Speaker 1: This program. Welcome to Katie r H. Garden Line with
Speaker 1: Skip Ricard.
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Speaker 1: We're not a sign.
Speaker 3: I believe it's about time for us to get a
Speaker 3: show started today. Welcome to garden Line. We are glad
Speaker 3: you're with us on this Sunday morning. I congratulations on
Speaker 3: being up and hopefully having at least one eye open
Speaker 3: a cup of coffee on one hand at this hour
Speaker 3: of the morning. We're glad to have you with us.
Speaker 3: If you would like to give me a call and
Speaker 3: discuss things that are of interest to you, questions you
Speaker 3: might have about your beautiful guard and a landscape. Just
Speaker 3: give us a call. It's seven to one three two
Speaker 3: one two k t R H seven one three two
Speaker 3: one two k t R as simple as that. I
Speaker 3: have noticed a lot of questions lately about there are
Speaker 3: issues related to trees and tree safety. And here's how
Speaker 3: they often go. I've got a tree, and at the
Speaker 3: bottom of the tree trunk, here's a picture. Look at
Speaker 3: these mushrooms coming out of the side of the tree.
Speaker 3: What do I do about that? In other words, can
Speaker 3: I spray it? Is it a concern or whatever? Another
Speaker 3: version of it would be that I have a tree
Speaker 3: that on one side it's like the interior is eroding
Speaker 3: away and the bark is peeled back, or I have
Speaker 3: a loose bark on the outside. What do I do
Speaker 3: about it? And these are all versions of basically one question,
Speaker 3: and that is what do I do when the structural
Speaker 3: strength of my tree starts to be deteriorated away. So
Speaker 3: if you think about a tree, remember that it is
Speaker 3: a living cylinder. I know, we think about it as
Speaker 3: the trunk is solid all the way through. Everything inside
Speaker 3: is just wood, it's two by fours, Okay. On the
Speaker 3: outside we have tissues called floum and xylum and cambium,
Speaker 3: and that's where all the living occurs. That's where the
Speaker 3: things produced in the leaves, the sugars are translocated down
Speaker 3: through part of that. Another part is translocating water and
Speaker 3: nutrients up for the ground to the top of the tree.
Speaker 3: But it's a living cylinder. Now, the interior of that cylinder,
Speaker 3: hopefully is good, strong, sound wood. But whenever you break
Speaker 3: through that outer living cylinder, you expose the interior dead wood. Now,
Speaker 3: add to that some thyme, some moisture, and some microbes,
Speaker 3: and we start to see what can eventually end up
Speaker 3: being a hollow tree where the interior is all decomposed away,
Speaker 3: just like a log in the forest would decompose away
Speaker 3: and the exterior still living. The problem with that is
Speaker 3: struckly that tree gets weaker when that happens. If you
Speaker 3: see mushrooms, that's a sign that there's a fungus in
Speaker 3: the tree that is decomposing organic matter and is essentially fruiting.
Speaker 3: We say that mushrooms are like the fruit if you will,
Speaker 3: of the of the fungus inside, the my ceilium inside,
Speaker 3: and so just a sign of mushrooms, I mean, yeah,
Speaker 3: there's something growing in there, just like in your lawn
Speaker 3: when you see a circle of white mushrooms. Number one,
Speaker 3: if you've got a golf club, you can have a
Speaker 3: lot of fun with those. Number two though, that is
Speaker 3: just a fungus. It's decomposing the thatch away through the
Speaker 3: lawn and like a wildfire would spread from where the
Speaker 3: match hit the ground outward in all directions. Well, this
Speaker 3: fungus is moving outward through the thatch in all directions.
Speaker 3: That's what you tend to get circles of those mushrooms.
Speaker 3: Mushrooms in and of themselves aren't necessarily a problem. In fact,
Speaker 3: we're entering real quick here the fall season, and when
Speaker 3: we do we get some cool weather, maybe a front
Speaker 3: comes through and some moisture that break in temperature, we're
Speaker 3: going to see a lot of mushrooms coming up in
Speaker 3: flower beds and the mulch and lawns and other things.
Speaker 3: Just know this when it comes to the tree, the
Speaker 3: more you leave the interior wood exposed, the more time
Speaker 3: and opportunity there is for decay to set in. Now,
Speaker 3: when lightning splits down the side of a tree, when
Speaker 3: coal damage splits the side of a tree, when your
Speaker 3: truck bumper hits the tree and breaks kills part of
Speaker 3: the bark right there, knocks it loose, there's nothing to
Speaker 3: do to fix that instantly, But just know that that
Speaker 3: is the process that's going to be going on. What
Speaker 3: we do have in our power is to get the
Speaker 3: loose bark out of the way, just peel it off,
Speaker 3: and then leave that inner wood more exposed where there's
Speaker 3: not something holding moisture in. You know, when it gets
Speaker 3: wet and rainy, if you got dead bark sitting over
Speaker 3: the top of it, that's just holding it in. We'd
Speaker 3: rather it dry out a little bit faster, and so
Speaker 3: cleaning out the dead bark is helpful and then good
Speaker 3: vigor the tree. That means water and fertilizer, water, especially
Speaker 3: during the summer season, fertilizer periodically just to keep its growth.
Speaker 3: And callus grows over and it's like a lava flow
Speaker 3: coming from both sides, and it just crosses right over
Speaker 3: that deadwood and closes back over that wound in time.
Speaker 3: So the big, big wound probably never close over small wound,
Speaker 3: probably pretty quick. You're listening to garden Line. Our phone
Speaker 3: number is seven one three two one two fifty eight
Speaker 3: seventy four seven one three two one two five eight
Speaker 3: seven four. I talk about azamite here on the garden Line,
Speaker 3: and you hear me mention that it is a trace mineral,
Speaker 3: and I find that people people are often just not
Speaker 3: really clear you know what what we mean by a
Speaker 3: trace mineral. Well, what I'm talking about there is something
Speaker 3: that the plant needs in small amounts, So a trace
Speaker 3: mineral or a micro nutrient tracemental or micronutrient. Probably if
Speaker 3: you were to compare to macronutrients, just imagine needing a
Speaker 3: minuscule amount versus needing a whole lot, but it also
Speaker 3: being essential, and that's hard for people to get their
Speaker 3: head around, because if I don't need much, how can
Speaker 3: it be as important as nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. It
Speaker 3: is essential. If you could take every molecule of manganese
Speaker 3: out of the soil, A plant could not live if
Speaker 3: you would take and it just needs t any bits
Speaker 3: of mangaies same with boron and iron and zinc and
Speaker 3: other things. Azmite is a micronutrient supplement, So what we're
Speaker 3: doing there is not fertilizing the grass to make it grow.
Speaker 3: We're building the nutrients and the soil so as the
Speaker 3: grass grows there's nothing lacking, because when one thing lacks,
Speaker 3: that's where it stops growing. It's as simple as that.
Speaker 3: Asimite can help with that. We typically will put it
Speaker 3: on about once a year through the lawn. I use
Speaker 3: vegetable gardens and other good place you can use in
Speaker 3: flower beds, whatever wherever you want to build up that
Speaker 3: content in the soil. Asimitexas dot com that's our website.
Speaker 3: It's real easy to find the kinds of things you're
Speaker 3: looking for. I was out yesterday and a mosquito had
Speaker 3: the gall to come up and land on me and
Speaker 3: start to take my blood. And if I wanted to
Speaker 3: get blood, I go to the South Texas Blood Bank,
Speaker 3: not into my backyard. While mosquito dunks are a product
Speaker 3: the disease and mosquitoes, well here's what you do. You
Speaker 3: just throw them out in a pond or any area
Speaker 3: where you have standing water, and they last about a
Speaker 3: month and slowly dissolve away, releasing mosquito disease into the water.
Speaker 3: It's as simple as that. You can find mosquito dunks everywhere.
Speaker 3: If you got a little small area, like a little gutter,
Speaker 3: you want to toss some in, or underneath the catch
Speaker 3: basin under your plants, you can break up a dunk
Speaker 3: and toss a few crumbles in there. They also sell
Speaker 3: a crumbly form of it as well. Mosquito dunks, though,
Speaker 3: is step one in making sure we get ahead of
Speaker 3: those credits in our backyard. Well, it's time for me
Speaker 3: to take a little break. I will be right back
Speaker 3: guard line. It is a it's gonna be a good,
Speaker 3: a good Sunday. I am looking forward to maybe this
Speaker 3: afternoon getting out and getting a couple of things done
Speaker 3: plenty to do in the garden and in the landscape,
Speaker 3: that is for sure. You know that our garden centers
Speaker 3: are chalk stocking up when it comes to getting ready
Speaker 3: for fall. Summer's been We're still at the end of summer,
Speaker 3: but it is getting to be time where if you
Speaker 3: want to put some things out, like put some petunias
Speaker 3: out and some other things that will carry you up
Speaker 3: into the first frost, it'd be a good time. Miracles
Speaker 3: another good one. You plant maragols in the fall and
Speaker 3: they do so much better than they do in summer.
Speaker 3: Spider miight populations are going down as we as the
Speaker 3: days get shorter, when the day and the temperatures cooler,
Speaker 3: and those marigols just glow in the in the cool,
Speaker 3: crisp nights of fall, right up until the first frost.
Speaker 3: Then it's time to switch them out for something else.
Speaker 3: And Chaney Forest down there in Richmond, they are the
Speaker 3: garden center that is on FM Twine and Richmond going
Speaker 3: toward sugar Land. It's off to the right twenty seven
Speaker 3: fifty nine. Enchanted Forest is a well is the name
Speaker 3: in place. It's an enchanting place. I just love walking
Speaker 3: through there. There's so much stock. They are loaded up
Speaker 3: on all kinds of things that you know, the real
Speaker 3: popular one of the newer plants that's kind of catching
Speaker 3: on is desert rose. Desert rose is beautiful old plant.
Speaker 3: They got plenty of those there. Have you seen those
Speaker 3: yellow esperanzas around town? They have yellow. They have other
Speaker 3: colors too. There's also kind of some orange versions of
Speaker 3: that that are really beautiful. There's just a lot, there's
Speaker 3: a lot. I maybe we could talk on and on.
Speaker 3: They're starting to get in the first of the cooler
Speaker 3: weather annuals. Dianthus is a good example of that. Dianthus
Speaker 3: does really well. Also, well, they're gonna be open, by
Speaker 3: the way, they're gonna be open today. They're going to
Speaker 3: be open also tomorrow today until five tomorrow or excuse
Speaker 3: me today from ten am to four, my mistake, excuse
Speaker 3: me ten am to four. They'll be closed tomorrow Labor Day,
Speaker 3: which is not unusual for businesses to be closed on
Speaker 3: Labor Day. So I hope you'll check them out. Go
Speaker 3: to the website. The website makes it really easy Enchanted Forest, Richmond, TX.
Speaker 3: There you'll find everything you need to know how to
Speaker 3: get there, the upcoming events, and they always in the
Speaker 3: fall or having educational activities. I'll be out there at
Speaker 3: some point this fall, but in Gendi Forest in Richmond.
Speaker 3: If you'd like to speak to me about some sort
Speaker 3: of a disease or insect or suggestion for a plant
Speaker 3: or diagnosis, you know whatever. Seven one three two one
Speaker 3: two k t RH. Glad to visit with you. And
Speaker 3: we've got some special things coming up today. I'm going
Speaker 3: to do a little bit of a visit with someone
Speaker 3: on soil and building raised beds and growing mixes and
Speaker 3: things like that. And you hear me all the time
Speaker 3: the broken record brown stuff before green stuff. Well I'm
Speaker 3: gonna get some support in here for that concept as well.
Speaker 3: You know, when it comes to building the soil, the
Speaker 3: organic approach to soil building is are to gardening in general,
Speaker 3: is to make the soil as healthy as you can.
Speaker 3: And healthy means it's it drains well so it's not
Speaker 3: water logged. The good microbes that are in the soil
Speaker 3: have everything they need. That includes oxygen due to building
Speaker 3: up good soil structure. It includes the carbon materials, the
Speaker 3: organic materials that they chew on. That's their energy to
Speaker 3: break down and microlife. Fertilizer is designed around just that. See,
Speaker 3: the goal in designing Microlife was to create a fertilizer
Speaker 3: that was natural, that had a ton of microbes even
Speaker 3: added to it, and that functions in a way that
Speaker 3: builds the soil. So for example, humtes plus that's a
Speaker 3: zero zero four hu must is a mature that just
Speaker 3: helps build soil structure and it helps and doing so
Speaker 3: what it's doing is it's helping microbial activity as well.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: That makes it easy when you when you think about
Speaker 3: some of the liquids that microlife has. You know, the
Speaker 3: Biomatrix is seven one four is the orange label liquid.
Speaker 3: It works very well. I use it in house plants,
Speaker 3: I can use it and transplanting a lot of other things.
Speaker 3: It's just a good fertilizer. But Microlife has a number
Speaker 3: of those fish emulsions and seaweed based fertilizers and many
Speaker 3: many others. Go to Microlife Fertilizer dot com where you
Speaker 3: can learn a lot more and it's really easy to
Speaker 3: find pretty much every where. You hear me talk about
Speaker 3: on guardenline and they're going to have microlife there very widespread.
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Speaker 3: head out to northwest Houston. Now we're gonna talk to Ralph.
Speaker 3: Good morning, Ralph, welcome to Girdline.
Speaker 7: Good morning, You've got a great program. I'm want to
Speaker 7: know about my Saint Augustine grass. I thought I was
Speaker 7: doing the right thing all the time. But some spots
Speaker 7: or you have along that's not putting any grass and nothing,
Speaker 7: but others are in the front yard or this, uh
Speaker 7: there there, I haven't been keeping up with the yard. Okay,
Speaker 7: let's say that what am I missing?
Speaker 3: Well, it could be a number of things. You know.
Speaker 3: Number one needs to be sunny, or at least pretty
Speaker 3: sunny for Saint Augustine to be thick and look good.
Speaker 3: You need to give it adequate water. But you know,
Speaker 3: don't water every other day and just give it a
Speaker 3: good soaking and let it dry out a little bit.
Speaker 3: And you know, it could be a disease or a
Speaker 3: lot of things that that can affect that can affect
Speaker 3: your grass. Ralph, So I suspect it's going to be
Speaker 3: a combination of some of those things.
Speaker 7: Uh huh.
Speaker 3: Have you fertilized lately?
Speaker 2: Has that?
Speaker 8: What?
Speaker 3: Have you fertilized that area lately?
Speaker 7: Not lately. When I first hit it was good but
Speaker 7: I haven't done anything with its throb.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's good to do that. You know, we're getting
Speaker 3: pretty close to fall fertilization time, so at this point
Speaker 3: you may want to just hold and then get your
Speaker 3: fall fertilization down probably towards the end of September here
Speaker 3: for your area. But bottom line is, you know, at
Speaker 3: the lawn, it's just a matter of mo water and
Speaker 3: fertilized plus sunlight. And that's one of those four is lacking.
Speaker 7: Well they're just in patches like that and it's really bad,
Speaker 7: you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, sometimes it's variations in soil Ralph. Sometimes the soil
Speaker 3: is not the same everywhere. Sometimes it's foot traffic, and
Speaker 3: sometimes it's just diseases and diseases are random, and I
Speaker 3: mean you can get a little disease over in one
Speaker 3: area and maybe it's not evenly infected through the whole lawn.
Speaker 3: So there are a lot of a lot of factors
Speaker 3: like that. I just think you probably need to be
Speaker 3: fertilizing a little more and probably when we go into
Speaker 3: hot weather, give it a rescue. Watering is needed to
Speaker 3: keep it going.
Speaker 7: Well, it's just terrible, but it's such good grass. And
Speaker 7: then this happens with teas. Okay, I appreciate you. Okay,
Speaker 7: I have a good shows.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 3: You take care. People care about their lawns, that is
Speaker 3: for sure, and it's understandable. I totally understand that care
Speaker 3: a lot. Hey have you been to Ana Plants and Produce.
Speaker 3: Ana Plants and Produce is up there on one oh
Speaker 3: five in uh the Montgomery area, and they have everything
Speaker 3: you need. You need to go follow them online. You
Speaker 3: need to check out that place. Drive by and just
Speaker 3: go in and see. They've got some really good deals
Speaker 3: going on right now. Always have good color, and they
Speaker 3: are always loaded up on every fertilizer and soil product
Speaker 3: that you might need. In fact, they got some deals
Speaker 3: going on that right now. So but you just have
Speaker 3: to give them a call. It's A and A Plants
Speaker 3: and Produce, and I am going to have to take
Speaker 3: a little break here and back to the guard Line.
Speaker 3: Good to have you with us as always our phone
Speaker 3: number seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four,
Speaker 3: or if you like to dial by letters seven one
Speaker 3: three two one two KTRH. As simple as that. I
Speaker 3: was talking about Ana Plants and Produce. Where we went
Speaker 3: to break, I just wanted to let you know. This
Speaker 3: is kind of like your public service announcement. There is
Speaker 3: This is day three of a three day sale they've
Speaker 3: got going on. It ends today. Is today's the last
Speaker 3: day five percent off all their bagged products, and that
Speaker 3: would be fertilizers from like nitrofoss and Microlife for example.
Speaker 3: If you're looking for soil, are also Nelson's too. By
Speaker 3: the way, if you're looking for soil, there is materials
Speaker 3: like Nature's Way Resources and airloom soils. There is stuff
Speaker 3: from Landscaper's Pride their quality mixes and mulches and things,
Speaker 3: and then azum I too. All of these and more
Speaker 3: is all part of this three day sell that ends today.
Speaker 3: So twenty five percent off. Here's the way to think
Speaker 3: about it. Maybe you're thinking, well, I'm not doing anything
Speaker 3: right now, go ahead and stock up on it, because
Speaker 3: remember fall is the time that you want to have
Speaker 3: your beds in shape already. Okay, it's if you wait
Speaker 3: until it gets too late. It Typically what has happened
Speaker 3: to me in the past is I get busy, I
Speaker 3: don't get around to it, and suddenly it's like, oh,
Speaker 3: I want to go plant broccoli, and now it's raining
Speaker 3: for three days and then that's cooler, and so the
Speaker 3: soil stays wet longer. It can't work the soil when
Speaker 3: it's sopping wet. But if you get those beds built now,
Speaker 3: this would be a good time to do it. So
Speaker 3: I would recommend that you stock up, even if it's
Speaker 3: just topping off some beds, not building them, and is
Speaker 3: ready to go for it. I mean, they got it
Speaker 3: out there, and they're giving you a good deal you
Speaker 3: should take advantage of, especially all those of you who
Speaker 3: live up there in the Lake Conroe area. In my
Speaker 3: own yard and garden, I was noticing that I've got
Speaker 3: some areas around my trees where the grass is struggling
Speaker 3: a little bit. As those trees get denre and denture
Speaker 3: through the years, as the light levels at the soil
Speaker 3: get lower and lower, there's just less energy for that
Speaker 3: grass to be able to grow and stay thick and
Speaker 3: lush and healthy and everything. And it just starts getting spindly,
Speaker 3: and as it starts to go down, it's hard to
Speaker 3: get it turned back around. So what are you going
Speaker 3: to do? I mean, you can go up and trim
Speaker 3: a lot of branches out of the tree, that's really
Speaker 3: not the best of all practices to do, and it's
Speaker 3: only going to be temporary because grow back in time.
Speaker 3: So that's an opportunity to transform some of those areas
Speaker 3: that are a little too shady into something that will
Speaker 3: thrive in that kind of setting. Some plants are a
Speaker 3: better able to utilize the limited sunlight and still thrive
Speaker 3: and do good. And we've got a lot of great
Speaker 3: shade gardens. So do you want a groundcover, do you
Speaker 3: want to put some color in? You know, in the summer,
Speaker 3: we use kalladiums in the shady areas, and we have
Speaker 3: flowers that grow in the better shady areas. We're about
Speaker 3: to enter the cool season where the leaves fall off
Speaker 3: of deciduous trees, and so areas around those could support
Speaker 3: some cool season flowers because they're getting sunlight in the
Speaker 3: wintertime like they don't during the summertime. Those are just
Speaker 3: some things to think about, but just remember that we
Speaker 3: can try to fight the nature out there, but oftentimes
Speaker 3: it's better just when life gives you lemons make lemonade
Speaker 3: sort of thing. You know, we just go ahead and
Speaker 3: that area. I've talked to people before that had areas
Speaker 3: that were just sopping, soggy wet, and it didn't drain well,
Speaker 3: and all the plants we want a plant wouldn't grow there.
Speaker 3: Kind of thing, Well, why not plant something that wants
Speaker 3: to grow there? Button bush is a native that grows
Speaker 3: in wet areas, and it's really attractive. Big old bush
Speaker 3: was really very attractive. There are other things like Louisiana irises,
Speaker 3: and there are other plants that grow in a wet area,
Speaker 3: So why not just go with that because that opens
Speaker 3: a palette up to some new things to put in
Speaker 3: the landscape. Just a few thoughts. Hopefully that'll be helpful
Speaker 3: to you if you'd like to give a skull here
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Speaker 3: By the way, I always listen to guard Line with
Speaker 3: a piece of paper and a pen somewhere nearby, because
Speaker 3: I may give a phone number or a website or
Speaker 3: mention a product and you missed it. Of course, you
Speaker 3: can always listen to the podcast afterwards, but it's just
Speaker 3: better to keep a pen or pencil handy because a
Speaker 3: lot of things are very timely, like that sale. It
Speaker 3: was just timbat Medina has a product called has to Grow.
Speaker 3: It's a six twelve six plant food. Now that higher
Speaker 3: middle number the phosphorus is telling you that you know,
Speaker 3: that's going to help with root development and also with
Speaker 3: some of the other functions in the plant, like blooming
Speaker 3: and like producing the carbohydrates and whatnot that it needs.
Speaker 3: That's part of the deal. Well, Medina has to Grow
Speaker 3: six twelve six has not just that nitrogen phosphor potassium.
Speaker 3: It's got Medina soil activator for stimulating biological activity, humates,
Speaker 3: humic acid to improve soil structure. I've been talking about
Speaker 3: that today, and just even sea read extracts are in there,
Speaker 3: and all of that helps to stimulate health. It helps
Speaker 3: to stimulate fruiting and blooming. You can use has to
Speaker 3: Grow six twelve six as a folier. It's not going
Speaker 3: to burn your plants. You can and I would recommend
Speaker 3: you use it when you're doing any kind of transplanting,
Speaker 3: when you're putting your fall flowers, winter flowers in, when
Speaker 3: you're putting in shrubs and trees. Just mix it up
Speaker 3: in a big old canister or a watering bottle, or
Speaker 3: sometimes they just chose a five gallon bucket and then
Speaker 3: just use as a drench to water in those plants.
Speaker 3: When you're trying to get a lot done, it's helpful
Speaker 3: to do it that way. Medina has to grow six
Speaker 3: twelve six plant food, very convenient, widely available. Like all
Speaker 3: Medina products, It's available in quart bottles that have a
Speaker 3: little measuring cup at the top of the bottom built
Speaker 3: into the bottle. It is also a convenient hose in
Speaker 3: sprayer quart size gallons and of course even larger if
Speaker 3: you want to go for that. It's a good product
Speaker 3: and it works. You are listening to garden Line and
Speaker 3: I'm your host, Skip Richter. Our phone number if you'd
Speaker 3: like to give us a call seven one three two
Speaker 3: one two fifty eight seventy four seven to one three
Speaker 3: two one two five eight seven four. For those of
Speaker 3: you that live down south of the Houston area, you're
Speaker 3: fortunate there when it comes to taking care of building
Speaker 3: a foundation for any kind of success in your lawn, garden, landscape,
Speaker 3: you name it, and that is building the soil. And
Speaker 3: the place is Medina Medina. I'm not just talking about Medina.
Speaker 3: They have Medina at this place. I'm about to tell
Speaker 3: you to Ciena Maltz. Ciena Maltz is down on FM
Speaker 3: five one just north of Roast Sharon. Here's the website.
Speaker 3: You go here and you can find out everything you
Speaker 3: need to know, including how to get there, how to
Speaker 3: call them Cienamaltz dot com, CNA Maltz dot com. And
Speaker 3: I always say start with the brown stuff before you
Speaker 3: put in the green stuff. And Ciena Maltch is the
Speaker 3: place where you get all the brown stuff stuff that
Speaker 3: you might need. Do you need composts? Do you need
Speaker 3: veggie herb mixed from marlom soil? Do you need some
Speaker 3: expanded shale? Do you need fertilizers? And I'm talking about
Speaker 3: all the ones you hear me talk about Azemie and
Speaker 3: Microlife and Nelson's and the nitroposs Medina. Do you wont landscapers, Pride?
Speaker 3: Do you want airlooms? They have all of it there
Speaker 3: And so when you drive away, you have everything you
Speaker 3: need to set a foundation for success. You're gonna plant
Speaker 3: fruit trees as fall, You're gonna plant shrubs or trees.
Speaker 3: Do you have some perennials that you want to put in?
Speaker 3: Start it with the soil and see Enumulch is a place.
Speaker 3: They're down south again. They're just north of road sharing
Speaker 3: On five twenty one. By the way, they're open Monday
Speaker 3: through Friday seven thirty to five and Saturday seven thirty
Speaker 3: to two. Close today, closed on Sunday, but they'll be
Speaker 3: open again tomorrow for you to get going. And it
Speaker 3: is definitely time to get going on that. It's time
Speaker 3: for me to take a little break, So I'm gonna
Speaker 3: pause and do that, and I'll be right back the
Speaker 3: phones that start this last segment of the first hour,
Speaker 3: We're gonna go to Fairfield and talk to Marty. Hello,
Speaker 3: Marty morning skip. Hey, I'm ready to prep my beds
Speaker 3: for my fall. Bengis my coal crops.
Speaker 9: But I still have peppers and they're not big, but
Speaker 9: they're just I had flowers and and peppers still on
Speaker 9: the vines. I wondered, if I pull the peppers off
Speaker 9: and then just pull up the plants so I can
Speaker 9: prep the beds, will they still ripen like on the
Speaker 9: counter top.
Speaker 3: No, they won't. They won't go any further once you
Speaker 3: harvest them, I would. I mean, it depends on what
Speaker 3: kind of pepper you know, they're they're going to get bigger.
Speaker 3: A pepper gets bigger and so it hits its size.
Speaker 3: For whatever species of pepper you got. But then if
Speaker 3: you want it to go in toward turning color, like
Speaker 3: you'd like to get a little red color in it,
Speaker 3: or whatever color it will turn, that just takes even
Speaker 3: more time. And we have these spring and fall traffic
Speaker 3: gems in the garden, and especially at the spring, but
Speaker 3: we also have it in fall, you know, and so
Speaker 3: you just kind of have to make a decision on
Speaker 3: what you want to do. One way to head your
Speaker 3: belt a little bit is to take your fall plantings
Speaker 3: and put them in small, smaller containers. Like let's say
Speaker 3: you bought a little six pack of broccoli, but you
Speaker 3: didn't really have room for it. You weren't ready for
Speaker 3: it yet. You could move them into four inch pots
Speaker 3: and even bigger if you wanted. But that way you're
Speaker 3: keeping the fall crop growing and at the same time
Speaker 3: getting just a little bit more out of your warm
Speaker 3: seasoned crop. So that's about the only strategy I can
Speaker 3: think up to help a little bit.
Speaker 10: That's a good idea.
Speaker 3: I haven't gotten my plants yet.
Speaker 9: I wanted to prep the beds first, but that's a
Speaker 9: good idea.
Speaker 3: I think I'll do that all right. All right, Well,
Speaker 3: thank you for the call. Okay, bye, ideas. All right, yeah,
Speaker 3: that is true. Hey have you have you guys been
Speaker 3: those of you listening, have you been to Buchanan's Native Plants.
Speaker 3: I know those of you in north central Houston have
Speaker 3: because it's located in the Heights on Eleventh Street. But
Speaker 3: what about those of you from other areas. You know,
Speaker 3: we have so many great garden centers here that I
Speaker 3: think we all need to be doing a little bit
Speaker 3: of what we call horticultural tourism about that, go visit
Speaker 3: some new places, and Buchanans is one of those unique places.
Speaker 3: And we are so blessed here to have such awesome
Speaker 3: independent garden centers. Buchanan's Native Plants they are most known,
Speaker 3: I would say, for the fact that they have a
Speaker 3: huge variety of natives and lots and lots of information
Speaker 3: and whatever kind of gardening you want. You know, it's
Speaker 3: not just give me a native plant. It's like, give
Speaker 3: me a native plant the hummingbirds will be attracted to,
Speaker 3: for example, or one that bees or pollinators will be
Speaker 3: attracted to. Give me a native plant that can grow
Speaker 3: in the shape. They can do all of that at
Speaker 3: Buchanan's Plants. The websites Buchanans plants dot Com, knowledgeable staff,
Speaker 3: full line of products to take care of your plants
Speaker 3: to have success with them, including those brown stuff things
Speaker 3: that I've been talking about. Buchanansplants dot Com is a website.
Speaker 3: Go to the website, sign up for the newsletter. It
Speaker 3: is outstanding, as is the website when it comes to
Speaker 3: being able to just learn more and more and get
Speaker 3: better and better. And that is the kind of garden
Speaker 3: center we're looking for, and you find it there are
Speaker 3: Buchanans Native Plants. I'm going to head now to Kingwood,
Speaker 3: Texas and talk to Janey. Hello, Janie, I skip.
Speaker 11: Can you hear me?
Speaker 3: Help? Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 12: Well, I went ahead and brought the yard down in
Speaker 12: spring to soil, and I went to Nature's Way like
Speaker 12: you recommended and got the mulch.
Speaker 3: And after I got all of.
Speaker 12: The plants put in, we did the compost, you know,
Speaker 12: and more moult. Problem is, after barrel, I have all
Speaker 12: of these like fungus looking spores in every single bed.
Speaker 12: I went ahead and picked them up and removed them
Speaker 12: and put them in a like a bucket and contain them.
Speaker 12: But I was hoping I could send you a picture
Speaker 12: so you can tell me what I'm dealing with, because
Speaker 12: there's been nothing else in those beds, with the exception
Speaker 12: of all of the water.
Speaker 3: Can you describe them, just real briefly. Whatever they look like.
Speaker 3: How big are they?
Speaker 12: They're about well, they're about as big as account patty
Speaker 12: and they are. They've got little round open spores on
Speaker 12: the top and it looks like just one round. I'll
Speaker 12: go ahead and send you a picture if that's possible,
Speaker 12: but I'm pretty sure it's fungal. I was worried about
Speaker 12: spraying because you said that it's not. It doesn't discriminate
Speaker 12: like it'll kill all even good fungus. I didn't want
Speaker 12: to do that.
Speaker 3: Well, I think I know what they are, but I'm
Speaker 3: gonna look at a picture, and so what I'm gonna do, Janey,
Speaker 3: is put you on hold, and Chris will give you
Speaker 3: an email address. Send me some pictures of the little
Speaker 3: bit further back and then up close, but make sure
Speaker 3: they're all in good sharp focus, and I will tell
Speaker 3: you what they are. I'm going to say, I'm ninety
Speaker 3: percent sure that this is nothing for you to worry about.
Speaker 3: This is not going to kill your plants or something
Speaker 3: like that. But let me take a look at the
Speaker 3: picture and be.
Speaker 12: Sure, Okay, awesome, wonderful, I'll hold Thank you so much, you.
Speaker 3: Bet, thank you, thank you very much for the call. Crystal.
Speaker 3: Pick that up and get that information to you. You know,
Speaker 3: we are going to get a lot of mushroom calls
Speaker 3: in fall. Mushrooms and other fruiting bodies there are. The
Speaker 3: world of mushrooms is amazing. I mean it really truly
Speaker 3: the world of fungi. And I just read a book,
Speaker 3: a really interesting book about fungi across the world and
Speaker 3: all things they do and what they've what they've learned
Speaker 3: about them, and how they interact together and connect plants
Speaker 3: to communicate between plants, and what they do in the soil,
Speaker 3: and how they can do things that know other microbes
Speaker 3: than the microbes aren't able to do, and it is
Speaker 3: just really interesting. But anyway, the bottom line on it
Speaker 3: was that what I'm trying to say is when fall
Speaker 3: comes and we get the weather break, we start see
Speaker 3: all kinds of weird stuff. There is a mushroom. There
Speaker 3: is a fungus, I must say, fungus that grows on
Speaker 3: malts that looks like the dog threw up on the molts.
Speaker 3: It literally looks like that. There's another one that looks
Speaker 3: like scrambled eggs up on top of the molts. And
Speaker 3: people call and they get all freaky and weird and say,
Speaker 3: there's this yellow thing like I don't know what it
Speaker 3: is on top of my mulch. And bottom line, it's
Speaker 3: nature making organic matter turn into soil. That is why
Speaker 3: we're not a mile deep in tree trunks here in
Speaker 3: the Gray Easton area. Every tree that ever lived on
Speaker 3: this place for going back in time if there wasn't
Speaker 3: something to decompose them. And mushrooms are the one or
Speaker 3: fungi are the ones that can really do the lign
Speaker 3: and the toughest part of the tree. But it's just
Speaker 3: part of nature and we can relax. You know what
Speaker 3: people call about ferry meushrooms in the yard all the time,
Speaker 3: And I don't think you need to use a fungus
Speaker 3: to try to stop that. I think you need to
Speaker 3: get a golf club and realize it's going to go
Speaker 3: away on its own. But in the meantime you're going
Speaker 3: to have some fun. That's my two cents worth for
Speaker 3: whatever that is worth. Plantrall Seasons is a garden center
Speaker 3: that's right there on two forty nine and Luetta two
Speaker 3: forty nine and Luetta. It's easy, easy to find, easy
Speaker 3: to get to. But when you go in there, you're
Speaker 3: going into garden center. It's been family owned and operated
Speaker 3: since nineteen seventy three. You're going into the place where
Speaker 3: the Flowerty family and there's a number of Flowery family
Speaker 3: members that work there, including their other employees, are knowledgeable
Speaker 3: and they can answer your questions. They can point you
Speaker 3: in the right direction. They can direct you to the
Speaker 3: product that you might need, or make suggestions. You buy
Speaker 3: a plant, you come back in, you go, hey, I
Speaker 3: see this on it is this okay. They're knowledgeable, they
Speaker 3: can do that, and that is so important. Here's your
Speaker 3: phone number one three seven six sixteen forty six or
Speaker 3: go to Plants for All Seasons dot com Plants for
Speaker 3: All Seasons dot com. I love going to gardens. I've
Speaker 3: been talking about that this morning, but I just love
Speaker 3: going to new garden centers, even ones I've been to,
Speaker 3: because you know, every time the seasons change, the things
Speaker 3: that are in the garden center changes. I like going
Speaker 3: I going to Ace Hardner shows all the time because
Speaker 3: each one's independently owned and so you know, you never know,
Speaker 3: I mean you don't, you know, go into one that
Speaker 3: has a laser that cuts that etches cutting boarders. You know,
Speaker 3: you may go into one that has a fudge bar
Speaker 3: or whatever. It just makes it fun. I enjoy doing
Speaker 3: that and I love, especially in the garden centers, to
Speaker 3: see the changes through the seasons and kind of always
Speaker 3: new plants. Listen so many plants, so little time. My
Speaker 3: goal here on guard Line is to help you have success.
Speaker 3: I want you to feel like gardening is fun and
Speaker 3: you can do it, and the Wheel want to guide
Speaker 3: you in that and advising and diagnosing and assisting in
Speaker 3: any way we can. And that's why we're here. Here's
Speaker 3: the phone number seven one three two one two k
Speaker 3: t r H if you want to call during break
Speaker 3: and be one of the first ones up to come back.
Speaker 1: A h Guarden Line with Skip Richard.
Speaker 13: It's just watching world.
Speaker 14: All right.
Speaker 3: I hope you're having a good Sunday morning so far,
Speaker 3: nice and peaceful and quiet. I love this early morning
Speaker 3: time and just I don't know, just want of the
Speaker 3: quiet times. Hear things in the house you never heard before,
Speaker 3: you know, the clicking of a clock that you never
Speaker 3: had really noticed, and until everything is real silent and quiet.
Speaker 3: It's kind of nice refrigerator kicking on. What's that noise?
Speaker 3: You know what? We you're listening to guardline. I'm talking
Speaker 3: on the guardline. We're talking about all the things that
Speaker 3: we need to know in order to have a beautiful landscape,
Speaker 3: bountiful garden. And that's kind of the goal here when
Speaker 3: it comes to having beautiful lawns, making sure trees stay healthy.
Speaker 3: You know, trees are so valuable and very important part
Speaker 3: of the landscape. That's why I like to send people
Speaker 3: to Martin spoon Moore an affordable tree because Martin knows
Speaker 3: what he's doing. He's been doing this a very long time,
Speaker 3: and he can come in. Maybe you need some printing done.
Speaker 3: You know, the next storm that comes through. And by
Speaker 3: the way, you don't have to have a hurricane to
Speaker 3: have a storm. The next storm that comes through, is
Speaker 3: your tree ready for it? Have you done all you can?
Speaker 3: You know, there's a storm that'll take down any tree
Speaker 3: no matter what, But why not make them as resilient
Speaker 3: and as strong as possible. Why not minimize the risk?
Speaker 3: And Martin can do that. He can help advise you
Speaker 3: on what to do around the tree too. I see
Speaker 3: pictures all the time, a beautiful tree and they build
Speaker 3: a house around it and put a sidewalk over it
Speaker 3: and run trench besided for utilities, and I just think, Okay, well,
Speaker 3: I guess the next step is pay somebody to take
Speaker 3: it down and hallered away because it's going to die
Speaker 3: because they didn't do the things they need to do.
Speaker 3: Martin knows how to take care of trees. So go
Speaker 3: to Affordable Tree. You can go aff tree Service dot com,
Speaker 3: aff tree Service dot com, or give them a call
Speaker 3: at seven one three six nine nine twenty six sixty three.
Speaker 3: Seven one three six nine twenty six sixty three. Listen,
Speaker 3: just because someone owns a chainsaw and a pickup does
Speaker 3: not mean they need to touch your trees. You need
Speaker 3: somebody that knows what they're talking about. It always breaks
Speaker 3: my heart to see damage that's been done, and now
Speaker 3: what do we do? How do we fix it? So
Speaker 3: much you can do ahead of time, so little that
Speaker 3: can be done after the damage has already been done.
Speaker 3: I was talking with a neighbor the other day that
Speaker 3: had a drainage system issue in the backyard. And when
Speaker 3: you when you have areas that are low and you
Speaker 3: have soil that is clay. When you have features in
Speaker 3: the landscape that take water and move it to another area,
Speaker 3: like your roof, your roof gutters like a hardescape, the
Speaker 3: water washes off. I've suddenly you got areas that are
Speaker 3: really poorly drained, and pierscapes can fix that. I talk
Speaker 3: about pier scapes all the time, but they can fix
Speaker 3: those drainage areas. We're about to get into the fall season.
Speaker 3: It'd be a good time to give them a call. It's
Speaker 3: time for planting. What kind of beds do you want
Speaker 3: to put in? What kind of designing do you want?
Speaker 3: Do you is your irrigation system still working? Okay, so
Speaker 3: they need to be checked over. Do you need somebody
Speaker 3: to come through quarterly, quarterly, every quarter and revamp your beds.
Speaker 3: I'm talking about trimming them, weeding them, fertilizing them, making
Speaker 3: sure irrigation is working, putting the mulch down seasonally, as
Speaker 3: how many times a year you select to do. Doing
Speaker 3: a color change. You know, we've got a lot of
Speaker 3: summer plants now, but there's a freezer for us coming
Speaker 3: and at some point we got to switch to another
Speaker 3: one or color changes Piercecapes can do that. They can
Speaker 3: do that too if you want to go all out.
Speaker 3: How about a beautiful outdoor for our place? Oh when
Speaker 3: a crisp, cool nights get here? Can you imagine how
Speaker 3: nice that would be. Peercecapes knows how to do it.
Speaker 3: Here's the phone number two eight one three seven oh
Speaker 3: fifty sixty. Or just go to the website Peerscapes dot
Speaker 3: com and see the kind of work that they can do.
Speaker 3: You are listening to Guardline our phone number seven one
Speaker 3: three two one two ktrh. How can we help you
Speaker 3: have a more bountiful garden and a more beautiful landscape?
Speaker 3: That is what we like to do.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 3: You know the the uh the folks at it Enchanted
Speaker 3: Gardens which is on the Katie Fullshire side of Richmond
Speaker 3: and Chanty Gardens. It's on FM three fifty nine for
Speaker 3: those of you who know that area three fifty nine.
Speaker 3: Just if you're in Richmond heading north toward Katie fullsher
Speaker 3: direction FM three fifty nine in Chanty Gardens. Here's the
Speaker 3: website Enchanted Gardens, Richmond. Have you never been? You got
Speaker 3: to go see the place because it is gorgeous. Everything
Speaker 3: you need are you getting ready for fall, maybe some
Speaker 3: fall decorations, fall plantings, but also you know with the
Speaker 3: Halloween and Thanksgiving and holidays coming up, all kinds of
Speaker 3: things to decorate your landscape and your home. When it
Speaker 3: comes to plants, if you want combination planters, maybe something
Speaker 3: combined into a beautiful basket of beautiful wire basket planting,
Speaker 3: they can do all of that. Their selection of plants
Speaker 3: and trees and their knowledge of this area is unmatched.
Speaker 3: I mean, they really really do a good job. Fallows
Speaker 3: a time for vegetables and roses, and also for herbs.
Speaker 3: Follows a time to plant your roses. If you need
Speaker 3: antique or hybrid, they've got them there, specimen types of trees,
Speaker 3: and then the products that you need to go with them.
Speaker 3: They know also brownze stuff before green stuff, so microlife,
Speaker 3: Nature's Way, nitrofoss, Nelson plant food, heirloom soils, landscapers, pride,
Speaker 3: medina and other things that I recommend here on garden
Speaker 3: Line are all there and enchanted gardens. If I'm three
Speaker 3: point fifty nine on the Katie Folsher side of Richmond.
Speaker 3: They are open today by the way, ten am to
Speaker 3: four pm. So this afternoon be a good time to
Speaker 3: get out there. Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. I am
Speaker 3: going to head to Southwest Houston now and we're going
Speaker 3: to talk to Carolyn. Hello, Carolyn, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 10: Thank you. My Chinese broccoli is still making the one
Speaker 10: that I planted in the spring. Can I nurse that
Speaker 10: through for the fall? Or do I need to replant?
Speaker 3: You don't need to replant. Just keep taking care of it.
Speaker 3: I've got some old leaves further down the stems, you know,
Speaker 3: that are showing some leaf spots or any kind of thing.
Speaker 3: Just go ahead and take those off. Get all that
Speaker 3: out of there so you don't spread the any diseases.
Speaker 3: Going forward to kind of a sanitary measure, you know,
Speaker 3: like cleaning house, getting all the junk and yeah, fertilize
Speaker 3: and water and when it cools off, it's going to
Speaker 3: get real happy and the flavor gets a little bit
Speaker 3: better too, when it gets crisp and cool.
Speaker 10: Do I need to fertilize or the gain.
Speaker 3: When was the last time you fertilized it?
Speaker 10: When I planted it? Oh, I have the grow boxes
Speaker 10: and I come with with fertilizer in them.
Speaker 3: Okay, you have one of the boxes where you put
Speaker 3: the liquid down in the bottom and then it works. Okay, yeah, right, Well,
Speaker 3: I mean if they've got fertilizer in it, that's fine.
Speaker 3: I don't know a lot of times they'll put a
Speaker 3: slow release into that soil mix in the grow box,
Speaker 3: but that's.
Speaker 10: Only it's good for four.
Speaker 3: Months, yeah, three to four months. And as in our
Speaker 3: climate where it's hot, things move a little bit faster,
Speaker 3: you know, decomposition goes faster and other things because of
Speaker 3: our warm weather. But so I would I would do
Speaker 3: that again, you got a couple of.
Speaker 10: Ecs, Okay, I have some of the happy frogs, so
Speaker 10: that put some of that on it.
Speaker 3: Is that a fertilizer or a soil you're talking about
Speaker 3: from them?
Speaker 10: Now, that's the fertilizer.
Speaker 3: I would that's what you have. Okay, yeah, use what
Speaker 3: you have one, But in general, I would probably direct
Speaker 3: you to a different kind of fertilizer, especially if you're
Speaker 3: looking at something to give you a good long release
Speaker 3: and that's got a good blend of nutrients and stuff. There.
Speaker 3: There's we have a number of good products that I
Speaker 3: talk about here on guard line. But all right, hey, Carolyn,
Speaker 3: I have got to go to a break. They are
Speaker 3: telling me to cut my mic off here. So I'll
Speaker 3: wish you will and thank you for the call. You bet,
Speaker 3: when we come back from break, we will take your
Speaker 3: call at seven one three two one two fifty eight
Speaker 3: seventy four. Do you have well, give me a call
Speaker 3: seven one three two one two five eight seven four
Speaker 3: seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four.
Speaker 3: When it comes to preparing your soil, landscapers pride folks,
Speaker 3: they have got you covered. They have a number of
Speaker 3: different products, many different products to build soil to make
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Speaker 3: Also for mulchs to go on the surface, you always
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Speaker 3: to Garden Line. If you like to give us a
Speaker 3: call kind of quiet on the phones this morning, uh
Speaker 3: seven one three to KTRH. We'll be happy to visit
Speaker 3: with you, answer your questions. Otherwise, I'm just going to
Speaker 3: be talking about the things that I think are important.
Speaker 3: And really, you know when I do that, what I'm
Speaker 3: doing is I'm addressing the questions I get during the week,
Speaker 3: the questions I get seasonally every year, at whatever time
Speaker 3: it is. There's a cycle. There have been doing this
Speaker 3: thirty five years, actually thirty six now, and so I've
Speaker 3: kind of gotten used to the common questions. But you know,
Speaker 3: the fun thing is there's always something new. There's always
Speaker 3: some other thing that I hadn't heard of it before.
Speaker 3: Some new plant now, everybody's got to have it, that
Speaker 3: kind of thing. If you have not fertilized your lawn
Speaker 3: this summer, you can still do a Nitropos Superturf application.
Speaker 3: Superturf is a gradual release fertilizer releases over time. It's
Speaker 3: the silver bag, the silver bag from Nitrofoss. So you're
Speaker 3: going to find Nitropas super Turf at a lot of
Speaker 3: different places. You go to d and De Feed up
Speaker 3: in Tumball and they're going to it there. You go
Speaker 3: down to Angleton on Velasco at Lake Hardware and Angleton
Speaker 3: they're going to have it there. Go to Baytown Fisher's
Speaker 3: Hardware on Alexander, they're going to have Nitroposs super turf
Speaker 3: there as well. Excuse me. Someone was talking to me
Speaker 3: the other day about returning grass clippings and just they
Speaker 3: were kind of looking at it as if it were
Speaker 3: like a controversy, you know, should you return grass clippings
Speaker 3: or not? And there is no controversy. Nature returns grass clippings, right.
Speaker 3: Have you ever seen if I have a T shirt
Speaker 3: that I had designed, it's got Holstein cows and they're
Speaker 3: mowing a meadow and putting the bags of clippings out
Speaker 3: at the roadside. So nature recycles naturally. Yes, you can
Speaker 3: return them now if you don't mow for a while
Speaker 3: and it gets you real tall, if it gets wet,
Speaker 3: maybe the rain has kept you from mowing. There are
Speaker 3: times when you don't want to leave your long looking
Speaker 3: like a hayfield, and you pick them up. I do
Speaker 3: that but I use them as small in the garden beds,
Speaker 3: just a light coating of malts over the beds, use
Speaker 3: them in a compost pile, whatever, But in general, more
Speaker 3: regularly and with a multi more and return the clippings.
Speaker 3: Do you know here's a fun fact. You need to
Speaker 3: listen to this one. If you were to take all
Speaker 3: the clippings that you produce in your lawn for the
Speaker 3: whole year and send them to a lab and say,
Speaker 3: I want you to tell me how many pounds of
Speaker 3: nitrogen phosphorsym potassium there are in these, it would be
Speaker 3: more fertilizer than you fertilize. If you follow the full
Speaker 3: schedule fertilizing all the times that are on the schedule,
Speaker 3: your lawn more puts out more nutrients than your fertilizer
Speaker 3: sprouder does. Does that mean you don't need to fertilize, No,
Speaker 3: of course not. It just means if you bag your
Speaker 3: clippings now you have to fertilize even more because you're
Speaker 3: taking nature's perfect slow release fertilizer, which is a grass clipping.
Speaker 3: This is going to decompose and not just give you
Speaker 3: nitrogen phosphorsympth tasting. It's going to give you all the micros,
Speaker 3: because remember I said they were essential. It takes micros
Speaker 3: to build a grass plant. So when you hold up
Speaker 3: in your hand a clipping, let's say you have a
Speaker 3: Saint Augustine clipping. In that clipping, there's manganese and there's boron,
Speaker 3: and there's all the micros as well as the macros
Speaker 3: that are needed in order to have successfully grow a clipping.
Speaker 3: So here's the decision. Your lawn needs mowing this afternoon.
Speaker 3: Let's say, okay, you're going to do that. Where the
Speaker 3: where is all the organic matter and free already purchased
Speaker 3: nutrients going to go in a bag to pay somebody
Speaker 3: to haul them off to hold the ground somewhere or
Speaker 3: is it going to go back into your landscape? That
Speaker 3: makes sense, follow the way nature does it. And you
Speaker 3: should return your clipping. And if you don't, be ready
Speaker 3: to fertilize a little bit more. And I understand there's
Speaker 3: times when we don't. I understand that. Another time when
Speaker 3: you don't return the clippings is when you have a
Speaker 3: whole bunch of weeds that have gone on to seed,
Speaker 3: bag those up and get them out of there. Don't
Speaker 3: return the weed seeds back in. But in general return
Speaker 3: the clippings makes sense. We call that don't bag it? Well,
Speaker 3: you're listening to garden line. The number seven one three, two,
Speaker 3: one two five eight seven four seven one three two
Speaker 3: one two fifty eight seventy four. Warrens and Kingwood Garden
Speaker 3: Center are both out there in Kingwood. So you guys
Speaker 3: are really fortunate to have two great garden centers that
Speaker 3: you can visit out in the Kingwood area. Kingwood Garden
Speaker 3: Centers over there on Stone Hollow, Stone Hollow, Warrens Gardens.
Speaker 3: I bet you've been to Warrens. I probably don't even
Speaker 3: need to tell you this, and be probably into both
Speaker 3: of them, but Warrens is on North Park Drive. Both
Speaker 3: of them have an outstanding selection of everything you need
Speaker 3: for success. Do you need fertilizers? Do you need soil?
Speaker 3: Do you need great plants of all kinds? I'm talking
Speaker 3: about shade plants, sun plants, native plants, ornamental trees and shrubs, vegetables, herbs,
Speaker 3: just on and on tropicals. There's another one. Do you
Speaker 3: need a good fertilized genie succulents? Do you need containers?
Speaker 3: Their statuary, their pottery collection is beautiful and then vines,
Speaker 3: you know, ornamental grasses, blooming vines, groundcovers. They've got it
Speaker 3: all and it always looks good out there. They're always
Speaker 3: doing an excellent job when it comes to bringing in
Speaker 3: quality stuff and then advising you properly on that you
Speaker 3: can take your problem question in there and they can
Speaker 3: help you with it. They're happy to do that. They've
Speaker 3: got some great sales going on right now, what we
Speaker 3: call the yellow dot sales. You put a big yellow
Speaker 3: dot on the on the container and you can pick
Speaker 3: up some really nice plants that they have on a
Speaker 3: special going on out there. So take advantage of that.
Speaker 3: Don't let this, don't let this slip by. If you
Speaker 3: haven't been to Warren Southern Gardens, get out there and
Speaker 3: enjoy yourself because it is fun. I've been in there
Speaker 3: more than once with my wife. She loves shopping in there.
Speaker 3: Warren Southern Gardens. Going to go now to the phones
Speaker 3: and we're gonna go back to Northwest Houston. Talk to Ralph. Hey, Ralph,
Speaker 3: what's up?
Speaker 7: Dime back again? Oh my Gordon, Mark Berthable, Gordon. It
Speaker 7: didn't do nothing this year last year, and it was
Speaker 7: always a great produce. And it's just everything was bad.
Speaker 7: But what am I missing?
Speaker 3: You got a lot of sunlight on that spot?
Speaker 10: Oh?
Speaker 7: I got not a lot, but yeah, I got it's
Speaker 7: pretty open.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, well if you kind of look at it.
Speaker 3: I've done this before. But I'll go out to a
Speaker 3: spot in my yard where I'm thinking about putting in
Speaker 3: a garden. I'll take a picture of it at nine
Speaker 3: in the morning, and at eleven in the morning, and
Speaker 3: at one pm, and and just see how many hours
Speaker 3: of sun is on that spot. You for a garden,
Speaker 3: you need at least six to have good success.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: And so that that could be one thing. Good quality
Speaker 3: soil with compost added to loosen it up. That's enough.
Speaker 3: So those are a couple of typical.
Speaker 7: I'm really old and I've had this a long time,
Speaker 7: and I try to yeh finished the soil. What is
Speaker 7: the best thing to do?
Speaker 3: Well? Sometimes it's you know, it's when when you know,
Speaker 3: just the physical work of getting out there and mixing
Speaker 3: soil and stuff that'll wearry you out.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: And if if you can get somebody to come in
Speaker 3: and help, you know, with maybe doing a rotorteling, I
Speaker 3: would get a good quality compost.
Speaker 14: Uh.
Speaker 3: You were up in the north west Houston area. You
Speaker 3: have access to some wonderful groceries out there. But get
Speaker 3: you a good some bags of compost material and mix
Speaker 3: it into the soil. Where do you like to shop
Speaker 3: up there?
Speaker 7: I go with all you Gordon, show all of it.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, okay, Well they all work quality. They have
Speaker 3: good quality soul mixes that you can put in. I
Speaker 3: would put a little bit of a compost or a
Speaker 3: bed mix, and I'd mix it into the soil. I'd
Speaker 3: do that sooner rather than later. And so when you
Speaker 3: go to plant, it's already ready to go. But you
Speaker 3: certainly could do that.
Speaker 7: That would be this many years. Is that's what calls
Speaker 7: it is. I've been not adding allay a lot, but
Speaker 7: I haven't added so.
Speaker 15: Well.
Speaker 3: I don't have the crystal ball to know exactly your
Speaker 3: house what all is happening, but I can tell you
Speaker 3: over the years, that little tree gets to be a
Speaker 3: big tree. And so we have mar shade. Over the years,
Speaker 3: even a couple of years, the organic matter that was
Speaker 3: in the soil decomposes away. Our our natural native organic
Speaker 3: matter levels are very low here because we have a long, warm,
Speaker 3: moist brewing season.
Speaker 16: And so.
Speaker 7: Okay, yeah, it's my grass. Yeah, I have the wrong
Speaker 7: runners going over it. But he won't go into this
Speaker 7: certain big two big patches of grass.
Speaker 17: What what can I do?
Speaker 3: Are they crossing over it and they're not rooting down
Speaker 3: or they won't even crawl over.
Speaker 7: That, they're not rooting down? And but I have grass
Speaker 7: fast you ever placed, but not there. It's a big
Speaker 7: two long runners of.
Speaker 3: Ralph. Do you use pre emergent herbicides to prevent weed
Speaker 3: seeds from coming up in that area?
Speaker 10: No? I don't.
Speaker 3: Okay, well in this case, that that eliminates one of
Speaker 3: the causes of them not pegging down. Gosh, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I would Uh, you know, you got a little spade
Speaker 3: and park where you could just kind of stand on
Speaker 3: it and wiggle it down into the soil a little
Speaker 3: bit and then pull it back up out. I'm not
Speaker 3: talking about spinning over and spading the soil. I mean
Speaker 3: just you wiggle the times into the ground and pull
Speaker 3: back kind of crack that soil up in a little bit.
Speaker 3: I would do that, and then I would add a
Speaker 3: little bit of compost leaf mold, compost top dressing, and
Speaker 3: you're gonna be able to find a lot of different places.
Speaker 7: I think the compost is probably my answer. We go
Speaker 7: the soul just don't look right there, Okay, Okay.
Speaker 3: Hey Ralph, I'm gonna have to run to a break,
Speaker 3: but try. I still would try that spading fork with
Speaker 3: a little leaf bow compost on top. And I think
Speaker 3: if you do that two or three times over the
Speaker 3: next year, I believe you can get that where it'll
Speaker 3: grow stuff better. Thanks a lot for your call, sir.
Speaker 3: When we come back Ron in Cleveland, you'll be our
Speaker 3: first up. Right now, we're gonna take a low break.
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Speaker 3: Welcome back, Welcome back to garden Line. Good to have
Speaker 3: you with us. What are we gonna talk about today? Well,
Speaker 3: let's find out from Ron out in Cleveland. Hey, Ron,
Speaker 3: welcome to guarden Line.
Speaker 2: Moren skip.
Speaker 23: Hey, I got a question. I got my bermuda grass
Speaker 23: is really starting to come in pretty good. But I
Speaker 23: get these all different kinds of weeds, and I don't
Speaker 23: know how to identify them. Like I know Virginia button
Speaker 23: weed aka a covid weed, but uh, I know spurge,
Speaker 23: and but I get these other weeds and I don't
Speaker 23: know if they're crab grass or basket grass. Is there
Speaker 23: a how do I identify these weeds so I know
Speaker 23: I'm putting down the right stuff?
Speaker 3: Well, uh, you got a couple of approaches out there.
Speaker 3: One of them is you're in the Cleveland area not
Speaker 3: too far away from Kingwood. You can go over to
Speaker 3: Warren Southern Gardens. Take your weeds and little bags and
Speaker 3: show show them see how many of them they can identify.
Speaker 3: You can if you got some that are right now
Speaker 3: in the lawn, if you want to take some pictures
Speaker 3: of them, you can email them to me and I'll
Speaker 3: take a look. I'm not gonna be able to give
Speaker 3: a very elaborated do this for this and that for
Speaker 3: that and all the whole thing, but I'll take a
Speaker 3: look and go, Okay, you know, maybe on the on
Speaker 3: the photos, say just put them as a number like one, two, three, four,
Speaker 3: and that way I can go photos number one, three
Speaker 3: and five. You know, here's what you got.
Speaker 2: And I'll.
Speaker 23: I wasn't sure if you had a website like you
Speaker 23: had the Create Myrtles deal, if there was a website
Speaker 23: or something that could go to.
Speaker 2: But I guess you.
Speaker 3: Actually no, actually there is. Uh do you have a penhandy?
Speaker 14: No?
Speaker 3: I don't, but I'll okay, Well, I'm gonna okay. It's simple.
Speaker 3: It's Aggie turf. Oh Haggy turf is one word and
Speaker 3: and the rest of the website is dot tamo dot
Speaker 3: e d u t a m U for text a
Speaker 3: m But Aggie turf on the front page. Down at
Speaker 3: the lower left, it's turf grass weeds, And if you
Speaker 3: click on that there's pictures of a whole lot of
Speaker 3: common weeds. Now they don't tell you in that spot
Speaker 3: what to do about them, but they tell you what
Speaker 3: the weed is.
Speaker 2: All right, that's what I'm looking for. I know you
Speaker 2: got it.
Speaker 3: I have a good well you you two, Thank you
Speaker 3: very much. I always try to have the answer, or
Speaker 3: at least make up something that sounds plausible. Now really,
Speaker 3: oh gosh, yep, yeah, yeah, Well, weeds are They're just
Speaker 3: part of gardening. You know, if you think about it
Speaker 3: from a gardener's standpoint, we see plants, good guys, weeds
Speaker 3: bad guys. Kind of like the old Western movies, you know,
Speaker 3: where the bad guys wore black cowboy hats and the
Speaker 3: good guys wore white cowboy hats and they shot each
Speaker 3: other from behind the rocks up in that box canyon,
Speaker 3: that kind of thing. Well, our weeds don't wear hats,
Speaker 3: but we have assigned them the bad guy status. But
Speaker 3: in reality, a weed is just a plant growing out
Speaker 3: of place. And whenever the soil gets bare, nature covers
Speaker 3: it with plants, and those we call weeds to us
Speaker 3: because nature knows you've got to protect the soil. And
Speaker 3: I like to put it this way. Wherever sunlight hits
Speaker 3: the soil, nature plants a weed. Okay, so weed, a
Speaker 3: corn plant growing in a Saint Augustine law is a
Speaker 3: weed as corn a weed? Well, it depends on where
Speaker 3: it's growing. Do you see what I'm saying. So whenever
Speaker 3: we approach things, I like to just take a step
Speaker 3: back and not look at everything having to have a
Speaker 3: spray solution. We have a lot of spray solutions, and
Speaker 3: there's times so we need to use them. But if
Speaker 3: you start with low water, fertilize and make a dense lawn,
Speaker 3: you have less weeds. If sunlight cannot hit the soil,
Speaker 3: a huge portion of the potential weeds will be taken
Speaker 3: out of the picture. Not all Virginia button weed can
Speaker 3: grow in dense Saint Augustine. Dollar weed can grow in
Speaker 3: dense Saint Augustine, But I'm talking about the majority of things.
Speaker 3: If your long gets thin, you are going to learn
Speaker 3: a lot about weeds because wherever sunlight hits the soil,
Speaker 3: nature will plant one. And so just think of it
Speaker 3: from a cultural standpoint in our flower beds. Mulching. Put
Speaker 3: a mulch down so that sunlight can't hit the soil.
Speaker 3: That's one of the many benefits of mulch. Makes it
Speaker 3: just makes sense.
Speaker 2: You know, I.
Speaker 3: Talk about Ace Hardware stores all the time, but there's
Speaker 3: forty of them here in the Greater Houston area. You
Speaker 3: can go to the website Acehardware dot Com find the
Speaker 3: ones near you. Makes it easy. And right now we're
Speaker 3: in the last day of the grand reopening of the
Speaker 3: Langham Creek Ace Hardware those of you in Northwest Houston
Speaker 3: Copperfield area, we're talking about intersection of bark Barker Cypress
Speaker 3: in FM five twenty nine. That's where Langham Creek Ace hardwrisk.
Speaker 3: Today they're giving away a painter room makeover US two
Speaker 3: hundred dollars value. They're drawing for it, so you got
Speaker 3: to go buy and register. And they're doing demos on
Speaker 3: their trigger grills today. But they have a lot of
Speaker 3: other stuff going on out there. They you know, a
Speaker 3: lot of vendor demonstrations, a lot of fun activities and things.
Speaker 3: But you got to go buy. Stop in, say hi,
Speaker 3: how you guys doing. Heard about your on guard line
Speaker 3: and just see what all is going on. It's a
Speaker 3: really nice little revamp that they've done out there at
Speaker 3: the Ace Hardware on at Langham Creek, Langham Creek Ace Hardware.
Speaker 3: You are listening to Guarden Line, and we're here to
Speaker 3: help you have a more bountiful garden. We'd like to
Speaker 3: have a more beautiful landscape, just with some basic tips
Speaker 3: for success. That is important to be able to provide
Speaker 3: those those basic things that plants need, sunlight, drainage, soil,
Speaker 3: starting with good plants. You know, it's hard to make
Speaker 3: absolute statements in nature because nature is not a black
Speaker 3: and white thing. At Nature has a lot of gray
Speaker 3: areas as one thing goes to another. But I think
Speaker 3: that your and my approach to gardening, whether you are
Speaker 3: synthetic or organic or whatever, should always be to start
Speaker 3: with avoiding problems. That would mean building up good soil.
Speaker 3: That would mean choosing plants that are adapted to hear
Speaker 3: in some cases, choosing plants that are resistant to problems.
Speaker 3: Here and as we start there and build good soil
Speaker 3: and so on, mults from all that stuff I've been
Speaker 3: talking about, you avoid a lot of the problems and
Speaker 3: so we don't even have to have the question of
Speaker 3: what do I do for filling the blank insect or
Speaker 3: disease or whatever or wet we can avoid it, and
Speaker 3: we always want to try to start it that way.
Speaker 3: That's why you hear me talk about things like cororating
Speaker 3: the lawn and compass top dressing the lawn, and building
Speaker 3: density through mol watering and fertilizing in a lawn. Those
Speaker 3: are all steps to create beauty by avoiding problems. SAME's
Speaker 3: true in flower beds and vegetable gardens and herb gardens
Speaker 3: and whatnot. As gardeners, we're always trying to grow something
Speaker 3: that probably doesn't want to grow there. You know, I
Speaker 3: don't know how many little unsuspecting blue spruce trees get
Speaker 3: hauled out of Colorado every year when Texans come back
Speaker 3: from vacation. But they don't belong here and they're not
Speaker 3: going to grow here. We always try to do that.
Speaker 3: But the more you can focus on things that want
Speaker 3: to grow here, the better. And of course native plants
Speaker 3: or the ultimate in that, I mean native pants are
Speaker 3: if they're native from this area, they're from here, so
Speaker 3: they do very very well, easy, easy to grow those
Speaker 3: Nelson plant food, you know, has they're the ones where
Speaker 3: we get things like the Slow and Easy, the summer
Speaker 3: long fertilization of Slow and Easy, and Bruce's Brew that
Speaker 3: you can do anytime of the year. It's going to
Speaker 3: give you a lot of quick green up and it
Speaker 3: does have some slow release components in it as well.
Speaker 3: But I want to talk a little about about the jars,
Speaker 3: the Nutri Star and the color Star. Color Star then
Speaker 3: it's the best name for a product because if it
Speaker 3: does it have color, yes, it is color Star. There's
Speaker 3: a good answer. It makes it that easy. But also
Speaker 3: the Nutri Star line. The Tree and Shrub is part
Speaker 3: of the Nutri Star line. And if you've got a plant,
Speaker 3: a tree or shrub and it's been planted in your
Speaker 3: first five years, you need to be using that on
Speaker 3: a regular basis to keep it growing. And there are
Speaker 3: many many other products. There's tropical products, there's blooming products,
Speaker 3: there's indoorhouse plant products, all in the Nutri Star line.
Speaker 3: And when you get those jugs, you can refill them.
Speaker 3: There's a dozen areas in Greater Houston where you can
Speaker 3: go and refill your plastic jars. It becomes more economical
Speaker 3: when you do that, and you don't throw away all
Speaker 3: the plastic, which we are already know. We got plenty
Speaker 3: of issues with all the stuff we discard that didn't
Speaker 3: want to break down really fast. All right, it was
Speaker 3: time for me take another break. I am going to
Speaker 3: be back here for our last segment this hour, and
Speaker 3: then we have a special guest to lead off in
Speaker 3: the eight o'clock hour. We're going to be talking about
Speaker 3: dirt stuff. Okay, just hang around sure, and we're here
Speaker 3: to answer your gardening questions. Help you have a more beautiful,
Speaker 3: beautiful garden and a more bountiful garden as well as
Speaker 3: well as a beautiful escape. Our phone number is seven
Speaker 3: to one three two one two KTRH seven to one
Speaker 3: three two to one two kt r H. I was
Speaker 3: visiting Southwest Fertilizer the other day, visiting with Aaron and
Speaker 3: some of the team there, uh and just I had
Speaker 3: some things I needed to pick up, and you know,
Speaker 3: I know when you go in there, it's always it
Speaker 3: always takes me a while because I have to go
Speaker 3: up and down the aiss and look at what's new.
Speaker 3: Try to stay up to date on what's going on
Speaker 3: in the market, because there's always new products and changes
Speaker 3: in products and things and you can know that Southwest
Speaker 3: Fertilizer is always going to have the latest stuff as
Speaker 3: well as stuff that's long proven that you've used for years.
Speaker 3: They still keep it around there as well. So think
Speaker 3: of it this way. If Southwest Fertilizer does not have it,
Speaker 3: you don't need it. And that is pretty much black
Speaker 3: and white true right there, because they have it all.
Speaker 3: They have it all. Eighty foot wall of tools, eighty
Speaker 3: feet of tools. I was looking. Oh, by the way,
Speaker 3: you know I made that weed wiper. If you haven't
Speaker 3: seen the little weed wiper that I designed, or I
Speaker 3: mean it designed as a fancy word for it, but uh,
Speaker 3: go to my website gardening with Skip dot com. Gardening
Speaker 3: with Skip dot com. You'll see the weed wiper and
Speaker 3: you'll see the products that you use on it to
Speaker 3: wipe on whatever kind of weed you have. Do you
Speaker 3: have poison ivy that's a certain product. Do you have
Speaker 3: grassyweeds that's a different product. Do you have sedges like
Speaker 3: nutsedge that's a different product. Anyway, that's how that works.
Speaker 3: It's all free, it's all online. You can see it.
Speaker 3: Bob's got those little suction cup devices grabber tools that
Speaker 3: you use to build your weed wiper, and it makes
Speaker 3: it so easy, makes it very very easy for all
Speaker 3: to do it yourself. Or you can figure this one out.
Speaker 3: You probably even design a version of it that's better
Speaker 3: than what I got up there. But that's just an
Speaker 3: example of what I mean when I say Southwest Fertilizer
Speaker 3: has everything they've been around since nineteen fifty five. Corner
Speaker 3: of Bissinet and Renwick. Southwest Fertilizer dot com and for
Speaker 3: a phone number seven to one three six sixty six
Speaker 3: seven four. That makes it real easy. Anyway, I was
Speaker 3: in there doing some shopping. I picked up some things.
Speaker 3: I am in a ongoing battle to learn about nuts Edge,
Speaker 3: to find the kinks in its armor and to go
Speaker 3: after those, and that's a lot of the information I've
Speaker 3: put up is about that. But i have a number
Speaker 3: of places in the yard where I've got a little
Speaker 3: bit Nutsedge going and I'm working with it. So I'm
Speaker 3: in a little xeon zois a lawn and Nutsedge sticks
Speaker 3: it set up above the fine textured xeon and shows
Speaker 3: up really well better than i'd like it too. So
Speaker 3: I'm looking at controlling it there. I'm looking at controlling
Speaker 3: it in flower beds and always trying something different. That's
Speaker 3: why I came up with that weed wiper device that
Speaker 3: works really well in certain situations. Not for everything, but
Speaker 3: certain situations works really well. Well, you're listening to Garden
Speaker 3: Line've got time for a call here. In fact, I
Speaker 3: see one coming in there and take that in just
Speaker 3: a second. When was the last time you went to
Speaker 3: Nelson Water Garden and Nursery out in Katie, Texas. Now,
Speaker 3: if you haven't been before, that's a great idea for
Speaker 3: this afternoon, run out there and check out Nelson's Nursery
Speaker 3: and water gardens. You know, they've been long known nationally
Speaker 3: known for the water gardens they created. They invented that
Speaker 3: disappearing fountain where you know it runs down the side
Speaker 3: of a big beautiful pottery piece in the garden and
Speaker 3: just recycles up through the pottery piece.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 3: They created that. They can build water gardens, waterfalls. They
Speaker 3: can help you if you want advice and the products
Speaker 3: you need to put together to make a disappearing fountain
Speaker 3: or something. They can do that too. But they're also
Speaker 3: a garden center. You know, Nelson's Water Garden and Nursery
Speaker 3: has an excellent selection of plants, they really do. It's
Speaker 3: they have out outstanding stuff. I always like to go
Speaker 3: ahead and visit. I'm always surprised, you know. I always
Speaker 3: find that it's like, oh, I didn't know you guys
Speaker 3: carried that too. And I think they're expanding a little bit.
Speaker 3: But right now they have an end of summer sale.
Speaker 3: Three gallon roses, fifteen bucks, pothus ieties four inch and
Speaker 3: six inch pots, magnolia trees hibiscus the tree form of
Speaker 3: hibiscus and the standard form fruit trees, not citrus, but
Speaker 3: other fruit trees. Twenty bucks, Citrus thirty five bucks. Crape
Speaker 3: myrtles three gallon twenty bucks. Do you see what I'm saying?
Speaker 3: A lot and lot while supplies last, So if you
Speaker 3: wait around, somebody's going to get it. But Nelson Water
Speaker 3: Garden and Nursery and Katie it is just north of Ien.
Speaker 3: You turn north on Katie Fortman Road and you're right there.
Speaker 3: It is your West Houston destination garden center. That I'll
Speaker 3: just make it like that. It's as simple. It's as
Speaker 3: simple as that, you're West Houston Destination and garden center.
Speaker 3: I keep trying to get you to take your friends
Speaker 3: and go out there. And just sit. I think I
Speaker 3: don't know if the folks at Nelson Water Garden and
Speaker 3: Nursery you're listening, but I think that they ought to
Speaker 3: have lawn chairs that you can rent up front and
Speaker 3: you just go back and sit in the shade underneath
Speaker 3: the trees to the water, and uh, you know, the
Speaker 3: first ten minutes is free. After that we're gonna you know,
Speaker 3: I think I think i'd pay it. When I sit
Speaker 3: and listen to the sound of moving water, it is
Speaker 3: so relaxing. I mean, it's just peaceful. The cares of
Speaker 3: the world go away when you go back into into
Speaker 3: that area of the Nelson Water Gardens at nursery. Well,
Speaker 3: we're running up to where the end of our time
Speaker 3: here on guarden line. For this hour, when we come back,
Speaker 3: we have a special guest. I'm going to focus on
Speaker 3: the details of why do I always say brown stuff
Speaker 3: before green stuff? And why do I always say you
Speaker 3: know it says mate. Some of you from probably from Texas,
Speaker 3: know the old phrase, hey, you got to make hay
Speaker 3: while the sun shines. Well there's also one that I
Speaker 3: just said, well you got to make garden beds while
Speaker 3: the sun shines. And now's the time to get that
Speaker 3: done too. We're going to talk about those kind of things,
Speaker 3: some of the aspects of soil and soil mixes and
Speaker 3: different things that to have success. So instead of just
Speaker 3: me telling your brown stuff before green stuff over and
Speaker 3: over and over again, we're going to dig in get
Speaker 3: a little bit nerdier on it as well. If you
Speaker 3: are planning on doing any kind of landscape or re
Speaker 3: innovations this fall, now would be the time to begin
Speaker 3: prep for that, and I would suggest something. You know,
Speaker 3: we're at the end of summer. This is typically about
Speaker 3: the worst our landscapes look all year when we get
Speaker 3: to the end of summer. Like, if you're going to
Speaker 3: have drought issues, this is when you see them. If
Speaker 3: you're going to lose plants, this is typically when the
Speaker 3: plants are struggling. Midwinter can be a little rough, but
Speaker 3: in general, this is a tough time. So drive up
Speaker 3: to your house and look at it from the road,
Speaker 3: just I mean, look at it like you don't live there.
Speaker 3: Look at it like what do I think about that?
Speaker 3: When I want to do that at my house? It
Speaker 3: is your house. But we're just playing a game here.
Speaker 3: What would be nice?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 3: Oh, I could use an evergreen over there, or I
Speaker 3: could use some color plants across here. That area is
Speaker 3: dark and shady, and it just sort of disappears into
Speaker 3: the landscape. What you're probably going to see is I
Speaker 3: see a sea of green, green grass, green ground covers,
Speaker 3: green shrubs, green trees. Where's my color? Those kind of
Speaker 3: questions then help you to think about what you want
Speaker 3: to do. There's going to be areas where you want
Speaker 3: to do some annual okay, annual applications like the cool
Speaker 3: season color and whatnot. Typically those cost more per square
Speaker 3: foot of ground because you're changing them out several times
Speaker 3: a year, so there is a cost there, whereas with
Speaker 3: the shrub you pay once and you have it pretty
Speaker 3: much for the rest of time. But what kind of
Speaker 3: color changes do you want? Do you want to Is
Speaker 3: there an area that's really hard to mow because you
Speaker 3: got a right angle? Maybe you could do a curved
Speaker 3: bed edge. Maybe you don't have a bed edge, and
Speaker 3: having a really nice set of stones or pavers going
Speaker 3: around a bed would be really attractive and set things apart.
Speaker 3: Do you see what I'm saying. That's the kind of
Speaker 3: questions that I think you ought to be asking this
Speaker 3: time of the year, and you got to look at
Speaker 3: it like it's not your house. I mean look at
Speaker 3: it like I like that. If I were going to
Speaker 3: buy this house, what would I want to be different
Speaker 3: that front and I opened the door. You don't have
Speaker 3: to do it all at once, step by step that
Speaker 3: by b we need to do it that way you
Speaker 3: do a turnkey all at once, or you can just
Speaker 3: enjoy getting it done a little other time. Maybe there's
Speaker 3: a rosebush that's not blooming, it's not in enough sunlight,
Speaker 3: the trees have gotten bigger over the years. Time to
Speaker 3: move it. This fall is the time you're going to
Speaker 3: do that. So think those thoughts now. Maybe there's some
Speaker 3: other opportunities for it, maybe like hummingbirds and see you
Speaker 3: know what I'd like some plants and bring in hunting birds. Well,
Speaker 3: the fall is coming, it's the prime planning season of
Speaker 3: the year. Now's going to be it thrall ready and
Speaker 3: now's the time to do that walk through assessment and
Speaker 3: see what you would like to change. At your point,
Speaker 3: I'll be right back.
Speaker 1: Welcome to KZRH guarded line with skimped richards.
Speaker 14: Just watch him as.
Speaker 3: All right, folks, Welcome back to guarden Line. Good to
Speaker 3: have you with us. We are looking forward to talking
Speaker 3: to you about your gardening questions. Right now, I'm going
Speaker 3: to do for about the next couple of segments here.
Speaker 3: I'm going to just do a kind of one on
Speaker 3: one visit about soil. Just hang around with us for
Speaker 3: the calls. We'll be taking them back again around eight thirty.
Speaker 3: So if you want to call and get online, don't
Speaker 3: mind waiting. Welcome to do that. So you're first up,
Speaker 3: but we're going to take a little time away from
Speaker 3: that phone for just a bit.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 3: I'm going to speak to mister Lewis tomorrow. Louise. You know,
Speaker 3: you guys have probably run into Luis if you've been
Speaker 3: about anywhere. He seems to be ubiquitous getting around. I
Speaker 3: see him in show Garden Center, there's all kinds of places.
Speaker 3: Luis is from heirloom soils. You hear me talk about
Speaker 3: airloin soils all the time. But I'm bringing Louis in
Speaker 3: here to discuss some specifics about why we do what
Speaker 3: we do this soil, how we do it right, some
Speaker 3: of the ingredients that are part of having success with soil,
Speaker 3: and the importance of a building soil at the time
Speaker 3: of the year. Luis, that was a long introduction, but
Speaker 3: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 2: Hey, thank you.
Speaker 5: I have been a trade shows lately and I've spoken
Speaker 5: to I don't know how many people, hundreds of people,
Speaker 5: so it's great to be with you today.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I know you really get into your soils
Speaker 3: and stuff. In fact, I would say there's probably if
Speaker 3: I could sneak up on you at the right time,
Speaker 3: I might find you making compost angels out there in
Speaker 3: the ground, you know, lay it on your back, just
Speaker 3: getting in touch with the microbes. Yes, sir, that was
Speaker 3: off the wall. Well, I wanted to bring you on.
Speaker 3: I've been telling folks that, you know, the time to
Speaker 3: get this already is now because fall is coming and
Speaker 3: we're not in control of when it rains or when
Speaker 3: it would be too wet. And it's also kind of important,
Speaker 3: isn't it, to get soil built up, so it has
Speaker 3: time to kind of settle in and mellow. You know,
Speaker 3: when you put in a new bed, it's going to
Speaker 3: settle a little bit. That's just inevitable. But now would
Speaker 3: be a good time to get ahead of it. So
Speaker 3: what are some thoughts you have about that?
Speaker 5: So One of the things that not many people look
Speaker 5: into is the weeds that are growing in their soils.
Speaker 2: The weeds are telling us a story. And if you.
Speaker 5: Research the wheat that's growing in your soil, whether it's
Speaker 5: a garden bed or a vegtabl better or the lawn,
Speaker 5: you're going to find that that wheat is growing because
Speaker 5: a lack of a nutrient has got too much mineral
Speaker 5: components in the soil, or it's compacted. The soil is compacted.
Speaker 5: So look at the weeds you have in your yard.
Speaker 5: You know, we have any of different products that are
Speaker 5: used to combat weeds, but see what they are and
Speaker 5: see what the research tells you, and based on that
Speaker 5: you can actually have a plan to better the soil. Right, So,
Speaker 5: one of the main components of improving that soil is
Speaker 5: using compost add in organic matter to the environment.
Speaker 3: M Yeah, compost, that's what nature does, right.
Speaker 2: Exactly.
Speaker 5: I mean, if we go back in time, we don't
Speaker 5: have fancy soil companies and fancy you know, brands of
Speaker 5: soil and fertilizers. Nature that it's saying and by itself,
Speaker 5: and everybody thrived with what nature you know, provided so
Speaker 5: at the at compost composing the number one component that
Speaker 5: you should be adding on a regular basis. And also
Speaker 5: look and see what happens to this old structure that
Speaker 5: it's available in your yard.
Speaker 2: You're you know your garden.
Speaker 3: Well, those are good points and you know you're coming
Speaker 3: about weeds and telling us about the soil. It also
Speaker 3: tells us about our water content. You know, things like
Speaker 3: grass burds can grow where it's a little drowdy, things
Speaker 3: like oh, Virginia button weed and and dollar weed. They
Speaker 3: love it when it's soggy, wet, and so there's there's
Speaker 3: also some clues about our proper or improper watering exactly.
Speaker 5: So for example, dandelions, uh, and when they grow, when
Speaker 5: you find them somewhere indicates a poor soil condition and
Speaker 5: loin casium and the and the soil is usually compacted.
Speaker 5: The dandelion is growing deep. The tap roots are doing
Speaker 5: their job, which is breaking up the soil, and they're
Speaker 5: looking to ariate and have more airflow. Right, so, if
Speaker 5: you follow the advice that you give everybody on a
Speaker 5: on a regular basis, areating the soil and breaking down
Speaker 5: the clay particles that bond with compost or with expanded
Speaker 5: shell because that's why you're dealing with expondential and compost.
Speaker 5: You're pretty much creating the eruption between those clay particles,
Speaker 5: and that's what's creating, you know, the pockets of the air.
Speaker 5: The more water retention, more and just more flow, better,
Speaker 5: better nutrient. How do I say this, more nutrients going
Speaker 5: through the soil and stay there because.
Speaker 3: Yeah, compaction, right, Yeah, it's it. I often describe the
Speaker 3: soil as a bank account of nutrients, you know, and
Speaker 3: so it's like if you want to take money out
Speaker 3: of the bank to buy something, you got to have
Speaker 3: money in the bank to do that, prettych and so
Speaker 3: with the soil, the more you build it up with
Speaker 3: everything a plant could need, then it's just available because plants,
Speaker 3: you know, a lot of times I think people think about, well,
Speaker 3: I'm going to I'm going to fertilize my soil and
Speaker 3: then that's just going to take care of it for
Speaker 3: a long, long, long time. And in reality, plants are
Speaker 3: eating a little bit every day, and so they need
Speaker 3: nutrients that are available three hundred and sixty five days
Speaker 3: of the year, you know, and maybe not applying it
Speaker 3: at one time then is going to work. You're gonna
Speaker 3: have to spread it out. But you're talking about putting
Speaker 3: compost in.
Speaker 24: Now.
Speaker 3: Compost contains everything that a plant needed to grow. And I, Louis,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna I'm on a soapbox here a little bit.
Speaker 3: But just bear if you'll bear with me. If you
Speaker 3: hold up a grass clipping and look at it, that
Speaker 3: grass clipping has every micro nutrient that is required for
Speaker 3: grass to live in it. And so when they when
Speaker 3: you compost that clipping or that fallen tree leaf or whatever,
Speaker 3: all those nutrients are there in the compost for the plants.
Speaker 3: So it composts. We don't think of it as a fertilizer,
Speaker 3: but it does provide nutrients like a fertilizer does, just
Speaker 3: in a little bit a lower dosage. So anyway that
Speaker 3: I'm trying to get people to recycle their organic materials.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, and that's that's all what you do. Think
Speaker 5: so is recycling that materials and you know, making a
Speaker 5: little compost pile. I know it's difficult to it at home,
Speaker 5: but when you do it on a large, you know,
Speaker 5: commercial scale scale that we do. We're we compost thousands
Speaker 5: of qvtors of product every year. You know, it's different
Speaker 5: because we have the space and the machinery, but also
Speaker 5: on that point which is really interesting, the feeding of
Speaker 5: the plant.
Speaker 10: Right.
Speaker 5: So a lot of people tend to plant tomatoes every
Speaker 5: single season in the same place, and cucumbers or broccoli
Speaker 5: or lettuce, right, and those are plants that are very
Speaker 5: heavy feeders. So a lot of times you tend to think, well,
Speaker 5: why why did my tomatoes produce it really well last
Speaker 5: last season and they're not.
Speaker 2: Really producing this season.
Speaker 5: Well, you're pretty much distracting everything you have of nutrient
Speaker 5: availability from that soil, right. So that's why you come
Speaker 5: into with compost or with a nice soil plant. And
Speaker 5: like you said in Houston, we are so lucky to
Speaker 5: have so many soil companies that make really good products,
Speaker 5: and there's a soil for just.
Speaker 2: At any application you can find in garden centers.
Speaker 3: That is that is so true. And I'm going to
Speaker 3: have to take a break here real quick for a commercial.
Speaker 3: We'll be back with Lewis tomorrow from Airloom Soils to
Speaker 3: continue our discussion of soils in just a moment. Folks,
Speaker 3: Flooding School. Okay, all right, welcome back to Guardline. Good
Speaker 3: to have you with us. We are visiting with Louise
Speaker 3: tomorrow from heirloom soils, and we're talking about so prep
Speaker 3: the components of good quality soil mix. Luise, we were
Speaker 3: discussing composts in general. But when you look across a
Speaker 3: line of products, you see a lot of different things,
Speaker 3: you know, Like I mean with you guys, you got
Speaker 3: the rose and bloomers blend, and then you've got cactus
Speaker 3: and succulent, and then you got veggie nerd mix and
Speaker 3: fruit and berry and citrus mix and so on. Uh,
Speaker 3: tell me a little bit about as you guys formulate
Speaker 3: a soil, what are some of the key components in
Speaker 3: addition to just the fact that there's some decomposed organic
Speaker 3: matter in there that that create these different products as
Speaker 3: you as you blend them. Hey, Louise, Uh, did you
Speaker 3: hear my question just now?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I heard the sod who is uh you know, the
Speaker 5: soil I call them the soil chat Uh. He uh
Speaker 5: formulated the soils and he used a lot of different products,
Speaker 5: a lot of different ingredients to make these soils.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 5: So the base is commonly more composed h pine mark
Speaker 5: and coca core fiber.
Speaker 2: We don't use any peoples.
Speaker 5: Their ingredients are based on the mineral component and mineral
Speaker 5: kind of usage of specific plants. Right, So we use
Speaker 5: products like basalt sand, which is a volcanic rock sand,
Speaker 5: granite sand, a torpedo sand. We also use some peara
Speaker 5: light and some products we have warm castings, hummates, what
Speaker 5: else do we have?
Speaker 2: So many ingredients?
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's expanded shales in some of the mixes.
Speaker 5: Yeah, expanded shell But yeah, those are kind of the
Speaker 5: primary ingredients we have. And some of the products are
Speaker 5: ball Some of the products have michroism, which is a great, great,
Speaker 5: great thing to add to a product. And you know,
Speaker 5: one of the best responses and reactions I got during
Speaker 5: the spring when I did these uh the events at
Speaker 5: garden centers, was explaining my charism and people really seem
Speaker 5: to enjoy the explanation. So microsis to land works put together, right,
Speaker 5: micro is fungi, riiser is root. So when you go
Speaker 5: into the soil and you put michroysm, what they do
Speaker 5: is they actually create a very thin and almost microscopic
Speaker 5: root that attaches to the root system of the plant
Speaker 5: and it goes to places where the plant, the plant's
Speaker 5: root system will not be able to distract any nutrients.
Speaker 5: So I was just having a smoothie and I got
Speaker 5: my little ball and you know, I get to the
Speaker 5: bottom of the smoothie cup and I can access all
Speaker 5: of it. You know, when you drink a SMOOTHI, the
Speaker 5: last bit of this smoothie is the best part because
Speaker 5: you get really sided when.
Speaker 2: You finish it.
Speaker 5: You want so my price is doing that. It's accessing
Speaker 5: all those nutrients in the soil. And if you have
Speaker 5: a nutrients rich soil, then that my CRISI is doing
Speaker 5: a lot of work for the root of the plant,
Speaker 5: and then the plant has a lot of new train
Speaker 5: uptic and it all works.
Speaker 3: Yeah, sometimes we could do a whole show and just
Speaker 3: Mike Horizon and not even scratch the surface. But that
Speaker 3: is that we're learning so much about stuff we used
Speaker 3: to not know. It was just all dirt, right, and
Speaker 3: now suddenly we're realizing how live it is and all
Speaker 3: that's happening down in there. So when you're blending these things,
Speaker 3: you know you've got a lot of different mixes and
Speaker 3: whatnot that people would use. Can you give people some
Speaker 3: advice as you look at it for getting ready for
Speaker 3: the fall planting season. I'm trying to get people going
Speaker 3: on this as soon as possible, because fall planting is
Speaker 3: just around the corner. And so, what are some components
Speaker 3: that you would recommend if someone wants to have success,
Speaker 3: let's say on a landscape bed. What are some things
Speaker 3: you would suggest that they do. How would you go
Speaker 3: about it in.
Speaker 5: A landscape bed. Okay, so let's go back to May
Speaker 5: June July. We had incredible amounts of rain. So think
Speaker 5: about that rain pretty much washing away and leaching all
Speaker 5: those nutrients everything. Pretend everything's gone. So let's start with
Speaker 5: a balance fertilizer. Use something like a microlive six two
Speaker 5: four or a nails plant food eight three five, which
Speaker 5: is the new organic option they have. Maybe it's new,
Speaker 5: maybe it's not gonna know how long it's been in
Speaker 5: the market. Add compost, make sure you mix the compost.
Speaker 5: Or if you don't want to add the compost and
Speaker 5: want to add a soil, find a good soil that
Speaker 5: has good ingredients and add it to your bed. Because
Speaker 5: what you're doing there is adding the food the macronutrient,
Speaker 5: and in the soil, if the soil has mineral components,
Speaker 5: you're adding the trade mineral, which is the micro When
Speaker 5: you have a balance of those two, Your plants are
Speaker 5: going to have better performance because now you have food
Speaker 5: minerals and a new soil to complement what's there already.
Speaker 2: Right, So that's what I would do.
Speaker 5: I think that's probably the backbone of having a successful
Speaker 5: garden is good soil, good organic matter, good macronutrient which
Speaker 5: is the fertilizer, and balanced micronutrient which is the trades
Speaker 5: mineral like azomite.
Speaker 3: So you're just setting your plants up for success. Really,
Speaker 3: you're getting everything they need there and in one place.
Speaker 3: You know, one thing I've noticed is that soil that
Speaker 3: organic organic, meaning it contains organic matter. Soil decomposes away
Speaker 3: over time, and people have probably noticed this, Like you
Speaker 3: got a flower pot on the back porch, it's full
Speaker 3: of soil, and a couple of two or three years
Speaker 3: down the line, you look at it and it's like
Speaker 3: not even half full of soil. Where did it all go? Well,
Speaker 3: not oxidized away. But that happens in our landscape beds too,
Speaker 3: So I think topping off landscape beds with quality mixes
Speaker 3: according to the plants you're going to grow, there is
Speaker 3: something that needs to be sort of part of our
Speaker 3: annual cycle as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, thank god.
Speaker 5: What we recommend on a regular basis is mult twice
Speaker 5: a year, right, but we never say at soil once
Speaker 5: a year, once every couple of years.
Speaker 13: Right.
Speaker 5: So if you're mulch and you are taking the advantage
Speaker 5: of that, you don't have any mulch left.
Speaker 2: Add some soil, mix it in with the current soil,
Speaker 2: and then you mulch.
Speaker 5: But yeah, that's a great practice to remember, is add
Speaker 5: some soil every couple of years, because that's what it
Speaker 5: was going to.
Speaker 2: Ultimately, I don't know, settle.
Speaker 5: And usually what you get left, what's left on that
Speaker 5: on that soil mixture is the inert component, which is
Speaker 5: the sand or the expanded shell or the little fables
Speaker 5: from the signs, you know, all they're gunning. Matter is
Speaker 5: usually used by the micros, by the plants, by the
Speaker 5: root systems. That's where the nutrients are, right.
Speaker 3: So yeah, that's and that's how it happens in nature.
Speaker 3: And so we're just trying to take advantage of the
Speaker 3: knowledge that is there. If we just stop, look, listen, learn, study,
Speaker 3: we can we can take advantage of that at home.
Speaker 3: It makes it it makes it easy when you guys
Speaker 3: put it all on the bag and you just hold
Speaker 3: it home and put it in the ground.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: It makes it really simple. You don't have to be
Speaker 3: a soul scientist to have success when you're gardening and
Speaker 3: you have a good good products that can do that.
Speaker 3: You know, the cactus and suckle. It makes you guys
Speaker 3: have I we've been redoing some strings around our house.
Speaker 3: My wife loves strings. We got string of heart, string
Speaker 3: of pearl, string of arrow, string of bananas, string of
Speaker 3: everything under the sun. And that cactine suculent mix has
Speaker 3: a lot of grit to it and it drains internally
Speaker 3: really well. And I think that's something you know, and
Speaker 3: a lot of flower containers. I sometimes you start with us,
Speaker 3: well maybe it's a cheap potting soil, and it just
Speaker 3: kind of settles in and gets real thick and mucky,
Speaker 3: almost gooey, you know. It just you don't have airspace
Speaker 3: down in there in the soil and things that open
Speaker 3: that up. And as you do a potting mix is
Speaker 3: like you guys have the works and cactus and succulent.
Speaker 3: You've got components that you can reuse. I mean, you know,
Speaker 3: you finish the year and you pull that plant out,
Speaker 3: you can mix some fresh stuff in and continue going
Speaker 3: with it as long as you don't have a disease
Speaker 3: issue going on in there. But those those components of
Speaker 3: drainage I think are really important.
Speaker 5: Yes, it's like cactus and circulant. I don't know if
Speaker 5: I was talking to you or somebody else, and I
Speaker 5: was explaining that this is the most complex blend we make.
Speaker 5: It has a lead based on leaf more compost. It
Speaker 5: has cured coco corea fiber parallite compost and native mulch
Speaker 5: composting soil fines, and then it has these components that
Speaker 5: are really interesting expanded shell, basalt, signed granite and torpedoes
Speaker 5: sand vermi composed, which is you know, one castings in
Speaker 5: my chrysa.
Speaker 2: And that's because it has.
Speaker 5: All these different components that I call drain or structure components.
Speaker 5: It doesn't compact, it doesn't mock up like you're talking about.
Speaker 2: It stays lose.
Speaker 5: But it's also the heaviest product we make, right so,
Speaker 5: and that's what cactuses like. A lot of people like
Speaker 5: this product. Because of that, some other people prefer.
Speaker 2: To add more.
Speaker 5: I've seen some and I've heard somebody say that they
Speaker 5: added decomposed grinded to it because they wanted it to
Speaker 5: be heavier and to kind of mimic what you see
Speaker 5: in the desert. But I have cactuses and succulents, primarily
Speaker 5: succulents that I planted in twenty twenty two that are
Speaker 5: thriving still to this day in that product.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's that it's worked out well for us.
Speaker 3: I've had a real good success with that. So I
Speaker 3: want to talk a little bit about you know, I
Speaker 3: tell people all the time when I talk about airlom cells,
Speaker 3: you can find it everywhere. It's easy to find. But
Speaker 3: I like your website, the Airloom Cells of Texas dot com.
Speaker 3: And one thing that people need to realize is if
Speaker 3: they go to that website, now even if you're not
Speaker 3: going to buy an heirloom soil or that's you know
Speaker 3: that maybe that's not what you're going justifind go there
Speaker 3: for the soil calculator alone, because the soil calculator is
Speaker 3: so good. That's that's in the website. By the way,
Speaker 3: is Heirloomsoils dot Com makes it real easy, but you
Speaker 3: can put in if you don't know how many one
Speaker 3: foot bags, how many wheelbarrows, how many five gallon buckets.
Speaker 3: Do I need to do such and such. It's all
Speaker 3: there and then they can plan accordingly. And of course,
Speaker 3: you know, I know, you guys have a lot of
Speaker 3: great products that we hope they would choose one of.
Speaker 3: But uh, that's that calculator is amazing and the website's
Speaker 3: very helpful.
Speaker 2: So the calculator is used by out of my competitors,
Speaker 2: which is great. I love it.
Speaker 5: And also on the website, if you wanted to find
Speaker 5: a garden center, and you know, if you're not going
Speaker 5: to buyer loom soils, go to where to find air
Speaker 5: loom soils if a map doesn't load up, since you
Speaker 5: refers to the site, and you'll have a map of
Speaker 5: all the maybe eighty plus locations that carry a product,
Speaker 5: and those locations are going to be garden centers, you know,
Speaker 5: hardware stores, feed stores that carry a huge amount of
Speaker 5: different products that you you know, you talk about on.
Speaker 2: A regular basis, and they're spread all over the place.
Speaker 5: It goes from kind of Austin all the way to
Speaker 5: Neerland and down to Corpus. So that's a yeah website,
Speaker 5: and we got I added a soil fog where I'm
Speaker 5: going to add like different links. And also there is
Speaker 5: a presentation on it if you scroll the way to
Speaker 5: the bottom that talks about my horizon and it talks
Speaker 5: about the weeds.
Speaker 2: What are weeds telling us?
Speaker 8: So?
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, that's good. Those of you who are living
Speaker 3: way outside of the Houston area. I know, I was
Speaker 3: listening to KRH coming out of the Austin Airport the
Speaker 3: other day and up in College Station, or you know,
Speaker 3: way down way out east and just a lot of places.
Speaker 3: It's widely available. So those of you who don't live
Speaker 3: right here in Houston, you can still find it those
Speaker 3: products in your area. Luis, I got about probably thirty
Speaker 3: seconds or so here. Any closing quick thoughts on getting
Speaker 3: ready for fall by getting your soil right.
Speaker 5: Getting ready for fall, Like I said, and I'll repeat
Speaker 5: this over and over again, make sure you fertilize to
Speaker 5: give the soil, mixing the oil some food. The fertilizers
Speaker 5: your micronutrient. Use a micronutrient, which is a trade mineral.
Speaker 5: The combination of those two allows the plant to have
Speaker 5: better nutrient uptake and use really good organic matter or
Speaker 5: a really good robust soil to add to that existing environment.
Speaker 5: Those are your three components keys to successful garden, whether
Speaker 5: it's a flower bed or a or a vegetable bed.
Speaker 2: And if you're doing all.
Speaker 3: Right, give those three. Give those three one more run
Speaker 3: more quick time.
Speaker 2: Yep, one more.
Speaker 3: I was just saying, I give those three just one
Speaker 3: two three one more quick time for people that are
Speaker 3: writing it down.
Speaker 5: Yeah, micronutrient is your fertilizer. Thank good, fertilizer six two
Speaker 5: four eight three five. Your second one is your micronutrient,
Speaker 5: which is your trade mineral, something like the most important part,
Speaker 5: the soil component or the compost component.
Speaker 2: Right, they've got it all right there you go.
Speaker 3: Well, Louise, I wish we could do this all morning.
Speaker 3: They're telling me it's time to go to a commercial,
Speaker 3: so I got to shut up. Thank you so much
Speaker 3: for being on. I appreciate that a lot. Again. If
Speaker 3: you want the website, it's Heirloomsols of Texas dot com. Folks.
Speaker 3: You're going to take a break here, all right, take
Speaker 3: care of Louise. Appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Thank you all right, bye bye.
Speaker 3: I want you to have success. Get the soil done now,
Speaker 3: get your beds built now, get things improved.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: If you've got old beds do some topping off of them.
Speaker 3: Whatever it takes to get that set. Include the nutrients,
Speaker 3: if you need micros, if you need regular fertilizing, get
Speaker 3: all that in there and get those things ready. It
Speaker 3: is time just around the corner to get all our
Speaker 3: fall for fall planting, prime time chores accomplished, and that
Speaker 3: that is coming not a better time of the year. Hey,
Speaker 3: we're going to open it back up to phones now.
Speaker 3: Our number is seven one three two one two k
Speaker 3: t RH. I want to remind you that next Saturday,
Speaker 3: September seventh, I'll be at the Montgomery County Home Outdoor
Speaker 3: Living Show. That Home and Outdoor Living Show in Montgomery
Speaker 3: County is at the lone Star Convention and Expo Center
Speaker 3: out there north north northeast on Airport Road. Now, I'll
Speaker 3: be there from twelve to two on Sunday. I'm going
Speaker 3: to give a talk on fall gardening, and then I'll
Speaker 3: stay there and answer questions till the cows come home.
Speaker 3: I don't know what time the cows get home, but
Speaker 3: I'll stick around and we'll answer questions as many as
Speaker 3: you have. Bring me samples, bring me pictures of things
Speaker 3: that you want to ask about. We'll go through it,
Speaker 3: and I'll be giving away a lot of micro Life
Speaker 3: fertilizer giveaways while we're there. So just another reason to
Speaker 3: show up and be part of the fun while we're
Speaker 3: out there again. Next Saturday, September seventh, Lone Star at
Speaker 3: Convention and Expo Center on Airport Road. All right, let's
Speaker 3: head out to the phones. Now, we're going to go
Speaker 3: to New Caney and talk to Bill. Hey, Bill, good morning, Skip.
Speaker 4: Yesterday morning, you had somebody from the Caney called in
Speaker 4: about pear trees, and I was very interested in the conversation.
Speaker 2: He said that he.
Speaker 4: Used the pairs to make a pair of wine and
Speaker 4: so forth. I would be very interested in doing the
Speaker 4: same thing, and I was hoping you would have some
Speaker 4: specific recommendations for variety, since you need a paar tree
Speaker 4: pollinator to accomplish the gulps.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so.
Speaker 3: Let's do this, Bill. When when we're done with this call,
Speaker 3: I'm going to put you on hold, and I want
Speaker 3: Chris to get whatever contact information you would want to
Speaker 3: give to the guy who made pair wine yesterday. Okay,
Speaker 3: And if that person's listening, if you will call in,
Speaker 3: If you will call in, we'll put you in touch
Speaker 3: with Bill and you guys can can talk how to
Speaker 3: get there from here kind of stuff. As far as
Speaker 3: pair varieties, Bill, I would go to the Aggie Horticulture website.
Speaker 3: It's Aggie hyphen Horticulture dot TAMU dot edu. But if
Speaker 3: you just do a search for Aggi Horticulture, on the
Speaker 3: front page is a fruit and nuts section and you
Speaker 3: click on that and you can pick publications on everything
Speaker 3: from avocados to I don't know what fruit begins with
Speaker 3: the but it's all a to Z and pairs is
Speaker 3: one of the publications, and in that it lists the
Speaker 3: varieties and knows you about each variety. And so I
Speaker 3: would turn you loose on that because you're gonna get
Speaker 3: a lot more information. I'm giving a little quick answer here,
Speaker 3: but that would be pairs grow. They're not much of
Speaker 3: a challenge. Yeah, and so did you have more of
Speaker 3: the questions?
Speaker 11: No, that that's it.
Speaker 4: Actually, I was just hoping. I was thinking that if
Speaker 4: I couldn't talk to the fellow that I would I
Speaker 4: would have assumed that you would know the varieties that
Speaker 4: would be the very best prior real southern area here.
Speaker 2: And I appreciate that.
Speaker 4: I appreciate all your efforts.
Speaker 3: Well, I don't think on pears, you know, we have
Speaker 3: any like this variety or that it hadn't hit the
Speaker 3: point like a fine wines where certain grapes grown in
Speaker 3: certain soils make certain kinds of wine. I think with pears,
Speaker 3: it's just like, hey, that's sugar, let's ferment it and
Speaker 3: drink it kind of deal. But I'll let you visit
Speaker 3: with with him more about that.
Speaker 2: But thank you.
Speaker 3: I appreciate appreciate your call a lot if you would
Speaker 3: like to call garden Line and talk to me about
Speaker 3: some of these things. Seven to one to three two
Speaker 3: one two kt r H seven to one three two
Speaker 3: one two k t r H and we'll get Chris
Speaker 3: there giving or getting bills contact information. We put two
Speaker 3: people together that way. That's just another nice thing there.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: Nitrofoss makes a fertilizer called Sweet Green. And you know
Speaker 3: we're talking about organics and stuff like that, natural kinds
Speaker 3: of things. Well, molasses is something that is used in
Speaker 3: organic gardeners gardens a lot because it's it's basically carbon sugars,
Speaker 3: basically a string of carbons, and and the microbes really
Speaker 3: feed on it and thrive on that kind of thing,
Speaker 3: especially the beneficial bacteria and things that are doing good
Speaker 3: for us.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 3: Sweet Green's on eleven zero zero fertilizer. It's got that
Speaker 3: boost of nitrogen high amount for a for a non
Speaker 3: non synthetic type product. But sweet Green it has a
Speaker 3: wonderful fresh and you can use it on your line.
Speaker 3: You'd really use it on anything you want to use
Speaker 3: it on for a good quick boost. And that's something
Speaker 3: you could do now to hold you over into you
Speaker 3: get into it. We get into our fall fertilization season.
Speaker 3: But Sweet Green from Nitrofoss again widely available. Auspa Ace
Speaker 3: up in the Woodlands is going to carry it. You're
Speaker 3: going to find it at Plants for all seasons on
Speaker 3: two forty nine. You're going to find it at Plants
Speaker 3: and Things up in Brunham on Highway three sixty five.
Speaker 3: Sweet Green from Nitrofoss. I love the smell of it.
Speaker 3: I like to kind of tongue in cheeks say, you know,
Speaker 3: it smells so good when you throw it in the
Speaker 3: back of the car, you're going to want to make
Speaker 3: an extra loop around six ' ten on the way home,
Speaker 3: just so you can enjoy the fragrance of sweet Green
Speaker 3: a little bit longer. You are listening to Guardline and
Speaker 3: our phones are seven to one three two one two
Speaker 3: k t r H. Seven to one three two one
Speaker 3: two k t r H. Feel free to give us
Speaker 3: a call. This morning, been kind of a quiet day
Speaker 3: on the phones. Typically what happens when this happens is
Speaker 3: the whole day's calls. Try to call it the last minute.
Speaker 3: We got a little over an hour left in the show,
Speaker 3: and I would encourage you if you want to talk,
Speaker 3: it's always better to do it sooner rather than later.
Speaker 3: Towards the end, things get kind of crazy, just because
Speaker 3: I don't know, maybe more people are waking up, or
Speaker 3: they're thinking of questions that they want to ask. We're
Speaker 3: here to help you with all the above. And then
Speaker 3: some one of my uh daughters has a beautiful rose
Speaker 3: bush that you got here in the Greater Houston area,
Speaker 3: and we were I was at her place a while back.
Speaker 3: We were doing some training on some climbing type of
Speaker 3: rose and UH, just getting it pruned and taken care of,
Speaker 3: and I was just noticing, you know that when she
Speaker 3: gives a good care, very good care, and the thing
Speaker 3: is very healthy and it's very vigorous, and UH, just
Speaker 3: a little a little tip on roses. Roses the queen
Speaker 3: of the garden. They say, right, uh, it is so popular,
Speaker 3: and roses put on a great spring show. Some roses
Speaker 3: climbers often are once bloomers, and some other types of
Speaker 3: roses are what we call once bloomers. They bloom in
Speaker 3: the spring and that's it, and that's okay. I've got
Speaker 3: the Peggy Martin rose on a arbor at my house
Speaker 3: and it's a spring primarily bloomer. The rest of the year,
Speaker 3: it's given me shade, so that's okay. But then there's
Speaker 3: others that repeat over and over again and just giving
Speaker 3: them good care. Fall is the best time of the
Speaker 3: year to plant a rose, and I encourage you to
Speaker 3: give them a good close look this fall. When we
Speaker 3: come back, I think I'll talk a little bit more
Speaker 3: about the keys to success with roses. In the meantime,
Speaker 3: I'll be right back.
Speaker 13: As you know, I'm all of god abbeys goddabets.
Speaker 3: All right, all right, welcome back to Gardenline. I'm your host,
Speaker 3: Skip Richter. I was just talking before we went to
Speaker 3: break about roses and just some tips on roses making
Speaker 3: a quality mix like a rose blend. We got rose
Speaker 3: blendz here in the scenario that work outstanding for that
Speaker 3: making them a good race back, giving them lots of
Speaker 3: sunlight space the plants out so air can move around
Speaker 3: and among them to lessen the time the leaves stay wet.
Speaker 3: The more the leaves stay with, the more disease problems
Speaker 3: you have on any plant. So good air circulation, good sunlight,
Speaker 3: good soil, and then pick some good roses. By the
Speaker 3: way RCW. I almost forgot to mention this Today RCW
Speaker 3: Nursery that is the garden center that is where two
Speaker 3: forty nine Tumble Parkway comes into bout Wagh eight. They
Speaker 3: are having a Labor Day weekend Rose sale on their
Speaker 3: Star roses and Weeks roses. Now you may not know
Speaker 3: what a star in Weeks mean. Well, Star rows is huge,
Speaker 3: huge rose company across the United States. Weeks Roses another
Speaker 3: one produced tons of quality roses each style. Only ten
Speaker 3: bucks Star and weak roses at RCW. But that's the
Speaker 3: Labor Day weekend sale only, so don't mess around. As
Speaker 3: soon as you get there, the better choices you're going
Speaker 3: to have. But this is unbelievable opportunity by rosebus ten
Speaker 3: dollars and I'm telling you fall planning is coming the
Speaker 3: best playing time of the year. So there's a little
Speaker 3: word to the wise. I'd get out to RCW Nursries.
Speaker 3: You can go to the website RCW Nurseries dot com
Speaker 3: find out more about them. But that is a call
Speaker 3: public service announcement. Let's go to Perland. Now we're going
Speaker 3: to talk to Kay. Hello. Okay, good morning, Skip.
Speaker 25: Thank you for taking my call. Yes, I have a
Speaker 25: question on I have a little volunteer oak tree that
Speaker 25: I found in one of my flower beds and I
Speaker 25: dug it up. It's probably been a year and a
Speaker 25: half or so and it was about four or five
Speaker 25: inches tall. It's about twelve fourteen inches tall now. But
Speaker 25: I failed to water it adequately and the leaves all died. Well,
Speaker 25: I took them all off and it's still flexible. Do
Speaker 25: you think it's gonna be okay?
Speaker 10: Will it come back?
Speaker 3: There's a chance. Yeah, there's a chance. And you know,
Speaker 3: it just depends on the degree to which the drought
Speaker 3: hit it. I mean, you know, eventually can kill a plant,
Speaker 3: but a little drops the problem. Uh, So I would
Speaker 3: give it some time. It may try to relieve. I
Speaker 3: kind of hate for it to have to do that
Speaker 3: right before fall when the leaves are gonna get knocked
Speaker 3: off again. Anyway, Yeah, I would, uh, I would give it,
Speaker 3: give it some time, let's see uh it. Typically there
Speaker 3: should be some decent storage in the ground and it
Speaker 3: shouldn't just be dead.
Speaker 25: But you never know, it wasn't for a long time.
Speaker 25: It was just you know, a short a few days,
Speaker 25: I would, I would guess, or.
Speaker 3: So yeah, well, if you see signs of life, is
Speaker 3: it in a container now or is it in the ground.
Speaker 25: Yes, it's in Yeah, No, it's in a pot.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, the sooner, sooner you can get that if
Speaker 3: you see signs of life, as sooner you can get
Speaker 3: it planted the better. And by sooner, I mean you
Speaker 3: know this fall is opposed to next year or the
Speaker 3: year after. Go ahead and get it out of the
Speaker 3: container in the ground I was keeping.
Speaker 25: I don't really have room for it in my yarn.
Speaker 25: I'm keeping it from my son daughter in law, and
Speaker 25: they're not ready for it. So I was just gonna, okay,
Speaker 25: keep moving it up in size till they're ready for it.
Speaker 25: But thank you so much, have a blessed day, bye
Speaker 25: bye you as well.
Speaker 3: Thank you. I appreciate, appreciate your call a lot. Nelson
Speaker 3: Plant Food produces a wide variety of quality fertilizers. You
Speaker 3: hear me talk about the turf Star line all along.
Speaker 3: I've been talking about slow and easy all summer because
Speaker 3: it releases so slowly over time. I talk about Bruce's
Speaker 3: Brew anytime of the year. Really it's a pretty quick
Speaker 3: green up, but it has a little bit of slow
Speaker 3: release to it. As soon as we get into fall,
Speaker 3: I'll be telling you about Carbload, the fall fertilizer from
Speaker 3: Nelson's Turf Star line, the Nutri Star line, but that's
Speaker 3: another one, the Nutri Star. It comes, people buy it
Speaker 3: typically buy it in jars, plastic jars or screw top lids,
Speaker 3: and there's a Nutri Star for trees and shrubs, There's
Speaker 3: a Nutri Star for tropical plants. There's a Neutra Star
Speaker 3: for different kinds of blooming plants, depending on you know,
Speaker 3: the particular plant you have. You can refill those jars
Speaker 3: at twelve different places around the Greater Houston area. Makes
Speaker 3: it very economical to do a refill and save on
Speaker 3: the plastic. Just another smart move by the folks at
Speaker 3: Nelson Plant Food. Also don't forget the color star. Color
Speaker 3: color color. You want color this fall, you want color
Speaker 3: this winter. We're looking at pens and violas and whatnot.
Speaker 3: It's just some color star. Put it down, mix it
Speaker 3: in the soil, and then plant your plants, and you're
Speaker 3: going to see those results last all through the winter season.
Speaker 3: We're going to head out now to West Houston and
Speaker 3: talk to Gary. Gary, Welcome to guard Line.
Speaker 2: Good morning, Skip.
Speaker 26: Here's my interesting thing kind of follows from the guests
Speaker 26: you just had on talking about soil and rebuilding beds.
Speaker 2: For next year.
Speaker 26: I've got you know, L shaped beds, you know, against
Speaker 26: my fant traditional you know, small backyard type thing. And
Speaker 26: the beds had gotten you know, real low. They needed
Speaker 26: to be completely you know, rebuilt. They would have needed
Speaker 26: at least like two yards of soil. And but what
Speaker 26: I did when I did my my new little patch
Speaker 26: of grass, I removed all of that Saint Augustine fairly deep.
Speaker 26: But I didn't have a way of removing it away
Speaker 26: from the house. I put the I put all that
Speaker 26: in my beds and figured it. I just let it
Speaker 26: all deteriorate there. And okay, of course it's got a
Speaker 26: healthy weed population all along the whole thing. So it's
Speaker 26: fairly green with nothing but weeds. But I want to know,
Speaker 26: is it okay to build a bed. Kill all those weeds,
Speaker 26: kill them up, let it deteriorate and compost, and then
Speaker 26: put real compost and stuff on top of it and
Speaker 26: build a bed that way?
Speaker 2: Or is that going to cause me problems?
Speaker 3: Well, well you can. You know, in vegetable gardens, we
Speaker 3: do stuff called green manuring, and what that means is
Speaker 3: you grow like rye grass or vetch or something and
Speaker 3: then you turn it into the soil and let it
Speaker 3: decompose to build the soil. That's kind of what you're
Speaker 3: doing with your question. I would just say, make sure
Speaker 3: the weeds are not perennials like bermuda grass or nuts
Speaker 3: edge or something else that chopping it up up, it's
Speaker 3: just gonna multiply it and it'll be right back. If
Speaker 3: it's just annual weeds, you can do that if you
Speaker 3: want to. Just remember you're gonna have weed seeds in there.
Speaker 3: But if you want to turn old Saint Augustine grass
Speaker 3: into I've thrown where I cut out a section of
Speaker 3: Saint Augustine to put in a bed, I'll throw that
Speaker 3: in a compost pile and just got a little soil
Speaker 3: attached to it and it just composts away like anything else.
Speaker 26: Well, yeah, I mean I've got I've got nuts edge,
Speaker 26: just the bane of my existence. But I find it
Speaker 26: pretty good with all the different, you know, typical tools.
Speaker 26: When I go to kill the weeds and I'm gonna
Speaker 26: wait until let's say late February or whatever to start
Speaker 26: the rebuilding process, is there a vegetative killer that's not
Speaker 26: one of those wait a year type of things that
Speaker 26: might help me, because I'll kill the nuts that's special, right,
Speaker 26: but I'll do the rest just with something to zap
Speaker 26: everything that's safe for every build here.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna yeah, I'm gonna answer that by giving you
Speaker 3: my website. It's gardener with Skip dot com. Gardening with
Speaker 3: Skip dot Com. On there, you'll see some brand new
Speaker 3: information on the nuts edge. There's one it's an in
Speaker 3: depth look that we be very helpful for you. Then
Speaker 3: there's a herbicide for the weed wiper page, and that
Speaker 3: lists the herbicide ingredients for different kinds of weeds. So
Speaker 3: depending on whether you're going after grassy or sedges or
Speaker 3: broad leaf weeds or weeds that are coming out of
Speaker 3: a bowl out of the ground, like wild onions and garlic.
Speaker 3: It's got a list of all the product ingredients and
Speaker 3: then you just go find a brand that has that
Speaker 3: in it. I think that'll be helpful for answering your
Speaker 3: question when you get back into spring.
Speaker 2: Okay, perfect, Perfect, sounds good. Thank you very much, Gael.
Speaker 3: All right, thank you, appreciate appreciate your call very much.
Speaker 3: Let's see here we are looking at Okay, I tell
Speaker 3: you what, I'm going to go ahead and let's see.
Speaker 3: We're going to open up Mike and Montgomery. Mike, I'm
Speaker 3: just letting you know. I've probably got about a minute
Speaker 3: before I have to go, but let's see if we
Speaker 3: can get a start to your answer and then we'll
Speaker 3: finish when we come back.
Speaker 4: Okay, real quick, I'm sitting on an acre of land
Speaker 4: on corner lot about four hundred foot a ditch that's
Speaker 4: a mixture of crabgrass is Saint Augustine.
Speaker 2: What do I do?
Speaker 3: Okay? Okay, The more you build Saint Augustine over the years,
Speaker 3: denser and denser, the less the crabgrass will be able
Speaker 3: to sprout. Crabgrass begins to sprout in spring when the
Speaker 3: soul temps hit about fifty to fifty five fifty six
Speaker 3: right in there. That's when you want to have a
Speaker 3: pre emergent down before that. So when the seeds of
Speaker 3: cradgrass try to sprout, they're not able to. We might
Speaker 3: have to repeat it again part way into summer, but
Speaker 3: in general, the pre emergent is the easiest way because
Speaker 3: killing grass and grass with a post emergent is pretty
Speaker 3: much not possible for most things. So you can't spread
Speaker 3: and kill crabgrass and not kill the Saint Augustine. Thank you,
Speaker 3: all right, Well, that's good. Didn't know we get all
Speaker 3: that's a that's good what we did. Thanks for the call, man,
Speaker 3: appreciate it. Uh Don in Beaumont. You're gonna be our
Speaker 3: first when we come back. First up for the rest
Speaker 3: of you, if you'd like to call it was our
Speaker 3: last hour coming up seven one three two one two
Speaker 3: k t r A. I want to remind you I'm
Speaker 3: going to be at that Montgomery County Fall An Outdoor
Speaker 3: a Home An Outdoor Living show next Saturday, September seventh.
Speaker 3: I'll be there from twelve to two. I'm gonna give
Speaker 3: a talk on fall gardening and then I'm gonna answer
Speaker 3: your gardening questions. Look at samples you bring in, look
Speaker 3: at pictures you bring in. We're just gonna help you
Speaker 3: have the adountiful garden, beautiful landscape.
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Speaker 3: All right, folks, welcome back to garden Line. Welcome back.
Speaker 3: We are glad you're with us, looking forward to talking
Speaker 3: to you about the things that are of interest to you.
Speaker 3: I would suggest that we were just I was just
Speaker 3: a minute ago, I was talking to somebody about crabgrass.
Speaker 3: Kind of gave me a real quick answer. We're running
Speaker 3: out of time there. Just to remember, crabgrass is an
Speaker 3: annual grass. It comes up from seeds. So if you
Speaker 3: have crabgrass and it goes to seed, you're going to
Speaker 3: have crabgrass again and again and again. We always say
Speaker 3: that one year of weeding is twenty years of seeding.
Speaker 3: In other words, when you let a plant go to seed,
Speaker 3: you may have one weed, but it's producing one hundred
Speaker 3: thousand seeds that are coming up next year and the
Speaker 3: next year. Who knows. Depends on the plant, but don't
Speaker 3: let them go to seed if you can. But if
Speaker 3: you have crabgrass issues or other annual weed issues in
Speaker 3: the spring, you want to put down something that prevents
Speaker 3: the seeds from germinating and establishing. You know, our number
Speaker 3: one goal is to build a dense lawn where the
Speaker 3: sunlight doesn't hit the soil so that weed seeds are
Speaker 3: choked out that way. But if this is an ongoing problem,
Speaker 3: it means that there's some thinness in the soil, and
Speaker 3: therefore we probably are going to want to prevent that,
Speaker 3: and you can do that with something like barricade from
Speaker 3: night frost, for example. But if you get my schedule online,
Speaker 3: it's at gardening with Skip dot com Gardening with skip
Speaker 3: dot Com on there there is a lawn care schedule
Speaker 3: that's the how to take carry your lawn b water fertilized,
Speaker 3: and also a schedule that's pest weeds and disease management,
Speaker 3: and that's how to deal with things that go wrong
Speaker 3: that things that want to eat your lawn or infect
Speaker 3: your lawn, and so weed seeds, weeds are on that schedule.
Speaker 3: And you just look at it's January to December. It
Speaker 3: tells you exactly when to do what on all both schedules,
Speaker 3: on all these things, it makes it easy. You can
Speaker 3: print them out. If you're an organic gardener, if you're
Speaker 3: a synthetic gardener, there's options for both of you on
Speaker 3: both of these schedules. And so in spring, it's gonna
Speaker 3: be in February, we do this the pre emergence that
Speaker 3: prevent crabgrass and other weeds. They need to go down
Speaker 3: before the weed sprout.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: It's kind of like playing baseball. If you swing after
Speaker 3: the catchers holding the ball, it's a little late, right,
Speaker 3: So don't do that. Follow my schedule. Do it at
Speaker 3: the right time so that when the weeds try to sprout,
Speaker 3: you shut them down. That's kind of how that works.
Speaker 3: Hopefully that clarifies if there any questions out there about that.
Speaker 3: We're going to go now over to Beaumont and talk
Speaker 3: to Donna. Hello, Donna, Welcome.
Speaker 24: To garden Line, Going skip.
Speaker 10: I was wondering if it's too late to do a
Speaker 10: little pruning on my azalia bushes along the side of
Speaker 10: my house.
Speaker 3: Dona, if you got a you know, a gangly shoot
Speaker 3: sticking out here and there, snipping one or two or
Speaker 3: three of those off if you need to, that's fine.
Speaker 3: Just know that the tell you is have are actually
Speaker 3: now are still setting their buds for next spring. So
Speaker 3: when you prune now, you're removing what would have bloomed
Speaker 3: on that shoot. Okay, so we don't want to do
Speaker 3: much pruning it, but if you need it just a
Speaker 3: shape a little bit, feel free to do not.
Speaker 16: Okay, okay, thank you very much.
Speaker 3: All right, and the hey, by the way, that goes
Speaker 3: that same thing goes true with any kind of spring
Speaker 3: blooming plant, like a spyriea bridal wreath. The u oh
Speaker 3: gosh ornamental flowering quints is sometimes used in landscapes once
Speaker 3: blooming roses just bloom in the spring and everything it's all.
Speaker 3: And fruit trees too, by the way, they've already there
Speaker 3: when they go into winter, they already have their buds
Speaker 3: for the spring. So just something to keep in mind.
Speaker 3: Thank you Donna for the call. I appreciate that. All right, folks, yep,
Speaker 3: that's the pruning time. I guess we need to create
Speaker 3: another schedule for I hadn't thought about that. If there's
Speaker 3: enough interest in it, I may do that a pruning
Speaker 3: schedule through the air. That would be kind of good.
Speaker 3: I'm making a note to myself, note to self. Here
Speaker 3: we go, all right, Our phone number if you'd like
Speaker 3: to give me a call seven to one three two
Speaker 3: one two kt r H. Seven to one three two
Speaker 3: one two kt r H. We are entering our last
Speaker 3: hour of the season, or of the show rather for today,
Speaker 3: not for the season. No, no, although would you be
Speaker 3: would you be happy if we could just go ahead
Speaker 3: and call it on summer and say okay, that's enough,
Speaker 3: stop and then we go ahead and get into fall.
Speaker 3: I think that'd be a good a good thing. Maybe
Speaker 3: we'll get hold of a weather man see if we
Speaker 3: can arrange that. If you've been dealing with bugs in
Speaker 3: your lawn, chinch bugs, the sod webworms, for example, mole crickets.
Speaker 3: Did you know there's something called a mole cricket? Yes,
Speaker 3: there is nitropuss. Bug Out max is for that. And
Speaker 3: I had someone call earlier and they ask a question,
Speaker 3: how do you apply bug out? Well, bug out max
Speaker 3: as a granule, and so what you do is you
Speaker 3: spread it like you would spread fertilizer. You just have
Speaker 3: to follow the setting on the bag for the kind
Speaker 3: of spreader you're using. And it's gonna get in the ground.
Speaker 3: You're gonna water it in then with just a little
Speaker 3: bit of water, not a gully washer, just you know,
Speaker 3: third of an inch something like that. Just get it wet,
Speaker 3: move it off of that granule and into the soil
Speaker 3: thatch and the soil surface. Now, when that happens, chinchbugs
Speaker 3: are hiding in the thatch all day and night. They
Speaker 3: love it in there. That's where they work. That's where
Speaker 3: you apply and get them with nitrovass bug out max.
Speaker 3: Side weeb worms are spending their days in the thatch
Speaker 3: and they come out at night to chew on your
Speaker 3: grass blades. That is where you get them, catch them
Speaker 3: in the thatch. Now you're gonna find Nitrofass bugout Max
Speaker 3: in a lot of different places. If you go up
Speaker 3: to Woodlands fourteen eighty eight Shades of Texas, it's gonna
Speaker 3: have it up there. If you go to Fisher's Hardware,
Speaker 3: both the one in South Houston on Southomore and the
Speaker 3: one in Laporte on Broadway Street or both places, you
Speaker 3: can find night to fash products like that bug out Max.
Speaker 3: And finally let's go down to Angleton to Lake Hardware
Speaker 3: on Velasco. And they're gonna have it down there as well.
Speaker 3: I think I'm gonna head now out to the phones
Speaker 3: and we're gonna head to Katie and talk to Henry.
Speaker 3: Good morning, Henry, Welcome to Guardliner.
Speaker 24: Good mornings, Skip, thanks for taking Mark call. I'm curious
Speaker 24: about it's called a Spanish dagger yaka what you feel
Speaker 24: about and being planning in Texas. I'm worried about freezes
Speaker 24: and losing plants because I have a history of that.
Speaker 24: Your thoughts on that and then where to buy them?
Speaker 3: Okay, and you were in Katie, you you might try
Speaker 3: heading out to Katie and turn north, or you're in Katie,
Speaker 3: go north on Katie Fort Ben Road and do Nelson
Speaker 3: water Gardens and nursery. Nursery and water gardens. They've had
Speaker 3: a lot of things there. I don't know off the
Speaker 3: top of my head if they carry that one. They might.
Speaker 3: They may well do that. We've got a lot of
Speaker 3: good You can go down south and head toward a
Speaker 3: Nike in China. Gardens is not too far from you.
Speaker 3: I bet they have them down there too. That would
Speaker 3: be another in terms of how close, starting with the closest.
Speaker 24: It's not the distance I worry. I just want to
Speaker 24: get good stock to start with and something dependable, you know,
Speaker 24: That's all.
Speaker 3: I got you well, And as far as can you
Speaker 3: plan them in Texas, yes, God did out in West Texas.
Speaker 3: They go wild out there, and so if you bring
Speaker 3: them over here, just remember they're incredibly drought tolerant. But
Speaker 3: usually that means don't put it in a swamp. And
Speaker 3: if you keep them too wet, if you don't get
Speaker 3: them high and dry where the excess drains away, they're
Speaker 3: going to struggle. But otherwise, yes, they can grow here
Speaker 3: just fine. Hey, I'm hitting a hard break. I got
Speaker 3: to go ahead and and I head to a commercial.
Speaker 3: But thank you, Henry, appreciate your call. Thanks for being
Speaker 3: on guarden Line. I'll be right back. Folks, glad you
Speaker 3: are listening in today. You know anything that you need
Speaker 3: for your lawn, your garden, your landscape. I'm talking about
Speaker 3: fertilizers and pest control, disease control, We control any tools,
Speaker 3: garden hoses, and if you want to beautify that outdoor setting.
Speaker 3: You know fall is coming, yes, yes, yes, I can't wait.
Speaker 3: And when it gets here, I'm going to be hanging
Speaker 3: out on my patio out back. And I got some
Speaker 3: beautiful little lights I have strung up around there to
Speaker 3: give that ambiance. I call them beer garden lights kind
Speaker 3: of what they look like. Ace Hardware's got all of
Speaker 3: that stuff and more. If you need quality, quality brands
Speaker 3: of barbecue equipment like Treger and Weber and Big Big
Speaker 3: Green Egg and whatnot, they've got that now right now.
Speaker 3: I just need to point this out for those of
Speaker 3: you up in northwest area of Houston, the Langham Creek
Speaker 3: Ace Hardware is having their grand reopening. It's been three days.
Speaker 3: Today's the last day of it. They'll be doing a
Speaker 3: drawing for a paint or room makeover two hundred dollars value,
Speaker 3: so that in and of itself as worth showing up
Speaker 3: to put your name in the hat. They'll be doing
Speaker 3: demos on craiger drills, grills as well. And I'll tell
Speaker 3: you I love that store. I've been in there. I
Speaker 3: was in there this spring, and then when I heard
Speaker 3: they were going to kind of revamp some things and
Speaker 3: do a grand reopening, I was pretty excited about that,
Speaker 3: and I think you should be too. Go to the
Speaker 3: Intersection of Barker Cypress in five twenty nine. The Intersection
Speaker 3: of Barker Cypress in five twenty nine. It's kind of
Speaker 3: on the backside of Copperfield neighborhood up there and stop
Speaker 3: in say hey to the folks at Langham Creek. Ace Hardware.
Speaker 3: You know, wherever you live, you got an ACE Hardware nearby.
Speaker 3: All you gotta do is go to Acehardware dot com
Speaker 3: find the store locator and what There are forty stores
Speaker 3: in the Greater Houston area, so there's going to be
Speaker 3: one close to you. I'm going to go now out
Speaker 3: to Bay City and we're going to talk to Carrie. Hello, Kerriy,
Speaker 3: Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 26: Hi.
Speaker 10: I have two questions.
Speaker 27: One, my fountains, my water fountain outside haven't added any
Speaker 27: chemical to it. It's just been running water and now
Speaker 27: is turning the stones that the fountains made up but black.
Speaker 27: This this mildew. What is environmentally safe that I can
Speaker 27: put in the water so it'll.
Speaker 7: Clear up the water.
Speaker 3: Oh well, let's take this one first. I am not
Speaker 3: an expert on all things that can go on. It
Speaker 3: could be some type of analogy growing in there, it
Speaker 3: could be other things I want you to can I
Speaker 3: give you a website, It's Nelson Watergardens dot com. Nelson
Speaker 3: Watergardens dot com. They're out in Katie. But the fact
Speaker 3: that you didn't buy your thing there, that's not going
Speaker 3: to stop them from helping you. There are great folks,
Speaker 3: and so go to Nelson Watergardens dot com their phone number.
Speaker 3: You're going to get it off the site there and
Speaker 3: just call them and say, look, I got a problem
Speaker 3: and I could use some helpier, can you help me?
Speaker 3: And I promise you they'll be more than happy to
Speaker 3: help you get to the bottom of that one. What
Speaker 3: was your second question?
Speaker 27: Okay, my second question is I have five pomegrant bushes
Speaker 27: and they produced pomegrant. It's for the first time. They're
Speaker 27: about five years old, have been big that had. They
Speaker 27: had been living in containers. So I moved them out
Speaker 27: of the containers a year ago and the bush and
Speaker 27: screw and then ma peme granite and I picked one
Speaker 27: and I cut it open and it wasn't rock yet.
Speaker 27: The seeds looked fine. But on the outside, the skin
Speaker 27: it's got.
Speaker 10: On all of them.
Speaker 27: It's got little black dogs.
Speaker 10: On the palm granite.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, probably it could be fungal or bacterial. There's
Speaker 3: a reason why we don't have big palm granite orchards
Speaker 3: around Houston. Our climate over here is a little on
Speaker 3: the wet side, a little on the rainy side. For
Speaker 3: them to be real happy. You can grow them here,
Speaker 3: but you just are going to have to put up
Speaker 3: with some kind of ugly on the outside. Palm granites
Speaker 3: and those kind of spots. Depending on the spot, there
Speaker 3: are probably a spray like a copper spray or something
Speaker 3: you could use. I would have to get a good
Speaker 3: look at the palm granite to determine what it is,
Speaker 3: so we would recommend the right spray. But most people
Speaker 3: just kind of tolerate that and just go on. Just
Speaker 3: make sure they have good drainage because they also want that.
Speaker 27: Oh okay, because the inside looks great, but the outside it's.
Speaker 10: Okay.
Speaker 27: Well, thank you so much.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a nice thing about you know, ugly being
Speaker 3: only skin deep in many ways is on those bomb
Speaker 3: graantage you just you just turn off the lights, close
Speaker 3: your eyes, and it tastes just as good you have
Speaker 3: to look at all, right, Kerry, take care. Yeah. My
Speaker 3: wife says that if I'm ever wondering if I should
Speaker 3: say something, the answer is almost always a definite no,
Speaker 3: because if it's at the point where I'm wondering, I
Speaker 3: probably passed the whatever line. So anyway, that's where we are.
Speaker 3: I wanted to talk a little bit about Nature's Way Resources.
Speaker 3: You hear me, You've heard me talk about them before.
Speaker 3: Nature's Way is where a lot of the premium quality
Speaker 3: soil products that I talk about on Guarden Line were born.
Speaker 3: Rose soil was born in Nature's Way. There's other folks
Speaker 3: that make rose soil, but Nature's Way is where that came.
Speaker 3: Quality leaf mold, compost top dressing, Nature's Way. I mean,
Speaker 3: I could go on and on. There are a number
Speaker 3: of other products that really started there. John Ferguson knows
Speaker 3: more about He's forgot more about soil than most people know.
Speaker 3: And Ian running the shop. Now up there, they're producing
Speaker 3: quality products. They have quality plants too, by the way,
Speaker 3: So if you show up to pick up some bags
Speaker 3: or pick up bulk, go walk over and check out
Speaker 3: their plants. They got some really nice ones over there
Speaker 3: up at Nature's Way Resources. Just to remember, if you're
Speaker 3: going to buy any kind of a soil product, composts, soil, blends,
Speaker 3: mult to go on top of the soil, tell them
Speaker 3: you heard about it on garden line. Say, Skip was
Speaker 3: talking about ure Nature's Way and you get a discount
Speaker 3: off of what you're purchasing. And this is the time
Speaker 3: to prepare the soil now while the sunshines. Prepare soil
Speaker 3: while the sunshines. Fall planting is coming. Don't wait to
Speaker 3: see if it's too wet and rainy at that time
Speaker 3: to do the soil. Do it now and go out
Speaker 3: to Nature's Way. You can buy by the bag, you
Speaker 3: can go out and pick up bulk. You can have
Speaker 3: them delivered to your house bulk. However you want to
Speaker 3: go about it, just get it done. That is the
Speaker 3: number one tip I could give you for success is
Speaker 3: plant in the fall into soil that has been properly prepared.
Speaker 3: They're on Sherbrooks Circle, which is off of Interstate forty five,
Speaker 3: right where fourteen eighty eight comes into forty five from Magnolia.
Speaker 3: If you would like to learn more, check out their
Speaker 3: new websites really Cool, Nature'sway Resources dot com, Nature's Way
Speaker 3: Resources dot Com. We're going to go now to the
Speaker 3: heights and talk to Larry.
Speaker 7: Hey, Larry, Hello, Skip a golden unimus.
Speaker 16: First of all, do they not grow well down here
Speaker 16: and working?
Speaker 2: I find one.
Speaker 10: I'm a small one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're okay. They are susceptible to powdery mildews, so
Speaker 3: a lot of times the leaves are kind of crinkly
Speaker 3: and have a white dusty look to them. They also
Speaker 3: are susceptible to a couple of types of scale insects
Speaker 3: that you have to watch for. But they've been around
Speaker 3: a long time, you know. If you if you were
Speaker 3: looking for something that had that same color, there are
Speaker 3: other shrub options that come in the variegated yellow golden colors.
Speaker 3: So Sunshine Lugustrum, it'll make a little bit larger shrub
Speaker 3: than Golden Euonymous, but that would be another one that
Speaker 3: doesn't have those same issues that Golden Euonymous has.
Speaker 16: You just have to have been told that Sunshine Lagusham
Speaker 16: would be a good replacement.
Speaker 11: But if I want another Golden Unimise, you know where
Speaker 11: I might find one.
Speaker 3: Pretty much anywhere. If you go over I would you're
Speaker 3: in the heights, I would just go over to Buchanan's Plants.
Speaker 3: They'd bound to have one there. If they don't, you know,
Speaker 3: you can head out from that direction. I'll bet you're
Speaker 3: going to find them at RCW Nurseries or just continuing up,
Speaker 3: you know two forty nine troll seasons, arbor Gate. There's
Speaker 3: lots of places that carry. I would start with the
Speaker 3: bu cannons in your backyard there. They're they're a liable
Speaker 3: you know. If they don't happen, they could probably get
Speaker 3: them in in time for your fall planting too.
Speaker 16: That's either okay, So that's not a bad time to
Speaker 16: plant a replacement one of mine die.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, Well fall is the best time falls. And
Speaker 3: when I say fall in your area here, I'm talking
Speaker 3: about late October early November being ideal, but you can
Speaker 3: plant sooner or later than that.
Speaker 10: Okayki, thank you very much.
Speaker 2: All enjoy the show.
Speaker 3: Thanks, I appreciate that. Glad to have you as a listener.
Speaker 3: We're going to go out now to sugar Land and
Speaker 3: talk to Jim. Hey, Jim, welcome to guard Line.
Speaker 28: Yes, good morning. I want to have a question about
Speaker 28: turning oak oak trees. I have an oak tree in
Speaker 28: the backyard and the lambs are hanging down well about
Speaker 28: four feet from the from the ground.
Speaker 15: This tree is about twenty years.
Speaker 3: Old, okay, So I just wanted to Jim, you can.
Speaker 15: Give you some guidelines on trimming theft.
Speaker 3: I absolutely can't. Jim, do you know what kind of
Speaker 3: oak it is? Off hand?
Speaker 15: I think it's a live oak.
Speaker 3: Well does it have leaves on it in the winter? Yes, Okay,
Speaker 3: so that's probably a live oak. And you can trum
Speaker 3: a branch anytime of the year that you want to.
Speaker 3: The best time, if you're going to pick your time,
Speaker 3: the best time is late winter to make those cuts.
Speaker 3: Go online and learn how to make a proper pruning
Speaker 3: cut because where you make the cut and how you
Speaker 3: make the cuts very important to not damage the tree.
Speaker 3: But learn how to do that and then just go
Speaker 3: out there. I would do it in late winter unless
Speaker 3: if there's a reason, you got to get those things
Speaker 3: up from where they are sort of we say that's
Speaker 3: lifting up the skirt of the tree. You know how
Speaker 3: the branches hang down and you're kind of lifting it up.
Speaker 16: Uh.
Speaker 3: Then you can do that at any time, but ideally
Speaker 3: late winter.
Speaker 2: So what what should you do?
Speaker 28: They need to come off or leave them on hanging
Speaker 28: down low, or what's the proper thing to.
Speaker 2: Do with it?
Speaker 14: It is?
Speaker 3: It is one aesthetics for you.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 3: So you will see oaks across the Gulf Coast States,
Speaker 3: beautiful giant oak trees Louisiana, Mississippi all across and they
Speaker 3: the branches hang all the way down to the ground,
Speaker 3: and that's a beautiful thing. Now maybe in a yard
Speaker 3: you can't have that. You need to pick those up,
Speaker 3: you know, cut those off and get it up a
Speaker 3: little bit. But that's all your call. That's not a
Speaker 3: matter of what's right or wrong for the tree.
Speaker 15: Okay, I got you. And what about finning out the
Speaker 15: upper part of the oak tree? What should you do that?
Speaker 3: Or I would say don't. I would say don't. Definitely,
Speaker 3: stripping all the all the branches off and just having
Speaker 3: a periphery of foliage is not that great for the tree.
Speaker 3: It's not proper pruning practice. So I would just leave it.
Speaker 3: Sometimes people thin it out to get a little more
Speaker 3: light through because live oaks cast so much shade, hardly
Speaker 3: anything will grow under them. But I would in general,
Speaker 3: for the tree standpoint, you don't need to thin anything out. Okay.
Speaker 28: The other thing I do on the trimming is any
Speaker 28: lambs that are over overlapping each other, or.
Speaker 15: I trim those bags are.
Speaker 3: Cut yeah, anything yeah, anything rubbing, anything too crowded and
Speaker 3: stuff like that. That'll do it. But just make sure
Speaker 3: you've got a good sharp saw, but learn about where
Speaker 3: to make that cut. There's something called a three point
Speaker 3: cut that if you're cutting off a branch it's too
Speaker 3: big for you to hold with one hand, it's too
Speaker 3: big for you to hold with one hand, you need
Speaker 3: to cut it off using a three point cut, and
Speaker 3: there's a lot of good free info online on how
Speaker 3: to do that. Hey, Jim, I got a run. It's
Speaker 3: time for a break here, but thank you for the call.
Speaker 3: I appreciate that. When we come back, Joseph in the
Speaker 3: Woodlands and Jazz you're listening in today, We've got plenty
Speaker 3: more to talk about and some folks to talk about
Speaker 3: it too. Just want to remind you that if you
Speaker 3: are looking for product to help give boosts to your
Speaker 3: new plants, that you're going to be putting in this fall,
Speaker 3: and you will be. There's fall gardening for vegetables. It's
Speaker 3: a time to plant herbs, it's a time to plant flowers, shrubs, trees,
Speaker 3: and whatnot. Microlife Fertilizer line of products has got you
Speaker 3: set up. They've got a number of liquid products that
Speaker 3: work really, really well in providing the kind of boost
Speaker 3: that I'm talking about. We have the orange labeled to
Speaker 3: seven one four mix called Biomatrix. It does very good
Speaker 3: for a fertilizing to give a boost to plants. It's
Speaker 3: loaded with microbes like all Microlife products are, and it
Speaker 3: does super well for that. There is liquid humus that
Speaker 3: you can put in as you're planting your plants and
Speaker 3: it does super super well. Another product, it's kind of
Speaker 3: a newer one to me. It's one I haven't used
Speaker 3: as much, but I am starting to use it now,
Speaker 3: and that is one called micro Grow Bioinoculant. It is
Speaker 3: a granular product. When you put it out, you are
Speaker 3: adding just an untold number of microbes to the soil
Speaker 3: to help create those relationships with microbes and plant roots
Speaker 3: that help the plant to thrive. It's as simple as that.
Speaker 3: It really really works. Another good one is Microlife Soil
Speaker 3: and Plant Energy. That is a liquid. It is in
Speaker 3: a buying a quarter a gallon bottle and it works
Speaker 3: super well. Also. You know, really all of these products
Speaker 3: by Microlife, they're designed to do what nature is already doing,
Speaker 3: and that is building soil over time with microbes, with
Speaker 3: nutrients and making that root system so healthy that the
Speaker 3: plant can't help but succeed. Widely available in microlife products.
Speaker 3: You don't find them everywhere, pretty much every garden center
Speaker 3: and ace hardware store, feed stores, a Southwest fertilizer down
Speaker 3: at you know you go all the wayside. Just went
Speaker 3: blank on My brain just just went blank for a second.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh. I'll come back to it in a minute.
Speaker 3: When when it jumps back in the mid you know,
Speaker 3: after eight hours of talking in the morning, the first
Speaker 3: thing in the morning, I can kind of run run
Speaker 3: into a blank pretty quick. All right, Well, anyway, I'll
Speaker 3: come back to it in a second. Let's for now
Speaker 3: get my brain out of this situation and go talk
Speaker 3: to Joseph in the Woodlands. Joseph, how are we doing fine?
Speaker 2: Good morning.
Speaker 6: I was in South Texas a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 6: and I saw these new homes and they had Italian
Speaker 6: cypress pines, and Randy had mentioned a couple of years,
Speaker 6: a few years ago that they wouldn't grow up here
Speaker 6: in the woodlands. I want to see your opinion. Some
Speaker 6: of the nursery say that they do care him sometimes,
Speaker 6: but but you know, I really had to order them.
Speaker 6: So I want to hear your opinion.
Speaker 8: On it.
Speaker 6: What do you think about growing these pines in the
Speaker 6: woodlands the Italians.
Speaker 3: It's actually Italian cypress, as cypress is supposed to be
Speaker 3: in a pine. Two different things. Italian cypress. Those are
Speaker 3: the tall, skinny things you see when you see a
Speaker 3: movie about the Mediterranean. You know where you've got olive
Speaker 3: orchards and all that, and those those big, tall, skinny evergreens,
Speaker 3: and they will grow here. But our climate is so wet,
Speaker 3: it's a frequent rainfall that we end up with a
Speaker 3: lot of foliage diseases. And when you get a foliage disease,
Speaker 3: it kills a shoot. You have this dead spot that
Speaker 3: doesn't fill back in on the tree. So what was
Speaker 3: a beautiful shape tree now is all blotchy. And then
Speaker 3: if you one of them just flat dies. Now you've
Speaker 3: got all these tall ones and you're gonna put a
Speaker 3: little bit of bitty one in to replace one that died.
Speaker 3: It doesn't match. And so I think in the long term,
Speaker 3: due to foliage diseases, a little insect called a bagworm
Speaker 3: that attacks them, and also spider mites, I just don't
Speaker 3: recommend them for here. I think in general it tends
Speaker 3: to not do well and I know you drive around Houston,
Speaker 3: you're going to see a few that look great, and
Speaker 3: that's possible. But I can't tell you how many people
Speaker 3: I talk to that have them, that have started to
Speaker 3: go south and wish they hadn't planted them.
Speaker 6: Okay, because I have a rectangular shrub. It's about twenty
Speaker 6: two feet long and ten feet wide and I wanted
Speaker 6: to put three in the center. So can you recommend
Speaker 6: anything I can do in that area?
Speaker 3: There are some yo puns that stay very upright and narrow.
Speaker 3: The jury is still out on you know, will that
Speaker 3: still look that way twenty years from now or not,
Speaker 3: But there are some of those. There's also something called skypencil,
Speaker 3: and it is a holly, but I found that it
Speaker 3: doesn't perform as well here as we would like it too.
Speaker 3: It's a tall, narrow plant. There's let's see sill a
Speaker 3: wet sweet gums. Sweet gums can be a little challenging,
Speaker 3: but slender silhouette variety of sweet gum is very narrow,
Speaker 3: and you see it around Houston. Some you see this.
Speaker 3: Really it's a deciduous so it's only going to be
Speaker 3: green in the growing season, not in the winter. But
Speaker 3: that would be another narrow thing that might fit into
Speaker 3: an area like that.
Speaker 6: Okay, all right, all right, well, thank you very much,
Speaker 6: thank you, thank you for your information.
Speaker 3: Yes, sir, Yes, Joseph, I hope that helps. Let's see
Speaker 3: where we're gonna go. Now. We're gonna go to Jersey
Speaker 3: Village now and talk to Jasmine. Hey, Jasmine, welcome to
Speaker 3: garden Line. Hey Jasmine, All right, Jasmine, are you there?
Speaker 3: Last call Jasmine. I'll put you on hold and we
Speaker 3: will come back to you in just a moment. We're
Speaker 3: going to go to gym and Sugarland. Hey, Jim, welcome
Speaker 3: to garden Line.
Speaker 16: Oh.
Speaker 2: Thanks.
Speaker 15: I have a pecan tree and it blew up the
Speaker 15: barrel parricane.
Speaker 28: It's about twelve inch diameter at the base, so I've
Speaker 28: it all flesh with the ground and I wanted to
Speaker 28: find out about the stump to keep it from coming back.
Speaker 15: Okay, something I should put on there.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, I'm going to tell you what you would
Speaker 3: have done at cutting it, and then I'll talk about
Speaker 3: what you would do now. Ideally, when you cut any
Speaker 3: woody plant off at the ground, I don't care if
Speaker 3: it's a stump of poison ivy or a hackberry or
Speaker 3: in this case, that pecan tree. If you immediately treat
Speaker 3: the perimeter of that cut off stump where all the
Speaker 3: living tissues are around the outside with the product containing
Speaker 3: trichlop here, and then it will soak in and it
Speaker 3: will kill it. If it doesn't kill it completely, when
Speaker 3: it tries to resprout, do it again and it will
Speaker 3: kill it. T R I c l O P y R. Now,
Speaker 3: if if you don't get all that written down, go
Speaker 3: to gardening with Skip dot com. And one of my
Speaker 3: newest publications is Herbicide. It says herbicides for a weed wiper,
Speaker 3: but it tells you the ingredients that kill each kind
Speaker 3: of weed, including woody weeds and brush and trees and
Speaker 3: things like that. And so it's it's right there, and
Speaker 3: I even give you brand names that you're going to
Speaker 3: find in the garden centers of Triclo Peer.
Speaker 2: In this case, okay, okay, all right, if I don't
Speaker 2: do anything.
Speaker 3: It's going to resprout. It's gonna resprout. So you got
Speaker 3: two options, Jim, or you could you could cut it
Speaker 3: again and then treat that fresh wound, or you could
Speaker 3: wait till it reach sprouts and when it does, then
Speaker 3: cut those off and treat treat those with the triclo peer.
Speaker 3: Either way you go about it, you're gonna probably have
Speaker 3: to do it more than once. But that's the way
Speaker 3: I would suggest. All right, Okay, thank you very much,
Speaker 3: you bet, thank you very much. We're going to go
Speaker 3: to break here. When we come back, Jasmine and Jersey
Speaker 3: Village you'll be our first up, and Jim and a
Speaker 3: Tescasita you're right behind her. We'll be right we are
Speaker 3: in our last segment of the weekend. Just remember, you
Speaker 3: can listen to guard Line by podcast. If you want
Speaker 3: to go back and listen to past shows, you're certainly
Speaker 3: welcome to do that. And anybody who lives anywhere and
Speaker 3: can't get a radio signal for garden Line can listen
Speaker 3: to us on computer or on their app. I have
Speaker 3: the iHeartMedia app on my phone. It allows me to
Speaker 3: listen but not only the podcast, but even to live
Speaker 3: radio Live katrh right there on the Heart Media app.
Speaker 3: And that's just another way. If I were you, I
Speaker 3: would be outside right now messing around in the garden,
Speaker 3: I think, and I'd have my phone with me listening
Speaker 3: to guard Line. So who knows you may see something,
Speaker 3: take a picture, send it in. Next thing you know,
Speaker 3: we're in a conversation. Let's head out to Jersey Village
Speaker 3: now and we're going to talk to Jazz. Welcome to
Speaker 3: garden Line, Jasmine.
Speaker 11: Thank you so much, Skip. I wanted to ask you.
Speaker 11: I have two bushes that are about five foot tall
Speaker 11: with the vines the carolina that bloom the little yellow
Speaker 11: trumpets in the springtime, and the bush has gotten so
Speaker 11: top heavy. Even though I had the spiral wire within,
Speaker 11: everything is growing outside of that and hanging over to
Speaker 11: the side. Can I cut a bunch of that off
Speaker 11: and just get it back to the pretty much within
Speaker 11: the wire.
Speaker 3: Spiral, You could, and the plant would survive and regrow.
Speaker 3: If it were mine, that carolina Jessemine has or is
Speaker 3: setting its bloom budge or has set is bloom budge
Speaker 3: for next spring. I might to just leave it like
Speaker 3: it is now so you can enjoy all those blooms
Speaker 3: and then right after finishes bloom and then cut it
Speaker 3: back you'll get Okay, you can direct it for future years,
Speaker 3: but if you cut it back way back now, you're
Speaker 3: going to lose a lot of the spring bloom show.
Speaker 11: Okay, I'll wait to after the spring next year. Thank you,
Speaker 11: thank you, thank you so much.
Speaker 3: Bye bye bye bye you bet uh. You know I
Speaker 3: like birds, and I've told you before I used to
Speaker 3: not be a bird person. It was like I was
Speaker 3: never the guy with the binoculars walking around looking at
Speaker 3: birds and naming every song I heard. But ever since
Speaker 3: I've been putting some of the Wallbirds products out of
Speaker 3: my yard. I'm talking about feeders, and you know there's
Speaker 3: bird houses or bird feeders. I just am getting more
Speaker 3: and more interested. I was sitting this morning before garden
Speaker 3: Line started, just listening to a bird in the darkness
Speaker 3: start to wake up the world with its songs, and
Speaker 3: I just love that. Now you can can go to
Speaker 3: Wallbirds Unlimited his website for Houston. It's called WBU dot com,
Speaker 3: but then add forward slash Houston and you can see
Speaker 3: all of our six stores.
Speaker 10: Here.
Speaker 3: Right now is hummingbird season. They're in my yard, they're
Speaker 3: in your yard. The sooner you get a feeder out,
Speaker 3: the better. The one I would recommend from Wallbirds is
Speaker 3: called the high perch feeder. The high perch feeder is
Speaker 3: just outstanding. I've got several hummingbird feeders collected over the years.
Speaker 3: My favorite is high perch feeder from Wabirds Unlimited. Now
Speaker 3: they also have the blends, the of the sugary solutions
Speaker 3: that you can mix for them. They even have some
Speaker 3: that are slower to mold. You know, when you're feeding
Speaker 3: your hummingbirds, can't just leave it that's sugar water out
Speaker 3: there in the feeder for a week or two. It's
Speaker 3: going to go bad. That's what happens. That's called fermenting.
Speaker 3: So you need to clean it out and change it out.
Speaker 3: Just put enough to feed them until for a few days,
Speaker 3: and then put some more out. You don't have to
Speaker 3: fill the whole thing up, and it doesn't have to
Speaker 3: have the red dye in it. In fact, I wouldn't
Speaker 3: even bother with that at all. Wilbirds Unlimited can get
Speaker 3: you set up on that. It can get you set
Speaker 3: up on the other feeds. I'm feeding their super blends.
Speaker 3: Still my birds have been molding. Oh my gosh. They
Speaker 3: look like they got in a fight with a weed
Speaker 3: eater and lost. You should see those birds. But they
Speaker 3: are sure happy that I've got the food right there,
Speaker 3: because it's kind of hard to fly around when you're
Speaker 3: in the middle of molt. Anyway, go to Wallbirds learn more.
Speaker 3: I just got to warn you it's an addiction. You
Speaker 3: will get more and more into birds the further along
Speaker 3: you go, especially when you get to kind of help
Speaker 3: and advice that they'll give you there at Walldbirds. I'm
Speaker 3: going to head out to a Tesca Seda. Now we're
Speaker 3: going to talk to Jim. Hey, Jim, welcome to Guardline.
Speaker 16: Gee, thank you very much for taking my phone call. Well,
Speaker 16: part two of planting the sod in my front yard.
Speaker 16: Planting the sod watered it just like you said. And
Speaker 16: now for some strange reason, is like an inch and
Speaker 16: a half gap in between a lot of the sod.
Speaker 16: Should I fill that with some top soil or the
Speaker 16: grass grow closer together?
Speaker 3: The grass will cover it over. If it really is
Speaker 3: a drop down in the actual soil level itself, you
Speaker 3: could put a little bit of a mix. I might
Speaker 3: get something like, oh gosh, Landscaper's Pride has a topsail
Speaker 3: blend that that is a sandy loan saw mix to
Speaker 3: a little bit of compost. You can put that in
Speaker 3: there in between. Because the reason I would say that
Speaker 3: one is because it actually is sandy long soil. So
Speaker 3: if you just put like compost in between. It's going
Speaker 3: to sink down as it decomposes again anyway. But if
Speaker 3: it's inch and a half two inches, that's a pretty
Speaker 3: big gap. I might fill it myself. And yes, the
Speaker 3: grass will crawl back over it. We're getting near the
Speaker 3: end of the season, so it may not fully fill
Speaker 3: in everything, but I think it'll by and large if
Speaker 3: you just keep taking care of it, you may have
Speaker 3: pretty good filled by the end of the season for
Speaker 3: such a small area that has to crawl over.
Speaker 16: Okay, So in other words, just just leave it alone,
Speaker 16: and it's best thing.
Speaker 3: You could Yeah, you could do that. It'll be just fine.
Speaker 3: Gret our lawns find a way. It's just the only
Speaker 3: my hesitation is that's a pretty big gap, and so
Speaker 3: you know, as you're walking along it's not going to
Speaker 3: be a real smooth surfaces. But other than that, you
Speaker 3: know it'll I.
Speaker 16: Do have a one yard left a top soil, sandy
Speaker 16: top soil that you buy now it's called a Look. Yeah,
Speaker 16: I've got the yards, So I just spread that in there,
Speaker 16: and that'd be really good. Is this the best time
Speaker 16: to do that? Is this the best time to spread it?
Speaker 16: Or should I wait till next year.
Speaker 3: Well, I would go ahead and do it now so
Speaker 3: that any grass that crawls over it has something to
Speaker 3: peg down in. I mean, if you wait until it's
Speaker 3: already crawling over and then add soil on top, you're
Speaker 3: sort of covering up your grass a little bit. So great,
Speaker 3: if you're going to do it, I would do it now.
Speaker 3: But listen, this isn't a this isn't a black and
Speaker 3: white answer, and it's up to you either way, you're
Speaker 3: going to be okay, all right, Jim.
Speaker 16: Kip, thank you very much. Free hope sir, have a
Speaker 16: blessed day.
Speaker 3: Yeah as well, thanks a lot. I appreciate that. Well,
Speaker 3: here we are. We're getting near the end of a
Speaker 3: segment here, I think we do. So I've got a
Speaker 3: clear on the board, so I may just wind this
Speaker 3: one up with some advice and things I've been wanting
Speaker 3: to try to get around to and talk about. First
Speaker 3: of all, I want to mind you this is kind
Speaker 3: of last reminder here. Next Saturday, September seventh is the
Speaker 3: Montgomery County Home and Outdoor Living Show. And I go
Speaker 3: to a lot of different home and garden shows. This
Speaker 3: is a great one. It's a great one. It's up
Speaker 3: at the Lone Star Convention and Expo Center, and we
Speaker 3: always have a good crowd that comes out for that one.
Speaker 3: I'm going to be given a talk on fall gardening,
Speaker 3: and then I'm going to be answering your questions, as
Speaker 3: I say, till the cows come home, whenever the cows
Speaker 3: decide to come home. If you would like to get
Speaker 3: some free microlife product, I'm going to be given away
Speaker 3: a couple of really cool micro life products, some samples
Speaker 3: of that, and more than just a little samples, a
Speaker 3: nice little container of it, and just show up and
Speaker 3: we will have a big time out there. If you've
Speaker 3: got samples of plants, if you've got things you want
Speaker 3: to ask questions about, and maybe you got some photos
Speaker 3: on your phone. Some weeds, boy, I always get bag
Speaker 3: fulls of weeds at these things, but that's okay. Just
Speaker 3: bring them, pull them up, put them on a ziplock,
Speaker 3: let me look at them. We'll talk about what to do.
Speaker 3: I am going to tell you this, a lot of
Speaker 3: my answers are going to be go to the website
Speaker 3: Gardening with Skip dot com because I keep adding more
Speaker 3: and more stuff up there that helps us. So I'm
Speaker 3: not sitting here away with my hands in the air
Speaker 3: trying to describe something to you. Just go right up there.
Speaker 3: And it's a free publication. You can download it, you
Speaker 3: can print it, you can just look at it on
Speaker 3: the screen, whatever you want. We're adding more and more
Speaker 3: to that. But anyway, come on out. Any of you
Speaker 3: up north. If you want drive across town, that's great too,
Speaker 3: But any of you up in the north direction. I
Speaker 3: love to meet my listeners, So come on out at
Speaker 3: the Montgomery County Fall Home and Outdoor Living Show. I'll
Speaker 3: be there Saturday, September seventh. Yes, that's a week from
Speaker 3: yesterday ten or excuse me, twelve o'clock to two o'clock.
Speaker 3: So I mean spend a lot of time up there,
Speaker 3: and I look forward to helping you with that, as
Speaker 3: well as meeting you out and about one other thing
Speaker 3: real quick to Benson is the second annual Strawberry Jamboree
Speaker 3: is going to be the Extension Office in Lake Jackson,
Speaker 3: Texas Bressori County. I said, at the Extension Office. No, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 3: it's by the Extension Office, that's who's putting it on.
Speaker 3: It is at the rec Center ninety one Lake drive
Speaker 3: in Lake Jackson. It is September twenty first, that's a
Speaker 3: Saturday from eight to twelve.
Speaker 10: Million.
Speaker 3: October is a prime time for count and strawberry. You're
Speaker 3: going to have our day full of speakers that are outstanding.
Speaker 3: They'll take everything now know how to grow strawberry successfully.
Speaker 3: They are going to also take orders for strawberry plugs
Speaker 3: there if you want. I'm going to be out. There'll
Speaker 3: be door prizes and exhibitors. It is a free event.
Speaker 3: Do you hear that? Free? Eight to twelve noon on
Speaker 3: September twenty first. For more information, just call the Brazoria
Speaker 3: County Extension Office. You can call nine seventy nine eight
Speaker 3: six four fifteen fifty eight. And guess what, it's my
Speaker 3: favorite part. There's gonna be a Strawberry short Kate contest.
Speaker 3: They haven't asked me to be a judge yet, but
Speaker 3: I would probably peg out and nobody else would have
Speaker 3: anything to eat. But anyway, if you think you're a
Speaker 3: strawberry short Kate expert, all right, step up to the
Speaker 3: plate man enter the contest. Nine sevent nine eight six
Speaker 3: four fifteen fifty eight.