Speaker 1: Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with skimp Richard's shoes.
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Speaker 2: Hey, good morning, I'm hearing myself echo in my headphones.
Speaker 2: That's weird. Well, I'm glad to be here this morning,
Speaker 2: and then I hope you are too. We are. We've
Speaker 2: got a lot of things to talk about, as we
Speaker 2: do every Saturday and Sunday. You know, the gardening world
Speaker 2: just keeps going on every time we turn to a
Speaker 2: new week. There's new things. We've got diseases that are
Speaker 2: coming and going. We've got things to plant, things to prune,
Speaker 2: things to take care of, and we're going to talk
Speaker 2: about all those things today. If you've got a question
Speaker 2: that you would like to ask about, why not give
Speaker 2: me a call seven to one three two one two
Speaker 2: k t r H. Seven one three two to one
Speaker 2: two k t r H. All right, Well, I wanted
Speaker 2: to talk this morning first of all about I'm going
Speaker 2: to be at Nature's Way Resources up near Conroe, up
Speaker 2: on I forty five. I'll be there today from eleven
Speaker 2: thirty to one thirty, so basically over the noon hour.
Speaker 2: They're having their big Fall festival. This is a shindig.
Speaker 2: I tell you, the Fall Festival is your opportunity to
Speaker 2: come out have some fun. They're going to have food,
Speaker 2: they're going to have music, they're going to have a
Speaker 2: number of different people out there. Let's see. Like I said,
Speaker 2: I'll be there from eleven thirty to one thirty. The
Speaker 2: whole event goes from nine am to two pm, so
Speaker 2: if we can to it. We've got to do something
Speaker 2: about this echo in my ear. It's kind of like
Speaker 2: having an annoying sibling that every time you say something,
Speaker 2: they repeat you until it drives you crazy. Have you
Speaker 2: ever have you ever had had one of one of
Speaker 2: those things? Well, anyway, I'll be out at the event,
Speaker 2: and I hope you'll come out to see me. We're
Speaker 2: going to be giving away some cool stuff. By the way,
Speaker 2: the folks at Nature's Way are providing a bag of
Speaker 2: their fine textured leap mol compost every half hour while
Speaker 2: I'm there, so we'll giving weigh four bags of that.
Speaker 2: They're also going to be giving away a gift certificate
Speaker 2: that is worth one hundred and fifty bucks, so that
Speaker 2: alone is worth as they say, the price of admission.
Speaker 2: If you'll come on out anyway, put that on your
Speaker 2: calendar to day eleven thirty two one thirty. It's time
Speaker 2: to make sure you get your fall fertilization on the
Speaker 2: lawns this and here's here's why I say that. Now,
Speaker 2: if you look at my schedule at gardeningwith Skip dot com,
Speaker 2: you will see that October is a big month for
Speaker 2: doing that. The sooner you do it, probably the better
Speaker 2: off you are. And here's why. It gives it a
Speaker 2: chance to get down in the soil and up in
Speaker 2: the roots of the plant. Now, it's still warm outside,
Speaker 2: but when we start cooling off, the grass root nutrient
Speaker 2: uptake slows down at the roots. System just kind of
Speaker 2: starts to slow down because it's cool and our warm
Speaker 2: season grasses don't do a lot of growth in the
Speaker 2: cool season. So if you get it down now, you
Speaker 2: have more opportunity for those nutrients to move into the plant.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 2: Nitrofoss has a fertilizer called the Fall Special and it's
Speaker 2: part of their Texas three step system. The Fall Special
Speaker 2: has the high level higher level of potassium, which is
Speaker 2: critical for good cold hardedness. If you're trying to make
Speaker 2: your lawn cold hardy, what you do is you give
Speaker 2: it a little bit of nitrogen, not a lot like summertime,
Speaker 2: and you give it a little bit of potassium and
Speaker 2: those together go into the grass plant and create the
Speaker 2: essentially ana freeze in the plant and the form of carbohydrates.
Speaker 2: So that's part of their three stuff. The other two
Speaker 2: parts are nitrofoss barricade which prevents weed seeds, and again
Speaker 2: do it now. In fact, these last two are even
Speaker 2: more important to do asap. The nitrofoss barricade prevents weed
Speaker 2: seeds from germinating. Now. I don't see a cold front
Speaker 2: in the near future, but one is coming, and when
Speaker 2: it hits and we get some cool weather, some rain,
Speaker 2: cool season, weeds are going to sprout in your lawn.
Speaker 2: Prevent them by having barricade down and watered in ahead
Speaker 2: of that. If you ain' to the weed drout and
Speaker 2: growing a pre emergent is not going to be helpful
Speaker 2: because it's a pre emergent meaning before they come up.
Speaker 2: So get that down now. The third one also important
Speaker 2: to do soon. Nitropuss eagle turf fungicide. This is a
Speaker 2: systemic product. You put it down, the grass takes it up,
Speaker 2: soaks it in, takes it up and the fungicide itself
Speaker 2: makes that grass resistant to a disease attack by fighting
Speaker 2: any disease it tries to attack. And the diseases fall
Speaker 2: are the large patch, the big brown circles. We call
Speaker 2: it brown patch. It's hard to change that name. The
Speaker 2: new name's large patch. But either way it prevents that.
Speaker 2: If you wait till circles up here, it's late. It's
Speaker 2: too late to stop that brown area. You have to
Speaker 2: wait till spring for that brown area to grow back
Speaker 2: in again. So get it done now. Nitrophuss three step
Speaker 2: Fall Special Barricade and Eagle Turf fungicide. You're going to
Speaker 2: find it at Court Hardware in Stafford, katy Is Heart
Speaker 2: where has it, Plants and things in Brenham Growers Outlet
Speaker 2: up in Willis or all places you can get the
Speaker 2: Texas three step. So don't forget that. Don't forget that.
Speaker 2: I mentioned being up at Nature's Way Resources. You know
Speaker 2: Nature's Way still has their fungal compost sale on Fridays
Speaker 2: going on. You head up on a Friday and it's
Speaker 2: called Fungal Friday at Nature's Way twenty percent off their
Speaker 2: fungal composts. Fungo compost is good for compost top dressing.
Speaker 2: Fungo compost is good for adding to the soil. It
Speaker 2: is a high quality compost. They screen it down to
Speaker 2: a good particle size, so you can put it over
Speaker 2: your lawn and have it fallen in the little holes
Speaker 2: for narration or just nestle in around the grass runners.
Speaker 2: And it's just a good thing to do for your
Speaker 2: lawn for winter time. I wouldn't say the top dressing
Speaker 2: gets rid of all weed seed sprouting, but it helps
Speaker 2: because every time you shade the lawn a little a
Speaker 2: little more, you make it more difficult for weed seeds
Speaker 2: to get the light they need to germinate and succeed.
Speaker 2: And so in addition to the fact that it feeds
Speaker 2: protects the soil, it also is going to enhance the
Speaker 2: biological activity in that area. And we know biological activity
Speaker 2: is critical if we want to have success with anything.
Speaker 2: That we are trying to echo is back. So I'm
Speaker 2: going to turn. I'm going to make that go away
Speaker 2: there where it won't bother me. All right, folks, welcome
Speaker 2: back to Garden Line. We are glad to have you
Speaker 2: with us today, looking forward to talking to you. Give
Speaker 2: us a call seven to one, three two one two
Speaker 2: fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two ktrh.
Speaker 2: That's another week you can go about it. Uh Intented
Speaker 2: Gardens Done in Richmond is stocked up with all kinds
Speaker 2: of cool stuff. I was I was just checking them
Speaker 2: out and they have the multicolored have you seen those?
Speaker 2: It's like a big pot. Well it comes in they
Speaker 2: have three different sizes, I believe, But anyway, it's a
Speaker 2: pot and it's got three different moms all planted together.
Speaker 2: So when you look at it and it hadn't bloomed yet,
Speaker 2: you just have those buds. It just looks like a
Speaker 2: bunch of buds everywhere, and all of a sudden it
Speaker 2: starts blooming and you've got you know, some pinks and
Speaker 2: orange or white or yellow, whatever the colors are in
Speaker 2: that particular pot. It is gorgeous. I mean, these are
Speaker 2: showstopper beautiful, really really nice. They also wanted to mention,
Speaker 2: by the way, today they're going to be having a
Speaker 2: program on culinary herbs, using cooking, growing and using culinary herbs,
Speaker 2: and that's kind of cool. You know, here comes Halloween,
Speaker 2: I mean, Thanksgiving and Christmas, all the holidays. You're doing
Speaker 2: any kind of cooking. This would be a really really
Speaker 2: cool thing to go to and learn about. They are
Speaker 2: stocked up again on houseplants and we are entering I
Speaker 2: call it houseplant season because you know, as you spend
Speaker 2: more time in the house, you have time to tend
Speaker 2: those plants. And I don't think we have enough houseplants
Speaker 2: in our homes. I mean that there were many years
Speaker 2: where I just had a houseplant or two just because
Speaker 2: you're supposed to have a houseplant. And I've gotten into
Speaker 2: it so much now that some of our areas look
Speaker 2: like little mini jungles because there's so many different kinds
Speaker 2: of plants in there. But I'm telling you, it is
Speaker 2: bringing nature inside it, just having that presence of something
Speaker 2: that's not so sterile as just you know, furniture and
Speaker 2: things like that. Having life in the room is really
Speaker 2: cool anyway. China Gardens always has good stuff going on,
Speaker 2: always has good things. So if you need any fall color,
Speaker 2: they've got it. Ornamental cabbage and kale and dusty miller
Speaker 2: and alyssam and petunias and dianthus and snap dragons and
Speaker 2: of course moms and crotons, crotons, the color of fall.
Speaker 2: All the things you need for that while you're there
Speaker 2: or when you go take the kids and let them
Speaker 2: see their pumpkin house. It's really cool too. And guess
Speaker 2: what's arriving. I believe it's arriving today. There are pansies
Speaker 2: and Viola's for the cool season color as well. So anyway,
Speaker 2: check them out and Jenny Gardens. They're on the Katie
Speaker 2: Folscher side of Rechmond on FM three point fifty nine.
Speaker 2: Katie Folscher FM three fifty nine. While are you there,
Speaker 2: you can pick up the fertilizers you hear me talk about.
Speaker 2: You can pick up soil products that you hear me
Speaker 2: talk about as well. And remember, don't go home with
Speaker 2: plants without going home with the brown stuff that goes
Speaker 2: in the ground that makes those plants happy. I'm going
Speaker 2: to head out to the phones now and talk to
Speaker 2: Almanda and Richmond. Hello Almanda, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 5: Hi.
Speaker 6: My question is I bought some huge moms for my
Speaker 6: wife that my mother in law take care. Well, she's
Speaker 6: in out of town and they're looks like they're drying out,
Speaker 6: and so it wants me to take them back because
Speaker 6: he said they're drying out. But I don't know if
Speaker 6: I take something like that, and how do you take
Speaker 6: care of that?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Probably probably not that that's kind of a it
Speaker 2: looked good when you got it, and if you know,
Speaker 2: if you don't keep it going, then.
Speaker 6: That to talk to him, that guy. I've just started
Speaker 6: watering them every day and it's only been a week
Speaker 6: since I've had them.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, all right, Well I'll leave that between you
Speaker 2: and where you got them. Moms I find to be
Speaker 2: a little tricky. We have a big mum in front
Speaker 2: of the house, and watering it once a day is
Speaker 2: not enough. It needs needs more than that, especially if
Speaker 2: it's in quite a bit of sun, which mums like
Speaker 2: to be in some sun. So we put a big
Speaker 2: old tray underneath that that I can fill with water
Speaker 2: and it wakes it up. And if I see that
Speaker 2: tray empty, I know to fill it up again. Just
Speaker 2: keep water in that tray all the time. That's helped
Speaker 2: me not overwater. The other thing with mums is you
Speaker 2: don't want to top water them.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: They the new mums have been pinched and bread to
Speaker 2: form really tight mounds, which is gorgeous, but when you
Speaker 2: put water on there, it just is this wet rots
Speaker 2: and things like that start. And I last year had
Speaker 2: a whole section of mum that just started rotting out
Speaker 2: because I was top watering it. I know better than that,
Speaker 2: are you there? I believe we lost him? All right,
Speaker 2: Well that's all right. Well anyway, those of you who
Speaker 2: are getting moms, Okay, if you didn't, if you weren't
Speaker 2: quite listening on that one, just here it is in
Speaker 2: a nutshell. Keep your mums adequately moist. And that can
Speaker 2: take quite a bit of water, especially if they're in
Speaker 2: the sun and there, because they packed those mums into
Speaker 2: that pot and it doesn't take long to dry out.
Speaker 2: Don't water them from the top. If you've got a
Speaker 2: little watering device, put the spigott down underneath the foliage
Speaker 2: and water the soil rather than drenching the top. And
Speaker 2: my other suggestion is if you can put a tray
Speaker 2: under it, it makes it a little more easy. I
Speaker 2: get busy and I'm gone for a day or something,
Speaker 2: or maybe a day and a half, and I come
Speaker 2: back and ugh, it doesn't do well in that, you know,
Speaker 2: without the regular watering. So I put a tray in
Speaker 2: her mind, and always keep about an inch or so
Speaker 2: of water done in the bottom and that'll wake up
Speaker 2: in there and it's kind of like your rescue just
Speaker 2: in case you forget all right anyway, Secrets to Success
Speaker 2: with Moms Nelson. Plant food has an outstanding fall fertilizer
Speaker 2: and they call it carbo load. Now you're thinking about
Speaker 2: why would you call it carbo load. It's a fertile
Speaker 2: it because what makes grass winter hardy is carbohydrates, and
Speaker 2: it takes nutrients and sunlight to do that, especially the potassium.
Speaker 2: When we go into the fall, we lower our nitrogen
Speaker 2: and raise our potassium, and that is what carble load is.
Speaker 2: The other thing that does is the carbohydrates store over winter,
Speaker 2: not only giving cold heartiness, but helping it come out
Speaker 2: in the spring. That's what carbo load does. Now, forty
Speaker 2: pound bags is going to cover five thousand square feet.
Speaker 2: When you put it down, you have to water it
Speaker 2: in because carbo load also contains a pre emergent. So
Speaker 2: if you use carbo load with its pre emergent that
Speaker 2: is in it, you don't also need to use a
Speaker 2: different per emergen that it is its own. So I've
Speaker 2: had a lot of questions about that. Well, if I
Speaker 2: do that also, no one pre emergent choose your pre emergent.
Speaker 2: Use that carbo load provides a preventative surface barrier that
Speaker 2: prevents weed seeds from coming through in the cool season,
Speaker 2: and it'll lasts a pretty good while in there, but
Speaker 2: you got to water it in to do that. You
Speaker 2: want to water it in to get the fertilizer nutrients
Speaker 2: in as well, but also you definitely want to walk
Speaker 2: in to make sure and get that pre emergent in
Speaker 2: the surface of the salt where it can do its work.
Speaker 2: Very important to remember, which reminds me we just need
Speaker 2: to read the label, right, isn't it important to read
Speaker 2: the label? I find that so many folks grab a
Speaker 2: product and it's no fun reading the label. You know that.
Speaker 2: It's like I know how to use this, and they're
Speaker 2: just going to use it. And the other thing we
Speaker 2: tend to do is, hey, if a teaspoons good, isn't
Speaker 2: a tablespoon better? Right? We know you know you're driving
Speaker 2: a nail. Get a bigger hammer and you can drive
Speaker 2: it better. Well, it doesn't work that way with pesticides,
Speaker 2: With insecticides, spongicides, herbicides, you can damage your plants. By
Speaker 2: not reading the label. You can cause environmental damage to
Speaker 2: creak rivers. That's in people. If you don't read the label,
Speaker 2: always read the label and follow it carefully, and there
Speaker 2: you will learn things like do not put a herbicide
Speaker 2: that's pre emergent down without watering it in, because it
Speaker 2: doesn't work until water takes it into the soil surface.
Speaker 2: So read the label, read the label, and then follow
Speaker 2: the label.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 2: And there's something in my family I call stupid tax.
Speaker 2: I call it. I say it about myself. And I
Speaker 2: used to always tell my kids, well, you're going to
Speaker 2: pay the stupid tax if you do that. What that
Speaker 2: means is you don't do the thing you should do,
Speaker 2: and you get to pay for it, and then you
Speaker 2: hopefully learn so you don't have to pay stupid tax again.
Speaker 2: Don't pay stupid tax. Read the label, follow the label.
Speaker 8: All right.
Speaker 2: I'm off my soapbox. Meanwhile, back at garden line seven
Speaker 2: one three two one two kt r H. Seven to
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Speaker 2: you get a hold of me. Let's talk about the
Speaker 2: things that interest you. I love Ace hardware stores, and
Speaker 2: I have a hard time passing one with not going
Speaker 2: in because Ace Hardware stores are independently owned So although
Speaker 2: it is a chain of stores and you've got the
Speaker 2: ACE products and you have a general mix of things
Speaker 2: that you would expect from any ACE, each store is
Speaker 2: privately owned so they can do things that maybe another
Speaker 2: store doesn't do. So you see some really interesting things
Speaker 2: at ACE Hardware, and I guarantee you you go into one.
Speaker 2: If you haven't bet a known ACE hardware recently, you
Speaker 2: go into one and you're going to go, oh, I
Speaker 2: didn't know they carried that, or I've never even seen
Speaker 2: that before. What is it? They just have cool stuff,
Speaker 2: And of course you're going to go in and get
Speaker 2: everything you need for your lawn and garden and your landscape.
Speaker 2: You know, the fall fertilizers I'm talking about, they've got them,
Speaker 2: the fire ant control falls, fire ant season and extension.
Speaker 2: We used to say agrolacri extension. We used to say
Speaker 2: tackle fire ants in the fall. And the idea was, hey,
Speaker 2: fall is football season, so we're going to say tackle
Speaker 2: fire ants fall two. The best season of the year
Speaker 2: to get in there and knock your fire ants down
Speaker 2: significantly is in the fall. Baits are the way to
Speaker 2: do that. Individual maund treatments apply more pesticide in the environment.
Speaker 2: Baits apply very little pesticide in the environment. There's organic
Speaker 2: and there's synthetic baits. You have options, but do the
Speaker 2: baits and suppress the large area. If you can get
Speaker 2: your neighbors to do bait. When you do bait, it
Speaker 2: is way more effective. It really is. We did some
Speaker 2: studies in agur Life years ago where one of our
Speaker 2: some of our entomologists went out and they would hoa
Speaker 2: or something would bring them in and they'd have a
Speaker 2: meeting for all the homeowners and say, look, we're gonna
Speaker 2: here's the bait, and here's how you do it. And
Speaker 2: if everybody does it, it really affects you. I mean,
Speaker 2: if you're controlling your fire ants and the people around
Speaker 2: you aren't, well you know how that works, they're just
Speaker 2: going to come on in. But when everybody does it,
Speaker 2: it is much more effective. But remember Bates. Remember ACE
Speaker 2: forty stores in the Greater Houston area. All you have
Speaker 2: to do is go to ACE Hardware dot Com, find
Speaker 2: the store locator and you can find the store near you.
Speaker 2: We are Let's see here, what are we on? Time?
Speaker 2: John in League City. I'm gonna have to hold Hill
Speaker 2: right after this break, so I have time to give
Speaker 2: your call the time and attention that it deserves. I
Speaker 2: want to remind you one more time phone number seven
Speaker 2: one three two one two kt r H. I'll be
Speaker 2: right back after we take a little break here for
Speaker 2: some news. In the meantime, look out the window and
Speaker 2: it's Starkat said. If your neighbor's lights aren't on, you
Speaker 2: need to go bang on the door and tell them
Speaker 2: they're missing garden Line. They will rise up and call
Speaker 2: you bless it. Maybe not today, they may call you
Speaker 2: something else today. I'll be right back.
Speaker 8: There we go.
Speaker 2: All right, we're gonna head out to League City and
Speaker 2: talk to John. Hey, John, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 9: Yeah, hey, good morning.
Speaker 10: So about two weeks ago, my wife and I planted
Speaker 10: some skyward yopon hollies.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 10: And they're pretty bigger, like seven feet tall. They were
Speaker 10: two seven and a half gallons and one fifteen gallon.
Speaker 8: And we planted them.
Speaker 10: You know, I kind of dug them like Randy always said,
Speaker 10: you know, two wide, two times wide, one and a
Speaker 10: half deep, and put some expanded shale in with the soil.
Speaker 6: What do you recommend though, as.
Speaker 10: Far as watering. They're in the sun a lot and
Speaker 10: I just with like, you know, how much should we water,
Speaker 10: et cetera.
Speaker 2: And this is a yopon, not not a different type
Speaker 2: of holly.
Speaker 10: It's a yop It's called a skyward yop on holly.
Speaker 10: It's it's uh, it goes really tall, goes up to
Speaker 10: maybe like fifteen feet.
Speaker 2: That's the kind of holly it is. Yeah, Well, I
Speaker 2: would water on them regularly as long as we're having
Speaker 2: warm weather. And when I say regularly, I mean think
Speaker 2: of it this way. That pot was sitting in a
Speaker 2: garden center and they were watering it every day, because
Speaker 2: the whole root system is in the pot you put
Speaker 2: in the ground, and it's going to take months and months,
Speaker 2: if not a couple of years for that thing to
Speaker 2: fully extend a good root system out there. So early on,
Speaker 2: it's almost as if you sunk the pot in the ground,
Speaker 2: meaning the roots are all still in the same spot.
Speaker 2: So while your soil could be moist, that that area
Speaker 2: where the roots are can get dry, and that's the
Speaker 2: only place the plant can get water is from that
Speaker 2: area where the roots are. So just a light watering,
Speaker 2: don't drown them, But about every day every other day
Speaker 2: when we're having ninety degree temperatures. Then you know, you
Speaker 2: can back off as we start to cool off a
Speaker 2: little bit, to the point where in winter you're just
Speaker 2: you know, maybe once a week giving them some water.
Speaker 10: Okay, Yeah, we've been putting like a trickle down there
Speaker 10: every day for maybe fifteen minutes or something, and it's
Speaker 10: kind of really moisten that rootball. But if we didn't
Speaker 10: know if that was enough or in this hot weather
Speaker 10: or what we should be doing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just it. You know, it's hard to tell someone
Speaker 2: how much to water because there's quantity and there's frequency
Speaker 2: both and so if you're in a sandy soil, you're
Speaker 2: gonna water a little more often. If you're in a
Speaker 2: clay soil, you're definitely water less often. So I would
Speaker 2: I use my hands and I dig down in the
Speaker 2: soil a little bit, maybe three inches and feel the soil,
Speaker 2: and if it's moist I don't water, but if it's not,
Speaker 2: I do. That's kind of the best way to tell.
Speaker 10: Well, right there in the rootball or close by that
Speaker 10: you just kind of dig with you, yeah.
Speaker 2: Kind of right on the outside of it, just feeling
Speaker 2: right there. You know, It's it's not like a rocket
Speaker 2: science or you got to get it just right. It's
Speaker 2: just a matter of trying to gauge that I'm keeping
Speaker 2: it moist. That that's the important thing, you know, I said,
Speaker 2: sand or clay. It's also true if it's in a
Speaker 2: lot of sun or not much son, that dramatically changes
Speaker 2: how much water.
Speaker 3: It is sun right now, So yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, So they're just a lot of factors that
Speaker 2: go into it. Just the main thing is remember where
Speaker 2: all the roots are and will be all the way
Speaker 2: through next spring. For sure. You got to take care
Speaker 2: of that base of the plant. That that's where the
Speaker 2: plant can take up nutrients. And okay, all right, good,
Speaker 2: you don't put good luck with that. Yeah, okay, did
Speaker 2: you say, did you ask me something?
Speaker 10: Well, I say, you don't want to put fertilized down
Speaker 10: or anything on it? We have not even to put
Speaker 10: water down, I don't think.
Speaker 2: No, don't worry about that right now. Let's get it
Speaker 2: in spring when it starts coming out, we can begin
Speaker 2: to put a fertilizer around it and kind of scratch
Speaker 2: it in the soil surface and water it in real good. Okay,
Speaker 2: thank you, all right, sir. All right, folks, if you'd
Speaker 2: like to give me a call and talk about something
Speaker 2: that is of interest to you. Well seven one three
Speaker 2: two one two kt r H seven one three two
Speaker 2: one two k t r H. Buchanan's Native Plants is
Speaker 2: down there in the Heights. I first of all, I
Speaker 2: don't know who is listening right now that was out there,
Speaker 2: but it seems like everyby this is the guard line
Speaker 2: showed up. It was a It was a great event
Speaker 2: that they had with their their fall event at Buchanans.
Speaker 2: It was a week or so ago and it just
Speaker 2: was there were kids ever are having a really good time.
Speaker 2: I was a kid there having a really good time
Speaker 2: as well. I got to meet a lot of listeners
Speaker 2: and I appreciate that. It's always fun.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: They're on eleven Street in the Heights and if you
Speaker 2: haven't been by, you need to go. You need to
Speaker 2: go check out Buchanan's Native Plants. They specialize in natives,
Speaker 2: but they don't just sell natives. While they have one
Speaker 2: of the largest native selections you're going to find anywhere,
Speaker 2: you also are going to find houseplants and herbs and
Speaker 2: vegetables and flowers and things for shady areas, and they
Speaker 2: you know, the shrubs, trees, vines. I was taking some
Speaker 2: pictures of some go fritillary butterflies that were laying their
Speaker 2: eggs on some of the passion vines that they had there.
Speaker 2: Kind of cool. You're going to find microlife products, Nature's way, resources, heirlooms, soils,
Speaker 2: landscaper's pride, and then those fertilizers you hear me talk
Speaker 2: about here on guard Line. They're all there at Nature's
Speaker 2: excuse me, at Buchanans Native Plants. When you go to Buchanans,
Speaker 2: allow yourself some time so you can go around and
Speaker 2: visit with some of the folks there. They have some
Speaker 2: of the most knowledgeable staff and that is so important
Speaker 2: when you want to have success with your plants. Buchanans
Speaker 2: is on Eleventh Street in the Heights. The website Buchanansplants
Speaker 2: dot com Buchanansplants dot com. Go to the website and
Speaker 2: check out the educational till they have there's excellent. Also,
Speaker 2: subscribe to their newsletter. It is excellent and I would
Speaker 2: highly recommend that you take care of that already. Let's see,
Speaker 2: We're gonna go now to Ed in Conroe. Well, Hello, Ed,
Speaker 2: and welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 11: Than y uh looky show.
Speaker 12: Uh.
Speaker 11: I was going to get with you for the last
Speaker 11: couple of seasons I've had. When I plant my college greens,
Speaker 11: I was gonna plan a few here forwards here soon.
Speaker 11: And I have little bugs that eat I mean they
Speaker 11: just eat them down to the to the tub. And
Speaker 11: I've tried every I'm going to the hardware store and
Speaker 11: asked for ay and told you this is that seven
Speaker 11: done field. I have not I have not had. The
Speaker 11: first year I grew up, I had some many I
Speaker 11: couldn't couldn't give away. And the last two seasons, the
Speaker 11: age been just divided by the pest.
Speaker 2: Okay, so are you seeing the pists?
Speaker 11: You think now they're a little bitty I mean okay, topic,
Speaker 11: I mean they will. Yeah, they just like you took
Speaker 11: the whole punch. It just punched every every leaf.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's a beetle. Then uh uh and and it's
Speaker 2: uh it's probably the yellow margin leaf beetle. But it
Speaker 2: really doesn't matter which one it is. And there's there's
Speaker 2: two approaches in the future. When you're gonna plant, I
Speaker 2: would put a row cover over the planting after the
Speaker 2: seeds are in, and you you can use a little
Speaker 2: bit piece of PVC to hold it up, kind of
Speaker 2: make a hoop of tunnel going down the row. And
Speaker 2: that roe cover is very very light, very very fine
Speaker 2: textured spun bound polyester. So I is tell people that
Speaker 2: are have kids raising kids that it's like the stuff
Speaker 2: lining a disposable baby diaper. If you've ever looked in
Speaker 2: at gloves or Huggies or Pampers or something, there's the
Speaker 2: absorbent material, but then there's something that's right up against
Speaker 2: the baby, and that literally is the same material. A
Speaker 2: company that makes I think it's Pampers also makes one
Speaker 2: of the commercial road covers the same thing. But anyway,
Speaker 2: that's like putting a screen porch over it so the
Speaker 2: bugs can't get in. Now that you've got them in,
Speaker 2: you you know, you don't put a roll cover that's
Speaker 2: just trapping them inside. I would get a product containing spinosaid,
Speaker 2: and I will spell that out. It's spi no sad, yeah,
Speaker 2: spino said, And so I'm going to have to run
Speaker 2: to a break here ed. But that comes in many brands.
Speaker 2: It's easy to find, and it kills anything that's chewing
Speaker 2: on your plants. It's also an organic product.
Speaker 11: Okay, And where would I get that any.
Speaker 2: Any garden center, Ace hardware store, any place like that. Spinosa. Yeah,
Speaker 2: all right, take care, Yeah all right, folks. I'm sorry
Speaker 2: I had to run some fast, but we got to
Speaker 2: go to a break. I'll be right back if you
Speaker 2: would like to give me a call. Seven to one
Speaker 2: three two one two k t L right seven one
Speaker 2: three two one two k t R eight. I was
Speaker 2: checking out some of the heirloom soil products the other day,
Speaker 2: and you know, there's a number of them that I've used,
Speaker 2: and every time I use one, I find it to
Speaker 2: be very successful for my succulents that we're repotting a
Speaker 2: while back, Cactus and succulent. That is the one that
Speaker 2: is very gritty and it drains super extra well, and
Speaker 2: it's good for those plants that don't want to have
Speaker 2: wet soil. It just drains well. The Works potting soil.
Speaker 2: Visiting with someone the other day telling them they have said,
Speaker 2: what what potting soil do you recommend? I said, well,
Speaker 2: get the works. It's good and it's easy, it's very
Speaker 2: well made. I use it for a lot of my
Speaker 2: indoor potting.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 2: The roses in Bloomers Blend is just one of those
Speaker 2: good multipurpose soils. It says roses on it and bloomers.
Speaker 2: But I would use it for if I was doing
Speaker 2: a bed, you know, just for a lot of different
Speaker 2: kinds of blooming things. It would be an excellent choice.
Speaker 2: One of my favorite products they have is a veggie
Speaker 2: and herb mix. Veggie and herb is kind of a
Speaker 2: standard for any kind of gardens like that. I put
Speaker 2: it in my vego raised beds, I put it in
Speaker 2: the ground. I've mixed it into the soil itself, just
Speaker 2: to enhance the soil, kind of give it an extra boost.
Speaker 2: And you know, I could sit here just talking on
Speaker 2: and on all day because they have so many products.
Speaker 2: Fruit Berry and citrus mix, the landscape mix, expanded shale,
Speaker 2: expanded shell with compost. You see what I'm saying, age, leap, mole, compost,
Speaker 2: They got it all. Airloom Soils is available to many
Speaker 2: many garden centers. If you want to go online and
Speaker 2: see more, I would highly recommend you do that. Go
Speaker 2: to heirloomsoils dot com. Heirloomsoils dot com. You can learn
Speaker 2: about these products. You can find out where to get them.
Speaker 2: If you live in Timbuctu there's gonna be someplace near
Speaker 2: you who that rhymes that is going to carry heirloom soils,
Speaker 2: and I highly recommend them because I've used them and
Speaker 2: they work. Soil so a brand stuff before green stuff. Right,
Speaker 2: If you want to have success with plants, you fix
Speaker 2: the foundation and then you put the plant in it.
Speaker 2: And fixing the foundation means you put the nutrients that
Speaker 2: they need, You put the organic matter, you improve the drainage,
Speaker 2: you do all those things that you need to do.
Speaker 2: By the way, D and D Feed in Tomball, I
Speaker 2: don't want to forget this. D and D Feed in
Speaker 2: Tomball is having a kind of a celebration. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: tell you about it in just a little bit. First,
Speaker 2: I want to just tell you what D and D
Speaker 2: feed is. For those of you who haven't that out
Speaker 2: there to see it. D and D Feed is your
Speaker 2: hometown feed store. It's on the west side of Tombull,
Speaker 2: the west side as you're going out twenty nine to twenty.
Speaker 2: You are going to find when you go there, the fertilizers.
Speaker 2: I talk about the soils, I talk about high quality
Speaker 2: and really high quality dog food, and of course it's
Speaker 2: a feed store. They got animal food they got dog food,
Speaker 2: they got all those kinds of things. But D and
Speaker 2: D Feed is always a place that you know when
Speaker 2: you go, you're going to get quality products and you're
Speaker 2: going to get treated right. They're gonna carry your bags
Speaker 2: out for you if you need to do that, They're
Speaker 2: happy to do that. They will take care of you
Speaker 2: at D and D Feed. I did want to mention
Speaker 2: while we were talking about D and D Feed that
Speaker 2: they've expanded their store. They did this god so summer
Speaker 2: or more ago, and it's just even better. The selection,
Speaker 2: the supplies, everything is just outstanding there at D and
Speaker 2: DE Feed. I hope that you will check them out.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 2: The last time I was in there visiting, I was
Speaker 2: going and check on them periodically, see how they're doing,
Speaker 2: what's going on out there. When you head into D
Speaker 2: and D Feed, what you're going to find is everything
Speaker 2: you're looking for and people that know what they're talking about.
Speaker 2: If you've got some pest issue or a weed issue
Speaker 2: or something like that that is difficult, you know, difficult
Speaker 2: to manage, go into D and D and talk to Jeff,
Speaker 2: talk to some of the folks there, and you're going
Speaker 2: to be really surprised at the kinds of products they
Speaker 2: have that you're not going to find in a lot
Speaker 2: of other places, and that is well worth, as I say,
Speaker 2: the price of admission to be able to get that
Speaker 2: kind of service. All Right, Well, I'm gonna let's see here.
Speaker 2: We're going to head out to northwest Houston and talk
Speaker 2: to Ed. Hey, Ed, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 4: Good morning, Hey bout them about Hello, yes, sir, about
Speaker 4: some sedge hammer.
Speaker 8: And I want to know what's the best way to
Speaker 8: apply it, whether it's early morning or does it matter
Speaker 8: what time of day? And I believe you told me
Speaker 8: something about maybe putting a little water on before I applied.
Speaker 8: I need to refresh your course on it.
Speaker 2: Okay. So the only thing about putting water on is
Speaker 2: if you've got stressed weeds of any kind with any herbicide,
Speaker 2: you want to get those weeds actively growing because that
Speaker 2: allows the herbicide to move in and be taken up.
Speaker 2: If the weeds are stressed, they're not likely to take
Speaker 2: up the herbicide as well. Okay, so that would be
Speaker 2: the only thing about watering. The time of day doesn't
Speaker 2: matter with sedge hammer, Okay. I would you know it's
Speaker 2: got a does it say Is it just sedge hammer
Speaker 2: or is it such hammer two or such hummer plus
Speaker 2: or any kind of things like that.
Speaker 8: I think it's got an X on it or something.
Speaker 8: I bought it at Southward.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's it.
Speaker 8: This is the one that has just a fact and
Speaker 8: then yes.
Speaker 2: It's got the surround. Okay, that's critical, especially for a
Speaker 2: slick weed like nuts edge. Yep, you don't have to
Speaker 2: do anything else and just mix it up according to
Speaker 2: the label, spray it on the weeds. It's not gonna
Speaker 2: hurt your lawn. I would do it in the morning myself,
Speaker 2: just because it's cooler, more pleasant to be out, and
Speaker 2: it's always better to apply her. Besides earlier in the day,
Speaker 2: just because if there were a risk of some kind
Speaker 2: of damage, it's going to be decreased, you know, to
Speaker 2: a lawn or something. But with sedge hammer, you don't
Speaker 2: have to worry about that much. Okay.
Speaker 8: Well, I bought two applications because I figured as much
Speaker 8: of it as I have, I'll need that second application.
Speaker 8: How far in between applications would you say I need
Speaker 8: to be concerned?
Speaker 2: Well, first of all, be patient. Sedgehammer takes a while
Speaker 2: to show that it's doing anything. It's going to take
Speaker 2: you a couple of weeks and before you really see okay,
Speaker 2: I think it is taking these weeds down. So I
Speaker 2: would say probably about six weeks. If you needed to
Speaker 2: reply it, I would. I would give it some time.
Speaker 2: Here's the problem with this time of year. You've got
Speaker 2: winter coming on, and so six weeks from now you're
Speaker 2: not going to have a real, actively growing nuts edge
Speaker 2: plant most.
Speaker 8: Likely, right, And if I don't do a good job
Speaker 8: of eradicating, Now, when do I expect to see it
Speaker 8: come back at me again?
Speaker 2: Well, to the degree you don't control it, it is
Speaker 2: reproducing and you're getting more and more daughter plants, so
Speaker 2: it will be back in the spring. But if you
Speaker 2: had one, let's just say you had only one nutsedge
Speaker 2: plan in your yard right now, when it comes out
Speaker 2: in the spring with new growth, you need to hit
Speaker 2: it right down or by May you're going to have
Speaker 2: eight times that much nuts edge. And that's that's that
Speaker 2: reproductive potential. I put something on my website, the website's
Speaker 2: gardening with skip dot com, and it's a thing. It
Speaker 2: says nuts edge a closer look or I can't remember
Speaker 2: what I called it, but it's a thing on nuts edge,
Speaker 2: and if you will read it, it explains some of
Speaker 2: that how the weed itself is working and therefore how
Speaker 2: you have to go about controlling it.
Speaker 8: Okay, yeah, I found out how it worked in my
Speaker 8: bed year before last, and I dug it out fain
Speaker 8: by vain, and I've also applied some fedge hamming. Boy
Speaker 8: it worked fine, but you can't do it in Saint Augustine. Yeah, yeah, okay, okay,
Speaker 8: all right, I read read Thank you sir.
Speaker 2: All right, good luck with that. I appreciate, appreciate that
Speaker 2: very much. I was talking about D and D a
Speaker 2: second ago. D and D on Saturday the nineteenth of
Speaker 2: October from eleven am to two pm is having their
Speaker 2: thirty fifth anniversary Saturday, the nineteenth of October, eleven to
Speaker 2: two They're gonna have lunch, They're gonna have prizes, they're
Speaker 2: gonna have specials. I mean, they have giveaways from a
Speaker 2: dozen different places that they're going to be providing. That
Speaker 2: will be a great day to go buy D and
Speaker 2: D thirty fifth anniversary. By the way, congratulations, folks. That
Speaker 2: is an accomplishment. His family owned operation just keeps getting better.
Speaker 2: Saturday the nineteenth, eleven to two their shin Dig out
Speaker 2: there in d and de Feed. Well. I hear music,
Speaker 2: so I'm gonna have to go to music Freedom when
Speaker 2: we come back. You will be our first up. I
Speaker 2: just want to remind you that today after the show,
Speaker 2: from eleven thirty to one thirty, I'm gonna be at
Speaker 2: Nature's Way Resources. I'll be there from eleven thirty two
Speaker 2: one thirty answering your gardening questions.
Speaker 1: Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Scip Richard.
Speaker 3: It's just watch him as set.
Speaker 2: All right, folks, we're back. Welcome back. Good to have
Speaker 2: you with us today. Hey, I was talking earlier about
Speaker 2: some things I wanted to mention on the air about
Speaker 2: soil and beds and things. If you are wanting to
Speaker 2: do a vegetable garden or a flower bed, or if
Speaker 2: you've never had one you want to build one, or
Speaker 2: if you have one and you want to replant, always
Speaker 2: remember to take your the soil by adding compost with
Speaker 2: each transition. Every time I pull out a section of
Speaker 2: flowers and replant, I put in about an inch of
Speaker 2: compost and mix it into the soil. And that's assuming
Speaker 2: that I had good soil to begin with. You know,
Speaker 2: if you're going into a poor soil spot and you're
Speaker 2: trying to create a bed, you need a lot more
Speaker 2: than that, but at least keep its bruced up, if
Speaker 2: you will. In that way in the vegetable garden, I'm
Speaker 2: always adding to the soil. Always improve in the soil,
Speaker 2: because with each transition it just gets better and better
Speaker 2: and better. And so keep that in mind. If you're
Speaker 2: building a soil that is for a let's say a
Speaker 2: long term plant, let's say a rose bush for example.
Speaker 2: You can't lift the rose up and put compost in
Speaker 2: and put the rose back down every year. That's ridiculous.
Speaker 2: You wouldn't do that. But you can start off with
Speaker 2: a good quality rose soil blend. But also mixing some
Speaker 2: expanded shale down into the clay soil is very helpful,
Speaker 2: and it takes about three inches to make a signal
Speaker 2: magnificant difference immediately to a clay soil. If it's a
Speaker 2: soil that you're going to be working over the time,
Speaker 2: you can just keep adding expanded show it sticks around
Speaker 2: while compost decomposes away. But expanded jail is one of
Speaker 2: your tricks for having success in clay by opening that
Speaker 2: clay up. But it's not just a little sprinkling of
Speaker 2: expanded shell. Put two or three inches on there and
Speaker 2: work them in deeply to get the good effect. Let's
Speaker 2: go now to Frida and Pasadena and Hello Frida, welcome
Speaker 2: to garden Line.
Speaker 13: Thank you. Got another question about my hibistus plant. It
Speaker 13: is just loaded with beds. It's in a pot and
Speaker 13: it's just loaded with beds. And one morning I worked
Speaker 13: up and they had all dropped off under the ground.
Speaker 13: So I was wondering what I did wrong? Did I
Speaker 13: water too much, not enough? Or is something bothering it?
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is the tropical hibiscus, the kind with all
Speaker 2: the beautiful colors of flowers. Or is that the perennial
Speaker 2: one that basically comes in white, pink, and red.
Speaker 13: It's red. I think the blooms are red.
Speaker 2: Or the blooms the size of a dinner plate or
Speaker 2: are they more like the size of your your fester
Speaker 2: a little bigger than your fest Right, that's it, Okay,
Speaker 2: it could be. It could be any kind of a stress,
Speaker 2: A drought stress, a temporary drought stress can do that.
Speaker 2: Any issue that stresses the plant, you know, soggy wet conditions, stress,
Speaker 2: a plant. It could also be there's some insects that
Speaker 2: can cause that, and then certainly certain temperature things can
Speaker 2: cause trouble with those tropical biscuits keeping their blooms. But
Speaker 2: I think if I were you, I would just watch
Speaker 2: the sole moisture, try to keep it evenly moist. Is
Speaker 2: this plant and a container or the ground? If you
Speaker 2: said it, I.
Speaker 13: Missed that it's in a container.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, Well, in a container it's easier to you know,
Speaker 2: if the draining tools are plugged, it's easy to have
Speaker 2: soggy conditions, and in a container in general, it's easier
Speaker 2: to have dry conditions because the roots are confined to
Speaker 2: just the soil in that container. So I'm going to
Speaker 2: guess that it may be a soul moisture, but there
Speaker 2: could be insects involved, But I would just watch and
Speaker 2: see how they do. I think as you give it
Speaker 2: care and give it good sunlight, you should see it
Speaker 2: recuperate and give you a few more balloons before things
Speaker 2: cool off too much.
Speaker 13: Yeah, well it's I got it on the front porch,
Speaker 13: and not on the porch but the front and so
Speaker 13: it gets plenty of sun you know, water morning. But
Speaker 13: maybe I'm not giving it a nut.
Speaker 2: I don't know, well, you know, it's it's hard to
Speaker 2: quantify and say how much I give it. I water
Speaker 2: mine until the water comes out the bottom of the
Speaker 2: of the container, and then don't don't water a little while.
Speaker 2: But that would be my best recommendation for you. I
Speaker 2: wouldn't fertilize it at this time. Wait until next spring,
Speaker 2: and then we'll begin fertilized and that thing again.
Speaker 13: Okay, okay, Sarah, thank you.
Speaker 2: So much, you bet, thank you, Fred. I appreciate the call.
Speaker 2: RCW Nursery is the garden center that is there where
Speaker 2: Tomball Parkway two forty nine comes into about what a
Speaker 2: eight and RCW is They always have stuff going up
Speaker 2: right now. They're lantana's or gorgeous and you ought to
Speaker 2: see the bees and the pollinators and things, the butterflies
Speaker 2: visiting the lantana's. I got some lantana's from RCW, and
Speaker 2: oh my gosh, I look out the window and it's
Speaker 2: just there's all kinds of different unusual butterflies that I
Speaker 2: haven't seen before that are on those plants. They really
Speaker 2: really like those rcw's loaded on croton. So you talk
Speaker 2: about the color of fall, they've got it. Do you
Speaker 2: need vegetables for the cool season, you know, leafy greens,
Speaker 2: root vets, all those kinds of things, they got them.
Speaker 2: They still have their sale on trees fifteen percent off
Speaker 2: all trees. You can buy something a fifteen gallon size
Speaker 2: so you can take it on planet yourself, or you
Speaker 2: can get all the way up to two hundred gallons.
Speaker 2: By the way, RCW can come out and plant for you.
Speaker 2: They can do that. They can provide you the products
Speaker 2: you want to put down when you're doing the planting,
Speaker 2: and certainly the advice they know about trees. They grow
Speaker 2: their own trees. Basically, that's essentially what's going on there.
Speaker 2: Beautiful moms, very pretty mums that RCW color everything you need.
Speaker 2: So fall is the time to plant, especially roses and
Speaker 2: woody ornamentals and citrus. By the way, they have citrus
Speaker 2: that already have froot on them. This is the time
Speaker 2: to get it planted. So let's get that done now.
Speaker 2: Go out to RCW Nursery, take advantage of the sales
Speaker 2: that they have going on on trees and shrubs, and
Speaker 2: I think you will be very pleased with the results there. Again.
Speaker 2: RCW Nursries Dot com is a way website. They're located
Speaker 2: where Tomball Parkway high Way two forty nine comes at
Speaker 2: about way eight. I talk about the importance of the
Speaker 2: brown stuff all the time, and if you are south
Speaker 2: of Houston, Cienamultch is the premiere place to go to
Speaker 2: get everything you need for the soil, which I refer
Speaker 2: to as the brown stuff. Premium hardwood mulches to go
Speaker 2: on top of the soil, native hardwood, double ground mulches,
Speaker 2: two inch screen mulches, just wonderful, a bulk of Landscaper's Pride,
Speaker 2: black velvet, of rose, soil, of organic compost, of sand,
Speaker 2: gravel stone. They deliver within twenty miles for a small fee.
Speaker 2: And then if it's fertilizer, part of the brown stuff,
Speaker 2: microlife Asamite, Nelson's, the heirloom soils, nitrophoss, Landscaper's Pride medina,
Speaker 2: they have it all at Siena, Maltz. They are on
Speaker 2: FM five point twenty one just north of Roe Sharon
Speaker 2: Highway six and two eighty eight. Cienamalts dot com. Time
Speaker 2: for me to go to a quick break. When we
Speaker 2: come back, Beth, you will be our first up. No
Speaker 2: sweltering heat today. You hear me talk about Southwest Fertilizer
Speaker 2: all the time, and it's because I am so impressed
Speaker 2: with that place. You know, sometimes you run around town,
Speaker 2: you're looking for this, you're looking for that, and you
Speaker 2: go here and they don't have it, and you go
Speaker 2: there and they don't have it. Sallos Fertilizer has everything
Speaker 2: you could possibly need when it comes to controlling pests,
Speaker 2: controlling diseases, controlling weeds, fertilizing your lawn or your flower
Speaker 2: beds or your vegetables. Tools. Eighty foot wall of tools there.
Speaker 2: That's a lot of tools. And my little skipsweedwiper thing
Speaker 2: that I put online at gardening with skip dot com.
Speaker 2: They have the regular weed wiper itself with the little
Speaker 2: suction cups on it. They've got those so you can
Speaker 2: build your own. And the instructions are right there on
Speaker 2: the web for free. The instructions are for free on
Speaker 2: the web. You can't beat that. Southwest Fertilizer has been
Speaker 2: a tradition in Houston since nineteen fifty five. I mean
Speaker 2: they've been They've been a sponsored garden line since back
Speaker 2: in the Dewey Compton days before I was even called
Speaker 2: garden line. Every fertilizer I talk about is there. So
Speaker 2: go get your fall fertilizer. Go get any kinds of
Speaker 2: pre emergent weed control that you need, any kinds of
Speaker 2: disease control for your lawn. You can find them all
Speaker 2: right there at Southwest Southwest Fertilizer dot Com. That's the website,
Speaker 2: the location corner of Bissinette and Runwick in southwest Houston.
Speaker 2: Save yourself all the driving around everywhere and just go
Speaker 2: to Southwest and get what you need. I'm going to
Speaker 2: head out to tom Ball down and talk to Beth. Hey, Beth,
Speaker 2: Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 14: Hi Ski, Good morning, Skiff, Thank you so much for
Speaker 14: taking my call. We have some property. It's actually out
Speaker 14: and through all Texas, so it's like thee often and
Speaker 14: at College Station, undeveloped. But we have planted five apple
Speaker 14: trees out there and so far they're doing fairly well.
Speaker 14: We've had a little bit of issue with you know,
Speaker 14: just bugs and all that kind of stuff, so we've
Speaker 14: been working with that. But right now what we're concerned
Speaker 14: about is there is so much sticker birr we all
Speaker 14: around the trees and it makes it hard to manage it.
Speaker 13: All.
Speaker 14: We were just wondering, is there anything we can do
Speaker 14: to get rid of those sticker birds without herding the tree?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 15: Uh?
Speaker 2: Now is this a grass burr that you're talking about?
Speaker 14: Yes, yes, you know, like those prickly things just walk
Speaker 14: through the grass and it's I think it's all coastal
Speaker 14: kind of grass in there that we want to keep.
Speaker 8: But the weedy.
Speaker 2: Stuff is you know, the the weedy stuff kind of
Speaker 2: blends in a sense. It's a grass and it's growing,
Speaker 2: growing in the grass. Yeah, is that right? Okay? All right,
Speaker 2: So here's what you need to do as far as
Speaker 2: killing it right now. No, because if you kill the
Speaker 2: grass burr, you kill the grass the bermuda that you
Speaker 2: have there. Now, fruit trees hate to have grass as
Speaker 2: a competition. So if you could give them as wide
Speaker 2: of a bed of weed free soil as possible and
Speaker 2: moult it really well, they will do ten times better
Speaker 2: for you. Plus it keeps the lawnmower and weed eat
Speaker 2: are away from the trunk. But that is the first
Speaker 2: thing I would do, is kill everything there. I mean,
Speaker 2: you could use a general purpose killer, or you could
Speaker 2: use a grass only killer. If you go to my
Speaker 2: website Gardening with Skip there's a publication on it says
Speaker 2: herbicides for the weed wiper, but it talks about different
Speaker 2: herbicides for each kind of plant. And there's like three
Speaker 2: different options for grass control around your plants. And you're
Speaker 2: kind of you're located close to plants for all seasons there,
Speaker 2: and I know they carry these here in plant rail seasons.
Speaker 2: You can just pick some up when you're back this
Speaker 2: way or when you're home, but follow the label now
Speaker 2: going forward next spring, same website, gardening with skip dot com.
Speaker 2: I have my lawn care schedule, okay, and I know
Speaker 2: you're not trying to grow a lawn there, But on
Speaker 2: the lawn care schedule and on the disease excuse me,
Speaker 2: insect disease and weed schedule, that's a separate one. You're
Speaker 2: going to find things to take care of turf grasses
Speaker 2: and also to prevent the problems. And in February is
Speaker 2: when you put down a pre emergent herbicide like barricade
Speaker 2: to shut down grass bur when it tries to get started.
Speaker 2: So I would do it in late February and your area,
Speaker 2: and then I would do it again about sixty to
Speaker 2: ninety days later because grasspur will continue to germinate on
Speaker 2: through the summer. But those two pre emergent applications is
Speaker 2: how you're going to get it out of all the area.
Speaker 2: And I talked about killing it around, killing everything around
Speaker 2: the trees to have the trees not have that competition,
Speaker 2: but have nice mulch. And then the pre emergent in
Speaker 2: spring to kill the grassberg before the seeds can establish.
Speaker 14: All right, yeah, thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Perfect, All right, thank you appreciate that. Now on garden line,
Speaker 2: I don't charge for advice, but I do ask you
Speaker 2: to bring me half the apples when you get production,
Speaker 2: to drop them off the studio. We'll call it even well, take.
Speaker 11: Care, very fruitful.
Speaker 14: So yeah, thank you.
Speaker 2: All right, you take care. I appreciate that. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: mentioned plans for all seasons. They're right there on Highway
Speaker 2: to forty nine, just north of Luetta. Two forty nine
Speaker 2: is Tomball Parkway. So you're going from Houston toward Tomball
Speaker 2: exit Luetta crossover Luetta and it's right there, right hand
Speaker 2: side of two forty nine, easy to get to. It's
Speaker 2: a family owned rated business since nineteen seventy three. They
Speaker 2: are lawn and garden experts, you know, and When someone
Speaker 2: like Beth walks in there and says I've got grass
Speaker 2: burs how to prevent them, They'll walk you right to
Speaker 2: the wall and give you the product you need to
Speaker 2: use that's going to be effective against them. Because they're experts.
Speaker 2: You can bring in samples. You know, I'm trying to
Speaker 2: figure out what kind of burr weed is it. Just
Speaker 2: bring a sample in or bring a picture in and
Speaker 2: they can help you with that. As they like to say,
Speaker 2: they're at Plants for all seasons. Get your green on
Speaker 2: at Plants for all seasons. Highway two forty nine just
Speaker 2: north of Lueta. Plants for all seasons. Dot com Plants
Speaker 2: for all seasons dot com Just talking about, excuse me,
Speaker 2: making sure you get your weed control things and your
Speaker 2: disease control and insects and things like that. Nitrophos's three
Speaker 2: step kind of covers everything you need for fall for
Speaker 2: your lawn. And here's the thing, and fall we fertilize
Speaker 2: with a different blend of fertilizer. Nitrophos calls it the
Speaker 2: Fall Special Winter Riser, and it's made for our climate,
Speaker 2: for our soils, and for the way our grasses warm
Speaker 2: season grasses here in Texas, the way they take up
Speaker 2: there and when they take up their nutrients, it is
Speaker 2: a perfect fertilizer for doing that. They also have step
Speaker 2: two of their three step is barricade to prevent weed
Speaker 2: seeds from germinating. I was just telling Beth the BARRICADEI
Speaker 2: stop grassbers applied in spring. Well, now you're putting barricade
Speaker 2: down to prevent all the cool season weeds chick weed
Speaker 2: and clover and hen bet and carpet weed and cleavers,
Speaker 2: and they're just unfortunately, we have a whole lot of
Speaker 2: them out there in the yard that we have to prevent.
Speaker 2: And then nitrofoss Turf Eagle is a fungicide that's step three,
Speaker 2: and turf Eagle put down ahead of time, just like
Speaker 2: we put herbicides that are pre emergent down ahead of
Speaker 2: weed germination, ahead of disease appearance. We put down eagle
Speaker 2: turf fungicide. It soaks end of the tissue, so when
Speaker 2: brown patch tries to make circles in your lawn it can't.
Speaker 2: It prevents take all root rot from getting the upper
Speaker 2: hand infecting and getting the upper hand on your turf
Speaker 2: as well. Three steps nitroposs, three steps fall special barricade
Speaker 2: and eagle turf fungicide. You can find it at Bearings Hardware.
Speaker 2: You can find it at all spa Ace in the woodlands.
Speaker 2: You're going to find it at Lake Hardware in Angleton
Speaker 2: and in Lake Jackson, and you can also find it
Speaker 2: at RCYW Nursery. Widely available night Foss products makes it
Speaker 2: easy to do. You were listening to Guardline our phone
Speaker 2: number seven one three two one two five eight seven
Speaker 2: four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four.
Speaker 2: I was discussing the preventing weeds for fall. I've been
Speaker 2: noticing around town a blooming weed. That is it's not
Speaker 2: a cool season, it's a summer weed, but when we
Speaker 2: get to fall, it blooms, and that weed is a problem.
Speaker 2: It's called aster. Sometimes it's called roadside aster or black
Speaker 2: land aster. There's a lot of different asters out there.
Speaker 2: There's even ornamental asters we plan on purpose in our gardens.
Speaker 2: But this roadside aster, this black land aster, is a problem.
Speaker 2: You will notice it in the lawns that are drought stressed.
Speaker 2: The lawn is basically brown and the aster is a
Speaker 2: blue green color. It's kind of like you know broccoli
Speaker 2: and cabbage, that blue green color, but even darker than that.
Speaker 2: And you may see it all through a lawn, but
Speaker 2: I in my lawn it's green. And I got a
Speaker 2: neighbor that has a weedy lawn and they don't control them,
Speaker 2: and so the weeds end up coming over to my side,
Speaker 2: and I'm always having to deal with it over there.
Speaker 2: But you see these little, tiny, let's say, dime size
Speaker 2: kind of white to light leavin under blooms that look
Speaker 2: like little daisy flowers, little skinny daisy flowers. That is
Speaker 2: fall aster, and it's blooming now. Now. Just to give
Speaker 2: you some advice and prove the fact that I'm a
Speaker 2: gardening nerd, one year, I picked a past bloom astor
Speaker 2: blossom that already had seeds, and I opened it up
Speaker 2: and I counted the seeds, and there are fifty seeds
Speaker 2: in that thing. Now, Astor can form clumps on your
Speaker 2: lawn as big as a steerwool of your car. And
Speaker 2: I saw plants that had almost one hundred blooms on them.
Speaker 2: Fifty times one hundred is five thousand. If you leave,
Speaker 2: you're blooming asters there in the lawn, five thousand potential
Speaker 2: new plants are being left to come back next year.
Speaker 2: Have I made a point. Yes, I hope I have
Speaker 2: get rid of it. Don't You're not going to spray
Speaker 2: it now with a post emergent herbicides too late. It
Speaker 2: is too late when weeds become reproductive, meaning they're blooming
Speaker 2: in setting seats, too late to do the post emergence.
Speaker 2: But you got to get it done. And I get
Speaker 2: out and I hand pull it. At this stage, hand
Speaker 2: pulling it. An area as big as a steer roll
Speaker 2: in your car could just be one plant with one
Speaker 2: taproot coming out of the ground. If the soil's not wet,
Speaker 2: water it, get it wet, soften the soil and you
Speaker 2: can reach down and find the words coming out of
Speaker 2: the ground and just you grab it. And I kind
Speaker 2: of wiggle my hand back and forth because I don't
Speaker 2: want to just break it off. But if you wiggle
Speaker 2: back and forth as you're pulling it, it comes right
Speaker 2: out of the ground pretty easy, really very easy. And
Speaker 2: I have five gallon bucket and I just kind of
Speaker 2: hands and knees in it there. But if you stay
Speaker 2: with it like that, you can prevent it. If you
Speaker 2: don't remember the reproductive potential of that plant, it'll be
Speaker 2: worse next year by far. If you don't get the
Speaker 2: blooms and seeds out now, don't wait too long, because
Speaker 2: after it's bloomed a while, then as you're trying to
Speaker 2: pull it up, you're knocking seeds loose from the plant.
Speaker 2: So word of the wise, hope hopefully that's helpful for you.
Speaker 2: I've talked a lot about fertilizing in the fall. You know,
Speaker 2: Azamite is the product that we put down for micronutrients,
Speaker 2: and I anytime you're adding nutrients, you can call that fertilizing. Okay.
Speaker 2: I like to refer to asamite as building the soil
Speaker 2: bank account because when I say fertilized, you think it's
Speaker 2: going to make my plants grow, And fertilizer does primarily
Speaker 2: because of the nitrogen in it that boosts that growth. Asumite,
Speaker 2: you put it down, and it's not going to make
Speaker 2: your lawn grow and change, you know, like you gave
Speaker 2: it a boost. What it's going to do is get
Speaker 2: in the soil and all those nutrients needed in trace
Speaker 2: amounts are there and the plant can take them up
Speaker 2: and they're essential for gro You put your fertilizer down
Speaker 2: and you don't have micro nutrients in the soil, plants
Speaker 2: can't grow. Hazem enables that hazmite Texas dot Com is
Speaker 2: a website. It's widely available. You're going to find it
Speaker 2: all kinds of places. And guess what's time for me
Speaker 2: to quit talking? Turn the mic over to the news.
Speaker 2: I'll be right back. All right, folks, welcome back to Guardline.
Speaker 2: Glad you're with us today. What do you want to
Speaker 2: talk about? You got some questions, you got something you
Speaker 2: want identified, or maybe some suggestions for a particular area
Speaker 2: of the garden or landscape. Give me a call seven
Speaker 2: one three two one two K T R H. I'll
Speaker 2: be happy to help.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 2: Speaking of happy to help. B and B turf Pros
Speaker 2: is your go to place for compost, top dressing and
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Speaker 2: I love BMB because of every aspect of that company,
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Speaker 2: when you're hauling a bunch of compost around, you got
Speaker 2: very expensive equipment coming in to do quality aeration and
Speaker 2: quality compost top dressing. You just can't it's not worth
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Speaker 2: They go above and beyond to make sure number one,
Speaker 2: that they make a customer connection, but make sure you're
Speaker 2: happy and they use only the products that I recommend
Speaker 2: here on garden Line, like for example, CNA malts, the
Speaker 2: quality mulches and quality composts and things from Cnamulch. That's
Speaker 2: what they use at BnB turf Pros. So from the
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Speaker 2: That's what they do. Here's a phone number seven to
Speaker 2: one three two three four fifty five ninety eight seven
Speaker 2: one three two three four five five nine eight. If
Speaker 2: your lawn has been struggling this summer, there's no single
Speaker 2: better thing you can do. Then get a good good
Speaker 2: aeration and a compost stop dressing on top of that lawn.
Speaker 2: And people sometimes will ask me questions like well do
Speaker 2: I fertilize before or after that? It kind of a
Speaker 2: matter whichever way you want to go about it. You
Speaker 2: can do either way. If that if you were you
Speaker 2: going to do your typical lawn fertilizing, just do it
Speaker 2: when you want to do it, and don't worry about
Speaker 2: the compas stop dressing and aeration timing. It is sudden matter,
Speaker 2: all right, This as simple as that. Well, we're going
Speaker 2: to run out to the phones now. We're going to
Speaker 2: talk to Joan in Baycliffe. Hey, Joan, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 16: Good morning.
Speaker 7: My question is I have been in this home for
Speaker 7: thirty years, and two years ago I noticed a new
Speaker 7: It looked like a kind of leafy fence climbing plant
Speaker 7: that wasn't too big a nuisance. But over the past
Speaker 7: two years it is just rampant. And I think it's
Speaker 7: cucumber weed. That's what my little plant app told me
Speaker 7: that it was. And I'm trying to get rid of it.
Speaker 7: And it is the healthiest thing I've.
Speaker 15: Seen, but I haven't had it, okay.
Speaker 7: Years and years and years.
Speaker 2: Okay, So is it? Is it in your lawn too,
Speaker 2: or just flower beds or where are you seeing that?
Speaker 7: No, it grows up the fence line and it it
Speaker 7: acts like an ivy and it'll get on any plant
Speaker 7: that's there and just totally cover it, just you know,
Speaker 7: kind of build a little kent over it. Yeah, Well,
Speaker 7: got a bear like a berry looking. I guess that's
Speaker 7: the seed. It doesn't blue, it doesn't green green green,
Speaker 7: and the seed is green too. Quite it looks like
Speaker 7: a little green berry on it.
Speaker 2: All right, you know what, I can give you some suggestions,
Speaker 2: but let's do this. Will you send me some pictures
Speaker 2: of it so I can look and make sure that
Speaker 2: my answer is accurate. I'm going to put you on
Speaker 2: hold in just second and Crystal pick it up, and
Speaker 2: he will give you an email to send me. Make
Speaker 2: sure the pictures are in good our focus. Maybe one
Speaker 2: of the whole thing, the whole vine on the fence,
Speaker 2: and then some close up so the berries that are
Speaker 2: in focus and the leaves that are in focus, and
Speaker 2: I can tell you what to do, my quitte. My
Speaker 2: hesitation right now is this is this an annual or
Speaker 2: perennial uh And and so if we can determine that
Speaker 2: my suggestion for control is going to vary a little bit.
Speaker 7: Okay, okay, I'll be happy to do that.
Speaker 2: All right, I'm putting a whole crystal picket right up
Speaker 2: and we'll be on our way. Thanks for that call. Uh.
Speaker 2: Jorge is Hidden Gardens down in Alvin, Texas. Is your
Speaker 2: hometown garden center down south of Houston there. Uh always
Speaker 2: has good things coming into the place. He's got a
Speaker 2: lot of good fruit trees in you know. He always
Speaker 2: is centrus, and he's got things like peaches and whatnot.
Speaker 2: U and their quality and you fallow as the time
Speaker 2: to plant them. Don't wait till late winter to plant.
Speaker 2: If you can get a plant now and get it
Speaker 2: in the ground. Get it in the ground now. Now's
Speaker 2: a good time to do that.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 2: He always has good shrubs and trees too, outstanding and
Speaker 2: some huge ones as well, and he'll come out and
Speaker 2: plant them for you. Just it's just part of the
Speaker 2: due part of the negotiation of it's actually not a negotiation.
Speaker 2: But you know, you buy the plant, you say, well,
Speaker 2: I need you to come out and plant it. Okay,
Speaker 2: this Swiss going to cost and have him come out
Speaker 2: and do that. He does a good job of it.
Speaker 2: And Jorge is just continuing to expand you know, his
Speaker 2: garden center now carries the tree stabilizer, So if you
Speaker 2: get a tree, you got to get a tree stabilizer
Speaker 2: to hold it in place until it gets its root
Speaker 2: system well established. All at Jorgeshiad and Gardens. Now his
Speaker 2: fall hours are He's closed on Mondays, so be closed
Speaker 2: after this weekend first day, and then Tuesday through Friday
Speaker 2: nine to three, Saturday and Sunday eight to four. So
Speaker 2: nine to three during the week Tuesday through Friday, and
Speaker 2: then we're going to add an hour on each end
Speaker 2: eight to four on Saturday and on Sunday seventeen seven
Speaker 2: twenty one Elizabeth Street and Texas, just south of Highway
Speaker 2: six Jorges Hidden Gardens. We're going to go now to
Speaker 2: Larry and sugar Land. Hello Larry, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 5: Good morning. I've got some boxwoods that are deciding to
Speaker 5: die on me. You know, they started getting yellow and
Speaker 5: then it becomes they're going.
Speaker 2: Mhm okay, Well, boxwoods have a lot of problems. I
Speaker 2: am becoming less and less a fan of boxwoods just
Speaker 2: due to some of the issues that they have in
Speaker 2: the soil. Nematodes attack the roots make them very inefficient.
Speaker 2: I posted something to Facebook Guardline Facebook. A good while back.
Speaker 2: I dug some out in front of my house that
Speaker 2: I didn't plant. Their previous owner planet I'm full of nematodes.
Speaker 2: They have some soil borne diseases with fungal wilts is
Speaker 2: what they are. They get in the room in the
Speaker 2: plumbing of the plant and they cause it to decline.
Speaker 2: If you're looking at your plants over this progression, does
Speaker 2: it start off with like one branch goes down and
Speaker 2: then other branches or does the whole bush go down
Speaker 2: to kind of together at one time. No, it's progressive, aggressive, okay, Yeah,
Speaker 2: it could be those sections that are like that. Take
Speaker 2: a knife and as they're dying before they're dry and
Speaker 2: dead and everything's brown, slice through the bark vertically, in
Speaker 2: other words, the length of the direction of the branch,
Speaker 2: and look underneath the surface. And if you see streaking
Speaker 2: of brown and gray, that kind of thing that is
Speaker 2: a fusarium or verticillium type of wilt that is affecting them.
Speaker 2: If you don't look down and look for splits or
Speaker 2: cankers on the branch. So you got a green bush
Speaker 2: and over this branch is now dying. Follow the dying
Speaker 2: down to where it joins the healthy and there should
Speaker 2: be a canker or something right there. Larry, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: have to run to a break on this. If you
Speaker 2: want to hang on, I'll come back to you when
Speaker 2: we come back. I just leave. Yeah, let's just leave
Speaker 2: it that way and I'll be right back. All right, folks,
Speaker 2: Just hang on a second. We'll be right back. Guardline. Folks.
Speaker 2: Good have you with us. We have a lot to
Speaker 2: talk about and lots of folks to talk to as well. Hey,
Speaker 2: I want to remind you I'm going to be at
Speaker 2: Nature's way resources today from eleven thirty to one thirty,
Speaker 2: part of their Fall Festival. Fall Festival runs from nine
Speaker 2: in the morning till two pm. I hope you'll come out.
Speaker 2: It's free to get in. You're gonna have Latin food,
Speaker 2: You're gonna have local vendors. There's gonna be plant sales
Speaker 2: out there, live music, and plenty for kids to do,
Speaker 2: lots of children's activities. Again. I'll be there eleven thirty
Speaker 2: to one thirty answering your gardening questions. Everybody up in
Speaker 2: that whole direction, come on out and see me. I
Speaker 2: don't care if you live in Timbuck two, if you drive,
Speaker 2: come on out and see me. Bring your samples, bring
Speaker 2: them in a plastic bag, let me look at them,
Speaker 2: bring me photos to look at. However you want to
Speaker 2: go about it. We will get your garden questions answered
Speaker 2: and on the air. I have to kind of move fast,
Speaker 2: talk to us, meet people as I can. But when
Speaker 2: I'm there live you got me. I had I, so
Speaker 2: come on out. Let's spend some time like that. I
Speaker 2: wanted to mention that Wildbirds still has their annual feeder
Speaker 2: swap at all six locations. What does that mean? That
Speaker 2: means you find some feeder. You get one of your feeders,
Speaker 2: it's just falling apart, and no matter what condition it is,
Speaker 2: you bring it in. Twenty percent off a new feeder
Speaker 2: when you trade in an old feeder, and they mean
Speaker 2: any feeder. Now that's at all six Wildbirds locations. You
Speaker 2: can go online to WBU dot com wb U dot com,
Speaker 2: Forward Slash Houston, Forward Slash Houston. You'll find the six
Speaker 2: Wallbird stores. There's one near you. And when you go
Speaker 2: in there, in fact, I need to get back. I
Speaker 2: just use up the last of my birds. C putting
Speaker 2: some seed in my feeders and my mother in law's feeders. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm in charge of stocking those two U and Wilbirds
Speaker 2: has a best seed. When I say best, I mean
Speaker 2: there's no junk. When you buy a pound of wildbird seed,
Speaker 2: you get a pound of stuff that goes into a
Speaker 2: bird stummy. That's how that works. As opposed to getting
Speaker 2: kicked on the ground like cheap bird seeds often do
Speaker 2: wilbirds unlemited. Check them out. I'm gonna run back. Now.
Speaker 2: We were we were talking to Larry over about some
Speaker 2: box woods, and Larry, uh, you do, I would do
Speaker 2: that slicing and if you see the brown streaking in there, Uh,
Speaker 2: that is a soil disease. You can't do anything about uh.
Speaker 2: And so you just have to plant something other than
Speaker 2: boxwood in that area. If you were to wash out
Speaker 2: some roots and you see and you see knots and root.
Speaker 5: Okay, that's the reason I wanted to hang on UH.
Speaker 5: In the in the backyard, for example, we have some
Speaker 5: sunshine and la gustum that have done very well. But
Speaker 5: you know this is the front of the house where
Speaker 5: it's it's shaded. And so, yes, you got any suggestions
Speaker 5: for something that would replace the box foods.
Speaker 2: Uh. Dwarfyophon does pretty good in a shaded area. It's
Speaker 2: a native plant to our area and so it does
Speaker 2: pretty good. But it likes sun. But it'll put up
Speaker 2: with a little bit of shade. If how tall can
Speaker 2: the plant be? What's the top height in this for you?
Speaker 2: Limits it a lot. There are some hollies that are compact,
Speaker 2: but two foot is pretty low. Uh, So that that
Speaker 2: would be that would be an option. You might go
Speaker 2: with a taller groundcover if you're just looking for dark uh.
Speaker 2: The asparagus, fern, the foxtail types, they'll put up with
Speaker 2: some shade and they they stay down low. Uh, that
Speaker 2: would be one you might want to consider. But the
Speaker 2: other thing on the box would before we go, and
Speaker 2: I need to run to some other calls here, But
Speaker 2: before we go, the plant clinic at Texas A and
Speaker 2: M can analyze a plant and tell you what's wrong
Speaker 2: with it and what to do about it. And so
Speaker 2: we could sit here and guess, or you could, you know,
Speaker 2: cut it open and look and stuff. If you've got
Speaker 2: a plant that's dying, if you could dig it up,
Speaker 2: it still needs to be alive. In other words, it
Speaker 2: needs to be sick, not dead. Uh. And you you
Speaker 2: can drive it up to College Station or or you
Speaker 2: know from your area. You may want to mail it,
Speaker 2: but you go to plant Clinic dot T A m U,
Speaker 2: dot E ed U. Now they're going to charge a
Speaker 2: fee for that analysis, like any clinic would. But if
Speaker 2: you've got a whole bunch of them, it's very expensive
Speaker 2: to replace all those plants, so that fee is probably
Speaker 2: well worth it for you to consider. And Larry, I'm
Speaker 2: sorry to have to run, but I need to need
Speaker 2: to head out.
Speaker 5: That's fine, I'll consider doing that. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Thank you, all right, sir, thank you, thanks for the call.
Speaker 2: Appreciate that you know. Microlife fertilizer has all these options,
Speaker 2: both dry granular fertilizers like their brown Patch and liquid fertilizers.
Speaker 2: There's a seaweed, there's a fish emulsion type. There's one
Speaker 2: called biomatrix. It's outstanding. When you get Microlife products, you
Speaker 2: get microbes loaded in them, and microbes good microbes help
Speaker 2: fight back bad microbes. They're one of the many factors
Speaker 2: that we put together to create plant health. And so
Speaker 2: for example, I would put down the brown patch now
Speaker 2: it's time. That's their fall fertilizer. It is loaded with
Speaker 2: microbes that help outcompete the brown patch on your turf.
Speaker 2: I would also put out micro Grow bioanoculant. That's a
Speaker 2: maroon colored bag, a burgundy colored bag. Micro Grow bio inoculant,
Speaker 2: sixty three different strains beneficial microbes. And I could spend
Speaker 2: the rest of today's show just talking about each of
Speaker 2: these strains and how they work to help your plants.
Speaker 2: It is very very effective micro Grow Biinoculant and micro
Speaker 2: Microlife brown Patch. Now's the time to buy them, Now's
Speaker 2: the time to get them on widely available. Ace hardware
Speaker 2: stores Southwest fertilizer, your garden centers and nurseries we talk
Speaker 2: about on garden Line. Feed stores. Micro life products are
Speaker 2: widely available, easy to find. I'm going to head out
Speaker 2: to Mac in Jersey Village. Hey Mac, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 2: How can I help? Oh, good morning.
Speaker 17: About six months ago I started about eight hundred square
Speaker 17: foot area with San Augustine. A couple of months ago,
Speaker 17: started seeing brown patch. I put down a layer of
Speaker 17: compost top dressing from Nature's White. Seemed to help, but
Speaker 17: now it's come back week ago. I don't know if
Speaker 17: I did the right thing, but anyway, I sprayed with
Speaker 17: a hose and spray with bio advanced fungus control for lawns.
Speaker 17: And then last week I heard you talk about the
Speaker 17: natural foss eagle. So yeah, I'm wondering can I put
Speaker 17: down the egle today because it's it's it's just just
Speaker 17: not I'm just not seeing anything any results.
Speaker 8: Well.
Speaker 2: Uh, And to manage a brown patch, you need to
Speaker 2: avoid over watering. Can't control the rain, but avoid over
Speaker 2: watering and avoid over fertilizing with nitrogen, which is important. Uh.
Speaker 2: You if you used you said what did you say, Uh,
Speaker 2: the it was what was the product you put on
Speaker 2: boid Advanced? I yeah, yeah, I think that has propacannasole
Speaker 2: in it, which is effective against brown patch. Uh. The
Speaker 2: eagle is also effective, So you may want to just
Speaker 2: try that as an extra if it is just out
Speaker 2: of control. But just remember every area that's already brown
Speaker 2: is going to be brown till spring. You can't turn
Speaker 2: those around. Okay, okay, all right.
Speaker 5: All right, I'll see you.
Speaker 2: All right, take this way in, all right, I hope,
Speaker 2: so come on out. Yeah, look forward to that. Thanks
Speaker 2: a lot. We're going to have to go to a
Speaker 2: break or sherry. Hang on just a minute. I'm going
Speaker 2: to try to get through the producer I think an
Speaker 2: answer to your question, and if that doesn't solve it,
Speaker 2: I'll talk to you when we get back after the
Speaker 2: top of the hour. News here, just hang on for
Speaker 2: me one second. I want to remind everybody that I
Speaker 2: am going to be at Nature's Way Resources today from
Speaker 2: eleven thirty to one thirty as part of their Fall Festival.
Speaker 2: I officially designated this as a shindig. Shindig is an
Speaker 2: important word you need to have in your vocabulary that
Speaker 2: means we're going to have fun Latin food, plant sales,
Speaker 2: live music, kids activities. There'll be lots of venders there,
Speaker 2: and I'll be there answering your gardening questions, diagnosing. I
Speaker 2: even have some good handouts. They're going to give away
Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty dollars gift certificate and some bags
Speaker 2: of their fine leaf mole compost.
Speaker 1: To Katie r h Garden Line with Skip Rickards.
Speaker 3: Just watch him as well.
Speaker 2: Let's just jump right back in here and get going again.
Speaker 2: We got a lot to talk about, so touch base
Speaker 2: on a few things for you. I wanted to I
Speaker 2: haven't talked about Moss Nursery a lot lately, and I
Speaker 2: really wanted to mention that it is a destination place
Speaker 2: that you have to go. I don't care where you live.
Speaker 2: And I really mean that. You know, I talk about
Speaker 2: gardening tourism all the time, and uh, this would be
Speaker 2: an example. You know, Houston here, we've got garden centers north, south, east, West, Central,
Speaker 2: I mean, really, we do garden centers that are worth
Speaker 2: taking your family to when they visit town. And certainly
Speaker 2: if you're a gardener, worth visiting, Moss is down there
Speaker 2: in Seabrook, Texas. It's on Toddville Road in Seabrook. Anyone
Speaker 2: who lives in that region knows about Moss because it's
Speaker 2: been there a long time. A family garden center that
Speaker 2: is just a wonderland. It's you go and wander through
Speaker 2: and every time you turn a corner you see stuff
Speaker 2: you've never seen before, as well as all the familiar
Speaker 2: things that you're looking for. You know when you go
Speaker 2: to Moss Nursery you're going to find their houseplant greenhouse
Speaker 2: is incredible, incredible. Whether you like succulents or tropical foliage
Speaker 2: or whatever, they've got it. When you go to Moss Nursery,
Speaker 2: they're containers. They every where you go there's piles of
Speaker 2: all kinds of unique, cool containers that you can put
Speaker 2: your plants in. That is a lot of fun just
Speaker 2: picking out something new to try out. Good supply of vegetables,
Speaker 2: good supply of annual color are for fall color right now.
Speaker 2: They are ready to go. They are loaded up and
Speaker 2: ready to go. Trees, shrubs, fruit, trees, anything you can imagine,
Speaker 2: not Moss Nursery is going to have it. And so
Speaker 2: if you're looking for a special host plant for maybe
Speaker 2: a room that's a little on the dark side and
Speaker 2: you need something that can put up with a little
Speaker 2: less light. Go by there and check it out. If
Speaker 2: you need any kind of products and supplies, they are
Speaker 2: stocked up as well. But when it comes to fall
Speaker 2: falls for planting, and Moss Nursery is forgetting everything that
Speaker 2: you need to plant again. Moss Nursery dot com on
Speaker 2: Toddville Road in Seabrook. If you've never been there before, Hey,
Speaker 2: today be a good day this afternoon for an outing
Speaker 2: to run by Moss Nursery and check them out. I
Speaker 2: always like going in there. Jim goes on these trips
Speaker 2: and brings all kinds of stuff back, and there's no
Speaker 2: telling what you're going to find at Moss Nurse. I'm serious.
Speaker 2: Do you need a totem pole with carved faces in it? Yeah,
Speaker 2: they got those as well as everything else. It's kind
Speaker 2: of cool. I was talking about Ace hardware earlier and
Speaker 2: the fact that they have plenty of fire at baits available.
Speaker 2: You know, when we approach fire ants season, and this
Speaker 2: is a big fire ant season, you want to knock
Speaker 2: them down going into the winter. That's important. It gives
Speaker 2: you an upper hand coming out in spring, people use
Speaker 2: usually use fire at mound controls, and those are fine.
Speaker 2: They work on that mound, but fire ants reproduce and
Speaker 2: they'll be somewhere else in the yard forming a new colony.
Speaker 2: And it hadn't if you will boiled up to the
Speaker 2: surface where now you got dirt up on top of
Speaker 2: the ground. You know there's a fire at mount. They're
Speaker 2: not there yet. So if you just use mound treatments,
Speaker 2: you're playing whack a mole with fire ants. You kill
Speaker 2: this one, one pops up over here, You killed that one,
Speaker 2: one pops up over here. Baits cover all of it.
Speaker 2: Those mounds you can't see. They have workers. They have
Speaker 2: to feed themselves. They have workers that are out there
Speaker 2: getting food. And the food is the bait you put
Speaker 2: down laced with the firemant control product. There's organic bait,
Speaker 2: synthetic bait. You get your choice, just like individual mound treatment,
Speaker 2: you get a choice. Ace Hardware's got that covered. Every
Speaker 2: fall fertilizer that I've been harping on this fall is
Speaker 2: at Ace Hardware. They have them all and then some
Speaker 2: anything you need. When you hear me talk about controlling
Speaker 2: your lawn weeds with barricade, pre emergent. When you hear
Speaker 2: me talk about Eagle turf, funge aside, and any other
Speaker 2: kind of product, it's there at ACE Hardware store. Ace
Speaker 2: Hardware is easy to get because there's forty of them.
Speaker 2: Just go to acehardware dot com, find the store near you,
Speaker 2: and there you go, and allow yourself a little time
Speaker 2: when you go in there, because you're gonna see a
Speaker 2: lot of cool stuff. You're gonna walk through Ace Hardware
Speaker 2: and you're going to go that would be a perfect
Speaker 2: gift for you. Fell in the blank. It is, it is.
Speaker 2: It is really cool to go into an Ace Hardware store.
Speaker 2: Plus the fact that you know when you go, you're
Speaker 2: going to get the things you hear me talk about
Speaker 2: on guarden Line. I'm gonna head over to Humble now
Speaker 2: and we're going to talk to Greg. Hello, Greg, Welcome
Speaker 2: to garden Line.
Speaker 5: SKIP.
Speaker 8: How you doing?
Speaker 2: I good, sir?
Speaker 8: Have I have an.
Speaker 18: Issue with twenty year old like gustrooms in it. All
Speaker 18: of a sudden they seem to be wilting on me
Speaker 18: Because we've had drier weather, I've turned up the water.
Speaker 18: I think I may have exacerbated the problem. So at
Speaker 18: this point I'm trying to figure out.
Speaker 5: What to do.
Speaker 19: You know, do I do I shove the water off
Speaker 19: on them? Or do I? Is there is there something
Speaker 19: that you know? Maybe there's there's something going on in
Speaker 19: in the upper northeast Houston area in the soil that
Speaker 19: that's new this year that hasn't been around.
Speaker 18: So I'm kind of picking your brain on those.
Speaker 2: Okay, the gustrooms are pretty resilient when it comes to
Speaker 2: root issues. We don't have a lot of them. If
Speaker 2: they've been there twenty years, it's unlikely that some root
Speaker 2: rot just showed up overnight, you know, to hit your leagustrooms.
Speaker 2: It's probably a soule moisture issue.
Speaker 8: Now.
Speaker 2: Too much water, the roots can't get oxygen, and roots
Speaker 2: that can't get oxygen dye and roots that are dead
Speaker 2: can't take up water. So it's kind of weird. But
Speaker 2: you can have a plant standing in standing water that's
Speaker 2: wilted for that reason, which is kind of weird. But
Speaker 2: it could be too dry too. I would get a
Speaker 2: trial dig down about three or four inches and feel
Speaker 2: the soil. See what you think, you know? Is it
Speaker 2: too wet or is it not wet enough? I'll tell
Speaker 2: you this, I know you know telling somebody. To replace
Speaker 2: a whole bunch of shrubs means money, right, and time
Speaker 2: and effort. But lagustrum, in my opinion, is not a
Speaker 2: great long term shrub. It has some issues. You probably
Speaker 2: have seen leaf spots on your lagustriums. I was at
Speaker 2: a house just yesterday looking at some shrubs and the
Speaker 2: leaves were just yellow spots all over them. Is a
Speaker 2: disease that plagues lagustriums, and the only way around it
Speaker 2: is to rake up all the leaves and spray every
Speaker 2: time it rains. When the when the rain stops, you
Speaker 2: go out and spray. And nobody almost have to do
Speaker 2: that to shrubs. Lagustrooms get big and overtime they outgrow
Speaker 2: and then they get thin underneath. They got foliage on
Speaker 2: top of it, not underneath, And so I would no,
Speaker 2: I know, but I know lagustriums and that's exactly what
Speaker 2: they do. And so I guess you know you're you're
Speaker 2: calling me about them wilting, and I'm saying, hey, why
Speaker 2: not replace them. There's a lot of great shrubs out there,
Speaker 2: and falls the best planning season, so you know you
Speaker 2: don't have to do it, but it's your yard. But
Speaker 2: this would be kind of a moment where it might
Speaker 2: be good to decide, why don't I try something different?
Speaker 2: You know, maybe the area has grown more shady over
Speaker 2: time in those twenty years. Maybe, I don't know. You
Speaker 2: fill in the blank after the word maybe. But there
Speaker 2: could be other reasons why a different shrub would do
Speaker 2: better there as well.
Speaker 18: Yeah, well, Greg, hang on they.
Speaker 2: I was just reading a quote. You know, I love
Speaker 2: gardening quotes. Feel free to send me gardening quotes and
Speaker 2: I collect them. And I just read one that said
Speaker 2: that which people sow, they shall also reap. You've heard
Speaker 2: that before, right, does not always apply to the pictures
Speaker 2: on seed packets. That is true. I have been there, right. Hey,
Speaker 2: gardening is for fun, guys. You got to laugh at
Speaker 2: yourself sometimes. And I'll tell you this. To be a
Speaker 2: good horticulture, she got to kill a lot of plants,
Speaker 2: so have fun. Get out there. We don't kill plants
Speaker 2: on purpose, but hey, man, things happen, right, things go wrong.
Speaker 2: It's okay. That's why we have spades and rototillers. You
Speaker 2: can always do it again. You can always try again.
Speaker 2: You always learn and get better. That's true. And I
Speaker 2: guess that's the thought for the day. Something like that.
Speaker 2: Medina Products out in Hondo, Texas, has been probably the
Speaker 2: longest term sponsor of Guardenline that we've had. Medina Products
Speaker 2: are well known all over the state and really beyond
Speaker 2: Texas as well, because they have great products. They have
Speaker 2: products that work really well. One that I think you
Speaker 2: ought to give a good hard look at and actually
Speaker 2: get some in use this fall is Medina Plus. Now
Speaker 2: Medina Plus. It's fortified with essential micro nutrients, those little
Speaker 2: small things that you need, the things that you need
Speaker 2: in small quantities rather in order for plants to succeed.
Speaker 2: It's got growth hormones from seaweed extract in it. It's
Speaker 2: an excellent fol of your feed. You're not going to
Speaker 2: burn your plants with it. So you got a tree,
Speaker 2: a shrub, a lawn, Yes, you can put in a
Speaker 2: hose in use it on your lawn. It has Medina
Speaker 2: Soil Activator in it, the standard original product there, but
Speaker 2: Medina Plus also has forty trace elements. It's got natural
Speaker 2: growth hormones. As I said, it's got a number of
Speaker 2: different vitamin type materials that all are part of the
Speaker 2: concoction that makes Medina Plus work. It's going to increase
Speaker 2: blooming and leaf growth. It's going to promote fruit. Set
Speaker 2: on things that produce fruit. If you're going to do transplanting,
Speaker 2: you need to get some. Just mix it up, follow
Speaker 2: the label. Mix it up, put it in a watering can.
Speaker 2: Put that plant in the ground and water it in
Speaker 2: really well. Then fill up the soil around that plant
Speaker 2: and water it in again with Medina Soil Activator. Medina
Speaker 2: excuse me, Medina plus that contains Medina Soil Activator. You
Speaker 2: are going to be able to soak seeds in it
Speaker 2: and help them a lot of the things in it
Speaker 2: will be helpful for that seed as it begins to sprout.
Speaker 2: I would water my little seedlings when I'm trying to
Speaker 2: get them to come up, and as they sprout, water
Speaker 2: them again with Medina Plus. Again, it's got a lot
Speaker 2: of uses very and like other products from the folks
Speaker 2: at Medina, it's gonna work. You were listening to garden Line.
Speaker 2: My phone number if you'd like to give me a
Speaker 2: call seven one three two one two kt RH seven
Speaker 2: one three two to one two kt r H. When
Speaker 2: was the last time you went to Enchenned forest out
Speaker 2: there in the Richmond Rosenberg area. You know, if you're
Speaker 2: in Richmond, h and you're heading towards sugar Land. It's
Speaker 2: off to the right. It's on FM twenty seven fifty
Speaker 2: nine F twenty seven fifty nine. Enchanted Forest is the
Speaker 2: garden center.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 2: I like in Chenned Forest. In fact, I love it.
Speaker 2: It's always exciting to go there because there's always new
Speaker 2: things right now. The color, it's color galore all over
Speaker 2: that place. Uh. They are loaded up with pumpkins and moms.
Speaker 2: They got all their fall veggies in. They have shrubs
Speaker 2: for the shade of shrubs per sun. They've got trees
Speaker 2: like holly's and oaks and maples and the Chinese, just
Speaker 2: to name a few of the trees that they have
Speaker 2: in there. By the way, if you're gonna plant a
Speaker 2: shrubber a tree, do it or a woody vine, do
Speaker 2: it this fall. It's also good time to plant perennials,
Speaker 2: but especially for those woody ornamentals. If you get them
Speaker 2: done in late October and November, you're going to have
Speaker 2: way head start over next summer's heat and stress on
Speaker 2: our plants. Now, they also have Chinese fringe, and I
Speaker 2: if you've never seen or grown Chinese fringe, you need
Speaker 2: to I like it because it's not so huge as
Speaker 2: big shade trees. So a lot of our lotz these
Speaker 2: days aren't huge like they used to be in many
Speaker 2: decades past. Chinese fringe fits that it bloom's ever spring
Speaker 2: with shaggy, fragrant ballooms, and they've got them in a
Speaker 2: chanet for us to go buy, talk to them. Do
Speaker 2: look google around, look at look at that thing online
Speaker 2: and see what I'm talking about. It is awesome. We
Speaker 2: used to have a Chinese fringe at the extension office
Speaker 2: in Bear Creek Park before two floods pretty much put
Speaker 2: an end to that whole thing. But it was it
Speaker 2: was huge, bigger than any Chinese friends I've ever seen.
Speaker 2: It's probably twenty five feet high something like that.
Speaker 8: It was.
Speaker 2: It was big. It's beautiful, maybe even a little larger
Speaker 2: that that took a long time to reach that. By
Speaker 2: the way, today and in Channon Forest, Deston, my friend
Speaker 2: Destin note the Texas Garden Guy is going to be
Speaker 2: doing a talk on fall gardening starting at ten am today.
Speaker 2: Those would be down south in that area, you know,
Speaker 2: swing by there, Deston, Texas Garden Guy in tenned Forest
Speaker 2: topic fall gardening ten am This morning, be there or
Speaker 2: be squared. When he gets through talking, come out and
Speaker 2: see me. You have to all you have to do
Speaker 2: is drive all the way up to Nature's Way up
Speaker 2: in Conroe. But hey, road time, windshield time, right, Uh yeah,
Speaker 2: in Chenny Forest's a great place. I love to do that.
Speaker 2: I had someone talking to me the other day about landscaping,
Speaker 2: and I was telling them things they should do, and
Speaker 2: I could tell you know, when you're telling somebody something
Speaker 2: and you know that they are politely listening, but they
Speaker 2: have absolutely no intention of doing what you're suggesting. I
Speaker 2: can see it in the eye, just like when I
Speaker 2: go into a place to shop and I ask someone
Speaker 2: who works there a question, and with the first few
Speaker 2: words out of my mouth, I can just tell you
Speaker 2: they have no idea. They're not going to give me
Speaker 2: an accurate answer. They're going to give me an answer.
Speaker 2: They're going to talk for a while, but I might
Speaker 2: as well go, Thank you very much. I'm already done
Speaker 2: before I finished answering the question. Well, anyway, I was
Speaker 2: talking to someone and I knew they weren't going to
Speaker 2: do what they're gonna do because they just weren't interested
Speaker 2: in getting out and digging holes and planting drubs and
Speaker 2: doing some things. And I have an answer for that. Peerscapes.
Speaker 2: Call Peerscapes. Peerscapes makes magic out of your landscape. I
Speaker 2: don't care if you have a bed that I need
Speaker 2: to replace it with some drought hardy, disease resistant shrubs
Speaker 2: and things so I don't have to worry about them.
Speaker 2: That's what my conversation was about. By the way, well
Speaker 2: they can do that. Do you need do you need
Speaker 2: landscape lighting? Do you have poorly drained areas? Do you
Speaker 2: want a patio? Do you want like a barbecue brig
Speaker 2: barbecue or rock barbecue enclosed patio? They can do that.
Speaker 2: You need to go to their website though, to see
Speaker 2: what I'm talking about. Pierce Scapes dot com, pierscapes dot com.
Speaker 2: There's so many things they can do. I can't even
Speaker 2: say them all here on the show. At this point,
Speaker 2: you just need to call and see go to the
Speaker 2: pierscapes dot com, see what they can do, and then
Speaker 2: give them a call. Two eight, one, three, seven oh
Speaker 2: fifty sixty. Now they do good jobs, so they're always
Speaker 2: scheduling ahead of time, so don't delay. You want to
Speaker 2: get this work done soon and you need to give
Speaker 2: them a call so you can get on the schedule
Speaker 2: and get the work done. You got issues with your
Speaker 2: sprinkler system, they can do that too. Pretty much, anything
Speaker 2: that's a problem in your landscape or that you just
Speaker 2: have dreamt of I've always wanted to have you fell
Speaker 2: in the blank cal pier scapes. That makes it real simple,
Speaker 2: real easy. I was visiting with some of their designers
Speaker 2: a good while back, just talking to them about plants
Speaker 2: and design and things, and looking at all the things
Speaker 2: they had out, you know, these beautiful landscape designs that
Speaker 2: they had done. It's just like, Yeah, I'm impressed with
Speaker 2: these Folks'll tell you what. Let's go out to clear
Speaker 2: like and we are going to talk to Jim. Hello, Jim,
Speaker 2: Welcome to garden Line. Good morning Skip.
Speaker 20: I was out in the yard about two three weeks,
Speaker 20: right at the end of September, and I put my
Speaker 20: herbicide down and I did a really light brown patch feeding.
Speaker 20: But the bag says twenty pounds per thousand square feet.
Speaker 20: My yard's about twenty three hundred square feet. I'm wondering
Speaker 20: if it would be all right put the rest of
Speaker 20: that down on the on the lawn.
Speaker 2: Now do you remember what the product was you used?
Speaker 11: Brown patch?
Speaker 2: Oh, the microlife brown patch right? Yes? No, no.
Speaker 20: At the time I put the herbicide down, I put
Speaker 20: a real light uh yeah, application, and I want to
Speaker 20: finish up the bag.
Speaker 2: Now do you have brown patch currently in your lawn?
Speaker 2: Do you see the circles?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: Oh? Yes, I do? Okay, good, okay, well, yes, a
Speaker 2: s A P. I would get that done because once
Speaker 2: the disease infects, it's hard even with you know, chemical
Speaker 2: fungicides to kill the disease in the in the grass.
Speaker 2: It's better to be ahead of it. And the microlife
Speaker 2: is going to work by populating the exterior of the
Speaker 2: grass plant parts with the microbes that help not only
Speaker 2: fight against the disease, but we way I put it
Speaker 2: is create a hostile environment for diseases trying to land
Speaker 2: because you've got such a proliferation of good microbes that
Speaker 2: are in the spot. So I would, yes, I would
Speaker 2: definitely get it on. You might you might, you know,
Speaker 2: as I think about it, you might want to use
Speaker 2: their bioinoculant. It's called it's micro grow bioinoculant that has
Speaker 2: a whole lot of different groups of microbes as well.
Speaker 2: And that's something that you could also put out there
Speaker 2: on it if you want to stay, if you want
Speaker 2: to stay toward the organic end.
Speaker 20: Okay, and so I can do the bio inoculator and
Speaker 20: the brown patch together.
Speaker 2: Yes, the bioinoculator is not a fertilizer. It's it's a
Speaker 2: product that just puts all these different kinds of extra
Speaker 2: microbes out there and you watered in really good both
Speaker 2: of them. You can apply them both. Don't put them
Speaker 2: in the same hopper. It's always better to apply products
Speaker 2: one at a time. You can do it at the
Speaker 2: same time, same day, you know, same hour, but just
Speaker 2: and then water men really good. That'll give your grass
Speaker 2: the hopefully there's not too much infection that's already occurring
Speaker 2: that you're not seeing. Uh, but if you're going to
Speaker 2: stay on the organic end, that would be the approach
Speaker 2: to take.
Speaker 20: Alrighty well, thank you very much, have a great weekend, all.
Speaker 2: Right, Jim, thanks a lot, appreciate your call. You are
Speaker 2: listening to garden Line our number seven one three two
Speaker 2: one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two
Speaker 2: one two five eight seven four. You know Arburgate, Arburgate
Speaker 2: dot com is a website. It's the garden center just
Speaker 2: west of Tambul, Texas on twenty nine twenty And if
Speaker 2: you walk out to Arburgate, now your jaw is going
Speaker 2: to drop. The color that they have, the plants that
Speaker 2: they have in the decorations, the fall. The gift shops
Speaker 2: are unbelievable right now. They're even getting in some of
Speaker 2: the Christmas stuff coming up later. If you're going to
Speaker 2: go to visit someone for Thanksgiving, take them a plant
Speaker 2: from Arbigate. Take them a gift from Arbrogate. When you
Speaker 2: go to Arbigate. You know my broken record, mantra brown
Speaker 2: stuff before green stuff. Grab a bag of organic food complete,
Speaker 2: Organic soil complete, and organic compost complete. Those are three
Speaker 2: different things. They contain the nutrients that plants need for
Speaker 2: the roots, they contain the soil contains expanded jail as well,
Speaker 2: so does the organic compass complete. It's three bags. You
Speaker 2: put those three bags in the ground, follow the label
Speaker 2: and then put your plants in the ground. Or you
Speaker 2: can use a fertilizer later. But you've got to take
Speaker 2: care of the foundation so those plants will succeed in Boy,
Speaker 2: what does Arbrogate ever have some outstanding plants right now.
Speaker 2: Go check them out arbrogate dot com just one and
Speaker 2: a half miles west of forty nine on twenty nine twenty.
Speaker 2: I'll be right back. Good to have you with us.
Speaker 2: We are talking about all things gardening, and you know
Speaker 2: that's what we do here on garden and we answer
Speaker 2: your questions. By the way, another reminder, I'm going to
Speaker 2: be at the Fall Festival speaking of answering your questions
Speaker 2: at Nature's Way resources up in Conra. So if you're
Speaker 2: heading up Interstate forty five toward Conra from Houston where
Speaker 2: fourteen eighty eight comes in, this is going north from
Speaker 2: the left fourteen eighty eight from Magnolia, you turn right,
Speaker 2: cross over the railroad tracks and then turn right again
Speaker 2: and you're at Nature's Way. That's how you get there. Now,
Speaker 2: they're going to have their Fall Festival, which I think
Speaker 2: should be called the Fall Shindig because it is a shindig,
Speaker 2: which means we're going to have fun, children's activities, live music.
Speaker 2: There's going to be local vendors there, plant sales and things.
Speaker 2: They'll have some Latin food, and I'll be there answering
Speaker 2: your gardening questions. The whole event is nine am to
Speaker 2: two pm. I'll be there from eleven thirty to one thirty,
Speaker 2: so basically kind of over the noon hour time doing
Speaker 2: Q and I. You can bring me questions, bring me
Speaker 2: samples for identity, for diagnosis. I can even perform last
Speaker 2: rites on dead plants, but that won't accomplish anything for them,
Speaker 2: but you know, we got to catch them before they die.
Speaker 2: Seriously joking aside, We're gonna have a good time and
Speaker 2: I hope you can make it. And while you're at
Speaker 2: at Nature's Way, make sure you got room in the
Speaker 2: car the pickup, bring a trailer if you need to
Speaker 2: pick up some of the quality resources that they have.
Speaker 2: Nature's Ways been doing quality soil resources for a very
Speaker 2: long time. Many of the things we talk about all
Speaker 2: the time now on garden Line we're born at Nature's Way,
Speaker 2: such as rose soil such as a leaf mold, composts
Speaker 2: for example. And I could I could mention others, but anyway,
Speaker 2: come on out and see me today over the eleven
Speaker 2: thirty to one thirty I'll be there and Junior Gardening.
Speaker 2: You can bring samples and also bring pictures on your
Speaker 2: phone to that works just as well if you've if
Speaker 2: you have struggled in the past falls with diseases like
Speaker 2: large patch brown patch. If you've dealt in past spring
Speaker 2: with the proliferation of cool season weeds, and if your
Speaker 2: lawn just struggles at times, nitrofoss has got you covered.
Speaker 2: They got something called the Texas three step.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 2: Remember you do the two step on a dance floor,
Speaker 2: you do the three step on your lawn. The three
Speaker 2: step is Fall special wind riser. That's the fertilizer, perfect
Speaker 2: blend for fall. The three step is nitropos barricade to
Speaker 2: prevent weeds. Get it down as soon as you can
Speaker 2: now call it's going to take is a coal front
Speaker 2: and some raine and we're gonna have cool season weeds
Speaker 2: germinating and you will get to pay for that and
Speaker 2: fall if you don't stop them now. And the three
Speaker 2: step is Eagle turf fungicide a head of brown patch
Speaker 2: infecting so that when that disease or take all root
Speaker 2: rout for that matter, tries to infect and cause damage
Speaker 2: to your lawn. The fungicide, the systemic fungicide is there
Speaker 2: three steps, Fall special Barricade, Eagle turf fungicide. You can
Speaker 2: find it in a chanted forest in Richmond. You can
Speaker 2: find it at a Hardware City Memorial Drive, at Gym's
Speaker 2: hardburd Montgomery, and at the Stantons shopping Center down in Alvin.
Speaker 2: Let's head back to the phones. We're going to go
Speaker 2: to Bay City now and talk to Keith. Hello, Keith,
Speaker 2: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 21: Morning, Rick, Thanks for taking my call. Hey, I've got
Speaker 21: a highbiscus. I've headed my house for probably eight or
Speaker 21: nine years.
Speaker 18: It's been a beautiful plant.
Speaker 21: Every year it would grow up to at least six,
Speaker 21: maybe even eight foot tall ballooms all over it. This
Speaker 21: year it's knee high, and once in a while we'll
Speaker 21: get one or two balloons and that's it.
Speaker 2: Huh. Getting plenty of sunlight.
Speaker 21: Uh, it's on the east side of the house and
Speaker 21: it gets sun for you know, till probably one.
Speaker 2: Or two o'clock. Uh like it like it always has.
Speaker 21: Yeah, I mean I've been feeding it the same stuff.
Speaker 21: It gets watered every day, or not every day, every
Speaker 21: every other day. And uh, I mean I've changed anything, Okay, sure?
Speaker 2: So well, other than it's short, do you see any
Speaker 2: other symptoms or the leaves smaller? Do you see coloring
Speaker 2: in the leaves or lack of coloring or two stems.
Speaker 18: All the all.
Speaker 21: The leaves are green and pretty except for two stems,
Speaker 21: and they're taller than the rest of them, and they're
Speaker 21: kind of yellowish. They're not yellowish pale green, Okay, they're
Speaker 21: not a bright green.
Speaker 2: Well, Michael, I don't I don't know what to tell
Speaker 2: you on that. When a plant is dwarfed more like that,
Speaker 2: usually something's wrong in the roots in the soil. Uh,
Speaker 2: you know, not enough water to supper growth, not enough
Speaker 2: nutrient you're telling me. You know, you're watering it and
Speaker 2: you're fertilizing it. Yeah, and you know, I don't know
Speaker 2: what else would dwarf it. You know, very light doses
Speaker 2: of certain kinds of herbicides can kind of stunt a plant.
Speaker 2: But you usually see weird leaves when that happens, and
Speaker 2: you don't have that that it could be a root
Speaker 2: rot in the soil that is working on some of
Speaker 2: the roots, but not real extensive. Kind of unusual for
Speaker 2: a plant that's been happy for so long and now
Speaker 2: suddenly root rot shows up unless it went through a
Speaker 2: very soggy, wet period. So that those are observations from me.
Speaker 2: I don't have a crystal ball though to know what
Speaker 2: exactly is happening on that plant.
Speaker 21: Yeah, okay, that's just totally give it a track, because,
Speaker 21: like I say, my wife she loves that bush and
Speaker 21: it always comes out every spring and it.
Speaker 2: Just grows up. Is beautiful this year? Yeah, high you
Speaker 2: might try getting a a garden hose and trying to
Speaker 2: wash out some of the surface roots. You know, just
Speaker 2: where you can see the roots are they are they plump, white,
Speaker 2: creamy colored, healthy looking or do you see swollen spots
Speaker 2: all over the roots?
Speaker 8: Well?
Speaker 21: No, if you would keep mulch on it, and so
Speaker 21: I really don't.
Speaker 2: Well I'm suggesting. I'm suggesting you, Yeah, pull back the
Speaker 2: mulch and just get some of the roots. I don't
Speaker 2: want you to tear them up. I just you know,
Speaker 2: use the spade to loosen the soil and kind of
Speaker 2: wash some soil. See if you see knots. And if
Speaker 2: you do give me a callback, we can talk about that.
Speaker 2: But that that's about as far as I can take
Speaker 2: that one based on the information I got to go
Speaker 2: on at this point, Keith. But I wish you well
Speaker 2: and look forward to talking to you more. If if
Speaker 2: you can get some more if you notice some other things, thanks,
Speaker 2: thanks a lot for giving us a call. I do
Speaker 2: appreciate that the folks at Landscaper's Pride make quality soil.
Speaker 2: It's as simple as that. And when I say quality soils,
Speaker 2: I mean things like their compost peet made from locally
Speaker 2: screened pine It is excellent for improving structure, adding their
Speaker 2: organics into the soil. They have something called planting mix,
Speaker 2: and it's a blend of locally sourced pine bark but
Speaker 2: also with the sandy loam and the organics in it.
Speaker 2: And a planting mix like that is so widely adaptable
Speaker 2: that you can use it to grow just about anything
Speaker 2: you want to grow. Now. They also have the course
Speaker 2: the black velvet mulch. Always twelve months out of the year,
Speaker 2: the ground should be covered because where sunlight hits a soil,
Speaker 2: nature plants a weed. Black velvet mulch is a beautiful color.
Speaker 2: It's not dyed, it's naturally dark, and it just looks good.
Speaker 2: You can go to Landscaperspride dot com or follow them
Speaker 2: on social media to find stores and to find a
Speaker 2: lot more information about their other mini products. As they
Speaker 2: say at Landscaper's Pride, let's grow something together. Let's head
Speaker 2: out now to Alvin, Texas and talk to Michael. Hello, Michael,
Speaker 2: welcome to garden line.
Speaker 22: Hello, Hello, I've got this rather large Arizona ash tree,
Speaker 22: almost almost three feet in diameter.
Speaker 23: It's a big one.
Speaker 22: And up, okay, around up around the six foot up
Speaker 22: on the main trunk.
Speaker 23: The bark is starting to separate from.
Speaker 2: The I know it. I know what you're talking about. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I know it's talking about. Hey, Michael, I'm at a break.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go, but when we come back, we're gonna
Speaker 2: we're gonna answer that question for you. Just hang on Alan,
Speaker 2: You'll be the next up after Michael. We'll be right back. Folks.
Speaker 13: What once was?
Speaker 2: I love going out to Nelson Water Gardens, which is
Speaker 2: out in Katie, Texas. If by the way, if you've
Speaker 2: never been there, just go to Katie out I ten.
Speaker 2: When you get to Katie Fort Bend Road, Katie for
Speaker 2: Ben Road, turn north and it's just a hop, skipping
Speaker 2: or jump down the road on the right hand side.
Speaker 2: Nelson Nursery and Water Gardens Number one is awesome nursery.
Speaker 2: When you walk in the store, you are among one
Speaker 2: of the most beautiful low collections of house plants. I've
Speaker 2: seen they are in They're unusual, they're colorful, they're in
Speaker 2: awesome shape. I always have to stop there before I
Speaker 2: can get back into the rest of the nursery. The
Speaker 2: beautiful plants, all the kinds of plants you would want.
Speaker 2: I mean, do you want for a trees, Yeah, they
Speaker 2: got those shrubs, trees, they got vines, they got herbs.
Speaker 2: I purchased some herbs there a while back. Just really
Speaker 2: really quality plants. And then there's the water gardens. There
Speaker 2: are the koi ponds and the various kinds of fish
Speaker 2: that you would put in upon like koi or like shabunkin.
Speaker 2: And then there are the plants that you put in
Speaker 2: water gardens, and of course the water features. Anytime you
Speaker 2: can bring the sound of water home, you are going
Speaker 2: to have an outstanding setting. I was just out in
Speaker 2: my backyard yesterday visiting my wife and and talking about
Speaker 2: the sound of water. We have two water features in
Speaker 2: the backyard, and it just is so relaxing. And when
Speaker 2: you go to Nelson Water Gardens, you're gonna you're going
Speaker 2: to see that. After you pick up your vegetables and
Speaker 2: your flowers and all the kinds of things that you
Speaker 2: might want just stop in and sit and enjoy the
Speaker 2: sound of water. You will find features that you got
Speaker 2: to have in your house. Every time I go by there,
Speaker 2: it's like, yeah, I need one of those. I can't
Speaker 2: get enough beautiful, beautiful at Nelson Water Gardens in Katie.
Speaker 2: Let's do this. Let's go to Baytown and we're going
Speaker 2: to talk to Alan. Hello, Alan, Welcome to garden Mine.
Speaker 9: Good morning. My question is like third time I calls
Speaker 9: about New Sode. My house was built in a foball
Speaker 9: on in July and.
Speaker 5: Nothing's been done to it.
Speaker 2: But I'm six.
Speaker 9: It's just the yards begging for the fertilization schedule to start.
Speaker 9: That's going to happen tomorrow. Okay, I'm noticing to building
Speaker 9: all these these holes around me. The whole front yard
Speaker 9: is nothing but sand. They laid the saw down in it.
Speaker 9: Would it benefit my yard if I and lay some
Speaker 9: top soil down or combination sicky sicky soil and sand,
Speaker 9: or don't worry about it?
Speaker 2: Do you know?
Speaker 9: Grass is growing?
Speaker 2: What's what's underneath the grass right now? Do you know?
Speaker 9: I think if I'm looking at what to do for
Speaker 9: the rest of the homes they're building, there's nothing but sand,
Speaker 9: I don't see any of the kind of soil being
Speaker 9: brought out there.
Speaker 2: Well, no, it wouldn't help to put that out. What
Speaker 2: you need to do is get my schedule from gardening
Speaker 2: with skip dot com and follow. I have organic and
Speaker 2: synthetic fertilizer options that are outstanding day. A good one
Speaker 2: right now would be Nelson's carbo load.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: It's it's designed for fall and it also has that
Speaker 2: pre emergent in it. So if your lawn is you
Speaker 2: know a little bit then in places rather than winter
Speaker 2: weeds sprouting, it's going to prevent those and you kind
Speaker 2: of kill too birds with one stone with that the
Speaker 2: Nelson carbo load. Uh. The fertilizer is important going forward.
Speaker 2: Anytime you get an opportunity to do like an narration
Speaker 2: or compost stop dressing something along those lines, I would
Speaker 2: go ahead and do that. That also helps your lawn.
Speaker 2: But primarily it's water and fertilizing and regular mowing.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: You want to go on a regular schedule at a
Speaker 2: at a good height.
Speaker 9: Well that's what I do. It's getting all of that
Speaker 9: and except for the fertilizer. For fertilizer yet, because I
Speaker 9: didn't get into July the house until I'm waiting to
Speaker 9: like probably today or tomorrow. And I've already already. I
Speaker 9: know you've mentioned the Nelsons already about the nitrofiles. So
Speaker 9: but I can go ahead and do that, okay, and
Speaker 9: at the same time, the same.
Speaker 2: Day, yes, not in the same hopper, but same time,
Speaker 2: same day nitrophiles fall special and barricade or an excellent
Speaker 2: combination to accomplish the same thing in your lawn.
Speaker 11: All right, okay, well, thank you, thank you very much.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then just next summer when it's dry, give
Speaker 2: it a good soaking periodically, and I think you'll get
Speaker 2: that lone in good shape.
Speaker 9: Okay, all right, I just didn't like to see just
Speaker 9: to say I note that needed some good dirt underneath it,
Speaker 9: or not so very good.
Speaker 2: We're going we're gonna make it easy. We're gonna make
Speaker 2: it easy, and you follow my schedule online and you'll
Speaker 2: get there. Thanks a lot for that call. Uh yeah,
Speaker 2: I was. I was mentioning that that carverload. I've been
Speaker 2: wanting to tell you guys about another product from Nelson,
Speaker 2: and that's the nutri Star Genesis. Now that's a little
Speaker 2: it's a it's a clear plastic jar screw top lad
Speaker 2: that we use it for transplanting. So when I'm last year,
Speaker 2: I grew some tomato transplants and I bumped them up
Speaker 2: to bigger pots. Before I planted them, I put Nutrishar
Speaker 2: Genesis in, and it's a good thing. I wasn't standing
Speaker 2: over them. They took off growing so fasty to hit
Speaker 2: me in the chin. I'm seriously telling you this stuff
Speaker 2: really works. If you're gonna put rose bushes in, put
Speaker 2: some in the hole, mix it in. This is not
Speaker 2: a salt based fertilizer. It's gonna burn plant roots or anything.
Speaker 2: It just works well. Later on, you can follow that
Speaker 2: up with color Star or Nutral Star some of the
Speaker 2: other Nelson plant food products. But any planting you're gonna do,
Speaker 2: just have a jar of Genesis on the shelf Nutristar
Speaker 2: Genesis from Nelson and use it every time you plant.
Speaker 2: Mix it into the soil, set the plant in, water
Speaker 2: it in real good, and then you watch the results.
Speaker 2: Let's head out to Fairfield. We're going to talk to Marty. Hey, Marty,
Speaker 2: welcome to guard Line Morning.
Speaker 5: Skip.
Speaker 8: Hey.
Speaker 24: I was going to see if I could put some
Speaker 24: Basillosteria gensis on my cabbage plant and my.
Speaker 2: Callflower.
Speaker 24: They got looks like they're eating snails are eating the leaves.
Speaker 2: Okay, so you're you're not talking about snail bait. You're
Speaker 2: talking about BT. Yes, putting it on okay pillar yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: if it's caterpillars, BT works if you can spray upward
Speaker 2: from underneath the leaves. A lot of those caterpillars hide
Speaker 2: under the leaves. When I see any of those kinds
Speaker 2: of vegetables in my garden and some leaf areas are missing,
Speaker 2: I turned the leaves over, and there's always going to
Speaker 2: be a little looper under there that's doing it. Now,
Speaker 2: if it's caused by snails, of course you'll see the slimy,
Speaker 2: dried trails from them. And that's where a snail bait
Speaker 2: would work. But BT won't touch a snail, but snow
Speaker 2: bait will. But yes, BT caterpillars.
Speaker 24: Yeah, okay, I didn't know. I thought maybe it would
Speaker 24: kill both of them, all right, So I don't know now.
Speaker 2: The snail baits. There are snail baits with like a
Speaker 2: poison in them, a chemical poison kind of thing, But
Speaker 2: a lot of snail baits are just iron based. They
Speaker 2: basically take iron and put it into something. The snails
Speaker 2: love to eat a bait, and then they end up
Speaker 2: getting so much iron that it causes a terminal case
Speaker 2: of constipation. Isn't that an interesting thing to happen to
Speaker 2: the snails. It's kind of if you think about it
Speaker 2: too much, it's a little scary. But no, seriously, the
Speaker 2: snail baits are very safe and as a result, I
Speaker 2: like those iron based baits. Slug O is just an
Speaker 2: example of one of the brands.
Speaker 24: Well, I don't see a caterpillar and I don't see
Speaker 24: any snail slime. It's just big little chunks and big
Speaker 24: chunks are out of the leaves.
Speaker 2: Turn over a bunch of leaves, look good, and then
Speaker 2: go out, go out tonight with a flashlight. We do
Speaker 2: have pasts that are nocturnal. They kind of hide out
Speaker 2: during the day and then they come out to feed
Speaker 2: at night, and a number of caterpillars are that way.
Speaker 2: That's how the sod webworms and our lawns are. They
Speaker 2: hide during and then they come out at night to
Speaker 2: feed primarily. But anyway, find out what it's doing it
Speaker 2: and then you'll know what to do about it. Okay,
Speaker 2: thank you, all right, Marty, Thanks for the call. I
Speaker 2: appreciate that very much. Bye bye, thanks a lot. Well,
Speaker 2: I just want to remind you that I'm going to
Speaker 2: be at Nature's Way Resources today. I hope you come
Speaker 2: out and see me. All of you out there and
Speaker 2: Conroe and Willis, come down from Huntsville, those of you
Speaker 2: in North Houston out to the east and west Montgomery direction,
Speaker 2: come on by. We're going to be answering your gardening questions.
Speaker 2: I'm going to be giving away four bags of the
Speaker 2: famous Nature's Way finely screened leaflold compost. That stuff is
Speaker 2: gold flat gold works for about every thirty minutes. I'll
Speaker 2: give away a bag of that. They're gonna give away
Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty dollars gift certificate, which is super cool. Boy.
Speaker 2: That will be fun. Leave some room in your car,
Speaker 2: bring a truck, bring a trailer, and take home some
Speaker 2: quality materials from Nature's Way so that you can build
Speaker 2: some cool stuff. That's going to be quite the shindig,
Speaker 2: lots of fun. We're gonna come on and see me.
Speaker 2: I'd love to meet you, shake your hands, and help
Speaker 2: you with a more in depth approach to your gardening questions.
Speaker 3: As the world.
Speaker 2: Welcome back, Welcome back to guard Line. Glad you're here.
Speaker 2: Thanks for thanks for listening. I appreciate that. I hope
Speaker 2: you're having fun. I certainly am. Uh you know, talking
Speaker 2: about gardening. I can only do that forever, all day,
Speaker 2: every day. I love it. Kind of like eating enchiladas.
Speaker 2: I think if I eat enchiladas ever meal, I would
Speaker 2: I would be just be happy. That would be good.
Speaker 2: I don't know if that way, but I sure feel
Speaker 2: that way. Welcome back to garden Line. You know the
Speaker 2: folks at RCW Garden Center Nursery RCW Nursery, it's the
Speaker 2: garden center there at Tombol Parkway in about way eight.
Speaker 2: They just have the best stock of trees and shrubs
Speaker 2: and always of roses that you're going to find anywhere.
Speaker 2: And they've got sales going on and it's always a
Speaker 2: good time to go out to RCW. You know RCW
Speaker 2: they grow Williamson Tree Farm grows trees up there in
Speaker 2: the Plantersville area, and so you go buy RCW and
Speaker 2: you're getting the trees that are grown there, and as
Speaker 2: a result, they have got outstanding stock. They know what
Speaker 2: trees grow here. They're not going to grow some species
Speaker 2: it's not going to do well here. And they know
Speaker 2: how to plant them, they know how to advise you.
Speaker 2: They can point you at the right ones. They have
Speaker 2: trees down to fifteen gallon size all the way up
Speaker 2: to two hundred gallon size fifteen percent off right now.
Speaker 2: The trees at RCW, and they're outstanding. You out to
Speaker 2: sea southern magnolias that they have. Oh they're gorgeous, burrows,
Speaker 2: lace bark elms, and on and on and on. They're great.
Speaker 2: And this is the time to plant it. So if
Speaker 2: you would like to have shade, it's time to get
Speaker 2: that done. Is I like to say, you know the
Speaker 2: best time to plant trees forty years ago. Second best
Speaker 2: time is today, and the absolute best time of year
Speaker 2: is in the fall. Get that done. You have all
Speaker 2: winner for that tree to get established. It gives you
Speaker 2: a better chance of success. It just simply does. RCW
Speaker 2: also has shrubs. They've got a great crop of cetrus
Speaker 2: in with fruit on the cetrus trees. Is that cool
Speaker 2: or what? And you just find all the plants you need.
Speaker 2: You do you want landscape color like crotons and lanannas
Speaker 2: and all the other annuals that we put out for
Speaker 2: this time of year. Do you need vegetable transplants? Whatever
Speaker 2: you need is there, including the fertilizers that you need
Speaker 2: and the other products that help that plant have success.
Speaker 2: Go to rcwnurseries dot com w nurseries dot com. Again,
Speaker 2: they're the garden Center. We're about Way eight and Tomo
Speaker 2: Parkway FM two forty nine. Come together, easy to get
Speaker 2: to and you will enjoy shopping as well. Plus you
Speaker 2: have a lot of good landscape bling. They always have
Speaker 2: some fun stuff there for the landscape. You are listening
Speaker 2: to Garden Line and our phone number is seven to
Speaker 2: one three two one two five eight seven four seven
Speaker 2: one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Talking
Speaker 2: about trees, I had somebody ask me just earlier today
Speaker 2: during the break about Affordable Tree service and hiring someone
Speaker 2: to come in and do arbor work on their trees,
Speaker 2: and his hands down, absolutely that's who I would send
Speaker 2: you to. Go to Martin spoon Moore from Affordable Tree.
Speaker 2: He's been doing this for a very long time. He's experienced,
Speaker 2: he knows what he's doing, and we are now entering
Speaker 2: into the pruning season that we prune any time of
Speaker 2: the year. We need to, but the best pruning season
Speaker 2: of the year, Martin gets booked up, so don't delay
Speaker 2: give him a call. Even if he just comes out
Speaker 2: and does an assessment of the landscape. What if these
Speaker 2: trees need is there any work?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 2: For one hundred and fifty can come out do an
Speaker 2: assessment and that is a money well spent because it
Speaker 2: goes right back into the price of doing any kind
Speaker 2: of work that you might need, whether it's pruning, you know.
Speaker 2: He also does root feeding. He also does consulting advising,
Speaker 2: like okay, I want to put it a driveway. He
Speaker 2: look at this beautiful tree. I don't want to hurt it.
Speaker 2: Oh gosh, you have to call ahead of time. Do
Speaker 2: not do work trenching or putting in slabs around a
Speaker 2: tree without having someone that knows what they're talking about,
Speaker 2: like Martin that's helping you with that. The phone number
Speaker 2: you want to write this down seven one three six
Speaker 2: twenty six sixty three seven one three six nine nine
Speaker 2: two six six three. I'm gonna give you the website.
Speaker 2: If you like websites, afftree service dot com you can
Speaker 2: go to you can find out about them that way
Speaker 2: a ff tree service dot com or call seven one
Speaker 2: three six nine nine two six six three. We're gonna
Speaker 2: head out now to talk to Rick. Hello, Rick, welcome
Speaker 2: to garden Line.
Speaker 12: Good morning, said a couple of questions. I just put
Speaker 12: in some new sable palms after the hurricane took out
Speaker 12: all my existing palms. Uh. In anyway, I'm just wondering
Speaker 12: about care for them, Like I said, I've just they've
Speaker 12: been in for about three weeks and just too much water,
Speaker 12: not enough water. Should I fertilize them? Uh? And they've
Speaker 12: been established. They're like seven eight foot twelve foot trunks.
Speaker 12: So just a question.
Speaker 2: Okay, tell me again, what what kind of palm do
Speaker 2: you have?
Speaker 12: They're sables?
Speaker 2: Sable? Okay, good, that's a great palm. Uh. So not
Speaker 2: a lot of care is needed. You want to make
Speaker 2: sure they have adequate water. So always water the base
Speaker 2: of the plant if for some reason your soil, you know,
Speaker 2: for some reason, if your soil is heavy clay, you
Speaker 2: want to be careful not to put them in a
Speaker 2: swamp by overwatering all the time. Right, But I would
Speaker 2: I would just make sure and give them adequate moisture
Speaker 2: to keep that root ball moist once we get into
Speaker 2: the wintertime. The demands go down a lot on all
Speaker 2: kinds of plants, and so we don't have to worry
Speaker 2: about it as much, but we just want to help
Speaker 2: them get established well with adequate watering but not overwatering.
Speaker 2: Some people will actually put a PVC pipe in the ground,
Speaker 2: like a two inch PVC pipe vertically straight down into
Speaker 2: the ground. Maybe put it a couple of feet deep,
Speaker 2: you know, or something like that, and when you when
Speaker 2: your soil gets water logged, water can move up in
Speaker 2: that pipe, and so later on you can come in
Speaker 2: with a stick like one of those little yard sticks,
Speaker 2: but the square kind that's about an inch square, or
Speaker 2: just a dowel rod, and you stick it down in
Speaker 2: there and pull it out, and you can see where
Speaker 2: the water table is. And so if you got a
Speaker 2: water table that's up within a foot of the surface,
Speaker 2: that stop stop watering that you don't want to drown them.
Speaker 2: But that's one way you can find out what's happening underground,
Speaker 2: because that's not good for trees. So that's just a
Speaker 2: little trick tip. You could have people ask me all
Speaker 2: the time, how much do I water? How long do
Speaker 2: I wader? How often do I water? And it's just
Speaker 2: there's so many variables that it's hard to answer that question.
Speaker 2: But with that PBC pipe you kind of know on
Speaker 2: trees if they're getting too much or not right.
Speaker 12: Well, the other part of that was we had the
Speaker 12: limbs tied up, of course, and they said leave them
Speaker 12: tied up for about two months before you undo them.
Speaker 12: But a lot of them have started dying off, and
Speaker 12: he said, don't worry about that.
Speaker 2: He said, I kill them.
Speaker 8: What I bought them for.
Speaker 12: Me said, you know, I typically I would cut them
Speaker 12: all off, but people like to see a little bit
Speaker 12: of palm fronds when they first buy tree.
Speaker 2: You spend that kind of money, so yeah, he said, really, yeah,
Speaker 2: just leave them well when you open them up, when
Speaker 2: you when there, you take the tie off, or whoever
Speaker 2: does that takes the tie off and they expand out.
Speaker 2: Always leave See, if you think of palms as having
Speaker 2: a rounded top, uh you in your pruning, you you
Speaker 2: want the problem not to take more than horizontal out.
Speaker 2: In other words, if it's a clock you're looking at
Speaker 2: from three o'clock to nine o'clock, you don't want it
Speaker 2: to go up any higher than that. The branches you
Speaker 2: want at least horizontal freedom and it can hang down
Speaker 2: even more, but never prune more than than that horizontal
Speaker 2: line across the thing. Hey, I've got to I've got
Speaker 2: to take a little break. But I hope that helps.
Speaker 2: And good luck with your plants, and thanks again for
Speaker 2: that call. We are entering. We're in the middle of
Speaker 2: our last hour for the day. I'm going to be
Speaker 2: heading to Nature's Way Resources after the show, So eleven
Speaker 2: thirty to one thirty, come by and see me at
Speaker 2: the big Shindig, the fall festival there at Nature's Way Resources.
Speaker 2: Bring me your plants, your disease infested, your insect infected,
Speaker 2: your what else is on a planet nutrient star plants
Speaker 2: yearning to breathe free. I'll pretend that I'm am Elazarath,
Speaker 2: writing a horticulture poet here about the statue of Liberty.
Speaker 2: I'll be happy to diagnose them and help you in
Speaker 2: any way that I can. We're going to start this
Speaker 2: hour by going or this segment by going out to
Speaker 2: Tracy in Houston. Hello, Tracy, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 8: Hello, how will you today?
Speaker 2: I'm well, thank you to help awesome.
Speaker 7: I'll be quick, Okay, two things, Can I go ahead?
Speaker 2: And I know it's February.
Speaker 8: But can I go ahead and trim my knockout roses?
Speaker 2: They look absolutely horrible. Well, they're gonna look horrible because
Speaker 2: of a number of different things that have been going
Speaker 2: on with them. A lot of roses are looking a
Speaker 2: little worse for the wear. I'm a little concerned about
Speaker 2: stimulating a lot of growth with cold weather coming so soon.
Speaker 2: I'd normally do my trimming back of roses like in
Speaker 2: late August to get a good October show out of them.
Speaker 2: But I think at this point, if you need to
Speaker 2: trim a little back just for the size of the
Speaker 2: bush or whatever, go ahead, But I would mainly wait
Speaker 2: at this point. Now, I would wait and do most
Speaker 2: of my printing at the end of winter. I think
Speaker 2: February would be a good time to do that. Okay.
Speaker 7: Last of all, this running vine that keeps wrapping itself
Speaker 7: around my roses, it's a constant thing, sometimes three times
Speaker 7: wrapped around.
Speaker 2: What causes that?
Speaker 8: And how can I kill it?
Speaker 2: I need to see what it is if you are
Speaker 2: able to send me. Are you able to send me
Speaker 2: a photo you take of the vine up close? Run
Speaker 2: and see the leaves?
Speaker 22: No, Because I got out of six o'clock and kill them,
Speaker 22: to them all off on row.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's fine, Tracy, you're not wasting time out there. Well,
Speaker 2: I don't know what it is. It's probably a broadly fine.
Speaker 2: If it's a perennial and you break it off and
Speaker 2: it comes right back out of the ground when you
Speaker 2: cut it off. If you will paint a certain kind
Speaker 2: of herbicide on the stem of the vine, you don't
Speaker 2: want to spray it because you don't want to hurt
Speaker 2: your plants. But there's one called the ingredient is triclope here.
Speaker 2: And if you go to my website Gardening with Skip
Speaker 2: dot com, there's herbicides to use on skip'sweed wiper, and
Speaker 2: all the products that contain triclopp here are listed on there.
Speaker 2: And you just wipe it either on the cut surface
Speaker 2: or on the base of the vine itself, and that
Speaker 2: moves down in the vine. Don't spray it, wipe it
Speaker 2: on and then it'll it'll kill the vine. Okay, all right,
Speaker 2: thank you so much for that information. All Right, you
Speaker 2: take care, Tracy, have a good rest of your weekend.
Speaker 2: You are listening to garden Line and we are here
Speaker 2: to answer your gardening questions if you want to give
Speaker 2: me a call. It's seven one three two one two
Speaker 2: five eight seven four. I'll be happy to do just that.
Speaker 2: I want to remind you we're in fall fertilizing season.
Speaker 2: This is the time to get it done. Microlife Fertilizer
Speaker 2: has a product called brown Patch. Now that's not a
Speaker 2: fung just side that is a herbst fertilizer. It's a
Speaker 2: it's a fertilizer that is loaded with micronutrients. So you
Speaker 2: put it out there and it makes lawn healthier. That's
Speaker 2: one thing it does. But the the microbes that are
Speaker 2: in and it does have micro nutrients in it too
Speaker 2: because it's a natural product. But the microbes that are
Speaker 2: in it help out compete that brown patch organism as
Speaker 2: it tries to infect your lawn. So that's the way
Speaker 2: that it works as a disease. It didn't kill the fungus.
Speaker 2: It helps keep that plant healthy and helps it defend
Speaker 2: off the fungus. And that's what organic gardening is all about,
Speaker 2: is making our plants healthy and providing the good stuff
Speaker 2: they need to accomplish that. And Microlife brown Patch is
Speaker 2: that good stuff. You'll find it on my schedule at
Speaker 2: Gardening with Skip dot com. It is a very very
Speaker 2: effective product and from the folks at Microlife means also
Speaker 2: that you're going to find it everywhere, real easy to
Speaker 2: find Microlife brown Patch at this point in the season.
Speaker 2: Let's heat out now to Pasadena and we're going to
Speaker 2: talk to Randy. Hello, Randy, welcome to guard Line.
Speaker 22: Hello.
Speaker 23: How are you this morning?
Speaker 2: I'm good, sir. How can I help today?
Speaker 23: Well, I have a question. I'm long has been part
Speaker 23: of my lown has been inundated with the button weed,
Speaker 23: the whatever it is. I've got the ro my product
Speaker 23: that you'll recommend or Furtolan rather it's a spray. When
Speaker 23: do you pull the trigger to do that? Because everything
Speaker 23: says wait till the weather's cooler.
Speaker 2: Yes, Well, you know, if you're we try to apply
Speaker 2: those products when it's below let's say the mid eighties,
Speaker 2: certainly the below the upper eighties if possible.
Speaker 18: Uh.
Speaker 2: But if you get out early in the morning when
Speaker 2: the temperature is that it's coolest and we're going to
Speaker 2: get some breaks in the weather, and you can go
Speaker 2: ahead and do that right away, when when you can
Speaker 2: get it out and it has a few hours before
Speaker 2: the temperature is going to get up in you know
Speaker 2: up into the mid eighties or higher. You can get
Speaker 2: by with it that way if you if you want
Speaker 2: to go do the button weed just.
Speaker 23: Next spring for sustain or this is brutal, it is
Speaker 23: just inundating my low well.
Speaker 2: And I that's a weed that's tough to kill, and
Speaker 2: it can be killed, but it's going to take multiple applications,
Speaker 2: and it's hard around here to find times it's not
Speaker 2: too hot to apply it. Because in the winter the
Speaker 2: button weed isn't going to take up a herbicide. It's
Speaker 2: it's in a semi dormant stay. So that's why I.
Speaker 23: The windows in. Then probably in the next few weeks
Speaker 23: when we start getting some cooler weather in the mornings.
Speaker 2: Yeah, go ahead and get it. Go ahead and get
Speaker 2: it out and get it on there. And then in
Speaker 2: the spring, first tant you get when you see the
Speaker 2: button weed, apply it. It may be getting too warm.
Speaker 2: That's why I usually tell people to get celsius herbicide
Speaker 2: for that, because you can use celsius when the temperatures
Speaker 2: in the lower nineties and it's just fine. It gives
Speaker 2: you a bigger window.
Speaker 23: And Augustine, no not if you not, if you was
Speaker 23: just directed Okay.
Speaker 2: All right, sir, thank you, you have a good day.
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Speaker 2: on the outside of your home, on the sheet rock
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Speaker 2: gonna go out now to Michael and Alvin. Hey, welcome
Speaker 2: to garden Line. Michael. Yes, sir, I'll call it in
Speaker 2: a little while.
Speaker 22: Ago I got drops somehow, but uh, I got this
Speaker 22: ash tree Arizona ash that the bark is separating from
Speaker 22: the from the trunk.
Speaker 2: About six foot up. It's a very large.
Speaker 22: One, about three foot in diameter. And I was one
Speaker 22: what I could do if anything?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, sorry, sorry about that. I remember your call.
Speaker 2: So something has killed the bark on that side. We've
Speaker 2: seen a lot of that from some past freezes. We
Speaker 2: had a few years ago that killed bark, and then
Speaker 2: it just progressed and the tree now is trying to
Speaker 2: heal over from the sides. Like if you pull pulled
Speaker 2: the dead bark off, the loose bark needs to just
Speaker 2: come off there and you'll probably see the tree trying
Speaker 2: trying to heal over. Now, a big giant tree like
Speaker 2: that doesn't have the vigor kind of like us, you know,
Speaker 2: we had more vigor when we were younger, Michael, But
Speaker 2: it doesn't have the vigor to close that wound real fast,
Speaker 2: you know, and heal it over. So you're gonna have
Speaker 2: to kind of watch it. It may be a very
Speaker 2: long term thing. That's a very problematic. There's nothing to
Speaker 2: spray on it. There's nothing to do for it other
Speaker 2: than avoid stress. So in summer heat and drought, adequate
Speaker 2: watering so that tree maintained vigor to close that over
Speaker 2: is important. Fertilizing is always helpful, but when a tree
Speaker 2: hits that stage, it's hard to get a lot of
Speaker 2: benefit out of the fertilizing for the sake of the tree.
Speaker 2: So ash trees are notorious for having problems as they
Speaker 2: get older, And that sounds like one that's been around
Speaker 2: a very long time, and it may ultimately end up
Speaker 2: being something that has to be taken down. You might
Speaker 2: want to call Martin spoon Moore with Affordable Tree, have
Speaker 2: him come look at it and just make an assessment.
Speaker 2: Ash is not a super strong tree, and so you
Speaker 2: start to get decay in there, and now you've got
Speaker 2: a hazard that gets a little worse each year, the
Speaker 2: potential for injury. Okay, good to have you with us,
Speaker 2: Thanks for hanging around. Guess what we have got thirty
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Speaker 2: in Southern gardens is out there in Kingwood, Texas. Orrens
Speaker 2: and Kingwood Garden Center are two outstanding garden centers in
Speaker 2: the Kingwood area. And when you go, you're always going
Speaker 2: to find the kinds of things you hear me talk
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Speaker 2: fall color, oh my gosh, they are loaded with fault
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Speaker 2: those there. By the way, they have things that are
Speaker 2: organic like Nitrofossis, Sweet Green and micro Life sixty four.
Speaker 2: They carry those. If you need to knock out weeds,
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Speaker 2: moms out there. They've got ornamental kale and all the
Speaker 2: other snapdragons and other beautiful flowers that we need to
Speaker 2: carry us on into the cool weather. This far south,
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Speaker 2: carry things a lot further than you can as you
Speaker 2: move further north in Texas. And that's just an extra
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Speaker 2: head now out to Cyprus, Texas and talk to Diana.
Speaker 2: Hello Diana, and welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 15: Good morning. SKIP communicating with you a lot for the
Speaker 15: last two months trying to restore our yard. And there
Speaker 15: was a caller that called in earlier and they just
Speaker 15: called the tail end of it. But you were recommending
Speaker 15: something like a three and one. I think you said
Speaker 15: eagle turf. What was that that you were mentioning to them.
Speaker 15: I think it was about the pre emergence and some
Speaker 15: other What was that product?
Speaker 2: Yes, it was three different products that are part of
Speaker 2: nitrofoss Fall three step program. Okay, and so the car step. Yeah,
Speaker 2: the three products or a fertilizer, a weed prevention, and
Speaker 2: a disease prevention. So the most time important ones right
Speaker 2: now are to get the pre emergent we'd prevention in
Speaker 2: other words, product barricade down, and to get the disease
Speaker 2: prevention product, which is called eagle down because weed sprouting
Speaker 2: is going to happen as soon as the weather drops
Speaker 2: and we get a cold front and the disease arrival,
Speaker 2: the brown pats, the big brown circles you're seeing people's
Speaker 2: yard and take all those infect in the fall too.
Speaker 2: And then the eagle tour fungicides, I mean the fall special,
Speaker 2: which is their fertilizer, is good to get down because
Speaker 2: it gives your grasp more time to get strong going
Speaker 2: into the fall winter season.
Speaker 15: Okay, So it's the disease prevention and it's all by
Speaker 15: Nacha Falls.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's by Nitrofas. It's all three fertilizer free, disease, ease,
Speaker 2: and weed. So if you want just the name of
Speaker 2: each one to so when you walk into a place
Speaker 2: you can find them. First, Here's what I would do.
Speaker 2: I would go online to gardening with skip dot com.
Speaker 2: That's my website, and there print out my my lawn
Speaker 2: care schedule that's got the fertilizer on it, and then
Speaker 2: my insect disease and weed schedule that's got you know,
Speaker 2: the other stuff on it, and you can carry it
Speaker 2: with you where you go shopping. Where we're what part
Speaker 2: of the Cypress area are you in.
Speaker 15: We're over off of Far Road between let Creek Parkway
Speaker 15: and Tapperton, Okay, on the on the on the east
Speaker 15: side of the Grand Parkway. It's not very far back.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well you've got some You've got some Ace hardware
Speaker 2: stores they always carry those nightro Fosh products. Just south
Speaker 2: of you, there's one on Barker Cypress. As you go south,
Speaker 2: uh Barker Cypress kind of in the.
Speaker 15: Calm Creek Langham Creek a.
Speaker 25: M.
Speaker 2: Langham is going to have all all three of those.
Speaker 2: You walk into Ham Creek.
Speaker 15: Okay, all right, well our yard is making a little
Speaker 15: bit of progress. That's it's just gotten cooler, you know,
Speaker 15: with the other things that are break down, and so
Speaker 15: we just wanted to find out with just help prevent
Speaker 15: it from anything else happening. But thank you so much
Speaker 15: and appreciate it.
Speaker 2: As much as you want. We're going to get that
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Speaker 2: Seven one three two one two k t r H.
Speaker 2: I've talked about a number of different things today, and
Speaker 2: you know, wisdom hopefully to help you have a better
Speaker 2: success rate and all the things you plant and want
Speaker 2: to grow. Uh. You know I mentioned that for those
Speaker 2: of you who tuned in a little later, I talked
Speaker 2: about the fall aster that is now blooming in area lawns.
Speaker 2: It's the little tiny dime sized white and light lavender blooms.
Speaker 2: White and light lavender. You got to pull those up, folks.
Speaker 2: There's no spray that's going to kill them. At this stage,
Speaker 2: the blooms turned to seeds. One plant can have five
Speaker 2: thousand seeds on it, literally it can.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 2: They're tap rooted, so they're easy to pull. Water the soil,
Speaker 2: get it good and soft, so you can grab that
Speaker 2: weed at the base, at the base of the or
Speaker 2: at the top of the root base of the plant
Speaker 2: and wiggle it right out of the ground. And there
Speaker 2: you go. You are in good shape in terms of
Speaker 2: getting hundreds and hundreds, if not thousands of weeds. He's
Speaker 2: out of your yard. That'll be back next year. If
Speaker 2: you don't deal with them. That is important. You gotta
Speaker 2: deal with them. And a lot of people put things off.
Speaker 2: I know that I do that myself, and it's just
Speaker 2: not right. You're making a mistake. You do not want
Speaker 2: to do that. Get those things out of there.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 2: There are not a lot of weeds that I'm going
Speaker 2: to say, oh, you got to go hand pull it.
Speaker 2: This is one. It just it really shows up in
Speaker 2: the fall. The foliage is blue green color, dark blue
Speaker 2: green color, I don't know, kind of a teal, but darker,
Speaker 2: much darker, uh, And it spreads out and covers a
Speaker 2: lot of area. You notice it when the flowers show up.
Speaker 2: That's when it really shows up. So anyway, but I
Speaker 2: hope you're enjoying gardening. By the way out there, I
Speaker 2: am having one of the best years in the garden
Speaker 2: that I've had. And it's not because everything's growing right,
Speaker 2: It's just because, you know, as little by little I
Speaker 2: continue to develop my landscape and develop my garden and
Speaker 2: try new plants and enjoy the new plants that we
Speaker 2: have out there. It's just fun. And you know, gardeners
Speaker 2: are optimists. They really are. Gardeners are the ultimate optimists.
Speaker 2: I mean, take a packet of seed and dump those
Speaker 2: seeds in your hand and look at them. What do
Speaker 2: they look like? I mean, it's detritus, it's debris, and
Speaker 2: it's lifeless, but inside is life. And you put it
Speaker 2: in the ground and it sprouts and it begins to grow,
Speaker 2: and it's just amazing that you can put a tomato
Speaker 2: or a green bean or a zenia flower seed in
Speaker 2: the ground and you did that, You created that thing,
Speaker 2: and it's it's wonderful. Gardeners are always you know, there's
Speaker 2: a quote from an English aristocrat from back in oh
Speaker 2: I don't know, a late eighteen nineties or maybe early
Speaker 2: nineteen hundreds. It says the most noteworthy thing about gardeners
Speaker 2: is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied.
Speaker 2: Isn't that the case? It's true, and continuing the quote,
Speaker 2: they always look forward to doing something better than they've
Speaker 2: ever done before. I can tell you this next spring,
Speaker 2: when I plant a tomato, it's going to be the
Speaker 2: best tomato season ever. It's always that way. When you
Speaker 2: put a peach tree in the ground and I hope
Speaker 2: you're planning some fruit this winter, can you just taste
Speaker 2: the peaches and can you picture a tree loaded with fruit?
Speaker 2: That's how we are as gardeners. We're always optimistic, and
Speaker 2: we went never satisfied, not in a negative way, just
Speaker 2: in I can do better. I'm going to get better
Speaker 2: at this, and that's how it works. That's how it works.
Speaker 2: I think Abraham Lincoln had a pretty good way of
Speaker 2: looking at things. And he wasn't just talking about gardening,
Speaker 2: but he used a gardening analogy, and he said, we
Speaker 2: can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or we can
Speaker 2: read joice because thornbushes have roses. Gardeners look at it
Speaker 2: the second way, the upside of things. It's always going
Speaker 2: to get better. I know I'm getting philosophical here and
Speaker 2: droning on, but sometimes I think we get lost in
Speaker 2: all the how tos and the y too's and all
Speaker 2: of that, and we just forget the wonder and the
Speaker 2: joy and the rejuvenation and the restoration that comes with
Speaker 2: a wonderful hobby of gardening. All right, enough of me.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to Champions and talk to Matt. Hey, Matt,
Speaker 2: welcome to garden Line. Thank you, good morning.
Speaker 26: I've got a backyard that's getting pretty much overrun with
Speaker 26: Virginia button weed, and can I just leave it there?
Speaker 2: It doesn't look bad or I've heard yeah, it gets
Speaker 2: worse and worse and worse. Two things, Matt. Number One,
Speaker 2: the more you can drive that area out, the better.
Speaker 2: It can't control the rain, but you can't control irrigation,
Speaker 2: so that slows button weed down when it has to
Speaker 2: struggle with not enough water. Lawns can live on less
Speaker 2: water than button weed. It's going to thrive on. Secondly,
Speaker 2: there's a product called Celsius that you can spray and
Speaker 2: you're going to want to treat it. You could treat
Speaker 2: it now we're going into fall. I would definitely in
Speaker 2: spring treat it. Any of the button weed you can
Speaker 2: get out of there. And if it's so thick, this
Speaker 2: is impractical, I understand. But every time you pull a
Speaker 2: little strip of it out, you're not getting rid of
Speaker 2: the button weed. But all along that string you pull
Speaker 2: out is little buttons that are the seeds, and so
Speaker 2: you cut down on next year that way. So that
Speaker 2: would be helpful. But if you just want to go
Speaker 2: the easier route celsius, do it in the spring when
Speaker 2: it warms up enough for button weed to be actively growing.
Speaker 2: Do it again about probably three or four or five
Speaker 2: weeks later. Do the celsius again.
Speaker 26: Okay, I've got a lot of it. If I do that,
Speaker 26: it'll kill the button weed. And will I be just
Speaker 26: left with fair dirt? Do I have to resider while
Speaker 26: the Saint Augustine come back?
Speaker 2: There's a lot of I miss the very first part
Speaker 2: of that what you were saying. Say it again.
Speaker 26: All right, I have a lot of button weed. If
Speaker 26: I spray it with celsius, will it just leave bear dirt?
Speaker 26: Will the same come?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: Your lawn can can take the celsius as long as
Speaker 2: the temperature is not above the low nineties. But yeah,
Speaker 2: you can use that. You just want the button weed
Speaker 2: to be actively growing, so the celsius works best. And
Speaker 2: that's why the longer we get into fall and it's
Speaker 2: cools off and it starts turning kind of purple looking,
Speaker 2: that that is not as susceptible as a celsius. Okay,
Speaker 2: I'm running a kind of short on the time, so
Speaker 2: I'm gonna I'm gonna run. But good luck with that.
Speaker 2: And that's my best advice for you on the button weed.
Speaker 2: Let's go to clear Lake and talk to Nef. Hey, Nef,
Speaker 2: welcome to gardenline.
Speaker 16: Hey, good MORI skip real quick. I'm fixing the laid
Speaker 16: down my fungicide this morning and do my pre emerging
Speaker 16: herbicide probably.
Speaker 25: In a couple of days. I got two smaller dogs.
Speaker 25: I always battle with this. How long until after I
Speaker 25: water it down.
Speaker 16: After I've sprayed it or whatever, not sprayed it, but
Speaker 16: laid it down the granules?
Speaker 2: Can the dogs go out there? Look at the label
Speaker 2: and it'll tell you if there is a restriction on
Speaker 2: something like that. Uh, tell me again the name of
Speaker 2: the product, please.
Speaker 16: It's it's all nitro fast that I use. It's the
Speaker 16: fungicide pre emerging herbicide.
Speaker 2: Be the eagle. Yeah, on all of those. On all
Speaker 2: of those, you're gonna apply them.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 2: And the barricade, you're gonna water in. The fertilizer, you're
Speaker 2: gonna water in. Uh. Let let the spray the the
Speaker 2: eagle on the ground or no, it's a granular Apply
Speaker 2: the eagle and then water it into and you should
Speaker 2: be good to go because the grass takes the go
Speaker 2: up through the roots. Also.
Speaker 25: Yeah, but how long until it's safe for the dogs
Speaker 25: to go back on the grass?
Speaker 16: Is what I'm asking?
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, the best answer, because it's the law, is
Speaker 2: the label. So whatever the label says. But I would say,
Speaker 2: if you watered in really good and let it dry,
Speaker 2: then that's fine to move on out there. But go
Speaker 2: to the label instead of my comment there because I'm
Speaker 2: not the I'm not the official one day answer. Okay, label,
Speaker 2: All right, I appreciate it. Thank you, Skip, Yeah, thanks
Speaker 2: a lot, appreciate you being a listener. Thanks for calling in. Well, folks,
Speaker 2: here we are. We're at the big end of the
Speaker 2: deal today. We'll be back tomorrow six am. In the morning.
Speaker 2: In the meantime, come on out the Nature's Way Resources
Speaker 2: Fall Festival. I'll be there from eleven thirty. It's already
Speaker 2: going on right now, start at nine o'clock, go till two.
Speaker 2: I'll be there from eleven thirty to one thirty. And
Speaker 2: guess what we're gonna be doing. We're gonna be given
Speaker 2: away four bags of they're super high quality, fine textured
Speaker 2: screen down, fine leaf mow compost. That stuff is black gold,
Speaker 2: four bags, one every thirty minutes. Will be giving that away.
Speaker 2: They will also have one hundred and fifty dollars gift
Speaker 2: card for me to get away out there, so wow,
Speaker 2: that's cool. They also have a couple of books, a
Speaker 2: couple of books that are being giveaways or kind of
Speaker 2: nature related books, kind of cool stuff. I'll be answering
Speaker 2: your questions. I'll be diagnosing, I'll be identifying. Or if
Speaker 2: you just want to sit there and shoot the ball
Speaker 2: and brag about things that we grew last year, we'll
Speaker 2: do that too. Come on, I'd love to meet you,
Speaker 2: all of you that have some time on your hands
Speaker 2: and are able to get away. I hope you'll come
Speaker 2: on out because in when Nature's Way puts on a
Speaker 2: fall festival. It's a shindig. And when you come, make
Speaker 2: sure your car or pick up his empty seat and
Speaker 2: bring some bags home with you, or bring it better yet,
Speaker 2: bring a trailer and load up falls for planting, brown stuff,
Speaker 2: for green stuff. See where I'm going here, Nature's very resources.
Speaker 2: You're going to be there. Why not bring that home,
Speaker 2: Get those bed ready to go, whether it's vegetables, herbs,
Speaker 2: perennial flowers, ornamental grasses, shrubs, trees, vines. We're in the season,
Speaker 2: the optimum season for success with that. Take advantage of
Speaker 2: it all right, But I will see you in the morning.
Speaker 2: Thanks for being a listener. Look forward to talking to
Speaker 2: you tomorrow.