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Speaker 1: Hey, welcome to garden Line Sun. Good morning gardeners. Thanks
Speaker 1: for tuning in. It is It is gonna be a
Speaker 1: good day, and it's going to be a good show
Speaker 1: today too. And the thing that makes it a good
Speaker 1: show primarily is your questions. When you call in and
Speaker 1: ask a question, I promise you this, there are there
Speaker 1: are a lot of people have the same question. You know,
Speaker 1: if something pops up in your it's like, where did that?
Speaker 1: What is that? Where did it come from?
Speaker 5: What?
Speaker 1: It's not just coming up in your yard? You know,
Speaker 1: all all the people around the Houstern area are likely
Speaker 1: to have similar kinds of things going on. So go
Speaker 1: ahead and call in give us a question. Seven one
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Speaker 1: talk about a few things today that are timely. By
Speaker 1: the way, was that rain or what a lot of
Speaker 1: you guys just got a gully washer. I actually was
Speaker 1: out of town this week and I got back and
Speaker 1: I had seven inches of rain in a rain gage
Speaker 1: and it kind of made me going, Okay, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: I know we didn't get seven inches, so did I
Speaker 1: forget to pour it out the last time? But anyway,
Speaker 1: everything is well watered and we'll take it right now.
Speaker 1: That's for sure. It's going to be a great, great
Speaker 1: weekend too. Hey, I'm going to be at Arburgate today,
Speaker 1: Arborgate Garden Center that is up in Tomball. For those
Speaker 1: of you who just moved to the Houston area, you
Speaker 1: got to see this place. Arbrogate is just west to
Speaker 1: Tombull on twenty nine twenty. Just head up to forty
Speaker 1: nine Tomball Parkway, head out west to twenty nine on
Speaker 1: twenty nine twenty. It's just outside of town on the
Speaker 1: left hand side. I'm going to be They have a
Speaker 1: number of giveaways that they're giving away there. I'll be
Speaker 1: answering your gardening questions. You can find me just you
Speaker 1: can say where's Skip and they'll point you to me,
Speaker 1: or you can say where's the peach Ballini machine and
Speaker 1: they'll point you to me. And I promise you I'll
Speaker 1: be right there. That's where I'm going to be hanging out.
Speaker 1: But come on out. This is my last appearance of
Speaker 1: the year. The very last one well of the year.
Speaker 1: Hold it go back, last appearance of the spring. I'll
Speaker 1: be doing some more in the fall, but for the
Speaker 1: spring it's the last chance I get to rub shoulders
Speaker 1: and look at samples and do all those kinds of things.
Speaker 1: So I hope you come out to Arbrogate. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be an awesome David to coming to Arburgate every day
Speaker 1: is remember when you come there to park in the back,
Speaker 1: there's a parking lot in the back. So for those
Speaker 1: of you who haven't been in a while, well you
Speaker 1: want to turn down Trischel Road, which is think of
Speaker 1: it as a loop that goes around behind Arburgate. And
Speaker 1: when you turn down Trisher you can turn before Arburgate
Speaker 1: or after Arburgate because it is a loop goes from
Speaker 1: twenty nine to twenty around back to twenty nine twenty
Speaker 1: and you'll see the big sign for the parking lot.
Speaker 1: It's easy, easy access. If you are contemplating trying some
Speaker 1: new things this year in the garden, I would suggest
Speaker 1: one of the best things you can do is add
Speaker 1: a container to your landscape. Each year, I buy a
Speaker 1: nice little container. I've had my share of plastic pots
Speaker 1: and those are great. They grow stuff. They have their issues.
Speaker 1: One of them is they don't last long. But if
Speaker 1: you get you a really nice container, we try to
Speaker 1: buy one, maybe one a year, just a really nice
Speaker 1: one and just keep building our collection that way. By
Speaker 1: the way, Arburgate has awesome pots, awesome containers you get.
Speaker 1: You got to see them when you get out there.
Speaker 1: But containers, if they have good drainage holes and quality
Speaker 1: soil in them, you can grow pretty much almost anything
Speaker 1: in a container that you would grow in your flower
Speaker 1: beds and your vegetable gardens. And you know, even small fruit.
Speaker 1: There's small types of fruit that can be grown in
Speaker 1: a container. You need a good mix. Now. Jungle Land
Speaker 1: distributed by Nitrofoss is that exact thing. A good mix.
Speaker 1: It's a blended Canadian blonde peat with four sources of
Speaker 1: aged organic matter. It's got microrise of fungi in it also,
Speaker 1: and they work in cooperation with the plant root making
Speaker 1: those roots much more effective. It holds moisture adequately and
Speaker 1: it drains moisture excess moisture very well. Jungle Land flour
Speaker 1: and vegetable planting soil. That would be the one that
Speaker 1: I would put in the outside pots, jungle land flour,
Speaker 1: and vegetable planting soil. You're going to find nitofoss products
Speaker 1: in many places. If you head down to Pasadena Fisher's
Speaker 1: Hard Groun Southmore, you'll find them there up in uh
Speaker 1: them or sage mind area rather on Beamer M and D.
Speaker 1: Beamer has them, as does a Stanton shopping center in Alvin,
Speaker 1: Texas on North Taylor is where you can find night
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Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 1: So, anyway, planting containers, how about vegetables if you ever
Speaker 1: maybe you don't have a vegetable garden and you're going,
Speaker 1: you know what, I don't want to plow up the
Speaker 1: back forty I don't have room for a garden or whatever.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, there's other ways to do a garden
Speaker 1: than that. But one simple way is just a nice
Speaker 1: good sized container.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 1: You know you if you can get a container of oh,
Speaker 1: anywhere from two to five to ten gallons, you can
Speaker 1: grow a lot of different kinds of vegetables in that
Speaker 1: size of container. For small leafy greens, smaller statued plants,
Speaker 1: A two gallon container would suffice like things like lettuce,
Speaker 1: by the way, it's not lettuce season, but things like that.
Speaker 1: If you're going to grow something a little larger that's
Speaker 1: gonna fruit, like a pepper or a eggplant, then you
Speaker 1: need at least a five gallon container. And certainly with tomatoes,
Speaker 1: you can grow a tomato and a five gallon container.
Speaker 1: They don't generally sell them by the gallon. You know,
Speaker 1: you look at the diameter of the top, and then
Speaker 1: the diameter of the base, and the depth of the
Speaker 1: soil and all of that. But if it'll hold about
Speaker 1: think of a five gallon bucket. If it'll hold about
Speaker 1: that much, so you can grow a tomato. But I
Speaker 1: wouldn't recommend that. I would recommend going bigger than that.
Speaker 1: And here's the reason why it gets hot here and
Speaker 1: no matter what you're growing. One year, I had a
Speaker 1: brigmancia an angel's trumpet, and a nice large container. It
Speaker 1: was gorgeous, but I was watering it twice a day.
Speaker 1: You know, it had some volume to it. But that's
Speaker 1: a plant that's drought tolerant. So the more soil you
Speaker 1: give your plant in the container the more growing mix media,
Speaker 1: the better off it's going to do, and the less
Speaker 1: likely if you have to go away for a day
Speaker 1: or something like that or two, your plant's going to
Speaker 1: go into stress. So sol volume here in the South
Speaker 1: is important. If you watch gardening shows filmed up north
Speaker 1: or on one of the coasts or something where the
Speaker 1: conditions are different than here, you'll see smaller containers, but
Speaker 1: not here. Bigger is better, that is for sure. Well,
Speaker 1: I think it's time for me to take a little break,
Speaker 1: which I'm going to do, and we'll be back perhaps
Speaker 1: with your question seven one three two one two k
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Speaker 1: right back. Good morning, Good Saturday morning. Glad we have
Speaker 1: a chance to visit about gardening this morning, and that
Speaker 1: is exactly what we're going to be doing. Uh, if
Speaker 1: you are interested in giving me a call seven one
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Speaker 1: two and two kt RH Hey and Chandy Gardens down
Speaker 1: in the Richmond area. Actually it's on the Katie Foster
Speaker 1: side of Richmond on FM three fifty nine in Channa Gardens.
Speaker 1: Is such a cool place. I love. I love going
Speaker 1: there and visiting because there's always going to be something
Speaker 1: that you haven't seen before, or something you have but
Speaker 1: maybe you didn't have the selection that you're going to
Speaker 1: find down and Chanted Gardens. By the way, it's Mother's
Speaker 1: Day coming up, so there are incredible options for gifts
Speaker 1: down there. There are some of their pottery just a
Speaker 1: wide range, you know, from traditional, beautiful traditional types of
Speaker 1: pottery to very unusual you know, painted owls and frogs
Speaker 1: and everything else under the sun. It is just a
Speaker 1: cool place. You need to go see it. See what
Speaker 1: I'm talking about. Mom would be really happy to get
Speaker 1: a gift from their gift shop as well. Oh and
Speaker 1: they have they've got a really nice selection of Kurrcuma
Speaker 1: ginger in tulip gingers are they do well in shady spots.
Speaker 1: They have a beautiful bloom head that comes up out
Speaker 1: of the center of the plant and uh, it just gorgeous.
Speaker 1: Makes a good cut flower too, by the way, But
Speaker 1: ask them to see their Corcuma ginger And if you've
Speaker 1: got a little shady spot and you want to add
Speaker 1: some beauty and some color into it, that would be
Speaker 1: a great way to go. Really good way to go.
Speaker 1: I love their I love their gingers. Gingers one of
Speaker 1: my favorite plants too. I really enjoy that. Hey, here's
Speaker 1: an idea for mom. How about one of the tropical
Speaker 1: hibiscus from Enchanted Gardens. A tropical hibiscus, It just a
Speaker 1: gaudy flower, looks pretty all year. I mean all you know,
Speaker 1: all the growing season. It's a warm season plant. Uh
Speaker 1: you know, you can bring it in and protect it.
Speaker 1: I had one that I put a little protection over
Speaker 1: outdoors and it killed it back, but it's coming back
Speaker 1: out of the base now I had and a big
Speaker 1: giant container. I love those plants, very beautiful, and they
Speaker 1: also I wouldn't say they may cut flowers, but you
Speaker 1: can snap off the flowers at the base when they
Speaker 1: open up and bring them indoors and enjoy them for
Speaker 1: quite a long time. You don't have to stick them
Speaker 1: in water necessarily. And I say a long time, I
Speaker 1: mean through that day. Aibiscus flowers last the day. If
Speaker 1: you want to find the Ingena Gardens, go to this
Speaker 1: website Ententedgardens Richmond dot com Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com.
Speaker 1: When you get there, you're gonna find an unbelievable selection
Speaker 1: of pots and plants and whimsy in every kind of
Speaker 1: way a beautiful garden art as well as well as
Speaker 1: fertilizers from Microlife and nitrofoss and Nilson, plant food and
Speaker 1: medina and soils from Nature's Way and heirloom soils too
Speaker 1: Intented Gardens Richmond dot com. That's what you need to know.
Speaker 1: I uh, now that I'm back in town, I've got
Speaker 1: some fertilizing to do. And one of the things that
Speaker 1: I need to get done, in fact I will get
Speaker 1: done this week, is taking care of some of my containers. Now,
Speaker 1: think about this. A container. This is obvious, but a
Speaker 1: lot of people don't really think about the ramifications of it.
Speaker 1: A container has the whole root system of that plant
Speaker 1: in it. So if you take something like I said,
Speaker 1: I had a tropical hibiscus and a container, well, if
Speaker 1: it were growing in the soil, that tropical hibiscus root
Speaker 1: system would be going far and wide all over the place.
Speaker 1: But it's confined to the container. So every drop of water,
Speaker 1: every molecule of fertilizer that that particular plant gets has
Speaker 1: to come out of the container. So we need to
Speaker 1: make sure and keep them extra watered, and we need
Speaker 1: to make sure and keep them extra fed. That doesn't
Speaker 1: mean overdoing it, It means just take care of them.
Speaker 1: And Nelson Plant Food has a line that they call
Speaker 1: the nutrist Line, and the nutri Star line has specific
Speaker 1: types of plant fertilizers. For example, there's a vegetable fertilizer.
Speaker 1: You know, there's one for acid leving plants, one for
Speaker 1: hibiscus and flowering tropicals. That's one I need to be
Speaker 1: using this week. But there's also one nutristar citrus, fruit
Speaker 1: and avocado. And so basically if you eat fruit off
Speaker 1: of a plant, that fertilizer is for that, Okay, citrus,
Speaker 1: all other kinds of fruit and avocado. It works well
Speaker 1: on oranges and lemons and limes and avocados and kumquats,
Speaker 1: and for semons and papias and figs and peaches and
Speaker 1: apples and you know, grapes. I mean it is a
Speaker 1: quality mix for that. It's a strong, strong mix that
Speaker 1: when I say strong, I mean it's got everything. Okay,
Speaker 1: It's got the main nutrients in it in the right ratio.
Speaker 1: It's got micronutrients in it as well to prevent common deficiencies.
Speaker 1: Going to get a good root system, good growth, good development,
Speaker 1: and therefore good production. Nutri Star from Nelson Citrus fruit
Speaker 1: and avocado food want of many nutri star options that
Speaker 1: Nelson offers. So how do you fertilize when you're doing
Speaker 1: these well, you want to fertilize them in small amounts
Speaker 1: or with the products going to gradually release it. Either
Speaker 1: way you go. Just don't dump a ton of salt
Speaker 1: based fertilizer on the root system because that's overdoing it.
Speaker 1: You know, we learned the lesson in life, right that
Speaker 1: moderation and all things. So you just give it small
Speaker 1: amounts and just continue to feed them. You want your
Speaker 1: plants to be healthy. You want them to be growing
Speaker 1: and have the nutrition they need and the water that
Speaker 1: they need. That's very very important. So if you want
Speaker 1: color containers, you got to fertilize them. I learned this
Speaker 1: with I learned my lesson on this with Petunia's trailing
Speaker 1: type of petunia. One year I had it in a
Speaker 1: container and was watering it and taking care of it.
Speaker 1: In those things bloom just about bloom themselves to death.
Speaker 1: I mean there's so many blooms you can't even see
Speaker 1: the leaves. But anyway, I was just taking care of
Speaker 1: it with water, but it just sort of played out.
Speaker 1: And that happens after they really bloom heavily sometimes. So
Speaker 1: what I needed to do and what I now do,
Speaker 1: is you cut them back after they start to decline
Speaker 1: a little bit, if they start to decline a little bit,
Speaker 1: and then fertilize and water water that fertilizer in and
Speaker 1: it produces new growth. Now you may be going, yeah,
Speaker 1: but I want flowers. Well, you can only have flowers
Speaker 1: if you have new growth. Here's why new growth occurs.
Speaker 1: You get leaves, leaves or solar panels. Solar panels collect
Speaker 1: the sun, leaves make plant food called carbohydrates, which fuels
Speaker 1: bloom production and fruit production too for that matter. So
Speaker 1: you always need good growth and you want to take
Speaker 1: care of your plants. So on those petunias, if you
Speaker 1: start to kind of dwindle a little bit, just before
Speaker 1: they get totally, run it out and just go ahead,
Speaker 1: cut them back, fertilize them with a quality product and
Speaker 1: watered in really good and boosts some new growth and
Speaker 1: then another cycle of blooms will follow that. Just don't
Speaker 1: let it go too far. Don't be afraid to prune
Speaker 1: back your annuals. That's a perfectly okay thing to do,
Speaker 1: even perennials too. I've got some salvia that I pruned yesterday,
Speaker 1: salvia that the salvia that I was pruning specifically, was
Speaker 1: in a little less light than it wants to be.
Speaker 1: It was a very bright shade with some sun. Salvia
Speaker 1: likes a lot of sun, most of them, and so
Speaker 1: it was getting a little lanky. So I just went
Speaker 1: back and I cut branches back halfway to it. And
Speaker 1: everywhere you cut it by salvia back, you're going to
Speaker 1: get two shoots from where there was one. And then
Speaker 1: you cut those two shoots back, now you have four.
Speaker 1: And so what you're doing is you're creating a smaller
Speaker 1: stature bush with more terminals, more shoot INDs, salvia's roses,
Speaker 1: many types of plants at the ends of shoots. So
Speaker 1: anytime you share back a little bit, you're going to
Speaker 1: have more blooms because you took one shoot, which can
Speaker 1: make one bloom or bloom cluster, and you turned it
Speaker 1: into too. Do you see what I'm saying. So don't
Speaker 1: be afraid to cut these things back, fertilize them, get
Speaker 1: them going again, and they'll look really good, very very good.
Speaker 1: If you would like to call with a question and
Speaker 1: if it's something related, maybe that a photo would help
Speaker 1: you know, if you say, oh, there's a bug, and
Speaker 1: we'll describe it to me. Well, it's kind of small
Speaker 1: and it has six legs. Okay, we're not getting anywhere here,
Speaker 1: so send me a picture. You send me a picture,
Speaker 1: call my producer Alexandra and get the email. Send me
Speaker 1: a picture, but you got to follow up on the
Speaker 1: picture with a call. Just not able to handle all
Speaker 1: the emails that come in, but really helps for a
Speaker 1: phone call to have some photo to see if it's
Speaker 1: that kind of identification. We got some folks that are
Speaker 1: going to be calling in today with just that. Uh.
Speaker 1: I was gosh, I see about three or four weeks ago,
Speaker 1: I guess I was visiting with with Cliff at year
Speaker 1: Round Houston dot Com. A year Round Houston dot Com
Speaker 1: is a specialist when it comes to coreation and compost
Speaker 1: stop dressing.
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Speaker 1: They come out to the place they do the aeration,
Speaker 1: they spread the compost. It's a nice, fine textured, high
Speaker 1: quality compost. I was looking at some of the material
Speaker 1: they use. It's excellent.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 1: And we were on a site where you know, we
Speaker 1: were doing kind of a demonstration of it, and and
Speaker 1: I was getting some pictures and things. In fact, I
Speaker 1: posted something to Facebook about it. If you live inside
Speaker 1: the Beltway, you need to give Cliff a call year
Speaker 1: round Houston dot com. If you get a chance to
Speaker 1: do that, I would recommend that you do. And here's why.
Speaker 1: The getting oxygen done in the root system, especially in
Speaker 1: a clay soil, getting organic matter down into the soil,
Speaker 1: all of those things help stimulate grass to grow. Now,
Speaker 1: if your lawn got thin for whatever reason, could be diseased,
Speaker 1: could be drought, you know, whatever it is, and you're
Speaker 1: needing to fill it back in. Some of you had
Speaker 1: debris piled up from the storms and stuff, and it
Speaker 1: sat on the lawn and kind of sent it backwards
Speaker 1: a little bit. Call Cliff at year round Houston dot com,
Speaker 1: Year Round Houston dot com. Here's a phone number eight
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Speaker 1: serve that area inside the Beltway, and I'll be happy
Speaker 1: to come out and discuss with you what might need
Speaker 1: to be done at your place. I love, I love
Speaker 1: seeing a lawn respond after that cory. You know, the
Speaker 1: most beautiful turf, some of the most beautiful turf in
Speaker 1: the world is golf courses, just beautiful, and they aerate
Speaker 1: those they do areate those, especially areas where you've got
Speaker 1: foot traffic or where it's kind of getting pounded and compacted.
Speaker 1: Aeration is essential. You get a sail that's compacted down
Speaker 1: where I can't get any oxygen in it, and you
Speaker 1: can put fertilizer on it. You can put water on
Speaker 1: it if you want, but you're not going to you're
Speaker 1: not going to see the results that just opening it up,
Speaker 1: I like to say, breathing life into the soil. That
Speaker 1: is what aeration does. So those dog paths, those human
Speaker 1: foot paths, wherever the pitty powder or a little feet
Speaker 1: are starting to beat that grass back, you need to
Speaker 1: make sure and get some aeration done in those areas,
Speaker 1: especially Gosh. I think probably when it was a while back,
Speaker 1: I was Disney of was Sherrit Plants for All Seasons,
Speaker 1: and I was there with some of my family. We
Speaker 1: were looking over the things they were going to redoing
Speaker 1: some of their landscape and just you know, it's spring
Speaker 1: and pleasure seas is a fun place to shop. I mean,
Speaker 1: they got all kinds of stuff, but I always like
Speaker 1: to go by and just see what's new, what I
Speaker 1: have now, and they, you know, the plant world continues
Speaker 1: to give us new cool stuff, and one of those
Speaker 1: things is is a port of laca Porto Laco. Personally,
Speaker 1: those plants are the succulents that are annuals that bloom
Speaker 1: and bloom and bloom and bloom. The balloons last about
Speaker 1: a day, but there's always a dozen blooms waiting to
Speaker 1: come on. They have a type called color Blast color
Speaker 1: Blast double Porti Laca, and you just have to see it.
Speaker 1: Instead of thinking of a little flat flower like normal
Speaker 1: porta laca, this just has petals all over the place.
Speaker 1: I don't know if describing it as a carnation is fair,
Speaker 1: but that's somewhat what it looks like to me. But
Speaker 1: it's an awesome plant and they've got it and several
Speaker 1: different colors. By the way, they also have some wonderful
Speaker 1: plants for pollinators that look really nice. If you are
Speaker 1: interested in bringing pollinators into your place, that stop by
Speaker 1: there talk to them. And this is one of the
Speaker 1: nice things that plants for all seasons is You just
Speaker 1: basically go in and you tell them what you need,
Speaker 1: or tell them the problems that you're dealing with in
Speaker 1: the yard. That could be bringing them a sample or
Speaker 1: a photo or whatever. Just go by there and check
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Speaker 1: You'll get an accurate answer. They got the products you need,
Speaker 1: and most of all, they just have the knowledge and
Speaker 1: willingness to help. I'm gonna take a break, folks, and
Speaker 1: I'll be right back, all right, and welcome back to
Speaker 1: garden Line on a beautiful, beautiful Saturday morning. I hope
Speaker 1: you'll come out to Arburgate today. I'll be there be
Speaker 1: my last appearance of the year, or I keep seeing
Speaker 1: year of the spring, of the spring, I'll do some
Speaker 1: more in the fall, last time in the spring. So
Speaker 1: we are looking forward to this one. It's always fun
Speaker 1: to go out to Arburgate. It is always a good time.
Speaker 1: And they're just putting on a big kind of Mom's
Speaker 1: day shindig. I guess you could say, you've got peach
Speaker 1: ballini machine, and we're gonna be giving away some really
Speaker 1: cool stuff as well and answering your gardening questions. As
Speaker 1: simple as that. Someone asked me the other day. I
Speaker 1: get you know, people, I'm surprised because we explain it
Speaker 1: on the air a lot, but I know people don't
Speaker 1: listen to Garden Line four hours a day, two days
Speaker 1: a week. But they asked me about micronutrients and macronutrients,
Speaker 1: and you know, do just some questions basically about as mite.
Speaker 1: It's what they're asking as might is a micronutrient supplement,
Speaker 1: and what is a micro nutrient? Does it mean it's
Speaker 1: a nutrient that's smaller than a macron No, it means
Speaker 1: it's needed in smaller quantities. So if you're a plant,
Speaker 1: you're gonna eat a lot of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium.
Speaker 1: You're gonna eat a moderate amount of calcium and sulfur
Speaker 1: and magnesium. And then there's these things like micronutrients like
Speaker 1: boron or zinc or molybdenum, all kinds of micros that
Speaker 1: are essential for plant life. They cannot live without micronutrients,
Speaker 1: but they don't need a lot of them. That's why
Speaker 1: we call them trace minerals or micronutrients. And that's what
Speaker 1: azemite is. Now forty four pounds bag of azemite is
Speaker 1: going to cover six to twelve thousand square feet of
Speaker 1: your lawn because it is a micronutrient. If you have
Speaker 1: a vegetable garden, I would recommend including it in there too.
Speaker 1: Ten pounds will cover about a thousand square feet of
Speaker 1: vegetable garden area. Whenever you fertilize, it's an easy time
Speaker 1: to just go ahead and put on your azamite and
Speaker 1: a separate application at that same time, same day. And
Speaker 1: the reason is because you got your spread er out
Speaker 1: and you're doing that, and it just makes it easier
Speaker 1: to remember. But you can do azmiite anytime you want.
Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be done just according to my
Speaker 1: fertilization schedule. You can do it anytime you want. So
Speaker 1: if you in the absence of a soil test, I
Speaker 1: would do it once, maybe twice a year, depending on
Speaker 1: what's in your soil. A soil tests really guide you
Speaker 1: the best. Then you know how much to fertilize. But
Speaker 1: Day's MTE is a product that works as simple as that.
Speaker 1: Let's set out now to New Keny. We're gonna visit
Speaker 1: with Armando. Hello Armando, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 4: Good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 10: I've got an issue with a Saint Augustine grass that
Speaker 10: I've been buying what three or four pallets in Saint
Speaker 10: Augustine grass and most of us pretty good grass. But
Speaker 10: after the rains, the groote of the Saint Augustine grass
Speaker 10: started dying looked like in dying and spreading. You know,
Speaker 10: it's just one drink on treatment I should do.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's a that's a tough one rain. It shouldn't
Speaker 1: hurt Saint Augustine. I mean it can take quite a
Speaker 1: bit of water and then being submerged. That's that's one thing.
Speaker 1: But it could be it could be several things. It
Speaker 1: could be a root disease called take all root rot
Speaker 1: that's involved a little early for us to see major
Speaker 1: problems with that. But it could be that there are
Speaker 1: some types of fungus that can essentially rock the leaves
Speaker 1: off the runners. That is a possibility. And then there
Speaker 1: is a disease called take excuse me, gray leaf spot
Speaker 1: and armando. If you go out and kind of get
Speaker 1: down load to the grass and the blades have little
Speaker 1: spots on them that are purple borders with ten centers,
Speaker 1: but a lot of them. When you look at the lawn,
Speaker 1: it just browns out. If it's a very severe case
Speaker 1: of that, and we are entering gray leaf spot season
Speaker 1: and it loves moisture, so that could be a problem.
Speaker 1: But those are all a lot of different possibilities, and
Speaker 1: so I can't re recommend a cure without knowing which
Speaker 1: of those it is. Do you think you could take
Speaker 1: some pictures of it, maybe a picture of a lawn
Speaker 1: from a little bit of a distance, and then get
Speaker 1: down as low as you can and get some good
Speaker 1: close ups of those grass blades?
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 12: What?
Speaker 4: Actually? What I tried to do.
Speaker 9: I tried to email you.
Speaker 13: The question and then I was going to send a photo,
Speaker 13: but for whatever reason, it's it's just when the said submit,
Speaker 13: it was buffering, and the buffering. I tried a couple
Speaker 13: of times, as I said, but that I'll just call
Speaker 13: and ask you about it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I don't know why. That sounds like a
Speaker 1: problem on your end Internet there, but uh, probably you
Speaker 1: have my email. Then then I'd give it. I'd give
Speaker 1: it a try again. I mean, you know, I could
Speaker 1: tell you, oh, go get a funder side and spray it,
Speaker 1: but I hate to waste your time and money if
Speaker 1: that's not what we need to be doing. It's my
Speaker 1: best guess, but I don't I'm not happy with my
Speaker 1: best guess right now.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I'll be glad to take Also, I was saying
Speaker 10: a video actually, and.
Speaker 4: You want video or.
Speaker 1: Pictures are probably better. It's it's less it's easier to
Speaker 1: email too, less with but yeah, just just check them,
Speaker 1: check them before you send them. Make yeah, uh, send
Speaker 1: them to me and then call in and uh, we'll
Speaker 1: we'll continue this discussion, all right, thank you, you bet
Speaker 1: happy to do it. Ace Hardware stores are throughout our
Speaker 1: greater Houston area. And uh, if you want to find
Speaker 1: my ACE Hardware stores here in Houston, a greater Houston
Speaker 1: area in fact goes way out from here.
Speaker 14: Uh.
Speaker 1: Ace Hardware Texas dot com. That is the company, that
Speaker 1: is the website that you need to go to. Ace
Speaker 1: Hardware Texas. Don't forget Texas dot Com. Ace Hardware Texas
Speaker 1: dot Com. You're going to find the whole whole crew
Speaker 1: of our ACE Hardware stores there now. Ace, Oh my goodness,
Speaker 1: they are having deals they've had in an ac other
Speaker 1: day and Gray on barbecue equipment, select brands, and you know,
Speaker 1: ACE carries the best brands and with I don't want
Speaker 1: to say this, but the Fourth of July coming up,
Speaker 1: or even Mother's Day grilling out is It's just it's
Speaker 1: what you do, right, I mean, it is absolutely what
Speaker 1: you do. And whether you need a big Green Egg
Speaker 1: or a Tragger or a Weber or some of their
Speaker 1: other quality brands that they carry. Ace is a place
Speaker 1: you can also get your little string of lights to
Speaker 1: hang over the patio out there for some outdoor ambiance.
Speaker 1: And you know, once it heats up out evenings or
Speaker 1: when we want to spend time outdoors because it's a
Speaker 1: little hot during the middle of the day. Now you
Speaker 1: can go to ACE hardware stores. You go down to
Speaker 1: Alvin on Willis Street and you got Patco Hardware and Lumber.
Speaker 1: You go to Port Lavaka Calhoun Plaza and you've got
Speaker 1: Port Levaka Ace Plantation. ACE Hardware is down there on
Speaker 1: on Mason Road in Richmond, Texas. There's just so many
Speaker 1: good Aces. I've been full Sure you've got fullsher Ace
Speaker 1: on three fifty nine. Kilgore's clear Lake Lumber on Main
Speaker 1: Street in League City. How about Child's Building Supply out
Speaker 1: there in Orange, Texas. Those are some of the many ones.
Speaker 1: If you want to find more Ace Hardwaretexas dot Com.
Speaker 1: While you're in there, grab the fertilizers you need for
Speaker 1: the year. Any kind of pest, weeds, diseases and things
Speaker 1: you're dealing with. ACE is going to have a product
Speaker 1: to help fix that. That is absolutely what they do.
Speaker 1: You know, you can take a product like Nitofas Superturf.
Speaker 1: Nitrovas Superturf is a nineteen four to ten fertilizer that
Speaker 1: gradually releases over time. Whether you have Saint Augustine or
Speaker 1: Bermuda or Zoozia. Nitropas Supertruve's designed for our soils, It's
Speaker 1: designed for our climate, is designed for the species of
Speaker 1: grass we grow here. By releasing slowly, it cuts down
Speaker 1: on mowing and it allows for your lawn to grow
Speaker 1: balance where you get a good root system. In addition
Speaker 1: to nice healthy green tops. You're gonna find night foss
Speaker 1: products like super Turf D and D feed up there
Speaker 1: in a Tomball the M and D on Clare Lake
Speaker 1: on Bay Area Boulevard or Lake Hardwe Angleton on Velasko
Speaker 1: down there in Angleton. I am gonna take a little
Speaker 1: break and we will be back with your questions at
Speaker 1: seven one three two one two kat r H. All right,
Speaker 1: I got a question for you, and how many of
Speaker 1: you have used codochrome film? Remember codo chrome film? When
Speaker 1: I first started doing photography, I do a lot of
Speaker 1: plant photography codochrome I made slides uh and uh actor chrome,
Speaker 1: codo chrome, those kind of films I use it. I
Speaker 1: don't know if anyone remembers that. Now what is film?
Speaker 1: Isn't it great that you don't have to take your
Speaker 1: film to someplace and get it developed, and then you
Speaker 1: get your packet of pictures and you look at them
Speaker 1: and throw half of them away because something was wrong
Speaker 1: when you took the picture. Now with digital, just like nap,
Speaker 1: delete that. Let's take it again. Boy? Is that ever nice? Anyway?
Speaker 1: Curious if any of you have used Coda chrome. Well,
Speaker 1: you're listening to Garden Line phone number seven one three
Speaker 1: two one two k t r H. I'm your host,
Speaker 1: Skip Richter, and we're here to help you have a
Speaker 1: bountiful garden and a beautiful landscape and more fun in
Speaker 1: the process. We were I was out in uh you
Speaker 1: mya Arizona this week for a little while and go
Speaker 1: out in the mornings as I like to do, sit
Speaker 1: out there with a cup of coffee and just just
Speaker 1: enjoy the day. Getting started listening to the birds. And
Speaker 1: I have a little app on my phone that I
Speaker 1: found out from rich at Wildbird's Unlimited. Uh, and there's
Speaker 1: we have six Wildbirds Unlimited stores. We got the Kingwood
Speaker 1: Store down on Kingwood Drive. We got the clear Lake
Speaker 1: Store on El Dorado, Pearland. There's on East Broadway. That's
Speaker 1: where the Wildbird is in Pairland. Wildbirds on Limited is
Speaker 1: in Pairland, the Houston Store on bel Air, the Houston
Speaker 1: Store on Memorial Drive, and in Cypress on Barker Cypress,
Speaker 1: or six of them. Anyway, they Richard told me about
Speaker 1: the Merlin app. It's produced by Cornell University and it's free.
Speaker 1: And I'm telling you, I don't know if I've ever
Speaker 1: seen an app that was so remarkable, so remarkable and
Speaker 1: free on top of it all. But you can take
Speaker 1: a picture of a bird and send it to the app.
Speaker 1: It tells you what the bird is. Or you can
Speaker 1: sit there and say, listen to this and tell me
Speaker 1: what it is. And I went out one morning and
Speaker 1: I turned it on a so what is that? And
Speaker 1: there were like probably five or six birds. I didn't
Speaker 1: know that at the time, I knew there was more
Speaker 1: than one bird, but I just sat there and what
Speaker 1: bird after bird kept appearing on my screen and it
Speaker 1: would tell you right what they are and you can
Speaker 1: learn about them and everything. It's really cool. But anyway,
Speaker 1: Wildbird's Unlimited, it's cool. By the way, we're in nesting
Speaker 1: season for many of our songbirds. The folks at Wildbird's
Speaker 1: Unlimited have designed the perfect blend for that and it
Speaker 1: is called the Nesting Super Blend. You're only going to
Speaker 1: be able to get it at Wildbirds Unlimited. You can
Speaker 1: purchase it in loose seed bags. You can buy it
Speaker 1: in the little compacted seed cylinders. It works, so you
Speaker 1: know whatever kind of feeder you have, it's going to work.
Speaker 1: You want to look for Nesting Super Blend at any
Speaker 1: of our six wild Birds Unlimited stores in the Greater
Speaker 1: Houston area. Go to WBU dot com Forward Slash Houston
Speaker 1: WBU dot Com Forward Slash Houston. While you're there, check
Speaker 1: out my favorite hummingbird feeder. It's the Wildbirds Unlimited High
Speaker 1: Perch Hummingbird feeder. And get some of that little nectar product.
Speaker 1: Nectar Defender, I believe is what it's called. Anyway, it
Speaker 1: makes the hummingbird nectar lasts longer. You know, sugar water
Speaker 1: on a warm day, sitting there for several days, doesn't
Speaker 1: it goes bad? And with this it'll extend that life out,
Speaker 1: oh maybe seven to ten days at least up there.
Speaker 1: Going forward, We're going to head out now to Atasca
Speaker 1: Seda and talk to Louis this morning.
Speaker 15: Hello Louise, Hello, Well, first of all, Skip, I have
Speaker 15: to tell you my husband and I came here after
Speaker 15: he got out of the Navy to Houston in sixty
Speaker 15: six for work.
Speaker 7: Been here ever since. But I grew up in Atascota County.
Speaker 15: You did, yes, Charlotte.
Speaker 1: Do I know you? And you grew up in Charlotte?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm I'm, I could probably be. I don't know
Speaker 7: your big sister.
Speaker 1: All right? All right, well I used to go u
Speaker 1: now here. Everybody's listening, going, when are you all going
Speaker 1: to quit this? I used to go work in peanut
Speaker 1: fields in Charlotte, moving irrigation pipe in the I know
Speaker 1: Charlotte very well.
Speaker 7: Yeah, because we were a Texas A and I kids.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, Well you didn't call me to tell
Speaker 1: me that though, No, I didn't.
Speaker 7: I've called to you about stickyweed. That's what Randy called it,
Speaker 7: and it has it's been this, I mean this spring
Speaker 7: than ever. So I don't know what the proper name
Speaker 7: is it for it, but maybe you know about it.
Speaker 7: He just said, you just got to pull it, that.
Speaker 1: Is That is the case. Yeah, and it it has
Speaker 1: to have light to be able to germinate and come up,
Speaker 1: so you know, to avoid it in the future, keeping
Speaker 1: those beds mult where sunlight cannot reach the soil. Uh,
Speaker 1: it it can't get established. That and then that's the
Speaker 1: number one thing you do to avoid sentencing yourself to
Speaker 1: hand pulling weeds. Uh. There are some post emergent herbicides
Speaker 1: that will kill it, but in flower beds those products
Speaker 1: typically will kill your flowers too because they're like the
Speaker 1: sticky weed the broad leaves.
Speaker 7: Well, So anyway that yeah, and I know I've lost
Speaker 7: a lot of mulch in those areas and it's time
Speaker 7: to renew that. But anyway, so I need to get somebody.
Speaker 7: But long story, I just thought this is I was
Speaker 7: out yesterday looking at all that and pulling, and I thought,
Speaker 7: I've never seen it this bad. So anyway, that is
Speaker 7: a dollar we too have been just ferocious in the beds.
Speaker 7: So anyway, but just let me tell you when I
Speaker 7: heard you when you first introduced yourself on the radio
Speaker 7: and you said, you know where you you grew up
Speaker 7: in Jordantown or whatever, and I thought, oh my gosh, anyway,
Speaker 7: yeah with you, yeah, yeah, exactly. Well I did at
Speaker 7: My brother's two years older than me, and I said,
Speaker 7: we both. I went to school there till third grade,
Speaker 7: Umbulow All moved my dad there when I was four
Speaker 7: years old from South Louisiana. But long story short, I
Speaker 7: went to Great but you know, but Sargo, we moved
Speaker 7: over to Charlotte Field. He had to work to Charlotte Field.
Speaker 7: So my brother knew, probably some two years aad of me.
Speaker 7: So he's I said, do you remember Richters? He said absolutely?
Speaker 7: And a friend of mine says there's still Richters in
Speaker 7: that area, but I don't know if they're yours or not.
Speaker 1: I figured they ran them all out of town by now.
Speaker 1: But all right, thanks Louise, appreciate your call. You take care,
Speaker 1: all right, Hey, if you'd like to give us a
Speaker 1: call seven one three two one two k t r
Speaker 1: H seven one three two one two k t r H. Hey,
Speaker 1: orgy or he Siddon Gardens down there in Alvin area. Now,
Speaker 1: if you haven't been down there, you need to go
Speaker 1: all of you down in that whole region. Run Highway six,
Speaker 1: you know, Santa Fe, Alvin and out from there. Jory
Speaker 1: Siddon Gardens is your hometown garden center. They if you're
Speaker 1: in Alvin, you're heading towards Santa Fe. It's not halfway
Speaker 1: to Santa Fe, but you turn right and it's back
Speaker 1: in that way. It's on Elizabeth Street. Jray has got
Speaker 1: tons of blooming roses, a lot of the types. You know,
Speaker 1: roses can be a little five flowered, five pedaled flower,
Speaker 1: or it can be what we call high pedal count flowers.
Speaker 1: Flowers but just they're just filled with petals. He's got
Speaker 1: a lot of those high pedal count blooming roses right now.
Speaker 1: He's got avocado trees. By the way, the avocados, some
Speaker 1: of them already have fruit on them for crying out loud.
Speaker 1: And it's types that are going to do well down there. Now.
Speaker 1: On Friday, May sixteenth, next Friday, Horay is going to
Speaker 1: have an avocado class at nine am. So how do
Speaker 1: you have success with avocados? Go to Horas let them
Speaker 1: tell you how to do it. Why are you there?
Speaker 1: You're going to find not just plants, but you're going
Speaker 1: to find the three sixty trees stabilizer. You're going to
Speaker 1: find Hora special fertilizer formulation. And when it comes to fruit,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, he has every kind of fruit you
Speaker 1: can imagine, lots of it, lots of vegetables, lots of
Speaker 1: roses just in shrubs and trees, tons of those as well.
Speaker 1: Jorges Hidden Gardens on Alvin Street. Well, I don't know
Speaker 1: how we did this, but we ran right through this
Speaker 1: hour and I'm going to have to go to a
Speaker 1: break here. Ron in Cleveland. I'm gonna have to hold
Speaker 1: you over in order to give you time to be
Speaker 1: able to answer your question. If you can hang on,
Speaker 1: you'll be our absolute first up, I promise. So when
Speaker 1: we come back, for those of you who are gonna
Speaker 1: have a little free time after the show today, I
Speaker 1: hope you'll come out to Arborgate Garden Center in Tomball,
Speaker 1: where I'll be from twelve noon to two pm. Twelve
Speaker 1: to two at Arburgate, I'll be there answering your gardening questions.
Speaker 1: Beverly and the Arburgate team is putting on a little
Speaker 1: shindig today for Mother's Day and getting us all geared
Speaker 1: up and ready to go for that. The Peach Bellini
Speaker 1: ma will be out. We'll be given away some real
Speaker 1: cool giveaways as well. Beverly's going to have some copies
Speaker 1: of my book out there that I can sign for
Speaker 1: if you'd like me to do that. And mainly just come,
Speaker 1: bring your samples, bring your questions, bring photos on your phone,
Speaker 1: and let's help you find solutions to what you're looking for.
Speaker 1: That's the plan. We want you to have success. And
Speaker 1: success means learning to think like a plant. Think about that,
Speaker 1: Think like a plant. How do you make a plant grow?
Speaker 1: It's really simple, it really is to give it what
Speaker 1: it wants. Does it want sun or shade? Does it
Speaker 1: like moist soil or does it prefer to be on
Speaker 1: the dry side. Does it grow in the summer, in
Speaker 1: the fall, the spring, the winter? What seasons is it
Speaker 1: going to do well? What varieties are you going to
Speaker 1: find that do well here? Because they're varieties that like
Speaker 1: our weather, you can't change the weather. You can't change
Speaker 1: a climate at the freezes and heat and all of
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. But you can't pick a planet
Speaker 1: that wants those conditions that we have here. So that's
Speaker 1: what we do on Guardline has help you have a
Speaker 1: more bountful garden and a more beautiful landscape. We'll be
Speaker 1: right back hang on, run well, good morning, welcome back
Speaker 1: to garden Line. Good to have you with us. We
Speaker 1: are gonna run straight out this hour to Cleveland and
Speaker 1: talk to Ron. Hey, Ron, welcome to guard Line.
Speaker 14: Good morning Skip.
Speaker 16: I've used some ornimation that you've gave me to get
Speaker 16: my yard really good shape. I got bermuda grass and
Speaker 16: I've ideate a weed and it looks like it's green
Speaker 16: ki Linga and I use the Texas A and M
Speaker 16: turf Grass website. Little uh. It comes up three leaves
Speaker 16: with a sea pod in the center. I've got weed
Speaker 16: spray ful, I got weeds fray for it. I'm going
Speaker 16: to mow and bag the area. But I'm questioning when
Speaker 16: to put down pre emergent herbicide because I thought it
Speaker 16: was just like two times a year. So I'm looking
Speaker 16: well Kalinga information on that.
Speaker 1: Right. Kalinga germinates when the soil temperature is about sixty
Speaker 1: so that's about five degrees warmer than something like crabgrass,
Speaker 1: for example. So in the spring, on my schedule in February,
Speaker 1: we're talking about pre emergence to try to get ahead
Speaker 1: of things like crabgrass at that time. If you don't
Speaker 1: have other grassy weeds you're dealing with, you might delay
Speaker 1: it a little bit and do it. Let's see you
Speaker 1: were in Cleveland, I would say probably late February or
Speaker 1: early March. But those products of the barricade is pretty
Speaker 1: effective against color as a pre emergent. Post emergent, you
Speaker 1: got to go with the sedgehammer type product. And it's
Speaker 1: gonna take more than one application. Okay, kalinga is a yeah,
Speaker 1: it is a sed johuh yeah, okay, Well let me
Speaker 1: put this way. We treat it. We treat it like
Speaker 1: I said, it's very closely kin to nutsedge and uh
Speaker 1: so when you do the sedgehammer, you're going to spray it.
Speaker 1: Make sure that I would do what's called sedgehammer plus.
Speaker 1: Uh it has a surfactant already in it to make
Speaker 1: it stick to slick weeds like nutsedge and klinga sedge
Speaker 1: haammer plus. And you're going to do it, and then
Speaker 1: colinga will not be killed by that, It'll be weakened,
Speaker 1: and when it starts to try to regrow, you hit
Speaker 1: it again. And the two applications generally will do the trick.
Speaker 1: But one, can I just throw one more thing out
Speaker 1: there on? Kalinga loves wet conditions, and if you have
Speaker 1: a way of drying that area out a little bit.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's not turning on the irrigation as much. Maybe
Speaker 1: it's putting in subsurface drainage to keep it from stay
Speaker 1: in a swamp, you know, or too wet you will.
Speaker 1: You will slow Kalinga down a lot, and it makes
Speaker 1: it easier to manage.
Speaker 16: Okay, Yeah, it's been pretty wet and I hadn't water
Speaker 16: to pole hot. I did put down pre emergent, but
Speaker 16: I think maybe I put it down too early in February.
Speaker 1: So I heard.
Speaker 16: I thought last week you're talking talking to a guy
Speaker 16: on the radio about putting down pre emergent like barricade Again,
Speaker 16: how often is it? Because I did it last fall,
Speaker 16: the end of summer that I did.
Speaker 1: It, Yeah, in early February? Can I do it? Applications?
Speaker 1: So these seeds, well, yeah, you could. Kalinga has primarily
Speaker 1: already germinated in our lawns, So you know that would
Speaker 1: be doing it about sixty ninety days later after the
Speaker 1: first application helps extend that pre emergent capability. But I
Speaker 1: think as far as the kalinga you're dealing with, probably
Speaker 1: not not as important to get that done a second time.
Speaker 1: Right now.
Speaker 16: I'm just want to prevent those I just want to
Speaker 16: kind of prevent those seeds that are there now from
Speaker 16: stay into the ground. So when would be the next barricade.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean you could, well, you can do a
Speaker 1: barricade now, but I would say in the in doing
Speaker 1: it in late February, if kalinga is your goal, would
Speaker 1: probably be a better time to do it. Those products
Speaker 1: last about sixty days, depending on several factors. But yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: but good luck getting ahead of that's it, Yes, sir,
Speaker 1: Thank you appreciate your call very much. Heirloom soils they
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Speaker 1: and Heirloom Soils can get you fixed up. They've got
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Speaker 1: preparing for sad to be laid down. Put it down
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Speaker 1: the way that you can find out how much you
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Speaker 1: Let's see, we're going to go now to Mike in
Speaker 1: sugar Land. Hey, Mike, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 17: Good morning, Skip, Thanks for taking my call. Yes, sir,
Speaker 17: got a question for you on the Saint Augustine grass
Speaker 17: and I did send some photos in I had put
Speaker 17: down this year. I had put down the early green
Speaker 17: up even before that.
Speaker 1: I put down the.
Speaker 17: Pre emergent herb side around early February, and I think
Speaker 17: the early green up around mid February, early spring, around
Speaker 17: March fifteenth, and then it's amazing mite in early April,
Speaker 17: and you can see from the photos there. I've had
Speaker 17: this occur a couple of years ago. I thought it
Speaker 17: was a fungus and I was treating it for fungus,
Speaker 17: but as it turned out, it was out by the
Speaker 17: curb and I think it was chinchbugs.
Speaker 1: It was probably a little bit later in the year, but.
Speaker 17: I'm not certain what I just want to get your
Speaker 17: thoughts on this, what this looks like, and maybe a
Speaker 17: potential product or two that might be able to remedy it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know my gut on it is a take
Speaker 1: all root rot, and you can't diagnose take all root
Speaker 1: rot looking at a picture, you know, accurately. But I've
Speaker 1: just seen it enough to wear those symptoms. It looked
Speaker 1: like maybe it got a little drought stressed out there,
Speaker 1: especially the one out by the curb. The other areas,
Speaker 1: it's just it's on erratic and it's interesting to see
Speaker 1: and it's struggling in some areas, So who knows. Originally
Speaker 1: there probably was a combination of things. If you get
Speaker 1: my schedule at gardeningwith Skip dot com, get the lawn
Speaker 1: pest Disease and weed schedule and look at take all.
Speaker 1: The primary time we go after take all is in
Speaker 1: the fall, in the fall season, but we also can
Speaker 1: come back in the spring and go after it then
Speaker 1: as well. You can do a little bit of pete
Speaker 1: moss top dressing. Pete must be in acidic and you'd
Speaker 1: put it very like a quarter inch or third of
Speaker 1: an inch deep, only it's very very little of it
Speaker 1: out there, but spreading it out that helps suppress the
Speaker 1: take all a little bit. And then the on the schedule.
Speaker 1: Is the ingredients that you spray that helped control the
Speaker 1: take all. I would go that route. It's the grass
Speaker 1: that's there, looks good and it looks like it has
Speaker 1: the ability to fill back in if we can get
Speaker 1: it healthy. Okay.
Speaker 17: Any particular chemical that I should be looking for or
Speaker 17: product that it is the Pete moss.
Speaker 1: Uh. The product is a zoxy stroban. That's the chemical name.
Speaker 1: But go on my schedule. It's on there and you
Speaker 1: can find out you can find out more about it
Speaker 1: on there. There are not many forms of a zoxy
Speaker 1: stroban out there on the market unfortunately, but that's the
Speaker 1: one that you're looking for. Okay.
Speaker 17: And I did want to mention I do remember codochrome.
Speaker 17: I do remember codochrome.
Speaker 1: Oh good, all right, Hey, thanks for the call. Appreciates
Speaker 1: there you go back in the day, all right, thanks sir.
Speaker 18: Uh.
Speaker 1: We're going to take a break right now. When we
Speaker 1: come back. Bob and Porter and John and deer Park
Speaker 1: you're our first two up.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 1: Welcome back, folks, Welcome back to the garden Line. Good
Speaker 1: to have you with us. We are talking gardening today.
Speaker 1: You can join that party by giving as call seven
Speaker 1: one three two one two kt rh. Microlife Fertilizer six
Speaker 1: two four, that's the green bag is the number one
Speaker 1: selling organic fertilizer in Houston. It is not a salt
Speaker 1: based fertilizer. It is made from one was once living,
Speaker 1: you know, like composts was made from what was once living.
Speaker 9: Well.
Speaker 1: Microlife six two four is a wonderful relate ratio of
Speaker 1: nutrients at three one two ratio and it releases them
Speaker 1: slowly because microbes break it down and turn it back
Speaker 1: into the nutrients that plant need needs to take up
Speaker 1: to support growth. It really works on lawns. I would
Speaker 1: suggest if you're doing the six two four, go ahead
Speaker 1: and get Microlife HU mats Plus. That's the purple bag
Speaker 1: six two four is the green bag. HU mats plus.
Speaker 1: The Purple bag HU mats plus is concentrated compost in
Speaker 1: a bag. Now you can use it anywhere, just not
Speaker 1: just a lawn thing. You can mix it into the
Speaker 1: soil with whatever you're going to grow or plant or whatever.
Speaker 1: But in the in a line, what happens is as
Speaker 1: you add the humans plus year after year and you're
Speaker 1: continuing to build it up, you're improving the soil quality.
Speaker 1: You're putting humus into the soil. It's good for microbial activity,
Speaker 1: it's good for soil structure. It forms a lot of
Speaker 1: things in the soil. Two products of many products from
Speaker 1: the folks at microlife that are widely available and at work.
Speaker 1: That's the bottom line. They work. Let's go now to
Speaker 1: Bob in Porter, Texas. Hey, Bob, welcome to garden line.
Speaker 4: How did you get up? How he does?
Speaker 1: I'm good, sir.
Speaker 4: I've got a.
Speaker 19: Couple of things that when I'm planting with damatoes, I
Speaker 19: always put a little bit of lime in. Do I
Speaker 19: need to re up that? You know I'm getting I'm
Speaker 19: getting a lot of tomatoes right now. Nothing right, but
Speaker 19: I don't want to get to bom right on the end.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so the blue I'd be careful with overdoing the lime.
Speaker 1: You know, if you do it every time and you
Speaker 1: add more lime, you can get up the calcium levels
Speaker 1: a little too high, and that creates its own problems.
Speaker 1: The bloom rot is because of a lack of calcium
Speaker 1: to the end of the fruit, but usually it's caused
Speaker 1: by water fluctuations. You get a new tomato plant in
Speaker 1: the spring doesn't have a good strong root system. You
Speaker 1: see more of the blossom in androt early on than
Speaker 1: you do later on that same plant. But if it
Speaker 1: gets real dry and goes to wet or wet or dry,
Speaker 1: that's that's when we see more of the blossom androt,
Speaker 1: which is why it can happen really bad. And a
Speaker 1: container as well. So I would watch the water fluctuations
Speaker 1: as a primary thing, and then it'd get a little
Speaker 1: soil test done and see where you are on calcium levels.
Speaker 1: You may already have enough calcium, all right, sir, And.
Speaker 4: One more line quickly, if I could, I've got it.
Speaker 19: I bought a little low key lamb key lamb, and
Speaker 19: I posited up with just big enough in the house
Speaker 19: for the for the winter time, and.
Speaker 4: I get, I get lots of balloons, but no key line. Shit,
Speaker 4: I don't know what what's going on there? Good balloons, No, no,
Speaker 4: no fruit.
Speaker 1: You got to have bees to come by and do
Speaker 1: the pollinating. That's number one. So if there's not a
Speaker 1: bee doing it, then you've got to do the bees job.
Speaker 1: Get your little artists paintbrush and and tickle the flowers
Speaker 1: as you go around, making sure you're doing the bees
Speaker 1: work or spreading pollen around. Uh, that would be the
Speaker 1: number one thing. If the bloom's set, but then the
Speaker 1: little tiny fruit falls off, well that's a different thing,
Speaker 1: and that happens often on a young plant. If a
Speaker 1: plant overloads with those little, tiny, tiny blooms, that will
Speaker 1: also cause them to aboord a bunch of them. But
Speaker 1: I suspect probably it's a pollination issue based on what
Speaker 1: you're telling me.
Speaker 19: All right, sir, and so, but I don't need two.
Speaker 19: I don't need two of the trees. Just one still, Okay,
Speaker 19: as long as I get out there with my little
Speaker 19: paint brush and pollinated myself, yes on.
Speaker 1: That plant, one is okay, sure.
Speaker 4: Enough, Okay, yeah, so much, Thank you, you bet.
Speaker 1: Thanks for the call. Appreciate that. Good luck. Nelson Water
Speaker 1: Gardens and Nursery out there in Katie, Texas. In fact,
Speaker 1: if you go out ten and you get to Katie
Speaker 1: Fort Ben Road, you turn north and it's just a
Speaker 1: little bit up the road there Nelson Water Gardens and Nursery,
Speaker 1: And this is a cool place and people drive to
Speaker 1: get there. Sure, West Houston, go to garden center. Really
Speaker 1: for all of you out in the west direction. Now,
Speaker 1: Nelson Water Gardens and Nursery has outstanding water garden things.
Speaker 1: I mean, they if you want to go full fledged,
Speaker 1: you know, with waterfalls and ponds and all that, they
Speaker 1: can do that. If you just want one of those
Speaker 1: disappearing fountains where the water runs off the top of
Speaker 1: the of a maybe a ceramic type of jar, and
Speaker 1: then it just circulates back in, they can do that.
Speaker 1: And they've got big beautiful ones, and they've got small ones,
Speaker 1: you know, take and go. They've got the little fountains
Speaker 1: where it's like three bowls pouring one water from one
Speaker 1: bowl to the other to the other, so you get
Speaker 1: the sound of that moving water. It really attracts birds
Speaker 1: into By the way, Nelson Water Gardens and Nursery right
Speaker 1: now they are having a Mother's Day sale and that
Speaker 1: will be through this weekend. Twenty five percent off all roses,
Speaker 1: all fruit and citrus trees, the self contained glazed fountain,
Speaker 1: that's what I was just describing, the cast stone fountains
Speaker 1: and other things. It's several other things as well. Mother's
Speaker 1: Day sale twenty five percent off right now at Nelson
Speaker 1: Water Garden and Nursery, just up Katie Fort Penroad. Let's
Speaker 1: go out now to John in Deer Park. Hey, John,
Speaker 1: welcome to garden line. Yes, sir, can you hear me?
Speaker 1: How are you today? Okay?
Speaker 4: Quick about uh?
Speaker 1: Last summer planted?
Speaker 20: H can you hear me now?
Speaker 1: Yes? Okay, So last summer I planted, there we go.
Speaker 5: Last spring I planted two. I think they're they're pigmy
Speaker 5: multi trunk palms. They're small, they're only about a foot
Speaker 5: foot and a half high, but they like each one
Speaker 5: had three trunks coming off of it. Well after the freeze,
Speaker 5: all the fawns uh fell you know, died and fell off.
Speaker 5: So I don't see any new life coming from the
Speaker 5: trunk except for the bass. There's some new growth around
Speaker 5: the bays.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to see if there. Does that mean
Speaker 1: they're yeah, yeah, your questions throwing me off a little bit.
Speaker 1: The pigmy itself is a single trunk palm, but they
Speaker 1: often you will often get them as more than one plant,
Speaker 1: kind of put all together near around the bottom. So
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if you're dealing with a pigmy being
Speaker 1: a single trunk palm, it's not gonna put up new
Speaker 1: shoots from the bottom. It doesn't sucker. Now, in nature
Speaker 1: you do see that a lot, but most of the
Speaker 1: time in cultivated palms in our yards and stuff. They
Speaker 1: they don't do that, but growers will put three or
Speaker 1: four plants in one pot to make a nice fuller specimen.
Speaker 1: So I guess it could be a pigmy. Here's the deal.
Speaker 1: Here's the reason, the reason I'm I'm going through that
Speaker 1: is a palm tree has most palm trees have one
Speaker 1: living bud, and that's at the top, and if it dies,
Speaker 1: the palm is dead. No matter what. There's no nowhere
Speaker 1: for it to come back. Some palms can sucker out
Speaker 1: of the bottom, and then if you lose the top
Speaker 1: there's the potential for getting a plant back out of it.
Speaker 1: So sounds like you may be seeing that happening on yours, okay,
Speaker 1: so just be patiently. Well that's that's all that's in
Speaker 1: your power. You know, if we could, we could know
Speaker 1: for sure when you say you're seeing, are you're seeing
Speaker 1: like a little kind of a bump at the bottom
Speaker 1: with some leaves coming out? Or what are you seeing
Speaker 1: like a.
Speaker 5: Full uh what do we call them? Bronze or bronze
Speaker 5: the Yeah, it's like a fool okay, coming from the
Speaker 5: like the base of the tree.
Speaker 1: Then in that case, I think you're okay, Uh, that
Speaker 1: old shoot has been dead a long time now, the
Speaker 1: old trunk, and uh pretty soon here you if you
Speaker 1: want to take it out. And it sounds like you
Speaker 1: got something coming back from the base, so yeah, whatever
Speaker 1: whatever them, Yeah, yeah, whatever is going on there, that's
Speaker 1: a good thing. That's a good thing. Would you cut
Speaker 1: the old trunk? All right? Okay, yes, you know, let's
Speaker 1: get it. Just because I'm not real sure which creature
Speaker 1: we're talking about here for sure, Let's just give it
Speaker 1: a little more time and once we get into June,
Speaker 1: if you don't see any sign of growth at the top,
Speaker 1: or if you kind of poke around up there and
Speaker 1: it just it's just all dead in there, then you
Speaker 1: can cut it out. Sometimes things are slow to come back,
Speaker 1: but there's life in it, so we want to let
Speaker 1: it get pretty good and hot for a while before
Speaker 1: we give up on it. All right, sir, thank you?
Speaker 1: All right, well, good luck, Thank you. I appreciate appreciate
Speaker 1: your call very much. Jungle Land is actually two products
Speaker 1: distributed by Nitroposs, and one of them is I was
Speaker 1: talking about it earlier, the jungle and flour and vegetable
Speaker 1: planting soil. The other one is the indoor version. It's
Speaker 1: called jungle land water saving potting soil. It's got the
Speaker 1: crystals in it that hold the water an extra long time,
Speaker 1: so that as that potting mech dries out, the crystal
Speaker 1: still have moisture to supply your plants. Now you're going
Speaker 1: to find Nito FoST products at many places. You go
Speaker 1: down to Clute Lake Hardware on Dixie Drive, Fisher's Hardware
Speaker 1: in Baytown on Alexander, or go out to Branham Plants
Speaker 1: and things. They carry Nightofoss products out there as well. Well.
Speaker 1: I am looking at hitting a hard break here pretty quick.
Speaker 1: I did want to mention though to you. I talk
Speaker 1: about Medina products a lot, and the has to grow
Speaker 1: six to twelve six. If you're going to put a
Speaker 1: plant in the ground, you need to just keep it
Speaker 1: on your shelf out there in the garage or in
Speaker 1: your gardening shed. Aster grows six twelve six mixed in water,
Speaker 1: drenched in provides lots of phosphorus and other good things.
Speaker 1: It's got humic acid and it's got seaweed extracts and
Speaker 1: Medina soil activator in it. You soak it in wait
Speaker 1: about a week or so. Soak it in again. Wait
Speaker 1: about another week, do that third application and that plant
Speaker 1: will as I like say, hit the ground running. It
Speaker 1: just performs well. Medina has to grow six twelve six
Speaker 1: plant food widely available here in the greater Houston area.
Speaker 1: I'll take a break now and we'll be right back
Speaker 1: with a call from Bill and Sugar Lamb. Hey, welcome
Speaker 1: back to the guarden Line. Lead to have you with
Speaker 1: us today. Listen, enchanted forest. They are all geared up
Speaker 1: to help you make your mom's day a really special one.
Speaker 1: They've got beautiful blooming roses. They've got tropical hibiscus. Mama
Speaker 1: loved those, and even fragrant fruit trees, you know, things
Speaker 1: like citrus that has a wonderful fragrance to it. They
Speaker 1: also have figs, they've got peaches. They basically have a
Speaker 1: lot of cool What does mom like? What is your
Speaker 1: mom like? You know, if your mom love peaches, why
Speaker 1: get her one, take it out and plant it for
Speaker 1: her unless she wants to do it herself and just
Speaker 1: have that time. You know when those kind of things
Speaker 1: make memories, Because every time Mom looks out at a
Speaker 1: beautiful rose are a peach tree, she'll remember that time
Speaker 1: spent not just like, hey, here's a plant. Good luck
Speaker 1: n yourself out, but time spent coming out and getting
Speaker 1: that done. Time is the best gift we can give.
Speaker 1: And I can't think of anything better than gardening types
Speaker 1: of gift. They got perennials like salvia and Echinacea's there
Speaker 1: just beautiful. Their garden gift shop is unbelievable, artisan candles,
Speaker 1: garden decore, really unique local fines. Pretty much every kind
Speaker 1: of mom. There's something in that gift shop that they'll enjoy.
Speaker 1: Maybe she loves roses, excuse me, herbs. Herbs would be
Speaker 1: a great gift too. You can do those in containers,
Speaker 1: combine a container with some herbs, or you can plant
Speaker 1: them out in the ground. Of course. And if you
Speaker 1: don't know what she wants, well, nintended for gift card
Speaker 1: gives her the freedom to explore choose the things that
Speaker 1: speak most to her heart. And by the way, if
Speaker 1: you've never seen the fairy gardens, they got fairy gardens
Speaker 1: out that you walk around, these big trees kind off
Speaker 1: the left of the building, and the whole ground is
Speaker 1: just this little fairy habitat. I don't know what the
Speaker 1: term would be for it, but it's got all the
Speaker 1: little tiny figurines and houses and plants and things like that.
Speaker 1: Just go see it and take the kids. Kids going
Speaker 1: to love that too. By the way, on Saturday, that is,
Speaker 1: let's see to Oh why tell you what? Go to
Speaker 1: the website. I've got a contradiction here on my times
Speaker 1: and events and stuff. But go to the website and
Speaker 1: check out the upcoming events there is there's let's see.
Speaker 1: Get the date right here. May tenth today, Yes, today,
Speaker 1: Painted with Love from ten am to eleven thirty pm.
Speaker 1: Paint with Love art making with Mom. They're going to
Speaker 1: have the opportunity to do some painting with local artist
Speaker 1: some Harlow is going to do a beginner friendly painting class.
Speaker 1: It's a guided section. You'll create your own abstract floral
Speaker 1: artwork and it's just a fun time. Just call them
Speaker 1: you find out about it, find out the price and
Speaker 1: the tickets and stuff. Hopefully they still have some openings
Speaker 1: out there, but all of it is an intended for
Speaker 1: us down to Richmond Rosenberg area. We're going to go
Speaker 1: now to Bill in Sugarland. Hey, Bill, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 4: Well, thank you, Skip.
Speaker 17: I am the Bill that sent you the picture last
Speaker 17: evening of the little yellow.
Speaker 14: Worm receiving my grape grape grape vine leaves.
Speaker 4: And I want to know how can get rid of it?
Speaker 1: Well, I believe it or not, I do not recognize
Speaker 1: that caterpillar. It is not any of the common grape
Speaker 1: eating caterpillars. Now obviously it is eating your grape. So
Speaker 1: here's the deal. Forget what its name is. We need
Speaker 1: to spray those that of any kind of plant like
Speaker 1: that that you see. Spray it with either BT, a
Speaker 1: product containing bt bs and boy teas and tom, or
Speaker 1: a product containing spin, no said. And it's like the
Speaker 1: word spin the letter O and the words sad Spino sad.
Speaker 1: And either one of those sprayed on the foliage. When
Speaker 1: a leaf feeding pest chumps that foliage, the Spino said,
Speaker 1: or the BT, if it's a caterpillar, will will shut
Speaker 1: it down. The BT spray about every three days for
Speaker 1: a little while, the Spino said, will last a little
Speaker 1: bit longer than now.
Speaker 4: Okay, And where can I find those?
Speaker 1: They're easy to find. Where are you calling sugar Land?
Speaker 1: So you can go to any one of your Ace
Speaker 1: hardware stores down there in sugar Land area. You can
Speaker 1: head up to excuse me, the Ace Hardware. Oh gosh,
Speaker 1: it's on three fifty nine Mason Road, No. Three fifty nine.
Speaker 1: A plantation is down that area. What about Yeah, and
Speaker 1: oh gosh, yes they have everything. Okay, there's nothing they
Speaker 1: don't carry, so you could do that. And then the enchanted,
Speaker 1: Oh good, well, it's good good to know. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: thank you bill, thank good luck. Shut your low bugger down.
Speaker 14: Okay, bye bye bye bye.
Speaker 1: D and D feed up in Tomball. It's gosh, about
Speaker 1: three miles west of Tomball. Uh and it's on twenty
Speaker 1: nine twenty So if you're heading up Tomball Parkway two
Speaker 1: forty nine, when you hit twenty nine to twenty, go west,
Speaker 1: turn left, go there about three miles. The Over family
Speaker 1: has had that place since nineteen eighty nine. The new
Speaker 1: expansion they did, I believe about a year ago is
Speaker 1: it just makes it even better because when you walk
Speaker 1: in there, you're going to find products that you just
Speaker 1: don't find a lot of places. They do a very
Speaker 1: good job of carrying past disease and weed management products
Speaker 1: organic and synthetic that you're just not going to find
Speaker 1: a lot of places. You're going to find fertilizers there
Speaker 1: from nitrofoss and microlife and Nilsen turf Star and Medina,
Speaker 1: the jars of Nelson plant food. You're going to find
Speaker 1: soil from heirloom soils and it's basically if you want
Speaker 1: to make your garden pretty, make it productive. Dandy Feed
Speaker 1: out there just west of Tumbul is the place to go.
Speaker 1: You can give them a call. Two eight one, three five,
Speaker 1: one seventy one forty four. Let's go now to Pearland.
Speaker 1: We're going to talk to Sharon. Hey, Sharon, welcome to
Speaker 1: garden Line.
Speaker 2: Hi, scoop, thanks for taking my call. I called about
Speaker 2: my Saint Augustine. Thought that I recently put down in
Speaker 2: a very large bear area underneath an oak tree. So's
Speaker 2: it's down there, and during the week we got about
Speaker 2: an inch and a quarter of rain. So what I
Speaker 2: want to know is how much that I be watering
Speaker 2: that sod going into next week and beyond. It's going
Speaker 2: to be warm next week. They say, yeah, well I
Speaker 2: planted some of it a week ago and some of
Speaker 2: it was planted yesterday.
Speaker 1: Okay. So the general rule on sod is twice a
Speaker 1: day the first week, once a day the second week,
Speaker 1: and then start backing off to where you're only watering
Speaker 1: once or twice a week eventually, so under the shade
Speaker 1: of a tree, it's a little less demanding. But when
Speaker 1: we say twice a day, we're not talking about an
Speaker 1: inch of water twice a day, right, We're talking about
Speaker 1: just a little bit to keep That sod came in
Speaker 1: with very little root system because they sliced it all
Speaker 1: off with the clay when they harvested the sod, and
Speaker 1: so you got to keep that moist and the ground
Speaker 1: below it a little bit moist is well in order
Speaker 1: for it to thrive. So kind of make your decision
Speaker 1: on that the one that you planted a week ago.
Speaker 1: Definitely a little bit once a day would be enough.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 1: The fact that we got a lot of rain and
Speaker 1: everything got wet is good, But just remember that didn't
Speaker 1: make that what was maybe a half inch long root
Speaker 1: suddenly become a six inch long root that can take
Speaker 1: up the moisture that fell out of the sky. So
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, help it along for a couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: making sure it gets some roots down, and then you
Speaker 1: can back off.
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, what I noticed when I kind of pulled
Speaker 2: it up, these little fine white roots. Is that what
Speaker 2: it should look like?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, underneath the uh huh yeah, Well I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not seeing the roots. You're seeing new, fresh, healthy,
Speaker 1: new Saint Augustine roots are are white, and so that
Speaker 1: that's what you're looking looking for.
Speaker 2: Alrighty okay, all right, we'll just keep it moist.
Speaker 1: Alrighty, No one.
Speaker 2: Other part to that. How soon I shouldn't be letting
Speaker 2: the gardener cut over that glass at all?
Speaker 9: Should I?
Speaker 1: Once it starts growing and needs cutting, yes, but it
Speaker 1: doesn't need cutting two weeks after a week. Just give it,
Speaker 1: give it some time, and you won't need to fertilize
Speaker 1: it until at least a month after you plant it it.
Speaker 1: Alrighty oh okay, I'm gonna have to run up against
Speaker 1: a hard break, but good luck with your lawn, and
Speaker 1: I certainly do wish you well. Alrighty, we're back, Welcome
Speaker 1: back to the garden line. Good to have you with us.
Speaker 1: Not been to Buchan's Native Plants. They are on eleven
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Speaker 1: of natives they have is unbelievable, it really is. It's
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Speaker 1: on Sunday, May eleventh, that would be tomorrow for Mother's Day.
Speaker 1: They're gonna if you go buy the Bungalow, which, oh gosh,
Speaker 1: that's a great place to shop. You get a glass
Speaker 1: of wine for your mom. So take mom with you,
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Speaker 1: and then go pick her out a rose. They have
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Speaker 1: take care of our lawns. And things we're, watering them we're,
Speaker 1: fertilizing them and they're. Not growing so how do we make?
Speaker 1: Them grow what's? Going on why is it?
Speaker 10: Not?
Speaker 1: Working well maybe the soil, is compacted, you know maybe
Speaker 1: they're struggling. From that maybe it's a disease or. An
Speaker 1: insect and getting down to the bottom of it is
Speaker 1: the way that we turn our lawns back into what
Speaker 1: we want. To SEE if i say this all, The
Speaker 1: time i'll say.
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Speaker 1: Again uh the secret to having success with a plant
Speaker 1: is to know what the plant wants and give. It
Speaker 1: that and if that plant is, your lawn well it
Speaker 1: wants not, compacted soil it, wants nutrients it wants, more
Speaker 1: oyster it, wants sunlight and you got to give. Them
Speaker 1: that but that's all. A compaction that's a deal breaker
Speaker 1: when it comes to lawns definitely affects that. Turf's performance
Speaker 1: i'm gonna take a break here in just a little
Speaker 1: bit and we will be back. For hour let's see
Speaker 1: eight o'clock hour here on. GARDEN line i implies when you're.
Speaker 1: Having fun you Know what Kermit the, frog said you
Speaker 1: said times fun when you're. HAVING flies i know it's a.
Speaker 1: DAD joke i specialize. In them i'll be here, all week, all,
Speaker 1: right folks glad to have you. With, Us hey i'm
Speaker 1: going to Be at, Arbrogate today that Is, Today saturday,
Speaker 1: may tenth from twelve. To two they're going to Have
Speaker 1: A mother's day shindig, out there and you need to come.
Speaker 1: See it i'll be over Where the balini Machine Is
Speaker 1: Peach bellini's oh. My gosh if you haven't, had one
Speaker 1: you need to. Try it we'll be doing. Some giveaways
Speaker 1: i'll be signing copies of my book if you'd like
Speaker 1: to pick one up There at arborgate eight and answering
Speaker 1: your gardening questions and basically having a. Good TIME and
Speaker 1: i promise you'd bring your mom with you that if
Speaker 1: you can't find something for Mom, at arborgate you're. Not
Speaker 1: trying we have chased the gremlins out of. The, wires
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Speaker 1: All right welcome Back. To gardlane good to have you.
Speaker 1: With us glad that you are listening. In today we're
Speaker 1: here to help you have success in. Your garden that's
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Speaker 1: to those of you who said that you're gonna call
Speaker 1: in you send me some pictures and things. Like that
Speaker 1: appreciate that and look forward. To visiting we got some
Speaker 1: really interesting Pictures that i'll tell you, for sure, unusual things.
Speaker 1: You KNOW the i guess the probably the single WELL not.
Speaker 1: I guess. I know the single BIGGEST question i get
Speaker 1: on guard line is about. The lawns what's wrong with?
Speaker 1: My lawn why is my? Lawn dying right behind that would.
Speaker 1: Be trees what's wrong with? My tree where's my? Tree
Speaker 1: dying and we can help you. With that but you,
Speaker 1: know what no one ever calls me About Their. Cole
Speaker 1: robbie one of, These days i'll Get A cole. Robbie
Speaker 1: call we can help you With Your cole. Robbie too
Speaker 1: whatever kind of plants that you, might have it's all.
Speaker 1: About TREES when i Worked For, aggrlife extension we used
Speaker 1: to say that the thing that makes the phone ring
Speaker 1: or the three, t's trees turf. And tomatoes, and boy
Speaker 1: is that? Ever true boy is that? Ever true that's. For,
Speaker 1: sure hey if you want to, have success if you're looking,
Speaker 1: to have, you know just a. Beautiful place maybe it's
Speaker 1: a garden you're trying, to grow and you want it
Speaker 1: to be bountiful. As, well well you got to take
Speaker 1: care of, the plants and you. Got it first. Of
Speaker 1: all i'll put the right kind of. Plants in you
Speaker 1: need plants that want to. Be here. That's. Important NOW
Speaker 1: when i was, a kid we'd occasionally go on a
Speaker 1: Trip to colorado for summer vacation, or something and we, always,
Speaker 1: thought oh wouldn't it be nice to have a blue spruce. Back,
Speaker 1: home Well the society For the Prevention of Cruelty to
Speaker 1: plants asks you not to bring blue spruce Back from
Speaker 1: colorado because they don't want to. Be here it doesn't.
Speaker 1: Do good maybe you move From the midwest and You,
Speaker 1: remember forsythia the harbinger of spring up there In, the
Speaker 1: midwest beautiful, yellow blooms just. Gorgeous bushes. Not here they
Speaker 1: don't want to. Be here. Same thing, you know there's
Speaker 1: a lot of different kinds of plants and. Vice versa,
Speaker 1: you know plants that do well here that don't do well.
Speaker 1: Other places so go somewhere that can direct you to
Speaker 1: the plants that you're going to have. Success with and
Speaker 1: a good example of that would Be The Kingwood garden
Speaker 1: center And The Warren Southern garden center some more in.
Speaker 1: Southern gardens they're out There In. Kingwood warren this Is
Speaker 1: On North, Park Drive Kingdwo garden Centers On. Stone hollow
Speaker 1: when you go into, those places, And boy i've, been
Speaker 1: recently they just are. So cool they're, just really. Really
Speaker 1: nice you're going to see plants that just the condition
Speaker 1: of it, is amazing and the in many cases it's
Speaker 1: something you haven't. Seen, before like, for example did you
Speaker 1: know that there is Something called easter cactus or. Spring,
Speaker 1: cactus yeah it sort of Looks like thanksgiving Cactus or,
Speaker 1: christmas cactus but it blooms at this time of the
Speaker 1: year and they've got some gorgeous ones. Out there the blooms.
Speaker 1: Are different the plant. Looks similar there's a little difference
Speaker 1: in the little, stem segments but it. Looks beautiful it
Speaker 1: would be a great gift. For mom, of course they're
Speaker 1: going to have all. The standards, you know if you're
Speaker 1: looking to have vinkas or angelonia or any kind of
Speaker 1: plant that can really take the, summer heat they've got it.
Speaker 1: Out there they carry, microlife products They carry nelson products and.
Speaker 1: Many others they have the nitrofoss, for example, as well
Speaker 1: and they also will have those refill stations for your
Speaker 1: microlife and. Some products it's Just a it makes a
Speaker 1: lot of sense because seven days, a week easy, to
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Speaker 1: a perfect place to shop. For mom and especially if
Speaker 1: you want the, gift shop Try That Kingwood. Garden center
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Speaker 1: show i'll be there from twelfth. To two by, the
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Speaker 1: last this. WHOLE season i won't it'll be FALL before
Speaker 1: i start heading back, out AGAIN but i hope you'll come.
Speaker 1: On out if you, got questions. Bring them you got,
Speaker 1: some weeds throw them in a zip lock bag and bring.
Speaker 1: It in will make them confess their Name and i'll
Speaker 1: tell you what to do. About them or if you
Speaker 1: just want, some advice you can bring me pictures on
Speaker 1: your phone of areas. Of questions maybe it's a problem you,
Speaker 1: want diagnosed a plant you, want identified or just suggestions
Speaker 1: for having success with. YOUR landscape i want people to.
Speaker 1: Have FUN and i say this, pretty OFTEN but i
Speaker 1: hear a lot people feel like they can't, grow stuff,
Speaker 1: you KNOW like i kill EVERYTHING that i. Bring, home
Speaker 1: well that's. Historically True, probably okay maybe, you did but it's.
Speaker 1: Not inevitable and you do not have a. BROWN thumb
Speaker 1: i want you to listen. To me you do not
Speaker 1: have a. BROWN thumb i promise you you do not
Speaker 1: have a. Brown thumb don't tell me about how many plants.
Speaker 1: You killed, That's fine i've killed, plants myself but you
Speaker 1: do not have a. Brown thumb here's what. Goes wrong
Speaker 1: we don't know what to do for, a plant or
Speaker 1: we neglect doing what we know, to do and then the. Plant,
Speaker 1: struggles okay but it's not your. Thumb's color and if
Speaker 1: you insist on talking in terms of brown and, Green
Speaker 1: thumbs i'll do it. This way if you have a
Speaker 1: brown thumb and you want it to, be green you
Speaker 1: got to inform. Your thumb so bring your thumb. With
Speaker 1: you sit down in front of the radio here on
Speaker 1: guarden line and let your thumb listen To what. I'm
Speaker 1: saying and the smarter your, thumb gets the greener it's going.
Speaker 1: To be that's a, little Silly but i'm making, a
Speaker 1: point and that point is give plants what. They want,
Speaker 1: you know you go to a good quality garden Center
Speaker 1: like arborgate. For example you've got people there that they
Speaker 1: know what. THEY'RE doing, i mean they are experts when
Speaker 1: it comes. To plants they bring in the plants that
Speaker 1: need to be. Grown here that's. Step one thank you for.
Speaker 1: Doing that they advise you on how to, plant them
Speaker 1: how to take care, of them and when you have problems,
Speaker 1: with plants they tell you what. To do they help.
Speaker 1: Diagnose it so that's the knowledge that turns your. Thumb
Speaker 1: green you go home and you, do that and you
Speaker 1: listen and you plant, those plants and suddenly people, are,
Speaker 1: going oh you got a. Green, thumb well you can
Speaker 1: take credit for it if, you want but or you
Speaker 1: can just tell them now skip just informed of, my
Speaker 1: thumb or a good garden Center Like carbagate informed. My
Speaker 1: thumb by, the way when You're, at arburgate you need
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Speaker 1: Is that that is an organic. Food complete that is
Speaker 1: it contains the calcium as well as the nitrophosphors potassium.
Speaker 1: In it and if heeds anything. With roots the number
Speaker 1: two organic, soil complete that is the soil with expanded shail.
Speaker 1: In it and then number three organic compost complete and
Speaker 1: that is a compost with again organ. Expanded shale what
Speaker 1: is this. Expanded, shale well it is a little rock
Speaker 1: like product that's heated and expanded to be. Very poorous
Speaker 1: you look at it and it might kind of look
Speaker 1: like kitty litter or something, to you but. It's not.
Speaker 1: It is it is a high quality product that holds
Speaker 1: that clay. Soil open organic matter is great for, all clays.
Speaker 1: Absolutely essential but it breaks down and it. Goes away
Speaker 1: that's what. It does it turns. Toward humus the shale
Speaker 1: holds up longer and it provides you, a nice better
Speaker 1: air rated soil environment for your. Plant, roots now those,
Speaker 1: last two by, the way the three were, food complete,
Speaker 1: soil complete. Compost complete the last two soil and. Compost
Speaker 1: complete arbigate will. Deliver bulk just give them. A call
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Speaker 1: buy eight hundred bags for a. Big project you can
Speaker 1: just have bulk deliver it. To you arbrogate's a mile
Speaker 1: and a half west of two forty nine on twenty
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Speaker 1: i look forward to visiting with you about specific questions
Speaker 1: that you. May have we're going to go now Out
Speaker 1: to beaumont and Talk. To, Jen, Hello jen welcome To.
Speaker 1: Garden line.
Speaker 21: THANK you i have a friend who is baseticularly blind
Speaker 21: and he doesn't have, much money so he can't really
Speaker 21: afford to have someone cut. His yard my idea was
Speaker 21: to kill whatever grass there is and weed in the
Speaker 21: front yard and plant a. Ground cover WHAT would i
Speaker 21: use to kill the weeds and what kind of ground
Speaker 21: COVER could? I, use.
Speaker 1: Well there's a lot of products. Out there there are
Speaker 1: products that just kill, broad leaves products that just, Kill
Speaker 1: grasses but chances are he's got both in that weedy,
Speaker 1: lawn area and so you need a product that is
Speaker 1: a non selective it. Kills everything there's, two products one
Speaker 1: of them they have. Similar names one of them. Is
Speaker 1: glycosy that is what is used to be called. Round
Speaker 1: up now you have to buy glaphyzate in different names than,
Speaker 1: round up don't the garden centers don't carry glaphyse eate.
Speaker 1: Roundup typically the other one is glu. Glue phoscinate it
Speaker 1: sounds a, little similar but glu foscinate is in a
Speaker 1: Product called finale that, is one and it will. Kill
Speaker 1: everything it doesn't do as good a job as the
Speaker 1: glyphys eate and moving down and killing everything in, a
Speaker 1: weed but it does a. Good job and so if
Speaker 1: you don't want to some people don't want to, use glyphysate.
Speaker 1: That's fine glueoscinate's another option. For that but you're gonna here's,
Speaker 1: the Thing jen you're gonna want to spray and then
Speaker 1: wait about it's going to take a while for them
Speaker 1: to go. To work and then after a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks you look at it and, You're, GOING okay i
Speaker 1: missed a spot here or that didn't quite. Get killed
Speaker 1: you spray it again and you wait another couple. Of,
Speaker 1: weeks so and the reason is if you get most
Speaker 1: of it but not all, of it and then you,
Speaker 1: plant something you're going to have those weeds in what,
Speaker 1: you plant and you don't. Want that you want to
Speaker 1: get rid. Of them then choose a groundcover for, the
Speaker 1: area and there's a lot of good options. Out there
Speaker 1: it kind of depends on what you want to. Look at.
Speaker 1: You Know the asian jasmine is used a lot.
Speaker 14: In.
Speaker 1: Groundcovers here you did, nice shiny dark green leaves and
Speaker 1: it's a little vine that goes along. The ground that's
Speaker 1: an option that you. Can do then there's native. Ground
Speaker 1: covers there's one called frog fruit that does. Really well
Speaker 1: you get it native. Plant places it's a vining type.
Speaker 1: Of plant AND so i can't tell you which one
Speaker 1: they would like, the most but if you go to
Speaker 1: a good quality, garden center you're going to be able
Speaker 1: to have them advise you on what they carry that
Speaker 1: might be a, good mix a. Good match.
Speaker 12: Thank you.
Speaker 9: So much, all.
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Speaker 8: Good morning my problem involves white flies on. A viburnum
Speaker 8: the vibronum is about seven feet tall by seven. FEET
Speaker 8: across i WOULD say i learned from you last year
Speaker 8: that the systemic imitoclopramide works well to minimize. The PROBLEM
Speaker 8: so i have used that around the base of the
Speaker 8: tree six times Since last july and early. This spring
Speaker 8: the leaves were really nice and green and not all
Speaker 8: discolored like they were last year from the mold that.
Speaker 8: Is GRAY so i was really happy. About that BUT
Speaker 8: then i looked and, they're. Back Unfortunately so i've continued
Speaker 8: the Imiclopramide and i've used by finthrom also to, spray
Speaker 8: it and that there's about but they, come back And
Speaker 8: so i'm wondering what ELSE could.
Speaker 4: I Do.
Speaker 1: White flies are a problem when you so when you use,
Speaker 1: the amidacloprid you shouldn't have to use it six times
Speaker 1: in that amount. Of time it lasts a pretty, good
Speaker 1: while so don't. Overdo it but the bithenthren and other
Speaker 1: insecticides kill the things that are the enemies of, white
Speaker 1: flies which can help keep them. In check sometimes we.
Speaker 1: Have OUTBREAKS but i find that the more, you spray
Speaker 1: the more white fly problems, you have because their populations
Speaker 1: bounce back faster than the beneficials that keep them in.
Speaker 1: Check do and so you might want to try using
Speaker 1: a horticultural oil spray upward from beneath the foliage to
Speaker 1: coat the bottoms of the leaves as best. You, can
Speaker 1: SO AND i i got about ten seconds HERE before
Speaker 1: i have, to stop but horticultural oil. Sprayed upward you
Speaker 1: got to coat the bottom of the leaves and do
Speaker 1: it about every other week for a while and see
Speaker 1: if that gets ahead. Of them sorry to have, To,
Speaker 1: run Bill but i'm up against a. Hard break, All
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Speaker 1: folks hey if you lived Done In league city or,
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Speaker 8: I do i have two. Brief questions one is with the.
Speaker 8: Horticultural oil do you have some ideas on HOW do
Speaker 8: i get underneath? The leaves what's the best way to
Speaker 8: spray or what kind of SPRAYER can i use to
Speaker 8: get actually on.
Speaker 4: The underside.
Speaker 1: That's a. GOOD question i wish they made sprayers with
Speaker 1: different kinds. Of wands, you know the typical spray wand
Speaker 1: you almost have to stoop over and turn your hand
Speaker 1: around to get upward underneath. The leaves they should make
Speaker 1: them like those old alpine fugel Horns the ricola commercials
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Speaker 1: the horns on the ground. Turns up if we could
Speaker 1: stand up right and just spray, that way that would
Speaker 1: be the that would be best for soaps and oils
Speaker 1: and things that. We apply but the the white fly
Speaker 1: eggs and the white fly pupa and larva are underneath,
Speaker 1: the leaf and so oil doesn't poison, its smothers and
Speaker 1: so if you don't get, good coverage you're not going
Speaker 1: to get. Good control so with, THE oil i was
Speaker 1: trying to stay away from another insecticide that would just
Speaker 1: kill the beneficials. And stuff THAT'S why i suggested that
Speaker 1: if you wanted to stay with the, amitic cloprid you can.
Speaker 1: Just it sounded like you've been applying it, a lot
Speaker 1: so it should give you several months of control when you.
Speaker 22: DO apply i would say if you did a couple
Speaker 22: of times, a year that ought to be enough for
Speaker 22: the amiticloprid.
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Speaker 4: GOT it i have one.
Speaker 8: MORE thing i Have two sago Palms that i'm really.
Speaker 8: Proud of they're about five feet tall and they are
Speaker 8: now shooting, new prawns both of them that are about a.
Speaker 8: Foot tall the, old prons, of course are. On there
Speaker 8: some of the old prons kind of, got damaged maybe
Speaker 8: from the low temperatures that. We had and is there
Speaker 8: some rule of them on when the old prawns should
Speaker 8: be pruned off before or after during the new frons?
Speaker 8: Coming in.
Speaker 1: The only rule of fun. There isn't you can lay
Speaker 1: mon as long as. You WANT but i would say
Speaker 1: if the old fronds are the only green the plant,
Speaker 1: really has and you'd be taken off over half the
Speaker 1: green by taking off those old ones you're, REFERRING to i,
Speaker 1: would wait because that the little bit of green they
Speaker 1: have is helping the plant until the new frons. Come
Speaker 1: in so just don't, overdo it but you can remove them.
Speaker 1: As needed, all, Right, MAN thanks i appreciate your call
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Speaker 11: Morning escape my Name, is JAY and i have a, question,
Speaker 11: regarding oh, j okay, that's okay the flowering of My
Speaker 11: bogaan via And blue. Chinese whysteria if you, go online
Speaker 11: they say that the best mix is lower on nitrogen
Speaker 11: and higher. On PHOSPHATE but i have A bogan via
Speaker 11: food fertile hom in front of me and it says seventeen.
Speaker 11: Seventy ten so my question to you is IS should
Speaker 11: i be higher in phosphate or lower in phosphate VERSUS the.
Speaker 1: Mpk mix, you know the bogunvilla FOODS that i would
Speaker 1: recommend are all going to be a higher nitrogen and
Speaker 1: then a lower phosphorate and a little. More potassium whether it's,
Speaker 1: you know nitroposs has one that is the Called the.
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Speaker 1: and other, flowering vines and both of those have got
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Speaker 11: In, Intermediate okay So what i'm reading on the internet
Speaker 11: is kind of. Bad info would that be the same
Speaker 11: with My blue CHINESE whysteria? I got i got blue
Speaker 11: blooms for about a week and that, Was it and
Speaker 11: in Two years i've gotten.
Speaker 4: Almost, nothing.
Speaker 1: Well that's a whole. Other monster that's that's probably. Not
Speaker 1: uh whysteria is, Vigorous already so putting putting a lot
Speaker 1: of nitrogen on a whisteria creates, some problems but they
Speaker 1: are a spring. Only bloomer there's two or three kinds,
Speaker 1: of whysteria and the way you prune them and the
Speaker 1: amount of sunlight they get are all factors and, They're
Speaker 1: blooming so that would be a whole other can of
Speaker 1: WORMS that i couldn't couldn't really get into on on on,
Speaker 1: a call, but uh just note over. Fertilize them make
Speaker 1: sure you do pruning at the end of. The year
Speaker 1: go online and read about how to prune. Them, back
Speaker 1: uh and. You should if they got, good sunlight you
Speaker 1: should see some some better blooming. Going, forward okay thanks for. The, answer, yeah,
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Speaker 1: now and Talk. To Marie, hello marie, Good Morning. SKIP
Speaker 1: skip i have a couple.
Speaker 3: Of Questions it's i'm overdue for my long repair and
Speaker 3: to apply the second fertilizer. This season so does the
Speaker 3: does it matter? What order in, other WORDS can i
Speaker 3: apply my long repair mixture to certain spots in the
Speaker 3: lawn and then immediately follow up with my nitrol falls.
Speaker 3: Super truth.
Speaker 1: When you say Long, repair mexica you're talking about some
Speaker 1: seeds that. You plant, oh, no no thank you.
Speaker 3: For asking this would be like the top soil and
Speaker 3: either leaf mold or common ure And sand, oh?
Speaker 1: Gotcha? Gotcha, gotcha, YEAH no. I would i would get
Speaker 1: the soil down and the fill the areas, and stuff
Speaker 1: then put your night frost in it and water it
Speaker 1: in real good so everything gets the same top of
Speaker 1: the top of the ground treatment. On that.
Speaker 3: Oh okay and SO would i be able to put
Speaker 3: the fertilizer and the soil repair on the same day? Or?
Speaker 1: Not, oh, yeah yeah. FOR sure i just know. SAME
Speaker 1: day i would just get it all kind, of repaired
Speaker 1: leveled out like you want it, to be and then
Speaker 1: do your fertilization and make sure and. WATERED in i
Speaker 1: know it, just rained but the fertilizer is not going
Speaker 1: to do anything until it gets washed down in the
Speaker 1: soil a. Little bit and, so.
Speaker 18: Okay.
Speaker 3: That's it and then on the compost does it really
Speaker 3: matter whether it's the common ear or the leaf mold composting.
Speaker 17: The, MIXTURE.
Speaker 1: Uh i would probably not use. THE colminer i would
Speaker 1: use the leaf mold. Compost instead there's various reasons, for
Speaker 1: that but but if you if you're making, THAT choice
Speaker 1: i like the leaf mold compost as a better. Top.
Speaker 3: Dressing, perfect okay, all, right well, thank you thank you so.
Speaker 2: Very.
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Speaker 1: come in by email Here that i'm going to. Try,
Speaker 1: to okay here. We go we're going to head out
Speaker 1: To pipe us now and Talk. To, DIANA diana i
Speaker 1: did receive. THAT email i basically got a. Text file
Speaker 1: was there supposed to be some pictures attached?
Speaker 11: To it can you?
Speaker 24: Scroll DOWN because i did, a test, you, know earlier
Speaker 24: and if you scroll down there should be several. Pictures
Speaker 24: there there's several pictures of, our azaleas the new knockout.
Speaker 18: Rose, BUSHES.
Speaker 1: Well i tell, you WHAT uh i? See, THAT well
Speaker 1: i see where, they are but but the pictures aren't.
Speaker 1: Loading up so LET'S just i have your text. About
Speaker 1: it let's just talk about what we need. To, do
Speaker 1: okay you don't tell me briefly so people that are listening.
Speaker 24: Can, Hear, okay yes it's a similar PROBLEM what i
Speaker 24: had last year when we called. Called in but our
Speaker 24: azalea is. On there it's a bed that, runs east
Speaker 24: north and south on the east side of. Our patio
Speaker 24: the one On the azalias towards the one end are.
Speaker 24: Really green the others on the, other end the leaves are.
Speaker 24: Turning yellow they start to curl up and then they,
Speaker 24: turn brown and it looks like it's got a lot
Speaker 24: of new foliage trying to, come out but it just
Speaker 24: doesn't ever, really develop and it's getting. Very bare and
Speaker 24: also And then i'm wondering if it's maybe THAT'S why
Speaker 24: i wanted you to, see IT because i wasn't sure
Speaker 24: if it was a problem with maybe not enough water
Speaker 24: Or because I'VE used I used nelson plant food and
Speaker 24: they also use that on the, knockout roses and that's
Speaker 24: another issue on that that those are on the very
Speaker 24: back bed in, our BACKYARD and i had four last
Speaker 24: year and then they they were struggling and then they
Speaker 24: started turning black and they eventually, all died so we
Speaker 24: pulled them, all UP and i didn't want to buy four,
Speaker 24: this TIME so i bought two new ones and they were.
Speaker 24: Very full the leaves are green, and everything but now,
Speaker 24: they're struggling And so I'M what i was hoping you
Speaker 24: could see it because at one sheer it's a, water
Speaker 24: issue maybe not enough because we have the oscillating sprinklerheads
Speaker 24: that go back, and forth but they don't hit that
Speaker 24: area very, very long And so i'm not concerned that
Speaker 24: maybe it's not.
Speaker 14: Enough, water, Okay.
Speaker 1: Well i'm going to. Answer it But what i'd like
Speaker 1: you to do is FIND a i don't know if
Speaker 1: you sent this from a phone or from, a computer
Speaker 1: but if you can get to a computer and do
Speaker 1: this email again and, attach them use a little paper
Speaker 1: clip to attach them the photos that, YOU send I
Speaker 1: think i'll be able to see. Them then and if
Speaker 1: there's anything different Than what i'm about to, Tell you
Speaker 1: i'll reply in. The email, but okay when azelias are,
Speaker 1: turning yellow if the, new growth the ends of the shoots,
Speaker 1: are yellow but the older leaves, are green that's an.
Speaker 1: Iron deficiency if the whole thing, is yellow or if
Speaker 1: just the older leaves, are yellow it could be anything
Speaker 1: from a water logged soil to droughty conditions to nitrogen
Speaker 1: deficiency and. Other things where the yellow is is. The,
Speaker 1: difference now for a lot of, your plants you're describing
Speaker 1: kind of a just lack of vigor really. On THEM
Speaker 1: and i would number one when it comes. To water
Speaker 1: the best way to know is to go out there around,
Speaker 1: the bush get you a little, hand trowel and dig
Speaker 1: down about four inches six inches somewhere in there that
Speaker 1: range and feel. The soil if, it's moist.
Speaker 25: You don't need.
Speaker 1: The, water now you don't have to do that every time,
Speaker 1: you water but you kind of get you kind of
Speaker 1: get a feel literally for what. It takes saying to
Speaker 1: run a sprinkler a certain amount of time is not
Speaker 1: going to be helpful for me to tell. You, that
Speaker 1: also sprinklers are notorious for getting blocked by foliage of
Speaker 1: plants and so azaleas and roses and hollies and other
Speaker 1: things can block. The foliage so you've got areas of
Speaker 1: the root system that's not getting watered when. You water
Speaker 1: that's another thing to look. Out for so figure out
Speaker 1: if it's needing water or not by feeling the soil
Speaker 1: a few inches down below. The. Surface uh and that
Speaker 1: would be. Step one and then a good general purpose
Speaker 1: azealea fertilizer can be used on, your roses it can
Speaker 1: be used on, your azaleas and it can be used
Speaker 1: on your. Holly bushes so an esteadic clothing fertilizer would
Speaker 1: work on all. Of those it's okay to, do THAT
Speaker 1: and i would make sure it's a good dose of
Speaker 1: that and you watered in. Really.
Speaker 24: Good okay one of the things we did before spring
Speaker 24: we pulled out all that, old mine welch a lot of.
Speaker 24: That dirt we replaced it with good healthy bedding soil
Speaker 24: and uh and. SOME rose i use, rose soil and
Speaker 24: then we put, that quality, you know most. On top
Speaker 24: so we did all the way we felt like we needed.
Speaker 9: To do and then.
Speaker 24: There's one other thing. To do that's that was on
Speaker 24: the pictures that it's another thing that's cropped up that
Speaker 24: we didn't have an. Issue before we've been in our
Speaker 24: home for, you know about six, years now and it Never.
Speaker 1: Had i'm about they're about to play they're about to
Speaker 1: play music music on, me here so real quick on
Speaker 1: the QUESTION because i don't want.
Speaker 24: To, run hey the, holly bushes you'll, see that but
Speaker 24: they're all. Bear underneath and someone thought they thought maybe
Speaker 24: bunny rabbits were eating. Our foliage but we've never had
Speaker 24: a problem with our holidays. Until now and so that
Speaker 24: was another PICTURE that i wanted you. To see but
Speaker 24: they're trying to figure out is what we'll call.
Speaker 9: You that, So.
Speaker 24: Yeah i'm on my Husband with peter and then yeah
Speaker 24: And then i'll do it, that okay, all Right because
Speaker 24: i've checked THEM while i GO and i could, see
Speaker 24: them but maybe it's just not coming see. To you
Speaker 24: but thank you, so much.
Speaker 1: Appreciate it thank you, all right you. Take care look
Speaker 1: forward to seeing those and helping you. With. Those Hey.
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Speaker 1: out you. Really do it's a drive if You're in
Speaker 1: timbuktu to go all the way To, See. BROOK texas i,
Speaker 1: know that but it's worth it and allow. Yourself time
Speaker 1: they have beautiful combination planters that they've just gotten in
Speaker 1: that look awesome and no matter what you're, looking for no,
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Speaker 1: You this you're going to see statuary and containers you've never.
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Speaker 1: ride there say hello to the employee of. The month
Speaker 1: and his name Is cat cat by, the way and
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Speaker 1: you're Gonna Find moss nursery Down, In. Seabrook texas we're
Speaker 1: gonna head now Out to hoffmann and Talk. To, Jerry,
Speaker 1: Hello jerry welcome To.
Speaker 14: Garden line how you doing? This morning, I'm good.
Speaker 1: I'm good how can we help? You today how can We? Help?
Speaker 14: Jerry, Hello.
Speaker 18: Yes.
Speaker 1: I'm here you're kind of? Cutting out.
Speaker 14: Can you?
Speaker 4: Hear?
Speaker 11: Me?
Speaker 14: Now hello, oh.
Speaker 1: Man, that's better that's. MUCH better i DRIVING so i had.
Speaker 14: You, On anyway i've got dis. Apple tree i'm pregnant
Speaker 14: about seven eight, years ago and the five years later
Speaker 14: it gave a bunch of little green apples and they.
Speaker 14: All fell THIS year i. HAD some i had, four apples,
Speaker 14: big apples and they. Have fallen what's causing my apple.
Speaker 1: Tree not to give?
Speaker 14: Them all.
Speaker 1: Do you have more than one variety of? Apple, tree
Speaker 1: no just one.
Speaker 14: Treat survived the other one's.
Speaker 1: All, Croked, okay well apples, need pollinators, so uh one
Speaker 1: variety doesn't, pollinate itself and so you need. Another variety
Speaker 1: do you know what variety you happened to, have.
Speaker 14: NO no i. Should don't at that time we bought
Speaker 14: about five or different fruit trees and that was the
Speaker 14: only one. That, survived okay.
Speaker 1: When, this one when this one, produced apples what? Were
Speaker 1: they were they reddish or were?
Speaker 26: They?
Speaker 1: Yellowish uh say what? Green? Is? Okay, WELL uh i,
Speaker 1: would say go buy two different varieties and then you'll.
Speaker 1: Have three and that way you're pretty sure that you've
Speaker 1: got something that will pollinate the one you already. Got,
Speaker 1: to okay appreciate. Appreciate it you giving me. A call
Speaker 1: i got, a run but, thank. You sir appreciate. That Call, all,
Speaker 1: right folks, heartbreak here we'll be right back with your.
Speaker 1: Calls already, Welcome back welcome Back.
Speaker 14: To.
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Speaker 1: have you Been To Spring? Creek feed they're up there
Speaker 1: In the magnolia DIRECTION on fm twenty nine to, seventy
Speaker 1: eight kind of northeast Part. Of tomball Northeast, OF tomball i, should,
Speaker 1: say uh. There is it's a. BEAUTIFUL store i mean it.
Speaker 1: Really is you go when you, drive up, you're going,
Speaker 1: oh wow this. Is cool you can't. MISS it i
Speaker 1: mean it's right there on twenty nine to. Seventy eight
Speaker 1: when you, go inside it is. So impressive lots. OF product,
Speaker 1: i mean if you, want feeds if you want tac for,
Speaker 1: your animals if you want. Pet food but of course
Speaker 1: my interest is you walk in the store and you
Speaker 1: turn to the right and right there you're going to
Speaker 1: find products like herbicides to, kill weeds to, prevent, wheeds fungicize, stop,
Speaker 1: diseases pesticize control insects and, spider mites and. Other things
Speaker 1: they carry a full Line Of church star Products from
Speaker 1: Nelson micro life products and nitrofoss products. As well when you,
Speaker 1: walk in you're going to be greeted, by friendly courteous
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Speaker 1: happen to be military or, senior citizen there's a discount.
Speaker 1: For you just let. Them know and if you need
Speaker 1: something special ordered that they, don't have or if you need,
Speaker 1: something delivered they offer those service. As Well At Spring creek,
Speaker 1: feed again twenty nine, seventy eight just Northeast. Of tomball
Speaker 1: you are listening To. Garden line i'm, Your Host, skip
Speaker 1: richter and our phone number here seven one three two
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Speaker 1: warning here and that is that on this last hour of,
Speaker 1: the show Typically, on, sundays uh people flood the phone
Speaker 1: at the end of, the SHOW and i can't get
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Speaker 1: It UH and I. Said sunday actually Today, is saturday.
Speaker 1: Isn't it tomorrow Will. Be sunday we're going to head
Speaker 1: out Now to Chris In. Jersey, Village, hello chris welcome To. Garden, line,
Speaker 1: yes sir thank you for taking.
Speaker 27: MY call i was telling your associate that you've getting
Speaker 27: out this, information before AND unfortunately i didn't write. It
Speaker 27: Down but i've got dogs in, the backyard so can't
Speaker 27: use The usual whedon feed because it's a. Bad form
Speaker 27: but you said there's one that you can GET From
Speaker 27: ace hardware that is safe to use around.
Speaker 1: The dogs could you tell me what? That? Was, PLEASE
Speaker 1: wow i don't remember. Saying that we did we begin with.
Speaker 4: The, cads.
Speaker 27: Well the whedon feed that you said wasn't wasn't hazardous the,
Speaker 27: two ANIMALS and i know The regular whedon FEED that
Speaker 27: i get from the. Garden store, you know they definitely
Speaker 27: got a big thing. On there, you know do not
Speaker 27: use around, domestic animals because As.
Speaker 1: Boy Chris I'm i'm i'm drawn. A blank i generally
Speaker 1: don't recommend weed and. Feeds outright, IN general i prefer
Speaker 1: to use the weed control product for the weeds You
Speaker 1: know i'm, dealing with and then to use a fertilizer
Speaker 1: according to the season. For that so you got me stumped.
Speaker 1: ON THAT i i can't imagine. THAT something i must
Speaker 1: have been talking, about SOMETHING but i. JUST don't i.
Speaker 14: Don't know you could have got, fed up.
Speaker 1: You know it could have been some other product that
Speaker 1: you're putting out. There now AND now i have had
Speaker 1: a questions about. Fireant. Bait uh and with, fireant baits
Speaker 1: you're putting a granule here and a, granule there and
Speaker 1: it's just not like the dog goes up and licks
Speaker 1: up a whole bunch of it and it's a super. Super, Snow, okay,
Speaker 1: WELL hmmm I guess i'm stumped on. This one so.
Speaker 27: We did the stuff, you know like, you recommended and
Speaker 27: the grass and everything's. Growing fine the, backyard though does
Speaker 27: not look.
Speaker 4: So great.
Speaker 1: Lots, of, weeds, yes sir. Mm hmmm so WHAT what
Speaker 1: i WOULD what i, would suggest, of course if it's
Speaker 1: hand pulling is always, an option but sounds like you
Speaker 1: may have take years to get them all. Hand, pulled,
Speaker 1: mowing yeah, mowing, regularly uh and then doing the three
Speaker 1: things that are on my, schedule, mow. Water. Fertilized uh
Speaker 1: doing all three of those and building that density as best.
Speaker 1: You can and you can choke out. Most weeds and
Speaker 1: there are a few Weeds like virginia button weed and
Speaker 1: dollar weed that are going to grow in a, dense
Speaker 1: lawn but most. Weeds don't AND so i would focus,
Speaker 1: on those especially if you're trying to do it without
Speaker 1: the use of. CERTAIN chemicals i think you that would
Speaker 1: be that would BE what i focus ON if i.
Speaker 27: Were you, all right, you bet?
Speaker 1: Thank you, uh huh, all right there. We go uh
Speaker 1: R C w Nursery is tomball parkway in about. WAY
Speaker 1: Eight rcw nursery is loaded. With color and right now
Speaker 1: we're going into the. Hot season, it's coming, not, today
Speaker 1: thankfully but. It's coming but when you put flowers, in
Speaker 1: now you need to put heat, loving flowers things that
Speaker 1: are going to give you the most bang for your
Speaker 1: buck as we move into, the SUMMER and rcw carries
Speaker 1: a lot. Of things they're beautiful color that survive in.
Speaker 1: The summertime, just fine give them a little water and
Speaker 1: they're good. To go you're going get good. Advice there
Speaker 1: they do carry products fertilizers and things as well to
Speaker 1: help you with your. Gardening activities but the main thing
Speaker 1: is you just got to go by and. See it
Speaker 1: you gotta look at the products that, they offer the.
Speaker 1: Credible plants it is just one of my favorite places.
Speaker 1: TO Shop rcw nursery Right Where toma parkway comes into about.
Speaker 1: Way eight we're going to head now Down to baytown
Speaker 1: and Talk. To, Mark, Hello mark Welcome. To, guardline, yes
Speaker 1: sir Good. MORNING skip.
Speaker 12: I have an oak tree and the bark is falling
Speaker 12: off and it's exposing. The limbs they're, dark BLACK and i, was,
Speaker 12: thinking well maybe if those limbs off and then put
Speaker 12: some fungus side, on IT that i could attach a
Speaker 12: hose to it and spray it to try to.
Speaker 1: Save it do you have?
Speaker 26: Any, SUGGESTIONS well i don't think that's gonna be a.
Speaker 1: Good approach i've never seen using a funderside for that.
Speaker 1: Particular situation my question is why is the bark falling?
Speaker 1: Off first and that usually is due to some, physical
Speaker 1: injury but it could be due to a canker disease
Speaker 1: underneath the bark to kill, the bark and you know
Speaker 1: eventually as a, tree grows it starts to. Fall off
Speaker 1: any idea why?
Speaker 26: The bark why the bark's? Falling off from what you've
Speaker 26: seen on. THE tree i called a. Tree man he
Speaker 26: said it's going to have to be cut down because.
Speaker 26: He's DYING and, i, say, well okay well let, me, okay.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, Yeah OKAY well I don't i don't know why.
Speaker 1: It's dying if you wanted to take pictures of the
Speaker 1: places where the bark's falling off that, are black and
Speaker 1: then show me the whole tree a couple of PLACES
Speaker 1: so i can see the setting, AND everything i could
Speaker 1: probably give you better answer than. Right now when bark,
Speaker 1: falls off it. Falls off the main thing you can
Speaker 1: do is get the tree vigorous so that. It closes
Speaker 1: that wound. Back over but the fact someone told you,
Speaker 1: It's dying i'd come need to see the, WHOLE tree
Speaker 1: i think mark in order for me to give you
Speaker 1: a good helpful answer rather than a.
Speaker 12: Best guess BECAUSE because i was walking the pup earlier
Speaker 12: this MORNING and i looked at a neighbor's tree and
Speaker 12: there's just doing the.
Speaker 1: Same, thing okay so all send me. A picture i'm
Speaker 1: gonna put you, All right i'm gonna put you On
Speaker 1: hold alejandro pickup and he'll tell you what. To do thanks, a,
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Speaker 1: out head up now to tumble and Talk. To, David, hello.
Speaker 4: David, Good.
Speaker 1: Morning.
Speaker 6: SKIP hey i got two crape MYRTLES that i want
Speaker 6: to grow upward instead. Of outward and unless you tell
Speaker 6: me it's a, BAD ideal i was thinking about taking
Speaker 6: a one, inch strap putting, around it sinking, it tight
Speaker 6: ratchet it together as TIGHT as i could to where
Speaker 6: it bundles them, all together, pointing upward and just let
Speaker 6: it grow. From there, uh.
Speaker 1: Yeah as long as it, doesn't yet you, you can
Speaker 1: depending on how big the, limbs are, you know if
Speaker 1: there are already golf ball size or bigger, and stuff
Speaker 1: it's gonna be kind of hard to reorient them. Like
Speaker 1: that the only thing is to make sure that strap
Speaker 1: doesn't cut out or cut into, the branch which it
Speaker 1: will over time if. Left THERE so i might put
Speaker 1: more than one strap on and as you kind of ratchet.
Speaker 1: It down just be careful you don't go too far
Speaker 1: on that because you can come back later and do
Speaker 1: another click, or two, you know on. The RATCHET and
Speaker 1: i try to achieve that printing is your. Other friend
Speaker 1: as you got branches that are, going outward cut, those
Speaker 1: off let the ones going. Upward remain i've never had
Speaker 1: anybody asked to do, that before but that. Would, work okay.
Speaker 11: Thank you send me.
Speaker 1: A picture send me a picture of this before. AND
Speaker 1: after i really would like to. See this, all right, all,
Speaker 1: right sir you. Take care, you know. IT'S funny i
Speaker 1: have been answering gardening questions professionally for thirty six or seven,
Speaker 1: years NOW and i never had. That one and it happens.
Speaker 1: A lot i'll get A question i never. Had before,
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Speaker 1: so i'm gonna have to kind of keep, Moving here
Speaker 1: Mary And. West houston i'm gonna need a little more
Speaker 1: time for you on, The question so just. Hang on
Speaker 1: we'll be back in just. A moment in, THE meantime
Speaker 1: i just want to Remind you i'm going to Be
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Speaker 1: my gosh to. Two pm they'd run me out before
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Speaker 1: i would suggest. A plant let's, do that, all right
Speaker 1: we'll be right back. Bottom, back alrighty let's.
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Speaker 1: Welcome Back. To guardline good heavy. With us we are
Speaker 1: here to help you have success in your. Gardening endeavors
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Speaker 1: Now To west houston and Talk to mary. This Morning,
Speaker 1: hello mary and welcome To. Garden Line.
Speaker 23: Hello skip just wanted to get your input on A
Speaker 23: situation i've created here with my. FRONT yard. I have
Speaker 23: i had WEEDS that i really tough WEEDS that i
Speaker 23: pulled up in the front YARD and i put down
Speaker 23: SOME because i had a lot of DIRT after i,
Speaker 23: did THAT so i put down some quick grass that's
Speaker 23: the product you can get at, the store and it grows,
Speaker 23: too Fast and i'm.
Speaker 9: Not happy.
Speaker 23: With it now, That, said OKAY can i get some
Speaker 23: twenty four by fifteen inch Rectangles Of saint augustine sawgrass
Speaker 23: and start putting? THAT down i want to go Back
Speaker 23: To saint augustine because it doesn't grow. That. Grass yeah
Speaker 23: that quick grass, is cool.
Speaker 14: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Stupid YEAH what i would DO is i would spray
Speaker 1: that kirk grass with a grass. Only killer it kills. Just.
Speaker 1: Grass uh and there's there are a couple. Of products
Speaker 1: i've got a web publication called herbicides for herbicides for skips.
Speaker 1: Weed wiper if you got, A pin i'm gonna give you.
Speaker 1: My website It is Gardening with skip. Dot com and
Speaker 1: look for the herbicides for skips weed wiper and go
Speaker 1: down to the grass killers just. Kills. Grass uh that
Speaker 1: tells you the products you need to. LOOK for i
Speaker 1: got a number of them listed on there. For you and,
Speaker 1: spray it give it a week or more, to work
Speaker 1: and then do your resting when you get it out. Of,
Speaker 1: there okay Thank, You skip, All, right mary thanks, a
Speaker 1: lot appreciate appreciate your call.
Speaker 14: Very.
Speaker 1: Much uh the let's, see here who? Is, There okay Jack,
Speaker 1: And katie we're gonna Go to jack now Welcome to.
Speaker 4: Guard.
Speaker 1: Nine, jack yeah.
Speaker 18: Good, MORNING yes i have a four foot tall tin
Speaker 18: oak that has was started by a squirrel in my
Speaker 18: GARDEN and i moved him out in.
Speaker 14: The yard and he's.
Speaker 18: Growing good he's four, feet tall but he's, very thin
Speaker 18: and he's got growth at. The Top and i'm wondering
Speaker 18: IF what i should DO if i want to prove
Speaker 18: it or anything.
Speaker 1: Like, that, okay good is it in a sunny or semi.
Speaker 18: Shady location it's in a sunny location and it's doing.
Speaker 18: QUITE well, I say i moved it earlier this year
Speaker 18: and it's. Growing good and.
Speaker 1: Here Here's, the yeah here's the well it's going. To be,
Speaker 1: that's okay that's. The process you let. It grow just
Speaker 1: let it grow. For now don't don't cut. It back at,
Speaker 1: some point, you know when that when that trunk is
Speaker 1: the size of a golf ball or tennis ball, or
Speaker 1: something we can start to do some pruning on it at.
Speaker 1: That time but, right now it needs ever leaf it
Speaker 1: can create to add to strength and fueling the plant
Speaker 1: to be able. To grow so don't do any pruning on.
Speaker 1: It now it'll be, all right and then, later on
Speaker 1: maybe two years, from now or a year, from now
Speaker 1: give me a call and we'll talk. Next steps, all,
Speaker 1: RIGHT well i.
Speaker 18: Appreciate that i'll it's hanging, in There so i'm just
Speaker 18: gonna leave it alone and GIVE little plc thank you.
Speaker 17: Very.
Speaker 14: Much kip there.
Speaker 1: You go. That's it you're on the. RIGHT track i.
Speaker 1: APPRECIATE that a lot the Folks at nitrofoss went in
Speaker 1: creating this super turf that you hear me talk about.
Speaker 1: A lot they designed a product to work for our
Speaker 1: southern turf grasses and our southern soils and climate here
Speaker 1: in The greater. Houston area that it is an. Outstanding
Speaker 1: product it. Releases slowly nineteen four to ten is. The
Speaker 1: neutrals don't be spooked by. That nineteen that has a lot,
Speaker 1: of nitrogen but it's going to take that nitrogen and
Speaker 1: only give it to the plant slowly over time for about.
Speaker 1: Sixteen weeks so that is what. You want, you know plants,
Speaker 1: dislike us plants eat if you will, every day take
Speaker 1: up a little, every day and you want a nice
Speaker 1: gradual release, Like that and that's Exactly what Knight To
Speaker 1: Fass super. Trip does it's easy to find in a
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Speaker 1: find now you're going to find products like This At
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Speaker 1: north Taylor. And alvin you head Up to cypress area
Speaker 1: and YOU'VE got M And d Cypress. On luetta You've
Speaker 1: Got Langham Creek ace HARDWARE on fm five twenty nine
Speaker 1: right there on the Backside of. Copperfield, neighborhood easy easy
Speaker 1: to find it night Fas. Super turf let's go To
Speaker 1: the houston now and we're gonna Talk. To, Thomas, Hello thomas, good.
Speaker 28: MORNING sir i have my PROBLEM is i planted three
Speaker 28: guard guardenian plants about three, weeks ago and they were
Speaker 28: about three and a half.
Speaker 14: Feet high they were blooming.
Speaker 4: Real PRETTY so i prepared my saw DAYS before i bought.
Speaker 14: My plants and.
Speaker 28: The thing, is now everything else around it is, growing
Speaker 28: nice but my guardians. And dying they are in.
Speaker 14: Full song.
Speaker 4: One of them is not in.
Speaker 9: Full song it's in uh. Three quarters SO but.
Speaker 28: I don't know what to do, to them NOT because
Speaker 28: i don't dug around just to make sure was no insects.
Speaker 28: In there, YOU know i don't see anything. Else around,
Speaker 28: but Yeah.
Speaker 1: Uh, uh oh we're gonna get you off. The couch
Speaker 1: don't worry. About, That uh no more on. The, Couch,
Speaker 1: Hey uh i'm gonna give you a, few Tips but
Speaker 1: i'm going to a break here, about seconds and then i'll.
Speaker 1: Come back you hang around and. We'll finish we'll. Finish
Speaker 1: up then when a new plant, goes in that root
Speaker 1: system is still confined to the pot and you may
Speaker 1: have wet soil, around it but that plant in the
Speaker 1: sun pumps that root ball dry that went in, the
Speaker 1: ground that, root cylinder and it goes. Into droughtsdress even though,
Speaker 1: you're going hey we had a rain the, Other day
Speaker 1: why why is it? In, droughtsdress well That's why i'm
Speaker 1: going to go, to break AND when i, come back we'll. Continue. This,
Speaker 1: thomas thanks thanks for. Your call, hang, On, alright hey
Speaker 1: let's let's. Do this we got one, segment left so
Speaker 1: we're going to jump right out there and head back
Speaker 1: to Talk. To Thomas, H, Hey Thomas, uh so bottom
Speaker 1: line is that IS what i. Think happened what also
Speaker 1: could have happened is that they got too. Much water
Speaker 1: and if you have a, clay soil, especially uh it
Speaker 1: becomes an underground bathtub when you dig, a hole and
Speaker 1: so you set that plan in it and then you're
Speaker 1: water in it and you just have a water table
Speaker 1: comes up and the roots submerged are are gonna dug,
Speaker 1: and die and then the plant's gonna turn black or brown,
Speaker 1: drop leaves, you know and and show the symptoms. You
Speaker 1: showed so my gut feeling is that it could be
Speaker 1: that overwatering possibly as well.
Speaker 14: Respect an. Underground bathtub but, you said so you set
Speaker 14: that plan and underwater in it in the water table.
Speaker 1: Temas, You, there, yes, sir yeah, my phone, but, okay, good. Okay.
Speaker 1: Good yeah so so a brand, new plant, you know
Speaker 1: in the garden center there water in that little pot
Speaker 1: every day and it ran out the bottom of the
Speaker 1: holes in the in. The pot and so that's why
Speaker 1: putting it in, The, ground uh you gotta steal water
Speaker 1: that little thing a little bit. Every day but you
Speaker 1: do too much and submerge it and you're gonna have.
Speaker 1: That problem or the leaves are just. Turning brown you're
Speaker 1: not seeing yellowing or primarily.
Speaker 28: Just, BROWN okay i have one plant that is, turning
Speaker 28: yellow and but it's about about twenty percent of the
Speaker 28: leaves is, turning yellow but the rest of them are
Speaker 28: real pretty and by the half or the leaves of a.
Speaker 4: Dog, Brown.
Speaker 1: Okay i'm worried.
Speaker 14: About, Those.
Speaker 1: Yeah i'm worried about those brown leaf plants because usually
Speaker 1: by tom something hits, that stage there's been a lot
Speaker 1: of damage and the chances of bringing it back start
Speaker 1: to go downhill with the number of brown leaves that
Speaker 1: you got. On it so just dig down with your
Speaker 1: hand and a trail around the edge of where that root,
Speaker 1: ball was, you know you know how big the. Pot
Speaker 1: was and then so go out and pretend you're digging
Speaker 1: at the edge of where the all those roots were
Speaker 1: and feel the soil about four, inches deep and see
Speaker 1: if it's moist or if. It's, dry well, NOT moist
Speaker 1: i should say it's not going to be, fully dry
Speaker 1: and water accordingly, to that and see how it does
Speaker 1: for the. Yellowing one if the yellowing is on the
Speaker 1: newest growth at the ends of, the shoots the yellowest
Speaker 1: leaves are at the ends of, the shoots that's an
Speaker 1: iron deficiency and you need to get an iron supplement
Speaker 1: to put. On it and you go to, you know
Speaker 1: a good garden center and ace, hardware store a place,
Speaker 1: like that and they're going to have a. Keylated iron
Speaker 1: that's a form of iron that doesn't tie up real
Speaker 1: fast in. The soil if the yellowing is on the,
Speaker 1: oldest leaves mostly mostly on the, oldest leaves that's probably
Speaker 1: a nitrogen deficiency and just A good guardina fertilizer is
Speaker 1: going to give them. That boost just just use them,
Speaker 1: in moderation follow the label, on IT and i think
Speaker 1: that'll that'll work. For you good luck. WITH that i
Speaker 1: do wish. You well, you know we hate to buy
Speaker 1: a new plant and then, Lose it but hopefully that'll
Speaker 1: give you a guide to getting started at least trying
Speaker 1: to turn. That around.
Speaker 14: You can.
Speaker 1: I'M sorry i lost. That statement say, it again, all right,
Speaker 1: all right sometimes we get, crossways. Here Uh. Pest Bros.
Speaker 1: Pest bros it has, been raining you will have a
Speaker 1: new crop of mosquito. Showing up that is just the way.
Speaker 1: It is mosquitoes can reproduce in a bottle capful. Of
Speaker 1: water so how many places around your property and your
Speaker 1: neighbors have at least a bottle cap of? Standing? Water
Speaker 1: right you got to do something. About It. Pest bros has.
Speaker 1: A system i call it the mosquito buckets that mosquitoes
Speaker 1: go to and they pick up products that when they,
Speaker 1: fly around those little tiny bits of water get condeminated
Speaker 1: where mosquitoes can't be raised in though that product also
Speaker 1: is a fungus that sticks to the mosquito and causes
Speaker 1: the mosquito to die from the fungus and it doesn't affect.
Speaker 1: Other insects it's specific to the mosquitos and it. Works
Speaker 1: well and that you. Know this these buckets. Are wonderful
Speaker 1: i'm using them at my house and they're. Working. Well Uh.
Speaker 1: Pest bros is the company that you need to call
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Speaker 1: outstanding work and controlling termites or fire ants or other
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Speaker 1: safest possible manner so you get long term results. Without
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Speaker 1: one two o six forty six seventy ask them about those.
Speaker 1: MOSQUITO buckets a skip keeps droning on and on about
Speaker 1: on the. GARDEN line i just think it's one of
Speaker 1: the coolest things in, the world alluring a mosquito to
Speaker 1: pick up. A, disease wow that that's wonderful stuff. For,
Speaker 1: sure well let's see where. Are we we're still, Doing
Speaker 1: okay i've got a little bit of time. Left here
Speaker 1: we will continue to answer questions as we. HAVE them
Speaker 1: i just want to remind, You again i'm going to
Speaker 1: be At The, arbor Gate. The arborgate for those of
Speaker 1: you who are new to the area and don't know where.
Speaker 1: That is you head Up the tomball or Head to
Speaker 1: tomball and you go West of tomball on twenty nine.
Speaker 1: To twenty it's just outside of town on the left.
Speaker 1: End side you'll see. It there Look For. Trishel Road
Speaker 1: trishel road Is before arburgate And, after arburgate so you
Speaker 1: can turn any of. The place it'll take you Around
Speaker 1: behind arburgate and you can park in the back. Parking lot.
Speaker 1: There's space it's. All weather, it's, easy convenient. Really nice
Speaker 1: come by and. See me i'd like to spend some
Speaker 1: time talking about the things that are most interest. To
Speaker 1: you it's always fun to go to. These events we
Speaker 1: have a. Good time and Speaking of arbigate is really
Speaker 1: set up For The mother's day event that's occurring TODAY
Speaker 1: and i guess. Tomorrow too probably they have everything your mom,
Speaker 1: would love from the gift shops out to. The plants
Speaker 1: just another appeal to folks out there who are thinking
Speaker 1: About A mother's. Day gift i'm not going to tell,
Speaker 1: your MOM but i know you haven't done. It yet
Speaker 1: you're going to do a last, minute, Thing right i'm not?
Speaker 1: Telling anyway why not? A plant a plant gives years.
Speaker 1: Of memories you can buy a bouquet of flowers and,
Speaker 1: that's nice. They're pretty or you can buy a rose
Speaker 1: bush that will bloom every year and remind the person
Speaker 1: who received your gift of that gift. FROM you i
Speaker 1: highly recommend take, some time go out with mom and.
Speaker 1: Plant it the memory of time spent together is the
Speaker 1: biggest gift you. Can gift i'm telling You that i've
Speaker 1: talked To mom's i'm married to. A mom it is
Speaker 1: important spend time with your Mom On, mother's day even
Speaker 1: if you had to show up on another day. Next
Speaker 1: week to get, it planted give them some time and that,
Speaker 1: wonderful gift and you're gonna find one of those, in many,
Speaker 1: many forums many species of Plants. At arburgate we're going
Speaker 1: to go now Out to liberty and Talk. To, Tracy,
Speaker 1: Hello tracy welcome To. Garden line, Good.
Speaker 9: MORNING skiff i have a very. QUICK question i HAVE
Speaker 9: an lsu purple big TREE that i bought last Summer
Speaker 9: that i'm getting pretty close. To planning and my question
Speaker 9: is it has a lot of suckers coming off the base.
Speaker 9: Of it should those be trammed OR can i leave? Them?
Speaker 9: With no how this tree is supposed.
Speaker 1: To look, you know there's not a supposed to on
Speaker 1: figs in our area because we get a good hard
Speaker 1: freeze every now and then and it can kill. Figs
Speaker 1: back we don't try to do a single trunk fig
Speaker 1: tree like you could in a more frost, Free area
Speaker 1: and so you can trim all that little brushy stuff
Speaker 1: away at the bottom and let the big. Branches grow
Speaker 1: THAT'S what i. Would do but if, you don't the
Speaker 1: fig will. Still produce and so either way you want
Speaker 1: to go.
Speaker 9: About, It, okay well some of them are close to
Speaker 9: two and a half, feet LONG and i hated to
Speaker 9: cut them because it's just making a nice bushy tree at.
Speaker 1: The, moment, yeah well how big is the overall plant?
Speaker 1: Right now at a moment.
Speaker 9: It is i'm standing right here buying at least five foot.
Speaker 1: Six, tall, OKAY yeah i would leave somewhere between three
Speaker 1: and six trunks on. That tree, you know you don't want.
Speaker 1: So many that is just. All crowded but, you KNOW
Speaker 1: usually i have about a four three or four trunk
Speaker 1: fig tree and they. Do well but if you, have more,
Speaker 1: it's okay just not too. Many more but i'd print.
Speaker 9: THEM away i think you're gonna, of THEM so i
Speaker 9: could take two of the smaller ones and.
Speaker 4: Be good then.
Speaker 14: There.
Speaker 1: You go, all, right sir. Good luck now you know on,
Speaker 1: GUARDEN line I don't i don't charge, for ADVICE but
Speaker 1: i do ask for half of. The produce so, each
Speaker 1: year bring me half the figs to the radio station
Speaker 1: and we will call. It even we can.
Speaker 9: DO that i appreciate, Your time, thank you.
Speaker 1: All RIGHT and i hope you all know that that.
Speaker 1: IS kidding i don't expect to see produce at, the station.
Speaker 1: All right the music means we're on. Our Way. To
Speaker 1: arburgate i'm gonna take care of some things here and head.
Speaker 1: That way i'll be there twelve to to come on
Speaker 1: out and. See, me uh we'll have copies of. My
Speaker 1: Books i've everly's got some copies of the books. ON
Speaker 1: hand i don't mind signing.
Speaker 4: For you