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Speaker 3: I mean, alrighty, good morning, good morning, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 3: Glad you got up early enough this morning to do
Speaker 3: this with us. Hopefully a cup of coffee in your
Speaker 3: hand or got at least one eye open. That's what
Speaker 3: we try to that's what we aim for, at least
Speaker 3: when eye opened, and I'll try to be coherent and
Speaker 3: then we'll have a gardening show about that. Let's do
Speaker 3: it that way. You are listening to garden Line. I'm
Speaker 3: your host, Skip Richter, and we're here to help you
Speaker 3: have a bountiful garden and a beautiful landscape and more
Speaker 3: fun in the process. That's the important part. Don't forget
Speaker 3: it's supposed to be fun. Gardening is fun. It's supposed
Speaker 3: to be fun. And when we get out there and
Speaker 3: follow a few simple principles, the plants just they just
Speaker 3: step right into line when you give them what they want.
Speaker 3: If you are wondering, like what's the top of the
Speaker 3: list items to get done this week? Or what do
Speaker 3: I need to do out in the landscape, well, first
Speaker 3: of all, you know the answer to that, because it's
Speaker 3: your place. But I would just suggest that our lawns
Speaker 3: are waking up, and this will be a really good
Speaker 3: time to make sure that your lawn has all the
Speaker 3: things that it needs. You need to do a first
Speaker 3: mowing that down a little bit lower than normal. I
Speaker 3: don't like to use the word scalping because that sounds
Speaker 3: like you're cutting it almost to the ground, and that
Speaker 3: you don't want to do that, but you want to
Speaker 3: cut it back, get some of the old stuff out
Speaker 3: of there if you haven't already done that. If you've
Speaker 3: got weeds and you haven't mode yet, those weeds are
Speaker 3: cool season weeds and they have seeds. And when you
Speaker 3: do the first mowing, go ahead and bag the clippings
Speaker 3: and get them out of there because they are full
Speaker 3: of weed seeds and you're not gonna get all the
Speaker 3: weed seeds out, but you get a bunch of them.
Speaker 3: If you don't do that, all those weed seeds will
Speaker 3: be back and next fall they'll sprout. So you're right
Speaker 3: back in the same place actually, but worse next year. Now,
Speaker 3: speaking of weed seeds, if you have not put down
Speaker 3: something to prevent summer weeds, and you've got some thin
Speaker 3: lawn areas where sunlight can get through and hit the soil,
Speaker 3: well it's time to make sure and get that done.
Speaker 3: Some of our summer weeds have already been sprouting. And
Speaker 3: barricade is a product knight Foss puts out. It comes
Speaker 3: in a ten pound bag, covers about five thousand square
Speaker 3: feet and when you put it down and then watered in,
Speaker 3: and by the way, with a pre emergent, you always
Speaker 3: have to watered in because that gets the product into
Speaker 3: the soil surface. And barricade sticks to the soil better
Speaker 3: than most pre emergents I know, and it adheres up
Speaker 3: there near the surface. So when a weed seed tries
Speaker 3: to come through and sprout, it shuts it down. It
Speaker 3: forms a barricade. If you will, you're going to find
Speaker 3: barricade and other night Foss products in a lot of places.
Speaker 3: You go down on Bissonet or West Teimer. There's bearing
Speaker 3: hardware on Bissonet one on West Teimer as well. You
Speaker 3: can head out to the Richmond Rosenberg area to enchanted
Speaker 3: forest and run into a good opportunity to get some
Speaker 3: night foss products there. Also. If one thing about the
Speaker 3: pre emergency needed to realize though, is they last a
Speaker 3: certain period of time, and so you forty five days,
Speaker 3: typically sixty days kind of depends on the weather, how
Speaker 3: much you put out and everything like that, and you
Speaker 3: don't want to overdo them when you put them out,
Speaker 3: But at some point they break down and then weeds
Speaker 3: can begin germinating again. And so just keep in mind
Speaker 3: that it doesn't mean you won't see another weed until fall.
Speaker 3: So some people will repeat that application when they're in
Speaker 3: a situation where weeds we say weed pressure is high,
Speaker 3: meaning there's just a lot of weeds germinating and you're
Speaker 3: having to work at it to keep them in line. Well,
Speaker 3: I told you guys yesterday that I wasn't going out
Speaker 3: to Warren Southern Gardens. I was originally scheduled to go
Speaker 3: out yesterday afternoon. We have moved that to April. The
Speaker 3: nineteenth April nineteenth, that's the day before Easter, and I'll
Speaker 3: be out at Warren Southern Gardens. And you know, those
Speaker 3: of you in Kingwood, you know you've got two great
Speaker 3: garden centers. You've got Warren Southern Gardens which is on
Speaker 3: North Park, and you got Kingwood Garden Center there on
Speaker 3: Stone Hollow. And looking at the stock that they brought
Speaker 3: in and some recent examples of some of the plants
Speaker 3: and product that place. Both places they're just loaded up.
Speaker 3: Kingwood Garden Center's got a wonderful little gift shop for
Speaker 3: a lot of cool stuff that even non gardeners on
Speaker 3: your list would be very interested in. When you go in,
Speaker 3: you're going to find at these places Microlife fertilizers, nitrophoss fertilizers,
Speaker 3: Nelson turf Star, you're going to find soils from heirloom soils.
Speaker 3: You're going to find Nelson plant food, and the jars too.
Speaker 3: And by the way, they are refilled stations for that
Speaker 3: you can take your empty clear screwtop lid jars that
Speaker 3: you purchase those fertilizers and and take them back in
Speaker 3: and refill them there for a very economical rate. They
Speaker 3: got the mosquito dunks and stock now too, and here
Speaker 3: we are. It's definitely mosquito season. I saw a little
Speaker 3: I have a water fountain that had been sitting stagnant
Speaker 3: for a while, I know, I know better than that,
Speaker 3: and had a little mosquito wrigulars forming in it. And
Speaker 3: so that's where you put the mosquito dunks because they
Speaker 3: float and they prevent mosquitos for about a month.
Speaker 8: Now.
Speaker 3: You can break a dunk up into little chips and
Speaker 3: pieces for small areas like my little water fountain area,
Speaker 3: because the dunk will cover you like one hundred square feet,
Speaker 3: or you can just get the granules and do it
Speaker 3: that way. But anyway, either way you go about it,
Speaker 3: you're going to get those things at Warren Southern Gardens,
Speaker 3: I know in Kingwood Garden Center to help you stay
Speaker 3: out of trouble when mosquito season comes along. Check out
Speaker 3: their roses when you're out there. Check out their villias
Speaker 3: when you're out there. The annual color is outstanding, nice
Speaker 3: selections of seeds. They are both open seven days a week.
Speaker 3: Both Warren Southern Gardens and Kingwood Garden Center are open
Speaker 3: seven days a week, so that's nice. Pretty much anytime
Speaker 3: you want to go. You have got a place to
Speaker 3: go out there. I think it's yesterday. I was talking
Speaker 3: about Ciena Mulch as being like the one stop shop
Speaker 3: for everything brown stuff, and on garden Line, I talk
Speaker 3: about brown stuff all the time, brown stuff before green stuff.
Speaker 3: I don't know it makes sense to me to put
Speaker 3: it that way. If you don't know, well what does
Speaker 3: that mean? Well, green stuff is plants. That's the fun
Speaker 3: stuff you go and you buy and you put in
Speaker 3: the ground. It's vegetables, it's it's fruit, trees, it's flowers,
Speaker 3: it's your lawn. Brown stuff is the soil and everything
Speaker 3: in it that essentially is a foundation for success with
Speaker 3: the green stuff. Cina Moltch is the place you go
Speaker 3: to have success with the green stuff because they have
Speaker 3: the composts, they have the bed mixes. Then they have
Speaker 3: the mulches that go on top of the ground to
Speaker 3: fight weeds and moderate soil temperature and protect the soil,
Speaker 3: and they have the nutrients that go in the ground. So,
Speaker 3: for example, you go there, you're gonna get composts, you're
Speaker 3: gonna get bed mixes and all kinds of things like that,
Speaker 3: but you're also going to get the main fertilizer products
Speaker 3: I talk about all the time here on garden Line.
Speaker 3: Sienna Mulch dot com. That's the website. Go check them out.
Speaker 3: I'm going to take a break and I'll come right back.
Speaker 9: Down.
Speaker 3: Alrighty, folks, we're back. Welcome back to garden Line. Look
Speaker 3: forward to visiting with you about the questions you have.
Speaker 3: Our phone number is seven one three two one two
Speaker 3: k t R H. And I'm going to run right
Speaker 3: out to Port Arthur, Texas. We're going to talk to Alan.
Speaker 2: Hey.
Speaker 3: Alan, good morning, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 10: Good morning, Skip. Hey, I got a question. I do
Speaker 10: follow the fertilization schedule. But one year ago my house
Speaker 10: is just it was even there was a cow pasture.
Speaker 10: So back in February, when I'm sure I had to
Speaker 10: start to skip, I did the pre emergent, I did
Speaker 10: the fifteen five ten night your polls. Now recently I
Speaker 10: went in and put out my nineteen fourteen league. Still
Speaker 10: got your weeds? Is there something that can do now
Speaker 10: or just wait for the next application of my barricade instead, Well.
Speaker 3: The barricade will prevent weeds, but not kill existing ones.
Speaker 3: So tell me how long ago that lawn was put down.
Speaker 10: I believe in im about the house late in August,
Speaker 10: so probably in August or July.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, so it's it's established, all right, gotcha. So
Speaker 3: the weeds that you see now, go ahead.
Speaker 10: No, I'm sorry, No, I didn't mean, well, you're fi
Speaker 10: go ahead please.
Speaker 3: Okay. The weeds that you see now are cool season
Speaker 3: weeds and they're gonna die anyway. Now. You may be
Speaker 3: seeing some perennial weeds, weeds that you know just last
Speaker 3: from year to year, but primarily you're looking at cool season.
Speaker 3: And if you can do a fairly low mowing and
Speaker 3: bag all the clippings to get all the weed seeds
Speaker 3: out that you can, that would be good. And just
Speaker 3: know that the clovers and the chick weeds and the
Speaker 3: hembits and the bluegrass and your bluegrass and all that
Speaker 3: that's going to all die out when the as the
Speaker 3: weather heats up. So what you're concerned about is the
Speaker 3: new weeds coming on and that's where the barricade would
Speaker 3: stop that. And so what did you I'm sorry, in
Speaker 3: your description, did you say that you had or had
Speaker 3: not used barricade already this year?
Speaker 11: Oh?
Speaker 12: I did back in February.
Speaker 3: February. Okay, good, well you're good. Then don't don't put
Speaker 3: any more down because you overdo it and you're your
Speaker 3: damage your grass. So February at March, April probably actually February,
Speaker 3: probably later this month you could do let's see, yeah,
Speaker 3: later this month, go, you could do another application. But
Speaker 3: I don't just use it all the time just because
Speaker 3: I have a lawn. So if your lawn is down,
Speaker 3: or if you're struggling with weed problems, then that's when
Speaker 3: you need. It's going to help the most because it
Speaker 3: gives your lawn a chance to fill in.
Speaker 10: All right, Yeah, I need to follow this.
Speaker 12: I follow the schedule. I just I know it's coming
Speaker 12: up for another one, but I don't like it.
Speaker 10: Grasses already, grasses dice and green already, But so are
Speaker 10: the weeds.
Speaker 3: So okay, yeah, yeah, well you know this won't this
Speaker 3: won't comfort you, Ellen, But I have a friend in
Speaker 3: Mississippi and he says the way to get rid of
Speaker 3: all your weeds is to is to mow your lawn
Speaker 3: and take off your glasses. And you can't see him
Speaker 3: a right, Okay, well, all right, you very much, thanks
Speaker 3: for the call. Yeah, I know some people you know
Speaker 3: what we range in weed tolerance.
Speaker 13: We do.
Speaker 3: I mean, we're that way about everything life if you
Speaker 3: think about it. But I'm not going to go there now.
Speaker 3: But there are some people that they have to have
Speaker 3: the perfect lawn, everything, everything, it's just perfect. It looks
Speaker 3: like AstroTurf out there. And if there's one weed is
Speaker 3: like a neon sign flashing on and off, and it
Speaker 3: drives the nuts and it's got to die, you know.
Speaker 3: And then there's other people on the other end of
Speaker 3: the spectrum that as long as the ground is covered
Speaker 3: with green, they're happy, and the weeds, some of them
Speaker 3: flour you know, like chick weed is very attractive to honeybees,
Speaker 3: and so are dandelions, and you know, the pollinators and
Speaker 3: things like that. I mean, I don't know where you
Speaker 3: are on that spectrum, probably somewhere in between the two extremes.
Speaker 3: But wherever you are, it's your yard. Do what you want.
Speaker 3: Most people are wanting to have a nice, pretty yard,
Speaker 3: and so we kind of focus on that way. But listen,
Speaker 3: I deal with a lot of different kinds of folks
Speaker 3: and I'm not here to tell you how to live.
Speaker 3: I'm just here to tell you if you want this
Speaker 3: or that out of a plant to have it. And
Speaker 3: if this planned is the lawn and you want it
Speaker 3: to look good, first thing is to make that lawn dense.
Speaker 3: I just finished a publication I'm about to put on
Speaker 3: the website called lawn Care one oh one. And that's
Speaker 3: the bottom line. The bottom line is not to just
Speaker 3: spend your year spraying products or spreading products to kill
Speaker 3: anything that might show up disease, insects, weeds, and so on.
Speaker 3: It's to have a good, healthy lawn. And the number
Speaker 3: one way is to have a strong lawn that's been
Speaker 3: properly mode watered and fertilized. And it's hard for folks
Speaker 3: to believe it, but mow water fertilized, that's a secret
Speaker 3: to a successful lawn. And we have other things, Yes,
Speaker 3: there's such a thing as brown patch and takeoff patch
Speaker 3: and chinchbugs and sid web worms and grubs and I
Speaker 3: don't know, weeds, annual perennial weeds. Yeah, they're there. But
Speaker 3: first is mowater fertilized. First is a dense, healthy lawn
Speaker 3: and that takes care of most of the problems. Then
Speaker 3: when you got some weeds that show up, and they will,
Speaker 3: there are there are weeds that can grow in a dense,
Speaker 3: healthy lown. You deal with those. But that's that's more
Speaker 3: the exception. That's not the way of life.
Speaker 14: You know.
Speaker 3: The way of life is not every Saturday you are
Speaker 3: spray in or or spreading something to kill something. That
Speaker 3: you can do that, but that comes at an environmental
Speaker 3: cost and certainly as a cost of money and time,
Speaker 3: and so we aim for a good healthy lown. All right,
Speaker 3: there you go, speaking of a good healthy lown. The
Speaker 3: folks at Nelson Plant Food have a product called Bruce's
Speaker 3: Brew and it is an outstanding product. About about every
Speaker 3: six months you can put it down because although it's
Speaker 3: a it's a fast release, it doesn't release everything fast
Speaker 3: and so over time you're going to get a spread
Speaker 3: out release of the nitrogen in there to help with
Speaker 3: evening the growth rate out. Now the products in Bruce's
Speaker 3: Brew will help also in your root develop and by
Speaker 3: keeping the avoiding the peaks of nitrogen, you know, the
Speaker 3: flushes of nitrogen, you get a good root system. I
Speaker 3: wish I could. I know this is radio but I'm
Speaker 3: holding my hands up in the air trying to show
Speaker 3: you something. But I saw one time a research thing
Speaker 3: where they had three crocks of water and a little
Speaker 3: lid on them with grass planted through the lid so
Speaker 3: you could pick the lid up and see the roots.
Speaker 3: And on the left hand side just had a picture
Speaker 3: of this with me. The left hand side was grass.
Speaker 3: It was not growing very much at all, and it
Speaker 3: was kind of a sharp, trusee green. It wasn't a
Speaker 3: healthy green. And then in the middle was a grass,
Speaker 3: I'll just say normal looking. And on the right hand
Speaker 3: side was a grass that was very tall and dark,
Speaker 3: dark green. And when you pick the roots up, the
Speaker 3: roots on the middle and the left, the proper fertilizing
Speaker 3: and the not enough fertilizing were very deep and extensive.
Speaker 3: That grass plant was sending those roots out to build
Speaker 3: a big root system to pull in the things that needed.
Speaker 3: But the grass that have been overfertilized with nitrogen that
Speaker 3: look wonderful on top, by the way, you get to
Speaker 3: mow it a lot when that happens. When you picked
Speaker 3: it up, it had less root system than normally fertilized grass.
Speaker 3: Now going into summer, when you got grubs chomping roots,
Speaker 3: when you've got one hundred degrees when it's not raining,
Speaker 3: you need a good root system, and so overfertilizing in
Speaker 3: one point in time with nitrogen is not a good thing.
Speaker 3: It's not a good thing to have any nutrient out
Speaker 3: of balance, but especially when it comes to the nitrogen,
Speaker 3: a gradual release is important. Now I said all that,
Speaker 3: but I was talking about Bruce's brute. Now some plant food.
Speaker 3: When you create a good quality bank account of nutrients
Speaker 3: in the soil, you have a good, healthy grass plant
Speaker 3: that's going to be less vulnerable to pests and diseases,
Speaker 3: and it's going to have a beautiful it's going to
Speaker 3: create that beautiful lawn that you want. But I say
Speaker 3: it a lot here. If a teaspoon's good, a tablespoon
Speaker 3: is not necessarily better. And so keep that in mind.
Speaker 3: It is true with fertilizers too, the proper amount. And
Speaker 3: that's why we like slow releases because they release for
Speaker 3: us slowly. We don't have to go out there and
Speaker 3: spoon feed the grass every day to get that proper
Speaker 3: amount out. All right, Well, there you go, Nelson Plant Feed.
Speaker 3: By the way, those Turfstar products from Nelson's are available
Speaker 3: all over town, easy to find them, in fact, throughout
Speaker 3: this whole listening area. You're going to find Nelson plant
Speaker 3: products even settle across the state. There's people out of
Speaker 3: state that order those things because they found that they work.
Speaker 3: You're listening to Garden Line phone number this Sunday morning.
Speaker 3: By the way, Happy Sunday morning to you. Seven one
Speaker 3: three two one two kt r H. Seven one three
Speaker 3: two one two kt r H. See I today when
Speaker 3: I'm done with the show this afternoon. I've got some
Speaker 3: tasks that I'm looking forward to getting to. I've got
Speaker 3: some plants that have been sitting on the front porch
Speaker 3: waiting for me to plant them when I'm not running
Speaker 3: around doing horticulture business stuff. But anyway, they are ready
Speaker 3: to go in the ground. And when I pull them
Speaker 3: out of the pots, here's what the first thing I
Speaker 3: do is I lay the pot over and slide the
Speaker 3: plan out. And if it's a little tiny tomato plant,
Speaker 3: well that's not as important. But even with that, you
Speaker 3: don't want to just grab the plant and pull it
Speaker 3: up out of the pot. Sometimes you can do some
Speaker 3: damage to the base of the stem where it's attached,
Speaker 3: and sometimes plant roots will stick to the pot. So
Speaker 3: lay it over, kind of bump the pot and slide
Speaker 3: it out and then look at the root system. And
Speaker 3: that's what I'll do. If the plant's going to be
Speaker 3: in the ground a long time, like a tree or
Speaker 3: a shrub. If you see a lot of roots going
Speaker 3: around in a circle, cut them because they don't unwind
Speaker 3: underground and they don't move out and establish as well
Speaker 3: as if you cut them. And it's hard to cut roots.
Speaker 3: I know that you're thinking, I'm going to kill this plant.
Speaker 3: No you're not, No, you're not. It's like pruning back
Speaker 3: the top. If you prune a plant back, what happens.
Speaker 3: It sprouts out several new shoots everywhere you prune to
Speaker 3: shoot out, and it does. If you've seen that, the
Speaker 3: same thing happens in the roots you cut those roots.
Speaker 3: If you were to cut the roots and put it
Speaker 3: back in the pot or put it in the ground
Speaker 3: and then pull it up in about two or three weeks,
Speaker 3: you would see all these new, white, healthy roots venturing
Speaker 3: out from back behind where you cut them. That is
Speaker 3: how a plant grows, and that helps avoid a circling
Speaker 3: root growing bigger as the trunk goes bigger and ending
Speaker 3: up strangling the tree. And I have seen that before.
Speaker 3: But cut the roots before you put them in the
Speaker 3: ground and a watermen really good. With a quality product,
Speaker 3: you're going to end up having a good chance of
Speaker 3: success getting those things off on the right foot to success.
Speaker 3: I always talk about Medina's has to grow six twelve six.
Speaker 3: That's an excellent product for that, and I want to
Speaker 3: I want to talk to you a little bit about
Speaker 3: that one when I when I come back here in
Speaker 3: a minute. But that's one that I mix.
Speaker 8: It in water.
Speaker 3: I put it in a watering can and water the
Speaker 3: plant in really good. Sometimes I'll even soak the whole
Speaker 3: root ball in medina has to grow six to twelve six,
Speaker 3: then put it in the ground. That way, you got
Speaker 3: a good soaking, plenty of phosphors there for those developing roots.
Speaker 3: Time for me to take a break. We'll be right back.
Speaker 5: There will be days like this.
Speaker 1: There will be days like.
Speaker 3: This, my mama say, all right, there will be days
Speaker 3: like this. In fact, we're gonna have days like this
Speaker 3: for the first part of this week. Folks. Take out
Speaker 3: your weather app and look at it. Is wonderful. We've
Speaker 3: got some cool temperatures to kind of give us in
Speaker 3: a little chili side this morning. But that's okay. We
Speaker 3: got sunshine, sunshine, sunshine. Going into this week, it looks wonderful.
Speaker 3: The temperatures are mild. It is gardening weather, and we
Speaker 3: are excited. I am excited about that because I got
Speaker 3: a lot of things I need to get done out
Speaker 3: there in the yard and garden. If you are looking
Speaker 3: for a horticultural tourism experience for a garden center, Okay,
Speaker 3: Moss Nursery and Seabrook is when you need to go
Speaker 3: to it is. It's down there on Toddville Road in
Speaker 3: Seabrook and it is eight acres cram full of gorgeous plants.
Speaker 3: I mean beautiful things. Flowers everywhere. They're hanging baskets full
Speaker 3: of flowers, the flats of flowers, the red bud trees,
Speaker 3: the pink Japanese magnolias, you know, those are the ones
Speaker 3: that bloom in the spring before they get leaves, and
Speaker 3: then the leaves come on and they're one of the
Speaker 3: earliest harbingers of spring.
Speaker 13: Oh.
Speaker 3: I've been looking to use that word today, Harbingers of spring. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I love Japanese magnolias, their gorgs and the amazing white
Speaker 3: Chinese fringe tree. The Chinese fringe tree is my favorite
Speaker 3: spring blooming tree. I know there's a lot of the
Speaker 3: good ones. I just love it. Billows of white blooms,
Speaker 3: and they've got them there at Moss Nursery. They have
Speaker 3: all kinds of flowering shrubs. They have twenty different kinds
Speaker 3: of azalias. They've got beautiful hedranges.
Speaker 14: Uh.
Speaker 3: And I like hanging baskets. I like containers in general,
Speaker 3: but hanging baskets too. You know, you just put them
Speaker 3: wherever you want beauty and color. If you've got a
Speaker 3: big beautiful area with you know, trees maybe spreading out,
Speaker 3: you can put hanging baskets that tolerate the shade. It
Speaker 3: could be ferns, it could be impatients in those areas.
Speaker 3: I've even used houseplants for summer and hanging baskets like
Speaker 3: Pathos ivy coming out underneath the trees in an area
Speaker 3: like that, and then in the sun hanging baskets full
Speaker 3: of color. Thousand flats of different color plants at Moss there.
Speaker 3: I mean that they the trucks line up down the
Speaker 3: block bringing them stuffs all the time. From Alyssam to
Speaker 3: Zenia's a to z. They have bones eye, both mature
Speaker 3: ones and starter plants, so if you like to try
Speaker 3: that as a hobby. They probably have fifty eight hundred
Speaker 3: different kinds of bones. I think that's really cool. And
Speaker 3: while you're there, check out those quirky T shirt designs
Speaker 3: that Jim comes up with. At Moss Nursery. Jim Moss
Speaker 3: has a thing a series. It's the Eyeball Plant and
Speaker 3: you just have to go see it. It's funky stuff,
Speaker 3: all right. Moss Nursery, seventy year old, family operated eight
Speaker 3: acre source of everything you need, Toddville Road, Seabrook, Texas.
Speaker 3: Go to Moss Maas Nursery dot com or give them
Speaker 3: a call to eight one four seven four twenty four
Speaker 3: eighty eight. That would be a fun outing this afternoon
Speaker 3: or anytime this week. Let's go back to the phones.
Speaker 3: We're going to go to Austin County and talk to Terry. Hello, Terry,
Speaker 3: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 15: Yes, hi, skip bro Richter. I know this is the
Speaker 15: garden lot, but we got an environmental catastrophe in Alton County.
Speaker 15: They we have a two hundred acre farm. They theem
Speaker 15: the town of sam Philip Day.
Speaker 3: Terry, Terry, Terry, I need to come in. There's not
Speaker 3: going to be a topic that I can address here
Speaker 3: on guarden Line.
Speaker 8: So thank you.
Speaker 3: I appreciate you calling me, but not one I can do.
Speaker 3: All right, Let's see what was I Oh? I was
Speaker 3: telling you about Medina while ago. The Medina products, they've
Speaker 3: been around since nineteen fifties. They in fact, I think
Speaker 3: from the time garden Lines started back in the Dewey
Speaker 3: Compton days, Medina Products were a sponsor of the show.
Speaker 3: They've been around that long. And I was telling you
Speaker 3: about the six twelve six. It's the Medina has to
Speaker 3: grow plant six twelve six plant food, and I use
Speaker 3: it for transplanting. It's not the only thing you.
Speaker 16: Use it for.
Speaker 3: But it's got a real high phosphor's number and root development.
Speaker 3: It's important to have good phosphorus content in the soil
Speaker 3: as those roots begin to develop. It's part of that
Speaker 3: whole process. Phosphorus serves a number of functions the plant.
Speaker 3: But I'll start it off with a good soaking with that,
Speaker 3: and then about a week later, ten days, two weeks, whatever.
Speaker 3: Just come back to it. For me, it's about a
Speaker 3: week soak it again, and then about a week later
Speaker 3: soak it again with the Medina has to grow six
Speaker 3: twelve six It's easy to do. You put a little
Speaker 3: bit in water. You're not going to burn with it.
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna hurt the plants. I mean, you can
Speaker 3: use it a folio spray. It's that safe. But it works.
Speaker 3: And so when you're doing a new plant in the ground,
Speaker 3: the goal is to take that transplant and get it
Speaker 3: off to a good start. I like to say you
Speaker 3: wanted to hit the ground running, and medina has to
Speaker 3: grow six twelve six days, just exactly that in my
Speaker 3: vegetable garden. If you could see it right now, you
Speaker 3: would probably wonder what happened. And it's because I just
Speaker 3: did a major renovation of the whole thing. I've got
Speaker 3: leaves in the walkways. I'll talk about that more maybe later,
Speaker 3: and then in the beds I have shredded leaves and
Speaker 3: it's all well, all barren. I've got a number of
Speaker 3: different kinds of multiplying onions right now, but tomatoes, some
Speaker 3: tomatoes are out there. I've got a pepper, of course
Speaker 3: out there, some strawberries and things. But I'm getting ready
Speaker 3: because I do a lot of okra breeding every summer.
Speaker 3: It's just something I like to do. It's fun and
Speaker 3: maybe maybe if you have never tried plant breeding on
Speaker 3: your own. Sometimes it's really easy. There's some plants it's
Speaker 3: not hard to cross. But anyway, I need a lot
Speaker 3: of space for that, and I have enough for the
Speaker 3: vegetables that we want to eat, for the for the
Speaker 3: kitchen and everything. But I'm getting ready for all those
Speaker 3: got the seeds out and one of the things I do,
Speaker 3: and boy Okra would not be happy germinating and temperatures
Speaker 3: like this morning. It likes it to warm up a
Speaker 3: little bit. But I'll pre soak this seed the night before.
Speaker 3: And I don't do this with all seed, but with
Speaker 3: a lot of them I do. Some seed have a
Speaker 3: hard seed coat. Some seed are a little slow to germinate.
Speaker 3: But if you put them in pretty hot water. Let's
Speaker 3: say you do that this evening, okay, and then the
Speaker 3: next morning you're gonna plant, or the next day you're
Speaker 3: gonna plant. You don't want to leave in the water
Speaker 3: for a long time. Put them in pretty hot water
Speaker 3: and then just let it cool down a room temperature,
Speaker 3: and that speeds up the absorption of water into the seed.
Speaker 3: The term is imbibing. The seed imbibes the water and
Speaker 3: when water gets into that interior part of that dry
Speaker 3: not dead. It looks dead asleep seed. It starts biochemical
Speaker 3: reactions that wakes it up, and here comes a root out,
Speaker 3: and then here comes a shootout, and all the things
Speaker 3: that help a seed become a plant start to happen
Speaker 3: once it soaks in some water. And so by doing
Speaker 3: that the night before, you get a good head start.
Speaker 3: Now sometimes this is just kind of me going on
Speaker 3: for those of you who are interested. Sometimes with the okra,
Speaker 3: I'll soak it overnight and then I'll put it in
Speaker 3: like either moist paper towels in a zip closure bag,
Speaker 3: or I'll put it in little jars of water with
Speaker 3: a lid, but just a tiny bit of water enough
Speaker 3: where the seed is sticking up and getting oxygen. It's
Speaker 3: not completely submerged, but it's getting oxygen, but it's still
Speaker 3: staying moist. And then just watch them for a few days,
Speaker 3: and if your seeds are not all viable, if they're not,
Speaker 3: like maybe it's an old package of seed and you're
Speaker 3: wondering which of these is still going to come up,
Speaker 3: you'll see it little rootles start out, and don't leave
Speaker 3: it long. Go ahead and plant it. When you first
Speaker 3: start to see the root come out, and you'll have
Speaker 3: a better way of knowing how which seeds to plant,
Speaker 3: which ones are going to come up, or how many
Speaker 3: to plant or whatever. Anyway, that's just a little added tip.
Speaker 3: Not something you have to do for sure, but something
Speaker 3: I think that you may want to give a good try.
Speaker 3: League City Feed is down in League City. It's on
Speaker 3: It's on Highway three, just a few blocks south of
Speaker 3: ninety six. It serves that whole region down there, and
Speaker 3: it's that typical old time feedstore that I just grew
Speaker 3: up in. I love nitrophos as, microlife, heirloom soils, you know,
Speaker 3: Nelson platfood. It's got everything you need to have success
Speaker 3: with your plants. They carry the bags out for you
Speaker 3: if you want them to do that. They're open Monday
Speaker 3: through Saturday nine to six. Are close today two eight
Speaker 3: one three three two one six one two. This is
Speaker 3: a third generation of Thunderbirds running League City Feed, and
Speaker 3: the stores just as good as it ever was. I
Speaker 3: love going in there.
Speaker 8: All right.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna take a break and I'll be right back
Speaker 3: along night. All right, welcome back, Welcome back to the
Speaker 3: guard Line. Hey, the phone number to write this one
Speaker 3: down seven one three two one two k t r
Speaker 3: H seven one three two one two kt r H
Speaker 3: Nitrophas super Turf is designed to gradually feed your lawn
Speaker 3: over four months. It's a beautiful blend four to one
Speaker 3: two ratio basically four one two racio fertilizer. So it's
Speaker 3: I got an extra pack of nitrogen in it, but
Speaker 3: it doesn't release it all at once. It's good that
Speaker 3: nitrogen is going to be released over sixteen weeks and
Speaker 3: it works well. It's easy to spot in the store
Speaker 3: because it's a silver bag silver Nitropas Super Turf silver
Speaker 3: slow release. That's what you need to remember. Works on
Speaker 3: all our southern turf crisis in Augustine, Bermuda and Zysia.
Speaker 3: You're going to find it at places like in Chinned
Speaker 3: Gardens down Richmond Rosenberg area, if you are around Court
Speaker 3: Hardware on South Maine and Stafford, or m and d
Speaker 3: up in Cyprus on Luetta Road, places that carry nitrovoss products.
Speaker 3: I was talking about earlier, the idea of you know,
Speaker 3: watering in our plants really well with a soluble fertilizer
Speaker 3: food and just something you always want to remember and do.
Speaker 3: By the way, now I wanted to just mention a
Speaker 3: little bit more about that leaves in the walkway that
Speaker 3: are in my garden. In the garden, I put leaves
Speaker 3: in my walkways. I've got the beds, the race and
Speaker 3: then the walkways. And rather than you know, having to
Speaker 3: deal with weeds and mud and when it range too
Speaker 3: much and stuff like that, I just pile leaves and
Speaker 3: I gather them. In the fall season of the year,
Speaker 3: I just gathered a whole bunch when all the the
Speaker 3: live oak leaves came off the trees, and you know,
Speaker 3: put those in and I put them really thick in
Speaker 3: there and walk on them, and they just decompose away.
Speaker 3: They go down over time, so you keep adding them
Speaker 3: to it, just keep adding them and adding them. It's
Speaker 3: a weed free walkway. It's an all weather walkway. The
Speaker 3: end of the season, you're gonna still see dry leaves
Speaker 3: on top. But if you'll rake those back, what you'll
Speaker 3: see down below is chocolate brown decomposing leaf mold. It's
Speaker 3: called leaf mold, not bread mold. It's just a term
Speaker 3: used that means it's about a halfway to compost leaf. Okay,
Speaker 3: you can still see little flat sections like oh, this
Speaker 3: was a leaf broken apart, but it's good stuff and
Speaker 3: that can go right into your beds. Mix it in
Speaker 3: good organic matter and then just lay the old dry
Speaker 3: leaves back down and start the process again. If you
Speaker 3: want to speed it up, you can throw some fertilile
Speaker 3: are on. It's some nitrogen, primarily rote a. Till it
Speaker 3: in to break them up, chop them up a little bit,
Speaker 3: make sure it stays moist during dry times when we
Speaker 3: don't get rain. But that's a way you can make
Speaker 3: a lot of compost in your walkways while having the
Speaker 3: benefits of no weeds an all weather surface. Just a
Speaker 3: tip for you to think about. One of my favorite
Speaker 3: garden centers to go visit is Enchanted Forest. Jenni Forest
Speaker 3: is down in Richmond Rosenberg area. In fact, it's on
Speaker 3: FM twenty seven fifty nine. And in Chanted Forest always
Speaker 3: always is an interesting place that is going to be
Speaker 3: loaded with every kind of plant that you would want.
Speaker 3: And I mean that because every time I go, I
Speaker 3: am so surprised at the different things they carry. Now
Speaker 3: they specialize in everything. I mean, really, how can you
Speaker 3: specialize in everything? Well, they do. At Ingented Forest, you're
Speaker 3: going to find plants for pollinators, they great selection. You're
Speaker 3: going to find flowering trees like that Chinese fringe I've
Speaker 3: been talking about. You're going to find plants for summer heat,
Speaker 3: like Madagascar periwinkle, which most people call vinca. There's a
Speaker 3: couple of incas, so I like to call it Madagascar periwinkle.
Speaker 3: You're gonna find color plants like roses. Oh gosh, they
Speaker 3: have an awesome selection of roses, great selection of containers,
Speaker 3: and then really cool fun stuff. You know, the unique
Speaker 3: canmade cedar houses for birds and bats and butterflies, and
Speaker 3: the yard arc you know, the decoratives, the outdoor decoratives
Speaker 3: and things. They've got everything you need there. Do you
Speaker 3: have shady areas well? Go buy visit some of their kalladiums.
Speaker 3: Look at some of the other shade loving plants that
Speaker 3: they have. All this enchanted Forest in Richmond, And here's
Speaker 3: the website you want to use. This website Enchanted Forest, Richmond,
Speaker 3: t X. Don't forget the TX dot com Enchanted Forest Richmond,
Speaker 3: TX dot com. Go check it out. Check it out.
Speaker 3: You'll see what I'm talking about. Be a great place
Speaker 3: to take some friends and go visit. This afternoon. So anyway,
Speaker 3: I was kind of talking about some different tips as
Speaker 3: we go through here. You know, I think that one
Speaker 3: of the things that a lot of gardeners don't really
Speaker 3: understand is what microbes are doing in the soil and
Speaker 3: why we talk so much about microbes. And we talk
Speaker 3: about microbes because microbes help build the soil, and microbes
Speaker 3: also help the plants. Now this is mind blowing, but
Speaker 3: did you know that there are microbes that can go
Speaker 3: up to a root and communicate with the root and
Speaker 3: cause that plant send a signal that causes the plant
Speaker 3: to grow in a different way that helps it fight
Speaker 3: a disease up on top.
Speaker 12: We have it there.
Speaker 3: In fact, there's a product you can buy. It's a Bacillus.
Speaker 3: You know, we have bt Bacillis, the or in gensis
Speaker 3: that kills caterpillars. Well, this is a different Basillius bacteria
Speaker 3: in the soil. It's a native bacteria in the soil
Speaker 3: and it's a long one Basillus amelo licopations gezantite.
Speaker 8: I know.
Speaker 3: But this basillis you can purchase it in different kinds
Speaker 3: of products. There are several products on the market that
Speaker 3: have it, and it has a you'll see on there
Speaker 3: where you look at the basillis meato ecofacians. My apologies,
Speaker 3: but that's the word. It'll say D seven forty seven.
Speaker 3: So think of the airplane, a seven forty seven airplane
Speaker 3: D seven forty seven. That's the strain that's sold and
Speaker 3: you drench it into the soil and it actually communicates
Speaker 3: with the roots and benefits the plant in that way.
Speaker 3: There are microbes that connect, like fungi that connect one
Speaker 3: plant's roots to another to signal between those. I could
Speaker 3: do a whole show just on some of the basic
Speaker 3: things that microbes do in the soil. It's really cool.
Speaker 3: And so anytime we are helping our microbes to do well,
Speaker 3: we're helping our plants. So, for example, when you keep
Speaker 3: the soil adequately moist, when you make sure the soil
Speaker 3: is where well air rated, not water logged. Water logged,
Speaker 3: there are microbes that can't live submerged. There are microbes
Speaker 3: that can live without any oxygen, but those are generally
Speaker 3: not good microbes. Most of those are not good microbes
Speaker 3: to have. So we want a well drained soil. That's
Speaker 3: our preference. And then another thing is organic matter in
Speaker 3: the soil compost. In the soil compost another whole show
Speaker 3: just on what compost does. It's effect on soil structure,
Speaker 3: keeping the soil open, keeping oxygen down in the soil, well,
Speaker 3: aer orated water goes in and it drains through well,
Speaker 3: it holds moisture better if it's a sand, for example.
Speaker 3: And then the compost also is foodstock for a lot
Speaker 3: of the microbes. Now, microbes need carbon, and there's a
Speaker 3: lot of carbon in decomposing leaves, for example, but there's
Speaker 3: also carbon in some products. Swee Green is an example
Speaker 3: that one's from nitropost. It is basically a sugar, and
Speaker 3: a sugar is basically a carbon chain, okay, And when
Speaker 3: you put that down in the soil, and organic gardeners
Speaker 3: have long known that molasses in the soil is good
Speaker 3: for some of those beneficial microbes, especially the bacteria that
Speaker 3: it's going to benefit the soil. And Sweet Green's eleven
Speaker 3: percent nitrogen fertilizer, which is pretty high for an organic product,
Speaker 3: but you put it down and so you're getting the
Speaker 3: nitrogen in the soil, but you're also helping stimulate microbial activity.
Speaker 3: And I was just giving you a few examples. There
Speaker 3: are just a really random few, but there are hundreds
Speaker 3: and hundreds of examples of what microbes do in the
Speaker 3: soil and why we want to take care of them.
Speaker 3: When your soil is full of microbes, your roots are
Speaker 3: going to be happy because it's going to mean the
Speaker 3: soil condition is suitable for roots also, and you're going
Speaker 3: to see results. Oh by the way, if you're looking
Speaker 3: for sweet green, you're going to find it at places
Speaker 3: really nitfoss products are carried like at Langham Cree Case
Speaker 3: Hardware on five point twenty nine m and d out
Speaker 3: in Rosenberg and let's see where. Oh you could also
Speaker 3: go to the Acid Single Ranch, Mason Road. Those are
Speaker 3: just a few of many, many, many examples of where
Speaker 3: you get nitrofoss products. So think about that. I guess
Speaker 3: I could say, you know, hug a microbe today, but
Speaker 3: that would be kind of weird. But they do so
Speaker 3: much for us. Microbes rule the world. They do, they do,
Speaker 3: And you get me talking about microbes and I just
Speaker 3: won't shut up. In fact, I'm coming up on a
Speaker 3: break here, so I'm just gonna talk until the music
Speaker 3: makes me stop. Do you know that the microbes in
Speaker 3: your intestinal tract through your intestinal track? Do you know
Speaker 3: that they produce more serotonin, the feel good chemical, than
Speaker 3: you do. So we benefit in just in our well
Speaker 3: being from the fact that we have microbes. Did you
Speaker 3: know that there are more cells in your body that
Speaker 3: are not you than are you? If you can't the
Speaker 3: number of cells that are you and the number of
Speaker 3: cells that are let's say, microbes that are in through
Speaker 3: your intestinal there's more of them than there are you. Basically,
Speaker 3: you're a school bus for carrying passengers around. That's true,
Speaker 3: but they all do good things they do, and it's
Speaker 3: a cool, cool thing. Without microbes, we wouldn't have cheese
Speaker 3: without microbes. That wouldn't have beer. Without microbes, we wouldn't
Speaker 3: have a lot of things that we enjoy in life.
Speaker 3: And when it comes to plants therein take a plan
Speaker 3: into space and squirt fertilizer water on the roots hanging
Speaker 3: in mid air, floating around in space, and shine a
Speaker 3: light on it and grow a tomato. You can do that.
Speaker 3: But in the natural system, it's all run by the microbes.
Speaker 3: They're doing it all and when we make them happy,
Speaker 3: we make the plants happy. That makes us happen. I'm
Speaker 3: gonna take a little break when we come back. Mike
Speaker 3: and Brenham. It'll be our first stop.
Speaker 1: Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Skimp Rickard's shop.
Speaker 2: Just watch him as.
Speaker 14: Us.
Speaker 3: So many birthdays to supers.
Speaker 2: Not a sound.
Speaker 3: Hey, good Sunday morning. Good Sunday morning to you. Hopefully
Speaker 3: you're getting a nice slow start.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I need time to wake up when I do Garden Line.
Speaker 3: I mean may the show may start at six, but
Speaker 3: I gotta start way before that because it just takes
Speaker 3: me a minute, you know, a cup of coffees, some
Speaker 3: quiet time sitting there and just kind of coming to
Speaker 3: Otherwise I'd be snoring on the radio, and that's bad radio.
Speaker 3: We don't want to do that. I was talking about
Speaker 3: microbes and importance of microbes, and you know, Microlife Fertilizers
Speaker 3: have built their entire company around that. That's why it's
Speaker 3: called micro Life. Okay, Microbes rule the world, and Microlife
Speaker 3: products are not only do they feed microbes, but they're
Speaker 3: chalk full of microbes and they're loaded with microbes. And
Speaker 3: so you take a product like a bag of Microlife
Speaker 3: sixty four, the typical lawn fertilizer from Microlife. I say typical,
Speaker 3: it's the standard one four lawns that they do. It's
Speaker 3: a green bag, okay, and it's got billions and billions
Speaker 3: beneficial microbes in it. It is a product that is
Speaker 3: made in such a way that it is taking organic
Speaker 3: matter and releasing the nutrients of organic matter back into
Speaker 3: the soil as microbes break that down. When you put
Speaker 3: microlife on the ground, it doesn't dissolve and the nutrients
Speaker 3: just wash out like a salt based fertilizer. It is
Speaker 3: a It is a product that microbes chew it apart
Speaker 3: and turn all those nutrients release and some of them
Speaker 3: go through their bodies and then as they die they
Speaker 3: release them and it's just part of that organic cycle.
Speaker 3: And that is how microlife basically works. That is that
Speaker 3: is what it's based on the natural cycle. So the
Speaker 3: six two four green bag, it's time to get that on,
Speaker 3: by the way, and you can put it on several
Speaker 3: times through the summer. It is a very gradual release,
Speaker 3: not salt based, so you're not going to burn your
Speaker 3: plants with the microlife product, and you can you can
Speaker 3: feed accordingly. Now it's a lawn fertilizer, but I use
Speaker 3: it in my vegetable gardens too. It's an excellent it's
Speaker 3: an excellent product for plants period. When you're thinking about
Speaker 3: the green bag, also think about the purple bag that's
Speaker 3: humate's plus. The humates are basically concentrated composts. And the
Speaker 3: way I like to put it is, you start with
Speaker 3: leaves and grass clippings. Let's say you turn those into
Speaker 3: compost as they decomposed, and then you let the compost
Speaker 3: keep going and it becomes humous the final stage, and
Speaker 3: humates plus is concentrated compost in a bag, and we
Speaker 3: put it on for the benefits to the microbial life
Speaker 3: in the soil and to the soil structure and everything itself.
Speaker 3: So that's why we're doing that. So you can do
Speaker 3: both bags, green and the purple bag. You're not going
Speaker 3: to end up with, you know, overdoing it that way.
Speaker 3: It's all right, you can do that. In fact, it's
Speaker 3: a good idea to do that. Micro Life products are
Speaker 3: sold all over town. They're easy to find, not a
Speaker 3: problem at all, most garden centers, most speed stores, most
Speaker 3: let's see Ace hardware stores, you know, Southwest Fertilizer for example,
Speaker 3: what have them, And you're going to find them at
Speaker 3: Ace hardware stores as well. Let's go out to Brenham,
Speaker 3: and we're going to now talk to Mike. Hey, Mike,
Speaker 3: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 7: Worn to skip.
Speaker 8: Thank you.
Speaker 17: Uh, I just had a couple of questions.
Speaker 11: Uh, particularly you brought up rhizomes and microbes.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 11: I've got an acre. I'm trying to clear weeds out
Speaker 11: of my yard and stuff like that.
Speaker 8: I am using.
Speaker 11: Uh I believe a two four D product to kind
Speaker 11: of sin out those weeds. Anyways, but I've also been
Speaker 11: applying Balen's will that affect the microbes and rhizomes in
Speaker 11: the yard.
Speaker 13: Uh.
Speaker 3: Spell that word Balen's What.
Speaker 8: What are it is?
Speaker 11: It's it's uh it's a pre emergent for.
Speaker 17: Balans.
Speaker 11: Maybe a brand.
Speaker 3: Is a Baylan Okay, yeah, sure that's primer.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, any kind of products have a potential
Speaker 3: to do some damage. But you I would say, if
Speaker 3: you're using it according to the label, it's not going
Speaker 3: to significantly hurt the microbes anything in your yard.
Speaker 14: Uh.
Speaker 3: The the microbes have an incredible ability to reproduce one
Speaker 3: bacteria can become millions of bacteria in like twelve hours.
Speaker 3: I mean their ability to just divide and multiply it.
Speaker 3: It is incredible. So I wouldn't misuse it, and that'd
Speaker 3: be bad for your plants also. But if you use
Speaker 3: it at the right rate, and you use it according
Speaker 3: to the label, you're you're okay on. Your microbes are
Speaker 3: gonna they're gonna be fine.
Speaker 11: Will the grasses that that are their native grasses basically
Speaker 11: is what I grow? Will they continue to spread through
Speaker 11: the rhizomes? I realized the bayland will prevent prevent the
Speaker 11: seeds from germinating. Uh, but will the grass continue to spread?
Speaker 3: Yes, Baylan a rhizome kind of pretty much a rhizome
Speaker 3: indicates it's probably a perennial type of grass. And because
Speaker 3: like Bermuda grass has rhizomes, Zusio grass has rhizomes, Saint
Speaker 3: Augustine doesn't. But uh, yeah, so so that that would
Speaker 3: not be affected by the treating.
Speaker 11: It with baylan okay or and the two four D
Speaker 11: will will help limit extra weed growth.
Speaker 1: Broad Leaf two four.
Speaker 6: D is yeah.
Speaker 3: Two for D is primarily a broad leaf we control
Speaker 3: product for existing weeds. You don't put it down, and
Speaker 3: a broad leaf that hasn't sprouted yet is going to
Speaker 3: be affected. It's it's a you get it on the
Speaker 3: foliage of an existing weed. Now when the weather heats
Speaker 3: up once we get to you know, upper eighties and
Speaker 3: certainly nineties, two four D can really stress and damage
Speaker 3: your Saint Augustine. So if you have Saint Augustine as
Speaker 3: a lawn and so you want to avoid that. But
Speaker 3: hopefully that answers what you were asking.
Speaker 8: It does.
Speaker 11: And I have one more question. Nigropas's wood Master. I'm
Speaker 11: not finding a lot online, but do you like that product?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I have some and I use it. It's a it's
Speaker 3: used primarily for trees, that's why they named it that
Speaker 3: h And it's a blend of nutrients. I don't have
Speaker 3: the ratio right in my head right now on wood Master,
Speaker 3: but it's a blend of nutrients designed for trees and
Speaker 3: shrubs and it works. It's good stuff.
Speaker 17: Excellent, excellent.
Speaker 11: Yeah, this is my first year to try it, so
Speaker 11: I was curious.
Speaker 3: Okay, I appreciate you calling excellent.
Speaker 8: Thank you, Skip, But.
Speaker 3: Okay you take care, Thanks Mike. Uh time for me,
Speaker 3: take a break. I'll be right back. George and Jersey
Speaker 3: you'll be first, all righty, welcome back, Welcome back to
Speaker 3: guard Line. Glad to have you with us. You know,
Speaker 3: I talk about horticulture tourism on garden line. Basically, what
Speaker 3: I'm saying is you're going places to see gardening, to
Speaker 3: see gardens. And whenever I go to a town, I
Speaker 3: always you know, where's the botanical garden. I want to
Speaker 3: go check it out? And where are the best nurseries
Speaker 3: in town? And I tell you, every time I go
Speaker 3: to another city, and I've been to a lot of them,
Speaker 3: I always they're some nice garden centers. But I always
Speaker 3: leave thinking we are so lucky here in Houston because
Speaker 3: we have north south east West the best garden centers
Speaker 3: you're going to find anywhere in one specific place. In fact,
Speaker 3: the local Chamber of Commerce to somehow grab on to
Speaker 3: that and bring people in to see botanical gardens and
Speaker 3: garden centers and whatnot. Inn Arburgate, you know, is just
Speaker 3: a prime example of what I'm talking about. You go
Speaker 3: out to Arborgate and allow yourself some time because you're
Speaker 3: going to want to wander through. And there's a lot
Speaker 3: of wandering to do there, from the gifts ops, to
Speaker 3: the plants, to the house plant house, to the containers
Speaker 3: and everything. It is a beautiful place loaded loaded with
Speaker 3: all kinds of good stuff. When I go to out
Speaker 3: to Arbrogate, I'm always amazed at weka what's in now,
Speaker 3: because if you went last week and then you come
Speaker 3: back this week, you're going to see some things that
Speaker 3: weren't there because they're constantly getting in new stuff. Excellent
Speaker 3: supply of succulents out there at the Arbrogate. The color
Speaker 3: plants are just outstanding, and they have a landscape that's
Speaker 3: landscaped with plants and you can kind of see the
Speaker 3: things that they have and you kind of see them
Speaker 3: in their natural hybitat if you will, meaning natural meeting
Speaker 3: in a garden habitat. Arbrogate's a fun place and they
Speaker 3: understand that there's such a thing as brown stuff before
Speaker 3: green stuff. And they they have got you set up
Speaker 3: with three bags. It's the one two three completely easy system.
Speaker 3: It's a food that feeds anything for root. It's an
Speaker 3: organic food. It's it's got a four four to three
Speaker 3: plus calcium and you just put it in the soil
Speaker 3: and you've got a foundation there for success with your plants.
Speaker 3: And then they have a soil for anything any application.
Speaker 3: It's got extra expanded shale in it to make sure
Speaker 3: our clay soils stay open in addition to what the
Speaker 3: organic matter does. And then they got a compost that
Speaker 3: improves any in all soil. It's organic compass complete again,
Speaker 3: it's got some expanded shale in it as well. One,
Speaker 3: two three. You can buy these bulk if you go
Speaker 3: buy arbrogate or call them and say hey, look I
Speaker 3: need a delivery of these. They can deliver them. Buy
Speaker 3: bulk to you wherever you live. So Arburgate Garden Center
Speaker 3: just a mile and a half west of two forty
Speaker 3: nine on twenty nine to twenty, just outside on the
Speaker 3: edge of Tumble. It's a fun place to visit, and
Speaker 3: this afternoon it would be a good time to go
Speaker 3: by and do that. Let's head out to Jersey Village
Speaker 3: and we're going to talk to George. Hey, George, welcome
Speaker 3: to garden Line.
Speaker 8: Good mornings, Kip, good to talk to you. So, anyhow,
Speaker 8: a couple of weeks ago I talked to you about
Speaker 8: a Chinese tallow tree that I was trying to kill.
Speaker 8: Has put in our boots all over the backyard. So
Speaker 8: you told me to scrape off the bark down on
Speaker 8: the base and they're gonna rub some kind of junk on.
Speaker 8: Remember what it was. His name was and what was again?
Speaker 8: Let me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, first of all, let me clarify. If it's a
Speaker 3: very young tree, you can put what I'm about to
Speaker 3: talk about on the outside of the of the trunk
Speaker 3: at the base. And now when I say young, I
Speaker 3: mean something the size of your thumb or maybe golf
Speaker 3: ball size. As they get older and get bark on them,
Speaker 3: you're gonna need to cut that tree off near the ground,
Speaker 3: just above the ground. And then you want immediately and
Speaker 3: that fresh cut stump to paint on a product that
Speaker 3: contains triclope here and I will spell that out for
Speaker 3: you here in one second.
Speaker 8: That's come.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's t R I c l O p U
Speaker 3: y R right and right the way. Uh, I'm I'm
Speaker 3: about to put a new up dated publication on my
Speaker 3: website called Herbicide Products for various types of weeds. But
Speaker 3: on that it tells you the kind of weed. In
Speaker 3: this case, you got a woody tree you're trying to kill,
Speaker 3: and if you go over it says trico paer and
Speaker 3: then it lists all the different brands of triclopere that
Speaker 3: are most commonly seen here. But the important thing, George
Speaker 3: is to remember to do it when that cut is fresh,
Speaker 3: when you just cut it off right right, the tree.
Speaker 8: Is probably two feet across, so it's not a kid anymore.
Speaker 8: So what I did do was, like you suggested, at
Speaker 8: the pace of the tree, and then I also drilled
Speaker 8: a about a half control about a foot deep and
Speaker 8: filled with triclo peer. So how is this tree going
Speaker 8: to die or do something else? You got to cut
Speaker 8: it off? Do you think?
Speaker 3: Well, you might watch and see the trees are living cylinders.
Speaker 3: The if you've got a tree trunk of any size,
Speaker 3: the interior is dead wood. And then as you get out,
Speaker 3: just inside the bark is where all the life tissues
Speaker 3: of the tree are the living tissues of the tree.
Speaker 3: So that's where that tricle a peer needs to get.
Speaker 3: So if you drill a hole and get stuff into
Speaker 3: the center, it's not going to be doing much for you.
Speaker 3: And you know you're gonna get as you drill the hole,
Speaker 3: you're gonna have to go through living tissue. But that's
Speaker 3: why we say cut off the stump and paint it.
Speaker 3: And I even have a I have a publication of
Speaker 3: woody Weeds in the Landscape. Woody Weeds in the Landscape.
Speaker 3: It's on my webscare gardening with skip dot com. It
Speaker 3: tells you how to do it. It has a picture
Speaker 3: of how to do it, and it has tricle peer
Speaker 3: information on that.
Speaker 8: Don't care.
Speaker 3: So that's it gardening with Skip.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I properly on a two foot tree?
Speaker 7: Is it?
Speaker 8: How long's going to take the guy?
Speaker 3: Oh boy? Two foot high tree? Two foot tall tree diameter?
Speaker 3: Oh it, you got it? Okay? That I've never heard
Speaker 3: of the Chinese teller that big.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's pretty good.
Speaker 3: Well, okay, so that's a good question. I think in
Speaker 3: a few months it's going to be done. I think
Speaker 3: you're going to see the results a lot, a lot
Speaker 3: faster than that tree takes it in. Sometimes with a
Speaker 3: big old tree, it may have some energy to reach sprout.
Speaker 3: You know, you don't get it all with just that
Speaker 3: one little treatment, and you may have to do it
Speaker 3: a second time. But it will work. It does work,
Speaker 3: and tallows are tough to kill. Thank you, sir, Thank
Speaker 3: you appreciate your call. You take care. This morning at
Speaker 3: five o'clock, my Robin, who I think when I turned
Speaker 3: my lights on in the house, that starts to wake
Speaker 3: them up. But about five o'clock, which is light to
Speaker 3: have been on for a little bit. Uh, it began
Speaker 3: to sing and I like that. I enjoy it. And
Speaker 3: we also have some barn swallows that are at the
Speaker 3: front door, and they come and go pretty fast each year.
Speaker 3: But boy, those things when they get to chattering, I
Speaker 3: wish I had a translator to hear what they were saying,
Speaker 3: because they are giving it the business out there. Wild
Speaker 3: Bird's Unlimited is the place you go to find out
Speaker 3: all about birds, all the different birds you would want
Speaker 3: to bring into your garden. For example, I just put
Speaker 3: out my high perch hummingbird feeders. High perch hummingbird feeder
Speaker 3: that is my favorite humming bird feeder. They got those
Speaker 3: at Wildbirds Unlimited. It's got a red top cover. It's
Speaker 3: a very flat feeder so when the birds gather around it,
Speaker 3: the hummingbirds, you can see them better and you know
Speaker 3: they're not hiding behind the feeder kind of thing. I
Speaker 3: love that feeder. They also have the Eliminator. It's a
Speaker 3: squirrel proof feeder. That is probably my favorite bird feeder
Speaker 3: of all the ones I have. I just this year
Speaker 3: I got a hopper feeder that's a recycled materials feeder.
Speaker 3: The very tough, very durable. Got a wide roof so
Speaker 3: that when it rains like it did yesterday, the bird
Speaker 3: seed didn't get all wet. It's got a little bigger
Speaker 3: roof on it to kind of protect a little bit
Speaker 3: keep those seeds dry. Wild Birds Unlimited is also a
Speaker 3: source of quality bird seed, whether it's it's the well,
Speaker 3: the main one for right now would be the Nesting
Speaker 3: super Blend. It's got the protein and calcium necessary for birds.
Speaker 3: And you know, as they're laying the eggs they eat calcium.
Speaker 3: As the younger growing and eat calcium for that.
Speaker 11: And the.
Speaker 3: Nesting super Blend is designed for this season primarily, and
Speaker 3: you can use anytime you want. But it's got some
Speaker 3: really good stuff and the protein it's packed. I mean
Speaker 3: stuff like sunflower chips, peanuts, meal worms, bark, butter, other
Speaker 3: kinds of tree nuts and safflower. Lots of protein in
Speaker 3: that and it's good for the birds. And then I
Speaker 3: love the cardinal products too, you know they came out
Speaker 3: this year. The Owner of wild Birds came out with
Speaker 3: something called Cardinal Confetti and it's another great blend from Wildbirds.
Speaker 3: And we had some cardinals come into our feeder like
Speaker 3: they love that stuff again, it's got all the good
Speaker 3: stuff in it, bark butter bits, peanut hats, meal worms,
Speaker 3: striped sunflower, black ole, sunflour, and on and on. They
Speaker 3: even have a feeder for it, a tube feeder. You
Speaker 3: can use it in any kind of feederod It's a
Speaker 3: good product too, but that's what you would expect from
Speaker 3: wild Birds Unlimited. There's six stores. Wildbirds Unlimited stores clear Lake,
Speaker 3: Texas on El Dorado, Cypress, Texas on Barker Cypress. In
Speaker 3: the southern part of Houston's just south of downtown. A
Speaker 3: little bit to the west is bell Air Boulevard Wildbirds,
Speaker 3: and then out west on Memorial Drive is Houston Wildbirds.
Speaker 3: In Kingwood Drive in Kingwood another one, and then in
Speaker 3: Pairland on East Broadway. Six stores. If you want to
Speaker 3: if you didn't write all that down, wbu dot com
Speaker 3: forward slash Houston to find the wild Birds Unlimited store
Speaker 3: near you, and I hope you'll do that, but I
Speaker 3: warn you it's addictive. I've talked about this before, but
Speaker 3: the garden, the hobby of gardening is so many things
Speaker 3: put together. It is getting outside and playing with plants, yes,
Speaker 3: but it's creating a multisensory experience outdoors. You wild bird's unlimited.
Speaker 3: I was talking about them, well, birds, the songs they sing.
Speaker 3: That is an auditory experience. And when you create the
Speaker 3: garden that attracts birds, you get that auditory experience plus
Speaker 3: the beauty of them. They're very pretty. Then there's the
Speaker 3: visual experience of color. There's a visual experience of textures,
Speaker 3: you know, the bold leaves of an elephant ear versus
Speaker 3: the fine narrow textures of a moving grass in the wind.
Speaker 3: And that movement too, by the way, is another aspect
Speaker 3: of the visual taking in of the garden. Then there's
Speaker 3: the sense the fragrant plants, and you do a publication
Speaker 3: on fragrant plants. I think I'll do that, And because
Speaker 3: I'm starting to add a bunch to my landscape. You
Speaker 3: sit out there with your eyes closed New Year's plugged,
Speaker 3: and you enjoy the garden, smelling the fragrance from those plants,
Speaker 3: and then the butterflies flying by thought we call those
Speaker 3: lying flowers. That's another aspect. So see, gardening is more
Speaker 3: than just like Okay, there's a plant, there's a landscape.
Speaker 3: Take a picture that's pretty. Yes it is, but it's
Speaker 3: way more than that. It's sound, it's movement, it's sense.
Speaker 3: It's creating that little bit of Eden in your backyard,
Speaker 3: Creating that little bit of Eden that just makes it
Speaker 3: a place that you want to go, a place that
Speaker 3: you want to hang out. And you can do that
Speaker 3: here in your own backyard, on your own property. I
Speaker 3: don't care if you live, even in a little townhome.
Speaker 3: You can create that beautiful outdoor area for sensory enjoyment.
Speaker 3: If you're planting a tree, or if you have planted
Speaker 3: a tree, you need to get what's called a three
Speaker 3: sixty tree stabilizer. Now you've seen trees that were guy
Speaker 3: wired down to the ground in three directions with wires
Speaker 3: to hold the tree stable. It looks like they're afraid
Speaker 3: it's a rocket and going to take off because they
Speaker 3: they you know, they got that thing honkered down where
Speaker 3: it hardly can move well. Three sixty tree stabilizers different.
Speaker 3: You don't have to mess with the wires. You don't
Speaker 3: have to cut sections of garden hose so the wires
Speaker 3: don't cut into the tree. You don't have to have
Speaker 3: steaks in the ground and wires to trip over. You
Speaker 3: plant a you drive a t post or any kind
Speaker 3: of post really into the ground, and the three sixty
Speaker 3: tree stabilizer attaches to the post, and then it attaches
Speaker 3: to the tree with a soft rubber strap that you
Speaker 3: can leave a little loose, and you should, because a
Speaker 3: little movement helps strengthen the trunk and the bracing roots
Speaker 3: at the base of the trunk. That movement makes the
Speaker 3: plant grow stronger. Plants respond that way, just the way
Speaker 3: our muscles to being worked respond by getting stronger, more resilient.
Speaker 3: Tree trunks do the same thing. It's a principle of nature,
Speaker 3: all right. And if you most situations one tree stabilizers enough,
Speaker 3: if you've got a bigger tree, or you got a
Speaker 3: lot of you can do one kind of from the
Speaker 3: north south side, or and then one from the east
Speaker 3: west side, and then you have you've completely got it,
Speaker 3: and you have that movement. And you can get tree
Speaker 3: stabilizers at R. C W Nursery, Dunn and Alvin or
Speaker 3: Haes Hidden Gardens over in Cenna see in a mulch
Speaker 3: Buchanan's Native plants in the Heights Arborgate out there in
Speaker 3: Tomball Plants for all seasons on the road to Tomball
Speaker 3: Tomball Parkway, right where just north of Lueta or all
Speaker 3: places where you can find the three sixty tree stabilizer. Well,
Speaker 3: it's about time for me to go to a break
Speaker 3: here point. This one came fast, you know, droning on
Speaker 3: about some things. Well, thank you for being a listener
Speaker 3: to Garden Line. If you'd like to give us a call,
Speaker 3: you can be one of our first up when we
Speaker 3: come back at seven one three two one two k
Speaker 3: t r H. Hey, welcome back to the Garden Line.
Speaker 18: Good to have you with us.
Speaker 3: If you would like to give me a call talk
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Speaker 3: today seven to one three two one two kt r
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Speaker 3: Plants for All Seasons is a garden center right there
Speaker 3: on two forty nine at Luetta. So if you're on
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Speaker 3: sixteen forty six in my vegetable garden. I was telling
Speaker 3: you that I'd been mulching and created the walkways of
Speaker 3: leaves for all season gardening. What I'm about to do
Speaker 3: is start a whole bunch of marigolds seeds. I've got
Speaker 3: some beds that have nematodes on them. I do not
Speaker 3: know where the nematods came from. I'm pretty sure it
Speaker 3: came from some soil I brought in a while back
Speaker 3: that I shouldn't have, but I did, And I think
Speaker 3: now I've got some nematods in there, So I'm gonna
Speaker 3: grow marigols walled wall. Did you know marigos are a
Speaker 3: trap crop for nematodes. It doesn't eradicate nematods by any
Speaker 3: stretch of the imagination. But when when you plant not
Speaker 3: just a marigold besides tomato plant like you'll hear sometimes
Speaker 3: people say, do don't do that gon work, But I mean,
Speaker 3: wall to wall, this whole bed will be solid miragles.
Speaker 3: I want every cubic centimeter of soil to have a
Speaker 3: marigo root in it, because when a nematod goes into
Speaker 3: a marigol route it's not able to complete its life cycle,
Speaker 3: and you don't get that proliferation, and you get a
Speaker 3: little bit of a reduction therefore in the nemotoid content
Speaker 3: in the soil. And there's other crops that will do that.
Speaker 3: But that is about the only good strategy other than
Speaker 3: nematod resistant plants for getting ahead of the nematod problems
Speaker 3: in our landscapes. I'm gonna be doing that. I'll post
Speaker 3: some pictures to Facebook as we get into this season.
Speaker 3: We're going to go now to Pasadena and talk to Greg. Hey, Greg,
Speaker 3: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 7: Good morning, Skip quick, A couple of quick questions. Number one,
Speaker 7: I've had some mushrooms popping up in my yard, particularly
Speaker 7: last year before the winter, and then now I'm noticed
Speaker 7: from here in the early spring.
Speaker 12: What can I do?
Speaker 3: Okay? Kind of control that don't need to Yeah, you
Speaker 3: don't need to do anything. There's not a good control
Speaker 3: for it anyway. Most of those, or the vast majority
Speaker 3: of those, are just decomposer fungi that are breaking down
Speaker 3: organic matter, whether it's the thatch of your lawn or
Speaker 3: woody root materials in the in the soil.
Speaker 7: Not a problem okay, so I don't need to go
Speaker 7: and try to pull them up by the roots. It's
Speaker 7: okay to mow them.
Speaker 3: No, No, that won't that won't do anything. It won't
Speaker 3: do anything. Yeah, just leave them alone, ignore.
Speaker 12: Them all right.
Speaker 8: Wonderful, wonderful.
Speaker 7: Secondly, I'm redoing my flower beds landscaping in the front
Speaker 7: of my house.
Speaker 8: I'm pulled up from old.
Speaker 2: Edges and roads buis that I had in there.
Speaker 7: What kind of rep work do I need to do?
Speaker 7: Do I need to pull out the old sod, the
Speaker 7: old soil, and uh?
Speaker 12: What could I do?
Speaker 3: Just just add up, add add quality composts to it
Speaker 3: several inches, mix it in deeply, create a little bit
Speaker 3: of a raised bed there, and then mix in some
Speaker 3: good nutrients into the soil. The I'm a I have
Speaker 3: to go to a break right now. But uh, that's
Speaker 3: that's my fast answer on it. I may make a
Speaker 3: comment or two when we come back, But Greg, thank you,
Speaker 3: I appreciate the calls. We just ran out of time. Alrighty,
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Speaker 3: Hey, Matt, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 8: Good morning, Skip, Good morning, Skip. Did you receive my
Speaker 8: picture of my sweet banana plant last Saturday.
Speaker 13: I sent it in the afternoon, I believe.
Speaker 3: Let me go looking for it, Matt. I don't see
Speaker 3: a Matt in the emails.
Speaker 12: It would be.
Speaker 3: Tell me a little bit about it.
Speaker 12: Well, it has the swatches of brown on the leaves.
Speaker 3: Okay, go ahead, Okay, So that's a natural marking on bananas,
Speaker 3: some bananas. It's kind of almost a burgundy brown color
Speaker 3: that is just part of the leaf itself. Hey, Matt,
Speaker 3: I need you to turn the radio. Turn the radio down.
Speaker 12: It's down, sir.
Speaker 3: Okay, hell, all right, thank you. Yes, I can hear you.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't. I'm not finding your email. But without the
Speaker 3: name popping up on top, it's gonna take a little while.
Speaker 3: But that is a natural marking. And I think I
Speaker 3: remember seeing your picture on banana leaves. It's a it's
Speaker 3: a splotching. It's actually a streaking across the leaf. Yes,
Speaker 3: from the center to the edge. Yes, okay, nothing to
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Speaker 3: of some type, some varieties of bananas.
Speaker 8: So just stay stay bad about it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no problems at all. You're good on that one.
Speaker 3: You can go take care of the other plants. I appreciate,
Speaker 3: appreciate the call. But yeah, nothing, nothing to worry about.
Speaker 3: Just enjoy those bananas. Hopefully we'll have a good long
Speaker 3: season and you get some some fruiting here for too long.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Kin, appreciate you appreciate your call, sir, all right,
Speaker 3: thank you. I appreciate that a lot. Nitropas Superturf is
Speaker 3: their slow release fertilizer for the lawn for summer, and
Speaker 3: it's easy to spot. I can give you the numbers
Speaker 3: nineteen four s N but you don't have to go
Speaker 3: around with the mag divine glass and looking at all
Speaker 3: the fertilizer bags for those numbers. Just look for silver.
Speaker 3: It's a silver bag, a big silver bag Nitropas superturf.
Speaker 3: You put it down and for four months you're done.
Speaker 3: And basically you put Nitrophs superturf down around now and
Speaker 3: you're not going to be fertilizing again until we put
Speaker 3: our fall fertilizations on. I'm pretty much, especially if you're
Speaker 3: returning your clippings now. Nito five Superturf and other products
Speaker 3: are available at places like Plans for all seasons on Luetta,
Speaker 3: the d and d feed Store outside of Tomball on
Speaker 3: twenty nine to twenty on the West side, and M
Speaker 3: and D and let's see that's in Sagement on Beamer Street,
Speaker 3: and many many other places. Those are just some examples.
Speaker 3: Another place, you know, in general, when you're thinking, when
Speaker 3: I think about night Foss, I go, well, they're at
Speaker 3: Ace Hardware stores. Because Ace Hardware almost always you're going
Speaker 3: to find all the night foss products there. You can
Speaker 3: go to the website Acehardware Texas dot com and that
Speaker 3: will give you a map. When you tell it where
Speaker 3: you are, it'll give you a map of the Ace
Speaker 3: Hardware stores in our Houston group that are near you.
Speaker 3: It makes it really easy. Ace Hardware Texas dot Com.
Speaker 3: When you go into ACE Hardware, you're going to find
Speaker 3: a wide variety of pest control, disease control, weed control,
Speaker 3: both the pre emergent and the post emergent, and fertilizers
Speaker 3: for your garden. You're going to find the tools that
Speaker 3: you need. You're going to find everything to make that
Speaker 3: outdoor area that you love to go out and enjoy.
Speaker 3: You're going to make it better and nicer, from barbecue
Speaker 3: pits to lighting to you name it. Ace is the
Speaker 3: place they've got you covered. And then the same thing,
Speaker 3: by the way, is true on the inside too. Beautiful
Speaker 3: things for the home and from turning your home environment
Speaker 3: into a wonderful place. Many Ace Hardware stores throughout the
Speaker 3: Greater Houston area, places like Aspas ACE in the Woodlands, Plantation,
Speaker 3: ACE on Mason Road, down in the Richmond Rosenberg area,
Speaker 3: j and ours as out there in Porter, down in
Speaker 3: Bay City, Bay City Ace on Seventh Street. For those
Speaker 3: of you out in Brenham area, there's ACE Hardware on
Speaker 3: North Austin Parkway and then up in Spring on Rayford Road.
Speaker 3: And again I'm just reading a few of the many
Speaker 3: ACE Hardware stores that you will find at ACE Hardware
Speaker 3: Texas dot com. Ace Hardware Texas dot Com talking about
Speaker 3: taking care of these plants and different things to be
Speaker 3: doing out in the garden. This time of the year,
Speaker 3: it is time to get as much of your planting
Speaker 3: for the spring and summer done as you can, because
Speaker 3: every week that a plant has to get roots established
Speaker 3: is a week that makes it better prepared for summer
Speaker 3: heat and dry conditions. And that's especially true of what
Speaker 3: you ornamentals. You're gonna plant a tree, a shrub, or
Speaker 3: a woody vine, get it in the ground now. But
Speaker 3: it's also true of things you know, like the perennials
Speaker 3: and even our annuals that we're putting out. Plan them now,
Speaker 3: get them done. Boy, is this week ever going to
Speaker 3: be a good one for planting? And if you've not
Speaker 3: been out to Enchanted Gardens, you need to go. This
Speaker 3: is a destination garden center on the Katie Fullsher side
Speaker 3: of Richmond. It's on FM three point fifty nine. Here's
Speaker 3: the website. You'd write this down because it is an
Speaker 3: awesome website with lots of great information and you can
Speaker 3: stay up to day. Follow them on social media too.
Speaker 3: By the way, Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. Enchanted Gardens
Speaker 3: Richmond dot com. The Lenderman family has been part of
Speaker 3: that community since nineteen ninety five garden first opened, And
Speaker 3: when you go there, it is just a wonderful experience.
Speaker 3: You're going to find an unmatched, unmatched rather a selection
Speaker 3: of every kind of plant that you can imagine. But
Speaker 3: also you're going to find an enthusiastic team that is
Speaker 3: knowledgeable and they can help you. They can look at
Speaker 3: photos and samples to give you expert advice. They can
Speaker 3: help you put together you know, you want to put
Speaker 3: together a beautiful color combo planter. Well they can give
Speaker 3: you some ideas, Oh, you want to put this in
Speaker 3: the middle because you know it's taller, and then you
Speaker 3: puture things around the side, or here's some colors that
Speaker 3: go well together. All that kind of stuff. You get
Speaker 3: that kind of service. You're going to find Microlife, Nitrofloss,
Speaker 3: Nelson plant Food, Medina Products, Nature's Way, Heirloom Sauce. I'm
Speaker 3: just telling you from brown stuff to green stuff en
Speaker 3: Gentigardens Richmond dot Com on FM three point fifty nine.
Speaker 3: You know, I always get sad when I hear the
Speaker 3: music plan because I got to go talking about gardening
Speaker 3: and I like to talk about garden with gardeners, which
Speaker 3: reminds me. By the way, next Saturday, I'm gonna be
Speaker 3: at r CW Nursery up there where belt Wait eight
Speaker 3: and FM two forty nine Tombol Parkway come together. We
Speaker 3: have got some really cool stuff going on at RCW,
Speaker 3: and I hope that you will come out and see me.
Speaker 12: For sure.
Speaker 3: For example, we're gonna have they're gonna have the spring
Speaker 3: flaying out there, and we're gonna have a lot of giveaways,
Speaker 3: barbecues and refreshments. In fact, I want to tell you
Speaker 3: a little bit more about that when I come back.
Speaker 1: Welcome to kt r H garden Line with Skip Rictor.
Speaker 2: Just watch him as.
Speaker 3: Many a sign s, well, good morning again. You're listening
Speaker 3: to garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we're
Speaker 3: here to help you have a bountiful garden, a beautiful landscape,
Speaker 3: and more fun in the process. That's the way I
Speaker 3: like to put it, because that's what gardening ought to
Speaker 3: be like, no sweat, no worries. So talk about this
Speaker 3: all the time. Don't worry. You can't fail at gardenings.
Speaker 3: Yes I said that, you're going. Yeah, but I have no.
Speaker 3: You haven't not unless you've given up. And if you
Speaker 3: give up, well, I guess you could say you failed
Speaker 3: at gardening. But you just keep you, just keep going.
Speaker 3: You try it again. Listen. I can't tell you how
Speaker 3: many plants I've killed in my life. Learning, trying things, experimenting.
Speaker 3: It's okay, it's all right to do that. And you know,
Speaker 3: I mean, if you want, you can revamp your garden
Speaker 3: and landscape anytime you wish to. I mean, really, you
Speaker 3: don't see people doing this much. But you literally could
Speaker 3: take an old maybe at a landscape there's planeted in
Speaker 3: nineteen seventies and the bushes are now pushing over the
Speaker 3: top of the eaves, and a lot more dwarf, beautiful,
Speaker 3: compact kinds of plants that are available now. I mean,
Speaker 3: you can turn the whole thing to dirt and come
Speaker 3: back with compost and beds and new plants and start
Speaker 3: over again. Usually people do that, you know, a section
Speaker 3: at a time. But I'm just trying to make the point,
Speaker 3: and that is if you look at what If you're
Speaker 3: looking at your landscape, you don't like what you see,
Speaker 3: well then do something, do something different. You can get
Speaker 3: out and drive around. I like to drive around and
Speaker 3: take pictures of things that I think are interesting. Plants
Speaker 3: I think are interesting. I find stuff online all the time.
Speaker 3: There's a plant I haven't grown before, let's try that out.
Speaker 3: You can do that. You can do it that way,
Speaker 3: create it yourself, or I mean, if you want, you
Speaker 3: can have somebody like Piercecapes come and do it for you.
Speaker 3: You know, Pier Scapes. Those folks know what they're doing.
Speaker 3: They've been doing this a very very long time. And
Speaker 3: when you're looking for instant pizazz or whether it's a
Speaker 3: complete renovation or whether it is just hey, I want
Speaker 3: to improve on this a little bit. I'd like to
Speaker 3: redo that flower bed, or can you make that area
Speaker 3: draam better? Or what about you know, I've always wanted
Speaker 3: an outdoor, shaded sitting area where we could enjoy in
Speaker 3: the evenings, you know, with hard scapes and I don't know,
Speaker 3: maybe even a water feature or something like that. Piercescapes
Speaker 3: can do it. There are a preferred landscaper here on
Speaker 3: garden Line. It's a one stop shop. Basically, all you
Speaker 3: got to do is go to the website. That is
Speaker 3: the most important thing is go look at what they
Speaker 3: do piercescapes dot com. Piercescapes dot com. Now you're going
Speaker 3: to see some stuff that's like, oh my gosh, that's
Speaker 3: the taj mahal right and that doesn't quite look like
Speaker 3: my place. Well, they can do anything at any level
Speaker 3: that you need done to make your place beautiful, whether
Speaker 3: it's just redesigning a flower bed to a turnkey front,
Speaker 3: backside and everything. Redo pierscapes dot com. Here's the phone
Speaker 3: number two eight one three seven oh fifty sixty to
Speaker 3: eight one three seven oh fifty sixty. You need to
Speaker 3: go check them out, and then you need to give
Speaker 3: them a call. You're listening to Garden Line. I'm your host,
Speaker 3: Skip Richter, and we're here to help you have a
Speaker 3: bountiful garden and a beautiful landscape. And the important thing
Speaker 3: to know is the phone number seven one three two
Speaker 3: one two k t r A. Let's talk about the
Speaker 3: things that you're interested in. I don't forget I was
Speaker 3: talking about RCW Nursery before we went to break next Saturday,
Speaker 3: April twelfth. April twelfth, next Saturday, put that on your calendar.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna be there from twelve to two, So from
Speaker 3: noon to two. Now, you know you have to eat
Speaker 3: before you come. RCW is going to have a barbecue lunch.
Speaker 3: They're gonna have some refreshments there for you there. Also,
Speaker 3: while I'm out there, they're gonna have a one, one day,
Speaker 3: only ten percent off sale on their roses, and you
Speaker 3: need to go see their roses. They're blooming. They look
Speaker 3: great right now. So you know, if you're tired of
Speaker 3: looking at a picture on a tag and going, well,
Speaker 3: what does that flower really look like? Or was this
Speaker 3: smell like, Well, there you go. They're on the plants.
Speaker 3: Go look at them, go smell them, go check them out.
Speaker 3: Ten percent off on the roses next Saturday. And now
Speaker 3: I'll be there answering gardening questions. I'm gonna have some
Speaker 3: cool giveaways for you as well, and we're just gonna
Speaker 3: have a good time. I always love going to RCW Nurseries.
Speaker 3: That is a fun place. So put it on your calendar,
Speaker 3: come on out and see me. We will visit and
Speaker 3: I have some handouts and as I said, some cool
Speaker 3: giveaways as well. In your lawn if you have not
Speaker 3: put a pre emergent down and you would like to,
Speaker 3: especially if your lawn is thin, barricade from nitrofoss is
Speaker 3: the product that does that kill. And the reason I
Speaker 3: say it's the product is because it prevents both the
Speaker 3: broad leaf and the grassy weed seeds. The vast already
Speaker 3: of all grassy and broad leaved weeds will be controlled
Speaker 3: by barricade. You put it down, you watered in about
Speaker 3: a half inch of water, maybe a third of inch
Speaker 3: of water just to get it in the ground.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 3: And a ten pound bag covers about five thousand square feet,
Speaker 3: so most ones. That's enough to do that. Remember, follow
Speaker 3: the label. If you've got a two thousand, five hundred
Speaker 3: square foot lawn, don't put the whole bag on it.
Speaker 3: That's double the rate. Follow the label very important to
Speaker 3: do that. You're going to find products like this at
Speaker 3: Plants and Things in Brenham Fisher's Hardware in Baytown on Alexander,
Speaker 3: UH and down include Lake Hardware on Dixie and in Angleton.
Speaker 3: Lake Hardware and Velasco are places that carry my nitroposs products.
Speaker 3: You're listening to Guardenline if you'd like to call in
Speaker 3: ask a question, that'd be a good time. Kind of
Speaker 3: quiet out there on the phones for the moment. UH
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Speaker 3: I would like you to go to a website. I'm
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Speaker 3: make it like new. They make it better than new
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Speaker 3: And if you go to that website you can see
Speaker 3: all the different kinds of powder coating that they do.
Speaker 3: I'm primarily talking about the backyard here. I mean they
Speaker 3: do stuff powder coating for all kinds of things. They've
Speaker 3: got the equipment, they got the space to do it.
Speaker 3: But they can refinish your in repair by the way,
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Speaker 3: eight one six seven six thirty eight eighty eight. Alright,
Speaker 3: so we're back. Let's talk gardening. What is of interest
Speaker 3: to you? What are the topics that you're interested in, Well,
Speaker 3: let's find out. We're going to go out to Kingwood
Speaker 3: and talk to John.
Speaker 12: Hello.
Speaker 3: John, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 12: Good morning, I have gotten too good morning. I want
Speaker 12: to ask you about the steps that you have to
Speaker 12: take to do a lawn aeration. I was thinking about
Speaker 12: rent and one of those cororators going over my friend.
Speaker 12: The lawn grows okay, except in two spots or I
Speaker 12: don't know if there was a tree there before they
Speaker 12: built the house, but it's kind of raised and there's
Speaker 12: a lot of roots underneath the soil okay. And I've
Speaker 12: had sod put out and it never.
Speaker 3: Would take all right.
Speaker 12: Oh, I was wondering if that would help any.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Once well, your side needs to be well rooted
Speaker 3: in before you run the erraator over it. And it's
Speaker 3: good to let it, you know, come out in the
Speaker 3: spring and get well established, you know, before you begin
Speaker 3: the process. But if you are ready to go and
Speaker 3: you get an erraator, you're going to need to get
Speaker 3: some compost top dressing to put over the lawn, and
Speaker 3: I would recommend a leaf mold compost. You're fortunate, being
Speaker 3: in Kingwood that you're just down the street from Warren's
Speaker 3: Rock and Molts right there in Porter there on the
Speaker 3: feeder Road fifty nine access road there and porter as
Speaker 3: your Yeah, that's where the airloom soils products are. So
Speaker 3: you can have them bring a super sack out or
Speaker 3: you can go get it, or you can have them
Speaker 3: dump it on the drive but you're gonna want to
Speaker 3: spread it out about a third of an inch deep,
Speaker 3: and so you know, you can use the calculator on
Speaker 3: the Heirloomsoils dot Com website to see how much that takes.
Speaker 3: I would get a little extra for sure, but first
Speaker 3: I would airate when the soil is moist, not soggy wet,
Speaker 3: but moist, because so if it's hard, you know, the
Speaker 3: little machines bounce over it like you're trying to erate
Speaker 3: your driveway. And if it's if it's just mushy, that's
Speaker 3: that's not good either. You don't want to mess with
Speaker 3: the soil when it's soggy wet, but medium consistency moisture
Speaker 3: is the time you don't do that. Airate well. And
Speaker 3: I'd go over all the areas, not just the areas
Speaker 3: that aren't doing well, but maybe the areas that aren't
Speaker 3: doing well. You'd go over them a second time just
Speaker 3: to get a little more errors in there, and then
Speaker 3: then put the compost top dressing down about a third
Speaker 3: of an inch d you may you can go deeper
Speaker 3: if you want, but about a third to a half
Speaker 3: inch would be good. Since you're doing it yourself, maybe
Speaker 3: go half okay, and then what that's it. That's it.
Speaker 3: If you haven't have you fertilized for the season yet.
Speaker 12: Any Yeah, I put some scots like got weed and
Speaker 12: feed down and the grass that does grow it looks great.
Speaker 2: That's probably.
Speaker 8: Maybe three weeks.
Speaker 3: All right, Well, I would, I would say, so what
Speaker 3: are we We're kind of sitting here in the first
Speaker 3: week of April, probably late and later in April. Go
Speaker 3: ahead and switch and put down a slow release fertilizer
Speaker 3: you like Nitrophossi's super Turf, the silver bag, and that
Speaker 3: will cover you through the summer, even though you're doing
Speaker 3: the common post top dressing and the air ration. Go
Speaker 3: ahead and put that down. In fact, I'd probably put
Speaker 3: it down before I did all this, the aerration and
Speaker 3: compost top dressing. And then when you watered in, you
Speaker 3: should see your lawn ought to bounce back pretty quick
Speaker 3: and it ought to look really good. I'd love to
Speaker 3: hear about it too.
Speaker 12: If you end up doing all that, all right, maybe
Speaker 12: I'll take it before and after picture.
Speaker 3: Hey, that'd be wonderful. That'd be very good if you'd
Speaker 3: send me some of those. I'd appreciate. I seriously would
Speaker 3: appreciate that. Well, John, thank you, and good luck getting
Speaker 3: that place all right. You take care. Nelson Watergarden and
Speaker 3: Nursery out there in Fort Bend, I'm not Fort Bend, Katie.
Speaker 3: Fort Ben Road out in Katie is a wonderful place
Speaker 3: to go visit.
Speaker 16: They.
Speaker 3: First of all, they have an awesome nursery, all kinds
Speaker 3: of plants that you can see. But boy do they
Speaker 3: have gorgeous pottery. And they have pottery for those water
Speaker 3: disappearing fountains, you know, the ones that come on the
Speaker 3: top of the container and spill over the sides and
Speaker 3: then recirculate. They've got all of that. But the plants,
Speaker 3: the plant selection in the nursery is just outstanding. They've
Speaker 3: got Louisiana iris. In fact, I believe they got a
Speaker 3: weekend special going on on Louisiana iris right now, So
Speaker 3: don't delay on those. If you've got a wet, boggy
Speaker 3: area that doesn't drain well, Louisiana iris will be happy there,
Speaker 3: especially if it's a little bit of shade. They like
Speaker 3: a little bit of shade out there. But all your
Speaker 3: color plants that you're looking for are there, beautiful, beautiful
Speaker 3: house plants. Everything from outdoor plants like combo hanging baskets
Speaker 3: that just have like three or four different kinds of
Speaker 3: flowers in them. I mean they are just color color
Speaker 3: color out plus as they say, they got Chinese French
Speaker 3: trees too, by the way out there, and herbs and
Speaker 3: vegetables and everything you're looking for all right now coming
Speaker 3: up on Saturday, April twenty sixth, from five to seven,
Speaker 3: that's in the evening shelby from Nelson Plantfood. It's going
Speaker 3: to be out there, gonna have a sipping stroll. That's
Speaker 3: when they serve some drinks and life refreshments, have some
Speaker 3: live music, and it's just a wonderful time to go out.
Speaker 3: But anytime it's a wonderful not time to go to
Speaker 3: Nelson Water Gardens and Nursery Katie Fort Ben Road just
Speaker 3: north of the KT Freeway. We're going to head now
Speaker 3: up to Cyprus and talk to Matt. Hello, Matt, welcome
Speaker 3: to garden Line.
Speaker 12: Yeah, good morning.
Speaker 20: How are you doing.
Speaker 3: I'm doing well?
Speaker 6: Thank you great Hey, two questions for you.
Speaker 7: One dollar weed.
Speaker 6: I have some some dollar weed that's kind of growing
Speaker 6: in in some areas and I tried to treat it
Speaker 6: with weed beater, and uh, I can't the name escapes
Speaker 6: me on what else I sprayed on sprayed like the
Speaker 6: stuff that's supposed to stick to the the dollar weed
Speaker 6: for the weed beater and uh and yes, fact, sir fact,
Speaker 6: that's right, sir fact. When I sprayed that on there
Speaker 6: about four or five days, it just killed the entire
Speaker 6: area that I'm at, Saint Augustine and everything.
Speaker 12: And this is the second time.
Speaker 6: So I'm looking for a different solution than.
Speaker 2: The than the wheed beater.
Speaker 3: There are several formulations of weed beater, uh some of them. Uh, well,
Speaker 3: they don't all have exactly the same chemical in them,
Speaker 3: so it may have been the formulation of weed beater
Speaker 3: that you had. I don't know on that. But basically
Speaker 3: for the dollar weed, Uh, there are several products that
Speaker 3: will control it. Well, there is one that's a little
Speaker 3: more expensive, but you buy it in little packets that
Speaker 3: only make one gallon of spray because that's often enough
Speaker 3: for what you need to do. But it's called Celsius
Speaker 3: like the temperature celsius. Okay, and you go to a
Speaker 3: good garden center there, You're probably gonna find celsius in
Speaker 3: your area at some your local ACE hardware stores. You
Speaker 3: have several there in the Cypress area Ace hardware stores,
Speaker 3: but i'd call ahead of time make sure they have it.
Speaker 3: It's a little packet, a little piece of cardboard with
Speaker 3: a clear plastic over it and a little tiny packet inside.
Speaker 3: But that works pretty well on dollar weed, and I
Speaker 3: don't I'm trying to think that the celsius already has
Speaker 3: its own surfacting in it. That's another thing to watch
Speaker 3: your mix rates on both the herbicides and the surfactants
Speaker 3: that you're putting on. But dollar weed has a slick leaf,
Speaker 3: so the surfactants needed to get it to stick to
Speaker 3: the leaf.
Speaker 7: Okay, Okay.
Speaker 6: The other thing is is, so I bought some it
Speaker 6: looks like I have sedge moving in on some of
Speaker 6: the area. I assume it said. It's kind of a taller,
Speaker 6: real thin leaf grass. It's kind of fixed in now
Speaker 6: with my Saint Augustine.
Speaker 12: Okay, And I bought some some.
Speaker 6: Sedge hammer, but I haven't used it yet. A little
Speaker 6: concern is you know how to get rid of sedge
Speaker 6: without burning my get up.
Speaker 3: Okay, sedgehammer is the product to use for that. I'll
Speaker 3: tell you what. Just to be sure, if you would
Speaker 3: like to take some good close up pictures, I would
Speaker 3: even pull some of what you think is sedge up
Speaker 3: and lay it down, like on a brown kitchen table
Speaker 3: or something, and take a good picture of it so
Speaker 3: I can see it up close. Make sure it's in
Speaker 3: sharp focus. And let me make sure we know what
Speaker 3: we're talking about, because the product you would use for
Speaker 3: like nuts edge is maybe different than the product you
Speaker 3: use for kai linga, which is a type of sedge,
Speaker 3: or it could also be some other grass like plant
Speaker 3: that looks that we're talking about. So let's just be
Speaker 3: real sure. If you'd like, I'll put you on hold
Speaker 3: here in a bit and we can you can get
Speaker 3: my email to send me a photo to follow up
Speaker 3: on this call.
Speaker 12: Oh that would be outstanding.
Speaker 20: Yeah I appreciate that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, alrighty, well, let's do that and take it from there.
Speaker 3: But you pick the right product. I have a publication
Speaker 3: on my website called Nutsedge an in Depth Look, and
Speaker 3: it goes into some detail. You may have yellow or
Speaker 3: you may have purple if it is nutsedge, and so
Speaker 3: you might want to read that just to kind of
Speaker 3: get familiar with it. It goes into some detail that's
Speaker 3: important to know.
Speaker 6: Okay, we'll do appreciate the advice here, all.
Speaker 3: Right, Matt, you take care. I'm putting you on hold
Speaker 3: and Jonathan will pick up here and we'll be we'll
Speaker 3: get you that email. Let's see. Yeah, it's always important
Speaker 3: to identify weeds properly, and some weeds can look like
Speaker 3: other weeds. They can't, I mean they do, and poor
Speaker 3: identification means you're wasting money, you're wasting time, and you're
Speaker 3: not going to get good results. I was talking about
Speaker 3: Microlife products earlier and the microbes they contain. Microlife makes
Speaker 3: a product called micro Grow liquid AF. Microgrow liquid AF.
Speaker 3: You can buy it by the gallon if you want to.
Speaker 3: I believe they have it more that they do have
Speaker 3: it by the quart as well. But it contains eight
Speaker 3: different specific microbes that are beneficial to the plants. They're
Speaker 3: very beneficial in terms of helping protect those plants. So
Speaker 3: whether you're solving a problem or or preventing a problem,
Speaker 3: this is a good way to go. Streptomics trichodermas and basillis.
Speaker 3: They have several different types of bacillis in there that
Speaker 3: are all good and so you give a good drench
Speaker 3: over your plant root system with that, and that really
Speaker 3: does help a lot. They recommend that you put a
Speaker 3: little bit of micro Grow liquid AF with a couple
Speaker 3: ounces of molasses and a gallon of water and then
Speaker 3: just d it over. Are you You can also spread
Speaker 3: those products on the leaves as well. Micro Grow Liquid
Speaker 3: AF from the folks at Microlife one of the many
Speaker 3: liquid products that Microlife sells. Now. If you want more information,
Speaker 3: go to Microlife Fertilizer dot com. I'm going to head
Speaker 3: out to Katie now and talk to Shaho. Hey Shah
Speaker 3: who welcome to guarden Line.
Speaker 18: Good money. If Kip, how are you doing.
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 3: Thank you? How can I help?
Speaker 13: All?
Speaker 12: Right?
Speaker 3: Yes? How can I help today?
Speaker 13: Well?
Speaker 18: I have some issue with my lawn basically since last
Speaker 18: year it's kind of gone bald in many places. And uh,
Speaker 18: I wanted you at Kai on that, you know, doing
Speaker 18: the regular things with some linkedinin. I hired a lawn
Speaker 18: management company. They spend I mean I spent money for
Speaker 18: one year. Didn't really happen anything on that. So okay,
Speaker 18: I I mean I'm kind of queen for a lost
Speaker 18: source of you know, replacing the sword or something like that.
Speaker 3: Who I'm sorry to interrupt you, but we're about to
Speaker 3: go to a break. Could you hold on and I'll
Speaker 3: come back to you when we come back. Thank you, sir.
Speaker 8: Okay, I'll tell you.
Speaker 3: What's all right? Is the weather that we're having. Oh
Speaker 3: my gosh, I got so happy looking at my weather
Speaker 3: aut this morning. Actually kind of on the cool side
Speaker 3: this morning. We're going to be a very cool day
Speaker 3: as well. Nice to be out and get some things
Speaker 3: done in the afternoon. By the way, tomorrow and the
Speaker 3: next day and the next day it is sun, sun, sun,
Speaker 3: and the kind of weather that you want to be
Speaker 3: out in. So I hope you're planning on some things
Speaker 3: to spruce up the garden and the landscape. Just a
Speaker 3: little bit of word to the wise. And you don't
Speaker 3: need me to tell you this. You already know this,
Speaker 3: but I'll say it anyway. Kind of when your parents
Speaker 3: did that, it's like, yeah, I know, I know, but
Speaker 3: they have to say it anyway.
Speaker 8: All right.
Speaker 3: Well, anyway, weeds are easier to control when they're young
Speaker 3: than when they're older. When they're a little bitty tiny weeds,
Speaker 3: you look at them and you go, oh, that it's
Speaker 3: so bad. I'll get to them. And then the next
Speaker 3: thing you know, they're knee high and it takes a
Speaker 3: back hoe and a jackhammer to get them out of
Speaker 3: the ground. And you'd be easier to control when they're young.
Speaker 3: When they're young, I just throw a mulch on them.
Speaker 3: I really do you know. You got a little weed
Speaker 3: that's an inch even two inches high, and you just
Speaker 3: throw a bunch of mult over the top, a good
Speaker 3: thick layer to block all the sunlight, and it takes
Speaker 3: care of it. And most of the time most cases
Speaker 3: are some weeds that'll come through it. But then they
Speaker 3: get a little older and you can take a hoe,
Speaker 3: or even when they're young, you can take a really
Speaker 3: good sharp hoe and slice right under the surface. Don't
Speaker 3: disturb the so much, don't chop the soil, just slice
Speaker 3: underneath it and that takes care of them, and then
Speaker 3: throw a mulch on it. Wherever sunlight hits a soil,
Speaker 3: nature plants the weed. And the earlier you decide to
Speaker 3: control weeds, the more options you have. So let's say
Speaker 3: you're an organic gardener, and you don't want to use
Speaker 3: synthetic herbicides, well, vinegar will burn plant tissues. Vinegar is
Speaker 3: an organic herbicide, but an established weed, vinegar typically will
Speaker 3: kill the top but may not kill the whole weed.
Speaker 3: It may re sprout from the bottom, especially a perennial weed.
Speaker 3: But when you catch weeds when they're young seedlings, vinegar
Speaker 3: kills them. It just kills them because they just don't
Speaker 3: they haven't set up shop yet in a way that
Speaker 3: they can. Okay, fry my top, but I'm going to
Speaker 3: re sprout from the base. They haven't done that yet,
Speaker 3: So that would be another reason why the earlier the better.
Speaker 3: The earlier the better. I don't care if it's diseases, insects,
Speaker 3: or weeds. The earlier you step in to do something,
Speaker 3: the better it is. And not a life principle too.
Speaker 3: About some of the issues we face in life, we
Speaker 3: let them go a little too long and ooh boy,
Speaker 3: out our hands full now. Well, anyway, you know what
Speaker 3: I'm talking about. Without going philosophical, let's just leave it
Speaker 3: at weeds. Earlier is better, and what's the best is
Speaker 3: the earliest, which means you keep that soil molt because
Speaker 3: wherever sunlight hits the soil, nature plants a weed. Just
Speaker 3: remember that we were visiting with Shohop before we left.
Speaker 3: We're going to get some pictures from him to take
Speaker 3: a look at some of the issues that he has
Speaker 3: so I can help him better. You know, on guard line,
Speaker 3: I don't just give the email out because I can't
Speaker 3: have everybody that listens to Guardenline send me emails. I
Speaker 3: could never even begin to answer all the emails. But
Speaker 3: when it's related to a call, either a call that
Speaker 3: has come in or a call that's going to come in,
Speaker 3: I don't mind you having an email to email me
Speaker 3: the photos and the question so I can take a
Speaker 3: look at him. Sometimes you're describing a spot on a leaf,
Speaker 3: or a bug on a plant, or a weed in
Speaker 3: the yard, and you know, I'm trying to picture it.
Speaker 3: But I know that sometimes what you see and what
Speaker 3: I hear are not the same thing, and so or
Speaker 3: what I picture in my mind's I So a photo helps.
Speaker 3: Photos when you send them should always be in good
Speaker 3: sharp focus. Photos should be in good sharp focus. Photos
Speaker 3: should be in good sharp They say threes the charms,
Speaker 3: so I have to say it three times good sharp focus.
Speaker 3: You send me a fuzzy photo, I'll give you a
Speaker 3: fuzzy identification. You don't want a fuzzy identification, so check it.
Speaker 3: You know your phone sometimes focuses on something that you
Speaker 3: weren't intending for it to focus on, so make sure
Speaker 3: it's good sharp focus. Photos should be close. Now, it's
Speaker 3: good on like a yard situation, to see the whole yard,
Speaker 3: just so I kind of get a big picture of you.
Speaker 3: But let me get up close. The closer to the
Speaker 3: problem the better, especially if it's something tiny in like
Speaker 3: a little insect or something like that. Let me get close,
Speaker 3: because there's even identifications that I need to get really
Speaker 3: close on plant parts to be able to see and identify.
Speaker 3: But I'll be happy to do. And then just follow
Speaker 3: it up with a phone call and here to guardline,
Speaker 3: and we'll be glad to visit with you, and I'll
Speaker 3: give you a better answer that way. I want to
Speaker 3: remind you too of something and I should talk about
Speaker 3: this ever show, but I you know, things get by
Speaker 3: on me. There's a thing called the Agrolife Extension Service
Speaker 3: here in Texas. Now every state in the Union, back
Speaker 3: in the days of Abraham Lincoln, were given a couple
Speaker 3: of several things. Actually they were given. First of all,
Speaker 3: there is a Land Grant College here in Texas at
Speaker 3: A and M it's LSU. And in Louisiana, Oklahoma State
Speaker 3: Cornell's a Lang Grant College, University of Florida, and so on.
Speaker 3: There's lang Grands in each state. Now with the Lang
Speaker 3: Grant College to teach the people, they also later developed
Speaker 3: the Extension Service, which was basically to take the university
Speaker 3: to the people. So farmers out on a farm aren't
Speaker 3: going to go to the university and get a degree,
Speaker 3: but people could come from there and bring examples of
Speaker 3: new varieties or new ways of farming, and they would
Speaker 3: do a demonstration on the farm, and then all the
Speaker 3: farmers in the region could come to that farm and
Speaker 3: see it. Did it work, did it not? You know,
Speaker 3: what is a good new kind of corn to grow?
Speaker 3: Or whatever it was. It's an ingenious system and it
Speaker 3: helped create the agricultural system we have now that feeds
Speaker 3: a lot of people. And then, of course there was
Speaker 3: a research that was added to that too, a number
Speaker 3: of different acts by Congress. In county of every county
Speaker 3: of Texas is served by an Extension office. Now, if
Speaker 3: you go way out into Texas, it may be that
Speaker 3: one office serves two different counties. But over here, every
Speaker 3: county has an extension office, and in some of the
Speaker 3: counties you have a horticulture agent too. Other counties you
Speaker 3: have ag agents that have to handle horticulture also. But
Speaker 3: Montgomery County, Brass County, Harris County, Fort ben County, Galveston County,
Speaker 3: over in Orange. Who am leaving out? I'm probably leaving
Speaker 3: one out as I'm thinking through the area. Brazoria. Brazoria
Speaker 3: County has a horticulturist as well, and you can go
Speaker 3: there often. There's master gardening programs which you can train
Speaker 3: and be a volunteer master gardner, or you can talk
Speaker 3: to master gardeners to help you with some of the issues.
Speaker 3: But take advantage of that. It's in your county and
Speaker 3: it's good advice. That's connected to research based information at
Speaker 3: the university level, and that is really important, and I
Speaker 3: don't think people take advantage of that enough, but I
Speaker 3: hope you will. We're going to head out to Houston
Speaker 3: now and talk to Gary. Hello, Gary, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 16: Thank you very much. I got in the vehicle and
Speaker 16: turned it on and I think you had just finished
Speaker 16: discussing killing weeds in the yard. I don't know, but anyway,
Speaker 16: I know I've had a hard time knocking them down.
Speaker 16: I've got bownetal and clover and different weeds, and I
Speaker 16: need to find a product that goes after that, not
Speaker 16: just fertilizer.
Speaker 3: Okay, So the cool season weeds that you're seeing now,
Speaker 3: like clover, for example, those are about to die, and
Speaker 3: so trying to spray them once they're blooming and setting
Speaker 3: seeds is a little bit of a difficult kill, but
Speaker 3: it also leaves the seeds they've already set there. So
Speaker 3: as much as possible, if you can pull those out
Speaker 3: and with the seeds real carefully, put them in five
Speaker 3: gallon bucket or something and get them off the property,
Speaker 3: you will do yourself a huge favor for next fall
Speaker 3: when the seeds sprout and you're back in the same
Speaker 3: situation next spring. Now, next spring, much earlier in the year,
Speaker 3: you can do stuff where you're not hand pulling them.
Speaker 3: For things that are perennial, like nettles. Some of the
Speaker 3: nettles are perennial, you need to put something on them
Speaker 3: that will translocate down and kill the whole weed because
Speaker 3: they're the underground plant parts. They'll come back from those
Speaker 3: and broad leaf post emergent products will kill those. I
Speaker 3: have a publication on gardening with skip dot com on herbicides.
Speaker 3: I think it says right now herbicides for the weed wiper. Anyway,
Speaker 3: if you'll go there, you can find the kind of
Speaker 3: weed you have and it'll tell you the products that
Speaker 3: will work. Gary, I got to go to a real
Speaker 3: quick break. If you want to hang on, I'll continue
Speaker 3: this discussion when we come back.
Speaker 12: Appreciate it.
Speaker 3: All right, you are listening to garden Line. Oh you're
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Speaker 3: need it. That's how I like to put it, whether
Speaker 3: it's a fertilizer, a weed control, insecticide, or a fungicide.
Speaker 3: And if you're sitting there thinking well I'm organic, those
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Speaker 14: No.
Speaker 3: Southwest Fertilizer hear this. Southwest Fertilizer has the largest selection
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Speaker 3: to go now out to Memorial and talk to Elaine. Hello, Elaine,
Speaker 3: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 14: Good morning, skip Hard today.
Speaker 3: I'm doing well, thank you good.
Speaker 20: I am noticing a perennial weed called scurvy weed that
Speaker 20: is raising its ugly head again in my flower beds.
Speaker 20: And I've been dealing with it for years and really
Speaker 20: have tried to choke some of it out just by
Speaker 20: putting Asian jasmine things like that that will choke it out.
Speaker 20: Is there any herbicide that I can selectively spray on
Speaker 20: this to keep it at bay?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 3: Boy, that is a tough one. If the weed that
Speaker 3: you're referring to is what I think you're talking about,
Speaker 3: something in the wandering jew family. It's also called day flower.
Speaker 3: That's another common name for these kinds of plants. And
Speaker 3: it's like they're caught between broad leaf and grass. They're
Speaker 3: neither really good a broad leaf or a grass in
Speaker 3: terms of the way they function, So products that go
Speaker 3: after one or the other don't work very well for them. Yeah,
Speaker 3: of course hand digging, but they the pieces break off
Speaker 3: in the ground, so it's very difficult to hand dig
Speaker 3: them unless you just stay on it, and and that
Speaker 3: that makes it very very difficult to do. I'm gonna
Speaker 3: have to look and see what the best option would
Speaker 3: be for those on my website I have let's see,
Speaker 3: I have a thing called Skips weed wiper, and if
Speaker 3: you go there, it shows you how to build one.
Speaker 3: I was just talking about it. Southwest Fertilizer has the
Speaker 3: tool that you build it from. It's real easy to build.
Speaker 3: I mean, you don't have to have a shop or
Speaker 3: any tool skills to do it. And that weed wiper
Speaker 3: is a really really helpful thing for weeds like this
Speaker 3: because you can wipe the product right there onto the
Speaker 3: weed itself. Okay, And so you know, if you have something,
Speaker 3: you know, if you're going to use a product that
Speaker 3: would kill everything, you know, round Up kind of product
Speaker 3: kills everything. Well, if if you have the weed wiper,
Speaker 3: you can just wipe a product like that onto the
Speaker 3: weed to kill it without getting it on desirable plants.
Speaker 3: And so that's one of the reasons I had that
Speaker 3: little publication on there. So what products are going to
Speaker 3: be the best to use, I think probably other than
Speaker 3: trying to continually handig and control them. And a post
Speaker 3: emergent product like the glyphosate, which is one of the
Speaker 3: brands is round Up. A Roundup no longer has glyphis eate.
Speaker 3: I know that's confusing. It should be confusing because it's
Speaker 3: silly that they would do that. There's another product called gluphoscinate.
Speaker 3: Glue phoscinate is another ingredient. Now I'm going to make
Speaker 3: it easy for you. Go to my website, Guarding with
Speaker 3: Skip dot com and look for a publication called Herbicides
Speaker 3: for Skip's weed Wiper, and they are there. Like so,
Speaker 3: if you look for glyphas, it's no longer round up.
Speaker 3: They're the products that contain it that are on the publication.
Speaker 3: If you look for loop fascinate, it names the products
Speaker 3: that you'll find in the garden centers too, that are
Speaker 3: glue fascinate. For example, I would do one of those
Speaker 3: two so that you know that some people get a
Speaker 3: little benefit from two four D products on it, but
Speaker 3: I would try those other two first. And just know this,
Speaker 3: you're going to need to stay on it. You're gonna
Speaker 3: need to stay on it, but don't spray these because
Speaker 3: both of those will kill everything. Two four D will
Speaker 3: kill any broad leaf weed you have or broad leaf
Speaker 3: desirable plant that you have also. So that's why the weed.
Speaker 20: Wiper okay, very good, Well as I said, it has yeah, yeah,
Speaker 20: it really does overtake. And the more you dig, unless
Speaker 20: you can really dig down to the tap root, it
Speaker 20: does break off, and then then it begins to spread
Speaker 20: even more.
Speaker 3: So yeah, yeah, I know the physical control is you know,
Speaker 3: hand removing anything can help. But in this particular weed,
Speaker 3: you probably go crazy before you get rid of it,
Speaker 3: that's for sure.
Speaker 20: Okay, well there'll there's another season for battle.
Speaker 14: Thank you.
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Speaker 3: let's see, oh I wanted to mention Nitrofos Superturf. Nitrofos
Speaker 3: Superturf is a nineteen four to ten fertilizer in a
Speaker 3: silver bag that works for sixteen weeks, a long time.
Speaker 3: It's time to put it out. It's on my schedule
Speaker 3: at gardening with skip dot com. Get you some super Turf,
Speaker 3: follow the label, put it out, and you are set
Speaker 3: until the fall fertilization comes, especially if you return those clippings.
Speaker 3: And I already tell you night Foss products are available
Speaker 3: all over the place, especially when you go to an
Speaker 3: asardware store. You're gonna find typically a night Foss products
Speaker 3: like the super Turf silver bag. Well another hours in
Speaker 3: the books. We come back for our last hour in
Speaker 3: just a moment. I want to remind you that next Saturday,
Speaker 3: Next Saturday, the twelfth, I'll be at RCW Nurseries. RCW
Speaker 3: Nurseries is at the corner of Tamba Parkway, FM two
Speaker 3: forty nine and belt Way eight. I'll be there from
Speaker 3: noon to two. But don't eat before you get there.
Speaker 3: Show up. They're gonna have a barbecue lunch. They're gonna
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Speaker 3: right there. That that's cool. Bring your samples and pictures
Speaker 3: and things. Let's have a good time helping you have
Speaker 3: a bountiful garden and a beautiful landscape.
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Speaker 3: here on guarden Line is to help you have success
Speaker 3: that would help you have fun too, to make gardening
Speaker 3: a hobby that you really really enjoy, and you know what,
Speaker 3: one of the cool things one of them many cool
Speaker 3: things about gardening as a hobby is is that you
Speaker 3: can do whatever corner of the gardening world do you
Speaker 3: want to do. I mean, you may be into the
Speaker 3: big and the gaudy, the tropicals and just giant flowers
Speaker 3: and colors and all of that. Good do that. Maybe
Speaker 3: your gardening is all done indoors. You've got some moth
Speaker 3: orchids and you're looking at new kinds. You're trying to
Speaker 3: grow some unusual special plants under the lights indoors, like
Speaker 3: African violets and a pieces. By the way, we never
Speaker 3: talk about apieces, but that's a cool plant too, to
Speaker 3: grow indoors. Maybe you're into edibles. If you can't eat it,
Speaker 3: you don't want to grow it, so herbs and vegetables
Speaker 3: and fruit trees are your thing. Maybe you would like
Speaker 3: to try bones eye, where we take a tree and
Speaker 3: make it a little miniature tree, and it's just kind
Speaker 3: of a little tending hobby that's really fun. Do you
Speaker 3: see what I mean? I mean, I'm just throwing examples
Speaker 3: out from all over the world here. Gardening is a
Speaker 3: great hobby, and no matter what you're interested in, that's it.
Speaker 14: Now.
Speaker 3: Most people just want a pretty place they want to
Speaker 3: drive by and be proud of the place they have.
Speaker 3: They want to sit in the backyard and enjoy the
Speaker 3: sights and the smells and the sounds of gardening. And
Speaker 3: you can do that too, and we can help you
Speaker 3: have success.
Speaker 8: So here we go.
Speaker 3: Uh oh, we left the gate open. Phone's let up.
Speaker 8: Here.
Speaker 3: We're going to go to Margaret first off the top
Speaker 3: of the bat. Hey, Margaret, how can we help you today?
Speaker 3: Welcome to garden Linehi, Well.
Speaker 14: Thank you Skip. I'm so glad to talk to you.
Speaker 4: I am recently one hundred percent in charge of my
Speaker 4: yard and so I have two questions. The first, as
Speaker 4: I do with the Zoysa grass that my Saint Augustine
Speaker 4: was replaced I'd say about ten years ago, but it
Speaker 4: looks like it's getting a few bald spots, and I'm
Speaker 4: also getting some weeds in there as it's coming back,
Speaker 4: and so I'm just trying to and I've also been
Speaker 4: told that the best way to mow it is actually
Speaker 4: with an old fashioned hand push mower. So I'm just
Speaker 4: trying to get a handle on the best way to
Speaker 4: take care of the zoisia.
Speaker 3: Okay, is there any chance you know the name of
Speaker 3: the Zuysia variety that you have.
Speaker 17: No it was planted.
Speaker 3: It's okay if you don't. Yeah, do you know that
Speaker 3: nows Zuysia has come in two types. One type has
Speaker 3: a broader leaf, a little wider than bermuda grass. The
Speaker 3: other type has a very narrow leaf, narrower than bermuda grass.
Speaker 3: Do you know which of those it might be?
Speaker 4: It makes me think of bermuda when I see it.
Speaker 4: That's more what I that's that's kind of where my
Speaker 4: mind goes.
Speaker 12: I think it's.
Speaker 4: I think it's actually narrower.
Speaker 3: Okay, a fine texture. Zoysia, So a couple of things.
Speaker 3: First of all, Zoeza is a very tough grass plant.
Speaker 3: It's think of it more. Oh, this isn't a fair description,
Speaker 3: but think of it more like jute twine. So you
Speaker 3: need a good sharp mower to cut it, you know,
Speaker 3: and for it to cut and do well. So a
Speaker 3: good sharp mowing blade is important. And a moderate amount
Speaker 3: of fertilizer, not even as much as you would use
Speaker 3: on Saint Augustine, but it does need to be fertilized.
Speaker 3: Zoisio grass. The more often you mow it, the better
Speaker 3: it looks, and the shorter you mow it. The more
Speaker 3: often you have to mow it. Now, because it's a
Speaker 3: dense grass, you can get into certain types of disease problems.
Speaker 3: You know, all grasses have the potential for disease, and
Speaker 3: it could be that something like a take all patches
Speaker 3: in there could be some other type of fungal disease
Speaker 3: that's going on. Without seeing a picture of it or
Speaker 3: seeing a sample of it, it's kind of hard to
Speaker 3: know for sure. And I don't know what part of
Speaker 3: the Houston area you're in, but wherever you are, all
Speaker 3: up in the woods, okay, Well, it's an excellent grass
Speaker 3: for your area. And it puts up with quite a
Speaker 3: bit of shade too, not as much as Saint Augustine,
Speaker 3: but pretty close, pretty close to it. So I don't
Speaker 3: know if we're looking at some disease issues and I
Speaker 3: should send you out to spray a fungicide on it,
Speaker 3: or if this is just some other type of thing.
Speaker 3: The little bare spots are they very small, and the
Speaker 3: whole grass blade just turns tan brown, or its larger
Speaker 3: and more irregular.
Speaker 4: You know, it's irregular, and it's almost as if the
Speaker 4: grass is not coming back. And I did fertilize it.
Speaker 3: Okay, so okay.
Speaker 4: And then I noticed the other day when I was
Speaker 4: raking up I have an oak that just dropped a
Speaker 4: million leaves recently. And I noticed when I was raking
Speaker 4: up some of the debris that it was almost like
Speaker 4: it wanted to come up, like I could pull it up,
Speaker 4: Like it wasn't well real.
Speaker 3: Good, yeah, all right, well, Margaret, I tell you, I'm
Speaker 3: not going to be able to give you a definitive
Speaker 3: answer here. My gut feeling is it's probably a combination
Speaker 3: of shade that weakens the plant a little bit because
Speaker 3: you can't get the energy, and maybe take All root Rot.
Speaker 3: If you go to Gardening with Skip dot com. That's
Speaker 3: my website, Gardening with Skip dot com, there is a
Speaker 3: lawn pest, disease and weed management guide. Look at the
Speaker 3: disease line at take All Root Rot, and I would
Speaker 3: follow that. It won't hurt anything. If it's not take
Speaker 3: All Root Rot to follow it. But I think you
Speaker 3: may have some disease in there, and that would be
Speaker 3: what you want to use, and the information is on there,
Speaker 3: but I'm gonna have to run. I do appreciate your call, though,
Speaker 3: and I wish you I wish you well with that. Well, wow,
Speaker 3: this this is going kind of quick here on this
Speaker 3: next or this first segment. Those of you out there,
Speaker 3: Jim and Meadows Place, you'll be the first up when
Speaker 3: we come right back.
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Speaker 3: Alrighty, we're back. Welcome back to the garden line. Listen,
Speaker 3: it is time to do your spring fertilization. But generally
Speaker 3: when we're talking about that we're talking about the big
Speaker 3: macro nutrients nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, but it's also a
Speaker 3: good time to get out azamite. Asamite is a trace
Speaker 3: mineral supplement its mind out of the ground up in Utah,
Speaker 3: and it contains trace minerals things like boron, for example.
Speaker 3: You never see that on a fertilizer bag, but asimite
Speaker 3: does contain that and many others. Now, a bag of
Speaker 3: asmite covers about six to twelve thousand square feet ALA
Speaker 3: because you're just using it at a very very low rate.
Speaker 3: That's what trace minerals are, but that doesn't mean they're
Speaker 3: not essential because they are. Build your soul bank account
Speaker 3: with azamite. You can go to Azmite Texas for more information,
Speaker 3: and you can pretty much go anywhere and find it. Nurseries,
Speaker 3: garden centers, feed stores, ace hardware stores, Southwist, Fertilizer, all
Speaker 3: these places are going to carry asmite. I was looking
Speaker 3: in my back patio yesterday. I had a little stagnant
Speaker 3: fountain there that I just kind of cranked up and
Speaker 3: started running and didn't really get it cleaned out good
Speaker 3: like I should, And it was sitting still because we
Speaker 3: had the fountain off and I looked and because it
Speaker 3: was still, mosquitos laid eggs in it, and there's little
Speaker 3: wrigglers in the water. Now what do you do, Well,
Speaker 3: you can treat that water. You can use a mosquito
Speaker 3: dunk in the water to treat it, or you can
Speaker 3: go long term and call Pest Brothers. And why do
Speaker 3: I say long term, because they'll come out and set
Speaker 3: up a bucket that not only attracts mosquitos to the bucket,
Speaker 3: so they lay eggs there that will never turn into
Speaker 3: mosquitos because it's got the substances in it to stop that.
Speaker 3: And then when the mosquitoes fly off, they have something
Speaker 3: that's a fungus attached to them that's going to kill
Speaker 3: the mosquito. Not good bugs, just the mosquito. It just
Speaker 3: works some mosquitoes. And then they can they carry something
Speaker 3: to the little bits of water, like my little fountain
Speaker 3: for example, it gets in the water. Mosquitoes can't reproduce
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Speaker 3: Place now and we're going to talk to Jim. Hey, Jim,
Speaker 3: welcome to Gardenline.
Speaker 18: Morning. Skip quick question.
Speaker 2: I have about ten foot twelve inch high foxdale fern
Speaker 2: in my flower bed looking to improve their growth. Uh
Speaker 2: Internet recommends a three two one fertilizer. What's the best
Speaker 2: granular or liquid fertilizer you'd recommend for those foxtale ferns.
Speaker 3: You know, Jim, the ferns are pretty flexible. You just
Speaker 3: don't want to use a lot of AsSalt based type
Speaker 3: on them. You can go with an organic product like
Speaker 3: a microlife type product in there that would do fine.
Speaker 3: You could go with a synthetic product that has mostly
Speaker 3: the nitrogen is the more important, but has a little
Speaker 3: bit of the other two numbers and it'll do fine too.
Speaker 3: Just don't overdo it. And ferns they are especially happy
Speaker 3: to live off of decaying organic matter and the soil
Speaker 3: and getting the nutrients from that too. So just a
Speaker 3: little boost with some nitrogen primarily is what they need.
Speaker 2: What about adding a little as of mite too, that.
Speaker 3: Wouldn't hurt, But just stay with the label rate. It
Speaker 3: doesn't It doesn't take a lot of the azmite to
Speaker 3: do that. I would probably say, And I realize your
Speaker 3: area isn't this big, but on a vegetable garden, we
Speaker 3: go ten pounds per thousand square feet, so one pound
Speaker 3: per hundred square feet, and a pint's a pound of azamite,
Speaker 3: So a pint of azamite per hundred square feet, and
Speaker 3: then you just you know, take it down whatever size
Speaker 3: your fern.
Speaker 2: Area is, Okay, Ok, appreciate the help.
Speaker 3: Good luck with that. Yeah, thanks for the call. Appreciate
Speaker 3: that a lot. Let's go now to Bonnie and Claire Lake. Hey, Bonnie,
Speaker 3: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 14: Well, good morning Skip. Yesterday I didn't work in the
Speaker 14: garden because it was raining, and so I ended up
Speaker 14: at Moss Nursery and ended up bringing home five Peggy
Speaker 14: Martin Rose this they're about three to four feet. I
Speaker 14: wanted to because they're gorgeous right now right, and so
Speaker 14: I wanted to cover the fence line and thinking of
Speaker 14: my thirty to forty feet a fence line in the
Speaker 14: back of our house, and so just wondering give me
Speaker 14: tips on planting. How far apart the plant do I
Speaker 14: need lattice behind.
Speaker 3: Them, So that's the lattice tends to ride away, even
Speaker 3: if it's treated wood and time, it kind of rides away.
Speaker 3: I like to use any kind of a rail fence
Speaker 3: I think looks especially attractive for them, or livestock panels.
Speaker 3: I've used those as well, you know, in their wire
Speaker 3: galvanized wire material, but just something to support them. But
Speaker 3: something strong, because Peggy Martin puts out a lot of growth,
Speaker 3: and any kind of a vining rose or any vining
Speaker 3: plant needs a good strong support, you know, as far
Speaker 3: as how far apart. In order to get a faster
Speaker 3: coverage between them, I might put them somewhere between maybe
Speaker 3: twelve and fifteen feet apart. They'll easily cover that and
Speaker 3: then some but that that gives you a little bit
Speaker 3: faster coverage. If you put them further apart, they cover
Speaker 3: more area. But you know, it's just a trade off
Speaker 3: between how many roses you're going to spend money on
Speaker 3: and how far of an area you need to cover.
Speaker 3: So there's not an exact number for Peggy Martin, but
Speaker 3: she will sprawl. I've got one on my trellis in
Speaker 3: the back and it's now going that's probably gone about
Speaker 3: eight to ten feet and it's not at all finished
Speaker 3: its growth.
Speaker 8: Okay, So a couple other questions.
Speaker 14: Should I untie them, you know they're all bound up
Speaker 14: when I plant them? And also do you recommend fertilizers?
Speaker 14: And how large the hole should be? I think I
Speaker 14: have a gallon thought.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, make a make a hole about twice that big,
Speaker 3: put in some compost material and the whole bed before
Speaker 3: you dig the hole. Don't just put compost in the hole.
Speaker 3: Put it in a wide band across there. Plant them
Speaker 3: in the ground, same level, same depth that they were.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 3: And as far as I'm binding them, I wouldn't do that.
Speaker 3: You know, go ahead and have those trunks come on
Speaker 3: up and then at whatever level you can start to
Speaker 3: train them out to the sides to make a wall
Speaker 3: of foliage or whatever you're going after, whatever look you're
Speaker 3: going after.
Speaker 14: Okay, perfect sounds great, Thank you so much.
Speaker 3: All right, yeah, thank you. I appreciate, appreciate your call
Speaker 3: a lot. Let's see here, I wanted to just a second. Oh,
Speaker 3: I know, I want to tell you about Buchanans. Buchanans plants.
Speaker 3: Buchanans plants has a specialty in natives. I mean that
Speaker 3: nobody has as many natives as buchanan plant does. But
Speaker 3: if you're looking about for annuals like gamprina and zinias
Speaker 3: and petunias and Kleomis and Solosia, aageridam and cosmos in
Speaker 3: Angelonia and large burn America, you see what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: They've got all of that kind of stuff. You got
Speaker 3: shady areas not a problem. Not with Buchanans. They've got
Speaker 3: kalladiums and a bazillion other plants that do well in
Speaker 3: the shape they have a whole area where it's two
Speaker 3: shade plants that do well. How about house plants, every
Speaker 3: kind of foliage you can imagine, cacti, succulents, trailing string
Speaker 3: ofs fill in the blank. They've got all of that.
Speaker 3: Did you know there is a spring cactus. You used
Speaker 3: to call it easter cactus, but spring cactus that's like
Speaker 3: Christmas cactus sorta, but it blooms at Easter time around
Speaker 3: Easter time. They've got those there. You need to get
Speaker 3: some of those. Those are really cool too. With Buchanans,
Speaker 3: you know you're going to find good selection, you know
Speaker 3: you're going to have good advice, and you know you're
Speaker 3: gonna have a good time because it's a fun place
Speaker 3: to wander through and no matter what question you have,
Speaker 3: if you want to grow natives, you can walk in
Speaker 3: there and go, hey, I want to grow natives, but
Speaker 3: I want to grow natives that attract hummingbirds. They probably
Speaker 3: have a list of I don't know, two or three
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Speaker 3: It's on eleventh Street in the Heights. Go to the website.
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Speaker 3: We're going to head out to talk to Deb now
Speaker 3: in the Woodlands. Hello Deb, Welcome to garden Mine.
Speaker 14: Hi Skip.
Speaker 17: I have a flower bed that has shamrocks in it,
Speaker 17: and typically these shamrocks come up. They're very very green,
Speaker 17: and they have the beautiful little white flowers, the little
Speaker 17: dainty white flowers on them, except for this year. Okay,
Speaker 17: this year they look terrible. They barely produce any flowers.
Speaker 17: And right now they're looking very very yellow. And I
Speaker 17: don't know, with the fluctuating weather that we've had, you know,
Speaker 17: from ninety to now to whatever it is today, I
Speaker 17: don't know what the problem is. And they seem to
Speaker 17: be dying back, which is the case for them in
Speaker 17: the summertime. They do die back because they get it
Speaker 17: gets too hot.
Speaker 12: But are the.
Speaker 3: Go ahead? Are the leaves on them? Are the leaves
Speaker 3: on them deb like very small compared to normal under
Speaker 3: the blooms small compared to normal or are they this
Speaker 3: normal size or close to it?
Speaker 17: Well, I'm not getting very many blooms at all, but
Speaker 17: the leaves might be a tab smaller than what they
Speaker 17: have been in the past. But they're not happy, and
Speaker 17: there's there's something wrong there and I don't know what
Speaker 17: it is. And they are starting to that's all.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's a hard plant to kill. So something is
Speaker 3: wrong in the soil. Something something's wrong in the soil.
Speaker 3: Deb It could be that conditions are a little too
Speaker 3: wet for them. It could be some sort of a
Speaker 3: root rot down in there. You might try taking a
Speaker 3: shovel and digging one of the little clumps up and
Speaker 3: just looking at it. They have low bulbs on the bottom,
Speaker 3: and are they Are they nice and white and healthy?
Speaker 3: Are they looking kind of like the brown gray black
Speaker 3: like a cigarette filter stain, you know, that kind of
Speaker 3: ugly stain color, And that would be a root rot
Speaker 3: color of those bulbs. And if it's a root rot,
Speaker 3: there are drenches you can put in the soil that
Speaker 3: fight that root rot, but usually it's brought on by
Speaker 3: conditions that are just too wet for them. I don't
Speaker 3: know anything else that would kill those plants there. People
Speaker 3: call me to ask how to get rid of them
Speaker 3: because they're hard.
Speaker 1: To get rid of.
Speaker 17: Well, they are. They have been scattered throughout my backyard
Speaker 17: and they were from a plant, one little plant pot
Speaker 17: that I dumped out in the yard years ago, and
Speaker 17: then we had to take down a pine tree and
Speaker 17: they got scattered throughout the yard. I mean they're typically, yeah,
Speaker 17: they everywhere, Yeah, And I have some along the that
Speaker 17: are growing where they weren't put and they're growing just
Speaker 17: flye but they're not blooming.
Speaker 12: Yeah, but they are green.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm going to put you on hold. I'm gonna
Speaker 3: put you on hold as we go here, but if
Speaker 3: you want to get an email and send me a
Speaker 3: pickure of them, If I have any other thoughts, I'll
Speaker 3: let you know on it. I kind of think you
Speaker 3: need to do that dig up and check the bottom.
Speaker 3: Why don't you do that before you send me the pictures?
Speaker 3: And maybe if I think it's a root rot, I'll
Speaker 3: recommend something in the email. Okay, thanks a lot, Depp,
Speaker 3: appreciate your call. A lot. Up in tumble is a
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Speaker 3: a while. It's been around since I think nineteen eighty
Speaker 3: nine when the Dovers opened it up up there. It's
Speaker 3: west of Tumbull, about three miles from two forty nine
Speaker 3: as you go in west and it is a store
Speaker 3: that for gardeners carries everything you need in terms of
Speaker 3: fertilizers from nitrofoss or fertilizers from Microlife or Nelson turf
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Speaker 3: course it's a feedstore, all kinds of quality feed. Three
Speaker 3: miles west of Tomball two forty nine D and D
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Speaker 3: I'll be right back. I'm going to take a little
Speaker 3: break here and come back to your calls.
Speaker 2: You all agree, all.
Speaker 3: Right, welcome back to the guardenline. Good heavy with us.
Speaker 3: We are going to dive back in here. We got
Speaker 3: just a half hour of the show left today. Nelson
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Speaker 3: Do you know, they use a lot of different sources
Speaker 3: of nutrient, for example, nitrogen. Some of the products have
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Speaker 3: multiple acidifying sources to ensure not only an even nutrient release,
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Speaker 3: talk to Marie. Hey, Marie, welcome to garden line.
Speaker 24: Hello Skip, Skip, looking for the ideal NPQ or fertilizer
Speaker 24: for my flowering vines. They are about two years old.
Speaker 24: I have the Carolina jasamine star jasmine and coral howey suckle.
Speaker 24: And I've been applying the six two four acid of fire,
Speaker 24: but I'm wondering if I can improve on that.
Speaker 3: That's a good one. That's an microlife product you're talking about, right,
Speaker 3: and kind of a yeah, pinkish bag, Yes, that's yeah, yes,
Speaker 3: would I would just keep using it. It's got an
Speaker 3: extra boost to the first number, nitrogen, and that keeps
Speaker 3: vines vigorous, and it keeps them, you know, producing new growth.
Speaker 3: And many of the types of vines produce their flowers
Speaker 3: on the new growth or last year's growth, and so
Speaker 3: it depends on which type of vine as to which
Speaker 3: way it is. But the bottom line is you want
Speaker 3: to keep them growing, so you keep them producing cycles
Speaker 3: of flowers whenever their normal flowering season is and sixty
Speaker 3: four the acidifying would be perfect for all of those.
Speaker 3: I would just keep using that if I are you.
Speaker 24: How often should I use that?
Speaker 3: You know, I would watch my plants and see how Yeah,
Speaker 3: I would see how they're growing. I mean, if it
Speaker 3: looks like they're just growing wild, then they're happy. Just
Speaker 3: let them be. But you know, as you want to
Speaker 3: boost growth a little bit, go ahead and give them some.
Speaker 3: You could do that as many as I don't know,
Speaker 3: three or four times during the year on plants, or
Speaker 3: you could just do it once or twice. So there's
Speaker 3: not a black and white in the book description on
Speaker 3: how often you would use that. But I would let
Speaker 3: the plants tell me, Hey, I think I need to
Speaker 3: give them a little bit more of a boost and
Speaker 3: watered in real good.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 24: And I'm surprised that my Carolina Jessman is looking a
Speaker 24: little bit chlorotic. Should I give it iron not? Or
Speaker 24: should I give it maybe a little bit more fermilizer.
Speaker 3: When a plant looks chlorotic like that early in the season,
Speaker 3: the soils tend to be a little on the cooler
Speaker 3: side than they will be in summer. We often have
Speaker 3: a little bit of that. If the pH is a
Speaker 3: little high, it can make it chlorotic. If the iron
Speaker 3: levels are a little low, that can make it chlorotic.
Speaker 3: And if the soil is a little soggy and cool,
Speaker 3: that can make it chlorotic. So I can't tell you
Speaker 3: exactly why. When you look at the plant, and maybe
Speaker 3: you I don't know this right now, but when you
Speaker 3: go out and look at it, is it the new
Speaker 3: leaves that are looking yellowish or is it the older
Speaker 3: leaves that are looking more the old leaves. Okay, so
Speaker 3: that's not iron. That is not iron, that's not acid
Speaker 3: problem of highph that's not on iron deficiency. That is
Speaker 3: just older leaves that are being cast off. And a
Speaker 3: lot of plants that are semi evergreen to evergreen, they
Speaker 3: have seasons where they cast off the older leaves. Now
Speaker 3: certainly getting dry and then wet again whatnot can cause
Speaker 3: that you and see that on Apotheus ivy in your house.
Speaker 3: When it gets dry and then you water it, all
Speaker 3: of a sudden after that the older leaves start turning
Speaker 3: yellow and falling off. That's just part of the soil
Speaker 3: moisture fluctuation. I wouldn't worry about it a lot unless
Speaker 3: it's severe. Your plants are probably fine. That's a native plant.
Speaker 3: It's tough Carolina adjustment, and I think it's going to
Speaker 3: be okay, wonderful.
Speaker 14: Thank you so very much, Skipping.
Speaker 2: I appreciate it.
Speaker 3: All right, Marie, thank you for the call. I appreciate that.
Speaker 3: If you've got a hanker in to do some outdoor containers,
Speaker 3: and I hope you do. I like that word hankering.
Speaker 3: By the way if you got a hankering to do
Speaker 3: outdoor containers, a couple of tips. Number one, a big container,
Speaker 3: more soil volume, more growing media volume means so when
Speaker 3: we get into our hot summer weather, you're not watering
Speaker 3: three times a day to keep the darn thing alive
Speaker 3: or out of stress. More soil is important. Good drainage
Speaker 3: is critical. That's number two, and number three is a
Speaker 3: good quality soil mix that also drains well but holds moisture.
Speaker 3: Jungle land, flour and vegetable planting soil is just like
Speaker 3: the name implies. If you're going to grow it in
Speaker 3: the container outdoors, you want jungle l and flour and
Speaker 3: vegetable planting soil. I don't care if it's a flower
Speaker 3: or vegetable or not. That is the soil you're going
Speaker 3: to use. And it's going to drain well, it's going
Speaker 3: to hold moisture well. It works. You're going to find
Speaker 3: it as well as other nitophce products in many places.
Speaker 3: You go to a place like M and D Beamer
Speaker 3: down in Sagemont, or you go to D and D
Speaker 3: Feed and Tomball, or you go to Plants for All Seasons,
Speaker 3: the one where Luetta and two forty nine come together.
Speaker 3: Maybe Ace Hardware and Sinco Ranch or auspas Ace up
Speaker 3: in the woodlands. These are all places that carry night
Speaker 3: to FoST products. I'm going to go down to Eagle
Speaker 3: Lake now and talk to Nancy. Hello, Nancy, Welcome to
Speaker 3: garden line.
Speaker 2: Good morning.
Speaker 14: I have six or seven ten to twenty foot crate
Speaker 14: myrtles and I went out to feed them, and there
Speaker 14: are giant fire ant beds at the base of these trees.
Speaker 14: Do I put the regular fire killer on it?
Speaker 8: Or is that going to hurt my trees?
Speaker 3: Yes, if it's a base or a drench that's made
Speaker 3: for fire ants, it will not hurt your crate myrtles.
Speaker 3: It will not. It will now what I would do.
Speaker 3: It will not hurt your crate myrtles. If it's a
Speaker 3: product or for fire ants, it's not.
Speaker 14: No.
Speaker 3: If you pour boiling water on it like some people do, well, yeah,
Speaker 3: that's that's different. But the products won't hurt. Here's the thing, though,
Speaker 3: Use a bait. That's the most important. It takes a
Speaker 3: little longer to work, but it does a better job.
Speaker 3: You can use mound treatments and they will kill that mound.
Speaker 3: But around your yard, especially after the rain we just got.
Speaker 3: You're gonna see fire ants popping up everywhere that you
Speaker 3: didn't know we're there because they're working underground that they
Speaker 3: hadn't boiled up to the surface yet, if you will,
Speaker 3: and a bait gets even the unseen mounds, which is
Speaker 3: why it's better to use a bait on an infrequent
Speaker 3: basis A good good bait product over time to manage
Speaker 3: your fireant problems.
Speaker 8: Okay, what's the bait?
Speaker 3: A bait and bait? Oh yeah, yeah, you're yeah, you
Speaker 3: go to go to your u. Let's see how you're
Speaker 3: not too far away from Uh, how far is Eagle
Speaker 3: Lake from? I haven't done Eagle Lake on a map
Speaker 3: ever since while so left the lake, I've lost track
Speaker 3: of where they are. Remember while seed out there was
Speaker 3: that cool or what?
Speaker 6: All right?
Speaker 3: Let me hang it, let me just oh okay, well
Speaker 3: all right, so let's me okay, Well, you probably are
Speaker 3: going to find a fire ant bait at Nelson's water
Speaker 3: gardens and Katie, that would be a good place. I'm
Speaker 3: sure that you could find it. Uh, it just depends
Speaker 3: on you know what direction from Eagle Lake. If you're
Speaker 3: pretty far out there, you go down to I know
Speaker 3: in Wharton, there's an Ace Hardware store in Wharton, and
Speaker 3: you got some other Ace hardware stores in that general
Speaker 3: area that are going to carry them. And it may
Speaker 3: be Andro, it may be called Extinguish, it may be
Speaker 3: there's a lot of brands, but there are fire ant
Speaker 3: baits and follow the label and you'll have success. Okay,
Speaker 3: I've got to run. I'm up against a hard break. Yeah,
Speaker 3: thank you. Have a good day. All right, folks, I'll
Speaker 3: be right back, David. Your first s up? All righty,
Speaker 3: welcome back to garden Line. We're going to jump right
Speaker 3: in here. Last segment of the day and of the weekend.
Speaker 3: Hey have you been to Growers Outlet? And Willis? I
Speaker 3: tell you about it all the time on garden Line.
Speaker 3: If you're in Conroe, the Woodlands, even up in New
Speaker 3: Waverley out at Lake Conroe. Oh gosh, April Sound all
Speaker 3: those neighborhoods out that way, that whole region. Growers Outlet
Speaker 3: is a really cool garden center. They have a lot
Speaker 3: of good stuff, everything you would expect from a good
Speaker 3: garden center. Right now, they've got some beautiful Peggy Martin
Speaker 3: roses that have come in. They have some beautiful Chinese
Speaker 3: fringe trees that may be one of the most popular
Speaker 3: trees this spring, and for good reason. Growers Outlet and
Speaker 3: Willis has the things you need. Do you need flowering plants?
Speaker 3: Do you need vegetables? Do you need fruit? They've got those.
Speaker 3: Do you have a for example, a beautiful bugainbe hanging
Speaker 3: basket or a giant macho fern hanging They have some
Speaker 3: good giant macho ferns that get in every in the
Speaker 3: warm season. As things warm up. They probably have a
Speaker 3: few of men right now. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 3: Growers Outlet in Willis Grower, that's the website. Growers Outlet
Speaker 3: in Willis one of the few places you can go
Speaker 3: to a garden center and you look and it tells
Speaker 3: you here's what we have in stock, and here's how
Speaker 3: much it costs. Really nice. I'm glad they do that.
Speaker 3: I think that's a really cool idea. Let's head out now.
Speaker 3: We're going to go to Tomball and talk. If I
Speaker 3: can turn my mouse around the right way, talk to David.
Speaker 2: Hey.
Speaker 3: David, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 12: Good morning, sir Hey.
Speaker 13: For the last two years I've been putting down the
Speaker 13: barricade religiously and this year.
Speaker 3: Right now, it seems like they left at.
Speaker 13: An ingredient or something. I've got the healthiest weeds in
Speaker 13: the neighborhood, and I'm going, did I do something wrong?
Speaker 13: And what can I do with some right now? Because okay,
Speaker 13: I put fertilizers down, I got the greenest grass and
Speaker 13: the greenest weeds ever.
Speaker 6: So I mean, it just seemed like something went wrong
Speaker 6: with me.
Speaker 3: You must have missed one timing somehow. I don't know.
Speaker 3: Barricade stops the seeds from becoming weeds, and so maybe
Speaker 3: the weeds you see right now you would have had
Speaker 3: to do barricade in last October, early October to stop
Speaker 3: them from coming up. Now, the post emergent you can
Speaker 3: do post emergent products. But as we get further and
Speaker 3: further into the season and all those weeds are blooming
Speaker 3: and setting seeds, the post emergents don't work as well.
Speaker 3: And so that leaves us with the unhappy task of
Speaker 3: him pulling the weeds out to try to get all
Speaker 3: those seeds out of there, or just wait, they're gonna
Speaker 3: die quick anyway, and you know, mow and ignore them
Speaker 3: and deal with the extra seeds next fall. With the
Speaker 3: barricade application. Do you know that by any chance? Do
Speaker 3: you know the name the types of weed species you've
Speaker 3: got some.
Speaker 13: Of them I've got, I've got, I've got tons of
Speaker 13: bullmetal I've got I've got these little grassy things that
Speaker 13: got little purple flowers, and I got these.
Speaker 12: Little grassy things.
Speaker 13: I got some little yellow flowers, and then other stuff
Speaker 13: as well.
Speaker 12: But I mean, it's like an infestation in my yard,
Speaker 12: and I'm going, good, what did.
Speaker 3: I do wrong?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, if it's if it's grassy, you know there's not
Speaker 3: there's not a post emerging spray to kill the grass
Speaker 3: in the grass without killing your lawn grass. In other words,
Speaker 3: Uh so, uh, you know, David, I don't know on
Speaker 3: this one. Probably the best thing would be for me
Speaker 3: to look at some of the weeds, specifically pictures of
Speaker 3: them and things. I'm going to be at RCW Nursery
Speaker 3: next weekend from twelve to two on Saturday. Next Saturday
Speaker 3: from twelve to two. If you wanted to bag up
Speaker 3: a bunch of those, bring them down, let me look
Speaker 3: at them, and let's let me have an eye on
Speaker 3: them and really give you a better answer than I
Speaker 3: can do. Kind of guessing at what you might have
Speaker 3: out there well, and have the product on hand to
Speaker 3: bring me your weeds. All right, now, I know, I know,
Speaker 3: you know guys a lot of times, you know, they'll
Speaker 3: get flowers and bring them to somebody as a gift.
Speaker 3: Not many guys bring people weeds. But I'm asking you
Speaker 3: to do that. All right, bring me a bouquet. I'll
Speaker 3: see you next Saturday. Hey, don't eat lunch. Yeah, me too.
Speaker 3: Don't eat lunch because they are going to have barbecue
Speaker 3: sandwiches and some refreshments and stuff. So you get a
Speaker 3: free lunch out of the deal. You bet, all right,
Speaker 3: Bye bye. If you're looking for a product that is
Speaker 3: organic that dissolves into the soil and really turns your
Speaker 3: long green, Sweet Green is a product that can do that.
Speaker 3: It is a molosses type based product. So it's carbon
Speaker 3: chains which make beneficial microbes really happy. Smells great by
Speaker 3: the way, and it's it's pretty s by nitrophoss and
Speaker 3: it therefore, it's available all over town. I mean, you know,
Speaker 3: you go to places like Langham Creek, Ace Hardware on
Speaker 3: five twenty nine, Court Hardware on South Maine and Stafford
Speaker 3: m and d out there in Rosenberg on Avenue. I
Speaker 3: these are all places that carry nitopos products like the
Speaker 3: sweet Green, and it does work. I do like the smell.
Speaker 19: You.
Speaker 3: Normally you don't talk about furlies. We don't talk about
Speaker 3: how they smell, how we like the smell. But that's
Speaker 3: a good one and with that eleven percent nitrogen you
Speaker 3: get a really nice boost of green. I was mentioning
Speaker 3: all those ACE harder strokes. You know, ACE is the
Speaker 3: place that's their motto. ACE is a place. Sure, atleast
Speaker 3: it used to be the motto probably still is, but
Speaker 3: ACE is a place for it. You fill in the blank.
Speaker 3: ACE is a place for lawn fertilizer if they carry
Speaker 3: the products you hear me talk about on Guardline. ACE
Speaker 3: is a place for pest control, disease control, preventative weed
Speaker 3: control that's pre emergent, killing existing weeds that's a post emergent.
Speaker 3: ACE is a place for all your outdoor equipment, power equipment,
Speaker 3: you know, everything from extension courts to strings of lights
Speaker 3: to a just beautiful ambiyonce creating things for your back
Speaker 3: patio and indoors as well. ACE is the place for that.
Speaker 3: You can go to the website ACE Hardware Texas. Don't
Speaker 3: forget Texas dot Com. Acehardware Texas dot Com and our
Speaker 3: local Ace Hardware group is there. When I say local,
Speaker 3: I mean we got ACE Hardware's all the way out
Speaker 3: in Orange and all the way up in Willis, and
Speaker 3: all the way over in Victoria and Rockport and Galveston
Speaker 3: and certainly all around the greater Houston area. Here find
Speaker 3: your Ace Hardware. Maybe one like Brenham Ace Hardware out
Speaker 3: there in Brenham, Texas, all Star Ace Hardware and Spring Victoria,
Speaker 3: Acehardworo on Novarro Street, the K and M Ace Hardware
Speaker 3: and Kingwood, Wharton Feed and Ace. I was there a
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Speaker 3: out there, bake Cliff Lace on Grand Avenue in Bakecliff. YEP,
Speaker 3: there's a lot of Aces, Ace Hardware Texas dot Com.
Speaker 3: And when you come out of there, you're going to
Speaker 3: have the stuff you need to have a beautiful, bountiful
Speaker 3: garden and landscape. Always like going into Ace hard Restrict,
Speaker 3: So it always surprises me what they have. You know,
Speaker 3: I'm in there for gardening stuff, that's my primary reason.
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Speaker 3: compost top per center to go. All right, well that's
Speaker 3: the last song of the day for me. That means
Speaker 3: skip you better hurry up, time to go. I'm going
Speaker 3: to be at RCW Nurseries next Saturday from twelve to two.
Speaker 3: Come on out and see me. A barbecue lunch there
Speaker 3: for you, provided by RCW and refreshments. They're going to
Speaker 3: have ten percent off on their roses next Saturday only.
Speaker 3: It's a one day sale, so come on out and
Speaker 3: see me. Of course we'll do the diagnosis and the
Speaker 3: identification and helping you the things we'll visit about the
Speaker 3: plant things you want to see that you're going to
Speaker 3: see a beautiful nursery. You have lots of beautiful plants
Speaker 3: as well. Look forward. I hope you can make it
Speaker 3: out there next Saturday, twelve to two. RCW Nursery