examination, and where
Speaker 1: you know, here's here's living branches and then there's there's
Speaker 1: a dead one. Does that dead one go all the
Speaker 1: way to the ground. Is it its own shoot or
Speaker 1: does it attached to a living branch? And if it
Speaker 1: attaches to a living branch somewhere in there, you're either
Speaker 1: going to see like borer holes with an insect that's
Speaker 1: chomping through it and cutting the water supply off to it.
Speaker 1: Or you may see a canker like sunken areas of
Speaker 1: the bark or split bark where the bark has died
Speaker 1: back and the inner wood is exposed. There's going to
Speaker 1: be something like that that has caused that branch that
Speaker 1: I if it goes all the way in the ground,
Speaker 1: it could be a couple things. It could be its
Speaker 1: own plant. Sometimes growers will stick there orfore plants in
Speaker 1: a pot and it grows just as a single bush,
Speaker 1: but it's really several plants, and so you may have
Speaker 1: lost an individual plant, but the other plants are alive
Speaker 1: and fine. So do the Sherlock Holmes can and see
Speaker 1: if you can figure out which of those things is happening.
Speaker 1: But it's going to be one of the above. It's
Speaker 1: going to be a borer insect, it's going to be
Speaker 1: a canker disease killing the bark. It's going to be
Speaker 1: a it's its own plant and maybe a root rot
Speaker 1: kind of thing going on with it. But it's gonna
Speaker 1: be one of those.
Speaker 6: Okay, all right, well, great, that's great, And give any
Speaker 6: suggestions for an avocado tree that might grow in this climate.
Speaker 1: Oh, there's some great ones. There's some great ones. You're
Speaker 1: out at Brookshire. If you go over to Nelson Water
Speaker 1: Gardens in Katie there, if you're at Interstate ten Katie
Speaker 1: Fort Ben Road, you go north, it's in Katie Katie
Speaker 1: Fort Ben Road. You go north. It's not very far.
Speaker 1: Nelson's just on the right, and they're a great nursery. Uh,
Speaker 1: And they will have avocados there, and so you know,
Speaker 1: you might call him. It could be that they the
Speaker 1: last ship have got sold out or something, but it's
Speaker 1: worth a visit anyway. But but they will sell you
Speaker 1: the kinds that grow here and that that's very important.
Speaker 1: And that's why I love our independent nursery so much,
Speaker 1: because you know, they're not a box store that just
Speaker 1: gets shipments all over the country and may or may
Speaker 1: not have stuff that should be planted here. So yeah,
Speaker 1: Nelson Water Gardens can do that. And and those varieties
Speaker 1: are are hardier than normal avocados than the regular store
Speaker 1: bought has avocado kind of thing. Okay, and you're still
Speaker 1: going to have to protect yeah, let me said one thing.
Speaker 1: You're still going to have to protect an avocado when
Speaker 1: we have our colder temperatures that can occur occasionally. Okay,
Speaker 1: so they're not fully hardy, Okay, go ahead. You had
Speaker 1: another question.
Speaker 6: We we live in an age way and all of
Speaker 6: them require a live oak in the frontry. I have
Speaker 6: a live oak, never owned one before. It seems to
Speaker 6: be doing good. It's green, it's it doesn't grow very fast,
Speaker 6: and I guess that's just the nature of the beast.
Speaker 6: What type of water do I need to do anything
Speaker 6: more than usual for it?
Speaker 1: Then? You know, I got to let me U. Can
Speaker 1: you hang on for just a little bit. I need
Speaker 1: to go to a break. Let me come back, because
Speaker 1: that's a little longer answer than I have time for.
Speaker 1: So just hang on a second. We'll be back with
Speaker 1: you in just a second. Here, ken, I'll be right back. Folks.
Speaker 1: All right, folks, welcome back. Good to have you with us,
Speaker 1: Good to have you with us this morning. It is
Speaker 1: it is summer, and when it's summer, it gets hot.
Speaker 1: And when we say hot, you know we're talking. You
Speaker 1: got your attic, and I've seen things like one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty hundred and sixty degrees up there in the attic,
Speaker 1: which is just insane, and that heat radiates under your
Speaker 1: house and you pay for it. And sometimes have you
Speaker 1: ever noticed like your AC can't even catch up in
Speaker 1: the summer. You got to set on I don't know
Speaker 1: what seventy three, let's say, and all spends a day
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Speaker 1: Tichuston dot com. Let's go back out here to Ken
Speaker 1: and Brookshire. So Ken, you've got a live oak tree
Speaker 1: and you're talking about watering and having success with it.
Speaker 1: The number one thing we can do to make our
Speaker 1: trees go faster is to get the grass competition away
Speaker 1: from them as far away as we can.
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 1: I know there's things esthetically that are not You know,
Speaker 1: if you have a little live oak and you go
Speaker 1: twenty feet out in all directions with a malt, that's
Speaker 1: not going to be pretty in the landscape, but that's
Speaker 1: what the tree would like for you to do. But
Speaker 1: just getting the weeds away from the base in a
Speaker 1: nice thick Moltz. Trees want a forest floor around their
Speaker 1: root system, not pasture grass in their eyes, and so
Speaker 1: that's one number two. When you water a good deep soaking,
Speaker 1: it's going to take at least an inch maybe a
Speaker 1: little more water to thoroughly wet that soil deeply. A
Speaker 1: newly planted tree, a fairly new the first couple of
Speaker 1: years especially needs a good soaking, primarily in the area
Speaker 1: underneath the branch spread of the tree. That's where the
Speaker 1: focus of the watering should be. But that's important. And
Speaker 1: then fertilizing is important, but not as important as the
Speaker 1: first two. But fertilizing at a moderate rate gets you
Speaker 1: a lawn fertilizer. Look at how thick that trunk is,
Speaker 1: and for every inch of trunk thickness, you give it
Speaker 1: one or two cups of lawn fertilizer sprinkled around the tree,
Speaker 1: and not just at the base of the tree, but
Speaker 1: in a circular area around it. Watered and really good.
Speaker 1: But the nutrients are the third most important thing. The
Speaker 1: lack of competition and good soaking. So it never lacks
Speaker 1: for water because in the early stages you want it
Speaker 1: to grow as fast as you can. That's different when
Speaker 1: it becomes a big, mature tree.
Speaker 6: Okay, so what's the easiest way to measure the water
Speaker 6: inches wise? If I want to, like, put the hose there,
Speaker 6: let it soak for a while.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's hard with a hose. If you have a
Speaker 1: little sprinkler, any kind of a rain gauge, and if
Speaker 1: you don't have a rain gauge, any kind of straight
Speaker 1: sided pinto bean can or cat food can or tuna
Speaker 1: fish can will be your rain gate. There's a device
Speaker 1: called the tree hugger sprinkler here in this area, and
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if they have those out at Nelson
Speaker 1: Water Gardens or not. They might they might have those
Speaker 1: out there. But a tree hugger sprinkler is a little
Speaker 1: green thing that's hinged and you put it up to
Speaker 1: the tree and it's a circle that goes around the tree.
Speaker 1: There's different sizes of it. You hook your hose to it,
Speaker 1: and you could even put a timer on your hose,
Speaker 1: and if you have a brand new tree, you can
Speaker 1: set this thing where it just barely the sprinkler just
Speaker 1: barely comes up a couple of inches and goes right
Speaker 1: back down, and you're watering that root ball, which is
Speaker 1: important early on, and then you turn it up more
Speaker 1: and more to where eventually you can water a very
Speaker 1: big circle. Maybe your tree's five years old and you're
Speaker 1: still trying to get it to grow fast, right uh,
Speaker 1: And so that would be another another possibility.
Speaker 6: Okay, well, thank you for all the hints and helps
Speaker 6: and and uh we'll learn.
Speaker 1: Uh we're learning about clay and yeah, well and it's
Speaker 1: it's typically a black clay out there, by the way,
Speaker 1: I was just looking Katie. Ace Hardware has those, as
Speaker 1: does Sinco ranch Sinco Ranch Ace Hardware. Both of those
Speaker 1: have they carry the tree huggers. If you're looking great,
Speaker 1: I'll head out there. Actually today they're open. All right,
Speaker 1: you take care, thanks for the call. Welcome to Texas,
Speaker 1: and just hang around garden Line. We're going to help
Speaker 1: you get up to speed on how to have success
Speaker 1: around here.
Speaker 6: Well, we're watching and then I saw you out in
Speaker 6: the Channon Gardens when you're out there doing this speek.
Speaker 6: We were out there getting a lot of our plants
Speaker 6: and trees and brushes and bushes and flowers.
Speaker 1: So we're taking your advice. Isn't that a great place?
Speaker 1: It's a great a great place. Yeah. Oh, well, that's gardening.
Speaker 1: Is that there's a wing of the Betty Ford Clinic
Speaker 1: for gardeners and the gardening in general is addictive, by
Speaker 1: the way, and China Gardens has tree huntor sprinklers too. Okay,
Speaker 1: super all right, well, thank you, all right, take care
Speaker 1: bye bye. Yeah, that is we warned you. Gardening is addictive.
Speaker 1: You know anything that's that's as much fun as gardening.
Speaker 1: As you start getting going, you know what happens some people.
Speaker 1: Here's here's the levels of gardening. There's the I want
Speaker 1: it to look pretty out there. I'm gonna have somebody
Speaker 1: to do it. That is one. The next level is
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have somebody to do some things, but I
Speaker 1: want to get out and dabble and you know, get
Speaker 1: some dart under my fingernails out in the flower beds
Speaker 1: and the garden and stuff. That's another level of gardening.
Speaker 1: And then it proceeds into the danger zone. That's where
Speaker 1: you are revamping stuff, turning up your building structures to
Speaker 1: hold vines, to create an ar utrellis, and you start, well, actually,
Speaker 1: there's a four stage and this is where I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: it's this is where people need professional help. And that
Speaker 1: is when you find a plant that you're obsessed with,
Speaker 1: kind of like me and Okra, and you just dive
Speaker 1: into it and you become and I don't want to
Speaker 1: pick on any society members or anything, but you have
Speaker 1: one species, you know, and you have every existing variety
Speaker 1: of that species, and when a new one comes out,
Speaker 1: you got to have that. And then in the final
Speaker 1: stages of this, we need to make a medical warning
Speaker 1: commercial for this. Anyway, in the final stages, you're actually
Speaker 1: crossing the plants to breed your own new varieties of
Speaker 1: that species. That's the stage I've hit with Okra It's
Speaker 1: it's I need intervention. I love messing with plants. And
Speaker 1: you know, I'm joking about this as if it's a problem.
Speaker 1: It's not a problem. It's fun. We have a good
Speaker 1: time doing it. But oh boy o boyl boy, that's gardening. Well,
Speaker 1: here comes some music. I means we're about to put
Speaker 1: this hour in the books. Hey, if you want to
Speaker 1: be first up on garden Line when we come back
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Speaker 1: Let us help you have success, get to the bottom
Speaker 1: of the kinds of questions that you might have on gardening.
Speaker 1: Today would be a good day, by the way, to
Speaker 1: get out and visit some of our garden centers. You know,
Speaker 1: we're talking about some of them today on the phone
Speaker 1: with with folks that call in. But We have great
Speaker 1: independent garden centers here and it's just listen, I've seen
Speaker 1: for years gardeners do things right, make mistakes, and on
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Speaker 1: a place filled with plants that want to grow here
Speaker 1: and people that want to help you have success and
Speaker 1: know what they're talking about. Hey, good morning, Good Sunday morning, gardeners.
Speaker 1: Glad to have you with us today. We are talking
Speaker 1: about gardening. Uh seven krh. So you reach me here
Speaker 1: so you can ask kind of questions you want to ask,
Speaker 1: kind of try to cover a little bit of everything. Uh.
Speaker 1: For those of you down in the in the southeast
Speaker 1: Houston region, Moss Nursery is is the go to premiere
Speaker 1: place down that direction. It's over in Seabrook, Texas, and
Speaker 1: uh it's on Toddville Road, by the way. Everybody that
Speaker 1: lives over there or has for a while knows about
Speaker 1: Moss Nursery because it's just the place has been around
Speaker 1: for seventy years. It's a family operated and it's eight
Speaker 1: acres in size, by the way, my gosh, and it's huge.
Speaker 1: Allow yourself some time because it's fun. It is a
Speaker 1: blast to go through Moss Nursery, just turning every corner
Speaker 1: to see the next thing. There's always going to be
Speaker 1: cool yard art and pottery and plants and pottery thing,
Speaker 1: all kinds of great pottery over there. The plants selection
Speaker 1: is everything you could possibly want. Do you need shade plants?
Speaker 1: Do you need succulents? Do you need fruit trees? Do
Speaker 1: you need shrubs? Do you want things that bloom in
Speaker 1: the heat of summer? Do you want things that produce
Speaker 1: like edible vegetables and flowers? Mean, excuse me, herbs. Well
Speaker 1: you need flowers too, by the way. But anyway, they've
Speaker 1: got you covered and it's a fun place to shop.
Speaker 1: While you're there, check out some of the quirky stuff.
Speaker 1: You know, Jim is always bringing in some unusual things
Speaker 1: from his travels and whatnot. And then they have the artwork,
Speaker 1: the quirky design t shirts that he's created. There's one
Speaker 1: called the eyeball plant, and you just got to see it.
Speaker 1: It is a very unusual thing, but you know, that's
Speaker 1: that's Moss Nursery. It's everything you would possibly need in
Speaker 1: a garden center. And even more. Moss Nursery. Seabrook, Texas
Speaker 1: m aas nursery dot com, maas nursery dot com. Let's
Speaker 1: go to the woodlands. Now we're going to talk to Mike. Hello, Mike,
Speaker 1: Welcome to Guardline.
Speaker 8: Hell say, good morning. I was listening earlier this morning
Speaker 8: and you were describing what I think is a grave
Speaker 8: leaf spot, and I lost connection right before you, you know,
Speaker 8: said what to do treat that grayley spot?
Speaker 1: Okay, I mentioned eagle turf fungicide. It's a granule. You
Speaker 1: put it down on the soil, watered in, it's taken
Speaker 1: up by the roots and that fungicide gets all in
Speaker 1: the plant and then when the disease tries to attack it,
Speaker 1: it doesn't let it. It shuts it down. Now, it
Speaker 1: doesn't take a lawn full of leaves with the gray
Speaker 1: spots on them and make the spots go away. The
Speaker 1: infection you have there in those spots that that's killed area,
Speaker 1: that it's dead area, it's going to still look like that,
Speaker 1: but it does prevent additional infection and it shuts those
Speaker 1: infected spots down. So it's it's better as a preventative,
Speaker 1: But if you don't get it down as a preventative,
Speaker 1: at least get it in as soon as you can
Speaker 1: to shut it down. Great, thank you, Yeah, you bet,
Speaker 1: Thanks for the call. Appreciate that. By the way, it's
Speaker 1: a night fast product called Eagle. All righty, let's head
Speaker 1: now to Houston and talk to Carter. Hey, Carter, welcome
Speaker 1: to garden Line.
Speaker 9: Good morning, Skip. I have a power bed full of
Speaker 9: seniors that I've planted from seed. I do this every
Speaker 9: year and they do great. I like it because the
Speaker 9: plants grow tall. In fact, they're almost they're probably about four.
Speaker 1: Feet tall now.
Speaker 9: But I love it, and so do all the neighbors.
Speaker 9: They've gotten powdery mildew, and I wanted to know what's
Speaker 9: the best thing to help treat it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Powdery mildew is an unusual fungus in that most
Speaker 1: fungi I want the leaves to be wet. That's when
Speaker 1: the spores sprout and grow and create problems. Powdery mildew
Speaker 1: doesn't want wet leaves. It wants high humidity and mild
Speaker 1: It likes milder temperatures a little bit more, but high
Speaker 1: humidity so that if you plant things really dense and
Speaker 1: so there's not good air movement in there, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of extra humidity that kind of hangs around you
Speaker 1: tend to have worse powdery mildew. You know from that.
Speaker 1: I think there are some zenias that have some resistance
Speaker 1: to it, and I couldn't name a cultivar now, but
Speaker 1: in the future, as you look for seeds, just check
Speaker 1: for that and see if you can find anything that
Speaker 1: has some resistance to it. One of the safest ways
Speaker 1: to fight powdery mildew with a spray is to use
Speaker 1: nam oil it's the name oil. Now. When it gets hot,
Speaker 1: oils can burn plain, So you want to do it
Speaker 1: early in the morning.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 1: They will eradicate the powdery mildy you have. Any damage
Speaker 1: to the leaf will not be fixed. It'll it's damaged.
Speaker 1: It'll stay there. Uh. And then for a little while
Speaker 1: they're protecting against powdery mildew. So you will need to
Speaker 1: repeat and eam oil sprays periodically, uh, if you want
Speaker 1: to maintain that. There is also on the organic side,
Speaker 1: there is a biological fungicide called serenade like singing to
Speaker 1: somebody's serenade. Uh, And that one is it's pretty effective.
Speaker 1: It's a type of a bacillis like BT kills insects.
Speaker 1: Serenade is a bacillis that kills powdery mildew and some
Speaker 1: other funk, some other fungi, and then there's several synthetic
Speaker 1: products that will control powdery mildew.
Speaker 9: All right, well that's very helpful. I can't think I'll
Speaker 9: trust if I can early.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, just remember that coverage is take how long
Speaker 1: does it take to how long does it take to do.
Speaker 9: What to kill the fungus?
Speaker 1: Pretty pretty much that day it's it's killing because all
Speaker 1: it's doing is killing the surface. You know, it doesn't
Speaker 1: go in the plant. It's not a systemic that goes
Speaker 1: in the plant. But it coverage is critical parter when
Speaker 1: you're doing this. If you spray and one leaf of
Speaker 1: zenia blocks the spray from hitting the leaf below it,
Speaker 1: let's say, uh, there won't be protection on the leaf
Speaker 1: that didn't get coated with the kneem oil or with
Speaker 1: the basilla's subtlest.
Speaker 9: All right, okay, serenade, thank you very much. This is helpful.
Speaker 1: You bet, thanks appreciate it. Well, thank you. I appreciate
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Speaker 1: I need to take a little break here and when
Speaker 1: I come back, rufous In Cove, you'll be our first up.
Speaker 1: All right, folks, welcome back. Good to have you with
Speaker 1: us here on Guardline if you have a question, you
Speaker 1: can give me a call seven one three two one
Speaker 1: two kt RH. If you did not do summer fertilizing yet,
Speaker 1: it's still okay to get it done. It's a good
Speaker 1: time to do it. Nitropos Super Turf the silver bag
Speaker 1: from Nitropos. It's a nineteen four to ten fertilizer gradually
Speaker 1: releases for like sixteen weeks or four months essentially, and
Speaker 1: that'll carry you all the way up to our fall
Speaker 1: fertilization at this point, especially when you're returning those clippings.
Speaker 1: It gradually feeds, which is the way you want to
Speaker 1: feed your turf in the summertime. It well, plants take
Speaker 1: up nutrients every day. They don't take up a year's
Speaker 1: worth of nutrients in one week and then start it
Speaker 1: at the rest of the time. You want a fertilizer
Speaker 1: that feeds low and that's what Nitropos does. You're gonna
Speaker 1: find Nighto Foss products at places like a hardware city
Speaker 1: I'm Memorial Drive. You're gonna find night Foss products at plants,
Speaker 1: twell Seasons on two forty nine. You're gonna find them
Speaker 1: at Bearings Hardware and West Timer and on this and
Speaker 1: that and the M and D H Hardware ACE Hardware
Speaker 1: up there in Rosenberg area. M and D all places
Speaker 1: that carry Night to Foss products. Let's head out now
Speaker 1: to the phones. We're gonna talk to Rufus in Cove, Texas. Hey, Cove,
Speaker 1: Rufous from Cove. How's it going.
Speaker 10: Going real good?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 10: I found a bug this morning on my trip to
Speaker 10: go after coffee again. It's about maybe two inches long,
Speaker 10: half inch wide, maybe border inch better, Dick. It's black.
Speaker 10: It's got two big old eyes on the front end,
Speaker 10: and I got white rings around. This thing is black
Speaker 10: with white stripes down. It would look great as for
Speaker 10: a fingernail for a zombie. Have you ever seen anything like?
Speaker 1: Yes, Uh, it's a it's a kind of a type
Speaker 1: of an iron beetle. Oh gosh, I'm trying to think
Speaker 1: of the name, the specific name of those. But yeah,
Speaker 1: those two big eyes. I guess that's supposed to scare
Speaker 1: things off the way that it works. Uh gee, I
Speaker 1: can't come up with the specific name of it, but
Speaker 1: it's it's larva or bore and wood. It's it's one
Speaker 1: of the things that bores in interior into the wood.
Speaker 10: Yeah, so.
Speaker 1: Well, I don't think it does pine. I think it.
Speaker 1: I think it would be hard woods.
Speaker 10: Specifically, right right, that's that's what it looked like. Personal thought,
Speaker 10: will chip off the tree and I'm going I didn't
Speaker 10: have that much wind last night. Yeah, well for zombie fingernail.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, it's kind of cool. There's a number
Speaker 1: of different beetles that are larger like that that are
Speaker 1: very unique. Gosh, trying to think of the name of
Speaker 1: that specific beetle, and it is escaping me right now.
Speaker 1: I'll think of it. I'll think of it in a minute.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it looks like it has eyes.
Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 1: That's one of the things in nature, they that that
Speaker 1: nature does to help things scare off. It's it's I
Speaker 1: think it's called a click beetle. Is it alive? Did
Speaker 1: the one you found? Is it alive? Still?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 10: It is kind of he's acting like he's going it
Speaker 10: looks like he's going to the final stage of life.
Speaker 10: But when I went to get him, I got a
Speaker 10: container and he did jump, but jumped in my container,
Speaker 10: So right now.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah then yeah, one of the names I know,
Speaker 1: which when you're talking about now that one of the
Speaker 1: names for that is called the eyed click beetle because
Speaker 1: it has eyes and if you will lay it on
Speaker 1: its back, it will pop the hinge between its thoraxin's abdomen.
Speaker 1: It pops it and it flips it up in the
Speaker 1: air so it can land on its feet. You know,
Speaker 1: some beatles lay there and wiggle their legs in the
Speaker 1: sky and can't turn over. The click beetles click, yeah,
Speaker 1: they do. They the clickbians can do. That's called the
Speaker 1: eyed click beetle that you're looking at. And you said
Speaker 1: it jumped or no it's not, and there's not a
Speaker 1: way to no bottom the fast answers. No, they're just
Speaker 1: not a practical way to control them. The amount of
Speaker 1: damage you're getting from them is not a big deal. Uh,
Speaker 1: don't worry about it. Careful when you pick them up though,
Speaker 1: they've they've got a set of jaws on the front,
Speaker 1: So don't stick your hand in front of its mouth,
Speaker 1: all right, man, thanks a lot, rufus, Take care. Yeah,
Speaker 1: nature is so cool. So many unusual things out there
Speaker 1: in nature that is that is a cool deal. Kids
Speaker 1: will think that is really wake especially the click You
Speaker 1: know that there's several kinds of click beetles that we
Speaker 1: run into in our landscapes and you lamb on their
Speaker 1: back and they just like it's like they just pop
Speaker 1: this little hinge and it flips them right over. It's
Speaker 1: kind of cool. The folks that Nelson Plant Food have
Speaker 1: so many lines. They got the turf Star line, which
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Speaker 1: bougain villa and you want to give the proper kind
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Speaker 1: gotta fertilize. That's something that people don't really, I think
Speaker 1: consider enough. A lot of times, you know, I get
Speaker 1: calls and say, well, my plant's there, it's growing, it
Speaker 1: looks okay, but it just really isn't taking off. And
Speaker 1: then you throw a little fertilizer right and suddenly it is.
Speaker 1: And you would think, well, that's it. By news, you fertilize,
Speaker 1: it makes plants grow. But a lot of times people
Speaker 1: don't consider the fact that you know, in nature, plants
Speaker 1: are growing on the decomposing organic matter and the mineral
Speaker 1: content of the soil that's dissolving away off the little
Speaker 1: essentially rock soil particles. And that's fine, you get a
Speaker 1: nice even growth and everything. But when you're trying to
Speaker 1: push something along. You may be planting a sweet corn
Speaker 1: in your garden and you're trying to get the most
Speaker 1: yields you can out of it. That takes an extra
Speaker 1: boost of nitrogen more than one actually in the course
Speaker 1: of that crop being grown. And so when we fertilize,
Speaker 1: we get more of that. When you've got a flowering plant,
Speaker 1: that is it flowered really good and now it's just
Speaker 1: kind of dwindling down. A petinues tend to do that
Speaker 1: as it as they go into their season. You fertilize
Speaker 1: and you think, well, I don't I don't want leaves.
Speaker 1: I want flowers, but flowers you have to have leaves,
Speaker 1: And so supporting and promoting new growth creates more foliage.
Speaker 1: Those are solar panels that capture the sun and make
Speaker 1: plant food, and then you see more flowers and you
Speaker 1: see more fruit on your plants. So even though you
Speaker 1: look at fertilizers and it's kind of in people's minds
Speaker 1: that well, I'm gonna produce flowers, I need lots of
Speaker 1: the middle number and not so much to that first number. No,
Speaker 1: you you actually need you need both. And yes, phosphorus
Speaker 1: is important for roots and for flowering and whatnot, but
Speaker 1: nitrogen is important too, So keep your plants boosted in
Speaker 1: order to maintain good growth and good health. Don't overdo it.
Speaker 1: Never overdo it. It's kind of like us. We can
Speaker 1: eat too much, especially of certain things. And although I'd
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Speaker 1: on my patio yesterday and it was late in the day,
Speaker 1: the time when meskis go nuts. I mean, you know
Speaker 1: they I've had mosquitos in the backyards are bad. I
Speaker 1: was afraid that when my little granddaughter came outside, they
Speaker 1: were going to grab her, pick her up and take
Speaker 1: her across the fence to some other huge, huge mosquitoes.
Speaker 1: Lots of mosquitoes yesterday I did. I don't think I
Speaker 1: had one, and that's unusual not even have one. And
Speaker 1: it's because I've got the mosquito buckets from pest Bros.
Speaker 1: And they're in my landscape and they're maintained. That's what
Speaker 1: pest Bros does. Pest Bros. Comes out each month to
Speaker 1: maintain those buckets for you. And you know the way
Speaker 1: they work two things. Number one, they make the mosquitoes
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Speaker 1: in the water. And in the water is two things.
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Speaker 1: to the buckets. Just like mosquitoes are attracted to our
Speaker 1: carbon dioxide out of our breath, they're also attracted to
Speaker 1: the especially the smell in these buckets. They go there,
Speaker 1: they lay eggs. A lot eggs hatch into larva that
Speaker 1: will never become mosquitos. It shuts them down. While they're there,
Speaker 1: the mosquito picks up granules, not granules, little dust particles
Speaker 1: off of a screen that it sits on in the bucket.
Speaker 1: And when it flies off, everywhere that mosquito lands on water.
Speaker 1: You know, mosquitoes can literally land on water. Some of
Speaker 1: that particle gets in the water and now that water
Speaker 1: can't grow mosquitos either. And this is safe. It's not
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Speaker 1: gets on its feet. Can you tell I'm getting excited?
Speaker 1: Anytime fire ants or mosquitos are suffering, I get excited.
Speaker 1: And that fungus within a week kills the mosquito itself.
Speaker 1: So we wanted to live long enough to go out there,
Speaker 1: and all those water places that we don't even know about,
Speaker 1: I want those shut down too. That's how the buckets work,
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Speaker 1: one two o six forty six seventy. I'm telling you, uh,
Speaker 1: nothing kills every mosquito. You know, there's always mosquitos flying
Speaker 1: in from places. But this is amazing. I've never seen
Speaker 1: anything like it. And now I used to get the
Speaker 1: foggers and nuke my landscape, you know, to kill everything.
Speaker 1: I didn't. I hated it. I didn't want to do that,
Speaker 1: but my gosh, you know. And then there's the misquita,
Speaker 1: the diseases mosquitoes spread around. Ugh. Anyway, time for me
Speaker 1: to take a break here in just a second. If
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Speaker 1: back with your calls. And I want to talk just
Speaker 1: a little bit about fruit growing and some things that
Speaker 1: I've noticed in terms of calls and emails from people
Speaker 1: trying to grow fruit. So stick around. We'll be right back.
Speaker 1: All right, we're back. Welcome back to garden Line. We're
Speaker 1: here to help you have success. If you'd like to
Speaker 1: give me a call. We can help work through some
Speaker 1: issues in the garden or some questions or maybe and
Speaker 1: this is fun. You know, not everything in gardening is
Speaker 1: a problem. Maybe we can suggest some plans or some
Speaker 1: approaches to success with plans that that is fun. Here
Speaker 1: here's the thought. This is something that I probably ought
Speaker 1: to talk about this more. But when you do a
Speaker 1: line landscape, you often are looking at you're in a
Speaker 1: garden center and you're seeing all these pretty flowers. Ooh,
Speaker 1: I like that, I like that, And maybe you're taking
Speaker 1: it to the level of well combining the colors that
Speaker 1: are pleasing to you, or some plants that are taller, shorter,
Speaker 1: and you know, so when you look at a back fence,
Speaker 1: you've got some taller plants in the back and some
Speaker 1: shorter ones in the front. So esthetically it looks good
Speaker 1: to you. But think about the four seasons. The four seasons.
Speaker 1: We live in a mild climate, and even in winter
Speaker 1: here we can have color and we can have plants
Speaker 1: that are interesting. The cinnamon colored exfoliating bark on a
Speaker 1: Natchez krpe myrtle is beautiful in the winter time. Do
Speaker 1: you see what I'm talking about? And then there's flowers
Speaker 1: and stuff. Think about all four seasons. In spring, it's
Speaker 1: easy to get blooms. Everything's blooming in spring, it seems like.
Speaker 1: But there are also things that bloom through the summer.
Speaker 1: They are very tough here, they can make it here.
Speaker 1: And then we have things that only bloom in the fall.
Speaker 1: They pop up for their show in the fall season.
Speaker 1: So when you put in your lands, always be thinking
Speaker 1: about and as you you know, may come home every
Speaker 1: day and you look at your landscape through the seasons,
Speaker 1: look at what's missing, you know. So and typically in
Speaker 1: our Houston area landscapes, summer becomes a sea of green,
Speaker 1: green grass, green groundcovers, green shrubs, green trees. And where's
Speaker 1: the color? Well, green's the color. Okay, where are the
Speaker 1: other colors? So think about the four seasons when you
Speaker 1: plan your landscape. Let's seat out now to Marene in
Speaker 1: Lakeside of States. Hello, Marene, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 8: Thank you.
Speaker 12: I have a thought in my head and it was
Speaker 12: more expensive than the other and I thought, you know, should.
Speaker 1: Call in and ask. And so here's my question.
Speaker 12: When using mulch, I wanted to do my beds in
Speaker 12: the front and I know it has a delicious smell
Speaker 12: to me, more than some other things that we put
Speaker 12: in place, but it was quite a bit more expensive.
Speaker 12: So what is the value in using the feedar mulch.
Speaker 11: Is it a repellent for.
Speaker 12: Insects versus another one with just getting wood chips or
Speaker 12: some other ria mulch.
Speaker 1: Yeah, cedar mulch is it's pretty initially the color, but
Speaker 1: as it ages it turns.
Speaker 12: Gray like, Oh, I'm not really much concerned about the color.
Speaker 11: I just want to.
Speaker 12: Protect my plants, so I'm planning to do two inches.
Speaker 11: So I did two inches.
Speaker 12: Unless you tell me I need to do more.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm just giving you the overall on ceedar. The
Speaker 1: other thing is the scent is nice, but the scent
Speaker 1: doesn't last forever either. And as far as the depth
Speaker 1: deep enough to block all the sunlight out, depending on
Speaker 1: the size of the chips the particles of mulch, if
Speaker 1: it's very small in size compared to large in size,
Speaker 1: you would need less to block out the light. Well,
Speaker 1: if you've got big old chunks like pine bark chunks,
Speaker 1: for example, you need to make it deeper in order
Speaker 1: to fully block that light. Uh. And then the other
Speaker 1: thing about this eater is it's a little slower to
Speaker 1: decompose a little bit, but that depends too on particle size. Uh,
Speaker 1: there's not right wrong and that it is more expensive.
Speaker 12: Okay, Well in one case I was I could have
Speaker 12: but did not, gotten ten bag four bags for ten dollars,
Speaker 12: whereas I got ten bags for sixty five dollars.
Speaker 1: Okay, so I didn't think Yeah, ricing.
Speaker 11: Why if I was watching my dollars, But I don't.
Speaker 1: I'm not. That's not what I'm doing for gardening.
Speaker 13: You have to do what's right for me smell wise.
Speaker 1: Look, yeah, marine, I would say, it comes down to
Speaker 1: what do you want? What do you want to look at?
Speaker 1: And and uh, and then you you make the financial
Speaker 1: balance between your options. That then but it there's not
Speaker 1: a right or wrong on this. Just put mulch down
Speaker 1: thick enough to block the weeds and hold that. That's all.
Speaker 1: Moisture and temperature more appropriate. Okay, The next question is
Speaker 1: really what it does? Okay Fusia plants.
Speaker 12: Fusia plants are not known for this area, so I'm
Speaker 12: not doing well with it. But if I wanted to
Speaker 12: get another one, where would you say arbrogate or well?
Speaker 1: Yeah, but but I don't get fusia. Now, Fusia is
Speaker 1: a gorgeous plant in the spring, and you get to
Speaker 1: enjoy it for about fifteen minutes when you get home.
Speaker 1: I'm exaggerating what happened though, Yeah, well that's what happens.
Speaker 12: It was gone.
Speaker 1: Well, I know, I know, and I'm exaggerating, but I'm
Speaker 1: trying to make a point. You know, if you want
Speaker 1: something that you get more more bang for your buck
Speaker 1: in terms of time. There's so many other you know,
Speaker 1: you go to a place like Arbigate, you're going to
Speaker 1: find tons of hanging basket color options that just laugh
Speaker 1: at summertime heat. So I would go that route. I
Speaker 1: love few shit. It's a beautiful flower. But unless you
Speaker 1: just got money to spend on changing out baskets, I
Speaker 1: don't think it's a great choice. Hey, Marine, thank you
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Speaker 1: nine two six six three. I was taking care of
Speaker 1: some plants. I've got some plants that haven't been fertilized
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Speaker 1: even more important to fertilize because that's a confined root
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Speaker 1: segment of this hour. There you go, a little George
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Speaker 1: Euston and talk to Carolyn this morning. Hello Carolyn, welcome
Speaker 1: to garden Line.
Speaker 14: Thank you. My ochre seeds have just come up. They're
Speaker 14: in a container.
Speaker 1: Oh boy.
Speaker 14: The containers twelve inches high and sixteen inches across at
Speaker 14: the top, but about six inches across at the bottom.
Speaker 15: Well.
Speaker 14: The fertilizer that I have is Scott Super bloom or
Speaker 14: has to grow six twelve six How much should I
Speaker 14: how much should I put in? And how how frequently?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you've got to go with what the label says
Speaker 1: on these because you know different concentrations. The has to
Speaker 1: grow is a Medina product, and that one you're not
Speaker 1: going to burn your plants with it, so it's not
Speaker 1: so critical to get it just right. But just follow that.
Speaker 1: They'll they'll tell you on the label. I'm wanting to
Speaker 1: say that the has to grow is an ounce per gallon,
Speaker 1: but I that don't read the label to be sure
Speaker 1: that's right. Okay, that is that's what I would do,
Speaker 1: and then and then water with that, and I would
Speaker 1: water with that. Now you're going to grow the oakrah,
Speaker 1: how long in these containers? Are you going to transplant
Speaker 1: it out? Or what?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 14: That that they'll stay there? Will that size?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 14: T take care of three okra plants.
Speaker 1: Tell me the top is wider than the bottom and
Speaker 1: the depth. Tell me the width and the depth again, please, the.
Speaker 14: Depth is twelve twelve inches, The width at the top
Speaker 14: is sixteen.
Speaker 1: Okay, and at the bottom it's about six right, Okay,
Speaker 1: you can grow okra in that. I don't if you
Speaker 1: try three okra in that you better be water in
Speaker 1: it at least twice a day. Also, that's a narrow base,
Speaker 1: and so when the wind blows, it's gonna blow it
Speaker 1: over really easy. Is that okra gets taller, so you're
Speaker 1: gonna need some way to stabilize that. But I would
Speaker 1: say if you tried three in there, you just gotta
Speaker 1: be real comfort because they're going to go into stress
Speaker 1: really fast because that is a very small volume of soil.
Speaker 1: Even for one okra, you can do it. One time
Speaker 1: I grew okra in in a solo cup, a red
Speaker 1: solo cup got about twelve inches tall and it had
Speaker 1: an okra pod on top. So if you keep it moist,
Speaker 1: you can grow okra in a lot of things. But
Speaker 1: the problem is keeping it moist, it just pumps that
Speaker 1: root ball dry so fast. You're still with me, Carolyn, Well,
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Speaker 1: we are here to help you have success in the garden.
Speaker 1: One of the things we deal with in summer here
Speaker 1: in the greater Houston area are mosquitoes. You know mosquitos, right,
Speaker 1: and there is a simple little product out there called
Speaker 1: mosquito dunks. You hear me talk about mosquito Dunks all
Speaker 1: the time. I've asked Heather stick Me from Mosquito Dunks
Speaker 1: to come on as a guest this morning and we're
Speaker 1: going to kind of pick her brain and talk about
Speaker 1: all things related to mosquitoes and so, Heather, are you there,
Speaker 1: I'm here. Good morning, Skip, good morning. Thanks for coming on.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you taking some time out to talk about mosquitos.
Speaker 1: I said earlier this morning that mosquitoes can be so bad.
Speaker 1: One time I went outside with my granddaughter and I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure they tried to pick her up and carry
Speaker 1: her across the fence to the neighbors yard. It's like
Speaker 1: a ton.
Speaker 15: Of mosquitos, I'm going to say, bart of Texas. So
Speaker 15: they can be pretty nasty creatures.
Speaker 1: For sure, they are nasty. They are nasty creatures. And
Speaker 1: by the way, folks, if you have a question about
Speaker 1: mosquito mosquito control, using mosquito dunks and things, give us
Speaker 1: a call this hour. Either Heather or I will try
Speaker 1: to put our heads together here and I help you
Speaker 1: with that. If it's other kinds of gardening questions, if
Speaker 1: you'll hold off, I'll start taking those again from the
Speaker 1: nine to ten o'clock hour this morning. So that's kind
Speaker 1: of how we're going to do things. But any kind
Speaker 1: of mosquito related things, just feel free to give us
Speaker 1: a call. Well, Heather, thanks again for coming on. I'd
Speaker 1: like you to tell us a little bit about the
Speaker 1: product mosquito dunks.
Speaker 16: First of all, sure, So, mosquito dunks resemble a small,
Speaker 16: beige looking type of donut.
Speaker 15: They're round in shape, and.
Speaker 16: They're designed to float on the surface of standing water
Speaker 16: to control mosquito larvae.
Speaker 15: So they dissolve over a period.
Speaker 16: Of time and they kill that larva before they become
Speaker 16: those pesky, flying, biting, disease carrying adults.
Speaker 1: Okay, nice, that's uh, that's a good thing. You know,
Speaker 1: anytime a mosquito suffers, I'm happy. So I'm glad to
Speaker 1: hear we have we have a disease to control mosquitos.
Speaker 16: Correct, So, mosquito dunks are made of a bacterium called
Speaker 16: bt I. That's a very short way of saying Bacillis
Speaker 16: therengientis subspecies is raelianss.
Speaker 15: BTI is a lot.
Speaker 1: Easy because tight exactly exactly.
Speaker 16: So essentially it acts as a gut disruptor and it
Speaker 16: prevents those larva from feeding if they don't feed, they
Speaker 16: don't develop, and again they don't turn into those biting.
Speaker 1: Adults right right, And so the anywhere there's stagnant water,
Speaker 1: mosquitoes can reproduce. It's amazing how little water it takes
Speaker 1: for mosquitoes to reproduce, as.
Speaker 15: Little as a bottle capfull of water. Yeah, they don't
Speaker 15: need a lot.
Speaker 1: So think about that. Think about that. We get rains
Speaker 1: around the Houston area, and you know, maybe you're good
Speaker 1: at going out and dumping out the bird bath periodically
Speaker 1: to keep mosquitoes from breeding in there. But what about
Speaker 1: the you know that hollow tree where water gets in
Speaker 1: and you got standing water in an old hollow section
Speaker 1: on a tree, or what about other areas where you
Speaker 1: just kick it in and drain it out. That's where
Speaker 1: things like these mosquito dunks come in handy. One of
Speaker 1: the one of the things I think people don't make
Speaker 1: this connection. But you mentioned bacillistheringiensis israeliensis strain israeliansis. Everybody
Speaker 1: that's a gardener pretty much knows about BT. And when
Speaker 1: we say BT, we're talking about a strain called Kurshtaki
Speaker 1: that kills caterpillars spread on foliage. Caterpillars eat it, caterpillars
Speaker 1: get sick and die. This is a different strain of
Speaker 1: BT that works on mosquitoes, and I believe it works
Speaker 1: on fungus nuts too. Is that correct?
Speaker 15: That is correct? That is correct.
Speaker 16: So we make a product for caterpillar lepidopterrid species, the
Speaker 16: Christaki version, but okay, guy, which is different is toxic
Speaker 16: only to mosquito larva, black fly larva, and fungus gnat larva.
Speaker 16: So if you have in your houseplants and you have
Speaker 16: trouble with fungusnats, our mosquito bits will work to control
Speaker 16: those those nasty pests.
Speaker 1: That that is a that is a good point and
Speaker 1: a lot of people, especially when you keep your pots
Speaker 1: wet a little too wet, that wet potting soil, you're
Speaker 1: gonna find fungus nuts showing up. They will find it
Speaker 1: and there'll be a problem. And putting the little mosquito
Speaker 1: bits it's the same thing as a mosquito dunk, just
Speaker 1: small granules, right, That is correct.
Speaker 15: They're formulated just a little bit differently.
Speaker 16: So bits better in house plants or for broadcast application
Speaker 16: large areas outside where it might be difficult to float
Speaker 16: a dunk. The bits are ideal for houseplants and control
Speaker 16: of fungus nats.
Speaker 1: Good good well, And that is that is helpful. I
Speaker 1: know too that, for example, in the basins underneath of
Speaker 1: outdoor plants on the patio, those little catch basins, we
Speaker 1: often have standing water in there when you're watering enough
Speaker 1: to keep that thing alive on hot summer days. And
Speaker 1: boy is that ever a good mosquito breeding area. But
Speaker 1: you can't quite get a dunk inside those little basins.
Speaker 15: Usually bits are a great application for that.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, mosquito bits and grandinous mosquito dunks. And they're
Speaker 1: all from the companies called some Responsible Solutions, right, that
Speaker 1: is good, good well. I know that those people that
Speaker 1: have dealt with mosquitoes before definitely are concerned about it.
Speaker 1: And we should be concerned because there's some pretty serious
Speaker 1: diseases that mosquitoes carry. I don't know if you're an
Speaker 1: expert on mosquito disease caused diseases, you are transmitted diseases,
Speaker 1: but you probably have some thoughts on that as well.
Speaker 16: Sure, we know that mosquitoes can carry disease like West
Speaker 16: Nile virus zica in you know more southern climates. Other
Speaker 16: parts of the world, Dungey fever can be a problem,
Speaker 16: But we are seeing a little bit of an increase
Speaker 16: in mosquito born illness here in the States. So in
Speaker 16: most cases, yeah, it's relatively treatable.
Speaker 15: People develop some kind of flu.
Speaker 16: Like symptoms, body aches, joint pain, headache, things like that,
Speaker 16: but it can be very serious and mosquito bites. Mosquitos, unfortunately,
Speaker 16: are considered one of the world's deadliest animals, so they
Speaker 16: can transmit disease that can result in death.
Speaker 1: And I want to I want to just repeat what
Speaker 1: you just said there, because I recently read a book
Speaker 1: about some of the essentially the plagues of history, you know,
Speaker 1: everything from the Black Death to you name it, and
Speaker 1: several of those were mosquito based transmitted issues in those
Speaker 1: plagues of history, and not just a plague going through
Speaker 1: but the things that just exist in tropical areas and
Speaker 1: kill millions of people over time. And to say mosquitoes
Speaker 1: are one of the world's most dangerous animals is striking
Speaker 1: that it's really true. When you look at the number
Speaker 1: of deaths through history that have been caused by mosquitoes,
Speaker 1: I think it exceeds everything else as far as creatures
Speaker 1: are concerned.
Speaker 15: I believe you are correct.
Speaker 16: Yes, yep, they're pretty small, but they can be deadly.
Speaker 1: They sure can. Well, I'm going to take a little
Speaker 1: break here and we'll come back with you, Heather in
Speaker 1: just a moment. If you can hang on for one second,
Speaker 1: we would like to continue this discussion. I got plenty
Speaker 1: more things I'd love to talk about, so we'll be
Speaker 1: right back. Folks. Alright, yeah, yeah, you knew I had
Speaker 1: to play buzz off mosquito with the topic we got today. Hey,
Speaker 1: welcome back, Heather. It's good to have you back. I
Speaker 1: wanted to continue on with a few questions, if that's okay.
Speaker 1: The BT I the type of BT that's in mosquito dunks.
Speaker 1: Can you tell me kind of how it works? How
Speaker 1: does it kill a mosquito? Some people kind of like
Speaker 1: to get into the nerdy part of this.
Speaker 14: Sure.
Speaker 16: So, essentially, it acts as a gut disruptor. So as
Speaker 16: those as the female mosquitos lay the eggs, the eggs
Speaker 16: hatch into larva in the water, and they're filter feeders,
Speaker 16: so they ingest micro organisms and anything that's in the
Speaker 16: water in the water column that the ti dissolves off
Speaker 16: the mosquito dunk and as the mosquito ingests that again,
Speaker 16: because it acts as a gut disruptor, it basically kills them.
Speaker 15: They're not able to feed and they die.
Speaker 1: That's interesting. So the function in a mosquito larva is
Speaker 1: the same as regular BT is in a cuterpeller, disrupting
Speaker 1: the gut. That is good. Hey, we have a callar here.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna let's head over to a collar Jay in
Speaker 1: the woodlands. Jay, I think you had some mosquito questions.
Speaker 4: Yeah, good morning, darnedest thing. Yeah, I've got mosquito craps
Speaker 4: in the front yard, you know, the one whard has
Speaker 4: the UV at a track and the fan blows them down.
Speaker 4: Same thing in the backyard the first time. And I've
Speaker 4: lived here since two thousand and eight. I'm having a
Speaker 4: lot of mosquitos inside my house. I mean, I am
Speaker 4: getting eaten alive. I've checked windows, I've checked for you know, screens,
Speaker 4: I've checked everything. But how was that happening?
Speaker 1: And what can I do about it? We make a
Speaker 1: couple of comments and I'll pass the baton to you
Speaker 1: if you'd like to add anything to it. I've noticed
Speaker 1: mosquitos like to gather around the entrance to my house.
Speaker 1: Like the front door is kind of an entrance set
Speaker 1: in with the area, and they gather there. So every
Speaker 1: time we open and close the door, even if we
Speaker 1: try to be fast, it's just like they're right there,
Speaker 1: and it's almost like it pulls them in. I don't
Speaker 1: know of any way a mosquito would breed or develop
Speaker 1: like inside your house, but somehow they would be coming
Speaker 1: in from the outside. Heather, do you have any thoughts
Speaker 1: on that?
Speaker 16: Yeah, I unless you have an area of standing water,
Speaker 16: I would think it would be difficult for them to
Speaker 16: breed indoors.
Speaker 15: They are likely coming in from the.
Speaker 16: Outside, particularly if you've got shady areas where they like
Speaker 16: to harbor near your entryways.
Speaker 6: Hm.
Speaker 4: Okay, the back door is fairly sunny, but now the
Speaker 4: front doors in shade. I rarely go out the front door.
Speaker 4: I mean, I've got access to cosplosives with that help.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, this sounds like we're going to Caddyshack Land here, Jay,
Speaker 1: with you take because this is like Moby Dick. The
Speaker 1: mosquitoes are the big white whale, and you've becoming obsessed there.
Speaker 4: With the pretty much pretty much. But basically just just
Speaker 4: wave them out and just try to shoo them away
Speaker 4: when I'm going in and out.
Speaker 1: It maybe just be a little observant, you know of that.
Speaker 1: We we have dogs that go in and out the
Speaker 1: door all the time. They think they have to be
Speaker 1: out side over five minutes and uh so we do
Speaker 1: a lot of door opening, and probably more than we're
Speaker 1: conscious of. But I don't know what else to tell
Speaker 1: you on that somehow they're coming in though. So yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: well a lot of ideas. I think Heather and I
Speaker 1: both said, you bet, thank you, Ja, I appreciate appreciate
Speaker 1: your call very much. Okay, Uh, let's uh Heather, we
Speaker 1: win to run over to another call right here. Somebody's
Speaker 1: got an idea mosquitoes. We talked to Adolph in Menville. Hey, Adolf,
Speaker 1: got some thoughts here.
Speaker 17: Yes, sir, good morning. I wanted to ask you, uh,
Speaker 17: does the mosquitoes spray the county sprays for mosquitoes. Does
Speaker 17: that affect the the garden pints? For example, I had
Speaker 17: a couple of rue plants. They're beautiful, yeah, and now
Speaker 17: they're they're kind of dying off. Well it kind of
Speaker 17: will be I don't know.
Speaker 11: If it.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, yes, sir, well, I'll comment on it, and again, Heather,
Speaker 1: if you want to add something, please do. Uh the
Speaker 1: sprays they use for those the trucks going down the
Speaker 1: street and whatnot, Uh, they're not going to do that
Speaker 1: to your plants. And they just they dissipate very you know.
Speaker 1: I guess if someone took and just sprayed a liquid
Speaker 1: right onto a plant, you might have something. But the
Speaker 1: kinds of things they're using are not that way. They
Speaker 1: could not go spraying stuff that's going to damage plants
Speaker 1: up and down the street. That would be a big mess.
Speaker 17: Yeah, yeah, I wouldn't think so. I just wondered why
Speaker 17: all of a sudden it seemed like, yeah, maybe it
Speaker 17: was just a coincidence.
Speaker 1: I don't know any other thoughts, any other thoughts on that.
Speaker 15: I would say it's just a coincidence.
Speaker 16: Their spring is an insecticide and not a herbicide, so
Speaker 16: you it shouldn't have any damaging effect to landscape.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, all right, good, thanks a lot, appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Right off, Heather, we had a caller came in and
Speaker 1: just left the message and he thought maybe the mosquitoes
Speaker 1: and this is this goes for the previous caller. Uh
Speaker 1: might be coming in through plumbing vents, So I don't
Speaker 1: know exactly how where that process would work. I don't
Speaker 1: know what would bring them in through there, unless there's
Speaker 1: some of our carbon diox arbill breathing out is going out.
Speaker 15: I'm not certain either.
Speaker 16: My brother is actually a plumber, but I can't afford
Speaker 16: to him to ask him, so I could ask you.
Speaker 1: Oh, he charges family. Don't you get the family right?
Speaker 1: At least Heather?
Speaker 15: But I'm not sure, but I'll add, okay.
Speaker 7: You might know.
Speaker 1: That's that's kind of that's kind of interesting. Now with
Speaker 1: the bits you were talking earlier about the dunks, which
Speaker 1: are the little mini donuts that we float, last about
Speaker 1: a month. With the bits, I think you're wanting to
Speaker 1: reapply those about every week or two, right.
Speaker 16: That is correct. We recommend for best control that you
Speaker 16: apply about every seven to fourteen days. They're designed to
Speaker 16: control very quickly, so they'll begin to kill mosquito larva
Speaker 16: within twenty four hours.
Speaker 15: You know, they don't last.
Speaker 16: Quite as long as the dunks, so reapplication every seven
Speaker 16: to fourteen days.
Speaker 1: Yes, okay, So interesting thing about mosquitoes is when the
Speaker 1: water is moving they tend out to be as big
Speaker 1: of a problem. They like stagnant still water, especially water
Speaker 1: with decomposing organic matter in it. And so there, you know,
Speaker 1: a lot of people utilize that. I've seen a little
Speaker 1: thing you float in bird baths that just makes ripples
Speaker 1: and the water. Funny little thing, but it just it
Speaker 1: just keeps the water ripple and it kind of helps
Speaker 1: to cut down on yeah, cuts down on them a lot.
Speaker 1: You can't you can't do that practically all over the landscape.
Speaker 1: But that is interesting. Now, these this bt i basilosthere
Speaker 1: gensis Israelian, the bti and mosquito dunks. It does not
Speaker 1: hurt people or pets or birds or you can put
Speaker 1: in your coy pond or you know, if you got
Speaker 1: goldfish in a pond or little thing outside. It's not
Speaker 1: gonna hurt livestock. It's not gonna hurt beneficial insects, birds
Speaker 1: or any of the wildlife. That's correct, right, that is correct.
Speaker 16: It is toxic only to mosquito larva, black fly larva,
Speaker 16: and fungus net larvae, so it won't harm pets, wild life, fish, livestock,
Speaker 16: any none target species.
Speaker 1: Good. Now, when it rains, there's all these places that
Speaker 1: maybe we don't notice. Everybody knows that old tires catch
Speaker 1: water and that's just mosquito heaven to go breed there.
Speaker 1: But there are other places that sometimes we see water,
Speaker 1: such as like a little kid's kiddie pool, you know,
Speaker 1: a little plastic kids set in the water pools and
Speaker 1: you put water in it and you go away, and
Speaker 1: you think, well, you know, I'll change that. It hadn't
Speaker 1: been there very long. But it doesn't take mosquitos long
Speaker 1: to go through their life cycle, does it.
Speaker 15: It really doesn't. It's just a couple of days. So
Speaker 15: you know, a lot standing water is key.
Speaker 16: But you're right, there are often places where people don't
Speaker 16: look where they're collecting water. So a lot of times
Speaker 16: people don't look up your gutters if they're clogged, can
Speaker 16: collect standing water.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that that is amazing. I'd like to just remind
Speaker 1: people of that because it just doesn't take long at all.
Speaker 1: And there are a number of different species of mosquitos too,
Speaker 1: and we don't we have more than one species here
Speaker 1: leave in our area. Any thoughts about some of the
Speaker 1: species we're dealing with.
Speaker 16: You know, I am not quite as familiar with the
Speaker 16: number of species that you have in Texas or in
Speaker 16: the Houston area specifically, But you're right, there are a
Speaker 16: number of different species. Yeah, the benefit to dunks and
Speaker 16: bits is that it will control all of them, so
Speaker 16: it's there you go. It's not just specific to one
Speaker 16: species or another. It will control all mosquito larvae.
Speaker 1: That's that is good. That's kind of what I was
Speaker 1: thinking as in asking that I I do know that. Well,
Speaker 1: all of you listening to me, you've had time where
Speaker 1: you go out and it's like they're really big mosquitoes
Speaker 1: landing on you. And then there's a time maybe a
Speaker 1: little further away from rain or something, where you see
Speaker 1: these little tiny mosquitos that are landing There's Those are
Speaker 1: just two examples of some of the different species that
Speaker 1: we see here in this area. I'm up against a
Speaker 1: heartbreak here in twenty seconds, Heather, I want you to
Speaker 1: come back, and I'd like to shift gears a little
Speaker 1: bit and talk about some of the other products that
Speaker 1: you guys at Summit Solutions have some at Responsible Solutions,
Speaker 1: and I just think it's great that we have something
Speaker 1: that doesn't hurt all the things we care about outside,
Speaker 1: but it does take out the mosquitos you know, to
Speaker 1: have an organic option like that is wonderful. Folks will
Speaker 1: be right back, all right, welcome back, Welcome back to
Speaker 1: garden Line. This hour, we are visiting with Heather Stickney
Speaker 1: from Summit Responsible Solutions. They are the makers of Mosquito
Speaker 1: dunks and Mosquito Bits, which are one of the best, safest,
Speaker 1: most common sense ways I can think of to stop
Speaker 1: mosquito larva from developing and turning into those nasty, adult,
Speaker 1: flying and biting mosquitos that we have to deal with. Heather,
Speaker 1: welcome back to garden Line. It's good to have you back,
Speaker 1: and I want to to shift gears for a moment
Speaker 1: outside of the mosquito dunks and bets and tell us
Speaker 1: about some of the other products that you guys carry.
Speaker 1: I generally don't talk about those a lot online, so
Speaker 1: I'd like to hear about some of that.
Speaker 16: Sure, so we talk about mosquito dunks and mosquito bits
Speaker 16: as being a great way to control mosquito larva. Unfortunately,
Speaker 16: there is no fail safe way to eliminate mosquitos from
Speaker 16: your yard completely. Controlling the larva is a good way
Speaker 16: to do that, but when you do have those adults
Speaker 16: that you want to try to control. We make a
Speaker 16: product called Mosquito and Net Barrier, which is a permethron
Speaker 16: based spray. Permethron has been widely used in mosquito control
Speaker 16: for many, many years, and that will actually help knock
Speaker 16: down and control that adult population. So you can kill
Speaker 16: the adults, and you can kill the larva using a
Speaker 16: combination of the dunks and bits and then the mosquito
Speaker 16: and that barrier.
Speaker 1: Okay, now, is this something you're just spraying the mosquito
Speaker 1: and that barrier in the air, or are you like
Speaker 1: spraying surfaces Like we were talking a while ago about
Speaker 1: how at my house the back door is kind of
Speaker 1: inside and I just see mosquitos kind of they love
Speaker 1: hanging out in there in the hot, hot part of
Speaker 1: the day. Or would I be spraying the bricks and
Speaker 1: stuff with it so that if they lay in they
Speaker 1: get it on them or what?
Speaker 16: Really, where you want to apply it is in your lawn,
Speaker 16: so on your grass, and then on areas where mosquitoes
Speaker 16: might rest, so on vertical surfaces like fences. They like
Speaker 16: to harbor in bushes, shady areas. They're not really strong flyers,
Speaker 16: so they're more low than high.
Speaker 15: But okay, areas where they made harbor during the day.
Speaker 1: Oh well, and I know around our area the shrubs
Speaker 1: around the house. You know, everybody wants to have shrubs
Speaker 1: around the house, and that during the day when it's hot,
Speaker 1: that's that's where the mosquitoes really tend to gather. You know,
Speaker 1: for us in the kudo parts of the day, they
Speaker 1: get that break at the end of the day when
Speaker 1: we want to go outside, so do they, and that's
Speaker 1: when they show up on the patio to spoil the show.
Speaker 1: But so you would use the mosquito in that barrier,
Speaker 1: sprang it onto the foliage of those of the plants,
Speaker 1: the shrubs and things. Yeah, that makes sense. I get that.
Speaker 1: Anything else or go ahead, go ahead. But you were
Speaker 1: going to add some well.
Speaker 16: I was going to say, with respect to the mosquito
Speaker 16: and net barrier, you know, you don't have to worry
Speaker 16: about harming your landscape plants. Again, it's an insecticide and
Speaker 16: not an herb aside, so it shouldn't do any damage
Speaker 16: to your plants.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, any other kinds of products to talk about.
Speaker 16: You know a lot of times people will use a
Speaker 16: skin based repellent to help keep mosquitoes off of them,
Speaker 16: something like a beet or something that's been EPA approved
Speaker 16: as a skin based repellent. Yeah, it's hard to keep
Speaker 16: covered up when you're outside, especially in Houston in the
Speaker 16: summer months, but keeping your person protected with longer layers helps.
Speaker 16: We make a product called Green Armor insect Repellent, which
Speaker 16: is designed as a clothing and gear treatment, So you
Speaker 16: can actually treat your pants, your shoes, your socks, your shirts,
Speaker 16: your ball caps, backpacks, tents, canvas chairs that you might
Speaker 16: use outside sit in with this product called green Armor.
Speaker 16: It works as a repellent and it will also kill mosquitoes, ticks,
Speaker 16: which can be problematic, gnats, I'm sorry, mites, and chiggers.
Speaker 16: So just sort of an added layer of protection to
Speaker 16: skin based repellent.
Speaker 1: Okay, So that's the kind of thing that you would like,
Speaker 1: spray it onto these surfaces and let it dry for
Speaker 1: a little bit before then using them yourself. Like whether
Speaker 1: it's a some item of a clothing or like you're
Speaker 1: mentioning a tent or a backpack or something like that.
Speaker 1: Is that correct?
Speaker 15: That is correct? That is correct. You'd spray the garment
Speaker 15: thoroughly or the equipment thoroughly.
Speaker 16: Allow it to dry and then you're able to use it.
Speaker 16: So it's kind of a neat product. It will treat
Speaker 16: I believe, up to seven full outfits and will last
Speaker 16: up to six weeks even after washing.
Speaker 15: So if you're someone who.
Speaker 1: Likes that is significant. Yeah, that is really significant. Okay. So,
Speaker 1: and not just mosquitoes, but other crawlers, ticks and chiggers
Speaker 1: and mites and things as well.
Speaker 15: Right, that is correct. That is correct?
Speaker 16: So nice, you know, and can be used at any
Speaker 16: time in the season. We're talking a lot about mosquitoes now,
Speaker 16: but in the fall if people are out hunting, you know,
Speaker 16: in terms of controlling against ticks, it's a great it's
Speaker 16: a great option.
Speaker 1: Okay. Nice. Well, that's that's good. Uh So is there
Speaker 1: anything else that I should be asking about a product
Speaker 1: wise that you'd like to tell.
Speaker 16: Us about, you know, right off the top of my head,
Speaker 16: I can't think of anything.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: Well, I've I've been to your I've been to your website. Uh,
Speaker 1: the summit, by the way, we should give that if
Speaker 1: if people want to learn more about uh, these products,
Speaker 1: you can go. Uh, I'll let you summit Responsible Solutions
Speaker 1: dot com. Is that correct?
Speaker 15: That is correct?
Speaker 1: Okay, some Responsible Solutions dot Com. I was, I was
Speaker 1: at the website and I saw a product that I
Speaker 1: I know we're off target here or off topic here,
Speaker 1: but I just have to ask you about it, and
Speaker 1: that is called deer band repellent capsules. Do you guys
Speaker 1: still have those?
Speaker 15: We do?
Speaker 3: We do.
Speaker 16: It's kind of a unique option for repelling deer from
Speaker 16: your yard and from your land.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, And that's one thing I've that caught my
Speaker 1: attention is the uniqueness of it.
Speaker 15: It is encapsulated go ahead.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, No, I'm going to hear you say it.
Speaker 16: It's an encapsulated coyote urine. So while odorless to humans,
Speaker 16: deer have a much stronger sense of smell, so it
Speaker 16: triggers in them a predator response. They think there's a
Speaker 16: predator in the area, and they stay away. So basically,
Speaker 16: you drop the capsule about every ten feet or so,
Speaker 16: water it in, it webs out, and that scent reaction
Speaker 16: will keep the deer away.
Speaker 1: And I hear it works pretty good on on on
Speaker 1: rabbits also a lot of people have rabbits coming in
Speaker 1: to chew on things in the yard.
Speaker 16: Rabbits, armadillo, I don't know if armadillo are a problem
Speaker 16: in Houston, but it will keep those away as well.
Speaker 1: All right, well, I'm pretty sure listeners that you've never
Speaker 1: heard the words encapsulated coyote urine before on Guarden. When
Speaker 1: I saw that, I just thought, Okay, I got to
Speaker 1: ask other about this. This. Yeah, this is crazy.
Speaker 16: I'm just glad I'm not the one who makes the product.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. Yeah, I have so many questions, none
Speaker 1: of which I need to go into right now. Anyway, Yeah, okay, Well, anyway,
Speaker 1: that that's all very very cool stuff. So there's a
Speaker 1: mosquito on that barrier that you spray on things, uh,
Speaker 1: and it kills and repels them from from the area.
Speaker 1: And then the green armor intectral hellan as well. So
Speaker 1: let's see here, we're I'm in another break. We got
Speaker 1: one more short segment. If I can get you to
Speaker 1: hang on, can you hold on for a little longer
Speaker 1: for us, come back one more time? Certainly, Thank you, Heather.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll be right back, folks. All right, welcome back, folks.
Speaker 1: We are visiting with Heather Stickney from Summit Responsible Solutions.
Speaker 1: They're the makers of mosquito dunks that you hear me
Speaker 1: talk about all the time here on garden Line. A
Speaker 1: natural natural product that is a disease of mosquito larva.
Speaker 1: So you put it in and put them in water, they
Speaker 1: float along. They released that type of BT. By the way, BT.
Speaker 1: You know we have BT for caterpillars. This is a
Speaker 1: different strain of BT that kills mosquito larva and also
Speaker 1: kills fungus gnats and Heather, what was the what was
Speaker 1: the other thing? Did you say blackfly larva or what was? Okay? Good? Yeah,
Speaker 1: And by the way, these are approved for use in
Speaker 1: organic production, so if you you know, if someone has
Speaker 1: an organic operation, this would be a type of a
Speaker 1: product that could be used for that. How long will
Speaker 1: they last? How long do they retain their potency? Heather,
Speaker 1: if someone had mosquita dunks, maybe they bought them two
Speaker 1: years ago or something.
Speaker 16: Sure, they retain their potency really indefinitely, as long as
Speaker 16: they stay dry.
Speaker 1: So as long as they stay dry, that is correct. Good, Well,
Speaker 1: I think that it sure makes sense, you know, to
Speaker 1: just have them all the time hanging around the place.
Speaker 1: I tell people that you just get them and if
Speaker 1: you have some extra just hanging on the wall, you're
Speaker 1: gonna need it later, and when you want it, you
Speaker 1: don't have to run down and buy. You've already got
Speaker 1: some there and you can just go out and use them.
Speaker 1: I think we have a thing in gardening. Uh, I'm
Speaker 1: having some fun here with the listeners and you, but
Speaker 1: we have a thing here in gardening called gorilla gardening.
Speaker 1: And basically what it means is gardeners good on the
Speaker 1: sidewalk and they drop flower seeds in the sidewalk cracks,
Speaker 1: or they stick a little fruit plant over in a
Speaker 1: corner somewhere, and it's like they're they're out there doing
Speaker 1: all this gardening stuff as they walk through town. I
Speaker 1: think maybe we need to be gorilla mosquito controllers. You know,
Speaker 1: you can climb over the fence at night and throw
Speaker 1: mosquito dunks into your neighbor's stagnant water that they won't
Speaker 1: deal with. And it's pretty I know you are just
Speaker 1: get some granules and sling them over the fence. No, seriously,
Speaker 1: you know, to offer to I am serious about what
Speaker 1: I'm about to say that that was a joke, but uh,
Speaker 1: to offer even to give your neighbors some bits or
Speaker 1: dunks to put in in some water or something like that.
Speaker 1: It makes sense for you because you don't want them
Speaker 1: mosquitos breeding across the fence line and then flying over
Speaker 1: to your place. And so the more you can get
Speaker 1: neighbors to cooperate and to do these sort of things too,
Speaker 1: the better off it'll be at your house.
Speaker 15: Absolutely.
Speaker 16: And again, you know, anyone who uses dunks or bits
Speaker 16: can feel confident that they're only killing mosquito larvae. They're
Speaker 16: not other beneficial insects, any wildlife. It's probably one of
Speaker 16: my favorite things about the product. It does what it's
Speaker 16: supposed to do very effectively without causing any other harm.
Speaker 1: That that is really interesting. Just to nerd out a
Speaker 1: little bit here on mosquitos. Why do mosquitoes bite us?
Speaker 1: You know, I mean, we know they want our blood,
Speaker 1: but why do they bite us? What's going on there?
Speaker 16: So one of the interesting things about mosquitos is that
Speaker 16: it's only the females who bite.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna let that one just I'm gonna let
Speaker 1: that go. I have lots to say about that, but
Speaker 1: we're gonna let it go. That my gift to the
Speaker 1: listeners today, And you go ahead. I figured it's okay
Speaker 1: because in a honey, yeah, in a honeybee colony, it's
Speaker 1: only the females that do any of the work. The
Speaker 1: males just lay around the hive all day, so there's
Speaker 1: a balance to nature.
Speaker 16: Go ahead, absolutely, But the females require a blood meal
Speaker 16: to lay their eggs. So that's why there, that's why
Speaker 16: they're biting. They're getting ready to lay their clutch of
Speaker 16: eggs in standing water and start the population all over again.
Speaker 15: So that's it.
Speaker 1: That's it. That's it. Well, it is kind of interesting
Speaker 1: and something something we haven't talked about and I is
Speaker 1: dogs and heartworms. Here on the Gulf Coast. Heartworms are
Speaker 1: a serious problem dogs. If your dog is without heartworm
Speaker 1: protection for a month, they can be in a life
Speaker 1: threatening problem. That and the vets are always saying keep
Speaker 1: your dog, especially the Gulf Coast, keep your dogs protected
Speaker 1: on heartworms. Well, heartworms are spread by mosquitoes as they
Speaker 1: do the blood feeding on the dogs, and so this
Speaker 1: would be yet another benefit of using the dunks and
Speaker 1: things to keep the mosquitoes down. It's for your for
Speaker 1: your your pets like that. Absolutely anyway, fun fact, uh so,
Speaker 1: uh one one other kind of curiosity and I have
Speaker 1: heard mosquito folks talk about this before. But why is
Speaker 1: it that mosquitos itch when they when they do their
Speaker 1: feeding on you? Why is that an itchy thing? Do
Speaker 1: you want to comment on that?
Speaker 16: Sure, so when they bite, they are injecting their saliva
Speaker 16: into you and it triggers a systamine response in the body.
Speaker 16: So your body text that sali but it knows it's
Speaker 16: not supposed to be there, and that histamine response is
Speaker 16: what causes the itch.
Speaker 1: What a pleasant thought. Mosquitoes are spitting in my arm
Speaker 1: and spitting in my neck and okay, that's gross, but
Speaker 1: I yeah, but only you know the ten year old
Speaker 1: boy in me is having a lot of fun with
Speaker 1: the coyote urine pellets and all these other silly things.
Speaker 1: Thanks for thanks for playing playing along for that. But
Speaker 1: this is this is a great product, folks. Again, you
Speaker 1: can go to uh summit, give me the website again.
Speaker 1: I want to do not's it wrong?
Speaker 16: Summit res Summit Responsible Solutions dot com.
Speaker 1: Okay, now in the greater Houston area, in my listening area. Uh,
Speaker 1: there are so many places you can find the Summit
Speaker 1: solution products. You know, the mosquito donks and mosquito bits
Speaker 1: for example, are you go to our ace hardware stores.
Speaker 1: They're all over I are you. We got a ton
Speaker 1: of those. You go to our garden centers that you
Speaker 1: hear me talk about, North, South, East, Western, Central here
Speaker 1: in Houston, all of them they carry the mosquito dunks.
Speaker 1: You know, you go to feed stores. We got a
Speaker 1: lot of feed stores that are sponsors that are just
Speaker 1: they're really good about carrying quality products, and they're going
Speaker 1: to carry the mosquito dunk products or mosquito dunks mosquito bits,
Speaker 1: now you know the different. Remember the dunks float on water.
Speaker 1: You can break them up if you need a smaller
Speaker 1: chunk of a dunk, but they float on water about
Speaker 1: thirty days, covering one hundred square feet, doesn't matter how deep,
Speaker 1: because the mosquitoes are all floating up there at the top.
Speaker 1: And then the mosquito bits give a faster action, don't
Speaker 1: last as long. But if you need to just swing
Speaker 1: a bunch of bits over a larger area, you know
Speaker 1: your neighbors swamp in the backyard, you could do that
Speaker 1: and approach with the bits. Heather, thanks so much the music.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you can hear it, but it
Speaker 1: means that I've got to quit talking here pretty quick.
Speaker 1: This being great having you on today. I appreciate you
Speaker 1: coming on.
Speaker 15: Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1: All right, Will you take care and folks, I'll be
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Speaker 18: So we have dogs and we walk.
Speaker 19: Along our green belt and back there there's a lot
Speaker 19: of lantana and a lot of passion buying like toun,
Speaker 19: and so I wondered if I could I wanted to
Speaker 19: get some of those from back there and put into
Speaker 19: my yard.
Speaker 10: So I wanted tips.
Speaker 19: On how I could be successful in doing that, and
Speaker 19: also some of the passion vine.
Speaker 15: You know, it's all like real viny, and.
Speaker 19: It's in areas that are like intertwined with lots of stuff.
Speaker 19: I think I'd found one area where I think I
Speaker 19: can get actually to the ground and get some of it.
Speaker 19: But I was also wondering if it would be possible
Speaker 19: to maybe do it from a clipping, which I tried
Speaker 19: once before and I was unsuccessful.
Speaker 1: Okay, I have never tried to do to root cuttings
Speaker 1: of passion vine, but I just can't imagine that you couldn't.
Speaker 1: I would think that would be possible. One thing you
Speaker 1: might want to try, just to make a little leisure
Speaker 1: on you is if you I have some passion vine
Speaker 1: back there, get you a big container, well container could
Speaker 1: be a gallon size or whatever, and take the passion
Speaker 1: vine and bend the vine down near the container, lower
Speaker 1: it down to there, bend it so that it sort
Speaker 1: of cracks the vine but not breaks it. You know,
Speaker 1: like your elbow. If you make your elbow your arms straight,
Speaker 1: and then bring it to a ninety degree angle that
Speaker 1: elbow right there, that's the wound on that vine. When
Speaker 1: you do that and place that under the surface in
Speaker 1: your container, you could set a brick on it. You
Speaker 1: could take a bent coat hanger U shaped and pin
Speaker 1: it down into the container and then wet that container
Speaker 1: and keep it moist. You could even put a little
Speaker 1: trail of water underneath it, and in time that wound
Speaker 1: or callous and then root. And I think that would
Speaker 1: be a good way to get that passion vine to root.
Speaker 1: When you do a cutting, you've now removed it from
Speaker 1: all nourishment, all water, and it's touching. Go trying to
Speaker 1: get a quick root down before the thing dries up
Speaker 1: and dies. With this technique I just described, it's called layering.
Speaker 1: It's easier to root viiny types of things that way.
Speaker 1: So you might try that, or digging it up passion.
Speaker 1: If this is wild passion vine, it's gonna roots, sucker
Speaker 1: and you're gonna get it's gonna be coming up all over,
Speaker 1: and so you ought to be able to dig one
Speaker 1: up pretty easily.
Speaker 19: Too, Okay, okay, And then the lantana just try to
Speaker 19: just get a big area around it, because I mean,
Speaker 19: it grows so profusely out there. I'm thinking, hopefully he'll
Speaker 19: growth that way in my yard.
Speaker 1: Yeah, probably, it probably will. I would I would cut
Speaker 1: it back significantly, even if you ended up cutting almost
Speaker 1: all the leaves off, get as much of the root
Speaker 1: as you can. But you know, you don't have to
Speaker 1: get a five gallon bucket of roots. And then put
Speaker 1: it immediately before it dries out, even dip the roots
Speaker 1: and water to get them nice and moist. Put it
Speaker 1: in a bucket of whatever you're gonna grow, potting so
Speaker 1: or whatever, and then put it in a very bright,
Speaker 1: shady spot, maybe on the east side of the house
Speaker 1: morning sun or wherever it gives morning sun and afternoon shade,
Speaker 1: because it's gonna then have to develop new roots and
Speaker 1: start to send out a shoot. And if you dig
Speaker 1: it and have all those leaves on it, you've taken
Speaker 1: off a lot of the roots and digging it no
Speaker 1: matter how careful you are, and all those leaves are
Speaker 1: pumping out water and they're gonna shrivel and turn brown,
Speaker 1: and you've actually gone more backwards than just digging it,
Speaker 1: cutting it back to about six inches high, and then
Speaker 1: letting it restart from there as if it were let's
Speaker 1: say you went back there right now and you just
Speaker 1: cut some off about six inches high, it would come
Speaker 1: sprouting right back out of the ground. That's kind of
Speaker 1: what we're doing.
Speaker 15: Okay, Okay, I will I will give that a try.
Speaker 1: Alright, have fun, Okay, all right, you take care. You
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Speaker 11: Hey, good morning, how you doing.
Speaker 1: Good? Good? How can we help the day?
Speaker 11: I have a Saint Augustine lawn. My runners of the
Speaker 11: Saint Augustine have started. Within the last I'd say three weeks,
Speaker 11: they started growing more on top than whenever. On most
Speaker 11: they kind of stand up stuff like that. They're not, yeah,
Speaker 11: growing down and embedding themselves right.
Speaker 1: Right, So there's nothing to do about it. It happens
Speaker 1: in my lawn here and there, and I usually will
Speaker 1: go in and just kind of pull that runner away
Speaker 1: from the direction it came from, you know, and break
Speaker 1: it off, get it either. It happens a lot as
Speaker 1: our lawns get dense and become very thatchy, and a
Speaker 1: lot of watering, nice warm temperatures and a lot of
Speaker 1: fertilizing increases the growth rate of grass. And so what
Speaker 1: happens is, you know, Saint Augustine is like a bunch
Speaker 1: of runners just crawling around on top of the ground.
Speaker 1: Unlike Bermuda or Zoezia, they also have underground and so
Speaker 1: with those runners on top of the ground, they start
Speaker 1: to climb on top of each other. So the more
Speaker 1: runnerth you get, the faster it grows. The more you know,
Speaker 1: you just kind of put all your fingers together like
Speaker 1: one stacked on top of the other. The more it
Speaker 1: just starts to do that and a shoot comes out,
Speaker 1: and if it gets pointed upward, you know it doesn't
Speaker 1: have the mindset of oh I got to go back
Speaker 1: down again necessarily, and it just ends up on the surface.
Speaker 1: So some correoration with compost top dressing can help reduce
Speaker 1: thatch layers and get that to go away over time.
Speaker 1: Cutting back on nitrogen fertilizing your fertilization rates or frequency
Speaker 1: also helps, and then watering enough to keep the lawn
Speaker 1: healthy but not just pushing it. You know, with a
Speaker 1: lot of extra unnecessary water. Those are all steps that
Speaker 1: can help move it in the other direction. But it's
Speaker 1: not a black and white issue where you do this
Speaker 1: and the runners all go down to the soil again. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, that's what's happening. Sure, yeah, that's why it's happening.
Speaker 1: And just got a part of the deal with that
Speaker 1: grass especially, So thanks a lot. I do appreciate your call.
Speaker 1: Appreciate you called logan. Uh, you're listening to guard Line.
Speaker 1: My phone number here on garden Line is seven one
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Speaker 1: on fruit trees, and this summer I've gotten several questions
Speaker 1: from people that said, my fruit tree is not producing.
Speaker 1: It's not producing well. Maybe a fruiter here or there
Speaker 1: or whatever, but is not producing well. What are some
Speaker 1: reasons for that, Well, here are some reasons for that.
Speaker 1: Number one, they have to be pollinated, and so if
Speaker 1: you kill all the bugs, the insects, the pollinators insects
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Speaker 1: get the pollen transfer. And so that's a possible cause
Speaker 1: of it. Some fruit trees require two different varieties to
Speaker 1: cross pollinate in order to set fruit. They're not self fruitful.
Speaker 1: They have to have a different variety to pollinate them.
Speaker 1: That would be true of apples. A lot of pears
Speaker 1: are that way, most plums are that way. Peaches are
Speaker 1: not they're self fruitful. Pigs self fruitful, you're not going
Speaker 1: to worry about that. Grapes you don't have to do
Speaker 1: varieties for grapes or for per semmons, you know, for example.
Speaker 1: So there's both kinds of fruit, but that is one.
Speaker 1: So if you have a variety and it doesn't have
Speaker 1: a partner, and it needs a different partner to pollinate,
Speaker 1: then you're gonna have to find a different variety and
Speaker 1: planet planet so they could pollinate each other. Another possible
Speaker 1: cause is lack of sunlight. Sun shines on leaves. Leaves
Speaker 1: are solar panels. Solar panels fuel energy production in the plant.
Speaker 1: That the energy is called carbohydrates. So in sun you
Speaker 1: get a lot of carbohydrates, means you get more fruits
Speaker 1: at and you get more fruit development, more blooming, and
Speaker 1: more fruit development. Okay, So as your tree goes into
Speaker 1: less and less sun, the tree is still living, it
Speaker 1: looks okay, but the bloom production goes down, and so
Speaker 1: that could be another reason why we're not seeing fruit.
Speaker 1: And then there's there are other reasons, like the wrong
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Speaker 1: to abort. For someone a real bad about aborting fruit
Speaker 1: or early on, not later in the fruit's life, but
Speaker 1: early on. So those are a few other things you
Speaker 1: might want to consider. Let's head out now to Pattison
Speaker 1: and we're going to visit with Susan. Hey, Susan, welcome
Speaker 1: to garden line.
Speaker 13: Hey skip, good morning, Good Sunday morning. I have some
Speaker 13: azmite I want to put down, and I notice we
Speaker 13: have some rain coming up next week.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's going to be.
Speaker 13: You know, huge amounts, but I didn't know if I
Speaker 13: should wait till after the rain or it would it
Speaker 13: be a good idea for down with the rain water
Speaker 13: it in?
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, let the rain water it in. You do
Speaker 1: want to get that down and let the rain water in.
Speaker 1: Follow the label carefully on the application amounts and try
Speaker 1: to get as even as a spread as you can.
Speaker 1: Anytime you're using you know, standard fertilizers, the three numbers
Speaker 1: on the bag, or micronutrient supplement like that azamite. You
Speaker 1: want to get good covers. The more even you spread it,
Speaker 1: the better off your results are going to be. So
Speaker 1: for me, I put it out at a way lower
Speaker 1: rate than you think going Let's say north south, and
Speaker 1: then go go east west. And if you have a
Speaker 1: little left over, that's okay too. You can set the
Speaker 1: thing down less and apply it over the he's real
Speaker 1: even spread Whatever you can do to even that spread
Speaker 1: out is helpful.
Speaker 13: Okay, All right, now you said I heard you say
Speaker 13: north south, and then either my phone.
Speaker 1: Broke up or something that.
Speaker 12: What what did you say up to the north south?
Speaker 1: Well, what what I was trying to say is put
Speaker 1: it on both ways. You know, if you do if
Speaker 1: you do it one way, let's say it's east west,
Speaker 1: north south, It doesn't matter the directions. Just as you're
Speaker 1: doing in one direction, you can you can have stripes
Speaker 1: through your lawn where maybe it did that movie laps
Speaker 1: between those and so when you spread it out and go, yeah,
Speaker 1: it just evens it out. Just anything always I say,
Speaker 1: it's you can always go over the lawn again with
Speaker 1: your spreader. But if you put too much out at
Speaker 1: a time, now you've got the problem. Okay, I got
Speaker 1: to add more than I should have had to put
Speaker 1: on in the first place, and and it's just better
Speaker 1: to go light and then go back over it in
Speaker 1: a different direction.
Speaker 11: That makes total sense, okay.
Speaker 13: And this is okay for flower bits too, right.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you can use as might and anything vegetable gardens.
Speaker 1: I like it gardens because you want you want things
Speaker 1: you're eating to have all the full set of nutrients.
Speaker 1: And you bet sure. All righty cool, thank you so much. Well,
Speaker 1: good good luck with that. Take care. Yeah. MAT's a
Speaker 1: good product available in a lot of places too, by
Speaker 1: the way. You can get it at feed stores and
Speaker 1: garden centers and A'ST hardware store. I mean, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of places they carry that. He's a mite. In
Speaker 1: our area, we're gonna have to take a little break
Speaker 1: here for the news. Uh. When I come back, Stephen
Speaker 1: Rosenberg and Martha and Menville you'll be our first two up.
Speaker 1: Look forward to visiting with you back on Garden Line
Speaker 1: if you've got some questions. Seven one three two one
Speaker 1: two k t r H seven one three two one
Speaker 1: two five eight seven four. Hey, welcome back to Garden Line.
Speaker 1: Good to have you with us. We're going to head
Speaker 1: out now to Rosenberg and talk to Steve. Hi. Steve,
Speaker 1: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 7: Hie, good morning. How are you today?
Speaker 1: Well, I'm doing great. How are you doing?
Speaker 7: I'm doing good.
Speaker 18: I'm calling you to give me some extra work that
Speaker 18: I'm going to have to do in this hot sum
Speaker 18: but that's okay.
Speaker 1: I Well, it's good that you're calling knowing I'm about
Speaker 1: to increase your workload.
Speaker 7: That's right.
Speaker 18: I purchased a home and while it was on the market,
Speaker 18: the lawn was somewhat neglected.
Speaker 7: It is Bermuda grass.
Speaker 18: And the soil was very compacted, so I did some
Speaker 18: liquid humorate.
Speaker 7: I try to stay with organic.
Speaker 18: As much as possible, and I use a a Medina
Speaker 18: product that I've used for years and seem to have
Speaker 18: good luck with But one thing that had happened in
Speaker 18: the in this transition is is the weeds really kicked
Speaker 18: in and so I think what I have is is
Speaker 18: a lot of johnsngrass mixed in and I really identified. Yeah,
Speaker 18: I think so it's what it appears to be because
Speaker 18: and the reason why I came to that to places,
Speaker 18: at first I thought it was crab grass.
Speaker 7: I went at it with a herbicide for Bermuda lawns.
Speaker 18: Ultimately was a two four debased product which worked really
Speaker 18: well on the clover and other things. But this particular
Speaker 18: weed that I like, I say, I think it's a
Speaker 18: Johnson grass did not respond at all to that product.
Speaker 18: So I'm trying to figure out what it is that
Speaker 18: I could spray, because if I could spot treat it,
Speaker 18: I would, but it's pretty pervasive.
Speaker 7: So that's why I'm.
Speaker 1: Calling, Well, there's not a way to kill Johns grass
Speaker 1: in a grass lawn without killing the grass lawn as
Speaker 1: far as a spray, and I know you'd rather do organic,
Speaker 1: but organic or synthetic, there's not that option. If you
Speaker 1: go to my website gardening with Skip dot com, what
Speaker 1: you'll find there is a thing called a weed wiper.
Speaker 1: And have you ever been to the website any chance?
Speaker 7: I have not. I just moved to the area.
Speaker 1: Okay, good well gardening with skip dot com. When you
Speaker 1: go to the website, there is a all publications, right,
Speaker 1: you're the top there all publications and when you go
Speaker 1: to that and scroll down, you'll see skips homemade weed wiper.
Speaker 1: And it basically is a grabber tool, one of those
Speaker 1: things you used to get a jar off a shelf.
Speaker 1: But it's made with suction cups. You can buy those,
Speaker 1: so you know you're in Rosenberg. You're really close to
Speaker 1: Southwest Fertilizer on the corner of Bissinet and Runwick in
Speaker 1: Southwest Houston and Bob Sellso's grabber tools. They're not that expensive.
Speaker 1: You take it and I'll show you how to put
Speaker 1: sponges on it, and then you would wipe a product
Speaker 1: or you would soak those sponges in a product that
Speaker 1: kills johnsngrass. And because Johnson grass comes up higher than
Speaker 1: your Bermuda grass without even bending over. Those little tools
Speaker 1: are about three feet long. You can just reach down
Speaker 1: with a cup of coffee in one hand and the
Speaker 1: tool in the other and walk through your yard and
Speaker 1: just kind of squeeze it and pull those sponges up
Speaker 1: against the leaves of the Johnson grass and it'll translocate
Speaker 1: down and kill it. And you may not get it
Speaker 1: all in the first time you do it, but on
Speaker 1: another Saturday morning or something, you just go out in
Speaker 1: there and you do that and you can get rid
Speaker 1: of it. And I know you got a lot of it.
Speaker 1: But there's just the only other option to you would
Speaker 1: be to squirt a herbicide on it and have dead
Speaker 1: spots in your Bermuda grass that would then have to
Speaker 1: grow back in. That's an option. I think. This other
Speaker 1: option is Oh wow, I like the weed wiper. That's
Speaker 1: why I came up with that.
Speaker 7: Sounds great. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: All right, man, you take care. Welcome to the area,
Speaker 1: by the way, and thanks for listening. Thanks for listening
Speaker 1: to Garbline. I appreciate that. All righty, Medina products. You
Speaker 1: mentioned Medina products. There are so many great Medina products
Speaker 1: out there. You know, you've heard me talk about the
Speaker 1: hashtro grow six twelve six plant fe It's got that
Speaker 1: hygh phosphorus number, which a lot of times when I'm transplanting,
Speaker 1: just soak the plants in with that do it about
Speaker 1: twice more a week. Apart, there's the Medina Plus and
Speaker 1: the Medina Plus has that original Medina Soil Activator, a
Speaker 1: great product, plus forty different trace elements including things like
Speaker 1: certain types of minerals like iron and zinc and magnesium
Speaker 1: and so on, other kinds of plant influencing substances, you know,
Speaker 1: things that affect plant growth. Hormone type ingredients and vitamin
Speaker 1: type ingredients are in it. It's going to give you
Speaker 1: better growth, better development, therefore better fruits at you get
Speaker 1: better blooming out of it, and you use that for
Speaker 1: transplants also if you want to, if you want to
Speaker 1: go that route, there's a lot of great Medina products
Speaker 1: out there. They got the humate humic acid. It comes
Speaker 1: in a liquid, but most of these come in a
Speaker 1: quart and in a gallon size. But the liquid humus
Speaker 1: humate liquid humus from Medina is an excellent product. Humus
Speaker 1: is the final decomposed stage of organic matter composts, and
Speaker 1: it contains the humic and the fulvic acid that are
Speaker 1: excellent for working on soil structure and helping that soil
Speaker 1: have a good developed structure and for doing things that
Speaker 1: really stimulate the soil microbial content, the microbial populations of
Speaker 1: the soil. That is what that humic acid can do.
Speaker 1: All of those are Medina products, and all of them
Speaker 1: are so widely available to take a whole show to
Speaker 1: tell all the places you can buy Medina products here
Speaker 1: in the Houston area, feed stores, garden centers, ace hardware stores,
Speaker 1: and on and on and on down the list. And
Speaker 1: I was talking about Southwest Fertilizer a second ago. Yes,
Speaker 1: Southwest Fertilizer, of course, also has a wide variety of
Speaker 1: Medina products. We're going to head now out to Manville,
Speaker 1: Texas and talk to Martha. Hello, Martha, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 20: Yeah, thanks Gip for taking my call. And is calling
Speaker 20: about the peach trees, fruit trees in my backyard. The
Speaker 20: leaves are turning yellow and some of them are dropping
Speaker 20: to the ground and on my fish, okay trees and grapefruit.
Speaker 3: I have an apple tree, also an orange tree.
Speaker 1: Okay. And is this yellowing happening on Is it it's
Speaker 1: happening on all those species that you mentioned, Is that correct?
Speaker 8: Well?
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, okay, okay, So it's probably the older leaves
Speaker 1: that you see turning yellow. And older, meaning if you
Speaker 1: if you look at a shoot coming out with leaves
Speaker 1: on it, the ones out toward the end those are
Speaker 1: the newest ones, and the ones further back on the
Speaker 1: shoot are the oldest ones. When older leaves turn yellow
Speaker 1: and fall off, it usually is related to a fluctuation
Speaker 1: in so moisture. Plants get way too wet, the roots
Speaker 1: are soggy. They can't get oxygen. That's a problem. Plants
Speaker 1: get too dry and they can't get water, that's a problem.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you have Apothus ivy in your house,
Speaker 1: but if you ever let it get dry and then
Speaker 1: you water it, the old leaves turn yellow. After that
Speaker 1: it perks back up, but the old leaves get cast off,
Speaker 1: and so water fluctuations can do that to plants. It
Speaker 1: could be a lack of nitrogen, but the way you're
Speaker 1: describing it as turning yellow and falling off doesn't sound
Speaker 1: like a lack of nitrogen to me. I think it's
Speaker 1: a sole moisture issue.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because before rain I thought maybe it needed water.
Speaker 3: But you know, we're getting a lot of rain and
Speaker 3: there's still the only tree that's not turning leaves not
Speaker 3: turning yellow is the apple tree.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right. Well, you know, the soil could be
Speaker 1: different different areas. One spot could stay a little wetter.
Speaker 1: There's there's a lot of factors, but I think that's it.
Speaker 1: And I like to put a big mulch area around
Speaker 1: my fruit trees because that helps moderate that soil temperature.
Speaker 1: But it also keeps the weeds away so they're not
Speaker 1: stealing the water from the soil, and so that if
Speaker 1: you may want to increase mulched area around them, Martha,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to run for a break here, but
Speaker 1: I hope that helps. I'm ninety nine percent sure we're
Speaker 1: looking at something in terms of soil moisture. You may
Speaker 1: have to dig down with a little hand trial about
Speaker 1: four to six inches and feel the soil and see
Speaker 1: if it's adequately moist too soggy, too dry, you know,
Speaker 1: whatever it is. But I do appreciate you calling in
Speaker 1: this morning. Thank you very much. Okay, you welcome, bye bye.
Speaker 1: All right, all right, I gotta go to a break, folks.
Speaker 1: We'll be back with our last segment of the day. Well, well, welcome,
Speaker 1: welcome back to Garden Line. Got our last segment of
Speaker 1: the day. Here, last segment of the weekend. I appreciate
Speaker 1: you listening to guarden Line. I don't take the fact
Speaker 1: for granted that we got folks that are taking time
Speaker 1: out in their data listen to garden Line. Hopefully we
Speaker 1: are keeping it informative and a little bit enjoyable as
Speaker 1: we go through there. If you would like to give
Speaker 1: me a call, I've got time for a call. Maybe
Speaker 1: two right now if you hurry. Uh seven one three
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Speaker 1: two KTRH. ACE Hardware Stores are you know, their motto
Speaker 1: is ACE is a place and you can just kind
Speaker 1: of fill in the blank after that. ACE is the
Speaker 1: place for all kinds of standard hardware needs, you know,
Speaker 1: traditional hardware, things like plumbing and lighting and wiring and
Speaker 1: switches and paint and on and on the hardware stuff.
Speaker 1: ACE is also the place for indoor and outdoor living.
Speaker 1: ACE is a place for quality tools. ACE is a
Speaker 1: place for the things that you need to maintain your property,
Speaker 1: the equipment, the tools and things like that. ACE Hardware
Speaker 1: Stores just they serve the community. Not too long ago,
Speaker 1: we're talking someone from ACE about the fact that they
Speaker 1: serve the Children's Texas Children's Hospital here in the Houston
Speaker 1: area with fundraising that they do coming up. This is
Speaker 1: a little further out, but I want you to be
Speaker 1: aware of this coming up. ACE is having an event.
Speaker 1: It is I know it's far out, but to stick
Speaker 1: with me here October twelfth, Sunday, October twelfth, from five
Speaker 1: thirty to eight thirty pm. And basically what it is,
Speaker 1: it's Ace at Top Golf. You've been to Top Golf before.
Speaker 1: I love Top Golf to support Texas Children's Hospital through
Speaker 1: the text through the Children's Miracle Network Hospitals. It's really
Speaker 1: a great cause. And as we heard on the other
Speaker 1: day at Bill murphon from the acepon JOHNS. Rude talking about,
Speaker 1: you know, the transforming stories about lives, kids lives here
Speaker 1: in the greater Houston area. So the Texas Children's Hospital
Speaker 1: serves nearly five million patients annually. So when you support
Speaker 1: this cause, ninety percent of your money to Texas Children's
Speaker 1: Hospital goes to patient services, one percent to charitable care,
Speaker 1: and one percent to eight education, one percent of research.
Speaker 1: But basically it's going it's going to the kids and
Speaker 1: all the proceeds stay right here in Texas. So why
Speaker 1: am I talking about all this? Well, the ACE Hardware
Speaker 1: Texas Retailer Group, my group here in the greater Houston area,
Speaker 1: and other Ace Hardware stores they're going to be sponsoring
Speaker 1: on Sunday, October twelfth, five thirty to eight thirty an
Speaker 1: event at Top Golf, a fundraiser. Maybe your organization would
Speaker 1: like to talk about supporting that, being a sponsor or
Speaker 1: a supporter of that. All you got to do is
Speaker 1: reach out. Here is a email Okay, Brick at Acehardware
Speaker 1: dot com, Brick at Acehardware dot com, and here is
Speaker 1: the phone number two eight one two two three fourteen hundred.
Speaker 1: Two eight one two two three fourteen hundred. Some of
Speaker 1: our Ace Hardware stores in our Houston area, part of
Speaker 1: our Ace Hardware Texas Retailer Group, are heading this up. Again.
Speaker 1: It's further out there, but maybe you've got a company
Speaker 1: or an organization and then you want to help with us.
Speaker 1: Maybe you are just interested and you love, you know,
Speaker 1: going out to Top Golf and having some fun out there.
Speaker 1: They can tell you more about it that I'm telling
Speaker 1: you here, by the way, that the location is going
Speaker 1: to be the Top Golf at five sixty Spring Park
Speaker 1: Center Boulevard in Spring, Texas. Top golf at five sixty
Speaker 1: Spring Park Center Boulevard in Spring, Texas. So go check
Speaker 1: them out and be a support for that. What it's
Speaker 1: fun and it's a really really good cause. We are
Speaker 1: now going to go out to the woodlands and visit
Speaker 1: with Deb. Hello, Deb, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 21: Hey scare, how are you?
Speaker 1: I'm great? Thank you? What's up today?
Speaker 21: Hey, Adam?
Speaker 11: Quick question?
Speaker 21: So we're getting ready to go out on a vacation
Speaker 21: for this little over.
Speaker 8: A couple of weeks.
Speaker 21: And I have some potted plants that I set up
Speaker 21: an independent sprinkler on, you know, a little timer thing
Speaker 21: from my water spicket and a hose, and I'm thinking
Speaker 21: I might need to fertilize them. What's a good potted
Speaker 21: plant outdoor? Potted plant fertilizer.
Speaker 1: Tell me a little bit about the plants. What kind
Speaker 1: of plants are we talking about here?
Speaker 21: Oh, you had to ask me that question. I have
Speaker 21: a kind of a ginormous, ginormous lantana that really probably
Speaker 21: needs to be repotted. I have some asparagus ferns.
Speaker 6: I have.
Speaker 21: Some little teeny uhunias that kind of thing.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, I would get a Nelson color star. You
Speaker 1: can find Nelson color Star lots of different cases. Nelson
Speaker 1: plant Food color Star is the name of it, and
Speaker 1: uh to follow the label on how much you put out.
Speaker 1: Don't overdo it, but you could put a little on there. Uh,
Speaker 1: if you've got water that is dependably being applied to
Speaker 1: the pots, then that you'll be good. You'll be good
Speaker 1: to go. If you wanted to go a little more
Speaker 1: conservatively on it. There is a product from Nelson called
Speaker 1: Genesis and it is a more of an organic type
Speaker 1: fertilizer as opposed to be an AsSalt based type fertilizer.
Speaker 1: And so that would be fine, but just you know,
Speaker 1: any fertilizer, especially the synthetics, their salts and so they
Speaker 1: dissolve and they release and they're available. Color Stars is
Speaker 1: going to give you a longer feed time. But the
Speaker 1: main thing you need for those plants is water. Make
Speaker 1: sure your watering system is working. Whether they get fertilizer
Speaker 1: or not is not as important as whether they get
Speaker 1: water or water. And yeah, yeah, as the water. And
Speaker 1: so what you've given me is mostly color blooming plants.
Speaker 1: That's why I suggested color Star. You know, the asparagus,
Speaker 1: fern and foliage plants like that they'll benefit from it too.
Speaker 21: Okay, all right, sounds good.
Speaker 1: Thank you, all right, have fun on vacation, and good
Speaker 1: luck with your plants as you come back. Thanks a lot,
Speaker 1: all right, thank you, all right, Bye bye bye bye,
Speaker 1: Oh vacation. Oh I wish we had another break. We
Speaker 1: could play vacation by the Go Gos, Right, that'd be
Speaker 1: a good song to follow up. Hey, you are listening
Speaker 1: to guard Line and we're wrapping up today. We appreciate
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