Speaker 1: Welcome to Katie r. H. Garden Line with Skip Rictor.
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Speaker 5: All right, folks, we got a garden show to do here,
Speaker 5: so let's just say that's just to get going. I'm
Speaker 5: your host, Skip Rictor. You're listening to garden Line and
Speaker 5: we're here to help you have a boutonful garden and
Speaker 5: a beautiful landscape and most importantly more fun in the process.
Speaker 5: Gardening is fun.
Speaker 6: It is.
Speaker 5: It's a rewarding hobby. It is a hobby that helps
Speaker 5: you physically, it helps you mentally. Did you know that
Speaker 5: there is a ton of research up foot deep stock
Speaker 5: of research papers that could file up on the desk
Speaker 5: and I print them out over the years of what's
Speaker 5: the latest research and stuff? And gardening is incredible. I
Speaker 5: mean it, it is incredible. Kids with ADHD improvement score tests,
Speaker 5: old folks dealing with dementia issues. It's beneficial people that
Speaker 5: are in a hospital healing. The difference between looking out
Speaker 5: a window at plants and looking out a window at
Speaker 5: a parking lot. Measurable difference and rate of healing is
Speaker 5: that amazing. I mean, I could go on and on
Speaker 5: and on with all the benefits. But we gardeners already
Speaker 5: know this. You know, when you're out there in the garden,
Speaker 5: especially this morning, you're gonna hear the birds singing, you're
Speaker 5: gonna be out and about doing some things. It's just
Speaker 5: it's just wonderful, whether you're doing a lot of exercise
Speaker 5: or whether you're just puttering around the garden, which is legit.
Speaker 5: I love to putter around my garden. It's it's I
Speaker 5: don't know, it's therapeutic. It's helpful in many many ways.
Speaker 5: So you're in the right place. Welcome to Garden Line.
Speaker 5: Nice to have you with us today. If you'd like
Speaker 5: to give me a call, we're here to answer your
Speaker 5: gardening question. Seven one three two one two kt r
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Speaker 5: I was fertilizing my yard just this past week. Actually,
Speaker 5: I say yard, one of my yards. I've I divided
Speaker 5: my yard up. I have four different sections of turf
Speaker 5: in my landscape, and I have four different turfs in
Speaker 5: each section. I know that's weird, but it's what I
Speaker 5: like to do. It allows me to try different things
Speaker 5: out and learn about turf. So when you give me
Speaker 5: a call and you ask me about a particular turf
Speaker 5: or what about this or that or the other, it's
Speaker 5: not like, well, I read a book somewhere that you're
Speaker 5: supposed to know. I'm doing it to my own yard trying.
Speaker 5: When I talk talk about a fertilizer, it's because I've
Speaker 5: used it and because it works. I don't just like, Okay,
Speaker 5: so and so wants me to talk about their fertile
Speaker 5: I'll talk about their Furtilzer. No, it is a matter
Speaker 5: of what does it work. And one that works, I'll
Speaker 5: tell you this for sure, is Nitrofoss's Superturf. Superturf is
Speaker 5: a nineteen four to ten fertilizer, so that is about
Speaker 5: a four to one two ratio. Three one two and
Speaker 5: four one two ratios are very very appropriate for turf.
Speaker 5: If you were to cut grass clippings, healthy grass clippings
Speaker 5: off and send them to a lab and say what's
Speaker 5: in them, They're going to tell you there's a lot
Speaker 5: of nitrogen, very little phosphorus, and a medium amount of potassium.
Speaker 5: That's what turf takes up, so why not put that
Speaker 5: down now. Nitrofoss Superturf nineteen four ten is slow released,
Speaker 5: so for four months it's going to be gradually releasing
Speaker 5: that nineteen percent nitrogen to your turf so you get
Speaker 5: nice even growth. You're going to find this product as
Speaker 5: well as other nit foss products it places like en
Speaker 5: sheended forest down on FM twenty seven fifty nine in
Speaker 5: the Richmond Rosenberg area at Ace Hardware Single Ranch on
Speaker 5: Mason Road, Aspass up in the Woodlands on Kirkandall and
Speaker 5: certainly the Arborgate on FM twenty nine twenty and Tombaal
Speaker 5: carries some of the nitrofoss products as well. Say I
Speaker 5: was fertilizing my lawn and when you put out nutrient,
Speaker 5: you want to put it out in two different directions,
Speaker 5: and I use north south and east west as just examples.
Speaker 5: It doesn't matter which way there you're going. But when
Speaker 5: you cross hatch your application like that, it smooths it out.
Speaker 5: Have you ever seen someone with a striped yard. They
Speaker 5: went through the yard with a spreader and maybe the
Speaker 5: spreader overlapped, so some strips through the lawn got twice
Speaker 5: as much fertilizer, as other strips through the lawn did
Speaker 5: because of the overlap or lack of overlap. Well, you
Speaker 5: can avoid that by going about half of your product
Speaker 5: one direction, then go half your product the other. It
Speaker 5: is all always better to under apply and then to
Speaker 5: come back and touch it up. So I've done this before.
Speaker 5: Don't tell anybody, it's just Jimmy listening red. But please
Speaker 5: don't spread this around. I have gone out, build up
Speaker 5: my hopper, set it like I thought it needed to
Speaker 5: be set, and took off across the yard, and three
Speaker 5: fourths of the way across the yard, I'm out a fertilizer.
Speaker 5: Uh oh, so now what we'll load it up and
Speaker 5: end up overfertilizing the rest just to make it look even.
Speaker 5: But then you have the stripes also from that. Well,
Speaker 5: what I'll do is figure out, you know what I
Speaker 5: probably need. I'm going to go about under half rate
Speaker 5: one direction, and then you can look and go, you
Speaker 5: know what, I'm putting out too much and you drop
Speaker 5: it down in the other direction. You go at the
Speaker 5: appropriate rate, or maybe I'm not putting out enough. That's okay,
Speaker 5: go over the other one the other way, and then
Speaker 5: just if you have to make a third pass, you
Speaker 5: know what, to diagnose them. Just do it and that
Speaker 5: just smooths things out. That way, you don't mess up
Speaker 5: because if you have extra leftover and you didn't set
Speaker 5: it putting out fast enough, that's okay. It just means
Speaker 5: you can make a nice, more even application. So just
Speaker 5: a tip there. That's true with fertilizer, It's certainly true
Speaker 5: with weed control, and it certainly is true when you're
Speaker 5: dealing with insects and diseases as well. Coverage is key.
Speaker 5: Coverage is critical. That's just a little tip for you there.
Speaker 5: The folks at Spring Creek Feed up and humble, they
Speaker 5: just continue to prevent to bring in and last time
Speaker 5: I was there, the product line that they have for
Speaker 5: your lawn and garden is amazing. You're going to find well,
Speaker 5: you know, if you're doing lawn fertilizing, maybe you do
Speaker 5: like a nitropost product. They've got them. They've got Nelson
Speaker 5: Turf Star line, they've got the Microlife line as well.
Speaker 5: All there at Spring Creek Feed they also have things
Speaker 5: to control weeds and insects and diseases. When you go
Speaker 5: into Spring Creek, you will be greeted by friendly courteous staff,
Speaker 5: just like you would expect or hope when you go
Speaker 5: in to any kind of a business. If you're an
Speaker 5: FFA kiddo or four H kiddo, they have discounts as
Speaker 5: well as for folks that are military and senior citizens,
Speaker 5: a special deliver, they will deliver and they'll special order
Speaker 5: to both. In fact, at Spring Creek Feed. They're located
Speaker 5: in Magnolia on FM twenty nine seventy eight. You can't
Speaker 5: miss them as you're kind of heading up in north
Speaker 5: direction twenty ninety seventy eight on the left hand side
Speaker 5: there is Spring Creek Feed and just minutes away from
Speaker 5: Grand park Way and Highway to forty nine. Well, I'm
Speaker 5: gonna take a little break here and we will be
Speaker 5: back with your questions again if you'd like to be
Speaker 5: first up this morning. Seven to one three two one
Speaker 5: two kt r H. Seven to one three two one
Speaker 5: two k t r H. Alright, we're back. Welcome back
Speaker 5: to the garden Line. Good to have you with us today.
Speaker 5: We've got plenty to talk about. It is spring. Let
Speaker 5: me say it this way. If it is April and
Speaker 5: you are not interested in garden two things. One, check
Speaker 5: your pulse, make sure you're still alive. Number two, If
Speaker 5: you have a pulse, then you're not a gardener. I'm
Speaker 5: telling you everybody who is has one drop of gardening
Speaker 5: blood in them anywhere. Boy, I hope you do. It's
Speaker 5: such a great hobby. Spring is like everybody's a gardener. Now.
Speaker 5: I understand we get to July and August and I'm
Speaker 5: gonna have to talk into it some of you at
Speaker 5: least at that time. But Spring, gosh, this is the
Speaker 5: fun time. This is the easy time. You put things
Speaker 5: in the ground and they just want to grow and
Speaker 5: it's just everything. Everybody's happy, all right, So this is it.
Speaker 5: I was just talking a minute ago about fertilizing the
Speaker 5: lawn and what I forgot to mention to you is
Speaker 5: it's not just the macro nutrients that our turf needs.
Speaker 5: Turf needs, you know, about twenty different nutrients in order
Speaker 5: to grow turf grass plants. So you pick a grass blade,
Speaker 5: look at it, hold up, look at it. In that
Speaker 5: grass plate is boron? Did you know that? And have
Speaker 5: you ever seen boron on a fertilizer label before? It's
Speaker 5: a big three that you primarily see on fertilizer labels,
Speaker 5: but boron and zinc and iron, and manganese and molybthanum,
Speaker 5: and there's a lot of things that grass has to
Speaker 5: have to grow. That's why we put do a trace
Speaker 5: mineral supplement, and we put on one called azmite. Asimite
Speaker 5: is mined out of the ground up in Utah and
Speaker 5: it is sold as a mineral supplement for micronutrients. It
Speaker 5: doesn't make the grass turn green and grow fast like
Speaker 5: nitrogen does. No, I bet it's needed. It's required. Asumite
Speaker 5: is put down at a very low rate, about a
Speaker 5: forty four pound bag will cover about six to twelve
Speaker 5: thousand square feet. By the way, I use it in
Speaker 5: vegetable gardens two ten pounds per thousand in a vegetable garden,
Speaker 5: and it works. Azimite Texas dot com. That's a website
Speaker 5: if you want to learn more about it. But I'll
Speaker 5: just tell you this. You go to feed stores, garden centers,
Speaker 5: ace hardware stores, Southwest fertilizer places like that, you're going
Speaker 5: to find azamite. And it is something you do not
Speaker 5: mix in the same fertilization application because the particle sizes
Speaker 5: are different. You just do your fertilizing, then turn around,
Speaker 5: load up with as mite and do it again with
Speaker 5: the a's mite. You don't have to do it on
Speaker 5: the same day. You can do as mite any day
Speaker 5: of the year. You want to do as mite, okay,
Speaker 5: but since you're out there and you got the machine
Speaker 5: out running across the lawn, go ahead and do it
Speaker 5: as mite. It works. That concept of micronutrients for some
Speaker 5: folks is a little hard hard to follow. And you say, well,
Speaker 5: is it a fertilizer. Well, yes, it's a fertilizer because
Speaker 5: it is nutrient elements the grass has to have. But
Speaker 5: it's not like the Big three that you put on.
Speaker 5: That's kind of the difference. I think that's where the
Speaker 5: confusion occurs. Our bodies are the same way. You know,
Speaker 5: you need a lot of protein, you do in order
Speaker 5: to do well. There's a lot of things in your
Speaker 5: diet you need. But then there are these things like
Speaker 5: tiny little micronutrients that you need too. There's nutrients, micronutrients,
Speaker 5: there's vitamins and things like vitamin D. Well, you don't
Speaker 5: need much of that, but you do need it. And
Speaker 5: those are the things that we must not forget both
Speaker 5: in our diet and then the diet of our lawns
Speaker 5: as well. I was touching base with the folks at
Speaker 5: pest Pros yesterday, just reaching out. We're having some conversations
Speaker 5: kind of some more coming up here about things going
Speaker 5: on out in the landscape and out around the house.
Speaker 5: And you know, pest Pros is our pest control service
Speaker 5: here on Garden Line. They cover a wide area. They'll
Speaker 5: go all the way from Baytown across the Kadie and
Speaker 5: from Texas City down south all the way up into
Speaker 5: the woodlands, and they take care of the pests that
Speaker 5: you have. It doesn't matter what it is. The number
Speaker 5: one concern of us is termites because they damage our
Speaker 5: homes to great financial significant damage. They can stop them
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Speaker 5: in little trench around the house and termites cannot get
Speaker 5: across that trench or if they do, they die. And
Speaker 5: it's in the ground, so it's safe. It's not something
Speaker 5: sprayed up on things that your dogs are gonna eat
Speaker 5: or whatever like that. It is an outstanding new technology
Speaker 5: that really works. Now, if you have fire ants, if
Speaker 5: you have mosquitoes, they if you have cockroaches in the house,
Speaker 5: you know, if you've got silverfish crawling around, whatever kinds
Speaker 5: of treatments you have, pest Bros Can do it. And
Speaker 5: that includes things like wild varmts, you know, those possums
Speaker 5: and the roof rats or whatever kind of rats crawling
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Speaker 5: That's the simplest way to put it. Let them tell
Speaker 5: you what this stuff does. It is amazing. I've got
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Speaker 5: looking at you know, looking for a little larvae animus.
Speaker 5: They make the mosquitoes lay, make them, they entice them
Speaker 5: to lay their eggs in those buckets, and those mosquitoes
Speaker 5: are never going to hatch. Plus when the mama mosquito
Speaker 5: flies away, she takes a substance that will prevent mosquitos
Speaker 5: in other areas from hatching as well. Super say, pets,
Speaker 5: pets and birds and other things. No worries about that. Well,
Speaker 5: I was looking online at I always check our garden
Speaker 5: center and see, you know, what are they getting in,
Speaker 5: what's going on there, what's happening there? And something is
Speaker 5: always going on at a Plants for All seasons. That's
Speaker 5: up on Tomball Parkway, which is FM two forty nine.
Speaker 5: It's just north of Luetta Road right there on FM
Speaker 5: two forty nine. Okay, not on Luetta on FM two
Speaker 5: forty nine. If you have a brown thumb and you'd
Speaker 5: like to see it turned green, well you need to
Speaker 5: go to Plants for All seasons. Those of you have
Speaker 5: a green thumb probably already been there, and that's part
Speaker 5: of the reason why it's green, because the color of
Speaker 5: our thumb is all about good information and good plants.
Speaker 5: You pick up plant that wants to grow here, you
Speaker 5: plant it right and take care of it right, and
Speaker 5: Plants for All Seasons helps you do that and the
Speaker 5: plant grows and everybody goes you got a green thumb, Well,
Speaker 5: just have an informed thumb, because I went to a
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Speaker 5: lawn and garden experts. I mean you can take them
Speaker 5: a picture or a sample or whatever. You know, here's
Speaker 5: my neighbor, he's got this plan over there in the yard.
Speaker 5: Or I was driving by a house and I saw this,
Speaker 5: What is it? Does it grow here? And they'll they'll
Speaker 5: tell you. They'll they will tell you exactly how to grow.
Speaker 5: If you have an issue you're dealing with things, help
Speaker 5: you with that. To solve an insect or disease or
Speaker 5: weed problem, whatever you have, you can get your green
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Speaker 5: two eight one three seven six sixteen forty six two
Speaker 5: eight one three seven six one six four six the
Speaker 5: my front bed. Don't tell anybody that because I wouldn't
Speaker 5: want the word to get out, but I had not
Speaker 5: trimmed back my perennials in front of my house. I
Speaker 5: just haven't. I keep walking by going, Yeah, I got
Speaker 5: to get around to that. Actually, I'm thinking I'm gonna
Speaker 5: do a little video on that for our Facebook account.
Speaker 5: We have a garden line Facebook account and Instagram account too,
Speaker 5: by the way, and I was post a little videos
Speaker 5: on what's happening. I did one on fertilizing a week
Speaker 5: or so ago. Anyway, I'm walking by it and I'm
Speaker 5: not doing it, and it needs to get done. I
Speaker 5: need to get those trimmed back. But I'm waiting till
Speaker 5: I can get a camera set up and do a
Speaker 5: little video showing you what we do and why on it.
Speaker 5: And so that's a task that needs to get done.
Speaker 5: I've got some maults replenishing that I just finished. If
Speaker 5: you have mults your flower beds, and boy, I hope
Speaker 5: you have. If not, you're going to spend a lot
Speaker 5: of time weeding and fussing and being disappointed in all
Speaker 5: the weeds. A good thick maultz blocks light, and when
Speaker 5: you block light, weed seeds can't get a start. That's
Speaker 5: how it works. So what you gotta do is you
Speaker 5: need to keep that mault thick enough to block the light. People.
Speaker 5: So how deep do you malt? Well, I usually say
Speaker 5: about three inches or so four inches. Maybe it just
Speaker 5: depends on what you're using though. If you were using
Speaker 5: a very fine textured malts, you know, compost level kind
Speaker 5: of texture, very fine texture, well, it doesn't take much
Speaker 5: to block the light. But if you're using something big
Speaker 5: and chunky, well, you know, it doesn't make a solid
Speaker 5: covering unless you make it pretty deep because a light
Speaker 5: goes past those chunks in between them and makes it
Speaker 5: to the ground. So you have to put a little
Speaker 5: bit deeper. So it's not a great answer to it.
Speaker 5: Three inches is just a general guide. But whenever you
Speaker 5: do mulch, and I've had people call here and say,
Speaker 5: do I need to get that old mulch out of there,
Speaker 5: as if the old mulch is a bad thing, And
Speaker 5: the answer is absolutely not. Old mulch is a good thing.
Speaker 5: Think about this, Think about how the forest was designed
Speaker 5: to work. I mean, really the perfect place to grow
Speaker 5: a tree. Right in the forest. We have soil that
Speaker 5: gets better and better every year in the forest because
Speaker 5: the trees drop organic matter on the ground and it
Speaker 5: rots and it becomes soil. And now does someone go
Speaker 5: through there and rake up all the old leaves at
Speaker 5: the end of the year and put so the fresh
Speaker 5: new fall leaves can fall on dirt. No, they drop
Speaker 5: on top of the old stuff, and the old stuff
Speaker 5: just decomposes faster because it's staying moist and it can
Speaker 5: decompose faster, and that it gets better and better. So
Speaker 5: when you've got mulch and it's getting thin and you're thinking,
Speaker 5: oh darn, my mault is, then I gotta put a
Speaker 5: new multch down on there. Well, yeah, okay, that's work.
Speaker 5: It takes all the time to do it, Yeah, but
Speaker 5: not much. But that old multch is decomposing away and
Speaker 5: making your soil better and better and better and better.
Speaker 5: Leave the old maults. Put fresh mult on top to
Speaker 5: maintain the depth you need to maintain. But that old
Speaker 5: maltch isn't gone. It's now become good stuff for the
Speaker 5: plants themselves. Before it was just dry organic matter sitting
Speaker 5: on the surface to block the light. That's kind of
Speaker 5: what it accomplished. It blocks the light. It moderates the
Speaker 5: soil temperature because it's a shading of the soil, and
Speaker 5: it helps hold in some moisture as well, because again
Speaker 5: the evaporation from the soil surface is decreased because you
Speaker 5: got the mulch on there, so it has a lot
Speaker 5: of good benefit. But when it decomposes, then you get
Speaker 5: the good stuff released down into the soil. All right,
Speaker 5: I hope I made sense of that. But anyway, Yeah,
Speaker 5: don't remove your old mult that is important. Hey, if
Speaker 5: you like to give us a call seven to one
Speaker 5: three two one two.
Speaker 7: K t r H.
Speaker 5: Seven one three two one two k t r H,
Speaker 5: feel free.
Speaker 4: To do that.
Speaker 5: We'd love to visit with you about the kinds of
Speaker 5: questions that you might have. I uh, I don't know
Speaker 5: how many years ago, not too many, maybe four or
Speaker 5: five years ago. I discovered something called sweet green from Nitrofoss.
Speaker 5: I say I discovered it. It had been around, but
Speaker 5: I just ran across it and actually stopped to look
Speaker 5: at it and began to work with it. And I've
Speaker 5: got some right now about to put out in one
Speaker 5: of my yards.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 5: And it's time, by the way, to put the sweet
Speaker 5: green out. Sweet green is a natural product sold by
Speaker 5: Nitrofoss that dissolves away into the soil and feeds beneficial microbes.
Speaker 5: Microbes love sugary materials. That's why they call it sweet green.
Speaker 5: It also smells sweet by the way. It smells wonderful.
Speaker 5: But it's eleven percent nitrogen, and when you put it down,
Speaker 5: it dissolves in. The microbes go crazy. And when they
Speaker 5: go crazy, yeah, they're taking some of it up, and
Speaker 5: then as they do their a little quick life cycle,
Speaker 5: they don't live forever. It releases that nutrient back into
Speaker 5: the soice part of the cycle of the soil. And
Speaker 5: sweet green you're gonna find at a lot of different places.
Speaker 5: You go to a place like in Channa Gardens down
Speaker 5: the Richmond Rosenberg area, or maybe Hiding and Feed on
Speaker 5: Studenter Airline, Fisher's Hardware on Southomore down in Pasadena, just
Speaker 5: some examples of places where you're going to find sweet
Speaker 5: green and other quality products. If you put it down,
Speaker 5: you want to, like any fertilizer, you will water it in.
Speaker 5: You want to dissolve away, move into the soil and
Speaker 5: get that good stuff down in to give your plants
Speaker 5: a boost. And it's a great one to get a
Speaker 5: good boost and get that lawn growing. The weather we're
Speaker 5: having now is perfect for lawns. I mean, our lawn
Speaker 5: southern turf grasses can take it really really hot, but
Speaker 5: they are kicking into high gear. And a good nutrient
Speaker 5: application right now, be very helpful. All Right, I'm gonna
Speaker 5: take a little break here. When we come back, we're
Speaker 5: going to start with Ronald and Lake Jackson. Look forward
Speaker 5: to talking to you. Then stick around. Hey, welcome back, well,
Speaker 5: welcome back to arbor Gate. As visiting with Jason over
Speaker 5: at Pearscapes the other day and we're just talking about
Speaker 5: some different kinds of things going on and how the
Speaker 5: spring's going with them, and boy, they're having a great spring.
Speaker 5: By the way, Piercescapes is our garden Line preferred landscaper.
Speaker 5: They work an area about forty five minutes from Tomball
Speaker 5: in all directions, so you know, with north, south, east west,
Speaker 5: whichever direction you're going. Piercecapes is a prime quality company,
Speaker 5: I mean, and go to their website Piercescapes dot com.
Speaker 5: Piercescapes dot com. Take a look at the work they do.
Speaker 5: It's unbelievable. They do landscape, of course, they do irrigation work,
Speaker 5: they do lighting and drainage, a lot of things. I'm
Speaker 5: telling you you ought to check them out for just
Speaker 5: their maintenance. They do a quarterly maintenance four times a year.
Speaker 5: They come by. They spruce up your beds, you know,
Speaker 5: put new multch down if you want to have a
Speaker 5: color change, like take all those flowers out and put
Speaker 5: the new flowers the next season in that. They can
Speaker 5: do that. Just make sure everything's in work in order.
Speaker 5: You know, the irrigation's got to be in work in
Speaker 5: order for things to do good. It's a general care
Speaker 5: any kind of pruning, trimming, things that might be done,
Speaker 5: and it just keeps your landscape beds looking good year round.
Speaker 5: It's only come by four times a year to do that,
Speaker 5: but it is a it is an excellent service. You
Speaker 5: can go to Piercescapes dot com and find out more
Speaker 5: or just give them a call. Two eight one three
Speaker 5: seven oh fifty sixty two eight one three seven oh
Speaker 5: fifty sixty. Let's head now out to Lake Jackson and
Speaker 5: we're going to talk to Ronald. Hello, Ronald, welcome to
Speaker 5: garden Line.
Speaker 8: Good morning, sir, Thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 9: Yes, I have a question concerning a tree that we
Speaker 9: would like to plant in honor of someone's special I
Speaker 9: pastor a church around here include actually, and the tree
Speaker 9: would be likely planted within twenty feet of the front
Speaker 9: entrance of the church. And so we're looking for something
Speaker 9: that would stay green year round and it's not going
Speaker 9: to make a huge mess with leaves or berries or nuts.
Speaker 8: And so just wondering about a recommendation.
Speaker 5: Boy, you want it ever green. It's not a deciduous right,
Speaker 5: is that I'm understood, because we're just like.
Speaker 8: To not have a bear tree standing there throughout the winter.
Speaker 9: You know, we could have something that would I see,
Speaker 9: stay green most of the time, if not all year round.
Speaker 5: That's a little bit. It's a little tough call.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 5: We have evergreens that that don't get that big. They
Speaker 5: get large, but they're not that kind of tree size,
Speaker 5: you know, Holly's and different things, But that doesn't make
Speaker 5: a shade tree kind of tree, if you will. Live
Speaker 5: oaks can be a little bit. The mothers get too large,
Speaker 5: way too large for that spot, so they're not going
Speaker 5: to do as well. There are some columnar types of
Speaker 5: live oaks that grow more upright than spreading. I just
Speaker 5: don't think that's going to be a good fit for
Speaker 5: you in that area. Some of the best trees for
Speaker 5: that area are deciduous trees. There's some lots of lots
Speaker 5: of good things. The red oaks, the Schumart and I
Speaker 5: mean the I see this is in Lake Jackson. I
Speaker 5: would probably do a nuttall. If I was doing a
Speaker 5: red oak in that area. Oh gosh, let me think here,
Speaker 5: evergreen tree that size I met, think about that one
Speaker 5: a little bit. I'd probably try to talk you into
Speaker 5: a tree that's more that's deciduous. That may he has
Speaker 5: some attractive features. The the Chinese elm has beautiful bark
Speaker 5: that's kind of a rusty coloring gray as it flakes off,
Speaker 5: and it's a it's a very attractive pattern. So even
Speaker 5: in winter time it looks pretty good. My brain is
Speaker 5: drawing a blank here. I'm gonna have to back up
Speaker 5: a little bit. Try to think of a good evergreens.
Speaker 5: See the pines not a good tree for that area.
Speaker 5: Certainly cedars there. You know, you can do a cedar
Speaker 5: type tree there, but that's not the most attractive for
Speaker 5: a spot like that. But that would be evergreen, a
Speaker 5: juniper type ceed a type tree.
Speaker 8: A friend suggested a Chinese fringe tree.
Speaker 5: I was I would love to recommend that one, but
Speaker 5: it's not evergreen. It has beautiful shaggy white blooms in
Speaker 5: the spring. And it's a moderate sized tree, so that
Speaker 5: that's another concern of being twenty feet away from the church.
Speaker 5: That's pretty close, but not for a Chinese fringe. You
Speaker 5: could get by with that. And if I think it's
Speaker 5: one of the prettiest trees there is. In summer, it's
Speaker 5: just a pretty green tree. But in the spring it's awesome, awesome.
Speaker 10: Really.
Speaker 8: And what was the tree you said they had the
Speaker 8: nice bark on It.
Speaker 5: Was Chinese elm. And it gets quite large, So twenty
Speaker 5: feet you're gonna have to do some pruning to keep
Speaker 5: it from you know, the branches brushing against the roof
Speaker 5: of the church or the eaves and things. Yes, sir, yeahead,
Speaker 5: Did I say Chinese elm? I just heard Chinese fringe
Speaker 5: echoing in my ear. Did I also say Chinese that's
Speaker 5: the one with the pretty bark.
Speaker 4: Lace? Yes?
Speaker 5: Okay, good, good, Yeah. And I would suggest go online
Speaker 5: to your search engine and just look at Chinese fringe
Speaker 5: and look at Chinese elm, and I think you'll see
Speaker 5: what I'm talking about.
Speaker 8: Yes, all right, well, I do appreciate your time. Thank
Speaker 8: you today.
Speaker 5: Yes, sir, Hey, thanks Ron. I appreciate that very much.
Speaker 5: Good cause too. It's always nice to plant a tree
Speaker 5: for somebody. I just think that's a wonderful gesture antiq
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Speaker 5: got regulars in the water. And if you are dealing
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Speaker 5: They release it this substance in the water. It's a
Speaker 5: type of bt actually, not the caterpillar type, but it
Speaker 5: kills mosquito larvae. And so when the for about a
Speaker 5: month that maybe hundred square foot of area will be
Speaker 5: covered by it. You can break them up. You want
Speaker 5: to crack them up and put them in little places,
Speaker 5: you know, maybe the catch basin, under a watering container
Speaker 5: to hold the water. You know, mosquitos breed, and that
Speaker 5: old mosquitoes need is a teaspoon or a bottle cap
Speaker 5: really of water to complete a life cycle. So you
Speaker 5: got to take care of these things.
Speaker 8: Now.
Speaker 5: Mosquito dunks that they are the safest simple way to
Speaker 5: control mosquitoes, just really really easy to do. Y'all always
Speaker 5: should have them on hand. They come in a granule too,
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Speaker 5: And again, if you want to take a dunk and
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Speaker 5: Feed stores have them, Ace hardware stores have them. You're
Speaker 5: gonna find them at Southwest Fertilizer. You're going to find
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Speaker 5: You're going to need them. And you know, if your
Speaker 5: neighbor won't take care of their areas, just toss the
Speaker 5: mosquito dunk across the fence and land in that puddle
Speaker 5: of water that they have back there. Anyway, you get
Speaker 5: the idea. Hey, We're going to head now over to
Speaker 5: Dayton and talk to Kevin. Hey, Kevin, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 11: Good morning, thanks for taking the calls. Want to call
Speaker 11: and talk tomato plants this morning. I've got a container garden.
Speaker 11: I've put together in four and a half yelling containers,
Speaker 11: and I've planted the Roman tomatoes and the Early Girl tomatoes,
Speaker 11: and all the plants are twenty four inches to about
Speaker 11: thirty three inches tall right now. I've planted them in
Speaker 11: jungle and soil, and I used the little as of mite,
Speaker 11: and I'm starting to notice some foliage. Probably about five
Speaker 11: percent of the plant is starting to get a little
Speaker 11: brown on the ends. It's kind of I've got blooms
Speaker 11: they haven't set yet. I was kind of worried about those.
Speaker 11: Is there possibly something I need to worry about or
Speaker 11: that I need to do as a solomon?
Speaker 7: Maybe?
Speaker 5: Yeah, Kevin, when you say I'm brown on the ends.
Speaker 5: You mean the tips and edges of the leaf a brown, Yes, sir,
Speaker 5: that's that's a sign. It could be drought, but it
Speaker 5: also could be when you use salt based fertilizers, if
Speaker 5: you put a lot on, you can get some tip
Speaker 5: and margin burn on leaves from the salts in a
Speaker 5: salt type fertilizer. Salt, a synthetic type fertilizer. Uh, it
Speaker 5: could be that, or it could be the drought. It's
Speaker 5: one or the other. And I would just if they're
Speaker 5: growing at a good pace, but they look they look
Speaker 5: pretty good overall, I would just hold on the fertilizer
Speaker 5: for now, not add anymore. Try to keep this sow
Speaker 5: moist but not soggy wet. And I think I think
Speaker 5: they're going to outgrow this based on what I'm hearing
Speaker 5: from you.
Speaker 7: Okay.
Speaker 11: Also, pruning tomato plants, is that something that's you know, recommended,
Speaker 11: or do you kind of leave them alone and let's burnt, bloom,
Speaker 11: set and hope you get some delicious tomatoes or I
Speaker 11: guess I.
Speaker 5: Man, I will allow I'll allow maybe three different trunks
Speaker 5: to come up and then remove the other suckers everywhere
Speaker 5: there's a leaf you'll get'll shoot and as that plant
Speaker 5: gets bigger, it'll have so many shoots that it's just
Speaker 5: a wat of foliage in that cage or what however
Speaker 5: you're growing them. And so I'll thin them out a
Speaker 5: little bit, maybe three maybe four trunks on the tomato
Speaker 5: plant and then after that no more uh. And so
Speaker 5: that that kind of pruning, just snapping out those little
Speaker 5: sucker shoots coming out of the where the leaf attaches
Speaker 5: to the stem.
Speaker 8: Okay.
Speaker 11: I also have bell peppers in my my container garden
Speaker 11: as well. Is there any any type of fertilizer maybe
Speaker 11: you would recommend for the bell peppers. Again, I've planted
Speaker 11: all this in jumble in soil, which was great and.
Speaker 5: Yeah, just a standard, yeah, just a standard. You know,
Speaker 5: Nelson Nelson in their nutri Star line Nelson Plant Food
Speaker 5: has a vegetable fertilizer that's excellent to use for that,
Speaker 5: and I would use that. And if you can't get
Speaker 5: to any you don't have any in a pinch, just
Speaker 5: use some of your lawn fertilizer and moderate amounts and
Speaker 5: you can do that. But if you can find the
Speaker 5: Nelson vegetable fertilizer that would be the one. All right, okay, well,
Speaker 5: good luck with it. Hey, thanks for the call, Thanks
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Speaker 5: quit talking. All right, folks, Well we're gonna take a
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Speaker 13: Hello, Angelo, how you doing, Hey, Skip, how are you today?
Speaker 5: I'm well, thank you?
Speaker 13: Okay, Hey, here's what I got. I got a lemon
Speaker 13: and a lime tree Myers lemon and a lime tree
Speaker 13: bottom last year during thirty five gallon containers. I brought
Speaker 13: them in during the winter when we had those couple freezes,
Speaker 13: maybe a couple of weeks, but AnyWho. Both of them
Speaker 13: were full of blooms. I mean full of them. The
Speaker 13: lime tree produces lime. There's numerous lines on there. But
Speaker 13: the lemon tree, after all the blooms fell up, not
Speaker 13: one lemon is there. I just wondered, what's going on.
Speaker 13: I've had orange trees and lemon trees in the past,
Speaker 13: and they all when they blew them at least got something. Yeah,
Speaker 13: but not one single lemon. And there were bees pollinating
Speaker 13: throughout the late winter. But I don't know what's going
Speaker 13: on there.
Speaker 5: Nothing Okay, well who knows? Who knows for sure? When
Speaker 5: those trees get stressed, they drop fruit. They have bort fruit,
Speaker 5: and so you know, if it went through a drought,
Speaker 5: stress or sometimes cold temperatures can do that. But the
Speaker 5: bottom line is something something stressed those trees. And I
Speaker 5: can't tell you exactly what it was, because you know,
Speaker 5: whn't they're watching them every day. But something stressed them.
Speaker 5: Have have they produced crops for you in the past.
Speaker 13: This is the second year I put them in. I
Speaker 13: bought them at one of the box stores, but they
Speaker 13: were the same growers. I've had these trees in the past,
Speaker 13: but they all froze. But I don't know. Like I said,
Speaker 13: I don't think they were stressed. They were water properly,
Speaker 13: they were put outside after the freeze was gone. Everything
Speaker 13: I did I think was right, But just.
Speaker 5: I don't know if it's well, how big is the
Speaker 5: pot that they're in?
Speaker 13: Thirty five gallons? Okay it was, Yeah, there was canisters
Speaker 13: that the landscaper's plant a huge treason.
Speaker 5: Well, it seems like you're doing your part. So they
Speaker 5: need to go out and give them a good talking
Speaker 5: to because they're not doing theirs, you know, other than
Speaker 5: you know, what I said about the stress is. It
Speaker 5: is also true though that when a citrus is young,
Speaker 5: it is more prone to a boarding than as it
Speaker 5: gets older and better established. So that that factor is
Speaker 5: in there, you should have you shouldn't have lost everything
Speaker 5: though on that line, on that.
Speaker 13: Wag, I'm sorry on the tag itself that the first
Speaker 13: bloom was in twenty three and I bought him in
Speaker 13: twenty four and it's twenty five, So I don't know. Maybe,
Speaker 13: like you said, it's just maybe a little bit too young,
Speaker 13: but they're probably you know, waist high.
Speaker 5: Yeah, some very fact came in. Yeah, some factors came in,
Speaker 5: I believe fully that if they're in good sunlight, you
Speaker 5: can have a crop next year. I think you're going
Speaker 5: to get a crop next year. I like a sign
Speaker 5: that something's wrong.
Speaker 13: In the past, I've noticed that they would bloom again
Speaker 13: maybe in July and August.
Speaker 12: You can.
Speaker 13: They have in the past. So basically what you're saying,
Speaker 13: it could be anything. It just could be there may
Speaker 13: be too young, or if I didn't do anything wrong,
Speaker 13: it's just mother nature taken hold of things for whatever reason.
Speaker 5: But just moderate nutrition. But don't push them with too
Speaker 5: much nitrogen. That's another thing that that can be a
Speaker 5: problem with good fruit set on.
Speaker 13: Some certain types of plants have no fertilizer on them.
Speaker 5: Alrighty, all right, well hold your mouth right, clean living,
Speaker 5: fancy gardening footwork, and we'll we'll see lemons before long.
Speaker 5: I believe that.
Speaker 13: All right, Updated that happens. But thanks for the info.
Speaker 13: I appreciate it.
Speaker 5: Sure, Hey, Angela, I'm gonna be at Warren Southern Gardens
Speaker 5: today from twelve thirty to two thirty. Get a chance
Speaker 5: to swing by there.
Speaker 13: I'll tell you what. I'll bring the tree and you
Speaker 13: could bless them since it's Easter, or maybe that'll do
Speaker 13: something Oh.
Speaker 5: My, now that would be if someone will bring a camera,
Speaker 5: I will that will be a photo. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 5: thanks a lot, Angela. All right, the Blessing of the
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Speaker 5: great products. Their Turf Star line is all kinds of
Speaker 5: things for turf, basically what it amounts to. They have
Speaker 5: a product called Bruce's Sprew. Bruces Sprew is a interesting
Speaker 5: product because you know, we talk about fast release and
Speaker 5: we talk about slow release. Well, Bruce's Brew is kind
Speaker 5: of like all the above. It's kind of like both
Speaker 5: you do get a quick release from it, but not
Speaker 5: all the nutrients are quick release. Some of them will
Speaker 5: gradual release over time and it'll take a while for
Speaker 5: them to fully release their nutrients out. So you kind
Speaker 5: of get the best of both worlds in many ways.
Speaker 5: Bruce's sprew as this temperature now is warming up, it's
Speaker 5: going to give you a good quick greenup of your grass.
Speaker 5: And then as that nutrient release evens out over time,
Speaker 5: you got a nice regulated growth rate. It really helps
Speaker 5: the roots to develop to sustain good root depth and
Speaker 5: resilience in summer heat. You know, we need a good
Speaker 5: root system. And when you over fertilize with nitrogen, when
Speaker 5: you overdo a nitrogen in one point in time, you
Speaker 5: know too much at once. You get top growth at
Speaker 5: the expense of root growth. But with Bruce's brew, you
Speaker 5: don't get that because it's going to gradually provide it
Speaker 5: over time, that carbon based nitrogen in it. It's going
Speaker 5: to feed soil microbes, and you know, when you have
Speaker 5: healthy soil, you have healthy lawn. And when you have
Speaker 5: a healthy lawn, it's going to be less vulnerable to
Speaker 5: a lot of the pest and disease issues that Alan's
Speaker 5: a lawn can face here in the Greater Houston area.
Speaker 5: You're going to find Bruces Brew and other Nelsen products
Speaker 5: at many retailers across Ale across the whole Houston Greater
Speaker 5: Houston areia. I would highly recommend it. It works. I
Speaker 5: know because I've tried it. We're going to go now
Speaker 5: out to Hockley and talk to Ruthie this morning. Hey Ruthie,
Speaker 5: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 8: Hi Skip, thank you.
Speaker 14: I have a piggy ma and rose that.
Speaker 4: I bought at the arbor Gate last year.
Speaker 6: It's about ten feet tall and I'm thinking about transplanting it.
Speaker 6: But if the transplant will kill it, I won't do it,
Speaker 6: so I wanted your advice.
Speaker 5: It won't kill it, it'll it'll set it back because
Speaker 5: it's putting all its spring growth on and then you're
Speaker 5: going to wrap up a good part of the root
Speaker 5: system no matter how much you try to get But
Speaker 5: if you if you need to get it moved, go
Speaker 5: ahead and move it. I would cut it back by
Speaker 5: about maybe fifty percent something like that. Well it put
Speaker 5: it in its because yeah, it'll it'll come back from that.
Speaker 5: Put it in now. If you cut it back, yes,
Speaker 5: fifty and put it in its new spot immediately. Don't
Speaker 5: let the roots dry out one bit, and get them
Speaker 5: moved over the new spot watered in really well. And
Speaker 5: then if you have a way of draping something over
Speaker 5: it to just give it a little bit of a
Speaker 5: break from sun for a little bit as it recovers. Okay,
Speaker 5: that would be hopeful. You don't want to you don't
Speaker 5: want to put it in deep shade. It needs sunlight
Speaker 5: to produce carbohydrates to recover. But just a little bit
Speaker 5: of a break and after a couple of weeks you
Speaker 5: can kind of pull that shading off of it, or
Speaker 5: the break from the sun. That's what I recommend. Just
Speaker 5: keep it, keep it moist. When you dig it up,
Speaker 5: you'll see how big the root system you're moving is.
Speaker 5: And that's where all the water has to go for
Speaker 5: at least three or four weeks, uh, and then gradually
Speaker 5: watering a bigger area. But it has only roots in
Speaker 5: that area, and it's got to produce new roots, which
Speaker 5: is within a couple of weeks it'll have a good
Speaker 5: root system starting its way back.
Speaker 4: All right, very good bye, thank you, Skip, I appreciate it, all.
Speaker 5: Right, thank you, appreciate that call. I put a post
Speaker 5: on Facebook the other day of my Peggy Martin rose
Speaker 5: and in the photo our Tex and Ellie, my Golden Retrievers. Uh,
Speaker 5: you know, Peggy Martin is an incredible rose. It survived.
Speaker 5: The reason Peggy Martin, the reason we even know Peggy Martin,
Speaker 5: the reason it even has that name is when Katrina
Speaker 5: hit and New Orleans where this rose was living, by
Speaker 5: the way, was under twenty feet of salt water for
Speaker 5: like two weeks. I mean it was like, well, nothing
Speaker 5: lives with that. When the saltwater subsided from Katrina, the
Speaker 5: darn thing came back and kept going and kept blooming.
Speaker 5: And the lady who had the place's name was Peggy
Speaker 5: Martin and that's why they named it that. And so
Speaker 5: that is a tough rose. Well, so I bring it
Speaker 5: to my house. I put it in the back near
Speaker 5: a little arbor area we have to sit under, and
Speaker 5: it grew. And then my two Golden Retrievers, Tax and Alley,
Speaker 5: they decided, you know what, why don't we chew that
Speaker 5: off about a foot above the ground. And they did,
Speaker 5: and I walked out and I talked to them about it.
Speaker 5: That's a nice way to put it, and they looked
Speaker 5: at me as if they had remorse and out. I see,
Speaker 5: the first two years they did it twice. So at
Speaker 5: some point they did it again, and it's like, okay,
Speaker 5: you guys are just incorrigible anyway. So I put this
Speaker 5: little ring of hardware cloth around it, you know, the
Speaker 5: little half inch square hardware cloth, and then they couldn't
Speaker 5: shoot through that, or at least they've decided not to try.
Speaker 5: And now it's up over the trellis and it looks
Speaker 5: just beautiful. I took a picture of it with the
Speaker 5: two guilty parties who have no shame Texanlly underneath it.
Speaker 5: So there you go. I love those dogs, but I'm
Speaker 5: telling you they can try my patients. I thought when
Speaker 5: I was getting a golden retriever it was like bread
Speaker 5: for you know, retrieving birds for bird hunters or something.
Speaker 5: Well I don't know what it was bred for, but
Speaker 5: I know this. When I plant a plant in a
Speaker 5: flower bed, they will retrieve it and bring it to
Speaker 5: the back porch and set it there on the mat
Speaker 5: going in the back door, as if they accomplished me
Speaker 5: a favor, like, hey, skip, you forgot this plant while
Speaker 5: you're out in the garden earlier. Yeah, Golden Retrievers. By
Speaker 5: the way, Also, since I'm tongue in cheek lamenting about goldens,
Speaker 5: we love those dogs. Whenever, there needs to be a
Speaker 5: Texas law that if you sell Golden Retriever puppies you
Speaker 5: have to give away a free Roomba vacuum cleaner to
Speaker 5: everyone who buys one, because we have two. Rumba type
Speaker 5: is not that brand, but Roomba type vacuum cleaners. They
Speaker 5: work every day every day. Try to keep up with
Speaker 5: those Golden Retrievers. All right, there, you go, enough about that.
Speaker 5: If you've been to the Arbor Gate up in Tomball,
Speaker 5: if you haven't, you need to go. It is one
Speaker 5: of the premiere outstanding garden centers we have in our area.
Speaker 5: You go in first of all, they for those of
Speaker 5: you who haven't been in a while. They have a
Speaker 5: new parking lot in back and you take Tresher Road
Speaker 5: around the back. That's where you can park and get in.
Speaker 5: Trough easy to get in and out, very safe, very nice,
Speaker 5: and you need to take advantage of it. It's the
Speaker 5: one I use all the time now. But anyway, Arburgate
Speaker 5: is the place you wander through and your jaws, jaws
Speaker 5: hanging open, you know, and if you're like me, there's
Speaker 5: a little droll coming out of the corner of your
Speaker 5: mouth because you're looking at all these awesome plants, beautiful
Speaker 5: spread out everywhere. It's just great. But I think despite
Speaker 5: all the beauty and all the just the fun of
Speaker 5: walking around and seeing everything they have, I think the
Speaker 5: strong point of Arburgate there's two things. Number One, they
Speaker 5: bring in an incredibly wide selection all through the year
Speaker 5: of everything you might want to grow or didn't even
Speaker 5: know existed, that that becomes your new favorite plant. Number Two,
Speaker 5: the folks that work there, Beverly and Kennon down to
Speaker 5: the even the ladies at the checkout. Everyone is friendly
Speaker 5: and helpful and doesn't mind. They don't point it like, oh,
Speaker 5: go to the other side of the garden center. There's
Speaker 5: one of those plants over there. They walk you to it,
Speaker 5: they take you to if you want. If you need help,
Speaker 5: like putting together a plant or something, they'll spend some
Speaker 5: time with you. They'll answer your questions. You can bring
Speaker 5: them questions and samples and pictures and things. It's service.
Speaker 5: It is friendly service, quality plants. And you know, I
Speaker 5: always say brown stuff before green stuff. Before you leave arbigate,
Speaker 5: grab the three the one two three completely easy system.
Speaker 5: That is an organic food complete, which is an organic
Speaker 5: fertilizer with calcium two by the way, organic soil complete
Speaker 5: and Organic compost complete. Those are the three. The latter
Speaker 5: two have the expanded hiale in the mix, which our
Speaker 5: clay soils need. Now, those three are the bags that
Speaker 5: go in the back of the car when you bring
Speaker 5: home the plants, brown stuff before the green stuff. But
Speaker 5: if you want more than just bags of them, well,
Speaker 5: the organic Soil Complete and the Organic Compost Complete are
Speaker 5: available in bulk. They can bring a giant sack out
Speaker 5: there and set it on the property, on the driveway
Speaker 5: or whatever, so you can have it. You don't want
Speaker 5: to eight hundred bags, we'll just buy it by the
Speaker 5: bulk and they will deliver it. They will deliver it.
Speaker 5: All you have to do is contact them, go to
Speaker 5: the website, give them a call and find out about
Speaker 5: how to do that. But the soil and the compost
Speaker 5: can be delivered in bulk, and you should consider that
Speaker 5: because getting the soil right is so important. As wonderful
Speaker 5: as the plants are that they have, you got to
Speaker 5: get the soil right for any plant to have its
Speaker 5: best chance of success. And that's why we're buying plants
Speaker 5: is to have success. You are listening to garden Line.
Speaker 5: I am your host, Skip Richter, and we're here to
Speaker 5: help you have success. We want you to have a
Speaker 5: bountiful garden. We want you to have a beautiful landscape,
Speaker 5: and we want you to have more fun in the process.
Speaker 5: That's Gardening is fun. It is a great, great hobby
Speaker 5: and you can have fun too as you do it.
Speaker 5: Sweet Green is a product produced by the folks at Nitrophoss.
Speaker 5: Sweet Green is gosh. It's a it's an organic product
Speaker 5: that has eleven percent nitrogen nutrient in it. Now that's
Speaker 5: a lot for an organic product. It dissolves away. It's
Speaker 5: by the way. It's a sweet basically a sugar molasses
Speaker 5: type base, and so it dissolves the way into the
Speaker 5: soil and that carbon makes microbes go nuts. They love
Speaker 5: that stuff and they release that nutrient out of there
Speaker 5: and it makes your longo nuts. It makes it green.
Speaker 5: It's sweet green. That's why it has that name. You
Speaker 5: can put it down, water it in really good and
Speaker 5: watch the results and it will be it will be
Speaker 5: very fast and it will be very impressive from sweet Green. Now,
Speaker 5: sweet Green, being a nitrofoss product, is available to a
Speaker 5: lot of different places. If you go to Plantation Ace
Speaker 5: Hardware out there on FM three fifty nine in Richmond, Rosenberg.
Speaker 5: If you go to Langham Creek Ase Hardbare by the way,
Speaker 5: that's one at Copperfield on FM five point twenty nine,
Speaker 5: Barker Cypress right in that area, or RCW Nursery Tambo Parkway.
Speaker 5: All places where you're going to get Nightcross products like
Speaker 5: the sweet Green it works, absolutely works. Let's see our
Speaker 5: phone number. Ought to give you a phone number here
Speaker 5: seven one three two one two k t r H
Speaker 5: seven one three two one two k t r H.
Speaker 5: Give us a call. By the way, Craig called earlier,
Speaker 5: and I think we got word back to him. But
Speaker 5: he was asking for an evergreen tree that could be
Speaker 5: used like in an entrance way to a church and
Speaker 5: uh kind of close to the church. Uh, and I
Speaker 5: was kind of drawing a blank on a good evergreen tree.
Speaker 5: We talked about a number of different things, but uh
Speaker 5: uh someone had called in. Excuse me, I'm sorry, Ronald
Speaker 5: called got I get my name's crossed here Ronald called
Speaker 5: about that lake Jackson. Craig called in and he goes, hey,
Speaker 5: what about southern Magnoia is like, dah, yes, that's a
Speaker 5: good idea. Thanks for that reminder, Craig. Southern magnolia grows
Speaker 5: slow though, so it's not one that's gonna, you know,
Speaker 5: be a big beautiful tree very fast. And they do
Speaker 5: get quite large, okay, but in time that with some
Speaker 5: you know, trimming of branches to protect them from rubbing
Speaker 5: against the roof of the of the church or the
Speaker 5: eaves or whatever. You don't want to get them too close.
Speaker 5: That would be a nice one that would get beautiful,
Speaker 5: beautiful blooms in the summertime and provide year round color.
Speaker 5: The only thing about southern magnolia to keep in mind, Ronald,
Speaker 5: is the the thing casts a deep shade all year,
Speaker 5: and so it's hard to get things to grow under
Speaker 5: southern magnolia. Monkey grass, mondo grass will grow under a
Speaker 5: southern magnolia pretty well. That's something that you could do,
Speaker 5: but in general it's kind of hard to get you know,
Speaker 5: real good growth of other things show You may just
Speaker 5: end up with a nice bark multched area underneath there
Speaker 5: that would probably be the way I would go. Hey,
Speaker 5: by the way, jungle Land from Nitroposs is a potting
Speaker 5: soil for indoors and for outdoors. The flour and vegetable
Speaker 5: planting soil is for outdoors. The water saber potting soil
Speaker 5: is for indoors. Someone was mentioning planning citric or something
Speaker 5: a minute ago in jungle Land and the stuff works
Speaker 5: being a night Foss product. Fishers Hardware down on South
Speaker 5: Broadway and Laporte and in Mott Bellevue, the Fishers on
Speaker 5: thirty one eighty, as well as the M and D
Speaker 5: Beamer in Sagemont. We'll be right back, all right, Welcome
Speaker 5: back to Guardline. Good to have you with us. You'd
Speaker 5: like to give me a call today, by the way,
Speaker 5: seven one three two one two KTRH seven one three
Speaker 5: two one two kt RH. We are here to help
Speaker 5: you have success in your garden. That's what we want
Speaker 5: to see. Gardening should be fun. You don't need to
Speaker 5: fail at gardening. In fact, I'm going to be so
Speaker 5: bold as to say this, and I hope, I hope
Speaker 5: you hear this. You cannot fail at gardening. Now you go, well,
Speaker 5: wait a minute, if you saw the plants I've killed over.
Speaker 5: I know you can. You cannot have success in a
Speaker 5: particular season. But you only fail when you quit, when
Speaker 5: you give up trying, when you say I've got a
Speaker 5: brown thumb, first of all, you don't. Then you fail
Speaker 5: because you quit. But when it comes to gardening, every
Speaker 5: year is a new year. Listen, look at nature. There
Speaker 5: are plants. They come up from seed in a year
Speaker 5: and then they die and they're gone, and then next
Speaker 5: year other seeds come up and it starts over, and
Speaker 5: it starts over. Perennials die to the ground and they
Speaker 5: come back. Nature has a cycle to it, and there
Speaker 5: is nothing wrong with replacing plants. If something doesn't do well,
Speaker 5: you don't like how it's doing, maybe it dies. Replace it.
Speaker 5: You can do that. They're thing called garden centers. They
Speaker 5: will help you do that. They will help you do that.
Speaker 5: But try new things start over. Give us a call
Speaker 5: on garden Line. Go on to my website gardeningwi skip
Speaker 5: dot com. Find out where you know. If you look
Speaker 5: at the website, you'll find out everything from coal protection
Speaker 5: to plants, to how to get rid of that's edge
Speaker 5: to I mean, all the different things we deal with
Speaker 5: this garden. One by one. We're adding them there to
Speaker 5: the website to help you have success. And once you
Speaker 5: learn what plants want, you just get better and better,
Speaker 5: and what you think is a brown thumb becomes greener
Speaker 5: and greener because you're giving plants what they want. That
Speaker 5: is really the bottom line to successful gardening is making
Speaker 5: plants happy, and we can help you do that. So
Speaker 5: don't give up. Give it a try. And a great
Speaker 5: way to do that is to go to places that
Speaker 5: sell good plants and then have good advice. Okay, places
Speaker 5: that sell good plants and that have good advice. You're
Speaker 5: at if you're out in West Houston, Nelson Water Garden
Speaker 5: and Nursery out and Katie, that is the prime spot
Speaker 5: with that. Now, water gardens and nursery. Okay, that's what
Speaker 5: Nelson's is. Well, they've always been water gardens. I mean
Speaker 5: that they're nationally known for quality water gardens. If you've
Speaker 5: got this giant container and you go, oh, that would
Speaker 5: be pretty if water came out of the top and
Speaker 5: went over the sides and recircle back. They invented that
Speaker 5: they can take your container and they can make it
Speaker 5: into something like that, or they can they can sell
Speaker 5: you a beautiful. Gosh, their pottery is so gorgeous. One
Speaker 5: of the kind stuff you can only get there. They
Speaker 5: can do that, and of course the water plants, you know,
Speaker 5: lolly pets and loaded all kinds of cool plants, and
Speaker 5: then the fish shamunkins and and the kois and whatnot.
Speaker 5: By the way, take your kids out there. They'll give
Speaker 5: them a little bit of fish food and then go
Speaker 5: out in the back. There's a pond they have toward
Speaker 5: the back of the property. It's beautiful under shady areas.
Speaker 5: Kids can go back and feed the fish. And these
Speaker 5: koi come right out of They just kind of rise
Speaker 5: up out of the water with big old mouths wide
Speaker 5: open and you just drop the feet in and the
Speaker 5: kiddos will love that. But anyway, I'm digressing. By the way,
Speaker 5: today starting at nine am, they're going to have their
Speaker 5: Easter egg hunt today going on out there. It's a
Speaker 5: nice family event. They always have things going on. But
Speaker 5: you also when you're out there, just look for some
Speaker 5: of the planets that they have. I don't care what
Speaker 5: kind of plant you're looking for. It could be a
Speaker 5: copper canyon daisy. It's one of my favorite. If you
Speaker 5: don't know Copper Canyon daisy. It's actually a type of marigold,
Speaker 5: not a daisy, but it has little yellow flowers and
Speaker 5: it has strong pine slash cetrus scented foliage. So get
Speaker 5: your head around that pine and cetrus, very strong pine
Speaker 5: and ctrus scented foliage. Some people don't care for it.
Speaker 5: I love it, absolutely love it. They've got those. Do
Speaker 5: you need roses, do you need hadranges? Do you need herbs,
Speaker 5: do you need flowers? You name it, they've got it
Speaker 5: at Nelson Water Garden in nursery. By the way, they
Speaker 5: are on Katie Fort Ben Road. You turn north from
Speaker 5: I ten, go north just a little bit and they're
Speaker 5: on the right hand side. Nelsonwatergardens dot Com. We are
Speaker 5: going to go now out and talk to Katie. Hello Katie,
Speaker 5: Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 6: Hello Skip, I sent you picture.
Speaker 7: Okay, a new of.
Speaker 6: My newly sodded backyard. Weeks and I have a boxer
Speaker 6: and he is destroying one section because he relieves himself
Speaker 6: on the tree. What can I do?
Speaker 5: Okay, well you can.
Speaker 14: I can't reach out, believe me.
Speaker 5: I I know I know about dogs and that so
Speaker 5: a couple of things. If you put a bed around
Speaker 5: the tree and just had some molts or something there.
Speaker 5: Then he could still go there and you just wouldn't
Speaker 5: have grass in that spot. I think it looks kind
Speaker 5: of nice to have a little bed around a tree
Speaker 5: like that, as far as you're not going to retrain him.
Speaker 5: As you said, it's a tree. The boxer's a dog,
Speaker 5: So you know, there you go if you go out
Speaker 5: and rents down areas like that very well with water
Speaker 5: and flesh out some of the ammonious salts and things
Speaker 5: that are that are there that's burning the grass. But
Speaker 5: you're not going to get out and do that all
Speaker 5: the time every time the dog goes over. So I think, yeah,
Speaker 5: it's it's that you could do that, but that's just
Speaker 5: kind of the way the way that that is. So
Speaker 5: I think it's a situation where, you know, life gives
Speaker 5: you lemons, make lemonade, they say, I think turn turning
Speaker 5: that area into something just a little bit different. And
Speaker 5: he's not going to go that far away because he's
Speaker 5: trying to hit the tree, so it's going to always
Speaker 5: be kind of around the base. I would put anything
Speaker 5: that's you know, like real thick, chunky stuff, so he's
Speaker 5: afraid he doesn't like stepping on it. You know, let
Speaker 5: him go and walk up to it. But but just
Speaker 5: a little bit of a ring them all. It's probably
Speaker 5: is the simplest thing that you can do.
Speaker 7: Okay.
Speaker 6: Is there anything I can put on like a like
Speaker 6: a soil eight or anything for the other small areas
Speaker 6: where he sometimes goes?
Speaker 15: You know?
Speaker 6: Is there anything like a.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's just uh, it's just the primarily the salt
Speaker 5: type things in the in the urine that is doing that.
Speaker 5: I you know, I need to look into that a
Speaker 5: little bit further. I think there's probably some products that
Speaker 5: might discourage them from go to an area. But then
Speaker 5: he's got to go to the bathroom.
Speaker 14: So you're just moving on that fat around the tree.
Speaker 6: The tree is his area, and I don't mind, but
Speaker 6: i'd like to preventing like he's starting to do another
Speaker 6: new spot and I want to prevent him from that one.
Speaker 6: So I would love some some guidance on you know,
Speaker 6: is there a parent that that's not And then the
Speaker 6: other thing about the backyard, it's newly sodded six weeks.
Speaker 6: I know you're supposed to let it establish routes, but
Speaker 6: do you when should I fertilize.
Speaker 14: Do I wait till fall?
Speaker 6: Is there anything I put on it? Now that I
Speaker 6: know that the it's you know, the roots have been established.
Speaker 5: Well, first of all, it looks really good. They did
Speaker 5: a good or the or you did a good job
Speaker 5: of sodding and they did well. Congratulations, you did good.
Speaker 5: You obviously you watered it regularly, and I would it's
Speaker 5: done in six weeks. You should be on a regular
Speaker 5: watering schedule by now, I would. I would wait. I say,
Speaker 5: wait a month, but really you wait longer. I'll be
Speaker 5: honest with you. I planted some side last year and
Speaker 5: I didn't fertilize it all summer just because I didn't
Speaker 5: get around to it. And it looked good, and and
Speaker 5: you know, I wish I had, but I just didn't
Speaker 5: get to it. So your lawn's going to be okay.
Speaker 5: But after six weeks, if you want to start in
Speaker 5: maybe a slow release product, something that will drag out
Speaker 5: over time. Do you do you use organic or synthetic?
Speaker 6: I do organic because well, one I do it because
Speaker 6: I believe in it, and two I do it because.
Speaker 7: He's on it.
Speaker 6: And three I also almost all my plants or pollinator
Speaker 6: plants or like, I have a ton of passing vine
Speaker 6: and pipe vine and milkweed, so I don't do anything
Speaker 6: that's going to hurt my pollinators.
Speaker 5: All right, So get the Microlife green bag, Microlife green
Speaker 5: bag and put it down. And I would also do
Speaker 5: the purple bag, which is humates plus that is those
Speaker 5: two do different things for the grass and in the soil.
Speaker 5: But go ahead and do that. I would do Microlife
Speaker 5: probably now, probably in another eight weeks and then and again,
Speaker 5: you know you can. You can do it several times
Speaker 5: during the summer if you like to.
Speaker 6: Okay, Okay, I just don't want it to have a
Speaker 6: hard time this summer, Okay, appreciate it, all.
Speaker 5: Right, Katie, you bet, thank you for the call. And
Speaker 5: you should have mentioned this to them. You know you're
Speaker 5: looking for a micro live product, you go to an
Speaker 5: Ace Hardware store, you're probably gonna find it because Ace
Speaker 5: Hardware carries everything that you need for your lawn, your garden,
Speaker 5: your landscape, you name it. You can go to the website.
Speaker 5: It's Acehardwaretexas dot com. Don't forget that, Texas. That's our
Speaker 5: Houston area garden line Ace Hardware group here. Ace Hardware
Speaker 5: Texas dot com. I've got a lot of good Ace
Speaker 5: Hardware stores here in the Houston area, and that's how
Speaker 5: you find them when you are looking for anything for
Speaker 5: your lawn, for your garden, for success with those outdoor
Speaker 5: living areas. That's the place you're going to find it.
Speaker 5: You can find it in places like All Seasons Ace Hardware,
Speaker 5: which is on Interstate forty five up in Willis. You
Speaker 5: go out to Kingwood to k and m Ace Hardware
Speaker 5: and Kingwood Drive, go down to let's say, Chalmers, Ace
Speaker 5: and Galveston on Broadway. Those are just examples of the
Speaker 5: many Ace Hardware stores you're going to find it. Ace
Speaker 5: Hardware Texas dot Com. I'm gonna take a little break
Speaker 5: when we come back, Chris from the Woodlands. You'll be first.
Speaker 5: Alrighty folks, we don't quite have any sun out there yet,
Speaker 5: but we're gonna. We're gonna. We will be soaking and
Speaker 5: God to have you back with us. Hey or Hayes
Speaker 5: Hidden Gardens. Have you been there? If you're down south
Speaker 5: of Houston, you need to go by there. They are
Speaker 5: out in Alvin. Actually specifically they are if you're in
Speaker 5: Alvin and you're heading down six towards Santa Fe you
Speaker 5: end up turning to the right to go out just
Speaker 5: off the road there a little bit. That's what it's
Speaker 5: called hidden gardens, I guess. But they have stunning Peggy
Speaker 5: Martin roses still in full bloom. They look good. People
Speaker 5: keep talking about Peggy Martin. I was just talking about
Speaker 5: Peggy Martin a minute ago. Or Hayes Hidden Gardens has
Speaker 5: got it. They've got lots of good seasonal color plants,
Speaker 5: things like Vinka's and Angelonia. By the way, Angelonia is
Speaker 5: one of the best summer color plants we can have,
Speaker 5: and there's so many color options. They also have Vitex.
Speaker 5: Vitex is a beautiful shrub slash tree, mainly shrub that
Speaker 5: is awesome for the summertime blue flowers. If you share
Speaker 5: it back after they bloom, don't let it go to seed,
Speaker 5: it just makes it bloom more. And it's a great plant.
Speaker 5: Got one in my own yard. I love by text
Speaker 5: now or he's got plenty of He's got plenty of
Speaker 5: other shrubs too. By the way, Hey, he's opened today
Speaker 5: from eight to four and tomorrow he's closed it's Easter.
Speaker 5: But swing out there to where he's Hidden Gardens on
Speaker 5: Elizabeth Street in Alvin, Texas. All right, Elizabeth Street, alrighty well,
Speaker 5: I am going to head to the phones here real quick.
Speaker 5: We're going to go to Chris in the Woodlands. Hey, Chris,
Speaker 5: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 12: Well, thank you, Skip, I'm good morning. I bought some hardware,
Speaker 12: hardwood mulch, and put down on bear lawn out front
Speaker 12: a couple of days ago, and two days later put
Speaker 12: down some San Augustine side, and I guess it was
Speaker 12: a day or two later. I picked up one of
Speaker 12: them to see what was going on and if they
Speaker 12: were rooting. But all I saw was teeny eats eats,
Speaker 12: the teeny small worms everywhere under the one that I've lifted.
Speaker 5: Underneath the What was it that you lifted? I'm sorry,
Speaker 5: what was it that you lifted.
Speaker 12: The side the San Augustine's side that I had brought them?
Speaker 5: Okay, well that's not a problem. Did they look like
Speaker 5: earthworms but just tiny? Or were they white or some
Speaker 5: other color?
Speaker 12: They were white, and they're just wiggling all over the place.
Speaker 12: They're hardly even, they're less than a centimeter long.
Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, don't worry about that. Those could be baby earthworms, actually,
Speaker 5: but I wouldn't worry about them. There's not a there's
Speaker 5: not a problem that attacks lawns that fits out description
Speaker 5: anywhere close. So your your gut. If anything, it's a
Speaker 5: good thing probably to have them there.
Speaker 12: So yeah, all right, I was afraid it was termite babies.
Speaker 5: So now termites are going to be a little little
Speaker 5: white larvae. You know, they'll look like a little tiny,
Speaker 5: you know, termites. But yeah, don't don't worry about that.
Speaker 12: You're good, Okay, good, thank you. I appreciate that, you.
Speaker 5: Bet, thanks for thank you for the call. I appreciate
Speaker 5: that very much. Lots of wild critters out there in
Speaker 5: the landscape, and you know, we just have to kind
Speaker 5: of realize that just because something masks six legs or
Speaker 5: in this case, worms don't have legs. But just a
Speaker 5: lot of times people see a quote bug and they
Speaker 5: think it needs to die. And then that wasn't the
Speaker 5: question Chris had. But I get these questions a lot.
Speaker 5: People They see a bug and they think, oh, what
Speaker 5: am I going to do? It's got to be bad. No, No,
Speaker 5: if you were to make a pie chart of all
Speaker 5: the insects, the vast majority, almost the whole pie, is
Speaker 5: going to be things that are either beneficial or of
Speaker 5: no consequence to whatever plant you're seeing this bug on. Okay,
Speaker 5: a few pests for any particular plant are out there
Speaker 5: that we're concerned about, but it is a fraction of
Speaker 5: what's out there. So the first thing you think about
Speaker 5: when you see something with six legs crawling around on
Speaker 5: a plant is it's not a problem. The second thing
Speaker 5: is it could be. We can look into it, but
Speaker 5: probably not. Probably not. That's the best way to look
Speaker 5: at it. I was talking with the folks that B
Speaker 5: and B turf pros this week, and you know, BnB
Speaker 5: is a family owned operation. BnB provides honest quality work.
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Speaker 5: purchase compost top dressing, they'll just do aeration for free
Speaker 5: during that time. Now, remember this compost top dressing and
Speaker 5: aeration as a process. You hear me talk about this
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Speaker 5: to get out and do. They got a haul equipment
Speaker 5: to your site, They got to bring in composts to
Speaker 5: your site, and they can't just run all over every place.
Speaker 5: That's why our suppliers here on Garden Line cover a
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Speaker 5: City on the north of the west side up down
Speaker 5: Highway six and all the way across over to Alvin
Speaker 5: and Friendswood and Dickinson and League City, you know, past
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Speaker 5: to provide. Okay, so you get the cop dress done,
Speaker 5: they do the free aeration and aeration. It does cost
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Speaker 5: Prices start around five hundred dollars for small yards for compost,
Speaker 5: top dressing and aeration. But they're they're bringing expensive equipment
Speaker 5: out and they're bringing cores of soil out of the soil,
Speaker 5: dropping them on the surface and When that happens, then
Speaker 5: they top dress and it falls down in those holes
Speaker 5: and it gets oxygen into the soil and that is
Speaker 5: what invigorates a lawn so much. Again, it's one of
Speaker 5: the most things. Yes, it's important to water. Yes it's
Speaker 5: important to fertilize and mow and all those are important.
Speaker 5: But if you're looking at an area that's struggling, maybe
Speaker 5: it's chinchbugs or drought from the past, or some cold injury,
Speaker 5: or compost or compaction rather from foot traffic, or just
Speaker 5: a heavy equal a soil kind of thing. Aeration and
Speaker 5: compost stop dressing is important. They do it to golf courses.
Speaker 5: If you want to have top quality turf, aeration and
Speaker 5: top dressing is a way to do it. And that's important.
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Speaker 5: five five nine eight. Let's go now out to Friendswood
Speaker 5: and we're going to talk to Mark. Hey, Mark, welcome
Speaker 5: to garden Line.
Speaker 7: Hi scoop.
Speaker 5: My loan has large brown spots in it and I'm
Speaker 5: sensing photos to email, wondering if you could healthy figure
Speaker 5: out what's going on with it. You sent those to me, Mark, Yes,
Speaker 5: you said, okay, let me get that in front of
Speaker 5: me and open it up here and take a look. Oh, yes,
Speaker 5: I did see these. You sent these yesterday, your day fords.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 5: So what I see there is primarily where riiseoctonia, which
Speaker 5: is uh the disease that causes uh large patch or
Speaker 5: brown pat. Those are circles that rise octnia caused, and
Speaker 5: they're trying to green up, but they're not doing a
Speaker 5: very good job of it. Now that we're having warmer temperatures,
Speaker 5: you should be seeing more green up of it. And
Speaker 5: I think you may also have a disease called take
Speaker 5: all root rot that's in there. Now. You can't diagnose
Speaker 5: these specifically, and one by looking at a photo. I've
Speaker 5: just seen enough of this stuff that I think that's
Speaker 5: what you're looking at. Take all and large patch are
Speaker 5: both on my lawn care schedule. If you go to
Speaker 5: my website Gardening with Skip dot com, you can find
Speaker 5: my lawn care schedule lawn disease and weed schedule. That's
Speaker 5: the one and just take a look at it, and
Speaker 5: it tells you when they occur, and what to do
Speaker 5: about them, when to apply it, and what to apply
Speaker 5: and all of that. At this point, something like aeration
Speaker 5: would be helpful making sure the lawn gets adequate moisture
Speaker 5: when we get hot and dry here. That's very important.
Speaker 5: And a modern amount of fertilization, a modern amount of
Speaker 5: typical what's on my schedules to apply. That would be
Speaker 5: the amount that you would put down. But other than that,
Speaker 5: you know, what I'm seeing is just the signs I
Speaker 5: think of those diseases. And so that's one you're just
Speaker 5: gonna have to deal with according to this schedule. All right,
Speaker 5: thanks long, all right, sorry to be the bearer of
Speaker 5: bad news, but you can turn this around. It is
Speaker 5: it is. Let me let me make one other suggestion. Okay,
Speaker 5: are you there, Yes, Okay, there's a product called Disease
Speaker 5: x e X. Disease e X and go to your
Speaker 5: local ACE hardware store and just tell them you're looking
Speaker 5: for disease e X and that is what you're going
Speaker 5: to use for especially the tape called root rock, which
Speaker 5: is the one that does kill the grass, but it'll
Speaker 5: also work on other diseases. I would get it down
Speaker 5: and water down asap, and then you're gonna do it
Speaker 5: again this fall, but that's on the schedule. All right,
Speaker 5: all right, thank you, Thank you, Ben, appreciate your calling
Speaker 5: very much. All right, we're gonna take a break. Hey,
Speaker 5: today Warren Southern Gardens twelve thirty to two thirty King
Speaker 5: would be there by Square.
Speaker 6: Tween.
Speaker 5: Hey, welcome back, Welcome back to garden Line, folks. I'm
Speaker 5: your host, Skip Richter. We're here to help you have
Speaker 5: a bountiful garden, a beautiful landscape, and more fun in
Speaker 5: the process. That is what we're all about here. We're
Speaker 5: gonna talk about a number of things today. But the
Speaker 5: first thing I want to do before I tell you what,
Speaker 5: let's just do this. The first thing I want to
Speaker 5: do is run straight out to the phone.
Speaker 7: Here.
Speaker 5: We're going to go to Southwest Houston and talk to Maxie.
Speaker 5: Hello Maxime to garden Line.
Speaker 16: Hi, good morning, Happy Easter.
Speaker 5: Good morning you as well. We have a tree, little.
Speaker 16: Young tree that's dying back. Looks like it looks worse
Speaker 16: today than it looked three days ago. And you have
Speaker 16: a picture.
Speaker 5: I see it. That's a first of all, it's a
Speaker 5: maple tree. Something is wrong in the plumbing of the tree.
Speaker 5: You know, from the roots all the way to the
Speaker 5: top where the leaves are supplied. Something is blocking the highway. Now,
Speaker 5: so what can do that? Well, if you took a shoveling,
Speaker 5: if you took an axe and cut off roots, that
Speaker 5: would stop the flow. Right if you were to go
Speaker 5: up to the bark, and if you had a canker
Speaker 5: on the bark that was killing tissues that are translocating
Speaker 5: water and nutrients up and down the tree, that would
Speaker 5: cause that. If you had a disease that was plugging it.
Speaker 5: I can't tell you what's causing it, but the fact
Speaker 5: that most of it seems to be on shoots that
Speaker 5: are toward the street compared to shoots that are in
Speaker 5: other directions kind of makes me think maybe something on
Speaker 5: that side of the root system happened, or maybe something
Speaker 5: on that side of the trunk somewhere along the way
Speaker 5: has killed tissues. But in the photo it's not evident
Speaker 5: what is causing it. But I can just tell you
Speaker 5: that's what happened. The growth came out and immediately collapsed
Speaker 5: and dried and withered. Yeah, and that is an unusual thing.
Speaker 5: My gut on it is that there's not a good
Speaker 5: future for this tree. There's not a magical thing I
Speaker 5: can tell you. Spray on it and it'll make all
Speaker 5: this go away. If it stopped, If it stopped now
Speaker 5: and the tree recovered, you know, you would still have
Speaker 5: the tree, but it'd be very lopsided and it would
Speaker 5: look look kind of bad. I don't see these branches
Speaker 5: with the dead leaves coming back to life. But if
Speaker 5: you want to give it a little more time and
Speaker 5: wait and see, that's fine. The tree needs quite a
Speaker 5: bit of pruning anyway, and after this it'll need some
Speaker 5: additional pruning.
Speaker 8: And so.
Speaker 5: I guess kind of a wait and see. But if
Speaker 5: you can go back in your brain and time and go,
Speaker 5: you know, well we did this, or you know, we
Speaker 5: dug something up over there, or I don't know anything
Speaker 5: that might explain.
Speaker 16: Yeah, I don't remember anything going on, but we did
Speaker 16: just prune big time. And I guess it was the
Speaker 16: freeze that killed most of it. But then there's also
Speaker 16: I guess what you say is something else is going on.
Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, something's going on in the plumbing. Cause see
Speaker 5: that there was there was a nice flow of water
Speaker 5: nutrients that caused all those leaves to grow out. This
Speaker 5: spring to come out and start growing. Yeah, and then
Speaker 5: all of a sudden that flow was cut off, but
Speaker 5: not on the whole tree, just on certain branches. So
Speaker 5: that's why. Yeah, we got to start at the dead
Speaker 5: leaves and go backwards down to the ground, look for
Speaker 5: cankers or something is happening there. It could be that
Speaker 5: in the pruning a disease was introduced into the wounds
Speaker 5: because you did quite a bit of pruning on that
Speaker 5: tree and introduced that was there before the pruning.
Speaker 16: I mean, it's like last week we prune stuff that
Speaker 16: looked like it was frozen back, and that stuff.
Speaker 5: Was already on there, and well take it, take a
Speaker 5: good look at it and decided. I know, no one
Speaker 5: wants to lose a tree, but if in fact it
Speaker 5: is essentially gone or marred to the point of not
Speaker 5: being worth keep trying to keep, then I would get
Speaker 5: you get started a s a p with a new tree.
Speaker 5: It could be in that location or it could be nearby. Uh,
Speaker 5: so that you end up getting back in business, getting
Speaker 5: a nice tree like you see throughout the neighborhood, a nice, big,
Speaker 5: beautiful spreading tree going and don't put off the inevitable.
Speaker 16: Yes, sir, okay, I appreciate you trying very much.
Speaker 5: You have a great day, all right, thank you. That
Speaker 5: makes me thank you. I appreciate that. Take care in
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Speaker 5: going to talk to Vernon. Hey, Vernon, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 17: How you doing today? Hey, I have a question about
Speaker 17: some trees. They're coming back real good from the freeze.
Speaker 17: I just planned them last year. But I have a
Speaker 17: lot of excessive growth at the bottom, a lot of
Speaker 17: leaves and a lot of new sprouts. Should I remove
Speaker 17: those and let it focus on the main stalks or
Speaker 17: or let it go?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 5: Yeah, you can, you can remove move that stuff out
Speaker 5: of the way. I mean, there's not really to be honest,
Speaker 5: there's not really a right or wrong way to prine
Speaker 5: a fact. Typically we allow a few major trunks to
Speaker 5: come up just because training them to a single trunk,
Speaker 5: we end up getting cold here now, and then that
Speaker 5: kills it back. And so about the time he got
Speaker 5: a un trained and a tree, you start over again.
Speaker 5: So we do multiple trunks. But removing small things is
Speaker 5: there's no problem with that.
Speaker 7: Okay, I have another question. I have an old man
Speaker 7: out here.
Speaker 17: Tell me he used to plant his watermelons beside a
Speaker 17: big concrectree slab and he grew on my poona concrete slab.
Speaker 17: I was going to try that on an old war
Speaker 17: shout driveway I have in.
Speaker 7: The back of my property. Do you think that's feasible?
Speaker 5: Help help me out on that again? What was on
Speaker 5: the concrete slab? What do you want to do on it?
Speaker 17: He would he would plant his watermelons beside the concrete
Speaker 17: slab and then grow the vine stuff into the concrete slab.
Speaker 7: And raise watermelons that a way. How would you do
Speaker 7: that on an old More South driveway?
Speaker 5: Yeah, you could totally do that. That'd be fine, no
Speaker 5: problem at all.
Speaker 7: Okay, okay, all right, thank you sir.
Speaker 5: All right, hey, thanks for the call. Vernont. Have fun
Speaker 5: out there a Neville. All right, folks, I gotta take
Speaker 5: a little quick break here and I will be back. Hey,
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Speaker 5: We're gonna now head out to Paul in Montgomery. Hey, Paul,
Speaker 5: welcome in the morning.
Speaker 1: Good morning, Good morning. So I've got I've tried planting
Speaker 1: cucumbers from seed that you know sprouted up and then
Speaker 1: I transplanted them and just brought everything just goes yellow
Speaker 1: leaves and then white leaves.
Speaker 15: And the guy.
Speaker 7: Never had any luck with cucumbers. And I'm curious how long.
Speaker 5: How long have you had this soil and that you're
Speaker 5: planting them.
Speaker 7: In about two years at a bed mix.
Speaker 5: Oh okay, well that's yeah. Huh. Yellowing and dying is
Speaker 5: the symptom, right, they come up, they turn yellow, they dye.
Speaker 5: So something is definitely wrong in the soil and so
Speaker 5: I you know, soggy conditions can cause problems like that
Speaker 5: kind of a wed tree deficiency. Yeah, well that can
Speaker 5: be a problem. So a raised bed where the gravity
Speaker 5: kind of drains water downward in the soil, so I
Speaker 5: think the roots or not in soggy conditions, I try,
Speaker 5: I'd raise the bed up, bring some soil in. Also,
Speaker 5: it could be an extreme issue with some nutrient problem,
Speaker 5: although that description you're giving is a little extreme for
Speaker 5: it to just be a nutrient kind of thing we're
Speaker 5: dealing with there. And then there's always the possibility of
Speaker 5: like a root disease something killing roots. And you know,
Speaker 5: whether it's water drowning roots or whether it's disease killing roots,
Speaker 5: you end up with can end up with some of us.
Speaker 5: The more response I would bring in a fresh BEDMX,
Speaker 5: get some bags or bulk or whatever and build it
Speaker 5: up a little bit. I would also even before you
Speaker 5: do that, I would send a sample into the soil
Speaker 5: test lab text A and M. There's a publication on
Speaker 5: my website, which is Gardening with Skip dot com that's
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Speaker 5: because what it'll tell you, Paul is I mean, yeah,
Speaker 5: is whether maybe some nutrient is we had a whack
Speaker 5: or the pH could be way out of whack.
Speaker 1: But it's only cucumbers. I have squashed that I'm growing
Speaker 1: and it's growing iron. It's in a Yeah, it's in
Speaker 1: a garden with other things. I have flowers coming up.
Speaker 1: I have asparagus coming up. I have you know, onions
Speaker 1: and celery and none of those seem to be affected.
Speaker 1: Stupid cucumbers.
Speaker 5: That is very very strange. I don't know what to
Speaker 5: tell you on that. Because squash and cucumbers are in
Speaker 5: the same family, they get the same diseases, Yeah, the
Speaker 5: same nutrients things. Yeah, that's I'm left with, going, hey,
Speaker 5: go buy a different variety. Go buy some new, different variety.
Speaker 5: Try it out. You know, there's no reason squash should
Speaker 5: grow and cucumbers not in the same spot.
Speaker 1: And then another question I don't know is my apple trees.
Speaker 1: I have two Einsheimer's and a golden dor set. There
Speaker 1: said golden home, you want to pronounce it, and they flowered,
Speaker 1: but no fruit sat.
Speaker 7: Very frustrating.
Speaker 5: Well, you know, so that the fruit set is all
Speaker 5: about pollination from a separate variety in apples. So the
Speaker 5: two varieties have the bloom at the same time, which
Speaker 5: those two should. But if they bloom at the same time,
Speaker 5: and then you have to have bees to take pollen
Speaker 5: from one or the other, and if that happens, you
Speaker 5: should have fruit fruit set. If either they're not blooming
Speaker 5: at the same time or the bees aren't present for
Speaker 5: whatever reason. Sometimes it's just rainy, cloudy weather. Sometimes it's
Speaker 5: the bees, something killed them, they're not around or whatever.
Speaker 5: So if that's happening, then you're left with taking a
Speaker 5: little artist paintbrush and doing the pollination yourself. But yeah,
Speaker 5: you've got some weird things going on there. Have you
Speaker 5: checked for culture geist around the place.
Speaker 7: Because you know, I need to do a kind of
Speaker 7: a dance.
Speaker 1: I guess when it stuff because they blastom at the
Speaker 1: same time.
Speaker 7: And we do have bees.
Speaker 1: And I have a peach that I just planted in
Speaker 1: the back and that put on like three peaches.
Speaker 7: It's a real young peach its first year.
Speaker 5: So yeah, the peaches don't need don't need pollinations, a
Speaker 5: cross pollination, so okay, yeah, that's a weird one.
Speaker 7: All right.
Speaker 1: Well, i'd heard have you heard of how can I
Speaker 1: get worms naturally? You know, I've heard some place read
Speaker 1: somewhere that if you put cardboard down on your yard,
Speaker 1: the worms will.
Speaker 5: Yeah, when you have mult and organic matter, they do,
Speaker 5: but that's primarily like nightcrawlers and things that that's bringing in. Uh,
Speaker 5: And so it's just a matter of creating a moist
Speaker 5: environment with lots of organic matter on the surface especially,
Speaker 5: and good oxygen in the soil. Worms don't like to
Speaker 5: drown whenever, So those are the things that bring them in.
Speaker 5: If there's none around, well, then creating that environment it's
Speaker 5: not gonna bring them in. But like they crawl across
Speaker 5: the neighbor's yard to get to yours, all right, Hey,
Speaker 5: I got to run. Good luck with those mysteries, all right,
Speaker 5: thank you very much. That is really interesting, very strange,
Speaker 5: very strange. Night to five Superturf is a product. I
Speaker 5: was talking about it earlier. It is a nineteen four
Speaker 5: to ten fertilizer that is slow release over four months.
Speaker 5: You put nine to five super turf down. Now you
Speaker 5: don't return, you do return your clippings. Don't remove your clippings,
Speaker 5: and that combo will feed you all the way up
Speaker 5: until I start talking about fall fertilization to the end
Speaker 5: of the year. I mean, it really will. It lasts
Speaker 5: a long time, and recycling those clippings, those two will
Speaker 5: do the trick. Now, you're gonna find nine five Superturf
Speaker 5: at places like the Plans for All Seasons on Luetta Road.
Speaker 5: You're going to find it at Fisher's Hardware on thirty
Speaker 5: one eighty done in my bellvue, the M and D
Speaker 5: clear Lake on Bay Area Boulevard, and Stanton's Shopping Center
Speaker 5: on North Taylor down there in Alvin. Let's head over
Speaker 5: to Missouri City now and talk to Lauren. Hello, Lauren, Hey,
Speaker 5: good morning, Skip.
Speaker 14: Taking off the speaker there, question, we got the webworms
Speaker 14: in the same tree this year.
Speaker 4: You told me a.
Speaker 14: Product to get last year, and every place we went
Speaker 14: was out of it, and so we ended up just
Speaker 14: squirting it with water and which spread the camera around.
Speaker 14: Of course, once he got hot, we got rid of them.
Speaker 14: But what is the right stuff to get?
Speaker 5: There are two products that are less toxic organic products
Speaker 5: for webworms. One is BT B as in boy Teas
Speaker 5: and tom that's the ingredient sold in many mini brands.
Speaker 5: The second is steno said and it's spin spi N
Speaker 5: the letter O and then sad sad spin O sad
Speaker 5: and either one of them. You got to get them
Speaker 5: on the foliage. The BT only lasts a day or
Speaker 5: two out there in the environment, so you may have
Speaker 5: to reply it periodically, like once a week if the
Speaker 5: webworms don't go away, but you get it out there.
Speaker 5: The earlier you spray in the life cycle of the insect,
Speaker 5: the better off you are. So if it's young caterpillars,
Speaker 5: it's very effective. If the caterpillars are old and about
Speaker 5: to turn into moths, then it's not as effective, so
Speaker 5: catch them early. The spring generation is usually a light
Speaker 5: one the fall late summer. The fall generation is usually
Speaker 5: very heavy one, but nature can throw us a curve
Speaker 5: in a year it chooses.
Speaker 14: I see, okay, Spino said, got you happy Easter, and
Speaker 14: remember it's not about the bunny.
Speaker 10: Oh.
Speaker 5: Thanks, I appreciate that. Thanks a lot. Appreciate your call there, Lauren.
Speaker 5: You take care.
Speaker 14: Thank you.
Speaker 5: You are listening. Yes, sir, you were listening to garden Line.
Speaker 5: And I still tell you about Buchannan's native plants. I
Speaker 5: was talking z i can Head the other day and
Speaker 5: they are excited. Their new Cash Barn area is now open,
Speaker 5: like if you want to see it, he will be
Speaker 5: the first people out to see it. This morning is
Speaker 5: the time to go, by the way, which also by
Speaker 5: the way, this morning is the annual Easter egg hunt.
Speaker 5: It's a free event. It's only eight thirty to nine,
Speaker 5: so we got about thirty minutes to get out there.
Speaker 5: But the Easter Bunny will be out till ten thirty.
Speaker 5: So even thirty minutes after garden Line's over, you can
Speaker 5: go get a picture with the kiddos with the Easter
Speaker 5: bunny out there. Now, the Cash Barn, What am I
Speaker 5: talking about? Well, I tell you our heart goes out
Speaker 5: to begins. Over this past year, twice they've lost their
Speaker 5: checkout area to storms, just destroyed their checkout era twice.
Speaker 5: So they decided we're putting up a nice strong structure
Speaker 5: to avoid that problem. And it is beautiful. It ain't
Speaker 5: going to go away. And also as you shop, especially
Speaker 5: as the weather heats up, you're going to be not
Speaker 5: only out of the rain, but you're going to be
Speaker 5: out of the sunlight to a nice cool area to
Speaker 5: check out. You got to go by and see it.
Speaker 5: It is really really cool. And now coming up on
Speaker 5: April twenty second, that's Earthday, and to celebrate Earthday, all
Speaker 5: their drought tolerant perennials are thirty to fifty percent off.
Speaker 5: You heard that right, Drought tolerant perennials thirty to fifty
Speaker 5: percent off. Celebrate Earthday coming up April twenty second. They also,
Speaker 5: by the way, you can go to the perennial section
Speaker 5: on their website, which you always need to go to
Speaker 5: Buchanan's Native Plants dot com. That website is awesome. You
Speaker 5: need to sign up for the newsletter while you're on
Speaker 5: there too, by the way, and when you're there, check
Speaker 5: out the perennial section for all the different perennials that
Speaker 5: They have thirty percent off rain barrels too. So if
Speaker 5: you've been thinking about getting a rainbarrow to have to
Speaker 5: save on your water bill and conserve some water and
Speaker 5: provide your plants the best kind of water, well you
Speaker 5: can do that if you can, as sneed plants. But
Speaker 5: go see the new cashpoarn. It is beautiful. You ever
Speaker 5: heard weird al Yankovi version of that song? It's pretty funny.
Speaker 5: I won't go into it here, but just go to
Speaker 5: your music app and check it out. Weird ow yank
Speaker 5: of it. All Right, Hey, we're gonna I want to
Speaker 5: talk a little bit about a year round Houston. I
Speaker 5: was out visiting with them on a site where they
Speaker 5: were doing some cor aeration and compost stop dressing this
Speaker 5: past week. And these guys are specialist you know when
Speaker 5: it comes to cor aeration in compost top dressing. Yeah,
Speaker 5: you can do it yourself. You can go run a
Speaker 5: machine and bring it home. You gotta dump the junk
Speaker 5: on your driveway, the composter and driveway to spread it out.
Speaker 5: It's a mess, and then you got to clean the machine,
Speaker 5: get it back and all of that. Or you can
Speaker 5: just hire them to come out and do it. They work.
Speaker 5: That whole area inside the Beltway is what we talked
Speaker 5: about with year Round Houston here on garden Line, and
Speaker 5: the website is the name year round Houston dot Com.
Speaker 5: Here's a phone number eight three to two eight eight
Speaker 5: four fifty three thirty five. I took some video out there.
Speaker 5: We were looking at a site one of the customers
Speaker 5: that they have, and I'll post it to Facebook this week.
Speaker 5: I think that'd be a good thing. I'd like you
Speaker 5: to see how that works. But it is one of
Speaker 5: the single most important things you do to have success
Speaker 5: with your landscape, especially your lawn. Specifically, it gets oxygen
Speaker 5: into the soil. They pop the low cores out of
Speaker 5: the soil, drop them on the surface, cover it with
Speaker 5: compost and it filters down into the holes. Holds that
Speaker 5: those holes open that the compost decomposes further releases nutrients.
Speaker 5: It's just it's like a spa day for your lawn.
Speaker 5: It really is year Round Houston dot Com. They can
Speaker 5: do it if you're inside the Beltway. Give them a call.
Speaker 5: Year Round Houston dot Com. Eight three to two, eight
Speaker 5: eight four fifty three thirty five eight three two eighty
Speaker 5: eight four fifty three thirty five all right, we're gonna
Speaker 5: go to Montgomery now and talk to Jim. Hey Jim,
Speaker 5: welcome to Guarden Line.
Speaker 7: Hey, good morning. How you doing.
Speaker 5: I'm well, sir.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I would like to know if you know of
Speaker 10: any plants that I can put on my back patio
Speaker 10: that will help repel mosquitos.
Speaker 5: That's a great question. So here here's the bottom line
Speaker 5: fast answer. No, uh, there are plants that mosquitos that
Speaker 5: mosquitoes don't want to land in. Okay, so citronella is
Speaker 5: the one you know that ever people talk about all
Speaker 5: the time. Let's put citronella around. There are other plants
Speaker 5: like a lemon thyme, some of the scented geraniums that
Speaker 5: they they don't like that that it's like an oil
Speaker 5: from a citrus kind of oil that's in there. They
Speaker 5: don't care for that. But they're just not going to
Speaker 5: land on that plant. But having a citronella on the
Speaker 5: in the patio, on your little table there isn't going
Speaker 5: to keep them out of the patio. They'll they'll fly
Speaker 5: all around anyway. So there's not a there's not a
Speaker 5: good effective way to do it with plants. But so technically,
Speaker 5: is there a plant that repels them, Yes, from that plant,
Speaker 5: but will it work in a sitting area? Not one bet,
Speaker 5: Not one bet at all.
Speaker 10: Okay, Well, I guess that's not great news, but quite
Speaker 10: known for you.
Speaker 7: No second question.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I live in Montgomery in the wood Forest development
Speaker 10: near Lake Conroe, and I'm looking for a good nursery,
Speaker 10: independent nursery that I can go to. Can you recommend one.
Speaker 5: Well out in your area. You've got an A Plants
Speaker 5: which is right there on one oh five, so it's
Speaker 5: just down the street from from you, on the edge
Speaker 5: on the east side of Montgomery out there. It kind
Speaker 5: depends on two what kinds of plants you're looking for
Speaker 5: as you go from from your area, and you you know,
Speaker 5: you kind of come south and you're you're in the
Speaker 5: Tombol area, and you've got plants for all seasons. Down
Speaker 5: south of Tomball, you've got arbigate they're in Tomball. So
Speaker 5: those are some options for.
Speaker 10: You, okay, And in particular, I'd like to ask some
Speaker 10: advice of the nursery. I've got a couple of trees
Speaker 10: in my backyard that didn't fare well over the winter,
Speaker 10: and particularly up at the top, have lost foliage. So
Speaker 10: I wanted to go in and see if they could
Speaker 10: tell me what's wrong with them.
Speaker 5: Well, are they big trees.
Speaker 10: No, they're young trees, maybe twelve feet tall. They were
Speaker 10: planted a year ago and it seems like they didn't
Speaker 10: fare that well in the winter. So maybe the top
Speaker 10: two or three feet doesn't have any leaves on it.
Speaker 5: Okay, So there's not going to be a thing you
Speaker 5: do to those trees. It could have been some coal
Speaker 5: damage when the tree wasn't ready for cold. It could
Speaker 5: be a lack of root system and not getting water
Speaker 5: to the periphery of the tree. I mean, there's different things.
Speaker 5: Bottom line is, as they as they're sprouting out, now,
Speaker 5: look at where there's no growth up there and cut
Speaker 5: that off back down to where there is growth.
Speaker 7: Uh, and just do that.
Speaker 5: Did that kind of pruning to them, and they'll do well.
Speaker 5: By the way, while I'm thinking about it, Jim, you've
Speaker 5: also got growers outlet over there in Willis That is
Speaker 5: just south of Willis on seventy five towards Conroe, so
Speaker 5: that's not too terribly far from you either.
Speaker 10: Okay, growers outlet, Okay, sounds great. All right, thanks so much.
Speaker 10: I listened to you.
Speaker 5: Let yeah, okay, let me, let me recommend one other things.
Speaker 5: You're you're kind of far north for them. I don't
Speaker 5: know if they come out that far or not, but
Speaker 5: you have to call them in. That's pest Bros. If
Speaker 5: you go to their website, it's pestbros dot com. They
Speaker 5: bring they can bring out a certain bucket system for
Speaker 5: mosquitoes that is super uh. It attracts the mosquitoes to
Speaker 5: the bucket, but then when the mosquitoes lay eggs, it
Speaker 5: has stuff in the water that keeps them from laying.
Speaker 5: And then when the mosquito leaves the bucket, wherever that
Speaker 5: mosquito goes, it carries with it a substance. That number
Speaker 5: one is a fungus that kills the mosquito in seven days.
Speaker 5: But also when they go land in another water spot,
Speaker 5: maybe your neighbor has a bird bath they're not cleaning
Speaker 5: out when they land in that other mosquitoes can't breed
Speaker 5: in that site. It's really unusual and cool and it's
Speaker 5: very safe. I won't hurt birds and plants and things,
Speaker 5: but if you have pestpers come out, that is a
Speaker 5: That system is the way to go. We're talking about
Speaker 5: the centranella kind of plants. But this other way is
Speaker 5: it'll work all right.
Speaker 10: Sounds good, Thanks so much, appreciate it.
Speaker 5: All right, yeaes sir, you take care of Jim. Thanks
Speaker 5: a lot, Bye bye, appreciate your call. Yeah, lots of
Speaker 5: good stuff out there. Growers Outlet in Willis Is. That's
Speaker 5: the website too. By the way, Growers outlet in Willis
Speaker 5: dot com. Go to that website. They list their plants,
Speaker 5: they list availability, so you don't drive a there and
Speaker 5: then they don't have the plant. They list what's available,
Speaker 5: and then they even give you the price of the plant,
Speaker 5: so you can know right up front. So all of
Speaker 5: you over there in Conrad and Willis the woodlands, even
Speaker 5: as I'm saying over toward Montgomery direction, Grows out in
Speaker 5: Willis a great place. They carry fertilizers from Microlife and Nitrofoss.
Speaker 5: They carry products from Medina and the pest control products.
Speaker 5: They have beautiful hanging baskets and flowers and vegetables and
Speaker 5: herbs and fruit and everything you can need. Growers Outlet
Speaker 5: in Willis just minutes away from forty five, just south
Speaker 5: of Willis on Highway seventy five. Well, where are we here?
Speaker 5: We are looking at yah I got a little bit time.
Speaker 5: I'm going to go to Susan in Sugarland. Hey Susan,
Speaker 5: Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 18: Hi Skip, thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 14: Quick question, two quick questions.
Speaker 18: I have a lot of construction in my backyard and
Speaker 18: a lot of dry spots. And what I discovered is
Speaker 18: I have what's called horse herb or straggler daisy.
Speaker 12: In my yard.
Speaker 5: Have you ever, yes, I have?
Speaker 10: How do.
Speaker 6: How do I?
Speaker 18: I mean, if do I just let it go and
Speaker 18: it dies, it'll go away? I mean?
Speaker 14: Or do when I saw it?
Speaker 18: In some spots, the will the grass.
Speaker 6: Choke it out?
Speaker 5: Well, you almost have to dig it out. It is tough.
Speaker 5: There's a There are some products that will kill it,
Speaker 5: but they probably will kill your grass too. One is
Speaker 5: pretty effective. But I have sprayed that with roundup and
Speaker 5: it didn't kill it. That's how tough that way is. Now.
Speaker 5: Native enthusiasts love it. It is a native drought tolerant
Speaker 5: groundcover that if you have a high shade with decent light,
Speaker 5: no sun, but decent light, it'll grow there. And so
Speaker 5: you can say, well I like it because it's a
Speaker 5: good tough drought resilient groundcover, or you can say I
Speaker 5: want to get rid of it, in which case you
Speaker 5: either go to Great Links or call your realtor and move.
Speaker 5: That would be another way.
Speaker 18: Well, I looked out blaming, and I looked at thought,
Speaker 18: what is it? Yellow stuff all over the yard, and
Speaker 18: it's these flows anyway, So that's one question. A pree
Speaker 18: emergent in the spring won't kill it?
Speaker 5: Correct, No, not at all. It's a perennial. Hey, Susan,
Speaker 5: I've got to go to a break. Did you have
Speaker 5: another real quick question.
Speaker 18: Yeah, my brand new growth on my lemon tree is
Speaker 18: covered with aphids. I need something good to spray on.
Speaker 5: Okay. I would get a blast of water from a
Speaker 5: gun on the end of a hose, you know, the
Speaker 5: little spray gun, and blast them off. Or get you
Speaker 5: some insecticidal soap and early in the morning go out
Speaker 5: there and spray. You gotta get the aphi's wet. You
Speaker 5: got to give him a bath and soap to kill
Speaker 5: them with. Sup Okay, but that'll do a really good
Speaker 5: job for you.
Speaker 10: All right, thank you.
Speaker 18: Ski's fine.
Speaker 5: Appreciate appreciate the call. All right, folks, you got around,
Speaker 5: I'll be right back. Hey, welcome back to the garden.
Speaker 7: Line.
Speaker 5: Glad to have you with us this morning. Listen. I'm
Speaker 5: going to be at Warm seven Gardens today now that's
Speaker 5: out in Kingwood, Texas. I'll be there from twelve thirty
Speaker 5: to two thirty. And they've got some great specials going
Speaker 5: on out there. You know, Warren Southern Gardens, that's the
Speaker 5: place that is. It's just it's just a wonderland. I
Speaker 5: love walking through there because every time I go, there's
Speaker 5: stuff that's new that I hadn't seen before that they've
Speaker 5: gotten in. They're always getting in new things, whether it's
Speaker 5: roses or whether it's beautiful salvia's. You need blueberry bushes.
Speaker 5: You want some colorful foliage, you know, like the Cuban
Speaker 5: gold Duranta has beautiful golden foliage. You got what is
Speaker 5: the thing we plant underneath the trees? Kaladiums there couldn't
Speaker 5: even come to mind. They are loaded with kaladiums. They've
Speaker 5: got the Chinese a witch hazel with the purplish burgundy. Beautiful, beautiful.
Speaker 5: You need to come out today and you need to
Speaker 5: see the boogablias that they have the standards. They are
Speaker 5: so beautiful, they really are. I mean, it's just breath
Speaker 5: thinking it's like, do those things have leaves on them?
Speaker 5: Because there's so many blims you can't even see the leaves. Plumerias.
Speaker 5: Have you ever thought about growing to pulumeria the Hawaiian layflower.
Speaker 5: They've got those there. When you go to Warrensted and Gardens,
Speaker 5: you find the products that you're looking for. And I'm
Speaker 5: going to be out there from twelve thirty to two
Speaker 5: thirty today, and I hope you come out and see me.
Speaker 5: I'm going to have some Texas Gardener magazines on hand.
Speaker 5: If you've never seen Texas Gardener, you need to come
Speaker 5: out and see that magazine. It is really good. I'll
Speaker 5: be giving those way as long as supplies last. Have
Speaker 5: some copies of my schedule out there. You can bring
Speaker 5: me samples of plants or pictures of plants if you
Speaker 5: want them identified or diagnosed or whatever. Let's spend some
Speaker 5: time together. I love to meet people that listen to
Speaker 5: Garden Line, and when you come out to one of
Speaker 5: these appearances, I have time to sit, visit and kind
Speaker 5: of go more in depth than I can here on
Speaker 5: the air.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 5: Warrens is on North Park Drive. There's also Kingwood Garden
Speaker 5: Center by the way. Two great garden centers out there,
Speaker 5: Kingwood's on Stone Hollow Drive. I'll be at Warren's today.
Speaker 5: Both of those are open seven days a week. But
Speaker 5: come on and see me looking forward to it. I
Speaker 5: really look. I love doing these. It's a lot of
Speaker 5: fun for sure. Just a little tip something you might
Speaker 5: want to think about. If you have houseplants that you
Speaker 5: have not repotted in a while, you may want to
Speaker 5: go ahead and do that. I had some the other day.
Speaker 5: I turn them on the side and kind of you know,
Speaker 5: squeeze the pot a littleit and then slid them out
Speaker 5: to the side. By the way, that's how you remove
Speaker 5: a houseplant from the pot, turn it upside down or
Speaker 5: turn it on its side. And if you see a
Speaker 5: whole bunch of roots going around in a circle, that
Speaker 5: plant is pot bound. You need to move it up
Speaker 5: to the next size pot, okay. And when you do that,
Speaker 5: get you a quality potting soil like jungle land jungle
Speaker 5: lands water saving potting soil specifically, I'm talking now, not
Speaker 5: about the outdoor one, but the indoor one. Jungle land
Speaker 5: water saving potting soil. It's got crystals in it, so
Speaker 5: if you forget to water those crystals whole moisture for
Speaker 5: longer than the soil itself does, and it provides a
Speaker 5: little extra boost of water for those plants until you
Speaker 5: remember to water them again. But repotting them with a
Speaker 5: good quality mix it drains well but yet holds moisture
Speaker 5: like jungle Land is a way to go. You're going
Speaker 5: to find night foss products like jungle in many different places.
Speaker 5: A Stanton Shopping Center down and Alvin Lake hard Hardware
Speaker 5: in Engleton on Velasco as well as Lake Hardware Clute
Speaker 5: on Dixie Drive all places to carry nitrofoss products. Let's
Speaker 5: go to Tomball real quick here we're going to talk
Speaker 5: to Keith. Hey Keith, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 7: Hey you, good morning, Good morning. Always love to listen
Speaker 7: to your show.
Speaker 10: Hey, I've got a question.
Speaker 19: My wife and i'd love to travel to Europe and
Speaker 19: we have come to love a certain type of melon
Speaker 19: over there, namely around the Portugal area. It's it's called
Speaker 19: a Sapo melon or also called a Christmas melon. Have
Speaker 19: you ever had that and re familiar with it?
Speaker 2: I have had a.
Speaker 5: Christmas melon from a grocery store over here one time.
Speaker 5: It's pretty good melon.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's kind of got a white pulp to it
Speaker 7: and it's really good. I just didn't know is can
Speaker 7: you grow it in Houston? And when?
Speaker 10: What time of year would you grow it?
Speaker 5: You can. You're gonna grow it just like you do
Speaker 5: candlops and watermelons, same thing, same time. You just want
Speaker 5: to yet to go find the seed somewhere. It's not common,
Speaker 5: but you can probably hunt it down online and treat
Speaker 5: it again, just like candlops and watermelons. Good sunlight, good drainage,
Speaker 5: consistent moisture, and be ready. It's going to be a
Speaker 5: little more prone to some foliage diseases than some of
Speaker 5: our other things are. So powdery mildew or is probably
Speaker 5: the main one. But just be watching for that and
Speaker 5: at the first sign be ready to do a little
Speaker 5: spray of that foliage to protect it, because without good
Speaker 5: healthy leaves, you can't have a sweet melon on the vine.
Speaker 19: Right, Okay, good, awesome, Okay, yeah, thank you very much.
Speaker 5: All right, Hey, thanks for the call. That's an unusual one.
Speaker 5: I hadn't had that one before, so good to talk
Speaker 5: to you. I was talking to somebody the other day
Speaker 5: about tree hugger sprinklers and the reason was they were saying,
Speaker 5: you know, yeah, I just planted this tree, and I
Speaker 5: don't know how to water it or where to water it. Well,
Speaker 5: first of all, when you put a plant in the ground,
Speaker 5: the roots are all there like they were in the pot.
Speaker 5: You know, you have a little cylinder of roots, and
Speaker 5: so you got to water it there. And then as
Speaker 5: it grows, you know, over the weeks to come, the
Speaker 5: roots are moving out in the soil, and over the
Speaker 5: months to come, they're moving out in the soil, and
Speaker 5: you water a larger and larger area primarily underneath the
Speaker 5: branch bread of the tree, primarily. Okay, TreeHugger lets, you
Speaker 5: do that. You hook it up to a hose, you
Speaker 5: put it around the trunk. It comes in three sizes
Speaker 5: seven inch, eleven inch, fifteen inch, and you when it's
Speaker 5: a brand new plant, you just barely turn it on
Speaker 5: where it's not really spraying out. It's just sort of
Speaker 5: trickling out of the thing. That water's that root cylinder
Speaker 5: at the base. As your trees gets bigger, you turn
Speaker 5: it on more where it's you can water a huge
Speaker 5: circle when you crank it up all the way. So
Speaker 5: maybe you've got a tree that's been in the ground
Speaker 5: five years. This summer, we're going to be one hundred
Speaker 5: degrees without rain. At some point on your spree, your
Speaker 5: tree hugger and you rescue that tree and you keep
Speaker 5: it healthy and growing, and you're going to find these
Speaker 5: products that places like Kingwood and Warren's Garden Center where
Speaker 5: I will be today at Warren's. Come on out and
Speaker 5: get you one there. RCW Nursery, Arborgate, Nelson Water Gardens
Speaker 5: out in Katie down in Richmond both Enchanted and in
Speaker 5: Chanted Gardens and in Chanted Forest have Themnia Defeed and
Speaker 5: Tomball League City Feed down in League City Spring Creek
Speaker 5: Feed Center up toward Magnoia direction Southwest Fertilizer and then
Speaker 5: many Ace hardware stores like the one in Fullshire and
Speaker 5: a Tascaseda and K and m Ace in Casseda, the
Speaker 5: Katie Ace Hardware Sinkle Ranch. You see what I'm talking about.
Speaker 5: They're widely available. You just need to get one and
Speaker 5: you need to keep it because you're gonna need it.
Speaker 5: Maybe next year. You plant a rose bush. I know
Speaker 5: it says tree hugger. It's for a rose hugger too.
Speaker 5: You can put it around a shrub or a tree
Speaker 5: and save that plant, or at least help keep it
Speaker 5: growing rapidly when we go into hot, hot weather. Keep
Speaker 5: that in mind. Visiting with Jim Moss the other day
Speaker 5: down at Moss Nursery in Seabrook, Texas. And first of all,
Speaker 5: for those of you who haven't been to Moss, you
Speaker 5: may go, I don't live in Seabrook. Well, if you did,
Speaker 5: you've already been to Moss. But if you don't, it
Speaker 5: is a destination. You know, you need to do horticulture
Speaker 5: tourism during the week or on the weekends. What I
Speaker 5: mean by that is, you know, go down the boardwalk
Speaker 5: on Keema, you know, check it out, have some fun
Speaker 5: down there. But swing by Moss Nursery, all right, or
Speaker 5: just go to Moss Nursery. It is eight acres crammed
Speaker 5: full of gorgeous plants. There are flowering things everywhere, all
Speaker 5: kinds of flowering shrubs, you know, from azaleas to those
Speaker 5: beautiful deciduous magnolias that were blooming early early in the spring,
Speaker 5: first bloomer of the spring, by the way, to roses,
Speaker 5: you name it. You want hanging baskets, they're galore, hanging
Speaker 5: baskets galore. Down at Moss Nursery. Do you need bones eye,
Speaker 5: you know, new hobby there or a gorgeous houseplant. They
Speaker 5: have one of the most outstanding houseplants selections anywhere, and
Speaker 5: more and more and more and more stuff. And when
Speaker 5: you're in there, be sure to check out the quirky
Speaker 5: t shirts that Jim Moss has designed and created, like
Speaker 5: the eyeball plant. You just got to see it. I
Speaker 5: can't describe it. But Moss is not just another garden center.
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Speaker 5: of everything that you could need. It's on Toddville Road
Speaker 5: in Seabrook, Texas two eight one four seven four twenty
Speaker 5: four eighty eight two eight one four seven four twenty
Speaker 5: four eighty eight. When you're down there, you can find
Speaker 5: a lot of quality products to you know, Microlife fertilizer's
Speaker 5: an example of the of one of those prob I
Speaker 5: was telling somebody to put some six to four down
Speaker 5: the other day. I would suggest, when you can find Microlife,
Speaker 5: get their orange label and get their blue label bottle.
Speaker 5: Those are liquids. Biomatrix is the orange label, it's a
Speaker 5: seven to one three. Ocean Harvest is a blue label
Speaker 5: it's a four to two three. Both of them are great.
Speaker 5: I use Biomatrix, the orange one in door and outdoor,
Speaker 5: I use Ocean Harvest the blue one outdoor. Micro Life
Speaker 5: products are per sale everywhere, but try those out. That's
Speaker 5: a great way to liquid feed your plants with a
Speaker 5: natural plant food that will make them do well. And
Speaker 5: I say that because I've used them and I've seen
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Speaker 5: lizer dot com find out more about their other products.
Speaker 5: I wish, I wish i'd, you know, I could just
Speaker 5: take a whole show just talking about all the products
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Speaker 5: hour today. Alrighty, we're back. Hey, welcome back to the garden.
Speaker 5: I'm good to have you with us. Looking forward to
Speaker 5: visiting with you about the questions that you might have
Speaker 5: so you can have success in your garden and in
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Speaker 5: have success in our gardens is by taking care of
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Speaker 5: er Houston area. Let's head out to Pasadena and we're
Speaker 5: going to talk to John this morning. Hello John, welcome
Speaker 5: to Guardline. Oh well, how are you, good sir, How
Speaker 5: can we help?
Speaker 4: Well, I have a Myers lemon that I bought about
Speaker 4: two months ago.
Speaker 8: It was.
Speaker 4: It had a ton of balloons on it and very
Speaker 4: few leaves, and I got it home and I've been
Speaker 4: fooling with it, put it in a larger pot, and
Speaker 4: it's still is the original ballooms dropped off with a
Speaker 4: few little tiny lemons on it, little tiny huh. And
Speaker 4: then it's now it's reblooming again, but no leaves. Now
Speaker 4: I've got some leaves on it, but very few. And
Speaker 4: I've checked the soil. I've been watering it. I've done
Speaker 4: everything that I know how to do, other than teach
Speaker 4: all that balloons. I don't know if I need to
Speaker 4: do that or not.
Speaker 5: I would I just because you're not gonna let them set.
Speaker 5: You don't want them to set really for the first
Speaker 5: two years of a centrist tree to get the best growth.
Speaker 5: But give it some fertilizer. Get you a good quality
Speaker 5: fertilizer with a little nitrogen bution in that too, and okay, well,
Speaker 5: if you've done that, then you don't need to do
Speaker 5: it again. But it's a brand new tree. It's got
Speaker 5: a very limited root system. Still just give it a
Speaker 5: little time, make sure it doesn't lack for water. That
Speaker 5: confined root system that came out of the container is
Speaker 5: still pretty much confined to that container. And just give
Speaker 5: it regular waterings without keeping it too wet. And make
Speaker 5: sure it gets good sunlight. That's another important thing. And
Speaker 5: you should be getting growth. Soon as it warms up,
Speaker 5: that tree's gonna be more interested and growing. We've got
Speaker 5: some cool snaps this spring that have slowed some things down,
Speaker 5: So I think you're gonna be all right.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't you say peach off the blooms that are
Speaker 4: showing up on it now?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Normally, you know, I don't tell people to remove
Speaker 5: the blooms because they're going to fall off, but you can,
Speaker 5: you can remove you can remove them just to get
Speaker 5: you know, we want that plant to think about only
Speaker 5: one thing, and that is growing a good root system
Speaker 5: and putting on a lot of foliage. And it'll start that.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, thank you very much.
Speaker 5: All right, all right, thank you. I appreciate you call
Speaker 5: very much.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 5: That is a that's a situation, folks, that we have
Speaker 5: to deal with from time to time. And it's okay.
Speaker 5: I just remember new plants. You know, they it takes
Speaker 5: a while to get started, and so be patient with them.
Speaker 5: Weather is gonna warm up now and we're gonna be
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Speaker 5: going to talk to Ken. Hello, Ken, welcome to garden
Speaker 5: Line morning.
Speaker 7: Skip.
Speaker 14: How you doing, sir, I'm good, can you hear me?
Speaker 8: Okay, yes, sir, okay.
Speaker 14: So I have I have some pepper plants. I have
Speaker 14: a Carolina Reaper.
Speaker 20: It's one of the it's the sole survivor of something
Speaker 20: that attacked my plants last year. And what it was
Speaker 20: doing was, first of all, the leaves would start to
Speaker 20: get speckles on them and they would die and fall off.
Speaker 20: Now I do I water them correctly? I check the
Speaker 20: soil and to make sure that I'm not overwatering or underwatering.
Speaker 20: So I don't that's the issue. It's almost like what
Speaker 20: happens is the stems start dying at the tip and
Speaker 20: then they die all the way back.
Speaker 5: And okay, okay, so it could it could be a
Speaker 5: soil issue like a root rod or anything that damages
Speaker 5: roots could could cause that. But it also could be
Speaker 5: a bacterial blight up on the plant and printing out
Speaker 5: the dead areas that are dying back. Uh, dip your
Speaker 5: or spray your printers with liesile between cuts just in
Speaker 5: case it's a bacterial canker kind of thing going on.
Speaker 5: You won't spread it that way. Good sunlight, good moisture,
Speaker 5: moderate fertilizer, and warm weather and that that Pepperoni kick
Speaker 5: back into gear if it starts happening again, though, Ken,
Speaker 5: would you take a picture of it up close and
Speaker 5: good sharp focus and email it to me and then
Speaker 5: follow up with a call and uh, well, when I
Speaker 5: actually see it, I can give you a more specific
Speaker 5: answer than I can just you know, with that description.
Speaker 20: Okay, Now, I did just take pictures of it this morning,
Speaker 20: so I'll send that to you and I did the
Speaker 20: pruning thing, and what I was doing, I had looked
Speaker 20: at your to dip the pruner in like a light
Speaker 20: solution of bleach to make sure you don't get that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you had that. You can do that, do You
Speaker 5: just have to clean them after that because bleach really
Speaker 5: rusts metal. And so that's why I like the lice
Speaker 5: al better. But hey, I'm gonna put you on hold.
Speaker 5: If you don't have my email, you can get it
Speaker 5: from my producer and they'll take care of that for you.
Speaker 5: Make sure you get you on the right page. RCW
Speaker 5: Nurseries has loaded still with gorgeous roses, beautiful roses. I
Speaker 5: was out there the other day and so impressed. And
Speaker 5: I like being able to pick a rose out when
Speaker 5: it's blooming on the bush. It's better than looking at
Speaker 5: a tag. And they are the source. I mean, any
Speaker 5: rosarian in the Houstonnario knows about RCW Nursery. By the way,
Speaker 5: when you're there, you're gonna find nitrofoss and Microlife and
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Speaker 5: to make sure you have success. They are the place
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Speaker 5: and trees and why not. From ornamentals to shade trees.
Speaker 5: They grow on themselves and they look really really good.
Speaker 5: Some people I was talking to you there, they just
Speaker 5: go back over and over again for things from marcyw
Speaker 5: because they told me is that every time they come
Speaker 5: out and play something, every time I buy something here,
Speaker 5: it grows. And there you go. There's a testimony. That's
Speaker 5: what you want to hear. R CW Nurseries dot Com.
Speaker 5: There on the corner where Tama Parkway comes in with
Speaker 5: Beltway eight easy to get to. The main thing is
Speaker 5: just go out there and check them out. And this
Speaker 5: weekend it would be a good time to do that.
Speaker 5: Time for me to take a quick break. I'll be
Speaker 5: back with Melanie from Yoakum. All right, we're back, folks.
Speaker 5: Let's do this. We've got a lot of garden line
Speaker 5: to do here and a short time to do it.
Speaker 5: Our last hour of the show. Looking forward to visiting
Speaker 5: with you about the kinds of questions that you might have.
Speaker 5: Wild Birds Unlimited. I want to talk a little bit
Speaker 5: about this store. It is my favorite place to get
Speaker 5: anything related to birds. I mean, they know what they're
Speaker 5: talking about. We're in nesting season right now for many
Speaker 5: of our songbirds and the folks at Wildbirds have designated
Speaker 5: are just designated designed the perfect blend of seeds to
Speaker 5: provide birds what they need most the season. It's called
Speaker 5: Nesting super Blend and it's only available at Wildbirds Unlimited.
Speaker 5: Nesting super Blend has got sunflower chips and peanuts and
Speaker 5: dried mealworms, bark butter bits, sy flower tree nuts. It's
Speaker 5: so in other words, it's providing that extra protein that
Speaker 5: birds need. And it also has calcium too, by the way,
Speaker 5: to support eggshell formation and skeletal development for nesting birds.
Speaker 5: You can buy it loose and sea bags, or you
Speaker 5: can buy it as cylinders a little compress centers look
Speaker 5: like little fat candles sitting up there that the birds
Speaker 5: have to peck the seeds out of. It works in
Speaker 5: any kind of feeder. Now you can look for Nesting
Speaker 5: super Blend. That's the one to look for right now
Speaker 5: at any of the six Wildbirds Unlimited stores in the
Speaker 5: Greater Houston area. That includes Kingwood, Kingwood Drive, clear Lake,
Speaker 5: Eldorado Drive in Paarland, on East Broadway, in Houston on
Speaker 5: bel Air and also in Houston on Memorial Drive and
Speaker 5: then up in Cypress on Barker, cypress Ohen. While you're there,
Speaker 5: pick up a wild Bird's Unlimited hy hyperch hummingbird feeder.
Speaker 5: Just just go look at it. It's my favorite nectar
Speaker 5: feeder for hummingbirds. And they also have this stuff that
Speaker 5: helps extend that quality sugary water you put in to
Speaker 5: not go bad so fast, and it just to ask
Speaker 5: him about that's any little stuff you put in here
Speaker 5: that keeps the water, you know, from that sugar sugar
Speaker 5: water and warm temperatures, you know a few days and
Speaker 5: you probably need to change it out. But with this
Speaker 5: nectar defender, a yet little more time out of it,
Speaker 5: and they have that at wild Birds Unlimited. Let's go
Speaker 5: to Melanie now out in Yokum. Hello, Melanie, how are
Speaker 5: things out in Yokum.
Speaker 12: Oh they're beautiful today. Thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 7: We're good.
Speaker 12: Did you get my email?
Speaker 5: All right? I did. It's a sad picture, I'm telling you, Melanie,
Speaker 5: sad picture, uh, and I don't have great news about it. Basically,
Speaker 5: Melanie sent me a picture of a plumb tree. It
Speaker 5: looks like that is dying.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 5: Pretty much. All the leaves are just shriveling up and
Speaker 5: turning brown. On it and Melanie the the two things
Speaker 5: I see in the picture. First of all, it's like
Speaker 5: there's two trunks and one of them is alive, one
Speaker 5: of them is not. I'm wondering if that second trunk
Speaker 5: is a root stock. Surely they didn't put two trees
Speaker 5: in one in one pot. But when go ahead, I'm
Speaker 5: pretty sure.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: And you don't want to keep that unless you are
Speaker 5: good at budding plants and you're gonna graft it yourself
Speaker 5: or something. But all the branch, all the little branches
Speaker 5: that tried to leaf out and then die, I think
Speaker 5: that thing is gone. And something happened in the roots.
Speaker 5: It could have been that they dried out. It could
Speaker 5: have been that they stayed too soggy, wet or something.
Speaker 5: I don't know what it was. But that tree is
Speaker 5: a goner, and you, unfortunately, I have to be the
Speaker 5: bearer of bad news. You just need to pull it
Speaker 5: up and put a new can and to have success. Okay,
Speaker 5: Well I had four of.
Speaker 15: Them, and now I'm down to the three and that
Speaker 15: third one and the one I just sent. You'll go
Speaker 15: ahead and get rid of that guy. But the other
Speaker 15: ones I trimmed them back because they're still new and
Speaker 15: I want to, you know, get full and they're.
Speaker 5: Doing fine good. Well, here's what I would do. I
Speaker 5: would make that multary around them wider, if you can
Speaker 5: make them as wide as the branch spread of that plant,
Speaker 5: maybe two or three feet out in all directions, you know,
Speaker 5: just as a start. Don't overfertilize them. And if you
Speaker 5: put fertilizer in the planting hole, that's another thing that
Speaker 5: can cause the burn of the leaves like that. So
Speaker 5: don't don't put the fertilizer in the planting hole, but
Speaker 5: do fertilize them lightly periodically. I would say a cup
Speaker 5: of fertilizer, like a lawn type fertilizer would be just
Speaker 5: fine for those and sprinkle it in a big circle
Speaker 5: and do that about every four weeks through the summer
Speaker 5: season and you will get really good fast growth. Stop
Speaker 5: fertilizing by the time you get to August.
Speaker 12: Though, Okay, we'll do.
Speaker 5: Thank you all righty, good luck out there, Yokum bye,
Speaker 5: Thank you ALRIGHTY, haven't been to Yokum in a while.
Speaker 5: That's good. Good to know.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 5: You know, enchanted forest is down in Richmond Rosenberg. And
Speaker 5: when I think of enchanted forest, number one. I think
Speaker 5: of a beautiful place because it's gorgeous. It is. I
Speaker 5: love shopping Their big shade trees all around, and it's
Speaker 5: just gorgeous. But I think about variety and incredible selection.
Speaker 5: For example, if you're looking for let's say, herbs, well,
Speaker 5: they have a whole structure that contains all of the
Speaker 5: different herbs that they grow. And I mean we're talking about,
Speaker 5: like I don't know, something like nine or more types
Speaker 5: of base alone, plus every herb you can imagine, and
Speaker 5: some you've probably never heard of that are there at
Speaker 5: Enchanted Forest. And Enchanted Forest is on FM twenty seven
Speaker 5: fifty nine. That's if you're heading toward sugar Land from Richmond.
Speaker 5: It's off to the right down that direction, okay, FM
Speaker 5: twenty seven fifty nine. But they have fruit trees, they
Speaker 5: have roses, they have any kind of plant that attracts butterflies,
Speaker 5: whether it attracts the adults to the blooms or the
Speaker 5: larval to the foliage, they have them. In fact, when
Speaker 5: you buy one of those plants, it probably already has
Speaker 5: a caterpillar on it, because all the butterflies know to
Speaker 5: hang out there and they lay their eggs there and
Speaker 5: so you get like us, what do they call it
Speaker 5: sourdough starter when you want to do sourdough, Well, it's
Speaker 5: like a butterfly garden starter. If you want to take
Speaker 5: a caterpillar home, they'll provide you with one if you like.
Speaker 5: It's really cool. Enchanted forest, beautiful trees and shrubs too.
Speaker 5: I'm always bragging about that spring blooming Chinese fringe tree
Speaker 5: that I love so much, and they've got those there,
Speaker 5: much much, much much more, of course, flowers, of course,
Speaker 5: hanging baskets, of course, vegetables, and on and on and on.
Speaker 5: Enchanted forest and excellent advice, people that know what they're
Speaker 5: talking about. Go by and talk to Danny, Danny or
Speaker 5: Clay or any of the people there. They're gonna be
Speaker 5: able to help you. Yes, I said Danny twice on purpose,
Speaker 5: kind of like my brother Daryl, my other brother Daryl.
Speaker 5: Remember that Bob Newhart show. Anyway, there's two Dannys there,
Speaker 5: enchented forest, expert advice, friendly service and unbelievable selection, and
Speaker 5: a place that you just love to go hang out.
Speaker 5: I'm surprised you don't have to run customers off because
Speaker 5: you know, you go there and it's just it's just
Speaker 5: so enjoyable to wander around looking at plants and enjoying things.
Speaker 5: All right, that's a little bit tongue in cheek, but
Speaker 5: I really mean it when it's that kind of place
Speaker 5: in Chented Forest. We're gonna go up to Pinehurst now
Speaker 5: and talk to Greg. Hey, Greg, Welcome to guard Line.
Speaker 21: Hey Skip, Hey man. I aer rated my yard on Thursdays,
Speaker 21: two days ago, and then I put down some a's
Speaker 21: and mite in some of the microlife humates. I didn't
Speaker 21: do a full compost top dressing, just for my own
Speaker 21: sanity and time. And I've had good luck with the
Speaker 21: takings before, and so I want to get down my
Speaker 21: spring fertilizer. I've got some sweet green for my backyard,
Speaker 21: and I have some slow and easy for my front yard,
Speaker 21: and I just want to I should put it down now,
Speaker 21: or if I should wait till because of the rains,
Speaker 21: or if I should wait a couple of weeks. I've
Speaker 21: just kind of I put down my early green up
Speaker 21: a month ago, so I'm kind of past that now.
Speaker 5: You know you can you can do it now now,
Speaker 5: be fine. If you did it a month ago, you
Speaker 5: know you could do it now again. Especially the slow
Speaker 5: and easy because it's going to gradually release over time.
Speaker 5: The sweet green's a little faster, and so there's not
Speaker 5: a magic number on it. If you don't do it now,
Speaker 5: if you underdo it a month from now, either way
Speaker 5: it's okay. I would probably go ahead and do it
Speaker 5: sooner rather than later, and then get it watered in
Speaker 5: real good to get it into the soil so it
Speaker 5: can go to work for you.
Speaker 7: Okay.
Speaker 21: And then on the sweet green, I'm assuming it is
Speaker 21: slow and easy, I probably won't have to use that
Speaker 21: one application get me through the summer. But on the
Speaker 21: sweet green, when should I throw down another application?
Speaker 5: I would do it probably. Let's see where are we
Speaker 5: are now, We're March, see May, June. I would probably
Speaker 5: do it sometime in early July.
Speaker 21: Okay, okay, and that organic won't curtet so yeah, and
Speaker 21: then do you have a sign.
Speaker 5: Because you're gonna water it in anyway?
Speaker 14: Right?
Speaker 21: Do you have a second for another unrelated question?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Real quick.
Speaker 21: Do you know anything about climbing roses.
Speaker 4: My wife's heard about.
Speaker 21: These and she wants to use them.
Speaker 7: I don't know much about roses.
Speaker 5: Man so roses. Climbing roses are just a rose that
Speaker 5: makes long shoots. They don't have any they don't twine
Speaker 5: around stuff or grab onto stuff, but they're great plants.
Speaker 5: Most climbing roses are only blooming the spring, and the
Speaker 5: most famous one right now is called Peggy Martin. Everybody
Speaker 5: loves it. It's clusters of pink blooms in the spring.
Speaker 5: But there are many of the kinds of climbing roses
Speaker 5: and they will do well here. But just keep in
Speaker 5: mind that most of the time you're going to get
Speaker 5: spring blooms and then they don't bloom until next spring.
Speaker 5: That's the more common type of climbing rows.
Speaker 7: So they won't climb up like a.
Speaker 5: No, but you just lift them up to it and
Speaker 5: tie them to it or kind of lay them across
Speaker 5: it or whatever. They're great for you sun fences.
Speaker 8: Yeah, oh okay, okay, gotcha.
Speaker 4: Okay, Well that's super helpful.
Speaker 7: Thanks skip all right.
Speaker 6: Greg.
Speaker 5: Hey, thanks, sound like you're doing everything right out there
Speaker 5: with that lawn. Especially thanks for the call. I appreciate
Speaker 5: that a lot. Talking about all the you know, the
Speaker 5: different options and things you're going to find products like
Speaker 5: you're hearing me talk about there. Greg was naming a
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Speaker 5: Ace Hardware Texas dot Com. And they're gonna have everything
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Speaker 5: tools and hoses and sprinklers and hey, if you have
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Speaker 5: thirty five in Rockport. All right, folks, I got to
Speaker 5: go be right back all right, I am back a
Speaker 5: little Doobie Brothers for you this morning. Ciena mulch is
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Speaker 5: here's a bunch of whys. Number One, brown stuff before
Speaker 5: green stuff. Always start with the soil, and Ciena mulch
Speaker 5: has all the things you need to make the soil.
Speaker 8: Right.
Speaker 5: It is the brown stuff source if you will, and
Speaker 5: we say brown cus soil is typically brown, compost is
Speaker 5: typically brown. They have quality compost products, many different types,
Speaker 5: whatever kind of blend. Even they even carry like the
Speaker 5: heirloom soils veggie nerb mix for example. That's the super
Speaker 5: high quality stuff there. But that's just the way Ciena is.
Speaker 5: They sell quality. They sell mulches of all types, native
Speaker 5: hardwood malts, a double ground mulch. Just if you need
Speaker 5: it for the soil or on top of the soil,
Speaker 5: they've got it. That includes nutrients like microlife fertilizers. Nelson
Speaker 5: turfs are in Nelson plant food jars too. By the way,
Speaker 5: products from Medina azumite. You hear me talk about azemite
Speaker 5: all the time. And then nitrofoss nitrofoss fertilizers they deliver
Speaker 5: within twenty miles of their location, which is near Sienna.
Speaker 5: It's Highway six and two eighty eight. The specific location
Speaker 5: is FM five twenty one. But you have to remember
Speaker 5: all that. Just go to Siena mulch dot com, Ciena
Speaker 5: maltch dot com. All of you down south Pearland, Sweetwater,
Speaker 5: First Colony, Riverstone, Rose Sharing, Fresno, Quel Valley, Lake Olympia,
Speaker 5: Sandy Point, Arcola. I will get downe you keep going.
Speaker 5: Cianna Plantation, Pomona near Brasispen State Park, that whole region,
Speaker 5: siennamulch dot com. When you start there, you end up
Speaker 5: with success. That's how that works. We're going to head
Speaker 5: out now to Tiki Island, Texas and talk to Jeff. Hey, Jeff,
Speaker 5: how are you doing today?
Speaker 7: Good morning, sir. I'm doing quite well. So down here,
Speaker 7: mangoes flower.
Speaker 22: And everybody's looking really good.
Speaker 12: But when I and covered by.
Speaker 22: Citrus after the mind a little freezes, everybody has turned
Speaker 22: a very light color of yellow. The grapefruit, the car car, lemon, limes,
Speaker 22: everybody have all done this. And even their new growth.
Speaker 5: Oh, new growth too, Okay. Usually when new growth turned yellow,
Speaker 5: it's uh, it's it's usually because of sagi wet soil conditions, uh,
Speaker 5: but not always, but that that can give them some trouble.
Speaker 5: It can be a nutrient problem, you know, nitrogen, sulfur, iron,
Speaker 5: lots of things can cause yellowing of the leaves depending
Speaker 5: on which leaves you're seeing it on. I'm kind of
Speaker 5: thinking that it's making an adjustment to some cooler conditions
Speaker 5: and maybe a little bit of soil moisture uh involved
Speaker 5: in that, and that it's going to green up and
Speaker 5: be fine. If you want to be sure, you could
Speaker 5: you could give it a little bit of a e
Speaker 5: centrius fertilization uh to get it going again. You know,
Speaker 5: if I if you're looking at a plant, would you
Speaker 5: say it's the newest growth at the end of the leaves?
Speaker 5: More so, are the oldest growth on the late on
Speaker 5: the shoot the oldest leaves or is it just everything
Speaker 5: the whole plant is yellow?
Speaker 7: It's everything.
Speaker 22: It lost probably about twenty percent of its foliage immediately,
Speaker 22: and then the larger leaves turned that yellow. And then
Speaker 22: as of the last probably three or four weeks, all
Speaker 22: the new growth is coming out yellowing also.
Speaker 14: And they're all in the ground.
Speaker 8: They're all ten feet apart.
Speaker 22: I did a winter feeding forum before the freezes or anything.
Speaker 22: But they're all just all looking like that right now.
Speaker 5: That is very weird. You didn't make any chance to
Speaker 5: put any kind of our herbicide around them and the
Speaker 5: lawn or anything there.
Speaker 7: Nothing.
Speaker 22: I just gave them the citrus food back in probably
Speaker 22: that December January period of time, and they but they
Speaker 22: are growing new growth all over the place. No flowers,
Speaker 22: but all the sprouts and everything are all just that.
Speaker 7: Light yellow color.
Speaker 5: Is really weird, you know. It's the way you describe
Speaker 5: it as being so widespread, both more than one plant
Speaker 5: and all over the plant and stuff. I think it's
Speaker 5: going to warm up and grow out of it. You know,
Speaker 5: if it were a root rot, that would hit this
Speaker 5: plant or that plant, but not all of them at once.
Speaker 5: Just watch the soul moisture, I guess is the only thing.
Speaker 5: Just be extra careful, dig down about four to six
Speaker 5: inches and feel the soil and see if it's wet
Speaker 5: before you do any watering. I think with a warming
Speaker 5: weather they're going to get better. But if you wanted
Speaker 5: to give them a light fertilization again, I think that
Speaker 5: would be fine to do right now, Just go go
Speaker 5: kind of light on it medium total.
Speaker 22: I've also got access to chicken in your and duckmanheir,
Speaker 22: and I didn't know how much to put down of
Speaker 22: any of that either my kids grow.
Speaker 5: You know what, I would hold off, Yeah, I'd hold
Speaker 5: off on that for now. There's nothing wrong with manures,
Speaker 5: but I'd rather feel like we're a little more in
Speaker 5: control of specifically nutrients and stuff, and so let's stay
Speaker 5: away from those for now. In time, you can do
Speaker 5: light doses of those. Poultry manure compared to other manures
Speaker 5: is typically a little stronger depending on how the poultry
Speaker 5: and where they were raised. That you know, if it's confined,
Speaker 5: they may have some salts there present in that material
Speaker 5: as well, and so just go easy on that later.
Speaker 5: But first, let's fix this problem before we start adding
Speaker 5: complications to the scenario. We're looking at ten four.
Speaker 22: I'll send you pictures of the mango.
Speaker 7: It's beautiful.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I'd love to see that. Thanks. I always
Speaker 5: appreciate the pictures, all right, you take care. Send me
Speaker 5: pictures of that centrius too, though. I'd like to kind
Speaker 5: of get a picture of the whole thing and then
Speaker 5: maybe some of the close up. Maybe I'll see something
Speaker 5: else on it that I'm not picturing right now, but
Speaker 5: thank you, Jeff, I appreciate that very much. Greenpro Green
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Speaker 5: to allow water to move into the soil better, it's
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Speaker 5: If you are looking to purchase some new houseplants, and
Speaker 5: I hope you are, it's it is a lot of
Speaker 5: fun to have beautiful loss plants. I love the colorful
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Speaker 5: quality mix that we kill more houseplants with overwatering than underwatering.
Speaker 5: And the primary reason is when you have a soggy soil,
Speaker 5: roots can't get oxygen. You need a sole blend that
Speaker 5: drains well, but it holds onto moisture. Right, Plants need moisture,
Speaker 5: but they don't want to be oversaturated in this soppy,
Speaker 5: mucky goo. Jungle Land jungle Land water saving potting soil
Speaker 5: is a product that'll do just that. Now there's a
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Speaker 5: out there on the patio, the flour and vegetable jungle land.
Speaker 5: Either way you go, you're going to have success. Now,
Speaker 5: jungle Land's available places. Actually, Nitrophoss in general is widely
Speaker 5: available through the Eastern area, but places like Brenham and
Speaker 5: Plants and things up in Brunham, Fisher's Hardware down on
Speaker 5: Alexander in Baytown, Lake Hardware on Dixie Drive include as
Speaker 5: well as the Lake Hardware in Angleton on Velasco. I'll
Speaker 5: be right back, hey, welcome back to Guardline. You're with
Speaker 5: us today. We are glad you're with us.
Speaker 7: Hey.
Speaker 5: Airloom soils, airloom cell products, their quality. I mean when
Speaker 5: you say airloom soils, you're saying something that is going
Speaker 5: to grow whatever plants you're trying to grow, and they
Speaker 5: have a wide variety. They got the Vegian nerb mix.
Speaker 5: They got products called the Rose and Bloomers product that
Speaker 5: is perfect for roses and any kind of blooming shrub
Speaker 5: or early flowers in general for that matter. They work,
Speaker 5: They have leaf more compost. They've got pretty much every
Speaker 5: kind of a soil for growing any kind of thing
Speaker 5: that includes uphotting soil for indoor plants that includes a
Speaker 5: cactus and succulent, kind of a gritty, grainy, really well
Speaker 5: drained mix. They've got it. That's the bottom line. Now,
Speaker 5: Porter Texas is where the product bulk is available. If
Speaker 5: you want to go get it. You can also call
Speaker 5: them and say, hey, deliver to me. Dumb it on
Speaker 5: the driveway, bring me a bunch of yards of it.
Speaker 5: I got a lot of work to do here. Or
Speaker 5: you can be neat and clean about it and have
Speaker 5: them bring a supersac out that's a cubic yard of product.
Speaker 5: That is neat. They set the sack on the driveway,
Speaker 5: and I've done it before. It is the neatest, cleanest
Speaker 5: way you can get sold delivered to your house, and
Speaker 5: then you can go pretty much all over the Greater
Speaker 5: Houston area and find airloom soil products available in garden
Speaker 5: centers near you. Quality garden centers carry this stuff. And
Speaker 5: that includes feed stores, that includes you know the UH
Speaker 5: plot places where you would expect to find and shop
Speaker 5: for your quality gardening supplies. Now, Airloomsoils dot Com is
Speaker 5: the website. You need to go there because they have
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Speaker 5: here's a quiz question of the day and a QB
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Speaker 5: Their calculator can tell you that answer. I mean, it's
Speaker 5: a it's a really cool thing. Plus, you'll see all
Speaker 5: their different products listed and I can tell you this,
Speaker 5: I'm working my way through them. I've done pretty much. Oh,
Speaker 5: I'd say three fourths of the airloom source products so
Speaker 5: far that I've tried and has not been a one
Speaker 5: of them that hasn't performed in an outstanding way. In fact,
Speaker 5: if you come out to see me today, I'll be
Speaker 5: in UH warrants at Warren Southern Gardens out in Kingwood, Texas,
Speaker 5: and they have a lot of heirloom cell products on hand. There,
Speaker 5: and I would encourage you to come out and check
Speaker 5: them out. It's going to be a good day. We're
Speaker 5: gonna have a good time out there. Twelve thirty to
Speaker 5: two thirty. Come on out and see me and grab
Speaker 5: you some heirloom saws while you're out there. Let's go
Speaker 5: now to Lake Palestine and talk to Nancy. Hey, Nancy,
Speaker 5: welcome to Guardline.
Speaker 23: Yeah, Hi, good morning. I'm trying to speak. I'm out
Speaker 23: here fishing. I've got two fishings. I've talked since I've
Speaker 23: been on the hold.
Speaker 5: Well should I should I let you go? You seem
Speaker 5: to be busy. No, I wish I was out there fishing.
Speaker 23: I know said they're biting today and bad.
Speaker 5: I think, all right, there's the fishing report.
Speaker 23: Right right, Really this is for my pond. But yeah,
Speaker 23: I think you some pictures of my mimosa tree and
Speaker 23: how I had windows tree. I bet an hour an hour.
Speaker 5: I don't have pictures. Well you see, well know what
Speaker 5: it is.
Speaker 23: It's the way I have it staked. I have like
Speaker 23: a wire and then I have a noose at the top.
Speaker 23: It's a two year old mimosa. It did not freeze
Speaker 23: this last year. It's got growth on the top. But
Speaker 23: you talk about a tree hugger or some kind of
Speaker 23: You were talking to the other last weekend about a
Speaker 23: better way to stake it so it can move a little.
Speaker 5: Yes, m Yeah, it's got three sixty tree three sixty
Speaker 5: tree stabilizer. Three sixty tree stabilizer and uh, I just
Speaker 5: put some on some little citrus trees I planted this
Speaker 5: past week.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 5: And it works, It works super well. It's a it's
Speaker 5: a basically a very reinforced plastic that attaches to like
Speaker 5: a t post. It to any post, but they have
Speaker 5: a fitting for te posts.
Speaker 15: Uh.
Speaker 5: And then it grabs the tree and holds it loosely
Speaker 5: so that tree can move. And then you don't have
Speaker 5: all those wires to trip over or wires to cut
Speaker 5: into the bark of the plant.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 5: And so that's that's why I like that three sixty.
Speaker 23: And where can I get that? It's I know our
Speaker 23: AHRD here don't care the same thing that Houston does.
Speaker 14: Then maybe I can order.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well you're far enough away from me that I
Speaker 5: don't know the shops that are out there. Let's see,
Speaker 5: we're trying to see. Let me give you a let
Speaker 5: me give you a contact phone number. Okay, you just
Speaker 5: need telling them you talk to me on garden line
Speaker 5: and I don't know that. Let them tell you how
Speaker 5: to go about getting one. But it is too eight
Speaker 5: one okay two five six thirteen twenty two. I'll say
Speaker 5: that again to eight one two five six thirteen twenty
Speaker 5: two and just talk to them there. Uh, they'll they'll,
Speaker 5: they'll be able to help you out, all right.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 23: I was trying to find that Medina has to grow
Speaker 23: up here and I couldn't find it and I and
Speaker 23: I called Medina can actually called me back to some suggestions.
Speaker 23: I couldn't find it on the website. But they're great people.
Speaker 5: They are unbelievable. Oh they're yeah. That who That whole
Speaker 5: team at Medina is great to work with. Hey, thanks, Nancy,
Speaker 5: I appreciate that. Good luck with the fish. You know,
Speaker 5: normally if you listen to guard Line, you hear me
Speaker 5: tell people they have to give me the produce when
Speaker 5: I help them with. So h, just get that fish
Speaker 5: frozen and send it to the K T r H
Speaker 5: studios and we'll call it even all right, you give.
Speaker 23: Me waiting for it on the way bye by by.
Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, what do they say, there's no such thing.
Speaker 5: What a bad day fishing is better than a good
Speaker 5: day at the office or something like that. That's for sure. Hey,
Speaker 5: Nelson Plant Food has products in jars. They've got the
Speaker 5: nutri Star line, which includes pretty much anything you want
Speaker 5: to grow plume areas and hibiscus and vegetables and Azelia's
Speaker 5: acid loving plants and all that. Colorstar is their most
Speaker 5: famous product. Color Star is sold across the country. Really,
Speaker 5: I mean, I was talking to Dean the other day
Speaker 5: and some other company outside the country. You got a
Speaker 5: little sample of it and tried it, and they call
Speaker 5: they go, okay, ship it. We need a bunch of
Speaker 5: it here. This stuff works well. Colorstar also has a
Speaker 5: version called color Star Plus that includes a systemic fungicide
Speaker 5: as a preventative measure, gets inside of the plant and
Speaker 5: protects a lot of disease issues. So you can go
Speaker 5: either way with Colorstar. Colorstar or Colorstar Plus. Either way
Speaker 5: has been going on for forty years now, and it
Speaker 5: is super popular because it works, it has fast acting effects,
Speaker 5: it gets it has a number of organic nutrients sources
Speaker 5: too that help enrich that soil. So whether you're using
Speaker 5: it on annuals or perennials or flowering shrubs or anything.
Speaker 5: It's going to do well. It's going to give a
Speaker 5: slow release for about three to four months. Also, the
Speaker 5: color star plus that's one you need to look for.
Speaker 5: That and the regular color star in jars from Nelson
Speaker 5: Plant Food. We're going to go now to Joe and Galveston. Hey, Joe,
Speaker 5: got about a half a minute left. Let's see if
Speaker 5: we can help you quick question.
Speaker 24: Hedge hog or spider aloes. Amusing them underneath my beach
Speaker 24: home here right on the Gulf. My plant. They're native
Speaker 24: to South Africa, and the literature says that they bloom
Speaker 24: in summer. However, mine bloom in January, right at the
Speaker 24: height of winter, and I'm wondering if that's some sort
Speaker 24: of genetic something in the plant native to South Africa
Speaker 24: or what's going on.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's one of the plants from South Africa that
Speaker 5: does do pretty well here. A lot of South African plants.
Speaker 5: It's kind of a head and miss on a lot
Speaker 5: of those. But the hedgehog al is a beautiful little allo.
Speaker 5: I like the narrow foliage and whatnot on it, and
Speaker 5: it grows. I have reports folks in Corpus Christi, Texas
Speaker 5: that have grown the things, and certainly Louisiana, like Charles Louisiana,
Speaker 5: which is very similar to our conditions here. So you're
Speaker 5: gonna have you're gonna have good results with it. You
Speaker 5: don't need to fertilize it a lot, just a little bit.
Speaker 5: It likes plenty of sunlight and it needs like any aloe,
Speaker 5: it's gonna want really good drainage for it to do
Speaker 5: its best.
Speaker 24: Why is it growing in winter and not in summer
Speaker 24: like the literature a syst.
Speaker 5: Well Africa. Yeah, good, don galveson. You don't have winter.
Speaker 5: I'm just kidding, but seriously, it's it's just our miles
Speaker 5: mile winters. They can do that. Some not, you know,
Speaker 5: not easy. Go further north. You're not going to see
Speaker 5: that that kind of response. Okay, very good, All right,
Speaker 5: thanks a lot, appreciate the call. You take care. Wow,
Speaker 5: there's another show in the books. We are coming up here.
Speaker 5: I ought to be hearing some music pretty quick. I
Speaker 5: am on my way to Warren's Southern Gardens, warren Southern Guards.
Speaker 5: I hope that you will come out out and see me.
Speaker 5: I love going to Warrens. It is one of my
Speaker 5: favorite places to visit. And if you live let's say
Speaker 5: you don't live over there, you need something to go
Speaker 5: do today, come across town, come on see me at
Speaker 5: these appearances. We always have people that come from pretty
Speaker 5: far outside of the area. So why not be that you?
Speaker 5: Why not you be the one to do that. Today
Speaker 5: You're going to find at One's some gorgeous points. I
Speaker 5: want to show you the boo and BEEAs that they
Speaker 5: have as standards out there, and then the color, oh
Speaker 5: my gosh, and the hanging baskets. Hey, are you into strings?
Speaker 5: You like strings? Come on out to Warrens. They got
Speaker 5: some really good ones out there. By the way, today
Speaker 5: you buy one hundred dollars or more of stuff, and
Speaker 5: it's going to be fifteen percent off just today while
Speaker 5: we're out there, either from twelve thirty to two thirty
Speaker 5: today fifteen percent off purchases of one hundred dollars or
Speaker 5: more out at Warren's Southern Gardens. So leave some room
Speaker 5: in the car and the pickup because you're going to
Speaker 5: want to bring some stuff back. Trust me, I'm sorry,
Speaker 5: this gardening is addictive. I've warned you before. When you
Speaker 5: get out there, you're going to see a lot of stuff,
Speaker 5: and you can't live it out. I do every time
Speaker 5: I go. Hey, bring me samples and questions you have.
Speaker 5: BE happy to visit with you.