WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:02.879 Shait that call. Yeah, that's a good good question. I 2 00:00:02.919 --> 00:00:06.240 always ask questions before you answer questions. Right, that's a good, 3 00:00:06.320 --> 00:00:10.839 good advice. It is time. It is always time to 4 00:00:10.880 --> 00:00:13.720 put some azmite out on your lawn. People ask me 5 00:00:13.759 --> 00:00:15.640 all the time, well, if I fertilize or if I 6 00:00:15.720 --> 00:00:18.199 use asmite, do I need to fertilize Or if I fertilize, 7 00:00:18.199 --> 00:00:19.719 do I need to use as mite? And the answer 8 00:00:19.760 --> 00:00:23.440 is yes, all the above, because what we're doing when 9 00:00:23.519 --> 00:00:26.359 you put most fertilizers, when you put them down, you're 10 00:00:26.359 --> 00:00:29.280 getting primarily the big three nutrients. Now with organics, you're 11 00:00:29.280 --> 00:00:33.079 getting some other things in there. But azamite is a 12 00:00:33.159 --> 00:00:36.960 trace mineral supplement, and trace minerals are required for growth, 13 00:00:37.719 --> 00:00:39.479 just because you don't need a lot of them. You 14 00:00:39.600 --> 00:00:43.039 just need a trace, a small amount, a micro amount. 15 00:00:43.240 --> 00:00:46.719 That's why they call them micro nutrients. You still need them. 16 00:00:46.840 --> 00:00:50.600 They're essential. And I talked about last week the concept 17 00:00:51.439 --> 00:00:53.600 for those of you horticulture nerds that you want to 18 00:00:53.600 --> 00:00:55.840 be the cliff Claven of your garden club. Well here's 19 00:00:55.880 --> 00:00:58.840 one for you. There's something called Libig's barrel. A guy 20 00:00:58.920 --> 00:01:02.039 named Li Big years ago came up with an ingenious 21 00:01:02.039 --> 00:01:05.640 way of explaining the importance of nutrients. And he used 22 00:01:05.640 --> 00:01:09.239 a barrel. So imagine a big old whiskey barrel or 23 00:01:09.359 --> 00:01:12.879 wine barrel, okay, and it's got all those staves that 24 00:01:12.959 --> 00:01:15.359 go from the top to the bottom, and they're banded together, 25 00:01:15.439 --> 00:01:17.879 you know, with the metal straps going around it. What 26 00:01:17.959 --> 00:01:20.799 if you could go in and cut off all the 27 00:01:20.879 --> 00:01:23.920 staves at different heights. You had one stave that was 28 00:01:23.959 --> 00:01:26.439 only halfway up the barrel and one that was ninety 29 00:01:26.439 --> 00:01:29.760 percent up the barrel, and all varying things. If you 30 00:01:29.799 --> 00:01:33.760 started to put water in the barrel, when how full 31 00:01:33.840 --> 00:01:37.040 could you fill that barrel? The answer is only as 32 00:01:37.159 --> 00:01:40.200 full as the shortest stave, because then it just runs 33 00:01:40.200 --> 00:01:44.560 out there. That's Lebig's barrel, that stave. Each stave is 34 00:01:44.599 --> 00:01:49.760 a mineral. One's nitrogen, one's phosphorus, one's potassium, one's manganese, 35 00:01:49.799 --> 00:01:53.040 one's iron, one's zinc, when's silicon. I mean, they're all 36 00:01:53.120 --> 00:01:58.120 kinds of minerals, right, So whatever is most lacking, that's 37 00:01:58.200 --> 00:02:01.319 the extent of plants excess that you're going to get 38 00:02:01.480 --> 00:02:05.840 plant productivity, plant growth, plant health. So with azamite, we're 39 00:02:05.840 --> 00:02:09.080 putting it down for micro nutrients we're putting it down 40 00:02:09.159 --> 00:02:15.120 for the tiny, tiny amounts that are essential to plant growth. 41 00:02:15.680 --> 00:02:18.479 So if you have every nutrient that plant could ever want, 42 00:02:19.080 --> 00:02:23.759 but only about half of something like an iron or 43 00:02:23.800 --> 00:02:27.240 boron let's say boron for example, that it needs, then 44 00:02:27.879 --> 00:02:30.520 that's as good as that plant can do. That's why 45 00:02:30.919 --> 00:02:33.039 when we do as MTE, it's not something you put 46 00:02:33.039 --> 00:02:35.039 on and it makes the plant take off growing like 47 00:02:35.120 --> 00:02:37.599 nitrogen does. It's something you put on and it's in 48 00:02:37.639 --> 00:02:41.159 the bank account. And now as the plant needs that 49 00:02:41.240 --> 00:02:44.360 tiny little nutrient that's not needed much, but it's essential, 50 00:02:44.879 --> 00:02:48.560 it's there in your soil, azamite builds the soil bank account. 51 00:02:48.719 --> 00:02:52.759 It's as simple as that. All right, Well, I hope 52 00:02:52.800 --> 00:02:54.879 that helps. I hope that helps make it a little 53 00:02:54.879 --> 00:03:01.000 bit easier to understand, because a lot of times people 54 00:03:01.000 --> 00:03:03.960 get confused on these minerals and things. Just because something's 55 00:03:04.000 --> 00:03:06.319 needed in small amounts does not mean it is not 56 00:03:06.680 --> 00:03:09.680 absolutely essential, because we got it depends on how you 57 00:03:09.680 --> 00:03:12.319 want account. They used to say sixteen nutrients that are essential. 58 00:03:12.360 --> 00:03:14.919 Now it's up to in the twenty twenty one, depending 59 00:03:14.960 --> 00:03:17.120 on the plant and the stage of plant growth and stuff. 60 00:03:17.680 --> 00:03:21.159 But the bottom line is they need those. They need those, 61 00:03:21.400 --> 00:03:23.719 and we need those, especially if it's a garden and 62 00:03:23.759 --> 00:03:25.599 you're growing it to eat. All right, I'm going to 63 00:03:25.639 --> 00:03:27.520 take a little break and we will be right back 64 00:03:27.560 --> 00:03:31.080 with your question. Seven one three two one two ktrh 65 00:03:31.840 --> 00:03:35.840 May welcome back to guard Line. We're ready to we're 66 00:03:35.919 --> 00:03:39.360 ready to get going here, speaking of you, Speaking of which, 67 00:03:39.599 --> 00:03:42.240 we're going to head straight out to Richmond, Texas and 68 00:03:42.319 --> 00:03:46.000 talk to Julie this morning. Good morning, Julie, welcome to 69 00:03:46.000 --> 00:03:46.599 guard Line. 70 00:03:48.560 --> 00:03:49.719 Good morning. How are you. 71 00:03:51.439 --> 00:03:54.199 I'm doing well, doing well. What's up in Richmond? 72 00:03:56.639 --> 00:04:02.319 Well, it's February, the month two start turning back to 73 00:04:02.439 --> 00:04:03.039 crane myrtle. 74 00:04:05.000 --> 00:04:07.919 Yeah, dormance season in general is the month, and so 75 00:04:08.479 --> 00:04:11.439 January and February are both good months you kind of 76 00:04:11.479 --> 00:04:13.159 like to get. I like to get my printing done 77 00:04:13.240 --> 00:04:20.319 before the new growth starts to push out. So don't 78 00:04:20.360 --> 00:04:23.560 delay past that. If you do it, the plan live. 79 00:04:23.680 --> 00:04:27.120 But it's better to prove before the new growth begins. 80 00:04:27.920 --> 00:04:31.759 And I just get the small branches, you know, like 81 00:04:33.240 --> 00:04:36.360 the ones that are fake and then the ones that intertwine. 82 00:04:36.399 --> 00:04:41.040 I don't do anything with the top, right, So how 83 00:04:41.439 --> 00:04:44.160 how big is this plant? How long? Has it been 84 00:04:44.199 --> 00:04:46.720 in the ground roughly any idea. 85 00:04:48.399 --> 00:04:51.879 At the thirty gallon when it got put in, and 86 00:04:51.920 --> 00:04:54.480 it's been in the ground eight years. 87 00:04:55.319 --> 00:04:58.920 Okay, so you got a good sized plant. So with crapes, 88 00:04:58.920 --> 00:05:03.399 we want to develop a nice, beautiful branch structure, you know, 89 00:05:03.879 --> 00:05:07.319 So a trunk comes up and it forks into two branches, 90 00:05:07.360 --> 00:05:09.800 and then each of those forks into two branches, and 91 00:05:10.120 --> 00:05:12.680 you know, you just create this beautiful structure. And you'd 92 00:05:12.720 --> 00:05:15.639 like to avoid using a saw. So it's better to 93 00:05:15.680 --> 00:05:18.720 make a decision when branches are very small, so that 94 00:05:18.759 --> 00:05:21.879 you're not having to make this big, stubbed off cut 95 00:05:22.000 --> 00:05:28.040 on the plant that mars its beauty. And so typically 96 00:05:28.079 --> 00:05:30.319 we say on a krpe myrtle, you shouldn't have to 97 00:05:30.319 --> 00:05:34.519 prune anything bigger than a pencil. But I realize in 98 00:05:34.560 --> 00:05:37.439 reality sometimes you have a branch that's bigger than that 99 00:05:37.639 --> 00:05:39.839 and you just go, okay, I didn't see this last year, 100 00:05:39.879 --> 00:05:41.480 but I need to take it off now, go ahead 101 00:05:41.480 --> 00:05:45.000 and do it. But just try to avoid having to 102 00:05:45.079 --> 00:05:47.519 prune too much on them, because they have their own 103 00:05:47.560 --> 00:05:50.680 beautiful structure and we can guide that as they grow. 104 00:05:51.160 --> 00:05:53.480 But it kind of comes down to the esthetics that 105 00:05:53.600 --> 00:05:55.560 you like, what do you want it to look like? 106 00:05:56.519 --> 00:05:59.160 And so yeah, that's it. Just when you cut it off, 107 00:05:59.199 --> 00:06:03.240 don't leave us stuff. Cut it off close to where 108 00:06:03.240 --> 00:06:06.240 it joins the branch that it's attached to or the 109 00:06:06.240 --> 00:06:10.000 trunk that it's attached to. You if you note, I 110 00:06:10.040 --> 00:06:11.920 don't want to make this too complicated, but if you 111 00:06:11.959 --> 00:06:13.920 follow it. Let's say you have a branch that you go, 112 00:06:13.959 --> 00:06:16.160 I got to take that off, and you follow it 113 00:06:16.199 --> 00:06:19.439 down to where it joins the trunk or another branch. 114 00:06:19.800 --> 00:06:21.879 Right as it gets to right to where it joins, 115 00:06:21.959 --> 00:06:25.079 it flares out, it gets bigger. Okay, you want to 116 00:06:25.079 --> 00:06:27.240 cut it off right there where it starts to flare 117 00:06:27.279 --> 00:06:29.759 out a little bit, so that way you don't have 118 00:06:29.920 --> 00:06:33.040 a stub. But you also don't cut it. We say 119 00:06:33.120 --> 00:06:35.720 flush cut, meaning right up against the trunk. And that 120 00:06:35.759 --> 00:06:39.279 makes a much bigger wound, because as it gets bigger, 121 00:06:39.279 --> 00:06:41.639 the wound gets bigger. So just come all the way 122 00:06:41.680 --> 00:06:43.680 down to where it attaches and right where it starts 123 00:06:43.680 --> 00:06:45.360 to flare out, make your cut right there. 124 00:06:47.319 --> 00:06:50.199 But the top that I have all the old flowers, 125 00:06:50.279 --> 00:06:51.480 just leave all that along. 126 00:06:53.319 --> 00:06:55.240 If you want to get up and prune out all 127 00:06:55.279 --> 00:06:58.160 the twiggy stuff, you know, pencil size and smaller. You 128 00:06:58.160 --> 00:07:01.160 can do. That's it. It takes a while to do 129 00:07:01.199 --> 00:07:03.839 all that, but yeah, there's no problem taking all that off. 130 00:07:04.639 --> 00:07:06.560 But as the new growth begins that I just kind 131 00:07:06.560 --> 00:07:07.279 of fall a lot of that. 132 00:07:08.959 --> 00:07:09.639 They're just going to. 133 00:07:09.680 --> 00:07:10.600 Fall off on its own. 134 00:07:10.680 --> 00:07:12.839 Anyway. I can leave all that whole stuff. 135 00:07:14.279 --> 00:07:17.000 The little twiggy stuff does it kind of dies and 136 00:07:17.079 --> 00:07:18.560 just sort of breaks out of there. 137 00:07:20.439 --> 00:07:29.199 So yeah, because I see these people just take the 138 00:07:29.240 --> 00:07:33.279 whole tops off like burling or whatever they call it. 139 00:07:33.360 --> 00:07:33.879 Don't do that. 140 00:07:34.600 --> 00:07:38.439 Great murder. Yeah, great murder. Now, shouldn't do that. That 141 00:07:38.480 --> 00:07:41.959 practice got started. I think that the thing that started 142 00:07:41.959 --> 00:07:44.639 it because there is no horticultural reason to do that, 143 00:07:45.319 --> 00:07:47.879 no horticultural reason to do that. I think it got 144 00:07:47.879 --> 00:07:50.680 started because you know, mowing crews in the wintertime don't 145 00:07:50.720 --> 00:07:52.879 have a lot to mow, and so they would just 146 00:07:53.120 --> 00:07:55.600 send them out and say here, here's loppers, reach up 147 00:07:55.600 --> 00:07:57.279 as bout as high as you can above your head 148 00:07:57.319 --> 00:08:00.439 and cut everything off there. It makes it fast easy, 149 00:08:00.480 --> 00:08:03.240 nobody has to be a pruning expert, and the krepe 150 00:08:03.240 --> 00:08:06.600 myrtle sprouts back out again, lots of shoots and stuff 151 00:08:07.040 --> 00:08:11.360 but all that new growth now is attached weekly you 152 00:08:11.360 --> 00:08:15.279 can get it's a weak attachment and branches can break 153 00:08:15.279 --> 00:08:17.720 off and it just it's unsightly. It takes the beautiful 154 00:08:17.720 --> 00:08:22.040 smooth form of crepe myrtle structure and it just destroys it. 155 00:08:22.240 --> 00:08:24.199 And so there's no reason to do that. 156 00:08:25.759 --> 00:08:27.519 Okay, So thank you very much. 157 00:08:27.680 --> 00:08:30.639 You have a great day, all right, Julie, you bet, 158 00:08:30.639 --> 00:08:33.799 thanks for the call. Appreciate that you take care for sure, 159 00:08:34.600 --> 00:08:37.720 we're gonna. I wanted to mention if you're at in Kingwood, 160 00:08:37.720 --> 00:08:39.679 you've got two great garden centers. And you've heard me 161 00:08:39.720 --> 00:08:42.639 talk about these, but Warren Southern Gardens on North Park 162 00:08:42.720 --> 00:08:45.720 Drive Kingwood Garden Centers on Stone Hollow Drive. Now, both 163 00:08:45.759 --> 00:08:48.240 of these are open seven days a week, so you 164 00:08:48.320 --> 00:08:52.240 are if you're in the Kingwood area, and even Humble 165 00:08:52.320 --> 00:08:54.639 a Taska seat of Porter Valley Ranch, New Cany, that 166 00:08:54.679 --> 00:08:58.159 whole area up there. You're just really fortunate to have 167 00:08:58.200 --> 00:09:01.279 two great garden centers right there. Kingwa just redid their 168 00:09:02.559 --> 00:09:05.519 gift shop and oh it's just gorgeous inside. It's always 169 00:09:05.519 --> 00:09:07.919 been gorgeous inside, but they had a total revamp of 170 00:09:08.000 --> 00:09:12.519 content and everything over the past months. And looks good. Now, 171 00:09:12.679 --> 00:09:15.320 if you're looking for any of the products that I'm 172 00:09:15.360 --> 00:09:20.399 talking about garden line like Microfoss, nitrof Microlife, Nitrofoss, turf Star, 173 00:09:20.559 --> 00:09:25.519 airloom soils, Nelson plant foods, bone Eyed pest control, mosquito 174 00:09:25.600 --> 00:09:28.159 dunks we talk about those, Well, they've got that. They 175 00:09:28.159 --> 00:09:32.039 even have the little filling stations for Microlife and Nelson 176 00:09:32.120 --> 00:09:34.639 plant food jugs. So if you buy the Microlife or 177 00:09:34.679 --> 00:09:38.559 the Nelson and those clear screw top jars plastic jars, 178 00:09:38.879 --> 00:09:40.919 you can go in there and refill them and save 179 00:09:40.960 --> 00:09:43.519 some money on it. Plus you don't throw more plastic 180 00:09:43.600 --> 00:09:46.279 out into the waste stream, so it really makes sense, 181 00:09:46.399 --> 00:09:51.120 a great, great idea. Those refilling stations. Now right now, 182 00:09:51.159 --> 00:09:54.120 they are stocked up on color. They've got citrus, they 183 00:09:54.159 --> 00:09:58.279 got shrubs, they've got seeds, everything you need for spring. 184 00:09:58.840 --> 00:10:01.240 They're ready to go. It's just go get it and 185 00:10:01.279 --> 00:10:03.720 bring it home. This is the season to get going, 186 00:10:04.039 --> 00:10:05.799 and we are ready to go. And boy are they 187 00:10:05.879 --> 00:10:08.279 ever stocked up and ready to go out there at 188 00:10:08.480 --> 00:10:12.000 Kingwoo Garden Center and Warren's Southern Gardens. And also they 189 00:10:12.000 --> 00:10:15.039 do have the full landscaping services for the surrounding area. 190 00:10:15.480 --> 00:10:17.279 So just talk to them about that if you'd like 191 00:10:17.320 --> 00:10:18.879 to get little bit of work done here and there. 192 00:10:19.039 --> 00:10:22.240 I just talk to them and see. They also design 193 00:10:22.399 --> 00:10:27.480 and make potted containers for their customers. So like you 194 00:10:27.600 --> 00:10:29.159 go out and you don't know how to do a 195 00:10:29.200 --> 00:10:31.799 mixed planter, but you want to buy a big old 196 00:10:31.840 --> 00:10:34.039 container from them and buy a bunch of plants from 197 00:10:34.120 --> 00:10:37.120 them and have them design and put it together. They 198 00:10:37.159 --> 00:10:41.159 can do that wonderful service too. Out we're in southern gardens, 199 00:10:41.480 --> 00:10:43.320 all right, We're going to go to the phones now 200 00:10:43.320 --> 00:10:46.440 and head down to the galleria. Talk to Forest. Hey, Forrest, 201 00:10:46.480 --> 00:10:47.320 welcome to guard Line. 202 00:10:48.559 --> 00:10:48.879 Thank you. 203 00:10:48.919 --> 00:10:53.720 Skip had a question about kind of the lazy man's 204 00:10:53.759 --> 00:10:57.039 way to build a raised bed. I was gonna build 205 00:10:57.080 --> 00:10:59.679 a new bed. I'm wondering, can I get away with 206 00:10:59.799 --> 00:11:05.519 not scraping the layer of grass and weeds off the 207 00:11:05.639 --> 00:11:08.919 surface and just put the soil right on top, or 208 00:11:08.960 --> 00:11:12.279 maybe is there a way to put something down before 209 00:11:12.320 --> 00:11:12.759 I put. 210 00:11:12.639 --> 00:11:13.720 The soil on top of it? 211 00:11:15.320 --> 00:11:19.039 All right? So is the grass Saint Augustine or Bermuda 212 00:11:19.159 --> 00:11:22.440 or Zoisier or what do you have for grass? 213 00:11:22.480 --> 00:11:27.039 It's kind of a Saint Augustine weed mix. It's an 214 00:11:27.080 --> 00:11:31.000 area of my lawn that's not real, real developed. 215 00:11:32.039 --> 00:11:34.919 Okay, Saint Augustine. You can just throw dirt on it 216 00:11:34.960 --> 00:11:37.799 and it's dead. It's not going to come through, no problem. 217 00:11:38.240 --> 00:11:41.960 Most weeds, that's true. Now we have a few. Bermuda 218 00:11:42.000 --> 00:11:44.600 grass is notorious. You throw a dirt on it and 219 00:11:44.600 --> 00:11:46.000 it'll come all the way to the top, and now 220 00:11:46.039 --> 00:11:48.600 you've got an infested bed. So if you have any 221 00:11:48.600 --> 00:11:51.039 bermuda as part of your weeds out there in the 222 00:11:51.080 --> 00:11:54.440 Saint Augustine, you got to get rid of that. There 223 00:11:54.519 --> 00:11:57.639 are some other weeds that can come up through, most 224 00:11:57.679 --> 00:12:01.120 of them cannot. So if you wanted, you could lay 225 00:12:01.200 --> 00:12:06.440 some cardboard down in the bottom and then throw the mix, 226 00:12:06.639 --> 00:12:09.159 your bed mix on top of that, and that you 227 00:12:09.200 --> 00:12:12.639 would be fine, except for things like bermuda, and that 228 00:12:12.720 --> 00:12:15.000 you would have to spray it and kill it and 229 00:12:15.440 --> 00:12:17.600 even have a little kind of a no man's land 230 00:12:17.639 --> 00:12:20.080 around the beds because that stuff will crawl in, it'll 231 00:12:20.080 --> 00:12:22.519 go up through the bed and it's it's a mess. 232 00:12:22.639 --> 00:12:26.159 So that's that's kind of the main exception. To just 233 00:12:26.200 --> 00:12:27.759 throw dart on it and you'll be okay. 234 00:12:29.039 --> 00:12:31.200 Okay, I don't think I have any bermuda out there, 235 00:12:31.200 --> 00:12:33.519 so I think I might be safe doing that. I'm 236 00:12:33.559 --> 00:12:36.320 just getting I'm just getting a little old bumed shoulder. 237 00:12:36.360 --> 00:12:38.480 I don't want to do all that work, honestly. 238 00:12:39.440 --> 00:12:41.840 Yeah, oh, I get that. And is your soil do 239 00:12:41.879 --> 00:12:43.720 you know if your soil is kind of a heavy 240 00:12:43.799 --> 00:12:45.679 clay or what kind of soil do you think you 241 00:12:45.679 --> 00:12:46.240 have out there? 242 00:12:49.240 --> 00:12:51.240 I honestly can't answer that question. 243 00:12:51.360 --> 00:12:56.279 It's that's okay, that's right. Here's the thing gallery there 244 00:12:56.320 --> 00:12:59.279 you go. So a lot of areas have kind of 245 00:12:59.320 --> 00:13:02.080 a heavier clay in them, but in a residential neighborhood, 246 00:13:02.120 --> 00:13:04.240 you never know what the builder brought in or what 247 00:13:04.360 --> 00:13:07.440 someone added after the builder, or you know. So go 248 00:13:07.480 --> 00:13:09.480 out and if it is kind of a heavy you 249 00:13:09.600 --> 00:13:11.519 kind of take a little If you have a spading fork, 250 00:13:11.720 --> 00:13:13.720 just step on it, push it in the ground and 251 00:13:13.759 --> 00:13:15.200 just kind of lean back on it. You don't have 252 00:13:15.200 --> 00:13:17.200 to bend over and stoop and turn it over anything. 253 00:13:17.240 --> 00:13:19.240 Just crack it open, kind of look at what you got. 254 00:13:19.320 --> 00:13:21.519 And if it's a clay, what I would do is 255 00:13:21.559 --> 00:13:24.200 I would put about three inches of your bed mix 256 00:13:24.320 --> 00:13:27.399 down and then I would use that spading fork and 257 00:13:27.759 --> 00:13:29.639 wiggle it down into the soil, you know if you 258 00:13:29.720 --> 00:13:32.080 step on it and then just lean back and just 259 00:13:32.120 --> 00:13:35.200 sort of crack it open. No stooping, no bending, no lifting, 260 00:13:35.679 --> 00:13:38.080 just break it open. And that bedding mix is going 261 00:13:38.159 --> 00:13:41.919 to kind of fall in between those those clay chunks 262 00:13:41.960 --> 00:13:45.320 that you kind of have broken open, and that's creating 263 00:13:45.360 --> 00:13:48.240 a transition zone between the nice bed mix and the 264 00:13:48.279 --> 00:13:52.360 heavy clay below, and water moves down through that better. Okay, 265 00:13:53.000 --> 00:13:55.639 then finish fill in the bed or finish filling the 266 00:13:55.679 --> 00:13:59.399 area with the bed mix. So when you say raise beds, 267 00:13:59.399 --> 00:14:02.200 are you talking about something with metal sides or rock 268 00:14:02.600 --> 00:14:05.679 or just a mound of soil? What do you have 269 00:14:05.720 --> 00:14:06.360 in mind there? 270 00:14:07.480 --> 00:14:11.840 Well, I bought those those concrete blocks that you slide 271 00:14:11.879 --> 00:14:16.879 the two to six boards, some boards and. 272 00:14:17.200 --> 00:14:20.639 Good okay, So so with that, what I would do 273 00:14:20.679 --> 00:14:22.360 if it were me for us and I got to 274 00:14:22.440 --> 00:14:24.720 run here for a break, But what I would do 275 00:14:24.919 --> 00:14:27.240 is I would throw the bed decide where you want 276 00:14:27.240 --> 00:14:29.720 the bed, and throw the bed mixed down on it, 277 00:14:30.000 --> 00:14:32.039 break it open, like I said to kind of not 278 00:14:32.200 --> 00:14:34.159 mix it, but just sort of crack it open and 279 00:14:34.200 --> 00:14:37.279 get get a blend there, and then put your blocks 280 00:14:37.320 --> 00:14:40.039 and boards down to form the bed and then finish 281 00:14:40.080 --> 00:14:42.440 filling it. That's how I would go about it with 282 00:14:42.519 --> 00:14:46.919 the least effort. Okay, so most stooping, no bending, no, 283 00:14:48.320 --> 00:14:50.840 all right, thank you. I appreciate your call very much. 284 00:14:51.919 --> 00:14:54.519 If speaking of clay soils, our clay soils move, they 285 00:14:54.519 --> 00:14:57.240 get wet, they swell, they get dry, they shrink, and 286 00:14:57.360 --> 00:15:01.360 that is why you see the heaving of sidewalks, the 287 00:15:01.440 --> 00:15:06.879 cracking of un heaving of driveways, as well as damage 288 00:15:06.919 --> 00:15:08.840 to foundation in your home. Now that's where it starts 289 00:15:08.840 --> 00:15:11.320 to get serious. You start messing with your house foundation, 290 00:15:12.200 --> 00:15:17.440 fix my slab foundation, repair, own and run since the 291 00:15:17.440 --> 00:15:21.679 beginning by a fellow named Ty Strickland. And Ty knows 292 00:15:21.720 --> 00:15:24.279 what he's doing. Listen, he's been here, he's been doing 293 00:15:24.320 --> 00:15:26.759 this for twenty three years. He's a fifth generation Texan 294 00:15:26.840 --> 00:15:29.679 Navy Estonian. He knows our soils, he knows this area, 295 00:15:30.639 --> 00:15:33.080 and he knows how to fix things. He knows how 296 00:15:33.080 --> 00:15:35.720 to assess them too. You see a crack in your brick, 297 00:15:35.799 --> 00:15:37.879 you see a crack in your sheet rock inside the 298 00:15:37.919 --> 00:15:40.840 door starts to stick, that used to not stick. That 299 00:15:40.960 --> 00:15:43.919 means something's moving, and you got to have somebody look 300 00:15:43.960 --> 00:15:45.840 at it. Don't be an ostrich stick your head in 301 00:15:45.840 --> 00:15:47.919 the sand. Have him look at it. It may be 302 00:15:48.080 --> 00:15:51.600 that it's a slight amount of movement. Nothing, you don't 303 00:15:51.639 --> 00:15:54.600 need major foundation work or it. Maybe here's a situation. 304 00:15:54.639 --> 00:15:56.519 He'll be honest with you. Listen. This is why I 305 00:15:56.639 --> 00:15:59.360 like to talk about ty and fix my slab. He 306 00:15:59.399 --> 00:16:02.440 shows up on time, he fixes it right, and he 307 00:16:02.559 --> 00:16:04.799 charges you a fair price. You're not going to do 308 00:16:04.919 --> 00:16:09.519 better than that. Fixmslab dot com. Fix myslab dot com 309 00:16:09.879 --> 00:16:13.240 two eight one two five five forty nine, forty nine. 310 00:16:13.279 --> 00:16:16.360 Don't put it off, find out today. All right, I'm 311 00:16:16.360 --> 00:16:18.120 gonna take a little break and I'll be right back 312 00:16:18.120 --> 00:16:25.039 with your call. Seven one three two one two ktr h. Alrighty, 313 00:16:25.440 --> 00:16:31.559 we are back. Welcome back to garden Line. We are 314 00:16:31.559 --> 00:16:34.240 here to answer your gardening questions. We want you to 315 00:16:34.360 --> 00:16:36.240 have success. That's the bottom line. The way I like 316 00:16:36.320 --> 00:16:39.519 to put it is, we want you to have a 317 00:16:39.519 --> 00:16:43.320 more bountiful garden, a more beautiful landscape, and more fun 318 00:16:43.360 --> 00:16:46.039 in the process. All right, does that sound Does that 319 00:16:46.120 --> 00:16:48.799 sound good? Gardening is supposed to be fun, supposed to 320 00:16:48.799 --> 00:16:53.240 be something that we thoroughly, thoroughly enjoy and you can. 321 00:16:53.480 --> 00:16:56.600 All you gotta do is give plants what they want. 322 00:16:56.759 --> 00:16:59.519 Give them what they want, and they're gonna do super 323 00:16:59.679 --> 00:17:02.159 super or well, well, I wanted to I want to 324 00:17:02.200 --> 00:17:06.400 mention something. I alluded to this earlier. But we're going 325 00:17:06.480 --> 00:17:09.680 we are in a warm spell right now. We've been 326 00:17:09.720 --> 00:17:13.240 having some eighty degree temperatures spell through a lot of 327 00:17:13.240 --> 00:17:17.119 the listening area. And when plants are in a dormant state, 328 00:17:18.079 --> 00:17:21.759 they are chemically inhibited from growing, meaning there are actual 329 00:17:21.839 --> 00:17:24.759 chemicals in the plant that prevent that bud from pushing 330 00:17:24.759 --> 00:17:27.279 out and growing. That's why we have, for example, on 331 00:17:27.359 --> 00:17:29.720 peaches and other certain other kinds of fruit, we have 332 00:17:29.839 --> 00:17:34.079 chilling hours. Those chilling hours break down the inhibiting chemicals. 333 00:17:34.480 --> 00:17:36.680 So when we do have a few warm days, the 334 00:17:36.680 --> 00:17:39.240 plant takes off, It blooms, it sends out shoots, it 335 00:17:39.240 --> 00:17:42.559 starts growing. But if we're in the middle of wintertime 336 00:17:43.000 --> 00:17:47.039 and these plants are starting to get these eighty degree days, 337 00:17:47.359 --> 00:17:50.200 they're going to say, you know what, it's spring, let's 338 00:17:50.200 --> 00:17:52.720 get going, and they start to come out of dormancy. 339 00:17:52.960 --> 00:17:54.680 And then if we end up with a good hard 340 00:17:54.759 --> 00:17:57.799 cold freeze coming up, they're in big trouble, and that's 341 00:17:57.839 --> 00:18:00.720 what happened to crate myrtles a few years ago. In December, 342 00:18:01.039 --> 00:18:03.559 they were still in there, they had not fully hardened off. 343 00:18:03.599 --> 00:18:06.279 They were in their somewhat active growing state, and we 344 00:18:06.359 --> 00:18:08.480 had a December freeze. It went on in the teens 345 00:18:08.519 --> 00:18:09.920 and I mean it killed crapes all the way to 346 00:18:09.960 --> 00:18:12.400 the ground in some places. I opened College station, they 347 00:18:12.400 --> 00:18:14.799 had a severe amount of damage to that. As you 348 00:18:14.880 --> 00:18:16.720 came farther south, it wasn't quite as bad because it 349 00:18:16.759 --> 00:18:19.880 wasn't quite as cold. But I'm concerned about these eight 350 00:18:19.880 --> 00:18:20.720 degree temperatures. 351 00:18:20.759 --> 00:18:20.920 Now. 352 00:18:20.920 --> 00:18:23.039 If we don't have another good hard freeze, we're okay, 353 00:18:23.559 --> 00:18:27.519 but just be aware that a plant's heartiness is only 354 00:18:27.559 --> 00:18:31.960 based on how well hardened off it is, so all 355 00:18:32.000 --> 00:18:34.599 this week of eighties, and then if we're going to 356 00:18:34.680 --> 00:18:36.160 go in the future, let's say we're going to have 357 00:18:36.200 --> 00:18:39.559 a low twenties that hits later. Hopefully we won't, but 358 00:18:39.799 --> 00:18:42.480 if we did, you'd need to be extra careful to 359 00:18:42.480 --> 00:18:45.799 make sure and get that point covered because it's going 360 00:18:45.880 --> 00:18:48.640 to be more sensitive than that species otherwise would I mean, 361 00:18:48.640 --> 00:18:50.720 think about crape myrtles, they're very cold, hardy. I mean 362 00:18:50.720 --> 00:18:54.240 you grow them throughout Texas and they're fine here. They 363 00:18:54.240 --> 00:18:57.759 can take our cold, but not when they're not ready. 364 00:18:58.160 --> 00:19:02.720 And these eighty degree temperatures are starting to cause plants 365 00:19:02.720 --> 00:19:06.440 to wake up and get thinking it's springtime. So let's 366 00:19:06.519 --> 00:19:08.759 just keep an extra eye out for that. Don't want 367 00:19:08.759 --> 00:19:10.400 to be alarmist. And I hope we don't have that 368 00:19:10.480 --> 00:19:13.319 kind of cold still, but we will find out. But 369 00:19:13.559 --> 00:19:17.359 now you know, at least have been forewarned. Our phone 370 00:19:17.440 --> 00:19:20.480 number seven one three two one two k t r H. 371 00:19:20.519 --> 00:19:23.839 Seven one three two one two k t r H. 372 00:19:24.160 --> 00:19:26.319 Give me a call. We'll talk about the things that 373 00:19:26.400 --> 00:19:29.279 you are interested in so that you can have success 374 00:19:29.640 --> 00:19:31.440 with your gardening and your plants. 375 00:19:31.880 --> 00:19:32.000 Uh. 376 00:19:32.160 --> 00:19:35.680 The folks at green Pro, they they're experts in providing 377 00:19:35.839 --> 00:19:39.799 top quality compost top dressing and fertilizing make your lawn 378 00:19:40.240 --> 00:19:43.200 really look good to keep it at its healthiest. They 379 00:19:43.240 --> 00:19:46.400 also do core aeration, which is a perfect companion for 380 00:19:46.720 --> 00:19:49.359 compost top dressing. And here's why. When you I was 381 00:19:49.359 --> 00:19:51.799 talking earlier about our clay soils and you know they 382 00:19:51.839 --> 00:19:55.640 don't drain well and whatnot. Well, when you go down 383 00:19:55.680 --> 00:19:58.519 in the soil with a core errator, that's not a 384 00:19:58.880 --> 00:20:01.440 that's not like a little little finger that pushes a 385 00:20:01.519 --> 00:20:04.680 hole into the soil. This is a hollow time, a 386 00:20:04.759 --> 00:20:07.279 hollow core. It pushes down in the soil and it 387 00:20:07.359 --> 00:20:09.680 pops a plug of soil out and drops it on 388 00:20:09.720 --> 00:20:12.559 the surface. After you've done corroration, looks like you had 389 00:20:12.559 --> 00:20:16.559 a little miniature dog convention on your yard, if you 390 00:20:16.559 --> 00:20:19.720 know what I'm talking about. It's just it does that 391 00:20:19.799 --> 00:20:22.079 and it gets oxygen done in the root system. Then 392 00:20:22.119 --> 00:20:24.839 with the compost top dressing, that compost will wash it 393 00:20:24.960 --> 00:20:28.279 or fall down into those holes. And so now what 394 00:20:28.359 --> 00:20:31.119 you're doing, it's like you're putting organic matter down deeper 395 00:20:31.119 --> 00:20:33.599 in the soil. You're getting oxygen deeper in the soil, 396 00:20:33.680 --> 00:20:36.720 you're improving the rate that the soil can take up 397 00:20:36.799 --> 00:20:42.799 water when it rains, and you're also adding the organic 398 00:20:42.839 --> 00:20:46.039 matter that stimulates biological activity. It's good for your lawn. 399 00:20:46.039 --> 00:20:47.880 It's one of the single best things you can do 400 00:20:47.920 --> 00:20:51.359 for a lawn is to do a correation and a 401 00:20:51.440 --> 00:20:55.680 compost top dressing, especially when that soil is compacted. It's 402 00:20:55.680 --> 00:20:58.440 almost essential when your soil is compacted to do this. 403 00:20:59.359 --> 00:21:01.400 If you're going to have a good success with your lawn. 404 00:21:01.559 --> 00:21:04.640 Now it feeds that biology, it alleviates compaction, it does 405 00:21:04.680 --> 00:21:07.039 all these things I'm doing. If your lawn is recovering 406 00:21:07.119 --> 00:21:09.960 from chinchbugs and brown patch and take off patch, or 407 00:21:10.400 --> 00:21:13.799 just drought that we maybe went through in last summer, 408 00:21:14.640 --> 00:21:18.039 hot hot conditions, this is one of the stimulating things 409 00:21:18.039 --> 00:21:21.079 that you can do. Also, if you have created a 410 00:21:21.119 --> 00:21:24.559 thatch layer by overfertilizing and overwatering, and you got all 411 00:21:24.559 --> 00:21:26.720 these runners that are crawling on top of each other, 412 00:21:26.759 --> 00:21:29.039 and you walk across the lawn and it's like spongy, 413 00:21:29.079 --> 00:21:33.359 spongy because of all those runners. Well, when you do cororation, 414 00:21:33.599 --> 00:21:35.400 you put that soil up on top of the ground 415 00:21:35.720 --> 00:21:38.119 and it kind of falls in among those runners which 416 00:21:38.119 --> 00:21:40.880 are slow to decompose, and it helps them speed up 417 00:21:40.920 --> 00:21:45.640 the decomposition. So correoration with compost top dressing also breaks 418 00:21:45.640 --> 00:21:48.839 down the thatch layer in a lawn. Just a lot 419 00:21:48.880 --> 00:21:51.119 of benefits to it. Now, Green Pro serves an area 420 00:21:51.119 --> 00:21:53.960 about forty five miles from Magnolia, So we're talking about 421 00:21:53.960 --> 00:21:58.160 spring and cyprust the woodlands. Conroe willis over northwest Magnoia, 422 00:21:58.200 --> 00:22:02.480 Montgomery down to Katie kind of West Houston, And basically 423 00:22:02.519 --> 00:22:04.839 I like to put it this way, the the I 424 00:22:05.000 --> 00:22:08.519 forty five I ten quadrant that that's basically the Green 425 00:22:08.559 --> 00:22:13.799 Pro area about forty five miles from Magnolia north southeast west. 426 00:22:13.960 --> 00:22:18.319 So greenpro Texas dot com, greenpro Texas dot com. That's 427 00:22:18.359 --> 00:22:22.640 the website, the phone number eight three to two three 428 00:22:22.720 --> 00:22:25.960 five to one zero zero three two eight three two 429 00:22:26.039 --> 00:22:29.440 three five one zero zero three true greenpro Texas dot 430 00:22:29.480 --> 00:22:34.119 com for compost, top dressing and core aeration up in 431 00:22:34.200 --> 00:22:38.839 the northwest quadrant at the Greater Houston area. These companies 432 00:22:38.880 --> 00:22:41.839 that do these kind of services, and we picked the 433 00:22:41.880 --> 00:22:43.640 ones out that we think are going to do the 434 00:22:44.240 --> 00:22:48.319 quality job, use the right quality ingredients that they're gonna 435 00:22:48.559 --> 00:22:50.359 they're going to do the job right. They know what 436 00:22:50.400 --> 00:22:54.559 they're doing. They're you know, they're carrying some very specialized equipment. 437 00:22:55.160 --> 00:22:57.759 You can't rent the stuff, you know, you can't rent 438 00:22:57.799 --> 00:23:00.000 the kind of equipment they have. You can rent equipment, 439 00:23:00.160 --> 00:23:02.839 but it's not going to do the quality of corrooration 440 00:23:02.960 --> 00:23:05.519 that they have. And then these bulky composts and say 441 00:23:05.519 --> 00:23:08.000 they can't drive all over creation. It's just not its 442 00:23:08.039 --> 00:23:11.240 cost prohibitive to try to serve a too big of 443 00:23:11.240 --> 00:23:14.799 a geographical area That's why I'll talk about different ones 444 00:23:14.839 --> 00:23:17.519 for different parts of the city. Greenpro up in the 445 00:23:17.559 --> 00:23:20.599 northwest quadrant. That is a that is a no brainer. 446 00:23:20.799 --> 00:23:24.200 Right there, you are listening to garden Line the phone 447 00:23:24.240 --> 00:23:27.200 number seven one three two one two k t r H. 448 00:23:27.279 --> 00:23:31.240 Seven one three two one two k t r H. 449 00:23:31.559 --> 00:23:34.599 I wanted to talk about it in Chenne Gardens just 450 00:23:34.640 --> 00:23:36.440 a little bit by the way. Today it in Chenni 451 00:23:36.519 --> 00:23:42.039 Gardens down in Richmond, just north of Richmond, toward Katie Side. Uh. 452 00:23:42.079 --> 00:23:47.480 Gay Hammond Rose expert extraordinary. Gay is a great lady 453 00:23:47.680 --> 00:23:50.960 and boyd, she knows more about rosesn't about anybody I know. 454 00:23:51.440 --> 00:23:53.119 But she's going to be there at ten am talking 455 00:23:53.160 --> 00:23:56.079 about month by month Rose care for Gay Hammond. Now, 456 00:23:56.200 --> 00:23:58.759 guess what's going to happen next Saturday at in Jenni Gardens. 457 00:23:58.920 --> 00:24:02.079 I'll be there talking about tips for making gardening less work. 458 00:24:02.119 --> 00:24:04.039 The way I like to put it is, I'm gonna 459 00:24:04.039 --> 00:24:05.799 be talking about how to get more for your garden 460 00:24:06.160 --> 00:24:09.799 from your garden with less sweat and less ibuprofen. My 461 00:24:09.880 --> 00:24:11.920 dog is gonna be from twelve to one point thirty. 462 00:24:12.000 --> 00:24:13.960 But I don't want to confuse you here, But today 463 00:24:14.000 --> 00:24:16.440 Gay's gonna be there at ten am. So the minute 464 00:24:16.480 --> 00:24:19.319 I quit talking on garden Line, Gay starts talking at 465 00:24:19.440 --> 00:24:22.039 Enchanted Gardens. You need to get out there. When you 466 00:24:22.079 --> 00:24:24.200 get there, you're gonna find the products I talk about 467 00:24:24.200 --> 00:24:26.079 on garden Line. And let me just say you that, 468 00:24:26.319 --> 00:24:29.200 Just go look. It is an expanse of every kind 469 00:24:29.200 --> 00:24:32.119 of plant you can imagine with expert advice. What more 470 00:24:32.200 --> 00:24:34.519 can you ask for? All right, time for me to 471 00:24:34.559 --> 00:24:38.359 take a little break here and say hi to Gay 472 00:24:38.359 --> 00:24:41.319 when you're out there by the way at Enchanted Gardens 473 00:24:41.359 --> 00:24:45.559 today and again they're on the Richmond Rosenberg side of 474 00:24:45.680 --> 00:24:49.480 Katie if you want, if you want the specifics FM 475 00:24:49.519 --> 00:24:53.119 three point fifty nine, I'll be right back. All right, 476 00:24:54.799 --> 00:24:57.039 we're gonna be walking on sunshine a little bit here, 477 00:24:57.920 --> 00:24:59.759 so dark outside by the way, look out the wendaw. 478 00:24:59.759 --> 00:25:02.079 If you're neighbors, lights aren't on, go bang on the door, 479 00:25:02.519 --> 00:25:04.599 Bang on the door. Tell them they're missing garden Line, 480 00:25:04.640 --> 00:25:06.680 and they'll they'll be so happy. They'll rise up and 481 00:25:06.720 --> 00:25:09.480 call you blessed, thank you for that. They may call 482 00:25:09.519 --> 00:25:12.279 you something else this morning, but eventually they will appreciate 483 00:25:12.480 --> 00:25:15.839 the favor that you did for them. Oh my what 484 00:25:15.960 --> 00:25:19.640 have I started? Pierce Scapes. I talk about peer scapes 485 00:25:19.680 --> 00:25:22.359 all the time because I am so impressed with the 486 00:25:22.400 --> 00:25:25.279 work they do and you will be too. 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If you have 498 00:26:04.400 --> 00:26:06.279 an area that doesn't drain well, you want it to 499 00:26:06.359 --> 00:26:08.400 drain well, See can plant more there so there's not 500 00:26:08.559 --> 00:26:10.680 standing water so it's not a mess when the dogs 501 00:26:10.759 --> 00:26:13.519 run through the area. Well, they can fix that too. 502 00:26:14.200 --> 00:26:18.880 They've got highly qualified and trained and certified employees that 503 00:26:18.960 --> 00:26:21.759 know what they're doing. From the designers that create this 504 00:26:21.960 --> 00:26:25.119 magic down to the folks that install it. All the 505 00:26:25.119 --> 00:26:28.960 way through piercescapes dot com two eight one three seven 506 00:26:29.000 --> 00:26:32.960 oh fifty sixty two eight one three seven oh fifty sixty. 507 00:26:33.000 --> 00:26:36.440 There are preferred garden Line landscaper and have been for 508 00:26:36.480 --> 00:26:39.920 a good while now and for a good reason. You're 509 00:26:39.920 --> 00:26:42.359 listening to guard Line. If you'd like to call and 510 00:26:42.440 --> 00:26:45.200 ask a gardening question, we would love to visit with 511 00:26:45.240 --> 00:26:48.920 you about that. Seven one three two one two fifty 512 00:26:48.960 --> 00:26:52.240 eight seventy four seven one three two one two five 513 00:26:52.279 --> 00:26:54.680 eight seven four. That's how you reach me here. I 514 00:26:54.720 --> 00:26:58.359 had a couple of early calls, folks are I always 515 00:26:58.359 --> 00:27:00.599 know the early birds. They know what are doing, and 516 00:27:00.640 --> 00:27:03.319 it's because they know you call it early and they 517 00:27:03.319 --> 00:27:05.640 are not so many callers and it's easy to get 518 00:27:05.720 --> 00:27:09.319 right through, so that is why they do that. Smart 519 00:27:09.359 --> 00:27:13.680 Smart Microlife products have been around the Houston area for 520 00:27:13.680 --> 00:27:18.039 a long time now, over thirty five years. And there's 521 00:27:18.079 --> 00:27:21.039 a reason that they're around for every thirty five years, 522 00:27:21.039 --> 00:27:23.240 and it's because they work and because people love them. 523 00:27:23.240 --> 00:27:25.400 They love the results that they see you When you 524 00:27:25.519 --> 00:27:28.960 use microlife, what you are using is a natural product 525 00:27:29.319 --> 00:27:32.319 that is loaded with microbes. They are their products are 526 00:27:32.680 --> 00:27:35.039 and you know the bag may say, you know, like 527 00:27:35.079 --> 00:27:37.359 their lawn fertilizer. We'll be talking about this here as 528 00:27:37.400 --> 00:27:39.839 we get into spring. The six two four green bag 529 00:27:39.839 --> 00:27:43.400 of lawn fertilizer. That's six percent nitrogen, two percent phosphorus, 530 00:27:43.440 --> 00:27:46.279 four percent potassium. But what the label doesn't tell you 531 00:27:46.759 --> 00:27:49.920 is because it's made from organic materials. Organic materials have 532 00:27:50.200 --> 00:27:52.680 all the different ingredients. Remember earlier I was talking about 533 00:27:52.960 --> 00:27:56.880 the essentials, the trace minerals and stuff that's in organic stuff. 534 00:27:56.960 --> 00:27:58.799 Because you know, if you've got if you pick a 535 00:27:58.839 --> 00:28:02.000 grass blade from your yard and you look at that blade, 536 00:28:02.039 --> 00:28:06.640 there's nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, There's also calcium, magnesium, and sulfur. 537 00:28:06.799 --> 00:28:11.440 There's also boron and zinc and iron in that grass 538 00:28:11.440 --> 00:28:13.400 blade because that's what it takes to grow plants. So 539 00:28:13.440 --> 00:28:16.720 when you take organic materials and create a product out 540 00:28:16.720 --> 00:28:19.799 of them, when you do that, you are in you 541 00:28:19.880 --> 00:28:22.480 are bringing all those nutrients with you. And that's Microlife. 542 00:28:22.519 --> 00:28:26.359 Over one hundred different minerals, more minerals than any fertilizer 543 00:28:26.359 --> 00:28:31.039 I'm aware of in that Microlife product. Now, I first 544 00:28:31.119 --> 00:28:33.640 used it. I spent about ten years now ago, and 545 00:28:34.160 --> 00:28:37.039 I saw right then it works. It's going to give 546 00:28:37.039 --> 00:28:40.759 you some immediate release pretty quick, but a gradual release 547 00:28:40.799 --> 00:28:43.480 over time as those organic materials are broken down by 548 00:28:43.519 --> 00:28:48.000 microbes into the nutrients that your plants are gonna then 549 00:28:48.279 --> 00:28:50.359 take up. You're going to find Microlife. It end up 550 00:28:50.400 --> 00:28:54.279 in a garden center, Speed stores, Ace Hardware stores, Southwest Fertilizer. 551 00:28:54.720 --> 00:28:57.720 Just go to Microlife Fertilizer dot com. They have a 552 00:28:57.759 --> 00:29:03.000 wide array of products, from dry granular products to liquid products. 553 00:29:04.000 --> 00:29:06.960 I'm working my way through the list. It's a long list, 554 00:29:07.599 --> 00:29:10.000 and every time I've used one, I've been impressed with 555 00:29:10.079 --> 00:29:12.319 how it works. Right now, I would suggest you consider 556 00:29:12.359 --> 00:29:15.480 the humans plus. That's the zero zero four. It is 557 00:29:15.519 --> 00:29:19.319 a purple bag and it is composed of compost. In 558 00:29:19.359 --> 00:29:24.000 its final decomposition form, it is humus. Is wonderful for 559 00:29:24.039 --> 00:29:26.319 the soil. You start putting that out on a regular 560 00:29:26.359 --> 00:29:29.440 basis and you get it down in the soil, and 561 00:29:29.480 --> 00:29:32.359 you're going to see an improvement in soil structure, in 562 00:29:32.400 --> 00:29:35.839 microbial activity and nutrient holding content, and a lot of 563 00:29:35.839 --> 00:29:39.599 other benefits to your plants over time. When you do 564 00:29:39.640 --> 00:29:43.279 it the way nature does, which is over time. That's 565 00:29:43.319 --> 00:29:46.039 how nature makes a meadow, a forest, or any other 566 00:29:46.480 --> 00:29:50.279 location better and better and better as the years go by. 567 00:29:50.839 --> 00:29:54.400 Microlife can do the same thing for your plants. We're 568 00:29:54.440 --> 00:29:56.480 going to head out now to sugar Land and talk 569 00:29:56.519 --> 00:29:58.799 to Mike. Hello, Mike, welcome to Guardenline. 570 00:29:59.519 --> 00:30:01.480 Hey, thanks for taking my call. 571 00:30:03.079 --> 00:30:05.160 Yes, sir, I got a question for you. 572 00:30:05.200 --> 00:30:07.400 I'm sure you've answered a million times before. But I 573 00:30:07.440 --> 00:30:11.599 picked up a bag of fifteen five ten fertilizer and 574 00:30:11.720 --> 00:30:16.799 a bag of preemmersion herviside yesterday. And the question is 575 00:30:16.799 --> 00:30:18.759 is it okay to put them both down at the 576 00:30:18.799 --> 00:30:21.240 same time, or put one down then the other with 577 00:30:21.400 --> 00:30:22.079 how long. 578 00:30:22.000 --> 00:30:26.039 It can You can put them both down on the 579 00:30:26.079 --> 00:30:28.839 same day. Just don't mix them in the in the 580 00:30:28.880 --> 00:30:31.799 spreader because the particle size is different. So do one 581 00:30:32.039 --> 00:30:33.720 come back, load up, do the other one. You can 582 00:30:33.720 --> 00:30:35.880 do them both the same day. When you do that, 583 00:30:35.960 --> 00:30:38.240 then put about a half inch of water on the lawn. 584 00:30:38.319 --> 00:30:40.160 If you have to turn on the sprinklers, that's fine 585 00:30:40.759 --> 00:30:42.960 because you want to move that especially move that pre 586 00:30:43.039 --> 00:30:47.039 emergent down into the soil surface before these weeds one 587 00:30:47.079 --> 00:30:48.480 season we'd start to germanic. 588 00:30:49.839 --> 00:30:52.079 Okay, good, and then let me just a slight twist 589 00:30:52.079 --> 00:30:54.279 of that. I also picked up a bag of asimite. 590 00:30:54.400 --> 00:30:56.559 Good idea to wait on that maybe a week or 591 00:30:56.640 --> 00:30:57.960 so and put that down later. 592 00:30:59.559 --> 00:31:02.039 No way, it all do asmite any time of the year, 593 00:31:02.759 --> 00:31:04.680 the same day you're doing any other thing we talk 594 00:31:04.720 --> 00:31:09.079 about on guardenline, from fertilizers, pungicides and sectus it doesn't matter. 595 00:31:09.240 --> 00:31:11.720 Just whatever product you're putting on your lone, you can 596 00:31:11.759 --> 00:31:14.079 put as might at the same time. Again, because of 597 00:31:14.160 --> 00:31:16.240 particle size, we don't want to mix them in the 598 00:31:16.279 --> 00:31:19.960 hopper bed. Two separate spreading same day is fine. 599 00:31:20.640 --> 00:31:21.519 Okay, perfect. 600 00:31:21.720 --> 00:31:24.440 The barricade went down yesterday, so I'm good to good 601 00:31:24.440 --> 00:31:26.400 to go on the other two in the next day 602 00:31:26.440 --> 00:31:28.200 or two whatever, whatever time. 603 00:31:28.359 --> 00:31:33.680 Yeah, okay, absolutely, yeah, and good barricades, great product. And 604 00:31:33.920 --> 00:31:36.839 by getting it down and getting into the watering end 605 00:31:36.920 --> 00:31:39.039 is the most important thing. Is sometimes people forget they 606 00:31:39.079 --> 00:31:41.240 put it down, think it's working, but it only works 607 00:31:41.319 --> 00:31:43.599 after you wash it off the granule into the soil 608 00:31:43.680 --> 00:31:45.759 surface because that's where the weeds are going to, the 609 00:31:45.759 --> 00:31:47.960 seeds are sprouting, and that's where it shuts them down. 610 00:31:48.039 --> 00:31:50.759 So don't forget. The corp. 611 00:31:52.799 --> 00:31:55.759 Watered it in yesterday, I'll do it again today so 612 00:31:55.799 --> 00:31:59.240 it gets a good soaking in twice and then like 613 00:31:59.279 --> 00:32:02.319 I said, maybe tomorrow I'll put down the fertilizer. 614 00:32:02.559 --> 00:32:06.680 And then as yeah, okay, that's a good point. 615 00:32:06.799 --> 00:32:07.000 I was. 616 00:32:07.359 --> 00:32:09.400 I was talking to Dan at night Foss the other 617 00:32:09.519 --> 00:32:12.079 day they met. They're the ones that create that barricade, 618 00:32:12.400 --> 00:32:16.440 and just say, man, Dan, this week eighty degrees, we've 619 00:32:16.440 --> 00:32:19.240 better be getting stuffed down because all these warm season weeds. 620 00:32:19.279 --> 00:32:21.559 They're like, yep, we're into this and they're gonna start 621 00:32:21.559 --> 00:32:23.200 sprouting on us right now. 622 00:32:24.279 --> 00:32:24.680 That's good. 623 00:32:24.799 --> 00:32:28.240 Good that you didn't delay. Yeah, okay, great, all right, sir, 624 00:32:28.319 --> 00:32:32.519 thank you, thank you, uh appreciate you cole very much. 625 00:32:33.000 --> 00:32:33.119 Uh. 626 00:32:33.799 --> 00:32:38.359 While Bird's Unlimited is an awesome, awesome store for everything 627 00:32:38.440 --> 00:32:41.119 you're looking for right now. 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This is like it's like 639 00:33:12.599 --> 00:33:14.720 bird crack. I don't know if it's a control substance 640 00:33:14.799 --> 00:33:16.440 or not. That it ought to be in the bird world. 641 00:33:17.160 --> 00:33:19.680 And it's at wild Birds Unlimited. They love this stuff. 642 00:33:20.480 --> 00:33:24.440 Wbu dot Com, Forward, slash Houston, find a Wallbird's near you. 643 00:33:24.680 --> 00:33:26.960 They're all over the place. I love going into them 644 00:33:27.079 --> 00:33:29.799 and you will too, by the way, really cool stuff 645 00:33:30.880 --> 00:33:32.720 and knowledge. When I have a bird question, I call 646 00:33:32.880 --> 00:33:36.559 Wildbird's Unlimited, store, own, our manager, whatever, because they know 647 00:33:36.680 --> 00:33:40.599 all they do. All right, I guess I gotta go away. 648 00:33:40.759 --> 00:33:43.559 I'll be right back. Archie your first when we come back. 649 00:33:45.599 --> 00:33:48.559 Kt RH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of 650 00:33:48.599 --> 00:33:52.480 the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to 651 00:33:52.759 --> 00:33:55.920 kt r H Garden Line with Skip Rictor. 652 00:33:55.759 --> 00:34:06.079 It's just watch him as. 653 00:34:11.079 --> 00:34:11.880 So many. 654 00:34:20.920 --> 00:34:21.800 A sign. 655 00:34:23.679 --> 00:34:28.280 Alrighty, we're back. Sometimes I just want to cut in 656 00:34:28.400 --> 00:34:30.719 on the song and get talking, because we've got a 657 00:34:30.719 --> 00:34:33.000 lot to talk. About. There is so much going on 658 00:34:33.239 --> 00:34:35.519 in the garden right now, and I've talked about a 659 00:34:35.559 --> 00:34:38.039 few things, like I don't like the fact that it's 660 00:34:38.079 --> 00:34:40.480 been eighty degrees this week. At least I don't if 661 00:34:40.519 --> 00:34:42.519 we're going to have more winter, because our plants won't 662 00:34:42.599 --> 00:34:45.480 like that. It is time to get all your pruning finished. 663 00:34:46.000 --> 00:34:49.519 Get it done on all your deciduous plants now. If 664 00:34:49.719 --> 00:34:53.840 we're talking about you know, citrus, for example, then hold off. 665 00:34:54.079 --> 00:34:57.639 If it is a somewhat tropical, somewhat cold tender type plant, 666 00:34:57.719 --> 00:34:59.159 just hold off on pruning it. You don't have to 667 00:34:59.199 --> 00:35:04.519 print it right now. But on all the deciduous ornamental plants, 668 00:35:04.559 --> 00:35:07.679 all the deciduous fruit trees and things, now's the time 669 00:35:07.760 --> 00:35:10.199 to get that work done. Learn what you're doing before 670 00:35:10.239 --> 00:35:12.599 you go out and do it. Just because you own 671 00:35:12.639 --> 00:35:14.440 pruners and you have a plant doesn't mean that what 672 00:35:14.519 --> 00:35:16.239 you're about to do to it is the right thing. 673 00:35:16.440 --> 00:35:19.400 So learn what you need to do. There's a lot 674 00:35:19.440 --> 00:35:21.840 of good information on there. If you want to learn 675 00:35:21.880 --> 00:35:24.000 how to prune a fruit tree, go to the Aggi 676 00:35:24.079 --> 00:35:28.400 Horticulture website. Aggie Horticulture is the name of the website. 677 00:35:28.440 --> 00:35:32.880 You can search for it. It's easy to find Aggie Horticulture, 678 00:35:32.920 --> 00:35:35.480 and there's a fruit section and there's a publication on 679 00:35:35.719 --> 00:35:37.679 every kind of fruit tree you can imagine. I mean, 680 00:35:37.679 --> 00:35:41.800 there's an avocado publication. There's peaches, plums, you know, pairs 681 00:35:42.280 --> 00:35:45.199 per Simmons. The whole nine yards is there, including some 682 00:35:46.039 --> 00:35:49.159 nut producing plants like pecan too, and it tells you 683 00:35:49.199 --> 00:35:51.519 how to punt them in those publications and they're free. 684 00:35:51.559 --> 00:35:54.440 You don't have to buy them. They're multicolored PDF fologing, 685 00:35:54.559 --> 00:35:57.079 download them or look at them online. Learn what you're 686 00:35:57.119 --> 00:35:59.199 doing before you head out to prune. That is a 687 00:35:59.280 --> 00:36:02.320 word to the why Let's head out to Pariland now 688 00:36:02.440 --> 00:36:04.599 and we're going to talk to Archie this morning. 689 00:36:04.679 --> 00:36:09.199 Hey Archie, welcome to garden Line Barning Ship. I have 690 00:36:09.320 --> 00:36:11.960 a bed in the front. It's about ten by ten. 691 00:36:12.000 --> 00:36:16.039 I got about gosh, at least seven flats of. 692 00:36:17.559 --> 00:36:17.960 Arcade. 693 00:36:18.239 --> 00:36:24.599 I can't said archangel Allegonia, Angelinia, oh Angelonia, yeah right. 694 00:36:24.719 --> 00:36:26.920 And they were beautiful, you know during the summer last year. 695 00:36:26.960 --> 00:36:31.159 They're purple and I covered them for you know, before 696 00:36:31.159 --> 00:36:33.159 we had all the snow. I covered them all and 697 00:36:33.280 --> 00:36:34.960 I thought I'd done pretty good job covered them. But 698 00:36:35.360 --> 00:36:38.920 they still just turned brown after I pulled all the 699 00:36:39.000 --> 00:36:42.000 torps and stuff off and I cut them back to 700 00:36:42.239 --> 00:36:44.599 just ground level because there is some green coming up. 701 00:36:45.599 --> 00:36:48.079 What can I do, you know to keep them going, 702 00:36:48.960 --> 00:36:52.679 like soil activator medina or something like that, or should 703 00:36:52.679 --> 00:36:55.639 I put you know, azemite or what would be the 704 00:36:55.639 --> 00:36:57.760 best stuff to put on that to keep them going. 705 00:36:58.039 --> 00:37:01.519 Well, you're not going to go wrong with any kind 706 00:37:01.559 --> 00:37:04.119 of mendina a product like that on them. Most of 707 00:37:04.199 --> 00:37:07.519 those are they've got microbial content, they've got nutrient content. 708 00:37:07.559 --> 00:37:10.519 A lot of them have hormones and vitamin different kinds 709 00:37:10.559 --> 00:37:13.599 of things mixed in to the concoction that are going 710 00:37:13.639 --> 00:37:17.000 to do the plants good. You know, as azimite as 711 00:37:17.039 --> 00:37:20.000 you're doing the whole bed. Small amounts, very small amounts, 712 00:37:20.039 --> 00:37:23.039 like ten pounds per thousand square feet is about the 713 00:37:23.159 --> 00:37:27.320 right rate on azimite. But that's a micronutrient situation, so 714 00:37:27.760 --> 00:37:30.800 it helps when you need the micro nutrients right now. 715 00:37:30.920 --> 00:37:33.320 The Angelonia, the big thing is, I've never cared in 716 00:37:33.400 --> 00:37:37.000 angelonia through the winter before. They are a summer, warm 717 00:37:37.119 --> 00:37:41.239 season annual typically. Now you've gotten yours to survive till now, 718 00:37:41.320 --> 00:37:43.519 there's a good chance they're gonna make it because you 719 00:37:44.280 --> 00:37:44.880 last too. 720 00:37:45.280 --> 00:37:46.320 This would be my third year. 721 00:37:46.599 --> 00:37:50.400 Oh did they okay? Oh third year? Wow, and they 722 00:37:50.480 --> 00:37:51.639 look good. They look good. 723 00:37:51.679 --> 00:37:54.800 The second year, well yeah, yeah, because I had to 724 00:37:54.880 --> 00:37:56.039 I had to go get a couple of flats and 725 00:37:56.119 --> 00:37:57.920 still in where they didn't come back. 726 00:37:59.599 --> 00:38:01.360 Yeah, you know, done in Paarland. 727 00:38:03.960 --> 00:38:06.880 I'm just afraid of another freeze too. And I've got 728 00:38:06.920 --> 00:38:07.639 all these roses. 729 00:38:07.760 --> 00:38:10.159 Well, I've got a prune and that's supposed to be 730 00:38:10.199 --> 00:38:13.840 next week, and you start those on Valentine, so I 731 00:38:13.920 --> 00:38:14.199 don't know. 732 00:38:14.400 --> 00:38:15.840 I mean, I've got a hundred rose bushes. 733 00:38:15.880 --> 00:38:19.039 I wouldn't worry. I wouldn't worry about it. I would print, Yeah, 734 00:38:19.119 --> 00:38:21.639 prune those roses. It's it's okay, go ahead and print them. 735 00:38:21.760 --> 00:38:25.920 You know, there's no problem with printing. In fact, there roses. 736 00:38:26.280 --> 00:38:28.840 They'll start growing when it's still cool, and they'll keep 737 00:38:28.880 --> 00:38:33.280 growing as we go into the cool set. So I 738 00:38:33.320 --> 00:38:35.559 wouldn't worry a lot about those. I'd get them prune 739 00:38:35.639 --> 00:38:38.840 like you want to. You know, there's this slight chance 740 00:38:38.880 --> 00:38:40.599 that we would have the kind of cold that just 741 00:38:40.719 --> 00:38:42.559 would burn them back, but it wouldn't kill them. They'll 742 00:38:42.599 --> 00:38:44.920 come on back. But it's time to prune them, and 743 00:38:45.000 --> 00:38:47.400 we can't can't worry about the weather too much on 744 00:38:47.519 --> 00:38:51.199 those two, so you can get that done. But anyway, 745 00:38:52.440 --> 00:38:54.000 if you want to wait a little bit and print 746 00:38:54.000 --> 00:38:55.960 them a little later, that you know, that's fine, but 747 00:38:56.039 --> 00:38:58.679 don't wait too long on them. But yeah, have angelonia. 748 00:38:58.880 --> 00:39:01.079 I just get ready to come if we get cold. 749 00:39:01.119 --> 00:39:04.559 But otherwise, congratulations. You send me a picture of those 750 00:39:04.719 --> 00:39:06.639 when they when they bloom this year, I'd love to 751 00:39:07.679 --> 00:39:10.360 see them. See them now, the picture now, and that 752 00:39:10.480 --> 00:39:11.840 a picture is a. 753 00:39:11.880 --> 00:39:15.599 Plant that uses just an annual at least when I 754 00:39:15.679 --> 00:39:16.000 bought them. 755 00:39:16.079 --> 00:39:21.280 Yeah, well, but they are they are awesomely beautiful all 756 00:39:21.320 --> 00:39:23.840 through the summertime. I mean you get months and months 757 00:39:23.880 --> 00:39:25.960 and months of beauty out of angelonia. It's one of 758 00:39:26.000 --> 00:39:27.320 my favorite summer plants. 759 00:39:27.559 --> 00:39:32.440 So yeah, well that's that's that. She's great. 760 00:39:32.760 --> 00:39:36.199 Yeah, well go ask her about printing them. See what 761 00:39:36.320 --> 00:39:39.639 she says, Yeah, she's forgotten more about roses. 762 00:39:40.079 --> 00:39:42.800 I'm in society, you know, I'm the society. 763 00:39:42.840 --> 00:39:45.599 Oh you are, okay, Oh so you know gay? All right, 764 00:39:45.760 --> 00:39:46.920 good right, all right. 765 00:39:46.960 --> 00:39:49.239 But I'm just afraid, you know, pune. I know when 766 00:39:49.280 --> 00:39:51.320 I have to prune, but it just scares me to death. 767 00:39:51.360 --> 00:39:55.920 One you know, this early in February. Yeah, all right, 768 00:39:55.960 --> 00:39:56.679 thank you so much. 769 00:39:57.000 --> 00:40:01.840 Yeahs roses are tough. You know they're tough, all right, Archie. Hey, 770 00:40:01.920 --> 00:40:04.320 thanks for the question and good luck. If you get 771 00:40:04.320 --> 00:40:06.760 a chance, send me a picture. Take one now, take 772 00:40:06.800 --> 00:40:09.000 one when they're blooming this next summer, and I'd like 773 00:40:09.039 --> 00:40:12.159 to see that. I think that'd be cool. Thanks sir. 774 00:40:12.199 --> 00:40:15.519 Appreciate you. Cal you bet, you bet, you know. We 775 00:40:15.599 --> 00:40:18.000 love our feed stores here on Guarden Line and Spring Creek. 776 00:40:18.079 --> 00:40:21.400 Feed is up there, conveniently located right up there Magnoia 777 00:40:21.519 --> 00:40:25.039 on FM twenty nine seventy eight FM twenty nine seventy 778 00:40:25.079 --> 00:40:27.519 eight up in Magnolia. It's it's just a few minutes 779 00:40:27.559 --> 00:40:29.760 away from Graham park Way. I have a two forty nine. 780 00:40:31.360 --> 00:40:33.760 I love going into that place. It's a beautiful place. 781 00:40:33.840 --> 00:40:35.320 First of all, you walk in and you're going, wait 782 00:40:35.360 --> 00:40:37.039 a minute, am I in a feed store or what 783 00:40:37.239 --> 00:40:39.159 is this going? I mean, they have all kinds of 784 00:40:39.280 --> 00:40:42.559 beautiful decorations from inside the home and whatnot. But yes, 785 00:40:42.679 --> 00:40:45.960 it's a feed store loaded with quality feeds and including 786 00:40:46.039 --> 00:40:49.119 feed for things like pets. Your pets. A Victor Purina 787 00:40:49.199 --> 00:40:53.000 brands like that. 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And if you're 798 00:41:27.599 --> 00:41:32.280 senior citizen or military, or maybe you're a youth for 799 00:41:32.519 --> 00:41:35.639 h FFA raising livestock, there's special discounts for that. Just 800 00:41:35.719 --> 00:41:38.119 ask them about it when you're there at Spring Creek Feed. 801 00:41:38.679 --> 00:41:41.159 Time for me to take a little quick break here 802 00:41:41.239 --> 00:41:43.119 and we're going to come back to your calls at 803 00:41:43.159 --> 00:41:48.519 seven one three two one two KTRH. All right, folks, 804 00:41:49.360 --> 00:41:52.840 let's do this. Let's talk gardening. Seven one three two 805 00:41:52.880 --> 00:41:56.920 one two KTRH seven one three two one two ktrh 806 00:41:57.239 --> 00:42:00.679 Hey plans for all seasons. This is a public servicenouncement, folks, 807 00:42:00.719 --> 00:42:04.039 plants for all seasons. Has got tomatoes? What do they 808 00:42:04.039 --> 00:42:05.920 say out the wazoo. I don't know what that means, 809 00:42:06.000 --> 00:42:07.519 but I've heard it before, so I almost save you. 810 00:42:07.840 --> 00:42:11.159 They've got tomatoes out the was zu. All kinds of 811 00:42:11.199 --> 00:42:14.559 different varieties have come in and listen. Grab some now 812 00:42:14.800 --> 00:42:17.360 while the supplies are good. You want to be able 813 00:42:17.360 --> 00:42:19.639 to pick the varieties you want. So grab them now. 814 00:42:20.079 --> 00:42:21.960 If you want to be a little careful. Not put 815 00:42:22.000 --> 00:42:23.719 them right out in the ground, because what if we 816 00:42:23.800 --> 00:42:26.360 have another freeze? Okay, bring them home, take care of them, 817 00:42:26.480 --> 00:42:28.920 Bump them up into the next sice, gitttle, putting soap, 818 00:42:28.960 --> 00:42:31.039 Bump them up to a bigger pot, put them outside 819 00:42:31.440 --> 00:42:33.400 and water them. Just take care of them, watch them. 820 00:42:33.440 --> 00:42:35.239 Bring them in. Just gonna get cold. They need to 821 00:42:35.320 --> 00:42:39.119 spend some evenings out where they're getting our cooler evening temperatures. 822 00:42:39.199 --> 00:42:43.840 That's good for them. And when you decide okay it's safe, 823 00:42:43.960 --> 00:42:46.199 I'm going to plant. And some people are gamblers, some 824 00:42:46.320 --> 00:42:48.519 people are not. I get it. Then put them in, 825 00:42:48.639 --> 00:42:50.159 but don't wait to get them. Go get them now 826 00:42:50.280 --> 00:42:52.440 Plants all Seasons has got them. They've got a lot 827 00:42:52.519 --> 00:42:55.480 of things in stock. We're talking about herbs and flowers, 828 00:42:55.559 --> 00:42:57.880 and of course you know all the standard things shrubs 829 00:42:57.920 --> 00:43:00.679 and trees and whatnot. You're gonna find them there when 830 00:43:00.719 --> 00:43:02.719 you go into Plants for All Seasons. If you already 831 00:43:02.760 --> 00:43:05.159 got a green thumb, well you probably already go there 832 00:43:05.199 --> 00:43:08.679 because green thumbs know about plants for all seasons. If 833 00:43:08.719 --> 00:43:10.400 you had a brown thumb, they're going to turn it green. 834 00:43:10.679 --> 00:43:14.800 And what turns of brown thumb green? Information good information 835 00:43:15.000 --> 00:43:18.840 and knowledge and understanding so you can have success. That's it. 836 00:43:19.039 --> 00:43:21.800 They're a full service garden retail or retail garden center. 837 00:43:22.400 --> 00:43:26.119 The family owned been around since nineteen seventy three, so 838 00:43:26.800 --> 00:43:30.199 they have staying power because they do things right. They 839 00:43:30.280 --> 00:43:34.840 have great plants, outstanding service. Take a picture in there 840 00:43:34.920 --> 00:43:36.920 or something, they're going to be able to look at 841 00:43:36.960 --> 00:43:39.000 it and identify it or diagnose it and tell you 842 00:43:39.039 --> 00:43:41.360 what you need to do. It's easy. All you got 843 00:43:41.440 --> 00:43:43.599 to do is head up toward Tomball or if you're 844 00:43:43.599 --> 00:43:47.239 from Tomball, head down North Houston take the Luetta exit. 845 00:43:47.320 --> 00:43:49.960 They're just north of Luetta. As you're heading toward Tomball 846 00:43:50.000 --> 00:43:52.599 they're just past Luetta on the right hand side there 847 00:43:53.119 --> 00:43:56.039 and the website if you want that Plants for All 848 00:43:56.119 --> 00:43:58.679 Seasons dot com. The phone number two eight one three 849 00:43:58.800 --> 00:44:01.599 seven six, sixteen forty six. We're going to go out 850 00:44:01.599 --> 00:44:04.400 to Cyprus now and talk to Ike. Hey, Ike, welcome 851 00:44:04.480 --> 00:44:05.039 the garden line. 852 00:44:06.000 --> 00:44:07.280 Hey, how are you? Good morning? 853 00:44:08.880 --> 00:44:10.360 Thank you good? What's up? 854 00:44:11.679 --> 00:44:14.440 I had a question about I know Leake's mold compost 855 00:44:14.599 --> 00:44:16.880 is the best thing you can put in your yard 856 00:44:17.119 --> 00:44:20.000 or one of these things, but do you have any 857 00:44:20.039 --> 00:44:23.239 alternatives that's a little cheaper. I've looked at some of 858 00:44:23.239 --> 00:44:25.639 the process of the company, but it's just a little 859 00:44:25.639 --> 00:44:26.519 bit out of my pocket. 860 00:44:26.679 --> 00:44:34.039 So anything that I can do, that's all. Yeah. Leipole 861 00:44:34.119 --> 00:44:36.440 compost is Cadillac stuff. I mean, you know it's made 862 00:44:36.480 --> 00:44:39.280 out of obviously leap leaves, and so you got already 863 00:44:39.280 --> 00:44:42.119 got a really fine textured, high quality You can take 864 00:44:42.159 --> 00:44:45.199 a standard compost and use it, just get it from 865 00:44:45.280 --> 00:44:48.719 a quality company, one that you know knows what they're 866 00:44:49.159 --> 00:44:51.760 what they're doing, so that you're not just getting something 867 00:44:51.800 --> 00:44:54.880 that was rushed through the system and isn't fully decomposed. 868 00:44:55.719 --> 00:44:58.559 If you want a finer texture compost, you can even 869 00:44:58.719 --> 00:45:01.800 screen down posts that you have. I've got a little 870 00:45:02.639 --> 00:45:05.679 thing that I built, a two by four square box 871 00:45:05.760 --> 00:45:10.199 that sits on top of my wheelbarrow. And when I 872 00:45:10.280 --> 00:45:13.639 say box, I just mean it's four two by four's 873 00:45:14.159 --> 00:45:18.280 making a kind of like a just a frame. And 874 00:45:18.400 --> 00:45:21.719 I hammered a half inch hardware cloth on the bottom 875 00:45:22.320 --> 00:45:27.440 that a little checkerboard half inch checker bird, and I 876 00:45:27.559 --> 00:45:29.719 just throw compost in it and shake it and anything 877 00:45:29.800 --> 00:45:31.800 chunky gets stuck in the hardware cloth and you can 878 00:45:31.840 --> 00:45:33.320 just throw it off the side. It's still good for 879 00:45:33.360 --> 00:45:36.719 a multre continued composting, but you can come down with 880 00:45:36.800 --> 00:45:39.039 a finer texture that then you could use if you're 881 00:45:39.159 --> 00:45:41.960 compost top dressing or something along those lines. It's just work. 882 00:45:42.079 --> 00:45:45.760 You're you're exchanging paying for something with doing the work 883 00:45:46.239 --> 00:45:49.599 to try to create a product on your own, right. 884 00:45:49.639 --> 00:45:52.119 I know, how about some of the microlife products, Is 885 00:45:52.199 --> 00:45:55.960 that a good alternative to just doing the compost or 886 00:45:56.760 --> 00:46:00.000 I know they're more natural, organic anything you sugget. 887 00:46:00.519 --> 00:46:04.719 Yeah, Well, if you're gonna if you're going to try to, uh, 888 00:46:05.119 --> 00:46:08.960 you know, use a microlife product to in exchange for composts, 889 00:46:09.000 --> 00:46:12.840 I would do the Humates Microlife hummates. Plus it's a 890 00:46:13.000 --> 00:46:16.360 zero zero four purple bag. And what that is it's 891 00:46:16.480 --> 00:46:20.320 compost that has been decomposed past the stage we call 892 00:46:20.400 --> 00:46:23.719 compost into the stage called humus uh. And you just 893 00:46:23.880 --> 00:46:25.719 mix it into the soil a little bit. You can 894 00:46:25.760 --> 00:46:27.480 put it on the surface, but you can also mix 895 00:46:27.559 --> 00:46:31.679 it in and it It basically gives you a mini 896 00:46:31.760 --> 00:46:35.400 year head start on improving your soils. It's already reached 897 00:46:35.599 --> 00:46:38.880 that stage that is the most beneficial. 898 00:46:39.960 --> 00:46:41.360 Okay, well, I appreciate it, Thank you. 899 00:46:42.960 --> 00:46:43.360 You, bet I. 900 00:46:43.519 --> 00:46:46.000 Thanks for the call. Appreciate that a lot. We're gonna 901 00:46:46.039 --> 00:46:47.960 go now and talk to Ken. Hey, Ken, welcome to 902 00:46:48.000 --> 00:46:48.519 garden Line. 903 00:46:50.320 --> 00:46:51.320 Hey, Skip, good morning. 904 00:46:51.400 --> 00:46:51.719 How are you. 905 00:46:53.760 --> 00:46:54.880 I'm good, I'm good. How are you. 906 00:46:56.360 --> 00:46:56.519 Good? 907 00:46:56.599 --> 00:46:56.760 Deal? 908 00:46:56.880 --> 00:46:59.840 Hey, I have a question about uh. I guess you 909 00:47:00.079 --> 00:47:02.880 out of a soil amendment. I know years ago someone 910 00:47:02.960 --> 00:47:07.760 asked Randy Lemon whether at wood ashes would help a 911 00:47:07.880 --> 00:47:10.559 man of soil in a garden, and he said no, 912 00:47:11.320 --> 00:47:15.760 But I was wondering about a charcoal from wood if 913 00:47:15.840 --> 00:47:17.639 that would a man of soil and. 914 00:47:18.320 --> 00:47:18.880 Thing for it. 915 00:47:21.840 --> 00:47:27.039 Well, there is something called biochar which is it's different 916 00:47:27.480 --> 00:47:32.840 than charcoal, but very similar. It's it's like wood that 917 00:47:33.400 --> 00:47:34.639 it can be made out of a lot of things, 918 00:47:34.719 --> 00:47:38.239 but let's just say wood that has been turned into 919 00:47:38.320 --> 00:47:42.840 a black charcoal like compound at a cooler temperature. It's 920 00:47:42.840 --> 00:47:46.119 almost like a very very cool burn kind of product. 921 00:47:46.880 --> 00:47:50.159 And that's that's helpful. Now, wood ashes are not an 922 00:47:50.239 --> 00:47:53.440 amendment in the sense of like adding composts to improve 923 00:47:53.719 --> 00:47:57.199 soil structure, but they can be used to add some nutrients. 924 00:47:57.239 --> 00:48:00.159 They have about five to eight percent potassium. That's the 925 00:48:00.280 --> 00:48:03.280 third number on the bag. So depending on what the 926 00:48:03.480 --> 00:48:06.639 wood ashes were made from, like what you burned, it's 927 00:48:06.679 --> 00:48:11.159 about a zero one maybe I don't know, three to 928 00:48:11.280 --> 00:48:14.639 five ratio of nutrients that are out there in it. 929 00:48:14.800 --> 00:48:18.639 And so if your soil is already a fairly high pH, 930 00:48:18.880 --> 00:48:22.079 don't use wood ashes because it raises the pH even more. 931 00:48:22.760 --> 00:48:25.360 If you're a little on the acidic side, a moderate 932 00:48:25.679 --> 00:48:28.920 amount of wood ashes can be helpful. You just want 933 00:48:29.000 --> 00:48:31.280 to be very light in the amount you put out 934 00:48:31.440 --> 00:48:35.360 because you can overdo it. So I would say no 935 00:48:35.519 --> 00:48:39.480 more than like a five gallon bucket over a thousand 936 00:48:39.559 --> 00:48:44.079 square feet at the most, and that's a dry five 937 00:48:44.119 --> 00:48:46.800 gallon bucket. You know, when we wet wood ashes, they 938 00:48:46.880 --> 00:48:50.639 shrink down just the fluffy loose wood ashes about a 939 00:48:50.679 --> 00:48:53.599 five gallon And you got to do it on a 940 00:48:53.719 --> 00:48:56.599 calm day because the wind blows and it's a mess. 941 00:48:56.920 --> 00:48:59.440 But can you use it? Yes, and it will add 942 00:48:59.519 --> 00:49:01.599 some nutrients, but it also raises pH. 943 00:49:03.320 --> 00:49:06.280 Okay, well that answers the question that I had. Really, Uh, 944 00:49:06.880 --> 00:49:08.800 I noticed I have some royal acreage and I know 945 00:49:08.840 --> 00:49:12.239 this when I burn a brush pile that uh yeah, 946 00:49:12.360 --> 00:49:15.559 so when mudergrass takes it over very quickly and the 947 00:49:15.800 --> 00:49:16.239 and it's a. 948 00:49:16.360 --> 00:49:18.239 Very lappy green in that area. 949 00:49:18.639 --> 00:49:21.239 Yeah, it really likes it as my soul is kind 950 00:49:21.239 --> 00:49:24.760 of so I guess it helps a balance pH. 951 00:49:24.920 --> 00:49:27.960 So yeah, and other and other folks with land can 952 00:49:28.000 --> 00:49:30.440 tell you that if you were to continue piling up 953 00:49:30.599 --> 00:49:33.199 brush there and burning it in that same spot year 954 00:49:33.239 --> 00:49:36.159 after year, you could eventually, read apart, reach a point 955 00:49:36.199 --> 00:49:39.559 where almost nothing wants to grow because you've overdone it 956 00:49:39.760 --> 00:49:42.800 so much in that one spot. But a little bit 957 00:49:43.079 --> 00:49:46.000 it's good, you know, It's like life, A little bit's good. 958 00:49:46.079 --> 00:49:48.639 And there's such a thing as too much of almost anything. 959 00:49:50.239 --> 00:49:51.360 Everything in moderation. 960 00:49:51.639 --> 00:49:56.880 Right there you go, there you go, all right? Ken, Hey, 961 00:49:57.000 --> 00:49:58.039 thanks and good luck with that. 962 00:49:59.119 --> 00:49:59.840 All right, thank you. 963 00:50:02.599 --> 00:50:06.480 Bye bye. Yeah, that is a see. Not only do 964 00:50:06.519 --> 00:50:08.760 you get gardening advice on garden Line, you get nice 965 00:50:08.840 --> 00:50:12.840 life lessons that we've all learned the hard way. 966 00:50:12.960 --> 00:50:13.119 Right. 967 00:50:14.320 --> 00:50:17.880 Talking about quality products, somebody we're visiting just a moment 968 00:50:17.960 --> 00:50:20.039 ago with Ike about you know, about composting and stuff, 969 00:50:20.119 --> 00:50:26.639 heirloom soils. They have so many quality products for making 970 00:50:26.719 --> 00:50:29.719 your soul better. And I could sit here for literally 971 00:50:29.840 --> 00:50:32.400 for an hour describing and talking about everything. Yes, they 972 00:50:32.400 --> 00:50:34.960 have lead more compost. They also have a veggie and 973 00:50:35.039 --> 00:50:37.280 herb mix that's outstanding. You put it in the you 974 00:50:37.440 --> 00:50:39.280 just pot it up on the ground and plant in it. 975 00:50:39.400 --> 00:50:41.920 I mean it's ready to go. It's ready to go. 976 00:50:42.480 --> 00:50:45.119 They've got things like rose soil for example, they have that. 977 00:50:46.000 --> 00:50:48.920 They have a wide variety, even down to things like 978 00:50:49.039 --> 00:50:51.880 lawn mix. It's a it's an inexpensive mix that is 979 00:50:52.000 --> 00:50:54.320 made with Mason sand and compost and a little bit 980 00:50:54.360 --> 00:50:57.000 of bed mix. Good for laying down before you put 981 00:50:57.000 --> 00:50:59.239 a lawn in, kind of mixing it in and getting 982 00:50:59.320 --> 00:51:01.559 ready to go in those areas and getting it ready 983 00:51:01.559 --> 00:51:05.199 to go. They also can deliver by the supersack. Now 984 00:51:05.400 --> 00:51:07.239 you can have them dump it on your driveway. You 985 00:51:07.320 --> 00:51:09.719 can go get it from the soil yard. They have 986 00:51:09.920 --> 00:51:12.559 up their importer. It's called Warren's Rock and Mulch Importer. 987 00:51:12.719 --> 00:51:16.400 That's where the Airloom sols comes from. Or you can 988 00:51:16.440 --> 00:51:18.960 have them deliver a supersack. Now there's a three sack 989 00:51:19.119 --> 00:51:22.320 minimum for delivery because it's very expensive for any place 990 00:51:22.440 --> 00:51:26.079 to deliver a big old truckload to take a truck 991 00:51:26.199 --> 00:51:29.480 anywhere basically no matter what's on it, So three sack minimum. 992 00:51:30.239 --> 00:51:32.559 They set on your driveway. I've done this before myself. 993 00:51:32.639 --> 00:51:34.400 You set on your driveway, you shovel right out of 994 00:51:34.480 --> 00:51:36.719 that sack. It is neat and clean, there's no mess, 995 00:51:37.320 --> 00:51:39.840 works really really well. Now all you got to do 996 00:51:40.280 --> 00:51:43.800 is give them a call if you want to find 997 00:51:43.840 --> 00:51:45.880 out about going to pick it up or having a 998 00:51:46.000 --> 00:51:50.719 delivery two eight one three five four nineteen fifty. If 999 00:51:50.719 --> 00:51:53.559 you just need some bags. Airloom Seals products are sold 1000 00:51:53.599 --> 00:51:56.400 all over the Greater Houston area. I talked about the 1001 00:51:56.480 --> 00:51:59.320 Veggie Nerb Mix and Honor. They have a potting Solfur 1002 00:51:59.400 --> 00:52:04.199 indoor plan. It's an outdoor containers. Just just check out 1003 00:52:04.280 --> 00:52:08.320 where you purchase your landscape supplies. You know whether it's 1004 00:52:08.320 --> 00:52:11.039 a garden center and ace hardware store, a feed store, 1005 00:52:11.199 --> 00:52:14.360 a Southwest fertilizer and ask them if they carry airlomsaws 1006 00:52:14.360 --> 00:52:16.320 and the answer is probably going to be yes, that 1007 00:52:16.480 --> 00:52:20.960 they do. Let's see here, let's go now to Cleveland 1008 00:52:21.039 --> 00:52:23.440 and we're going to talk to Ron. Hello, Ron, welcome 1009 00:52:23.480 --> 00:52:25.800 to garden Line Warner Skit. 1010 00:52:26.719 --> 00:52:26.920 Hey. 1011 00:52:27.480 --> 00:52:31.840 I've been kicking around this core aeration for years, putting 1012 00:52:31.880 --> 00:52:34.039 it off, putting it off, and heard you talk about 1013 00:52:34.079 --> 00:52:37.760 it again. I always put down the barricade and fertilizers. 1014 00:52:38.360 --> 00:52:45.239 Would a core aeration be bet to do before barricade 1015 00:52:45.280 --> 00:52:48.199 and fertilizer or all the same time? 1016 00:52:48.320 --> 00:52:49.199 Or what are your thoughts? 1017 00:52:50.880 --> 00:52:55.400 You know, it's not like you have to do it 1018 00:52:55.480 --> 00:52:57.760 a certain way. You can do that. You can go 1019 00:52:57.800 --> 00:52:59.960 about that either way that you want to do it. 1020 00:53:01.639 --> 00:53:06.559 If if it were me, I would probably do the 1021 00:53:06.639 --> 00:53:10.159 corporation and then the compost stop dressing and the fertilizing 1022 00:53:10.239 --> 00:53:13.639 on top of it. But I don't feel like if 1023 00:53:13.679 --> 00:53:15.719 you did it wrong, it's going to mess everything up. 1024 00:53:15.800 --> 00:53:17.599 And either way you'll go, are you going to do 1025 00:53:17.719 --> 00:53:19.519 that yourself or you're going to hire somebody to come 1026 00:53:19.519 --> 00:53:21.159 out and do the corredoration for you. 1027 00:53:21.800 --> 00:53:26.039 Well, I've done the compos top dressing myself through years. 1028 00:53:26.079 --> 00:53:29.280 I thought about getting a machine, running a machine and 1029 00:53:29.440 --> 00:53:37.840 doing it. Okay, you know, if you're gonna do it yourself. Yeah, 1030 00:53:37.880 --> 00:53:40.440 I'm I'm about thirty seconds out here, Ron, I think 1031 00:53:40.480 --> 00:53:42.000 we may have to hold. If you want to keep 1032 00:53:42.079 --> 00:53:44.000 going on this, let me put you on hold and 1033 00:53:44.280 --> 00:53:46.719 we'll come back to you when we come back. If not, 1034 00:53:47.079 --> 00:53:50.239 if you're not there, well thanks for the call. Appreciate 1035 00:53:50.280 --> 00:53:51.960 it either way. All right, folks, I got. 1036 00:53:51.920 --> 00:53:54.119 To run here there. I'm up against a really hard 1037 00:53:54.159 --> 00:53:57.360 break and we'll be back with your questions at seven 1038 00:53:57.440 --> 00:54:01.760 one three two one two k t r H. All right, 1039 00:54:01.960 --> 00:54:06.519 but we're back. We are back. If you're gardening questions 1040 00:54:06.559 --> 00:54:10.920 at seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy 1041 00:54:10.960 --> 00:54:13.440 four seven one three two one two five eight seven four. 1042 00:54:13.880 --> 00:54:17.320 If you have planted a tree in the last five years, 1043 00:54:18.320 --> 00:54:21.639 especially if you plant it one right this year, you 1044 00:54:21.800 --> 00:54:26.360 need a tree hugger sprinkler entering into the next coming warm, 1045 00:54:26.559 --> 00:54:31.239 hot blast of summer season. That is the touch and 1046 00:54:31.280 --> 00:54:34.480 go time when you're most likely to lose a tree 1047 00:54:34.559 --> 00:54:36.599 is that first summer. It's also the time. Maybe your 1048 00:54:36.639 --> 00:54:40.400 tree survives, but it just doesn't establish and grow much 1049 00:54:40.719 --> 00:54:44.719 because of stresses from droughts. That tree has a very 1050 00:54:44.800 --> 00:54:46.719 confined root system. You pulled it right out of the 1051 00:54:46.760 --> 00:54:49.320 container like that. You know, you had this little cylinder 1052 00:54:49.360 --> 00:54:52.599 of roots right there. That tree needs to have roots 1053 00:54:53.400 --> 00:54:56.400 going way beyond the branch bread in all directions, the 1054 00:54:56.440 --> 00:55:00.000 height of the tree in all directions. Plus it's getting established. 1055 00:55:00.719 --> 00:55:02.480 And in order to do that, you got to maintain 1056 00:55:02.599 --> 00:55:05.000 moist soil. And when summertime comes and it gets hot, 1057 00:55:05.119 --> 00:55:07.719 that's very hard to do. To do that tree hugger's 1058 00:55:07.880 --> 00:55:10.920 designed to do that. There are three sizes. There's a 1059 00:55:11.000 --> 00:55:15.000 seven inch, eleven inch, and fifteen inch. They go around 1060 00:55:15.199 --> 00:55:17.639 the tree trunk. You hook them to a water hose 1061 00:55:17.920 --> 00:55:19.840 and you turn it on and you can turn it 1062 00:55:19.920 --> 00:55:21.920 on just a little bit. Where let's say you had 1063 00:55:21.920 --> 00:55:24.119 the seven inch size and you barely turn it on. 1064 00:55:24.239 --> 00:55:26.599 It's just sort of trickling. It's watering a seven inch 1065 00:55:26.679 --> 00:55:28.840 wide area, which is where your low root ball is there. 1066 00:55:29.280 --> 00:55:31.039 You crank it up a little more, it gets bigger 1067 00:55:31.039 --> 00:55:33.519 and bigger and bigger. I mean, you can take a 1068 00:55:33.599 --> 00:55:35.400 tree that's been in the ground for years and you 1069 00:55:35.480 --> 00:55:39.320 can rescue water the majority of its root system underneath 1070 00:55:39.320 --> 00:55:44.440 the branch spread during excessive heat and drought conditions. Tree 1071 00:55:44.519 --> 00:55:46.960 huggers are very versatile. You can go to tree Hugger 1072 00:55:47.119 --> 00:55:49.480 sprinkler dot com, find a retailer near you, or let 1073 00:55:49.519 --> 00:55:51.159 me make it easy. You can get them at the 1074 00:55:51.239 --> 00:55:53.199 arbor Gate. You can get them at Nelson Watergarden out 1075 00:55:53.199 --> 00:55:56.639 in Katie, RCW. Nurseries up on two forty nine were 1076 00:55:56.719 --> 00:56:00.079 on Southern Gardens and Kingwood Garden Center in Kingwood, go 1077 00:56:00.159 --> 00:56:02.519 down to Richmond Rosenberg. You got in Chenny Gardens and 1078 00:56:02.599 --> 00:56:04.679 in Channy Forests that carry them up in Tomball D 1079 00:56:04.760 --> 00:56:07.559 and D feed and the Spring Creek Center up toward Magnolia, 1080 00:56:08.079 --> 00:56:11.480 League City Feed down in League City Southwest Fertilizer and 1081 00:56:11.559 --> 00:56:14.400 then Ace Hardware is like Sinkle Ranch and Katie and 1082 00:56:14.559 --> 00:56:17.079 K and m Ace hardware and a task Asita and 1083 00:56:17.280 --> 00:56:20.039 fulshaar Race. These things are all over the place. Just 1084 00:56:20.119 --> 00:56:22.719 go to TreeHugger Sprinkler dot com. You can find a 1085 00:56:22.840 --> 00:56:26.519 retailer near you, but get you one help that tree going. 1086 00:56:26.719 --> 00:56:30.159 And when you go, well, what if my trees established? 1087 00:56:30.159 --> 00:56:30.920 And do I need it? 1088 00:56:31.239 --> 00:56:34.199 Yes? Because when we go into summer, you're going to 1089 00:56:34.280 --> 00:56:36.320 want to do rescue treatments. You don't want to run 1090 00:56:36.400 --> 00:56:40.000 your entire lawn irrigation system to a depth to try 1091 00:56:40.079 --> 00:56:42.960 to help your trees through. What do we have a 1092 00:56:42.960 --> 00:56:45.199 couple of years ago, forty five days over one hundred 1093 00:56:45.199 --> 00:56:48.199 degrees with not a drop of water. That's where tree 1094 00:56:48.239 --> 00:56:52.639 Higger again comes in to help you. TreeHugger Sprinkler's real easy, easy, 1095 00:56:52.679 --> 00:56:55.559 easy to do. What are my favorite new products that 1096 00:56:55.639 --> 00:56:58.480 has come out on the market in recent years. We're 1097 00:56:58.519 --> 00:57:01.039 going to go now out to Deer Park and talk 1098 00:57:01.119 --> 00:57:04.079 to Steve. Hello, Steve, Welcome to Garden Line. 1099 00:57:04.960 --> 00:57:08.639 Hey, Skip, I just sent a couple of pictures. I 1100 00:57:08.679 --> 00:57:10.880 don't know if you've had a chance to look at me. 1101 00:57:11.360 --> 00:57:15.119 It's something that's growing on top the fungus, I mean 1102 00:57:15.360 --> 00:57:18.400 on top of the on top of the mulch, looks 1103 00:57:18.480 --> 00:57:21.280 like yellow and corne globs. 1104 00:57:24.000 --> 00:57:29.039 Boy, you send them. Okay, let's do this. I want 1105 00:57:29.079 --> 00:57:30.920 I'm going to put you on hold, and I'm gonna 1106 00:57:31.079 --> 00:57:34.280 get my producer Jonathan to talk to you. Make sure 1107 00:57:34.320 --> 00:57:38.440 you got the right email address, and when he puts 1108 00:57:38.440 --> 00:57:40.920 you back on we'll continue this discussion. I don't have 1109 00:57:41.119 --> 00:57:43.039 those in my email, so we want to make sure 1110 00:57:43.039 --> 00:57:45.599 we get you the right spot. Hang on, Steve, Hopefully 1111 00:57:45.639 --> 00:57:47.840 we can continue this discussion and help you a little 1112 00:57:47.880 --> 00:57:51.760 bit further. Uh yeah, And while while we're doing that, 1113 00:57:51.880 --> 00:57:54.760 I want to just mention that on Guardenline, I'm not 1114 00:57:54.880 --> 00:57:58.400 able to answer all of the email questions that come 1115 00:57:58.440 --> 00:58:00.760 in by email. I just I just can't. And a 1116 00:58:00.840 --> 00:58:04.400 lot of questions are very involved, you know, they take 1117 00:58:04.440 --> 00:58:06.320 a lot of time, they need some back and forth 1118 00:58:06.480 --> 00:58:10.000 and whatnot. And so what I ask is, if you 1119 00:58:10.119 --> 00:58:12.320 got some photos or something you want to send in, boy, 1120 00:58:12.400 --> 00:58:14.599 that is really helpful for me to answer a question. 1121 00:58:15.119 --> 00:58:17.280 Just email them to me and then call me up 1122 00:58:17.400 --> 00:58:19.320 and let's talk and we'll go into it. I had 1123 00:58:19.360 --> 00:58:21.079 several this week that are probably going to call over 1124 00:58:21.119 --> 00:58:24.559 the weekend that we're going to continue discussing them. It 1125 00:58:24.639 --> 00:58:26.719 gives me a little bit of time to look into something, 1126 00:58:26.840 --> 00:58:29.039 so I'm not having to try to study through it 1127 00:58:29.119 --> 00:58:32.000 on the air. But it works really well, and so 1128 00:58:32.039 --> 00:58:33.679 I encourage you to do that. You just have to 1129 00:58:33.760 --> 00:58:36.960 call the show, talk to Jonathan, get an email address, 1130 00:58:37.199 --> 00:58:40.480 and again I wish I could sit there and type 1131 00:58:40.519 --> 00:58:44.320 answers to everyone. I'm just not able to just time. 1132 00:58:44.559 --> 00:58:49.360 Time does not allow it. So anyway, I was talking 1133 00:58:49.440 --> 00:58:52.880 to you about earlier about some of the things we're 1134 00:58:52.920 --> 00:58:54.639 doing this time of year. It is time to finish 1135 00:58:54.880 --> 00:58:57.719 winter printing for those plants that are prinned in the winter, 1136 00:58:58.280 --> 00:59:02.400 that would be particularly deciduous plants. That's the main thing 1137 00:59:02.480 --> 00:59:05.519 we're doing in the winter pruning. You want to get 1138 00:59:05.519 --> 00:59:07.639 that finished because the new growth is going to begin. 1139 00:59:07.840 --> 00:59:13.519 And here's another reason. The fastest time of wound healing 1140 00:59:14.239 --> 00:59:16.840 on a woody ornamental that's been pruned, like a tree 1141 00:59:16.920 --> 00:59:20.960 or shrub, is in the spring. And you've probably seen 1142 00:59:21.039 --> 00:59:24.800 the time lapse photos like a cactus flower that you 1143 00:59:24.880 --> 00:59:27.880 know it's closed and then it opens up real fast 1144 00:59:27.920 --> 00:59:29.840 and it closes and like in ten seconds you get 1145 00:59:29.880 --> 00:59:31.679 to watch the whole thing. Well, if you were to 1146 00:59:31.800 --> 00:59:34.000 do that on a tree wound, what you would see is, 1147 00:59:34.079 --> 00:59:35.880 you know, let's say you cut it in January and 1148 00:59:36.000 --> 00:59:38.880 it just sits there, and when spring comes it starts 1149 00:59:38.920 --> 00:59:41.840 to close pretty rapidly, and then it kind of slows 1150 00:59:41.920 --> 00:59:44.000 down to a crawl in the summer and then it 1151 00:59:44.119 --> 00:59:46.239 speeds up a little bit for fall, not as much 1152 00:59:46.239 --> 00:59:49.400 as spring, but it closes again faster in the fall, 1153 00:59:49.519 --> 00:59:52.039 and then it shuts down for winter. And so that's 1154 00:59:52.119 --> 00:59:54.880 why we like to prune in the winter because the 1155 00:59:55.000 --> 00:59:58.280 fastest time of one of the reasons, the fastest time 1156 00:59:58.320 --> 01:00:00.599 of wound healing is in the spring. So let's go 1157 01:00:00.639 --> 01:00:05.159 ahead and get that done. There is also I need 1158 01:00:05.239 --> 01:00:07.480 to point out the reason I say try to do 1159 01:00:07.559 --> 01:00:11.079 it before the new growth shoots out, is because when 1160 01:00:11.199 --> 01:00:15.480 new growth starts, the bark we say slips and instead 1161 01:00:15.480 --> 01:00:18.079 of being stuck hard against the wood, so that when 1162 01:00:18.079 --> 01:00:20.639 you make a pruning cut it doesn't tear strips of 1163 01:00:20.719 --> 01:00:23.440 bark loose instead of being stuck hard against the wood, 1164 01:00:24.639 --> 01:00:27.199 that bark it's like peeling a banana. You know how 1165 01:00:27.239 --> 01:00:29.559 you break the top of banana, it just peels right off. 1166 01:00:29.639 --> 01:00:32.400 Bark does that in the spring. When the growth is occurring, 1167 01:00:32.480 --> 01:00:35.320 the bark is we say slipping. So if you wait 1168 01:00:35.400 --> 01:00:37.159 until them to prune, you got to be real careful 1169 01:00:37.199 --> 01:00:39.519 because it's easy to tear a strip of bark because 1170 01:00:39.519 --> 01:00:42.559 it's loose against it. It tears off from the bay 1171 01:00:42.960 --> 01:00:45.239 from the trunk real easily. And if you do that, 1172 01:00:45.400 --> 01:00:48.480 that is going to be a very slow to heal wound. 1173 01:00:48.719 --> 01:00:52.679 And so pruning during dormant time helps avoid that. Now, 1174 01:00:52.719 --> 01:00:56.840 can you prune when it's actively growing? Yes, tree care 1175 01:00:56.880 --> 01:00:59.519 companies prune all through the summertime. They do what they 1176 01:00:59.559 --> 01:01:01.440 need to do when they need to do it. But 1177 01:01:01.559 --> 01:01:03.960 the best time is in the winter when things are 1178 01:01:03.960 --> 01:01:04.639 fully dormant. 1179 01:01:05.199 --> 01:01:05.320 Uh. 1180 01:01:05.400 --> 01:01:08.199 We're going to go out to back to Steve now 1181 01:01:08.239 --> 01:01:10.880 in Deer Park. Hey, Steve, welcome to Guardline. Did you 1182 01:01:11.280 --> 01:01:12.360 get that email? 1183 01:01:15.440 --> 01:01:18.000 Oh I'm still sendent right now? 1184 01:01:18.159 --> 01:01:18.440 Sorry? 1185 01:01:19.360 --> 01:01:21.360 Oh okay, okay, sorry, I'm gonna put you back on hold. 1186 01:01:21.360 --> 01:01:23.000 I'll come back to here when I see you pop up. 1187 01:01:23.480 --> 01:01:27.039 All right, Anyway, I hope that. Uh, I hope that 1188 01:01:27.360 --> 01:01:31.000 what I just described to you there on on, you know, 1189 01:01:31.079 --> 01:01:33.000 the way the bark is and the way things heal. 1190 01:01:33.079 --> 01:01:33.320 I hope. 1191 01:01:33.400 --> 01:01:36.079 I hope that was helpful, because, yes, we want to 1192 01:01:36.119 --> 01:01:38.960 prune in the in the dormant season, and it's better 1193 01:01:39.519 --> 01:01:42.840 to get it done before the new growth begins. There 1194 01:01:42.880 --> 01:01:45.000 are several types of grafting. If you're going to graft, 1195 01:01:45.280 --> 01:01:47.320 let's say you have a pecan tree that's not just 1196 01:01:47.400 --> 01:01:49.400 a little, you know, a little seedling coming out of 1197 01:01:49.400 --> 01:01:49.760 the ground. 1198 01:01:50.280 --> 01:01:50.400 Uh. 1199 01:01:50.760 --> 01:01:53.679 They there's a graft called the inlay bark graft where 1200 01:01:53.679 --> 01:01:57.239 you stick the grafted piece of wood in between the 1201 01:01:57.360 --> 01:01:59.519 bark and the trunk, and you have to do that 1202 01:02:00.000 --> 01:02:02.519 in the springtime when the bark is slipping that way, 1203 01:02:02.559 --> 01:02:04.679 the bark slips away and you can put the graft 1204 01:02:04.760 --> 01:02:08.320 piece right in there. And that's just an example. Different 1205 01:02:08.360 --> 01:02:11.000 kinds of graft are done at different times of the year, 1206 01:02:11.239 --> 01:02:14.920 so that is what we try to do. You're listening 1207 01:02:14.960 --> 01:02:16.360 to garden Line if you'd like to give us a 1208 01:02:16.360 --> 01:02:20.280 call seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy 1209 01:02:20.360 --> 01:02:23.800 four seven one three two one two five eight seven four. 1210 01:02:24.280 --> 01:02:26.679 For those of you who live down in Seabrook, Texas, 1211 01:02:27.000 --> 01:02:30.199 you are so fortunate you've got Moss Nursery down there. 1212 01:02:30.760 --> 01:02:35.000 And Moss Nursery listen, this is not just another garden center. 1213 01:02:35.239 --> 01:02:39.119 I mean, it is a seventy year old family operated 1214 01:02:39.280 --> 01:02:44.159 nursery that sprawls out on eight acres of everything you 1215 01:02:44.280 --> 01:02:47.679 need for your landscape, your garden, even your indoor homescape. 1216 01:02:47.719 --> 01:02:50.880 You got to see their indoor plant greenhouse that they have. 1217 01:02:51.079 --> 01:02:55.119 It is unbelievable. I don't care if it's succulents or 1218 01:02:55.199 --> 01:02:58.559 cactus or lush tropical types of things. It's all there. 1219 01:02:58.599 --> 01:03:01.599 If you're into strings, string of pearls, string of tears, 1220 01:03:01.719 --> 01:03:04.800 string of watermelon, I mean all those string things, they've 1221 01:03:04.880 --> 01:03:07.320 got those there. They just got in three shipments of 1222 01:03:07.320 --> 01:03:10.039 small cactus. They just got in four shipments of succulents. 1223 01:03:10.440 --> 01:03:13.000 They got a lot of hanging baskets, I mean lots 1224 01:03:13.199 --> 01:03:16.000 of hanging baskets. And then when it comes to vegetables 1225 01:03:16.079 --> 01:03:20.519 and herbs, if you pick, there's an incredible array they're 1226 01:03:20.519 --> 01:03:22.719 stocking up. I think they've been getting like six to 1227 01:03:22.880 --> 01:03:27.480 seven shipments a day coming into that place. So whatever 1228 01:03:27.559 --> 01:03:30.280 you're looking for, they've got. You want a Japanese maple, 1229 01:03:30.519 --> 01:03:33.480 Oh my gosh, they have plenty of gorgeousness. You had 1230 01:03:33.559 --> 01:03:35.599 a kind of area with a little summer, little morning 1231 01:03:35.679 --> 01:03:37.559 sun and then a bright d apple shade all day. 1232 01:03:37.960 --> 01:03:41.079 Japanese maple's gonna be really really happy there. Check out 1233 01:03:41.119 --> 01:03:45.440 the t shirts, especially Gim's whimsical eyeball plant art T shirt. 1234 01:03:45.519 --> 01:03:49.119 Yeah I said that right, Jim's whimsical eyeball plant art 1235 01:03:49.159 --> 01:03:50.760 T shirt. He showed me those a long time ago. 1236 01:03:51.159 --> 01:03:54.239 He draws these kind of crazy looking whimsical plants with 1237 01:03:54.320 --> 01:03:56.719 eyeballs on him you can get a T shirt of that. 1238 01:03:57.159 --> 01:04:00.840 All kinds of cool gardening merchandise there, Lost Garden Center, 1239 01:04:01.000 --> 01:04:03.679 Moss Nursery. All right, I'm gonna come back Steve by 1240 01:04:03.719 --> 01:04:05.599 then hopefully we'll have your email and we'll be able 1241 01:04:05.639 --> 01:04:12.400 to continue on. All right, there, we are not Saturday night, 1242 01:04:12.480 --> 01:04:16.199 but it's coming. It is for sure coming. Hey, Nelson 1243 01:04:16.239 --> 01:04:19.599 Plant Food. They have a product that I think you 1244 01:04:20.079 --> 01:04:23.199 will find quite interesting. I did not seen one quite 1245 01:04:23.280 --> 01:04:26.719 like this. It's called turf star Weedonator. Turf star Weedonator 1246 01:04:27.079 --> 01:04:30.480 is not just your typical weed and feed type product. 1247 01:04:30.760 --> 01:04:34.719 Basically what it is, it's got a growth regulator in it. Now, 1248 01:04:34.800 --> 01:04:36.960 it's got the nutrients. First of all, it is a fertilizer, 1249 01:04:37.360 --> 01:04:39.639 but it has a growth regulator in it. And this 1250 01:04:39.800 --> 01:04:45.840 growth regulator causes the grass to not grow vertically so fast, 1251 01:04:46.119 --> 01:04:50.320 but to continue to spread horizontally, so mowing is reduced 1252 01:04:50.800 --> 01:04:54.079 by that effect. And it works. It works, It works 1253 01:04:54.159 --> 01:04:56.000 quite well, and it's not going to hurt your grass. 1254 01:04:57.000 --> 01:04:59.559 It also has a post emergent herbicide. So what you 1255 01:04:59.639 --> 01:05:02.400 want to do is we the soil or what the 1256 01:05:02.679 --> 01:05:05.360 weeds rather, turn the sprinklers on just enough to get 1257 01:05:05.400 --> 01:05:08.079 some drops on the weed on the grass and weed leaves. 1258 01:05:08.599 --> 01:05:11.320 Put that weed natter out, leave it for you know, 1259 01:05:11.960 --> 01:05:14.800 a day or so, then wash it off at least 1260 01:05:14.840 --> 01:05:17.400 a few hours and wash it off and into the soil. 1261 01:05:17.760 --> 01:05:19.599 And it's going to shut down things like chickweed and 1262 01:05:19.639 --> 01:05:23.000 clover and dot and dandelions and dollar weed and grassburg parts. 1263 01:05:23.280 --> 01:05:25.320 It does a really good job and then it'll release 1264 01:05:25.360 --> 01:05:28.400 those nutrients into the lawn too. So uh, it's an 1265 01:05:28.519 --> 01:05:31.320 excellent product. Turfstar weedat or buy the folks at Nelson. 1266 01:05:31.400 --> 01:05:33.920 You're going to find it widespread in a lot of 1267 01:05:34.079 --> 01:05:37.400 different areas. We're going to head now out to Magnolia 1268 01:05:37.639 --> 01:05:40.440 and talk to Donna. Hello, Donna, welcome to garden Line. 1269 01:05:41.920 --> 01:05:50.960 Good morning, Good morning. Yes, so are there emailed in 1270 01:05:51.159 --> 01:05:55.280 some Yes, I'm here, Yes, I emailed in some photos 1271 01:05:55.559 --> 01:06:00.840 to you. I think I have a wide read fungus 1272 01:06:01.239 --> 01:06:06.280 situation spreading rapidly through the property, and it looks like 1273 01:06:06.719 --> 01:06:08.880 everywhere I turn is affected. 1274 01:06:11.199 --> 01:06:13.159 Well, I have good news for you. I looked at 1275 01:06:13.199 --> 01:06:15.119 them and boy, that was a lot of photos, and 1276 01:06:15.280 --> 01:06:17.880 thank you. That made it very easy for me to 1277 01:06:18.000 --> 01:06:21.239 get a good assessment, you know, of what we're looking at. 1278 01:06:22.000 --> 01:06:25.519 Your plants were showing it's not a fungus that it's 1279 01:06:25.599 --> 01:06:28.800 not well. You know, on any plant you can see 1280 01:06:28.840 --> 01:06:31.719 a little spot here or there, and then there are roses. 1281 01:06:31.840 --> 01:06:34.039 Your roses had some black spot on them and stuff. 1282 01:06:34.079 --> 01:06:36.920 But that basically what you're sending me pictures of or 1283 01:06:37.039 --> 01:06:41.159 plants that are that are heat stressed and in some 1284 01:06:41.360 --> 01:06:43.920 cases a little bit suns called it and some of 1285 01:06:44.000 --> 01:06:46.920 the photos. Okay, now, it's not something that we really 1286 01:06:47.000 --> 01:06:52.199 worry a lot about, and because I think last season 1287 01:06:52.440 --> 01:06:54.599 it could have been several things. Number one, it could 1288 01:06:54.679 --> 01:06:57.800 just be the heat in the sun wearing on the plants, 1289 01:06:57.920 --> 01:07:00.400 and leaves don't last forever. And you get toward the 1290 01:07:00.480 --> 01:07:02.760 end of the season, if you have a little drought condition, 1291 01:07:03.840 --> 01:07:06.239 if you you know, as we as the days start 1292 01:07:06.280 --> 01:07:10.199 getting shorter and we move into the cooler season, the 1293 01:07:10.280 --> 01:07:13.000 plants are going to start to abandon their older leaves. 1294 01:07:13.079 --> 01:07:15.440 And that's what you're seeing. Your new growth looks good, 1295 01:07:15.519 --> 01:07:18.360 it's fine, but it's the older leaves that are starting 1296 01:07:18.400 --> 01:07:21.320 to scorch and to look worse. And as you look 1297 01:07:21.360 --> 01:07:25.239 at the array of plants that you sent me, diseases 1298 01:07:25.800 --> 01:07:30.239 tend to be pretty plants specific and even in the 1299 01:07:30.320 --> 01:07:33.760 case of also use powdery mildew. Powdery mildew, there's a 1300 01:07:33.800 --> 01:07:37.239 powdery mildew that attacks krape myrtles, there's one that attacks roses, 1301 01:07:37.360 --> 01:07:40.760 there's one that attacks turk's cap. But it's not the 1302 01:07:40.880 --> 01:07:44.239 same strain of powdery mildew. So if you had roses 1303 01:07:44.320 --> 01:07:46.239 with powdery mildew and you put them right next to 1304 01:07:46.360 --> 01:07:49.239 something else that gets powdery mildew, it wouldn't attack it 1305 01:07:49.320 --> 01:07:53.000 because it's the wrong strain. And so when you see 1306 01:07:53.000 --> 01:07:56.159 a whole big problem going across all these different plant species, 1307 01:07:56.679 --> 01:07:58.599 it's going to be cultural or it's going to be 1308 01:07:58.719 --> 01:08:01.360 environmental weather. That's what the case is. And I saw 1309 01:08:01.519 --> 01:08:05.159 nothing to be alarmed about other than this year. Give 1310 01:08:05.199 --> 01:08:08.440 them good deep soakings whenever we are hot and dry, 1311 01:08:08.800 --> 01:08:10.679 and I would give them a little boost a fertilizer. 1312 01:08:10.719 --> 01:08:12.360 I think that would be helped. Some of them look 1313 01:08:12.599 --> 01:08:15.440 like a little bit of nutrient maybe lacking. I can't 1314 01:08:15.440 --> 01:08:19.960 remember it specifically which one now, specific plant, but in general, 1315 01:08:20.239 --> 01:08:23.640 just a good balanced fertilizer with some micronutrients in it. 1316 01:08:24.439 --> 01:08:26.239 I think that's going to be all you need to do. 1317 01:08:27.760 --> 01:08:30.399 Wonderful, that is good news. Such can I ask you 1318 01:08:30.800 --> 01:08:34.760 about the crate myrtles. The wood of the crate myrtles 1319 01:08:34.840 --> 01:08:35.840 is turning black. 1320 01:08:36.119 --> 01:08:37.119 What would cause that? 1321 01:08:38.840 --> 01:08:42.640 Okay, that's caused most of the time, it's caused by scale. 1322 01:08:43.000 --> 01:08:46.399 There's a crape myrtle bark scale. And if you look 1323 01:08:46.439 --> 01:08:48.520 at your crpe myrtle trunks, you're going to see little 1324 01:08:48.560 --> 01:08:52.199 white things in the in the black, and those are 1325 01:08:52.239 --> 01:08:58.279 the scale insects. They secrete sugary sugary water that the 1326 01:08:58.359 --> 01:09:01.239 black city mold grows on. So the black is just 1327 01:09:01.399 --> 01:09:04.039 a sign that the scale's there. It's not a disease. 1328 01:09:05.000 --> 01:09:08.520 And so for kurt myrtle bark scale, in the next 1329 01:09:09.039 --> 01:09:12.960 few months, spring the trunks with a horticultural oil, not 1330 01:09:13.119 --> 01:09:16.319 a dormant but a horticultural oil and getting good coverage. 1331 01:09:16.880 --> 01:09:19.079 You want to do that in March, I would do 1332 01:09:19.159 --> 01:09:23.119 it in March, maybe mid March, late Mar or late March, 1333 01:09:23.920 --> 01:09:27.279 maybe even early April. Do it again and that will 1334 01:09:27.359 --> 01:09:29.960 help the little crawler baby scales that are going out 1335 01:09:30.359 --> 01:09:32.520 and ending up everywhere causing the problem. 1336 01:09:32.600 --> 01:09:36.479 Okay, okay, awesome, Thank you so much for your help 1337 01:09:36.520 --> 01:09:36.840 this Wenking. 1338 01:09:36.840 --> 01:09:40.279 All right, you bet, thanks for the call. I appreciate 1339 01:09:40.359 --> 01:09:43.119 that I talked about Houston powder coders last week, folks, 1340 01:09:43.199 --> 01:09:45.439 and this is the biggest powder coder in the region. 1341 01:09:45.479 --> 01:09:47.800 And if you're not familiar with powder coating, it is 1342 01:09:47.880 --> 01:09:51.279 a process where it's so much better than painting. But 1343 01:09:51.439 --> 01:09:54.279 if you look at furniture like yard furniture, and it's 1344 01:09:54.319 --> 01:09:58.960 got that really dense, hard protective coating of colors around it, 1345 01:09:59.560 --> 01:10:03.600 that's coding typically, and they have over one hundred colors 1346 01:10:03.680 --> 01:10:05.600 that you can choose from. So if you want something, 1347 01:10:06.319 --> 01:10:09.640 they'll powder coat cast iron, wrot iron, aluminum, patio furniture, 1348 01:10:09.720 --> 01:10:11.520 you know, if it's metal, they can do it. And 1349 01:10:11.600 --> 01:10:14.119 if it's got a little bit of you know, rust 1350 01:10:14.600 --> 01:10:17.720 or some need some welding to kind of toach things 1351 01:10:17.760 --> 01:10:20.119 back together. If you need to replace the old rusty hardware, 1352 01:10:20.199 --> 01:10:22.239 they'll do that. They'll do it with stainless steel. By 1353 01:10:22.239 --> 01:10:25.319 the way, so at lasts they'll replace the plastic feed 1354 01:10:25.399 --> 01:10:27.720 and the end caps. And they can take your patio furniture. 1355 01:10:27.800 --> 01:10:30.319 They can take your outdoor art. If you've got a 1356 01:10:30.399 --> 01:10:34.000 metal handrail, if you've got a metal lamppost out in 1357 01:10:34.039 --> 01:10:36.359 the yard, anything a matter like that, they'll put a 1358 01:10:36.399 --> 01:10:40.800 powder coating on it and it is unbelievably attractive and 1359 01:10:40.920 --> 01:10:43.000 it lasts. And for those of you down on the coast, 1360 01:10:43.359 --> 01:10:45.399 they have a special process they do for that salt 1361 01:10:45.439 --> 01:10:47.960 spray you deal with down there to help stuff last 1362 01:10:48.199 --> 01:10:50.960 even there. Now you can email photos of your furniture 1363 01:10:51.079 --> 01:10:55.399 to sales at Houston Coders. No word powder in the 1364 01:10:55.520 --> 01:11:00.399 email Houstoncoders dot com. Sales at houstoncoders dot com. They'll 1365 01:11:00.399 --> 01:11:02.319 give you a quick quote and in the greater Houston 1366 01:11:02.359 --> 01:11:06.279 area they'll even do pick up and real quick turnaround. 1367 01:11:07.319 --> 01:11:09.479 I went through the shop and saw all the work 1368 01:11:09.520 --> 01:11:13.039 and oh my gosh, it is unbelievable the work that 1369 01:11:13.119 --> 01:11:16.359 they can do. Turn your furniture new again at Houston 1370 01:11:16.640 --> 01:11:20.640 Powder Coders Houston powder Cooders dot com, Houston powder Cooders 1371 01:11:20.640 --> 01:11:23.600 dot com. Go check them out two eight one six 1372 01:11:23.680 --> 01:11:27.319 seven six thirty eight eighty eight and follow them on 1373 01:11:27.399 --> 01:11:30.880 social media. They're posting all the time pictures of jobs 1374 01:11:30.920 --> 01:11:32.840 and things they've done. You see what I'm talking about, 1375 01:11:33.760 --> 01:11:38.720 really cool thing. Well, here we are, the music is playing, 1376 01:11:38.800 --> 01:11:41.520 and I've got a couple of folks out there probably 1377 01:11:41.600 --> 01:11:43.600 need to get back to I'm going to have to 1378 01:11:43.640 --> 01:11:46.680 hold you guys until we come back from break. When 1379 01:11:46.840 --> 01:11:49.359 we come back, we'll take your calls calling to Steve 1380 01:11:49.439 --> 01:11:53.399 and Mike both be sort of visiting with you. I 1381 01:11:53.479 --> 01:11:55.840 want to remind you that I have a website out 1382 01:11:55.880 --> 01:11:58.680 there where I put everything that we talk about that 1383 01:11:59.079 --> 01:12:02.119 needs a publication here on garden Line. So for example, 1384 01:12:03.159 --> 01:12:05.199 I walked out in my one of my beds, one 1385 01:12:05.239 --> 01:12:07.399 of one that I fought nuts edge in last year, 1386 01:12:07.479 --> 01:12:10.359 and I just about got it all. It's gonna get 1387 01:12:10.600 --> 01:12:12.680 done this year. It's gonna be finished this year. I've 1388 01:12:12.920 --> 01:12:15.560 taken it down to just a few plants that survived. 1389 01:12:16.520 --> 01:12:18.600 I saw a sprout coming up. I've got a publication. 1390 01:12:18.720 --> 01:12:21.000 I'm to wind the blow and not to I know. 1391 01:12:21.039 --> 01:12:21.479 How to do it. 1392 01:12:21.560 --> 01:12:25.600 I've done it and it's on gardening whip stip dot com. 1393 01:12:26.600 --> 01:12:27.319 I'll be right back. 1394 01:12:29.159 --> 01:12:33.199 Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Skip Rictor. 1395 01:12:41.760 --> 01:12:50.600 Just watch him as basic. 1396 01:12:52.560 --> 01:12:56.039 All right, folks, let's do this. We got plenty of 1397 01:12:56.119 --> 01:12:58.680 garden Line talking going on here, and we are get 1398 01:12:58.720 --> 01:13:01.399 back on back in the again and get moving on this. 1399 01:13:02.159 --> 01:13:05.079 I did want to go back here. We're going to 1400 01:13:05.119 --> 01:13:08.079 talk to Steve in Deer Park. Hey, Steve, I understand 1401 01:13:08.119 --> 01:13:10.239 we had some glitch on the email. But let's see 1402 01:13:10.239 --> 01:13:12.600 if we can solve this problem without the email. 1403 01:13:13.880 --> 01:13:14.920 Yeah, you probably know. 1404 01:13:15.159 --> 01:13:20.399 It's on top of our mulch areas. We have some 1405 01:13:20.640 --> 01:13:24.680 bright yellow and it fades to an orange and it's 1406 01:13:25.000 --> 01:13:28.279 like a spray foam or something. Have you seen that before? 1407 01:13:28.600 --> 01:13:28.760 Huh? 1408 01:13:30.039 --> 01:13:30.239 I have? 1409 01:13:30.520 --> 01:13:33.600 They call that scrambled egg fungus because it sort of 1410 01:13:33.680 --> 01:13:37.800 looks like scrambled eggs to some people too. And yeah, okay, 1411 01:13:38.319 --> 01:13:42.279 that is a decay, that's a decomposer. No, not at all. 1412 01:13:42.600 --> 01:13:45.760 It's a decomposer of fungi. So it basically is one 1413 01:13:45.840 --> 01:13:51.279 of the thousands of different fungal organisms that turns tree 1414 01:13:51.319 --> 01:13:55.960 trunks back into dirt in the forest. And so we 1415 01:13:56.319 --> 01:13:58.680 see it in our mulches and things. Anytime there's a 1416 01:13:58.720 --> 01:14:02.920 little composed or wood materials, it can occur and it 1417 01:14:03.159 --> 01:14:05.840 makes a crusting over the surface and then it goes away, 1418 01:14:06.159 --> 01:14:07.520 you know. I mean, if you don't like the look 1419 01:14:07.520 --> 01:14:09.399 of it, you can take a little shovel and kind 1420 01:14:09.439 --> 01:14:10.680 of pick it up and get rid of it. But 1421 01:14:10.920 --> 01:14:13.800 it's not hurting anything. It is not a disease of plants. 1422 01:14:14.039 --> 01:14:17.000 So you're you're good, okay, Well, that's good to know. 1423 01:14:17.159 --> 01:14:20.439 Thank you, then I appreciate it, you bet. 1424 01:14:20.439 --> 01:14:22.680 Thanks for hanging and being patient with that. I'm glad 1425 01:14:22.720 --> 01:14:26.399 we could help with it. Take care, yep, that is 1426 01:14:26.479 --> 01:14:29.640 the way it goes. Uh, those kinds of things. There's 1427 01:14:29.680 --> 01:14:32.560 a lot of microbes in nature, you know what. Let 1428 01:14:32.600 --> 01:14:35.800 me just make let me let me see here. I 1429 01:14:35.920 --> 01:14:41.199 want to I want to just make a point. When 1430 01:14:41.239 --> 01:14:45.800 you look at insects and diseases, well, or let me 1431 01:14:45.880 --> 01:14:48.199 put it this way, when you look at insects and 1432 01:14:48.319 --> 01:14:55.680 bacteria and fungus organisms, the vast majority or of no 1433 01:14:55.880 --> 01:14:58.199 concern at all. It is a tiny sliver of the 1434 01:14:58.279 --> 01:15:02.680 pie on all of them that are our concern, you know. 1435 01:15:02.840 --> 01:15:06.000 So we say, well, pottery mildew's of fungus, that's bad. Okay, yes, 1436 01:15:06.119 --> 01:15:11.319 I got that. But there are bazillion different fungal organisms 1437 01:15:11.439 --> 01:15:14.960 that are good or they are no significance, you know, 1438 01:15:15.119 --> 01:15:18.079 to your gardening. And the same is true with insects. 1439 01:15:18.760 --> 01:15:21.439 Because it has six legs does not mean mean it 1440 01:15:21.560 --> 01:15:25.199 needs a death sentence. There are so many beneficials. And 1441 01:15:25.279 --> 01:15:27.960 then there's things that don't matter, like a house fly 1442 01:15:28.600 --> 01:15:31.199 going through the garden and landing on a tomato. And 1443 01:15:31.279 --> 01:15:34.880 then flying off. What was the significance there? Nothing? Houseflies 1444 01:15:34.880 --> 01:15:38.079 don't eat tomatoes, right, and it just happened to be 1445 01:15:38.199 --> 01:15:40.199 there and happened to have six legs. So what I'm 1446 01:15:40.279 --> 01:15:43.199 saying is either it's a good guy, or it's of 1447 01:15:43.359 --> 01:15:47.079 no significance at all to your garden, or it's a 1448 01:15:47.159 --> 01:15:49.119 tiny sliver that would be a bad one. So just 1449 01:15:49.119 --> 01:15:52.640 because you see insects, assume they're not bad. There may 1450 01:15:52.680 --> 01:15:56.159 be bad, but that's the exception. Just because there's a 1451 01:15:56.199 --> 01:15:59.439 fungal organism or a bacteria doesn't mean it's bad the 1452 01:15:59.560 --> 01:16:02.840 majority of them, or of no significance, or they're actually helpful. 1453 01:16:03.159 --> 01:16:07.399 And there are many microbes and fungal organisms that are 1454 01:16:07.600 --> 01:16:11.319 almost essential to plants in the services that they provide 1455 01:16:11.399 --> 01:16:13.680 for them. So let's kind of back off, you know, 1456 01:16:14.399 --> 01:16:17.239 lay the spray gun down, step back away from the spray. 1457 01:16:17.680 --> 01:16:20.119 It's not necessary to kill everything that moves in the garden. 1458 01:16:20.159 --> 01:16:22.119 In fact, you shouldn't. It's a problem to do that. 1459 01:16:23.039 --> 01:16:27.359 That's your public service announcement for this morning. All right, Well, 1460 01:16:27.399 --> 01:16:31.479 here's another public service announcement. ACE Hardware. 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I 1472 01:17:01.359 --> 01:17:03.279 have to put a little thing on my calendar to 1473 01:17:03.359 --> 01:17:05.800 remember every month because I'll go three months and forget 1474 01:17:05.880 --> 01:17:08.439 to do it. Well, speaking of three months, you buy 1475 01:17:08.560 --> 01:17:11.720 three air filters at ACE and you get one free, 1476 01:17:11.880 --> 01:17:14.319 so you get an extra deal there. That's kind of 1477 01:17:14.359 --> 01:17:16.000 a cool deal. Do you want to redo your deck 1478 01:17:16.119 --> 01:17:17.600 or do you want to update some boards and maybe 1479 01:17:17.640 --> 01:17:20.159 do some resealing. They have just about everything you need 1480 01:17:20.279 --> 01:17:23.079 to get your deck job squared away. 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Hey, Mike, 1502 01:18:31.359 --> 01:18:32.319 welcome to garden Line. 1503 01:18:33.319 --> 01:18:37.520 Hey, thanks Jiv, Hey, I've got some cauliflower that the 1504 01:18:37.880 --> 01:18:42.039 heads of the I guess the plant itself, they're gradually 1505 01:18:42.119 --> 01:18:45.119 starting to turn purple. Do you have any idea what's 1506 01:18:45.119 --> 01:18:45.680 going on with that? 1507 01:18:48.079 --> 01:18:50.800 Sometimes there's a color change. There's actually a gene cauliflower 1508 01:18:50.880 --> 01:18:52.680 that can do that. You can buy a cauliflower that 1509 01:18:52.760 --> 01:18:55.760 has kind of a purplish color to it that they've 1510 01:18:55.800 --> 01:19:00.680 selected for that. There are stresses that can cause some changes. 1511 01:19:01.000 --> 01:19:04.520 Typically people like cauliflower that's all pretty and white. It 1512 01:19:04.560 --> 01:19:06.199 doesn't matter what color it is, you can eat it. 1513 01:19:06.479 --> 01:19:09.680 And so sometimes in the old days, people would pull 1514 01:19:09.720 --> 01:19:12.319 the cauliflower leaves up over the head and put a 1515 01:19:12.560 --> 01:19:16.199 put a clothesline clip on their clothespin to hold it 1516 01:19:16.439 --> 01:19:19.039 and keep the sunlight out so the head stays whiter 1517 01:19:19.119 --> 01:19:22.359 and doesn't turn kind of a tannish color. But it's 1518 01:19:22.840 --> 01:19:26.960 just for aesthetics, it just for now. They breed cauliflower 1519 01:19:27.359 --> 01:19:31.319 to have they call themself blanching varieties. The leaves naturally 1520 01:19:31.359 --> 01:19:33.159 grow up over the head and do the same thing. 1521 01:19:35.319 --> 01:19:37.159 Okay, I didn't know if there's some sort of virus 1522 01:19:37.319 --> 01:19:40.439 or fungal disease or something that's gotten into it. Because 1523 01:19:40.439 --> 01:19:42.880 they started out nights and white. It's just over a 1524 01:19:42.920 --> 01:19:45.199 period of four to five days. They're they're going to 1525 01:19:45.600 --> 01:19:46.640 darn their purple now. 1526 01:19:47.039 --> 01:19:51.079 So well, you may have gotten a variety that just 1527 01:19:51.199 --> 01:19:54.600 naturally does that. Go online and google around purple cauliflower 1528 01:19:55.319 --> 01:19:57.640 and let's see what I'm talking about. There's some there's 1529 01:19:57.720 --> 01:20:01.319 one type that has almost a cheesy orange yellow color. 1530 01:20:01.880 --> 01:20:04.039 Uh you know, I guess it looks like it's already 1531 01:20:04.039 --> 01:20:06.680 been buttered or something. I don't know, it's been dead 1532 01:20:06.760 --> 01:20:06.960 for that. 1533 01:20:07.239 --> 01:20:09.439 So crazy stuff. 1534 01:20:10.239 --> 01:20:13.399 Hey, you bet, thanks a lot, appreciate that. All we 1535 01:20:13.479 --> 01:20:15.680 ask is that you bring half your purple cauliflower to 1536 01:20:15.760 --> 01:20:18.039 the station as a gift, and we'll call it even 1537 01:20:18.119 --> 01:20:19.439 for this advice. Thank you, Mike. 1538 01:20:19.760 --> 01:20:20.920 I'll bring you a couple. 1539 01:20:22.680 --> 01:20:27.159 I'm kidding. I'm kidding. Thank you, Bye bye. That's the case. 1540 01:20:27.960 --> 01:20:32.279 Enchanted Forest down in Richmond Rosenberg is a haven for 1541 01:20:32.439 --> 01:20:34.680 fruit trees, and boy, now is the time to plant them. 1542 01:20:35.319 --> 01:20:37.399 It's a haven for a lot of things. But they've 1543 01:20:37.479 --> 01:20:41.000 got all kinds of low chill apples and peaches and plums. 1544 01:20:41.039 --> 01:20:43.560 They even have a like what they call three and 1545 01:20:43.760 --> 01:20:47.359 one trees that means they graft it was actually budded 1546 01:20:47.800 --> 01:20:51.600 three different varieties onto the same plant, So you don't 1547 01:20:51.600 --> 01:20:54.279 have room for three different apple trees or three different whatevers. 1548 01:20:55.119 --> 01:20:57.199 They can get your plant that's already got all three 1549 01:20:57.279 --> 01:20:59.000 in one plant. Is that cool or what? 1550 01:20:59.159 --> 01:20:59.279 Now? 1551 01:20:59.279 --> 01:21:01.319 You got a permium right, and don't let one take 1552 01:21:01.359 --> 01:21:03.239 over the other, you know, so you kind of each 1553 01:21:03.279 --> 01:21:05.359 of them gets about a third of the tree. But 1554 01:21:05.720 --> 01:21:08.880 what a cool deal. Now if you're into citrus, lots 1555 01:21:08.920 --> 01:21:11.800 of cold harty citrus, all kinds of citrus actually down there, 1556 01:21:11.840 --> 01:21:15.560 and they have the satsumas, which are probably as far 1557 01:21:15.640 --> 01:21:18.520 as orange type things that are the most cold hardy. 1558 01:21:18.560 --> 01:21:20.359 We have come cauch your a little cold heartier, but 1559 01:21:20.680 --> 01:21:23.880 they've got brown select incredibly sweet. They've got one called 1560 01:21:23.920 --> 01:21:27.560 Arctic frost bread by doctor Moy in San Antonio. Nice 1561 01:21:27.640 --> 01:21:31.239 fella now passed away, but it's cold harty down to 1562 01:21:31.399 --> 01:21:34.479 twelve degrees. Once it's established, not the first day you 1563 01:21:34.520 --> 01:21:36.239 put in the ground, but about three or four years 1564 01:21:36.279 --> 01:21:38.920 down the line, you're gonna have something. If the gradual 1565 01:21:39.000 --> 01:21:41.720 cooling occurs you it'll take it down into the mid 1566 01:21:41.840 --> 01:21:44.800 teen So that's amazing. Of course, when you're there, get 1567 01:21:44.840 --> 01:21:47.119 the tools, get the soil, get the fertilizer you need 1568 01:21:47.199 --> 01:21:50.159 for your fruit trees. And when you're there, walk around 1569 01:21:50.439 --> 01:21:53.479 because their selection of vegetables and herbs and flowers and 1570 01:21:53.560 --> 01:21:57.000 everything is amazing. Go to an Chenned Gardens, go to 1571 01:21:57.079 --> 01:21:59.720 in Chenned Forest. Those are both great places down there, 1572 01:22:00.119 --> 01:22:03.720 Chanted Forest. Right now, with those fruit trees they've got going, 1573 01:22:04.039 --> 01:22:07.960 you can create your own fruitful paradise. Yep, that's right, 1574 01:22:08.039 --> 01:22:10.560 your own little garden of eating e A t I 1575 01:22:10.840 --> 01:22:14.000 N Garden of eaten. It's a good idea. I need 1576 01:22:14.039 --> 01:22:18.399 to use that again down at Enchanted Forest and Richmond Rosenberg. 1577 01:22:18.560 --> 01:22:20.560 How fortunate are you guys that live down there, to 1578 01:22:20.640 --> 01:22:23.439 have both of those options available to you. All right, 1579 01:22:23.439 --> 01:22:26.720 I'm gonna take a break. We'll be right back. All right, folks, 1580 01:22:27.439 --> 01:22:34.039 we're back here we go or garden line seven one 1581 01:22:34.199 --> 01:22:38.600 three two one two k t r H. If you'd 1582 01:22:38.680 --> 01:22:41.640 like to be on, and if you're shy about being on, 1583 01:22:41.880 --> 01:22:44.039 I talk to people about this all the time. When 1584 01:22:44.079 --> 01:22:46.600 to do these appearances and go out and meet with 1585 01:22:46.680 --> 01:22:49.600 the folks that listen to the show, there's always be like, yeah, 1586 01:22:49.720 --> 01:22:51.520 I'm afraid to call in. I don't want to call in. 1587 01:22:51.760 --> 01:22:53.920 I'm afraid I'll look silly or whatever. You know, all 1588 01:22:53.960 --> 01:22:55.800 that kind of stuff. I get it. Okay, I get it. 1589 01:22:55.920 --> 01:22:59.039 I understand that. But listen, if you've listened to garden 1590 01:22:59.079 --> 01:23:03.319 Line very long, now you know I will. I'm here 1591 01:23:03.399 --> 01:23:05.359 for you. I got you. You don't have to worry 1592 01:23:05.359 --> 01:23:07.720 about that. We're not gonna We're not going to give 1593 01:23:07.720 --> 01:23:09.680 you a hard time about anything like that. And what 1594 01:23:09.880 --> 01:23:12.479 you think is a stupid question, somebody else has it too. 1595 01:23:12.800 --> 01:23:14.840 Don't be afraid of that. The way I like to 1596 01:23:14.920 --> 01:23:18.279 put it is, there's no stupid questions. There's just stupid answers. 1597 01:23:18.720 --> 01:23:22.000 So the pressure's on me, not you. I'll try to 1598 01:23:22.039 --> 01:23:24.800 avoid the stupid answers. Believe me, in my life I've 1599 01:23:24.800 --> 01:23:28.119 given more than one of those, so I'll stay away 1600 01:23:28.159 --> 01:23:30.119 from that. But just give me a call. You've got 1601 01:23:30.159 --> 01:23:32.319 a question. Somebody else will had the same question. I 1602 01:23:32.520 --> 01:23:34.960 guarantee you I see them all the time. I've been 1603 01:23:35.000 --> 01:23:37.840 doing this for over thirty five years now. First as 1604 01:23:37.880 --> 01:23:42.039 an Agrolife Extension horticulture agent with Texas and m Agrolife Extension. 1605 01:23:42.880 --> 01:23:45.000 Worked in Montgomery County for a while, I worked in 1606 01:23:45.079 --> 01:23:48.600 Travis County, over in Austin, worked in Harris County, worked 1607 01:23:48.640 --> 01:23:52.279 in Briseles County and then up in Braizis. I did 1608 01:23:52.359 --> 01:23:54.960 some radio, but certainly doing radio now. Then in the 1609 01:23:55.000 --> 01:24:00.399 Greater Houston area again. And it's amazing how the same 1610 01:24:00.680 --> 01:24:03.760 kinds of questions come around each year, but there's always 1611 01:24:04.079 --> 01:24:06.960 something new. I always get a question this like, yeah, 1612 01:24:07.199 --> 01:24:10.000 no one's ever asked me that before. You know, there's 1613 01:24:10.039 --> 01:24:14.600 a first for everything, and that's okay, that's what makes 1614 01:24:14.640 --> 01:24:18.079 it fun. All right, Well, I want to talk a 1615 01:24:18.119 --> 01:24:25.079 little bit about the Southwest Fertilizer. Southwest Fertilizer Company. Southwest 1616 01:24:25.119 --> 01:24:29.439 Fertilizer is an institution. It's been around since the nineteen fifties. 1617 01:24:29.800 --> 01:24:34.119 You know that a Southwest Fertilizer was advertising on Garden 1618 01:24:34.199 --> 01:24:36.000 Line before it was called garden Line back in the 1619 01:24:36.039 --> 01:24:40.279 Dewey Compton days. I'm the fifth host to talk about 1620 01:24:40.600 --> 01:24:43.479 Southwest Fertilizer here on the radio. Is that amazing. They 1621 01:24:43.520 --> 01:24:47.600 are now celebrating their seventieth year. So happy birthday, Happy 1622 01:24:47.640 --> 01:24:54.600 birthday to Southwest Fertilizer. I'm really I'm enthusiastic about the place. 1623 01:24:54.600 --> 01:24:56.600 I don't tell you why. When you walk in there, 1624 01:24:57.119 --> 01:24:58.600 everything you need is there. 1625 01:24:58.800 --> 01:24:59.640 It is it. 1626 01:25:00.600 --> 01:25:03.039 There's never been a product name come out of my mouth. 1627 01:25:03.079 --> 01:25:05.680 That's not a Southwest fertilizer, and there won't be because 1628 01:25:05.800 --> 01:25:08.560 they have at all. If they don't have it, you 1629 01:25:08.680 --> 01:25:10.359 don't need it. That's the way I like to put it. 1630 01:25:10.680 --> 01:25:13.720 Because they have it all. You walk in there with 1631 01:25:13.800 --> 01:25:16.760 a problem, they'll take you to the product that will 1632 01:25:16.840 --> 01:25:19.720 fix it. And if it's not a problem, they'll look 1633 01:25:19.720 --> 01:25:21.680 at it and they go, no, that's not that bug's 1634 01:25:21.760 --> 01:25:23.680 not a problem for your plant. So you just happen 1635 01:25:23.720 --> 01:25:26.079 to capture him and when he was out in the garden, 1636 01:25:26.279 --> 01:25:28.479 he's okay. They're not going to sell you something you 1637 01:25:28.520 --> 01:25:30.840 don't need at Southwest Fertilizer. Now, if you need to 1638 01:25:30.880 --> 01:25:33.439 prevent product right now, it's time to get the barricade out. 1639 01:25:34.039 --> 01:25:37.439 It is time to get the barricade out, and they 1640 01:25:37.640 --> 01:25:41.119 have it. And the reason I stress that is because 1641 01:25:41.520 --> 01:25:44.039 we have a window where we put down a product 1642 01:25:44.119 --> 01:25:47.439 like barricade. The pre emergent watered in and then here 1643 01:25:47.479 --> 01:25:49.600 come the warm season weeds. When the soil tip hits 1644 01:25:49.640 --> 01:25:53.880 fifty five, crabgrass starts to germinate. Soil temperature fifty five, 1645 01:25:54.439 --> 01:25:57.159 crabgrass starts to germinate, and so it's time to get 1646 01:25:57.199 --> 01:25:59.439 it down. If you wait until a month and a 1647 01:25:59.479 --> 01:26:02.600 half from now they're going to have all sprouted. I mean, 1648 01:26:02.640 --> 01:26:05.159 though there's weeds sprouting every month of the year, but 1649 01:26:05.399 --> 01:26:07.439 the bulk of it that you're trying to stop, you 1650 01:26:07.520 --> 01:26:08.760 got to do it now. If you're going to do that, 1651 01:26:08.800 --> 01:26:10.600 And you can see that on a schedule online. Go 1652 01:26:10.680 --> 01:26:13.840 to gardening with skip dot com find my lawn pest 1653 01:26:14.000 --> 01:26:17.520 disease and weed management schedule. There's two schedules that are 1654 01:26:17.560 --> 01:26:20.239 both free. Look at it and see when it tells 1655 01:26:20.239 --> 01:26:21.880 you to put that down and it's now, we got 1656 01:26:22.000 --> 01:26:26.039 to get it down now. Okay. Southwest has it herbicides, 1657 01:26:26.039 --> 01:26:28.800 sponge sides, and sexticides. They have a better selection than 1658 01:26:28.840 --> 01:26:31.359 anybody in the city. And if you're hearing me say 1659 01:26:31.359 --> 01:26:33.399 all these things and you're going those are chemicals, and 1660 01:26:33.439 --> 01:26:38.239 I'm an organic gardener. They have the biggest organic gardening 1661 01:26:38.640 --> 01:26:41.760 section of anybody in the city, the whole region. Really, 1662 01:26:42.319 --> 01:26:45.399 it is amazing what they have. They have tools. It's 1663 01:26:45.479 --> 01:26:48.079 printing season. Get you a quality tool that will last 1664 01:26:48.159 --> 01:26:50.520 you forever, like a folk or a corona for example. 1665 01:26:51.039 --> 01:26:54.359 Get you that garden kneeling seat that I always talk 1666 01:26:54.399 --> 01:26:56.359 about on guardline. I think it's such a great one 1667 01:26:56.399 --> 01:26:59.399 of my top five favorite. I'll call it a tool 1668 01:26:59.680 --> 01:27:02.800 that I in the garden. It's all there, seed Starting. 1669 01:27:03.520 --> 01:27:07.119 Seed Starting supplies, big bins of seed. You just buy 1670 01:27:07.119 --> 01:27:11.039 it by the scoop, very very economical packages of seed. 1671 01:27:11.640 --> 01:27:14.279 Anything you need to start seeds, they've got it right 1672 01:27:14.359 --> 01:27:17.119 there at Southwest Fertilizer corner of bus Net and Renwick. 1673 01:27:17.840 --> 01:27:20.680 Southwest Fertilizer dot Com corner of bus Net and Renwick. 1674 01:27:20.720 --> 01:27:24.880 They have friendly service there, quality products. I would say 1675 01:27:24.880 --> 01:27:27.359 a great selection, but it's greater than great. It is 1676 01:27:27.479 --> 01:27:33.960 a complete everything selection Southwest Fertilizer. Now, if you rather 1677 01:27:34.039 --> 01:27:35.880 drive around shopping all the time trying to find this, 1678 01:27:36.000 --> 01:27:37.680 that and the other, well I guess that you can 1679 01:27:37.760 --> 01:27:40.960 do that, but this is a one stop shop. Let's 1680 01:27:41.000 --> 01:27:43.640 now go out and talk to Blake here on Guardline. 1681 01:27:43.640 --> 01:27:45.159 Hey Blake, welcome to the show. 1682 01:27:46.600 --> 01:27:47.560 Oh thank you. 1683 01:27:49.159 --> 01:27:54.039 So, I'm curious since after the freeze, I noticed that 1684 01:27:55.199 --> 01:27:58.119 the tops of my pineapple plants look dead. 1685 01:27:58.199 --> 01:28:00.439 But underneath where I like to them. 1686 01:28:00.359 --> 01:28:04.920 With a bunch of waltz, there's some grand leaves. 1687 01:28:05.600 --> 01:28:08.319 Is is that a good time that they're still alive? 1688 01:28:11.399 --> 01:28:16.279 Yes? The base probably is going to be Okay, now 1689 01:28:16.439 --> 01:28:20.079 you you have a plant that doesn't have a pineapple 1690 01:28:20.199 --> 01:28:23.079 on it yet. Correct, Correct? 1691 01:28:23.119 --> 01:28:26.239 I just planted the top all back into spring. 1692 01:28:26.399 --> 01:28:30.640 Yeah, it will probably come back out of the center. 1693 01:28:30.760 --> 01:28:32.439 And you know, I'm not there looking at it and 1694 01:28:32.520 --> 01:28:34.560 poking around on it, so I can't tell you for sure, 1695 01:28:35.159 --> 01:28:38.279 but it probably is going to come back. If you 1696 01:28:38.359 --> 01:28:40.920 had a good mulch on it, it might. If not, 1697 01:28:41.079 --> 01:28:42.920 you can cut another top off. It doesn't take that 1698 01:28:43.039 --> 01:28:44.880 long to get back in business with a with a 1699 01:28:44.960 --> 01:28:46.479 new pineapple. 1700 01:28:50.279 --> 01:28:53.680 And I know that you said did not over to 1701 01:28:53.760 --> 01:28:59.479 avoid over watering in the winter. Yes, I know that 1702 01:28:59.560 --> 01:29:04.920 there's a old time coming in next week. But other 1703 01:29:04.960 --> 01:29:08.039 than that, it almost feels like an early spring after 1704 01:29:08.159 --> 01:29:08.760 that gold. 1705 01:29:09.159 --> 01:29:14.119 Well it does. Yeah, that's right. Like you know what, 1706 01:29:14.439 --> 01:29:17.600 here's the thing about watering. It's not the water that 1707 01:29:17.720 --> 01:29:20.399 kills plants. It's the lack of oxygen in the roots. 1708 01:29:20.920 --> 01:29:23.960 And so when we overwater a plant, we're not killing 1709 01:29:24.039 --> 01:29:26.640 it with water. We're killing it because we're submerging the 1710 01:29:26.760 --> 01:29:29.079 roots and they can't get oxygen and they start to 1711 01:29:29.159 --> 01:29:29.359 do it. 1712 01:29:30.479 --> 01:29:30.520 So. 1713 01:29:31.079 --> 01:29:35.039 Uh so with your pineapple, more important than just what 1714 01:29:35.239 --> 01:29:37.720 season is it and watering, it's it's do. I have 1715 01:29:37.880 --> 01:29:40.399 really good drainage, so if I water, it runs out 1716 01:29:40.520 --> 01:29:44.279 and the and the root system still has oxygen available. 1717 01:29:44.600 --> 01:29:45.520 That that's what's. 1718 01:29:45.359 --> 01:29:50.279 Important, because I know that I kind of dug a 1719 01:29:50.319 --> 01:29:56.319 hole in order to give it some room before the 1720 01:29:56.439 --> 01:29:59.800 roots hit the clay. Yeah hopefully. 1721 01:30:00.079 --> 01:30:04.960 Yeah, Well, good luck with it, and send me a picture. 1722 01:30:05.239 --> 01:30:07.239 Send me a picture if you get the thing to 1723 01:30:07.359 --> 01:30:10.359 a fruit. I'd love to see that. You take care 1724 01:30:10.600 --> 01:30:13.600 appreciate that. I was talking about South. What's fertilizer having everything? 1725 01:30:13.680 --> 01:30:13.800 You know? 1726 01:30:13.880 --> 01:30:16.520 What they got is ever Medina product just about that 1727 01:30:16.680 --> 01:30:19.920 there is on the earth, like astro grow six twelve six. 1728 01:30:20.039 --> 01:30:23.479 That's the one that's got nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, the 1729 01:30:23.520 --> 01:30:27.720 six twelve six high middle number because roots especially need 1730 01:30:27.840 --> 01:30:31.239 that phosphorus. It's got Medina soil activator in it, which 1731 01:30:31.279 --> 01:30:35.279 stimulates biological activity. It's got humate, which is a humic acid, 1732 01:30:35.720 --> 01:30:38.760 and we know humus and humic acids and things improve 1733 01:30:38.880 --> 01:30:41.800 sol structure. Therefore you have a better root system with 1734 01:30:41.880 --> 01:30:45.279 better nutrient uptake. It's got seaweed extracts. Basically, it's got 1735 01:30:45.319 --> 01:30:49.000 everything you need. It's great for watering and transplants. That's 1736 01:30:49.039 --> 01:30:51.239 how I mainly use it, but you can do it 1737 01:30:51.359 --> 01:30:53.760 as a folier feed. It won't burn your plants. You 1738 01:30:53.840 --> 01:30:57.199 can improve your fruiting and blooming and things by continuing 1739 01:30:57.239 --> 01:30:59.680 to foli your feed with that or drench the soil. 1740 01:31:00.000 --> 01:31:01.399 The way you go about it, it's going to build 1741 01:31:01.399 --> 01:31:05.199 a biological activity in your soil. Medina has to grow 1742 01:31:05.680 --> 01:31:10.760 six twelve six plant food. Let's head out to let's 1743 01:31:10.760 --> 01:31:13.319 see here. We're going to go to lakeside of States 1744 01:31:13.520 --> 01:31:16.079 and Marine. I'm picking you up here with about a 1745 01:31:16.159 --> 01:31:18.119 minute to go, but we'll see how far are we get. 1746 01:31:18.359 --> 01:31:19.840 We'll come back to you after break. 1747 01:31:20.079 --> 01:31:22.359 I think we need to Okay, No, I don't think 1748 01:31:22.399 --> 01:31:27.319 we'll do that Nutsedge. I think I have the first 1749 01:31:28.159 --> 01:31:30.239 blooming or whatever. 1750 01:31:29.960 --> 01:31:30.520 You want to call it. 1751 01:31:30.840 --> 01:31:33.840 I do remember you talking about it over and over again. 1752 01:31:34.319 --> 01:31:36.920 I just need a quick refresher. I know that I 1753 01:31:37.000 --> 01:31:39.800 got to get started, okay, and keep going back. So 1754 01:31:39.960 --> 01:31:41.000 give me their product. 1755 01:31:41.159 --> 01:31:45.239 Yeah, okay. First of all, I highly recommend you go 1756 01:31:45.319 --> 01:31:48.600 to gardening with Skip dot com. I have a publication 1757 01:31:49.039 --> 01:31:51.800 called Nutsedge, an in depth look, and if you read that, 1758 01:31:51.880 --> 01:31:55.439 it'll help you understand how to do it. Because people 1759 01:31:55.600 --> 01:31:58.000 squirt it and say, oh, that didn't work and stuff. 1760 01:31:58.079 --> 01:31:59.880 It'll help you understand how to do it. But here's 1761 01:32:00.079 --> 01:32:04.279 the name of the product. Uh, there's several different products 1762 01:32:04.279 --> 01:32:07.359 that have the same ingredient. One is called sedge hammer, 1763 01:32:08.640 --> 01:32:12.359 and what is called sedge ender, and there's some others 1764 01:32:12.479 --> 01:32:15.720 and they're on that publication. But there's the that's the 1765 01:32:15.880 --> 01:32:18.520 best product to control nuts edge. But you got to 1766 01:32:18.560 --> 01:32:21.079 read the publication because how and when and how many 1767 01:32:21.199 --> 01:32:22.760 leaves should it have before you spray it. 1768 01:32:22.880 --> 01:32:26.319 It's all on that publication, all right, fabus, I knew 1769 01:32:26.359 --> 01:32:31.039 all right, senselessly, thank you, all right. 1770 01:32:31.359 --> 01:32:33.159 You take care, all right, folks, I'm at a break. 1771 01:32:33.199 --> 01:32:35.000 When we come back rich in spring, you'll be the 1772 01:32:35.039 --> 01:32:41.319 first up. Thanks all right, Welcome back, Welcome back to 1773 01:32:41.439 --> 01:32:46.199 garden lines. And when you think about RCW Garden Center, 1774 01:32:46.359 --> 01:32:49.199 RCW Nursery, which is right there wherell Tomball Parkway and 1775 01:32:49.279 --> 01:32:52.159 belt Way it comes together, you probably think about their 1776 01:32:52.199 --> 01:32:54.920 trees and shrubs because they grow on themselves up in Plantersville. 1777 01:32:55.079 --> 01:32:59.079 They you know, listen, they know what grows here and 1778 01:32:59.199 --> 01:33:01.479 that's all they grow. They grow things that want to 1779 01:33:01.560 --> 01:33:03.920 grow here, not stuff that's gonna die because you know, 1780 01:33:04.199 --> 01:33:07.159 lose spruce from Colorado for crying out loud. No, they 1781 01:33:07.239 --> 01:33:10.520 grow things that want to grow here. But someone asked 1782 01:33:10.520 --> 01:33:14.960 me that they does RCW Nursery have roses, and I said, 1783 01:33:15.039 --> 01:33:17.000 does a one legged ducks swim in a circle. Of 1784 01:33:17.079 --> 01:33:20.640 course they have roses. They've got the best selection roses 1785 01:33:20.680 --> 01:33:24.239 you're gonna find anywhere. Hundreds hundreds of types of roses. Now, 1786 01:33:24.600 --> 01:33:27.680 every day you wait, there's less and less because people 1787 01:33:27.800 --> 01:33:29.159 come and buy them and they sell out and they 1788 01:33:29.159 --> 01:33:32.000 don't reorder. It's a spring thing. Primarily they have roses 1789 01:33:32.039 --> 01:33:34.119 you're around. But I'm just saying, if you want the 1790 01:33:34.239 --> 01:33:38.920 best selection, go there now. RCW Nurseries corn of Beltway 1791 01:33:39.000 --> 01:33:44.119 eight and Tomball Parkway r cwnurseries dot com. They are 1792 01:33:44.199 --> 01:33:46.560 the get it god at nursery, meaning if they don't 1793 01:33:46.680 --> 01:33:48.640 have it, they probably can get it for you. Just 1794 01:33:48.720 --> 01:33:51.560 go talk to them. Great family, Williams and fam just 1795 01:33:52.239 --> 01:33:56.600 really quality products. And right now, I mean, what February 1796 01:33:56.800 --> 01:33:59.479 Valentine's Day you think you might come up with a 1797 01:33:59.520 --> 01:34:01.199 good gift from somebody on your list. 1798 01:34:01.520 --> 01:34:01.920 You bet. 1799 01:34:02.119 --> 01:34:05.239 A rose bush is the gift that keeps giving every 1800 01:34:05.359 --> 01:34:07.319 year when it blooms. They're going to remember you go 1801 01:34:07.399 --> 01:34:10.760 by RCW and grab you one. We're going to go 1802 01:34:10.880 --> 01:34:14.920 now out to spring and talk to Rich. Hello Rich, 1803 01:34:15.119 --> 01:34:16.640 and welcome to garden Line. 1804 01:34:17.640 --> 01:34:20.520 Good morning, Skip, Thanks for taking my call. I have 1805 01:34:20.640 --> 01:34:23.840 a Saint Augustine lawn. I have not put any pre 1806 01:34:23.920 --> 01:34:28.680 emergent down yet. I'm looking or considering doing a split 1807 01:34:28.800 --> 01:34:33.199 application of pro diamine and then following it up maybe 1808 01:34:33.279 --> 01:34:36.840 in forty five days or so with dittyal pier. What 1809 01:34:36.960 --> 01:34:38.039 are your thoughts about that. 1810 01:34:40.199 --> 01:34:43.840 I wouldn't use two pre emergents in the same season. 1811 01:34:44.960 --> 01:34:49.840 I would pick one, okay, because pre emergence work. 1812 01:34:50.199 --> 01:34:53.399 By the only thing I was considering doing it. It 1813 01:34:53.760 --> 01:34:58.560 is because I've had a couple places where crabgrass has 1814 01:34:58.640 --> 01:35:01.479 popped up even after the app application of the pro diamine, 1815 01:35:02.159 --> 01:35:06.600 and with ditthio pears, post emergent help with young crabgrass. 1816 01:35:06.680 --> 01:35:08.000 That's why I was considering it. 1817 01:35:09.760 --> 01:35:13.319 Yeah, well, I would, you know, pick one and go 1818 01:35:13.479 --> 01:35:15.399 with it. And and the reason is they both work. 1819 01:35:15.720 --> 01:35:17.960 Those two products both work the same way. When a 1820 01:35:18.079 --> 01:35:20.239 weed route tries to come out of the seed and 1821 01:35:20.439 --> 01:35:24.239 establish it shuts it shuts it down and it can't 1822 01:35:24.439 --> 01:35:28.119 form the root down and if you overdo it, it 1823 01:35:28.199 --> 01:35:30.600 can have that effect on your grass. You're saying, Augustine 1824 01:35:30.680 --> 01:35:32.479 or whatever you have is trying to put roots down 1825 01:35:32.560 --> 01:35:36.000 too and and it it it's and it doesn't kill 1826 01:35:36.039 --> 01:35:38.239 the grass. It just stops the root growth for a 1827 01:35:38.279 --> 01:35:40.359 period of time until it all breaks down and then 1828 01:35:40.399 --> 01:35:42.439 the roots can grow. But when we get into summer 1829 01:35:42.520 --> 01:35:45.119 drought and things, you don't want a limited root system. 1830 01:35:45.239 --> 01:35:48.680 So using the right amount according to the label is fine. 1831 01:35:48.880 --> 01:35:52.039 Just I would not use both products. I would pick 1832 01:35:52.079 --> 01:35:53.760 the wine and go for it. And I think you'll 1833 01:35:53.800 --> 01:35:54.800 be fine either way. 1834 01:35:54.920 --> 01:35:58.079 But appreciate that, Scott, Thank you. 1835 01:35:58.159 --> 01:35:58.399 Skip. 1836 01:35:59.279 --> 01:36:02.159 Yeah, you bet You've got no problem. Thanks Rich, appreciate 1837 01:36:02.239 --> 01:36:07.000 that a lot. I want to tell you about someone 1838 01:36:07.159 --> 01:36:10.760 who is new here on Guardline, and that is year 1839 01:36:11.199 --> 01:36:15.279 round Houston dot Com. Now we've been looking for a 1840 01:36:16.399 --> 01:36:21.159 compost top dressing and core aeration company that could serve 1841 01:36:21.560 --> 01:36:24.399 kind of the inner city, the inside the Ludwell inner city, 1842 01:36:24.640 --> 01:36:29.119 inside the Beltway primarily and year around Houston. Is that company. 1843 01:36:29.319 --> 01:36:31.680 They are specialists when it comes to doing the core 1844 01:36:31.760 --> 01:36:36.039 aeration and the coppost top dressing. You can do it yourself. 1845 01:36:36.439 --> 01:36:39.399 It's not complicated, but it is very cumbersome, and chances 1846 01:36:39.439 --> 01:36:41.680 are you're not going to have the equipment to do 1847 01:36:42.000 --> 01:36:46.039 a true core aeration to pop a good depth of 1848 01:36:46.199 --> 01:36:48.560 plug out of the soil and drop it on the surface. 1849 01:36:49.319 --> 01:36:52.000 So save yourself the hassle of renting and transporting and 1850 01:36:52.119 --> 01:36:54.359 cleaning and returning the machines and all that kind of stuff. 1851 01:36:54.359 --> 01:36:57.359 Big posit compost in your driveway. Just get year round 1852 01:36:57.399 --> 01:37:01.359 to come out. They use quality screened compos plant based 1853 01:37:01.920 --> 01:37:05.319 is not compost. It stinks. This is quality product, so 1854 01:37:05.479 --> 01:37:07.800 that and it's a fine screen so it settles down 1855 01:37:07.840 --> 01:37:11.520 into your lawn. And so if you live inside the Beltway, 1856 01:37:11.720 --> 01:37:15.520 if you are over maybe out in the Richmond Rosenberg area, 1857 01:37:15.680 --> 01:37:18.159 that's another area that they will cover and just you 1858 01:37:18.159 --> 01:37:19.600 even give them a call. There are a few other 1859 01:37:19.640 --> 01:37:24.279 areas they'll reach out to. But year round Houston dot com. 1860 01:37:24.439 --> 01:37:28.000 Simple as that, easy to remember. Year round Houston dot 1861 01:37:28.079 --> 01:37:30.720 com for all of you inside the Beltway and out 1862 01:37:30.760 --> 01:37:35.079 there in the Richmond Rosenberg area. Eight three two eight 1863 01:37:35.119 --> 01:37:38.680 eight four fifty three thirty five. I'll say that again. 1864 01:37:38.920 --> 01:37:43.359 Eight three two eight eight four fifty three thirty five. 1865 01:37:43.520 --> 01:37:46.279 Year round Houston dot com. If you want your lawn 1866 01:37:46.359 --> 01:37:50.039 to look good. There's nothing, no single thing you do 1867 01:37:50.159 --> 01:37:53.239 to it that makes more of an impressive difference over 1868 01:37:53.359 --> 01:37:56.720 time to improve that situation the soil and the lawn 1869 01:37:57.279 --> 01:38:02.880 than year round Houston's top with compost and core aerration. 1870 01:38:03.319 --> 01:38:07.560 Those practices are very important. We're going to go out 1871 01:38:07.600 --> 01:38:10.920 to Conro now and talk to Marie. Hello, Marie, welcome 1872 01:38:10.960 --> 01:38:11.560 to garden Line. 1873 01:38:12.880 --> 01:38:14.439 Well Skip Skiff. 1874 01:38:14.560 --> 01:38:16.760 I have a question in regards to timing. 1875 01:38:17.399 --> 01:38:21.199 I have an Encore royal amethyst assalia that has been 1876 01:38:21.359 --> 01:38:23.479 established for over ten fifteen years. 1877 01:38:23.640 --> 01:38:25.239 It's about four and a half be tall. 1878 01:38:26.000 --> 01:38:29.359 I am planning to trim it some of your well 1879 01:38:29.399 --> 01:38:35.720 at least halfway and relocate her to a different bed, either. 1880 01:38:35.800 --> 01:38:38.479 This weekend or next weekend. 1881 01:38:39.680 --> 01:38:43.560 Of course, the Encore astalia's bloomed throughout the year sporadically. 1882 01:38:44.199 --> 01:38:51.039 So my question is this, Am I timing doing this okay? 1883 01:38:51.479 --> 01:38:52.560 Or should I wait? 1884 01:38:54.600 --> 01:38:57.600 That's a really good question, Marie, because what you're doing 1885 01:38:57.760 --> 01:39:02.479 here is you're juggling a couple couple of conflicting factors. 1886 01:39:03.119 --> 01:39:06.640 The best time to move that azalea is fall through winter, 1887 01:39:07.000 --> 01:39:08.840 so we're getting at the end of the best time 1888 01:39:08.920 --> 01:39:12.119 to get it moved now it wouldn't be the best 1889 01:39:12.159 --> 01:39:15.319 time to do pruning because even the encores. Your spring 1890 01:39:15.439 --> 01:39:17.960 bloom is a big deal, and as you prune it, 1891 01:39:18.119 --> 01:39:21.399 you're removing the buds for spring. But it's more important 1892 01:39:21.439 --> 01:39:24.159 that the thing survives than that it blooms the spring. 1893 01:39:24.880 --> 01:39:26.560 I mean, if you can get it to survive, it 1894 01:39:26.600 --> 01:39:28.760 will continue on and you'll you'll have what you want 1895 01:39:28.800 --> 01:39:31.039 out of the plant. So I would move it now. 1896 01:39:31.199 --> 01:39:35.039 I would prune as needed in the move, get wider 1897 01:39:35.359 --> 01:39:37.880 rather than deeper when you dig it up. In other words, 1898 01:39:38.479 --> 01:39:41.560 you know, if you even got down four to six 1899 01:39:41.640 --> 01:39:45.039 inches below the surface and just kind of horizontally shoved 1900 01:39:45.079 --> 01:39:48.520 your flat shovel underneath the plant, slide it up onto 1901 01:39:48.560 --> 01:39:50.640 a tarp, drag it to its new spot. You never 1902 01:39:50.720 --> 01:39:52.439 have to lift it up that way, and you know 1903 01:39:52.520 --> 01:39:54.079 you won't have to go to the chiropractor with that 1904 01:39:54.199 --> 01:39:57.640 kind of thing, and then slide it into its new spot, 1905 01:39:57.760 --> 01:40:00.479 watered in really good, make sure and keep it adequately 1906 01:40:00.560 --> 01:40:02.039 moist on a regular basis. 1907 01:40:02.079 --> 01:40:02.239 There. 1908 01:40:03.039 --> 01:40:06.920 I think that's your best bet for that Azalea wonderful. 1909 01:40:07.000 --> 01:40:09.359 I had hoped to have moved it before during the 1910 01:40:09.399 --> 01:40:14.319 winter time, but she was a soul florifous. 1911 01:40:14.560 --> 01:40:18.600 I mean she was flowering sadly, like she knew what 1912 01:40:18.760 --> 01:40:21.159 I had in mind, and she I just could not bear. 1913 01:40:21.239 --> 01:40:21.640 That's right. 1914 01:40:23.079 --> 01:40:25.359 Cut off all those blooms. Yeah, wonderful. 1915 01:40:28.960 --> 01:40:31.680 Yeah, that's right. Okay, Marie, thank you, good luck with that. 1916 01:40:31.920 --> 01:40:34.039 I appreciate you call very much. Folks. I'm gonna have 1917 01:40:34.119 --> 01:40:35.600 to run here for a break. I'll be back with 1918 01:40:35.760 --> 01:40:40.039 Doug and Katie and George and Parland. We are back. 1919 01:40:40.439 --> 01:40:43.319 She was welcome back to garden Line, and we're here 1920 01:40:43.359 --> 01:40:45.279 to answer your gardening question. I'm going the whole calls 1921 01:40:45.319 --> 01:40:47.039 here for we got a few on the board, and 1922 01:40:47.319 --> 01:40:50.039 we were right near the top of the hour. Listen 1923 01:40:50.079 --> 01:40:54.720 to Nelson. Plant Food is a purveyor of quality products. 1924 01:40:54.800 --> 01:40:56.520 They have a number of lines. They've got the Turf 1925 01:40:56.600 --> 01:40:59.039 Star line for lawns. They've got the Nutri Star line 1926 01:40:59.119 --> 01:41:02.119 for specific time types of plants, and I'll come back 1927 01:41:02.159 --> 01:41:03.399 to that in just a second. And then they have 1928 01:41:03.680 --> 01:41:06.439 the Nature Star line, and they've got oh gosh, there's 1929 01:41:06.520 --> 01:41:09.079 there's some more at Color Star. I can I forget 1930 01:41:09.159 --> 01:41:12.079 that one. Most famous one they got probably well in 1931 01:41:12.159 --> 01:41:14.319 the Nutri Star line. They have a tree and Shrub 1932 01:41:14.560 --> 01:41:18.279 It's good for any woody ornamental that you have. Any 1933 01:41:18.319 --> 01:41:22.399 woody ornaments got five sources of nitrogen. Slow feeding promotes 1934 01:41:22.439 --> 01:41:25.000 healthy growth. You play it about every three to four months. 1935 01:41:25.159 --> 01:41:27.840 That way you'll spread it out. It's got micronutrients for 1936 01:41:28.319 --> 01:41:32.359 especially healthy growth and vitality by giving that plant everything 1937 01:41:32.439 --> 01:41:34.039 it needs. Now, I don't care what kind of tree 1938 01:41:34.079 --> 01:41:37.439 or shrub you have. This stuff works nutristar, tree and shrub. 1939 01:41:37.920 --> 01:41:39.439 The other nutri star I want to tell you about, 1940 01:41:39.439 --> 01:41:41.800 and there's only eight hundred of the month there citrus 1941 01:41:42.039 --> 01:41:47.000 fruit and avocado essential nutrients again for these types of 1942 01:41:47.079 --> 01:41:50.199 fruiting plants. Again about every three months. Give it a feeding. 1943 01:41:50.560 --> 01:41:52.439 You can get it in a little canistir jar. There's 1944 01:41:52.479 --> 01:41:54.640 even places in town where you can get refills on 1945 01:41:55.119 --> 01:41:59.199 various kinds of Nelson plant food products. Now, this product 1946 01:41:59.279 --> 01:42:01.199 works on all all of the fruit and nut trees. 1947 01:42:01.239 --> 01:42:05.000 It says citrus fruit and avocado. Fruit means fruit, peaches, plum, 1948 01:42:05.119 --> 01:42:07.479 you got. Just go for it, whether they're in a 1949 01:42:07.560 --> 01:42:11.079 container or whether they're in the landscape. Nutri Star citrus 1950 01:42:11.239 --> 01:42:13.760 fruit and avocado give them a little boost as they grow. 1951 01:42:14.319 --> 01:42:18.319 Good growth, good sunshine means good production and that's why 1952 01:42:18.359 --> 01:42:20.560 you're growing the things. All right, We're going to run 1953 01:42:20.640 --> 01:42:23.279 out here and talk to Doug in Katie. Hello, Doug, 1954 01:42:23.359 --> 01:42:24.279 Welcome to Gardenline. 1955 01:42:25.159 --> 01:42:28.399 Thank you, sir. I appreciate your appreciate your call. I 1956 01:42:28.520 --> 01:42:31.239 know you've addressed this before and I misplaced my notes. 1957 01:42:32.279 --> 01:42:37.800 Your recommendation for drop spreader settings for the products I'm 1958 01:42:37.800 --> 01:42:41.399 looking at are Barricade, the micro Life six two four, 1959 01:42:41.560 --> 01:42:42.239 and Sweet Green. 1960 01:42:45.680 --> 01:42:49.720 Yes, so when you're here, here's the thing. It ought 1961 01:42:49.800 --> 01:42:52.239 to be on a lot of the bags of those products. 1962 01:42:52.279 --> 01:42:53.159 If you have you checked on. 1963 01:42:53.199 --> 01:42:55.640 The bag for the specific product, yeah, I think, and 1964 01:42:55.800 --> 01:42:59.439 they probably are are for broadcast spreaders. Again, this is 1965 01:42:59.520 --> 01:43:01.239 a Scott's drop spreader. 1966 01:43:03.960 --> 01:43:06.520 Yeah, I'll tell you on that one. I would need 1967 01:43:06.600 --> 01:43:09.039 to take a look at it. Here's the deal. Different 1968 01:43:09.159 --> 01:43:12.439 particle sizes are going to drop at a different rate, 1969 01:43:12.920 --> 01:43:15.439 and so that that makes it, you know, kind of 1970 01:43:15.479 --> 01:43:19.520 difficult to know exactly, you know, to give you a 1971 01:43:19.640 --> 01:43:23.399 specific number on those, I don't know. I'm a little 1972 01:43:23.800 --> 01:43:25.199 I'm a little hesitant on that. 1973 01:43:26.279 --> 01:43:33.399 So let me ask you. You gave some general guidance 1974 01:43:33.520 --> 01:43:37.680 on a on a percentage of the maximum settings on 1975 01:43:37.800 --> 01:43:38.680 the spreader. 1976 01:43:38.399 --> 01:43:47.039 For for yeah, yes, and I remember what you're I 1977 01:43:47.159 --> 01:43:49.520 remember what you're talking about. Let me let me hunt 1978 01:43:49.560 --> 01:43:51.439 that down and pull it up, and I'll mention it 1979 01:43:51.560 --> 01:43:53.880 on the air here just in a little bit. I 1980 01:43:54.039 --> 01:43:57.720 just know that whatever numbers I give you, or whatever 1981 01:43:57.840 --> 01:44:00.359 number you see on a bag, what I would commend 1982 01:44:00.520 --> 01:44:03.520 is going way under that initially and going across your 1983 01:44:03.560 --> 01:44:06.840 lawn one direction. Let's just say it's north south right, 1984 01:44:06.920 --> 01:44:10.119 and hopefully not using even half of it, and then 1985 01:44:10.199 --> 01:44:12.600 that way you can come back east west and use 1986 01:44:12.640 --> 01:44:18.399 the other half. It is more important that you underdo 1987 01:44:18.520 --> 01:44:20.720 it so that you don't run out and now you've 1988 01:44:20.760 --> 01:44:24.920 overdone it on a So I actually I do remember 1989 01:44:24.960 --> 01:44:27.399 the numbers that I've given you. I don't remember distinguishing 1990 01:44:27.560 --> 01:44:33.239 between drop or the whirlybird spreaders. But on a on 1991 01:44:33.319 --> 01:44:36.640 a regular walk behind spreader, if it's a fertilizer, you 1992 01:44:36.720 --> 01:44:39.520 put it about a notch or two above halfway. So 1993 01:44:39.600 --> 01:44:42.319 if there were twenty notches, you would go to eleven 1994 01:44:42.399 --> 01:44:46.000 or twelve. Okay, a notch or two above halfway. If 1995 01:44:46.000 --> 01:44:49.279 there's only I'll be ridiculous, but five notches, it would 1996 01:44:49.279 --> 01:44:51.279 be a three that you would go to. Okay, on 1997 01:44:51.760 --> 01:44:55.560 the pre emergent herbicides. Those are fine granules. And basically 1998 01:44:55.800 --> 01:44:58.199 you're going to do about a notch above one quarter. 1999 01:44:58.640 --> 01:45:01.359 So using that example of twenty notches, that would be 2000 01:45:01.439 --> 01:45:04.680 you know, five or six that you would set it on. Okay, 2001 01:45:05.880 --> 01:45:11.039 that's stills that you're walking on. Yeah, yeah, but but 2002 01:45:11.359 --> 01:45:14.159 that's a that's the best guess, the best shot that 2003 01:45:14.279 --> 01:45:17.760 we can do. But always go light. You can always 2004 01:45:17.800 --> 01:45:20.159 come back over the area. But if you've overdone it 2005 01:45:20.199 --> 01:45:22.199 and you're halfway through and you've used all your product, 2006 01:45:22.680 --> 01:45:23.520 you've got a problem. 2007 01:45:24.000 --> 01:45:28.000 Right, Okay, great sir, I'll all right. I'll save these 2008 01:45:28.079 --> 01:45:30.520 notes and not misplace them like I did the last ones. 2009 01:45:31.800 --> 01:45:34.279 Hey, no problem, that's why we're here. Thanks for the call, man, 2010 01:45:34.359 --> 01:45:38.640 appreciate it. Okay, alrighty here, let's uh you bet we're 2011 01:45:38.680 --> 01:45:40.760 going to go out to George in Paarland. Hey, George, 2012 01:45:41.319 --> 01:45:45.600 how can we help? I'm good, I'm good, thank you. 2013 01:45:46.159 --> 01:45:48.279 Okay, Well, here's the deal. I got a little tip 2014 01:45:48.319 --> 01:45:51.439 that may be able to help people with especially citrus 2015 01:45:51.680 --> 01:45:55.479 or other not so hearty plants in the freeze. It 2016 01:45:55.600 --> 01:45:59.319 worked great for me this this past freeze. I've got 2017 01:45:59.399 --> 01:46:03.680 a lemon that's about five feet tall, and it's actually 2018 01:46:03.760 --> 01:46:05.800 got a little fruit growing on it already, so I 2019 01:46:05.840 --> 01:46:09.520 wanted to make sure it didn't die when the freeze came. Now, 2020 01:46:09.600 --> 01:46:11.880 this trick only works if you if you're old school 2021 01:46:11.960 --> 01:46:16.760 like me, and you have incandescent Christmas lights, because the 2022 01:46:16.880 --> 01:46:18.960 ones I had taken off the house, I had three 2023 01:46:19.039 --> 01:46:21.039 strings of them, so one of them I ramped around 2024 01:46:21.079 --> 01:46:23.800 the base of the tree keep the roots warm, and 2025 01:46:23.920 --> 01:46:26.239 the other two hung up the leaves and the and 2026 01:46:26.359 --> 01:46:31.159 the branches. Covered it with a frost claw and worked 2027 01:46:31.239 --> 01:46:33.760 just great. My neighbors probably kind of wondered whether there 2028 01:46:33.840 --> 01:46:38.520 was this glowing ghost in my heart with white cover 2029 01:46:38.600 --> 01:46:41.600 and the little light shining through it. But after the 2030 01:46:41.640 --> 01:46:44.439 frogt treeze was over, took it all off, the trees 2031 01:46:44.640 --> 01:46:45.680 just doing what hell. 2032 01:46:46.800 --> 01:46:50.159 Well, that's true. I appreciate that. Thanks thanks a lot 2033 01:46:50.239 --> 01:46:51.800 for those tips you off. Folks. You got to use 2034 01:46:51.880 --> 01:46:55.479 incandescent lights, not the LEDs because LEDs don't heat up much, 2035 01:46:56.039 --> 01:46:57.359 but you got to have enough of them. So it 2036 01:46:57.439 --> 01:46:59.840 comes down to how many bulbs putting how much he 2037 01:47:00.319 --> 01:47:01.800 and how cool is it going to get? And it's 2038 01:47:01.880 --> 01:47:05.199 kind of hard to find that magic number. But anything 2039 01:47:05.239 --> 01:47:08.600 that produces heat like a little incandescent bulb like you 2040 01:47:08.680 --> 01:47:13.560 know we were talking about there with George. Anyway, that works, 2041 01:47:13.840 --> 01:47:16.600 all right, We're gonna go now to Charles. Hello, Charles, 2042 01:47:16.640 --> 01:47:17.520 Welcome to garden Line. 2043 01:47:18.000 --> 01:47:21.319 Hey, Hello, thank you. I just have a real quick 2044 01:47:21.399 --> 01:47:25.359 question after this freeze. I used to have a nice 2045 01:47:26.000 --> 01:47:30.000 green backyard. Now what's coming back is the yard looks 2046 01:47:30.039 --> 01:47:33.119 like I've planted weeds, seated the entire backyard of weeds. 2047 01:47:34.560 --> 01:47:40.000 Okay, the best way to treat all that. The weeds 2048 01:47:40.039 --> 01:47:42.760 you see now are cool season weeds, and you need 2049 01:47:42.840 --> 01:47:46.039 to use a past emergent weed killer to kill them, 2050 01:47:46.159 --> 01:47:49.079 and you need to do it soon because once they 2051 01:47:49.119 --> 01:47:52.680 start blooming and setting seeds, they're harder to kill. And 2052 01:47:52.840 --> 01:47:55.439 you may already have seeds anyway, which means you're going 2053 01:47:55.520 --> 01:47:58.039 to have this problem again next year. Even more so. 2054 01:47:58.640 --> 01:48:01.439 The product you know, I was talking about the products 2055 01:48:01.439 --> 01:48:04.079 from Nelson Plant Food. They've got the weed and Nator 2056 01:48:04.520 --> 01:48:08.319 that's a post emergent weed control product that you put down. 2057 01:48:08.399 --> 01:48:11.279 You have to wet the yard so that the granules 2058 01:48:11.399 --> 01:48:15.600 of weed donators stick to your weeds. Okay, okay, And 2059 01:48:16.000 --> 01:48:19.520 when the granules stick to the weed, then yeah, just 2060 01:48:19.640 --> 01:48:22.520 follow the instructions. It's all in the bag. But weedinator 2061 01:48:22.680 --> 01:48:26.279 would be an option, you know, in that's gonna be 2062 01:48:27.079 --> 01:48:29.159 one of the one of the things you can There 2063 01:48:29.199 --> 01:48:31.560 are other options out there, but you know that that's 2064 01:48:31.600 --> 01:48:33.359 one I was just talking about, so I'll just mention it. 2065 01:48:36.000 --> 01:48:36.079 Now. 2066 01:48:36.199 --> 01:48:40.279 You can also one one other option real quick is 2067 01:48:40.319 --> 01:48:43.079 that you could spray those weeds and you could kill 2068 01:48:43.119 --> 01:48:47.159 them with a post emergent weed killer sprays. There's a 2069 01:48:47.199 --> 01:48:49.119 lot of brands on the market, a lot of things 2070 01:48:49.159 --> 01:48:53.119 at work for that. But again, do it this weekend, 2071 01:48:53.319 --> 01:48:55.439 not three weeks from now. Go ahead and get it 2072 01:48:55.520 --> 01:48:57.079 done before they get too far. 2073 01:48:57.319 --> 01:48:59.439 Yeah, that's what I was playing on doing this week anyway. 2074 01:49:01.039 --> 01:49:03.960 All right, sir, all right, we'll have fun with that. 2075 01:49:04.239 --> 01:49:06.239 Thank you so much. I appreciate your call, hey, to 2076 01:49:06.279 --> 01:49:10.399 have to run Orges hidden gardens, Orges hidden gardens out 2077 01:49:10.439 --> 01:49:14.119 there in Alvin, Texas. Oh my gosh, that place. Ray 2078 01:49:14.319 --> 01:49:17.159 is always bringing in new stuff. He continues to grow 2079 01:49:17.279 --> 01:49:21.960 and right now the I was so amazed at all 2080 01:49:22.079 --> 01:49:24.680 the different fruit that he's getting in. I mean things 2081 01:49:24.800 --> 01:49:27.319 like a dwarf mulberry. Have you ever heard that all 2082 01:49:27.439 --> 01:49:30.399 kinds of citrus like lemons and grapefruit and kalamanda and 2083 01:49:30.520 --> 01:49:34.079 tangerines and satsumas and Tangelo's and oh my gosh, on 2084 01:49:34.359 --> 01:49:37.680 and on and on kaffir lines. He has things like 2085 01:49:37.760 --> 01:49:39.880 the fuuu per summons, which is great, by the way, 2086 01:49:40.000 --> 01:49:45.680 Joey Avocado, Mexicola Grande avocado, thy purple guava, Primark Freedom 2087 01:49:45.720 --> 01:49:48.640 BlackBerry that is a thornless BlackBerry. You need Primark Freedom 2088 01:49:48.680 --> 01:49:52.319 BlackBerry or has got it? Outed Orges Hidden Gardens on 2089 01:49:52.479 --> 01:49:55.319 Elizabeth Street in Alvin, just south of the Highway six. 2090 01:49:55.560 --> 01:49:59.600 Go check them out. All right, time for a break here, 2091 01:49:59.680 --> 01:50:01.760 I'll be right back with more of garden Line. 2092 01:50:05.399 --> 01:50:10.000 Welcome to k t r H Garden Line with Skip Richard's. 2093 01:50:10.239 --> 01:50:26.439 Essays trip just watch him as many peace to suppot 2094 01:50:26.520 --> 01:50:41.520 brasy signs sunmon. 2095 01:50:41.960 --> 01:50:45.800 All right, folks, we got one hour left of garden 2096 01:50:45.880 --> 01:50:50.560 Line today and we're looking forward to it. If you'd 2097 01:50:50.640 --> 01:50:52.960 like to ask a question, here's your chance. Seven one 2098 01:50:53.039 --> 01:50:56.079 three two one two k t r H seven one 2099 01:50:56.159 --> 01:50:59.199 three two one two k t r H. We will 2100 01:50:59.279 --> 01:51:03.159 discuss the things that you're interested in. I certainly have 2101 01:51:03.359 --> 01:51:05.960 a number of things I want to talk about I 2102 01:51:06.000 --> 01:51:09.520 always do, But top priority is your calls. What are 2103 01:51:09.600 --> 01:51:12.800 your calls? How can we help you have a better success. 2104 01:51:12.840 --> 01:51:14.239 The way I like to put it is, we want 2105 01:51:14.279 --> 01:51:16.840 you to have a bountiful garden, a beautiful landscape, and 2106 01:51:16.960 --> 01:51:19.279 more fun in the process. That's the goal. 2107 01:51:19.880 --> 01:51:21.239 So let's do that. 2108 01:51:21.439 --> 01:51:24.039 Let's talk about the kinds of things that are of 2109 01:51:24.239 --> 01:51:28.119 interest to you right now. If there were to be 2110 01:51:28.359 --> 01:51:31.960 like something in neon signs flashing above the garden line 2111 01:51:32.560 --> 01:51:36.760 sign it would say stop the weeds, get rid of 2112 01:51:36.800 --> 01:51:38.840 the weeds, Stop the weeds, get rid of the weeds, 2113 01:51:38.880 --> 01:51:41.279 flashing back and forth. Maybe even get highway signs going. 2114 01:51:41.399 --> 01:51:43.600 That'd be a great idea. I wonder if the highway 2115 01:51:43.640 --> 01:51:46.319 department would be willing to let me comeandeer a couple 2116 01:51:46.359 --> 01:51:48.600 of those flashing signs when you're driving down the road 2117 01:51:48.600 --> 01:51:51.760 and it says prevent weeds now, prevent weeds now, flashing 2118 01:51:51.840 --> 01:51:55.199 on and off. Kill existing weeds now. I don't care 2119 01:51:55.279 --> 01:51:57.319 how you go about it. If you want to handpull, 2120 01:51:57.439 --> 01:51:59.119 I handpull a lot of my weeds because I don't 2121 01:51:59.119 --> 01:52:02.159 have that many of them. But there's always some wherever 2122 01:52:02.279 --> 01:52:04.560 sunlight hits the soil, nature plants of weed all the 2123 01:52:04.640 --> 01:52:07.800 cool season weeds are up now and growing, and that's 2124 01:52:07.840 --> 01:52:10.359 what you see. Warm season weeds too tiny to see 2125 01:52:10.439 --> 01:52:13.760 yet cool season weeds. They're up and you got to 2126 01:52:13.800 --> 01:52:15.880 do something. Hand pull them or spray them with a 2127 01:52:15.920 --> 01:52:19.159 post emergent weed control product. Either way you get rid 2128 01:52:19.199 --> 01:52:23.680 of them before. That's an important all capsul b e 2129 01:52:23.960 --> 01:52:28.279 f ore before they bloom and set seeds. Once they 2130 01:52:28.399 --> 01:52:31.880 become reproductive. Even the products that work well otherwise are 2131 01:52:31.960 --> 01:52:35.039 not as effective. Number two. By the time you spray 2132 01:52:35.079 --> 01:52:37.680 them like that, they probably already have set viable seed. 2133 01:52:38.079 --> 01:52:40.439 So even if you did kill the weed, it's gonna 2134 01:52:40.439 --> 01:52:42.520 die anyway on its own. But even if you did, 2135 01:52:42.640 --> 01:52:46.039 it's already produced its seed, and so you have sentenced 2136 01:52:46.319 --> 01:52:50.319 yourself to another year of problems when next winter comes around. 2137 01:52:51.039 --> 01:52:53.279 So control them. If you're going to prevent them, you 2138 01:52:53.439 --> 01:52:57.199 gotta prevent them now. You gotta prevent them now because 2139 01:52:57.319 --> 01:53:01.760 they are starting to sprout. The crabgrass starts to sprout 2140 01:53:01.760 --> 01:53:05.960 at fifty five degrees soil temperature, So once it starts sprouting, 2141 01:53:06.760 --> 01:53:08.560 then you're up a creek. You got to deal with 2142 01:53:08.680 --> 01:53:12.520 that because then you're dealing with an existing weed in 2143 01:53:12.680 --> 01:53:15.119 your lawn, and it's much better to prevent a weed 2144 01:53:15.560 --> 01:53:17.840 than it is to control one that's already grown. All right, 2145 01:53:17.960 --> 01:53:19.960 I think I beat that horse to death. But we're 2146 01:53:19.960 --> 01:53:22.399 gonna go now out and talk to c R on 2147 01:53:22.560 --> 01:53:25.119 the phones. Hello to see R. Welcome to garden Line. 2148 01:53:26.079 --> 01:53:30.000 Yeah sure, Hello, good morning, Good morning again. Okay, So 2149 01:53:30.399 --> 01:53:34.439 I'm calling today about there's a yellow plant. It's a 2150 01:53:34.560 --> 01:53:37.000 shrub that you see, you know, it grows pretty well out, 2151 01:53:37.199 --> 01:53:39.399 you know, around I'll see it all over this local 2152 01:53:39.479 --> 01:53:42.960 geographical area. And it's called a sunshine plant. It's yellow. 2153 01:53:43.560 --> 01:53:45.119 I don't know the true name of it, but it's 2154 01:53:45.359 --> 01:53:49.479 a yellow shrub. It's really pretty. But I noticed, and 2155 01:53:49.560 --> 01:53:51.520 I have a lot of them at my place. But 2156 01:53:51.960 --> 01:53:57.479 they'll sprout up green, you know, green branches. The foliage 2157 01:53:57.600 --> 01:54:00.840 is green and not yellow, and you can't just like 2158 01:54:00.960 --> 01:54:03.680 clip off, you like give it a haircut because it 2159 01:54:03.720 --> 01:54:05.800 doesn't get rid of the green. That's so my question is, 2160 01:54:05.920 --> 01:54:08.600 is the plant is yellow, but you know sprout up 2161 01:54:08.640 --> 01:54:12.119 these green twigs. Do you have to chase that twig 2162 01:54:12.279 --> 01:54:14.960 all the way like to the base of the base 2163 01:54:15.039 --> 01:54:17.359 of the shrub? Is that and then going there and 2164 01:54:17.479 --> 01:54:19.319 just clip that off? Is that how you keep all 2165 01:54:19.359 --> 01:54:20.840 the green out. I need some help on that. 2166 01:54:22.960 --> 01:54:25.119 So you're saying that you don't like the green because 2167 01:54:25.159 --> 01:54:27.359 it hides the yellow. Is that what you mean? 2168 01:54:27.520 --> 01:54:31.239 Yeah, that they're predominantly yellow, but then that green will 2169 01:54:31.279 --> 01:54:34.319 pop through, and do you do you clip the green out? 2170 01:54:34.600 --> 01:54:37.479 Or is the is it supposed to be a green 2171 01:54:37.520 --> 01:54:40.920 and yellow? Because all of mine are predominantly way yellow. 2172 01:54:41.000 --> 01:54:44.680 They're really pretty and yellow, especially in the spring and summer. 2173 01:54:45.680 --> 01:54:48.039 But then that green will come through, and I'm just wondering, 2174 01:54:48.119 --> 01:54:49.319 what do you do about the green? 2175 01:54:51.560 --> 01:54:54.560 Okay, so you're not talking about like a wild plant. 2176 01:54:54.560 --> 01:54:59.039 You're talking about a landscape plant, right, yes, correct? And 2177 01:54:59.359 --> 01:55:02.319 and the yellow is the foliage, correct, not a blown 2178 01:55:02.760 --> 01:55:04.039 it's a foliage, that's right. 2179 01:55:04.479 --> 01:55:06.920 The whole plant is yellow, called the sun jon, and 2180 01:55:07.000 --> 01:55:08.000 the whole thing is yellow. 2181 01:55:08.079 --> 01:55:14.359 Spits frown Okay, these will comfort yeah, Okay, So that 2182 01:55:14.680 --> 01:55:17.319 that is a There are a number of plants that 2183 01:55:17.439 --> 01:55:20.079 have yellow or variegated foliage. 2184 01:55:20.960 --> 01:55:23.960 Legustrum is a common one, and that may be what 2185 01:55:24.039 --> 01:55:26.399 you're dealing with. Uh, that doesn't matter what it is. 2186 01:55:26.760 --> 01:55:30.880 That that is a recessive trait, and what will happen 2187 01:55:31.159 --> 01:55:35.279 is it will revert back to its original stronger green form. 2188 01:55:35.840 --> 01:55:38.319 And now you've got these big, strong green shoots coming 2189 01:55:38.399 --> 01:55:40.279 in and they want to take over because they're much 2190 01:55:40.279 --> 01:55:43.560 more powerful than the yellow growing shoots on it. You've 2191 01:55:43.560 --> 01:55:46.439 got to go back to where they attach. Follow the 2192 01:55:46.520 --> 01:55:49.640 green all the way back to where it attaches to 2193 01:55:50.039 --> 01:55:52.680 a shoot that has yellow on it. So if you 2194 01:55:52.920 --> 01:55:55.600 if you follow the green back and it attaches, look 2195 01:55:55.640 --> 01:55:57.520 at the shoot that it attaches to, and is that 2196 01:55:57.640 --> 01:56:01.119 shoot producing yellow foliage out there? It is cut the 2197 01:56:01.199 --> 01:56:03.520 grain off right up against the point of attachment. 2198 01:56:04.640 --> 01:56:06.119 Yeah, revert. 2199 01:56:06.479 --> 01:56:10.560 This is an ongoing process because they they will continue 2200 01:56:10.640 --> 01:56:13.239 to do that from time to time. It's just the nature. 2201 01:56:13.279 --> 01:56:18.000 It's an unstable genetic sport that created that yellow in 2202 01:56:18.079 --> 01:56:20.800 the first place. So you have to work to maintain that. 2203 01:56:21.840 --> 01:56:22.640 All right, very good. 2204 01:56:22.680 --> 01:56:25.600 That's now on that same planet, that same plant got 2205 01:56:25.680 --> 01:56:29.479 attacked by a white fly, and the white flies it 2206 01:56:29.800 --> 01:56:32.920 ate of like that several of my shrubs. It ate 2207 01:56:33.079 --> 01:56:37.560 all of the yellow leaves off of the plant. And 2208 01:56:37.680 --> 01:56:40.439 so now you're just sitting there with like a brown 2209 01:56:40.960 --> 01:56:45.039 there's no leaves on it. Will will those plants? I 2210 01:56:45.159 --> 01:56:47.760 noticed that they're starting to bud and the yellow is 2211 01:56:47.800 --> 01:56:51.720 starting to come back again. But that white fly ate, 2212 01:56:51.880 --> 01:56:53.600 you know, it basically just goes in and eats all 2213 01:56:53.720 --> 01:56:56.159 the leaves off of the dawn thing. And what do 2214 01:56:56.239 --> 01:56:56.840 you do about that? 2215 01:56:57.079 --> 01:57:00.439 So yeah, so see, I don't I don't know what 2216 01:57:00.560 --> 01:57:02.720 you're seeing. Would you take a close up picture. I'm 2217 01:57:02.720 --> 01:57:04.560 going to put you on hole. My producer will give 2218 01:57:04.600 --> 01:57:07.119 you an email. White flies don't have the mouth parts 2219 01:57:07.199 --> 01:57:10.479 to eat, so something else is going on there. But 2220 01:57:11.039 --> 01:57:13.159 send me a picture up close, make sure it's in 2221 01:57:13.239 --> 01:57:14.800 sharp focus, and we'll see if we can take this 2222 01:57:14.920 --> 01:57:15.600 a little bit further. 2223 01:57:15.760 --> 01:57:16.000 Thank you. 2224 01:57:16.039 --> 01:57:18.239 I got to I'm sorry, I gotta run. It's time 2225 01:57:18.359 --> 01:57:21.600 for a hard break here coming up. Buchanus Native Plants 2226 01:57:21.640 --> 01:57:24.560 in the Heights is just an awesome garden center to 2227 01:57:24.600 --> 01:57:27.000 go to. I mean every time I go to Buchanan's, 2228 01:57:27.079 --> 01:57:29.760 I'm amazed. You know, Number one, you're not going to 2229 01:57:29.800 --> 01:57:32.960 find a better source of native plants in terms of extensive, 2230 01:57:33.560 --> 01:57:36.680 extensive options. You know, the lyre leaf sage is one 2231 01:57:36.720 --> 01:57:40.399 they're featuring right now, Salvi el irata. It is a 2232 01:57:40.479 --> 01:57:44.800 gorgeous little low blooming native ground cup not groundcovery, but 2233 01:57:44.920 --> 01:57:47.239 it's a perennial comes out of the ground they've got 2234 01:57:47.319 --> 01:57:51.199 a great selection of Clemitus too. If you've never grown clemitus, 2235 01:57:51.239 --> 01:57:53.680 if you've got a spot with morning sun that you 2236 01:57:53.760 --> 01:57:55.720 can molt the roots really good. And it's got some 2237 01:57:56.279 --> 01:57:59.640 mid to late day shade. Columbitus will be very happy 2238 01:57:59.680 --> 01:58:02.720 in there, and it is quite a stunning plant. And 2239 01:58:02.840 --> 01:58:07.000 of course they got all the fruit trees in nectarines, apricots, plums, pluots, 2240 01:58:07.239 --> 01:58:10.479 all kinds of stone fruit, including peaches. They also have apples. 2241 01:58:10.520 --> 01:58:13.359 I mean, just a wide variety of things. Pears, they've 2242 01:58:13.399 --> 01:58:16.000 got them, and the kinds that you want to grow here, 2243 01:58:16.079 --> 01:58:19.800 the kinds that will produce well in our area. So 2244 01:58:20.000 --> 01:58:22.439 stop by there, grab you some tomato plants. It's time 2245 01:58:22.520 --> 01:58:25.880 for getting those two. It's all there. Buchanans plants. They're 2246 01:58:25.880 --> 01:58:28.680 in the heights on eleventh Street, easy to find, easy 2247 01:58:28.720 --> 01:58:31.079 to get to, and I promise you you'll be very 2248 01:58:31.119 --> 01:58:34.000 impressed with the selection that they have. Time for me 2249 01:58:34.079 --> 01:58:35.880 to take a break and I'll be right back, folks, 2250 01:58:36.079 --> 01:58:41.920 thanks for listening, Welcome back to garden line. How many 2251 01:58:41.960 --> 01:58:45.039 if you remember last year when twice storms took the 2252 01:58:45.119 --> 01:58:49.720 power out, knock down trees, knockdown lines. 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Louise, welcome to garden Line. 2291 02:01:07.119 --> 02:01:08.119 Yes, thank you very much. 2292 02:01:08.239 --> 02:01:09.199 Two quick questions. 2293 02:01:10.199 --> 02:01:13.000 The first is I have a neighbor, an elderly woman 2294 02:01:13.079 --> 02:01:16.039 of whom shared with me some wise. 2295 02:01:15.760 --> 02:01:19.000 Tale that I'm wondering if there's any truth to it. 2296 02:01:19.600 --> 02:01:22.640 She said on February fourteenth, to go to my rose 2297 02:01:22.720 --> 02:01:27.039 bushes and cut them, essentially cut them in half, as 2298 02:01:27.720 --> 02:01:30.479 she said, they would come back bigger, fuller. 2299 02:01:32.039 --> 02:01:34.439 And I thought to myself, my rose. 2300 02:01:34.239 --> 02:01:35.319 Bushes are fine. 2301 02:01:35.399 --> 02:01:38.600 They're about four feet high and they're full. 2302 02:01:38.840 --> 02:01:41.119 And I didn't know if you had heard anything to 2303 02:01:41.239 --> 02:01:45.279 that effect that February fourteenth was dat we cut them down. 2304 02:01:45.520 --> 02:01:45.720 Yeah. 2305 02:01:47.239 --> 02:01:47.439 Yeah. 2306 02:01:47.920 --> 02:01:51.760 People use that because Valentine's Day is for flowers and roses, 2307 02:01:51.880 --> 02:01:54.000 or the Queen of the flowers, and so it's easy 2308 02:01:54.039 --> 02:01:57.119 to remember plant roses and prune roses on Valentine's Day. 2309 02:01:57.640 --> 02:02:00.560 It doesn't matter what day. This time of the year, 2310 02:02:00.840 --> 02:02:03.920 dormant season is when you prune roses, and so you 2311 02:02:03.960 --> 02:02:05.439 can do it on Valentine's Day, you can do it 2312 02:02:05.479 --> 02:02:07.720 the day before, the day after, a week before, if 2313 02:02:07.760 --> 02:02:09.640 you want, you can do it right now. As a 2314 02:02:09.680 --> 02:02:14.119 matter of fact. So different kinds of roses are prune differently. 2315 02:02:14.239 --> 02:02:16.920 If you have a shrub rose, the kind that's basically 2316 02:02:17.039 --> 02:02:20.319 bushy leaves with flowers in it, it's prune like a shrub, 2317 02:02:21.119 --> 02:02:23.600 then you can just prune them anytime you want. But 2318 02:02:23.960 --> 02:02:27.399 that's one type of pruning. So maybe your rose got 2319 02:02:27.520 --> 02:02:29.640 too tall and you want to cut it back byhalf 2320 02:02:30.199 --> 02:02:32.319 and start to bring the size down a little bit. 2321 02:02:32.560 --> 02:02:35.159 It'll regrow and it'll do just fine. But if you've 2322 02:02:35.199 --> 02:02:38.119 got like a cut flower rose, like those hybrid teas 2323 02:02:38.199 --> 02:02:41.119 that make the long straight stems with roses on the end, 2324 02:02:41.479 --> 02:02:43.720 that's a different kind of pruning. But it also can 2325 02:02:43.760 --> 02:02:46.920 be done now or Valentine's Day if you want. It 2326 02:02:47.000 --> 02:02:48.920 doesn't matter on that day. It's a different style. So 2327 02:02:49.000 --> 02:02:51.640 depending on the rose you have, yeah, a different style, 2328 02:02:51.720 --> 02:02:52.880 but timing is fine. 2329 02:02:52.920 --> 02:02:53.039 Now. 2330 02:02:54.840 --> 02:02:59.079 My second question is here in Galveston, I read something 2331 02:02:59.479 --> 02:03:04.399 regard to obtaining permits for wildflower. 2332 02:03:04.000 --> 02:03:06.520 And I have no clue what that it's all about. 2333 02:03:07.680 --> 02:03:12.039 Why you would need a permit for growing well, yeah, yeah, 2334 02:03:12.119 --> 02:03:13.000 growing flower. 2335 02:03:13.439 --> 02:03:17.159 Uh, there's there's something weird in that question. And I 2336 02:03:17.239 --> 02:03:20.640 don't know what they told you, but if I were you, 2337 02:03:20.840 --> 02:03:25.119 I would call your Galveston County Extension office. They are 2338 02:03:25.439 --> 02:03:29.560 experts when it comes to all kinds of things related 2339 02:03:29.600 --> 02:03:32.079 to gardening and whatnot, and they're gonna know the low 2340 02:03:32.239 --> 02:03:35.640 if there's any local rule in the county or rule 2341 02:03:35.680 --> 02:03:37.880 out on the island or whatever. I'm not sure what 2342 02:03:37.960 --> 02:03:40.359 you're referring to with that, with that question, I've never 2343 02:03:40.479 --> 02:03:40.800 heard that. 2344 02:03:42.960 --> 02:03:44.640 All right, thank you very much, appreciate it. 2345 02:03:45.800 --> 02:03:47.680 Yeah, have you ever have you ever called have you 2346 02:03:47.720 --> 02:03:51.520 ever called your extension office before out there? If you haven't, 2347 02:03:52.159 --> 02:03:55.560 you ought to, Uh go ahead. 2348 02:03:56.680 --> 02:04:01.000 Oh I I just uh, I think because I see 2349 02:04:01.039 --> 02:04:07.159 some neighbors who have this uncontrollable growth of I guess wildflowers. 2350 02:04:07.479 --> 02:04:09.880 It looks unsightly at certain times of the year, and 2351 02:04:11.000 --> 02:04:13.279 they just don't touch it at all. And I'm assuming 2352 02:04:13.520 --> 02:04:15.039 maybe that's what it's related to. 2353 02:04:16.560 --> 02:04:17.600 Something's that effect. 2354 02:04:17.760 --> 02:04:18.119 You know, it. 2355 02:04:19.720 --> 02:04:23.079 Could be that it could be a homeowner's association role 2356 02:04:23.159 --> 02:04:25.000 of some sort. I don't know, And like I said, 2357 02:04:25.039 --> 02:04:26.760 when you said it, it's like, I've never heard anything 2358 02:04:26.880 --> 02:04:31.039 like that. But if you want to, you know, check 2359 02:04:31.119 --> 02:04:33.079 around and ask. I guess you could ask the city 2360 02:04:33.159 --> 02:04:34.920 or the county or whatever, but I would just call 2361 02:04:35.000 --> 02:04:38.640 two eight one five three four thirty four thirteen. That's 2362 02:04:38.640 --> 02:04:41.479 your extension office. And they are great for gardening advice. 2363 02:04:41.560 --> 02:04:43.600 They got master gardeners, they got a garden out there. 2364 02:04:43.840 --> 02:04:46.159 It's wonderful. Talk to Boone Holiday if you can. He's 2365 02:04:46.560 --> 02:04:48.840 he's the horticulture agent there in Galveston County. 2366 02:04:48.920 --> 02:04:51.039 Now I'll do that, thank you. 2367 02:04:51.079 --> 02:04:53.960 But thanks for the call. Manure all right, you take care, 2368 02:04:54.199 --> 02:04:56.640 all right, all right. Now we're going to go to 2369 02:04:56.800 --> 02:04:59.079 Lee in Houston. Hey Lee, welcome to garden Line. 2370 02:05:00.279 --> 02:05:01.520 Thanks for having me on skip. 2371 02:05:01.640 --> 02:05:02.680 You doing okay this morning? 2372 02:05:02.800 --> 02:05:07.159 Sounds like, uh, I'm doing well? How can we help today. 2373 02:05:08.560 --> 02:05:08.640 Up? 2374 02:05:08.760 --> 02:05:13.479 Two years ago I bought from home depot a key 2375 02:05:13.640 --> 02:05:17.479 lime lime tree. Looked to me like about a two 2376 02:05:17.520 --> 02:05:21.279 gallon pot, and it said to can leave it in 2377 02:05:21.399 --> 02:05:25.079 the pot for two years. Well, every year it has 2378 02:05:25.239 --> 02:05:28.119 hundreds of blooms on it, it doesn't grow, and then 2379 02:05:28.199 --> 02:05:30.359 the blooms fall off and I got no limes. 2380 02:05:32.079 --> 02:05:34.800 Okay, all right, So you need to put it out 2381 02:05:34.800 --> 02:05:37.319 of the pot. You need to check the roots. You're 2382 02:05:37.359 --> 02:05:39.520 gonna have a bunch of roots that are circling. In fact, 2383 02:05:39.520 --> 02:05:41.800 the outside of the pot may be white with roots 2384 02:05:42.079 --> 02:05:44.840 out there. You know, to cut slice down through those 2385 02:05:44.960 --> 02:05:47.439 roots with a box cutter knife in about three places. 2386 02:05:47.600 --> 02:05:50.199 Just make a vertical slice from top to bottom to 2387 02:05:50.319 --> 02:05:53.560 cut all those outer roots. Put it in a bigger pot. 2388 02:05:53.720 --> 02:05:56.680 It needs room to grow. The more confined it is, 2389 02:05:56.880 --> 02:06:00.159 you can grow them in smaller pots, but it they 2390 02:06:00.239 --> 02:06:02.680 go into drought stress faster and easier because they don't 2391 02:06:02.680 --> 02:06:05.560 have the root volume. You know what I'm saying. So 2392 02:06:05.800 --> 02:06:08.439 keep them moist, get them in good sunlight. And it's 2393 02:06:08.560 --> 02:06:11.920 not unusual when a plant is stressed for it to 2394 02:06:12.039 --> 02:06:15.039 abort its blooms or its fruit, and that's what happens 2395 02:06:15.079 --> 02:06:18.520 a lot in some types of citrus. So you just 2396 02:06:18.640 --> 02:06:21.079 need to keep it happy and get that stress out 2397 02:06:21.279 --> 02:06:23.479 by giving it more room to grow. Make sure it 2398 02:06:23.560 --> 02:06:26.880 never lacks for water, good nutrition and so on. Not 2399 02:06:27.000 --> 02:06:30.640 too much nitrogen but moderate amount. And I think this 2400 02:06:30.760 --> 02:06:33.359 will turn that around and you'll end up getting some limes. 2401 02:06:34.880 --> 02:06:37.039 Any particular soil I should put it put in the 2402 02:06:37.119 --> 02:06:37.520 new pot. 2403 02:06:39.600 --> 02:06:42.760 There's some there's some really good quality soils you can get. 2404 02:06:43.159 --> 02:06:48.039 The folks that airlom soils have a citrus fruit type 2405 02:06:48.079 --> 02:06:50.039 cetrus type mix. You can buy it in the bag. 2406 02:06:50.159 --> 02:06:51.880 So since you're growing it in pots, that would be 2407 02:06:51.920 --> 02:06:56.079 a good way to do it. A good quality growing 2408 02:06:56.199 --> 02:06:59.199 mix for containers would be good for that. But you 2409 02:06:59.239 --> 02:07:02.279 can go specific for that centrus fruit type mix from 2410 02:07:02.319 --> 02:07:03.159 heirloom if you like. 2411 02:07:04.680 --> 02:07:09.039 I think I think mister Patterson over its Southwest fertilizer. 2412 02:07:09.079 --> 02:07:10.199 He'll have something there for me. 2413 02:07:11.800 --> 02:07:14.039 Oh gosh, yes, Bob will have it. If he doesn't 2414 02:07:14.079 --> 02:07:17.079 have that, he'll have something else that he would recommend. 2415 02:07:17.199 --> 02:07:20.680 So talk to him. He'll shoot straight and. 2416 02:07:20.720 --> 02:07:21.520 Do you recommend that? 2417 02:07:21.720 --> 02:07:22.000 All right? 2418 02:07:22.279 --> 02:07:23.279 Citrus fertilizer. 2419 02:07:25.680 --> 02:07:29.600 I don't know which one you're referring to, but products 2420 02:07:29.680 --> 02:07:31.800 that have a name on him, like this is a 2421 02:07:31.880 --> 02:07:35.199 tomato or this is a citrus or whatever, those would 2422 02:07:35.199 --> 02:07:37.640 be good. I can tell you this. If you just 2423 02:07:37.720 --> 02:07:41.159 get your good fertilizer that has all three numbers on 2424 02:07:41.239 --> 02:07:44.079 it in a pinch, that'll get you by. But for 2425 02:07:44.159 --> 02:07:46.720 the longer term, you want to fertilize more in accordance 2426 02:07:46.800 --> 02:07:50.000 with what that species is most gonna want. So either 2427 02:07:50.039 --> 02:07:52.520 way you want to go is fine. Just don't overdo it, 2428 02:07:53.399 --> 02:07:57.560 but follow the label real carefully. Okay, thank you, Skip, 2429 02:07:59.359 --> 02:08:02.920 Thank you, Lee, appreciate the call. You take care. Ciena 2430 02:08:03.000 --> 02:08:06.079 Maltz speaking of soils, Ciena Molts. Oh my gosh. They 2431 02:08:06.119 --> 02:08:09.920 are south of the Houston area, near where Highway six 2432 02:08:10.000 --> 02:08:13.239 and two eighty eight come together. It's the road is 2433 02:08:13.399 --> 02:08:16.399 FM five twenty one and here's the website. If you 2434 02:08:16.920 --> 02:08:19.079 hear nothing else I'm about to say, write this down. 2435 02:08:19.479 --> 02:08:23.000 Sienna Moltz dot Com tells you where they are, gives 2436 02:08:23.039 --> 02:08:26.000 you the phone number, tells you what they have. All 2437 02:08:26.199 --> 02:08:28.560 of you folks down there in Quill Valley and Rose 2438 02:08:28.640 --> 02:08:32.920 Sharing and first Colony in Parland and Sweetwater, Sandy Point, 2439 02:08:33.039 --> 02:08:36.600 Iowa Colony, Siena Plantation. This is your hometown, soil place 2440 02:08:36.800 --> 02:08:39.560 and everything you need for success. Remember brown stuff before 2441 02:08:39.640 --> 02:08:42.720 green stuff. They've got the composts, They've got the bed mixes, 2442 02:08:42.760 --> 02:08:45.159 They've got the mulches for top of the ground. They've 2443 02:08:45.199 --> 02:08:49.840 got the fertilizers. Okay, you want Microlife, Azamite, turf Star. 2444 02:08:50.840 --> 02:08:52.840 Do you want products from heirloom soils. Do you want 2445 02:08:52.920 --> 02:08:56.880 fertilizer from Nitroposs or Landscaper's Pride or Nils plant Food Medina. 2446 02:08:57.000 --> 02:08:59.520 They have all of that, everything you need to set 2447 02:08:59.560 --> 02:09:03.800 the founder for successes at Ciena Maltch. Wonderful folks. You 2448 02:09:03.960 --> 02:09:06.680 will love going in there and interacting with them. They will, 2449 02:09:06.720 --> 02:09:09.399 I promise you, they will treat you right. They deliver 2450 02:09:09.479 --> 02:09:11.920 within about twenty miles of their location, or you can 2451 02:09:12.000 --> 02:09:13.600 just go by there and pick it up. They're open 2452 02:09:13.680 --> 02:09:16.439 today till two pm. Don't delay close tomorrow, but open 2453 02:09:16.520 --> 02:09:19.760 Monday through Saturday. So get out there and get you 2454 02:09:19.880 --> 02:09:22.920 some stuff or get it ordered have it delivered. Secret 2455 02:09:23.000 --> 02:09:26.319 to success is to start with the soil, and Ciena 2456 02:09:26.359 --> 02:09:29.800 Maltch will get you covered on that. Let's see here 2457 02:09:30.039 --> 02:09:32.439 we are. I'm looking at a heartbreak, so I can't 2458 02:09:32.479 --> 02:09:35.560 grab the next phone call just yet, but I did 2459 02:09:35.640 --> 02:09:38.680 want to mention to you that Ace Hardware stores are 2460 02:09:38.800 --> 02:09:40.880 all over the place. You can go to acehardware dot 2461 02:09:40.960 --> 02:09:43.960 com find the store near you. Examples are k and 2462 02:09:44.119 --> 02:09:46.720 m Ace up in a Tascasita, Bay City, Ace down 2463 02:09:46.800 --> 02:09:49.199 in Bay City, Wharton Feed and Ace for those of 2464 02:09:49.279 --> 02:09:51.239 you Done and Wharton. I was down there a while back. 2465 02:09:51.600 --> 02:09:55.359 Hamilton Hardware off Highway six near Bear Creek. While you're there, 2466 02:09:55.640 --> 02:09:59.479 they're having right now twenty percent off all their Mowen faucets. 2467 02:09:59.520 --> 02:10:02.159 This is a great time to fix those spausets in 2468 02:10:02.319 --> 02:10:04.680 the house that need fix and grab some air filters. 2469 02:10:05.159 --> 02:10:07.800 Make sure that they had a president's sale on painting 2470 02:10:07.840 --> 02:10:10.840 supplies coming up. Just go to your local Ace Hardware store. 2471 02:10:10.960 --> 02:10:13.720 There's good things happening right now. Time for me to 2472 02:10:13.800 --> 02:10:15.680 take a break. When I come back, we'll be back 2473 02:10:15.720 --> 02:10:21.319 with your calls a little true free league to get 2474 02:10:21.359 --> 02:10:25.159 us going here on our nest segment of garden line 2475 02:10:26.239 --> 02:10:29.760 Microlife products. You know they've they've been around for over 2476 02:10:29.880 --> 02:10:34.199 thirty five years, loved by gardeners and landscape professionals. I 2477 02:10:34.279 --> 02:10:35.920 think it's ten years ago that I first used a 2478 02:10:36.520 --> 02:10:40.039 Microlife product and I've been sold on it ever since. 2479 02:10:40.079 --> 02:10:42.880 There are sixty four lawn fertilizers and number one selling 2480 02:10:43.000 --> 02:10:45.640 organic fertilizer in Houston. Their products are not going to 2481 02:10:45.720 --> 02:10:49.159 burn your lawns or your plants, are not salt based products. 2482 02:10:49.680 --> 02:10:51.960 They're safety use on anything with it. It's turf, grass, 2483 02:10:52.000 --> 02:10:55.439 as alias, flowers, vegetables, and they have products for every 2484 02:10:55.600 --> 02:10:58.159 kind of thing. Certainly there's the bags of products that 2485 02:10:58.199 --> 02:11:01.359 are loaded with microbes and to the nutrients that you have. 2486 02:11:01.880 --> 02:11:05.960 They've got their jugs that are plastic clear plastic screw 2487 02:11:06.039 --> 02:11:09.000 top lid jugs that you can refill at several different 2488 02:11:09.079 --> 02:11:11.920 kinds of places around town. There's jug refill stations that 2489 02:11:12.039 --> 02:11:14.600 select retail outlets are really cool. You can go to 2490 02:11:14.680 --> 02:11:18.199 microlfertilizer dot com find out all about the products, and 2491 02:11:18.359 --> 02:11:20.880 it's a huge line and all the places you can 2492 02:11:20.920 --> 02:11:22.840 get it. I want to talk about two real quick. 2493 02:11:22.920 --> 02:11:26.359 Two of their liquid products. The first is Microlife Biomatrix. 2494 02:11:26.439 --> 02:11:30.239 That's an orange label. It's a high nitrogen liquid organic 2495 02:11:30.319 --> 02:11:33.640 product with beneficial microbes. It's a seven to one three. 2496 02:11:33.880 --> 02:11:35.520 That's the three numbers on it, seven to one three. 2497 02:11:35.600 --> 02:11:39.520 I use it myself, very good. I use it for houseplants, 2498 02:11:39.560 --> 02:11:42.720 but I mean my patio containers as well. You can 2499 02:11:42.760 --> 02:11:44.439 put it on a rosebush in the ground. I mean, 2500 02:11:44.479 --> 02:11:47.680 it's good stuff that really works. The second product is 2501 02:11:47.800 --> 02:11:51.239 Ocean Harvest. That's a blue label. It's a six two 2502 02:11:51.439 --> 02:11:56.399 three so orange label Biomatrix, Blue label, Ocean Harvest. It's 2503 02:11:56.439 --> 02:11:59.439 a four to two three fertilizer. It doesn't burn. You 2504 02:11:59.479 --> 02:12:01.239 can use it to a folio spray. It's a fish 2505 02:12:01.319 --> 02:12:04.680 based fertilizer. Use it outdoors, no fishy for the inside, 2506 02:12:05.520 --> 02:12:08.720 but it's a gray product. Organic gardeners have long known 2507 02:12:09.079 --> 02:12:11.800 the importance of things like fish and mulsion and seaweed. 2508 02:12:11.880 --> 02:12:14.760 By the way, Microlife has both of those. It's easy 2509 02:12:14.800 --> 02:12:17.840 to find all over town and it works. Microlife products 2510 02:12:17.960 --> 02:12:20.159 for those of you who are wanting to garden in 2511 02:12:20.640 --> 02:12:23.840 line with nature a little bit more organically, well, this 2512 02:12:24.039 --> 02:12:26.439 is definitely something you need to know about in the years. 2513 02:12:27.319 --> 02:12:29.199 I'm gonna head out now to Katie and we're going 2514 02:12:29.279 --> 02:12:32.000 to talk to Kevin Scott. Hey, Kevin, Welcome to Guardenline. 2515 02:12:33.439 --> 02:12:33.960 Hik skip. 2516 02:12:35.760 --> 02:12:39.039 So I'm just looking for some confirmation. I put out 2517 02:12:39.199 --> 02:12:45.159 the barricade yesterday grain earlier, and yes, I've got a 2518 02:12:45.199 --> 02:12:49.920 big poemana infestation, and so I killed I put that 2519 02:12:50.039 --> 02:12:55.680 out because they're you know, they're currently germinating, so it 2520 02:12:56.119 --> 02:12:59.279 should kill what's in the ground. But I also sprayed 2521 02:13:00.520 --> 02:13:05.840 image herbicide after I laid down the barricade. 2522 02:13:06.079 --> 02:13:07.760 Is that okay? Or should I have waited? 2523 02:13:10.880 --> 02:13:15.479 Well, they work in different ways. The barricade you watered 2524 02:13:15.520 --> 02:13:18.880 off the granule and it prevents weed seeds from coming up, 2525 02:13:19.319 --> 02:13:22.319 and the poeanna is primarily done. It's it germinated back 2526 02:13:22.359 --> 02:13:24.960 in the fall, primarily so you don't have to worry 2527 02:13:24.960 --> 02:13:27.239 about it going into summer other than the fact that 2528 02:13:27.359 --> 02:13:29.279 it's got seeds on it. So if there were a 2529 02:13:29.359 --> 02:13:32.039 way to get you know, chop off the tops or 2530 02:13:32.760 --> 02:13:35.199 it's not tall enough to mow off the tops generally, 2531 02:13:35.279 --> 02:13:37.119 but if you can get that seed out of there, 2532 02:13:37.199 --> 02:13:40.399 that's a good idea. The image goes into the soil 2533 02:13:40.640 --> 02:13:44.439 and is taken up by certain kinds of weed roots. Okay, 2534 02:13:44.920 --> 02:13:48.479 so that there you you you would be looking at 2535 02:13:49.119 --> 02:13:52.399 prevent or killing existing weeds that are coming up. 2536 02:13:55.000 --> 02:13:58.479 Is there anything I've got a lot of it, and 2537 02:13:59.279 --> 02:14:02.039 if you remember right, I'm on my long pretty short. 2538 02:14:02.079 --> 02:14:04.359 I've got a real mower, so I keep it down 2539 02:14:04.439 --> 02:14:07.960 to three quarters of an inch. But this poana I 2540 02:14:08.119 --> 02:14:09.039 bought it every year. 2541 02:14:09.279 --> 02:14:09.680 Is there a. 2542 02:14:11.239 --> 02:14:18.199 Specific weed killer that I could you know, measure and 2543 02:14:18.279 --> 02:14:22.920 put in a pumps ray that specifically targets poana that's already. 2544 02:14:24.159 --> 02:14:24.720 Developed. 2545 02:14:26.319 --> 02:14:29.800 Yeah, there there are. Now here's the thing with poana. 2546 02:14:30.319 --> 02:14:34.920 The stuff that has always worked pretty well is sometimes 2547 02:14:35.000 --> 02:14:38.159 not working well because you may have a strain of 2548 02:14:38.239 --> 02:14:42.640 the poana that's developed resistance to it to the product. 2549 02:14:43.359 --> 02:14:47.520 So things like like on my schedule, you'll see a 2550 02:14:47.840 --> 02:14:52.800 dithiopea that's dimension. You'll see barricade that's pro diamine. Those 2551 02:14:52.880 --> 02:14:56.239 products both worked on poanna in the past. But if 2552 02:14:56.279 --> 02:14:58.800 you're not getting results from those, then you're gonna have 2553 02:14:58.840 --> 02:15:01.399 to switch up. We're going to change jover on something 2554 02:15:01.520 --> 02:15:06.079 because uh, resistance can happen and it's not the products. Well, 2555 02:15:06.199 --> 02:15:10.680 it's just the fact that dimension. Okay, well that's just 2556 02:15:10.760 --> 02:15:13.800 a they're they're really closely related in how they work. 2557 02:15:14.119 --> 02:15:18.119 So if you're not getting results with those, then we 2558 02:15:18.199 --> 02:15:21.199 would need to be talking about, uh you know, switching 2559 02:15:21.359 --> 02:15:23.640 to something else. And there there are a number of 2560 02:15:23.720 --> 02:15:26.960 good things out there. Uh some of the products I 2561 02:15:27.000 --> 02:15:30.279 don't like to recommend because they if you don't use 2562 02:15:30.359 --> 02:15:33.680 them right, they can cause damage to things. And that 2563 02:15:33.800 --> 02:15:36.039 that's the way it's. That's the case with a lot 2564 02:15:36.079 --> 02:15:38.359 of different things that we have to deal with. Uh 2565 02:15:38.880 --> 02:15:41.199 that is your is your grass, Saint Augustine. 2566 02:15:42.199 --> 02:15:48.199 No, it's it's soyja zorrozja zoro. 2567 02:15:48.479 --> 02:15:56.760 Okay, Uh there, well you can there. Number one, I 2568 02:15:56.800 --> 02:15:58.880 would do a pre emergent in the fall according to 2569 02:15:58.960 --> 02:16:02.800 my schedule online in a guard skip dot com. Follow 2570 02:16:02.840 --> 02:16:08.840 that second second, okay, So when you if you do 2571 02:16:09.000 --> 02:16:11.199 that and then you watch your you know what poana 2572 02:16:11.279 --> 02:16:13.960 looks like, so watch and if you see it. There's 2573 02:16:13.960 --> 02:16:18.279 another product. There's one called Certainty and one called man 2574 02:16:18.439 --> 02:16:20.079 or M A n O R. You're going to be 2575 02:16:20.279 --> 02:16:22.840 very careful with using those, and you may have to 2576 02:16:22.920 --> 02:16:25.640 hire somebody to come in and do it. But if 2577 02:16:25.680 --> 02:16:29.720 the Poeana is very young, very young. It works pretty well. 2578 02:16:29.800 --> 02:16:32.280 Once there it matures, those products don't work. But that 2579 02:16:32.319 --> 02:16:35.760 would be your second line of defense on Poeanna and 2580 02:16:35.879 --> 02:16:37.360 then you know, I mean we could we could talk 2581 02:16:37.440 --> 02:16:40.399 poant all day here, but the bottom line is get 2582 02:16:40.479 --> 02:16:42.319 you a good primerg and start with that. If you 2583 02:16:42.399 --> 02:16:44.440 need to switch to another. If you want to send me, 2584 02:16:44.920 --> 02:16:47.040 you know, an email and ask some questions on it, 2585 02:16:47.200 --> 02:16:50.280 I can send you the link to a publication that 2586 02:16:50.440 --> 02:16:52.319 goes into it in depth more than I can do 2587 02:16:52.600 --> 02:16:55.760 on the air. So I'm going to put you on hold, Kevin, 2588 02:16:56.319 --> 02:16:59.200 and uh if you will give uh, if you want, 2589 02:16:59.639 --> 02:17:04.760 give my producer Jonathan your email, He'll give you my 2590 02:17:04.879 --> 02:17:06.959 email address and just send me that request and I'll 2591 02:17:06.959 --> 02:17:07.600 send you something. 2592 02:17:07.680 --> 02:17:09.760 Okay, Okay, I'll do that. 2593 02:17:10.920 --> 02:17:14.000 I haven't tried to mention before, so I'll pick some 2594 02:17:14.120 --> 02:17:14.239 of that. 2595 02:17:14.360 --> 02:17:20.159 Okay, just see a right, Take care, you bet you 2596 02:17:20.239 --> 02:17:20.559 take care? 2597 02:17:20.639 --> 02:17:21.040 Bye bye? 2598 02:17:21.920 --> 02:17:25.879 All right, folks, here we are boy. Time flies. Time 2599 02:17:25.959 --> 02:17:30.360 flies when you're having fun arbor Gate. Speaking of having fun, 2600 02:17:30.559 --> 02:17:32.360 I always like going out to Arburgate. I was out 2601 02:17:32.360 --> 02:17:34.840 there the other day visiting some of the folks. You 2602 02:17:34.959 --> 02:17:38.840 can't believe the extensive selection they've got on fruit. I'm 2603 02:17:38.879 --> 02:17:43.079 talking about fruit trees, I'm talking about grapes, I'm talking 2604 02:17:43.079 --> 02:17:46.520 about berries, you know, blackberries and everything, strawberries, everything else. 2605 02:17:47.200 --> 02:17:49.600 They're loaded up. And if you want to do some 2606 02:17:49.719 --> 02:17:53.000 seeds starting, they've got plenty of really good seeds and 2607 02:17:53.079 --> 02:17:57.280 seeds starting kits still getting deliveries of all kinds of 2608 02:17:57.360 --> 02:18:01.239 things for landscape, color, for vegetables, for urge. Listen, spring 2609 02:18:01.920 --> 02:18:05.959 is springing, and the trucks that arbigateor are going to 2610 02:18:06.040 --> 02:18:08.719 line up, they have been lining up to bring you 2611 02:18:09.360 --> 02:18:12.920 a good selection. They always have a good selection. Do 2612 02:18:12.959 --> 02:18:14.719 you want a rose? Do you want a camellia? Do 2613 02:18:14.760 --> 02:18:16.840 you want to fill in the blank, They've got it. 2614 02:18:17.000 --> 02:18:18.799 Remember to go around and back in park. Go on 2615 02:18:18.920 --> 02:18:23.159 Trischel Road which goes behind Arburgate. The back parking lot 2616 02:18:23.440 --> 02:18:27.040 is awesome, great accessibility. It's the safest, easiest way to 2617 02:18:27.079 --> 02:18:30.200 get in there, and there's always space back there. Even 2618 02:18:30.280 --> 02:18:32.239 as busy as that place gets. You're going to find 2619 02:18:32.239 --> 02:18:34.520 a place back there to get your parking done. And 2620 02:18:34.760 --> 02:18:37.600 remember that when you're there, get their one two three 2621 02:18:37.840 --> 02:18:41.159 completely easy system that's a soil for anything with roots, 2622 02:18:41.200 --> 02:18:44.920 a fertilizer that's organic than for anything with the roots 2623 02:18:45.239 --> 02:18:48.000 and a compost product. And by the way, the soil 2624 02:18:48.040 --> 02:18:50.760 in the compost both had expanded shale mixed in them, 2625 02:18:50.799 --> 02:18:54.360 which is a really nice added plus. And their soil 2626 02:18:54.440 --> 02:18:56.760 and composts can be delivered in bulk. So if you 2627 02:18:56.840 --> 02:18:59.520 want that good arburgate product and you want it delivered 2628 02:18:59.520 --> 02:19:01.799 to your house, call them up, talk to them, or 2629 02:19:01.799 --> 02:19:04.079 when you're out there, ask them about a book delivery 2630 02:19:04.159 --> 02:19:05.680 of it, and they can do that. I don't care 2631 02:19:05.719 --> 02:19:08.280 where you live around here, they can do that. All right, 2632 02:19:09.200 --> 02:19:10.799 Time for me to take a quick break. When I 2633 02:19:10.879 --> 02:19:14.319 come back, we will be talking to Barry and David. 2634 02:19:14.719 --> 02:19:16.440 Oh major. 2635 02:19:16.600 --> 02:19:20.719 Look all right, folks, we're back with our last little 2636 02:19:20.760 --> 02:19:23.639 bit of segments of Garden Line today. You know, I'm 2637 02:19:23.680 --> 02:19:26.239 a broken record when it comes to soil. Right, what 2638 02:19:26.479 --> 02:19:29.520 is the secret of success with your garden plants? Round 2639 02:19:29.559 --> 02:19:33.360 stuff before green stuff is the answer. Round stuff before 2640 02:19:33.399 --> 02:19:36.879 green stuff. You get the soil right, that includes organic matter, 2641 02:19:36.959 --> 02:19:41.360 that includes improving the texture, structure, the drainage, You get 2642 02:19:41.399 --> 02:19:44.079 the nutrients in there, you're going to have success. And 2643 02:19:44.239 --> 02:19:49.159 Nature's way is built around doing exactly that. The same 2644 02:19:49.239 --> 02:19:52.040 way that nature does. That's why it's called Nature's Way 2645 02:19:52.200 --> 02:19:56.040 because it does it Nature's way. Now you go out there, 2646 02:19:56.159 --> 02:19:57.920 talk to Ian, talk to any of the folks out 2647 02:19:57.920 --> 02:20:00.079 there at Nature's Way, and they can point you in 2648 02:20:00.120 --> 02:20:02.920 the right direction with the soil blend that you need 2649 02:20:03.000 --> 02:20:04.559 for what you want to grow. Maybe you just want 2650 02:20:04.639 --> 02:20:06.799 some composts to improve a clay soil. Maybe you want 2651 02:20:07.319 --> 02:20:10.079 to get a bed mix that's going to go well with. 2652 02:20:10.879 --> 02:20:12.559 Maybe you're putting in fruit trees and you're going to 2653 02:20:12.639 --> 02:20:15.079 create a nice raised mound for better drainage on the 2654 02:20:15.159 --> 02:20:18.239 surface with one of their fruit blends. Maybe it's a 2655 02:20:18.399 --> 02:20:21.559 vegetable type soil blend, or for herbs or for flowers, 2656 02:20:21.879 --> 02:20:23.840 they've got it. Do you want to grow a zelias 2657 02:20:23.879 --> 02:20:28.440 and blueberries and peiras and oh my gosh, Virginia sweet inspire, 2658 02:20:28.479 --> 02:20:31.319 all those things that like cool that like acidic soils, 2659 02:20:31.760 --> 02:20:35.120 they've got that at Nature's Way Resources. It's really easy. 2660 02:20:35.319 --> 02:20:37.920 Just go just go check them out. You can go 2661 02:20:38.079 --> 02:20:39.920 buy there and pick it up yourself. If you've got 2662 02:20:39.959 --> 02:20:41.799 to pick up our trailer, you can call them and 2663 02:20:41.840 --> 02:20:42.600 have them deliver it. 2664 02:20:42.879 --> 02:20:43.479 You can go buy. 2665 02:20:44.440 --> 02:20:46.280 You can go buy and purchase it by the bag 2666 02:20:46.479 --> 02:20:48.440 or around town. There's a lot of places that carry 2667 02:20:48.520 --> 02:20:53.319 Nature's weigh soils. Buy the bag. The address is Sherbrooks 2668 02:20:53.360 --> 02:20:55.680 Circle and Conro. Basically, what you do is you head 2669 02:20:55.760 --> 02:20:59.920 up toward Tomball direction and when we're fourteen eighty eight 2670 02:21:00.200 --> 02:21:03.360 comes in from Magnolia, you turn right across the railroad 2671 02:21:03.440 --> 02:21:06.639 tracks and that's Sherbrock Circle and that's Nature's Way. You're 2672 02:21:06.680 --> 02:21:08.399 right there. It's really easy. Do you want a high 2673 02:21:08.440 --> 02:21:12.280 quality leaf mo compost or a fungal based compost. Both 2674 02:21:12.360 --> 02:21:15.239 of those are finally screened and excellent for top dressing 2675 02:21:15.319 --> 02:21:18.600 your lawn. You can get that as well as many 2676 02:21:18.719 --> 02:21:20.319 other things that Nature's Way. And you know when you 2677 02:21:20.399 --> 02:21:22.479 buy it there, it's going to be a product that's 2678 02:21:22.520 --> 02:21:25.639 made well. It's not cheap compost. This is is stuff 2679 02:21:25.719 --> 02:21:30.680 that's made well. It's been adequately composted, it's been properly screened, 2680 02:21:31.120 --> 02:21:33.959 and it's gonna give you the results you're looking for. 2681 02:21:35.600 --> 02:21:37.600 I'm going to head now to let's see where are 2682 02:21:37.639 --> 02:21:39.959 we going next. I believe we're heading to David and 2683 02:21:40.079 --> 02:21:42.120 Spring Branch. Hey, David, welcome to garden Line. 2684 02:21:43.079 --> 02:21:45.639 Hey, good morning, thank you for taking my call. Had 2685 02:21:45.639 --> 02:21:50.520 a couple of questions. Might you know of any annual 2686 02:21:50.680 --> 02:21:54.719 fruit tree cell that's going on this weekend? 2687 02:21:56.799 --> 02:21:59.000 I don't. I don't keep up with those. I know 2688 02:21:59.200 --> 02:22:02.680 different groups those around. You'd have to call your county 2689 02:22:02.719 --> 02:22:05.319 Extension office and see if they're having them. I tend 2690 02:22:05.360 --> 02:22:08.159 to focus on what's available in our local garden centers 2691 02:22:08.200 --> 02:22:11.120 at that time. But if you can get a hold 2692 02:22:11.159 --> 02:22:14.520 of your county Extension office, they can tell you when 2693 02:22:15.000 --> 02:22:17.120 you know the master gardeners are having various kinds of 2694 02:22:17.200 --> 02:22:19.639 things that they have, and I know those are going on, 2695 02:22:20.000 --> 02:22:21.360 I just don't have a list of that. 2696 02:22:22.159 --> 02:22:22.879 Okay, okay? 2697 02:22:23.040 --> 02:22:26.760 And yeah, in my peach tree is coming out with 2698 02:22:26.840 --> 02:22:30.079 the round bulbs and the pink petals, is it okay? 2699 02:22:30.239 --> 02:22:30.360 Now? 2700 02:22:30.600 --> 02:22:34.000 If I do some pruning on my peach tree, is 2701 02:22:34.040 --> 02:22:35.719 real tall? Is it okay? If I do that now? 2702 02:22:35.799 --> 02:22:36.479 Or should I wait? 2703 02:22:37.280 --> 02:22:39.040 If you want to do it, hurry up and get 2704 02:22:39.079 --> 02:22:41.399 it done. Yes. You can just be real careful because 2705 02:22:41.440 --> 02:22:44.479 once the growth starts, the bark starts to peel away 2706 02:22:44.559 --> 02:22:46.719 from the wood. When you do a cut, you know, 2707 02:22:46.799 --> 02:22:49.319 if that branch falls, you want to have your hand 2708 02:22:49.360 --> 02:22:52.159 on it to control it because it'll strip the bark 2709 02:22:52.280 --> 02:22:54.520 right off down the trunk or branch of the tree, 2710 02:22:54.639 --> 02:22:56.840 and that's a wound that takes forever to heal. So 2711 02:22:57.159 --> 02:22:59.120 that's the only thing right now, be real careful with 2712 02:22:59.239 --> 02:23:02.719 if the bark is already starting to come loose from 2713 02:23:02.760 --> 02:23:06.559 the inner wood. Okay, okay, yes, get it done this week. 2714 02:23:07.920 --> 02:23:12.719 There you go, Thank you, There you go, you bet, David, 2715 02:23:12.760 --> 02:23:15.040 thanks a lot, appreciate your call. We're going to now 2716 02:23:15.159 --> 02:23:18.000 go talk to Barry. Hello, Berry, welcome to guard Line. 2717 02:23:21.120 --> 02:23:24.520 Yes, thank you for taking the call. I got a 2718 02:23:24.639 --> 02:23:28.440 question about crate myrtles. We bought the crate myrtles and 2719 02:23:28.520 --> 02:23:31.200 then put them in about eight years ago in obviously 2720 02:23:31.319 --> 02:23:35.559 they've grown pretty tall, and I was wondering if if 2721 02:23:35.600 --> 02:23:39.520 I were to like cut some of the trunks down 2722 02:23:41.319 --> 02:23:43.920 a couple of feet to lower the whole crown of 2723 02:23:44.000 --> 02:23:47.360 the great myrtle, would that work. 2724 02:23:47.360 --> 02:23:49.639 Or is that just a well. 2725 02:23:52.280 --> 02:23:55.360 You technically you could. What's going to happen where you 2726 02:23:55.479 --> 02:23:57.079 cut the trunk off is you're going to get a 2727 02:23:57.120 --> 02:23:58.799 whole bunch of shoots that come out. We call that 2728 02:23:58.879 --> 02:24:01.879 a crow's foot. Like if you hold your arm up 2729 02:24:02.040 --> 02:24:04.200 and you point all your fingers up and out that 2730 02:24:04.639 --> 02:24:06.479 kind of your fingers are all the shoots that come 2731 02:24:06.479 --> 02:24:08.879 out at the top of that stubbed off trunk. It's 2732 02:24:09.000 --> 02:24:12.680 really not a very attractive growth and this is drastic. 2733 02:24:12.879 --> 02:24:14.959 But another option is to cut it off at the 2734 02:24:15.000 --> 02:24:17.799 ground and when the new shoots come out of the base, 2735 02:24:18.360 --> 02:24:22.159 pick maybe three of them to be your main trunks, 2736 02:24:22.600 --> 02:24:25.159 and then as they come up you can top them 2737 02:24:25.399 --> 02:24:29.520 and they'll form a couple of shoots that form the 2738 02:24:29.639 --> 02:24:32.840 next category of branches. And you know, a crpe myrtle 2739 02:24:32.840 --> 02:24:35.120 should come out of the ground as a single branch 2740 02:24:35.319 --> 02:24:37.680 or a trunk. It should fork into two or three, 2741 02:24:37.840 --> 02:24:39.680 and then fork into two or three, and as it 2742 02:24:39.799 --> 02:24:42.799 goes up it just makes this beautiful structure. When you 2743 02:24:42.920 --> 02:24:45.200 do the stubbing off two foot high, you're going to 2744 02:24:45.239 --> 02:24:48.159 have an ugly down there low. It's okay to do that. 2745 02:24:48.440 --> 02:24:50.600 I don't think it's very pretty to do that, and 2746 02:24:50.760 --> 02:24:52.159 so I might take it all the way to the 2747 02:24:52.200 --> 02:24:55.920 ground and start over or kind of branch back to 2748 02:24:56.000 --> 02:24:58.440 where a side branch comes out. 2749 02:25:01.840 --> 02:25:06.239 All right, okay, that helps me out, Thank you very much. 2750 02:25:07.719 --> 02:25:10.079 Yes, sir, you take care. I need to put something 2751 02:25:10.159 --> 02:25:13.319 online about that. I think it's hard to describe that 2752 02:25:13.440 --> 02:25:17.159 on the air. Let's go to Southwest Houston and we're 2753 02:25:17.159 --> 02:25:19.559 going to talk to Sharon. Hey, Sharon, welcome to guard Line. 2754 02:25:20.559 --> 02:25:20.680 Hi. 2755 02:25:22.079 --> 02:25:24.840 I have a lot of weeds in my yard, but 2756 02:25:25.520 --> 02:25:27.200 my dogs like to nibble on them. 2757 02:25:27.319 --> 02:25:29.040 So is it safe to poison them? 2758 02:25:31.600 --> 02:25:32.639 To poison the weeds? 2759 02:25:33.719 --> 02:25:35.120 Yes, when your dogs eat them. 2760 02:25:37.639 --> 02:25:41.440 Well, I wouldn't. You know, there's a lot of different 2761 02:25:41.479 --> 02:25:44.319 products out there, and they vary in their toxicity and things, 2762 02:25:44.360 --> 02:25:46.399 so it's hard to do a sweeping answer to that, 2763 02:25:47.040 --> 02:25:49.840 but I wouldn't if the dogs are eating them. If 2764 02:25:49.879 --> 02:25:51.600 you could keep the dogs off of them for a 2765 02:25:51.680 --> 02:25:53.559 week and you know, just kind of watch the dogs 2766 02:25:53.600 --> 02:25:58.079 and stuff, don't let them do that. But if you 2767 02:25:58.200 --> 02:26:01.079 need to have something go down and kill that whole weed, 2768 02:26:01.479 --> 02:26:04.000 some perennial weeds, that's the only way to really get them. 2769 02:26:04.559 --> 02:26:06.639 Then you just have to keep the dogs off that section. 2770 02:26:08.200 --> 02:26:09.559 So you think a week will be good. 2771 02:26:12.040 --> 02:26:14.680 A week will be enough for the product to move 2772 02:26:14.799 --> 02:26:18.399 down into the weed, and then you could do a 2773 02:26:18.479 --> 02:26:21.319 low mowing to cut all the top growth off that 2774 02:26:21.520 --> 02:26:24.239 there's nothing but the dogs to chew on then, and 2775 02:26:24.360 --> 02:26:27.120 that would be a strategy to go about it. Because 2776 02:26:27.200 --> 02:26:29.440 dogs do like to eat weeds mine do? 2777 02:26:30.680 --> 02:26:31.000 Okay? 2778 02:26:31.360 --> 02:26:35.479 All right, thank you, you bet, Charon, thank you for 2779 02:26:35.559 --> 02:26:38.159 the question. Hey, depending on what kind of weeds you have, 2780 02:26:38.600 --> 02:26:40.719 there are some other options if you just if you 2781 02:26:40.760 --> 02:26:43.479 don't have like a solid yard full of weeds. There's 2782 02:26:43.520 --> 02:26:45.680 a little device I've never talked about it on Guardline. 2783 02:26:45.680 --> 02:26:49.040 It's called Grandpa's weeder, and it's like fingers that you 2784 02:26:49.280 --> 02:26:51.879 step on it. It's a pole. You step on it 2785 02:26:52.120 --> 02:26:54.719 and it goes down beside the weed, and then you 2786 02:26:54.959 --> 02:26:58.159 just pull on the handle and it has a little 2787 02:26:58.559 --> 02:27:01.479 fulcrum and it like the weed right out of the ground. 2788 02:27:02.120 --> 02:27:04.840 Now that's for good for tap rooted weeds. It wouldn't 2789 02:27:04.840 --> 02:27:07.239 be good for weeds that are running all through your grass, 2790 02:27:07.399 --> 02:27:10.079 but that would be another is just do the hand 2791 02:27:10.159 --> 02:27:13.000 pulling without you getting on your hands and knees. That way, 2792 02:27:13.440 --> 02:27:17.280 it's it's easier cool, okay, Southwest Fertile Line. All right, 2793 02:27:18.399 --> 02:27:21.879 thank you. Oh they've got everything. Yeah, say hi to Bob. 2794 02:27:22.239 --> 02:27:27.520 All right, you take care of it. Well, it always 2795 02:27:27.600 --> 02:27:29.959 takes all and it's spring. Oh my gosh, it's going 2796 02:27:30.040 --> 02:27:32.280 to get more fun as we go here. I'm looking 2797 02:27:32.360 --> 02:27:35.079 forward to it. I hope you are too. Hey, garden 2798 02:27:35.120 --> 02:27:37.840 Line is available as a podcast. You can go to 2799 02:27:38.280 --> 02:27:40.680 the ktr H website go to garden Line. You can 2800 02:27:40.719 --> 02:27:42.879 listen to past shows. I think the best way to 2801 02:27:42.959 --> 02:27:44.760 listen to garden Line, unless you just happen to have 2802 02:27:44.959 --> 02:27:47.280 radio you like to sit by, which is fine and 2803 02:27:47.360 --> 02:27:50.639 we still do that, is to get the iHeartMedia app. 2804 02:27:50.959 --> 02:27:53.280 It's a little red app with a white heart in it. 2805 02:27:53.959 --> 02:27:56.959 Download it to your phones. Fine garden Line, you know, 2806 02:27:57.559 --> 02:27:59.840 put it on your list and you can listen to 2807 02:28:00.079 --> 02:28:02.120 me live. Put that phone in your pocket and go 2808 02:28:02.200 --> 02:28:05.079 out in the garden, pull weeds work, Take a picture 2809 02:28:05.120 --> 02:28:06.760 of a bug, send it to me. We'll talk about 2810 02:28:06.760 --> 02:28:10.040 it during the show. Get an air in time. It's 2811 02:28:10.079 --> 02:28:12.040 a good way to listen. And you also listened to 2812 02:28:12.079 --> 02:28:14.520 past shows on the on the iHeartMedia app too, So 2813 02:28:15.120 --> 02:28:17.079 tell your friends and neighbors about it. We try to 2814 02:28:17.120 --> 02:28:19.440 answer questions and answer them from all over the place, 2815 02:28:20.079 --> 02:28:22.799 so no matter where they live, we're happy to help them. 2816 02:28:23.000 --> 02:28:25.719 Would like to get us Paul on garden See you 2817 02:28:25.760 --> 02:28:28.319 tomorrow morning at six am. Get you some coffee, sat 2818 02:28:28.719 --> 02:28:30.559 ride eyed and bushy tailed. I'll be there