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Speaker 1: the judge. Welcome to Garden Line. Good to have you
Speaker 1: with us this morning. We're looking forward to visiting with you.
Speaker 1: You know, that's what this show is about. I can
Speaker 1: sit here and drown on about horticulture and gardening and things,
Speaker 1: and I do some, but it's really about you and
Speaker 1: your questions in your lawn and your garden, trees and
Speaker 1: shrubs and house plants and you name it. How do
Speaker 1: we helpe you have success? That is my goal. I
Speaker 1: say that this way you pretty much all the time,
Speaker 1: and that is that we're here to help you have
Speaker 1: a bountiful garden, a beautiful landscape and more fun in
Speaker 1: the process. And if I can accomplish even two out
Speaker 1: of three of those, I'll feel like we've accomplished something
Speaker 1: for the day. But I know we can hit all three.
Speaker 1: Gardening is a lot of fun. Yesterday I was in
Speaker 1: my backyard and we've got a fence on the back wall,
Speaker 1: and it's this big long privacy fence and you know,
Speaker 1: you look at it and okay, it's a fence, But
Speaker 1: being a horticulturist, I want to see green and flowers
Speaker 1: and fruits and whatever else I can put on that
Speaker 1: wall to make it look even better, you know, create
Speaker 1: that eden the view of aging rot resistant wood is
Speaker 1: not a comfort to me, but of you plants and
Speaker 1: flowers to smell the fragrance it is. And so I
Speaker 1: put up some kettle panels on a really tall posts
Speaker 1: that we have, and I planted Confederate jasmine also known
Speaker 1: as star jasmine on it. It is evergreen, so it'll
Speaker 1: look good all year round. And boy, when it blooms,
Speaker 1: it is, oh fragrant, very nice, very nice plant. And
Speaker 1: so that's what we're going for there. We're going to
Speaker 1: aim for that, and that is the plan. So we
Speaker 1: got them all planted, the vines. I kind of trained
Speaker 1: them along horizontally. You know, if you just plant things
Speaker 1: like that jasmine and just sort of let them do
Speaker 1: what they're gonna do, they're gonna pretty much go up,
Speaker 1: up and out a little bit, kind of making V
Speaker 1: shaped if you will. Well, I want that to be
Speaker 1: a wall of green. So I took all the current
Speaker 1: bines and went at the very bottom of the fence,
Speaker 1: just horizontal with them. We're gonna get a lot more shoots,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna go up, and I'll keep training them
Speaker 1: out and getting them to reach each other and connect
Speaker 1: and fill in. But that's just part of that process
Speaker 1: that happens in shrubs too a lot. By the way,
Speaker 1: you may have noticed that your shrubs keep wanting to
Speaker 1: be top heavy. They want to be wide at the top,
Speaker 1: and then at the bottom you don't have any foliage
Speaker 1: because the top is shading out the bottom and you
Speaker 1: only get leaves where you get light. We'll say that again,
Speaker 1: you only get leaves where you get light. So, whether
Speaker 1: it's a fruit tree or whatever it is, if the
Speaker 1: top is shading out the interior or the bottom, they're
Speaker 1: not going to be leaves down there. And so most
Speaker 1: people want a shrub to be just a wall of foliage.
Speaker 1: Especially if it's a screening shrub, a hedge, and so that.
Speaker 1: To do that, you got to keep the bottom wider
Speaker 1: than the top as you print it, and you'll be
Speaker 1: fighting against what the shrub is trying to do when
Speaker 1: you do that. They want to grow top heavy. They
Speaker 1: want to be an umbrella with all the leaves up
Speaker 1: on the top like an umbrella, and then all stiggy
Speaker 1: and twiggy and twiggy and everything else down below. But
Speaker 1: as you keep the top a little more narrow at
Speaker 1: least parallel, but a little more narrow at the top,
Speaker 1: a little wider at the base, sunlight reaches all areas,
Speaker 1: and you maintain foliage from top to bottom. That's what
Speaker 1: we're going for anyway, That's what I've been up to. Yesterday,
Speaker 1: at least I made a little doughnut of soil around
Speaker 1: each plant, maybe I don't know, let's say three and
Speaker 1: a half four inches high, and water did in really good.
Speaker 1: The reason I do the doughnut of soil called a berm,
Speaker 1: is because when you fill that with water, it all
Speaker 1: has to go straight down right there, which guess what
Speaker 1: is where all my roots are. I planted him yesterday.
Speaker 1: I do not have roots all through the bed. Yet
Speaker 1: it take a long time to achieve that, but early
Speaker 1: on for survival going into summer. Here it is June
Speaker 1: and I'm planting plants. It's okay. All I gotta do
Speaker 1: is go out there and water them frequently in that
Speaker 1: small amount, just an inch or so of water inch
Speaker 1: or two or three of water, depending on on you
Speaker 1: know what, whether it's in lots of sun or just
Speaker 1: a little bit of sun. Minds in a medium amount.
Speaker 1: And that's what we'll do well watered in that way.
Speaker 1: And once you know, we get through this first summer,
Speaker 1: I'll begain In fact, before we get to the end
Speaker 1: of the summer, I'll be watering the whole bed periodically,
Speaker 1: but mainly for right now it's where all the roots are.
Speaker 1: And that's a mistake people make a lot on plants,
Speaker 1: is they put it in the ground. You get some rain,
Speaker 1: and the whole soil in the bed is all nice
Speaker 1: and soaked and wet. But that little root ball, that
Speaker 1: cylinder that came out of the pot, that's where that's
Speaker 1: where the water gets pumped out really fast on a
Speaker 1: hot sunny day, and so that's where you got to
Speaker 1: add the water. So you find that sweet spot between
Speaker 1: consistently moist and soggy water logged swamp. No oxygen in
Speaker 1: the roots, that's all bad. So how do you find
Speaker 1: the spot in between the two?
Speaker 6: Way?
Speaker 1: You kin'd of have to use your fingers and feel.
Speaker 1: That's the bottom line. And I can sit there and
Speaker 1: tell you boill for every gallon of container size, you
Speaker 1: give it a gallon of water. Every you know, I
Speaker 1: could make up stuff like that. I mean to be
Speaker 1: generally accurate. But different soil types, different sun amounts. On
Speaker 1: the end of your hand are some really handy gardening gadgets.
Speaker 1: One of them is your fingers and that feels the
Speaker 1: soil and you can tell if soil is moist or not,
Speaker 1: and that is really handy. Sometimes I think I'll give
Speaker 1: you the laydown of all the the gardening gadgets on
Speaker 1: the end of your hand. That would be a maybe
Speaker 1: I'll do that today. Well anyway, seven one three two
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Speaker 1: me a call, let's visit about the things that are
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Speaker 1: a number of different diseases because it's a systemic protectant.
Speaker 1: It gets in the planet, it gets in the roots,
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Speaker 1: things that you're interested in this morning, and we will
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Speaker 1: Welcome back. I'm your host, skip Rick.
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Speaker 1: You're listening to Guarden line. We got some gardening talk
Speaker 1: to do today, if you'd like to give me a call.
Speaker 1: Seven one three two one two k tr H seven
Speaker 1: one three two and two k trhe. I planted a
Speaker 1: type of Collocasia in my garden yesterday in one of
Speaker 1: the one of the beds actually up against the house.
Speaker 1: We're up shady aery gets a little bit of sun.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 1: And if you're not familiar with colocasia, Colocasia and allocacia
Speaker 1: and kalladiums all have those big heart shaped leaves. Uh.
Speaker 1: If you you probably have heard of elephant well you
Speaker 1: know what kladium's arm, sure, but you probably heard of
Speaker 1: elephant ears before. Okay, that's that that group of plants
Speaker 1: that that's what we're talking about here.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 1: The allocacias in general. Uh, they're they're all kind of
Speaker 1: heart shaped slash arrow head shaped in their leaf. But
Speaker 1: the cases tend to point the leaves upward or outward
Speaker 1: a little bit, while the colocations tend to hang down.
Speaker 1: So when you look at them, you're seeing a heart
Speaker 1: that looks like a heart, with the allocations you're looking
Speaker 1: at more like a arrowhead. Which the way I remember that,
Speaker 1: by the way, is allocacia. It begins with a as
Speaker 1: does Arrowhead. So not all of them point, you know,
Speaker 1: just directly up. They do lean out, but anyway, that's
Speaker 1: a general purpose. They each have their best spots that
Speaker 1: they can go in. But I was planning one that's
Speaker 1: really colorful one and it just reminded me Arburgate Garden
Speaker 1: Center and Tom Ball has a wonderful selection of all
Speaker 1: kinds of tropical looking things. You know, we get here
Speaker 1: to summer, it's hot, it's sultry, and tropical plants thrive here.
Speaker 1: You know, we think, oh my gosh, I'm going to die.
Speaker 1: I feel like this is more sweltering than you know,
Speaker 1: Calcutta or someplace deep deep in the rainforest jungle.
Speaker 7: No that it.
Speaker 1: We have plants that love it. They love those kind
Speaker 1: of conditions. And what do they say when in Rome?
Speaker 1: Do as the Romans do? Well? If you want to
Speaker 1: have a happy landscape in the summer, include a lot
Speaker 1: of tropical plants, tropical dazzlers, plants that are just gorgeous.
Speaker 1: And boy does Arbrogaatee ever have some beautiful ones of those.
Speaker 1: You know, there's a standard green colors, there's types with
Speaker 1: colorful petioles. Kind of planet. It had kind of reddish
Speaker 1: petioles in it. There's some types. There's one that, oh gosh,
Speaker 1: the name's escaping me right now, but it has splashes
Speaker 1: of pink inside of a purple leaf. It's a fairly
Speaker 1: new one, kind of a Hawaiian something Hawaiian in the name,
Speaker 1: I can't remember, but anyway, another kind has purple leaves,
Speaker 1: deep deep purple leaves and with those big giant bold
Speaker 1: foliage there eye catchers. And remember when you're doing your landscape,
Speaker 1: to change up, change up your colors in the landscape,
Speaker 1: and change up your textures so you get something really
Speaker 1: fine grass like a grass an ornamental clumbing grass has
Speaker 1: very fine lines, fine tech. Make sure the bold leaves
Speaker 1: of color Caasha and Allocasia are just wonderful contrast to that.
Speaker 1: So use those more and use color in foliage as
Speaker 1: much as you can. In the summer. We have lots
Speaker 1: of blooming things in summer, but not as many a spring.
Speaker 1: And so when summer comes, even when plants kind of
Speaker 1: start to not bloom as well, you still can have
Speaker 1: color by using bold foliage color. All right, let's run
Speaker 1: out to Brian, Texas and we're going to talk to
Speaker 1: Dan this morning. Hello, Dan, Welcome to guarden Line.
Speaker 4: Yeah, good morning, Hey Skip, I've got a question. I
Speaker 4: just bought a little piece of land out in kind
Speaker 4: of northeast of Brian. It's pretty wide open out there,
Speaker 4: there's no trees on it, and were just wanting to
Speaker 4: get some recommendations on some relatively fast growing shade trees
Speaker 4: and ornamentals. I know I've had great myrtles in the past,
Speaker 4: and great myrtles have done pretty good. I've been out
Speaker 4: in here in the Crosby area, but just now relocating
Speaker 4: and just wanted to get your thoughts on some trees.
Speaker 4: I know live oaks are big up there, but heck,
Speaker 4: I'm seventy two years old. I'll never see live oaks grow.
Speaker 8: There.
Speaker 6: You go.
Speaker 1: Well, they say society is great when men plant trees
Speaker 1: under whose shade they will never set, So that there's
Speaker 1: something to think about. Well, Dan, you know, as you
Speaker 1: go up north and east of Brian, whether you're up
Speaker 1: to the North Ulch or Wickson Valley or anywhere out
Speaker 1: in that area, you've got a range of different soils
Speaker 1: that we are looking at the area of Texas called
Speaker 1: the Post Oak Belt. So there's a lot of grainy,
Speaker 1: granular gravelly types of soil that post oaks love. I
Speaker 1: would not plant a post oak by the way number one.
Speaker 1: You can find it in the garden center. But there's
Speaker 1: also some clay soils up in there, and so a
Speaker 1: couple of options there. You could go with a red
Speaker 1: oak such as a shoemard or a nut tall and
Speaker 1: nut tall or shumard red oak. They grow pretty fast
Speaker 1: when you get all the weeds away from them, so
Speaker 1: they don't have any competition. Give them a big mulched
Speaker 1: area so they have a forest floor environment, and water
Speaker 1: them regularly. Watering is more important than fertilizing, but of
Speaker 1: course also fertilize them with a nitrogen based fertilizer. You
Speaker 1: can get pretty good growth out of those. There are
Speaker 1: a lot of other trees too, It just kind of
Speaker 1: depends on what you like. The cypress trees will do
Speaker 1: well up there. You see a lot of those as
Speaker 1: you drive through Brian College Station and road medians and
Speaker 1: other things. Just if you can get something that doesn't
Speaker 1: if it's going to be in your yard, get something
Speaker 1: that doesn't produce knees. There are cypress that produce knees
Speaker 1: and cypress that don't. If you have a clay soil.
Speaker 1: With the amount of rain you get up there, which
Speaker 1: isn't as much as in Houston, but it still is
Speaker 1: a lot that soul stay soggy and the knees start
Speaker 1: popping up in your lawnmower has the time of it.
Speaker 1: So just something to think about. If you go with
Speaker 1: the cypress, they're very sturdy, very long lived. A lot
Speaker 1: of people like elms, and there's some beautiful elms. If
Speaker 1: you want a tree that once it's established, you don't
Speaker 1: care for, have to care for a lot. Cedar elm
Speaker 1: is a good tough one that can do that. It
Speaker 1: doesn't make as big and spreading of a tree as
Speaker 1: the others as the oaks will.
Speaker 4: Okay, well, I think that like that red oak idea.
Speaker 4: Maybe do you think, yeah, great marbles you think of
Speaker 4: do alight up there?
Speaker 1: They do? They do great up there. They are a
Speaker 1: tough tree, surprisingly tough. I would if you want shade
Speaker 1: from it, I would get a very large one, such
Speaker 1: as natches like the Indian tribe at trail. Yeah, not
Speaker 1: just trail like that. It has white flowers and it
Speaker 1: has a beautiful cinnamon colored exfoliating bark, unlike the putty
Speaker 1: colored trunks of most crape myrtles. This one has even
Speaker 1: attractive trunks. I think so Natchez will get about thirty
Speaker 1: feet tall with water and care. Okay, well, great, it
Speaker 1: has a few ideas.
Speaker 4: Appreciate your information. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you and you're not far from wims And
Speaker 1: tree farms done in Plannersville. But they grow a lot
Speaker 1: of trees out there, and they will sell if you
Speaker 1: contact the amount of time, I believe you can just
Speaker 1: go down and make a retail purchase. Okay, what is
Speaker 1: what was the name of it, Williamson Tree Farm. They're
Speaker 1: connected to RCW Nurseries in history Whimst's in Plannersville. If
Speaker 1: you if you go one oh five, like you're going
Speaker 1: to Conroe and turn south toward Plannersville, it's just right
Speaker 1: there on the left, off to the left. Okay, well great, Hey, yeah,
Speaker 1: this sounds great.
Speaker 4: Hey, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: All right, have fun. All right, you're listening to Garden Line.
Speaker 1: I'm your host, Skip Richter. How can we help you
Speaker 1: today with your garden? Like we just were talking with
Speaker 1: Dan there about some tree ideas for a certain part
Speaker 1: of the listening area. Whenever you choose plants do. Remember
Speaker 1: that they have an opinion about the soil. And I
Speaker 1: mentioned the you know, that area is in the gravelly
Speaker 1: the gravelly soils of the Postoke Belt, but also the
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Speaker 1: fruit trees that do not produce fruit and why that,
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Speaker 1: When we come back. Hey, welcome back to guarden Line.
Speaker 1: Good to have you with us. What are we going
Speaker 1: to talk about today, Well, you tell me when the
Speaker 1: phone calls. We got a couple of folks online here
Speaker 1: be visiting with in just a moment. If you've not
Speaker 1: been down to Enchanted Forest Garden Center, you really need
Speaker 1: to go. They have got a wonderful selection of plants.
Speaker 1: I always tell you about their herbs and vegetables and things.
Speaker 1: I always tell you about the pollinator plants and the
Speaker 1: butterfly plant. Just just butterfly alone, I mean the plants
Speaker 1: that attract the adults, the plants that are the tract
Speaker 1: the larva, which is important. You know, you want monarchs,
Speaker 1: you got to have milkweed, so monarch larva there. You
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Speaker 1: passion bend because that's what their baby's eat. Well, and
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Speaker 1: lot more. They also have some desert willows. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you're familiar with desert willow, but it is
Speaker 1: a very fine textured tree. You know, earlier I was
Speaker 1: talking about the the colocasia and alocasia, how they had
Speaker 1: the big bold leaves. Well, this is a very fine
Speaker 1: strappy leaf, very thin narrow leaves, but they have beautiful blooms.
Speaker 1: There's a number of different there's just the standard wild
Speaker 1: type of desert willow, and then there's some varieties that
Speaker 1: have been selected. They have one called Bubba. Bubba has
Speaker 1: been around a good while and it is a dependable variety.
Speaker 1: It's been proven. The blooms on it are kind of
Speaker 1: a pink to maroon burgundy color. They're sort of in
Speaker 1: that range, and it makes a small tree that casts
Speaker 1: a light shade. The nice thing about that is you
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Speaker 1: We're going to go now up to the northwest Houston
Speaker 1: area and with well ed, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 5: Thank you for having me.
Speaker 9: My favorite subject has become soil.
Speaker 5: And okay, well, I'm still battling it. I went organic
Speaker 5: about four years ago on all of my fertilizing. Now
Speaker 5: I want to get more into putting stuff into the soul,
Speaker 5: more and more that can help amend it and spent
Speaker 5: but to get it, I'm using Microlife for almost everything.
Speaker 5: I'm using as a mite at times, I'm.
Speaker 9: Using mister Ferguson's remineralizer a lot, and his molt is
Speaker 9: a lot. Now I want to put some stuff in
Speaker 9: that's liquid now, and then I want to put.
Speaker 5: Stuff down that's granular. I just want to pump that song,
Speaker 5: and I don't mind spending the money to do it.
Speaker 9: Give me some one two, three, four by six things
Speaker 9: to do and regularly, oh.
Speaker 1: Boy, I can do Okay, well, Uh, First of all,
Speaker 1: you're on a good track with great products. Congratulations on that.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 1: Or is your sore clay soil? Or is it more
Speaker 1: of a sand or a loan? Do you know?
Speaker 9: No, No, it's a lot of clay.
Speaker 5: When you dig down more than the depth.
Speaker 9: Of a shovel blade, you know what?
Speaker 5: You hit me down there?
Speaker 9: And now I have gotten the most of the whey.
Speaker 9: I'm interested a little more.
Speaker 5: Broken up over the last five or two in years,
Speaker 5: but I know I need to just keep going down
Speaker 5: back and forth doing something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, ed, well, for the sake of time,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna Your question is about one thousand and one
Speaker 1: good questions all packed into one. So let me give
Speaker 1: you some quick highlights. When you improve on a clay,
Speaker 1: you do it with organic matter, and you do it
Speaker 1: with expanded shale. I didn't hear you mentioned shale. But
Speaker 1: as you mix several inches of expanded shale down into
Speaker 1: a clay, it loosens it up significantly. There's been a
Speaker 1: lot of research on that that has shown the benefits
Speaker 1: to a clay. Organic matter is always wonderful. Organic matter
Speaker 1: is what nature does to soil, and so it works.
Speaker 1: But organic matter decomposes, and so if you're going to
Speaker 1: put in something like let's say a roast bush, well
Speaker 1: that's going to be there for years, decades maybe, and
Speaker 1: so you can't just amend the soil once with organic matter.
Speaker 1: Having the expanded shale in there. Making sure you have
Speaker 1: good drainage is all important. If you're using the azamite
Speaker 1: and then you mentioned mister Ferguson's mineralizer, those are similar products.
Speaker 1: So what I would recommend you do is occasionally test
Speaker 1: your soil. You can go to a website that's soil
Speaker 1: Testing is the name of the website, Soil Testing, and
Speaker 1: then it's dot ta MU, which is Texas and M
Speaker 1: University dot edu Soil Testing dot TAMU, dot edu. Find
Speaker 1: the urban soil test form, fill it out, follow the destructions,
Speaker 1: and then let them tell you what's in your soil.
Speaker 1: They may tell you your potassium is high, they may
Speaker 1: tell you it's low, they may tell you it's just right.
Speaker 1: But when you get that result, then you'll know exactly
Speaker 1: going forward how to fertilize. If we just use the
Speaker 1: same thing over and over and over again without ever testing,
Speaker 1: we can be gradually getting out of balance. And so
Speaker 1: we want to avoid that, and I think you're at
Speaker 1: a point now where some soil testing would be in order. Okay,
Speaker 1: I agree, I agree, Okay, all right, Hey, call me
Speaker 1: back sometime we'll continue this discussion. So sounds like you
Speaker 1: got a lot more good questions. But I'd love to
Speaker 1: visit with you.
Speaker 5: You you're very You're very smart.
Speaker 10: You know I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 1: Thank you, all right, thank you, sir. Appreciate Yes, sir,
Speaker 1: appreciate that. Thanks a lot. Let's go now to Pat
Speaker 1: in the barker Cypress area. Hey, Pat, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 1: Good morning, Skip, thanks for taking my call. I've got
Speaker 1: a weed.
Speaker 11: It has little bitty of white flowers on it in
Speaker 11: my Saint Augustine, and you can grab clumps of it
Speaker 11: and just pull it up. Is I put a pre
Speaker 11: emergence way back when it was cold before it got hot,
Speaker 11: but it didn't seem to affect it.
Speaker 1: Uh, I've had it. Yeah. Do you know if picture
Speaker 1: of the weed again in your mind's eye, does it
Speaker 1: have four padals that are skinned and white so it
Speaker 1: looks like a little white X or a little white
Speaker 1: cross on the flowers. No, it has on the runners.
Speaker 1: It only on top of the soil. I noticed it.
Speaker 11: It will every once in a while. You got to
Speaker 11: pull it real hard to get it out of the ground.
Speaker 11: But it also has these little beady things along the runners,
Speaker 11: just a little.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 11: They're green, some of them are white.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh boy, Well, I think it's Virginia button weed.
Speaker 1: But some things you're saying or contrary to that. The
Speaker 1: best answer I can give you is for you to
Speaker 1: take a picture of it and email it to me
Speaker 1: and let me make sure I give you the right answer.
Speaker 1: I mean, I can shoot from the hip, but we
Speaker 1: may be wasting your time and money, and I don't
Speaker 1: want to do that. I think you're talking about Virginia
Speaker 1: button weed. But Virginia button weed has small, white, cross
Speaker 1: shaped flowers. They're probably across the whole flower, maybe about
Speaker 1: a third of an inch or so. But I'm going
Speaker 1: to put you on hold, and if you'd like to
Speaker 1: pursue that, just my producer will pick it up and
Speaker 1: he'll tell you to email me that photo and then
Speaker 1: let's get get you a good I don't want to
Speaker 1: pursue that. I don't want to pursue Okay.
Speaker 11: Also, I have Dallas grass and I read that stuff
Speaker 11: is very hard to get rid of.
Speaker 1: You almost have to dig it up. Is that? Do
Speaker 1: you know anything that pretty much, well, pretty much digging
Speaker 1: it up is going to be what you end up doing.
Speaker 1: It is a very very difficult, very difficult grass to
Speaker 1: control from a homeowner standpoint, just due to the the
Speaker 1: access that you have to, not as many products as
Speaker 1: as someone else, you know, as a commercial person I
Speaker 1: would have access to. But digging is a very dependable
Speaker 1: way if you're going to do I tell you what,
Speaker 1: let me do this. I'm about to have to go
Speaker 1: to a break here. I'll come back from break and
Speaker 1: I'll talk about Dallas grass just a little bit, okay,
Speaker 1: and then we'll do that. And for the Virginia, for
Speaker 1: what I think you have in the Virginia button weed,
Speaker 1: there's a productal celsius, like the temperature celsius and follow
Speaker 1: the label and see how that works. It's going to
Speaker 1: take more than one application to kill it. That's just
Speaker 1: the way. Hey, thank you, thank you for the call.
Speaker 1: I appreciate I appreciate that very much. I'm sorry, I
Speaker 1: got I got to run here. I'll be right back.
Speaker 1: Folks already, look back a little Roger Miller this morning
Speaker 1: on Garden Line. Hey, I was just talking with a
Speaker 1: pat about the Dallas grass and we just ran flat,
Speaker 1: ran out of time, but I didn't want to make
Speaker 1: a couple of comments about it. Dallas grass is one
Speaker 1: of the most difficult grasses to control for a homeowner,
Speaker 1: a resident, a non commercial applicator. You just don't have
Speaker 1: access to some of the things that commercial folks do.
Speaker 1: It's hard for commerce for commercial folks to control too,
Speaker 1: by the way, But what I would recommend for it,
Speaker 1: Number one, hand digging. I know you don't want to
Speaker 1: hear that, but you know, if your whole yard's Dallas grass,
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe just kill everything and replant. That
Speaker 1: would be one thing. It's too much to handig. But
Speaker 1: if you have some just here and there, just stay
Speaker 1: with it. Hand dig never let it produce seeds and
Speaker 1: increase its spread that way. But getting out there wet
Speaker 1: the soil really well, you know, an inch of water
Speaker 1: or following a good rainstorm the next day or so,
Speaker 1: you can easily get it up. Get you one of
Speaker 1: the little prong weaters that goes in the ground, you
Speaker 1: can kind of lift it up a little bit. I
Speaker 1: like to use a soil knife for that. By the way,
Speaker 1: love my soil knife, but just do it a little
Speaker 1: at a time here and there. I have controlled a
Speaker 1: lot of weeds that way, and I'm not trying to
Speaker 1: do the whole yard on one day. But get out
Speaker 1: early morning when it's cool, work for a little while,
Speaker 1: come back to it later. That's legit now. Other than that,
Speaker 1: there's two options that are not as thorough as that,
Speaker 1: but they are options. One is to use a product
Speaker 1: to just kill it and kill everything. It'll kill your
Speaker 1: long grass, it'll kill the Dallas grass. So you spot
Speaker 1: treat as much as you can get it on the
Speaker 1: Dallas grass without getting it on your turf grass. And
Speaker 1: those are those general products. You know, glyf essay, it
Speaker 1: has been once, been around for a long time. But
Speaker 1: when you treat a weed with that, it's gonna kill
Speaker 1: it and it's gonna get it out of there. But
Speaker 1: you're gonna have all these dead spots in your yard
Speaker 1: and then the grass can grow back in or you
Speaker 1: can plug some in. How you go about it, all right.
Speaker 1: The last option is to use something called Celsius, which
Speaker 1: I talked about before. Celsius has three three different ingredients
Speaker 1: in it. One of them, only one of them is
Speaker 1: pretty effective against Dallas grass. You can use celsius early
Speaker 1: in the mornings, even in the month of June where
Speaker 1: it's really hot out there. But I'd get it done
Speaker 1: and then I'd be ready to come back at it
Speaker 1: and do it again in the fall. It doesn't if
Speaker 1: you read the labels, it says it suppresses it. Okay,
Speaker 1: so if you suppress and suppress and suppress, you can
Speaker 1: kill something pretty much. But that would be the other one.
Speaker 1: Not a great it's not a miracle cure. It's not
Speaker 1: you know, you're I'm just telling you. It's a This
Speaker 1: is why I said it's a tough week. There's just
Speaker 1: not og. Spray this and it'll kill everything, kill it
Speaker 1: and you'll be good. So anyway, those are your options
Speaker 1: for Dallas grass unless you have a major infestation and
Speaker 1: a very large lawn. I you know, I wouldn't do
Speaker 1: the hand digging, but you even if you hire somebody
Speaker 1: to do it, if as long as they get all
Speaker 1: the pieces and parts out of the ground, that hand
Speaker 1: digging is is definitely a valid option. And then create
Speaker 1: a dense, healthy lawn so sunlight can't hit the soil
Speaker 1: and you have better success. You know, I talk about
Speaker 1: turf all the time. I talk about soil all the time.
Speaker 1: And if you want to have success with any kind
Speaker 1: of plant, it's the soils where you start. And Cienamultch
Speaker 1: is where you go. Cina Maltch is south of Houston.
Speaker 1: You're Highway six and two eighty eight. Go to the
Speaker 1: website Sienna Mulch dot com cienamultch dot com. When you
Speaker 1: go there, you're going to find by the bag, you're
Speaker 1: going to find by the bulk all kinds of products,
Speaker 1: whether it's various types of composts, bed mixes and multches
Speaker 1: that go on top of the ground, as well as
Speaker 1: other things you need around the landscape like sand and gravel,
Speaker 1: soil for filling in, soil blends for filling in to
Speaker 1: the to the level out some areas in your lawn.
Speaker 1: Cienamultz dot COM's where you go. You also find the
Speaker 1: nutrients that go in the ground to build the brown
Speaker 1: stuff into a bank account that plants can thrive in.
Speaker 1: That would include stuff from microlife and nitrofoss and nail,
Speaker 1: some plant food and medina and certainly asamite as well.
Speaker 1: All there at Ciena Maltz Sienna multch dot com. So
Speaker 1: you're listening to garden Line a phone number seven one
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Speaker 1: being kind of in not talking on the phone, but
Speaker 1: doing some text emailing with the folks at Pierscape, so
Speaker 1: that I'm going to go ahead and look at one
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Speaker 1: for too long, just to show you kind of work
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Speaker 1: or maybe you just need quarterly service. You want once
Speaker 1: a quarter that's every three months for them to come
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Speaker 1: out there, take a look at some of the work
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Speaker 1: visiting with some folks that were went to jorg sitting
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Speaker 1: enjoyed good Jorges down in the Alvin Santa Fe area.
Speaker 1: It's an Alvin address. It's on Elizabeth Street and Alvin.
Speaker 1: But if you're in Alvin, you're heading down Highway six
Speaker 1: towards Santa Fe. It's off to the right back in
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Speaker 1: two five two nine zero. Well, I believe I've run
Speaker 1: out of time on this segment. We're going to be
Speaker 1: take a little break. You and I can each get
Speaker 1: us a cup of coffee. Be ready to go again
Speaker 1: here in just a moment. And when we come back,
Speaker 1: don't let me forget. I want to talk to you
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Speaker 1: want to talk about? Give me call seven one three
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Speaker 1: two one two k t r H. I was in
Speaker 1: an ACE Hardware store the other day, and I try
Speaker 1: to get around and see different Ace Hardware stores because
Speaker 1: each one is independently owned. So while it is an
Speaker 1: a store and therefore has all the things you would
Speaker 1: expect from an ACE store, all kinds of quality products
Speaker 1: and whatnot, each one has its own personalities. You know,
Speaker 1: an owner can choose to open up a fudge bar
Speaker 1: if they want in one of the stores, or they
Speaker 1: can choose to do something else like that, and it's
Speaker 1: always fun to go see what they have and the
Speaker 1: cool products that they have and services. The ACE Hardware
Speaker 1: is all over the place. You know, you can go
Speaker 1: to ACE Hardware Texas dot com. Acehardware Texas dot com
Speaker 1: and you can find the store near you. Don't forget
Speaker 1: the Texas ACE Hardware Texas dot com. That's my ACE
Speaker 1: Hardware group here in the greater Houston area. So if
Speaker 1: you're listening all the way down from Rockport to I
Speaker 1: don't know, Orange, Texas, you have ACE Hardware stores in
Speaker 1: your area that are part of our group. Stores like
Speaker 1: Child's Building Supply in Orange or Memorial Hardware a Memorial
Speaker 1: Drive in Houston, Port Lavaca on Calhoun Plaza in Port Lavaca,
Speaker 1: Lake Conroe ACE on Highway one oh five just outside
Speaker 1: Montgomery there. League City ACE is down in League City
Speaker 1: on the West League City Parkway. All Star is in
Speaker 1: Magnolia on FM fourteen eighty eight and by there, in fact,
Speaker 1: it did an appearance there a while back. And Bay
Speaker 1: Cliff Face on Grand Avenue and Bake Cliff. Those are
Speaker 1: all examples of some of the ACE Hardware stores. Now,
Speaker 1: when you go into an ACE Hardware store, you're going
Speaker 1: to find things that are quality and things that are
Speaker 1: pertinent to the kinds of gardening and enjoying the indoors
Speaker 1: and outdoors. So for example, maybe you need maybe you
Speaker 1: need your deck kind of rece stained, or you need
Speaker 1: a preservation product for your deck. They've got that, of course,
Speaker 1: they have paints and all kinds of things like that.
Speaker 1: Don't let that go too far, by the way, you
Speaker 1: want to catch it and keep good quality of all
Speaker 1: your deck materials by you know, taking care of them.
Speaker 1: That way. You need propane for barbecuing and other things.
Speaker 1: Do you need barbecue equipment? Don't forget to get air
Speaker 1: filters when you're in there. Always one changes out about
Speaker 1: once a month in order to make sure you are
Speaker 1: taking care of that very expensive central heat and air
Speaker 1: unit that you have, So make sure and replace those
Speaker 1: in there. And then of course for gardening, everything you
Speaker 1: can imagine, certainly the fertilizers, the pest control, of the
Speaker 1: disease control. Listen, when you go into ACE, you're going
Speaker 1: to find everything you need. ACE is the place, that's
Speaker 1: what they say, and that is a fact. By the way,
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Speaker 1: want to need. Most things you can buy online and
Speaker 1: pick them up at your store, your local ACE Hardware store,
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Speaker 1: And one last thing, sign up for the ACE Rewards program.
Speaker 1: Sign up. You can do it online, you can do
Speaker 1: it and when you go into a store. But I
Speaker 1: belong to it every time I go into ACE and shop.
Speaker 1: You know, with the Rewards program there's discounts and special
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Speaker 1: So make sure and sign up for that. Take advantage
Speaker 1: of that great, great idea. All right, if you are
Speaker 1: interested in asking your gardening question, you can reach me
Speaker 1: at seven to one to three two one two k
Speaker 1: t r H seven one three two one two k
Speaker 1: t r H. I was talking to somebody about Buchanan's
Speaker 1: plants the other day. What was oh they were They
Speaker 1: were discussing some of the natives and things that Buchanans
Speaker 1: has and uh, Buchanans has a better selection in natives
Speaker 1: than anybody in the whole region, the whole region. I
Speaker 1: don't care where you're I said, from Orange to Rockport,
Speaker 1: I don't care where you're listening from. Buchanus native plants
Speaker 1: is going to be a source for those things that
Speaker 1: are great plants to have but just not widely available.
Speaker 1: Of course, they have the standard stuff. Yes, it's not
Speaker 1: just native plants. You're going to find great pollinator plants there.
Speaker 1: You're going to find you know, I was talking earlier
Speaker 1: about some of the tropicals, the gaudy tropicals with beautiful color.
Speaker 1: They have those there. If you're into succulents and indoor
Speaker 1: plants and you really really love house plants, you can
Speaker 1: have one of the best selections you're gonna find, as
Speaker 1: well as one of the biggest urban vegetable selections here
Speaker 1: in the city. Uh, it's excellent, excellent, excellent. They know
Speaker 1: that it begins in the soil. They know, you know,
Speaker 1: I talk about brown stuff before green stuff. Buchanans has
Speaker 1: got everything you need. They have a full line of
Speaker 1: Microlife's products. They have nitrofoss and Nelson. They have products
Speaker 1: from Medina for example. They have soil products from Nature's
Speaker 1: Way and Airloom Sauce, and then they have their own
Speaker 1: a couple of different lines like their Life below in
Speaker 1: the Tropicore that they carry. Beautiful gift shop. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's a thousand reasons to go to Buchanans a thousand.
Speaker 1: They added one thousand and one earlier this year and
Speaker 1: that was the new checkout area. It's a nice covered
Speaker 1: roof where you're out of the sun, you're out of
Speaker 1: the rain, and then they're not going to lose that
Speaker 1: oneto a storm again like they have the other two.
Speaker 1: So they are all set up and ready to go.
Speaker 1: Go to the website, which is I think one of
Speaker 1: the best sources of information on gardening that I've seen,
Speaker 1: and that is buchanansplants dot Com. Helpful videos, good information.
Speaker 1: They feature plants each week. You want to be part
Speaker 1: of that, and you want to sign up for the newsletter.
Speaker 1: Buchan's naeded plants on Eleventh Street and the Heights. We're
Speaker 1: gonna head out and out to the phones and had
Speaker 1: the Spring branch and talk to Herda. Well, hello, herd
Speaker 1: it good morning.
Speaker 2: Good morning. My questions about day lilies. Uh there's a
Speaker 2: cluster of them on both sides of the sidewalk and
Speaker 2: uh they bloomed. It's white and just a hue of
Speaker 2: a kind of a rose color. But anyway, they I
Speaker 2: guess they bloomed about I didn't you know, look at
Speaker 2: the time that they were blooming. But uh then uh,
Speaker 2: and of course they roll up at night. I didn't
Speaker 2: know that, I'm learning.
Speaker 1: But you're running around out side at night looking at
Speaker 1: day lilies.
Speaker 2: Well, no, the next day, I mean, there's just all
Speaker 2: they're all dead, shriveled and wrinkled. But anyway, now they
Speaker 2: have a little green bulb at the top. Oh, by
Speaker 2: the way, the stem is a straw. They don't have
Speaker 2: any other form. But anyway, I've never had these. Well,
Speaker 2: but anyway, uh is that bulb wh a new bloom coming?
Speaker 1: Or I'd have to see it to be sure. You
Speaker 1: may have a seed, you may have even a seed
Speaker 1: pod going on up there, but it could be. Give
Speaker 1: a little time, just wait and watch and see there's
Speaker 1: a wonderful plant. Day lilies. They they you know they
Speaker 1: they have They're called day lily for a reason. As
Speaker 1: you know now, it's a good dependable toup plants. Some
Speaker 1: of them repeat bloom better than others. But as you
Speaker 1: as you get along into it, you can find some
Speaker 1: gorgeous colors and very dependable ones too. I'm sorry to
Speaker 1: have to run, but I got like three seconds before
Speaker 1: i'ma have to go to a break. I appreciate you
Speaker 1: carfian to hang around weeking. Okay, you take care too,
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for calling folks. I'll be right back. Hey,
Speaker 1: welcome backs down love crocodile rot. All right, you're listening
Speaker 1: to the guard Line. We're here to help you have
Speaker 1: success in your gardens. You just give me a call
Speaker 1: seven one three two one two kt r H. We'll
Speaker 1: talk about the things that are of interest to you.
Speaker 1: All right. I believe I'm going back out here and
Speaker 1: visit again with Herda. Hey, herd, are you still there?
Speaker 2: Yes? I called back. My son Scott gave me a
Speaker 2: three gallon pot stage. Where is the best price to print?
Speaker 2: How much sun does it need? I think they take
Speaker 2: full sun, don't they?
Speaker 8: They do?
Speaker 1: Now, this is the herb sage that you're talking about,
Speaker 1: not the shrub sage, the bush.
Speaker 2: No, this is the bush.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, okay, yeah, they need full sun sage bushes.
Speaker 1: Does yours have sort of silvery leaves or are they
Speaker 1: mostly green?
Speaker 2: They're a silvery silver green.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, lots of lots of sun as much as
Speaker 1: you can give them, and make sure you get them.
Speaker 1: We say high and dry, meaning on a raised mound.
Speaker 1: So when it rains too much. Their roots aren't soggy wet,
Speaker 1: because they'd rather be in Uvality, Texas than Houston, Texas.
Speaker 1: So we've got to we've got to make sure that
Speaker 1: when you know, we just put them on a hy
Speaker 1: dry mound and they'll they'll be fine.
Speaker 12: They'll do well there, all right.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I grew up in Santonio and they did very
Speaker 2: well in Santonio. But it's much higher and drier.
Speaker 4: It is, it is.
Speaker 1: But even there, you know, you've got to give them
Speaker 1: good drainage. So yeah, it's a good plant, good plan.
Speaker 2: All right. Thank you.
Speaker 1: You know who gene Autry? Do you know who gene
Speaker 1: Autry is? Deep in the heart of Texas, Deep in
Speaker 1: the heart of Texas. A sage in blooms smells like
Speaker 1: perfume deep in the Absolutely it's a Texas plant for sure.
Speaker 8: All right.
Speaker 1: Thanks, you have a good rest of you. Yes, ma'am,
Speaker 1: thank you for calling. Appreciate that. If you're up in
Speaker 1: the Magnolia direction from Tombole Spring Creek, feed your hometown,
Speaker 1: feed storage right their garden Parkway or Garden Parkway, you
Speaker 1: can tell him a gardener Grand Parkway and Highway to
Speaker 1: forty nine Spring Creek Feed is the place where you
Speaker 1: get the foundation stuff for your garden. I'm talking about
Speaker 1: fertilize like turf Star and microlife and nitrofoss if you've
Speaker 1: got pests and weeds and diseases to deal with, they
Speaker 1: carry their garden center stocked with a really good supply
Speaker 1: of all of those things. Now you're going to also
Speaker 1: find that any kind of lawn and garden and pond supplies.
Speaker 1: Maybe got a little pond, They're going to have all
Speaker 1: of that there. When you walk in, you're greeted like
Speaker 1: you should be greeted, and a good quality business, friendly,
Speaker 1: courteous staff. And if you need pet food, they have
Speaker 1: very high end lines of pet food as well there
Speaker 1: at Spring Creek Feed. Now, if you are a frequent buyer,
Speaker 1: they have a frequent buyer program on select brands of
Speaker 1: pet food, so that helps save a bit of money
Speaker 1: there on some of those brands. Let them know that
Speaker 1: you kind of are interested in that, and they'll tell
Speaker 1: you all about it. If you're a military or senior citizen,
Speaker 1: there are discounts available to you. They do special orders
Speaker 1: and they also have a delivery service all their Spring
Speaker 1: Creek Feed in Magnolia on FM twenty nine seventy eight,
Speaker 1: just minutes away from Parkway and Highway two forty nine.
Speaker 1: Let's head out to Cyprus now and we're going to
Speaker 1: visit with Susan this morning. Hello Susan, Welcome to garden line.
Speaker 3: Thanks Skip.
Speaker 7: How are you.
Speaker 1: Doing well? Thanks?
Speaker 3: Get you know the temperatures, yes, temperatures are in the nineties.
Speaker 3: Now is it too hot to spray a weed killer?
Speaker 11: Now?
Speaker 3: Will that hurt the grass with the high temperatures?
Speaker 1: So you're you're wanting to apply it in your lawn?
Speaker 1: Or are you using something to kill broad leaf weeds?
Speaker 1: Or are you using something to prevent weeds from sprouting
Speaker 1: from seed?
Speaker 3: I've already got the weeds, so I need a post emergent.
Speaker 1: Okay for many of the good post emergent weed killers.
Speaker 1: Once you get up in the upper eighties, even you
Speaker 1: can start to get stress on your Saint Augustine grass.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 8: There.
Speaker 1: The recommendation is to do your applications early in the
Speaker 1: morning orly as you can, so that they dry up
Speaker 1: before the sun is baking down and heating things up
Speaker 1: a lot. There is a specific weed killer called Celsius.
Speaker 1: Like the temperature Celsius that it can even be in
Speaker 1: the low nineties and it's okay, it's not going to
Speaker 1: hurt it. But whatever you use, do it first thing
Speaker 1: in the morning, just to give you that extra measure
Speaker 1: of safety.
Speaker 3: Okay, good, and then Celsius is okay to use them.
Speaker 3: Permuta grass.
Speaker 1: Yes, it is also label for your mutographs. It comes
Speaker 1: in little pockets that make one gallon of spray, but
Speaker 1: a gallon goes a long way if you're just spots
Speaker 1: spraying weeds here and there. You know, generally with weed
Speaker 1: killer like that, you don't spray your entire yard, every
Speaker 1: square foot of it. So I like the little one
Speaker 1: gallon things because you can mix them up, use it up,
Speaker 1: and then you're done.
Speaker 11: I'll do that.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Good luck with it. Thanks Susan. Appreciate your call.
Speaker 1: Take care. You are listening to Gardenline. I'm your host,
Speaker 1: Skip Richter and the phone number seven one three two
Speaker 1: one two ktr eight seven one three two one two ktrights. Hey,
Speaker 1: Medina products have so many options that gardeners have gone
Speaker 1: to for a long long time. I don't know. Back
Speaker 1: in the nineteen fifties, Medinas was going strong, and that's
Speaker 1: where you get things like Medina Soil Activator, which stimulates
Speaker 1: your biological activity in the soil. It's one of the
Speaker 1: just foundational products that Medina has. Then there's Medina Plus.
Speaker 1: Now with Medina Plus, you get not only just the
Speaker 1: Medina Soil activator, but they have increased some other They've
Speaker 1: added other things to the formula to increase the benefits
Speaker 1: of it. And so for example, you got micronutrients and
Speaker 1: you got seaweed extract in there, so you get all
Speaker 1: the natural soil building advantages while those extra ingredients make
Speaker 1: it even better for a folier feed for plants. Any
Speaker 1: country shrubs anything with leaves, even lawns. Seaweed extracts help
Speaker 1: plants achieve good growth. They help the yield on things
Speaker 1: that are producing fruit for you by enhancing natural product processes.
Speaker 1: So basically we're trying to help our plants against all
Speaker 1: the stresses that they're dealing with. Make sure they have
Speaker 1: the nutrients that they need. Well, try Medina Plus. It's
Speaker 1: available in a gallon, it's available in a cort. It's
Speaker 1: easy used. You got a plant that's struggling along, give
Speaker 1: it a folier feed and then put some in a
Speaker 1: watering can and just drench it into the soil really
Speaker 1: good and you'll get a double benefit from that makes
Speaker 1: it really really easy to apply. Another good quality product
Speaker 1: for the folks at Medina. Don't forget too. By the way,
Speaker 1: Medina has to Grow for lawns. It's a twelve four
Speaker 1: to eight formulation. Hooks up to a garden hose, Go
Speaker 1: over your whole lown and give it a good quick
Speaker 1: boost of energy. And I love their Souper Grow Plus.
Speaker 1: That's another lawn product that's almost all nitrogen and at
Speaker 1: zero phosphorus the middle number, which for a lawn is
Speaker 1: just fine. Most of our lawns have enough or more
Speaker 1: than enough phosphors. So Medina Supergrow Plus hooks up to
Speaker 1: a garden hose. And by the way, don't you know
Speaker 1: these products say they're for lawns, but they're good fertilizers.
Speaker 1: I'm funic over your vegetable garden. You need to get
Speaker 1: some okra growing, or tomatoes or peppers or whatever. Just
Speaker 1: just blast them with that. It'll give them a boost.
Speaker 1: You will see a difference. And just don't let the
Speaker 1: tomatoes and the okra seed that it says lawn on
Speaker 1: the fertilizer bottle and they'll think you're giving them something
Speaker 1: that's just for them. I'm telling you it works. You know,
Speaker 1: we complicate things sometimes, but hey, the plant just says
Speaker 1: I need nitrogen, I need phosphorus, I need potassium magnesium,
Speaker 1: and it lists out about twenty things that it wants
Speaker 1: and you give them that and they're happy. And Medina
Speaker 1: products will do that for you, especially the Supergrow Plus
Speaker 1: and the uh Medina Ashti Grow for lawns. You're listening
Speaker 1: to garden Line phone number seven one three two one
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Speaker 8: T r H.
Speaker 1: Have you been out to Nelson Water Gardens the nursery
Speaker 1: and water Gardens out in Katie, Texas For any of
Speaker 1: you that live west, you have got to go there.
Speaker 1: Nelson Water Gardens and Nursery. Are you drive to Katie
Speaker 1: turn north on Katie four Ben Road and it's just
Speaker 1: a little bit up on the right hand side. It
Speaker 1: is a destination garden center because of all the things
Speaker 1: they carry, but it also is a place for beautiful
Speaker 1: water features that just went. I'm warning you when you
Speaker 1: go in there, you're going to be oh, I got
Speaker 1: to do that in my yard. Oh, I want one
Speaker 1: of those in my yard. Oh, I got to do
Speaker 1: that in my ard. They'll come out and those set
Speaker 1: up water features for you. They'll create a I mean,
Speaker 1: if you want the whole nine yards, you know, like
Speaker 1: a rock waterfall, they'll build the whole thing and do it.
Speaker 1: Or maybe you just want one of those disappearing fountains,
Speaker 1: you know, a big tall urn glazed pottery that the
Speaker 1: water runs out the top and comes out the bottom.
Speaker 1: By the way, the birds will thank you for doing that.
Speaker 1: And beneficial in sex as well. They can sell you
Speaker 1: the products and tell you how to do it. If
Speaker 1: you want to put together yourself, they can do that
Speaker 1: either way. You go Nelson Water Gardens in Katie, Texas.
Speaker 1: So head out to Katie. Go north on Katie for
Speaker 1: it Ben and there you go. If you have not
Speaker 1: been out there before, go visit the website first, Nelsonwatergardens
Speaker 1: dot com. Check it out. You're going to see the
Speaker 1: beautiful pottery that they carry, just so many many different products.
Speaker 1: And maybe you're thinking, Okay, I can't put in a
Speaker 1: waterfall and all of that in my garden. Well, how
Speaker 1: about one of their little tabletop water features, something that
Speaker 1: bubbles along and it's a very attractive. You put it
Speaker 1: on a counter or a little table outside there and
Speaker 1: you're sitting here. H just go, just go and see it.
Speaker 1: You'll see what I'm talking about. By the way, take
Speaker 1: kids with you when you go and uh, tell the
Speaker 1: folks at Nelson say, hey, we'd like to feed the fish.
Speaker 1: I'll give you your kiddo a little handful of a
Speaker 1: fish food and then go back and feed the koi
Speaker 1: in the big back koy pond. They will love that.
Speaker 1: It is really really cool. And then you need to
Speaker 1: go home with koi.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, we're coming up here on a break
Speaker 1: ron in the heights and Bill and Conro you're gonna
Speaker 1: be our first two up when we come back.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: When we get back here on Guardline, we'll visit with
Speaker 1: you about the things that you were interested in for
Speaker 1: the rest of you. Seven one three two one two
Speaker 1: k t r H is the number. Seven one three
Speaker 1: two one two k t r H. Give us a call.
Speaker 1: Let's help you have success with your gardening endeavors. And
Speaker 1: remember jazz because it's getting that outside. No reason to
Speaker 1: stop gardening. We got a lot of gardening left in us,
Speaker 1: all right, welcome back to the guard Line. Glad to
Speaker 1: have you with us. Nature's Way Resources. Someone was talking
Speaker 1: about those earlier. They use some Nature's Ray Resources. John
Speaker 1: Ferguson years ago created this company to help build soil
Speaker 1: the way nature does. That's what it's called. One reason
Speaker 1: it's called Nature's Way, and soil products were created that
Speaker 1: are now well known by name in the whole Greater
Speaker 1: Houston area, like or roase soil, like a leaf mold compost.
Speaker 1: Those were all born at Nature's Way Resources. John understood
Speaker 1: that in order to create better plant growth and productivity,
Speaker 1: more beautiful plants, you had to fix the soil first,
Speaker 1: the way nature does. Now sain Ian runs the place.
Speaker 1: It's same traditions, same quality products. You're going to find
Speaker 1: everything that you need to have success to create that foundation.
Speaker 1: By the way, if you want to go to the website,
Speaker 1: I would highly recommend it because it has been revamped.
Speaker 1: It's just really really helpful and informative. Nature'sway Resources dot
Speaker 1: Com Nature's Way Resources dot Com. They are still having
Speaker 1: their fungal based compost specials. They call it Fungal Friday,
Speaker 1: but on sale ever Friday, it's ten dollars off a
Speaker 1: bag forty pounds bag and twenty dollars off. If you
Speaker 1: want to get it by bulk so you can drive
Speaker 1: over there and pick it up. You can have them
Speaker 1: deliver it to you. You can go to many area
Speaker 1: garden centers that carry Nature's Way resources products by the bag.
Speaker 1: The main thing is just do it. I want you
Speaker 1: to raise your hand, you know, kind of like a
Speaker 1: Scouts pledge or whatever. What do they do, three fingers
Speaker 1: up in the air something. Raise your hand and repeat
Speaker 1: after me. I will not plant a plant a plant
Speaker 1: until I have prepared the soil. I swear that I
Speaker 1: will not plan a plant until I have prepared the soil. Boy,
Speaker 1: if everybody just did that, we would have so much
Speaker 1: fewer problems taking care of the soil. First is the
Speaker 1: secrets of access. It's a foundation. Let's head out now
Speaker 1: to the heights and we're going to visit with Ron
Speaker 1: this morning. Hello Ron, welcome to guard Line.
Speaker 6: Hey, Skip, how you doing today?
Speaker 13: Listen, I'm calling.
Speaker 14: I've got two issues. Uh, front yard just got into
Speaker 14: this situation. We got a lot looks like culover clover
Speaker 14: is what.
Speaker 13: He's trying to say.
Speaker 14: And Uh, okay, I'm trying to decide if I want
Speaker 14: to if I want to just kill it and then
Speaker 14: resad or if I should try that Celsius idea well,
Speaker 14: and if I do just kill it, I was thinking
Speaker 14: about just weeding it right down to the surface and
Speaker 14: then putting sid over the top. Or is it going
Speaker 14: to grow back if I do that.
Speaker 1: If it really is clover, it won't grow back. That's
Speaker 1: an annual plant that should be dying out as the
Speaker 1: weather gets really hot. And that's my next question.
Speaker 13: If I send you, how do I send you a
Speaker 13: picture of it?
Speaker 1: All Right, at the end of our here, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: put you on hold and my producer will give you
Speaker 1: the email. Take show me the lawn with where I
Speaker 1: can see kind of them mount over all you got
Speaker 1: take a close up of it, and then pull a
Speaker 1: plant up and bring it inside, like if you got
Speaker 1: a real dark dining table or something, set it on
Speaker 1: there and take a really close, very well focused picture,
Speaker 1: because some of these plants are harder to distinguished. But
Speaker 1: there's something called Lesbodisa there, there's one called medic that
Speaker 1: are all clover like plants, and so I want to
Speaker 1: make sure that you with the right one. But if
Speaker 1: it's an annual. If it's an annual, you cover it up,
Speaker 1: and it's gone. It's going to die anyway. If it's
Speaker 1: a perennial, then covering it up just means you put
Speaker 1: your nuln in and now you got it back again.
Speaker 13: You don't want that, Okay, all right, next topic, backyard.
Speaker 6: Backyard.
Speaker 14: I resaw it a couple of years ago, and it's
Speaker 14: all dead again because of drainage and the dogs. Of course,
Speaker 14: so we build a fence to keep the dog problem off.
Speaker 14: So now I'm I'm like trying to decide if I
Speaker 14: can just supplement the soil to bring it up, or
Speaker 14: if I'm gonna need to put in drains and and
Speaker 14: how and that. So go ahead and answer that question first,
Speaker 14: and then my next question. I'm gonna let you go.
Speaker 1: All right, we go. We gotta do these quick then.
Speaker 1: Uh So, the bottom line is when it rains, you're
Speaker 1: seeing standing water for a period of time, yes, and
Speaker 1: like a few days or even longer.
Speaker 14: Uh No, just you know, you can see a line
Speaker 14: of where the where it sits for a while, but
Speaker 14: it does after a day, it goes away.
Speaker 1: Okay, probably, Okay, there, you could bring in a little
Speaker 1: bit of soil and level it out a little bit.
Speaker 1: Just remember when you bring in soil to deal with
Speaker 1: a wet spot, you just move the water somewhere else.
Speaker 7: So, yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 6: I mean, And so.
Speaker 1: Sometimes fixing a problem creates a problem. Uh if the
Speaker 1: internal drainage, if that's soil, is very tight, you know,
Speaker 1: the dog traffic, human traffic, then maybe a good aeration
Speaker 1: with some compost would be what you need. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: creating some creating some internal drainage. I can't make that
Speaker 1: call over the over the phone essentially with you, but
Speaker 1: those are your options. If you go with a loamy
Speaker 1: type of soil, not a heavy clay for to top
Speaker 1: dress over there and then replant, you could certainly do that,
Speaker 1: keep in the pity pattern of the four legged puppies
Speaker 1: away until it gets rooted in really well, and then
Speaker 1: trying to do what you can to keep them from
Speaker 1: wearing the pathways in it. All of that is good,
Speaker 1: so you don't have to do this a third.
Speaker 10: Time then later and just real quick.
Speaker 14: Anyway, I can tell if the front yard is lower
Speaker 14: than the backyard, is there some kind of trick or
Speaker 14: do I need a guy with a I forget the
Speaker 14: name of like to shoot the level Yeah, I can
Speaker 14: tell if I do.
Speaker 1: If you want, yeah, if you don't do it professionally,
Speaker 1: you have somebody come do that.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 1: And you know people like pierscapes they do drainage systems
Speaker 1: and whatnot like that and they can off I don't
Speaker 1: know if they for you. Okay, well, okay, here's here's
Speaker 1: the here. Here, here's a cheaper way to do it.
Speaker 1: You go to a place, you know, like a hardware
Speaker 1: type store, big box hardware kind of place. They have
Speaker 1: little levelers that you can attach to a tripod and
Speaker 1: they hang so that if the if the tripods crooked,
Speaker 1: the laser light hangs straight. You got to wait till
Speaker 1: the end of the day because these lasers aren't strong
Speaker 1: enough to see during the day when it's getting almost dark.
Speaker 1: And you can literally spin it around and you see
Speaker 1: a line on the wall. People use this to hang
Speaker 1: pictures on the wall straight and you turn it around
Speaker 1: the other way and wherever that line is will be
Speaker 1: at the exact same height because it's hanging, it's hanging level.
Speaker 1: So you just go, this is getting out of horticulture here.
Speaker 1: But if you go do that, I've used that to
Speaker 1: get a real rough check. But again you're going to
Speaker 1: have to do it at the time of day where
Speaker 1: you got a little bit of light but not too
Speaker 1: much and so run. You bet I got to run.
Speaker 1: You are are run? Take care all right, I'll take
Speaker 1: that as a compliment. Wild Birds Unlimited has the blends
Speaker 1: that you need for whatever birds you want to bring in,
Speaker 1: whatever kind of a bird you want to bring in.
Speaker 1: That would include things like, uh, the cardinals, that boy
Speaker 1: I've got. I've got a blend that is for cardinals
Speaker 1: that does so well. It's called Cardinal Confetti and it
Speaker 1: comes just from Wallbirds Unlimited. Right now is nesting season.
Speaker 1: We're talking about nesting super Blend all the time because
Speaker 1: it's the perfect blend for when birds are raising they're young,
Speaker 1: and again only available at wall Birds Unlimited. They sell
Speaker 1: seeds that are called no Mess if you want to
Speaker 1: go that route.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 1: For example, I've got a blend in and it's a
Speaker 1: quality blend. Birds you'd ever drop a seed, but it's
Speaker 1: got some sunflower shells in it, and the birds peck
Speaker 1: them open and then you got all these shells on
Speaker 1: the underneath the feeder. A no Mess blend comes already
Speaker 1: pre shelled. So if you want to go that route,
Speaker 1: they've got that at wild Bird's unlimited six stores, Cypress
Speaker 1: on Barker, Cypress, Houston on Memorial Drive, Houston in the
Speaker 1: West on bel Air Pearland on East Broadway, clear Like
Speaker 1: on El Dorado, and Kingwood on Kingwood Drive. The main
Speaker 1: thing is just go to your local store and see
Speaker 1: what they have. You can go to WBU dot com
Speaker 1: forward slash Houston to learn more. Take our next little break.
Speaker 1: Bill and Conrae, you are our first up. Thanks for
Speaker 1: being patient. Welcome back to garden Line. All right, we're
Speaker 1: first thing going to go out here and talk to
Speaker 1: Bill and Conroe. Bill, thank you for your patients. Welcome
Speaker 1: to garden Line. How can we help today?
Speaker 6: Good morning Skip.
Speaker 15: I have this say plants that I bought a few
Speaker 15: months ago and it's doing well and it's about a
Speaker 15: foot and a half fall now. And I noticed the
Speaker 15: other day and it's not on the outside of it,
Speaker 15: but inside with the branches are connected and all.
Speaker 6: What's there's this white stuff.
Speaker 7: It's kind of like I'm called sticky, but it's it's yeah,
Speaker 7: it's just growing in various different places where the branches
Speaker 7: are connected.
Speaker 1: So I once, okay, probably not go out and take
Speaker 1: your thumb and forefinger and grab some off of there
Speaker 1: and squeeze it and sort of slide I'm off to
Speaker 1: the side, and then look and if you've got kind
Speaker 1: of a pinkish goo on your fingers, that's media bugs.
Speaker 1: And I think that's what you're dealing with on there,
Speaker 1: probably now media bugs. Yes, Now, if you would like
Speaker 1: to send me a picture of it up close, I'll
Speaker 1: take a look at it, but you got to get
Speaker 1: as close as you can, and you may even pick
Speaker 1: a few off and put them on a dark piece
Speaker 1: of paper and then take a picture of it as
Speaker 1: close as you can, but very good sharp focus. I'll
Speaker 1: take a look and assess that for you. But if
Speaker 1: you just do that that squish test meat bugs will
Speaker 1: leave a sticky pink goo all over your fingers. And
Speaker 1: once you know it's that, then in this case, you
Speaker 1: you could use a systemic insecticide to go in the
Speaker 1: plant and kill them. It's drenched on the soil, it
Speaker 1: gets in the plumbing of the plant and they're sucking
Speaker 1: juices out of your plant. Or you can do some
Speaker 1: sprays of little horticultural oil applied to them. But that's
Speaker 1: pretty tedious because you're kind of trying to hit every angle.
Speaker 1: Because you only kill what you coat in the oil.
Speaker 1: It's a little more tedious to try to deal with
Speaker 1: that that way. A systemic what product, Yeah, insecticide use
Speaker 1: if it's systemic. Yeah, there's two or three different ingredients
Speaker 1: that are common in systemics. Acefate is one, in mid
Speaker 1: o cloakprid is another, probably a little more common. Dinotepheron
Speaker 1: is another, just depends on There are some rose products
Speaker 1: out there that contain several different things, and one of them,
Speaker 1: for the bug part of the rose problems is a systemic.
Speaker 1: But that's the root I would take on it. But again,
Speaker 1: if you want to be one hundred percent sure, I
Speaker 1: don't mind taking a look at a picture for you,
Speaker 1: just to confirm.
Speaker 15: All right, well, thank you, all right, all right, you.
Speaker 1: Bet I'm gonna put you on hold and if you
Speaker 1: if we're done, you can hang up. Otherwise my producer
Speaker 1: will pick up. Alrighty Warren Southern Gardens out there in
Speaker 1: Kingwood and Kingwood Garden Center out there in Kingwood, by
Speaker 1: the way, they the summer hours. They're open seven days
Speaker 1: a week, summer hours Monday through Saturday nine and Sunday
Speaker 1: ten to four. Monday through Saturday nine to four, Sunday
Speaker 1: ten to four. Warrens is on North Park. Kingwogarten Center
Speaker 1: is on Stone Hollow Drive. When you go to those places,
Speaker 1: you're going to see some redicuol stuff. They've got a
Speaker 1: new stock of plumerias. I was just looking at Warrens.
Speaker 1: The new stock of plumerias. All the jungle jack premium
Speaker 1: varieties are. They're ready to go for you. Plumeria, for
Speaker 1: those of you who don't know, is the Hawaiian lay flower.
Speaker 1: That's the flower that they make strings of flowers to
Speaker 1: go around as a necklace. Okay, you can grow those yourself.
Speaker 1: They're easy to grow, just follow some simple rules on it.
Speaker 1: They don't take a whole lot of pamper to keep
Speaker 1: them alive. Plumerius are available there. They are also having
Speaker 1: a little contest there with war on Warrens, where if
Speaker 1: you are interested, you can enter. What you do is
Speaker 1: you send them a picture featuring plants that you bought
Speaker 1: from Warrens. Whether it's a blooming flower and a flower bed,
Speaker 1: or a thriving vegetable garden, or the prettiest potted plant
Speaker 1: on your porch, and if they'll spotlight their favorites and
Speaker 1: every entry gets a chance to win fifty percent off
Speaker 1: any one item coupon. That kind of sounds fun, right,
Speaker 1: It's taking care of their customers, but of course they
Speaker 1: do that. That that's how Warren's and Kingwood Garden Center
Speaker 1: are fun places to visit. Easy, easy to get to.
Speaker 1: Warren Southern Gardens on North Park, Kingwood Garden Center on
Speaker 1: Stone Hollow Drive. Go buy there and have some fun.
Speaker 1: By the way, if you have Microlife, if you buy
Speaker 1: Microlife or new some plant food fertilizers, you can take
Speaker 1: those jugs back in if you buy them by the
Speaker 1: jug and you can refill them there ed Warren Southern
Speaker 1: Gardens and Kingwood Garden Center, and it's a more economical
Speaker 1: way to buy fertilizer. Plus you're not creating more plastic
Speaker 1: waste in the environment. I wish more things we bought
Speaker 1: were just we go in and refill that just it
Speaker 1: just makes sense. You're listening to garden Line phone number
Speaker 1: seven one three two one two KTR eight seven one
Speaker 1: three two one two k t r Hi's visiting with
Speaker 1: the folks at BnB Turf Pros the other day. BnB
Speaker 1: turf Pros is the place you hear me talk about
Speaker 1: all the time. They will come in at the family
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Speaker 1: everybody says they focus on customer service. Well go look
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Speaker 1: dot com. They do aeration, they do fertilization, they do compost,
Speaker 1: top dressing. They use quality stuff because they want to
Speaker 1: have a good, successful, ongoing relationship with you their customers.
Speaker 1: So that would mean things like using high quality materials
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Speaker 1: trust here on Guardenline. They do high quality work. And
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Speaker 1: come and they do a quality job on it. And
Speaker 1: I can think of no single thing that you do
Speaker 1: to your lawn that brings more response than cororation with
Speaker 1: compost stop dressing. Just an example, by the way, the
Speaker 1: other day, I have a little spot where I walk
Speaker 1: through my gate and that one spot just gets trampled.
Speaker 1: I tend to take different ads to that spot so
Speaker 1: I don't just have a pathway worn in my grass,
Speaker 1: but when I get to that spot, it always gets
Speaker 1: stepped on. And the grass was just thinning out. I
Speaker 1: mean I could see dirt all around through it because
Speaker 1: it was getting pounded to death by my feet. I
Speaker 1: had a little aerration plug thing that I just you know,
Speaker 1: made a bunch of holes in the soil, oh about
Speaker 1: you know, four inches apart or something like that. Did
Speaker 1: that area fee a little compost on the top. It
Speaker 1: is ninety five percent covered.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 1: It went for like fifty percent cover to ninety five
Speaker 1: percent covered in just two or three weeks. That is
Speaker 1: how important it is to break up that compaction and
Speaker 1: to do cororation and to do the compost stop dressing.
Speaker 1: And I really didn't put that much compost on it.
Speaker 1: It's primarily the aerration alone was doing that, but both
Speaker 1: combined it works. Bbturfpros dot com. Okay, do you know
Speaker 1: that they say the cobbler's kids go barefoot? Do you
Speaker 1: know what that means? It means the guy who makes
Speaker 1: shoes is making cheos for other people. He didn't end
Speaker 1: up making cheos for his own kids. If you were
Speaker 1: to see some of my garden areas, you might go,
Speaker 1: And why would I call garden line Seriously? I mean,
Speaker 1: if people talk about their gardens like you know, everything's
Speaker 1: always perfect, and you may be thinking, wow, this is
Speaker 1: a guy on the radio. I bet his place looks good. Well,
Speaker 1: it does look good, But I'm telling you there are
Speaker 1: times where I'm busy. I'm running around doing speaking engagements
Speaker 1: or consultations and other things, and I'm just not home
Speaker 1: taking care of my own lines. And I have to
Speaker 1: catch up on it. So when you hear me say something,
Speaker 1: just know that I'm saying it from experience, Okay, and
Speaker 1: the do as I say, not as I always do,
Speaker 1: is very applicable. But it also helps me. Like that
Speaker 1: compost out dress and comment I just made, you know,
Speaker 1: I should have taken care of that long ago. I
Speaker 1: know what to do, but I got in there, did it,
Speaker 1: learned a little bit about it as I do it.
Speaker 1: So anyway, there you go. All right? Well, and plus
Speaker 1: the fact that I said it's because I'm not there,
Speaker 1: it's also because I have two Golden retrievers and they
Speaker 1: retrieve plants. I wish they retrieved leads, but primarily my plants.
Speaker 1: Back to garden line, folks, what are your gardening questions?
Speaker 1: What do you want to talk about? What have you
Speaker 1: struggled with to find success in your garden. I want
Speaker 1: to make an important point. I've said this many times before,
Speaker 1: but for those of you who are hearing me for
Speaker 1: the first time, you don't have a brown thumb. No,
Speaker 1: you don't. I don't care how many plants you've killed,
Speaker 1: you don't have a brown thumb. A brown thumb is
Speaker 1: an uninformed thumb. So if you want to say I
Speaker 1: have an informed thumb, okay, I'll go with that. Maybe
Speaker 1: you do, maybe you don't. But people that seem to
Speaker 1: have a green thumb, they're just giving plants what they want.
Speaker 1: It's as simple as that. They know what a plant wants,
Speaker 1: they give it what it wants. And that's why it
Speaker 1: looks like they have a green thumb, because everything comes
Speaker 1: up roses. As they say, all you got to do
Speaker 1: is teach your thumb. Bring your thumb with you, sit
Speaker 1: down front the radio, let's talk, and as we get
Speaker 1: your thumb a little education. I don't care what you
Speaker 1: want to grow. You know, I tried to grow orchids,
Speaker 1: but I killed every one. I got a brown thumb. Well,
Speaker 1: let's bring your thumb. We're going to fix this. You
Speaker 1: can grow orkids. They're easiest. Nothing is easier as a
Speaker 1: plant probably, well, not many things to grow down am
Speaker 1: ofth orchid. You know, they just are easy to grow.
Speaker 1: Just give them what they want. That's as simple as
Speaker 1: it is. All right, I think you get the idea. Hey,
Speaker 1: if you're dealing with fire ants in your lawn, if
Speaker 1: you know chinchbugs, maybe last year they hammered your lawn.
Speaker 1: We're coming up on chinchbug season here for long well,
Speaker 1: bug Out Max granules by Nitrofoss that will do it.
Speaker 1: It will shut down the insect cretits crawling around in
Speaker 1: the lawn. Bug Out Max is available in many different places.
Speaker 1: You know night foss products are. For example, you go
Speaker 1: to place like a chenet forest, you go to ace Hardware,
Speaker 1: Sinkle ranch or auspose ace up. In the woodlands, you're
Speaker 1: going to find night fresh products like the bug Out
Speaker 1: Max Arbigate up and Tom will also carry some night
Speaker 1: foss products there as well. The main thing is don't
Speaker 1: be run out of your yard because fireans bite. There
Speaker 1: are ways to deal with them and bug out Max
Speaker 1: is a good way to do that. He's easy to do.
Speaker 8: So.
Speaker 1: Earlier on I was saying, hey, we need to talk
Speaker 1: about the gardening implements, the gardening tools rather that are
Speaker 1: at the end of our arms. And let's do that
Speaker 1: just for a little bit. First of all, if you
Speaker 1: look at your hand when you open it wide open,
Speaker 1: from the tip of one finger to the tip of
Speaker 1: your little finger to the tip of your tomb thum
Speaker 1: good night thumb thumb to little fingertips. Okay, that is
Speaker 1: a certain distance, and everybody's hands different. So I can't
Speaker 1: say everybody's hand is this way, but a lot of
Speaker 1: people's hands are going to come pretty close to six
Speaker 1: inches for that distance right there. Okay, it just depends
Speaker 1: on size your hand. If you look at the width
Speaker 1: of your thumb. Now, guys tend to out a little
Speaker 1: wider thumbs, but the width of a thumb is pretty
Speaker 1: close to an inch. But check yours. Put it down
Speaker 1: there with mine, af to mash it down just a
Speaker 1: little bit, and it's exactly an end. And you can
Speaker 1: measure with that. If you are going to plant, let's say, onions,
Speaker 1: we do that in January, maybe February, but primary January
Speaker 1: you put those in the ground. You want to plant
Speaker 1: them as deep as the first joint on your index finger. Okay,
Speaker 1: so you can't stick your thumb sideways down in the soil.
Speaker 1: But if you put your index finger down and down
Speaker 1: to the point where that first little joint, the first
Speaker 1: crease in your index finger, that is about how deep
Speaker 1: you plant onions sets when you're putting them out there
Speaker 1: to grow. You know your ballb onions, red, white, and yellow,
Speaker 1: different types of onions. That works really well for them.
Speaker 1: Learn what the width of your hand is. It depends
Speaker 1: on the size of your hand, but that is a
Speaker 1: certain number of inches. And you can just learn to
Speaker 1: measure everything that you're doing right there. Now, if you
Speaker 1: take your thumb and your forefinger and put them together.
Speaker 1: Whenever you have a bug that you want to get
Speaker 1: rid of, you put them between your thumb and your
Speaker 1: forefinger and you press really hard, and then you slide
Speaker 1: your thumb about a half inch to one side and
Speaker 1: the bug is gone. You got some cool goo on
Speaker 1: your finger now, But that's how you kill bugs, the
Speaker 1: thumb and forefinger slid to the side. Okay, y'all are
Speaker 1: going okay, now, come on, guy, give me a break.
Speaker 1: All right. No, but seriously, the tools of our hands,
Speaker 1: the ways that we can learn to measure. I mean,
Speaker 1: you can get pretty fast, you know, when something says,
Speaker 1: you know, plant these a foot apart. Well, I just
Speaker 1: put my two thumbs together and I stick out my
Speaker 1: two little pinkies and that's a foot apart for me.
Speaker 1: So learn how to measure those things. Those tools are
Speaker 1: very handy and they work really well, and it kind
Speaker 1: of makes it easy to know. I bet there's some
Speaker 1: others on there. Some of you may know some other
Speaker 1: ways that you use your hands for the measuring and whatnot.
Speaker 1: Get us a call. We'll listen to that too. Seven
Speaker 1: to one to three two one two ktr seven one
Speaker 1: three two one two kt r H Plants for All Seasons.
Speaker 1: Is the Garden Center. I'm sure you've been there before.
Speaker 1: It's on Tomboal Parkway, which is Highway two forty nine
Speaker 1: uh and just north of Luetta on Faces Tomboll Parkway. Okay,
Speaker 1: been around. Said's nineteen seventy three. Family owned and operated.
Speaker 1: These folks are true loan and garden experts. They know
Speaker 1: what they're doing. They can point you in the right direction.
Speaker 12: Right now.
Speaker 1: They've got some great curcumas. Kakuma is a type of
Speaker 1: ginger that the blooms are kind of set down in
Speaker 1: the big canna like foliage leaves. The leaves look sort
Speaker 1: of like cannas, and the blooms sit down in there.
Speaker 1: You can use them as cut flowers too. They're good
Speaker 1: for that, by the way, but it's just a nice way.
Speaker 1: You've got a real shady spot and you want to
Speaker 1: bring some cool color into it. There are so many
Speaker 1: breeders have come up with so many kinds of hidden ginger.
Speaker 1: Now you have colors from white and pink and even
Speaker 1: a greenish color with burgundy, and it's just lots of
Speaker 1: lots of good options there hidden gingers. Something that I
Speaker 1: don't talk about with plant roll seasons that I do
Speaker 1: want to mention is number one the pottery. Outstanding, gorgeous pottery.
Speaker 1: I got a couple of pots from there that I
Speaker 1: just love, and I usually tell gardeners, Hey, I know
Speaker 1: that pottery can get expensive, you know when you're buying
Speaker 1: a lot, but why not just invest in one pot
Speaker 1: a year at least do that, just one pot. It
Speaker 1: could be a big buck, be a small pot. By
Speaker 1: the way, bigger pots are better for our summer because
Speaker 1: they home more soil for a whole more water. Therefore
Speaker 1: you don't water as much, or your plants don't go
Speaker 1: and distress. They've got gorgeous pottery there. I love my
Speaker 1: pots from there. Also, they are tools. They have an
Speaker 1: excellent selection of all kinds of quality tools. Listen, don't
Speaker 1: buy cheap tools. Don't buy something because it's the cheapest tool.
Speaker 1: You can see, get a quality brand. Corona is an
Speaker 1: example of that, and they carry Corona there Corona's a
Speaker 1: quality brand, whether you're buying loppers or hand pruners. They
Speaker 1: have so many different kinds of hand pruners there, and
Speaker 1: Plants for all seasons, the little hand tools like a
Speaker 1: trial and whatnot, and pruning tools, pole pruners and others.
Speaker 1: Buy a quality tool and it'll be the last time
Speaker 1: you have to buy that tool because it lasts and
Speaker 1: lasts and lasts. And they got that at Plants for
Speaker 1: All Seasons. Okay, well, let's see where are we here.
Speaker 1: Once I start talking, I realize I'm probably running into
Speaker 1: a break which I have. We'll be right back seven
Speaker 1: to one three two one two KTRH. And when we
Speaker 1: come back, Chris and Alvin, you'll be our first s up. Hey,
Speaker 1: welcome back. Wellcome back, somebody left the gate open. We
Speaker 1: got a bunch of calls. We need to get to here.
Speaker 1: Nelson Plant Food has a product called Slow and Easy
Speaker 1: for your lawn, and the name describes it all slow
Speaker 1: and easy, simple, simple, You put it out, you do
Speaker 1: it now, and you don't fertilize again until fall. It
Speaker 1: lasts months, like four months or more. Now. The good
Speaker 1: thing about it Slow and Easy is it's got a
Speaker 1: great blend of nutrients, the blend that turf needs and
Speaker 1: takes up. So you're not contributing to an imbalance by
Speaker 1: using a fertilizer that's got a bad ratio of nutrients
Speaker 1: in it, and it it takes the night. Let me
Speaker 1: put this, It takes the nitrogen and it gives it
Speaker 1: out a little doses to your lawn. So even though
Speaker 1: you're putting it all now and I'm saying it's going
Speaker 1: to fertilize all the way to fall, the only way
Speaker 1: that can work without you having a mowmo mo because
Speaker 1: you put too much nitrogen on it one time, is
Speaker 1: for the fertilizer to be designed so it releases a
Speaker 1: little bit now and then it releases some more later,
Speaker 1: and some more later, and some more later, and that
Speaker 1: makes it easy. You put it down, you're done. You'll
Speaker 1: water it in. We get summer watering a lot in
Speaker 1: the summer, trying to keep our lawns alive, and that
Speaker 1: can leach out nutrients. But when you have a product
Speaker 1: like Slow and Easy, you're going to get that nice
Speaker 1: gradual release. You don't lose it all to the next
Speaker 1: gully washer rain. It prevents burn, it feeds so microbes.
Speaker 1: It enriches the soil, that's the bottom line. Also, it
Speaker 1: ascidivizes a little bit. It's got an acidifying characteristic in
Speaker 1: it that allows us to keep that pH from getting
Speaker 1: too high and which ties up nutrients. So you know
Speaker 1: your lawn has yellowing in it because the lack of
Speaker 1: phosp or iron availability, maybe high pH, maybe too much phosphorus. Well,
Speaker 1: with slow and easy, you hope work it in the
Speaker 1: other direction for a much beautiful, greener lawn. We're going
Speaker 1: to head out and out of Alvin and talk to
Speaker 1: Chris this morning. Hello Chris, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 10: Good morning.
Speaker 6: Skip.
Speaker 10: Have got a I think it is what's called a
Speaker 10: Mexican avocado. I planted it I probably around five years ago,
Speaker 10: i'd say. And when I first planted it, it didn't
Speaker 10: really well and had a bunch of blooms on and
Speaker 10: he tried to make fruit that first first time, and uh,
Speaker 10: I was excited. And then the squirrels, the squirrels, I
Speaker 10: think the squirrels got it all. My kids swore swore
Speaker 10: on their you know, oh that they didn't touch them.
Speaker 10: But after that the plant seemed to do good.
Speaker 13: We had a freeze.
Speaker 10: I protected it. Uh, and it did okay, but uh,
Speaker 10: it has been it's been beat up by one of
Speaker 10: my kids when they do the weed whacker. They he
Speaker 10: got carried away and uh probably well. Prior to that,
Speaker 10: one of the freeze freezes did get it. It died,
Speaker 10: but it came back and and it was looking really healthy.
Speaker 10: And then then we had another freeze and it it
Speaker 10: died and came back and then my son hit it
Speaker 10: with a whacker, a weed whacker, and like, okay, great,
Speaker 10: you know this poor thing has gotten going to make
Speaker 10: it well. It came back, it spreaday out new growth.
Speaker 10: I checked it last or took early this week, and
Speaker 10: the leaves are all brown and shriveled up. And I thought,
Speaker 10: oh now, and I would I've been watering it.
Speaker 6: I don't.
Speaker 10: It's in a it's in my front yard, which gets
Speaker 10: the house.
Speaker 13: Spaces of south.
Speaker 10: It gets full morning sun all the way to midday,
Speaker 10: and in the afternoon after about one o'clock it's shaded
Speaker 10: by trees from the west.
Speaker 1: So it's ok.
Speaker 8: It's not getting it.
Speaker 10: It's not getting hammered all day by the sun.
Speaker 6: But and I kept it water. We had some rain down.
Speaker 13: Here, which was good for it.
Speaker 10: And I kept looking at it, and it just like
Speaker 10: it went from green. It looked really great. It's really bad,
Speaker 10: just almost overnight. And I don't know if a bug
Speaker 10: got it or.
Speaker 1: Well, if it did that overnight, is something in the soil, probably,
Speaker 1: But okay, your plan has been through a lot. In fact,
Speaker 1: if it had the society, the Society for the Prevention
Speaker 1: of Cruelty to Plants, it would be reporting you right now.
Speaker 1: But seriously, it's been through all that. The weed whacker
Speaker 1: cuts away the outer flow them tissues all the way down,
Speaker 1: cuts away the cambium, and that alone can kill a plant,
Speaker 1: but more slowly it dies by starvation, is what the
Speaker 1: roots starve. But you know it's hard. I heard all
Speaker 1: you said, and all I know is just wait, see
Speaker 1: give it some more time. See if it sprouts. You
Speaker 1: may be better off just getting you a nice new plant,
Speaker 1: putting it in there, create a mulch bet around it,
Speaker 1: two feet out from the tree in all directions to
Speaker 1: keep the way both away. Yeah, that that is it's
Speaker 1: good for the tree. Trees like to grow with their
Speaker 1: roots in the forest floor, meaning rotting leaves and organic
Speaker 1: matter and melt and stuff. So keep the keep the
Speaker 1: grass away, keep the weeds away. You have much better
Speaker 1: growth on it. Uh, And then you know, just be
Speaker 1: ready when we have those real cold weathers, especially as
Speaker 1: as it's it's a young it's going to be a
Speaker 1: little more sensitive to cold than it gets a little
Speaker 1: bit older. But that would be my recommendation if you
Speaker 1: want to be patient and wait and see if it sprouts.
Speaker 1: It just sounds to me like it's just not going
Speaker 1: to be the if you want to eat avocados, I
Speaker 1: think i'd pull it and get a new tree and
Speaker 1: just get down with it. But if you want to
Speaker 1: give it a little time to wait and see, that's
Speaker 1: fine too. But just somehow stop the injury. Stop the injury.
Speaker 10: Yeah, that's well. My son felt really bad. I said, Hey,
Speaker 10: I said, did you hit the tree with the wheat whacker?
Speaker 10: And I said, and he said, well, he said, oh yeah,
Speaker 10: I forgot to tell you there was some green lings.
Speaker 10: He said, was that the avocado? I said, yeah, it
Speaker 10: was it was the avocado.
Speaker 1: Well, you got a George Washington in the house, you know.
Speaker 1: He chopped down the cherry tree and he said, I
Speaker 1: cannot tell a lie. Hey, thanks thanks for the call, Chris.
Speaker 1: Good luck with it. I hope you can get back
Speaker 1: into the avocado business. You bet. I appreciate you call
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Speaker 1: to give them a call seven one three, six nine
Speaker 1: nine two six six three. If you need printing done,
Speaker 1: if you need deep root feeding, if you need uh
Speaker 1: maybe you're just consulting. You know, hey, we're going to
Speaker 1: do some you know, trenching or putting some foundation or
Speaker 1: maybe laying a driveway over part of this. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: call them first so they can advise you before you
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Speaker 1: time to get them get on their calendar because summer
Speaker 1: storm season is coming and you need trees that are
Speaker 1: properly to have the best chance of making it through
Speaker 1: the winds. That will be here. We're going to now
Speaker 1: head out to Tomball and talk to Mel. Hello, Mel,
Speaker 1: Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 13: Hey, good morning. I'm a little late this morning. I
Speaker 13: got a question about I mean, he who is every year,
Speaker 13: you know, you trial the boys and stuff you put
Speaker 13: in there and try to chase them away. Yeah, they
Speaker 13: come right, any suggestions.
Speaker 1: They they yeah, they do come back. The There is
Speaker 1: a website, uh and it is see the name of it.
Speaker 1: It is hang on one second on get you to
Speaker 1: get you the right one here.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: I believe it's uh Agrolife Learn. Let me let me
Speaker 1: check that and make sure Agrolife Learn dot com. Believe
Speaker 1: that's try and we're gonna find No, it's not dot com.
Speaker 1: It can't be dot com. It's University dot tam dot
Speaker 1: e du Just one second right, Sorry the delayer, but
Speaker 1: I want to get and other other people are gonna
Speaker 1: have the same question. Yeah, agrolife learned dot tmu dot
Speaker 1: e du. Go in there and type in the word
Speaker 1: moles m O l e s. It's applications and some
Speaker 1: for sale.
Speaker 13: But okay, I'm sorry, I didn't. I didn't catch life
Speaker 13: learned at where did you say?
Speaker 1: Not at? Just dot t dot t A m U
Speaker 1: dot e d u uh. There there is a there's
Speaker 1: a publication on moles and in that in that area
Speaker 1: you can also go there's a section. If you don't
Speaker 1: go by category, there's a section on you know, like
Speaker 1: wildlife resources. It's thirteen different different you say that, but anyway,
Speaker 1: get more information on it. Here's the bottom line though,
Speaker 1: the bottom line is you're gonna either trap them or
Speaker 1: poison them. One of the two poisons don't work very
Speaker 1: well on them. Traps do. There are traps to shoot
Speaker 1: spikes down in the ground. Basically, you find the run
Speaker 1: that they're doing. Find the run and if it's like okay,
Speaker 1: I think, you step on it and just mash the
Speaker 1: little rays soiled down and then come back the next
Speaker 1: day and check it. If it's pushed back up, that
Speaker 1: means that's an active run that the moles are going through.
Speaker 1: And so then you you push it down and you
Speaker 1: set that trap, and then when the mole comes back
Speaker 1: through there, it gets them. It's kind of gruesome, but
Speaker 1: that's the way you go about it, and you just
Speaker 1: need to set it in an active run. Good hardware stores,
Speaker 1: feed stores and places like that or are going to
Speaker 1: have traps or be able to tell you how to
Speaker 1: get one so that you can have success. I talk
Speaker 1: to call them out at D and Defeat see if
Speaker 1: they've got any mole traps out there. I bet they do.
Speaker 1: All right, that's west.
Speaker 13: I can handle the groove.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, well talk talk to them out at D
Speaker 1: and D feed twenty nine twenty is just three miles
Speaker 1: west of two forty nine. You may have been by
Speaker 1: there already.
Speaker 13: Oh yeah, yeah several times.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 13: Agre Life learn at tamu ed jucation at tam dot
Speaker 13: e u.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's not at it's not an email address,
Speaker 1: it's a website. So it's dot agrolife learned dot t
Speaker 1: a m U dot e edu. I need to check
Speaker 1: that again because I I haven't. I haven't looked at
Speaker 1: it in a while. Hopefully, I hope they still have
Speaker 1: that out there. If not, another Langrete university will. But uh, anyway,
Speaker 1: let me let me do this. Hold on, I'm going
Speaker 1: to hang up with you, but I'm put you on hold.
Speaker 1: My producer is going to get get give you an email.
Speaker 1: If you will email me, I will send you that
Speaker 1: publication as an attachment.
Speaker 13: That no sounds like a win appreciate.
Speaker 1: So just hang on, mil you bet, hang on, We'll
Speaker 1: be back.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 1: D and DE Feed and Supply isn't up there in Tambol,
Speaker 1: and they've they've got everything you need. I mean, you
Speaker 1: know you're looking for quality dog food and things, very
Speaker 1: high end lines that they carry. But when it comes
Speaker 1: to the garden products from nitrofoss and Microlife, Nelson turf
Speaker 1: Star products from Medina, the jars of Nelson plant food,
Speaker 1: the jars and microlife products from heirloom soils to have good,
Speaker 1: good quality soils. They've got it all there at D
Speaker 1: and D Feed and Tomball, three miles west of two
Speaker 1: forty nine on twenty nine twenty. If you want to
Speaker 1: get McCall two eight one three five one seventy one
Speaker 1: forty four, two eight one three five one seventy one
Speaker 1: forty four. Let's go now to Marie and Montgomery. Hey Marie,
Speaker 1: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 13: Good morning, Skip, Skip.
Speaker 16: I'll be treating my lawn with the nitro falls dugout next,
Speaker 16: which has the pip pantherm. So my question is this,
Speaker 16: Can I treat my poor grubs in my flower beds
Speaker 16: with it? Or should I use their grub out their
Speaker 16: grub X rather, which has a different acted ingredient.
Speaker 1: That is a good question. I do not have a
Speaker 1: bugout Max label in front of me, but it's going
Speaker 1: to be up to what the label says. The label
Speaker 1: tells you how much product do you use, when to
Speaker 1: apply it, and where you can apply it. If you're
Speaker 1: going to do that. It just s has lawn and garden.
Speaker 1: So I'm going to assume you can use it in
Speaker 1: flower beds, but would check the label to be sure.
Speaker 1: I would say I'm seventy five percent sure you could
Speaker 1: use it in the beds, but I'm not the law
Speaker 1: that labels the law.
Speaker 16: Okay, I understand, Okay, thank you.
Speaker 1: So the next time, yeah, you're out there, Montgomery, I
Speaker 1: know Ana plants out there just outside Montgomery. They're going
Speaker 1: to have it. There is a good hardware store out
Speaker 1: there in the Montgomery area, Ace Hardware Store, h and
Speaker 1: they're going to probably have it too. And you can
Speaker 1: just go in, flip it over, read it for you,
Speaker 1: buy it, and bring it home. Okay, thank you, all right,
Speaker 1: thank you? Goodbye? Yeah it is it is uh bye bye.
Speaker 1: It is true. The label is the law. And you know,
Speaker 1: people I used to as an extension agent, I got
Speaker 1: calls like, hey, I just sprayed ortheene on my tomatoes.
Speaker 1: Can I eat them?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 1: I mean, can you eat them? Yes? Should you? I
Speaker 1: don't know, Probably not, because it's not on the label
Speaker 1: to do that. And I can't give you permission to
Speaker 1: eat something that's been you know, had something sprayed on it.
Speaker 1: Shouldn't be shouldn't be sprayed on labels a law. I
Speaker 1: wish people would read the label. But you know how
Speaker 1: we are, especially us guys, yep, I know I'm throwing
Speaker 1: myself under the bus. We don't like to add, we
Speaker 1: don't like to ask for directions or read directions. And
Speaker 1: we are very very sure that if a teaspoon is good,
Speaker 1: a tablespoon is better. And that is wrong, wrong, wrong.
Speaker 1: A lot of kinds of products, including herbicides. You used
Speaker 1: too much. You hurt your lawn or you hurt whatever
Speaker 1: plants your spring. All right, folks, we'll be right back. Hey,
Speaker 1: welcome back to garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Ricker.
Speaker 1: Good to have you with us today. We got all
Speaker 1: kinds of good things to talk about. And I almost
Speaker 1: start talking about speaking of good things in Chanty Gardens
Speaker 1: down in Richmond, on the Katie Fullshire side of Richmond.
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, they're out there on FM
Speaker 1: three fifty nine now the website. I want to write
Speaker 1: this one down because it is very informative, very helpful,
Speaker 1: lots of good information. Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. Enchanted
Speaker 1: Gardens Richmond dot com. They've got all kinds. By the way,
Speaker 1: today out in Chanted Gardens they have an event. Oh gosh,
Speaker 1: what is the one. It's I just went blank. I
Speaker 1: was just about to tell you, Oh, ferry gardening, fairy gardening.
Speaker 1: What does that mean? Well, it means creating these little
Speaker 1: miniature gardens as if it were a bunch of little
Speaker 1: tiny fairies that created a garden. You can do them
Speaker 1: around the base of your trees. That's a great place
Speaker 1: to do them, but you can do them in a
Speaker 1: container or anywhere you have little figurines you use. You
Speaker 1: use little plants that are very small, like maybe a
Speaker 1: moss to be the equivalent of a lawn. You get
Speaker 1: the idea. Well, today, starting at ten pm the minute
Speaker 1: I quit talking, they're going to kick off there at
Speaker 1: Enchanted Gardens FM three point fifty nine richarmd n Rosenberg,
Speaker 1: Katie Fullshire, side of Richmond. They're going to start that
Speaker 1: program and they'll be rolling on it and then there's
Speaker 1: another one coming up. I'm will tell you this ahead
Speaker 1: of time so you can plan for it. Pots for
Speaker 1: your patio or pool pots for your patio or a pool.
Speaker 1: That is next Saturday, June fourteenth, from ten to two.
Speaker 1: This is a significant program here. And let me tell
Speaker 1: you something. If anybody knows how to create beautiful containers,
Speaker 1: it's the folks at in chan Did Gardens. Maria does
Speaker 1: excellent work for them there. You see her work all
Speaker 1: the time if you follow them on social media. But
Speaker 1: you want to create a hanging basket, you want to
Speaker 1: create a container, you want to do one of these
Speaker 1: metal It's not wire, it's thicker than wire, but metal
Speaker 1: racks that then you line with a burlap or coconut
Speaker 1: core liners or something, fill it with soil, and then
Speaker 1: plant in it. They can tell you how to do
Speaker 1: it and hands on. You get to do it yourself.
Speaker 1: You get to choose your container and your plants and
Speaker 1: then you can plant one of those containers and Maria
Speaker 1: is going to be guiding you doing that. They'll help
Speaker 1: you with the selection you like. Maybe you go, well,
Speaker 1: this is for sun or maybe this is for shade,
Speaker 1: or it works. Now the cost varies depending on what
Speaker 1: you select. You know the size of the container and
Speaker 1: the type of container. But just give them a call.
Speaker 1: Two eight one three four one twelve oh six two
Speaker 1: eight one three four one twelve oh six. Now while
Speaker 1: you're out there, you hear me talk all the time
Speaker 1: about every kind of plant that they have so many
Speaker 1: cool plants at enchanted gardens, and so many cool products
Speaker 1: to go with your plants, from fertilizers to containers to
Speaker 1: landscape bling. We'll just call it landscape bling. This is
Speaker 1: the place to go. You need to sign up for
Speaker 1: that one next week. That's really really good. I love
Speaker 1: going out there too. It's a fun place to visit.
Speaker 1: Always find some good stuff at Chanted Gardens. Still someone
Speaker 1: earlier they need to go to their local Ace Hardware
Speaker 1: store and find stuff. Well, it is true. Ace Hardware
Speaker 1: is the place to go for you name it.
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 1: I know you probably grew up in the hardware stores
Speaker 1: where you buy wire and plumbing stuff and lighting and
Speaker 1: switches and paint and things like that. ACE has all
Speaker 1: of that, but it's so much more than your father's
Speaker 1: hardware store. This is a place where you're going to
Speaker 1: find the best selection of quality brands of barbecue pits anywhere.
Speaker 1: Brands like Big Green Egg and Trager and Rectech and
Speaker 1: Weber and you fell in the blink. All the supplies
Speaker 1: you need for them, they're there at Ace Hardware Stores.
Speaker 1: That's just an example of what Ace Hardware stores can do.
Speaker 1: Ace Hardware stores also is a place where you're going
Speaker 1: to find everything you need to take care of your home.
Speaker 1: You know, you got to change out your air filters.
Speaker 1: You got to maybe get some propane tanks for your
Speaker 1: for your cooking. If you have a gas grilled, you
Speaker 1: need to preserve that deck and take care of the deck.
Speaker 1: You need fertilizers for your lawn. You need pest and
Speaker 1: weed and disease control. You need gardening tools, or maybe
Speaker 1: you know you're a do it yourself and they have
Speaker 1: quality hand tools to fit your budget. You know, we're
Speaker 1: talking about the ACE brand themselves. Stuff from Milwaukee, Stanley, Craftsman,
Speaker 1: de Walt. They've got it all there at ACE Hardware store.
Speaker 1: When you're in there to ask them about joining the
Speaker 1: ACE Rewards program. It's free and easy, or you can
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Speaker 1: what you need to know. Let's go out to Lake Jackson.
Speaker 1: Now we're going to talk to Lonnie. Hello Lonnie, welcome
Speaker 1: to garden Line.
Speaker 12: Hi.
Speaker 6: How you doing?
Speaker 1: I'm good here? How can we help? Okay?
Speaker 17: Yes, sir, I'm bought a little blueberry bush and it's
Speaker 17: completely taken over and by some type of whatever.
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 17: I sent you a picture of it and I wanted
Speaker 17: you to look at it. And first of all, see
Speaker 17: if it's something that I can put on it to
Speaker 17: save it, and then should I move it away from
Speaker 17: other plants afford spreads?
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. Okay, well, my best guess is those
Speaker 1: were tiny caterpillars. So get in there. I don't know
Speaker 1: you'll find it anyhow, because all the leaves are gone.
Speaker 1: But get in there and open that up a little
Speaker 1: bit and look for little tiny caterpillars. And if that
Speaker 1: ever start, it should relief. It should have enough energy
Speaker 1: to relief. But begin to spray it with either spin
Speaker 1: no said s P I N O S A D
Speaker 1: the word spin, the letter oh, the word sad, or
Speaker 1: something containing B T B as in boy teas and tom.
Speaker 1: But you don't at this point, there's no nothing to spray.
Speaker 1: It's it's they're done. But next time you start to
Speaker 1: see a little bit of this, hit it with that.
Speaker 1: Those are both organic, They kill caterpillars. They work very well.
Speaker 1: There are also products that contain well that those two
Speaker 1: alone will be enough. You just have to do, especially
Speaker 1: in the regular basis about every three days, as long
Speaker 1: as it contains the BT. It's what I mean, yes BT,
Speaker 1: or I want to spindocit either one of those. Okay,
Speaker 1: one other question.
Speaker 17: We were putting in a pool, and when this is
Speaker 17: all the destruction is all done, we want to replant
Speaker 17: some trees and this and that in the yard.
Speaker 1: Uh it do you get questions answered?
Speaker 17: Do we just need to call in or do you
Speaker 17: have a website you can send email a question about
Speaker 17: I want to.
Speaker 1: Put in a lime train? I want to put it?
Speaker 1: I don't have yeah, right, I can't do the I
Speaker 1: can't do the email things. I just have too much
Speaker 1: to cover on that to be able to go into
Speaker 1: the time involved. But if you can email me pictures
Speaker 1: and questions and then follow up with a phone call, uh,
Speaker 1: and then then we would be ready to go, just
Speaker 1: like you did on this one right here, that's probably
Speaker 1: the best way to go about that. My website is
Speaker 1: gardening with skip dot com Gardening with skip dot com,
Speaker 1: and there are publications that answer questions on there. Okay, hey, Rick,
Speaker 1: I got to run or Lani, excuse me?
Speaker 17: Do you know anybody like Jack I don't recommend okay,
Speaker 17: uh for for what we're recommend for?
Speaker 1: What for these questions? Like an arborist, like these type
Speaker 1: of questions, I would well you could yeah, you could
Speaker 1: call your county agrolife Extension office down there. There's an agent.
Speaker 1: Uh what county is Lake Jackson in Brazilia. Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you've got a horticulturist in your office right there in
Speaker 1: Brazoria County, so you're lucky. Uh, not just agriculture, but
Speaker 1: also a horticulture. Just give them a call, talk to
Speaker 1: either her or the master gardeners and they can get
Speaker 1: you fixed up. Okay, Well, thank you for your help.
Speaker 1: All right, yes, sir, thanks a lot. Appreciate that.
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Speaker 1: eighty eight. I'm going to take a break. We'll come
Speaker 1: back and and Montgomery you'll be our first stop. Hey,
Speaker 1: welcome back to garden Line. Good have you with us.
Speaker 1: We're going to run right off the phones here and
Speaker 1: talk to Rick in Montgomery. Hello, Rick, and welcome to
Speaker 1: garden Line.
Speaker 15: Good morning.
Speaker 1: My wife and I body.
Speaker 17: We bought a Chicago hardy.
Speaker 18: Sting from a reputable place in time Ball and we
Speaker 18: have not planted. We haven't transplanted it yet, but we
Speaker 18: just recently discovered the leaves are starting. This is starting
Speaker 18: from the ground up, so the bottom leaves first, they're
Speaker 18: starting to yellow and they also have some like brown spots.
Speaker 1: All around them.
Speaker 6: It's starting to creep up up the tree. We've been
Speaker 6: water it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so it could have had a time where it
Speaker 1: went without water for a little bit, even in the
Speaker 1: process of you know, you getting home and whatnot, had
Speaker 1: a little bit of a drought stress. It could also,
Speaker 1: you know, figs, as new growth comes on, sometimes leaves
Speaker 1: are cast off, especially in stresses. But they can be
Speaker 1: cast off, and so as you're describing it, it may
Speaker 1: not be a problem, but there is a disease called
Speaker 1: fig rust and that is everywhere, and it's in the air,
Speaker 1: and when we have wet conditions on the leaves, you
Speaker 1: tend to get rust infestations that cause brown spots and
Speaker 1: yellowing and defiliation of the spot of the leaves that
Speaker 1: have that on them. There's not a great rust control
Speaker 1: product for the home gardener. There just isn't, and that's
Speaker 1: label for figs. Sulfur sprays can help suppress it a
Speaker 1: little bit, but you have to be careful using sulfur
Speaker 1: when it's really very hot. I would spray that sulfur
Speaker 1: maybe very very early in the morning on the foliage.
Speaker 1: If you do go that route. You can go online
Speaker 1: and do a little web search for fig rust and
Speaker 1: look at the images. Whenever you do that, a lot
Speaker 1: of the images are something else. That's just how it
Speaker 1: is out there that as you look at all of them,
Speaker 1: you kind of go, Okay, this is pretty clearly what
Speaker 1: they're talking about here, and see if that's what you see.
Speaker 1: And if it is, then then again a wettable sulfur
Speaker 1: or a liquid sulfur type spray, following the label, but
Speaker 1: being very careful not to do it when the sun
Speaker 1: is hot baking down on the foliage. Okay, it does
Speaker 1: look like you may want to test it, Yeah, right, Well,
Speaker 1: if it and if it's a rust, at some point
Speaker 1: the spores get released. And if you take your thumb
Speaker 1: and rub it off the bottom of the leaf, not
Speaker 1: the top, but the bottom, you'll see a rusty little
Speaker 1: dust on your thumb. Good, that's the spores coming off
Speaker 1: of it.
Speaker 6: Okay, I'll do that.
Speaker 1: Okay, where should I?
Speaker 6: Well?
Speaker 1: Good luck and as much sun as you can give it,
Speaker 1: decent drainage. You know, I wouldn't put it in a swamp,
Speaker 1: but decent drainage. Figs are tolerant of clay soil. They're
Speaker 1: tolerant of pretty wet soils. But if it just is
Speaker 1: too heavy of a clay, and it stays too wet.
Speaker 1: You're not going to get good rooting depth from your figs.
Speaker 11: That's pretty sandy up here in Montgomery.
Speaker 1: Oh you're good to go then. Yeah. Now, one other
Speaker 1: thing is in sandy soils, figs can get nematodes. That's
Speaker 1: just nothing you can do about that. It just is
Speaker 1: what it is. So mix as much compost as you
Speaker 1: can into the soil and continue to keep that thing
Speaker 1: mulched in a big, wide area so that there's always
Speaker 1: decomposing organic matter, a big thick layer of that on
Speaker 1: top of the soil, and now will help your fig
Speaker 1: to thrive. Also.
Speaker 7: Okay, well, thank you very much.
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Okay, sir, good luck with that. I
Speaker 1: enjoy your figs now. I always say on guarden line,
Speaker 1: I don't charge you for my advice, but I do
Speaker 1: ask you to bring me half the figs. That's all.
Speaker 1: That's all I'm asking. Sounds reasonable to me. Thanks a lot, man,
Speaker 1: appreciate you. All right, there we go. Yeah. Microlife fertilizers
Speaker 1: come in many forms. There's the granular forms of course.
Speaker 1: You know about the green bag, that's the lawn fertilizer
Speaker 1: sixty four, which by the way, is good for anything.
Speaker 1: They have forms for acidic kind of a pinkish red
Speaker 1: bag for acidic loving plants. They've got just a wide
Speaker 1: variety of options out there. I want to talk to
Speaker 1: about some of the liquids. Microlife Biomatrix is the orange
Speaker 1: labeled liquid you can buy by the quirt, you can
Speaker 1: buy by the gallon, and it is an extra boost
Speaker 1: of nitrogen. So I use it a lot on houseplants
Speaker 1: because it's got that extra nitrogen boost in it, but
Speaker 1: it's also wonderful to use outdoors. And then there's a
Speaker 1: Microlife Ocean Harvest, which is a blue label, okay blue label.
Speaker 1: That's a four two three organic fish based fertilizer. Has
Speaker 1: a little bit of fish odor, so use that one
Speaker 1: outdoors rather than in the house. But it is an
Speaker 1: organic product that works really well. Neither one of them
Speaker 1: is going to burn. You use them properly and they
Speaker 1: will give you good plant results. Okay. Microlife fertilizers, you
Speaker 1: can go to microlifefertilizer dot com find out about all
Speaker 1: the other fertilizers for microlife, and there are a number
Speaker 1: of them, including things that are supplements of microbes, including
Speaker 1: things that have other growth promoting factors in them, not
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Speaker 1: I said, you can get Microlife fertilizer a lot of places.
Speaker 1: One place you can get it is Southwest Fertilizer. That's
Speaker 1: no news because Southwest Fertilizer carries everything. They carry products
Speaker 1: from Microlife and Nelson's and from Medina, from Nitrophoss. They
Speaker 1: have their own brands of product fertilizers as well. They're
Speaker 1: going to have any kind of tool you can imagine,
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Speaker 1: long wall of tools When you go in there, you
Speaker 1: can bring them a sample, you can bring them a picture,
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Speaker 1: a problem, they'll tent'ify it. They'll tell you here's some options.
Speaker 1: And there won't just be one, there'll be a number
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Speaker 1: dug up a crape myrtle and gotten rid of it,
Speaker 1: and then the roots sprouted, and they wonder how to
Speaker 1: get rid of that, And I said, well, goes out
Speaker 1: of this fertilizer. Here's what you need. I have a
Speaker 1: plant that is suckering a lot crape myrtles, see that too,
Speaker 1: And there's a different product that you can put on
Speaker 1: when you remove the sucker, the little shoot coming up
Speaker 1: from the bottom you don't want. You just put that
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Speaker 1: where Southwest fertilizer. Do Do you need the name of it? No,
Speaker 1: you don't because here's why. You go and you talk
Speaker 1: to Bob or one of the staff and you say, hey,
Speaker 1: Skip said, there's something that stops suckers from coming out
Speaker 1: of the bottom. They'll walk your right to it. Skip said,
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Speaker 1: People call it nut grass. I've got a publication called
Speaker 1: nutsedge and end out the book. If you read it
Speaker 1: and if you follow it, you can get rid of nutsedge, definitely.
Speaker 1: I did it all last year and to a bed
Speaker 1: full of nutsedge. And this year I had like three
Speaker 1: nutsedge nuts. It popped up in spring. Everything else is gone.
Speaker 1: And guess what I did. I jumped on them, as
Speaker 1: they say, like a duck on a junebug. Because you
Speaker 1: give nuts edge a few weeks to grow and set
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Speaker 1: Let that out the league city. Now we're going to
Speaker 1: visit with Glenn. Hello Glenn, and welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 8: Hello.
Speaker 19: I need to take you off of speakerphones, so I
Speaker 19: don't have the background. You can't hear any reverb, can you.
Speaker 8: Not?
Speaker 1: Currently? Okay?
Speaker 13: Great, thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 19: I currently use your schedule and I'm using the pre emergent.
Speaker 19: I use that the number of times per year that
Speaker 19: you recommend and I don't know if the weeds are
Speaker 19: becoming tolerant to it, but it doesn't seem to be
Speaker 19: working anymore.
Speaker 1: Okay, what kind of weeds you you seeing that escape
Speaker 1: the last pre emergent you put down, do you know?
Speaker 19: Yeah, there's ones with and uncolored blandch so bear with
Speaker 19: the area the purple or blue little flowers. And then
Speaker 19: there's another one that if you touch it it curls up.
Speaker 19: The leaves actually curl up. And then there's some broad
Speaker 19: broad leaves as well.
Speaker 1: Okay, good, all right, so what's probably happening. Some of
Speaker 1: those weeds are perennial weeds, and so pre emergents don't
Speaker 1: stop the weed from coming up. It's already existing and
Speaker 1: died back and now it's coming back again. They just
Speaker 1: stopped the seeds from creating new weed plants. So that's
Speaker 1: one thing. Pre emergence don't last. They don't last forever.
Speaker 1: And so you know, if you do them in like
Speaker 1: our first pre emergence in February, mid February in your
Speaker 1: area for sure, maybe early February down in League City,
Speaker 1: and by the time we get sixty days or more in,
Speaker 1: they're breaking down and weeds can begin to germinate on that,
Speaker 1: so that's another possibility. Yes, resistance is possible, but not
Speaker 1: that common. There are a few weeds like annual bluegrass,
Speaker 1: we do have some resistance issues with, but I think
Speaker 1: primarily what we're looking at is perennials coming back through.
Speaker 1: The one that you touch the leaves and they curl
Speaker 1: up is almost a woody little weed. The vines are thin,
Speaker 1: but they're very woody with little claws on them, And
Speaker 1: that one you have to use a post emergent that's
Speaker 1: pretty powerful on. Some of the products that will control
Speaker 1: it will hurt your lawn. So I usually tell people
Speaker 1: to pull that up. Just lift the runners up out
Speaker 1: of the lawn, lay a piece of cardboard or something
Speaker 1: under them, and just spray the runner with a certain
Speaker 1: product containing triclope here. Just on that runner, let it dry,
Speaker 1: and then you pull the cardboard out. But I'm just
Speaker 1: saying that's the way to kill it without killing the grass.
Speaker 1: Some of the others, the one with blue flowers, it
Speaker 1: could be something called dove weed, bluish purple flowers. There's
Speaker 1: one with blue flowers called dayflower that is also not
Speaker 1: going to respond even to good broad leaf herbicides. So
Speaker 1: maybe what you would do, Glenn is let me put
Speaker 1: you on hold, and I'm gonna let my producer give
Speaker 1: you the email, and if you would email photos maybe
Speaker 1: some of this you're still having problems with something, send
Speaker 1: me a picture because then I can tell you that
Speaker 1: weed what you need to do, you know, right, I
Speaker 1: appreciate that approach. There's not a shotgun. Not a shotgun
Speaker 1: answered all these weeds, okay.
Speaker 19: Sure, And I didn't know that before, so I appreciate
Speaker 19: the education with that. I'm also using your recommended pre
Speaker 19: emerchant or post emergant to spray, and the spray works
Speaker 19: really good.
Speaker 13: It kills a week.
Speaker 19: I could actually see some of the week starting to
Speaker 19: die that same day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, good, well, and even with the sprice you
Speaker 1: know there, Like I said about that sensitive brier, the
Speaker 1: one that folds up when you touch it, the stuff
Speaker 1: that works on all your other broad leaves may not
Speaker 1: work on that because it's a little different kind of weeds.
Speaker 1: So yeah, send me pictures. In that way I can
Speaker 1: give you a better answer. But I do ask send
Speaker 1: the pictures prior to making the phone call so we
Speaker 1: can visit about our online because other people are gonna
Speaker 1: have the same questions and I'm just not able to
Speaker 1: type out answers to all the emails.
Speaker 19: Okay, I understand, so I'll stand by. I appreciate your help.
Speaker 19: Have a nice weekend, all right.
Speaker 1: I'm putting you in hold on alle Hundro pickup right now,
Speaker 1: RCW Garden Center, RCW Nurseres right there where Beltwegh eight
Speaker 1: and tom Ball Parkway come together. That is the get it,
Speaker 1: got it nursery. First of all, they probably have it
Speaker 1: when you go by to get it. But if they
Speaker 1: don't have something, they do their best job to find
Speaker 1: it and bring it in. So that just kind of
Speaker 1: makes it a nice full service deal. You can shrubs
Speaker 1: and trees and woody vines and things from them, like
Speaker 1: roses for example being another example. Uh, they'll come out
Speaker 1: and they'll plant trees for you if they're you know,
Speaker 1: those are big containers. You don't want to break your
Speaker 1: back or put your chiropractice kids through college. Let RCW
Speaker 1: come out and plant it the right way. They know
Speaker 1: how to do it. They grow their own trees. What
Speaker 1: they sell grows here. That's the bottom line. They're not
Speaker 1: going to sell you a blue spruce tree to put
Speaker 1: in Houston. They're going to sell you something that grows here.
Speaker 1: While you're there, you're gonna find Nitrovoss fertilizer, Microlife fertilizer,
Speaker 1: uh Nelson turf Star lines a fertilizer there at RCW.
Speaker 1: And whether you're looking for beautiful bougainvillias, whether you're looking
Speaker 1: for gorgeous cajun hibiscus tropical hibiscus, they've got it. RCW
Speaker 1: Nurseries dot Com, corner of Tambaugh Parkway and Beltway eight. Okay,
Speaker 1: I believe I'm way overdue here on going to a
Speaker 1: break Carney. Well, let's just do that. All right, we're back.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to garden Line. Good to have you with us. Hey,
Speaker 1: here's a number you'll need this one. Got a gardening
Speaker 1: question seven one three two one two K t R H.
Speaker 1: And I can only do gardening questions. I had a
Speaker 1: one time I got when I was a county extension agent.
Speaker 1: I went to a yard and I there was a
Speaker 1: lady and her husband. They're both there, husband and wife.
Speaker 1: And when I got there, I was there. I thought
Speaker 1: to assess a problem, and uh, one of them crossed
Speaker 1: their arms and said to me, will you tell I'll
Speaker 1: let you decide whether it was him or her that
Speaker 1: this is such and such. And I realized I just
Speaker 1: walked into a marital argument. I thought it was horticultural,
Speaker 1: it was marital instead, And so I told him, I said,
Speaker 1: my horticulture advice is free. Marriage's advice is three hundred
Speaker 1: dollars an hour. So which which way do we want
Speaker 1: to go here today? Anyway? They laughed thankfully. I'm so upset.
Speaker 1: Same thing here on garden Line, we do give free
Speaker 1: horticulture advice. Let's got to Lake City. We're going to
Speaker 1: talk to John this morning. Hey John, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 20: Good morning, thanks for taking my call. Just a quick
Speaker 20: question you best Saint Augustine lawn. My Saint Augustine is
Speaker 20: looking really great. But I have not put on any
Speaker 20: any fund to side this year. I missed it earlier
Speaker 20: this year, and I have noticed just slightly a little
Speaker 20: yellowing patches, and I'm wondering, is it too late to
Speaker 20: put down the fund to side or could it be
Speaker 20: something else?
Speaker 1: Possibly a good point, good question, John, So we're gonna
Speaker 1: here's what I'd like you to do, because I don't
Speaker 1: like to recommend pesticides of any type if they're not needed.
Speaker 1: If you go out to your lawn, get on your
Speaker 1: hands and knees and look real carefully where you see
Speaker 1: the yellowing foliage. Notice if it's yellow in stripes, and
Speaker 1: that may mean picking a grass blade and holding it
Speaker 1: up the light and seeing the green and yellow vertical
Speaker 1: parallel to the grass blade stripes, that's iron deficiency. If
Speaker 1: it's just splotches of yellow, there may be something else
Speaker 1: going on in that leaf. And gray leaf spot has
Speaker 1: been a problem this late spring and early summer because
Speaker 1: it likes warm temperatures and it likes lots of moisture.
Speaker 1: But there you'll see spots on the leaves that are
Speaker 1: grayish but they have a purple border around them. But
Speaker 1: then when there's spots are there, the leaf starts to
Speaker 1: die out and you get yellowing to go with those spots.
Speaker 1: So if you see the gray leaf spot, yes, it
Speaker 1: would be a good time to put out your eagle
Speaker 1: turf fungicide from night Foss for that.
Speaker 6: But you need to.
Speaker 1: Remember that the more often you water, the worse fungal
Speaker 1: diseases are going to be. So put this, you can
Speaker 1: put the same amount of water on over a week,
Speaker 1: but just try to get it on in a good
Speaker 1: soaking rather than a bunch of squirts that keep the
Speaker 1: grass sweat all the time. So that would be that
Speaker 1: if you see the iron deficiency stripes, the yellow stripes,
Speaker 1: then I would say probably either a supplemental keylated iron
Speaker 1: and keylated as h E g. Related is like it
Speaker 1: looks like how you would say it keylated, uh, and
Speaker 1: you could apply that. Or it may be that your
Speaker 1: pH is high and your phosphorus is high and only
Speaker 1: a swew test could tell you that. Okay.
Speaker 20: Yeah, And the reason I'm suspicious I had a bad
Speaker 20: problem last year with with brown patch and it's all
Speaker 20: gone now, But just wondering if past performance is you know,
Speaker 20: a sign of problems in the future. If that's an issue,
Speaker 20: then I should worry.
Speaker 1: I'm sertain that I didn't catch that. Okay, yeah, So
Speaker 1: if either one, it could be diseases. But with the
Speaker 1: diseases at this time of the year, there's diseases that
Speaker 1: you would have. One is take a root rot, which
Speaker 1: just in large areas, the grass looks like it needs watering,
Speaker 1: It shrivels and it dies very irregular. I said large.
Speaker 1: I meant to say irregular it could be a small area,
Speaker 1: but it grows and bigger and bigger in time. But
Speaker 1: that's an underground problem or grating spot on top of
Speaker 1: the ground. The dot, the spots on the grass plades.
Speaker 1: Those are the only two fungus issues you're dealing with
Speaker 1: right now. Okay, okay, and thank you very much, thank you,
Speaker 1: you bet appreciate your call very much. You take care U.
Speaker 1: League City Feed is down in guess where League City.
Speaker 1: In fact, if you're down in that area, maybe you
Speaker 1: live in Santa Fe or Dickinson or Elkamino, Reale, Clare,
Speaker 1: Lake City, Webster Baycliffe, Lamark, San Leone, Dickinson, that whole
Speaker 1: area through there that this is your hometown feed store.
Speaker 1: And if you go over to Lake City on Highway three,
Speaker 1: just a few blocks south of Highway Nay is League
Speaker 1: City Feeds on the east sides on the Bay side
Speaker 1: of the of the highway there. When you go in,
Speaker 1: you're going to find a feed source. Been around for
Speaker 1: for forty years now. The third generation of Thunderbergs are
Speaker 1: running the store. League City Feed open Monday through Saturday,
Speaker 1: nine to six, closed on Sunday. If you need fertilizers
Speaker 1: that I talk about here on garden line, like Microlife
Speaker 1: and nitrofoss for example, Nelson plant Foods. Products you know
Speaker 1: from the Medina, the folks a MEDEENI you're going to
Speaker 1: find them there. League City Feed. You're going to find
Speaker 1: that old time service where they still carry the bags
Speaker 1: out for you, and you're going to find anything you
Speaker 1: need to control pest, swedes and diseases. They keep a
Speaker 1: good supply on hand, so whatever you're going after to
Speaker 1: make your lawn and garden more beautiful and more bountiful,
Speaker 1: League City Feed's got you covered again. They're on Highway three,
Speaker 1: a few blocks south of ninety six. Here's a number
Speaker 1: two eight one three three to two sixteen twelve. We're
Speaker 1: going to go to Pearland now and talk to Henry.
Speaker 6: Hello, Henry, Good morning, Skiff. I had a question for
Speaker 6: you on some groundcover jasmine that I planted. I've got
Speaker 6: basically three areas. They all receive the same water, same sun.
Speaker 6: Two of those were successful in taking but one of them.
Speaker 6: I fought the weeds for the longest time, and I
Speaker 6: thought that the jasmine had kind of got to a
Speaker 6: point where it was going to overtake the weeds. You
Speaker 6: know how I will do that, but I just lost
Speaker 6: control of the weeds. And you can still see the
Speaker 6: jasmine down in the This may require a picture. If
Speaker 6: it does, just let me know. You can still see
Speaker 6: the jasmine. But the weeds are so plentiful that I'm
Speaker 6: afraid to continue to pull out the weeds because now
Speaker 6: I'm pulling out the jasmine? Is there anything that I
Speaker 6: can put down?
Speaker 1: Yeah? So are the weeds grassy or are they broadly weeds?
Speaker 1: They're grassy all the above? Oh, grassy? Okay, good, good, good?
Speaker 6: Primarily Yeah.
Speaker 1: Okay, So you go to my website, which is gardening
Speaker 1: with Skip dot com. I don't know if you've ever
Speaker 1: been there, but if not, you need to go Gardening
Speaker 1: of Skip dot com. And when you get there, there's
Speaker 1: a publication under my publication list, and it's called Herbicides
Speaker 1: to use with Skip's weed wiper. Okay. Now, when you're
Speaker 1: going into something like jasmine, and maybe you're using something
Speaker 1: that would hurt the jasmine, well, with the weed wiper,
Speaker 1: you can wipe it right on. There's a there's another
Speaker 1: publication telling you how to build one. In this case,
Speaker 1: you don't need the weed wiper, but you still need
Speaker 1: that publication.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 1: It goes down and divides the weeds into groups. The
Speaker 1: woody weeds like BlackBerry and poison ivy and tree seedlings
Speaker 1: and stuff, the grassyweeds, the broadleaf weed. It's something that
Speaker 1: kills both grasses and broad leaves, wild onion, wild garlic,
Speaker 1: and nuts. It each of those has its own herbicide
Speaker 1: for grasses only. There's two products there. And I won't
Speaker 1: say out the chemical name on the air. I mean,
Speaker 1: I have to spell the whole thing. That gets kind
Speaker 1: of boring on the air. But there's two products, different ingredients.
Speaker 1: Both of them kill grasses but don't hurt broad leaves.
Speaker 1: In fact, one of them is called over the top
Speaker 1: grass killer. Just as an example, you just spray it
Speaker 1: right over the top. Jasmine's fine kills the grass.
Speaker 6: Okay, great, and I think there's.
Speaker 1: Probably yeah, I think I have like six or seven
Speaker 1: different products that have those two in them, or one
Speaker 1: of them. You don't need both either one or the other.
Speaker 6: That's that's great. Out. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Have a good day, all right, sir, Thanks for the call,
Speaker 1: you bet, you bet appreciate that very much. It's not
Speaker 1: difficult if you just kind of know what you're going after.
Speaker 1: And for those of you here are kind of wondering,
Speaker 1: what do you mean broad leaf and grassy, Well, there's
Speaker 1: for the most part, there's three types of weeds we
Speaker 1: deal with. One is broad leaf, which means the leaves
Speaker 1: are broader and the veins on the leaves go out
Speaker 1: like the fingers on your hand or some form of that. Okay,
Speaker 1: grass blade blades are long and skinny, and the veins
Speaker 1: go up and down the grass blade like railroad tracks
Speaker 1: going down the grass blade leaf. The third type is sedges,
Speaker 1: and that would be nuts edge and kaialenga and some
Speaker 1: others like that. Each of those three categories we deal
Speaker 1: with in different ways, but knowing which category you're in
Speaker 1: at least get you in the right ballpark for that.
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Speaker 1: All right, welcome back, Thank you. Could you have it
Speaker 1: with us here on Guardenline. We are in our last
Speaker 1: half hour of the show today, so either give me
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Speaker 1: contains nineteen percent nitrogen, but don't worry about that. It's
Speaker 1: not going to make your lawn just grow so fast.
Speaker 1: You have the Momo mo mo mo to keep up
Speaker 1: with it. And when that happens, by the way, you
Speaker 1: also end up with less of a root system. Isn't
Speaker 1: that weird that excessive nitrogen causes top growth at the
Speaker 1: expense of root growth. And do we need less roots
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Speaker 1: as well as the other Fisher Hardware is in Pasadena
Speaker 1: and Laport in mont Bellvue. You're going to find it
Speaker 1: at Hide and Feed on Stubner Airline. They carry night
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Speaker 1: super Turf will carry you all the way to your fall.
Speaker 1: Fertiliz makes it easy, makes it fast and simple. Well,
Speaker 1: I have covered a lot of different things today. I
Speaker 1: told you how to look at the end of your
Speaker 1: arm and find those little things called fingers on there
Speaker 1: and use them in proper gardening things. I want to
Speaker 1: talk a little bit about no fruit on fruit trees.
Speaker 1: I mentioned I would do that earlier, and so let's
Speaker 1: do it right now now fruit trees. There are a
Speaker 1: lot of different kinds of fruit, and just because they're
Speaker 1: all called fruit doesn't mean they're anything alike. I mean,
Speaker 1: when you go from a fig to a satsuma, orange
Speaker 1: to a peach to a pair, you are going into
Speaker 1: a whole different categories of plants, and they behave differently
Speaker 1: many types of fruit set fruit without pollination from a
Speaker 1: second variety. So figs, the figs we grow here now
Speaker 1: in California, they do grow figs that need pollinating here.
Speaker 1: Our standard figs in Texas are not. You don't require pollination,
Speaker 1: They just form fruit. Peaches are going to pollenate themselves
Speaker 1: and be just fine. You don't have to worry about
Speaker 1: a second variety. Plums, it's better to have a second variety,
Speaker 1: although there are some varieties like methley that will pollinate themselves,
Speaker 1: but in general it's better to have a second variety.
Speaker 1: When it comes to pears, in general, it's better to
Speaker 1: have a second variety to do well. When it comes
Speaker 1: to blueberries, they will pollinate themselves some, but if you
Speaker 1: want bigger berries, you need a second variety for cross
Speaker 1: pollination for them to do their best. Apples need to
Speaker 1: have two varieties in order to have success. Okay, so
Speaker 1: those are just some examples of reasons you may not
Speaker 1: have fruit on your fruit trees. We call it the
Speaker 1: Lonely Hearts Club. That variety needs a partner that's a
Speaker 1: different variety in order to pollinate it. That's one number two.
Speaker 1: You don't have pollinator insects. If you kill all the bees, well,
Speaker 1: the pollination's up to you. Go ahead and buy an
Speaker 1: artist paintbrush and run around your tree pollinating every little
Speaker 1: flower every day. Good luck with that, by the way, Oh,
Speaker 1: a solution for the Lonely Horts club. The first reason
Speaker 1: we don't get fruit is to find a friend who
Speaker 1: has that kind of fruit in a different variety and
Speaker 1: make an arrangement. See if they will let you trim
Speaker 1: one little branch off, put it in I like to
Speaker 1: use just like a soft drink can, a coke can
Speaker 1: or something. You can just wire it into the branch there,
Speaker 1: put some water in it and stick that branch in it,
Speaker 1: and the bees all that day will go through and
Speaker 1: they'll be getting pollen from those flowers and taking them
Speaker 1: to your flowers. So you're gonna get a little pollination
Speaker 1: there until you're able to get up tree planted and
Speaker 1: growing and to a point where it can bloom itself,
Speaker 1: so you can bring in some things that way. You
Speaker 1: just have to have a cooperative friend to do it.
Speaker 1: Maybe promise them half your peaches or something. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but that's one, okay, So it's number two, no pollinators,
Speaker 1: It's important. Number three not enough sunlight. It takes a
Speaker 1: lot of carbohydrates to make bloom buds and to set
Speaker 1: blooms and to make a good crop of fruit. And
Speaker 1: so if you have a lack of blooming, if you
Speaker 1: have a lack of fruit development and things, and maybe
Speaker 1: that you're not getting the at least six hours of
Speaker 1: sunlight almost all fruit is going to require to have success.
Speaker 1: So those are three reasons. There are others we could
Speaker 1: talk about, but those are three reasons why you have
Speaker 1: a fruit tree that doesn't fruit. Maybe sometime we'll come
Speaker 1: back to visit that and talk about a few others.
Speaker 1: Let's head to Montgomery right now, and we're going to
Speaker 1: head out there and talk to Brett. Well, hello, Brett,
Speaker 1: welcome to gardenlin'em. Good to have you with us.
Speaker 12: Good morning. I was asking we put down the nitropause
Speaker 12: silver bag late April, early May, and my question is
Speaker 12: how long should I wait before I do it again?
Speaker 1: Tell me you did it, and you said toward the
Speaker 1: end of May or early May. No, No, yeah, right
Speaker 1: at the end of April early May.
Speaker 12: I don't have my calendar deal with me, so I'm
Speaker 12: in the car.
Speaker 1: But yeah, right at the end of April.
Speaker 12: And I didn't know if we needed to wait many days,
Speaker 12: you know, are how long between the.
Speaker 1: You know it's gonna last about four months or sixteen weeks.
Speaker 1: So let's just say you did it in May. That
Speaker 1: covers May, June, July, and August. I wouldn't do it
Speaker 1: again then because by the time we get to October,
Speaker 1: we're going to be doing a fall fertilization with a
Speaker 1: different blend, and you don't want to have the silver
Speaker 1: bags still going strong at the same time. Now you
Speaker 1: add the other that that's not a good approach at
Speaker 1: that season of the year. So you if I would
Speaker 1: return my clippings, I think you're going to be okay
Speaker 1: to carry you through. If you wanted to give a
Speaker 1: little boost, then choose their their red bag, which is
Speaker 1: the fifteen to five to ten. That's an immediate release. Okay,
Speaker 1: you could you could do that if you felt like
Speaker 1: it needed more. I think if you return clippings water adequately,
Speaker 1: your LUN's going to look good anyway. But be ready
Speaker 1: to consider the red bag by the time it about
Speaker 1: maybe late July and early August.
Speaker 12: Okay, yeah, I and we have really hard you know
Speaker 12: this clay soil up here. Do we need to do
Speaker 12: We need to add the trace minerals in I've heard
Speaker 12: you talk about that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, the the real answer to your question depends
Speaker 1: on what's already in the soil, okay, because you only
Speaker 1: add what you need. That includes regular fertilizers, that includes
Speaker 1: the trace minerals. But as a general guide, putting the
Speaker 1: azmite down once or twice a year, depending on your
Speaker 1: soil conditions is a good idea. It doesn't hurt to
Speaker 1: add some more in there. You just don't want to
Speaker 1: overdo it. Like any kind of fertilization, you don't want
Speaker 1: to overdo it. But a soil test is our main
Speaker 1: guide on all kinds of fertilization, but in general we
Speaker 1: go with the rules of Thumb, which is my schedule
Speaker 1: of when to fertilize and when to put down the azmite.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna do a soil sample. I
Speaker 12: think it's a good idea. I've had this place for
Speaker 12: three years now. We get good grass growth. It's been
Speaker 12: growing so fast. I'm a little bit worried I'm not
Speaker 12: getting the root growth I want.
Speaker 1: But the lawn is thickened up a lot, and uh
Speaker 1: it lied good. You know, it's a good heavy base.
Speaker 3: But okay, that's all right with it.
Speaker 1: I just was wondering, go to do it right? Yeah,
Speaker 1: well I would expect that from night Fross super terf
Speaker 1: to give you that. But let me just tell you this.
Speaker 1: If you go online to my publications, there's a publication
Speaker 1: on SWIW testing made Simple and when you look at it,
Speaker 1: go see the deal. You know what you need to
Speaker 1: do on it. But it also uh if you if
Speaker 1: you click on it and look at it as a
Speaker 1: PDF file, uh, you have a direct link to the
Speaker 1: right form on the sal Testing website. Okay, and tells
Speaker 1: you how to fill out but you you'll go past,
Speaker 1: ye yeah, past the web page, click on the PDF
Speaker 1: download of it. All right, thanks a lot, many appreciate that,
Speaker 1: Thank you, Yes, sir, take a little break here. Listen.
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Speaker 1: going to talk to Mary. Hello, Mary, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 21: Hi, thank you for taking my call. I have a
Speaker 21: raised bed in front of my townhouse. And I say
Speaker 21: it's the raised bed. It's actually like a big planter box.
Speaker 21: I sent you a photo of one of six as
Speaker 21: alias that I have in there.
Speaker 3: They're brand new.
Speaker 21: We put in good soil, and now I'm starting to
Speaker 21: lose them one by one. I had one guy tell me, oh,
Speaker 21: you've got a fungus. I took a sample to Cornelius.
Speaker 21: She said, no, it's an irrigation problem. You're watering too
Speaker 21: much or you're watering too little. Then I took a
Speaker 21: sample to Southwest and he said, it's a problem.
Speaker 10: It doesn't seem like you're.
Speaker 21: That is draining well or that you know, so it's
Speaker 21: not draining well. Okay, I don't know what, so you
Speaker 21: can look at it.
Speaker 1: I can help you with that. I have I already have.
Speaker 1: So here here's here's the thing. The plant, the whole
Speaker 1: plant is declining and wilting. Rapidly, and that means there's
Speaker 1: a plumbing problem. The flow of water from the bottom
Speaker 1: to the top is not happening. So if you have
Speaker 1: poor drainage and or over water so that the roots
Speaker 1: cannot get oxygen, a plant will wilt in standing water.
Speaker 1: And azaleas need good drainage. They want moisture consistently. They're
Speaker 1: not drought tolerant that much, but they they need good drainage.
Speaker 1: So if that happens, that alone can take a plan out.
Speaker 1: Usually when a plant is stressed like that, root rots
Speaker 1: will enter the roots, and now you have a disease
Speaker 1: inside the roots, killing the root system, which again is
Speaker 1: just it's the same result. That's why I say it's
Speaker 1: a plumbing problem. If you don't have roots, you can't
Speaker 1: get water up to the top. That's a plumbing problem.
Speaker 1: And so whether it's physical due to lack of oxygen drowning,
Speaker 1: or whether it's root rot, it causes a similar symptom above.
Speaker 1: So the question is which is it. If you dig
Speaker 1: down in the soil with a hand trowl about four
Speaker 1: inches deep or six inches and feel the soil, you
Speaker 1: can tell if it's too soggy, wet, and so that
Speaker 1: tells you right there what you men need to do.
Speaker 1: It could be that just drying out, it'll perk back
Speaker 1: and be okay, but if not, then you would need
Speaker 1: to do a systemic fungicide treatment around that plant, and
Speaker 1: that would be buying certain kinds of fungicides, not just anyone,
Speaker 1: but buying a fungicide that you would drench on the
Speaker 1: soil and it would be taken up into the root
Speaker 1: system to protect the plant. If you wait until too long,
Speaker 1: that's not going to work because there's no root system
Speaker 1: left to protect. So it's going to be one of
Speaker 1: those two. I can't tell you, nor can any of
Speaker 1: the people you've talked to tell you just by looking
Speaker 1: at the at the picture you know, or the planet itself.
Speaker 1: But it's going to be one of those things. So
Speaker 1: you think about, think about how wet you've kept it,
Speaker 1: think about how well it drains. Is it a raised
Speaker 1: bed like we recommend for azelias to be planted in,
Speaker 1: or is it down ground level in a clay where
Speaker 1: it's easy to stay soggy.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 1: Then some people will pull plants out, build up the bed,
Speaker 1: set the plants back in in order to try to
Speaker 1: fix that problem. That way. But if it's a disease,
Speaker 1: you've got to get a systemic fungicide that fights root rot,
Speaker 1: and you need to go to a place like Southwest
Speaker 1: Fertilizer Bob has telling him, I've got I need a
Speaker 1: root rot fungicide. And he may have something called ban
Speaker 1: rot b A n R O T, or he may
Speaker 1: have another one to help you with that. But if
Speaker 1: he looked at it and told you, I think it's
Speaker 1: just too wet, then it's probably not a root rot,
Speaker 1: because he knows what he's talking about.
Speaker 21: Okay, okay, okay, good to know I'm dedicated to making
Speaker 21: this work. I think I'm crazy, all right, Okay, I
Speaker 21: appreciate it very much.
Speaker 8: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Okay, thank you very much. I appreciate it's your call. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's kind of how it works. That's how it works
Speaker 1: with the root rots and things. You know, in a
Speaker 1: lot of ways. Uh you if you see a plant
Speaker 1: and the leaves are all turning crispy and dying, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, it could be drought. It could be that
Speaker 1: a borer is chewed through the trunk and has cut
Speaker 1: off all the plumbing pipes. Right, can't get water. If
Speaker 1: you got if the plumbing is broken in the middle. Uh,
Speaker 1: And that's what happens when a borer choose through the tissues.
Speaker 1: It could be that you put so much fertilizer on
Speaker 1: you burn the root system. Salt based fertilizer, not organic,
Speaker 1: but salt based. You apply too much to a limited,
Speaker 1: confined root system like a new plant, and you can
Speaker 1: fry the roots because salt plant skin. You can't put
Speaker 1: salt on plants like that. When you overdo it. Put
Speaker 1: the right amount, it's good for the plant. Put the
Speaker 1: wrong amount, you kill things. And all of those create
Speaker 1: similar symptoms. Tip and margin burn on the roots from
Speaker 1: fertilizer for other things. But when it comes to just
Speaker 1: a wilting well, water's not getting to those leaves. But
Speaker 1: the question is why is it Because there's no root system.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's a root rot. Maybe it's something underground chewing
Speaker 1: up the roots. Maybe when you planted it, you let
Speaker 1: it sit out and the roots outside dried out, and
Speaker 1: then you put it in the ground and now that
Speaker 1: plant that had a good root system getting watered every
Speaker 1: day in the pot suddenly is in big trouble. It
Speaker 1: could be a lot of things, but the bottom line
Speaker 1: is it's a plumbing problem, and you've got to figure
Speaker 1: out why. And sometimes that requires just thinking back to
Speaker 1: how you've cared about it, considering whether it's planted in
Speaker 1: the ground, or do you need to loosen things up
Speaker 1: a little bit and get it above ground. I tell
Speaker 1: people when you plant in azalia or blueberry especially, but
Speaker 1: other plants, this can be true as well in poorly
Speaker 1: drained areas. Imagine that you set the plant on top
Speaker 1: of the ground, and then you bring in a bed
Speaker 1: mix and fill in around it. Now that's not the
Speaker 1: order that you go in, but it creates the mental
Speaker 1: picture of my root system is in the bed, not
Speaker 1: sunken down into poorly drained soil. It's in a raised
Speaker 1: bit soill. You build a bed and then you dig
Speaker 1: the hole. But the equivalent of it is you just
Speaker 1: set the plant on the ground. That helps people understand.
Speaker 1: Don't in a clay soil that doesn't drain well it's
Speaker 1: a low area or whatever. Don't just dig a hole
Speaker 1: in the ground. That's it's called an underground bathtub. And
Speaker 1: a clay soil it holds water. Farm ponds they line
Speaker 1: them with clay so they hold water that they put
Speaker 1: vent night clay in a farm pond to make it
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Speaker 8: Yeah, good morning, SKIPT. I have Queen Anne's lace and
Speaker 8: it's it's in dating our flower garden. Of your of
Speaker 8: your herbicides that you use with the wiper, what one
Speaker 8: is going to be the best? Because I can see
Speaker 8: any mentioned the Queen Anne's lace if you.
Speaker 1: Go under the broad leave it. I know the leaves
Speaker 1: of Queen Ann's lace are not broad but it's a
Speaker 1: broad leaf plant. It's not a grassy plant or a
Speaker 1: sedg and so go with the what it says broad
Speaker 1: leaf on there. And so you can use a number
Speaker 1: of different products. Is this growing among desirable plants?
Speaker 8: Yes?
Speaker 1: Okay. So also on my website you'll see something about
Speaker 1: skips homemade weed wiper and it's a little gadget Bill's
Speaker 1: real easy to build one. Yeah, And so you can
Speaker 1: wipe it on the Queen Ann's lace leaves and it'll
Speaker 1: translocate down and kill it and you get none on
Speaker 1: your desirable plants. That's why I created that weed wiper,
Speaker 1: homemade weed wiper. And then go down the list to
Speaker 1: broad leaf weeds. Yeah. And so basically you're looking at
Speaker 1: things like trimac or other broad leaf controls that have
Speaker 1: multi ingredients. Typically they'll have about three different ingredients in
Speaker 1: them to make sure they cover all the spectrum.
Speaker 13: Okay, very good, And there.
Speaker 8: Isn't too much you can do about Japanese na napweed.
Speaker 13: Is that correct?
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to look on that one. We don't
Speaker 1: deal with it as much down here, but I would
Speaker 1: use a broad leaf as my first shot on it.
Speaker 1: It may be that we have to shift to something else.
Speaker 1: If you like to hold on, my producer will give
Speaker 1: you an email. We send me a picture of it
Speaker 1: and an email, and then maybe call back next tomorrow
Speaker 1: or next weekend and let me look into that one.
Speaker 1: And I may need to go a little more specific
Speaker 1: than just what's on my sheet right there.
Speaker 13: Okay, okay, great, thank you very much for your hope.
Speaker 1: All right, give itt I'm putting you on hold if
Speaker 1: you want to stick around and get that email. All right, folks,
Speaker 1: there we are. This one's in the books. Hopefully you
Speaker 1: had fun today. I sure did. We'll be back tomorrow morning,
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