WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.960 --> 00:00:05.000 Welcome to Katie r. H. Garden Line with skimp rictor. 2 00:00:06.719 --> 00:00:08.519 The crazy. 3 00:00:09.320 --> 00:00:15.439 Gas. Can you want a trim? Just watch him as well. 4 00:00:21.079 --> 00:00:25.399 Things to sup batras in bringing the glasses like gas, 5 00:00:25.760 --> 00:00:32.479 begin your days back again. Not a sound the glasses 6 00:00:32.520 --> 00:00:39.520 and gas and the sun beam and down dreaming the 7 00:00:39.600 --> 00:00:40.719 gas gas. 8 00:00:44.000 --> 00:00:44.719 Stop. 9 00:00:45.920 --> 00:00:46.280 Dreaming. 10 00:00:48.159 --> 00:00:50.439 Hang on, folks on one slip a coffee away from 11 00:00:50.520 --> 00:00:52.640 coheron sobby right back with you and. 12 00:00:52.799 --> 00:00:55.600 See the Sunday. 13 00:00:56.840 --> 00:01:00.240 All right, let's give it a shot. Here you be 14 00:01:00.320 --> 00:01:03.719 the judge. Welcome to Garden Line. Good to have you 15 00:01:03.799 --> 00:01:08.319 with us this morning. We're looking forward to visiting with you. 16 00:01:08.480 --> 00:01:10.599 You know, that's what this show is about. I can 17 00:01:10.640 --> 00:01:13.439 sit here and drown on about horticulture and gardening and things, 18 00:01:13.879 --> 00:01:16.239 and I do some, but it's really about you and 19 00:01:16.280 --> 00:01:19.359 your questions in your lawn and your garden, trees and 20 00:01:19.439 --> 00:01:22.879 shrubs and house plants and you name it. How do 21 00:01:23.000 --> 00:01:25.319 we helpe you have success? That is my goal. I 22 00:01:25.400 --> 00:01:27.719 say that this way you pretty much all the time, 23 00:01:28.280 --> 00:01:30.400 and that is that we're here to help you have 24 00:01:30.719 --> 00:01:33.599 a bountiful garden, a beautiful landscape and more fun in 25 00:01:33.680 --> 00:01:37.040 the process. And if I can accomplish even two out 26 00:01:37.079 --> 00:01:40.640 of three of those, I'll feel like we've accomplished something 27 00:01:40.760 --> 00:01:42.879 for the day. But I know we can hit all three. 28 00:01:43.920 --> 00:01:48.120 Gardening is a lot of fun. Yesterday I was in 29 00:01:48.959 --> 00:01:52.560 my backyard and we've got a fence on the back wall, 30 00:01:52.560 --> 00:01:55.000 and it's this big long privacy fence and you know, 31 00:01:55.120 --> 00:01:57.519 you look at it and okay, it's a fence, But 32 00:01:57.799 --> 00:02:00.840 being a horticulturist, I want to see green and flowers 33 00:02:00.920 --> 00:02:02.879 and fruits and whatever else I can put on that 34 00:02:03.000 --> 00:02:05.560 wall to make it look even better, you know, create 35 00:02:05.640 --> 00:02:13.840 that eden the view of aging rot resistant wood is 36 00:02:13.960 --> 00:02:16.360 not a comfort to me, but of you plants and 37 00:02:16.479 --> 00:02:19.120 flowers to smell the fragrance it is. And so I 38 00:02:19.199 --> 00:02:23.520 put up some kettle panels on a really tall posts 39 00:02:24.360 --> 00:02:29.120 that we have, and I planted Confederate jasmine also known 40 00:02:29.159 --> 00:02:32.560 as star jasmine on it. It is evergreen, so it'll 41 00:02:32.599 --> 00:02:35.439 look good all year round. And boy, when it blooms, 42 00:02:35.759 --> 00:02:39.759 it is, oh fragrant, very nice, very nice plant. And 43 00:02:39.879 --> 00:02:41.719 so that's what we're going for there. We're going to 44 00:02:41.759 --> 00:02:44.800 aim for that, and that is the plan. So we 45 00:02:44.960 --> 00:02:48.719 got them all planted, the vines. I kind of trained 46 00:02:48.759 --> 00:02:52.680 them along horizontally. You know, if you just plant things 47 00:02:52.759 --> 00:02:55.400 like that jasmine and just sort of let them do 48 00:02:55.439 --> 00:02:57.319 what they're gonna do, they're gonna pretty much go up, 49 00:02:57.879 --> 00:03:00.240 up and out a little bit, kind of making V 50 00:03:00.439 --> 00:03:02.639 shaped if you will. Well, I want that to be 51 00:03:02.680 --> 00:03:05.360 a wall of green. So I took all the current 52 00:03:05.560 --> 00:03:08.080 bines and went at the very bottom of the fence, 53 00:03:08.240 --> 00:03:10.520 just horizontal with them. We're gonna get a lot more shoots, 54 00:03:10.520 --> 00:03:12.840 and they're gonna go up, and I'll keep training them 55 00:03:12.879 --> 00:03:16.280 out and getting them to reach each other and connect 56 00:03:17.280 --> 00:03:19.520 and fill in. But that's just part of that process 57 00:03:20.479 --> 00:03:22.439 that happens in shrubs too a lot. By the way, 58 00:03:22.520 --> 00:03:26.080 you may have noticed that your shrubs keep wanting to 59 00:03:26.240 --> 00:03:28.360 be top heavy. They want to be wide at the top, 60 00:03:28.560 --> 00:03:30.400 and then at the bottom you don't have any foliage 61 00:03:30.400 --> 00:03:33.719 because the top is shading out the bottom and you 62 00:03:33.840 --> 00:03:36.919 only get leaves where you get light. We'll say that again, 63 00:03:37.120 --> 00:03:40.879 you only get leaves where you get light. So, whether 64 00:03:40.960 --> 00:03:44.960 it's a fruit tree or whatever it is, if the 65 00:03:45.080 --> 00:03:47.759 top is shading out the interior or the bottom, they're 66 00:03:47.759 --> 00:03:51.240 not going to be leaves down there. And so most 67 00:03:51.280 --> 00:03:53.639 people want a shrub to be just a wall of foliage. 68 00:03:53.960 --> 00:03:57.639 Especially if it's a screening shrub, a hedge, and so that. 69 00:03:57.800 --> 00:03:59.719 To do that, you got to keep the bottom wider 70 00:03:59.800 --> 00:04:01.680 than the top as you print it, and you'll be 71 00:04:01.800 --> 00:04:04.159 fighting against what the shrub is trying to do when 72 00:04:04.199 --> 00:04:06.039 you do that. They want to grow top heavy. They 73 00:04:06.080 --> 00:04:08.520 want to be an umbrella with all the leaves up 74 00:04:08.560 --> 00:04:10.960 on the top like an umbrella, and then all stiggy 75 00:04:11.000 --> 00:04:15.039 and twiggy and twiggy and everything else down below. But 76 00:04:15.319 --> 00:04:17.199 as you keep the top a little more narrow at 77 00:04:17.319 --> 00:04:19.879 least parallel, but a little more narrow at the top, 78 00:04:19.920 --> 00:04:22.319 a little wider at the base, sunlight reaches all areas, 79 00:04:22.839 --> 00:04:25.720 and you maintain foliage from top to bottom. That's what 80 00:04:25.759 --> 00:04:28.920 we're going for anyway, That's what I've been up to. Yesterday, 81 00:04:29.079 --> 00:04:32.839 at least I made a little doughnut of soil around 82 00:04:32.920 --> 00:04:36.800 each plant, maybe I don't know, let's say three and 83 00:04:36.839 --> 00:04:40.120 a half four inches high, and water did in really good. 84 00:04:41.519 --> 00:04:44.480 The reason I do the doughnut of soil called a berm, 85 00:04:45.519 --> 00:04:48.360 is because when you fill that with water, it all 86 00:04:48.480 --> 00:04:50.680 has to go straight down right there, which guess what 87 00:04:50.920 --> 00:04:53.480 is where all my roots are. I planted him yesterday. 88 00:04:53.560 --> 00:04:55.319 I do not have roots all through the bed. Yet 89 00:04:55.519 --> 00:04:58.360 it take a long time to achieve that, but early 90 00:04:58.439 --> 00:05:01.720 on for survival going into summer. Here it is June 91 00:05:01.800 --> 00:05:05.120 and I'm planting plants. It's okay. All I gotta do 92 00:05:05.720 --> 00:05:08.560 is go out there and water them frequently in that 93 00:05:08.720 --> 00:05:11.040 small amount, just an inch or so of water inch 94 00:05:11.120 --> 00:05:15.560 or two or three of water, depending on on you 95 00:05:15.639 --> 00:05:18.079 know what, whether it's in lots of sun or just 96 00:05:18.199 --> 00:05:20.360 a little bit of sun. Minds in a medium amount. 97 00:05:21.480 --> 00:05:23.480 And that's what we'll do well watered in that way. 98 00:05:23.600 --> 00:05:25.759 And once you know, we get through this first summer, 99 00:05:26.240 --> 00:05:28.199 I'll begain In fact, before we get to the end 100 00:05:28.240 --> 00:05:30.920 of the summer, I'll be watering the whole bed periodically, 101 00:05:31.759 --> 00:05:34.800 but mainly for right now it's where all the roots are. 102 00:05:34.839 --> 00:05:36.959 And that's a mistake people make a lot on plants, 103 00:05:37.079 --> 00:05:39.199 is they put it in the ground. You get some rain, 104 00:05:39.319 --> 00:05:41.560 and the whole soil in the bed is all nice 105 00:05:41.879 --> 00:05:45.000 and soaked and wet. But that little root ball, that 106 00:05:45.240 --> 00:05:48.120 cylinder that came out of the pot, that's where that's 107 00:05:48.199 --> 00:05:51.079 where the water gets pumped out really fast on a 108 00:05:51.120 --> 00:05:53.600 hot sunny day, and so that's where you got to 109 00:05:53.600 --> 00:05:57.240 add the water. So you find that sweet spot between 110 00:05:57.759 --> 00:06:04.040 consistently moist and soggy water logged swamp. No oxygen in 111 00:06:04.120 --> 00:06:06.560 the roots, that's all bad. So how do you find 112 00:06:06.560 --> 00:06:07.560 the spot in between the two? 113 00:06:07.560 --> 00:06:07.720 Way? 114 00:06:07.720 --> 00:06:09.199 You kin'd of have to use your fingers and feel. 115 00:06:09.360 --> 00:06:10.920 That's the bottom line. And I can sit there and 116 00:06:11.000 --> 00:06:13.839 tell you boill for every gallon of container size, you 117 00:06:13.959 --> 00:06:16.000 give it a gallon of water. Every you know, I 118 00:06:16.040 --> 00:06:17.879 could make up stuff like that. I mean to be 119 00:06:17.959 --> 00:06:22.399 generally accurate. But different soil types, different sun amounts. On 120 00:06:22.480 --> 00:06:26.079 the end of your hand are some really handy gardening gadgets. 121 00:06:27.199 --> 00:06:30.959 One of them is your fingers and that feels the 122 00:06:31.079 --> 00:06:34.000 soil and you can tell if soil is moist or not, 123 00:06:34.319 --> 00:06:37.839 and that is really handy. Sometimes I think I'll give 124 00:06:37.879 --> 00:06:41.480 you the laydown of all the the gardening gadgets on 125 00:06:41.560 --> 00:06:44.519 the end of your hand. That would be a maybe 126 00:06:44.519 --> 00:06:47.439 I'll do that today. Well anyway, seven one three two 127 00:06:47.519 --> 00:06:49.519 one two k t RH. If you'd like to give 128 00:06:49.560 --> 00:06:52.240 me a call, let's visit about the things that are 129 00:06:52.279 --> 00:06:58.199 of interest to you. Eagle turf fungicide is from nitrophoss. 130 00:06:58.560 --> 00:07:02.839 Eagle turf fungicide is very very effective in shutting down 131 00:07:02.839 --> 00:07:07.120 a number of different diseases because it's a systemic protectant. 132 00:07:07.199 --> 00:07:09.040 It gets in the planet, it gets in the roots, 133 00:07:09.519 --> 00:07:11.959 it goes out, it kills diseases that are present in 134 00:07:12.040 --> 00:07:14.079 the plant, which a lot of fungicize just keep the 135 00:07:14.160 --> 00:07:17.759 disease from infecting. This one gets in the plant itself 136 00:07:17.839 --> 00:07:22.600 and kills the disease inside and it lasts. Eagletur fungicide 137 00:07:22.639 --> 00:07:25.040 from nitrofoss available a lot of different places. You're going 138 00:07:25.120 --> 00:07:28.800 to find it in spots, let's say, like dndfeed and 139 00:07:28.879 --> 00:07:34.079 tumble maybe MD beam Er down on Sagemont and in Sagemont, 140 00:07:34.160 --> 00:07:36.439 or a clear Lake area M and D clear Lake 141 00:07:36.560 --> 00:07:41.120 on Bay Area Boulevard Brennam excuse me, plants and things 142 00:07:41.160 --> 00:07:45.240 another place that you're going to find nitroposs products. Time 143 00:07:45.319 --> 00:07:46.839 for me to take a little break here in just 144 00:07:46.920 --> 00:07:50.480 a second, just one more reminder seven one three two 145 00:07:50.519 --> 00:07:54.120 one two fifty eight seventy four or seven one three 146 00:07:54.199 --> 00:07:56.879 two one two k t RH. Let's talk about the 147 00:07:56.959 --> 00:07:59.959 things that you're interested in this morning, and we will 148 00:08:00.120 --> 00:08:03.519 be right back to do that. All right, we're back, 149 00:08:03.959 --> 00:08:05.519 Welcome back. I'm your host, skip Rick. 150 00:08:05.560 --> 00:08:05.680 Here. 151 00:08:05.720 --> 00:08:09.560 You're listening to Guarden line. We got some gardening talk 152 00:08:09.639 --> 00:08:11.399 to do today, if you'd like to give me a call. 153 00:08:11.560 --> 00:08:15.279 Seven one three two one two k tr H seven 154 00:08:15.360 --> 00:08:18.680 one three two and two k trhe. I planted a 155 00:08:19.319 --> 00:08:23.680 type of Collocasia in my garden yesterday in one of 156 00:08:23.759 --> 00:08:26.319 the one of the beds actually up against the house. 157 00:08:26.399 --> 00:08:28.759 We're up shady aery gets a little bit of sun. 158 00:08:29.399 --> 00:08:29.480 Uh. 159 00:08:29.639 --> 00:08:34.279 And if you're not familiar with colocasia, Colocasia and allocacia 160 00:08:34.879 --> 00:08:39.759 and kalladiums all have those big heart shaped leaves. Uh. 161 00:08:40.039 --> 00:08:42.320 If you you probably have heard of elephant well you 162 00:08:42.399 --> 00:08:44.639 know what kladium's arm, sure, but you probably heard of 163 00:08:44.720 --> 00:08:48.679 elephant ears before. Okay, that's that that group of plants 164 00:08:49.159 --> 00:08:50.679 that that's what we're talking about here. 165 00:08:51.200 --> 00:08:51.279 Uh. 166 00:08:51.399 --> 00:08:55.559 The allocacias in general. Uh, they're they're all kind of 167 00:08:55.759 --> 00:08:59.600 heart shaped slash arrow head shaped in their leaf. But 168 00:08:59.720 --> 00:09:04.279 the cases tend to point the leaves upward or outward 169 00:09:04.320 --> 00:09:08.080 a little bit, while the colocations tend to hang down. 170 00:09:08.440 --> 00:09:10.440 So when you look at them, you're seeing a heart 171 00:09:10.759 --> 00:09:13.200 that looks like a heart, with the allocations you're looking 172 00:09:13.240 --> 00:09:16.399 at more like a arrowhead. Which the way I remember that, 173 00:09:16.600 --> 00:09:19.240 by the way, is allocacia. It begins with a as 174 00:09:19.360 --> 00:09:22.600 does Arrowhead. So not all of them point, you know, 175 00:09:22.919 --> 00:09:25.799 just directly up. They do lean out, but anyway, that's 176 00:09:25.840 --> 00:09:28.279 a general purpose. They each have their best spots that 177 00:09:28.360 --> 00:09:30.480 they can go in. But I was planning one that's 178 00:09:30.600 --> 00:09:34.200 really colorful one and it just reminded me Arburgate Garden 179 00:09:34.279 --> 00:09:38.000 Center and Tom Ball has a wonderful selection of all 180 00:09:38.120 --> 00:09:40.600 kinds of tropical looking things. You know, we get here 181 00:09:40.639 --> 00:09:45.440 to summer, it's hot, it's sultry, and tropical plants thrive here. 182 00:09:45.720 --> 00:09:48.000 You know, we think, oh my gosh, I'm going to die. 183 00:09:48.320 --> 00:09:51.440 I feel like this is more sweltering than you know, 184 00:09:51.720 --> 00:09:56.480 Calcutta or someplace deep deep in the rainforest jungle. 185 00:09:57.039 --> 00:09:58.000 No that it. 186 00:09:58.519 --> 00:10:01.200 We have plants that love it. They love those kind 187 00:10:01.240 --> 00:10:03.279 of conditions. And what do they say when in Rome? 188 00:10:03.360 --> 00:10:05.840 Do as the Romans do? Well? If you want to 189 00:10:05.919 --> 00:10:08.559 have a happy landscape in the summer, include a lot 190 00:10:08.639 --> 00:10:13.120 of tropical plants, tropical dazzlers, plants that are just gorgeous. 191 00:10:13.480 --> 00:10:15.759 And boy does Arbrogaatee ever have some beautiful ones of those. 192 00:10:16.039 --> 00:10:18.320 You know, there's a standard green colors, there's types with 193 00:10:18.799 --> 00:10:21.480 colorful petioles. Kind of planet. It had kind of reddish 194 00:10:21.519 --> 00:10:26.399 petioles in it. There's some types. There's one that, oh gosh, 195 00:10:26.440 --> 00:10:29.320 the name's escaping me right now, but it has splashes 196 00:10:29.360 --> 00:10:32.120 of pink inside of a purple leaf. It's a fairly 197 00:10:32.240 --> 00:10:35.720 new one, kind of a Hawaiian something Hawaiian in the name, 198 00:10:35.720 --> 00:10:38.600 I can't remember, but anyway, another kind has purple leaves, 199 00:10:38.799 --> 00:10:42.639 deep deep purple leaves and with those big giant bold 200 00:10:42.759 --> 00:10:46.799 foliage there eye catchers. And remember when you're doing your landscape, 201 00:10:47.120 --> 00:10:51.360 to change up, change up your colors in the landscape, 202 00:10:51.399 --> 00:10:54.919 and change up your textures so you get something really 203 00:10:55.120 --> 00:10:58.320 fine grass like a grass an ornamental clumbing grass has 204 00:10:58.440 --> 00:11:01.679 very fine lines, fine tech. Make sure the bold leaves 205 00:11:01.720 --> 00:11:06.399 of color Caasha and Allocasia are just wonderful contrast to that. 206 00:11:06.720 --> 00:11:10.200 So use those more and use color in foliage as 207 00:11:10.279 --> 00:11:12.720 much as you can. In the summer. We have lots 208 00:11:12.720 --> 00:11:15.279 of blooming things in summer, but not as many a spring. 209 00:11:16.240 --> 00:11:19.279 And so when summer comes, even when plants kind of 210 00:11:19.320 --> 00:11:21.720 start to not bloom as well, you still can have 211 00:11:21.840 --> 00:11:24.600 color by using bold foliage color. All right, let's run 212 00:11:24.759 --> 00:11:26.799 out to Brian, Texas and we're going to talk to 213 00:11:26.919 --> 00:11:29.519 Dan this morning. Hello, Dan, Welcome to guarden Line. 214 00:11:30.519 --> 00:11:34.759 Yeah, good morning, Hey Skip, I've got a question. I 215 00:11:36.080 --> 00:11:39.519 just bought a little piece of land out in kind 216 00:11:39.559 --> 00:11:43.799 of northeast of Brian. It's pretty wide open out there, 217 00:11:44.519 --> 00:11:48.200 there's no trees on it, and were just wanting to 218 00:11:48.240 --> 00:11:54.960 get some recommendations on some relatively fast growing shade trees 219 00:11:55.120 --> 00:11:59.559 and ornamentals. I know I've had great myrtles in the past, 220 00:11:59.679 --> 00:12:02.360 and great myrtles have done pretty good. I've been out 221 00:12:02.399 --> 00:12:06.360 in here in the Crosby area, but just now relocating 222 00:12:07.320 --> 00:12:10.120 and just wanted to get your thoughts on some trees. 223 00:12:10.159 --> 00:12:13.000 I know live oaks are big up there, but heck, 224 00:12:13.080 --> 00:12:15.919 I'm seventy two years old. I'll never see live oaks grow. 225 00:12:17.960 --> 00:12:18.120 There. 226 00:12:18.200 --> 00:12:18.399 You go. 227 00:12:19.240 --> 00:12:23.000 Well, they say society is great when men plant trees 228 00:12:23.320 --> 00:12:27.799 under whose shade they will never set, So that there's 229 00:12:27.840 --> 00:12:30.960 something to think about. Well, Dan, you know, as you 230 00:12:31.039 --> 00:12:33.360 go up north and east of Brian, whether you're up 231 00:12:33.360 --> 00:12:35.519 to the North Ulch or Wickson Valley or anywhere out 232 00:12:35.519 --> 00:12:38.279 in that area, you've got a range of different soils 233 00:12:38.360 --> 00:12:41.639 that we are looking at the area of Texas called 234 00:12:41.679 --> 00:12:43.440 the Post Oak Belt. So there's a lot of grainy, 235 00:12:44.120 --> 00:12:49.840 granular gravelly types of soil that post oaks love. I 236 00:12:49.879 --> 00:12:52.240 would not plant a post oak by the way number one. 237 00:12:52.279 --> 00:12:54.840 You can find it in the garden center. But there's 238 00:12:54.840 --> 00:12:58.639 also some clay soils up in there, and so a 239 00:12:58.720 --> 00:13:02.240 couple of options there. You could go with a red 240 00:13:02.399 --> 00:13:06.799 oak such as a shoemard or a nut tall and 241 00:13:08.240 --> 00:13:10.799 nut tall or shumard red oak. They grow pretty fast 242 00:13:10.919 --> 00:13:13.399 when you get all the weeds away from them, so 243 00:13:13.480 --> 00:13:15.960 they don't have any competition. Give them a big mulched 244 00:13:16.039 --> 00:13:19.080 area so they have a forest floor environment, and water 245 00:13:19.200 --> 00:13:22.240 them regularly. Watering is more important than fertilizing, but of 246 00:13:22.320 --> 00:13:25.879 course also fertilize them with a nitrogen based fertilizer. You 247 00:13:25.919 --> 00:13:30.000 can get pretty good growth out of those. There are 248 00:13:30.000 --> 00:13:31.600 a lot of other trees too, It just kind of 249 00:13:31.600 --> 00:13:36.399 depends on what you like. The cypress trees will do 250 00:13:36.559 --> 00:13:38.360 well up there. You see a lot of those as 251 00:13:38.399 --> 00:13:41.360 you drive through Brian College Station and road medians and 252 00:13:41.440 --> 00:13:45.120 other things. Just if you can get something that doesn't 253 00:13:45.440 --> 00:13:47.399 if it's going to be in your yard, get something 254 00:13:47.480 --> 00:13:50.720 that doesn't produce knees. There are cypress that produce knees 255 00:13:51.159 --> 00:13:53.559 and cypress that don't. If you have a clay soil. 256 00:13:53.759 --> 00:13:56.039 With the amount of rain you get up there, which 257 00:13:56.120 --> 00:13:59.120 isn't as much as in Houston, but it still is 258 00:13:59.200 --> 00:14:03.039 a lot that soul stay soggy and the knees start 259 00:14:03.120 --> 00:14:05.279 popping up in your lawnmower has the time of it. 260 00:14:05.840 --> 00:14:07.799 So just something to think about. If you go with 261 00:14:07.879 --> 00:14:12.360 the cypress, they're very sturdy, very long lived. A lot 262 00:14:12.440 --> 00:14:14.679 of people like elms, and there's some beautiful elms. If 263 00:14:14.720 --> 00:14:17.159 you want a tree that once it's established, you don't 264 00:14:17.240 --> 00:14:19.559 care for, have to care for a lot. Cedar elm 265 00:14:19.720 --> 00:14:22.080 is a good tough one that can do that. It 266 00:14:22.159 --> 00:14:24.559 doesn't make as big and spreading of a tree as 267 00:14:24.639 --> 00:14:26.960 the others as the oaks will. 268 00:14:28.000 --> 00:14:32.639 Okay, well, I think that like that red oak idea. 269 00:14:32.799 --> 00:14:38.440 Maybe do you think, yeah, great marbles you think of 270 00:14:38.519 --> 00:14:39.279 do alight up there? 271 00:14:40.960 --> 00:14:42.759 They do? They do great up there. They are a 272 00:14:42.840 --> 00:14:46.519 tough tree, surprisingly tough. I would if you want shade 273 00:14:46.799 --> 00:14:49.759 from it, I would get a very large one, such 274 00:14:49.840 --> 00:14:57.440 as natches like the Indian tribe at trail. Yeah, not 275 00:14:57.639 --> 00:15:00.759 just trail like that. It has white flowers and it 276 00:15:00.840 --> 00:15:05.360 has a beautiful cinnamon colored exfoliating bark, unlike the putty 277 00:15:05.480 --> 00:15:09.120 colored trunks of most crape myrtles. This one has even 278 00:15:09.200 --> 00:15:12.679 attractive trunks. I think so Natchez will get about thirty 279 00:15:12.720 --> 00:15:17.159 feet tall with water and care. Okay, well, great, it 280 00:15:17.200 --> 00:15:17.919 has a few ideas. 281 00:15:17.919 --> 00:15:20.639 Appreciate your information. I appreciate it. 282 00:15:21.720 --> 00:15:24.120 Yeah, and you and you're not far from wims And 283 00:15:24.159 --> 00:15:26.679 tree farms done in Plannersville. But they grow a lot 284 00:15:26.799 --> 00:15:30.080 of trees out there, and they will sell if you 285 00:15:30.399 --> 00:15:32.120 contact the amount of time, I believe you can just 286 00:15:32.200 --> 00:15:35.879 go down and make a retail purchase. Okay, what is 287 00:15:35.960 --> 00:15:40.000 what was the name of it, Williamson Tree Farm. They're 288 00:15:40.039 --> 00:15:45.679 connected to RCW Nurseries in history Whimst's in Plannersville. If 289 00:15:45.720 --> 00:15:47.360 you if you go one oh five, like you're going 290 00:15:47.399 --> 00:15:51.080 to Conroe and turn south toward Plannersville, it's just right 291 00:15:51.759 --> 00:15:55.200 there on the left, off to the left. Okay, well great, Hey, yeah, 292 00:15:55.240 --> 00:15:55.879 this sounds great. 293 00:15:55.919 --> 00:15:56.759 Hey, I appreciate it. 294 00:15:58.320 --> 00:16:04.360 All right, have fun. All right, you're listening to Garden Line. 295 00:16:04.360 --> 00:16:06.519 I'm your host, Skip Richter. How can we help you 296 00:16:06.600 --> 00:16:09.159 today with your garden? Like we just were talking with 297 00:16:09.240 --> 00:16:11.600 Dan there about some tree ideas for a certain part 298 00:16:11.639 --> 00:16:15.679 of the listening area. Whenever you choose plants do. Remember 299 00:16:15.919 --> 00:16:18.720 that they have an opinion about the soil. And I 300 00:16:18.879 --> 00:16:21.559 mentioned the you know, that area is in the gravelly 301 00:16:22.120 --> 00:16:25.120 the gravelly soils of the Postoke Belt, but also the 302 00:16:25.320 --> 00:16:28.919 clavy clay soils. But there's also sandy soils. In every area, 303 00:16:29.039 --> 00:16:32.039 there's somewhere there's going to be some sand. So that's 304 00:16:32.080 --> 00:16:35.320 another thing to keep in mind. Quality Home Products is 305 00:16:35.440 --> 00:16:39.639 the number one generator servicer in the Houston area, you know. 306 00:16:39.759 --> 00:16:42.879 And they're number one for a number of reasons. First 307 00:16:42.919 --> 00:16:44.919 of all, from the time you first call them or 308 00:16:44.960 --> 00:16:48.720 walk in, you're getting customer service. They are making sure 309 00:16:48.759 --> 00:16:50.759 you get the generator you need. 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Call Quality Home Products of Texas 340 00:18:33.319 --> 00:18:38.240 seven one three quality. All right, you're listening to garden Line. 341 00:18:38.240 --> 00:18:39.680 If you'd like to give me a call. Seven one 342 00:18:39.759 --> 00:18:42.480 three two one two k t r H. Seven one 343 00:18:42.559 --> 00:18:45.880 three two one two k t r H. I was 344 00:18:45.960 --> 00:18:50.160 out yesterday checking out my mosquito buckets, the ones I 345 00:18:50.240 --> 00:18:52.920 got from Pestbros. And you can too, by the way 346 00:18:52.960 --> 00:18:54.759 that by the way, they service the whole area from 347 00:18:54.799 --> 00:18:57.319 Baytown to kd and from the Woodlands all the way 348 00:18:57.359 --> 00:19:00.279 down to Texas City, and uh, you know, they just 349 00:19:00.400 --> 00:19:03.000 do mosquitoes. But boy, do they ever do mosquitos. We 350 00:19:03.079 --> 00:19:06.160 were sitting out yesterday and I think we had one 351 00:19:06.240 --> 00:19:08.400 or two mosquitoes kind of that came up on us 352 00:19:08.440 --> 00:19:10.880 and we were sitting out in that prime mosquito time 353 00:19:10.920 --> 00:19:12.519 of the day, you know what I'm talking about, end 354 00:19:12.559 --> 00:19:15.279 of the day, and they just come out and eat 355 00:19:15.400 --> 00:19:19.720 you live. We've had rain good night week after week 356 00:19:19.759 --> 00:19:22.240 where we've had rains to create those little puddles. All 357 00:19:22.279 --> 00:19:24.480 it takes is a bottle cup of water for mosquitoes 358 00:19:24.519 --> 00:19:28.000 to breed. And normally, you know, I would have been 359 00:19:28.119 --> 00:19:30.880 having to chain myself to the ground because mosquitos have 360 00:19:30.960 --> 00:19:33.400 been some mini on me that'll lift me up off 361 00:19:33.480 --> 00:19:37.720 the patio carried me away. Best Bro shuts that down 362 00:19:37.759 --> 00:19:40.200 with their mosquito box. It really really works good. Yeah, 363 00:19:40.200 --> 00:19:42.279 I mean nothing is going to get rid of every mosquito. 364 00:19:42.279 --> 00:19:45.759 I used to nuke my lawn with a foger just 365 00:19:45.839 --> 00:19:47.200 to be able to go out for a little while 366 00:19:47.279 --> 00:19:51.400 with family and friends and enjoy that outdoor area. Not anymore. 367 00:19:52.119 --> 00:19:55.440 Not anymore. Mosquito can always fly in from here for there, 368 00:19:56.039 --> 00:19:58.240 but the bulk of them, the way the buckets work. 369 00:19:58.359 --> 00:19:59.680 Just call them and ask them how they work. They 370 00:19:59.680 --> 00:20:02.920 can take seven two eight one two o six forty 371 00:20:02.960 --> 00:20:06.079 six seventy two eight one two o six four to 372 00:20:06.200 --> 00:20:11.160 six seven zero, or go to the website the Pest 373 00:20:11.680 --> 00:20:15.559 Bros b r o s dot com talk to them 374 00:20:15.599 --> 00:20:19.839 about their termite control. Also, you know termites. That reminds 375 00:20:19.920 --> 00:20:22.559 me it's they pour a material down in a little 376 00:20:22.599 --> 00:20:25.160 trench around the out just outside the perimeter of your 377 00:20:25.200 --> 00:20:28.160 house and termite's trying to come through. Shut them down 378 00:20:28.200 --> 00:20:31.279 for ten years. And I like that because you know, 379 00:20:31.400 --> 00:20:33.039 to put a lot of pest to side out where 380 00:20:33.160 --> 00:20:35.680 kids and pets and other things are going to be encountering. 381 00:20:35.759 --> 00:20:38.440 It's not a good thing at pest Bros. They know 382 00:20:38.559 --> 00:20:40.680 how to treat effectively, but they also know how to 383 00:20:40.720 --> 00:20:43.680 do so in the safest manner, so you get long 384 00:20:43.799 --> 00:20:48.480 term control without worries. Vpestbros dot Com two eight one 385 00:20:48.559 --> 00:20:54.519 two o six forty six seventy Sitting here looking at 386 00:20:54.640 --> 00:20:58.160 my clock. I got about a minute left. So well, 387 00:20:58.240 --> 00:21:01.759 when we come back and remember it, I may need 388 00:21:01.799 --> 00:21:03.960 to get my producer to remind me. I want to 389 00:21:04.000 --> 00:21:06.519 talk about the things at the end of our arms 390 00:21:06.759 --> 00:21:10.519 and how we use them in horticulture, in gardening. I 391 00:21:10.640 --> 00:21:12.359 know you're good. Why is he saying it that way? 392 00:21:12.799 --> 00:21:16.079 I don't know why I say things Wed, It's just the. 393 00:21:16.079 --> 00:21:16.480 Way it is. 394 00:21:18.119 --> 00:21:21.480 I'll be also talking this morning a little bit about 395 00:21:22.720 --> 00:21:26.920 fruit trees that do not produce fruit and why that, 396 00:21:27.240 --> 00:21:30.359 why that is, and what you can do. So stick around, 397 00:21:30.559 --> 00:21:34.160 stay tuned. We definitely want to spend some time on 398 00:21:34.319 --> 00:21:37.400 that with you. If you got any other questions, if 399 00:21:37.440 --> 00:21:39.480 you'd like, we have an open boards right now. Actually, 400 00:21:39.960 --> 00:21:41.720 if you want to be one of the first ones up, 401 00:21:41.839 --> 00:21:43.960 well if you get on the phone right now seven 402 00:21:44.000 --> 00:21:47.480 one three two one two kat r h Alejandro, get 403 00:21:47.519 --> 00:21:50.079 you up on the board so you can be first up. 404 00:21:50.119 --> 00:21:52.720 When we come back. Hey, welcome back to guarden Line. 405 00:21:52.759 --> 00:21:55.400 Good to have you with us. What are we going 406 00:21:55.440 --> 00:21:57.839 to talk about today, Well, you tell me when the 407 00:21:57.880 --> 00:21:59.799 phone calls. We got a couple of folks online here 408 00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:02.599 be visiting with in just a moment. If you've not 409 00:22:02.680 --> 00:22:05.359 been down to Enchanted Forest Garden Center, you really need 410 00:22:05.440 --> 00:22:09.680 to go. They have got a wonderful selection of plants. 411 00:22:09.680 --> 00:22:12.000 I always tell you about their herbs and vegetables and things. 412 00:22:12.039 --> 00:22:14.640 I always tell you about the pollinator plants and the 413 00:22:14.839 --> 00:22:19.240 butterfly plant. Just just butterfly alone, I mean the plants 414 00:22:19.319 --> 00:22:22.880 that attract the adults, the plants that are the tract 415 00:22:23.000 --> 00:22:25.759 the larva, which is important. You know, you want monarchs, 416 00:22:25.759 --> 00:22:28.839 you got to have milkweed, so monarch larva there. You 417 00:22:29.000 --> 00:22:31.440 want to go, frittlery, butterflies, you got to have some 418 00:22:31.519 --> 00:22:34.160 passion bend because that's what their baby's eat. Well, and 419 00:22:34.279 --> 00:22:36.480 Chanted Forest has all of that, and of course a 420 00:22:36.559 --> 00:22:38.799 lot more. They also have some desert willows. I don't 421 00:22:38.799 --> 00:22:40.480 know if you're familiar with desert willow, but it is 422 00:22:40.559 --> 00:22:42.839 a very fine textured tree. You know, earlier I was 423 00:22:42.880 --> 00:22:46.000 talking about the the colocasia and alocasia, how they had 424 00:22:46.039 --> 00:22:48.839 the big bold leaves. Well, this is a very fine 425 00:22:48.920 --> 00:22:53.039 strappy leaf, very thin narrow leaves, but they have beautiful blooms. 426 00:22:53.640 --> 00:22:56.759 There's a number of different there's just the standard wild 427 00:22:56.839 --> 00:22:59.279 type of desert willow, and then there's some varieties that 428 00:22:59.359 --> 00:23:02.599 have been selected. They have one called Bubba. Bubba has 429 00:23:02.720 --> 00:23:06.480 been around a good while and it is a dependable variety. 430 00:23:06.519 --> 00:23:09.759 It's been proven. The blooms on it are kind of 431 00:23:10.359 --> 00:23:14.799 a pink to maroon burgundy color. They're sort of in 432 00:23:14.920 --> 00:23:18.240 that range, and it makes a small tree that casts 433 00:23:18.319 --> 00:23:20.480 a light shade. The nice thing about that is you 434 00:23:20.559 --> 00:23:22.799 put it in a flower bed, maybe a high dry mound, 435 00:23:22.839 --> 00:23:26.960 because it can take drought very very well, and then 436 00:23:27.039 --> 00:23:29.640 you can plant things around it and they get enough 437 00:23:29.799 --> 00:23:32.079 light to still do pretty well. You know, you get 438 00:23:32.160 --> 00:23:35.519 something that is evergreen and just casts the shade so 439 00:23:35.640 --> 00:23:37.400 dark you can't see your hand in front of your face. 440 00:23:38.279 --> 00:23:41.000 Bubba desert willow is different than that, and it really 441 00:23:41.119 --> 00:23:43.480 deserves a place in our landscapes, So especially those of 442 00:23:43.559 --> 00:23:45.279 you who are trying to cut down on water use 443 00:23:45.359 --> 00:23:48.000 that are looking for things that are more drought tolerant. 444 00:23:48.039 --> 00:23:52.160 Once established anyway in shanty forest, just go there FM 445 00:23:52.359 --> 00:23:56.559 twenty seven fifty nine. If you are going from Richmond 446 00:23:56.640 --> 00:24:01.839 Rosenberg area up to Sugarland direction, it's off to the 447 00:24:01.960 --> 00:24:07.720 right on FM, or better yet, go to their awesome website. 448 00:24:07.960 --> 00:24:13.200 It is really helpful. Enchanted forrest Richmond, TX dot com. 449 00:24:13.759 --> 00:24:17.039 We're going to go now up to the northwest Houston 450 00:24:17.119 --> 00:24:21.960 area and with well ed, welcome to garden Line. 451 00:24:23.480 --> 00:24:24.319 Thank you for having me. 452 00:24:26.279 --> 00:24:29.920 My favorite subject has become soil. 453 00:24:31.079 --> 00:24:38.160 And okay, well, I'm still battling it. I went organic 454 00:24:38.279 --> 00:24:42.920 about four years ago on all of my fertilizing. Now 455 00:24:43.079 --> 00:24:46.519 I want to get more into putting stuff into the soul, 456 00:24:46.839 --> 00:24:53.119 more and more that can help amend it and spent 457 00:24:53.960 --> 00:24:59.160 but to get it, I'm using Microlife for almost everything. 458 00:25:00.240 --> 00:25:03.960 I'm using as a mite at times, I'm. 459 00:25:03.920 --> 00:25:09.440 Using mister Ferguson's remineralizer a lot, and his molt is 460 00:25:09.519 --> 00:25:12.759 a lot. Now I want to put some stuff in 461 00:25:12.960 --> 00:25:15.119 that's liquid now, and then I want to put. 462 00:25:15.039 --> 00:25:18.319 Stuff down that's granular. I just want to pump that song, 463 00:25:18.839 --> 00:25:21.000 and I don't mind spending the money to do it. 464 00:25:21.559 --> 00:25:24.039 Give me some one two, three, four by six things 465 00:25:24.119 --> 00:25:27.200 to do and regularly, oh. 466 00:25:26.839 --> 00:25:32.920 Boy, I can do Okay, well, Uh, First of all, 467 00:25:32.960 --> 00:25:36.039 you're on a good track with great products. Congratulations on that. 468 00:25:36.559 --> 00:25:36.680 Uh. 469 00:25:37.039 --> 00:25:39.720 Or is your sore clay soil? Or is it more 470 00:25:39.759 --> 00:25:41.240 of a sand or a loan? Do you know? 471 00:25:42.359 --> 00:25:43.920 No, No, it's a lot of clay. 472 00:25:44.279 --> 00:25:47.480 When you dig down more than the depth. 473 00:25:47.240 --> 00:25:49.599 Of a shovel blade, you know what? 474 00:25:49.680 --> 00:25:50.680 You hit me down there? 475 00:25:51.599 --> 00:25:54.039 And now I have gotten the most of the whey. 476 00:25:54.079 --> 00:25:57.039 I'm interested a little more. 477 00:25:57.279 --> 00:26:00.519 Broken up over the last five or two in years, 478 00:26:01.200 --> 00:26:03.680 but I know I need to just keep going down 479 00:26:04.160 --> 00:26:05.920 back and forth doing something. 480 00:26:06.680 --> 00:26:09.599 Yeah, all right, ed, well, for the sake of time, 481 00:26:09.640 --> 00:26:12.240 I'm gonna Your question is about one thousand and one 482 00:26:12.880 --> 00:26:16.720 good questions all packed into one. So let me give 483 00:26:16.759 --> 00:26:22.480 you some quick highlights. When you improve on a clay, 484 00:26:22.599 --> 00:26:24.519 you do it with organic matter, and you do it 485 00:26:24.599 --> 00:26:27.279 with expanded shale. I didn't hear you mentioned shale. But 486 00:26:28.000 --> 00:26:31.680 as you mix several inches of expanded shale down into 487 00:26:31.799 --> 00:26:35.119 a clay, it loosens it up significantly. There's been a 488 00:26:35.160 --> 00:26:38.079 lot of research on that that has shown the benefits 489 00:26:38.240 --> 00:26:42.200 to a clay. Organic matter is always wonderful. Organic matter 490 00:26:42.240 --> 00:26:45.519 is what nature does to soil, and so it works. 491 00:26:46.039 --> 00:26:48.960 But organic matter decomposes, and so if you're going to 492 00:26:49.000 --> 00:26:51.759 put in something like let's say a roast bush, well 493 00:26:51.839 --> 00:26:54.319 that's going to be there for years, decades maybe, and 494 00:26:54.759 --> 00:26:58.319 so you can't just amend the soil once with organic matter. 495 00:26:59.200 --> 00:27:02.000 Having the expanded shale in there. Making sure you have 496 00:27:02.079 --> 00:27:06.559 good drainage is all important. If you're using the azamite 497 00:27:06.759 --> 00:27:11.160 and then you mentioned mister Ferguson's mineralizer, those are similar products. 498 00:27:11.759 --> 00:27:15.200 So what I would recommend you do is occasionally test 499 00:27:15.279 --> 00:27:18.720 your soil. You can go to a website that's soil 500 00:27:18.960 --> 00:27:22.279 Testing is the name of the website, Soil Testing, and 501 00:27:22.400 --> 00:27:26.039 then it's dot ta MU, which is Texas and M 502 00:27:26.119 --> 00:27:31.200 University dot edu Soil Testing dot TAMU, dot edu. Find 503 00:27:31.240 --> 00:27:35.240 the urban soil test form, fill it out, follow the destructions, 504 00:27:35.440 --> 00:27:37.480 and then let them tell you what's in your soil. 505 00:27:37.960 --> 00:27:40.640 They may tell you your potassium is high, they may 506 00:27:40.720 --> 00:27:42.920 tell you it's low, they may tell you it's just right. 507 00:27:43.400 --> 00:27:46.119 But when you get that result, then you'll know exactly 508 00:27:46.920 --> 00:27:49.799 going forward how to fertilize. If we just use the 509 00:27:49.880 --> 00:27:52.559 same thing over and over and over again without ever testing, 510 00:27:53.000 --> 00:27:55.319 we can be gradually getting out of balance. And so 511 00:27:55.440 --> 00:27:57.359 we want to avoid that, and I think you're at 512 00:27:57.359 --> 00:28:00.240 a point now where some soil testing would be in order. Okay, 513 00:28:00.839 --> 00:28:05.440 I agree, I agree, Okay, all right, Hey, call me 514 00:28:05.519 --> 00:28:08.880 back sometime we'll continue this discussion. So sounds like you 515 00:28:08.960 --> 00:28:10.839 got a lot more good questions. But I'd love to 516 00:28:10.920 --> 00:28:11.319 visit with you. 517 00:28:11.480 --> 00:28:14.519 You you're very You're very smart. 518 00:28:14.640 --> 00:28:15.599 You know I'm gonna do it. 519 00:28:17.119 --> 00:28:20.000 Thank you, all right, thank you, sir. Appreciate Yes, sir, 520 00:28:20.119 --> 00:28:23.200 appreciate that. Thanks a lot. Let's go now to Pat 521 00:28:23.680 --> 00:28:26.480 in the barker Cypress area. Hey, Pat, welcome to garden Line. 522 00:28:27.319 --> 00:28:31.079 Good morning, Skip, thanks for taking my call. I've got 523 00:28:31.240 --> 00:28:31.640 a weed. 524 00:28:32.480 --> 00:28:35.000 It has little bitty of white flowers on it in 525 00:28:35.119 --> 00:28:37.839 my Saint Augustine, and you can grab clumps of it 526 00:28:37.960 --> 00:28:40.599 and just pull it up. Is I put a pre 527 00:28:40.720 --> 00:28:45.160 emergence way back when it was cold before it got hot, 528 00:28:45.720 --> 00:28:48.119 but it didn't seem to affect it. 529 00:28:48.720 --> 00:28:56.000 Uh, I've had it. Yeah. Do you know if picture 530 00:28:56.039 --> 00:28:57.880 of the weed again in your mind's eye, does it 531 00:28:58.000 --> 00:29:00.799 have four padals that are skinned and white so it 532 00:29:00.839 --> 00:29:02.799 looks like a little white X or a little white 533 00:29:02.839 --> 00:29:09.279 cross on the flowers. No, it has on the runners. 534 00:29:09.880 --> 00:29:12.279 It only on top of the soil. I noticed it. 535 00:29:12.359 --> 00:29:14.319 It will every once in a while. You got to 536 00:29:14.359 --> 00:29:15.759 pull it real hard to get it out of the ground. 537 00:29:15.880 --> 00:29:19.200 But it also has these little beady things along the runners, 538 00:29:19.839 --> 00:29:20.279 just a little. 539 00:29:21.480 --> 00:29:21.839 I don't know. 540 00:29:21.920 --> 00:29:23.240 They're green, some of them are white. 541 00:29:24.960 --> 00:29:28.519 Yeah, oh boy, Well, I think it's Virginia button weed. 542 00:29:28.599 --> 00:29:32.000 But some things you're saying or contrary to that. The 543 00:29:32.119 --> 00:29:33.880 best answer I can give you is for you to 544 00:29:33.960 --> 00:29:35.559 take a picture of it and email it to me 545 00:29:35.880 --> 00:29:37.839 and let me make sure I give you the right answer. 546 00:29:38.039 --> 00:29:40.160 I mean, I can shoot from the hip, but we 547 00:29:40.319 --> 00:29:42.200 may be wasting your time and money, and I don't 548 00:29:42.200 --> 00:29:44.000 want to do that. I think you're talking about Virginia 549 00:29:44.039 --> 00:29:48.000 button weed. But Virginia button weed has small, white, cross 550 00:29:48.039 --> 00:29:51.319 shaped flowers. They're probably across the whole flower, maybe about 551 00:29:51.319 --> 00:29:54.279 a third of an inch or so. But I'm going 552 00:29:54.359 --> 00:29:56.000 to put you on hold, and if you'd like to 553 00:29:56.079 --> 00:29:59.359 pursue that, just my producer will pick it up and 554 00:29:59.400 --> 00:30:01.640 he'll tell you to email me that photo and then 555 00:30:01.720 --> 00:30:03.920 let's get get you a good I don't want to 556 00:30:03.960 --> 00:30:06.480 pursue that. I don't want to pursue Okay. 557 00:30:07.759 --> 00:30:11.240 Also, I have Dallas grass and I read that stuff 558 00:30:11.920 --> 00:30:12.960 is very hard to get rid of. 559 00:30:13.759 --> 00:30:15.839 You almost have to dig it up. Is that? Do 560 00:30:15.880 --> 00:30:20.240 you know anything that pretty much, well, pretty much digging 561 00:30:20.279 --> 00:30:22.519 it up is going to be what you end up doing. 562 00:30:23.359 --> 00:30:27.400 It is a very very difficult, very difficult grass to 563 00:30:27.519 --> 00:30:31.079 control from a homeowner standpoint, just due to the the 564 00:30:32.319 --> 00:30:36.960 access that you have to, not as many products as 565 00:30:37.200 --> 00:30:39.960 as someone else, you know, as a commercial person I 566 00:30:40.039 --> 00:30:43.759 would have access to. But digging is a very dependable 567 00:30:43.799 --> 00:30:45.640 way if you're going to do I tell you what, 568 00:30:45.759 --> 00:30:47.160 let me do this. I'm about to have to go 569 00:30:47.240 --> 00:30:49.640 to a break here. I'll come back from break and 570 00:30:49.680 --> 00:30:52.440 I'll talk about Dallas grass just a little bit, okay, 571 00:30:53.039 --> 00:30:55.720 and then we'll do that. And for the Virginia, for 572 00:30:55.880 --> 00:30:58.279 what I think you have in the Virginia button weed, 573 00:30:58.359 --> 00:31:03.119 there's a productal celsius, like the temperature celsius and follow 574 00:31:03.200 --> 00:31:04.960 the label and see how that works. It's going to 575 00:31:05.000 --> 00:31:08.000 take more than one application to kill it. That's just 576 00:31:08.079 --> 00:31:10.359 the way. Hey, thank you, thank you for the call. 577 00:31:10.799 --> 00:31:13.160 I appreciate I appreciate that very much. I'm sorry, I 578 00:31:13.200 --> 00:31:14.799 got I got to run here. I'll be right back. 579 00:31:14.839 --> 00:31:21.279 Folks already, look back a little Roger Miller this morning 580 00:31:21.359 --> 00:31:24.920 on Garden Line. Hey, I was just talking with a 581 00:31:25.079 --> 00:31:29.279 pat about the Dallas grass and we just ran flat, 582 00:31:29.400 --> 00:31:31.559 ran out of time, but I didn't want to make 583 00:31:31.559 --> 00:31:34.680 a couple of comments about it. Dallas grass is one 584 00:31:34.720 --> 00:31:38.599 of the most difficult grasses to control for a homeowner, 585 00:31:38.680 --> 00:31:42.119 a resident, a non commercial applicator. You just don't have 586 00:31:42.240 --> 00:31:45.680 access to some of the things that commercial folks do. 587 00:31:45.839 --> 00:31:48.519 It's hard for commerce for commercial folks to control too, 588 00:31:48.599 --> 00:31:51.400 by the way, But what I would recommend for it, 589 00:31:51.920 --> 00:31:55.759 Number one, hand digging. I know you don't want to 590 00:31:55.799 --> 00:31:58.359 hear that, but you know, if your whole yard's Dallas grass, 591 00:31:58.440 --> 00:32:00.839 I don't know, maybe just kill everything and replant. That 592 00:32:00.880 --> 00:32:03.519 would be one thing. It's too much to handig. But 593 00:32:03.920 --> 00:32:05.960 if you have some just here and there, just stay 594 00:32:06.039 --> 00:32:08.880 with it. Hand dig never let it produce seeds and 595 00:32:10.319 --> 00:32:14.559 increase its spread that way. But getting out there wet 596 00:32:14.599 --> 00:32:16.640 the soil really well, you know, an inch of water 597 00:32:16.759 --> 00:32:19.079 or following a good rainstorm the next day or so, 598 00:32:20.240 --> 00:32:22.200 you can easily get it up. Get you one of 599 00:32:22.319 --> 00:32:26.160 the little prong weaters that goes in the ground, you 600 00:32:26.160 --> 00:32:27.640 can kind of lift it up a little bit. I 601 00:32:27.799 --> 00:32:29.640 like to use a soil knife for that. By the way, 602 00:32:30.079 --> 00:32:32.799 love my soil knife, but just do it a little 603 00:32:32.839 --> 00:32:34.680 at a time here and there. I have controlled a 604 00:32:34.799 --> 00:32:36.960 lot of weeds that way, and I'm not trying to 605 00:32:37.079 --> 00:32:39.680 do the whole yard on one day. But get out 606 00:32:39.759 --> 00:32:42.079 early morning when it's cool, work for a little while, 607 00:32:42.480 --> 00:32:45.920 come back to it later. That's legit now. Other than that, 608 00:32:46.160 --> 00:32:50.000 there's two options that are not as thorough as that, 609 00:32:50.319 --> 00:32:53.880 but they are options. One is to use a product 610 00:32:54.359 --> 00:32:57.839 to just kill it and kill everything. It'll kill your 611 00:32:57.880 --> 00:33:02.319 long grass, it'll kill the Dallas grass. So you spot 612 00:33:02.440 --> 00:33:04.640 treat as much as you can get it on the 613 00:33:04.720 --> 00:33:07.920 Dallas grass without getting it on your turf grass. And 614 00:33:08.039 --> 00:33:10.200 those are those general products. You know, glyf essay, it 615 00:33:10.240 --> 00:33:12.400 has been once, been around for a long time. But 616 00:33:12.519 --> 00:33:15.519 when you treat a weed with that, it's gonna kill 617 00:33:15.559 --> 00:33:17.400 it and it's gonna get it out of there. But 618 00:33:17.480 --> 00:33:19.359 you're gonna have all these dead spots in your yard 619 00:33:19.599 --> 00:33:21.400 and then the grass can grow back in or you 620 00:33:21.440 --> 00:33:23.680 can plug some in. How you go about it, all right. 621 00:33:23.920 --> 00:33:27.960 The last option is to use something called Celsius, which 622 00:33:28.000 --> 00:33:32.200 I talked about before. Celsius has three three different ingredients 623 00:33:32.240 --> 00:33:34.599 in it. One of them, only one of them is 624 00:33:35.599 --> 00:33:40.119 pretty effective against Dallas grass. You can use celsius early 625 00:33:40.160 --> 00:33:42.599 in the mornings, even in the month of June where 626 00:33:42.599 --> 00:33:45.039 it's really hot out there. But I'd get it done 627 00:33:45.319 --> 00:33:47.200 and then I'd be ready to come back at it 628 00:33:47.319 --> 00:33:50.079 and do it again in the fall. It doesn't if 629 00:33:50.119 --> 00:33:53.279 you read the labels, it says it suppresses it. Okay, 630 00:33:53.759 --> 00:33:56.960 so if you suppress and suppress and suppress, you can 631 00:33:57.039 --> 00:34:00.720 kill something pretty much. But that would be the other one. 632 00:34:00.960 --> 00:34:03.960 Not a great it's not a miracle cure. It's not 633 00:34:04.640 --> 00:34:07.559 you know, you're I'm just telling you. It's a This 634 00:34:07.759 --> 00:34:09.360 is why I said it's a tough week. There's just 635 00:34:09.440 --> 00:34:11.760 not og. Spray this and it'll kill everything, kill it 636 00:34:11.840 --> 00:34:14.480 and you'll be good. So anyway, those are your options 637 00:34:14.960 --> 00:34:20.159 for Dallas grass unless you have a major infestation and 638 00:34:20.440 --> 00:34:22.840 a very large lawn. I you know, I wouldn't do 639 00:34:22.920 --> 00:34:25.199 the hand digging, but you even if you hire somebody 640 00:34:25.239 --> 00:34:26.440 to do it, if as long as they get all 641 00:34:26.480 --> 00:34:29.400 the pieces and parts out of the ground, that hand 642 00:34:29.440 --> 00:34:32.639 digging is is definitely a valid option. And then create 643 00:34:32.679 --> 00:34:35.239 a dense, healthy lawn so sunlight can't hit the soil 644 00:34:35.519 --> 00:34:39.119 and you have better success. You know, I talk about 645 00:34:39.159 --> 00:34:42.239 turf all the time. I talk about soil all the time. 646 00:34:42.320 --> 00:34:45.519 And if you want to have success with any kind 647 00:34:45.559 --> 00:34:49.199 of plant, it's the soils where you start. And Cienamultch 648 00:34:49.280 --> 00:34:51.880 is where you go. Cina Maltch is south of Houston. 649 00:34:52.039 --> 00:34:54.000 You're Highway six and two eighty eight. Go to the 650 00:34:54.079 --> 00:34:59.199 website Sienna Mulch dot com cienamultch dot com. When you 651 00:34:59.280 --> 00:35:01.639 go there, you're going to find by the bag, you're 652 00:35:01.639 --> 00:35:04.360 going to find by the bulk all kinds of products, 653 00:35:04.400 --> 00:35:08.280 whether it's various types of composts, bed mixes and multches 654 00:35:08.320 --> 00:35:10.239 that go on top of the ground, as well as 655 00:35:10.320 --> 00:35:13.079 other things you need around the landscape like sand and gravel, 656 00:35:14.159 --> 00:35:17.280 soil for filling in, soil blends for filling in to 657 00:35:17.440 --> 00:35:20.920 the to the level out some areas in your lawn. 658 00:35:21.360 --> 00:35:24.679 Cienamultz dot COM's where you go. You also find the 659 00:35:24.840 --> 00:35:27.480 nutrients that go in the ground to build the brown 660 00:35:27.559 --> 00:35:30.199 stuff into a bank account that plants can thrive in. 661 00:35:30.760 --> 00:35:33.719 That would include stuff from microlife and nitrofoss and nail, 662 00:35:33.800 --> 00:35:37.599 some plant food and medina and certainly asamite as well. 663 00:35:37.760 --> 00:35:44.320 All there at Ciena Maltz Sienna multch dot com. So 664 00:35:44.599 --> 00:35:46.800 you're listening to garden Line a phone number seven one 665 00:35:46.880 --> 00:35:50.079 three two one two k t r H seven one 666 00:35:50.159 --> 00:35:54.280 three two one two k t r H. I was 667 00:35:55.280 --> 00:35:57.679 being kind of in not talking on the phone, but 668 00:35:58.119 --> 00:36:01.199 doing some text emailing with the folks at Pierscape, so 669 00:36:01.360 --> 00:36:02.840 that I'm going to go ahead and look at one 670 00:36:02.880 --> 00:36:05.280 of their sites. I'll be posting some stuff online here 671 00:36:05.639 --> 00:36:08.119 for too long, just to show you kind of work 672 00:36:08.119 --> 00:36:10.760 they do. I would like to go visit our clients 673 00:36:10.800 --> 00:36:13.440 here on Guardenline, those who sponsor our show, those who 674 00:36:13.599 --> 00:36:17.199 are our supporters, and see the work that they do. 675 00:36:17.840 --> 00:36:19.719 You know, I'd sit here and tell you that Piercescapes 676 00:36:19.840 --> 00:36:23.159 is unbelievable, and you can see for yourself by going 677 00:36:23.199 --> 00:36:25.599 to pierscapes dot com. See the kind of work they do. 678 00:36:26.119 --> 00:36:29.519 I mean, we're talking about rock, walkways and walls a stone, 679 00:36:30.079 --> 00:36:33.119 We're talking about landscape irrigation. We're talking about drainage of 680 00:36:33.159 --> 00:36:38.320 areas that don't drain, landscape lighting, issues with your irrigation system, 681 00:36:38.480 --> 00:36:41.239 or maybe you just need quarterly service. You want once 682 00:36:41.280 --> 00:36:43.840 a quarter that's every three months for them to come 683 00:36:43.880 --> 00:36:46.559 out go to your beds, flower beds and stuff, get 684 00:36:46.599 --> 00:36:48.760 them all weed free, make sure they got some good 685 00:36:48.840 --> 00:36:51.480 mulch in them, make sure the irrigation is working, do 686 00:36:51.599 --> 00:36:54.920 any trimming that needs to be done, and then you 687 00:36:55.599 --> 00:36:58.119 set it up accordingly with them. But they can replace 688 00:36:58.639 --> 00:37:01.000 the plants that you have with new plants. For example, 689 00:37:01.039 --> 00:37:03.840 those pansies from winter aren't looking very good now are they. 690 00:37:03.880 --> 00:37:06.199 In fact, they're gone, but they'll come in and do 691 00:37:06.280 --> 00:37:08.960 a color change in the bed for you. All from 692 00:37:09.119 --> 00:37:12.880 Pierce Scapes piercescapes dot com two eight one three seven 693 00:37:13.039 --> 00:37:16.760 h five zero six zero. So anyway, I'm gonna head 694 00:37:16.800 --> 00:37:18.199 out there, take a look at some of the work 695 00:37:18.239 --> 00:37:20.199 that they do, get some pictures. I'll post some stuff 696 00:37:20.840 --> 00:37:26.239 onto social media. As a result of that, I was 697 00:37:27.360 --> 00:37:30.039 visiting with some folks that were went to jorg sitting 698 00:37:30.119 --> 00:37:33.880 gardens recently. Boy, they just loved loved it. They really 699 00:37:34.039 --> 00:37:38.039 enjoyed good Jorges down in the Alvin Santa Fe area. 700 00:37:38.239 --> 00:37:41.719 It's an Alvin address. It's on Elizabeth Street and Alvin. 701 00:37:42.239 --> 00:37:44.239 But if you're in Alvin, you're heading down Highway six 702 00:37:44.320 --> 00:37:46.400 towards Santa Fe. It's off to the right back in 703 00:37:47.360 --> 00:37:50.960 that direction, and all of you folks in Alvin, Santa Fe, 704 00:37:51.599 --> 00:37:55.639 certainly Hillcrest, Algoo, Alta, Lomo Arcadia, that whole region down there. 705 00:37:55.679 --> 00:37:59.039 This is your backyard garden center. Horay carries the three 706 00:37:59.159 --> 00:38:02.800 sixty trees abilizer. Jorge always has a good selection of 707 00:38:02.920 --> 00:38:07.159 fruit trees, both things like blueberries et ceterus, but also 708 00:38:07.360 --> 00:38:10.559 peaches and plums and you name it. Got some good 709 00:38:10.599 --> 00:38:13.559 avocados right now too. And then there's all the color 710 00:38:13.599 --> 00:38:17.639 plants from roses to annuals and perennials and whatever you 711 00:38:17.760 --> 00:38:22.599 need to have success. Jorges Hidden Gardens that would be 712 00:38:23.039 --> 00:38:27.480 on Elizabeth Street, alven Dress seven to one three six 713 00:38:28.320 --> 00:38:33.000 three two fifty two ninety seven one three six three 714 00:38:33.159 --> 00:38:37.760 two five two nine zero. Well, I believe I've run 715 00:38:37.800 --> 00:38:41.000 out of time on this segment. We're going to be 716 00:38:41.440 --> 00:38:44.320 take a little break. You and I can each get 717 00:38:44.400 --> 00:38:46.360 us a cup of coffee. Be ready to go again 718 00:38:46.440 --> 00:38:49.199 here in just a moment. And when we come back, 719 00:38:49.599 --> 00:38:51.440 don't let me forget. I want to talk to you 720 00:38:51.519 --> 00:38:56.000 about the gardening tools that each of us has come 721 00:38:56.079 --> 00:38:58.519 equipped with at the end of our arms. I know 722 00:38:58.679 --> 00:39:01.320 that's curious, isn't it. It's called a teaser. By the way, 723 00:39:02.760 --> 00:39:05.679 don't go away. We'll be back to do that. Hey, 724 00:39:05.800 --> 00:39:09.079 if you got some time, go to gardening with Skip 725 00:39:09.400 --> 00:39:12.079 dot com and just bookmarket. You don't have time to 726 00:39:12.119 --> 00:39:15.280 look at everything. They're just book market and come back 727 00:39:15.360 --> 00:39:17.639 to it. Bus my web guy the other day and 728 00:39:17.719 --> 00:39:20.480 we are about to post a bunch more stuff on there, 729 00:39:20.840 --> 00:39:22.599 getting it all set up and ready to go with 730 00:39:22.719 --> 00:39:25.559 a new transition coming as well. But anyway, check it 731 00:39:25.599 --> 00:39:35.039 out bookmarket well the right guy. Hey, welcome to garden 732 00:39:35.119 --> 00:39:38.559 Line folks. Glad to have you back. What do you 733 00:39:38.639 --> 00:39:41.800 want to talk about? Give me call seven one three 734 00:39:41.920 --> 00:39:45.719 two one two k t r H seven one three 735 00:39:45.840 --> 00:39:48.280 two one two k t r H. I was in 736 00:39:48.360 --> 00:39:50.199 an ACE Hardware store the other day, and I try 737 00:39:50.280 --> 00:39:52.800 to get around and see different Ace Hardware stores because 738 00:39:53.159 --> 00:39:57.840 each one is independently owned. So while it is an 739 00:39:57.960 --> 00:40:00.599 a store and therefore has all the things you would 740 00:40:00.599 --> 00:40:03.480 expect from an ACE store, all kinds of quality products 741 00:40:03.519 --> 00:40:06.639 and whatnot, each one has its own personalities. You know, 742 00:40:06.719 --> 00:40:09.519 an owner can choose to open up a fudge bar 743 00:40:09.679 --> 00:40:12.039 if they want in one of the stores, or they 744 00:40:12.079 --> 00:40:14.280 can choose to do something else like that, and it's 745 00:40:14.360 --> 00:40:17.239 always fun to go see what they have and the 746 00:40:17.360 --> 00:40:20.760 cool products that they have and services. The ACE Hardware 747 00:40:20.960 --> 00:40:22.960 is all over the place. You know, you can go 748 00:40:23.039 --> 00:40:26.880 to ACE Hardware Texas dot com. Acehardware Texas dot com 749 00:40:27.360 --> 00:40:29.360 and you can find the store near you. Don't forget 750 00:40:29.400 --> 00:40:32.440 the Texas ACE Hardware Texas dot com. That's my ACE 751 00:40:32.480 --> 00:40:36.199 Hardware group here in the greater Houston area. So if 752 00:40:36.239 --> 00:40:38.719 you're listening all the way down from Rockport to I 753 00:40:38.719 --> 00:40:42.760 don't know, Orange, Texas, you have ACE Hardware stores in 754 00:40:42.840 --> 00:40:45.239 your area that are part of our group. Stores like 755 00:40:45.360 --> 00:40:49.159 Child's Building Supply in Orange or Memorial Hardware a Memorial 756 00:40:49.239 --> 00:40:53.280 Drive in Houston, Port Lavaca on Calhoun Plaza in Port Lavaca, 757 00:40:54.000 --> 00:40:56.480 Lake Conroe ACE on Highway one oh five just outside 758 00:40:56.519 --> 00:40:59.880 Montgomery there. League City ACE is down in League City 759 00:41:00.079 --> 00:41:03.559 on the West League City Parkway. All Star is in 760 00:41:03.719 --> 00:41:06.719 Magnolia on FM fourteen eighty eight and by there, in fact, 761 00:41:06.800 --> 00:41:08.800 it did an appearance there a while back. And Bay 762 00:41:08.840 --> 00:41:11.360 Cliff Face on Grand Avenue and Bake Cliff. Those are 763 00:41:11.400 --> 00:41:13.840 all examples of some of the ACE Hardware stores. Now, 764 00:41:13.960 --> 00:41:16.679 when you go into an ACE Hardware store, you're going 765 00:41:16.719 --> 00:41:20.280 to find things that are quality and things that are 766 00:41:20.360 --> 00:41:24.760 pertinent to the kinds of gardening and enjoying the indoors 767 00:41:24.800 --> 00:41:27.119 and outdoors. So for example, maybe you need maybe you 768 00:41:27.199 --> 00:41:31.920 need your deck kind of rece stained, or you need 769 00:41:31.960 --> 00:41:35.079 a preservation product for your deck. They've got that, of course, 770 00:41:35.079 --> 00:41:36.880 they have paints and all kinds of things like that. 771 00:41:37.320 --> 00:41:39.119 Don't let that go too far, by the way, you 772 00:41:39.239 --> 00:41:42.760 want to catch it and keep good quality of all 773 00:41:42.800 --> 00:41:45.840 your deck materials by you know, taking care of them. 774 00:41:45.880 --> 00:41:49.239 That way. You need propane for barbecuing and other things. 775 00:41:49.280 --> 00:41:52.000 Do you need barbecue equipment? Don't forget to get air 776 00:41:52.079 --> 00:41:54.559 filters when you're in there. Always one changes out about 777 00:41:54.559 --> 00:41:57.559 once a month in order to make sure you are 778 00:41:57.639 --> 00:42:01.320 taking care of that very expensive central heat and air 779 00:42:01.480 --> 00:42:03.840 unit that you have, So make sure and replace those 780 00:42:04.480 --> 00:42:06.679 in there. And then of course for gardening, everything you 781 00:42:06.760 --> 00:42:09.599 can imagine, certainly the fertilizers, the pest control, of the 782 00:42:09.719 --> 00:42:13.280 disease control. Listen, when you go into ACE, you're going 783 00:42:13.320 --> 00:42:15.519 to find everything you need. ACE is the place, that's 784 00:42:15.559 --> 00:42:18.000 what they say, and that is a fact. By the way, 785 00:42:18.039 --> 00:42:20.159 do you know if you know exactly already what you 786 00:42:20.239 --> 00:42:22.679 want to need. Most things you can buy online and 787 00:42:22.719 --> 00:42:25.519 pick them up at your store, your local ACE Hardware store, 788 00:42:25.519 --> 00:42:28.760 which you're going to find at ACE Hardware Texas dot com. 789 00:42:28.840 --> 00:42:33.119 And one last thing, sign up for the ACE Rewards program. 790 00:42:33.960 --> 00:42:35.559 Sign up. You can do it online, you can do 791 00:42:35.639 --> 00:42:37.800 it and when you go into a store. But I 792 00:42:37.920 --> 00:42:40.119 belong to it every time I go into ACE and shop. 793 00:42:40.559 --> 00:42:43.960 You know, with the Rewards program there's discounts and special 794 00:42:44.039 --> 00:42:47.840 offers only for ACE Rewards customers email directly to you. 795 00:42:48.480 --> 00:42:51.480 So make sure and sign up for that. Take advantage 796 00:42:51.519 --> 00:42:56.199 of that great, great idea. All right, if you are 797 00:42:56.599 --> 00:42:59.079 interested in asking your gardening question, you can reach me 798 00:42:59.159 --> 00:43:01.239 at seven to one to three two one two k 799 00:43:01.440 --> 00:43:05.239 t r H seven one three two one two k 800 00:43:05.440 --> 00:43:10.480 t r H. I was talking to somebody about Buchanan's 801 00:43:10.519 --> 00:43:12.440 plants the other day. What was oh they were They 802 00:43:12.480 --> 00:43:15.280 were discussing some of the natives and things that Buchanans 803 00:43:15.320 --> 00:43:18.320 has and uh, Buchanans has a better selection in natives 804 00:43:18.360 --> 00:43:20.800 than anybody in the whole region, the whole region. I 805 00:43:20.840 --> 00:43:23.400 don't care where you're I said, from Orange to Rockport, 806 00:43:23.679 --> 00:43:27.280 I don't care where you're listening from. Buchanus native plants 807 00:43:27.440 --> 00:43:29.360 is going to be a source for those things that 808 00:43:29.480 --> 00:43:32.840 are great plants to have but just not widely available. 809 00:43:32.960 --> 00:43:35.719 Of course, they have the standard stuff. Yes, it's not 810 00:43:36.000 --> 00:43:39.239 just native plants. You're going to find great pollinator plants there. 811 00:43:39.360 --> 00:43:41.480 You're going to find you know, I was talking earlier 812 00:43:41.599 --> 00:43:45.920 about some of the tropicals, the gaudy tropicals with beautiful color. 813 00:43:46.079 --> 00:43:49.519 They have those there. If you're into succulents and indoor 814 00:43:49.599 --> 00:43:52.400 plants and you really really love house plants, you can 815 00:43:52.519 --> 00:43:54.559 have one of the best selections you're gonna find, as 816 00:43:54.599 --> 00:43:57.559 well as one of the biggest urban vegetable selections here 817 00:43:57.599 --> 00:44:01.239 in the city. Uh, it's excellent, excellent, excellent. They know 818 00:44:01.519 --> 00:44:04.039 that it begins in the soil. They know, you know, 819 00:44:04.119 --> 00:44:07.119 I talk about brown stuff before green stuff. Buchanans has 820 00:44:07.159 --> 00:44:08.920 got everything you need. They have a full line of 821 00:44:09.000 --> 00:44:13.199 Microlife's products. They have nitrofoss and Nelson. They have products 822 00:44:13.840 --> 00:44:18.599 from Medina for example. They have soil products from Nature's 823 00:44:18.639 --> 00:44:21.599 Way and Airloom Sauce, and then they have their own 824 00:44:21.639 --> 00:44:23.800 a couple of different lines like their Life below in 825 00:44:23.880 --> 00:44:27.440 the Tropicore that they carry. Beautiful gift shop. I mean, 826 00:44:27.480 --> 00:44:30.480 there's a thousand reasons to go to Buchanans a thousand. 827 00:44:30.880 --> 00:44:34.400 They added one thousand and one earlier this year and 828 00:44:34.559 --> 00:44:37.760 that was the new checkout area. It's a nice covered 829 00:44:37.840 --> 00:44:39.639 roof where you're out of the sun, you're out of 830 00:44:39.719 --> 00:44:42.199 the rain, and then they're not going to lose that 831 00:44:42.320 --> 00:44:44.400 oneto a storm again like they have the other two. 832 00:44:44.840 --> 00:44:46.639 So they are all set up and ready to go. 833 00:44:47.039 --> 00:44:49.480 Go to the website, which is I think one of 834 00:44:49.559 --> 00:44:53.119 the best sources of information on gardening that I've seen, 835 00:44:53.239 --> 00:44:58.599 and that is buchanansplants dot Com. Helpful videos, good information. 836 00:44:58.880 --> 00:45:01.880 They feature plants each week. You want to be part 837 00:45:01.920 --> 00:45:03.679 of that, and you want to sign up for the newsletter. 838 00:45:04.079 --> 00:45:09.119 Buchan's naeded plants on Eleventh Street and the Heights. We're 839 00:45:09.119 --> 00:45:11.039 gonna head out and out to the phones and had 840 00:45:11.079 --> 00:45:13.840 the Spring branch and talk to Herda. Well, hello, herd 841 00:45:13.840 --> 00:45:14.639 it good morning. 842 00:45:15.039 --> 00:45:23.880 Good morning. My questions about day lilies. Uh there's a 843 00:45:24.199 --> 00:45:28.719 cluster of them on both sides of the sidewalk and 844 00:45:29.119 --> 00:45:35.599 uh they bloomed. It's white and just a hue of 845 00:45:35.920 --> 00:45:42.440 a kind of a rose color. But anyway, they I 846 00:45:42.599 --> 00:45:45.840 guess they bloomed about I didn't you know, look at 847 00:45:45.920 --> 00:45:51.480 the time that they were blooming. But uh then uh, 848 00:45:51.719 --> 00:45:55.039 and of course they roll up at night. I didn't 849 00:45:55.119 --> 00:45:57.000 know that, I'm learning. 850 00:45:57.519 --> 00:46:01.639 But you're running around out side at night looking at 851 00:46:01.719 --> 00:46:02.320 day lilies. 852 00:46:03.320 --> 00:46:07.599 Well, no, the next day, I mean, there's just all 853 00:46:08.440 --> 00:46:18.000 they're all dead, shriveled and wrinkled. But anyway, now they 854 00:46:18.199 --> 00:46:22.119 have a little green bulb at the top. Oh, by 855 00:46:22.199 --> 00:46:27.239 the way, the stem is a straw. They don't have 856 00:46:27.400 --> 00:46:33.599 any other form. But anyway, I've never had these. Well, 857 00:46:34.480 --> 00:46:39.440 but anyway, uh is that bulb wh a new bloom coming? 858 00:46:39.840 --> 00:46:43.360 Or I'd have to see it to be sure. You 859 00:46:43.440 --> 00:46:45.599 may have a seed, you may have even a seed 860 00:46:45.719 --> 00:46:47.960 pod going on up there, but it could be. Give 861 00:46:48.000 --> 00:46:50.079 a little time, just wait and watch and see there's 862 00:46:50.119 --> 00:46:54.119 a wonderful plant. Day lilies. They they you know they 863 00:46:54.280 --> 00:46:57.239 they have They're called day lily for a reason. As 864 00:46:57.320 --> 00:47:01.280 you know now, it's a good dependable toup plants. Some 865 00:47:01.360 --> 00:47:04.159 of them repeat bloom better than others. But as you 866 00:47:04.440 --> 00:47:07.280 as you get along into it, you can find some 867 00:47:07.440 --> 00:47:11.039 gorgeous colors and very dependable ones too. I'm sorry to 868 00:47:11.119 --> 00:47:13.320 have to run, but I got like three seconds before 869 00:47:13.320 --> 00:47:15.480 i'ma have to go to a break. I appreciate you 870 00:47:15.599 --> 00:47:18.960 carfian to hang around weeking. Okay, you take care too, 871 00:47:19.079 --> 00:47:22.679 Thank you so much for calling folks. I'll be right back. Hey, 872 00:47:22.840 --> 00:47:31.599 welcome backs down love crocodile rot. All right, you're listening 873 00:47:31.599 --> 00:47:33.360 to the guard Line. We're here to help you have 874 00:47:33.679 --> 00:47:36.519 success in your gardens. You just give me a call 875 00:47:36.599 --> 00:47:38.840 seven one three two one two kt r H. We'll 876 00:47:38.840 --> 00:47:40.559 talk about the things that are of interest to you. 877 00:47:41.320 --> 00:47:43.599 All right. I believe I'm going back out here and 878 00:47:44.480 --> 00:47:47.000 visit again with Herda. Hey, herd, are you still there? 879 00:47:48.079 --> 00:47:52.880 Yes? I called back. My son Scott gave me a 880 00:47:54.119 --> 00:48:01.639 three gallon pot stage. Where is the best price to print? 881 00:48:01.800 --> 00:48:04.440 How much sun does it need? I think they take 882 00:48:04.559 --> 00:48:05.800 full sun, don't they? 883 00:48:07.599 --> 00:48:07.840 They do? 884 00:48:08.039 --> 00:48:10.559 Now, this is the herb sage that you're talking about, 885 00:48:10.639 --> 00:48:13.760 not the shrub sage, the bush. 886 00:48:15.559 --> 00:48:16.760 No, this is the bush. 887 00:48:18.599 --> 00:48:22.000 Oh okay, okay, yeah, they need full sun sage bushes. 888 00:48:22.440 --> 00:48:24.760 Does yours have sort of silvery leaves or are they 889 00:48:24.840 --> 00:48:25.480 mostly green? 890 00:48:27.239 --> 00:48:30.599 They're a silvery silver green. 891 00:48:33.079 --> 00:48:36.800 Okay, yeah, lots of lots of sun as much as 892 00:48:36.880 --> 00:48:39.719 you can give them, and make sure you get them. 893 00:48:40.079 --> 00:48:43.880 We say high and dry, meaning on a raised mound. 894 00:48:44.000 --> 00:48:47.280 So when it rains too much. Their roots aren't soggy wet, 895 00:48:47.320 --> 00:48:50.440 because they'd rather be in Uvality, Texas than Houston, Texas. 896 00:48:51.119 --> 00:48:53.880 So we've got to we've got to make sure that 897 00:48:54.360 --> 00:48:55.920 when you know, we just put them on a hy 898 00:48:56.000 --> 00:48:57.719 dry mound and they'll they'll be fine. 899 00:48:57.840 --> 00:48:59.559 They'll do well there, all right. 900 00:48:59.679 --> 00:49:02.760 Yeah. I grew up in Santonio and they did very 901 00:49:02.840 --> 00:49:06.840 well in Santonio. But it's much higher and drier. 902 00:49:09.000 --> 00:49:09.840 It is, it is. 903 00:49:10.400 --> 00:49:12.760 But even there, you know, you've got to give them 904 00:49:12.800 --> 00:49:16.199 good drainage. So yeah, it's a good plant, good plan. 905 00:49:16.320 --> 00:49:17.119 All right. Thank you. 906 00:49:17.800 --> 00:49:20.360 You know who gene Autry? Do you know who gene 907 00:49:20.400 --> 00:49:24.440 Autry is? Deep in the heart of Texas, Deep in 908 00:49:24.519 --> 00:49:27.159 the heart of Texas. A sage in blooms smells like 909 00:49:27.280 --> 00:49:31.320 perfume deep in the Absolutely it's a Texas plant for sure. 910 00:49:32.000 --> 00:49:32.320 All right. 911 00:49:32.760 --> 00:49:38.599 Thanks, you have a good rest of you. Yes, ma'am, 912 00:49:38.719 --> 00:49:41.519 thank you for calling. Appreciate that. If you're up in 913 00:49:41.639 --> 00:49:45.599 the Magnolia direction from Tombole Spring Creek, feed your hometown, 914 00:49:45.639 --> 00:49:49.559 feed storage right their garden Parkway or Garden Parkway, you 915 00:49:49.599 --> 00:49:52.440 can tell him a gardener Grand Parkway and Highway to 916 00:49:52.559 --> 00:49:56.079 forty nine Spring Creek Feed is the place where you 917 00:49:56.159 --> 00:49:59.519 get the foundation stuff for your garden. I'm talking about 918 00:49:59.519 --> 00:50:03.519 fertilize like turf Star and microlife and nitrofoss if you've 919 00:50:03.559 --> 00:50:05.920 got pests and weeds and diseases to deal with, they 920 00:50:06.039 --> 00:50:09.960 carry their garden center stocked with a really good supply 921 00:50:10.079 --> 00:50:11.960 of all of those things. Now you're going to also 922 00:50:12.119 --> 00:50:15.920 find that any kind of lawn and garden and pond supplies. 923 00:50:16.000 --> 00:50:17.920 Maybe got a little pond, They're going to have all 924 00:50:17.960 --> 00:50:20.559 of that there. When you walk in, you're greeted like 925 00:50:20.679 --> 00:50:23.360 you should be greeted, and a good quality business, friendly, 926 00:50:23.480 --> 00:50:26.880 courteous staff. And if you need pet food, they have 927 00:50:27.079 --> 00:50:29.920 very high end lines of pet food as well there 928 00:50:29.960 --> 00:50:34.119 at Spring Creek Feed. Now, if you are a frequent buyer, 929 00:50:34.199 --> 00:50:36.840 they have a frequent buyer program on select brands of 930 00:50:36.880 --> 00:50:39.800 pet food, so that helps save a bit of money 931 00:50:39.880 --> 00:50:43.320 there on some of those brands. Let them know that 932 00:50:43.719 --> 00:50:45.320 you kind of are interested in that, and they'll tell 933 00:50:45.320 --> 00:50:48.199 you all about it. If you're a military or senior citizen, 934 00:50:48.440 --> 00:50:51.280 there are discounts available to you. They do special orders 935 00:50:51.400 --> 00:50:54.480 and they also have a delivery service all their Spring 936 00:50:54.559 --> 00:50:58.920 Creek Feed in Magnolia on FM twenty nine seventy eight, 937 00:50:59.000 --> 00:51:02.239 just minutes away from Parkway and Highway two forty nine. 938 00:51:03.719 --> 00:51:06.079 Let's head out to Cyprus now and we're going to 939 00:51:06.159 --> 00:51:09.039 visit with Susan this morning. Hello Susan, Welcome to garden line. 940 00:51:09.880 --> 00:51:10.400 Thanks Skip. 941 00:51:10.440 --> 00:51:10.800 How are you. 942 00:51:13.039 --> 00:51:13.800 Doing well? Thanks? 943 00:51:14.679 --> 00:51:19.480 Get you know the temperatures, yes, temperatures are in the nineties. 944 00:51:19.519 --> 00:51:23.960 Now is it too hot to spray a weed killer? 945 00:51:24.079 --> 00:51:24.199 Now? 946 00:51:24.239 --> 00:51:26.239 Will that hurt the grass with the high temperatures? 947 00:51:27.960 --> 00:51:30.360 So you're you're wanting to apply it in your lawn? 948 00:51:30.559 --> 00:51:32.960 Or are you using something to kill broad leaf weeds? 949 00:51:33.639 --> 00:51:36.920 Or are you using something to prevent weeds from sprouting 950 00:51:37.000 --> 00:51:37.480 from seed? 951 00:51:38.519 --> 00:51:41.360 I've already got the weeds, so I need a post emergent. 952 00:51:42.719 --> 00:51:47.320 Okay for many of the good post emergent weed killers. 953 00:51:47.639 --> 00:51:50.079 Once you get up in the upper eighties, even you 954 00:51:50.199 --> 00:51:53.119 can start to get stress on your Saint Augustine grass. 955 00:51:53.840 --> 00:51:53.960 Uh. 956 00:51:54.239 --> 00:51:54.440 There. 957 00:51:54.760 --> 00:51:59.000 The recommendation is to do your applications early in the 958 00:51:59.079 --> 00:52:02.840 morning orly as you can, so that they dry up 959 00:52:03.159 --> 00:52:07.559 before the sun is baking down and heating things up 960 00:52:07.599 --> 00:52:12.000 a lot. There is a specific weed killer called Celsius. 961 00:52:12.360 --> 00:52:16.239 Like the temperature Celsius that it can even be in 962 00:52:16.320 --> 00:52:19.360 the low nineties and it's okay, it's not going to 963 00:52:19.440 --> 00:52:22.480 hurt it. But whatever you use, do it first thing 964 00:52:22.519 --> 00:52:25.239 in the morning, just to give you that extra measure 965 00:52:25.360 --> 00:52:25.960 of safety. 966 00:52:27.480 --> 00:52:30.039 Okay, good, and then Celsius is okay to use them. 967 00:52:30.119 --> 00:52:30.880 Permuta grass. 968 00:52:33.440 --> 00:52:37.599 Yes, it is also label for your mutographs. It comes 969 00:52:37.679 --> 00:52:40.719 in little pockets that make one gallon of spray, but 970 00:52:40.840 --> 00:52:43.480 a gallon goes a long way if you're just spots 971 00:52:43.519 --> 00:52:47.320 spraying weeds here and there. You know, generally with weed 972 00:52:47.440 --> 00:52:50.840 killer like that, you don't spray your entire yard, every 973 00:52:50.880 --> 00:52:54.519 square foot of it. So I like the little one 974 00:52:54.599 --> 00:52:56.880 gallon things because you can mix them up, use it up, 975 00:52:56.960 --> 00:52:57.679 and then you're done. 976 00:52:59.400 --> 00:52:59.800 I'll do that. 977 00:53:00.079 --> 00:53:04.480 Thank you, Good luck with it. Thanks Susan. Appreciate your call. 978 00:53:05.880 --> 00:53:09.639 Take care. You are listening to Gardenline. I'm your host, 979 00:53:09.800 --> 00:53:12.400 Skip Richter and the phone number seven one three two 980 00:53:12.480 --> 00:53:16.840 one two ktr eight seven one three two one two ktrights. Hey, 981 00:53:16.920 --> 00:53:21.559 Medina products have so many options that gardeners have gone 982 00:53:21.639 --> 00:53:24.199 to for a long long time. I don't know. Back 983 00:53:24.239 --> 00:53:28.920 in the nineteen fifties, Medinas was going strong, and that's 984 00:53:28.960 --> 00:53:32.119 where you get things like Medina Soil Activator, which stimulates 985 00:53:32.159 --> 00:53:34.960 your biological activity in the soil. It's one of the 986 00:53:35.320 --> 00:53:39.760 just foundational products that Medina has. Then there's Medina Plus. 987 00:53:40.000 --> 00:53:43.960 Now with Medina Plus, you get not only just the 988 00:53:44.039 --> 00:53:48.960 Medina Soil activator, but they have increased some other They've 989 00:53:49.039 --> 00:53:53.400 added other things to the formula to increase the benefits 990 00:53:53.639 --> 00:53:56.360 of it. And so for example, you got micronutrients and 991 00:53:56.400 --> 00:53:59.000 you got seaweed extract in there, so you get all 992 00:53:59.039 --> 00:54:03.079 the natural soil building advantages while those extra ingredients make 993 00:54:03.119 --> 00:54:06.719 it even better for a folier feed for plants. Any 994 00:54:06.760 --> 00:54:10.760 country shrubs anything with leaves, even lawns. Seaweed extracts help 995 00:54:10.800 --> 00:54:14.159 plants achieve good growth. They help the yield on things 996 00:54:14.199 --> 00:54:18.119 that are producing fruit for you by enhancing natural product processes. 997 00:54:18.239 --> 00:54:21.599 So basically we're trying to help our plants against all 998 00:54:21.639 --> 00:54:24.119 the stresses that they're dealing with. Make sure they have 999 00:54:24.199 --> 00:54:27.679 the nutrients that they need. Well, try Medina Plus. It's 1000 00:54:27.679 --> 00:54:30.559 available in a gallon, it's available in a cort. It's 1001 00:54:30.719 --> 00:54:34.199 easy used. You got a plant that's struggling along, give 1002 00:54:34.239 --> 00:54:36.360 it a folier feed and then put some in a 1003 00:54:36.480 --> 00:54:38.760 watering can and just drench it into the soil really 1004 00:54:38.840 --> 00:54:41.880 good and you'll get a double benefit from that makes 1005 00:54:41.880 --> 00:54:46.440 it really really easy to apply. Another good quality product 1006 00:54:46.480 --> 00:54:49.280 for the folks at Medina. Don't forget too. By the way, 1007 00:54:49.639 --> 00:54:52.280 Medina has to Grow for lawns. It's a twelve four 1008 00:54:52.280 --> 00:54:55.079 to eight formulation. Hooks up to a garden hose, Go 1009 00:54:55.119 --> 00:54:56.920 over your whole lown and give it a good quick 1010 00:54:57.079 --> 00:55:00.679 boost of energy. And I love their Souper Grow Plus. 1011 00:55:00.880 --> 00:55:05.599 That's another lawn product that's almost all nitrogen and at 1012 00:55:06.000 --> 00:55:08.760 zero phosphorus the middle number, which for a lawn is 1013 00:55:08.960 --> 00:55:11.360 just fine. Most of our lawns have enough or more 1014 00:55:11.440 --> 00:55:15.239 than enough phosphors. So Medina Supergrow Plus hooks up to 1015 00:55:15.280 --> 00:55:17.599 a garden hose. And by the way, don't you know 1016 00:55:17.920 --> 00:55:21.440 these products say they're for lawns, but they're good fertilizers. 1017 00:55:21.519 --> 00:55:24.360 I'm funic over your vegetable garden. You need to get 1018 00:55:24.360 --> 00:55:27.679 some okra growing, or tomatoes or peppers or whatever. Just 1019 00:55:27.920 --> 00:55:30.599 just blast them with that. It'll give them a boost. 1020 00:55:30.639 --> 00:55:33.400 You will see a difference. And just don't let the 1021 00:55:33.519 --> 00:55:35.960 tomatoes and the okra seed that it says lawn on 1022 00:55:36.039 --> 00:55:39.400 the fertilizer bottle and they'll think you're giving them something 1023 00:55:39.480 --> 00:55:42.639 that's just for them. I'm telling you it works. You know, 1024 00:55:43.199 --> 00:55:46.599 we complicate things sometimes, but hey, the plant just says 1025 00:55:46.760 --> 00:55:50.239 I need nitrogen, I need phosphorus, I need potassium magnesium, 1026 00:55:50.239 --> 00:55:52.400 and it lists out about twenty things that it wants 1027 00:55:53.119 --> 00:55:55.800 and you give them that and they're happy. And Medina 1028 00:55:55.880 --> 00:55:58.760 products will do that for you, especially the Supergrow Plus 1029 00:55:58.920 --> 00:56:04.280 and the uh Medina Ashti Grow for lawns. You're listening 1030 00:56:04.320 --> 00:56:06.599 to garden Line phone number seven one three two one 1031 00:56:06.679 --> 00:56:09.719 two k t r H seven to one three two 1032 00:56:09.800 --> 00:56:10.400 one two k. 1033 00:56:10.639 --> 00:56:11.480 T r H. 1034 00:56:12.400 --> 00:56:16.599 Have you been out to Nelson Water Gardens the nursery 1035 00:56:16.639 --> 00:56:19.800 and water Gardens out in Katie, Texas For any of 1036 00:56:19.920 --> 00:56:22.800 you that live west, you have got to go there. 1037 00:56:23.199 --> 00:56:28.119 Nelson Water Gardens and Nursery. Are you drive to Katie 1038 00:56:28.280 --> 00:56:30.039 turn north on Katie four Ben Road and it's just 1039 00:56:30.079 --> 00:56:33.079 a little bit up on the right hand side. It 1040 00:56:33.280 --> 00:56:36.719 is a destination garden center because of all the things 1041 00:56:36.800 --> 00:56:42.000 they carry, but it also is a place for beautiful 1042 00:56:42.960 --> 00:56:47.360 water features that just went. I'm warning you when you 1043 00:56:47.480 --> 00:56:49.440 go in there, you're going to be oh, I got 1044 00:56:49.559 --> 00:56:51.159 to do that in my yard. Oh, I want one 1045 00:56:51.199 --> 00:56:52.760 of those in my yard. Oh, I got to do 1046 00:56:52.880 --> 00:56:54.599 that in my ard. They'll come out and those set 1047 00:56:54.679 --> 00:56:56.559 up water features for you. They'll create a I mean, 1048 00:56:56.559 --> 00:56:58.159 if you want the whole nine yards, you know, like 1049 00:56:58.239 --> 00:57:00.360 a rock waterfall, they'll build the whole thing and do it. 1050 00:57:00.960 --> 00:57:03.119 Or maybe you just want one of those disappearing fountains, 1051 00:57:03.159 --> 00:57:07.360 you know, a big tall urn glazed pottery that the 1052 00:57:07.440 --> 00:57:09.239 water runs out the top and comes out the bottom. 1053 00:57:09.280 --> 00:57:10.880 By the way, the birds will thank you for doing that. 1054 00:57:11.079 --> 00:57:14.480 And beneficial in sex as well. They can sell you 1055 00:57:14.519 --> 00:57:15.880 the products and tell you how to do it. If 1056 00:57:15.880 --> 00:57:17.800 you want to put together yourself, they can do that 1057 00:57:17.960 --> 00:57:22.920 either way. You go Nelson Water Gardens in Katie, Texas. 1058 00:57:23.119 --> 00:57:25.000 So head out to Katie. Go north on Katie for 1059 00:57:25.119 --> 00:57:28.400 it Ben and there you go. If you have not 1060 00:57:28.679 --> 00:57:33.760 been out there before, go visit the website first, Nelsonwatergardens 1061 00:57:33.920 --> 00:57:36.320 dot com. Check it out. You're going to see the 1062 00:57:36.320 --> 00:57:41.920 beautiful pottery that they carry, just so many many different products. 1063 00:57:42.559 --> 00:57:44.800 And maybe you're thinking, Okay, I can't put in a 1064 00:57:46.480 --> 00:57:49.519 waterfall and all of that in my garden. Well, how 1065 00:57:49.519 --> 00:57:52.920 about one of their little tabletop water features, something that 1066 00:57:53.000 --> 00:57:55.519 bubbles along and it's a very attractive. You put it 1067 00:57:55.599 --> 00:57:59.239 on a counter or a little table outside there and 1068 00:57:59.360 --> 00:58:02.639 you're sitting here. H just go, just go and see it. 1069 00:58:02.679 --> 00:58:04.280 You'll see what I'm talking about. By the way, take 1070 00:58:04.360 --> 00:58:06.599 kids with you when you go and uh, tell the 1071 00:58:06.639 --> 00:58:08.719 folks at Nelson say, hey, we'd like to feed the fish. 1072 00:58:08.760 --> 00:58:11.159 I'll give you your kiddo a little handful of a 1073 00:58:11.239 --> 00:58:13.519 fish food and then go back and feed the koi 1074 00:58:13.599 --> 00:58:16.840 in the big back koy pond. They will love that. 1075 00:58:17.159 --> 00:58:20.159 It is really really cool. And then you need to 1076 00:58:20.199 --> 00:58:20.880 go home with koi. 1077 00:58:21.000 --> 00:58:21.119 Right. 1078 00:58:22.360 --> 00:58:25.719 All right, Well, we're coming up here on a break 1079 00:58:26.159 --> 00:58:28.639 ron in the heights and Bill and Conro you're gonna 1080 00:58:28.639 --> 00:58:30.280 be our first two up when we come back. 1081 00:58:30.880 --> 00:58:31.000 Uh. 1082 00:58:31.320 --> 00:58:33.800 When we get back here on Guardline, we'll visit with 1083 00:58:33.880 --> 00:58:36.840 you about the things that you were interested in for 1084 00:58:36.920 --> 00:58:39.079 the rest of you. Seven one three two one two 1085 00:58:39.679 --> 00:58:42.280 k t r H is the number. Seven one three 1086 00:58:42.719 --> 00:58:45.320 two one two k t r H. Give us a call. 1087 00:58:45.719 --> 00:58:49.719 Let's help you have success with your gardening endeavors. And 1088 00:58:49.880 --> 00:58:53.199 remember jazz because it's getting that outside. No reason to 1089 00:58:53.239 --> 00:58:56.159 stop gardening. We got a lot of gardening left in us, 1090 00:58:56.880 --> 00:59:01.679 all right, welcome back to the guard Line. Glad to 1091 00:59:01.719 --> 00:59:08.119 have you with us. Nature's Way Resources. Someone was talking 1092 00:59:08.159 --> 00:59:12.000 about those earlier. They use some Nature's Ray Resources. John 1093 00:59:12.039 --> 00:59:16.679 Ferguson years ago created this company to help build soil 1094 00:59:16.719 --> 00:59:18.960 the way nature does. That's what it's called. One reason 1095 00:59:19.039 --> 00:59:23.880 it's called Nature's Way, and soil products were created that 1096 00:59:23.960 --> 00:59:27.280 are now well known by name in the whole Greater 1097 00:59:27.400 --> 00:59:31.360 Houston area, like or roase soil, like a leaf mold compost. 1098 00:59:31.400 --> 00:59:36.280 Those were all born at Nature's Way Resources. John understood 1099 00:59:36.639 --> 00:59:40.840 that in order to create better plant growth and productivity, 1100 00:59:40.880 --> 00:59:43.159 more beautiful plants, you had to fix the soil first, 1101 00:59:43.239 --> 00:59:46.480 the way nature does. Now sain Ian runs the place. 1102 00:59:46.679 --> 00:59:50.800 It's same traditions, same quality products. You're going to find 1103 00:59:51.400 --> 00:59:54.960 everything that you need to have success to create that foundation. 1104 00:59:55.800 --> 00:59:58.280 By the way, if you want to go to the website, 1105 00:59:58.320 --> 01:00:01.000 I would highly recommend it because it has been revamped. 1106 01:00:01.039 --> 01:00:06.679 It's just really really helpful and informative. Nature'sway Resources dot 1107 01:00:06.800 --> 01:00:11.039 Com Nature's Way Resources dot Com. They are still having 1108 01:00:11.119 --> 01:00:14.559 their fungal based compost specials. They call it Fungal Friday, 1109 01:00:14.639 --> 01:00:17.519 but on sale ever Friday, it's ten dollars off a 1110 01:00:17.639 --> 01:00:20.239 bag forty pounds bag and twenty dollars off. If you 1111 01:00:20.280 --> 01:00:22.519 want to get it by bulk so you can drive 1112 01:00:22.599 --> 01:00:24.000 over there and pick it up. You can have them 1113 01:00:24.039 --> 01:00:26.039 deliver it to you. You can go to many area 1114 01:00:26.119 --> 01:00:30.039 garden centers that carry Nature's Way resources products by the bag. 1115 01:00:30.239 --> 01:00:33.840 The main thing is just do it. I want you 1116 01:00:33.880 --> 01:00:36.320 to raise your hand, you know, kind of like a 1117 01:00:36.519 --> 01:00:39.360 Scouts pledge or whatever. What do they do, three fingers 1118 01:00:39.440 --> 01:00:42.079 up in the air something. Raise your hand and repeat 1119 01:00:42.119 --> 01:00:44.559 after me. I will not plant a plant a plant 1120 01:00:45.280 --> 01:00:49.199 until I have prepared the soil. I swear that I 1121 01:00:49.239 --> 01:00:53.000 will not plan a plant until I have prepared the soil. Boy, 1122 01:00:53.079 --> 01:00:56.000 if everybody just did that, we would have so much 1123 01:00:56.039 --> 01:00:59.239 fewer problems taking care of the soil. First is the 1124 01:00:59.360 --> 01:01:04.119 secrets of access. It's a foundation. Let's head out now 1125 01:01:04.159 --> 01:01:05.760 to the heights and we're going to visit with Ron 1126 01:01:05.840 --> 01:01:08.000 this morning. Hello Ron, welcome to guard Line. 1127 01:01:09.519 --> 01:01:10.920 Hey, Skip, how you doing today? 1128 01:01:11.119 --> 01:01:12.119 Listen, I'm calling. 1129 01:01:12.159 --> 01:01:16.400 I've got two issues. Uh, front yard just got into 1130 01:01:16.480 --> 01:01:21.800 this situation. We got a lot looks like culover clover 1131 01:01:21.960 --> 01:01:22.119 is what. 1132 01:01:22.119 --> 01:01:22.800 He's trying to say. 1133 01:01:23.599 --> 01:01:26.199 And Uh, okay, I'm trying to decide if I want 1134 01:01:26.199 --> 01:01:28.280 to if I want to just kill it and then 1135 01:01:28.440 --> 01:01:32.920 resad or if I should try that Celsius idea well, 1136 01:01:34.079 --> 01:01:36.199 and if I do just kill it, I was thinking 1137 01:01:36.239 --> 01:01:39.559 about just weeding it right down to the surface and 1138 01:01:39.639 --> 01:01:42.239 then putting sid over the top. Or is it going 1139 01:01:42.320 --> 01:01:43.360 to grow back if I do that. 1140 01:01:45.840 --> 01:01:49.079 If it really is clover, it won't grow back. That's 1141 01:01:49.119 --> 01:01:51.719 an annual plant that should be dying out as the 1142 01:01:51.800 --> 01:01:54.639 weather gets really hot. And that's my next question. 1143 01:01:54.760 --> 01:01:56.440 If I send you, how do I send you a 1144 01:01:56.519 --> 01:01:57.039 picture of it? 1145 01:01:58.679 --> 01:02:00.559 All Right, at the end of our here, I'm gonna 1146 01:02:00.599 --> 01:02:03.320 put you on hold and my producer will give you 1147 01:02:03.360 --> 01:02:07.760 the email. Take show me the lawn with where I 1148 01:02:07.800 --> 01:02:09.679 can see kind of them mount over all you got 1149 01:02:10.039 --> 01:02:11.760 take a close up of it, and then pull a 1150 01:02:11.840 --> 01:02:13.840 plant up and bring it inside, like if you got 1151 01:02:13.840 --> 01:02:16.199 a real dark dining table or something, set it on 1152 01:02:16.280 --> 01:02:20.119 there and take a really close, very well focused picture, 1153 01:02:20.599 --> 01:02:23.480 because some of these plants are harder to distinguished. But 1154 01:02:23.559 --> 01:02:27.599 there's something called Lesbodisa there, there's one called medic that 1155 01:02:27.760 --> 01:02:30.440 are all clover like plants, and so I want to 1156 01:02:30.440 --> 01:02:32.039 make sure that you with the right one. But if 1157 01:02:32.079 --> 01:02:35.000 it's an annual. If it's an annual, you cover it up, 1158 01:02:35.039 --> 01:02:37.519 and it's gone. It's going to die anyway. If it's 1159 01:02:37.559 --> 01:02:40.239 a perennial, then covering it up just means you put 1160 01:02:40.239 --> 01:02:42.119 your nuln in and now you got it back again. 1161 01:02:42.199 --> 01:02:47.400 You don't want that, Okay, all right, next topic, backyard. 1162 01:02:48.280 --> 01:02:48.840 Backyard. 1163 01:02:48.960 --> 01:02:51.239 I resaw it a couple of years ago, and it's 1164 01:02:51.280 --> 01:02:55.280 all dead again because of drainage and the dogs. Of course, 1165 01:02:55.599 --> 01:02:58.159 so we build a fence to keep the dog problem off. 1166 01:02:58.239 --> 01:03:01.119 So now I'm I'm like trying to decide if I 1167 01:03:01.199 --> 01:03:04.480 can just supplement the soil to bring it up, or 1168 01:03:04.480 --> 01:03:07.000 if I'm gonna need to put in drains and and 1169 01:03:07.159 --> 01:03:10.599 how and that. So go ahead and answer that question first, 1170 01:03:10.639 --> 01:03:12.320 and then my next question. I'm gonna let you go. 1171 01:03:14.159 --> 01:03:16.159 All right, we go. We gotta do these quick then. 1172 01:03:16.599 --> 01:03:20.159 Uh So, the bottom line is when it rains, you're 1173 01:03:20.199 --> 01:03:26.559 seeing standing water for a period of time, yes, and 1174 01:03:27.320 --> 01:03:29.280 like a few days or even longer. 1175 01:03:30.119 --> 01:03:32.800 Uh No, just you know, you can see a line 1176 01:03:32.840 --> 01:03:35.239 of where the where it sits for a while, but 1177 01:03:35.360 --> 01:03:37.239 it does after a day, it goes away. 1178 01:03:39.119 --> 01:03:43.719 Okay, probably, Okay, there, you could bring in a little 1179 01:03:43.719 --> 01:03:45.360 bit of soil and level it out a little bit. 1180 01:03:45.519 --> 01:03:47.519 Just remember when you bring in soil to deal with 1181 01:03:47.639 --> 01:03:50.119 a wet spot, you just move the water somewhere else. 1182 01:03:51.000 --> 01:03:52.440 So, yeah, you know what I mean. 1183 01:03:52.719 --> 01:03:54.039 I mean, And so. 1184 01:03:54.599 --> 01:03:57.840 Sometimes fixing a problem creates a problem. Uh if the 1185 01:03:57.960 --> 01:04:01.199 internal drainage, if that's soil, is very tight, you know, 1186 01:04:01.360 --> 01:04:04.800 the dog traffic, human traffic, then maybe a good aeration 1187 01:04:05.320 --> 01:04:08.239 with some compost would be what you need. Yeah, the 1188 01:04:08.880 --> 01:04:12.840 creating some creating some internal drainage. I can't make that 1189 01:04:13.039 --> 01:04:16.840 call over the over the phone essentially with you, but 1190 01:04:17.800 --> 01:04:20.960 those are your options. If you go with a loamy 1191 01:04:21.199 --> 01:04:23.800 type of soil, not a heavy clay for to top 1192 01:04:23.880 --> 01:04:27.159 dress over there and then replant, you could certainly do that, 1193 01:04:27.559 --> 01:04:30.079 keep in the pity pattern of the four legged puppies 1194 01:04:30.639 --> 01:04:34.079 away until it gets rooted in really well, and then 1195 01:04:34.440 --> 01:04:36.039 trying to do what you can to keep them from 1196 01:04:36.079 --> 01:04:39.119 wearing the pathways in it. All of that is good, 1197 01:04:39.400 --> 01:04:40.880 so you don't have to do this a third. 1198 01:04:40.719 --> 01:04:43.880 Time then later and just real quick. 1199 01:04:43.960 --> 01:04:47.039 Anyway, I can tell if the front yard is lower 1200 01:04:47.119 --> 01:04:49.079 than the backyard, is there some kind of trick or 1201 01:04:49.119 --> 01:04:52.400 do I need a guy with a I forget the 1202 01:04:52.519 --> 01:04:56.760 name of like to shoot the level Yeah, I can 1203 01:04:56.840 --> 01:04:57.320 tell if I do. 1204 01:04:57.920 --> 01:05:01.119 If you want, yeah, if you don't do it professionally, 1205 01:05:01.519 --> 01:05:02.639 you have somebody come do that. 1206 01:05:03.119 --> 01:05:03.199 Uh. 1207 01:05:03.440 --> 01:05:07.599 And you know people like pierscapes they do drainage systems 1208 01:05:07.719 --> 01:05:11.159 and whatnot like that and they can off I don't 1209 01:05:11.159 --> 01:05:15.599 know if they for you. Okay, well, okay, here's here's 1210 01:05:15.639 --> 01:05:18.119 the here. Here, here's a cheaper way to do it. 1211 01:05:18.239 --> 01:05:20.760 You go to a place, you know, like a hardware 1212 01:05:20.840 --> 01:05:23.639 type store, big box hardware kind of place. They have 1213 01:05:23.760 --> 01:05:26.920 little levelers that you can attach to a tripod and 1214 01:05:27.079 --> 01:05:31.199 they hang so that if the if the tripods crooked, 1215 01:05:31.320 --> 01:05:35.000 the laser light hangs straight. You got to wait till 1216 01:05:35.000 --> 01:05:36.840 the end of the day because these lasers aren't strong 1217 01:05:36.960 --> 01:05:40.280 enough to see during the day when it's getting almost dark. 1218 01:05:40.760 --> 01:05:43.360 And you can literally spin it around and you see 1219 01:05:43.400 --> 01:05:45.000 a line on the wall. People use this to hang 1220 01:05:45.119 --> 01:05:48.400 pictures on the wall straight and you turn it around 1221 01:05:48.440 --> 01:05:50.679 the other way and wherever that line is will be 1222 01:05:50.760 --> 01:05:54.639 at the exact same height because it's hanging, it's hanging level. 1223 01:05:55.159 --> 01:05:58.079 So you just go, this is getting out of horticulture here. 1224 01:05:58.159 --> 01:06:00.400 But if you go do that, I've used that to 1225 01:06:00.400 --> 01:06:02.840 get a real rough check. But again you're going to 1226 01:06:02.920 --> 01:06:04.280 have to do it at the time of day where 1227 01:06:04.280 --> 01:06:06.199 you got a little bit of light but not too 1228 01:06:06.280 --> 01:06:12.280 much and so run. You bet I got to run. 1229 01:06:12.400 --> 01:06:18.039 You are are run? Take care all right, I'll take 1230 01:06:18.079 --> 01:06:22.320 that as a compliment. Wild Birds Unlimited has the blends 1231 01:06:22.440 --> 01:06:25.440 that you need for whatever birds you want to bring in, 1232 01:06:25.800 --> 01:06:27.599 whatever kind of a bird you want to bring in. 1233 01:06:28.000 --> 01:06:31.280 That would include things like, uh, the cardinals, that boy 1234 01:06:31.320 --> 01:06:36.039 I've got. I've got a blend that is for cardinals 1235 01:06:36.119 --> 01:06:39.119 that does so well. It's called Cardinal Confetti and it 1236 01:06:39.199 --> 01:06:42.559 comes just from Wallbirds Unlimited. Right now is nesting season. 1237 01:06:42.679 --> 01:06:45.320 We're talking about nesting super Blend all the time because 1238 01:06:45.360 --> 01:06:48.480 it's the perfect blend for when birds are raising they're young, 1239 01:06:48.719 --> 01:06:53.199 and again only available at wall Birds Unlimited. They sell 1240 01:06:53.480 --> 01:06:56.960 seeds that are called no Mess if you want to 1241 01:06:57.000 --> 01:06:57.639 go that route. 1242 01:06:58.039 --> 01:06:58.119 Uh. 1243 01:06:58.199 --> 01:07:00.880 For example, I've got a blend in and it's a 1244 01:07:01.119 --> 01:07:03.960 quality blend. Birds you'd ever drop a seed, but it's 1245 01:07:04.000 --> 01:07:06.679 got some sunflower shells in it, and the birds peck 1246 01:07:06.760 --> 01:07:08.480 them open and then you got all these shells on 1247 01:07:08.519 --> 01:07:11.280 the underneath the feeder. A no Mess blend comes already 1248 01:07:11.320 --> 01:07:13.159 pre shelled. So if you want to go that route, 1249 01:07:13.280 --> 01:07:18.199 they've got that at wild Bird's unlimited six stores, Cypress 1250 01:07:18.880 --> 01:07:22.639 on Barker, Cypress, Houston on Memorial Drive, Houston in the 1251 01:07:22.719 --> 01:07:26.280 West on bel Air Pearland on East Broadway, clear Like 1252 01:07:26.360 --> 01:07:29.840 on El Dorado, and Kingwood on Kingwood Drive. The main 1253 01:07:29.920 --> 01:07:32.920 thing is just go to your local store and see 1254 01:07:32.920 --> 01:07:35.960 what they have. You can go to WBU dot com 1255 01:07:36.440 --> 01:07:40.400 forward slash Houston to learn more. Take our next little break. 1256 01:07:40.519 --> 01:07:42.679 Bill and Conrae, you are our first up. Thanks for 1257 01:07:42.760 --> 01:07:48.119 being patient. Welcome back to garden Line. All right, we're 1258 01:07:48.280 --> 01:07:50.000 first thing going to go out here and talk to 1259 01:07:50.159 --> 01:07:53.719 Bill and Conroe. Bill, thank you for your patients. Welcome 1260 01:07:53.760 --> 01:07:55.400 to garden Line. How can we help today? 1261 01:07:57.400 --> 01:07:58.039 Good morning Skip. 1262 01:07:58.840 --> 01:08:01.159 I have this say plants that I bought a few 1263 01:08:01.199 --> 01:08:04.920 months ago and it's doing well and it's about a 1264 01:08:05.000 --> 01:08:08.280 foot and a half fall now. And I noticed the 1265 01:08:08.320 --> 01:08:10.119 other day and it's not on the outside of it, 1266 01:08:10.239 --> 01:08:13.519 but inside with the branches are connected and all. 1267 01:08:13.679 --> 01:08:15.679 What's there's this white stuff. 1268 01:08:15.840 --> 01:08:20.399 It's kind of like I'm called sticky, but it's it's yeah, 1269 01:08:21.680 --> 01:08:24.960 it's just growing in various different places where the branches 1270 01:08:25.359 --> 01:08:26.039 are connected. 1271 01:08:27.960 --> 01:08:36.880 So I once, okay, probably not go out and take 1272 01:08:36.960 --> 01:08:40.159 your thumb and forefinger and grab some off of there 1273 01:08:40.319 --> 01:08:42.920 and squeeze it and sort of slide I'm off to 1274 01:08:43.000 --> 01:08:45.279 the side, and then look and if you've got kind 1275 01:08:45.319 --> 01:08:48.600 of a pinkish goo on your fingers, that's media bugs. 1276 01:08:49.159 --> 01:08:51.079 And I think that's what you're dealing with on there, 1277 01:08:51.199 --> 01:08:54.279 probably now media bugs. Yes, Now, if you would like 1278 01:08:54.479 --> 01:08:57.640 to send me a picture of it up close, I'll 1279 01:08:57.680 --> 01:08:58.840 take a look at it, but you got to get 1280 01:08:58.880 --> 01:09:01.960 as close as you can, and you may even pick 1281 01:09:02.000 --> 01:09:03.720 a few off and put them on a dark piece 1282 01:09:03.720 --> 01:09:05.640 of paper and then take a picture of it as 1283 01:09:05.720 --> 01:09:08.960 close as you can, but very good sharp focus. I'll 1284 01:09:09.000 --> 01:09:12.640 take a look and assess that for you. But if 1285 01:09:12.680 --> 01:09:17.039 you just do that that squish test meat bugs will 1286 01:09:17.119 --> 01:09:19.960 leave a sticky pink goo all over your fingers. And 1287 01:09:20.479 --> 01:09:23.840 once you know it's that, then in this case, you 1288 01:09:24.239 --> 01:09:27.279 you could use a systemic insecticide to go in the 1289 01:09:27.399 --> 01:09:31.479 plant and kill them. It's drenched on the soil, it 1290 01:09:31.560 --> 01:09:33.600 gets in the plumbing of the plant and they're sucking 1291 01:09:33.680 --> 01:09:37.039 juices out of your plant. Or you can do some 1292 01:09:37.239 --> 01:09:41.479 sprays of little horticultural oil applied to them. But that's 1293 01:09:41.520 --> 01:09:44.159 pretty tedious because you're kind of trying to hit every angle. 1294 01:09:44.199 --> 01:09:46.439 Because you only kill what you coat in the oil. 1295 01:09:47.239 --> 01:09:49.159 It's a little more tedious to try to deal with 1296 01:09:49.319 --> 01:10:00.319 that that way. A systemic what product, Yeah, insecticide use 1297 01:10:04.479 --> 01:10:09.720 if it's systemic. Yeah, there's two or three different ingredients 1298 01:10:10.279 --> 01:10:15.199 that are common in systemics. Acefate is one, in mid 1299 01:10:15.319 --> 01:10:20.000 o cloakprid is another, probably a little more common. Dinotepheron 1300 01:10:20.199 --> 01:10:23.239 is another, just depends on There are some rose products 1301 01:10:23.319 --> 01:10:26.359 out there that contain several different things, and one of them, 1302 01:10:26.399 --> 01:10:29.199 for the bug part of the rose problems is a systemic. 1303 01:10:30.199 --> 01:10:33.720 But that's the root I would take on it. But again, 1304 01:10:33.880 --> 01:10:35.239 if you want to be one hundred percent sure, I 1305 01:10:35.279 --> 01:10:36.880 don't mind taking a look at a picture for you, 1306 01:10:37.079 --> 01:10:37.640 just to confirm. 1307 01:10:38.319 --> 01:10:42.520 All right, well, thank you, all right, all right, you. 1308 01:10:42.560 --> 01:10:44.000 Bet I'm gonna put you on hold and if you 1309 01:10:44.119 --> 01:10:46.560 if we're done, you can hang up. Otherwise my producer 1310 01:10:46.600 --> 01:10:51.119 will pick up. Alrighty Warren Southern Gardens out there in 1311 01:10:51.199 --> 01:10:54.680 Kingwood and Kingwood Garden Center out there in Kingwood, by 1312 01:10:54.720 --> 01:10:57.039 the way, they the summer hours. They're open seven days 1313 01:10:57.079 --> 01:11:01.039 a week, summer hours Monday through Saturday nine and Sunday 1314 01:11:01.119 --> 01:11:03.600 ten to four. Monday through Saturday nine to four, Sunday 1315 01:11:03.640 --> 01:11:06.720 ten to four. Warrens is on North Park. Kingwogarten Center 1316 01:11:06.880 --> 01:11:09.840 is on Stone Hollow Drive. When you go to those places, 1317 01:11:10.279 --> 01:11:13.079 you're going to see some redicuol stuff. They've got a 1318 01:11:13.239 --> 01:11:16.159 new stock of plumerias. I was just looking at Warrens. 1319 01:11:16.800 --> 01:11:20.039 The new stock of plumerias. All the jungle jack premium 1320 01:11:20.119 --> 01:11:24.359 varieties are. They're ready to go for you. Plumeria, for 1321 01:11:24.439 --> 01:11:27.359 those of you who don't know, is the Hawaiian lay flower. 1322 01:11:27.479 --> 01:11:31.960 That's the flower that they make strings of flowers to 1323 01:11:32.039 --> 01:11:35.000 go around as a necklace. Okay, you can grow those yourself. 1324 01:11:35.000 --> 01:11:38.319 They're easy to grow, just follow some simple rules on it. 1325 01:11:38.560 --> 01:11:40.840 They don't take a whole lot of pamper to keep 1326 01:11:40.880 --> 01:11:45.119 them alive. Plumerius are available there. They are also having 1327 01:11:45.119 --> 01:11:49.560 a little contest there with war on Warrens, where if 1328 01:11:49.680 --> 01:11:52.079 you are interested, you can enter. What you do is 1329 01:11:52.199 --> 01:11:55.319 you send them a picture featuring plants that you bought 1330 01:11:55.399 --> 01:11:58.960 from Warrens. Whether it's a blooming flower and a flower bed, 1331 01:11:59.119 --> 01:12:02.039 or a thriving vegetable garden, or the prettiest potted plant 1332 01:12:02.079 --> 01:12:05.760 on your porch, and if they'll spotlight their favorites and 1333 01:12:06.000 --> 01:12:09.119 every entry gets a chance to win fifty percent off 1334 01:12:09.560 --> 01:12:12.319 any one item coupon. That kind of sounds fun, right, 1335 01:12:12.439 --> 01:12:15.079 It's taking care of their customers, but of course they 1336 01:12:15.199 --> 01:12:18.039 do that. That that's how Warren's and Kingwood Garden Center 1337 01:12:18.119 --> 01:12:21.560 are fun places to visit. Easy, easy to get to. 1338 01:12:21.960 --> 01:12:24.800 Warren Southern Gardens on North Park, Kingwood Garden Center on 1339 01:12:24.960 --> 01:12:27.880 Stone Hollow Drive. Go buy there and have some fun. 1340 01:12:27.960 --> 01:12:29.880 By the way, if you have Microlife, if you buy 1341 01:12:30.000 --> 01:12:34.319 Microlife or new some plant food fertilizers, you can take 1342 01:12:34.399 --> 01:12:36.840 those jugs back in if you buy them by the 1343 01:12:36.920 --> 01:12:39.680 jug and you can refill them there ed Warren Southern 1344 01:12:39.720 --> 01:12:43.199 Gardens and Kingwood Garden Center, and it's a more economical 1345 01:12:43.279 --> 01:12:46.199 way to buy fertilizer. Plus you're not creating more plastic 1346 01:12:46.279 --> 01:12:48.920 waste in the environment. I wish more things we bought 1347 01:12:49.399 --> 01:12:52.039 were just we go in and refill that just it 1348 01:12:52.359 --> 01:12:56.840 just makes sense. You're listening to garden Line phone number 1349 01:12:56.880 --> 01:12:59.640 seven one three two one two KTR eight seven one 1350 01:12:59.720 --> 01:13:02.880 three two one two k t r Hi's visiting with 1351 01:13:03.600 --> 01:13:06.359 the folks at BnB Turf Pros the other day. BnB 1352 01:13:06.479 --> 01:13:09.880 turf Pros is the place you hear me talk about 1353 01:13:09.920 --> 01:13:12.119 all the time. They will come in at the family 1354 01:13:12.199 --> 01:13:15.640 owned business of focusing on customer service. And you know 1355 01:13:15.680 --> 01:13:18.600 everybody says they focus on customer service. Well go look 1356 01:13:18.600 --> 01:13:22.039 at the ratings of places, do they really? BnB Pros 1357 01:13:22.279 --> 01:13:26.000 Pros does BNDB turf Pros And here's the website bb 1358 01:13:26.479 --> 01:13:32.600 no end in the website BB Turfpros dot com, Bbturfpros 1359 01:13:33.319 --> 01:13:38.399 dot com. They do aeration, they do fertilization, they do compost, 1360 01:13:38.760 --> 01:13:43.399 top dressing. They use quality stuff because they want to 1361 01:13:43.560 --> 01:13:47.720 have a good, successful, ongoing relationship with you their customers. 1362 01:13:47.920 --> 01:13:51.359 So that would mean things like using high quality materials 1363 01:13:51.439 --> 01:13:55.680 from cnmols like cenmulches, top quality leaf mo composts. That's 1364 01:13:55.760 --> 01:13:58.279 what they use. They only use products and companies I 1365 01:13:58.359 --> 01:14:01.800 trust here on Guardenline. They do high quality work. And 1366 01:14:01.920 --> 01:14:04.640 whether you live in sugar Land all the way across 1367 01:14:04.840 --> 01:14:07.119 to the to the west or to the east and 1368 01:14:07.199 --> 01:14:10.119 to the south down of Cross forty five, League City 1369 01:14:10.159 --> 01:14:12.880 and Dickinson and then all down Highway six and Proland 1370 01:14:12.880 --> 01:14:15.399 and friends would place, this is their region that they 1371 01:14:15.520 --> 01:14:17.960 service there, so just give them a call. Seven one 1372 01:14:18.079 --> 01:14:22.279 three two three four fifty five ninety eight. Seven one 1373 01:14:22.399 --> 01:14:24.760 three two three four fifty five ninety eight. Now for 1374 01:14:25.479 --> 01:14:28.800 your compost stop dressing and narration price to start around 1375 01:14:28.840 --> 01:14:31.119 five hundred dollars depending on the yard size and the 1376 01:14:31.239 --> 01:14:36.640 distance traveled. So it is a bulky process, a mess 1377 01:14:36.680 --> 01:14:39.039 for you to try to do it yourself. But they 1378 01:14:39.159 --> 01:14:41.319 come and they do a quality job on it. And 1379 01:14:41.439 --> 01:14:43.680 I can think of no single thing that you do 1380 01:14:43.840 --> 01:14:49.239 to your lawn that brings more response than cororation with 1381 01:14:49.399 --> 01:14:53.720 compost stop dressing. Just an example, by the way, the 1382 01:14:53.800 --> 01:14:55.359 other day, I have a little spot where I walk 1383 01:14:55.399 --> 01:14:58.760 through my gate and that one spot just gets trampled. 1384 01:14:58.800 --> 01:15:01.680 I tend to take different ads to that spot so 1385 01:15:01.800 --> 01:15:04.239 I don't just have a pathway worn in my grass, 1386 01:15:04.760 --> 01:15:06.600 but when I get to that spot, it always gets 1387 01:15:06.600 --> 01:15:08.840 stepped on. And the grass was just thinning out. I 1388 01:15:08.880 --> 01:15:11.279 mean I could see dirt all around through it because 1389 01:15:11.279 --> 01:15:13.800 it was getting pounded to death by my feet. I 1390 01:15:13.880 --> 01:15:17.399 had a little aerration plug thing that I just you know, 1391 01:15:17.800 --> 01:15:21.159 made a bunch of holes in the soil, oh about 1392 01:15:21.359 --> 01:15:24.199 you know, four inches apart or something like that. Did 1393 01:15:24.279 --> 01:15:26.600 that area fee a little compost on the top. It 1394 01:15:26.760 --> 01:15:28.119 is ninety five percent covered. 1395 01:15:28.159 --> 01:15:28.279 Now. 1396 01:15:28.319 --> 01:15:30.640 It went for like fifty percent cover to ninety five 1397 01:15:30.680 --> 01:15:34.439 percent covered in just two or three weeks. That is 1398 01:15:34.520 --> 01:15:37.720 how important it is to break up that compaction and 1399 01:15:37.840 --> 01:15:40.760 to do cororation and to do the compost stop dressing. 1400 01:15:40.800 --> 01:15:42.640 And I really didn't put that much compost on it. 1401 01:15:42.840 --> 01:15:46.760 It's primarily the aerration alone was doing that, but both 1402 01:15:46.840 --> 01:15:54.279 combined it works. Bbturfpros dot com. Okay, do you know 1403 01:15:54.399 --> 01:15:56.399 that they say the cobbler's kids go barefoot? Do you 1404 01:15:56.479 --> 01:15:58.279 know what that means? It means the guy who makes 1405 01:15:58.279 --> 01:16:01.880 shoes is making cheos for other people. He didn't end 1406 01:16:02.000 --> 01:16:05.239 up making cheos for his own kids. If you were 1407 01:16:05.279 --> 01:16:08.239 to see some of my garden areas, you might go, 1408 01:16:08.640 --> 01:16:14.119 And why would I call garden line Seriously? I mean, 1409 01:16:14.520 --> 01:16:17.079 if people talk about their gardens like you know, everything's 1410 01:16:17.079 --> 01:16:18.920 always perfect, and you may be thinking, wow, this is 1411 01:16:18.960 --> 01:16:20.880 a guy on the radio. I bet his place looks good. Well, 1412 01:16:20.920 --> 01:16:25.479 it does look good, But I'm telling you there are 1413 01:16:25.600 --> 01:16:30.760 times where I'm busy. I'm running around doing speaking engagements 1414 01:16:30.920 --> 01:16:33.920 or consultations and other things, and I'm just not home 1415 01:16:34.000 --> 01:16:35.960 taking care of my own lines. And I have to 1416 01:16:36.039 --> 01:16:39.399 catch up on it. So when you hear me say something, 1417 01:16:39.640 --> 01:16:46.119 just know that I'm saying it from experience, Okay, and 1418 01:16:46.600 --> 01:16:48.680 the do as I say, not as I always do, 1419 01:16:49.239 --> 01:16:52.359 is very applicable. But it also helps me. Like that 1420 01:16:52.439 --> 01:16:54.920 compost out dress and comment I just made, you know, 1421 01:16:55.399 --> 01:16:57.760 I should have taken care of that long ago. I 1422 01:16:57.880 --> 01:17:00.359 know what to do, but I got in there, did it, 1423 01:17:00.960 --> 01:17:02.720 learned a little bit about it as I do it. 1424 01:17:03.039 --> 01:17:07.239 So anyway, there you go. All right? Well, and plus 1425 01:17:07.359 --> 01:17:09.439 the fact that I said it's because I'm not there, 1426 01:17:09.800 --> 01:17:13.560 it's also because I have two Golden retrievers and they 1427 01:17:13.760 --> 01:17:19.720 retrieve plants. I wish they retrieved leads, but primarily my plants. 1428 01:17:23.760 --> 01:17:30.479 Back to garden line, folks, what are your gardening questions? 1429 01:17:30.520 --> 01:17:33.039 What do you want to talk about? What have you 1430 01:17:33.279 --> 01:17:38.239 struggled with to find success in your garden. I want 1431 01:17:38.439 --> 01:17:42.840 to make an important point. I've said this many times before, 1432 01:17:42.960 --> 01:17:44.479 but for those of you who are hearing me for 1433 01:17:44.560 --> 01:17:48.520 the first time, you don't have a brown thumb. No, 1434 01:17:48.760 --> 01:17:50.560 you don't. I don't care how many plants you've killed, 1435 01:17:50.640 --> 01:17:54.439 you don't have a brown thumb. A brown thumb is 1436 01:17:54.520 --> 01:17:58.000 an uninformed thumb. So if you want to say I 1437 01:17:58.079 --> 01:18:00.399 have an informed thumb, okay, I'll go with that. Maybe 1438 01:18:00.399 --> 01:18:03.680 you do, maybe you don't. But people that seem to 1439 01:18:03.720 --> 01:18:06.039 have a green thumb, they're just giving plants what they want. 1440 01:18:06.279 --> 01:18:08.399 It's as simple as that. They know what a plant wants, 1441 01:18:08.439 --> 01:18:11.039 they give it what it wants. And that's why it 1442 01:18:11.119 --> 01:18:13.199 looks like they have a green thumb, because everything comes 1443 01:18:13.279 --> 01:18:16.439 up roses. As they say, all you got to do 1444 01:18:16.560 --> 01:18:18.159 is teach your thumb. Bring your thumb with you, sit 1445 01:18:18.199 --> 01:18:20.960 down front the radio, let's talk, and as we get 1446 01:18:21.000 --> 01:18:23.560 your thumb a little education. I don't care what you 1447 01:18:23.640 --> 01:18:25.399 want to grow. You know, I tried to grow orchids, 1448 01:18:25.439 --> 01:18:27.520 but I killed every one. I got a brown thumb. Well, 1449 01:18:27.680 --> 01:18:30.159 let's bring your thumb. We're going to fix this. You 1450 01:18:30.239 --> 01:18:33.159 can grow orkids. They're easiest. Nothing is easier as a 1451 01:18:33.239 --> 01:18:37.880 plant probably, well, not many things to grow down am 1452 01:18:37.920 --> 01:18:41.239 ofth orchid. You know, they just are easy to grow. 1453 01:18:41.800 --> 01:18:43.560 Just give them what they want. That's as simple as 1454 01:18:43.640 --> 01:18:47.159 it is. All right, I think you get the idea. Hey, 1455 01:18:47.600 --> 01:18:49.920 if you're dealing with fire ants in your lawn, if 1456 01:18:50.039 --> 01:18:53.039 you know chinchbugs, maybe last year they hammered your lawn. 1457 01:18:53.079 --> 01:18:56.000 We're coming up on chinchbug season here for long well, 1458 01:18:56.359 --> 01:19:00.960 bug Out Max granules by Nitrofoss that will do it. 1459 01:19:01.079 --> 01:19:04.039 It will shut down the insect cretits crawling around in 1460 01:19:04.159 --> 01:19:07.760 the lawn. Bug Out Max is available in many different places. 1461 01:19:07.840 --> 01:19:10.680 You know night foss products are. For example, you go 1462 01:19:10.920 --> 01:19:14.439 to place like a chenet forest, you go to ace Hardware, 1463 01:19:14.520 --> 01:19:17.520 Sinkle ranch or auspose ace up. In the woodlands, you're 1464 01:19:17.560 --> 01:19:20.159 going to find night fresh products like the bug Out 1465 01:19:20.239 --> 01:19:22.560 Max Arbigate up and Tom will also carry some night 1466 01:19:22.680 --> 01:19:27.039 foss products there as well. The main thing is don't 1467 01:19:27.239 --> 01:19:31.159 be run out of your yard because fireans bite. There 1468 01:19:31.159 --> 01:19:33.880 are ways to deal with them and bug out Max 1469 01:19:33.960 --> 01:19:36.760 is a good way to do that. He's easy to do. 1470 01:19:37.720 --> 01:19:37.760 So. 1471 01:19:38.039 --> 01:19:41.359 Earlier on I was saying, hey, we need to talk 1472 01:19:41.399 --> 01:19:46.880 about the gardening implements, the gardening tools rather that are 1473 01:19:47.279 --> 01:19:49.760 at the end of our arms. And let's do that 1474 01:19:49.960 --> 01:19:53.119 just for a little bit. First of all, if you 1475 01:19:53.199 --> 01:19:55.760 look at your hand when you open it wide open, 1476 01:19:56.199 --> 01:19:58.920 from the tip of one finger to the tip of 1477 01:19:59.000 --> 01:20:01.640 your little finger to the tip of your tomb thum 1478 01:20:01.960 --> 01:20:07.479 good night thumb thumb to little fingertips. Okay, that is 1479 01:20:07.560 --> 01:20:10.439 a certain distance, and everybody's hands different. So I can't 1480 01:20:10.479 --> 01:20:12.239 say everybody's hand is this way, but a lot of 1481 01:20:12.279 --> 01:20:14.520 people's hands are going to come pretty close to six 1482 01:20:14.600 --> 01:20:18.000 inches for that distance right there. Okay, it just depends 1483 01:20:18.039 --> 01:20:20.439 on size your hand. If you look at the width 1484 01:20:20.479 --> 01:20:22.600 of your thumb. Now, guys tend to out a little 1485 01:20:22.600 --> 01:20:25.680 wider thumbs, but the width of a thumb is pretty 1486 01:20:25.760 --> 01:20:28.680 close to an inch. But check yours. Put it down 1487 01:20:28.720 --> 01:20:30.479 there with mine, af to mash it down just a 1488 01:20:30.479 --> 01:20:33.039 little bit, and it's exactly an end. And you can 1489 01:20:33.159 --> 01:20:37.840 measure with that. If you are going to plant, let's say, onions, 1490 01:20:37.920 --> 01:20:41.680 we do that in January, maybe February, but primary January 1491 01:20:42.279 --> 01:20:44.119 you put those in the ground. You want to plant 1492 01:20:44.159 --> 01:20:47.840 them as deep as the first joint on your index finger. Okay, 1493 01:20:48.199 --> 01:20:50.720 so you can't stick your thumb sideways down in the soil. 1494 01:20:51.000 --> 01:20:54.239 But if you put your index finger down and down 1495 01:20:54.359 --> 01:20:57.399 to the point where that first little joint, the first 1496 01:20:57.479 --> 01:21:00.600 crease in your index finger, that is about how deep 1497 01:21:00.640 --> 01:21:03.760 you plant onions sets when you're putting them out there 1498 01:21:03.840 --> 01:21:07.159 to grow. You know your ballb onions, red, white, and yellow, 1499 01:21:07.279 --> 01:21:10.119 different types of onions. That works really well for them. 1500 01:21:11.039 --> 01:21:13.680 Learn what the width of your hand is. It depends 1501 01:21:13.760 --> 01:21:15.319 on the size of your hand, but that is a 1502 01:21:15.359 --> 01:21:17.199 certain number of inches. And you can just learn to 1503 01:21:17.239 --> 01:21:21.560 measure everything that you're doing right there. Now, if you 1504 01:21:21.680 --> 01:21:25.039 take your thumb and your forefinger and put them together. 1505 01:21:26.319 --> 01:21:28.600 Whenever you have a bug that you want to get 1506 01:21:28.680 --> 01:21:30.720 rid of, you put them between your thumb and your 1507 01:21:30.760 --> 01:21:34.840 forefinger and you press really hard, and then you slide 1508 01:21:34.920 --> 01:21:37.960 your thumb about a half inch to one side and 1509 01:21:38.079 --> 01:21:40.399 the bug is gone. You got some cool goo on 1510 01:21:40.479 --> 01:21:43.159 your finger now, But that's how you kill bugs, the 1511 01:21:43.239 --> 01:21:46.720 thumb and forefinger slid to the side. Okay, y'all are 1512 01:21:46.760 --> 01:21:48.680 going okay, now, come on, guy, give me a break. 1513 01:21:48.840 --> 01:21:52.760 All right. No, but seriously, the tools of our hands, 1514 01:21:53.000 --> 01:21:55.159 the ways that we can learn to measure. I mean, 1515 01:21:55.199 --> 01:21:58.000 you can get pretty fast, you know, when something says, 1516 01:21:58.359 --> 01:22:00.760 you know, plant these a foot apart. Well, I just 1517 01:22:00.840 --> 01:22:02.680 put my two thumbs together and I stick out my 1518 01:22:02.720 --> 01:22:05.359 two little pinkies and that's a foot apart for me. 1519 01:22:05.920 --> 01:22:08.920 So learn how to measure those things. Those tools are 1520 01:22:08.960 --> 01:22:12.960 very handy and they work really well, and it kind 1521 01:22:13.000 --> 01:22:14.960 of makes it easy to know. I bet there's some 1522 01:22:15.079 --> 01:22:17.439 others on there. Some of you may know some other 1523 01:22:17.520 --> 01:22:20.880 ways that you use your hands for the measuring and whatnot. 1524 01:22:21.680 --> 01:22:24.680 Get us a call. We'll listen to that too. Seven 1525 01:22:24.680 --> 01:22:28.479 to one to three two one two ktr seven one 1526 01:22:28.520 --> 01:22:32.159 three two one two kt r H Plants for All Seasons. 1527 01:22:32.359 --> 01:22:34.880 Is the Garden Center. I'm sure you've been there before. 1528 01:22:35.560 --> 01:22:38.560 It's on Tomboal Parkway, which is Highway two forty nine 1529 01:22:39.119 --> 01:22:43.640 uh and just north of Luetta on Faces Tomboll Parkway. Okay, 1530 01:22:43.920 --> 01:22:47.760 been around. Said's nineteen seventy three. Family owned and operated. 1531 01:22:48.199 --> 01:22:51.520 These folks are true loan and garden experts. They know 1532 01:22:51.800 --> 01:22:54.600 what they're doing. They can point you in the right direction. 1533 01:22:55.239 --> 01:22:55.520 Right now. 1534 01:22:55.600 --> 01:22:58.920 They've got some great curcumas. Kakuma is a type of 1535 01:22:59.000 --> 01:23:02.600 ginger that the blooms are kind of set down in 1536 01:23:03.079 --> 01:23:07.039 the big canna like foliage leaves. The leaves look sort 1537 01:23:07.079 --> 01:23:09.680 of like cannas, and the blooms sit down in there. 1538 01:23:09.680 --> 01:23:11.520 You can use them as cut flowers too. They're good 1539 01:23:11.560 --> 01:23:13.720 for that, by the way, but it's just a nice way. 1540 01:23:13.720 --> 01:23:15.239 You've got a real shady spot and you want to 1541 01:23:15.239 --> 01:23:18.279 bring some cool color into it. There are so many 1542 01:23:18.479 --> 01:23:22.680 breeders have come up with so many kinds of hidden ginger. 1543 01:23:22.800 --> 01:23:26.479 Now you have colors from white and pink and even 1544 01:23:26.520 --> 01:23:30.520 a greenish color with burgundy, and it's just lots of 1545 01:23:30.640 --> 01:23:33.479 lots of good options there hidden gingers. Something that I 1546 01:23:33.479 --> 01:23:35.640 don't talk about with plant roll seasons that I do 1547 01:23:35.760 --> 01:23:40.720 want to mention is number one the pottery. Outstanding, gorgeous pottery. 1548 01:23:40.720 --> 01:23:42.239 I got a couple of pots from there that I 1549 01:23:42.560 --> 01:23:46.479 just love, and I usually tell gardeners, Hey, I know 1550 01:23:46.720 --> 01:23:49.199 that pottery can get expensive, you know when you're buying 1551 01:23:49.239 --> 01:23:52.359 a lot, but why not just invest in one pot 1552 01:23:52.399 --> 01:23:54.760 a year at least do that, just one pot. It 1553 01:23:54.800 --> 01:23:56.439 could be a big buck, be a small pot. By 1554 01:23:56.479 --> 01:23:58.960 the way, bigger pots are better for our summer because 1555 01:23:58.960 --> 01:24:01.359 they home more soil for a whole more water. Therefore 1556 01:24:01.359 --> 01:24:03.239 you don't water as much, or your plants don't go 1557 01:24:03.359 --> 01:24:06.479 and distress. They've got gorgeous pottery there. I love my 1558 01:24:06.560 --> 01:24:09.600 pots from there. Also, they are tools. They have an 1559 01:24:09.800 --> 01:24:14.399 excellent selection of all kinds of quality tools. Listen, don't 1560 01:24:14.520 --> 01:24:18.079 buy cheap tools. Don't buy something because it's the cheapest tool. 1561 01:24:18.119 --> 01:24:21.079 You can see, get a quality brand. Corona is an 1562 01:24:21.119 --> 01:24:23.960 example of that, and they carry Corona there Corona's a 1563 01:24:24.039 --> 01:24:27.640 quality brand, whether you're buying loppers or hand pruners. They 1564 01:24:27.680 --> 01:24:30.000 have so many different kinds of hand pruners there, and 1565 01:24:30.079 --> 01:24:32.319 Plants for all seasons, the little hand tools like a 1566 01:24:32.439 --> 01:24:36.479 trial and whatnot, and pruning tools, pole pruners and others. 1567 01:24:36.920 --> 01:24:39.079 Buy a quality tool and it'll be the last time 1568 01:24:39.079 --> 01:24:41.720 you have to buy that tool because it lasts and 1569 01:24:41.920 --> 01:24:44.119 lasts and lasts. And they got that at Plants for 1570 01:24:44.119 --> 01:24:48.199 All Seasons. Okay, well, let's see where are we here. 1571 01:24:48.479 --> 01:24:50.920 Once I start talking, I realize I'm probably running into 1572 01:24:50.960 --> 01:24:53.880 a break which I have. We'll be right back seven 1573 01:24:53.880 --> 01:24:56.600 to one three two one two KTRH. And when we 1574 01:24:56.680 --> 01:24:59.399 come back, Chris and Alvin, you'll be our first s up. Hey, 1575 01:24:59.479 --> 01:25:04.079 welcome back. Wellcome back, somebody left the gate open. We 1576 01:25:04.199 --> 01:25:06.039 got a bunch of calls. We need to get to here. 1577 01:25:07.000 --> 01:25:09.800 Nelson Plant Food has a product called Slow and Easy 1578 01:25:10.119 --> 01:25:13.920 for your lawn, and the name describes it all slow 1579 01:25:14.279 --> 01:25:17.279 and easy, simple, simple, You put it out, you do 1580 01:25:17.359 --> 01:25:20.199 it now, and you don't fertilize again until fall. It 1581 01:25:20.439 --> 01:25:24.960 lasts months, like four months or more. Now. The good 1582 01:25:25.000 --> 01:25:27.079 thing about it Slow and Easy is it's got a 1583 01:25:27.199 --> 01:25:30.560 great blend of nutrients, the blend that turf needs and 1584 01:25:30.680 --> 01:25:34.399 takes up. So you're not contributing to an imbalance by 1585 01:25:34.520 --> 01:25:38.479 using a fertilizer that's got a bad ratio of nutrients 1586 01:25:38.520 --> 01:25:43.640 in it, and it it takes the night. Let me 1587 01:25:43.720 --> 01:25:45.680 put this, It takes the nitrogen and it gives it 1588 01:25:45.720 --> 01:25:48.640 out a little doses to your lawn. So even though 1589 01:25:48.640 --> 01:25:50.439 you're putting it all now and I'm saying it's going 1590 01:25:50.479 --> 01:25:52.439 to fertilize all the way to fall, the only way 1591 01:25:52.520 --> 01:25:54.880 that can work without you having a mowmo mo because 1592 01:25:54.880 --> 01:25:57.319 you put too much nitrogen on it one time, is 1593 01:25:57.600 --> 01:26:00.079 for the fertilizer to be designed so it releases a 1594 01:26:00.119 --> 01:26:02.159 little bit now and then it releases some more later, 1595 01:26:02.279 --> 01:26:04.680 and some more later, and some more later, and that 1596 01:26:04.920 --> 01:26:08.359 makes it easy. You put it down, you're done. You'll 1597 01:26:08.439 --> 01:26:11.960 water it in. We get summer watering a lot in 1598 01:26:12.039 --> 01:26:14.680 the summer, trying to keep our lawns alive, and that 1599 01:26:14.760 --> 01:26:17.720 can leach out nutrients. But when you have a product 1600 01:26:17.840 --> 01:26:20.159 like Slow and Easy, you're going to get that nice 1601 01:26:20.359 --> 01:26:23.119 gradual release. You don't lose it all to the next 1602 01:26:23.159 --> 01:26:27.399 gully washer rain. It prevents burn, it feeds so microbes. 1603 01:26:27.520 --> 01:26:29.840 It enriches the soil, that's the bottom line. Also, it 1604 01:26:29.920 --> 01:26:34.159 ascidivizes a little bit. It's got an acidifying characteristic in 1605 01:26:34.279 --> 01:26:38.119 it that allows us to keep that pH from getting 1606 01:26:38.159 --> 01:26:41.119 too high and which ties up nutrients. So you know 1607 01:26:41.199 --> 01:26:43.560 your lawn has yellowing in it because the lack of 1608 01:26:43.640 --> 01:26:48.560 phosp or iron availability, maybe high pH, maybe too much phosphorus. Well, 1609 01:26:48.720 --> 01:26:51.119 with slow and easy, you hope work it in the 1610 01:26:51.239 --> 01:26:55.079 other direction for a much beautiful, greener lawn. We're going 1611 01:26:55.119 --> 01:26:56.920 to head out and out of Alvin and talk to 1612 01:26:57.039 --> 01:26:59.520 Chris this morning. Hello Chris, welcome to garden Line. 1613 01:27:00.560 --> 01:27:00.960 Good morning. 1614 01:27:01.039 --> 01:27:01.239 Skip. 1615 01:27:02.159 --> 01:27:04.720 Have got a I think it is what's called a 1616 01:27:04.800 --> 01:27:08.800 Mexican avocado. I planted it I probably around five years ago, 1617 01:27:08.920 --> 01:27:12.560 i'd say. And when I first planted it, it didn't 1618 01:27:12.560 --> 01:27:14.399 really well and had a bunch of blooms on and 1619 01:27:14.479 --> 01:27:18.119 he tried to make fruit that first first time, and uh, 1620 01:27:18.359 --> 01:27:20.920 I was excited. And then the squirrels, the squirrels, I 1621 01:27:21.000 --> 01:27:24.960 think the squirrels got it all. My kids swore swore 1622 01:27:25.079 --> 01:27:27.159 on their you know, oh that they didn't touch them. 1623 01:27:27.600 --> 01:27:30.000 But after that the plant seemed to do good. 1624 01:27:30.039 --> 01:27:30.760 We had a freeze. 1625 01:27:31.199 --> 01:27:35.000 I protected it. Uh, and it did okay, but uh, 1626 01:27:35.720 --> 01:27:38.840 it has been it's been beat up by one of 1627 01:27:38.880 --> 01:27:41.239 my kids when they do the weed whacker. They he 1628 01:27:41.319 --> 01:27:45.079 got carried away and uh probably well. Prior to that, 1629 01:27:45.680 --> 01:27:48.000 one of the freeze freezes did get it. It died, 1630 01:27:48.039 --> 01:27:51.319 but it came back and and it was looking really healthy. 1631 01:27:51.840 --> 01:27:55.279 And then then we had another freeze and it it 1632 01:27:55.439 --> 01:27:57.760 died and came back and then my son hit it 1633 01:27:57.800 --> 01:28:00.319 with a whacker, a weed whacker, and like, okay, great, 1634 01:28:00.399 --> 01:28:01.880 you know this poor thing has gotten going to make 1635 01:28:01.880 --> 01:28:04.359 it well. It came back, it spreaday out new growth. 1636 01:28:04.760 --> 01:28:08.399 I checked it last or took early this week, and 1637 01:28:08.479 --> 01:28:11.239 the leaves are all brown and shriveled up. And I thought, 1638 01:28:11.279 --> 01:28:12.960 oh now, and I would I've been watering it. 1639 01:28:13.119 --> 01:28:13.399 I don't. 1640 01:28:14.039 --> 01:28:16.600 It's in a it's in my front yard, which gets 1641 01:28:16.760 --> 01:28:17.279 the house. 1642 01:28:17.079 --> 01:28:17.880 Spaces of south. 1643 01:28:17.920 --> 01:28:20.760 It gets full morning sun all the way to midday, 1644 01:28:21.159 --> 01:28:24.600 and in the afternoon after about one o'clock it's shaded 1645 01:28:24.640 --> 01:28:26.359 by trees from the west. 1646 01:28:26.960 --> 01:28:28.359 So it's ok. 1647 01:28:28.560 --> 01:28:29.319 It's not getting it. 1648 01:28:29.439 --> 01:28:31.039 It's not getting hammered all day by the sun. 1649 01:28:31.159 --> 01:28:34.000 But and I kept it water. We had some rain down. 1650 01:28:33.840 --> 01:28:35.000 Here, which was good for it. 1651 01:28:35.520 --> 01:28:37.319 And I kept looking at it, and it just like 1652 01:28:37.399 --> 01:28:40.239 it went from green. It looked really great. It's really bad, 1653 01:28:40.399 --> 01:28:42.560 just almost overnight. And I don't know if a bug 1654 01:28:42.600 --> 01:28:43.119 got it or. 1655 01:28:45.239 --> 01:28:48.319 Well, if it did that overnight, is something in the soil, probably, 1656 01:28:49.000 --> 01:28:52.119 But okay, your plan has been through a lot. In fact, 1657 01:28:52.159 --> 01:28:56.520 if it had the society, the Society for the Prevention 1658 01:28:56.640 --> 01:28:59.039 of Cruelty to Plants, it would be reporting you right now. 1659 01:28:59.439 --> 01:29:03.880 But seriously, it's been through all that. The weed whacker 1660 01:29:04.039 --> 01:29:07.039 cuts away the outer flow them tissues all the way down, 1661 01:29:07.119 --> 01:29:10.840 cuts away the cambium, and that alone can kill a plant, 1662 01:29:11.399 --> 01:29:14.479 but more slowly it dies by starvation, is what the 1663 01:29:14.600 --> 01:29:18.920 roots starve. But you know it's hard. I heard all 1664 01:29:18.960 --> 01:29:21.760 you said, and all I know is just wait, see 1665 01:29:21.920 --> 01:29:24.680 give it some more time. See if it sprouts. You 1666 01:29:24.800 --> 01:29:27.880 may be better off just getting you a nice new plant, 1667 01:29:27.920 --> 01:29:30.239 putting it in there, create a mulch bet around it, 1668 01:29:30.319 --> 01:29:33.199 two feet out from the tree in all directions to 1669 01:29:33.359 --> 01:29:37.600 keep the way both away. Yeah, that that is it's 1670 01:29:37.640 --> 01:29:40.119 good for the tree. Trees like to grow with their 1671 01:29:40.279 --> 01:29:43.840 roots in the forest floor, meaning rotting leaves and organic 1672 01:29:43.920 --> 01:29:46.560 matter and melt and stuff. So keep the keep the 1673 01:29:46.600 --> 01:29:48.439 grass away, keep the weeds away. You have much better 1674 01:29:48.520 --> 01:29:51.079 growth on it. Uh, And then you know, just be 1675 01:29:51.199 --> 01:29:53.880 ready when we have those real cold weathers, especially as 1676 01:29:54.039 --> 01:29:56.479 as it's it's a young it's going to be a 1677 01:29:56.560 --> 01:29:58.960 little more sensitive to cold than it gets a little 1678 01:29:59.000 --> 01:30:02.079 bit older. But that would be my recommendation if you 1679 01:30:02.119 --> 01:30:04.159 want to be patient and wait and see if it sprouts. 1680 01:30:04.279 --> 01:30:08.119 It just sounds to me like it's just not going 1681 01:30:08.199 --> 01:30:11.000 to be the if you want to eat avocados, I 1682 01:30:11.159 --> 01:30:13.039 think i'd pull it and get a new tree and 1683 01:30:13.279 --> 01:30:15.760 just get down with it. But if you want to 1684 01:30:15.760 --> 01:30:17.399 give it a little time to wait and see, that's 1685 01:30:17.439 --> 01:30:22.359 fine too. But just somehow stop the injury. Stop the injury. 1686 01:30:22.520 --> 01:30:27.159 Yeah, that's well. My son felt really bad. I said, Hey, 1687 01:30:27.279 --> 01:30:30.960 I said, did you hit the tree with the wheat whacker? 1688 01:30:31.039 --> 01:30:33.560 And I said, and he said, well, he said, oh yeah, 1689 01:30:33.720 --> 01:30:36.039 I forgot to tell you there was some green lings. 1690 01:30:36.079 --> 01:30:37.960 He said, was that the avocado? I said, yeah, it 1691 01:30:38.199 --> 01:30:39.720 was it was the avocado. 1692 01:30:41.960 --> 01:30:44.920 Well, you got a George Washington in the house, you know. 1693 01:30:45.039 --> 01:30:46.880 He chopped down the cherry tree and he said, I 1694 01:30:46.960 --> 01:30:50.600 cannot tell a lie. Hey, thanks thanks for the call, Chris. 1695 01:30:50.720 --> 01:30:52.960 Good luck with it. I hope you can get back 1696 01:30:52.960 --> 01:30:56.399 into the avocado business. You bet. I appreciate you call 1697 01:30:56.520 --> 01:31:01.279 very much. If you were dealing with treees, Affordable Tree 1698 01:31:01.319 --> 01:31:03.399 Service is the one I would tell you you got. 1699 01:31:03.720 --> 01:31:07.159 You gotta give them a call. Affordable Tree Service knows 1700 01:31:07.279 --> 01:31:10.640 how to take care of trees. This company has been 1701 01:31:10.720 --> 01:31:14.359 around for decades. Martin Spoon Moore's company, Affordable Tree Service 1702 01:31:14.479 --> 01:31:16.960 is a family business. You give them a call at 1703 01:31:17.000 --> 01:31:19.880 seven one three, six nine nine twenty six sixty three. 1704 01:31:19.920 --> 01:31:22.000 You're going to talk to Martin's mom. Tell her you 1705 01:31:22.079 --> 01:31:25.159 heard about it on guardline. Because guardline customers are their priorities, 1706 01:31:25.159 --> 01:31:27.680 so make sure and tell them that. But seven one 1707 01:31:27.800 --> 01:31:30.760 three six nine nine two six six three. If you 1708 01:31:30.800 --> 01:31:33.319 want to learn more about specific services they offer, you 1709 01:31:33.359 --> 01:31:35.880 can go to a f F Tree Service dot com 1710 01:31:36.159 --> 01:31:38.439 a f F Tree Service dot com. But you need 1711 01:31:38.479 --> 01:31:40.920 to give them a call seven one three, six nine 1712 01:31:41.039 --> 01:31:44.640 nine two six six three. If you need printing done, 1713 01:31:44.720 --> 01:31:47.319 if you need deep root feeding, if you need uh 1714 01:31:47.479 --> 01:31:49.399 maybe you're just consulting. You know, hey, we're going to 1715 01:31:49.439 --> 01:31:54.039 do some you know, trenching or putting some foundation or 1716 01:31:54.199 --> 01:31:56.760 maybe laying a driveway over part of this. Oh my gosh, 1717 01:31:56.880 --> 01:31:59.880 call them first so they can advise you before you 1718 01:32:00.079 --> 01:32:03.800 do serious damage to that tree. Pre construction care very 1719 01:32:03.960 --> 01:32:07.920 very very important. Pest and disease control also done by 1720 01:32:07.920 --> 01:32:10.239 Affordable Tree. They keep your trees healthy. And now's the 1721 01:32:10.359 --> 01:32:13.880 time to get them get on their calendar because summer 1722 01:32:14.000 --> 01:32:16.840 storm season is coming and you need trees that are 1723 01:32:17.119 --> 01:32:19.760 properly to have the best chance of making it through 1724 01:32:20.279 --> 01:32:23.600 the winds. That will be here. We're going to now 1725 01:32:23.680 --> 01:32:27.760 head out to Tomball and talk to Mel. Hello, Mel, 1726 01:32:27.840 --> 01:32:28.760 Welcome to garden Line. 1727 01:32:29.560 --> 01:32:32.239 Hey, good morning. I'm a little late this morning. I 1728 01:32:32.399 --> 01:32:37.119 got a question about I mean, he who is every year, 1729 01:32:37.279 --> 01:32:40.319 you know, you trial the boys and stuff you put 1730 01:32:40.359 --> 01:32:43.000 in there and try to chase them away. Yeah, they 1731 01:32:43.079 --> 01:32:46.279 come right, any suggestions. 1732 01:32:47.439 --> 01:32:52.319 They they yeah, they do come back. The There is 1733 01:32:52.399 --> 01:32:55.800 a website, uh and it is see the name of it. 1734 01:32:56.039 --> 01:32:58.199 It is hang on one second on get you to 1735 01:32:58.479 --> 01:32:59.640 get you the right one here. 1736 01:33:00.319 --> 01:33:00.439 Uh. 1737 01:33:00.720 --> 01:33:04.239 I believe it's uh Agrolife Learn. Let me let me 1738 01:33:04.399 --> 01:33:10.920 check that and make sure Agrolife Learn dot com. Believe 1739 01:33:10.960 --> 01:33:12.880 that's try and we're gonna find No, it's not dot com. 1740 01:33:13.000 --> 01:33:16.000 It can't be dot com. It's University dot tam dot 1741 01:33:16.039 --> 01:33:20.760 e du Just one second right, Sorry the delayer, but 1742 01:33:20.800 --> 01:33:22.880 I want to get and other other people are gonna 1743 01:33:22.880 --> 01:33:25.359 have the same question. Yeah, agrolife learned dot tmu dot 1744 01:33:25.439 --> 01:33:27.159 e du. Go in there and type in the word 1745 01:33:27.239 --> 01:33:31.119 moles m O l e s. It's applications and some 1746 01:33:31.319 --> 01:33:31.720 for sale. 1747 01:33:31.760 --> 01:33:35.359 But okay, I'm sorry, I didn't. I didn't catch life 1748 01:33:35.439 --> 01:33:36.840 learned at where did you say? 1749 01:33:38.720 --> 01:33:42.079 Not at? Just dot t dot t A m U 1750 01:33:43.039 --> 01:33:46.840 dot e d u uh. There there is a there's 1751 01:33:46.880 --> 01:33:51.319 a publication on moles and in that in that area 1752 01:33:51.640 --> 01:33:54.079 you can also go there's a section. If you don't 1753 01:33:54.119 --> 01:33:56.439 go by category, there's a section on you know, like 1754 01:33:56.600 --> 01:34:01.079 wildlife resources. It's thirteen different different you say that, but anyway, 1755 01:34:02.000 --> 01:34:04.359 get more information on it. Here's the bottom line though, 1756 01:34:04.760 --> 01:34:07.560 the bottom line is you're gonna either trap them or 1757 01:34:07.600 --> 01:34:10.760 poison them. One of the two poisons don't work very 1758 01:34:10.800 --> 01:34:14.079 well on them. Traps do. There are traps to shoot 1759 01:34:14.159 --> 01:34:17.600 spikes down in the ground. Basically, you find the run 1760 01:34:17.680 --> 01:34:21.960 that they're doing. Find the run and if it's like okay, 1761 01:34:22.000 --> 01:34:24.760 I think, you step on it and just mash the 1762 01:34:24.840 --> 01:34:27.479 little rays soiled down and then come back the next 1763 01:34:27.560 --> 01:34:29.399 day and check it. If it's pushed back up, that 1764 01:34:29.520 --> 01:34:32.560 means that's an active run that the moles are going through. 1765 01:34:33.359 --> 01:34:37.079 And so then you you push it down and you 1766 01:34:37.239 --> 01:34:39.880 set that trap, and then when the mole comes back 1767 01:34:39.920 --> 01:34:43.199 through there, it gets them. It's kind of gruesome, but 1768 01:34:43.560 --> 01:34:46.640 that's the way you go about it, and you just 1769 01:34:46.800 --> 01:34:49.920 need to set it in an active run. Good hardware stores, 1770 01:34:49.960 --> 01:34:52.159 feed stores and places like that or are going to 1771 01:34:52.239 --> 01:34:53.680 have traps or be able to tell you how to 1772 01:34:53.760 --> 01:34:56.359 get one so that you can have success. I talk 1773 01:34:56.439 --> 01:34:58.840 to call them out at D and Defeat see if 1774 01:34:58.840 --> 01:35:00.720 they've got any mole traps out there. I bet they do. 1775 01:35:01.800 --> 01:35:04.199 All right, that's west. 1776 01:35:05.840 --> 01:35:06.920 I can handle the groove. 1777 01:35:07.039 --> 01:35:10.600 Okay, well, well talk talk to them out at D 1778 01:35:10.680 --> 01:35:13.399 and D feed twenty nine twenty is just three miles 1779 01:35:13.439 --> 01:35:15.000 west of two forty nine. You may have been by 1780 01:35:15.079 --> 01:35:15.640 there already. 1781 01:35:16.319 --> 01:35:17.680 Oh yeah, yeah several times. 1782 01:35:17.800 --> 01:35:18.000 Yeah. 1783 01:35:18.680 --> 01:35:24.279 Agre Life learn at tamu ed jucation at tam dot 1784 01:35:24.479 --> 01:35:24.960 e u. 1785 01:35:26.640 --> 01:35:29.800 Yeah, but it's not at it's not an email address, 1786 01:35:29.840 --> 01:35:33.600 it's a website. So it's dot agrolife learned dot t 1787 01:35:33.840 --> 01:35:36.479 a m U dot e edu. I need to check 1788 01:35:36.560 --> 01:35:40.520 that again because I I haven't. I haven't looked at 1789 01:35:40.560 --> 01:35:42.399 it in a while. Hopefully, I hope they still have 1790 01:35:42.520 --> 01:35:46.680 that out there. If not, another Langrete university will. But uh, anyway, 1791 01:35:47.520 --> 01:35:50.279 let me let me do this. Hold on, I'm going 1792 01:35:50.359 --> 01:35:52.439 to hang up with you, but I'm put you on hold. 1793 01:35:52.920 --> 01:35:55.880 My producer is going to get get give you an email. 1794 01:35:56.000 --> 01:35:58.039 If you will email me, I will send you that 1795 01:35:58.199 --> 01:35:59.680 publication as an attachment. 1796 01:36:00.279 --> 01:36:02.520 That no sounds like a win appreciate. 1797 01:36:02.560 --> 01:36:05.960 So just hang on, mil you bet, hang on, We'll 1798 01:36:06.000 --> 01:36:06.319 be back. 1799 01:36:07.000 --> 01:36:07.119 Uh. 1800 01:36:07.399 --> 01:36:09.840 D and DE Feed and Supply isn't up there in Tambol, 1801 01:36:09.880 --> 01:36:11.720 and they've they've got everything you need. I mean, you 1802 01:36:11.760 --> 01:36:14.800 know you're looking for quality dog food and things, very 1803 01:36:14.880 --> 01:36:17.159 high end lines that they carry. But when it comes 1804 01:36:17.199 --> 01:36:20.920 to the garden products from nitrofoss and Microlife, Nelson turf 1805 01:36:21.039 --> 01:36:25.520 Star products from Medina, the jars of Nelson plant food, 1806 01:36:25.560 --> 01:36:29.960 the jars and microlife products from heirloom soils to have good, 1807 01:36:30.319 --> 01:36:33.800 good quality soils. They've got it all there at D 1808 01:36:33.960 --> 01:36:36.079 and D Feed and Tomball, three miles west of two 1809 01:36:36.119 --> 01:36:38.159 forty nine on twenty nine twenty. If you want to 1810 01:36:38.199 --> 01:36:41.840 get McCall two eight one three five one seventy one 1811 01:36:42.199 --> 01:36:45.399 forty four, two eight one three five one seventy one 1812 01:36:45.560 --> 01:36:49.199 forty four. Let's go now to Marie and Montgomery. Hey Marie, 1813 01:36:49.439 --> 01:36:50.479 welcome to garden Line. 1814 01:36:51.359 --> 01:36:53.399 Good morning, Skip, Skip. 1815 01:36:53.520 --> 01:36:56.960 I'll be treating my lawn with the nitro falls dugout next, 1816 01:36:57.039 --> 01:36:59.840 which has the pip pantherm. So my question is this, 1817 01:37:00.640 --> 01:37:04.119 Can I treat my poor grubs in my flower beds 1818 01:37:04.199 --> 01:37:07.479 with it? Or should I use their grub out their 1819 01:37:07.520 --> 01:37:11.840 grub X rather, which has a different acted ingredient. 1820 01:37:15.399 --> 01:37:18.079 That is a good question. I do not have a 1821 01:37:18.199 --> 01:37:21.039 bugout Max label in front of me, but it's going 1822 01:37:21.119 --> 01:37:24.520 to be up to what the label says. The label 1823 01:37:24.600 --> 01:37:27.920 tells you how much product do you use, when to 1824 01:37:28.000 --> 01:37:32.319 apply it, and where you can apply it. If you're 1825 01:37:32.359 --> 01:37:37.439 going to do that. It just s has lawn and garden. 1826 01:37:37.720 --> 01:37:39.560 So I'm going to assume you can use it in 1827 01:37:39.640 --> 01:37:42.199 flower beds, but would check the label to be sure. 1828 01:37:42.199 --> 01:37:44.880 I would say I'm seventy five percent sure you could 1829 01:37:44.960 --> 01:37:46.960 use it in the beds, but I'm not the law 1830 01:37:47.039 --> 01:37:47.880 that labels the law. 1831 01:37:48.880 --> 01:37:52.039 Okay, I understand, Okay, thank you. 1832 01:37:52.239 --> 01:37:55.439 So the next time, yeah, you're out there, Montgomery, I 1833 01:37:55.520 --> 01:37:59.560 know Ana plants out there just outside Montgomery. They're going 1834 01:37:59.640 --> 01:38:03.560 to have it. There is a good hardware store out 1835 01:38:03.640 --> 01:38:07.560 there in the Montgomery area, Ace Hardware Store, h and 1836 01:38:07.720 --> 01:38:09.439 they're going to probably have it too. And you can 1837 01:38:09.520 --> 01:38:11.000 just go in, flip it over, read it for you, 1838 01:38:11.079 --> 01:38:16.039 buy it, and bring it home. Okay, thank you, all right, 1839 01:38:16.560 --> 01:38:20.800 thank you? Goodbye? Yeah it is it is uh bye bye. 1840 01:38:21.359 --> 01:38:24.439 It is true. The label is the law. And you know, 1841 01:38:24.520 --> 01:38:27.239 people I used to as an extension agent, I got 1842 01:38:27.359 --> 01:38:30.640 calls like, hey, I just sprayed ortheene on my tomatoes. 1843 01:38:30.720 --> 01:38:31.399 Can I eat them? 1844 01:38:32.760 --> 01:38:32.800 No? 1845 01:38:33.520 --> 01:38:36.199 I mean, can you eat them? Yes? Should you? I 1846 01:38:36.319 --> 01:38:39.359 don't know, Probably not, because it's not on the label 1847 01:38:39.439 --> 01:38:42.520 to do that. And I can't give you permission to 1848 01:38:43.479 --> 01:38:46.439 eat something that's been you know, had something sprayed on it. 1849 01:38:46.439 --> 01:38:49.399 Shouldn't be shouldn't be sprayed on labels a law. I 1850 01:38:49.439 --> 01:38:51.239 wish people would read the label. But you know how 1851 01:38:51.319 --> 01:38:53.880 we are, especially us guys, yep, I know I'm throwing 1852 01:38:53.920 --> 01:38:56.560 myself under the bus. We don't like to add, we 1853 01:38:56.640 --> 01:39:00.279 don't like to ask for directions or read directions. And 1854 01:39:00.479 --> 01:39:03.520 we are very very sure that if a teaspoon is good, 1855 01:39:03.720 --> 01:39:08.439 a tablespoon is better. And that is wrong, wrong, wrong. 1856 01:39:09.600 --> 01:39:13.039 A lot of kinds of products, including herbicides. You used 1857 01:39:13.079 --> 01:39:15.560 too much. You hurt your lawn or you hurt whatever 1858 01:39:15.640 --> 01:39:19.239 plants your spring. All right, folks, we'll be right back. Hey, 1859 01:39:19.319 --> 01:39:21.960 welcome back to garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Ricker. 1860 01:39:22.319 --> 01:39:24.760 Good to have you with us today. We got all 1861 01:39:24.880 --> 01:39:26.760 kinds of good things to talk about. And I almost 1862 01:39:26.800 --> 01:39:29.439 start talking about speaking of good things in Chanty Gardens 1863 01:39:29.600 --> 01:39:32.039 down in Richmond, on the Katie Fullshire side of Richmond. 1864 01:39:32.039 --> 01:39:33.960 As a matter of fact, they're out there on FM 1865 01:39:34.119 --> 01:39:37.600 three fifty nine now the website. I want to write 1866 01:39:37.640 --> 01:39:40.800 this one down because it is very informative, very helpful, 1867 01:39:40.880 --> 01:39:46.439 lots of good information. Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. Enchanted 1868 01:39:46.479 --> 01:39:50.520 Gardens Richmond dot com. They've got all kinds. By the way, 1869 01:39:50.600 --> 01:39:54.239 today out in Chanted Gardens they have an event. Oh gosh, 1870 01:39:54.319 --> 01:39:58.199 what is the one. It's I just went blank. I 1871 01:39:58.319 --> 01:40:01.039 was just about to tell you, Oh, ferry gardening, fairy gardening. 1872 01:40:01.119 --> 01:40:04.399 What does that mean? Well, it means creating these little 1873 01:40:04.560 --> 01:40:07.000 miniature gardens as if it were a bunch of little 1874 01:40:07.039 --> 01:40:09.479 tiny fairies that created a garden. You can do them 1875 01:40:09.520 --> 01:40:11.359 around the base of your trees. That's a great place 1876 01:40:11.399 --> 01:40:12.359 to do them, but you can do them in a 1877 01:40:12.439 --> 01:40:15.680 container or anywhere you have little figurines you use. You 1878 01:40:16.319 --> 01:40:19.079 use little plants that are very small, like maybe a 1879 01:40:19.199 --> 01:40:21.720 moss to be the equivalent of a lawn. You get 1880 01:40:21.760 --> 01:40:25.039 the idea. Well, today, starting at ten pm the minute 1881 01:40:25.079 --> 01:40:27.760 I quit talking, they're going to kick off there at 1882 01:40:28.000 --> 01:40:32.319 Enchanted Gardens FM three point fifty nine richarmd n Rosenberg, 1883 01:40:32.399 --> 01:40:34.560 Katie Fullshire, side of Richmond. They're going to start that 1884 01:40:34.640 --> 01:40:37.680 program and they'll be rolling on it and then there's 1885 01:40:37.760 --> 01:40:40.159 another one coming up. I'm will tell you this ahead 1886 01:40:40.199 --> 01:40:42.520 of time so you can plan for it. Pots for 1887 01:40:42.640 --> 01:40:46.239 your patio or pool pots for your patio or a pool. 1888 01:40:47.319 --> 01:40:50.159 That is next Saturday, June fourteenth, from ten to two. 1889 01:40:50.800 --> 01:40:53.479 This is a significant program here. And let me tell 1890 01:40:53.479 --> 01:40:57.720 you something. If anybody knows how to create beautiful containers, 1891 01:40:57.920 --> 01:41:01.840 it's the folks at in chan Did Gardens. Maria does 1892 01:41:02.199 --> 01:41:04.399 excellent work for them there. You see her work all 1893 01:41:04.439 --> 01:41:06.560 the time if you follow them on social media. But 1894 01:41:06.680 --> 01:41:08.359 you want to create a hanging basket, you want to 1895 01:41:08.399 --> 01:41:10.319 create a container, you want to do one of these 1896 01:41:11.279 --> 01:41:14.439 metal It's not wire, it's thicker than wire, but metal 1897 01:41:15.600 --> 01:41:19.720 racks that then you line with a burlap or coconut 1898 01:41:19.800 --> 01:41:22.199 core liners or something, fill it with soil, and then 1899 01:41:22.279 --> 01:41:24.199 plant in it. They can tell you how to do 1900 01:41:24.279 --> 01:41:26.880 it and hands on. You get to do it yourself. 1901 01:41:26.920 --> 01:41:29.600 You get to choose your container and your plants and 1902 01:41:29.720 --> 01:41:32.840 then you can plant one of those containers and Maria 1903 01:41:32.960 --> 01:41:35.520 is going to be guiding you doing that. They'll help 1904 01:41:35.560 --> 01:41:37.600 you with the selection you like. Maybe you go, well, 1905 01:41:37.680 --> 01:41:39.720 this is for sun or maybe this is for shade, 1906 01:41:39.920 --> 01:41:44.079 or it works. Now the cost varies depending on what 1907 01:41:44.199 --> 01:41:46.600 you select. You know the size of the container and 1908 01:41:47.159 --> 01:41:49.479 the type of container. But just give them a call. 1909 01:41:49.840 --> 01:41:53.720 Two eight one three four one twelve oh six two 1910 01:41:53.760 --> 01:41:56.359 eight one three four one twelve oh six. Now while 1911 01:41:56.359 --> 01:41:58.000 you're out there, you hear me talk all the time 1912 01:41:58.079 --> 01:42:01.199 about every kind of plant that they have so many 1913 01:42:01.399 --> 01:42:05.640 cool plants at enchanted gardens, and so many cool products 1914 01:42:05.720 --> 01:42:08.399 to go with your plants, from fertilizers to containers to 1915 01:42:10.399 --> 01:42:13.079 landscape bling. We'll just call it landscape bling. This is 1916 01:42:13.119 --> 01:42:14.920 the place to go. You need to sign up for 1917 01:42:15.000 --> 01:42:19.600 that one next week. That's really really good. I love 1918 01:42:19.640 --> 01:42:21.399 going out there too. It's a fun place to visit. 1919 01:42:21.840 --> 01:42:26.800 Always find some good stuff at Chanted Gardens. Still someone 1920 01:42:26.840 --> 01:42:29.159 earlier they need to go to their local Ace Hardware 1921 01:42:29.199 --> 01:42:32.560 store and find stuff. Well, it is true. Ace Hardware 1922 01:42:33.039 --> 01:42:35.279 is the place to go for you name it. 1923 01:42:35.399 --> 01:42:35.520 Now. 1924 01:42:35.560 --> 01:42:38.199 I know you probably grew up in the hardware stores 1925 01:42:38.239 --> 01:42:41.680 where you buy wire and plumbing stuff and lighting and 1926 01:42:41.840 --> 01:42:45.600 switches and paint and things like that. ACE has all 1927 01:42:45.680 --> 01:42:48.520 of that, but it's so much more than your father's 1928 01:42:48.560 --> 01:42:50.920 hardware store. This is a place where you're going to 1929 01:42:51.000 --> 01:42:55.920 find the best selection of quality brands of barbecue pits anywhere. 1930 01:42:56.039 --> 01:43:01.079 Brands like Big Green Egg and Trager and Rectech and 1931 01:43:01.319 --> 01:43:04.520 Weber and you fell in the blink. All the supplies 1932 01:43:04.600 --> 01:43:07.880 you need for them, they're there at Ace Hardware Stores. 1933 01:43:07.920 --> 01:43:11.119 That's just an example of what Ace Hardware stores can do. 1934 01:43:11.439 --> 01:43:14.119 Ace Hardware stores also is a place where you're going 1935 01:43:14.199 --> 01:43:15.800 to find everything you need to take care of your home. 1936 01:43:15.840 --> 01:43:17.520 You know, you got to change out your air filters. 1937 01:43:17.560 --> 01:43:19.960 You got to maybe get some propane tanks for your 1938 01:43:20.119 --> 01:43:23.239 for your cooking. If you have a gas grilled, you 1939 01:43:23.399 --> 01:43:26.239 need to preserve that deck and take care of the deck. 1940 01:43:26.600 --> 01:43:29.680 You need fertilizers for your lawn. You need pest and 1941 01:43:29.760 --> 01:43:33.560 weed and disease control. You need gardening tools, or maybe 1942 01:43:33.960 --> 01:43:35.840 you know you're a do it yourself and they have 1943 01:43:36.079 --> 01:43:38.520 quality hand tools to fit your budget. You know, we're 1944 01:43:38.560 --> 01:43:43.640 talking about the ACE brand themselves. Stuff from Milwaukee, Stanley, Craftsman, 1945 01:43:43.800 --> 01:43:47.640 de Walt. They've got it all there at ACE Hardware store. 1946 01:43:48.359 --> 01:43:52.000 When you're in there to ask them about joining the 1947 01:43:52.079 --> 01:43:54.680 ACE Rewards program. It's free and easy, or you can 1948 01:43:54.760 --> 01:43:58.680 go online and do it. ACE Hardware Rewards customers get 1949 01:43:59.319 --> 01:44:02.439 discounts and special offers. It's you got it. You just 1950 01:44:02.560 --> 01:44:05.399 need to sign up and then you're shopping Pace. It 1951 01:44:05.520 --> 01:44:07.920 pays to shop at ACE Hardware storre as a result, 1952 01:44:08.600 --> 01:44:13.479 Ace Hardware Texas dot com. Acehardware Texas dot Com. That's 1953 01:44:13.560 --> 01:44:15.680 what you need to know. Let's go out to Lake Jackson. 1954 01:44:15.800 --> 01:44:18.399 Now we're going to talk to Lonnie. Hello Lonnie, welcome 1955 01:44:18.439 --> 01:44:19.039 to garden Line. 1956 01:44:20.079 --> 01:44:20.199 Hi. 1957 01:44:20.319 --> 01:44:20.840 How you doing? 1958 01:44:22.640 --> 01:44:24.800 I'm good here? How can we help? Okay? 1959 01:44:25.359 --> 01:44:30.800 Yes, sir, I'm bought a little blueberry bush and it's 1960 01:44:31.039 --> 01:44:34.680 completely taken over and by some type of whatever. 1961 01:44:34.760 --> 01:44:35.119 I don't know. 1962 01:44:35.199 --> 01:44:37.920 I sent you a picture of it and I wanted 1963 01:44:37.960 --> 01:44:39.520 you to look at it. And first of all, see 1964 01:44:39.560 --> 01:44:41.319 if it's something that I can put on it to 1965 01:44:41.399 --> 01:44:43.560 save it, and then should I move it away from 1966 01:44:43.640 --> 01:44:45.319 other plants afford spreads? 1967 01:44:49.840 --> 01:44:55.199 Oh my gosh. Okay, well, my best guess is those 1968 01:44:55.239 --> 01:44:58.600 were tiny caterpillars. So get in there. I don't know 1969 01:44:58.680 --> 01:45:01.479 you'll find it anyhow, because all the leaves are gone. 1970 01:45:02.319 --> 01:45:05.039 But get in there and open that up a little 1971 01:45:05.079 --> 01:45:09.000 bit and look for little tiny caterpillars. And if that 1972 01:45:09.159 --> 01:45:12.960 ever start, it should relief. It should have enough energy 1973 01:45:13.039 --> 01:45:16.840 to relief. But begin to spray it with either spin 1974 01:45:16.960 --> 01:45:21.640 no said s P I N O S A D 1975 01:45:22.479 --> 01:45:27.039 the word spin, the letter oh, the word sad, or 1976 01:45:28.039 --> 01:45:31.479 something containing B T B as in boy teas and tom. 1977 01:45:31.960 --> 01:45:35.359 But you don't at this point, there's no nothing to spray. 1978 01:45:35.560 --> 01:45:39.159 It's it's they're done. But next time you start to 1979 01:45:39.199 --> 01:45:40.880 see a little bit of this, hit it with that. 1980 01:45:41.000 --> 01:45:44.479 Those are both organic, They kill caterpillars. They work very well. 1981 01:45:45.119 --> 01:45:48.520 There are also products that contain well that those two 1982 01:45:48.600 --> 01:45:50.880 alone will be enough. You just have to do, especially 1983 01:45:51.359 --> 01:45:55.199 in the regular basis about every three days, as long 1984 01:45:55.239 --> 01:46:00.720 as it contains the BT. It's what I mean, yes BT, 1985 01:46:01.279 --> 01:46:04.439 or I want to spindocit either one of those. Okay, 1986 01:46:05.880 --> 01:46:06.680 one other question. 1987 01:46:07.880 --> 01:46:09.680 We were putting in a pool, and when this is 1988 01:46:09.760 --> 01:46:13.560 all the destruction is all done, we want to replant 1989 01:46:13.680 --> 01:46:15.600 some trees and this and that in the yard. 1990 01:46:16.279 --> 01:46:18.880 Uh it do you get questions answered? 1991 01:46:18.920 --> 01:46:20.479 Do we just need to call in or do you 1992 01:46:20.560 --> 01:46:23.279 have a website you can send email a question about 1993 01:46:23.640 --> 01:46:24.039 I want to. 1994 01:46:24.039 --> 01:46:25.319 Put in a lime train? I want to put it? 1995 01:46:25.479 --> 01:46:29.439 I don't have yeah, right, I can't do the I 1996 01:46:29.479 --> 01:46:31.840 can't do the email things. I just have too much 1997 01:46:32.039 --> 01:46:34.239 to cover on that to be able to go into 1998 01:46:34.319 --> 01:46:38.159 the time involved. But if you can email me pictures 1999 01:46:38.319 --> 01:46:41.680 and questions and then follow up with a phone call, uh, 2000 01:46:41.920 --> 01:46:44.479 and then then we would be ready to go, just 2001 01:46:44.560 --> 01:46:46.680 like you did on this one right here, that's probably 2002 01:46:46.720 --> 01:46:49.000 the best way to go about that. My website is 2003 01:46:49.119 --> 01:46:53.279 gardening with skip dot com Gardening with skip dot com, 2004 01:46:53.399 --> 01:46:58.279 and there are publications that answer questions on there. Okay, hey, Rick, 2005 01:46:58.319 --> 01:47:00.399 I got to run or Lani, excuse me? 2006 01:47:02.720 --> 01:47:06.239 Do you know anybody like Jack I don't recommend okay, 2007 01:47:07.039 --> 01:47:10.560 uh for for what we're recommend for? 2008 01:47:10.640 --> 01:47:13.359 What for these questions? Like an arborist, like these type 2009 01:47:13.359 --> 01:47:19.039 of questions, I would well you could yeah, you could 2010 01:47:19.079 --> 01:47:23.239 call your county agrolife Extension office down there. There's an agent. 2011 01:47:24.000 --> 01:47:30.920 Uh what county is Lake Jackson in Brazilia. Okay, Yeah, 2012 01:47:31.000 --> 01:47:34.119 you've got a horticulturist in your office right there in 2013 01:47:34.199 --> 01:47:38.119 Brazoria County, so you're lucky. Uh, not just agriculture, but 2014 01:47:38.319 --> 01:47:41.199 also a horticulture. Just give them a call, talk to 2015 01:47:41.319 --> 01:47:44.680 either her or the master gardeners and they can get 2016 01:47:44.760 --> 01:47:48.000 you fixed up. Okay, Well, thank you for your help. 2017 01:47:48.359 --> 01:47:51.359 All right, yes, sir, thanks a lot. Appreciate that. 2018 01:47:52.079 --> 01:47:52.159 Uh. 2019 01:47:52.279 --> 01:47:55.479 Moss Nursery Done in Seabrook, Texas is a place you 2020 01:47:55.640 --> 01:47:59.760 go for you fill in the blank. Eight acres cram 2021 01:48:00.039 --> 01:48:03.479 full of gargious plants, beautiful blooms everywhere. I don't care 2022 01:48:03.479 --> 01:48:05.079 if it's going to be one hundred degrees in a 2023 01:48:05.119 --> 01:48:07.920 month or so. They've got plants that can take it, 2024 01:48:08.239 --> 01:48:11.439 that thrive in that. They have people that work there 2025 01:48:11.520 --> 01:48:13.760 that are friendly, that are helpful, that can put you 2026 01:48:14.119 --> 01:48:16.560 and the right plant together so you can both be 2027 01:48:16.640 --> 01:48:20.079 happy when you get home. Moss Nursery isn't just another 2028 01:48:20.119 --> 01:48:25.399 garden center. It's a seventy year old family operated nursery. 2029 01:48:25.560 --> 01:48:29.399 That garden center that just is the source for everything 2030 01:48:29.479 --> 01:48:32.680 that you're looking for. That includes shrubs, that includes trees, 2031 01:48:32.760 --> 01:48:34.840 that includes some of the best selection of pottery you're 2032 01:48:34.880 --> 01:48:38.239 going to ever see anywhere. Mainly, it's people that can 2033 01:48:38.319 --> 01:48:41.000 help you have success. If you are looking for some 2034 01:48:41.079 --> 01:48:45.479 beautiful house plants, go check out that greenhouse. It is unbelievable. 2035 01:48:45.720 --> 01:48:49.479 Love going to Moss Nursery, Seabrook, Texas, Toddville Road by 2036 01:48:49.520 --> 01:48:52.920 the way two eight one four seven four twenty four 2037 01:48:53.000 --> 01:48:56.000 eighty eight. Two eight one four seven four twenty four 2038 01:48:56.439 --> 01:48:59.119 eighty eight. I'm going to take a break. We'll come 2039 01:48:59.199 --> 01:49:02.359 back and and Montgomery you'll be our first stop. Hey, 2040 01:49:02.439 --> 01:49:04.279 welcome back to garden Line. Good have you with us. 2041 01:49:04.920 --> 01:49:06.680 We're going to run right off the phones here and 2042 01:49:06.920 --> 01:49:10.680 talk to Rick in Montgomery. Hello, Rick, and welcome to 2043 01:49:10.760 --> 01:49:11.279 garden Line. 2044 01:49:12.199 --> 01:49:12.760 Good morning. 2045 01:49:14.079 --> 01:49:15.119 My wife and I body. 2046 01:49:16.319 --> 01:49:17.960 We bought a Chicago hardy. 2047 01:49:17.760 --> 01:49:21.920 Sting from a reputable place in time Ball and we 2048 01:49:22.039 --> 01:49:26.560 have not planted. We haven't transplanted it yet, but we 2049 01:49:26.760 --> 01:49:30.119 just recently discovered the leaves are starting. This is starting 2050 01:49:30.159 --> 01:49:33.560 from the ground up, so the bottom leaves first, they're 2051 01:49:33.600 --> 01:49:37.800 starting to yellow and they also have some like brown spots. 2052 01:49:37.920 --> 01:49:38.920 All around them. 2053 01:49:40.039 --> 01:49:44.560 It's starting to creep up up the tree. We've been 2054 01:49:44.680 --> 01:49:45.239 water it. 2055 01:49:48.960 --> 01:49:52.520 Yeah, so it could have had a time where it 2056 01:49:52.560 --> 01:49:54.359 went without water for a little bit, even in the 2057 01:49:54.399 --> 01:49:57.800 process of you know, you getting home and whatnot, had 2058 01:49:57.800 --> 01:49:59.680 a little bit of a drought stress. It could also, 2059 01:50:00.920 --> 01:50:04.319 you know, figs, as new growth comes on, sometimes leaves 2060 01:50:04.399 --> 01:50:07.159 are cast off, especially in stresses. But they can be 2061 01:50:07.279 --> 01:50:10.039 cast off, and so as you're describing it, it may 2062 01:50:10.119 --> 01:50:13.560 not be a problem, but there is a disease called 2063 01:50:13.600 --> 01:50:17.640 fig rust and that is everywhere, and it's in the air, 2064 01:50:17.760 --> 01:50:20.079 and when we have wet conditions on the leaves, you 2065 01:50:20.199 --> 01:50:23.920 tend to get rust infestations that cause brown spots and 2066 01:50:24.079 --> 01:50:26.800 yellowing and defiliation of the spot of the leaves that 2067 01:50:26.960 --> 01:50:30.760 have that on them. There's not a great rust control 2068 01:50:31.079 --> 01:50:35.640 product for the home gardener. There just isn't, and that's 2069 01:50:35.720 --> 01:50:40.439 label for figs. Sulfur sprays can help suppress it a 2070 01:50:40.479 --> 01:50:43.000 little bit, but you have to be careful using sulfur 2071 01:50:43.079 --> 01:50:45.359 when it's really very hot. I would spray that sulfur 2072 01:50:45.800 --> 01:50:49.439 maybe very very early in the morning on the foliage. 2073 01:50:49.479 --> 01:50:52.279 If you do go that route. You can go online 2074 01:50:52.319 --> 01:50:55.600 and do a little web search for fig rust and 2075 01:50:55.680 --> 01:50:59.000 look at the images. Whenever you do that, a lot 2076 01:50:59.079 --> 01:51:01.520 of the images are something else. That's just how it 2077 01:51:01.720 --> 01:51:04.000 is out there that as you look at all of them, 2078 01:51:04.039 --> 01:51:06.039 you kind of go, Okay, this is pretty clearly what 2079 01:51:06.119 --> 01:51:08.319 they're talking about here, and see if that's what you see. 2080 01:51:08.960 --> 01:51:11.960 And if it is, then then again a wettable sulfur 2081 01:51:12.159 --> 01:51:14.880 or a liquid sulfur type spray, following the label, but 2082 01:51:14.960 --> 01:51:17.399 being very careful not to do it when the sun 2083 01:51:17.560 --> 01:51:22.119 is hot baking down on the foliage. Okay, it does 2084 01:51:22.239 --> 01:51:27.439 look like you may want to test it, Yeah, right, Well, 2085 01:51:27.479 --> 01:51:29.600 if it and if it's a rust, at some point 2086 01:51:29.720 --> 01:51:31.760 the spores get released. And if you take your thumb 2087 01:51:31.800 --> 01:51:33.479 and rub it off the bottom of the leaf, not 2088 01:51:33.600 --> 01:51:36.279 the top, but the bottom, you'll see a rusty little 2089 01:51:36.359 --> 01:51:39.039 dust on your thumb. Good, that's the spores coming off 2090 01:51:39.119 --> 01:51:39.279 of it. 2091 01:51:40.479 --> 01:51:42.720 Okay, I'll do that. 2092 01:51:43.439 --> 01:51:45.239 Okay, where should I? 2093 01:51:45.760 --> 01:51:45.880 Well? 2094 01:51:45.920 --> 01:51:50.520 Good luck and as much sun as you can give it, 2095 01:51:51.640 --> 01:51:54.119 decent drainage. You know, I wouldn't put it in a swamp, 2096 01:51:54.199 --> 01:51:57.640 but decent drainage. Figs are tolerant of clay soil. They're 2097 01:51:57.680 --> 01:52:02.319 tolerant of pretty wet soils. But if it just is 2098 01:52:02.560 --> 01:52:04.880 too heavy of a clay, and it stays too wet. 2099 01:52:05.000 --> 01:52:07.920 You're not going to get good rooting depth from your figs. 2100 01:52:08.760 --> 01:52:10.439 That's pretty sandy up here in Montgomery. 2101 01:52:12.279 --> 01:52:15.159 Oh you're good to go then. Yeah. Now, one other 2102 01:52:15.279 --> 01:52:18.159 thing is in sandy soils, figs can get nematodes. That's 2103 01:52:18.319 --> 01:52:20.399 just nothing you can do about that. It just is 2104 01:52:20.520 --> 01:52:23.159 what it is. So mix as much compost as you 2105 01:52:23.239 --> 01:52:28.079 can into the soil and continue to keep that thing 2106 01:52:28.199 --> 01:52:31.720 mulched in a big, wide area so that there's always 2107 01:52:31.760 --> 01:52:34.800 decomposing organic matter, a big thick layer of that on 2108 01:52:34.920 --> 01:52:36.439 top of the soil, and now will help your fig 2109 01:52:36.520 --> 01:52:37.319 to thrive. Also. 2110 01:52:38.399 --> 01:52:39.840 Okay, well, thank you very much. 2111 01:52:39.840 --> 01:52:42.880 I appreciate it. Okay, sir, good luck with that. I 2112 01:52:43.000 --> 01:52:44.920 enjoy your figs now. I always say on guarden line, 2113 01:52:45.199 --> 01:52:46.920 I don't charge you for my advice, but I do 2114 01:52:47.039 --> 01:52:48.880 ask you to bring me half the figs. That's all. 2115 01:52:48.960 --> 01:52:52.840 That's all I'm asking. Sounds reasonable to me. Thanks a lot, man, 2116 01:52:53.079 --> 01:53:01.359 appreciate you. All right, there we go. Yeah. Microlife fertilizers 2117 01:53:01.760 --> 01:53:04.079 come in many forms. There's the granular forms of course. 2118 01:53:04.119 --> 01:53:06.399 You know about the green bag, that's the lawn fertilizer 2119 01:53:06.479 --> 01:53:08.840 sixty four, which by the way, is good for anything. 2120 01:53:09.800 --> 01:53:12.880 They have forms for acidic kind of a pinkish red 2121 01:53:12.960 --> 01:53:16.359 bag for acidic loving plants. They've got just a wide 2122 01:53:16.439 --> 01:53:18.840 variety of options out there. I want to talk to 2123 01:53:19.119 --> 01:53:23.800 about some of the liquids. Microlife Biomatrix is the orange 2124 01:53:24.000 --> 01:53:25.920 labeled liquid you can buy by the quirt, you can 2125 01:53:25.960 --> 01:53:29.880 buy by the gallon, and it is an extra boost 2126 01:53:29.920 --> 01:53:32.159 of nitrogen. So I use it a lot on houseplants 2127 01:53:32.199 --> 01:53:34.319 because it's got that extra nitrogen boost in it, but 2128 01:53:34.720 --> 01:53:37.840 it's also wonderful to use outdoors. And then there's a 2129 01:53:37.920 --> 01:53:42.119 Microlife Ocean Harvest, which is a blue label, okay blue label. 2130 01:53:42.199 --> 01:53:47.199 That's a four two three organic fish based fertilizer. Has 2131 01:53:47.199 --> 01:53:48.960 a little bit of fish odor, so use that one 2132 01:53:49.039 --> 01:53:52.479 outdoors rather than in the house. But it is an 2133 01:53:52.560 --> 01:53:54.680 organic product that works really well. Neither one of them 2134 01:53:54.720 --> 01:53:57.600 is going to burn. You use them properly and they 2135 01:53:57.680 --> 01:54:02.279 will give you good plant results. Okay. Microlife fertilizers, you 2136 01:54:02.319 --> 01:54:05.039 can go to microlifefertilizer dot com find out about all 2137 01:54:05.119 --> 01:54:08.199 the other fertilizers for microlife, and there are a number 2138 01:54:08.279 --> 01:54:12.640 of them, including things that are supplements of microbes, including 2139 01:54:13.079 --> 01:54:16.720 things that have other growth promoting factors in them, not 2140 01:54:17.199 --> 01:54:19.880 just packs of nutrients, but a lot of other good 2141 01:54:19.920 --> 01:54:24.039 things in them. That's what you find at microlifefertilizer dot com. 2142 01:54:25.840 --> 01:54:29.600 You're listening to Gardenline. We're coming close to the end here. 2143 01:54:30.239 --> 01:54:31.720 If you would like to be one of the first 2144 01:54:31.800 --> 01:54:34.680 calls when we come back from this break. By the way, 2145 01:54:34.760 --> 01:54:37.079 we're about to enter when we come back our last 2146 01:54:37.439 --> 01:54:39.560 hour of the show. So if you want to be 2147 01:54:39.960 --> 01:54:42.199 not have to wait in a long line, maybe called 2148 01:54:42.239 --> 01:54:45.720 before so that our producer can have you ready to 2149 01:54:45.800 --> 01:54:48.680 go when I do come back. By the way that 2150 01:54:48.800 --> 01:54:51.079 I said, you can get Microlife fertilizer a lot of places. 2151 01:54:51.359 --> 01:54:54.000 One place you can get it is Southwest Fertilizer. That's 2152 01:54:54.119 --> 01:54:58.199 no news because Southwest Fertilizer carries everything. They carry products 2153 01:54:58.239 --> 01:55:05.640 from Microlife and Nelson's and from Medina, from Nitrophoss. They 2154 01:55:05.720 --> 01:55:09.840 have their own brands of product fertilizers as well. They're 2155 01:55:09.880 --> 01:55:11.960 going to have any kind of tool you can imagine, 2156 01:55:12.000 --> 01:55:14.840 and it's going to be an equality brand, a quality 2157 01:55:14.920 --> 01:55:17.800 brand that's going to work. The tool wall is ninety 2158 01:55:17.840 --> 01:55:20.199 feet long. Okay, does that tell you something. Can you 2159 01:55:20.279 --> 01:55:22.159 imagine how many tools you can get in ninety foot 2160 01:55:22.199 --> 01:55:24.800 long wall of tools When you go in there, you 2161 01:55:24.840 --> 01:55:26.720 can bring them a sample, you can bring them a picture, 2162 01:55:27.000 --> 01:55:28.800 and you can say, hey, guys, take a look at this, 2163 01:55:29.560 --> 01:55:31.560 what is it? What do I do? And if it's 2164 01:55:31.640 --> 01:55:35.520 a problem, they'll tent'ify it. They'll tell you here's some options. 2165 01:55:35.560 --> 01:55:37.600 And there won't just be one, there'll be a number 2166 01:55:37.680 --> 01:55:40.239 of them there. I sent somebody to Southwest the other 2167 01:55:40.319 --> 01:55:43.840 day who had a problem with re sprouting. They had 2168 01:55:44.159 --> 01:55:46.760 dug up a crape myrtle and gotten rid of it, 2169 01:55:46.960 --> 01:55:49.399 and then the roots sprouted, and they wonder how to 2170 01:55:49.479 --> 01:55:51.479 get rid of that, And I said, well, goes out 2171 01:55:51.479 --> 01:55:54.479 of this fertilizer. Here's what you need. I have a 2172 01:55:55.560 --> 01:55:59.039 plant that is suckering a lot crape myrtles, see that too, 2173 01:55:59.640 --> 01:56:01.800 And there's a different product that you can put on 2174 01:56:01.920 --> 01:56:04.359 when you remove the sucker, the little shoot coming up 2175 01:56:04.359 --> 01:56:06.680 from the bottom you don't want. You just put that 2176 01:56:06.840 --> 01:56:09.920 on the spot and it stops the suckering, It shuts 2177 01:56:09.960 --> 01:56:12.399 it down, works really well. You're going to get it 2178 01:56:12.479 --> 01:56:15.920 where Southwest fertilizer. Do Do you need the name of it? No, 2179 01:56:16.000 --> 01:56:17.720 you don't because here's why. You go and you talk 2180 01:56:17.800 --> 01:56:19.439 to Bob or one of the staff and you say, hey, 2181 01:56:19.800 --> 01:56:22.239 Skip said, there's something that stops suckers from coming out 2182 01:56:22.279 --> 01:56:24.840 of the bottom. They'll walk your right to it. Skip said, 2183 01:56:24.840 --> 01:56:26.960 there's something that kills a plant, the tree sprouting that 2184 01:56:27.039 --> 01:56:28.920 you want to get rid of. They'll walk your right 2185 01:56:29.000 --> 01:56:31.960 to it. They know what they're talking about. Southwest Fertilizer 2186 01:56:32.000 --> 01:56:36.880 dot Com corner Busin and Renwick. Simple as that. All right, 2187 01:56:37.000 --> 01:56:39.720 time for a little break here. We will take the 2188 01:56:39.800 --> 01:56:42.640 news break right now, and when we come back, we 2189 01:56:42.720 --> 01:56:45.479 will be back for your questions again. If you want 2190 01:56:45.520 --> 01:56:46.840 to get a little head start and now it'd be 2191 01:56:46.880 --> 01:56:49.000 a good time. Just give a call, get on hold, 2192 01:56:49.680 --> 01:56:52.119 get your business done while you're waiting seven one three 2193 01:56:52.199 --> 01:56:54.680 two one two k t RH we'll be back with 2194 01:56:54.760 --> 01:56:58.439 your questions. Remember my website Gardening with Skip dot com. 2195 01:56:59.399 --> 01:57:02.439 If you go there, there's a thing called controlling woody 2196 01:57:02.479 --> 01:57:05.319 weeds in the landscape. What is a woody weed. It's 2197 01:57:05.399 --> 01:57:09.199 poison ivy, it's pepper vine. It's those hackberries coming up 2198 01:57:09.199 --> 01:57:11.520 along the fence line because the birds poop the seeds 2199 01:57:11.520 --> 01:57:14.720 out right there. It's that cramberle. You dug up and 2200 01:57:14.880 --> 01:57:17.520 now it's coming up again, but you don't want it there. 2201 01:57:17.960 --> 01:57:21.880 The roots are sprouting, controlling woody weeds in the landscape. 2202 01:57:21.920 --> 01:57:24.279 It's free. It tells you how to do it. It works, 2203 01:57:24.800 --> 01:57:28.960 it's easy to there's one on nutsedge. You ever had nutsedge? 2204 01:57:29.079 --> 01:57:32.439 People call it nut grass. I've got a publication called 2205 01:57:32.960 --> 01:57:35.239 nutsedge and end out the book. If you read it 2206 01:57:35.520 --> 01:57:40.600 and if you follow it, you can get rid of nutsedge, definitely. 2207 01:57:41.359 --> 01:57:43.439 I did it all last year and to a bed 2208 01:57:43.720 --> 01:57:47.560 full of nutsedge. And this year I had like three 2209 01:57:47.680 --> 01:57:51.159 nutsedge nuts. It popped up in spring. Everything else is gone. 2210 01:57:51.239 --> 01:57:53.800 And guess what I did. I jumped on them, as 2211 01:57:53.840 --> 01:57:56.800 they say, like a duck on a junebug. Because you 2212 01:57:56.960 --> 01:57:59.920 give nuts edge a few weeks to grow and set 2213 01:58:00.159 --> 01:58:05.760 nuts underground. And not only do you have a worst problem, 2214 01:58:05.760 --> 01:58:08.840 you have like an eight times worst problem, because that 2215 01:58:09.439 --> 01:58:12.399 is the nature of that evil beast. That's it. But 2216 01:58:12.520 --> 01:58:15.159 my publication tells you how to deal with it. Gardeningwidth 2217 01:58:15.239 --> 01:58:26.239 skip dot com. All right, we're back, sud Welcome to 2218 01:58:26.359 --> 01:58:32.279 garden Line. Good to have you with us today. Love 2219 01:58:32.399 --> 01:58:34.520 to visit with you about the things that are of 2220 01:58:34.560 --> 01:58:36.039 interest to you if you'd like to give me call 2221 01:58:36.159 --> 01:58:39.159 seven one three two one two k t r H 2222 01:58:40.159 --> 01:58:45.000 Arctic Insulation Solutions Boys there ever, if there ever was 2223 01:58:45.199 --> 01:58:49.000 a timely time to call them, now is that we 2224 01:58:49.159 --> 01:58:52.520 are going into summer and your electric bills go up 2225 01:58:52.600 --> 01:58:55.119 in summer, as do mine, right, I mean, it heats 2226 01:58:55.199 --> 01:58:57.479 up and it gets brutal. Have you ever been in 2227 01:58:57.560 --> 01:58:59.640 your attic on a summer day. I mean it's like 2228 01:59:00.000 --> 01:59:01.680 one hundred and fifty I've seen it one hundred and 2229 01:59:01.720 --> 01:59:04.119 sixty even in an attic on a summer It's crazy 2230 01:59:04.279 --> 01:59:06.920 how hot it gets. What happens to that heat? It's 2231 01:59:07.079 --> 01:59:10.640 radiating everywhere, including into the ceiling of your house. And 2232 01:59:10.760 --> 01:59:14.199 if you've got maybe where the registers are the low 2233 01:59:14.279 --> 01:59:16.920 events that come out of the ceiling for your ac 2234 01:59:17.600 --> 01:59:20.920 or maybe where a ceiling fan or a light fixture attaches, 2235 01:59:20.960 --> 01:59:23.960 there's a gap there and that hot air can get 2236 01:59:24.039 --> 01:59:26.199 down into your living space. And I mean it's like 2237 01:59:26.319 --> 01:59:27.239 leaving a window open. 2238 01:59:27.439 --> 01:59:27.960 It really is. 2239 01:59:28.079 --> 01:59:30.960 I mean, if you've got one hundred and sixty degree air, 2240 01:59:31.279 --> 01:59:33.560 it's able to leak down into your house or radiate 2241 01:59:33.640 --> 01:59:36.039 down into your house. 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Do you need a 2252 02:00:06.840 --> 02:00:09.880 radiant barrier up in the attic reflects ninety seven percent 2253 02:00:09.920 --> 02:00:11.720 of the heat away from the attic, keeps it about 2254 02:00:11.720 --> 02:00:15.199 thirty degrees cooler to do that? Do you need fiberglass 2255 02:00:15.239 --> 02:00:18.000 insulation blown up? I like the kind that blows up. 2256 02:00:18.479 --> 02:00:21.800 They blow it out up in there. It's costs less 2257 02:00:21.800 --> 02:00:24.479 and it really does work our value of thirty eight 2258 02:00:24.800 --> 02:00:27.279 up of your ceiling there. They can do that. I mean, 2259 02:00:27.319 --> 02:00:28.880 if it's just a matter of getting up there and 2260 02:00:29.279 --> 02:00:31.640 blowing a little fiberglass in to get that level up 2261 02:00:31.680 --> 02:00:32.840 to where it needs to be, then to do that 2262 02:00:32.880 --> 02:00:36.039 in a few hours. It's easy to do. Now, maybe 2263 02:00:36.079 --> 02:00:38.880 you need a solar attic fan. What is that? Well, 2264 02:00:39.359 --> 02:00:42.399 it is a fan that blows air out of the attic, 2265 02:00:43.359 --> 02:00:46.359 out of the attic to the outside whenever the temperatures 2266 02:00:46.399 --> 02:00:49.640 get above eighty five degrees or above seventy five percent humidity. 2267 02:00:49.640 --> 02:00:51.239 Because also you don't want it wet up there or 2268 02:00:51.279 --> 02:00:54.119 humid up there you get mold. That fan comes on 2269 02:00:54.239 --> 02:00:57.640 and blows fifteen hundred cubic feet per minute of air 2270 02:00:58.039 --> 02:01:01.399 and it keeps that attic belie ventilated. These are just 2271 02:01:01.479 --> 02:01:02.960 a few of the things they do. Then go ahead 2272 02:01:02.960 --> 02:01:05.119 and remove all the old insulation. 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I'm in the whole area here, Arctic Insulation Solutions. 2295 02:02:15.920 --> 02:02:17.920 Let that out the league city. Now we're going to 2296 02:02:18.000 --> 02:02:21.039 visit with Glenn. Hello Glenn, and welcome to garden Line. 2297 02:02:22.359 --> 02:02:22.560 Hello. 2298 02:02:23.119 --> 02:02:26.399 I need to take you off of speakerphones, so I 2299 02:02:26.560 --> 02:02:31.039 don't have the background. You can't hear any reverb, can you. 2300 02:02:33.359 --> 02:02:33.399 Not? 2301 02:02:33.680 --> 02:02:35.520 Currently? Okay? 2302 02:02:35.680 --> 02:02:38.279 Great, thank you for taking my call. 2303 02:02:38.560 --> 02:02:45.079 I currently use your schedule and I'm using the pre emergent. 2304 02:02:45.279 --> 02:02:48.079 I use that the number of times per year that 2305 02:02:48.159 --> 02:02:51.600 you recommend and I don't know if the weeds are 2306 02:02:51.680 --> 02:02:55.359 becoming tolerant to it, but it doesn't seem to be 2307 02:02:55.640 --> 02:02:56.399 working anymore. 2308 02:02:58.359 --> 02:03:01.479 Okay, what kind of weeds you you seeing that escape 2309 02:03:01.479 --> 02:03:04.399 the last pre emergent you put down, do you know? 2310 02:03:07.479 --> 02:03:10.920 Yeah, there's ones with and uncolored blandch so bear with 2311 02:03:11.039 --> 02:03:15.720 the area the purple or blue little flowers. And then 2312 02:03:15.760 --> 02:03:19.039 there's another one that if you touch it it curls up. 2313 02:03:19.159 --> 02:03:22.680 The leaves actually curl up. And then there's some broad 2314 02:03:23.000 --> 02:03:24.199 broad leaves as well. 2315 02:03:25.640 --> 02:03:30.319 Okay, good, all right, so what's probably happening. Some of 2316 02:03:30.359 --> 02:03:34.079 those weeds are perennial weeds, and so pre emergents don't 2317 02:03:34.199 --> 02:03:38.279 stop the weed from coming up. It's already existing and 2318 02:03:38.439 --> 02:03:40.840 died back and now it's coming back again. They just 2319 02:03:40.920 --> 02:03:45.119 stopped the seeds from creating new weed plants. So that's 2320 02:03:45.239 --> 02:03:48.319 one thing. Pre emergence don't last. They don't last forever. 2321 02:03:48.560 --> 02:03:50.640 And so you know, if you do them in like 2322 02:03:50.840 --> 02:03:54.680 our first pre emergence in February, mid February in your 2323 02:03:54.760 --> 02:03:58.439 area for sure, maybe early February down in League City, 2324 02:03:58.880 --> 02:04:02.279 and by the time we get sixty days or more in, 2325 02:04:04.119 --> 02:04:07.359 they're breaking down and weeds can begin to germinate on that, 2326 02:04:07.680 --> 02:04:12.319 so that's another possibility. Yes, resistance is possible, but not 2327 02:04:12.479 --> 02:04:15.920 that common. There are a few weeds like annual bluegrass, 2328 02:04:16.079 --> 02:04:18.680 we do have some resistance issues with, but I think 2329 02:04:18.720 --> 02:04:21.800 primarily what we're looking at is perennials coming back through. 2330 02:04:22.439 --> 02:04:25.560 The one that you touch the leaves and they curl 2331 02:04:25.680 --> 02:04:29.600 up is almost a woody little weed. The vines are thin, 2332 02:04:30.239 --> 02:04:32.760 but they're very woody with little claws on them, And 2333 02:04:33.239 --> 02:04:35.800 that one you have to use a post emergent that's 2334 02:04:36.359 --> 02:04:39.560 pretty powerful on. Some of the products that will control 2335 02:04:39.640 --> 02:04:42.239 it will hurt your lawn. So I usually tell people 2336 02:04:42.319 --> 02:04:45.359 to pull that up. Just lift the runners up out 2337 02:04:45.359 --> 02:04:47.640 of the lawn, lay a piece of cardboard or something 2338 02:04:47.760 --> 02:04:50.800 under them, and just spray the runner with a certain 2339 02:04:50.880 --> 02:04:56.199 product containing triclope here. Just on that runner, let it dry, 2340 02:04:56.279 --> 02:04:58.319 and then you pull the cardboard out. But I'm just 2341 02:04:58.359 --> 02:05:00.560 saying that's the way to kill it without killing the grass. 2342 02:05:01.319 --> 02:05:04.000 Some of the others, the one with blue flowers, it 2343 02:05:04.159 --> 02:05:08.239 could be something called dove weed, bluish purple flowers. There's 2344 02:05:08.319 --> 02:05:12.920 one with blue flowers called dayflower that is also not 2345 02:05:13.039 --> 02:05:16.439 going to respond even to good broad leaf herbicides. So 2346 02:05:16.960 --> 02:05:19.439 maybe what you would do, Glenn is let me put 2347 02:05:19.479 --> 02:05:24.800 you on hold, and I'm gonna let my producer give 2348 02:05:24.880 --> 02:05:29.960 you the email, and if you would email photos maybe 2349 02:05:30.159 --> 02:05:32.359 some of this you're still having problems with something, send 2350 02:05:32.399 --> 02:05:34.720 me a picture because then I can tell you that 2351 02:05:35.159 --> 02:05:38.920 weed what you need to do, you know, right, I 2352 02:05:39.000 --> 02:05:42.479 appreciate that approach. There's not a shotgun. Not a shotgun 2353 02:05:42.560 --> 02:05:44.439 answered all these weeds, okay. 2354 02:05:44.920 --> 02:05:47.840 Sure, And I didn't know that before, so I appreciate 2355 02:05:47.960 --> 02:05:51.960 the education with that. I'm also using your recommended pre 2356 02:05:52.079 --> 02:05:55.119 emerchant or post emergant to spray, and the spray works 2357 02:05:55.199 --> 02:05:55.720 really good. 2358 02:05:55.840 --> 02:05:57.359 It kills a week. 2359 02:05:57.560 --> 02:05:59.520 I could actually see some of the week starting to 2360 02:05:59.600 --> 02:06:00.600 die that same day. 2361 02:06:02.520 --> 02:06:05.399 Yeah, well, good, well, and even with the sprice you 2362 02:06:05.479 --> 02:06:08.920 know there, Like I said about that sensitive brier, the 2363 02:06:09.000 --> 02:06:12.279 one that folds up when you touch it, the stuff 2364 02:06:12.319 --> 02:06:13.960 that works on all your other broad leaves may not 2365 02:06:14.039 --> 02:06:17.279 work on that because it's a little different kind of weeds. 2366 02:06:17.319 --> 02:06:19.159 So yeah, send me pictures. In that way I can 2367 02:06:19.199 --> 02:06:21.840 give you a better answer. But I do ask send 2368 02:06:21.880 --> 02:06:24.000 the pictures prior to making the phone call so we 2369 02:06:24.039 --> 02:06:25.920 can visit about our online because other people are gonna 2370 02:06:25.920 --> 02:06:28.239 have the same questions and I'm just not able to 2371 02:06:28.319 --> 02:06:30.079 type out answers to all the emails. 2372 02:06:31.680 --> 02:06:34.680 Okay, I understand, so I'll stand by. I appreciate your help. 2373 02:06:34.760 --> 02:06:37.319 Have a nice weekend, all right. 2374 02:06:37.359 --> 02:06:39.640 I'm putting you in hold on alle Hundro pickup right now, 2375 02:06:40.399 --> 02:06:44.319 RCW Garden Center, RCW Nurseres right there where Beltwegh eight 2376 02:06:44.439 --> 02:06:47.840 and tom Ball Parkway come together. That is the get it, 2377 02:06:48.079 --> 02:06:50.520 got it nursery. First of all, they probably have it 2378 02:06:50.640 --> 02:06:51.960 when you go by to get it. But if they 2379 02:06:52.039 --> 02:06:54.760 don't have something, they do their best job to find 2380 02:06:54.800 --> 02:06:56.760 it and bring it in. So that just kind of 2381 02:06:56.840 --> 02:07:00.840 makes it a nice full service deal. You can shrubs 2382 02:07:00.960 --> 02:07:03.680 and trees and woody vines and things from them, like 2383 02:07:03.920 --> 02:07:07.199 roses for example being another example. Uh, they'll come out 2384 02:07:07.319 --> 02:07:09.239 and they'll plant trees for you if they're you know, 2385 02:07:09.319 --> 02:07:11.119 those are big containers. You don't want to break your 2386 02:07:11.159 --> 02:07:14.479 back or put your chiropractice kids through college. Let RCW 2387 02:07:14.600 --> 02:07:16.359 come out and plant it the right way. They know 2388 02:07:16.439 --> 02:07:18.760 how to do it. They grow their own trees. What 2389 02:07:18.960 --> 02:07:21.479 they sell grows here. That's the bottom line. They're not 2390 02:07:21.560 --> 02:07:23.239 going to sell you a blue spruce tree to put 2391 02:07:23.279 --> 02:07:25.439 in Houston. They're going to sell you something that grows here. 2392 02:07:26.079 --> 02:07:29.680 While you're there, you're gonna find Nitrovoss fertilizer, Microlife fertilizer, 2393 02:07:30.159 --> 02:07:33.800 uh Nelson turf Star lines a fertilizer there at RCW. 2394 02:07:34.479 --> 02:07:38.000 And whether you're looking for beautiful bougainvillias, whether you're looking 2395 02:07:38.079 --> 02:07:43.880 for gorgeous cajun hibiscus tropical hibiscus, they've got it. RCW 2396 02:07:44.119 --> 02:07:50.640 Nurseries dot Com, corner of Tambaugh Parkway and Beltway eight. Okay, 2397 02:07:50.760 --> 02:07:53.399 I believe I'm way overdue here on going to a 2398 02:07:53.479 --> 02:07:56.840 break Carney. Well, let's just do that. All right, we're back. 2399 02:07:58.159 --> 02:08:01.479 Welcome back to garden Line. Good to have you with us. Hey, 2400 02:08:01.520 --> 02:08:03.960 here's a number you'll need this one. Got a gardening 2401 02:08:04.039 --> 02:08:07.399 question seven one three two one two K t R H. 2402 02:08:07.640 --> 02:08:09.560 And I can only do gardening questions. I had a 2403 02:08:10.039 --> 02:08:12.680 one time I got when I was a county extension agent. 2404 02:08:12.760 --> 02:08:18.000 I went to a yard and I there was a 2405 02:08:18.079 --> 02:08:21.720 lady and her husband. They're both there, husband and wife. 2406 02:08:22.439 --> 02:08:25.479 And when I got there, I was there. I thought 2407 02:08:25.960 --> 02:08:30.359 to assess a problem, and uh, one of them crossed 2408 02:08:30.399 --> 02:08:34.039 their arms and said to me, will you tell I'll 2409 02:08:34.119 --> 02:08:36.840 let you decide whether it was him or her that 2410 02:08:37.520 --> 02:08:39.920 this is such and such. And I realized I just 2411 02:08:40.000 --> 02:08:44.079 walked into a marital argument. I thought it was horticultural, 2412 02:08:44.720 --> 02:08:48.159 it was marital instead, And so I told him, I said, 2413 02:08:48.239 --> 02:08:52.039 my horticulture advice is free. Marriage's advice is three hundred 2414 02:08:52.079 --> 02:08:54.359 dollars an hour. So which which way do we want 2415 02:08:54.399 --> 02:09:00.560 to go here today? Anyway? They laughed thankfully. I'm so upset. 2416 02:09:00.800 --> 02:09:03.199 Same thing here on garden Line, we do give free 2417 02:09:03.239 --> 02:09:06.000 horticulture advice. Let's got to Lake City. We're going to 2418 02:09:06.039 --> 02:09:09.279 talk to John this morning. Hey John, welcome to garden Line. 2419 02:09:10.359 --> 02:09:13.000 Good morning, thanks for taking my call. Just a quick 2420 02:09:13.119 --> 02:09:17.119 question you best Saint Augustine lawn. My Saint Augustine is 2421 02:09:17.159 --> 02:09:21.479 looking really great. But I have not put on any 2422 02:09:23.439 --> 02:09:26.840 any fund to side this year. I missed it earlier 2423 02:09:26.920 --> 02:09:30.359 this year, and I have noticed just slightly a little 2424 02:09:30.560 --> 02:09:32.880 yellowing patches, and I'm wondering, is it too late to 2425 02:09:32.960 --> 02:09:35.239 put down the fund to side or could it be 2426 02:09:35.319 --> 02:09:35.840 something else? 2427 02:09:35.960 --> 02:09:40.920 Possibly a good point, good question, John, So we're gonna 2428 02:09:40.960 --> 02:09:42.920 here's what I'd like you to do, because I don't 2429 02:09:43.000 --> 02:09:47.640 like to recommend pesticides of any type if they're not needed. 2430 02:09:48.439 --> 02:09:50.439 If you go out to your lawn, get on your 2431 02:09:50.479 --> 02:09:53.039 hands and knees and look real carefully where you see 2432 02:09:53.039 --> 02:09:57.560 the yellowing foliage. Notice if it's yellow in stripes, and 2433 02:09:57.680 --> 02:09:59.760 that may mean picking a grass blade and holding it 2434 02:09:59.840 --> 02:10:02.840 up the light and seeing the green and yellow vertical 2435 02:10:03.600 --> 02:10:08.359 parallel to the grass blade stripes, that's iron deficiency. If 2436 02:10:08.439 --> 02:10:11.960 it's just splotches of yellow, there may be something else 2437 02:10:12.039 --> 02:10:15.720 going on in that leaf. And gray leaf spot has 2438 02:10:15.760 --> 02:10:19.720 been a problem this late spring and early summer because 2439 02:10:19.960 --> 02:10:22.640 it likes warm temperatures and it likes lots of moisture. 2440 02:10:23.079 --> 02:10:25.600 But there you'll see spots on the leaves that are 2441 02:10:25.640 --> 02:10:28.199 grayish but they have a purple border around them. But 2442 02:10:28.319 --> 02:10:31.119 then when there's spots are there, the leaf starts to 2443 02:10:31.199 --> 02:10:33.840 die out and you get yellowing to go with those spots. 2444 02:10:34.279 --> 02:10:36.680 So if you see the gray leaf spot, yes, it 2445 02:10:36.720 --> 02:10:38.399 would be a good time to put out your eagle 2446 02:10:38.880 --> 02:10:41.640 turf fungicide from night Foss for that. 2447 02:10:42.439 --> 02:10:43.560 But you need to. 2448 02:10:45.039 --> 02:10:49.720 Remember that the more often you water, the worse fungal 2449 02:10:49.800 --> 02:10:52.880 diseases are going to be. So put this, you can 2450 02:10:52.920 --> 02:10:55.199 put the same amount of water on over a week, 2451 02:10:55.399 --> 02:10:56.880 but just try to get it on in a good 2452 02:10:56.960 --> 02:10:59.680 soaking rather than a bunch of squirts that keep the 2453 02:10:59.680 --> 02:11:02.439 grass sweat all the time. So that would be that 2454 02:11:02.640 --> 02:11:07.279 if you see the iron deficiency stripes, the yellow stripes, 2455 02:11:08.079 --> 02:11:12.800 then I would say probably either a supplemental keylated iron 2456 02:11:12.920 --> 02:11:16.760 and keylated as h E g. Related is like it 2457 02:11:16.960 --> 02:11:19.960 looks like how you would say it keylated, uh, and 2458 02:11:20.359 --> 02:11:23.039 you could apply that. Or it may be that your 2459 02:11:23.079 --> 02:11:25.119 pH is high and your phosphorus is high and only 2460 02:11:25.159 --> 02:11:28.039 a swew test could tell you that. Okay. 2461 02:11:28.520 --> 02:11:32.760 Yeah, And the reason I'm suspicious I had a bad 2462 02:11:32.880 --> 02:11:37.520 problem last year with with brown patch and it's all 2463 02:11:37.760 --> 02:11:42.800 gone now, But just wondering if past performance is you know, 2464 02:11:42.960 --> 02:11:46.399 a sign of problems in the future. If that's an issue, 2465 02:11:46.680 --> 02:11:48.399 then I should worry. 2466 02:11:48.600 --> 02:11:53.359 I'm sertain that I didn't catch that. Okay, yeah, So 2467 02:11:53.600 --> 02:11:56.920 if either one, it could be diseases. But with the 2468 02:11:57.039 --> 02:12:00.880 diseases at this time of the year, there's diseases that 2469 02:12:01.039 --> 02:12:03.840 you would have. One is take a root rot, which 2470 02:12:04.199 --> 02:12:07.159 just in large areas, the grass looks like it needs watering, 2471 02:12:07.239 --> 02:12:11.359 It shrivels and it dies very irregular. I said large. 2472 02:12:11.479 --> 02:12:14.119 I meant to say irregular it could be a small area, 2473 02:12:14.159 --> 02:12:17.039 but it grows and bigger and bigger in time. But 2474 02:12:17.439 --> 02:12:21.560 that's an underground problem or grating spot on top of 2475 02:12:21.640 --> 02:12:25.000 the ground. The dot, the spots on the grass plades. 2476 02:12:25.159 --> 02:12:27.520 Those are the only two fungus issues you're dealing with 2477 02:12:27.680 --> 02:12:32.239 right now. Okay, okay, and thank you very much, thank you, 2478 02:12:33.039 --> 02:12:37.880 you bet appreciate your call very much. You take care U. 2479 02:12:38.760 --> 02:12:41.840 League City Feed is down in guess where League City. 2480 02:12:42.439 --> 02:12:44.520 In fact, if you're down in that area, maybe you 2481 02:12:44.600 --> 02:12:47.720 live in Santa Fe or Dickinson or Elkamino, Reale, Clare, 2482 02:12:47.800 --> 02:12:51.479 Lake City, Webster Baycliffe, Lamark, San Leone, Dickinson, that whole 2483 02:12:51.600 --> 02:12:55.600 area through there that this is your hometown feed store. 2484 02:12:55.640 --> 02:12:57.840 And if you go over to Lake City on Highway three, 2485 02:12:58.159 --> 02:13:01.159 just a few blocks south of Highway Nay is League 2486 02:13:01.199 --> 02:13:03.079 City Feeds on the east sides on the Bay side 2487 02:13:03.119 --> 02:13:05.840 of the of the highway there. When you go in, 2488 02:13:06.239 --> 02:13:08.279 you're going to find a feed source. Been around for 2489 02:13:08.359 --> 02:13:11.439 for forty years now. The third generation of Thunderbergs are 2490 02:13:11.479 --> 02:13:14.920 running the store. League City Feed open Monday through Saturday, 2491 02:13:15.000 --> 02:13:18.680 nine to six, closed on Sunday. If you need fertilizers 2492 02:13:18.720 --> 02:13:21.079 that I talk about here on garden line, like Microlife 2493 02:13:21.119 --> 02:13:25.920 and nitrofoss for example, Nelson plant Foods. Products you know 2494 02:13:26.159 --> 02:13:30.720 from the Medina, the folks a MEDEENI you're going to 2495 02:13:30.760 --> 02:13:32.640 find them there. League City Feed. You're going to find 2496 02:13:32.680 --> 02:13:34.880 that old time service where they still carry the bags 2497 02:13:34.920 --> 02:13:37.680 out for you, and you're going to find anything you 2498 02:13:37.800 --> 02:13:40.399 need to control pest, swedes and diseases. They keep a 2499 02:13:40.520 --> 02:13:43.760 good supply on hand, so whatever you're going after to 2500 02:13:43.920 --> 02:13:47.159 make your lawn and garden more beautiful and more bountiful, 2501 02:13:47.600 --> 02:13:51.319 League City Feed's got you covered again. They're on Highway three, 2502 02:13:51.680 --> 02:13:54.159 a few blocks south of ninety six. Here's a number 2503 02:13:54.399 --> 02:13:59.159 two eight one three three to two sixteen twelve. We're 2504 02:13:59.159 --> 02:14:01.399 going to go to Pearland now and talk to Henry. 2505 02:14:01.520 --> 02:14:06.359 Hello, Henry, Good morning, Skiff. I had a question for 2506 02:14:06.520 --> 02:14:11.319 you on some groundcover jasmine that I planted. I've got 2507 02:14:11.520 --> 02:14:15.279 basically three areas. They all receive the same water, same sun. 2508 02:14:16.520 --> 02:14:20.119 Two of those were successful in taking but one of them. 2509 02:14:20.840 --> 02:14:22.960 I fought the weeds for the longest time, and I 2510 02:14:23.039 --> 02:14:25.000 thought that the jasmine had kind of got to a 2511 02:14:25.119 --> 02:14:27.840 point where it was going to overtake the weeds. You 2512 02:14:27.920 --> 02:14:30.920 know how I will do that, but I just lost 2513 02:14:31.000 --> 02:14:34.359 control of the weeds. And you can still see the 2514 02:14:34.479 --> 02:14:37.680 jasmine down in the This may require a picture. If 2515 02:14:37.680 --> 02:14:40.039 it does, just let me know. You can still see 2516 02:14:40.039 --> 02:14:45.439 the jasmine. But the weeds are so plentiful that I'm 2517 02:14:45.479 --> 02:14:47.560 afraid to continue to pull out the weeds because now 2518 02:14:47.600 --> 02:14:49.600 I'm pulling out the jasmine? Is there anything that I 2519 02:14:49.680 --> 02:14:50.279 can put down? 2520 02:14:52.319 --> 02:14:58.720 Yeah? So are the weeds grassy or are they broadly weeds? 2521 02:14:59.199 --> 02:15:03.680 They're grassy all the above? Oh, grassy? Okay, good, good, good? 2522 02:15:03.800 --> 02:15:07.079 Primarily Yeah. 2523 02:15:08.520 --> 02:15:11.680 Okay, So you go to my website, which is gardening 2524 02:15:11.880 --> 02:15:14.199 with Skip dot com. I don't know if you've ever 2525 02:15:14.279 --> 02:15:17.079 been there, but if not, you need to go Gardening 2526 02:15:17.119 --> 02:15:19.239 of Skip dot com. And when you get there, there's 2527 02:15:19.279 --> 02:15:25.000 a publication under my publication list, and it's called Herbicides 2528 02:15:25.239 --> 02:15:31.520 to use with Skip's weed wiper. Okay. Now, when you're 2529 02:15:31.600 --> 02:15:35.520 going into something like jasmine, and maybe you're using something 2530 02:15:35.560 --> 02:15:39.079 that would hurt the jasmine, well, with the weed wiper, 2531 02:15:39.159 --> 02:15:41.359 you can wipe it right on. There's a there's another 2532 02:15:41.399 --> 02:15:44.119 publication telling you how to build one. In this case, 2533 02:15:44.199 --> 02:15:46.159 you don't need the weed wiper, but you still need 2534 02:15:46.279 --> 02:15:47.159 that publication. 2535 02:15:47.920 --> 02:15:48.039 Uh. 2536 02:15:48.199 --> 02:15:51.600 It goes down and divides the weeds into groups. The 2537 02:15:51.720 --> 02:15:57.199 woody weeds like BlackBerry and poison ivy and tree seedlings 2538 02:15:57.239 --> 02:16:00.680 and stuff, the grassyweeds, the broadleaf weed. It's something that 2539 02:16:00.800 --> 02:16:04.000 kills both grasses and broad leaves, wild onion, wild garlic, 2540 02:16:04.119 --> 02:16:06.840 and nuts. It each of those has its own herbicide 2541 02:16:07.159 --> 02:16:10.560 for grasses only. There's two products there. And I won't 2542 02:16:10.720 --> 02:16:14.159 say out the chemical name on the air. I mean, 2543 02:16:14.199 --> 02:16:15.880 I have to spell the whole thing. That gets kind 2544 02:16:15.880 --> 02:16:20.239 of boring on the air. But there's two products, different ingredients. 2545 02:16:20.359 --> 02:16:23.640 Both of them kill grasses but don't hurt broad leaves. 2546 02:16:23.680 --> 02:16:25.640 In fact, one of them is called over the top 2547 02:16:25.720 --> 02:16:27.920 grass killer. Just as an example, you just spray it 2548 02:16:28.000 --> 02:16:30.960 right over the top. Jasmine's fine kills the grass. 2549 02:16:31.840 --> 02:16:36.079 Okay, great, and I think there's. 2550 02:16:35.440 --> 02:16:38.600 Probably yeah, I think I have like six or seven 2551 02:16:38.719 --> 02:16:41.639 different products that have those two in them, or one 2552 02:16:41.680 --> 02:16:43.719 of them. You don't need both either one or the other. 2553 02:16:46.120 --> 02:16:47.959 That's that's great. Out. I appreciate it. 2554 02:16:48.719 --> 02:16:51.719 Have a good day, all right, sir, Thanks for the call, 2555 02:16:51.840 --> 02:16:56.360 you bet, you bet appreciate that very much. It's not 2556 02:16:56.920 --> 02:17:00.600 difficult if you just kind of know what you're going after. 2557 02:17:00.879 --> 02:17:03.319 And for those of you here are kind of wondering, 2558 02:17:03.360 --> 02:17:05.120 what do you mean broad leaf and grassy, Well, there's 2559 02:17:06.559 --> 02:17:08.760 for the most part, there's three types of weeds we 2560 02:17:08.879 --> 02:17:11.680 deal with. One is broad leaf, which means the leaves 2561 02:17:12.239 --> 02:17:14.680 are broader and the veins on the leaves go out 2562 02:17:14.760 --> 02:17:17.479 like the fingers on your hand or some form of that. Okay, 2563 02:17:18.120 --> 02:17:21.879 grass blade blades are long and skinny, and the veins 2564 02:17:22.000 --> 02:17:25.879 go up and down the grass blade like railroad tracks 2565 02:17:26.079 --> 02:17:31.040 going down the grass blade leaf. The third type is sedges, 2566 02:17:31.159 --> 02:17:33.200 and that would be nuts edge and kaialenga and some 2567 02:17:33.319 --> 02:17:36.200 others like that. Each of those three categories we deal 2568 02:17:36.239 --> 02:17:39.719 with in different ways, but knowing which category you're in 2569 02:17:39.879 --> 02:17:42.159 at least get you in the right ballpark for that. 2570 02:17:43.399 --> 02:17:47.719 Folks at airlom soils have more quality soil products than 2571 02:17:47.799 --> 02:17:50.639 you can imagine. I mean all kinds of things. Maybe 2572 02:17:50.719 --> 02:17:53.600 you are looking for just compost, or maybe you're looking 2573 02:17:53.680 --> 02:17:57.760 for compost with expanded shale for those heavy clay soils 2574 02:17:57.840 --> 02:18:00.879 to last longer. Maybe you're looking for gistics spanditshell. Maybe 2575 02:18:00.920 --> 02:18:05.840 you want veggie nerve mix or bloomers rosanother bloomers blend. 2576 02:18:05.959 --> 02:18:09.319 It's all there. Go to Heirloomsoils dot com find the 2577 02:18:09.360 --> 02:18:11.920 one near you, use the calculator to figure out how 2578 02:18:12.000 --> 02:18:14.079 much you need. Then go to your local garden center 2579 02:18:14.120 --> 02:18:16.399 and feed store nice hardware stores in places like that. 2580 02:18:17.040 --> 02:18:19.360 Find your airloom soil by the bag or call them 2581 02:18:19.479 --> 02:18:21.680 up and have them deliver, or go pick it up. 2582 02:18:21.840 --> 02:18:24.360 You can drive out there to porter get it yourself. 2583 02:18:24.399 --> 02:18:26.200 You got a truck or trailer. But the main thing 2584 02:18:26.360 --> 02:18:30.040 is go to Airloomsoils dot com. Find a quality product. 2585 02:18:30.559 --> 02:18:33.639 All right, welcome back, Thank you. Could you have it 2586 02:18:33.680 --> 02:18:37.440 with us here on Guardenline. We are in our last 2587 02:18:37.479 --> 02:18:40.239 half hour of the show today, so either give me 2588 02:18:40.319 --> 02:18:42.559 a call or keep your piece until tomorrow morning. Give 2589 02:18:42.559 --> 02:18:46.799 me either way. Seven one three two one two fifty 2590 02:18:46.879 --> 02:18:49.680 eight seventy four seven one three two one two KTRH 2591 02:18:50.000 --> 02:18:55.879 makes it easy easy, all right, NiTi Fas Superturf silver bag. 2592 02:18:56.600 --> 02:18:59.159 Now those are the things you need to know night 2593 02:18:59.239 --> 02:19:02.360 Fas Superturf sober Back. It is a slow release fertilizer 2594 02:19:02.399 --> 02:19:05.520 contains nineteen percent nitrogen, but don't worry about that. It's 2595 02:19:05.639 --> 02:19:07.520 not going to make your lawn just grow so fast. 2596 02:19:07.600 --> 02:19:09.600 You have the Momo mo mo mo to keep up 2597 02:19:09.639 --> 02:19:12.520 with it. And when that happens, by the way, you 2598 02:19:12.600 --> 02:19:14.639 also end up with less of a root system. Isn't 2599 02:19:14.639 --> 02:19:18.559 that weird that excessive nitrogen causes top growth at the 2600 02:19:18.680 --> 02:19:22.559 expense of root growth. And do we need less roots 2601 02:19:22.559 --> 02:19:25.159 in summer? Heavens, no, we need we need more roots, 2602 02:19:25.719 --> 02:19:28.200 you know, because you need a stronger, more robust plant. 2603 02:19:28.280 --> 02:19:31.079 And that is what night fis Superturf is about. Now, 2604 02:19:31.120 --> 02:19:33.559 You're going to find night Foss products like Superturf at 2605 02:19:33.600 --> 02:19:37.479 many different places. For example, you go to Fisher Hardware 2606 02:19:37.559 --> 02:19:40.520 down there on Alexander in Baytown, you're going to find it, 2607 02:19:41.239 --> 02:19:43.760 as well as the other Fisher Hardware is in Pasadena 2608 02:19:43.760 --> 02:19:46.120 and Laport in mont Bellvue. You're going to find it 2609 02:19:46.200 --> 02:19:48.879 at Hide and Feed on Stubner Airline. They carry night 2610 02:19:48.959 --> 02:19:51.799 Foss products, as does Enchanted Gardens out there on FM 2611 02:19:51.879 --> 02:19:56.040 three point fifty nine in the Richmond Rosenberg area. Nightrofis 2612 02:19:56.120 --> 02:19:59.239 super Turf will carry you all the way to your fall. 2613 02:19:59.559 --> 02:20:06.159 Fertiliz makes it easy, makes it fast and simple. Well, 2614 02:20:06.360 --> 02:20:08.760 I have covered a lot of different things today. I 2615 02:20:08.879 --> 02:20:10.200 told you how to look at the end of your 2616 02:20:10.360 --> 02:20:12.959 arm and find those little things called fingers on there 2617 02:20:13.079 --> 02:20:16.719 and use them in proper gardening things. I want to 2618 02:20:16.760 --> 02:20:19.520 talk a little bit about no fruit on fruit trees. 2619 02:20:19.719 --> 02:20:21.879 I mentioned I would do that earlier, and so let's 2620 02:20:21.920 --> 02:20:24.639 do it right now now fruit trees. There are a 2621 02:20:24.719 --> 02:20:26.680 lot of different kinds of fruit, and just because they're 2622 02:20:26.680 --> 02:20:29.319 all called fruit doesn't mean they're anything alike. I mean, 2623 02:20:29.399 --> 02:20:32.000 when you go from a fig to a satsuma, orange 2624 02:20:32.120 --> 02:20:35.159 to a peach to a pair, you are going into 2625 02:20:35.159 --> 02:20:38.920 a whole different categories of plants, and they behave differently 2626 02:20:39.719 --> 02:20:42.840 many types of fruit set fruit without pollination from a 2627 02:20:43.079 --> 02:20:47.479 second variety. So figs, the figs we grow here now 2628 02:20:47.559 --> 02:20:50.440 in California, they do grow figs that need pollinating here. 2629 02:20:50.559 --> 02:20:54.200 Our standard figs in Texas are not. You don't require pollination, 2630 02:20:54.479 --> 02:21:00.959 They just form fruit. Peaches are going to pollenate themselves 2631 02:21:01.079 --> 02:21:02.959 and be just fine. You don't have to worry about 2632 02:21:02.959 --> 02:21:07.079 a second variety. Plums, it's better to have a second variety, 2633 02:21:07.159 --> 02:21:10.600 although there are some varieties like methley that will pollinate themselves, 2634 02:21:10.639 --> 02:21:12.600 but in general it's better to have a second variety. 2635 02:21:13.280 --> 02:21:15.799 When it comes to pears, in general, it's better to 2636 02:21:15.840 --> 02:21:18.040 have a second variety to do well. When it comes 2637 02:21:18.079 --> 02:21:21.920 to blueberries, they will pollinate themselves some, but if you 2638 02:21:22.000 --> 02:21:25.280 want bigger berries, you need a second variety for cross 2639 02:21:25.360 --> 02:21:29.079 pollination for them to do their best. Apples need to 2640 02:21:29.159 --> 02:21:32.399 have two varieties in order to have success. Okay, so 2641 02:21:32.520 --> 02:21:35.399 those are just some examples of reasons you may not 2642 02:21:35.799 --> 02:21:37.479 have fruit on your fruit trees. We call it the 2643 02:21:37.559 --> 02:21:41.600 Lonely Hearts Club. That variety needs a partner that's a 2644 02:21:41.639 --> 02:21:45.399 different variety in order to pollinate it. That's one number two. 2645 02:21:45.559 --> 02:21:49.639 You don't have pollinator insects. If you kill all the bees, well, 2646 02:21:50.200 --> 02:21:52.040 the pollination's up to you. Go ahead and buy an 2647 02:21:52.120 --> 02:21:55.600 artist paintbrush and run around your tree pollinating every little 2648 02:21:55.639 --> 02:21:58.520 flower every day. Good luck with that, by the way, Oh, 2649 02:21:58.639 --> 02:22:01.920 a solution for the Lonely Horts club. The first reason 2650 02:22:02.000 --> 02:22:04.959 we don't get fruit is to find a friend who 2651 02:22:05.079 --> 02:22:08.559 has that kind of fruit in a different variety and 2652 02:22:09.200 --> 02:22:11.760 make an arrangement. See if they will let you trim 2653 02:22:11.959 --> 02:22:15.319 one little branch off, put it in I like to 2654 02:22:15.440 --> 02:22:17.200 use just like a soft drink can, a coke can 2655 02:22:17.319 --> 02:22:19.399 or something. You can just wire it into the branch there, 2656 02:22:19.719 --> 02:22:21.680 put some water in it and stick that branch in it, 2657 02:22:22.319 --> 02:22:24.239 and the bees all that day will go through and 2658 02:22:24.280 --> 02:22:26.799 they'll be getting pollen from those flowers and taking them 2659 02:22:26.840 --> 02:22:28.840 to your flowers. So you're gonna get a little pollination 2660 02:22:29.000 --> 02:22:32.479 there until you're able to get up tree planted and 2661 02:22:32.600 --> 02:22:34.760 growing and to a point where it can bloom itself, 2662 02:22:34.840 --> 02:22:37.479 so you can bring in some things that way. You 2663 02:22:37.600 --> 02:22:39.440 just have to have a cooperative friend to do it. 2664 02:22:39.559 --> 02:22:42.799 Maybe promise them half your peaches or something. I don't know, 2665 02:22:43.440 --> 02:22:45.959 but that's one, okay, So it's number two, no pollinators, 2666 02:22:46.239 --> 02:22:50.520 It's important. Number three not enough sunlight. It takes a 2667 02:22:50.600 --> 02:22:53.840 lot of carbohydrates to make bloom buds and to set 2668 02:22:53.920 --> 02:22:57.319 blooms and to make a good crop of fruit. And 2669 02:22:57.479 --> 02:22:59.760 so if you have a lack of blooming, if you 2670 02:22:59.799 --> 02:23:02.360 have a lack of fruit development and things, and maybe 2671 02:23:02.479 --> 02:23:05.319 that you're not getting the at least six hours of 2672 02:23:05.399 --> 02:23:09.360 sunlight almost all fruit is going to require to have success. 2673 02:23:09.799 --> 02:23:12.079 So those are three reasons. There are others we could 2674 02:23:12.079 --> 02:23:14.159 talk about, but those are three reasons why you have 2675 02:23:14.200 --> 02:23:16.799 a fruit tree that doesn't fruit. Maybe sometime we'll come 2676 02:23:16.840 --> 02:23:18.840 back to visit that and talk about a few others. 2677 02:23:19.360 --> 02:23:21.639 Let's head to Montgomery right now, and we're going to 2678 02:23:21.680 --> 02:23:25.159 head out there and talk to Brett. Well, hello, Brett, 2679 02:23:25.639 --> 02:23:27.639 welcome to gardenlin'em. Good to have you with us. 2680 02:23:29.079 --> 02:23:33.680 Good morning. I was asking we put down the nitropause 2681 02:23:33.760 --> 02:23:38.520 silver bag late April, early May, and my question is 2682 02:23:39.120 --> 02:23:41.280 how long should I wait before I do it again? 2683 02:23:45.120 --> 02:23:47.239 Tell me you did it, and you said toward the 2684 02:23:47.319 --> 02:23:50.719 end of May or early May. No, No, yeah, right 2685 02:23:50.719 --> 02:23:52.079 at the end of April early May. 2686 02:23:52.159 --> 02:23:55.280 I don't have my calendar deal with me, so I'm 2687 02:23:55.319 --> 02:23:55.680 in the car. 2688 02:23:55.840 --> 02:23:57.760 But yeah, right at the end of April. 2689 02:23:57.840 --> 02:24:00.680 And I didn't know if we needed to wait many days, 2690 02:24:00.959 --> 02:24:03.200 you know, are how long between the. 2691 02:24:03.600 --> 02:24:08.319 You know it's gonna last about four months or sixteen weeks. 2692 02:24:09.040 --> 02:24:11.040 So let's just say you did it in May. That 2693 02:24:11.159 --> 02:24:14.159 covers May, June, July, and August. I wouldn't do it 2694 02:24:14.239 --> 02:24:18.280 again then because by the time we get to October, 2695 02:24:18.760 --> 02:24:22.120 we're going to be doing a fall fertilization with a 2696 02:24:22.200 --> 02:24:25.239 different blend, and you don't want to have the silver 2697 02:24:25.360 --> 02:24:28.159 bags still going strong at the same time. Now you 2698 02:24:28.319 --> 02:24:31.200 add the other that that's not a good approach at 2699 02:24:31.239 --> 02:24:34.120 that season of the year. So you if I would 2700 02:24:34.319 --> 02:24:36.680 return my clippings, I think you're going to be okay 2701 02:24:36.799 --> 02:24:38.479 to carry you through. If you wanted to give a 2702 02:24:38.479 --> 02:24:42.920 little boost, then choose their their red bag, which is 2703 02:24:43.040 --> 02:24:46.399 the fifteen to five to ten. That's an immediate release. Okay, 2704 02:24:46.840 --> 02:24:48.639 you could you could do that if you felt like 2705 02:24:48.719 --> 02:24:52.639 it needed more. I think if you return clippings water adequately, 2706 02:24:53.319 --> 02:24:56.520 your LUN's going to look good anyway. But be ready 2707 02:24:56.799 --> 02:25:00.399 to consider the red bag by the time it about 2708 02:25:00.879 --> 02:25:02.879 maybe late July and early August. 2709 02:25:04.440 --> 02:25:07.159 Okay, yeah, I and we have really hard you know 2710 02:25:07.239 --> 02:25:11.120 this clay soil up here. Do we need to do 2711 02:25:11.280 --> 02:25:14.079 We need to add the trace minerals in I've heard 2712 02:25:14.120 --> 02:25:14.840 you talk about that. 2713 02:25:17.399 --> 02:25:19.840 Yeah, Well, the the real answer to your question depends 2714 02:25:19.840 --> 02:25:22.520 on what's already in the soil, okay, because you only 2715 02:25:22.639 --> 02:25:25.639 add what you need. That includes regular fertilizers, that includes 2716 02:25:25.680 --> 02:25:29.319 the trace minerals. But as a general guide, putting the 2717 02:25:29.399 --> 02:25:33.000 azmite down once or twice a year, depending on your 2718 02:25:33.079 --> 02:25:36.479 soil conditions is a good idea. It doesn't hurt to 2719 02:25:36.600 --> 02:25:38.200 add some more in there. You just don't want to 2720 02:25:38.280 --> 02:25:41.159 overdo it. Like any kind of fertilization, you don't want 2721 02:25:41.159 --> 02:25:43.840 to overdo it. But a soil test is our main 2722 02:25:44.000 --> 02:25:47.639 guide on all kinds of fertilization, but in general we 2723 02:25:47.760 --> 02:25:50.719 go with the rules of Thumb, which is my schedule 2724 02:25:50.799 --> 02:25:53.079 of when to fertilize and when to put down the azmite. 2725 02:25:54.479 --> 02:25:56.879 Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna do a soil sample. I 2726 02:25:56.920 --> 02:25:58.680 think it's a good idea. I've had this place for 2727 02:25:58.799 --> 02:26:02.840 three years now. We get good grass growth. It's been 2728 02:26:02.959 --> 02:26:05.479 growing so fast. I'm a little bit worried I'm not 2729 02:26:05.600 --> 02:26:06.840 getting the root growth I want. 2730 02:26:06.920 --> 02:26:10.680 But the lawn is thickened up a lot, and uh 2731 02:26:10.799 --> 02:26:13.520 it lied good. You know, it's a good heavy base. 2732 02:26:13.600 --> 02:26:14.799 But okay, that's all right with it. 2733 02:26:14.879 --> 02:26:16.959 I just was wondering, go to do it right? Yeah, 2734 02:26:18.760 --> 02:26:22.440 well I would expect that from night Fross super terf 2735 02:26:22.520 --> 02:26:23.879 to give you that. But let me just tell you this. 2736 02:26:24.040 --> 02:26:27.680 If you go online to my publications, there's a publication 2737 02:26:27.959 --> 02:26:31.479 on SWIW testing made Simple and when you look at it, 2738 02:26:31.959 --> 02:26:33.920 go see the deal. You know what you need to 2739 02:26:33.959 --> 02:26:36.959 do on it. But it also uh if you if 2740 02:26:37.040 --> 02:26:38.799 you click on it and look at it as a 2741 02:26:39.879 --> 02:26:43.319 PDF file, uh, you have a direct link to the 2742 02:26:43.479 --> 02:26:47.440 right form on the sal Testing website. Okay, and tells 2743 02:26:47.479 --> 02:26:49.559 you how to fill out but you you'll go past, 2744 02:26:50.319 --> 02:26:53.440 ye yeah, past the web page, click on the PDF 2745 02:26:53.600 --> 02:26:57.120 download of it. All right, thanks a lot, many appreciate that, 2746 02:26:57.479 --> 02:27:03.040 Thank you, Yes, sir, take a little break here. Listen. 2747 02:27:03.280 --> 02:27:06.319 When we have clay soil, that means when it gets wet, 2748 02:27:06.440 --> 02:27:09.920 it swells, when it gets dry it shrinks. Most clay 2749 02:27:10.000 --> 02:27:13.760 soils will do that. There's different types of clays. But 2750 02:27:13.879 --> 02:27:16.879 what happens when that happens, Well, your sidewalk cracks, your 2751 02:27:17.000 --> 02:27:21.520 driveway cracks, your foundation can crack. And fix myslab dot 2752 02:27:21.680 --> 02:27:25.680 com is the website for fix my slab foundation repair 2753 02:27:26.399 --> 02:27:29.120 ty Stretchlan's been doing this for twenty three years. He's 2754 02:27:29.159 --> 02:27:33.559 a native Estonian, fifth generation Texan, and he takes care 2755 02:27:33.600 --> 02:27:36.399 of his customers. He shows up on time, he prices 2756 02:27:36.479 --> 02:27:38.920 it fair, and he fixes it right. What more could 2757 02:27:38.959 --> 02:27:41.239 you ask from any service that comes to your home 2758 02:27:41.680 --> 02:27:45.079 on time, fair price and fixed right. Two eight one, 2759 02:27:45.239 --> 02:27:47.600 two five five forty nine forty nine. Give him a call, 2760 02:27:47.639 --> 02:27:50.360 tell him you're a guardline listener. Free estimates for gardenline 2761 02:27:50.399 --> 02:27:53.319 listeners two eight one two fy five forty nine forty 2762 02:27:53.399 --> 02:27:56.639 nine or fix myslab dot com. I'm gonna take a 2763 02:27:56.680 --> 02:27:58.799 break and Mary in West Houston. You'll be first when 2764 02:27:58.840 --> 02:28:04.360 I come back. Welcome back to garden Line. All right, 2765 02:28:04.520 --> 02:28:08.360 let's go to let's go to West Houston and we're 2766 02:28:08.399 --> 02:28:11.159 going to talk to Mary. Hello, Mary, welcome to garden Line. 2767 02:28:12.360 --> 02:28:16.559 Hi, thank you for taking my call. I have a 2768 02:28:17.000 --> 02:28:21.520 raised bed in front of my townhouse. And I say 2769 02:28:21.520 --> 02:28:24.879 it's the raised bed. It's actually like a big planter box. 2770 02:28:25.399 --> 02:28:29.319 I sent you a photo of one of six as 2771 02:28:29.319 --> 02:28:30.719 alias that I have in there. 2772 02:28:31.319 --> 02:28:32.040 They're brand new. 2773 02:28:32.319 --> 02:28:38.319 We put in good soil, and now I'm starting to 2774 02:28:38.399 --> 02:28:44.360 lose them one by one. I had one guy tell me, oh, 2775 02:28:44.440 --> 02:28:48.319 you've got a fungus. I took a sample to Cornelius. 2776 02:28:48.479 --> 02:28:53.639 She said, no, it's an irrigation problem. You're watering too 2777 02:28:53.760 --> 02:28:57.520 much or you're watering too little. Then I took a 2778 02:28:57.600 --> 02:29:00.600 sample to Southwest and he said, it's a problem. 2779 02:29:00.639 --> 02:29:01.719 It doesn't seem like you're. 2780 02:29:03.200 --> 02:29:05.600 That is draining well or that you know, so it's 2781 02:29:05.600 --> 02:29:09.760 not draining well. Okay, I don't know what, so you 2782 02:29:09.799 --> 02:29:10.280 can look at it. 2783 02:29:10.479 --> 02:29:13.639 I can help you with that. I have I already have. 2784 02:29:14.319 --> 02:29:17.440 So here here's here's the thing. The plant, the whole 2785 02:29:17.520 --> 02:29:21.159 plant is declining and wilting. Rapidly, and that means there's 2786 02:29:21.200 --> 02:29:24.719 a plumbing problem. The flow of water from the bottom 2787 02:29:24.760 --> 02:29:27.959 to the top is not happening. So if you have 2788 02:29:28.120 --> 02:29:31.600 poor drainage and or over water so that the roots 2789 02:29:31.680 --> 02:29:35.559 cannot get oxygen, a plant will wilt in standing water. 2790 02:29:35.799 --> 02:29:40.440 And azaleas need good drainage. They want moisture consistently. They're 2791 02:29:40.520 --> 02:29:45.280 not drought tolerant that much, but they they need good drainage. 2792 02:29:45.520 --> 02:29:49.399 So if that happens, that alone can take a plan out. 2793 02:29:50.120 --> 02:29:53.319 Usually when a plant is stressed like that, root rots 2794 02:29:53.360 --> 02:29:55.879 will enter the roots, and now you have a disease 2795 02:29:56.200 --> 02:29:59.639 inside the roots, killing the root system, which again is 2796 02:29:59.799 --> 02:30:02.399 just it's the same result. That's why I say it's 2797 02:30:02.399 --> 02:30:04.319 a plumbing problem. If you don't have roots, you can't 2798 02:30:04.360 --> 02:30:06.639 get water up to the top. That's a plumbing problem. 2799 02:30:07.360 --> 02:30:10.360 And so whether it's physical due to lack of oxygen drowning, 2800 02:30:10.600 --> 02:30:14.319 or whether it's root rot, it causes a similar symptom above. 2801 02:30:15.000 --> 02:30:18.159 So the question is which is it. If you dig 2802 02:30:18.239 --> 02:30:20.239 down in the soil with a hand trowl about four 2803 02:30:20.280 --> 02:30:23.680 inches deep or six inches and feel the soil, you 2804 02:30:23.799 --> 02:30:26.840 can tell if it's too soggy, wet, and so that 2805 02:30:26.959 --> 02:30:28.719 tells you right there what you men need to do. 2806 02:30:28.799 --> 02:30:31.159 It could be that just drying out, it'll perk back 2807 02:30:31.239 --> 02:30:35.559 and be okay, but if not, then you would need 2808 02:30:35.680 --> 02:30:40.760 to do a systemic fungicide treatment around that plant, and 2809 02:30:40.879 --> 02:30:44.159 that would be buying certain kinds of fungicides, not just anyone, 2810 02:30:44.799 --> 02:30:47.559 but buying a fungicide that you would drench on the 2811 02:30:47.680 --> 02:30:50.120 soil and it would be taken up into the root 2812 02:30:50.159 --> 02:30:53.559 system to protect the plant. If you wait until too long, 2813 02:30:54.600 --> 02:30:56.440 that's not going to work because there's no root system 2814 02:30:56.559 --> 02:30:59.520 left to protect. So it's going to be one of 2815 02:30:59.559 --> 02:31:01.520 those two. I can't tell you, nor can any of 2816 02:31:01.559 --> 02:31:03.920 the people you've talked to tell you just by looking 2817 02:31:04.639 --> 02:31:07.600 at the at the picture you know, or the planet itself. 2818 02:31:08.239 --> 02:31:10.040 But it's going to be one of those things. So 2819 02:31:10.319 --> 02:31:12.440 you think about, think about how wet you've kept it, 2820 02:31:12.840 --> 02:31:15.200 think about how well it drains. Is it a raised 2821 02:31:15.239 --> 02:31:18.639 bed like we recommend for azelias to be planted in, 2822 02:31:19.399 --> 02:31:21.920 or is it down ground level in a clay where 2823 02:31:22.040 --> 02:31:23.600 it's easy to stay soggy. 2824 02:31:24.159 --> 02:31:24.280 Uh. 2825 02:31:24.639 --> 02:31:29.559 Then some people will pull plants out, build up the bed, 2826 02:31:29.760 --> 02:31:33.000 set the plants back in in order to try to 2827 02:31:33.079 --> 02:31:36.040 fix that problem. That way. But if it's a disease, 2828 02:31:36.079 --> 02:31:39.440 you've got to get a systemic fungicide that fights root rot, 2829 02:31:39.600 --> 02:31:42.520 and you need to go to a place like Southwest 2830 02:31:42.559 --> 02:31:45.159 Fertilizer Bob has telling him, I've got I need a 2831 02:31:45.280 --> 02:31:48.639 root rot fungicide. And he may have something called ban 2832 02:31:48.879 --> 02:31:51.319 rot b A n R O T, or he may 2833 02:31:51.399 --> 02:31:53.760 have another one to help you with that. But if 2834 02:31:53.799 --> 02:31:55.440 he looked at it and told you, I think it's 2835 02:31:55.600 --> 02:31:57.799 just too wet, then it's probably not a root rot, 2836 02:31:57.799 --> 02:31:59.239 because he knows what he's talking about. 2837 02:32:00.319 --> 02:32:05.520 Okay, okay, okay, good to know I'm dedicated to making 2838 02:32:05.639 --> 02:32:11.159 this work. I think I'm crazy, all right, Okay, I 2839 02:32:11.200 --> 02:32:12.159 appreciate it very much. 2840 02:32:12.239 --> 02:32:12.520 Thank you. 2841 02:32:14.760 --> 02:32:19.360 Okay, thank you very much. I appreciate it's your call. Yeah, 2842 02:32:19.680 --> 02:32:21.799 that's kind of how it works. That's how it works 2843 02:32:21.840 --> 02:32:23.959 with the root rots and things. You know, in a 2844 02:32:24.040 --> 02:32:27.520 lot of ways. Uh you if you see a plant 2845 02:32:27.680 --> 02:32:30.760 and the leaves are all turning crispy and dying, uh, 2846 02:32:31.000 --> 02:32:33.319 you know, it could be drought. It could be that 2847 02:32:33.719 --> 02:32:36.239 a borer is chewed through the trunk and has cut 2848 02:32:36.319 --> 02:32:39.159 off all the plumbing pipes. Right, can't get water. If 2849 02:32:39.200 --> 02:32:43.200 you got if the plumbing is broken in the middle. Uh, 2850 02:32:43.319 --> 02:32:46.280 And that's what happens when a borer choose through the tissues. 2851 02:32:47.040 --> 02:32:49.200 It could be that you put so much fertilizer on 2852 02:32:49.319 --> 02:32:52.360 you burn the root system. Salt based fertilizer, not organic, 2853 02:32:52.440 --> 02:32:55.680 but salt based. You apply too much to a limited, 2854 02:32:55.920 --> 02:32:58.440 confined root system like a new plant, and you can 2855 02:32:58.559 --> 02:33:02.000 fry the roots because salt plant skin. You can't put 2856 02:33:02.120 --> 02:33:05.879 salt on plants like that. When you overdo it. Put 2857 02:33:05.920 --> 02:33:08.840 the right amount, it's good for the plant. Put the 2858 02:33:08.920 --> 02:33:12.040 wrong amount, you kill things. And all of those create 2859 02:33:12.120 --> 02:33:15.120 similar symptoms. Tip and margin burn on the roots from 2860 02:33:15.159 --> 02:33:18.079 fertilizer for other things. But when it comes to just 2861 02:33:18.200 --> 02:33:22.479 a wilting well, water's not getting to those leaves. But 2862 02:33:22.559 --> 02:33:26.040 the question is why is it Because there's no root system. 2863 02:33:26.399 --> 02:33:30.040 Maybe it's a root rot. Maybe it's something underground chewing 2864 02:33:30.120 --> 02:33:33.520 up the roots. Maybe when you planted it, you let 2865 02:33:33.600 --> 02:33:35.719 it sit out and the roots outside dried out, and 2866 02:33:35.760 --> 02:33:37.639 then you put it in the ground and now that 2867 02:33:37.760 --> 02:33:40.000 plant that had a good root system getting watered every 2868 02:33:40.040 --> 02:33:43.040 day in the pot suddenly is in big trouble. It 2869 02:33:43.120 --> 02:33:45.440 could be a lot of things, but the bottom line 2870 02:33:45.520 --> 02:33:47.680 is it's a plumbing problem, and you've got to figure 2871 02:33:47.680 --> 02:33:50.959 out why. And sometimes that requires just thinking back to 2872 02:33:51.040 --> 02:33:54.000 how you've cared about it, considering whether it's planted in 2873 02:33:54.040 --> 02:33:57.719 the ground, or do you need to loosen things up 2874 02:33:57.760 --> 02:34:00.479 a little bit and get it above ground. I tell 2875 02:34:00.479 --> 02:34:03.840 people when you plant in azalia or blueberry especially, but 2876 02:34:04.120 --> 02:34:06.440 other plants, this can be true as well in poorly 2877 02:34:06.559 --> 02:34:10.000 drained areas. Imagine that you set the plant on top 2878 02:34:10.079 --> 02:34:12.079 of the ground, and then you bring in a bed 2879 02:34:12.200 --> 02:34:15.360 mix and fill in around it. Now that's not the 2880 02:34:15.639 --> 02:34:18.360 order that you go in, but it creates the mental 2881 02:34:18.479 --> 02:34:21.719 picture of my root system is in the bed, not 2882 02:34:22.000 --> 02:34:25.239 sunken down into poorly drained soil. It's in a raised 2883 02:34:25.319 --> 02:34:28.200 bit soill. You build a bed and then you dig 2884 02:34:28.280 --> 02:34:30.280 the hole. But the equivalent of it is you just 2885 02:34:30.360 --> 02:34:32.399 set the plant on the ground. That helps people understand. 2886 02:34:32.479 --> 02:34:35.040 Don't in a clay soil that doesn't drain well it's 2887 02:34:35.040 --> 02:34:38.120 a low area or whatever. Don't just dig a hole 2888 02:34:38.159 --> 02:34:40.680 in the ground. That's it's called an underground bathtub. And 2889 02:34:40.760 --> 02:34:44.840 a clay soil it holds water. Farm ponds they line 2890 02:34:44.879 --> 02:34:48.319 them with clay so they hold water that they put 2891 02:34:48.399 --> 02:34:50.200 vent night clay in a farm pond to make it 2892 02:34:50.280 --> 02:34:53.600 whole water better, and so you don't want that when 2893 02:34:53.639 --> 02:34:56.760 you're sticking a plant in the ground. All right, Hey, 2894 02:34:56.760 --> 02:34:59.920 if you got any cool furniture that's metal that needs 2895 02:35:00.120 --> 02:35:04.399 some help, call Houston Powder Coders two eight one six 2896 02:35:04.520 --> 02:35:07.959 seven six thirty eight eighty eight. 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All right, Tim, how can we help 2907 02:35:41.920 --> 02:35:42.159 the day? 2908 02:35:42.760 --> 02:35:47.680 Yeah, good morning, SKIPT. I have Queen Anne's lace and 2909 02:35:48.000 --> 02:35:53.079 it's it's in dating our flower garden. Of your of 2910 02:35:53.159 --> 02:35:56.000 your herbicides that you use with the wiper, what one 2911 02:35:56.200 --> 02:35:57.600 is going to be the best? Because I can see 2912 02:35:57.680 --> 02:36:01.079 any mentioned the Queen Anne's lace if you. 2913 02:36:01.120 --> 02:36:03.520 Go under the broad leave it. I know the leaves 2914 02:36:03.559 --> 02:36:07.079 of Queen Ann's lace are not broad but it's a 2915 02:36:07.120 --> 02:36:09.120 broad leaf plant. It's not a grassy plant or a 2916 02:36:09.239 --> 02:36:11.399 sedg and so go with the what it says broad 2917 02:36:11.479 --> 02:36:15.360 leaf on there. And so you can use a number 2918 02:36:15.399 --> 02:36:18.159 of different products. Is this growing among desirable plants? 2919 02:36:19.159 --> 02:36:19.360 Yes? 2920 02:36:21.520 --> 02:36:25.719 Okay. So also on my website you'll see something about 2921 02:36:25.840 --> 02:36:29.600 skips homemade weed wiper and it's a little gadget Bill's 2922 02:36:29.639 --> 02:36:32.559 real easy to build one. Yeah, And so you can 2923 02:36:32.639 --> 02:36:35.239 wipe it on the Queen Ann's lace leaves and it'll 2924 02:36:35.280 --> 02:36:38.159 translocate down and kill it and you get none on 2925 02:36:38.280 --> 02:36:41.040 your desirable plants. That's why I created that weed wiper, 2926 02:36:41.360 --> 02:36:44.440 homemade weed wiper. And then go down the list to 2927 02:36:45.239 --> 02:36:49.639 broad leaf weeds. Yeah. And so basically you're looking at 2928 02:36:49.680 --> 02:36:54.680 things like trimac or other broad leaf controls that have 2929 02:36:54.920 --> 02:36:58.799 multi ingredients. Typically they'll have about three different ingredients in 2930 02:36:58.959 --> 02:37:01.959 them to make sure they cover all the spectrum. 2931 02:37:02.120 --> 02:37:04.959 Okay, very good, And there. 2932 02:37:04.920 --> 02:37:07.879 Isn't too much you can do about Japanese na napweed. 2933 02:37:08.000 --> 02:37:08.520 Is that correct? 2934 02:37:10.879 --> 02:37:12.360 I'm gonna have to look on that one. We don't 2935 02:37:12.399 --> 02:37:14.000 deal with it as much down here, but I would 2936 02:37:14.079 --> 02:37:16.520 use a broad leaf as my first shot on it. 2937 02:37:17.479 --> 02:37:19.840 It may be that we have to shift to something else. 2938 02:37:20.360 --> 02:37:22.159 If you like to hold on, my producer will give 2939 02:37:22.200 --> 02:37:24.600 you an email. We send me a picture of it 2940 02:37:24.799 --> 02:37:28.239 and an email, and then maybe call back next tomorrow 2941 02:37:28.319 --> 02:37:31.639 or next weekend and let me look into that one. 2942 02:37:31.760 --> 02:37:34.120 And I may need to go a little more specific 2943 02:37:34.239 --> 02:37:35.840 than just what's on my sheet right there. 2944 02:37:35.879 --> 02:37:38.760 Okay, okay, great, thank you very much for your hope. 2945 02:37:39.399 --> 02:37:41.399 All right, give itt I'm putting you on hold if 2946 02:37:41.440 --> 02:37:44.479 you want to stick around and get that email. All right, folks, 2947 02:37:44.559 --> 02:37:48.280 there we are. This one's in the books. Hopefully you 2948 02:37:48.399 --> 02:37:51.000 had fun today. I sure did. We'll be back tomorrow morning, 2949 02:37:51.239 --> 02:37:53.239 six am, bright and early. Hey, if I'm willing to 2950 02:37:53.319 --> 02:37:55.799 get up and be here, grab you a cup of 2951 02:37:55.879 --> 02:37:56.719 coffee and join me.