Speaker 1: Shait that call. Yeah, that's a good good question. I
Speaker 1: always ask questions before you answer questions. Right, that's a good,
Speaker 1: good advice. It is time. It is always time to
Speaker 1: put some azmite out on your lawn. People ask me
Speaker 1: all the time, well, if I fertilize or if I
Speaker 1: use asmite, do I need to fertilize Or if I fertilize,
Speaker 1: do I need to use as mite? And the answer
Speaker 1: is yes, all the above, because what we're doing when
Speaker 1: you put most fertilizers, when you put them down, you're
Speaker 1: getting primarily the big three nutrients. Now with organics, you're
Speaker 1: getting some other things in there. But azamite is a
Speaker 1: trace mineral supplement, and trace minerals are required for growth,
Speaker 1: just because you don't need a lot of them. You
Speaker 1: just need a trace, a small amount, a micro amount.
Speaker 1: That's why they call them micro nutrients. You still need them.
Speaker 1: They're essential. And I talked about last week the concept
Speaker 1: for those of you horticulture nerds that you want to
Speaker 1: be the cliff Claven of your garden club. Well here's
Speaker 1: one for you. There's something called Libig's barrel. A guy
Speaker 1: named Li Big years ago came up with an ingenious
Speaker 1: way of explaining the importance of nutrients. And he used
Speaker 1: a barrel. So imagine a big old whiskey barrel or
Speaker 1: wine barrel, okay, and it's got all those staves that
Speaker 1: go from the top to the bottom, and they're banded together,
Speaker 1: you know, with the metal straps going around it. What
Speaker 1: if you could go in and cut off all the
Speaker 1: staves at different heights. You had one stave that was
Speaker 1: only halfway up the barrel and one that was ninety
Speaker 1: percent up the barrel, and all varying things. If you
Speaker 1: started to put water in the barrel, when how full
Speaker 1: could you fill that barrel? The answer is only as
Speaker 1: full as the shortest stave, because then it just runs
Speaker 1: out there. That's Lebig's barrel, that stave. Each stave is
Speaker 1: a mineral. One's nitrogen, one's phosphorus, one's potassium, one's manganese,
Speaker 1: one's iron, one's zinc, when's silicon. I mean, they're all
Speaker 1: kinds of minerals, right, So whatever is most lacking, that's
Speaker 1: the extent of plants excess that you're going to get
Speaker 1: plant productivity, plant growth, plant health. So with azamite, we're
Speaker 1: putting it down for micro nutrients we're putting it down
Speaker 1: for the tiny, tiny amounts that are essential to plant growth.
Speaker 1: So if you have every nutrient that plant could ever want,
Speaker 1: but only about half of something like an iron or
Speaker 1: boron let's say boron for example, that it needs, then
Speaker 1: that's as good as that plant can do. That's why
Speaker 1: when we do as MTE, it's not something you put
Speaker 1: on and it makes the plant take off growing like
Speaker 1: nitrogen does. It's something you put on and it's in
Speaker 1: the bank account. And now as the plant needs that
Speaker 1: tiny little nutrient that's not needed much, but it's essential,
Speaker 1: it's there in your soil, azamite builds the soil bank account.
Speaker 1: It's as simple as that. All right, Well, I hope
Speaker 1: that helps. I hope that helps make it a little
Speaker 1: bit easier to understand, because a lot of times people
Speaker 1: get confused on these minerals and things. Just because something's
Speaker 1: needed in small amounts does not mean it is not
Speaker 1: absolutely essential, because we got it depends on how you
Speaker 1: want account. They used to say sixteen nutrients that are essential.
Speaker 1: Now it's up to in the twenty twenty one, depending
Speaker 1: on the plant and the stage of plant growth and stuff.
Speaker 1: But the bottom line is they need those. They need those,
Speaker 1: and we need those, especially if it's a garden and
Speaker 1: you're growing it to eat. All right, I'm going to
Speaker 1: take a little break and we will be right back
Speaker 1: with your question. Seven one three two one two ktrh
Speaker 1: May welcome back to guard Line. We're ready to we're
Speaker 1: ready to get going here, speaking of you, Speaking of which,
Speaker 1: we're going to head straight out to Richmond, Texas and
Speaker 1: talk to Julie this morning. Good morning, Julie, welcome to
Speaker 1: guard Line.
Speaker 2: Good morning. How are you.
Speaker 1: I'm doing well, doing well. What's up in Richmond?
Speaker 2: Well, it's February, the month two start turning back to
Speaker 2: crane myrtle.
Speaker 1: Yeah, dormance season in general is the month, and so
Speaker 1: January and February are both good months you kind of
Speaker 1: like to get. I like to get my printing done
Speaker 1: before the new growth starts to push out. So don't
Speaker 1: delay past that. If you do it, the plan live.
Speaker 1: But it's better to prove before the new growth begins.
Speaker 2: And I just get the small branches, you know, like
Speaker 2: the ones that are fake and then the ones that intertwine.
Speaker 1: I don't do anything with the top, right, So how
Speaker 1: how big is this plant? How long? Has it been
Speaker 1: in the ground roughly any idea.
Speaker 2: At the thirty gallon when it got put in, and
Speaker 2: it's been in the ground eight years.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you got a good sized plant. So with crapes,
Speaker 1: we want to develop a nice, beautiful branch structure, you know,
Speaker 1: So a trunk comes up and it forks into two branches,
Speaker 1: and then each of those forks into two branches, and
Speaker 1: you know, you just create this beautiful structure. And you'd
Speaker 1: like to avoid using a saw. So it's better to
Speaker 1: make a decision when branches are very small, so that
Speaker 1: you're not having to make this big, stubbed off cut
Speaker 1: on the plant that mars its beauty. And so typically
Speaker 1: we say on a krpe myrtle, you shouldn't have to
Speaker 1: prune anything bigger than a pencil. But I realize in
Speaker 1: reality sometimes you have a branch that's bigger than that
Speaker 1: and you just go, okay, I didn't see this last year,
Speaker 1: but I need to take it off now, go ahead
Speaker 1: and do it. But just try to avoid having to
Speaker 1: prune too much on them, because they have their own
Speaker 1: beautiful structure and we can guide that as they grow.
Speaker 1: But it kind of comes down to the esthetics that
Speaker 1: you like, what do you want it to look like?
Speaker 1: And so yeah, that's it. Just when you cut it off,
Speaker 1: don't leave us stuff. Cut it off close to where
Speaker 1: it joins the branch that it's attached to or the
Speaker 1: trunk that it's attached to. You if you note, I
Speaker 1: don't want to make this too complicated, but if you
Speaker 1: follow it. Let's say you have a branch that you go,
Speaker 1: I got to take that off, and you follow it
Speaker 1: down to where it joins the trunk or another branch.
Speaker 1: Right as it gets to right to where it joins,
Speaker 1: it flares out, it gets bigger. Okay, you want to
Speaker 1: cut it off right there where it starts to flare
Speaker 1: out a little bit, so that way you don't have
Speaker 1: a stub. But you also don't cut it. We say
Speaker 1: flush cut, meaning right up against the trunk. And that
Speaker 1: makes a much bigger wound, because as it gets bigger,
Speaker 1: the wound gets bigger. So just come all the way
Speaker 1: down to where it attaches and right where it starts
Speaker 1: to flare out, make your cut right there.
Speaker 2: But the top that I have all the old flowers,
Speaker 2: just leave all that along.
Speaker 1: If you want to get up and prune out all
Speaker 1: the twiggy stuff, you know, pencil size and smaller. You
Speaker 1: can do. That's it. It takes a while to do
Speaker 1: all that, but yeah, there's no problem taking all that off.
Speaker 1: But as the new growth begins that I just kind
Speaker 1: of fall a lot of that.
Speaker 2: They're just going to.
Speaker 3: Fall off on its own.
Speaker 2: Anyway. I can leave all that whole stuff.
Speaker 1: The little twiggy stuff does it kind of dies and
Speaker 1: just sort of breaks out of there.
Speaker 2: So yeah, because I see these people just take the
Speaker 2: whole tops off like burling or whatever they call it.
Speaker 4: Don't do that.
Speaker 1: Great murder. Yeah, great murder. Now, shouldn't do that. That
Speaker 1: practice got started. I think that the thing that started
Speaker 1: it because there is no horticultural reason to do that,
Speaker 1: no horticultural reason to do that. I think it got
Speaker 1: started because you know, mowing crews in the wintertime don't
Speaker 1: have a lot to mow, and so they would just
Speaker 1: send them out and say here, here's loppers, reach up
Speaker 1: as bout as high as you can above your head
Speaker 1: and cut everything off there. It makes it fast easy,
Speaker 1: nobody has to be a pruning expert, and the krepe
Speaker 1: myrtle sprouts back out again, lots of shoots and stuff
Speaker 1: but all that new growth now is attached weekly you
Speaker 1: can get it's a weak attachment and branches can break
Speaker 1: off and it just it's unsightly. It takes the beautiful
Speaker 1: smooth form of crepe myrtle structure and it just destroys it.
Speaker 1: And so there's no reason to do that.
Speaker 5: Okay, So thank you very much.
Speaker 1: You have a great day, all right, Julie, you bet,
Speaker 1: thanks for the call. Appreciate that you take care for sure,
Speaker 1: we're gonna. I wanted to mention if you're at in Kingwood,
Speaker 1: you've got two great garden centers. And you've heard me
Speaker 1: talk about these, but Warren Southern Gardens on North Park
Speaker 1: Drive Kingwood Garden Centers on Stone Hollow Drive. Now, both
Speaker 1: of these are open seven days a week, so you
Speaker 1: are if you're in the Kingwood area, and even Humble
Speaker 1: a Taska seat of Porter Valley Ranch, New Cany, that
Speaker 1: whole area up there. You're just really fortunate to have
Speaker 1: two great garden centers right there. Kingwa just redid their
Speaker 1: gift shop and oh it's just gorgeous inside. It's always
Speaker 1: been gorgeous inside, but they had a total revamp of
Speaker 1: content and everything over the past months. And looks good. Now,
Speaker 1: if you're looking for any of the products that I'm
Speaker 1: talking about garden line like Microfoss, nitrof Microlife, Nitrofoss, turf Star,
Speaker 1: airloom soils, Nelson plant foods, bone Eyed pest control, mosquito
Speaker 1: dunks we talk about those, Well, they've got that. They
Speaker 1: even have the little filling stations for Microlife and Nelson
Speaker 1: plant food jugs. So if you buy the Microlife or
Speaker 1: the Nelson and those clear screw top jars plastic jars,
Speaker 1: you can go in there and refill them and save
Speaker 1: some money on it. Plus you don't throw more plastic
Speaker 1: out into the waste stream, so it really makes sense,
Speaker 1: a great, great idea. Those refilling stations. Now right now,
Speaker 1: they are stocked up on color. They've got citrus, they
Speaker 1: got shrubs, they've got seeds, everything you need for spring.
Speaker 1: They're ready to go. It's just go get it and
Speaker 1: bring it home. This is the season to get going,
Speaker 1: and we are ready to go. And boy are they
Speaker 1: ever stocked up and ready to go out there at
Speaker 1: Kingwoo Garden Center and Warren's Southern Gardens. And also they
Speaker 1: do have the full landscaping services for the surrounding area.
Speaker 1: So just talk to them about that if you'd like
Speaker 1: to get little bit of work done here and there.
Speaker 1: I just talk to them and see. They also design
Speaker 1: and make potted containers for their customers. So like you
Speaker 1: go out and you don't know how to do a
Speaker 1: mixed planter, but you want to buy a big old
Speaker 1: container from them and buy a bunch of plants from
Speaker 1: them and have them design and put it together. They
Speaker 1: can do that wonderful service too. Out we're in southern gardens,
Speaker 1: all right, We're going to go to the phones now
Speaker 1: and head down to the galleria. Talk to Forest. Hey, Forrest,
Speaker 1: welcome to guard Line.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 6: Skip had a question about kind of the lazy man's
Speaker 6: way to build a raised bed. I was gonna build
Speaker 6: a new bed. I'm wondering, can I get away with
Speaker 6: not scraping the layer of grass and weeds off the
Speaker 6: surface and just put the soil right on top, or
Speaker 6: maybe is there a way to put something down before
Speaker 6: I put.
Speaker 7: The soil on top of it?
Speaker 1: All right? So is the grass Saint Augustine or Bermuda
Speaker 1: or Zoisier or what do you have for grass?
Speaker 6: It's kind of a Saint Augustine weed mix. It's an
Speaker 6: area of my lawn that's not real, real developed.
Speaker 1: Okay, Saint Augustine. You can just throw dirt on it
Speaker 1: and it's dead. It's not going to come through, no problem.
Speaker 1: Most weeds, that's true. Now we have a few. Bermuda
Speaker 1: grass is notorious. You throw a dirt on it and
Speaker 1: it'll come all the way to the top, and now
Speaker 1: you've got an infested bed. So if you have any
Speaker 1: bermuda as part of your weeds out there in the
Speaker 1: Saint Augustine, you got to get rid of that. There
Speaker 1: are some other weeds that can come up through, most
Speaker 1: of them cannot. So if you wanted, you could lay
Speaker 1: some cardboard down in the bottom and then throw the mix,
Speaker 1: your bed mix on top of that, and that you
Speaker 1: would be fine, except for things like bermuda, and that
Speaker 1: you would have to spray it and kill it and
Speaker 1: even have a little kind of a no man's land
Speaker 1: around the beds because that stuff will crawl in, it'll
Speaker 1: go up through the bed and it's it's a mess.
Speaker 1: So that's that's kind of the main exception. To just
Speaker 1: throw dart on it and you'll be okay.
Speaker 6: Okay, I don't think I have any bermuda out there,
Speaker 6: so I think I might be safe doing that. I'm
Speaker 6: just getting I'm just getting a little old bumed shoulder.
Speaker 6: I don't want to do all that work, honestly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh, I get that. And is your soil do
Speaker 1: you know if your soil is kind of a heavy
Speaker 1: clay or what kind of soil do you think you
Speaker 1: have out there?
Speaker 6: I honestly can't answer that question.
Speaker 1: It's that's okay, that's right. Here's the thing gallery there
Speaker 1: you go. So a lot of areas have kind of
Speaker 1: a heavier clay in them, but in a residential neighborhood,
Speaker 1: you never know what the builder brought in or what
Speaker 1: someone added after the builder, or you know. So go
Speaker 1: out and if it is kind of a heavy you
Speaker 1: kind of take a little If you have a spading fork,
Speaker 1: just step on it, push it in the ground and
Speaker 1: just kind of lean back on it. You don't have
Speaker 1: to bend over and stoop and turn it over anything.
Speaker 1: Just crack it open, kind of look at what you got.
Speaker 1: And if it's a clay, what I would do is
Speaker 1: I would put about three inches of your bed mix
Speaker 1: down and then I would use that spading fork and
Speaker 1: wiggle it down into the soil, you know if you
Speaker 1: step on it and then just lean back and just
Speaker 1: sort of crack it open. No stooping, no bending, no lifting,
Speaker 1: just break it open. And that bedding mix is going
Speaker 1: to kind of fall in between those those clay chunks
Speaker 1: that you kind of have broken open, and that's creating
Speaker 1: a transition zone between the nice bed mix and the
Speaker 1: heavy clay below, and water moves down through that better. Okay,
Speaker 1: then finish fill in the bed or finish filling the
Speaker 1: area with the bed mix. So when you say raise beds,
Speaker 1: are you talking about something with metal sides or rock
Speaker 1: or just a mound of soil? What do you have
Speaker 1: in mind there?
Speaker 6: Well, I bought those those concrete blocks that you slide
Speaker 6: the two to six boards, some boards and.
Speaker 1: Good okay, So so with that, what I would do
Speaker 1: if it were me for us and I got to
Speaker 1: run here for a break, But what I would do
Speaker 1: is I would throw the bed decide where you want
Speaker 1: the bed, and throw the bed mixed down on it,
Speaker 1: break it open, like I said to kind of not
Speaker 1: mix it, but just sort of crack it open and
Speaker 1: get get a blend there, and then put your blocks
Speaker 1: and boards down to form the bed and then finish
Speaker 1: filling it. That's how I would go about it with
Speaker 1: the least effort. Okay, so most stooping, no bending, no,
Speaker 1: all right, thank you. I appreciate your call very much.
Speaker 1: If speaking of clay soils, our clay soils move, they
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Speaker 1: we are back. Welcome back to garden Line. We are
Speaker 1: here to answer your gardening questions. We want you to
Speaker 1: have success. That's the bottom line. The way I like
Speaker 1: to put it is, we want you to have a
Speaker 1: more bountiful garden, a more beautiful landscape, and more fun
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Speaker 1: be something that we thoroughly, thoroughly enjoy and you can.
Speaker 1: All you gotta do is give plants what they want.
Speaker 1: Give them what they want, and they're gonna do super
Speaker 1: super or well, well, I wanted to I want to
Speaker 1: mention something. I alluded to this earlier. But we're going
Speaker 1: we are in a warm spell right now. We've been
Speaker 1: having some eighty degree temperatures spell through a lot of
Speaker 1: the listening area. And when plants are in a dormant state,
Speaker 1: they are chemically inhibited from growing, meaning there are actual
Speaker 1: chemicals in the plant that prevent that bud from pushing
Speaker 1: out and growing. That's why we have, for example, on
Speaker 1: peaches and other certain other kinds of fruit, we have
Speaker 1: chilling hours. Those chilling hours break down the inhibiting chemicals.
Speaker 1: So when we do have a few warm days, the
Speaker 1: plant takes off, It blooms, it sends out shoots, it
Speaker 1: starts growing. But if we're in the middle of wintertime
Speaker 1: and these plants are starting to get these eighty degree days,
Speaker 1: they're going to say, you know what, it's spring, let's
Speaker 1: get going, and they start to come out of dormancy.
Speaker 1: And then if we end up with a good hard
Speaker 1: cold freeze coming up, they're in big trouble, and that's
Speaker 1: what happened to crate myrtles a few years ago. In December,
Speaker 1: they were still in there, they had not fully hardened off.
Speaker 1: They were in their somewhat active growing state, and we
Speaker 1: had a December freeze. It went on in the teens
Speaker 1: and I mean it killed crapes all the way to
Speaker 1: the ground in some places. I opened College station, they
Speaker 1: had a severe amount of damage to that. As you
Speaker 1: came farther south, it wasn't quite as bad because it
Speaker 1: wasn't quite as cold. But I'm concerned about these eight
Speaker 1: degree temperatures.
Speaker 8: Now.
Speaker 1: If we don't have another good hard freeze, we're okay,
Speaker 1: but just be aware that a plant's heartiness is only
Speaker 1: based on how well hardened off it is, so all
Speaker 1: this week of eighties, and then if we're going to
Speaker 1: go in the future, let's say we're going to have
Speaker 1: a low twenties that hits later. Hopefully we won't, but
Speaker 1: if we did, you'd need to be extra careful to
Speaker 1: make sure and get that point covered because it's going
Speaker 1: to be more sensitive than that species otherwise would I mean,
Speaker 1: think about crape myrtles, they're very cold, hardy. I mean
Speaker 1: you grow them throughout Texas and they're fine here. They
Speaker 1: can take our cold, but not when they're not ready.
Speaker 1: And these eighty degree temperatures are starting to cause plants
Speaker 1: to wake up and get thinking it's springtime. So let's
Speaker 1: just keep an extra eye out for that. Don't want
Speaker 1: to be alarmist. And I hope we don't have that
Speaker 1: kind of cold still, but we will find out. But
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Speaker 1: grass blade from your yard and you look at that blade,
Speaker 1: there's nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, There's also calcium, magnesium, and sulfur.
Speaker 1: There's also boron and zinc and iron in that grass
Speaker 1: blade because that's what it takes to grow plants. So
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Speaker 1: Microlife can do the same thing for your plants. We're
Speaker 1: going to head out now to sugar Land and talk
Speaker 1: to Mike. Hello, Mike, welcome to Guardenline.
Speaker 7: Hey, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 1: Yes, sir, I got a question for you.
Speaker 9: I'm sure you've answered a million times before. But I
Speaker 9: picked up a bag of fifteen five ten fertilizer and
Speaker 9: a bag of preemmersion herviside yesterday. And the question is
Speaker 9: is it okay to put them both down at the
Speaker 9: same time, or put one down then the other with
Speaker 9: how long.
Speaker 1: It can You can put them both down on the
Speaker 1: same day. Just don't mix them in the in the
Speaker 1: spreader because the particle size is different. So do one
Speaker 1: come back, load up, do the other one. You can
Speaker 1: do them both the same day. When you do that,
Speaker 1: then put about a half inch of water on the lawn.
Speaker 1: If you have to turn on the sprinklers, that's fine
Speaker 1: because you want to move that especially move that pre
Speaker 1: emergent down into the soil surface before these weeds one
Speaker 1: season we'd start to germanic.
Speaker 9: Okay, good, and then let me just a slight twist
Speaker 9: of that. I also picked up a bag of asimite.
Speaker 9: Good idea to wait on that maybe a week or
Speaker 9: so and put that down later.
Speaker 1: No way, it all do asmite any time of the year,
Speaker 1: the same day you're doing any other thing we talk
Speaker 1: about on guardenline, from fertilizers, pungicides and sectus it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: Just whatever product you're putting on your lone, you can
Speaker 1: put as might at the same time. Again, because of
Speaker 1: particle size, we don't want to mix them in the
Speaker 1: hopper bed. Two separate spreading same day is fine.
Speaker 7: Okay, perfect.
Speaker 9: The barricade went down yesterday, so I'm good to good
Speaker 9: to go on the other two in the next day
Speaker 9: or two whatever, whatever time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, absolutely, yeah, and good barricades, great product. And
Speaker 1: by getting it down and getting into the watering end
Speaker 1: is the most important thing. Is sometimes people forget they
Speaker 1: put it down, think it's working, but it only works
Speaker 1: after you wash it off the granule into the soil
Speaker 1: surface because that's where the weeds are going to, the
Speaker 1: seeds are sprouting, and that's where it shuts them down.
Speaker 1: So don't forget. The corp.
Speaker 9: Watered it in yesterday, I'll do it again today so
Speaker 9: it gets a good soaking in twice and then like
Speaker 9: I said, maybe tomorrow I'll put down the fertilizer.
Speaker 1: And then as yeah, okay, that's a good point.
Speaker 7: I was.
Speaker 1: I was talking to Dan at night Foss the other
Speaker 1: day they met. They're the ones that create that barricade,
Speaker 1: and just say, man, Dan, this week eighty degrees, we've
Speaker 1: better be getting stuffed down because all these warm season weeds.
Speaker 1: They're like, yep, we're into this and they're gonna start
Speaker 1: sprouting on us right now.
Speaker 7: That's good.
Speaker 1: Good that you didn't delay. Yeah, okay, great, all right, sir,
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you, uh appreciate you cole very much.
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Speaker 1: I'll be right back. Archie your first when we come back.
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Speaker 1: Alrighty, we're back. Sometimes I just want to cut in
Speaker 1: on the song and get talking, because we've got a
Speaker 1: lot to talk. About. There is so much going on
Speaker 1: in the garden right now, and I've talked about a
Speaker 1: few things, like I don't like the fact that it's
Speaker 1: been eighty degrees this week. At least I don't if
Speaker 1: we're going to have more winter, because our plants won't
Speaker 1: like that. It is time to get all your pruning finished.
Speaker 1: Get it done on all your deciduous plants now. If
Speaker 1: we're talking about you know, citrus, for example, then hold off.
Speaker 1: If it is a somewhat tropical, somewhat cold tender type plant,
Speaker 1: just hold off on pruning it. You don't have to
Speaker 1: print it right now. But on all the deciduous ornamental plants,
Speaker 1: all the deciduous fruit trees and things, now's the time
Speaker 1: to get that work done. Learn what you're doing before
Speaker 1: you go out and do it. Just because you own
Speaker 1: pruners and you have a plant doesn't mean that what
Speaker 1: you're about to do to it is the right thing.
Speaker 1: So learn what you need to do. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of good information on there. If you want to learn
Speaker 1: how to prune a fruit tree, go to the Aggi
Speaker 1: Horticulture website. Aggie Horticulture is the name of the website.
Speaker 1: You can search for it. It's easy to find Aggie Horticulture,
Speaker 1: and there's a fruit section and there's a publication on
Speaker 1: every kind of fruit tree you can imagine. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's an avocado publication. There's peaches, plums, you know, pairs
Speaker 1: per Simmons. The whole nine yards is there, including some
Speaker 1: nut producing plants like pecan too, and it tells you
Speaker 1: how to punt them in those publications and they're free.
Speaker 1: You don't have to buy them. They're multicolored PDF fologing,
Speaker 1: download them or look at them online. Learn what you're
Speaker 1: doing before you head out to prune. That is a
Speaker 1: word to the why Let's head out to Pariland now
Speaker 1: and we're going to talk to Archie this morning.
Speaker 13: Hey Archie, welcome to garden Line Barning Ship. I have
Speaker 13: a bed in the front. It's about ten by ten.
Speaker 13: I got about gosh, at least seven flats of.
Speaker 7: Arcade.
Speaker 13: I can't said archangel Allegonia, Angelinia, oh Angelonia, yeah right.
Speaker 13: And they were beautiful, you know during the summer last year.
Speaker 13: They're purple and I covered them for you know, before
Speaker 13: we had all the snow. I covered them all and
Speaker 13: I thought I'd done pretty good job covered them. But
Speaker 13: they still just turned brown after I pulled all the
Speaker 13: torps and stuff off and I cut them back to
Speaker 13: just ground level because there is some green coming up.
Speaker 13: What can I do, you know to keep them going,
Speaker 13: like soil activator medina or something like that, or should
Speaker 13: I put you know, azemite or what would be the
Speaker 13: best stuff to put on that to keep them going.
Speaker 1: Well, you're not going to go wrong with any kind
Speaker 1: of mendina a product like that on them. Most of
Speaker 1: those are they've got microbial content, they've got nutrient content.
Speaker 1: A lot of them have hormones and vitamin different kinds
Speaker 1: of things mixed in to the concoction that are going
Speaker 1: to do the plants good. You know, as azimite as
Speaker 1: you're doing the whole bed. Small amounts, very small amounts,
Speaker 1: like ten pounds per thousand square feet is about the
Speaker 1: right rate on azimite. But that's a micronutrient situation, so
Speaker 1: it helps when you need the micro nutrients right now.
Speaker 1: The Angelonia, the big thing is, I've never cared in
Speaker 1: angelonia through the winter before. They are a summer, warm
Speaker 1: season annual typically. Now you've gotten yours to survive till now,
Speaker 1: there's a good chance they're gonna make it because you
Speaker 1: last too.
Speaker 7: This would be my third year.
Speaker 1: Oh did they okay? Oh third year? Wow, and they
Speaker 1: look good. They look good.
Speaker 13: The second year, well yeah, yeah, because I had to
Speaker 13: I had to go get a couple of flats and
Speaker 13: still in where they didn't come back.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, done in Paarland.
Speaker 7: I'm just afraid of another freeze too. And I've got
Speaker 7: all these roses.
Speaker 13: Well, I've got a prune and that's supposed to be
Speaker 13: next week, and you start those on Valentine, so I
Speaker 13: don't know.
Speaker 7: I mean, I've got a hundred rose bushes.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't worry. I wouldn't worry about it. I would print, Yeah,
Speaker 1: prune those roses. It's it's okay, go ahead and print them.
Speaker 1: You know, there's no problem with printing. In fact, there roses.
Speaker 1: They'll start growing when it's still cool, and they'll keep
Speaker 1: growing as we go into the cool set. So I
Speaker 1: wouldn't worry a lot about those. I'd get them prune
Speaker 1: like you want to. You know, there's this slight chance
Speaker 1: that we would have the kind of cold that just
Speaker 1: would burn them back, but it wouldn't kill them. They'll
Speaker 1: come on back. But it's time to prune them, and
Speaker 1: we can't can't worry about the weather too much on
Speaker 1: those two, so you can get that done. But anyway,
Speaker 1: if you want to wait a little bit and print
Speaker 1: them a little later, that you know, that's fine, but
Speaker 1: don't wait too long on them. But yeah, have angelonia.
Speaker 1: I just get ready to come if we get cold.
Speaker 1: But otherwise, congratulations. You send me a picture of those
Speaker 1: when they when they bloom this year, I'd love to
Speaker 1: see them. See them now, the picture now, and that
Speaker 1: a picture is a.
Speaker 7: Plant that uses just an annual at least when I
Speaker 7: bought them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, but they are they are awesomely beautiful all
Speaker 1: through the summertime. I mean you get months and months
Speaker 1: and months of beauty out of angelonia. It's one of
Speaker 1: my favorite summer plants.
Speaker 7: So yeah, well that's that's that. She's great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well go ask her about printing them. See what
Speaker 1: she says, Yeah, she's forgotten more about roses.
Speaker 7: I'm in society, you know, I'm the society.
Speaker 1: Oh you are, okay, Oh so you know gay? All right,
Speaker 1: good right, all right.
Speaker 13: But I'm just afraid, you know, pune. I know when
Speaker 13: I have to prune, but it just scares me to death.
Speaker 13: One you know, this early in February. Yeah, all right,
Speaker 13: thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Yeahs roses are tough. You know they're tough, all right, Archie. Hey,
Speaker 1: thanks for the question and good luck. If you get
Speaker 1: a chance, send me a picture. Take one now, take
Speaker 1: one when they're blooming this next summer, and I'd like
Speaker 1: to see that. I think that'd be cool. Thanks sir.
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Speaker 1: to Cyprus now and talk to Ike. Hey, Ike, welcome
Speaker 1: the garden line.
Speaker 14: Hey, how are you? Good morning?
Speaker 1: Thank you good? What's up?
Speaker 14: I had a question about I know Leake's mold compost
Speaker 14: is the best thing you can put in your yard
Speaker 14: or one of these things, but do you have any
Speaker 14: alternatives that's a little cheaper. I've looked at some of
Speaker 14: the process of the company, but it's just a little
Speaker 14: bit out of my pocket.
Speaker 1: So anything that I can do, that's all. Yeah. Leipole
Speaker 1: compost is Cadillac stuff. I mean, you know it's made
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Speaker 1: a quality company, one that you know knows what they're
Speaker 1: what they're doing, so that you're not just getting something
Speaker 1: that was rushed through the system and isn't fully decomposed.
Speaker 1: If you want a finer texture compost, you can even
Speaker 1: screen down posts that you have. I've got a little
Speaker 1: thing that I built, a two by four square box
Speaker 1: that sits on top of my wheelbarrow. And when I
Speaker 1: say box, I just mean it's four two by four's
Speaker 1: making a kind of like a just a frame. And
Speaker 1: I hammered a half inch hardware cloth on the bottom
Speaker 1: that a little checkerboard half inch checker bird, and I
Speaker 1: just throw compost in it and shake it and anything
Speaker 1: chunky gets stuck in the hardware cloth and you can
Speaker 1: just throw it off the side. It's still good for
Speaker 1: a multre continued composting, but you can come down with
Speaker 1: a finer texture that then you could use if you're
Speaker 1: compost top dressing or something along those lines. It's just work.
Speaker 1: You're you're exchanging paying for something with doing the work
Speaker 1: to try to create a product on your own, right.
Speaker 14: I know, how about some of the microlife products, Is
Speaker 14: that a good alternative to just doing the compost or
Speaker 14: I know they're more natural, organic anything you sugget.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, if you're gonna if you're going to try to, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, use a microlife product to in exchange for composts,
Speaker 1: I would do the Humates Microlife hummates. Plus it's a
Speaker 1: zero zero four purple bag. And what that is it's
Speaker 1: compost that has been decomposed past the stage we call
Speaker 1: compost into the stage called humus uh. And you just
Speaker 1: mix it into the soil a little bit. You can
Speaker 1: put it on the surface, but you can also mix
Speaker 1: it in and it It basically gives you a mini
Speaker 1: year head start on improving your soils. It's already reached
Speaker 1: that stage that is the most beneficial.
Speaker 14: Okay, well, I appreciate it, Thank you.
Speaker 3: You, bet I.
Speaker 1: Thanks for the call. Appreciate that a lot. We're gonna
Speaker 1: go now and talk to Ken. Hey, Ken, welcome to
Speaker 1: garden Line.
Speaker 7: Hey, Skip, good morning.
Speaker 15: How are you.
Speaker 1: I'm good, I'm good. How are you.
Speaker 3: Good?
Speaker 11: Deal?
Speaker 15: Hey, I have a question about uh. I guess you
Speaker 15: out of a soil amendment. I know years ago someone
Speaker 15: asked Randy Lemon whether at wood ashes would help a
Speaker 15: man of soil in a garden, and he said no,
Speaker 15: But I was wondering about a charcoal from wood if
Speaker 15: that would a man of soil and.
Speaker 7: Thing for it.
Speaker 1: Well, there is something called biochar which is it's different
Speaker 1: than charcoal, but very similar. It's it's like wood that
Speaker 1: it can be made out of a lot of things,
Speaker 1: but let's just say wood that has been turned into
Speaker 1: a black charcoal like compound at a cooler temperature. It's
Speaker 1: almost like a very very cool burn kind of product.
Speaker 1: And that's that's helpful. Now, wood ashes are not an
Speaker 1: amendment in the sense of like adding composts to improve
Speaker 1: soil structure, but they can be used to add some nutrients.
Speaker 1: They have about five to eight percent potassium. That's the
Speaker 1: third number on the bag. So depending on what the
Speaker 1: wood ashes were made from, like what you burned, it's
Speaker 1: about a zero one maybe I don't know, three to
Speaker 1: five ratio of nutrients that are out there in it.
Speaker 1: And so if your soil is already a fairly high pH,
Speaker 1: don't use wood ashes because it raises the pH even more.
Speaker 1: If you're a little on the acidic side, a moderate
Speaker 1: amount of wood ashes can be helpful. You just want
Speaker 1: to be very light in the amount you put out
Speaker 1: because you can overdo it. So I would say no
Speaker 1: more than like a five gallon bucket over a thousand
Speaker 1: square feet at the most, and that's a dry five
Speaker 1: gallon bucket. You know, when we wet wood ashes, they
Speaker 1: shrink down just the fluffy loose wood ashes about a
Speaker 1: five gallon And you got to do it on a
Speaker 1: calm day because the wind blows and it's a mess.
Speaker 1: But can you use it? Yes, and it will add
Speaker 1: some nutrients, but it also raises pH.
Speaker 15: Okay, well that answers the question that I had. Really, Uh,
Speaker 15: I noticed I have some royal acreage and I know
Speaker 15: this when I burn a brush pile that uh yeah,
Speaker 15: so when mudergrass takes it over very quickly and the
Speaker 15: and it's a.
Speaker 7: Very lappy green in that area.
Speaker 15: Yeah, it really likes it as my soul is kind
Speaker 15: of so I guess it helps a balance pH.
Speaker 1: So yeah, and other and other folks with land can
Speaker 1: tell you that if you were to continue piling up
Speaker 1: brush there and burning it in that same spot year
Speaker 1: after year, you could eventually, read apart, reach a point
Speaker 1: where almost nothing wants to grow because you've overdone it
Speaker 1: so much in that one spot. But a little bit
Speaker 1: it's good, you know, It's like life, A little bit's good.
Speaker 1: And there's such a thing as too much of almost anything.
Speaker 7: Everything in moderation.
Speaker 1: Right there you go, there you go, all right? Ken, Hey,
Speaker 1: thanks and good luck with that.
Speaker 7: All right, thank you.
Speaker 1: Bye bye. Yeah, that is a see. Not only do
Speaker 1: you get gardening advice on garden Line, you get nice
Speaker 1: life lessons that we've all learned the hard way.
Speaker 7: Right.
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Speaker 1: and we're going to talk to Ron. Hello, Ron, welcome
Speaker 1: to garden Line Warner Skit.
Speaker 8: Hey.
Speaker 16: I've been kicking around this core aeration for years, putting
Speaker 16: it off, putting it off, and heard you talk about
Speaker 16: it again. I always put down the barricade and fertilizers.
Speaker 16: Would a core aeration be bet to do before barricade
Speaker 16: and fertilizer or all the same time?
Speaker 7: Or what are your thoughts?
Speaker 1: You know, it's not like you have to do it
Speaker 1: a certain way. You can do that. You can go
Speaker 1: about that either way that you want to do it.
Speaker 1: If if it were me, I would probably do the
Speaker 1: corporation and then the compost stop dressing and the fertilizing
Speaker 1: on top of it. But I don't feel like if
Speaker 1: you did it wrong, it's going to mess everything up.
Speaker 1: And either way you'll go, are you going to do
Speaker 1: that yourself or you're going to hire somebody to come
Speaker 1: out and do the corredoration for you.
Speaker 16: Well, I've done the compos top dressing myself through years.
Speaker 16: I thought about getting a machine, running a machine and
Speaker 16: doing it. Okay, you know, if you're gonna do it yourself. Yeah,
Speaker 16: I'm I'm about thirty seconds out here, Ron, I think
Speaker 16: we may have to hold. If you want to keep
Speaker 16: going on this, let me put you on hold and
Speaker 16: we'll come back to you when we come back. If not,
Speaker 16: if you're not there, well thanks for the call. Appreciate
Speaker 16: it either way. All right, folks, I got.
Speaker 1: To run here there. I'm up against a really hard
Speaker 1: break and we'll be back with your questions at seven
Speaker 1: one three two one two k t r H. All right,
Speaker 1: but we're back. We are back. If you're gardening questions
Speaker 1: at seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy
Speaker 1: four seven one three two one two five eight seven four.
Speaker 1: If you have planted a tree in the last five years,
Speaker 1: especially if you plant it one right this year, you
Speaker 1: need a tree hugger sprinkler entering into the next coming warm,
Speaker 1: hot blast of summer season. That is the touch and
Speaker 1: go time when you're most likely to lose a tree
Speaker 1: is that first summer. It's also the time. Maybe your
Speaker 1: tree survives, but it just doesn't establish and grow much
Speaker 1: because of stresses from droughts. That tree has a very
Speaker 1: confined root system. You pulled it right out of the
Speaker 1: container like that. You know, you had this little cylinder
Speaker 1: of roots right there. That tree needs to have roots
Speaker 1: going way beyond the branch bread in all directions, the
Speaker 1: height of the tree in all directions. Plus it's getting established.
Speaker 1: And in order to do that, you got to maintain
Speaker 1: moist soil. And when summertime comes and it gets hot,
Speaker 1: that's very hard to do. To do that tree hugger's
Speaker 1: designed to do that. There are three sizes. There's a
Speaker 1: seven inch, eleven inch, and fifteen inch. They go around
Speaker 1: the tree trunk. You hook them to a water hose
Speaker 1: and you turn it on and you can turn it
Speaker 1: on just a little bit. Where let's say you had
Speaker 1: the seven inch size and you barely turn it on.
Speaker 1: It's just sort of trickling. It's watering a seven inch
Speaker 1: wide area, which is where your low root ball is there.
Speaker 1: You crank it up a little more, it gets bigger
Speaker 1: and bigger and bigger. I mean, you can take a
Speaker 1: tree that's been in the ground for years and you
Speaker 1: can rescue water the majority of its root system underneath
Speaker 1: the branch spread during excessive heat and drought conditions. Tree
Speaker 1: huggers are very versatile. You can go to tree Hugger
Speaker 1: sprinkler dot com, find a retailer near you, or let
Speaker 1: me make it easy. You can get them at the
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Speaker 1: in Katie, RCW. Nurseries up on two forty nine were
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Speaker 1: down to Richmond Rosenberg. You got in Chenny Gardens and
Speaker 1: in Channy Forests that carry them up in Tomball D
Speaker 1: and D feed and the Spring Creek Center up toward Magnolia,
Speaker 1: League City Feed down in League City Southwest Fertilizer and
Speaker 1: then Ace Hardware is like Sinkle Ranch and Katie and
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Speaker 1: fulshaar Race. These things are all over the place. Just
Speaker 1: go to TreeHugger Sprinkler dot com. You can find a
Speaker 1: retailer near you, but get you one help that tree going.
Speaker 1: And when you go, well, what if my trees established?
Speaker 3: And do I need it?
Speaker 1: Yes? Because when we go into summer, you're going to
Speaker 1: want to do rescue treatments. You don't want to run
Speaker 1: your entire lawn irrigation system to a depth to try
Speaker 1: to help your trees through. What do we have a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago, forty five days over one hundred
Speaker 1: degrees with not a drop of water. That's where tree
Speaker 1: Higger again comes in to help you. TreeHugger Sprinkler's real easy, easy,
Speaker 1: easy to do. What are my favorite new products that
Speaker 1: has come out on the market in recent years. We're
Speaker 1: going to go now out to Deer Park and talk
Speaker 1: to Steve. Hello, Steve, Welcome to Garden Line.
Speaker 17: Hey, Skip, I just sent a couple of pictures. I
Speaker 17: don't know if you've had a chance to look at me.
Speaker 17: It's something that's growing on top the fungus, I mean
Speaker 17: on top of the on top of the mulch, looks
Speaker 17: like yellow and corne globs.
Speaker 1: Boy, you send them. Okay, let's do this. I want
Speaker 1: I'm going to put you on hold, and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get my producer Jonathan to talk to you. Make sure
Speaker 1: you got the right email address, and when he puts
Speaker 1: you back on we'll continue this discussion. I don't have
Speaker 1: those in my email, so we want to make sure
Speaker 1: we get you the right spot. Hang on, Steve, Hopefully
Speaker 1: we can continue this discussion and help you a little
Speaker 1: bit further. Uh yeah, And while while we're doing that,
Speaker 1: I want to just mention that on Guardenline, I'm not
Speaker 1: able to answer all of the email questions that come
Speaker 1: in by email. I just I just can't. And a
Speaker 1: lot of questions are very involved, you know, they take
Speaker 1: a lot of time, they need some back and forth
Speaker 1: and whatnot. And so what I ask is, if you
Speaker 1: got some photos or something you want to send in, boy,
Speaker 1: that is really helpful for me to answer a question.
Speaker 1: Just email them to me and then call me up
Speaker 1: and let's talk and we'll go into it. I had
Speaker 1: several this week that are probably going to call over
Speaker 1: the weekend that we're going to continue discussing them. It
Speaker 1: gives me a little bit of time to look into something,
Speaker 1: so I'm not having to try to study through it
Speaker 1: on the air. But it works really well, and so
Speaker 1: I encourage you to do that. You just have to
Speaker 1: call the show, talk to Jonathan, get an email address,
Speaker 1: and again I wish I could sit there and type
Speaker 1: answers to everyone. I'm just not able to just time.
Speaker 1: Time does not allow it. So anyway, I was talking
Speaker 1: to you about earlier about some of the things we're
Speaker 1: doing this time of year. It is time to finish
Speaker 1: winter printing for those plants that are prinned in the winter,
Speaker 1: that would be particularly deciduous plants. That's the main thing
Speaker 1: we're doing in the winter pruning. You want to get
Speaker 1: that finished because the new growth is going to begin.
Speaker 1: And here's another reason. The fastest time of wound healing
Speaker 1: on a woody ornamental that's been pruned, like a tree
Speaker 1: or shrub, is in the spring. And you've probably seen
Speaker 1: the time lapse photos like a cactus flower that you
Speaker 1: know it's closed and then it opens up real fast
Speaker 1: and it closes and like in ten seconds you get
Speaker 1: to watch the whole thing. Well, if you were to
Speaker 1: do that on a tree wound, what you would see is,
Speaker 1: you know, let's say you cut it in January and
Speaker 1: it just sits there, and when spring comes it starts
Speaker 1: to close pretty rapidly, and then it kind of slows
Speaker 1: down to a crawl in the summer and then it
Speaker 1: speeds up a little bit for fall, not as much
Speaker 1: as spring, but it closes again faster in the fall,
Speaker 1: and then it shuts down for winter. And so that's
Speaker 1: why we like to prune in the winter because the
Speaker 1: fastest time of one of the reasons, the fastest time
Speaker 1: of wound healing is in the spring. So let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and get that done. There is also I need
Speaker 1: to point out the reason I say try to do
Speaker 1: it before the new growth shoots out, is because when
Speaker 1: new growth starts, the bark we say slips and instead
Speaker 1: of being stuck hard against the wood, so that when
Speaker 1: you make a pruning cut it doesn't tear strips of
Speaker 1: bark loose instead of being stuck hard against the wood,
Speaker 1: that bark it's like peeling a banana. You know how
Speaker 1: you break the top of banana, it just peels right off.
Speaker 1: Bark does that in the spring. When the growth is occurring,
Speaker 1: the bark is we say slipping. So if you wait
Speaker 1: until them to prune, you got to be real careful
Speaker 1: because it's easy to tear a strip of bark because
Speaker 1: it's loose against it. It tears off from the bay
Speaker 1: from the trunk real easily. And if you do that,
Speaker 1: that is going to be a very slow to heal wound.
Speaker 1: And so pruning during dormant time helps avoid that. Now,
Speaker 1: can you prune when it's actively growing? Yes, tree care
Speaker 1: companies prune all through the summertime. They do what they
Speaker 1: need to do when they need to do it. But
Speaker 1: the best time is in the winter when things are
Speaker 1: fully dormant.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 1: We're going to go out to back to Steve now
Speaker 1: in Deer Park. Hey, Steve, welcome to Guardline. Did you
Speaker 1: get that email?
Speaker 17: Oh I'm still sendent right now?
Speaker 7: Sorry?
Speaker 1: Oh okay, okay, sorry, I'm gonna put you back on hold.
Speaker 1: I'll come back to here when I see you pop up.
Speaker 1: All right, Anyway, I hope that. Uh, I hope that
Speaker 1: what I just described to you there on on, you know,
Speaker 1: the way the bark is and the way things heal.
Speaker 3: I hope.
Speaker 1: I hope that was helpful, because, yes, we want to
Speaker 1: prune in the in the dormant season, and it's better
Speaker 1: to get it done before the new growth begins. There
Speaker 1: are several types of grafting. If you're going to graft,
Speaker 1: let's say you have a pecan tree that's not just
Speaker 1: a little, you know, a little seedling coming out of
Speaker 1: the ground.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 1: They there's a graft called the inlay bark graft where
Speaker 1: you stick the grafted piece of wood in between the
Speaker 1: bark and the trunk, and you have to do that
Speaker 1: in the springtime when the bark is slipping that way,
Speaker 1: the bark slips away and you can put the graft
Speaker 1: piece right in there. And that's just an example. Different
Speaker 1: kinds of graft are done at different times of the year,
Speaker 1: so that is what we try to do. You're listening
Speaker 1: to garden Line if you'd like to give us a
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Speaker 1: then hopefully we'll have your email and we'll be able
Speaker 1: to continue on. All right, there, we are not Saturday night,
Speaker 1: but it's coming. It is for sure coming. Hey, Nelson
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Speaker 1: will find quite interesting. I did not seen one quite
Speaker 1: like this. It's called turf star Weedonator. Turf star Weedonator
Speaker 1: is not just your typical weed and feed type product.
Speaker 1: Basically what it is, it's got a growth regulator in it. Now,
Speaker 1: it's got the nutrients. First of all, it is a fertilizer,
Speaker 1: but it has a growth regulator in it. And this
Speaker 1: growth regulator causes the grass to not grow vertically so fast,
Speaker 1: but to continue to spread horizontally, so mowing is reduced
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Speaker 1: and talk to Donna. Hello, Donna, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 18: Good morning, Good morning. Yes, so are there emailed in
Speaker 18: some Yes, I'm here, Yes, I emailed in some photos
Speaker 18: to you. I think I have a wide read fungus
Speaker 18: situation spreading rapidly through the property, and it looks like
Speaker 18: everywhere I turn is affected.
Speaker 1: Well, I have good news for you. I looked at
Speaker 1: them and boy, that was a lot of photos, and
Speaker 1: thank you. That made it very easy for me to
Speaker 1: get a good assessment, you know, of what we're looking at.
Speaker 1: Your plants were showing it's not a fungus that it's
Speaker 1: not well. You know, on any plant you can see
Speaker 1: a little spot here or there, and then there are roses.
Speaker 1: Your roses had some black spot on them and stuff.
Speaker 1: But that basically what you're sending me pictures of or
Speaker 1: plants that are that are heat stressed and in some
Speaker 1: cases a little bit suns called it and some of
Speaker 1: the photos. Okay, now, it's not something that we really
Speaker 1: worry a lot about, and because I think last season
Speaker 1: it could have been several things. Number one, it could
Speaker 1: just be the heat in the sun wearing on the plants,
Speaker 1: and leaves don't last forever. And you get toward the
Speaker 1: end of the season, if you have a little drought condition,
Speaker 1: if you you know, as we as the days start
Speaker 1: getting shorter and we move into the cooler season, the
Speaker 1: plants are going to start to abandon their older leaves.
Speaker 1: And that's what you're seeing. Your new growth looks good,
Speaker 1: it's fine, but it's the older leaves that are starting
Speaker 1: to scorch and to look worse. And as you look
Speaker 1: at the array of plants that you sent me, diseases
Speaker 1: tend to be pretty plants specific and even in the
Speaker 1: case of also use powdery mildew. Powdery mildew, there's a
Speaker 1: powdery mildew that attacks krape myrtles, there's one that attacks roses,
Speaker 1: there's one that attacks turk's cap. But it's not the
Speaker 1: same strain of powdery mildew. So if you had roses
Speaker 1: with powdery mildew and you put them right next to
Speaker 1: something else that gets powdery mildew, it wouldn't attack it
Speaker 1: because it's the wrong strain. And so when you see
Speaker 1: a whole big problem going across all these different plant species,
Speaker 1: it's going to be cultural or it's going to be
Speaker 1: environmental weather. That's what the case is. And I saw
Speaker 1: nothing to be alarmed about other than this year. Give
Speaker 1: them good deep soakings whenever we are hot and dry,
Speaker 1: and I would give them a little boost a fertilizer.
Speaker 1: I think that would be helped. Some of them look
Speaker 1: like a little bit of nutrient maybe lacking. I can't
Speaker 1: remember it specifically which one now, specific plant, but in general,
Speaker 1: just a good balanced fertilizer with some micronutrients in it.
Speaker 1: I think that's going to be all you need to do.
Speaker 18: Wonderful, that is good news. Such can I ask you
Speaker 18: about the crate myrtles. The wood of the crate myrtles
Speaker 18: is turning black.
Speaker 19: What would cause that?
Speaker 1: Okay, that's caused most of the time, it's caused by scale.
Speaker 1: There's a crape myrtle bark scale. And if you look
Speaker 1: at your crpe myrtle trunks, you're going to see little
Speaker 1: white things in the in the black, and those are
Speaker 1: the scale insects. They secrete sugary sugary water that the
Speaker 1: black city mold grows on. So the black is just
Speaker 1: a sign that the scale's there. It's not a disease.
Speaker 1: And so for kurt myrtle bark scale, in the next
Speaker 1: few months, spring the trunks with a horticultural oil, not
Speaker 1: a dormant but a horticultural oil and getting good coverage.
Speaker 1: You want to do that in March, I would do
Speaker 1: it in March, maybe mid March, late Mar or late March,
Speaker 1: maybe even early April. Do it again and that will
Speaker 1: help the little crawler baby scales that are going out
Speaker 1: and ending up everywhere causing the problem.
Speaker 18: Okay, okay, awesome, Thank you so much for your help
Speaker 18: this Wenking.
Speaker 1: All right, you bet, thanks for the call. I appreciate
Speaker 1: that I talked about Houston powder coders last week, folks,
Speaker 1: and this is the biggest powder coder in the region.
Speaker 1: And if you're not familiar with powder coating, it is
Speaker 1: a process where it's so much better than painting. But
Speaker 1: if you look at furniture like yard furniture, and it's
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Speaker 1: that's coding typically, and they have over one hundred colors
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Speaker 1: really cool thing. Well, here we are, the music is playing,
Speaker 1: and I've got a couple of folks out there probably
Speaker 1: need to get back to I'm going to have to
Speaker 1: hold you guys until we come back from break. When
Speaker 1: we come back, we'll take your calls calling to Steve
Speaker 1: and Mike both be sort of visiting with you. I
Speaker 1: want to remind you that I have a website out
Speaker 1: there where I put everything that we talk about that
Speaker 1: needs a publication here on garden Line. So for example,
Speaker 1: I walked out in my one of my beds, one
Speaker 1: of one that I fought nuts edge in last year,
Speaker 1: and I just about got it all. It's gonna get
Speaker 1: done this year. It's gonna be finished this year. I've
Speaker 1: taken it down to just a few plants that survived.
Speaker 1: I saw a sprout coming up. I've got a publication.
Speaker 1: I'm to wind the blow and not to I know.
Speaker 16: How to do it.
Speaker 1: I've done it and it's on gardening whip stip dot com.
Speaker 1: I'll be right back.
Speaker 10: Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Skip Rictor.
Speaker 11: Just watch him as basic.
Speaker 1: All right, folks, let's do this. We got plenty of
Speaker 1: garden Line talking going on here, and we are get
Speaker 1: back on back in the again and get moving on this.
Speaker 1: I did want to go back here. We're going to
Speaker 1: talk to Steve in Deer Park. Hey, Steve, I understand
Speaker 1: we had some glitch on the email. But let's see
Speaker 1: if we can solve this problem without the email.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you probably know.
Speaker 17: It's on top of our mulch areas. We have some
Speaker 17: bright yellow and it fades to an orange and it's
Speaker 17: like a spray foam or something. Have you seen that before?
Speaker 7: Huh?
Speaker 5: I have?
Speaker 1: They call that scrambled egg fungus because it sort of
Speaker 1: looks like scrambled eggs to some people too. And yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: that is a decay, that's a decomposer. No, not at all.
Speaker 1: It's a decomposer of fungi. So it basically is one
Speaker 1: of the thousands of different fungal organisms that turns tree
Speaker 1: trunks back into dirt in the forest. And so we
Speaker 1: see it in our mulches and things. Anytime there's a
Speaker 1: little composed or wood materials, it can occur and it
Speaker 1: makes a crusting over the surface and then it goes away,
Speaker 1: you know. I mean, if you don't like the look
Speaker 1: of it, you can take a little shovel and kind
Speaker 1: of pick it up and get rid of it. But
Speaker 1: it's not hurting anything. It is not a disease of plants.
Speaker 7: So you're you're good, okay, Well, that's good to know.
Speaker 17: Thank you, then I appreciate it, you bet.
Speaker 1: Thanks for hanging and being patient with that. I'm glad
Speaker 1: we could help with it. Take care, yep, that is
Speaker 1: the way it goes. Uh, those kinds of things. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of microbes in nature, you know what. Let
Speaker 1: me just make let me let me see here. I
Speaker 1: want to I want to just make a point. When
Speaker 1: you look at insects and diseases, well, or let me
Speaker 1: put it this way, when you look at insects and
Speaker 1: bacteria and fungus organisms, the vast majority or of no
Speaker 1: concern at all. It is a tiny sliver of the
Speaker 1: pie on all of them that are our concern, you know.
Speaker 1: So we say, well, pottery mildew's of fungus, that's bad. Okay, yes,
Speaker 1: I got that. But there are bazillion different fungal organisms
Speaker 1: that are good or they are no significance, you know,
Speaker 1: to your gardening. And the same is true with insects.
Speaker 1: Because it has six legs does not mean mean it
Speaker 1: needs a death sentence. There are so many beneficials. And
Speaker 1: then there's things that don't matter, like a house fly
Speaker 1: going through the garden and landing on a tomato. And
Speaker 1: then flying off. What was the significance there? Nothing? Houseflies
Speaker 1: don't eat tomatoes, right, and it just happened to be
Speaker 1: there and happened to have six legs. So what I'm
Speaker 1: saying is either it's a good guy, or it's of
Speaker 1: no significance at all to your garden, or it's a
Speaker 1: tiny sliver that would be a bad one. So just
Speaker 1: because you see insects, assume they're not bad. There may
Speaker 1: be bad, but that's the exception. Just because there's a
Speaker 1: fungal organism or a bacteria doesn't mean it's bad the
Speaker 1: majority of them, or of no significance, or they're actually helpful.
Speaker 1: And there are many microbes and fungal organisms that are
Speaker 1: almost essential to plants in the services that they provide
Speaker 1: for them. So let's kind of back off, you know,
Speaker 1: lay the spray gun down, step back away from the spray.
Speaker 1: It's not necessary to kill everything that moves in the garden.
Speaker 1: In fact, you shouldn't. It's a problem to do that.
Speaker 1: That's your public service announcement for this morning. All right, Well,
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Speaker 1: We're going to go now to Surfside and talk to Mike. Hey, Mike,
Speaker 1: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 20: Hey, thanks Jiv, Hey, I've got some cauliflower that the
Speaker 20: heads of the I guess the plant itself, they're gradually
Speaker 20: starting to turn purple. Do you have any idea what's
Speaker 20: going on with that?
Speaker 1: Sometimes there's a color change. There's actually a gene cauliflower
Speaker 1: that can do that. You can buy a cauliflower that
Speaker 1: has kind of a purplish color to it that they've
Speaker 1: selected for that. There are stresses that can cause some changes.
Speaker 1: Typically people like cauliflower that's all pretty and white. It
Speaker 1: doesn't matter what color it is, you can eat it.
Speaker 1: And so sometimes in the old days, people would pull
Speaker 1: the cauliflower leaves up over the head and put a
Speaker 1: put a clothesline clip on their clothespin to hold it
Speaker 1: and keep the sunlight out so the head stays whiter
Speaker 1: and doesn't turn kind of a tannish color. But it's
Speaker 1: just for aesthetics, it just for now. They breed cauliflower
Speaker 1: to have they call themself blanching varieties. The leaves naturally
Speaker 1: grow up over the head and do the same thing.
Speaker 20: Okay, I didn't know if there's some sort of virus
Speaker 20: or fungal disease or something that's gotten into it. Because
Speaker 20: they started out nights and white. It's just over a
Speaker 20: period of four to five days. They're they're going to
Speaker 20: darn their purple now.
Speaker 1: So well, you may have gotten a variety that just
Speaker 1: naturally does that. Go online and google around purple cauliflower
Speaker 1: and let's see what I'm talking about. There's some there's
Speaker 1: one type that has almost a cheesy orange yellow color.
Speaker 1: Uh you know, I guess it looks like it's already
Speaker 1: been buttered or something. I don't know, it's been dead
Speaker 1: for that.
Speaker 20: So crazy stuff.
Speaker 1: Hey, you bet, thanks a lot, appreciate that. All we
Speaker 1: ask is that you bring half your purple cauliflower to
Speaker 1: the station as a gift, and we'll call it even
Speaker 1: for this advice. Thank you, Mike.
Speaker 20: I'll bring you a couple.
Speaker 1: I'm kidding. I'm kidding. Thank you, Bye bye. That's the case.
Speaker 1: Enchanted Forest down in Richmond Rosenberg is a haven for
Speaker 1: fruit trees, and boy, now is the time to plant them.
Speaker 1: It's a haven for a lot of things. But they've
Speaker 1: got all kinds of low chill apples and peaches and plums.
Speaker 1: They even have a like what they call three and
Speaker 1: one trees that means they graft it was actually budded
Speaker 1: three different varieties onto the same plant, So you don't
Speaker 1: have room for three different apple trees or three different whatevers.
Speaker 1: They can get your plant that's already got all three
Speaker 1: in one plant. Is that cool or what?
Speaker 17: Now?
Speaker 1: You got a permium right, and don't let one take
Speaker 1: over the other, you know, so you kind of each
Speaker 1: of them gets about a third of the tree. But
Speaker 1: what a cool deal. Now if you're into citrus, lots
Speaker 1: of cold harty citrus, all kinds of citrus actually down there,
Speaker 1: and they have the satsumas, which are probably as far
Speaker 1: as orange type things that are the most cold hardy.
Speaker 1: We have come cauch your a little cold heartier, but
Speaker 1: they've got brown select incredibly sweet. They've got one called
Speaker 1: Arctic frost bread by doctor Moy in San Antonio. Nice
Speaker 1: fella now passed away, but it's cold harty down to
Speaker 1: twelve degrees. Once it's established, not the first day you
Speaker 1: put in the ground, but about three or four years
Speaker 1: down the line, you're gonna have something. If the gradual
Speaker 1: cooling occurs you it'll take it down into the mid
Speaker 1: teen So that's amazing. Of course, when you're there, get
Speaker 1: the tools, get the soil, get the fertilizer you need
Speaker 1: for your fruit trees. And when you're there, walk around
Speaker 1: because their selection of vegetables and herbs and flowers and
Speaker 1: everything is amazing. Go to an Chenned Gardens, go to
Speaker 1: in Chenned Forest. Those are both great places down there,
Speaker 1: Chanted Forest. Right now, with those fruit trees they've got going,
Speaker 1: you can create your own fruitful paradise. Yep, that's right,
Speaker 1: your own little garden of eating e A t I
Speaker 1: N Garden of eaten. It's a good idea. I need
Speaker 1: to use that again down at Enchanted Forest and Richmond Rosenberg.
Speaker 1: How fortunate are you guys that live down there, to
Speaker 1: have both of those options available to you. All right,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take a break. We'll be right back. All right, folks,
Speaker 1: we're back here we go or garden line seven one
Speaker 1: three two one two k t r H. If you'd
Speaker 1: like to be on, and if you're shy about being on,
Speaker 1: I talk to people about this all the time. When
Speaker 1: to do these appearances and go out and meet with
Speaker 1: the folks that listen to the show, there's always be like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm afraid to call in. I don't want to call in.
Speaker 1: I'm afraid I'll look silly or whatever. You know, all
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. I get it. Okay, I get it.
Speaker 1: I understand that. But listen, if you've listened to garden
Speaker 1: Line very long, now you know I will. I'm here
Speaker 1: for you. I got you. You don't have to worry
Speaker 1: about that. We're not gonna We're not going to give
Speaker 1: you a hard time about anything like that. And what
Speaker 1: you think is a stupid question, somebody else has it too.
Speaker 1: Don't be afraid of that. The way I like to
Speaker 1: put it is, there's no stupid questions. There's just stupid answers.
Speaker 1: So the pressure's on me, not you. I'll try to
Speaker 1: avoid the stupid answers. Believe me, in my life I've
Speaker 1: given more than one of those, so I'll stay away
Speaker 1: from that. But just give me a call. You've got
Speaker 1: a question. Somebody else will had the same question. I
Speaker 1: guarantee you I see them all the time. I've been
Speaker 1: doing this for over thirty five years now. First as
Speaker 1: an Agrolife Extension horticulture agent with Texas and m Agrolife Extension.
Speaker 1: Worked in Montgomery County for a while, I worked in
Speaker 1: Travis County, over in Austin, worked in Harris County, worked
Speaker 1: in Briseles County and then up in Braizis. I did
Speaker 1: some radio, but certainly doing radio now. Then in the
Speaker 1: Greater Houston area again. And it's amazing how the same
Speaker 1: kinds of questions come around each year, but there's always
Speaker 1: something new. I always get a question this like, yeah,
Speaker 1: no one's ever asked me that before. You know, there's
Speaker 1: a first for everything, and that's okay, that's what makes
Speaker 1: it fun. All right, Well, I want to talk a
Speaker 1: little bit about the Southwest Fertilizer. Southwest Fertilizer Company. Southwest
Speaker 1: Fertilizer is an institution. It's been around since the nineteen fifties.
Speaker 1: You know that a Southwest Fertilizer was advertising on Garden
Speaker 1: Line before it was called garden Line back in the
Speaker 1: Dewey Compton days. I'm the fifth host to talk about
Speaker 1: Southwest Fertilizer here on the radio. Is that amazing. They
Speaker 1: are now celebrating their seventieth year. So happy birthday, Happy
Speaker 1: birthday to Southwest Fertilizer. I'm really I'm enthusiastic about the place.
Speaker 1: I don't tell you why. When you walk in there,
Speaker 1: everything you need is there.
Speaker 3: It is it.
Speaker 1: There's never been a product name come out of my mouth.
Speaker 1: That's not a Southwest fertilizer, and there won't be because
Speaker 1: they have at all. If they don't have it, you
Speaker 1: don't need it. That's the way I like to put it.
Speaker 1: Because they have it all. You walk in there with
Speaker 1: a problem, they'll take you to the product that will
Speaker 1: fix it. And if it's not a problem, they'll look
Speaker 1: at it and they go, no, that's not that bug's
Speaker 1: not a problem for your plant. So you just happen
Speaker 1: to capture him and when he was out in the garden,
Speaker 1: he's okay. They're not going to sell you something you
Speaker 1: don't need at Southwest Fertilizer. Now, if you need to
Speaker 1: prevent product right now, it's time to get the barricade out.
Speaker 1: It is time to get the barricade out, and they
Speaker 1: have it. And the reason I stress that is because
Speaker 1: we have a window where we put down a product
Speaker 1: like barricade. The pre emergent watered in and then here
Speaker 1: come the warm season weeds. When the soil tip hits
Speaker 1: fifty five, crabgrass starts to germinate. Soil temperature fifty five,
Speaker 1: crabgrass starts to germinate, and so it's time to get
Speaker 1: it down. If you wait until a month and a
Speaker 1: half from now they're going to have all sprouted. I mean,
Speaker 1: though there's weeds sprouting every month of the year, but
Speaker 1: the bulk of it that you're trying to stop, you
Speaker 1: got to do it now. If you're going to do that,
Speaker 1: And you can see that on a schedule online. Go
Speaker 1: to gardening with skip dot com find my lawn pest
Speaker 1: disease and weed management schedule. There's two schedules that are
Speaker 1: both free. Look at it and see when it tells
Speaker 1: you to put that down and it's now, we got
Speaker 1: to get it down now. Okay. Southwest has it herbicides,
Speaker 1: sponge sides, and sexticides. They have a better selection than
Speaker 1: anybody in the city. And if you're hearing me say
Speaker 1: all these things and you're going those are chemicals, and
Speaker 1: I'm an organic gardener. They have the biggest organic gardening
Speaker 1: section of anybody in the city, the whole region. Really,
Speaker 1: it is amazing what they have. They have tools. It's
Speaker 1: printing season. Get you a quality tool that will last
Speaker 1: you forever, like a folk or a corona for example.
Speaker 1: Get you that garden kneeling seat that I always talk
Speaker 1: about on guardline. I think it's such a great one
Speaker 1: of my top five favorite. I'll call it a tool
Speaker 1: that I in the garden. It's all there, seed Starting.
Speaker 1: Seed Starting supplies, big bins of seed. You just buy
Speaker 1: it by the scoop, very very economical packages of seed.
Speaker 1: Anything you need to start seeds, they've got it right
Speaker 1: there at Southwest Fertilizer corner of bus Net and Renwick.
Speaker 1: Southwest Fertilizer dot Com corner of bus Net and Renwick.
Speaker 1: They have friendly service there, quality products. I would say
Speaker 1: a great selection, but it's greater than great. It is
Speaker 1: a complete everything selection Southwest Fertilizer. Now, if you rather
Speaker 1: drive around shopping all the time trying to find this,
Speaker 1: that and the other, well I guess that you can
Speaker 1: do that, but this is a one stop shop. Let's
Speaker 1: now go out and talk to Blake here on Guardline.
Speaker 1: Hey Blake, welcome to the show.
Speaker 18: Oh thank you.
Speaker 21: So, I'm curious since after the freeze, I noticed that
Speaker 21: the tops of my pineapple plants look dead.
Speaker 3: But underneath where I like to them.
Speaker 14: With a bunch of waltz, there's some grand leaves.
Speaker 21: Is is that a good time that they're still alive?
Speaker 1: Yes? The base probably is going to be Okay, now
Speaker 1: you you have a plant that doesn't have a pineapple
Speaker 1: on it yet. Correct, Correct?
Speaker 19: I just planted the top all back into spring.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it will probably come back out of the center.
Speaker 1: And you know, I'm not there looking at it and
Speaker 1: poking around on it, so I can't tell you for sure,
Speaker 1: but it probably is going to come back. If you
Speaker 1: had a good mulch on it, it might. If not,
Speaker 1: you can cut another top off. It doesn't take that
Speaker 1: long to get back in business with a with a
Speaker 1: new pineapple.
Speaker 22: And I know that you said did not over to
Speaker 22: avoid over watering in the winter. Yes, I know that
Speaker 22: there's a old time coming in next week. But other
Speaker 22: than that, it almost feels like an early spring after
Speaker 22: that gold.
Speaker 1: Well it does. Yeah, that's right. Like you know what,
Speaker 1: here's the thing about watering. It's not the water that
Speaker 1: kills plants. It's the lack of oxygen in the roots.
Speaker 1: And so when we overwater a plant, we're not killing
Speaker 1: it with water. We're killing it because we're submerging the
Speaker 1: roots and they can't get oxygen and they start to
Speaker 1: do it.
Speaker 3: So.
Speaker 1: Uh so with your pineapple, more important than just what
Speaker 1: season is it and watering, it's it's do. I have
Speaker 1: really good drainage, so if I water, it runs out
Speaker 1: and the and the root system still has oxygen available.
Speaker 1: That that's what's.
Speaker 21: Important, because I know that I kind of dug a
Speaker 21: hole in order to give it some room before the
Speaker 21: roots hit the clay. Yeah hopefully.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, good luck with it, and send me a picture.
Speaker 1: Send me a picture if you get the thing to
Speaker 1: a fruit. I'd love to see that. You take care
Speaker 1: appreciate that. I was talking about South. What's fertilizer having everything?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 1: What they got is ever Medina product just about that
Speaker 1: there is on the earth, like astro grow six twelve six.
Speaker 1: That's the one that's got nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, the
Speaker 1: six twelve six high middle number because roots especially need
Speaker 1: that phosphorus. It's got Medina soil activator in it, which
Speaker 1: stimulates biological activity. It's got humate, which is a humic acid,
Speaker 1: and we know humus and humic acids and things improve
Speaker 1: sol structure. Therefore you have a better root system with
Speaker 1: better nutrient uptake. It's got seaweed extracts. Basically, it's got
Speaker 1: everything you need. It's great for watering and transplants. That's
Speaker 1: how I mainly use it, but you can do it
Speaker 1: as a folier feed. It won't burn your plants. You
Speaker 1: can improve your fruiting and blooming and things by continuing
Speaker 1: to foli your feed with that or drench the soil.
Speaker 1: The way you go about it, it's going to build
Speaker 1: a biological activity in your soil. Medina has to grow
Speaker 1: six twelve six plant food. Let's head out to let's
Speaker 1: see here. We're going to go to lakeside of States
Speaker 1: and Marine. I'm picking you up here with about a
Speaker 1: minute to go, but we'll see how far are we get.
Speaker 1: We'll come back to you after break.
Speaker 23: I think we need to Okay, No, I don't think
Speaker 23: we'll do that Nutsedge. I think I have the first
Speaker 23: blooming or whatever.
Speaker 20: You want to call it.
Speaker 23: I do remember you talking about it over and over again.
Speaker 23: I just need a quick refresher. I know that I
Speaker 23: got to get started, okay, and keep going back. So
Speaker 23: give me their product.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay. First of all, I highly recommend you go
Speaker 1: to gardening with Skip dot com. I have a publication
Speaker 1: called Nutsedge, an in depth look, and if you read that,
Speaker 1: it'll help you understand how to do it. Because people
Speaker 1: squirt it and say, oh, that didn't work and stuff.
Speaker 1: It'll help you understand how to do it. But here's
Speaker 1: the name of the product. Uh, there's several different products
Speaker 1: that have the same ingredient. One is called sedge hammer,
Speaker 1: and what is called sedge ender, and there's some others
Speaker 1: and they're on that publication. But there's the that's the
Speaker 1: best product to control nuts edge. But you got to
Speaker 1: read the publication because how and when and how many
Speaker 1: leaves should it have before you spray it.
Speaker 22: It's all on that publication, all right, fabus, I knew
Speaker 22: all right, senselessly, thank you, all right.
Speaker 1: You take care, all right, folks, I'm at a break.
Speaker 1: When we come back rich in spring, you'll be the
Speaker 1: first up. Thanks all right, Welcome back, Welcome back to
Speaker 1: garden lines. And when you think about RCW Garden Center,
Speaker 1: RCW Nursery, which is right there wherell Tomball Parkway and
Speaker 1: belt Way it comes together, you probably think about their
Speaker 1: trees and shrubs because they grow on themselves up in Plantersville.
Speaker 1: They you know, listen, they know what grows here and
Speaker 1: that's all they grow. They grow things that want to
Speaker 1: grow here, not stuff that's gonna die because you know,
Speaker 1: lose spruce from Colorado for crying out loud. No, they
Speaker 1: grow things that want to grow here. But someone asked
Speaker 1: me that they does RCW Nursery have roses, and I said,
Speaker 1: does a one legged ducks swim in a circle. Of
Speaker 1: course they have roses. They've got the best selection roses
Speaker 1: you're gonna find anywhere. Hundreds hundreds of types of roses. Now,
Speaker 1: every day you wait, there's less and less because people
Speaker 1: come and buy them and they sell out and they
Speaker 1: don't reorder. It's a spring thing. Primarily they have roses
Speaker 1: you're around. But I'm just saying, if you want the
Speaker 1: best selection, go there now. RCW Nurseries corn of Beltway
Speaker 1: eight and Tomball Parkway r cwnurseries dot com. They are
Speaker 1: the get it god at nursery, meaning if they don't
Speaker 1: have it, they probably can get it for you. Just
Speaker 1: go talk to them. Great family, Williams and fam just
Speaker 1: really quality products. And right now, I mean, what February
Speaker 1: Valentine's Day you think you might come up with a
Speaker 1: good gift from somebody on your list.
Speaker 7: You bet.
Speaker 1: A rose bush is the gift that keeps giving every
Speaker 1: year when it blooms. They're going to remember you go
Speaker 1: by RCW and grab you one. We're going to go
Speaker 1: now out to spring and talk to Rich. Hello Rich,
Speaker 1: and welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 4: Good morning, Skip, Thanks for taking my call. I have
Speaker 4: a Saint Augustine lawn. I have not put any pre
Speaker 4: emergent down yet. I'm looking or considering doing a split
Speaker 4: application of pro diamine and then following it up maybe
Speaker 4: in forty five days or so with dittyal pier. What
Speaker 4: are your thoughts about that.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't use two pre emergents in the same season.
Speaker 1: I would pick one, okay, because pre emergence work.
Speaker 4: By the only thing I was considering doing it. It
Speaker 4: is because I've had a couple places where crabgrass has
Speaker 4: popped up even after the app application of the pro diamine,
Speaker 4: and with ditthio pears, post emergent help with young crabgrass.
Speaker 4: That's why I was considering it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I would, you know, pick one and go
Speaker 1: with it. And and the reason is they both work.
Speaker 1: Those two products both work the same way. When a
Speaker 1: weed route tries to come out of the seed and
Speaker 1: establish it shuts it shuts it down and it can't
Speaker 1: form the root down and if you overdo it, it
Speaker 1: can have that effect on your grass. You're saying, Augustine
Speaker 1: or whatever you have is trying to put roots down
Speaker 1: too and and it it it's and it doesn't kill
Speaker 1: the grass. It just stops the root growth for a
Speaker 1: period of time until it all breaks down and then
Speaker 1: the roots can grow. But when we get into summer
Speaker 1: drought and things, you don't want a limited root system.
Speaker 1: So using the right amount according to the label is fine.
Speaker 1: Just I would not use both products. I would pick
Speaker 1: the wine and go for it. And I think you'll
Speaker 1: be fine either way.
Speaker 4: But appreciate that, Scott, Thank you.
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Speaker 1: to Conro now and talk to Marie. Hello, Marie, welcome
Speaker 1: to garden Line.
Speaker 3: Well Skip Skiff.
Speaker 24: I have a question in regards to timing.
Speaker 25: I have an Encore royal amethyst assalia that has been
Speaker 25: established for over ten fifteen years.
Speaker 24: It's about four and a half be tall.
Speaker 25: I am planning to trim it some of your well
Speaker 25: at least halfway and relocate her to a different bed, either.
Speaker 24: This weekend or next weekend.
Speaker 25: Of course, the Encore astalia's bloomed throughout the year sporadically.
Speaker 24: So my question is this, Am I timing doing this okay?
Speaker 24: Or should I wait?
Speaker 1: That's a really good question, Marie, because what you're doing
Speaker 1: here is you're juggling a couple couple of conflicting factors.
Speaker 1: The best time to move that azalea is fall through winter,
Speaker 1: so we're getting at the end of the best time
Speaker 1: to get it moved now it wouldn't be the best
Speaker 1: time to do pruning because even the encores. Your spring
Speaker 1: bloom is a big deal, and as you prune it,
Speaker 1: you're removing the buds for spring. But it's more important
Speaker 1: that the thing survives than that it blooms the spring.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you can get it to survive, it
Speaker 1: will continue on and you'll you'll have what you want
Speaker 1: out of the plant. So I would move it now.
Speaker 1: I would prune as needed in the move, get wider
Speaker 1: rather than deeper when you dig it up. In other words,
Speaker 1: you know, if you even got down four to six
Speaker 1: inches below the surface and just kind of horizontally shoved
Speaker 1: your flat shovel underneath the plant, slide it up onto
Speaker 1: a tarp, drag it to its new spot. You never
Speaker 1: have to lift it up that way, and you know
Speaker 1: you won't have to go to the chiropractor with that
Speaker 1: kind of thing, and then slide it into its new spot,
Speaker 1: watered in really good, make sure and keep it adequately
Speaker 1: moist on a regular basis.
Speaker 4: There.
Speaker 1: I think that's your best bet for that Azalea wonderful.
Speaker 24: I had hoped to have moved it before during the
Speaker 24: winter time, but she was a soul florifous.
Speaker 25: I mean she was flowering sadly, like she knew what
Speaker 25: I had in mind, and she I just could not bear.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 24: Cut off all those blooms. Yeah, wonderful.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right. Okay, Marie, thank you, good luck with that.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you call very much. Folks. I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: to run here for a break. I'll be back with
Speaker 1: Doug and Katie and George and Parland. We are back.
Speaker 1: She was welcome back to garden Line, and we're here
Speaker 1: to answer your gardening question. I'm going the whole calls
Speaker 1: here for we got a few on the board, and
Speaker 1: we were right near the top of the hour. Listen
Speaker 1: to Nelson. Plant Food is a purveyor of quality products.
Speaker 1: They have a number of lines. They've got the Turf
Speaker 1: Star line for lawns. They've got the Nutri Star line
Speaker 1: for specific time types of plants, and I'll come back
Speaker 1: to that in just a second. And then they have
Speaker 1: the Nature Star line, and they've got oh gosh, there's
Speaker 1: there's some more at Color Star. I can I forget
Speaker 1: that one. Most famous one they got probably well in
Speaker 1: the Nutri Star line. They have a tree and Shrub
Speaker 1: It's good for any woody ornamental that you have. Any
Speaker 1: woody ornaments got five sources of nitrogen. Slow feeding promotes
Speaker 1: healthy growth. You play it about every three to four months.
Speaker 1: That way you'll spread it out. It's got micronutrients for
Speaker 1: especially healthy growth and vitality by giving that plant everything
Speaker 1: it needs. Now, I don't care what kind of tree
Speaker 1: or shrub you have. This stuff works nutristar, tree and shrub.
Speaker 1: The other nutri star I want to tell you about,
Speaker 1: and there's only eight hundred of the month there citrus
Speaker 1: fruit and avocado essential nutrients again for these types of
Speaker 1: fruiting plants. Again about every three months. Give it a feeding.
Speaker 1: You can get it in a little canistir jar. There's
Speaker 1: even places in town where you can get refills on
Speaker 1: various kinds of Nelson plant food products. Now, this product
Speaker 1: works on all all of the fruit and nut trees.
Speaker 1: It says citrus fruit and avocado. Fruit means fruit, peaches, plum,
Speaker 1: you got. Just go for it, whether they're in a
Speaker 1: container or whether they're in the landscape. Nutri Star citrus
Speaker 1: fruit and avocado give them a little boost as they grow.
Speaker 1: Good growth, good sunshine means good production and that's why
Speaker 1: you're growing the things. All right, We're going to run
Speaker 1: out here and talk to Doug in Katie. Hello, Doug,
Speaker 1: Welcome to Gardenline.
Speaker 26: Thank you, sir. I appreciate your appreciate your call. I
Speaker 26: know you've addressed this before and I misplaced my notes.
Speaker 26: Your recommendation for drop spreader settings for the products I'm
Speaker 26: looking at are Barricade, the micro Life six two four,
Speaker 26: and Sweet Green.
Speaker 1: Yes, so when you're here, here's the thing. It ought
Speaker 1: to be on a lot of the bags of those products.
Speaker 1: If you have you checked on.
Speaker 26: The bag for the specific product, yeah, I think, and
Speaker 26: they probably are are for broadcast spreaders. Again, this is
Speaker 26: a Scott's drop spreader.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll tell you on that one. I would need
Speaker 1: to take a look at it. Here's the deal. Different
Speaker 1: particle sizes are going to drop at a different rate,
Speaker 1: and so that that makes it, you know, kind of
Speaker 1: difficult to know exactly, you know, to give you a
Speaker 1: specific number on those, I don't know. I'm a little
Speaker 1: I'm a little hesitant on that.
Speaker 26: So let me ask you. You gave some general guidance
Speaker 26: on a on a percentage of the maximum settings on
Speaker 26: the spreader.
Speaker 1: For for yeah, yes, and I remember what you're I
Speaker 1: remember what you're talking about. Let me let me hunt
Speaker 1: that down and pull it up, and I'll mention it
Speaker 1: on the air here just in a little bit. I
Speaker 1: just know that whatever numbers I give you, or whatever
Speaker 1: number you see on a bag, what I would commend
Speaker 1: is going way under that initially and going across your
Speaker 1: lawn one direction. Let's just say it's north south right,
Speaker 1: and hopefully not using even half of it, and then
Speaker 1: that way you can come back east west and use
Speaker 1: the other half. It is more important that you underdo
Speaker 1: it so that you don't run out and now you've
Speaker 1: overdone it on a So I actually I do remember
Speaker 1: the numbers that I've given you. I don't remember distinguishing
Speaker 1: between drop or the whirlybird spreaders. But on a on
Speaker 1: a regular walk behind spreader, if it's a fertilizer, you
Speaker 1: put it about a notch or two above halfway. So
Speaker 1: if there were twenty notches, you would go to eleven
Speaker 1: or twelve. Okay, a notch or two above halfway. If
Speaker 1: there's only I'll be ridiculous, but five notches, it would
Speaker 1: be a three that you would go to. Okay, on
Speaker 1: the pre emergent herbicides. Those are fine granules. And basically
Speaker 1: you're going to do about a notch above one quarter.
Speaker 1: So using that example of twenty notches, that would be
Speaker 1: you know, five or six that you would set it on. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's stills that you're walking on. Yeah, yeah, but but
Speaker 1: that's a that's the best guess, the best shot that
Speaker 1: we can do. But always go light. You can always
Speaker 1: come back over the area. But if you've overdone it
Speaker 1: and you're halfway through and you've used all your product,
Speaker 1: you've got a problem.
Speaker 26: Right, Okay, great sir, I'll all right. I'll save these
Speaker 26: notes and not misplace them like I did the last ones.
Speaker 1: Hey, no problem, that's why we're here. Thanks for the call, man,
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Okay, alrighty here, let's uh you bet we're
Speaker 1: going to go out to George in Paarland. Hey, George,
Speaker 1: how can we help? I'm good, I'm good, thank you.
Speaker 27: Okay, Well, here's the deal. I got a little tip
Speaker 27: that may be able to help people with especially citrus
Speaker 27: or other not so hearty plants in the freeze. It
Speaker 27: worked great for me this this past freeze. I've got
Speaker 27: a lemon that's about five feet tall, and it's actually
Speaker 27: got a little fruit growing on it already, so I
Speaker 27: wanted to make sure it didn't die when the freeze came. Now,
Speaker 27: this trick only works if you if you're old school
Speaker 27: like me, and you have incandescent Christmas lights, because the
Speaker 27: ones I had taken off the house, I had three
Speaker 27: strings of them, so one of them I ramped around
Speaker 27: the base of the tree keep the roots warm, and
Speaker 27: the other two hung up the leaves and the and
Speaker 27: the branches. Covered it with a frost claw and worked
Speaker 27: just great. My neighbors probably kind of wondered whether there
Speaker 27: was this glowing ghost in my heart with white cover
Speaker 27: and the little light shining through it. But after the
Speaker 27: frogt treeze was over, took it all off, the trees
Speaker 27: just doing what hell.
Speaker 1: Well, that's true. I appreciate that. Thanks thanks a lot
Speaker 1: for those tips you off. Folks. You got to use
Speaker 1: incandescent lights, not the LEDs because LEDs don't heat up much,
Speaker 1: but you got to have enough of them. So it
Speaker 1: comes down to how many bulbs putting how much he
Speaker 1: and how cool is it going to get? And it's
Speaker 1: kind of hard to find that magic number. But anything
Speaker 1: that produces heat like a little incandescent bulb like you
Speaker 1: know we were talking about there with George. Anyway, that works,
Speaker 1: all right, We're gonna go now to Charles. Hello, Charles,
Speaker 1: Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 19: Hey, Hello, thank you. I just have a real quick
Speaker 19: question after this freeze. I used to have a nice
Speaker 19: green backyard. Now what's coming back is the yard looks
Speaker 19: like I've planted weeds, seated the entire backyard of weeds.
Speaker 1: Okay, the best way to treat all that. The weeds
Speaker 1: you see now are cool season weeds, and you need
Speaker 1: to use a past emergent weed killer to kill them,
Speaker 1: and you need to do it soon because once they
Speaker 1: start blooming and setting seeds, they're harder to kill. And
Speaker 1: you may already have seeds anyway, which means you're going
Speaker 1: to have this problem again next year. Even more so.
Speaker 1: The product you know, I was talking about the products
Speaker 1: from Nelson Plant Food. They've got the weed and Nator
Speaker 1: that's a post emergent weed control product that you put down.
Speaker 1: You have to wet the yard so that the granules
Speaker 1: of weed donators stick to your weeds. Okay, okay, And
Speaker 1: when the granules stick to the weed, then yeah, just
Speaker 1: follow the instructions. It's all in the bag. But weedinator
Speaker 1: would be an option, you know, in that's gonna be
Speaker 1: one of the one of the things you can There
Speaker 1: are other options out there, but you know that that's
Speaker 1: one I was just talking about, so I'll just mention it.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 1: You can also one one other option real quick is
Speaker 1: that you could spray those weeds and you could kill
Speaker 1: them with a post emergent weed killer sprays. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of brands on the market, a lot of things
Speaker 1: at work for that. But again, do it this weekend,
Speaker 1: not three weeks from now. Go ahead and get it
Speaker 1: done before they get too far.
Speaker 19: Yeah, that's what I was playing on doing this week anyway.
Speaker 1: All right, sir, all right, we'll have fun with that.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. I appreciate your call, hey, to
Speaker 1: have to run Orges hidden gardens, Orges hidden gardens out
Speaker 1: there in Alvin, Texas. Oh my gosh, that place. Ray
Speaker 1: is always bringing in new stuff. He continues to grow
Speaker 1: and right now the I was so amazed at all
Speaker 1: the different fruit that he's getting in. I mean things
Speaker 1: like a dwarf mulberry. Have you ever heard that all
Speaker 1: kinds of citrus like lemons and grapefruit and kalamanda and
Speaker 1: tangerines and satsumas and Tangelo's and oh my gosh, on
Speaker 1: and on and on kaffir lines. He has things like
Speaker 1: the fuuu per summons, which is great, by the way,
Speaker 1: Joey Avocado, Mexicola Grande avocado, thy purple guava, Primark Freedom
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Speaker 1: Go check them out. All right, time for a break here,
Speaker 1: I'll be right back with more of garden Line.
Speaker 10: Welcome to k t r H Garden Line with Skip Richard's.
Speaker 11: Essays trip just watch him as many peace to suppot
Speaker 11: brasy signs sunmon.
Speaker 1: All right, folks, we got one hour left of garden
Speaker 1: Line today and we're looking forward to it. If you'd
Speaker 1: like to ask a question, here's your chance. Seven one
Speaker 1: three two one two k t r H seven one
Speaker 1: three two one two k t r H. We will
Speaker 1: discuss the things that you're interested in. I certainly have
Speaker 1: a number of things I want to talk about I
Speaker 1: always do, But top priority is your calls. What are
Speaker 1: your calls? How can we help you have a better success.
Speaker 1: The way I like to put it is, we want
Speaker 1: you to have a bountiful garden, a beautiful landscape, and
Speaker 1: more fun in the process. That's the goal.
Speaker 7: So let's do that.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about the kinds of things that are of
Speaker 1: interest to you right now. If there were to be
Speaker 1: like something in neon signs flashing above the garden line
Speaker 1: sign it would say stop the weeds, get rid of
Speaker 1: the weeds, Stop the weeds, get rid of the weeds,
Speaker 1: flashing back and forth. Maybe even get highway signs going.
Speaker 1: That'd be a great idea. I wonder if the highway
Speaker 1: department would be willing to let me comeandeer a couple
Speaker 1: of those flashing signs when you're driving down the road
Speaker 1: and it says prevent weeds now, prevent weeds now, flashing
Speaker 1: on and off. Kill existing weeds now. I don't care
Speaker 1: how you go about it. If you want to handpull,
Speaker 1: I handpull a lot of my weeds because I don't
Speaker 1: have that many of them. But there's always some wherever
Speaker 1: sunlight hits the soil, nature plants of weed all the
Speaker 1: cool season weeds are up now and growing, and that's
Speaker 1: what you see. Warm season weeds too tiny to see
Speaker 1: yet cool season weeds. They're up and you got to
Speaker 1: do something. Hand pull them or spray them with a
Speaker 1: post emergent weed control product. Either way you get rid
Speaker 1: of them before. That's an important all capsul b e
Speaker 1: f ore before they bloom and set seeds. Once they
Speaker 1: become reproductive. Even the products that work well otherwise are
Speaker 1: not as effective. Number two. By the time you spray
Speaker 1: them like that, they probably already have set viable seed.
Speaker 1: So even if you did kill the weed, it's gonna
Speaker 1: die anyway on its own. But even if you did,
Speaker 1: it's already produced its seed, and so you have sentenced
Speaker 1: yourself to another year of problems when next winter comes around.
Speaker 1: So control them. If you're going to prevent them, you
Speaker 1: gotta prevent them now. You gotta prevent them now because
Speaker 1: they are starting to sprout. The crabgrass starts to sprout
Speaker 1: at fifty five degrees soil temperature, So once it starts sprouting,
Speaker 1: then you're up a creek. You got to deal with
Speaker 1: that because then you're dealing with an existing weed in
Speaker 1: your lawn, and it's much better to prevent a weed
Speaker 1: than it is to control one that's already grown. All right,
Speaker 1: I think I beat that horse to death. But we're
Speaker 1: gonna go now out and talk to c R on
Speaker 1: the phones. Hello to see R. Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 12: Yeah sure, Hello, good morning, Good morning again. Okay, So
Speaker 12: I'm calling today about there's a yellow plant. It's a
Speaker 12: shrub that you see, you know, it grows pretty well out,
Speaker 12: you know, around I'll see it all over this local
Speaker 12: geographical area. And it's called a sunshine plant. It's yellow.
Speaker 12: I don't know the true name of it, but it's
Speaker 12: a yellow shrub. It's really pretty. But I noticed, and
Speaker 12: I have a lot of them at my place. But
Speaker 12: they'll sprout up green, you know, green branches. The foliage
Speaker 12: is green and not yellow, and you can't just like
Speaker 12: clip off, you like give it a haircut because it
Speaker 12: doesn't get rid of the green. That's so my question is,
Speaker 12: is the plant is yellow, but you know sprout up
Speaker 12: these green twigs. Do you have to chase that twig
Speaker 12: all the way like to the base of the base
Speaker 12: of the shrub? Is that and then going there and
Speaker 12: just clip that off? Is that how you keep all
Speaker 12: the green out. I need some help on that.
Speaker 1: So you're saying that you don't like the green because
Speaker 1: it hides the yellow. Is that what you mean?
Speaker 12: Yeah, that they're predominantly yellow, but then that green will
Speaker 12: pop through, and do you do you clip the green out?
Speaker 12: Or is the is it supposed to be a green
Speaker 12: and yellow? Because all of mine are predominantly way yellow.
Speaker 12: They're really pretty and yellow, especially in the spring and summer.
Speaker 12: But then that green will come through, and I'm just wondering,
Speaker 12: what do you do about the green?
Speaker 1: Okay, so you're not talking about like a wild plant.
Speaker 1: You're talking about a landscape plant, right, yes, correct? And
Speaker 1: and the yellow is the foliage, correct, not a blown
Speaker 1: it's a foliage, that's right.
Speaker 12: The whole plant is yellow, called the sun jon, and
Speaker 12: the whole thing is yellow.
Speaker 28: Spits frown Okay, these will comfort yeah, Okay, So that
Speaker 28: that is a There are a number of plants that
Speaker 28: have yellow or variegated foliage.
Speaker 1: Legustrum is a common one, and that may be what
Speaker 1: you're dealing with. Uh, that doesn't matter what it is.
Speaker 1: That that is a recessive trait, and what will happen
Speaker 1: is it will revert back to its original stronger green form.
Speaker 1: And now you've got these big, strong green shoots coming
Speaker 1: in and they want to take over because they're much
Speaker 1: more powerful than the yellow growing shoots on it. You've
Speaker 1: got to go back to where they attach. Follow the
Speaker 1: green all the way back to where it attaches to
Speaker 1: a shoot that has yellow on it. So if you
Speaker 1: if you follow the green back and it attaches, look
Speaker 1: at the shoot that it attaches to, and is that
Speaker 1: shoot producing yellow foliage out there? It is cut the
Speaker 1: grain off right up against the point of attachment.
Speaker 3: Yeah, revert.
Speaker 1: This is an ongoing process because they they will continue
Speaker 1: to do that from time to time. It's just the nature.
Speaker 1: It's an unstable genetic sport that created that yellow in
Speaker 1: the first place. So you have to work to maintain that.
Speaker 3: All right, very good.
Speaker 12: That's now on that same planet, that same plant got
Speaker 12: attacked by a white fly, and the white flies it
Speaker 12: ate of like that several of my shrubs. It ate
Speaker 12: all of the yellow leaves off of the plant. And
Speaker 12: so now you're just sitting there with like a brown
Speaker 12: there's no leaves on it. Will will those plants? I
Speaker 12: noticed that they're starting to bud and the yellow is
Speaker 12: starting to come back again. But that white fly ate,
Speaker 12: you know, it basically just goes in and eats all
Speaker 12: the leaves off of the dawn thing. And what do
Speaker 12: you do about that?
Speaker 1: So yeah, so see, I don't I don't know what
Speaker 1: you're seeing. Would you take a close up picture. I'm
Speaker 1: going to put you on hole. My producer will give
Speaker 1: you an email. White flies don't have the mouth parts
Speaker 1: to eat, so something else is going on there. But
Speaker 1: send me a picture up close, make sure it's in
Speaker 1: sharp focus, and we'll see if we can take this
Speaker 1: a little bit further.
Speaker 7: Thank you.
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Speaker 1: to Louise. Louise, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 19: Yes, thank you very much.
Speaker 7: Two quick questions.
Speaker 19: The first is I have a neighbor, an elderly woman
Speaker 19: of whom shared with me some wise.
Speaker 29: Tale that I'm wondering if there's any truth to it.
Speaker 29: She said on February fourteenth, to go to my rose
Speaker 29: bushes and cut them, essentially cut them in half, as
Speaker 29: she said, they would come back bigger, fuller.
Speaker 1: And I thought to myself, my rose.
Speaker 16: Bushes are fine.
Speaker 12: They're about four feet high and they're full.
Speaker 29: And I didn't know if you had heard anything to
Speaker 29: that effect that February fourteenth was dat we cut them down.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 1: People use that because Valentine's Day is for flowers and roses,
Speaker 1: or the Queen of the flowers, and so it's easy
Speaker 1: to remember plant roses and prune roses on Valentine's Day.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter what day. This time of the year,
Speaker 1: dormant season is when you prune roses, and so you
Speaker 1: can do it on Valentine's Day, you can do it
Speaker 1: the day before, the day after, a week before, if
Speaker 1: you want, you can do it right now. As a
Speaker 1: matter of fact. So different kinds of roses are prune differently.
Speaker 1: If you have a shrub rose, the kind that's basically
Speaker 1: bushy leaves with flowers in it, it's prune like a shrub,
Speaker 1: then you can just prune them anytime you want. But
Speaker 1: that's one type of pruning. So maybe your rose got
Speaker 1: too tall and you want to cut it back byhalf
Speaker 1: and start to bring the size down a little bit.
Speaker 1: It'll regrow and it'll do just fine. But if you've
Speaker 1: got like a cut flower rose, like those hybrid teas
Speaker 1: that make the long straight stems with roses on the end,
Speaker 1: that's a different kind of pruning. But it also can
Speaker 1: be done now or Valentine's Day if you want. It
Speaker 1: doesn't matter on that day. It's a different style. So
Speaker 1: depending on the rose you have, yeah, a different style,
Speaker 1: but timing is fine.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 29: My second question is here in Galveston, I read something
Speaker 29: regard to obtaining permits for wildflower.
Speaker 7: And I have no clue what that it's all about.
Speaker 29: Why you would need a permit for growing well, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 29: growing flower.
Speaker 1: Uh, there's there's something weird in that question. And I
Speaker 1: don't know what they told you, but if I were you,
Speaker 1: I would call your Galveston County Extension office. They are
Speaker 1: experts when it comes to all kinds of things related
Speaker 1: to gardening and whatnot, and they're gonna know the low
Speaker 1: if there's any local rule in the county or rule
Speaker 1: out on the island or whatever. I'm not sure what
Speaker 1: you're referring to with that, with that question, I've never
Speaker 1: heard that.
Speaker 7: All right, thank you very much, appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, have you ever have you ever called have you
Speaker 1: ever called your extension office before out there? If you haven't,
Speaker 1: you ought to, Uh go ahead.
Speaker 29: Oh I I just uh, I think because I see
Speaker 29: some neighbors who have this uncontrollable growth of I guess wildflowers.
Speaker 29: It looks unsightly at certain times of the year, and
Speaker 29: they just don't touch it at all. And I'm assuming
Speaker 29: maybe that's what it's related to.
Speaker 3: Something's that effect.
Speaker 26: You know, it.
Speaker 1: Could be that it could be a homeowner's association role
Speaker 1: of some sort. I don't know, And like I said,
Speaker 1: when you said it, it's like, I've never heard anything
Speaker 1: like that. But if you want to, you know, check
Speaker 1: around and ask. I guess you could ask the city
Speaker 1: or the county or whatever, but I would just call
Speaker 1: two eight one five three four thirty four thirteen. That's
Speaker 1: your extension office. And they are great for gardening advice.
Speaker 1: They got master gardeners, they got a garden out there.
Speaker 1: It's wonderful. Talk to Boone Holiday if you can. He's
Speaker 1: he's the horticulture agent there in Galveston County.
Speaker 19: Now I'll do that, thank you.
Speaker 1: But thanks for the call. Manure all right, you take care,
Speaker 1: all right, all right. Now we're going to go to
Speaker 1: Lee in Houston. Hey Lee, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 3: Thanks for having me on skip.
Speaker 7: You doing okay this morning?
Speaker 1: Sounds like, uh, I'm doing well? How can we help today.
Speaker 7: Up?
Speaker 30: Two years ago I bought from home depot a key
Speaker 30: lime lime tree. Looked to me like about a two
Speaker 30: gallon pot, and it said to can leave it in
Speaker 30: the pot for two years. Well, every year it has
Speaker 30: hundreds of blooms on it, it doesn't grow, and then
Speaker 30: the blooms fall off and I got no limes.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, So you need to put it out
Speaker 1: of the pot. You need to check the roots. You're
Speaker 1: gonna have a bunch of roots that are circling. In fact,
Speaker 1: the outside of the pot may be white with roots
Speaker 1: out there. You know, to cut slice down through those
Speaker 1: roots with a box cutter knife in about three places.
Speaker 1: Just make a vertical slice from top to bottom to
Speaker 1: cut all those outer roots. Put it in a bigger pot.
Speaker 1: It needs room to grow. The more confined it is,
Speaker 1: you can grow them in smaller pots, but it they
Speaker 1: go into drought stress faster and easier because they don't
Speaker 1: have the root volume. You know what I'm saying. So
Speaker 1: keep them moist, get them in good sunlight. And it's
Speaker 1: not unusual when a plant is stressed for it to
Speaker 1: abort its blooms or its fruit, and that's what happens
Speaker 1: a lot in some types of citrus. So you just
Speaker 1: need to keep it happy and get that stress out
Speaker 1: by giving it more room to grow. Make sure it
Speaker 1: never lacks for water, good nutrition and so on. Not
Speaker 1: too much nitrogen but moderate amount. And I think this
Speaker 1: will turn that around and you'll end up getting some limes.
Speaker 30: Any particular soil I should put it put in the
Speaker 30: new pot.
Speaker 1: There's some there's some really good quality soils you can get.
Speaker 1: The folks that airlom soils have a citrus fruit type
Speaker 1: cetrus type mix. You can buy it in the bag.
Speaker 1: So since you're growing it in pots, that would be
Speaker 1: a good way to do it. A good quality growing
Speaker 1: mix for containers would be good for that. But you
Speaker 1: can go specific for that centrus fruit type mix from
Speaker 1: heirloom if you like.
Speaker 30: I think I think mister Patterson over its Southwest fertilizer.
Speaker 3: He'll have something there for me.
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, yes, Bob will have it. If he doesn't
Speaker 1: have that, he'll have something else that he would recommend.
Speaker 1: So talk to him. He'll shoot straight and.
Speaker 7: Do you recommend that?
Speaker 12: All right?
Speaker 7: Citrus fertilizer.
Speaker 1: I don't know which one you're referring to, but products
Speaker 1: that have a name on him, like this is a
Speaker 1: tomato or this is a citrus or whatever, those would
Speaker 1: be good. I can tell you this. If you just
Speaker 1: get your good fertilizer that has all three numbers on
Speaker 1: it in a pinch, that'll get you by. But for
Speaker 1: the longer term, you want to fertilize more in accordance
Speaker 1: with what that species is most gonna want. So either
Speaker 1: way you want to go is fine. Just don't overdo it,
Speaker 1: but follow the label real carefully. Okay, thank you, Skip,
Speaker 1: Thank you, Lee, appreciate the call. You take care. Ciena
Speaker 1: Maltz speaking of soils, Ciena Molts. Oh my gosh. They
Speaker 1: are south of the Houston area, near where Highway six
Speaker 1: and two eighty eight come together. It's the road is
Speaker 1: FM five twenty one and here's the website. If you
Speaker 1: hear nothing else I'm about to say, write this down.
Speaker 1: Sienna Moltz dot Com tells you where they are, gives
Speaker 1: you the phone number, tells you what they have. All
Speaker 1: of you folks down there in Quill Valley and Rose
Speaker 1: Sharing and first Colony in Parland and Sweetwater, Sandy Point,
Speaker 1: Iowa Colony, Siena Plantation. This is your hometown, soil place
Speaker 1: and everything you need for success. Remember brown stuff before
Speaker 1: green stuff. They've got the composts, They've got the bed mixes,
Speaker 1: They've got the mulches for top of the ground. They've
Speaker 1: got the fertilizers. Okay, you want Microlife, Azamite, turf Star.
Speaker 1: Do you want products from heirloom soils. Do you want
Speaker 1: fertilizer from Nitroposs or Landscaper's Pride or Nils plant Food Medina.
Speaker 1: They have all of that, everything you need to set
Speaker 1: the founder for successes at Ciena Maltch. Wonderful folks. You
Speaker 1: will love going in there and interacting with them. They will,
Speaker 1: I promise you, they will treat you right. They deliver
Speaker 1: within about twenty miles of their location, or you can
Speaker 1: just go by there and pick it up. They're open
Speaker 1: today till two pm. Don't delay close tomorrow, but open
Speaker 1: Monday through Saturday. So get out there and get you
Speaker 1: some stuff or get it ordered have it delivered. Secret
Speaker 1: to success is to start with the soil, and Ciena
Speaker 1: Maltch will get you covered on that. Let's see here
Speaker 1: we are. I'm looking at a heartbreak, so I can't
Speaker 1: grab the next phone call just yet, but I did
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Speaker 1: There's good things happening right now. Time for me to
Speaker 1: take a break. When I come back, we'll be back
Speaker 1: with your calls a little true free league to get
Speaker 1: us going here on our nest segment of garden line
Speaker 1: Microlife products. You know they've they've been around for over
Speaker 1: thirty five years, loved by gardeners and landscape professionals. I
Speaker 1: think it's ten years ago that I first used a
Speaker 1: Microlife product and I've been sold on it ever since.
Speaker 1: There are sixty four lawn fertilizers and number one selling
Speaker 1: organic fertilizer in Houston. Their products are not going to
Speaker 1: burn your lawns or your plants, are not salt based products.
Speaker 1: They're safety use on anything with it. It's turf, grass,
Speaker 1: as alias, flowers, vegetables, and they have products for every
Speaker 1: kind of thing. Certainly there's the bags of products that
Speaker 1: are loaded with microbes and to the nutrients that you have.
Speaker 1: They've got their jugs that are plastic clear plastic screw
Speaker 1: top lid jugs that you can refill at several different
Speaker 1: kinds of places around town. There's jug refill stations that
Speaker 1: select retail outlets are really cool. You can go to
Speaker 1: microlfertilizer dot com find out all about the products, and
Speaker 1: it's a huge line and all the places you can
Speaker 1: get it. I want to talk about two real quick.
Speaker 1: Two of their liquid products. The first is Microlife Biomatrix.
Speaker 1: That's an orange label. It's a high nitrogen liquid organic
Speaker 1: product with beneficial microbes. It's a seven to one three.
Speaker 1: That's the three numbers on it, seven to one three.
Speaker 1: I use it myself, very good. I use it for houseplants,
Speaker 1: but I mean my patio containers as well. You can
Speaker 1: put it on a rosebush in the ground. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's good stuff that really works. The second product is
Speaker 1: Ocean Harvest. That's a blue label. It's a six two
Speaker 1: three so orange label Biomatrix, Blue label, Ocean Harvest. It's
Speaker 1: a four to two three fertilizer. It doesn't burn. You
Speaker 1: can use it to a folio spray. It's a fish
Speaker 1: based fertilizer. Use it outdoors, no fishy for the inside,
Speaker 1: but it's a gray product. Organic gardeners have long known
Speaker 1: the importance of things like fish and mulsion and seaweed.
Speaker 1: By the way, Microlife has both of those. It's easy
Speaker 1: to find all over town and it works. Microlife products
Speaker 1: for those of you who are wanting to garden in
Speaker 1: line with nature a little bit more organically, well, this
Speaker 1: is definitely something you need to know about in the years.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna head out now to Katie and we're going
Speaker 1: to talk to Kevin Scott. Hey, Kevin, Welcome to Guardenline.
Speaker 7: Hik skip.
Speaker 5: So I'm just looking for some confirmation. I put out
Speaker 5: the barricade yesterday grain earlier, and yes, I've got a
Speaker 5: big poemana infestation, and so I killed I put that
Speaker 5: out because they're you know, they're currently germinating, so it
Speaker 5: should kill what's in the ground. But I also sprayed
Speaker 5: image herbicide after I laid down the barricade.
Speaker 7: Is that okay? Or should I have waited?
Speaker 1: Well, they work in different ways. The barricade you watered
Speaker 1: off the granule and it prevents weed seeds from coming up,
Speaker 1: and the poeanna is primarily done. It's it germinated back
Speaker 1: in the fall, primarily so you don't have to worry
Speaker 1: about it going into summer other than the fact that
Speaker 1: it's got seeds on it. So if there were a
Speaker 1: way to get you know, chop off the tops or
Speaker 1: it's not tall enough to mow off the tops generally,
Speaker 1: but if you can get that seed out of there,
Speaker 1: that's a good idea. The image goes into the soil
Speaker 1: and is taken up by certain kinds of weed roots. Okay,
Speaker 1: so that there you you you would be looking at
Speaker 1: prevent or killing existing weeds that are coming up.
Speaker 5: Is there anything I've got a lot of it, and
Speaker 5: if you remember right, I'm on my long pretty short.
Speaker 5: I've got a real mower, so I keep it down
Speaker 5: to three quarters of an inch. But this poana I
Speaker 5: bought it every year.
Speaker 17: Is there a.
Speaker 5: Specific weed killer that I could you know, measure and
Speaker 5: put in a pumps ray that specifically targets poana that's already.
Speaker 9: Developed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there there are. Now here's the thing with poana.
Speaker 1: The stuff that has always worked pretty well is sometimes
Speaker 1: not working well because you may have a strain of
Speaker 1: the poana that's developed resistance to it to the product.
Speaker 1: So things like like on my schedule, you'll see a
Speaker 1: dithiopea that's dimension. You'll see barricade that's pro diamine. Those
Speaker 1: products both worked on poanna in the past. But if
Speaker 1: you're not getting results from those, then you're gonna have
Speaker 1: to switch up. We're going to change jover on something
Speaker 1: because uh, resistance can happen and it's not the products. Well,
Speaker 1: it's just the fact that dimension. Okay, well that's just
Speaker 1: a they're they're really closely related in how they work.
Speaker 1: So if you're not getting results with those, then we
Speaker 1: would need to be talking about, uh you know, switching
Speaker 1: to something else. And there there are a number of
Speaker 1: good things out there. Uh some of the products I
Speaker 1: don't like to recommend because they if you don't use
Speaker 1: them right, they can cause damage to things. And that
Speaker 1: that's the way it's. That's the case with a lot
Speaker 1: of different things that we have to deal with. Uh
Speaker 1: that is your is your grass, Saint Augustine.
Speaker 7: No, it's it's soyja zorrozja zoro.
Speaker 1: Okay, Uh there, well you can there. Number one, I
Speaker 1: would do a pre emergent in the fall according to
Speaker 1: my schedule online in a guard skip dot com. Follow
Speaker 1: that second second, okay, So when you if you do
Speaker 1: that and then you watch your you know what poana
Speaker 1: looks like, so watch and if you see it. There's
Speaker 1: another product. There's one called Certainty and one called man
Speaker 1: or M A n O R. You're going to be
Speaker 1: very careful with using those, and you may have to
Speaker 1: hire somebody to come in and do it. But if
Speaker 1: the Poeana is very young, very young. It works pretty well.
Speaker 1: Once there it matures, those products don't work. But that
Speaker 1: would be your second line of defense on Poeanna and
Speaker 1: then you know, I mean we could we could talk
Speaker 1: poant all day here, but the bottom line is get
Speaker 1: you a good primerg and start with that. If you
Speaker 1: need to switch to another. If you want to send me,
Speaker 1: you know, an email and ask some questions on it,
Speaker 1: I can send you the link to a publication that
Speaker 1: goes into it in depth more than I can do
Speaker 1: on the air. So I'm going to put you on hold, Kevin,
Speaker 1: and uh if you will give uh, if you want,
Speaker 1: give my producer Jonathan your email, He'll give you my
Speaker 1: email address and just send me that request and I'll
Speaker 1: send you something.
Speaker 7: Okay, Okay, I'll do that.
Speaker 5: I haven't tried to mention before, so I'll pick some
Speaker 5: of that.
Speaker 1: Okay, just see a right, Take care, you bet you
Speaker 1: take care?
Speaker 3: Bye bye?
Speaker 1: All right, folks, here we are boy. Time flies. Time
Speaker 1: flies when you're having fun arbor Gate. Speaking of having fun,
Speaker 1: I always like going out to Arburgate. I was out
Speaker 1: there the other day visiting some of the folks. You
Speaker 1: can't believe the extensive selection they've got on fruit. I'm
Speaker 1: talking about fruit trees, I'm talking about grapes, I'm talking
Speaker 1: about berries, you know, blackberries and everything, strawberries, everything else.
Speaker 1: They're loaded up. And if you want to do some
Speaker 1: seeds starting, they've got plenty of really good seeds and
Speaker 1: seeds starting kits still getting deliveries of all kinds of
Speaker 1: things for landscape, color, for vegetables, for urge. Listen, spring
Speaker 1: is springing, and the trucks that arbigateor are going to
Speaker 1: line up, they have been lining up to bring you
Speaker 1: a good selection. They always have a good selection. Do
Speaker 1: you want a rose? Do you want a camellia? Do
Speaker 1: you want to fill in the blank, They've got it.
Speaker 1: Remember to go around and back in park. Go on
Speaker 1: Trischel Road which goes behind Arburgate. The back parking lot
Speaker 1: is awesome, great accessibility. It's the safest, easiest way to
Speaker 1: get in there, and there's always space back there. Even
Speaker 1: as busy as that place gets. You're going to find
Speaker 1: a place back there to get your parking done. And
Speaker 1: remember that when you're there, get their one two three
Speaker 1: completely easy system that's a soil for anything with roots,
Speaker 1: a fertilizer that's organic than for anything with the roots
Speaker 1: and a compost product. And by the way, the soil
Speaker 1: in the compost both had expanded shale mixed in them,
Speaker 1: which is a really nice added plus. And their soil
Speaker 1: and composts can be delivered in bulk. So if you
Speaker 1: want that good arburgate product and you want it delivered
Speaker 1: to your house, call them up, talk to them, or
Speaker 1: when you're out there, ask them about a book delivery
Speaker 1: of it, and they can do that. I don't care
Speaker 1: where you live around here, they can do that. All right,
Speaker 1: Time for me to take a quick break. When I
Speaker 1: come back, we will be talking to Barry and David.
Speaker 11: Oh major.
Speaker 1: Look all right, folks, we're back with our last little
Speaker 1: bit of segments of Garden Line today. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: a broken record when it comes to soil. Right, what
Speaker 1: is the secret of success with your garden plants? Round
Speaker 1: stuff before green stuff is the answer. Round stuff before
Speaker 1: green stuff. You get the soil right, that includes organic matter,
Speaker 1: that includes improving the texture, structure, the drainage, You get
Speaker 1: the nutrients in there, you're going to have success. And
Speaker 1: Nature's way is built around doing exactly that. The same
Speaker 1: way that nature does. That's why it's called Nature's Way
Speaker 1: because it does it Nature's way. Now you go out there,
Speaker 1: talk to Ian, talk to any of the folks out
Speaker 1: there at Nature's Way, and they can point you in
Speaker 1: the right direction with the soil blend that you need
Speaker 1: for what you want to grow. Maybe you just want
Speaker 1: some composts to improve a clay soil. Maybe you want
Speaker 1: to get a bed mix that's going to go well with.
Speaker 1: Maybe you're putting in fruit trees and you're going to
Speaker 1: create a nice raised mound for better drainage on the
Speaker 1: surface with one of their fruit blends. Maybe it's a
Speaker 1: vegetable type soil blend, or for herbs or for flowers,
Speaker 1: they've got it. Do you want to grow a zelias
Speaker 1: and blueberries and peiras and oh my gosh, Virginia sweet inspire,
Speaker 1: all those things that like cool that like acidic soils,
Speaker 1: they've got that at Nature's Way Resources. It's really easy.
Speaker 1: Just go just go check them out. You can go
Speaker 1: buy there and pick it up yourself. If you've got
Speaker 1: to pick up our trailer, you can call them and
Speaker 1: have them deliver it.
Speaker 17: You can go buy.
Speaker 1: You can go buy and purchase it by the bag
Speaker 1: or around town. There's a lot of places that carry
Speaker 1: Nature's weigh soils. Buy the bag. The address is Sherbrooks
Speaker 1: Circle and Conro. Basically, what you do is you head
Speaker 1: up toward Tomball direction and when we're fourteen eighty eight
Speaker 1: comes in from Magnolia, you turn right across the railroad
Speaker 1: tracks and that's Sherbrock Circle and that's Nature's Way. You're
Speaker 1: right there. It's really easy. Do you want a high
Speaker 1: quality leaf mo compost or a fungal based compost. Both
Speaker 1: of those are finally screened and excellent for top dressing
Speaker 1: your lawn. You can get that as well as many
Speaker 1: other things that Nature's Way. And you know when you
Speaker 1: buy it there, it's going to be a product that's
Speaker 1: made well. It's not cheap compost. This is is stuff
Speaker 1: that's made well. It's been adequately composted, it's been properly screened,
Speaker 1: and it's gonna give you the results you're looking for.
Speaker 1: I'm going to head now to let's see where are
Speaker 1: we going next. I believe we're heading to David and
Speaker 1: Spring Branch. Hey, David, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 3: Hey, good morning, thank you for taking my call. Had
Speaker 3: a couple of questions. Might you know of any annual
Speaker 3: fruit tree cell that's going on this weekend?
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't keep up with those. I know
Speaker 1: different groups those around. You'd have to call your county
Speaker 1: Extension office and see if they're having them. I tend
Speaker 1: to focus on what's available in our local garden centers
Speaker 1: at that time. But if you can get a hold
Speaker 1: of your county Extension office, they can tell you when
Speaker 1: you know the master gardeners are having various kinds of
Speaker 1: things that they have, and I know those are going on,
Speaker 1: I just don't have a list of that.
Speaker 17: Okay, okay?
Speaker 3: And yeah, in my peach tree is coming out with
Speaker 3: the round bulbs and the pink petals, is it okay?
Speaker 11: Now?
Speaker 3: If I do some pruning on my peach tree, is
Speaker 3: real tall? Is it okay? If I do that now?
Speaker 3: Or should I wait?
Speaker 1: If you want to do it, hurry up and get
Speaker 1: it done. Yes. You can just be real careful because
Speaker 1: once the growth starts, the bark starts to peel away
Speaker 1: from the wood. When you do a cut, you know,
Speaker 1: if that branch falls, you want to have your hand
Speaker 1: on it to control it because it'll strip the bark
Speaker 1: right off down the trunk or branch of the tree,
Speaker 1: and that's a wound that takes forever to heal. So
Speaker 1: that's the only thing right now, be real careful with
Speaker 1: if the bark is already starting to come loose from
Speaker 1: the inner wood. Okay, okay, yes, get it done this week.
Speaker 1: There you go, Thank you, There you go, you bet, David,
Speaker 1: thanks a lot, appreciate your call. We're going to now
Speaker 1: go talk to Barry. Hello, Berry, welcome to guard Line.
Speaker 8: Yes, thank you for taking the call. I got a
Speaker 8: question about crate myrtles. We bought the crate myrtles and
Speaker 8: then put them in about eight years ago in obviously
Speaker 8: they've grown pretty tall, and I was wondering if if
Speaker 8: I were to like cut some of the trunks down
Speaker 8: a couple of feet to lower the whole crown of
Speaker 8: the great myrtle, would that work.
Speaker 19: Or is that just a well.
Speaker 1: You technically you could. What's going to happen where you
Speaker 1: cut the trunk off is you're going to get a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of shoots that come out. We call that
Speaker 1: a crow's foot. Like if you hold your arm up
Speaker 1: and you point all your fingers up and out that
Speaker 1: kind of your fingers are all the shoots that come
Speaker 1: out at the top of that stubbed off trunk. It's
Speaker 1: really not a very attractive growth and this is drastic.
Speaker 1: But another option is to cut it off at the
Speaker 1: ground and when the new shoots come out of the base,
Speaker 1: pick maybe three of them to be your main trunks,
Speaker 1: and then as they come up you can top them
Speaker 1: and they'll form a couple of shoots that form the
Speaker 1: next category of branches. And you know, a crpe myrtle
Speaker 1: should come out of the ground as a single branch
Speaker 1: or a trunk. It should fork into two or three,
Speaker 1: and then fork into two or three, and as it
Speaker 1: goes up it just makes this beautiful structure. When you
Speaker 1: do the stubbing off two foot high, you're going to
Speaker 1: have an ugly down there low. It's okay to do that.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's very pretty to do that, and
Speaker 1: so I might take it all the way to the
Speaker 1: ground and start over or kind of branch back to
Speaker 1: where a side branch comes out.
Speaker 8: All right, okay, that helps me out, Thank you very much.
Speaker 1: Yes, sir, you take care. I need to put something
Speaker 1: online about that. I think it's hard to describe that
Speaker 1: on the air. Let's go to Southwest Houston and we're
Speaker 1: going to talk to Sharon. Hey, Sharon, welcome to guard Line.
Speaker 6: Hi.
Speaker 24: I have a lot of weeds in my yard, but
Speaker 24: my dogs like to nibble on them.
Speaker 19: So is it safe to poison them?
Speaker 1: To poison the weeds?
Speaker 24: Yes, when your dogs eat them.
Speaker 1: Well, I wouldn't. You know, there's a lot of different
Speaker 1: products out there, and they vary in their toxicity and things,
Speaker 1: so it's hard to do a sweeping answer to that,
Speaker 1: but I wouldn't if the dogs are eating them. If
Speaker 1: you could keep the dogs off of them for a
Speaker 1: week and you know, just kind of watch the dogs
Speaker 1: and stuff, don't let them do that. But if you
Speaker 1: need to have something go down and kill that whole weed,
Speaker 1: some perennial weeds, that's the only way to really get them.
Speaker 1: Then you just have to keep the dogs off that section.
Speaker 24: So you think a week will be good.
Speaker 1: A week will be enough for the product to move
Speaker 1: down into the weed, and then you could do a
Speaker 1: low mowing to cut all the top growth off that
Speaker 1: there's nothing but the dogs to chew on then, and
Speaker 1: that would be a strategy to go about it. Because
Speaker 1: dogs do like to eat weeds mine do?
Speaker 19: Okay?
Speaker 1: All right, thank you, you bet, Charon, thank you for
Speaker 1: the question. Hey, depending on what kind of weeds you have,
Speaker 1: there are some other options if you just if you
Speaker 1: don't have like a solid yard full of weeds. There's
Speaker 1: a little device I've never talked about it on Guardline.
Speaker 1: It's called Grandpa's weeder, and it's like fingers that you
Speaker 1: step on it. It's a pole. You step on it
Speaker 1: and it goes down beside the weed, and then you
Speaker 1: just pull on the handle and it has a little
Speaker 1: fulcrum and it like the weed right out of the ground.
Speaker 1: Now that's for good for tap rooted weeds. It wouldn't
Speaker 1: be good for weeds that are running all through your grass,
Speaker 1: but that would be another is just do the hand
Speaker 1: pulling without you getting on your hands and knees. That way,
Speaker 1: it's it's easier cool, okay, Southwest Fertile Line. All right,
Speaker 1: thank you. Oh they've got everything. Yeah, say hi to Bob.
Speaker 1: All right, you take care of it. Well, it always
Speaker 1: takes all and it's spring. Oh my gosh, it's going
Speaker 1: to get more fun as we go here. I'm looking
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