Speaker 1: Welcome to Katie r. H. Garden Line with Skip Richard.
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Speaker 2: All right, folks stop. Welcome to garden Line. Good to
Speaker 2: have you with us on this Sunday morning. Going to
Speaker 2: be a great day out there. If you're a if
Speaker 2: you got one drop of gardening blood in you, this
Speaker 2: week ought to be really excited. I mean exciting. You
Speaker 2: got to be excited about the weeks. What I'm trying
Speaker 2: to say is early in the morning for me anyway.
Speaker 2: You know, it's kind of like if you ever listen
Speaker 2: to Footloose, you know by Kenny Loggins. If you can
Speaker 2: listen to Footloose and your foot's not tapping, you need
Speaker 2: to check your pulse because something is seriously wrong. If
Speaker 2: you're a gardener and you are not excited about the
Speaker 2: weather this week, oh my gosh, wow, it's going to
Speaker 2: be great this afternoon. Be a good time to get
Speaker 2: out to a garden center and get you some supplies,
Speaker 2: get you some things you need stop buy your you
Speaker 2: know your ace hardware stores, stop buy your feed store.
Speaker 2: We got a lot of great places here in town
Speaker 2: to get you ready to have a great spring, and
Speaker 2: that's what we're working on today. You know, products for example,
Speaker 2: like Microlife. Microlife fertilizers have been around a long time,
Speaker 2: fact for over thirty five years now. It's the number
Speaker 2: one selling organic fertilizer here in the Greater Houston area.
Speaker 2: And it's not just Greater Houston. I mean to go
Speaker 2: all the way to San Antonio, Austin place that you
Speaker 2: see Microlife for sale A long long region around here
Speaker 2: are a wide region. And the reason is it works.
Speaker 2: That's the bottom line. Microlife fertilizers are based on microbes.
Speaker 2: That's why it says micro Life microbes rule the world.
Speaker 2: They definitely keep the plants happy. Nutrients go through microbes
Speaker 2: in order to be turned into a form plants can use.
Speaker 2: That's what they do. Microlife fertilizer is designed around that
Speaker 2: it's loaded with microbes. When you purchase a product from Microlife,
Speaker 2: you're going to be getting along with it a lot
Speaker 2: of microbes.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 2: A couple of the products I particularly like, one of
Speaker 2: them is the Blue label. That's Ocean Harvest. The Microlife
Speaker 2: Blue label. It's a four to two three fertilizer fish based,
Speaker 2: So you want to use that out side. That's a
Speaker 2: primary place you're going to use this. It's not going
Speaker 2: to burn. You can use it as a you know,
Speaker 2: as a diluted solution for you know, starting a little
Speaker 2: seedlings or something like that. You can fold your feed
Speaker 2: with it. You can you know, drench it over a
Speaker 2: root system to give plants a boost. Another one I
Speaker 2: like is Microlife Biomatrix. That's an orange label. You can
Speaker 2: use it indoors or outdoors. These are both liquid. You
Speaker 2: can buy them in a quart or a gallon. Well,
Speaker 2: anyway you you mix it up according to the label. Again,
Speaker 2: you're not going to burn with it, but that higher
Speaker 2: nitrogen content in it really pushes leafy growth. So it's
Speaker 2: great for house plants for example, but it's good for
Speaker 2: any kind of plants anywhere you want to give plants
Speaker 2: a real quick boost to get them going. That's what
Speaker 2: I use. I basically keep the orange label near me
Speaker 2: all the time when I'm doing gardening stuff. It's right
Speaker 2: there in the shed with me, and it works. That's
Speaker 2: about that's the bottom line. That's why we use it.
Speaker 2: And you know you can get microlife again anywhere all
Speaker 2: through this region. For example, Southwest Fertilize, Southwest Fertilizer in
Speaker 2: the corner of Business and Runwick. You hear me talk
Speaker 2: about them all the time. This place has been around
Speaker 2: for seventy years. They're having their seventieth birthday this year. Now,
Speaker 2: you don't stick around seventy years if you're not doing
Speaker 2: something right, that's for sure, and treating your customers right.
Speaker 2: But you go in to Southwest Fertilizer, you're going to
Speaker 2: find microlife. You're also going to find all the full
Speaker 2: range of products you hear me talk about here on
Speaker 2: garden Line. You're going to find things to control pests, weeds,
Speaker 2: and diseases. And if you are are looking to prevent
Speaker 2: weeds or to control weeds that exists, they've got everything
Speaker 2: you need for that. If you're an organic gardener, you're
Speaker 2: not going to find a larger selection of organic supplies
Speaker 2: anywhere in Houston than right there. You're just not. It's
Speaker 2: the one stop shop. And when I say one stop shop,
Speaker 2: i'm talking about also mulch also, you know, compost and
Speaker 2: soil amendments. They're going to have azamite in there. You're
Speaker 2: going to find Nature's Way and heirloom soil resources. You're
Speaker 2: gonna find all the Medina products that you need in there.
Speaker 2: For sure. They have a nice seed selection, both the
Speaker 2: little packets and the bins where you take the little
Speaker 2: scoop and you fill your own envelope. That's the most
Speaker 2: economical way to buy seed right there. You know the tools.
Speaker 2: I can just go sit there and drool and look
Speaker 2: at the ninety foot wall of tools. Because quality brands,
Speaker 2: you know, Falco, Corona. Don't buy cheap tools. Buy tools
Speaker 2: that are quality for a reasonable price, and you will
Speaker 2: save a lot of money in the long run, plus
Speaker 2: a lot of headaches. I've thrown away a bunch of
Speaker 2: cheap tools in my life. Unfortunately, I learned long ago
Speaker 2: not to do that. Ask them to see the garden
Speaker 2: kneeling seat that I always talk about. They've got those
Speaker 2: in there as well. Just go in and check it out.
Speaker 2: I don't care where you live. You're listening to this,
Speaker 2: sometimes you need to get over there and check out
Speaker 2: Southwest Fertilizer Corner Bissinet and Runwick. You're gonna get friendly service.
Speaker 2: You're gonna get quality products, and you're going to get
Speaker 2: not just great selection, but unbelievable selection. Southwest Fertilizer dot
Speaker 2: Com six or seven to one three six one seven
Speaker 2: four four if you would like to try that, and
Speaker 2: I hope you will. In fact, I haven't been by
Speaker 2: there in over a month now. I need to get
Speaker 2: back over there. I always I always stop in to
Speaker 2: visit a Bob and see what's going on over there,
Speaker 2: because they they definitely have the things that are that
Speaker 2: are happening in my own garden. I've got some containers
Speaker 2: that are waiting for me to take care of them.
Speaker 2: Some of them are just bare because I pull the
Speaker 2: soil or the plants out from last planting, last falls planting,
Speaker 2: and they're just waiting on me to put new plants in.
Speaker 2: You notice sometimes that you have to top off containers
Speaker 2: that maybe it was full in the spring, and then
Speaker 2: by the time you get to next spring, it's like whoa,
Speaker 2: it is really sunken down in this container. That's the
Speaker 2: natural process of a gosh, you can't say oxid is oxidation.
Speaker 2: We you know, we just think of it as composting. Basically,
Speaker 2: leaves become common post composts becomes humous, and so all
Speaker 2: the way down that line, things are breaking down more
Speaker 2: and more and more, and in that oxidation process. That's good.
Speaker 2: That's nature. That's what nature does. You just need to
Speaker 2: remember to top things off a little bit and get
Speaker 2: you some good fresh material and build that back up.
Speaker 2: Whether you're using a very fine textured potting soil, whether
Speaker 2: you're using a chunkier thing and a larger container, either
Speaker 2: way you're going to have success with that. So if
Speaker 2: you haven't tried a lot of containers before, you really
Speaker 2: ought to, because it is one of the simplest, easiest
Speaker 2: ways to garden that anybody can garden. And I mean
Speaker 2: it is very, very easy, and it's beautiful too. And
Speaker 2: the nice thing about containers is no matter where you
Speaker 2: need something, you can stick a container there. I've got
Speaker 2: containers sitting out a little concrete pad in my lawn,
Speaker 2: you know, one of those disks you move around. I've
Speaker 2: got containers on driveways. I've got containers on pad. You
Speaker 2: can make beauty anywhere, and you can make beauty fast.
Speaker 2: That is the way to go. Hey, I need to
Speaker 2: take a little break. I'm going to do that right now,
Speaker 2: and I will be right back. All right, welcome back
Speaker 2: to the guard Line. Glad to have you with us today.
Speaker 2: Looking forward to talking to you about the kinds of
Speaker 2: things that you are wondering about. Whatever, whatever the topic is,
Speaker 2: we're here to help. And you know what I wanted
Speaker 2: to This is the time of year where I make
Speaker 2: it's a gardening bug. I understand that spring is the time,
Speaker 2: the main time people feel that way. I wish people
Speaker 2: felt that way and fall more they do in fall,
Speaker 2: but I fall out to be equal or greater than
Speaker 2: spring when it comes to gardening excitement. But anyway, spring
Speaker 2: is the time. And if you have been looking at
Speaker 2: your place and you just don't like the look of it,
Speaker 2: and you're thinking, you know what, I don't have the skill,
Speaker 2: I don't know how to design. I don't want to
Speaker 2: do the work you need to call Piercescapes because they
Speaker 2: do all the above and more. There are preferred landscaper
Speaker 2: for a reason because when they come in, they change
Speaker 2: things and they make them beautiful. They do really good
Speaker 2: work there. They a lot of their employees hold you know,
Speaker 2: distinguish landscape, irrigation, drainage, backflow, pesticide certifications, licenses, I mean,
Speaker 2: these are quality trained staff. They have designers who know
Speaker 2: how to design something beautiful, whether it's a whole landscape
Speaker 2: design or a portion of the landscape. If you need irrigation,
Speaker 2: you know, repair and getting it working right, lighting, drainage,
Speaker 2: whatever it is, they can do it. And hard scapes,
Speaker 2: oh my gosh, they're so good at that as well.
Speaker 2: You need to go to the website piercescapes dot com
Speaker 2: piercescapes dot com, and I tell you what, go there
Speaker 2: and look at the pictures. If you want to give
Speaker 2: them a call, it's two eight one three, seven fifty sixty.
Speaker 2: But just go there, check out, look at examples of
Speaker 2: the work they do. Get an idea for what I'm
Speaker 2: talking about and you'll see it. You'll go, oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: I never even thought about lighting like that. For that,
Speaker 2: that is stunning. They can do that and give them
Speaker 2: a call. Go buy there, check it out, sit down
Speaker 2: with them, you know, take some pictures. Just talk to
Speaker 2: them first. They'll tell you what they need you to do,
Speaker 2: and when they get through with your place, it will
Speaker 2: be amazing. It's turkey. They know their work.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: I'm a I'm a horticulturist, but I'm not a designer,
Speaker 2: and so I'm a plant person. I'm a I somewhat
Speaker 2: jokingly refer to us as plant collectors. Those people like me. Now,
Speaker 2: how do you know a plant collector versus a designer? Well,
Speaker 2: a designer, the place looks beautiful. You drive by, you
Speaker 2: may not even care about plants, and it's pretty. It's beautiful.
Speaker 2: A plant collector, our place looks like a bomb went
Speaker 2: off in a garden center and everything rooted where it landed,
Speaker 2: and that's our landscape. It's just that's a little harsh.
Speaker 2: But we go somewhere, we say I want that plant
Speaker 2: without a thought of where is it going to go?
Speaker 2: Is it part of a place?
Speaker 5: Land?
Speaker 2: And I want that plant? And then we walk around
Speaker 2: trying to find someplace to squeeze it in or pull
Speaker 2: something else out to put it in. And that is
Speaker 2: not a good way. That is not a good way
Speaker 2: to go about designing your landscape. You may be you
Speaker 2: may also be a plant collector like me. So anyway,
Speaker 2: if that makes sense, I guess you get it. Have
Speaker 2: you ever been to Spring Creek feed Supply that's out
Speaker 2: there in the Magnolia direction area from Tomball. It's really
Speaker 2: close to Grand park Way and two forty nine both
Speaker 2: Spring Creek Feed Center is a place where you walk
Speaker 2: in and number one, it's impressive. It's just a it's
Speaker 2: a gorgeous, beautiful place. So much product inside, so many
Speaker 2: different kinds of things, not just feed, not just feed,
Speaker 2: of course, they have feed quality feed for your pets,
Speaker 2: for your farm and ranch and whatnot. They have friendly folks,
Speaker 2: friendly folks that greet you, take care of you. They
Speaker 2: make sure that you get what you need. They get
Speaker 2: your hands on that product. If you're a backyard chicken
Speaker 2: person and you just love backyard chickens, well they're going
Speaker 2: to have all the supplies that you need now Spring
Speaker 2: Creek Feed. If you want to get a call, here's
Speaker 2: the number. Two eight one two five two five four
Speaker 2: zero zero two eight one two five two five four
Speaker 2: zero zero. They are on FM twenty nine seventy eight again,
Speaker 2: FM twenty nine seventy eight, just minutes away from Graham
Speaker 2: Parkway and Highway two forty nine Combat Parkway. They call
Speaker 2: that one. I love going into feed stores. I love
Speaker 2: the smell of feed stores.
Speaker 6: I just do.
Speaker 2: I grew up when I was a kid, you know,
Speaker 2: toddled in with my my dad to feed store and
Speaker 2: you know, to buy things for the farm, and it
Speaker 2: just I don't know, it's just a nice, familiar, old fragrance.
Speaker 2: You know. Fragrances, They they last someone can I'm going
Speaker 2: off topic here, but someone can be struggling in a
Speaker 2: lot of ways mentally, and you bring in a certain
Speaker 2: and smell, maybe a fresh baked cookie smell, and suddenly
Speaker 2: they go back eighty years to Grandma making them one
Speaker 2: or something. You know, it's a it's a cool thing
Speaker 2: the way fragrances work for us. Well, we're gonna go
Speaker 2: out to the phones and talk to Tim. Hey, Tim,
Speaker 2: where is braskin State Park? Or where are you? All right? Tim,
Speaker 2: I'm not able to hear you. Let's see if I'm
Speaker 2: gonna put you back on hold there hopefully hopefully there
Speaker 2: we go. All right, now we got Tim? Hey, Tim, Hey,
Speaker 2: how are you doing this morning? I'm good? Where are
Speaker 2: you located? Oh?
Speaker 7: I'm out here by the brides Fork?
Speaker 2: I got you? All right? What can how can we
Speaker 2: help today?
Speaker 7: I have a bailey bush and I have these black
Speaker 7: spots on the leaves, and then the leaves eventually start
Speaker 7: turning brown and fall off.
Speaker 2: All right, is this U Is this the native red
Speaker 2: bay or is this the culinary bay that you use
Speaker 2: for cooking one for cooking? Okay, all right? That that
Speaker 2: blackening of the leaves is typical when things go wrong
Speaker 2: on that plant. It could be different things. It could
Speaker 2: be a root problem such as soggy wet conditions, or
Speaker 2: it could be due to even droughty conditions can but
Speaker 2: that usually doesn't turn the leaves black. Another possibility is
Speaker 2: some cold damage. We've had some good cold snaps, and
Speaker 2: that is not a fully cold hardy tree. And although
Speaker 2: it can take some cold, if we're having warm weather
Speaker 2: and then cold hits, it makes that less hardy and
Speaker 2: you would get damage at a temperature you wouldn't have
Speaker 2: expected to get damage at. Okay, So go ahead.
Speaker 7: When I bought it from Danny in Channa Garden or forest, whichever,
Speaker 7: that one is overall in booths twenty fifty nine.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's intended for us.
Speaker 7: Yeah, chen forest, that's.
Speaker 8: What it is.
Speaker 7: And then I took a leaf back and they give
Speaker 7: me a like a three. She said it was like
Speaker 7: a spot, a black spot, mold or something. Okay, and
Speaker 7: she give me a h like an insistence a face
Speaker 7: the side, fung your side, all that kind of mixed
Speaker 7: together and once spray, okay, and I've been spraying it
Speaker 7: once well one, I was supposed to pray once a week.
Speaker 2: I kind of get around there, you know, best I can.
Speaker 7: And it's still not taking care of it. That's been
Speaker 7: two to three.
Speaker 2: Months, so it's not getting better. You're saying, well, no, sir,
Speaker 2: I don't have the leaves in my hand, and they did.
Speaker 2: They may have seen city mold on it. Is it?
Speaker 2: Is it something that's on the surface of the leaf
Speaker 2: that's black, like if you wet your thumb and rubbed
Speaker 2: it over the leaf and go away, or is it
Speaker 2: the whole leaf itself is actually black.
Speaker 7: No, it's just spots on it, and I really haven't
Speaker 7: tried to wipe it off.
Speaker 9: With my thumb.
Speaker 2: But okay, that is probably cudy mold due to some
Speaker 2: type of scale. And these scales suck juices out of
Speaker 2: the plant. They get the nutrients out of the juice,
Speaker 2: and they basically excrete the sugary substances because they don't
Speaker 2: need the sugar in it, and then it falls on
Speaker 2: leaves and citimoe grows on sugary stuff, and so that
Speaker 2: that's why you have those spots controlling scale. You can
Speaker 2: use dormant oils, you can use summer oils rather spraying upward.
Speaker 2: But on a bay tree, there's so many leaves and
Speaker 2: they're so stiff that it's kind of hard to get
Speaker 2: one hundred percent coverage of the undersides of all the leaves.
Speaker 2: But if you could achieve that oil would work. Other
Speaker 2: than oil, you're left with a systemic that you put
Speaker 2: in the soil and goes up in the plant, and
Speaker 2: then anything sucking juice out of the plant gets that
Speaker 2: systemic insecticide. So are those are the two ways to
Speaker 2: go about it. I don't know if bay trees are
Speaker 2: on the list of of plants on those particular products
Speaker 2: or not. I did just have to grab one and look.
Speaker 2: But if you go, if you go to enchanted forest
Speaker 2: and tell them you're looking for a systemic insecticide to
Speaker 2: use in your bay tree, they can put your hands
Speaker 2: put your hands on one, and I would try that route.
Speaker 2: If you turn some leaves over and under the leaves,
Speaker 2: you see little tiny it's like fish scales, but they're tiny.
Speaker 2: They're smaller than a lowercase typed. Oh, they're real tiny,
Speaker 2: little kind of yellow shark truse green kind of things
Speaker 2: sticking to the bottom of the leaf. That that's what
Speaker 2: the scale probably looks like. There are several types of
Speaker 2: scale though.
Speaker 7: Okay, but I appreciate I'll send some back. Go over
Speaker 7: there and check with them one more time.
Speaker 2: Then all right, you take care. Why are you over there?
Speaker 2: Grab some tomato plants. They got some good ones. All right,
Speaker 2: all right, thanks a lot, appreciate that call. There you go.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, you're listening to garden Line and I'm
Speaker 2: your host, skip Rick or We're to answer your gardening
Speaker 2: questions to help you have success. That is what we're
Speaker 2: trying to do. That is what we're looking for. Hey,
Speaker 2: you know, Ace hardware stores are a place where pretty
Speaker 2: much everything you need inside now they've got it. I mean,
Speaker 2: of course they're a hardware store. You know, they got
Speaker 2: everything from lights, so electricity, to plumbing, you name it.
Speaker 2: But their outdoor section is just amazing. The wide range
Speaker 2: of fertilizers, products to control pests, the tools that you
Speaker 2: need to work outside, they're all there. And if you're
Speaker 2: fixing up the patio, you know, we need those little
Speaker 2: strings of lights. I call them beer garden lights. That's
Speaker 2: kind of what they look like. They've got stuff like that.
Speaker 2: Of course they've got barbecue pits. Don't even get me started.
Speaker 2: I can talk about that for an hour. Their selection
Speaker 2: of top quality lines is unbelievable, very important, very important
Speaker 2: for sure. The thing that I'm interested in right now
Speaker 2: that has been going on on at ACE is all
Speaker 2: their storage and spring cleaning types of supplies. If you
Speaker 2: can dream it up, they've got it there. Because I've
Speaker 2: been redoing my garage. Oh my gosh. You know garages
Speaker 2: where junk goes to just pile up. You get it clean,
Speaker 2: and next thing you know, it's junkie again. Well, you
Speaker 2: need shelving, you need bins, you know, bins to store
Speaker 2: stuff in, You need cleaning supply. They have it all
Speaker 2: at ACE. Walk into an AM. Let me just ask
Speaker 2: you to do this next time you get a chance,
Speaker 2: walk into an ACE. You can find your local A
Speaker 2: store by going to ACE Hardwaretexas dot com Ace Hardwaretexas
Speaker 2: dot Com and walk into one and just walk around
Speaker 2: a little bit and check it out. I mean you
Speaker 2: may walk on. You know, each one's independent. They so
Speaker 2: each owner can do what they want to do in
Speaker 2: their store. I mean, it's still all ACE. It looks
Speaker 2: like ACE. It is ACE, of course, but one may
Speaker 2: have You may walk up to a fudge bar in
Speaker 2: one who knew at a hardware store you can get
Speaker 2: a fudge bar. Well, ACE is way more than just
Speaker 2: hardware Ace Hardware Texas. I'm coming up on another hard
Speaker 2: break here. I am going to be talking when I
Speaker 2: come back a little bit about herb gardens and herb gardening,
Speaker 2: maybe growing herbs without an herb garden. So just hang
Speaker 2: around and we'll be back with your calls in just
Speaker 2: a moment. I want to remind you my website, Gardening
Speaker 2: with Skip dot com is where all the schedules are,
Speaker 2: and when you hear me talk about a publication, it's
Speaker 2: going to be there. All right. Welcome back to garden Line.
Speaker 2: Got a little mix up mix in the music there, somebody.
Speaker 2: Yesterday I was out at the Home and Garden show
Speaker 2: up in Montgomery County up in Conroe at the Lune
Speaker 2: Star Center up on Airport Road. By the way, they're
Speaker 2: going on today. Still, if you didn't get out there yesterday,
Speaker 2: you ought to go on. It was this great show.
Speaker 2: The master gardener's from Montgomery County were out there answering
Speaker 2: gardening questions and things. You got to get out there
Speaker 2: and check it out. Anyway, somebody told me it came
Speaker 2: by and I get this every now and then they say,
Speaker 2: I appreciate the fact that you play a lot of
Speaker 2: weird music. I think what they meant. I think what
Speaker 2: they meant as a mix of music. But anyway, I
Speaker 2: hear that from time time people like that. You never
Speaker 2: know what's going to come on. That's true. We even
Speaker 2: have yodling chickens here occasionally when we need to. Don't
Speaker 2: make me have to pull out barbershop, I will, I
Speaker 2: promise anyway. Hey, in Chenity Gardens down in the Richmond
Speaker 2: Rosenberg area is one of the destination nurseries that people
Speaker 2: go to from all over. I've said this before, but
Speaker 2: I was there one time and someone from Austin was there.
Speaker 2: What are you doing visit? No, we just came. They
Speaker 2: didn't come visit family. They were just over there because
Speaker 2: they love in Jenny Gardens. So they actually made that
Speaker 2: up to go there. That's pretty cool, but that's kind
Speaker 2: of nursery it is. If you want to go to
Speaker 2: their website, I would write this down. You know, a
Speaker 2: lot of times I give here's their dress. Here's a
Speaker 2: phone number. If you used to go to the website,
Speaker 2: it's all right there Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. In
Speaker 2: chenned Gardens Richmond dot com you can sign up for
Speaker 2: the newsletter. That's great. You lot of good information on
Speaker 2: that that you will want to have. They're on FM
Speaker 2: three fifty nine on the Katie fullsher side of Richmond.
Speaker 2: So if you're in Richmond heading up Northway FM three
Speaker 2: fifty nine, you can get there and it's an unforgettable
Speaker 2: place to visit. And I'm telling you this. They have
Speaker 2: a very enthusiastic team. Yah. You can bring in photos
Speaker 2: or samples to get expert advice from them. Their knowledge
Speaker 2: of the plants is extensive, and so when you start
Speaker 2: talking about well I try to plant there and it
Speaker 2: didn't work that, they can probably tell you, well, it's
Speaker 2: because this or that want you this other one. You know,
Speaker 2: maybe it's drought resistance, maybe it's shade, maybe who knows why,
Speaker 2: but they can point you to the plants that you
Speaker 2: have success with. And while you're there, you can do
Speaker 2: the brown stuff before green stuff thing. Because they have
Speaker 2: Nature's way, they have airloom soils They have fertilizer from Microlife,
Speaker 2: Nelson Plant Food, and Menina, so you can take the
Speaker 2: take care of the whole thing to have success with
Speaker 2: your plants. And it's a fun place to visit. That's
Speaker 2: in Chenni Gardens Katie Fosher Side of Richmond in Chenni
Speaker 2: Gardens Richmond dot com. If you would like to give
Speaker 2: me a call our phone number, it would help if
Speaker 2: I gave you that out, wouldn't it seven to one
Speaker 2: three two one two ktr H seven one three two
Speaker 2: one two kt r H. Whatever you want to visit
Speaker 2: about today, I said I was going to visit about herbs,
Speaker 2: and I want to talk a little bit about herbs.
Speaker 2: There are traditional formal herb gardens and you see those,
Speaker 2: you know it may see a big estate with this
Speaker 2: beautiful thing that's all geometric and it's got circles and
Speaker 2: angles and it's you know what is the mirror images
Speaker 2: from left to right or up and down or whatever.
Speaker 2: It's just all designed beautifully. Okay, you can do that,
Speaker 2: that's fine. You can do that. But if you just
Speaker 2: have a normal landscape and you don't want to put
Speaker 2: in an herb garden, why not use herbs in your landscape.
Speaker 2: Here's some ways you can do it. Containers. Herbs are
Speaker 2: great for containers. You could have a container that you're
Speaker 2: growing flowers in, but you could have time spilling over
Speaker 2: the side of that container. See what I mean. You
Speaker 2: can grow mint in a container too, and that helps
Speaker 2: confine it. Because mint likes to take off running. It
Speaker 2: can outrun bermuda grass, that's for sure. So don't just
Speaker 2: turn it loose in your gardens. It'll take over. But
Speaker 2: mint is great for in a container. What about rosemary.
Speaker 2: Rosemary is an evergreen shrub that is adequately cold tolerant
Speaker 2: for our area. It is very drought tolerant, and as
Speaker 2: long as you don't have it in soggy, wet roots
Speaker 2: over the wintertime or anytime, it's going to perform well
Speaker 2: for you. It doesn't like to be in a swamp.
Speaker 2: But rosemary is incredible. Years ago, I remember we went
Speaker 2: through a drought. I can't remember, it's a long time ago,
Speaker 2: and the master gardeners up in North somewhere in North Texas,
Speaker 2: they went through town and they did it as assessment
Speaker 2: of all the plants. What survived, what didn't you know?
Speaker 2: That kind of thing. Rosemary was the very top of
Speaker 2: the list as a plant that made it through that drought,
Speaker 2: So that's pretty impressive. Plus it has flowers, especially the
Speaker 2: trailing kinds of rosemary that attract bees in and that
Speaker 2: is also very cool. So I'll keep talking about herbs
Speaker 2: here in just a little bit, but I'm pretty excited
Speaker 2: about using plants where we want to use them. You know,
Speaker 2: if you want a cut flower, you don't have to
Speaker 2: have a cut flower garden. You can put some zenias
Speaker 2: among whatever you got going. I mean, it comes down
Speaker 2: to aesthetics and what you like, but don't feel like,
Speaker 2: you know, have to have a vegetable garden over there,
Speaker 2: and a flower garden over there, and an herb garden
Speaker 2: over there. I grow several kinds of flowers and vegetable
Speaker 2: gardens because they attract beneficial insects and I need them
Speaker 2: to patrol the garden for me. Well, when it comes
Speaker 2: to an organic plant food, nitroposs has really done their
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Speaker 2: Now what that is sweet green It reacts with water.
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Speaker 2: that as the microbes break it down and they love
Speaker 2: it because they like carbon materials, and it's a molasses
Speaker 2: space is a carbon material. It just the soil comes alive.
Speaker 2: There's revitalization there when microbes get busy, and when microbes
Speaker 2: get happy, the soil gets better and plants get happy.
Speaker 2: That's how it works. So it increases the health of
Speaker 2: the soil by increasing the population of beneficial microbes, and
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Speaker 2: All right, I'm gonna take a little break here and
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Speaker 2: three two one two kt r H. Alrighty, good Sunday morning.
Speaker 2: If you will look in the eastern sky, there is
Speaker 2: a glow over there that is saying this is gonna
Speaker 2: be a good day. It's always you do It's always
Speaker 2: a good day for gardeners.
Speaker 4: It is.
Speaker 2: And you're thinking, oh yeah, what if it's like twenty
Speaker 2: degrees outside and haling and the winds blowing seventy miles
Speaker 2: an hour. You take care of your house plants, you
Speaker 2: plant seeds to start for planting outside. Later, you get
Speaker 2: online and you learn about gardening. It's always a good
Speaker 2: day for garden But this day is gonna be a
Speaker 2: good day to be outside. You know, if you've been
Speaker 2: here in Houston for one year, you know what summer's like,
Speaker 2: and it's a challenge. We still can garden in summer.
Speaker 2: We just work earlier in the day, maybe later in
Speaker 2: the day. But wow, now, no excuse, I mean, you know,
Speaker 2: this is it. And spring is such an important season
Speaker 2: to get things ready. Got to get the soil ready.
Speaker 10: Now.
Speaker 2: You know, a lot of times we think of fertilizing
Speaker 2: is feeding plants. And I understand that. I understand the
Speaker 2: concept of I'm putting these nutrients down, plants are going
Speaker 2: to take them up, so I'm feeding my plants. But
Speaker 2: I want you to think of it a little different way,
Speaker 2: and that is the soil being a bank account and
Speaker 2: fertilizer being deposits in the bank account, and the plants
Speaker 2: they go to the ATM and they make withdrawals. But
Speaker 2: it's not just the same thing money money money, it's
Speaker 2: all the different nutrients that they need. And azemite is
Speaker 2: a product for trace minerals. Trace minerals. These are minerals
Speaker 2: that are absolutely essential. A plant cannot grow without any
Speaker 2: of the essential trace minerals. And there's a lot of them, okay,
Speaker 2: but they're not needed in large amounts, so we put
Speaker 2: out just a little. So they're essential, but we don't
Speaker 2: need a lot of them, you know, kind of like
Speaker 2: us and maybe vitamin D. You need some, but take
Speaker 2: too much and you're in big trouble. Right. Azamite is
Speaker 2: that trace mental supplement. You put it down any time
Speaker 2: of the year. You can put it down now. We're
Speaker 2: getting into the spring fertilization season, so you could put
Speaker 2: it down now. That's fine. In fact I would. But
Speaker 2: if you're in the middle of summer and you didn't
Speaker 2: do an azemite in the spring, go ahead and do it.
Speaker 2: It's okay to do it. And it's not a substance
Speaker 2: that pushes the plant to grow like nitrogen does. It's
Speaker 2: a substance that is there for building. Everything a plant needs,
Speaker 2: from healthy leaves to fruit, to flowers to roots to stems,
Speaker 2: everything it needs is in the minerals that are in
Speaker 2: the soil bank account. Go to azimite Texas dot com
Speaker 2: to find out you're gonna find azamite all over the place.
Speaker 2: They've got it at garden centers, they have it, at
Speaker 2: feed stores. You're going to find it in play like
Speaker 2: ace hardwaster. You're gonna find it a Southwest. There's just
Speaker 2: a lot of places they carry asamite because they know
Speaker 2: it works. People know it works. Let's see, I was
Speaker 2: looking at I've got I have a place where I
Speaker 2: keep my fertilizers right and keep them somewhat cool and dry.
Speaker 2: I don't like them to be eight hundred degrees, which
Speaker 2: gets to be that in the summer sometimes. And so
Speaker 2: I was looking through there and just kind of making
Speaker 2: my plans for spring fertilization. Say what am I short on?
Speaker 2: What do I need to purchase and those kind of things,
Speaker 2: making sure we have everything we need. And I think
Speaker 2: it'd be a good idea for you to take that
Speaker 2: kind of assessment if you go on line to gardening
Speaker 2: with skip dot com. You can find my lawn care
Speaker 2: schedule and my lawn pest Disease and weed management schedule.
Speaker 2: They're free, they're multi colored. They go from January through
Speaker 2: December telling you what you need to do when and
Speaker 2: the products that are best for that particular thing that
Speaker 2: particular time. Okay, and so if you will do that,
Speaker 2: check it out, and then as you're out and about shopping,
Speaker 2: take it with you, because then you can kind of
Speaker 2: point in and go, do you have any of this
Speaker 2: this particular thing, And that way you don't have to
Speaker 2: remember what it is and they can put that in
Speaker 2: your hands. I love going to the Anti Grozenport. That
Speaker 2: is a must visit destination.
Speaker 5: It is.
Speaker 2: I can't tell you how many times I've been there,
Speaker 2: and I've gone out there before when I wasn't even
Speaker 2: looking for a particular rose or plant. I was just
Speaker 2: wanting to enjoy the place and take pictures. Of course,
Speaker 2: when you do that, you end up going home with
Speaker 2: plants because they have so many. Their nursery and display
Speaker 2: garden is gorgeous. Now, I want to tell you about
Speaker 2: some events coming up right now, by the way, Spring
Speaker 2: Events Spring Garden Party March seventh, at six pm times ticking.
Speaker 2: We're almost there. You need to check it out. You
Speaker 2: can go to get tickets. This is a ticketed event
Speaker 2: because you're going to get a really nice meal. There's
Speaker 2: going to be craft beer and mead from Wildlife, Wildflyer
Speaker 2: meter meter excuse me up there courtin Annesota and Kathy
Speaker 2: Bolton will also be there providing some music and there's more.
Speaker 2: But anyway, go to Antique Roseemporium dot com. But you
Speaker 2: got to get those tickets today. Today is the last
Speaker 2: day to grab those tickets. Antique Roseemporium dot com also
Speaker 2: for today. The next two days of the Spring Deal
Speaker 2: is the annual Spring Celebration March eighth and ninth, full
Speaker 2: weekend event, lots of good speakers, there's hands on ticketed workshops.
Speaker 2: There's gonna be artists and vendor market and they have
Speaker 2: some really cool stuff there, food trucks and of course
Speaker 2: roses and roses and roses and plants of all types galore,
Speaker 2: which is what you expect at the antiqu Roseenbrium. Finally,
Speaker 2: the Spring Break Workshop March tenth through thirteenth, that is
Speaker 2: part of their Children in the Garden program and basically
Speaker 2: it's a hands on workshop that starts each of those
Speaker 2: days March ten through thirteenth at ten am, and you
Speaker 2: get those tickets also on the website. Everything's on the website.
Speaker 2: If you are a group and you'd like to go
Speaker 2: out and check out Antique rosen Poium, I highly recommend
Speaker 2: you do that. You can email them at events at
Speaker 2: we Areroses dot com for more information. Antique Roseemporium is
Speaker 2: the website dot com and all that you need is
Speaker 2: right there talking about soil and the importance of soil
Speaker 2: and getting things right. You're not going to find a
Speaker 2: better place than Nature's Way Resources for a wide variety
Speaker 2: of every kind of soil that you might need. Maybe
Speaker 2: you're going to put in some blueberries, maybe you're going
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Speaker 2: a soil for acid loving plants. Well, Nature's Way Resources
Speaker 2: they've got it. They've got it right there. They have
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Speaker 2: And while you are going to the website Nature's Way
Speaker 2: Resources dot Com, check out the Spring Garden Festival that's
Speaker 2: March twenty second, from eight am to two pm. They're
Speaker 2: gonna have plant sales. Of course, they're gonna have food
Speaker 2: and drinks and vendors. There'll be talks, three different hour
Speaker 2: talks on plants, nine eleven and one pm. Costs nothing
Speaker 2: to get in and you will enjoy yourself. I've been
Speaker 2: to it more than once and it is a blast.
Speaker 2: Now Nature's weighs up. You go up forty five to Conroe,
Speaker 2: when fourteen eighty eight comes in from the left, go
Speaker 2: to Magnolia. You turn right and go across the railroad
Speaker 2: tracks and you're there. Well, let's see. Oh herbs. I
Speaker 2: keep saying I'm gonna talk about something, then I drift
Speaker 2: off and talk about something else. I like to use
Speaker 2: herbs in my vegetable garden. I will put herbs that
Speaker 2: have flowers on them in the vegetable garden because that
Speaker 2: attracts a little small, tiny parasitoid wasps and other beneficial
Speaker 2: insects like lace wings need little flowers for the adults
Speaker 2: to get to get nourishment. I will use a trailing herb.
Speaker 2: I've used a regano. In fact, I had a row
Speaker 2: that had tomatoes and oregano and basil in it in
Speaker 2: the same row. So guess what. You walk one row
Speaker 2: and you've made a whole dish right there. You're all
Speaker 2: set up to make some sauce or something, pesto or whatever.
Speaker 2: And I like using herbs and vegetable guards. They work
Speaker 2: really really well for that. And so if you don't
Speaker 2: have room, you don't want to make a big formal garden,
Speaker 2: you still want to do herbs. There are herbs that
Speaker 2: are good in the landscape. Chives make a nice little
Speaker 2: like a it's almost like a little a riopy row,
Speaker 2: you know, along a sidewalk or something like that. Salad
Speaker 2: burnett has little leaves that taste like cucumbers, and it
Speaker 2: makes a tiny, tiny it makes about a one foot
Speaker 2: high mounting plant. It's not an herb you see a lot,
Speaker 2: but the leaves taste like cucumbers. Throw them in a
Speaker 2: salad and it's like putting cucumbers in the salad, and
Speaker 2: that's a cool herb. There's just so many There's so
Speaker 2: many good herbs that we can use in our garden.
Speaker 2: Some of them flower like Mexican mint marigold flowers in
Speaker 2: the fall, with beautiful yellow flowers. It is a substitute
Speaker 2: for terragun. It makes a nice little upright herb. I
Speaker 2: love the smell of the leaves that if you've ever
Speaker 2: smelled black jelly beans, that's what Mexican marigoldiaves smell like.
Speaker 2: I think that's cool. Anyway, I already told you about rosemary.
Speaker 2: Rosemary for trailing like a coming over a large container,
Speaker 2: or maybe as a groundcover and a very sunny. Are
Speaker 2: lots of good options here for herbs. Think of other
Speaker 2: ways to use them containers in the flower garden, in
Speaker 2: the vegetable garden, in the landscape, and even in hanging baskets.
Speaker 2: Some herbs are suited to that as well.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 2: The music means I got to quit talking. Guess what
Speaker 2: is going to happen next Saturday. I'm going to go
Speaker 2: out to Hoorges Hidden Gardens in Alvin south of Houston
Speaker 2: Orges Hidden Gardens. You hear me talk about it all
Speaker 2: the time. Come on out, Come on out and see
Speaker 2: me out there. I'm going to tell you more about
Speaker 2: it as we go through the show this morning, but
Speaker 2: I'll be there from one pm to three pm, so
Speaker 2: it's a Saturday afternoon thing. I'll be answering gardening questions.
Speaker 2: We'll have some plants there. You know. I can explain
Speaker 2: how to do this or that or the other with plants.
Speaker 2: As always at these appearances, you want to bring me
Speaker 2: a sample of a plant or a picture of a plant.
Speaker 2: We did some of those yesterday up at the Montgomery
Speaker 2: County Home Show. Here's your chance, and we spent a
Speaker 2: lot of time visiting about it. We'll have some product.
Speaker 2: Getaway it's too ballway next Saturday or hey Kidden Gardens.
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Speaker 2: All right, we're back. Welcome back to Garden Line. I
Speaker 2: can see outside now, you know I I tell you
Speaker 2: this often, but you can listen to garden Line on
Speaker 2: the radio because it's a radio show. But you can
Speaker 2: also take your phone, put iHeart Media app on it.
Speaker 2: Fine garden line. There's only two guarden lines in the
Speaker 2: whole country. When I'm some lady somewhere else, I don't
Speaker 2: even know where that is. Anyway, find a garden line,
Speaker 2: the guard line, and turn that phone in your pocket
Speaker 2: and go outside and get some work done. This morning.
Speaker 2: We got weeds to pull, got soil to work, and
Speaker 2: who knows. When the sun comes up a little bit more,
Speaker 2: you may see a picture, or see a bug or something,
Speaker 2: take a picture of Call my producer. You can email
Speaker 2: it to me and we have live from your garden
Speaker 2: and answer to your question. So you can't beat that, right.
Speaker 2: Tree hugger sprinklers are the ultimate watering device for either
Speaker 2: newly planted or established trees and shrubs. So maybe you
Speaker 2: put a rosebush in this February, you can get you
Speaker 2: the smaller tree hugger. It's a seven inch and it
Speaker 2: goes around that rose bush. You turn on the water
Speaker 2: just a little bit and it waters that root ball
Speaker 2: and just beyond that. Now, as plants get bigger, you
Speaker 2: just turn the tree hugger up more. I mean you
Speaker 2: could have. You could have a seven ten year old
Speaker 2: tree and you put that fifteen inch tree hugger around
Speaker 2: it and turn it on and crank it all the
Speaker 2: way out where it's going all the way to the
Speaker 2: branch spread of the tree. And this summer when we
Speaker 2: go through heat and drought, you can do rescue treatments
Speaker 2: of your tree that way. You don't have to run
Speaker 2: the water and everywhere. You can take care of that
Speaker 2: tree that way. Rosarians love the product because it works.
Speaker 2: Now you're gonna find tree Hugger at a lot of places.
Speaker 2: They got it at the arbor Gate. You're gonna find
Speaker 2: it at Nelson Water Garden and Nursery out there in
Speaker 2: Katie RCW has it, Warrens and Southern Garden and Kingwood
Speaker 2: Gardens Center in Kingwood, in Chanted Gardens and in Channa
Speaker 2: Forests down there in Richmond, Rosenberg D and D Feed
Speaker 2: and Tomball Spring Creek Feed up just north and east
Speaker 2: of Tomball, a League City Feed down in League City
Speaker 2: Southwest Fertilizer. And then how about here's some ACE Hardware
Speaker 2: store Sinkle Ranch as Katie, ace K and m Ace
Speaker 2: and a test Asita, a test Asda and full Share
Speaker 2: Ace hardware all places you can get a tree hugger,
Speaker 2: and listen, you're gonna have many uses for this. It's
Speaker 2: not it's called tree hugger, but it could be called
Speaker 2: shrub hugger. Or two. It's for all sizes of woody ornamentals,
Speaker 2: helping rescue them, but especially also helping them get off
Speaker 2: to a good start those first months after a plant
Speaker 2: is planted or critical to its survival. I'm gonna go
Speaker 2: out to Katie now and talk to Greg. Hey, Greg,
Speaker 2: welcome to garden line. All right, let me try one
Speaker 2: more than Greg. Are you there? All right? All right?
Speaker 2: All right, well we're having a little glad here. We'll
Speaker 2: fix that. We'll get Katie or get Greg here from
Speaker 2: Katie in just one second. You know the you've heard
Speaker 2: me talk about plants for all seasons a number of times.
Speaker 2: It's the garden Center up there on FM two forty nine,
Speaker 2: which is Tomball Parkway. So let me see here. It's
Speaker 2: we're trying to fix this audio problem right here. Anyway.
Speaker 2: It is the garden Center at two forty nine just
Speaker 2: north of Loo Okay, so right now you should see
Speaker 2: the police. It is loaded with herbs and vegetables and
Speaker 2: flowers and everything. I mean, it looks like spring there,
Speaker 2: and spring means everything. I don't know how they fit
Speaker 2: everything in on the lot because there's so many great
Speaker 2: plants that they get in there. But they have expert
Speaker 2: advice and you know, yes they have good plants. Yes,
Speaker 2: they know which plants to sell here and not sell here,
Speaker 2: and they sell the ones that grow here because their
Speaker 2: gardeners have been doing best for all seasons, been around
Speaker 2: since the nineteen seventies. All right, So anyway you go
Speaker 2: in there. But the most important thing I think in
Speaker 2: a garden center is you get people who know what
Speaker 2: they're talking about, that can guide you, that can help
Speaker 2: you to you know, take the time to explain things,
Speaker 2: listen to your questions, look at your sample problems, and
Speaker 2: then help you find the solution that, as they say,
Speaker 2: is worth the price of admission. That is so important
Speaker 2: to have a garden center like that, And that is
Speaker 2: exactly the kind of garden center Plants for All Seasons says,
Speaker 2: you will find everything you need. Check out the new
Speaker 2: Indoor store where they have really high quality pruning tools.
Speaker 2: They've got seeds and you know, when you're looking for
Speaker 2: potatoes and planting onions and stuff. That's all. Stuff's always
Speaker 2: in the store there too. Well, let's run out now
Speaker 2: to We're gonna go to Katie and talk to Greg. Hey, Greg,
Speaker 2: is it working this time? My bad? There we go.
Speaker 2: We're having to go the back We're having to go
Speaker 2: through the back door today, Greg. And so I think
Speaker 2: I finally got you on how are we doing?
Speaker 4: I'm doing great?
Speaker 11: Thanks?
Speaker 12: Quick question for you. I recently bought a really nice
Speaker 12: Washington Nabel. You know, it's either a five or ten gallon.
Speaker 4: Tree.
Speaker 12: And two quick questions on planning it. Number one, should
Speaker 12: you go ahead and soak the the after you take
Speaker 12: it out of the container. Soak it in like super
Speaker 12: thrive or a root stimulator before planning it. And then secondly,
Speaker 12: I've read different things about whether or not you should
Speaker 12: use fertilizer on it the first year. Okay, your thoughts
Speaker 12: on few of those?
Speaker 2: You bet? Number one, put it in the sun. Number two,
Speaker 2: mix a large area. Mix some compost in the soil
Speaker 2: if you can, or get a bed mix or something.
Speaker 2: But mix it in a little bit, not just the
Speaker 2: planning hole at all. It's got to be large because
Speaker 2: those roots are going to be way out Secondly, when
Speaker 2: you put it in the ground, set it at the
Speaker 2: exact same level that it was in the container, not deeper. Uh,
Speaker 2: And don't dig the hole deeper because if you dig,
Speaker 2: like let's say you have a one foot deep root
Speaker 2: ball and you dig a two foot deep hole, that
Speaker 2: is going to settle and it's going to end up
Speaker 2: too deep. So I dig it just as deep as
Speaker 2: a root ball, set it in there, and then I
Speaker 2: would get some Medina has to grow six twelve six. Okay,
Speaker 2: that is a liquid. It's got the twelve percent phosphorus,
Speaker 2: which is important for root development, but it's got a
Speaker 2: a all the six percent nitrogen and six percent potassium too.
Speaker 2: It has medina sill activat around. It's going to stimulate
Speaker 2: the biological activity. I would drench it, drench it. You
Speaker 2: could soak the root ball before you put it in
Speaker 2: the ground if you want to, that's fine, But then
Speaker 2: after you plant it, I would make sure one way
Speaker 2: or another you're giving it medina that day, But then
Speaker 2: a week later medina has to grow six twelve six,
Speaker 2: and then a week after that medina has to grow
Speaker 2: six So three times you're giving it a drenching to
Speaker 2: do everything you can to stimulate the root growth and development,
Speaker 2: healthy development of that plant. And then after that going
Speaker 2: on in the season, Yes, you can fertilize it, and
Speaker 2: you should. You don't need to put a lot, but
Speaker 2: a small amount gradually over time, you know that root system.
Speaker 2: However wide that container is, the roots are going to
Speaker 2: be only in that area for a while. And then
Speaker 2: as we get a few months down the line, you
Speaker 2: got roots that are going out a little wider and
Speaker 2: then a little wider, and so so you just want
Speaker 2: to be careful not to dump a bunch of salt
Speaker 2: based fertilizer right on top of those roots in the container,
Speaker 2: because you can burn them that way. Just put a
Speaker 2: light application and continue to move it out as far
Speaker 2: as the branch spread, or a little beyond the branch spread.
Speaker 12: Okay, And then you know, I've also read that even
Speaker 12: though it's hard to resist, supposedly the first year, you're
Speaker 12: not supposed to allow it to fruit.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Correct, Actually, you know, if you were doing it commercially,
Speaker 2: it'd be two or three years. You know that you
Speaker 2: would be trying to hold off so you could grow
Speaker 2: a big tree and the energy doesn't all go into
Speaker 2: that fruit. But yes, Hey, I've got about fifteen seconds
Speaker 2: before I have to go to break. But if you
Speaker 2: can pull that fruit off, it's hard to do, but
Speaker 2: if you can do it at least the first year
Speaker 2: or two, that would be better. Maybe the second year,
Speaker 2: leave yourself a fruit or two just to taste. All right, man,
Speaker 2: thank you, Thank you, Greg, appreciate your call. M All right, folks,
Speaker 2: we'll be right back. All right, we're back. Welcome back
Speaker 2: to the Guarden Line. Glad to have you with us today.
Speaker 2: We're gonna go straight to the phones and talk to
Speaker 2: Sean and Katie and I have to not pick up
Speaker 2: that call. It a different way, all right.
Speaker 4: Sean, Hey, good morning, Skip. Can you hear me?
Speaker 2: Yes, I can hear you. Call.
Speaker 4: I got a quick question, and so I got a
Speaker 4: Saan on this team full of weeds.
Speaker 13: And I bought microfoss barricade and weed donator by turf Star.
Speaker 2: I just had a question.
Speaker 4: Can I put both of them down?
Speaker 2: If I can?
Speaker 4: Doesn't matter in which order.
Speaker 2: No, what you what you would do if you if
Speaker 2: you were gonna do that, hold on to the weed
Speaker 2: nator for another time. Uh. And with the barricade you
Speaker 2: could get that Nitropos has a blue bag. That is
Speaker 2: it says it has trimac in it, it's it's a weed,
Speaker 2: it's a it's a it's a weed and feed. It
Speaker 2: has both in it. But this is one time of
Speaker 2: the year when that is very appropriate to have the
Speaker 2: two together. Normally sometime with things the timing it right,
Speaker 2: but the blue bag and then you would put it
Speaker 2: on with the barricade. So that's two nitro fash products.
Speaker 2: The barricade prevents the weeds that are on their way.
Speaker 2: The the blue bag, the fifteen to five ten with
Speaker 2: trimec is is going to kill the weeds that are
Speaker 2: there now, but you have to wet the weed first
Speaker 2: before you put the fertilizer down. Now, later when you
Speaker 2: when you're gonna use your Nelson Weedenator, because you're gonna
Speaker 2: have it on hand, you can do that in the
Speaker 2: in the fall if you want, you're gonna you are
Speaker 2: gonna also wet the weeds before you put that down
Speaker 2: so you could use it. The weedinator is killing existing weeds,
Speaker 2: and the barricade is stopping the weeds that are coming.
Speaker 2: And both the nitroposs blue bag and the weed nator
Speaker 2: work in a similar way. They fertilize and they kill
Speaker 2: the existing weeds. So you can use either one now
Speaker 2: or later. It doesn't matter either way you want to go. Okay,
Speaker 2: all right, thank you, You bet appreciate that call. All right, yeah,
Speaker 2: let me tell you another nightfoss product is there? Imperial,
Speaker 2: the Imperial fifteen five to ten. That is a reddish
Speaker 2: orange bag, reddish orange, and it is strictly fertilizer, and
Speaker 2: it is strictly a fast release fertilizer and it's used.
Speaker 2: We were using it this time of year for an
Speaker 2: early green up. If you put it down, the lawns
Speaker 2: warming up, it's starting to kind of wake up a
Speaker 2: little bit, and you get some nutrient down there, especially
Speaker 2: the nitrogen. You're going to get that green up from it.
Speaker 2: It's been around for nearly a half century now because
Speaker 2: it works. The fifteen five to ten. The three one
Speaker 2: to two ratio is a standard ratio used throughout the
Speaker 2: South for lawns because research at universities on turf have
Speaker 2: found though that's the ratio that lins typically need, you know,
Speaker 2: so in absence of a soil test, you go with
Speaker 2: a three one two ratio, unless the soil tests were
Speaker 2: to tell you something different. But you're you're not going
Speaker 2: to go wrong with a fifteen to five to ten
Speaker 2: like product like that. Now you're going to find nitoposs
Speaker 2: products all over town. They're available, I say all over town,
Speaker 2: all over the listening area. For example, Dan and Alvin
Speaker 2: Stanton shopping Center, M and D. There's an M and
Speaker 2: D and Sagemont on Beamer. It's called Beamer.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: There is a M and D in clear Lake on
Speaker 2: Bay Area bay Area Boulevard. Getting tongue tied here, and
Speaker 2: how about one of the Fishers hardwarees. There's one in
Speaker 2: Pasadena on Southomore, one in Laporte on Broadway one in
Speaker 2: Mount Bellevue on FM thirty one eighty. All places that
Speaker 2: carry Nita Fross products. You were listening to garden Line.
Speaker 2: The phone numbers seven one three two one two kt
Speaker 2: r H seven to one three two one two kt
Speaker 2: r H. Give us a call. We'll talk about the
Speaker 2: things that are most of interest to you. If you've
Speaker 2: never grown cetrus before, you really ought to grow it.
Speaker 2: Citrus is just it's just a wonderful plant. First of all,
Speaker 2: it's an evergreen. So you know where you would want
Speaker 2: an evergreen job? Well, put a citrus in right, because
Speaker 2: it's evergreen. It is a plant we plant for its
Speaker 2: wonderful fruit, whether it's lemons or limes, or satsuma oranges
Speaker 2: or regular oranges, whatever you're gonna plant. The fruit is wonderful.
Speaker 2: But the blooms. If you don't even care about citrus fruit,
Speaker 2: it's worth growing for the blooms. The blooms are heavenly scented.
Speaker 2: I always like to try to plant things where I
Speaker 2: will smell the fragrance. Okay, So like typically in summertimes
Speaker 2: you kind of have a southwesterly wind. You just figure
Speaker 2: out it's your house which which direction. Maybe you have
Speaker 2: something on both sides of the patio, but that way,
Speaker 2: when you're sitting there, when some things in bloom, you
Speaker 2: just enjoy it. And we have so many great scented plants,
Speaker 2: and Centrius is definitely one. But I would encourage you
Speaker 2: to do that. You know, as we're getting here, we're right,
Speaker 2: depending on where in the listening area you are, we're
Speaker 2: kind of on the verge of passing that last average prostate.
Speaker 2: And so you know, if you're done in Galveston, that
Speaker 2: comes much earlier than if you're up in Huntsville, for example.
Speaker 2: But the bottom line is once we kind of get
Speaker 2: past the worry about frost or freeze, then we go
Speaker 2: ahead and put our citrus in and that way you
Speaker 2: are sure that you have no damage occurring to it. Now,
Speaker 2: you could have planted citrus in February been ready to
Speaker 2: cover it up if we had a hard freeze, but
Speaker 2: I just like to make it a little easier on myself,
Speaker 2: and I wait till it warms up because that's when
Speaker 2: citrus wants to grow anyway. So but get them now,
Speaker 2: because supplies don't always last. You know, some of the
Speaker 2: rarer things or the more popular things, they may be
Speaker 2: gone when you go get them later. So that's just
Speaker 2: a little tip there. And our garden centers here I
Speaker 2: have a wonderful selection of centrus plants, just so many
Speaker 2: types and it's just great. So if you haven't had
Speaker 2: a citrus, you need to do it now. If you're
Speaker 2: going to do one in a and it needs to
Speaker 2: be in a container, then it could be a mier
Speaker 2: lemon meer lemon that gets to be a bigger plant,
Speaker 2: but you can keep it in a container with some pruning,
Speaker 2: and it needs to be a very large container. So
Speaker 2: think about a half whiskey barrel. Now, I wouldn't put
Speaker 2: it in a wooden whiskey barrel because wood rots over time,
Speaker 2: and whiskey barrels aren't made to be rot proof. But
Speaker 2: that volume of soil, I guess you could do a
Speaker 2: whiskey barrel if you lined it with plastic and punch
Speaker 2: some holes in the bottom. Maybe I don't know anyway,
Speaker 2: but that volume of soil that would also be good
Speaker 2: for a lime tree. There's several types of lime, a
Speaker 2: Mexican lime, key lime, you know, there's a lot of
Speaker 2: different kinds of limes that can grow. I'm going to
Speaker 2: have I'm putting two citrus on my patio in containers
Speaker 2: this spring. I've already started getting my plants and getting
Speaker 2: ready to go, and so I'll also have some going
Speaker 2: in the ground, kind of do a little mini citrus
Speaker 2: planting orchard this year. Looking forward to that. But anyway,
Speaker 2: now's the time, get out there, get your selection, just
Speaker 2: take care of it. I know, I had to drive
Speaker 2: out of town for a couple days the other day
Speaker 2: and I got a large like a washtub, and I
Speaker 2: set all my little citrus plants in it, and I
Speaker 2: put about two inches of water in the bottom and
Speaker 2: that's my babysitter until I get back, making sure they
Speaker 2: don't dry out while I'm gone out there to water
Speaker 2: them each day. So that's just a little tip too,
Speaker 2: so you don't do that. South of Houston is Sienna Moultch.
Speaker 2: Siennamultch is the go to place for the brown stuff
Speaker 2: for the foundation for setting plants up for success. They
Speaker 2: have the moltch, they have the blends, the bed mixes
Speaker 2: like Veggie nerd mix, just being an example of one
Speaker 2: of many. They have the mulches to go on top
Speaker 2: of the ground. They have the nutrients to go in
Speaker 2: the ground. So if you go to Siena, you're gonna
Speaker 2: find days Mite was talking about that earlier. They got
Speaker 2: it there. You're gonna find products from mairloom soils too,
Speaker 2: like their vegione or mixed. They're gonna have fertilizers from Medina,
Speaker 2: from nitrofoss from Nelson, and they also not just the
Speaker 2: Nelson turf Star, but they also carry the plant fuud
Speaker 2: jars that Nelson has and then Microlife too. You're gonna
Speaker 2: find there at Ciena Mulch. They are on Highway six
Speaker 2: or near Highway six and two eighty eight. They're actually
Speaker 2: on FM five twenty one. But let's just do it
Speaker 2: this way. Go to the website. Everything you need to
Speaker 2: know is there Sienna Maltz dot com, Cienamultch dot com.
Speaker 2: And they also deliver within twenty miles for a small fee,
Speaker 2: so you can go pick it up or you can
Speaker 2: have them deliver it if you're within twenty miles of
Speaker 2: their location. I always like going in there. It's just
Speaker 2: it's one of the friendliest places you're gonna go. They
Speaker 2: the way they greet you, the you know, the products
Speaker 2: they have are excellent and a lot of people have
Speaker 2: learned that over the years that that that is the
Speaker 2: place to go get your stuff. If you're doing a
Speaker 2: container of soil. Night Fuss has a product called jungle Land.
Speaker 2: Jungle Land is for containers so indoors. There's a jungle
Speaker 2: Land that has water saving crystals. Now, these crystals, when
Speaker 2: they're dry or just like a little hard I don't know,
Speaker 2: rock candy or something maybe smaller than that, they're very tiny, uh,
Speaker 2: but when they get wet, they swell up and they
Speaker 2: really hold that water. So when you forget okay, I know,
Speaker 2: you don't forget. When your friends and family forget, then
Speaker 2: those crystals help contain that or help supply that plant
Speaker 2: for a little bit longer to keep him from going
Speaker 2: into drought stress until your friends are family. Remember to
Speaker 2: water their plant. Okay, Now, I won't admit on the
Speaker 2: air that sometimes I forget to water my plants, but
Speaker 2: I do jungle Land water saving potting soil for your
Speaker 2: indoor plants. Just remember that that will get you out
Speaker 2: of some trouble and the plants will love it too.
Speaker 2: By the way, they have a jungle land outdoor called
Speaker 2: jungle Land Flour Vegetable Planting soil too. You can also
Speaker 2: use that one. And where do you find it? Well,
Speaker 2: where they sell nitropos go to a nitrofos type place.
Speaker 2: So if you went to D and D feed up
Speaker 2: in Tomball, if you went to the Arbigate, if you
Speaker 2: went to Plants for all Seasons, if you want to
Speaker 2: the RCW Nursery or Hidning Feed on Stubner Airline, those
Speaker 2: are all places that carry nitroposs products, and there are
Speaker 2: many many more. You're listening to garden Lined. Our phone
Speaker 2: number here is seven one three two one two kt RH.
Speaker 2: We got some room on the phones if you'd like
Speaker 2: to give a skull. We're about to about three minutes
Speaker 2: away from our half hour, right but we have time
Speaker 2: here to take a call if you'd like to do that.
Speaker 2: In my gardens, I am doing a sol revamp right now.
Speaker 2: I have some areas, some beds that I made, and
Speaker 2: they're nice beds, but they kind of sunk down as
Speaker 2: that organic matter decomposed. And so I'm putting some fresh material,
Speaker 2: some fresh bed mixes up into those beds and then
Speaker 2: mixing it in a little bit just to blend it
Speaker 2: with the soil. And my nutrient content is good because
Speaker 2: i always have decomposing organic matter, and I'm always using
Speaker 2: a fertilizer with each planting, you know, the appropriate fertilizer
Speaker 2: for growing the plants. But I'm getting all that ready,
Speaker 2: and when I do, and this is just a little tip,
Speaker 2: I'm going to be away from the garden for a
Speaker 2: little while after I get it ready. And so I've
Speaker 2: got a bunch of multch. I'm actually I collect leaves
Speaker 2: and use leaf mulch a lot in my vegetable gardens,
Speaker 2: and I'm just going to spread that over the beds
Speaker 2: and create a blanket to block out the light, so
Speaker 2: when I come back, I can just pull the multch
Speaker 2: back and do my planting and I won't come back
Speaker 2: to a little chia pet of weeds that have all
Speaker 2: sprouted and the whole bed solid green. That is just
Speaker 2: a tip that I use a lot of times. Sometimes
Speaker 2: I'll prepare my soul in the late fall, and then
Speaker 2: in spring I can pull the mulch back and I'm
Speaker 2: ready to go. So you may find that to be
Speaker 2: hopeful for you. But there's a lot of a lot
Speaker 2: of good ways to go about gardening. Warren's Setting Gardens
Speaker 2: and Kingwick Garden Center are your go to garden centers
Speaker 2: out there in Kingwood. Warrens is on North Park, Kingwood
Speaker 2: Garden Centers on Stone Hollow, and you just have to
Speaker 2: go see the places they are. Warrens the other day
Speaker 2: got so many where they still are getting so many
Speaker 2: shipments of plants in that's just beautiful.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 2: Both these places are open seven days a week, so
Speaker 2: this afternoon would be a good time to go check
Speaker 2: out these places. They each have their unique flavor, if
Speaker 2: you will, and they're both definitely worth stopping in and
Speaker 2: checking out. They serve that whole community out there and
Speaker 2: Ukainey and Valley Ranch, Humble, Kingwood and Taska Seed a
Speaker 2: porter that whole area out there. They sell the products
Speaker 2: I recommend on garden Line like nitrofoss and Microlife and
Speaker 2: turf Star and heirloom sauce and other Nelson plant foods
Speaker 2: for example. All you got to do is go check
Speaker 2: them out. We're in Southern Gardens and Kingwood Garden Center
Speaker 2: runs on North Park Kingwood Garden Center on Stone Hollow Drive.
Speaker 2: Time for me to take a break and turn it
Speaker 2: over to Jared to tell you everything exciting happening in
Speaker 2: the news. Don't go away. You need to know this.
Speaker 2: No somebody, all right, good Sunday morning to you. We
Speaker 2: are officially bright outside, or we can see around get
Speaker 2: some gardening done out there. Have you topped off your
Speaker 2: maltch this year?
Speaker 11: Uh?
Speaker 2: You know someone I get this call often, and I
Speaker 2: don't know where the mindset comes from, but someone will say, well,
Speaker 2: I'm pulling all my ole malt out to put fresh
Speaker 2: melts in, and you don't. You don't need to do that,
Speaker 2: and you shouldn't do that. And I'll base my case
Speaker 2: on the forest. If that was necessary, then how would
Speaker 2: the forests thrive on the fact that we put new
Speaker 2: mulch on old malts. You're after year when the leaves fall, Okay,
Speaker 2: that it's actually the case that the old malts is decomposing,
Speaker 2: and that's a good thing. That's releasing organic matter to
Speaker 2: the soil. It's becoming compost over a very very slow
Speaker 2: period with mulches. Depending on the kind of multus is
Speaker 2: a rate of decomposition. The bottom line is you've got
Speaker 2: this great stuff right when it's at its almost best stage.
Speaker 2: You're pulling it out. But fresh mulch in let that
Speaker 2: be a soil building material. If you want to go
Speaker 2: to mix it into the surface a little bit, if
Speaker 2: it's truly decomposed, that's fine, but I would just let
Speaker 2: it be a gradient.
Speaker 5: So on.
Speaker 2: If you're cutaway looking at your soil on the top
Speaker 2: is fresh mulch, brand new mult As you go down,
Speaker 2: there's some kind of chocolatey brown starting its wet, and
Speaker 2: maybe you see some fungal activity breaking it down there.
Speaker 2: And then as you go down a little further, it
Speaker 2: just gets richer and richer all the way down into
Speaker 2: the soil, and earth worms are coming up and they're
Speaker 2: doing their thing through there. And that's the way you
Speaker 2: do it. That's the forest floor effect, and that's the
Speaker 2: way it is designed to work for trees to thrive
Speaker 2: and do well. So whatever your plants are, shrubs, trees, flowers,
Speaker 2: even ornamental grasses. When you molt, just put fresh molts
Speaker 2: on top and leave that stuff that's just really starting
Speaker 2: to get good for the soil. And people will get
Speaker 2: confused about what's the difference between mult and composts sometimes
Speaker 2: and compost goes in the soil because it's ready to
Speaker 2: go to the roots and do its thing in the soil.
Speaker 2: Mult goes on top of the soil because it's a
Speaker 2: let's call it a raw material, you know, like a
Speaker 2: wood chip would be a raw material.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 2: Well, these these shredded bark mulches, the quality mulches you're
Speaker 2: going to get from our places, you know, like Nature's
Speaker 2: Way resources and airloom soils for example, those are quality materials.
Speaker 2: They go on top that they they're there to block
Speaker 2: the weeds. And so don't put molts in your soil.
Speaker 2: Put it on top of the soil. Now a common
Speaker 2: question I get, I'm kind of running off down a
Speaker 2: rabbit trail here, but I think it's an important one.
Speaker 2: A common question I get is, well, if I put
Speaker 2: like wood on top of the soil, won't that tie
Speaker 2: up soil nitrogen? And the answer is no. And here's why.
Speaker 2: If you I'm going to go to an extreme, if
Speaker 2: you mixed sawdust and fresh wood chips, you know, like
Speaker 2: chopped up chips in the soil, it would tie up
Speaker 2: nitrogen because microbes need carbon and nitrogen to break that down.
Speaker 2: So you're getting a loss of nitrogen for the plants
Speaker 2: because it's being used to help break down those wood chips.
Speaker 2: But most sitting on top, even as a tuba four
Speaker 2: sitting on top of the ground, does not tie up
Speaker 2: nitrogen down in the soil right at the surface, maybe
Speaker 2: right on a quarter inch right there, you know where
Speaker 2: the decomposition is occurring. But don't worry about that. You
Speaker 2: don't have to worry about that. That's another reason why
Speaker 2: I don't like to mix mulch into the soil. That's
Speaker 2: not a good effect to have. Once it gets decomposing,
Speaker 2: then that nitrogen starts cycling. You know, the nitrogen that
Speaker 2: was taken up to help break down the woody materials,
Speaker 2: it's not lost. The microbes die and the nitrogen goes
Speaker 2: back into the soil, I mean it starts cycling in there.
Speaker 2: So anyway, little too nerdy maybe for you. But those
Speaker 2: are fairly common questions or fairly common misconceptions that I
Speaker 2: hear about all the time. Hey, I'm going to be
Speaker 2: at Jorges Hidden Gardens this next Saturday. I don't know
Speaker 2: if you've ever been down there before. If you haven't,
Speaker 2: there's your chance. This is your what excuse to go
Speaker 2: as if you needed one. Jorges Hidden Gardens. You hear
Speaker 2: me talk about them all the time. They are down
Speaker 2: south in the Alvin area. So if you were to
Speaker 2: let's say you're in Alvin, you're gonna go kind of
Speaker 2: down six a little to the south and east of
Speaker 2: the actual town of Alvin, and they're out there on
Speaker 2: Elizabeth Street in that area. So Hoorges Hidden Gardens is
Speaker 2: the kind of place where when you go, you always
Speaker 2: gonna find the things you need. Of course, they're gonna
Speaker 2: have they always have like fruit trees and shade trees
Speaker 2: and roses, and like the Lady the Lady Martin, the
Speaker 2: Peggy Martin Rose for example, they've always got they got
Speaker 2: really good selection. Right now, of vegetables and herbs and
Speaker 2: other things. But I'm gonna be there next Saturday from
Speaker 2: one to three pm. So it's a little bit later
Speaker 2: than my normal start time because I got a little
Speaker 2: bit further to get on there Hoorges Hidden Gardens in Alvin.
Speaker 2: I'll be answering your questions. Well, I don't know. We'll
Speaker 2: probably pull some plants out of pots and talk about
Speaker 2: roots and planting them and trimming them and and other
Speaker 2: kinds of things. While we're there. We're gonna have a
Speaker 2: good time, and I hope you will come down and
Speaker 2: see me. Just put that on the collar next Saturday,
Speaker 2: March eighth, one to three pm. Hoeges Hidden Gardens and Alvin.
Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to that. It's been a little while
Speaker 2: since I've been down to see Jorge, and I really
Speaker 2: had a good time last time I went down there.
Speaker 2: You know, he carries some good stuff, really good quality plants.
Speaker 2: And by the way, it's a place where you know,
Speaker 2: you can get some of the supplies and things that
Speaker 2: I talk about here on garden Line all the time.
Speaker 2: So anyway or he hid in gardens, that's the place
Speaker 2: to go. Well, let's see we are time I get
Speaker 2: to talk, and I forget about what time we are
Speaker 2: actually in because I'm having too much fun I actually do.
Speaker 2: My favorite place, in my happy place is talking to gardeners.
Speaker 2: I love it. I just love it.
Speaker 4: You know what.
Speaker 2: Nineteen eighty five, I started as a county extension or
Speaker 2: actually as a experimentation specialist up in Missouri and came
Speaker 2: back to Texas. And I've been answering gardening questions that
Speaker 2: whole time, and I've heard so many and I've learned
Speaker 2: a lot. You know, there's never a day goes by
Speaker 2: as a gardener. If you're out there and you're paying
Speaker 2: attention that you're not learning something. I'm telling you the
Speaker 2: the amount of information there is in horticulture. And if
Speaker 2: you had learned it all, let's just say you did
Speaker 2: know everything, which is absolutely impossible not going to happen.
Speaker 2: Next thing, you know, here comes a new tomato variety,
Speaker 2: a new rose bush, Here comes a new type of
Speaker 2: some sort of product, or some sort of changes to plants,
Speaker 2: or a disease we've never had before, an insect we've
Speaker 2: never had before. And you never quit learning. But let
Speaker 2: me tell you that keeps you young. Don't need one reason.
Speaker 2: You see a lot of times. Older people, you know,
Speaker 2: gardening is number one. It's so therapeutic, it's so good.
Speaker 2: But younger people gardening too, and it keeps your mind fresh,
Speaker 2: it keeps you optimistic. Listen to gardener. You got to
Speaker 2: be an optimist to open up a little seed envelope
Speaker 2: and see these little bits of detritus in the bottom
Speaker 2: that they're saying is going to turn into a tomato
Speaker 2: plant or whatever seed it is. And you stick that dried,
Speaker 2: dead thing in the ground, and all of a sudden
Speaker 2: you're getting luscious tomatoes or flowers or whatever you've planted.
Speaker 2: That's called faith, and that is called a renewal, and
Speaker 2: that is just the way the world works. And I
Speaker 2: think that's a really cool thing, absolutely cool thing. I
Speaker 2: am having to take a little break here. I want
Speaker 2: to remind you that my website is gardening with Skip
Speaker 2: dot com. Gardening with Skip dot com. You can find
Speaker 2: out more information there. You know, the folks at Nelson
Speaker 2: Plant Food, they have absolutely come up with a wonderful selection.
Speaker 2: I could spend hours just talking about all the products
Speaker 2: that they have. But they have one called Bruce's Brew,
Speaker 2: and that is a lawn fertilizer it's part of the
Speaker 2: turf Star series. Now, Bruce's Brew is going to give
Speaker 2: you a fast release like you would expect from a
Speaker 2: spring early spring green up fertilizer, but it releases for
Speaker 2: two three months going down the line, so it's not
Speaker 2: just a one and done. It's going to give you
Speaker 2: a continued feeding, an initial fast and then an evening
Speaker 2: out over time for regulated growth. What that does is
Speaker 2: it helps form a good deep root system to not
Speaker 2: just overdo it all at once. The carbon based nitrogen
Speaker 2: feeds soil microbes. That's in Bruce's Brew. You're gonna find
Speaker 2: it at a lot of places like other nils, some
Speaker 2: plant foods, so you need to check that out Bruce's Brew.
Speaker 2: It would be a great time right now to put
Speaker 2: some down. I have to take a break. I'll be
Speaker 2: right back.
Speaker 6: Hi.
Speaker 2: If you're thirty years or younger and you know who
Speaker 2: that is, let me know you get a free rose bush.
Speaker 2: I'm making that up. Abba. How many people remember? Abba?
Speaker 2: Oh boy, that was a big deal at the time.
Speaker 2: Let's head out to Pinehurst, Texas. We're going to talk
Speaker 2: to Greg this morning, and I have got to do
Speaker 2: the right kind of click here in order to get Hey, Greg,
Speaker 2: Thanksgiving for you.
Speaker 4: Hey. Couple two unrelated questions.
Speaker 14: One was, I was listening to you yesterday and I'm
Speaker 14: getting ready to put down my pre emergent and my
Speaker 14: my Imperial and I did my first knowing of the season,
Speaker 14: and I had a bunch of that. But the green
Speaker 14: Saint Augustine's are kind of coming up. But I have
Speaker 14: a bunch of the kind of I guess you call
Speaker 14: it dead grass and almost turns into hay. And I
Speaker 14: bagged it yesterday, but I wanted to. I saw a
Speaker 14: lot left over. My neighbor has one of those kind
Speaker 14: of de thatching machines. Did I use one of those
Speaker 14: as well? Or Am I fine?
Speaker 2: Just kind of leaving it there? You said, Saint Augustine, Yeah,
Speaker 2: don't put don't do de thatching on it. It tears
Speaker 2: it up. Yeah, Saint Augustine. If it was Bermuda, that'd
Speaker 2: be different. But yeah, don't do don't do that. It'll
Speaker 2: be okay. It will decompose away. You know, you think
Speaker 2: about where Saint Augustine is native and every leaf that
Speaker 2: ever grows dies in rots and goes to the soil,
Speaker 2: So it'll be okay. If you know, if you mow
Speaker 2: it a little. Then you're gonna mow it. Let's say
Speaker 2: you're gonna keep it at three inches or something. You
Speaker 2: may be mowed down to about two right now and
Speaker 2: or a little bit lower and then get the fresh
Speaker 2: new growth up. You can do that and if you
Speaker 2: can return all that mowing back into the soil, if
Speaker 2: it doesn't look bad, you have to test it and see.
Speaker 2: But if you have a good mulching more that chops
Speaker 2: it up in the little pieces, it'll settle down and
Speaker 2: then it'll be a surface mulch to help fight weeds.
Speaker 2: Because you just cut all the leaves off and now
Speaker 2: the sunlight's going to hit the soil. So I try
Speaker 2: to return that if I can. Sometimes you have to
Speaker 2: bag it up because it's too much. Okay, Okay, that's
Speaker 2: good to know. Okay, super helpful.
Speaker 14: And my other question, total related, is around I've got
Speaker 14: to I've got have a ninety feet of rear fence
Speaker 14: that I'm going to plant some privacy screens. I think
Speaker 14: I've finally decided on eagles and hollies.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 14: My question is is a is that good for what
Speaker 14: I'm trying to you? And be how far apart should
Speaker 14: I plant and assuming I'm getting like you know, already
Speaker 14: kind of nine ten foes forty five gallons.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So so with whatever plants you're going to plant, you
Speaker 2: want to look at what it's mature size. Is mature
Speaker 2: with okay? And if you know, if if you look
Speaker 2: at the mature with, that's how big you expected to get.
Speaker 2: Then it depends on the balance between spending money and
Speaker 2: faster results. So if you put it at half that distance,
Speaker 2: you're going to get a complete closure faster, But you're
Speaker 2: spending money on some pretty expensive plants. Uh, if you
Speaker 2: put it, if you put it, if you want to
Speaker 2: save somebody, you can do it about eighty percent, But
Speaker 2: you're not going to have the wall of foliage as fast.
Speaker 2: You're going to be individual plants for a little bit longer.
Speaker 2: So that that's the trade off on them. It's a
Speaker 2: it's a great plant, you know.
Speaker 6: I I.
Speaker 2: Love Eagleston Holly. They're they're one of the one of
Speaker 2: the popular. Are those berries? Ah, good question. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I would have to go look that up. And boy,
Speaker 2: I definitely don't want to say on the air.
Speaker 15: My best guess sure not are My wife was concerned
Speaker 15: about dogs and kids, and I was like, well, I
Speaker 15: think they have been just quite a bit of them
Speaker 15: to make a big difference, but I wasn't entirely sure.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm trying to remember how wide the eagleston gets.
Speaker 2: I know it can get up to like twenty feet
Speaker 2: high eventually.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you're pretty big.
Speaker 2: Trying to remember the width on it. But anyway you
Speaker 2: can find that out.
Speaker 11: And then.
Speaker 2: Depending on how.
Speaker 14: Fast okay, and underneath those like say, playing them whatever,
Speaker 14: call it eight ten feet apart, whatever it is, should
Speaker 14: I do a bed underneath them? Or should I do
Speaker 14: should I play them individually? Or is that just kind
Speaker 14: of personal present person.
Speaker 2: I would do. I would do a bed all the
Speaker 2: way down the road, and I would mix in some
Speaker 2: high quality organic matter. These kind of plants love to
Speaker 2: be in a forest floor environment where you have a
Speaker 2: lot of rotting materials over the decades you know that
Speaker 2: have built the soil. Make sure they have good drainage.
Speaker 2: A little bit of a raised bed helps a little bit.
Speaker 2: And then when you do get them planted, mosts a surface,
Speaker 2: but the first year, if you can hand water as
Speaker 2: much as possible, I would do that. Sprinklers get blocks,
Speaker 2: blocked by other plants, and they don't. You don't always
Speaker 2: get good coverage. And Holly's are real picky that first
Speaker 2: year about having little droughty spots around them and stuff,
Speaker 2: and so I would you can use your sprinkler, but
Speaker 2: I would make sure and you do handwritting, because then
Speaker 2: you know you're getting a good drench and that root
Speaker 2: ball is gonna that's where all the roots are and
Speaker 2: it's going to take a while before they fill that bed.
Speaker 2: So don't forget that root ball is especially where you
Speaker 2: need to put your water, because everything the plant gets
Speaker 2: comes out of that little cylinder for the first month
Speaker 2: or so before it gets real step Okay, okay, thanks
Speaker 2: very much. You bet, thanks a lot, but I appreciate
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Speaker 2: eight one six seven, six thirty eight eighty eight. We're
Speaker 2: going to go out to Humble now and talk to Helen. Hey, Helen,
Speaker 2: welcome to garden line. I keep going in the front
Speaker 2: door and we have to use the backdoor. Hey, Helen,
Speaker 2: welcome to garden line.
Speaker 8: Well, good morning, good morning.
Speaker 10: I got a two fold question for you. My husband
Speaker 10: seem to think if I make my sane augustine grass stronger,
Speaker 10: it will choke the weeds out.
Speaker 8: That is, and I want okay, yeah, I don't.
Speaker 12: Want to waste money on weed killer.
Speaker 11: Good for you.
Speaker 2: Your number one weed control is a dense, healthy lawn.
Speaker 2: So you don't plant a lawn and it's not thick,
Speaker 2: but you just plan on using herbicides every month. You're,
Speaker 2: you know, trying to keep weeds out. Herbicides are there
Speaker 2: as your back up. But if you create a dense,
Speaker 2: healthy lawn, you're going to get rid of most especially
Speaker 2: weeds coming from seed. Most weeds. There's some weeds, Helen,
Speaker 2: that can live in a dense, healthy Saint Augustine lawn,
Speaker 2: like Virginia button weed and like dollar dollar weeds. One
Speaker 2: can live in that lawn. But a lot of them
Speaker 2: crab grass and grass burr and hind bit and chickweed
Speaker 2: and clover and all those. If you have a dense,
Speaker 2: healthy lawn in sunlight can't get to the soil, those
Speaker 2: weed teats can't come up. Your lawn becomes a mulch
Speaker 2: that mulches out the light and prevents weeds from coming in. Okay,
Speaker 2: got okay, so you're both right. I'm well, you're both right.
Speaker 10: I got one last thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Also, when I mulch my flower beds, what is too
Speaker 10: much and what is too little?
Speaker 2: What is too much and what is too little?
Speaker 11: Uh?
Speaker 2: Generally about three inches. The chunkier the mulch, the thicker
Speaker 2: it has to be to block out the light, the
Speaker 2: finer texture of the mulch, the less you need to
Speaker 2: do the job. But about three inches is a pretty
Speaker 2: good number.
Speaker 10: Okay, okay, all right, I appreciate that.
Speaker 2: Well, I appreciate your call. Y'all have fun. I'm glad.
Speaker 2: I'm glad we have peace in the family. No marriage
Speaker 2: counselor need it out there and humble, We're.
Speaker 10: Good to go. I'm glad he's got one thing right
Speaker 10: this year.
Speaker 2: Okay, apparently he did something right when he married you.
Speaker 2: How about that? I bet he agrees with me.
Speaker 5: I love it.
Speaker 10: Thank you, though, y'all have a good garden day.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, iy you know away. Sometimes people I
Speaker 2: get a call and someone says, well, my husband thinks this,
Speaker 2: and I told him that, and I can see there's
Speaker 2: a battle brewing. Look, I don't do I do do
Speaker 2: marriage counseling. Oh I do, but it's three hundred dollars
Speaker 2: an hour, and you don't want me to do it.
Speaker 2: But I will give you horticulture advice for free. So
Speaker 2: and we'd like to have some fun with the callers.
Speaker 2: As you can see. Hey, stick around for the news.
Speaker 2: I'll be right back. Don't go away. We've got lots
Speaker 2: more to talk about.
Speaker 1: Welcome to kat r h Garden Line with scamp Rickards.
Speaker 2: Just watch him as well. So many birties not sor alright,
Speaker 2: welcome back to the garden line on a beautiful Sunday morning.
Speaker 2: I'm telling you this afternoon you need to figure it out.
Speaker 2: But you gotta go somewhere and get something and get
Speaker 2: out in the yard and have some fun there. This
Speaker 2: is the time. Are there's stuff to do in the lawns.
Speaker 2: Right now we are putting a pre emergent for warm
Speaker 2: season weeds. If you are going to do a pre emergent.
Speaker 2: You gotta do it now.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 2: If you have cool season weeds before they finish setting
Speaker 2: seeds and stuff, get a post emerging on them. The
Speaker 2: sooner the better if you're gonna get rid of them.
Speaker 2: If you just got a few, you can hand pull them.
Speaker 2: You've got a few, you can spots spray. I'm here
Speaker 2: and there. You don't have to do that all that, uh,
Speaker 2: but that's what it's what I do in mind most theories.
Speaker 2: But listen, when there's a bunch that and pulling just
Speaker 2: not practical unless you'd enjoy doing that. There are people
Speaker 2: who do. But anyway, you got to. You gotta take
Speaker 2: care of them because once a cool season weeds such
Speaker 2: seeds that one weed plant now has created hundreds of
Speaker 2: potential offspring, so next fall they'll sprout and next spring
Speaker 2: it's going to be even worse. And so the goals,
Speaker 2: you know, we talk about a lot of products for
Speaker 2: doing a lot of things, and they work, they do
Speaker 2: work that works. But our goal is to build the densest,
Speaker 2: healthiest lawn in the world. And regular mowing, proper watering
Speaker 2: with a good soaking on an infrequent basis, and then
Speaker 2: fertilizing with a high quality fertilizer is how we do that.
Speaker 2: It's lawn care is really simple. Mow water fertilized. That's
Speaker 2: the simplest I can make it. And then when a
Speaker 2: chinchbug shows up or a brown patch circle or cool
Speaker 2: season weats or warm season weaeds, we have ways of
Speaker 2: dealing with that. But our goal is mow water fertilized
Speaker 2: to create the densest, healthiest lawn that you can do.
Speaker 2: That's what we're after.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 2: In your garden beds, your goal is to create beauty.
Speaker 2: You want it to look good. Colorful flowers, colorful foliage shrubs,
Speaker 2: and maybe some evergreen, maybe some blooming shrubs. Moss Nursery
Speaker 2: done in Seabrook is a place where you can get
Speaker 2: all that and more. This nursery. If you've not been
Speaker 2: to Mosque before, you need to just make a plan
Speaker 2: to go, you know, go get lunching chema or something
Speaker 2: and go visit Moss or it's down in Seabrook off
Speaker 2: Toddville Road, and they are so loaded right now with
Speaker 2: all kinds of plants, and they carry standard things that
Speaker 2: you would expect at a garden center, you know, junipers
Speaker 2: after the four varieties of junipers, ozelia's, red buds, magnolias,
Speaker 2: you know, Holly's and ewes and Chinese witchy or Chinese
Speaker 2: witch hazel, laura pedal and ball cipers. But they have
Speaker 2: other things like Brazilian rain trees. Go look that one up.
Speaker 2: That's a cool plant. Portula carria. Yeah I didn't say
Speaker 2: porta laca, said portulacaria. So think of think of portulaca,
Speaker 2: or person, think of purcelaine or porta laca and imagine
Speaker 2: it being a little like not shrub, but a little
Speaker 2: bit of a woody plant or small plant, not just
Speaker 2: like a groundcover that's all succulent. That's what that is.
Speaker 2: Pretty cool stuff. They have hundreds of bon bonseye starters.
Speaker 2: If you I took somebody yesterday that was a bonesye
Speaker 2: grower at the Home and Garden show up in Montgomery County,
Speaker 2: which by the way is still going on today. Uh
Speaker 2: and we were talking bones eye. But you go downto
Speaker 2: moss you can. There's hundreds of plants you can choose
Speaker 2: from and start that hobby yourself. Have you ever tried that?
Speaker 2: You know, it's kind of building a ship in a bottle.
Speaker 2: Something you get out and play with and work on
Speaker 2: and stuff. Bonesye is a is a really cool fun
Speaker 2: anyway I'm going on about bones Eye. Moss Nursery is
Speaker 2: a place to go. It's not just under the garden Center.
Speaker 2: You're going to wander through eight acres and you're going
Speaker 2: to find everything you need and they are loaded up
Speaker 2: with plants ready for you right now, and lots of
Speaker 2: yard art. We'll call it landscape bling. They've got plenty
Speaker 2: of that too. Toddville Road, Seabrook, Texas. Moss Nursery dot com.
Speaker 2: Moss has two a's in it two eight one four
Speaker 2: seven four twenty four eighty eight to eight one four
Speaker 2: seven four twenty four eighty eight. If you are interested
Speaker 2: in giving a skull here on garden Line, we'd be
Speaker 2: happy to visit with you our phone number seven one
Speaker 2: three two one two kt RH seven one three two
Speaker 2: one two kt RH. I mentioned earlier that you got
Speaker 2: to get the pre emergent now, if you're going to
Speaker 2: put one on. Some people use them, some people don't.
Speaker 2: But if you're going to put a pre emergent on,
Speaker 2: and if you've got a thin lawn where sunlight hits
Speaker 2: the soil, nature will plant weeds there. That's how it works.
Speaker 2: That's why we build as dens of a lawn as
Speaker 2: we can. But barricade by nitrofoss is an excellent product
Speaker 2: for preventing weed seeds from sprouting. Here's how it works.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to go nerdy on you. Just in
Speaker 2: a nutshell, you need to know this. You put the
Speaker 2: barricade down, You water it with about half inch of water.
Speaker 2: It goes into the soil and it ties up at
Speaker 2: the surface. It doesn't wash off the surface. It doesn't
Speaker 2: wash through the soil. It's made to tie up to
Speaker 2: the soil. If it didn't do that, when the weeds
Speaker 2: germinate up at the surface, there wouldn't be any barricade
Speaker 2: there for them. It's a barricade. It's named that for
Speaker 2: a reason. It ties up to the soil. A weed
Speaker 2: tries to sprout and it can't come through it. That's
Speaker 2: how barricade works. And there are other pre emergents in
Speaker 2: the market. I'll tell you this. Nothing grabs the soil
Speaker 2: and sticks in place as well as barricade does. That's
Speaker 2: that's just a fact. Okay, broad leaf weeds, grassy weeds,
Speaker 2: whatever's coming up this spring and summer, you get ahead
Speaker 2: of them with barricade. Now, now you're gonna find barricade,
Speaker 2: like other nitrofuss products in many places around town. If
Speaker 2: you go to Bearings Hardware on Bissonet, if you go
Speaker 2: to the Bearing Hardware that's on West Teimer, for example,
Speaker 2: you go to Hiden and Feed on Stubner Airline, or
Speaker 2: Ace Hardware City, which is a memorial drive. How about
Speaker 2: all Spas Ace on kirkandall oor Ace out a Sinkle ranch,
Speaker 2: all places where you're going to get quality night fuss
Speaker 2: products like the barricade. People get confused, and you know,
Speaker 2: in answering questions, I hear it a lot. I hear
Speaker 2: where two things are said and they're both true, but
Speaker 2: then when they put them together, they get mixed up
Speaker 2: and it gets a little confusing. Herbicides come in two types,
Speaker 2: whether it's an organic product or synthetic product. There's going
Speaker 2: to be things that prevent weed seeds from sprouting and establishing,
Speaker 2: and there's gonna be things that kill existing weeds. And
Speaker 2: you gotta you want to do one or the other. Now,
Speaker 2: if you're looking for a quality nursery and you're out
Speaker 2: in the Kadi area our West Houston nursery is an
Speaker 2: awesome one. You're fortunate. Nelson Water Garden and Nursery and
Speaker 2: Katie Nelson Water Garden is a full service local nursery.
Speaker 2: I know it says water garden in the name. It
Speaker 2: also says nursery in the name. Nelson Nursery and Water Garden.
Speaker 2: For two generations, they've been a leader in water gardens
Speaker 2: and their garden center and nursery is just awesome. Walk
Speaker 2: through from the house plants you walk through when you
Speaker 2: come through the building to the vegetables and herbs you
Speaker 2: get to and flowers next to the shrubs and trees
Speaker 2: and fruiting plants and everything. You're out there in the
Speaker 2: koy posey and the coy ponds and the water plants
Speaker 2: that they carry their nationally recognized experts. Nelson Watergardens dot Com.
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Speaker 11: Like the frame.
Speaker 2: There we go.
Speaker 12: It's still.
Speaker 2: And more marriage advice for all you guys out there
Speaker 2: today on garden Line. See we're a we are a
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Speaker 2: your gardening questions. So if you want to give me
Speaker 2: a call, the number is seven one three two one
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Speaker 2: know you're probably getting ready for church or something. Who
Speaker 2: knows what you got planned today? And you're busy, so
Speaker 2: that's good. You just keep listening. It will be good
Speaker 2: with that too. But if you have a question, I'm
Speaker 2: glad to help you. I've got an open line right now,
Speaker 2: which is which is a good thing if you were
Speaker 2: interested in asking a question. I was out in the
Speaker 2: yard the other day taking care of some mulching that
Speaker 2: I needed to do in my front bed. I had
Speaker 2: a real nice craws. I'm trying out some different multas
Speaker 2: you know, when I talk about a product on guarden Line,
Speaker 2: most of the time I've used it, or I've read
Speaker 2: about it in research, or I've seen it and you know,
Speaker 2: been around it and familiar with it. And this was
Speaker 2: I got some molts things from the folks at Nature's
Speaker 2: Way up in forty five North and I was trying
Speaker 2: them out, and you know, I try this one out,
Speaker 2: see how it does, hot looks and stuff, and try
Speaker 2: a different one out.
Speaker 4: And I was.
Speaker 2: I was replenishing one of their double shred it's called
Speaker 2: a double shredded molts that they have. Look really good.
Speaker 2: It's really doing the job and it works well. And
Speaker 2: they have many others as well. But I'm always trying
Speaker 2: different things out out there and seeing you know how
Speaker 2: it works. And you can always tell where you don't
Speaker 2: have your molts thick enough because the weed comes up.
Speaker 2: It's true, looking at us, I can eat be a weed.
Speaker 2: I moltzed it and I walk over there, and it's
Speaker 2: like this little gap in the malt sunlight hits the soil.
Speaker 2: Wherever sunlight hits the soil, nature plants a weed. That's
Speaker 2: how that works. Unfortunately, nature does not like bear soil
Speaker 2: because bar soil gets eroded. Bear soil gets crusted, and
Speaker 2: nature takes care of soil that way. It's a beautiful
Speaker 2: design system, all right. Sweet Green from Nitrophis is an
Speaker 2: organic fertilizer with eleven percent nitrogen. That's a lot for
Speaker 2: an organic fertilizer being a carbon based product. Sugar is
Speaker 2: a string of carbons, and molasses is a sugar type
Speaker 2: and so basically your molasses product goes in the soil
Speaker 2: and microbes go nuts. I mean it's like crack, a
Speaker 2: micro crack. I love this stuff. And when they go nuts,
Speaker 2: they are turning loose all the things that your plants
Speaker 2: need to grow. The nitrogen that's in it you know,
Speaker 2: and their activity is breaking down organic matter and it's
Speaker 2: just making the soil better. So you're not just adding nitrogen.
Speaker 2: You're doing things that help the soil as well. Now
Speaker 2: you're going to find Sweet Green a lot of places
Speaker 2: around town. If you go, oh, let's say to Rosenberg,
Speaker 2: there is Sweet Green at M and D in Rosenberg.
Speaker 2: If you go to Court Hardware in Stafford on South Maine,
Speaker 2: you're going to find or M and D there Court Hardware,
Speaker 2: You're going to find the nitrophos products there. By the way,
Speaker 2: there's also M and D and Cyprus on Luetta that
Speaker 2: you can go to, and Langham Creek Ace Hardware on
Speaker 2: five twenty nine. You need to go see that story.
Speaker 2: It's got They did a total renovation recently and it
Speaker 2: looks great. Anyway, Sweet Green's easy to find. That's the
Speaker 2: bottom line. Try it out. So I'm out and I'm
Speaker 2: replenishing mults. I'm taking care of some things like that,
Speaker 2: and I have some semi sensitive plants, like it's the
Speaker 2: pride of Barbados. It's also the proper name is Sey Sulpinia,
Speaker 2: but Pride of Barbados or Barbados Pride is something that
Speaker 2: people call it a lot. It's a tropical type of
Speaker 2: plant that dice to the ground here and usually comes back,
Speaker 2: but it doesn't like cold cold, and we had some
Speaker 2: pretty cold this winter. So I took a bunch of
Speaker 2: maltch and just piled it up over the stems of
Speaker 2: the plant, and it killed it all the way back.
Speaker 2: And I know this that once we're done with all
Speaker 2: the coal, which we're pretty much done, I'll just pull
Speaker 2: that mulch back off there, let that crown breathe, and
Speaker 2: we'll have fresh new growth. But that plant is a sleepyhead.
Speaker 2: It's not going to show up till about May. It's
Speaker 2: like a teenager on Saturday morning. If you see them
Speaker 2: before lunch, you're lucky, all right, it's a sleepyhead. But
Speaker 2: I love that plant too, But just a tip when
Speaker 2: you're mulching, mulch is one of the best ways you
Speaker 2: can protect those tender plants like that as they're coming up.
Speaker 2: Enchanted Forest is a wonderful garden center. I was talking
Speaker 2: to somebody this morning about who called in, you know
Speaker 2: about Enchanted Forest, and I believe it's tim And they
Speaker 2: have everything that you would want a garden center to have.
Speaker 2: The setting is just amazing when you drive up. I
Speaker 2: don't know how to describe it. I don't say it's
Speaker 2: like an old Western town, but just the whole building
Speaker 2: and everything. It's rustic. It's a barn look rustic, but
Speaker 2: it is so cool. And then you go there and
Speaker 2: then there's buildings on the site. There's like structures on
Speaker 2: the site with the plants in them that you just
Speaker 2: walk in free air float through there and they're loaded
Speaker 2: tomatoes of every type, you can imagine, herbs of every type,
Speaker 2: you can imagine, annual flowers, perennial flowers, hanging baskets. They
Speaker 2: really do a great job on pollinator plants and on
Speaker 2: specifically butterfly plants, both the ones that attract the adults
Speaker 2: and the food sources for the young. Everybody knows, you know,
Speaker 2: monarch butterflies need milkweed. Well, passion flower butterflies need passion vine.
Speaker 2: That a gulf fridillary butterflies. Excuse me, gulfridillary butterflies need
Speaker 2: passion vine. They've got all that and during the season
Speaker 2: you're going to find caterpillars on the plants. They'll let
Speaker 2: you take the I got a pillar home too, so
Speaker 2: you got your little it's like having a sour dough starter.
Speaker 2: You got your your butterfly garden starter going home with
Speaker 2: the plant. They're located on FM twenty seven fifty nine,
Speaker 2: and that is south of fifty nine or sixty nine
Speaker 2: the interstate. If you're going from Richmond, Rosenberg to a Sugarland,
Speaker 2: it's off to the right FM twenty seven fifty nine.
Speaker 2: Enchented Forest. The website Enchented Forest Richmond, TX dot com.
Speaker 2: You need to go check this place out tonight this
Speaker 2: afternoon'd be a great time. Let's go out to Pasadena
Speaker 2: now and we're gonna let's see who are we talking
Speaker 2: to in Pasadena. He is Steve Steve, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Skip, we appreciate you longtime garden Line listener, Andy Lemon,
Speaker 6: rest of Soul, and that I appreciate you stepping in
Speaker 6: and doing such.
Speaker 4: A great job.
Speaker 2: Thanks for being a listener.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, you got your help so many people. Hopefully
Speaker 6: you can help me today. All right, I got a
Speaker 6: yard my daughter's property in Pasadena and it became a
Speaker 6: rent property and they didn't do anything. And we have
Speaker 6: two big trees and the leaf malts, not malt, just leaves.
Speaker 2: Three years of it.
Speaker 6: I begged about almost thirty contractor bags of leafs out
Speaker 6: of there this last week and everything's dead and it's a.
Speaker 12: It's a pretty good sized yard.
Speaker 6: It used to have some grass and we don't know
Speaker 6: if we're going to keep it or rent property or
Speaker 6: or sell it. But I didn't want the cost. I mean,
Speaker 6: sod's gone up in such a I mean, I can't
Speaker 6: believe the price of sods these days, these last years.
Speaker 6: But yeah, I've never seen the yard. I never I thought, man,
Speaker 6: what's what's a good way to go about? I mean
Speaker 6: it's it's pretty hardpan too.
Speaker 8: You know, it's like it's just it's a flat surface.
Speaker 6: And yes, so anyway, but I guess my question to you,
Speaker 6: and I just stopped and listen, what would you do
Speaker 6: to prep that up?
Speaker 8: And I guess so it would be the easiest thing.
Speaker 6: And I've done that before. I've brought into the top
Speaker 6: soil laid sod.
Speaker 8: But okay, i'd really have been interested in your ideas.
Speaker 4: Go thank you.
Speaker 2: How sunny is the spot?
Speaker 6: Well, I'm taking I'm having a tree service come in
Speaker 6: and get rid of one of the trees.
Speaker 2: So we're going to bring a lot more sun in Okay.
Speaker 2: So there is one.
Speaker 6: There's one really large oak, and I'm going to have
Speaker 6: that trimmed up.
Speaker 2: So that's what all.
Speaker 6: It should be decent for growing. After I do that,
Speaker 6: and that's next week, I'm going to have the tree
Speaker 6: service come in.
Speaker 2: Okay. If you've got good sunlight, you can grow any
Speaker 2: of our main southern grasses, which is Saint Augustine, Zuysia,
Speaker 2: and bermuda. If you start to get into shade, the
Speaker 2: bermuda drops out, you get into a little more shade,
Speaker 2: and the zoysia drops out, and then you get into
Speaker 2: more in the the Saint Augustine drops out. There actually
Speaker 2: are some zoysias that are comparable to Saint Augustine in
Speaker 2: shade tolerance. But so depending on the spot, you're going
Speaker 2: to pick one of those. And the reason that matters
Speaker 2: is what whever you do, you are going to want
Speaker 2: to fertilize it consistently and water it consistently to get
Speaker 2: it to cover as fast as possible you can sell.
Speaker 2: There's a couple of strategies.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: Of course, you fill the whole thing with sid that's fast,
Speaker 2: that's easy, it costs money. Okay. The next step would
Speaker 2: be to start somewhere laying side, and then later by
Speaker 2: more sod to go further and let that side creep
Speaker 2: out a little bit, and then more sid and more side,
Speaker 2: so you're sort of taking over, maybe starting at the house,
Speaker 2: working out or whatever. That's another strategy. A third strategy
Speaker 2: is to get rid of everything. Get the dirt right,
Speaker 2: you need to make sure and get you know, get
Speaker 2: that loosened up if you can row a tail or
Speaker 2: break it up a little bit, or bring in some
Speaker 2: full soil to fill holes and things. And then once
Speaker 2: you've done that, you want to put your side out
Speaker 2: as more like plugs or strips. You can take a
Speaker 2: piece of sod it's like a doormat size, and you
Speaker 2: cut it into strips and you put those a foot apart,
Speaker 2: and now you've made it go a lot further, maybe
Speaker 2: three times as far as it would have. But then
Speaker 2: you have to wait on it to fill in. And
Speaker 2: so those are your three options that you got on
Speaker 2: I've got about I've got about ten seconds before I
Speaker 2: have to go. I'll put you on hold if you
Speaker 2: want to keep this going.
Speaker 6: No, it's okay, It sounds like I could probably do
Speaker 6: the human checkters game.
Speaker 2: With that. That that is it and the and the
Speaker 2: the thing to keep in ling is you're going to
Speaker 2: be dealing with weeds. But that's okay. It's the it's
Speaker 2: a cost effective way. Hey, thanks for the call. Appreciate
Speaker 2: it a lot.
Speaker 6: Yes, thanks appreciated.
Speaker 2: All Right, we're back. Welcome to Garden Line. Welcome back
Speaker 2: on a beautiful sunday. Oh my gosh, the temperature. It's awesome.
Speaker 2: This this is the way it should be year round.
Speaker 2: I wish well, if you'd like to give me a
Speaker 2: call here on Guarden Line my number seven one three
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Speaker 2: any way we can to help you have success. Uh,
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Speaker 2: I've got a phone call here. We're going to go
Speaker 2: out to Crosby now and talk to Gerald. Hello, Gerald,
Speaker 2: welcome to garden Mine.
Speaker 4: Good morning, Skip, how you doing well. I have a
Speaker 4: question about can you put as and mite in that
Speaker 4: sweet green down at the same time?
Speaker 2: Absolutely? Yeah, absolutely. Sweet green is pretty specific to being nitrogen.
Speaker 2: That's that's pretty much what it is, and so asumite
Speaker 2: is going to give you the trace minerals. Now, I
Speaker 2: would not mix as and MTE with other fertilizers in
Speaker 2: the same spread or hopper at the same time, So
Speaker 2: put out one and then put out the other. Because
Speaker 2: the particle size is different and you won't get even application.
Speaker 2: But yes, same day, same time, put out one, come
Speaker 2: back load the other one. Put it out. You're good.
Speaker 2: Same as is true with you know, fertilizers and then barricade.
Speaker 2: You know, the fertilizers are different particle size and barricade,
Speaker 2: so you got to do them.
Speaker 4: Separate, right, Okay, Well that's what I needed to know
Speaker 4: because I don't want to put some down before this
Speaker 4: one gets.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how much are we supposed to get? I haven't
Speaker 2: looked at the weather.
Speaker 4: Here, I don't know how much.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, Well, just I always watch the amount
Speaker 2: because you know, if we were going to get like
Speaker 2: two or three inches of rain, I wouldn't fertilize ahead
Speaker 2: of that because you will have some wash away. But
Speaker 2: if it's if it's more moderate, let the rain save
Speaker 2: you some irrigation. So yeah, good plan man, all righty bro,
Speaker 2: thank you, all right? Thanks Jered, take care, Yes, sir,
Speaker 2: you as well if you bet. If you're looking to
Speaker 2: do a compost, stop dressing and or a core aeration
Speaker 2: of your lawn, And by the way, that is one
Speaker 2: of the best things you can do for a lawn,
Speaker 2: especially clay soil, especially compacted soil I would call year
Speaker 2: round Houston. If you're located inside the Beltway or out
Speaker 2: in the Richmond Rosenberg area, you know, we have different
Speaker 2: folks if we talk about on guarden line for different
Speaker 2: parts of the area, because hauling the equipment and all
Speaker 2: the composts for top dressing and stuff around, I mean,
Speaker 2: you just can't. You can't go two hundred miles all
Speaker 2: over the place trying to do that. You're around Houston
Speaker 2: serves that area inside the Beltway and out at Richmond Rosenberg,
Speaker 2: and they are composting specialists for both compost and specialists
Speaker 2: for corration. So when they use a product, it's a
Speaker 2: quality product. When they do aeration, it's the type of
Speaker 2: machinery you can't rent that does a nice core popped
Speaker 2: out of the soil, dropped on the surface. That's how
Speaker 2: it should be done. That's how it should be done.
Speaker 2: Don't just rent some cheap machine that squeezes a hole
Speaker 2: in the soil. You want to do cor aeration, pop
Speaker 2: it out. That's what they do. Now you can breathe
Speaker 2: a new life into your lawn literally because with each
Speaker 2: corrooration you get oxygen down in the soil, the root
Speaker 2: system is enhanced fertilizer and this compost does fall into
Speaker 2: that hole. The compost helps hold it open. And each
Speaker 2: time you do corroortion, you are making an area that
Speaker 2: is struggling with the clay compaction in things, you're making
Speaker 2: it better and year round Houston does it. Here's the website.
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Speaker 2: four fifty three thirty five. Let's go out now on
Speaker 2: the phones. We're going to talk to AJ. Hello, AJ,
Speaker 2: Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 4: Oh, thank you.
Speaker 5: Hey.
Speaker 11: I got a question about I've got a raised bed
Speaker 11: garden out in my backyard and over the years just
Speaker 11: kind of settled down and I wanted to put something
Speaker 11: over the top of it that would enrich that soil.
Speaker 2: What do you suggest? Is this a vegetable garden, right,
Speaker 2: you said ub guard. Yeah, I would get There is
Speaker 2: a product called Veggie and Herb Mix from Heirloom Soil,
Speaker 2: and it's available just everywhere by the bag. And so
Speaker 2: if you're just topping off a bed, you could just
Speaker 2: do it by the bag. You can also get a
Speaker 2: bulk delivery of it or go pick up a bulk
Speaker 2: amount of it yourself on a truck or trailer. Uh,
Speaker 2: if you want more than if it's gonna take too
Speaker 2: many bags to do what you want to do. But uh,
Speaker 2: that is.
Speaker 11: Maybe picking up a yard.
Speaker 2: I got to pick it up that I could pick
Speaker 2: it up with what pass for uh veggie and herb mix.
Speaker 2: And what you're gonna what you're gonna want to do
Speaker 2: is you want you want to go where you can
Speaker 2: get the soil bulk in Porter that that's hang on
Speaker 2: one second, I'm trying to reach and get the address here.
Speaker 2: Uh in the Porter yard is where they basically produce
Speaker 2: and distribute from out there, and it's Warren's Rock and
Speaker 2: Moltz is the location where you get it.
Speaker 13: Uh.
Speaker 2: The the address is US fifty nine Access Road in Porter.
Speaker 2: But if you want, you can go to the website.
Speaker 2: It's rock inmlts dot com r O c K the
Speaker 2: letter in and then Malts dot com. Let me give
Speaker 2: you a phone number to eight one to eight one
Speaker 2: three five four nineteen fifty to eight one three nine
Speaker 2: call them up. You got options. They can put a
Speaker 2: super stack in your truck, or they can dump it
Speaker 2: in your truck, but they know all the details of
Speaker 2: that and set that up with them. I think they're
Speaker 2: open seven to four Monday through Friday, seven to three
Speaker 2: on Saturday, and definitely close today.
Speaker 11: Okay, one more question. I heard you talking about Core Areation. Yes,
Speaker 11: do you suggest I call here the Spring area?
Speaker 2: In the Spring Area, I would call green Pro Green
Speaker 2: Pro and a right. Let me, I'll see their address here.
Speaker 2: In a minute, I have to run to a break,
Speaker 2: but when I come back, I'll give an address or
Speaker 2: information on Oh I haven't here, it is right here.
Speaker 2: I'll just do it Greenprotextas dot Com. That's the website,
Speaker 2: so just go there and that's got the phone number
Speaker 2: and everything on it, Greenprotexas dot Com.
Speaker 11: All right, all right, certainly appreciate, thank you.
Speaker 2: You bet bye bye? All right? Votes, Yeah, that's a
Speaker 2: who is singing footloose there. I don't know that artist.
Speaker 2: That's different, but you know what, that's what they call
Speaker 2: cover song called right. You make a good song and
Speaker 2: everybody becomes Elvis when you sing one of his songs.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, I was talking about airlom so before
Speaker 2: we went to break. Heirloom soils is uh they serve
Speaker 2: the whole region. In fact, I've seen their products way
Speaker 2: you know, towards san Antoni, Austin direction and everything. They
Speaker 2: they produce a quality product and as a result, you
Speaker 2: got a lot of people interested in it. And they
Speaker 2: also give you versatility. They sell their bags in so
Speaker 2: many places around town that it's easy to find heirloom
Speaker 2: soils and they give you a variety, so you can
Speaker 2: get a soil that is for roses and other blooming
Speaker 2: and shrubs in general. You can get a veggie and
Speaker 2: herbmex which is good for vegetables and herbs, and you
Speaker 2: cant even grow flowers, little annual flowers and things that
Speaker 2: do you discried for that. You can get one for
Speaker 2: fruit trees, you can get one for acid loving plants.
Speaker 2: They've got it all there. Also in the versatility, you
Speaker 2: can buy it by the bag, but you can have
Speaker 2: them bring it to you two ways. You can have
Speaker 2: them bring a dump truck and dump it in the
Speaker 2: driveway and you shovel from there. I've done that many
Speaker 2: times building up my beds. You can also get it
Speaker 2: in what's called a supersack. That's a one cubic yard
Speaker 2: sack that it lifts up, they set it on your driveway.
Speaker 2: It's neat and clean. I've still got one. I haven't
Speaker 2: finished up a supersack setting on my driveway that I've
Speaker 2: been shoveling out of. I just need to get more
Speaker 2: time to get to it. It's neat, it's clean, it's easy, easy,
Speaker 2: easy to do. Now, if you're going to get a
Speaker 2: delivery of supersacks, there's a three supersacked minimum, So you
Speaker 2: can't just get like a one yard and have them
Speaker 2: drive eight hundred miles smart, so you got to you
Speaker 2: got to do the minimum there on three. But however
Speaker 2: you want to go about it? Do you want to
Speaker 2: drive out to Porter I was just talking someone just
Speaker 2: a moment ago about going out there at Wrang's Rocket
Speaker 2: Melch and picking it up right there. Heirloom soil products
Speaker 2: right there. While you're out there, you know you're gonna
Speaker 2: find things like black star gravel, crush, granite, pea pea gravel, sand,
Speaker 2: things like that. They have a really beautiful thing called
Speaker 2: rainbow gravels, a little different colors of a little gravel.
Speaker 2: It's real pretty. And then of course mulch is cedar, mulch, hardwood,
Speaker 2: mulch pine bark, mulch. It just they have a lot
Speaker 2: go to. You need to check them out. Heirloomsoils dot
Speaker 2: Com is where you go to learn about all the
Speaker 2: airlom soil products. And if you are deciding that you
Speaker 2: want to do a delivery, I would just give them
Speaker 2: a call at two eight one three five four nineteen
Speaker 2: fifty two eight one three five four one nine five zero.
Speaker 2: I get excited about soil. The way I like to
Speaker 2: tell people is I get I love dirt, and yet
Speaker 2: people remind me gardeners, some master gardener's going to go.
Speaker 2: It's not called dirt, y'all taught us in master gardening.
Speaker 2: It's not dirt. It it's oil. That's right. It is soil.
Speaker 2: Dirt is soil where you don't want it. Dirt in
Speaker 2: your house. Soil in your house is called dirt, all right. Anyway,
Speaker 2: Semantics green Pro I was just talking with I think
Speaker 2: it was it was it aj about green Pro. He
Speaker 2: was asking about Core Aeration. Green Pro is our core
Speaker 2: aeration specialist that services about a forty five mile range
Speaker 2: from Magnolia. So to make it a little simple there,
Speaker 2: all you got to do is think of Interstate forty
Speaker 2: five and Interstate ten. That's the northwest quadront of Houston.
Speaker 2: That's where they serve. Basically, Okay, their correation services are impeccable.
Speaker 2: They've been doing this a long time. They know what
Speaker 2: they're doing. They only use top quality comp and when
Speaker 2: they fertilized fertilizer as well. But they'll come in, they'll
Speaker 2: do a corrotion with a machine that does it right,
Speaker 2: and then they'll put the top quality compost down. And
Speaker 2: when you do that, you're feeding the biology the soil,
Speaker 2: the microbes, and they need that. You're getting oxygen in
Speaker 2: the soil, which helps both the scent the sand, the
Speaker 2: turf roots, and the microbes themselves they need oxygen too.
Speaker 2: You're improving the internal drainage because now there's a way
Speaker 2: for water to soak in faster down into the soil
Speaker 2: because you've increased that area by the corrooration. If your
Speaker 2: soil has been or your sod has been struggling with
Speaker 2: chinchbugs or brown patch or take all patch, corretion's the
Speaker 2: secret if you've got that. I was talking yesterday when
Speaker 2: I was up at the Montgomery County Home and Garden Show.
Speaker 2: It's still going on today, still going on. If you
Speaker 2: haven't gotten out there. I was talking to some people
Speaker 2: that had thatch problems and we were talking about what
Speaker 2: causes that and all that kind of thing. The number
Speaker 2: one way to get rid of that is to core air, right,
Speaker 2: because it brings those little little cylinders of soil up
Speaker 2: to the surface and drops them there in the thatch,
Speaker 2: and when they dissolve into the thatch, it makes it
Speaker 2: rot real fast. Also, the compost top dressing helps because
Speaker 2: it keeps it moist. When you have organic matter that
Speaker 2: stays moist, decomposition will occur. And that's how you get
Speaker 2: rid of that.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 2: What more can I say? Greenprotexas dot com, Greenprotexas dot
Speaker 2: Com eight three two three five one zero zero three
Speaker 2: two A three two three five one zero zero three two.
Speaker 2: I've got time for one more call this hour. If
Speaker 2: you are fast on the dial, we'll get to you
Speaker 2: before the end of the hour. I love RCW Nursery
Speaker 2: for several reason. Number one is convenient. It's just right
Speaker 2: there where FM two forty nine comes ato bout way eight.
Speaker 2: You know, you just do it on your maps, phone
Speaker 2: maps or whatever, and it'll take it right down to
Speaker 2: It's easy to get to this right there, and so
Speaker 2: that location, and I mean whether you're northwest or east
Speaker 2: or south or wherever, it's easy to get there to
Speaker 2: RCW Nurseries. RCW Nurseries has all kinds of good deals
Speaker 2: going on right now, and they grow they sell everything.
Speaker 2: You know, we're talking about herbs and flowers and vegetables. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they have all that stuff. The roses, I don't know
Speaker 2: anybody carries the many types of roses as RCW Nursery
Speaker 2: pages and pages full of roses. That is something all
Speaker 2: the rosarians know about that place. And it's still okay
Speaker 2: to plant roses. For crying out loud, this is a
Speaker 2: great time to get your roses planted. So stop by RCW.
Speaker 2: See what they got there. Check them out. They also though,
Speaker 2: when it comes to shrubs and trees, they have a
Speaker 2: very good selection and they grow their own trees. Most
Speaker 2: of the trees they have they grow their own, coming
Speaker 2: from up in Planetersville where they have their field, the
Speaker 2: Williamston Tree Farm up there, And so you're going to
Speaker 2: get species that want to grow here. They don't sell
Speaker 2: you a blue spruce, for example, because they know it
Speaker 2: didn't grow it. They've been doing this, they've been doing
Speaker 2: this since nineteen seventy nine. That's how long RCW has
Speaker 2: been in business. So what's that forty six years? I
Speaker 2: think they probably know what they're doing. And when they
Speaker 2: grow a tree, they grow it right, so it's going
Speaker 2: to establish and succeed. And if it's of any size
Speaker 2: at all, you're going to want to get help in
Speaker 2: planning it. And they do planting services as well. And
Speaker 2: if it's a small tree and you're going to plant yourself,
Speaker 2: they have things like roots Stimulator. They certainly carry the
Speaker 2: fertilizers we talk about here on Guardenline and things like Nitrophoss, Microlife,
Speaker 2: turf Star. It's just the place to go and if
Speaker 2: they don't have it, they probably get it. We call
Speaker 2: them they get it, got it nursery because if they
Speaker 2: don't have it, ask them. I bet they can find
Speaker 2: it because they do their best to find anything that
Speaker 2: you're interested in. All right, website rcwnursries dot com. Simple
Speaker 2: as that, We're going to go out to pair Land
Speaker 2: now and talk to K. Hello, okay, excuse me to
Speaker 2: do this called in the backwards way. Hey K, Hey,
Speaker 2: how you doing. I'm good.
Speaker 5: I thought you got rid of me. I have a
Speaker 5: question on the big elephant foot plant I have. It's
Speaker 5: not the fringy one. It's one that has the big branches.
Speaker 5: It has a spread of probably four feet or so,
Speaker 5: and I had it covered and had a floodlight on
Speaker 5: the base of it. But I think some of the
Speaker 5: ends of the branches it looks like they're dead. I
Speaker 5: scraped them and they're they're not. But the whole, the
Speaker 5: whole branch is not. That's grape that and there's still life.
Speaker 5: Can I just clip those off?
Speaker 2: Or yeah, I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I don't
Speaker 2: know what plant we're talking about. Kay, elephant ear, it.
Speaker 16: All comes out of us, not elephant ear, it's elephant foot.
Speaker 16: It's okay, okay, you know what them most of them
Speaker 16: have this fringy stuff coming out of them.
Speaker 2: Now, okay, the music is on. I'm about to be
Speaker 2: cut for the news. Hang on, don't go away. I'll
Speaker 2: come back to you. Okay, if you can hang on,
Speaker 2: I'll be back. Okay, All right, folks, Hey, I want
Speaker 2: to remind you all that I'll be at Jorges Hidden
Speaker 2: Gardens in Alvin next Saturday. Now I'm doing this a
Speaker 2: little later down there because I have to drive down
Speaker 2: one pm to three pm Jorges Hidden Gardens and Alvin.
Speaker 2: I hope you'll come out and see me. We do
Speaker 2: the regular old thing, you know, where you bring me
Speaker 2: samples or pictures or whatever and we diagnose and identify.
Speaker 2: But I'm going to be talking about secrets of planting
Speaker 2: success when we're down there, and a lot of other
Speaker 2: things and answering your gardening questions at Jorges Hidden Gardens.
Speaker 1: Welcome to kt r H Guarden Line with Scared Rictor.
Speaker 2: It's trim. Just watch him as a man again a
Speaker 2: sun All right, we're back. Guess what we got one
Speaker 2: more hour today, which means we got one more hour
Speaker 2: this weekend. You got a question and they can't wait
Speaker 2: until next Saturday. Well that'd be a good time to ask.
Speaker 2: We'll be happy to help you with that. For those
Speaker 2: of you up in the Greater Willis area, And when
Speaker 2: I say Greater Willis, I mean you know the lake
Speaker 2: like Conrad out there, the Conroe up north New Waiver,
Speaker 2: just that whole reeve of the woodlands, even growers outlet
Speaker 2: in Willis is a place you need to see. I
Speaker 2: bet you haven't been there before. The website is exactly
Speaker 2: that Growers Outlet in Willis dot com. They're on Highway
Speaker 2: seventy five, just minutes away from forty five, just a
Speaker 2: little bit south of Willis. There they serve that whole area,
Speaker 2: of course, and they've got the fertilizers you hear me
Speaker 2: talking about all the time, you know, microlife and nitroposs
Speaker 2: and medina for example. Their selection of vegetables and bedding plants, ferns, perennials, shrubs, trees, fruit.
Speaker 2: They've got a bunch of fruit in the other day,
Speaker 2: I was talking to them up there. They've got figs
Speaker 2: and there's like four different kinds of figs. I have
Speaker 2: a bunch of different kinds of figs. Maybe more than that.
Speaker 2: They have blueberries, and then you know all the standard
Speaker 2: fruit trees, you know, the peaches and whatnot that you
Speaker 2: would expect a really nice selection. The cool thing I
Speaker 2: think are a cool thing about it is products that
Speaker 2: they have are viewable online. You can look at availability
Speaker 2: and pricing. Not many nurseries do that, but you go
Speaker 2: to Growers Outlet in Willow dot com and you can see,
Speaker 2: i think every Wednesday evening they update their vegetable list
Speaker 2: of what they have. Huge, beautiful baskets, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2: And when you're looking at perennials like verbena and geraniums,
Speaker 2: they grow those in house right there. They've got a
Speaker 2: really nice gift shop. It's just a good place to visit.
Speaker 2: And you go first, go to the website. Check it out.
Speaker 2: Growers Outlet in Willis dot com on Highway seventy five,
Speaker 2: just south of Willis, just a few minutes away from
Speaker 2: Interstate forty five. We're gonna go now and go back
Speaker 2: to K. We were visiting with K before we went
Speaker 2: to break there. Hey, Kay, welcome to garden Ope. I
Speaker 2: messed up. I messed up. Hang on, all right, we're
Speaker 2: gonna try that again. Hey, K, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 5: Yeah I called back, I got cut off.
Speaker 2: It was it was weird. Yeah all right, Well.
Speaker 5: Boy, I'm talking about the elephant.
Speaker 2: Yeah, elephant foot, Yeah, elephant foot. For those other folks
Speaker 2: that are listening, that's a plant that's also called ponytail palm.
Speaker 2: You're probably familiar with it a big old sweat.
Speaker 5: But that's not what I have.
Speaker 2: Oh, you don't have a ponytail.
Speaker 5: I don't have a ponytail has large long branches coming
Speaker 5: out and then they're clusters of big leaves.
Speaker 2: At the end of the Okay, Okay, do you know
Speaker 2: now I have never I have never grown that plant before,
Speaker 2: but I can tell you this about it. I know
Speaker 2: what you're talking about. I just my experience with it.
Speaker 2: It's very limited. Okay, you said you have some cold
Speaker 2: damage right to it on the on.
Speaker 5: The tips, like three or four inches on the two ends.
Speaker 2: What what I would drink?
Speaker 4: Where?
Speaker 2: Ahead?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, go.
Speaker 5: Ahead, No, I was just saying where the frost blanket
Speaker 5: was out too far? I guess from the heat source
Speaker 5: at the base, but so so some of it I
Speaker 5: think froze and it I just am afraid it's going
Speaker 5: to affect the rest of the branches.
Speaker 2: Well I I wouldn't. I would just say this, what's
Speaker 2: been effected is affected, and you can't change that. You
Speaker 2: can't take dead and make your live, of course, But
Speaker 2: if you just wait and see, you may see some
Speaker 2: areas that start to be sunken. And if it's just
Speaker 2: a little spot, the branch is probably going to have
Speaker 2: enough structural integrity to hang on and keep going. If
Speaker 2: it's a bigger spot, you may have to do some
Speaker 2: cutting out, but it can put out some fresh new growth.
Speaker 2: So you're going to have to just kind of wait
Speaker 2: and see on it. And I always like to let
Speaker 2: the plant tell me when to prune. You know, we
Speaker 2: do the thing where we scrape the branch and see
Speaker 2: if it's brown underneath or if it's a healthy color,
Speaker 2: and you can do that, but the plant will tell
Speaker 2: you pretty quick here. And if you see stuff really
Speaker 2: sinking in, sunken and soft, almost spongy like, then that
Speaker 2: definitely is is not alive.
Speaker 5: I have scraped it and there's some of these ants
Speaker 5: are brown underneath, but then the rest of the branch
Speaker 5: is green, yeah, or you know, lives looking.
Speaker 9: So that's why I didn't know.
Speaker 2: What where did you get that thing?
Speaker 4: That?
Speaker 2: I don't think I've ever seen that for sailor it was.
Speaker 5: I've had it for over fifty years. It came from
Speaker 5: a friend of ours. My husband was an orthodonist, and
Speaker 5: he had a young man that was a teacher and
Speaker 5: he had he did lab work for it, and they
Speaker 5: he and his wife had a small nursery and when
Speaker 5: my husband opened his new office, they gave us that plant, okay,
Speaker 5: and I took it home and I had it, but
Speaker 5: I always had a big garage that I could put
Speaker 5: it in when the weather was bad.
Speaker 2: Well, and I don't have that now, so okay, I'm
Speaker 2: going to put you. We're gonna good job. My producer
Speaker 2: is going to pick up. If it's okay with you.
Speaker 2: Would you get an email to send me a picture
Speaker 2: of that plant. I'd love to see it, and especially
Speaker 2: the area before and after. I would love to see that.
Speaker 6: Thank you.
Speaker 5: It happens to it and it loses its leaves in
Speaker 5: the fall every fall. It acts like a diak it.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, thank you, thank you, thank you very much
Speaker 2: for that. You bet. And let's see. We're gonna go
Speaker 2: to Pasadena now and talk to Valdo.
Speaker 4: Hey, Stip, how you doing?
Speaker 2: Hey Skip, how you doing? I'm doing good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm just gonna.
Speaker 2: Ask a question, then hang up and listen on the radio.
Speaker 9: I bought a Eagleston Holly.
Speaker 17: I don't know if it was a twenty five gallon,
Speaker 17: twenty five gallon or thirty gallons. I bought it just
Speaker 17: right before winter in twenty four, put it in and
Speaker 17: then I'm just now noticing that it's starting to grow
Speaker 17: another or it has another trunk, so it has the
Speaker 17: main trunk.
Speaker 2: Where it's tied off to bamboo stick for it to
Speaker 2: stay straight. And now there's another one off to the
Speaker 2: side of that. Yeah, can I just can I just
Speaker 2: remove that? You can? Yeah, you can. And I can't
Speaker 2: see the plants, so I you know, I can't really
Speaker 2: advise you on whether you should or not, but you can.
Speaker 2: You can prune it off close to where it attaches
Speaker 2: to the trunk. Uh and and uh and the plant
Speaker 2: will continue on from there. Sometimes they do that. That's
Speaker 2: that's not a big issue. But you know, structurally, I
Speaker 2: think it sounds like you want to take that little
Speaker 2: one off because it's kind of comparing. You can leave it.
Speaker 2: I wish I could see it, and then I know
Speaker 2: for sure. But Egleston, on a lot of plants, you're
Speaker 2: going to get multiple trunks like that that come up
Speaker 2: sometime when they're a really narrow angle, like if you
Speaker 2: hold up two fingers, you know that narrow angle between
Speaker 2: your fingers. That's that as each gets bigger, it's a
Speaker 2: place where a plant can split. And we don't like that.
Speaker 2: We'd rather plants come out at a at a wider angle.
Speaker 2: But I'm speaking generically because I can't see what you
Speaker 2: got all right, thank you, all right, thank you for
Speaker 2: the call. I appreciate that very much. Uh Nelson. Plant
Speaker 2: Food has a lot of different products, and I want
Speaker 2: to talk to you about a couple of them this time.
Speaker 2: I talk about turf Star all the line. The turf
Speaker 2: Star line all the time. They got a lot of
Speaker 2: great products. The Azalea and the it's called Azalea and
Speaker 2: all acid loving plants. It's a nutri Star comes in
Speaker 2: a jar. That's one. The other one is Vegetable Garden.
Speaker 2: Those are products. They come in a jar. You just
Speaker 2: take your little tablespoon, scoop out or whatever and sprinkle
Speaker 2: them around according to the label. Right, Vegetable Garden's got
Speaker 2: five different sources in nitrogen, so you're getting a release
Speaker 2: of nitrogen over time. You're not having to fertilize your
Speaker 2: garden ever a couple of weeks. I mean it's going
Speaker 2: to last for several months there. It's a very good
Speaker 2: product designed for the nutrient types that vegetables are going
Speaker 2: to most need. Basically, that's how it's designed. Nutri Star,
Speaker 2: Azalia and acid loving plant. That one is an acidifying fertilizer.
Speaker 2: If it's blueberries, kalladiums camellias, if you've got dogwoods or gadenas,
Speaker 2: if you got hollies, hollies or plants that appreciate a
Speaker 2: little bit of an acidic environment, hadranges of course, yes,
Speaker 2: the magnolias. There's a lot of plants we didn't have.
Speaker 2: I didn't. I didn't say az alias, but that's in
Speaker 2: the name. Those all like acidic soils and they do
Speaker 2: better in those soils. It has four different acidifying sources,
Speaker 2: and it's got a slow release nitrogen as well, so
Speaker 2: you're gonna get two or three months out of that.
Speaker 2: Nutristar azalea and acid loving plants and nutristar vegetable garden.
Speaker 2: Look for those canisters in a garden center near you.
Speaker 2: I got to take a break here. When I come back,
Speaker 2: Gene and Katie, you'll be our first step. All right,
Speaker 2: welcome back to the guarden line. We're here to help
Speaker 2: you have success with your garden. That's what you want
Speaker 2: to do, because if you have success, you're gonna have fun.
Speaker 2: And if you've got fun, you're gonna do more of it.
Speaker 2: And if you do more of it, you're gonna live
Speaker 2: along in happy life. See how that works. It does
Speaker 2: if you've got outdoor containers and you are looking for
Speaker 2: a quality soil, you look no further Jungle in flour
Speaker 2: and vegetable planting soil. Jungle and flour and vegetable planting
Speaker 2: soils from nitrophiles. It has specially blended Canadian blond peat
Speaker 2: with four different sources of aged decompose bark and I'm
Speaker 2: telling you it all.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 2: It also has microrise of fungi, which you know work
Speaker 2: with plant roots to help the roots take up nutrients better.
Speaker 2: And they just have a number of functions that they
Speaker 2: do to help roots. So you got an outdoor potted plant,
Speaker 2: you are going to have a happy plant, long lasting,
Speaker 2: vibrant color. You get the most is that you can
Speaker 2: out of plants when you put a mix like jungle
Speaker 2: Land from nitrofoss. When you put a mix like that
Speaker 2: in that drains well so it never soggy, too boggy,
Speaker 2: and it holds moisture so it never it's slow to
Speaker 2: dry out. Let's put it that way. You're not watering
Speaker 2: it three times a day trying to keep it going. Now,
Speaker 2: you're gonna find nitro fross products at a number of places.
Speaker 2: You go up to Cyprus, to M and D on Luetta.
Speaker 2: You're going to find them there. Langham Creek Ace Hardware
Speaker 2: five twenty nine, you're going to find them at the
Speaker 2: excuse me, all Spas ACE up in the Woodlands and
Speaker 2: Sinkle Ranch Ace. Katie Hardware Ace is another place that
Speaker 2: you're going to find those. And how about we throw
Speaker 2: one more in out there in Richmondberg Plantation Ace Hardware
Speaker 2: on three point fifty nine. The same road that in
Speaker 2: Jenny Gardens is on by the Way, which also carries
Speaker 2: these products. It's easy to find night Fast products. These
Speaker 2: are all examples of the many places you go looking
Speaker 2: for them. We're going to go now to Katie and
Speaker 2: talk to Jane Op. We're going to go there. If
Speaker 2: I push the right button. Now, let's try hello. I'm
Speaker 2: going to get one caller right today, Jane. Maybe one.
Speaker 2: I'll call it one in a row. Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 10: Thank you. I have three questions if you have time.
Speaker 10: I have a bay beef tree and a lemon tree,
Speaker 10: and I need to know what to spray them with
Speaker 10: because they get this black, sticky, gooey stuff on the leads.
Speaker 2: Okay, there are several insects that can secrete the sugary
Speaker 2: water that creates that black city mold. The blacks is
Speaker 2: not the problem. It's just growing on sugar water that
Speaker 2: the insect made. My best guess, and I'm about ninety
Speaker 2: percent year of this is the case, is that you're
Speaker 2: dealing with scale. Now, if it's can do this, white
Speaker 2: flies can do this, meatlely bugs can do this. But
Speaker 2: when you told me the trees, I bet you're dealing
Speaker 2: with scale. If you turn a lemon leaf over and
Speaker 2: look at it close, and you should see some little
Speaker 2: things they're like a fish scale and that they're flat,
Speaker 2: but they're only they're smaller than a typed lower case
Speaker 2: O in the kind of scale that's on these cent
Speaker 2: and I think that's what you're going to see. There
Speaker 2: are some other types of scale you might see under
Speaker 2: the leaf. But the way you control scale is you
Speaker 2: smother them with oil. So if you can get a
Speaker 2: spray of an oil horticultural oil oil used to spray
Speaker 2: on plants and spray it upward to coat the bottoms
Speaker 2: of the leaves. And the more coating you get, the
Speaker 2: better it's going to be. Like if you have a
Speaker 2: leaf and you spray and ninety percent of the bottom
Speaker 2: of the leaf gets oil. That ten percent is going
Speaker 2: to have life scale that are going to reproduce and
Speaker 2: refill the leaf. So one hundred percent coverage is your goal.
Speaker 2: If you can do that, you got to get turn
Speaker 2: that sprayer upside down and get under there and really
Speaker 2: work on them. But you can do it that way.
Speaker 10: Can you name a product that I can I have
Speaker 10: tried name and it didn't seem to work.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, whenever, whenever you're shopping you look for an oil,
Speaker 2: where are you located Jeane, Katie, kat Okay Katie. Well, yeah,
Speaker 2: you've got like you've got Katie's Hardware that's right there
Speaker 2: that that would be an example of one that is
Speaker 2: very close to you. And there's also an Ace Hardware
Speaker 2: and single ranch in that part of Katie. But go
Speaker 2: by there and ask them for a summer oil or
Speaker 2: a horticultural oil. And different companies make it. I mean,
Speaker 2: you know, you may find it from Fertile Home, er
Speaker 2: bo Nite or Monterey or High Yield or something. There's
Speaker 2: a lot of types out there, but they're made for
Speaker 2: coating the plants and and they're made to not burn
Speaker 2: the plants. The old time dormond oils could burn tissue
Speaker 2: when you got it on it. So you can do that. Now,
Speaker 2: that's gonna be hard, and you're gonna to do it
Speaker 2: more than once because you never get it all and
Speaker 2: you just got to watch out for it. The alternative
Speaker 2: would be to put a systemic insecticide in the soil
Speaker 2: around the plant and have it taken up by the plant,
Speaker 2: But you would have to find one that's labeled for
Speaker 2: use on an edible like a lemon tree or a
Speaker 2: bay tree. And so it works well because the roots
Speaker 2: take it up. And like if you had a lady
Speaker 2: beetle crawling around the leaves of the plant, it wouldn't
Speaker 2: get poisoned because it's not sucking out of the plant.
Speaker 2: The poison that's inside the plumbing of the plant from
Speaker 2: a systemic you see what I'm saying. So those are
Speaker 2: your two Those are your two options and ways to
Speaker 2: go about it. I hesitate. The reason I didn't start
Speaker 2: with the systemic is you know, if you've got your
Speaker 2: lemon is blooming, then that product can be present in
Speaker 2: the blooms and effect bees, and we like to try
Speaker 2: to avoid that. It's the best way to kill the bug.
Speaker 2: But it has these you know. Yeah, but you know, uh,
Speaker 2: and the oil is the safest way. But it's hard.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 2: Those leaves on a bay tree are so stiff. It's hard.
Speaker 2: One leaf blocks the spray from getting on the leaf
Speaker 2: right above it, you know, so you spray well.
Speaker 10: When I lived in Bernie, I didn't have any problems
Speaker 10: like this. When I moved here to Katie, I developed
Speaker 10: a problem.
Speaker 2: Okay, well you'll stay with it. I one way or another.
Speaker 2: If you want to use the systemic, maybe when the
Speaker 2: lemon is not blooming or fruiting, Yeah.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I would prefer check. Yeah, I would check with ace.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And the bay produces those bay trees, don't they
Speaker 2: produce enough bay leaves for the entire city of Katie,
Speaker 2: including Sincle ranch.
Speaker 4: Yes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you need a few bay leaves and you got
Speaker 2: ten thousand on a tree, So pick you a couple
Speaker 2: of branches of leaves.
Speaker 10: It would be nice to be able to sell them
Speaker 10: because bay leaves are expensive.
Speaker 2: I know they are, and you can't make gumbo without them.
Speaker 2: So what I would do, I would pick me about
Speaker 2: twenty leaves off, dry them and put them in a bag,
Speaker 2: and then you can do what you want the tree,
Speaker 2: and you don't have to harvest anymore leaves for a
Speaker 2: year far more.
Speaker 10: Okay, this other thing has baffled me for quite a
Speaker 10: few For about four years. I have a small raised
Speaker 10: bed garden and every day I collect my kitchen scraps
Speaker 10: in a container. I put them in the freezer. Then
Speaker 10: the next morning I go out to the garden, dig
Speaker 10: a hole and dump the scraps into the hole and
Speaker 10: cover the scraps up, and I keep going rotating around
Speaker 10: the garden with it. Now my question is I don't
Speaker 10: have a single worm in my guarden. I can't understand.
Speaker 10: The scraps are totally gone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no worms. Well, okay, the worms that like scraps
Speaker 2: are the little red wigglers. And if you had a
Speaker 2: little place where you wanted to do that, go online
Speaker 2: and learn about what's called verma culture with a v
Speaker 2: There bins where people tear up newspaper put those red
Speaker 2: wigulars in and bury their scraps in it, and they
Speaker 2: eat it and they turn it into worm castings. You
Speaker 2: can do that kind of thing in a garden, but
Speaker 2: you got to learn a little bit about it. The
Speaker 2: nightcrawlers and things aren't as interested in those scraps. They
Speaker 2: more want to come to the surface and pull organic
Speaker 2: matter down in their tunnel. But the scraps will decompose
Speaker 2: by some of microbes, and so it's still working whether
Speaker 2: you got worms showing up or not.
Speaker 10: Oh okay, great, that's my last question. What is the
Speaker 10: best tomato for Kati area?
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, twenty there's twenty different problems. Do you
Speaker 2: want to do? You want a cherry, a grape cherry,
Speaker 2: A great person. Tycoon's perfect can if you can find it.
Speaker 2: It's not easy to find, but it's an awesome tomato.
Speaker 2: The plants of Tycoon.
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, I bought with them.
Speaker 2: It's a good tomato.
Speaker 10: So this will be the first time that I have
Speaker 10: grown it before, all right, Prior.
Speaker 9: To that it was ye.
Speaker 10: Well, I also grow jewel yet. I love jewel yet. Yeah,
Speaker 10: and I haven't been able to find those yet.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, I got a run gene. Thanks for
Speaker 2: the call. I appreciate I appreciate.
Speaker 12: That very much.
Speaker 10: Thank you. Come bye.
Speaker 2: Micro Life makes a lot of different kinds of fertilizers.
Speaker 2: They make something called humates. Plus it's a purple bag.
Speaker 2: It is a zero zero four. That's what the numbers
Speaker 2: on the label, but you're not putting it on for those.
Speaker 2: You're putting it on because it's the final decomposed stage
Speaker 2: of organic matter humus humantes. It has the the compounds
Speaker 2: in it, like humic acid and fullvic acid and things
Speaker 2: that are part of that whole microbial one world down
Speaker 2: there in the soil that builds soil structure. So when
Speaker 2: you're doing your fertilization, don't think of this like a fertilizer.
Speaker 2: You don't use it in place a fertilizer. You use
Speaker 2: it also when you fertilize or any time of the year.
Speaker 2: You don't have to wait till fertilizer season. You just
Speaker 2: put it on. It gets, it's gonna work. Its win
Speaker 2: the soil over time, and it works. It's a purple bag.
Speaker 2: It's from microlife and you need to try it out.
Speaker 2: We're going to run let's see what's our time right here. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I got a little bit time. We're going to run
Speaker 2: out to Katie and talk to Henry. Up. Hey, Henry, Henry, Welcome,
Speaker 2: Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 9: Well, thank you, skip listen. I've been collecting. I have
Speaker 9: a bunch of outdoor pots full of potting soil and weeds,
Speaker 9: and I'd like to reuse that potting soil, but i'd
Speaker 9: like to I think I need to pasteurize it before
Speaker 9: I can.
Speaker 2: All right doing that, I've already done the work for you.
Speaker 2: Go to my website gardening with Skip dot com Gardening
Speaker 2: with Skip dot com on there is a publication. Click
Speaker 2: on the publications, scroll down pasteurizing soil. Basically, you're gonna
Speaker 2: take it, you're gonna moisten it, you're gonna put it
Speaker 2: in a turkey bag, one of those oven turkey bags
Speaker 2: or something like that. There's different ways to do it,
Speaker 2: and you're gonna heat it, but you need to do
Speaker 2: it to the right temperature for the right amount of time.
Speaker 2: And it's all in that in that free sheet that
Speaker 2: tells you how to do it.
Speaker 9: Oh boys, Skip, I mean I have, I got quite
Speaker 9: a pile of dirt out there with well there, okay.
Speaker 2: There there's one other option, and that is oh boy.
Speaker 2: I don't have the link to it, but it's a
Speaker 2: University of California. University of California Extension Service did something
Speaker 2: on a solarising soil and it's about solarizing soil in
Speaker 2: your garden. But there's a section where you take your
Speaker 2: pots and you stack them up on a pallet so
Speaker 2: there's air movement underneath, and you cover them with plastic
Speaker 2: in the hot sun and the middle of summer, and
Speaker 2: it heats up enough in there to pasteurize them. And
Speaker 2: that's a way to do a lot more. But you
Speaker 2: got to find the University of California publication on solarizing soil.
Speaker 2: All right, good luck with that?
Speaker 9: Can I can? I?
Speaker 4: Can?
Speaker 9: I just do like ground up, just saturated with a
Speaker 9: round up Wait for a while, now.
Speaker 2: No, that's not going to do it. There's not. Those
Speaker 2: are the only two ways without the commercial equipment to
Speaker 2: pasteurize it. I've got to run. They're about to They're
Speaker 2: about to cut me off here. Thank you very much.
Speaker 2: I appreciate you call, Henry. Good luck with that. All right, folks,
Speaker 2: turn it over to Jared here. I'll be right back.
Speaker 2: If you want to give us a call, you can
Speaker 2: dial seven one three two one two kt r H.
Speaker 2: All right, folks. Oh, it's a good day. It is
Speaker 2: a beautiful Sunday, and I hope that this afternoon you
Speaker 2: will get out, take a deep breath of fresh air
Speaker 2: and enjoy nature. I've told you this on the air before,
Speaker 2: but I actually enjoy pulling weeds. Now, if I have
Speaker 2: an acre of weeds to pull, I you know, I
Speaker 2: dread that, of course, But when I look at a
Speaker 2: little garden area and there's some weeds, I go, ah, gosh,
Speaker 2: I got weeds. And then I sit down and I
Speaker 2: use a hoe or a hand or whatever. I get
Speaker 2: rid of them, mult over them, and you just stand
Speaker 2: up and you look and it's beautiful and you see
Speaker 2: what you accomplish. There are a lot of areas in life,
Speaker 2: and some of you may be this way. You know,
Speaker 2: you go to work, you work all day, and at
Speaker 2: the end of the day, you go, what have I accomplished? What? Really?
Speaker 2: You know you've worked, but it's hard to get that
Speaker 2: gratification of seeing a visual, big difference. And I guess
Speaker 2: that's why I like to pull weats, because I can
Speaker 2: make a mess look really nice. And if you know
Speaker 2: how to use newspaper, put it about four sheet to
Speaker 2: six sheets thick. Now, I know most people are not
Speaker 2: taking the physical paper, but if you got that, throw
Speaker 2: some mult on top and you go from weeds to
Speaker 2: wonderful and like fifteen minutes, I mean it's it's it's
Speaker 2: the horticultural equivalent of sweeping the dirt under the rug.
Speaker 2: You heard it here first Arbigate and tom Ball. What
Speaker 2: a nursery. I've loved going to Arbigate for a long time.
Speaker 2: And do you know how long Arbrogate has been around
Speaker 2: twenty ninth year anniversary. They're celebrating their twenty ninth year anniversary.
Speaker 2: So go out and say happy anniversary to Beverly and
Speaker 2: the whole crew out there at the arbor Gate. When
Speaker 2: you go to Arbigate, you're gonna find lots of cool stuff.
Speaker 2: You know, they've got beautiful, beautiful flowers. One of my
Speaker 2: favorite flowers in the last ten years that I've just
Speaker 2: fell in love with has been the daisies. Now, daisies
Speaker 2: come in so many colors, not just the white daisies,
Speaker 2: you know, we're talking about certain series that have been
Speaker 2: bred with just bright colors that are so gorgeous. Also,
Speaker 2: and this is a public service announcement. Next Saturday, Saturday
Speaker 2: March eighth, at ten am for ten dollars, you can
Speaker 2: go to the Arborgate and you can listen to it.
Speaker 2: Talk on rose punting by Gay Hammett. Now let me
Speaker 2: tell you something Gay has forgotten more about roses than
Speaker 2: most people know. She's past president of Houston Rose Society.
Speaker 2: She knows everything. And this is about as good a
Speaker 2: well spent ten dollars. You have to get out there
Speaker 2: to the Arborgate and do. That's next Saturday, ten am.
Speaker 2: So they only have forty attendees. Space only space for
Speaker 2: forty because this is a you know, this isn't an
Speaker 2: auditorium type thing. This is a very intimate and personal
Speaker 2: thing where you will learn how to prune roses and
Speaker 2: you get a lot about rose answers as well. Bring
Speaker 2: a friend two eight one three five one eighty eight
Speaker 2: fifty one two eight one three five one eight eight
Speaker 2: five one. That's where you can find out more about that.
Speaker 2: And I just got to say this, why you're there,
Speaker 2: ask them to show you the deciduous magnolias, or let
Speaker 2: me put it this way, just look up and look
Speaker 2: around and you're going to see them. These things are
Speaker 2: the hottest pink with a purplish hue. They are gorgeous.
Speaker 2: They bloom when there's not a leaf on the plants.
Speaker 2: And we live in a part of Texas where you
Speaker 2: can grow deciduous magnolias. Very successfully. There's several types of them,
Speaker 2: but when you see this, you got to put one
Speaker 2: in the landscape because when spring comes, the first plant
Speaker 2: to show up with a trumpet and announced spring one
Speaker 2: of the first ones down here. If you live further north,
Speaker 2: it's a pcithia, But down here it's these decidious magnolias.
Speaker 2: They're great and you can get them at Arbrogate. By
Speaker 2: the way, where's Arbrogate? Okay, if you haven't been there,
Speaker 2: a mile and a half west of two forty nine
Speaker 2: on twenty nine to twenty out of Tumbel, just west
Speaker 2: of Tumbul, you'll see it on the left. Turn down
Speaker 2: Treshe Road which goes around Arburgate. Go in the back
Speaker 2: park there. It's a great parking lot, safe, easy access.
Speaker 2: Can you tell I like decidious magnolias were Let's see.
Speaker 2: We're going to go out to Katie now and talk
Speaker 2: to John. Hey, John, Welcome to dark Derk.
Speaker 5: Good morning, Skip.
Speaker 18: You're talking about trumpets announcing spring. My favorite one is
Speaker 18: is is there anything better than the smell of the
Speaker 18: meyer lemon flowers?
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, they're intoxicating, I mean a control substance.
Speaker 2: Because I'm sure people have gotten drunk sitting by one
Speaker 2: smelling enough of it.
Speaker 13: Like gardens, I called last week about I got two
Speaker 13: avacado trees from the enchanted garden Mexicola, which is doing
Speaker 13: absolutely beautiful.
Speaker 18: It's hopefully going to be start giving some fruit soon.
Speaker 18: But then another one of Leela, which they only warranty
Speaker 18: their plants seven days out. But last week I was saying,
Speaker 18: it's uh lost half.
Speaker 12: Of its leave.
Speaker 18: Now the other half of its leaves are wilting and
Speaker 18: the sticks they're starting to turn black based on the top.
Speaker 18: So I want to get your thoughts on that.
Speaker 2: How long would you plant it?
Speaker 18: I thought it about a month ago.
Speaker 4: I've had to.
Speaker 2: Do you think it could have have you had a cold.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to remember when the coal snaps were. If
Speaker 2: you had a coal snap, we brought them inside for cold. Okay,
Speaker 2: who turning black? Other than cold, saggy, soggy, wet soil
Speaker 2: conditions that drowned the roots. I guess could be a
Speaker 2: play a role, but I don't know. You know what
Speaker 2: I would do, I would take a picture of it,
Speaker 2: and I would go back in there and explain you
Speaker 2: bought a couple of them from them and see what
Speaker 2: they think about those. They may be able to work
Speaker 2: something out with you or something on that one. If
Speaker 2: if you brought it in from the cold. I just
Speaker 2: don't know, other than wet soil, what would cause them
Speaker 2: to turn black and fall off that.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 18: I talk to Connor and he says, sorry, there's nothing
Speaker 18: we can do, only guarantee plants of these.
Speaker 2: Well, and there's I understand that. I mean, you can
Speaker 2: imagine why they did that, but no advice on, no
Speaker 2: thoughts on what would have caused it.
Speaker 18: Okay, Well they said basically, good luck, we'n't glad that
Speaker 18: we got one that looks great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I understand, Well I would boy. First of all,
Speaker 2: I don't there's nothing to do for you right now.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't spray it. I wouldn't say spray it with
Speaker 2: this in sex side or fungicide or whatever. I don't
Speaker 2: think it's it's definitely not a lack of nutrients. It's
Speaker 2: eat the colder water. Somehow one of those is involved.
Speaker 2: I guess if a bunch of roots were damaged in
Speaker 2: the planting. But even at that, those are pretty tough plants.
Speaker 2: They shouldn't they shouldn't break down like that. Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't know what else to tell you on this one.
Speaker 11: Appreciate it.
Speaker 2: No disease that I'm aware of. Okay, all right, thanks
Speaker 2: a lot, appreciate your call.
Speaker 18: All right, thank you.
Speaker 2: All right. Yeah, that was a stumper, and that that
Speaker 2: does happen sometimes. Listen, uh, Ace hardware stores are everywhere,
Speaker 2: and A stores hardware stores have everything, right, That's why
Speaker 2: their motto is ACE is the place. It doesn't tell
Speaker 2: you what it's a place for, because it's a place
Speaker 2: for everything. You know, you need plumbing, you need wiring,
Speaker 2: you need light bulbs, you need all the standard hardware stuff.
Speaker 2: Of course they got that, but they have a lot
Speaker 2: of other things. You're revamping your garage, cleaning it up.
Speaker 2: You need some binge, you need some shelving, they've got that.
Speaker 2: You need cleaning supplies for that spring cleaning we all
Speaker 2: get into each spring. They've got a wide variety of those.
Speaker 2: You need things for the outside patio, like a string
Speaker 2: of lights or maybe some barbecue supplies. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: just go see it. An unbelievable selection of that. And
Speaker 2: then when it comes to the yard, you hear me
Speaker 2: talk about fertilizers, They got them you hear me talk
Speaker 2: about even soils, so mixes, soill blends and mulches and
Speaker 2: things you're going to find those there tools and then
Speaker 2: things to control weeds. I talk about barricade. You know
Speaker 2: the importance of preventing weeds. Well, they got that. They
Speaker 2: talk about the post emergent things. They've got that. The
Speaker 2: things that control insects and disease, including organic products, they've
Speaker 2: got that at ACE Hardware stores. And you've got a
Speaker 2: lot of ACE hardware stores to choose from. You can
Speaker 2: you know where do you want to go? I mean,
Speaker 2: because there's going to be an Ace Hardware pretty much
Speaker 2: every where that you want to be. You know, a
Speaker 2: K and M and a task a Seeda, the Bay
Speaker 2: City Ace Hardware down in Wharton, the Wharton feed and
Speaker 2: Ace Hardware, or the Hamilton Hardware Highway six near Bear
Speaker 2: Creek are just examples of the many, many, many ACE
Speaker 2: Hardware stores that you can choose from. Time for me
Speaker 2: to take a break. I'll be right back. All right,
Speaker 2: we're bad.
Speaker 4: Folks.
Speaker 2: We got about ten to fifty minutes left in garden
Speaker 2: Line today and they've been a good day. I've enjoyed
Speaker 2: visiting with our body and talking about gardening night fass barricade.
Speaker 2: I've talked to you about it and talked to you
Speaker 2: about it and talk to you about it. If you're
Speaker 2: going to prevent warm seasoned weeds, you need to do
Speaker 2: it before the weed sprout. It's much easier to prevent
Speaker 2: a weed than to kill a weed that's existing. Barricade
Speaker 2: is watered in with a half inch of water. Don't
Speaker 2: forget to water it in. That activates it. Otherwise it
Speaker 2: can't work if you don't get in the soil. Half
Speaker 2: inch of water puts it in the soil where when
Speaker 2: a weed sprouts for about sixty days, it's to prevent
Speaker 2: that weed from coming up. Depends on the weather and conditions.
Speaker 2: It could be a little longer, little short, or whatever,
Speaker 2: but about sixty days is the amount of protection it's
Speaker 2: going to give you. So if you got things that
Speaker 2: sprout all through the summertime, you like grass burrs and
Speaker 2: things are constantly out there sprouting, well, you may need
Speaker 2: to redo it in about sixty days, but for right now,
Speaker 2: do it. Follow the label very carefully. The label is
Speaker 2: your key to success. If you go out and be
Speaker 2: the lawn ranger and weigh it well, let the buyer. Beware,
Speaker 2: you should not do that. Should not do that. Labels.
Speaker 2: I don't care what the product is, always follow the label.
Speaker 2: That is very important. Barricade works grassy weeds, broad leaf weeds.
Speaker 2: It prevents them. It works well, and you're going to
Speaker 2: find it in a lot of places like nitrofoss products.
Speaker 2: For example, in Memorial a Memorial Drive, Ace Hardware, City Ospostion,
Speaker 2: the woodlands on Kerkandalt. I mentioned that one before hiding
Speaker 2: and feed on Stuben or airline, go down to one
Speaker 2: of the Mini Fishers hardware. There's one in Pasadena on
Speaker 2: the port, when in Mount Bellevue, when in Baytown. Those
Speaker 2: are all examples of places where you can find nitrofoss
Speaker 2: products like the s barricade. We're gonna got the phones
Speaker 2: now and talk to Nancy. Hello, Nancy, I.
Speaker 19: Did you get my emails?
Speaker 6: Do you get my pap?
Speaker 10: Oh?
Speaker 2: Let me look, I'll have to check that out. I
Speaker 2: don't know now, Nancy. I got to ask you first.
Speaker 2: It says you're from Flint. Are you calling from Flint?
Speaker 10: Yes?
Speaker 19: Yes, we talked to them my watermelons in a while
Speaker 19: back right in between Palestine and Tyler.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, just south the tyler. Yeah, I know
Speaker 2: you don't get the radio signal up there.
Speaker 19: Well, you know, I haven't tried.
Speaker 2: I just do with the app Okay, always have.
Speaker 19: I've been listening for thirty years.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you. Hey, I'm looking at your pictures. What's
Speaker 2: your question?
Speaker 19: Okay, the the three palms that look horrible you're outside.
Speaker 19: We set them on the front porch. Well, we put
Speaker 19: them inside to where you have a pool table and
Speaker 19: just let them in there. And they were doing fine.
Speaker 19: And I took them out about two days after the
Speaker 19: last freeze up here. It gets a lot colder here
Speaker 19: than it does even with the say, because we're on
Speaker 19: the lake, and put them, put them outside, and then
Speaker 19: they they've been gorgeous plants, and all three of them
Speaker 19: look like that.
Speaker 5: Should I should I cut it?
Speaker 2: It's cold, it's cold damage. And what remains to be seen, Nancy,
Speaker 2: is whether the stems were killed and these uh palms
Speaker 2: and yeah, palm you have drsina uh. And I'm trying
Speaker 2: to look at all those things like that. But like
Speaker 2: on the dsina, I think I see a little green
Speaker 2: growth coming out of the top of one of those stems.
Speaker 2: So the leaves that are brown and the leaves that
Speaker 2: have just kind of gotten almost a gray brown green,
Speaker 2: dark color, water soaked. Look, uh, those are all gone,
Speaker 2: but I would just wait, Let's wait, let's watch them,
Speaker 2: and the tree will tell you if it's going to
Speaker 2: make it or not. If it's round, you might as
Speaker 2: well clip it out. It's not coming back to life.
Speaker 2: But hopefully the damage wasn't too extensive. And as I'm
Speaker 2: looking at the plants the way the leaves covered some
Speaker 2: of them, I think you're going to be Okay, what
Speaker 2: was your other question?
Speaker 10: Okay? The other one was okay.
Speaker 19: And then I had a picture of my lemon and
Speaker 19: my plum, which those were in my sunroom. Yes, and
Speaker 19: I'm just asking that those look pretty healthy. And then
Speaker 19: the other picture was a picture of my raised garden
Speaker 19: outside the sun room. Can I plant I'm going to
Speaker 19: do water on tomatoes a get out there, but I'm
Speaker 19: not going to go crazy. I can I do an
Speaker 19: avocado tree in that avocado garden or any any kind of.
Speaker 6: A fruit tree.
Speaker 2: You are so far north that I wouldn't even try
Speaker 2: an avocado. I mean, unless you wanted to build a
Speaker 2: giant greenhouse over the thing. You're not going to have
Speaker 2: success with that.
Speaker 19: Yeah, it does have to where you can cover it.
Speaker 19: But I'm not going to What fruit tree could I
Speaker 19: put out there instead of having it in a pot?
Speaker 2: Well, that area looks partially shady. How much sun does
Speaker 2: it get?
Speaker 19: It gets a biled sixty, you know, all day long
Speaker 19: because it's only okay, And the thing isn't that it's
Speaker 19: electrical pants surround it. So I can keep my dear
Speaker 19: from getting into it. I just planted in wheels on
Speaker 19: the property, okay, dear.
Speaker 2: Will Yeah, So you've got a couple of options, do you.
Speaker 2: Since you liked a garden in that spot, I hate
Speaker 2: to have a big tree that's shading the whole area.
Speaker 2: But how about how about a raspberry a rabbit eye.
Speaker 2: I've served raspberry, forget I said that. A blueberry? Okay,
Speaker 2: rabbit I blueberries. You need a type that's called a
Speaker 2: rabbit eye, and you need to get two different varieties.
Speaker 2: There's one. There's a number of varieties. There's one called
Speaker 2: bright blue, there's one called climax, there's one. There's just
Speaker 2: a bunch of them. But get two different ones and
Speaker 2: plant too. If you want to plant more than two,
Speaker 2: you can, but you need two different varieties for cross pollination.
Speaker 2: Tiff blue is another rabbit EI blueberry. They need high
Speaker 2: quality water.
Speaker 19: So yeah, okay, I absolutely love blueberries and i's a
Speaker 19: great and I have had strawberries and yeah, all kinds
Speaker 19: of other things out there, so that that is great.
Speaker 2: Drawback on blueberries is just going to be water quality
Speaker 2: and so a pH. Okay, so you want to use
Speaker 2: acidic fertilizers.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 2: And you know you'll see if you see yellow growth
Speaker 2: on the new growth that the pH is too high.
Speaker 2: You got to get it down a little bit more. Okay,
Speaker 2: but that would fit that spot really well. They'll put
Speaker 2: up with a little bit of shade and do okay.
Speaker 2: Fruit doesn't like to be in shade, but blueberries will
Speaker 2: do okay with a little bit.
Speaker 10: Okay.
Speaker 19: Okay, Hey, that that sounds great. And it is a
Speaker 19: beautiful day, and thanks for everything you do, and everybody
Speaker 19: go out there and make some beautiful memories.
Speaker 4: There you go.
Speaker 2: Well more. You know, I don't know if if you
Speaker 2: listen to Guardline you've heard me say this, but I
Speaker 2: expect half the produce from these blueberries to be delivered
Speaker 2: to the station. Now look for you to drive three
Speaker 2: and a half hours that's not a problem to fulfill
Speaker 2: a promise, right, So right, yes, there you go. Put
Speaker 2: the onus on me. Hey, I'm joking with you. Thanks
Speaker 2: for the call, Thanks for being listener. Tell your neighbors
Speaker 2: and Tyler to listen.
Speaker 10: In I constant.
Speaker 2: All right, you take care. We've got to have a
Speaker 2: little bit of fun here. If you want to get
Speaker 2: out this afternoon, especially if you're around in the Houston area,
Speaker 2: you got to swing over by Buchanans Native Plants. I
Speaker 2: absolutely love that place. Every time I go, I see
Speaker 2: something I haven't seen before, and I want to tell
Speaker 2: you it is Buchanan's Native Plants. Now, does that mean
Speaker 2: they have only natives. No, they have more plants than
Speaker 2: you can imagine. But when you go to Buchan's Naty Plants,
Speaker 2: you're going to find a selection in they It's like
Speaker 2: nowhere in the greater Houston area. It is unbelievable all
Speaker 2: that they have. They're always featuring different native plants. If
Speaker 2: you sign up for their newsletter, which you should do,
Speaker 2: there's a lot of good information and things that pay back,
Speaker 2: you'll see a lot. And in fact, this week they
Speaker 2: featured Maximilian sunflower that is a late summer fall, blooming
Speaker 2: sunflower that blooms on tall stalks, I mean like six
Speaker 2: foot high stalks. And it's a perennial planet. Once find
Speaker 2: a wet spot, it'll love that, Maximilian. That's just an
Speaker 2: example of the bazillion of things that they have up
Speaker 2: there at Buchanan's Native Planet. It's a fun place to shop.
Speaker 2: It's on eleven Street on the Heights. The website, please
Speaker 2: write it down, Buchanansplants dot com. Buchanansplants dot com. That website.
Speaker 2: You can sign up for the newsletter. You need to
Speaker 2: do that, you really do. But there are videos that
Speaker 2: are educational. There's web pages that you read that are educational.
Speaker 2: It is a really really good site with all a
Speaker 2: lot of good information. When you walk in there, you're
Speaker 2: talking to people that have been doing this for a
Speaker 2: very long time. They know their stuff. And when you're
Speaker 2: out looking at plants, swing in the gift shop, it
Speaker 2: is unbelievable. It's really cool and oh why you're there.
Speaker 2: You remember brown stuff before green stuff. Well, they've got
Speaker 2: products from Microlife, a full line liquid solid granulars. They
Speaker 2: have products from Nitrofos, products from Nelson plant Food Products,
Speaker 2: from heirloom soils. They have their own all purpose blends
Speaker 2: called Life Below and Tropicore. You just ask them about that.
Speaker 2: Bucuntis NATed plants. We're going to run out to Katie
Speaker 2: now and talk to Logan. Hello, Logan, Hi, how's it
Speaker 2: going well. I'm doing well. I actually took a call
Speaker 2: the right way, so we got right to it. We
Speaker 2: got about forty five seconds. Let's see if we can
Speaker 2: help you.
Speaker 12: I got brown patch in my yard.
Speaker 9: What can I use to get rid of it?
Speaker 2: At this stage? If the circles are there, you're not
Speaker 2: going to make them green with the spray. Sprays prevent it,
Speaker 2: so I would say, don't worry about it. It's going
Speaker 2: to go away. The weather's going to heat up, the
Speaker 2: grass is going to regreen in those circles, and be
Speaker 2: ready to deal with it next fall because it'll be
Speaker 2: back next fall. My schedule on my schedule online at
Speaker 2: gardening with Skip dot com tells you right when to treat.
Speaker 2: And I know now is the time you can treat,
Speaker 2: but I'm just telling you you're not going to gain
Speaker 2: enough this late in the game probably to be worth
Speaker 2: treating now.
Speaker 4: Okay, so just to weed and feed and let it green.
Speaker 2: Up on its own. Uh yeah yeah yeah, don't worry
Speaker 2: about the brown patch. And now thanks for the call man,