WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:03.080 The bassis gas. Can you shrimp? 2 00:00:03.839 --> 00:00:06.040 You just watch him as. 3 00:00:05.879 --> 00:00:11.160 The world got gassies and gas? Can you fast? 4 00:00:11.279 --> 00:00:14.279 Many people takes the soap bottating in the gay. 5 00:00:14.720 --> 00:00:16.239 Bring the gasses like gas? 6 00:00:16.399 --> 00:00:20.920 And again you date sabos rubbles back backing's not a 7 00:00:21.160 --> 00:00:26.760 sound and credit the glassies and gas and the sun 8 00:00:27.359 --> 00:00:31.480 beam and down between rising the gasses like gas. 9 00:00:31.600 --> 00:00:38.479 Maybe can you jack first? Starting and treating the gasses 10 00:00:38.560 --> 00:00:39.000 like gas? 11 00:00:39.320 --> 00:00:40.159 Became you date? 12 00:00:41.280 --> 00:00:42.119 Everything here is. 13 00:00:42.240 --> 00:00:47.479 Something you can see and everything here is Sunday in the. 14 00:00:49.200 --> 00:00:49.359 Ram. 15 00:00:52.640 --> 00:00:57.719 Well, well, well, good morning, good Saturday morning, on a 16 00:00:57.799 --> 00:01:00.799 great day for gardening. You're listening in the guardline. I'm 17 00:01:00.840 --> 00:01:03.439 your host, Skip Richter, And yes, I know it's going 18 00:01:03.520 --> 00:01:05.519 to be kind of hot today, but it's always a 19 00:01:05.560 --> 00:01:09.200 great day to get some things done. This morning's a nice, 20 00:01:09.480 --> 00:01:12.120 wonderful temperature. Actually to get out there. I wish I 21 00:01:12.239 --> 00:01:14.359 was not sitting behind a microphone right now, because I 22 00:01:14.439 --> 00:01:17.319 got some things to do in my yard. This is 23 00:01:17.359 --> 00:01:19.079 a time when we want to make sure our lawns 24 00:01:19.079 --> 00:01:23.680 are well taken care of. Summer is blazing hot at times, 25 00:01:23.840 --> 00:01:25.879 but our turf grass can take it if it has 26 00:01:25.920 --> 00:01:30.200 adequate water. However, what we tend to do is overwater 27 00:01:30.400 --> 00:01:36.239 and miss water. What do I mean by overwatering and miswatering? Well, overwatering, 28 00:01:36.239 --> 00:01:38.719 which of course just means too much water. It stays 29 00:01:38.760 --> 00:01:42.480 too soggy wet. A grass does not need soggy soil 30 00:01:43.599 --> 00:01:47.480 if you will give it a good soaking, providing enough 31 00:01:47.560 --> 00:01:50.599 to what the soil at least six inches deep. That 32 00:01:50.760 --> 00:01:53.280 takes about an inch of water, depending on your soil 33 00:01:53.319 --> 00:01:57.239 type of course, and then let it dry out. Let 34 00:01:57.400 --> 00:01:59.799 the water move out of the soil. It'll evaporate, it'll 35 00:01:59.799 --> 00:02:01.879 move down. The plants certainly will take up a lot 36 00:02:02.239 --> 00:02:06.439 and trends bire it out of their grass blades. And 37 00:02:06.840 --> 00:02:10.120 when that happens, oxygen gets into the soil, and oxygen 38 00:02:10.280 --> 00:02:13.639 is important in the plant's root zone. Any plants root zone, 39 00:02:13.639 --> 00:02:16.439 that is important to have that so as a result, 40 00:02:16.639 --> 00:02:19.800 when you do that, your grass makes a deeper rooted, 41 00:02:19.960 --> 00:02:23.680 more resilient turf, which means a chomp here or there 42 00:02:23.800 --> 00:02:26.360 by a grub isn't as big a deal. That means 43 00:02:26.439 --> 00:02:29.159 a little bit of a droughty conditions isn't as big 44 00:02:29.240 --> 00:02:32.719 a deal because the grass has the more extensive root 45 00:02:32.759 --> 00:02:36.400 system to draw from a larger volume of soil and 46 00:02:36.560 --> 00:02:39.520 so a good soaking followed by drying out. I try 47 00:02:39.560 --> 00:02:43.520 to water my areas that need watering not more than 48 00:02:43.560 --> 00:02:46.639 once a week. Now, it's fine to water twice a 49 00:02:46.680 --> 00:02:48.159 week if you want put a half inch on it 50 00:02:48.240 --> 00:02:49.800 each time. I know a lot of people do that. 51 00:02:50.240 --> 00:02:52.919 And if your struggling with root issues like take all 52 00:02:53.039 --> 00:02:55.719 root rod or other things. If the soil is very 53 00:02:55.840 --> 00:02:58.319 sandy and it doesn't hold water, well, I could see 54 00:02:58.360 --> 00:03:00.400 going twice a week. But I'm telling me once a 55 00:03:00.439 --> 00:03:02.960 week's and anough to be honest. I've got areas of 56 00:03:03.039 --> 00:03:07.560 my lawn I think I've watered them once or twice 57 00:03:07.800 --> 00:03:10.680 once this summer. Some areas of my lawn I've watered 58 00:03:10.719 --> 00:03:13.360 once this summer, but with just a good soaking. You know, 59 00:03:13.439 --> 00:03:15.280 we've had a lot of rain, so that's part of 60 00:03:15.319 --> 00:03:18.319 the reason why. But the thing of having your water 61 00:03:18.520 --> 00:03:23.039 come on every other day all the time is just 62 00:03:23.479 --> 00:03:26.840 a waste of Listen, you pay money for that drinking water, 63 00:03:26.960 --> 00:03:28.759 and when you buy drinking water, you get to pay 64 00:03:28.800 --> 00:03:31.159 for your sewer bill too. Yeah, they tie them together 65 00:03:31.240 --> 00:03:34.479 in most places, so why waste it. It doesn't help 66 00:03:34.520 --> 00:03:37.680 your lawn, It promotes a disease. Water with a good 67 00:03:37.800 --> 00:03:41.759 soaking infrequently. That's what I mean when I say miswatering, 68 00:03:41.840 --> 00:03:45.039 I mean watering too frequently, too little, too often. A 69 00:03:45.120 --> 00:03:49.479 good soaking infrequently and you can get the results you need. 70 00:03:49.759 --> 00:03:52.240 That's what we're aiming for, right, That is what we 71 00:03:52.360 --> 00:03:56.479 want is a healthy grass plant. A healthy grass plant. 72 00:03:58.479 --> 00:04:03.159 That's exactly what we're aiming for. So it's a lot 73 00:04:03.240 --> 00:04:04.599 of it's up to us, you know, whether they say 74 00:04:04.719 --> 00:04:08.680 operator error, right, it's not the system that's wrong, it's 75 00:04:08.840 --> 00:04:11.840 the operator of the system. Well, that certainly is true 76 00:04:11.879 --> 00:04:14.719 irrigation systems. Where you're listening to garden Line, if you'd 77 00:04:14.759 --> 00:04:16.279 like to give us a call, we're here to answer 78 00:04:16.279 --> 00:04:21.040 your gardening questions. Seven one three two one two five 79 00:04:21.120 --> 00:04:24.920 eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty 80 00:04:25.000 --> 00:04:28.759 eight seventy four. Speaking of our lawns, if you've not 81 00:04:29.040 --> 00:04:32.720 done your summer lawn fertilization, now's a good time to 82 00:04:32.720 --> 00:04:35.240 go ahead and get that done. Fall fertilizing is coming. 83 00:04:35.319 --> 00:04:38.399 It's not too terribly far away, still a few months out, 84 00:04:38.480 --> 00:04:40.319 but now would be a good time to put on 85 00:04:40.519 --> 00:04:43.639 some of that nitrofoss super turf that is the silver 86 00:04:43.800 --> 00:04:46.480 bag I like. I like the color coded bags. It 87 00:04:46.560 --> 00:04:49.120 makes it so easy. I don't know another silver bag 88 00:04:49.199 --> 00:04:52.519 out there. So the silver bag from Nitrofoss. It is 89 00:04:52.600 --> 00:04:55.839 a nineteen four to ten fertilizer, much of which is 90 00:04:55.920 --> 00:04:58.639 in a slow release form to give you gradual feeding. 91 00:04:58.800 --> 00:05:02.600 Listen to the chemistry of it. Designed for our Southeast 92 00:05:02.680 --> 00:05:07.000 Texas climate and soils. The way it releases the nitrogen 93 00:05:07.079 --> 00:05:10.160 out feeds your long gradually over time, which means you 94 00:05:10.279 --> 00:05:12.680 mow less often. You know, a big dump of nitrogen 95 00:05:12.759 --> 00:05:14.720 and here you go. You got all this top growth 96 00:05:14.759 --> 00:05:18.279 in your momomo and I with super Turf, you gradually 97 00:05:18.360 --> 00:05:20.560 feeds it out over time. You're going to find super 98 00:05:20.639 --> 00:05:23.920 Turf at a lot of different places in Memorial Drive 99 00:05:24.040 --> 00:05:27.600 on Ace Hardware City, They've got it there, Stanton Shopping Center, 100 00:05:27.680 --> 00:05:30.680 down in Alvin's another place, Katie Hardware Ace out on 101 00:05:30.800 --> 00:05:36.399 Pinoak Driving Katie. They've also got the Nitropuss products like Superturf. 102 00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:40.920 This past week, I had been trying to get a 103 00:05:41.000 --> 00:05:43.680 few things done, just basically and clean up and stuff. 104 00:05:43.879 --> 00:05:46.639 I'm still doing a little pruning and snipping here and there. 105 00:05:46.720 --> 00:05:49.160 And I just want to mention that, you know, we 106 00:05:49.319 --> 00:05:51.920 think of late winter as the best pruning season, and 107 00:05:52.040 --> 00:05:54.759 it is for most things. There are some things that 108 00:05:54.959 --> 00:05:58.240 we do not prune in late winter, that things that 109 00:05:58.319 --> 00:06:01.959 bloom only in this spring, for example, we don't want 110 00:06:02.000 --> 00:06:05.639 to prune those past maybe mid early to midsummer. Really, 111 00:06:05.680 --> 00:06:08.199 I'd say early summer would be my preference, and that 112 00:06:08.279 --> 00:06:12.240 would be like once blooming rose, like Lady Banks, beautiful rose, 113 00:06:12.319 --> 00:06:15.519 beautiful rose, once blooming. A lot of climbers are once blooming. 114 00:06:16.160 --> 00:06:18.680 Anything that just blooms in the spring. If you had 115 00:06:18.920 --> 00:06:23.519 a dogwood or a red bud, or a Chinese fringe 116 00:06:23.639 --> 00:06:26.480 or something along those lines, those are all spring blooming trees. 117 00:06:27.079 --> 00:06:31.000 So don't prune them after let's say early maybe midsummer 118 00:06:31.120 --> 00:06:35.439 the latest, because in late summer they're in early fall, 119 00:06:35.800 --> 00:06:38.279 they're going to be setting their fruit buds or fruit buds, 120 00:06:38.319 --> 00:06:41.759 they're bloom buds for next season's bloom. So if you 121 00:06:41.839 --> 00:06:44.079 were to go out right now, and let's say you 122 00:06:44.240 --> 00:06:48.519 had a flowering quince or a Spyria shrub or a 123 00:06:48.720 --> 00:06:52.959 Texas Mountain barrel, or any of the trees I mentioned 124 00:06:52.959 --> 00:06:56.519 before that are spring bloomers. The roses that are spring bloomers, 125 00:06:56.560 --> 00:06:58.879 and you prune them heavily. Now they're not going to 126 00:06:58.959 --> 00:07:04.040 have time to grow new growth and set buds in 127 00:07:04.240 --> 00:07:08.439 order to have a bud of bloom crop for next spring. 128 00:07:08.839 --> 00:07:10.720 We're kind of getting to the end of that line. 129 00:07:10.759 --> 00:07:12.800 You might get lucky with a few blooms, but basically 130 00:07:13.199 --> 00:07:17.079 you're messing up the typical spring blooming. Azaleas are another 131 00:07:17.199 --> 00:07:20.519 example of that same thing, so it's time to hold 132 00:07:20.560 --> 00:07:23.360 off on those. But a little snipping here and there 133 00:07:23.639 --> 00:07:26.399 is fine. If you've got an azalea with this big, old, 134 00:07:26.480 --> 00:07:29.959 gangly branch sticking way out and it just doesn't look right, 135 00:07:30.000 --> 00:07:32.240 it's not shaped like you wanted to have a nice 136 00:07:32.319 --> 00:07:35.399 natural look, you snip that back. That's not a problem. 137 00:07:35.439 --> 00:07:38.000 I've got some crape myrtles that I'm doing some pruning 138 00:07:38.079 --> 00:07:41.839 back on here and there because they just need it. 139 00:07:42.240 --> 00:07:45.000 They need some shaping. Maybe they have suckers coming out 140 00:07:45.040 --> 00:07:48.079 of the bottom. Now'd be a time to do that 141 00:07:48.279 --> 00:07:52.199 particular thing. So a little bit of chores here and 142 00:07:52.279 --> 00:07:54.839 there on an ongoing basis is fine. Listen, you get 143 00:07:54.839 --> 00:07:58.279 out in the morning, it's not that hot. It's enjoyable. 144 00:07:58.399 --> 00:08:00.480 The birds. The birds have showed up up to sing 145 00:08:00.560 --> 00:08:02.519 you a song. When you get out to works. Isn't 146 00:08:02.519 --> 00:08:05.519 that nice of them? I was like that joy listening 147 00:08:05.600 --> 00:08:07.560 to them early early in the morning, So it's a 148 00:08:07.560 --> 00:08:10.240 good time to be out. Take your phone, get your 149 00:08:10.279 --> 00:08:13.279 iHeartMedia app, tune into a garden Line and you can 150 00:08:13.519 --> 00:08:15.920 turn it in your set in your pocket and head 151 00:08:15.920 --> 00:08:17.920 out in the garden and we'll we'll talk as you 152 00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:20.720 get some stuff done. Maybe you can take a picture 153 00:08:20.800 --> 00:08:22.480 of something send it to me. If you got a question, 154 00:08:22.920 --> 00:08:25.959 we can do that too. Well, you're listening to Guarden Line. 155 00:08:25.959 --> 00:08:27.639 We're gonna take a little quick break and I'll be 156 00:08:27.800 --> 00:08:30.199 right back our phone number seven one three two one 157 00:08:30.279 --> 00:08:35.279 two kt RH. We love our feet stores and up 158 00:08:35.360 --> 00:08:37.960 in Tomball, Texas out to the west on twenty nine 159 00:08:37.960 --> 00:08:39.879 to twenty. You've got D and D Feed. Those of 160 00:08:39.960 --> 00:08:41.720 you who live out there already know about it. D 161 00:08:41.799 --> 00:08:44.159 and D Feed's been around a good while, and I'm 162 00:08:44.240 --> 00:08:47.399 telling you they carry everything you need. They If you've 163 00:08:47.480 --> 00:08:50.360 got a product you need to make you're lawn more beautiful, 164 00:08:50.480 --> 00:08:53.840 your garden more bountiful, they've got it. They carry the fertilizers, 165 00:08:54.159 --> 00:08:56.759 they carry the soil products like the age leaf moole 166 00:08:56.840 --> 00:09:00.559 compost for top dressing. Your lawn. You need some rosa 167 00:09:00.720 --> 00:09:03.799 from heirloom fruit and berry and citrus, veggie and herb mixes. 168 00:09:03.879 --> 00:09:07.600 They got all those. They got the pesticides for dealing 169 00:09:07.679 --> 00:09:12.320 with insects or dealing with funguses, or dealing with maybe 170 00:09:12.399 --> 00:09:14.960 with weeds in your in your garden and lawn. They've 171 00:09:15.039 --> 00:09:16.919 got all of that there at D and D feed 172 00:09:17.039 --> 00:09:18.399 If you want to give them a call, it's two 173 00:09:18.440 --> 00:09:21.799 eight one three five, one seventy one forty four and 174 00:09:21.919 --> 00:09:24.559 give them a call there or just stop buy. That's 175 00:09:24.559 --> 00:09:26.600 the best thing. They always got some plants out front too. 176 00:09:26.720 --> 00:09:29.480 That's a nice little collection of things seasonally out in 177 00:09:29.600 --> 00:09:32.840 the front, but inside that's where there is a lot 178 00:09:33.039 --> 00:09:35.559 of really cool stuff. At Erial time feed store, the 179 00:09:35.679 --> 00:09:38.519 kind you used to go to maybe when you're a kid. Well, 180 00:09:38.759 --> 00:09:41.360 they're still around. And D and D fees a prime 181 00:09:41.440 --> 00:09:45.679 example just west of Tumbul twenty nine twenty. I'm going 182 00:09:45.720 --> 00:09:48.159 to head out now to League City and we're going 183 00:09:48.240 --> 00:09:48.879 to talk to Ann. 184 00:09:49.120 --> 00:09:53.960 Hello, Anne, good morning. How are you. I have managed 185 00:09:54.720 --> 00:09:57.440 I have managed bees and you've talked in the path 186 00:09:57.519 --> 00:10:03.000 about using tarco fear because my area is inundated with 187 00:10:03.559 --> 00:10:06.600 peppervine and When I say peppervine, I mean something that's 188 00:10:06.639 --> 00:10:08.919 similar to it looks like poison ivy, but it's not 189 00:10:09.120 --> 00:10:12.080 poison ivy, and it just grows and grows and grows. 190 00:10:12.759 --> 00:10:18.559 So we'll applying the triclephere to the peppervine affect the 191 00:10:18.600 --> 00:10:22.720 bees because I've seen them landing on the bees, I 192 00:10:22.799 --> 00:10:25.759 mean landing on the Pepperfine, the bees landing on the peppervine. 193 00:10:26.480 --> 00:10:29.600 Yeah, no, no it won't. And you were in luck 194 00:10:29.720 --> 00:10:34.480 because just this week I put something on my website 195 00:10:35.080 --> 00:10:36.879 and if you do you have a pin or pencil handy, 196 00:10:37.679 --> 00:10:43.840 yes I do. It's gardening with Skip dot Com. Gardening 197 00:10:43.919 --> 00:10:47.960 with Skip dot Com, and it's called Skip's Homemade Weedwiper, 198 00:10:48.200 --> 00:10:50.120 and it tells you how to make a little weed 199 00:10:50.159 --> 00:10:52.799 Wive's really easy to make out of one of those 200 00:10:52.879 --> 00:10:56.679 grabber tools, and if you want to do it, it's 201 00:10:56.879 --> 00:10:59.279 handy to have around because you're always gonna have pepperbine 202 00:10:59.279 --> 00:11:03.399 popping up, You're going to have nut's edge coming up 203 00:11:03.440 --> 00:11:05.279 here and there. You're going to have you know, birds 204 00:11:05.399 --> 00:11:08.440 or planting hackberries in your fence line, or there's all 205 00:11:08.559 --> 00:11:11.600 kinds of things that this is good for. But Basically, 206 00:11:11.759 --> 00:11:15.000 you put the triclop here on the sponges on the 207 00:11:15.120 --> 00:11:19.000 tool and you just wipe it right on the leaves 208 00:11:19.200 --> 00:11:22.000 or along the stem. You can do that too. Pepperbine 209 00:11:22.200 --> 00:11:25.519 has stems that are popping up everywhere, and that's one 210 00:11:25.559 --> 00:11:27.159 of the things that makes it so hard to control. 211 00:11:27.240 --> 00:11:30.559 And the triclopair moves down into the plant. Now you're 212 00:11:30.559 --> 00:11:32.519 going to need to stay with it because you know 213 00:11:33.080 --> 00:11:35.639 it's got a lot of underground storage here there and yonder, 214 00:11:35.679 --> 00:11:37.399 and so you kind of have to. Every time it 215 00:11:37.440 --> 00:11:39.399 sticks its head up, you wipe some on it and 216 00:11:39.519 --> 00:11:41.759 it goes down and kills sections of it, and you 217 00:11:41.919 --> 00:11:45.600 will win that war with tricle peer and the weed wiper, 218 00:11:45.679 --> 00:11:49.080 the homemade weed wiper you can spray it also. But 219 00:11:49.399 --> 00:11:52.960 if you get triclo peer on desirable broad leave plants. 220 00:11:52.639 --> 00:11:57.519 It will kill them too, okay, And it won't pick 221 00:11:57.559 --> 00:11:58.000 the beest. 222 00:11:59.679 --> 00:12:02.000 No, you're not putting it. You're not putting it out 223 00:12:02.120 --> 00:12:04.879 like on blue It's not getting in the plant and 224 00:12:05.000 --> 00:12:07.480 going out to the nectar of the bloom and whatnot. 225 00:12:07.840 --> 00:12:11.399 It doesn't work, then, okay, thank you so much. 226 00:12:12.840 --> 00:12:14.600 Good luck with it. Let me know how it works. 227 00:12:15.440 --> 00:12:17.879 I just pretty excited. Spent a lot of time putting 228 00:12:18.000 --> 00:12:21.120 several new publications up, and I'm hoping that because we 229 00:12:21.200 --> 00:12:24.159 get this question a lot, so I guess take comfort 230 00:12:24.200 --> 00:12:26.759 in that you are not alone. We all feel your pain, 231 00:12:28.360 --> 00:12:33.919 all right. You take care and I appreciate that very much. Yes, folks, 232 00:12:33.960 --> 00:12:37.080 you can go to the website gardening with Skip dot 233 00:12:37.200 --> 00:12:39.519 com and I've got two things there. And I don't 234 00:12:39.519 --> 00:12:41.360 know if Ann, if you're still listening, I should have 235 00:12:41.440 --> 00:12:44.320 mentioned this to you too, But in addition to the 236 00:12:44.399 --> 00:12:49.080 homemade weed wiper publication, there is a herbicide products to 237 00:12:49.200 --> 00:12:51.480 put in the weed wiper. And the reason that is 238 00:12:51.559 --> 00:12:55.039 there is because you know, Ann is going after pepperbine, 239 00:12:55.120 --> 00:12:59.000 so that's triclopare. Someone may be going after nuts sedge. 240 00:12:59.240 --> 00:13:01.559 You know, that may be product like manage that you 241 00:13:01.679 --> 00:13:05.960 put on it. There are other weeds, poison ivy. You know, 242 00:13:06.039 --> 00:13:08.320 there's a lot of different weeds and different kinds of 243 00:13:08.559 --> 00:13:10.919 Maybe it's wild onions. Have you ever seen the wild 244 00:13:11.000 --> 00:13:13.279 onions or wild garlic sticking up out of your lawn. 245 00:13:13.840 --> 00:13:15.600 You know it is because when you mow it, you 246 00:13:15.639 --> 00:13:17.279 can smell it, or when you break it off, you 247 00:13:17.320 --> 00:13:19.480 can smell it because it is it is an alium. 248 00:13:19.559 --> 00:13:22.120 It's a garlic or onion type plant. Well, how do 249 00:13:22.200 --> 00:13:26.519 you control that? Well, a weed wiper with image on it, 250 00:13:26.960 --> 00:13:29.399 but it's all on that herbicide products to use with 251 00:13:29.480 --> 00:13:31.799 the weed wiper. The thing I like about the weed 252 00:13:31.879 --> 00:13:35.960 wiper is that you're not spraying a lot of chemical 253 00:13:36.080 --> 00:13:38.399 all out over the place. You are applying it to 254 00:13:39.080 --> 00:13:42.679 the leaves or stem in the case of pepperbne also 255 00:13:43.279 --> 00:13:46.279 the leaves or stem of the weed that you're trying 256 00:13:46.320 --> 00:13:49.240 to control. So if you've got a nuts edge coming 257 00:13:49.279 --> 00:13:51.320 up underneath the rose bush, you know what are you 258 00:13:51.320 --> 00:13:52.720 going to spray up under there? Is not going to 259 00:13:52.799 --> 00:13:54.440 hurt your rose? Well, you don't have to worry about that. 260 00:13:54.559 --> 00:13:58.120 You use the wiper. It's really targeted. It's easy to do. Now, 261 00:13:58.120 --> 00:14:00.679 if you've got you know, like a chiap had of 262 00:14:00.759 --> 00:14:03.200 nuts edge through a bed, it's too tedious to use 263 00:14:03.200 --> 00:14:05.879 a wiper. You're going to spray that or dig it 264 00:14:06.120 --> 00:14:08.840 or whatever however you go about it. But the weed 265 00:14:08.879 --> 00:14:13.320 wiper is very effective along with that other tool as well. 266 00:14:14.879 --> 00:14:17.879 If you're looking for a way to turn your landscape around. 267 00:14:18.519 --> 00:14:23.120 Peerscapes Peerscapes. That's a company that has the skills. They've got, 268 00:14:23.159 --> 00:14:27.879 the designers they've got. They have very very well trained 269 00:14:28.240 --> 00:14:31.480 and seasoned employees, people that have been around a while, 270 00:14:31.639 --> 00:14:34.240 not just you know they're in and they've only been 271 00:14:34.279 --> 00:14:35.879 there for a year and now you're hiring them to 272 00:14:35.960 --> 00:14:38.960 do something. These are folks that really have a history 273 00:14:39.000 --> 00:14:41.279 with the company. They are very good about that, holding 274 00:14:41.320 --> 00:14:45.000 on to their folks and having quality folks. They can 275 00:14:45.039 --> 00:14:47.919 come to your yard and do a you know, work 276 00:14:47.960 --> 00:14:51.679 on your irrigation system. Our irrigation systems typically are very 277 00:14:51.879 --> 00:14:55.600 poorly designed or they're out of maybe they've gotten out 278 00:14:55.639 --> 00:14:58.759 of whack over the years, you know, damaged heads, misaligned heads, 279 00:14:58.840 --> 00:15:01.799 other things like that. Piercecapes can fix that for you. 280 00:15:01.960 --> 00:15:04.480 Do you have drainage problems, You should know it after 281 00:15:04.519 --> 00:15:07.639 the rains we had these past few months. They can 282 00:15:07.720 --> 00:15:10.600 fix that. They can make an area drain better so 283 00:15:10.720 --> 00:15:13.399 you can plant things there. Ever, plant almost ever plant 284 00:15:13.600 --> 00:15:17.840 very fewer exceptions. Want a well drained soil. Do you 285 00:15:18.000 --> 00:15:21.600 need perhaps some hardscape done, some landscape lighting done. Do 286 00:15:21.639 --> 00:15:23.600 you want to revamp some beds, or do you just 287 00:15:23.720 --> 00:15:27.200 want a company to come in and do a seasonal, 288 00:15:27.799 --> 00:15:30.919 a quarterly maintenance program where they come in. You know 289 00:15:31.039 --> 00:15:33.720 they're checking the beds, they're weeding them, fertilizing them, checking 290 00:15:33.720 --> 00:15:37.480 the irrigation, doing trimming, and you know, replenishing the mult 291 00:15:37.679 --> 00:15:40.919 maybe doing some color changes. You know, the old summer 292 00:15:41.000 --> 00:15:43.720 plants are giving away to cold weather, so it's time 293 00:15:43.799 --> 00:15:46.840 for winter color and on through the year. That kind 294 00:15:46.879 --> 00:15:49.759 of color change. Piercecapes does that. You can go to 295 00:15:49.840 --> 00:15:52.279 the website, and I encourage you to do that because 296 00:15:52.480 --> 00:15:55.519 what you'll see there is some inspirational photos of the work. 297 00:15:55.559 --> 00:15:59.240 They can do their websites piercescapes dot com. The phone 298 00:15:59.320 --> 00:16:03.960 number two A one three seven zero five zero six 299 00:16:04.320 --> 00:16:09.279 zero two eight one three seven zero fifty sixty Pierce 300 00:16:09.360 --> 00:16:14.039 Caapes dot com. I always like to check out our 301 00:16:14.120 --> 00:16:17.799 garden centers in the area. You know, we here in Houston. 302 00:16:17.919 --> 00:16:21.600 We're fortunate. I don't care which direction you live. We've 303 00:16:21.679 --> 00:16:25.120 got garden centers north, south, east, west and central that 304 00:16:25.279 --> 00:16:28.480 you can go to and they're inspiring. There are places 305 00:16:28.679 --> 00:16:32.440 that their mom and pop. They're independent, they know what 306 00:16:32.519 --> 00:16:35.720 they're talking about. They don't sell stuff that doesn't grow here. 307 00:16:36.080 --> 00:16:38.720 You know, you get these big national chain big boxes 308 00:16:38.799 --> 00:16:41.519 and things. Heaven knows what you're going to see there. 309 00:16:41.519 --> 00:16:43.679 And I could make a long list of examples of 310 00:16:43.759 --> 00:16:46.759 the things that's like, Okay, well this isn't New Jersey, 311 00:16:46.919 --> 00:16:49.200 so high Bush blueberries are not for here. You see 312 00:16:49.240 --> 00:16:53.000 what I'm saying. Well, anyway, in Channi Gardens out in 313 00:16:53.159 --> 00:16:56.200 Richmond Rosenberg area, that's out southwest for those of you 314 00:16:56.399 --> 00:16:59.879 new to the area. In Chane Gardens is an outstand 315 00:17:00.200 --> 00:17:03.360 garden center. I love going there. I love to see 316 00:17:03.399 --> 00:17:05.640 the supplies that they have. I love to see the 317 00:17:06.119 --> 00:17:08.920 wide variety of plants and even things like you know, 318 00:17:09.000 --> 00:17:11.599 you want to make a beautiful container that you can 319 00:17:11.680 --> 00:17:13.920 go buy a container that's already made there. You can 320 00:17:14.000 --> 00:17:17.920 also go there and get inspiration, you know, to look 321 00:17:17.960 --> 00:17:19.799 at what they have. Talk to some of the folks 322 00:17:19.880 --> 00:17:22.400 that work there that are well trained, and say, look, 323 00:17:22.480 --> 00:17:24.200 I want to do something like this. Can you give 324 00:17:24.240 --> 00:17:26.440 me an idea what plants would I put together? Because 325 00:17:26.440 --> 00:17:27.880 I don't know where to start. I mean, you guys 326 00:17:27.960 --> 00:17:32.200 have plants from horizon to horizon around here. What do 327 00:17:32.359 --> 00:17:35.720 I get? They can help you with that. Enchanted Gardens 328 00:17:36.240 --> 00:17:40.720 Richmond dot com. That's the website Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. 329 00:17:40.799 --> 00:17:44.400 They're on FM three fifty nine that's on the Katie 330 00:17:44.480 --> 00:17:48.079 Folscher side of Richmond, North of Richmond. They're open money 331 00:17:48.119 --> 00:17:51.119 through Saturday eight to five and Sunday ten am to 332 00:17:51.200 --> 00:17:53.480 four pm. And I guarantee you when you go there, 333 00:17:53.920 --> 00:17:56.640 you will be saying to yourself, I wish I had 334 00:17:56.720 --> 00:17:59.720 brought this family member or this neighbor along with me. 335 00:18:00.119 --> 00:18:02.039 This would have been a fun outing, you know, with 336 00:18:02.200 --> 00:18:05.880 a group do that and chanted gardens out in Richmond. 337 00:18:07.680 --> 00:18:12.400 The you know, those of us who, let's just say 338 00:18:12.480 --> 00:18:16.400 we're we're plant enthusiasts. And I know I know you are. 339 00:18:16.440 --> 00:18:19.839 I mean you're listening to the guard line plant enthusiasts. 340 00:18:20.440 --> 00:18:22.599 I go into garden centers and I'm like a kid 341 00:18:22.680 --> 00:18:26.960 in a candy store. Everything is beautiful, everything looks wonderful. 342 00:18:27.200 --> 00:18:29.240 I need to have one of everything, and any plan 343 00:18:29.400 --> 00:18:31.319 I don't have, I need to have. And those of 344 00:18:31.400 --> 00:18:35.039 us who are plant enthusiasts, that's different than being that's 345 00:18:35.119 --> 00:18:40.039 different than being a design type person. A design type 346 00:18:40.079 --> 00:18:43.519 person starts with, here's my yard, how do I what 347 00:18:43.680 --> 00:18:46.279 kind of bed do I want? What plants would go 348 00:18:46.440 --> 00:18:48.480 well in this bed? And it's all planned out, and 349 00:18:48.519 --> 00:18:50.920 then you go shopping and get those plants. Those of 350 00:18:51.039 --> 00:18:53.359 us who are plant enthusiasts, we just walk around, Look, 351 00:18:53.640 --> 00:18:55.640 I have that one, and we bring it home and 352 00:18:55.720 --> 00:18:57.519 we walk around and try to figure out where to 353 00:18:57.559 --> 00:19:00.960 put it. And I've joked about this before. Our landscapes, 354 00:19:01.279 --> 00:19:03.279 if we're not careful, can tend to look like a 355 00:19:03.359 --> 00:19:05.839 bomb went off in a garden center and every plant 356 00:19:05.960 --> 00:19:10.039 rooted where it hit the ground. That's not a design. 357 00:19:10.640 --> 00:19:12.599 It's your yard, though. If you want to do that, 358 00:19:13.079 --> 00:19:15.559 that's your business. Seen you at the HOA, I guess 359 00:19:15.720 --> 00:19:19.400 I don't know, but what it's just fun to go 360 00:19:19.519 --> 00:19:22.799 to garden centers and see new plants and get exciting ideas. 361 00:19:22.880 --> 00:19:26.680 And I'm telling you these places just they are outstanding. 362 00:19:27.240 --> 00:19:30.599 I've been. I've lived in Texas almost my whole life. 363 00:19:30.960 --> 00:19:33.279 I spent three years of Missouri and then came back. 364 00:19:34.759 --> 00:19:38.680 But I can tell you Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin, San Antonio, Houston, 365 00:19:39.079 --> 00:19:42.359 and then a lot of cities, Atlanta and Durham, North Carolina, 366 00:19:42.559 --> 00:19:46.440 all over the country, Arizona, Phoenix, and there's garden centers 367 00:19:46.480 --> 00:19:50.240 there too. Everywhere I've gone, there's nothing like you have 368 00:19:50.519 --> 00:19:53.359 here in Houston. When it comes to the kind of 369 00:19:53.440 --> 00:19:57.200 garden centers, the quality of the garden centers, the extensive 370 00:19:57.319 --> 00:20:00.160 lists of plants that they carry, it's just easy. And 371 00:20:00.279 --> 00:20:03.359 that's why Gardner's around here. They do like a little 372 00:20:03.440 --> 00:20:07.319 localized horticulture tourism. You know, you may live way on 373 00:20:07.400 --> 00:20:08.960 the west side, but there's a place on the east 374 00:20:08.960 --> 00:20:11.599 side you haven't been too yet. And in Houston, you know, 375 00:20:11.720 --> 00:20:13.680 you got a pack of lunch to go east to west. 376 00:20:14.200 --> 00:20:17.000 That's going to take a little bit, but we've got 377 00:20:17.079 --> 00:20:19.680 it here. So it's a lot of fun. Great way 378 00:20:19.759 --> 00:20:22.559 to spend a Saturday too, by the way, So hint, hint, 379 00:20:23.200 --> 00:20:28.680 there's an idea for you. Quality Home Products. I had 380 00:20:28.720 --> 00:20:31.839 a guy on the other day from Quality Home Products 381 00:20:31.880 --> 00:20:36.160 and we were talking about the crazy rush on generators 382 00:20:36.240 --> 00:20:38.480 going on right now, because all you know, you've had 383 00:20:38.480 --> 00:20:41.000 your power out knocked out twice for over a week 384 00:20:41.279 --> 00:20:44.480 and you suddenly realize I need a generator. Well, Quality 385 00:20:44.519 --> 00:20:48.839 Home has Generac. Generac's outstanding, but Quality Home has some 386 00:20:49.039 --> 00:20:51.440 really good deals right now. They've got five hundred off 387 00:20:51.519 --> 00:20:53.680 when you trade in you got an old portable generator. 388 00:20:53.720 --> 00:20:55.880 I don't care the brand or the size some old 389 00:20:55.920 --> 00:20:58.359 portable generator. You trade it in, you get five hundred off. 390 00:20:59.200 --> 00:21:03.240 If you would like to have a whole home generator, 391 00:21:03.440 --> 00:21:05.720 they can do that. They sit down with you, they 392 00:21:05.799 --> 00:21:07.960 figure out the one you need, They help guide you 393 00:21:08.039 --> 00:21:10.640 toward it. They point you in the right direction, and 394 00:21:10.799 --> 00:21:13.720 they service after the sale. And they're busy now, so 395 00:21:13.880 --> 00:21:17.079 be patient. Get a lot of calls. But Quality Home 396 00:21:17.640 --> 00:21:21.359 or excuse me, QUALITYTX dot COM's website seven to one 397 00:21:21.400 --> 00:21:24.119 to three. Quality is the phone number. I'm gonna have 398 00:21:24.160 --> 00:21:31.519 to take a break. I'll be right back, So let's 399 00:21:31.559 --> 00:21:33.759 turn out to Galveston and we are going to talk 400 00:21:33.880 --> 00:21:36.759 to John. Good morning, John, Welcome to Guardline. 401 00:21:37.519 --> 00:21:38.440 Hey, how are you sir? 402 00:21:38.519 --> 00:21:39.519 It's nice talk to you again. 403 00:21:40.680 --> 00:21:40.920 Thank you. 404 00:21:42.119 --> 00:21:45.079 I have a small front yard and it is bordered 405 00:21:45.119 --> 00:21:49.880 by a walkway or two walkways. And I noticed about 406 00:21:50.000 --> 00:21:55.480 a week ago a a four foot kind of in 407 00:21:55.640 --> 00:21:59.440 diam in a circle of brown just showed up anyway, 408 00:21:59.519 --> 00:22:02.960 So I got an email if they from Solutions pass 409 00:22:02.960 --> 00:22:05.000 Control down League City said well, you gotta watch out 410 00:22:05.000 --> 00:22:08.759 for sod webworms anyway. So I don't know if it's that, 411 00:22:09.359 --> 00:22:11.319 but I don't want to lose that portion of it. 412 00:22:11.400 --> 00:22:13.039 Looks like a giant bulls. I don't want to lose 413 00:22:13.079 --> 00:22:16.720 that portion of the grass. And I've got more chemicals 414 00:22:16.759 --> 00:22:19.039 down here than you can imagine. So I looked on 415 00:22:19.119 --> 00:22:22.240 your website. There is a question coming. I looked on 416 00:22:22.319 --> 00:22:25.960 your website and said, well too, if you have sodwbworms, 417 00:22:26.359 --> 00:22:29.799 you do this crash where you used by fentren and 418 00:22:29.880 --> 00:22:32.200 then you come back in with BT the next day, 419 00:22:32.400 --> 00:22:36.240 and then you all alternate for you know, seven days 420 00:22:36.359 --> 00:22:40.920 or whatever. Do you just figure I got some chinch 421 00:22:40.960 --> 00:22:41.440 bugs there? 422 00:22:41.680 --> 00:22:42.599 Do you think it's what? 423 00:22:43.400 --> 00:22:48.079 I would send you a picture? But okay, any idea 424 00:22:48.160 --> 00:22:48.839 what you think it might be? 425 00:22:50.000 --> 00:22:53.039 Yeah? Sure, John, I don't know what website that was. 426 00:22:53.079 --> 00:22:55.079 That may have been some stuff Randy head up. I 427 00:22:55.160 --> 00:22:55.440 don't know. 428 00:22:55.480 --> 00:22:56.599 Okay, I think it was. 429 00:22:57.759 --> 00:23:00.480 That's okay. But here here's the you need to do. 430 00:23:00.720 --> 00:23:03.039 Go out there and get on your hands and knees 431 00:23:03.680 --> 00:23:06.880 and look at the grass up close, and if the 432 00:23:07.000 --> 00:23:09.599 grass blades are chewed up like something. 433 00:23:09.920 --> 00:23:12.039 Yeah, I did that yesterday and it did not look 434 00:23:12.119 --> 00:23:15.880 like that. I saw that on the website and yeah, yeah, 435 00:23:15.920 --> 00:23:17.440 I got down close and personal. 436 00:23:18.319 --> 00:23:21.000 Okay, Now what you what you next need to probably 437 00:23:21.039 --> 00:23:26.359 do is get about a tablespoon of just dishwashing dish 438 00:23:26.519 --> 00:23:30.880 wash of soap like ivory liquid, that kind of liquid 439 00:23:31.119 --> 00:23:34.279 for the sink. Not not a dishwasher or washing machine, 440 00:23:34.359 --> 00:23:37.480 just ivy liquid soap, and put it in a gallon 441 00:23:37.519 --> 00:23:39.640 of water and then put it in a watering can 442 00:23:39.839 --> 00:23:42.680 or something where you can sprinkle it out, and put 443 00:23:42.720 --> 00:23:45.960 it over an area of lawn, probably about two by 444 00:23:46.079 --> 00:23:49.319 two square that's in that area. You water it and 445 00:23:49.400 --> 00:23:51.799 wait a little second and water it again. Soap is 446 00:23:52.000 --> 00:23:54.880 really irritating to insects, and if they're chinchbugs, you're gonna 447 00:23:54.880 --> 00:23:56.680 come crawling up out of there and you'll see these 448 00:23:56.799 --> 00:23:59.599 little one eighth of an inch long, black and white, 449 00:24:00.160 --> 00:24:04.720 little long, skinnier bugs or shape more like a school 450 00:24:04.759 --> 00:24:08.839 bus than yeah. And then if it's side webworms, you'll 451 00:24:08.839 --> 00:24:11.160 see the caterpillars coming up too. It's irritating to them. 452 00:24:11.640 --> 00:24:15.480 But if you see those are black and white. The nymphs, 453 00:24:15.559 --> 00:24:17.680 the ones that aren't fully mature, are kind of a 454 00:24:17.839 --> 00:24:22.640 reddish brown with a white hand across their back. But 455 00:24:22.759 --> 00:24:24.960 if you see that, then you got chinchbugs, and then 456 00:24:25.039 --> 00:24:28.759 you need to proceed. If you did the nitrofoss bug 457 00:24:28.880 --> 00:24:33.200 out Max Nitrofoss bug Out Max is very effective against 458 00:24:33.240 --> 00:24:35.200 the chinchbugs. It'll get down in there to the war 459 00:24:35.359 --> 00:24:37.799 the lar if you had webworms to where the larva 460 00:24:37.839 --> 00:24:40.960 are hiding in the thatch. Webworms are nocturnal. They hide 461 00:24:41.039 --> 00:24:44.079 during the day and feed at night primarily, and so 462 00:24:44.680 --> 00:24:49.359 the soapy water flushes them both out of the thatch 463 00:24:50.039 --> 00:24:53.160 and that helps you decide if you need to do anything, and. 464 00:24:53.240 --> 00:24:54.359 If so, what you need to do. 465 00:24:57.960 --> 00:25:02.000 So I did notice this by center it does it 466 00:25:02.160 --> 00:25:05.400 does say chinchbugs on it. Would you use the bifensin 467 00:25:05.559 --> 00:25:07.880 if I do identify them as chinchbugs? 468 00:25:09.400 --> 00:25:14.160 Yeah, for sure. The Bifendra by Fenthren is very effective 469 00:25:15.000 --> 00:25:16.759 and it will get down in there and it'll do 470 00:25:16.839 --> 00:25:18.000 the trick on them. Yeah. 471 00:25:19.680 --> 00:25:21.359 Well, thank you very much. Enjoy your show. 472 00:25:21.720 --> 00:25:24.920 Yeah. When I said Nitropuss bug out Max, that is 473 00:25:25.079 --> 00:25:29.920 by Fentthren. It's on gran Ca Eco Granule carrier. I 474 00:25:30.160 --> 00:25:31.880 like it because you just sprinkle it out and then 475 00:25:31.880 --> 00:25:35.559 you water it in and it's I mean, it'll kill 476 00:25:35.559 --> 00:25:38.599 any either of those insects and within twenty four hours 477 00:25:38.680 --> 00:25:39.839 you'd be pretty good shape. 478 00:25:39.960 --> 00:25:42.599 Oh really, Any any chance is this grass going to 479 00:25:42.640 --> 00:25:44.359 come back or is it just toasts the year. 480 00:25:45.599 --> 00:25:49.160 If it is completely dead, of course you won't. And 481 00:25:49.359 --> 00:25:52.400 if you leave chinchbugs long enough, it'll be completely dead. 482 00:25:53.119 --> 00:25:56.880 The side webworm is eating the leaves off the runners 483 00:25:57.039 --> 00:26:01.000 and so it produces new leaves. Side webworms typically are 484 00:26:01.079 --> 00:26:03.039 not going to in and of themselves kill the grass 485 00:26:03.079 --> 00:26:07.640 unless there's some other issues going on, but the chinchbugs will. 486 00:26:07.720 --> 00:26:09.759 They just suck the juices out of it until the 487 00:26:09.839 --> 00:26:11.359 patient's gone. Yeah. 488 00:26:12.680 --> 00:26:15.720 Oh well, I'll go mix up a batch of soapy 489 00:26:15.799 --> 00:26:18.799 water and I can do that early in the moment. 490 00:26:19.039 --> 00:26:22.119 I can do that anytime of the day, but you 491 00:26:22.200 --> 00:26:23.680 prefer in the morning or in the evening. 492 00:26:24.839 --> 00:26:26.440 Oh, I do it in the morning because it's cooler 493 00:26:26.519 --> 00:26:28.720 to be out there stooping over the ground with the 494 00:26:28.799 --> 00:26:32.400 sun bacon down, you know. So there's a lot of 495 00:26:32.480 --> 00:26:34.839 time and they just know that chinchbugs are feeding all 496 00:26:34.880 --> 00:26:37.240 the time, but they're staying down in the thatch doing 497 00:26:37.279 --> 00:26:41.720 their their feeding. The webworms they have to come out 498 00:26:41.960 --> 00:26:45.319 to chew on the grass blades, so they're coming up 499 00:26:45.359 --> 00:26:47.640 out of the thatch to do that, and they want 500 00:26:47.680 --> 00:26:51.160 to do it at night when their predators aren't out 501 00:26:51.279 --> 00:26:54.119 and when it's cooler to get out there and do that. 502 00:26:56.319 --> 00:27:00.240 All right, Well, thank you so much, good luck a 503 00:27:00.279 --> 00:27:04.519 lot appreciate call. Yes, sir, thanks take you bet you 504 00:27:04.680 --> 00:27:07.559 take care. Well, that's it. Yeah, night Fross bug Out 505 00:27:07.640 --> 00:27:11.160 Max is it's easy to find zeinegranules. So I mean 506 00:27:11.200 --> 00:27:15.000 you no problem at all finding it. I've I've seen 507 00:27:15.079 --> 00:27:16.759 it in a whole lot of places, you know, being 508 00:27:16.759 --> 00:27:19.880 a night Fross product, it's it's so easy to find it. 509 00:27:19.920 --> 00:27:22.839 I mean, for example, the enchanted Gardens uh out there 510 00:27:22.880 --> 00:27:25.440 in Richmond Rosenberg. They have just talking about them a 511 00:27:25.480 --> 00:27:27.599 minute ago. They carry that. The Shades of Texas and 512 00:27:27.640 --> 00:27:30.839 the Woodlands up on fourteen eighty eight. You're going to 513 00:27:30.880 --> 00:27:33.799 find night Fross bug Out Max there as well. So 514 00:27:34.200 --> 00:27:36.000 and the Fisher's hardware that those of you Down's. I 515 00:27:36.000 --> 00:27:38.720 always try to cover the area when I'm making some suggestions. 516 00:27:38.799 --> 00:27:42.480 But Fisher's Hardware. There's one South Houston on Southmore, There's 517 00:27:42.599 --> 00:27:45.640 one Laport on Broadway Street. They carry the bug Out 518 00:27:45.720 --> 00:27:49.240 Max there as well. Well. We're hitting up close here 519 00:27:49.359 --> 00:27:51.559 to a time to take another break. I want to 520 00:27:51.599 --> 00:27:53.160 give you our phone number again if you'd like to 521 00:27:53.200 --> 00:27:55.839 give us a call. Seven one three two one two 522 00:27:56.079 --> 00:27:59.440 fifty eight seventy four seven three two one two five 523 00:27:59.559 --> 00:28:04.480 eight seven four, or if you would like to dial 524 00:28:04.640 --> 00:28:09.160 by letters, it's seven one three two one two kt RH. 525 00:28:09.279 --> 00:28:11.200 In the meantime, we're taking a little break here, go 526 00:28:11.279 --> 00:28:13.920 look at my website Gardening with Skip dot com. I'm 527 00:28:13.920 --> 00:28:15.880 going to talk about some other stuff that are just 528 00:28:16.000 --> 00:28:21.799 put up when we come back Flooding Hardline. Glad you're 529 00:28:21.839 --> 00:28:24.279 with us today. We got a lot to talk about, 530 00:28:24.799 --> 00:28:26.759 all kinds of things to talk about. One thing I 531 00:28:26.880 --> 00:28:29.119 want to mention before we go, I was just bragging 532 00:28:29.200 --> 00:28:32.160 on our Houston area garden centers. I'm talking about the 533 00:28:32.240 --> 00:28:34.720 mom and pops. I'm talking about the ones that are independent, 534 00:28:34.839 --> 00:28:38.880 locally owned, that hire people that know what they're talking about. 535 00:28:39.400 --> 00:28:40.559 Is that ever important? 536 00:28:40.839 --> 00:28:40.960 Oh? 537 00:28:41.079 --> 00:28:43.440 Yes? I mean have you ever been in a store 538 00:28:44.039 --> 00:28:47.079 and you you know, you had a question and an 539 00:28:47.079 --> 00:28:49.119 employee walks up and you ask him the question, and 540 00:28:49.200 --> 00:28:51.279 the minute you start asking it, you watch our eyes 541 00:28:51.359 --> 00:28:53.359 glaze over and you don't even want to finish your 542 00:28:53.400 --> 00:28:56.079 sentence with the question because you realize you're wasting your 543 00:28:56.119 --> 00:28:58.920 time because you can tell you're about to get their 544 00:28:59.000 --> 00:29:01.960 best guests or something made up or whatever that didn't 545 00:29:01.960 --> 00:29:04.279 happen at our good garden centers, and a good example 546 00:29:04.359 --> 00:29:07.079 of that would be Nilson Water Garden and Nursery out 547 00:29:07.160 --> 00:29:09.880 there and Katie. Think of it as your West Houston 548 00:29:09.920 --> 00:29:11.960 garden center because I mean it's just out on the 549 00:29:12.000 --> 00:29:14.079 west side of town. Easy to get to. You just 550 00:29:14.160 --> 00:29:16.720 head out I ten and turn north on Katie Fort 551 00:29:16.759 --> 00:29:19.519 Ben Road and crossover tracks. It's right there on the 552 00:29:19.599 --> 00:29:21.839 right hand side, not very far at all. When you 553 00:29:21.960 --> 00:29:24.519 go there, you are going to find all kinds of things. 554 00:29:24.640 --> 00:29:28.799 Number One, it's water gardens and nursery. So water gardens 555 00:29:29.039 --> 00:29:31.240 is what they originally were known for. I mean they're 556 00:29:31.400 --> 00:29:35.759 nationally famous, literally nationally famous. Created that disappearing fountain that 557 00:29:35.839 --> 00:29:39.039 comes out of beautiful glazed pottery. You've seen those. They 558 00:29:39.079 --> 00:29:41.039 got all kinds of water gardens. They do them. They'll 559 00:29:41.079 --> 00:29:42.839 come to your place and you hire them to put 560 00:29:42.880 --> 00:29:45.319 in one. You can talk to them. They'll say the 561 00:29:45.440 --> 00:29:48.240 parts of like a disappearing fountain, and you make it 562 00:29:48.319 --> 00:29:50.480 yourself if you want to do that, if you're that 563 00:29:50.599 --> 00:29:53.079 kind of do it yourself or But they have plants, 564 00:29:53.400 --> 00:29:56.319 a wide variety of plants. Always good deals going on 565 00:29:56.480 --> 00:29:59.200 on plants. I love to go through there and shop 566 00:29:59.279 --> 00:30:02.119 and just see some of the things. I'm always surprised 567 00:30:02.279 --> 00:30:05.079 at the extent of things that they carry at Nelson 568 00:30:05.160 --> 00:30:07.799 Water Garden and Nursery out there in Katie. If you 569 00:30:07.920 --> 00:30:10.240 want to see their website, and I would encourage you 570 00:30:10.359 --> 00:30:11.960 to do that because you can find out what's going 571 00:30:12.000 --> 00:30:18.000 on Nelson Watergardens dot com. Nelson Watergardens dot com. Again 572 00:30:18.119 --> 00:30:21.039 there in Katie, Texas. Turned north on Katie Fort Benroad 573 00:30:21.119 --> 00:30:24.119 and it's just a hop, skipping and jump north of 574 00:30:24.200 --> 00:30:29.680 Ien right there Nelson Watergardens. And by the way, uh, 575 00:30:29.839 --> 00:30:31.920 you got to see the water guarden. Take a friend 576 00:30:31.960 --> 00:30:34.559 with you, because I'll tell you what I enjoy. I 577 00:30:34.680 --> 00:30:37.640 enjoy going there and just sitting and being still and 578 00:30:37.880 --> 00:30:41.480 listening to the water there is. It is like therapy 579 00:30:41.920 --> 00:30:44.480 to hear the sound of water. It just wonderful, brings 580 00:30:44.559 --> 00:30:47.799 birds in, brings me in. I love it. Have a 581 00:30:47.839 --> 00:30:50.559 little fountain in my backyard and I so enjoy getting 582 00:30:50.559 --> 00:30:54.079 out and enjoying that sound you're listening to. Garden Line. 583 00:30:54.119 --> 00:30:55.640 Our phone number, if you would like to give me 584 00:30:55.680 --> 00:30:59.119 a call is seven one three two one two kt 585 00:30:59.440 --> 00:31:04.000 r H seven one three two one two kt r H. 586 00:31:05.759 --> 00:31:09.680 I've talked about Nelson's Plant Food before, and one of 587 00:31:09.759 --> 00:31:12.559 the things that someone is asking me the other day 588 00:31:12.559 --> 00:31:16.079 about what is a refillable jar? What are you talking 589 00:31:16.079 --> 00:31:19.279 about when you say that, Well, Uh, what Nelson's has 590 00:31:19.400 --> 00:31:23.000 done is they will sell you. There's some products, of course, 591 00:31:23.000 --> 00:31:24.440 that come by the bag. You know, you're putting your 592 00:31:24.519 --> 00:31:27.720 lawn fertilizers and things out. But there's others that you 593 00:31:27.759 --> 00:31:31.200 would buy a smaller plastic jar for. Maybe it's maybe 594 00:31:31.240 --> 00:31:33.480 it's a color star you're going to furtilize some flowers with. 595 00:31:33.680 --> 00:31:36.400 Maybe it's a product like the tree and shrub, the 596 00:31:36.519 --> 00:31:39.759 nutri star tree and shrub. That's great for what the ornamentals. 597 00:31:39.799 --> 00:31:41.680 If you've got a tree you planted in the last 598 00:31:41.920 --> 00:31:44.480 within the last five years, you need to still be 599 00:31:44.920 --> 00:31:48.519 fertilizing that regularly to encourage good early growth. Well, when 600 00:31:48.559 --> 00:31:51.000 you run out of one of those products, you can 601 00:31:51.079 --> 00:31:55.720 go Tho's probably almost a dozen different garden centers and 602 00:31:56.759 --> 00:31:59.880 other places here in the Houston area where you go 603 00:32:00.160 --> 00:32:01.799 in and it's like when you go to the grocery 604 00:32:01.799 --> 00:32:03.880 store and you buy peanuts or something, you pull a 605 00:32:03.920 --> 00:32:06.279 little lever down and fill the bag. It's like that, 606 00:32:06.519 --> 00:32:09.279 except it's Nelson Products and you take your old jar 607 00:32:09.400 --> 00:32:11.839 in and so number one, you're not putting more plastic 608 00:32:11.920 --> 00:32:15.279 in the environment. We know we got plenty of that already. 609 00:32:16.359 --> 00:32:19.319 But it's a more economical way because they're not having 610 00:32:19.359 --> 00:32:21.799 to package it up and buy a bottle to a 611 00:32:21.960 --> 00:32:24.359 jar to sell you a jar and so on. So 612 00:32:24.599 --> 00:32:26.920 you just go fill up, and so it's economical, it 613 00:32:27.039 --> 00:32:31.519 makes environmental sense, and it's just easy. Nelson Plant Food, 614 00:32:32.359 --> 00:32:35.559 the nutri Star line, the color Star line, there's several 615 00:32:35.640 --> 00:32:37.920 lines that they have that you can just do the 616 00:32:38.039 --> 00:32:40.920 refillable jars, and I encourage you to do that. Of course, 617 00:32:41.200 --> 00:32:44.000 Nelson's is where we would find things like Slow and 618 00:32:44.039 --> 00:32:46.599 Easy and Bruce's Brew for the lawn as well, two 619 00:32:46.720 --> 00:32:50.480 top quality fertilizers out there, so you want to take advantage. 620 00:32:50.680 --> 00:32:54.319 I think it's pretty cool. I said that I was 621 00:32:54.319 --> 00:32:56.440 going to tell you about a couple more publications. If 622 00:32:56.519 --> 00:33:00.599 you go to my website that is Gardening with Skip 623 00:33:00.880 --> 00:33:05.759 dot Com. Gardening with Skip dot Com, I have I 624 00:33:05.880 --> 00:33:08.839 told you about the homemade weed Wiper publication and the 625 00:33:08.920 --> 00:33:12.400 Herbicides to use with it publication. You just have to 626 00:33:12.440 --> 00:33:15.799 go read those to see what they're about. There's two 627 00:33:15.920 --> 00:33:19.200 more on Nutsedge, and I knew when I started to 628 00:33:19.240 --> 00:33:22.519 write about Nutsedge this is going to be controversial because 629 00:33:23.359 --> 00:33:25.920 one of them is a quick tip. It's tips for 630 00:33:26.079 --> 00:33:29.359 winning the war against Nutsedge. It's one page and it 631 00:33:29.480 --> 00:33:31.759 goes through the different things, and you got to do 632 00:33:32.519 --> 00:33:35.400 more than one thing, and you got to do them 633 00:33:35.519 --> 00:33:39.240 continually for it to work. Nuts Edge is a kind 634 00:33:39.279 --> 00:33:42.119 of creature that if you give it a break, it 635 00:33:42.279 --> 00:33:46.319 will turn one tuber into ten tubers and just a 636 00:33:46.400 --> 00:33:49.319 matter of a month or two. And so that's why 637 00:33:49.519 --> 00:33:51.799 people say, oh, I tried to kill it, and then 638 00:33:52.039 --> 00:33:54.119 next thing, you know, I had more than I started with, 639 00:33:54.559 --> 00:33:57.839 Like your spray or you're digging or whatever made more tubers. 640 00:33:57.920 --> 00:34:02.880 No it, that's the creature. And the analogy I use 641 00:34:02.920 --> 00:34:05.680 for nuts Edge pretty gruesome but makes sense to me. 642 00:34:05.920 --> 00:34:08.440 So I use it is it's like you're trying to 643 00:34:08.519 --> 00:34:11.119 drown nutsedge. You got to hold it under water until 644 00:34:11.119 --> 00:34:13.599 the bubble's quit coming out. You see what I'm saying. 645 00:34:14.000 --> 00:34:16.559 In other words, if you let it up for air, 646 00:34:16.920 --> 00:34:18.920 it takes a deep breath of air and then you 647 00:34:19.119 --> 00:34:21.440 just you went right back to the beginning and you 648 00:34:21.559 --> 00:34:24.320 start it over trying to drown the thing, right, Well, 649 00:34:24.400 --> 00:34:26.880 we're not drowning it. In fact, it loves it when 650 00:34:26.920 --> 00:34:30.360 it's too wet, yellow nuts Edge does. But what we're 651 00:34:30.440 --> 00:34:34.559 doing is we're stopping it from producing new tubers by 652 00:34:34.719 --> 00:34:38.480 consistently staying on it. The publications go into detail on 653 00:34:38.599 --> 00:34:42.079 this and we're getting rid of the tubers that are 654 00:34:42.199 --> 00:34:44.960 there by one or more ways. And there's times of 655 00:34:44.960 --> 00:34:48.000 the year whend sprays are effective depending on the size 656 00:34:48.000 --> 00:34:49.800 of the planet. There's times of the years where it 657 00:34:49.960 --> 00:34:52.400 just burns the top and you do not kill the tuber. 658 00:34:52.960 --> 00:34:55.119 You got to learn about that if you really want 659 00:34:55.159 --> 00:34:56.719 to learn about it. If this is a battle that 660 00:34:57.679 --> 00:35:00.320 looking at comments on our Facebook page, we've got a 661 00:35:00.360 --> 00:35:02.559 lot of people that have battled this for a long 662 00:35:02.760 --> 00:35:07.480 long time. But there's a publication called Nutsedge An in 663 00:35:07.719 --> 00:35:11.480 Depth Look, and it's about three pages, but it goes 664 00:35:11.519 --> 00:35:13.239 into a lot of detail, a little bit of humor 665 00:35:13.280 --> 00:35:15.039 in there. We need, hey, we need to laugh a 666 00:35:15.079 --> 00:35:19.119 little bit, because this isn't a laughing matter, but it 667 00:35:19.239 --> 00:35:22.199 goes into the details of how it works. There's a 668 00:35:22.199 --> 00:35:24.960 difference between yellow and purple nut set, and you need 669 00:35:25.079 --> 00:35:27.239 to be able to know which one you have and 670 00:35:27.360 --> 00:35:29.920 I tell you exactly how to know real quick which 671 00:35:29.960 --> 00:35:32.559 one you have. And then there's some products that work 672 00:35:32.679 --> 00:35:36.119 better on purple than on yellow, for example, and there's 673 00:35:36.159 --> 00:35:39.599 some characteristics of each of those that are different. And 674 00:35:39.760 --> 00:35:42.039 so when you know what you're going after, and then 675 00:35:42.079 --> 00:35:45.159 you understand the fact that you can't let it have 676 00:35:45.320 --> 00:35:49.199 more than five leaves before you do something, or it's 677 00:35:49.320 --> 00:35:52.960 making new tubers, it helps guide you toward that answer. 678 00:35:53.079 --> 00:35:57.039 There's no one solution, and if you do anything one 679 00:35:57.159 --> 00:35:59.880 time or two times or maybe three times, isn't it's 680 00:36:00.000 --> 00:36:02.199 probably not going to be enough. You have to stay 681 00:36:02.280 --> 00:36:04.800 on it. But you can win the war on nuts 682 00:36:04.880 --> 00:36:07.440 edge nuts edd tips for winning the wars the fast 683 00:36:07.480 --> 00:36:09.719 sheet and nuts edge, and end up look is the 684 00:36:09.800 --> 00:36:12.679 slower sheet. It goes into the different products that are 685 00:36:12.719 --> 00:36:15.280 labeled for its juice, and I realized there's vegetable gardens 686 00:36:15.320 --> 00:36:17.559 and flower beds and lawns, and you can't use one 687 00:36:17.639 --> 00:36:20.599 product just anywhere you want. But the bottom line is 688 00:36:20.679 --> 00:36:22.599 you need to read that and you need to think 689 00:36:22.639 --> 00:36:24.920 about it because there's a lot of principles in there. 690 00:36:25.000 --> 00:36:28.119 And I see a lot of comments from people that say, well, 691 00:36:28.719 --> 00:36:32.559 such and such didn't work well, it doesn't work if 692 00:36:32.639 --> 00:36:34.960 you give it a chance to regroup. You know, a 693 00:36:35.079 --> 00:36:38.039 spray that makes it look like you killed it all 694 00:36:39.320 --> 00:36:42.079 because the plants were larger. It didn't kill the nut, 695 00:36:42.440 --> 00:36:44.519 so you killed it all, and then they all came 696 00:36:44.559 --> 00:36:47.679 back again. Maybe more so the spray didn't work. The 697 00:36:48.280 --> 00:36:50.960 spray didn't work because you didn't do it right. Your 698 00:36:51.039 --> 00:36:53.679 timing was off on it. And it actually it helped 699 00:36:53.760 --> 00:36:57.119 because you weakened the plant by killing the top. But 700 00:36:57.719 --> 00:36:59.519 that in and of itself isn't going to get rid 701 00:36:59.519 --> 00:37:01.719 of nuts. So I don't know. Take a look at 702 00:37:01.760 --> 00:37:05.760 that gardening with skip dot com. They're both there. You 703 00:37:05.920 --> 00:37:08.039 need to look at them. You need to really read 704 00:37:08.079 --> 00:37:11.199 them and think about them, because this isn't your typical 705 00:37:11.280 --> 00:37:13.559 little weed, you know. I mean, if it was just 706 00:37:14.199 --> 00:37:16.880 a chickweed growing up in a flower bed or something. 707 00:37:17.119 --> 00:37:18.960 I mean, you can throw mulch on it, it dies, 708 00:37:19.119 --> 00:37:21.760 you can hoe it and it's gone. You can know 709 00:37:22.039 --> 00:37:25.480 this is something different and understanding how it's working in 710 00:37:25.719 --> 00:37:30.639 differences help you have success. Well, that was a lot 711 00:37:30.679 --> 00:37:33.519 of words about nutsets, but I'm telling you this is 712 00:37:33.599 --> 00:37:35.559 an infernal weed. If you were to go around the 713 00:37:35.599 --> 00:37:39.639 world and say what are the top five weeds worldwide 714 00:37:40.280 --> 00:37:44.840 that are just a aim for farmers or gardeners or whatnot. 715 00:37:45.360 --> 00:37:47.679 That sedge is on that list. It's one of those 716 00:37:50.119 --> 00:37:53.599 just I don't know the words, don't describe them. I 717 00:37:53.679 --> 00:37:56.440 can describe them better if I use words I can't say. 718 00:37:56.280 --> 00:37:56.639 On the air. 719 00:37:56.760 --> 00:37:59.400 But I think you've probably used those words on nutsets 720 00:37:59.440 --> 00:38:04.039 if you haven't. Seriously, it's infernal, it is evil, it 721 00:38:05.199 --> 00:38:09.000 is wicked, it is malevolent. How's that? We can come 722 00:38:09.079 --> 00:38:12.119 up with some more, but it can be beat. I've 723 00:38:12.559 --> 00:38:14.400 taken a lot of time to put these together. I 724 00:38:14.599 --> 00:38:16.840 hope they will be helpful to you. Uh, and I 725 00:38:17.000 --> 00:38:20.440 just keep pointing to that website gardening. Let skip dot com. 726 00:38:20.639 --> 00:38:22.840 We're gonna take a break seven one three two one 727 00:38:22.960 --> 00:38:25.719 two k t r H. Call Chris, get on the 728 00:38:25.760 --> 00:38:27.679 boards and we'll talk to you when we come back. 729 00:38:30.840 --> 00:38:32.239 Christopher kat r H. 730 00:38:32.360 --> 00:38:34.400 Garden Line with Skimp Richard. 731 00:38:34.440 --> 00:38:44.719 It's just watch him as. 732 00:38:49.760 --> 00:38:53.000 So many black basic eay. 733 00:39:02.840 --> 00:39:07.079 Hey, welcome back to garden Line. Welcome back. I'm your host, 734 00:39:07.280 --> 00:39:09.920 Skip Richter, and we're here to help you have a 735 00:39:10.000 --> 00:39:13.000 more bountiful garden and a more beautiful landscape when you 736 00:39:13.119 --> 00:39:15.880 look at the I was before break. I was talking 737 00:39:15.880 --> 00:39:19.360 about the new publications, two of them on nuts Edge 738 00:39:19.760 --> 00:39:23.239 that I put on my website, Gardening with Skip dot com. 739 00:39:24.360 --> 00:39:26.800 And if you're looking at it and you're saying, well, okay, 740 00:39:26.880 --> 00:39:29.119 I'd like to try one of those sprays. But and 741 00:39:29.239 --> 00:39:33.599 let me just I have to interject here because sometimes 742 00:39:33.679 --> 00:39:36.519 folks listen to part of what you say, but not everything. 743 00:39:37.199 --> 00:39:41.199 And that's true universally, especially those of you have kids. 744 00:39:41.280 --> 00:39:43.760 Know what we're talking about. Our spouses know what we're 745 00:39:43.840 --> 00:39:48.000 talking about. Seriously, though a joking his side, people are 746 00:39:48.039 --> 00:39:50.440 not listening to everything I'm saying about nuts Edge, and 747 00:39:50.559 --> 00:39:53.719 I need you to hear the whole thing. It's no 748 00:39:54.039 --> 00:39:57.280 one solution. It's not put this spray on and that's 749 00:39:57.360 --> 00:39:59.679 a miracle. It'll kill it. There are some really good 750 00:39:59.719 --> 00:40:04.039 sprea are some worthless sprays, but that won't do it. 751 00:40:04.400 --> 00:40:08.119 It's not we'll just dig it all up. Yes, you'll 752 00:40:08.159 --> 00:40:10.239 get most of it, and that's a great idea in 753 00:40:10.400 --> 00:40:13.480 terms of a non spray organic if you will way 754 00:40:13.519 --> 00:40:15.280 to go about it. But you're not going to get 755 00:40:15.280 --> 00:40:17.079 it all You don't have to dig it again, dig 756 00:40:17.119 --> 00:40:20.760 it again, stay on it. The thing with nuts edge 757 00:40:20.880 --> 00:40:24.960 is don't stop. Just look at the things I've put 758 00:40:25.000 --> 00:40:29.920 on my publications. There's several options on there, and none 759 00:40:30.000 --> 00:40:32.360 of them is a miracle cure. But if you grab 760 00:40:32.480 --> 00:40:34.840 two or three of those and you stay on it 761 00:40:35.000 --> 00:40:39.440 and understand that once it's hit five leaves, now you 762 00:40:39.599 --> 00:40:42.880 got to do something or you have worse problem than 763 00:40:42.920 --> 00:40:47.639 when you begin. That is what's important. So if you're 764 00:40:47.679 --> 00:40:51.840 looking for a quality spray product as part of the arsenal, 765 00:40:52.119 --> 00:40:55.519 part of the arsenal that you will repeatedly apply to 766 00:40:55.639 --> 00:40:58.440 when this war, you can go to ACE Hardware and 767 00:40:58.559 --> 00:41:03.000 they've got it. I talk about sedgehammer on there. By 768 00:41:03.039 --> 00:41:06.280 the way, Sedgehammer plus already has a surfacting in it, 769 00:41:06.599 --> 00:41:09.559 so I would get that one that was a good one. 770 00:41:09.920 --> 00:41:10.039 Uh. 771 00:41:10.119 --> 00:41:14.679 There is image, there is Uh. People use a lot 772 00:41:14.719 --> 00:41:16.480 of different things. The artisen will sit here and name 773 00:41:16.519 --> 00:41:18.239 all the products. You can go read about that on 774 00:41:18.320 --> 00:41:21.519 my publications. But whatever you use, you have to stand it. 775 00:41:21.880 --> 00:41:23.840 ACE Hardware store is going to have all those kinds 776 00:41:23.880 --> 00:41:26.280 of things. And when you get them and take them 777 00:41:26.280 --> 00:41:30.159 home from Ace, read the label. Read the label. Image 778 00:41:30.599 --> 00:41:35.039 is an effective control against some types of some type 779 00:41:35.079 --> 00:41:40.440 of nuts edge. But every label has warnings. If you 780 00:41:40.599 --> 00:41:43.559 wait and it's blazing hot and you nuke your yard 781 00:41:43.679 --> 00:41:46.400 with image, especially applied over the label, you're going to 782 00:41:46.480 --> 00:41:51.199 cause damage to your yard. That's the case. Read the labels. 783 00:41:51.280 --> 00:41:54.639 It's I know we don't like to read instructions. Guys 784 00:41:54.679 --> 00:41:58.000 are notorious for not wanting to read instructions or stop 785 00:41:58.039 --> 00:41:59.119 and ask for directions. 786 00:41:59.239 --> 00:41:59.360 Right. 787 00:42:00.000 --> 00:42:04.559 Well, if you don't, then you get to pay grow. 788 00:42:04.760 --> 00:42:06.320 When my kid's grown up, I used to call it 789 00:42:06.400 --> 00:42:08.480 the stupid tax. You get to pay the stupid tax. 790 00:42:08.559 --> 00:42:12.760 When you're stupid, you get to pay a tax. Believe me, 791 00:42:13.000 --> 00:42:15.719 I have done stupid things in my life and gotten 792 00:42:15.760 --> 00:42:17.559 to pay the tax. Well, that's what I call it, 793 00:42:17.719 --> 00:42:20.599 stupid tax. I got a great product that works. I 794 00:42:20.679 --> 00:42:23.320 didn't read the label. I applied it. I damaged my lawn. 795 00:42:23.480 --> 00:42:25.760 It didn't work on the product I was on the plan. 796 00:42:25.840 --> 00:42:28.360 I was springing it on because I didn't read the label. 797 00:42:28.599 --> 00:42:31.480 That's the stupid tax. So don't pay the stupid tax. 798 00:42:32.000 --> 00:42:34.519 ACE Hardware Store can put the right product in your hand, 799 00:42:34.559 --> 00:42:36.639 though I'm kind of wandering off here. By the way, 800 00:42:36.679 --> 00:42:39.280 while you're at ACE, grab you some fire ant bait. 801 00:42:39.559 --> 00:42:42.440 They are back this rain has brought a bunch of 802 00:42:42.480 --> 00:42:45.320 the surface. Baits are the best way to go about 803 00:42:45.360 --> 00:42:48.400 it for the long term. The long haul, the less 804 00:42:49.159 --> 00:42:52.960 environmentally damaging way, the least amount of pesticide you put 805 00:42:53.000 --> 00:42:55.800 in your environment is with a bait as opposed to 806 00:42:56.360 --> 00:42:57.639 an individual mound treatment. 807 00:42:58.519 --> 00:42:58.760 Do that. 808 00:42:58.840 --> 00:43:02.199 It's mosquitoes. Have everything you need for mosquitos at Ace Harbard. 809 00:43:02.280 --> 00:43:03.840 Ace is the place. So I mean, I can sit 810 00:43:03.880 --> 00:43:06.320 here naming things, but the bottom line is if you 811 00:43:06.400 --> 00:43:07.800 need it for your lawn and garden, if you want 812 00:43:07.800 --> 00:43:10.639 to have more bountiful garden, a more beautiful landscape, Ace 813 00:43:10.760 --> 00:43:14.320 is the place. Acehardware dot Com is their website. Go there, 814 00:43:14.519 --> 00:43:17.599 find the store locator. It's easy to find and you 815 00:43:17.679 --> 00:43:21.159 can find that Ace Hardware is near you. It is 816 00:43:21.360 --> 00:43:24.320 as simple as that. Well, I wanted to I did 817 00:43:24.400 --> 00:43:26.639 want to kind of reiterate a little bit on that 818 00:43:27.199 --> 00:43:31.519 the nuts Edge, and I'm I posted to Facebook something 819 00:43:31.679 --> 00:43:34.920 about it, a photo that some find humorous I did 820 00:43:35.559 --> 00:43:38.760 of nut said, and there's a lot of comments on it. 821 00:43:39.000 --> 00:43:41.400 And as I read the comments, it's like you didn't 822 00:43:41.480 --> 00:43:44.639 read the publication. You're just telling me it didn't something 823 00:43:44.719 --> 00:43:46.800 didn't work, or this or that I can take exactly 824 00:43:46.840 --> 00:43:51.599 why it didn't work read the publication, but I understand. 825 00:43:51.840 --> 00:43:56.960 I'm I have a what is it selective hearing myself sometimes, 826 00:43:57.239 --> 00:43:59.960 So I just want to tell you that I don't 827 00:44:00.000 --> 00:44:01.800 don't care what you're going after. I don't care if 828 00:44:01.800 --> 00:44:07.079 you're using an organic product or synthetic product. Read the label. 829 00:44:07.800 --> 00:44:12.360 Everything has drawbacks, and if you get enough of anything, 830 00:44:12.559 --> 00:44:14.960 it can be a poison. They say the dose makes 831 00:44:14.960 --> 00:44:18.760 a poison. Table salt and aspirin or poisons you take enough. 832 00:44:18.840 --> 00:44:21.199 There is a number I can't remember what exactly, but 833 00:44:21.360 --> 00:44:24.760 milligrams per kilograma body weight of table salt that will 834 00:44:24.800 --> 00:44:27.760 kill you, of aspirin that will kill you. Everything is 835 00:44:27.760 --> 00:44:31.840 a poison and everything has side effects. One of the safest, simplest, 836 00:44:32.039 --> 00:44:36.840 easiest to recommend products on the market for insect control, 837 00:44:36.960 --> 00:44:41.679 soft bidied insect control is insecticidal soap. It kills aphids, 838 00:44:41.760 --> 00:44:44.920 it kills spider mites, It works wonderfully. It is not 839 00:44:45.280 --> 00:44:50.400 a toxin that we have to worry about. But lady 840 00:44:50.440 --> 00:44:54.639 be larvae or small soft bodied insects, lace wing larva 841 00:44:55.039 --> 00:45:00.280 or small soft bided insects, aphids with wasps growing end 842 00:45:00.320 --> 00:45:03.280 them when you kill the that what's left of that aphid. 843 00:45:03.400 --> 00:45:06.840 You can kill the wasp with soap. Even soap as 844 00:45:06.880 --> 00:45:09.920 its drawbacks doesn't mean it's not a good product. It 845 00:45:10.079 --> 00:45:12.119 just means we got to quit thinking about this is 846 00:45:12.280 --> 00:45:16.639 great good, this is bad. You know, Yes, there's degrees 847 00:45:16.679 --> 00:45:20.679 of toxicity and stuff, but I don't care what you're doing. 848 00:45:20.920 --> 00:45:24.360 If you especially if you're an organic gardener, don't just 849 00:45:24.480 --> 00:45:28.039 assume because it's natural that you can use it indiscriminately. 850 00:45:28.239 --> 00:45:32.480 That is not the case. And so whatever you're using that, 851 00:45:33.159 --> 00:45:39.559 read the label. Please read the label. All right. Well, 852 00:45:39.800 --> 00:45:41.400 I guess that was a little bit of a soapbox 853 00:45:41.480 --> 00:45:44.119 forgive me for that. But I listen, I've been doing 854 00:45:44.159 --> 00:45:47.280 this thirty five years and I cannot tell you how 855 00:45:47.360 --> 00:45:53.800 many times I've heard stories about products that destroyed something. 856 00:45:54.079 --> 00:45:58.840 And it's as simple as applicator error, failure to read 857 00:45:59.000 --> 00:46:03.639 and follow label instructions. Ana Plants and Produce is one 858 00:46:03.679 --> 00:46:05.400 of those garden centers I was telling you. We got 859 00:46:05.440 --> 00:46:07.599 them all over Houston that are just you gotta go. 860 00:46:08.000 --> 00:46:10.679 And Ana Plants and Produce is up there in the 861 00:46:10.760 --> 00:46:14.280 Montgomery area, so all of you up in Lake Conroe area, 862 00:46:14.320 --> 00:46:17.320 all those neighborhoods out there, April Sound, Belt, water and 863 00:46:17.360 --> 00:46:20.639 all that. That is your backyard garden center. And I 864 00:46:20.719 --> 00:46:22.559 know people that drive a distance to get up to 865 00:46:22.599 --> 00:46:25.480 Ana because they love going there. They carry all the 866 00:46:25.599 --> 00:46:29.880 products I talk about on garden Line, Nitroposs, Nelson's Microlife, Airloom, Souls, 867 00:46:30.000 --> 00:46:33.639 Nature's Way, They're all there. They have a team that 868 00:46:33.760 --> 00:46:35.960 goes out and does some landscape work even if you 869 00:46:36.000 --> 00:46:38.320 want that. A and A Plants and Produce are on 870 00:46:38.440 --> 00:46:43.119 the east side of Montgomery, east side of Montgomery, right 871 00:46:43.199 --> 00:46:48.039 there on Highway one oh five. Their plant selection is outstanding. 872 00:46:48.559 --> 00:46:51.320 They have wonderful bling for the landscape. Right now, they 873 00:46:51.400 --> 00:46:53.559 got a sale I believe still going on on metal 874 00:46:54.039 --> 00:46:57.360 art for the landscape. That is really cool stuff. Ana 875 00:46:57.440 --> 00:46:59.480 Plants and Produce. I'm gonna take a little break here. 876 00:46:59.519 --> 00:47:01.280 I'll be right back. Hey, here's the number if you'd 877 00:47:01.320 --> 00:47:03.880 like to get on the board. We're talking about exciting 878 00:47:03.960 --> 00:47:06.679 things that I like. Nutsedge. I guess we ought to 879 00:47:06.679 --> 00:47:09.360 put fire ants next on the list when it comes 880 00:47:09.400 --> 00:47:13.360 to infernal things. By the way, in the nuts Edge publication, 881 00:47:13.519 --> 00:47:16.159 the in depth one that I just put online on 882 00:47:16.280 --> 00:47:19.519 my website, I mentioned the fact that did you know 883 00:47:19.679 --> 00:47:21.960 that this is a fun fact for nutsedge? And there's 884 00:47:22.039 --> 00:47:25.159 not much fun about nuts edge, but nuts edge. The 885 00:47:25.559 --> 00:47:31.119 scientific name nerd alert nerd alert is Cyparis esculentus. When 886 00:47:31.159 --> 00:47:34.360 you see esculentis in a scientific name, it means you 887 00:47:34.440 --> 00:47:37.280 can eat it. That's basically what it means. That's my 888 00:47:37.440 --> 00:47:41.320 version of the Latin translation. You can eat it. Do 889 00:47:41.360 --> 00:47:43.960 you know you can eat the nuts the tubers of 890 00:47:44.559 --> 00:47:48.800 yellow nuts edge? Well you can, and you will learn 891 00:47:48.920 --> 00:47:52.559 quickly that there's a difference between the word edible and 892 00:47:52.679 --> 00:47:56.960 the word palatable. You're not the same thing. I've actually 893 00:47:57.079 --> 00:48:01.280 tried it. They call them earth almonds, and it's like 894 00:48:01.920 --> 00:48:06.159 it has an almond ish, almony almonish taste. You chow 895 00:48:06.239 --> 00:48:07.840 it a while, it's kind of yeah, it's a little 896 00:48:07.880 --> 00:48:10.840 on the sweet side. It's a little almony, and then 897 00:48:10.920 --> 00:48:12.360 you kind of are going, so what do I do 898 00:48:12.480 --> 00:48:15.239 with this sawdust left in my mouth? Spit it out? 899 00:48:15.599 --> 00:48:18.719 But actually, there is a kind of it that is 900 00:48:18.840 --> 00:48:21.480 popular in some parts of the of the world, especially 901 00:48:21.519 --> 00:48:25.400 you get over in some areas of like North Africa 902 00:48:25.559 --> 00:48:29.159 at least, where they have one called they call it 903 00:48:29.280 --> 00:48:33.639 chufa chufa chiffa nuts or earth almonds or tiger nuts, 904 00:48:33.679 --> 00:48:36.559 that's another name for it, and they're a little plumper. 905 00:48:36.760 --> 00:48:40.000 The tubers are plumper and they're set kind of close 906 00:48:40.239 --> 00:48:43.119 to the base of the plant so that it's you 907 00:48:43.199 --> 00:48:45.760 can get a harvest out of it. And they make 908 00:48:46.000 --> 00:48:49.800 In Spain they make a version of horchata, which it's 909 00:48:49.880 --> 00:48:53.480 horchata de chufa, which means that you can make horchata, 910 00:48:53.519 --> 00:48:58.280 which is a milky drink that's made from something like that. Well, 911 00:48:58.320 --> 00:49:01.039 you can make it out of nut yellow. By the way, 912 00:49:01.159 --> 00:49:05.480 yellow nuts ittge not purple. Purple is bitter hoteta chif 913 00:49:05.599 --> 00:49:09.559 But here's the fun fact. They've dug into the Pyramids 914 00:49:09.599 --> 00:49:12.840 of Egypt, the pay Rose burial places and found they 915 00:49:12.880 --> 00:49:17.679 were buried with chiff and nuts. Now, how many of 916 00:49:17.760 --> 00:49:20.840 you out there want to go to your grave with 917 00:49:21.119 --> 00:49:27.519 nuts edge that's like throwing his zeplock of fire ants. Please, Seriously, 918 00:49:27.800 --> 00:49:30.400 they thought so much of them they're snack food that 919 00:49:30.559 --> 00:49:32.880 they were buried with their chiff and nuts. So, I 920 00:49:32.960 --> 00:49:36.119 don't know. You can't make this stuff up, and I'm 921 00:49:36.199 --> 00:49:38.320 not making it up. It is the truth. It's in 922 00:49:38.440 --> 00:49:41.280 the publication. One of the few fun facts among the 923 00:49:41.360 --> 00:49:43.880 other things that's out there. Hey, if you're trying to 924 00:49:43.920 --> 00:49:46.599 do your law and fertilization, you haven't done it in 925 00:49:46.639 --> 00:49:48.880 a while. You need to get some boost out there 926 00:49:49.000 --> 00:49:52.559 in that turf. Sweet green from Nitrofoss can do just that. 927 00:49:52.679 --> 00:49:55.719 Sweet green is an eleven percent nitrogen which is high 928 00:49:55.880 --> 00:49:59.920 for a natural organic type product. Eleven percent nitrogen content. 929 00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:05.039 It's made from a molasses base. Molasses stimulates microbial activity 930 00:50:05.119 --> 00:50:09.000 the good guys, the beneficial bacteria, for example, in the soil. 931 00:50:09.760 --> 00:50:13.280 Molasses is a stimulant for that because it's a carbon 932 00:50:13.400 --> 00:50:17.159 source for them. And sweet grain is that kind of product. 933 00:50:17.400 --> 00:50:21.119 Now we are in the middle of summer, and as 934 00:50:21.199 --> 00:50:23.679 a result, I would suggest you take that sweet grain. 935 00:50:24.079 --> 00:50:27.039 Normally you'd put ten pounds per thousand square feet. I 936 00:50:27.079 --> 00:50:29.119 would suggest you split it in half. Go ahead and 937 00:50:29.199 --> 00:50:32.280 do five pounds now, and then about six to eight 938 00:50:32.320 --> 00:50:35.039 weeks from now, do it again with the other five 939 00:50:35.159 --> 00:50:37.800 pounds that you would have put on at once. That'll 940 00:50:37.840 --> 00:50:40.280 give you a more even growth over a period of 941 00:50:40.360 --> 00:50:43.679 time and carry you on up to when it's time 942 00:50:43.760 --> 00:50:47.760 to do fall fertilizations. Sweet grain from nitrofoss. If you 943 00:50:48.000 --> 00:50:51.559 have ever gone shopping for night fross products before you know. 944 00:50:51.679 --> 00:50:55.400 They're easy to find, widespread, easy, easy to find here. 945 00:50:55.400 --> 00:50:57.280 You can get it at the ace out at Sincle Ranch. 946 00:50:57.400 --> 00:51:00.000 They carry nit fross out there a task, a seat 947 00:51:00.119 --> 00:51:02.239 to ace up in a test casito on timber forests. 948 00:51:02.239 --> 00:51:04.320 They've got it up there. Go down to the lake 949 00:51:04.360 --> 00:51:07.519 hardware include on Dixie Drive. You're gonna find it there 950 00:51:07.559 --> 00:51:11.840 in Jim's Hardware down up in Montgomery on FM fourteen 951 00:51:11.960 --> 00:51:15.760 ninety seven also has nitropos type products. Let's go ahead 952 00:51:15.760 --> 00:51:18.400 and head out to the phones now and we're going 953 00:51:18.480 --> 00:51:20.920 to go to Pearland and talk to Kay. Well. Okay, 954 00:51:21.000 --> 00:51:22.119 welcome back to garden Line. 955 00:51:22.800 --> 00:51:25.639 Good morning, Skips, good to talk with you again. Thank 956 00:51:25.719 --> 00:51:26.719 you for taking my call. 957 00:51:27.079 --> 00:51:28.039 I have a quick question. 958 00:51:28.840 --> 00:51:34.159 Is bug out Max safe for pets if the granule. 959 00:51:33.880 --> 00:51:36.960 Well any yeah, in the granular you're gonna put it 960 00:51:36.960 --> 00:51:38.719 on the granular and then you water it in, so 961 00:51:38.760 --> 00:51:40.519 I wouldn't have the pets out there when you're putting 962 00:51:40.519 --> 00:51:42.880 it out. I would water it in really good and 963 00:51:42.960 --> 00:51:46.360 once it dries that I believe the labeled words it 964 00:51:46.440 --> 00:51:48.760 that way. Once it dries, it's it's you know, safe 965 00:51:48.880 --> 00:51:53.880 to go out. Okay, and do now you know, any 966 00:51:54.199 --> 00:51:57.519 any pasticide in and of itself is not safe, right 967 00:51:57.920 --> 00:52:02.000 because it is a poisoner for some thing. But in general, 968 00:52:02.159 --> 00:52:04.480 when you apply it right like this, they're not they're 969 00:52:04.519 --> 00:52:07.239 not going to be exposed to the the in the 970 00:52:07.320 --> 00:52:09.639 way or in the quantity that would be a concern 971 00:52:10.159 --> 00:52:10.440 for you. 972 00:52:10.840 --> 00:52:14.519 Okay, okay, alrighty, thank you so much, and have a 973 00:52:14.599 --> 00:52:15.159 blessed day. 974 00:52:15.840 --> 00:52:16.159 Bye bye. 975 00:52:16.320 --> 00:52:18.280 Well that was fast and easy, kay, all right, you 976 00:52:18.360 --> 00:52:22.840 have fun out there in Paarland. Appreciate your call there 977 00:52:22.960 --> 00:52:25.559 you go, all right, if you'd like to give us 978 00:52:25.559 --> 00:52:28.280 a call here on garden line the phone number seven 979 00:52:28.480 --> 00:52:32.119 one three two one two k t r H. Seven 980 00:52:32.199 --> 00:52:36.840 one three two one two k t r H. Well, 981 00:52:37.039 --> 00:52:38.960 the storms that we had come through, we had the 982 00:52:39.000 --> 00:52:40.840 one that wasn't a hurricane and the one that was 983 00:52:41.000 --> 00:52:47.280 Hurricane Berrel. Both of them just hammered our trees so much. 984 00:52:47.360 --> 00:52:49.920 It's a wonder there's a living tree in Houston still 985 00:52:50.000 --> 00:52:52.639 standing at with all the damage that was caused by those. 986 00:52:53.400 --> 00:52:53.519 Uh. 987 00:52:53.719 --> 00:52:56.880 And that just reminds us that we need our trees 988 00:52:56.960 --> 00:52:59.920 to be properly trained and pruned when a storm come. 989 00:53:00.519 --> 00:53:02.719 Now you can have the most perfect tree in the world, 990 00:53:02.960 --> 00:53:04.880 and the right kind of storms gonna knock it down. 991 00:53:05.039 --> 00:53:07.800 Just like you can have the strongest built house in 992 00:53:07.840 --> 00:53:09.719 the world and you get an earthquake followed by a 993 00:53:09.800 --> 00:53:12.880 Category five tornado and so on. You see what I'm saying. 994 00:53:13.599 --> 00:53:16.400 But why not do everything you can to make that 995 00:53:16.519 --> 00:53:19.119 tree as strong and as resilient as possible. And that's 996 00:53:19.119 --> 00:53:22.639 what Martin spoon Moore specializes in. Martin spoon Moore, his 997 00:53:22.800 --> 00:53:25.760 company is Affordable Tree Service. You hear about me talk 998 00:53:25.800 --> 00:53:28.599 about them all the time here on Guardline. They're are 999 00:53:28.679 --> 00:53:33.000 go to treecare person here on Guardline. Affordable Tree Service 1000 00:53:33.199 --> 00:53:38.559 the website. Write this down Afftree Service dot com. Afftree 1001 00:53:38.840 --> 00:53:41.119 Service dot Com. You don't know when you're gonna need them, 1002 00:53:41.679 --> 00:53:43.760 but I can tell you this. It's always a good 1003 00:53:43.800 --> 00:53:46.519 time to have Martin come out to assess things, to 1004 00:53:46.639 --> 00:53:48.679 look at the trees. You know, if it needs something, 1005 00:53:48.760 --> 00:53:51.039 he'll tell you. If it doesn't, he'll tell you. But 1006 00:53:51.280 --> 00:53:54.719 do you need to do some proper treecare coming into 1007 00:53:54.800 --> 00:53:57.719 this storm season. I can't impress enough on you the 1008 00:53:57.800 --> 00:54:01.679 importance of proper tree care and proper pruning, selective pruning 1009 00:54:02.039 --> 00:54:05.440 to make them safer. In heavy winds to set them 1010 00:54:05.559 --> 00:54:08.639 up for storm readiness, to do what's in your power. 1011 00:54:09.000 --> 00:54:10.840 But what else are you doing around those trees? 1012 00:54:11.039 --> 00:54:11.199 You know? 1013 00:54:11.519 --> 00:54:13.280 Tree roots go out two and a half times a 1014 00:54:13.320 --> 00:54:16.199 height in all directions of the tree. Yes, that's a 1015 00:54:16.320 --> 00:54:19.280 long way. So your tree has roots in your two 1016 00:54:19.360 --> 00:54:23.039 houses down in their yard. That that's just how they grow. 1017 00:54:23.400 --> 00:54:25.360 So what happens when you'd run a trench across a 1018 00:54:25.480 --> 00:54:28.360 root system ten feet from the trunk. You cut a 1019 00:54:28.639 --> 00:54:32.840 lot of important roots. And Martin can advise you on 1020 00:54:33.119 --> 00:54:35.360 when you need to do work, what should you do 1021 00:54:35.679 --> 00:54:37.480 ahead of time, or how should you go about it? 1022 00:54:38.039 --> 00:54:40.840 So anything related to your trees, Martin's going to be 1023 00:54:40.880 --> 00:54:42.920 able to help you with. I suggest you give them 1024 00:54:42.960 --> 00:54:45.920 a call. Here's a number seven to one three six 1025 00:54:46.079 --> 00:54:50.199 nine nine twenty six sixty three seven one three six 1026 00:54:50.400 --> 00:54:55.639 nine nine two six six three Affordable Tree Service Martin Spodmore. 1027 00:54:57.119 --> 00:54:59.000 Let's go up to the woodlands now and I'm going 1028 00:54:59.079 --> 00:55:01.079 to talk to Mike next. Huh, Mike. 1029 00:55:02.519 --> 00:55:04.039 Mon Ski, welcome to garden. 1030 00:55:04.280 --> 00:55:05.360 Yeah, welcome to Guardline. 1031 00:55:06.480 --> 00:55:06.760 Thank you. 1032 00:55:07.039 --> 00:55:07.159 Uh. 1033 00:55:07.599 --> 00:55:10.559 We were gifted a thorny key lime tree this week, 1034 00:55:11.119 --> 00:55:14.239 and I'm wondering how you would plant it. We really 1035 00:55:14.280 --> 00:55:15.480 want to put it in the pot so we can 1036 00:55:15.519 --> 00:55:17.920 bring it in and out. It's in a ten inch 1037 00:55:18.000 --> 00:55:20.199 pot right now, and it's about three foot tall. 1038 00:55:21.920 --> 00:55:24.880 Okay, you wanting to plant it in the ground. Is 1039 00:55:24.960 --> 00:55:25.679 that what you're saying? 1040 00:55:29.039 --> 00:55:29.679 In a container? 1041 00:55:29.800 --> 00:55:29.960 Yes? 1042 00:55:31.039 --> 00:55:35.199 Good, good, Well, that's that's wise, especially up in the woodlands. 1043 00:55:36.159 --> 00:55:40.239 So I would if I would probably move it to 1044 00:55:40.400 --> 00:55:42.880 the next pot size up. So if it's ten inch, 1045 00:55:43.000 --> 00:55:44.880 you know, you can go something about a foot across, 1046 00:55:45.000 --> 00:55:46.440 or or you can go wider than that. 1047 00:55:47.239 --> 00:55:47.360 Uh. 1048 00:55:47.760 --> 00:55:51.639 The the idea is the more root system you give 1049 00:55:51.719 --> 00:55:55.159 that tree, the more resilient it is. So in other words, 1050 00:55:55.199 --> 00:55:58.679 on a hot summer day, a larger volume of soil 1051 00:55:58.800 --> 00:56:01.599 means it doesn't try out as fast because it can 1052 00:56:01.719 --> 00:56:04.719 draw in more moisture. In a confined space, there's less 1053 00:56:04.800 --> 00:56:07.920 room for moisture and the soil, and so the bigger 1054 00:56:08.119 --> 00:56:11.840 you move it into, the more resilient it is. So 1055 00:56:12.000 --> 00:56:14.960 you'll have to decide that. Of course. You know, there's 1056 00:56:14.960 --> 00:56:17.480 a lot of beautiful containers out there that you can use, 1057 00:56:17.559 --> 00:56:19.960 but the trees don't care what they're growing in. It 1058 00:56:20.000 --> 00:56:22.280 could be the ugliest bucket on earth, and it's just 1059 00:56:22.639 --> 00:56:25.639 got the soil volume, quality soil, and good nutrition, and 1060 00:56:25.719 --> 00:56:28.719 it's going to be happy. But for our purposes, a 1061 00:56:28.840 --> 00:56:31.599 beautiful container is nice. Just remember you're going to need 1062 00:56:31.639 --> 00:56:33.920 to move it, and that's going to take moving it 1063 00:56:34.039 --> 00:56:36.159 with a dolly and a strap so that when we 1064 00:56:36.280 --> 00:56:39.519 do have cold weather which will come, you can protect 1065 00:56:39.599 --> 00:56:42.800 because it has very little cold tolerance at all. 1066 00:56:44.159 --> 00:56:45.960 Right, I was I was going to put it in 1067 00:56:46.360 --> 00:56:49.440 a much larger pod just for just for those reasons. 1068 00:56:49.480 --> 00:56:52.159 And yes, I I have a dolly and I have 1069 00:56:52.519 --> 00:56:59.719 probably fifty posts out there, so I know the drill thing. Yeah. 1070 00:57:00.079 --> 00:57:03.719 Other thing is I read that it needs the fertilizer 1071 00:57:04.239 --> 00:57:06.679 quite a dead So what are your thoughts. I was 1072 00:57:06.719 --> 00:57:09.679 going to get some Nelson's at ACE today. 1073 00:57:12.039 --> 00:57:15.760 That's a winning combo Nelson and Ice. I would get 1074 00:57:15.800 --> 00:57:19.280 their citrus type fertilizer. If for some reason they don't 1075 00:57:19.400 --> 00:57:22.559 have the citrus type fertilizer, but you can get their 1076 00:57:22.639 --> 00:57:25.199 tree and shrub fertilizer. Use that one. And if you 1077 00:57:25.280 --> 00:57:30.320 can't get that, just a citrus is is not so 1078 00:57:30.480 --> 00:57:33.480 particular that you have to have exactly the right fertilizer 1079 00:57:33.599 --> 00:57:36.320 or the plant's not going to grow. So just just 1080 00:57:36.400 --> 00:57:38.960 get one that's good, follow the label on how much 1081 00:57:39.039 --> 00:57:42.360 to put out. You know, if you were gonna depending 1082 00:57:42.440 --> 00:57:44.159 on the size of the pot, you're going to put 1083 00:57:44.199 --> 00:57:46.679 a different amount out on the surface of the soil 1084 00:57:46.760 --> 00:57:49.880 and watered in really good. Uh, and it'll it'll start 1085 00:57:49.920 --> 00:57:54.400 supporting that growth. Mike, I would hold off after when 1086 00:57:54.440 --> 00:57:57.559 we get through August. Let's say, I probably wouldn't do 1087 00:57:57.559 --> 00:58:00.519 a lot of fertilization. Certainly not when we're like out 1088 00:58:00.599 --> 00:58:04.960 late September and October, because fertilizer does promote flushes of 1089 00:58:05.079 --> 00:58:08.559 late season growth, and that tender succulent stuff that hadn't 1090 00:58:08.719 --> 00:58:12.000 turned woody yet. The first cool weather is going to 1091 00:58:12.039 --> 00:58:14.039 really damage it more than it would the rest of 1092 00:58:14.119 --> 00:58:16.119 the p even so don't push it into a lot 1093 00:58:16.159 --> 00:58:17.599 of late late season growth. 1094 00:58:19.480 --> 00:58:21.079 Perfect, Okay, thank you so much. 1095 00:58:22.239 --> 00:58:24.360 Now you've heard. If you listen to Guardline, you know 1096 00:58:24.440 --> 00:58:26.239 that I always ask people to bring me half their 1097 00:58:26.320 --> 00:58:30.639 produce if my advice is successful. But in your case, 1098 00:58:30.840 --> 00:58:32.800 I think I'm going to go for something else. When 1099 00:58:32.880 --> 00:58:35.760 those lines are ready, call me and I'll come over 1100 00:58:35.800 --> 00:58:36.880 and we'll have Margarita's. 1101 00:58:36.880 --> 00:58:40.519 How about that Margarita's and key lime pie? 1102 00:58:40.559 --> 00:58:40.960 How about that? 1103 00:58:41.760 --> 00:58:44.400 They're oh gosh, I forgot about that. That may be 1104 00:58:44.480 --> 00:58:48.280 above a margarita. Thanks a lot, man, appreciate your call, 1105 00:58:49.039 --> 00:58:52.960 take care, Thank you, Bye bye. All right, folks, time 1106 00:58:53.000 --> 00:58:56.119 for another break seven one three two one two KTRH. 1107 00:58:56.159 --> 00:58:56.880 I'll be right back. 1108 00:59:00.199 --> 00:59:01.280 Houston's News. 1109 00:59:01.400 --> 00:59:04.440 Why there are traffic plus breaking news twenty four to seventh. 1110 00:59:04.719 --> 00:59:09.960 This is News Radio seven forty KTRH five everywhere bore 1111 00:59:10.920 --> 00:59:14.760 more of what's happening now from the John Morris Services studios. 1112 00:59:15.199 --> 00:59:17.639 Drawing a big crowd for another rally. I'm Jared Lewis 1113 00:59:17.679 --> 00:59:20.159 sitt seven thirty on News Radio seven forty khr. 1114 00:59:20.239 --> 00:59:22.519 Eh. Time for a look at traffic and whether together. 1115 00:59:22.599 --> 00:59:25.960 We have Gary Mack, the roadwork between Barrett and Sheldon 1116 00:59:26.320 --> 00:59:28.199 that's ballooned up to a twenty minute Do you lay 1117 00:59:28.239 --> 00:59:30.199 now out on highway night that you spent after the 1118 00:59:30.320 --> 00:59:34.239 Stcenter River approaching twenty one hundred. We remain accident free 1119 00:59:34.320 --> 00:59:36.719 all around the speak cut, so we have that going 1120 00:59:36.800 --> 00:59:39.199 for us. Good morning, great to see you again. We'll 1121 00:59:39.280 --> 00:59:42.000 dive into some drive times, not that we need it yet. 1122 00:59:42.480 --> 00:59:45.000 On the way Gary Mack and the Generator Supercenter dot 1123 00:59:45.079 --> 00:59:45.960 Com Traffic. 1124 00:59:45.679 --> 00:59:48.440 Center Speck sunshat on the Saturday, with the high ninety 1125 00:59:48.480 --> 00:59:50.599 eight the heat index between one hundred and one oh five, 1126 00:59:50.639 --> 00:59:53.199 though adding into humidity let then clear. Alderbike will look 1127 00:59:53.239 --> 00:59:56.199 down of seventy nine. I'm meteorialogist Jeff mar from the 1128 00:59:56.239 --> 00:59:58.000 Weather Channel eighty this morning. 1129 00:59:57.840 --> 01:00:00.920 At the Key Cherries Generator Supercenter twenty four Weather Center, 1130 01:00:01.039 --> 01:00:03.320 k t H News Time seven thirty one. Our top 1131 01:00:03.400 --> 01:00:06.519 story a big rally in the Big Sky state of 1132 01:00:06.679 --> 01:00:10.320 Montana for former President Donald Trump. He helped campaign for 1133 01:00:10.440 --> 01:00:12.880 Tim Sheehe, the man running for the us N seat 1134 01:00:12.920 --> 01:00:16.440 currently held by Democrat John Tester. Trump's running mate j. D. 1135 01:00:16.599 --> 01:00:20.039 Vance meanwhile, expected to be in Texas this weekend, starting 1136 01:00:20.119 --> 01:00:24.199 Sunday a fundraiser in Laredo. Then on Monday, Vance will 1137 01:00:24.239 --> 01:00:27.480 appear at a few events in San Antonio and here 1138 01:00:27.559 --> 01:00:30.800 in Houston. The Trump Train rallies are hitting Texas this 1139 01:00:30.920 --> 01:00:34.719 weekend too. They'll be local officials in Sabata, one of 1140 01:00:34.760 --> 01:00:37.760 the biggest rallies in the area's history. A man is 1141 01:00:37.800 --> 01:00:40.000 dead after being shot at a gas station in northwest 1142 01:00:40.039 --> 01:00:43.519 Houston Friday evening near the Spring Branch area, and another 1143 01:00:43.599 --> 01:00:47.119 man is dead from a fire in Baytown Friday afternoon. Also, 1144 01:00:47.199 --> 01:00:50.000 Houston Police say a swat team has made an arrest 1145 01:00:50.039 --> 01:00:51.920 of a twenty six year old for the death of 1146 01:00:52.000 --> 01:00:55.239 a woman who was killed at an apartment in downtown Houston. 1147 01:00:55.400 --> 01:00:57.880 Our next update comes at eight. I'm Jared Lewis, News 1148 01:00:57.960 --> 01:00:59.480 Radio seven forty KRH. 1149 01:01:03.199 --> 01:01:04.159 That Wow's friends. 1150 01:01:04.199 --> 01:01:04.840 How about Katie. 1151 01:01:04.920 --> 01:01:05.639 I'm Anita and. 1152 01:01:05.639 --> 01:01:08.000 I'm Peter from Nelson Nursery and Water Gardens. 1153 01:01:08.119 --> 01:01:10.039 Have you glad to have you with us today? Here's 1154 01:01:10.079 --> 01:01:11.440 a number if you'd like to give us a call 1155 01:01:11.840 --> 01:01:15.039 here to answer your gardening question. Seven one three two 1156 01:01:15.079 --> 01:01:19.159 one two kt r H. My goal is for you. 1157 01:01:19.760 --> 01:01:22.519 I have several goals that when we do garden line 1158 01:01:22.559 --> 01:01:25.239 that I hope we achieve, and the number one is 1159 01:01:25.320 --> 01:01:29.440 feed have more fun gardening, to enjoy getting out and gardening. 1160 01:01:30.159 --> 01:01:33.760 It's a great hobby. It's got mental benefits, physical benefits, 1161 01:01:34.400 --> 01:01:38.719 health in general benefits when you grow good, fresh quality 1162 01:01:38.840 --> 01:01:42.440 produce from your own garden, uh and just the aesthetics 1163 01:01:42.480 --> 01:01:44.760 and so on. It does all of that, and we 1164 01:01:44.880 --> 01:01:47.480 want you to have fun doing it. And it's the 1165 01:01:47.599 --> 01:01:49.760 kind of hobby where I like to tell people, don't 1166 01:01:49.800 --> 01:01:52.639 worry about failing. You can't fail unless you give up. 1167 01:01:53.000 --> 01:01:57.159 That's failing giving up just because a plant dies, or 1168 01:01:57.199 --> 01:01:59.840 you're struggling with something, or it's just a matter of 1169 01:02:00.079 --> 01:02:02.199 we need to help you understand the things to do 1170 01:02:02.400 --> 01:02:04.679 to have success with it. We can do that. That 1171 01:02:04.880 --> 01:02:05.519 is the goal here. 1172 01:02:05.679 --> 01:02:06.000 To do that. 1173 01:02:06.159 --> 01:02:08.920 Number one, have fun. Number two to have success. I 1174 01:02:08.960 --> 01:02:10.559 want you to have a bountiful garden. I want you 1175 01:02:10.599 --> 01:02:12.199 to have a beautiful landscape. I want you to be 1176 01:02:12.320 --> 01:02:14.079 proud of them, and I want them to be a 1177 01:02:14.239 --> 01:02:20.159 source of ongoing joy in your life. That is what 1178 01:02:20.480 --> 01:02:24.519 garden I think is all about. All right, well, just 1179 01:02:24.599 --> 01:02:26.559 give us a call seven one three two one two 1180 01:02:26.719 --> 01:02:28.280 K t R H and we'll see if we can 1181 01:02:28.719 --> 01:02:32.519 help you along with that. One of my favorite garden 1182 01:02:32.599 --> 01:02:35.679 centers here in the Greater Houston area is RCW Nurseries. 1183 01:02:36.159 --> 01:02:39.639 RCW is there where two forty nine, which is Tombo 1184 01:02:39.719 --> 01:02:45.679 Parkway comes into Beltway eight Sam Houston Tollway. RCW is 1185 01:02:45.679 --> 01:02:48.480 easy to get to right there. It's a great kind 1186 01:02:48.519 --> 01:02:52.679 of central almost location for folks. The website, if you'd 1187 01:02:52.760 --> 01:02:56.280 like to check them out, is RCW Nurseries dot com. 1188 01:02:56.559 --> 01:03:00.840 RCW nurseries dot com. They've got some great deals right 1189 01:03:00.920 --> 01:03:04.480 now on trees really outstanding, and by the way fall 1190 01:03:05.280 --> 01:03:07.239 season is coming on, it's not very far away. You 1191 01:03:07.280 --> 01:03:09.400 can plan now. But if you're gonna wait and do 1192 01:03:09.480 --> 01:03:11.360 the fall season, go ahead and get your tree, get 1193 01:03:11.400 --> 01:03:14.679 it ready to go, and get things prepared for it, 1194 01:03:14.920 --> 01:03:18.760 because now's the time or soon is the time where 1195 01:03:18.760 --> 01:03:21.079 we're going to be looking at the best planning season 1196 01:03:21.159 --> 01:03:23.960 of the year for fall, and it's always better to 1197 01:03:23.960 --> 01:03:26.480 get things ready before you do that. Rcw's got a 1198 01:03:26.599 --> 01:03:31.760 deal on select roses. They've got that Cajun hibiscus. I've 1199 01:03:31.800 --> 01:03:34.079 got one of those as my favorite hibiscus of all 1200 01:03:34.119 --> 01:03:39.119 the Cajun series outstanding. They've got those on sale too again. 1201 01:03:39.239 --> 01:03:43.679 The Tambai Park wet Belt wag eight RCW Nurseries RCW 1202 01:03:44.280 --> 01:03:47.639 Nurseries dot Com. Go buy there and check them out. 1203 01:03:47.800 --> 01:03:49.840 I call them to get it. Got It Nursery because 1204 01:03:50.519 --> 01:03:52.679 if they don't have it, they can probably get it 1205 01:03:52.760 --> 01:03:56.239 for you, and they have an outstanding ability to bring 1206 01:03:56.360 --> 01:03:59.840 in all kinds of different plants that they don't have to. 1207 01:04:00.199 --> 01:04:01.920 If they don't have it, they will do their belts 1208 01:04:01.960 --> 01:04:05.159 to find it for you. At r c W. I 1209 01:04:05.280 --> 01:04:08.079 want to head out now to Magnolia and we're going 1210 01:04:08.159 --> 01:04:12.280 to talk to Lee. Hello, Lee, Hi, how are you doing. 1211 01:04:13.519 --> 01:04:15.159 I'm good, sir, Welcome to garden Line. 1212 01:04:16.280 --> 01:04:16.599 Thank you. 1213 01:04:17.360 --> 01:04:20.400 My question is I've got some four h pigs at 1214 01:04:20.440 --> 01:04:22.760 the house and I missed my. 1215 01:04:25.239 --> 01:04:29.599 My aunt tiller broadcasts and now I'm afraid to put 1216 01:04:29.639 --> 01:04:32.519 it out because we have the pigs running around in 1217 01:04:32.599 --> 01:04:34.199 the yard at times when we work them. 1218 01:04:34.800 --> 01:04:37.760 Is there a product that is that's safe for that 1219 01:04:38.239 --> 01:04:40.400 or what do I need to do? 1220 01:04:41.880 --> 01:04:42.000 Uh? 1221 01:04:42.159 --> 01:04:44.960 So the you got, you got fire ants and areas 1222 01:04:45.000 --> 01:04:48.199 where pigs are rooting around. That's the bottom line here. 1223 01:04:50.599 --> 01:04:54.679 Yes, ultimately that's what what it is. 1224 01:04:54.960 --> 01:04:59.800 Yeah, okay, Well, fire at bait is put out of 1225 01:04:59.840 --> 01:05:03.800 this super low rate something like andro a pound of 1226 01:05:03.920 --> 01:05:07.480 bait will cover a whole acre. So that we're talking 1227 01:05:07.519 --> 01:05:10.119 about like dump dumped on a mound where they root 1228 01:05:10.199 --> 01:05:12.360 and they I don't well, pigs root in fire ance. 1229 01:05:12.400 --> 01:05:15.320 I wouldn't think they would. But anyway, we're not talking 1230 01:05:15.320 --> 01:05:16.880 about a whole bunch of it. We're talking about a 1231 01:05:16.880 --> 01:05:19.639 granule here, a granule there, And the best time to 1232 01:05:19.719 --> 01:05:21.840 put it out is go ahead. 1233 01:05:23.480 --> 01:05:25.599 I'm not so much worried about them rooting in the 1234 01:05:26.360 --> 01:05:28.119 in the mound as much as I am. 1235 01:05:28.239 --> 01:05:33.679 When they root and eating the soil, Okay. 1236 01:05:33.760 --> 01:05:36.239 Well, they're gonna be down there looking for they're looking for, 1237 01:05:36.639 --> 01:05:39.400 you know, rhizomes and other things they can grub up, 1238 01:05:39.960 --> 01:05:43.360 you know, in the soil. But you got two options. 1239 01:05:43.400 --> 01:05:46.159 You could use an individual mound treatment and drench it, 1240 01:05:47.159 --> 01:05:49.559 and the pigs will not like that. Some things like 1241 01:05:49.760 --> 01:05:52.880 ortheens stink to high heaven and so they're not going 1242 01:05:52.960 --> 01:05:55.639 to like that. There are organic products like a ctrus 1243 01:05:55.719 --> 01:05:59.360 oil based individual mound treatment that they're not going to 1244 01:05:59.440 --> 01:06:02.519 look be around that either, and so you could do that. 1245 01:06:02.639 --> 01:06:04.960 But the problem with mound treatments is you're playing whack 1246 01:06:05.039 --> 01:06:08.239 a mole with fire ants. For example, my yard, before 1247 01:06:08.280 --> 01:06:10.719 it was raining recently, I didn't have a single fireant 1248 01:06:10.760 --> 01:06:13.079 mound in the yard. It rained, and all of a sudden, 1249 01:06:13.280 --> 01:06:16.800 these mounds I didn't know were underground forming came to 1250 01:06:16.880 --> 01:06:19.039 the surface. Now got these little mounds of dirt where 1251 01:06:19.079 --> 01:06:23.840 the fireants had built up. And so the mound treatments, 1252 01:06:24.079 --> 01:06:26.599 you're sort of always a little bit behind trying to 1253 01:06:26.679 --> 01:06:30.599 kill the mounds. The baits will kill those mounds that 1254 01:06:30.719 --> 01:06:32.719 were invisible to me. Had I put a bait out 1255 01:06:32.800 --> 01:06:36.719 before I saw mounds they were there. The workers would 1256 01:06:36.719 --> 01:06:38.639 have gotten the bait and it would have killed the mounds. 1257 01:06:38.639 --> 01:06:41.159 So baits are a more efficient way and more effective 1258 01:06:41.239 --> 01:06:43.559 way to put it out. You can go either way, 1259 01:06:44.440 --> 01:06:48.599 but that would be There is an organic bait that 1260 01:06:48.840 --> 01:06:53.920 contains spindosaid that's called come and Get It, Come and 1261 01:06:54.039 --> 01:06:56.800 get it, and you could also use that if you 1262 01:06:56.880 --> 01:07:01.079 wanted to take one more level of you know, getting 1263 01:07:01.119 --> 01:07:04.800 away from some of more of a synthetic type product, 1264 01:07:04.880 --> 01:07:07.400 you could do that. But general, when you put up 1265 01:07:07.440 --> 01:07:09.679 bait at the right rate, it's not gonna be a problem. 1266 01:07:09.760 --> 01:07:12.159 You only want to bait though, when the ants are 1267 01:07:12.320 --> 01:07:15.239 foraging to get so that the goal is you want 1268 01:07:15.280 --> 01:07:17.119 that fresh bait to get out there, and you want 1269 01:07:17.159 --> 01:07:19.039 to mount an ant to grab it and and not 1270 01:07:19.199 --> 01:07:21.639 have to sit around for days in the sun and weather. 1271 01:07:22.639 --> 01:07:25.960 And so what I would suggest is gets you something 1272 01:07:26.079 --> 01:07:29.960 that's oily, like a potato chip, and throw a few 1273 01:07:30.159 --> 01:07:32.840 out there here and there, just a few on the ground, 1274 01:07:33.320 --> 01:07:35.519 and go back in fifteen minutes and look at them. 1275 01:07:35.559 --> 01:07:37.719 And if they're fire iNTS on those chips, that means 1276 01:07:37.760 --> 01:07:41.960 they're out foraging. If there's not just right, and once 1277 01:07:42.039 --> 01:07:44.280 you see that they're out, that's the time of day. 1278 01:07:44.320 --> 01:07:47.360 Typically it's the cooler times of day in summer, during 1279 01:07:47.440 --> 01:07:51.159 the blazing hot middle of the day, not generally the 1280 01:07:51.199 --> 01:07:54.199 best time. But if you do that, then they find 1281 01:07:54.239 --> 01:07:56.559 those they bring them back. It does its job and 1282 01:07:56.679 --> 01:07:58.039 you're not worried about your pigs. 1283 01:07:59.440 --> 01:08:01.840 Okay, good deal, Thank you. 1284 01:08:02.199 --> 01:08:04.880 Sound like a plan. All right, yes, sir, good luck. 1285 01:08:05.440 --> 01:08:09.440 All right, take thank you. And one thing I enjoyed doing. 1286 01:08:09.800 --> 01:08:13.800 I've been doing gardening questions for over thirty five years now. 1287 01:08:14.679 --> 01:08:17.760 People emailing me, people calling me, people coming by. I go, 1288 01:08:17.960 --> 01:08:20.640 you know, into places where someone had something they want 1289 01:08:20.720 --> 01:08:24.520 me to look at, and it never fails. There's something new. 1290 01:08:24.640 --> 01:08:27.479 That's my first call on how do I kill fiance 1291 01:08:27.520 --> 01:08:30.920 without hurting pigs? Never had that one before, So congratulations, Lee, 1292 01:08:31.760 --> 01:08:33.560 you got me a new one that time. I thought 1293 01:08:33.600 --> 01:08:36.880 I'd heard all of them, but hey, that's part of gardening. 1294 01:08:36.960 --> 01:08:42.319 I understand that. One of my favorite new fertilizers, and 1295 01:08:42.680 --> 01:08:47.000 really it's pretty cool stuff is Medina has to grow 1296 01:08:47.239 --> 01:08:50.960 supergrow Plus. Medina has to grow supergrow Plus as a 1297 01:08:51.079 --> 01:08:54.359 product that you hook up to a garden hose. It's 1298 01:08:54.359 --> 01:08:57.960 a one court bottle. It covers about four thousand or 1299 01:08:58.000 --> 01:09:02.279 excuse me, sixteen thousand square for a gallon, four thousand 1300 01:09:02.399 --> 01:09:04.920 for the quart. So if you just get a quart, 1301 01:09:05.000 --> 01:09:08.159 hook it up the garden hose four thousand square feet. 1302 01:09:08.199 --> 01:09:09.920 It covers in case about ten minutes to do it. 1303 01:09:10.359 --> 01:09:13.720 It's a sixteen zero two fertilizer. It's a good blend 1304 01:09:13.880 --> 01:09:17.760 for established lawns that have been doing fine. You're just 1305 01:09:17.840 --> 01:09:21.279 wanting to keep giving them a boost. It's got seaweed 1306 01:09:21.399 --> 01:09:24.359 in it, it's got seaweed extract rather in it. It's 1307 01:09:24.399 --> 01:09:27.800 got a humic acid, it's got molasses in it, and 1308 01:09:27.920 --> 01:09:32.159 it has a form of iron that doesn't tie up 1309 01:09:32.199 --> 01:09:34.399 in the soil. Real quick, I'm going to be doing 1310 01:09:34.479 --> 01:09:36.600 I'm doing a post here I'll probably get done for 1311 01:09:36.680 --> 01:09:39.960 the end of the show on iron chlorosis and what 1312 01:09:40.159 --> 01:09:44.399 causes that. An a keylated form of iron is resistant 1313 01:09:44.439 --> 01:09:46.960 to being tied up in the soil, so the plant 1314 01:09:47.000 --> 01:09:50.119 can get it and that's super grow. Plus, it's easy 1315 01:09:50.159 --> 01:09:53.439 to find. Medina products are widely available. If you want 1316 01:09:53.479 --> 01:09:55.239 to see a boost in your lawn. Maybe you got 1317 01:09:55.279 --> 01:09:57.520 an area that's struggling, dude, it's some take holl root 1318 01:09:57.600 --> 01:10:00.279 rod or something else. Give it a little boost, give 1319 01:10:00.319 --> 01:10:02.680 it some folier feed. With that super grow plus, it'll 1320 01:10:02.680 --> 01:10:04.840 also go down in the soil and help it there. 1321 01:10:05.479 --> 01:10:08.760 Easy to do, easy to find, and it works. Time 1322 01:10:08.840 --> 01:10:11.000 for me to take a break. Seven one three two 1323 01:10:11.039 --> 01:10:13.079 one two k t RH. If you'd like to get 1324 01:10:13.079 --> 01:10:15.920 on the board, we will take your call when we 1325 01:10:16.000 --> 01:10:16.600 come back. 1326 01:10:18.039 --> 01:10:18.840 My Heartradio. 1327 01:10:18.960 --> 01:10:21.680 Thank you for listening in. It's always good to be 1328 01:10:21.720 --> 01:10:23.560 able to visit with you. I know there's a lot 1329 01:10:23.600 --> 01:10:25.479 of folks listening that don't call in, but we do 1330 01:10:25.640 --> 01:10:27.319 invite you to call in if you got any kinds 1331 01:10:27.359 --> 01:10:29.920 of questions. We want to help you have success. And 1332 01:10:29.960 --> 01:10:32.760 I'll tell you this, there is someone else that has 1333 01:10:32.800 --> 01:10:35.640 the same questions that you do, so don't be afraid. 1334 01:10:35.960 --> 01:10:38.960 I like to say there's no stupid questions, just stupid answers, 1335 01:10:39.119 --> 01:10:42.000 and the point being that let the pressure be on me. 1336 01:10:42.439 --> 01:10:44.960 I have those stupid answer into the deal. Uh. You 1337 01:10:45.079 --> 01:10:48.359 ask your questions and we'll we'll respect them and give 1338 01:10:48.399 --> 01:10:50.239 you a good answer to help you have success because 1339 01:10:50.239 --> 01:10:52.960 some other people are too shy to call to. If 1340 01:10:52.960 --> 01:10:55.359 you want to have success with your garden, you know 1341 01:10:55.680 --> 01:10:58.439 here on Garden Line, our mantra is brown stuff before 1342 01:10:58.520 --> 01:11:01.239 green stuff. And what that means is you get the 1343 01:11:01.399 --> 01:11:04.359 soil right and then you put in a good plant 1344 01:11:04.960 --> 01:11:08.359 and you end up with success. If you take a 1345 01:11:08.439 --> 01:11:11.960 plant and PLoP it into an unprepared plot, you are 1346 01:11:12.199 --> 01:11:15.319 likely to run into some problems. Maybe drainage is not's good, 1347 01:11:15.399 --> 01:11:18.600 maybe the organic matter content's not sufficient, maybe the nutrient 1348 01:11:18.680 --> 01:11:23.640 content's not sufficient. Landscaper's Pride is a company that produces 1349 01:11:24.399 --> 01:11:29.039 organic soil amendments and mulches so that you can have success. 1350 01:11:29.119 --> 01:11:32.239 Their Gardener's Magic is a pine based blend. It contains 1351 01:11:32.359 --> 01:11:35.960 humous screen, pine composted rice holes, and even a chicken 1352 01:11:36.000 --> 01:11:38.760 pellet fertilizer to give you three months of feeding. They're 1353 01:11:38.840 --> 01:11:42.399 mushroom compost. Gardeners know about mushroom compost. It is chalk 1354 01:11:42.600 --> 01:11:46.600 full of all kinds of nutrients based on an aged 1355 01:11:46.720 --> 01:11:51.479 pine base, and it really helps the plants to be successful. 1356 01:11:51.840 --> 01:11:54.159 A healthy soil compost is made with one hundred percent 1357 01:11:54.399 --> 01:12:00.560 recycled composted plant material, neutral pH adds and the nutrients 1358 01:12:00.640 --> 01:12:03.399 as it decomposes in the soil. It's replenishing the soil 1359 01:12:03.479 --> 01:12:05.840 with the nutrients that are in that organic matter and 1360 01:12:05.920 --> 01:12:09.439 then the black humans dark rich organic mix compost to 1361 01:12:09.520 --> 01:12:12.640 pine bark and loamy top soil. Great for putting in 1362 01:12:12.720 --> 01:12:14.880 a new bed or even just beefing up one that 1363 01:12:14.960 --> 01:12:19.000 you've already got. Well Landscaperspride dot com. That is the website. 1364 01:12:19.039 --> 01:12:20.479 You can find out more about it, you can find 1365 01:12:20.479 --> 01:12:23.119 out where to get it, and it is widely available. 1366 01:12:23.399 --> 01:12:25.760 We're going to head out now to Magnolia and talk 1367 01:12:25.800 --> 01:12:28.680 to Sarah this morning. Good morning, Sarah, and good morning. 1368 01:12:31.239 --> 01:12:31.920 How can I help? 1369 01:12:33.000 --> 01:12:36.319 I have an issue that I discovered last week, unfortunately, 1370 01:12:36.479 --> 01:12:40.520 being stung by in ground be excuse me bees. They're 1371 01:12:40.640 --> 01:12:44.600 very small, they're only half an inch. It's still painful 1372 01:12:44.760 --> 01:12:49.880 this week. But they are nesting in my pot potty plants, 1373 01:12:50.079 --> 01:12:52.720 and I'd like to know how to be to remove them. 1374 01:12:55.600 --> 01:13:01.119 That's a good question. Uh I would do is I 1375 01:13:01.119 --> 01:13:03.920 would go out at night when they're back in there, 1376 01:13:05.199 --> 01:13:07.479 not hive, but when they're back in their nest, if 1377 01:13:07.520 --> 01:13:10.760 you will, And I would probably in this case, I 1378 01:13:10.880 --> 01:13:16.199 think I would use something like a seven dust or 1379 01:13:16.279 --> 01:13:21.680 an orthene type product, and I would sort of like 1380 01:13:22.840 --> 01:13:26.239 dust it onto those pots wherever they're having to come out, 1381 01:13:26.479 --> 01:13:28.439 just get it all around there. So that they have 1382 01:13:28.520 --> 01:13:30.239 to crawl through it. When they crawl through that dust, 1383 01:13:30.319 --> 01:13:33.640 they pick it up and it kills them. And it's 1384 01:13:33.760 --> 01:13:36.239 not systemic. It's not going to get in your plants. Well, 1385 01:13:36.359 --> 01:13:39.640 our orthene is, the seven dust is not. But the 1386 01:13:39.720 --> 01:13:43.760 bottom line is just get them so that when they 1387 01:13:43.840 --> 01:13:45.840 go in and out they pick that up and it 1388 01:13:45.880 --> 01:13:48.479 will kill them. That's the best way. I've known people 1389 01:13:48.560 --> 01:13:50.600 that go to links of using a little red lens 1390 01:13:50.640 --> 01:13:54.279 over a flashlight. Somehow with these wasps and bees they 1391 01:13:54.319 --> 01:13:56.279 seem to not be able to see that as well 1392 01:13:56.439 --> 01:13:59.199 or something. I'm not an entomologist, but I would just 1393 01:13:59.239 --> 01:14:01.279 go out at night, get a little light and just 1394 01:14:01.359 --> 01:14:03.479 so you can see enough to toss some of that 1395 01:14:03.680 --> 01:14:07.399 dust or whatever up against and around and in wherever 1396 01:14:07.479 --> 01:14:09.439 these are coming in and out, and that'll take care 1397 01:14:09.479 --> 01:14:09.720 of them. 1398 01:14:10.319 --> 01:14:14.439 Okay, great, So obviously the spray would not work on 1399 01:14:14.520 --> 01:14:15.960 the seven dust. Is that correct? 1400 01:14:17.359 --> 01:14:22.720 Well? The spray seven spray could? I just I've never 1401 01:14:23.439 --> 01:14:25.319 tried to see it. And then when a bee crawls 1402 01:14:25.479 --> 01:14:28.720 through soil that's had seven spray on it, will it 1403 01:14:28.840 --> 01:14:31.439 pick up enough of the pesticide to killch I don't 1404 01:14:31.479 --> 01:14:32.279 know the answer to that. 1405 01:14:33.199 --> 01:14:36.920 Okay, very good. Okay, I'll get that a try. I 1406 01:14:37.399 --> 01:14:38.600 appreciate your information. 1407 01:14:39.960 --> 01:14:43.520 Sure, thanks, Sarah. I appreciate your call very much. Let's 1408 01:14:43.640 --> 01:14:45.680 now go to Beaumont and talk to Dan. Hello. 1409 01:14:45.800 --> 01:14:49.199 Dan, Hey, good answered here, we'll good morning. 1410 01:14:50.479 --> 01:14:53.119 I've got one real quick question for you. A while 1411 01:14:53.199 --> 01:14:55.159 back of cold to asked you about. 1412 01:14:55.000 --> 01:14:59.199 Seeding some tomatoes or harvesting the seeds from the tomatoes. 1413 01:15:00.119 --> 01:15:01.960 I can use them for the following year. 1414 01:15:02.800 --> 01:15:04.920 And yes, you told me to put it in some 1415 01:15:05.159 --> 01:15:07.000 water and let it kind of. 1416 01:15:07.079 --> 01:15:08.840 Rotten down or deteriorate down. 1417 01:15:09.640 --> 01:15:10.760 And I have done that. 1418 01:15:10.920 --> 01:15:13.399 I put it in the jar, in a jar and. 1419 01:15:13.520 --> 01:15:18.439 Let it uh interior eight year old early will. 1420 01:15:18.760 --> 01:15:21.079 Yeah, And I was curious what to do now? 1421 01:15:22.840 --> 01:15:24.319 Kind of open those jars up. 1422 01:15:24.439 --> 01:15:27.119 They are gonna stink, and I want to get rid 1423 01:15:27.119 --> 01:15:28.760 of as fast as I can. 1424 01:15:28.960 --> 01:15:30.680 But yeah, what do I do? 1425 01:15:31.279 --> 01:15:35.720 Take it out? Yeah, take it outside and just pour 1426 01:15:35.800 --> 01:15:37.479 off a lot of the water on top and with 1427 01:15:37.680 --> 01:15:40.720 that the floating seed and the debris and goo and 1428 01:15:40.840 --> 01:15:43.960 follow them or whatever's up there. Pour that off, fill 1429 01:15:44.000 --> 01:15:46.680 it with fresh water, let the seed settle back down, 1430 01:15:46.800 --> 01:15:49.039 and pour it off again. Do that about three times, 1431 01:15:49.680 --> 01:15:52.000 and then you can bring them in and you know, 1432 01:15:52.079 --> 01:15:53.720 you put a little on the jar, shake it real 1433 01:15:53.800 --> 01:15:56.039 hard to get more of the kind of the organic 1434 01:15:56.159 --> 01:15:59.600 debris that's around those seeds off, and you're just basically 1435 01:15:59.760 --> 01:16:02.920 cleaning those seeds and getting the stinky stuff out of there. 1436 01:16:03.399 --> 01:16:05.760 Then bring them out and I would I would take 1437 01:16:05.840 --> 01:16:08.399 the seeds, you know, try to get the moisture out, 1438 01:16:08.439 --> 01:16:10.359 maybe a paper towel or something like that, press them 1439 01:16:10.399 --> 01:16:13.479 a little bit, and then let them dry and once 1440 01:16:13.520 --> 01:16:17.000 they're dry, put them in whatever kind of packet you're 1441 01:16:17.000 --> 01:16:18.399 going to store them in. And when I say once 1442 01:16:18.439 --> 01:16:20.239 they're dry, I mean i'd give them a week or 1443 01:16:20.279 --> 01:16:23.680 two to fully dry in a dry spot, and then 1444 01:16:24.159 --> 01:16:26.600 you can store them in a packet. They should be 1445 01:16:26.720 --> 01:16:28.680 fine if you're going to use them next year. If 1446 01:16:28.720 --> 01:16:31.319 you want a little longer storage, you could store them 1447 01:16:31.359 --> 01:16:34.279 in an air tight something in the in the refrigerator. 1448 01:16:35.960 --> 01:16:36.119 Right. 1449 01:16:37.399 --> 01:16:41.119 Okay, that was my uh ways that hope to help 1450 01:16:41.239 --> 01:16:43.479 somebody else there. 1451 01:16:43.560 --> 01:16:45.319 You Yeah, I'm sure it will. I'm sure it will. 1452 01:16:45.439 --> 01:16:47.479 And it'll help me when you bring me half of 1453 01:16:47.520 --> 01:16:49.520 the tomatoes you grow next year and drop them off 1454 01:16:49.520 --> 01:16:50.039 at the radio. 1455 01:16:50.079 --> 01:16:55.960 Oh yeah, that's the type set good good. 1456 01:16:56.520 --> 01:16:59.000 Well. Hey, thanks, you sound like you're having some fun 1457 01:16:59.079 --> 01:17:01.000 with that. That most people I don't go to that measure, 1458 01:17:01.079 --> 01:17:03.199 but it is kind of fun to do. Thanks Dan, 1459 01:17:04.479 --> 01:17:08.600 Thanks take care. All right, there you have it. Uh. 1460 01:17:09.359 --> 01:17:11.199 You know, I like birds. I talk about the birds 1461 01:17:11.199 --> 01:17:14.279 all the time. In fact, yesterday I was using my 1462 01:17:14.600 --> 01:17:17.640 Merlin app. There's a map or an app on the 1463 01:17:17.680 --> 01:17:20.680 phone called Merlin E R L I N like the Magician. 1464 01:17:21.119 --> 01:17:24.920 It's done by Cornell University. And boy is it cool? 1465 01:17:25.319 --> 01:17:28.319 Uh it for identifying bird. I heard a bird singing 1466 01:17:28.359 --> 01:17:31.039 outside and I couldn't what was that. I didn't know 1467 01:17:31.119 --> 01:17:33.359 that song, and so I just said listen, and the 1468 01:17:33.479 --> 01:17:36.319 app listened and told me that was a wren, a 1469 01:17:36.399 --> 01:17:39.079 specific kind of wren. Later I heard a different bird 1470 01:17:39.199 --> 01:17:41.479 song did the same thing. It was the same wren. 1471 01:17:41.600 --> 01:17:44.199 You know, birds have more inland song. See I'm kind 1472 01:17:44.239 --> 01:17:47.319 of new to birds, but they do. And if you're 1473 01:17:47.399 --> 01:17:49.800 interested in birds or would like to be wha Birds 1474 01:17:49.880 --> 01:17:55.560 Unlimited WBU dot com Forward slash Houston WBU dot Com 1475 01:17:55.920 --> 01:17:59.600 Forward slash Houston. That's the website you're going to go in. 1476 01:17:59.680 --> 01:17:59.880 There. 1477 01:18:00.640 --> 01:18:02.560 By the way, you need to get some seed cylinders. 1478 01:18:02.600 --> 01:18:06.199 Now that's packed cylinders of seed. You go on a vacation, 1479 01:18:06.720 --> 01:18:08.520 just set that out there. Takes a bird a while 1480 01:18:08.600 --> 01:18:11.000 to work them out of the seeds out of those cylinders, 1481 01:18:11.359 --> 01:18:13.439 and it'll it'll take care of your birds. Nobody's gonna 1482 01:18:13.439 --> 01:18:15.600 be there to fill the feeder. The cylinder will take 1483 01:18:15.640 --> 01:18:18.439 care of it till you get back from vacation. Wabirds 1484 01:18:18.520 --> 01:18:22.520 has so many quality blends, without the waste, without the seed, 1485 01:18:22.640 --> 01:18:25.279 birds don't want to eat. It's you buy a pound 1486 01:18:25.319 --> 01:18:27.520 of walldbird seed, you get a pound of bird feed, 1487 01:18:28.079 --> 01:18:31.319 and it's quality stuff. They have quality feeders, they have 1488 01:18:31.439 --> 01:18:35.520 quality bird houses, they have all kinds of things. WBU 1489 01:18:35.840 --> 01:18:39.159 dot Com, Forward Slash Houston. You can find the six 1490 01:18:39.479 --> 01:18:45.039 wallbird stores here in the Greater Houston area. Well, it 1491 01:18:45.159 --> 01:18:47.880 looks like let's see here. We are just up against 1492 01:18:47.920 --> 01:18:50.479 an end of the hour break. So Kim and Memorial 1493 01:18:50.600 --> 01:18:52.960 you will be our first when we come back. If 1494 01:18:53.000 --> 01:18:54.920 the rest of you would like to get online, just 1495 01:18:55.479 --> 01:18:57.760 I mean get on the air with me. Give chrisicol 1496 01:18:57.920 --> 01:19:01.159 seven one three two one two k t r H. 1497 01:19:01.319 --> 01:19:03.600 And when we come back, we'll talk to you about 1498 01:19:03.640 --> 01:19:06.199 the things that are of interest to you. I want 1499 01:19:06.199 --> 01:19:10.880 to remind you that on my website Gardening with Skip 1500 01:19:11.279 --> 01:19:14.159 dot com. Gardening with Skip dot Com. There is the 1501 01:19:14.319 --> 01:19:20.479 new publication on Nutsench. There's two of them. One is 1502 01:19:20.680 --> 01:19:24.079 more in depth. I highly recommend you read it. I 1503 01:19:24.159 --> 01:19:26.439 know a lot of people just want to look at 1504 01:19:26.479 --> 01:19:28.920 the one page one, which is fine, but the in 1505 01:19:29.039 --> 01:19:32.359 depth one gives you a lot of information that when 1506 01:19:32.439 --> 01:19:36.359 I say, why didn't once you try on nuts edge 1507 01:19:36.439 --> 01:19:38.800 that didn't work and you answer that question, the in 1508 01:19:38.960 --> 01:19:42.039 depth publication will tell you why it didn't work, because 1509 01:19:42.079 --> 01:19:44.319 there's a lot of things that work, but nothing's that 1510 01:19:44.439 --> 01:19:46.880 penda seea They're on there on the website. Please go 1511 01:19:47.000 --> 01:19:50.439 check those out. We'll be right back here. A short serience. 1512 01:19:58.560 --> 01:20:00.039 Just as. 1513 01:20:19.319 --> 01:20:22.840 Welcome back to guarden Line. Glad to have you with 1514 01:20:23.000 --> 01:20:26.399 us today, Thanks for listening in our goal here. My 1515 01:20:26.600 --> 01:20:31.039 goal here is to have a show that allows you 1516 01:20:31.399 --> 01:20:34.199 to get your questions answered, to have a more bountiful garden, 1517 01:20:34.399 --> 01:20:39.439 a more beautiful landscape, to enjoy gardening. Gardening is fun. Listen, 1518 01:20:40.560 --> 01:20:42.720 this is the best hobby that there is, and we 1519 01:20:43.000 --> 01:20:45.479 want to help you feel even more that way and 1520 01:20:45.600 --> 01:20:48.720 have more fun out of it. To beautify your landscape, 1521 01:20:49.319 --> 01:20:53.600 to plant trees, and shrubs and design things that creates 1522 01:20:53.880 --> 01:20:57.239 beauty but also increases the value of your landscape. You know, 1523 01:20:57.279 --> 01:20:59.439 when you're putting up a house for sale. One of 1524 01:20:59.520 --> 01:21:02.119 my one of my daughters is in the process of 1525 01:21:02.319 --> 01:21:05.079 purchasing a home, and you know, going around looking at 1526 01:21:05.119 --> 01:21:07.720 all these homes, it just can't help. But the fact 1527 01:21:07.760 --> 01:21:10.079 that when you walk up and you see beauty, you 1528 01:21:10.159 --> 01:21:13.399 see beautiful shade trees because they were well chosen in 1529 01:21:13.479 --> 01:21:15.920 the past, they were well planted, and they were well 1530 01:21:16.000 --> 01:21:19.880 pruned in the past. That adds value, but it also 1531 01:21:20.039 --> 01:21:22.159 makes it a more soluble landscape. You're going to move 1532 01:21:22.239 --> 01:21:24.079 it now, maybe you're not planning on selling, maybe you 1533 01:21:24.119 --> 01:21:25.920 want to stay there. How do we have how do 1534 01:21:26.000 --> 01:21:27.880 we have more fun? How do we have more success? 1535 01:21:28.039 --> 01:21:30.520 That's what we're about here on Guardline. So it's as 1536 01:21:30.520 --> 01:21:32.199 simple as that. We're going to head straight out to 1537 01:21:32.279 --> 01:21:35.199 Memorial right now and talk to Kim. 1538 01:21:35.439 --> 01:21:40.880 Hello, Kim, Hey Skip, Actually it's Ken, but that's great. Ken, 1539 01:21:41.039 --> 01:21:43.760 Okay Norris, thanks for taking my call. 1540 01:21:44.119 --> 01:21:44.319 Listen. 1541 01:21:44.399 --> 01:21:47.920 We built a house in the Bunco Hill area here. 1542 01:21:48.079 --> 01:21:50.760 Memorial moved in about two years ago, so the side 1543 01:21:50.880 --> 01:21:55.479 is about that time frame, old and it's developed just 1544 01:21:55.960 --> 01:22:01.319 really some massy bald spots all around and the whole yard, 1545 01:22:01.399 --> 01:22:04.920 the front yard, the backyard, and we have had trouble 1546 01:22:05.039 --> 01:22:10.039 getting those to fill in. And one thing I've noticed 1547 01:22:10.319 --> 01:22:13.239 is that when we went out and did some recent work, 1548 01:22:13.399 --> 01:22:17.359 it appears that there's some very orange colored sand, a 1549 01:22:17.520 --> 01:22:20.960 filler sand, right underneath the side. And did some research 1550 01:22:21.000 --> 01:22:23.600 and it looks like that's something called bank sand. 1551 01:22:24.720 --> 01:22:27.920 And what I'm caurious about before I go ahead and 1552 01:22:29.000 --> 01:22:32.279 replace all the sod and do a lot of work here, 1553 01:22:32.960 --> 01:22:37.239 is is there a cure for getting this stuff filled in? 1554 01:22:37.800 --> 01:22:40.800 Or do I need to, you know, replace the whole 1555 01:22:40.920 --> 01:22:44.279 thing and get some top soil between that bank sand 1556 01:22:44.800 --> 01:22:47.079 in the sod. And now'll be quiet and just listen 1557 01:22:47.159 --> 01:22:47.880 for a little bit here. 1558 01:22:49.079 --> 01:22:51.560 How deep do you think that sand is? How thick 1559 01:22:51.640 --> 01:22:52.399 of a layer is. 1560 01:22:52.439 --> 01:22:57.840 That it's quite thick, So that bank sand is probably 1561 01:22:57.960 --> 01:23:02.600 goes down you know, at least nine inches maybe a foot, 1562 01:23:03.600 --> 01:23:06.199 And then the sod was placed right on top of that. 1563 01:23:07.640 --> 01:23:10.720 Okay, And did it look good for a while and 1564 01:23:10.960 --> 01:23:13.159 just recently has gone downhill? Or has it been a 1565 01:23:13.239 --> 01:23:15.479 gradual process over time from the beginning. 1566 01:23:16.319 --> 01:23:18.199 Yeah, when they when they when they first put it 1567 01:23:18.279 --> 01:23:22.039 in there, of course it looked really nice. And then uh, 1568 01:23:22.199 --> 01:23:24.920 you know last summer was was very hot that you know, 1569 01:23:25.800 --> 01:23:28.119 it started getting bad then, and then you know, this 1570 01:23:28.359 --> 01:23:30.760 year it's just it's it's just been really bad. So 1571 01:23:31.199 --> 01:23:33.640 you know, gradually over time and then you can see 1572 01:23:33.680 --> 01:23:37.520 where it starts to that Saint Augustine, So it starts 1573 01:23:37.560 --> 01:23:41.560 to grow back in some of those places, but more 1574 01:23:41.720 --> 01:23:44.399 very you know, kind of a string grows along, and 1575 01:23:44.760 --> 01:23:46.279 you know, I just can't tell if it's going to 1576 01:23:46.399 --> 01:23:48.800 fill in those spots or not. But you know, and 1577 01:23:48.880 --> 01:23:51.359 everybody else's yard looks absolutely pristine. 1578 01:23:52.920 --> 01:23:54.119 You know, I get a lot of hassle. 1579 01:23:54.239 --> 01:23:58.439 So all right, well tell you what, ken it could 1580 01:23:58.479 --> 01:24:00.720 be due to several things. I don't think the sand 1581 01:24:00.840 --> 01:24:04.520 is the problem, if it truly is is a bank sand. 1582 01:24:05.840 --> 01:24:07.880 What I'd like you to do is take a picture 1583 01:24:08.000 --> 01:24:10.720 or two of the lawn from different angles so I 1584 01:24:10.760 --> 01:24:13.399 can kind of see the overall effect. Then get up 1585 01:24:13.439 --> 01:24:16.199 close and take some I mean down as close and 1586 01:24:16.399 --> 01:24:19.159 zoomed in as you can to the grass, plants and 1587 01:24:20.079 --> 01:24:22.119 runners and stuff in there. Let me see a picture 1588 01:24:22.159 --> 01:24:24.159 of that. Let me take a look at them. And 1589 01:24:24.439 --> 01:24:28.319 because This could be you know, dying out in patches, 1590 01:24:28.399 --> 01:24:30.560 can be chinchbugs. It could be taken root rod, It 1591 01:24:30.600 --> 01:24:34.479 could be drought. It could be a number of different things. 1592 01:24:35.720 --> 01:24:39.520 And so I think there's going to be a solution 1593 01:24:39.800 --> 01:24:43.800 a lot simpler than replacing the soil or the sand 1594 01:24:43.880 --> 01:24:45.880 in that area. So let me take a look see 1595 01:24:45.880 --> 01:24:47.399 if I can figure out what may be going on, 1596 01:24:47.600 --> 01:24:50.560 so we don't waste your time and money applying or 1597 01:24:50.640 --> 01:24:51.520 doing the wrong thing. 1598 01:24:52.960 --> 01:24:56.439 Wonderful scipe, I sure appreciate it, just out of curiosity. 1599 01:24:56.560 --> 01:24:58.279 Gess my first son falling in So where do I 1600 01:24:58.359 --> 01:24:59.720 send those pictures too? 1601 01:25:01.119 --> 01:25:04.760 Okay, I'm gonna put you on hold and Chris will 1602 01:25:04.800 --> 01:25:07.560 pick up the phone and give you an email address 1603 01:25:07.800 --> 01:25:10.880 to send them to me. Okay, thank you, sir, have 1604 01:25:10.920 --> 01:25:15.920 a great day, all right, you bet take care all right? Yeah, 1605 01:25:16.119 --> 01:25:21.000 Sometimes you know symptoms like plants are dying. You know, 1606 01:25:21.079 --> 01:25:23.520 I can I can give my best guess, or I 1607 01:25:23.600 --> 01:25:25.920 can give you a better answer by taking a good 1608 01:25:25.960 --> 01:25:28.760 look at a picture. Sometimes that's required. Sometimes it's not. 1609 01:25:30.239 --> 01:25:32.560 Some questions, I just already know what it is and 1610 01:25:32.640 --> 01:25:35.920 we don't have to go through all that. You've heard 1611 01:25:35.920 --> 01:25:37.880 me talk about plants for all season before as a 1612 01:25:37.960 --> 01:25:41.319 super super high quality nursery've been around since nineteen seventy three. 1613 01:25:41.399 --> 01:25:44.039 They're right there just north of Bluewetta on Highway to 1614 01:25:44.159 --> 01:25:47.720 forty nine Tambo Parkway, FM two forty nine. They've been 1615 01:25:47.840 --> 01:25:52.720 around and they have quality, quality employees there. You know, 1616 01:25:52.840 --> 01:25:55.640 from the flowery family members that are that work there 1617 01:25:55.760 --> 01:25:58.199 to the to the employees that they are. We're talking 1618 01:25:58.199 --> 01:26:00.680 about trained people that know what they're talking about. You 1619 01:26:00.840 --> 01:26:03.560 go in with a problem, They give you a right answer. 1620 01:26:03.720 --> 01:26:06.039 They point you to a product that works, they tell 1621 01:26:06.119 --> 01:26:08.399 you how to use it. You bring a picture a 1622 01:26:08.439 --> 01:26:10.600 sample of a plant in Hey, something's wrong with this 1623 01:26:10.760 --> 01:26:13.000 is zela or whatever it is? What can I do? 1624 01:26:13.279 --> 01:26:15.479 They'll look, they'll tell you and they know what they're 1625 01:26:15.520 --> 01:26:18.079 talking about. And when you purchase from them, you know 1626 01:26:18.399 --> 01:26:20.399 you're going to get plants that want to grow here. 1627 01:26:20.760 --> 01:26:24.000 They garden here themselves. This family lives here, they've gardened 1628 01:26:24.039 --> 01:26:26.640 here for a long time. They know what works, they 1629 01:26:26.720 --> 01:26:31.479 know what doesn't work. The website Plants for All Seasons 1630 01:26:31.640 --> 01:26:36.159 dot com. The phone number two eight one three seven 1631 01:26:36.279 --> 01:26:39.479 six one six four six two eight one three seven 1632 01:26:39.560 --> 01:26:43.560 six one six four six Plants for All Seasons dot Com. 1633 01:26:43.720 --> 01:26:45.399 Today be a good day to swing by there and 1634 01:26:45.439 --> 01:26:47.960 stop in again. They're just north of Luetta off Highway 1635 01:26:48.039 --> 01:26:51.720 two forty nine. I'm going to head out to La Fayette, 1636 01:26:51.720 --> 01:26:54.800 Louisiana and talk to Bob. Hello, Bob, Welcome to guard Line. 1637 01:26:55.960 --> 01:27:02.279 Hey, Skip, he got a landscape. Are put in pentas 1638 01:27:02.439 --> 01:27:06.159 p E N T A S and they're supposed to 1639 01:27:07.439 --> 01:27:08.640 flower all summer. 1640 01:27:09.239 --> 01:27:09.880 Take the heat. 1641 01:27:10.920 --> 01:27:13.039 The problem is what I read about them is that 1642 01:27:13.159 --> 01:27:16.079 they don't like a lot of water, so the leaves 1643 01:27:16.119 --> 01:27:18.800 are kind of yellow. But we have an irrigation system 1644 01:27:19.000 --> 01:27:22.359 and everything else around and needs water. Is there a fertilizer? 1645 01:27:22.640 --> 01:27:24.720 It talks about a liquid fertilizer. Is there something I 1646 01:27:24.760 --> 01:27:27.239 can put on them to green them? 1647 01:27:28.960 --> 01:27:31.600 When you say the leaves are yellowing, is if you 1648 01:27:31.720 --> 01:27:35.760 really study an individual plant, is it the whole plant yellowing? 1649 01:27:36.079 --> 01:27:38.600 Is it the new growth that's yellowing? Is it the 1650 01:27:38.680 --> 01:27:40.000 old leaves that are yellowing? 1651 01:27:40.119 --> 01:27:40.520 To have you. 1652 01:27:42.720 --> 01:27:46.560 That it's a mixy, I'll bet you I get to 1653 01:27:46.640 --> 01:27:52.319 send in you a picture, but let me yeah, let 1654 01:27:52.399 --> 01:27:54.199 me let me give you what is probably going on. 1655 01:27:54.520 --> 01:27:57.920 If the soil is sagy wet and the roots are submerged, 1656 01:27:58.000 --> 01:28:02.159 they can't get oxygen that degree of wet. Then that 1657 01:28:02.279 --> 01:28:04.560 could be causing the yellowing and the decline. And you 1658 01:28:04.720 --> 01:28:07.560 just need it need I don't know, eat, don't water 1659 01:28:07.600 --> 01:28:10.680 as much, or have a do something to improve the 1660 01:28:10.760 --> 01:28:13.960 drainage in that area or standing water whatever that would 1661 01:28:13.960 --> 01:28:18.800 be the solution. Pentas aren't prone to iron chlorosis. They 1662 01:28:18.880 --> 01:28:22.640 can get it, but it's not like they're notorious for it, 1663 01:28:22.840 --> 01:28:25.199 like an azella might be in a higher pH spot. 1664 01:28:26.079 --> 01:28:29.600 So I would I would think you're probably looking at 1665 01:28:29.680 --> 01:28:32.760 something wrong in the root system. But if it were 1666 01:28:32.840 --> 01:28:35.399 going to be a nutrient, you could get something that 1667 01:28:35.600 --> 01:28:39.960 has iron, like a keylated form of iron and try that. 1668 01:28:41.359 --> 01:28:45.399 I tell you what. There's a product and it's by Medina, 1669 01:28:45.640 --> 01:28:49.520 and it's called super Grow Plus. It's a quart bottle 1670 01:28:49.560 --> 01:28:52.039 that hooks up to a garden hose. It's got some 1671 01:28:52.199 --> 01:28:55.279 kilated iron, and it's got some nitrogen, and it's got 1672 01:28:55.319 --> 01:28:57.800 some other good things. It's made for the lawn. But 1673 01:28:57.920 --> 01:28:59.960 I know people that use it on their tomato plant, 1674 01:29:00.239 --> 01:29:03.720 for example, because it works. You're not you know, a 1675 01:29:03.840 --> 01:29:06.079 court bottle will cover four thousand square feet, so I 1676 01:29:06.119 --> 01:29:08.079 don't think you have four thousand square feet of pentus. 1677 01:29:08.439 --> 01:29:10.520 But just use it on the pentus and use it 1678 01:29:10.600 --> 01:29:12.199 on some other stuff. Boy, you got it, and just 1679 01:29:12.239 --> 01:29:16.039 see if that improves it. And that would be the simplest, 1680 01:29:16.159 --> 01:29:18.239 easiest way. Because it's a good product. You can use 1681 01:29:18.279 --> 01:29:19.840 it on a lot of other things. If you've got 1682 01:29:19.880 --> 01:29:22.000 some areas of your lawn that need little boost, you 1683 01:29:22.039 --> 01:29:24.760 could do it that way too. But I think super 1684 01:29:24.840 --> 01:29:28.520 Grow plus from Medina. It's again a court bottle that 1685 01:29:28.560 --> 01:29:32.000 hooks up to your garden hose. Thank you very much. 1686 01:29:32.159 --> 01:29:36.000 Enjoy the show, you bet, you bet, Thank you appreciate 1687 01:29:36.039 --> 01:29:39.239 you appreciate your call very much. Well's time for me 1688 01:29:39.319 --> 01:29:41.720 take a quick break here. I've gone a little long, 1689 01:29:41.840 --> 01:29:44.279 so I'll be right back and Drew from Hockley. You today, 1690 01:29:44.640 --> 01:29:46.439 we got plenty to talk about, and we're going to 1691 01:29:46.560 --> 01:29:48.960 just run straight out to the phones here and head 1692 01:29:49.039 --> 01:29:52.319 to Hockeley, Texas and talk to Drew. Hello, Drew, Welcome 1693 01:29:52.359 --> 01:29:52.960 to garden Line. 1694 01:29:53.159 --> 01:29:57.319 Hey, hey Skip, I'm new to the show. I actually 1695 01:29:57.359 --> 01:29:58.880 started living thing in January. 1696 01:29:59.239 --> 01:30:01.840 We just moved from all my taxes to here in hockey. 1697 01:30:02.479 --> 01:30:04.840 But I've got a situation in my and I love 1698 01:30:04.880 --> 01:30:05.199 your show. 1699 01:30:05.279 --> 01:30:05.800 By the way. 1700 01:30:07.600 --> 01:30:09.760 I've got I've got a situation. 1701 01:30:11.159 --> 01:30:14.000 I'm in a new subdivision and I'm. 1702 01:30:13.920 --> 01:30:14.800 On the corner lot. 1703 01:30:15.560 --> 01:30:17.439 But I followed all your. 1704 01:30:17.600 --> 01:30:21.920 Uh like fertilizers doing throughout the course in the summer, 1705 01:30:23.279 --> 01:30:25.239 and everything looks beautiful if it's. 1706 01:30:25.039 --> 01:30:27.319 All green and everything, but just one area. 1707 01:30:28.159 --> 01:30:32.800 Now my house faces the west, which this is where 1708 01:30:32.840 --> 01:30:36.000 that spot is where it gets sun in the evening time. 1709 01:30:37.159 --> 01:30:39.359 And I have a one of those, and I'm on 1710 01:30:39.520 --> 01:30:41.239 the corner lot, so I have one of those sewer 1711 01:30:42.960 --> 01:30:44.119 around things that you. 1712 01:30:44.560 --> 01:30:46.199 They can get down in there and to get sewer 1713 01:30:46.279 --> 01:30:51.880 or whatever around that area. It's like dying Is it 1714 01:30:52.039 --> 01:30:54.560 from that or is there something I can put around that? 1715 01:30:56.359 --> 01:30:58.560 How long ago did thee How long ago did the 1716 01:30:58.680 --> 01:30:59.359 dying start? 1717 01:31:00.800 --> 01:31:04.880 It started about right after. 1718 01:31:05.199 --> 01:31:14.159 Hurricane Okay, well Bay, you know, grass dying could be 1719 01:31:14.399 --> 01:31:17.159 a number of different things, but let me suggest one 1720 01:31:17.239 --> 01:31:21.199 thing you might try. First, take get a watering can, 1721 01:31:21.399 --> 01:31:26.359 a sprinkler can, and put a tablespoon of dish soap 1722 01:31:26.479 --> 01:31:29.439 like ivory liquid dish soap in a liquid soap in it, 1723 01:31:30.039 --> 01:31:32.239 fill it with a gallon of water, add a gallon 1724 01:31:32.279 --> 01:31:35.520 of water, and then around that area, not in just 1725 01:31:35.680 --> 01:31:38.319 the dead grass. But in the grass it's green around 1726 01:31:38.359 --> 01:31:41.960 the dead water that and let it soak them in 1727 01:31:42.039 --> 01:31:43.920 it and water it again, and just watch it and 1728 01:31:43.960 --> 01:31:46.119 see if you see little black and white bugs or 1729 01:31:46.119 --> 01:31:49.800 a little kind of orange brown with a white band 1730 01:31:49.920 --> 01:31:52.880 on them bugs, either of that coming up onto the grass. 1731 01:31:52.960 --> 01:31:57.239 That would be chinchbugs. And chinchbugs will often start next 1732 01:31:57.319 --> 01:32:04.720 to pardon you had chins bug? Chinch Yeah, chinch but 1733 01:32:05.079 --> 01:32:09.279 it's a it's a turf. They love Saint Augustine. This 1734 01:32:09.560 --> 01:32:13.680 is Augustine. Oh yeah, yeah. Let's let's just see if 1735 01:32:13.720 --> 01:32:16.279 we have those or not if we If we don't, 1736 01:32:16.800 --> 01:32:19.039 then we would look at other causes for it. It 1737 01:32:19.119 --> 01:32:22.279 could be, you know, for whatever reason, something under the 1738 01:32:22.359 --> 01:32:25.159 soil buried on there and the and the grass can't 1739 01:32:25.159 --> 01:32:27.119 get a good deep root system and it's more prone 1740 01:32:27.239 --> 01:32:30.119 to to drying out or something. It could be a 1741 01:32:30.279 --> 01:32:33.840 disease like uh a take all root rot that's affecting them. 1742 01:32:34.119 --> 01:32:37.880 So there's a lot of possibilities, but I'd like to 1743 01:32:38.000 --> 01:32:41.199 start with seeing do a self assessment like I described, 1744 01:32:41.239 --> 01:32:43.800 and see if you've got chinch bugs and that. If 1745 01:32:43.840 --> 01:32:48.319 you don't, then uh, let's let's let's have you send 1746 01:32:48.399 --> 01:32:52.039 me a picture of what you see of the picture 1747 01:32:52.079 --> 01:32:54.640 of the area. I'm going to put you on hold, Chris, 1748 01:32:55.199 --> 01:32:58.520 give you an email. If you need to send pictures, 1749 01:32:58.600 --> 01:33:01.319 you can send them to this email and just reference 1750 01:33:01.399 --> 01:33:03.119 our call on the air today. That's what we use 1751 01:33:03.159 --> 01:33:05.960 the email for, is his photos for me to talk 1752 01:33:06.000 --> 01:33:08.159 to people about questions on the year. 1753 01:33:08.600 --> 01:33:10.760 Okay, all right, all right, thank. 1754 01:33:10.640 --> 01:33:16.000 You, yes sir, all right, very good, yes, Sari. Hey, 1755 01:33:16.479 --> 01:33:20.079 Southwest Fertilizer is in Southwest Houston. Well there's a revelation. 1756 01:33:20.399 --> 01:33:22.319 They're on the corner of Bisonett and Renwick. And you 1757 01:33:22.399 --> 01:33:24.439 hear me talk about them all the time. Because Bob 1758 01:33:24.520 --> 01:33:28.159 has got everything you could need. My favorite thing to 1759 01:33:28.199 --> 01:33:31.279 say about it is if Southwest doesn't have it, you 1760 01:33:31.359 --> 01:33:35.000 don't need it. And that's true because everything that's gonna 1761 01:33:35.079 --> 01:33:37.239 work that's going to help on any kind of problem 1762 01:33:37.279 --> 01:33:40.399 in your yard or any way to stimulate your plants, 1763 01:33:40.479 --> 01:33:43.680 like fertilizer, Bob's got it. He has everything I talk 1764 01:33:43.720 --> 01:33:46.479 about on guardline and then some. For example, he's got 1765 01:33:46.479 --> 01:33:49.640 a mite. As might is the product we put down 1766 01:33:49.680 --> 01:33:51.680 for micro nutrients on our lawn. You need to do 1767 01:33:51.760 --> 01:33:54.920 as Mite, by the way, about once a year that's 1768 01:33:55.119 --> 01:33:58.159 generally enough. Now do a soil test. You may find 1769 01:33:58.239 --> 01:34:00.760 you need more or less, but that is a good 1770 01:34:01.159 --> 01:34:03.399 gauge for what to do. You can do it anytime 1771 01:34:03.439 --> 01:34:05.279 of the year. You can do azemite right now. It's 1772 01:34:05.359 --> 01:34:07.800 not going to make your grass grow. It's going to 1773 01:34:07.880 --> 01:34:11.279 provide micro nutrients into the bank account so as that 1774 01:34:11.439 --> 01:34:15.359 grass grows and things that stimulate grass growth or warm temperatures, 1775 01:34:15.720 --> 01:34:19.399 adequate moisture, good sunlight. As that grass grows, it's going 1776 01:34:19.479 --> 01:34:22.319 to have those nutrients that are essential to support that growth. 1777 01:34:22.680 --> 01:34:25.079 That's what azemite does. You can go to asimite Texas 1778 01:34:25.159 --> 01:34:26.920 dot com if you want to learn more about it. 1779 01:34:27.439 --> 01:34:29.680 But that's what it does. But that's just an example 1780 01:34:30.159 --> 01:34:32.920 of the kind of products we get at Southwest Fertilizer 1781 01:34:33.119 --> 01:34:36.239 Organic Synthetic. They got them all eighty foot wall of tools, 1782 01:34:36.880 --> 01:34:38.760 a little repair shop in the back too, which is 1783 01:34:38.840 --> 01:34:42.760 kind of handy, by the way. Southwest Fertilizer dot Com 1784 01:34:42.920 --> 01:34:46.359 corner of Businet and Runwick. Anything you need is going 1785 01:34:46.479 --> 01:34:50.800 to be there for sure. Let's see, We're going to 1786 01:34:50.880 --> 01:34:54.279 go now to sugar Land and talk to Alan. Hello Allen, 1787 01:34:54.359 --> 01:34:55.279 Welcome to Gardenline. 1788 01:34:56.439 --> 01:34:58.800 Hello Skip this is Moses Hall Allen. 1789 01:34:58.920 --> 01:34:59.560 Good to hear from. 1790 01:34:59.640 --> 01:35:01.439 You do a great job on your show. 1791 01:35:01.279 --> 01:35:05.159 Roses Hall Alan. I did your last name begin with 1792 01:35:05.239 --> 01:35:05.560 an H? 1793 01:35:06.520 --> 01:35:07.159 Yes it does. 1794 01:35:08.600 --> 01:35:12.880 I think I know your was in that same dorm 1795 01:35:13.199 --> 01:35:13.600 with us. 1796 01:35:13.920 --> 01:35:14.399 Yes, I do. 1797 01:35:16.560 --> 01:35:16.920 Very well. 1798 01:35:18.079 --> 01:35:23.600 Hey, I guess so I'm sorry. 1799 01:35:23.960 --> 01:35:27.680 I'm liable to reminisce and end up telling us. I'm sorry, Gallan, 1800 01:35:27.720 --> 01:35:28.600 go ahead, I'll shut up. 1801 01:35:29.960 --> 01:35:30.399 It's all right. 1802 01:35:30.840 --> 01:35:34.880 I've got some stories as well, So I have some 1803 01:35:35.000 --> 01:35:39.720 knockout roses that have developed. It's a blight. I've seen 1804 01:35:39.760 --> 01:35:46.319 it around town. It's very dark, reddish brown dying with 1805 01:35:46.560 --> 01:35:49.920 tons of thorns on the plants. I've looked online and 1806 01:35:50.279 --> 01:35:53.640 one of the things I read said, bag it, dig 1807 01:35:53.720 --> 01:35:55.680 it up, and throw it away as fast as you can. 1808 01:35:57.479 --> 01:36:01.840 That is correct. Do you think you described is almost 1809 01:36:02.000 --> 01:36:07.159 certainly something called rosette? Rose rosette. You get a bronzy 1810 01:36:07.359 --> 01:36:11.800 reddish lots of bronzy reddish new growth and a ton 1811 01:36:11.880 --> 01:36:14.960 of thorns, and the new growth often is a little malformed. 1812 01:36:15.000 --> 01:36:17.359 It didn't look right, you know, the leaves don't look right. 1813 01:36:18.319 --> 01:36:20.880 That is rose rosette. It's a virus, so there's no 1814 01:36:21.119 --> 01:36:24.560 curing a virus there's no virus side spray on any 1815 01:36:24.640 --> 01:36:26.840 plant that you can put out there to kill the virus. 1816 01:36:27.319 --> 01:36:29.159 The problem. The reason we bag it and get it 1817 01:36:29.199 --> 01:36:31.439 out of there is because there's a little mite that 1818 01:36:31.840 --> 01:36:36.439 has a little threadlike web thing it creates that allows 1819 01:36:36.479 --> 01:36:38.960 it to float on the air, and it will float 1820 01:36:39.079 --> 01:36:42.760 some distance to another rose bush and infect it. Because 1821 01:36:43.680 --> 01:36:46.399 it is a death sentence for the rose. You want 1822 01:36:46.439 --> 01:36:48.439 to get that rose out of there. If there's any 1823 01:36:48.560 --> 01:36:51.800 roses right next to it, they probably already have it. 1824 01:36:52.640 --> 01:36:55.600 You could wait and watch, but the first sign you 1825 01:36:55.720 --> 01:36:57.960 see of it, get those out of there too. And 1826 01:36:58.079 --> 01:37:01.199 I tell people to put a garbisack over the top 1827 01:37:01.279 --> 01:37:03.600 of the rose and go all the way to the ground. 1828 01:37:03.680 --> 01:37:05.800 I like the draw string types because you can just 1829 01:37:05.880 --> 01:37:08.079 pull that now string and so now you basically have 1830 01:37:08.439 --> 01:37:11.039 turned your rose into a wrapped lollipop. You know, you 1831 01:37:11.159 --> 01:37:13.159 got the bag all around it tied to the base, 1832 01:37:13.960 --> 01:37:16.439 and then when you dig it, you know you're going 1833 01:37:16.520 --> 01:37:18.239 to shake the plant trying to pull it up out 1834 01:37:18.239 --> 01:37:20.760 of the ground, and you're not shaking mites loose to 1835 01:37:20.880 --> 01:37:24.439 float all over the place and increase your problems. 1836 01:37:25.359 --> 01:37:29.479 Yeah, sad to hear now. I also understand if I 1837 01:37:29.640 --> 01:37:32.760 were to ever trim those roses, the shears that I 1838 01:37:32.960 --> 01:37:35.079 use need to be cleaned. What do I clean those with? 1839 01:37:35.319 --> 01:37:37.359 So I don't take it from rose to rose? 1840 01:37:39.600 --> 01:37:43.600 Well, A number of things will do that. I generally 1841 01:37:43.720 --> 01:37:48.079 recommend people use rubbing alcohol. Bleach water tends to rust 1842 01:37:48.279 --> 01:37:52.399 metal and so your pruners. If you use a bleach 1843 01:37:52.520 --> 01:37:55.640 water solution, you can sterilize them that way, but you 1844 01:37:55.760 --> 01:37:57.800 need to immediately wash them off and then dry them 1845 01:37:57.840 --> 01:38:00.880 off and then oil them. And it's better to just 1846 01:38:01.119 --> 01:38:07.600 use just a good strong alcohol solution of isopropyl type alcohol. 1847 01:38:08.199 --> 01:38:10.399 You I won't do it. 1848 01:38:11.079 --> 01:38:13.359 So I to give hydrogen proxi, I won't do it. 1849 01:38:14.720 --> 01:38:16.239 No, I was using that now. 1850 01:38:16.399 --> 01:38:18.680 But what I if you go to it, you know, 1851 01:38:19.680 --> 01:38:22.600 typical pharmacy place, you can buy a little bottle pint 1852 01:38:22.640 --> 01:38:26.000 bottle of alcohol for like a dollar, and I just 1853 01:38:26.119 --> 01:38:28.359 cut the top off and now carried it around. I 1854 01:38:28.439 --> 01:38:30.680 dipped my prunters in it, and dip my prunters in it. 1855 01:38:31.279 --> 01:38:36.920 Some people will use what's the spray Life salt? They'll 1856 01:38:36.960 --> 01:38:39.760 take a Life salt and spray the prunters between cuts 1857 01:38:39.760 --> 01:38:41.600 because it also is a disinfectant. 1858 01:38:43.439 --> 01:38:46.319 Okay, got it. Hey, thanks so much. I appreciate it. 1859 01:38:47.279 --> 01:38:48.359 All right, good to hear from you. 1860 01:38:50.000 --> 01:38:50.600 Have a great day. 1861 01:38:53.880 --> 01:38:55.520 Alrighty there there we go. 1862 01:38:56.079 --> 01:38:56.199 Uh. 1863 01:38:56.439 --> 01:38:59.479 Siena Maltz is down south of the Greater Houston area. 1864 01:38:59.520 --> 01:39:04.600 Cinemal is a place where you get quality. Those folks 1865 01:39:04.840 --> 01:39:09.680 make sure they produce and sell quality soil products, brown 1866 01:39:09.720 --> 01:39:12.960 stuff before green stuff. Remember Ciena Multch is the brown 1867 01:39:13.000 --> 01:39:15.720 stuff place. There is not a fertilizer. I recommend this 1868 01:39:15.880 --> 01:39:21.880 not at Cinamulch Compost mixes, vegetable mixes from heirloom soils, mulches, 1869 01:39:22.199 --> 01:39:26.199 rock products. It's all there Ciena Maultch Highway near Highway 1870 01:39:26.239 --> 01:39:28.359 six and two eighty eight south of Houston, just north 1871 01:39:28.399 --> 01:39:31.199 of Road Sharing. They're on FM five twenty one. But 1872 01:39:31.279 --> 01:39:34.920 here's what you need, Sienna Mulch dot com. That's the 1873 01:39:35.000 --> 01:39:36.920 website tells you everything you need to know, how to 1874 01:39:36.960 --> 01:39:39.960 get there, how to call them, everything like that. Siena 1875 01:39:40.079 --> 01:39:44.239 Mulch dot com. It is a one stop glad you're 1876 01:39:44.279 --> 01:39:46.560 listening in today. We got plenty of things to talk 1877 01:39:46.560 --> 01:39:49.239 about on plants, you know. That's the thing. I don't 1878 01:39:49.239 --> 01:39:51.000 care what month of the year is, what hour of 1879 01:39:51.039 --> 01:39:55.000 the day it is, there's always an appropriate plant question 1880 01:39:55.119 --> 01:39:57.399 for the time. Something is going on out there, something 1881 01:39:57.479 --> 01:39:59.880 needs fertilizing, something's dying. I want to plant a new 1882 01:40:00.640 --> 01:40:02.399 what's a good type of tomato? I mean, we can 1883 01:40:02.520 --> 01:40:05.640 go on and on and on. One of the things 1884 01:40:05.800 --> 01:40:08.279 that I find myself doing a lot more in the 1885 01:40:08.319 --> 01:40:11.199 summer is starting to pay attention to my houseplants. You know, 1886 01:40:11.279 --> 01:40:13.560 you're inside. I get out and work early in the day, 1887 01:40:13.640 --> 01:40:16.680 sometimes late in the day a little bit, but during 1888 01:40:16.720 --> 01:40:19.239 the middle, hottest part of the day, try to stay 1889 01:40:19.279 --> 01:40:24.159 in more because I don't know, just it's hot out there. Well, 1890 01:40:24.399 --> 01:40:26.279 that's a good time to be taking care of houseplants 1891 01:40:26.319 --> 01:40:29.199 and noticing houseplants. I'm kind of interested in houseplants that 1892 01:40:29.239 --> 01:40:31.720 I have color. There's a lot of green houseplants, and 1893 01:40:31.880 --> 01:40:34.800 green is a color too, nothing wrong with that, but 1894 01:40:35.079 --> 01:40:38.119 I love the kind that have some beautiful splashes of color. 1895 01:40:38.159 --> 01:40:41.000 I just propagated an aglionema. I'm going to put that. 1896 01:40:41.159 --> 01:40:43.159 I need to put that to a Facebook post to 1897 01:40:43.319 --> 01:40:45.279 let you see what we did there. That's kind of fun. 1898 01:40:45.760 --> 01:40:47.760 It has some color in the leaves, some reddish with 1899 01:40:47.800 --> 01:40:50.119 the green. I've got another one that's got pinkish colors, 1900 01:40:50.199 --> 01:40:53.600 a coral pink color in the green. There's morana, which 1901 01:40:53.680 --> 01:40:57.199 is a prayer plant that can have color in the foliage, 1902 01:40:57.720 --> 01:40:59.960 and many others. And by the way, if you're looking 1903 01:41:00.199 --> 01:41:03.560 for that, you're going to be hard pressed to find 1904 01:41:03.600 --> 01:41:06.479 a better place than Buchanan's Native Plants in the Heights. 1905 01:41:06.600 --> 01:41:09.439 They're on Eleventh Street in the Heights and they are 1906 01:41:09.560 --> 01:41:12.359 stocked up in their houseplant greenhouse. Right now, I'm just 1907 01:41:12.399 --> 01:41:16.800 seeing some photos of some beautiful morantas and other things 1908 01:41:16.840 --> 01:41:18.760 that they have, and they just have a lot of them. 1909 01:41:18.880 --> 01:41:21.159 They're set up. Of course, Buchanans is known for their 1910 01:41:21.239 --> 01:41:25.800 native plants. They are like you'd have to drive a 1911 01:41:26.039 --> 01:41:28.119 very long way out of this region to find more 1912 01:41:28.199 --> 01:41:30.439 native plants in buchanan Has. I don't even know where 1913 01:41:30.479 --> 01:41:34.520 that would be. They specialize even in Houston area natives 1914 01:41:34.680 --> 01:41:36.319 as well. Like if you say, I want something that 1915 01:41:36.439 --> 01:41:40.039 grew in Harris County before we got here people got here, 1916 01:41:40.319 --> 01:41:44.319 well they can fix up they've got that. Buchanan's Native 1917 01:41:44.359 --> 01:41:47.199 Plants in the Heights is an outstanding place to do that. 1918 01:41:47.640 --> 01:41:52.159 By the way, Public Service announcement today ad Buchanans beginning 1919 01:41:52.159 --> 01:41:54.800 at ten o'clock going to eleven, So right after this 1920 01:41:54.960 --> 01:41:58.039 show you make a bee line over there. Starting a 1921 01:41:58.159 --> 01:42:01.640 cut flower garden class. Starting a cutflower garden class in 1922 01:42:01.720 --> 01:42:06.520 Buchanan's next Saturday, the seventeenth, same time, ten to eleven, 1923 01:42:06.800 --> 01:42:09.239 Tomato one oh one class. Do you know it's time 1924 01:42:09.319 --> 01:42:11.880 to plant tomatoes? Yes, it is for your fall planting. 1925 01:42:11.920 --> 01:42:13.720 You can still do that up and get it done, 1926 01:42:14.319 --> 01:42:17.359 but you can do that at Buchanan's Native Plants. I'm 1927 01:42:17.399 --> 01:42:19.439 going to head out now, We're going to go to Friendswood, 1928 01:42:19.880 --> 01:42:23.479 Texas and talk to John. Hello, John, Welcome to garden. 1929 01:42:25.239 --> 01:42:31.920 Thanks, good morning, listen. I've got a question about horticultural molasses. 1930 01:42:33.119 --> 01:42:33.800 In the fall. 1931 01:42:34.680 --> 01:42:39.159 The last several years, I've gotten a lot of fungus 1932 01:42:39.720 --> 01:42:43.239 because the neighbor's plants are shading. I mean their trees 1933 01:42:43.279 --> 01:42:45.520 are shading the side of my yard. 1934 01:42:46.439 --> 01:42:47.880 More as they've gotten bigger. 1935 01:42:48.439 --> 01:42:53.159 And I usually put molasses on the yard, but I 1936 01:42:53.239 --> 01:42:57.439 didn't know if that was high in nitrogen, and that 1937 01:42:57.640 --> 01:43:02.840 was going to cause me problems with the fungus brown 1938 01:43:02.960 --> 01:43:05.399 patch coming up in the fall if I put that on. 1939 01:43:05.640 --> 01:43:07.039 Now, what do you think. 1940 01:43:09.000 --> 01:43:11.840 I don't know of any way that molasses would be 1941 01:43:11.920 --> 01:43:15.399 connected to brown patch. I'm just I've never heard that, 1942 01:43:15.800 --> 01:43:19.159 so I would say probably, don't worry about it. Molasses 1943 01:43:19.319 --> 01:43:23.039 is basically carbon. It's sugar, which is a whole chain 1944 01:43:23.119 --> 01:43:27.159 of carbon molecules tied together. Many of the beneficial microbes 1945 01:43:27.319 --> 01:43:31.399 need that carbon. That's a food source for them. That's 1946 01:43:31.439 --> 01:43:35.479 why they go after our dead organic matter, the brown stuff, 1947 01:43:35.560 --> 01:43:37.800 you know, the composts and things that are on the ground. 1948 01:43:38.640 --> 01:43:42.600 So I would I would say, that's fine. Is there 1949 01:43:42.640 --> 01:43:45.560 a problem you're trying to fix with the molasses or 1950 01:43:45.680 --> 01:43:48.159 is it just trying to stimulate your lawn. 1951 01:43:49.279 --> 01:43:53.399 Yeah, I've used it to stimulate the lawn. My question, 1952 01:43:53.840 --> 01:43:56.760 I had read that you don't want to use fertilizer 1953 01:43:56.880 --> 01:44:02.319 with high nitrogen, you know, at that time of the 1954 01:44:02.600 --> 01:44:06.479 at this time of the year, maybe because that nitrogen 1955 01:44:06.840 --> 01:44:11.800 is going to stimulate the brown patch and the long 1956 01:44:11.920 --> 01:44:15.880 funguses and that's and I didn't know if my lapses. 1957 01:44:17.079 --> 01:44:17.279 Was a. 1958 01:44:18.800 --> 01:44:22.359 Contain nitrogen that would be that type of problem. But 1959 01:44:22.479 --> 01:44:23.520 apparently not not. 1960 01:44:23.600 --> 01:44:25.720 To worry, Yeah, not to worry about. But let me 1961 01:44:25.920 --> 01:44:28.319 that's a good question. I'm going to clarify what you've 1962 01:44:28.359 --> 01:44:33.479 heard on that. If a fertilizer is a three one 1963 01:44:33.680 --> 01:44:39.119 two ratio like a six two four or a fifteen 1964 01:44:39.279 --> 01:44:41.960 five ten or twenty one seven fourteen. You know what 1965 01:44:42.000 --> 01:44:44.399 I'm saying. That ratio, or if it's a four one 1966 01:44:44.439 --> 01:44:47.359 two ratio, it's got a lot more nitrogen than anything. 1967 01:44:47.840 --> 01:44:51.079 But that's the ratio that grass takes it up. So 1968 01:44:51.159 --> 01:44:53.119 if you were to cut your grass clippings and send 1969 01:44:53.159 --> 01:44:55.560 them to a lab and say give me the nutrient content, 1970 01:44:55.720 --> 01:44:58.600 it's going to be a three or four one two ratio. 1971 01:44:59.399 --> 01:45:02.399 So the ratio isn't the problem. It's the amount of 1972 01:45:02.439 --> 01:45:05.239 it that you put out. So if you put out 1973 01:45:05.479 --> 01:45:09.000 too much of that nitrogen product, then you get a 1974 01:45:09.039 --> 01:45:13.880 flush of growth, you get increased susceptibility to things like 1975 01:45:14.840 --> 01:45:17.720 large patrick brown patch in the fall of gray leaf spot. 1976 01:45:18.159 --> 01:45:21.319 We've had some of that this summer. But it's the 1977 01:45:21.600 --> 01:45:25.560 quantity you're putting out, not the ratio. So three one 1978 01:45:25.640 --> 01:45:28.560 two four one two is good anytime of the year. Well, 1979 01:45:29.039 --> 01:45:31.159 we change it in the fall a little bit, but 1980 01:45:31.439 --> 01:45:34.680 it's good now to use that. Just don't overapply it. 1981 01:45:35.039 --> 01:45:38.039 I would say about a half pound to a pound 1982 01:45:38.119 --> 01:45:41.640 of nitrogen at the most when you apply it per 1983 01:45:41.760 --> 01:45:42.720 thousand square feet. 1984 01:45:43.720 --> 01:45:45.239 All right, well that makes sense. 1985 01:45:45.319 --> 01:45:45.560 Listen. 1986 01:45:46.199 --> 01:45:49.760 One fast question. I've always wondered about this. When you 1987 01:45:49.920 --> 01:45:55.520 spray herbicides to kill kill weeds, particularly kalinda, I always 1988 01:45:55.560 --> 01:45:59.520 think about this. Does the herbicide also kill. 1989 01:45:59.479 --> 01:46:02.640 The sea pods on that plant? 1990 01:46:03.000 --> 01:46:06.720 Or are the seed seeds still active even though the 1991 01:46:06.880 --> 01:46:10.600 plant has been has been killed by the herbicide. 1992 01:46:12.319 --> 01:46:14.680 Usually by the time you put a herbicide down those 1993 01:46:15.000 --> 01:46:18.239 if there's seed seeds on it, they've already formed and 1994 01:46:18.359 --> 01:46:21.079 that herbicide is probably not going to be there to 1995 01:46:21.239 --> 01:46:25.960 help you with those seeds. Also, those kind of herbicides 1996 01:46:26.199 --> 01:46:30.359 when plants become reproductive, meaning they're blooming and setting seed, 1997 01:46:30.560 --> 01:46:34.800 the products aren't even as effective. So if you see 1998 01:46:34.880 --> 01:46:38.119 flowers and seed setting on your plant, that product is 1999 01:46:38.199 --> 01:46:40.840 not even going to be as effective, not only the 2000 01:46:40.920 --> 01:46:43.239 plant that's there, but also with the seed that it's setting. 2001 01:46:43.359 --> 01:46:46.000 So you need to get in ahead of that reproductive 2002 01:46:46.239 --> 01:46:47.119 stage of growth. 2003 01:46:48.159 --> 01:46:52.159 Yeah, that's kylinga though, the kylinga boy, I think it 2004 01:46:52.319 --> 01:46:54.119 pops up with seeds already. 2005 01:46:54.199 --> 01:46:55.520 I mean, that's that stuff is. 2006 01:46:57.960 --> 01:47:00.960 It's really hard to get ahead up. But but yeah, okay, 2007 01:47:02.279 --> 01:47:04.479 I didn't think the seed pods were going to be 2008 01:47:04.600 --> 01:47:05.560 killed by that stuff. 2009 01:47:05.640 --> 01:47:07.720 So that was my answer. 2010 01:47:07.800 --> 01:47:09.560 I needed thanks a lot. 2011 01:47:10.000 --> 01:47:10.359 Good week. 2012 01:47:11.920 --> 01:47:14.000 You bet, thanks a lot. I hope you do as well. 2013 01:47:14.640 --> 01:47:20.600 Uh let's see here. We're gonna go to Marv in Richmond. Marv, 2014 01:47:20.760 --> 01:47:22.720 I've got about one minute, but let's see if we 2015 01:47:22.760 --> 01:47:23.760 can help you in that time. 2016 01:47:24.520 --> 01:47:27.279 Okay, right before the break at eight thirty, at a 2017 01:47:27.319 --> 01:47:30.640 car I talked about some problem with a rose tree 2018 01:47:30.880 --> 01:47:34.000 and he said that you could cover with a bag 2019 01:47:34.319 --> 01:47:36.319 and tie it and burn it. I've got a cedar 2020 01:47:36.399 --> 01:47:38.520 tree that was I planted about thirty years ago. 2021 01:47:38.680 --> 01:47:41.239 It's about four foot tall. Now it's only about eight. 2022 01:47:41.800 --> 01:47:45.520 That thing is toasted brown, dry, and it's covered like 2023 01:47:45.640 --> 01:47:48.760 somebody dust it with brown flour. That's not what you 2024 01:47:48.840 --> 01:47:50.520 were talking about it And it's dead. 2025 01:47:51.520 --> 01:47:54.560 No, no, that's something totally different. But when a cedar 2026 01:47:54.680 --> 01:47:57.079 turns brown, it is dead. It's one of the trees 2027 01:47:57.119 --> 01:47:59.760 that cannot reach sprout if it doesn't have living needles. 2028 01:48:00.119 --> 01:48:02.439 So, and what do you think it is? Looks like 2029 01:48:02.479 --> 01:48:05.239 it's totally covered with a brown light brown dust. 2030 01:48:07.880 --> 01:48:09.800 Well, I mean it could be a number of different 2031 01:48:09.840 --> 01:48:12.359 they could it could be seen or pollen. But it 2032 01:48:12.520 --> 01:48:15.359 also I don't know. It could just be there's not 2033 01:48:15.479 --> 01:48:19.079 a disease that should cause that dust. So I think 2034 01:48:19.600 --> 01:48:23.239 if I'm picturing what you're seeing, I think it probably 2035 01:48:23.359 --> 01:48:27.279 died of drought rather than you know, some other, some 2036 01:48:27.439 --> 01:48:32.079 other issue. Last year's drought really hammered a bunch of trees, 2037 01:48:32.199 --> 01:48:34.399 and we've seen a lot of loss on those seedars 2038 01:48:34.439 --> 01:48:37.760 as a result of that. Anyway, Yeah, I don't have 2039 01:48:37.840 --> 01:48:41.920 to worry. Well, if you'd like to send me a picture, 2040 01:48:42.199 --> 01:48:44.439 you send me a picture up close of the dust. 2041 01:48:44.640 --> 01:48:46.600 Maybe put some on your finger and take a picture 2042 01:48:46.600 --> 01:48:48.520 of your finger with the dust on it. Let me 2043 01:48:48.560 --> 01:48:51.199 take a look at it. Maybe I'll see something on there. 2044 01:48:51.479 --> 01:48:53.520 I'm gonna put you on hold. Crystalill pick it up. 2045 01:48:53.600 --> 01:48:55.880 If you want to stick around and send me a picture, 2046 01:48:56.000 --> 01:48:58.399 He'll pick it up and give you my email address. Folks, 2047 01:48:58.439 --> 01:49:00.640 I got to run. We're into a break right now. 2048 01:49:00.760 --> 01:49:02.960 I'll be right back seven one three two one two 2049 01:49:03.560 --> 01:49:06.600 kt RH. Beverly and Carolyn, you'll be the first two 2050 01:49:06.680 --> 01:49:11.760 up today. We are looking forward to visiting with you 2051 01:49:11.960 --> 01:49:14.960 about the things that are of interest to you. Leake 2052 01:49:15.039 --> 01:49:17.439 City Feed is down in Leakee City, Texas, and you 2053 01:49:17.560 --> 01:49:19.920 know we love feed stores here on guard Line. Leake 2054 01:49:20.000 --> 01:49:23.399 City Feed specifically where it is. It's a a few 2055 01:49:23.520 --> 01:49:26.359 blocks south of ninety six on Highway three to south 2056 01:49:26.439 --> 01:49:28.800 of Highway ninety six on Leake City. So all of 2057 01:49:28.840 --> 01:49:31.039 you out there in that area, all the communities like 2058 01:49:31.159 --> 01:49:34.239 Laycliffe and Webster in League City, Santa Fe, Dickinson, San 2059 01:49:34.319 --> 01:49:37.720 leonol Comuni Real, Claar, Lake City, all those communities, this 2060 01:49:37.880 --> 01:49:40.439 is your hometown feed store. They carry every fertilizer I 2061 01:49:40.479 --> 01:49:42.920 talk about on Guardline. They carry the products you need 2062 01:49:43.199 --> 01:49:47.279 to control insects or diseases or weeds in your landscape. 2063 01:49:48.479 --> 01:49:51.399 They give you that old time service. This store has 2064 01:49:51.439 --> 01:49:54.359 been around for what over forty years now, and the 2065 01:49:54.439 --> 01:49:59.159 family has been running it. Right now, you will be 2066 01:49:59.239 --> 01:50:01.920 able to go out there and see the second generation 2067 01:50:02.079 --> 01:50:03.680 now that's running League City Feed. 2068 01:50:04.359 --> 01:50:04.399 That. 2069 01:50:04.680 --> 01:50:08.720 The thing I like about going into League City is 2070 01:50:08.760 --> 01:50:10.840 the kind of service that they give you too. They 2071 01:50:10.960 --> 01:50:12.800 carry the bags out for you. It's that old time 2072 01:50:12.880 --> 01:50:15.000 service what you would expect. I love going into old 2073 01:50:15.039 --> 01:50:17.920 time feed stores. They have premium pet foods, everything you 2074 01:50:18.000 --> 01:50:20.680 need for your backyard, chickens, you name it. But from 2075 01:50:20.720 --> 01:50:23.680 a horticultural standpoint, they've got the supplies you need to 2076 01:50:23.720 --> 01:50:27.359 have a beautiful and bountiful garden and landscape there at 2077 01:50:27.439 --> 01:50:29.640 the League City Feed. We're going to head out to 2078 01:50:29.680 --> 01:50:31.720 Pasadena now and talk to Beverly. 2079 01:50:31.840 --> 01:50:36.279 Hello, Beverly, good morning. My problem is. 2080 01:50:38.239 --> 01:50:41.720 The soil in my pots for my pot at. 2081 01:50:43.279 --> 01:50:44.039 Out of it. 2082 01:50:44.479 --> 01:50:46.159 Is there any way to slow that down? 2083 01:50:46.319 --> 01:50:53.800 Or sleachy, Beverly, you are cutting out? Are you saying 2084 01:50:53.960 --> 01:50:55.199 bleaching or leeching? 2085 01:50:56.399 --> 01:50:59.239 Leach with an l? 2086 01:50:59.399 --> 01:51:03.439 Okay? What is what is coming out? Are you just 2087 01:51:03.520 --> 01:51:06.920 seeing that the plant is not growing that like the 2088 01:51:06.960 --> 01:51:08.399 fertilizer is not there anymore? 2089 01:51:08.560 --> 01:51:08.720 Or what? 2090 01:51:09.000 --> 01:51:10.840 What do you what makes you say it's. 2091 01:51:10.840 --> 01:51:16.199 Leeching and the pot keeps dropping. 2092 01:51:17.359 --> 01:51:17.640 Level? 2093 01:51:20.079 --> 01:51:22.840 Okay, Beverly, I'm gonna I'm gonna get my best shot 2094 01:51:22.880 --> 01:51:25.760 at it. I'm getting about one third of the words 2095 01:51:25.800 --> 01:51:29.319 you're saying that are not being cut out. So let 2096 01:51:29.399 --> 01:51:34.239 me let me just say, if the issue is loss 2097 01:51:34.359 --> 01:51:37.520 of anything from the soil, like nutrients or whatever, then 2098 01:51:37.560 --> 01:51:39.479 that would just be a matter of excessive amounts of 2099 01:51:39.520 --> 01:51:42.960 moisture being flushed through it. If if the problem is 2100 01:51:43.319 --> 01:51:46.560 that the soil is getting too dry the water's moving out, 2101 01:51:47.079 --> 01:51:49.720 then you may want to repot with something with a 2102 01:51:49.760 --> 01:51:52.199 little bit of a finer texture to hold a little 2103 01:51:52.199 --> 01:51:55.720 bit of the moisture longer. Uh, if you're seeing just 2104 01:51:55.960 --> 01:51:58.399 the you know, the brown material coming out that is 2105 01:51:58.600 --> 01:52:02.680 just decomposing or gain matter releasing things like the humic 2106 01:52:02.800 --> 01:52:06.000 acid or other things that are brown coming out of 2107 01:52:06.000 --> 01:52:08.359 the bottom of the pot. I don't know if any 2108 01:52:08.399 --> 01:52:10.640 of those hit on it directly. If you need to 2109 01:52:10.960 --> 01:52:12.720 give us a call back, I feel free to do that. 2110 01:52:13.000 --> 01:52:15.239 I'd suggest right off the top of the hour on this, 2111 01:52:16.000 --> 01:52:18.439 but I'm sorry, that's that's his best that I can 2112 01:52:18.520 --> 01:52:20.960 hear what you're saying. Let's go now to bel Air 2113 01:52:21.000 --> 01:52:22.119 and we're going to talk to Carolyn. 2114 01:52:22.199 --> 01:52:28.479 Hello, Carolyn, Hi, I had some pe countries trend a 2115 01:52:28.680 --> 01:52:31.680 couple of days ago. I have four pecan trees in 2116 01:52:31.800 --> 01:52:35.880 my backyard and they're fairly old, I guess at least 2117 01:52:36.000 --> 01:52:40.399 sixty years old, and I had a whole lot of 2118 01:52:40.600 --> 01:52:44.760 suckers that I had trimmed out. Is there any way 2119 01:52:44.840 --> 01:52:47.119 to prevent those from coming back? 2120 01:52:50.239 --> 01:52:51.279 What causes that? 2121 01:52:53.359 --> 01:52:55.680 So it's a pecan that is sending up shoots from 2122 01:52:55.720 --> 01:52:57.560 the base of the trunk, Is that correct? 2123 01:52:57.880 --> 01:52:57.920 No? 2124 01:52:58.680 --> 01:53:04.560 No, they're just all these really, they're not would they 2125 01:53:05.399 --> 01:53:11.520 just make real brushy looking of foliage around. Some of 2126 01:53:11.640 --> 01:53:14.960 them are closer to the ground, but a lot of 2127 01:53:15.039 --> 01:53:19.479 them were up in the tree itself. But okay, I 2128 01:53:19.640 --> 01:53:21.359 want to know if there's anything I can do to 2129 01:53:21.479 --> 01:53:23.119 prevent those from coming back. 2130 01:53:24.479 --> 01:53:28.159 Okay, my best guess based on your description is that 2131 01:53:28.279 --> 01:53:30.840 you're seeing something called witches broom where you have a 2132 01:53:30.920 --> 01:53:34.359 pecan that normally has a lot of slender branches with 2133 01:53:34.680 --> 01:53:36.800 what you would think of as a normal pecan look, 2134 01:53:37.319 --> 01:53:39.640 and then you get branches that it's almost like a 2135 01:53:39.680 --> 01:53:42.399 little bush growing up on a lem in the tree. 2136 01:53:42.600 --> 01:53:46.079 Is that you see that's accurate of describing it. That's 2137 01:53:46.159 --> 01:53:49.560 called witches broom, and it's caused by a little organism 2138 01:53:49.640 --> 01:53:52.840 called a mycoplasm. It's not a bacteria, it's not a virus. 2139 01:53:52.920 --> 01:53:55.720 It's a different kind of creature, uh, And it just 2140 01:53:55.880 --> 01:53:59.520 causes that proliferation of growth and you can prim them out, 2141 01:54:00.279 --> 01:54:04.039 but there's not a spray to control. That's that's kind 2142 01:54:04.079 --> 01:54:06.600 of normal. And the only other thing that you might 2143 01:54:06.680 --> 01:54:10.439 be seeing that would be like a oh, gosh, what's 2144 01:54:10.439 --> 01:54:12.520 it called mistletoe kind of thing? But I don't. I 2145 01:54:12.600 --> 01:54:16.159 think you're seeing a witch's broom effect from a microplasm 2146 01:54:16.279 --> 01:54:18.520 and again, no spray for it. Just print it out. 2147 01:54:18.640 --> 01:54:20.600 If you're going to do something, print it out. 2148 01:54:20.920 --> 01:54:21.079 Yeah. 2149 01:54:22.319 --> 01:54:25.560 I have another short question. My yard man is the 2150 01:54:25.680 --> 01:54:29.560 one who is trimming the trees, not Lewis Flory, which 2151 01:54:29.600 --> 01:54:34.199 I would really prefer. But a couple of years ago 2152 01:54:34.439 --> 01:54:38.439 he was doing a big prune and he actually topped 2153 01:54:38.760 --> 01:54:44.800 the tree so that they're just a bunch of I 2154 01:54:44.920 --> 01:54:48.880 guess probably at least six or eight inches in diameter 2155 01:54:49.600 --> 01:54:51.439 up at the very top of the tree that he 2156 01:54:51.680 --> 01:54:54.880 just locked off. Could that have affected any of. 2157 01:54:54.960 --> 01:54:59.800 This, well, you'd see you see a bunch of sprouts 2158 01:55:00.119 --> 01:55:02.439 out where he turned everything into the end of a 2159 01:55:02.840 --> 01:55:08.319 telephone pole. Look, that guy needs to never be allowed 2160 01:55:08.359 --> 01:55:10.520 to prune your trees again. That's why I always talk 2161 01:55:10.560 --> 01:55:13.960 about Martin Spoon more. You need somebody that knows what 2162 01:55:14.239 --> 01:55:17.640 they're talking about, how to do it, and it will 2163 01:55:17.720 --> 01:55:20.840 eventually could be brought back with some proper pruning to 2164 01:55:20.960 --> 01:55:24.119 deal with those bad cuts that were made. But I 2165 01:55:24.199 --> 01:55:27.000 don't think that's the cause of the witchess prum. Okay, 2166 01:55:27.880 --> 01:55:29.920 I'm running out of time, so I'm gonna have to run, 2167 01:55:30.319 --> 01:55:33.600 But thank you for the call. I appreciate. I appreciate you, 2168 01:55:34.600 --> 01:55:37.800 you bet, I appreciate that very much. Folks, you hear 2169 01:55:37.840 --> 01:55:39.840 me talk about ACE Hardware Stores all the time and 2170 01:55:39.920 --> 01:55:42.079 how they have everything that you need, and they do. 2171 01:55:42.359 --> 01:55:44.600 ACE is a place for your lawn fertilizers, for your 2172 01:55:44.640 --> 01:55:48.479 pest control, disease control, weed control, everything you need. You 2173 01:55:48.600 --> 01:55:52.119 just go to Acehardware dot com and you find the 2174 01:55:52.159 --> 01:55:55.399 store locator and find one of the forty stores, one 2175 01:55:55.520 --> 01:55:57.920 or more of the forty stores near you. And when 2176 01:55:57.960 --> 01:55:59.640 you get to ACE, you're going to find the things 2177 01:55:59.680 --> 01:56:03.000 you need to make your garden more bountiful or more beautiful. 2178 01:56:03.079 --> 01:56:06.319 It's as simple as that. They have fire ants controls, 2179 01:56:06.439 --> 01:56:10.359 they have things for dealing with mosquitoes. For example, they 2180 01:56:10.399 --> 01:56:13.079 got the mosquito dunks. Mosquito dunks is that products a 2181 01:56:13.079 --> 01:56:15.239 little donnut. You throw it out there in a pond 2182 01:56:15.279 --> 01:56:19.000 about a ten by ten area, and it releases a 2183 01:56:19.119 --> 01:56:23.279 disease only of mosquitoes. Doesn't hurt birds, doesn't hurt bees, 2184 01:56:23.319 --> 01:56:26.279 and good insects, doesn't hurt the family pet. It's only 2185 01:56:26.359 --> 01:56:29.680 mosquita disease. That's mosquito dunks. You can break them up 2186 01:56:29.760 --> 01:56:32.800 into little crumbles. Or you can buy the crumbles form 2187 01:56:32.880 --> 01:56:34.800 of it and you can toss it up into a 2188 01:56:34.880 --> 01:56:37.920 sagging gutter where they're standing water. In mosquitos breed, you 2189 01:56:37.960 --> 01:56:39.640 can put them in a in a bird bath, you 2190 01:56:39.680 --> 01:56:42.239 can put them underneath and the catch basins under your plant. 2191 01:56:42.319 --> 01:56:46.039 That's another place mosquitoes can breed. Mosquito dunks are very 2192 01:56:46.079 --> 01:56:49.520 effective in ace hardware. Definitely a place that you're gonna 2193 01:56:49.520 --> 01:56:51.960 be able to get it well. I hear the music 2194 01:56:52.079 --> 01:56:53.479 that means we're going to hit the top of the 2195 01:56:53.560 --> 01:56:57.000 hour here. When we come back, Jay and Angletrom John 2196 01:56:57.079 --> 01:57:00.279 in League City, you will be our first two callers up. 2197 01:57:00.479 --> 01:57:05.119 Thanks for hanging with us. I tell you, I'm always surprised. 2198 01:57:05.159 --> 01:57:07.279 I'll fast. The end of an hour comes. Just another 2199 01:57:07.359 --> 01:57:10.479 reminder if you're tuning in a little bit later on 2200 01:57:10.840 --> 01:57:14.199 my website here, I have been talking about to our 2201 01:57:14.319 --> 01:57:19.199 two publications. One is a more in depth mosquito mosquito 2202 01:57:19.720 --> 01:57:22.600 nuts Edge publication called nuts Edge and end up. Look. 2203 01:57:22.840 --> 01:57:24.880 It tells you everything you need to know. You need 2204 01:57:25.000 --> 01:57:28.840 to read it carefully because every time someone tells me 2205 01:57:29.000 --> 01:57:31.239 they have nutsedge and they can't control it, and I 2206 01:57:31.479 --> 01:57:34.760 ask them for the story, there's something in this publication 2207 01:57:34.880 --> 01:57:37.000 to explain why it didn't work what they need to do. 2208 01:57:37.399 --> 01:57:40.279 There's another one tips for winning the war against nuts edge. 2209 01:57:40.279 --> 01:57:43.479 It's a quick one pager. Both are at gardeningwith skip 2210 01:57:43.600 --> 01:57:44.039 dot com. 2211 01:57:44.840 --> 01:57:47.199 H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the 2212 01:57:47.239 --> 01:57:51.840 products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to kt 2213 01:57:52.079 --> 01:57:54.680 r H Garden Line with Skip rict. 2214 01:58:03.319 --> 01:58:04.359 Just watch him. 2215 01:58:04.479 --> 01:58:05.520 As the world. 2216 01:58:10.199 --> 01:58:20.640 Many again not a sign. 2217 01:58:22.279 --> 01:58:29.359 And welcome to garden Line. Welcome back to garden Line. 2218 01:58:29.439 --> 01:58:33.000 We are glad you are listening in today and we're 2219 01:58:33.039 --> 01:58:35.039 talking about all kinds of things gardening. That's one of 2220 01:58:35.079 --> 01:58:37.640 the fun things about doing this show is you never 2221 01:58:37.720 --> 01:58:39.920 know when the phone rings what the next question is 2222 01:58:40.000 --> 01:58:42.800 going to be. I know, trees, turf, and tomatoes. I 2223 01:58:42.920 --> 01:58:46.199 call them the three t's. That is what most of 2224 01:58:46.239 --> 01:58:48.600 the calls come in about in terms of in the 2225 01:58:48.720 --> 01:58:51.199 vegetable garden. It's always about tomatoes. No one calls me 2226 01:58:51.239 --> 01:58:54.840 about their co Robbie for some reason. But trees and 2227 01:58:54.920 --> 01:58:58.560 turf they are big topics. But all kinds of other things. 2228 01:58:58.600 --> 01:59:01.479 And I think you've heard a few, a few maybe 2229 01:59:01.640 --> 01:59:04.279 rather obscure things today because we've had some of those. 2230 01:59:04.439 --> 01:59:07.479 But if it's your question. It's important and someone else 2231 01:59:07.520 --> 01:59:10.479 will have it too. Let's head out now to Angleton 2232 01:59:10.600 --> 01:59:12.640 and we're going to talk to Jay. Hello Jay, and 2233 01:59:12.720 --> 01:59:13.600 welcome to Guardline. 2234 01:59:15.680 --> 01:59:16.880 It's Jerry. Can you hear me? 2235 01:59:18.399 --> 01:59:20.479 Jerry? Yes, I can go ahead? 2236 01:59:21.600 --> 01:59:21.800 Good? 2237 01:59:22.000 --> 01:59:22.199 Good? 2238 01:59:22.239 --> 01:59:22.680 How are you? 2239 01:59:24.319 --> 01:59:26.159 I'm good? I'm good? Jerry? Are you today? 2240 01:59:27.279 --> 01:59:27.520 Good? 2241 01:59:27.880 --> 01:59:28.760 I got uh? 2242 01:59:30.720 --> 01:59:33.199 I had a pecan tree blowdown in my front yard 2243 01:59:33.720 --> 01:59:36.359 uh in the hurricane, and got another one that's barely 2244 01:59:36.439 --> 01:59:36.800 hanging on. 2245 01:59:36.960 --> 01:59:39.079 So I'm gonna go ahead and cut it down. 2246 01:59:39.840 --> 01:59:41.439 But in it I got. 2247 01:59:41.800 --> 01:59:44.159 My question is kind of twofold. In the process of 2248 01:59:44.600 --> 01:59:49.960 getting that tree cleared out during decompensation, that killed all 2249 01:59:50.079 --> 01:59:52.800 my grass, I have Saint Augustine, so I. 2250 01:59:52.840 --> 01:59:53.560 Bought a lot. 2251 01:59:53.720 --> 01:59:59.199 I bought several palletts of grass uh and and resolted. 2252 02:00:00.079 --> 02:00:04.399 Question is should I fertilize that? And if I should win? 2253 02:00:05.279 --> 02:00:07.039 And the second one is. 2254 02:00:08.159 --> 02:00:10.199 I want to replant some trees. 2255 02:00:11.680 --> 02:00:15.000 My wife likes fall foliage, so I would like to 2256 02:00:15.079 --> 02:00:17.680 try to get something that actually changes color a bit 2257 02:00:17.920 --> 02:00:22.079 in the fall, but grows quickly and is hardy down 2258 02:00:22.479 --> 02:00:23.560 on the Gulf coast. 2259 02:00:24.000 --> 02:00:25.920 What's your recommendation of both of those? 2260 02:00:26.439 --> 02:00:26.880 All right? 2261 02:00:27.399 --> 02:00:30.319 All right, So on the first question, are you do 2262 02:00:30.399 --> 02:00:34.039 you prefer organic or synthetic types of fertilizer? Does it 2263 02:00:34.119 --> 02:00:34.560 matter to you? 2264 02:00:35.600 --> 02:00:36.520 It does not matter. 2265 02:00:36.920 --> 02:00:37.640 You're the guru. 2266 02:00:37.840 --> 02:00:38.920 So that's why I'm asking you. 2267 02:00:40.000 --> 02:00:41.680 Well, we got a lot of good product. We have 2268 02:00:41.760 --> 02:00:43.800 a lot of good product options. If I talk about 2269 02:00:43.800 --> 02:00:46.600 a fertilizer on here, it's one I've used and no works, 2270 02:00:46.840 --> 02:00:51.039 so we more one way to go. I'll suggest maybe 2271 02:00:51.079 --> 02:00:54.840 you consider the micro life products. There's a six two four, 2272 02:00:54.880 --> 02:00:57.560 it's a green bag that's an organic product. It's a 2273 02:00:57.640 --> 02:01:00.319 six two four and if you put it out now, 2274 02:01:00.600 --> 02:01:04.720 it's gonna it basically microbes decompose it and release it 2275 02:01:04.800 --> 02:01:09.439 to your grass. H new SID generally comes in with 2276 02:01:09.840 --> 02:01:13.279 an adequate supply of nutrients to get it going. So 2277 02:01:14.079 --> 02:01:15.960 with the microlife you're going to get a little bit 2278 02:01:16.000 --> 02:01:18.640 of a delay in the release as it as it 2279 02:01:18.760 --> 02:01:21.279 releases out, not a long term delay, but a little while. 2280 02:01:21.840 --> 02:01:23.960 And so I would go with it. Do not a 2281 02:01:24.039 --> 02:01:27.600 super heavy application, but a moderate sized application. And then 2282 02:01:27.640 --> 02:01:31.439 your next fertilization is going to come in October in 2283 02:01:31.560 --> 02:01:35.199 your area for where we put on our fall fertilization, 2284 02:01:35.720 --> 02:01:37.800 and that that is on my schedule. I don't know. 2285 02:01:37.880 --> 02:01:40.039 Have you been to the website and seen the schedules 2286 02:01:40.079 --> 02:01:41.079 by any chance. 2287 02:01:41.760 --> 02:01:42.439 Yes, sir, I have. 2288 02:01:42.760 --> 02:01:46.720 I have so, and I've been trying to follow that schedule. 2289 02:01:46.720 --> 02:01:48.800 I just wanted to know if I should, you. 2290 02:01:48.840 --> 02:01:53.600 Know, fertilize the sod that I just put down and ran. 2291 02:01:53.800 --> 02:01:57.399 So now the six two four would be okay to put. 2292 02:01:57.279 --> 02:01:58.600 It down at a moderate level. 2293 02:02:00.079 --> 02:02:02.279 Put it on a moderate level now normally with a 2294 02:02:02.359 --> 02:02:04.680 new side. You know, it's not like you have to fertilizer. 2295 02:02:04.760 --> 02:02:07.119 It's not going to make it. It has some nutrient 2296 02:02:07.159 --> 02:02:09.319 in it, but I'd give it that little boost and 2297 02:02:09.439 --> 02:02:11.840 then just leave it until we get to October and 2298 02:02:11.960 --> 02:02:15.520 then do the fall fertilization. From my schedules, there's there's 2299 02:02:15.600 --> 02:02:18.840 options on there for several different kinds of good fertilizer. Okay, 2300 02:02:19.680 --> 02:02:24.359 per perfect, all right, sir, thanks for waiting, and appreciate that. 2301 02:02:24.640 --> 02:02:29.800 The trees, the trees, oh, the. 2302 02:02:29.840 --> 02:02:36.560 Fall foliage, oh man, I'm hoping I could avoid that question. Well. Sycamore, 2303 02:02:37.119 --> 02:02:39.600 the only the only color in the sycamore is kind 2304 02:02:39.600 --> 02:02:43.279 of the bronzing as it turns to brown. Here's the 2305 02:02:43.359 --> 02:02:46.600 deal on trees. The things that have the best fall 2306 02:02:46.760 --> 02:02:49.840 color in our area. You don't want to plant, and 2307 02:02:49.920 --> 02:02:53.159 that would include Chinese tallow trees, that would include Bradford 2308 02:02:53.239 --> 02:02:57.960 pear trees. Don't plant those sweet gums. If the soil 2309 02:02:58.119 --> 02:03:00.880 is right, they have good color if it's an acidic soil. 2310 02:03:01.439 --> 02:03:03.880 But a lot of there are other reasons people aren't 2311 02:03:03.880 --> 02:03:06.039 real fond of sweet gums. But that would be a 2312 02:03:06.199 --> 02:03:11.239 decent fall color tree if you end up with a decent, crispy, 2313 02:03:11.359 --> 02:03:14.279 cool fall. Even a red oat can give you a 2314 02:03:14.319 --> 02:03:16.680 little bit of fall color, but it's really hard to 2315 02:03:16.720 --> 02:03:19.039 come by. Crape myrtles have decent fall color, and I 2316 02:03:19.159 --> 02:03:21.000 know that's not a big shade tree, but I'm just 2317 02:03:21.079 --> 02:03:23.199 saying that that would be a decent tree that has 2318 02:03:23.279 --> 02:03:27.680 good fall color. But in general, the crepe cedar elm 2319 02:03:28.119 --> 02:03:33.279 have kind of a dirty gold yellow gold fall color 2320 02:03:34.199 --> 02:03:38.840 that is decent. That would be one. I don't know. 2321 02:03:39.000 --> 02:03:41.239 Those are a few that you might want to consider. 2322 02:03:41.319 --> 02:03:43.560 They're in that area. You're just so far south that 2323 02:03:43.800 --> 02:03:46.119 there's a reason why people don't drive from all over 2324 02:03:46.199 --> 02:03:48.600 the country to come here for fall color because we 2325 02:03:48.680 --> 02:03:51.119 don't we don't have any great options for it. 2326 02:03:52.279 --> 02:03:56.520 I agree, all right, Okay, but does the red oat 2327 02:03:56.560 --> 02:03:57.279 grow quickly? 2328 02:03:59.159 --> 02:04:03.640 Red oat? Christ, Well, if you no, it's a decent grower. 2329 02:04:04.800 --> 02:04:08.319 If your soil is at all soggy, I would get 2330 02:04:08.359 --> 02:04:12.319 a nuttall n ut t a l red oak. If 2331 02:04:12.399 --> 02:04:16.600 you've got a nice, deep, deep alluvial soil, then a 2332 02:04:16.680 --> 02:04:22.600 schumard red oak would also be Okay, okay, all right, 2333 02:04:25.720 --> 02:04:28.560 you bet, I'm all run to another caller here. We 2334 02:04:28.600 --> 02:04:30.279 got them kind of backing up a little bit, so 2335 02:04:30.359 --> 02:04:32.479 we're gonna go to John in League City. Hey, John, 2336 02:04:32.560 --> 02:04:35.520 thanks for waiting. How can we help? Good morning? 2337 02:04:35.640 --> 02:04:38.439 Yeah, I have a oak tree in my front yard 2338 02:04:38.479 --> 02:04:42.319 about fifteen years old, and I've got a couple of 2339 02:04:42.439 --> 02:04:46.600 roots coming up that headed toward the house and I'd 2340 02:04:46.720 --> 02:04:51.159 like to cut them. My question is, you know, do 2341 02:04:51.279 --> 02:04:53.359 I cut them at the same time? Do I need 2342 02:04:53.439 --> 02:04:56.319 to spread that out? And also do I wait until 2343 02:04:56.319 --> 02:04:58.000 it cools off? Or can I go ahead and do 2344 02:04:58.119 --> 02:04:58.680 that right now? 2345 02:05:00.119 --> 02:05:01.520 How big around are these roots? 2346 02:05:02.600 --> 02:05:08.119 I'd estimate if one is roughly two three inches maybe 2347 02:05:08.399 --> 02:05:09.039 maybe a little bit. 2348 02:05:09.079 --> 02:05:14.800 Okay, Uh, if you will wait until fall like October 2349 02:05:15.359 --> 02:05:18.640 November and cut them, then that you can kick them 2350 02:05:18.680 --> 02:05:20.119 both out and that'll be okay. 2351 02:05:20.800 --> 02:05:20.920 Uh. 2352 02:05:21.039 --> 02:05:23.680 That gives the tree time, you know, to kind of 2353 02:05:23.720 --> 02:05:26.880 re establish before the hot summer arrives next year, and 2354 02:05:26.960 --> 02:05:29.000 that that should be fine if you If they feel 2355 02:05:29.079 --> 02:05:33.520 like they need cutting, that you can do that. Okay, okay, 2356 02:05:33.600 --> 02:05:34.399 great and real quick. 2357 02:05:34.439 --> 02:05:37.159 One question too, Where would you recommend getting some mature 2358 02:05:38.279 --> 02:05:42.760 fruit trees? I mean something that's you know, already producing. 2359 02:05:44.159 --> 02:05:48.439 League City. Uh, you're not too far away from Jorges 2360 02:05:48.520 --> 02:05:52.279 Hidden Gardens and Alvin. It's on Elizabeth Street and Alvin. 2361 02:05:52.359 --> 02:05:56.920 They're open on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Uh, And so 2362 02:05:57.479 --> 02:06:00.319 that would be that would probably be a good place 2363 02:06:00.359 --> 02:06:03.560 where you could drive over and get those. I know 2364 02:06:03.680 --> 02:06:07.000 they have some larger trees that are close to being 2365 02:06:07.039 --> 02:06:09.319 ready for freeing time most of the time of the year. 2366 02:06:09.399 --> 02:06:11.039 They I know they have them a lot in the 2367 02:06:11.119 --> 02:06:15.359 late winter, but they probably have some still around there. Okay. 2368 02:06:15.720 --> 02:06:20.159 Any concern in planting those here in August when it's 2369 02:06:20.199 --> 02:06:22.520 so hot, you think I would? 2370 02:06:22.720 --> 02:06:25.000 I would? You could do it, you can, Yeah, you 2371 02:06:25.159 --> 02:06:28.800 can do it, but pampering them along is more more work. 2372 02:06:28.960 --> 02:06:31.039 I would wait and do it in the fall. I'd 2373 02:06:31.079 --> 02:06:32.800 get them down in the fall when things start to 2374 02:06:32.840 --> 02:06:36.520 cool off. Okay, all right, thank you very much. Okay 2375 02:06:37.359 --> 02:06:40.399 with us today? Hey, have you been out to Arbrogate lately? 2376 02:06:40.640 --> 02:06:43.640 You know Arbrogate, that's the nursery to the west of Tombull. 2377 02:06:43.720 --> 02:06:45.840 You head out twenty nine to twenty just to I 2378 02:06:45.880 --> 02:06:48.840 don't want less than a half mile outside of Tomball 2379 02:06:48.920 --> 02:06:51.520 right there on the left hand side there it is 2380 02:06:51.640 --> 02:06:53.600 by the way. If you haven't been to Arbrogate in 2381 02:06:53.640 --> 02:06:55.560 a while, you need to know. They've got a new 2382 02:06:55.640 --> 02:07:00.159 parking lot behind the store. It's on Trishal Road t 2383 02:07:00.640 --> 02:07:03.800 R E I C H E L Trischel. You can 2384 02:07:04.039 --> 02:07:07.479 Trishel is a loop behind Arburgate, so you can turn 2385 02:07:07.560 --> 02:07:09.960 down Trashel before you get to Arbigate or after you 2386 02:07:10.079 --> 02:07:13.279 pass Arburgate. Coming from either way, you go around the back. 2387 02:07:13.960 --> 02:07:19.960 Awesome all weather, wonderful easy access parking lot, safe access 2388 02:07:20.079 --> 02:07:22.479 back there. You got to go check that out while 2389 02:07:22.520 --> 02:07:25.000 you're at Arbigate. You know, those of you who've been 2390 02:07:25.039 --> 02:07:26.399 there and those of you who don't, you need to 2391 02:07:26.439 --> 02:07:27.760 get over there. I don't know what kind of rock 2392 02:07:27.800 --> 02:07:30.600 you've been hide under, because this is this place has 2393 02:07:30.640 --> 02:07:33.359 been a destination for a long time in the Houston area. 2394 02:07:33.800 --> 02:07:39.359 Awesome plans, awesome advice, knowledgeable people. It's just the combination 2395 02:07:39.680 --> 02:07:41.800 for success that you're going to have to have, and 2396 02:07:42.119 --> 02:07:44.960 Arburgate can do that. For example, they always have something 2397 02:07:45.039 --> 02:07:47.399 different and new. Right now, they've got something called the 2398 02:07:47.479 --> 02:07:50.600 Grace and Grit roses. It's a line of roses from Monrovia. 2399 02:07:51.279 --> 02:07:55.199 It's called Grace and Gret because they have upright stems 2400 02:07:55.359 --> 02:07:57.920 so you can do some cutting. So it's not like 2401 02:07:58.000 --> 02:08:00.800 your hybrid t rose. It's a bush, but it is 2402 02:08:00.960 --> 02:08:03.079 a rose you can use for cutting. That's cool. And 2403 02:08:03.199 --> 02:08:06.760 the grit part well disease resistant self cleaning. They thrive 2404 02:08:06.840 --> 02:08:09.640 in our climate. That would be the grit part. But 2405 02:08:09.800 --> 02:08:13.520 that's just one example of the many things you're going 2406 02:08:13.600 --> 02:08:16.359 to find at Arbrogate. I can promise you two things 2407 02:08:16.439 --> 02:08:19.279 when you go to Arbrogate. One, you're going to have 2408 02:08:19.399 --> 02:08:22.359 knowledgeable staff and quality plants. You are going to have that. 2409 02:08:22.560 --> 02:08:24.840 That is, you know you're going to get those two 2410 02:08:24.920 --> 02:08:28.239 things right there at Arburgate. Number two, you're going to 2411 02:08:28.279 --> 02:08:33.079 get easy access, friendly service, and the whole experience will 2412 02:08:33.119 --> 02:08:36.319 be a pleasant one for you. I know we're in 2413 02:08:36.359 --> 02:08:38.359 the middle of summer, but it's still time to be 2414 02:08:38.479 --> 02:08:41.079 planning things. There's no reason why you can't get these 2415 02:08:41.119 --> 02:08:44.239 things in the ground and have success with them, and 2416 02:08:44.399 --> 02:08:46.840 that starts by going to arbrogate where you get those 2417 02:08:46.960 --> 02:08:49.000 kinds of plants and where you get that kind of 2418 02:08:49.079 --> 02:08:53.520 advice to have success. Cannot cannot overstress the importance of that. 2419 02:08:54.199 --> 02:08:56.880 We're going to go now to Missouri City and talk 2420 02:08:56.960 --> 02:08:57.399 to Paul. 2421 02:08:57.680 --> 02:09:03.600 Hello, Paul, skip listen. I have an area in the 2422 02:09:03.680 --> 02:09:06.520 front of the house where the Saint Augustine grass is 2423 02:09:06.600 --> 02:09:09.520 dead due to a pile of branches that I had 2424 02:09:09.600 --> 02:09:13.520 piled there. You know, from the storm. They since removed 2425 02:09:13.560 --> 02:09:17.159 the branches and the Saint Augustine is dead. But the 2426 02:09:17.319 --> 02:09:20.439 wild bermuda, the little patch of wild bermuda in there, 2427 02:09:20.880 --> 02:09:23.680 I didn't want it, so I sprayed it with round up. 2428 02:09:24.560 --> 02:09:26.239 And my question is how long? 2429 02:09:26.520 --> 02:09:30.039 How long do I have to wait before I start 2430 02:09:30.159 --> 02:09:34.159 to till filled process? And just one of the point 2431 02:09:34.479 --> 02:09:37.199 what I what I intend to do is to kill it. 2432 02:09:37.600 --> 02:09:39.920 I'm going to mix in some a farm dirt from 2433 02:09:40.279 --> 02:09:45.760 from a compost and mixing some sand just to loosen 2434 02:09:45.880 --> 02:09:46.880 up the soil a little bit. 2435 02:09:48.439 --> 02:09:52.880 Okay, well, I would as far as how long you 2436 02:09:52.960 --> 02:09:57.039 wait it takes, you should give it about maybe four 2437 02:09:57.119 --> 02:10:01.600 or five days to move into the weeds you sprayed 2438 02:10:02.439 --> 02:10:05.520 before you start chopping it up and tilling and things 2439 02:10:05.640 --> 02:10:08.880 like that. That's so that you don't just propagate the 2440 02:10:08.920 --> 02:10:12.840 weed more. But I have found that if you're not 2441 02:10:12.920 --> 02:10:15.560 in a hurry to get grass right back in that spot, 2442 02:10:15.760 --> 02:10:18.840 you might want to wait do the tilling and watch 2443 02:10:18.920 --> 02:10:22.359 it for just a minute because meaning a week or so, 2444 02:10:23.039 --> 02:10:25.479 because oftentimes you don't get all the bermuda and you 2445 02:10:25.600 --> 02:10:28.520 may need to respray and so that you haven't put 2446 02:10:28.560 --> 02:10:31.520 on grass, and now bermuda's coming right back in, So 2447 02:10:31.600 --> 02:10:34.479 a second spray wouldn't be a bad idea. As far 2448 02:10:34.560 --> 02:10:36.880 as mixing in, you know, a good quality mix in 2449 02:10:36.960 --> 02:10:39.359 that area, that's fine. There are a number of good 2450 02:10:39.439 --> 02:10:42.760 quality materials out there. I would say a high quality 2451 02:10:42.880 --> 02:10:45.800 top soil mixed in, maybe an enriched soil that had 2452 02:10:45.800 --> 02:10:48.399 a little bit of compost in it would be a 2453 02:10:49.119 --> 02:10:52.960 good idea for that as well. But yep, you're on 2454 02:10:53.119 --> 02:10:55.640 your road to getting that put back together. 2455 02:10:55.760 --> 02:10:59.279 Good, Okay, very good, Thank you so much. 2456 02:11:00.520 --> 02:11:02.640 All right, thanks for the call. Appreciate that a lot, 2457 02:11:03.000 --> 02:11:05.840 Thank you a lot. Let's see, we are going to 2458 02:11:05.920 --> 02:11:08.079 now go to Joel in magnolia. 2459 02:11:08.159 --> 02:11:13.039 Hello Joel, Hello skip one time listener to the garden line. 2460 02:11:13.079 --> 02:11:15.359 Appreciate all you've done. Appreciate it very much. 2461 02:11:15.640 --> 02:11:15.920 Thank you. 2462 02:11:16.199 --> 02:11:20.399 Got a question for you regarding I've got two about. 2463 02:11:20.279 --> 02:11:23.079 Sixteen seventy year old Chinese fringe trees in my front yard. 2464 02:11:23.079 --> 02:11:25.319 They are beautiful plants in the springtime when they bloom, 2465 02:11:26.760 --> 02:11:29.199 start to drop leafs and there's a brown spots on 2466 02:11:29.279 --> 02:11:29.680 the leafs. 2467 02:11:29.800 --> 02:11:30.199 Is there. 2468 02:11:32.199 --> 02:11:33.680 Is this fatal? 2469 02:11:33.880 --> 02:11:36.800 Is this all over whether we've had Is this a 2470 02:11:37.319 --> 02:11:40.439 temporary thing? How would you treat it those kinds of things. 2471 02:11:41.880 --> 02:11:45.600 That's a good question. I do not know a significant 2472 02:11:45.720 --> 02:11:49.880 foldage disease of Chinese fringe tree. If there's one out there, 2473 02:11:50.039 --> 02:11:52.920 I've never encountered it, and so I'm not going to 2474 02:11:52.960 --> 02:11:56.000 get alarmed about spots on the leaves. Sometimes when the 2475 02:11:56.079 --> 02:11:58.560 leaves are going to fall off of something, you will 2476 02:11:58.600 --> 02:12:02.359 see disease spots appear before that happens, because the leaves 2477 02:12:02.399 --> 02:12:06.720 are less able to resist and defend themselves. I guess 2478 02:12:06.800 --> 02:12:09.840 if you will right you know, without seeing it. If 2479 02:12:09.880 --> 02:12:11.920 I saw a picture of the leaves and spots, I 2480 02:12:12.000 --> 02:12:15.159 may go, oh, oh that's such and such, But I 2481 02:12:15.640 --> 02:12:18.319 right now I can't picture what would be doing that. 2482 02:12:19.960 --> 02:12:21.640 Maybe when you're done, you can put me back to 2483 02:12:21.720 --> 02:12:24.880 the footboard, because I don't I couldn't find the female 2484 02:12:24.960 --> 02:12:26.319 address to send the pictures in. 2485 02:12:26.680 --> 02:12:33.880 Yeah, uh, okay, what don't we do? Show me the tree? Pardon, 2486 02:12:35.560 --> 02:12:37.279 show me the tree as a hole in a photo, 2487 02:12:37.720 --> 02:12:39.720 and then show me some leaf close up the top 2488 02:12:39.760 --> 02:12:42.279 of the leaf and the bottom of the leaf showing 2489 02:12:42.319 --> 02:12:44.800 the symptoms. And uh, and we'll get to the bottom. 2490 02:12:46.359 --> 02:12:49.000 My first reaction was to use a fungus I spray. 2491 02:12:49.159 --> 02:12:52.039 One of the trees had it first. My first response 2492 02:12:52.199 --> 02:12:53.560 was to use the same kind of fungus. How to 2493 02:12:53.640 --> 02:12:55.600 use them on lugustums when they when they go through 2494 02:12:55.640 --> 02:12:58.680 their diseases that seem to stay things. My first response, 2495 02:12:58.720 --> 02:13:00.920 I don't know whether good response, the right response or not, 2496 02:13:01.079 --> 02:13:03.159 but I'll send you the pictures and go from there. 2497 02:13:04.279 --> 02:13:06.960 What what was your what do you remember what funder 2498 02:13:07.039 --> 02:13:10.159 side you used on the lagustrum? Oh, it's a P. 2499 02:13:10.399 --> 02:13:11.760 There's a c P. 2500 02:13:11.960 --> 02:13:13.239 I can't remember what it was. 2501 02:13:13.520 --> 02:13:16.560 It's a Randy had recommended it when I when I 2502 02:13:16.880 --> 02:13:17.920 picture about my. 2503 02:13:18.840 --> 02:13:22.600 Okay, I was just curious because yeah, I'm just curious, 2504 02:13:22.800 --> 02:13:25.760 all right. Well, I'm gonna put you on hold, Josh, 2505 02:13:26.439 --> 02:13:30.079 or excuse me, Josh, Chris, We'll pick up the phone 2506 02:13:30.159 --> 02:13:32.000 and give you my email so you can send me 2507 02:13:32.039 --> 02:13:32.640 those photos. 2508 02:13:32.880 --> 02:13:35.000 All right, Okay, thank you very much, appreciate it. 2509 02:13:35.840 --> 02:13:39.359 Thank you you bet Joel, appreciate appreciate your call very much. 2510 02:13:39.960 --> 02:13:40.079 Uh. 2511 02:13:41.079 --> 02:13:44.119 You hear me talk on garden line about the importance 2512 02:13:44.239 --> 02:13:47.239 of building the soil for success, and it's just true. 2513 02:13:47.399 --> 02:13:47.640 I know. 2514 02:13:47.920 --> 02:13:51.279 Listen, I understand. You go to a garden center, there's 2515 02:13:51.359 --> 02:13:54.720 some plant with flowers go lower all over the planet. 2516 02:13:54.800 --> 02:13:56.560 You gotta have that plant. It would look good in 2517 02:13:56.600 --> 02:13:58.640 your yard. That's fine, that's fine. 2518 02:13:58.760 --> 02:13:59.000 Do that. 2519 02:13:59.399 --> 02:14:01.640 If it's a good garden center and they've got good 2520 02:14:01.720 --> 02:14:05.640 plants and good advice, get that one. But before you 2521 02:14:05.720 --> 02:14:08.920 put it in the ground, get the soil right. Brown 2522 02:14:09.000 --> 02:14:11.520 stuff we call it. That means nutrients. That would be 2523 02:14:11.560 --> 02:14:14.920 a fertilizer mix. That means organic matter that would be 2524 02:14:15.039 --> 02:14:20.079 compost or a betting mix. Nature's way resources, Nature's Way resources. 2525 02:14:20.199 --> 02:14:23.399 They're up there toward conro off forty five. 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Whether it's a compost, 2537 02:14:59.439 --> 02:15:02.159 whether it's a soil blend, to mault, any of those 2538 02:15:02.239 --> 02:15:04.920 kinds of products, they're going to give you a discount, 2539 02:15:05.039 --> 02:15:08.479 a significant discount on those products. But you got to 2540 02:15:08.479 --> 02:15:10.560 tell them you heard about it on guardline. So if 2541 02:15:10.600 --> 02:15:12.319 you swing by there to pick up bags, if you 2542 02:15:12.399 --> 02:15:14.439 swing by there to pick up bulk, if you call 2543 02:15:14.560 --> 02:15:17.600 them to say hey, I need a delivery, tell them 2544 02:15:17.640 --> 02:15:20.920 you heard about it on garden Line. And now is 2545 02:15:21.000 --> 02:15:24.840 a perfect time. Fall planting season is just around the corner. 2546 02:15:25.640 --> 02:15:28.560 Get your soil right now. Don't wait until fall. It 2547 02:15:28.640 --> 02:15:30.479 may be rainy and you may not be able to 2548 02:15:30.520 --> 02:15:33.239 work the soil. Get it done. What do they say, 2549 02:15:33.399 --> 02:15:36.960 make hay well the sunshines. Prepare your beds while the sunshines, 2550 02:15:37.119 --> 02:15:39.520 because rain will come again. When we get to the fall, 2551 02:15:39.720 --> 02:15:42.319 if not before, now's the time to do that. And 2552 02:15:42.520 --> 02:15:46.920 Nature's Way Resources is the product or the product. It 2553 02:15:47.039 --> 02:15:49.880 is the place where you're going to get the products 2554 02:15:50.199 --> 02:15:53.600 to have success with it. They're on Sherbrooke Circle up 2555 02:15:53.680 --> 02:15:58.119 in Conro, Texas. Here's the website Nature's Way Resources plural 2556 02:15:58.520 --> 02:16:02.479 dot com. Going to go to Ken. Hello Ken, and 2557 02:16:02.520 --> 02:16:09.760 where are you calling from? Brazaria, Brazoria? Okay, how can 2558 02:16:09.840 --> 02:16:10.159 we help? 2559 02:16:12.520 --> 02:16:16.239 We purchase an avocado tree. It's I believe the name 2560 02:16:16.279 --> 02:16:21.079 of it is Fantastic. It's about five foot tall, still 2561 02:16:21.119 --> 02:16:23.359 in the pot, and I think it's about four years old, 2562 02:16:24.760 --> 02:16:28.600 and we're considering where to plant it. We've got kind 2563 02:16:28.600 --> 02:16:30.960 of a low lying area in our yard that. 2564 02:16:31.039 --> 02:16:32.120 We would like to put it. 2565 02:16:33.280 --> 02:16:36.239 That area retains a little bit of water when it rains, 2566 02:16:37.239 --> 02:16:39.479 and I'm not sure if that would be good or 2567 02:16:39.520 --> 02:16:41.000 bad for this avocado tree. 2568 02:16:42.760 --> 02:16:45.559 If the drainage is not good, Yeah, if it's not 2569 02:16:45.680 --> 02:16:48.200 good drainage, I wouldn't plant it there. Do one or 2570 02:16:48.239 --> 02:16:50.840 two things put in a have somebody put in, you know, 2571 02:16:51.000 --> 02:16:53.639 like an underground French drain thing that takes the water 2572 02:16:53.760 --> 02:16:56.520 off to a lower area or build up the soil 2573 02:16:56.639 --> 02:16:58.959 into more of a raised mound area where you can 2574 02:16:59.040 --> 02:17:03.319 get that thing's up out of the sagi. Wet avocados 2575 02:17:03.440 --> 02:17:06.280 need sunlight. That's the number one thing that in terms 2576 02:17:06.319 --> 02:17:09.360 of picking a planning spot, along with decent old drainage. 2577 02:17:10.079 --> 02:17:12.120 The only other thing would be if it's an area 2578 02:17:12.239 --> 02:17:14.360 that's a little easier to protect it when we do 2579 02:17:14.520 --> 02:17:18.399 have the doozy coal that tends to arrive, that would 2580 02:17:18.440 --> 02:17:22.520 be another reason for that. Ken, I'm gonna have to 2581 02:17:22.600 --> 02:17:24.840 take a break here. If you want to hang on, 2582 02:17:25.159 --> 02:17:27.639 I will continue this after break. But if that answered 2583 02:17:27.799 --> 02:17:31.440 your question, I do appreciate the call. All right, folks, 2584 02:17:31.600 --> 02:17:33.239 I do have to take a break. Our phone number 2585 02:17:33.280 --> 02:17:35.600 seven one three two one two ktr H. I'll be 2586 02:17:35.719 --> 02:17:36.239 right back. 2587 02:17:38.239 --> 02:17:38.639 Than you are. 2588 02:17:39.399 --> 02:17:42.040 Houston's News why they're traffic plus pre. 2589 02:17:42.280 --> 02:17:46.559 Two one two five eight seven four or ktr H 2590 02:17:46.639 --> 02:17:48.479 if you like to dial it that way. We're going 2591 02:17:48.559 --> 02:17:51.280 to head back out here to let's see. We're gonna 2592 02:17:51.280 --> 02:17:53.879 go to friends would and talk to Charlie. 2593 02:17:53.920 --> 02:17:57.760 Hello Charlie, good morning, Skip, Glad you're there for us. 2594 02:17:57.840 --> 02:18:04.440 Thank you got a so maybe how well. 2595 02:18:03.600 --> 02:18:04.440 We have about it? 2596 02:18:04.879 --> 02:18:07.920 Unused a little over an unused acre behind our backyard. 2597 02:18:08.200 --> 02:18:12.799 We see the babels of hay occasionally, and my wife says, 2598 02:18:13.200 --> 02:18:15.959 let's let's raise babels of hay and sell them. It's 2599 02:18:16.000 --> 02:18:18.840 a friends of the areas we've got clay soil. Is 2600 02:18:18.879 --> 02:18:22.319 that even a practical idea? And if so, could you 2601 02:18:22.360 --> 02:18:23.280 give us a little. 2602 02:18:23.360 --> 02:18:24.120 Guidance on that? 2603 02:18:26.920 --> 02:18:28.639 Well, how big is the area? 2604 02:18:28.799 --> 02:18:32.280 You said, probably just a little over an acre. 2605 02:18:34.040 --> 02:18:38.280 Probably probably not worth it. There are people that will 2606 02:18:38.319 --> 02:18:42.280 come bail hey on your property. I'm not an agriculture agent. 2607 02:18:42.360 --> 02:18:44.840 I'm a hortic I was a horticulture agent, so I 2608 02:18:44.920 --> 02:18:48.760 don't deal in those groups of people, meaning I couldn't 2609 02:18:48.799 --> 02:18:50.600 name people that would come to it in your area. 2610 02:18:51.079 --> 02:18:54.520 But in general, for them to bring the equipment and 2611 02:18:54.600 --> 02:18:56.719 holiday in and for it to be worth it to 2612 02:18:56.799 --> 02:18:59.440 them and to you, they need to make a little 2613 02:18:59.479 --> 02:19:01.520 more hay and you're going to make on one acre, 2614 02:19:02.360 --> 02:19:05.280 so I don't think that would be efficient. But if 2615 02:19:05.360 --> 02:19:08.760 you call your county agro Life Extension office and ask 2616 02:19:08.879 --> 02:19:13.680 for the horticulture agent, they can probably advise you, advise 2617 02:19:13.760 --> 02:19:17.280 you specifically on that. Let's see, are you in are 2618 02:19:17.360 --> 02:19:19.079 you in Harris County? Are you in. 2619 02:19:22.719 --> 02:19:24.040 One class. 2620 02:19:25.360 --> 02:19:25.879 Sometimes. 2621 02:19:27.440 --> 02:19:30.719 Yeah, well they their office is down in some odd 2622 02:19:30.799 --> 02:19:38.159 is it called something park carbid carbyde carbyde Park Thank you. Uh, 2623 02:19:39.600 --> 02:19:42.760 I'm trying to think of the lady's name. Phoenix. Phoenix 2624 02:19:42.879 --> 02:19:46.600 Rogers is your agriculture agent in Galveston County. Call Phoenix 2625 02:19:46.680 --> 02:19:48.840 and just say, you know, I think she's going to 2626 02:19:48.840 --> 02:19:50.360 tell you what I said and that's just not enough 2627 02:19:50.440 --> 02:19:52.000 land to make it worthwhile. 2628 02:19:53.520 --> 02:19:57.319 Okay, because we're also curious, but what time to plant? 2629 02:19:57.440 --> 02:20:00.280 And that would be a question, but I I think 2630 02:20:00.319 --> 02:20:01.760 you're absolutely right. 2631 02:20:01.799 --> 02:20:06.079 So yeah, well it's worth it's worth asking. Yeah, it's 2632 02:20:06.120 --> 02:20:09.280 worth asking someone with more expertise on that than I have, 2633 02:20:09.559 --> 02:20:12.920 So I would I would definitely call your eg agent 2634 02:20:13.040 --> 02:20:17.399 and just be sure. They may have six suggestions for you. Okay, 2635 02:20:17.600 --> 02:20:22.319 thank you so much, Thank you appreciate your call very much. 2636 02:20:22.559 --> 02:20:25.920 By the way, folks, in Texas, we have two hundred 2637 02:20:25.920 --> 02:20:30.479 and fifty four counties. Every county is served by an 2638 02:20:30.559 --> 02:20:34.600 extension office. For those of you who don't know, Extension 2639 02:20:35.600 --> 02:20:39.639 is the Texas A and m Agro Life Extension Service. 2640 02:20:39.879 --> 02:20:42.360 Every county is served by one. In our part of 2641 02:20:42.399 --> 02:20:44.559 the state, every county has their own office. You get 2642 02:20:44.600 --> 02:20:47.239 out in way West timbuck I where maybe there's more 2643 02:20:47.319 --> 02:20:50.000 jack raborts than people. You may have a county that's 2644 02:20:50.000 --> 02:20:52.879 served an office that serves two counties, but in general 2645 02:20:53.000 --> 02:20:59.719 here every county has an office. Brazoria, Harris, Montgomery for 2646 02:21:00.120 --> 02:21:02.879 Bed and on and on and on, Brasos, and I 2647 02:21:02.920 --> 02:21:05.879 mean we just keep going on. Waller County, everyone has 2648 02:21:05.920 --> 02:21:08.000 an office and all of them have an ag agent. 2649 02:21:08.239 --> 02:21:10.559 They usually have a Family and Community health agent and 2650 02:21:10.879 --> 02:21:13.440 often have a four age agent there. And if it's 2651 02:21:13.479 --> 02:21:16.200 a big county, you have a horticulture agent. In our 2652 02:21:16.360 --> 02:21:21.639 listening area, there are horticulture agents in Harris County, Orange County, 2653 02:21:21.799 --> 02:21:27.879 Galveston County, Fort ben County, Montgomery County, Brass County. I'm 2654 02:21:27.920 --> 02:21:30.399 probably leaving somebody out. I'll hear about it if I 2655 02:21:30.520 --> 02:21:33.920 do that, But anyway, they all have horticulture agents, and 2656 02:21:34.079 --> 02:21:37.799 so it's advice that's available. It's your connection to the 2657 02:21:37.920 --> 02:21:41.319 university the way we used to say it is the 2658 02:21:41.399 --> 02:21:43.639 place to go when you need to know. It is 2659 02:21:44.000 --> 02:21:46.479 essentially taken the university of the people. So you have 2660 02:21:46.559 --> 02:21:49.440 access to good research based information, take advantage of it. 2661 02:21:49.559 --> 02:21:52.760 That's where our four H programs are held. That's where 2662 02:21:52.799 --> 02:21:56.719 our Master Gardner programs come from, is the county Agrolife 2663 02:21:56.760 --> 02:22:00.000 Extension office. So take advantage of those. They are available, 2664 02:22:00.280 --> 02:22:03.639 and it's good advice. Every state in the country has 2665 02:22:03.920 --> 02:22:10.639 a lean grant college LSU Oklahoma State, Cornell, Texas A 2666 02:22:10.639 --> 02:22:14.440 and m New Mexico State, University of Florida. Everybody's got 2667 02:22:14.520 --> 02:22:19.319 one Auburn University. So in each of those areas there 2668 02:22:19.559 --> 02:22:22.399 is a lagrant college and an extension service. So yeah, 2669 02:22:22.479 --> 02:22:25.840 friends that live in Kansas, well, Kansas State University has 2670 02:22:25.879 --> 02:22:28.799 an extension service and they have county extension offices and 2671 02:22:28.920 --> 02:22:31.440 they can get the same help you do here there 2672 02:22:31.600 --> 02:22:33.959 at their level. Most people are not aware of that. 2673 02:22:34.159 --> 02:22:36.280 They should be. It's important. You know who did that. 2674 02:22:37.000 --> 02:22:40.719 Abraham Lincoln signed that into law that way back when. 2675 02:22:41.000 --> 02:22:43.399 All right, enough of me, given the history of extension, 2676 02:22:43.719 --> 02:22:46.319 We're going to go to Terry in Montgomery. Hey, Terry, 2677 02:22:46.360 --> 02:22:47.319 how can we help today? 2678 02:22:48.280 --> 02:22:51.840 Hey, good morning, thanks for I call. I have three 2679 02:22:52.040 --> 02:22:56.719 roses out in my backyard that are planted in rose 2680 02:22:56.799 --> 02:23:02.440 soil and inside oak barrels, and they've been there for 2681 02:23:02.520 --> 02:23:05.879 a couple of years now, and I was out here 2682 02:23:06.000 --> 02:23:08.520 the other day to water them. And I saw a 2683 02:23:09.399 --> 02:23:13.360 on all three on top of the soil, a fuzzy 2684 02:23:13.600 --> 02:23:17.879 white mold growing and it looks like they're spores because 2685 02:23:17.920 --> 02:23:20.120 there's a little green dot in the middle of them. 2686 02:23:21.479 --> 02:23:24.879 And I've very gently scraped all of them off, and 2687 02:23:24.959 --> 02:23:28.719 I'm just kind of wondering what it is, if it's harmful. 2688 02:23:28.719 --> 02:23:29.799 And what do I do. 2689 02:23:31.799 --> 02:23:34.840 Are they cup shaped, each of the little white things 2690 02:23:34.920 --> 02:23:37.719 with a dot in the middle. Are they shaped kind 2691 02:23:37.719 --> 02:23:38.879 of like a bowl or a cup? 2692 02:23:39.559 --> 02:23:43.239 Yes, they're kind of shaped like a bowl or cup. Yes, okay, 2693 02:23:43.520 --> 02:23:46.239 but they're kind of they're kind of altogether, you know, 2694 02:23:46.639 --> 02:23:47.319 like a blanket. 2695 02:23:47.959 --> 02:23:51.799 Yeah, yeah, I got it. That is a fungus. There 2696 02:23:51.879 --> 02:23:54.680 are ten bazillion kinds of fungi out in the world, 2697 02:23:54.840 --> 02:23:57.239 and most of them their job is to turn organic 2698 02:23:57.360 --> 02:24:01.040 matter back into soil. That's why nature creates such rich 2699 02:24:01.159 --> 02:24:03.520 soil on the forest floor and in the meadows and 2700 02:24:03.639 --> 02:24:07.399 other places like that. That particular fungus is not a 2701 02:24:07.520 --> 02:24:12.040 disease of plants, but it can. It's called an artillery fungus. 2702 02:24:12.200 --> 02:24:16.360 And this is so cool, Bracer. It is so cool 2703 02:24:16.399 --> 02:24:21.000 because what happens is they literally shoot this little dot 2704 02:24:21.319 --> 02:24:24.760 that you see through the air, and it is sticky 2705 02:24:25.000 --> 02:24:27.680 and it sticks to plants, it sticks to the sighting 2706 02:24:27.760 --> 02:24:30.920 on your house and other things. And people don't like that, 2707 02:24:31.239 --> 02:24:33.760 you know. I mean it's a little fungus dots sticking 2708 02:24:33.840 --> 02:24:38.120 all of the nice white painted house. Well, that's the 2709 02:24:38.239 --> 02:24:41.040 only problem with it. It's not a disease of plants though. 2710 02:24:41.120 --> 02:24:44.799 It's called artillery fungus, one of the many cool fungal 2711 02:24:44.959 --> 02:24:46.120 things out there in nature. 2712 02:24:48.479 --> 02:24:49.840 So I'm just going to leave it alone. 2713 02:24:49.920 --> 02:24:53.399 Then you can't. You can take a hoe and scrape 2714 02:24:53.440 --> 02:24:55.000 it off, get it, eit of there if you want, 2715 02:24:55.559 --> 02:24:58.440 you covered up with some other throo mulch on top 2716 02:24:58.479 --> 02:24:58.639 of it. 2717 02:25:00.000 --> 02:25:02.120 Okay, Well that's really good news because I thought for 2718 02:25:02.200 --> 02:25:05.559 sure it was gonna kill my roses and they're not 2719 02:25:05.680 --> 02:25:08.600 doing too well in this heat. So I'm going to 2720 02:25:08.639 --> 02:25:10.600 cover them up with a wide awning and see if 2721 02:25:10.639 --> 02:25:13.520 that helps, because they're just dying on the vine. 2722 02:25:13.559 --> 02:25:14.159 So we'll speak. 2723 02:25:15.520 --> 02:25:17.559 Well, just make sure they have adequate moisture but not 2724 02:25:17.680 --> 02:25:21.559 soggy soil and they'll be Okay that uh, fall is coming, 2725 02:25:21.719 --> 02:25:24.840 and that's a that's roses second happy season of the year. 2726 02:25:24.920 --> 02:25:27.680 Spring and fall is Yes, it's. 2727 02:25:27.680 --> 02:25:29.479 In my second happy season two. 2728 02:25:30.799 --> 02:25:33.360 There you go, Terry, Hey, thanks for calling. 2729 02:25:33.559 --> 02:25:36.399 Thank you appreciating my callie. You have a great day, 2730 02:25:37.000 --> 02:25:38.360 you bet. 2731 02:25:38.559 --> 02:25:40.920 It gives me an opportunity to give another fun fact 2732 02:25:40.959 --> 02:25:43.719 about nature. 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Let's see, we had had a call a 2788 02:28:16.719 --> 02:28:20.959 little bit earlier from I believe it was Joel and 2789 02:28:21.120 --> 02:28:24.639 Magnolia about a Chinese fringe tree. I believe that was 2790 02:28:24.760 --> 02:28:28.840 the question. And uh, let me see here, I'm trying 2791 02:28:28.879 --> 02:28:31.079 to find the Yeah, there we go, Chinese fringe tree. 2792 02:28:31.639 --> 02:28:33.920 Let's see. I believe we've got Joel on the line here, 2793 02:28:34.120 --> 02:28:36.760 So let me go to that. Joel, are you there 2794 02:28:37.559 --> 02:28:39.840 all right here? And you sent me the pictures. You 2795 02:28:39.959 --> 02:28:41.760 sent me the pictures of the fringe tree. 2796 02:28:41.680 --> 02:28:43.399 Right, that's correct. 2797 02:28:44.799 --> 02:28:49.159 Okay, So what is on those leaves is not It 2798 02:28:49.239 --> 02:28:54.399 does not look fungal. It looks like some sort of 2799 02:28:54.520 --> 02:28:59.280 a moisture flow problem. It could be it could be bacterial, 2800 02:29:00.120 --> 02:29:03.079 or it could just be we've had so much rain 2801 02:29:03.159 --> 02:29:05.799 this year. I don't think it's drought. But some of 2802 02:29:05.840 --> 02:29:08.920 the spots look bacterial in that they're angular the way 2803 02:29:08.959 --> 02:29:11.959 they form on the leaves. So I think as a 2804 02:29:12.040 --> 02:29:14.639 result of all the rain we got a little bit 2805 02:29:14.639 --> 02:29:16.680 of a blight going on in there. There are a 2806 02:29:16.760 --> 02:29:20.040 few spots that look somewhat fungal, but in general I 2807 02:29:20.079 --> 02:29:23.680 wouldn't worry about it. Now I know that it's it's 2808 02:29:23.760 --> 02:29:26.840 occurring more low on the plant than it is up high. 2809 02:29:27.799 --> 02:29:29.959 And so it could be that if you have a 2810 02:29:30.040 --> 02:29:33.680 sprinkler system and a mist is rising up from the 2811 02:29:33.719 --> 02:29:37.360 sprinkler system for your lawn, that that mist could be 2812 02:29:37.479 --> 02:29:41.840 adding to the leaf wetness, which increases the disease problems 2813 02:29:42.040 --> 02:29:45.239 on a tree. Okay, so I would I would have 2814 02:29:45.760 --> 02:29:48.280 Do you have irrigation systems sprinkling out there. 2815 02:29:49.280 --> 02:29:50.959 And the trees are right in the front yard next 2816 02:29:51.000 --> 02:29:53.159 to the bar, it's sure you don't wear the water? Yeah, 2817 02:29:54.280 --> 02:29:54.959 I get a lot of moist. 2818 02:29:55.000 --> 02:29:58.639 Well, next time you turn on the sprinklers. Next time 2819 02:29:58.680 --> 02:30:01.040 it comes on, take a look, get it. And because 2820 02:30:01.120 --> 02:30:04.040 if the pressure is too high, instead of sending out 2821 02:30:04.159 --> 02:30:07.000 just course drops the water, you also get this mist 2822 02:30:07.200 --> 02:30:10.719 that rises up and that just every time you wet foliage, 2823 02:30:10.959 --> 02:30:15.040 it makes leaf spots very happy, including bacterial ones. And 2824 02:30:15.239 --> 02:30:17.840 so I think if you could take the pressure level 2825 02:30:17.920 --> 02:30:21.520 down or do something there, your irrigation people could do that. 2826 02:30:22.040 --> 02:30:24.159 I think that in and of itself would probably be enough. 2827 02:30:24.159 --> 02:30:26.000 Go ahead and break those leaves up when they fall, 2828 02:30:26.120 --> 02:30:28.319 get them out of there so you don't have that 2829 02:30:28.520 --> 02:30:32.159 inoculum as we call it, to reinfect. But I think 2830 02:30:32.239 --> 02:30:34.879 this can be cured by fixing the irrigation situation. 2831 02:30:35.200 --> 02:30:38.360 All right, okay, then just don't do anything. 2832 02:30:38.440 --> 02:30:39.959 I can't spray it during like they just do anything, 2833 02:30:40.000 --> 02:30:42.079 it's gonna lose us leaves and just next year it 2834 02:30:42.280 --> 02:30:44.239 should come back right recover. 2835 02:30:44.440 --> 02:30:46.399 Yeah, yeah, there's no need to. There's no need to 2836 02:30:46.440 --> 02:30:50.479 spray that. That would just gay unnecessary. I hate to 2837 02:30:50.520 --> 02:30:52.280 see people with sprays when we don't have to, and 2838 02:30:52.440 --> 02:30:54.680 that's a definitely case we don't. 2839 02:30:54.600 --> 02:30:56.280 Have to reaction. 2840 02:30:56.520 --> 02:31:00.840 All right, man, there you go. Will you make a call. 2841 02:31:00.920 --> 02:31:04.280 Thanks for the photos. Picture's worth a thousand words. Yep, 2842 02:31:04.479 --> 02:31:06.479 that is the way, just folks. You know, I can 2843 02:31:06.559 --> 02:31:09.079 sit here and sometimes I know the answer. Sometimes I 2844 02:31:09.200 --> 02:31:12.520 think I know the answer. I used to tell. When 2845 02:31:12.639 --> 02:31:16.639 we I was managing master gardner groups in different counties 2846 02:31:16.680 --> 02:31:18.920 here in Texas, I used to say, you know, your 2847 02:31:18.959 --> 02:31:21.920 brand new trainee, you just got all this knowledge. When 2848 02:31:21.959 --> 02:31:24.520 the phone rings and you answer a question, the best 2849 02:31:24.639 --> 02:31:27.479 answer is I don't know, but I'm going to find 2850 02:31:27.479 --> 02:31:30.440 out and get back to you. The second best answer 2851 02:31:30.799 --> 02:31:33.120 is you shooting from the hip and thinking, well, I 2852 02:31:33.200 --> 02:31:37.200 think it's probably because oftentimes that's not correct. Even when 2853 02:31:37.239 --> 02:31:40.159 I answer questions, that is not correct. So we always 2854 02:31:40.200 --> 02:31:42.520 want to be sure. And the photos do help with 2855 02:31:42.840 --> 02:31:46.760 some kinds of questions, especially like that have you been 2856 02:31:46.840 --> 02:31:50.760 to Chenned Forest out in Richmond Rosenberg area before? And 2857 02:31:50.920 --> 02:31:53.360 Chenna Forest is if you were. Let's say you're in 2858 02:31:53.479 --> 02:31:56.360 Richmond heading towards Sugarland up fifty nine, it's off to 2859 02:31:56.440 --> 02:31:59.920 the right and jennif Forest is on FM twenty seven 2860 02:32:01.200 --> 02:32:06.000 TWE fifty nine and there's always stuff going on out there. 2861 02:32:06.159 --> 02:32:13.040 And Enchanted Forest their selection right now of roses is outstanding, outstanding, 2862 02:32:13.760 --> 02:32:19.200 their selection of herbs and vegetables, of plants that eat insects. 2863 02:32:19.280 --> 02:32:21.600 My daughter called me yesterday about she got a new 2864 02:32:21.760 --> 02:32:23.559 venus fly trap plant. She want to know how to 2865 02:32:23.559 --> 02:32:25.879 take care of it well. They got those, they got sundews, 2866 02:32:25.879 --> 02:32:28.399 they got pitcher plants, all kinds of things out there 2867 02:32:28.399 --> 02:32:33.040 at Enchanted Forest, beautiful selection of pogonias. The bottom line 2868 02:32:33.159 --> 02:32:35.680 is they got you fill in the blank. They have 2869 02:32:36.120 --> 02:32:39.559 so many kinds of plants that do well. It's time 2870 02:32:39.639 --> 02:32:42.840 to get those fall tomatoes in, so go by there 2871 02:32:42.959 --> 02:32:45.319 and get that. Do you want things for butterflies? Oh, 2872 02:32:45.399 --> 02:32:47.639 my gosh, they have a selection and things for butterflies 2873 02:32:48.079 --> 02:32:51.680 at Enchanted Forest. It's just always something going on, and 2874 02:32:51.760 --> 02:32:53.879 it's always a good thing. They often have food trucks 2875 02:32:53.879 --> 02:32:55.959 out there. When we get back into fall, they're going 2876 02:32:56.000 --> 02:32:58.399 to be having a lot of educational programs going on 2877 02:32:58.559 --> 02:33:01.200 out there. Right now. They got some cool planters that 2878 02:33:01.319 --> 02:33:03.840 look like boots and pots, and they have things like 2879 02:33:04.079 --> 02:33:07.319 an atm and a Texas longhorn on them. Now, I 2880 02:33:07.319 --> 02:33:10.200 don't know why you'd want to buy the Texas longhorn anyway, 2881 02:33:11.040 --> 02:33:14.680 the cool stuff. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I can't, I 2882 02:33:14.760 --> 02:33:18.559 can't resist. I tried, it didn't work. And Jenny Forest 2883 02:33:18.719 --> 02:33:22.000 lots of fun stuff, lots of good people, great plants, 2884 02:33:22.280 --> 02:33:25.559 good knowledge, success, and it's a fun place to visit. 2885 02:33:26.479 --> 02:33:29.920 FM twenty seven to fifty nine of Richmond. Here's the website. 2886 02:33:30.239 --> 02:33:35.079 They have an excellent website. Go to this enchanted Forest Richmond, 2887 02:33:35.840 --> 02:33:42.639 TX dot com intended Forest, Richmond, TX dot com. Well, 2888 02:33:42.799 --> 02:33:45.360 you are listening to Guardenline and we are getting close 2889 02:33:45.399 --> 02:33:47.159 to the end of the show here, probably too close 2890 02:33:47.239 --> 02:33:50.840 to be able to do another call. So I'm gonna 2891 02:33:51.000 --> 02:33:53.399 tell you about one other thing. I'll talk about this 2892 02:33:53.479 --> 02:33:56.680 more tomorrow again. But take another thing that is on 2893 02:33:57.479 --> 02:34:03.200 the website, and the website is gardening with Skip dot com. 2894 02:34:03.559 --> 02:34:06.479 That's where all my educational materials go, which are all free, 2895 02:34:06.559 --> 02:34:08.959 by the way, can't talk me down on that price. 2896 02:34:09.559 --> 02:34:12.719 There's a homemade weed wiper. It's called Skips homemade weed wiper, 2897 02:34:12.760 --> 02:34:14.479 and I tell you how to make it, and there 2898 02:34:14.639 --> 02:34:18.399 is a list of products that are for putting on 2899 02:34:18.639 --> 02:34:22.319 the weed wiper. The weed wiper is sponges on a stick. 2900 02:34:22.879 --> 02:34:25.079 You just have to go see it. Instructions on how 2901 02:34:25.120 --> 02:34:27.440 to build it are there. It's very inexpensive to build 2902 02:34:27.479 --> 02:34:30.600 you one. When you need to put herbicide on a weed, 2903 02:34:30.680 --> 02:34:32.840 but you don't spray it all out there in the environment. 2904 02:34:32.840 --> 02:34:34.920 You don't want to get it on things that it'll hurt. 2905 02:34:35.159 --> 02:34:38.319 That are your friends, your plans. I think the picture 2906 02:34:38.360 --> 02:34:40.520 in that weed wiper is a picture of lanana with 2907 02:34:40.680 --> 02:34:43.200 nutsed drop beside it. You know, and some people spray 2908 02:34:43.319 --> 02:34:45.520 glyph essate on their nuts edge. First of all, that 2909 02:34:45.639 --> 02:34:48.719 doesn't work well, but it sure we kill that lanana 2910 02:34:49.319 --> 02:34:52.600 well with a weed wiper. You just squeeze the sponges 2911 02:34:52.639 --> 02:34:55.000 onto the weed and wipe it right on there. I've 2912 02:34:55.120 --> 02:34:58.040 used it on things like nutsedge coming up out of 2913 02:34:58.079 --> 02:35:00.920 my turf. I've used it on grass weeds. It's stick 2914 02:35:01.000 --> 02:35:04.399 up above the turf. Have you ever fought with torpedo grass, 2915 02:35:04.479 --> 02:35:07.360 for example? Oh my gosh, that is it's impossible to 2916 02:35:07.440 --> 02:35:10.040 kill it in turf unless you get my weed wiper 2917 02:35:10.440 --> 02:35:13.239 and you wipe a grass killer on it. But don't 2918 02:35:13.280 --> 02:35:15.479 get that grass killer on your lawn because a torpedo 2919 02:35:15.520 --> 02:35:18.840 grass is up higher. It is good for poison ivy, 2920 02:35:19.319 --> 02:35:22.200 reaching in and squeezing the poison ivy. Someone called earlier 2921 02:35:22.719 --> 02:35:27.000 with pepper vine. Oh boy, is that one ever? Invasive 2922 02:35:27.719 --> 02:35:30.760 triclo pair kills it? But triclop hurts. You're Saint Augustine. 2923 02:35:30.840 --> 02:35:34.920 Tric triclope pure kills every broadly plant. You would get 2924 02:35:34.959 --> 02:35:37.799 it on just about. But with a weed wiper you 2925 02:35:37.879 --> 02:35:41.000 can apply it right to that peppervine and not get 2926 02:35:41.040 --> 02:35:44.280 it on the good stuff. And two publications The Homemade 2927 02:35:44.280 --> 02:35:47.239 weed Wiper tells you how to build it. The herbicide 2928 02:35:47.280 --> 02:35:50.879 products to use with the Skips weed wiper tool is 2929 02:35:50.920 --> 02:35:54.280 another article on the website, and it is a little chart. 2930 02:35:54.520 --> 02:35:57.639 And I don't care what haven't I mentioned to? Okay, 2931 02:35:57.840 --> 02:36:00.000 wild onion and garlic, those come up in your life 2932 02:36:00.559 --> 02:36:03.399 and they're very difficult to control. But with a weed wiper, 2933 02:36:03.680 --> 02:36:07.360 using image in this case, on the weed wiper, you're 2934 02:36:07.399 --> 02:36:09.239 not getting it on your lawn. You're getting it on 2935 02:36:09.319 --> 02:36:12.200 the weed only. It works pretty good, and so just 2936 02:36:12.319 --> 02:36:15.719 keep that in mind. By the way, with every herbicide product, 2937 02:36:16.559 --> 02:36:19.680 there are ways to use it properly and ways to 2938 02:36:19.840 --> 02:36:24.079 use it m properly. And for image, for example, it 2939 02:36:24.200 --> 02:36:27.239 does control some tylpes of notes such pretty well. But 2940 02:36:28.399 --> 02:36:30.799 and it's hot like it is now and you sprade 2941 02:36:30.799 --> 02:36:34.000 all over your Saint Augustine and cause damage to it. 2942 02:36:34.760 --> 02:36:38.040 So even though it's label for lawn use, if you 2943 02:36:38.200 --> 02:36:41.040 read the label would see that you've got to be 2944 02:36:41.120 --> 02:36:42.799 careful with that kind of thing. You don't want to 2945 02:36:42.840 --> 02:36:45.360 do that now. So another is not weed wipers so 2946 02:36:45.559 --> 02:36:49.680 cool because you're not getting it on your grass anyway. 2947 02:36:49.719 --> 02:36:51.799 I think you get the idea. For those of you 2948 02:36:52.000 --> 02:36:55.360 who haven't been listening to this show today and have 2949 02:36:55.559 --> 02:36:59.520 nuts edge issues to publications on there for free tips 2950 02:36:59.600 --> 02:37:03.639 for against nut seedge, that's a quick one pager and 2951 02:37:03.879 --> 02:37:07.719 Nutsedge an end depth look. That's three pages of more 2952 02:37:07.840 --> 02:37:10.959 than you even know there was to know about nutsedge. 2953 02:37:11.719 --> 02:37:16.520 Remember this, I'm gonna make nuts edge really simple. You've 2954 02:37:16.600 --> 02:37:19.239 got to stay on it, and you gotta be regular, 2955 02:37:19.440 --> 02:37:21.680 and you don't want to let it grow pass three 2956 02:37:21.760 --> 02:37:23.799 to five leaves before you do something