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Speaker 1: Well, well, well, good morning, good Saturday morning, on a
Speaker 1: great day for gardening. You're listening in the guardline. I'm
Speaker 1: your host, Skip Richter, And yes, I know it's going
Speaker 1: to be kind of hot today, but it's always a
Speaker 1: great day to get some things done. This morning's a nice,
Speaker 1: wonderful temperature. Actually to get out there. I wish I
Speaker 1: was not sitting behind a microphone right now, because I
Speaker 1: got some things to do in my yard. This is
Speaker 1: a time when we want to make sure our lawns
Speaker 1: are well taken care of. Summer is blazing hot at times,
Speaker 1: but our turf grass can take it if it has
Speaker 1: adequate water. However, what we tend to do is overwater
Speaker 1: and miss water. What do I mean by overwatering and miswatering? Well, overwatering,
Speaker 1: which of course just means too much water. It stays
Speaker 1: too soggy wet. A grass does not need soggy soil
Speaker 1: if you will give it a good soaking, providing enough
Speaker 1: to what the soil at least six inches deep. That
Speaker 1: takes about an inch of water, depending on your soil
Speaker 1: type of course, and then let it dry out. Let
Speaker 1: the water move out of the soil. It'll evaporate, it'll
Speaker 1: move down. The plants certainly will take up a lot
Speaker 1: and trends bire it out of their grass blades. And
Speaker 1: when that happens, oxygen gets into the soil, and oxygen
Speaker 1: is important in the plant's root zone. Any plants root zone,
Speaker 1: that is important to have that so as a result,
Speaker 1: when you do that, your grass makes a deeper rooted,
Speaker 1: more resilient turf, which means a chomp here or there
Speaker 1: by a grub isn't as big a deal. That means
Speaker 1: a little bit of a droughty conditions isn't as big
Speaker 1: a deal because the grass has the more extensive root
Speaker 1: system to draw from a larger volume of soil and
Speaker 1: so a good soaking followed by drying out. I try
Speaker 1: to water my areas that need watering not more than
Speaker 1: once a week. Now, it's fine to water twice a
Speaker 1: week if you want put a half inch on it
Speaker 1: each time. I know a lot of people do that.
Speaker 1: And if your struggling with root issues like take all
Speaker 1: root rod or other things. If the soil is very
Speaker 1: sandy and it doesn't hold water, well, I could see
Speaker 1: going twice a week. But I'm telling me once a
Speaker 1: week's and anough to be honest. I've got areas of
Speaker 1: my lawn I think I've watered them once or twice
Speaker 1: once this summer. Some areas of my lawn I've watered
Speaker 1: once this summer, but with just a good soaking. You know,
Speaker 1: we've had a lot of rain, so that's part of
Speaker 1: the reason why. But the thing of having your water
Speaker 1: come on every other day all the time is just
Speaker 1: a waste of Listen, you pay money for that drinking water,
Speaker 1: and when you buy drinking water, you get to pay
Speaker 1: for your sewer bill too. Yeah, they tie them together
Speaker 1: in most places, so why waste it. It doesn't help
Speaker 1: your lawn, It promotes a disease. Water with a good
Speaker 1: soaking infrequently. That's what I mean when I say miswatering,
Speaker 1: I mean watering too frequently, too little, too often. A
Speaker 1: good soaking infrequently and you can get the results you need.
Speaker 1: That's what we're aiming for, right, That is what we
Speaker 1: want is a healthy grass plant. A healthy grass plant.
Speaker 1: That's exactly what we're aiming for. So it's a lot
Speaker 1: of it's up to us, you know, whether they say
Speaker 1: operator error, right, it's not the system that's wrong, it's
Speaker 1: the operator of the system. Well, that certainly is true
Speaker 1: irrigation systems. Where you're listening to garden Line, if you'd
Speaker 1: like to give us a call, we're here to answer
Speaker 1: your gardening questions. Seven one three two one two five
Speaker 1: eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty
Speaker 1: eight seventy four. Speaking of our lawns, if you've not
Speaker 1: done your summer lawn fertilization, now's a good time to
Speaker 1: go ahead and get that done. Fall fertilizing is coming.
Speaker 1: It's not too terribly far away, still a few months out,
Speaker 1: but now would be a good time to put on
Speaker 1: some of that nitrofoss super turf that is the silver
Speaker 1: bag I like. I like the color coded bags. It
Speaker 1: makes it so easy. I don't know another silver bag
Speaker 1: out there. So the silver bag from Nitrofoss. It is
Speaker 1: a nineteen four to ten fertilizer, much of which is
Speaker 1: in a slow release form to give you gradual feeding.
Speaker 1: Listen to the chemistry of it. Designed for our Southeast
Speaker 1: Texas climate and soils. The way it releases the nitrogen
Speaker 1: out feeds your long gradually over time, which means you
Speaker 1: mow less often. You know, a big dump of nitrogen
Speaker 1: and here you go. You got all this top growth
Speaker 1: in your momomo and I with super Turf, you gradually
Speaker 1: feeds it out over time. You're going to find super
Speaker 1: Turf at a lot of different places in Memorial Drive
Speaker 1: on Ace Hardware City, They've got it there, Stanton Shopping Center,
Speaker 1: down in Alvin's another place, Katie Hardware Ace out on
Speaker 1: Pinoak Driving Katie. They've also got the Nitropuss products like Superturf.
Speaker 1: This past week, I had been trying to get a
Speaker 1: few things done, just basically and clean up and stuff.
Speaker 1: I'm still doing a little pruning and snipping here and there.
Speaker 1: And I just want to mention that, you know, we
Speaker 1: think of late winter as the best pruning season, and
Speaker 1: it is for most things. There are some things that
Speaker 1: we do not prune in late winter, that things that
Speaker 1: bloom only in this spring, for example, we don't want
Speaker 1: to prune those past maybe mid early to midsummer. Really,
Speaker 1: I'd say early summer would be my preference, and that
Speaker 1: would be like once blooming rose, like Lady Banks, beautiful rose,
Speaker 1: beautiful rose, once blooming. A lot of climbers are once blooming.
Speaker 1: Anything that just blooms in the spring. If you had
Speaker 1: a dogwood or a red bud, or a Chinese fringe
Speaker 1: or something along those lines, those are all spring blooming trees.
Speaker 1: So don't prune them after let's say early maybe midsummer
Speaker 1: the latest, because in late summer they're in early fall,
Speaker 1: they're going to be setting their fruit buds or fruit buds,
Speaker 1: they're bloom buds for next season's bloom. So if you
Speaker 1: were to go out right now, and let's say you
Speaker 1: had a flowering quince or a Spyria shrub or a
Speaker 1: Texas Mountain barrel, or any of the trees I mentioned
Speaker 1: before that are spring bloomers. The roses that are spring bloomers,
Speaker 1: and you prune them heavily. Now they're not going to
Speaker 1: have time to grow new growth and set buds in
Speaker 1: order to have a bud of bloom crop for next spring.
Speaker 1: We're kind of getting to the end of that line.
Speaker 1: You might get lucky with a few blooms, but basically
Speaker 1: you're messing up the typical spring blooming. Azaleas are another
Speaker 1: example of that same thing, so it's time to hold
Speaker 1: off on those. But a little snipping here and there
Speaker 1: is fine. If you've got an azalea with this big, old,
Speaker 1: gangly branch sticking way out and it just doesn't look right,
Speaker 1: it's not shaped like you wanted to have a nice
Speaker 1: natural look, you snip that back. That's not a problem.
Speaker 1: I've got some crape myrtles that I'm doing some pruning
Speaker 1: back on here and there because they just need it.
Speaker 1: They need some shaping. Maybe they have suckers coming out
Speaker 1: of the bottom. Now'd be a time to do that
Speaker 1: particular thing. So a little bit of chores here and
Speaker 1: there on an ongoing basis is fine. Listen, you get
Speaker 1: out in the morning, it's not that hot. It's enjoyable.
Speaker 1: The birds. The birds have showed up up to sing
Speaker 1: you a song. When you get out to works. Isn't
Speaker 1: that nice of them? I was like that joy listening
Speaker 1: to them early early in the morning, So it's a
Speaker 1: good time to be out. Take your phone, get your
Speaker 1: iHeartMedia app, tune into a garden Line and you can
Speaker 1: turn it in your set in your pocket and head
Speaker 1: out in the garden and we'll we'll talk as you
Speaker 1: get some stuff done. Maybe you can take a picture
Speaker 1: of something send it to me. If you got a question,
Speaker 1: we can do that too. Well, you're listening to Guarden Line.
Speaker 1: We're gonna take a little quick break and I'll be
Speaker 1: right back our phone number seven one three two one
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Speaker 1: to twenty. You've got D and D Feed. Those of
Speaker 1: you who live out there already know about it. D
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Speaker 1: telling you they carry everything you need. They If you've
Speaker 1: got a product you need to make you're lawn more beautiful,
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Speaker 1: they carry the soil products like the age leaf moole
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Speaker 1: the front, but inside that's where there is a lot
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Speaker 1: they're still around. And D and D fees a prime
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Speaker 1: to head out now to League City and we're going
Speaker 1: to talk to Ann.
Speaker 8: Hello, Anne, good morning. How are you. I have managed
Speaker 8: I have managed bees and you've talked in the path
Speaker 8: about using tarco fear because my area is inundated with
Speaker 8: peppervine and When I say peppervine, I mean something that's
Speaker 8: similar to it looks like poison ivy, but it's not
Speaker 8: poison ivy, and it just grows and grows and grows.
Speaker 8: So we'll applying the triclephere to the peppervine affect the
Speaker 8: bees because I've seen them landing on the bees, I
Speaker 8: mean landing on the Pepperfine, the bees landing on the peppervine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, no it won't. And you were in luck
Speaker 1: because just this week I put something on my website
Speaker 1: and if you do you have a pin or pencil handy,
Speaker 1: yes I do. It's gardening with Skip dot Com. Gardening
Speaker 1: with Skip dot Com, and it's called Skip's Homemade Weedwiper,
Speaker 1: and it tells you how to make a little weed
Speaker 1: Wive's really easy to make out of one of those
Speaker 1: grabber tools, and if you want to do it, it's
Speaker 1: handy to have around because you're always gonna have pepperbine
Speaker 1: popping up, You're going to have nut's edge coming up
Speaker 1: here and there. You're going to have you know, birds
Speaker 1: or planting hackberries in your fence line, or there's all
Speaker 1: kinds of things that this is good for. But Basically,
Speaker 1: you put the triclop here on the sponges on the
Speaker 1: tool and you just wipe it right on the leaves
Speaker 1: or along the stem. You can do that too. Pepperbine
Speaker 1: has stems that are popping up everywhere, and that's one
Speaker 1: of the things that makes it so hard to control.
Speaker 1: And the triclopair moves down into the plant. Now you're
Speaker 1: going to need to stay with it because you know
Speaker 1: it's got a lot of underground storage here there and yonder,
Speaker 1: and so you kind of have to. Every time it
Speaker 1: sticks its head up, you wipe some on it and
Speaker 1: it goes down and kills sections of it, and you
Speaker 1: will win that war with tricle peer and the weed wiper,
Speaker 1: the homemade weed wiper you can spray it also. But
Speaker 1: if you get triclo peer on desirable broad leave plants.
Speaker 8: It will kill them too, okay, And it won't pick
Speaker 8: the beest.
Speaker 1: No, you're not putting it. You're not putting it out
Speaker 1: like on blue It's not getting in the plant and
Speaker 1: going out to the nectar of the bloom and whatnot.
Speaker 8: It doesn't work, then, okay, thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Good luck with it. Let me know how it works.
Speaker 1: I just pretty excited. Spent a lot of time putting
Speaker 1: several new publications up, and I'm hoping that because we
Speaker 1: get this question a lot, so I guess take comfort
Speaker 1: in that you are not alone. We all feel your pain,
Speaker 1: all right. You take care and I appreciate that very much. Yes, folks,
Speaker 1: you can go to the website gardening with Skip dot
Speaker 1: com and I've got two things there. And I don't
Speaker 1: know if Ann, if you're still listening, I should have
Speaker 1: mentioned this to you too, But in addition to the
Speaker 1: homemade weed wiper publication, there is a herbicide products to
Speaker 1: put in the weed wiper. And the reason that is
Speaker 1: there is because you know, Ann is going after pepperbine,
Speaker 1: so that's triclopare. Someone may be going after nuts sedge.
Speaker 1: You know, that may be product like manage that you
Speaker 1: put on it. There are other weeds, poison ivy. You know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of different weeds and different kinds of
Speaker 1: Maybe it's wild onions. Have you ever seen the wild
Speaker 1: onions or wild garlic sticking up out of your lawn.
Speaker 1: You know it is because when you mow it, you
Speaker 1: can smell it, or when you break it off, you
Speaker 1: can smell it because it is it is an alium.
Speaker 1: It's a garlic or onion type plant. Well, how do
Speaker 1: you control that? Well, a weed wiper with image on it,
Speaker 1: but it's all on that herbicide products to use with
Speaker 1: the weed wiper. The thing I like about the weed
Speaker 1: wiper is that you're not spraying a lot of chemical
Speaker 1: all out over the place. You are applying it to
Speaker 1: the leaves or stem in the case of pepperbne also
Speaker 1: the leaves or stem of the weed that you're trying
Speaker 1: to control. So if you've got a nuts edge coming
Speaker 1: up underneath the rose bush, you know what are you
Speaker 1: going to spray up under there? Is not going to
Speaker 1: hurt your rose? Well, you don't have to worry about that.
Speaker 1: You use the wiper. It's really targeted. It's easy to do. Now,
Speaker 1: if you've got you know, like a chiap had of
Speaker 1: nuts edge through a bed, it's too tedious to use
Speaker 1: a wiper. You're going to spray that or dig it
Speaker 1: or whatever however you go about it. But the weed
Speaker 1: wiper is very effective along with that other tool as well.
Speaker 1: If you're looking for a way to turn your landscape around.
Speaker 1: Peerscapes Peerscapes. That's a company that has the skills. They've got,
Speaker 1: the designers they've got. They have very very well trained
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Speaker 1: not just you know they're in and they've only been
Speaker 1: there for a year and now you're hiring them to
Speaker 1: do something. These are folks that really have a history
Speaker 1: with the company. They are very good about that, holding
Speaker 1: on to their folks and having quality folks. They can
Speaker 1: come to your yard and do a you know, work
Speaker 1: on your irrigation system. Our irrigation systems typically are very
Speaker 1: poorly designed or they're out of maybe they've gotten out
Speaker 1: of whack over the years, you know, damaged heads, misaligned heads,
Speaker 1: other things like that. Piercecapes can fix that for you.
Speaker 1: Do you have drainage problems, You should know it after
Speaker 1: the rains we had these past few months. They can
Speaker 1: fix that. They can make an area drain better so
Speaker 1: you can plant things there. Ever, plant almost ever plant
Speaker 1: very fewer exceptions. Want a well drained soil. Do you
Speaker 1: need perhaps some hardscape done, some landscape lighting done. Do
Speaker 1: you want to revamp some beds, or do you just
Speaker 1: want a company to come in and do a seasonal,
Speaker 1: a quarterly maintenance program where they come in. You know
Speaker 1: they're checking the beds, they're weeding them, fertilizing them, checking
Speaker 1: the irrigation, doing trimming, and you know, replenishing the mult
Speaker 1: maybe doing some color changes. You know, the old summer
Speaker 1: plants are giving away to cold weather, so it's time
Speaker 1: for winter color and on through the year. That kind
Speaker 1: of color change. Piercecapes does that. You can go to
Speaker 1: the website, and I encourage you to do that because
Speaker 1: what you'll see there is some inspirational photos of the work.
Speaker 1: They can do their websites piercescapes dot com. The phone
Speaker 1: number two A one three seven zero five zero six
Speaker 1: zero two eight one three seven zero fifty sixty Pierce
Speaker 1: Caapes dot com. I always like to check out our
Speaker 1: garden centers in the area. You know, we here in Houston.
Speaker 1: We're fortunate. I don't care which direction you live. We've
Speaker 1: got garden centers north, south, east, west and central that
Speaker 1: you can go to and they're inspiring. There are places
Speaker 1: that their mom and pop. They're independent, they know what
Speaker 1: they're talking about. They don't sell stuff that doesn't grow here.
Speaker 1: You know, you get these big national chain big boxes
Speaker 1: and things. Heaven knows what you're going to see there.
Speaker 1: And I could make a long list of examples of
Speaker 1: the things that's like, Okay, well this isn't New Jersey,
Speaker 1: so high Bush blueberries are not for here. You see
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Well, anyway, in Channi Gardens out in
Speaker 1: Richmond Rosenberg area, that's out southwest for those of you
Speaker 1: new to the area. In Chane Gardens is an outstand
Speaker 1: garden center. I love going there. I love to see
Speaker 1: the supplies that they have. I love to see the
Speaker 1: wide variety of plants and even things like you know,
Speaker 1: you want to make a beautiful container that you can
Speaker 1: go buy a container that's already made there. You can
Speaker 1: also go there and get inspiration, you know, to look
Speaker 1: at what they have. Talk to some of the folks
Speaker 1: that work there that are well trained, and say, look,
Speaker 1: I want to do something like this. Can you give
Speaker 1: me an idea what plants would I put together? Because
Speaker 1: I don't know where to start. I mean, you guys
Speaker 1: have plants from horizon to horizon around here. What do
Speaker 1: I get? They can help you with that. Enchanted Gardens
Speaker 1: Richmond dot com. That's the website Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com.
Speaker 1: They're on FM three fifty nine that's on the Katie
Speaker 1: Folscher side of Richmond, North of Richmond. They're open money
Speaker 1: through Saturday eight to five and Sunday ten am to
Speaker 1: four pm. And I guarantee you when you go there,
Speaker 1: you will be saying to yourself, I wish I had
Speaker 1: brought this family member or this neighbor along with me.
Speaker 1: This would have been a fun outing, you know, with
Speaker 1: a group do that and chanted gardens out in Richmond.
Speaker 1: The you know, those of us who, let's just say
Speaker 1: we're we're plant enthusiasts. And I know I know you are.
Speaker 1: I mean you're listening to the guard line plant enthusiasts.
Speaker 1: I go into garden centers and I'm like a kid
Speaker 1: in a candy store. Everything is beautiful, everything looks wonderful.
Speaker 1: I need to have one of everything, and any plan
Speaker 1: I don't have, I need to have. And those of
Speaker 1: us who are plant enthusiasts, that's different than being that's
Speaker 1: different than being a design type person. A design type
Speaker 1: person starts with, here's my yard, how do I what
Speaker 1: kind of bed do I want? What plants would go
Speaker 1: well in this bed? And it's all planned out, and
Speaker 1: then you go shopping and get those plants. Those of
Speaker 1: us who are plant enthusiasts, we just walk around, Look,
Speaker 1: I have that one, and we bring it home and
Speaker 1: we walk around and try to figure out where to
Speaker 1: put it. And I've joked about this before. Our landscapes,
Speaker 1: if we're not careful, can tend to look like a
Speaker 1: bomb went off in a garden center and every plant
Speaker 1: rooted where it hit the ground. That's not a design.
Speaker 1: It's your yard, though. If you want to do that,
Speaker 1: that's your business. Seen you at the HOA, I guess
Speaker 1: I don't know, but what it's just fun to go
Speaker 1: to garden centers and see new plants and get exciting ideas.
Speaker 1: And I'm telling you these places just they are outstanding.
Speaker 1: I've been. I've lived in Texas almost my whole life.
Speaker 1: I spent three years of Missouri and then came back.
Speaker 1: But I can tell you Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin, San Antonio, Houston,
Speaker 1: and then a lot of cities, Atlanta and Durham, North Carolina,
Speaker 1: all over the country, Arizona, Phoenix, and there's garden centers
Speaker 1: there too. Everywhere I've gone, there's nothing like you have
Speaker 1: here in Houston. When it comes to the kind of
Speaker 1: garden centers, the quality of the garden centers, the extensive
Speaker 1: lists of plants that they carry, it's just easy. And
Speaker 1: that's why Gardner's around here. They do like a little
Speaker 1: localized horticulture tourism. You know, you may live way on
Speaker 1: the west side, but there's a place on the east
Speaker 1: side you haven't been too yet. And in Houston, you know,
Speaker 1: you got a pack of lunch to go east to west.
Speaker 1: That's going to take a little bit, but we've got
Speaker 1: it here. So it's a lot of fun. Great way
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Speaker 1: to take a break. I'll be right back, So let's
Speaker 1: turn out to Galveston and we are going to talk
Speaker 1: to John. Good morning, John, Welcome to Guardline.
Speaker 9: Hey, how are you sir?
Speaker 10: It's nice talk to you again.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 10: I have a small front yard and it is bordered
Speaker 10: by a walkway or two walkways. And I noticed about
Speaker 10: a week ago a a four foot kind of in
Speaker 10: diam in a circle of brown just showed up anyway,
Speaker 10: So I got an email if they from Solutions pass
Speaker 10: Control down League City said well, you gotta watch out
Speaker 10: for sod webworms anyway. So I don't know if it's that,
Speaker 10: but I don't want to lose that portion of it.
Speaker 10: Looks like a giant bulls. I don't want to lose
Speaker 10: that portion of the grass. And I've got more chemicals
Speaker 10: down here than you can imagine. So I looked on
Speaker 10: your website. There is a question coming. I looked on
Speaker 10: your website and said, well too, if you have sodwbworms,
Speaker 10: you do this crash where you used by fentren and
Speaker 10: then you come back in with BT the next day,
Speaker 10: and then you all alternate for you know, seven days
Speaker 10: or whatever. Do you just figure I got some chinch
Speaker 10: bugs there?
Speaker 9: Do you think it's what?
Speaker 10: I would send you a picture? But okay, any idea
Speaker 10: what you think it might be?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Sure, John, I don't know what website that was.
Speaker 1: That may have been some stuff Randy head up. I
Speaker 1: don't know.
Speaker 10: Okay, I think it was.
Speaker 1: That's okay. But here here's the you need to do.
Speaker 1: Go out there and get on your hands and knees
Speaker 1: and look at the grass up close, and if the
Speaker 1: grass blades are chewed up like something.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I did that yesterday and it did not look
Speaker 10: like that. I saw that on the website and yeah, yeah,
Speaker 10: I got down close and personal.
Speaker 1: Okay, Now what you what you next need to probably
Speaker 1: do is get about a tablespoon of just dishwashing dish
Speaker 1: wash of soap like ivory liquid, that kind of liquid
Speaker 1: for the sink. Not not a dishwasher or washing machine,
Speaker 1: just ivy liquid soap, and put it in a gallon
Speaker 1: of water and then put it in a watering can
Speaker 1: or something where you can sprinkle it out, and put
Speaker 1: it over an area of lawn, probably about two by
Speaker 1: two square that's in that area. You water it and
Speaker 1: wait a little second and water it again. Soap is
Speaker 1: really irritating to insects, and if they're chinchbugs, you're gonna
Speaker 1: come crawling up out of there and you'll see these
Speaker 1: little one eighth of an inch long, black and white,
Speaker 1: little long, skinnier bugs or shape more like a school
Speaker 1: bus than yeah. And then if it's side webworms, you'll
Speaker 1: see the caterpillars coming up too. It's irritating to them.
Speaker 1: But if you see those are black and white. The nymphs,
Speaker 1: the ones that aren't fully mature, are kind of a
Speaker 1: reddish brown with a white hand across their back. But
Speaker 1: if you see that, then you got chinchbugs, and then
Speaker 1: you need to proceed. If you did the nitrofoss bug
Speaker 1: out Max Nitrofoss bug Out Max is very effective against
Speaker 1: the chinchbugs. It'll get down in there to the war
Speaker 1: the lar if you had webworms to where the larva
Speaker 1: are hiding in the thatch. Webworms are nocturnal. They hide
Speaker 1: during the day and feed at night primarily, and so
Speaker 1: the soapy water flushes them both out of the thatch
Speaker 1: and that helps you decide if you need to do anything, and.
Speaker 11: If so, what you need to do.
Speaker 10: So I did notice this by center it does it
Speaker 10: does say chinchbugs on it. Would you use the bifensin
Speaker 10: if I do identify them as chinchbugs?
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. The Bifendra by Fenthren is very effective
Speaker 1: and it will get down in there and it'll do
Speaker 1: the trick on them. Yeah.
Speaker 10: Well, thank you very much. Enjoy your show.
Speaker 1: Yeah. When I said Nitropuss bug out Max, that is
Speaker 1: by Fentthren. It's on gran Ca Eco Granule carrier. I
Speaker 1: like it because you just sprinkle it out and then
Speaker 1: you water it in and it's I mean, it'll kill
Speaker 1: any either of those insects and within twenty four hours
Speaker 1: you'd be pretty good shape.
Speaker 10: Oh really, Any any chance is this grass going to
Speaker 10: come back or is it just toasts the year.
Speaker 1: If it is completely dead, of course you won't. And
Speaker 1: if you leave chinchbugs long enough, it'll be completely dead.
Speaker 1: The side webworm is eating the leaves off the runners
Speaker 1: and so it produces new leaves. Side webworms typically are
Speaker 1: not going to in and of themselves kill the grass
Speaker 1: unless there's some other issues going on, but the chinchbugs will.
Speaker 1: They just suck the juices out of it until the
Speaker 1: patient's gone. Yeah.
Speaker 10: Oh well, I'll go mix up a batch of soapy
Speaker 10: water and I can do that early in the moment.
Speaker 10: I can do that anytime of the day, but you
Speaker 10: prefer in the morning or in the evening.
Speaker 1: Oh, I do it in the morning because it's cooler
Speaker 1: to be out there stooping over the ground with the
Speaker 1: sun bacon down, you know. So there's a lot of
Speaker 1: time and they just know that chinchbugs are feeding all
Speaker 1: the time, but they're staying down in the thatch doing
Speaker 1: their their feeding. The webworms they have to come out
Speaker 1: to chew on the grass blades, so they're coming up
Speaker 1: out of the thatch to do that, and they want
Speaker 1: to do it at night when their predators aren't out
Speaker 1: and when it's cooler to get out there and do that.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, thank you so much, good luck a
Speaker 1: lot appreciate call. Yes, sir, thanks take you bet you
Speaker 1: take care. Well, that's it. Yeah, night Fross bug Out
Speaker 1: Max is it's easy to find zeinegranules. So I mean
Speaker 1: you no problem at all finding it. I've I've seen
Speaker 1: it in a whole lot of places, you know, being
Speaker 1: a night Fross product, it's it's so easy to find it.
Speaker 1: I mean, for example, the enchanted Gardens uh out there
Speaker 1: in Richmond Rosenberg. They have just talking about them a
Speaker 1: minute ago. They carry that. The Shades of Texas and
Speaker 1: the Woodlands up on fourteen eighty eight. You're going to
Speaker 1: find night Fross bug Out Max there as well. So
Speaker 1: and the Fisher's hardware that those of you Down's. I
Speaker 1: always try to cover the area when I'm making some suggestions.
Speaker 1: But Fisher's Hardware. There's one South Houston on Southmore, There's
Speaker 1: one Laport on Broadway Street. They carry the bug Out
Speaker 1: Max there as well. Well. We're hitting up close here
Speaker 1: to a time to take another break. I want to
Speaker 1: give you our phone number again if you'd like to
Speaker 1: give us a call. Seven one three two one two
Speaker 1: fifty eight seventy four seven three two one two five
Speaker 1: eight seven four, or if you would like to dial
Speaker 1: by letters, it's seven one three two one two kt RH.
Speaker 1: In the meantime, we're taking a little break here, go
Speaker 1: look at my website Gardening with Skip dot com. I'm
Speaker 1: going to talk about some other stuff that are just
Speaker 1: put up when we come back Flooding Hardline. Glad you're
Speaker 1: with us today. We got a lot to talk about,
Speaker 1: all kinds of things to talk about. One thing I
Speaker 1: want to mention before we go, I was just bragging
Speaker 1: on our Houston area garden centers. I'm talking about the
Speaker 1: mom and pops. I'm talking about the ones that are independent,
Speaker 1: locally owned, that hire people that know what they're talking about.
Speaker 1: Is that ever important?
Speaker 12: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yes? I mean have you ever been in a store
Speaker 1: and you you know, you had a question and an
Speaker 1: employee walks up and you ask him the question, and
Speaker 1: the minute you start asking it, you watch our eyes
Speaker 1: glaze over and you don't even want to finish your
Speaker 1: sentence with the question because you realize you're wasting your
Speaker 1: time because you can tell you're about to get their
Speaker 1: best guests or something made up or whatever that didn't
Speaker 1: happen at our good garden centers, and a good example
Speaker 1: of that would be Nilson Water Garden and Nursery out
Speaker 1: there and Katie. Think of it as your West Houston
Speaker 1: garden center because I mean it's just out on the
Speaker 1: west side of town. Easy to get to. You just
Speaker 1: head out I ten and turn north on Katie Fort
Speaker 1: Ben Road and crossover tracks. It's right there on the
Speaker 1: right hand side, not very far at all. When you
Speaker 1: go there, you are going to find all kinds of things.
Speaker 1: Number One, it's water gardens and nursery. So water gardens
Speaker 1: is what they originally were known for. I mean they're
Speaker 1: nationally famous, literally nationally famous. Created that disappearing fountain that
Speaker 1: comes out of beautiful glazed pottery. You've seen those. They
Speaker 1: got all kinds of water gardens. They do them. They'll
Speaker 1: come to your place and you hire them to put
Speaker 1: in one. You can talk to them. They'll say the
Speaker 1: parts of like a disappearing fountain, and you make it
Speaker 1: yourself if you want to do that, if you're that
Speaker 1: kind of do it yourself or But they have plants,
Speaker 1: a wide variety of plants. Always good deals going on
Speaker 1: on plants. I love to go through there and shop
Speaker 1: and just see some of the things. I'm always surprised
Speaker 1: at the extent of things that they carry at Nelson
Speaker 1: Water Garden and Nursery out there in Katie. If you
Speaker 1: want to see their website, and I would encourage you
Speaker 1: to do that because you can find out what's going
Speaker 1: on Nelson Watergardens dot com. Nelson Watergardens dot com. Again
Speaker 1: there in Katie, Texas. Turned north on Katie Fort Benroad
Speaker 1: and it's just a hop, skipping and jump north of
Speaker 1: Ien right there Nelson Watergardens. And by the way, uh,
Speaker 1: you got to see the water guarden. Take a friend
Speaker 1: with you, because I'll tell you what I enjoy. I
Speaker 1: enjoy going there and just sitting and being still and
Speaker 1: listening to the water there is. It is like therapy
Speaker 1: to hear the sound of water. It just wonderful, brings
Speaker 1: birds in, brings me in. I love it. Have a
Speaker 1: little fountain in my backyard and I so enjoy getting
Speaker 1: out and enjoying that sound you're listening to. Garden Line.
Speaker 1: Our phone number, if you would like to give me
Speaker 1: a call is seven one three two one two kt
Speaker 1: r H seven one three two one two kt r H.
Speaker 1: I've talked about Nelson's Plant Food before, and one of
Speaker 1: the things that someone is asking me the other day
Speaker 1: about what is a refillable jar? What are you talking
Speaker 1: about when you say that, Well, Uh, what Nelson's has
Speaker 1: done is they will sell you. There's some products, of course,
Speaker 1: that come by the bag. You know, you're putting your
Speaker 1: lawn fertilizers and things out. But there's others that you
Speaker 1: would buy a smaller plastic jar for. Maybe it's maybe
Speaker 1: it's a color star you're going to furtilize some flowers with.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's a product like the tree and shrub, the
Speaker 1: nutri star tree and shrub. That's great for what the ornamentals.
Speaker 1: If you've got a tree you planted in the last
Speaker 1: within the last five years, you need to still be
Speaker 1: fertilizing that regularly to encourage good early growth. Well, when
Speaker 1: you run out of one of those products, you can
Speaker 1: go Tho's probably almost a dozen different garden centers and
Speaker 1: other places here in the Houston area where you go
Speaker 1: in and it's like when you go to the grocery
Speaker 1: store and you buy peanuts or something, you pull a
Speaker 1: little lever down and fill the bag. It's like that,
Speaker 1: except it's Nelson Products and you take your old jar
Speaker 1: in and so number one, you're not putting more plastic
Speaker 1: in the environment. We know we got plenty of that already.
Speaker 1: But it's a more economical way because they're not having
Speaker 1: to package it up and buy a bottle to a
Speaker 1: jar to sell you a jar and so on. So
Speaker 1: you just go fill up, and so it's economical, it
Speaker 1: makes environmental sense, and it's just easy. Nelson Plant Food,
Speaker 1: the nutri Star line, the color Star line, there's several
Speaker 1: lines that they have that you can just do the
Speaker 1: refillable jars, and I encourage you to do that. Of course,
Speaker 1: Nelson's is where we would find things like Slow and
Speaker 1: Easy and Bruce's Brew for the lawn as well, two
Speaker 1: top quality fertilizers out there, so you want to take advantage.
Speaker 1: I think it's pretty cool. I said that I was
Speaker 1: going to tell you about a couple more publications. If
Speaker 1: you go to my website that is Gardening with Skip
Speaker 1: dot Com. Gardening with Skip dot Com, I have I
Speaker 1: told you about the homemade weed Wiper publication and the
Speaker 1: Herbicides to use with it publication. You just have to
Speaker 1: go read those to see what they're about. There's two
Speaker 1: more on Nutsedge, and I knew when I started to
Speaker 1: write about Nutsedge this is going to be controversial because
Speaker 1: one of them is a quick tip. It's tips for
Speaker 1: winning the war against Nutsedge. It's one page and it
Speaker 1: goes through the different things, and you got to do
Speaker 1: more than one thing, and you got to do them
Speaker 1: continually for it to work. Nuts Edge is a kind
Speaker 1: of creature that if you give it a break, it
Speaker 1: will turn one tuber into ten tubers and just a
Speaker 1: matter of a month or two. And so that's why
Speaker 1: people say, oh, I tried to kill it, and then
Speaker 1: next thing, you know, I had more than I started with,
Speaker 1: Like your spray or you're digging or whatever made more tubers.
Speaker 1: No it, that's the creature. And the analogy I use
Speaker 1: for nuts Edge pretty gruesome but makes sense to me.
Speaker 1: So I use it is it's like you're trying to
Speaker 1: drown nutsedge. You got to hold it under water until
Speaker 1: the bubble's quit coming out. You see what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: In other words, if you let it up for air,
Speaker 1: it takes a deep breath of air and then you
Speaker 1: just you went right back to the beginning and you
Speaker 1: start it over trying to drown the thing, right, Well,
Speaker 1: we're not drowning it. In fact, it loves it when
Speaker 1: it's too wet, yellow nuts Edge does. But what we're
Speaker 1: doing is we're stopping it from producing new tubers by
Speaker 1: consistently staying on it. The publications go into detail on
Speaker 1: this and we're getting rid of the tubers that are
Speaker 1: there by one or more ways. And there's times of
Speaker 1: the year whend sprays are effective depending on the size
Speaker 1: of the planet. There's times of the years where it
Speaker 1: just burns the top and you do not kill the tuber.
Speaker 1: You got to learn about that if you really want
Speaker 1: to learn about it. If this is a battle that
Speaker 1: looking at comments on our Facebook page, we've got a
Speaker 1: lot of people that have battled this for a long
Speaker 1: long time. But there's a publication called Nutsedge An in
Speaker 1: Depth Look, and it's about three pages, but it goes
Speaker 1: into a lot of detail, a little bit of humor
Speaker 1: in there. We need, hey, we need to laugh a
Speaker 1: little bit, because this isn't a laughing matter, but it
Speaker 1: goes into the details of how it works. There's a
Speaker 1: difference between yellow and purple nut set, and you need
Speaker 1: to be able to know which one you have and
Speaker 1: I tell you exactly how to know real quick which
Speaker 1: one you have. And then there's some products that work
Speaker 1: better on purple than on yellow, for example, and there's
Speaker 1: some characteristics of each of those that are different. And
Speaker 1: so when you know what you're going after, and then
Speaker 1: you understand the fact that you can't let it have
Speaker 1: more than five leaves before you do something, or it's
Speaker 1: making new tubers, it helps guide you toward that answer.
Speaker 1: There's no one solution, and if you do anything one
Speaker 1: time or two times or maybe three times, isn't it's
Speaker 1: probably not going to be enough. You have to stay
Speaker 1: on it. But you can win the war on nuts
Speaker 1: edge nuts edd tips for winning the wars the fast
Speaker 1: sheet and nuts edge, and end up look is the
Speaker 1: slower sheet. It goes into the different products that are
Speaker 1: labeled for its juice, and I realized there's vegetable gardens
Speaker 1: and flower beds and lawns, and you can't use one
Speaker 1: product just anywhere you want. But the bottom line is
Speaker 1: you need to read that and you need to think
Speaker 1: about it because there's a lot of principles in there.
Speaker 1: And I see a lot of comments from people that say, well,
Speaker 1: such and such didn't work well, it doesn't work if
Speaker 1: you give it a chance to regroup. You know, a
Speaker 1: spray that makes it look like you killed it all
Speaker 1: because the plants were larger. It didn't kill the nut,
Speaker 1: so you killed it all, and then they all came
Speaker 1: back again. Maybe more so the spray didn't work. The
Speaker 1: spray didn't work because you didn't do it right. Your
Speaker 1: timing was off on it. And it actually it helped
Speaker 1: because you weakened the plant by killing the top. But
Speaker 1: that in and of itself isn't going to get rid
Speaker 1: of nuts. So I don't know. Take a look at
Speaker 1: that gardening with skip dot com. They're both there. You
Speaker 1: need to look at them. You need to really read
Speaker 1: them and think about them, because this isn't your typical
Speaker 1: little weed, you know. I mean, if it was just
Speaker 1: a chickweed growing up in a flower bed or something.
Speaker 1: I mean, you can throw mulch on it, it dies,
Speaker 1: you can hoe it and it's gone. You can know
Speaker 1: this is something different and understanding how it's working in
Speaker 1: differences help you have success. Well, that was a lot
Speaker 1: of words about nutsets, but I'm telling you this is
Speaker 1: an infernal weed. If you were to go around the
Speaker 1: world and say what are the top five weeds worldwide
Speaker 1: that are just a aim for farmers or gardeners or whatnot.
Speaker 1: That sedge is on that list. It's one of those
Speaker 1: just I don't know the words, don't describe them. I
Speaker 1: can describe them better if I use words I can't say.
Speaker 13: On the air.
Speaker 1: But I think you've probably used those words on nutsets
Speaker 1: if you haven't. Seriously, it's infernal, it is evil, it
Speaker 1: is wicked, it is malevolent. How's that? We can come
Speaker 1: up with some more, but it can be beat. I've
Speaker 1: taken a lot of time to put these together. I
Speaker 1: hope they will be helpful to you. Uh, and I
Speaker 1: just keep pointing to that website gardening. Let skip dot com.
Speaker 1: We're gonna take a break seven one three two one
Speaker 1: two k t r H. Call Chris, get on the
Speaker 1: boards and we'll talk to you when we come back.
Speaker 3: Christopher kat r H.
Speaker 4: Garden Line with Skimp Richard.
Speaker 12: It's just watch him as.
Speaker 2: So many black basic eay.
Speaker 1: Hey, welcome back to garden Line. Welcome back. I'm your host,
Speaker 1: Skip Richter, and we're here to help you have a
Speaker 1: more bountiful garden and a more beautiful landscape when you
Speaker 1: look at the I was before break. I was talking
Speaker 1: about the new publications, two of them on nuts Edge
Speaker 1: that I put on my website, Gardening with Skip dot com.
Speaker 1: And if you're looking at it and you're saying, well, okay,
Speaker 1: I'd like to try one of those sprays. But and
Speaker 1: let me just I have to interject here because sometimes
Speaker 1: folks listen to part of what you say, but not everything.
Speaker 1: And that's true universally, especially those of you have kids.
Speaker 1: Know what we're talking about. Our spouses know what we're
Speaker 1: talking about. Seriously, though a joking his side, people are
Speaker 1: not listening to everything I'm saying about nuts Edge, and
Speaker 1: I need you to hear the whole thing. It's no
Speaker 1: one solution. It's not put this spray on and that's
Speaker 1: a miracle. It'll kill it. There are some really good
Speaker 1: sprea are some worthless sprays, but that won't do it.
Speaker 1: It's not we'll just dig it all up. Yes, you'll
Speaker 1: get most of it, and that's a great idea in
Speaker 1: terms of a non spray organic if you will way
Speaker 1: to go about it. But you're not going to get
Speaker 1: it all You don't have to dig it again, dig
Speaker 1: it again, stay on it. The thing with nuts edge
Speaker 1: is don't stop. Just look at the things I've put
Speaker 1: on my publications. There's several options on there, and none
Speaker 1: of them is a miracle cure. But if you grab
Speaker 1: two or three of those and you stay on it
Speaker 1: and understand that once it's hit five leaves, now you
Speaker 1: got to do something or you have worse problem than
Speaker 1: when you begin. That is what's important. So if you're
Speaker 1: looking for a quality spray product as part of the arsenal,
Speaker 1: part of the arsenal that you will repeatedly apply to
Speaker 1: when this war, you can go to ACE Hardware and
Speaker 1: they've got it. I talk about sedgehammer on there. By
Speaker 1: the way, Sedgehammer plus already has a surfacting in it,
Speaker 1: so I would get that one that was a good one.
Speaker 12: Uh.
Speaker 1: There is image, there is Uh. People use a lot
Speaker 1: of different things. The artisen will sit here and name
Speaker 1: all the products. You can go read about that on
Speaker 1: my publications. But whatever you use, you have to stand it.
Speaker 1: ACE Hardware store is going to have all those kinds
Speaker 1: of things. And when you get them and take them
Speaker 1: home from Ace, read the label. Read the label. Image
Speaker 1: is an effective control against some types of some type
Speaker 1: of nuts edge. But every label has warnings. If you
Speaker 1: wait and it's blazing hot and you nuke your yard
Speaker 1: with image, especially applied over the label, you're going to
Speaker 1: cause damage to your yard. That's the case. Read the labels.
Speaker 1: It's I know we don't like to read instructions. Guys
Speaker 1: are notorious for not wanting to read instructions or stop
Speaker 1: and ask for directions.
Speaker 12: Right.
Speaker 1: Well, if you don't, then you get to pay grow.
Speaker 1: When my kid's grown up, I used to call it
Speaker 1: the stupid tax. You get to pay the stupid tax.
Speaker 1: When you're stupid, you get to pay a tax. Believe me,
Speaker 1: I have done stupid things in my life and gotten
Speaker 1: to pay the tax. Well, that's what I call it,
Speaker 1: stupid tax. I got a great product that works. I
Speaker 1: didn't read the label. I applied it. I damaged my lawn.
Speaker 1: It didn't work on the product I was on the plan.
Speaker 1: I was springing it on because I didn't read the label.
Speaker 1: That's the stupid tax. So don't pay the stupid tax.
Speaker 1: ACE Hardware Store can put the right product in your hand,
Speaker 1: though I'm kind of wandering off here. By the way,
Speaker 1: while you're at ACE, grab you some fire ant bait.
Speaker 1: They are back this rain has brought a bunch of
Speaker 1: the surface. Baits are the best way to go about
Speaker 1: it for the long term. The long haul, the less
Speaker 1: environmentally damaging way, the least amount of pesticide you put
Speaker 1: in your environment is with a bait as opposed to
Speaker 1: an individual mound treatment.
Speaker 14: Do that.
Speaker 1: It's mosquitoes. Have everything you need for mosquitos at Ace Harbard.
Speaker 1: Ace is the place. So I mean, I can sit
Speaker 1: here naming things, but the bottom line is if you
Speaker 1: need it for your lawn and garden, if you want
Speaker 1: to have more bountiful garden, a more beautiful landscape, Ace
Speaker 1: is the place. Acehardware dot Com is their website. Go there,
Speaker 1: find the store locator. It's easy to find and you
Speaker 1: can find that Ace Hardware is near you. It is
Speaker 1: as simple as that. Well, I wanted to I did
Speaker 1: want to kind of reiterate a little bit on that
Speaker 1: the nuts Edge, and I'm I posted to Facebook something
Speaker 1: about it, a photo that some find humorous I did
Speaker 1: of nut said, and there's a lot of comments on it.
Speaker 1: And as I read the comments, it's like you didn't
Speaker 1: read the publication. You're just telling me it didn't something
Speaker 1: didn't work, or this or that I can take exactly
Speaker 1: why it didn't work read the publication, but I understand.
Speaker 1: I'm I have a what is it selective hearing myself sometimes,
Speaker 1: So I just want to tell you that I don't
Speaker 1: don't care what you're going after. I don't care if
Speaker 1: you're using an organic product or synthetic product. Read the label.
Speaker 1: Everything has drawbacks, and if you get enough of anything,
Speaker 1: it can be a poison. They say the dose makes
Speaker 1: a poison. Table salt and aspirin or poisons you take enough.
Speaker 1: There is a number I can't remember what exactly, but
Speaker 1: milligrams per kilograma body weight of table salt that will
Speaker 1: kill you, of aspirin that will kill you. Everything is
Speaker 1: a poison and everything has side effects. One of the safest, simplest,
Speaker 1: easiest to recommend products on the market for insect control,
Speaker 1: soft bidied insect control is insecticidal soap. It kills aphids,
Speaker 1: it kills spider mites, It works wonderfully. It is not
Speaker 1: a toxin that we have to worry about. But lady
Speaker 1: be larvae or small soft bodied insects, lace wing larva
Speaker 1: or small soft bided insects, aphids with wasps growing end
Speaker 1: them when you kill the that what's left of that aphid.
Speaker 1: You can kill the wasp with soap. Even soap as
Speaker 1: its drawbacks doesn't mean it's not a good product. It
Speaker 1: just means we got to quit thinking about this is
Speaker 1: great good, this is bad. You know, Yes, there's degrees
Speaker 1: of toxicity and stuff, but I don't care what you're doing.
Speaker 1: If you especially if you're an organic gardener, don't just
Speaker 1: assume because it's natural that you can use it indiscriminately.
Speaker 1: That is not the case. And so whatever you're using that,
Speaker 1: read the label. Please read the label. All right. Well,
Speaker 1: I guess that was a little bit of a soapbox
Speaker 1: forgive me for that. But I listen, I've been doing
Speaker 1: this thirty five years and I cannot tell you how
Speaker 1: many times I've heard stories about products that destroyed something.
Speaker 1: And it's as simple as applicator error, failure to read
Speaker 1: and follow label instructions. Ana Plants and Produce is one
Speaker 1: of those garden centers I was telling you. We got
Speaker 1: them all over Houston that are just you gotta go.
Speaker 1: And Ana Plants and Produce is up there in the
Speaker 1: Montgomery area, so all of you up in Lake Conroe area,
Speaker 1: all those neighborhoods out there, April Sound, Belt, water and
Speaker 1: all that. That is your backyard garden center. And I
Speaker 1: know people that drive a distance to get up to
Speaker 1: Ana because they love going there. They carry all the
Speaker 1: products I talk about on garden Line, Nitroposs, Nelson's Microlife, Airloom, Souls,
Speaker 1: Nature's Way, They're all there. They have a team that
Speaker 1: goes out and does some landscape work even if you
Speaker 1: want that. A and A Plants and Produce are on
Speaker 1: the east side of Montgomery, east side of Montgomery, right
Speaker 1: there on Highway one oh five. Their plant selection is outstanding.
Speaker 1: They have wonderful bling for the landscape. Right now, they
Speaker 1: got a sale I believe still going on on metal
Speaker 1: art for the landscape. That is really cool stuff. Ana
Speaker 1: Plants and Produce. I'm gonna take a little break here.
Speaker 1: I'll be right back. Hey, here's the number if you'd
Speaker 1: like to get on the board. We're talking about exciting
Speaker 1: things that I like. Nutsedge. I guess we ought to
Speaker 1: put fire ants next on the list when it comes
Speaker 1: to infernal things. By the way, in the nuts Edge publication,
Speaker 1: the in depth one that I just put online on
Speaker 1: my website, I mentioned the fact that did you know
Speaker 1: that this is a fun fact for nutsedge? And there's
Speaker 1: not much fun about nuts edge, but nuts edge. The
Speaker 1: scientific name nerd alert nerd alert is Cyparis esculentus. When
Speaker 1: you see esculentis in a scientific name, it means you
Speaker 1: can eat it. That's basically what it means. That's my
Speaker 1: version of the Latin translation. You can eat it. Do
Speaker 1: you know you can eat the nuts the tubers of
Speaker 1: yellow nuts edge? Well you can, and you will learn
Speaker 1: quickly that there's a difference between the word edible and
Speaker 1: the word palatable. You're not the same thing. I've actually
Speaker 1: tried it. They call them earth almonds, and it's like
Speaker 1: it has an almond ish, almony almonish taste. You chow
Speaker 1: it a while, it's kind of yeah, it's a little
Speaker 1: on the sweet side. It's a little almony, and then
Speaker 1: you kind of are going, so what do I do
Speaker 1: with this sawdust left in my mouth? Spit it out?
Speaker 1: But actually, there is a kind of it that is
Speaker 1: popular in some parts of the of the world, especially
Speaker 1: you get over in some areas of like North Africa
Speaker 1: at least, where they have one called they call it
Speaker 1: chufa chufa chiffa nuts or earth almonds or tiger nuts,
Speaker 1: that's another name for it, and they're a little plumper.
Speaker 1: The tubers are plumper and they're set kind of close
Speaker 1: to the base of the plant so that it's you
Speaker 1: can get a harvest out of it. And they make
Speaker 1: In Spain they make a version of horchata, which it's
Speaker 1: horchata de chufa, which means that you can make horchata,
Speaker 1: which is a milky drink that's made from something like that. Well,
Speaker 1: you can make it out of nut yellow. By the way,
Speaker 1: yellow nuts ittge not purple. Purple is bitter hoteta chif
Speaker 1: But here's the fun fact. They've dug into the Pyramids
Speaker 1: of Egypt, the pay Rose burial places and found they
Speaker 1: were buried with chiff and nuts. Now, how many of
Speaker 1: you out there want to go to your grave with
Speaker 1: nuts edge that's like throwing his zeplock of fire ants. Please, Seriously,
Speaker 1: they thought so much of them they're snack food that
Speaker 1: they were buried with their chiff and nuts. So, I
Speaker 1: don't know. You can't make this stuff up, and I'm
Speaker 1: not making it up. It is the truth. It's in
Speaker 1: the publication. One of the few fun facts among the
Speaker 1: other things that's out there. Hey, if you're trying to
Speaker 1: do your law and fertilization, you haven't done it in
Speaker 1: a while. You need to get some boost out there
Speaker 1: in that turf. Sweet green from Nitrofoss can do just that.
Speaker 1: Sweet green is an eleven percent nitrogen which is high
Speaker 1: for a natural organic type product. Eleven percent nitrogen content.
Speaker 1: It's made from a molasses base. Molasses stimulates microbial activity
Speaker 1: the good guys, the beneficial bacteria, for example, in the soil.
Speaker 1: Molasses is a stimulant for that because it's a carbon
Speaker 1: source for them. And sweet grain is that kind of product.
Speaker 1: Now we are in the middle of summer, and as
Speaker 1: a result, I would suggest you take that sweet grain.
Speaker 1: Normally you'd put ten pounds per thousand square feet. I
Speaker 1: would suggest you split it in half. Go ahead and
Speaker 1: do five pounds now, and then about six to eight
Speaker 1: weeks from now, do it again with the other five
Speaker 1: pounds that you would have put on at once. That'll
Speaker 1: give you a more even growth over a period of
Speaker 1: time and carry you on up to when it's time
Speaker 1: to do fall fertilizations. Sweet grain from nitrofoss. If you
Speaker 1: have ever gone shopping for night fross products before you know.
Speaker 1: They're easy to find, widespread, easy, easy to find here.
Speaker 1: You can get it at the ace out at Sincle Ranch.
Speaker 1: They carry nit fross out there a task, a seat
Speaker 1: to ace up in a test casito on timber forests.
Speaker 1: They've got it up there. Go down to the lake
Speaker 1: hardware include on Dixie Drive. You're gonna find it there
Speaker 1: in Jim's Hardware down up in Montgomery on FM fourteen
Speaker 1: ninety seven also has nitropos type products. Let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and head out to the phones now and we're going
Speaker 1: to go to Pearland and talk to Kay. Well. Okay,
Speaker 1: welcome back to garden Line.
Speaker 7: Good morning, Skips, good to talk with you again. Thank
Speaker 7: you for taking my call.
Speaker 13: I have a quick question.
Speaker 7: Is bug out Max safe for pets if the granule.
Speaker 1: Well any yeah, in the granular you're gonna put it
Speaker 1: on the granular and then you water it in, so
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have the pets out there when you're putting
Speaker 1: it out. I would water it in really good and
Speaker 1: once it dries that I believe the labeled words it
Speaker 1: that way. Once it dries, it's it's you know, safe
Speaker 1: to go out. Okay, and do now you know, any
Speaker 1: any pasticide in and of itself is not safe, right
Speaker 1: because it is a poisoner for some thing. But in general,
Speaker 1: when you apply it right like this, they're not they're
Speaker 1: not going to be exposed to the the in the
Speaker 1: way or in the quantity that would be a concern
Speaker 1: for you.
Speaker 15: Okay, okay, alrighty, thank you so much, and have a
Speaker 15: blessed day.
Speaker 9: Bye bye.
Speaker 1: Well that was fast and easy, kay, all right, you
Speaker 1: have fun out there in Paarland. Appreciate your call there
Speaker 1: you go, all right, if you'd like to give us
Speaker 1: a call here on garden line the phone number seven
Speaker 1: one three two one two k t r H. Seven
Speaker 1: one three two one two k t r H. Well,
Speaker 1: the storms that we had come through, we had the
Speaker 1: one that wasn't a hurricane and the one that was
Speaker 1: Hurricane Berrel. Both of them just hammered our trees so much.
Speaker 1: It's a wonder there's a living tree in Houston still
Speaker 1: standing at with all the damage that was caused by those.
Speaker 16: Uh.
Speaker 1: And that just reminds us that we need our trees
Speaker 1: to be properly trained and pruned when a storm come.
Speaker 1: Now you can have the most perfect tree in the world,
Speaker 1: and the right kind of storms gonna knock it down.
Speaker 1: Just like you can have the strongest built house in
Speaker 1: the world and you get an earthquake followed by a
Speaker 1: Category five tornado and so on. You see what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: time to have Martin come out to assess things, to
Speaker 1: look at the trees. You know, if it needs something,
Speaker 1: he'll tell you. If it doesn't, he'll tell you. But
Speaker 1: do you need to do some proper treecare coming into
Speaker 1: this storm season. I can't impress enough on you the
Speaker 1: importance of proper tree care and proper pruning, selective pruning
Speaker 1: to make them safer. In heavy winds to set them
Speaker 1: up for storm readiness, to do what's in your power.
Speaker 1: But what else are you doing around those trees?
Speaker 16: You know?
Speaker 1: Tree roots go out two and a half times a
Speaker 1: height in all directions of the tree. Yes, that's a
Speaker 1: long way. So your tree has roots in your two
Speaker 1: houses down in their yard. That that's just how they grow.
Speaker 1: So what happens when you'd run a trench across a
Speaker 1: root system ten feet from the trunk. You cut a
Speaker 1: lot of important roots. And Martin can advise you on
Speaker 1: when you need to do work, what should you do
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Speaker 1: Let's go up to the woodlands now and I'm going
Speaker 1: to talk to Mike next. Huh, Mike.
Speaker 17: Mon Ski, welcome to garden.
Speaker 1: Yeah, welcome to Guardline.
Speaker 18: Thank you.
Speaker 19: Uh.
Speaker 17: We were gifted a thorny key lime tree this week,
Speaker 17: and I'm wondering how you would plant it. We really
Speaker 17: want to put it in the pot so we can
Speaker 17: bring it in and out. It's in a ten inch
Speaker 17: pot right now, and it's about three foot tall.
Speaker 1: Okay, you wanting to plant it in the ground. Is
Speaker 1: that what you're saying?
Speaker 17: In a container?
Speaker 12: Yes?
Speaker 1: Good, good, Well, that's that's wise, especially up in the woodlands.
Speaker 1: So I would if I would probably move it to
Speaker 1: the next pot size up. So if it's ten inch,
Speaker 1: you know, you can go something about a foot across,
Speaker 1: or or you can go wider than that.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 1: The the idea is the more root system you give
Speaker 1: that tree, the more resilient it is. So in other words,
Speaker 1: on a hot summer day, a larger volume of soil
Speaker 1: means it doesn't try out as fast because it can
Speaker 1: draw in more moisture. In a confined space, there's less
Speaker 1: room for moisture and the soil, and so the bigger
Speaker 1: you move it into, the more resilient it is. So
Speaker 1: you'll have to decide that. Of course. You know, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of beautiful containers out there that you can use,
Speaker 1: but the trees don't care what they're growing in. It
Speaker 1: could be the ugliest bucket on earth, and it's just
Speaker 1: got the soil volume, quality soil, and good nutrition, and
Speaker 1: it's going to be happy. But for our purposes, a
Speaker 1: beautiful container is nice. Just remember you're going to need
Speaker 1: to move it, and that's going to take moving it
Speaker 1: with a dolly and a strap so that when we
Speaker 1: do have cold weather which will come, you can protect
Speaker 1: because it has very little cold tolerance at all.
Speaker 17: Right, I was I was going to put it in
Speaker 17: a much larger pod just for just for those reasons.
Speaker 17: And yes, I I have a dolly and I have
Speaker 17: probably fifty posts out there, so I know the drill thing. Yeah.
Speaker 17: Other thing is I read that it needs the fertilizer
Speaker 17: quite a dead So what are your thoughts. I was
Speaker 17: going to get some Nelson's at ACE today.
Speaker 1: That's a winning combo Nelson and Ice. I would get
Speaker 1: their citrus type fertilizer. If for some reason they don't
Speaker 1: have the citrus type fertilizer, but you can get their
Speaker 1: tree and shrub fertilizer. Use that one. And if you
Speaker 1: can't get that, just a citrus is is not so
Speaker 1: particular that you have to have exactly the right fertilizer
Speaker 1: or the plant's not going to grow. So just just
Speaker 1: get one that's good, follow the label on how much
Speaker 1: to put out. You know, if you were gonna depending
Speaker 1: on the size of the pot, you're going to put
Speaker 1: a different amount out on the surface of the soil
Speaker 1: and watered in really good. Uh, and it'll it'll start
Speaker 1: supporting that growth. Mike, I would hold off after when
Speaker 1: we get through August. Let's say, I probably wouldn't do
Speaker 1: a lot of fertilization. Certainly not when we're like out
Speaker 1: late September and October, because fertilizer does promote flushes of
Speaker 1: late season growth, and that tender succulent stuff that hadn't
Speaker 1: turned woody yet. The first cool weather is going to
Speaker 1: really damage it more than it would the rest of
Speaker 1: the p even so don't push it into a lot
Speaker 1: of late late season growth.
Speaker 17: Perfect, Okay, thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Now you've heard. If you listen to Guardline, you know
Speaker 1: that I always ask people to bring me half their
Speaker 1: produce if my advice is successful. But in your case,
Speaker 1: I think I'm going to go for something else. When
Speaker 1: those lines are ready, call me and I'll come over
Speaker 1: and we'll have Margarita's.
Speaker 17: How about that Margarita's and key lime pie?
Speaker 20: How about that?
Speaker 1: They're oh gosh, I forgot about that. That may be
Speaker 1: above a margarita. Thanks a lot, man, appreciate your call,
Speaker 1: take care, Thank you, Bye bye. All right, folks, time
Speaker 1: for another break seven one three two one two KTRH.
Speaker 1: I'll be right back.
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Speaker 1: to talk to Lee. Hello, Lee, Hi, how are you doing.
Speaker 1: I'm good, sir, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 14: Thank you.
Speaker 9: My question is I've got some four h pigs at
Speaker 9: the house and I missed my.
Speaker 13: My aunt tiller broadcasts and now I'm afraid to put
Speaker 13: it out because we have the pigs running around in
Speaker 13: the yard at times when we work them.
Speaker 9: Is there a product that is that's safe for that
Speaker 9: or what do I need to do?
Speaker 22: Uh?
Speaker 1: So the you got, you got fire ants and areas
Speaker 1: where pigs are rooting around. That's the bottom line here.
Speaker 9: Yes, ultimately that's what what it is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, Well, fire at bait is put out of
Speaker 1: this super low rate something like andro a pound of
Speaker 1: bait will cover a whole acre. So that we're talking
Speaker 1: about like dump dumped on a mound where they root
Speaker 1: and they I don't well, pigs root in fire ance.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't think they would. But anyway, we're not talking
Speaker 1: about a whole bunch of it. We're talking about a
Speaker 1: granule here, a granule there, And the best time to
Speaker 1: put it out is go ahead.
Speaker 20: I'm not so much worried about them rooting in the
Speaker 20: in the mound as much as I am.
Speaker 9: When they root and eating the soil, Okay.
Speaker 1: Well, they're gonna be down there looking for they're looking for,
Speaker 1: you know, rhizomes and other things they can grub up,
Speaker 1: you know, in the soil. But you got two options.
Speaker 1: You could use an individual mound treatment and drench it,
Speaker 1: and the pigs will not like that. Some things like
Speaker 1: ortheens stink to high heaven and so they're not going
Speaker 1: to like that. There are organic products like a ctrus
Speaker 1: oil based individual mound treatment that they're not going to
Speaker 1: look be around that either, and so you could do that.
Speaker 1: But the problem with mound treatments is you're playing whack
Speaker 1: a mole with fire ants. For example, my yard, before
Speaker 1: it was raining recently, I didn't have a single fireant
Speaker 1: mound in the yard. It rained, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: these mounds I didn't know were underground forming came to
Speaker 1: the surface. Now got these little mounds of dirt where
Speaker 1: the fireants had built up. And so the mound treatments,
Speaker 1: you're sort of always a little bit behind trying to
Speaker 1: kill the mounds. The baits will kill those mounds that
Speaker 1: were invisible to me. Had I put a bait out
Speaker 1: before I saw mounds they were there. The workers would
Speaker 1: have gotten the bait and it would have killed the mounds.
Speaker 1: So baits are a more efficient way and more effective
Speaker 1: way to put it out. You can go either way,
Speaker 1: but that would be There is an organic bait that
Speaker 1: contains spindosaid that's called come and Get It, Come and
Speaker 1: get it, and you could also use that if you
Speaker 1: wanted to take one more level of you know, getting
Speaker 1: away from some of more of a synthetic type product,
Speaker 1: you could do that. But general, when you put up
Speaker 1: bait at the right rate, it's not gonna be a problem.
Speaker 1: You only want to bait though, when the ants are
Speaker 1: foraging to get so that the goal is you want
Speaker 1: that fresh bait to get out there, and you want
Speaker 1: to mount an ant to grab it and and not
Speaker 1: have to sit around for days in the sun and weather.
Speaker 1: And so what I would suggest is gets you something
Speaker 1: that's oily, like a potato chip, and throw a few
Speaker 1: out there here and there, just a few on the ground,
Speaker 1: and go back in fifteen minutes and look at them.
Speaker 1: And if they're fire iNTS on those chips, that means
Speaker 1: they're out foraging. If there's not just right, and once
Speaker 1: you see that they're out, that's the time of day.
Speaker 1: Typically it's the cooler times of day in summer, during
Speaker 1: the blazing hot middle of the day, not generally the
Speaker 1: best time. But if you do that, then they find
Speaker 1: those they bring them back. It does its job and
Speaker 1: you're not worried about your pigs.
Speaker 17: Okay, good deal, Thank you.
Speaker 1: Sound like a plan. All right, yes, sir, good luck.
Speaker 1: All right, take thank you. And one thing I enjoyed doing.
Speaker 1: I've been doing gardening questions for over thirty five years now.
Speaker 1: People emailing me, people calling me, people coming by. I go,
Speaker 1: you know, into places where someone had something they want
Speaker 1: me to look at, and it never fails. There's something new.
Speaker 1: That's my first call on how do I kill fiance
Speaker 1: without hurting pigs? Never had that one before, So congratulations, Lee,
Speaker 1: you got me a new one that time. I thought
Speaker 1: I'd heard all of them, but hey, that's part of gardening.
Speaker 1: I understand that. One of my favorite new fertilizers, and
Speaker 1: really it's pretty cool stuff is Medina has to grow
Speaker 1: supergrow Plus. Medina has to grow supergrow Plus as a
Speaker 1: product that you hook up to a garden hose. It's
Speaker 1: a one court bottle. It covers about four thousand or
Speaker 1: excuse me, sixteen thousand square for a gallon, four thousand
Speaker 1: for the quart. So if you just get a quart,
Speaker 1: hook it up the garden hose four thousand square feet.
Speaker 1: It covers in case about ten minutes to do it.
Speaker 1: It's a sixteen zero two fertilizer. It's a good blend
Speaker 1: for established lawns that have been doing fine. You're just
Speaker 1: wanting to keep giving them a boost. It's got seaweed
Speaker 1: in it, it's got seaweed extract rather in it. It's
Speaker 1: got a humic acid, it's got molasses in it, and
Speaker 1: it has a form of iron that doesn't tie up
Speaker 1: in the soil. Real quick, I'm going to be doing
Speaker 1: I'm doing a post here I'll probably get done for
Speaker 1: the end of the show on iron chlorosis and what
Speaker 1: causes that. An a keylated form of iron is resistant
Speaker 1: to being tied up in the soil, so the plant
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Speaker 1: an area that's struggling, dude, it's some take holl root
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Speaker 1: it some folier feed. With that super grow plus, it'll
Speaker 1: also go down in the soil and help it there.
Speaker 1: Easy to do, easy to find, and it works. Time
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Speaker 1: pellet fertilizer to give you three months of feeding. They're
Speaker 1: mushroom compost. Gardeners know about mushroom compost. It is chalk
Speaker 1: full of all kinds of nutrients based on an aged
Speaker 1: pine base, and it really helps the plants to be successful.
Speaker 1: A healthy soil compost is made with one hundred percent
Speaker 1: recycled composted plant material, neutral pH adds and the nutrients
Speaker 1: as it decomposes in the soil. It's replenishing the soil
Speaker 1: with the nutrients that are in that organic matter and
Speaker 1: then the black humans dark rich organic mix compost to
Speaker 1: pine bark and loamy top soil. Great for putting in
Speaker 1: a new bed or even just beefing up one that
Speaker 1: you've already got. Well Landscaperspride dot com. That is the website.
Speaker 1: You can find out more about it, you can find
Speaker 1: out where to get it, and it is widely available.
Speaker 1: We're going to head out now to Magnolia and talk
Speaker 1: to Sarah this morning. Good morning, Sarah, and good morning.
Speaker 1: How can I help?
Speaker 11: I have an issue that I discovered last week, unfortunately,
Speaker 11: being stung by in ground be excuse me bees. They're
Speaker 11: very small, they're only half an inch. It's still painful
Speaker 11: this week. But they are nesting in my pot potty plants,
Speaker 11: and I'd like to know how to be to remove them.
Speaker 1: That's a good question. Uh I would do is I
Speaker 1: would go out at night when they're back in there,
Speaker 1: not hive, but when they're back in their nest, if
Speaker 1: you will, And I would probably in this case, I
Speaker 1: think I would use something like a seven dust or
Speaker 1: an orthene type product, and I would sort of like
Speaker 1: dust it onto those pots wherever they're having to come out,
Speaker 1: just get it all around there. So that they have
Speaker 1: to crawl through it. When they crawl through that dust,
Speaker 1: they pick it up and it kills them. And it's
Speaker 1: not systemic. It's not going to get in your plants. Well,
Speaker 1: our orthene is, the seven dust is not. But the
Speaker 1: bottom line is just get them so that when they
Speaker 1: go in and out they pick that up and it
Speaker 1: will kill them. That's the best way. I've known people
Speaker 1: that go to links of using a little red lens
Speaker 1: over a flashlight. Somehow with these wasps and bees they
Speaker 1: seem to not be able to see that as well
Speaker 1: or something. I'm not an entomologist, but I would just
Speaker 1: go out at night, get a little light and just
Speaker 1: so you can see enough to toss some of that
Speaker 1: dust or whatever up against and around and in wherever
Speaker 1: these are coming in and out, and that'll take care
Speaker 1: of them.
Speaker 11: Okay, great, So obviously the spray would not work on
Speaker 11: the seven dust. Is that correct?
Speaker 1: Well? The spray seven spray could? I just I've never
Speaker 1: tried to see it. And then when a bee crawls
Speaker 1: through soil that's had seven spray on it, will it
Speaker 1: pick up enough of the pesticide to killch I don't
Speaker 1: know the answer to that.
Speaker 11: Okay, very good. Okay, I'll get that a try. I
Speaker 11: appreciate your information.
Speaker 1: Sure, thanks, Sarah. I appreciate your call very much. Let's
Speaker 1: now go to Beaumont and talk to Dan. Hello.
Speaker 12: Dan, Hey, good answered here, we'll good morning.
Speaker 17: I've got one real quick question for you. A while
Speaker 17: back of cold to asked you about.
Speaker 9: Seeding some tomatoes or harvesting the seeds from the tomatoes.
Speaker 23: I can use them for the following year.
Speaker 9: And yes, you told me to put it in some
Speaker 9: water and let it kind of.
Speaker 1: Rotten down or deteriorate down.
Speaker 12: And I have done that.
Speaker 17: I put it in the jar, in a jar and.
Speaker 20: Let it uh interior eight year old early will.
Speaker 9: Yeah, And I was curious what to do now?
Speaker 14: Kind of open those jars up.
Speaker 9: They are gonna stink, and I want to get rid
Speaker 9: of as fast as I can.
Speaker 17: But yeah, what do I do?
Speaker 1: Take it out? Yeah, take it outside and just pour
Speaker 1: off a lot of the water on top and with
Speaker 1: that the floating seed and the debris and goo and
Speaker 1: follow them or whatever's up there. Pour that off, fill
Speaker 1: it with fresh water, let the seed settle back down,
Speaker 1: and pour it off again. Do that about three times,
Speaker 1: and then you can bring them in and you know,
Speaker 1: you put a little on the jar, shake it real
Speaker 1: hard to get more of the kind of the organic
Speaker 1: debris that's around those seeds off, and you're just basically
Speaker 1: cleaning those seeds and getting the stinky stuff out of there.
Speaker 1: Then bring them out and I would I would take
Speaker 1: the seeds, you know, try to get the moisture out,
Speaker 1: maybe a paper towel or something like that, press them
Speaker 1: a little bit, and then let them dry and once
Speaker 1: they're dry, put them in whatever kind of packet you're
Speaker 1: going to store them in. And when I say once
Speaker 1: they're dry, I mean i'd give them a week or
Speaker 1: two to fully dry in a dry spot, and then
Speaker 1: you can store them in a packet. They should be
Speaker 1: fine if you're going to use them next year. If
Speaker 1: you want a little longer storage, you could store them
Speaker 1: in an air tight something in the in the refrigerator.
Speaker 12: Right.
Speaker 9: Okay, that was my uh ways that hope to help
Speaker 9: somebody else there.
Speaker 1: You Yeah, I'm sure it will. I'm sure it will.
Speaker 1: And it'll help me when you bring me half of
Speaker 1: the tomatoes you grow next year and drop them off
Speaker 1: at the radio.
Speaker 24: Oh yeah, that's the type set good good.
Speaker 1: Well. Hey, thanks, you sound like you're having some fun
Speaker 1: with that. That most people I don't go to that measure,
Speaker 1: but it is kind of fun to do. Thanks Dan,
Speaker 1: Thanks take care. All right, there you have it. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, I like birds. I talk about the birds
Speaker 1: all the time. In fact, yesterday I was using my
Speaker 1: Merlin app. There's a map or an app on the
Speaker 1: phone called Merlin E R L I N like the Magician.
Speaker 1: It's done by Cornell University. And boy is it cool?
Speaker 1: Uh it for identifying bird. I heard a bird singing
Speaker 1: outside and I couldn't what was that. I didn't know
Speaker 1: that song, and so I just said listen, and the
Speaker 1: app listened and told me that was a wren, a
Speaker 1: specific kind of wren. Later I heard a different bird
Speaker 1: song did the same thing. It was the same wren.
Speaker 1: You know, birds have more inland song. See I'm kind
Speaker 1: of new to birds, but they do. And if you're
Speaker 1: interested in birds or would like to be wha Birds
Speaker 1: Unlimited WBU dot com Forward slash Houston WBU dot Com
Speaker 1: Forward slash Houston. That's the website you're going to go in.
Speaker 8: There.
Speaker 1: By the way, you need to get some seed cylinders.
Speaker 1: Now that's packed cylinders of seed. You go on a vacation,
Speaker 1: just set that out there. Takes a bird a while
Speaker 1: to work them out of the seeds out of those cylinders,
Speaker 1: and it'll it'll take care of your birds. Nobody's gonna
Speaker 1: be there to fill the feeder. The cylinder will take
Speaker 1: care of it till you get back from vacation. Wabirds
Speaker 1: has so many quality blends, without the waste, without the seed,
Speaker 1: birds don't want to eat. It's you buy a pound
Speaker 1: of walldbird seed, you get a pound of bird feed,
Speaker 1: and it's quality stuff. They have quality feeders, they have
Speaker 1: quality bird houses, they have all kinds of things. WBU
Speaker 1: dot Com, Forward Slash Houston. You can find the six
Speaker 1: wallbird stores here in the Greater Houston area. Well, it
Speaker 1: looks like let's see here. We are just up against
Speaker 1: an end of the hour break. So Kim and Memorial
Speaker 1: you will be our first when we come back. If
Speaker 1: the rest of you would like to get online, just
Speaker 1: I mean get on the air with me. Give chrisicol
Speaker 1: seven one three two one two k t r H.
Speaker 1: And when we come back, we'll talk to you about
Speaker 1: the things that are of interest to you. I want
Speaker 1: to remind you that on my website Gardening with Skip
Speaker 1: dot com. Gardening with Skip dot Com. There is the
Speaker 1: new publication on Nutsench. There's two of them. One is
Speaker 1: more in depth. I highly recommend you read it. I
Speaker 1: know a lot of people just want to look at
Speaker 1: the one page one, which is fine, but the in
Speaker 1: depth one gives you a lot of information that when
Speaker 1: I say, why didn't once you try on nuts edge
Speaker 1: that didn't work and you answer that question, the in
Speaker 1: depth publication will tell you why it didn't work, because
Speaker 1: there's a lot of things that work, but nothing's that
Speaker 1: penda seea They're on there on the website. Please go
Speaker 1: check those out. We'll be right back here. A short serience.
Speaker 2: Just as.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to guarden Line. Glad to have you with
Speaker 1: us today, Thanks for listening in our goal here. My
Speaker 1: goal here is to have a show that allows you
Speaker 1: to get your questions answered, to have a more bountiful garden,
Speaker 1: a more beautiful landscape, to enjoy gardening. Gardening is fun. Listen,
Speaker 1: this is the best hobby that there is, and we
Speaker 1: want to help you feel even more that way and
Speaker 1: have more fun out of it. To beautify your landscape,
Speaker 1: to plant trees, and shrubs and design things that creates
Speaker 1: beauty but also increases the value of your landscape. You know,
Speaker 1: when you're putting up a house for sale. One of
Speaker 1: my one of my daughters is in the process of
Speaker 1: purchasing a home, and you know, going around looking at
Speaker 1: all these homes, it just can't help. But the fact
Speaker 1: that when you walk up and you see beauty, you
Speaker 1: see beautiful shade trees because they were well chosen in
Speaker 1: the past, they were well planted, and they were well
Speaker 1: pruned in the past. That adds value, but it also
Speaker 1: makes it a more soluble landscape. You're going to move
Speaker 1: it now, maybe you're not planning on selling, maybe you
Speaker 1: want to stay there. How do we have how do
Speaker 1: we have more fun? How do we have more success?
Speaker 1: That's what we're about here on Guardline. So it's as
Speaker 1: simple as that. We're going to head straight out to
Speaker 1: Memorial right now and talk to Kim.
Speaker 23: Hello, Kim, Hey Skip, Actually it's Ken, but that's great. Ken,
Speaker 23: Okay Norris, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 12: Listen.
Speaker 23: We built a house in the Bunco Hill area here.
Speaker 23: Memorial moved in about two years ago, so the side
Speaker 23: is about that time frame, old and it's developed just
Speaker 23: really some massy bald spots all around and the whole yard,
Speaker 23: the front yard, the backyard, and we have had trouble
Speaker 23: getting those to fill in. And one thing I've noticed
Speaker 23: is that when we went out and did some recent work,
Speaker 23: it appears that there's some very orange colored sand, a
Speaker 23: filler sand, right underneath the side. And did some research
Speaker 23: and it looks like that's something called bank sand.
Speaker 25: And what I'm caurious about before I go ahead and
Speaker 25: replace all the sod and do a lot of work here,
Speaker 25: is is there a cure for getting this stuff filled in?
Speaker 25: Or do I need to, you know, replace the whole
Speaker 25: thing and get some top soil between that bank sand
Speaker 25: in the sod. And now'll be quiet and just listen
Speaker 25: for a little bit here.
Speaker 1: How deep do you think that sand is? How thick
Speaker 1: of a layer is.
Speaker 23: That it's quite thick, So that bank sand is probably
Speaker 23: goes down you know, at least nine inches maybe a foot,
Speaker 23: And then the sod was placed right on top of that.
Speaker 1: Okay, And did it look good for a while and
Speaker 1: just recently has gone downhill? Or has it been a
Speaker 1: gradual process over time from the beginning.
Speaker 23: Yeah, when they when they when they first put it
Speaker 23: in there, of course it looked really nice. And then uh,
Speaker 23: you know last summer was was very hot that you know,
Speaker 23: it started getting bad then, and then you know, this
Speaker 23: year it's just it's it's just been really bad. So
Speaker 23: you know, gradually over time and then you can see
Speaker 23: where it starts to that Saint Augustine, So it starts
Speaker 23: to grow back in some of those places, but more
Speaker 23: very you know, kind of a string grows along, and
Speaker 23: you know, I just can't tell if it's going to
Speaker 23: fill in those spots or not. But you know, and
Speaker 23: everybody else's yard looks absolutely pristine.
Speaker 9: You know, I get a lot of hassle.
Speaker 1: So all right, well tell you what, ken it could
Speaker 1: be due to several things. I don't think the sand
Speaker 1: is the problem, if it truly is is a bank sand.
Speaker 1: What I'd like you to do is take a picture
Speaker 1: or two of the lawn from different angles so I
Speaker 1: can kind of see the overall effect. Then get up
Speaker 1: close and take some I mean down as close and
Speaker 1: zoomed in as you can to the grass, plants and
Speaker 1: runners and stuff in there. Let me see a picture
Speaker 1: of that. Let me take a look at them. And
Speaker 1: because This could be you know, dying out in patches,
Speaker 1: can be chinchbugs. It could be taken root rod, It
Speaker 1: could be drought. It could be a number of different things.
Speaker 1: And so I think there's going to be a solution
Speaker 1: a lot simpler than replacing the soil or the sand
Speaker 1: in that area. So let me take a look see
Speaker 1: if I can figure out what may be going on,
Speaker 1: so we don't waste your time and money applying or
Speaker 1: doing the wrong thing.
Speaker 23: Wonderful scipe, I sure appreciate it, just out of curiosity.
Speaker 23: Gess my first son falling in So where do I
Speaker 23: send those pictures too?
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm gonna put you on hold and Chris will
Speaker 1: pick up the phone and give you an email address
Speaker 1: to send them to me. Okay, thank you, sir, have
Speaker 1: a great day, all right, you bet take care all right? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Sometimes you know symptoms like plants are dying. You know,
Speaker 1: I can I can give my best guess, or I
Speaker 1: can give you a better answer by taking a good
Speaker 1: look at a picture. Sometimes that's required. Sometimes it's not.
Speaker 1: Some questions, I just already know what it is and
Speaker 1: we don't have to go through all that. You've heard
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Speaker 1: They're right there just north of Bluewetta on Highway to
Speaker 1: forty nine Tambo Parkway, FM two forty nine. They've been
Speaker 1: around and they have quality, quality employees there. You know,
Speaker 1: from the flowery family members that are that work there
Speaker 1: to the to the employees that they are. We're talking
Speaker 1: about trained people that know what they're talking about. You
Speaker 1: go in with a problem, They give you a right answer.
Speaker 1: They point you to a product that works, they tell
Speaker 1: you how to use it. You bring a picture a
Speaker 1: sample of a plant in Hey, something's wrong with this
Speaker 1: is zela or whatever it is? What can I do?
Speaker 1: They'll look, they'll tell you and they know what they're
Speaker 1: talking about. And when you purchase from them, you know
Speaker 1: you're going to get plants that want to grow here.
Speaker 1: They garden here themselves. This family lives here, they've gardened
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Speaker 1: Today be a good day to swing by there and
Speaker 1: stop in again. They're just north of Luetta off Highway
Speaker 1: two forty nine. I'm going to head out to La Fayette,
Speaker 1: Louisiana and talk to Bob. Hello, Bob, Welcome to guard Line.
Speaker 26: Hey, Skip, he got a landscape. Are put in pentas
Speaker 26: p E N T A S and they're supposed to
Speaker 26: flower all summer.
Speaker 9: Take the heat.
Speaker 26: The problem is what I read about them is that
Speaker 26: they don't like a lot of water, so the leaves
Speaker 26: are kind of yellow. But we have an irrigation system
Speaker 26: and everything else around and needs water. Is there a fertilizer?
Speaker 26: It talks about a liquid fertilizer. Is there something I
Speaker 26: can put on them to green them?
Speaker 1: When you say the leaves are yellowing, is if you
Speaker 1: really study an individual plant, is it the whole plant yellowing?
Speaker 1: Is it the new growth that's yellowing? Is it the
Speaker 1: old leaves that are yellowing?
Speaker 20: To have you.
Speaker 1: That it's a mixy, I'll bet you I get to
Speaker 1: send in you a picture, but let me yeah, let
Speaker 1: me let me give you what is probably going on.
Speaker 1: If the soil is sagy wet and the roots are submerged,
Speaker 1: they can't get oxygen that degree of wet. Then that
Speaker 1: could be causing the yellowing and the decline. And you
Speaker 1: just need it need I don't know, eat, don't water
Speaker 1: as much, or have a do something to improve the
Speaker 1: drainage in that area or standing water whatever that would
Speaker 1: be the solution. Pentas aren't prone to iron chlorosis. They
Speaker 1: can get it, but it's not like they're notorious for it,
Speaker 1: like an azella might be in a higher pH spot.
Speaker 1: So I would I would think you're probably looking at
Speaker 1: something wrong in the root system. But if it were
Speaker 1: going to be a nutrient, you could get something that
Speaker 1: has iron, like a keylated form of iron and try that.
Speaker 1: I tell you what. There's a product and it's by Medina,
Speaker 1: and it's called super Grow Plus. It's a quart bottle
Speaker 1: that hooks up to a garden hose. It's got some
Speaker 1: kilated iron, and it's got some nitrogen, and it's got
Speaker 1: some other good things. It's made for the lawn. But
Speaker 1: I know people that use it on their tomato plant,
Speaker 1: for example, because it works. You're not you know, a
Speaker 1: court bottle will cover four thousand square feet, so I
Speaker 1: don't think you have four thousand square feet of pentus.
Speaker 1: But just use it on the pentus and use it
Speaker 1: on some other stuff. Boy, you got it, and just
Speaker 1: see if that improves it. And that would be the simplest,
Speaker 1: easiest way. Because it's a good product. You can use
Speaker 1: it on a lot of other things. If you've got
Speaker 1: some areas of your lawn that need little boost, you
Speaker 1: could do it that way too. But I think super
Speaker 1: Grow plus from Medina. It's again a court bottle that
Speaker 1: hooks up to your garden hose. Thank you very much.
Speaker 1: Enjoy the show, you bet, you bet, Thank you appreciate
Speaker 1: you appreciate your call very much. Well's time for me
Speaker 1: take a quick break here. I've gone a little long,
Speaker 1: so I'll be right back and Drew from Hockley. You today,
Speaker 1: we got plenty to talk about, and we're going to
Speaker 1: just run straight out to the phones here and head
Speaker 1: to Hockeley, Texas and talk to Drew. Hello, Drew, Welcome
Speaker 1: to garden Line.
Speaker 17: Hey, hey Skip, I'm new to the show. I actually
Speaker 17: started living thing in January.
Speaker 14: We just moved from all my taxes to here in hockey.
Speaker 27: But I've got a situation in my and I love
Speaker 27: your show.
Speaker 15: By the way.
Speaker 17: I've got I've got a situation.
Speaker 12: I'm in a new subdivision and I'm.
Speaker 23: On the corner lot.
Speaker 7: But I followed all your.
Speaker 27: Uh like fertilizers doing throughout the course in the summer,
Speaker 27: and everything looks beautiful if it's.
Speaker 28: All green and everything, but just one area.
Speaker 27: Now my house faces the west, which this is where
Speaker 27: that spot is where it gets sun in the evening time.
Speaker 17: And I have a one of those, and I'm on
Speaker 17: the corner lot, so I have one of those sewer
Speaker 17: around things that you.
Speaker 27: They can get down in there and to get sewer
Speaker 27: or whatever around that area. It's like dying Is it
Speaker 27: from that or is there something I can put around that?
Speaker 1: How long ago did thee How long ago did the
Speaker 1: dying start?
Speaker 17: It started about right after.
Speaker 1: Hurricane Okay, well Bay, you know, grass dying could be
Speaker 1: a number of different things, but let me suggest one
Speaker 1: thing you might try. First, take get a watering can,
Speaker 1: a sprinkler can, and put a tablespoon of dish soap
Speaker 1: like ivory liquid dish soap in a liquid soap in it,
Speaker 1: fill it with a gallon of water, add a gallon
Speaker 1: of water, and then around that area, not in just
Speaker 1: the dead grass. But in the grass it's green around
Speaker 1: the dead water that and let it soak them in
Speaker 1: it and water it again, and just watch it and
Speaker 1: see if you see little black and white bugs or
Speaker 1: a little kind of orange brown with a white band
Speaker 1: on them bugs, either of that coming up onto the grass.
Speaker 1: That would be chinchbugs. And chinchbugs will often start next
Speaker 1: to pardon you had chins bug? Chinch Yeah, chinch but
Speaker 1: it's a it's a turf. They love Saint Augustine. This
Speaker 1: is Augustine. Oh yeah, yeah. Let's let's just see if
Speaker 1: we have those or not if we If we don't,
Speaker 1: then we would look at other causes for it. It
Speaker 1: could be, you know, for whatever reason, something under the
Speaker 1: soil buried on there and the and the grass can't
Speaker 1: get a good deep root system and it's more prone
Speaker 1: to to drying out or something. It could be a
Speaker 1: disease like uh a take all root rot that's affecting them.
Speaker 1: So there's a lot of possibilities, but I'd like to
Speaker 1: start with seeing do a self assessment like I described,
Speaker 1: and see if you've got chinch bugs and that. If
Speaker 1: you don't, then uh, let's let's let's have you send
Speaker 1: me a picture of what you see of the picture
Speaker 1: of the area. I'm going to put you on hold, Chris,
Speaker 1: give you an email. If you need to send pictures,
Speaker 1: you can send them to this email and just reference
Speaker 1: our call on the air today. That's what we use
Speaker 1: the email for, is his photos for me to talk
Speaker 1: to people about questions on the year.
Speaker 11: Okay, all right, all right, thank.
Speaker 1: You, yes sir, all right, very good, yes, Sari. Hey,
Speaker 1: Southwest Fertilizer is in Southwest Houston. Well there's a revelation.
Speaker 1: They're on the corner of Bisonett and Renwick. And you
Speaker 1: hear me talk about them all the time. Because Bob
Speaker 1: has got everything you could need. My favorite thing to
Speaker 1: say about it is if Southwest doesn't have it, you
Speaker 1: don't need it. And that's true because everything that's gonna
Speaker 1: work that's going to help on any kind of problem
Speaker 1: in your yard or any way to stimulate your plants,
Speaker 1: like fertilizer, Bob's got it. He has everything I talk
Speaker 1: about on guardline and then some. For example, he's got
Speaker 1: a mite. As might is the product we put down
Speaker 1: for micro nutrients on our lawn. You need to do
Speaker 1: as Mite, by the way, about once a year that's
Speaker 1: generally enough. Now do a soil test. You may find
Speaker 1: you need more or less, but that is a good
Speaker 1: gauge for what to do. You can do it anytime
Speaker 1: of the year. You can do azemite right now. It's
Speaker 1: not going to make your grass grow. It's going to
Speaker 1: provide micro nutrients into the bank account so as that
Speaker 1: grass grows and things that stimulate grass growth or warm temperatures,
Speaker 1: adequate moisture, good sunlight. As that grass grows, it's going
Speaker 1: to have those nutrients that are essential to support that growth.
Speaker 1: That's what azemite does. You can go to asimite Texas
Speaker 1: dot com if you want to learn more about it.
Speaker 1: But that's what it does. But that's just an example
Speaker 1: of the kind of products we get at Southwest Fertilizer
Speaker 1: Organic Synthetic. They got them all eighty foot wall of tools,
Speaker 1: a little repair shop in the back too, which is
Speaker 1: kind of handy, by the way. Southwest Fertilizer dot Com
Speaker 1: corner of Businet and Runwick. Anything you need is going
Speaker 1: to be there for sure. Let's see, We're going to
Speaker 1: go now to sugar Land and talk to Alan. Hello Allen,
Speaker 1: Welcome to Gardenline.
Speaker 20: Hello Skip this is Moses Hall Allen.
Speaker 14: Good to hear from.
Speaker 29: You do a great job on your show.
Speaker 1: Roses Hall Alan. I did your last name begin with
Speaker 1: an H?
Speaker 29: Yes it does.
Speaker 1: I think I know your was in that same dorm
Speaker 1: with us.
Speaker 9: Yes, I do.
Speaker 27: Very well.
Speaker 10: Hey, I guess so I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I'm liable to reminisce and end up telling us. I'm sorry, Gallan,
Speaker 1: go ahead, I'll shut up.
Speaker 29: It's all right.
Speaker 20: I've got some stories as well, So I have some
Speaker 20: knockout roses that have developed. It's a blight. I've seen
Speaker 20: it around town. It's very dark, reddish brown dying with
Speaker 20: tons of thorns on the plants. I've looked online and
Speaker 20: one of the things I read said, bag it, dig
Speaker 20: it up, and throw it away as fast as you can.
Speaker 1: That is correct. Do you think you described is almost
Speaker 1: certainly something called rosette? Rose rosette. You get a bronzy
Speaker 1: reddish lots of bronzy reddish new growth and a ton
Speaker 1: of thorns, and the new growth often is a little malformed.
Speaker 1: It didn't look right, you know, the leaves don't look right.
Speaker 1: That is rose rosette. It's a virus, so there's no
Speaker 1: curing a virus there's no virus side spray on any
Speaker 1: plant that you can put out there to kill the virus.
Speaker 1: The problem. The reason we bag it and get it
Speaker 1: out of there is because there's a little mite that
Speaker 1: has a little threadlike web thing it creates that allows
Speaker 1: it to float on the air, and it will float
Speaker 1: some distance to another rose bush and infect it. Because
Speaker 1: it is a death sentence for the rose. You want
Speaker 1: to get that rose out of there. If there's any
Speaker 1: roses right next to it, they probably already have it.
Speaker 1: You could wait and watch, but the first sign you
Speaker 1: see of it, get those out of there too. And
Speaker 1: I tell people to put a garbisack over the top
Speaker 1: of the rose and go all the way to the ground.
Speaker 1: I like the draw string types because you can just
Speaker 1: pull that now string and so now you basically have
Speaker 1: turned your rose into a wrapped lollipop. You know, you
Speaker 1: got the bag all around it tied to the base,
Speaker 1: and then when you dig it, you know you're going
Speaker 1: to shake the plant trying to pull it up out
Speaker 1: of the ground, and you're not shaking mites loose to
Speaker 1: float all over the place and increase your problems.
Speaker 20: Yeah, sad to hear now. I also understand if I
Speaker 20: were to ever trim those roses, the shears that I
Speaker 20: use need to be cleaned. What do I clean those with?
Speaker 20: So I don't take it from rose to rose?
Speaker 1: Well, A number of things will do that. I generally
Speaker 1: recommend people use rubbing alcohol. Bleach water tends to rust
Speaker 1: metal and so your pruners. If you use a bleach
Speaker 1: water solution, you can sterilize them that way, but you
Speaker 1: need to immediately wash them off and then dry them
Speaker 1: off and then oil them. And it's better to just
Speaker 1: use just a good strong alcohol solution of isopropyl type alcohol.
Speaker 27: You I won't do it.
Speaker 20: So I to give hydrogen proxi, I won't do it.
Speaker 29: No, I was using that now.
Speaker 1: But what I if you go to it, you know,
Speaker 1: typical pharmacy place, you can buy a little bottle pint
Speaker 1: bottle of alcohol for like a dollar, and I just
Speaker 1: cut the top off and now carried it around. I
Speaker 1: dipped my prunters in it, and dip my prunters in it.
Speaker 1: Some people will use what's the spray Life salt? They'll
Speaker 1: take a Life salt and spray the prunters between cuts
Speaker 1: because it also is a disinfectant.
Speaker 20: Okay, got it. Hey, thanks so much. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: All right, good to hear from you.
Speaker 20: Have a great day.
Speaker 1: Alrighty there there we go.
Speaker 24: Uh.
Speaker 1: Siena Maltz is down south of the Greater Houston area.
Speaker 1: Cinemal is a place where you get quality. Those folks
Speaker 1: make sure they produce and sell quality soil products, brown
Speaker 1: stuff before green stuff. Remember Ciena Multch is the brown
Speaker 1: stuff place. There is not a fertilizer. I recommend this
Speaker 1: not at Cinamulch Compost mixes, vegetable mixes from heirloom soils, mulches,
Speaker 1: rock products. It's all there Ciena Maultch Highway near Highway
Speaker 1: six and two eighty eight south of Houston, just north
Speaker 1: of Road Sharing. They're on FM five twenty one. But
Speaker 1: here's what you need, Sienna Mulch dot com. That's the
Speaker 1: website tells you everything you need to know, how to
Speaker 1: get there, how to call them, everything like that. Siena
Speaker 1: Mulch dot com. It is a one stop glad you're
Speaker 1: listening in today. We got plenty of things to talk
Speaker 1: about on plants, you know. That's the thing. I don't
Speaker 1: care what month of the year is, what hour of
Speaker 1: the day it is, there's always an appropriate plant question
Speaker 1: for the time. Something is going on out there, something
Speaker 1: needs fertilizing, something's dying. I want to plant a new
Speaker 1: what's a good type of tomato? I mean, we can
Speaker 1: go on and on and on. One of the things
Speaker 1: that I find myself doing a lot more in the
Speaker 1: summer is starting to pay attention to my houseplants. You know,
Speaker 1: you're inside. I get out and work early in the day,
Speaker 1: sometimes late in the day a little bit, but during
Speaker 1: the middle, hottest part of the day, try to stay
Speaker 1: in more because I don't know, just it's hot out there. Well,
Speaker 1: that's a good time to be taking care of houseplants
Speaker 1: and noticing houseplants. I'm kind of interested in houseplants that
Speaker 1: I have color. There's a lot of green houseplants, and
Speaker 1: green is a color too, nothing wrong with that, but
Speaker 1: I love the kind that have some beautiful splashes of color.
Speaker 1: I just propagated an aglionema. I'm going to put that.
Speaker 1: I need to put that to a Facebook post to
Speaker 1: let you see what we did there. That's kind of fun.
Speaker 1: It has some color in the leaves, some reddish with
Speaker 1: the green. I've got another one that's got pinkish colors,
Speaker 1: a coral pink color in the green. There's morana, which
Speaker 1: is a prayer plant that can have color in the foliage,
Speaker 1: and many others. And by the way, if you're looking
Speaker 1: for that, you're going to be hard pressed to find
Speaker 1: a better place than Buchanan's Native Plants in the Heights.
Speaker 1: They're on Eleventh Street in the Heights and they are
Speaker 1: stocked up in their houseplant greenhouse. Right now, I'm just
Speaker 1: seeing some photos of some beautiful morantas and other things
Speaker 1: that they have, and they just have a lot of them.
Speaker 1: They're set up. Of course, Buchanans is known for their
Speaker 1: native plants. They are like you'd have to drive a
Speaker 1: very long way out of this region to find more
Speaker 1: native plants in buchanan Has. I don't even know where
Speaker 1: that would be. They specialize even in Houston area natives
Speaker 1: as well. Like if you say, I want something that
Speaker 1: grew in Harris County before we got here people got here,
Speaker 1: well they can fix up they've got that. Buchanan's Native
Speaker 1: Plants in the Heights is an outstanding place to do that.
Speaker 1: By the way, Public Service announcement today ad Buchanans beginning
Speaker 1: at ten o'clock going to eleven, So right after this
Speaker 1: show you make a bee line over there. Starting a
Speaker 1: cut flower garden class. Starting a cutflower garden class in
Speaker 1: Buchanan's next Saturday, the seventeenth, same time, ten to eleven,
Speaker 1: Tomato one oh one class. Do you know it's time
Speaker 1: to plant tomatoes? Yes, it is for your fall planting.
Speaker 1: You can still do that up and get it done,
Speaker 1: but you can do that at Buchanan's Native Plants. I'm
Speaker 1: going to head out now, We're going to go to Friendswood,
Speaker 1: Texas and talk to John. Hello, John, Welcome to garden.
Speaker 14: Thanks, good morning, listen. I've got a question about horticultural molasses.
Speaker 22: In the fall.
Speaker 14: The last several years, I've gotten a lot of fungus
Speaker 14: because the neighbor's plants are shading. I mean their trees
Speaker 14: are shading the side of my yard.
Speaker 9: More as they've gotten bigger.
Speaker 14: And I usually put molasses on the yard, but I
Speaker 14: didn't know if that was high in nitrogen, and that
Speaker 14: was going to cause me problems with the fungus brown
Speaker 14: patch coming up in the fall if I put that on.
Speaker 9: Now, what do you think.
Speaker 1: I don't know of any way that molasses would be
Speaker 1: connected to brown patch. I'm just I've never heard that,
Speaker 1: so I would say probably, don't worry about it. Molasses
Speaker 1: is basically carbon. It's sugar, which is a whole chain
Speaker 1: of carbon molecules tied together. Many of the beneficial microbes
Speaker 1: need that carbon. That's a food source for them. That's
Speaker 1: why they go after our dead organic matter, the brown stuff,
Speaker 1: you know, the composts and things that are on the ground.
Speaker 1: So I would I would say, that's fine. Is there
Speaker 1: a problem you're trying to fix with the molasses or
Speaker 1: is it just trying to stimulate your lawn.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I've used it to stimulate the lawn. My question,
Speaker 14: I had read that you don't want to use fertilizer
Speaker 14: with high nitrogen, you know, at that time of the
Speaker 14: at this time of the year, maybe because that nitrogen
Speaker 14: is going to stimulate the brown patch and the long
Speaker 14: funguses and that's and I didn't know if my lapses.
Speaker 30: Was a.
Speaker 14: Contain nitrogen that would be that type of problem. But
Speaker 14: apparently not not.
Speaker 1: To worry, Yeah, not to worry about. But let me
Speaker 1: that's a good question. I'm going to clarify what you've
Speaker 1: heard on that. If a fertilizer is a three one
Speaker 1: two ratio like a six two four or a fifteen
Speaker 1: five ten or twenty one seven fourteen. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. That ratio, or if it's a four one
Speaker 1: two ratio, it's got a lot more nitrogen than anything.
Speaker 1: But that's the ratio that grass takes it up. So
Speaker 1: if you were to cut your grass clippings and send
Speaker 1: them to a lab and say give me the nutrient content,
Speaker 1: it's going to be a three or four one two ratio.
Speaker 1: So the ratio isn't the problem. It's the amount of
Speaker 1: it that you put out. So if you put out
Speaker 1: too much of that nitrogen product, then you get a
Speaker 1: flush of growth, you get increased susceptibility to things like
Speaker 1: large patrick brown patch in the fall of gray leaf spot.
Speaker 1: We've had some of that this summer. But it's the
Speaker 1: quantity you're putting out, not the ratio. So three one
Speaker 1: two four one two is good anytime of the year. Well,
Speaker 1: we change it in the fall a little bit, but
Speaker 1: it's good now to use that. Just don't overapply it.
Speaker 1: I would say about a half pound to a pound
Speaker 1: of nitrogen at the most when you apply it per
Speaker 1: thousand square feet.
Speaker 17: All right, well that makes sense.
Speaker 11: Listen.
Speaker 14: One fast question. I've always wondered about this. When you
Speaker 14: spray herbicides to kill kill weeds, particularly kalinda, I always
Speaker 14: think about this. Does the herbicide also kill.
Speaker 9: The sea pods on that plant?
Speaker 14: Or are the seed seeds still active even though the
Speaker 14: plant has been has been killed by the herbicide.
Speaker 1: Usually by the time you put a herbicide down those
Speaker 1: if there's seed seeds on it, they've already formed and
Speaker 1: that herbicide is probably not going to be there to
Speaker 1: help you with those seeds. Also, those kind of herbicides
Speaker 1: when plants become reproductive, meaning they're blooming and setting seed,
Speaker 1: the products aren't even as effective. So if you see
Speaker 1: flowers and seed setting on your plant, that product is
Speaker 1: not even going to be as effective, not only the
Speaker 1: plant that's there, but also with the seed that it's setting.
Speaker 1: So you need to get in ahead of that reproductive
Speaker 1: stage of growth.
Speaker 14: Yeah, that's kylinga though, the kylinga boy, I think it
Speaker 14: pops up with seeds already.
Speaker 12: I mean, that's that stuff is.
Speaker 14: It's really hard to get ahead up. But but yeah, okay,
Speaker 14: I didn't think the seed pods were going to be
Speaker 14: killed by that stuff.
Speaker 29: So that was my answer.
Speaker 14: I needed thanks a lot.
Speaker 9: Good week.
Speaker 1: You bet, thanks a lot. I hope you do as well.
Speaker 1: Uh let's see here. We're gonna go to Marv in Richmond. Marv,
Speaker 1: I've got about one minute, but let's see if we
Speaker 1: can help you in that time.
Speaker 22: Okay, right before the break at eight thirty, at a
Speaker 22: car I talked about some problem with a rose tree
Speaker 22: and he said that you could cover with a bag
Speaker 22: and tie it and burn it. I've got a cedar
Speaker 22: tree that was I planted about thirty years ago.
Speaker 12: It's about four foot tall. Now it's only about eight.
Speaker 12: That thing is toasted brown, dry, and it's covered like
Speaker 12: somebody dust it with brown flour. That's not what you
Speaker 12: were talking about it And it's dead.
Speaker 1: No, no, that's something totally different. But when a cedar
Speaker 1: turns brown, it is dead. It's one of the trees
Speaker 1: that cannot reach sprout if it doesn't have living needles.
Speaker 12: So, and what do you think it is? Looks like
Speaker 12: it's totally covered with a brown light brown dust.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean it could be a number of different
Speaker 1: they could it could be seen or pollen. But it
Speaker 1: also I don't know. It could just be there's not
Speaker 1: a disease that should cause that dust. So I think
Speaker 1: if I'm picturing what you're seeing, I think it probably
Speaker 1: died of drought rather than you know, some other, some
Speaker 1: other issue. Last year's drought really hammered a bunch of trees,
Speaker 1: and we've seen a lot of loss on those seedars
Speaker 1: as a result of that. Anyway, Yeah, I don't have
Speaker 1: to worry. Well, if you'd like to send me a picture,
Speaker 1: you send me a picture up close of the dust.
Speaker 1: Maybe put some on your finger and take a picture
Speaker 1: of your finger with the dust on it. Let me
Speaker 1: take a look at it. Maybe I'll see something on there.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put you on hold. Crystalill pick it up.
Speaker 1: If you want to stick around and send me a picture,
Speaker 1: He'll pick it up and give you my email address. Folks,
Speaker 1: I got to run. We're into a break right now.
Speaker 1: I'll be right back seven one three two one two
Speaker 1: kt RH. Beverly and Carolyn, you'll be the first two
Speaker 1: up today. We are looking forward to visiting with you
Speaker 1: about the things that are of interest to you. Leake
Speaker 1: City Feed is down in Leakee City, Texas, and you
Speaker 1: know we love feed stores here on guard Line. Leake
Speaker 1: City Feed specifically where it is. It's a a few
Speaker 1: blocks south of ninety six on Highway three to south
Speaker 1: of Highway ninety six on Leake City. So all of
Speaker 1: you out there in that area, all the communities like
Speaker 1: Laycliffe and Webster in League City, Santa Fe, Dickinson, San
Speaker 1: leonol Comuni Real, Claar, Lake City, all those communities, this
Speaker 1: is your hometown feed store. They carry every fertilizer I
Speaker 1: talk about on Guardline. They carry the products you need
Speaker 1: to control insects or diseases or weeds in your landscape.
Speaker 1: They give you that old time service. This store has
Speaker 1: been around for what over forty years now, and the
Speaker 1: family has been running it. Right now, you will be
Speaker 1: able to go out there and see the second generation
Speaker 1: now that's running League City Feed.
Speaker 14: That.
Speaker 1: The thing I like about going into League City is
Speaker 1: the kind of service that they give you too. They
Speaker 1: carry the bags out for you. It's that old time
Speaker 1: service what you would expect. I love going into old
Speaker 1: time feed stores. They have premium pet foods, everything you
Speaker 1: need for your backyard, chickens, you name it. But from
Speaker 1: a horticultural standpoint, they've got the supplies you need to
Speaker 1: have a beautiful and bountiful garden and landscape there at
Speaker 1: the League City Feed. We're going to head out to
Speaker 1: Pasadena now and talk to Beverly.
Speaker 3: Hello, Beverly, good morning. My problem is.
Speaker 7: The soil in my pots for my pot at.
Speaker 20: Out of it.
Speaker 29: Is there any way to slow that down?
Speaker 1: Or sleachy, Beverly, you are cutting out? Are you saying
Speaker 1: bleaching or leeching?
Speaker 7: Leach with an l?
Speaker 1: Okay? What is what is coming out? Are you just
Speaker 1: seeing that the plant is not growing that like the
Speaker 1: fertilizer is not there anymore?
Speaker 2: Or what?
Speaker 1: What do you what makes you say it's.
Speaker 3: Leeching and the pot keeps dropping.
Speaker 12: Level?
Speaker 1: Okay, Beverly, I'm gonna I'm gonna get my best shot
Speaker 1: at it. I'm getting about one third of the words
Speaker 1: you're saying that are not being cut out. So let
Speaker 1: me let me just say, if the issue is loss
Speaker 1: of anything from the soil, like nutrients or whatever, then
Speaker 1: that would just be a matter of excessive amounts of
Speaker 1: moisture being flushed through it. If if the problem is
Speaker 1: that the soil is getting too dry the water's moving out,
Speaker 1: then you may want to repot with something with a
Speaker 1: little bit of a finer texture to hold a little
Speaker 1: bit of the moisture longer. Uh, if you're seeing just
Speaker 1: the you know, the brown material coming out that is
Speaker 1: just decomposing or gain matter releasing things like the humic
Speaker 1: acid or other things that are brown coming out of
Speaker 1: the bottom of the pot. I don't know if any
Speaker 1: of those hit on it directly. If you need to
Speaker 1: give us a call back, I feel free to do that.
Speaker 1: I'd suggest right off the top of the hour on this,
Speaker 1: but I'm sorry, that's that's his best that I can
Speaker 1: hear what you're saying. Let's go now to bel Air
Speaker 1: and we're going to talk to Carolyn.
Speaker 15: Hello, Carolyn, Hi, I had some pe countries trend a
Speaker 15: couple of days ago. I have four pecan trees in
Speaker 15: my backyard and they're fairly old, I guess at least
Speaker 15: sixty years old, and I had a whole lot of
Speaker 15: suckers that I had trimmed out. Is there any way
Speaker 15: to prevent those from coming back?
Speaker 3: What causes that?
Speaker 1: So it's a pecan that is sending up shoots from
Speaker 1: the base of the trunk, Is that correct?
Speaker 10: No?
Speaker 15: No, they're just all these really, they're not would they
Speaker 15: just make real brushy looking of foliage around. Some of
Speaker 15: them are closer to the ground, but a lot of
Speaker 15: them were up in the tree itself. But okay, I
Speaker 15: want to know if there's anything I can do to
Speaker 15: prevent those from coming back.
Speaker 1: Okay, my best guess based on your description is that
Speaker 1: you're seeing something called witches broom where you have a
Speaker 1: pecan that normally has a lot of slender branches with
Speaker 1: what you would think of as a normal pecan look,
Speaker 1: and then you get branches that it's almost like a
Speaker 1: little bush growing up on a lem in the tree.
Speaker 1: Is that you see that's accurate of describing it. That's
Speaker 1: called witches broom, and it's caused by a little organism
Speaker 1: called a mycoplasm. It's not a bacteria, it's not a virus.
Speaker 1: It's a different kind of creature, uh, And it just
Speaker 1: causes that proliferation of growth and you can prim them out,
Speaker 1: but there's not a spray to control. That's that's kind
Speaker 1: of normal. And the only other thing that you might
Speaker 1: be seeing that would be like a oh, gosh, what's
Speaker 1: it called mistletoe kind of thing? But I don't. I
Speaker 1: think you're seeing a witch's broom effect from a microplasm
Speaker 1: and again, no spray for it. Just print it out.
Speaker 1: If you're going to do something, print it out.
Speaker 16: Yeah.
Speaker 15: I have another short question. My yard man is the
Speaker 15: one who is trimming the trees, not Lewis Flory, which
Speaker 15: I would really prefer. But a couple of years ago
Speaker 15: he was doing a big prune and he actually topped
Speaker 15: the tree so that they're just a bunch of I
Speaker 15: guess probably at least six or eight inches in diameter
Speaker 15: up at the very top of the tree that he
Speaker 15: just locked off. Could that have affected any of.
Speaker 1: This, well, you'd see you see a bunch of sprouts
Speaker 1: out where he turned everything into the end of a
Speaker 1: telephone pole. Look, that guy needs to never be allowed
Speaker 1: to prune your trees again. That's why I always talk
Speaker 1: about Martin Spoon more. You need somebody that knows what
Speaker 1: they're talking about, how to do it, and it will
Speaker 1: eventually could be brought back with some proper pruning to
Speaker 1: deal with those bad cuts that were made. But I
Speaker 1: don't think that's the cause of the witchess prum. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm running out of time, so I'm gonna have to run,
Speaker 1: But thank you for the call. I appreciate. I appreciate you,
Speaker 1: you bet, I appreciate that very much. Folks, you hear
Speaker 1: me talk about ACE Hardware Stores all the time and
Speaker 1: how they have everything that you need, and they do.
Speaker 1: ACE is a place for your lawn fertilizers, for your
Speaker 1: pest control, disease control, weed control, everything you need. You
Speaker 1: just go to Acehardware dot com and you find the
Speaker 1: store locator and find one of the forty stores, one
Speaker 1: or more of the forty stores near you. And when
Speaker 1: you get to ACE, you're going to find the things
Speaker 1: you need to make your garden more bountiful or more beautiful.
Speaker 1: It's as simple as that. They have fire ants controls,
Speaker 1: they have things for dealing with mosquitoes. For example, they
Speaker 1: got the mosquito dunks. Mosquito dunks is that products a
Speaker 1: little donnut. You throw it out there in a pond
Speaker 1: about a ten by ten area, and it releases a
Speaker 1: disease only of mosquitoes. Doesn't hurt birds, doesn't hurt bees,
Speaker 1: and good insects, doesn't hurt the family pet. It's only
Speaker 1: mosquita disease. That's mosquito dunks. You can break them up
Speaker 1: into little crumbles. Or you can buy the crumbles form
Speaker 1: of it and you can toss it up into a
Speaker 1: sagging gutter where they're standing water. In mosquitos breed, you
Speaker 1: can put them in a in a bird bath, you
Speaker 1: can put them underneath and the catch basins under your plant.
Speaker 1: That's another place mosquitoes can breed. Mosquito dunks are very
Speaker 1: effective in ace hardware. Definitely a place that you're gonna
Speaker 1: be able to get it well. I hear the music
Speaker 1: that means we're going to hit the top of the
Speaker 1: hour here. When we come back, Jay and Angletrom John
Speaker 1: in League City, you will be our first two callers up.
Speaker 1: Thanks for hanging with us. I tell you, I'm always surprised.
Speaker 1: I'll fast. The end of an hour comes. Just another
Speaker 1: reminder if you're tuning in a little bit later on
Speaker 1: my website here, I have been talking about to our
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Speaker 1: And welcome to garden Line. Welcome back to garden Line.
Speaker 1: We are glad you are listening in today and we're
Speaker 1: talking about all kinds of things gardening. That's one of
Speaker 1: the fun things about doing this show is you never
Speaker 1: know when the phone rings what the next question is
Speaker 1: going to be. I know, trees, turf, and tomatoes. I
Speaker 1: call them the three t's. That is what most of
Speaker 1: the calls come in about in terms of in the
Speaker 1: vegetable garden. It's always about tomatoes. No one calls me
Speaker 1: about their co Robbie for some reason. But trees and
Speaker 1: turf they are big topics. But all kinds of other things.
Speaker 1: And I think you've heard a few, a few maybe
Speaker 1: rather obscure things today because we've had some of those.
Speaker 1: But if it's your question. It's important and someone else
Speaker 1: will have it too. Let's head out now to Angleton
Speaker 1: and we're going to talk to Jay. Hello Jay, and
Speaker 1: welcome to Guardline.
Speaker 13: It's Jerry. Can you hear me?
Speaker 1: Jerry? Yes, I can go ahead?
Speaker 9: Good?
Speaker 24: Good?
Speaker 12: How are you?
Speaker 1: I'm good? I'm good? Jerry? Are you today?
Speaker 13: Good?
Speaker 21: I got uh?
Speaker 13: I had a pecan tree blowdown in my front yard
Speaker 13: uh in the hurricane, and got another one that's barely
Speaker 13: hanging on.
Speaker 17: So I'm gonna go ahead and cut it down.
Speaker 12: But in it I got.
Speaker 13: My question is kind of twofold. In the process of
Speaker 13: getting that tree cleared out during decompensation, that killed all
Speaker 13: my grass, I have Saint Augustine, so I.
Speaker 1: Bought a lot.
Speaker 13: I bought several palletts of grass uh and and resolted.
Speaker 9: Question is should I fertilize that? And if I should win?
Speaker 13: And the second one is.
Speaker 9: I want to replant some trees.
Speaker 13: My wife likes fall foliage, so I would like to
Speaker 13: try to get something that actually changes color a bit
Speaker 13: in the fall, but grows quickly and is hardy down
Speaker 13: on the Gulf coast.
Speaker 9: What's your recommendation of both of those?
Speaker 21: All right?
Speaker 1: All right, So on the first question, are you do
Speaker 1: you prefer organic or synthetic types of fertilizer? Does it
Speaker 1: matter to you?
Speaker 13: It does not matter.
Speaker 22: You're the guru.
Speaker 17: So that's why I'm asking you.
Speaker 1: Well, we got a lot of good product. We have
Speaker 1: a lot of good product options. If I talk about
Speaker 1: a fertilizer on here, it's one I've used and no works,
Speaker 1: so we more one way to go. I'll suggest maybe
Speaker 1: you consider the micro life products. There's a six two four,
Speaker 1: it's a green bag that's an organic product. It's a
Speaker 1: six two four and if you put it out now,
Speaker 1: it's gonna it basically microbes decompose it and release it
Speaker 1: to your grass. H new SID generally comes in with
Speaker 1: an adequate supply of nutrients to get it going. So
Speaker 1: with the microlife you're going to get a little bit
Speaker 1: of a delay in the release as it as it
Speaker 1: releases out, not a long term delay, but a little while.
Speaker 1: And so I would go with it. Do not a
Speaker 1: super heavy application, but a moderate sized application. And then
Speaker 1: your next fertilization is going to come in October in
Speaker 1: your area for where we put on our fall fertilization,
Speaker 1: and that that is on my schedule. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Have you been to the website and seen the schedules
Speaker 1: by any chance.
Speaker 17: Yes, sir, I have.
Speaker 13: I have so, and I've been trying to follow that schedule.
Speaker 9: I just wanted to know if I should, you.
Speaker 13: Know, fertilize the sod that I just put down and ran.
Speaker 9: So now the six two four would be okay to put.
Speaker 13: It down at a moderate level.
Speaker 1: Put it on a moderate level now normally with a
Speaker 1: new side. You know, it's not like you have to fertilizer.
Speaker 1: It's not going to make it. It has some nutrient
Speaker 1: in it, but I'd give it that little boost and
Speaker 1: then just leave it until we get to October and
Speaker 1: then do the fall fertilization. From my schedules, there's there's
Speaker 1: options on there for several different kinds of good fertilizer. Okay,
Speaker 1: per perfect, all right, sir, thanks for waiting, and appreciate that.
Speaker 21: The trees, the trees, oh, the.
Speaker 1: Fall foliage, oh man, I'm hoping I could avoid that question. Well. Sycamore,
Speaker 1: the only the only color in the sycamore is kind
Speaker 1: of the bronzing as it turns to brown. Here's the
Speaker 1: deal on trees. The things that have the best fall
Speaker 1: color in our area. You don't want to plant, and
Speaker 1: that would include Chinese tallow trees, that would include Bradford
Speaker 1: pear trees. Don't plant those sweet gums. If the soil
Speaker 1: is right, they have good color if it's an acidic soil.
Speaker 1: But a lot of there are other reasons people aren't
Speaker 1: real fond of sweet gums. But that would be a
Speaker 1: decent fall color tree if you end up with a decent, crispy,
Speaker 1: cool fall. Even a red oat can give you a
Speaker 1: little bit of fall color, but it's really hard to
Speaker 1: come by. Crape myrtles have decent fall color, and I
Speaker 1: know that's not a big shade tree, but I'm just
Speaker 1: saying that that would be a decent tree that has
Speaker 1: good fall color. But in general, the crepe cedar elm
Speaker 1: have kind of a dirty gold yellow gold fall color
Speaker 1: that is decent. That would be one. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Those are a few that you might want to consider.
Speaker 1: They're in that area. You're just so far south that
Speaker 1: there's a reason why people don't drive from all over
Speaker 1: the country to come here for fall color because we
Speaker 1: don't we don't have any great options for it.
Speaker 9: I agree, all right, Okay, but does the red oat
Speaker 9: grow quickly?
Speaker 1: Red oat? Christ, Well, if you no, it's a decent grower.
Speaker 1: If your soil is at all soggy, I would get
Speaker 1: a nuttall n ut t a l red oak. If
Speaker 1: you've got a nice, deep, deep alluvial soil, then a
Speaker 1: schumard red oak would also be Okay, okay, all right,
Speaker 1: you bet, I'm all run to another caller here. We
Speaker 1: got them kind of backing up a little bit, so
Speaker 1: we're gonna go to John in League City. Hey, John,
Speaker 1: thanks for waiting. How can we help? Good morning?
Speaker 31: Yeah, I have a oak tree in my front yard
Speaker 31: about fifteen years old, and I've got a couple of
Speaker 31: roots coming up that headed toward the house and I'd
Speaker 31: like to cut them. My question is, you know, do
Speaker 31: I cut them at the same time? Do I need
Speaker 31: to spread that out? And also do I wait until
Speaker 31: it cools off? Or can I go ahead and do
Speaker 31: that right now?
Speaker 1: How big around are these roots?
Speaker 31: I'd estimate if one is roughly two three inches maybe
Speaker 31: maybe a little bit.
Speaker 1: Okay, Uh, if you will wait until fall like October
Speaker 1: November and cut them, then that you can kick them
Speaker 1: both out and that'll be okay.
Speaker 15: Uh.
Speaker 1: That gives the tree time, you know, to kind of
Speaker 1: re establish before the hot summer arrives next year, and
Speaker 1: that that should be fine if you If they feel
Speaker 1: like they need cutting, that you can do that. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: great and real quick.
Speaker 31: One question too, Where would you recommend getting some mature
Speaker 31: fruit trees? I mean something that's you know, already producing.
Speaker 1: League City. Uh, you're not too far away from Jorges
Speaker 1: Hidden Gardens and Alvin. It's on Elizabeth Street and Alvin.
Speaker 1: They're open on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Uh, And so
Speaker 1: that would be that would probably be a good place
Speaker 1: where you could drive over and get those. I know
Speaker 1: they have some larger trees that are close to being
Speaker 1: ready for freeing time most of the time of the year.
Speaker 1: They I know they have them a lot in the
Speaker 1: late winter, but they probably have some still around there. Okay.
Speaker 31: Any concern in planting those here in August when it's
Speaker 31: so hot, you think I would?
Speaker 1: I would? You could do it, you can, Yeah, you
Speaker 1: can do it, but pampering them along is more more work.
Speaker 1: I would wait and do it in the fall. I'd
Speaker 1: get them down in the fall when things start to
Speaker 1: cool off. Okay, all right, thank you very much. Okay
Speaker 1: with us today? Hey, have you been out to Arbrogate lately?
Speaker 1: You know Arbrogate, that's the nursery to the west of Tombull.
Speaker 1: You head out twenty nine to twenty just to I
Speaker 1: don't want less than a half mile outside of Tomball
Speaker 1: right there on the left hand side there it is
Speaker 1: by the way. If you haven't been to Arbrogate in
Speaker 1: a while, you need to know. They've got a new
Speaker 1: parking lot behind the store. It's on Trishal Road t
Speaker 1: R E I C H E L Trischel. You can
Speaker 1: Trishel is a loop behind Arburgate, so you can turn
Speaker 1: down Trashel before you get to Arbigate or after you
Speaker 1: pass Arburgate. Coming from either way, you go around the back.
Speaker 1: Awesome all weather, wonderful easy access parking lot, safe access
Speaker 1: back there. You got to go check that out while
Speaker 1: you're at Arbigate. You know, those of you who've been
Speaker 1: there and those of you who don't, you need to
Speaker 1: get over there. I don't know what kind of rock
Speaker 1: you've been hide under, because this is this place has
Speaker 1: been a destination for a long time in the Houston area.
Speaker 1: Awesome plans, awesome advice, knowledgeable people. It's just the combination
Speaker 1: for success that you're going to have to have, and
Speaker 1: Arburgate can do that. For example, they always have something
Speaker 1: different and new. Right now, they've got something called the
Speaker 1: Grace and Grit roses. It's a line of roses from Monrovia.
Speaker 1: It's called Grace and Gret because they have upright stems
Speaker 1: so you can do some cutting. So it's not like
Speaker 1: your hybrid t rose. It's a bush, but it is
Speaker 1: a rose you can use for cutting. That's cool. And
Speaker 1: the grit part well disease resistant self cleaning. They thrive
Speaker 1: in our climate. That would be the grit part. But
Speaker 1: that's just one example of the many things you're going
Speaker 1: to find at Arbrogate. I can promise you two things
Speaker 1: when you go to Arbrogate. One, you're going to have
Speaker 1: knowledgeable staff and quality plants. You are going to have that.
Speaker 1: That is, you know you're going to get those two
Speaker 1: things right there at Arburgate. Number two, you're going to
Speaker 1: get easy access, friendly service, and the whole experience will
Speaker 1: be a pleasant one for you. I know we're in
Speaker 1: the middle of summer, but it's still time to be
Speaker 1: planning things. There's no reason why you can't get these
Speaker 1: things in the ground and have success with them, and
Speaker 1: that starts by going to arbrogate where you get those
Speaker 1: kinds of plants and where you get that kind of
Speaker 1: advice to have success. Cannot cannot overstress the importance of that.
Speaker 1: We're going to go now to Missouri City and talk
Speaker 1: to Paul.
Speaker 29: Hello, Paul, skip listen. I have an area in the
Speaker 29: front of the house where the Saint Augustine grass is
Speaker 29: dead due to a pile of branches that I had
Speaker 29: piled there. You know, from the storm. They since removed
Speaker 29: the branches and the Saint Augustine is dead. But the
Speaker 29: wild bermuda, the little patch of wild bermuda in there,
Speaker 29: I didn't want it, so I sprayed it with round up.
Speaker 12: And my question is how long?
Speaker 29: How long do I have to wait before I start
Speaker 29: to till filled process? And just one of the point
Speaker 29: what I what I intend to do is to kill it.
Speaker 29: I'm going to mix in some a farm dirt from
Speaker 29: from a compost and mixing some sand just to loosen
Speaker 29: up the soil a little bit.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, I would as far as how long you
Speaker 1: wait it takes, you should give it about maybe four
Speaker 1: or five days to move into the weeds you sprayed
Speaker 1: before you start chopping it up and tilling and things
Speaker 1: like that. That's so that you don't just propagate the
Speaker 1: weed more. But I have found that if you're not
Speaker 1: in a hurry to get grass right back in that spot,
Speaker 1: you might want to wait do the tilling and watch
Speaker 1: it for just a minute because meaning a week or so,
Speaker 1: because oftentimes you don't get all the bermuda and you
Speaker 1: may need to respray and so that you haven't put
Speaker 1: on grass, and now bermuda's coming right back in, So
Speaker 1: a second spray wouldn't be a bad idea. As far
Speaker 1: as mixing in, you know, a good quality mix in
Speaker 1: that area, that's fine. There are a number of good
Speaker 1: quality materials out there. I would say a high quality
Speaker 1: top soil mixed in, maybe an enriched soil that had
Speaker 1: a little bit of compost in it would be a
Speaker 1: good idea for that as well. But yep, you're on
Speaker 1: your road to getting that put back together.
Speaker 29: Good, Okay, very good, Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: All right, thanks for the call. Appreciate that a lot,
Speaker 1: Thank you a lot. Let's see, we are going to
Speaker 1: now go to Joel in magnolia.
Speaker 5: Hello Joel, Hello skip one time listener to the garden line.
Speaker 5: Appreciate all you've done. Appreciate it very much.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 17: Got a question for you regarding I've got two about.
Speaker 5: Sixteen seventy year old Chinese fringe trees in my front yard.
Speaker 5: They are beautiful plants in the springtime when they bloom,
Speaker 5: start to drop leafs and there's a brown spots on
Speaker 5: the leafs.
Speaker 12: Is there.
Speaker 17: Is this fatal?
Speaker 5: Is this all over whether we've had Is this a
Speaker 5: temporary thing? How would you treat it those kinds of things.
Speaker 1: That's a good question. I do not know a significant
Speaker 1: foldage disease of Chinese fringe tree. If there's one out there,
Speaker 1: I've never encountered it, and so I'm not going to
Speaker 1: get alarmed about spots on the leaves. Sometimes when the
Speaker 1: leaves are going to fall off of something, you will
Speaker 1: see disease spots appear before that happens, because the leaves
Speaker 1: are less able to resist and defend themselves. I guess
Speaker 1: if you will right you know, without seeing it. If
Speaker 1: I saw a picture of the leaves and spots, I
Speaker 1: may go, oh, oh that's such and such, But I
Speaker 1: right now I can't picture what would be doing that.
Speaker 5: Maybe when you're done, you can put me back to
Speaker 5: the footboard, because I don't I couldn't find the female
Speaker 5: address to send the pictures in.
Speaker 1: Yeah, uh, okay, what don't we do? Show me the tree? Pardon,
Speaker 1: show me the tree as a hole in a photo,
Speaker 1: and then show me some leaf close up the top
Speaker 1: of the leaf and the bottom of the leaf showing
Speaker 1: the symptoms. And uh, and we'll get to the bottom.
Speaker 5: My first reaction was to use a fungus I spray.
Speaker 5: One of the trees had it first. My first response
Speaker 5: was to use the same kind of fungus. How to
Speaker 5: use them on lugustums when they when they go through
Speaker 5: their diseases that seem to stay things. My first response,
Speaker 5: I don't know whether good response, the right response or not,
Speaker 5: but I'll send you the pictures and go from there.
Speaker 1: What what was your what do you remember what funder
Speaker 1: side you used on the lagustrum? Oh, it's a P.
Speaker 9: There's a c P.
Speaker 1: I can't remember what it was.
Speaker 5: It's a Randy had recommended it when I when I
Speaker 5: picture about my.
Speaker 1: Okay, I was just curious because yeah, I'm just curious,
Speaker 1: all right. Well, I'm gonna put you on hold, Josh,
Speaker 1: or excuse me, Josh, Chris, We'll pick up the phone
Speaker 1: and give you my email so you can send me
Speaker 1: those photos.
Speaker 9: All right, Okay, thank you very much, appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Thank you you bet Joel, appreciate appreciate your call very much.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 1: You hear me talk on garden line about the importance
Speaker 1: of building the soil for success, and it's just true.
Speaker 11: I know.
Speaker 1: Listen, I understand. You go to a garden center, there's
Speaker 1: some plant with flowers go lower all over the planet.
Speaker 1: You gotta have that plant. It would look good in
Speaker 1: your yard. That's fine, that's fine.
Speaker 22: Do that.
Speaker 1: If it's a good garden center and they've got good
Speaker 1: plants and good advice, get that one. But before you
Speaker 1: put it in the ground, get the soil right. Brown
Speaker 1: stuff we call it. That means nutrients. That would be
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Speaker 1: Get your soil right now. Don't wait until fall. It
Speaker 1: may be rainy and you may not be able to
Speaker 1: work the soil. Get it done. What do they say,
Speaker 1: make hay well the sunshines. Prepare your beds while the sunshines,
Speaker 1: because rain will come again. When we get to the fall,
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Speaker 1: dot com. Going to go to Ken. Hello Ken, and
Speaker 1: where are you calling from? Brazaria, Brazoria? Okay, how can
Speaker 1: we help?
Speaker 28: We purchase an avocado tree. It's I believe the name
Speaker 28: of it is Fantastic. It's about five foot tall, still
Speaker 28: in the pot, and I think it's about four years old,
Speaker 28: and we're considering where to plant it. We've got kind
Speaker 28: of a low lying area in our yard that.
Speaker 7: We would like to put it.
Speaker 28: That area retains a little bit of water when it rains,
Speaker 28: and I'm not sure if that would be good or
Speaker 28: bad for this avocado tree.
Speaker 1: If the drainage is not good, Yeah, if it's not
Speaker 1: good drainage, I wouldn't plant it there. Do one or
Speaker 1: two things put in a have somebody put in, you know,
Speaker 1: like an underground French drain thing that takes the water
Speaker 1: off to a lower area or build up the soil
Speaker 1: into more of a raised mound area where you can
Speaker 1: get that thing's up out of the sagi. Wet avocados
Speaker 1: need sunlight. That's the number one thing that in terms
Speaker 1: of picking a planning spot, along with decent old drainage.
Speaker 1: The only other thing would be if it's an area
Speaker 1: that's a little easier to protect it when we do
Speaker 1: have the doozy coal that tends to arrive, that would
Speaker 1: be another reason for that. Ken, I'm gonna have to
Speaker 1: take a break here. If you want to hang on,
Speaker 1: I will continue this after break. But if that answered
Speaker 1: your question, I do appreciate the call. All right, folks,
Speaker 1: I do have to take a break. Our phone number
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Speaker 1: go to friends would and talk to Charlie.
Speaker 9: Hello Charlie, good morning, Skip, Glad you're there for us.
Speaker 9: Thank you got a so maybe how well.
Speaker 1: We have about it?
Speaker 9: Unused a little over an unused acre behind our backyard.
Speaker 9: We see the babels of hay occasionally, and my wife says,
Speaker 9: let's let's raise babels of hay and sell them. It's
Speaker 9: a friends of the areas we've got clay soil. Is
Speaker 9: that even a practical idea? And if so, could you
Speaker 9: give us a little.
Speaker 12: Guidance on that?
Speaker 1: Well, how big is the area?
Speaker 9: You said, probably just a little over an acre.
Speaker 1: Probably probably not worth it. There are people that will
Speaker 1: come bail hey on your property. I'm not an agriculture agent.
Speaker 1: I'm a hortic I was a horticulture agent, so I
Speaker 1: don't deal in those groups of people, meaning I couldn't
Speaker 1: name people that would come to it in your area.
Speaker 1: But in general, for them to bring the equipment and
Speaker 1: holiday in and for it to be worth it to
Speaker 1: them and to you, they need to make a little
Speaker 1: more hay and you're going to make on one acre,
Speaker 1: so I don't think that would be efficient. But if
Speaker 1: you call your county agro Life Extension office and ask
Speaker 1: for the horticulture agent, they can probably advise you, advise
Speaker 1: you specifically on that. Let's see, are you in are
Speaker 1: you in Harris County? Are you in.
Speaker 7: One class.
Speaker 9: Sometimes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well they their office is down in some odd
Speaker 1: is it called something park carbid carbyde carbyde Park Thank you. Uh,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think of the lady's name. Phoenix. Phoenix
Speaker 1: Rogers is your agriculture agent in Galveston County. Call Phoenix
Speaker 1: and just say, you know, I think she's going to
Speaker 1: tell you what I said and that's just not enough
Speaker 1: land to make it worthwhile.
Speaker 9: Okay, because we're also curious, but what time to plant?
Speaker 9: And that would be a question, but I I think
Speaker 9: you're absolutely right.
Speaker 1: So yeah, well it's worth it's worth asking. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: worth asking someone with more expertise on that than I have,
Speaker 1: So I would I would definitely call your eg agent
Speaker 1: and just be sure. They may have six suggestions for you. Okay,
Speaker 1: thank you so much, Thank you appreciate your call very much.
Speaker 1: By the way, folks, in Texas, we have two hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty four counties. Every county is served by an
Speaker 1: extension office. For those of you who don't know, Extension
Speaker 1: is the Texas A and m Agro Life Extension Service.
Speaker 1: Every county is served by one. In our part of
Speaker 1: the state, every county has their own office. You get
Speaker 1: out in way West timbuck I where maybe there's more
Speaker 1: jack raborts than people. You may have a county that's
Speaker 1: served an office that serves two counties, but in general
Speaker 1: here every county has an office. Brazoria, Harris, Montgomery for
Speaker 1: Bed and on and on and on, Brasos, and I
Speaker 1: mean we just keep going on. Waller County, everyone has
Speaker 1: an office and all of them have an ag agent.
Speaker 1: They usually have a Family and Community health agent and
Speaker 1: often have a four age agent there. And if it's
Speaker 1: a big county, you have a horticulture agent. In our
Speaker 1: listening area, there are horticulture agents in Harris County, Orange County,
Speaker 1: Galveston County, Fort ben County, Montgomery County, Brass County. I'm
Speaker 1: probably leaving somebody out. I'll hear about it if I
Speaker 1: do that, But anyway, they all have horticulture agents, and
Speaker 1: so it's advice that's available. It's your connection to the
Speaker 1: university the way we used to say it is the
Speaker 1: place to go when you need to know. It is
Speaker 1: essentially taken the university of the people. So you have
Speaker 1: access to good research based information, take advantage of it.
Speaker 1: That's where our four H programs are held. That's where
Speaker 1: our Master Gardner programs come from, is the county Agrolife
Speaker 1: Extension office. So take advantage of those. They are available,
Speaker 1: and it's good advice. Every state in the country has
Speaker 1: a lean grant college LSU Oklahoma State, Cornell, Texas A
Speaker 1: and m New Mexico State, University of Florida. Everybody's got
Speaker 1: one Auburn University. So in each of those areas there
Speaker 1: is a lagrant college and an extension service. So yeah,
Speaker 1: friends that live in Kansas, well, Kansas State University has
Speaker 1: an extension service and they have county extension offices and
Speaker 1: they can get the same help you do here there
Speaker 1: at their level. Most people are not aware of that.
Speaker 1: They should be. It's important. You know who did that.
Speaker 1: Abraham Lincoln signed that into law that way back when.
Speaker 1: All right, enough of me, given the history of extension,
Speaker 1: We're going to go to Terry in Montgomery. Hey, Terry,
Speaker 1: how can we help today?
Speaker 7: Hey, good morning, thanks for I call. I have three
Speaker 7: roses out in my backyard that are planted in rose
Speaker 7: soil and inside oak barrels, and they've been there for
Speaker 7: a couple of years now, and I was out here
Speaker 7: the other day to water them. And I saw a
Speaker 7: on all three on top of the soil, a fuzzy
Speaker 7: white mold growing and it looks like they're spores because
Speaker 7: there's a little green dot in the middle of them.
Speaker 7: And I've very gently scraped all of them off, and
Speaker 7: I'm just kind of wondering what it is, if it's harmful.
Speaker 12: And what do I do.
Speaker 1: Are they cup shaped, each of the little white things
Speaker 1: with a dot in the middle. Are they shaped kind
Speaker 1: of like a bowl or a cup?
Speaker 7: Yes, they're kind of shaped like a bowl or cup. Yes, okay,
Speaker 7: but they're kind of they're kind of altogether, you know,
Speaker 7: like a blanket.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I got it. That is a fungus. There
Speaker 1: are ten bazillion kinds of fungi out in the world,
Speaker 1: and most of them their job is to turn organic
Speaker 1: matter back into soil. That's why nature creates such rich
Speaker 1: soil on the forest floor and in the meadows and
Speaker 1: other places like that. That particular fungus is not a
Speaker 1: disease of plants, but it can. It's called an artillery fungus.
Speaker 1: And this is so cool, Bracer. It is so cool
Speaker 1: because what happens is they literally shoot this little dot
Speaker 1: that you see through the air, and it is sticky
Speaker 1: and it sticks to plants, it sticks to the sighting
Speaker 1: on your house and other things. And people don't like that,
Speaker 1: you know. I mean it's a little fungus dots sticking
Speaker 1: all of the nice white painted house. Well, that's the
Speaker 1: only problem with it. It's not a disease of plants though.
Speaker 1: It's called artillery fungus, one of the many cool fungal
Speaker 1: things out there in nature.
Speaker 7: So I'm just going to leave it alone.
Speaker 1: Then you can't. You can take a hoe and scrape
Speaker 1: it off, get it, eit of there if you want,
Speaker 1: you covered up with some other throo mulch on top
Speaker 1: of it.
Speaker 7: Okay, Well that's really good news because I thought for
Speaker 7: sure it was gonna kill my roses and they're not
Speaker 7: doing too well in this heat. So I'm going to
Speaker 7: cover them up with a wide awning and see if
Speaker 7: that helps, because they're just dying on the vine.
Speaker 9: So we'll speak.
Speaker 1: Well, just make sure they have adequate moisture but not
Speaker 1: soggy soil and they'll be Okay that uh, fall is coming,
Speaker 1: and that's a that's roses second happy season of the year.
Speaker 1: Spring and fall is Yes, it's.
Speaker 7: In my second happy season two.
Speaker 1: There you go, Terry, Hey, thanks for calling.
Speaker 7: Thank you appreciating my callie. You have a great day,
Speaker 7: you bet.
Speaker 1: It gives me an opportunity to give another fun fact
Speaker 1: about nature. We'll be right back our phone number seven
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Speaker 1: us today. Let's see, we had had a call a
Speaker 1: little bit earlier from I believe it was Joel and
Speaker 1: Magnolia about a Chinese fringe tree. I believe that was
Speaker 1: the question. And uh, let me see here, I'm trying
Speaker 1: to find the Yeah, there we go, Chinese fringe tree.
Speaker 1: Let's see. I believe we've got Joel on the line here,
Speaker 1: So let me go to that. Joel, are you there
Speaker 1: all right here? And you sent me the pictures. You
Speaker 1: sent me the pictures of the fringe tree.
Speaker 17: Right, that's correct.
Speaker 1: Okay, So what is on those leaves is not It
Speaker 1: does not look fungal. It looks like some sort of
Speaker 1: a moisture flow problem. It could be it could be bacterial,
Speaker 1: or it could just be we've had so much rain
Speaker 1: this year. I don't think it's drought. But some of
Speaker 1: the spots look bacterial in that they're angular the way
Speaker 1: they form on the leaves. So I think as a
Speaker 1: result of all the rain we got a little bit
Speaker 1: of a blight going on in there. There are a
Speaker 1: few spots that look somewhat fungal, but in general I
Speaker 1: wouldn't worry about it. Now I know that it's it's
Speaker 1: occurring more low on the plant than it is up high.
Speaker 1: And so it could be that if you have a
Speaker 1: sprinkler system and a mist is rising up from the
Speaker 1: sprinkler system for your lawn, that that mist could be
Speaker 1: adding to the leaf wetness, which increases the disease problems
Speaker 1: on a tree. Okay, so I would I would have
Speaker 1: Do you have irrigation systems sprinkling out there.
Speaker 5: And the trees are right in the front yard next
Speaker 5: to the bar, it's sure you don't wear the water? Yeah,
Speaker 5: I get a lot of moist.
Speaker 1: Well, next time you turn on the sprinklers. Next time
Speaker 1: it comes on, take a look, get it. And because
Speaker 1: if the pressure is too high, instead of sending out
Speaker 1: just course drops the water, you also get this mist
Speaker 1: that rises up and that just every time you wet foliage,
Speaker 1: it makes leaf spots very happy, including bacterial ones. And
Speaker 1: so I think if you could take the pressure level
Speaker 1: down or do something there, your irrigation people could do that.
Speaker 1: I think that in and of itself would probably be enough.
Speaker 1: Go ahead and break those leaves up when they fall,
Speaker 1: get them out of there so you don't have that
Speaker 1: inoculum as we call it, to reinfect. But I think
Speaker 1: this can be cured by fixing the irrigation situation.
Speaker 17: All right, okay, then just don't do anything.
Speaker 5: I can't spray it during like they just do anything,
Speaker 5: it's gonna lose us leaves and just next year it
Speaker 5: should come back right recover.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, there's no need to. There's no need to
Speaker 1: spray that. That would just gay unnecessary. I hate to
Speaker 1: see people with sprays when we don't have to, and
Speaker 1: that's a definitely case we don't.
Speaker 20: Have to reaction.
Speaker 1: All right, man, there you go. Will you make a call.
Speaker 1: Thanks for the photos. Picture's worth a thousand words. Yep,
Speaker 1: that is the way, just folks. You know, I can
Speaker 1: sit here and sometimes I know the answer. Sometimes I
Speaker 1: think I know the answer. I used to tell. When
Speaker 1: we I was managing master gardner groups in different counties
Speaker 1: here in Texas, I used to say, you know, your
Speaker 1: brand new trainee, you just got all this knowledge. When
Speaker 1: the phone rings and you answer a question, the best
Speaker 1: answer is I don't know, but I'm going to find
Speaker 1: out and get back to you. The second best answer
Speaker 1: is you shooting from the hip and thinking, well, I
Speaker 1: think it's probably because oftentimes that's not correct. Even when
Speaker 1: I answer questions, that is not correct. So we always
Speaker 1: want to be sure. And the photos do help with
Speaker 1: some kinds of questions, especially like that have you been
Speaker 1: to Chenned Forest out in Richmond Rosenberg area before? And
Speaker 1: Chenna Forest is if you were. Let's say you're in
Speaker 1: Richmond heading towards Sugarland up fifty nine, it's off to
Speaker 1: the right and jennif Forest is on FM twenty seven
Speaker 1: TWE fifty nine and there's always stuff going on out there.
Speaker 1: And Enchanted Forest their selection right now of roses is outstanding, outstanding,
Speaker 1: their selection of herbs and vegetables, of plants that eat insects.
Speaker 1: My daughter called me yesterday about she got a new
Speaker 1: venus fly trap plant. She want to know how to
Speaker 1: take care of it well. They got those, they got sundews,
Speaker 1: they got pitcher plants, all kinds of things out there
Speaker 1: at Enchanted Forest, beautiful selection of pogonias. The bottom line
Speaker 1: is they got you fill in the blank. They have
Speaker 1: so many kinds of plants that do well. It's time
Speaker 1: to get those fall tomatoes in, so go by there
Speaker 1: and get that. Do you want things for butterflies? Oh,
Speaker 1: my gosh, they have a selection and things for butterflies
Speaker 1: at Enchanted Forest. It's just always something going on, and
Speaker 1: it's always a good thing. They often have food trucks
Speaker 1: out there. When we get back into fall, they're going
Speaker 1: to be having a lot of educational programs going on
Speaker 1: out there. Right now. They got some cool planters that
Speaker 1: look like boots and pots, and they have things like
Speaker 1: an atm and a Texas longhorn on them. Now, I
Speaker 1: don't know why you'd want to buy the Texas longhorn anyway,
Speaker 1: the cool stuff. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I can't, I
Speaker 1: can't resist. I tried, it didn't work. And Jenny Forest
Speaker 1: lots of fun stuff, lots of good people, great plants,
Speaker 1: good knowledge, success, and it's a fun place to visit.
Speaker 1: FM twenty seven to fifty nine of Richmond. Here's the website.
Speaker 1: They have an excellent website. Go to this enchanted Forest Richmond,
Speaker 1: TX dot com intended Forest, Richmond, TX dot com. Well,
Speaker 1: you are listening to Guardenline and we are getting close
Speaker 1: to the end of the show here, probably too close
Speaker 1: to be able to do another call. So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: tell you about one other thing. I'll talk about this
Speaker 1: more tomorrow again. But take another thing that is on
Speaker 1: the website, and the website is gardening with Skip dot com.
Speaker 1: That's where all my educational materials go, which are all free,
Speaker 1: by the way, can't talk me down on that price.
Speaker 1: There's a homemade weed wiper. It's called Skips homemade weed wiper,
Speaker 1: and I tell you how to make it, and there
Speaker 1: is a list of products that are for putting on
Speaker 1: the weed wiper. The weed wiper is sponges on a stick.
Speaker 1: You just have to go see it. Instructions on how
Speaker 1: to build it are there. It's very inexpensive to build
Speaker 1: you one. When you need to put herbicide on a weed,
Speaker 1: but you don't spray it all out there in the environment.
Speaker 1: You don't want to get it on things that it'll hurt.
Speaker 1: That are your friends, your plans. I think the picture
Speaker 1: in that weed wiper is a picture of lanana with
Speaker 1: nutsed drop beside it. You know, and some people spray
Speaker 1: glyph essate on their nuts edge. First of all, that
Speaker 1: doesn't work well, but it sure we kill that lanana
Speaker 1: well with a weed wiper. You just squeeze the sponges
Speaker 1: onto the weed and wipe it right on there. I've
Speaker 1: used it on things like nutsedge coming up out of
Speaker 1: my turf. I've used it on grass weeds. It's stick
Speaker 1: up above the turf. Have you ever fought with torpedo grass,
Speaker 1: for example? Oh my gosh, that is it's impossible to
Speaker 1: kill it in turf unless you get my weed wiper
Speaker 1: and you wipe a grass killer on it. But don't
Speaker 1: get that grass killer on your lawn because a torpedo
Speaker 1: grass is up higher. It is good for poison ivy,
Speaker 1: reaching in and squeezing the poison ivy. Someone called earlier
Speaker 1: with pepper vine. Oh boy, is that one ever? Invasive
Speaker 1: triclo pair kills it? But triclop hurts. You're Saint Augustine.
Speaker 1: Tric triclope pure kills every broadly plant. You would get
Speaker 1: it on just about. But with a weed wiper you
Speaker 1: can apply it right to that peppervine and not get
Speaker 1: it on the good stuff. And two publications The Homemade
Speaker 1: weed Wiper tells you how to build it. The herbicide
Speaker 1: products to use with the Skips weed wiper tool is
Speaker 1: another article on the website, and it is a little chart.
Speaker 1: And I don't care what haven't I mentioned to? Okay,
Speaker 1: wild onion and garlic, those come up in your life
Speaker 1: and they're very difficult to control. But with a weed wiper,
Speaker 1: using image in this case, on the weed wiper, you're
Speaker 1: not getting it on your lawn. You're getting it on
Speaker 1: the weed only. It works pretty good, and so just
Speaker 1: keep that in mind. By the way, with every herbicide product,
Speaker 1: there are ways to use it properly and ways to
Speaker 1: use it m properly. And for image, for example, it
Speaker 1: does control some tylpes of notes such pretty well. But
Speaker 1: and it's hot like it is now and you sprade
Speaker 1: all over your Saint Augustine and cause damage to it.
Speaker 1: So even though it's label for lawn use, if you
Speaker 1: read the label would see that you've got to be
Speaker 1: careful with that kind of thing. You don't want to
Speaker 1: do that now. So another is not weed wipers so
Speaker 1: cool because you're not getting it on your grass anyway.
Speaker 1: I think you get the idea. For those of you
Speaker 1: who haven't been listening to this show today and have
Speaker 1: nuts edge issues to publications on there for free tips
Speaker 1: for against nut seedge, that's a quick one pager and
Speaker 1: Nutsedge an end depth look. That's three pages of more
Speaker 1: than you even know there was to know about nutsedge.
Speaker 1: Remember this, I'm gonna make nuts edge really simple. You've
Speaker 1: got to stay on it, and you gotta be regular,
Speaker 1: and you don't want to let it grow pass three
Speaker 1: to five leaves before you do something