WEBVTT 1 00:00:10.279 --> 00:00:14.119 Welcome to Katie r. H. Garden Line with Skip Richard 2 00:00:14.359 --> 00:00:22.120 Shoes crazy band in the bassis gas Baby, can't you trim? 3 00:00:22.399 --> 00:00:24.519 You just watch him as. 4 00:00:24.480 --> 00:00:27.320 Work basis gas? 5 00:00:27.600 --> 00:00:28.960 Can you? 6 00:00:29.000 --> 00:00:32.359 There are so many breathings to sleep baas in the 7 00:00:32.479 --> 00:00:35.119 bay the bassies like gass baby? 8 00:00:35.159 --> 00:00:37.719 Can you did amos closed? 9 00:00:37.759 --> 00:00:38.079 Back to. 10 00:00:39.640 --> 00:00:42.799 Sign the bassis a gas and. 11 00:00:44.920 --> 00:00:50.280 Sun beamon of a dream psing the gases like gas baby? 12 00:00:50.359 --> 00:00:50.679 Can you. 13 00:00:52.920 --> 00:00:56.920 First starting and dreaming gases? 14 00:00:57.000 --> 00:00:58.560 I guess you did? 15 00:00:59.679 --> 00:01:14.760 I mean, alrighty, good morning, good morning, Welcome to garden Line. 16 00:01:15.120 --> 00:01:18.879 Glad you got up early enough this morning to do 17 00:01:19.040 --> 00:01:22.000 this with us. Hopefully a cup of coffee in your 18 00:01:22.040 --> 00:01:25.200 hand or got at least one eye open. That's what 19 00:01:25.319 --> 00:01:26.959 we try to that's what we aim for, at least 20 00:01:27.000 --> 00:01:29.200 when eye opened, and I'll try to be coherent and 21 00:01:29.239 --> 00:01:31.280 then we'll have a gardening show about that. Let's do 22 00:01:31.359 --> 00:01:34.319 it that way. You are listening to garden Line. I'm 23 00:01:34.319 --> 00:01:36.000 your host, Skip Richter, and we're here to help you 24 00:01:36.079 --> 00:01:40.200 have a bountiful garden and a beautiful landscape and more 25 00:01:40.239 --> 00:01:42.799 fun in the process. That's the important part. Don't forget 26 00:01:42.959 --> 00:01:45.599 it's supposed to be fun. Gardening is fun. It's supposed 27 00:01:45.599 --> 00:01:48.640 to be fun. And when we get out there and 28 00:01:48.799 --> 00:01:53.200 follow a few simple principles, the plants just they just 29 00:01:53.280 --> 00:01:55.280 step right into line when you give them what they want. 30 00:01:57.120 --> 00:01:59.879 If you are wondering, like what's the top of the 31 00:02:00.120 --> 00:02:03.680 list items to get done this week? Or what do 32 00:02:03.840 --> 00:02:05.560 I need to do out in the landscape, well, first 33 00:02:05.599 --> 00:02:07.640 of all, you know the answer to that, because it's 34 00:02:07.680 --> 00:02:11.560 your place. But I would just suggest that our lawns 35 00:02:11.560 --> 00:02:13.719 are waking up, and this will be a really good 36 00:02:13.800 --> 00:02:17.080 time to make sure that your lawn has all the 37 00:02:17.199 --> 00:02:19.159 things that it needs. You need to do a first 38 00:02:19.240 --> 00:02:22.520 mowing that down a little bit lower than normal. I 39 00:02:22.599 --> 00:02:24.639 don't like to use the word scalping because that sounds 40 00:02:24.719 --> 00:02:27.800 like you're cutting it almost to the ground, and that 41 00:02:28.000 --> 00:02:29.400 you don't want to do that, but you want to 42 00:02:29.439 --> 00:02:30.960 cut it back, get some of the old stuff out 43 00:02:30.960 --> 00:02:33.719 of there if you haven't already done that. If you've 44 00:02:33.800 --> 00:02:36.439 got weeds and you haven't mode yet, those weeds are 45 00:02:36.520 --> 00:02:39.439 cool season weeds and they have seeds. And when you 46 00:02:39.560 --> 00:02:41.520 do the first mowing, go ahead and bag the clippings 47 00:02:41.560 --> 00:02:43.719 and get them out of there because they are full 48 00:02:43.759 --> 00:02:45.319 of weed seeds and you're not gonna get all the 49 00:02:45.360 --> 00:02:46.960 weed seeds out, but you get a bunch of them. 50 00:02:47.120 --> 00:02:51.080 If you don't do that, all those weed seeds will 51 00:02:51.280 --> 00:02:55.199 be back and next fall they'll sprout. So you're right 52 00:02:55.280 --> 00:02:58.520 back in the same place actually, but worse next year. Now, 53 00:02:58.800 --> 00:03:02.159 speaking of weed seeds, if you have not put down 54 00:03:02.280 --> 00:03:05.479 something to prevent summer weeds, and you've got some thin 55 00:03:05.560 --> 00:03:08.520 lawn areas where sunlight can get through and hit the soil, 56 00:03:09.080 --> 00:03:11.360 well it's time to make sure and get that done. 57 00:03:11.639 --> 00:03:14.199 Some of our summer weeds have already been sprouting. And 58 00:03:14.599 --> 00:03:17.840 barricade is a product knight Foss puts out. It comes 59 00:03:17.919 --> 00:03:20.199 in a ten pound bag, covers about five thousand square 60 00:03:20.240 --> 00:03:23.080 feet and when you put it down and then watered in, 61 00:03:23.400 --> 00:03:25.479 and by the way, with a pre emergent, you always 62 00:03:25.479 --> 00:03:28.520 have to watered in because that gets the product into 63 00:03:28.560 --> 00:03:31.479 the soil surface. And barricade sticks to the soil better 64 00:03:31.560 --> 00:03:35.319 than most pre emergents I know, and it adheres up 65 00:03:35.400 --> 00:03:37.639 there near the surface. So when a weed seed tries 66 00:03:37.680 --> 00:03:39.639 to come through and sprout, it shuts it down. It 67 00:03:39.759 --> 00:03:42.159 forms a barricade. If you will, you're going to find 68 00:03:42.199 --> 00:03:45.080 barricade and other night Foss products in a lot of places. 69 00:03:45.240 --> 00:03:48.639 You go down on Bissonet or West Teimer. There's bearing 70 00:03:48.719 --> 00:03:51.560 hardware on Bissonet one on West Teimer as well. You 71 00:03:51.599 --> 00:03:54.319 can head out to the Richmond Rosenberg area to enchanted 72 00:03:54.439 --> 00:03:58.919 forest and run into a good opportunity to get some 73 00:03:59.080 --> 00:04:05.520 night foss products there. Also. If one thing about the 74 00:04:05.599 --> 00:04:08.360 pre emergency needed to realize though, is they last a 75 00:04:08.439 --> 00:04:13.080 certain period of time, and so you forty five days, 76 00:04:13.159 --> 00:04:15.599 typically sixty days kind of depends on the weather, how 77 00:04:15.639 --> 00:04:17.720 much you put out and everything like that, and you 78 00:04:17.800 --> 00:04:19.720 don't want to overdo them when you put them out, 79 00:04:20.399 --> 00:04:23.399 But at some point they break down and then weeds 80 00:04:23.480 --> 00:04:26.879 can begin germinating again. And so just keep in mind 81 00:04:26.959 --> 00:04:30.360 that it doesn't mean you won't see another weed until fall. 82 00:04:30.959 --> 00:04:34.199 So some people will repeat that application when they're in 83 00:04:34.279 --> 00:04:37.199 a situation where weeds we say weed pressure is high, 84 00:04:37.319 --> 00:04:40.360 meaning there's just a lot of weeds germinating and you're 85 00:04:40.360 --> 00:04:44.680 having to work at it to keep them in line. Well, 86 00:04:44.800 --> 00:04:48.000 I told you guys yesterday that I wasn't going out 87 00:04:48.120 --> 00:04:51.000 to Warren Southern Gardens. I was originally scheduled to go 88 00:04:51.120 --> 00:04:55.439 out yesterday afternoon. We have moved that to April. The 89 00:04:55.720 --> 00:04:59.879 nineteenth April nineteenth, that's the day before Easter, and I'll 90 00:04:59.879 --> 00:05:02.120 be out at Warren Southern Gardens. And you know, those 91 00:05:02.160 --> 00:05:04.040 of you in Kingwood, you know you've got two great 92 00:05:04.040 --> 00:05:06.600 garden centers. You've got Warren Southern Gardens which is on 93 00:05:06.720 --> 00:05:08.800 North Park, and you got Kingwood Garden Center there on 94 00:05:08.879 --> 00:05:12.439 Stone Hollow. And looking at the stock that they brought 95 00:05:12.519 --> 00:05:16.959 in and some recent examples of some of the plants 96 00:05:17.000 --> 00:05:20.800 and product that place. Both places they're just loaded up. 97 00:05:20.920 --> 00:05:23.959 Kingwood Garden Center's got a wonderful little gift shop for 98 00:05:24.399 --> 00:05:28.439 a lot of cool stuff that even non gardeners on 99 00:05:28.519 --> 00:05:31.480 your list would be very interested in. When you go in, 100 00:05:31.600 --> 00:05:36.079 you're going to find at these places Microlife fertilizers, nitrophoss fertilizers, 101 00:05:36.279 --> 00:05:39.839 Nelson turf Star, you're going to find soils from heirloom soils. 102 00:05:39.879 --> 00:05:42.000 You're going to find Nelson plant food, and the jars too. 103 00:05:42.079 --> 00:05:45.439 And by the way, they are refilled stations for that 104 00:05:46.000 --> 00:05:50.519 you can take your empty clear screwtop lid jars that 105 00:05:50.680 --> 00:05:53.759 you purchase those fertilizers and and take them back in 106 00:05:53.920 --> 00:05:56.680 and refill them there for a very economical rate. They 107 00:05:56.759 --> 00:05:59.600 got the mosquito dunks and stock now too, and here 108 00:05:59.680 --> 00:06:03.000 we are. It's definitely mosquito season. I saw a little 109 00:06:04.160 --> 00:06:07.319 I have a water fountain that had been sitting stagnant 110 00:06:07.360 --> 00:06:08.959 for a while, I know, I know better than that, 111 00:06:09.399 --> 00:06:12.079 and had a little mosquito wrigulars forming in it. And 112 00:06:12.240 --> 00:06:15.079 so that's where you put the mosquito dunks because they 113 00:06:15.160 --> 00:06:18.680 float and they prevent mosquitos for about a month. 114 00:06:18.759 --> 00:06:18.879 Now. 115 00:06:18.920 --> 00:06:21.120 You can break a dunk up into little chips and 116 00:06:21.160 --> 00:06:24.279 pieces for small areas like my little water fountain area, 117 00:06:24.720 --> 00:06:26.959 because the dunk will cover you like one hundred square feet, 118 00:06:27.839 --> 00:06:29.600 or you can just get the granules and do it 119 00:06:29.680 --> 00:06:31.560 that way. But anyway, either way you go about it, 120 00:06:31.680 --> 00:06:34.079 you're going to get those things at Warren Southern Gardens, 121 00:06:34.120 --> 00:06:37.399 I know in Kingwood Garden Center to help you stay 122 00:06:37.480 --> 00:06:41.399 out of trouble when mosquito season comes along. Check out 123 00:06:41.399 --> 00:06:43.759 their roses when you're out there. Check out their villias 124 00:06:43.759 --> 00:06:47.800 when you're out there. The annual color is outstanding, nice 125 00:06:48.040 --> 00:06:52.279 selections of seeds. They are both open seven days a week. 126 00:06:52.319 --> 00:06:55.639 Both Warren Southern Gardens and Kingwood Garden Center are open 127 00:06:55.720 --> 00:07:00.560 seven days a week, so that's nice. Pretty much anytime 128 00:07:00.680 --> 00:07:02.920 you want to go. You have got a place to 129 00:07:03.000 --> 00:07:08.600 go out there. I think it's yesterday. I was talking 130 00:07:08.600 --> 00:07:11.720 about Ciena Mulch as being like the one stop shop 131 00:07:12.160 --> 00:07:15.240 for everything brown stuff, and on garden Line, I talk 132 00:07:15.240 --> 00:07:19.759 about brown stuff all the time, brown stuff before green stuff. 133 00:07:20.519 --> 00:07:22.160 I don't know it makes sense to me to put 134 00:07:22.199 --> 00:07:24.240 it that way. If you don't know, well what does 135 00:07:24.319 --> 00:07:27.480 that mean? Well, green stuff is plants. That's the fun 136 00:07:27.560 --> 00:07:29.399 stuff you go and you buy and you put in 137 00:07:29.480 --> 00:07:33.959 the ground. It's vegetables, it's it's fruit, trees, it's flowers, 138 00:07:34.079 --> 00:07:37.879 it's your lawn. Brown stuff is the soil and everything 139 00:07:38.000 --> 00:07:40.879 in it that essentially is a foundation for success with 140 00:07:40.959 --> 00:07:44.120 the green stuff. Cina Moltch is the place you go 141 00:07:44.560 --> 00:07:47.319 to have success with the green stuff because they have 142 00:07:48.000 --> 00:07:51.000 the composts, they have the bed mixes. Then they have 143 00:07:51.079 --> 00:07:52.879 the mulches that go on top of the ground to 144 00:07:52.959 --> 00:07:56.040 fight weeds and moderate soil temperature and protect the soil, 145 00:07:56.480 --> 00:07:58.680 and they have the nutrients that go in the ground. So, 146 00:07:58.800 --> 00:08:01.240 for example, you go there, you're gonna get composts, you're 147 00:08:01.279 --> 00:08:03.720 gonna get bed mixes and all kinds of things like that, 148 00:08:03.839 --> 00:08:06.759 but you're also going to get the main fertilizer products 149 00:08:06.800 --> 00:08:09.279 I talk about all the time here on garden Line. 150 00:08:09.560 --> 00:08:13.120 Sienna Mulch dot com. That's the website. Go check them out. 151 00:08:13.439 --> 00:08:15.439 I'm going to take a break and I'll come right back. 152 00:08:17.319 --> 00:08:17.519 Down. 153 00:08:19.199 --> 00:08:23.879 Alrighty, folks, we're back. Welcome back to garden Line. Look 154 00:08:23.920 --> 00:08:27.360 forward to visiting with you about the questions you have. 155 00:08:27.560 --> 00:08:30.079 Our phone number is seven one three two one two 156 00:08:30.720 --> 00:08:32.240 k t R H. And I'm going to run right 157 00:08:32.360 --> 00:08:35.159 out to Port Arthur, Texas. We're going to talk to Alan. 158 00:08:35.399 --> 00:08:35.559 Hey. 159 00:08:35.639 --> 00:08:37.440 Alan, good morning, Welcome to garden Line. 160 00:08:38.279 --> 00:08:41.399 Good morning, Skip. Hey, I got a question. I do 161 00:08:41.600 --> 00:08:44.759 follow the fertilization schedule. But one year ago my house 162 00:08:44.879 --> 00:08:47.080 is just it was even there was a cow pasture. 163 00:08:47.799 --> 00:08:49.639 So back in February, when I'm sure I had to 164 00:08:49.679 --> 00:08:52.000 start to skip, I did the pre emergent, I did 165 00:08:52.039 --> 00:08:55.200 the fifteen five ten night your polls. Now recently I 166 00:08:55.240 --> 00:09:01.600 went in and put out my nineteen fourteen league. Still 167 00:09:01.679 --> 00:09:04.720 got your weeds? Is there something that can do now 168 00:09:05.320 --> 00:09:11.919 or just wait for the next application of my barricade instead, Well. 169 00:09:12.200 --> 00:09:15.279 The barricade will prevent weeds, but not kill existing ones. 170 00:09:15.360 --> 00:09:18.039 So tell me how long ago that lawn was put down. 171 00:09:19.960 --> 00:09:23.919 I believe in im about the house late in August, 172 00:09:24.159 --> 00:09:25.799 so probably in August or July. 173 00:09:25.919 --> 00:09:32.080 Okay, okay, so it's it's established, all right, gotcha. So 174 00:09:32.279 --> 00:09:36.039 the weeds that you see now, go ahead. 175 00:09:37.039 --> 00:09:40.080 No, I'm sorry, No, I didn't mean, well, you're fi 176 00:09:40.159 --> 00:09:40.720 go ahead please. 177 00:09:42.200 --> 00:09:46.440 Okay. The weeds that you see now are cool season 178 00:09:46.519 --> 00:09:49.440 weeds and they're gonna die anyway. Now. You may be 179 00:09:49.600 --> 00:09:52.679 seeing some perennial weeds, weeds that you know just last 180 00:09:52.720 --> 00:09:56.600 from year to year, but primarily you're looking at cool season. 181 00:09:57.120 --> 00:10:00.799 And if you can do a fairly low mowing and 182 00:10:01.039 --> 00:10:03.360 bag all the clippings to get all the weed seeds 183 00:10:03.399 --> 00:10:06.120 out that you can, that would be good. And just 184 00:10:06.320 --> 00:10:08.960 know that the clovers and the chick weeds and the 185 00:10:09.039 --> 00:10:12.000 hembits and the bluegrass and your bluegrass and all that 186 00:10:12.120 --> 00:10:13.840 that's going to all die out when the as the 187 00:10:13.919 --> 00:10:17.039 weather heats up. So what you're concerned about is the 188 00:10:17.120 --> 00:10:20.320 new weeds coming on and that's where the barricade would 189 00:10:20.440 --> 00:10:25.559 stop that. And so what did you I'm sorry, in 190 00:10:25.679 --> 00:10:28.360 your description, did you say that you had or had 191 00:10:28.440 --> 00:10:30.159 not used barricade already this year? 192 00:10:31.279 --> 00:10:31.399 Oh? 193 00:10:31.679 --> 00:10:33.360 I did back in February. 194 00:10:34.679 --> 00:10:37.360 February. Okay, good, well you're good. Then don't don't put 195 00:10:37.399 --> 00:10:40.159 any more down because you overdo it and you're your 196 00:10:40.279 --> 00:10:47.879 damage your grass. So February at March, April probably actually February, 197 00:10:48.039 --> 00:10:53.200 probably later this month you could do let's see, yeah, 198 00:10:53.399 --> 00:10:57.320 later this month, go, you could do another application. But 199 00:10:57.639 --> 00:11:00.320 I don't just use it all the time just because 200 00:11:00.320 --> 00:11:02.639 I have a lawn. So if your lawn is down, 201 00:11:02.879 --> 00:11:05.799 or if you're struggling with weed problems, then that's when 202 00:11:06.000 --> 00:11:09.639 you need. It's going to help the most because it 203 00:11:09.720 --> 00:11:11.200 gives your lawn a chance to fill in. 204 00:11:12.639 --> 00:11:13.879 All right, Yeah, I need to follow this. 205 00:11:14.080 --> 00:11:15.879 I follow the schedule. I just I know it's coming 206 00:11:16.000 --> 00:11:19.080 up for another one, but I don't like it. 207 00:11:19.279 --> 00:11:23.000 Grasses already, grasses dice and green already, But so are 208 00:11:23.080 --> 00:11:23.519 the weeds. 209 00:11:24.240 --> 00:11:29.039 So okay, yeah, yeah, well you know this won't this 210 00:11:29.200 --> 00:11:31.919 won't comfort you, Ellen, But I have a friend in 211 00:11:31.960 --> 00:11:34.279 Mississippi and he says the way to get rid of 212 00:11:34.320 --> 00:11:37.919 all your weeds is to is to mow your lawn 213 00:11:38.000 --> 00:11:40.639 and take off your glasses. And you can't see him 214 00:11:42.799 --> 00:11:50.039 a right, Okay, well, all right, you very much, thanks 215 00:11:50.080 --> 00:11:54.799 for the call. Yeah, I know some people you know 216 00:11:54.919 --> 00:11:57.720 what we range in weed tolerance. 217 00:11:58.039 --> 00:11:58.279 We do. 218 00:11:58.480 --> 00:12:00.440 I mean, we're that way about everything life if you 219 00:12:00.480 --> 00:12:02.240 think about it. But I'm not going to go there now. 220 00:12:03.559 --> 00:12:05.480 But there are some people that they have to have 221 00:12:05.559 --> 00:12:10.320 the perfect lawn, everything, everything, it's just perfect. It looks 222 00:12:10.360 --> 00:12:13.960 like AstroTurf out there. And if there's one weed is 223 00:12:14.039 --> 00:12:16.320 like a neon sign flashing on and off, and it 224 00:12:16.440 --> 00:12:18.200 drives the nuts and it's got to die, you know. 225 00:12:18.360 --> 00:12:20.440 And then there's other people on the other end of 226 00:12:20.480 --> 00:12:24.000 the spectrum that as long as the ground is covered 227 00:12:24.080 --> 00:12:27.320 with green, they're happy, and the weeds, some of them 228 00:12:27.399 --> 00:12:31.159 flour you know, like chick weed is very attractive to honeybees, 229 00:12:31.240 --> 00:12:33.840 and so are dandelions, and you know, the pollinators and 230 00:12:33.919 --> 00:12:36.320 things like that. I mean, I don't know where you 231 00:12:36.399 --> 00:12:39.759 are on that spectrum, probably somewhere in between the two extremes. 232 00:12:39.840 --> 00:12:43.399 But wherever you are, it's your yard. Do what you want. 233 00:12:44.720 --> 00:12:47.000 Most people are wanting to have a nice, pretty yard, 234 00:12:47.039 --> 00:12:49.799 and so we kind of focus on that way. But listen, 235 00:12:51.200 --> 00:12:53.080 I deal with a lot of different kinds of folks 236 00:12:53.480 --> 00:12:55.240 and I'm not here to tell you how to live. 237 00:12:55.440 --> 00:12:57.559 I'm just here to tell you if you want this 238 00:12:57.840 --> 00:13:00.759 or that out of a plant to have it. And 239 00:13:01.000 --> 00:13:03.200 if this planned is the lawn and you want it 240 00:13:03.240 --> 00:13:06.080 to look good, first thing is to make that lawn dense. 241 00:13:06.360 --> 00:13:08.320 I just finished a publication I'm about to put on 242 00:13:08.399 --> 00:13:11.879 the website called lawn Care one oh one. And that's 243 00:13:11.919 --> 00:13:15.200 the bottom line. The bottom line is not to just 244 00:13:15.679 --> 00:13:22.679 spend your year spraying products or spreading products to kill 245 00:13:23.240 --> 00:13:26.360 anything that might show up disease, insects, weeds, and so on. 246 00:13:26.919 --> 00:13:28.799 It's to have a good, healthy lawn. And the number 247 00:13:28.840 --> 00:13:31.919 one way is to have a strong lawn that's been 248 00:13:32.000 --> 00:13:35.679 properly mode watered and fertilized. And it's hard for folks 249 00:13:35.759 --> 00:13:38.840 to believe it, but mow water fertilized, that's a secret 250 00:13:38.879 --> 00:13:41.639 to a successful lawn. And we have other things, Yes, 251 00:13:41.720 --> 00:13:43.799 there's such a thing as brown patch and takeoff patch 252 00:13:43.879 --> 00:13:49.159 and chinchbugs and sid web worms and grubs and I 253 00:13:49.200 --> 00:13:52.799 don't know, weeds, annual perennial weeds. Yeah, they're there. But 254 00:13:53.200 --> 00:13:56.879 first is mowater fertilized. First is a dense, healthy lawn 255 00:13:57.080 --> 00:13:59.879 and that takes care of most of the problems. Then 256 00:14:00.519 --> 00:14:02.480 when you got some weeds that show up, and they will, 257 00:14:02.799 --> 00:14:04.639 there are there are weeds that can grow in a dense, 258 00:14:04.679 --> 00:14:08.360 healthy lown. You deal with those. But that's that's more 259 00:14:08.440 --> 00:14:10.320 the exception. That's not the way of life. 260 00:14:10.360 --> 00:14:10.480 You know. 261 00:14:10.559 --> 00:14:12.840 The way of life is not every Saturday you are 262 00:14:12.919 --> 00:14:16.360 spray in or or spreading something to kill something. That 263 00:14:17.200 --> 00:14:20.519 you can do that, but that comes at an environmental 264 00:14:20.600 --> 00:14:22.960 cost and certainly as a cost of money and time, 265 00:14:23.120 --> 00:14:27.039 and so we aim for a good healthy lown. All right, 266 00:14:27.240 --> 00:14:30.840 there you go, speaking of a good healthy lown. The 267 00:14:30.919 --> 00:14:34.159 folks at Nelson Plant Food have a product called Bruce's 268 00:14:34.600 --> 00:14:38.360 Brew and it is an outstanding product. About about every 269 00:14:38.440 --> 00:14:41.440 six months you can put it down because although it's 270 00:14:41.480 --> 00:14:45.600 a it's a fast release, it doesn't release everything fast 271 00:14:46.159 --> 00:14:49.440 and so over time you're going to get a spread 272 00:14:49.639 --> 00:14:53.120 out release of the nitrogen in there to help with 273 00:14:54.000 --> 00:14:57.720 evening the growth rate out. Now the products in Bruce's 274 00:14:57.759 --> 00:15:01.120 Brew will help also in your root develop and by 275 00:15:01.279 --> 00:15:05.639 keeping the avoiding the peaks of nitrogen, you know, the 276 00:15:05.720 --> 00:15:09.480 flushes of nitrogen, you get a good root system. I 277 00:15:09.559 --> 00:15:11.840 wish I could. I know this is radio but I'm 278 00:15:11.879 --> 00:15:13.679 holding my hands up in the air trying to show 279 00:15:13.720 --> 00:15:18.799 you something. But I saw one time a research thing 280 00:15:18.879 --> 00:15:22.360 where they had three crocks of water and a little 281 00:15:22.440 --> 00:15:25.440 lid on them with grass planted through the lid so 282 00:15:25.679 --> 00:15:27.639 you could pick the lid up and see the roots. 283 00:15:28.200 --> 00:15:30.120 And on the left hand side just had a picture 284 00:15:30.120 --> 00:15:32.559 of this with me. The left hand side was grass. 285 00:15:32.639 --> 00:15:35.639 It was not growing very much at all, and it 286 00:15:35.799 --> 00:15:37.759 was kind of a sharp, trusee green. It wasn't a 287 00:15:37.840 --> 00:15:41.360 healthy green. And then in the middle was a grass, 288 00:15:41.399 --> 00:15:44.240 I'll just say normal looking. And on the right hand 289 00:15:44.279 --> 00:15:46.919 side was a grass that was very tall and dark, 290 00:15:47.039 --> 00:15:50.279 dark green. And when you pick the roots up, the 291 00:15:50.399 --> 00:15:54.759 roots on the middle and the left, the proper fertilizing 292 00:15:54.960 --> 00:15:59.039 and the not enough fertilizing were very deep and extensive. 293 00:15:59.360 --> 00:16:02.639 That grass plant was sending those roots out to build 294 00:16:02.679 --> 00:16:05.120 a big root system to pull in the things that needed. 295 00:16:05.600 --> 00:16:08.519 But the grass that have been overfertilized with nitrogen that 296 00:16:08.679 --> 00:16:11.639 look wonderful on top, by the way, you get to 297 00:16:11.679 --> 00:16:14.840 mow it a lot when that happens. When you picked 298 00:16:14.879 --> 00:16:18.200 it up, it had less root system than normally fertilized grass. 299 00:16:19.159 --> 00:16:22.080 Now going into summer, when you got grubs chomping roots, 300 00:16:22.159 --> 00:16:24.360 when you've got one hundred degrees when it's not raining, 301 00:16:25.759 --> 00:16:29.960 you need a good root system, and so overfertilizing in 302 00:16:30.120 --> 00:16:32.919 one point in time with nitrogen is not a good thing. 303 00:16:33.440 --> 00:16:35.240 It's not a good thing to have any nutrient out 304 00:16:35.279 --> 00:16:39.039 of balance, but especially when it comes to the nitrogen, 305 00:16:39.200 --> 00:16:41.279 a gradual release is important. Now I said all that, 306 00:16:41.399 --> 00:16:43.679 but I was talking about Bruce's brute. Now some plant food. 307 00:16:44.360 --> 00:16:48.799 When you create a good quality bank account of nutrients 308 00:16:48.879 --> 00:16:52.200 in the soil, you have a good, healthy grass plant 309 00:16:52.320 --> 00:16:54.919 that's going to be less vulnerable to pests and diseases, 310 00:16:55.879 --> 00:16:57.840 and it's going to have a beautiful it's going to 311 00:16:57.879 --> 00:17:02.000 create that beautiful lawn that you want. But I say 312 00:17:02.039 --> 00:17:04.319 it a lot here. If a teaspoon's good, a tablespoon 313 00:17:04.480 --> 00:17:08.000 is not necessarily better. And so keep that in mind. 314 00:17:08.039 --> 00:17:10.920 It is true with fertilizers too, the proper amount. And 315 00:17:11.279 --> 00:17:14.440 that's why we like slow releases because they release for 316 00:17:14.799 --> 00:17:17.160 us slowly. We don't have to go out there and 317 00:17:17.200 --> 00:17:20.039 spoon feed the grass every day to get that proper 318 00:17:20.079 --> 00:17:22.720 amount out. All right, Well, there you go, Nelson Plant Feed. 319 00:17:22.759 --> 00:17:26.240 By the way, those Turfstar products from Nelson's are available 320 00:17:26.319 --> 00:17:28.839 all over town, easy to find them, in fact, throughout 321 00:17:28.880 --> 00:17:31.440 this whole listening area. You're going to find Nelson plant 322 00:17:31.480 --> 00:17:34.680 products even settle across the state. There's people out of 323 00:17:34.759 --> 00:17:37.079 state that order those things because they found that they work. 324 00:17:38.880 --> 00:17:42.440 You're listening to Garden Line phone number this Sunday morning. 325 00:17:42.480 --> 00:17:45.720 By the way, Happy Sunday morning to you. Seven one 326 00:17:45.799 --> 00:17:49.880 three two one two kt r H. Seven one three 327 00:17:50.319 --> 00:17:58.440 two one two kt r H. See I today when 328 00:17:58.599 --> 00:18:01.680 I'm done with the show this afternoon. I've got some 329 00:18:02.240 --> 00:18:04.759 tasks that I'm looking forward to getting to. I've got 330 00:18:04.799 --> 00:18:07.640 some plants that have been sitting on the front porch 331 00:18:07.759 --> 00:18:09.880 waiting for me to plant them when I'm not running 332 00:18:09.880 --> 00:18:15.880 around doing horticulture business stuff. But anyway, they are ready 333 00:18:15.960 --> 00:18:17.680 to go in the ground. And when I pull them 334 00:18:17.720 --> 00:18:19.839 out of the pots, here's what the first thing I 335 00:18:19.920 --> 00:18:22.799 do is I lay the pot over and slide the 336 00:18:22.880 --> 00:18:25.319 plan out. And if it's a little tiny tomato plant, 337 00:18:25.359 --> 00:18:29.359 well that's not as important. But even with that, you 338 00:18:29.440 --> 00:18:31.200 don't want to just grab the plant and pull it 339 00:18:31.319 --> 00:18:35.119 up out of the pot. Sometimes you can do some 340 00:18:35.279 --> 00:18:38.359 damage to the base of the stem where it's attached, 341 00:18:38.440 --> 00:18:41.400 and sometimes plant roots will stick to the pot. So 342 00:18:41.559 --> 00:18:43.519 lay it over, kind of bump the pot and slide 343 00:18:43.559 --> 00:18:45.559 it out and then look at the root system. And 344 00:18:45.640 --> 00:18:47.920 that's what I'll do. If the plant's going to be 345 00:18:48.000 --> 00:18:49.440 in the ground a long time, like a tree or 346 00:18:49.480 --> 00:18:51.559 a shrub. If you see a lot of roots going 347 00:18:51.599 --> 00:18:54.720 around in a circle, cut them because they don't unwind 348 00:18:54.839 --> 00:18:58.799 underground and they don't move out and establish as well 349 00:18:59.599 --> 00:19:02.960 as if you cut them. And it's hard to cut roots. 350 00:19:03.079 --> 00:19:05.119 I know that you're thinking, I'm going to kill this plant. 351 00:19:05.279 --> 00:19:08.119 No you're not, No, you're not. It's like pruning back 352 00:19:08.200 --> 00:19:10.920 the top. If you prune a plant back, what happens. 353 00:19:11.079 --> 00:19:14.440 It sprouts out several new shoots everywhere you prune to 354 00:19:14.519 --> 00:19:18.799 shoot out, and it does. If you've seen that, the 355 00:19:18.839 --> 00:19:21.519 same thing happens in the roots you cut those roots. 356 00:19:21.960 --> 00:19:24.160 If you were to cut the roots and put it 357 00:19:24.240 --> 00:19:26.279 back in the pot or put it in the ground 358 00:19:26.480 --> 00:19:28.720 and then pull it up in about two or three weeks, 359 00:19:28.880 --> 00:19:32.680 you would see all these new, white, healthy roots venturing 360 00:19:32.759 --> 00:19:36.279 out from back behind where you cut them. That is 361 00:19:36.359 --> 00:19:40.839 how a plant grows, and that helps avoid a circling 362 00:19:40.960 --> 00:19:43.839 root growing bigger as the trunk goes bigger and ending 363 00:19:43.920 --> 00:19:46.279 up strangling the tree. And I have seen that before. 364 00:19:46.920 --> 00:19:48.559 But cut the roots before you put them in the 365 00:19:48.640 --> 00:19:52.000 ground and a watermen really good. With a quality product, 366 00:19:52.200 --> 00:19:54.480 you're going to end up having a good chance of 367 00:19:54.640 --> 00:19:59.240 success getting those things off on the right foot to success. 368 00:20:00.599 --> 00:20:03.960 I always talk about Medina's has to grow six twelve six. 369 00:20:04.440 --> 00:20:06.640 That's an excellent product for that, and I want to 370 00:20:06.839 --> 00:20:08.240 I want to talk to you a little bit about 371 00:20:08.279 --> 00:20:10.039 that one when I when I come back here in 372 00:20:10.079 --> 00:20:12.160 a minute. But that's one that I mix. 373 00:20:12.079 --> 00:20:12.519 It in water. 374 00:20:12.599 --> 00:20:15.079 I put it in a watering can and water the 375 00:20:15.160 --> 00:20:18.440 plant in really good. Sometimes I'll even soak the whole 376 00:20:18.559 --> 00:20:21.240 root ball in medina has to grow six to twelve six, 377 00:20:21.480 --> 00:20:23.119 then put it in the ground. That way, you got 378 00:20:23.160 --> 00:20:26.759 a good soaking, plenty of phosphors there for those developing roots. 379 00:20:27.039 --> 00:20:29.079 Time for me to take a break. We'll be right back. 380 00:20:30.039 --> 00:20:31.319 There will be days like this. 381 00:20:31.640 --> 00:20:32.920 There will be days like. 382 00:20:33.039 --> 00:20:38.519 This, my mama say, all right, there will be days 383 00:20:38.559 --> 00:20:40.160 like this. In fact, we're gonna have days like this 384 00:20:40.359 --> 00:20:44.240 for the first part of this week. Folks. Take out 385 00:20:44.279 --> 00:20:48.519 your weather app and look at it. Is wonderful. We've 386 00:20:48.599 --> 00:20:51.119 got some cool temperatures to kind of give us in 387 00:20:51.160 --> 00:20:54.119 a little chili side this morning. But that's okay. We 388 00:20:54.240 --> 00:20:58.119 got sunshine, sunshine, sunshine. Going into this week, it looks wonderful. 389 00:20:58.400 --> 00:21:03.039 The temperatures are mild. It is gardening weather, and we 390 00:21:03.240 --> 00:21:06.079 are excited. I am excited about that because I got 391 00:21:06.079 --> 00:21:07.599 a lot of things I need to get done out 392 00:21:07.640 --> 00:21:11.799 there in the yard and garden. If you are looking 393 00:21:12.000 --> 00:21:17.799 for a horticultural tourism experience for a garden center, Okay, 394 00:21:18.640 --> 00:21:21.240 Moss Nursery and Seabrook is when you need to go 395 00:21:21.359 --> 00:21:24.000 to it is. It's down there on Toddville Road in 396 00:21:24.119 --> 00:21:28.319 Seabrook and it is eight acres cram full of gorgeous plants. 397 00:21:28.440 --> 00:21:32.960 I mean beautiful things. Flowers everywhere. They're hanging baskets full 398 00:21:33.000 --> 00:21:36.519 of flowers, the flats of flowers, the red bud trees, 399 00:21:36.640 --> 00:21:40.279 the pink Japanese magnolias, you know, those are the ones 400 00:21:40.359 --> 00:21:43.200 that bloom in the spring before they get leaves, and 401 00:21:43.319 --> 00:21:44.880 then the leaves come on and they're one of the 402 00:21:45.000 --> 00:21:46.680 earliest harbingers of spring. 403 00:21:46.759 --> 00:21:46.920 Oh. 404 00:21:46.960 --> 00:21:50.400 I've been looking to use that word today, Harbingers of spring. Yeah. 405 00:21:50.400 --> 00:21:53.720 I love Japanese magnolias, their gorgs and the amazing white 406 00:21:53.839 --> 00:21:57.880 Chinese fringe tree. The Chinese fringe tree is my favorite 407 00:21:57.960 --> 00:21:59.880 spring blooming tree. I know there's a lot of the 408 00:22:00.079 --> 00:22:02.960 good ones. I just love it. Billows of white blooms, 409 00:22:03.000 --> 00:22:04.640 and they've got them there at Moss Nursery. They have 410 00:22:05.200 --> 00:22:07.519 all kinds of flowering shrubs. They have twenty different kinds 411 00:22:07.519 --> 00:22:09.640 of azalias. They've got beautiful hedranges. 412 00:22:10.319 --> 00:22:10.440 Uh. 413 00:22:10.880 --> 00:22:14.119 And I like hanging baskets. I like containers in general, 414 00:22:14.160 --> 00:22:17.279 but hanging baskets too. You know, you just put them 415 00:22:17.319 --> 00:22:20.119 wherever you want beauty and color. If you've got a 416 00:22:20.200 --> 00:22:24.359 big beautiful area with you know, trees maybe spreading out, 417 00:22:25.039 --> 00:22:27.720 you can put hanging baskets that tolerate the shade. It 418 00:22:27.759 --> 00:22:30.480 could be ferns, it could be impatients in those areas. 419 00:22:30.519 --> 00:22:33.440 I've even used houseplants for summer and hanging baskets like 420 00:22:33.519 --> 00:22:36.599 Pathos ivy coming out underneath the trees in an area 421 00:22:36.759 --> 00:22:39.799 like that, and then in the sun hanging baskets full 422 00:22:39.880 --> 00:22:44.160 of color. Thousand flats of different color plants at Moss there. 423 00:22:44.279 --> 00:22:47.599 I mean that they the trucks line up down the 424 00:22:47.640 --> 00:22:50.960 block bringing them stuffs all the time. From Alyssam to 425 00:22:51.119 --> 00:22:54.400 Zenia's a to z. They have bones eye, both mature 426 00:22:54.440 --> 00:22:56.400 ones and starter plants, so if you like to try 427 00:22:56.480 --> 00:22:59.160 that as a hobby. They probably have fifty eight hundred 428 00:22:59.160 --> 00:23:03.200 different kinds of bones. I think that's really cool. And 429 00:23:03.359 --> 00:23:05.880 while you're there, check out those quirky T shirt designs 430 00:23:05.920 --> 00:23:09.000 that Jim comes up with. At Moss Nursery. Jim Moss 431 00:23:09.039 --> 00:23:11.960 has a thing a series. It's the Eyeball Plant and 432 00:23:12.039 --> 00:23:14.279 you just have to go see it. It's funky stuff, 433 00:23:15.319 --> 00:23:18.839 all right. Moss Nursery, seventy year old, family operated eight 434 00:23:18.920 --> 00:23:22.799 acre source of everything you need, Toddville Road, Seabrook, Texas. 435 00:23:22.880 --> 00:23:26.400 Go to Moss Maas Nursery dot com or give them 436 00:23:26.440 --> 00:23:29.519 a call to eight one four seven four twenty four 437 00:23:29.920 --> 00:23:32.880 eighty eight. That would be a fun outing this afternoon 438 00:23:33.240 --> 00:23:38.079 or anytime this week. Let's go back to the phones. 439 00:23:38.519 --> 00:23:41.440 We're going to go to Austin County and talk to Terry. Hello, Terry, 440 00:23:41.480 --> 00:23:42.359 welcome to garden Line. 441 00:23:43.519 --> 00:23:47.440 Yes, hi, skip bro Richter. I know this is the 442 00:23:47.519 --> 00:23:56.599 garden lot, but we got an environmental catastrophe in Alton County. 443 00:23:57.119 --> 00:24:01.440 They we have a two hundred acre farm. They theem 444 00:24:02.559 --> 00:24:04.359 the town of sam Philip Day. 445 00:24:05.200 --> 00:24:09.200 Terry, Terry, Terry, I need to come in. There's not 446 00:24:09.279 --> 00:24:11.039 going to be a topic that I can address here 447 00:24:11.119 --> 00:24:11.799 on guarden Line. 448 00:24:12.640 --> 00:24:13.279 So thank you. 449 00:24:13.359 --> 00:24:16.000 I appreciate you calling me, but not one I can do. 450 00:24:16.720 --> 00:24:19.759 All right, Let's see what was I Oh? I was 451 00:24:19.799 --> 00:24:25.680 telling you about Medina while ago. The Medina products, they've 452 00:24:25.680 --> 00:24:29.759 been around since nineteen fifties. They in fact, I think 453 00:24:29.920 --> 00:24:32.240 from the time garden Lines started back in the Dewey 454 00:24:32.279 --> 00:24:35.960 Compton days, Medina Products were a sponsor of the show. 455 00:24:36.279 --> 00:24:38.079 They've been around that long. And I was telling you 456 00:24:38.119 --> 00:24:41.599 about the six twelve six. It's the Medina has to 457 00:24:41.680 --> 00:24:44.640 grow plant six twelve six plant food, and I use 458 00:24:44.680 --> 00:24:47.000 it for transplanting. It's not the only thing you. 459 00:24:47.079 --> 00:24:47.440 Use it for. 460 00:24:47.680 --> 00:24:51.240 But it's got a real high phosphor's number and root development. 461 00:24:51.279 --> 00:24:53.920 It's important to have good phosphorus content in the soil 462 00:24:54.079 --> 00:24:57.440 as those roots begin to develop. It's part of that 463 00:24:57.519 --> 00:25:00.480 whole process. Phosphorus serves a number of functions the plant. 464 00:25:01.240 --> 00:25:03.759 But I'll start it off with a good soaking with that, 465 00:25:04.079 --> 00:25:06.880 and then about a week later, ten days, two weeks, whatever. 466 00:25:07.160 --> 00:25:09.319 Just come back to it. For me, it's about a 467 00:25:09.400 --> 00:25:12.119 week soak it again, and then about a week later 468 00:25:12.359 --> 00:25:14.279 soak it again with the Medina has to grow six 469 00:25:14.359 --> 00:25:16.160 twelve six It's easy to do. You put a little 470 00:25:16.160 --> 00:25:17.640 bit in water. You're not going to burn with it. 471 00:25:18.240 --> 00:25:19.640 I'm not gonna hurt the plants. I mean, you can 472 00:25:19.720 --> 00:25:23.559 use it a folio spray. It's that safe. But it works. 473 00:25:24.039 --> 00:25:26.839 And so when you're doing a new plant in the ground, 474 00:25:27.440 --> 00:25:30.759 the goal is to take that transplant and get it 475 00:25:31.480 --> 00:25:33.319 off to a good start. I like to say you 476 00:25:33.440 --> 00:25:36.039 wanted to hit the ground running, and medina has to 477 00:25:36.119 --> 00:25:41.839 grow six twelve six days, just exactly that in my 478 00:25:42.880 --> 00:25:45.759 vegetable garden. If you could see it right now, you 479 00:25:45.839 --> 00:25:49.079 would probably wonder what happened. And it's because I just 480 00:25:49.160 --> 00:25:52.400 did a major renovation of the whole thing. I've got 481 00:25:52.519 --> 00:25:55.240 leaves in the walkways. I'll talk about that more maybe later, 482 00:25:55.880 --> 00:25:58.440 and then in the beds I have shredded leaves and 483 00:25:58.559 --> 00:26:01.920 it's all well, all barren. I've got a number of 484 00:26:01.960 --> 00:26:06.519 different kinds of multiplying onions right now, but tomatoes, some 485 00:26:06.680 --> 00:26:09.119 tomatoes are out there. I've got a pepper, of course 486 00:26:09.200 --> 00:26:12.000 out there, some strawberries and things. But I'm getting ready 487 00:26:12.000 --> 00:26:15.319 because I do a lot of okra breeding every summer. 488 00:26:15.519 --> 00:26:19.440 It's just something I like to do. It's fun and 489 00:26:19.680 --> 00:26:23.160 maybe maybe if you have never tried plant breeding on 490 00:26:23.240 --> 00:26:27.079 your own. Sometimes it's really easy. There's some plants it's 491 00:26:27.200 --> 00:26:29.480 not hard to cross. But anyway, I need a lot 492 00:26:29.519 --> 00:26:31.319 of space for that, and I have enough for the 493 00:26:31.480 --> 00:26:35.759 vegetables that we want to eat, for the for the 494 00:26:36.000 --> 00:26:38.680 kitchen and everything. But I'm getting ready for all those 495 00:26:38.799 --> 00:26:41.640 got the seeds out and one of the things I do, 496 00:26:42.279 --> 00:26:45.359 and boy Okra would not be happy germinating and temperatures 497 00:26:45.519 --> 00:26:47.680 like this morning. It likes it to warm up a 498 00:26:47.720 --> 00:26:51.279 little bit. But I'll pre soak this seed the night before. 499 00:26:51.960 --> 00:26:54.240 And I don't do this with all seed, but with 500 00:26:54.359 --> 00:26:56.279 a lot of them I do. Some seed have a 501 00:26:56.359 --> 00:26:59.240 hard seed coat. Some seed are a little slow to germinate. 502 00:27:00.000 --> 00:27:03.079 But if you put them in pretty hot water. Let's 503 00:27:03.119 --> 00:27:06.200 say you do that this evening, okay, and then the 504 00:27:06.319 --> 00:27:08.359 next morning you're gonna plant, or the next day you're 505 00:27:08.359 --> 00:27:09.680 gonna plant. You don't want to leave in the water 506 00:27:09.759 --> 00:27:11.519 for a long time. Put them in pretty hot water 507 00:27:11.559 --> 00:27:13.359 and then just let it cool down a room temperature, 508 00:27:13.400 --> 00:27:16.720 and that speeds up the absorption of water into the seed. 509 00:27:16.880 --> 00:27:20.440 The term is imbibing. The seed imbibes the water and 510 00:27:20.559 --> 00:27:24.920 when water gets into that interior part of that dry 511 00:27:25.799 --> 00:27:30.359 not dead. It looks dead asleep seed. It starts biochemical 512 00:27:30.480 --> 00:27:34.240 reactions that wakes it up, and here comes a root out, 513 00:27:34.279 --> 00:27:37.200 and then here comes a shootout, and all the things 514 00:27:37.279 --> 00:27:40.039 that help a seed become a plant start to happen 515 00:27:40.680 --> 00:27:43.640 once it soaks in some water. And so by doing 516 00:27:43.680 --> 00:27:46.400 that the night before, you get a good head start. 517 00:27:46.519 --> 00:27:49.240 Now sometimes this is just kind of me going on 518 00:27:49.680 --> 00:27:54.000 for those of you who are interested. Sometimes with the okra, 519 00:27:54.119 --> 00:27:56.880 I'll soak it overnight and then I'll put it in 520 00:27:57.319 --> 00:28:00.839 like either moist paper towels in a zip closure bag, 521 00:28:01.200 --> 00:28:03.920 or I'll put it in little jars of water with 522 00:28:04.000 --> 00:28:06.960 a lid, but just a tiny bit of water enough 523 00:28:07.000 --> 00:28:09.880 where the seed is sticking up and getting oxygen. It's 524 00:28:09.920 --> 00:28:13.319 not completely submerged, but it's getting oxygen, but it's still 525 00:28:13.440 --> 00:28:16.200 staying moist. And then just watch them for a few days, 526 00:28:16.759 --> 00:28:20.240 and if your seeds are not all viable, if they're not, 527 00:28:20.599 --> 00:28:22.519 like maybe it's an old package of seed and you're 528 00:28:22.559 --> 00:28:25.119 wondering which of these is still going to come up, 529 00:28:25.680 --> 00:28:27.960 you'll see it little rootles start out, and don't leave 530 00:28:27.960 --> 00:28:29.839 it long. Go ahead and plant it. When you first 531 00:28:29.839 --> 00:28:32.079 start to see the root come out, and you'll have 532 00:28:32.920 --> 00:28:35.920 a better way of knowing how which seeds to plant, 533 00:28:35.960 --> 00:28:37.599 which ones are going to come up, or how many 534 00:28:37.680 --> 00:28:40.200 to plant or whatever. Anyway, that's just a little added tip. 535 00:28:40.319 --> 00:28:42.839 Not something you have to do for sure, but something 536 00:28:42.920 --> 00:28:45.720 I think that you may want to give a good try. 537 00:28:48.079 --> 00:28:50.240 League City Feed is down in League City. It's on 538 00:28:50.559 --> 00:28:53.400 It's on Highway three, just a few blocks south of 539 00:28:53.480 --> 00:28:55.839 ninety six. It serves that whole region down there, and 540 00:28:55.920 --> 00:29:01.359 it's that typical old time feedstore that I just grew 541 00:29:01.440 --> 00:29:05.839 up in. I love nitrophos as, microlife, heirloom soils, you know, 542 00:29:06.039 --> 00:29:08.920 Nelson platfood. It's got everything you need to have success 543 00:29:09.000 --> 00:29:11.200 with your plants. They carry the bags out for you 544 00:29:11.279 --> 00:29:13.000 if you want them to do that. They're open Monday 545 00:29:13.039 --> 00:29:16.160 through Saturday nine to six. Are close today two eight 546 00:29:16.240 --> 00:29:20.039 one three three two one six one two. This is 547 00:29:20.079 --> 00:29:23.680 a third generation of Thunderbirds running League City Feed, and 548 00:29:23.880 --> 00:29:26.000 the stores just as good as it ever was. I 549 00:29:26.119 --> 00:29:26.920 love going in there. 550 00:29:27.519 --> 00:29:27.799 All right. 551 00:29:27.839 --> 00:29:29.720 I'm gonna take a break and I'll be right back 552 00:29:32.839 --> 00:29:36.359 along night. All right, welcome back, Welcome back to the 553 00:29:36.400 --> 00:29:39.599 guard Line. Hey, the phone number to write this one 554 00:29:39.680 --> 00:29:42.960 down seven one three two one two k t r 555 00:29:43.240 --> 00:29:46.880 H seven one three two one two kt r H 556 00:29:47.599 --> 00:29:51.880 Nitrophas super Turf is designed to gradually feed your lawn 557 00:29:52.000 --> 00:29:56.440 over four months. It's a beautiful blend four to one 558 00:29:56.720 --> 00:29:59.880 two ratio basically four one two racio fertilizer. So it's 559 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:01.880 I got an extra pack of nitrogen in it, but 560 00:30:02.000 --> 00:30:03.720 it doesn't release it all at once. It's good that 561 00:30:03.920 --> 00:30:07.039 nitrogen is going to be released over sixteen weeks and 562 00:30:07.160 --> 00:30:09.119 it works well. It's easy to spot in the store 563 00:30:09.119 --> 00:30:12.640 because it's a silver bag silver Nitropas Super Turf silver 564 00:30:12.920 --> 00:30:15.079 slow release. That's what you need to remember. Works on 565 00:30:15.160 --> 00:30:18.240 all our southern turf crisis in Augustine, Bermuda and Zysia. 566 00:30:18.680 --> 00:30:20.400 You're going to find it at places like in Chinned 567 00:30:20.440 --> 00:30:24.680 Gardens down Richmond Rosenberg area, if you are around Court 568 00:30:24.720 --> 00:30:27.359 Hardware on South Maine and Stafford, or m and d 569 00:30:27.640 --> 00:30:31.799 up in Cyprus on Luetta Road, places that carry nitrovoss products. 570 00:30:33.480 --> 00:30:39.839 I was talking about earlier, the idea of you know, 571 00:30:39.960 --> 00:30:44.000 watering in our plants really well with a soluble fertilizer 572 00:30:44.079 --> 00:30:48.039 food and just something you always want to remember and do. 573 00:30:48.200 --> 00:30:51.480 By the way, now I wanted to just mention a 574 00:30:51.559 --> 00:30:53.839 little bit more about that leaves in the walkway that 575 00:30:53.920 --> 00:30:57.799 are in my garden. In the garden, I put leaves 576 00:30:57.880 --> 00:31:00.640 in my walkways. I've got the beds, the race and 577 00:31:00.759 --> 00:31:03.480 then the walkways. And rather than you know, having to 578 00:31:03.559 --> 00:31:06.079 deal with weeds and mud and when it range too 579 00:31:06.160 --> 00:31:09.039 much and stuff like that, I just pile leaves and 580 00:31:09.160 --> 00:31:11.240 I gather them. In the fall season of the year, 581 00:31:11.319 --> 00:31:13.440 I just gathered a whole bunch when all the the 582 00:31:13.759 --> 00:31:16.079 live oak leaves came off the trees, and you know, 583 00:31:16.160 --> 00:31:18.279 put those in and I put them really thick in 584 00:31:18.359 --> 00:31:20.559 there and walk on them, and they just decompose away. 585 00:31:20.640 --> 00:31:22.920 They go down over time, so you keep adding them 586 00:31:22.960 --> 00:31:24.720 to it, just keep adding them and adding them. It's 587 00:31:24.759 --> 00:31:28.039 a weed free walkway. It's an all weather walkway. The 588 00:31:28.160 --> 00:31:30.440 end of the season, you're gonna still see dry leaves 589 00:31:30.480 --> 00:31:33.039 on top. But if you'll rake those back, what you'll 590 00:31:33.039 --> 00:31:37.000 see down below is chocolate brown decomposing leaf mold. It's 591 00:31:37.039 --> 00:31:40.000 called leaf mold, not bread mold. It's just a term 592 00:31:40.160 --> 00:31:43.440 used that means it's about a halfway to compost leaf. Okay, 593 00:31:43.559 --> 00:31:46.039 you can still see little flat sections like oh, this 594 00:31:46.319 --> 00:31:50.079 was a leaf broken apart, but it's good stuff and 595 00:31:50.200 --> 00:31:52.559 that can go right into your beds. Mix it in 596 00:31:52.799 --> 00:31:55.359 good organic matter and then just lay the old dry 597 00:31:55.440 --> 00:31:58.039 leaves back down and start the process again. If you 598 00:31:58.079 --> 00:31:59.920 want to speed it up, you can throw some fertilile 599 00:32:00.119 --> 00:32:03.119 are on. It's some nitrogen, primarily rote a. Till it 600 00:32:03.200 --> 00:32:05.160 in to break them up, chop them up a little bit, 601 00:32:05.279 --> 00:32:07.960 make sure it stays moist during dry times when we 602 00:32:08.039 --> 00:32:10.640 don't get rain. But that's a way you can make 603 00:32:10.720 --> 00:32:14.359 a lot of compost in your walkways while having the 604 00:32:14.440 --> 00:32:17.720 benefits of no weeds an all weather surface. Just a 605 00:32:17.839 --> 00:32:21.519 tip for you to think about. One of my favorite 606 00:32:21.559 --> 00:32:24.680 garden centers to go visit is Enchanted Forest. Jenni Forest 607 00:32:24.799 --> 00:32:28.039 is down in Richmond Rosenberg area. In fact, it's on 608 00:32:28.400 --> 00:32:31.920 FM twenty seven fifty nine. And in Chanted Forest always 609 00:32:32.400 --> 00:32:35.119 always is an interesting place that is going to be 610 00:32:35.200 --> 00:32:37.960 loaded with every kind of plant that you would want. 611 00:32:38.039 --> 00:32:40.960 And I mean that because every time I go, I 612 00:32:41.039 --> 00:32:43.920 am so surprised at the different things they carry. Now 613 00:32:43.960 --> 00:32:47.000 they specialize in everything. I mean, really, how can you 614 00:32:47.039 --> 00:32:51.079 specialize in everything? Well, they do. At Ingented Forest, you're 615 00:32:51.119 --> 00:32:55.599 going to find plants for pollinators, they great selection. You're 616 00:32:55.640 --> 00:32:58.400 going to find flowering trees like that Chinese fringe I've 617 00:32:58.400 --> 00:33:01.720 been talking about. You're going to find plants for summer heat, 618 00:33:02.319 --> 00:33:06.480 like Madagascar periwinkle, which most people call vinca. There's a 619 00:33:06.519 --> 00:33:09.799 couple of incas, so I like to call it Madagascar periwinkle. 620 00:33:10.359 --> 00:33:14.119 You're gonna find color plants like roses. Oh gosh, they 621 00:33:14.160 --> 00:33:18.400 have an awesome selection of roses, great selection of containers, 622 00:33:18.920 --> 00:33:21.839 and then really cool fun stuff. You know, the unique 623 00:33:21.920 --> 00:33:25.519 canmade cedar houses for birds and bats and butterflies, and 624 00:33:26.359 --> 00:33:30.160 the yard arc you know, the decoratives, the outdoor decoratives 625 00:33:30.240 --> 00:33:32.359 and things. They've got everything you need there. Do you 626 00:33:32.400 --> 00:33:36.119 have shady areas well? Go buy visit some of their kalladiums. 627 00:33:36.440 --> 00:33:38.400 Look at some of the other shade loving plants that 628 00:33:38.480 --> 00:33:42.519 they have. All this enchanted Forest in Richmond, And here's 629 00:33:42.599 --> 00:33:47.319 the website you want to use. This website Enchanted Forest, Richmond, 630 00:33:47.839 --> 00:33:52.279 t X. Don't forget the TX dot com Enchanted Forest Richmond, 631 00:33:52.759 --> 00:33:55.039 TX dot com. Go check it out. Check it out. 632 00:33:55.039 --> 00:33:56.839 You'll see what I'm talking about. Be a great place 633 00:33:56.920 --> 00:34:02.160 to take some friends and go visit. This afternoon. So anyway, 634 00:34:02.480 --> 00:34:04.960 I was kind of talking about some different tips as 635 00:34:05.000 --> 00:34:09.079 we go through here. You know, I think that one 636 00:34:09.119 --> 00:34:12.800 of the things that a lot of gardeners don't really 637 00:34:14.599 --> 00:34:19.519 understand is what microbes are doing in the soil and 638 00:34:19.679 --> 00:34:22.960 why we talk so much about microbes. And we talk 639 00:34:23.000 --> 00:34:28.639 about microbes because microbes help build the soil, and microbes 640 00:34:28.840 --> 00:34:32.639 also help the plants. Now this is mind blowing, but 641 00:34:32.800 --> 00:34:35.760 did you know that there are microbes that can go 642 00:34:35.920 --> 00:34:39.320 up to a root and communicate with the root and 643 00:34:39.559 --> 00:34:44.559 cause that plant send a signal that causes the plant 644 00:34:45.320 --> 00:34:47.800 to grow in a different way that helps it fight 645 00:34:47.920 --> 00:34:49.079 a disease up on top. 646 00:34:49.960 --> 00:34:50.480 We have it there. 647 00:34:50.519 --> 00:34:54.000 In fact, there's a product you can buy. It's a Bacillus. 648 00:34:54.280 --> 00:34:58.159 You know, we have bt Bacillis, the or in gensis 649 00:34:58.199 --> 00:35:01.639 that kills caterpillars. Well, this is a different Basillius bacteria 650 00:35:01.840 --> 00:35:03.840 in the soil. It's a native bacteria in the soil 651 00:35:04.519 --> 00:35:09.559 and it's a long one Basillus amelo licopations gezantite. 652 00:35:09.719 --> 00:35:09.920 I know. 653 00:35:10.599 --> 00:35:14.639 But this basillis you can purchase it in different kinds 654 00:35:14.719 --> 00:35:17.079 of products. There are several products on the market that 655 00:35:17.239 --> 00:35:20.159 have it, and it has a you'll see on there 656 00:35:20.440 --> 00:35:24.360 where you look at the basillis meato ecofacians. My apologies, 657 00:35:24.440 --> 00:35:27.639 but that's the word. It'll say D seven forty seven. 658 00:35:27.719 --> 00:35:30.159 So think of the airplane, a seven forty seven airplane 659 00:35:30.239 --> 00:35:33.320 D seven forty seven. That's the strain that's sold and 660 00:35:33.440 --> 00:35:37.159 you drench it into the soil and it actually communicates 661 00:35:37.199 --> 00:35:39.880 with the roots and benefits the plant in that way. 662 00:35:40.320 --> 00:35:43.639 There are microbes that connect, like fungi that connect one 663 00:35:43.719 --> 00:35:46.960 plant's roots to another to signal between those. I could 664 00:35:46.960 --> 00:35:50.119 do a whole show just on some of the basic 665 00:35:50.239 --> 00:35:52.880 things that microbes do in the soil. It's really cool. 666 00:35:53.159 --> 00:35:56.679 And so anytime we are helping our microbes to do well, 667 00:35:57.840 --> 00:36:01.440 we're helping our plants. So, for example, when you keep 668 00:36:01.480 --> 00:36:04.199 the soil adequately moist, when you make sure the soil 669 00:36:04.320 --> 00:36:07.840 is where well air rated, not water logged. Water logged, 670 00:36:08.320 --> 00:36:11.440 there are microbes that can't live submerged. There are microbes 671 00:36:11.519 --> 00:36:15.840 that can live without any oxygen, but those are generally 672 00:36:15.960 --> 00:36:18.679 not good microbes. Most of those are not good microbes 673 00:36:18.719 --> 00:36:20.760 to have. So we want a well drained soil. That's 674 00:36:20.800 --> 00:36:24.920 our preference. And then another thing is organic matter in 675 00:36:25.000 --> 00:36:29.119 the soil compost. In the soil compost another whole show 676 00:36:29.440 --> 00:36:32.960 just on what compost does. It's effect on soil structure, 677 00:36:33.440 --> 00:36:37.000 keeping the soil open, keeping oxygen down in the soil, well, 678 00:36:37.119 --> 00:36:39.920 aer orated water goes in and it drains through well, 679 00:36:40.039 --> 00:36:42.679 it holds moisture better if it's a sand, for example. 680 00:36:43.639 --> 00:36:47.519 And then the compost also is foodstock for a lot 681 00:36:47.559 --> 00:36:50.599 of the microbes. Now, microbes need carbon, and there's a 682 00:36:50.639 --> 00:36:54.840 lot of carbon in decomposing leaves, for example, but there's 683 00:36:54.880 --> 00:36:57.840 also carbon in some products. Swee Green is an example 684 00:36:57.960 --> 00:37:01.480 that one's from nitropost. It is basically a sugar, and 685 00:37:01.519 --> 00:37:05.719 a sugar is basically a carbon chain, okay, And when 686 00:37:05.760 --> 00:37:08.000 you put that down in the soil, and organic gardeners 687 00:37:08.039 --> 00:37:10.679 have long known that molasses in the soil is good 688 00:37:10.760 --> 00:37:14.880 for some of those beneficial microbes, especially the bacteria that 689 00:37:16.079 --> 00:37:18.480 it's going to benefit the soil. And Sweet Green's eleven 690 00:37:18.519 --> 00:37:22.000 percent nitrogen fertilizer, which is pretty high for an organic product, 691 00:37:22.400 --> 00:37:24.280 but you put it down and so you're getting the 692 00:37:24.400 --> 00:37:29.000 nitrogen in the soil, but you're also helping stimulate microbial activity. 693 00:37:29.519 --> 00:37:31.760 And I was just giving you a few examples. There 694 00:37:31.800 --> 00:37:35.280 are just a really random few, but there are hundreds 695 00:37:35.280 --> 00:37:38.360 and hundreds of examples of what microbes do in the 696 00:37:38.440 --> 00:37:40.480 soil and why we want to take care of them. 697 00:37:40.840 --> 00:37:43.039 When your soil is full of microbes, your roots are 698 00:37:43.079 --> 00:37:45.280 going to be happy because it's going to mean the 699 00:37:45.400 --> 00:37:49.320 soil condition is suitable for roots also, and you're going 700 00:37:49.400 --> 00:37:51.159 to see results. Oh by the way, if you're looking 701 00:37:51.199 --> 00:37:53.320 for sweet green, you're going to find it at places 702 00:37:54.199 --> 00:37:57.159 really nitfoss products are carried like at Langham Cree Case 703 00:37:57.199 --> 00:38:00.480 Hardware on five point twenty nine m and d out 704 00:38:00.519 --> 00:38:04.440 in Rosenberg and let's see where. Oh you could also 705 00:38:04.519 --> 00:38:07.480 go to the Acid Single Ranch, Mason Road. Those are 706 00:38:07.599 --> 00:38:11.000 just a few of many, many, many examples of where 707 00:38:11.039 --> 00:38:17.519 you get nitrofoss products. So think about that. I guess 708 00:38:17.599 --> 00:38:21.000 I could say, you know, hug a microbe today, but 709 00:38:21.159 --> 00:38:24.280 that would be kind of weird. But they do so 710 00:38:24.440 --> 00:38:28.119 much for us. Microbes rule the world. They do, they do, 711 00:38:28.719 --> 00:38:31.719 And you get me talking about microbes and I just 712 00:38:31.800 --> 00:38:35.360 won't shut up. In fact, I'm coming up on a 713 00:38:35.400 --> 00:38:37.599 break here, so I'm just gonna talk until the music 714 00:38:37.719 --> 00:38:41.079 makes me stop. Do you know that the microbes in 715 00:38:41.239 --> 00:38:46.000 your intestinal tract through your intestinal track? Do you know 716 00:38:46.199 --> 00:38:49.960 that they produce more serotonin, the feel good chemical, than 717 00:38:50.000 --> 00:38:54.280 you do. So we benefit in just in our well 718 00:38:54.360 --> 00:38:56.679 being from the fact that we have microbes. Did you 719 00:38:56.800 --> 00:38:59.719 know that there are more cells in your body that 720 00:38:59.800 --> 00:39:03.159 are not you than are you? If you can't the 721 00:39:03.280 --> 00:39:05.719 number of cells that are you and the number of 722 00:39:05.840 --> 00:39:09.320 cells that are let's say, microbes that are in through 723 00:39:09.400 --> 00:39:14.199 your intestinal there's more of them than there are you. Basically, 724 00:39:14.360 --> 00:39:20.800 you're a school bus for carrying passengers around. That's true, 725 00:39:21.239 --> 00:39:24.280 but they all do good things they do, and it's 726 00:39:24.320 --> 00:39:28.400 a cool, cool thing. Without microbes, we wouldn't have cheese 727 00:39:28.880 --> 00:39:32.639 without microbes. That wouldn't have beer. Without microbes, we wouldn't 728 00:39:32.679 --> 00:39:34.760 have a lot of things that we enjoy in life. 729 00:39:35.599 --> 00:39:40.800 And when it comes to plants therein take a plan 730 00:39:40.920 --> 00:39:45.400 into space and squirt fertilizer water on the roots hanging 731 00:39:45.480 --> 00:39:48.039 in mid air, floating around in space, and shine a 732 00:39:48.119 --> 00:39:50.159 light on it and grow a tomato. You can do that. 733 00:39:51.519 --> 00:39:54.840 But in the natural system, it's all run by the microbes. 734 00:39:55.320 --> 00:39:58.000 They're doing it all and when we make them happy, 735 00:39:58.719 --> 00:40:03.639 we make the plants happy. That makes us happen. I'm 736 00:40:03.639 --> 00:40:05.360 gonna take a little break when we come back. Mike 737 00:40:05.440 --> 00:40:06.960 and Brenham. It'll be our first stop. 738 00:40:08.159 --> 00:40:19.400 Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Skimp Rickard's shop. 739 00:40:20.719 --> 00:40:22.320 Just watch him as. 740 00:40:27.159 --> 00:40:27.280 Us. 741 00:40:27.320 --> 00:40:29.480 So many birthdays to supers. 742 00:40:37.000 --> 00:40:38.719 Not a sound. 743 00:40:42.159 --> 00:40:49.280 Hey, good Sunday morning. Good Sunday morning to you. Hopefully 744 00:40:49.320 --> 00:40:50.880 you're getting a nice slow start. 745 00:40:51.960 --> 00:40:52.119 Yeah. 746 00:40:52.119 --> 00:40:55.400 I need time to wake up when I do Garden Line. 747 00:40:55.440 --> 00:40:57.519 I mean may the show may start at six, but 748 00:40:57.639 --> 00:41:00.840 I gotta start way before that because it just takes 749 00:41:00.880 --> 00:41:02.559 me a minute, you know, a cup of coffees, some 750 00:41:03.000 --> 00:41:06.719 quiet time sitting there and just kind of coming to 751 00:41:07.679 --> 00:41:11.800 Otherwise I'd be snoring on the radio, and that's bad radio. 752 00:41:11.960 --> 00:41:15.679 We don't want to do that. I was talking about 753 00:41:15.760 --> 00:41:19.480 microbes and importance of microbes, and you know, Microlife Fertilizers 754 00:41:19.519 --> 00:41:23.239 have built their entire company around that. That's why it's 755 00:41:23.280 --> 00:41:29.960 called micro Life. Okay, Microbes rule the world, and Microlife 756 00:41:30.039 --> 00:41:33.920 products are not only do they feed microbes, but they're 757 00:41:34.000 --> 00:41:38.039 chalk full of microbes and they're loaded with microbes. And 758 00:41:38.159 --> 00:41:41.039 so you take a product like a bag of Microlife 759 00:41:41.079 --> 00:41:46.679 sixty four, the typical lawn fertilizer from Microlife. I say typical, 760 00:41:46.760 --> 00:41:49.400 it's the standard one four lawns that they do. It's 761 00:41:49.440 --> 00:41:53.599 a green bag, okay, and it's got billions and billions 762 00:41:53.760 --> 00:41:57.079 beneficial microbes in it. It is a product that is 763 00:41:57.199 --> 00:42:01.480 made in such a way that it is taking organic 764 00:42:01.639 --> 00:42:05.320 matter and releasing the nutrients of organic matter back into 765 00:42:05.400 --> 00:42:09.199 the soil as microbes break that down. When you put 766 00:42:09.280 --> 00:42:13.119 microlife on the ground, it doesn't dissolve and the nutrients 767 00:42:13.239 --> 00:42:15.880 just wash out like a salt based fertilizer. It is 768 00:42:15.960 --> 00:42:18.920 a It is a product that microbes chew it apart 769 00:42:19.079 --> 00:42:21.320 and turn all those nutrients release and some of them 770 00:42:21.400 --> 00:42:23.320 go through their bodies and then as they die they 771 00:42:23.440 --> 00:42:26.199 release them and it's just part of that organic cycle. 772 00:42:26.400 --> 00:42:29.719 And that is how microlife basically works. That is that 773 00:42:29.920 --> 00:42:32.519 is what it's based on the natural cycle. So the 774 00:42:32.559 --> 00:42:34.679 six two four green bag, it's time to get that on, 775 00:42:34.840 --> 00:42:36.320 by the way, and you can put it on several 776 00:42:36.400 --> 00:42:41.039 times through the summer. It is a very gradual release, 777 00:42:41.159 --> 00:42:43.039 not salt based, so you're not going to burn your 778 00:42:43.079 --> 00:42:46.920 plants with the microlife product, and you can you can 779 00:42:46.960 --> 00:42:50.440 feed accordingly. Now it's a lawn fertilizer, but I use 780 00:42:50.440 --> 00:42:53.000 it in my vegetable gardens too. It's an excellent it's 781 00:42:53.039 --> 00:42:56.840 an excellent product for plants period. When you're thinking about 782 00:42:56.840 --> 00:42:59.119 the green bag, also think about the purple bag that's 783 00:42:59.239 --> 00:43:03.679 humate's plus. The humates are basically concentrated composts. And the 784 00:43:03.719 --> 00:43:05.480 way I like to put it is, you start with 785 00:43:05.599 --> 00:43:08.639 leaves and grass clippings. Let's say you turn those into 786 00:43:08.760 --> 00:43:11.960 compost as they decomposed, and then you let the compost 787 00:43:12.119 --> 00:43:15.960 keep going and it becomes humous the final stage, and 788 00:43:16.079 --> 00:43:19.440 humates plus is concentrated compost in a bag, and we 789 00:43:19.599 --> 00:43:22.559 put it on for the benefits to the microbial life 790 00:43:22.599 --> 00:43:25.320 in the soil and to the soil structure and everything itself. 791 00:43:25.800 --> 00:43:28.119 So that's why we're doing that. So you can do 792 00:43:28.199 --> 00:43:31.639 both bags, green and the purple bag. You're not going 793 00:43:31.719 --> 00:43:34.360 to end up with, you know, overdoing it that way. 794 00:43:34.480 --> 00:43:36.519 It's all right, you can do that. In fact, it's 795 00:43:36.519 --> 00:43:38.800 a good idea to do that. Micro Life products are 796 00:43:38.840 --> 00:43:40.840 sold all over town. They're easy to find, not a 797 00:43:40.880 --> 00:43:43.800 problem at all, most garden centers, most speed stores, most 798 00:43:44.719 --> 00:43:48.840 let's see Ace hardware stores, you know, Southwest Fertilizer for example, 799 00:43:48.920 --> 00:43:51.000 what have them, And you're going to find them at 800 00:43:51.000 --> 00:43:54.719 Ace hardware stores as well. Let's go out to Brenham, 801 00:43:54.920 --> 00:43:57.440 and we're going to now talk to Mike. Hey, Mike, 802 00:43:57.679 --> 00:43:58.679 welcome to garden Line. 803 00:44:00.039 --> 00:44:00.519 Worn to skip. 804 00:44:00.559 --> 00:44:00.840 Thank you. 805 00:44:01.360 --> 00:44:03.400 Uh, I just had a couple of questions. 806 00:44:03.719 --> 00:44:06.559 Uh, particularly you brought up rhizomes and microbes. 807 00:44:07.280 --> 00:44:07.400 Uh. 808 00:44:07.800 --> 00:44:10.800 I've got an acre. I'm trying to clear weeds out 809 00:44:10.840 --> 00:44:12.079 of my yard and stuff like that. 810 00:44:13.920 --> 00:44:14.880 I am using. 811 00:44:15.320 --> 00:44:17.840 Uh I believe a two four D product to kind 812 00:44:17.880 --> 00:44:21.519 of sin out those weeds. Anyways, but I've also been 813 00:44:21.559 --> 00:44:28.559 applying Balen's will that affect the microbes and rhizomes in 814 00:44:28.719 --> 00:44:29.239 the yard. 815 00:44:31.360 --> 00:44:31.480 Uh. 816 00:44:32.199 --> 00:44:33.960 Spell that word Balen's What. 817 00:44:34.559 --> 00:44:35.719 What are it is? 818 00:44:36.480 --> 00:44:39.280 It's it's uh it's a pre emergent for. 819 00:44:41.199 --> 00:44:41.639 Balans. 820 00:44:41.679 --> 00:44:42.679 Maybe a brand. 821 00:44:44.400 --> 00:44:48.920 Is a Baylan Okay, yeah, sure that's primer. 822 00:44:49.639 --> 00:44:49.760 Uh. 823 00:44:50.360 --> 00:44:52.800 Well, you know, any kind of products have a potential 824 00:44:52.920 --> 00:44:55.400 to do some damage. But you I would say, if 825 00:44:55.440 --> 00:44:58.119 you're using it according to the label, it's not going 826 00:44:58.199 --> 00:45:00.880 to significantly hurt the microbes anything in your yard. 827 00:45:01.639 --> 00:45:01.719 Uh. 828 00:45:01.960 --> 00:45:07.400 The the microbes have an incredible ability to reproduce one 829 00:45:07.519 --> 00:45:11.280 bacteria can become millions of bacteria in like twelve hours. 830 00:45:11.360 --> 00:45:14.400 I mean their ability to just divide and multiply it. 831 00:45:14.440 --> 00:45:19.079 It is incredible. So I wouldn't misuse it, and that'd 832 00:45:19.119 --> 00:45:21.639 be bad for your plants also. But if you use 833 00:45:21.639 --> 00:45:24.360 it at the right rate, and you use it according 834 00:45:24.400 --> 00:45:26.719 to the label, you're you're okay on. Your microbes are 835 00:45:26.719 --> 00:45:27.840 gonna they're gonna be fine. 836 00:45:29.599 --> 00:45:35.280 Will the grasses that that are their native grasses basically 837 00:45:35.400 --> 00:45:39.400 is what I grow? Will they continue to spread through 838 00:45:39.440 --> 00:45:44.880 the rhizomes? I realized the bayland will prevent prevent the 839 00:45:44.960 --> 00:45:49.480 seeds from germinating. Uh, but will the grass continue to spread? 840 00:45:51.480 --> 00:45:56.639 Yes, Baylan a rhizome kind of pretty much a rhizome 841 00:45:56.760 --> 00:46:00.880 indicates it's probably a perennial type of grass. And because 842 00:46:01.599 --> 00:46:06.679 like Bermuda grass has rhizomes, Zusio grass has rhizomes, Saint 843 00:46:06.679 --> 00:46:13.079 Augustine doesn't. But uh, yeah, so so that that would 844 00:46:13.159 --> 00:46:15.079 not be affected by the treating. 845 00:46:14.840 --> 00:46:18.480 It with baylan okay or and the two four D 846 00:46:18.719 --> 00:46:22.639 will will help limit extra weed growth. 847 00:46:24.519 --> 00:46:25.719 Broad Leaf two four. 848 00:46:25.639 --> 00:46:27.079 D is yeah. 849 00:46:27.199 --> 00:46:29.679 Two for D is primarily a broad leaf we control 850 00:46:29.760 --> 00:46:33.639 product for existing weeds. You don't put it down, and 851 00:46:34.559 --> 00:46:37.159 a broad leaf that hasn't sprouted yet is going to 852 00:46:37.159 --> 00:46:39.199 be affected. It's it's a you get it on the 853 00:46:39.320 --> 00:46:42.400 foliage of an existing weed. Now when the weather heats 854 00:46:42.440 --> 00:46:45.320 up once we get to you know, upper eighties and 855 00:46:45.440 --> 00:46:48.880 certainly nineties, two four D can really stress and damage 856 00:46:48.920 --> 00:46:51.920 your Saint Augustine. So if you have Saint Augustine as 857 00:46:51.960 --> 00:46:54.880 a lawn and so you want to avoid that. But 858 00:46:55.679 --> 00:46:57.719 hopefully that answers what you were asking. 859 00:46:58.880 --> 00:46:59.320 It does. 860 00:46:59.360 --> 00:47:03.679 And I have one more question. Nigropas's wood Master. I'm 861 00:47:03.719 --> 00:47:07.800 not finding a lot online, but do you like that product? 862 00:47:09.880 --> 00:47:10.079 Yeah? 863 00:47:10.119 --> 00:47:12.440 I have some and I use it. It's a it's 864 00:47:12.519 --> 00:47:15.519 used primarily for trees, that's why they named it that 865 00:47:16.320 --> 00:47:18.440 h And it's a blend of nutrients. I don't have 866 00:47:18.599 --> 00:47:21.800 the ratio right in my head right now on wood Master, 867 00:47:22.519 --> 00:47:24.920 but it's a blend of nutrients designed for trees and 868 00:47:25.000 --> 00:47:26.880 shrubs and it works. It's good stuff. 869 00:47:28.000 --> 00:47:29.000 Excellent, excellent. 870 00:47:29.559 --> 00:47:31.159 Yeah, this is my first year to try it, so 871 00:47:31.280 --> 00:47:31.880 I was curious. 872 00:47:33.000 --> 00:47:37.920 Okay, I appreciate you calling excellent. 873 00:47:38.000 --> 00:47:40.400 Thank you, Skip, But. 874 00:47:41.320 --> 00:47:46.159 Okay you take care, Thanks Mike. Uh time for me, 875 00:47:46.280 --> 00:47:48.400 take a break. I'll be right back. George and Jersey 876 00:47:48.519 --> 00:47:54.440 you'll be first, all righty, welcome back, Welcome back to 877 00:47:54.519 --> 00:48:02.760 guard Line. Glad to have you with us. You know, 878 00:48:03.039 --> 00:48:07.159 I talk about horticulture tourism on garden line. Basically, what 879 00:48:07.239 --> 00:48:12.320 I'm saying is you're going places to see gardening, to 880 00:48:12.360 --> 00:48:15.880 see gardens. And whenever I go to a town, I 881 00:48:15.920 --> 00:48:17.960 always you know, where's the botanical garden. I want to 882 00:48:18.000 --> 00:48:19.719 go check it out? And where are the best nurseries 883 00:48:19.840 --> 00:48:21.800 in town? And I tell you, every time I go 884 00:48:22.000 --> 00:48:25.000 to another city, and I've been to a lot of them, 885 00:48:25.920 --> 00:48:29.440 I always they're some nice garden centers. But I always 886 00:48:29.519 --> 00:48:31.760 leave thinking we are so lucky here in Houston because 887 00:48:31.800 --> 00:48:35.000 we have north south east West the best garden centers 888 00:48:35.199 --> 00:48:39.039 you're going to find anywhere in one specific place. In fact, 889 00:48:39.079 --> 00:48:43.000 the local Chamber of Commerce to somehow grab on to 890 00:48:43.119 --> 00:48:46.159 that and bring people in to see botanical gardens and 891 00:48:46.199 --> 00:48:49.000 garden centers and whatnot. Inn Arburgate, you know, is just 892 00:48:49.079 --> 00:48:51.760 a prime example of what I'm talking about. You go 893 00:48:51.840 --> 00:48:55.440 out to Arborgate and allow yourself some time because you're 894 00:48:55.519 --> 00:48:57.719 going to want to wander through. And there's a lot 895 00:48:57.760 --> 00:49:00.440 of wandering to do there, from the gifts ops, to 896 00:49:00.519 --> 00:49:03.519 the plants, to the house plant house, to the containers 897 00:49:03.599 --> 00:49:07.639 and everything. It is a beautiful place loaded loaded with 898 00:49:07.800 --> 00:49:10.079 all kinds of good stuff. When I go to out 899 00:49:10.119 --> 00:49:13.440 to Arbrogate, I'm always amazed at weka what's in now, 900 00:49:13.559 --> 00:49:15.559 because if you went last week and then you come 901 00:49:15.639 --> 00:49:17.280 back this week, you're going to see some things that 902 00:49:17.360 --> 00:49:21.119 weren't there because they're constantly getting in new stuff. Excellent 903 00:49:21.360 --> 00:49:25.159 supply of succulents out there at the Arbrogate. The color 904 00:49:25.280 --> 00:49:28.639 plants are just outstanding, and they have a landscape that's 905 00:49:28.719 --> 00:49:31.119 landscaped with plants and you can kind of see the 906 00:49:31.280 --> 00:49:33.039 things that they have and you kind of see them 907 00:49:33.079 --> 00:49:36.239 in their natural hybitat if you will, meaning natural meeting 908 00:49:36.280 --> 00:49:39.719 in a garden habitat. Arbrogate's a fun place and they 909 00:49:39.880 --> 00:49:43.559 understand that there's such a thing as brown stuff before 910 00:49:43.679 --> 00:49:46.360 green stuff. And they they have got you set up 911 00:49:46.519 --> 00:49:50.360 with three bags. It's the one two three completely easy system. 912 00:49:50.760 --> 00:49:53.039 It's a food that feeds anything for root. It's an 913 00:49:53.119 --> 00:49:56.639 organic food. It's it's got a four four to three 914 00:49:56.719 --> 00:49:59.880 plus calcium and you just put it in the soil 915 00:50:00.159 --> 00:50:03.559 and you've got a foundation there for success with your plants. 916 00:50:03.599 --> 00:50:07.519 And then they have a soil for anything any application. 917 00:50:08.159 --> 00:50:11.199 It's got extra expanded shale in it to make sure 918 00:50:11.199 --> 00:50:13.679 our clay soils stay open in addition to what the 919 00:50:13.840 --> 00:50:16.280 organic matter does. And then they got a compost that 920 00:50:16.400 --> 00:50:19.559 improves any in all soil. It's organic compass complete again, 921 00:50:19.760 --> 00:50:22.000 it's got some expanded shale in it as well. One, 922 00:50:22.079 --> 00:50:24.480 two three. You can buy these bulk if you go 923 00:50:24.639 --> 00:50:28.039 buy arbrogate or call them and say hey, look I 924 00:50:28.159 --> 00:50:30.280 need a delivery of these. They can deliver them. Buy 925 00:50:30.360 --> 00:50:34.199 bulk to you wherever you live. So Arburgate Garden Center 926 00:50:34.480 --> 00:50:36.480 just a mile and a half west of two forty 927 00:50:36.559 --> 00:50:38.880 nine on twenty nine to twenty, just outside on the 928 00:50:39.000 --> 00:50:41.599 edge of Tumble. It's a fun place to visit, and 929 00:50:41.639 --> 00:50:43.679 this afternoon it would be a good time to go 930 00:50:43.800 --> 00:50:46.920 by and do that. Let's head out to Jersey Village 931 00:50:47.159 --> 00:50:49.639 and we're going to talk to George. Hey, George, welcome 932 00:50:49.679 --> 00:50:50.280 to garden Line. 933 00:50:51.119 --> 00:50:53.960 Good mornings, Kip, good to talk to you. So, anyhow, 934 00:50:54.000 --> 00:50:55.840 a couple of weeks ago I talked to you about 935 00:50:56.400 --> 00:50:58.559 a Chinese tallow tree that I was trying to kill. 936 00:50:59.119 --> 00:51:01.599 Has put in our boots all over the backyard. So 937 00:51:01.760 --> 00:51:04.719 you told me to scrape off the bark down on 938 00:51:04.880 --> 00:51:07.760 the base and they're gonna rub some kind of junk on. 939 00:51:08.239 --> 00:51:13.559 Remember what it was. His name was and what was again? 940 00:51:13.960 --> 00:51:14.199 Let me. 941 00:51:15.920 --> 00:51:18.400 Yeah, first of all, let me clarify. If it's a 942 00:51:18.840 --> 00:51:22.280 very young tree, you can put what I'm about to 943 00:51:22.360 --> 00:51:25.280 talk about on the outside of the of the trunk 944 00:51:25.320 --> 00:51:27.000 at the base. And now when I say young, I 945 00:51:27.039 --> 00:51:30.199 mean something the size of your thumb or maybe golf 946 00:51:30.320 --> 00:51:33.039 ball size. As they get older and get bark on them, 947 00:51:33.039 --> 00:51:35.639 you're gonna need to cut that tree off near the ground, 948 00:51:35.760 --> 00:51:39.760 just above the ground. And then you want immediately and 949 00:51:39.880 --> 00:51:43.639 that fresh cut stump to paint on a product that 950 00:51:43.840 --> 00:51:47.039 contains triclope here and I will spell that out for 951 00:51:47.159 --> 00:51:48.000 you here in one second. 952 00:51:48.440 --> 00:51:49.960 That's come. 953 00:51:50.880 --> 00:51:53.880 Yeah, it's t R I c l O p U 954 00:51:54.039 --> 00:51:58.360 y R right and right the way. Uh, I'm I'm 955 00:51:58.400 --> 00:52:01.599 about to put a new up dated publication on my 956 00:52:01.719 --> 00:52:06.000 website called Herbicide Products for various types of weeds. But 957 00:52:06.719 --> 00:52:09.079 on that it tells you the kind of weed. In 958 00:52:09.119 --> 00:52:11.119 this case, you got a woody tree you're trying to kill, 959 00:52:11.440 --> 00:52:13.320 and if you go over it says trico paer and 960 00:52:13.360 --> 00:52:16.440 then it lists all the different brands of triclopere that 961 00:52:16.519 --> 00:52:20.239 are most commonly seen here. But the important thing, George 962 00:52:20.360 --> 00:52:23.360 is to remember to do it when that cut is fresh, 963 00:52:23.480 --> 00:52:26.800 when you just cut it off right right, the tree. 964 00:52:26.800 --> 00:52:31.119 Is probably two feet across, so it's not a kid anymore. 965 00:52:31.679 --> 00:52:34.840 So what I did do was, like you suggested, at 966 00:52:34.880 --> 00:52:37.199 the pace of the tree, and then I also drilled 967 00:52:37.239 --> 00:52:40.760 a about a half control about a foot deep and 968 00:52:41.000 --> 00:52:44.280 filled with triclo peer. So how is this tree going 969 00:52:44.360 --> 00:52:46.760 to die or do something else? You got to cut 970 00:52:46.840 --> 00:52:47.519 it off? Do you think? 971 00:52:49.039 --> 00:52:53.679 Well, you might watch and see the trees are living cylinders. 972 00:52:53.960 --> 00:52:56.280 The if you've got a tree trunk of any size, 973 00:52:56.719 --> 00:52:59.840 the interior is dead wood. And then as you get out, 974 00:53:00.119 --> 00:53:03.000 just inside the bark is where all the life tissues 975 00:53:03.039 --> 00:53:05.199 of the tree are the living tissues of the tree. 976 00:53:05.599 --> 00:53:07.719 So that's where that tricle a peer needs to get. 977 00:53:07.760 --> 00:53:09.760 So if you drill a hole and get stuff into 978 00:53:09.840 --> 00:53:11.679 the center, it's not going to be doing much for you. 979 00:53:13.000 --> 00:53:15.079 And you know you're gonna get as you drill the hole, 980 00:53:15.079 --> 00:53:17.519 you're gonna have to go through living tissue. But that's 981 00:53:17.559 --> 00:53:19.280 why we say cut off the stump and paint it. 982 00:53:19.280 --> 00:53:21.559 And I even have a I have a publication of 983 00:53:21.679 --> 00:53:25.440 woody Weeds in the Landscape. Woody Weeds in the Landscape. 984 00:53:25.440 --> 00:53:29.159 It's on my webscare gardening with skip dot com. It 985 00:53:29.280 --> 00:53:31.280 tells you how to do it. It has a picture 986 00:53:31.360 --> 00:53:33.440 of how to do it, and it has tricle peer 987 00:53:33.679 --> 00:53:34.760 information on that. 988 00:53:35.079 --> 00:53:35.480 Don't care. 989 00:53:36.559 --> 00:53:38.800 So that's it gardening with Skip. 990 00:53:40.079 --> 00:53:43.360 Yeah, I properly on a two foot tree? 991 00:53:43.440 --> 00:53:43.559 Is it? 992 00:53:43.599 --> 00:53:44.679 How long's going to take the guy? 993 00:53:47.119 --> 00:53:52.639 Oh boy? Two foot high tree? Two foot tall tree diameter? 994 00:53:54.559 --> 00:53:59.000 Oh it, you got it? Okay? That I've never heard 995 00:53:59.000 --> 00:54:00.239 of the Chinese teller that big. 996 00:54:01.599 --> 00:54:02.360 Yeah, that's pretty good. 997 00:54:02.519 --> 00:54:08.920 Well, okay, so that's a good question. I think in 998 00:54:09.000 --> 00:54:11.360 a few months it's going to be done. I think 999 00:54:11.400 --> 00:54:13.360 you're going to see the results a lot, a lot 1000 00:54:13.480 --> 00:54:17.199 faster than that tree takes it in. Sometimes with a 1001 00:54:17.239 --> 00:54:20.360 big old tree, it may have some energy to reach sprout. 1002 00:54:20.440 --> 00:54:21.920 You know, you don't get it all with just that 1003 00:54:22.000 --> 00:54:23.960 one little treatment, and you may have to do it 1004 00:54:24.039 --> 00:54:27.039 a second time. But it will work. It does work, 1005 00:54:27.159 --> 00:54:32.440 and tallows are tough to kill. Thank you, sir, Thank 1006 00:54:32.480 --> 00:54:38.760 you appreciate your call. You take care. This morning at 1007 00:54:38.800 --> 00:54:43.079 five o'clock, my Robin, who I think when I turned 1008 00:54:43.119 --> 00:54:46.440 my lights on in the house, that starts to wake 1009 00:54:46.480 --> 00:54:48.599 them up. But about five o'clock, which is light to 1010 00:54:48.639 --> 00:54:50.599 have been on for a little bit. Uh, it began 1011 00:54:50.719 --> 00:54:53.519 to sing and I like that. I enjoy it. And 1012 00:54:53.719 --> 00:54:55.559 we also have some barn swallows that are at the 1013 00:54:55.599 --> 00:54:58.239 front door, and they come and go pretty fast each year. 1014 00:54:58.400 --> 00:55:00.960 But boy, those things when they get to chattering, I 1015 00:55:01.039 --> 00:55:03.159 wish I had a translator to hear what they were saying, 1016 00:55:03.199 --> 00:55:06.159 because they are giving it the business out there. Wild 1017 00:55:06.199 --> 00:55:08.519 Bird's Unlimited is the place you go to find out 1018 00:55:08.559 --> 00:55:11.400 all about birds, all the different birds you would want 1019 00:55:11.400 --> 00:55:14.239 to bring into your garden. For example, I just put 1020 00:55:14.280 --> 00:55:18.039 out my high perch hummingbird feeders. High perch hummingbird feeder 1021 00:55:18.280 --> 00:55:20.320 that is my favorite humming bird feeder. They got those 1022 00:55:20.360 --> 00:55:22.559 at Wildbirds Unlimited. It's got a red top cover. It's 1023 00:55:22.559 --> 00:55:25.480 a very flat feeder so when the birds gather around it, 1024 00:55:25.880 --> 00:55:28.320 the hummingbirds, you can see them better and you know 1025 00:55:28.400 --> 00:55:30.519 they're not hiding behind the feeder kind of thing. I 1026 00:55:30.639 --> 00:55:33.960 love that feeder. They also have the Eliminator. It's a 1027 00:55:34.039 --> 00:55:37.159 squirrel proof feeder. That is probably my favorite bird feeder 1028 00:55:37.199 --> 00:55:39.239 of all the ones I have. I just this year 1029 00:55:39.280 --> 00:55:42.800 I got a hopper feeder that's a recycled materials feeder. 1030 00:55:42.920 --> 00:55:46.119 The very tough, very durable. Got a wide roof so 1031 00:55:46.320 --> 00:55:49.320 that when it rains like it did yesterday, the bird 1032 00:55:49.360 --> 00:55:51.440 seed didn't get all wet. It's got a little bigger 1033 00:55:51.480 --> 00:55:53.159 roof on it to kind of protect a little bit 1034 00:55:53.400 --> 00:55:57.000 keep those seeds dry. Wild Birds Unlimited is also a 1035 00:55:57.119 --> 00:56:01.679 source of quality bird seed, whether it's it's the well, 1036 00:56:01.760 --> 00:56:04.239 the main one for right now would be the Nesting 1037 00:56:04.360 --> 00:56:08.079 super Blend. It's got the protein and calcium necessary for birds. 1038 00:56:08.119 --> 00:56:10.239 And you know, as they're laying the eggs they eat calcium. 1039 00:56:10.280 --> 00:56:12.280 As the younger growing and eat calcium for that. 1040 00:56:13.320 --> 00:56:13.639 And the. 1041 00:56:15.480 --> 00:56:19.400 Nesting super Blend is designed for this season primarily, and 1042 00:56:19.480 --> 00:56:21.639 you can use anytime you want. But it's got some 1043 00:56:21.880 --> 00:56:24.519 really good stuff and the protein it's packed. I mean 1044 00:56:24.559 --> 00:56:28.719 stuff like sunflower chips, peanuts, meal worms, bark, butter, other 1045 00:56:28.840 --> 00:56:31.119 kinds of tree nuts and safflower. Lots of protein in 1046 00:56:31.199 --> 00:56:33.199 that and it's good for the birds. And then I 1047 00:56:33.320 --> 00:56:37.719 love the cardinal products too, you know they came out 1048 00:56:37.840 --> 00:56:40.480 this year. The Owner of wild Birds came out with 1049 00:56:40.559 --> 00:56:45.679 something called Cardinal Confetti and it's another great blend from Wildbirds. 1050 00:56:45.719 --> 00:56:48.559 And we had some cardinals come into our feeder like 1051 00:56:48.679 --> 00:56:51.079 they love that stuff again, it's got all the good 1052 00:56:51.119 --> 00:56:53.960 stuff in it, bark butter bits, peanut hats, meal worms, 1053 00:56:54.000 --> 00:56:57.440 striped sunflower, black ole, sunflour, and on and on. They 1054 00:56:57.480 --> 00:57:00.480 even have a feeder for it, a tube feeder. You 1055 00:57:00.559 --> 00:57:02.960 can use it in any kind of feederod It's a 1056 00:57:03.000 --> 00:57:05.199 good product too, but that's what you would expect from 1057 00:57:05.280 --> 00:57:11.199 wild Birds Unlimited. There's six stores. Wildbirds Unlimited stores clear Lake, 1058 00:57:11.320 --> 00:57:15.519 Texas on El Dorado, Cypress, Texas on Barker Cypress. In 1059 00:57:16.079 --> 00:57:19.239 the southern part of Houston's just south of downtown. A 1060 00:57:19.239 --> 00:57:21.719 little bit to the west is bell Air Boulevard Wildbirds, 1061 00:57:22.039 --> 00:57:25.400 and then out west on Memorial Drive is Houston Wildbirds. 1062 00:57:25.599 --> 00:57:28.960 In Kingwood Drive in Kingwood another one, and then in 1063 00:57:29.039 --> 00:57:32.039 Pairland on East Broadway. Six stores. If you want to 1064 00:57:32.199 --> 00:57:35.679 if you didn't write all that down, wbu dot com 1065 00:57:36.159 --> 00:57:40.159 forward slash Houston to find the wild Birds Unlimited store 1066 00:57:40.360 --> 00:57:43.400 near you, and I hope you'll do that, but I 1067 00:57:43.519 --> 00:57:48.480 warn you it's addictive. I've talked about this before, but 1068 00:57:49.079 --> 00:57:54.440 the garden, the hobby of gardening is so many things 1069 00:57:54.559 --> 00:57:59.280 put together. It is getting outside and playing with plants, yes, 1070 00:58:00.079 --> 00:58:07.440 but it's creating a multisensory experience outdoors. You wild bird's unlimited. 1071 00:58:07.480 --> 00:58:10.639 I was talking about them, well, birds, the songs they sing. 1072 00:58:11.079 --> 00:58:14.559 That is an auditory experience. And when you create the 1073 00:58:14.639 --> 00:58:18.599 garden that attracts birds, you get that auditory experience plus 1074 00:58:18.639 --> 00:58:22.519 the beauty of them. They're very pretty. Then there's the 1075 00:58:22.679 --> 00:58:26.679 visual experience of color. There's a visual experience of textures, 1076 00:58:26.760 --> 00:58:29.320 you know, the bold leaves of an elephant ear versus 1077 00:58:29.440 --> 00:58:33.519 the fine narrow textures of a moving grass in the wind. 1078 00:58:33.840 --> 00:58:36.800 And that movement too, by the way, is another aspect 1079 00:58:36.880 --> 00:58:40.360 of the visual taking in of the garden. Then there's 1080 00:58:40.440 --> 00:58:44.320 the sense the fragrant plants, and you do a publication 1081 00:58:44.400 --> 00:58:47.159 on fragrant plants. I think I'll do that, And because 1082 00:58:47.159 --> 00:58:49.960 I'm starting to add a bunch to my landscape. You 1083 00:58:50.079 --> 00:58:52.440 sit out there with your eyes closed New Year's plugged, 1084 00:58:52.599 --> 00:58:56.000 and you enjoy the garden, smelling the fragrance from those plants, 1085 00:58:56.840 --> 00:58:59.800 and then the butterflies flying by thought we call those 1086 00:59:00.119 --> 00:59:03.840 lying flowers. That's another aspect. So see, gardening is more 1087 00:59:03.920 --> 00:59:06.480 than just like Okay, there's a plant, there's a landscape. 1088 00:59:06.519 --> 00:59:09.880 Take a picture that's pretty. Yes it is, but it's 1089 00:59:09.960 --> 00:59:12.880 way more than that. It's sound, it's movement, it's sense. 1090 00:59:13.519 --> 00:59:16.639 It's creating that little bit of Eden in your backyard, 1091 00:59:17.320 --> 00:59:20.199 Creating that little bit of Eden that just makes it 1092 00:59:20.320 --> 00:59:23.039 a place that you want to go, a place that 1093 00:59:23.440 --> 00:59:25.480 you want to hang out. And you can do that 1094 00:59:26.119 --> 00:59:31.679 here in your own backyard, on your own property. I 1095 00:59:31.719 --> 00:59:34.039 don't care if you live, even in a little townhome. 1096 00:59:34.480 --> 00:59:39.360 You can create that beautiful outdoor area for sensory enjoyment. 1097 00:59:42.599 --> 00:59:44.719 If you're planting a tree, or if you have planted 1098 00:59:44.760 --> 00:59:48.239 a tree, you need to get what's called a three 1099 00:59:48.440 --> 00:59:52.800 sixty tree stabilizer. Now you've seen trees that were guy 1100 00:59:52.920 --> 00:59:57.960 wired down to the ground in three directions with wires 1101 00:59:58.039 --> 01:00:01.239 to hold the tree stable. It looks like they're afraid 1102 01:00:01.320 --> 01:00:03.079 it's a rocket and going to take off because they 1103 01:00:03.320 --> 01:00:05.440 they you know, they got that thing honkered down where 1104 01:00:05.440 --> 01:00:09.199 it hardly can move well. Three sixty tree stabilizers different. 1105 01:00:09.360 --> 01:00:11.079 You don't have to mess with the wires. You don't 1106 01:00:11.119 --> 01:00:13.239 have to cut sections of garden hose so the wires 1107 01:00:13.280 --> 01:00:15.280 don't cut into the tree. You don't have to have 1108 01:00:15.400 --> 01:00:18.079 steaks in the ground and wires to trip over. You 1109 01:00:18.679 --> 01:00:22.000 plant a you drive a t post or any kind 1110 01:00:22.000 --> 01:00:25.039 of post really into the ground, and the three sixty 1111 01:00:25.159 --> 01:00:28.199 tree stabilizer attaches to the post, and then it attaches 1112 01:00:28.280 --> 01:00:31.000 to the tree with a soft rubber strap that you 1113 01:00:31.079 --> 01:00:34.039 can leave a little loose, and you should, because a 1114 01:00:34.159 --> 01:00:39.239 little movement helps strengthen the trunk and the bracing roots 1115 01:00:39.360 --> 01:00:42.159 at the base of the trunk. That movement makes the 1116 01:00:42.199 --> 01:00:45.039 plant grow stronger. Plants respond that way, just the way 1117 01:00:45.079 --> 01:00:49.760 our muscles to being worked respond by getting stronger, more resilient. 1118 01:00:50.159 --> 01:00:52.519 Tree trunks do the same thing. It's a principle of nature, 1119 01:00:52.920 --> 01:00:58.039 all right. And if you most situations one tree stabilizers enough, 1120 01:00:58.239 --> 01:00:59.719 if you've got a bigger tree, or you got a 1121 01:00:59.719 --> 01:01:01.840 lot of you can do one kind of from the 1122 01:01:01.920 --> 01:01:04.159 north south side, or and then one from the east 1123 01:01:04.199 --> 01:01:07.079 west side, and then you have you've completely got it, 1124 01:01:07.239 --> 01:01:09.159 and you have that movement. And you can get tree 1125 01:01:09.159 --> 01:01:12.519 stabilizers at R. C W Nursery, Dunn and Alvin or 1126 01:01:12.599 --> 01:01:16.079 Haes Hidden Gardens over in Cenna see in a mulch 1127 01:01:16.480 --> 01:01:19.639 Buchanan's Native plants in the Heights Arborgate out there in 1128 01:01:19.760 --> 01:01:22.639 Tomball Plants for all seasons on the road to Tomball 1129 01:01:22.679 --> 01:01:26.079 Tomball Parkway, right where just north of Lueta or all 1130 01:01:26.159 --> 01:01:31.320 places where you can find the three sixty tree stabilizer. Well, 1131 01:01:31.440 --> 01:01:33.360 it's about time for me to go to a break 1132 01:01:33.400 --> 01:01:36.599 here point. This one came fast, you know, droning on 1133 01:01:36.840 --> 01:01:40.840 about some things. Well, thank you for being a listener 1134 01:01:40.880 --> 01:01:42.599 to Garden Line. If you'd like to give us a call, 1135 01:01:42.679 --> 01:01:44.079 you can be one of our first up when we 1136 01:01:44.199 --> 01:01:47.920 come back at seven one three two one two k 1137 01:01:48.280 --> 01:01:54.880 t r H. Hey, welcome back to the Garden Line. 1138 01:01:58.079 --> 01:01:59.000 Good to have you with us. 1139 01:01:59.199 --> 01:02:01.119 If you would like to give me a call talk 1140 01:02:01.159 --> 01:02:05.320 about gardening seven one three two one two ktr H 1141 01:02:05.440 --> 01:02:10.199 seven one three two on two kt rh. Nitropos Imperial 1142 01:02:10.480 --> 01:02:14.000 fifteen five to ten is a ratio that was developed 1143 01:02:14.159 --> 01:02:19.440 by university turf researchers many many years ago, and this 1144 01:02:19.559 --> 01:02:22.679 product's been around for about half a century now. But 1145 01:02:22.800 --> 01:02:26.840 that three one two ratio is perfect for what the 1146 01:02:27.000 --> 01:02:29.760 ratio of nutrients that lawns take up. You know, if 1147 01:02:29.760 --> 01:02:31.440 you were to look in a grass blade and send 1148 01:02:31.480 --> 01:02:32.920 it to the lab and go, hey, what's on this? 1149 01:02:33.360 --> 01:02:35.119 They would tell you there's about three times as much 1150 01:02:35.239 --> 01:02:38.639 nitrogen as phosphorus and about twice as much potassium as phosphorus. 1151 01:02:38.880 --> 01:02:42.280 Three or four times as much nitrogen. So anyway, it's 1152 01:02:42.280 --> 01:02:44.719 a good stuff. It's the same red orange bag that 1153 01:02:44.800 --> 01:02:47.719 they've always had, makes it easy to spot, and the 1154 01:02:47.800 --> 01:02:52.360 fifteen five to ten imperial nitropos Imperial can be used really, 1155 01:02:52.360 --> 01:02:54.159 it can be used for any kind of plants. I mean, 1156 01:02:54.760 --> 01:02:57.480 it's not just the lawn furtiliser, but if you are 1157 01:02:57.519 --> 01:02:59.920 putting it in the lawns, you can do small doses 1158 01:03:00.400 --> 01:03:02.760 about every six weeks as you go through the season, 1159 01:03:03.000 --> 01:03:05.079 or you can just use it once as a quick 1160 01:03:05.199 --> 01:03:08.920 green up and then switch over to a slower release product, 1161 01:03:09.280 --> 01:03:12.800 which Knight Foss also has those Knitrofas. Imperial and other 1162 01:03:12.920 --> 01:03:16.519 nitofas products are available at places like Plantation Ace Hardware 1163 01:03:16.639 --> 01:03:19.920 on FM three point fifty nine down in Richmond Rosenberg 1164 01:03:21.000 --> 01:03:24.719 In They're also available by the way at Katie Ace 1165 01:03:24.800 --> 01:03:29.039 Hardware on pin Oak and Hiding and Feed on Studenter Airline, 1166 01:03:30.000 --> 01:03:35.239 as well as many many other places I was visiting. 1167 01:03:36.400 --> 01:03:41.440 We were kind of working out the switch of the 1168 01:03:41.519 --> 01:03:47.880 Warren's appearance from Kingwood this pat this weekend. It would 1169 01:03:48.239 --> 01:03:52.800 would have been yesterday to the nineteenth, which, by the way, 1170 01:03:52.840 --> 01:03:55.719 albeit Warren Southern Gardens in Kingwood on the nineteenth from 1171 01:03:55.760 --> 01:03:58.760 twelve thirty to two thirty, and we were talking about 1172 01:03:58.760 --> 01:04:01.159 that and then just it just reminded me of the 1173 01:04:01.199 --> 01:04:04.360 Airloom Soils. Warrants always has an excellent supply of the 1174 01:04:04.440 --> 01:04:07.119 airloom soils products out there, as do many places. They 1175 01:04:07.119 --> 01:04:12.599 are widely available, but Airloom Soils has really perfected the 1176 01:04:13.519 --> 01:04:18.960 soil amendment process and the products that they have are outstanding. 1177 01:04:19.480 --> 01:04:22.199 They make a really good lead mole compost, They make 1178 01:04:22.280 --> 01:04:25.440 an outstanding veggie and herb mix. But they make mixes 1179 01:04:25.840 --> 01:04:29.159 for pretty much anything you're looking for that whether you're 1180 01:04:29.199 --> 01:04:31.280 looking for something just to go in a landscape bed 1181 01:04:31.400 --> 01:04:33.760 as a general bed mix, whether you're looking something for 1182 01:04:33.960 --> 01:04:36.960 roses and other blooming plants, they've got all of those. Now, 1183 01:04:37.039 --> 01:04:40.519 many of their products are available by the supersack. What 1184 01:04:40.639 --> 01:04:43.920 a supersac is is a cubic yard in a giant, 1185 01:04:44.159 --> 01:04:47.119 very strong sack, and they can basically bring it to 1186 01:04:47.159 --> 01:04:49.079 your house and set it on the driveway, or you 1187 01:04:49.119 --> 01:04:50.639 can go get one thing, put it in your trailer 1188 01:04:50.679 --> 01:04:52.840 for if you want it real neat, easy clean way 1189 01:04:52.880 --> 01:04:55.280 to go about it. They can also deliver and put 1190 01:04:55.320 --> 01:04:57.079 it dump it on the driveway if you want, like 1191 01:04:57.159 --> 01:05:00.639 I need ten yards. I often need ten because I'm 1192 01:05:00.639 --> 01:05:02.760 always doing a lot of soil improvement around the place. 1193 01:05:03.280 --> 01:05:05.440 All you got to do is go to the website 1194 01:05:05.519 --> 01:05:09.079 Airloomsoils dot com Heirloomsoils dot com. You can find out 1195 01:05:09.159 --> 01:05:11.760 more there about how to get their products and where 1196 01:05:11.840 --> 01:05:14.880 to get their products because their bags are widely available 1197 01:05:15.239 --> 01:05:19.679 in garden centers throughout this area. And the stuff works. 1198 01:05:19.840 --> 01:05:22.400 And I say that because I've used it. I've used 1199 01:05:22.440 --> 01:05:25.719 it and I know it works. Uh, if you are 1200 01:05:25.760 --> 01:05:28.440 interested in giving me a call, maybe a gardening question 1201 01:05:28.599 --> 01:05:32.000 today seven to one three two one two kt r 1202 01:05:32.280 --> 01:05:36.159 H seven one three two one two kt r H. 1203 01:05:38.119 --> 01:05:40.920 Plants for All Seasons is a garden center right there 1204 01:05:41.159 --> 01:05:43.960 on two forty nine at Luetta. So if you're on 1205 01:05:44.039 --> 01:05:47.320 two forty nine, you exit Luetta and it's just north 1206 01:05:47.440 --> 01:05:49.880 of Luetta, right on the feeder, and I mean just Northlake, 1207 01:05:50.039 --> 01:05:53.880 not even hardly a block north of Luettah, if you're 1208 01:05:53.920 --> 01:05:56.239 a green thun that takes pride in your lawn and garden, 1209 01:05:56.519 --> 01:05:58.880 you need to visit Plants for All Seasons on two 1210 01:05:58.920 --> 01:06:01.159 forty nine. If you're a bright and you'd like to 1211 01:06:01.239 --> 01:06:04.119 turn your thumb Green. You need to visit Plants for 1212 01:06:04.199 --> 01:06:08.079 All Seasons on two forty nine, family owned operated business 1213 01:06:08.119 --> 01:06:12.880 center since what a business center garden center since oh gosh, 1214 01:06:13.000 --> 01:06:15.320 nineteen seventy three, I believe is when they first opened 1215 01:06:15.400 --> 01:06:19.199 up up there. And these folks, whether it's education, whether 1216 01:06:19.280 --> 01:06:23.920 it's plant selection, delivery, planting, custom potting, they are true 1217 01:06:24.239 --> 01:06:27.199 lawn and garden experts. They know it all. They do 1218 01:06:27.320 --> 01:06:30.159 it all because they've been here, they've done it. They 1219 01:06:30.239 --> 01:06:33.639 are gardeners. They have pretty much seen everything. They can 1220 01:06:33.719 --> 01:06:36.119 come through the garden at one time or another or 1221 01:06:36.199 --> 01:06:39.159 many times, and they know what to tell you about it. 1222 01:06:39.320 --> 01:06:40.840 You can take them a picture, you can bring them 1223 01:06:40.880 --> 01:06:43.360 a sample in even if you didn't buy a plant 1224 01:06:43.440 --> 01:06:45.800 there and you have a problem bringing in and ask 1225 01:06:45.840 --> 01:06:48.159 them about it and they'll they'll direct you. And what 1226 01:06:48.280 --> 01:06:52.320 you'll find out is that it is well worth going 1227 01:06:52.400 --> 01:06:55.880 by Plants for All Seasons because the advice you get, 1228 01:06:56.480 --> 01:06:59.639 the quality plants that want to grow here, that they 1229 01:06:59.679 --> 01:07:02.559 have a available, and then the service after the sale. 1230 01:07:02.920 --> 01:07:06.199 It just it's a way to go. Absolutely is a 1231 01:07:06.239 --> 01:07:09.079 way to go. Plants for All Seasons dot com or 1232 01:07:09.159 --> 01:07:13.199 you can follow them on social media too. Two, eight, one, three, seven, six, 1233 01:07:13.480 --> 01:07:19.679 sixteen forty six in my vegetable garden. I was telling 1234 01:07:19.679 --> 01:07:24.760 you that I'd been mulching and created the walkways of 1235 01:07:25.000 --> 01:07:29.000 leaves for all season gardening. What I'm about to do 1236 01:07:29.360 --> 01:07:33.679 is start a whole bunch of marigolds seeds. I've got 1237 01:07:33.760 --> 01:07:36.159 some beds that have nematodes on them. I do not 1238 01:07:36.400 --> 01:07:39.280 know where the nematods came from. I'm pretty sure it 1239 01:07:39.440 --> 01:07:41.639 came from some soil I brought in a while back 1240 01:07:42.239 --> 01:07:45.039 that I shouldn't have, but I did, And I think 1241 01:07:45.199 --> 01:07:47.280 now I've got some nematods in there, So I'm gonna 1242 01:07:47.280 --> 01:07:49.920 grow marigols walled wall. Did you know marigos are a 1243 01:07:50.079 --> 01:07:53.880 trap crop for nematodes. It doesn't eradicate nematods by any 1244 01:07:53.960 --> 01:07:58.000 stretch of the imagination. But when when you plant not 1245 01:07:58.280 --> 01:08:02.320 just a marigold besides tomato plant like you'll hear sometimes 1246 01:08:02.360 --> 01:08:05.880 people say, do don't do that gon work, But I mean, 1247 01:08:06.039 --> 01:08:09.400 wall to wall, this whole bed will be solid miragles. 1248 01:08:09.440 --> 01:08:11.800 I want every cubic centimeter of soil to have a 1249 01:08:11.880 --> 01:08:14.719 marigo root in it, because when a nematod goes into 1250 01:08:14.760 --> 01:08:17.720 a marigol route it's not able to complete its life cycle, 1251 01:08:18.399 --> 01:08:20.920 and you don't get that proliferation, and you get a 1252 01:08:20.960 --> 01:08:24.119 little bit of a reduction therefore in the nemotoid content 1253 01:08:24.199 --> 01:08:26.319 in the soil. And there's other crops that will do that. 1254 01:08:27.000 --> 01:08:30.199 But that is about the only good strategy other than 1255 01:08:30.319 --> 01:08:34.920 nematod resistant plants for getting ahead of the nematod problems 1256 01:08:35.000 --> 01:08:37.359 in our landscapes. I'm gonna be doing that. I'll post 1257 01:08:37.439 --> 01:08:40.239 some pictures to Facebook as we get into this season. 1258 01:08:40.920 --> 01:08:44.239 We're going to go now to Pasadena and talk to Greg. Hey, Greg, 1259 01:08:44.319 --> 01:08:45.279 welcome to garden Line. 1260 01:08:46.640 --> 01:08:50.960 Good morning, Skip quick, A couple of quick questions. Number one, 1261 01:08:51.600 --> 01:08:56.079 I've had some mushrooms popping up in my yard, particularly 1262 01:08:56.600 --> 01:09:00.800 last year before the winter, and then now I'm noticed 1263 01:09:00.840 --> 01:09:02.119 from here in the early spring. 1264 01:09:03.279 --> 01:09:03.800 What can I do? 1265 01:09:04.319 --> 01:09:08.239 Okay? Kind of control that don't need to Yeah, you 1266 01:09:08.319 --> 01:09:10.359 don't need to do anything. There's not a good control 1267 01:09:10.439 --> 01:09:14.319 for it anyway. Most of those, or the vast majority 1268 01:09:14.359 --> 01:09:18.159 of those, are just decomposer fungi that are breaking down 1269 01:09:18.319 --> 01:09:21.039 organic matter, whether it's the thatch of your lawn or 1270 01:09:22.119 --> 01:09:24.359 woody root materials in the in the soil. 1271 01:09:25.199 --> 01:09:28.479 Not a problem okay, so I don't need to go 1272 01:09:28.600 --> 01:09:30.279 and try to pull them up by the roots. It's 1273 01:09:30.359 --> 01:09:31.520 okay to mow them. 1274 01:09:31.960 --> 01:09:36.399 No, No, that won't that won't do anything. It won't 1275 01:09:36.399 --> 01:09:38.399 do anything. Yeah, just leave them alone, ignore. 1276 01:09:38.159 --> 01:09:39.880 Them all right. 1277 01:09:40.000 --> 01:09:40.800 Wonderful, wonderful. 1278 01:09:40.880 --> 01:09:45.800 Secondly, I'm redoing my flower beds landscaping in the front 1279 01:09:45.840 --> 01:09:46.520 of my house. 1280 01:09:46.600 --> 01:09:47.840 I'm pulled up from old. 1281 01:09:48.479 --> 01:09:51.680 Edges and roads buis that I had in there. 1282 01:09:52.960 --> 01:09:55.640 What kind of rep work do I need to do? 1283 01:09:56.000 --> 01:09:58.439 Do I need to pull out the old sod, the 1284 01:09:58.560 --> 01:10:01.439 old soil, and uh? 1285 01:10:01.960 --> 01:10:02.800 What could I do? 1286 01:10:03.239 --> 01:10:08.520 Just just add up, add add quality composts to it 1287 01:10:08.800 --> 01:10:12.119 several inches, mix it in deeply, create a little bit 1288 01:10:12.159 --> 01:10:14.600 of a raised bed there, and then mix in some 1289 01:10:14.720 --> 01:10:17.279 good nutrients into the soil. The I'm a I have 1290 01:10:17.399 --> 01:10:20.079 to go to a break right now. But uh, that's 1291 01:10:20.279 --> 01:10:22.199 that's my fast answer on it. I may make a 1292 01:10:22.279 --> 01:10:24.960 comment or two when we come back, But Greg, thank you, 1293 01:10:25.079 --> 01:10:33.520 I appreciate the calls. We just ran out of time. Alrighty, 1294 01:10:36.119 --> 01:10:39.479 A little bit of fun from Ricochet this Sunday morning. 1295 01:10:40.760 --> 01:10:42.520 Welcome back to Guardlinem. Good to have you with us. 1296 01:10:43.039 --> 01:10:46.439 Quality Home Products of Texas is where you can get 1297 01:10:47.039 --> 01:10:51.079 the Generac automatic stand by generator that these are great. 1298 01:10:51.560 --> 01:10:54.079 When it says automatic stand by, it means power goes off. 1299 01:10:54.119 --> 01:10:56.199 You're sitting there in your easy chair reading the paper 1300 01:10:56.239 --> 01:10:59.439 and power comes right. 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I don't see 1343 01:13:22.800 --> 01:13:24.479 a Matt in the emails. 1344 01:13:26.079 --> 01:13:26.439 It would be. 1345 01:13:26.760 --> 01:13:27.880 Tell me a little bit about it. 1346 01:13:28.960 --> 01:13:33.840 Well, it has the swatches of brown on the leaves. 1347 01:13:36.520 --> 01:13:45.279 Okay, go ahead, Okay, So that's a natural marking on bananas, 1348 01:13:45.359 --> 01:13:48.840 some bananas. It's kind of almost a burgundy brown color 1349 01:13:49.399 --> 01:13:54.600 that is just part of the leaf itself. Hey, Matt, 1350 01:13:54.960 --> 01:13:57.760 I need you to turn the radio. Turn the radio down. 1351 01:13:59.359 --> 01:14:00.279 It's down, sir. 1352 01:14:02.560 --> 01:14:06.600 Okay, hell, all right, thank you. Yes, I can hear you. 1353 01:14:08.000 --> 01:14:08.319 I don't. 1354 01:14:08.399 --> 01:14:12.039 I don't. I'm not finding your email. But without the 1355 01:14:12.159 --> 01:14:14.600 name popping up on top, it's gonna take a little while. 1356 01:14:14.920 --> 01:14:17.159 But that is a natural marking. And I think I 1357 01:14:17.239 --> 01:14:20.960 remember seeing your picture on banana leaves. It's a it's 1358 01:14:21.000 --> 01:14:25.199 a splotching. It's actually a streaking across the leaf. Yes, 1359 01:14:26.600 --> 01:14:32.479 from the center to the edge. Yes, okay, nothing to 1360 01:14:32.520 --> 01:14:35.520 worry about. Just want to It's actually an ornamental feature 1361 01:14:35.720 --> 01:14:38.319 of some type, some varieties of bananas. 1362 01:14:40.079 --> 01:14:44.079 So just stay stay bad about it. 1363 01:14:46.079 --> 01:14:48.840 Yeah, no problems at all. You're good on that one. 1364 01:14:49.039 --> 01:14:52.279 You can go take care of the other plants. I appreciate, 1365 01:14:52.520 --> 01:14:55.039 appreciate the call. But yeah, nothing, nothing to worry about. 1366 01:14:55.239 --> 01:14:57.560 Just enjoy those bananas. Hopefully we'll have a good long 1367 01:14:57.640 --> 01:15:00.680 season and you get some some fruiting here for too long. 1368 01:15:01.479 --> 01:15:05.520 Thank you, Kin, appreciate you appreciate your call, sir, all right, 1369 01:15:05.920 --> 01:15:10.319 thank you. I appreciate that a lot. Nitropas Superturf is 1370 01:15:10.479 --> 01:15:14.319 their slow release fertilizer for the lawn for summer, and 1371 01:15:14.560 --> 01:15:16.760 it's easy to spot. I can give you the numbers 1372 01:15:16.880 --> 01:15:18.439 nineteen four s N but you don't have to go 1373 01:15:18.520 --> 01:15:20.680 around with the mag divine glass and looking at all 1374 01:15:20.720 --> 01:15:23.279 the fertilizer bags for those numbers. Just look for silver. 1375 01:15:23.560 --> 01:15:27.159 It's a silver bag, a big silver bag Nitropas superturf. 1376 01:15:27.560 --> 01:15:30.079 You put it down and for four months you're done. 1377 01:15:30.119 --> 01:15:34.319 And basically you put Nitrophs superturf down around now and 1378 01:15:34.399 --> 01:15:36.520 you're not going to be fertilizing again until we put 1379 01:15:36.560 --> 01:15:39.640 our fall fertilizations on. I'm pretty much, especially if you're 1380 01:15:39.680 --> 01:15:43.039 returning your clippings now. Nito five Superturf and other products 1381 01:15:43.079 --> 01:15:46.439 are available at places like Plans for all seasons on Luetta, 1382 01:15:47.239 --> 01:15:51.000 the d and d feed Store outside of Tomball on 1383 01:15:51.119 --> 01:15:53.760 twenty nine to twenty on the West side, and M 1384 01:15:53.840 --> 01:15:57.720 and D and let's see that's in Sagement on Beamer Street, 1385 01:15:58.760 --> 01:16:01.560 and many many other places. Those are just some examples. 1386 01:16:03.159 --> 01:16:05.399 Another place, you know, in general, when you're thinking, when 1387 01:16:05.399 --> 01:16:06.920 I think about night Foss, I go, well, they're at 1388 01:16:06.920 --> 01:16:10.359 Ace Hardware stores. Because Ace Hardware almost always you're going 1389 01:16:10.399 --> 01:16:13.239 to find all the night foss products there. You can 1390 01:16:13.279 --> 01:16:16.640 go to the website Acehardware Texas dot com and that 1391 01:16:16.840 --> 01:16:18.680 will give you a map. When you tell it where 1392 01:16:18.720 --> 01:16:21.279 you are, it'll give you a map of the Ace 1393 01:16:21.359 --> 01:16:24.239 Hardware stores in our Houston group that are near you. 1394 01:16:25.319 --> 01:16:28.000 It makes it really easy. Ace Hardware Texas dot Com. 1395 01:16:28.199 --> 01:16:30.399 When you go into ACE Hardware, you're going to find 1396 01:16:30.640 --> 01:16:35.600 a wide variety of pest control, disease control, weed control, 1397 01:16:35.720 --> 01:16:39.119 both the pre emergent and the post emergent, and fertilizers 1398 01:16:39.399 --> 01:16:41.399 for your garden. You're going to find the tools that 1399 01:16:41.520 --> 01:16:43.520 you need. You're going to find everything to make that 1400 01:16:43.760 --> 01:16:47.359 outdoor area that you love to go out and enjoy. 1401 01:16:48.079 --> 01:16:51.000 You're going to make it better and nicer, from barbecue 1402 01:16:51.039 --> 01:16:53.920 pits to lighting to you name it. Ace is the 1403 01:16:53.960 --> 01:16:56.039 place they've got you covered. And then the same thing, 1404 01:16:56.239 --> 01:16:59.039 by the way, is true on the inside too. Beautiful 1405 01:16:59.079 --> 01:17:01.880 things for the home and from turning your home environment 1406 01:17:02.279 --> 01:17:06.239 into a wonderful place. Many Ace Hardware stores throughout the 1407 01:17:06.359 --> 01:17:11.479 Greater Houston area, places like Aspas ACE in the Woodlands, Plantation, 1408 01:17:11.680 --> 01:17:16.680 ACE on Mason Road, down in the Richmond Rosenberg area, 1409 01:17:16.840 --> 01:17:19.680 j and ours as out there in Porter, down in 1410 01:17:19.800 --> 01:17:23.880 Bay City, Bay City Ace on Seventh Street. For those 1411 01:17:23.960 --> 01:17:28.439 of you out in Brenham area, there's ACE Hardware on 1412 01:17:28.800 --> 01:17:32.359 North Austin Parkway and then up in Spring on Rayford Road. 1413 01:17:32.680 --> 01:17:35.159 And again I'm just reading a few of the many 1414 01:17:35.199 --> 01:17:37.920 ACE Hardware stores that you will find at ACE Hardware 1415 01:17:38.319 --> 01:17:46.960 Texas dot com. Ace Hardware Texas dot Com talking about 1416 01:17:47.399 --> 01:17:49.720 taking care of these plants and different things to be 1417 01:17:49.840 --> 01:17:51.960 doing out in the garden. This time of the year, 1418 01:17:52.720 --> 01:17:56.479 it is time to get as much of your planting 1419 01:17:56.600 --> 01:17:59.520 for the spring and summer done as you can, because 1420 01:17:59.640 --> 01:18:04.359 every week that a plant has to get roots established 1421 01:18:05.199 --> 01:18:08.800 is a week that makes it better prepared for summer 1422 01:18:08.880 --> 01:18:12.000 heat and dry conditions. And that's especially true of what 1423 01:18:12.119 --> 01:18:14.239 you ornamentals. You're gonna plant a tree, a shrub, or 1424 01:18:14.239 --> 01:18:16.880 a woody vine, get it in the ground now. But 1425 01:18:16.960 --> 01:18:20.199 it's also true of things you know, like the perennials 1426 01:18:20.279 --> 01:18:23.800 and even our annuals that we're putting out. Plan them now, 1427 01:18:23.920 --> 01:18:26.039 get them done. Boy, is this week ever going to 1428 01:18:26.079 --> 01:18:29.520 be a good one for planting? And if you've not 1429 01:18:29.680 --> 01:18:32.199 been out to Enchanted Gardens, you need to go. This 1430 01:18:32.399 --> 01:18:35.279 is a destination garden center on the Katie Fullsher side 1431 01:18:35.279 --> 01:18:38.680 of Richmond. It's on FM three point fifty nine. Here's 1432 01:18:38.680 --> 01:18:41.800 the website. You'd write this down because it is an 1433 01:18:41.840 --> 01:18:46.199 awesome website with lots of great information and you can 1434 01:18:46.279 --> 01:18:48.279 stay up to day. Follow them on social media too. 1435 01:18:48.359 --> 01:18:54.199 By the way, Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. Enchanted Gardens 1436 01:18:54.439 --> 01:18:57.359 Richmond dot com. The Lenderman family has been part of 1437 01:18:57.399 --> 01:19:01.680 that community since nineteen ninety five garden first opened, And 1438 01:19:01.880 --> 01:19:04.239 when you go there, it is just a wonderful experience. 1439 01:19:04.279 --> 01:19:08.319 You're going to find an unmatched, unmatched rather a selection 1440 01:19:08.640 --> 01:19:10.960 of every kind of plant that you can imagine. But 1441 01:19:11.199 --> 01:19:15.600 also you're going to find an enthusiastic team that is 1442 01:19:15.800 --> 01:19:19.800 knowledgeable and they can help you. They can look at 1443 01:19:19.840 --> 01:19:22.600 photos and samples to give you expert advice. They can 1444 01:19:22.680 --> 01:19:24.640 help you put together you know, you want to put 1445 01:19:24.680 --> 01:19:27.479 together a beautiful color combo planter. Well they can give 1446 01:19:27.479 --> 01:19:29.239 you some ideas, Oh, you want to put this in 1447 01:19:29.319 --> 01:19:31.560 the middle because you know it's taller, and then you 1448 01:19:31.640 --> 01:19:34.039 puture things around the side, or here's some colors that 1449 01:19:34.119 --> 01:19:36.720 go well together. All that kind of stuff. You get 1450 01:19:36.760 --> 01:19:39.600 that kind of service. You're going to find Microlife, Nitrofloss, 1451 01:19:39.720 --> 01:19:44.880 Nelson plant Food, Medina Products, Nature's Way, Heirloom Sauce. I'm 1452 01:19:44.960 --> 01:19:47.560 just telling you from brown stuff to green stuff en 1453 01:19:47.600 --> 01:19:52.359 Gentigardens Richmond dot Com on FM three point fifty nine. 1454 01:19:54.880 --> 01:19:56.439 You know, I always get sad when I hear the 1455 01:19:56.520 --> 01:19:58.680 music plan because I got to go talking about gardening 1456 01:19:58.760 --> 01:20:02.000 and I like to talk about garden with gardeners, which 1457 01:20:02.439 --> 01:20:04.640 reminds me. By the way, next Saturday, I'm gonna be 1458 01:20:04.680 --> 01:20:08.880 at r CW Nursery up there where belt Wait eight 1459 01:20:09.239 --> 01:20:14.000 and FM two forty nine Tombol Parkway come together. We 1460 01:20:14.199 --> 01:20:18.000 have got some really cool stuff going on at RCW, 1461 01:20:18.199 --> 01:20:20.600 and I hope that you will come out and see me. 1462 01:20:21.239 --> 01:20:21.600 For sure. 1463 01:20:21.800 --> 01:20:24.520 For example, we're gonna have they're gonna have the spring 1464 01:20:24.680 --> 01:20:28.359 flaying out there, and we're gonna have a lot of giveaways, 1465 01:20:28.520 --> 01:20:31.119 barbecues and refreshments. In fact, I want to tell you 1466 01:20:31.199 --> 01:20:32.960 a little bit more about that when I come back. 1467 01:20:34.520 --> 01:20:38.560 Welcome to kt r H garden Line with Skip Rictor. 1468 01:20:47.119 --> 01:20:48.680 Just watch him as. 1469 01:20:54.000 --> 01:21:18.920 Many a sign s, well, good morning again. You're listening 1470 01:21:18.960 --> 01:21:21.399 to garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we're 1471 01:21:21.439 --> 01:21:24.319 here to help you have a bountiful garden, a beautiful landscape, 1472 01:21:24.520 --> 01:21:27.319 and more fun in the process. That's the way I 1473 01:21:27.439 --> 01:21:29.319 like to put it, because that's what gardening ought to 1474 01:21:29.359 --> 01:21:32.359 be like, no sweat, no worries. So talk about this 1475 01:21:32.479 --> 01:21:35.319 all the time. Don't worry. You can't fail at gardenings. 1476 01:21:36.159 --> 01:21:38.560 Yes I said that, you're going. Yeah, but I have no. 1477 01:21:38.680 --> 01:21:41.000 You haven't not unless you've given up. And if you 1478 01:21:41.079 --> 01:21:43.560 give up, well, I guess you could say you failed 1479 01:21:43.560 --> 01:21:48.680 at gardening. But you just keep you, just keep going. 1480 01:21:48.880 --> 01:21:51.560 You try it again. Listen. I can't tell you how 1481 01:21:51.600 --> 01:21:56.399 many plants I've killed in my life. Learning, trying things, experimenting. 1482 01:21:57.399 --> 01:22:00.680 It's okay, it's all right to do that. And you know, 1483 01:22:00.840 --> 01:22:04.319 I mean, if you want, you can revamp your garden 1484 01:22:04.399 --> 01:22:08.119 and landscape anytime you wish to. I mean, really, you 1485 01:22:08.199 --> 01:22:10.840 don't see people doing this much. But you literally could 1486 01:22:10.840 --> 01:22:13.039 take an old maybe at a landscape there's planeted in 1487 01:22:13.159 --> 01:22:16.000 nineteen seventies and the bushes are now pushing over the 1488 01:22:16.119 --> 01:22:19.760 top of the eaves, and a lot more dwarf, beautiful, 1489 01:22:19.960 --> 01:22:23.039 compact kinds of plants that are available now. I mean, 1490 01:22:23.079 --> 01:22:25.600 you can turn the whole thing to dirt and come 1491 01:22:25.720 --> 01:22:29.279 back with compost and beds and new plants and start 1492 01:22:29.359 --> 01:22:32.439 over again. Usually people do that, you know, a section 1493 01:22:32.560 --> 01:22:34.880 at a time. But I'm just trying to make the point, 1494 01:22:35.119 --> 01:22:37.840 and that is if you look at what If you're 1495 01:22:37.840 --> 01:22:40.039 looking at your landscape, you don't like what you see, 1496 01:22:40.439 --> 01:22:45.079 well then do something, do something different. You can get 1497 01:22:45.119 --> 01:22:47.039 out and drive around. I like to drive around and 1498 01:22:47.039 --> 01:22:50.079 take pictures of things that I think are interesting. Plants 1499 01:22:50.079 --> 01:22:52.640 I think are interesting. I find stuff online all the time. 1500 01:22:53.119 --> 01:22:55.560 There's a plant I haven't grown before, let's try that out. 1501 01:22:55.600 --> 01:22:57.199 You can do that. You can do it that way, 1502 01:22:57.439 --> 01:23:00.840 create it yourself, or I mean, if you want, you 1503 01:23:00.960 --> 01:23:03.439 can have somebody like Piercecapes come and do it for you. 1504 01:23:03.680 --> 01:23:06.760 You know, Pier Scapes. Those folks know what they're doing. 1505 01:23:07.119 --> 01:23:09.840 They've been doing this a very very long time. And 1506 01:23:09.960 --> 01:23:13.720 when you're looking for instant pizazz or whether it's a 1507 01:23:13.840 --> 01:23:17.159 complete renovation or whether it is just hey, I want 1508 01:23:17.159 --> 01:23:19.000 to improve on this a little bit. I'd like to 1509 01:23:19.039 --> 01:23:21.520 redo that flower bed, or can you make that area 1510 01:23:21.640 --> 01:23:24.279 draam better? Or what about you know, I've always wanted 1511 01:23:24.359 --> 01:23:27.680 an outdoor, shaded sitting area where we could enjoy in 1512 01:23:27.760 --> 01:23:30.720 the evenings, you know, with hard scapes and I don't know, 1513 01:23:30.840 --> 01:23:33.840 maybe even a water feature or something like that. Piercescapes 1514 01:23:33.880 --> 01:23:36.079 can do it. There are a preferred landscaper here on 1515 01:23:36.199 --> 01:23:39.840 garden Line. It's a one stop shop. Basically, all you 1516 01:23:39.880 --> 01:23:41.560 got to do is go to the website. That is 1517 01:23:41.600 --> 01:23:43.880 the most important thing is go look at what they 1518 01:23:43.960 --> 01:23:49.279 do piercescapes dot com. Piercescapes dot com. Now you're going 1519 01:23:49.319 --> 01:23:51.239 to see some stuff that's like, oh my gosh, that's 1520 01:23:51.239 --> 01:23:54.960 the taj mahal right and that doesn't quite look like 1521 01:23:55.079 --> 01:23:58.600 my place. Well, they can do anything at any level 1522 01:23:58.920 --> 01:24:02.680 that you need done to make your place beautiful, whether 1523 01:24:02.720 --> 01:24:06.880 it's just redesigning a flower bed to a turnkey front, 1524 01:24:06.920 --> 01:24:12.000 backside and everything. Redo pierscapes dot com. Here's the phone 1525 01:24:12.079 --> 01:24:14.680 number two eight one three seven oh fifty sixty to 1526 01:24:14.840 --> 01:24:17.800 eight one three seven oh fifty sixty. You need to 1527 01:24:17.840 --> 01:24:19.319 go check them out, and then you need to give 1528 01:24:19.359 --> 01:24:23.159 them a call. You're listening to Garden Line. I'm your host, 1529 01:24:23.319 --> 01:24:24.960 Skip Richter, and we're here to help you have a 1530 01:24:25.039 --> 01:24:29.479 bountiful garden and a beautiful landscape. And the important thing 1531 01:24:29.600 --> 01:24:32.399 to know is the phone number seven one three two 1532 01:24:32.439 --> 01:24:34.399 one two k t r A. Let's talk about the 1533 01:24:34.479 --> 01:24:37.079 things that you're interested in. I don't forget I was 1534 01:24:37.199 --> 01:24:41.159 talking about RCW Nursery before we went to break next Saturday, 1535 01:24:41.279 --> 01:24:45.880 April twelfth. April twelfth, next Saturday, put that on your calendar. 1536 01:24:45.880 --> 01:24:48.720 I'm gonna be there from twelve to two, So from 1537 01:24:48.800 --> 01:24:50.720 noon to two. Now, you know you have to eat 1538 01:24:50.720 --> 01:24:54.319 before you come. RCW is going to have a barbecue lunch. 1539 01:24:54.399 --> 01:24:57.920 They're gonna have some refreshments there for you there. Also, 1540 01:24:58.000 --> 01:25:00.359 while I'm out there, they're gonna have a one, one day, 1541 01:25:00.439 --> 01:25:03.680 only ten percent off sale on their roses, and you 1542 01:25:04.000 --> 01:25:06.560 need to go see their roses. They're blooming. They look 1543 01:25:06.760 --> 01:25:09.079 great right now. So you know, if you're tired of 1544 01:25:09.159 --> 01:25:12.039 looking at a picture on a tag and going, well, 1545 01:25:12.079 --> 01:25:14.039 what does that flower really look like? Or was this 1546 01:25:14.119 --> 01:25:17.399 smell like, Well, there you go. They're on the plants. 1547 01:25:17.479 --> 01:25:19.439 Go look at them, go smell them, go check them out. 1548 01:25:19.960 --> 01:25:23.000 Ten percent off on the roses next Saturday. And now 1549 01:25:23.000 --> 01:25:25.079 I'll be there answering gardening questions. I'm gonna have some 1550 01:25:25.199 --> 01:25:28.359 cool giveaways for you as well, and we're just gonna 1551 01:25:28.359 --> 01:25:31.560 have a good time. I always love going to RCW Nurseries. 1552 01:25:32.000 --> 01:25:35.199 That is a fun place. So put it on your calendar, 1553 01:25:35.239 --> 01:25:37.680 come on out and see me. We will visit and 1554 01:25:37.680 --> 01:25:39.920 I have some handouts and as I said, some cool 1555 01:25:39.920 --> 01:25:43.760 giveaways as well. In your lawn if you have not 1556 01:25:43.880 --> 01:25:46.159 put a pre emergent down and you would like to, 1557 01:25:46.359 --> 01:25:50.439 especially if your lawn is thin, barricade from nitrofoss is 1558 01:25:50.520 --> 01:25:52.920 the product that does that kill. And the reason I 1559 01:25:53.039 --> 01:25:56.239 say it's the product is because it prevents both the 1560 01:25:56.920 --> 01:26:00.359 broad leaf and the grassy weed seeds. The vast already 1561 01:26:00.359 --> 01:26:03.000 of all grassy and broad leaved weeds will be controlled 1562 01:26:03.600 --> 01:26:06.159 by barricade. You put it down, you watered in about 1563 01:26:06.199 --> 01:26:07.840 a half inch of water, maybe a third of inch 1564 01:26:07.880 --> 01:26:09.159 of water just to get it in the ground. 1565 01:26:09.760 --> 01:26:09.880 Uh. 1566 01:26:10.000 --> 01:26:13.840 And a ten pound bag covers about five thousand square feet, 1567 01:26:13.960 --> 01:26:17.920 so most ones. That's enough to do that. Remember, follow 1568 01:26:17.960 --> 01:26:21.199 the label. If you've got a two thousand, five hundred 1569 01:26:21.239 --> 01:26:23.279 square foot lawn, don't put the whole bag on it. 1570 01:26:23.479 --> 01:26:26.960 That's double the rate. Follow the label very important to 1571 01:26:27.039 --> 01:26:29.600 do that. You're going to find products like this at 1572 01:26:29.920 --> 01:26:33.720 Plants and Things in Brenham Fisher's Hardware in Baytown on Alexander, 1573 01:26:34.279 --> 01:26:38.880 UH and down include Lake Hardware on Dixie and in Angleton. 1574 01:26:39.000 --> 01:26:44.359 Lake Hardware and Velasco are places that carry my nitroposs products. 1575 01:26:46.079 --> 01:26:48.399 You're listening to Guardenline if you'd like to call in 1576 01:26:48.640 --> 01:26:50.640 ask a question, that'd be a good time. Kind of 1577 01:26:50.680 --> 01:26:53.039 quiet out there on the phones for the moment. UH 1578 01:26:53.199 --> 01:26:56.479 seven one three two one two k t r H 1579 01:26:56.880 --> 01:27:01.000 seven to one three two one two k t H. 1580 01:27:01.920 --> 01:27:05.479 I would like you to go to a website. I'm 1581 01:27:05.479 --> 01:27:07.159 gonna give it to you, give it to you right now. 1582 01:27:07.279 --> 01:27:14.800 It's Houston Powder Cooders dot com. Houston Powdercoders dot com. 1583 01:27:15.359 --> 01:27:22.039 It is a very cool place. They take old metal 1584 01:27:22.119 --> 01:27:27.720 furniture and they do it just I al would say 1585 01:27:27.760 --> 01:27:29.439 make it like new. They make it better than new 1586 01:27:29.479 --> 01:27:33.840 in my opinion. They transform it and they can do anything. 1587 01:27:33.920 --> 01:27:36.880 And if you go to that website you can see 1588 01:27:37.000 --> 01:27:39.119 all the different kinds of powder coating that they do. 1589 01:27:39.279 --> 01:27:41.479 I'm primarily talking about the backyard here. I mean they 1590 01:27:41.560 --> 01:27:45.079 do stuff powder coating for all kinds of things. They've 1591 01:27:45.119 --> 01:27:46.920 got the equipment, they got the space to do it. 1592 01:27:47.319 --> 01:27:50.760 But they can refinish your in repair by the way, 1593 01:27:51.039 --> 01:27:54.680 your furniture, your metal furniture that's outside. They know how 1594 01:27:54.760 --> 01:27:57.359 to do that, whether it's you know, getting off some russ, 1595 01:27:57.439 --> 01:28:00.319 doing some welding, you know, to get it backwards, should 1596 01:28:00.319 --> 01:28:03.520 be putting new fresh stainless steel hardware in from all 1597 01:28:03.560 --> 01:28:05.800 that rusty stuff that you have, and then putting the 1598 01:28:05.840 --> 01:28:09.720 powder coating on it. Over one hundred colors to choose from. 1599 01:28:10.119 --> 01:28:11.800 What do you want your furniture to look like? Do 1600 01:28:11.840 --> 01:28:14.039 you have any rod iron? Do you have any artistic 1601 01:28:14.199 --> 01:28:16.600 rod iron in the back? Let them powder coat that 1602 01:28:16.840 --> 01:28:20.800 and protect it. Go to Houston Powdercoders dot Com two 1603 01:28:20.840 --> 01:28:28.399 eight one six seven six thirty eight eighty eight. Alright, 1604 01:28:29.079 --> 01:28:34.680 so we're back. Let's talk gardening. What is of interest 1605 01:28:34.760 --> 01:28:37.399 to you? What are the topics that you're interested in, Well, 1606 01:28:37.520 --> 01:28:39.479 let's find out. We're going to go out to Kingwood 1607 01:28:39.640 --> 01:28:40.439 and talk to John. 1608 01:28:40.600 --> 01:28:40.840 Hello. 1609 01:28:41.000 --> 01:28:42.279 John, Welcome to garden Line. 1610 01:28:43.560 --> 01:28:50.079 Good morning, I have gotten too good morning. I want 1611 01:28:50.119 --> 01:28:52.680 to ask you about the steps that you have to 1612 01:28:52.800 --> 01:28:55.840 take to do a lawn aeration. I was thinking about 1613 01:28:55.920 --> 01:28:59.960 rent and one of those cororators going over my friend. 1614 01:29:00.439 --> 01:29:05.560 The lawn grows okay, except in two spots or I 1615 01:29:05.600 --> 01:29:07.560 don't know if there was a tree there before they 1616 01:29:07.640 --> 01:29:10.279 built the house, but it's kind of raised and there's 1617 01:29:10.319 --> 01:29:13.680 a lot of roots underneath the soil okay. And I've 1618 01:29:13.720 --> 01:29:15.399 had sod put out and it never. 1619 01:29:15.319 --> 01:29:19.199 Would take all right. 1620 01:29:19.399 --> 01:29:22.680 Oh, I was wondering if that would help any. 1621 01:29:24.439 --> 01:29:26.920 Yeah. Once well, your side needs to be well rooted 1622 01:29:27.000 --> 01:29:30.960 in before you run the erraator over it. And it's 1623 01:29:31.000 --> 01:29:32.680 good to let it, you know, come out in the 1624 01:29:32.720 --> 01:29:36.119 spring and get well established, you know, before you begin 1625 01:29:36.640 --> 01:29:40.760 the process. But if you are ready to go and 1626 01:29:40.880 --> 01:29:43.600 you get an erraator, you're going to need to get 1627 01:29:43.880 --> 01:29:47.880 some compost top dressing to put over the lawn, and 1628 01:29:47.920 --> 01:29:51.680 I would recommend a leaf mold compost. You're fortunate, being 1629 01:29:51.760 --> 01:29:55.079 in Kingwood that you're just down the street from Warren's 1630 01:29:55.159 --> 01:29:58.079 Rock and Molts right there in Porter there on the 1631 01:29:58.800 --> 01:30:02.520 feeder Road fifty nine access road there and porter as 1632 01:30:02.520 --> 01:30:08.079 your Yeah, that's where the airloom soils products are. So 1633 01:30:08.439 --> 01:30:11.079 you can have them bring a super sack out or 1634 01:30:11.119 --> 01:30:12.239 you can go get it, or you can have them 1635 01:30:12.319 --> 01:30:14.199 dump it on the drive but you're gonna want to 1636 01:30:14.199 --> 01:30:16.359 spread it out about a third of an inch deep, 1637 01:30:17.279 --> 01:30:20.600 and so you know, you can use the calculator on 1638 01:30:20.800 --> 01:30:25.399 the Heirloomsoils dot Com website to see how much that takes. 1639 01:30:25.439 --> 01:30:29.000 I would get a little extra for sure, but first 1640 01:30:29.079 --> 01:30:32.920 I would airate when the soil is moist, not soggy wet, 1641 01:30:33.359 --> 01:30:36.600 but moist, because so if it's hard, you know, the 1642 01:30:36.640 --> 01:30:39.079 little machines bounce over it like you're trying to erate 1643 01:30:39.159 --> 01:30:43.760 your driveway. And if it's if it's just mushy, that's 1644 01:30:44.039 --> 01:30:45.680 that's not good either. You don't want to mess with 1645 01:30:45.760 --> 01:30:49.560 the soil when it's soggy wet, but medium consistency moisture 1646 01:30:50.039 --> 01:30:53.840 is the time you don't do that. Airate well. And 1647 01:30:53.960 --> 01:30:55.920 I'd go over all the areas, not just the areas 1648 01:30:55.960 --> 01:30:58.239 that aren't doing well, but maybe the areas that aren't 1649 01:30:58.239 --> 01:31:00.239 doing well. You'd go over them a second time just 1650 01:31:00.279 --> 01:31:02.800 to get a little more errors in there, and then 1651 01:31:03.479 --> 01:31:06.439 then put the compost top dressing down about a third 1652 01:31:06.479 --> 01:31:07.880 of an inch d you may you can go deeper 1653 01:31:07.920 --> 01:31:09.880 if you want, but about a third to a half 1654 01:31:09.960 --> 01:31:12.960 inch would be good. Since you're doing it yourself, maybe 1655 01:31:13.000 --> 01:31:17.600 go half okay, and then what that's it. That's it. 1656 01:31:17.760 --> 01:31:20.199 If you haven't have you fertilized for the season yet. 1657 01:31:20.479 --> 01:31:25.239 Any Yeah, I put some scots like got weed and 1658 01:31:25.279 --> 01:31:29.399 feed down and the grass that does grow it looks great. 1659 01:31:31.439 --> 01:31:32.239 That's probably. 1660 01:31:35.439 --> 01:31:36.319 Maybe three weeks. 1661 01:31:36.319 --> 01:31:40.119 All right, Well, I would, I would say, so what 1662 01:31:40.239 --> 01:31:42.960 are we We're kind of sitting here in the first 1663 01:31:43.039 --> 01:31:47.760 week of April, probably late and later in April. Go 1664 01:31:47.840 --> 01:31:53.279 ahead and switch and put down a slow release fertilizer 1665 01:31:53.479 --> 01:31:57.279 you like Nitrophossi's super Turf, the silver bag, and that 1666 01:31:57.399 --> 01:31:59.600 will cover you through the summer, even though you're doing 1667 01:31:59.680 --> 01:32:02.079 the common post top dressing and the air ration. Go 1668 01:32:02.119 --> 01:32:04.119 ahead and put that down. In fact, I'd probably put 1669 01:32:04.119 --> 01:32:08.279 it down before I did all this, the aerration and 1670 01:32:08.319 --> 01:32:10.760 compost top dressing. And then when you watered in, you 1671 01:32:10.880 --> 01:32:13.560 should see your lawn ought to bounce back pretty quick 1672 01:32:13.600 --> 01:32:15.920 and it ought to look really good. I'd love to 1673 01:32:15.960 --> 01:32:16.640 hear about it too. 1674 01:32:16.720 --> 01:32:20.039 If you end up doing all that, all right, maybe 1675 01:32:20.079 --> 01:32:21.720 I'll take it before and after picture. 1676 01:32:23.399 --> 01:32:25.640 Hey, that'd be wonderful. That'd be very good if you'd 1677 01:32:25.680 --> 01:32:27.880 send me some of those. I'd appreciate. I seriously would 1678 01:32:27.880 --> 01:32:31.439 appreciate that. Well, John, thank you, and good luck getting 1679 01:32:31.520 --> 01:32:38.840 that place all right. You take care. Nelson Watergarden and 1680 01:32:38.960 --> 01:32:43.840 Nursery out there in Fort Bend, I'm not Fort Bend, Katie. 1681 01:32:43.920 --> 01:32:47.319 Fort Ben Road out in Katie is a wonderful place 1682 01:32:47.359 --> 01:32:47.880 to go visit. 1683 01:32:48.319 --> 01:32:48.439 They. 1684 01:32:49.039 --> 01:32:51.279 First of all, they have an awesome nursery, all kinds 1685 01:32:51.279 --> 01:32:53.560 of plants that you can see. But boy do they 1686 01:32:53.800 --> 01:32:56.760 have gorgeous pottery. And they have pottery for those water 1687 01:32:56.960 --> 01:32:59.159 disappearing fountains, you know, the ones that come on the 1688 01:32:59.199 --> 01:33:01.880 top of the container and spill over the sides and 1689 01:33:01.960 --> 01:33:05.319 then recirculate. They've got all of that. But the plants, 1690 01:33:05.560 --> 01:33:09.439 the plant selection in the nursery is just outstanding. They've 1691 01:33:09.520 --> 01:33:11.800 got Louisiana iris. In fact, I believe they got a 1692 01:33:11.840 --> 01:33:15.960 weekend special going on on Louisiana iris right now, So 1693 01:33:16.119 --> 01:33:18.399 don't delay on those. If you've got a wet, boggy 1694 01:33:18.439 --> 01:33:22.720 area that doesn't drain well, Louisiana iris will be happy there, 1695 01:33:22.800 --> 01:33:24.800 especially if it's a little bit of shade. They like 1696 01:33:24.840 --> 01:33:27.520 a little bit of shade out there. But all your 1697 01:33:27.560 --> 01:33:31.359 color plants that you're looking for are there, beautiful, beautiful 1698 01:33:31.560 --> 01:33:37.000 house plants. Everything from outdoor plants like combo hanging baskets 1699 01:33:37.039 --> 01:33:39.159 that just have like three or four different kinds of 1700 01:33:39.199 --> 01:33:41.640 flowers in them. I mean they are just color color 1701 01:33:41.800 --> 01:33:45.359 color out plus as they say, they got Chinese French 1702 01:33:45.399 --> 01:33:49.319 trees too, by the way out there, and herbs and 1703 01:33:49.520 --> 01:33:52.520 vegetables and everything you're looking for all right now coming 1704 01:33:52.600 --> 01:33:55.680 up on Saturday, April twenty sixth, from five to seven, 1705 01:33:55.800 --> 01:33:59.359 that's in the evening shelby from Nelson Plantfood. It's going 1706 01:33:59.399 --> 01:34:02.000 to be out there, gonna have a sipping stroll. That's 1707 01:34:02.039 --> 01:34:04.960 when they serve some drinks and life refreshments, have some 1708 01:34:05.119 --> 01:34:08.079 live music, and it's just a wonderful time to go out. 1709 01:34:08.159 --> 01:34:10.279 But anytime it's a wonderful not time to go to 1710 01:34:10.399 --> 01:34:13.600 Nelson Water Gardens and Nursery Katie Fort Ben Road just 1711 01:34:13.760 --> 01:34:17.520 north of the KT Freeway. We're going to head now 1712 01:34:17.720 --> 01:34:20.760 up to Cyprus and talk to Matt. Hello, Matt, welcome 1713 01:34:20.800 --> 01:34:21.439 to garden Line. 1714 01:34:23.119 --> 01:34:23.840 Yeah, good morning. 1715 01:34:23.880 --> 01:34:24.359 How are you doing. 1716 01:34:26.239 --> 01:34:26.880 I'm doing well? 1717 01:34:26.960 --> 01:34:30.199 Thank you great Hey, two questions for you. 1718 01:34:30.439 --> 01:34:31.720 One dollar weed. 1719 01:34:32.600 --> 01:34:34.920 I have some some dollar weed that's kind of growing 1720 01:34:35.000 --> 01:34:36.880 in in some areas and I tried to treat it 1721 01:34:37.000 --> 01:34:43.640 with weed beater, and uh, I can't the name escapes 1722 01:34:43.680 --> 01:34:45.960 me on what else I sprayed on sprayed like the 1723 01:34:46.039 --> 01:34:49.039 stuff that's supposed to stick to the the dollar weed 1724 01:34:49.199 --> 01:34:55.039 for the weed beater and uh and yes, fact, sir fact, 1725 01:34:55.119 --> 01:34:57.439 that's right, sir fact. When I sprayed that on there 1726 01:34:57.600 --> 01:35:01.399 about four or five days, it just killed the entire 1727 01:35:01.520 --> 01:35:04.279 area that I'm at, Saint Augustine and everything. 1728 01:35:05.800 --> 01:35:07.039 And this is the second time. 1729 01:35:07.920 --> 01:35:10.279 So I'm looking for a different solution than. 1730 01:35:10.239 --> 01:35:11.479 The than the wheed beater. 1731 01:35:14.560 --> 01:35:20.319 There are several formulations of weed beater, uh some of them. Uh, well, 1732 01:35:20.359 --> 01:35:23.760 they don't all have exactly the same chemical in them, 1733 01:35:24.119 --> 01:35:27.199 so it may have been the formulation of weed beater 1734 01:35:27.520 --> 01:35:30.840 that you had. I don't know on that. But basically 1735 01:35:31.159 --> 01:35:35.119 for the dollar weed, Uh, there are several products that 1736 01:35:35.199 --> 01:35:38.119 will control it. Well, there is one that's a little 1737 01:35:38.159 --> 01:35:41.199 more expensive, but you buy it in little packets that 1738 01:35:41.359 --> 01:35:44.560 only make one gallon of spray because that's often enough 1739 01:35:44.920 --> 01:35:48.960 for what you need to do. But it's called Celsius 1740 01:35:50.039 --> 01:35:53.960 like the temperature celsius. Okay, and you go to a 1741 01:35:54.039 --> 01:35:57.840 good garden center there, You're probably gonna find celsius in 1742 01:35:57.960 --> 01:36:01.479 your area at some your local ACE hardware stores. You 1743 01:36:01.520 --> 01:36:04.960 have several there in the Cypress area Ace hardware stores, 1744 01:36:05.039 --> 01:36:06.960 but i'd call ahead of time make sure they have it. 1745 01:36:07.319 --> 01:36:10.000 It's a little packet, a little piece of cardboard with 1746 01:36:10.119 --> 01:36:14.000 a clear plastic over it and a little tiny packet inside. 1747 01:36:14.760 --> 01:36:18.640 But that works pretty well on dollar weed, and I 1748 01:36:19.000 --> 01:36:21.640 don't I'm trying to think that the celsius already has 1749 01:36:21.720 --> 01:36:25.079 its own surfacting in it. That's another thing to watch 1750 01:36:25.159 --> 01:36:30.720 your mix rates on both the herbicides and the surfactants 1751 01:36:30.760 --> 01:36:34.319 that you're putting on. But dollar weed has a slick leaf, 1752 01:36:34.439 --> 01:36:37.159 so the surfactants needed to get it to stick to 1753 01:36:37.239 --> 01:36:37.600 the leaf. 1754 01:36:38.880 --> 01:36:39.760 Okay, Okay. 1755 01:36:40.520 --> 01:36:43.760 The other thing is is, so I bought some it 1756 01:36:43.880 --> 01:36:47.199 looks like I have sedge moving in on some of 1757 01:36:47.279 --> 01:36:50.399 the area. I assume it said. It's kind of a taller, 1758 01:36:51.279 --> 01:36:54.279 real thin leaf grass. It's kind of fixed in now 1759 01:36:54.399 --> 01:36:55.560 with my Saint Augustine. 1760 01:36:57.399 --> 01:36:59.079 Okay, And I bought some some. 1761 01:36:59.319 --> 01:37:04.359 Sedge hammer, but I haven't used it yet. A little 1762 01:37:04.439 --> 01:37:08.199 concern is you know how to get rid of sedge 1763 01:37:08.279 --> 01:37:11.239 without burning my get up. 1764 01:37:13.199 --> 01:37:17.159 Okay, sedgehammer is the product to use for that. I'll 1765 01:37:17.199 --> 01:37:22.000 tell you what. Just to be sure, if you would 1766 01:37:22.159 --> 01:37:24.800 like to take some good close up pictures, I would 1767 01:37:24.840 --> 01:37:27.680 even pull some of what you think is sedge up 1768 01:37:28.159 --> 01:37:31.359 and lay it down, like on a brown kitchen table 1769 01:37:31.520 --> 01:37:33.640 or something, and take a good picture of it so 1770 01:37:33.760 --> 01:37:35.479 I can see it up close. Make sure it's in 1771 01:37:35.520 --> 01:37:38.880 sharp focus. And let me make sure we know what 1772 01:37:38.920 --> 01:37:41.760 we're talking about, because the product you would use for 1773 01:37:41.880 --> 01:37:44.600 like nuts edge is maybe different than the product you 1774 01:37:44.720 --> 01:37:46.800 use for kai linga, which is a type of sedge, 1775 01:37:47.479 --> 01:37:50.640 or it could also be some other grass like plant 1776 01:37:51.199 --> 01:37:55.520 that looks that we're talking about. So let's just be 1777 01:37:55.640 --> 01:37:58.520 real sure. If you'd like, I'll put you on hold 1778 01:37:58.560 --> 01:38:00.680 here in a bit and we can you can get 1779 01:38:00.760 --> 01:38:03.720 my email to send me a photo to follow up 1780 01:38:03.760 --> 01:38:04.319 on this call. 1781 01:38:05.600 --> 01:38:06.840 Oh that would be outstanding. 1782 01:38:06.920 --> 01:38:07.800 Yeah I appreciate that. 1783 01:38:08.800 --> 01:38:12.840 Yeah, alrighty, well, let's do that and take it from there. 1784 01:38:12.960 --> 01:38:16.279 But you pick the right product. I have a publication 1785 01:38:16.399 --> 01:38:22.239 on my website called Nutsedge an in Depth Look, and 1786 01:38:22.399 --> 01:38:25.680 it goes into some detail. You may have yellow or 1787 01:38:25.760 --> 01:38:28.800 you may have purple if it is nutsedge, and so 1788 01:38:29.960 --> 01:38:31.760 you might want to read that just to kind of 1789 01:38:31.760 --> 01:38:34.640 get familiar with it. It goes into some detail that's 1790 01:38:34.680 --> 01:38:35.319 important to know. 1791 01:38:35.479 --> 01:38:40.920 Okay, we'll do appreciate the advice here, all. 1792 01:38:40.920 --> 01:38:43.039 Right, Matt, you take care. I'm putting you on hold 1793 01:38:43.399 --> 01:38:47.199 and Jonathan will pick up here and we'll be we'll 1794 01:38:47.239 --> 01:38:51.560 get you that email. Let's see. Yeah, it's always important 1795 01:38:51.560 --> 01:38:55.039 to identify weeds properly, and some weeds can look like 1796 01:38:55.199 --> 01:38:58.920 other weeds. They can't, I mean they do, and poor 1797 01:38:59.239 --> 01:39:03.079 identification means you're wasting money, you're wasting time, and you're 1798 01:39:03.119 --> 01:39:05.920 not going to get good results. I was talking about 1799 01:39:05.960 --> 01:39:10.319 Microlife products earlier and the microbes they contain. Microlife makes 1800 01:39:10.359 --> 01:39:15.279 a product called micro Grow liquid AF. Microgrow liquid AF. 1801 01:39:15.399 --> 01:39:17.159 You can buy it by the gallon if you want to. 1802 01:39:17.640 --> 01:39:18.960 I believe they have it more that they do have 1803 01:39:19.039 --> 01:39:22.479 it by the quart as well. But it contains eight 1804 01:39:22.720 --> 01:39:28.239 different specific microbes that are beneficial to the plants. They're 1805 01:39:28.439 --> 01:39:33.399 very beneficial in terms of helping protect those plants. So 1806 01:39:33.520 --> 01:39:36.880 whether you're solving a problem or or preventing a problem, 1807 01:39:37.560 --> 01:39:41.800 this is a good way to go. Streptomics trichodermas and basillis. 1808 01:39:41.800 --> 01:39:45.000 They have several different types of bacillis in there that 1809 01:39:45.119 --> 01:39:47.119 are all good and so you give a good drench 1810 01:39:47.319 --> 01:39:50.640 over your plant root system with that, and that really 1811 01:39:51.000 --> 01:39:53.239 does help a lot. They recommend that you put a 1812 01:39:53.279 --> 01:39:56.840 little bit of micro Grow liquid AF with a couple 1813 01:39:56.920 --> 01:39:59.600 ounces of molasses and a gallon of water and then 1814 01:39:59.640 --> 01:40:02.039 just d it over. Are you You can also spread 1815 01:40:02.079 --> 01:40:05.439 those products on the leaves as well. Micro Grow Liquid 1816 01:40:05.520 --> 01:40:08.359 AF from the folks at Microlife one of the many 1817 01:40:08.920 --> 01:40:13.640 liquid products that Microlife sells. Now. If you want more information, 1818 01:40:13.800 --> 01:40:19.239 go to Microlife Fertilizer dot com. I'm going to head 1819 01:40:19.279 --> 01:40:21.640 out to Katie now and talk to Shaho. Hey Shah 1820 01:40:21.640 --> 01:40:22.840 who welcome to guarden Line. 1821 01:40:24.159 --> 01:40:26.119 Good money. If Kip, how are you doing. 1822 01:40:27.960 --> 01:40:28.199 Well? 1823 01:40:28.319 --> 01:40:29.560 Thank you? How can I help? 1824 01:40:31.039 --> 01:40:31.159 All? 1825 01:40:31.239 --> 01:40:31.359 Right? 1826 01:40:31.560 --> 01:40:32.920 Yes? How can I help today? 1827 01:40:34.159 --> 01:40:34.359 Well? 1828 01:40:34.439 --> 01:40:39.640 I have some issue with my lawn basically since last 1829 01:40:39.760 --> 01:40:44.039 year it's kind of gone bald in many places. And uh, 1830 01:40:44.439 --> 01:40:47.079 I wanted you at Kai on that, you know, doing 1831 01:40:47.119 --> 01:40:51.359 the regular things with some linkedinin. I hired a lawn 1832 01:40:51.439 --> 01:40:54.159 management company. They spend I mean I spent money for 1833 01:40:54.279 --> 01:40:59.359 one year. Didn't really happen anything on that. So okay, 1834 01:40:59.600 --> 01:41:02.960 I I mean I'm kind of queen for a lost 1835 01:41:03.079 --> 01:41:05.680 source of you know, replacing the sword or something like that. 1836 01:41:09.319 --> 01:41:12.800 Who I'm sorry to interrupt you, but we're about to 1837 01:41:12.840 --> 01:41:14.960 go to a break. Could you hold on and I'll 1838 01:41:15.039 --> 01:41:17.399 come back to you when we come back. Thank you, sir. 1839 01:41:17.680 --> 01:41:23.960 Okay, I'll tell you. 1840 01:41:24.159 --> 01:41:27.479 What's all right? Is the weather that we're having. Oh 1841 01:41:27.600 --> 01:41:30.600 my gosh, I got so happy looking at my weather 1842 01:41:30.720 --> 01:41:34.439 aut this morning. Actually kind of on the cool side 1843 01:41:34.479 --> 01:41:36.439 this morning. We're going to be a very cool day 1844 01:41:36.520 --> 01:41:39.239 as well. Nice to be out and get some things 1845 01:41:39.359 --> 01:41:42.600 done in the afternoon. By the way, tomorrow and the 1846 01:41:42.640 --> 01:41:44.880 next day and the next day it is sun, sun, sun, 1847 01:41:44.960 --> 01:41:46.560 and the kind of weather that you want to be 1848 01:41:46.600 --> 01:41:49.840 out in. So I hope you're planning on some things 1849 01:41:49.920 --> 01:41:53.159 to spruce up the garden and the landscape. Just a 1850 01:41:53.279 --> 01:41:55.039 little bit of word to the wise. And you don't 1851 01:41:55.039 --> 01:41:56.680 need me to tell you this. You already know this, 1852 01:41:57.119 --> 01:42:00.760 but I'll say it anyway. Kind of when your parents 1853 01:42:00.880 --> 01:42:02.600 did that, it's like, yeah, I know, I know, but 1854 01:42:02.680 --> 01:42:03.680 they have to say it anyway. 1855 01:42:03.760 --> 01:42:04.079 All right. 1856 01:42:04.159 --> 01:42:10.319 Well, anyway, weeds are easier to control when they're young 1857 01:42:10.840 --> 01:42:14.000 than when they're older. When they're a little bitty tiny weeds, 1858 01:42:14.000 --> 01:42:15.399 you look at them and you go, oh, that it's 1859 01:42:15.439 --> 01:42:18.119 so bad. I'll get to them. And then the next 1860 01:42:18.199 --> 01:42:21.000 thing you know, they're knee high and it takes a 1861 01:42:21.119 --> 01:42:23.039 back hoe and a jackhammer to get them out of 1862 01:42:23.079 --> 01:42:25.439 the ground. And you'd be easier to control when they're young. 1863 01:42:25.479 --> 01:42:27.960 When they're young, I just throw a mulch on them. 1864 01:42:28.439 --> 01:42:29.960 I really do you know. You got a little weed 1865 01:42:30.039 --> 01:42:32.239 that's an inch even two inches high, and you just 1866 01:42:32.279 --> 01:42:33.880 throw a bunch of mult over the top, a good 1867 01:42:33.920 --> 01:42:38.119 thick layer to block all the sunlight, and it takes 1868 01:42:38.199 --> 01:42:40.600 care of it. And most of the time most cases 1869 01:42:40.680 --> 01:42:43.000 are some weeds that'll come through it. But then they 1870 01:42:43.039 --> 01:42:45.439 get a little older and you can take a hoe, 1871 01:42:45.600 --> 01:42:47.840 or even when they're young, you can take a really 1872 01:42:47.880 --> 01:42:50.880 good sharp hoe and slice right under the surface. Don't 1873 01:42:50.920 --> 01:42:54.000 disturb the so much, don't chop the soil, just slice 1874 01:42:54.079 --> 01:42:57.600 underneath it and that takes care of them, and then 1875 01:42:57.680 --> 01:43:00.279 throw a mulch on it. Wherever sunlight hits a soil, 1876 01:43:00.399 --> 01:43:03.039 nature plants the weed. And the earlier you decide to 1877 01:43:03.119 --> 01:43:06.640 control weeds, the more options you have. So let's say 1878 01:43:06.680 --> 01:43:08.800 you're an organic gardener, and you don't want to use 1879 01:43:09.079 --> 01:43:15.159 synthetic herbicides, well, vinegar will burn plant tissues. Vinegar is 1880 01:43:15.239 --> 01:43:21.039 an organic herbicide, but an established weed, vinegar typically will 1881 01:43:21.119 --> 01:43:24.199 kill the top but may not kill the whole weed. 1882 01:43:24.319 --> 01:43:27.039 It may re sprout from the bottom, especially a perennial weed. 1883 01:43:27.720 --> 01:43:30.359 But when you catch weeds when they're young seedlings, vinegar 1884 01:43:30.479 --> 01:43:32.560 kills them. It just kills them because they just don't 1885 01:43:32.760 --> 01:43:34.800 they haven't set up shop yet in a way that 1886 01:43:34.920 --> 01:43:37.159 they can. Okay, fry my top, but I'm going to 1887 01:43:37.199 --> 01:43:39.720 re sprout from the base. They haven't done that yet, 1888 01:43:40.319 --> 01:43:43.359 So that would be another reason why the earlier the better. 1889 01:43:43.560 --> 01:43:46.720 The earlier the better. I don't care if it's diseases, insects, 1890 01:43:46.840 --> 01:43:50.000 or weeds. The earlier you step in to do something, 1891 01:43:50.600 --> 01:43:54.079 the better it is. And not a life principle too. 1892 01:43:54.239 --> 01:43:56.640 About some of the issues we face in life, we 1893 01:43:56.760 --> 01:43:59.079 let them go a little too long and ooh boy, 1894 01:44:00.039 --> 01:44:02.840 out our hands full now. Well, anyway, you know what 1895 01:44:02.920 --> 01:44:06.239 I'm talking about. Without going philosophical, let's just leave it 1896 01:44:06.279 --> 01:44:11.520 at weeds. Earlier is better, and what's the best is 1897 01:44:11.600 --> 01:44:14.720 the earliest, which means you keep that soil molt because 1898 01:44:14.760 --> 01:44:18.399 wherever sunlight hits the soil, nature plants a weed. Just 1899 01:44:18.479 --> 01:44:22.880 remember that we were visiting with Shohop before we left. 1900 01:44:23.000 --> 01:44:25.239 We're going to get some pictures from him to take 1901 01:44:25.279 --> 01:44:27.239 a look at some of the issues that he has 1902 01:44:27.279 --> 01:44:29.520 so I can help him better. You know, on guard line, 1903 01:44:29.880 --> 01:44:31.920 I don't just give the email out because I can't 1904 01:44:32.119 --> 01:44:34.760 have everybody that listens to Guardenline send me emails. I 1905 01:44:34.800 --> 01:44:37.880 could never even begin to answer all the emails. But 1906 01:44:38.039 --> 01:44:40.840 when it's related to a call, either a call that 1907 01:44:40.920 --> 01:44:42.760 has come in or a call that's going to come in, 1908 01:44:43.800 --> 01:44:46.079 I don't mind you having an email to email me 1909 01:44:46.399 --> 01:44:48.520 the photos and the question so I can take a 1910 01:44:48.560 --> 01:44:51.760 look at him. Sometimes you're describing a spot on a leaf, 1911 01:44:51.920 --> 01:44:53.640 or a bug on a plant, or a weed in 1912 01:44:53.720 --> 01:44:56.800 the yard, and you know, I'm trying to picture it. 1913 01:44:57.079 --> 01:45:00.119 But I know that sometimes what you see and what 1914 01:45:00.239 --> 01:45:04.279 I hear are not the same thing, and so or 1915 01:45:04.359 --> 01:45:07.960 what I picture in my mind's I So a photo helps. 1916 01:45:08.439 --> 01:45:12.239 Photos when you send them should always be in good 1917 01:45:12.560 --> 01:45:18.039 sharp focus. Photos should be in good sharp focus. Photos 1918 01:45:18.279 --> 01:45:20.720 should be in good sharp They say threes the charms, 1919 01:45:20.760 --> 01:45:23.039 so I have to say it three times good sharp focus. 1920 01:45:23.199 --> 01:45:25.239 You send me a fuzzy photo, I'll give you a 1921 01:45:25.279 --> 01:45:29.560 fuzzy identification. You don't want a fuzzy identification, so check it. 1922 01:45:30.239 --> 01:45:33.279 You know your phone sometimes focuses on something that you 1923 01:45:33.399 --> 01:45:35.640 weren't intending for it to focus on, so make sure 1924 01:45:35.680 --> 01:45:38.960 it's good sharp focus. Photos should be close. Now, it's 1925 01:45:39.000 --> 01:45:41.760 good on like a yard situation, to see the whole yard, 1926 01:45:41.880 --> 01:45:43.359 just so I kind of get a big picture of you. 1927 01:45:44.119 --> 01:45:46.439 But let me get up close. The closer to the 1928 01:45:46.520 --> 01:45:49.399 problem the better, especially if it's something tiny in like 1929 01:45:49.439 --> 01:45:52.760 a little insect or something like that. Let me get close, 1930 01:45:53.000 --> 01:45:56.119 because there's even identifications that I need to get really 1931 01:45:56.199 --> 01:45:58.600 close on plant parts to be able to see and identify. 1932 01:45:59.079 --> 01:46:00.880 But I'll be happy to do. And then just follow 1933 01:46:00.920 --> 01:46:03.880 it up with a phone call and here to guardline, 1934 01:46:04.119 --> 01:46:05.880 and we'll be glad to visit with you, and I'll 1935 01:46:05.920 --> 01:46:08.199 give you a better answer that way. I want to 1936 01:46:08.239 --> 01:46:10.560 remind you too of something and I should talk about 1937 01:46:10.600 --> 01:46:13.199 this ever show, but I you know, things get by 1938 01:46:13.279 --> 01:46:17.800 on me. There's a thing called the Agrolife Extension Service 1939 01:46:17.880 --> 01:46:21.159 here in Texas. Now every state in the Union, back 1940 01:46:21.239 --> 01:46:26.720 in the days of Abraham Lincoln, were given a couple 1941 01:46:26.800 --> 01:46:29.159 of several things. Actually they were given. First of all, 1942 01:46:29.399 --> 01:46:33.479 there is a Land Grant College here in Texas at 1943 01:46:33.560 --> 01:46:37.079 A and M it's LSU. And in Louisiana, Oklahoma State 1944 01:46:37.600 --> 01:46:40.520 Cornell's a Lang Grant College, University of Florida, and so on. 1945 01:46:41.199 --> 01:46:43.640 There's lang Grands in each state. Now with the Lang 1946 01:46:43.680 --> 01:46:47.640 Grant College to teach the people, they also later developed 1947 01:46:47.680 --> 01:46:51.319 the Extension Service, which was basically to take the university 1948 01:46:51.479 --> 01:46:54.279 to the people. So farmers out on a farm aren't 1949 01:46:54.279 --> 01:46:56.119 going to go to the university and get a degree, 1950 01:46:56.800 --> 01:47:00.159 but people could come from there and bring examples of 1951 01:47:00.319 --> 01:47:03.479 new varieties or new ways of farming, and they would 1952 01:47:03.479 --> 01:47:06.000 do a demonstration on the farm, and then all the 1953 01:47:06.079 --> 01:47:08.239 farmers in the region could come to that farm and 1954 01:47:08.359 --> 01:47:10.640 see it. Did it work, did it not? You know, 1955 01:47:10.760 --> 01:47:13.199 what is a good new kind of corn to grow? 1956 01:47:13.279 --> 01:47:15.960 Or whatever it was. It's an ingenious system and it 1957 01:47:16.119 --> 01:47:18.920 helped create the agricultural system we have now that feeds 1958 01:47:19.119 --> 01:47:21.560 a lot of people. And then, of course there was 1959 01:47:21.640 --> 01:47:23.720 a research that was added to that too, a number 1960 01:47:23.720 --> 01:47:27.520 of different acts by Congress. In county of every county 1961 01:47:27.560 --> 01:47:31.239 of Texas is served by an Extension office. Now, if 1962 01:47:31.279 --> 01:47:33.199 you go way out into Texas, it may be that 1963 01:47:33.319 --> 01:47:36.239 one office serves two different counties. But over here, every 1964 01:47:36.319 --> 01:47:39.359 county has an extension office, and in some of the 1965 01:47:39.439 --> 01:47:42.960 counties you have a horticulture agent too. Other counties you 1966 01:47:43.039 --> 01:47:46.279 have ag agents that have to handle horticulture also. But 1967 01:47:46.479 --> 01:47:53.640 Montgomery County, Brass County, Harris County, Fort ben County, Galveston County, 1968 01:47:53.760 --> 01:47:56.640 over in Orange. Who am leaving out? I'm probably leaving 1969 01:47:56.680 --> 01:47:59.720 one out as I'm thinking through the area. Brazoria. Brazoria 1970 01:47:59.720 --> 01:48:03.159 County has a horticulturist as well, and you can go 1971 01:48:03.279 --> 01:48:06.840 there often. There's master gardening programs which you can train 1972 01:48:06.920 --> 01:48:10.159 and be a volunteer master gardner, or you can talk 1973 01:48:10.199 --> 01:48:12.520 to master gardeners to help you with some of the issues. 1974 01:48:12.880 --> 01:48:15.439 But take advantage of that. It's in your county and 1975 01:48:15.600 --> 01:48:20.439 it's good advice. That's connected to research based information at 1976 01:48:20.760 --> 01:48:24.359 the university level, and that is really important, and I 1977 01:48:24.439 --> 01:48:27.800 don't think people take advantage of that enough, but I 1978 01:48:27.880 --> 01:48:31.520 hope you will. We're going to head out to Houston 1979 01:48:31.600 --> 01:48:34.840 now and talk to Gary. Hello, Gary, welcome to garden Line. 1980 01:48:36.079 --> 01:48:39.000 Thank you very much. I got in the vehicle and 1981 01:48:39.119 --> 01:48:41.680 turned it on and I think you had just finished 1982 01:48:41.760 --> 01:48:45.920 discussing killing weeds in the yard. I don't know, but anyway, 1983 01:48:46.000 --> 01:48:49.079 I know I've had a hard time knocking them down. 1984 01:48:49.079 --> 01:48:54.079 I've got bownetal and clover and different weeds, and I 1985 01:48:54.239 --> 01:48:56.359 need to find a product that goes after that, not 1986 01:48:56.520 --> 01:48:57.239 just fertilizer. 1987 01:48:59.119 --> 01:49:03.520 Okay, So the cool season weeds that you're seeing now, 1988 01:49:03.720 --> 01:49:07.520 like clover, for example, those are about to die, and 1989 01:49:07.680 --> 01:49:10.399 so trying to spray them once they're blooming and setting 1990 01:49:10.439 --> 01:49:13.239 seeds is a little bit of a difficult kill, but 1991 01:49:13.359 --> 01:49:15.960 it also leaves the seeds they've already set there. So 1992 01:49:16.119 --> 01:49:19.199 as much as possible, if you can pull those out 1993 01:49:19.439 --> 01:49:21.520 and with the seeds real carefully, put them in five 1994 01:49:21.560 --> 01:49:23.800 gallon bucket or something and get them off the property, 1995 01:49:24.199 --> 01:49:26.439 you will do yourself a huge favor for next fall 1996 01:49:26.600 --> 01:49:28.680 when the seeds sprout and you're back in the same 1997 01:49:28.760 --> 01:49:33.079 situation next spring. Now, next spring, much earlier in the year, 1998 01:49:33.199 --> 01:49:35.000 you can do stuff where you're not hand pulling them. 1999 01:49:35.840 --> 01:49:38.520 For things that are perennial, like nettles. Some of the 2000 01:49:38.640 --> 01:49:41.560 nettles are perennial, you need to put something on them 2001 01:49:41.760 --> 01:49:44.800 that will translocate down and kill the whole weed because 2002 01:49:44.880 --> 01:49:48.079 they're the underground plant parts. They'll come back from those 2003 01:49:48.600 --> 01:49:51.520 and broad leaf post emergent products will kill those. I 2004 01:49:51.600 --> 01:49:57.760 have a publication on gardening with skip dot com on herbicides. 2005 01:49:58.079 --> 01:50:01.319 I think it says right now herbicides for the weed wiper. Anyway, 2006 01:50:01.319 --> 01:50:03.880 if you'll go there, you can find the kind of 2007 01:50:03.920 --> 01:50:05.800 weed you have and it'll tell you the products that 2008 01:50:05.800 --> 01:50:07.399 will work. Gary, I got to go to a real 2009 01:50:07.479 --> 01:50:09.600 quick break. If you want to hang on, I'll continue 2010 01:50:09.640 --> 01:50:11.119 this discussion when we come back. 2011 01:50:12.079 --> 01:50:12.640 Appreciate it. 2012 01:50:14.680 --> 01:50:21.399 All right, you are listening to garden Line. Oh you're 2013 01:50:21.439 --> 01:50:24.439 actually listening to Brad Paisley. Now you're listening to garden Line. 2014 01:50:24.600 --> 01:50:27.159 One way to get They glad to have you if 2015 01:50:27.159 --> 01:50:30.439 you if you've got questions about gardening, We're going to 2016 01:50:30.479 --> 01:50:32.960 be around until ten o'clock the day, so you got 2017 01:50:33.039 --> 01:50:35.600 time to call in and visit with you about the 2018 01:50:35.680 --> 01:50:39.640 things that interest you. Southwest Fertilizer has been a Houston 2019 01:50:39.720 --> 01:50:43.960 garden really tradition, a lawn and garden tradition since nineteen 2020 01:50:44.000 --> 01:50:46.680 fifty five. I'm the fifth garden Line host to speak 2021 01:50:46.960 --> 01:50:50.760 for Southwest Fertilizer. They've been around a long time supporting 2022 01:50:50.920 --> 01:50:54.359 garden Line and therefore helping you have an opportunity to 2023 01:50:54.479 --> 01:50:57.920 listen to gardening advice on the radio every weekend here 2024 01:50:58.000 --> 01:51:01.960 in the greater Houston area. Celebrating their seventieth year, So 2025 01:51:02.079 --> 01:51:06.399 happy seventieth birthday. Southwest Fertilizer. You know the products that 2026 01:51:06.479 --> 01:51:09.439 I endorse on garden Line, the products I talk about, 2027 01:51:09.560 --> 01:51:11.039 the things that I say, oh well, you need to 2028 01:51:11.119 --> 01:51:14.560 go get some of this, they're all at Southwest Fertilizer. 2029 01:51:14.880 --> 01:51:17.439 They carry everything. If they don't carry it, you don't 2030 01:51:17.479 --> 01:51:19.119 need it. That's how I like to put it, whether 2031 01:51:19.159 --> 01:51:22.479 it's a fertilizer, a weed control, insecticide, or a fungicide. 2032 01:51:22.920 --> 01:51:25.600 And if you're sitting there thinking well I'm organic, those 2033 01:51:25.640 --> 01:51:26.840 are all synthetics. 2034 01:51:27.079 --> 01:51:27.119 No. 2035 01:51:28.640 --> 01:51:33.079 Southwest Fertilizer hear this. Southwest Fertilizer has the largest selection 2036 01:51:33.319 --> 01:51:36.600 of organic products in the Houston area. So if you're 2037 01:51:36.640 --> 01:51:39.960 looking for any kind of organic we control, pest, disease, 2038 01:51:40.239 --> 01:51:43.000 insect you name it, They've got it there. They have 2039 01:51:43.039 --> 01:51:45.800 a ninety foot long wall of gardening tools, quality brands 2040 01:51:45.880 --> 01:51:49.279 like Felco and Corona. That garden kneeling seat that I 2041 01:51:49.399 --> 01:51:53.359 keep talking about, if you want to make a weed wiper, skipsweedwiper. 2042 01:51:53.359 --> 01:51:55.880 It's on my website gardeningskip dot com. If you want 2043 01:51:55.880 --> 01:51:58.079 to make that, they've got the little grabber tool that 2044 01:51:58.199 --> 01:52:00.159 you use to make it. And yes, there's a and 2045 01:52:00.239 --> 01:52:02.439 kind of grabber tool that works best for making those. 2046 01:52:02.880 --> 01:52:06.399 He's got those there. Baptist carries everything nice seed selection, 2047 01:52:06.640 --> 01:52:09.119 both in packets and in bulk. You can do the 2048 01:52:09.199 --> 01:52:11.399 little scoops out of the bulk seed and it's a 2049 01:52:11.479 --> 01:52:14.039 very economical way to get seeds. Do you need your 2050 01:52:14.079 --> 01:52:17.880 equipment serviced? They have an equipment shop there in the back. 2051 01:52:17.960 --> 01:52:19.920 They can sharpen your blades too, and boy is that 2052 01:52:20.000 --> 01:52:22.960 ever important. I just changed a blade on my my 2053 01:52:23.079 --> 01:52:25.359 lawn mower to a nice sharp blade and who it 2054 01:52:25.479 --> 01:52:28.680 looks so much better and it cuts easier too. It 2055 01:52:28.880 --> 01:52:32.800 works well. So quality products, expert advice and old fashioned service. 2056 01:52:32.920 --> 01:52:36.439 That's Southwest Fertilizer Corner Best Nutt and Renwick seven one 2057 01:52:36.560 --> 01:52:40.920 three six sixty six one seven four four. We're going 2058 01:52:40.960 --> 01:52:44.239 to go now out to Memorial and talk to Elaine. Hello, Elaine, 2059 01:52:44.319 --> 01:52:45.239 welcome to garden Line. 2060 01:52:46.199 --> 01:52:47.840 Good morning, skip Hard today. 2061 01:52:49.680 --> 01:52:51.920 I'm doing well, thank you good. 2062 01:52:53.000 --> 01:52:58.600 I am noticing a perennial weed called scurvy weed that 2063 01:52:58.840 --> 01:53:01.720 is raising its ugly head again in my flower beds. 2064 01:53:01.960 --> 01:53:06.560 And I've been dealing with it for years and really 2065 01:53:06.680 --> 01:53:09.479 have tried to choke some of it out just by 2066 01:53:09.560 --> 01:53:14.239 putting Asian jasmine things like that that will choke it out. 2067 01:53:14.840 --> 01:53:21.279 Is there any herbicide that I can selectively spray on 2068 01:53:21.439 --> 01:53:23.119 this to keep it at bay? 2069 01:53:25.359 --> 01:53:25.479 Oh? 2070 01:53:25.600 --> 01:53:28.359 Boy, that is a tough one. If the weed that 2071 01:53:28.479 --> 01:53:31.079 you're referring to is what I think you're talking about, 2072 01:53:31.159 --> 01:53:34.399 something in the wandering jew family. It's also called day flower. 2073 01:53:34.800 --> 01:53:38.159 That's another common name for these kinds of plants. And 2074 01:53:38.279 --> 01:53:43.600 it's like they're caught between broad leaf and grass. They're 2075 01:53:43.680 --> 01:53:46.479 neither really good a broad leaf or a grass in 2076 01:53:46.640 --> 01:53:49.119 terms of the way they function, So products that go 2077 01:53:49.199 --> 01:53:53.000 after one or the other don't work very well for them. Yeah, 2078 01:53:53.039 --> 01:53:56.079 of course hand digging, but they the pieces break off 2079 01:53:56.119 --> 01:53:59.239 in the ground, so it's very difficult to hand dig 2080 01:53:59.319 --> 01:54:02.960 them unless you just stay on it, and and that 2081 01:54:03.560 --> 01:54:07.359 that makes it very very difficult to do. I'm gonna 2082 01:54:07.439 --> 01:54:10.760 have to look and see what the best option would 2083 01:54:10.800 --> 01:54:16.960 be for those on my website I have let's see, 2084 01:54:17.000 --> 01:54:20.720 I have a thing called Skips weed wiper, and if 2085 01:54:20.800 --> 01:54:22.399 you go there, it shows you how to build one. 2086 01:54:22.399 --> 01:54:24.600 I was just talking about it. Southwest Fertilizer has the 2087 01:54:24.920 --> 01:54:26.920 tool that you build it from. It's real easy to build. 2088 01:54:26.920 --> 01:54:28.399 I mean, you don't have to have a shop or 2089 01:54:28.399 --> 01:54:32.239 any tool skills to do it. And that weed wiper 2090 01:54:32.880 --> 01:54:36.640 is a really really helpful thing for weeds like this 2091 01:54:36.880 --> 01:54:40.640 because you can wipe the product right there onto the 2092 01:54:40.720 --> 01:54:47.439 weed itself. Okay, And so you know, if you have something, 2093 01:54:48.000 --> 01:54:49.720 you know, if you're going to use a product that 2094 01:54:49.800 --> 01:54:51.960 would kill everything, you know, round Up kind of product 2095 01:54:52.039 --> 01:54:54.760 kills everything. Well, if if you have the weed wiper, 2096 01:54:54.840 --> 01:54:57.439 you can just wipe a product like that onto the 2097 01:54:57.520 --> 01:55:01.359 weed to kill it without getting it on desirable plants. 2098 01:55:02.319 --> 01:55:05.199 And so that's one of the reasons I had that 2099 01:55:05.239 --> 01:55:10.800 little publication on there. So what products are going to 2100 01:55:10.840 --> 01:55:14.920 be the best to use, I think probably other than 2101 01:55:15.199 --> 01:55:20.520 trying to continually handig and control them. And a post 2102 01:55:20.560 --> 01:55:26.479 emergent product like the glyphosate, which is one of the 2103 01:55:26.560 --> 01:55:29.439 brands is round Up. A Roundup no longer has glyphis eate. 2104 01:55:29.600 --> 01:55:32.279 I know that's confusing. It should be confusing because it's 2105 01:55:32.279 --> 01:55:36.560 silly that they would do that. There's another product called gluphoscinate. 2106 01:55:37.439 --> 01:55:40.760 Glue phoscinate is another ingredient. Now I'm going to make 2107 01:55:40.800 --> 01:55:44.000 it easy for you. Go to my website, Guarding with 2108 01:55:44.079 --> 01:55:47.640 Skip dot com and look for a publication called Herbicides 2109 01:55:47.720 --> 01:55:52.520 for Skip's weed Wiper, and they are there. Like so, 2110 01:55:52.640 --> 01:55:55.560 if you look for glyphas, it's no longer round up. 2111 01:55:55.640 --> 01:55:58.359 They're the products that contain it that are on the publication. 2112 01:55:58.840 --> 01:56:03.199 If you look for loop fascinate, it names the products 2113 01:56:03.279 --> 01:56:06.199 that you'll find in the garden centers too, that are 2114 01:56:06.479 --> 01:56:09.000 glue fascinate. For example, I would do one of those 2115 01:56:09.119 --> 01:56:14.399 two so that you know that some people get a 2116 01:56:14.439 --> 01:56:16.680 little benefit from two four D products on it, but 2117 01:56:16.760 --> 01:56:19.840 I would try those other two first. And just know this, 2118 01:56:20.159 --> 01:56:22.439 you're going to need to stay on it. You're gonna 2119 01:56:22.479 --> 01:56:24.680 need to stay on it, but don't spray these because 2120 01:56:25.079 --> 01:56:27.479 both of those will kill everything. Two four D will 2121 01:56:27.560 --> 01:56:30.479 kill any broad leaf weed you have or broad leaf 2122 01:56:30.600 --> 01:56:34.239 desirable plant that you have also. So that's why the weed. 2123 01:56:34.039 --> 01:56:42.640 Wiper okay, very good, Well as I said, it has yeah, yeah, 2124 01:56:42.800 --> 01:56:46.000 it really does overtake. And the more you dig, unless 2125 01:56:46.079 --> 01:56:48.319 you can really dig down to the tap root, it 2126 01:56:48.479 --> 01:56:52.039 does break off, and then then it begins to spread 2127 01:56:52.920 --> 01:56:53.359 even more. 2128 01:56:53.399 --> 01:56:57.279 So yeah, yeah, I know the physical control is you know, 2129 01:56:57.520 --> 01:57:00.960 hand removing anything can help. But in this particular weed, 2130 01:57:02.039 --> 01:57:04.159 you probably go crazy before you get rid of it, 2131 01:57:05.520 --> 01:57:06.079 that's for sure. 2132 01:57:06.159 --> 01:57:10.119 Okay, well there'll there's another season for battle. 2133 01:57:10.640 --> 01:57:10.960 Thank you. 2134 01:57:12.000 --> 01:57:15.079 There you go, all right, Thank you. Appreciate appreciate your 2135 01:57:15.119 --> 01:57:19.239 call very much. The folks at Nature's Way Resources they 2136 01:57:19.399 --> 01:57:24.000 know how to make quality soil products. That's where many 2137 01:57:24.119 --> 01:57:27.640 of our well known products were born, like leaf mol compost. 2138 01:57:27.720 --> 01:57:30.119 You hear about it all the time. That's where it started. 2139 01:57:30.319 --> 01:57:34.039 Nature's Way Rose soil, That's where it started. Nature's Way 2140 01:57:34.119 --> 01:57:37.439 Resources They no matter what you're looking for. 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That's it, Nature's Way Resources dot Com. 2151 01:58:12.560 --> 01:58:14.319 If you want to give me a call nine three 2152 01:58:14.439 --> 01:58:18.560 six two seven three twelve hundred. It's good products, good 2153 01:58:18.640 --> 01:58:20.439 products that I've used. I got a bed that just 2154 01:58:20.600 --> 01:58:23.439 recently I did a lot of mulching with Nature's Way 2155 01:58:23.840 --> 01:58:26.560 products in it. I've been very pleased. I love the 2156 01:58:26.680 --> 01:58:30.880 look of a good natural, non dyed mulch, and that 2157 01:58:31.279 --> 01:58:34.680 is what they have there in many different forms. If 2158 01:58:34.720 --> 01:58:38.319 you're looking at creating a container with beautiful plants for 2159 01:58:38.399 --> 01:58:42.560 the outside, there's a product that Nitroposter distributes called jungle 2160 01:58:42.640 --> 01:58:46.560 Land Flour and Vegetable Planting Soil Flour and Vegetable. That's 2161 01:58:46.600 --> 01:58:50.560 the outdoor soil. Indoors, they have jungle Land water saving 2162 01:58:50.720 --> 01:58:53.399 potting soil. And the reason it's called water saving is 2163 01:58:53.439 --> 01:58:55.800 that as low crystals that swell up with water. Kind 2164 01:58:56.000 --> 01:58:57.920 they like little bits of jello is kind of what 2165 01:58:58.000 --> 01:59:01.479 they look like, the very tiny and the roots can 2166 01:59:01.520 --> 01:59:03.920 get around those, and when the soil gets dry, they 2167 01:59:04.000 --> 01:59:06.680 have an extra source of water. Right there, works really 2168 01:59:06.760 --> 01:59:10.319 well now, Jungle End product or nitrofoss products in general, 2169 01:59:10.479 --> 01:59:12.720 you're gonna find it places like Plants for All Seasons 2170 01:59:13.600 --> 01:59:17.479 on Luetta and I forty five North, excuse me not 2171 01:59:17.600 --> 01:59:20.960 I forty five Luetta and two forty nine, thank you. 2172 01:59:21.680 --> 01:59:24.439 On the northwest side. That's Tomball Parkway. You're gonna find 2173 01:59:24.439 --> 01:59:27.479 them at Fisher's Hardware on Southmore and Pasadena, the Fishers 2174 01:59:27.600 --> 01:59:30.680 on Broadway and Laporte, and the Fishers at Mount Bellevue 2175 01:59:30.880 --> 01:59:39.119 on FM thirty one eighty. And it works very very well. Alrighty, well, 2176 01:59:39.680 --> 01:59:42.920 let's see, oh I wanted to mention Nitrofos Superturf. Nitrofos 2177 01:59:43.000 --> 01:59:45.880 Superturf is a nineteen four to ten fertilizer in a 2178 01:59:45.960 --> 01:59:50.239 silver bag that works for sixteen weeks, a long time. 2179 01:59:50.399 --> 01:59:52.720 It's time to put it out. It's on my schedule 2180 01:59:52.760 --> 01:59:55.720 at gardening with skip dot com. Get you some super Turf, 2181 01:59:56.039 --> 01:59:58.840 follow the label, put it out, and you are set 2182 01:59:59.359 --> 02:00:03.199 until the fall fertilization comes, especially if you return those clippings. 2183 02:00:03.600 --> 02:00:05.800 And I already tell you night Foss products are available 2184 02:00:05.800 --> 02:00:07.479 all over the place, especially when you go to an 2185 02:00:07.520 --> 02:00:11.239 asardware store. You're gonna find typically a night Foss products 2186 02:00:11.319 --> 02:00:16.079 like the super Turf silver bag. Well another hours in 2187 02:00:16.199 --> 02:00:19.720 the books. We come back for our last hour in 2188 02:00:19.840 --> 02:00:22.199 just a moment. I want to remind you that next Saturday, 2189 02:00:22.960 --> 02:00:27.840 Next Saturday, the twelfth, I'll be at RCW Nurseries. RCW 2190 02:00:27.960 --> 02:00:30.680 Nurseries is at the corner of Tamba Parkway, FM two 2191 02:00:30.760 --> 02:00:33.159 forty nine and belt Way eight. I'll be there from 2192 02:00:33.279 --> 02:00:35.239 noon to two. But don't eat before you get there. 2193 02:00:35.439 --> 02:00:38.039 Show up. They're gonna have a barbecue lunch. They're gonna 2194 02:00:38.039 --> 02:00:41.720 have refreshments ten percent off all their roses. Oh my gosh, 2195 02:00:41.920 --> 02:00:45.239 right there. That that's cool. Bring your samples and pictures 2196 02:00:45.319 --> 02:00:47.880 and things. Let's have a good time helping you have 2197 02:00:48.000 --> 02:00:50.319 a bountiful garden and a beautiful landscape. 2198 02:00:51.600 --> 02:00:55.279 Welcome to KTRH Guarden Line with Scape Richt. 2199 02:00:55.439 --> 02:01:02.079 It's son. 2200 02:01:02.520 --> 02:01:02.840 Trip. 2201 02:01:04.199 --> 02:01:05.720 Just watch him as. 2202 02:01:10.600 --> 02:01:12.920 Us so many good thanks to spots. 2203 02:01:18.920 --> 02:01:21.520 Us back again, not a sign. 2204 02:01:26.239 --> 02:01:26.520 Sun. 2205 02:01:29.359 --> 02:01:33.319 Alrighty, we're back. We are back for the last hour 2206 02:01:33.359 --> 02:01:36.720 of garden Line for today, last hour of guarden Line 2207 02:01:36.760 --> 02:01:40.079 for the weekend. For those of you who are new 2208 02:01:40.119 --> 02:01:43.520 to the show, first of all, welcome, glad to have you. 2209 02:01:45.279 --> 02:01:47.640 We are on from six am to ten am on 2210 02:01:47.760 --> 02:01:51.640 Saturdays and on Sundays every weekend and it's a calling show. 2211 02:01:52.600 --> 02:01:55.760 This is about you and your garden. So what do 2212 02:01:55.840 --> 02:01:57.319 you want to talk about? All you have to do 2213 02:01:57.600 --> 02:01:59.840 is give us a call a seven one three two 2214 02:02:00.039 --> 02:02:02.800 on to kt RH if you like to dial by 2215 02:02:02.960 --> 02:02:07.600 numbers seven one three two one two five eight seven four, 2216 02:02:08.039 --> 02:02:10.239 and we can visit with you about the kinds of 2217 02:02:10.319 --> 02:02:13.920 things that are of interest to you, if you are 2218 02:02:14.079 --> 02:02:18.399 interested in a diagnosis or identification or those kinds of things. 2219 02:02:19.079 --> 02:02:21.720 Sometimes it helps to send me a picture ahead of time, 2220 02:02:22.159 --> 02:02:25.039 and you can do that by calling the producer, getting 2221 02:02:25.079 --> 02:02:27.319 an email, sending the picture in, but then follow it up. 2222 02:02:27.720 --> 02:02:31.119 I will not be answering the question that you email, 2223 02:02:31.239 --> 02:02:33.279 but I'll have the picture there when you call and 2224 02:02:33.399 --> 02:02:35.239 we can enter it that way. Because I'm unable to 2225 02:02:35.560 --> 02:02:39.239 just time constraints, unable to really handle the volume of 2226 02:02:39.319 --> 02:02:43.000 emails and questions that would be coming that do come 2227 02:02:43.079 --> 02:02:46.119 in as a result of that. So that's another option 2228 02:02:46.479 --> 02:02:49.359 for you if you'd like to do that. My goal 2229 02:02:49.439 --> 02:02:51.600 here on guarden Line is to help you have success 2230 02:02:51.920 --> 02:02:54.560 that would help you have fun too, to make gardening 2231 02:02:54.640 --> 02:02:58.039 a hobby that you really really enjoy, and you know what, 2232 02:02:58.520 --> 02:03:00.760 one of the cool things one of them many cool 2233 02:03:00.800 --> 02:03:03.439 things about gardening as a hobby is is that you 2234 02:03:03.560 --> 02:03:06.239 can do whatever corner of the gardening world do you 2235 02:03:06.319 --> 02:03:08.720 want to do. I mean, you may be into the 2236 02:03:08.840 --> 02:03:12.720 big and the gaudy, the tropicals and just giant flowers 2237 02:03:12.800 --> 02:03:16.319 and colors and all of that. Good do that. Maybe 2238 02:03:16.399 --> 02:03:20.359 your gardening is all done indoors. You've got some moth 2239 02:03:20.520 --> 02:03:23.239 orchids and you're looking at new kinds. You're trying to 2240 02:03:23.359 --> 02:03:28.279 grow some unusual special plants under the lights indoors, like 2241 02:03:28.399 --> 02:03:30.800 African violets and a pieces. By the way, we never 2242 02:03:30.840 --> 02:03:32.960 talk about apieces, but that's a cool plant too, to 2243 02:03:33.039 --> 02:03:36.920 grow indoors. Maybe you're into edibles. If you can't eat it, 2244 02:03:37.039 --> 02:03:39.640 you don't want to grow it, so herbs and vegetables 2245 02:03:39.720 --> 02:03:42.520 and fruit trees are your thing. Maybe you would like 2246 02:03:43.239 --> 02:03:46.079 to try bones eye, where we take a tree and 2247 02:03:46.239 --> 02:03:48.720 make it a little miniature tree, and it's just kind 2248 02:03:48.760 --> 02:03:52.439 of a little tending hobby that's really fun. Do you 2249 02:03:52.479 --> 02:03:54.520 see what I mean? I mean, I'm just throwing examples 2250 02:03:54.560 --> 02:03:57.479 out from all over the world here. Gardening is a 2251 02:03:57.560 --> 02:04:00.600 great hobby, and no matter what you're interested in, that's it. 2252 02:04:00.760 --> 02:04:00.840 Now. 2253 02:04:00.920 --> 02:04:03.199 Most people just want a pretty place they want to 2254 02:04:03.279 --> 02:04:04.760 drive by and be proud of the place they have. 2255 02:04:04.880 --> 02:04:07.399 They want to sit in the backyard and enjoy the 2256 02:04:07.479 --> 02:04:10.760 sights and the smells and the sounds of gardening. And 2257 02:04:11.239 --> 02:04:13.119 you can do that too, and we can help you 2258 02:04:13.199 --> 02:04:13.840 have success. 2259 02:04:14.039 --> 02:04:15.039 So here we go. 2260 02:04:15.359 --> 02:04:17.920 Uh oh, we left the gate open. Phone's let up. 2261 02:04:17.960 --> 02:04:18.079 Here. 2262 02:04:18.560 --> 02:04:21.319 We're going to go to Margaret first off the top 2263 02:04:21.399 --> 02:04:23.960 of the bat. Hey, Margaret, how can we help you today? 2264 02:04:24.079 --> 02:04:26.079 Welcome to garden Linehi, Well. 2265 02:04:25.960 --> 02:04:27.920 Thank you Skip. I'm so glad to talk to you. 2266 02:04:28.920 --> 02:04:32.000 I am recently one hundred percent in charge of my 2267 02:04:32.199 --> 02:04:35.199 yard and so I have two questions. The first, as 2268 02:04:35.279 --> 02:04:38.239 I do with the Zoysa grass that my Saint Augustine 2269 02:04:38.359 --> 02:04:42.920 was replaced I'd say about ten years ago, but it 2270 02:04:43.319 --> 02:04:45.840 looks like it's getting a few bald spots, and I'm 2271 02:04:45.960 --> 02:04:50.720 also getting some weeds in there as it's coming back, 2272 02:04:51.279 --> 02:04:53.920 and so I'm just trying to and I've also been 2273 02:04:54.000 --> 02:04:56.760 told that the best way to mow it is actually 2274 02:04:56.840 --> 02:05:01.640 with an old fashioned hand push mower. So I'm just 2275 02:05:01.800 --> 02:05:03.479 trying to get a handle on the best way to 2276 02:05:03.520 --> 02:05:04.520 take care of the zoisia. 2277 02:05:06.520 --> 02:05:10.000 Okay, is there any chance you know the name of 2278 02:05:10.119 --> 02:05:12.119 the Zuysia variety that you have. 2279 02:05:13.239 --> 02:05:14.439 No it was planted. 2280 02:05:14.840 --> 02:05:18.039 It's okay if you don't. Yeah, do you know that 2281 02:05:18.239 --> 02:05:21.600 nows Zuysia has come in two types. One type has 2282 02:05:21.680 --> 02:05:24.880 a broader leaf, a little wider than bermuda grass. The 2283 02:05:25.000 --> 02:05:28.880 other type has a very narrow leaf, narrower than bermuda grass. 2284 02:05:29.000 --> 02:05:30.960 Do you know which of those it might be? 2285 02:05:31.319 --> 02:05:33.479 It makes me think of bermuda when I see it. 2286 02:05:33.760 --> 02:05:36.279 That's more what I that's that's kind of where my 2287 02:05:36.399 --> 02:05:37.000 mind goes. 2288 02:05:38.239 --> 02:05:38.880 I think it's. 2289 02:05:42.479 --> 02:05:43.880 I think it's actually narrower. 2290 02:05:45.880 --> 02:05:50.039 Okay, a fine texture. Zoysia, So a couple of things. 2291 02:05:50.199 --> 02:05:52.600 First of all, Zoeza is a very tough grass plant. 2292 02:05:52.720 --> 02:05:56.199 It's think of it more. Oh, this isn't a fair description, 2293 02:05:56.319 --> 02:05:57.960 but think of it more like jute twine. So you 2294 02:05:58.079 --> 02:06:00.279 need a good sharp mower to cut it, you know, 2295 02:06:00.439 --> 02:06:03.800 and for it to cut and do well. So a 2296 02:06:03.880 --> 02:06:07.319 good sharp mowing blade is important. And a moderate amount 2297 02:06:07.319 --> 02:06:10.319 of fertilizer, not even as much as you would use 2298 02:06:10.399 --> 02:06:12.760 on Saint Augustine, but it does need to be fertilized. 2299 02:06:13.840 --> 02:06:16.079 Zoisio grass. The more often you mow it, the better 2300 02:06:16.159 --> 02:06:19.520 it looks, and the shorter you mow it. The more 2301 02:06:19.560 --> 02:06:22.239 often you have to mow it. Now, because it's a 2302 02:06:22.319 --> 02:06:26.560 dense grass, you can get into certain types of disease problems. 2303 02:06:26.680 --> 02:06:29.600 You know, all grasses have the potential for disease, and 2304 02:06:30.159 --> 02:06:32.479 it could be that something like a take all patches 2305 02:06:32.520 --> 02:06:34.920 in there could be some other type of fungal disease 2306 02:06:35.000 --> 02:06:37.399 that's going on. Without seeing a picture of it or 2307 02:06:37.439 --> 02:06:39.840 seeing a sample of it, it's kind of hard to 2308 02:06:40.000 --> 02:06:42.159 know for sure. And I don't know what part of 2309 02:06:42.199 --> 02:06:47.319 the Houston area you're in, but wherever you are, all 2310 02:06:47.439 --> 02:06:51.279 up in the woods, okay, Well, it's an excellent grass 2311 02:06:51.359 --> 02:06:53.760 for your area. And it puts up with quite a 2312 02:06:53.800 --> 02:06:56.079 bit of shade too, not as much as Saint Augustine, 2313 02:06:56.079 --> 02:06:59.039 but pretty close, pretty close to it. So I don't 2314 02:06:59.039 --> 02:07:01.159 know if we're looking at some disease issues and I 2315 02:07:01.239 --> 02:07:03.560 should send you out to spray a fungicide on it, 2316 02:07:03.880 --> 02:07:08.479 or if this is just some other type of thing. 2317 02:07:08.880 --> 02:07:13.840 The little bare spots are they very small, and the 2318 02:07:14.199 --> 02:07:18.920 whole grass blade just turns tan brown, or its larger 2319 02:07:19.000 --> 02:07:19.920 and more irregular. 2320 02:07:21.079 --> 02:07:24.239 You know, it's irregular, and it's almost as if the 2321 02:07:24.399 --> 02:07:27.720 grass is not coming back. And I did fertilize it. 2322 02:07:27.960 --> 02:07:30.159 Okay, so okay. 2323 02:07:30.600 --> 02:07:32.439 And then I noticed the other day when I was 2324 02:07:32.840 --> 02:07:35.119 raking up I have an oak that just dropped a 2325 02:07:35.199 --> 02:07:38.680 million leaves recently. And I noticed when I was raking 2326 02:07:38.920 --> 02:07:41.920 up some of the debris that it was almost like 2327 02:07:42.000 --> 02:07:44.199 it wanted to come up, like I could pull it up, 2328 02:07:44.239 --> 02:07:45.359 Like it wasn't well real. 2329 02:07:45.279 --> 02:07:51.079 Good, yeah, all right, well, Margaret, I tell you, I'm 2330 02:07:51.119 --> 02:07:52.560 not going to be able to give you a definitive 2331 02:07:52.600 --> 02:07:55.960 answer here. My gut feeling is it's probably a combination 2332 02:07:56.119 --> 02:07:59.079 of shade that weakens the plant a little bit because 2333 02:07:59.079 --> 02:08:02.960 you can't get the energy, and maybe take All root Rot. 2334 02:08:03.039 --> 02:08:05.760 If you go to Gardening with Skip dot com. That's 2335 02:08:05.800 --> 02:08:09.199 my website, Gardening with Skip dot com, there is a 2336 02:08:09.399 --> 02:08:13.039 lawn pest, disease and weed management guide. Look at the 2337 02:08:13.159 --> 02:08:16.119 disease line at take All Root Rot, and I would 2338 02:08:16.239 --> 02:08:18.399 follow that. It won't hurt anything. If it's not take 2339 02:08:18.439 --> 02:08:20.640 All Root Rot to follow it. But I think you 2340 02:08:20.760 --> 02:08:23.039 may have some disease in there, and that would be 2341 02:08:23.119 --> 02:08:25.439 what you want to use, and the information is on there, 2342 02:08:26.039 --> 02:08:28.960 but I'm gonna have to run. I do appreciate your call, though, 2343 02:08:29.039 --> 02:08:32.399 and I wish you I wish you well with that. Well, wow, 2344 02:08:33.079 --> 02:08:36.199 this this is going kind of quick here on this 2345 02:08:36.840 --> 02:08:39.920 next or this first segment. 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But generally 2408 02:12:10.399 --> 02:12:12.319 when we're talking about that we're talking about the big 2409 02:12:12.640 --> 02:12:16.319 macro nutrients nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, but it's also a 2410 02:12:16.399 --> 02:12:18.960 good time to get out azamite. Asamite is a trace 2411 02:12:19.079 --> 02:12:23.079 mineral supplement its mind out of the ground up in Utah, 2412 02:12:23.600 --> 02:12:26.520 and it contains trace minerals things like boron, for example. 2413 02:12:26.600 --> 02:12:30.439 You never see that on a fertilizer bag, but asimite 2414 02:12:30.600 --> 02:12:34.279 does contain that and many others. Now, a bag of 2415 02:12:34.319 --> 02:12:37.399 asmite covers about six to twelve thousand square feet ALA 2416 02:12:37.520 --> 02:12:40.800 because you're just using it at a very very low rate. 2417 02:12:40.920 --> 02:12:43.439 That's what trace minerals are, but that doesn't mean they're 2418 02:12:43.479 --> 02:12:46.720 not essential because they are. Build your soul bank account 2419 02:12:46.960 --> 02:12:49.920 with azamite. You can go to Azmite Texas for more information, 2420 02:12:50.399 --> 02:12:53.159 and you can pretty much go anywhere and find it. Nurseries, 2421 02:12:53.199 --> 02:12:57.279 garden centers, feed stores, ace hardware stores, Southwist, Fertilizer, all 2422 02:12:57.319 --> 02:13:00.760 these places are going to carry asmite. I was looking 2423 02:13:00.800 --> 02:13:04.239 in my back patio yesterday. I had a little stagnant 2424 02:13:04.720 --> 02:13:07.840 fountain there that I just kind of cranked up and 2425 02:13:07.880 --> 02:13:10.119 started running and didn't really get it cleaned out good 2426 02:13:10.199 --> 02:13:13.159 like I should, And it was sitting still because we 2427 02:13:13.239 --> 02:13:15.640 had the fountain off and I looked and because it 2428 02:13:15.760 --> 02:13:18.199 was still, mosquitos laid eggs in it, and there's little 2429 02:13:18.199 --> 02:13:21.680 wrigglers in the water. Now what do you do, Well, 2430 02:13:21.720 --> 02:13:23.520 you can treat that water. You can use a mosquito 2431 02:13:23.600 --> 02:13:25.279 dunk in the water to treat it, or you can 2432 02:13:25.359 --> 02:13:28.520 go long term and call Pest Brothers. And why do 2433 02:13:28.680 --> 02:13:30.720 I say long term, because they'll come out and set 2434 02:13:30.800 --> 02:13:34.800 up a bucket that not only attracts mosquitos to the bucket, 2435 02:13:35.000 --> 02:13:37.199 so they lay eggs there that will never turn into 2436 02:13:37.279 --> 02:13:40.680 mosquitos because it's got the substances in it to stop that. 2437 02:13:41.279 --> 02:13:44.039 And then when the mosquitoes fly off, they have something 2438 02:13:44.119 --> 02:13:46.520 that's a fungus attached to them that's going to kill 2439 02:13:46.560 --> 02:13:50.239 the mosquito. Not good bugs, just the mosquito. It just 2440 02:13:50.319 --> 02:13:52.720 works some mosquitoes. And then they can they carry something 2441 02:13:52.840 --> 02:13:56.239 to the little bits of water, like my little fountain 2442 02:13:56.439 --> 02:13:59.479 for example, it gets in the water. Mosquitoes can't reproduce 2443 02:13:59.520 --> 02:14:02.279 there either. That's pretty cool. Pest Brothers has it. Of course, 2444 02:14:02.319 --> 02:14:05.399 Pest Brothers does termites, they do wild varmits, they do 2445 02:14:05.479 --> 02:14:08.319 any kind of pest control you need, from the woodlands 2446 02:14:08.720 --> 02:14:11.640 all the way down to Texas City from Baytown all 2447 02:14:11.680 --> 02:14:16.960 the way across to Katie. Thepestbros dot Com thepest Bros 2448 02:14:17.079 --> 02:14:19.800 b r os dot com two eight one two oh 2449 02:14:19.960 --> 02:14:24.039 six forty six seventy. I'm gonna go out to Meadows 2450 02:14:24.119 --> 02:14:26.319 Place now and we're going to talk to Jim. Hey, Jim, 2451 02:14:26.520 --> 02:14:27.960 welcome to Gardenline. 2452 02:14:29.000 --> 02:14:31.640 Morning. Skip quick question. 2453 02:14:31.920 --> 02:14:38.039 I have about ten foot twelve inch high foxdale fern 2454 02:14:38.159 --> 02:14:42.279 in my flower bed looking to improve their growth. Uh 2455 02:14:43.000 --> 02:14:47.199 Internet recommends a three two one fertilizer. What's the best 2456 02:14:47.439 --> 02:14:52.000 granular or liquid fertilizer you'd recommend for those foxtale ferns. 2457 02:14:53.960 --> 02:14:57.439 You know, Jim, the ferns are pretty flexible. You just 2458 02:14:57.479 --> 02:14:59.800 don't want to use a lot of AsSalt based type 2459 02:15:00.520 --> 02:15:03.880 on them. You can go with an organic product like 2460 02:15:03.960 --> 02:15:06.920 a microlife type product in there that would do fine. 2461 02:15:07.479 --> 02:15:12.000 You could go with a synthetic product that has mostly 2462 02:15:12.159 --> 02:15:14.640 the nitrogen is the more important, but has a little 2463 02:15:14.680 --> 02:15:17.439 bit of the other two numbers and it'll do fine too. 2464 02:15:17.680 --> 02:15:22.399 Just don't overdo it. And ferns they are especially happy 2465 02:15:22.479 --> 02:15:25.239 to live off of decaying organic matter and the soil 2466 02:15:25.359 --> 02:15:28.039 and getting the nutrients from that too. So just a 2467 02:15:28.079 --> 02:15:31.159 little boost with some nitrogen primarily is what they need. 2468 02:15:31.520 --> 02:15:36.159 What about adding a little as of mite too, that. 2469 02:15:36.159 --> 02:15:39.479 Wouldn't hurt, But just stay with the label rate. It 2470 02:15:39.560 --> 02:15:42.840 doesn't It doesn't take a lot of the azmite to 2471 02:15:42.920 --> 02:15:45.199 do that. I would probably say, And I realize your 2472 02:15:45.239 --> 02:15:48.000 area isn't this big, but on a vegetable garden, we 2473 02:15:48.119 --> 02:15:50.840 go ten pounds per thousand square feet, so one pound 2474 02:15:50.920 --> 02:15:55.119 per hundred square feet, and a pint's a pound of azamite, 2475 02:15:55.279 --> 02:15:57.760 So a pint of azamite per hundred square feet, and 2476 02:15:57.840 --> 02:16:00.720 then you just you know, take it down whatever size 2477 02:16:00.760 --> 02:16:01.319 your fern. 2478 02:16:01.199 --> 02:16:05.359 Area is, Okay, Ok, appreciate the help. 2479 02:16:05.800 --> 02:16:09.119 Good luck with that. Yeah, thanks for the call. Appreciate 2480 02:16:09.199 --> 02:16:13.760 that a lot. Let's go now to Bonnie and Claire Lake. Hey, Bonnie, 2481 02:16:13.800 --> 02:16:14.680 welcome to garden Line. 2482 02:16:15.640 --> 02:16:20.439 Well, good morning Skip. Yesterday I didn't work in the 2483 02:16:20.520 --> 02:16:22.640 garden because it was raining, and so I ended up 2484 02:16:22.680 --> 02:16:26.680 at Moss Nursery and ended up bringing home five Peggy 2485 02:16:26.760 --> 02:16:33.360 Martin Rose this they're about three to four feet. I 2486 02:16:33.479 --> 02:16:36.239 wanted to because they're gorgeous right now right, and so 2487 02:16:36.399 --> 02:16:38.479 I wanted to cover the fence line and thinking of 2488 02:16:38.600 --> 02:16:41.040 my thirty to forty feet a fence line in the 2489 02:16:41.079 --> 02:16:44.399 back of our house, and so just wondering give me 2490 02:16:44.520 --> 02:16:47.840 tips on planting. How far apart the plant do I 2491 02:16:47.959 --> 02:16:49.440 need lattice behind. 2492 02:16:49.239 --> 02:16:56.079 Them, So that's the lattice tends to ride away, even 2493 02:16:56.120 --> 02:16:58.239 if it's treated wood and time, it kind of rides away. 2494 02:16:58.280 --> 02:17:00.959 I like to use any kind of a rail fence 2495 02:17:01.040 --> 02:17:05.799 I think looks especially attractive for them, or livestock panels. 2496 02:17:05.799 --> 02:17:08.479 I've used those as well, you know, in their wire 2497 02:17:08.719 --> 02:17:12.719 galvanized wire material, but just something to support them. But 2498 02:17:12.840 --> 02:17:16.879 something strong, because Peggy Martin puts out a lot of growth, 2499 02:17:17.239 --> 02:17:20.120 and any kind of a vining rose or any vining 2500 02:17:20.200 --> 02:17:23.799 plant needs a good strong support, you know, as far 2501 02:17:23.840 --> 02:17:28.040 as how far apart. In order to get a faster 2502 02:17:28.319 --> 02:17:32.440 coverage between them, I might put them somewhere between maybe 2503 02:17:32.559 --> 02:17:36.840 twelve and fifteen feet apart. They'll easily cover that and 2504 02:17:36.959 --> 02:17:39.680 then some but that that gives you a little bit 2505 02:17:39.760 --> 02:17:42.959 faster coverage. If you put them further apart, they cover 2506 02:17:43.079 --> 02:17:47.639 more area. But you know, it's just a trade off 2507 02:17:47.719 --> 02:17:50.520 between how many roses you're going to spend money on 2508 02:17:50.760 --> 02:17:52.600 and how far of an area you need to cover. 2509 02:17:53.000 --> 02:17:55.879 So there's not an exact number for Peggy Martin, but 2510 02:17:56.000 --> 02:17:58.639 she will sprawl. I've got one on my trellis in 2511 02:17:58.719 --> 02:18:02.479 the back and it's now going that's probably gone about 2512 02:18:02.840 --> 02:18:06.000 eight to ten feet and it's not at all finished 2513 02:18:06.200 --> 02:18:06.760 its growth. 2514 02:18:08.040 --> 02:18:09.719 Okay, So a couple other questions. 2515 02:18:09.719 --> 02:18:12.120 Should I untie them, you know they're all bound up 2516 02:18:12.440 --> 02:18:15.879 when I plant them? And also do you recommend fertilizers? 2517 02:18:15.920 --> 02:18:18.000 And how large the hole should be? I think I 2518 02:18:18.040 --> 02:18:18.879 have a gallon thought. 2519 02:18:19.319 --> 02:18:23.520 Okay, yeah, make a make a hole about twice that big, 2520 02:18:24.799 --> 02:18:27.840 put in some compost material and the whole bed before 2521 02:18:27.920 --> 02:18:30.319 you dig the hole. Don't just put compost in the hole. 2522 02:18:30.879 --> 02:18:33.879 Put it in a wide band across there. Plant them 2523 02:18:33.920 --> 02:18:36.479 in the ground, same level, same depth that they were. 2524 02:18:37.159 --> 02:18:37.280 Uh. 2525 02:18:37.680 --> 02:18:39.879 And as far as I'm binding them, I wouldn't do that. 2526 02:18:40.799 --> 02:18:42.920 You know, go ahead and have those trunks come on 2527 02:18:43.120 --> 02:18:45.959 up and then at whatever level you can start to 2528 02:18:46.360 --> 02:18:48.559 train them out to the sides to make a wall 2529 02:18:48.639 --> 02:18:51.600 of foliage or whatever you're going after, whatever look you're 2530 02:18:51.639 --> 02:18:52.079 going after. 2531 02:18:52.239 --> 02:18:55.399 Okay, perfect sounds great, Thank you so much. 2532 02:18:55.600 --> 02:18:59.879 All right, yeah, thank you. I appreciate, appreciate your call 2533 02:19:00.159 --> 02:19:06.920 a lot. Let's see here, I wanted to just a second. Oh, 2534 02:19:07.159 --> 02:19:10.760 I know, I want to tell you about Buchanans. Buchanans plants. 2535 02:19:11.239 --> 02:19:15.000 Buchanans plants has a specialty in natives. I mean that 2536 02:19:15.719 --> 02:19:18.520 nobody has as many natives as buchanan plant does. But 2537 02:19:18.639 --> 02:19:22.159 if you're looking about for annuals like gamprina and zinias 2538 02:19:22.239 --> 02:19:25.520 and petunias and Kleomis and Solosia, aageridam and cosmos in 2539 02:19:25.559 --> 02:19:27.959 Angelonia and large burn America, you see what I'm saying. 2540 02:19:28.239 --> 02:19:30.040 They've got all of that kind of stuff. You got 2541 02:19:30.120 --> 02:19:33.879 shady areas not a problem. Not with Buchanans. They've got 2542 02:19:33.959 --> 02:19:37.120 kalladiums and a bazillion other plants that do well in 2543 02:19:37.200 --> 02:19:38.959 the shape they have a whole area where it's two 2544 02:19:39.000 --> 02:19:42.639 shade plants that do well. How about house plants, every 2545 02:19:42.719 --> 02:19:47.600 kind of foliage you can imagine, cacti, succulents, trailing string 2546 02:19:47.680 --> 02:19:49.799 ofs fill in the blank. They've got all of that. 2547 02:19:50.319 --> 02:19:52.399 Did you know there is a spring cactus. You used 2548 02:19:52.399 --> 02:19:56.040 to call it easter cactus, but spring cactus that's like 2549 02:19:56.159 --> 02:20:00.280 Christmas cactus sorta, but it blooms at Easter time around 2550 02:20:00.319 --> 02:20:02.280 Easter time. They've got those there. You need to get 2551 02:20:02.319 --> 02:20:05.079 some of those. Those are really cool too. With Buchanans, 2552 02:20:05.159 --> 02:20:07.319 you know you're going to find good selection, you know 2553 02:20:07.399 --> 02:20:09.959 you're going to have good advice, and you know you're 2554 02:20:09.959 --> 02:20:11.760 gonna have a good time because it's a fun place 2555 02:20:11.840 --> 02:20:14.680 to wander through and no matter what question you have, 2556 02:20:14.760 --> 02:20:16.360 if you want to grow natives, you can walk in 2557 02:20:16.440 --> 02:20:17.959 there and go, hey, I want to grow natives, but 2558 02:20:18.079 --> 02:20:21.479 I want to grow natives that attract hummingbirds. They probably 2559 02:20:21.520 --> 02:20:23.840 have a list of I don't know, two or three 2560 02:20:23.920 --> 02:20:28.559 dozen plants that fit that bill. It's a place to go. 2561 02:20:28.680 --> 02:20:32.479 It's on eleventh Street in the Heights. Go to the website. 2562 02:20:32.559 --> 02:20:36.879 Please bu Cannons Plants dot com. Sign up for the newsletter. Please, 2563 02:20:37.120 --> 02:20:40.959 you will really appreciate it. So much good information. And 2564 02:20:41.159 --> 02:20:44.239 yes they know about brown stuff before green stuff. You 2565 02:20:44.319 --> 02:20:47.399 can get your full line of microlife and nitrophos and 2566 02:20:47.520 --> 02:20:51.479 Nelson products. You can get heirloom soils and their own 2567 02:20:51.600 --> 02:20:55.559 special soil blends. There to set the foundation for success. 2568 02:20:58.120 --> 02:21:00.799 We're going to head out to talk to Deb now 2569 02:21:01.200 --> 02:21:04.360 in the Woodlands. Hello Deb, Welcome to garden Mine. 2570 02:21:05.760 --> 02:21:06.360 Hi Skip. 2571 02:21:08.159 --> 02:21:12.200 I have a flower bed that has shamrocks in it, 2572 02:21:13.280 --> 02:21:17.840 and typically these shamrocks come up. They're very very green, 2573 02:21:18.559 --> 02:21:21.079 and they have the beautiful little white flowers, the little 2574 02:21:21.159 --> 02:21:24.719 dainty white flowers on them, except for this year. Okay, 2575 02:21:24.760 --> 02:21:30.680 this year they look terrible. They barely produce any flowers. 2576 02:21:31.159 --> 02:21:35.680 And right now they're looking very very yellow. And I 2577 02:21:35.799 --> 02:21:39.879 don't know, with the fluctuating weather that we've had, you know, 2578 02:21:40.159 --> 02:21:43.840 from ninety to now to whatever it is today, I 2579 02:21:43.920 --> 02:21:45.840 don't know what the problem is. And they seem to 2580 02:21:45.920 --> 02:21:48.799 be dying back, which is the case for them in 2581 02:21:48.879 --> 02:21:51.000 the summertime. They do die back because they get it 2582 02:21:51.159 --> 02:21:51.920 gets too hot. 2583 02:21:54.000 --> 02:21:55.399 But are the. 2584 02:21:59.159 --> 02:22:01.959 Go ahead? Are the leaves on them? Are the leaves 2585 02:22:02.000 --> 02:22:06.399 on them deb like very small compared to normal under 2586 02:22:06.440 --> 02:22:08.799 the blooms small compared to normal or are they this 2587 02:22:09.120 --> 02:22:10.520 normal size or close to it? 2588 02:22:10.719 --> 02:22:15.200 Well, I'm not getting very many blooms at all, but 2589 02:22:15.440 --> 02:22:18.639 the leaves might be a tab smaller than what they 2590 02:22:18.719 --> 02:22:21.559 have been in the past. But they're not happy, and 2591 02:22:22.440 --> 02:22:25.239 there's there's something wrong there and I don't know what 2592 02:22:25.319 --> 02:22:28.040 it is. And they are starting to that's all. 2593 02:22:29.920 --> 02:22:34.600 Okay, that's a hard plant to kill. So something is 2594 02:22:34.680 --> 02:22:38.360 wrong in the soil. Something something's wrong in the soil. 2595 02:22:38.440 --> 02:22:41.760 Deb It could be that conditions are a little too 2596 02:22:41.840 --> 02:22:43.920 wet for them. It could be some sort of a 2597 02:22:44.000 --> 02:22:46.159 root rot down in there. You might try taking a 2598 02:22:46.239 --> 02:22:49.120 shovel and digging one of the little clumps up and 2599 02:22:49.280 --> 02:22:51.799 just looking at it. They have low bulbs on the bottom, 2600 02:22:51.879 --> 02:22:54.799 and are they Are they nice and white and healthy? 2601 02:22:54.959 --> 02:22:59.040 Are they looking kind of like the brown gray black 2602 02:22:59.239 --> 02:23:01.920 like a cigarette filter stain, you know, that kind of 2603 02:23:02.040 --> 02:23:05.920 ugly stain color, And that would be a root rot 2604 02:23:06.159 --> 02:23:08.879 color of those bulbs. And if it's a root rot, 2605 02:23:09.399 --> 02:23:11.520 there are drenches you can put in the soil that 2606 02:23:11.680 --> 02:23:14.920 fight that root rot, but usually it's brought on by 2607 02:23:15.200 --> 02:23:18.120 conditions that are just too wet for them. I don't 2608 02:23:18.159 --> 02:23:21.159 know anything else that would kill those plants there. People 2609 02:23:21.520 --> 02:23:23.319 call me to ask how to get rid of them 2610 02:23:23.559 --> 02:23:24.399 because they're hard. 2611 02:23:24.280 --> 02:23:24.760 To get rid of. 2612 02:23:26.159 --> 02:23:29.719 Well, they are. They have been scattered throughout my backyard 2613 02:23:29.879 --> 02:23:33.840 and they were from a plant, one little plant pot 2614 02:23:34.319 --> 02:23:37.120 that I dumped out in the yard years ago, and 2615 02:23:37.280 --> 02:23:39.319 then we had to take down a pine tree and 2616 02:23:39.360 --> 02:23:43.319 they got scattered throughout the yard. I mean they're typically, yeah, 2617 02:23:43.680 --> 02:23:47.680 they everywhere, Yeah, And I have some along the that 2618 02:23:47.760 --> 02:23:50.200 are growing where they weren't put and they're growing just 2619 02:23:50.360 --> 02:23:51.600 flye but they're not blooming. 2620 02:23:52.559 --> 02:23:53.639 Yeah, but they are green. 2621 02:23:53.760 --> 02:23:55.840 Well, I'm going to put you on hold. I'm gonna 2622 02:23:55.840 --> 02:23:57.799 put you on hold as we go here, but if 2623 02:23:57.840 --> 02:23:59.760 you want to get an email and send me a 2624 02:23:59.799 --> 02:24:03.040 pickure of them, If I have any other thoughts, I'll 2625 02:24:03.079 --> 02:24:05.520 let you know on it. I kind of think you 2626 02:24:05.600 --> 02:24:07.559 need to do that dig up and check the bottom. 2627 02:24:07.559 --> 02:24:10.040 Why don't you do that before you send me the pictures? 2628 02:24:10.879 --> 02:24:13.159 And maybe if I think it's a root rot, I'll 2629 02:24:13.200 --> 02:24:16.840 recommend something in the email. Okay, thanks a lot, Depp, 2630 02:24:16.879 --> 02:24:21.440 appreciate your call. A lot. Up in tumble is a 2631 02:24:21.559 --> 02:24:24.040 feed store called D and D Feed. It's been around 2632 02:24:24.040 --> 02:24:26.239 a while. It's been around since I think nineteen eighty 2633 02:24:26.360 --> 02:24:29.360 nine when the Dovers opened it up up there. It's 2634 02:24:29.559 --> 02:24:32.280 west of Tumbull, about three miles from two forty nine 2635 02:24:32.440 --> 02:24:34.959 as you go in west and it is a store 2636 02:24:35.399 --> 02:24:39.159 that for gardeners carries everything you need in terms of 2637 02:24:39.600 --> 02:24:43.680 fertilizers from nitrofoss or fertilizers from Microlife or Nelson turf 2638 02:24:43.760 --> 02:24:47.280 Star or Medina products. If you're looking for the jars 2639 02:24:47.319 --> 02:24:50.719 of Nelson plant food. If you're looking for heirloom soils. 2640 02:24:50.719 --> 02:24:53.639 They even have lots of vegetables and vegetable seeds and 2641 02:24:53.840 --> 02:24:56.920 get various kinds of plants in there, seasonally high end 2642 02:24:57.000 --> 02:25:01.440 dog foods like Origin, Diamond, Victor Star Pro. And of 2643 02:25:01.520 --> 02:25:04.559 course it's a feedstore, all kinds of quality feed. Three 2644 02:25:04.639 --> 02:25:07.319 miles west of Tomball two forty nine D and D 2645 02:25:07.440 --> 02:25:11.280 Feed and spring is chick season. Go to their website 2646 02:25:11.360 --> 02:25:14.920 and look they tell you each week all the varieties 2647 02:25:14.959 --> 02:25:17.559 in Boy, are there a lot of baby chicks that 2648 02:25:17.680 --> 02:25:19.959 are coming in. So if you'd like to have backyard chickens, 2649 02:25:20.040 --> 02:25:22.120 you need to know about D and D Feed two 2650 02:25:22.159 --> 02:25:25.840 eight one three five to one seventy one forty four 2651 02:25:26.399 --> 02:25:30.600 two eight one three five one seventy one forty four. 2652 02:25:30.879 --> 02:25:32.840 I'll be right back. I'm going to take a little 2653 02:25:32.879 --> 02:25:34.879 break here and come back to your calls. 2654 02:26:03.959 --> 02:26:09.399 You all agree, all. 2655 02:26:09.360 --> 02:26:11.440 Right, welcome back to the guardenline. Good heavy with us. 2656 02:26:12.760 --> 02:26:15.479 We are going to dive back in here. We got 2657 02:26:15.719 --> 02:26:18.799 just a half hour of the show left today. Nelson 2658 02:26:18.879 --> 02:26:24.760 Plant Food produces a number of quality ingredients equality products 2659 02:26:25.360 --> 02:26:28.280 that just work. I mean, is as simple as that. 2660 02:26:28.520 --> 02:26:31.719 Every time I've tried a Nelson plant food product. I 2661 02:26:31.920 --> 02:26:36.000 found that it works well, it works successfully, It gives 2662 02:26:36.079 --> 02:26:39.200 the results that it's supposed to give because they're specially formulated. 2663 02:26:39.239 --> 02:26:41.159 Do you know, they use a lot of different sources 2664 02:26:41.239 --> 02:26:44.000 of nutrient, for example, nitrogen. Some of the products have 2665 02:26:44.079 --> 02:26:46.639 like five different kinds of nitrogen in them to give 2666 02:26:46.719 --> 02:26:49.239 that nice slow release to do the things that you 2667 02:26:49.440 --> 02:26:53.639 want done with your plants, where there's more flowers, more production, 2668 02:26:53.840 --> 02:26:57.559 more beautiful green foliage. They've got a line called Nutristar, 2669 02:26:57.799 --> 02:27:02.799 and that includes specifics for specific plants like the hibiscus 2670 02:27:03.360 --> 02:27:08.479 and tropical or flowering tropicals. Nutristar Hibiscus and flowering tropicals. 2671 02:27:08.719 --> 02:27:10.920 I don't care what kind of hibiscus you have. It's 2672 02:27:11.000 --> 02:27:14.200 even good for things like Zara, the rows of shareon 2673 02:27:14.319 --> 02:27:19.799 the hollyhocks and althea rows of Sharon, althea, the Texas sage, 2674 02:27:20.120 --> 02:27:22.520 some of the mallows mini mallows, those are all in 2675 02:27:22.520 --> 02:27:25.520 the hibiscus family. It does really well with those. Now 2676 02:27:26.239 --> 02:27:28.719 what happens is when you put it down, it's got 2677 02:27:28.879 --> 02:27:33.440 multiple acidifying sources to ensure not only an even nutrient release, 2678 02:27:33.920 --> 02:27:37.680 but also a moderation of that soul pH that these 2679 02:27:37.760 --> 02:27:40.760 plants benefit from. It's got high potassium levels which are 2680 02:27:40.840 --> 02:27:44.159 very important for not only hardiness and cold, but also 2681 02:27:44.280 --> 02:27:47.319 in water and nutrient uptake and flower quality as well. 2682 02:27:47.639 --> 02:27:50.559 So that's a nutri star line the hibiscus and flowering tropicals. 2683 02:27:50.879 --> 02:27:53.239 How about the color Star line. That's been their most 2684 02:27:53.280 --> 02:27:56.360 popular fertilizer for forty years now, and the color Star 2685 02:27:56.479 --> 02:28:00.760 Plus has an added systemic fungicide in it moves into 2686 02:28:00.840 --> 02:28:05.879 the plant and gives longer preventative protection than just a 2687 02:28:06.000 --> 02:28:08.680 standard type of fungicide in it. Of course, the color 2688 02:28:08.760 --> 02:28:13.159 Star is all purpose flowering food for anything that has flowers, annuals, 2689 02:28:13.239 --> 02:28:16.280 perennial shrubs, trees, really use on any of those plants. 2690 02:28:16.520 --> 02:28:19.879 It's got fast acting effects and it even has some 2691 02:28:20.079 --> 02:28:23.280 organic nutrient sources that really enrich the soil. You put 2692 02:28:23.319 --> 02:28:25.479 Colorstar Plus down, you're going to get a slow release 2693 02:28:25.520 --> 02:28:27.840 for about three or four months. Again from the folks 2694 02:28:27.879 --> 02:28:31.159 at Nelson Plant Food. Let's go out to Montgomery and 2695 02:28:31.239 --> 02:28:33.760 talk to Marie. Hey, Marie, welcome to garden line. 2696 02:28:34.840 --> 02:28:41.040 Hello Skip, Skip, looking for the ideal NPQ or fertilizer 2697 02:28:41.239 --> 02:28:44.360 for my flowering vines. They are about two years old. 2698 02:28:45.079 --> 02:28:49.799 I have the Carolina jasamine star jasmine and coral howey suckle. 2699 02:28:50.319 --> 02:28:53.680 And I've been applying the six two four acid of fire, 2700 02:28:53.959 --> 02:28:56.440 but I'm wondering if I can improve on that. 2701 02:28:58.959 --> 02:29:01.840 That's a good one. That's an microlife product you're talking about, right, 2702 02:29:02.040 --> 02:29:06.040 and kind of a yeah, pinkish bag, Yes, that's yeah, yes, 2703 02:29:07.920 --> 02:29:11.079 would I would just keep using it. It's got an 2704 02:29:11.120 --> 02:29:14.159 extra boost to the first number, nitrogen, and that keeps 2705 02:29:14.280 --> 02:29:17.760 vines vigorous, and it keeps them, you know, producing new growth. 2706 02:29:17.840 --> 02:29:21.239 And many of the types of vines produce their flowers 2707 02:29:21.440 --> 02:29:24.360 on the new growth or last year's growth, and so 2708 02:29:25.159 --> 02:29:29.000 it depends on which type of vine as to which 2709 02:29:29.040 --> 02:29:32.040 way it is. But the bottom line is you want 2710 02:29:32.079 --> 02:29:35.239 to keep them growing, so you keep them producing cycles 2711 02:29:35.280 --> 02:29:38.760 of flowers whenever their normal flowering season is and sixty 2712 02:29:38.879 --> 02:29:41.440 four the acidifying would be perfect for all of those. 2713 02:29:41.479 --> 02:29:43.079 I would just keep using that if I are you. 2714 02:29:44.079 --> 02:29:45.360 How often should I use that? 2715 02:29:48.079 --> 02:29:51.239 You know, I would watch my plants and see how Yeah, 2716 02:29:51.280 --> 02:29:52.840 I would see how they're growing. I mean, if it 2717 02:29:52.920 --> 02:29:55.680 looks like they're just growing wild, then they're happy. Just 2718 02:29:55.799 --> 02:29:58.719 let them be. But you know, as you want to 2719 02:29:58.760 --> 02:30:00.879 boost growth a little bit, go ahead and give them some. 2720 02:30:01.040 --> 02:30:02.959 You could do that as many as I don't know, 2721 02:30:03.159 --> 02:30:06.200 three or four times during the year on plants, or 2722 02:30:06.239 --> 02:30:08.440 you could just do it once or twice. So there's 2723 02:30:08.520 --> 02:30:12.959 not a black and white in the book description on 2724 02:30:13.120 --> 02:30:15.760 how often you would use that. But I would let 2725 02:30:15.840 --> 02:30:18.040 the plants tell me, Hey, I think I need to 2726 02:30:18.040 --> 02:30:19.559 give them a little bit more of a boost and 2727 02:30:19.680 --> 02:30:20.639 watered in real good. 2728 02:30:21.680 --> 02:30:22.000 Okay. 2729 02:30:22.079 --> 02:30:25.959 And I'm surprised that my Carolina Jessman is looking a 2730 02:30:26.000 --> 02:30:28.639 little bit chlorotic. Should I give it iron not? Or 2731 02:30:28.680 --> 02:30:31.200 should I give it maybe a little bit more fermilizer. 2732 02:30:34.040 --> 02:30:37.719 When a plant looks chlorotic like that early in the season, 2733 02:30:37.840 --> 02:30:39.479 the soils tend to be a little on the cooler 2734 02:30:39.559 --> 02:30:41.719 side than they will be in summer. We often have 2735 02:30:41.840 --> 02:30:44.000 a little bit of that. If the pH is a 2736 02:30:44.079 --> 02:30:46.840 little high, it can make it chlorotic. If the iron 2737 02:30:46.959 --> 02:30:50.040 levels are a little low, that can make it chlorotic. 2738 02:30:50.159 --> 02:30:52.399 And if the soil is a little soggy and cool, 2739 02:30:52.719 --> 02:30:55.559 that can make it chlorotic. So I can't tell you 2740 02:30:55.760 --> 02:30:59.399 exactly why. When you look at the plant, and maybe 2741 02:30:59.760 --> 02:31:01.639 you I don't know this right now, but when you 2742 02:31:01.719 --> 02:31:03.639 go out and look at it, is it the new 2743 02:31:03.760 --> 02:31:06.680 leaves that are looking yellowish or is it the older 2744 02:31:06.799 --> 02:31:10.440 leaves that are looking more the old leaves. Okay, so 2745 02:31:10.600 --> 02:31:13.520 that's not iron. That is not iron, that's not acid 2746 02:31:14.200 --> 02:31:18.600 problem of highph that's not on iron deficiency. That is 2747 02:31:18.879 --> 02:31:22.079 just older leaves that are being cast off. And a 2748 02:31:22.200 --> 02:31:25.319 lot of plants that are semi evergreen to evergreen, they 2749 02:31:25.360 --> 02:31:27.680 have seasons where they cast off the older leaves. Now 2750 02:31:27.799 --> 02:31:31.879 certainly getting dry and then wet again whatnot can cause 2751 02:31:31.959 --> 02:31:34.280 that you and see that on Apotheus ivy in your house. 2752 02:31:34.360 --> 02:31:36.159 When it gets dry and then you water it, all 2753 02:31:36.159 --> 02:31:38.440 of a sudden after that the older leaves start turning 2754 02:31:38.520 --> 02:31:41.639 yellow and falling off. That's just part of the soil 2755 02:31:41.920 --> 02:31:46.040 moisture fluctuation. I wouldn't worry about it a lot unless 2756 02:31:46.120 --> 02:31:49.879 it's severe. Your plants are probably fine. That's a native plant. 2757 02:31:50.040 --> 02:31:54.120 It's tough Carolina adjustment, and I think it's going to 2758 02:31:54.159 --> 02:31:56.280 be okay, wonderful. 2759 02:31:56.680 --> 02:31:58.280 Thank you so very much, Skipping. 2760 02:31:58.319 --> 02:31:59.120 I appreciate it. 2761 02:32:00.920 --> 02:32:03.280 All right, Marie, thank you for the call. I appreciate that. 2762 02:32:04.120 --> 02:32:07.840 If you've got a hanker in to do some outdoor containers, 2763 02:32:07.879 --> 02:32:09.840 and I hope you do. I like that word hankering. 2764 02:32:09.879 --> 02:32:11.879 By the way if you got a hankering to do 2765 02:32:11.959 --> 02:32:16.639 outdoor containers, a couple of tips. Number one, a big container, 2766 02:32:17.280 --> 02:32:21.399 more soil volume, more growing media volume means so when 2767 02:32:21.440 --> 02:32:24.040 we get into our hot summer weather, you're not watering 2768 02:32:24.120 --> 02:32:26.159 three times a day to keep the darn thing alive 2769 02:32:26.520 --> 02:32:30.959 or out of stress. More soil is important. Good drainage 2770 02:32:31.120 --> 02:32:33.360 is critical. That's number two, and number three is a 2771 02:32:33.399 --> 02:32:36.719 good quality soil mix that also drains well but holds moisture. 2772 02:32:37.280 --> 02:32:41.120 Jungle land, flour and vegetable planting soil is just like 2773 02:32:41.200 --> 02:32:43.680 the name implies. If you're going to grow it in 2774 02:32:43.760 --> 02:32:46.479 the container outdoors, you want jungle l and flour and 2775 02:32:46.600 --> 02:32:48.920 vegetable planting soil. I don't care if it's a flower 2776 02:32:49.000 --> 02:32:51.559 or vegetable or not. That is the soil you're going 2777 02:32:51.600 --> 02:32:53.280 to use. And it's going to drain well, it's going 2778 02:32:53.360 --> 02:32:56.280 to hold moisture well. It works. You're going to find 2779 02:32:56.319 --> 02:32:59.879 it as well as other nitophce products in many places. 2780 02:33:00.360 --> 02:33:03.079 You go to a place like M and D Beamer 2781 02:33:03.440 --> 02:33:05.639 down in Sagemont, or you go to D and D 2782 02:33:05.719 --> 02:33:08.680 Feed and Tomball, or you go to Plants for All Seasons, 2783 02:33:08.719 --> 02:33:12.000 the one where Luetta and two forty nine come together. 2784 02:33:12.200 --> 02:33:15.719 Maybe Ace Hardware and Sinco Ranch or auspas Ace up 2785 02:33:15.760 --> 02:33:18.440 in the woodlands. These are all places that carry night 2786 02:33:18.520 --> 02:33:21.760 to FoST products. I'm going to go down to Eagle 2787 02:33:21.840 --> 02:33:24.639 Lake now and talk to Nancy. Hello, Nancy, Welcome to 2788 02:33:24.719 --> 02:33:25.239 garden line. 2789 02:33:26.200 --> 02:33:26.760 Good morning. 2790 02:33:28.079 --> 02:33:32.120 I have six or seven ten to twenty foot crate 2791 02:33:32.200 --> 02:33:34.079 myrtles and I went out to feed them, and there 2792 02:33:34.120 --> 02:33:38.680 are giant fire ant beds at the base of these trees. 2793 02:33:39.079 --> 02:33:41.719 Do I put the regular fire killer on it? 2794 02:33:42.239 --> 02:33:43.520 Or is that going to hurt my trees? 2795 02:33:43.799 --> 02:33:48.600 Yes, if it's a base or a drench that's made 2796 02:33:48.719 --> 02:33:50.799 for fire ants, it will not hurt your crate myrtles. 2797 02:33:50.959 --> 02:33:52.639 It will not. It will now what I would do. 2798 02:33:54.200 --> 02:33:56.079 It will not hurt your crate myrtles. If it's a 2799 02:33:56.120 --> 02:33:57.600 product or for fire ants, it's not. 2800 02:33:57.840 --> 02:33:57.879 No. 2801 02:33:58.159 --> 02:34:00.920 If you pour boiling water on it like some people do, well, yeah, 2802 02:34:01.079 --> 02:34:05.520 that's that's different. But the products won't hurt. Here's the thing, though, 2803 02:34:05.760 --> 02:34:08.520 Use a bait. That's the most important. It takes a 2804 02:34:08.600 --> 02:34:10.799 little longer to work, but it does a better job. 2805 02:34:11.440 --> 02:34:14.319 You can use mound treatments and they will kill that mound. 2806 02:34:15.000 --> 02:34:17.959 But around your yard, especially after the rain we just got. 2807 02:34:18.040 --> 02:34:20.079 You're gonna see fire ants popping up everywhere that you 2808 02:34:20.159 --> 02:34:23.680 didn't know we're there because they're working underground that they 2809 02:34:23.719 --> 02:34:25.840 hadn't boiled up to the surface yet, if you will, 2810 02:34:26.239 --> 02:34:29.520 and a bait gets even the unseen mounds, which is 2811 02:34:29.600 --> 02:34:32.559 why it's better to use a bait on an infrequent 2812 02:34:32.680 --> 02:34:36.760 basis A good good bait product over time to manage 2813 02:34:36.760 --> 02:34:37.760 your fireant problems. 2814 02:34:38.600 --> 02:34:39.559 Okay, what's the bait? 2815 02:34:41.959 --> 02:34:49.200 A bait and bait? Oh yeah, yeah, you're yeah, you 2816 02:34:49.319 --> 02:34:52.200 go to go to your u. Let's see how you're 2817 02:34:52.280 --> 02:34:55.000 not too far away from Uh, how far is Eagle 2818 02:34:55.079 --> 02:34:58.280 Lake from? I haven't done Eagle Lake on a map 2819 02:34:58.559 --> 02:35:01.079 ever since while so left the lake, I've lost track 2820 02:35:01.159 --> 02:35:04.239 of where they are. Remember while seed out there was 2821 02:35:04.319 --> 02:35:05.040 that cool or what? 2822 02:35:06.600 --> 02:35:06.879 All right? 2823 02:35:07.000 --> 02:35:10.360 Let me hang it, let me just oh okay, well 2824 02:35:10.520 --> 02:35:20.639 all right, so let's me okay, Well, you probably are 2825 02:35:20.719 --> 02:35:24.680 going to find a fire ant bait at Nelson's water 2826 02:35:24.799 --> 02:35:28.280 gardens and Katie, that would be a good place. I'm 2827 02:35:28.319 --> 02:35:31.159 sure that you could find it. Uh, it just depends 2828 02:35:31.200 --> 02:35:34.799 on you know what direction from Eagle Lake. If you're 2829 02:35:34.840 --> 02:35:37.200 pretty far out there, you go down to I know 2830 02:35:37.360 --> 02:35:40.280 in Wharton, there's an Ace Hardware store in Wharton, and 2831 02:35:40.360 --> 02:35:43.200 you got some other Ace hardware stores in that general 2832 02:35:43.280 --> 02:35:45.120 area that are going to carry them. And it may 2833 02:35:45.159 --> 02:35:48.079 be Andro, it may be called Extinguish, it may be 2834 02:35:48.399 --> 02:35:50.879 there's a lot of brands, but there are fire ant 2835 02:35:50.959 --> 02:35:54.680 baits and follow the label and you'll have success. Okay, 2836 02:35:56.440 --> 02:35:59.360 I've got to run. I'm up against a hard break. Yeah, 2837 02:35:59.440 --> 02:36:01.959 thank you. Have a good day. All right, folks, I'll 2838 02:36:02.000 --> 02:36:07.399 be right back, David. Your first s up? All righty, 2839 02:36:07.639 --> 02:36:10.000 welcome back to garden Line. We're going to jump right 2840 02:36:10.079 --> 02:36:15.000 in here. Last segment of the day and of the weekend. 2841 02:36:15.600 --> 02:36:18.079 Hey have you been to Growers Outlet? And Willis? I 2842 02:36:18.200 --> 02:36:20.319 tell you about it all the time on garden Line. 2843 02:36:20.600 --> 02:36:24.040 If you're in Conroe, the Woodlands, even up in New 2844 02:36:24.079 --> 02:36:26.879 Waverley out at Lake Conroe. Oh gosh, April Sound all 2845 02:36:26.920 --> 02:36:30.639 those neighborhoods out that way, that whole region. Growers Outlet 2846 02:36:30.799 --> 02:36:33.559 is a really cool garden center. They have a lot 2847 02:36:33.680 --> 02:36:36.000 of good stuff, everything you would expect from a good 2848 02:36:36.040 --> 02:36:39.840 garden center. Right now, they've got some beautiful Peggy Martin 2849 02:36:39.959 --> 02:36:43.159 roses that have come in. They have some beautiful Chinese 2850 02:36:43.280 --> 02:36:45.440 fringe trees that may be one of the most popular 2851 02:36:45.520 --> 02:36:48.680 trees this spring, and for good reason. Growers Outlet and 2852 02:36:48.719 --> 02:36:52.239 Willis has the things you need. Do you need flowering plants? 2853 02:36:52.280 --> 02:36:54.920 Do you need vegetables? Do you need fruit? They've got those. 2854 02:36:55.440 --> 02:36:59.840 Do you have a for example, a beautiful bugainbe hanging 2855 02:36:59.840 --> 02:37:02.920 basket or a giant macho fern hanging They have some 2856 02:37:03.280 --> 02:37:05.680 good giant macho ferns that get in every in the 2857 02:37:05.760 --> 02:37:08.000 warm season. As things warm up. They probably have a 2858 02:37:08.040 --> 02:37:09.719 few of men right now. As a matter of fact, 2859 02:37:10.280 --> 02:37:17.120 Growers Outlet in Willis Grower, that's the website. Growers Outlet 2860 02:37:17.399 --> 02:37:20.360 in Willis one of the few places you can go 2861 02:37:20.559 --> 02:37:23.280 to a garden center and you look and it tells 2862 02:37:23.360 --> 02:37:25.559 you here's what we have in stock, and here's how 2863 02:37:25.639 --> 02:37:28.280 much it costs. Really nice. I'm glad they do that. 2864 02:37:28.399 --> 02:37:31.719 I think that's a really cool idea. Let's head out now. 2865 02:37:31.799 --> 02:37:34.280 We're going to go to Tomball and talk. If I 2866 02:37:34.360 --> 02:37:37.520 can turn my mouse around the right way, talk to David. 2867 02:37:37.840 --> 02:37:37.959 Hey. 2868 02:37:38.079 --> 02:37:39.360 David, welcome to garden Line. 2869 02:37:40.399 --> 02:37:42.120 Good morning, sir Hey. 2870 02:37:43.040 --> 02:37:45.239 For the last two years I've been putting down the 2871 02:37:45.319 --> 02:37:49.159 barricade religiously and this year. 2872 02:37:49.399 --> 02:37:52.239 Right now, it seems like they left at. 2873 02:37:52.159 --> 02:37:55.600 An ingredient or something. I've got the healthiest weeds in 2874 02:37:55.680 --> 02:37:58.440 the neighborhood, and I'm going, did I do something wrong? 2875 02:37:59.040 --> 02:38:03.879 And what can I do with some right now? Because okay, 2876 02:38:04.840 --> 02:38:07.200 I put fertilizers down, I got the greenest grass and 2877 02:38:07.239 --> 02:38:08.280 the greenest weeds ever. 2878 02:38:08.440 --> 02:38:10.959 So I mean, it just seemed like something went wrong 2879 02:38:11.040 --> 02:38:11.280 with me. 2880 02:38:13.719 --> 02:38:15.959 You must have missed one timing somehow. I don't know. 2881 02:38:16.159 --> 02:38:21.319 Barricade stops the seeds from becoming weeds, and so maybe 2882 02:38:21.760 --> 02:38:23.840 the weeds you see right now you would have had 2883 02:38:23.879 --> 02:38:28.920 to do barricade in last October, early October to stop 2884 02:38:29.040 --> 02:38:31.840 them from coming up. Now, the post emergent you can 2885 02:38:31.959 --> 02:38:34.399 do post emergent products. But as we get further and 2886 02:38:34.479 --> 02:38:37.440 further into the season and all those weeds are blooming 2887 02:38:37.520 --> 02:38:40.360 and setting seeds, the post emergents don't work as well. 2888 02:38:41.000 --> 02:38:43.840 And so that leaves us with the unhappy task of 2889 02:38:43.959 --> 02:38:46.479 him pulling the weeds out to try to get all 2890 02:38:46.520 --> 02:38:49.719 those seeds out of there, or just wait, they're gonna 2891 02:38:49.760 --> 02:38:53.360 die quick anyway, and you know, mow and ignore them 2892 02:38:53.440 --> 02:38:55.559 and deal with the extra seeds next fall. With the 2893 02:38:55.639 --> 02:38:59.120 barricade application. Do you know that by any chance? Do 2894 02:38:59.159 --> 02:39:02.159 you know the name the types of weed species you've 2895 02:39:02.200 --> 02:39:02.719 got some. 2896 02:39:02.840 --> 02:39:05.319 Of them I've got, I've got, I've got tons of 2897 02:39:05.399 --> 02:39:09.799 bullmetal I've got I've got these little grassy things that 2898 02:39:09.920 --> 02:39:11.920 got little purple flowers, and I got these. 2899 02:39:11.799 --> 02:39:12.600 Little grassy things. 2900 02:39:12.600 --> 02:39:15.639 I got some little yellow flowers, and then other stuff 2901 02:39:15.680 --> 02:39:15.959 as well. 2902 02:39:16.040 --> 02:39:18.079 But I mean, it's like an infestation in my yard, 2903 02:39:18.120 --> 02:39:19.200 and I'm going, good, what did. 2904 02:39:19.159 --> 02:39:19.639 I do wrong? 2905 02:39:20.040 --> 02:39:20.239 Yeah? 2906 02:39:21.440 --> 02:39:24.200 Yeah, if it's if it's grassy, you know there's not 2907 02:39:24.840 --> 02:39:27.280 there's not a post emerging spray to kill the grass 2908 02:39:27.440 --> 02:39:30.479 in the grass without killing your lawn grass. In other words, 2909 02:39:30.680 --> 02:39:33.520 Uh so, uh, you know, David, I don't know on 2910 02:39:33.600 --> 02:39:35.440 this one. Probably the best thing would be for me 2911 02:39:35.520 --> 02:39:37.840 to look at some of the weeds, specifically pictures of 2912 02:39:37.959 --> 02:39:41.120 them and things. I'm going to be at RCW Nursery 2913 02:39:41.520 --> 02:39:45.000 next weekend from twelve to two on Saturday. Next Saturday 2914 02:39:45.040 --> 02:39:47.520 from twelve to two. If you wanted to bag up 2915 02:39:47.600 --> 02:39:49.840 a bunch of those, bring them down, let me look 2916 02:39:49.840 --> 02:39:51.680 at them, and let's let me have an eye on 2917 02:39:51.760 --> 02:39:53.959 them and really give you a better answer than I 2918 02:39:54.000 --> 02:39:55.879 can do. Kind of guessing at what you might have 2919 02:39:56.520 --> 02:39:59.760 out there well, and have the product on hand to 2920 02:40:02.239 --> 02:40:07.559 bring me your weeds. All right, now, I know, I know, 2921 02:40:08.000 --> 02:40:11.000 you know guys a lot of times, you know, they'll 2922 02:40:11.319 --> 02:40:13.680 get flowers and bring them to somebody as a gift. 2923 02:40:14.799 --> 02:40:17.399 Not many guys bring people weeds. But I'm asking you 2924 02:40:17.520 --> 02:40:21.959 to do that. All right, bring me a bouquet. I'll 2925 02:40:22.000 --> 02:40:27.879 see you next Saturday. Hey, don't eat lunch. Yeah, me too. 2926 02:40:28.000 --> 02:40:30.719 Don't eat lunch because they are going to have barbecue 2927 02:40:30.959 --> 02:40:34.559 sandwiches and some refreshments and stuff. So you get a 2928 02:40:34.600 --> 02:40:40.760 free lunch out of the deal. You bet, all right, 2929 02:40:40.840 --> 02:40:44.719 Bye bye. If you're looking for a product that is 2930 02:40:44.959 --> 02:40:49.239 organic that dissolves into the soil and really turns your 2931 02:40:49.280 --> 02:40:52.040 long green, Sweet Green is a product that can do that. 2932 02:40:52.319 --> 02:40:56.000 It is a molosses type based product. So it's carbon 2933 02:40:56.079 --> 02:41:00.079 chains which make beneficial microbes really happy. Smells great by 2934 02:41:00.079 --> 02:41:03.159 the way, and it's it's pretty s by nitrophoss and 2935 02:41:03.239 --> 02:41:05.879 it therefore, it's available all over town. I mean, you know, 2936 02:41:06.000 --> 02:41:09.600 you go to places like Langham Creek, Ace Hardware on 2937 02:41:09.719 --> 02:41:13.360 five twenty nine, Court Hardware on South Maine and Stafford 2938 02:41:13.559 --> 02:41:16.079 m and d out there in Rosenberg on Avenue. I 2939 02:41:16.920 --> 02:41:19.760 these are all places that carry nitopos products like the 2940 02:41:19.840 --> 02:41:24.600 sweet Green, and it does work. I do like the smell. 2941 02:41:24.719 --> 02:41:24.760 You. 2942 02:41:24.879 --> 02:41:27.120 Normally you don't talk about furlies. We don't talk about 2943 02:41:27.159 --> 02:41:30.799 how they smell, how we like the smell. But that's 2944 02:41:30.840 --> 02:41:33.520 a good one and with that eleven percent nitrogen you 2945 02:41:33.600 --> 02:41:37.200 get a really nice boost of green. I was mentioning 2946 02:41:37.200 --> 02:41:39.440 all those ACE harder strokes. You know, ACE is the 2947 02:41:39.520 --> 02:41:41.879 place that's their motto. ACE is a place. Sure, atleast 2948 02:41:41.920 --> 02:41:44.559 it used to be the motto probably still is, but 2949 02:41:44.680 --> 02:41:46.760 ACE is a place for it. You fill in the blank. 2950 02:41:47.079 --> 02:41:50.120 ACE is a place for lawn fertilizer if they carry 2951 02:41:50.239 --> 02:41:52.840 the products you hear me talk about on Guardline. ACE 2952 02:41:52.959 --> 02:41:56.680 is a place for pest control, disease control, preventative weed 2953 02:41:56.760 --> 02:42:00.959 control that's pre emergent, killing existing weeds that's a post emergent. 2954 02:42:01.479 --> 02:42:05.079 ACE is a place for all your outdoor equipment, power equipment, 2955 02:42:05.520 --> 02:42:08.520 you know, everything from extension courts to strings of lights 2956 02:42:08.639 --> 02:42:14.040 to a just beautiful ambiyonce creating things for your back 2957 02:42:14.120 --> 02:42:17.719 patio and indoors as well. ACE is the place for that. 2958 02:42:18.159 --> 02:42:21.760 You can go to the website ACE Hardware Texas. Don't 2959 02:42:21.799 --> 02:42:25.840 forget Texas dot Com. Acehardware Texas dot Com and our 2960 02:42:25.920 --> 02:42:28.879 local Ace Hardware group is there. When I say local, 2961 02:42:28.959 --> 02:42:30.879 I mean we got ACE Hardware's all the way out 2962 02:42:30.920 --> 02:42:33.159 in Orange and all the way up in Willis, and 2963 02:42:33.600 --> 02:42:37.000 all the way over in Victoria and Rockport and Galveston 2964 02:42:37.120 --> 02:42:40.639 and certainly all around the greater Houston area. Here find 2965 02:42:40.680 --> 02:42:43.719 your Ace Hardware. Maybe one like Brenham Ace Hardware out 2966 02:42:43.760 --> 02:42:48.399 there in Brenham, Texas, all Star Ace Hardware and Spring Victoria, 2967 02:42:48.559 --> 02:42:52.680 Acehardworo on Novarro Street, the K and M Ace Hardware 2968 02:42:52.719 --> 02:42:55.760 and Kingwood, Wharton Feed and Ace. I was there a 2969 02:42:55.840 --> 02:42:59.040 goodwill back when they had the grand reopening going on 2970 02:42:59.200 --> 02:43:03.559 out there, bake Cliff Lace on Grand Avenue in Bakecliff. YEP, 2971 02:43:03.719 --> 02:43:07.120 there's a lot of Aces, Ace Hardware Texas dot Com. 2972 02:43:07.239 --> 02:43:08.920 And when you come out of there, you're going to 2973 02:43:08.959 --> 02:43:12.159 have the stuff you need to have a beautiful, bountiful 2974 02:43:12.239 --> 02:43:16.680 garden and landscape. Always like going into Ace hard Restrict, 2975 02:43:16.719 --> 02:43:19.000 So it always surprises me what they have. You know, 2976 02:43:19.360 --> 02:43:23.040 I'm in there for gardening stuff, that's my primary reason. 2977 02:43:23.360 --> 02:43:26.520 But I'm telling you they have so much more. This 2978 02:43:26.680 --> 02:43:30.280 is not your grandfather's hardware store. This is all the 2979 02:43:30.360 --> 02:43:33.799 cool stuff from Grandpa's hardware store, but a lot lot 2980 02:43:33.920 --> 02:43:38.680 more new cool things. Year around Houston dot com is 2981 02:43:38.719 --> 02:43:43.639 a company that specializes in core aeration and compost stop 2982 02:43:43.760 --> 02:43:47.040 dressing and for our garden line listeners, they focus on 2983 02:43:47.159 --> 02:43:50.120 the area inside the Beltway. That's a big area, so 2984 02:43:50.280 --> 02:43:52.360 all of you and there's a bazilion of you living 2985 02:43:52.440 --> 02:43:57.319 inside the Beltway. Year around. Houston dot com is the 2986 02:43:57.399 --> 02:44:02.040 company that's also the website year round Houston dot com. 2987 02:44:02.159 --> 02:44:04.399 You can give them a call at eight three two 2988 02:44:05.079 --> 02:44:09.479 eight eight four fifty three thirty five eight three two 2989 02:44:09.840 --> 02:44:12.920 eight eight four fifty three thirty five or go to 2990 02:44:13.000 --> 02:44:15.799 the website year round Houston dot com and find out 2991 02:44:15.840 --> 02:44:20.120 more of the use quality screened compost that is, and 2992 02:44:20.239 --> 02:44:23.200 they do a good job of variation too. By the way, Uh, 2993 02:44:23.360 --> 02:44:26.319 it's no stink to it. I mean it just goes down, 2994 02:44:26.520 --> 02:44:29.959 looks good and makes your lawn come alive. It breathes 2995 02:44:30.120 --> 02:44:33.239 life into the soil by opening up those holes with 2996 02:44:33.399 --> 02:44:37.040 corrotion and then dropping some quality composts down on top 2997 02:44:37.040 --> 02:44:39.680 of it. One of the most important things we do 2998 02:44:40.399 --> 02:44:45.440 to our launch to have beautiful success if you've got compaction, corrooration, 2999 02:44:45.639 --> 02:44:49.799 compost top per center to go. All right, well that's 3000 02:44:49.799 --> 02:44:52.040 the last song of the day for me. That means 3001 02:44:52.079 --> 02:44:54.719 skip you better hurry up, time to go. I'm going 3002 02:44:54.799 --> 02:44:58.360 to be at RCW Nurseries next Saturday from twelve to two. 3003 02:44:58.479 --> 02:45:00.920 Come on out and see me. A barbecue lunch there 3004 02:45:01.040 --> 02:45:04.600 for you, provided by RCW and refreshments. They're going to 3005 02:45:04.639 --> 02:45:08.600 have ten percent off on their roses next Saturday only. 3006 02:45:08.680 --> 02:45:10.760 It's a one day sale, so come on out and 3007 02:45:10.799 --> 02:45:13.440 see me. Of course we'll do the diagnosis and the 3008 02:45:13.479 --> 02:45:16.319 identification and helping you the things we'll visit about the 3009 02:45:16.399 --> 02:45:18.520 plant things you want to see that you're going to 3010 02:45:18.559 --> 02:45:20.920 see a beautiful nursery. You have lots of beautiful plants 3011 02:45:20.920 --> 02:45:23.559 as well. Look forward. I hope you can make it 3012 02:45:23.639 --> 02:45:27.520 out there next Saturday, twelve to two. RCW Nursery