Speaker 1: Welcome to Katy r. H. Garden Line with skin, Richard.
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Speaker 1: garden Line. Glad you're here. I hope you got a
Speaker 1: cup of coffee and at least one eye open. I've
Speaker 1: been working on coffee for a little while now I
Speaker 1: think I got both eyes open. Hopefully we'll find out
Speaker 1: here as I start to talk whether it can make
Speaker 1: sense or not. You know, we got a lot of
Speaker 1: rain over these past few days, and I say we,
Speaker 1: meaning the whole listening area. Pretty much start rained a
Speaker 1: lot down in the Houston area early on, and then
Speaker 1: it kind of moved up north a little bit. Some
Speaker 1: pretty good storms come through, so we've got a good soaking,
Speaker 1: which is a good thing. We don't like to have
Speaker 1: to sit inside and look outside and rain. We rather
Speaker 1: be outside gardening, but anyway, we know we need it.
Speaker 1: So I was looking at some areas of the landscape
Speaker 1: that aren't draining as well as i'd like them too,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna have to put in some subsurface drainage
Speaker 1: just to get that water out of that area. For
Speaker 1: a couple of reasons. Number one, plant roots don't like
Speaker 1: to sit in the soggy, wet conditions. They just don't.
Speaker 1: There are plants that can take that. Certainly, ball cypress
Speaker 1: can take that lives in swamps for crying out out.
Speaker 1: Most plants can't. There are some that can. So what
Speaker 1: do you do when you got an area like that? Well,
Speaker 1: one thing is you just plant it to things that
Speaker 1: want to be there.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: Button bush is a big native bush that attracts butterflies.
Speaker 1: Got some very unique little round blooms that look sort
Speaker 1: of like you know after a dandelion, flowers that stalk
Speaker 1: coming up that's kind of round, and then the seeds
Speaker 1: go flying away. It's sort of but the flowers sort
Speaker 1: of look like that, they're round, and they attract butterflies
Speaker 1: that can put up with wet conditions. Louisiana iris, especially
Speaker 1: in a very very bright shade area, does very well
Speaker 1: in wet conditions. And there are other plants that can
Speaker 1: do that. Can as can put up with that, and
Speaker 1: on and on, but most plants won't get drainage, and
Speaker 1: so then if you're not gonna plant something that wants
Speaker 1: to be in a wet area. In other words, when
Speaker 1: life gives you lemons, make lemonade. That kind of approach. Well,
Speaker 1: the next step is why is it wet there? And
Speaker 1: I know you're thinking because it rains skipt No, I'm
Speaker 1: talking about why is that area staying so wet for
Speaker 1: so long? Maybe a down spout of the house is
Speaker 1: dumping extra water there, and that could be rerouted to
Speaker 1: another area, so we still get rain, but we're not
Speaker 1: getting all the thousands of gallons off the roof also
Speaker 1: dumping into that area. So that's another option that you
Speaker 1: can do. And then finally there's subsurface drainage. They call
Speaker 1: those French strains. Basically what it is, it's a pipe
Speaker 1: underground with holes in it put into a bed of gravel.
Speaker 1: So as the water goes to that area, it just
Speaker 1: goes into the pipe and it moves downhill to a
Speaker 1: lower area to drain out. If you don't have a
Speaker 1: downhill a drainage installing place, if you will, they can
Speaker 1: come in and they can put up a little sort
Speaker 1: of little pit there with a sump pump in it.
Speaker 1: And when it hits a certain level of water in there,
Speaker 1: it just pumps it out. So now you're sending it
Speaker 1: out even uphill a little bit off to another area
Speaker 1: where it can drain out. So any of those are
Speaker 1: a couple of options that you can do. By the way,
Speaker 1: Pierce Scapes does that kind of work. They're excellent at
Speaker 1: doing that and they will pretty much do anything that
Speaker 1: needs to be done in the landscape, you know, fixing, irrigation,
Speaker 1: installing lighting, I just mentioned the drainage, of course, doing
Speaker 1: beautiful custom landscape installation. They know how to do it all.
Speaker 1: They are our preferred landscaper here on Garden Line, been
Speaker 1: around since nineteen eighty eight and they're your one stop shop.
Speaker 1: So I don't care. You need a rock border, you
Speaker 1: want a hardescape, a walkway, they can do it all.
Speaker 1: They can also do quarterly maintenance, which by the way,
Speaker 1: is a very nice thing to have them come in
Speaker 1: and do. They sprish up the beds, they you know,
Speaker 1: add some more malts into them, they get any weeds
Speaker 1: out that might be there. They're doing a little trimming
Speaker 1: that might need to be done. And as you go
Speaker 1: through the seasons, as many as many times as you
Speaker 1: and your contract. When I agree with them that to
Speaker 1: put new color in, they can do that. I mean
Speaker 1: they do four color changes a year. If you want
Speaker 1: to go that route Piercecapes, all you need to do
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Speaker 1: to give them a call two eight one three seven
Speaker 1: oh fifty sixty two eight one three seven oh five
Speaker 1: zero six zero. But anyway, I've got that area in
Speaker 1: the landscape I need to to address, and so having
Speaker 1: a professional come in is helpful. I know, we got
Speaker 1: some do it yourselfers out there that if you really
Speaker 1: really know what you're doing and do it right, that's fine. Otherwise, uh,
Speaker 1: it doesn't drain, it doesn't drain well. And you need
Speaker 1: to have sighted that area so that you've got just
Speaker 1: the right amount of drop per ten or one hundred
Speaker 1: feet you know down the way, so about per one
Speaker 1: hundred linear feet it needs to drop a certain amount
Speaker 1: of place. You need to put it where the water
Speaker 1: can get into the pipe properly, and on and on
Speaker 1: and so it just I think it's better just to
Speaker 1: hire somebody that knows what they're doing to do it.
Speaker 1: If you've not trade sweet green fertilizer from night fish,
Speaker 1: you ought to. Sweet green is first of all, it's
Speaker 1: smells sweet, and it's base on a sugar type based
Speaker 1: carbon chains, which makes beneficial microbes very happy, especial especially
Speaker 1: beneficial bacteria. And they've done their research and homework there
Speaker 1: at Nitrofoss when they created this. It reacts with water
Speaker 1: and it aids not only does it dissolve away and
Speaker 1: go into the soil, but it is really a good
Speaker 1: amendment revitalizing this in the sense of increasing those microbe populations.
Speaker 1: Now it's got one of the highest analyzes of an
Speaker 1: organic plant food when it comes to nitrogen, like eleven
Speaker 1: percent nitrogen and smells really good. As I say all
Speaker 1: the time I'm talking about sweet green, you can get
Speaker 1: it at places like an enchanted forest down in the
Speaker 1: Richmond Rosenberg area, but the Ace Hardware at Single Ranch
Speaker 1: on Mason Road, or perhaps you're up in the woodlands
Speaker 1: at all Spas Ace. Those are all places where you
Speaker 1: can find sweet green another Nitrofoss products. Let's see here,
Speaker 1: Oh I did you know? Oh I haven't. I want
Speaker 1: to talk a little bit about the vegetable garden in
Speaker 1: this transition season, and I think we'll do that when
Speaker 1: we come back. By the way, it would help, since
Speaker 1: this is a call in show, if I gave you
Speaker 1: a number right seven one three two one two fifty
Speaker 1: eight seventy four seven one three two one two five
Speaker 1: eight seven four. When you are looking at creating a
Speaker 1: beautiful garden bed, whether it's vegetables or herbs or whatever
Speaker 1: you're trying to plant, it all starts in the soil.
Speaker 1: That's why I say brown stuff before green stuff and
Speaker 1: airloom soils is they know how to do it. They're
Speaker 1: just professionals at it. And they have so many options
Speaker 1: from leap mo compost of veggian herb mixes, to mixes
Speaker 1: for fruit trees, for acid living plants, for roses and
Speaker 1: other blooming plants, heirloom soils. Here's the website airloomsoils dot com.
Speaker 1: Go check it out. Look at their soil mulch calculator
Speaker 1: that's on the website is awesome. Airloom soils. You can
Speaker 1: go up to porter and pick it up yourself. If
Speaker 1: you can them deliver it, you can have them bring
Speaker 1: it in a cubic yard supersack and put it right
Speaker 1: there in your driveway neat clean. I've done that myself.
Speaker 1: It really really is convenient. Heirloomsoils dot Com. Go there,
Speaker 1: learn about the products and I'll tell you this, You're
Speaker 1: not going to find a bad run in the bunch.
Speaker 1: I've used them. They work. Time for me to take
Speaker 1: a quick break. We'll be right back with your calls
Speaker 1: in just a moment. If you can listen to that
Speaker 1: song and your foot doesn't tap, then you check your pulse.
Speaker 1: If you, at this time of the year are not
Speaker 1: interested in growing something, planting something, check your pulse. It's spring.
Speaker 5: This is it.
Speaker 1: I mean, if there is one drop of garden blood
Speaker 1: in you, this will be a time when you know
Speaker 1: it's like, hey, look at that green stuff. I think
Speaker 1: I'll spurush up the flower beds and do something like that.
Speaker 1: All right, you get the idea.
Speaker 5: Well.
Speaker 1: Super turf. Super Turf from nitrofoss is the silver bag
Speaker 1: that feeds for four months. That's what you need to remember.
Speaker 1: Silver bag four months. It is part of our summertime
Speaker 1: fertilization schedule. The fertilization scheduled for summer is designed with
Speaker 1: slow release products that will just you do them now
Speaker 1: and you're done at this. Plus returning grass plippings because
Speaker 1: they decompose and release nutrients too, carries you all the
Speaker 1: way into fall. Really, I mean you can, you can
Speaker 1: fertilize more if you want, but I'm saying just as
Speaker 1: a basic program, this is an excellent long term product
Speaker 1: that gradually releases those nutrients and it works really really well.
Speaker 1: By releasing them gradually, you cut down on mowing. You know,
Speaker 1: you put a fast release fertilizer down, you put too
Speaker 1: much of it especially, and that grass takes off growing
Speaker 1: like crazy. But it comes at the expense of a
Speaker 1: root system development. The grass actually gets top heavy, if
Speaker 1: you will, lots of top, not as much bottom. And
Speaker 1: we need that root system in order to take up
Speaker 1: water nutrients during the summer heat. Well, NIGHTE Fass super
Speaker 1: Turf does that. You can find it at I am
Speaker 1: Janet Gardens down there Richmond Rosenberg. You go to Hiding
Speaker 1: and Feed, which is stupidor Airline by the way, I
Speaker 1: forty five North area uh and then Pasadena go out
Speaker 1: of Fisher's hard around Sophomore and you'll find nitro frost
Speaker 1: products there as well. All right, Well, you're listening to
Speaker 1: garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter and the phone
Speaker 1: number seven one three two one two K t R H.
Speaker 1: Let's head out to Wilson in Riverside Terrace. Hello Wilson,
Speaker 1: Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 6: If I'm not in Riverside anymore, I'm up here in Burlson.
Speaker 1: Now, Oh, Okay, Burleson County.
Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, yeah, west of College Station.
Speaker 7: Anyway.
Speaker 1: I listen to the guy over there on KM you
Speaker 1: on Jerseys, Uh, okay, I know what I know that
Speaker 1: other guy used to do that show.
Speaker 6: I got you what's good stuff for getting rid of
Speaker 6: these pill bugs? I'm out here on two acres of
Speaker 6: land in this house built in the seventies. Then, uh
Speaker 6: that manage to get in the house and the garage
Speaker 6: all the time. What's good were getting rid of them?
Speaker 1: Yeah? You know, having a number one exterminators have access
Speaker 1: to stuff that is more persistent, and they can come
Speaker 1: out and do a treatment of the entrances, the thresholds
Speaker 1: and things, or you can do that. It needs to
Speaker 1: be a product that's going to be persistent, that's designed
Speaker 1: for treating, you know, in the home, especially the threshold
Speaker 1: around the outside pill bugs. Actually you know, just from
Speaker 1: an ecological standpoint, they're a beneficial insect and that they
Speaker 1: decompose organic materials. You get out in the garden with
Speaker 1: strawberries and you don't like them because they decompose your
Speaker 1: strawberries by eating the berries, and they have some other
Speaker 1: things like that. But just doing a treatment like that
Speaker 1: of some sort would be the way to get rid
Speaker 1: of them. If you're mostly concerned about them coming in
Speaker 1: the house, then I would just mainly treat those thresholds
Speaker 1: and brick and something that contains by fenthren b I
Speaker 1: f e N t h r I n is something
Speaker 1: you can get with counter do household treatment sprays. But
Speaker 1: mainly you're you're not, you know, blasting the whole floor
Speaker 1: of the house. You're you're you're stopping them from coming
Speaker 1: where they're entering in the house and on the sides
Speaker 1: of your foundation, you know, they're wherever they're going to
Speaker 1: come up and get in. That that's primarily what you
Speaker 1: need to do.
Speaker 8: Pikes, sir, I appreciate it, all right.
Speaker 1: All right, well thanks for the call up there in
Speaker 1: Burlas and Kenny, he take care you do.
Speaker 5: There.
Speaker 1: We go ahead to find the button. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: you're listening to Garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter.
Speaker 1: We're here to help you have a bountiful garden and
Speaker 1: a beautiful landscape. That's what we're trying to do here.
Speaker 1: That's what I would like to see happen. At least
Speaker 1: that makes sense. All right? Well, Uh, I wanted to
Speaker 1: talk about some products that know some plant food has
Speaker 1: been putting out for a good while. Uh, color Star
Speaker 1: is I would say, just like a national leader almost
Speaker 1: and when it comes to color fertilizer for color beds
Speaker 1: now and you can grow any plant with the color
Speaker 1: Star but I'm just saying it's focused on those flowering plants, annuals,
Speaker 1: perennial shrubs, trees, and other things too. It has fast
Speaker 1: acting effects and it has organic nutrients sources as well
Speaker 1: that help enrich that soil it's going to feed for
Speaker 1: about three to four months. Now, there's a version of
Speaker 1: it called color Star Plus that includes a systemic fungicide. Now,
Speaker 1: if you wanted to do a preventative for plants that
Speaker 1: are more prone toward fungal issues, well, the color Star
Speaker 1: Plus would already have in it that systemic to help
Speaker 1: plants against those type of disease problems. Color Star is
Speaker 1: extremely popular all over taxes. In fact, the Dean and
Speaker 1: Nelson's they get, oh gosh, I don't know, shipments all
Speaker 1: over the country. Really, people that try it out and
Speaker 1: had one just the other day he was talking about
Speaker 1: the somebody try it out a sample and they call
Speaker 1: and they go, I need more of that. They ordered
Speaker 1: the shipment of it. You know, once people try it,
Speaker 1: they find out it works and they use it. It's
Speaker 1: one of the there's a number of plant foods actually,
Speaker 1: the Nelson's had that are in the little jars with
Speaker 1: the screw top lid, and they're for specific things. They
Speaker 1: got one for hibiscus and flowering tropicals, which hey, we're
Speaker 1: in that season too. It's called nutristar Hibiscus and flowering tropicals.
Speaker 1: Go check those out. There's about a dozen places around
Speaker 1: town where you can refill the Nelson jars of various
Speaker 1: the primary types of products that come in the jars.
Speaker 1: Just like you're getting peanuts in the grocery store, you know,
Speaker 1: you pull a little handle and fill the bag. That's
Speaker 1: how you do your fertilizer from Nelson's at about a
Speaker 1: dozen places around town. It's less expensive to do it
Speaker 1: that way, but it also avoids throwing more plastic away
Speaker 1: into the environment.
Speaker 5: We already know we got.
Speaker 1: Enough of that. Where you're listening to garden Line, I
Speaker 1: was talking about a minute ago some drainage areas that
Speaker 1: I'm going to have to deal with and getting those right.
Speaker 1: I'm bed by bed revamping the whole backyard. The backyard
Speaker 1: has been needing some major rework since we moved into
Speaker 1: the high House, and we just got through planning some
Speaker 1: gingers in one bed, and I have a goal to
Speaker 1: plant as many fragrant plants as I can around the
Speaker 1: back patio area because I want to sit there, especially
Speaker 1: on summer evenings, and enjoy that fragrance. And there are
Speaker 1: so many good fragrant plants. We'll talk about a few
Speaker 1: of those as we go through. But in this bed
Speaker 1: I planted some of the Headicium, which is the genus
Speaker 1: genus of butterfly ginger. The white butterfly ginger is heavenly
Speaker 1: in its sense, like guardenias. And when our let's see
Speaker 1: a bit of a third child was born, I took
Speaker 1: a stem of that into the hospital room after the birth,
Speaker 1: and nurses were literally coming down the hall following the
Speaker 1: scint going. What is that smelt? They could smell it
Speaker 1: out in the hallway.
Speaker 9: It was.
Speaker 1: That's how fragrant white butterfly ginger is. It's awesome. Another
Speaker 1: plant that we put in is Brigmancia called Angel's trumpet.
Speaker 1: They're so beautiful, very tropical. They die of the ground.
Speaker 1: You need to mulch over them to protect the base
Speaker 1: so it re sprouts up again the next spring. Brigmancia
Speaker 1: has these tall, long, tubular flowers. I mean they're how
Speaker 1: roughly about eight ten inches long. They vary though some
Speaker 1: are even longer than that, but they emit a very
Speaker 1: nice fragrance at the end of the day. They're moth pollinated.
Speaker 1: I guess that typically is plants at bloom and had
Speaker 1: the fragrance late in the day and in the evenings.
Speaker 1: That typically is a sign they're probably bringing some moths in. Anyway.
Speaker 1: Brignancia angels trumpet, wonderful plant and beautiful to see that
Speaker 1: little structure. It's almost like a little miniature tree, and
Speaker 1: it has these pendant hanging down. That's what I'd call it.
Speaker 1: Angel's trumpet says if trumpets hanging down from heaven kind
Speaker 1: of thing, that's the idea. And we've got some others
Speaker 1: going and maybe I'll talk about those as we go
Speaker 1: through are mourning here, But anyway, it really really makes
Speaker 1: sense to take care of the soil first, to get
Speaker 1: everything right so that when you go ahead and plant something,
Speaker 1: you know that you are going to have success with it.
Speaker 1: That's kind of what we're aiming for, is success, right.
Speaker 1: Nobody buys plants to waste time and money. They buy
Speaker 1: plants to enjoy, and that's why it's so important to
Speaker 1: get the soil right and to get the plants that
Speaker 1: want to grow there. And then I guess I could
Speaker 1: keep going in then, but another end then would be
Speaker 1: and to make sure they're where they get the amount
Speaker 1: of sunlight that they want. Angels, trumpets light light. They
Speaker 1: need light, but especially if they're in a container, it's
Speaker 1: hard to keep them from welting because they need constantly
Speaker 1: moist soil to do well. And if they have a good,
Speaker 1: extensive root system and a little bit of shade, it's
Speaker 1: easy for them to do that. You don't have to
Speaker 1: pamper them along. But I had one and a half
Speaker 1: whisky barrel a couple of years ago that I just
Speaker 1: was having trouble getting out too enough to keep watering it,
Speaker 1: because I'd keep forgetting it for a day or two
Speaker 1: and then it'd be it'd be in trouble in Channi Gardens.
Speaker 1: That in Richmond is on the Katie Fullshire side of
Speaker 1: Richmond FM thirty or three fifty nine, three fifty nine,
Speaker 1: so you had north out of Richmond and in Chenny
Speaker 1: Gardens is one of those places you go and you
Speaker 1: want to take your friends and you want to go
Speaker 1: again too, by the way, so I would say never
Speaker 1: visited alone, take some people with you. That it's just
Speaker 1: an expanse of beauty and cool things from really nice pottery,
Speaker 1: beautiful gift shops. But plants in every category you can imagine,
Speaker 1: and they they evolved with the seasons. You know, at
Speaker 1: certain times there's certain vegetables being planted and they'll have them,
Speaker 1: the herbs, the flowers, the perennials. I love salvia's and boyd,
Speaker 1: they are a good salvia collection out there, Roses and
Speaker 1: so on. In Channy Gardens is cool. And another thing
Speaker 1: is the knowledge of the team. The team is helpful,
Speaker 1: they're enthusiastic as they come. You can bring them photos,
Speaker 1: you can bring them samples for assistance with that, and
Speaker 1: they will help you. They do a great job of
Speaker 1: combinant combining plants and hanging baskets and other planters out there.
Speaker 1: And maybe you want to do a little that yourself.
Speaker 1: We'll just go ahead and tell them here's what I'd
Speaker 1: like to do. They will tell you how to do it.
Speaker 1: That is really cool. I think that's an extra special thing.
Speaker 1: Let's see here. Oh, I know, I was the other day.
Speaker 10: What was I?
Speaker 11: Oh?
Speaker 1: I was talking to somebody and they were discussing fruit
Speaker 1: trees and the fact that their apple did not produce
Speaker 1: any fruit. And I was talking to them about pollination.
Speaker 1: You know, with some fruit trees you need a second variety,
Speaker 1: a different variety to pollinate. With some they pollinate themselves. So,
Speaker 1: for example, peaches pollinate themselves. Berries mostly pollinate themselves, but
Speaker 1: are much much better if you have a second variety
Speaker 1: for pollination, you have bigger berries and more of them.
Speaker 1: We can explain that later if you want, but just
Speaker 1: trust me on that when you have bigger berries and
Speaker 1: more of them. With blueberries and have a second variety.
Speaker 1: Plums mostly require a second variety. But methyle for example,
Speaker 1: would be an example of one that can pollinate itself.
Speaker 1: Pairs mostly require a second variety due to that. Absolutely
Speaker 1: need two varieties or so for apples. But it just
Speaker 1: depends on the fruit that you're trying to grow. But
Speaker 1: look into that first. Because you don't want to have
Speaker 1: a lonely Hearts club going on out there in the orchard.
Speaker 1: Make sure and get in a good garden center. We'll
Speaker 1: tell you that they'll guide you. Another reason to go
Speaker 1: to a good independent garden center that knows what they're
Speaker 1: talking about. I'm going to take a little break when
Speaker 1: we come back. We'll go to Lauren in Spring. All right,
Speaker 1: little Brad Paisley there, welcome back to Guardenline. Good to
Speaker 1: have you with us. Listen, But if you're looking for
Speaker 1: a place to find anything, you're looking for anything for
Speaker 1: your garden. We're talking about products to control paest diseases.
Speaker 1: We're talking about fertilizers of all types. We're talking about tools.
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Speaker 1: writing you are listening to garden Line our number seven
Speaker 1: one three two one two kat r H. We're gonna
Speaker 1: go to Lauren in Spring, Texas. Lauren, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 8: Yeah, good morning.
Speaker 1: I've got.
Speaker 8: A patch that kind of sprung up over the winter,
Speaker 8: a good section that from what I can tell is
Speaker 8: that I looked it up online and said pola annua
Speaker 8: and it's got a little thin white grassy leat uh
Speaker 8: and then has a little white seed on top. I
Speaker 8: don't know how whyatt got there, but it's a good section,
Speaker 8: you know. All of a sudden, it's just there. And
Speaker 8: so I'm trying to figure out what to do with it.
Speaker 8: And then uh, if if there's something that can kill it,
Speaker 8: but then what do I how do I restore that
Speaker 8: area with my Saint Argus?
Speaker 1: All right, well, first of all, it's dying now, it's
Speaker 1: going to be gone here for too long. The problem
Speaker 1: is that is loaded with seeds, and that is that
Speaker 1: grass is one of the banes of golf courses and
Speaker 1: other turf managers because it's so prolific, and also some
Speaker 1: varieties of it now have become resistant to certain pesticides
Speaker 1: and so certain herbicide. Excuse me. The way to what
Speaker 1: you can do now is to the extent that you
Speaker 1: can get seeds out of there, try to do it.
Speaker 1: I do hand pulling, because I have it here and
Speaker 1: there all through the yard, and little tiny little single
Speaker 1: plants here and there, So hand pulling is not that
Speaker 1: impractical for me if if you've got a large patch,
Speaker 1: maybe setting a lawnmower down low and trying to get
Speaker 1: those seed heads out, but that's not going to be
Speaker 1: super effective with POA, just because it can set seeds
Speaker 1: down so low and response. Then the next thing to
Speaker 1: notice is the pre emergent herbicide application in fall. That's
Speaker 1: very important for POA. And so if you go to
Speaker 1: my schedule gardening with skip dot com, the lawn Pest
Speaker 1: Disease and Weed Management schedule has a fall pre emergent
Speaker 1: application on it, and that one is the one that
Speaker 1: prevents you from being back here next year in the
Speaker 1: same situation. These seeds, the plants your see and now
Speaker 1: germinated in October November last year, and so getting a
Speaker 1: pre emergent down ahead of that is very important.
Speaker 8: Oh okay, so but for right now, and just pull
Speaker 8: the seeds and.
Speaker 1: Just get the seeds as best you can, you know,
Speaker 1: if it's practical to do it. Sounds like you've got
Speaker 1: a pretty solid infestation, and so trying to get seeds
Speaker 1: out may not be super helpful, but be ready to
Speaker 1: do the pre emergent and just know that some pre emergence,
Speaker 1: depending on the genetic characteristics of the poet at your house.
Speaker 1: It may be resistant to some pre emergence, but let's
Speaker 1: hope not. And unless at the edge of a golf course.
Speaker 8: What about any post emergents like something?
Speaker 1: Well, the problem with post yeah, yeah, like if you
Speaker 1: were to spray in the cool season or in early
Speaker 1: spring a post emergent, you would kill your your grass too,
Speaker 1: because grass. Post emergent kills grass and didn't care whether
Speaker 1: it's a weed or a lawn. So that's the problem
Speaker 1: with post emergence on poa. Okay, St Augustine, I do yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: so so all right to fill it in though, like
Speaker 1: once it's died, died out or whatever. And so now
Speaker 1: I've got some damaged lawn.
Speaker 8: There is there anything I mean, I don't think that
Speaker 8: there is, but is there anything like uh, Saint Augustine
Speaker 8: seed that I could kind of help fill in there?
Speaker 12: Now?
Speaker 1: Just just getting some side pieces and or if you
Speaker 1: want to make them go a little further then you can.
Speaker 1: You can cut them into three or four strips and
Speaker 1: plant those strips about a foot apart to fill in
Speaker 1: an area, to spend less on grass more more on
Speaker 1: labor and time that you can break those up. But
Speaker 1: those are the two options. Really, if you have an
Speaker 1: area it's more than one foot between Saint Augustine, that's healthy,
Speaker 1: then I would fill it in with something because it
Speaker 1: will fill in a foot over the course as we
Speaker 1: get into summer and stuff. Pretty well, okay, all right, hey,
Speaker 1: I gotta I gotta run, but good luck with that.
Speaker 1: I appreciate. I appreciate you giving us a call. You
Speaker 1: take care, sure, take care already. Yeah, there we go. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is the case.
Speaker 13: Hey.
Speaker 1: For those of you up in the in the Greater
Speaker 1: Willis area, I bet you never heard that term. Greater
Speaker 1: Willis well, Growers Outlet in Willis is the place you
Speaker 1: need to check out if you haven't already been there.
Speaker 1: That's the website and the name as well. Growers Outlet
Speaker 1: in Willis. Go check it out. They list their plants
Speaker 1: on there, they list their prices on there, which is
Speaker 1: really unusual for a garden center to do. But they
Speaker 1: have all kinds of plants and what do you want,
Speaker 1: you know, vegetables and herbs and flowers and hanging baskets
Speaker 1: and fruit trees and shrubs and just on and on,
Speaker 1: and then the products to go with them. Products from
Speaker 1: Microlife and Nitrofoss and Medina. For example, Growers Outlet and
Speaker 1: Willis are on seventy five south of Willis, just a
Speaker 1: few minutes from Interstate forty five. So all of you
Speaker 1: up there in the April Sound, for example, by the
Speaker 1: lake down in the Woodlands, even it's not up too
Speaker 1: far of a drive to get up there to Growers Outlet,
Speaker 1: and then certainly up in the metropolis is around Willis Lake,
Speaker 1: New Caney. Excuse me, Nukunie's other direction from that, but anyway,
Speaker 1: check it out head on out there. I've been impressed
Speaker 1: every time I've done that. You can purchase for pickup
Speaker 1: online if you want to do that, and they keep
Speaker 1: those things updated online. So bookmark the Growers Outlet in
Speaker 1: Willis dot com and when you go in, check out
Speaker 1: the little gift shop too and some of the nice
Speaker 1: cool things that they have inside. We're going to go
Speaker 1: out to West Chase now and talk to Patrick. Hello, Patrick,
Speaker 1: welcome to gard.
Speaker 14: Good morning, good morning, Well thank you skip listen Ben
Speaker 14: listening to you since you came on, and really enjoy
Speaker 14: your show. But I've got an issue here with a
Speaker 14: grape vine. It's a Zinfandels grape vine. Probably have no
Speaker 14: damn business growing it in West Chase to begin with,
Speaker 14: But it's thriving. It just it's a gorgeous plant. But
Speaker 14: I have a leaf infestation of a worm. It's a
Speaker 14: yellow and black striped worm. At maturity there may be
Speaker 14: half an inch long, and they will defoliate this thing
Speaker 14: if I don't get ahead of them. Yesterday I took
Speaker 14: every leaf off that I could find any trace of them.
Speaker 14: But but there go be back. What can I how
Speaker 14: can I get rid of those?
Speaker 1: Well, here's the thing. It could be. It could be
Speaker 1: more than one thing. You may well have something called
Speaker 1: a grape leaf skeletonizer, but there's some others. I would
Speaker 1: get a product containing spin no sid s p I
Speaker 1: n O S A D spin no sid and apply
Speaker 1: that that. When you apply it, anything that eats that
Speaker 1: leaf is going to get killed. But you need to
Speaker 1: do it early. When the caterpillars are very very young,
Speaker 1: it's easy to kill them with stuff.
Speaker 15: You know.
Speaker 1: As things get older, well, number one, they've already done
Speaker 1: the damage to the leaf and they're a little harder
Speaker 1: to kill. But find something with spino sid. Spray your
Speaker 1: grape leaves at the first sign of those things, and
Speaker 1: you ought to be that ought to do an okay
Speaker 1: job for you on it.
Speaker 14: Okay, great, I appreciate that, all right.
Speaker 1: And now you bet and just remember on garden Line,
Speaker 1: we don't charge for advice, but we do ask for
Speaker 1: half the produce you grow as a result of it.
Speaker 1: So I'm looking forward to getting load a truckload of
Speaker 1: grapes at the at the station.
Speaker 14: Well, thanks, it is a yielder, it's a it's it's
Speaker 14: throwing them out there. So and I don't I didn't
Speaker 14: grow them to I didn't grow them to feed the birds,
Speaker 14: squirrels or worms.
Speaker 1: So okay, well you're on the right track. Hey, thanks man, Uh,
Speaker 1: I got to run, but thank you for the call.
Speaker 1: Thank you for the help. All right, we'll be right back.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to Guardline. Hey, if you'd like to give
Speaker 1: us call seven one three two one two E t
Speaker 1: r H. Seven one three two one two k t
Speaker 1: r H. I was getting out some microlife hummates plus
Speaker 1: that I have on hand.
Speaker 13: Uh.
Speaker 1: Basically, that product is going to contain, uh think of
Speaker 1: it this way as con concentrated compost in a bag.
Speaker 1: It's going to contain a lot of decomposed organic matter
Speaker 1: concentrated into the final decomposition one of the final decomposition
Speaker 1: stages of organic matter. Why does that happen? Why does nature?
Speaker 1: Why is nature set up to take what was once
Speaker 1: alive and turn it into essentially humous by the time
Speaker 1: it gets through. The reason is it's good. It's good
Speaker 1: for the soil. It helps microbial activity, it helps sol
Speaker 1: structure in a lot of things. And when you fertilize
Speaker 1: number one, you're going to grab the microlife six y
Speaker 1: two four. That's the green bag. It's a three one
Speaker 1: to two ratio fertilizer. The green bag put it out,
Speaker 1: and then the hemates plus is just icing on the cake.
Speaker 1: You're not putting it on to make the grass green.
Speaker 1: Six y two four does that. The green bag makes
Speaker 1: it green, good color for the bag, and the purple
Speaker 1: bag the heum mats plus. That one is going to
Speaker 1: give you the benefits to the soil over time that
Speaker 1: you want. And so I would do it into as
Speaker 1: many times a year as you want. Doesn't have to
Speaker 1: be done when you fertilize, but you already got the
Speaker 1: spreader out and your heading across the yard. Just do
Speaker 1: your six y two four green bag and then come
Speaker 1: back with the purple and finish up on that. You're
Speaker 1: going to find more information on microlife at Microlifefertilizer dot com.
Speaker 1: They've got a great website with lots of information on
Speaker 1: their granular and their liquid products as well. You know,
Speaker 1: while we're talking about, you know, benefiting the soil and
Speaker 1: the benefits of those those humates, Nature's Way Resources was
Speaker 1: set up for that very purpose that the name is
Speaker 1: Nature's Way. What is the way nature takes care of plants?
Speaker 1: Think about that? The Redwood forests in California, the Great
Speaker 1: Plains of America, when the settlers came across in wagons
Speaker 1: and grat wild grass deep as the horse's belly, right,
Speaker 1: Who took it? Who fertilized that? Who took care of
Speaker 1: that soil? Nature did the system? Did organic materials die,
Speaker 1: They decompose, They feed the soil, The micropes go nuts,
Speaker 1: the soil gets better. The nutrients are there, the structure
Speaker 1: is there, the internal drainage is there. From a tropical
Speaker 1: rainforest that hasn't been touched to the Grads Lines of
Speaker 1: America to your yard, the same system is in place,
Speaker 1: and Nature's Way has designed products for that and whether
Speaker 1: you're growing vegetables or whether you're growing roses and other bloomers.
Speaker 1: If you've got acidic plants, acid living plants like blueberries
Speaker 1: and azaleas and camellias and gardenias and even roses like
Speaker 1: some acidic they've got all those products, plus the mulches
Speaker 1: that go on top of the soil, which, by the way,
Speaker 1: nature does too. Basically, Nature's Way dis stilled all their
Speaker 1: ideas from the design of nature. That's that's a silly
Speaker 1: way to put it, but it's true that they follow
Speaker 1: the principles of nature to help you have success at home.
Speaker 1: Brown stuff before green stuff, and Nature's Way gets you
Speaker 1: all set up on the bronzeff. By the way, the
Speaker 1: website is, they got a new revamped website, Nature's Way
Speaker 1: Resources dot com. It's really good. Go check it out
Speaker 1: Nature's Way Resources dot Com. You can give them a call.
Speaker 1: Nine three six seven excuse me, two seven three twelve
Speaker 1: hundred nine three six twelve hundred. We're gonna head out
Speaker 1: the surfside down and talk to Mike. Hey, Mike, welcome
Speaker 1: to jarden Line.
Speaker 15: Hey Skip, good morning. Hey, I've got a question for
Speaker 15: you regarding tomatillos Uh, all, my tomatoes are setting fruit perfectly.
Speaker 15: And I've got tomatilla plants growing right next to tomato plants,
Speaker 15: and they're not setting a piece.
Speaker 4: Of fruit yet.
Speaker 1: The tony tillas aren't.
Speaker 15: The tomatillos are not. The regular tomatoes are loaded with
Speaker 15: tomatoes and the tomatas's Different's going on?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, that happens. It's happened. It's happened to
Speaker 1: me a lot. You got. These plants are getting bigger,
Speaker 1: they're blooming, and the blooms are just falling off. And
Speaker 1: I am not a tomy teo expert. I'll tell you that.
Speaker 1: But someone had told me one time that they do
Speaker 1: benefit from some pollination. I'm saying that is something I heard,
Speaker 1: not something that I have determined is absolutely true. But
Speaker 1: I when I plant differently more than one. Uh, they
Speaker 1: seem to do better in cross pollinating, as long as
Speaker 1: they're not genetically identical or whatever? Uh is that is
Speaker 1: that chicken griping about something back there or what they
Speaker 1: bragging about?
Speaker 5: An egg?
Speaker 11: Foo?
Speaker 1: Yeah, they show me eggs. I'll show you food, all right.
Speaker 1: I love it. I love chicken anyway. The toy tellos
Speaker 1: having others helps. I think, I don't know how much.
Speaker 1: It just the plant settles in and kind of begins
Speaker 1: to set in time. I found that to be true
Speaker 1: of ground cherries and to their cousins, to may tillos
Speaker 1: as well. But I I just do you have more
Speaker 1: than one plant? And did you plant them from seed
Speaker 1: or transplants.
Speaker 15: From well, they should purple and a grain tomatio and
Speaker 15: they're loaded with the balloons or super healthy looking plants.
Speaker 15: They're there's not just fruit. Tomatoes are loaded.
Speaker 16: Weird.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I've had that same problem early on, especially
Speaker 1: in the season. So I'm gonna do this. I've kind
Speaker 1: of told you what I think on it, but let
Speaker 1: me let me look into it and I'll mention something
Speaker 1: on the air if I can can hunt down a
Speaker 1: better answer further than that.
Speaker 15: Okay, I listened all morning, so thanks, Skip, appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Thanks a lot. I appreciate you listening all morning. You
Speaker 1: take care, calculator. That is a good That is a
Speaker 1: good thing. We call this stump the chump hour, and
Speaker 1: he just kind of about half stumped me there, and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna find out though, because I have
Speaker 1: had that happen, I have noticed that happening, and I'd
Speaker 1: like to give a better answer than what I think.
Speaker 1: Prefer to stick with what I know. See how well
Speaker 1: that goes. RCW Nurseries is an awesome garden center. They're
Speaker 1: located there at Tomball Park, win About Way eight, the
Speaker 1: corner of Tamball Park, win Boat Wait. You can go
Speaker 1: to the website RCW Nursries dot com. You can follow
Speaker 1: him on social. RCW always has a nice selection of
Speaker 1: whatever you're looking for. I was out there shopping myself
Speaker 1: this year and I just love visiting the place. You know,
Speaker 1: the whole team there, the Willimsonce. They've been in this
Speaker 1: business since what nineteen seventy nine, I think same family
Speaker 1: still runs it. And when you go to RCW, you're
Speaker 1: going to find the brown stuff too, meaning fool products,
Speaker 1: fertilizer products to go along with the wonderful plants that
Speaker 1: you're bringing home. Look at the beautiful hibiscus that they have.
Speaker 1: They carry that Cajun series of hibiscus that I really like,
Speaker 1: and they're just gorgeous plants. In fact, I have two
Speaker 1: that are brought home the other day and they need
Speaker 1: to go into the garden and they will be doing
Speaker 1: that this week. As we get going, you'll find good succulents,
Speaker 1: good annual flowers. It's certainly an excellent selection of all
Speaker 1: of that. And some really gorgeous hanging baskets too, by
Speaker 1: the way, really beautiful hanging baskets. Stop by RCW again.
Speaker 1: They are the place for roses. I mean, they so
Speaker 1: many stunning roses, just beautiful, beautiful roses, and you get
Speaker 1: to see him in bloom and pick out the one
Speaker 1: you like. RCW Nursery's corner of Beltway eight and Tombol Parkway,
Speaker 1: which is Highway two forty nine. That works out. Let's see,
Speaker 1: I need to figure out when my out time is
Speaker 1: here on this hour. That doesn't look quite Oh, there
Speaker 1: we go. Okay, got it, which means I'm almost there,
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Speaker 1: me talk about that will take that outdoor metal and
Speaker 1: make it look new again. Powder coating is a process
Speaker 1: better than painting. And you will not believe what they
Speaker 1: can do with some old furniture you got out there,
Speaker 1: even if it's rusty, even if it needs you know,
Speaker 1: things replaced like sling fabric and vinyl straps and hardware
Speaker 1: like bolts, and nuts and things. They will powder coat
Speaker 1: that and have it looking like new. The website is
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Speaker 1: to get powder coded to. Sales at houstoncoders dot com.
Speaker 1: Sales at houstoncoders dot com. Hey guess what I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do today. I Am going to head to Southwest Fertilizer.
Speaker 1: Southwest Fertilizer. I will be there from twelve noon to
Speaker 1: two pm, and you need to come out and see me.
Speaker 1: For those of you who you know you don't live
Speaker 1: right there in Southwest Houston, you just haven't been over
Speaker 1: there before, or those of you who do who somehow
Speaker 1: have avoid getting in there, I don't know how that
Speaker 1: could happen. Come on out and see this place. It
Speaker 1: is unbelievable. You hear me brag about them all the time. Excellent.
Speaker 1: We're going to be doing some giveaway. I'm going to
Speaker 1: give away some what they call skip bucks and stuff
Speaker 1: like that. I'll tell you more about that when we
Speaker 1: come back. But there'll be some cool give boy stuff
Speaker 1: and I'll be there looking at your samples and helping
Speaker 1: you have success. Whatever ales your garden. You're going to
Speaker 1: find the solution to a Southwest fertilizer. And the dogs
Speaker 1: out working outside this week with my two Golden Retrievers
Speaker 1: who love to go outside with me. And these dogs
Speaker 1: are not gardening dogs. Well they think they are, but
Speaker 1: they're not. You know that American Kennel Club AKC, they
Speaker 1: have groups of dogs. There's a sporting group, there's a
Speaker 1: hunting group, there's you know, so on like that. There's
Speaker 1: not a gardening group in the AKAC. And they need
Speaker 1: to have a gardening group. And someone who does dog training,
Speaker 1: you know, makes them sit and stay and obey and
Speaker 1: roll over and do tricks and all the amazing things
Speaker 1: dogs can do needs to train dogs to garden. And
Speaker 1: I so have any out there looking for a new
Speaker 1: line of work, maybe that will be a teach a
Speaker 1: dog to garden. Ellie are female Golden retriever. When she
Speaker 1: was little, I went out one time. I was planting
Speaker 1: plants in a back bed, little four inch pots. I
Speaker 1: was sitting out in a bed and I got you know,
Speaker 1: worked for a while and then got out and went inside.
Speaker 1: Gud drink water whatever, and came back out and Ellie
Speaker 1: was sitting on the back in the back, right by
Speaker 1: the back door mat, and there in front of her,
Speaker 1: with the little dirt all over her face was a
Speaker 1: four inch pot that she had retrieved. She's a golden
Speaker 1: retriever and brought back to me. So what I suggest is,
Speaker 1: let's train dogs to retrieve weeds and to not retrieve plants,
Speaker 1: and to not dig in flower best. Do you think
Speaker 1: we can do that? Is that possible? Is that asking
Speaker 1: too much? I would like that if that would be
Speaker 1: the case in a vegetable garden. My dogs, I don't
Speaker 1: know why it is. There's pathways where you walk, not
Speaker 1: my dogs. They hop up in the bed and they
Speaker 1: walk down the bed. That's how they get from one
Speaker 1: place to another. We're working on that. But anyway, we
Speaker 1: love those dogs. But oh my gosh, there's a new
Speaker 1: line of work for some buddy. I talk about the
Speaker 1: importance of soil all the time, and I guess I
Speaker 1: will continue to be a broken record on that because
Speaker 1: it is the single most important thing you do, because
Speaker 1: it's what we do. At the beginning of any kind
Speaker 1: of planting, you're gonna put in a lawn, you're gonna
Speaker 1: put in flower beds, you're gonna put into a flower
Speaker 1: or a vegetable garden rather or a herb garden or
Speaker 1: rose bushes, whatever you're gonna do. It starts with the soil.
Speaker 1: And ciinum Altch down south of Houston is the go
Speaker 1: to place for as I put it, the brown stuff
Speaker 1: that comes before the green stuff. Saw first, then plants.
Speaker 1: Now you can do them both. You can get them
Speaker 1: both at the same time. You get your green stuff
Speaker 1: and your brown stuff at the same time, bring them home,
Speaker 1: but start with the brown stuff. Cinamult has quality blends
Speaker 1: like a rose mixes and vegetable and herb mixes and
Speaker 1: all kinds of composts, and they just have quality stuff.
Speaker 1: That's what they do there. And then to top it
Speaker 1: off and literally that's what we do. The mulches that
Speaker 1: go on top of the ground. That keeps the soul moist.
Speaker 1: It prevents erosion, it prevents crusting in summer, it cuts
Speaker 1: down on heat. There is a humongous difference between how
Speaker 1: hot it is a couple of inches deep where roots
Speaker 1: are with and without malts. I mean, it's dramatic. I
Speaker 1: don't even know how roots live in the top three
Speaker 1: inches of soil. With the summer blazing summer heat we
Speaker 1: have around here. Cana Malts will get you the malts
Speaker 1: to fix that. They also carry the fertilizers of all
Speaker 1: types that you hear me talk about. Have you ever
Speaker 1: heard me talk about Microlife or Nelson's turf Star line
Speaker 1: or their their plant food jars or Medina products or
Speaker 1: products from nitrofoss or airloom soils or azamite. All of
Speaker 1: that is at Ciena Maltz. They are on FM five
Speaker 1: twenty one. It's kind of close to where six and
Speaker 1: two eighty eight come together. Here's what you need to
Speaker 1: do Ciena Maltz dot com. Write that down, go to
Speaker 1: that website if you are within twenty miles up and
Speaker 1: down there. They will deliver for a small fee, but
Speaker 1: you can just go get it yourself. But when you
Speaker 1: let Sienimals provides you what you need, you are seventy
Speaker 1: five percent on your way to success. And I mean that,
Speaker 1: I mean that literally. Let me let me put it
Speaker 1: this way. I'm taking too much time on this, but
Speaker 1: it's important. When you put a seed or a plant
Speaker 1: in the ground and you step up and walk away
Speaker 1: you're seventy five percent of the way to success or failure,
Speaker 1: maybe more. And you're thinking, yeah, but it's got to
Speaker 1: be watered, and it's got to be fertilized, And yes,
Speaker 1: I know that, you got to do pesca.
Speaker 4: I know that.
Speaker 1: But by the time you stand up and walk away,
Speaker 1: you've either prepared the soil or you haven't. And so
Speaker 1: that root system is either going to strive, thrive, or
Speaker 1: struggle one or the other. It has the amount of
Speaker 1: sun at once, or it doesn't because you've chosen a
Speaker 1: spot that soil is raised up so that it excess
Speaker 1: drains away or it's boggy and it doesn't, and the
Speaker 1: plant hasn't a p about that. The nutrient levels are
Speaker 1: there or they're not in the soil. Do you put
Speaker 1: the fertilizers and things in to help that foundation that
Speaker 1: bank account have what the plant's going to need to grow.
Speaker 1: You've chosen the plant varieties and species that are either
Speaker 1: going to thrive in your yard and our location here
Speaker 1: are they're not. So that's what I mean by seventy
Speaker 1: five percent of the way to success, and soil is
Speaker 1: a huge part of that, all right, that Dante, I'm
Speaker 1: going to take that little clip and probably post it
Speaker 1: to Facebook this week that that is something that needs
Speaker 1: to be said and said and said very important. It's
Speaker 1: easy to get excited about the flowers and the vegetables
Speaker 1: and all of that, but it starts with a soil.
Speaker 1: You either have done it or you have it. Let's
Speaker 1: head up to Tomball. We're going to talk to Beth. Hello, Beth,
Speaker 1: welcome to Guardenline.
Speaker 11: Hik skip.
Speaker 7: How are you this morning.
Speaker 1: I'm doing well. Thank you well.
Speaker 7: I sent you an email with a picture of one
Speaker 7: of my apple trees that I'm concerned about and I
Speaker 7: was hoping you could help me.
Speaker 17: And so the.
Speaker 7: This particular one, if you look kind of down on
Speaker 7: the base of it, the bark is having an issue.
Speaker 7: And then all my other apple trees, so I've planted
Speaker 7: five at the same time, and they're almost a year
Speaker 7: in the ground and all of them are leaping out
Speaker 7: except for this one. Now they're different varieties. There's this
Speaker 7: one is a Red Delicious, but I have two Red Delicious,
Speaker 7: and the other one is doing fine, and all the
Speaker 7: other ones they're doing okay, but this one, I'm worried.
Speaker 7: I don't know what's going on with the bark and
Speaker 7: then also you see the growth coming out from the
Speaker 7: bottom of it.
Speaker 18: Yes, so anyway, what are you doing?
Speaker 1: All right? Well here, well, here's what I think. First
Speaker 1: of all, you've done a great job with the mulch
Speaker 1: and with putting the cajor. You must have deer around there,
Speaker 1: but it looks the setup's all good. The problem is
Speaker 1: apples come in different chilling requirements, meaning they have to
Speaker 1: have a certain amount of temperature around forty five degrees
Speaker 1: in order for the buds to wake up in the spring,
Speaker 1: and if they don't, they don't leave out, and then
Speaker 1: in time you'll get a leaf bud break here and
Speaker 1: a bud break there. But it looks just like half
Speaker 1: awake and it Red Delicious does not have a long
Speaker 1: term future in our area. Sorry to have to tell
Speaker 1: you that, but that one requires way too many hours
Speaker 1: of chilling to thrive in our area. Now there are
Speaker 1: variations on Red Delicious, but you're going to need to
Speaker 1: I think that's the problem with that plant. I do
Speaker 1: see that I don't know how much water it's getting.
Speaker 1: There's some being applied in that picture, but you want
Speaker 1: to keep the soul moist, but not overwater. That's also important,
Speaker 1: But I think the number one thing you're seeing is
Speaker 1: chilling hours. I can't see the damage at the bottom
Speaker 1: in the photo. It's just too far away. But it
Speaker 1: may be that the root stock has sprouted, and maybe
Speaker 1: there was damage to the trunk and the rootstock has
Speaker 1: sprouted and that's the growth you see coming out at
Speaker 1: the bottom. I don't know. I can't tell that. The
Speaker 1: biggest issues you could, Yeah.
Speaker 7: I was hoping you could zoom in on it. When
Speaker 7: I zoom in on it on my phone, I can
Speaker 7: see it pretty clear. And I'll tell you what I
Speaker 7: was concerned about, too, is you know some kind of
Speaker 7: bug is getting into it. That that either either the
Speaker 7: water is or some kind of bug was getting into it.
Speaker 1: But all right, so I'm gonna have to I'm gonna
Speaker 1: have to go back, but I can't zoom in. It's
Speaker 1: too pixelated. But if you want to go up closer,
Speaker 1: if you can get a camera in there closer, I'll
Speaker 1: be happy to take another look. Just we send a photo.
Speaker 1: But the bottom line is it's red delicious and you
Speaker 1: just need to replace it with something else. Sorry to
Speaker 1: have to run, but I gotta go. Doris in Austin County.
Speaker 1: You'll be first up when I come back. All right,
Speaker 1: and welcome back to the garden line.
Speaker 5: Good to have you with us.
Speaker 1: Looking forward to visiting with you about the questions that
Speaker 1: you have. Give me a call seven one three two
Speaker 1: one two KTRH and we will visit about it. I
Speaker 1: am in the process of plant mentioned the beds I
Speaker 1: was putting together and the planting. Some of the planting
Speaker 1: plants I have at the house. One of them in
Speaker 1: the back was fragrant plants. Love fragrant plants. I got
Speaker 1: some more going in soon. Maybe we'll continue that conversation
Speaker 1: here as time allows this morning, at some point. But
Speaker 1: another part of my planting scheme is planting for the birds.
Speaker 1: Planting things that brings birds in, not not just the
Speaker 1: seeds and things of the plants, but like with hummingbirds,
Speaker 1: what are flowers that they love? They love salvias, by
Speaker 1: the way, I loves salvias, and they love anything with
Speaker 1: long tubular red flowers, but not just that, like some
Speaker 1: of the Salvia garanitica that have the purple dark dark
Speaker 1: blue purple flowers, they love those too, And that's not
Speaker 1: a red flower. And you can plant things that are
Speaker 1: shade loving that will attract them. You can plant things
Speaker 1: that are some loving that will attract them, but I
Speaker 1: love those things. We have our hummingbird feeders out that
Speaker 1: we have from our wild birds, unlimited feeders, but plants.
Speaker 1: And that Salvia leucantha is a fall blooming, late summer
Speaker 1: and fall blueing sage. I just love it. There's a
Speaker 1: variety called Santa Barbara that's a little bit smaller compact.
Speaker 1: You can get Salvia leucantha in an all. I don't
Speaker 1: know the color. I'm color challenged, but it's not purple.
Speaker 1: But it's at fusha and I don't know. You guys
Speaker 1: tell me anyway. It beautiful spikes. Oh, by the way,
Speaker 1: I saw that Arburgate has that Santa Barbara and other salvius,
Speaker 1: and in fact they have one of the best selections
Speaker 1: of you're gonna find anywhere. Arbigate is up in Tomball
Speaker 1: for those of you who don't know. It's just west
Speaker 1: of Tombol on twenty nine to twenty, just about a
Speaker 1: mile and a half west of two forty nine. The
Speaker 1: main north south through Tomball turn west on twenty nine
Speaker 1: to twenty about a mile and a half on the left,
Speaker 1: while you're there. You are gonna number one. Go park
Speaker 1: in the back. Go off Trishel Road. It's a loop
Speaker 1: that goes behind Urburgate. Park back there and have fun
Speaker 1: with plants. But remember always the brown stuff. So before
Speaker 1: you go home, grab their three bags. The organic food
Speaker 1: Complete that is an organic fertilizer that also includes calcium,
Speaker 1: the Organic Soil Complete, and the Organic Compost Complete. And
Speaker 1: with those three pretty much team thing you want to grow,
Speaker 1: you can grow it with success. Now, if you're doing
Speaker 1: a major bed renovation or something you need more than
Speaker 1: just a few bags, Arbigate can deliver in bulk those
Speaker 1: soil complete and the compost Complete by the Qbkyard. So
Speaker 1: just talk to them about that. But go check out
Speaker 1: their salvias and uh and and all the plants that
Speaker 1: they have that will attract not only pollinators but also
Speaker 1: hummingbirds to your garden. Let's head now up to Austin
Speaker 1: County and we're going to talk to Doris. Hello, Doris, Hello,
Speaker 1: how are you? I'm well? Thank you.
Speaker 18: I have a question about my sun Sunshine lagustrums. They
Speaker 18: have some type of pipe, white powdery stuff on their
Speaker 18: trunks and stands. How do I get rid of it, Uh, that.
Speaker 1: Is probably powdery mildew. Powdery mildew likes mile temperatures and
Speaker 1: high humidity, and we have a lot high humidity here period,
Speaker 1: but especially you know these with the rains and things
Speaker 1: that we often get, humidity levels go up even more.
Speaker 1: And then when you add that in the condition of
Speaker 1: a plant that can get powdery mildew like many lagustriums can.
Speaker 1: That's what you're dealing with. So you can sway to
Speaker 1: prevent it. Spray to prevent it. On an organic option
Speaker 1: to prevent it would be nim oil. Nim oil spray
Speaker 1: to the plants. But you know, once it's on there,
Speaker 1: that means it's also in the leaf. So spray in
Speaker 1: the surface of the leaf is not It's not going
Speaker 1: to make the leaf turn pretty and green again, right,
Speaker 1: It'll just kill the powdery mildew. So we spray to
Speaker 1: prevent it. There are synthetic products that will prevent powdery
Speaker 1: mildew like beloton is one that is it moves into
Speaker 1: the plant and it lasts a little bit longer in
Speaker 1: protecting it. But either way, you've got those options.
Speaker 18: Okay, what was the first one you said?
Speaker 1: Nim oilnem oil.
Speaker 18: Okay, got that, and do you.
Speaker 4: Is it?
Speaker 18: Do they make a liquid rose food that you can
Speaker 18: just spray on.
Speaker 1: They make there's a lot of liquid products that you
Speaker 1: can apply. The folks at Medina have a number of
Speaker 1: different products that can be applied as a folier feed.
Speaker 1: The folks at Microlife have several products that can be
Speaker 1: applied as a folier feed too. The best way to
Speaker 1: feed plants nutrients is through the roots. Now, some of
Speaker 1: the folier products will have other things in them that
Speaker 1: can be helpful for plants, for protecting the surface of
Speaker 1: the leaves and things. But you know it, if you're
Speaker 1: going to grow roses with success, you need to have
Speaker 1: a really well prepared bed soil that has a good
Speaker 1: level of nutrients. And we're constantly adding little bits more,
Speaker 1: especially of the nitrogen to keep those roses doing their best.
Speaker 18: All, can I ask you one more QUI.
Speaker 1: Real quick?
Speaker 18: I have a ivy tree. Okay, it's one of those
Speaker 18: that the little I can't think of it.
Speaker 16: What is it?
Speaker 1: I don't know what an ivy tree is. I just
Speaker 1: don't know what an ivy tree is. Good. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: put you on hold and get my email and would
Speaker 1: you send me a picture of it with your question,
Speaker 1: i'd appreciate that if you want to hang on, if
Speaker 1: you can send me a picture, I'll try to answer that.
Speaker 1: We're gonna go out to Willowbrook now and talk to Steve. Hello, Steve,
Speaker 1: Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 19: Hey, thanks, good morning. I've got some areas under my
Speaker 19: trees where the Saint Augustine is really struggling, and I'm
Speaker 19: thinking that I'm gonna have to put a groundcover in
Speaker 19: place of the grass. And I saw noticed that I've
Speaker 19: got some areas where something that's been identified on my
Speaker 19: app as straggler daisy. Yeah, it's done, and it's doing
Speaker 19: very well and it looks nice, and I'm wondering, Yeah,
Speaker 19: I've never heard of it before. I was wondering if
Speaker 19: that was a reasonable groundcover.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is. It'll do really well there. And I
Speaker 1: know Buchanan's Native Plants and the Heights on eleven Street
Speaker 1: sells it. Straggler Daisy has a little tiny yellow flowers.
Speaker 1: It does well in a dry shade too. Out if
Speaker 1: you go out west, you know Austin direction and hill country,
Speaker 1: you'll see it used a lot out there by native
Speaker 1: plant enthusiasts and just growing wild. I mean it's basically
Speaker 1: a weed that makes a nice, low growing groundcover, and
Speaker 1: it's tough. I guess if you put it on a
Speaker 1: swamp it would die. But basically, I mean not even
Speaker 1: round up kills that stuff. It is a good, low
Speaker 1: growing groundcover that's native and attracts certain kinds of butterflies
Speaker 1: in too, by the way, So yes, that's good choice.
Speaker 19: Well good, this stuff is growing like crazy and propagating.
Speaker 1: I don't know that I need to plant it.
Speaker 19: I might just let it go, but okay, would like
Speaker 19: a pre emergent herbicide.
Speaker 16: Thwart it.
Speaker 19: Do I need to avoid pre emergent herbicides while I'm
Speaker 19: trying to get this to grow.
Speaker 1: Well, I don't know to what percentage receding is, how
Speaker 1: it spreads versus just spreading. It's a you know, it's
Speaker 1: a very persistent spreader. So yeah, I don't You could
Speaker 1: probably get away with that because you're gonna have a
Speaker 1: lot of weeds coming up in it. So anyway, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't worry a lot about the pre emergent on it.
Speaker 1: But the main thing is just get it filled in.
Speaker 1: You know, you want it to be nice and solid
Speaker 1: and pretty and so that's why I was suggesting maybe
Speaker 1: throwing a few extra plants in or doing some dig
Speaker 1: and move around your area, you know, to get some
Speaker 1: of your plants spread out in other areas. All right, Steve,
Speaker 1: I need to run, but thank you for that calling.
Speaker 1: Good luck with it. Yeah, good choice, good choice. By
Speaker 1: the way, we talk about nutrients all the time and
Speaker 1: fertilizing your plants, and asamite is a trace mineral supplement
Speaker 1: that you use it as a way to build your
Speaker 1: nutrient bank account of micronutrients that are essential for plants. Okay,
Speaker 1: this isn't the fertilizer bag with the three numbers on it.
Speaker 1: We still need to do that. Asamite contains minerals that
Speaker 1: are not part of those three numbers on a fertilizer bag.
Speaker 1: And you can apply it when you fertilize in a
Speaker 1: separate application, or you can apply it any time of
Speaker 1: the year. It doesn't matter. When you put an asmite down,
Speaker 1: it gets watered in, you get the nutrients in the soil,
Speaker 1: and that's how it works. So asumite Texas dot com
Speaker 1: is the website and where do you get it? Everywhere?
Speaker 1: You're going to find it at garden centers. You're going
Speaker 1: to find it at Aceard Restored, You're going to find
Speaker 1: it at some of our stores. Uh, just a lot
Speaker 1: of different places. Southwest Fertilizer carries as might. Of course
Speaker 1: they carry everything. But that's just another place that you
Speaker 1: get it. And it's a good time now to go
Speaker 1: ahead and get that down. We are going to head
Speaker 1: now to Netherland and talk to Randy. Hello, Randy.
Speaker 20: Skiff, how are you this morning?
Speaker 1: Good? I should have said Neiland, shouldn't.
Speaker 9: I yep, Needland.
Speaker 15: That's it.
Speaker 16: That's it. I've got I've got a.
Speaker 1: Problem with what.
Speaker 4: I have.
Speaker 1: I have a little minute, and we can hold you after.
Speaker 1: We can hold you after break. But I have less
Speaker 1: than a minute. So let's see what we can do.
Speaker 9: I just wanted to warn you white fly white flies
Speaker 9: on vegetables. Had a real problem with them last year,
Speaker 9: already have a problem with them this year. I've sprayed
Speaker 9: for me, thrown soft Lutheran malathion and rotated through that.
Speaker 10: Stuff in there a problem, Yeah, they are?
Speaker 9: Is there is there a systemic that I can use
Speaker 9: on vegetables.
Speaker 1: For white flies? I don't know. I would hesitate to
Speaker 1: do that anyway, Since you're eating the things. But off
Speaker 1: top of my head, here's the thing on white flies,
Speaker 1: and I got like five seconds. They the more you spray,
Speaker 1: the more you kill the things that keep them in check,
Speaker 1: and the worse the white flies get. So once you
Speaker 1: start doing that, it just like it seems it seems
Speaker 1: like they're getting worse. So I would try to back
Speaker 1: off the sprays.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna hold you until after break because I
Speaker 1: want to continue entering this. Just one second. We'll be
Speaker 1: right back, folks. All right, we're back. Welcome back to
Speaker 1: the guard line. Good to have you with us. I
Speaker 1: was checking my mosquito buckets before the rain we got yesterday,
Speaker 1: and we're starting to get those larvae in there, which
Speaker 1: is what we want. Mosquito buckets. By the way, I
Speaker 1: get Pest Brothers is the survey that provides that they
Speaker 1: cover the whole Houston area. Of course they do everything.
Speaker 1: They don't just do mosquito buggets. But whether you're out
Speaker 1: there and Katie or all the way across on the
Speaker 1: east of Baytown or the Woodlands all the way down
Speaker 1: to Texas City, they cover your area and they do
Speaker 1: any kind of pest environment type things you need. You
Speaker 1: got dealing with rats and other things. They can handle
Speaker 1: that termites. Gosh, we live in termite heaven down here,
Speaker 1: and there's more than one kind of termite we get
Speaker 1: and you got to know what you're doing to prevent them,
Speaker 1: and they can do that. They have something that lasts
Speaker 1: ten years literally and it's just a little trench right
Speaker 1: beside your house that they do. So it's very minimal
Speaker 1: in terms of any kind of an environmental concern at all.
Speaker 1: They focus on that. They know how to treat things effectively,
Speaker 1: and they know how to do it in the safest manner,
Speaker 1: and this new technology they're using does both of that.
Speaker 1: It's really really good long term control without worries. You
Speaker 1: can call them for a quote two eight one two
Speaker 1: oh six forty six seventy. You can ask them about
Speaker 1: those mosquito buckets too, by the way, or go to
Speaker 1: the website thepestbros dot com. Thepestbros dot com. Visiting Randall
Speaker 1: just the other day, we're talking about some of the
Speaker 1: insect issues going on and whatnot. And I'm telling you,
Speaker 1: the guys know what they're doing, and they take care
Speaker 1: of you and they treat you right. Let's head now
Speaker 1: to Randy in Neederland. Hey, Randy, we were in the
Speaker 1: process of talking about white flies on vegetables and I
Speaker 1: had to go to break before I could tell you
Speaker 1: what I wanted to say next. And that is the
Speaker 1: best way I think to deal with white flies is
Speaker 1: to use a oil, a vegetable oil type spray spray
Speaker 1: it upward from under the leaves, and do so about weekly.
Speaker 1: And here's the thing. White flies lay eggs under the
Speaker 1: leaf that become pupa that turn into the pupa look
Speaker 1: like a little tiny almost fish scales, but real tiny.
Speaker 1: In other words, they're flat kind of chartrus's looking to
Speaker 1: clear and the oil, the oil smothers and kills those.
Speaker 1: And it's not a poison that's going to kill all
Speaker 1: the white fly enemies as easily and periodically doing that
Speaker 1: to get that back under control and get the natural
Speaker 1: enemies back. Otherwise it's you versus white flies, which means
Speaker 1: just spray spray, spray spray, And nobody wants to do
Speaker 1: that in their vegetable garden or or with their time.
Speaker 10: Right.
Speaker 4: Well, so you said that was a vegetable spray.
Speaker 1: Well, it's a horticultural oil, is what I should have
Speaker 1: I put it. But horticultural oils can be from petroleum
Speaker 1: products or they can be other types of oil, but
Speaker 1: they're very lightweight. They're not dorman oil. Dorm and oil
Speaker 1: would burn your plants, and even horticultural oil, you don't
Speaker 1: want to spray it when it's hot and the sun
Speaker 1: is baking down, you know, maybe late at the end
Speaker 1: of the day or early in the morning, very early
Speaker 1: in the morning, and you want to spray upward to
Speaker 1: get the undersides of the leaves, because that's why the
Speaker 1: white where the white flies life cycle is going on
Speaker 1: on the bottoms, undersides of the leaves.
Speaker 10: Yes, sir, yes, sir, okay, skip, I appreciate it, thank you, yes,
Speaker 10: I bet.
Speaker 1: Thanks for hanging around. Appreciate appreciate you hanging around on that.
Speaker 1: In Enchanted Forest down in the Richmond Rosenberg area, by
Speaker 1: the way, they're on FM twenty seven fifty nine south
Speaker 1: of fifty nine or I sixty nine. Now. Enchanted Forest
Speaker 1: is the one stop shop for native pollinator plants, for
Speaker 1: plants to attract the birds and especially especially the bees
Speaker 1: and butterflies and things and the hummingbirds of course, and
Speaker 1: the native plants just do such a good job of that,
Speaker 1: and they have the kinds that do well. You know,
Speaker 1: Salvias of various types, and one of my favorite type
Speaker 1: of plants there is is Salvias lentana. Did you know
Speaker 1: there are native lentana too, as well as the improved
Speaker 1: types of lananna, and they have a huge range of
Speaker 1: varieties and they're not just beautiful, but they're really drought
Speaker 1: resilient plants. They thrive in our climate. You know, when
Speaker 1: and you get a plant that is from this region
Speaker 1: and it's going to do well here, well, you don't
Speaker 1: have the water as much, you know, watering and fertilizing
Speaker 1: and pampering and trying to keep them alive. It kind
Speaker 1: of gives way. Do the plant take care of itself
Speaker 1: pretty much. I mean, of course you can push it
Speaker 1: along with some good care and have better results from it.
Speaker 1: But in Chenna forest carries those kind of fun They
Speaker 1: understand that sort of thing they do, and so when
Speaker 1: you go in there, they have a greenhouse now where
Speaker 1: they're growing a lot of their own stuff. And so
Speaker 1: they got Salvia gara garaz another native plant lantanah rebeccia
Speaker 1: cone flowers. We have wild cone flowers here in Texas
Speaker 1: and native cone flowers, and they're constantly bringing new things
Speaker 1: out that look good. I just want to mention tomorrow,
Speaker 1: I hope there's still openings on this. But they have
Speaker 1: a living wreath making take so it's what you would expect.
Speaker 1: Imagine a wreath with kind of some sphagnum moss in it,
Speaker 1: and you're planting plants into it, a living so you
Speaker 1: get to learn how to do it, and you get
Speaker 1: to take it home with you. So that's a I mean,
Speaker 1: a value item when you get done learning and making
Speaker 1: ones forty five dollars a person out It intended for
Speaker 1: us tomorrow at noon, So go ahead and give them
Speaker 1: a call makes and see if they're still openings for it.
Speaker 1: But number one, you need to go out there anyway
Speaker 1: to see all their pollinator plants and all the butterfly
Speaker 1: attracting plants and whatnot. And I head now up to
Speaker 1: Spring Branch and talk to Herda. Hello, Herda, welcome to.
Speaker 12: Garden Line, Thank you, good morning.
Speaker 1: My question, good morning.
Speaker 12: After that awful storm and everything. But anyway, I have
Speaker 12: a lot of little baby oaks in my front yard.
Speaker 12: They had to take down a giant oak, but anyway,
Speaker 12: they're mostly that just the native oak, some be a
Speaker 12: live oaks. What is the best way to I'd like
Speaker 12: to put them in like a gallon pot, no more
Speaker 12: than twelve inches tall summer eight and either give them
Speaker 12: the neighbors or you know, someone wants to give me
Speaker 12: a dollar or two form.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So here's what you do herd. You dig down
Speaker 1: around the plant. You don't need to go wide. You
Speaker 1: can dig the width of a gallon pot. That's what
Speaker 1: you're gonna put them in. But dig down deeper because
Speaker 1: they have a tap root. Seedling oaks have a tap root,
Speaker 1: and so you want to go down rather than wide,
Speaker 1: and just dig them up, disturb the soil as least
Speaker 1: as you can. You almost need like a little sharpshooter
Speaker 1: or something to get down in there. Uh, and then
Speaker 1: slide them into the pot. And I would move them
Speaker 1: to a bright shade location. So because they've lost roots,
Speaker 1: you want the demands to be not as high as
Speaker 1: they would be in full sun. Give them a few
Speaker 1: weeks in that bright shade, and then get them into
Speaker 1: more light after that. The best time to do that
Speaker 1: is in the fall. But since they're little tiny seedlings,
Speaker 1: go ahead and do a few of them now and
Speaker 1: see how they hold up. Let me know how they
Speaker 1: do for you over the coming months. But that'll do it.
Speaker 12: All right, Thank you very much, take care well.
Speaker 1: Hey, thanks for calling back. Don't be a stranger. Bye bye,
Speaker 1: bye bye. Southwest Fertilizer. I was talking about them earlier.
Speaker 1: They're in their seventieth year now, a business done the
Speaker 1: last seventy years. In fact, thrive get better and better
Speaker 1: as the years go by. Without them treating their customers
Speaker 1: right and having what the customers want. You don't walk
Speaker 1: into Southwest and walk out going well, I was a
Speaker 1: waste of time. I couldn't find anything I was looking for.
Speaker 1: It's the opposite everything you're looking for. Everything is there.
Speaker 1: I mean, if they don't have it, you don't need it. Herbicides, instants, insecticides, fertilizers.
Speaker 1: If you're an organic gardener and you go I don't
Speaker 1: use chemicals, well yeah, you do use organic ones. But
Speaker 1: they have the hugest organic selection in Houston. They widespread products,
Speaker 1: lots of good things. By the way, I'm going to
Speaker 1: be there today. I'll be at Southwest Fertilizer today. Be
Speaker 1: a great day to come out at noon to two
Speaker 1: pm to be there for two hours noon to two pm.
Speaker 1: We're going to be giving away some skip Bucks. Bob
Speaker 1: is thrown in a couple of really cool items. I'm
Speaker 1: going to tell you a little bit more about them later,
Speaker 1: but that are a battery operated electric tools that are
Speaker 1: going to be as part of a drawing for a giveaway.
Speaker 1: While you're there too, bring me samples. Let's talk about them.
Speaker 1: But while you're in there, I guarantee you this, you're
Speaker 1: not going to bring anything in to me today that
Speaker 1: if it needs a product, they're not they are going
Speaker 1: to have it there. There's nothing that they won't have
Speaker 1: the product you need for At Southwest Fertilizer. It's corner
Speaker 1: of Bissinet and Runwick, corner of Bissonet and Runwick in
Speaker 1: Southwest Houston. I'll be there from twelve to two. I
Speaker 1: hope that you will come on out. I gosh, I've
Speaker 1: got to take a little break here. When we come back,
Speaker 1: Charles and cold Spring and Jim and Spring, you'll be
Speaker 1: our first two up. All right, we're back. We're gonna
Speaker 1: jump right back in on this one. I was mentioned
Speaker 1: I'll be at Southwest Fertilizer from twelve to two, and
Speaker 1: I wanted to tell you a little specifically, I'm going
Speaker 1: to give out some ten dollars skip bucks. What does
Speaker 1: that mean? It means you come to the table, you
Speaker 1: visit with me, ask a gardening question, let me look
Speaker 1: at a sample, whatever you want to do. I look
Speaker 1: at pictures on your phone. Help you have success, and
Speaker 1: I'll have hand you a ten dollars six skip buck
Speaker 1: that you can use in the store to purchase something.
Speaker 1: Now we're gonna have door prizes. Here's the two that
Speaker 1: Bob is putting up there. A Touro battery powered blower
Speaker 1: and a Touro battery powered string trimmer. Can we give
Speaker 1: both of those away? So as I wrap up my appearents,
Speaker 1: I'll make the drawing for them. You know, if you
Speaker 1: can't hang along around that long, we'll get your name
Speaker 1: and address, phone number whatever or not address but name
Speaker 1: phone numbers so we can contact your email. But Tourol
Speaker 1: battery powered blower and Turol battery powered string trimmer. Now
Speaker 1: we're going to have some samples that I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: given out from Medina Products. And uh, of course Diana's
Speaker 1: wife will be there as serving refreshments as always, and
Speaker 1: they always have refreshments, so we have a good time
Speaker 1: doing it. I hope you come out and see me.
Speaker 1: I love that place, love to visit with people that
Speaker 1: listen to garden Line. While you're there, you can grab
Speaker 1: some Nitrofos Super Turf. The silver bag. You know, Bob
Speaker 1: carries every kind of fertilizer in the world, but that
Speaker 1: nice slow release silver bag of Nitrofoss Super Turf. It's
Speaker 1: going to carry you all the way through summer and
Speaker 1: for our soils, for our climate. It is an outstanding
Speaker 1: product designed for soils and climate. Here by the way,
Speaker 1: Saint Augustine Bermuda Zoisia. Whatever kind of loan you have,
Speaker 1: it is a product that will work well for you.
Speaker 1: That's from Nitrofoss and it's time. Don't delay, go ahead
Speaker 1: and get it down. We're going to go now to
Speaker 1: spring or a cold spring and talk to Charles. Hey, Charles,
Speaker 1: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 19: I want to skip.
Speaker 1: Morning.
Speaker 13: I have a few lime trees that I protected over
Speaker 13: the winter, stuck them in the well house that kept
Speaker 13: the light on seventy something degrees close to eighty, and
Speaker 13: they decided that it was spring. So when it did
Speaker 13: thaw out, I moved them outside.
Speaker 5: They had.
Speaker 13: Abundance of limes in blooms, and now the leaves are
Speaker 13: turning yellow and the limes are falling off.
Speaker 1: Well, that yellowing is not unusual. It's it's probably the
Speaker 1: oldest leaves that are that are turning yellow. Or is
Speaker 1: it the new growth at the end of shoots. Well,
Speaker 1: it's a big leave, so okay, Yeah, that is a
Speaker 1: transition that they'll do. Sometimes they do it just a
Speaker 1: little sometimes, aren't things almost lose all their leaves, But
Speaker 1: they will keep growing. Just make sure that the soil
Speaker 1: is not too wet, too soggy wet, that they have
Speaker 1: decent drainage so roots can get oxygen, and I think
Speaker 1: they're going to be fine. I would throw a little
Speaker 1: bit of fertilizer on them. You can get you a
Speaker 1: good quality citrus fertilizer, or you can just use a
Speaker 1: lawn fertilizer if you in a pinch, there's no problem
Speaker 1: with that. But give them a little bit just to
Speaker 1: kind of give them a boost, and I think they're
Speaker 1: gonna be all right on that. As far as the
Speaker 1: yellowing leaf drop wells fruit like that, yeah, sixty six
Speaker 1: from microlife would be fine. Just scratch it. Into the
Speaker 1: soil surface a little bit so that the microbes can
Speaker 1: It stays moist and the microbes can get a hold
Speaker 1: of it and it'll be fine. You could even use
Speaker 1: the Microlife's orange label Biomatrix. It's a liquid, it's got
Speaker 1: seven percent nitrogen. It's high in the nitrogen, and give
Speaker 1: them a boost with that to encourage some growth. You
Speaker 1: can drench the soil, you can spray the leaves either way,
Speaker 1: but primarily put it in the soil. That's where it's
Speaker 1: going to do more good. Now, as far as the
Speaker 1: line's falling off, when a tree is stressed, it will abort,
Speaker 1: and when trees are young they do more of that.
Speaker 1: You know, they have blooms all over them and then
Speaker 1: little little fruit form and they all drop off. You
Speaker 1: can get them to stay on there longer. They don't
Speaker 1: abort them. They don't have the ability to throw them
Speaker 1: off like they do when they're little. So that's just
Speaker 1: a stress factor and you know, hopefully as things settle down,
Speaker 1: they'll set fruit better for you. But in a container,
Speaker 1: it's easy for them to get stressed from a lack
Speaker 1: of water temporarily, or I think on this one, it's
Speaker 1: more that they probably bloomed more than they could set
Speaker 1: and maybe that change from being kept a little too warm.
Speaker 1: And then now they grow and then they come out
Speaker 1: and they get exposed, you know, to the new environment,
Speaker 1: and that may be part of what's going on with
Speaker 1: the fruit of boarding.
Speaker 13: Okay, okay, so just all right, make sure they're moist,
Speaker 13: but not do moist.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and give them plenty of sunlight. Thanks Charles, appreciate
Speaker 1: that call. You take care. You bet good to visit
Speaker 1: with you. League City Feed is down in guess where,
Speaker 1: League City. But that doesn't mean it's only for folks
Speaker 1: in League City. I mean if you are in the region,
Speaker 1: you know, from Webster, San Leon, Alkamena, Reale, Clear Lake, Dickinson,
Speaker 1: Santa Fe, Dimensional, Lamark, that whole area down there. This
Speaker 1: is your hometown. Feed store been around for forty plus
Speaker 1: years now. League City Feed that old fashioned service. You
Speaker 1: go in, they carry your bags out for you, and
Speaker 1: then the supply of what you need for your success
Speaker 1: in your garden and in your lawn, in your landscape.
Speaker 1: Products from nitrofoss. I just was talking about a'smite a
Speaker 1: minute ago. They carry the a's mite down. Of course,
Speaker 1: they have microlife. They are going to have products from
Speaker 1: heirloom soils too, whether it's controlling pests, controlling weeds, controlling diseases,
Speaker 1: They've got you covered at League City feet again. They
Speaker 1: are in League City on Highway three, just a few
Speaker 1: blocks south of Highway ninety six. If you're coming across
Speaker 1: ninety six, you just turn south on Highway three a
Speaker 1: few blocks. You'll see them there on the left. Two eight, one, three,
Speaker 1: three two, sixteen twelve. They're open Monday through Saturday nine
Speaker 1: to six, so you can stop by after work. Closed
Speaker 1: on Sunday. League City Feed. Let's go to Spring. We're
Speaker 1: going to talk to Jim. Hey Jim, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 1: Good morning, Skip.
Speaker 4: How are you.
Speaker 1: I'm doing well. I'm doing well. How can we help today?
Speaker 4: Okay?
Speaker 21: I got one simple and maybe one a little bit
Speaker 21: more difficult. My irises in my bad just bloom beautifully
Speaker 21: this year, and I got tons of but now they've
Speaker 21: all died out. And so my question, Skip, is do
Speaker 21: I just nip off the bloom at the top or
Speaker 21: do I take this whole stalk all the way back
Speaker 21: down to the ground. You know the iris is there's
Speaker 21: a big heavy stalk and cut them off at the base.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you just I would just take them down out
Speaker 1: and get them out of the way. They're not going
Speaker 1: to get pretty or that's for sure, so just just
Speaker 1: take them out and take them out.
Speaker 21: Okay, that's definite enough. My other one skip is in
Speaker 21: my front yard. I have like nine pretty good sized
Speaker 21: day lilies. Three of them are three years old and
Speaker 21: the rest are two years old. But I'm getting I'm
Speaker 21: not getting blooms like I do with my day lilies
Speaker 21: in the backyard. They come up and they bloom. They're
Speaker 21: small buds to start with, and then they bloom for
Speaker 21: a couple of days, and then they close up and
Speaker 21: they just don't hope up again, and they kind of
Speaker 21: fall off to the ground. And I have a fair
Speaker 21: amount of kind of brownish.
Speaker 1: Rust looking on the leaves. Okay, there is a disease
Speaker 1: called rust on day lily, and I suspect that is
Speaker 1: part of what's going on. Day lilies need lots of sun.
Speaker 1: Not all day lilies bloom equally. Different varieties performed a
Speaker 1: little differently for you. But the rust is a disease
Speaker 1: that's very difficult to control. And if you will send
Speaker 1: me an email, I don't have time to try to
Speaker 1: read out all what you do on the air. But
Speaker 1: if you'll send me an email, I'll give you a
Speaker 1: response to it. Basically, you're going to cut off a
Speaker 1: lot of the top growth back to the ground, let
Speaker 1: them come out fresh again, and then do some things
Speaker 1: in the way of treating for it. But I send
Speaker 1: me a picture, send me an email if you would
Speaker 1: send me a picture of what you're seeing, and I'll
Speaker 1: be happy to give you a better answer because I'm
Speaker 1: running out of time here.
Speaker 21: Yes, understood, all right, I'll shoot you an email. I
Speaker 21: appreciate your time and your information. Thank you for your health.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if you've thought about this, but when
Speaker 1: you buy a quality pot instead of a cheap pot, well,
Speaker 1: you know, like a lot of things in life, the
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Speaker 1: All right, it's gonna take a break. We'll be back
Speaker 1: after the top of the hour. News. All right, welcome
Speaker 1: back to Guardline. Good to have you here, Glad you're
Speaker 1: joining us today. Just want to remind you I'm going
Speaker 1: to be at Southwest Fertilizer today from twelve noon to
Speaker 1: two pm. So come on out, come on, grab you
Speaker 1: a bite to eat, and come on out. They're gonna
Speaker 1: have some refreshments there too. By the way, to hold
Speaker 1: us over, I will be giving away some Bob's providing
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Speaker 1: right there coming out for I hope you come out
Speaker 1: to see me and to see the cool supply of
Speaker 1: things that they have there at Southwest Fertilizer, because they
Speaker 1: do really do. Now I'm going to also be given
Speaker 1: away for everybody that comes to the table a ten
Speaker 1: dollars skip buck. What is a skip buck? Well, it's
Speaker 1: a printed piece of paper that you can use to
Speaker 1: buy something in the store. Ten bucks. That's a nice
Speaker 1: little off there. So come on out. Where is Southwest Fertilizer.
Speaker 1: It's on the corner of Businet and Runwick, Southwest Houston.
Speaker 1: Come on and see me. I need to mention something.
Speaker 1: If you are emailing me a picture, please attach it
Speaker 1: rather than embed it. What's the difference. Well, attachment is
Speaker 1: when you click on that paper clip on a computer
Speaker 1: and you attach it so you get your message and
Speaker 1: then you have something that's sent with the message. An
Speaker 1: attachment embedding is pasting it into the text of the email.
Speaker 10: I can't.
Speaker 1: I have to open up in a photo browser if
Speaker 1: it's embedded, and then try to zoom in and I
Speaker 1: just you know, I can't walk into your gum at
Speaker 1: the same time, So just attach it and that would
Speaker 1: be helpful. Secondly, if you send an email and there's
Speaker 1: no name, you know, maybe it's coming from like my
Speaker 1: picks messages dot com. That's one of the ways people
Speaker 1: send photos and things. But I'm not going to open
Speaker 1: them because who knows. I mean, this unfortunately is day
Speaker 1: in time we get all kinds of junk where people
Speaker 1: are trying to trying to infect your computer, and so
Speaker 1: I'm sure this is legit, but I'm just not going
Speaker 1: to be So whoever sent me the pictures just a
Speaker 1: little bit ago, go ahead and put something in there
Speaker 1: that tells me who you are and what this is about,
Speaker 1: and I'll be able to open them. All Right, sounds fair.
Speaker 1: Let's go Southwest Houston. We're going to talk to Carolyn. Hello, Carolyn, my.
Speaker 11: Friend has a muldberry. My friend has a mulberry bush
Speaker 11: that's dropped berries on her driveway. What's the best thing
Speaker 11: to use to sweight up the stain.
Speaker 1: That is a good question. To clean up a stain,
Speaker 1: I don't know there I would, you know, if I
Speaker 1: were doing it, And the first answer is the correct one,
Speaker 1: and that is I don't know. I would probably use
Speaker 1: something like maybe a TSP, which is something you use
Speaker 1: to put in a hoseen sprayer and spray on the
Speaker 1: side of your house to get mold and junk and
Speaker 1: stuff like that off. See if that works a little bit,
Speaker 1: the stain will in time get less and less. You might,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know if there's a way to
Speaker 1: use bleach in a small amount, because you know, bleach
Speaker 1: urt plants. But if you had a little spray bottle,
Speaker 1: maybe that would work. But then you'd probably have white
Speaker 1: spots on the drive. You stump the chump on.
Speaker 10: That one, Carolyn, Okay, My other question is about collars.
Speaker 11: She also had a kind of collared plant that she
Speaker 11: didn't know she had. She's kind of a nonchalant gardener.
Speaker 10: But it had gotten.
Speaker 11: Had gotten huge, so she cut everything down and gave
Speaker 11: it to me to cook. They were really hard and tough.
Speaker 11: Is that because they probably went through the summer and
Speaker 11: the winter together and just grew to the others too old?
Speaker 1: Yeah, those are older leaves. You know, leaves when they
Speaker 1: grow fast, they can be bigger and still be decent tenderness.
Speaker 1: But as they age, you can't just go by size
Speaker 1: of the leaf. But it's the age of the leaf
Speaker 1: that they get kind of tough. Yeah, that's it. You
Speaker 1: can take the I was I was just gonna kind
Speaker 1: of kid you. I was gonna say, take the the
Speaker 1: mid veins out and put them in your smoothies. Grind
Speaker 1: them up and you get that you get all the
Speaker 1: nutrients out of them. Anyway, I do that with kale.
Speaker 11: By the way, speaking speaking of nutrients, all the leafy
Speaker 11: greens have oxalic acid, So would those old leaves have
Speaker 11: increased the rate of oxalid acid in each one?
Speaker 1: I wouldn't worry about that. On the the cruciferous, those
Speaker 1: blue lee vegetables, uh, spinach has higher oxalic acid, and
Speaker 1: soil the tangy lemony sorrel can have high higher oxalic acid.
Speaker 1: But I've never heard about worrying about that, whether it's
Speaker 1: collars or tale or you know, those blue lee vegetables.
Speaker 11: Oh good, I'll keep eating them.
Speaker 1: Then there you go. All right, great, tell me what
Speaker 1: let us know. Let us know what works on the
Speaker 1: blueberry the blue bird poop, mulberry stains. I'd like to
Speaker 1: I'd like to land from that one.
Speaker 10: All right, okay, well do bye bye, all right, bye bye.
Speaker 1: You know, I've been doing this for thirty seven years now,
Speaker 1: answering gardening questions both the radio and people coming into
Speaker 1: the extension officer calling, and it amazes me that I
Speaker 1: get a call. To my knowledge, I've never been asked
Speaker 1: about the blueberry bird poop on the sidewalk. That's a
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Speaker 1: are we now? We are about to go to a break.
Speaker 1: So I'll tell you what, Dave and Katie, you're going
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Speaker 1: you welcome back. Welcome back to garden line. All right,
Speaker 1: So we get all this rain and what happens to
Speaker 1: clay soil? It swells up. Did you know clay shrinks
Speaker 1: and swells it moves. That's why in the middle of summer,
Speaker 1: you know, you go it and you have a heavy
Speaker 1: clay soil, the kind you walking across the clay and
Speaker 1: you take five steps and each foot feels like you
Speaker 1: got a bowling ball attached because all the heavy clay
Speaker 1: sticking to it. Well, you get these cracks in summer
Speaker 1: that are so huge you could lose a toddler out
Speaker 1: there in the yard. I mean it's huge. That's the
Speaker 1: shrink when it gets dry, swell when it gets wet.
Speaker 1: Fix my slab. Foundation repair is who you need to
Speaker 1: know about, because here's the thing that happens when that happens.
Speaker 1: When the shrink swell happens from white to dry, sidewalks crack,
Speaker 1: driveways crack, by the way, they can refloat and fix
Speaker 1: your driveway if that's already happened to it. But the
Speaker 1: slab of your home, most valuable thing you got, the
Speaker 1: most valuable concrete thing you got on the property that
Speaker 1: is important to take care of. Now, are the bricks
Speaker 1: outside showing some crack lines, especially look under the windows.
Speaker 1: That's where you typically see it on the corners of
Speaker 1: the windows. Same thing indoors, by the way, on the
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Speaker 1: eight one two five five two eight one two five
Speaker 1: five four nine four nine. We are going to head
Speaker 1: out to Paarland and talk to Kay. Hey, Ky, welcome
Speaker 1: to Guardline High Skip.
Speaker 22: I just have a little information. I've had a couple
Speaker 22: of stains in my draw on my driveway and I
Speaker 22: have gotten a couple of products that worked, and I
Speaker 22: thought i'd pass them on to the lady that's having problems.
Speaker 22: None of mine were berries, one was oil, and I
Speaker 22: got a Clorox outdoor bleach destroy stains from dirt, mold, mildew, analgae,
Speaker 22: and I think it might work on the berries. You
Speaker 22: can use it in a pump sprayer.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 22: It's used on all sorts of things. Okay, that's why
Speaker 22: I used it with poor some some of the bleach
Speaker 22: on and use a wire brush.
Speaker 4: It takes a little elbow grease.
Speaker 22: And I have a young man that does my power
Speaker 22: and pressure washing on my concrete, and I had him
Speaker 22: come and give me a hand on this.
Speaker 10: Okay.
Speaker 22: The other one was for rust on the driveway that
Speaker 22: an old car had been there and it left a
Speaker 22: rust stain. Uh. This is white white Ox rust strain
Speaker 22: stain remover. And I had him to do this too,
Speaker 22: and it white Ox rust cain remover.
Speaker 10: So I'm thinking it might work in a very stream.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, thank you. I appreciate appreciate.
Speaker 22: You hopefully, because I called every place I could think
Speaker 22: up to get white off locally around Pearland and I
Speaker 22: couldn't find it, but I ordered it online.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm sure Carolyn will appreciate that. And thank you
Speaker 1: for calling hell letting us know that I really appreciate that. Thanks.
Speaker 22: Uh.
Speaker 1: I mentioned Medina earlier. The folks at Medina have so
Speaker 1: many quality products. You know, I talk all the time
Speaker 1: about has to grow six twelve six plant food. That's
Speaker 1: the one that when I put a plant in the ground,
Speaker 1: you put it in a I put mine in a
Speaker 1: watering can drench it in really good because it's got
Speaker 1: the nutrients in at six twelve six plus, the Medina
Speaker 1: soil Activator, humic acid, seaweed extracts and everything, high quality stuff.
Speaker 1: And you know there's Medina Plus that's another excellent product
Speaker 1: from the folks at Medina. Right now, I would just
Speaker 1: suggest you go online and go to medinaagg dot com
Speaker 1: medinaag dot com, and I want you to look through
Speaker 1: all the products because I don't have time to mention
Speaker 1: them all here. But Medina carries a wide variety of
Speaker 1: things that are very helpful for your lawn and for
Speaker 1: your landscape. Whatever you're looking to do, you're going to
Speaker 1: find those quality products. Now, there's one on there that's
Speaker 1: one of the newest things they have on the market,
Speaker 1: and it's called has to Grow. Super Grow Plus comes
Speaker 1: in a little bottle that you hook up to the
Speaker 1: garden hose. It's a sixteen zero two fertilizer that's a
Speaker 1: lot of nitrogen and and don't worry, it's not too much.
Speaker 1: You hook it up to the garden hose and you
Speaker 1: go over whatever you want to give a boost to.
Speaker 1: It could be your lawn, it could be your tomato patch. Whatever.
Speaker 1: You're putting a liquid out there in a quickly available dose.
Speaker 1: Medina has to grow. Super Grow Plus got a little
Speaker 1: green ribbon across the label super Grow Plus sixteen oh two.
Speaker 1: You need to try that out. I tried it out
Speaker 1: two years ago. Year two ago, I can't remember. Works wonderfully,
Speaker 1: does an excellent job. It ought to be We ought
Speaker 1: to talk about that one more. We're going to head
Speaker 1: out now to Katie and talk to Dave. Hey, Dave,
Speaker 1: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 23: Hey, thanks Yip, thanks for taking my call. Yes, sir,
Speaker 23: I probably have a quick and you've had many a time,
Speaker 23: but I'm not sure. I had two large oak trees
Speaker 23: in my backyard. One of them started destroying the pool plumbing,
Speaker 23: so we took it down. We grounded down the roots.
Speaker 23: The other one is still standing. Okay, we grounded the stump.
Speaker 23: I mean, all of a sudden on both the ghosts
Speaker 23: of the of the old tree and the new tree,
Speaker 23: along with the roots are I'm getting all these oak
Speaker 23: tree seedlings popping up, and I want to get rid
Speaker 23: of them without destroying the remaining tree, you know, so.
Speaker 20: Or the grass.
Speaker 15: So do you have any ideas?
Speaker 1: So these are you're saying, they're roots sprouts from a
Speaker 1: tree you cut down?
Speaker 17: Yeah, along, but what is it?
Speaker 1: What is it that you don't want to destroy because
Speaker 1: you cut down the tree. So what I don't want you?
Speaker 23: I don't want new trees coming up. There's hundreds of
Speaker 23: little oak tree you know price several long?
Speaker 1: Was this was this a live oak?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 1: Okay, all right? So the seedlings, first of all, they
Speaker 1: could be one of two things. They could be a
Speaker 1: seedling coming from an acorn. That's possible, root sprout, all right,
Speaker 1: So so roots sprouts, Uh, you got to kill that
Speaker 1: the root that is causing those. And so what I
Speaker 1: would do, Uh, if you go online to my website
Speaker 1: gardening with Skip dot com Gardening with skip dot com,
Speaker 1: there's a publication called Controlling Woody Weeds in the Landscape
Speaker 1: and a product ingredient called tricle Peer, and I give
Speaker 1: you examples of the brands on the publication. You apply
Speaker 1: that to the stems of those little oak shoots coming up,
Speaker 1: and normally we're cutting a Normally we would have done
Speaker 1: this when the tree was cut off, you would immediately
Speaker 1: put tricle peer around the stump and it would have
Speaker 1: it would have prevented this. But now at this stage
Speaker 1: that stump is old and blood.
Speaker 23: There's a live tree that it's doing it too also
Speaker 23: on the along that root line, and I don't want
Speaker 23: to kill that tree.
Speaker 1: Well, you can't put track up here on that there.
Speaker 1: There's just not a way other than going down and
Speaker 1: trying to dig them out. I've seen people use the
Speaker 1: very very heavy, heavy groundcover fabric that garden centers used
Speaker 1: to set plants on on the ground. They'll put that
Speaker 1: down and then they'll weigh it down, you know, with
Speaker 1: a gravelly kind of material on top. But live oaks,
Speaker 1: there's there's two types of live oak in terms of
Speaker 1: this issue. One kind along the Gulf coast are typically
Speaker 1: not suckering live oaks, not very much. The other kind,
Speaker 1: the seed stocks come from places like Central Texas and
Speaker 1: there you see oak mots out in pastures and if
Speaker 1: you go over to Quero or you go up to
Speaker 1: Central Texas and areas, you'll see some of that. That
Speaker 1: strain of live oaks is really bad about root suckering.
Speaker 1: And there's No, you can get a product called sucker
Speaker 1: stopper and try to use that. I've never tried it
Speaker 1: on live oak root shoots. Uh, but if you know
Speaker 1: they're attached to roots of a desirable tree, don't do
Speaker 1: the tricopear.
Speaker 13: Yeah.
Speaker 23: Okay, so sucker stopper with proud I don't see. I
Speaker 23: don't want to kill the grass either, so I've got
Speaker 23: to be very certain I won't it won't.
Speaker 1: Now, a sucker stopper is a hormone, and I I've
Speaker 1: never tried it for this, so I'm just saying you
Speaker 1: might want to give it a shot to see.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 1: Basically, we use it to keep those basal sprouts that
Speaker 1: come out like it, for example, at the bottom of
Speaker 1: creat mertle trunk, you know, to stop that from happening.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: But anyway, that's that's about all I got for you
Speaker 1: on this one, h Dave. Hopefully, hopefully one of those
Speaker 1: ideas is going to work, okay, and what's sorry?
Speaker 10: So all right?
Speaker 23: The first one with the tr sound is how do
Speaker 23: you pronounce that.
Speaker 1: Tri clop here tri i clo pyr. But go look
Speaker 1: at my free publication online. It talks about it and
Speaker 1: gives your brands and stuff. Yeah, anytime you're trying to
Speaker 1: deal with poison ivy or hackberry's coming up in a
Speaker 1: fence line, or any kind of woody weed in the landscape,
Speaker 1: that publication will tell you what to do. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: have to run, but I do appreciate your call. Hey,
Speaker 1: hadn't talked about Affordable Tree Service in a good while,
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Speaker 1: Shortly Here david in Bel, air you will be our
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Speaker 1: thought It Warren Southern gardens a few weeks ago and
Speaker 1: didn't appearance out. There always love going to that, place you.
Speaker 1: Know In kingwood you've Got Warren Southern. Gardens there On
Speaker 1: North park you Got Kingwood Garden, center which is On
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Speaker 1: know one may be featuring something and then another one
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Speaker 1: both of them and see. Them, really both of them
Speaker 1: are open seven days a. Week makes it really, easy you,
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Speaker 1: now when you go to Warn Southern garden you're going
Speaker 1: to find an outstanding selection of everything you can, imagine
Speaker 1: including the products to take care of the soil and
Speaker 1: get it. Right but we are about to enter into,
Speaker 1: summer and if you've been here for one, summer you
Speaker 1: know it is infernally hot here in The houston area and,
Speaker 1: humid and we need plants that can survive. That and
Speaker 1: we have plants that can survive. That they're not the
Speaker 1: little wimpy things you see On National GARDENING tv from
Speaker 1: some show In New jersey Or california or someplace. Else
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Speaker 1: can have. Success simple as. That we're going to head
Speaker 1: out the phones now and go to Bel air to
Speaker 1: talk To. David, Hey, david welcome to Garden.
Speaker 16: Line, Hello skip SAY. I first of, All i've got
Speaker 16: a solution for the woman with a. Mulberry it's chainsaw
Speaker 16: a change saw.
Speaker 1: Me so does she need to dress like a ninja
Speaker 1: so she can go at midnight across to her neighbor's
Speaker 1: yard and do? THIS i think that might wake them.
Speaker 16: Up oh so it's her. NEIGHBORS i didn't catch. That,
Speaker 16: okay well, yeah, yeah well, yeah.
Speaker 1: You're suggesting horticultural. TERRORISM i just need to let you know.
Speaker 1: That SO i, haven't BUT i.
Speaker 16: Understand, YEAH i have a couple of. LINE i have
Speaker 16: a couple of lines of slender silhouette tweak on TREES
Speaker 16: i planted last. Year these are trees that get only
Speaker 16: about four feet around with but they get twenty or
Speaker 16: forty feet. Tall and last year it was the first
Speaker 16: year in the, ground and of course the end of
Speaker 16: the season they got attacked by a web worm and
Speaker 16: are a. Bagworm And i've seen worse than fest stations
Speaker 16: around the. Town But i'd like to preclude this happening this,
Speaker 16: year And i'd like to use a systemic something that
Speaker 16: translocates into the leaves that when they were the offending
Speaker 16: insect chomps on, it they die rather than but do
Speaker 16: You i'm we're leary of The amiddo cloprid or any
Speaker 16: other kind of neo nicotinoid that might harm pollinating. Insect all,
Speaker 16: right got?
Speaker 1: You all, right here's what you. Do don't worry about
Speaker 1: the meticloprid on sweet. Gums sweet gums do not have
Speaker 1: flowers that attract pollinators or bees or that kind of.
Speaker 1: Thing so if you put that down in the root,
Speaker 1: system you just drench it, in it goes up in that. Plant,
Speaker 1: NOW i wouldn't just drench your whole yard in, it
Speaker 1: first of, all that'd be economically, challenging but just do
Speaker 1: it for the sweet. Gums, now you, know if you
Speaker 1: have a tree like a crape myrtle that is going
Speaker 1: to have blooms that do attract, bees then the ametacloprid
Speaker 1: would be something you can make a case for being concerned,
Speaker 1: about for, Sure but with the sweet, gums you don't
Speaker 1: need to worry about. It the alternative to using the
Speaker 1: systemic would be to get a spinosid or end or
Speaker 1: a bee t spray and when you see the first
Speaker 1: sinus sweet gum of the, webworm start to spray the.
Speaker 1: Foliage so the webworms have to eat foliage with that
Speaker 1: sprayed on. Them if they've already got a web you
Speaker 1: got to break those webs up with either a powerful
Speaker 1: stream of water or a long, pole which on a
Speaker 1: slender silhouette means a pretty long pole in order to
Speaker 1: get the spray to the foliage where the webworms are.
Speaker 1: Feeding but those are your two. Options is to do
Speaker 1: a contact insecticide on the, leaf those are the two organic,
Speaker 1: options or to do the systemic and again a medical opri.
Speaker 1: One sweet, Gum i'm not concerned.
Speaker 16: About, okay and one one application or repeated applications in
Speaker 16: a medic opriate.
Speaker 1: One and it's going to take it a while to
Speaker 1: get up.
Speaker 5: There and.
Speaker 1: Webworms you can have some webworms earlier in the, summer
Speaker 1: but typically when we're getting into you, know Late, July, August,
Speaker 1: september that's when they're making their main. Hit SO i
Speaker 1: would probably look at putting something down maybe Mid, july
Speaker 1: second or third week In, july getting it so it
Speaker 1: has time to get up in that tree and be
Speaker 1: in the foliage when the webworms.
Speaker 16: Arrive, okay so right now they're just butting out a
Speaker 16: few of them have already fully leaped. Out, yeah do
Speaker 16: it now or wait Until? July, NO i, MEAN i.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't you, know every year is, different but generally the
Speaker 1: first population isn't as big of a. Concern you could
Speaker 1: do it earlier, on BUT i think more often than
Speaker 1: not it's not. Needed but when we start getting into
Speaker 1: mid to late summer and early, fall that's when we
Speaker 1: need to have that product already up in the. Plant,
Speaker 1: Okay Hey, DAVID i got a. Run i'm up AGAINST uh.
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Speaker 1: Well i'm gonna take a little break here and we'll
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Speaker 1: going to go To bob in. Spring, First, hey welcome.
Speaker 1: Back what it's uplar time At welcome back to garden.
Speaker 1: Line you know if you've downloaded my, schedule you know
Speaker 1: that on there it's the lawn care schedule At gardening
Speaker 1: With skip dot. Com it shows you what to fertilize
Speaker 1: or when to, fertilize and what products THAT i would
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Speaker 5: We tend to.
Speaker 1: Divide things into the early spring, greenups you, know which
Speaker 1: are fast, release and then the THINGS i recommend through
Speaker 1: the summer that are slow. Released, now you can use
Speaker 1: a fast release all, year but you just need to
Speaker 1: break it up and do it in small doses because
Speaker 1: you don't want to have a whole dump of nitrogen
Speaker 1: and suddenly being available at one. Time so as we
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Speaker 1: bob welcome the Garden.
Speaker 24: Line, skip good, MORNING i love your. Show my, question
Speaker 24: thank you excuse. Me funny you should MENTION i have
Speaker 24: been following you. Schedule i've put this low release down this.
Speaker 1: MONTH i did have a bunch of. Weeds the weed
Speaker 1: and feed took care of.
Speaker 25: It but right Now i've got a war going on
Speaker 25: out back Between bermuda grass And Saint, augustine And i'm,
Speaker 25: wondering you, KNOW i try to pull those little seed
Speaker 25: antennas as they pop, up But i'm trying to figure
Speaker 25: is there a way that The Saint augustine could take
Speaker 25: over To bermuda.
Speaker 1: Or what COULD i? Do not, really not, really not. Really,
Speaker 1: uh if it were in a lot of, Shade Saint
Speaker 1: augustine would have the edge And bermuda would. Struggle, okay
Speaker 1: if it was in a real drowdy, Situation bermuda would
Speaker 1: have the, edge full, sun a drought and full. Sign
Speaker 1: but bottom, lines they're going to. Coexist and so you
Speaker 1: got two. Options one is to kill everything and. Replant
Speaker 1: that would be one that's, Drastic but you, know how
Speaker 1: do you do? IT A you live with. IT B
Speaker 1: you kill everything and. Replant and then, see there are
Speaker 1: products that professional turf care folks can use that will
Speaker 1: kill the bermuda of The Saint, augustine but they're very
Speaker 1: hard to come by and if you were to buy them,
Speaker 1: individually they're extremely. Expensive, uh and so it just is
Speaker 1: not a practical thing for non professional folks to. Do,
Speaker 1: now if you want to know more about, that IF
Speaker 1: i can give, YOU i can put you on, hold
Speaker 1: you can send me an, email AND i can send
Speaker 1: you some information so you can learn more about. It
Speaker 1: i'm not going to go into great length on it
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Speaker 1: Do but if you're interested in that, Approach i'll put
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Speaker 1: that'd be.
Speaker 25: Great the other question is you show something on their
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Speaker 1: minerals not the big three that you see on like
Speaker 1: a fertilizer, bag but the things that are needed is
Speaker 1: that are, essential but they're needed in very small. Amounts
Speaker 1: and so with when you use, something, well when you use,
Speaker 1: asmite basically you're putting about a forty four pound bag
Speaker 1: on six to twelve thousand square. Feet so it's a
Speaker 1: very very low rate that you're putting it. Out and
Speaker 1: if you're it's a vegetable, garden you're about ten pounds
Speaker 1: per thousand and just put it. Down you put down
Speaker 1: any time a year because you're not putting it down
Speaker 1: to make the grass grow fast and turn. Green you're
Speaker 1: putting it down to create that bank account of those
Speaker 1: micro nutrients that the turf is going to be withdrawing
Speaker 1: from every month of the.
Speaker 24: Year, okay, Great and IF i could, Sneak i've got
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Speaker 24: Stagnant they've got a couple of leaves on, them but
Speaker 24: they're not doing. Anything DO i need to prune them
Speaker 24: or just wait for them to come into.
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Speaker 26: Doing thank you very, much short and. Sweet i've got
Speaker 26: some brand new milk milk wheat plans in the. Ground
Speaker 26: i'm done.
Speaker 9: Good.
Speaker 26: Okay the question IS i got some yellow blood BUGS
Speaker 26: i woke up to yesterday morning and they're still there
Speaker 26: on the.
Speaker 1: Stem, OKAY i need are those are? Called, yeah if
Speaker 1: they're yellow and they're, tiny that's called ole under. Aphid
Speaker 1: and you, KNOW i look at those as a. Positive
Speaker 1: and here's. Why first of, all they Don't they are sucking,
Speaker 1: juices sucking juices out of your plant that we don't like.
Speaker 1: That but those milkweeds they. Do they survive just fine
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Speaker 26: Those, okay all, Right i'll leave them alone because AGAIN
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Speaker 3: MORNING i plan it a cold a cold party avocado
Speaker 3: tree last year and it's turning it's turning. BLACK i
Speaker 3: have green sprouts coming up from the base of.
Speaker 15: It it's pretty ugly.
Speaker 3: Looking i'm just wondering SHOULD i cut it down to
Speaker 3: the base or just dig it?
Speaker 1: Up, well avocado occasionally you'll get one that's own, rooted
Speaker 1: but usually they're. Grafted and so the question is is
Speaker 1: that green sprout coming up from the rootstock or from
Speaker 1: the grafted variety that you, purchased the cold hearty, Variety
Speaker 1: and you, know could.
Speaker 3: It appears the rootstock.
Speaker 9: From the.
Speaker 1: Rootstock, well in that, case you, know if you want
Speaker 1: to try your hand at. Grafting you could certainly try.
Speaker 1: That OTHERWISE i dig it up and get me another.
Speaker 1: One you'll be way ahead of the game and there
Speaker 1: won't be any wondering if it's gonna make it and be,
Speaker 1: sick accessful or.
Speaker 15: Not sounds like a good.
Speaker 1: Decision thank you for your. Health you. Bet, Yeah sorry
Speaker 1: you're having to do. That take care appreciate. That Sweet
Speaker 1: green from nitrofoss is a quickly available fertilizer that is really. Based,
Speaker 1: basically you take a molasses type substrate and you turn
Speaker 1: bacteria loose on it and they turn it into a
Speaker 1: carbon chain. Substance you put it in the. Ground bacteria
Speaker 1: just go nuts over. It they love. It it breaks.
Speaker 1: Apart it's got eleven percent nitrogen in, it so that
Speaker 1: is really high for an organic type. Product smells. Wonderfully
Speaker 1: that's why you. Know the name Sweet green tells you
Speaker 1: a couple things about. It but it works on the,
Speaker 1: lawn you put it, out you water. It in, Fact
Speaker 1: i've used it on other, things you, know vegetables and
Speaker 1: flower beds and things WHEN i wanted to just give
Speaker 1: a boost a nitrogen and get them. Going so it's
Speaker 1: a good choice for the. Summertime widely available here in
Speaker 1: the Greater houston. Area you can go to a place
Speaker 1: amplants for all. Seasons In, duada you head over TO
Speaker 1: m AND. D beamer In, sagemont Perhaps Plantation Ace hardware
Speaker 1: on three fifty nine in The Richmond rosenberg, area or
Speaker 1: places that carry nitrophost type products here in our. Area,
Speaker 1: next let's head out to Sugar land and we're going
Speaker 1: to talk To. Bill, Hello, Bill welcome to garden. Line,
Speaker 1: hey good.
Speaker 2: MORNING i have a eight redleaf bush THAT i have
Speaker 2: no new growth on. IT i had a little bit last,
Speaker 2: year but not. Much not the full bush with new.
Speaker 2: Growth and, okay stump to WHAT i can do to improve?
Speaker 1: This, well any chance you might know something about the
Speaker 1: name of it or what kind it is other than
Speaker 1: just red.
Speaker 4: LEAVES i just know it's a red leaf.
Speaker 1: Bush i'm. Sorry, Okay, well there's a chance that it's
Speaker 1: called readily. Fatinia those get much larger than four by
Speaker 1: eight but in. Time but that's the thing you're saying
Speaker 1: is it's not growing Redly fetinia is going to benefit
Speaker 1: from a boost of fertilizer and nitrogen, fertilizers especially to
Speaker 1: promote growth and so to get whatever you would use
Speaker 1: to put on your lawn and go up to that
Speaker 1: bush and give it about a half cup of fertilizer
Speaker 1: spread all the way around the, bush not just in a,
Speaker 1: line but sprinkled, around you, know a foot or two
Speaker 1: out in all, directions and do that about once a
Speaker 1: month and watered in really good and see if we
Speaker 1: can get a boost of. Growth the thing about it not,
Speaker 1: growing it's either lacking nutrients or occasionally lacking, water especially
Speaker 1: when it's, hot or it's not getting into a sunlight
Speaker 1: to support good. Growth so if you feel like it's
Speaker 1: getting a decent amount of, sunlight, yeah go.
Speaker 2: Ahead so the sunlight and, Water i'm pretty much regular on.
Speaker 2: THAT i did put some miracle growth steaks at the
Speaker 2: base kind of around, it just just on the, hope
Speaker 2: so that would would start. Something, Yeah BUT i Mean
Speaker 2: i'm not can those bushes get too old where they
Speaker 2: don't grow?
Speaker 1: Anymore not. Really they last a long. Time but if
Speaker 1: it's only if it's only four by eight, FOOT i,
Speaker 1: mean if it's a red tip, oftennia it'll get. Huge.
Speaker 2: Uh and so whatever kind of bush it is, Though,
Speaker 2: yeah with the trimming and, Stuff i've kind of kept
Speaker 2: it about that. SIZE i cut out some dead branches
Speaker 2: in it to kind of open it up a little,
Speaker 2: bit and LIKE i, said well maybe the nitrogen will.
Speaker 1: Help, yeah it definitely. Will and forget about the little for.
Speaker 1: Spikes now going, forward just get you some lawn fertilizer
Speaker 1: and do WHAT i was suggesting. THERE i think you're
Speaker 1: going to see some growth on. It, Hey, BELL i
Speaker 1: got a run for a break, Here but thank you very,
Speaker 1: much appreciate your, Call. Carmen when we come, back we
Speaker 1: will visit with you in just a. Moment by the,
Speaker 1: way if you're in The tombol, AREA d AND D
Speaker 1: feed three miles west Of tombul On highway two forty,
Speaker 1: nine you head out twenty nine to twenty to the.
Speaker 1: West no excuse, ME i said that, backwards three miles
Speaker 1: west On highway twenty nine to twenty west of two forty.
Speaker 1: Nine there there we. Go So Dandy feed is the
Speaker 1: kind of feed store where you find every product that
Speaker 1: you need to have. Success And i'm telling you've been
Speaker 1: in there a number of times looking to go this
Speaker 1: is hard to find, stuff and they got it. There
Speaker 1: they got it at Dan De. Feed and that includes
Speaker 1: things to control. Pests things to no, weeds, things no.
Speaker 1: Diseases it's a weed. Stores they have livestock. Feed but
Speaker 1: they got some high end lines of dog food for
Speaker 1: example Like origin And diamond And victim or In Star.
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Speaker 1: talk about from, nitrofoss From, microlife From Nilsen Turf, Star
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Speaker 1: two eight one three five one seventy one forty, four
Speaker 1: just west Of tomball three miles twenty nine to twenty
Speaker 1: two eight one three five one seventy one forty. Four
Speaker 1: i'll be right. Back welcome, Back welcome back to Guarden.
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Speaker 1: cleveland and we're going to talk To. Carmen, now, Hey,
Speaker 1: carmen welcome to garden. Line do we have A? Carmen,
Speaker 1: okay you're, breathing are you, There? Carmen, okay, YES.
Speaker 11: I want to make a flower bed and the soil
Speaker 11: is real, sandy SO i thank. You how much of
Speaker 11: that sand to take out and want to put back?
Speaker 10: In?
Speaker 1: Okay, uh you don't take any. Out you just get
Speaker 1: you some high quality. Compost if you just drive up
Speaker 1: the fifth nine there To. Porter There's Porter rock And
Speaker 1: mulch and they sell heirloom soils products there and you can.
Speaker 1: Buy if the flower bed is, tiny you can just
Speaker 1: buy some. Bags but if the flower bed is, larger
Speaker 1: you probably want to get a bulk amount of. It
Speaker 1: so you can put about four or five inches or
Speaker 1: maybe four inches and mix it in as deeply as
Speaker 1: you can into that, sand and you can use a
Speaker 1: regular composts or you could use something called a rose
Speaker 1: and bloomers blend rose and bloomers blend, soil and either
Speaker 1: one of them will create a wonderful soil out of
Speaker 1: that sand that you.
Speaker 11: Have would that also be good for hygieneas and?
Speaker 15: Hostage, yes it.
Speaker 1: Would now hostas struggle here in our. Heat there are
Speaker 1: a few that do, okay but you need to keep.
Speaker 1: Moist you need to keep them out of direct sun for,
Speaker 1: Sure but that soil will be fine for hostas and
Speaker 1: pretty much any kind of plant like. That if you're
Speaker 1: going to grow something like a gardena that you want
Speaker 1: to be a little, acidic you might tell them that
Speaker 1: when you go to buy your soil, mix, SAY i
Speaker 1: need if you have anything for acidic types of, soil
Speaker 1: and definitely fertilize them with. Fertilizers for acidic. Plants microlife
Speaker 1: makes a product in kind of a hot pink color
Speaker 1: bag or it looks like that to. Me that is
Speaker 1: for as elias and blueberries and gardenias and those kinds of.
Speaker 11: Plants, okay then thank, you.
Speaker 1: You, bet good luck with, that good luck with. That
Speaker 1: thanks for the. CALL i appreciate. That let's head out
Speaker 1: To conro now and talk To. Bill. Hey, Bill, HEY.
Speaker 20: I laid down some news odd AND i about a month,
Speaker 20: ago AND i used Sweet green AND i had some,
Speaker 20: leftover AND i thought that would probably be some WHAT
Speaker 20: i and now Now i'm thinking a month from, NOW
Speaker 20: i should go to something. Else what do you think
Speaker 20: of slow And? Easy that's WHERE i was. HEADING i
Speaker 20: just wanted to confirm that's probably a decent.
Speaker 1: Choice So slow And easy is an excellent product From
Speaker 1: Nelson Plant, food and slow And easy will give you that.
Speaker 1: Night it has a very long. Release you're going to
Speaker 1: at least four months out of. That and so when
Speaker 1: you do, that now to your, lawn your next fertilization
Speaker 1: is look on my schedule for the like The october
Speaker 1: fertilization for. Fall that that's the next time you're going
Speaker 1: to be fertilizing if you do a slow and.
Speaker 20: Easy, Now, oh that's, great great to. Hear and another
Speaker 20: really quick, Question, yeah what's what's the difference between mulch and?
Speaker 20: COMPOST i kind of know the, difference but h, yeah so.
Speaker 22: So.
Speaker 1: So the basic difference is compost is already decomposed and
Speaker 1: you put it in the soil to improve the soil
Speaker 1: the plant's root. Zone mulch tends to be, chunkier but
Speaker 1: doesn't have to, be and you put it on top
Speaker 1: of the soil to protect the soil from hot and,
Speaker 1: cold to block out the light from weed, seeds to
Speaker 1: hold in.
Speaker 20: Moisture, well the compost breakdown ultimately like the mult. Breakdown
Speaker 20: like compost, ultimately.
Speaker 1: It does look at nature like on a forest, floor
Speaker 1: leaves fall on the ground and they sit there looking
Speaker 1: like dry leaves all, year and then more leaves fall
Speaker 1: and those that got covered up start to stay wet
Speaker 1: and they start to. Decompose so whenever you, maulch don't
Speaker 1: get rid of the. Oulmultch always just add fresh mulch
Speaker 1: on top and the olmalts decomposes, away just like nature
Speaker 1: does it and the soil gets better from that over.
Speaker 1: Time but initially mulch is to protect the surface of the.
Speaker 20: Soil, okay very, Good and can you use compost to
Speaker 20: protect the, Surface and then it's.
Speaker 1: You know the fun you?
Speaker 15: Can?
Speaker 1: Ok, yeah, right you? Can, yeah that's, it all, right good?
Speaker 16: Luck really quick question, peanuts.
Speaker 5: How do you grow?
Speaker 20: PEANUTS i have some for my birds and they're starting
Speaker 20: to root the left of. Them think they grow some,
Speaker 20: peanuts peanut.
Speaker 1: Peanuts interestingly, enough peanuts do best in a, sandy loose,
Speaker 1: soil a very loose. Soil you don't want to over fertilize.
Speaker 1: It they are a legome like clover and blue bonnets
Speaker 1: and other. Things they put nitrogen in the soil. Themselves
Speaker 1: but the peanut plant has to be happy and growing
Speaker 1: is it spreads. Out it sends a shoot out of
Speaker 1: the branches of the, plant and it pushes it down
Speaker 1: in the, soil and the peanut is on the end
Speaker 1: of that. Shoot so peanuts don't grow on the roots
Speaker 1: of the. Plant they grow on drop down shoots that
Speaker 1: get pushed into the soil from. Above isn't that? Weird
Speaker 1: but so you need a loose. Soil it needs to drain,
Speaker 1: well and you don't want over fertilize. It you don't
Speaker 1: Want you want the peanut to get plenty of sunlight
Speaker 1: and have a well drained, soil and you can grow.
Speaker 16: Them, Here yes you, can, yeah, good all, Right well that's.
Speaker 1: It thanks a, lot all, right you, bet thanks a.
Speaker 1: LOT a good line of questions. There don't Think i've
Speaker 1: had a peanut question in a long. Time Moss nursery
Speaker 1: down In seabrook is an outstanding garden. Center it when
Speaker 1: you go To moss allow yourself. Sometime first of, all
Speaker 1: it's eight acres crammed full of gorgeous, PLANTS i mean
Speaker 1: from trees that flower like red buds and The japanese
Speaker 1: magnolias and the white spring Blooming chinese fringe. Tree they
Speaker 1: have all that, stuff and then flowering. Shrubs you, know
Speaker 1: they have twenty different kinds of. Azaleas they have beautiful,
Speaker 1: hedranges they have you, know. Roses Moss nursery has it.
Speaker 1: All if you like hanging, baskets there's hundreds and hundreds
Speaker 1: of hanging baskets, there and flats all over the place
Speaker 1: of seasonal, color like we, say From melissa To zenia
Speaker 1: MEANING a to z and everything in. Between if you
Speaker 1: are interested in something, unusual maybe an unusual house, plant
Speaker 1: their houseplant greenhouse is that right there is worth going
Speaker 1: to see that. Alone and then when it comes to
Speaker 1: things like maybe a hobby like bones, eye they have
Speaker 1: both the mature bones eyes and starter, plants maybe fifty
Speaker 1: to one hundred different kinds of bones, eye from baby
Speaker 1: plants to fifty year old. Plants so you got to
Speaker 1: check out that area, too allow yourself. Time Moss nursery
Speaker 1: and just another garden, center seventy year, old family operated
Speaker 1: eight acreor source for everything you. Need they're On Toddville
Speaker 1: road In, Seabrook. Texas Toddville road In, Seabrook. Texas and
Speaker 1: That's Moss. NURSERY i keep talking About microlife and a
Speaker 1: couple of times this Morning i've mentioned their plant food
Speaker 1: for acidic loving. Plants, well you, KNOW i also mentioned
Speaker 1: earlier The biomatrix orange label for just a. Boost biomatrix
Speaker 1: is a liquid in an orange labeled quart or gallon.
Speaker 1: Bottle it's a seven one three fertilizer seven to one three,
Speaker 1: fertilizer so you mix it in. WATER i use it
Speaker 1: from a houseplants all the. TIME i love. It it
Speaker 1: works good for that that. Nitrogen you, know most of
Speaker 1: our house spuns are basically foliage plants and the nitrogen really.
Speaker 1: Helps but you can use it on a, rosebush you
Speaker 1: can use it on a tomato. Plant you can spread
Speaker 1: on your lawn if you want. TO i, mean it's
Speaker 1: a good product that just. Works always keep a court
Speaker 1: on hand Because i'm always going to need it for.
Speaker 1: Something and if you just do, this go To Microlife
Speaker 1: fertilizer dot Com Microlife fertilizer dot. Com you'll see all
Speaker 1: the places that Carry, microlife which is basically everywhere you,
Speaker 1: know feed, stores garden, centers, ace hardware, stores you, know softwarest,
Speaker 1: fertilizer and you will see all the products that they
Speaker 1: have THAT i don't even begin to have time to
Speaker 1: mention them all here on the. Air i'm gonna take
Speaker 1: a little break now and i'll be. Back doris In, Netherland.
Speaker 1: Neederland you'll be first, up and Then fred In. Houston all,
Speaker 1: right welcome back To Garden. Line good to have you with.
Speaker 1: Us we're here to help you have success in your.
Speaker 1: Garden and if you'd like to give me a, call
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Speaker 1: uh just. Kidding i'm going to head out To, Netherland.
Speaker 1: NEDERLAND i don't know WHY i keep Saying nettherland this.
Speaker 1: Morning i've lived. HERE i know the name of that.
Speaker 1: Town we're going to talk To. Dora Say, doris welcome
Speaker 1: to Garden.
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Speaker 4: OKAY i had a question about.
Speaker 1: Gardenias there you, go all?
Speaker 20: Right are you?
Speaker 4: There, yes?
Speaker 1: Ma'am, okay, yes can you hear?
Speaker 4: Me six Guardenias And i've had them in the ground
Speaker 4: for at least two, years and they've never, blamed and
Speaker 4: they have off and on will have yellow. Leaves.
Speaker 1: Okay how much light are they? Getting are they parts? On,
Speaker 1: okay they get a. Lot don't have any.
Speaker 4: Shade they have some shade in the early morning and
Speaker 4: then late, evening but all day long they had.
Speaker 1: Fun well that guardiania ought to be. Happy if THE
Speaker 1: i saw you were having some yellowing leaves too on?
Speaker 5: Them is that?
Speaker 1: Correct? Yes is the yellowing on the older leaves further
Speaker 1: down on the chute where the end of the shoot looks,
Speaker 1: good or is it on the new leaves at the
Speaker 1: end of the shoot.
Speaker 4: Some of them or, Mope i've got one that has
Speaker 4: it's going pretty. Much it looks like it sticks them
Speaker 4: to diet's going all the way down that it's mostly you,
Speaker 4: know at the top the.
Speaker 1: Distance, okay, OKAY i, see, well guardenias or acid loving,
Speaker 1: plants and as the pH gets, higher they don't do.
Speaker 1: Well and so h that shows up as new growth.
Speaker 1: Yellowing the new growth comes out yellow and with green. Veins.
Speaker 1: Maybe uh and that's an that's an iron. Deficiency but
Speaker 1: it's caused by high pH and high. Hyphosphorus so anything
Speaker 1: you do to lower the pH sometimes you have to do.
Speaker 1: Something drainage is also a problem on guardinas when when
Speaker 1: the soil stays wet for too long of a. Time
Speaker 1: in that, case you almost have to kind of, like,
Speaker 1: okay well getting that pH down by continuing to put
Speaker 1: acid loving, PLANTS i mean acid loving fertilizers around the. Plants.
Speaker 1: Uh So microlife has the WINE i was telling, Well
Speaker 1: microlife has one that is for acid loving. Plants it's a.
Speaker 1: Granular you can also add some sulfur around the plant
Speaker 1: in very small, doses sprinkle it. Around if you take
Speaker 1: a spading fork and go around the plant and just
Speaker 1: push it straight in and wiggle it and then pull
Speaker 1: it straight up out of the hole you've created, holes
Speaker 1: and then put a good, compost an acidic compost top
Speaker 1: dressing over it and it'll fall into those. Holes and
Speaker 1: as you do that a couple times a year even
Speaker 1: you'll start to get that soil in a better condition
Speaker 1: for these. Plants and then the combination that.
Speaker 4: Block that going down with good and.
Speaker 16: Good but they're still not.
Speaker 1: Blooming, Okay, well if it's getting on and the plant is,
Speaker 1: healthy it ought to be, Blooming SO i think something's
Speaker 1: going on with the. Health and the yellowing leaves are
Speaker 1: usually a sign of. Stress, now guardenias are, evergreens but
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean leaf individual leaf lefs. Forever so it's
Speaker 1: not unusual for the older leaves to turn yellow and
Speaker 1: fall off at certain times of the, year and so
Speaker 1: that could be a stress related or just part of the.
Speaker 1: Transition oak live oaks do, that and so it's not
Speaker 1: that in and of itself isn't necessarily a. Problem BUT
Speaker 1: i would keep working on that soil AND i would
Speaker 1: get the soil. Down if you can go to a
Speaker 1: garden center and buy something called keylated. Iron keylated is
Speaker 1: spelled c h.
Speaker 4: L a.
Speaker 1: Ted put keylated iron around. Them also so oxygen in the,
Speaker 1: soil compost over the, top acid loving fertilizer and all
Speaker 1: that following down in the, hole and then kelated. Iron
Speaker 1: that's everything in your power THAT i can think of right.
Speaker 1: Now if they're getting good, drainage.
Speaker 4: OKAY i think can put the abs and sauce around.
Speaker 1: It and you, know, well don't don't do. That don't
Speaker 1: do that. Anymore that's not. Needed, HEY i got to
Speaker 1: run to another call to thank, You. Doris, yeah appreciate,
Speaker 1: it thank. You take care all. Right three sixty tree.
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Speaker 1: Okay so trees. Movement it is important that a new
Speaker 1: planeted tree can move a little. Bit that's part of
Speaker 1: developing a strong growth and root system at the. Top
Speaker 1: when a new tree is put in the, ground you
Speaker 1: don't want it to be perfectly, still but you don't
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Speaker 1: to damage the trunk like you will with wires and,
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Speaker 1: THAT i pruned a lot and it's got a, long
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Speaker 1: going to go To andrew And Conro, Now Hello, Andrew
Speaker 1: welcome to garden line.
Speaker 17: MORE i had a couple of questions about trim and
Speaker 17: a peach. Tree, NORMALLY i know you don't do it
Speaker 17: tellor dormant and. Stuff but this YEAR i didn't really
Speaker 17: get a lot of, peaches SO i was kind of
Speaker 17: wondering IF i could do a heavy prune BECAUSE i
Speaker 17: was trying to get some of these scaffold branches back
Speaker 17: down low to like a more manageable.
Speaker 1: Height, yes you can do some pruning now if you need.
Speaker 1: To do you have fruit on it? Currently or did?
Speaker 17: It maybe a handful of peaches per, tree so not
Speaker 17: a lot this. YEAR i didn't say a lot of.
Speaker 15: Bees so.
Speaker 1: The secret to fruit on peaches is sunlight down in the,
Speaker 1: tree and we usually prune them to an open bowl,
Speaker 1: shape an open chalice, shape so cutting out any water.
Speaker 1: Sprout so that's that kind of blondish colored wood that
Speaker 1: shoots straight up to the sky and grows. Fast take
Speaker 1: those out where they. Attach you want small things that
Speaker 1: ARE i don't, know maybe not even a quarter inch in,
Speaker 1: diameter that grows slower and get that reddish burgundy color to.
Speaker 1: Them that's fruiting types of wood and you're gonna have
Speaker 1: to do it over and over again through the summer
Speaker 1: to keep light into the interior of the. Tree but,
Speaker 1: yes you can do some pruning in small amounts now
Speaker 1: and then in the, future try to get most of
Speaker 1: it done in the.
Speaker 17: Winter, Right so probably don't try to take a third
Speaker 17: of a scaffold branch off to bring it back. Down
Speaker 17: that's probably a little too.
Speaker 1: Much oh, boy you could do. It if you won't do,
Speaker 1: that do, it but remember all the new growths can
Speaker 1: be out at the end, anyway so you kind of
Speaker 1: don't accomplish a whole. Lot you can lean some branches
Speaker 1: out a little, bit open it up when you get
Speaker 1: sunlight down in the. Interior you're going to develop growth
Speaker 1: down there in. Time but as long as the branches
Speaker 1: are growing straight, up the lower areas are just not
Speaker 1: going to develop good. Growth all.
Speaker 17: Right, Yeah i'm just trying to do it before it.
Speaker 17: DOES i don't have fruit this, year but it wouldn't
Speaker 17: be a big, deal so, OKAY i appreciate.
Speaker 1: It, yeah all, right good luck with, that and thanks
Speaker 1: for the. Call appreciate that very. Much by the, Way,
Speaker 1: andrew if you're still listening to the, radio you can
Speaker 1: go To Aggie horticulture Website Aggie, horticulture click on the
Speaker 1: fruit and nuts section and click on the free peach
Speaker 1: publication and it tells you how to. Prune that's something
Speaker 1: you probably want to pay attention to as. WELL i
Speaker 1: got to take a little. Break when we come, Back
Speaker 1: jim And crosby And fred And Northeast, houston you'll probably
Speaker 1: be our last two callers for the. Day all, right
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Speaker 5: i've got a problem in my in my. YARD i
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Speaker 5: a product THAT i could you can get that you
Speaker 5: just spread over the whole yard that's completely.
Speaker 1: Organic, yes, yeah there's a We we generally recommend a
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Speaker 5: It, WELL i. DON'T i don't really know right. Now
Speaker 5: i've gotta, Okay i've got a lot of. Issues and,
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Speaker 1: can do a delivery after your. Area you can hire
Speaker 1: some people to spread it around a little. BIT i
Speaker 1: usually put mine in a wheelbarrow and and dump a
Speaker 1: little bit, here a little bit, there and Then i'll
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Speaker 1: and it's like you're playing shuffle. Board you, know the
Speaker 1: the teeth of the rake are sticking up so they
Speaker 1: don't get hung up in the, turf and you're it's
Speaker 1: like you're using that rake playing shuffle. Board and it's
Speaker 1: a fast easy way to spread it around or you
Speaker 1: can take a shovel and sling. It either, way but
Speaker 1: it's not hard to. Do AND i think that, YOU
Speaker 1: i think you find good results with. That it does
Speaker 1: cover the. Soil it helps a little bit on blocking
Speaker 1: out sunlight from the weed, seeds but it. Works and
Speaker 1: that's in that's in. Quarter, Yes Warren Rocket Molt. Importer
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Speaker 1: will pull this up to do there we. Go, okay
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Speaker 1: Here we go uh to eight one three five four
Speaker 1: nineteen fifty And i'm Just i'm just remembering. Now they
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Speaker 1: you And i'm going to give you that. Number you
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Speaker 1: call them and they'll get you set. Up all, Right,
Speaker 1: fred thanks for the. CALL i appreciate and you can
Speaker 1: you mail that? Up, no you want to spread it
Speaker 1: then about a third of an inch, Deep so about
Speaker 1: a third of an inch. Deep if you go to
Speaker 1: The Heirloom soil's, website there's a calculator and you've you,
Speaker 1: know if you've got x thousand square feet you're going
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Speaker 1: fred In Northeast. Houston Hey, fred welcome to garden.
Speaker 16: Line how you DOING i do? It i'm trying to
Speaker 16: pit up spots in my yaw with them sent on
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Speaker 20: Grant and what's the best way to put that sawt.
Speaker 1: What you want to? DO i generally will, uh first
Speaker 1: clear off all the debris on the, surface whether it's
Speaker 1: old sad or weeds or. Whatever get it out of that. Area.
Speaker 1: Uh and then if the area needs, yelt needs. Filling
Speaker 1: maybe you got some, holes you go, on twist your
Speaker 1: ink or trip fill those with soil first so it's
Speaker 1: all nice and, level and then wet the soil pretty. Good.
Speaker 1: Uh and about a day or two after you wet,
Speaker 1: it then go ahead and do your put your sod.
Speaker 1: Down it could be a day after you wet.
Speaker 9: It.
Speaker 1: Uh and you want to press that sod down so
Speaker 1: it touches the soil. Below that sod comes in with
Speaker 1: black clay soil on, it and you want it to
Speaker 1: touch the soil. Below and then here's the key for,
Speaker 1: it the number one key on. Success water it twice
Speaker 1: a day with a little bit of. Water for the first,
Speaker 1: week twice a, day just a little, bit because that's
Speaker 1: when grass, dies is that first few days and the.
Speaker 1: Sun the second, week water once a, day and by
Speaker 1: the time you get through two weeks you can start
Speaker 1: backing off of that real frequent. Watering don't worry about
Speaker 1: fertilizing for a. Month just water is the. Key and
Speaker 1: if the grass ever drives, it the grass comes in
Speaker 1: with a little half inch long root and you know
Speaker 1: it can't survive on. That you got to get those
Speaker 1: roots in the ground and that's where keeping it wet.
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