Speaker 1: Welcome to Katie r.
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Speaker 1: All right, let's do this. Good morning, gardeners and want
Speaker 1: to be gardeners. Thanks for tuning in the garden Line.
Speaker 1: I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we're here to help
Speaker 1: you have a beautiful garden of bountiful garden, gorgeous landscape
Speaker 1: and hopefully a lot of fun in the process. You know,
Speaker 1: the cool thing I think one of the cool things
Speaker 1: about gardening is it is a It's like painting and
Speaker 1: that you have a blank canvas. Now, sometimes the canvas
Speaker 1: isn't blank, it's a mess. You got to clear it
Speaker 1: off and start with a blank canvas. But when you're
Speaker 1: painting something, you pick up the brush and look at
Speaker 1: this big, giant white canvas and say, okay, what do
Speaker 1: I want to paint and where do I begin? You
Speaker 1: start drawing whatever whatever it is you want to see.
Speaker 1: It could be a bunch of balloons in the sky,
Speaker 1: you know, it could be anything you want to draw
Speaker 1: on the canvas. You get to do it. You get
Speaker 1: to pick the colors, you get to decide where you
Speaker 1: want to put it, and it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: And the cool thing about it is there's a range,
Speaker 1: so that gardening is for anybody, no matter what you
Speaker 1: are doing, no matter what you're trying to landscape, or
Speaker 1: how big the project is or how small. For some people,
Speaker 1: starting off on gardening is getting a bunch of big containers,
Speaker 1: filling them full of quality potting soil and growing vegetables
Speaker 1: and flowers on the patio or down the driveway or
Speaker 1: wherever you want to set them on the front porch.
Speaker 1: For other people, it may mean just having somebody come
Speaker 1: in and turn the whole place upside down, begin with
Speaker 1: dirt and take it from there. The whole design is new.
Speaker 1: Everything has created hardscapes. I mean, you've got a huge
Speaker 1: range in gardening. But don't feel like if you don't
Speaker 1: have this show placed landscape that's going to be on
Speaker 1: the next garden tour, that you're just not doing a
Speaker 1: good job gardening. Of course not. You get to do
Speaker 1: what you want to do. What do you want your
Speaker 1: garden to look like? What is the next step that
Speaker 1: you want to take? And I would advise you to
Speaker 1: start with some sort of a plan, some sort of
Speaker 1: an idea, think about it. Drive around town. I do
Speaker 1: this all the time. I've said this many times on
Speaker 1: the show. But when I go from here to there,
Speaker 1: I never take the well I try to never take,
Speaker 1: you know, the standard highway route. I will go through neighborhoods,
Speaker 1: I'll take other roots, and I get to see houses,
Speaker 1: and I get to see different ways of landscaping, and
Speaker 1: I get to see different kinds of plants and combinations.
Speaker 1: And it's inspiring to do that. And you can take
Speaker 1: a picture of it. It's okay to take a picture
Speaker 1: from the road if somebody's landscape, and take it home,
Speaker 1: and you know, put it in your to do or
Speaker 1: your someday, and then you've got those ideas there. You
Speaker 1: begin by starting with the soil. Always that that is
Speaker 1: the foundation to success. It is not about starting with plants.
Speaker 1: Do not do that. Start with the soil, brown stuff
Speaker 1: before green stuff. You get the soil right, and you
Speaker 1: put the good plants in it, in the design you like,
Speaker 1: and there you go. And I would begin, I would begin,
Speaker 1: you know, easy, you start with the basics. A lot
Speaker 1: of times gardeners, Okay, I'm drawn on here, but I
Speaker 1: think this is important. A lot of times gardeners are
Speaker 1: plant collectors, and I am a plant collector myself. I
Speaker 1: get it. I understand it. You go to a garden center,
Speaker 1: there's a pretty plant. I want that one. Oh, look
Speaker 1: at this one over here that is awesome. I want
Speaker 1: that one. And you do that, and then you go
Speaker 1: home and you walk around going where am I going
Speaker 1: to put these? And the landscapes of plant collectors tend
Speaker 1: to look like a bomb went off in a garden
Speaker 1: center and everything rooted where it is landed. You just
Speaker 1: have a great collection, but it's like there's no order
Speaker 1: to it, there's no sense to it. And sometimes plants
Speaker 1: don't thrive because you got a cactus next to an
Speaker 1: azalea and they don't have the same water needs, or
Speaker 1: you know, you have maybe a fern, you know, next
Speaker 1: to a hibiscus and they don't have the same sunlight needs.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying you start with a plan. Just maybe
Speaker 1: your first step, maybe your first step right now, is
Speaker 1: to get out there and side. I'm going to create
Speaker 1: this bed around a tree or along a back fence
Speaker 1: or wherever, and I'm gonna get good sold I'm gonna
Speaker 1: build it up, and then I want to put these
Speaker 1: plants in it. So first you get the beds created
Speaker 1: and then you begin to put the plants in. And
Speaker 1: there's nothing wrong. You don't have to do the whole
Speaker 1: thing at once. In fact, I've got a back bed
Speaker 1: that probably oh gosh, it's probably fifty feet long, and
Speaker 1: at this current time, I probably have seven plants and
Speaker 1: the whole bad or six probably, and it's so it
Speaker 1: looks sparse, but I'm gonna build it out. I'm just
Speaker 1: doing it a little at a time, and that's okay.
Speaker 1: So that's why we're here for on Guardline to help
Speaker 1: answer questions, to help guide you, to give you direction.
Speaker 1: If you have problems, you can you can call us
Speaker 1: or email me a photo and then call and we'll
Speaker 1: talk about, you know, what is that bug or problem? Uh,
Speaker 1: But feel free to do that reach out. We love
Speaker 1: to talk to you phone number seven one three two
Speaker 1: one two K t R H. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: go to the phones. So we're going to head to
Speaker 1: Jersey this morning and talk to Bill. Hello, Bill, welcome
Speaker 1: to garden Line.
Speaker 4: Hey, good morning skill. My Saint Augustine grass has come
Speaker 4: out really well this year and probably the best I've
Speaker 4: had in years. But all of a sudden, I'm getting
Speaker 4: out a lot of blades turning yellow kind of starts.
Speaker 4: It's not real. My yard still looks good, but I
Speaker 4: can look down into the grass and at the base
Speaker 4: of the blades they start yellow and then it slowly
Speaker 4: kind of creeps into the blades of grass. And I'm
Speaker 4: just seeing this in many different spots, and I'm just wondering,
Speaker 4: is it more maybe a fungle, or is it maybe
Speaker 4: I've got bugs.
Speaker 1: That's a good question. I'm kind of trying to picture
Speaker 1: what you're seeing. So the yellowing is just like the
Speaker 1: whole part of the beleef is like a bright yellow.
Speaker 1: It's not like a gradual loss of green. Ok yes, Okay,
Speaker 1: if you were to pick a blade and hold it
Speaker 1: up and look at it to the sky, do you
Speaker 1: think you would see, uh, just solid yellow or would
Speaker 1: you see kind of a yellow and green striped that
Speaker 1: becomes more yellow as it progresses along time. Okay? That
Speaker 1: sounds like an iron That sounds like an iron deficiency.
Speaker 1: And iron can be can fail to get into the
Speaker 1: grass for several reasons. One is the pH of the
Speaker 1: soil is a little high. Number two is the phosphorus.
Speaker 1: The middle number on the fertilizer bag is a little high.
Speaker 1: That's why my my my lawn schedules we try to
Speaker 1: aim for for low phosphorus numbers. And then the final
Speaker 1: one is there just as an iron, And that's actually
Speaker 1: the more unlikely one that there just is an iron.
Speaker 1: A soil test would tell you what your iron levels are,
Speaker 1: but you could go in there with a product called
Speaker 1: iron keylate keylate is spelled c h E la te
Speaker 1: and it's a type of iron that doesn't tie up
Speaker 1: in the soil as readily and so the grass plant
Speaker 1: has a better chance of getting it. I would start
Speaker 1: with that. Apply it. You can do them. Sometimes you
Speaker 1: can do hose in iron application. Sometimes granular hose in
Speaker 1: probably a little bit better, but that way you can
Speaker 1: kind of just treat the areas that are most showing
Speaker 1: it and see how it responds to that. If that
Speaker 1: greens it up, then that was the problem. And if
Speaker 1: it doesn't, then we need to look a little deeper.
Speaker 1: Maybe send me some photos and we'll look for some
Speaker 1: possible diseases involved. I think at this point, though, with
Speaker 1: your description, it's going to be an iron deficiency.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Stip.
Speaker 4: I'm going to give that a try.
Speaker 1: All right, you take care you're there, you know, right
Speaker 1: there in Jersey Village, You've got some Ace hardware stores
Speaker 1: up in that whole cypress area that can get you
Speaker 1: all fixed up with a keylated type of iron. And
Speaker 1: also some great garden centers too, not far away.
Speaker 4: From you, aces right down the street.
Speaker 5: I'll give them check in with all y.
Speaker 1: All right, sounds good, good luck, Thank you, thank you
Speaker 1: for the call. Appreciate that. In the lawns. I was
Speaker 1: out in the yard visiting with my neighbor a few
Speaker 1: days ago, and he said, he said that I had
Speaker 1: turned him onto Sweet Green for a nitropos and he said,
Speaker 1: I need to get some more of that where. You know.
Speaker 1: That was awesome, he said. He greened his line up
Speaker 1: like crazy. It did it fast. It just looks great,
Speaker 1: And that's true. Sweet Green is a it's a primarily
Speaker 1: a nitrogen fertilizer. Natural fertilizer melts away into your lawn grassroots.
Speaker 1: Pick it up, and you get some fast growth you
Speaker 1: want to give now. Normally, right now, I'm recommending slow
Speaker 1: releases to carry us through summer. But sometimes you need
Speaker 1: to get in there and you want to get a
Speaker 1: quick result and you know, kind of invigorate a spot
Speaker 1: and sweet green is great for that. And you know
Speaker 1: we use it various time of the year. But sweet
Speaker 1: green from nitrofosk can be found in many places Ace
Speaker 1: hardware and sinkle ranch ospase ace in the woodlands. You
Speaker 1: go up, maybe in Channa Forest. There'll be another place
Speaker 1: down there in the Richmond Rosenberg area. Take a little
Speaker 1: break here and we'll be right back with your calls. Well,
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Speaker 1: at it, then give me a call. We'll talk about it,
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Speaker 1: We're going to go now out to Spring and talk
Speaker 1: to Lance. Good morning, Lance, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 6: Ory Skip A quick question. I'm following the skins, but
Speaker 6: i think I've got my pre immersion out a little late,
Speaker 6: and I'm having a few weeks in my yard and
Speaker 6: I'm wondering what I can if there's anything in a
Speaker 6: little of going out there on the hands and even
Speaker 6: picking them. If there's a product can yeah, straight on
Speaker 6: granular into Saint State yard.
Speaker 1: Got you? Now, these are these are broad leaf weeds
Speaker 1: as opposed to grassy kinds of weeds.
Speaker 6: I have a little bit of ermuta that's mixed in
Speaker 6: from the neighbor, but I'm more it's yeah dollars. There's
Speaker 6: a few dollar weeds. And then there is one that
Speaker 6: looks like a little a little succulent with white flowers.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, that's a booker.
Speaker 2: That's a lot, but just a little yeah, well.
Speaker 1: Don't let it become a lot. That's Virginia button weed.
Speaker 1: And those low white flowers are followed by a little
Speaker 1: a little smaller than an English pea size pods that
Speaker 1: will recede it. Uh. Probably at this time, the best
Speaker 1: thing you could use is something called Celsius, like the
Speaker 1: temperatures Celsius. It comes in a little pack that makes
Speaker 1: one gallon. So you mix it up and you're just
Speaker 1: sporting the weeds. You're not you're not like treating the
Speaker 1: entire lawn. You're going to where the weeds are and
Speaker 1: you're squirting them with it, and it works very well.
Speaker 1: It is also one that even if the tempts are
Speaker 1: in the low nineties. It's not going to stress your
Speaker 1: grass like some of the other good weed control products
Speaker 1: will do. Once these temperatures get as high as they're getting. Now,
Speaker 1: go ahead and use it in the morning. It's the
Speaker 1: best time to apply it, and that would be the one.
Speaker 1: And it also is probably about as effective as anything
Speaker 1: you can find on the Virginia button weed, and even
Speaker 1: at that you may find that four six weeks later
Speaker 1: you're having to treat it again with the celsius because
Speaker 1: it's a very difficult weed to get rid of, but
Speaker 1: Celsius can do it.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: Appreciate you, all right, good luck getting rid of those
Speaker 1: weeks thanks to the call this morning. You bet you
Speaker 1: take care. Appreciate that. Let's go now to Stafford and
Speaker 1: we're going to talk to Mary. Good morning, Mary.
Speaker 7: Good morning. I have a beautiful green thing vine growing
Speaker 7: up the trellis, but I have no ballooons.
Speaker 1: Okay. Is this a climbing bean that you have?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 7: Okay, well I have several that are climbing and one
Speaker 7: that's a bush bean, but none.
Speaker 4: Of them are bloomings.
Speaker 1: None of them are blooming. How long ago did you plant?
Speaker 7: Probably two months and I planted from seam.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, Okay, well, green beans, most of them, the
Speaker 1: bush types especially, you should be getting something at about
Speaker 1: fifty days as far as production, or less could be
Speaker 1: less pul beans upright, ones they can range anywhere from
Speaker 1: about that, but some of them can go up to
Speaker 1: seventy days or more. They're kind of slow to get moving,
Speaker 1: so it could be that if you overdo nitrogen on beans,
Speaker 1: they take off with a bush leaf growth at the
Speaker 1: expense of bloom production. So I don't know how rich
Speaker 1: your soil is or what the fertilization schedule's been, but
Speaker 1: just know that you don't want to not give them
Speaker 1: any fertilizer, but just go go a little bit light,
Speaker 1: especially on the nitrogen. And then finally, if they're if
Speaker 1: they don't get at least six hours of sun, you're
Speaker 1: going to see a delay in production and a lower
Speaker 1: level of production because they just can't make enough carbohydrates
Speaker 1: to do it. So does any of that get.
Speaker 8: Is it going to get too hot for them to produce?
Speaker 1: Yes, they'll quit setting, but not just yet. You should
Speaker 1: still be getting setting on your beans. But when it
Speaker 1: does get hot there, they're not going to set.
Speaker 7: I put some ashes from my fireplace back in the
Speaker 7: winter on the bed.
Speaker 1: Is that a problem the problem, Well, probably not if
Speaker 1: it wasn't too much. It's kind of like everything the
Speaker 1: dose makes the poison kind of would I would say
Speaker 1: if you overdo ashes, the pH is going to get
Speaker 1: too high and you may see some iron chlorosis or
Speaker 1: yellowing of the new growth. Ashes are going to contain
Speaker 1: potassium and a number of other minerals and can be
Speaker 1: helpful if that's what your soil needs. If you already
Speaker 1: have a lot of what is in the ashes, then
Speaker 1: you're just creating an imbalance. So that's where we go
Speaker 1: back to a soil test to see where you are
Speaker 1: and what might need to be added.
Speaker 7: Okay, well the leaves and everything look very, very healthy,
Speaker 7: but they're just not producing. Maybe I'm too.
Speaker 1: Early yet, Well two months you should be getting. You
Speaker 1: should have gotten balloons by now, and even pods for sure.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I kind of can you know? Looping
Speaker 1: back again, it's light, it's moderate fertilizing, not too much,
Speaker 1: and then depending on the variety, they vary in terms
Speaker 1: of how how soon they come into production. I can't
Speaker 1: think of anything else that would be causing them not
Speaker 1: to produce. For you than that. Give them a little
Speaker 1: more time, see what they do, let them settle in,
Speaker 1: and just make sure they get adequate so moisture, and
Speaker 1: hopefully they'll settle in and start producing for you.
Speaker 9: Thank you all right, Mary.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Appreciate that call. Yeah, that's interesting.
Speaker 1: Green beans are more people ought to grow them. We've
Speaker 1: got a lot of great types of green beans. There's
Speaker 1: bush beans, bush types, and then there are the types
Speaker 1: that we call pole beans that climb. There are some gosh,
Speaker 1: some great varieties. You know, there's so many good varieties.
Speaker 1: I've done green bean trials over the last twenty years
Speaker 1: several times, and there's a lot of good varieties. One
Speaker 1: old bean that's been around a long time and it
Speaker 1: still is a good one is Contender. Contender is the variety.
Speaker 1: But there are a lot of other good ones. And
Speaker 1: you go to a garden center that knows, you know,
Speaker 1: they carry the varieties that want to do well here
Speaker 1: and talk to them about what they have. But that's
Speaker 1: an old mainstay, it's been around there. On the pole beans,
Speaker 1: a lot of those take a little too long to
Speaker 1: come into production for me. And so there are a
Speaker 1: few varieties. There's one called rattlesnakes a little slow to
Speaker 1: come into production, but it's an interesting being. And then
Speaker 1: there's some broad flat types of pole beans as well
Speaker 1: that do well also. We're just about to come up
Speaker 1: here into another break. I just wanted to mention that
Speaker 1: if you have not been to my website, I would
Speaker 1: encourage you to go check it out. It's gardening with
Speaker 1: Skip dot com. That's where my schedules are. The schedule
Speaker 1: for lawn fertilizing and lawn care in general, mowing, watering, fertilizing,
Speaker 1: and then the schedule for lawn problems, and that would
Speaker 1: be weeds and diseases and insects, and they go from
Speaker 1: January to December. It's a little chart like a checkerboard
Speaker 1: sort of, and from January to December, and then each
Speaker 1: row is a different problem, like there's a disease row
Speaker 1: and insect row and so on. So you can see
Speaker 1: exactly when do chinchbugs typically attack here, when do soide
Speaker 1: web worms typically attack, and then follow it down as
Speaker 1: to what to do about it. Let's take a break,
Speaker 1: we'll be right back. Hey, good morning, welcome back to
Speaker 1: garden Line. Thanks for joining us today. What do you
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Speaker 1: That's what it's about. Give me a call when you
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Speaker 1: I was talking earlier about, you know, gardening, taking gardening
Speaker 1: step at a time. Don't look at it like, oh,
Speaker 1: I've got to have this giant landscape makeover, although you could,
Speaker 1: but look at it like what is the next little
Speaker 1: thing I want to do? What is the next thing?
Speaker 1: About a year ago or so, I decided my next
Speaker 1: thing in the house we had moved into was to
Speaker 1: put in and I call it an orchard. It just
Speaker 1: means that's where fruit trees are. It's not an orchard,
Speaker 1: but it's the orchard's on the side of the house.
Speaker 1: I had a little strip there. There's a little too
Speaker 1: narrow to do a whole lot with. And with the
Speaker 1: privacy fence and the eaves of the house, the ground
Speaker 1: sunlight amount is less, meaning you know, as a sun
Speaker 1: goes through the sky. There's a little pattern that goes
Speaker 1: across the ground, but the number of hours any spot
Speaker 1: is in the sun is lower. So what I did
Speaker 1: is I brought in and carrid some vego beds. I
Speaker 1: filled them with soil, not too tall, probably about eleven
Speaker 1: inch high, and big squares, and then I anim trees
Speaker 1: in them. So the trees that come up, they're going
Speaker 1: to be in the sun a lot because they catch
Speaker 1: the sun sooner and even when the ground has gone
Speaker 1: into shade from the house, the tree leaves are up
Speaker 1: there still capturing sunlight, see what I'm saying. So it
Speaker 1: became a good spot for that, and I put a
Speaker 1: little archard down. I started with the beds, got them
Speaker 1: set up back to I still have a bed. I
Speaker 1: haven't put a tree in, and the beds have trees,
Speaker 1: and so I'm just waiting. I know what I want
Speaker 1: to do there, and it's just a matter of me
Speaker 1: getting around to it and finding that species and variety
Speaker 1: that I'm looking for. But now that whole area it
Speaker 1: looks nice now for me. Everybody has a different opinion
Speaker 1: about what they like the look of Some people would
Speaker 1: put grass in there and mow it and edge it
Speaker 1: and weed eat it and everything. I just turned it
Speaker 1: into a giant moultched area. It's around you walk around
Speaker 1: that side of the house and it's basically a lot
Speaker 1: of leaves from last winter. All my neighbors are so
Speaker 1: nice to leap at the curb for me and brought
Speaker 1: them home, run over them with a lawnmoarders, chop them
Speaker 1: up a little bit so they don't blow around, and
Speaker 1: it just looks like a four all around those trees.
Speaker 1: And if a weed sticks its head up, I take
Speaker 1: care of that weed. But in general, with the thick, thick,
Speaker 1: multual leaves, I don't have to deal with it. So
Speaker 1: that was like one project that was done in pieces
Speaker 1: over time, and you can do the same kinds of things.
Speaker 1: Maybe you want to grow some vegetables, why not starting
Speaker 1: containers and then or you could start going all the
Speaker 1: way to getting a nice raised bed and putting it
Speaker 1: on the ground, filling it full of good mix and
Speaker 1: starting to grow your vegetables. And there's things you can
Speaker 1: grow in summer, so you can start that garden right
Speaker 1: now and then when fall comes you'll be rolling and
Speaker 1: ready to go for broccol and cabbage and cauliflower and
Speaker 1: a kale and a coolabbie, and spinach and lettuce and
Speaker 1: beets and radishes and carrots, and here I go. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of things you can plan, but start small.
Speaker 1: Try something. What is going to be the thing you
Speaker 1: do next? And just because it's summer and it's like
Speaker 1: it's going to get hot now, now you can still
Speaker 1: do that. A little morning work here and there can
Speaker 1: go a long way toward making your life escape or
Speaker 1: your gardening dreams. Take that next step. Well, let's uh
Speaker 1: head out now to the phones. We're going to go
Speaker 1: to Greg in Magnolia. Hello, Greg, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 5: How are you doing this morning?
Speaker 1: I'm well, thank you.
Speaker 10: My question is I have several fruit trees. I have
Speaker 10: a lemon tree, of peach, apple, and two orange trees.
Speaker 10: And after that freezygeddon we had several years ago. It
Speaker 10: buds but does not produce any fruit there, especially the peach.
Speaker 1: Is not it So it blooms, but it doesn't cut fruit.
Speaker 1: That's what you're saying, Yes, sir, yes, sir, Well that's strange.
Speaker 10: And I fertilile.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, peaches, peaches do not require a second variety
Speaker 1: for pollinating your apple does, but the peaches don't. The
Speaker 1: if it gets enough sunlight, that's an important part of
Speaker 1: setting buds and blooming. But if you're getting blooms, you're
Speaker 1: getting at least bud set so maybe, you know, if
Speaker 1: the sunlight was a little marginal, maybe that could be
Speaker 1: part of it. There isn't an insect that kills the thing.
Speaker 1: It kills the fruit after it blooms. It's not a
Speaker 1: pest problem. You know, there's some diseases like brown rot
Speaker 1: that can even attack the blooms and the young fruit,
Speaker 1: but generally that's not when you see a problem with it. Hm,
Speaker 1: this is strange a peach that bloom, blooms. Does it
Speaker 1: does look good?
Speaker 10: Yes, yes, it hasn't really grown thickness in the trunk
Speaker 10: is as I would like it. But it is next
Speaker 10: to two sweet gums, and that might be sucking all
Speaker 10: the more all the minerals and stuff from it because
Speaker 10: you know, the sandy loan just.
Speaker 2: Doesn't hould the minerals.
Speaker 6: Yeah, up county.
Speaker 1: And you know oil, Yeah, it's a decent it's a
Speaker 1: decent type of soil that how many hours of real
Speaker 1: direct sunlight do you think that tree gets.
Speaker 6: Probably six to eight.
Speaker 1: Well that should be enough fruit. Yeah, right, So after
Speaker 1: it blooms, do little green peaches form like I'm talking
Speaker 1: about the size, you know, like an English pee, but
Speaker 1: they are elongated and skinny.
Speaker 10: No, sir, no sir, because as soon as you know,
Speaker 10: back in the day, you know, I'm preaching at the choir.
Speaker 10: But when once you see a little fruit, then I
Speaker 10: start spraying. That is sector side stuff, the fruit tree spray.
Speaker 10: And then bards usial gated the squirrels and I throw
Speaker 10: the nest the net over it.
Speaker 2: And then that had probably well blooms this year.
Speaker 1: Okay, oh oh just a dozen. And how old is
Speaker 1: the tree?
Speaker 10: About seven years old?
Speaker 11: It really hasn't grown much.
Speaker 10: And I fertilize, you know, with those spikes every year,
Speaker 10: and I use that mult its fruit trees.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would mean I would. I'm opposed to the spikes.
Speaker 1: Well as opposed to the spikes. I just get a
Speaker 1: good lawn fertilizer or a fruit tree fertilizer and sprinkle
Speaker 1: the granules all around under the tree and a big throughout,
Speaker 1: a big circle or a circular area for every inch
Speaker 1: of trunk diameter, give it one or two cups of
Speaker 1: lawn fertilizer.
Speaker 2: Yes, so, and I use the good stuff.
Speaker 1: The only thing, all right, Well, the only thing I
Speaker 1: can think of that could be happening is maybe the
Speaker 1: pollinators are being killed if you start too early on spring,
Speaker 1: and like, don't don't spray any insecticides during blow but
Speaker 1: that I don't know why you wouldn't have any pollinators.
Speaker 1: But that's not many blooms for a tree. And so
Speaker 1: that's the only thing I can think about. If you want,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I think we kind of hit a stalemate
Speaker 1: on this one. If you would like, I'm gonna put
Speaker 1: you on hold, and you can either hang up or
Speaker 1: if you hang on, my producer will give you an
Speaker 1: email address and send me a picture of the tree
Speaker 1: from a couple of angles in its neck, in its setting,
Speaker 1: and then maybe get up close and show me what
Speaker 1: it looks like. If I see anything else on it,
Speaker 1: maybe something will pop into my head that hasn't yet.
Speaker 1: But we'll see what we can do for you. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, put you on hold right now, you bet,
Speaker 1: thank you for the call. So we were sitting outside
Speaker 1: yesterday late in the day. We like to go out
Speaker 1: late in the day and I don't have a big
Speaker 1: mosquito problem because I got those mosquito buckets, so thank
Speaker 1: goodness because that used to ruin that nice time of
Speaker 1: the day. But anyway, we're sitting outside, my wife and
Speaker 1: I and little birds are coming to our feeders. We
Speaker 1: got a couple of feeders from wildbirds, and we were
Speaker 1: just watching them come and go from the feeders, and
Speaker 1: I got out the Merlin app. And if you don't
Speaker 1: even have bird feeders, you need to get this app.
Speaker 1: It's free. It's from Cornell. Cornell University has an ornithology
Speaker 1: department that created this amazing app. And basically what you
Speaker 1: do is you can take a picture and then look
Speaker 1: for what the name of that bird is. And it
Speaker 1: really works. I zoomed in on a Carolina chickadee that
Speaker 1: was so far away that when I zoomed in on it,
Speaker 1: it was like a real grainy, crummy picture, but it
Speaker 1: was there. Merlin told me, that's a Carolina chickadee. You
Speaker 1: could go down, you could listen to the songs that
Speaker 1: bird makes. You can find out about it. It's so cool.
Speaker 1: And then we're sitting there a little bit later and
Speaker 1: we heard two or three birds singing in the trees
Speaker 1: and I couldn't even see the birds. Merlin also has
Speaker 1: a listen find the bird by sound and it listens
Speaker 1: and as soon as it here's this little bird singing.
Speaker 1: After a few seconds, it pops up the name of
Speaker 1: the bird. It's so amazing. Wild Birds on Limited is
Speaker 1: our favorite place to go because we're getting more and
Speaker 1: more into these birds. The feeders. I've got a feeder.
Speaker 1: One of the feeders we're watching the Carolina A tigoties
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Speaker 1: Excuse me, a bit of eliminates squirrels and things because
Speaker 1: they they they if they try to grab onto it
Speaker 1: to go in and get food, it closes the door
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Speaker 1: you need to try this stuff out, get that Merlin
Speaker 1: app and then get to Wildbirds Limited. Welcome back to Guardline.
Speaker 1: Good to have you with us this morning. We're here
Speaker 1: to help you have success and fun when you go
Speaker 1: about your gardening activities. That is important. Another way that
Speaker 1: you can make sure and have success and fun is
Speaker 1: to know where your local ACE Hardware store is and
Speaker 1: it's easy to find. Ace Hardwaretexas dot com. Ace Hardware
Speaker 1: Texas dot com. That's the website and when you go there,
Speaker 1: you're going to find everything you need to have success
Speaker 1: in your lawn, to control weeds and diseases, to control insects,
Speaker 1: to fertilize your lawn. And make sure that you hear
Speaker 1: me talk about these products and where do I get them? Well,
Speaker 1: your local Ace Hardware store. Ace Hardwaretexas dot com. That's
Speaker 1: a website that I'll hope you find the one for you.
Speaker 1: So for example, up north there's spring Ace on Spring Cypress.
Speaker 1: Down southwest there's Plantation Ace on Mason Road in the
Speaker 1: Richmond Rosenberg area, Champions Ace on Spring Cypress northwest, northeast
Speaker 1: Crosby ACE on FM twenty one hundred, and then in
Speaker 1: West Houston there's Langham Creek ASE on FM five point nine.
Speaker 1: In Cyprus just by the Copperfield neighborhood there, and there
Speaker 1: are many, many, many more. There's just a few examples
Speaker 1: of the ace hardwar stores you can find near you.
Speaker 1: But the main thing is you gotta go. You gotta
Speaker 1: check them out. By the way, Father's Day is coming,
Speaker 1: and I'm just saying, their barbecue selection is great, it
Speaker 1: is unbelievable, So you may just want to go by
Speaker 1: there and check it out. Also, some really great tools,
Speaker 1: you know, from really quality brands and whatnot. Whatever your dad, husband, grandpa,
Speaker 1: son is looking for that is related to tools and
Speaker 1: guy kinds of things. If you will, well, Ace Hardw's
Speaker 1: got it. And I know some of you ladies are
Speaker 1: going wait, I like tools too. Okay, all right, get
Speaker 1: you one, when you get your husband one? Two? Why not?
Speaker 1: I think that's allowed. Let's go out to Tomball. We're
Speaker 1: going to talk to my Hey, Hey, Mike, welcome to
Speaker 1: garden Line.
Speaker 5: Hey, good morning, Skip love your show.
Speaker 1: Good morning, thank you.
Speaker 5: I have something growing in my yard. I sent a picture.
Speaker 5: It looks like a sedge, but it's got little what
Speaker 5: looks like grass burds sitting on top of it. I'm
Speaker 5: just wondering how to control it. I've got several patches
Speaker 5: of it in my yard, and I have a bermuda,
Speaker 5: mostly bermuda and tiff tough grass.
Speaker 1: Okay, So that's that is a weed called kai linga,
Speaker 1: and it's related to sedges. It has a triangular stem
Speaker 1: at the base and you get the look real close
Speaker 1: or feel it with your hands, roll it, roll the
Speaker 1: stem in your fingers and you can kind of feel
Speaker 1: the clunky three sides as you roll it along. Kling
Speaker 1: is a difficult weed to control. Uh. First of all,
Speaker 1: it loves wet conditions. So your grass can do with
Speaker 1: much less water than kaylinga, and so would I would
Speaker 1: make my watering very deep and infrequent as possible. Don't
Speaker 1: just keep it wet all the time. Otherwise kyllinga just
Speaker 1: proliferates and it's very difficult to manage. You can't control rainfall,
Speaker 1: which can control irrigation. Then, as far as products, the
Speaker 1: product called sedge hammer. Sedge hammer will give decent control,
Speaker 1: but it's going to take several applications. It's not just
Speaker 1: a wipe it out like it like it does on
Speaker 1: some of the other sedges and things. But sedge hammer.
Speaker 1: And there's also one product called Managed that's the same thing,
Speaker 1: Manage and sedge hammer. I think there may be one
Speaker 1: called sedge Ender that's the same brand as well. I
Speaker 1: need to look at it's on my website. I need
Speaker 1: to look at my own website. But anyway, use those,
Speaker 1: follow the instructions on them, and be ready to do
Speaker 1: it maybe two or three times as we go through
Speaker 1: this season. Just don't don't let it up, prayer, and
Speaker 1: then in the meantime keep it dry as you can.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 12: Well, I don't.
Speaker 2: Water my yard very very.
Speaker 5: Often unless it really needs it, so okay, uh yeah,
Speaker 5: so uh I have the sedge hammer here, so I'll
Speaker 5: just start applying. Okay if I can get rid of it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just stay stay with it, don't let it, don't
Speaker 1: let up from Yes, sir, you take care. I appreciate you.
Speaker 1: Call time for me to go to a break. Is
Speaker 1: that what I'm hearing? Oh no, we're hearing music. No,
Speaker 1: there's no way. It's the top of the hour. We
Speaker 1: didn't just do an hour a garden line. I just
Speaker 1: got started. I had stories to tell, things to talk about.
Speaker 1: I guess you have to stick around. We're glad you're listen.
Speaker 1: By the way, if you have questions about uh that Sedge,
Speaker 1: go to the website gardening with skip dot com. Find
Speaker 1: the publication called Sage and end up. Look it is.
Speaker 1: I researched it for a long time, talked a lot
Speaker 1: of turf and weed specialists and searched out the products
Speaker 1: and everything, and I figured that animal out and we
Speaker 1: have figured out ways to shut it down. But you
Speaker 1: got to be diligent. You got to read that publication
Speaker 1: and be diligent. You don't halfway control nuts Edge. You
Speaker 1: never let it up for air. Well, good morning, welcome
Speaker 1: back to Guardline. It is good to have you with us.
Speaker 1: Looking forward to visiting with you about the things that
Speaker 1: are of most interest to you. How do you have
Speaker 1: success in the garden and in the landscape. Just before
Speaker 1: we went to break there, I was visiting let's see, oh,
Speaker 1: I was visiting with Mike and about some kylinga in
Speaker 1: the yard, and I failed to mention that image is
Speaker 1: another option for that image. I am age the label
Speaker 1: will say image for Nutsedge. There's other images. Just to
Speaker 1: get the one that says image for nuts edge and
Speaker 1: that's another good option. Might be a little more effective
Speaker 1: actually than the manager and sedgehammer would be on that
Speaker 1: particular Kalinga. I just want to make sure and say
Speaker 1: that I'll email them as well. But welcome back to Guardline.
Speaker 1: Good have you with us. We have plenty of things
Speaker 1: we can touch base on and talk about today. I
Speaker 1: want to begin by just this segment at least by
Speaker 1: just saying, if you have been wanting to garden more,
Speaker 1: but maybe as you've gotten older, getting around is difficult.
Speaker 1: It's hard to get up, hard to get down. Maybe
Speaker 1: some arthritic conditions in your hands make it a little
Speaker 1: harder to hold some of the implements and things. There's
Speaker 1: a lot that you can do to continue to enjoy gardening.
Speaker 1: I talk about the kneeling bench all the time. It's
Speaker 1: a folding bench that you flip it one way and
Speaker 1: you can sit on it, so you can be sitting
Speaker 1: there like printing the suckers off your tomatoes, or doing
Speaker 1: some of the kind of work like that, or you
Speaker 1: can flip at the upside down and you kneel on
Speaker 1: it and the legs become handles to get up and down,
Speaker 1: and boy does it ever make a huge difference when
Speaker 1: you have to go down to your knees and get
Speaker 1: back up again. On gardening, tools that are ergonomically designed
Speaker 1: are very helpful. And I always talk about quality tools,
Speaker 1: you know, making sure you get a quality tool. Oytherwise.
Speaker 1: Checking out a plants Fall Seasons the other day and
Speaker 1: I noticed they have a lot of good quality tools
Speaker 1: there and they have some ergonomic ones as well. The
Speaker 1: Plants Fall Seasons is a garden center there where Tomball Parkway,
Speaker 1: FM two forty nine and Luetta come together. It's right
Speaker 1: there on Tomball Parkway, just north of Luetta. But they've
Speaker 1: got a great tool section and we were talking about
Speaker 1: gifts and things for Father's Day and whatnot. If you
Speaker 1: check that out, you might find that that is just
Speaker 1: a really good get. A quality tool is essentially last
Speaker 1: forever almost It just a lot of these printers, quality
Speaker 1: brands like Corona, and I believe they have Corona there
Speaker 1: at plants Fall Seasons. They even replace the blades on
Speaker 1: many of the models and things, so they just keep
Speaker 1: going and they work well. And cheap tools they get
Speaker 1: messed up and it makes it harder to cut and
Speaker 1: so that's more strain on your hands, and so get
Speaker 1: a quality tool, and that way, in the long run,
Speaker 1: I would contend that you save money. You throw away
Speaker 1: a lot of cheap, worthless tools, while one quality tool
Speaker 1: just keeps going and going and it makes it so
Speaker 1: much easier. And especially those you're dealing you know, with
Speaker 1: strains on joints and elbows and from using a lopper
Speaker 1: prunter or something like that. So anyway, just a little
Speaker 1: tip there, plants fail seasons. Why there you can find
Speaker 1: some great plants too, And they carry all the fertilizers
Speaker 1: you're hearing me talk about here on garden Line. They
Speaker 1: just have a great selection also soils products from potting mixes,
Speaker 1: tumulchiz to bed mixes out in the landscape two eight, one, three,
Speaker 1: seven six, sixteen forty six. If you want to give
Speaker 1: him a call, we're gonna head out now to Needville
Speaker 1: and talk to Vernon or Vernon, Vernon, Vernon, Well, hey Vernon,
Speaker 1: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 6: Yes, I got a question.
Speaker 13: A couple of weeks ago, I went to a fruit
Speaker 13: tree giveaway down in Sweeney and I got a couple
Speaker 13: of prime art freedom blackberries, Okay, and they look great,
Speaker 13: and I've got them sitting in a container where they're
Speaker 13: waking up water and these things are just going like
Speaker 13: game busters. But I wanted to transplant them, but I'm
Speaker 13: kind of afraid of doing it in the heat. Right now,
Speaker 13: it's okay, get them in the ground.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, you do need to get them in the ground.
Speaker 1: Make sure you get a good sunny location for them.
Speaker 1: They're going to need some sort of a trellis because
Speaker 1: they produce long, strong canes growth they you know, their
Speaker 1: their canes are very vigorous, and so you need a
Speaker 1: wire to attach them to. Just a single wire even
Speaker 1: oh about chest high usually is okay, maybe a little
Speaker 1: bit lower than that. But Primark Freedom is bread by
Speaker 1: the University of Arkansas. That's what the arc is about.
Speaker 1: In the in the name and prime means that the
Speaker 1: first year canes produce fruit. In blackberries, I don't want
Speaker 1: to nerd out on you here, but in blackberries, a
Speaker 1: shoe comes out of the ground in the first year,
Speaker 1: it's called a primacaine. Then it goes through winter, and
Speaker 1: the second year it's called a flora caane, meaning it flowers.
Speaker 1: And that's the normal BlackBerry. One year a cane grows,
Speaker 1: goes through winter, and next year it fruits and then
Speaker 1: it dies. Primacaine blooming blackberries have fruit the very first
Speaker 1: year before they go through that first winter. They can
Speaker 1: also have fruit the next year, but that in primark freedom.
Speaker 1: There's another one primary traveler that are just excellent. And
Speaker 1: there are some see where you located, Yeah, there are
Speaker 1: some BlackBerry patches. There's a patch out there toward oh,
Speaker 1: just west on two ninety. I'm trying to think of exactly,
Speaker 1: but anyway, they have both of those varieties and they
Speaker 1: look great. So you've got a great variety there.
Speaker 13: Okay, so we go and get them in the ground,
Speaker 13: and what's the best fertilizer to use them?
Speaker 1: Most you know, blackberries don't take a lot of fertilizer,
Speaker 1: but I would use now they are fertilizers that are
Speaker 1: far fruit trees, and that would be fine to use.
Speaker 1: I tend to, you know, I need to fertilize, and
Speaker 1: it's like I don't have a fertilizer. I tend to
Speaker 1: just grab my lawn fertilizers and use those on them.
Speaker 1: And you hear me talk about all these lawn fertilizers,
Speaker 1: any of the lawn fertilizers on the schedule would be
Speaker 1: good for blackberries. Just use it moderately. You don't want
Speaker 1: to overdo it, but scratch it into the ground, watered
Speaker 1: in real good. The main thing on blackberries, keep the
Speaker 1: weeds away, give them plenty of rooms so that a
Speaker 1: weed eater or a lawn more doesn't get in the way.
Speaker 1: And yeah, they'll they'll do good for you.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, well that sounds good. I appreciate that.
Speaker 1: Well, good luck. Now you know the rule on guarden
Speaker 1: line is my advice is free, but you got to
Speaker 1: bring me half the blackberries and we'll call it even.
Speaker 1: All right, well sounds fair, All right, sounds fair. Well
Speaker 1: I do too, take care of vernon. Appreciate your call,
Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Microlife fertilizers, there is an example
Speaker 1: of a good one for fruit trees, you know, the
Speaker 1: green bag. The Microlife makes fertilizers for like citrus and
Speaker 1: other fruit too. You can do that one. They both
Speaker 1: work very well for your fruits. But anyway, the green
Speaker 1: bag that typically is what we think about the lawn.
Speaker 1: You're going to put it on several times through the summer,
Speaker 1: just just moderate doses as you go through microbes get involved,
Speaker 1: they turn the nutrients loose, your plants get happy, and
Speaker 1: your soul gets better. That's how it works with microlife.
Speaker 1: You can also get their humans plus the purple bag.
Speaker 1: And when you put the you mates plus inn uh,
Speaker 1: that is going to help with the all long term
Speaker 1: improvement of soil. Humus is the final stage of compost.
Speaker 1: So you mats plus or essentially concentrated compost in a
Speaker 1: bag and they work and they're for microlife. So grab
Speaker 1: both the green and the purple bag. Get out there
Speaker 1: in your lawn. Get busy. Time for me to take
Speaker 1: a little break and then we'll be back. All righty,
Speaker 1: we got a little bit of you're preyle. That's been
Speaker 1: a while. Welcome back to the guarden line if you'd
Speaker 1: like to give me a call. Seven one three two
Speaker 1: one two k t r H seven one three two
Speaker 1: one two k t RH Someone who's asking me about
Speaker 1: I mentioned earlier the kneeling bench, and I was talking
Speaker 1: about you know, orgonomic tools and things like that. Uh
Speaker 1: and uh, you know where can you get those? Well,
Speaker 1: they're available in a lot of different places. Uh, but
Speaker 1: I always just go to Southwest Fertilizer because I talked
Speaker 1: to Bob about those long time ago, and he's kept
Speaker 1: them in stocked and you always have them there, and
Speaker 1: they're they're not that expensive, but they are very hopeful.
Speaker 1: And yeah, I've told this story before. It's been a
Speaker 1: long time, so I'll tell it again. But I bought
Speaker 1: my sister a kneeling bench. Now, my sister is older
Speaker 1: than me, significantly older than me, a fact that I
Speaker 1: love to point out to her whenever I get a chance.
Speaker 1: Bless her poor heart having me as a brother. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I got her one, and I got kind of looking
Speaker 1: at it and I thought, you know what, I think
Speaker 1: I could use one. Not that I'm getting older and evening,
Speaker 1: not that I'm getting to crap it or anything, but
Speaker 1: I'm just saying anyway, So I got me one. And
Speaker 1: you know, have you ever been out in the garden
Speaker 1: working and the next day you wake up in maybe
Speaker 1: the pre natal position, and everything hurts and you don't
Speaker 1: know why. It's because you In my case, it's because
Speaker 1: I go down to my knees to plant a seed
Speaker 1: or pull a weed or mulch. I get back up again.
Speaker 1: I go over here. You're not plan a plan. I
Speaker 1: get up again again, and who knows, maybe five thousand
Speaker 1: times on a Saturday. At least that's the way it
Speaker 1: feels on Sunday morning when I wake up. The kneeling
Speaker 1: bench is really helpful for that. So I got me one.
Speaker 1: I fell in love with this, one of my top
Speaker 1: five tools that I have. Maybe I should just do
Speaker 1: a thing sometime on my favorite tools. That'd be a
Speaker 1: good deal. I think I will. But anyway, kneeling bench
Speaker 1: a good one. Southwest Fertilizer's got it. If you go
Speaker 1: to my website, we talk about, you know, controlling nuts
Speaker 1: edge and I have my weed wiper. It's a homemade
Speaker 1: little deal, not expensive at all, easy to put together,
Speaker 1: very simple anybody. You may not be a handyman at all,
Speaker 1: but you definitely can build this weed wiper. So simple.
Speaker 1: And where do you get the tool? The grabber tool
Speaker 1: that you used to build it, because it takes a
Speaker 1: certain kind of grabber tool at least it works best
Speaker 1: with a certain kind of grabber tool. You get it
Speaker 1: a Southwest Fertilizer. Bob's got those. You just go buy
Speaker 1: and ask him, say I want that grabber tool. The
Speaker 1: skip talks about I'm making a weed wipper. Whence you're
Speaker 1: right to it. Anytime you go on to Southwest, you're
Speaker 1: going to find everything you need. You know, other tools
Speaker 1: quality brand. If I mentioned Corona earlier, Falco is another
Speaker 1: outstanding quality brand. Any product that comes out of my
Speaker 1: mouth on garden Line is going to be a Southwest
Speaker 1: fertilizer because anything that works they carry, and they carry
Speaker 1: many options of it. Someone called the other day and
Speaker 1: they had a crape myrtle that was sprouting from the
Speaker 1: bottom and they'd cut them off and in reach sprout
Speaker 1: and they'd cut them off and in reach sprout. Well,
Speaker 1: there's a product called sucker stopper, and it's a hormone
Speaker 1: that plants produce. But you put it on those cuts
Speaker 1: when you remove a sucker and it didn't come back again.
Speaker 1: Isn't that nice? Yes, it works. I'm using it on
Speaker 1: some Vitex I have. That's horrible about soccer sprouting. But anyway,
Speaker 1: Bob's got those Southwest Fertilizer corner Bissinette and Renwick seven
Speaker 1: one three six sixty six one seven four four. If
Speaker 1: they don't have it, you don't need it. Let's go
Speaker 1: now out to sugar Land and we're going to visit
Speaker 1: with Mike Hello, Michael, Welcome to guard Line.
Speaker 5: Hello.
Speaker 14: I'm on my third rosemary bush. Every time I buy
Speaker 14: one it dries up and just dues. And even the
Speaker 14: third one here, it's half of it's already dried up.
Speaker 14: I don't know if I'm watering it too much, not
Speaker 14: watering it enough. I've got it in a five gallon pot.
Speaker 14: I've used or Miracle Grow Organic Choice to with the
Speaker 14: little pearlite in it to dry it up because I
Speaker 14: was reading that the soil can't be too wet, and
Speaker 14: it's down my patio not getting direct sunlight.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, Well, rosemary does not like wet conditions. It
Speaker 1: is more of a Mediterranean herb, so you know things
Speaker 1: like olive trees and things that are real happy growing
Speaker 1: on a rocky hill side in the Mediterranean. Rosemary is
Speaker 1: that kind of plant that does super well here planet
Speaker 1: in a bed if you have, if it has good
Speaker 1: drainage planted in a bed, it is a very drop tolerant.
Speaker 1: Once established, it's a very It has a way of
Speaker 1: getting out down there and getting the water it needs.
Speaker 1: In a container. The whole root system is confined, so
Speaker 1: when that container goes dry, you can have drought problems
Speaker 1: on rosemary if it gets too dry in the container,
Speaker 1: if the container needs good drainage holes in order to
Speaker 1: do well. But it's going to be one of those
Speaker 1: two things, Michael. It's either it got too wet and
Speaker 1: it got some root right in it, or it got
Speaker 1: too dry. And I think probably too dry may have
Speaker 1: been the problem. Although I'm not there as you water,
Speaker 1: so I don't know how your watering is going. But
Speaker 1: that typically happens when you plan a new one. It
Speaker 1: has a confined root system and you gotta water that
Speaker 1: little maybe it came out of a four inch pot.
Speaker 1: You gotta water that little four inch square root system
Speaker 1: that went in the ground until it gets reaches out
Speaker 1: the roots into the soil throughout the container. But it's
Speaker 1: an easy one. Give it plenty of sunlight. It wants
Speaker 1: a lot of sun But if you can get it
Speaker 1: through that time, I think that's help. Maybe a root
Speaker 1: stimulator wouldn't be a bad idea either. When you're getting it.
Speaker 14: Started, so you're saying put it in direct put it
Speaker 14: in the direct sunlight or not direct sunlight.
Speaker 1: No, it likes direct sunlight. If you put it in
Speaker 1: the shade, it'll stay alive. But it's weak. It's it's
Speaker 1: a little more spindly, and it doesn't have the energy.
Speaker 1: Sun produces the fuel for the plant, and that fuel
Speaker 1: is carbohydrates. And so when a plant is in less
Speaker 1: sun than it wants, and rosemary wants full sun, it
Speaker 1: doesn't do as well.
Speaker 14: It's not as if another bush. It's just more of
Speaker 14: the stringing one. The one that's more like a vine
Speaker 14: kind of grows, doesn't grow, really doesn't really grow upward,
Speaker 14: it grows out, and that one is thrived out rot.
Speaker 1: Oh really okay, rosemud? Well, yeah, Rosemary's rosemary. So I
Speaker 1: don't know why that one's thriving the other one isn't.
Speaker 1: But I don't give up on them. They're not that
Speaker 1: hard to grow. I have killed rosemary and container by
Speaker 1: ignoring before, and you know, just because you get busy
Speaker 1: and and it really wasn't well established when I did that,
Speaker 1: and I know better, but you know how it is.
Speaker 1: Things happen, And.
Speaker 14: Is the organic choice soil the one with this kind
Speaker 14: of compost is is that a good soil or not?
Speaker 2: Is that? Okay?
Speaker 1: I would get I would get one that's got a
Speaker 1: medium texture, not super chunky, but not just mucky little
Speaker 1: potting soil that just has no particle size at all. Uh.
Speaker 1: The veggie nerd mix from heirloom soils is a very
Speaker 1: good one for growing rosemaries and tomatoes and even flowers. Really,
Speaker 1: but veggie nerd mix would be a good good one
Speaker 1: for that. That kind of container five gallon and five gallons. Yeah, yes, sir,
Speaker 1: they're available. They're available by the bag. You're you're down
Speaker 1: in the sugar Land area, Yes, self as fertilizer probably
Speaker 1: has that by the bag. I'm sure when you go down.
Speaker 1: You know, there's some ace hardware stores that you may
Speaker 1: call them down in your area. The plantation acism too
Speaker 1: far away from you. And then there's the garden centers
Speaker 1: down toward Richmond Rosenberg direction that the enchanted forest and
Speaker 1: attended gardens that probably have it as well.
Speaker 2: All right, all right, Michael, thank you.
Speaker 1: All right, you take care, appreciate you. Bye bye. Nelson
Speaker 1: Water Gardens and Nelson Nursery and Water Gardens is a
Speaker 1: destination garden center and it's it's on the on the
Speaker 1: west side of Houston. It's out in Katie. So if
Speaker 1: you are anywhere west in Houston and you're looking for
Speaker 1: you know, a really cool place to go, a place
Speaker 1: where you just can enjoy just being there. I love
Speaker 1: the sound of water. Every time I go to Nelson's,
Speaker 1: I just want to sit down and get therapy by
Speaker 1: listening to ten thousand fountains around me everywhere. And oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, they're so gorgeous, aren't you. If you go there,
Speaker 1: you're gonna think you need and you cannot live without
Speaker 1: a disappearing fountain because they're so pretty and they're so cool,
Speaker 1: and birds like them, and it just it's just wonderful.
Speaker 1: They have it all there. But they are so much
Speaker 1: more than that. They are a nursery, Nelson Nursery and
Speaker 1: water gardens is just what kind of plants do you want?
Speaker 1: You're talking about rosemary just now, Well, they got a
Speaker 1: greater herb selection. Do you want some of the perennial
Speaker 1: of Thiscus, the ones that die to the ground and
Speaker 1: come back every year. Beautiful little pottery, amazing pottery, really
Speaker 1: really really nice. So just keep in mind that it's
Speaker 1: the place to go, and you got to take your
Speaker 1: friends when you go, because it's just a fun outing
Speaker 1: to get out and do that with people coming up
Speaker 1: On Saturday, June twenty eighth at nine am, they have
Speaker 1: their Ding Dang Sale, the Ding Dang Sale kicking off
Speaker 1: your Fourth of July holiday. It's an annual clearance event.
Speaker 1: All kinds of clearance items happened at that time. I
Speaker 1: need to wait till that to get something. But I'm
Speaker 1: just saying if you don't go check that out on Saturday,
Speaker 1: June twenty eighth, before we jump into summer with both feet.
Speaker 1: We're kind of in summer with one foot right now.
Speaker 1: But Nelson Water Gardens and Nursery. You go out to
Speaker 1: Katie Turn North on Katie Fort Ben Road and they're
Speaker 1: just up the street a little bit there on the
Speaker 1: right hand side. Let's go out to Texas City. Now
Speaker 1: we're going to talk to Carrie. Hey, Carrie, welcome to
Speaker 1: the garden Line. Hi, good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 5: Hi.
Speaker 15: I just have a question. We have several bags of
Speaker 15: potting soil that we've kept in our house to deter
Speaker 15: any answer bugs getting in them. Well, they started developing.
Speaker 15: They have gnats in them, and I don't know if
Speaker 15: I should throw away the potting soil or how.
Speaker 1: To treat it. No, don't throw it away. I would
Speaker 1: probably put it outside for just a little bit. Do
Speaker 1: you know you hear me talk about mosquito dunks on
Speaker 1: ye garden line. If you can get either the mosquito
Speaker 1: dunk or mosquito granules. If you use a dunk, you
Speaker 1: got to take a hammer and break it up, or
Speaker 1: just some granules. Put them in a little bit of
Speaker 1: water and in a watering can, and then just water
Speaker 1: the especially the top of that potting soil top couple
Speaker 1: inches of the potting soil. The same disease that kills
Speaker 1: mosquitos kills fungus gnats, and so you can kill the
Speaker 1: gnats in the bag that way. It's natural. It's not
Speaker 1: a poison. It's a disease of the just of those
Speaker 1: two species, mosquitos and fungus gnats. So I would try that,
Speaker 1: and I think that'll work for you. In the meantime.
Speaker 1: Letting it be a little on the dry side helps.
Speaker 1: Is when it's moist, that's when fungus knots want to
Speaker 1: get to it. But don't throw it away. It's good stuff.
Speaker 15: Okay, well, awesome, Thank you so much for your help.
Speaker 15: I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: You bet, thanks call carry appreciate that. Okay, good bye,
Speaker 1: all right, by bye, You're listening to garden line seven
Speaker 1: one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven
Speaker 1: one three, two one two five eight seven four. I
Speaker 1: talk about Medina products a lot because there are a
Speaker 1: lot of Medina products and they really really work. Or
Speaker 1: were talking earlier to Michael, you know about the rosemary
Speaker 1: and getting it established well, and I should have mentioned
Speaker 1: to him, Medina has to grow six twelve six. Plant
Speaker 1: food is a great product for watering in new transplants.
Speaker 1: If I were putting a rosemary in, I would get
Speaker 1: some Medina has to grow six twelve six. Plant Food's
Speaker 1: got that hYP phosphorus. The high middle number really helps
Speaker 1: with rooting. It's got Medina soil activator in it. It's
Speaker 1: got humic acid in it, it's got seaweed extracts in it.
Speaker 1: Put in a watering can and watered in when you
Speaker 1: plant that thing, and then watered in a week later,
Speaker 1: and then watered in another week. Three different applications of
Speaker 1: it to get it off to its best start. Now,
Speaker 1: that's not the only use of Medina hasht gros six
Speaker 1: twelve six, but it's one that I use all the
Speaker 1: time because it definitely works. Medina products are available everywhere.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: You go to feed stores, you go to gardens and
Speaker 1: independent garden centers, you go to Ace hardware store. You're
Speaker 1: going to find Medina products all over the place and
Speaker 1: they work. What It's time for me to take a
Speaker 1: little break. We're here coming up on the mid hour break.
Speaker 1: If you'd like to give me a call the number
Speaker 1: seven one three two one two kt r H seven
Speaker 1: one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. We'll
Speaker 1: be right back with you and your questions. Well, welcome
Speaker 1: back to the garden Line. Good to have you with us.
Speaker 1: So what a wonderful world. Alrighty, we're going to go
Speaker 1: to Sherry now in Conroe. Hey Sherry, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 8: Good morning and good morning Skip. How are you this morning?
Speaker 1: Doing well?
Speaker 8: Thanks you hearing me?
Speaker 13: Hear me?
Speaker 8: Okay, now I just have a quick question about my
Speaker 8: plumbaria tree. Of course, when it got really cold in February,
Speaker 8: I had to remove it, and I was planted in
Speaker 8: the ground and then brought it inside and then I
Speaker 8: replanted it. I have probably over fifty plumaria tree, so
Speaker 8: this one is not even growing. It's alive though I
Speaker 8: can tell it's alive.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, if you've got fifty plumerias, you know how
Speaker 1: to grow plumrias.
Speaker 8: So yeah, I've propagated quite a few. So this one here,
Speaker 8: I'm almost thinking it's very dormant. It's like because I
Speaker 8: pulled it up out of the ground, I had a
Speaker 8: root ball, even put the powder on it, the white
Speaker 8: powder to get the roots to grow and micro life, water, sun,
Speaker 8: everything needed for growth. It's green, but it's no flowers,
Speaker 8: no nothing, just to stick.
Speaker 1: Well, well, yeah, the things you said, you've given it
Speaker 1: what it wants. I don't know if you said this,
Speaker 1: but gets plenty of sun, right.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, plenty of sun?
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, okay, okay, so that's it that you're doing
Speaker 1: everything you can. I don't know if some sort of
Speaker 1: a shock from what it went through. It shouldn't take
Speaker 1: this long to recover. Plume areas don't grow fast, but
Speaker 1: they do grow correct, right seeing some yeah go ahead, right.
Speaker 8: I'm just I thought, well, it's been since you know,
Speaker 8: Marshish somewhere in there and being patient and it's alive,
Speaker 8: and I just think, like you said, it's in shock,
Speaker 8: and it's kind of an a dormant or a standstill state.
Speaker 8: So I guess I'll just kind of play it by
Speaker 8: ear and maybe they'll PLoP back. But it's alive. It's green.
Speaker 8: If you, you know, rub the bar or the outside
Speaker 8: of the stocks. It's about a two three foot stock.
Speaker 8: It's still alive.
Speaker 1: Does it have any green leaves on it yet?
Speaker 8: No? No, But when I first put it in, it
Speaker 8: had one in February, and then.
Speaker 6: I pulled it out.
Speaker 8: So I'm thinking, it's like, what are you doing?
Speaker 1: You know, well, don't give up on it. It may
Speaker 1: take a long time, but don't give up on it,
Speaker 1: and it should begin to grow. I just don't know
Speaker 1: why I wouldn't. And obviously you don't have to take
Speaker 1: care of a plummeria.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I have quite a few, if you want some.
Speaker 1: Okay, well I may take you up on that. I've
Speaker 1: been looking for plumeria all right.
Speaker 8: Okay, Well, thank you for your advice. I guess I'll
Speaker 8: just kind of keep on doing what I'm doing and
Speaker 8: then maybe it'll just surprise me one day.
Speaker 1: I think it will. And sometimes, you know, one thing
Speaker 1: I learned a long time ago is that plants can't read.
Speaker 1: They can't because if they could read, they would know
Speaker 1: not to do things they're doing, you know, like it'll
Speaker 1: say true a book, I'll tell you that you got
Speaker 1: to do this, or if you do this, a plan
Speaker 1: will do that. And they don't cooperate because they can't read,
Speaker 1: they don't know, they don't understand what we are.
Speaker 8: Correct, You're exactly right.
Speaker 1: I'm obviously joke joking, but uh, yeah, it's just sometimes
Speaker 1: it's just yeah, I don't know that makes sense. I
Speaker 1: shouldn't be doing that. I guess the plant can't.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I agree, definitely, yeah I cannot.
Speaker 1: All right, but.
Speaker 8: Anyway, thank you so much. I appreciate your time.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 6: Share.
Speaker 1: Are you in the Plumarius Society by any chance?
Speaker 8: H No, I'm not.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm just curious. I'm gonna I'm gonna ask some
Speaker 1: if someone in the society will call in and give
Speaker 1: us some thoughts on this. But I thought it first.
Speaker 1: Thanks a lot, appreciate it. Do you appreciate your call?
Speaker 13: Thank you?
Speaker 1: Take care?
Speaker 8: All right?
Speaker 1: All right, I know we got some Plumarious Society folks
Speaker 1: out there, and uh, if you've had this happen and
Speaker 1: then you know you did something to it, it changed
Speaker 1: it or it just changed, just give me called I'd
Speaker 1: be kind of curious to hear about that, because I
Speaker 1: haven't run into that myself and so be kind of curious.
Speaker 1: So anyway, there you go. Uh, you're listening to Guardline
Speaker 1: our phone number seven one two one two kt r
Speaker 1: H seven one three two one two k t r H.
Speaker 1: All right, so, uh, we're having a great Sunday morning here.
Speaker 1: I hope you are too. By the way, it's a
Speaker 1: lovely day this afternoon. I plan on doing nothing. That
Speaker 1: is my plan for today. I'm going to do a
Speaker 1: whole lot of nothing. If I do any gardening, it
Speaker 1: will be in a book or on a computer screen
Speaker 1: because I'm just not going to get out and do it.
Speaker 1: I'm giving myself a rest day. It's kind of a
Speaker 1: little too much of the not rest days here in
Speaker 1: the last week. So anyway, I hope you enjoy it.
Speaker 1: If you get a chance to get out and see
Speaker 1: a great garden center, that'd be an awesome thing to
Speaker 1: do this afternoon. They're still well stocked, and when you
Speaker 1: go to our independent garden centers, you end up getting
Speaker 1: experts that know what they're doing. There are people from
Speaker 1: here who've gardened here who know our plants. You know
Speaker 1: it's not just a shipment because the national headquarters of
Speaker 1: the chain said, here's a bunch of plants. You know,
Speaker 1: it's a it's stuff that they've chosen, they've ordered, and
Speaker 1: they have if you will cure specifically for you and
Speaker 1: for your garden. And that is the nice thing about
Speaker 1: our mom and Pops also called independent Garden centers here
Speaker 1: in the Greater Houstonario. I talked earlier about some tools
Speaker 1: I like, and I'm just going to talk about that
Speaker 1: a little bit. In fact, this would be something I
Speaker 1: may post this, I may post this to our Facebook page.
Speaker 1: That would be a good thing to do with this.
Speaker 1: But anyway, so one of my favorite tools. If I
Speaker 1: were to pick out just a few that I really like,
Speaker 1: and I have so many tools I like, so this
Speaker 1: is hard to do. But the kneeling bench is one.
Speaker 1: You know, you can sit on it. For those of
Speaker 1: you who aren't listening earlier, you can sit on the bench,
Speaker 1: or you can flip it over and kneel on it
Speaker 1: and the legs become handles to get you back up
Speaker 1: off your knees again without the strain. Very good one.
Speaker 1: Another one I love is a soil knife, a soil knife.
Speaker 1: Think of a like a booie knife, but one that
Speaker 1: has a sort of a scalloped blade. It's curved just
Speaker 1: a little bit, and so it has a point on it. Well,
Speaker 1: some of them are round it on the end, some
Speaker 1: come to a point. On One side is just a
Speaker 1: regular knife edge, not super super sharp, but you can
Speaker 1: sharpen them pretty well. The other side is typically serrated,
Speaker 1: and so that serrated edge. In fact, I was planting
Speaker 1: a shrub two days ago and I came up to
Speaker 1: a root digging the hole. I just grabbed my soul
Speaker 1: knife and just was stabbing it in there like a
Speaker 1: little sewing machine, just going up and down, stabbing it
Speaker 1: against that root on the serrated edge, and it just
Speaker 1: cut right through it, and the root was as big
Speaker 1: as my little finger. It's really nice. It usually has
Speaker 1: gradation markings on it in inches, so if you want
Speaker 1: to see how deep something is, you want to plant
Speaker 1: something for inches deep, you can use your knife to
Speaker 1: measure that. Some of them have other nice gadgets on them.
Speaker 1: My mind, I have a scabbard that I put it
Speaker 1: in so it sits on my belt so there with
Speaker 1: me when I'm out in the yard. It just works great.
Speaker 1: And there's lot of versions of them, but it is
Speaker 1: a very handy tool. I use it a whole lot
Speaker 1: on planting. I was in a bed that had been
Speaker 1: neglected and had this clump of grass weed grass growing
Speaker 1: in it, and I just took my sole knife again
Speaker 1: with a serrated edge, kind of lifted the grass blades
Speaker 1: up and I just was sliding it underneath the grass,
Speaker 1: just under the sole surface, just ripping through the roots
Speaker 1: of the grass. If you cut below the crown of
Speaker 1: a grass plant, it won't reach sprout from the roots.
Speaker 1: It can't unless it's a perennial grass like johnsngrass or
Speaker 1: something that has those rhizomes. Anyway, just taking it out
Speaker 1: like that and just really quickly, and if I tried
Speaker 1: to pull that up, I'd have lifted up a bowling
Speaker 1: ball sized load of soil, probably hurt my back trying
Speaker 1: to pull it up. But so a knife works. That's
Speaker 1: another good one. I really enjoy that tool. For general weeding.
Speaker 1: I like to be able to use a either a
Speaker 1: diamond hoe or a hula hoe. A diamond hoe is
Speaker 1: ape like a long, skinny diamond, and all four edges
Speaker 1: are sharp, and so two of the points because it's
Speaker 1: a long, skinny diamond you can use to go in
Speaker 1: there and get right up beside a plant, just to
Speaker 1: slice a little weed out of the way. It's at
Speaker 1: an angle where you're not chopp You never chop with it,
Speaker 1: You just use it. I guess you would say. I
Speaker 1: would say you use it almost like you're mopping the floor.
Speaker 1: You know, you just are sliding it back and forth
Speaker 1: underneath the soil surface like that. A hula ho, also
Speaker 1: called a stirrup hoe, has a strap shaped blade that
Speaker 1: comes down and curves flat and then comes back up again,
Speaker 1: and it rocks. So when you're pushing it, it rocks
Speaker 1: one way and cuts, and when you pull it it
Speaker 1: rocks the other way and cuts. And so you would
Speaker 1: use it like you're playing shuffleboard, except not just pushing
Speaker 1: the shovelboard. You're pushing and pulling, and you can go
Speaker 1: through a large area of soil really fast, controlling a
Speaker 1: lot of weeds if they're not too large. So that's
Speaker 1: another one that I like, I gotta take a little
Speaker 1: break here. We'll stop there on the tools. Maybe I'll
Speaker 1: start up with some more when we come back in
Speaker 1: just a bit. All right, We're hopping here on Guardenlne.
Speaker 1: Good to have you with us this morning. We're talking gardening.
Speaker 1: If you want to talk gardening with me seven one
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Speaker 1: it is time for summer fertilization, and primarily in summer.
Speaker 1: We're focusing on slow release products that last that gradually
Speaker 1: trickle that nitrogen out to the growing grass, just like
Speaker 1: the grass takes up nitrogen gradually over time. Nitropas superturf
Speaker 1: silver bag, that's the one that does just that. It'll
Speaker 1: give you about sixteen weeks of release. So you do
Speaker 1: it now, you're good to go until we do our
Speaker 1: fall fertilization. Really just return those clippings in the meantime.
Speaker 1: It'll cut down on your mowing because of that slow release.
Speaker 1: It'll improve the plant's ability to go through drought because
Speaker 1: plants that are not overfertilized with nitrogen at one time
Speaker 1: have better root systems. Therefore, they can take up water
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Speaker 1: I'm going to go now to Kingwood and talk to Mike. Hello, Mike,
Speaker 1: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 8: Hey Skip, how are you Hey?
Speaker 16: So I got a question in my front yard. My
Speaker 16: oak dropped and we cut it up and it laid
Speaker 16: in the one spot for like nine weeks, and so
Speaker 16: I got an area like ten by twenty that has
Speaker 16: got like wild grass in it. And the question is, uh,
Speaker 16: you talk about kill till and Phil I had a
Speaker 16: contractor to come out and say, hey, well, I'm just
Speaker 16: going to scalp it and then put topsail on it
Speaker 16: and lay down saw it on.
Speaker 4: Top of it.
Speaker 16: Do I need to use round up and wait for
Speaker 16: it to die and then till and then phil or
Speaker 16: can I do what he was saying?
Speaker 1: It depends on the weeds that are there. If they're
Speaker 1: all annual weeds, what he's saying will do it. That'll work.
Speaker 1: If let's say you had muta grass in there are
Speaker 1: some other weeds it's perennial that when you scrape off
Speaker 1: the top of the ground it just comes back out
Speaker 1: of the ground. Then it wouldn't work. So it depends
Speaker 1: on the weeds that you have. But I you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know all the weeds, and I'm sure you
Speaker 1: don't know all the names of the weeds that you.
Speaker 4: Have in there. It's basically the grass.
Speaker 2: It's like a wild girl.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, Well, we do have some perennial grasses. If
Speaker 1: you want to send me pictures of them, that may
Speaker 1: be the best way to go. You know, I don't
Speaker 1: want you to waste your time and money either way.
Speaker 1: You know, if we were to tell you I just
Speaker 1: do what he said. Well, then if it was a
Speaker 1: perennial grass and it popped through then you'd have a
Speaker 1: problem trying to kill a grass in your grassy lawn.
Speaker 1: So I'd like to take a look at them to
Speaker 1: be sure. But that that's really the bottom line is
Speaker 1: can it come back up through there or not?
Speaker 16: And so it just round up. Yeah, let's ask for
Speaker 16: a round up. How long do I have to wait for?
Speaker 16: You know, like a week or a week?
Speaker 1: Give it a week so that it moves down all
Speaker 1: the way down into the plant system. And after that,
Speaker 1: if you need to throw dirt on top or whatever,
Speaker 1: that's fine, but you want to make sure that it
Speaker 1: has plenty of time to move down. And if you
Speaker 1: could go a little longer than a that would be
Speaker 1: even better. Sometimes what you'll see is in your spraying
Speaker 1: you missed a spot, and then you can respray that spot.
Speaker 1: And it's better to get it right before you go
Speaker 1: into the time, money and expense of putting in new
Speaker 1: sod because you want it to turn out nice, of course.
Speaker 5: Okay, perfect, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you, thanks a lot. Yeah, appreciate your call.
Speaker 1: Good question to ask. That was a good question. And
Speaker 1: you know, it is important to get things right when
Speaker 1: you're doing them. A lot of times we do things halfway,
Speaker 1: and there's some things you can get away with doing halfway,
Speaker 1: but there's things you can't get away with doing halfway.
Speaker 1: If evil canevil jumped halfway across the Grand Canyon, it
Speaker 1: would not end well. By the way, if you jump
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Speaker 1: the first ones up. Seven to one three two one
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Speaker 1: back to garden Line. Good to have you with us.
Speaker 1: We're about for this hour, We're going to be visiting
Speaker 1: with a special guest, rich Edie from wild Birds Unlimited.
Speaker 1: And so what I'm gonna do this hour is if
Speaker 1: you want to call in with a birding question, anything
Speaker 1: related to birding, feel free to do so. If it's
Speaker 1: a different kind of question, just hold it and we'll
Speaker 1: take it in our next hour, starting at nine o'clock. Okay,
Speaker 1: so let's do it that way, and I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: right on head here. We're gonna head out and talk
Speaker 1: to Rich. Hey, Rich, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 2: Good morning, Skip. How you doing today?
Speaker 1: I'm doing good. How are you doing?
Speaker 2: Doing really good? Sitting here, our purple Martins are really
Speaker 2: doing a lot activity right now. Got a full house
Speaker 2: with a bunch of babies that are getting ready to fledge.
Speaker 2: So so there you go summer, Oh yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just stuffy in a mosquito at your place
Speaker 1: then with all those purple marks around and dragonflies and dragonflies. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there you go. There you go. Well that's good. I
Speaker 1: was talking earlier. I don't know if you were listening
Speaker 1: to Garland earlier, but I was talking about being out
Speaker 1: with my wife yesterday on the back patio, and you know,
Speaker 1: I'm a novice at birds for sure, but I'm getting
Speaker 1: so interested. And there was a little what turned out
Speaker 1: to be a Caroline Tickty at our eliminator feeder, and
Speaker 1: so I zoomed in with my camera and had this
Speaker 1: cryptic little picture, you know, all pixelated and everything like that,
Speaker 1: because I zoomed from about twenty five thirty feet away
Speaker 1: and I saw I went to Merlin and put it
Speaker 1: on there, and it was a Carolina tickty sure enough,
Speaker 1: And a few minutes later we were hearing a couple
Speaker 1: of different birds singing. And again I'm a novice, I
Speaker 1: don't recognize them by their songs. So I just pulled
Speaker 1: out Merlin again and listened to sound, and there was
Speaker 1: my Carolina tickitty. So I got in another bird, I
Speaker 1: got to hear what they were like. It's kind of fun.
Speaker 1: It's a lot, Oh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure it is. You know, that Mertlin app
Speaker 2: is a great way for people to learn about what
Speaker 2: each bird sounds like, because I generally will hear a
Speaker 2: bird way before i'll see it, right, And so using
Speaker 2: that Merlin app, if you're out on a walk in
Speaker 2: a park or just hang out in your backyard like
Speaker 2: you were doing, put that Merlin app up, turn on
Speaker 2: the sound, and all of a sudden, it'll start picking
Speaker 2: up all the different birds in your backyard. Like I say,
Speaker 2: you'll hear them before you see them, so it's a
Speaker 2: great way to learn what each bird sounds like. For sure.
Speaker 1: That is a good point for sure. Now I saw
Speaker 1: a video you did a little clip on social about
Speaker 1: the eliminator feeder, and I have one and I love it.
Speaker 1: My squirrels don't like it. The language that they use.
Speaker 1: If you can translate from squirrel to English, it'll make
Speaker 1: a sailor blush. I mean, they are, they are very
Speaker 1: upset about that feeder. But we tell people a little
Speaker 1: bit about the eliminator because that one is just amazing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Eliminator feeder certainly is our flagship squirrel resistant feeder.
Speaker 2: People may have a missing they may think that a
Speaker 2: squirrel is not going to get on the feeder. They're
Speaker 2: gonna get on the feeder, they're just not going to
Speaker 2: be able to get to the bird food. So yeah,
Speaker 2: so the eliminator works really well. What's unique about that
Speaker 2: feeder is is you can adjust the tension on it,
Speaker 2: so for folks who aren't familiar with it, it's got
Speaker 2: a spring loaded action, so when weight gets on the purchase,
Speaker 2: it closes off the ports of the bird food, so
Speaker 2: it prevents the squirrel from getting into the feeder. You
Speaker 2: can also adjust the tension even lighter, so even if
Speaker 2: you're trying to keep off let's say mourning dove. Some
Speaker 2: folks don't like to feed all the dove they're finding
Speaker 2: from being on the ground, but not on their feeders
Speaker 2: because they will eat a lot of bird food as well,
Speaker 2: And so you can adjust that tension even to when
Speaker 2: a heavier bird gets on there, it'll close off. So yeah,
Speaker 2: it's a very effective feeder. It does a really good
Speaker 2: job at keeping your seat dry. And you know, you
Speaker 2: can put any seed blend in there you want, like
Speaker 2: our no masks or our voice, it doesn't really matter.
Speaker 2: The blend of your choice goes in the eliminator, and
Speaker 2: it's very effective at keeping squirrels out of your bird food.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's good. Well, I have mindset like that, and
Speaker 1: so blue jays and doves and stuff don't even go
Speaker 1: to that one. But you know, like a RN or
Speaker 1: like the carolina that I was talking about, the smaller birds,
Speaker 1: a technoos or something like that, it can sit on it.
Speaker 1: The other feeder is the hopper feeder you guys have
Speaker 1: that's a recycled material, and I like that one a
Speaker 1: lot but that's where the big birds have to go eat.
Speaker 1: And boy do they ever line They line up to
Speaker 1: get to that one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, hopper feeders are they're a classic feeder. I mean
Speaker 2: when I was growing up as a kid in the Ozarks,
Speaker 2: you know, my dad had a hopper feeder. Of course
Speaker 2: it was made out of wood back then, but that
Speaker 2: was that's the feeder that's that everybody's familiar with. It
Speaker 2: holds a lot of food. It's what we call a
Speaker 2: foundational feeder. The eliminator is right, well, but that's that's
Speaker 2: a feeder that you put out in your yard. It's
Speaker 2: out there three hundred and sixty five days a year,
Speaker 2: holds a week worth of food or maybe a little more,
Speaker 2: keeps the seed dry, and that's the feeder that the
Speaker 2: birds know is going to have something for them every
Speaker 2: time they come to your backyard. Because birds are on
Speaker 2: a pattern, right, They moved through the yards looking for
Speaker 2: food on kind of a consistent pattern. When you've got
Speaker 2: something out there consistently that has food, like a hopper
Speaker 2: feeder or your eliminator, they're going to frequent your yard
Speaker 2: on a very regular basis.
Speaker 1: Good. Well, that's good, good information. Now I've noticed that
Speaker 1: the hopper feeder you guys have has a little bit
Speaker 1: bigger roof. I think it, and I don't have as
Speaker 1: much problems with the birds. He getting wet, you know
Speaker 1: when it rains, unless we just get a horizontal rain
Speaker 1: or something coming in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. The hopper feeder that was actually designed
Speaker 2: by the owner and CEO of wild Birds Unlimited, Jim Carpenter.
Speaker 2: He had that patented back of the day when he
Speaker 2: designed it. And you were talking about the recycled material
Speaker 2: it is. It's made from recycled milk jukes and so
Speaker 2: what people are familariliar with the word poly lumber, but
Speaker 2: this is a little bit different with these feeders really
Speaker 2: stand up well to do our nice humid weather in Houston, right,
Speaker 2: So they they won't they they won't crack, they won't split,
Speaker 2: as opposed to you know, the traditional wood feeders that
Speaker 2: eventually over time will just brought away. This feeder will last.
Speaker 1: A long long time. Yeah, I can. It looks like that. Uh,
Speaker 1: we got a caller on the line, so we're going
Speaker 1: to go out and take a call. Here. We're going
Speaker 1: to talk to Marty in Fairfield. Hey, Marty, you are
Speaker 1: on the line. With me and Rich Eadie from wild
Speaker 1: Birds Unlimited.
Speaker 17: Yes, I was so excited. Hi, I just wanted to
Speaker 17: see I put out your food, the no mess blench.
Speaker 17: I also have the cardinal consetti and I have the
Speaker 17: one that is mostly centaur seeds. But the problem I'm
Speaker 17: having is the blackbirds, ones that are trashy birds. They
Speaker 17: seem to take over the birds years and and they
Speaker 17: run off all the other birds. And I wonder is
Speaker 17: there a way to keep those away or is there
Speaker 17: a food that will not that they won't like? Because
Speaker 17: I had that the hot pepper stuff for the squirrel.
Speaker 8: Which you think, Yeah it's rich.
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, we're having a Yeah, we're just having a
Speaker 1: little glitch here. We're going to try to We're having
Speaker 1: trouble getting him back on with you on. So I mean,
Speaker 1: let me if I put Marty on hold, do you
Speaker 1: think that would would work? Can we do it that way?
Speaker 1: Let me let me try that. I'm gonna there we go.
Speaker 1: All right, you got Rich. We're having trouble getting you
Speaker 1: both on at the same time. So can you want
Speaker 1: to comment answer Marty's question?
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure, Marty. So I think it comes down
Speaker 2: to a couple of different questions I may have, and
Speaker 2: if you drop into the story, they can make help
Speaker 2: you a little further. But there's a grackles, which are
Speaker 2: the big blackbirds that you typically see I call them,
Speaker 2: I call them HIV birds and so yeah, yeah, those birds,
Speaker 2: you know, they they can take over a feeder. You
Speaker 2: might try feeding safflower, just straight safflowers. Safflower is what
Speaker 2: we call a problem solving bird food. Squirrels don't particularly
Speaker 2: like it because it's really bitter, and the blackbirds slash
Speaker 2: crackles don't really like it either. So that's something that
Speaker 2: you could try. And then we were talking about the
Speaker 2: eliminator a little bit earlier. The eliminator is not only
Speaker 2: squirrel food, but you could adjust to keep bigger birds
Speaker 2: like the grackles off of your feeder. Uh, so they're
Speaker 2: not getting at all your bird food and they they
Speaker 2: eventually figure out if they can't get into it, they'll
Speaker 2: just they'll just go elsewhere.
Speaker 17: So I will do more staff far than I mix
Speaker 17: the staff flower in with all other three, but I'll
Speaker 17: just have to in straight staff law.
Speaker 2: Yeah, give that a try, and if you need some
Speaker 2: more help, be sure to just give us a call.
Speaker 2: Would be glad to help you out.
Speaker 1: Okay, thank you, you Bet, Thank you Marty, appreciate that call. Hey, Rich,
Speaker 1: we got to take a quick break and we'll come
Speaker 1: right back and continue our conversation with you. All right,
Speaker 1: welcome back to regard line. Welcome back. We're going to
Speaker 1: go straight back to the phones. Now we are visiting
Speaker 1: with Rich Ed from Wildbirds Unlimited. Rich, it's good to
Speaker 1: have you back. Thanks for hanging on with us. I
Speaker 1: have a list a mile long of things I want
Speaker 1: to talk to you about with THEE how far we
Speaker 1: can we can get in this? Before I forget though,
Speaker 1: I want to mention that if people are interested in
Speaker 1: finding their local Wildbirds store Wildbird's Unlimited store, what you
Speaker 1: do is you go to WBU dot com forward slash Houston,
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Speaker 1: the sixth wild Birds Unlimited stores here in the greater
Speaker 1: Houston area and north south east west. There we got
Speaker 1: plenty of stores around. There's gonna be one close to you.
Speaker 1: So I just want to mention that, or Rich, before
Speaker 1: you go too far into this, could you give us
Speaker 1: a few tips for someone who's listening in going Okay,
Speaker 1: this sounds like it might be fun. I'd like to
Speaker 1: dabble my toe in the water of bringing birds to
Speaker 1: the landscape. And what are some tips for beginners that
Speaker 1: you would suggest? Any any thoughts or ideas there anything?
Speaker 1: Can you hear me? Oh? All right, We'll get Rich
Speaker 1: rap back here just a moment. Well second, okay, hey, Rich,
Speaker 1: are you there?
Speaker 2: I am Can you hear me?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: Okay, good, Yeah, we were. I was talking and I
Speaker 1: wasn't connected with you. Basically, I'm just asking what are
Speaker 1: some tips for people that might be interested in trying
Speaker 1: to get into feeding birds and learning about birds and things.
Speaker 1: What are some beginner tips that you would suggest for
Speaker 1: someone like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So the first thing that we try to get
Speaker 2: folks to try is a tray feeder. The tray feeder
Speaker 2: you would put a variety of different foods in there.
Speaker 2: Birds actually eat by sight, so they don't always look
Speaker 2: at a feeder and know that that's for them. So
Speaker 2: put out a tree feeder, multiple types of food, see
Speaker 2: what the birds like, and then circle back and get
Speaker 2: a feeder. Once you've got them, come into that tray feeder.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, that's a good one. I used to have
Speaker 1: a trade feeder. Oh, I still do, but it is
Speaker 1: a good way to start off. Just basically a little
Speaker 1: tray typically with wood or recycloplastic around it. It has
Speaker 1: holes in it so water can drain out of it
Speaker 1: if it needs to, hangs by little wires, and it's
Speaker 1: real easy to use. A good idea. Uh So when
Speaker 1: we're when we're talking about bird feed are bird seeds?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 1: I talk about this a lot when I talk about
Speaker 1: wibirds unlimited, but there is there are a lot of
Speaker 1: cheap seeds out there. You can find them pretty much
Speaker 1: everybody those bird seeds, but typically they're like well over
Speaker 1: half sometimes up to almost three quarter of the little
Speaker 1: tiny red bebies is what I call them. It's the
Speaker 1: it's the milo or sorghum, uh that birds just don't
Speaker 1: care that much about. They're not very fond of. So
Speaker 1: you end up buying X pounds of bird seed and
Speaker 1: you end up only getting a fraction of that. In
Speaker 1: terms of things birds are interested And I appreciate the
Speaker 1: fact that you guys, you know, put things in your
Speaker 1: in your blends that one percent of it birds are
Speaker 1: interested in eating. And so I I think when you're
Speaker 1: looking at all your blends. How would someone come in
Speaker 1: and know, you know, what would be a good blend
Speaker 1: for me to use? Right now, we're talking about nesting
Speaker 1: super blend, but can you kind of give some thoughts
Speaker 1: on that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so when somebody comes in the store, they're going
Speaker 2: to we can walk them through the whole process. So
Speaker 2: we have and so what you're talking about is seed
Speaker 2: that has a lot of filler in it, so cereal
Speaker 2: fillers like milow, wheat, even cracked corn, which some birds
Speaker 2: will leave, but not too many. So all of our
Speaker 2: blends are what we call a no waste That means
Speaker 2: the birds are going to eat one hundred percent of
Speaker 2: everything that's in the bag. We've got a variety of
Speaker 2: blends that's starting to say. With our Supreme blend, it's
Speaker 2: black oil, sunflower, striped sunflower, safflower, which we talked a
Speaker 2: little bit about earlier in some flower chips, and then
Speaker 2: if you move to our choices, just like the Supreme,
Speaker 2: but we've added peanuts and with peanuts off for even
Speaker 2: a wide variety like went backers at my Sparto tough
Speaker 2: peanuts as well. So so those are what we call
Speaker 2: them no waste, but you will get mass on the ground,
Speaker 2: which some so long they've got to pick backyards. It's
Speaker 2: no big deal smaller backyards. So they want to have
Speaker 2: a little bit tidier way of feeding the person. You
Speaker 2: slide over to our no mask which is sunflower tips
Speaker 2: and iced peanuts. That is one hundred. We'll see you'll
Speaker 2: get very little mass if any on the ground. Whatever
Speaker 2: does that, the ground will get up by the ground
Speaker 2: feeding birds like the and sparrows. So okay, and yeah,
Speaker 2: and we have we have everything in between. We have
Speaker 2: a lot of straight, straight seats like black whiles sunflower seed.
Speaker 2: We do get it's a difference between black oil and
Speaker 2: striped sunflower. Stripe sunflower is what you basically see in
Speaker 2: the sunflower seeds that you buy at the grocery store,
Speaker 2: at the convenience store that baseball players eat. Those are
Speaker 2: bigger murder shells that have a much bigger heart in them.
Speaker 2: Cardinals absolutely love striped stone flower seed. Black oil the smaller,
Speaker 2: much easier to crack into, and so your smaller birds
Speaker 2: really like the black oil. But tip mice, cardinals, blue jays,
Speaker 2: they really like to stripe. So that's why we put
Speaker 2: both in our blends. Because some birds like one more
Speaker 2: than the other.
Speaker 1: So okay, wow, that's that's a lot of good information.
Speaker 1: So i've i you mentioned that you use the term
Speaker 1: no waste or your blends. There's also something called no mass.
Speaker 1: Can you talk a little bit about what that means,
Speaker 1: because do you have the n M on some of
Speaker 1: your bird seed blends. What does tell us about no mass?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so the the are what we call our no mess.
Speaker 2: No millet is what that means. So some of our
Speaker 2: blends have white millet in it, which is great for
Speaker 2: your ground feeding birds. For folks in town that have
Speaker 2: the the scaly breasted unia, which a thriving population in
Speaker 2: the Hoaston area, they love millet, so sometimes you might
Speaker 2: want to offer millet in your backyard. But for folks
Speaker 2: who don't want millet in are no mask no millet,
Speaker 2: that's what the in them stands for, and no mask
Speaker 2: means just that you're there's one hundred percent edible seed.
Speaker 2: There are no cells on the sunflatter seats, so the
Speaker 2: birds will they go to the feeder. They're eating everything
Speaker 2: that's in the feeder and there's nothing getting kicked to
Speaker 2: the ground, which, by the way, yeah, you do look
Speaker 2: at other blends that we were talking about. Read the ingredients.
Speaker 2: If you're buying it elsewhere, breathe the ingredients. And if
Speaker 2: you're seeing corn, milo or wheat, the birds are not
Speaker 2: gonna eat it. So what they're gonna do is they're
Speaker 2: just gonna throw that out of the feed or looking
Speaker 2: for something that they do want eat. That's why somethings
Speaker 2: go and my birds are just tearing through that teeth
Speaker 2: that I get, and it's like, well, take a closer
Speaker 2: look at the ground. You're probably gonna find a lot
Speaker 2: more of it on the ground than you realize. So right,
Speaker 2: so just read the ingredient list. Yep.
Speaker 1: Okay, well rich you are. Sometimes I'm hearing you loud
Speaker 1: and clear, and then it's kind of like you start
Speaker 1: to get garbled. I don't know if that's a cell
Speaker 1: phone deal or whatever, but just letting you know that
Speaker 1: we're kind of cutting a little bit in and out.
Speaker 1: So I want to I would like to visit a
Speaker 1: little bit about the seasonal types of blends and also
Speaker 1: seeds for different kinds of birds. I know that you
Speaker 1: guys have every kind of feeder in the world, and
Speaker 1: so when I walk into wild Birds Unlimited, I look
Speaker 1: and I just see all these feeders. And I got
Speaker 1: a feeder from my mother in law who quit, she's
Speaker 1: just not able to do the bird thing anymore. And
Speaker 1: it's a thistle feeder. It's got these little tiny slits
Speaker 1: in it. And that's just an example of what I'm
Speaker 1: talking about. So could you talk a little bit about
Speaker 1: not just like a tray versus a hopper, but different
Speaker 1: blends and different kinds of feeders that you might use
Speaker 1: for certain kinds of birds.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure, so hopefully you can hear me. Okay,
Speaker 2: we call it being seasonally savvy in the store, and
Speaker 2: what that means is we're gonna have our birds here
Speaker 2: year round, like our cardinals, our chickadees, our tip mice,
Speaker 2: are downy woodpeckers, red belly woodpeckers. But being seasonally savvy
Speaker 2: also means that we keep up with the movement of
Speaker 2: birds from season to season. So a good example of
Speaker 2: that is hummingbirds. Right now, very few of us have
Speaker 2: hummingbirds in our backyard that come July into late July
Speaker 2: into August and September, the hummingbirds are going to show up.
Speaker 2: So that's when we tell people to put out their
Speaker 2: hummingbird feeders. You are talking about the Niger feeders, the
Speaker 2: bench feeders that have the real small slips. It looks
Speaker 2: like kind of like black rice. We don't feed Niger
Speaker 2: here in the Houston area year round. We typically will
Speaker 2: get our goldfinches in the winter. They show up in
Speaker 2: late December and they're usually gone by the first part
Speaker 2: of April. So we had a very good bolt inches
Speaker 2: and cold benches shut up from the north. Gold pitches
Speaker 2: don't really migrate, they're more nobody. They're gonna move as
Speaker 2: far as they need to get a good solid food source.
Speaker 2: And so this year the winner in order to push
Speaker 2: the birds further south. And so we have a good
Speaker 2: relation of gold pinches this year. And that's when you
Speaker 2: put the Niger out. Yeah, And then you're talking about
Speaker 2: our nesting super blind. That's really good all the way
Speaker 2: through August. It's a really good plan to support the
Speaker 2: birds when they go through their molt in the fall. Uh.
Speaker 2: And then we have another new and that we started
Speaker 2: with cardinal confetti. I believe Marty talking.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Rich Rich, I'm gonna I'm gonna get you to
Speaker 1: hold that. I'm against a heartbreak in about fifteen seconds.
Speaker 1: So I want to come back and jump into cardinal confetti.
Speaker 1: I've got it. My birds absolutely love it, so just
Speaker 1: hang on. Sorry to have to interrupt you, but I
Speaker 1: gotta follow the rules here, so we'll be right back. Well,
Speaker 1: welcome back, Welcome back to Guardline folks. Good to have
Speaker 1: you with us. Hey, we're visiting with Rich Ed from
Speaker 1: wild Birds Unlimited, and we're talking all things birds this hour.
Speaker 1: If you have a non bird question, hold it till
Speaker 1: after nine o'clock we'll take that. If you have a
Speaker 1: bird question, feel free to call in right now and
Speaker 1: here's your chance to talk to the expert. Just give
Speaker 1: us a call at seven one three two one two
Speaker 1: k t r H. I'm gonna go back here and
Speaker 1: take Rich. Hey, Rich, it is good to have you
Speaker 1: with us. If I can get my there we go.
Speaker 1: If thanks for being on today. By the way, I
Speaker 1: really appreciate that this is such good information. My next
Speaker 1: question is is there anything you don't know about birds?
Speaker 1: Because every time I ask you a question, you answer
Speaker 1: with information I hadn't even thought about to ask you. Guys,
Speaker 1: I know this is true of all the wild birds
Speaker 1: owners and stuffy They just know their stuff. It's it's
Speaker 1: a great place to go for information too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well we appreciate that. Yeah, that's that's what we
Speaker 2: that's what we try to do. I mean, at the
Speaker 2: end of the day, are our mission is to bring
Speaker 2: people in nature together and bring joy into everybody's lives
Speaker 2: by watching their backyard birds. The birds are are super important.
Speaker 2: They're a real indicator of our environment and the and
Speaker 2: the ecosystem in your backyard. Right. So not only do
Speaker 2: we try and educate folks on the different birds that
Speaker 2: they'll see in their yard, but how does that tie
Speaker 2: into their landscape. You know, native plants, organic gardening, attracting
Speaker 2: the insects to your backyard, well attract the birds, right,
Speaker 2: So we really try and get everybody educated on that
Speaker 2: as well.
Speaker 1: That's good, that's excellent. Yeah. Yeah. And Wildbirds Unlimited is
Speaker 1: a place to go. I was we were talking about,
Speaker 1: you know, seasonal things. I just want to mention that
Speaker 1: when people go to WBU dot com forward Slash Houston,
Speaker 1: you can find your wildbird stores, but also you can
Speaker 1: find out about different bird questions you may like you
Speaker 1: could look up what is a catbird look like? Or
Speaker 1: what does the golfinch look like? You can look up
Speaker 1: what are seasonal savvy for birds. Like we were just
Speaker 1: talking about what are you do in summer and what's
Speaker 1: going on. There's a lot of good videos on there
Speaker 1: that are very helpful, and so bookmark WBU dot com
Speaker 1: forward sized Houston and start perusing around it. It's pretty amazing,
Speaker 1: pretty definitely pretty amazing stuff. So let's shift just a
Speaker 1: little bit. Father's Day is coming up, and you know
Speaker 1: people are always thinking, what's a good gift, you know, for dad?
Speaker 1: Or it's certainly same things true on Mother's Day. What
Speaker 1: would you suggest someone who is looking for a good
Speaker 1: dad gift that would be something to either help someone
Speaker 1: that was already into feeding birds and watching birds, or
Speaker 1: someone who it might be kind of an introductory gift
Speaker 1: to get them started.
Speaker 2: Well, if nobody, if somebody has never been in our store,
Speaker 2: then they don't know about what we call our advanced
Speaker 2: poll system, the acronym for it's aps. Our polls system
Speaker 2: is very unique to wildbirds unlimited. For folks who've been
Speaker 2: in our store, they know about it. But what the
Speaker 2: pole system is is it is a very sturdy bird
Speaker 2: feeding station pole system. You start with the basic setup.
Speaker 2: It comes with a four foot ground pole, a four
Speaker 2: foot extension, a double hook, and a ground stabilizer. And
Speaker 2: the ground stabilizer is probably the most important feature of
Speaker 2: the pole system because what it'll do is it'll keep
Speaker 2: your pole system nice, straight and sturdy. What's great about
Speaker 2: the APF system is you start with that double hook.
Speaker 2: You can come back later and you can buy another
Speaker 2: double hook, and you can expand it to go from
Speaker 2: two feeders to four feeders. And then we have all
Speaker 2: kinds of different attachments that you can put on it
Speaker 2: as well. A squirrel baffle if you've got it out
Speaker 2: in the middle of your yard and you can maintain
Speaker 2: that ten foot perimeter around the system, Putting a baffle
Speaker 2: on will keep the squirrels from calling up the pole.
Speaker 2: You can put branch brunches, you can put different kinds
Speaker 2: of hooks for different types times of the year. In
Speaker 2: other words, if your your goldfinches show up in December,
Speaker 2: you can rearrange your pole system to put out your
Speaker 2: Niger feeders. Hummingbirds are showing up. But you know what,
Speaker 2: they're really good for two scope, They're really great for
Speaker 2: holding hanging baskets. They're they're like, oh okay, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: you could put you can put a heavy duty flower
Speaker 2: basket on there. People use them for all kinds of
Speaker 2: different things. So the APS pole system is by far
Speaker 2: one of the one of the very unique things that
Speaker 2: we have. And everybody, you can never have too many
Speaker 2: pole systems in your yard, That's what I say.
Speaker 1: So there, there you go. And it's true. I have one.
Speaker 1: I just have one. But the one I have I
Speaker 1: love it. And you're right about the stability. I can
Speaker 1: push the the four prongs that go on the ground
Speaker 1: around it, and you have a little screw you tighten
Speaker 1: up there. I can push them down to grass level
Speaker 1: and you can mow over it, you can weed eat
Speaker 1: around it. Uh. And it does hold that thing very
Speaker 1: very sturdy. By the way, I saw I heard you
Speaker 1: the other day on a on a social media you
Speaker 1: were somebody a squirrel can jump ten feet out and
Speaker 1: five feet up. I believe. Is that correct? Is what
Speaker 1: you said?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's exactly right. So people come in, well, squirrels
Speaker 2: are driving me crazy.
Speaker 1: So I have a squirrel that I thought needs to
Speaker 1: go to the squirrel Olympics, but apparently he's just average.
Speaker 1: I had a feeder that was eight feet away from
Speaker 1: a fence, and that's it was amazing. He could jump
Speaker 1: to the feeder with a problem. It's like, Dad, come in.
Speaker 1: He had a baffle on it, so he just said,
Speaker 1: the heck with the baffle, I'm jumping over the top.
Speaker 2: Yeah. The fun part of that would have been watching
Speaker 2: him try the first several times right eight feet away.
Speaker 2: I can promise you he wasn't the first time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, all right, Hey, we gotta we gotta caller
Speaker 1: Ron from the west Side, so rich. We're going to
Speaker 1: bring him on and let him ask you a question. Hey, Ron,
Speaker 1: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 18: Hi there, I have a I got some of your
Speaker 18: the Noble mess blend, and I've had this feeder for
Speaker 18: a long time. And it's the time where you pull
Speaker 18: the top up your feet it from the you fill
Speaker 18: it from the top, and then I guess it's a
Speaker 18: tray feeder. There's a little tray that holds the seed,
Speaker 18: and the birds are just not coming it still, just.
Speaker 2: You know, they're they're not taking it. Is it the
Speaker 2: placement of it. It's under the eve.
Speaker 13: Of my.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's under one of the eves, and under the
Speaker 2: of your house is pretty close to the house. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it could be a plate, it could be a placement issue.
Speaker 2: We we generally recommend that a feeder be at least
Speaker 2: ten feet away from your house, and a lot of
Speaker 2: that just has to do with preventing windows strikes and
Speaker 2: things like that. Like I was saying earlier, on the
Speaker 2: tray feeder, birds eat by sight first. They don't look
Speaker 2: at them, say the eliminator feeder or a hopper feeder
Speaker 2: and go, oh that's for me, right, They they really
Speaker 2: need to see the food first. Have you ever had
Speaker 2: birds on that feeder ever?
Speaker 18: I mean I think maybe a few have come by, But.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you cold it up once and that's it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you might. You might try changing the placement of it
Speaker 2: for sure. That would be That would be my first recommendation.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'll give you a really good example of
Speaker 2: placement importance, even like on a nest box. I have
Speaker 2: a blue bird. I had a bluebird box in my
Speaker 2: front yard for a long time, and I could never
Speaker 2: get the bluebirds to even take a second look at it. Right,
Speaker 2: I moved it to my backyard, into the corner of
Speaker 2: my yard where I thought it might be a more
Speaker 2: attractive place, and they moved right in. And so the
Speaker 2: same thing will go with feeders, right, you might have
Speaker 2: to do a little bit of trial and air to
Speaker 2: put it. As long as you're seeing birds in your backyard,
Speaker 2: it's a matter of just helping the bird birds find
Speaker 2: that feeder and the bird food easier. Uh. And again
Speaker 2: you might you might even try a tray feeder first,
Speaker 2: change the placement, try a tray feeder. Once they're coming
Speaker 2: to that tray feeder, then you can put that feeder
Speaker 2: right back out again and they'll go, Okay, the food's
Speaker 2: in here, and they'll figure it out pretty quick.
Speaker 18: I have a a bird bath right underneath it, so
Speaker 18: I'm giving them water and giving them things.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Bird yeah, birds. Yeah. Again, that's a placement thing as well.
Speaker 2: So birds are birds are spooky creatures, right. So I
Speaker 2: I hear folks putting bird baths like right along their
Speaker 2: back hedge. Well, bird baths and a hedge probably don't
Speaker 2: mix too well because a bird will see that and think, hmm,
Speaker 2: something in that hedge might come out and get me. Right, So,
Speaker 2: bird baths generally do well out in the open. They
Speaker 2: can be in the shade, they can be in full sun,
Speaker 2: it doesn't really matter. But again, a place where the
Speaker 2: birds can see it and feel comfortable getting on the
Speaker 2: bird bath. I mean, you've got your neighborhood cats, You've
Speaker 2: got your neighborhood Cooper's Hawk, so they need to be
Speaker 2: able to keep They're gonna try and keep themselves safe
Speaker 2: and so placement.
Speaker 1: Hey, that's a that's a great that's a great answer.
Speaker 2: RN.
Speaker 1: I hope that helps. I'm gonna have to move on,
Speaker 1: but I appreciate your call. And all you got to
Speaker 1: do is stop into a Wild Bird's Unlimited store. If
Speaker 1: you're on the west side. You've got a store on
Speaker 1: bel Air in Houston and one on Memorial Drive in Houston,
Speaker 1: so those are both kind of well. Bel Air is
Speaker 1: more southwest, but you've got a couple of stores pretty
Speaker 1: close to you. You need to stop into one and they'll
Speaker 1: answer a thousand of those questions for you. They're really
Speaker 1: good at it. Thanks thanks for calling in. Rich, go
Speaker 1: to another break. We're going to come back for a
Speaker 1: short segment, so if you can hang on, I sure
Speaker 1: would appreciate it. I would love to ask you some more. Hey,
Speaker 1: welcome back to Guardline, folks. We got one more segment
Speaker 1: left with Rich Eadie from All Birds Unlimited. Now you've
Speaker 1: got six Wildbirds unlimited stores here in the greater Houston area,
Speaker 1: So at north south east west, wherever you live, there's
Speaker 1: one close to you. And in Kingwood on Kingwood Drive
Speaker 1: on clear Lake Eldorado Boulevard, and on Paarland on East Broadway,
Speaker 1: Houston West on bel Air, Houston Southwest, excuse me, Memorial Drive,
Speaker 1: Houston Southwest on bel Air, and then in Cypress on
Speaker 1: Barker Cypress. So go see one. That'd be a great
Speaker 1: thing to do this afternoon. Go check out a wildbird
Speaker 1: store and find out what this is that we're talking about. Well, Rich,
Speaker 1: this is a short segment, and so I wanted to
Speaker 1: first say, are there some things that maybe you wish
Speaker 1: I had asked or that people need to know that
Speaker 1: I didn't think to ask, that you would like to
Speaker 1: add before we run out of time here today.
Speaker 2: Well, I think you know, there's a kind of an
Speaker 2: old saying that say that you don't need to feed
Speaker 2: the birds in the summertime because they have plenty of food.
Speaker 2: And actually the opposite to that is true, because right
Speaker 2: now is nesting season. And so if you the birds
Speaker 2: and they're they're laying their eggs and they're raising their babies.
Speaker 2: The feeders are really important to mom and dad because
Speaker 2: a chickadee, a single chickadee, will collect over eight thousand
Speaker 2: caterpillars just to raise this single clutch. So that's a
Speaker 2: lot of flying around, that's a lot of foraging to
Speaker 2: find a lot of caterpillars in about a three week period.
Speaker 2: And so what you'll see is the chickene's were we'll
Speaker 2: be looking for the insects for their young. They'll come
Speaker 2: to the feeders to feed themselves to keep their energy up.
Speaker 2: So summertime feeding is actually very very important for our
Speaker 2: backyard birds because it really does help them along a
Speaker 2: really busy time.
Speaker 1: All right, now, we got to hear that again. A
Speaker 1: chickadee is a very tiny little bird. How many caterpillars?
Speaker 2: Over eight thousand? Yeah, over eight thousand?
Speaker 1: Okay, so yep, there's.
Speaker 2: I know that.
Speaker 1: I read a book many years ago when it first
Speaker 1: came out that blew my mind and change my thinking.
Speaker 1: I've been doing horticulture a long time, but it was
Speaker 1: called Bringing Nature Home by Doug Tallomy, and basically, I
Speaker 1: don't you can't summarize the book in a sentence, but
Speaker 1: basically it's our oak trees. All these plants that we
Speaker 1: have are fed on by caterpillars. And the more we
Speaker 1: plant things that are not native to hear or that
Speaker 1: don't support those kinds of caterpillar populations, we really affect
Speaker 1: our wild birds because they can't just survive on what
Speaker 1: we have in our feeders. And it was a whole
Speaker 1: mindset about landscaping and what you do and what you
Speaker 1: don't do.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: And I had no idea that things like you just
Speaker 1: said that many caterpillars a little tiny bird like that
Speaker 1: would need. And I would suggest someone else if you're interested,
Speaker 1: read it Bringing Nature On. It's an excellent, excellent book,
Speaker 1: and there are many others that point to that. But
Speaker 1: thanks for bringing that upreach, because that is that was
Speaker 1: mind blowing to hear that.
Speaker 2: The first time you want to attract chickadees, plant an
Speaker 2: oak tree. That's that's what they say. Is that a
Speaker 2: post for over three hundred different types of mods. Yep,
Speaker 2: And they're eating the collecting the larvail of those moths,
Speaker 2: and oak trees are a super close plant for that.
Speaker 1: So boy, we we could we could end it right
Speaker 1: there and just let that sink in. That is really
Speaker 1: good information I'll tell you one thing. Some of your
Speaker 1: some of your blends, you have dried meal worms. And
Speaker 1: I am not a drug expert, but I am pretty
Speaker 1: sure that in the bird world, dried meal worms are
Speaker 1: a control substance. That's crack for birds. My birds love
Speaker 1: that stuff and it you know, it's so high and
Speaker 1: what proteins and vats and everything like that.
Speaker 2: That's right, drive. Meal worms are a great addition to
Speaker 2: the backyard. We were talking about the cardinal confetti. It
Speaker 2: it has dried meal worms in it. So if you
Speaker 2: want to attract cardinals and other types of birds in
Speaker 2: our area, that's a great blend to give a try
Speaker 2: because it does have dried meal worms in it as well.
Speaker 1: Wow, that is that is good, good info. We got
Speaker 1: about a minute left before and we can even talk
Speaker 1: into the music when it starts here in just a
Speaker 1: little bit if we like. I would like to just
Speaker 1: leave you with any other suggestions for someone who is
Speaker 1: wanting to get more help with learning about birds, in
Speaker 1: addition to going to your local Wildbirds Unlimited store, any
Speaker 1: other tips or resources out there that you might recommend.
Speaker 1: I know the owner wrote a book.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Jim Carpenter. Yeah, The Joy of Backyard, The Joy
Speaker 2: of Bird Feeding. So he wrote a book. It gives
Speaker 2: you step by step constructions on how to get started
Speaker 2: feeding birds in your backyard. But you can always go
Speaker 2: to the Cornell website Cornell Lab of Ornithology. They're a
Speaker 2: wealth of information on just about every bird in North America,
Speaker 2: and so there's lots of lots of resources out there.
Speaker 2: National Wildlife Federation we encourage folks to get their yard
Speaker 2: certified as a natural as a wildlife habitat through National
Speaker 2: Wildlife Federation. That means that you're focusing on the things
Speaker 2: that birds need in their backyard, but not just birds,
Speaker 2: but all wildlife. So that's another great place to start.
Speaker 2: And if people need more questions answered, they can certainly
Speaker 2: come in and see any of us, and we'd be
Speaker 2: glad to help them.
Speaker 1: Well, I tell you, I've been to almost all, I
Speaker 1: believe of the wild Birds Unlimited stores around town, and
Speaker 1: I'm always amazed. It's not just you guys that run
Speaker 1: the shop there, but the folks that work with you.
Speaker 1: They're so enthusiastic and so knowledgeable, it just makes it
Speaker 1: It makes it a lot of fun. Y'all have done
Speaker 1: a great job on that. Well, I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we appreciate yep, you bet we We like I said,
Speaker 2: we enjoy. We enjoy bringing joy into people's lives by
Speaker 2: letting them enjoy, helping them enjoy their backyard. And that's
Speaker 2: what we're all about.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm going to be speaking at an upcoming event
Speaker 1: called Oba Palooza and I saw you are too. Is
Speaker 1: that correct? Or do I have a different event that
Speaker 1: you're Yeah.
Speaker 2: No, thanks for bringing me, I am yeah.
Speaker 1: What are you gonna be telling us?
Speaker 2: Telling us about creating a healthy backyard bird habitat?
Speaker 1: Okay, now that's Saturday, August second, folks, just listening to
Speaker 1: garden Line. I'll talk about it multiple times dream now
Speaker 1: and then. But Rich, I can't thank you enough. Thanks
Speaker 1: so much for coming on. I know people really learned
Speaker 1: a lot and enjoyed it. And uh, if you're looking
Speaker 1: for a Father's Day gift, that that book by mister Carpenter,
Speaker 1: the founder of Wildberd's on living If We would be
Speaker 1: a great gift for dad. Who knows he may read
Speaker 1: that and get inspired to try it himself. Have a
Speaker 1: great thank you, Thank you, yes, sir, you too. You
Speaker 1: take care? All right, Well we're going to put this
Speaker 1: hour in the books. We're coming back for one hour today, folks,
Speaker 1: one more hour of garden Line. If you got any
Speaker 1: kind of gardening questions seven one three two one two
Speaker 1: K t R H. Look forward to talking to you.
Speaker 1: All right, we're back. Welcome back to guard Line. That's
Speaker 1: great having rich Edie from Wildbird. It's unlimited there answering
Speaker 1: our gardening questions. Boy, do I have a lot of
Speaker 1: gardening questions. I tell you I talk about Ace Hardware
Speaker 1: Stores all the time. You know that you listen to
Speaker 1: me and doing it. Uh, it's just the place. It's
Speaker 1: the place to go. Do you need a great Father's
Speaker 1: Day gift? You're not going to do better than Ace Hardware.
Speaker 1: For example, maybe maybe there's a hands hand tool for dad,
Speaker 1: you know, a power tool like something from Ace has
Speaker 1: their own brands. There's Milwaukee, there's Stanley, there's Black and Decker,
Speaker 1: Craftsman and Dewault. I'm especially fond of the Duwault and
Speaker 1: boy do they ever have those at Ace Hardware stores.
Speaker 1: Barbecue pits, barbecue equipment to go with your barbecue pits
Speaker 1: and supplies. And then you know, whatever Dad is interested in,
Speaker 1: you're going to find something there at ACE. Whatever is
Speaker 1: an outdoor enjoyment and outdoor creating that special outdoor environment,
Speaker 1: or even things inside the house. Ace Hardware has got
Speaker 1: you covered. You can find your ACE Hardware stores by
Speaker 1: going to Ace Hardware Texas dot com and you'll find
Speaker 1: stores like All Star, Ace and Magnolia k and m
Speaker 1: Ace and Kingwood on Kingwood Drive, the Kilgore's Clear Lake
Speaker 1: Lumber on East Maine. If you're down in Port Lavaka,
Speaker 1: there's Port Lovaka Ace on Calvin Plaza, and then Katie
Speaker 1: Ace Hardware on Penoak Road in Old Town Katie. Just
Speaker 1: a few of the mini Ace Hardware stores at Ace
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Speaker 1: Speaking of Katie and talk to George. Hello, George, welcome
Speaker 1: to garden Line.
Speaker 6: Good morning, Skid.
Speaker 9: Thank you for taking my call. I got three questions
Speaker 9: and I hang up and I listened to you the
Speaker 9: first one. Okay, I have three. I moved into this
Speaker 9: home about five years ago. It came with three very
Speaker 9: tall palm trees. Okay, there is a lot of weeds,
Speaker 9: especially this time of the year, grows around this palm trees.
Speaker 9: Do you have a suggestion on how to get rid
Speaker 9: at those palm tree I'm sorry, sorry, give ready to
Speaker 9: the weeds without harming the palm trees.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so what can you give me? The other question
Speaker 1: you have so because I need to keep going on
Speaker 1: and then I'll answer them all together.
Speaker 6: Yes, sir.
Speaker 9: The other question, I have a flower bit that I
Speaker 9: was getting ready to plant some flowers and as I
Speaker 9: was digging, I found there's clay on the bottom about
Speaker 9: eight about sixty eight inches deep. I ran into clay,
Speaker 9: so stop.
Speaker 6: I want to have a solution for that.
Speaker 9: The last question I have is I have two create
Speaker 9: myrtle trees in the backyard, but the area is not.
Speaker 6: Getting a lot of shade.
Speaker 1: Is it safe?
Speaker 9: I can remove those and replant them somewhere else.
Speaker 2: That's all for me.
Speaker 1: Okay, thanks a lot. I'll answer those three. You have
Speaker 1: a quick answer on those. Generally, I try to keep
Speaker 1: it to a question here on Guardline, but I can
Speaker 1: do a quick one on these getting rid of weeds
Speaker 1: around palm trees. The most palms don't have basal sprouts.
Speaker 1: There are a few palms that you get multiple trunks
Speaker 1: coming out of the ground, but most don't. So just
Speaker 1: look and check if there's no green leaves or anything
Speaker 1: down there. You can use. If it's grassy weeds, there's
Speaker 1: grass only killers. If it's grass and broad leaf. There
Speaker 1: are systemic products that if you go to my website
Speaker 1: gardening with Skip dot com, there's a publication called herbicides
Speaker 1: to use on Skip's weed wiper. Now you don't have
Speaker 1: to use the weed wiper to use these herbicides, but
Speaker 1: they're grouped by the kind of weeds you have. And
Speaker 1: I would go there and you'll find a listing of
Speaker 1: the ingredients and the products that you need. Firebed with
Speaker 1: clay underneath. You're just going to need to bring in
Speaker 1: some expanded shale and some compost and mix it in
Speaker 1: as deeply as you can. If you can bring a
Speaker 1: bed mix in like a veggie and herb mix would
Speaker 1: be a good one. That would work on that and
Speaker 1: create a raised so excess water drains away. That would
Speaker 1: be even better. But anything you do to improve the
Speaker 1: internal drainage of the soil like I mentioned, or bring
Speaker 1: up the level would be helpful for that. And I
Speaker 1: just went blank on the loves the last question Andre
Speaker 1: that he asked me, I can't remember the last question.
Speaker 1: Oh great, myrtles. Yeah, don't move crept myrtles now, thank you.
Speaker 1: Move crepe myrtles in November or December would be the
Speaker 1: best time. Once they've drop leaves, that's the time you
Speaker 1: want to dig them up and move them. If they're big,
Speaker 1: it's going to be very difficult for them to recover
Speaker 1: and survive the move. If they're small, you might be
Speaker 1: successful with it. All right. That is a fast answer
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Speaker 1: head now to talk to Pat. Hello, Pat, welcome to Guardline.
Speaker 2: Hello, how are you today?
Speaker 1: Do good?
Speaker 2: Good?
Speaker 12: H I sent you some pictures of the lantana that
Speaker 12: I have. I've got five of them. This one stopped
Speaker 12: producing flowers, and the new leaves that are coming on
Speaker 12: don't look good at all.
Speaker 1: Oh this is a while back, right, I remember seeing
Speaker 1: that a lot. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. So what I
Speaker 1: saw is there are little insects that suck the juices
Speaker 1: out of lanana leaves. There is a thing called the
Speaker 1: lantana lacebug that's one of them. Then there are some
Speaker 1: plant hoppers that do the same thing. And you see
Speaker 1: the new growth, it loses its green and little tiny specks.
Speaker 1: But when you get a thousand specks on there, the
Speaker 1: whole thing just looks tan. You are brown. And the
Speaker 1: way to deal with that is a challenge, because if
Speaker 1: you put a systemic on them, it'll go in the
Speaker 1: plant and kill those bugs. But you do have butterflies
Speaker 1: come into your lantanas, so it's a little bit of
Speaker 1: a trade off there. I might try using a spray
Speaker 1: of a pyrethrin type insecticide pyrethrine. It is an organic
Speaker 1: product that doesn't last very long, but it does an immediate,
Speaker 1: quick knockdown. But you're going to need to spray upward
Speaker 1: from underneath the plant, which is a little hard to do,
Speaker 1: and you need to give them a good dosing of it.
Speaker 1: These bugs hide, it's almost impossible to cat them in
Speaker 1: the act, other than lace bugs, which don't run away
Speaker 1: so fast. But you're gonna have to hit those pretty
Speaker 1: hard and do it probably about once a week for
Speaker 1: about three weeks to get ahead of them. Then give
Speaker 1: them some fertilizer and water and try to push them
Speaker 1: fresh new growth so they can get some leaves out
Speaker 1: there in the sunlight.
Speaker 12: Pat Okay, I sure appreciate it, all right, you bet ye?
Speaker 2: Good luck.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've dealt with those same things myself. That is
Speaker 1: indeed a problem for sure. When you're dealing with mosquitoes.
Speaker 1: One simple way is just find the stagnant water where
Speaker 1: they're breeding and throw a mosquito dunk in it. Someone
Speaker 1: called earlier about some fungus gnats and pot bags of
Speaker 1: potting soil. There isn't a disease in the mosquito dunks
Speaker 1: that kills mosquito larva and fungus gnat larva. And that's it.
Speaker 1: It doesn't hurt ladybugs, it doesn't hurt the family cat,
Speaker 1: doesn't hurt the birds coming to the bird feeder. It
Speaker 1: just goes after the mosquitos, which is a wonderful thing.
Speaker 1: Some of them look like small beige donuts. The mosquito dunk.
Speaker 1: They float around, cover about one hundred square feet and
Speaker 1: last for about a month. Then there's granules. Those are small,
Speaker 1: like grape nut size, little if you remember that serial,
Speaker 1: little size granules that you can throw in in places
Speaker 1: where stagnant water is just going to be, you know,
Speaker 1: underneath your catch basins, under your plants and a perhaps
Speaker 1: a bird bath, or even if like there's a hollow
Speaker 1: spot in a tree and water's getting in there, mosquitoes
Speaker 1: are breeding in it. Just toss one up in or
Speaker 1: toss some granules up in there. You can take care
Speaker 1: of them that way. You're gonna find mosquito dunks at
Speaker 1: a hardware stores. You're gonna find them at feed stores
Speaker 1: or independent garden centers. They're easy to find. You need
Speaker 1: to have them on hand all the time because when
Speaker 1: you need them, you need them and don't ever be
Speaker 1: a Skeeter breeder. Don't be a Skeeter breeder. Get rid
Speaker 1: of those things. I'm gonna take a little break here.
Speaker 1: We'll be back with your calls in just one second
Speaker 1: here at seven one three two on two kt RH. Alrighty,
Speaker 1: welcome back. We're in our last hour on guarden Line.
Speaker 1: You got a question seven one three two one two
Speaker 1: kt r H, give me a call. We're gonna head
Speaker 1: out now to tom Ball, Texas and talk to John
Speaker 1: this morning. Hello John, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 11: Good morning, Skiff. I got a quick question for you
Speaker 11: about eagleson Holly's. They're roughly two months old, about fifteen
Speaker 11: gallons when they put them in, but they didn't support
Speaker 11: them or take them up, and three or four of
Speaker 11: them are kind of laying in, so would it be
Speaker 11: best to take them up? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Do they do they have a single trunk or do
Speaker 1: they have multiple trunks?
Speaker 5: An?
Speaker 11: They're single?
Speaker 1: Okay? Good?
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: There's advice called the three sixty tree stabilizer, and you
Speaker 1: can find it at a lot of different places up
Speaker 1: there in Tomball. They got them at Arburgate.
Speaker 2: I know that.
Speaker 1: Uh, and go grab you one of those. Uh you
Speaker 1: just drive a little tea post in the ground, a
Speaker 1: little metal post in the ground. It attaches to the
Speaker 1: post and attaches to the true and you want that
Speaker 1: strap to be real loose, because what happened is when
Speaker 1: they grew these things, they probably I don't know how
Speaker 1: they grew them, but they had some way of holding them,
Speaker 1: and they didn't develop good strength. Trink strength, good night,
Speaker 1: trunk strength. There we go, trunks, and so yeah, when
Speaker 1: a plant moved, it's easy for you to say, when
Speaker 1: a plant moves, it makes the tissue stronger, and it
Speaker 1: makes those roots at the bottom that are kind of
Speaker 1: like the anchor roots that hold that trunk straight. It
Speaker 1: strengthens them as well. So you want to leave it
Speaker 1: a little loose so that eagleston can move around in
Speaker 1: the wind, but it'll prevent it from moving more than
Speaker 1: about three or four inches for sure. And so that's
Speaker 1: what I would do. It's a simplest and you'll have
Speaker 1: that thing anytime you plan anything, whether it's a crpe,
Speaker 1: myrtle or a tree or whatever. It'll hold them well.
Speaker 1: And that's what I would recommend. It's the simplest, fastest, easiest.
Speaker 1: You're not you're not hammering steaks in the ground and
Speaker 1: trying to make guy wires, you know, to hold it
Speaker 1: down and stuff. Just to get you a three sixty
Speaker 1: tree stabilizer and that'll do.
Speaker 11: It about two of them. I've got like three or
Speaker 11: four of the kind of leaning. So I'm surprised they
Speaker 11: do something one day. This is a good nursery. I'm
Speaker 11: not going to say the name, but yeah, there's no
Speaker 11: no good.
Speaker 1: Support them well, and the nursery didn't grow them, you know.
Speaker 1: The nursery wasn't the grower for them either. So anyway,
Speaker 1: just just just do that, Just give them a little
Speaker 1: bit of support and hold them, hold them in place,
Speaker 1: let them move though, make sure they move a little bit. Uh,
Speaker 1: and then I'd probably leave it on there, maybe about
Speaker 1: six months, just depending on how they're holding up. You
Speaker 1: can check them and then take it off. You shouldn't
Speaker 1: have to leave it on there a very long time.
Speaker 5: Okay, thank you skip.
Speaker 1: Hey John, thanks a lot, appreciate appreciate your call, very much.
Speaker 1: Good to talk to you. I have forgotten to tell
Speaker 1: you guys about this, but we are entering the early
Speaker 1: part of tinchbug season. If you go to my lawn
Speaker 1: pest disease, and we'd management schedule. You will see that
Speaker 1: June is when we do two things. Number one, if
Speaker 1: we've got chinchbug issues or soide web worm. It's early
Speaker 1: for sodeweb worms, although they could occur early, but it's
Speaker 1: a little bit of a long shot on them for
Speaker 1: right now. But chinchbugs could begin now and by the
Speaker 1: time we get into in August, even early September, those
Speaker 1: things really built up. But now is your first treatment
Speaker 1: for grubs. If you have an issue with grubworms in
Speaker 1: the soil, now's the time to do it. Look at
Speaker 1: my schedule. I've got a treatment for grubs for June,
Speaker 1: and then I have a different thing we put down
Speaker 1: in July and August. I can go into that more later.
Speaker 1: For now, bug Out Max granules. Bug Out Max Granules.
Speaker 1: It's a great lawn and garden and control from nitrofoss.
Speaker 1: So you're going to find it in places nitrofoss is sold.
Speaker 1: You go to d and DE Feed Up in Tomball,
Speaker 1: you go to RCW Nurseries, you go to ACE Hardware,
Speaker 1: Citium Memorial Drive, you go to Langham Creek Case hard
Speaker 1: Run five twenty nine. You're going to find nitrofoss products there.
Speaker 1: But now's the season for down, the month for putting
Speaker 1: down the bug out max to shut those turf insects down,
Speaker 1: especially the grubs and secondly the early chinchbugs. All right,
Speaker 1: I'll cover it. Let's go now to Meyerland and we
Speaker 1: are going to visit with John. Hello, John, Welcome to
Speaker 1: garden line. How you doing skip?
Speaker 19: I got a bunch of good boves, I got a
Speaker 19: bunch of news citrus, and I don't have a fits
Speaker 19: or anything like that. But something is eaten the green,
Speaker 19: you know, the tender new growth right down to.
Speaker 6: The to the limb.
Speaker 19: I have no idea what it is.
Speaker 1: Well, it's either going to be a caterpillar or a
Speaker 1: beetle most likely, Uh, I would I would guess it's
Speaker 1: a caterpillar. But if you look around on there, you're
Speaker 1: not seeing any critters around.
Speaker 19: I'm not seeing anything. And I've been spraying for you know, bugs,
Speaker 19: caterpillars and suck.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 1: Can you tell me what you've been.
Speaker 10: What's that?
Speaker 5: What?
Speaker 1: What have you been spraying? Do you remember what product
Speaker 1: it was?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 19: The stuff for for vegetables and fruit trees that have
Speaker 19: got from Southwest or Lauser.
Speaker 1: Okay, Uh, you were gonna say, could it be something.
Speaker 5: Mice.
Speaker 1: I've never known mice to do that, Okay, I I
Speaker 1: just don't. That doesn't sound right to me the mice.
Speaker 12: So uh, it's.
Speaker 19: As soon as any new growth comes out, it'll get
Speaker 19: a good start, and then the next day it's gone.
Speaker 2: Here.
Speaker 1: Here's what I would do. I would get go out
Speaker 1: there at night, you know, go at like ten o'clock
Speaker 1: at night or ir relate your up and just get
Speaker 1: a flashlight and look around on there. Because some of
Speaker 1: our critters are nocturnal, some of the caterpillars are nocturnal
Speaker 1: in others and maybe you can catch something in the
Speaker 1: act that would be helpful in knowing what to do.
Speaker 1: I don't know what's the insecticide in the product you
Speaker 1: bought there at Southwest, but you know, if it were
Speaker 1: a BT ingredient and you had a you had a
Speaker 1: you know, a grasshopper or a beetle or some other
Speaker 1: chewing past, BT wouldn't work. That's why I ask, you
Speaker 1: know what's in the product, But if you can catch
Speaker 1: them in the act, I would I would try that.
Speaker 1: If not, there are some other products that you can
Speaker 1: use that kind of kill all insects. But here's here's
Speaker 1: something we could do. I'm gonna I think we're winding
Speaker 1: this up because I'm not coming up with a good,
Speaker 1: definitive answer for you. I'm gonna put you on hold,
Speaker 1: and if you want, my producer will give you an email.
Speaker 1: If you'll take a picture of the damage, and then
Speaker 1: you will take a picture of the label of the
Speaker 1: product you're using and email them to me. I'll look
Speaker 1: at that and I'll give you a second opinion, Okay, John,
Speaker 1: all right, yeah, yes, sir, real quick.
Speaker 19: Down on the bay on San Antonio Bay, is the
Speaker 19: soil there too uh pH off?
Speaker 2: Too much for citrus and hibiscus.
Speaker 19: Down around sea drift?
Speaker 1: I don't think so uh not, you know, just as
Speaker 1: a general region issue, I don't believe so. So uh
Speaker 1: Are you seeing symptoms on the plants.
Speaker 19: No, I haven't planted anything, but I don't see anybody
Speaker 19: else doing it.
Speaker 1: Oh well, if you've got a like a clay or
Speaker 1: a sand either one, get a lot of composts, build
Speaker 1: up a raised mound, mixing in the soil rug it,
Speaker 1: or get a good bed mix to build up a
Speaker 1: raised bound. They don't want to sit in wet conditions,
Speaker 1: and then you ought to be able to grow any
Speaker 1: of that down there?
Speaker 2: Ye twenty three, but is one hundred feet?
Speaker 1: Yeah, well give give up, you know, give them up
Speaker 1: a raised box or something to grow in that that'll work.
Speaker 1: Thanks sir, appreciate, appreciate your phone call. Uh, let's see here,
Speaker 1: where are we all? We got a little bit of time.
Speaker 1: I wanted to mention that you know talking about Nelson
Speaker 1: plant foods all the time, and I've been telling you
Speaker 1: recently about this Slow and Easy. Slow and Easy is
Speaker 1: a very slow release fertilizer for your lawns. It it
Speaker 1: has a high nitrogen content, but that nitrogen is leaked
Speaker 1: out in small amounts over four months or at least. Okay,
Speaker 1: so you put it down now and it covers you
Speaker 1: all the way to fall.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 1: It has some some ingredients that I think are really interesting. First,
Speaker 1: while the slow release prevents burned you know, you don't
Speaker 1: burn your plants with too much the form of nitrogen
Speaker 1: in it, there will be some taken up on that
Speaker 1: by so microbes and things. Also, it has an acidifying
Speaker 1: element to it, and it's not going to take your
Speaker 1: lawn from a pH eight to a pH six. Don't
Speaker 1: worry about that. But gradually, over time it's helping bring
Speaker 1: that pH down a little bit. And turf cress does well.
Speaker 1: It does well in that you're going to have a
Speaker 1: little less iron deficiencies as you bring that pH down
Speaker 1: in your lawn. Slow and easy has multiple beneficial effects,
Speaker 1: mainly feeding the lawn gradually so you still get a
Speaker 1: good root system. You don't have to mow all the
Speaker 1: time trying to keep up with it because you've overdone
Speaker 1: the nitrogen. It's slow and it's easy, and it's from
Speaker 1: Nelson Plant Food That makes plenty of sense. Highly recommend
Speaker 1: that one. Hey, let's go to Richmond. Now we're going
Speaker 1: to talk to Terry this morning. Good morning, Terry, welcome
Speaker 1: regardan Yes.
Speaker 6: Sir, well, thank you.
Speaker 20: My question is Dylan with uh more of my yard.
Speaker 20: I've learned from you that I do not need to
Speaker 20: bag my clippings. Uh But in my backyard, I have
Speaker 20: two large magnolia trees that put out lots of big
Speaker 20: leaves all the time. So okay, I just continue just
Speaker 20: to multch them up or or what what do I
Speaker 20: need to do?
Speaker 6: Well?
Speaker 1: I took the call right before I have to go
Speaker 1: to break so here's what we're gonna do. Hang on,
Speaker 1: We're gonna go a little break here, and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: come back because I want to talk to you, to
Speaker 1: you about a little bit more than just a few
Speaker 1: seconds here. Okay, okay, but we will we will come up.
Speaker 1: Just hang on and put you on hold and we
Speaker 1: will come right back to you.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 1: Obapalooza is Saturday, August second. It's from eight to four
Speaker 1: and it is an organic extravaganza is basically what it
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Speaker 1: And b you won't have any weeds in your yard
Speaker 1: this year. That's a guarantee.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: It's all about soil, isn't it. It's brown stuff before
Speaker 1: green stuff. And when I think about someone getting started,
Speaker 1: I always tell them build the soil first. And heirloom
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Speaker 1: Leaf Molkompo for top dressings are just using in your containers.
Speaker 1: Maybe you grow succulents. How about cacti in succulents. How
Speaker 1: about a potting soil called the Works. I've used the
Speaker 1: Works potting soil for years. It is an excellent blend.
Speaker 1: It drains well and yet it holds water. You keep
Speaker 1: hearing me say, with clay soils, you need to add
Speaker 1: expanded shale, you need to add compost. Well, they have compost.
Speaker 1: They have expanded shale, and they have expanded shell and compost.
Speaker 1: How do you want it they've got it, and then
Speaker 1: quality bed mixes of two. Course, all you do is
Speaker 1: go to airloomsoils dot com, Heirloomsoils dot com, look at
Speaker 1: the soil calculator, find out how much you need. It'll
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Speaker 1: there in a qbcyard or whatever. They will deliver. They
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Speaker 1: going to go back now to Terry and Richmond, and
Speaker 1: Terry thank you for hanging on while we went to
Speaker 1: break there. So your bottom line question for those just
Speaker 1: joining us on the air is that you have magnolia
Speaker 1: leaves and they're big old leaves and they're everywhere, and
Speaker 1: what do you do about them? You know, do you
Speaker 1: grind them up and mulch them or what Magnolia leaves.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure that you could roof your house with
Speaker 1: them and they last longer than a thirty year shingle.
Speaker 1: But when you break them up and that glossy coating
Speaker 1: is broken up, microbes can get to more surfaces on
Speaker 1: the leaf and they break down fairly fairly, well pretty quickly.
Speaker 1: So I would run them over with a lawnmower or
Speaker 1: anything to break them up a little bit and then
Speaker 1: use them as mulch any and everywhere you want to
Speaker 1: use them. They're just fine. Just don't I just wouldn't
Speaker 1: do them whole.
Speaker 20: Okay, good, well, I got on the question that was sure.
Speaker 20: Let me ask you what the other thing my front yard?
Speaker 20: I got these oak trees. At times I get overwhelmed
Speaker 20: with leaves there. So do I just try to munch them?
Speaker 20: Or do I need to remove as much of the
Speaker 20: oak leaves as possible or kind of what is my
Speaker 20: game plan for my oak? And everything's on Saint August,
Speaker 20: you know?
Speaker 1: So yeah, okay, well on on on the oak leaves.
Speaker 1: You can again, I would the same kind of thing.
Speaker 1: They do have a little bit of a coating on them.
Speaker 1: They are high in tannins. But I from what I'm
Speaker 1: seeing I just wouldn't worry about them. I knew a
Speaker 1: guy who had giant compost beds and they were made
Speaker 1: out of nothing but oak leaves and sheep man are.
Speaker 1: This was Central Texas, hence the sheet man are and
Speaker 1: they did great and the plants thrived in it. And
Speaker 1: so H just grind them up a little bit. Uh,
Speaker 1: And it works well. I use live oak leaves, and
Speaker 1: then when you get to the bigger oak leaves a
Speaker 1: kind of meat, you know, closer to the size of
Speaker 1: your hand, like red oat and white oat. Those are
Speaker 1: even easier to grind up in you. So yeah, listen,
Speaker 1: Nature takes every leaf on earth and it turns it
Speaker 1: into soil. Whether it's a pine needle or a magnolia
Speaker 1: or a live oak, all of those fall on the
Speaker 1: ground and become soil again as part of nature's design.
Speaker 1: So don't be afraid to use them. Okay, thank you
Speaker 1: very much, Thank you, Terry, and thanks for hanging on
Speaker 1: during the break. You bet good to visit with you. Hey,
Speaker 1: we've got time for another call here before we go
Speaker 1: to break seven one three two one two k.
Speaker 2: T r H.
Speaker 1: If you would like to ask a gardening question, I
Speaker 1: tell you that you need to go to Moss Nursery.
Speaker 1: I don't care where you live, you need to make
Speaker 1: a trip over that. That'd be a great outing. My
Speaker 1: idea of a good day would be I run down
Speaker 1: to Keema Greb or go to Moss and then go
Speaker 1: to Keema and get some lunch on the boardwalk or
Speaker 1: something like that. But Moss Nursery eight acres cram full
Speaker 1: of gorgeous plants. This is a seventy year old family
Speaker 1: operated nursery. When you go to Moss, you allow yourself
Speaker 1: some time. You're going to wander, and you're going to
Speaker 1: go through and see some of the best pottery anywhere
Speaker 1: all over the place. You're gonna see beautiful flowers. You
Speaker 1: got shady areas. Go get some Terinia also called wishbone
Speaker 1: flower at Moss Nursery. They are loaded. They just got
Speaker 1: a big shipment of them in. Do you like the
Speaker 1: daisy like flowers, like rubekia, and like echinaesia, a purple
Speaker 1: cone flower or purple cone flower, and all those other
Speaker 1: cone flower colors I have Now Moss just got wishma
Speaker 1: non They are stunningly beautiful. You need something that can
Speaker 1: take so much heat. You could probably lay it on
Speaker 1: Interstate forty five and it would survive in the summer.
Speaker 1: That's called Venka. The Nirvana series of Venca is resistant
Speaker 1: to a fungal blight, a bacterial blike excuse me, that
Speaker 1: used to wipe out Venca, but Nirvana's resistant. They have
Speaker 1: Nirvana and all kinds of beautiful colors, not just the
Speaker 1: standard pink and white Vinka, but they've got some beautiful
Speaker 1: lavender colors. They've got some rose colors. They are awesome
Speaker 1: for lots of sun and lots of heat. You just
Speaker 1: give them some water and they're gonna do super, super fine.
Speaker 1: I could sit here and spend a whole show just
Speaker 1: talking about mosterners shoe. Let me give you one more.
Speaker 1: They have a great selection. A new arrival of mallow
Speaker 1: hibiscus that is rose mallow or swamp mallow. That isn't
Speaker 1: the tropical hibiscus which Moss also has. Of course, have everything,
Speaker 1: but it's a perennial biscus. It dies to the ground
Speaker 1: in the winter and it comes back out in summer
Speaker 1: with dinner plate size gorgeous blooms. Just go to Moss
Speaker 1: and check them out. While you're there, say congratulations to
Speaker 1: the employee. Of the month. His name is Cat Cat.
Speaker 1: He's a cat. He is employee of the month for
Speaker 1: June of twenty twenty five. Now I've watched Cat Cat
Speaker 1: at Moss and I can tell you this. He's a loafer.
Speaker 1: He does not do good. I don't know how. I
Speaker 1: don't know who he bribed to be employee of the month.
Speaker 1: But say hey to cat cowboy while you're down there.
Speaker 1: All right, well, here we go. It's time for me
Speaker 1: to take a little break. When we come back from break,
Speaker 1: Nick and Cyprus, you are going to be our first up.
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Speaker 1: garden Line.
Speaker 21: Hey, Skip, I believe that what the tractors you were
Speaker 21: playing just a second ago.
Speaker 1: So ah, good good ding ding ding winter winter checking dinner.
Speaker 1: That is the tractors. All right, I'm impressed. Go ahead.
Speaker 21: Well, I am actually in the backyard airity my long
Speaker 21: a little bit, and I was going to put down
Speaker 21: some compost over it. Now, I was wondering about the shells.
Speaker 21: Should I put some shell in there? Because it's really
Speaker 21: clay in this one area, clay man, how much shell
Speaker 21: you know?
Speaker 3: Putting?
Speaker 1: Yeah, putting shell down in a lawn is just not
Speaker 1: going to be a very effective or practical thing. Usually
Speaker 1: with shale will lay about Let's say you just had
Speaker 1: a horrible solid clay, you would lay about maybe three
Speaker 1: inches of shell down and mix it as deeply as
Speaker 1: you could, and then you would have these little porous
Speaker 1: rocks like little lava rocks. If you look at them
Speaker 1: under a microscope, you have a little pets and holes
Speaker 1: in them, and they hold the clay apart for a
Speaker 1: long time, whereas compost breaks down. But that would be good,
Speaker 1: but in a lawn, just you're going to aerate periodically,
Speaker 1: and each time you erate, the holes are probably gonna
Speaker 1: be in a little different spot. And when you do
Speaker 1: a compost top dressing of something like a leaf mold compost,
Speaker 1: it's been screened down to very small particle size. You're
Speaker 1: going to gradually be improving that lawn. And then the
Speaker 1: roots of the grass also improve the soil and keep
Speaker 1: it open too. So the healthier your grass is, the
Speaker 1: better off your soil condition is.
Speaker 21: Okay, So so doing the aeration, I'm doing that literally
Speaker 21: as we speak, so that I'll do that and then
Speaker 21: just put the accomplist over top of that should and
Speaker 21: water it in.
Speaker 1: That's it, get the aeration done, and then the compost
Speaker 1: top dressing rake it around so it kind of falls down.
Speaker 1: You don't need much compost top dressing, you know. A
Speaker 1: third of an inch is probably enough in most cases
Speaker 1: unless you just have a real big problem. But yeah,
Speaker 1: that'll Hey are you listening to the guardline on your phone?
Speaker 1: I am on my phone.
Speaker 21: I'm doing I'm doing eighth A June always tell us
Speaker 21: to do it, so I was, okay, I'm going to
Speaker 21: take this opportunity.
Speaker 1: You are the first caller that's that's said something that
Speaker 1: let me know that that is good. It makes sense
Speaker 1: to me if it was me listening, I'd be out
Speaker 1: there doing work while I listen. So congratulations. I wish
Speaker 1: I had a prize for the tractors and for listening
Speaker 1: on your phone. But thanks Nick, I appreciate it, appreciate
Speaker 1: your coming.
Speaker 2: So thank you.
Speaker 1: Good good for you. You take care. Yeah, so what
Speaker 1: we're talking about there is there is a thing called
Speaker 1: the iHeartMedia app. It's a little red square with a
Speaker 1: white heart in it, And just go look in your
Speaker 1: app store whatever kind of phone you have, and download
Speaker 1: the iHeart media app fine garden Line. There's two in
Speaker 1: the country that I know of. One is some lady
Speaker 1: in the northeast. I think I don't know anything about
Speaker 1: her or show. The other one is me and just
Speaker 1: follow that show. So anytime you're outside working, turn your
Speaker 1: phone on. You know, if you have earbuds, you want
Speaker 1: to do it that way, that's good. But get out there,
Speaker 1: and should you run across something when you're out in
Speaker 1: the lawn or out in the garden, you could take
Speaker 1: a picture of it, email it to me and then
Speaker 1: call to follow up. And so, as I like to say,
Speaker 1: it could be Garden Line live from your garden on
Speaker 1: that morning. So just another way to listen that allows you,
Speaker 1: you know, not to be tethered to a radio. I
Speaker 1: think that I can't hold still long enough. If I'm
Speaker 1: in a car, I can listen to but when I'm
Speaker 1: in the house, I'm going from here to there to
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