Speaker 1: Necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised on
Speaker 1: this program. Welcome to Katie r h. Garden Line with
Speaker 1: Skip Richter.
Speaker 2: It's just watch him as suprazy not sorry.
Speaker 3: Good morning, Good morning on a good Sunday morning. I'm
Speaker 3: glad you are with us today. You're listening to Garden Line.
Speaker 3: I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we're here to help
Speaker 3: you have a bountiful garden and a beautiful landscape and
Speaker 3: have fun in the process. If you'd like to give
Speaker 3: us a call, we're here to answer your gardening question.
Speaker 3: Seven to one three two one two k t r H.
Speaker 3: Seven to one, three, two to one two k t
Speaker 3: r H. I want to thank everybody down there in Wharton,
Speaker 3: Texas at the Ace Hardware Store, Uh Wharton Feed and
Speaker 3: Ace Hardware Store. It's called and boy, thats a nice
Speaker 3: new place.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: They've they've relocated and expanded into an A store and
Speaker 3: it is loaded with products and stuff. I was really
Speaker 3: impressed walking around and seeing everything. You're fortunate done in
Speaker 3: that area to get an Ace Hardware store to provide
Speaker 3: all those kinds of things that Ace provides. Thanks for
Speaker 3: having us out, first of all. Secondly, thanks to everybody
Speaker 3: who came out a good time. It was an enthusiastic
Speaker 3: crowd and really enjoyed visiting with you, answering gardening questions
Speaker 3: and whatnot. I appreciate also nitro Fross providing plenty of
Speaker 3: giveaways for that as well as the Ace Hardware store there.
Speaker 3: We had a giveaways of plants, we had just had
Speaker 3: a lot of different things people were getting. It was
Speaker 3: a it was a good day to come out and
Speaker 3: talk gardening. Well, here we are on Sunday and we're
Speaker 3: talking about looking at a week it's going to have
Speaker 3: some warm temperatures in it. And remember that I always
Speaker 3: tell you this, look at the calendar, not at the thermometer.
Speaker 3: Look at the calendar, not at thermometer. And what does
Speaker 3: the calendar say. The calendar says we're right at the
Speaker 3: beginning of October, and that is when pre emergent products
Speaker 3: for weed control need to go out. That's when our
Speaker 3: fall fertilization begins to go out. Actually late September early October.
Speaker 3: We look at fall fertilization. It can continue on into
Speaker 3: October if you like with the fertilizer. Don't delay though
Speaker 3: on the pre emergence because when you delay on pre emergence.
Speaker 3: You missed the boat. It's like my baseball analogy. You
Speaker 3: got to start swinging before the ball gets to the
Speaker 3: plate if you want to hit it. If you wait
Speaker 3: until it's already there, it's too late, you're going to miss.
Speaker 3: And let me tell you this. The ball is on
Speaker 3: the way, folks. That is true. NITROPHSS has their three
Speaker 3: step program to deal with things like this. First of all,
Speaker 3: there's a fall special fertilizer design for fall design to
Speaker 3: send your turf into the summer with more resilience, with
Speaker 3: more carbohydrates for cold protection, and therefore to come out
Speaker 3: in the spring better. This is something a lot of
Speaker 3: people don't know or think about, and that is that
Speaker 3: the fall fertilization is what your grass uses in the
Speaker 3: spring to come out of winter. That's the stored energy
Speaker 3: that helps your grass be stronger coming out in the spring.
Speaker 3: Second step from the Nitropas three step is barricade, which
Speaker 3: is a pre emergent herbicide. You put it down, you
Speaker 3: water it in, put enough water on there to get
Speaker 3: it down in the soil surface. You use half inch
Speaker 3: of water. You can just make sure you get it
Speaker 3: in there a little more as fine, it's not going
Speaker 3: to wash away. Those things are made to cling to
Speaker 3: the soil particles and when they do we try to
Speaker 3: sprout and it can't. But you got to get it
Speaker 3: down before the weed tries to sprout, because it's a
Speaker 3: pre emergent, before the weed emerges. Okay, if you already
Speaker 3: got weeds, that's a post emergent. That's a different approach,
Speaker 3: different timing, different approach. Pre emergent is barricade and it's
Speaker 3: in the fall, and timing is critical. Third step of
Speaker 3: the nitroposs three step is the fungicide called Eagle nitrophoss
Speaker 3: Eagle turf fungicide. It is a systemic meaning the grass
Speaker 3: takes it up, holds on to it so that when
Speaker 3: brown patch or large patches it's called a pierce, or
Speaker 3: when take all root rot tries to infect, you've already
Speaker 3: got the protective fungicide in there to prevent infection by
Speaker 3: those diseases. Again, timing is critical. If you wait until
Speaker 3: brown circles appear, fungicides are not going to turn brown
Speaker 3: circles green. They prevent brown circles. So you got to
Speaker 3: get down ahead of it. We get a cul front,
Speaker 3: get over it. The rain we're going to at San
Speaker 3: brown Patch, so you got to get that thing down
Speaker 3: ahead of it. One two, three, Night Fruss three step.
Speaker 3: Now you're going to find night Fuss three step and
Speaker 3: in chinned gardens and Richmond Shades of Texas, in the
Speaker 3: woodlands and plants for all seasons up there on Tomball Parkway.
Speaker 3: Whatever you do. If you're going to do something, don't
Speaker 3: delay because when you delay, what if they say he
Speaker 3: who hesitates is lost? I guess, and that is certainly now.
Speaker 3: The fertilizer, you know, if you delay on that, it's
Speaker 3: not the end of the world. Don't delay too long.
Speaker 3: But if you delay, it's not the end of the world.
Speaker 3: But boy, when it comes to preventing weed seeds and
Speaker 3: preventing diseases, don't delay. Get it done at the right time.
Speaker 3: You can go to my schedule online. For those of
Speaker 3: you who've never been to gardening with skip dot com,
Speaker 3: I encourage you to go. The free schedules are up there.
Speaker 3: The free nutsedge control information is up there, the free
Speaker 3: weed wiper is up there. The products to use in
Speaker 3: controlling various kinds of weed, it's up there and free,
Speaker 3: so bookmark that. Check back periodically. We are planning some
Speaker 3: new additions coming soon to the website, and I'd like
Speaker 3: you to be up to speed on it. You know,
Speaker 3: we answer gardening questions here online, but a lot of
Speaker 3: questions it's too long of an answer to try to
Speaker 3: talk through on the air. With all these product names
Speaker 3: and things that you know, you can't write it all
Speaker 3: down fast enough. That's why I put those things on
Speaker 3: the web so I can just point you to that
Speaker 3: and you can have success. Plus, you know, the day
Speaker 3: after the day after I hear something genses you remembering
Speaker 3: it or not always that great, right, especially if it's
Speaker 3: an unfamiliar term or something. But when you have the website,
Speaker 3: when you have those publications, you can refer back to
Speaker 3: them again and again. Or maybe your neighbor comes over
Speaker 3: and goes, I got those brown circles every year? What
Speaker 3: can I do? So you can say, right here, print
Speaker 3: it yourself. I'm not going to use my ink on
Speaker 3: your publication. Go home and print it yourself. That's good. Well,
Speaker 3: Plants for All Seasons is one of those what do
Speaker 3: we say, Mom and pop independent garden center here in
Speaker 3: the Houston area that has been here for a long time,
Speaker 3: and there's a reason for that, and the reason is
Speaker 3: they provide quality plants that want to grow here, and
Speaker 3: most important of all, quality help and assistance and products.
Speaker 3: When you walk into Plants for All Seasons, you may
Speaker 3: not even know what plant you need. You could just
Speaker 3: have got a shady area over here. I want some
Speaker 3: fall color in it. I've got a you know what
Speaker 3: I'm saying, I need a groundcover that grows in the sun.
Speaker 3: Whatever you tell them, they're going to be able to
Speaker 3: direct you to the plants. Maybe you say, you know
Speaker 3: what I'm want of those beautiful fall color planters, but
Speaker 3: I don't know what plants to put in it, what
Speaker 3: plants go together. They'll just walk you right through there,
Speaker 3: and next thing you know, you're on your way home
Speaker 3: with those and a quality bag of potting mix for
Speaker 3: putting in a container or for amending your soil, for example,
Speaker 3: they've got all all of that it. Plants for All Seasons.
Speaker 3: They're on the corner of Luetta and Tomball Parkway. That's
Speaker 3: high Way to forty nine, on the way to Tomball
Speaker 3: two eight, one, three, seven, six, sixteen forty six. Or
Speaker 3: go to the website Plants for All Seasons dot com.
Speaker 3: They are truly lon and garden experts. I'm going to
Speaker 3: take a quick break here and I'll be right back,
Speaker 3: and we are looking forward to visiting with you and
Speaker 3: helping with your questions. You know, we want you to
Speaker 3: have a bountiful garden. We want you to have a
Speaker 3: beautiful landscape, and especially I want you to have fun
Speaker 3: in the process. Gardening is fun. It should be fun.
Speaker 3: It's not fun when you're fighting weeds. It's not fun
Speaker 3: when you're dealing with fire ants and when you're dealing
Speaker 3: with heat and all those kinds of things. When you're
Speaker 3: having to dig up stuff and replant it because it died,
Speaker 3: that's not fun. But those can be avoided, they really can.
Speaker 3: This is not that difficult to do if you just
Speaker 3: follow some rules. You know, I always say, wherever sunlight
Speaker 3: hits a soil, nature plants of weeds. So how do
Speaker 3: you avoid weeding all the time in your gardens and
Speaker 3: your garden beds, Well, malts, don't don't leave the soil. Bear,
Speaker 3: don't let sunlight hits of soil, because if it does,
Speaker 3: you're going to get the opportunity, let's put it that way,
Speaker 3: to pull weeds. Now, there's some weeds that come through
Speaker 3: malts like bermuda grass for example, and others. But in general,
Speaker 3: the weed seeds, you don't give them sunlight, they're not
Speaker 3: gonna come up. So that's just one tip that makes
Speaker 3: gardening easier and more fun. And we'll give you a
Speaker 3: lot more than that. Is to go through the course
Speaker 3: of the shows each weekend here on Guardline. We're on
Speaker 3: from six am to ten am on Saturday and Sunday.
Speaker 3: So tell your friends and neighbors about garden Line. That
Speaker 3: guy that won't take care of his yard, maybe just
Speaker 3: drop a hint that, oh, there's this fun show. Won't
Speaker 3: you listen to it? Help all our property values go up? Well,
Speaker 3: you get the idea. Anyway, I'm your host skip director.
Speaker 3: We're here to answer your gardening questions. I want to
Speaker 3: tell you that, you know, a lot of people are
Speaker 3: doing it yourselfers. They want to do everything themselves, and
Speaker 3: that's good, that's fine. A lot of people want people
Speaker 3: to come in and just just take care of it.
Speaker 3: Just I want it to look good. I don't know
Speaker 3: what I'm doing. I'm not good at this. I don't
Speaker 3: have an eye for design or whatever. Well, Pierscapes is
Speaker 3: the company for that. They can do a lot of
Speaker 3: those things. They can create gorgeous landscapes and they do.
Speaker 3: You can go to their website peerscapes dot com and
Speaker 3: see examples of the outstanding work that they do. I
Speaker 3: mean you need to go check it because don't believe me.
Speaker 3: Just go look yourself and you'll go, oh, I didn't
Speaker 3: realize it was that nice, And yes it is. They
Speaker 3: do outdoor hardscapes. They do at a landscape, lighting, drainage,
Speaker 3: and you know how it is here in the Southeast
Speaker 3: Texas area, when it rains, it pours, and when it pours,
Speaker 3: we have standing water and plants don't like that, and
Speaker 3: so they can fix that. Is your irrigation system not working,
Speaker 3: you know, you're sprinkling drinking water all over the landscape
Speaker 3: trying to trying to keep things alive. And boy, you
Speaker 3: sure would like to do it efficiently, right, so you
Speaker 3: don't waste your money and the water. Well, they can
Speaker 3: fix that for you too. They do quarterly maintenance of
Speaker 3: your beds if you wish, they'll come out in every quarter.
Speaker 3: They'll do the mulching in, the planting new color plants,
Speaker 3: and the aeration, fertilizing, weeding. You know, check your irrigation system,
Speaker 3: all of that. It's all a Pierscapes. Piercescapes dot com
Speaker 3: is the website. I would recommend you do that or
Speaker 3: just give them a call to eight one three seven
Speaker 3: fifty sixty two eight one three seven o five zero
Speaker 3: six zero at Piercecapes. So we were talking yesterday when
Speaker 3: when I was down in the Wharton area with some gardeners.
Speaker 3: We're covering a lot of different topics. The one of
Speaker 3: the things we spent some time talking about was nuts edge,
Speaker 3: because that's such a problem for a lot of people.
Speaker 3: One of the worst weeds worldwide, one of the worst
Speaker 3: weeds that there is, and if you've dealt with it,
Speaker 3: you know what I'm talking about. It is frustrating. It
Speaker 3: causes sweet gardeners to use language that should never come
Speaker 3: out their mouth on a Sunday morning because it is
Speaker 3: so frustrating. It's like you can't get rid of it. Yes,
Speaker 3: you can go to my website look for the publication
Speaker 3: an in depth look at nutset. There's two nut Sets publications.
Speaker 3: One short you can just skim over it, but you
Speaker 3: need to read the longer one because it explains the
Speaker 3: weed and how it works and therefore, how you go
Speaker 3: about controlling it. And if you don't do that, if
Speaker 3: you just squirt it once in a while with herbicides,
Speaker 3: you're not going to get anywhere, as you may already know,
Speaker 3: if you chop it off or try to dig it up,
Speaker 3: you're not going to finish the job that way. But
Speaker 3: there are ways to get ahead of it. And it's
Speaker 3: on the website and it's all free. It's as simple.
Speaker 3: It's as simple as that. Did any of you go
Speaker 3: out to chenn It Forest yesterday? Danny was out there
Speaker 3: giving a talk. Well, of course he's out there as
Speaker 3: the owner, but he was out giving a talk on trees,
Speaker 3: because fall is for trees. He was talking about the
Speaker 3: favorite trees that he has for gardening, the things that
Speaker 3: he most enjoys that if he finds the best success with.
Speaker 3: And hope you got a chance to do that. If
Speaker 3: you didn't go on out there now and just say, hey,
Speaker 3: I wuldn't hear yesterday, what are the trees you recommend?
Speaker 3: Because they have a great stock of trees out there.
Speaker 3: While you're out there, you're going to find fall color.
Speaker 3: You know, we talk about mums in the fall all
Speaker 3: the time. Well, asters are another great fall color plant.
Speaker 3: And that place in Chennon Forest is loaded with beautiful asters,
Speaker 3: really really impressive. Every time I walk out and see
Speaker 3: the newest color that they have, it is, it is outstanding.
Speaker 3: All your fall color plants are out there. It doesn't
Speaker 3: matter what you're looking for to have beauty, it's going
Speaker 3: to be there. They got lots of events coming up
Speaker 3: all the time. They got some. Oh, they got great camellias.
Speaker 3: If you've ever thought about planning a camellia for blooms
Speaker 3: in the winter. One type blooms more in December, one
Speaker 3: a little bit in January. Better in January. They are
Speaker 3: full of buds. Their commitees are loaded up and ready
Speaker 3: to pop, and now is the time to get them.
Speaker 3: In fall is the best time to plant. What are
Speaker 3: you ornamentals and perennials of any type in your gardens
Speaker 3: and garden beds, and so take advantage of it. If
Speaker 3: you haven't seen their Talavera pumpkins for decoration, unbelievable, they
Speaker 3: are just just go see them or look that up
Speaker 3: online or so I. Talivera pumpkins are gorgeous and they've
Speaker 3: got them at a Genta Forest Nursery and they're beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.
Speaker 3: You won't your fall color. Hey falls for gardening in
Speaker 3: the vegetable garden and in the herb garden, and they're
Speaker 3: loaded up and of course all the landscape color. Enchanting
Speaker 3: Forest is at on FM twenty seven to fifty nine,
Speaker 3: FM twenty seven to fifty nine. So if you're at
Speaker 3: Richmond heading towards sugar Land, it's off to the right
Speaker 3: FM twenty seven fifty nine. Here's a phone number two
Speaker 3: eight one nine three seven ninety four forty nine. Two
Speaker 3: eight one nine three seven ninety four forty nine. I
Speaker 3: would also encourage you to go to their website, enchanted
Speaker 3: Forest Richmond TX dot com. Chanted Forest Richmond, t X
Speaker 3: dot COM's outstanding site. Lots of good information there. Well,
Speaker 3: you're listening Guardenline. Our phone number is seven one three
Speaker 3: two one two k t r H. You know, early
Speaker 3: in the morning, it's a good time to get on
Speaker 3: the phones.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 3: I know a lot of you gonna wait till the
Speaker 3: end of the show on Sunday to make your calls.
Speaker 3: It's a tougher time to get in then, so take
Speaker 3: advantage of it. If you want to give us a call,
Speaker 3: do it when we have a little more time to
Speaker 3: be able to handle your calls. One of the things
Speaker 3: that was talking with some gardeners about down at the
Speaker 3: Ace Hardware and Wharton yesterday, we were discussing someone was
Speaker 3: looking for an organic fertilizer that would, you know, provide
Speaker 3: the nutrients that they needed for fall, and we were
Speaker 3: talking about the micro Life brown Patch. Brown Patch by
Speaker 3: Microlife is a fertilizer that has a little less nitron,
Speaker 3: a little bit more potassium, which is what we look
Speaker 3: for in the fall, and it's loaded with micronutrients. And
Speaker 3: so you had a couple of things going on there.
Speaker 3: You got the nutrition at the proper balance and rate. Secondly,
Speaker 3: you've got all the microbes. And there are good microbes
Speaker 3: and bad microbes, at least from our opinion, there are.
Speaker 3: And when you have a lot of good microbes, it
Speaker 3: can do several things. Number one, they can directly compete
Speaker 3: against or attack microbes that are not let's say they're malevolent.
Speaker 3: Oh I like that malevolent microbes. MM. The good guys
Speaker 3: fight the bad guys in that sense, but they also
Speaker 3: outpopulate them or outcompete them on the plant's surface, because
Speaker 3: everything's covered with the microbes. Your skin is covered with
Speaker 3: microbes right now. I mean even just took a bath,
Speaker 3: You've got microbes all over your skin and they often help.
Speaker 3: And so by putting out microlife fertilizers, adding good microbes
Speaker 3: to the surface, you help fight diseases and brown patch.
Speaker 3: That's why they called it brown patch. That's a Faull
Speaker 3: disease and got to get in ahead of it. Also
Speaker 3: recommend you do micro grow bio inoculant when you do
Speaker 3: the microlife brown patch. Now, biinoculant is not a nutrient
Speaker 3: laden fertilizer. It is a microbe proliferation of microbes fertilizer.
Speaker 3: Sixty three different beneficial strains of micro organisms in that product.
Speaker 3: You sprinkle it out there, you turn on the water,
Speaker 3: splash it around a little bit, and it is a
Speaker 3: way it inoculates your soil with just treetons of beneficial
Speaker 3: microorganisms for better success. So that combo punch for fall
Speaker 3: is really a good im It's for microlife. You know,
Speaker 3: Microlife's available everywhere you can go to You can go
Speaker 3: to excuse me, the website Microlife Fertilizer dot com and
Speaker 3: see the places that it has. But you're gonna find
Speaker 3: it a lot of places. I talked about being at
Speaker 3: an ACE Hardware down and Wharton. ACE hardware stores carrying
Speaker 3: microlife products. In fact, ACE hardware stores carry every kind
Speaker 3: of thing. If I talk about a pest control, we
Speaker 3: control a fertilizer, it's going to be at ACE Hardware.
Speaker 3: And there's forty eight ACE Hardware stores in the area.
Speaker 3: So the thing I like about ACE, I always like
Speaker 3: going into a new ACE because each one's a little
Speaker 3: bit different, you know, each one's just a little bit
Speaker 3: different because they're independently owned. So I was down in
Speaker 3: Wharton looking at that ACE. I've never seen an ACE
Speaker 3: just like that one. It had all these cool features.
Speaker 3: There's standard things you're going to get in every ACE
Speaker 3: Hardware store. There are, including from a landscape standpoint, the
Speaker 3: fertilizers I talk about on guardline for a beautiful lawn,
Speaker 3: a beautiful garden success and growing trees and shrubs and
Speaker 3: other plants. You're going to find the tools you need.
Speaker 3: You're going to find things from water hoses to pruning
Speaker 3: tools to you name it at ACE Hardware stores, and
Speaker 3: you're going to find that array of products to control
Speaker 3: pest weeds. Diseases and fertilizer plants to stimulate good growth
Speaker 3: and good health. So if you want fall fertilizer, you're
Speaker 3: going to find it at Ace Hardware store, and you're
Speaker 3: going to find options, more than one option. When you
Speaker 3: go into an ACE hardware store and they have a
Speaker 3: wonderful new one down in Wharton that was just I
Speaker 3: really enjoy I was very very impressed with it. I
Speaker 3: was telling my wife on the way back as we
Speaker 3: came back that you know, when I grew up, the
Speaker 3: Ace hardware stores were kind of a generic thing. You know,
Speaker 3: they had their standard kind of brands and things that
Speaker 3: they carried. Now it is so different. I mean, you
Speaker 3: look at the top brands of anything, and you're going
Speaker 3: to find him at Ace Hardware. I was walking around
Speaker 3: the Wharton Ace and you know, I happen to never
Speaker 3: see a power tool that I don't like. I'm really
Speaker 3: into power tools like that, and they had just top brands,
Speaker 3: the brands I like especially they're at Ace Hardware. And
Speaker 3: that's true of everything you find when you go into
Speaker 3: an Ace. It's a case they say Ace is the place,
Speaker 3: Well it sure is. ACE is a place for it.
Speaker 3: You fell in the blank and it will be true.
Speaker 3: We got holiday seasons coming up. It's important. We got
Speaker 3: it's time now to control fire ants. Get you a
Speaker 3: good fire at bait, a good fireant bait and Ace
Speaker 3: Hardware is going to be able to set you up
Speaker 3: on that tackle fire ants in the fall. Remember football's
Speaker 3: in the fall. Fire tackling curves in the fall with
Speaker 3: a product from Ace Hardware store a good bait. All right,
Speaker 3: time for me to take a break. I will be
Speaker 3: back in just a moment with your gardening questions. In
Speaker 3: the meantime, if you want to call Chris and get
Speaker 3: on the boards seven to one three two one two
Speaker 3: kt r H. Welcome back, folks. Good to have you
Speaker 3: with us today on Guardenline. I'm your host, Skip Richter
Speaker 3: and our phone number if you'd like to call in
Speaker 3: seven one three two one two five eight seven four
Speaker 3: seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four.
Speaker 3: I want to remind you that the folks with OBA,
Speaker 3: the Organic Horticulture Benefits Alliance, are going to have a
Speaker 3: program next Saturday on October fifth, called so you want
Speaker 3: to Grow Good Food? It's a conference that they're doing
Speaker 3: and the doctor Bob Randall, who is the author of
Speaker 3: lear Year Round Gardening is X. If you're interested in
Speaker 3: growing vegetables, it is the book you need to have
Speaker 3: here in the greater Houston area. Great detail, lots of
Speaker 3: good detail on it from a lifetime of learning, hands
Speaker 3: on and reading doctor Randall's excellent auth He'll be one
Speaker 3: of the speakers there. By the way, it's going to
Speaker 3: be at the Houston Arboretam and Nature Center from eight
Speaker 3: am to three thirty pm. If you want more information
Speaker 3: on the So you want to Grow Good Food conference,
Speaker 3: that will be found at OBA online dot org, HbA online,
Speaker 3: dot o, RG online dot or book. They always put
Speaker 3: on great programs the Organic or Culture Benefits Alliance.
Speaker 4: That is.
Speaker 3: This week. I've got a lot of stuff to get
Speaker 3: done out in the garden, and I know it's going
Speaker 3: to be warm. I'll get my work done earlier in
Speaker 3: the morning. But remember, as I tell you over and over,
Speaker 3: it's the calendar that you need to look at, not
Speaker 3: the thermometer. So just get out early in the morning,
Speaker 3: get out late in the day, and get it done.
Speaker 3: Because now is the time. We had a lot of
Speaker 3: fall vegetables to get planted. If you've not planted broccoli
Speaker 3: and cabbage and cauliflying and coroabbie and collars and kale,
Speaker 3: and let's see what else. So we're putting out there.
Speaker 3: Charred can be planted now, Beets can be planning now,
Speaker 3: turnups can be planning now. A lot of things that
Speaker 3: can go in right now. As it cools off a
Speaker 3: little bit, then we'll start looking more toward things like
Speaker 3: spinach and lettuce, carrots like it to cool off a
Speaker 3: little bit more before they're going to be happy. But
Speaker 3: there's lots of great vegetables and vegetables. They're fun to grow,
Speaker 3: they're tasty. Your food will be fifteen hundred miles fresher
Speaker 3: if you grow at yourself. And if you got kiddos, well,
Speaker 3: they need to have the experience of growing their own
Speaker 3: food for a number of reasons, one of which is
Speaker 3: a lifetime of eating healthier. When kids grow vegetables, they're
Speaker 3: likely to eat the vegetables grew and a life habit
Speaker 3: of that is amazing. One of my granddaughters and this
Speaker 3: this has just always amazes me, but my daughter and
Speaker 3: son in law I have raised their kids to eat
Speaker 3: vegetables and it's just kind of a standard. You know,
Speaker 3: they're not big sugar eaters. In fact, the kids don't
Speaker 3: even really like sugar, which I think is what can
Speaker 3: a kid not like sugar? It's because they never eat
Speaker 3: it all and they love vegetables. I was gonna take
Speaker 3: We were going somewhere with one of my granddaughters in
Speaker 3: and we were going to go to get a bite
Speaker 3: to eat, and I thought, well, what would you like
Speaker 3: to buy? What would you like to eat? I was thinking,
Speaker 3: you know, I was going to hear fast food come out? No,
Speaker 3: they can we get a salad? Are you kidding me?
Speaker 3: What is wrong with you? It's not anything wrong, it's
Speaker 3: something right. And it's just you know, you you learned
Speaker 3: your taste PUDs or trained, you learn stuff and things.
Speaker 3: But I'm not saying, you know, advocating that you do
Speaker 3: all that kind of thing, although it wouldn't be bad
Speaker 3: for the kids. Good. But when you grow vegetables, you
Speaker 3: eat vegetables. When you eat right, you are healthier. And
Speaker 3: our number one problem health wise in this country is
Speaker 3: what we put in our mouth. That and lack of
Speaker 3: exercise and gardening gives you both. Get the kids out there.
Speaker 3: If you don't have you don't want to plow up
Speaker 3: a big back forty That is no longer what a
Speaker 3: garden has to be. That was the old days of gardening.
Speaker 3: Now you can drop a box on the ground, fill
Speaker 3: it with good quality soil, blend mix, and grow in it.
Speaker 3: It's as easy as that it is. Or a container.
Speaker 3: How about one container something if you don't even want
Speaker 3: to buy a container, get a five gallon bucket, droll
Speaker 3: holes in the bottom, fill it full of a quality
Speaker 3: putting soil, and grow some carrots or lettuce or kale
Speaker 3: or broccoli or whatever you want to grow. It is
Speaker 3: easy to do. So okay, that was my soapbox. That
Speaker 3: was my and it won't be the last one, by
Speaker 3: the way. I always say it will be, but it
Speaker 3: never is. But I just encourage you to do that.
Speaker 3: If you are up in the Magnoia area, Spring Creek
Speaker 3: Feed is our favorite feed store up there Spring Creek.
Speaker 3: I love going to it. It's a gorgeous, beautiful building
Speaker 3: out there on FM twenty nine, seventy eight and Magnolia.
Speaker 3: You walk out and it's amazing. You walk in and
Speaker 3: it's like wow this I expected a bunch of sacks
Speaker 3: of feed in front of the door when I walked in.
Speaker 3: It's beautiful, all kinds of products. If you have a
Speaker 3: garden or landscape, Spring Creek Feed has what you need.
Speaker 3: They've got pesticides like insecticide, fungicide, they have the herbicides,
Speaker 3: they've got organic, they've got synthetic. They even have some
Speaker 3: plants outside. And you know it when it comes to fertilizers,
Speaker 3: you're going to find the things you need to have
Speaker 3: a beautiful lawn there at Sprint Creek Feed too. Now,
Speaker 3: of course they're a full feed store. They got quality feeds.
Speaker 3: If you are a senior citizen or a military, there's
Speaker 3: a discount. If you are a youth in FFA or
Speaker 3: four eight raising animals, there's a discount. They do special
Speaker 3: orders there, and I can tell you this too. You
Speaker 3: will be greeted by friendly, courteous staff that that is
Speaker 3: they really specialize in that at Spring Creek Feed. Sore
Speaker 3: again at Magnolia on I FM twenty nine seventy eight,
Speaker 3: just a few minutes away from Graham Parkway and Highway
Speaker 3: to forty nine. We're going to head now to Spring,
Speaker 3: Texas and talk to Bonnie. Hello, Bonnie, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 6: Yees I weed that I can't get rid of well,
Speaker 6: I need something to put on. Okay, I looked it
Speaker 6: up on your Google winds that you recommend. Well, you
Speaker 6: said it was pretty good. It said it's naked stem
Speaker 6: dew flower.
Speaker 3: Whoa, I don't even know that one, Oh stem flower.
Speaker 3: Describe the weed to me. Does it have a bloom
Speaker 3: on it?
Speaker 6: Well, I've noticed it early in the morning. It's a tiny,
Speaker 6: little green purple flower that they the least look a
Speaker 6: light a lot like my Saint Augustine. And it grows
Speaker 6: along the edges of the house and the fence and
Speaker 6: the patio.
Speaker 3: And yeah, do you have a lot of it or
Speaker 3: is it?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Is it just in small patches or is there a
Speaker 3: lot of it?
Speaker 6: It's a lot, and it is encroaching on the grass
Speaker 6: a lot. I mean I let it go for a
Speaker 6: long time.
Speaker 3: And so yeah, that's cold. That's cold. Well, it's called dovewed.
Speaker 3: I think Google lens let you down on this one.
Speaker 3: But it's doveweed, and you can control it small patches.
Speaker 3: You can control it with a product that's a cinnamon
Speaker 3: based product from Agrillon sprinkling. You get it wet and
Speaker 3: sprinkle the cinnamon product on it and it just turns
Speaker 3: it black pretty quick. If you are looking at a
Speaker 3: larger area, I would suggest you get a product called Celsius.
Speaker 3: Like the temperature and it is very good against the doveweed,
Speaker 3: and just you just have to spray it. Follow the
Speaker 3: label very carefully. Since we're going to be up in
Speaker 3: the mid nineties, I would do the Celsius spray early
Speaker 3: in the morning when it's the coolest temperature of the day,
Speaker 3: and it will do the job for you. And you're
Speaker 3: going to find Celsius a number of different places. You
Speaker 3: know you're in the spring area. You got some ice
Speaker 3: hardware stores near you, that would be a place where
Speaker 3: I know you could find it up in your area.
Speaker 6: And just it's a spray or a granule.
Speaker 4: It is.
Speaker 3: It's a spray, it's a little it's a little packet,
Speaker 3: So don't look for a bottle or a bag. It's
Speaker 3: it's a we call them blister packets. It's like a
Speaker 3: piece of cardboard with clear hard plastic over it and
Speaker 3: inside is this little packet. So when you walk up
Speaker 3: and that packet makes a gallon, and if you're just
Speaker 3: going to spot spray at a gallon will cover the
Speaker 3: pretty large area.
Speaker 6: So is this going to be harmful to my dog
Speaker 6: who likes to eat.
Speaker 3: Grass well used as directed on the label. It's it's
Speaker 3: not a concern. But if you, you know, if I
Speaker 3: would spray it, I would let it fully dry on
Speaker 3: the before you let Fido go out and play in
Speaker 3: the grass. But in general you should be okay on that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, okay, we'll try it.
Speaker 3: Thank you all right, Yeah, thanks, Boma. Appreciate the calls
Speaker 3: very much. Sure, good day. Yeah. I've never you know,
Speaker 3: I've never paid attention to what all dogs eat. That
Speaker 3: would be a good that'd be a good study. Maybe
Speaker 3: the garden line listeners could do that for me. What
Speaker 3: weeds and grasses and plants do your dogs eat? And
Speaker 3: we'll just accumulate a long list and we'll learn a
Speaker 3: lot from that. I know mine get this. They eat zenias.
Speaker 3: They go to a flower my wife flower beds, and
Speaker 3: they pass up all the plants and eat the zenias.
Speaker 3: I don't know why, but anyway, hey, let's take a break.
Speaker 3: I'll be right back. The phone number if you'd like
Speaker 3: to give us a call seven one three two one
Speaker 3: two fifty eight seventy four. I was in a wa
Speaker 3: bird story the other day looking at some of their
Speaker 3: products because I love to do that. They have a
Speaker 3: lot of quality products, and it just reminded me this
Speaker 3: is hummingbird season and they have a ton of beautiful
Speaker 3: humming bird feeders. At Wildbird's Unlimited, they have a ton
Speaker 3: of any kind of bird feeder there. They have great
Speaker 3: feed quality feed, feed that goes into a bird's stomach.
Speaker 3: Now why would I say that. Of course, feed goes
Speaker 3: into bird summit. Not really. You buy cheap bird feed
Speaker 3: and those little red bebes get kicked off on the ground.
Speaker 3: Birds don't that's not their favorite. They don't care for
Speaker 3: that as much. And with wild birds, you get a
Speaker 3: sack of feed and it goes into a bird stomach
Speaker 3: if you don't want any mess at all. By mess,
Speaker 3: I mean you know kicking bird seed on the ground,
Speaker 3: or the little sunflower holes. You know, if they crack
Speaker 3: them open and get the seed, the holes fall down.
Speaker 3: You can get their no mess blends where something like
Speaker 3: sunflowers already shelled out, so it's all one hundred percent
Speaker 3: into the stomach of the bird if you will, And
Speaker 3: that way you get what you pay for, And I
Speaker 3: think that makes sense. At Waburs now my favorite feeder
Speaker 3: for the hummingbirds. By the way, they have is called
Speaker 3: the high perch, and the reason I like it. Think
Speaker 3: of it as a little bowl that the birds sit
Speaker 3: on and you can see the birds all around it.
Speaker 3: I've got some great, beautiful hummingbird feeders, but sometimes the
Speaker 3: hummingbirds on the back side and I can't see them.
Speaker 3: With a high perch, you can. It's just wash your
Speaker 3: safe on the top shelf. It's really easy to do.
Speaker 3: And you know, when you really want to bring in hummingbirds,
Speaker 3: you need more than one feeder, and you need to
Speaker 3: space them out because those little boogers they are territorial
Speaker 3: and they are just always fussing at each other and
Speaker 3: chasing each other around. And with a high perch feeder
Speaker 3: in more than one, you're able to really enjoy their antics,
Speaker 3: and boy are they for fun. We've got to get
Speaker 3: those little boggers fed and fueled up for the big
Speaker 3: flight across the Gulf of Mexico. So it's time to
Speaker 3: do that now. On a hummingbird stuff. You know, the orioles,
Speaker 3: Baltimore orioles have been coming through. They're on their way
Speaker 3: through as well. And then we get into the wintertime
Speaker 3: and we're taking care of our birds and a lot
Speaker 3: of other things. Want things that the squirrels can't get into.
Speaker 3: Wilbirds has got those. But mainly Wilbirds has the knowledge.
Speaker 3: You walk in there, you ask questions and they know
Speaker 3: what they're talking about, and they can help you have success.
Speaker 3: You know, if you say, well, I've been having trouble
Speaker 3: with filling the blank, they can help you fix that
Speaker 3: problem and have success at Wilberds. All you have to
Speaker 3: do is go to WBU dot com forward slash Houston.
Speaker 3: There's six of them here in the greater Houston area.
Speaker 3: You can go to Clear Lake, you can go to
Speaker 3: Cyprus bel Air Boulevard down in Paarland to Kingwood and
Speaker 3: then Memorial Drive. Those are six Wilbirds unlimited source. So
Speaker 3: north south east west, they got you covered this week.
Speaker 3: In the lawn, I'm gonna go ahead and get my
Speaker 3: lawn fertilization done. I've been trying to get around it
Speaker 3: to it and I just keep running around going to
Speaker 3: see gardeners and give talks and stuff, and so it's
Speaker 3: time for me to get that done. I always want
Speaker 3: to them that when you're fertilizing, if especially if you
Speaker 3: have a new fertilizer or a new fertilizer spreader. It's
Speaker 3: kind of like, well, what do I set it on?
Speaker 3: How do I know? You know, what is the best
Speaker 3: setting for me to have success? Well, a lot of
Speaker 3: times on the bag it'll tell you. But inevitably you
Speaker 3: got a bag and it lists all these spreaders, and
Speaker 3: you're spreader in on the list, and so what do
Speaker 3: you do? Well, if you're not sure, put the setting
Speaker 3: a notch or two above halfway. So if there's twenty settings,
Speaker 3: put it at eleven or twelve ten being halfway. If
Speaker 3: there's five settings, they're done three. That's probably about right.
Speaker 3: That's the best guess. But what I generally do, and
Speaker 3: I advise you to do this is to make sure
Speaker 3: and do that go a little lighter on it the
Speaker 3: first time. For example, if you go, let's just say
Speaker 3: north south doing your spreading a fertilizer, but you only
Speaker 3: do half of it north south, you do the other
Speaker 3: half east west, it helps create a more even spreading
Speaker 3: of the fertilizer. You don't have the stripes as much
Speaker 3: as if you accidentally do it wrong. Just go in
Speaker 3: one way. It also by doing it half it avoids
Speaker 3: if you overapply or underapply, you still have you know,
Speaker 3: you still have fertilizer there in the hopper where you
Speaker 3: can go the other way and keep going. I have
Speaker 3: fertilized before a number of years ago. I put fertilizer
Speaker 3: on a spreader, figured out how much I needed, and
Speaker 3: I took off across the yard. In about three fourths
Speaker 3: of the way across the yard, I ran out a fertilizer.
Speaker 3: It's like, oh, I misestimated how fast I needed to
Speaker 3: put it out. But if you underestimate, you can always
Speaker 3: go back the other way and finish the job. And
Speaker 3: it just makes it a little leisure and avoids that
Speaker 3: striping of the lawn. But there's a little tip there
Speaker 3: on the fertilizer. But whatever you do, get a fall
Speaker 3: fertilizer for fall one that is designed to help the
Speaker 3: plants go into winter. And basically what that means is
Speaker 3: drop the nitrogen down. We're not going to push them
Speaker 3: with growth nitrogen anymore for this fall, but have some
Speaker 3: nitrogen and then push that last number, the third number up,
Speaker 3: that's potassium. Because potassium and nitrogen going into a plant
Speaker 3: at the right ratio that helps build winter hardiness. It
Speaker 3: helps produce the carbohydrates which amount to anafreeze and the plant.
Speaker 3: Someone was asking me, you know, how can you say
Speaker 3: you know carbohydrates or ana freeze. Well, here, think of
Speaker 3: it this way. Carbohydrates sugars are carbohydrate. And if you
Speaker 3: make popsicles, you've ever made homemade popsicles, and you notice
Speaker 3: how the bot when they're frozen, the bottom is like water,
Speaker 3: and then up at the top is real sticky sugary
Speaker 3: stuff that didn't quite freeze even in the freezer, and
Speaker 3: that is because it's concentrated up there. The more sugar
Speaker 3: you have, the more carbohydrates you have in the water
Speaker 3: in a plant, the more cold, hardy it can be,
Speaker 3: and of course then you've got the fuel to come
Speaker 3: out in spring. I was visiting with the folks at
Speaker 3: RCW a while back about some of the trees and stuff.
Speaker 3: You know, they grow their own trees, and they have
Speaker 3: got an outstanding sale on plants, and you need to
Speaker 3: go check this out. RCW has their shrubs twenty percent
Speaker 3: off right now. Shrubs, and that includes one of one
Speaker 3: shrub I don't talk about much. Is gold Dust a Cuba.
Speaker 3: It's an evergreen. It's got big broad green leaves, the
Speaker 3: gold spots on them. It's reattractive, it's cold hearty in
Speaker 3: our area, and it grows in shade, shrub in shade.
Speaker 3: That's not a long list of plants, but gold dust
Speaker 3: to Cuba does well. They also have their trees fifteen
Speaker 3: percent off and they have the best trees. They've got
Speaker 3: the varieties that you know you need to plant here.
Speaker 3: If you want to something small you can plant like
Speaker 3: a seven gallon, they got it. If you want to
Speaker 3: go up to two hundred gallons, they got it, and
Speaker 3: they will plant it for you as well. They know
Speaker 3: how to do it, and then they have the supplies
Speaker 3: you need, the root stimulator and things to help that
Speaker 3: tree get off to a good start and have success.
Speaker 3: So RCW it's just the place to go. And now,
Speaker 3: of course they've got great fall decorations. It's always our
Speaker 3: go to place. When you're looking for the largest list
Speaker 3: of roses in town, that would be RCW Nurseries. And
Speaker 3: we're gonna be talking about that a lot. When we
Speaker 3: get past the first of the year. People think of
Speaker 3: February as rose planting and printing. Well, let me tell
Speaker 3: you this, so is the fall. The fall is an
Speaker 3: excellent time to plant roses. The fall is that the
Speaker 3: best time, hands down to plant shrubs, woody ornamentals like
Speaker 3: woody vines, woody woody tree. Of course, trees are woody
Speaker 3: and it just gives them all winter to get those
Speaker 3: roots established so they're ready for spring. We were talking
Speaker 3: about that just the other day, and so I encourage
Speaker 3: you to get that job done. There is not a
Speaker 3: better time. And if URCW is going to give you
Speaker 3: a discount like that, why don't I just go get
Speaker 3: them and get them in the ground. It's a win
Speaker 3: win win for you, that is for sure. So just
Speaker 3: keep that in mind. We're about to hit the end
Speaker 3: of our hour here. When we come back, Keith, you'll
Speaker 3: be our first biding here the music beginning. I want
Speaker 3: to remind you that next Saturday, I'm going to be
Speaker 3: at Buchanan's Native Plants and they are having one Hack
Speaker 3: of ash in Bog out there. I'm going to tell
Speaker 3: you about it as we go through the day to day.
Speaker 3: But they're going to have all kinds of activities for
Speaker 3: kids and stuff. We're going to be doing some really
Speaker 3: good giveaways out there. I'll be there to answer your
Speaker 3: gardening questions and Buchanan's is on Eleventh Street and the Heights,
Speaker 3: right in the big middle of this north of downtown Houston.
Speaker 3: It is a wonderful place to go visit. And I'll
Speaker 3: tell you this. When they throw a party, it's a
Speaker 3: good one, and they are they are throwing. There's even
Speaker 3: a band called Yopon. Is that a good name for
Speaker 3: a Southeast Texas band? Yopon? Of course it is. I
Speaker 3: guess it's better than Chinese talos. Another point, all too
Speaker 3: familiar round. All right, we'll be there, so make plans
Speaker 3: for next Saturday. I'll be there from twelve noons to
Speaker 3: two three m and I'll be right back in just
Speaker 3: a moment.
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Speaker 3: We're here to answer your gardening question, simple as that.
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Speaker 3: kind of what we're up to, right. We want our
Speaker 3: place to look good. We want our place to produce
Speaker 3: the things we want, flowers and fruit and beautiful you know, outdoors.
Speaker 3: Landscapes are basically a reflection of what we see indoors.
Speaker 3: You know, indoors, you've got carpet or hardwood or stone
Speaker 3: or whatever kinds of floors. You've got walls, and you've
Speaker 3: got ceilings. And when you go outside, the carpet is
Speaker 3: the grass your lawn. It is the groundcovers and the
Speaker 3: walls or shrubs, they could be vines, and the ceilings
Speaker 3: are certainly trees, and they could be arbors and other
Speaker 3: things like that with plants. So we have wall, ceilings
Speaker 3: and floors outside just like we do inside, and as
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Speaker 3: lens and we are going to talk to Keith this morning.
Speaker 3: Hello Keith, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 9: Good morning.
Speaker 10: I'm certainly glad to be here. It's my first call
Speaker 10: I have. Oh good, I have a Japanese maple tree
Speaker 10: that appears to be infested in the trunk area near
Speaker 10: the base. I sent you two photographs. It's a little,
Speaker 10: very small, little black bug. The lack of a knowledge
Speaker 10: or a better word, it appears to be a mite
Speaker 10: of some kind that's infesting this tree. I need to
Speaker 10: need to identify it and figure out how to deal
Speaker 10: with it.
Speaker 3: Okay, And you said there were two photos in it, Yes,
Speaker 3: in your email? Okay, yes, Oh, I don't see mites,
Speaker 3: but I see splits in the trunk. Do I have
Speaker 3: the right emi? That is correct? Yes? When you look
Speaker 3: really really sick, very fall Okay. Well, I don't doubt
Speaker 3: that there's some critters crawling around. Let me ask you
Speaker 3: a question. Is that a damage on the southwest side
Speaker 3: of the tree, north and south, north and south? Okay?
Speaker 3: Something has has physically damaged the bark and it looks
Speaker 3: like a canker type disease has gotten into it. Pretty soon.
Speaker 3: That outer bark is going to be flaking off. It'll
Speaker 3: just pull loose if it had and already. But the
Speaker 3: bottom line is you don't have a spray or anything
Speaker 3: you do for a canker. You just need to get
Speaker 3: the tree healthy. So what I would do is I
Speaker 3: would if you can create a moultched area around the
Speaker 3: base of that tree that keeps the lawnmower and the
Speaker 3: weed eater from bumping the bottom of the bark. That
Speaker 3: may have been how this got all got started. I
Speaker 3: don't know, but anyway, create a moltched area around the
Speaker 3: tree as wide as you can stand to look at,
Speaker 3: and then as far as the loose bark if you
Speaker 3: if it comes loose, pull it off, open it up
Speaker 3: with some vigor which means water during the hot, dry
Speaker 3: summer season, and fertilizer periodically to encourage vigor. That tree
Speaker 3: will close that area over with callous from the sides.
Speaker 3: And I already see in one of the photos where
Speaker 3: it's beginning to do that. But that's the best way
Speaker 3: to get rid of a problem like that, and I
Speaker 3: get that tree back in good health again.
Speaker 10: Okays, as far as a fertilizer is concerned, what do
Speaker 10: you recommend.
Speaker 3: There are a number of different ones. Nitrofoss makes a
Speaker 3: tree fertilizer that you can find in canisters and a
Speaker 3: lot of your local garden stores and things. I haven't
Speaker 3: shopped up in the woodlands closely for it. I know
Speaker 3: you've got some ace hardware stores that you can you
Speaker 3: can call on, uh and that that's a good thing.
Speaker 3: There's there's one, oh gosh, it's over there on Kirkandaal
Speaker 3: It's called Auspa Ace up in the woodlands. Go there.
Speaker 3: They may have a nitroposs. They may have one in
Speaker 3: Nelson's tree fertilizers too there and then Microlife also has
Speaker 3: a fertilizer designed for trees. But any of those, get
Speaker 3: them on the ground, follow the labels, get a good
Speaker 3: mulch around it. Japanese maples want to live in the woods,
Speaker 3: and so when we put them in the middle of
Speaker 3: the meadow, which is called our lawn, they're not as
Speaker 3: happy as they are when they're surrounded by decomposing organic
Speaker 3: matter like nature does in the woods. So try to
Speaker 3: recreate that for it with a little fertilizer water again
Speaker 3: during summer when it's dry, and I think they'll be okay, okay, wonderful.
Speaker 3: Thank you. So much. All right, you bet good luck
Speaker 3: with that, good luck without that one. Yeah, boy, photos help.
Speaker 3: I'm telling you guys, if you're going to give us
Speaker 3: a call and you want to call him, get email
Speaker 3: us in a photo, that's fine. Just remember. I just
Speaker 3: always have to remind of this because there's kind of
Speaker 3: an expectation. If someone emails you, they think you're going
Speaker 3: to answer, they expect you to. If my situation, I
Speaker 3: just time wise am not able to listen. There's a
Speaker 3: lot of folks already that are requesting things, and a
Speaker 3: lot of projects and things going on with the show,
Speaker 3: and I just there's a deluge of emails and I'm
Speaker 3: just not able to just answer all of them, and
Speaker 3: plus a lot of them require back and forth and
Speaker 3: photos and things. So if you just can semi photo
Speaker 3: give us a call, we'll be happy to do it.
Speaker 3: By the way, KEITHA, if you're still listening, it's interesting
Speaker 3: on one of your photos up at the top right
Speaker 3: on the trunk, there's a tiny little hair sticking out
Speaker 3: with a white glob on the end. That's a lacewing egg.
Speaker 3: Just noticed that in the photo. Lace wings lay their
Speaker 3: beneficial insects they eat aphids and other things, but the
Speaker 3: larva do. But they lay eggs by creating this silken strand.
Speaker 3: It's a quarter inch long, maybe maybe a little longer,
Speaker 3: and there's a white glob on the end that's the egg.
Speaker 3: And that way, when things are running along the surf
Speaker 3: of the plant that would eat their eggs, they don't
Speaker 3: see them because they're up there in the trees, if
Speaker 3: you will, trees being that strand, so got a beneficial
Speaker 3: inset going on. There's something good is happening on that plant.
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Speaker 3: in Kingwood you have two great garden centers, worn Southern
Speaker 3: Gardens and Kingwood Garden Center. And they've got their fall
Speaker 3: veggies and stock all the things I was talking about
Speaker 3: while ago, trying to talk you in to growing vegetables
Speaker 3: this fall, even if it's just in a container, hopefully
Speaker 3: a full garden bed. But even if it's in a container,
Speaker 3: they're pumpkin patches open. And I saw numerous varieties of
Speaker 3: pumpkins out there. I mean, all your decorating needs. You know,
Speaker 3: they've got the whole nine yards for fall decorating. Many
Speaker 3: of their trees are thirty percent off. And then they
Speaker 3: also have a sale on the turf Star carbo load,
Speaker 3: the micro Life sixty four, Microlife, brown Patch, Microlife' small Fermilizer,
Speaker 3: Sweet Green from Nitrovas, nitrovos is Fall Special, and Asimite
Speaker 3: are all on sale. But here's the deal you need
Speaker 3: to remember at Warren Southern Gardens. Tell them Skip sent
Speaker 3: you and you if you spend one hundred dollars or more,
Speaker 3: you get twenty bucks off. That's a huge discount on
Speaker 3: your purchase. Tell them Skip sent you. Warn Southern Gardens
Speaker 3: out there in Kingwood. Time for a break. I'll be
Speaker 3: right back. Looked outside a minute ago. Got a little
Speaker 3: light coming up, and boy, it's gonna be a good day.
Speaker 3: We got some good days in fall, and I'm telling you,
Speaker 3: cool weather is arriving. It will get here. I know,
Speaker 3: it's like, come on, man, get over with well. If
Speaker 3: you're new to this area, if you're new to Texas,
Speaker 3: just to remember, we have things called false falls first.
Speaker 3: That means the colfront comes through. We get some cool airs,
Speaker 3: like eh, summer's over and then summer comes back, and
Speaker 3: that's just the way it is. It's okay, it is okay.
Speaker 3: We will get our cool weather. It'll get here. But
Speaker 3: now's the time to do the things you're supposed to
Speaker 3: do now, because you should look at the calendar, not
Speaker 3: the thermometer when you're planning your garden and doing your
Speaker 3: garden activities. Work early in the day, take care of yourself,
Speaker 3: you know, don't overdo it. I get all that, but
Speaker 3: right now, fall planting of vegetables right now, fall flowers,
Speaker 3: lots of things that can go in right now. There
Speaker 3: is a ton of stuff that we need to do
Speaker 3: right now now. If you go to my website gardening
Speaker 3: with Skip dot com Gardening with Skip dot com, you'll
Speaker 3: find the schedules for your lawn, both lawn care schedules
Speaker 3: and the lawn pest disease and we'd management schedule. You'll
Speaker 3: find information on weed control that's very helpful. And we
Speaker 3: are planning a bunch of new things. So bookmark Gardening
Speaker 3: with Skip dot Com so you can keep coming back there,
Speaker 3: and all of our gardenline kinds of information that we
Speaker 3: talk about here are going to be available as we
Speaker 3: build it out further. And further, we're going to now
Speaker 3: go out to the woodlands and talk to Mike.
Speaker 4: Hello, Mike, Hey you, good morning, Skip. I just moved
Speaker 4: into a new home that's been vacant for some time,
Speaker 4: and I found out that they planted a hybrid bermuda
Speaker 4: called tiff Turf or tiff Tough. I'm sorry, tiff Tough. Okay,
Speaker 4: I'm wondering what you may know about that grass.
Speaker 3: Well, it is a hybrid bermuda, and it does just fine.
Speaker 3: It's a semi dwarf, and by semi dwarf, you know,
Speaker 3: it's not real tall, like a cattle pasture type of bermuda.
Speaker 3: But it's also not a golf course green bermuda. It's
Speaker 3: kind of in between. So we see it on golf
Speaker 3: course fairways, we see it on plate playing fields, you know,
Speaker 3: football fields, those kinds of things. But it's a good one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they said it's pretty. It's pretty grout tolerant, so
Speaker 4: that's good. I was getting ready to well thinking about
Speaker 4: in the fall doing a compost top dressing with the aeration.
Speaker 4: There's a lot of thatch in the grass. I'm just wondering, go,
Speaker 4: I need to remove that thatch before I put down
Speaker 4: the compost or just let it.
Speaker 3: It'll get to the surf. Yeah, it'll get to the
Speaker 3: surface a little bit better. The shorter your mobile muta,
Speaker 3: the denter it is, and the more difficult with a
Speaker 3: real dent. Like if you put compost on top of
Speaker 3: a golf green, to use an extreme example, it couldn't
Speaker 3: get through the thick tough you know, turf to get
Speaker 3: into the soil level.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 3: And so as you mowgrass a little bit higher, it's
Speaker 3: a little looser and stuff can move down in there. Uh.
Speaker 3: As far as that is concerned, you can use you
Speaker 3: know de thatching types of equipment or what they call
Speaker 3: verdict cutting, a vertical cutter. It's a machine that cuts
Speaker 3: vertical slices every few inches you know, across to get
Speaker 3: a lot of that thatch out and then you can
Speaker 3: rake it out and mold the lawn again, real nice
Speaker 3: and it gets better that way. You can do that. Uh,
Speaker 3: if it's not too dense, Yeah, go ahead and do
Speaker 3: the the corporation and compos stop dressing. Remember, the main
Speaker 3: thing bermuda needs is lots of sunlight and frequent mowing
Speaker 3: to look its best. Those are the two things that
Speaker 3: are the biggest factors with a nice bermuta one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's a few neighbors that have the same type
Speaker 4: of grass and they have got theirs up really high.
Speaker 4: It's like two inches or almost three inches thick. If
Speaker 4: you look at it from the curb, it just sticks
Speaker 4: up real high and it looks great. But this hadn't
Speaker 4: been taken care of, probably for over a year and
Speaker 4: a half.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, and you know, the higher you mow, the
Speaker 3: less often you have to mow. And it's not a
Speaker 3: huge difference, but it's a little difference because we try
Speaker 3: to cut about a third of the leaf blade off
Speaker 3: when we mow, and with bermuda, if you let it
Speaker 3: get real tall and then mow it way back, you're
Speaker 3: cutting all the green that's up on top off and
Speaker 3: it looks real brown and twiggy. You know, it's not
Speaker 3: very attractive, but it will get attractive again. But you
Speaker 3: go through ugly periods with an infrequent mowing schedule, and
Speaker 3: so mowing more often is a little bit better, and
Speaker 3: you don't have to mow twice a week, so you know,
Speaker 3: you about ever seven days is fine. If you set
Speaker 3: it a little higher, I think that would you say,
Speaker 3: three inches that sounds a little high for bermuda. I
Speaker 3: would say two two and a half would be a
Speaker 3: real good height for the tiff toff and all the tiff.
Speaker 3: There's several tiff type bermudas.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, all right. There's also a lot of weeds
Speaker 4: in the grass, especially crabgrass. Is what can I use
Speaker 4: to spot treat the crab grass.
Speaker 3: So if you have true crabgrass, don't worry about it.
Speaker 3: Just keep mowing now it's going to go away with
Speaker 3: the cold weather. You can't kill crabgrass and not kill
Speaker 3: the bermuda. Next spring, you need to put a pre
Speaker 3: emergent herbicide containing the barricade out and then water it
Speaker 3: in real well because crabgrass starts germinating pretty early. And
Speaker 3: if you go to my schedule online at gardeningwith Skip
Speaker 3: dot com, you'll see exactly when to apply the pre
Speaker 3: emergence in the spring. And there's also a list of
Speaker 3: products for all your lawn care on both of those
Speaker 3: schedule launch schedules.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, very good, all right, Okay, well, thank you
Speaker 4: appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, you take care, good to talk to you.
Speaker 3: Appreciate your call. Uh, you know, we still have some
Speaker 3: mosquitoes around this warm weather. They're like hanging out and
Speaker 3: having fun. They haven't flown south for winter yet, not
Speaker 3: that they do, but I'd like to think they would anyway.
Speaker 3: Mosquito dunks, what do they? Well, Mosquito dunks are a
Speaker 3: disease of mosquitoes. They're a little donuts. There's also a
Speaker 3: granular formulation that you can use if you just want
Speaker 3: to use a little bit here and there. But you
Speaker 3: put them anywhere stagnant water is. It could be a
Speaker 3: little place in the backyard that doesn't drain well and
Speaker 3: this is kind of a puddle all the time. It
Speaker 3: could be sagging utter. It could be you know those
Speaker 3: little containers underneath your pots at whole water. That's where
Speaker 3: the granules help. By the way, if you have a
Speaker 3: donut type dunk, you can take a hammer and break
Speaker 3: it up into little granules and do that yourself. That
Speaker 3: works fine, last about a month a doughnut does. And
Speaker 3: the mosquitoes, they the larva get in that water with
Speaker 3: the dunks, and it's a disease that kills them. They
Speaker 3: never become adults. It will not hurt birds or pets
Speaker 3: or beneficial insects or anything else. That drinks from that water.
Speaker 3: It is a disease of mosquito's very specific and that
Speaker 3: makes it very helpful, organic type natural product, very very
Speaker 3: very low toxicity, and very very very effective. Mosquita dunks.
Speaker 3: You can find them at almost all our independent garden centers.
Speaker 3: You're can find them at feed stores. You're gonna find
Speaker 3: them in these hardware stores. It's Southwest Fertilizer, all those
Speaker 3: kind of places. It's not hard to find mosquita dunks.
Speaker 3: When you go shopping at a place you hear me
Speaker 3: talk about the mosquito dunks. There are more chances than not,
Speaker 3: but that's the easy way to get rid of them
Speaker 3: without you know, toxifying the water. So around the place
Speaker 3: that you have speaking of things that you're going to
Speaker 3: find at all these places ace Southwest Fertilizer, feed stores
Speaker 3: and garden center, it seems like azemite is just available everywhere,
Speaker 3: and asmite is that micronutrient supplement. So when we fertilize,
Speaker 3: we're putting out the big three numbers nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium
Speaker 3: on every bag of fertilizer. Those are the three numbers.
Speaker 3: Sometimes you get a fourth number, like sulfur or magnesium
Speaker 3: or something. But in general, those are the three numbers.
Speaker 3: You're not going to see the ingredients in asmite on
Speaker 3: a fertilizer label because they're trace minerals. They're trace minerals,
Speaker 3: like the numbers on the bag don't include the trace
Speaker 3: minerals as might contains trace minerals about once a year
Speaker 3: put it out. You get the minerals in the soil
Speaker 3: bank account. So as that grass grows, as you fur
Speaker 3: and encourage the grass to take off and grow, those
Speaker 3: trace minerals are going to be needed and they're there
Speaker 3: for the roots to take up. That's why I call
Speaker 3: it a bank account. That is what fertilizing is. And
Speaker 3: asmites widely available as I said, and it works. You
Speaker 3: can go to azemite Texas dot com if you want
Speaker 3: more information on it. But that's kind of the bottom line.
Speaker 3: I was talking to the folks down in Wharton yesterday
Speaker 3: at the Ace Hardware store and we were discussing the
Speaker 3: idea of nutrients and one oversimplified perhaps way of looking
Speaker 3: at it is nitrogen pushes new growth. It is the
Speaker 3: fuel to make that plant vigorous and get it going.
Speaker 3: But when a plant gets going, it needs nutrients to
Speaker 3: go with it. And so when you fertilize, instead of
Speaker 3: thinking of it as feeding your plant, think of it
Speaker 3: as building the soil bank account. So the plant can
Speaker 3: draw exactly the nutrients it needs because all the important
Speaker 3: ones are there, all the essential ones are there. It
Speaker 3: can draw those nutrients to build plant parts, runners and
Speaker 3: leaves and flowers and fruit and everything else. It's got
Speaker 3: what it needs. And so it's like if you went
Speaker 3: to the store and you want to buy something, well,
Speaker 3: you would have to go to your bank account right
Speaker 3: to get the money unless you're carrying cash with you.
Speaker 3: And that's kind of how the soil is. And as
Speaker 3: we fertilize, that's what we're doing now. Again, Nitrogen, a
Speaker 3: volatile nutrient, comes and goes. We're always adding it in
Speaker 3: small amounts, but the other nutrients. Think of a more
Speaker 3: of as a bank account building. And that I think
Speaker 3: that mindset will kind of help you understand. Because plants
Speaker 3: produce their food and their leaves, the carbohydrates and other
Speaker 3: products produced in the plant or plant food. Okay, that's
Speaker 3: that is the food for the plant. But you can't
Speaker 3: make plant food without three things. You need sunlight, you
Speaker 3: need water, and you need the nutrients and you put
Speaker 3: all those together, and the leaves, the leaf are food
Speaker 3: factories for the plant that turn it out. So build
Speaker 3: your bank account and the soil. Think of fertilizing as
Speaker 3: building the soil bank account. And the better that bank
Speaker 3: account is, the more things can flow because there's nothing
Speaker 3: holding it back. There's nitrogen that is encouraging new vigorous growth,
Speaker 3: and there's every nutrient you need to build cell walls
Speaker 3: in every other part of that plant. Okay, Hope, that helped, Hope,
Speaker 3: That made a little bit of sense. You heard me
Speaker 3: talk about Star of Hope a lot here on guard Line,
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Speaker 3: Welcome back to Gardenline. Good have you with us. We
Speaker 3: got things to talk about today. You know, I've been
Speaker 3: planning to do some renovations in the backyard. I've got
Speaker 3: a bed that I have been working on for a while,
Speaker 3: but I just keep getting sidetracked and don't get around
Speaker 3: to it. Well, I'm going to practice what I preach
Speaker 3: Paul is planting season. I'm not putting it off any longer.
Speaker 3: I've already begun to work things into the soil and
Speaker 3: I'm doing a number of different things back there. We've
Speaker 3: got a little bit of expanded shale that's going in
Speaker 3: because it is a heavy clay in that area. I've
Speaker 3: got some organic materials that I've been putting in a
Speaker 3: really a real quality mix from a nature's way, by
Speaker 3: the way, and just just getting that soil up to shape,
Speaker 3: you know, getting it in the condition that we need
Speaker 3: it to be in order to have success. Have you
Speaker 3: ever done that kind of thing to your gardening beds?
Speaker 3: If you do, you're going to see the results that
Speaker 3: we want to see. And you know, Nature's Way Resources
Speaker 3: is an excellent source of things like that. They kind
Speaker 3: of were the originator of a lot of the special
Speaker 3: soil products we talk about here on Garden Line and
Speaker 3: have talked about for years, things like roast soil was
Speaker 3: born in Nature's Way, Leithmo compos born in Nature's Way.
Speaker 3: See what I'm talking about. They have all kinds of
Speaker 3: bed mixes that are high quality. They're very ack. I've
Speaker 3: used myself. I've found them to just be like rocket
Speaker 3: fuel really for the plants. They're having their Friday Fungal
Speaker 3: Friday sale, still going on, still going on, And what
Speaker 3: does that mean. That means on Fridays twenty percent off
Speaker 3: their fungal compost, fungo based compost. That is a high
Speaker 3: quality thing. You can use it for top dressing your launch,
Speaker 3: you can mix it into beds. It's just good. Wherever
Speaker 3: you want to use fungo compost, it's good for that.
Speaker 3: It works well for that. I want to remind you too.
Speaker 3: The big shindig at Nature's Way Resources. The Fall Festival
Speaker 3: is coming up October twelfth. October twelfth, they're going to
Speaker 3: have plant sales, They're going to have local vendors, live music, children,
Speaker 3: activities of some Latin food. It basically fun hours, I
Speaker 3: like to say, basically a shindig. I'll be there from
Speaker 3: by the way. The event itself is from nine to
Speaker 3: two on Saturday, October twelfth. I'll be there from eleven
Speaker 3: thirty to one, kind of in the middle of that
Speaker 3: over the noon hour time, actually two hours, and I'll
Speaker 3: be answering your gardening questions. So come on out, bring
Speaker 3: me samples. We'll talk about that more as we go forward.
Speaker 3: But when you're thinking about Nature's Way, there's not a
Speaker 3: better time than now to get the products and to
Speaker 3: have success. And that's what they say. You up for
Speaker 3: brown stuff before green stuff. Good night. How many times
Speaker 3: have I said that. I'm going to keep saying it
Speaker 3: because it is the key to good success with your plants.
Speaker 3: You are listening to garden Line. Our phone number is
Speaker 3: seven one three two one two KTRH. We've had a
Speaker 3: little lull in the calls here, so if you'd like
Speaker 3: to get in not have to wait as long as
Speaker 3: you're the first few of call that. Now, wou'd be
Speaker 3: a good time to do that, no weight right away?
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 3: I love Medina products. Medina has so many good products.
Speaker 3: And if you're gonna do fault planting, there are a
Speaker 3: number of Medina products that are excellent for transplanting. They
Speaker 3: just help the plants. I want to suggest a combo
Speaker 3: of two. As you put in a plant, water them
Speaker 3: in with these two things. One has to grow six
Speaker 3: twelve six. That's a high phosphorus compound. It's got nitrogen
Speaker 3: potassium in it as well. That helps stimulate the root growth. Now,
Speaker 3: it also contains Medina soile active to stimulate biological activity.
Speaker 3: It's got humate humic acid a little bit of that
Speaker 3: in it as well, and I would also just add
Speaker 3: some more of the hum humic acid. That's another product
Speaker 3: that can be used for transplanting. Basically, it's concentrated compost
Speaker 3: in a bottle. It is a liquid product that you
Speaker 3: here's how you use any of these liquid Medinas. You
Speaker 3: can mix them in a sprayer and spram on foliage.
Speaker 3: They're not going to burn planting fold your feed. What
Speaker 3: I'm talking about here is putting them in a watering
Speaker 3: can and after you've watered to drenched that plant two
Speaker 3: or three times, because it takes a while to soak
Speaker 3: things down, soak it down into the root ball very
Speaker 3: very well and you're going to have success. I like
Speaker 3: that combo of has to grow six to twelve six
Speaker 3: and the humatee humic acid. Even though that's a little
Speaker 3: extra humate, it just helps stimulate the root growth. And
Speaker 3: when you put a new plant in, you want to
Speaker 3: stimulate the root growth. That first job of that plant
Speaker 3: while it sits there for a while deciding if it's
Speaker 3: going to grow or not, is to stimulate the roots
Speaker 3: and encourage good, good root development because the roots are
Speaker 3: the key to the success plants. I like to say
Speaker 3: that plants live in their roots in that as the
Speaker 3: root system goes, as the soil quality is, that is
Speaker 3: the bar. That's the level of success that you can
Speaker 3: have with your plants, and you want that to be
Speaker 3: at the top level. We're going to go out to
Speaker 3: Houston now and talk to Shnnon this morning. Good morning,
Speaker 3: shann and welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 11: Good morning, Thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 4: Yes, I have a question about.
Speaker 11: Peggy Martin roses. I've got a beautiful plant, but it's
Speaker 11: not blooming. It hasn't blue since I've had it, and
Speaker 11: it's climbing up the trailer. It looks fairly healthy.
Speaker 3: Okay, when did you plant it?
Speaker 11: Oh, probably three or four months ago and it's been
Speaker 11: a container.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, Well, Peggy Martin is primarily a spring bloomer.
Speaker 3: That's when it puts on its biggest show. So I
Speaker 3: think you're okay. Is the area lots of sun?
Speaker 11: Lots of sun?
Speaker 3: Yes? Good. So the last thing I want you to
Speaker 3: do is, as you're putting it on the trellis, as
Speaker 3: much as you can weave the canes horizontally back and forth.
Speaker 3: Do that. Roses climbing roses in general, they're going to grow,
Speaker 3: they'll go straight up the trellis. But as you move
Speaker 3: it horizontal, you get more bloom bud production as it
Speaker 3: sets buds for next year, which it's been doing for
Speaker 3: a little while now. But is you got that new growth,
Speaker 3: you know, kind of go back and forth a little
Speaker 3: bit because late summer and really fall is when the
Speaker 3: bloom buds get set and you're going to see a real,
Speaker 3: real nice bloom next spring. On your Peggy Martins.
Speaker 11: Okay, question is do I have to worry about the
Speaker 11: soil being alkaline or a stick as far as adding
Speaker 11: maybe ebbs and salts or something to the soil, and
Speaker 11: is there a way that tests.
Speaker 3: Yes. There were three questions in one, so let's do this.
Speaker 3: The soil be an alkaline or acidic. Roses are pretty forgiving.
Speaker 3: They would prefer not to be too high pH, but
Speaker 3: they're pretty forgiving. If you start to see the new
Speaker 3: growth getting kind of a yellow or bleachy white look
Speaker 3: to it, that means the high pH is creating an
Speaker 3: iron deficiency, and you can respond by applying iron. But
Speaker 3: anything you do to bring the soil pH down. Do
Speaker 3: you have a particular fertilizer that you use on your
Speaker 3: roses or plants.
Speaker 11: It's just called rose fertilizer for roses.
Speaker 4: Okay, got it.
Speaker 11: I got it from a hardware and it's just called rose.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, that's fine. Anything that they have there too,
Speaker 3: that helps acidify the soil slowly over time would be
Speaker 3: a good idea for your roses. If you feel like
Speaker 3: the pH maybe a little on the high side. So
Speaker 3: things that you would put on azilias and camellias and
Speaker 3: blueberries and things would all be examples of that. Hey,
Speaker 3: Peggy or excuse me, Shannon, would you hang on just
Speaker 3: a second. I'm gonna have to take a break and
Speaker 3: I'd like to come back and finish answering that question.
Speaker 3: All right, we'll be right back back the garden line.
Speaker 3: Good to have you with us. We were in a
Speaker 3: conversation when we went to break with Shannon in Houston
Speaker 3: and we were talking about Peggy Martin Roses. Let's see, Shannon,
Speaker 3: you had several questions in one and I think you
Speaker 3: may have to help me here. We talked about, you know,
Speaker 3: how to get them to bloom in what time of
Speaker 3: year they bloom? What would the other parts of your
Speaker 3: question again?
Speaker 11: What is there a way to test soil?
Speaker 3: Yes, you go to soil Testing dot t a m
Speaker 3: U e ed U soil Testing dot TAMOUD dot ed U.
Speaker 3: If you go to my lawn care schedule on at
Speaker 3: Gardening with skip dot com at the bottom is a
Speaker 3: direct link to the soil testing form that you use.
Speaker 3: And you want to use the Urban soil test when
Speaker 3: you test. Okay, if you're growing, if you're doing horticulture,
Speaker 3: the lawns trees, shrubs, binds, herbs, vegetables, flowers, that's horticulture.
Speaker 3: You use the urban soil test form.
Speaker 11: Okay, that would work also for like high ranges to
Speaker 11: test the soil.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, everything but pastures and farms.
Speaker 12: Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 11: Okay, Well answer my question. Thank you so much. Okay,
Speaker 11: all yeah, I think I thank you. I think you
Speaker 11: covered everything. And what about one more? What about freezing?
Speaker 11: What about the cold weather in Houston in the winter time.
Speaker 3: Peggy Martin can handle it, don't worry about it.
Speaker 8: Okay, okay, Well, I'm gonna do what you suggested and
Speaker 8: hopefully we'll have some blooms in the spring.
Speaker 3: All right, send me pictures when you do. Thanks a lot.
Speaker 11: I appreciate your health.
Speaker 13: Thank you, Bye bye you bet bye bye.
Speaker 3: I was talking about the importance of soil. And you
Speaker 3: know Ciena Mulch is south of Houston. They're down in
Speaker 3: the Siena area, just oh what north of Roach Sharon
Speaker 3: near Highway six and two eighty eight intersection. They're on
Speaker 3: FM five twenty one. You can go to Cienamultch dot com.
Speaker 3: That's the website Ciena Maltz dot com. When you go
Speaker 3: to Ciana Malt. You get quality materials and you get
Speaker 3: everything you need to set your plants up for success.
Speaker 3: Brown stuff before green stuff is my mantra. And Sienna
Speaker 3: Maulch has all the brown stuff. They've got the composts,
Speaker 3: they've got the soil blends like for example, they carry
Speaker 3: Landscaper's Pride, like Velvet malt. They've got heirloom soils, veggie
Speaker 3: and herbs and many other high quality materials. They've got
Speaker 3: mulches for you. And they have every fertilizer I talk
Speaker 3: about on garden Line. All the brands of fertilizer that
Speaker 3: you might want to use, organic and synthetic are available
Speaker 3: there at Ciena Molts. So when you go home from there,
Speaker 3: you've got everything you need to create the setting for
Speaker 3: success with whatever you're going to plant. Cienamlt dot Com
Speaker 3: is the website. Check them out. They're closed on Sunday,
Speaker 3: but they're open Monday through Friday seven thirty to five
Speaker 3: and Saturday seven thirty to two. We're going to go
Speaker 3: now back to the phones and talk to Matt in Houston. Hello, Matt.
Speaker 5: Skip, how you doing?
Speaker 3: Hibe Will?
Speaker 5: I live in Hempstead, Texas, and I was calling to
Speaker 5: ask you what what kind of weed killer is good
Speaker 5: to use to kill weeds that are popping up in
Speaker 5: your lawn but will not kill your lawn.
Speaker 3: It depends on the weed matt. If you know, there's
Speaker 3: grassy weeds and there's broad leaf weeds, and then we
Speaker 3: have two approaches. One is to put a pre emergent
Speaker 3: down so the seeds never are able to come up
Speaker 3: from the weeds. Second is to kill weeds that are
Speaker 3: already growing now. If you've got growing weeds right now,
Speaker 3: if they're perennial weeds, you can spram and kill them
Speaker 3: with a post emergent broad leaf weed killer. We have
Speaker 3: some types of that. If you are dealing with the
Speaker 3: summer weeds, they're going to die when it gets cold,
Speaker 3: and so controlling them at this point is kind of
Speaker 3: it's a little late to try to do that. Now
Speaker 3: is when we put on a pre emergent for cool
Speaker 3: season weeds, and barricade is the product for that, and
Speaker 3: it will not hurt your your lawn if you use
Speaker 3: it as directed. You always want to follow the label
Speaker 3: on anything, but especially on a weed killer. You want
Speaker 3: to follow the label and you put it down, you
Speaker 3: water it in with the bottom. I've inch of water
Speaker 3: somewhere in there is fine and get that in the
Speaker 3: soil surface and then all the cool season weeds like
Speaker 3: clover is an example of that, and many others, they
Speaker 3: don't germinate, and in spring you're not dealing with them
Speaker 3: because you prevented them. Once weeds are growing, then it
Speaker 3: depends on the weed, and it depends on your type
Speaker 3: of turf grass as to what I could recommend to
Speaker 3: control an existing weed. So I'd need to see some
Speaker 3: pictures or have a name of a weed to be
Speaker 3: able to prescribe the proper product.
Speaker 5: All right, So I mean, and I don't know if
Speaker 5: I'm going to losing battle here, but I live right
Speaker 5: next to an easement, which is which nothing is owing.
Speaker 5: So I'm thinking that's what's causing the weeds to come
Speaker 5: over into my lawn is from that Eastman because it's
Speaker 5: all weeds.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, it could be. But you know, the denser
Speaker 3: you make your lawn, the more you mow, water and
Speaker 3: fertilize it and get it really dense, those weed seeds
Speaker 3: can't come up because they can't get sunlight in that
Speaker 3: dense lawn. As your lawn gets a little drowdy, a
Speaker 3: little thin doesn't do so good, then weeds are going
Speaker 3: to come in even more.
Speaker 5: All right, So just mean water more.
Speaker 3: Water, mow regularly, and fertilize adequately. That all buildscity. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: the two schedules. You can print them up. And they
Speaker 3: got a lot of information on them about taking care
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Speaker 5: All right. I just had I just had one more question.
Speaker 5: I was told, if you overwater you're prone to fungus.
Speaker 4: Is that true?
Speaker 14: Uh?
Speaker 3: If you water really frequently, you it can increase disease problems. Yes, yes, okay,
Speaker 3: but mostels that I'm telling you about, they tell you
Speaker 3: exactly how much the water to put on each month
Speaker 3: of the year so that they all right, thank you
Speaker 3: on yours. Yes, I gotta do that. You bet you
Speaker 3: take care, hope you hope you enjoyed that. Buginnan's Native
Speaker 3: Plants is having their fall fest coming up, and guess
Speaker 3: what I'm going to be there. I'm really looking forward
Speaker 3: to going because they always put on a good show.
Speaker 3: It began as native plants, you know, Beginner's Native Plants
Speaker 3: has all kinds of great plants for you, absolutely awesome
Speaker 3: plants for you. And when I go to Buginnons, I'm
Speaker 3: always amazed at things they have that I didn't even
Speaker 3: know they carried, because they always have some new stuff
Speaker 3: coming on. Don't forget that Fall festival though. It is
Speaker 3: going to be from let's see, it's on October fifth,
Speaker 3: next weekend, from ten am to three pm. I'll be
Speaker 3: there from twelve to two two hours from noon to
Speaker 3: two there we be giveing away one hundred dollars gift
Speaker 3: card and you got to register to winchy I show
Speaker 3: up and do that. Hang around a bit. Microfe brown
Speaker 3: patch will be given away there. They're gonna have pumpkin painting,
Speaker 3: Halloween mass coloring station, hay rides, kids games like ring Toss,
Speaker 3: pumpkin Toss or bembag Toss and pumpkin Toss, scavenger hunt.
Speaker 3: There's live music from a bank called Jopah, which I
Speaker 3: love that name. Kids craft, moon Bounce, food, coffee, beer,
Speaker 3: wine and more. Good night, make your way over there
Speaker 3: next Saturday. Put it on counter a big circle right now.
Speaker 3: If buchan as Native Plants eleven Street in the heights.
Speaker 3: I'll be there from twelve to two and I hope,
Speaker 3: I definitely hope that you can make it. Let's see here,
Speaker 3: I'm short on time to take a call, so Catherine,
Speaker 3: so that I can give you adequate time, I'll be
Speaker 3: taking you first when we come right back from break.
Speaker 3: I did want to mention one more time a reminder
Speaker 3: that the nitroposs three step is fertilizer, the fall special barricade.
Speaker 3: I was just talking about that on the collar that
Speaker 3: is the pre emergent herbicide and Eagle turf, which is
Speaker 3: a fung a side. All three. You're going to get
Speaker 3: those at D and D Feed and tom Maaul Plantation,
Speaker 3: Ace Hardware and Richmond Hiding and Feed all of around.
Speaker 3: Stubner Airline carries them as well. You want to do
Speaker 3: all three this fall one two three Fall Special fertilizer
Speaker 3: designed for fall barricade to stop the cool season weeds
Speaker 3: which are sprouting soon, and nitro foss Eagle turf to
Speaker 3: shut down brown patch and take off before they get started.
Speaker 3: Got to give them a head of coup, follow my
Speaker 3: schedule on all three of those. They are on the schedule,
Speaker 3: follow it. Timing is critical if you're going to prevent weeds,
Speaker 3: Timing is critical. If you're going to prevent brown patch,
Speaker 3: Don't wait till the weeds are up. Don't wait till
Speaker 3: the brown pat surfers are there. You've got to get
Speaker 3: ahead of them. Why night us put that together three
Speaker 3: step schedule. I just again want to thank the folks
Speaker 3: at weren't Ace really had a good time. Richard and
Speaker 3: Sarah Lockley down there have an awesome store. You have
Speaker 3: to go see it. If you haven't been down there,
Speaker 3: I don't want to remind you. The inaugural fig Toberfest
Speaker 3: in Brazoria County is next weekend down and Ingleton on
Speaker 3: Enchanted Oaks Drive from eight to one. They're gonna have
Speaker 3: some awesome speakers. For more information, contact Kimberly Mayer at
Speaker 3: the Bassouri County Office at ninety seven nine eight six
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Speaker 3: We are starting our eight o'clock hour, eight to nine,
Speaker 3: third hour of the day, and we're here for your
Speaker 3: gardening questions. Seven one seven one three two one two
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Speaker 3: to bel air and talk to Catherine to start off
Speaker 3: this hour. Welcome to gardener and Catherine.
Speaker 9: Hi Skiff, good morning, Thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 9: So I'm calling so I have a lot of boxwoods
Speaker 9: in my landscaping. I've had them for years and they
Speaker 9: start getting an issue where part of the plant will
Speaker 9: turn a very pale yellowish white. It'll be one branch
Speaker 9: and it will spread the other branches and then I'm
Speaker 9: ripping the plant out, putting a new one in, and
Speaker 9: then it pops up somewhere else. So this has been
Speaker 9: going on for a while. So my question is, I mean,
Speaker 9: I've been told before that it's fungled, but my question is,
Speaker 9: is this fungle? Is it something inevitable or is there
Speaker 9: a way I can treat it and prevent it from
Speaker 9: coming back and when I put in new ones that
Speaker 9: it won't recur with the new ones.
Speaker 3: Yes, that's a good question. The best thing you can do,
Speaker 3: and this is a little trouble, a little bit of expense,
Speaker 3: but if you can take a plant that is declining
Speaker 3: in that hedge, and by the way, I got those pictures,
Speaker 3: that's those great shots. If you take it declining and
Speaker 3: it's like okay, this one, I'm about to lose it.
Speaker 3: Don't wait until it's dead, but while it's sick. But
Speaker 3: it's like, okay, I'm not going to say I know
Speaker 3: this and what's going to happen. Take it, pull it up,
Speaker 3: shake the soil off the roots, try to get as
Speaker 3: much of the roots as you can, and then send
Speaker 3: it to the plant clinic at anm. What they'll do
Speaker 3: is they will culture out the fungus, look at it
Speaker 3: under a microscope, culture dot in a petri dish, and
Speaker 3: do a true plant clinic analysis and determine exactly what
Speaker 3: is causing it. So that's the best approach, and then
Speaker 3: they tell you what to do about it. If they
Speaker 3: see it, they may find nematodes on the roots, they
Speaker 3: may find a canker type disease on the branches, or
Speaker 3: they may just see splits from pole damage or physical
Speaker 3: damage or something else. But they'll be able to tell
Speaker 3: exactly what's doing it. Now. To do that, the website
Speaker 3: is really easy. It's Plant Clinic dot t a Mu
Speaker 3: dot edu. Plant Clinic one word at TAMU dot edu.
Speaker 3: And when you get there, there's a form you fill out.
Speaker 3: Just follow the instructions and that is the real way. See,
Speaker 3: you've got a lot of boxwoods in these hedges, and
Speaker 3: so if you're losing them one and one at a
Speaker 3: time and stuff, it's worth gwinn and paying a diagnostic
Speaker 3: fee to get that get that analyzed. I can give
Speaker 3: you things to look at, like follow the dead branches
Speaker 3: down to where they join branches that end up having
Speaker 3: green on them, and in that intersection there, look for
Speaker 3: splits in the bark, look for holes in the bark,
Speaker 3: like a little something mate tunnel into the bark or something.
Speaker 3: Just look for all of that and see what you find,
Speaker 3: and then we take it from there based on what
Speaker 3: you find. But chances are this because of your description,
Speaker 3: it could be an above ground canker type disease. But
Speaker 3: it also could be something going on in the roots.
Speaker 3: And the more the root system you lose, the more
Speaker 3: of the top goes out, not to a large degree,
Speaker 3: each root is you could follow the tube all the
Speaker 3: way up to us a top part on the plant, okay,
Speaker 3: And so as you lose a section of roots, there's
Speaker 3: gonna be a section of top that dies as a
Speaker 3: result of that. So that's why I'm saying it could
Speaker 3: be above ground, could be below ground. One other thing
Speaker 3: you can do is if you've got a plant that's
Speaker 3: looking really bad, take a very sharp knife and slice
Speaker 3: vertically down through that branch tissue that's not dead, but
Speaker 3: it's dying. And if under the bark, instead of being
Speaker 3: creamy white or green, under the bark, you see streaks
Speaker 3: of kind of a brown and gray. The way I
Speaker 3: describe it as it looks like one of those nicotine
Speaker 3: stained cigarette filters. You know, it's got that staining on
Speaker 3: the inside. Uh, then that's a sign of a vascular
Speaker 3: root disease for that particular symptom. So those are some
Speaker 3: tips on things you can look for. But I think
Speaker 3: if I were you, I would go ahead and send
Speaker 3: the plant. You can box it up personally. I would
Speaker 3: just drive it up there and get a good fresh
Speaker 3: plant to them. Get to them on a Monday. If
Speaker 3: you're going to mail it, go ahead and mail it
Speaker 3: on maybe a Friday or Saturday, so when they come
Speaker 3: in it's fresh and ready to go. It hadn't you know,
Speaker 3: if you mailed it on a let's say a Tuesday,
Speaker 3: and it didn't get there in time for them to
Speaker 3: look at it until after the weekend, it's not in
Speaker 3: as good as shape. You get a little better, okay,
Speaker 3: patient to them to diagnose, Yeah, okay.
Speaker 9: And are there any new varieties of boxwoods that are
Speaker 9: more disease resistant? Just in general, like if I'm replacing
Speaker 9: the ones that have died off? Is there anything actually
Speaker 9: looking for in the nursery.
Speaker 3: Well, there is some of that, but a lot of
Speaker 3: the things we do I don't know. I'd have to
Speaker 3: go look to see if there's a boxwood that's verticillium
Speaker 3: and fusarium resistant. Those are two soil diseases. I know
Speaker 3: there's not one that's an ema toade resistant. As far.
Speaker 3: There's a boxwood light that's going around some parts of
Speaker 3: the country. I just I don't think your answer is
Speaker 3: going to be found in that. But I'm going to
Speaker 3: look into that a little bit more and see what
Speaker 3: the availability is. Some of that stuff is new, The
Speaker 3: light and stuff is fairly new, and so I doubt
Speaker 3: breeders have had time to go through the whole process
Speaker 3: of developing a resistant one.
Speaker 9: Okay, all right, Well, I'll send one off to an
Speaker 9: m and I'll let you know what they tell me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, please do let me know. In fact, if you'll
Speaker 3: hold on my producer can give you the email where
Speaker 3: you can just directly send it right back to the
Speaker 3: information back to me. And you may have a question
Speaker 3: about what they tell you in the diagnosis and I'll
Speaker 3: be happy ify email to answer that for you.
Speaker 9: Okay, okay, great, well, thanks so much, skip.
Speaker 3: You bet, Catherine. I put you on hold, Crystal, pick
Speaker 3: it up and give you that email. All right. You're
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Speaker 3: Uh Nelson Plant Food has a fall fertilizer designed for
Speaker 3: our area and definitely design for fall, and it's called
Speaker 3: carbo Load. Carbo Load has a lower nitrogen a little
Speaker 3: higher potassium, which is what we want in a fall fertilizer.
Speaker 3: A forty pound bag covers five thousand square feet and
Speaker 3: it will help get your grass ready for cold and
Speaker 3: ready for spring. That's why we call it carbo load,
Speaker 3: because grass produces carbohydrates which increase cold heartiness and increase
Speaker 3: spring growth. Early spring growth is based on your fall fertilization,
Speaker 3: not your spring. Early spring growth comes from fall fertilization.
Speaker 3: Carboload does that. Carboload also has a pre emergent herbicide
Speaker 3: in it. So while I say with fall fertilizing, eh,
Speaker 3: do it in early October. Anytime in October, get it done.
Speaker 3: That's fine. If you're going to do something like carbload
Speaker 3: that's got the pre emergent there, go ahead and get
Speaker 3: that done early in the month. Get that done early
Speaker 3: in October, all right now if you want, because that
Speaker 3: gets the ingredient down so that when we get a
Speaker 3: little cool spelled and some rain and the seed starts sprouting,
Speaker 3: you don't miss that window. You're already in there ahead
Speaker 3: of it to prevent seed sprouting of all all those
Speaker 3: weeds that are cool season weeds and infest your plants.
Speaker 3: And now some plant foods, the turf star line and
Speaker 3: others and other things like carbaload are going to be
Speaker 3: available widely throughout the Greater Houston area and they do
Speaker 3: do work. We're going to go now to Huntsville and
Speaker 3: talk to Charles. Hey, Charles, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 12: Good morning.
Speaker 3: Skip.
Speaker 12: Before I moved retired from Texas and moved up here
Speaker 12: to Tennessee, I had a beautiful fig tree and a
Speaker 12: fig bush and we missed those that fig preserves. Will
Speaker 12: figs live up here in mid mid Tennessee. When we
Speaker 12: get some cold weather, it'll get below freezing two or
Speaker 12: three days, and that'll happen two or three times a year,
Speaker 12: and we'll figs.
Speaker 5: Well.
Speaker 3: I've never I've never lived up up there and tried
Speaker 3: to grow figs, but I can tell you this research
Speaker 3: is done at Ohio State University a number of years
Speaker 3: ago found that the varieties brown turkey and hardy Chicago
Speaker 3: Chicago Hardy it's sometimes called, are very cold hardy among
Speaker 3: the fig varieties. Now that said, I'm not that impressed
Speaker 3: with Chicago hardy Chicago it just for us. I would
Speaker 3: say there are better figs to grow. You can grow
Speaker 3: around turkey down here as well, But anyway, those figs
Speaker 3: are the cultivar end. That's probably your better too, that
Speaker 3: you're going to have. I would say maybe probably a
Speaker 3: bigger factor on figs up in Tennessee is going to
Speaker 3: be the way you care for them to fertilize in
Speaker 3: water and late in the season and encourage new late
Speaker 3: season growth is a no no, that's going to be
Speaker 3: more cold tender, so allowing if they get if you
Speaker 3: get a cooling period and they kind of cool off
Speaker 3: and everything, they're fine. The other thing I would do
Speaker 3: is very thickly malts the base and the winter time.
Speaker 3: That would be you know, like a good mult product,
Speaker 3: even a finer textured, composty kind of product, piled up
Speaker 3: all over the base and around the bottoms of the shoots.
Speaker 3: That way, should you get a cold that kills them back,
Speaker 3: you'll still have lots of buds at the bottom that
Speaker 3: will sprout right back. And with many types of figs,
Speaker 3: they will actually produce later that season from those basil buds.
Speaker 13: Great.
Speaker 12: Well, I miss those pig preserves that my wife makes.
Speaker 12: So I think I'll try the brown turkey. I'll make
Speaker 12: sure that when I order a plant that it's a
Speaker 12: brown turkey.
Speaker 3: Okay, well, there you go, try that one.
Speaker 13: Now.
Speaker 3: Brown turkey is one. There's a little confusion in names.
Speaker 3: There's there there used to be one those a California
Speaker 3: brown turkey and not the same as the regular brown
Speaker 3: turkey fig. But down here in Texas, if you get
Speaker 3: a brown turkey, you're probably getting the right one.
Speaker 12: Great, I appreciate the information, Thank you, sir.
Speaker 3: All right, and what I'm gonna give you one last
Speaker 3: thing to be extra sure. Your Tennessee University Sency has
Speaker 3: an extension service, just like we do in Texas, and
Speaker 3: whereever county you're in, you got a county extension agent.
Speaker 3: Call them up and say, what are you guys recommending. Now,
Speaker 3: my information may be a little older because I don't
Speaker 3: I don't have to keep up with what to grow
Speaker 3: in Tennessee like I do in Texas, and so they
Speaker 3: may have something as a suggestion in addition to what
Speaker 3: I gave you, and I would I would go to
Speaker 3: that local source for that too. Okay, that's as best
Speaker 3: as I can help you. But now if you head
Speaker 3: up there normally, if you've listened to Guardline, you know
Speaker 3: that I don't charge for advice, but I do ask
Speaker 3: for half the produce you grow if it's successful. So
Speaker 3: ship me a box of turkey figs from cal from
Speaker 3: Tennessee down here, to the station and we'll call it
Speaker 3: even I'm kidding. Thanks a lot, Charles. I appreciate that
Speaker 3: a lot. All right, folks.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 3: I actually muted him there at the end, so didn't
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Speaker 3: always need some Microlife sixty four to go with it.
Speaker 3: But remember it all starts in the soil. Heirloom soils
Speaker 3: will set you up for success. They will. I've tried
Speaker 3: it myself. They work. And when you prepare the soil
Speaker 3: before you plant the plants, that is the only way
Speaker 3: to go about it falls for planting. Get those beds
Speaker 3: prepared with a quality mix from those heirloom soils, and
Speaker 3: you will have success. I can just tell you that's
Speaker 3: the most important thing in success. Let's go here to Magnolia,
Speaker 3: Texas and talk to Sarah. Hello, Sarah, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 7: You. I have several questions. I'm good, that's glad. I'm glad.
Speaker 7: I have several questions and I'm in sort of a dilemma.
Speaker 7: I wasn't able. I had to have someone to mow
Speaker 7: my yard last year, and consequently I have many new
Speaker 7: weeds that I've never had before. See that saidge is one,
Speaker 7: doveweed is another. And there's something I've had ever since
Speaker 7: I've owned the property. I haven't been able to identify it.
Speaker 7: The closest thing it looks like is a jew grass,
Speaker 7: and but I thought that was for my research. That's
Speaker 7: primarily in Georgia, and I think there is either chickweed
Speaker 7: or Virginia button weed. I can't identify between the two
Speaker 7: of them. My I do have celsius and I do
Speaker 7: have sedgehammer. So it's being that we're really close to
Speaker 7: the fall season. I tip have used weed beat or
Speaker 7: complete granular. I'm thinking about considering to the carbo load
Speaker 7: this year, but I'm not sure if I should or
Speaker 7: how do I work this altogether to kill these new
Speaker 7: weeds as well as continue with the fall fertilization.
Speaker 3: Okay, well, just go with the carbo load. That's going
Speaker 3: to shut down weed seeds for the cool season. Weeds germinating,
Speaker 3: which is not the doveweed or the grass you were
Speaker 3: talking about the weed you were talking about, So carbo load,
Speaker 3: get it down early October, get it watered in. I'd
Speaker 3: put about a half inch of water on it, move
Speaker 3: it down into the soil where it can do its work. Now,
Speaker 3: as far as those others, they're going to be burning
Speaker 3: back with the coal weather and going away till next spring.
Speaker 3: They'll be back again. The celsius will work on the doveweed,
Speaker 3: and I would try it on the other one. I
Speaker 3: don't I don't know exactly which plant you're talking about.
Speaker 3: When you say jew grass. I think maybe it's basket
Speaker 3: grass that you're seeing, but I'm not real sure.
Speaker 7: Well, it's kind of crazy. It's a small little one
Speaker 7: whenever I was told originally Sam bamboo grass, but I've
Speaker 7: never heard that, and I can't confirm it either.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's do this so we get you a real
Speaker 3: good answer. If you I'm going to put you on
Speaker 3: hold here and if you will send me a picture,
Speaker 3: send me a picture, and I'll be happy to take
Speaker 3: a look at it and get a good accurate analysis
Speaker 3: and tell you what to do for it. Okay, for
Speaker 3: that one that we haven't determined what it is, Okay, Okay, great,
Speaker 3: all right, Sarah, Hey, thanks for the call. Good luck
Speaker 3: with you getting ahead of this. But I look forward.
Speaker 3: I'm putting you on host, so don't go away. Chris
Speaker 3: is gonna come give you an email. Okay, send me
Speaker 3: good pictures and sharp focus, sharp focus, all right, that's important. Listen,
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Speaker 3: this out. All right, I'm gonna have to take a break.
Speaker 3: When I come back, Judy, you will be our first stop.
Speaker 3: Welcome back to guarden Line. Good to have you with
Speaker 3: us today. I always, I always enjoy visiting with gardeners,
Speaker 3: and boy, we we try to do that here every
Speaker 3: Saturday and Sunday from six to ten here on Guardline.
Speaker 3: You know, Ace Hardware stores are all over the greater
Speaker 3: Houston area, and I was just at a new one
Speaker 3: out there in Wharton, Texas yesterday. Ace Hardware has every
Speaker 3: fertilizer I talk about on Guardenline. They've got the pest control,
Speaker 3: disease control, weed control we talk about. They have everything
Speaker 3: you need to have a beautiful, bountiful garden and landscape.
Speaker 3: It's as simple as that. And they all also have
Speaker 3: things you need to make that outdoor living area even better,
Speaker 3: such as quality barbecue pits like Big Green Egg and
Speaker 3: Treyger and oh gosh, Weber Grill. I've got a Weber myself.
Speaker 3: Those are awesome. They got the strings of lights and
Speaker 3: all the things for the decorations for the holidays, for
Speaker 3: the fall season. Ace is a place. It's as simple
Speaker 3: as that. Go to ACE Hardware stores forty of them.
Speaker 3: If you don't know where the one near you is,
Speaker 3: go to Acehardware dot Com. Look at the store locator
Speaker 3: and they're going to have it. And when you're in there,
Speaker 3: if you got fire ants, by the way, this is
Speaker 3: your warning. It's the season. Get it done. Football season
Speaker 3: means we tackle fire ants in the fall with a
Speaker 3: good bait. That is the best way to get ahead
Speaker 3: of those little boogers. And Ace has got it. They've
Speaker 3: got the baits that you need. We're going to head
Speaker 3: out now on the phones and we're going to go
Speaker 3: to NATA Texas and talk to Judy. Hello, Judy, Welcome
Speaker 3: to Gardenline.
Speaker 22: Good morning. It was good senior yesterday. Good morning.
Speaker 3: Oh you're out there Wharton Feed, Yes, you're right at Warton.
Speaker 8: Feed right, good, good, can I help today? Okay, well,
Speaker 8: thank you. I had showed you a picture that I
Speaker 8: took of my peaches with.
Speaker 23: The brown You called it a brown rot there, and
Speaker 23: you were going to help me figure out what to.
Speaker 3: Do with that, Yes, you bet. And here here's I
Speaker 3: wanted to check and make sure I had the latest
Speaker 3: products and the stuff available, and I did. Uh. So,
Speaker 3: peach brown rot. It can occur at bloom time, and
Speaker 3: you never have the bloom never makes a peach because
Speaker 3: the bloom rots. It can occur on green peaches bits
Speaker 3: especially bad. As those peaches reach harvest, they get real
Speaker 3: sweet and sugary and the brown rot hit some. If
Speaker 3: it's wet conditions, brown rot is going to be especially bad.
Speaker 3: And so when you get a little bit of rain
Speaker 3: closer to harvest, that makes it even worse. There are
Speaker 3: a couple of products out there. One's called cap tan
Speaker 3: c A p T A N. Now. I know Bonney
Speaker 3: makes a Captain. I know high Yield makes a Captain.
Speaker 3: There may be some others, but that works. Uh. Then
Speaker 3: there's a product called and the ingredient is pro piccanazole,
Speaker 3: and I'm gonna spell that out for you. It's p
Speaker 3: R O.
Speaker 24: P I c.
Speaker 3: O n A z O l E pro pig con
Speaker 3: A zol Bone Eye makes a product called Infuse Systemic
Speaker 3: Disease Control that has pro pacanazole. There are many other
Speaker 3: products that have it, but not all of them are
Speaker 3: labeled for peaches, but those are ones that you could use.
Speaker 3: And then any anything label for peaches with miclobutan nil
Speaker 3: would work too, and I'm gonna spell that one out.
Speaker 3: Sorry for this. This is why I make online publications
Speaker 3: so we don't have to do m y c l
Speaker 3: O b U t A n I L my clo
Speaker 3: beew ten Ill and Monterey has one called fungjamac Spectra
Speaker 3: side has immunoc spectra side emmunox. Those are all things
Speaker 3: that will control brown rot on peaches. But you want
Speaker 3: to start spraying. You can spray them at the end
Speaker 3: of bloom a little bit and for a little bit later.
Speaker 3: You're going to need to spray about every ten to
Speaker 3: fourteen days, and when we go into wet weather following
Speaker 3: a rain, give them a spray. And especially as we
Speaker 3: approach harvest, some people don't spray until the peaches are
Speaker 3: getting close to full size, and then they begin their
Speaker 3: spray about every seven days going up to the harvest
Speaker 3: period to prevent that disease. The other thing you need
Speaker 3: to know for sure on that disease judy is anytime
Speaker 3: you see fallen peaches, pick them up and get rid
Speaker 3: of them, Bury them, put them in the trash, get
Speaker 3: them out of there. Anytime you see a peach dried
Speaker 3: on the branch, snip that whole branch off, that little
Speaker 3: section of branch that holds the peach and throw the
Speaker 3: whole thing away and get that those brown rots spores
Speaker 3: out of there, because we call those mummies and in
Speaker 3: the spring, when rain drops hit those mummies, those spores
Speaker 3: splash everywhere in Your next crop is going to be
Speaker 3: really hit harder than it was last year.
Speaker 22: Oh okay, okay, so I spray that sanitition.
Speaker 3: Okay, you can do it at the end of bloom.
Speaker 22: Uh yeah, pretend.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Brown ride is an ongoing problem un to fourteen. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and especially as we get a little bit closer to harvest.
Speaker 3: Don't wait until they're they're harvestable. You gotta start earlier.
Speaker 3: But as those speeches get them off close to full size,
Speaker 3: that's the most important time to do your spraying. So
Speaker 3: you don't have to start at the end of bloom.
Speaker 3: But if it's a bad year and you have it
Speaker 3: every year, I would start it end of bloom. But
Speaker 3: other than that, i'd start you know.
Speaker 23: Yeah, once I treat this safe for this coming up
Speaker 23: year harvest season, will I have it again? Or will
Speaker 23: I slowly you know, not have this problem.
Speaker 3: No, it'll likely be that. But it's a very very
Speaker 3: weather related, very weather related. So your sanitation reduces it.
Speaker 3: Having good weather reduces it. But still the diseases out
Speaker 3: there in nature. And it loves peaches.
Speaker 23: Okay, okay, and none of these these products, these products
Speaker 23: don't affect eating them, you know, it doesn't do anything
Speaker 23: to the peaches.
Speaker 3: No, follow the label though, it'll say like wait seven
Speaker 3: wait seven days, you know, before harvest, or it'll say
Speaker 3: something like I just read the label. That's that's the one.
Speaker 3: And then wash it when you bring it in if
Speaker 3: you want to do that. All right, all right, thank.
Speaker 22: You, thank you, Thanks for all your great info.
Speaker 3: All right, thank you, appreciate, appreciate very much your call.
Speaker 3: You know, Nitropos has their three step program. What is
Speaker 3: the Nitropas three step Well, it's a fall special fertilizer
Speaker 3: that's step one. By the way, we gave these the
Speaker 3: way down there weren't at the Ace Hardware store. Nitopos
Speaker 3: provided fall special We also gave away some barricade Step
Speaker 3: two for prove hing winter weeds, and then Nitrofoss turf
Speaker 3: Eagle fungicide for preventing brown patch and take all root
Speaker 3: rot both and those are all on my schedule too.
Speaker 3: You can go to guarding with Skip dot com see
Speaker 3: the schedule. But remember the Nitropos three step fertilizer we'd
Speaker 3: prevention and disease prevention simple as that. You can find
Speaker 3: it at the Ace Hardware Sinkle Ranch. Arborgate carries it
Speaker 3: out in Tomball Shades of Texas, Southeast Houston on Genoa
Speaker 3: Red Bluff another place you can find Nitrofoss products. We're
Speaker 3: gonna go to Stephanie now in League City. Hey, Stephanie,
Speaker 3: let's sey if we can get a call in here
Speaker 3: before I have to go to break.
Speaker 25: Okay, I listened to you last weekend, and I have
Speaker 25: a small magnolia tree and it's got the black suit
Speaker 25: and I have been training it. I wiped the leaves
Speaker 25: off with a diluted soap and then I treated it
Speaker 25: as a fungicide folier that you were saying something about
Speaker 25: a drench, so I went ahead and ordered the drench.
Speaker 25: My question is, I noticed my neighbor's tree is hanging
Speaker 25: over that tree and another tree, and it's full of
Speaker 25: that black soot and mold or whatever not molded.
Speaker 10: Is that going to kill my trees?
Speaker 3: No, it shades them out. It doesn't do them any
Speaker 3: good because of the shades the leaves a little bit.
Speaker 3: But you know, it is possible that your tree does
Speaker 3: not have a pest on it that your neighbor's tree does,
Speaker 3: and that sooty, that sugary honeydew basically honeydew is the
Speaker 3: nice word for bug pee. It is falling on your
Speaker 3: trees causing the city mold. So it's either gonna on
Speaker 3: a magnolia. Probably scale is the cause, so you may
Speaker 3: just look around for scales on the magnolia. But it
Speaker 3: could be that it's your neighbors that's doing that, and
Speaker 3: in which case you're just kind of left with trying
Speaker 3: to blast off with some soapy water over now and
Speaker 3: then those those leaves to get the soot off. Tell
Speaker 3: your neighbor to listen to garden Line and we'll tell
Speaker 3: them to put us system.
Speaker 26: They just moved in and it's a rental and they're
Speaker 26: so I'm going to have those trees trimmed because the
Speaker 26: problem is that tree is touching my larger tree. But
Speaker 26: the leaves are just falling off and they're black, like
Speaker 26: they're black and they're falling.
Speaker 4: I'm strownd dying.
Speaker 3: Yep, I understand.
Speaker 25: Okay, trench still.
Speaker 3: Uh, since you bought it, go ahead and use it.
Speaker 3: But uh, you know I can't. I don't have a
Speaker 3: crystal ball to know whether you have the insects on
Speaker 3: your true or not. But if you don't see anything,
Speaker 3: you may you may just wait. But anyway, that would
Speaker 3: be my suggestion. Hey, I'm sorry I got to run
Speaker 3: to a break, but that's a lot for your call.
Speaker 3: Thank you, good luck, bye bye. I'll be right back. Folks,
Speaker 3: you are listening in today. We are here to help
Speaker 3: you have success with what you grow. You know, ana
Speaker 3: plants and produce up in Montgomery. It's the same thing there.
Speaker 3: They always have a good supply of all kinds of plants.
Speaker 3: They always have really cool landscape link too. If you're
Speaker 3: looking for things like it's going to get chili here soon.
Speaker 3: How about an outside chimney for the patio, or some
Speaker 3: sort of an iron work for a trellis or something
Speaker 3: like that in your garden. Certainly for plants, they carry
Speaker 3: every fertilizer I talk about it. A and A Plants
Speaker 3: and Produce Ana is located on the east side of Montgomery.
Speaker 3: That is Highway one oh five and you've driven past
Speaker 3: it a million times if you've been between Conroe and Montgomery. Again,
Speaker 3: all of those quality products are available there at A
Speaker 3: and A Plants and Produce, along with some really cool
Speaker 3: plants and other things like decorations for this holiday season.
Speaker 3: Let's head out now to sugar Land. We're going to
Speaker 3: talk to Dean. Hey, Dean, welcome to garden.
Speaker 14: Line, a long time listener, first down caller, got some
Speaker 14: welcome thank you. So we got some roots running in
Speaker 14: the ground in the lawn and sprouting needles, nails when
Speaker 14: you walk on them. You have food trees around like
Speaker 14: big parsimuen.
Speaker 12: Peach.
Speaker 14: No big trees, but the neighbors have some big trees.
Speaker 14: I'm just curious how to get rid of that because
Speaker 14: it's hard to walk on.
Speaker 4: And mo.
Speaker 3: I'm not I'm not picturing what you're talking about so
Speaker 3: you're stepping on things that's not the lawn that's coming up,
Speaker 3: that's real pointed right right.
Speaker 14: Yes, It's like I feel like, you know, roots are
Speaker 14: running under on the ground and running across with nubs
Speaker 14: or needles coming out, and they're pretty hard because they
Speaker 14: feel like nails when you walk on barefoot on the
Speaker 14: you know, on the lawn and also in the food
Speaker 14: trees and so forth. But I'm just curious what would
Speaker 14: cause that. I mean, I don't think the food trees
Speaker 14: would would have root systems like that.
Speaker 3: The only thing that is coming to my mind, and
Speaker 3: it would be little sprouts of little tree ceilings, like
Speaker 3: you know, oak seedlings coming up or something out of
Speaker 3: the ground. They would have a stiff little trunk like that.
Speaker 3: But I don't you know what, Dean, I nothing is
Speaker 3: ringing a bell right now on that other than like
Speaker 3: little oak seedlings or something coming up. Could I get
Speaker 3: you to take a picture of that and send it
Speaker 3: to me up close? I can, you know, put your
Speaker 3: hand on fingers on one saying this is it, show
Speaker 3: me the lawn area a little bit further back, and
Speaker 3: then get in real close, make sure they're in sharp focus,
Speaker 3: and let me take a look, not ringing a bell.
Speaker 3: If you pull on them, did they come out? Yes?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 3: Okay, also, well pull on, pull on a few, pull
Speaker 3: them out and set them on a flat surface like
Speaker 3: a table, and take a picture of that too. I'm
Speaker 3: gonna put your on hold and we'll get to the
Speaker 3: bottom of this. Just send me those good quality photos
Speaker 3: by email. Crystal, get on and give you an email
Speaker 3: for that. Thank you, sir. I appreciate that call. Look
Speaker 3: forward to solving this mystery. Let's see, we're gonna what
Speaker 3: time we got here. Okay, we're going to go to
Speaker 3: Paul and Laporte. Hey Paul, welcome to Guarden Line. Good morning, sir.
Speaker 27: How are you doing today?
Speaker 3: I'm well today, I'm well. How can we help you?
Speaker 27: Well, I've got a limit a lime tree I believe
Speaker 27: in my back. If it has spikes on it, it's
Speaker 27: a line I heard and it was about four foot
Speaker 27: tall when I moved in four years ago. Now it's
Speaker 27: about eight foot. But I need to trim it real good.
Speaker 27: When is a good time to do that?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 3: I would wait until spring. You do not want your
Speaker 3: tree to put on growth going into cold weather, because
Speaker 3: it'll just be more cold susceptible than normal. So if
Speaker 3: you need to trim it, if you're going to bring
Speaker 3: it in like the greenhouse or garage or something over winter,
Speaker 3: you can so that it's easier to get in the garage. Okay,
Speaker 3: then I would wait until spring. Okay, it's the same
Speaker 3: with roses. Planning roses. Yeah, roses we will do kind
Speaker 3: of in February at the end of winter. We don't
Speaker 3: wait until spring because roses are cold hearty, unlike etceterus,
Speaker 3: being a little iffy.
Speaker 27: Especially, I'm going to get my rose. I'm getting my
Speaker 27: rose garden going today. So I was wondering when it's
Speaker 27: a good time to buy and plant.
Speaker 3: So with roses, Oh, there now is the time to
Speaker 3: buy and plant. So is February that if you will
Speaker 3: buy and plant your roses this fall. Number one, there's
Speaker 3: some sales on around at some of our garden centers,
Speaker 3: and if you buy them this fall, you will have
Speaker 3: a head start on something that you waited until a
Speaker 3: spring to plant. And if you're going to oh, all
Speaker 3: kinds of places have roses a year down in the
Speaker 3: La Port area. I think you got some garden centers
Speaker 3: down in your area there you might I don't know
Speaker 3: if up in Seabrook, you know at Moss they have those.
Speaker 3: I would call uh, I would call Jorges Place over
Speaker 3: Jorges Hidden Gardens. That's over in Alvin. I don't know
Speaker 3: if you've ever been over there. Oh, yes, he also
Speaker 3: he also carries roses. I'll give you a phone number
Speaker 3: for him. Just let me get to my head. Uh, well,
Speaker 3: I don't have the phone here. He is on Elizabeth
Speaker 3: Road in Alvin, and I had just a second. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna I'm gonna get it for him. But anyway,
Speaker 3: he I know has gotten some roses in uh and
Speaker 3: should have those as well. So that would be another
Speaker 3: another place that you might want to uh, you might
Speaker 3: want to check when you're doing a rose searching. But
Speaker 3: fall fall is the best time, absolutely, absolutely the best time.
Speaker 27: All right, I appreciate your time today, sir.
Speaker 3: All right, very much, Yes, sir, you as well take care.
Speaker 3: All right, folks, there we go. Let's see what are
Speaker 3: we doing here in time wise? Oh my gosh, we're
Speaker 3: a run out of time. We don't have time for
Speaker 3: another call. So I'm won't tell you about a couple
Speaker 3: of things. First of all, when you're over at Jorges
Speaker 3: you ought to grab his three sixty tree stabilizer has
Speaker 3: a lot of trees for sale too, by the way,
Speaker 3: but those three sixty tree stabilizers are excellent for new plants.
Speaker 3: You're putting in a tree, you're putting in a multi
Speaker 3: trunk crape myrtle or regular trees or whatever. They work.
Speaker 3: They hold the plant strongly. They're very strong, but they
Speaker 3: have a loose strap on the end and you want
Speaker 3: your staked trees to move just a little. That movement
Speaker 3: helps strengthen the trunk and it's important in thirty sixties
Speaker 3: designed for that. You're going to find them not only
Speaker 3: at Jorges Hidden Gardens down in Alven. You're gonna find
Speaker 3: them a Southwest Fertilizer Bisonett and Renwick up in Tombauld
Speaker 3: at Arborgate on two forty nine plants for all seasons
Speaker 3: down on the Heights Leven Street if you can Nursery
Speaker 3: and where two forty nine comes into belt wag eight
Speaker 3: r CW Nursery carries the three sixty tree stabilizers as well. Wow,
Speaker 3: that was fast. We got one hour left folks today.
Speaker 3: I want to remind you next Saturday, October fifth, from
Speaker 3: ten to three is the Fall Fest at Buchanan's Plants,
Speaker 3: and it is awesome. Buchanans puts on such a really
Speaker 3: really cool party for Fallfest. They are going to have
Speaker 3: all kinds of things like Halloween mass crafting and pumpkin
Speaker 3: painting and color stations, hay rides and more. That's for
Speaker 3: the kids game. Oh Aisha mentioned pumpkin ring toss, bean
Speaker 3: bag toss, cavenger.
Speaker 4: Huh.
Speaker 3: For the adults, we got a band called Yo Pond.
Speaker 3: Of course we do it Southeast Texas. And they're going
Speaker 3: to have all kinds of coffee, food, beer, wine, all
Speaker 3: kinds of cool stuff. It's a good It's always a
Speaker 3: good time to go to Buchini's. But this is a shindig.
Speaker 3: And guess what I'll be there from twelve to two,
Speaker 3: twelve to two next Saturday, Buchanan splans. We're gonna give
Speaker 3: away one hundred dollars gift card, some bags of Microlife
Speaker 3: brown patch as well. Hope you can make it.
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Speaker 3: All right, folks, we are back. Welcome to garden Line,
Speaker 3: last hour a garden line this weekend. Looking forward to
Speaker 3: talking to you on the phone with your gardening questions
Speaker 3: at seven one three two one two k t r H.
Speaker 3: Seven one three two one two k t r H.
Speaker 3: You know, Microlife has a number of fertilizers, all of
Speaker 3: which are designed designed to build the soil. They're chalk
Speaker 3: full of beneficial microbes. We know that's important. That is
Speaker 3: important in helping plant roots to be more successful. It's
Speaker 3: important and out competing the bad guys in the soil,
Speaker 3: the bad microbes with good ones. In some cases just
Speaker 3: flat outright attacking the bad microbes with good ones. That
Speaker 3: works very well. Now, you know, this is a season
Speaker 3: where we put down the Microlife brown patch. It is
Speaker 3: a fertilizer that is designed for fall and with all
Speaker 3: the microbes in it, it is beneficial not only the soil,
Speaker 3: but also in terms of providing those plant structures protection
Speaker 3: from a population of microbes that sort of out competes
Speaker 3: in many cases some of the problems that we do
Speaker 3: with you know, brown patch being an example, prime example
Speaker 3: of diseases in the fall. I would suggest if you're
Speaker 3: going to do the Microlife brown patch. Go ahead and
Speaker 3: do the Microlife bio inoculant as well. That is not
Speaker 3: a nutrient source. It's sixty three you're that sixty three
Speaker 3: different beneficial micro organism strains. There are a lot of
Speaker 3: good guys in there. The basillas subtlests. That is a
Speaker 3: ten strains of that one basilla subtlest in and of itself.
Speaker 3: And I'm just picking one out there, but that there's
Speaker 3: even disease control products that are based on basillas subtlests
Speaker 3: that you spray. Bacillis is a good micro most of
Speaker 3: them are. And the soil you know BT kills caterpillars.
Speaker 3: That's a basillis. Uh, the mosquito dunks we talk about,
Speaker 3: that's a bacillus for mosquitoes. So there's a lot of
Speaker 3: good kinds of basillis. And this one has ten different
Speaker 3: strains of basillos in it. Micro micro grow bioinoculant. Put
Speaker 3: out the fertilizer, come back, load up the micro grow bioinoculant.
Speaker 3: It's a maroon colored bag. And do that to your
Speaker 3: lawn and then water doon really good and you'll be
Speaker 3: on your way to succes us from microlife Microlife for
Speaker 3: Lazers dot com are available lots of different places, easy,
Speaker 3: easy to find them on the market. I visiting with
Speaker 3: the folks at Microlife while back, learning a lot about
Speaker 3: some of the new products that they have out. You know,
Speaker 3: they have so many products that staying up to date
Speaker 3: on them and what they do and what they have
Speaker 3: and everything. It's an ongoing process, but they really strive
Speaker 3: to create array of organic options for success in your
Speaker 3: garden and in your lawn, your landscape and whatnot. Antennet
Speaker 3: Gardens done in Richmond is the kind of place you
Speaker 3: go where you grabble a carload of friends and say,
Speaker 3: come on, man, hop in, let's go, let's have a
Speaker 3: good time. It is a destination garden center out there
Speaker 3: in the Richmond Rosenberg area. Plenty of different kinds of
Speaker 3: plants and a lots of bling for the garden. I mean,
Speaker 3: they really specialize in that you want to create a
Speaker 3: beautiful fall planting basket, you got there and just buy one.
Speaker 3: They've got them ready to go, or you make one yourself.
Speaker 3: They'll put the plants, you know, help you give you
Speaker 3: suggestions on why don't you put these plants together and
Speaker 3: put this in the middle of it. Typically an ornamental
Speaker 3: grass for a fall planting container, a large container. They've
Speaker 3: got really cool bling to stick out in the garden,
Speaker 3: and they always have programs going on. You know, in
Speaker 3: the fall they kick into gear with their different educational contacts,
Speaker 3: educational events that are going on and in chanted gardens.
Speaker 3: You just know when you go there, you're gonna get
Speaker 3: good plants, you're gonna get good advice, and you're gonna
Speaker 3: have fun. It's a fun place to visit. A lot
Speaker 3: of times on weekends off a food truck out there
Speaker 3: or something like that just adds a little bit to
Speaker 3: the to the celebration. Last I think just Saturday they
Speaker 3: had Andy from Medina out there doing a fall veggie seminar.
Speaker 3: They've always got stuff going on out there and enchanted gardens,
Speaker 3: and when it comes to holiday decoration for Halloween, Thanksgiving,
Speaker 3: they are loaded up and you can really make your
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Speaker 3: You're listening to Guarden Line again our phone number seven
Speaker 3: one three two one two K T R H. I'm
Speaker 3: gonna go to the woodlands and now and we're going
Speaker 3: to talk to Andy. Hello, Andy, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 28: Sure, a quick question for Saint Augustine grass. Looks like
Speaker 28: I've got some sort of weed or maybe another type
Speaker 28: of grass that's encroaching. It's starting to crowd it out.
Speaker 28: It's a low broad leaf, really dense grass or weed
Speaker 28: that has little white flowers on it. And I'm not
Speaker 28: sure what that is and how to get rid of it.
Speaker 3: White flowers if it's four petals kind of in like
Speaker 3: I'm making a plus sign, that is a junior button weed.
Speaker 3: And yeah, and so all those little things along the vine,
Speaker 3: those are the I guess the buttons. That's the seed pods. Now,
Speaker 3: you're not going to get rid of Virginia button weed
Speaker 3: by hand pulling it. It breaks off. But any that
Speaker 3: you do pull up with those seed pods and get
Speaker 3: them out of there, well that's less seed for the
Speaker 3: future for it. So if you have time and or
Speaker 3: able getting it pulled up is good. But as far
Speaker 3: as the spray, you want to use something called celsius.
Speaker 3: It's like the temperature celsius. Okay, So celsius on it.
Speaker 3: Virginia button weed is not easy to kill. You could
Speaker 3: spray it now. You could also, especially it's important you're
Speaker 3: going to have it next year, so go ahead when
Speaker 3: you see it coming out in the spring, hit it
Speaker 3: with celsius and then be ready to do that again
Speaker 3: in about six weeks. Hit it again. Because sometimes you
Speaker 3: knock it back and weaken it and then the second
Speaker 3: one fully takes it out. But that would be the
Speaker 3: approach to it. The wetter you keep the lawn, the
Speaker 3: happier that weed is. So a good soaking and then
Speaker 3: let it dry out. It won't make the weed go away,
Speaker 3: but it'll keep it from proliferating as fast, so that
Speaker 3: that's in your control aside from rainfall.
Speaker 28: Is celsius something I can just get at home depot,
Speaker 28: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't know on that, okay, but it's great in
Speaker 3: the woodlands, yeah, I would. What I would do is
Speaker 3: I would probably look at the you know, the nearby
Speaker 3: ace hardware stores that you have, and let's see, being
Speaker 3: in the woodlands, if you go over to Auspa's Ace
Speaker 3: on kirkandall in the woodlands, I'll bet you they I
Speaker 3: bet you they have Celsius there. The other another nearby
Speaker 3: is all Star Ace up on fourteen eighty eight toward
Speaker 3: Magnolia direction from you. But they're going to have it.
Speaker 3: And then there's some other aces nearby. I found it.
Speaker 3: I was at an ace down and Wharton yesterday and
Speaker 3: they had they had Celsius there, okay, right, and being
Speaker 3: told well, if you were willing to hold, I'll catch
Speaker 3: you right after this break. So with you on hold,
Speaker 3: if you want to ask another one, just hang around, folks,
Speaker 3: I'll be right back in the big middle of our
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Speaker 3: Now we're going to talk to Andy.
Speaker 27: Hello Andy, Yes, sir.
Speaker 28: Quick question on groundcovers, We use lemons set them and
Speaker 28: it's really a nice groundcover in the summer. Drought resistant
Speaker 28: does a great job. It'll die down in the winter,
Speaker 28: but when it comes back in the spring, it comes
Speaker 28: back bringing with it a lot of clover. Can I
Speaker 28: use a pre emergent weed killer or something that will
Speaker 28: kind of take care of the clover but not damage
Speaker 28: to set them.
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 3: Well, the answer to the word can is yes. The
Speaker 3: answer to the word you know, is it labeled is depends.
Speaker 3: I don't. I don't think barricade has an ornamental label.
Speaker 3: There is a product around I think it's called prem
Speaker 3: that where you sprinkle it around in your in your
Speaker 3: garden beds, your flower beds for that purpose. I generally
Speaker 3: don't recommend it because flower beds get you know, mixed.
Speaker 3: You you pull out plants, you put in plants, you
Speaker 3: mix in compost, and you're breaking the soil surface with
Speaker 3: each of those activities, and so you're the effectiveness of
Speaker 3: a premergent goes away when you when you break up
Speaker 3: the soil surface. But you might try that, and I
Speaker 3: think it should be labeled for succulents like that. That
Speaker 3: should be fine. But yes, any pre emergent would potentially
Speaker 3: stop the weeds from coming up in that And clover
Speaker 3: is a broad leaf weed, so it sprouts. It'll be
Speaker 3: sprouting in October when we get some cold weather. So
Speaker 3: follow my lawn care schedules to timing, and i'd get
Speaker 3: in early October. If you're going to try a pro emergent,
Speaker 3: do that in early October.
Speaker 28: Okay, And I guess since the settem's already rooted, then
Speaker 28: it shouldn't damage the setum.
Speaker 3: That's correct. That that is it is correct, But uh,
Speaker 3: the label is the law. That's the bottom line. And
Speaker 3: so you know, we only have ten bazillion plants that
Speaker 3: potentially could have something put around them like that, and
Speaker 3: I can't know exactly each one off the top of
Speaker 3: my head, but read the label to be sure. That's
Speaker 3: why I think I think Prene is going to be
Speaker 3: close to it for you. But there's probably some other products,
Speaker 3: you know, where you get out there and shop. You
Speaker 3: go to aspose ace up there in your woodlands and
Speaker 3: tell them what you're looking to do and see what
Speaker 3: they have on the shelf there.
Speaker 28: Okay, and how did you spell that.
Speaker 3: The pre the Ace hardware O her e e N yeah,
Speaker 3: r e e N.
Speaker 28: All right, great, all right, thank you for your.
Speaker 3: Time, and that may yeah yeah, and and Andy, that
Speaker 3: may not be the only one. That's just one that
Speaker 3: I'm familiar with that's been on the market for a while.
Speaker 3: For on them it's a thing you just carried around,
Speaker 3: Shake it and that stuff comes out.
Speaker 28: So yeah, all right, all right, thank you, you bet.
Speaker 3: You take care of good luck with that, and thank
Speaker 3: you for the call. Our phone number is seven one
Speaker 3: three two one two kt RH seven one three two
Speaker 3: one two k t RH. Give us a call. We'll
Speaker 3: be glad to help you with your gardening. Questions. If
Speaker 3: you live down in League City, League City Feed is
Speaker 3: your hometown feed store. And I don't mean just League City.
Speaker 3: I mean that whole area like Webster and Elkamina, Reale, Clearlake, Lamark,
Speaker 3: San Leon Dickinson, that whole region down there. League City
Speaker 3: Feed is your hometown feed store. They are located on
Speaker 3: Highway three, just a few blocks south of Highway ninety
Speaker 3: six in League City. You just from ninety six, just
Speaker 3: head down Highway three a few blocks. It'll be there
Speaker 3: on the left hand side. League City Feed has been
Speaker 3: around for forty years and the thing that I like
Speaker 3: about them is they have old time customer service like
Speaker 3: you've grown to expect over the years. It's becoming rarer
Speaker 3: and rarer these days. League City Feed has every fertilizer
Speaker 3: that I talk about on guard line that you need
Speaker 3: for your lawn and gardens. They've got pest control week
Speaker 3: controlled disease control. It's easy there. I mean it's a
Speaker 3: feed story. Yes, pet feeds up for your backyard chickens.
Speaker 3: They carry that. But Leake City Feed is the place
Speaker 3: to go. There open Monday through Saturday, nine to six,
Speaker 3: so you can stop by after work. Closed on Sunday.
Speaker 3: Close today but open again tomorrow Monday nine to six.
Speaker 3: Good time to swing by and grab what you need
Speaker 3: to have a beautiful lawn and landscape there at Leake City.
Speaker 3: Feed makes it really really easy. I like the place
Speaker 3: to stay open until six because that way, on the
Speaker 3: way home from work you can stop in and grab
Speaker 3: the things you need. Have you been to Arburgate up
Speaker 3: in Tomball, Texas? If you've never been, where have you been?
Speaker 3: Crawl out from under that rock and go to Arburgate.
Speaker 3: Arburgate has been around a long time and they are
Speaker 3: an outstanding place. I love going there. It is fun
Speaker 3: you walk around. The First of all, the staff is
Speaker 3: friendly and they are so knowledgeable. We collaborate a lot
Speaker 3: of times staff of Arbigate and myself on various things.
Speaker 3: Customers come in and ask about and do. But those
Speaker 3: folks know what they're doing. I mean, they are very
Speaker 3: hard to stomp with gardening questions. I can tell you
Speaker 3: that because they are gardeners here who are trained and know.
Speaker 3: When you're at Arburgate, pick up some of their organic
Speaker 3: food Complete. That's a fertilizer for anything with roots. Organic
Speaker 3: soil complete, well, it's a soil blend that also has
Speaker 3: expanded shale. And then organic Compost Complete, which is a
Speaker 3: compost that has expanded shale. Remember brown stuff before green stuff.
Speaker 3: You do those three things and the brown stuff is done,
Speaker 3: you're ready to plant. And Arborgate has a ton of plants.
Speaker 3: Of course, we're entering the fall season, so there is
Speaker 3: a bazillion great ideas for decorating your lawn, decorating the
Speaker 3: indoors from their gift shop, decorating your flower beds out
Speaker 3: there with bling Arbrogag's got you loaded up on that,
Speaker 3: and of course the widest variety of plants of all types,
Speaker 3: always up to date, always in season. Stop by Arburgate.
Speaker 3: You can go to Arburgate dot com or just head
Speaker 3: out two forty nine on twenty nine to twenty. They'll
Speaker 3: be there on the left hand side. Go behind Arburgate
Speaker 3: on Trishel Road for that great parking space that's now
Speaker 3: out and back. That is really cool. One of the
Speaker 3: best thing new things that's happened there this year. We're
Speaker 3: going to go now to Cypress, Texas and talk to Rachel. Hey, Rachel,
Speaker 3: welcome to Garmline.
Speaker 29: Hie Skip, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 11: So my front yard the grass.
Speaker 7: It's starting to brown, but it doesn't look like it's
Speaker 7: brown patch.
Speaker 9: It's a mix of the green grass with the brown
Speaker 9: grass like straw.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 11: And then the soil.
Speaker 4: Around that area looks kind of like it's sinning.
Speaker 9: What can I do to help this?
Speaker 3: The soil looks like what please?
Speaker 9: The soil around it looks like it's spinning.
Speaker 3: Okay, So so you're seeing the soil through the grass, yes, okay, Well,
Speaker 3: it could be a lot of things. The browning of
Speaker 3: the leaves is a sign is not getting water. That
Speaker 3: is a sign of that. Now it could be wet soil,
Speaker 3: but it doesn't have the roots to take up the water.
Speaker 3: So it could be it could be a lack of
Speaker 3: irrigation because we're still in the mid nineties, you know,
Speaker 3: in our weather and grass is using water. It could
Speaker 3: it could be a lack of a good deep soaking
Speaker 3: on a on an infrequent basis. You may have a
Speaker 3: shallow root system that's very prone to drying out. But
Speaker 3: it also could be a disease called take all root rot,
Speaker 3: take all kills grass. And if you you know, if
Speaker 3: you if you have that in you need to treat
Speaker 3: for it. It's on my schedule. You know, I have
Speaker 3: two schedules on my website. The website is Gardening with
Speaker 3: Skip dot Com, and the schedules are the lawn care schedule,
Speaker 3: which is mowing, watering, fertilizing, micronutrients, that sort of thing.
Speaker 3: The other one is the lawn pest Disease and Weed Management,
Speaker 3: which includes the take all root rot in October November
Speaker 3: or primetimes to put out treatments for take all root
Speaker 3: rot if that is what is indeed causing this and
Speaker 3: we've seen a lot of it this year.
Speaker 14: Yeah, okay, okay, great, I will check out your website.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it has the ingredients you need to see for that. Again,
Speaker 3: Gardening with Skip dot Com. Rachel, thank you and hope
Speaker 3: we get this under control. Feel free to call back
Speaker 3: if you have any ongoing issues.
Speaker 4: Okay, great, thank you?
Speaker 3: All right, you bet you take care, You take care.
Speaker 3: Where are we here? I got a little bit of
Speaker 3: time for the next break. I usually let break sneak
Speaker 3: up on me. About the time I pick up a call,
Speaker 3: I realize I can't take it. We're working on that
Speaker 3: operator error. Grain Pro. You need to know green Pro
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Speaker 3: We're talking I ten to I forty five. In the
Speaker 3: Northwest quadrant. Green Pro they serve the area about forty
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Speaker 3: So Conrad Willis Woodlands over to Cyprus and Spring you know,
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Speaker 3: and Katie West, Houston, Central North Euston that area, that quadrant.
Speaker 3: They serve it with quality lawn care services of air
Speaker 3: raiding and compost top dressing. There's some of the things
Speaker 3: they do, but air rating and compost top dressing that's
Speaker 3: the main thing. Now there's a deal going on with
Speaker 3: them right now. They will air rate your lawn for
Speaker 3: free when you purchase a two yard minimum of compost
Speaker 3: top dressing service. So if you I mean if you
Speaker 3: need a half yard, that they're not going to errate
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Speaker 3: It is expensive to hault the expensive equipment and all
Speaker 3: those bulk supplies around all over the place. But it
Speaker 3: is one of the most important things you can do
Speaker 3: to take a long that's struggling and have success with it.
Speaker 3: Aerating helps with the compaction the compost. Top dressing falls
Speaker 3: into the aeration holes and it falls in among the
Speaker 3: grass runners and it just is good for the grass.
Speaker 3: They use quality materials. Greenpro dot net is their website,
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Speaker 3: just doll two eight one three five one forty seven
Speaker 3: thirty three tell them you heard about it here on
Speaker 3: Guardline two eight one thirty five to one forty seven
Speaker 3: thirty three. We're going to go now to Conroe and
Speaker 3: talk to Bill. Hey, Bill, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 30: Hi, Skip A quick question about top dressing. Doing the
Speaker 30: aeration and top dressing, I want to do that this
Speaker 30: next week. But I also have some take all rocks
Speaker 30: and I want to use say and I have started
Speaker 30: a fungus side program for that at using your schedule. Okay,
Speaker 30: to what extent does fungus side interfere with the breakdown
Speaker 30: of the top dressing.
Speaker 3: That is a very good question, Bill. I'm coming up
Speaker 3: on a break in order to be able to really
Speaker 3: answer your questions, I'm going to hold you until after
Speaker 3: break if you can stick around, and we will get
Speaker 3: to that. But that is an excellent, excellent question I'd
Speaker 3: like to delve into with you, folks. I got to
Speaker 3: take a break here. Our phone number is seven one
Speaker 3: three two one two ktr H and I'll be right back.
Speaker 3: If you'd like to give us a call, I feel
Speaker 3: free to do so seven one three two one two
Speaker 3: k TRH. Simply as that we're going to go. Now
Speaker 3: back to Bill and Conro. Bill, as I recall you
Speaker 3: were asking, one of your questions was if you use
Speaker 3: the fungicide, does it affect the breakdown of the compost
Speaker 3: you put as a top dressing. Is that correct?
Speaker 30: That's right, just the main question I'm asking.
Speaker 3: Yeah, funge of side skill fungus and part of the
Speaker 3: decomposition to compost is fungus. Part of it is fungus,
Speaker 3: part of it is bacteria actinomy seats. There's a lot
Speaker 3: of things active in that. That effect would be very brief.
Speaker 3: Nature is more resilient than that, and it would be
Speaker 3: very brief. And to the extent of it, I couldn't
Speaker 3: tell you. There are a lot of different fungi that
Speaker 3: are involved in organic matter decomposition, and then there are
Speaker 3: other fungi that are involved in plant disease. And so
Speaker 3: the product that you would put on your lawn the
Speaker 3: likelihood of it having major effects on the fungus decomposition.
Speaker 3: It's iffy as to how much that would be, and
Speaker 3: it would be very short lived. If you want to
Speaker 3: be extra careful, you go ahead and spread it with
Speaker 3: fun side and then do the compost top dressing. You
Speaker 3: could do it in that order if you want, but
Speaker 3: that would be my best answer that I can give
Speaker 3: you to that. I'm not aware of a study that
Speaker 3: was done comparing all the different possible products with all
Speaker 3: the different organisms that might be part of that. Okay,
Speaker 3: you had.
Speaker 30: Another great I really helped a lot.
Speaker 29: You know.
Speaker 30: I've been using two products in the alternate every two
Speaker 30: weeks for the last six weeks. Pro pa connasol a zoxystroban.
Speaker 30: Is that they're good, and I think I got those
Speaker 30: from your website here.
Speaker 3: Yes, well, they're good. They're good. They're good products, but
Speaker 3: that's really overkill. You know, you should do like a
Speaker 3: oxystrobin for take all. I would do it in October
Speaker 3: and i'd do it November, and that's it. In the fall.
Speaker 3: Oh really okay, Yeah, propa conasol will do about the
Speaker 3: thing that a oxystrobin does and cut pretty much the
Speaker 3: similar diseases we're going after. So if you did one,
Speaker 3: you wouldn't have to do both of them twice or
Speaker 3: something like that. I think, yeah, overkill. And when you
Speaker 3: start doing that, now you're looking at, you know, an
Speaker 3: excessive application, and so negative effects would be increased by overdoing.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah for sure.
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, thanks a lot for the info.
Speaker 30: You suiting me strong.
Speaker 3: Good Hey, well, good luck with your lawn. I hope
Speaker 3: you hope you enjoy it, and I hope you have success.
Speaker 3: Thanks for reading the schedule. That's why you put them
Speaker 3: up there. You have a rest of your weekend. All right,
Speaker 3: let's see, we're going to go to Patterson, Texas and
Speaker 3: talk to Susan. Hey, Susan, welcome to guard Line.
Speaker 24: Hey, Skip, good morning, Thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 24: I've purchased several of the vegio or vego wherever they
Speaker 24: are garden beds that you talk about, and I have
Speaker 24: a large area and I'm trying to reduce maintenance and
Speaker 24: what have you, and I was thinking about right now.
Speaker 24: We live kind of out in the country and so
Speaker 24: it's just whatever weeds in bermuda, whatever comes up. I
Speaker 24: was thinking about covering that with about three inches of
Speaker 24: mulch and then putting the beds on top of that.
Speaker 24: Would you recommend any other kind of like total groundcover
Speaker 24: like that. Someone mentioned decompos granted, but I don't really
Speaker 24: want to go with something that gets that hot and
Speaker 24: now what have you?
Speaker 3: Okay, well you compose granted is fine. But here's the
Speaker 3: question is what are the bad perennial weeds. Like if
Speaker 3: you have bermuda grass that's going to come through pretty
Speaker 3: much everything and get into the bounce from the bottom,
Speaker 3: so you would need a really good thick landscape fabric
Speaker 3: for that. That's the black fabricy stuff that's put on
Speaker 3: the ground at a at a nursery grower. You know
Speaker 3: they put the butts on it.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, The compost won't help a lot. You can use
Speaker 3: cardboard under them, but it is going to break down
Speaker 3: and the and the bermuda grass will come through it. Now,
Speaker 3: if we're talking about just normal weeds, you know, annual
Speaker 3: weed seed kind of stuff, and most weeds, even like
Speaker 3: a Saint Augustine lawn. You could set that vego bed
Speaker 3: on the lawn filled up and the lawn and never
Speaker 3: come through it. You can't do that. It just doesn't
Speaker 3: have the ability. Saint Augustine doesn't. So that would be
Speaker 3: my advice you on that. Okay.
Speaker 24: I was thinking more like there where not where the
Speaker 24: bids specifically are, but like the like where you walk
Speaker 24: in between them, would is there? So you're saying that
Speaker 24: Bermuda is gonna laugh at the mult basically.
Speaker 3: Right, it'll laugh at everything. They'll get put it down,
Speaker 3: So I would before you put the veggos down, or
Speaker 3: if they're already down, just anytime you see bermuda, you
Speaker 3: gotta spray it. And if you go online to a
Speaker 3: garden garden schedule, if you go on my website gardening
Speaker 3: with Skip dot com, I have a publication called herbicides.
Speaker 3: Herbicides for skips weed wiper. Forget the weed wiper part,
Speaker 3: although you can use that, but that list of herbicides
Speaker 3: tells you by weed type what products and ingredients you're
Speaker 3: looking for. So with the grass is like bermuda, you
Speaker 3: have three options, two grass only killers and one general
Speaker 3: product killer. And you can find the brand names on
Speaker 3: there' you go shop, you can find what you're looking
Speaker 3: for to kill that bermuda grass.
Speaker 24: Okay, if I put the landscape fabric down and then
Speaker 24: put mulch on top of it, the bermuda is still
Speaker 24: going to come through that probably, No.
Speaker 3: It won't come through the landscape fabric. Now it came
Speaker 3: from the side. Grow over the top of it and
Speaker 3: then get in that way. YEA bermuda has two types
Speaker 3: of of the equivalent of runners. One is the stolons
Speaker 3: on top of the ground like Saint Augustine has that too,
Speaker 3: and the other is the rhizomes underground. That's where you
Speaker 3: could scrape all the back out of the ground. Yeah,
Speaker 3: the submarines that you don't know where they're going to
Speaker 3: pop up and so that. But so the landscape fabric
Speaker 3: would stop those. But if you from the side had
Speaker 3: bermuda crawl over the top of the landscape.
Speaker 4: Over the top.
Speaker 24: Yeah, okay, I see what you're saying.
Speaker 3: It's not going to be able to stop it yet.
Speaker 24: Okay, all right, appreciate your help.
Speaker 3: All right, thank you very much. I appreciate you.
Speaker 24: Thank you.
Speaker 3: You bet you take care. Let's see here, where are
Speaker 3: we going?
Speaker 24: Now?
Speaker 3: We are gonna go. Yeah, we don't quite have enough
Speaker 3: time to take the next calls. I'm going to hold
Speaker 3: off on that so I can give you guys a
Speaker 3: little bit more time when we come back from that break.
Speaker 3: Hey Nelson plant Food has a product called nutristar genesis
Speaker 3: genesis easy to remember. Whenever you transplant a plant, you
Speaker 3: should have that jar genesis handy so you can mix
Speaker 3: it into the soil with the transplant. When you're bumping
Speaker 3: plants up from one sized pot to another, the new
Speaker 3: soil the new pot, put genesis in it. When you're
Speaker 3: planting shrubs and trees and perennials, anything vegetables out in
Speaker 3: the garden beds, mix in some genesis, then plant your plant.
Speaker 3: It works really well. It's loaded with micariza bacteria and
Speaker 3: other good microbes that help your soil, and it gradually feeds.
Speaker 3: It doesn't burn. It gradually feeds, helps with that transplant shock,
Speaker 3: and then you do your other fertilization on top of
Speaker 3: it all. But the genesis is what you're looking for
Speaker 3: from nitrofoss comes at a big jar and it really
Speaker 3: really works. We want to take a quick break. I'll
Speaker 3: be back and got our last segment for all you
Speaker 3: cool kids out there in gardening. Cool gardening kids. You know,
Speaker 3: gardening makes you cool. By the way, I don't know
Speaker 3: if you knew that you need to tell your kids that.
Speaker 3: They probably don't realize that it's true. Let's head out
Speaker 3: to Donald in Hisston and Hello, Donald, Welcome to Garden Line.
Speaker 14: How are you skip?
Speaker 31: This is a great show. I want to ask, here
Speaker 31: is my audio?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 13: Does my phone sound okay?
Speaker 3: Perfect? Perfect?
Speaker 22: Is my phone?
Speaker 29: Okay?
Speaker 3: It's a clearer absolutely, okay.
Speaker 10: Good.
Speaker 31: I wanted to mention to you that some time ago
Speaker 31: I mentioned to you there were about thirty acres not
Speaker 31: about there were thirty acres plus in love Lady, Texas.
Speaker 31: And I wanted to plant thornless BlackBerry bushes up there
Speaker 31: and let them grow naturally. And I just want to
Speaker 31: I just wanted to update you that thornless BlackBerry bushes
Speaker 31: are great because I had BlackBerry bushes with thorns and
Speaker 31: they were out of control and you can't fit. They're
Speaker 31: real tricky to they grow like crazy everywhere. So can
Speaker 31: you still get thornless BlackBerry bushes?
Speaker 14: Oh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you can a number of varieties out there on
Speaker 3: the market. All right, go ahead, are you looking for
Speaker 3: some suggestion varieties.
Speaker 31: Well, no, really, when I go to where they're growing,
Speaker 31: I don't care what the variety as long as there
Speaker 31: are a BlackBerry without thorns on the thorns are terrible,
Speaker 31: so right, And I wanted to update to what happened
Speaker 31: with the thornless BlackBerry patch up there and Love Lady,
Speaker 31: which was the thirty acres. It's now growing hay for
Speaker 31: hay for cows, because the cows like hey more than blackberries.
Speaker 31: And I know I'm trying to I don't actually you
Speaker 31: need gardening advice because I have a small memorial garden
Speaker 31: outside my patio, and we never talk about squirrels. We
Speaker 31: never talk about the squirrel war. And the other thing
Speaker 31: I wanted to mention quick like is I have a
Speaker 31: garden hose, a five ace's garden hose with an adapter
Speaker 31: which has a gallonage meter on it, and I can
Speaker 31: just let people know I've used it a lot. If
Speaker 31: you take a five eighths hose and you turn it
Speaker 31: on let's say almost full, in about five minutes, it'll
Speaker 31: put out forty gallons. That's remember I talk to you
Speaker 31: about overwatering or underwatering.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true. All right, good to know, Hey, good
Speaker 3: to know, Donald, Yes, sounds like.
Speaker 31: And to keep the squirrels away, I bought some stuff
Speaker 31: in a catalog called Rodent Sheriff and it's in a
Speaker 31: little spray bottle.
Speaker 3: And what it is.
Speaker 31: It's a very heavily minted kind of a smell. You know,
Speaker 31: you can actually spray it on your hand and lick it.
Speaker 31: It's not going to hurt you, but it's a heavy
Speaker 31: mint smell. And I guess squirrel don't like this this.
Speaker 3: Did it work for you?
Speaker 31: I'm not sure because the only the only way to
Speaker 31: really keep this is great. The only way to really
Speaker 31: keep squirrels away from your garden is to have Roscoe.
Speaker 31: Roscoe's the dog who monitors and takes care of love lady.
Speaker 31: Nobody goes anywhere staring at you, and he would keep everything,
Speaker 31: every squirrel, every animal, and every person away from it.
Speaker 3: There you go, Hey, Donald, Thanks, I got I got
Speaker 3: a few folks. I got a few folks waiting in line.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna have to run to you, but thanks for
Speaker 3: that update. And keep me posted on the on the
Speaker 3: mint flavored squirrel repellent. I'd like to know if that were.
Speaker 31: I really eventually. I really like to get out and
Speaker 31: meet with you. It's great that you go around and
Speaker 31: have actual meet the people.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, good, well i'll be I'll be at Buchanan's
Speaker 3: Native Plants next Saturday from twelve to two. If you
Speaker 3: get a chance to come out. Thanks a lot, and
Speaker 3: I look forward to seeing you out there. I got
Speaker 3: to keep going here. We got short time and some
Speaker 3: callers to get to Greg and Conro. How can we help?
Speaker 4: Yeah, how are you doing?
Speaker 13: Skip?
Speaker 12: Hey?
Speaker 13: Yeah, I've heard you say this before on the on
Speaker 13: the show, and I didn't write it down, but I've
Speaker 13: got a lemon tree, kind a lime tree, and about
Speaker 13: eight inches of the very top of them and they're
Speaker 13: still short or the leaves are curling all up.
Speaker 3: Real bad. I think you said it was probably Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's probably the citrus leaf miner. If the trees are
Speaker 3: large and doing fine, you can ignore the leaf miner.
Speaker 3: I mean it'll take some leaves out, but there it
Speaker 3: won't really affect production much. If they're young and you're
Speaker 3: trying to get them to grow, Uh, then I would
Speaker 3: treat for leaf minor. And the product you want to
Speaker 3: get is called spin no set, and I'll spell that
Speaker 3: s p I n O S A. D.
Speaker 13: Spinner said, Okay, so this has been happening for quite
Speaker 13: a while. I need to cut some limbs off or.
Speaker 3: What now that won't have Just whenever you get a
Speaker 3: new flesh of growth, spray with spinosid because they go
Speaker 3: after that tender new growth. So get some new growth,
Speaker 3: go ahead and spray it with spinosid. Don't worry about
Speaker 3: the old leathery dark leaves. The citrus minor won't attack those.
Speaker 13: Well, there's still a lot of growth that's just on
Speaker 13: the very tips up top of now it was on
Speaker 13: my line for you're not getting a lemon. And they're
Speaker 13: like I said, they're both small. I've had them happy here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well they're they're going to tag all types of ceterrus.
Speaker 3: So I just have something, put a little handsquirter and
Speaker 3: just squirt that new growth and it'll soak in and
Speaker 3: it'll keep that lead miner from tearing them up, like
Speaker 3: curling them up like.
Speaker 29: It does.
Speaker 3: Work right, all right, sir?
Speaker 4: All right, thank you.
Speaker 3: Greg, thanks for the call. All I asked is you
Speaker 3: bring me half the production off your citrus trees. Leave
Speaker 3: it at the station. We'll call it even all right.
Speaker 4: You got it.
Speaker 3: Thank you all right, Southwest Houston, Carolyn, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 29: Yes, yesterday, I might have a note put down barricade
Speaker 29: for the spring weeds. Do I also need to put
Speaker 29: down carbo load at the same time?
Speaker 3: Do not use both of those carbo loads a pre
Speaker 3: emergent and right, carbo load has a pre emergent. Barricade
Speaker 3: is a pre emergent. So if you do one or
Speaker 3: the other, if you're going to do the carbel load,
Speaker 3: then you've already got the pre emergent. You don't have
Speaker 3: to also do you don't want to also do the barricade.
Speaker 3: If you're just using a fertilizer, it's just a fertilizer,
Speaker 3: then you can use a barricade with that.
Speaker 29: Okay, So I need the carbo load instead of the barricade.
Speaker 29: Uh huh, oh okay, great, that's all I need to know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's kind of like if you I don't know,
Speaker 3: I can't get think of a good example. But if
Speaker 3: you had some food that had ibuprofen in it, you know,
Speaker 3: and then you also had some title and all to take,
Speaker 3: you wouldn't take both. You would take one or the other.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, carbo load is food with pre emerging in it.
Speaker 29: Oh great, okay, we'll make that change. Put down the
Speaker 29: carbo load. Thank you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, when you put it, get it done in early
Speaker 3: October and watered in right after you put it in
Speaker 3: with about half inch of water and you'll be set
Speaker 3: to go.
Speaker 29: Great halfach water terracing.
Speaker 3: Thank you, oneful you bet a good rest of your weekend.
Speaker 29: Thank you.
Speaker 3: All right, Wow, this this show has flown by. That's
Speaker 3: been pretty pretty fast. We really got got to move
Speaker 3: in here down the line on calls and stuff. Glad
Speaker 3: to talk to you all. Thanks for listening to Garlan.
Speaker 3: I appreciate that. Don't forget. I'm going to be at
Speaker 3: Buchanan's Native Plants on Saturday, October fifth, that's six days
Speaker 3: from now ten am to tu three pm. Is the
Speaker 3: event of Fall Fest at Buchanans. I'll be there from
Speaker 3: twelve to two answering your gardening questions. Hey, bring me
Speaker 3: some samples, put them in a bag, so enclose. Any
Speaker 3: insects or disease or anything you got, put them in
Speaker 3: a bag, bring them on in. We'll take a look,
Speaker 3: we'll identify, we'll diagnose. Also if you have photos on
Speaker 3: your phone. We can look at them that way. Just
Speaker 3: make sure they're good, crisp, sharp, focused photos and we'll
Speaker 3: be happy to help you with that. Love to meet
Speaker 3: listeners all the time, So come on out to Buchanans.
Speaker 3: I'll be giving away one hundred dollars gift certificate from
Speaker 3: Buchanans that you register to win for. We'll give them
Speaker 3: away Microlife brown Patch as well. And this event is fun.
Speaker 3: I mean the kids, bring kids. If you don't have
Speaker 3: any kids, just knocked on the door next door and
Speaker 3: bring some of their kids. They're gonna have pumpkin ring toss,
Speaker 3: beam bag toss, scavenger hunt. They're gonna have crafts and
Speaker 3: a moon balance and on and on, pumpkin painting, Halloween
Speaker 3: mass color coloring stations, Hey rides. I can't say all
Speaker 3: that stuff. They have it all going on. Right There
Speaker 3: a band called Yopon. Every time I hear say that,
Speaker 3: I'll laugh. Of course it's called Yopon. It's Southeast tasty.
Speaker 3: And then there'll be things for adults like food and
Speaker 3: coffee and beer and wine. And me I'm for adults.
Speaker 3: That's what I'm there for. So we'll be glad to
Speaker 3: help you bring your kiddos out have a good time
Speaker 3: at Buchanan's Native Plants. Next Saturday, they'll be going on
Speaker 3: the Fallfest is going on from ten to three. I'll
Speaker 3: be there from twelve to two over the noon hour.
Speaker 3: Come on and see me. Look forward to having a
Speaker 3: very good time with you out there at Buckin's Native Plants. Remember,
Speaker 3: in the meantime, if you want information on gardening, go
Speaker 3: to my website Gardening with Skip dot com. Follow us,
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Speaker 3: We're on both places. We're constantly posting stuff that you
Speaker 3: would be interested in as a gardener. In the meantime,
Speaker 3: have a fun week out in the garden and we'll
Speaker 3: see you next time.
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