Speaker 1: Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Skip Richard.
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Speaker 2: k t r H. I'm your host, Skip Richter. And
Speaker 2: why am I here? Well, I'm here because I want
Speaker 2: you to have more fun gardening, and I want you
Speaker 2: to guard your gardens to be more bountiful, and I
Speaker 2: want them to be more beautiful. I feel like you
Speaker 2: know that's what you want too, so let's figure out
Speaker 2: how to make that happen. Guarding is not rocket science,
Speaker 2: you know. One thing about biology, about plant science, about
Speaker 2: horticulture is everything is responding to certain things going on
Speaker 2: around it. For example, a plant gets sunlight on the leaves,
Speaker 2: carbohydrates hydrates start to get made, and that plant gets
Speaker 2: healthy and grows and blooms and fruits and does all
Speaker 2: the things you wanted to do. Good moisture in the
Speaker 2: soil allows the nutrients to move into the roots so
Speaker 2: the plant can grow and make blooms and fruit and
Speaker 2: growth and beauty and everything you want. You see what
Speaker 2: I'm saying. It's simple stuff. It's like how much sunlight
Speaker 2: does a plant want? How consistent does the moisture need
Speaker 2: to be? Does it really require good drainage and insures?
Speaker 2: Almost always yes, not always, but usually yes. You know,
Speaker 2: what are the nutrients and the pH that the plant likes,
Speaker 2: And as we get plants those things they respond in
Speaker 2: the way they're programmed to do, and we end up
Speaker 2: enjoying that beautiful landscape. You know, everyone, I've heard many
Speaker 2: times people say, my grandma, she could stick a pencil
Speaker 2: in the ground and it would grow a pine tree,
Speaker 2: you know, stuff like that. Well, grandma was good at gardening.
Speaker 2: Ba's just because Grandma knew what to do. She doesn't
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Speaker 2: as a result, you just got to figure out how
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Speaker 2: it makes your excuse me, when you inform your thumb,
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Speaker 2: to Southwest Houston this morning, first thing and talk to Alicia. Hello, Alicia,
Speaker 2: welcome to Gardenline.
Speaker 3: Good morning.
Speaker 4: You doing okay, Skiff?
Speaker 2: I am doing really really well. You know, I used
Speaker 2: to not be a morning person, and I just kind
Speaker 2: of get excited about getting up in morning to do this.
Speaker 2: So I'm doing great. Thank you for asking.
Speaker 5: Well, I have a cat with a big fat mouth
Speaker 5: when she's hungry.
Speaker 2: Uh huh, Okay.
Speaker 5: My question is I bought it to made a plane
Speaker 5: at southwest on this and it, I know, it was
Speaker 5: late in the season, grew kind of tall, and it
Speaker 5: blew a couple of times, and then I noticed the
Speaker 5: leaves were curling up and turning a little brown, and said,
Speaker 5: what's going on? So I noticed that there was some
Speaker 5: kind of looks like a spider web over the lea.
Speaker 5: So I said, oh, the of a book, but I
Speaker 5: didn't know what. So I pulled off most of the
Speaker 5: leaves that looked like they were dried up and infective, like
Speaker 5: the side sprut leaves, and I sprayed it within sicknessidals.
Speaker 5: So it came webbing, came back and start curling up again.
Speaker 5: So I did any gain, And now it really didn't
Speaker 5: look good. So what should I have done?
Speaker 2: What is that? I think you're seeing spider mites. You know,
Speaker 2: a spider could make a web on your tomato, but
Speaker 2: that would just be to catch bugs. But spider mites
Speaker 2: form a webbing. And you see that some of what
Speaker 2: you're describing. Get a white sheet of paper, like typing paper,
Speaker 2: and put it underneath a leaf that's losing some color
Speaker 2: and whatnot, and take your thumb forefinger just thump that
Speaker 2: leaf really hard and look at the paper and if
Speaker 2: you see little tiny specks kind of reddish brown that
Speaker 2: are moving around real slow, that's spider mites. And if
Speaker 2: that's the case at this point in the season, I
Speaker 2: don't think i'd do anything. You know, we're getting close
Speaker 2: enough to when we could have a frost that I
Speaker 2: don't think there's a lot of recovery growth, setting fruit
Speaker 2: and ripening fruit that can happen between now and then.
Speaker 2: So I would take a strong blast of water with
Speaker 2: the hose and on the end of a gun, on
Speaker 2: the end of a garden hose, and I would just
Speaker 2: blast those things, especially pointing upward. If you find the
Speaker 2: spider mites next year, we can talk about other things
Speaker 2: to do if that starts to show up.
Speaker 5: Well, the insect thats up didn't really do any do
Speaker 5: a thing.
Speaker 2: Well, if you catch them early with it, it does
Speaker 2: before they make all that webbing, which kind of keeps
Speaker 2: the soap mist off of them.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 5: I put it in a pot where I could pull
Speaker 5: it in and take care of it for the winter
Speaker 5: and of meat. Okay, but it's not going to It's
Speaker 5: on its way out right now. But thank you for
Speaker 5: the information. I'm giving enough.
Speaker 2: Thanks, But check for those mites like I described with
Speaker 2: the piece of paper right now, because that way, at
Speaker 2: least you know what you're looking for next year. You know,
Speaker 2: you recognize the symptom and you know what they look like,
Speaker 2: so you can do that same check next year if
Speaker 2: things start to look a little off. Hey, I appreciate
Speaker 2: you call Alicia. Thanks for calling.
Speaker 3: Blast day.
Speaker 2: Bye bye, you bet, take care, bye bye. All right,
Speaker 2: time for me to take a little break. I'll be
Speaker 2: right back, folks. All right, we're back, folks, back here
Speaker 2: on Guardline. Thanks for listening in. I appreciate that. I
Speaker 2: hope you've got you a cup of coffee and at
Speaker 2: least one I open. We've got gardening to talk about today.
Speaker 2: First of all, I had a great time yesterday out
Speaker 2: at Katie A's store on Pinoak, and I think everybody
Speaker 2: that came out we had a lot of different questions,
Speaker 2: and which is I just enjoy that because every question
Speaker 2: is because somebody is trying to be a better gardener.
Speaker 2: They're trying to have success, trying to fix a problem.
Speaker 2: They're trying to you see what I'm saying, And it's
Speaker 2: just fun. Helping people, and we did a lot of
Speaker 2: that out there. Thanks for the folks at night Fross
Speaker 2: for donating. We have a lot of bags of nitro
Speaker 2: Fross fertilizers out too. That was fun. By the way,
Speaker 2: the night Frost right now. You know, the thing I'm
Speaker 2: talking about, the nitroposs question or tip of the season
Speaker 2: really is their three step program because there's three things
Speaker 2: that are happening in our lawns. Number One, your lawn
Speaker 2: is taking up nutrients to try to help itself get
Speaker 2: stronger going into winter. Number Two, the weeds that sprout
Speaker 2: that become big problems in the spring. They're sprouting now
Speaker 2: and you need to stop that. Don't let them do that.
Speaker 2: Wherever sunlight hits a soil, nature plants of weeds. So
Speaker 2: if your lawn is thin, if your lawn has been struggling,
Speaker 2: it just you know, isn't super super dense, you're gonna
Speaker 2: have weeds pop up. That's how that works. Third third
Speaker 2: step is the eagle to our fund to side. Third
Speaker 2: thing happening in lawns is that brown now called large
Speaker 2: patch or take all root rud also are infecting lawns
Speaker 2: at this time of the year. So if you are
Speaker 2: gonna take care of those three things you need the
Speaker 2: three step programs. So that's the Fall Special Winter Riser fertilizer.
Speaker 2: It's a brown bag that is for this time of year.
Speaker 2: It's the fertilizer you put on in the fall to
Speaker 2: help the plant get into winter stronger, come out of
Speaker 2: winter stronger. Number two barricade for barricade herbicide. You put
Speaker 2: it down and it prevents weed seeds from sprouting and establishing.
Speaker 2: It doesn't kill an existing weed, but clover, handbit, chickweed,
Speaker 2: carpet weed, cleavers, just on and on, all those cool
Speaker 2: season weeds. They're going to be a mess in the spring.
Speaker 2: You'll be calling guarden line. They'll be you know, big
Speaker 2: knee high weeds in my lawn. And where do they
Speaker 2: come from? Well, they started now, They started right now,
Speaker 2: and you can prevent that with barricade. Third is eagle
Speaker 2: third fungry side. You put it down. It goes in
Speaker 2: the a grass plant and when a disease tries to attack,
Speaker 2: it's there to protect it. Okay, Three steps Fall Special
Speaker 2: wind Riser, Nitrofist, Barricade, Eagle turf fungicide. Just get all three.
Speaker 2: Put them all down on the same day. Just put
Speaker 2: down one, come back, put down the next one, come back,
Speaker 2: load up, put down the third one. Then water everything
Speaker 2: in with a half inch of water, about a half
Speaker 2: inch of irrigation, and that'll move them all down to
Speaker 2: the soil. None of those three do you any good
Speaker 2: until you get them down into the soil with water.
Speaker 2: I want to make that point again. None of those
Speaker 2: three are going to help you. They all work, but
Speaker 2: they're not going to help you until you water them
Speaker 2: in with a half inch of water. When they get
Speaker 2: in the soil, that's where they do everything they do,
Speaker 2: even the fungicide. It's taken up by the roots and
Speaker 2: the plant gets it internally so that it can fight
Speaker 2: off disease. All right, I hope that's clear. But thanks
Speaker 2: again to Katie A. S Hardware for having us out.
Speaker 2: We had a really good time. You were listening to
Speaker 2: garden Line. Our phone number is seven to one three
Speaker 2: two one two kt r H seven one three two
Speaker 2: one two kt RH. You know, falls the time to plant,
Speaker 2: and you need to be getting your beds ready if
Speaker 2: they're not already ready, so you can get this planting done.
Speaker 2: But it's also a good time to get ready for spring.
Speaker 2: You know, we get into winter and early spring and
Speaker 2: maybe we've got a whole bunch of rain and stuff,
Speaker 2: and you can't work the soil when it's sop and wet.
Speaker 2: So why not get it ready now for even your
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Speaker 2: this super rich substrate of decomposing organic matter, and mushrooms
Speaker 2: like that and plants like that too. When they're done
Speaker 2: growing the mushrooms, they don't grow another crop in it.
Speaker 2: They just move it out and they get some fresh
Speaker 2: stuff to start over again. Well, that stuff they moved
Speaker 2: out is like black gold. I wish I could show
Speaker 2: you a picture I took in Conrod, Texas of a
Speaker 2: vacant builders lot that was the bulldozers had scraped anything
Speaker 2: close to soil off of it. And it was a flat,
Speaker 2: hard mess, which is great for putting a building on,
Speaker 2: but not a garden in We took mushroom compost who
Speaker 2: spread it out there. We took a tractor disk and
Speaker 2: just disked it in like you're plowing a field. Because
Speaker 2: this is a big lot. We're putting in a test garden.
Speaker 2: And when we threw a rye grass seat on it,
Speaker 2: it rained. And when it came up it was night
Speaker 2: and I mean one foot away on one side there's
Speaker 2: like yellow spinly rye grass barely growing a foot away
Speaker 2: in the mushroom compost mixed soil. The rye grass is
Speaker 2: emerald green, you know, like foot and a half high.
Speaker 2: Flopping over to it was just night and day. That's
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Speaker 2: you grow something this afternoon, I'm gonna get outside. I've
Speaker 2: got a few things to kind of catch up on.
Speaker 2: Just I've got several projects that I'm getting ready for.
Speaker 2: And I noticed that I'm on this long term effort
Speaker 2: to shut down nutsedge everywhere on our property. And it
Speaker 2: is not a one and done thing like a lot
Speaker 2: of weeds can be, but non nut sets. And if
Speaker 2: you want more, if you have a nutsedge issue and
Speaker 2: you want to find out how to control it, go
Speaker 2: to my website gardening with Skip dot com. That's me
Speaker 2: gardening with Skip dot com and look for the nuts
Speaker 2: edge information. Read the one about an in depth look,
Speaker 2: because I'll help you understand it. Anyway. I've got nutsedge
Speaker 2: that I treated according to my schedule information up there,
Speaker 2: I treated it probably three weeks ago and it is
Speaker 2: now really yellowing and starting to go downhill, so very
Speaker 2: slow process when you use the good stuff. But in
Speaker 2: that same bed, there's some green spouts coming up. Those
Speaker 2: are nuts that didn't show their face when I did
Speaker 2: my last treatment, and now they are. Guess what's going
Speaker 2: to happen to those? I'm going to use my weed wiper,
Speaker 2: which if you want to build you one. Go to
Speaker 2: my website. It's free. It's on there, and I use
Speaker 2: my weed wiper, put the good products on it and
Speaker 2: wipe them right on the nuts edge. I mean it
Speaker 2: takes it probably takes me maybe a cup of mixed
Speaker 2: up herbicide for nuts edge when I do this, because
Speaker 2: I'm going all over with the weed wiper. I'm not
Speaker 2: spraying gallons of this stuff all around. So anyway, it
Speaker 2: works really well, and I'll hit it again and it
Speaker 2: will never knock on wood short of me getting ill,
Speaker 2: it will never have a chance to get more than
Speaker 2: about five leaves on it before I hit it again,
Speaker 2: and I will win. I already am winning. I've taken
Speaker 2: a huge infestation in some areas. They are down to
Speaker 2: just you know here, here's one sprout tries to come up,
Speaker 2: and there's one over there that tries to come up.
Speaker 2: And so this isn't going to be long before it's over.
Speaker 2: Can't wait. Having fun doing it too. By the way,
Speaker 2: let's go to Alvin and talk to Dandy this morning.
Speaker 2: Hey Danny, welcome to Guardline.
Speaker 3: Good morning, Schip. I was given some alavera and I
Speaker 3: need help. I need you to educate me on the
Speaker 3: ways to go about it. And also what will be
Speaker 3: the difference between the alavera that I've heard and then
Speaker 3: the aloe barbet insance barberat distance? Is that a different one?
Speaker 3: It's one of them from Australia, is one of them
Speaker 3: from here? That's one thing, And then another thing is
Speaker 3: what type of soil to use it? And will it
Speaker 3: be all right to use it down here so close
Speaker 3: to the coast where the ground stay damp.
Speaker 2: You can aliver. Yeah, Alabert doesn't want to be in
Speaker 2: a doesn't want to be in a soggy swamp, but
Speaker 2: a little bit of water is actually needed. But around
Speaker 2: here you almost never have to water unless it's in
Speaker 2: a real small contation exactly.
Speaker 3: But we have flooding down here, and if we have
Speaker 3: flooding it might be uh seur ford or even half
Speaker 3: a week or so when we have a hurricane that
Speaker 3: it would be underwater. So that means I'm thinking I
Speaker 3: need to I need to elevate it on a high,
Speaker 3: high piece that won't flood. If I'm right on that,
Speaker 3: I mean that's.
Speaker 2: Gonna hurt you do, And yeah, well the thing you
Speaker 2: got to get it up, that's right, You're right right.
Speaker 3: I was given the right I was given these pots,
Speaker 3: about a half a dozen that had one big one
Speaker 3: and the little ones in there, and.
Speaker 7: The uh uh.
Speaker 3: Senior citizens that had them, you know, retired. Uh. There
Speaker 3: were so many ants and there's so many fire that
Speaker 3: they just let it set there. And they didn't want
Speaker 3: they didn't want to have the ants the fire ants
Speaker 3: spread out into the yard, so they gave it to me.
Speaker 3: So I have enough problem busting the pots and getting
Speaker 3: the Alberta that looked good. But I don't know a
Speaker 3: few things.
Speaker 2: About Okay, well, Danny, let me I'll give you the
Speaker 2: Let me just give you all that alibero growing. Pretty
Speaker 2: much any soil over grown, a clay soil, it'll grown
Speaker 2: a sandy soil. I mean, it's pretty forgiving. You want
Speaker 2: to if you're in a pot, you want to give
Speaker 2: it a really good soil, maybe a succulent type mix.
Speaker 2: It's a little bit gritty, a little bit better drained.
Speaker 2: If it's in the ground, just plant and what you got.
Speaker 2: It's very tough. It's very easy. I mean you can
Speaker 2: pull one up, throw it in your truck, drive around
Speaker 2: for a week or two, and bring it out and
Speaker 2: stick it in the ground. It'll grow. I mean, those
Speaker 2: things are very tough, but you want to give it
Speaker 2: a little good care early on just to kind of
Speaker 2: help get it going, because your goal is to get
Speaker 2: it moving fast. And yes, Alivera and aliburbadns a different
Speaker 2: barbadensis are different species. Okay, so, but most of what
Speaker 2: people have around here, you know, especially when you're trying
Speaker 2: to grow it for the benefits in the leaf, the
Speaker 2: good stuff that for burns and that people even take
Speaker 2: it ally. Uh, that's Alabera is the one you want
Speaker 2: to plant for that. But it's not hard to grow.
Speaker 2: Good sun, good son, good drainage and occasional watering. That's it.
Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, Well I want to know also where I'm digging.
Speaker 3: It is in sandy soil, the black sandy soil, and
Speaker 3: there is the grub worms and the little worm that's
Speaker 3: in there. How can I keep those worms in there
Speaker 3: without the What we have is a big plague right now? Okay,
Speaker 3: the little crazy ants, the little crazy ants.
Speaker 2: Go down there, and none of those none of those
Speaker 2: pests are going to none those pests are going to
Speaker 2: bother it. I'm gonna have to run here. I'm up
Speaker 2: against a heartbreak. But the crazy ants won't bother it.
Speaker 2: Grub worms won't bother alibara. You're good to go. I
Speaker 2: would I would never think it. I just put in
Speaker 2: the ground and enjoy it. It's it's.
Speaker 3: It's pretty easy to do that. Yeah, pretty easy to do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you Danny so much. I appreciate that, you
Speaker 2: appreciate the call. In Channing Forest is just a cool place.
Speaker 2: You know, every time you go there, you find a
Speaker 2: place that's just got the kinds of plants, the kinds
Speaker 2: of blaying. I mean, if you're into butterfly gardening, or
Speaker 2: attracting hummingbirds or growing vegetables or herbs or whatever, you
Speaker 2: just want beauty. Right now, they got a really really
Speaker 2: good selection of Chinese fringe trees and red buds and
Speaker 2: Mexican plums and walter bub vernum and rough leaved dog
Speaker 2: with all of those bloom Some of those are native too.
Speaker 2: In Channing Forest is located on FM twenty seven fifty nine,
Speaker 2: So if you're in Richmond Rosenberg area heading towards sugar Land,
Speaker 2: it's off to the right twenty seven fifty nine Enchanted Forest.
Speaker 2: You're going to find everything you're looking for there, including
Speaker 2: and especially right now, some really beautiful winter color and
Speaker 2: some awesome fall vegetable and winter vegetable gardening. I'll be
Speaker 2: right welcome back to guarden Line. We're looking forward to
Speaker 2: visiting with you and your questions. All you got to
Speaker 2: do is call seven to one three two one two
Speaker 2: five eight seven four seven one three two one two ktrh.
Speaker 2: That perhaps is the easiest way to say it. I
Speaker 2: talk about self as fertilizer all the time because you
Speaker 2: can find stuff at Southwest Fertilizer. Yesterday I was out
Speaker 2: in Katie, Texas, and uh, I'm visiting with a lot
Speaker 2: of different folks, but someone had perked was looking to
Speaker 2: build a weed wiper, the one I have on my website,
Speaker 2: and they had just come from there and with some
Speaker 2: different products and things, and it was like, okay, wait,
Speaker 2: you should have grabbed the tool there. They've got the
Speaker 2: bob has the tools there for building the weed wiper.
Speaker 2: It's it's act shout. It is is a graber tool
Speaker 2: with section cups on it, little bolts that hold the
Speaker 2: section cups on. So I mean, if you are not
Speaker 2: to do it yourself or at all, you can make this.
Speaker 2: It is so easy. You know, any of you who
Speaker 2: grew up with tinker toys. If you could do that,
Speaker 2: you can make your own weed wiper. Just go go
Speaker 2: to my website see how to do it, and then
Speaker 2: run by Southwest. While you're there, you're going to find herbicides,
Speaker 2: in secticides, fungicides. If you're an organic gardener and you're
Speaker 2: thinking those are chemicals, well, I would say this Southwest
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Speaker 2: around now. They have everything synthetic, organic, whatever kind of
Speaker 2: gardening you want to do, they know how to do it,
Speaker 2: they do. And so you just go in there. You
Speaker 2: bring them your questions, you bring them your samples, you
Speaker 2: bring them a picture, You say, what is this? Can
Speaker 2: you identify it? What do I do about it? How
Speaker 2: do I deal with it? They'll help you do that.
Speaker 2: And while you're in there, we're coming up on pruning season.
Speaker 2: They got a ninety foot wall of tools with lots
Speaker 2: of different kinds of saws and prunters, and I'm talking
Speaker 2: about quality brands, not the kind you buy. And next
Speaker 2: thing you know that you're throwing them in the trash
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Speaker 2: a lot of different things. You buy a quality product
Speaker 2: and you take care of it, and it in the
Speaker 2: long run, you have saved a lot of money that
Speaker 2: you would have wasted on cheap products. Plus, when it
Speaker 2: comes to printing tools, those issues with our hands, you know,
Speaker 2: carpal tunnel and all the ill tennis elbow or all
Speaker 2: the different things that happens to our joints, that is
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Speaker 2: Here's a phone number seven one three six six six
Speaker 2: seventeen forty four sixty six six one seven four four
Speaker 2: corner of Business and Renwick been around since nineteen fifty five,
Speaker 2: and there is a really good reason for that. Have
Speaker 2: you noticed that your doors are sticking where they used
Speaker 2: to not stick before? Maybe they did for a while.
Speaker 2: This summer and then now they're not again, or something
Speaker 2: like that. That's a sign of movement in the foundation.
Speaker 2: You'll see it in the form of cracks in the
Speaker 2: sheet rock inside. You'll see it in the form of
Speaker 2: cracks in the brick on the outside, sidewalks heaving, driveways
Speaker 2: that are cracked and heaving. That's all because our soil moves.
Speaker 2: And when you have that kind of issue, you don't
Speaker 2: need to put your head in the sind. You need
Speaker 2: to deal with it. And the way I would strongly
Speaker 2: recommend you deal with it is fix my slab, foundation,
Speaker 2: repair tie, and fix my slab. He knows what he's doing.
Speaker 2: He's been doing this twenty three years, honest fellow. And
Speaker 2: I like his goals, and that is it's not just
Speaker 2: a goal, it's what he does. And that is he
Speaker 2: shows up on time, he prices it fairly, and he
Speaker 2: fixes it right. I don't care what plumbing, electrical, what
Speaker 2: kind of work you need done, when't you just like
Speaker 2: someone who shows up on time, gives you a fair
Speaker 2: price and fixes it right, and have Tie look at
Speaker 2: it early on. He may tell you. He may well
Speaker 2: tell you, well, this isn't enough movement to worry about
Speaker 2: at this point, or here's some things that he's not
Speaker 2: going to just like sudden dig up the neighborhood and
Speaker 2: say at the do all this stuff if you don't
Speaker 2: need to do it, tell them you're a Guardenline listener.
Speaker 2: You get a free estimate from Fix my Slab Foundation Repair.
Speaker 2: Fixmyslab dot com is the website that's easier to remember.
Speaker 2: Fix myslab dot com. Here's a phone number two eight
Speaker 2: one two fi five forty nine, forty nine two eight
Speaker 2: one two fi five four nine four nine. You are
Speaker 2: listening to garden Line and I let me give you
Speaker 2: a phone number again here seven one three two one
Speaker 2: two ktr h seven one three two one two ktr h.
Speaker 2: So it's kind of quiet first thing in the morning,
Speaker 2: and then toward the end of the show it gets
Speaker 2: crazy hectic, and so I always try to get people, Hey,
Speaker 2: why don't a few of you who would call in
Speaker 2: at the last minute switch your call in the morning
Speaker 2: and we can just smooth things out and have time
Speaker 2: to talk about a lot of different things. I've got
Speaker 2: a couple of shrubs that I'm going to shrug slash
Speaker 2: tree that I'm putting in the ground, and I just
Speaker 2: need to actually be home long enough to get it done.
Speaker 2: I'll be hopefully getting it done really early this week.
Speaker 2: But one of them is almond verbina. I love almond verbina.
Speaker 2: It is a very large shrub and it kind of
Speaker 2: gangly and stuff. You can share it in trim it
Speaker 2: just to kind of keep it in bounds. But it
Speaker 2: produces these spikes of yellow flowers that are just they're
Speaker 2: kind of like a bottle brush maybe, you know, kind
Speaker 2: of a long, skinny thing with white flowers up and
Speaker 2: down it. But the fragrance is unbelievable. And one of
Speaker 2: the aspects of gardening that I don't think we probably
Speaker 2: talk about enough is fragrance. You know, we know that
Speaker 2: we need textures from fine texture to bold textures. We
Speaker 2: want colors, we want maybe to attract birds or butterflies
Speaker 2: or bees. You see what I'm saying. There's a lot
Speaker 2: of aspects of gardening, but fragrance is a huge one.
Speaker 2: And almond verbina, I mean that is like horticultural crack.
Speaker 2: It is it is. I love that say. It's like gardenias.
Speaker 2: If you ever smelled Guardena's almond burbina, is that kind
Speaker 2: of quality or a fall? What is the butterfly, white
Speaker 2: butterfly ginger. The fragrance of that, oh, those are so good,
Speaker 2: and plants offer us a lot of different fragrance. But anyway,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna put an Alma barbana in and I'm locating
Speaker 2: it to the south and west of our outdoor patio.
Speaker 2: And the reason is that's kind of the predominant breeze
Speaker 2: direction that comes through, and so I want that plant
Speaker 2: to be what upwind from me. So when the when
Speaker 2: the breeze comes through that plant, I get to enjoy
Speaker 2: it sitting there on the patio. Just a couple of ideas,
Speaker 2: thoughts and strategies. Hey, if you're doing any planning this fall,
Speaker 2: you need to get some micro grow liquid af That
Speaker 2: is a maroon looking bottle. One gallon jug of it
Speaker 2: will go a long long way. It contains eight different
Speaker 2: quality beneficial microbes. When I say quality microps, what I'm
Speaker 2: talking about is microbes that are out there working for you,
Speaker 2: doing a good job. These are things that fight disease
Speaker 2: that are in this. You can use it as a drench.
Speaker 2: I would say, you know, do it when you're planning plants.
Speaker 2: Get those things down there on the roots. He things
Speaker 2: live in the soil. They're natural in the soil. You
Speaker 2: can also if you're doing a lawn, well you could
Speaker 2: put the micro Grow liquid af on a hozin spreader,
Speaker 2: but I would use the micro Grow bioinoculant on the lawn.
Speaker 2: Comes in again. I'm a room bag or a jar
Speaker 2: as a granule that works really really well. Microlife Fertilizer
Speaker 2: dot com. That's where you find out more about it.
Speaker 2: Where do you get it? Well, just pretty much everywhere
Speaker 2: you hear you're talking about places on Guardline, the vast
Speaker 2: majority of them carry Microlife products. Time for a break
Speaker 2: here and when I come back, I'll be here with
Speaker 2: your calls, and that would include Catherine and Pat and Ted.
Speaker 2: Good to have you with us this morning on a
Speaker 2: lovely Sunday morning. This afternoons can be a good day
Speaker 2: to get out and about get some things done. That's
Speaker 2: my plans. At least. Let's head to Spring, Texas and
Speaker 2: talk to Catherine and Hello Catherine, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 6: Thank you. I have a coastal bermuda grass that's wandered
Speaker 6: into a flower bed that's been neglected for several years. Okay,
Speaker 6: products to use to rid that coastal Bermuda grass.
Speaker 2: There are two products. If you want the easy way,
Speaker 2: just go to my website Gardening with Skip and look
Speaker 2: for something that's called herbicides for Skip's weed wiper. Forget
Speaker 2: the fact about the weed wiper, just that you're going
Speaker 2: there because it's got a list of herbicides according to
Speaker 2: plants that they kill. And so if you have a grass,
Speaker 2: you just go on the list of grass and go
Speaker 2: across and there'll be three products. Two of them are
Speaker 2: grass only killers and one kills everything that you spray on.
Speaker 2: You don't want the one that kills everything you want
Speaker 2: the two One of them begins with the letters seth
Speaker 2: like the boy's name, s et h. Another one begins
Speaker 2: with the letters f l U A Z flu as
Speaker 2: seth and flu as. Those are the two ingredients. But
Speaker 2: if you look at my list that I put online,
Speaker 2: you can see the names of the products that contain
Speaker 2: seut or that contain flus. And again those are just
Speaker 2: the start of the name. It's a long, long.
Speaker 6: Word and the products will indicate how long you have
Speaker 6: to wait to plant.
Speaker 2: Right away, no, no problem, these are grass only. The
Speaker 2: two I'm telling you to use are grass only killers.
Speaker 2: So I mean, if you have a rose bush with
Speaker 2: bermuda grass crawling up through the center of it, you
Speaker 2: can spray and it won't hurt the rose bush.
Speaker 8: Great, Thank you appreciate your help.
Speaker 2: You Bet, Thank you, Catherine, thank you very much. Appreciate
Speaker 2: that call. Let's see here. Let's we're going to go
Speaker 2: up to Baytown now and talk to Pat. Hey, Pat,
Speaker 2: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 4: Thank good morning, Skip, Thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 7: I have been.
Speaker 4: Listening for the past several several weeks. You talk about
Speaker 4: a nursery that has eighteen pansies on sale for twenty
Speaker 4: five dollars, but I continue to miss the name of
Speaker 4: the nursery. And I believe today's the last day Warren.
Speaker 2: It's Warren's Southern Gardens in Kingwood. Warren's Southern Gardens.
Speaker 4: Awesome.
Speaker 2: And have you ever been there? No, you've been there, Pat. Okay, Well,
Speaker 2: let me just give you one more quick tip. Then
Speaker 2: it is on Stone Hollow Drive. That makes it easier.
Speaker 2: Excuse me, I'm a north Park Drive. North Park Drive
Speaker 2: is where Warrens is?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 4: And do they also have the mushroom soil?
Speaker 2: Uh? I think they carry Landscaper's Pride products out there,
Speaker 2: but I'm not positive of that. You would just need
Speaker 2: to check it out and see if they had that.
Speaker 4: Okay, well, great, thank.
Speaker 2: You, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's it. Okay, go to landscapers,
Speaker 2: go to landscapers Pride dot Pride dot com and see
Speaker 2: if Warren's carrious that out there. That's the best way
Speaker 2: to find out.
Speaker 4: Lauren's on North Park Landscapers. Thank you.
Speaker 2: You bet? All right, good luck, good luck? All right,
Speaker 2: you bet all right. We're gonna go to San Leon
Speaker 2: now and talk to Ted.
Speaker 9: Good morning, Hello, hey, good morning.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 9: I got my Texas three step down Friday morning, and
Speaker 9: then I got a three inches of rain Friday and
Speaker 9: Saturday combined. If you see any problem with.
Speaker 2: All that, well, some of the fertilizer may have may
Speaker 2: have moved a little further than you want it to
Speaker 2: down in the soil and stuff. The barricade will tie
Speaker 2: up fine in the soil, that's not a problem. And
Speaker 2: the amitic clo bridge kind of in between. I don't
Speaker 2: think I would redo them though. I think I think
Speaker 2: I would leave it as is. I think it'll be okay. Okay,
Speaker 2: I got to start doubling up.
Speaker 9: Yeah, the on the on the Eagle Turf at the
Speaker 9: front of the bag said it covered five thousand square feet.
Speaker 9: I've got like three thousand here, and uh the setting
Speaker 9: it called for on it just said generally Scott's broadcast
Speaker 9: it called for a five My gosh, that Eagle turf
Speaker 9: went fast through that, I think, and no way that
Speaker 9: it would have done five thousand square feet.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, on it was. I don't know that.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of different spreaders, a lot of different settings,
Speaker 2: and it's so confusing for folks. We try to make
Speaker 2: it as simple as we can. But I would if
Speaker 2: I were you, I would probably talk to the folks
Speaker 2: at nine to five and they can guide you a
Speaker 2: little bit better on different different things and settings for
Speaker 2: each of their products. Because the particle size on Barricade
Speaker 2: and the Fall Special and the Eagle Turf, those are
Speaker 2: different particle size.
Speaker 9: So you yeah, that Eagle turf is tiny, tiny, tiny tiny,
Speaker 9: and uh yeah, yeah, I think I would have had
Speaker 9: to have it on like one or so to get
Speaker 9: five thousand coverage, And Okay, I.
Speaker 2: Get it, I get it. I would I would probably
Speaker 2: put that out with a little hand turn spreader because.
Speaker 9: Well I tried that dude.
Speaker 10: Man it came out really fast too.
Speaker 9: Okay, all right, yeah, but I mean it can I
Speaker 9: can you overdo that stuff the thunderside?
Speaker 2: Well, I mean you you know you can, but I
Speaker 2: mean it's it's just important to do it at the
Speaker 2: right rate that they say if you if you waste
Speaker 2: money and time and in some products you end up
Speaker 2: with you know, you overdoing it, you have issues. But
Speaker 2: I think the Eagle chip is not going to be
Speaker 2: a huge issue. Just uh that's that's pretty much what
Speaker 2: i'd recommend to you. But glad you're using them, and
Speaker 2: make sure you, like I said, you got them water
Speaker 2: down with plenty of water.
Speaker 9: So, uh, you know, do you know if do you
Speaker 9: know if they sell the Medina Plus in like five
Speaker 9: gallon burrows or not?
Speaker 2: Oh boy, we'd have to ask the folks at Medina.
Speaker 2: They do large quantities of a lot of their products
Speaker 2: because the farmers, especially out there west of San Antonio
Speaker 2: where they're located, and really farmers all around that do
Speaker 2: use their products. So they do have large commercial sizes,
Speaker 2: specifically that size on that product. I couldn't tell you.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, okay, all right, Well I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Thanks much, all right, Tied, thanks so appreciate that call
Speaker 2: a lot.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: You know, Heirloom Soils has got this deal going on now.
Speaker 2: It's the one qbicyard supersack. Now a one qbicyard supersack
Speaker 2: from Heirloom Soils. Okay, you can get leaf mold compost
Speaker 2: or the veggie and herb compost. Those are both souper
Speaker 2: high quality products. You neither one of them for one
Speaker 2: twenty nine and you get to keep the sack for
Speaker 2: that whole the one yard bag one twenty nine. Keep
Speaker 2: the site. It's very very handy. Now you can go
Speaker 2: get it. They'll set the sack in your truck you know,
Speaker 2: or your trailer whatever you have, or you can have
Speaker 2: them delivered it. And now there is a delivery fee
Speaker 2: if you have them delivered, and there's I think a
Speaker 2: three sack minimum if they're going to drive across ten
Speaker 2: buck to somewhere to deliver it. But you just go
Speaker 2: to rockinmultz dot com slash delivery. I'm gonna say that again,
Speaker 2: Rock the letter n multch dot com slash delivery. They
Speaker 2: have a new product called Premium lawn Mix. I was
Speaker 2: talking to somebody yesterday when I was at Ace Hardware
Speaker 2: store out there in Katie, Katie Ace or Katie Hardware.
Speaker 2: The premium lawn mix from airloom soils. It's made with
Speaker 2: Mason sand. It's got some composts and some bed mix
Speaker 2: in it. It's very good for prep preparing for sad planting.
Speaker 2: A lot of people brought me pictures they're going to
Speaker 2: be replacing, and you spread some premium lawn mix out.
Speaker 2: It's only seventy four dollars for a one qb yard
Speaker 2: sack of that. But they have a lot of things
Speaker 2: available by sack, including that lawn mix, the cedar malts,
Speaker 2: the hardwood mault, pine bark, a real cool, cool thing
Speaker 2: called black Star gravel. It's gorgeous and rainbow gravel too,
Speaker 2: all from heirloom soils. And you take advantage of that.
Speaker 2: Well here music plan because that means they need to
Speaker 2: be quiet about time to stop. Hey, guess where I'm
Speaker 2: going to be next Saturday. This is the final appearance
Speaker 2: I'll do this season. Sometime next spring for I'll be
Speaker 2: doing appearances again. I'm going to go out to Wadbirds
Speaker 2: Unlimited in Kingwood, Long Birds Unlimited in Kingwood now. It's
Speaker 2: located where Kingwood Drive and Westlake Houston Parkway come together.
Speaker 2: There's a big old HB right there on the corner.
Speaker 2: For those of you out in that area, wild Birds Unlimited,
Speaker 2: Kingwood on the corner of Kingwood Drive and West Lake
Speaker 2: Houston Parkway, just right next to that big old h
Speaker 2: B that they've got out there. Come out and see me.
Speaker 2: We're gonna have lots of giveaways again as we always do. Uh,
Speaker 2: and I'll be there to answer your gardening questions.
Speaker 1: Welcome to KTRH Garden Line with scamp Rick.
Speaker 2: Heard all right, folks, we are back. We are back,
Speaker 2: and we got plenty of gardening talk to do today.
Speaker 2: If you'd like to give me a call. Seven one
Speaker 2: three two one two kt RH seven one three two
Speaker 2: one two kat r H. If you have been out
Speaker 2: to Nelson Water Gardens, you need to go check it out.
Speaker 2: If you've never been there, you gotta go. I mean,
Speaker 2: you got to see this place. It is awesome. Nelson
Speaker 2: Nursery and Water Gardens in Katie, Texas. You head out
Speaker 2: to Katie, you turn north on Katie Fort Ben Road
Speaker 2: and it's just a little ways down the road there
Speaker 2: on the right hand side and when you walk in,
Speaker 2: first of all, you're gonna walk through the store itself.
Speaker 2: As you go in house playing, it's a beautiful collection
Speaker 2: of gorgeous house plants. I mean it is not just
Speaker 2: plain old green in there. They have some of the
Speaker 2: most beautiful house plants I've ever seen. Love that love
Speaker 2: that place quality plants. You walk back through the back
Speaker 2: out the back door into the garden center and you
Speaker 2: see plants everywhere. They have every kind of thing that's
Speaker 2: seasonal for whatever season we're in right now. You're going
Speaker 2: to find good fall color planting. Of course, you're going
Speaker 2: to find shrubs and trees and perennials and all sorts
Speaker 2: of things. Go a little bit further back and you're
Speaker 2: going to be into where the water gardens are, and
Speaker 2: that's where you see beautiful, disappearing fountains with sound that
Speaker 2: is so calming. I mean it is like it is
Speaker 2: therapy really to hear running water. And they've been doing
Speaker 2: that for a long time. You know, they're nationally famous
Speaker 2: on water water gardening. Do you need plants for water gardens?
Speaker 2: Do you need fish for water gardens? Do you want
Speaker 2: to build a water garden yourself? Do you want to
Speaker 2: have them do it. You can choose however you want it.
Speaker 2: But the main thing is take a friend, go out
Speaker 2: there and see this destination garden center, and take some
Speaker 2: time so you can just sit and take it all
Speaker 2: in and enjoy it. And I'll bet you you feel
Speaker 2: just like I do. Every time I go out there.
Speaker 2: It's like, Okay, I need I need another water feature.
Speaker 2: This is this is creating a corner of eden in
Speaker 2: my backyard that I just got to have. And that's
Speaker 2: how it is out there. Nelson Watergardens and Katie there.
Speaker 2: Nelsonwatergardens dot com is the website. If you'd like to
Speaker 2: go check it out, and I hope you will. I
Speaker 2: talk about it a lot, but it is an outstanding
Speaker 2: place and definitely a destination to go visit. You are
Speaker 2: listening to guarden Line the phone number seven one three
Speaker 2: two one two five eight seven four seven one three
Speaker 2: two one two fifty eight seventy four if you have
Speaker 2: not fertilized or done a preventative week control on your
Speaker 2: lawn and you would like to and you'd like to
Speaker 2: just get it done in one step. Turf Star by
Speaker 2: Nelson Carboload. Turf Star carbo Load produced by Nelson Fertilizer.
Speaker 2: Nelson plant food is the one you you're going to
Speaker 2: want to do for that because it provides you with
Speaker 2: a perfect blend of nutrients forefall getting your lawn. The
Speaker 2: reason they call it carbo load is because the whole
Speaker 2: goal of fall fertilizing is to help that plant produce carbohydrates,
Speaker 2: and that takes some nutrition, and it especially takes some
Speaker 2: potassium with the little nitrogen to build the best. Think
Speaker 2: of it as ana freeze carbohydrate or ana freeze and
Speaker 2: a plant. So they help it be more cold hardy
Speaker 2: like your grass. They also strengthen it so when it
Speaker 2: comes out in the spring, it's using stored energy. It's
Speaker 2: not using what the roots are taking out first thing
Speaker 2: in the spring. And so your fall fertilization makes your
Speaker 2: spring growth better and it just comes out early and strong.
Speaker 2: It really does well. Now the carboload also contains a
Speaker 2: pre emergent herbicide, so when you put it down, you
Speaker 2: need to water it in. And also so you need
Speaker 2: to do it now. Close season weeds, we got some rain,
Speaker 2: we got some cool web. They're going to be germinating,
Speaker 2: and so get that down now. About half inch of
Speaker 2: water on it, get it in the ground to get
Speaker 2: the nutrient in, get the pre merging in, and avoid
Speaker 2: those problems. It's so much easier to avoid a weed
Speaker 2: problem than it is to try to kill the weeds
Speaker 2: once they're up and growing. We're going to go to
Speaker 2: Clear Lake and talk to Allen this morning. Hello Ellen,
Speaker 2: welcome to Gardenline.
Speaker 11: Hello. I sent you an email just a few minutes ago,
Speaker 11: and to talk about some dwarf upond hedge that I
Speaker 11: have in front of the house.
Speaker 2: Yes, uh huh.
Speaker 11: He was planted when the house was built about thirty
Speaker 11: years ago, and it's grown up way too tall.
Speaker 2: I'd like to actually cut it in.
Speaker 11: About half, but don't want it to die obviously, so
Speaker 11: can I achieve a half height? Currently it's about five
Speaker 11: feet tall in some spots, and you can.
Speaker 2: Yeah, your pine is a tough old plant, but it
Speaker 2: will look horrible for a while. But what you're going
Speaker 2: to want to do is I would say I'd probably
Speaker 2: wait until maybe late January to do this, even early February.
Speaker 2: Cut it. Do your cutting. Then it's going to try
Speaker 2: to regrow, and if we happen some warm days now,
Speaker 2: I don't want it to start succulent. Growth when we
Speaker 2: could have some cold weather ahead here, So I would
Speaker 2: cut it back then make it a little lower than
Speaker 2: you want it to be, because that way, as it
Speaker 2: regrows from the cutting it back, you can sheare it
Speaker 2: and end up with the hedge the height you want. Okay,
Speaker 2: so a little shorter than you want it to be.
Speaker 2: Just realize that you opin like all these other shrubs,
Speaker 2: they want to grow top heavy, and that's what yours
Speaker 2: has been trying to do there. You know, the over
Speaker 2: the years, the top is trying to push outward and
Speaker 2: they're trying to keep it more narrow. So just think
Speaker 2: of the wall instead of vertical, think of it as
Speaker 2: a little bit more leaning in toward the top, you
Speaker 2: see what I'm saying, Wider at the base, a little
Speaker 2: narrower at the top, and that way light can get
Speaker 2: to all areas because where it's encroaching on the sidewalk,
Speaker 2: you got to make a lot of extra space in
Speaker 2: there for people to walk through without you know, hitting
Speaker 2: a gauntlet right there.
Speaker 11: Yep, that's for sure. Okay. Then the other question is
Speaker 11: the other pictures. So right behind the hedge used to
Speaker 11: have another row of different type of bushes. I can't remember,
Speaker 11: but right now it's just weeds. I weed whack them,
Speaker 11: and I'd like to put something hardy ground cover of
Speaker 11: some sort in there.
Speaker 2: Just to okay, just have that there. You have me suggestion. Well,
Speaker 2: so the yopon is going to be so tall that
Speaker 2: you don't see anything behind it, so you know, I'm
Speaker 2: kind of wondering if maybe moving those yopons back toward
Speaker 2: the wall and then putting something in front of them,
Speaker 2: keeping the yopons well below the window level, but putting
Speaker 2: something in front of them that you can see might
Speaker 2: be a better strategy. That's your call. But you can
Speaker 2: plant any kind of a groundcover back in there. You've
Speaker 2: got some monkey grass already growing in that area that
Speaker 2: could be moved around and gradually filled in. It's a
Speaker 2: very slow to spread, but it could gradually fill in.
Speaker 2: You could do something like Aztec grass as a white
Speaker 2: light lighter colored version of that. But yeah, you can.
Speaker 2: You do whatever you want back there. It's just not
Speaker 2: going to be visible because it's behind theoponhedge.
Speaker 11: And and replanting or moving those yopons back towards them all,
Speaker 11: what do you think it's a good success rate?
Speaker 2: Chances it's good if you Yeah, if you get it done. Now,
Speaker 2: if you go back behind there, mix up that soil,
Speaker 2: mix some compost into it, get it all ready to go,
Speaker 2: and then cut those yopons back. I would probably cut
Speaker 2: them back to like a foot foot and a half
Speaker 2: maybe and move them back there, replant them water mineral good,
Speaker 2: get some root stimulator and all that on them, and
Speaker 2: they're they're going to sit there, but they'll be making
Speaker 2: roots all through the winter so when spring growth starts,
Speaker 2: they'll be ready to go. So that's that's not it's
Speaker 2: a drastic move. But you know, we're starting with what
Speaker 2: we're starting with, so you got to do the best
Speaker 2: with what you got. All right, sir, Good luck with that.
Speaker 2: Appreciate your call very much. I got to run to
Speaker 2: a break here. But when I come back, we're going
Speaker 2: to talk to Susan and we're going to talk to Kay. Hey,
Speaker 2: welcome back to the guarden Line. Glad you're with us today. Listen,
Speaker 2: we had some storms this year that I just wonder
Speaker 2: there's a single tree left in Houston the way those
Speaker 2: things came through and just did incredible amounts of damage
Speaker 2: to some of you know what I'm talking about because
Speaker 2: it happened in your yard. Affordable Tree Service is who
Speaker 2: I look to when it comes to dependable tree care
Speaker 2: for you here in the Houston area. That comes from experience.
Speaker 2: You know, Martin Spoon Moore has gosh, Martin's been doing
Speaker 2: this for a very long time, and he he knows
Speaker 2: Houston trees. He knows taking care of trees, and he
Speaker 2: can do any kind of things you need done. I
Speaker 2: mean it certainly pruning and this is printing season. And
Speaker 2: by the way, if you need somebody to come out
Speaker 2: and look at your trees, I'd highly recommend you call
Speaker 2: Martin now because he has he needs to book you
Speaker 2: into the schedule to come and do that. Tell him
Speaker 2: you're a guardenine listener, so you move up in the schedule.
Speaker 2: And when you when you give him a call, make
Speaker 2: sure that you either talk to him or his wife, Joe.
Speaker 2: Those are the only two people to answer the phone.
Speaker 2: The owners answer the phone there. It's seven one three
Speaker 2: six nine twenty six sixty three. If someone else answers,
Speaker 2: you've called the wrong place. Hang up. Seven one three
Speaker 2: six nine nine two six six three. We got this
Speaker 2: window now when it's the best time of the year.
Speaker 2: To get printing done, give Martin a call and get
Speaker 2: that done while you're out it. If you're going to
Speaker 2: do any changes around the tree, if you need maybe
Speaker 2: to put in a driveway, or you want to put
Speaker 2: in a trench to do something, or you need to
Speaker 2: install irrigation systems around and talk to Martin first because
Speaker 2: he can guide you on how to avoid damage to
Speaker 2: those trees. You know, don't wait until someone's come by
Speaker 2: and already done the damage to figure out what to
Speaker 2: do about it. We have very few options, but before
Speaker 2: you do damage, you can do a lot to avoid
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Speaker 2: they don't, it's forever. It is very hard to fully
Speaker 2: rebuild and re establish a strong framework when bad pruning
Speaker 2: has been done to your tree. Call Martin Affordable Tree
Speaker 2: seven three, six nine twenty six sixty three. We're going
Speaker 2: to go now to Susan and Wharton. Hello Susan, Welcome
Speaker 2: to Garden.
Speaker 12: Line, Good morning, Skip, How are you doing this morning?
Speaker 2: I'm well, thank you.
Speaker 12: I have a yellow bill esperanza. It's grown in a
Speaker 12: pot that is in a holder. So this plant is
Speaker 12: probably I think the pot is probably about twelve sixteen
Speaker 12: inches around somewhere around else that's a big pot. The esperanza,
Speaker 12: the total height of it is probably eighteen foot tall.
Speaker 12: Most of the growth is around i'd say about fourteen foot,
Speaker 12: but we have one that's like one stalk of it
Speaker 12: that's about four foot taller than the rest of it.
Speaker 12: It's blooming, it's just perfect. But what my question is
Speaker 12: is I want to trim that tall one out. Can
Speaker 12: I trim that and cut it about I'm not sure
Speaker 12: where I should cut it, if I should cut it
Speaker 12: where the height of the rest of the plant is
Speaker 12: or lower ass and I transplant it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so jusan, yes, she can wait until the end
Speaker 2: of winter, cut it back at however you want, and
Speaker 2: then transplant it at that time. Esperanza can take being
Speaker 2: cut to the ground pretty much, just a few inches
Speaker 2: above the ground. Because if you go further north, if
Speaker 2: you get up to Austin, Texas College Station Hunts phillip In,
Speaker 2: there these things often die of the ground and then
Speaker 2: they come back after the winter freeze, so you can
Speaker 2: essentially use pruners to do the same thing. So if
Speaker 2: you got an esperanza that you don't like the look
Speaker 2: of it, the shape of it, cut it back and
Speaker 2: let fresh new growth come out. You will have beautiful blooms.
Speaker 2: And unless you're just trying to create some sort of
Speaker 2: a tree form of it, don't, however, you want to
Speaker 2: prune it is fine, But I would cut it back,
Speaker 2: I would dig it up. I'd move it at the
Speaker 2: end of winter probably, let's say early February would be
Speaker 2: a good time to get that move done. Even late
Speaker 2: January would be okay to put it in the ground,
Speaker 2: in the ground, yes, okay, all right, Kenn, thank you man,
Speaker 2: appreciate it. I'm sorry I hung up there, Susan, I
Speaker 2: thought we were done. Let's go to David in Spring. Hello, David,
Speaker 2: welcome to garden line. Wanting step. I have a couple
Speaker 2: of questions there.
Speaker 13: I have an area of grass at Saint Augustine, That's
Speaker 13: what my holy yard is. But I have a small
Speaker 13: area near my neighbor that has Bermuda grass, and like
Speaker 13: he getting infected in this small area with bermuda. So
Speaker 13: I've dug it all up, spraying with round up three times,
Speaker 13: got it, and I want to I want to know
Speaker 13: how long before I can replant grass before the round
Speaker 13: up there's this dissipated.
Speaker 2: Or if you spray it, you want to give it
Speaker 2: about a week for glyphosate products to move down fully
Speaker 2: through the plant. By the way, the modern round up
Speaker 2: in garden centers is not glyphys it anymore. So this
Speaker 2: is frustrating the old glyphis. Okay, So if it's glyphys
Speaker 2: give it about a week to move down the plant
Speaker 2: and then you can do whatever you want and plant
Speaker 2: whatever you want. It doesn't it's not kind of ok
Speaker 2: all right.
Speaker 13: Second question, have you heard of pro vista grass?
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes I have. Would that be a.
Speaker 13: Good solution to planning that?
Speaker 2: Then that way I could spray it with fate it
Speaker 2: would future, Yeah, it would get okay right now? You know,
Speaker 2: I get calls all the time, David on people that
Speaker 2: I got bermuda in Saint Augustine. I want to kill
Speaker 2: the bermuda, And it's like, you know, there's there's not
Speaker 2: a retail garden center way of killing bermuda in Saint Augustine.
Speaker 2: But that if you're starting a new lawn, that would
Speaker 2: be an option. Yes, that that would work, would work. Try.
Speaker 2: It's a beautiful low growing grass too. It's a very
Speaker 2: beautiful low growing grass. It's a it's slow. I I
Speaker 2: what I see on pro Vista is you may mow
Speaker 2: it about one third as much as you do most
Speaker 2: other grasses, most of the Saint Augustine's. It's it just
Speaker 2: has a slower vertical growth rate. All right, Well that's
Speaker 2: not a bad thing. I think they say half, but
Speaker 2: but from what I'm seeing, I think it's more like
Speaker 2: almost a third. Okay, okay, all right, sounds good. Thank
Speaker 2: you for your help, you bet, Thanks sir. I appreciate
Speaker 2: your call. We go to Pairland now and talk to Kay.
Speaker 2: Hey k, welcome to Guardline.
Speaker 8: Good morning, Thank you kicking my call.
Speaker 3: Skip.
Speaker 10: Yes, I have.
Speaker 2: Myrtles.
Speaker 14: Can crite myrtle be propagated from a cutting?
Speaker 2: Yes, it's yes. You want to You want to take
Speaker 2: a good loose media with sand and maybe some potting
Speaker 2: soil in it. But something that drains a lot of
Speaker 2: prolite is also helpful. It does best if you dip
Speaker 2: the cuttings make about a six inch cutting, take the
Speaker 2: roots off the bottom half, dip that into a rooting
Speaker 2: hormone and then put it down into to the mix
Speaker 2: and make sure you've got a clear cover over it
Speaker 2: to hold in moisture. Put it in as bright as
Speaker 2: spot as you can, but not direct son and it'll
Speaker 2: take a while, but cutting that'll work. It's best if
Speaker 2: you use a cutting cave. That is what we call
Speaker 2: semi hardwood. It's not the succulent new growth and it's
Speaker 2: not the old wood. It's kind of in between. It's
Speaker 2: where the green starts browning, and that's the best place
Speaker 2: to take a cutting for crape.
Speaker 14: Gotcha, Okay, I have an all right, And I was
Speaker 14: listening to the Esperanza question that Susan had and I
Speaker 14: have some instead have gotten above the eaves of the house,
Speaker 14: and when dryl came through the wind from that, they're
Speaker 14: kind of leaning toward Jones is a little bit now,
Speaker 14: and I just I wanted to cut them back, but
Speaker 14: I thought I need to waite probably till January February.
Speaker 2: Will that, yeah, because they're going to try to regrow.
Speaker 14: They've gotten kind of leggy and tall and skinny, and
Speaker 14: they're blooming beautifully, but I want them to bush out
Speaker 14: a little more. We'll back help to cut them back
Speaker 14: maybe three four feet.
Speaker 6: Tall.
Speaker 2: I would cut them further. I mean I cut mine
Speaker 2: back almost to the ground because that way all the
Speaker 2: fresh new growth comes out. It all looks good. It
Speaker 2: brings the size in down, it makes them more bushy,
Speaker 2: and they bloom well and there it's fine. And I
Speaker 2: would do it at the end of winter, yes, And
Speaker 2: don't do it now because we're you know, we have
Speaker 2: some warm weather and they'll try to reach sprout and
Speaker 2: that sprout it's not going to make it through freezes. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I knew that was all right.
Speaker 8: So thank you so very much, have a blessed weekend.
Speaker 2: Bye bye you too. Thank you for the call. I
Speaker 2: appreciate that. You know, h hardware stores are all over
Speaker 2: the Greater Houston area. I was just at one Katie
Speaker 2: Katie Hardware out there on Peno Groved yesterday and had
Speaker 2: a great time. I appreciate all you who came out
Speaker 2: when you go into ace and you know, I just
Speaker 2: being at Katy As reminded me of this again. I mean,
Speaker 2: you walk down the aisles and every fertilizer you hear
Speaker 2: me talk about on Guarden Line is there. I was
Speaker 2: talking to people. We were walking back into the area
Speaker 2: where you would find something to control weeds or insects
Speaker 2: or diseases or things, and it's just they're stocked up.
Speaker 2: They have what you need. Of course, ACE has everything
Speaker 2: that you need. That's why they say ACE is a
Speaker 2: place because it's got everything you need to have a
Speaker 2: beautiful lawn, like the things that fertilize, the fertilizers for fall,
Speaker 2: the things that prevent weeds in the fall, like barricade.
Speaker 2: It's got the things that prevent disease, like eagle turfundicide
Speaker 2: for example. They're there at ACE. But it's also the
Speaker 2: place for whatever kind of seasonal decorating you're doing inside
Speaker 2: and outside. It's the place to create those outside environments
Speaker 2: that you have. And if if you're looking to have
Speaker 2: a more beautiful garden, a more bountiful landscape, then just
Speaker 2: head to ACE. There's forty ACE Hardware stores. ACE hardware
Speaker 2: dot Com is the website. Go there, find the store locator,
Speaker 2: and you get this cool map with dots everywhere because
Speaker 2: there's a everywhere in the Greater Houston area. We're gonna
Speaker 2: go now to Austin County and talk to Doris. Hey Doris,
Speaker 2: welcome back to Gardline.
Speaker 8: Hi, how are you today?
Speaker 2: I'm doing great? How can I.
Speaker 3: Help brown Patch?
Speaker 8: I put out that eagle, But like I said before,
Speaker 8: before you know it, you don't have any more on
Speaker 8: this rather right that you can use.
Speaker 2: Well, first of all, you need to change the rate
Speaker 2: of application on on the on the dials. But I
Speaker 2: use the hand spreader just because it's a very fine
Speaker 2: texture and it's you're putting it out at a very
Speaker 2: low rate. But anyway, as far as a folier, there
Speaker 2: are there probably are some projects. I don't know that
Speaker 2: there's any labeled for long application that are liquids for
Speaker 2: spraying for for around back. There may be, but the
Speaker 2: ingredient that's in that eager I would just have to
Speaker 2: go work. I'm not aware of one.
Speaker 8: Well, can I put this? Put it out again?
Speaker 2: I need you to turn that radio off in the background, please.
Speaker 8: I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, putting it out again meaning you didn't get
Speaker 2: it to cover the whole area or or what what
Speaker 2: are you saying when you say put it out?
Speaker 8: I didn't get it to cover the whole area? And
Speaker 8: do I go over what I did?
Speaker 2: Yeah? No, don't go over what you did, go over
Speaker 2: what you didn't. Uh and and that would be fine. Okay,
Speaker 2: just make sure and water down after you after you
Speaker 2: apply it.
Speaker 8: All right, okay, all right, thank you. Just a circle
Speaker 8: or does it.
Speaker 2: Kind of like it's? It could be, It could be
Speaker 2: it's It could be very circular. It can be a
Speaker 2: little more erratic depending on where the infection hits and
Speaker 2: how it hits. If it starts in one spot, it's
Speaker 2: kind of like a fire burning out in all directions,
Speaker 2: so it makes a circle. Sometimes you get a kind
Speaker 2: of a hodgepodge of it in there and it's not
Speaker 2: not quite so circular. Hey, I got to run to
Speaker 2: a break, But thank you, Doris. Appreciate that call and
Speaker 2: wish you well with that yard Holden. When we come back,
Speaker 2: you'll be our first up.
Speaker 4: Light.
Speaker 2: Welcome back, good Davy, back with us here on Garden Line.
Speaker 2: We're here to help you. My goal is to help
Speaker 2: you have a beautiful garden. To help you have a bountiful,
Speaker 2: bountiful garden as well beautiful landscape, and have fun in
Speaker 2: the process. Don't forget that, listen, gardening should be fun.
Speaker 2: If you're frustrated with gardening, let's fix that. Can you
Speaker 2: call a garden line seven one three two one two
Speaker 2: k t RH and we will get right on it.
Speaker 2: Because gardening should be fun, we should really be enjoying ourselves,
Speaker 2: and it can be. Channa Gardens is out there in Richmond.
Speaker 2: It's on the Katie full Sure side of Richmond. So
Speaker 2: if you're done in Richmond, you just head up FM
Speaker 2: seven twenty three right where three fifty nine and seven
Speaker 2: twenty three come together. Those are fms. Remember when that
Speaker 2: was all pastures, Now it's now it's subdivisions and more
Speaker 2: and more. Well, that's where you find in Chenna Gardens
Speaker 2: and it is a sprawled out, beautiful wonderland of plants.
Speaker 2: It is a destination garden center. It really is as
Speaker 2: truly unbelievable. They've got a team that's about as enthusiastic
Speaker 2: as they come. You can go in there. You can
Speaker 2: take them pictures of plants, you can take them samples
Speaker 2: of weeds or plants or things in a little plastic bag,
Speaker 2: and they'll they'll give you expert advice. They know what
Speaker 2: they're doing. This independent garden center has been around in
Speaker 2: nineteen ninety five. And when you go in too in
Speaker 2: Chenny Gardens. First of all, take a friend because this
Speaker 2: is a fun outing. This isn't like just going into
Speaker 2: some shopping center kind of place. You are enjoying a
Speaker 2: widespread variety of plants, and of fountains and chimes and
Speaker 2: garden ard and herbs, vegetables, antique roses. You know, we're
Speaker 2: everything like that. When you go there, you're gonna find
Speaker 2: the fertilizers you hear me talk about, like microlife and
Speaker 2: nitrofoss and Nelson and Medina. You're gonna find soils you
Speaker 2: hear me talk about, like Nature's Way and heirloom and
Speaker 2: landscaper's pride. They are open today from ten to four,
Speaker 2: Sunday from ten to four. And Enchanted Gardens they are
Speaker 2: on FM three point fifty nine right where it comes
Speaker 2: in there to seven twenty three on the Katie fullsher
Speaker 2: Side of Richmond. Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. That's the website,
Speaker 2: and Chanted Gardens Richmond dot com. We're gonna head out
Speaker 2: there to Crosby, Texas now and talk to Holden. Hey, Holden,
Speaker 2: welcome to garden Line. Hey, how are you today? I'm
Speaker 2: doing good, sir. What's up? Virginia Button waed I got
Speaker 2: a yard full of it. M M, Well, yeah, you
Speaker 2: got two options. You can call a real and moved
Speaker 2: that's probably the easiest, or you can fight it ino
Speaker 2: spray in the thing. Virginia button weed loves wet conditions,
Speaker 2: so now backing off on your lawn watering will not
Speaker 2: kill Virginia button weed. It just it just holds it
Speaker 2: back a little bit, you know, and when it gets
Speaker 2: wet and soggy, Virginia button weed grows crazy. It just
Speaker 2: takes off. So if you can back off on the
Speaker 2: water a little bit where it's in your control, do that.
Speaker 2: But as far as sprays are concerned, there are a
Speaker 2: number of products out there. Probably the most effective is
Speaker 2: something called I just went blank. Celsius, like the temperature.
Speaker 2: Celsius comes in little packets. Is not cheap, but it works.
Speaker 2: A packet makes a gallon of spray and you just
Speaker 2: spot treat your Virginia button weed with that celsius. I
Speaker 2: would do it now as soon as possible, because those
Speaker 2: weeds are fixing to shut down here as we're going
Speaker 2: into winter and then coming out next spring. When you
Speaker 2: see growth on the Virginia button weed, spray again with Celsius,
Speaker 2: and if you look on the labels, you're going to
Speaker 2: probably apply it twice. You know, you may apply it
Speaker 2: and then six weeks later apply it again. But those
Speaker 2: those work pretty good on it. There's some other things
Speaker 2: that work good on it that if the weather gets warmer,
Speaker 2: they're hard on your Saint Augustine. So above eighty five
Speaker 2: degrees or so, I back off on the other things.
Speaker 2: That's why I like Celsius, because you can even do
Speaker 2: that when it's in the low nineties.
Speaker 10: Okay, well, I appreciate that.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna give it a try out then, Celsius, Celsius. Yeah,
Speaker 2: give that one a try. Spot treat with it. And
Speaker 2: by the way, too, holden, if you can pull some
Speaker 2: up now, it's not going to get rid of virgin
Speaker 2: and button, but it gets rid of a little seeds.
Speaker 2: You know, all along that vine are those bumps where
Speaker 2: they're full of seeds. And so one alternative to spray
Speaker 2: in now would be to just pull up all that
Speaker 2: you can to get as much seed out of there
Speaker 2: as you can, and then next spring when it comes back,
Speaker 2: which you will, you will just spot treat them. So
Speaker 2: either way you go about it, it's up to you.
Speaker 10: Okay man, thanks right.
Speaker 2: Sir, you bet, thank you. I appreciate that, appreciate the call.
Speaker 2: Nature's Way Resources is the birthplace of some of the
Speaker 2: best soil related and molts type products that you'll find
Speaker 2: in the Greater Houston area. It's where rose Oil had
Speaker 2: its origination. That's Nature's Way Research, John Ferguson and son
Speaker 2: Ian running the place that it just continues the same
Speaker 2: kind of quality mixes. You know, leave more composts, that's
Speaker 2: another one that started there. They also have something called
Speaker 2: fungal compost, which is good for over top dressing your
Speaker 2: lawn as well, if you'd like to use that. And
Speaker 2: the thing about that is ever Friday is Fungal Friday
Speaker 2: and you can get fungal compost, which is a quality
Speaker 2: compost twenty percent off on Friday's Ever Friday. Nature's Way
Speaker 2: Resources is if you go north on forty five right
Speaker 2: where fourteen eighty eight comes into forty five from the left,
Speaker 2: you turn right, cross over the railroad tracks and that's
Speaker 2: where Nature's Way is. You can give them a call,
Speaker 2: you can go to the website. You know, however you
Speaker 2: want to go about reaching out to them. Reach out
Speaker 2: to them because when you go out there, you can
Speaker 2: load up bags, you can load up bulk, you can
Speaker 2: have them deliver it if you would like them to
Speaker 2: deliver it. They can deliver it for you as well.
Speaker 2: And you will find their bags in many of our
Speaker 2: Garden Center's feed stores, the ACE Hardware type places. Nature's
Speaker 2: Way Resources is quality stuff that will help your plants succeed.
Speaker 2: Like I say on guarden Line, brown stuff before green stuff.
Speaker 2: Well this is the brown stuff. Fact. This is I
Speaker 2: would call it black gold. They have some great mulches
Speaker 2: too out there. Used a couple of their different multch
Speaker 2: products and been very very very pleased with how they
Speaker 2: perform in my flower beds. If you haven't fertilized this fall,
Speaker 2: remember the fall fertilization is the most important. And there's
Speaker 2: three things that can happen in the fall. One of
Speaker 2: them is fall fertilization that should happen every fall. It's
Speaker 2: the if you were to pick one time of the
Speaker 2: year when it's most important to fertilize, it's the fall
Speaker 2: fertilization because it prepares a plant for winter hardiness and
Speaker 2: it comes out in the spring stronger. Very important for
Speaker 2: those grass plants in your lawn now second step are
Speaker 2: the weeds that are germinating, so barricade by nitrophoss step
Speaker 2: two of what they call the Texas three step. You
Speaker 2: do the two step on the dense floor. You do
Speaker 2: the three step in your lawn. The three steps second
Speaker 2: step barricade stops weeds from being able to establish. It
Speaker 2: forms a barricade over the soil. They can't get through.
Speaker 2: They die. Second nitrophised eagle turf fungicide that prevents the
Speaker 2: brown patch, the large patch from happening in your lawn.
Speaker 2: And there's also it works some on the takeof root
Speaker 2: right too. But you got to get all these down
Speaker 2: ahead of time, early, earlier in the process. So now's
Speaker 2: the time. We just we got some some rain. It
Speaker 2: came through some the areas, and I'm telling you we're
Speaker 2: going to get some cool season wee germination. When that
Speaker 2: soul tempt said about seventy degrees. And you don't delay
Speaker 2: on this stuff. Put all three down, water, all three in,
Speaker 2: and you're good to go for fall from nitrofoss. You're
Speaker 2: gonna find nitrofoss products at D and D Feed and
Speaker 2: Tomball Plantation, Ace Hardware, Donna Richmond and Hiding and Feed
Speaker 2: on Stubner Airline. Well, I believe I've got to take
Speaker 2: a little break here and I'll be right back and Anthony,
Speaker 2: you will be our first stuff. Welcome back to Guardline, folks.
Speaker 2: Good to have you with us. Plants for All Seasons
Speaker 2: is a garden center. It's been around for a long
Speaker 2: time and since nineteen seventy three. They're right there if
Speaker 2: you're on Tomball Parkway, right where Luetta comes in there,
Speaker 2: just north of that, just right there on the on
Speaker 2: the feeder road off of Tomball Parkway FM two forty nine.
Speaker 2: Those of you who've been around there know and I
Speaker 2: mean everybody in the area knows it. Since they've been
Speaker 2: around since nineteen seventy three, it's become a very famous
Speaker 2: and beloved place. I mean people or they go in
Speaker 2: there all the time because they know when they go
Speaker 2: in there, they're going to get expert advice whether you're
Speaker 2: trying to diagnose something, identify something, find a plant that
Speaker 2: fits that space, to create a container of multiple plants
Speaker 2: that will look good when you get home and plant it.
Speaker 2: They're all that in fact that you can just buy
Speaker 2: them already put together there at Plants for All Seasons, Well,
Speaker 2: their section of the fertilizers and soil products for getting
Speaker 2: the brown stuff right is exceptional. The wide variety organic synthetic.
Speaker 2: You get to make your choice. And remember when you
Speaker 2: go into Plants for All Seasons and you buy one
Speaker 2: of the wonderful plants that they have, and boy are
Speaker 2: they ever loaded up on seasonal color right now looks good.
Speaker 2: Grab one of their containers. I've got a beautiful container
Speaker 2: I got there that is just always a showstopper in
Speaker 2: the landscape. And grab some of the fertilizer and the
Speaker 2: soil based products so that you can have success create
Speaker 2: that foundation. Plants for All Seasons dot com is a website.
Speaker 2: Here's a phone number two eighty one three seven six
Speaker 2: sixteen forty six. I'm going to head now out to
Speaker 2: Westbury and talk to Anthony. Hey, Anthony, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 2: Good morning, Skip.
Speaker 15: I know you made some few comments about al of
Speaker 15: air plants. But my situation is I've got two five
Speaker 15: gamon containers or pots, and they've grown pups after pups,
Speaker 15: and they're just pushing each other out. I want to
Speaker 15: transplant them and com out give them away.
Speaker 2: What's a good soil for me to use?
Speaker 15: To do that, to tenderly bring them back and not
Speaker 15: damage them.
Speaker 2: I would use something that drains very very well. You
Speaker 2: can use a kind of a gritty soil like a
Speaker 2: cactus and succulent soil blend that heirloom soils has it
Speaker 2: comes in little bags. You could use that. You can
Speaker 2: take a potting soil and just add a lot of
Speaker 2: gritty material to it, you know, some little fine textured
Speaker 2: expanded shale, or you could put some sand and large
Speaker 2: particles of pearl light the white stuff in potting soil.
Speaker 2: I add a little extra that just to loosen it up,
Speaker 2: get a little bit better drainage in there. But either way,
Speaker 2: it's a it's a forgiving plan as long as you
Speaker 2: have good drain holes and it doesn't stand in water.
Speaker 15: So yeah, yes, I understand about the forgiving part. These
Speaker 15: poor guys are just pushing each other.
Speaker 2: Out of the pot. Okay, yeah, we'll do. I know
Speaker 2: the Society, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Plants.
Speaker 2: When Alivera calls them and complains about the way you're
Speaker 2: taking care of it, they just laugh and say, get
Speaker 2: a grap you're alovera Come on, is this a prank call.
Speaker 2: You can't kill an olivera if you try a real hard.
Speaker 2: I tried hard this summer. I hate to tell you this,
Speaker 2: but I had one that I can't remember how long
Speaker 2: it took the water, and it was in too small
Speaker 2: of a container and it started getting that kind of weird.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Gray Brown looked to the green and
Speaker 2: I say, I guess I better water my olive ara again.
Speaker 2: It's definitely it's definitely not a diva. It's not a diva.
Speaker 2: Its back great. Thanks Familiar Health. Yeah, thank you for
Speaker 2: the call. I appreciate that very much. Anthony asmite is
Speaker 2: a micro nutrie supplement, and remember what are micros. Micros
Speaker 2: are essential nutrients. You cannot grow a plant without twenty
Speaker 2: plus nutrients. Most of those are micronutrients, the majority are
Speaker 2: and you take one of those out and if you
Speaker 2: don't have any of it, the plant can't grow, it
Speaker 2: cannot live. It's amazing. It's essential, but it doesn't need much.
Speaker 2: It just needs a little bit as m it goes
Speaker 2: a long way. You can put it out once a year.
Speaker 2: I'll get you a soil test sometime and look at
Speaker 2: what you have in your soil and what's needed. That's
Speaker 2: the best way to fertilize with any kind of fertilizer
Speaker 2: asmide or standard types of nitrogen, phosphorus potassium fertilizers. That's
Speaker 2: the way to know for sure. But I can tell
Speaker 2: you this most people about it. Once a year, put
Speaker 2: azmide out, sprinkle it down, and those crust minerals that
Speaker 2: are mined out of the ground get into your soil
Speaker 2: and they provide that bank account. So if your plant
Speaker 2: needs a little bit of manganese, or if your plant
Speaker 2: needs a little bit of you fail in the blank,
Speaker 2: you're going to find the micro nutrients are in the
Speaker 2: soil bank account. They're ready to go. That's how that works.
Speaker 2: K Scott to Montgomery. Here, we're going to talk to Joe. Hey, Joe,
Speaker 2: welcome to guarden Line.
Speaker 16: Hey, good morning, Skip.
Speaker 2: Are you I'm good sir? What's up? Good?
Speaker 16: I had a question I planned recently about a month ago.
Speaker 16: My wife and I planned some bermuda sod out by
Speaker 16: our barn or workshop because we had at Saint Augustine
Speaker 16: for a long time and it just would burn up
Speaker 16: from the drought and so forth. So we planted it
Speaker 16: used a nice sandy soil from a neighbor that had
Speaker 16: built a pool, brought dirt down, leveled it out best
Speaker 16: we could put the Bermuda sode down.
Speaker 3: Looks great.
Speaker 16: The only question I really had was, you know, when
Speaker 16: we butted up the squares of sod, now we want
Speaker 16: to come back and kind of sell in those cracks
Speaker 16: of the gaps.
Speaker 2: You know, it's okay, help me.
Speaker 16: Kind of buying together. And I wanted to find out.
Speaker 16: So they used the same dirt that I had some mults.
Speaker 16: What's the what's the good recommendation?
Speaker 2: Yeah, use the dirt that's in the site. That's better.
Speaker 2: You know, you put something different in there, and now
Speaker 2: you're gonna have these lines all through your grass where
Speaker 2: it's green or not as green or whatever. So just
Speaker 2: just keep it consistently there, okay, go ahead, go ahead, No, no,
Speaker 2: just say I'm sorry, we're ore timing. Do you have
Speaker 2: a radio on around you? There?
Speaker 9: No radio?
Speaker 2: Okay, we got a little bit delay. So I'm always
Speaker 2: me and listeners are always talking over each other trying
Speaker 2: to avoid that. I would Bermuda is tough. It's gonna
Speaker 2: fill in, it's gonna look good, it's gonna do well.
Speaker 2: So just anything to get the soil level up even
Speaker 2: in there it was is good.
Speaker 16: Okay, we have the same dirt. What's uh, what's a
Speaker 16: good time since this new side to start fertilizer.
Speaker 2: Uh? Well, I wouldn't do any fertilizing until next spring. Now,
Speaker 2: how long ago did you put this on.
Speaker 16: It's just about a month ago.
Speaker 2: Okay. It came with enough nutrient to carry you at
Speaker 2: least a month, if not more. And growth is about
Speaker 2: on bermuda. It gets cold, bermuda shuts down, and so
Speaker 2: I think in this case, let's just hold off on it.
Speaker 2: It does not need to be pushed to grow right now.
Speaker 2: It just needs to settle in, get the roots done,
Speaker 2: and it's got the nutrients it needs. It'll carry it
Speaker 2: to spring. So get my schedule at gardeningwiskip dot com
Speaker 2: my lawn care schedule. It's free online and uh and
Speaker 2: follow that starting in the spring. All right, very good,
Speaker 2: appreciate your LP. Have a good day. All right, Thank
Speaker 2: you very much. You take care. Bye bye, Joe. Well
Speaker 2: you are listening to Guardline. We're here to answer your
Speaker 2: gardening questions. You can give me a call. It's seven
Speaker 2: one three two one two five eight seven four seven
Speaker 2: one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. I
Speaker 2: wanted to take just a moment talk a little bit
Speaker 2: about that. I get questions a lot where people don't
Speaker 2: don't understand about numbers on fertilizer bags and numbers on
Speaker 2: a bag. When you see it's almost always three numbers,
Speaker 2: and that's nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium expressed as a percentage. So
Speaker 2: if you you know, if you have a fertilizer and
Speaker 2: it's got three numbers on the bag, the first number
Speaker 2: is the percent nitrogen, the second numbers the percent phosphors,
Speaker 2: the third numbers percent potassium, and those are ratios. And
Speaker 2: you hear me recommend fertilizers and everyone I recommend, I
Speaker 2: believe in I use it works, but know this that
Speaker 2: everybody's lawn can be different. You may have phosphors through
Speaker 2: the roof and your neighbor not have any. That's almost impossible,
Speaker 2: but it could happen. Same thing with potassium or magnesium
Speaker 2: or other things. And so I encourage people to do
Speaker 2: soil testing because that helps you know exactly what you
Speaker 2: need to add. You know, if you're baking a let's
Speaker 2: say you're baking a cake right now, and you're mixing
Speaker 2: stuff up in the bowl, and you call me and say,
Speaker 2: although I'm not a chef for sure, but you call me, hey,
Speaker 2: skip making a pound cake? Do I need to add
Speaker 2: more salt, sugar, or flour or what here on this
Speaker 2: baking powder or whatever? And I, well, I don't even
Speaker 2: know what's in the cake yet, So tell me the recipe,
Speaker 2: tell me what's in the bowl, then I know what
Speaker 2: need to add. Right. That's what a soil test does.
Speaker 2: It tells you what's in the bowl. So if you
Speaker 2: got a recipe and you know what's already in there,
Speaker 2: then you know what you need to add if things
Speaker 2: are needed. And as a general guide my schedules, the
Speaker 2: things I put out there, the products I put out
Speaker 2: there are gonna work for years and years and years.
Speaker 2: You'll be fine. But if you really want to tweak things,
Speaker 2: just occasionally do a sall test and check because you
Speaker 2: never know something could be way low or way high,
Speaker 2: and it's easy to fix that. It's very easy to
Speaker 2: fix that. All right. I hope that helps you little well.
Speaker 2: I hear music going. That means we're heading up at
Speaker 2: the top of an hour break. If you would like
Speaker 2: to give us a call, get on the boards. You
Speaker 2: can be first up, come back seven one three two
Speaker 2: one two k t RH Hey, I am looking forward
Speaker 2: to heading out to wild Birds Unlimited out there in
Speaker 2: Kingwood next Saturday. This is my final appearance for a year.
Speaker 2: Folks Next Saturday and Wildbird's Unlimited is located at the
Speaker 2: corner of West Lake Houston Parkway and Kingwood Drive, next
Speaker 2: to the h B or UH. Here's a description up
Speaker 2: from my own heart across from Torchy's Tacos, Oh Gosh.
Speaker 2: I'll be there from twelve to two. Twelve to two,
Speaker 2: so eleven thirty. Stop at Torchy's fuel up, walk across
Speaker 2: the parking lot. Bring me your plants, bring me your pictures.
Speaker 2: Let's solve problems and make your garden beautiful.
Speaker 1: Welcome to KTRH garden Line with Skip Richter.
Speaker 2: Welcome back on a lovely Sunday morning. You are listening
Speaker 2: to garden Line and I'm your host, Skip Richter. We
Speaker 2: here to help you out a bountiful garden, a beautiful
Speaker 2: landscape and fun in the process. More fun in the process.
Speaker 2: Buchanna's Native Plants in the Heights is the place for
Speaker 2: you fell in the blank. You know it's his native
Speaker 2: in the name. And there is no place that has
Speaker 2: the selection of natives and expertise that you'll find at
Speaker 2: Buchana's Native Plants. If you if you go in and say,
Speaker 2: I want something that's just native here the greater Houston area.
Speaker 2: I want something that's native to this region. I mean,
Speaker 2: they can fix you up either way. I want something
Speaker 2: that it's native and attracts butterflies or hummingbirds. I want
Speaker 2: something that's native and grows in the shade. I want something.
Speaker 2: You see what I'm saying. They've got it all there
Speaker 2: and they know what they're talking about. But there's also
Speaker 2: a place for house plants. Their houseplant greenhouse is huge
Speaker 2: and it's beautiful and if you like succulents, you're gonna
Speaker 2: get real happy there. And all the stuff they have
Speaker 2: their gift shops are loaded up and beautiful just for
Speaker 2: the holidays. You know, ready to go. But I'll tell
Speaker 2: you something else. They have fruit trees. Do you know
Speaker 2: that they You can get blueberries, you can get citrus,
Speaker 2: you can get all kinds of different even some tropical
Speaker 2: types of fruit. They're at Buchanan's Native Plant So now
Speaker 2: you need to go to the website, which is Buchanan's
Speaker 2: Plants dot com. Buchanans Plants dot com. Sign up for
Speaker 2: the newsletter. It's loaded with information. Go to the resources link,
Speaker 2: look at the articles, look at the growing guides, look
Speaker 2: at the how to videos. It's it's really a wealth
Speaker 2: of information and it's a fun place to shop too,
Speaker 2: very fun place to shop. So go by there, have
Speaker 2: some fun. Get out. This afternoon me a good time
Speaker 2: to get out to Buchanan's Native Plants. If you would
Speaker 2: like to give us a call, the phone number you
Speaker 2: would need to use this seven one three two one
Speaker 2: two k t r H. Seven one three two one
Speaker 2: two k t r H. That is it, and we
Speaker 2: will get you up here. It's one of those lulls
Speaker 2: in the phone calls here, so I always like kind
Speaker 2: of tell you that, because here's the deal. When you know,
Speaker 2: when you call in and you're having to wait, nobody
Speaker 2: likes to do that, and I try to keep that
Speaker 2: to a minimum as we do it here. But there
Speaker 2: are certain times it's just quiet, and typically the end
Speaker 2: of the day on Sunday morning, here comes all the
Speaker 2: calls and I'm trying to get everybody in. So anyway,
Speaker 2: just kind of giving you an update. That's a score
Speaker 2: that Nelson's Plant Foods has a wide variety of products.
Speaker 2: They've got the turf Star line that's everything you need
Speaker 2: for your lawn. They've got the nutri Star line, which
Speaker 2: is specific types of fertilizers. You know, they're nutri Star
Speaker 2: products for example for trees and shrubs. They got nutra
Speaker 2: Star type products for different groups of plants. But I
Speaker 2: want to talk a little about color Star. Color Star
Speaker 2: has been well known for a long long time. This
Speaker 2: nineteen thirteen six fertilizer comes in plastic canisters. I suppose
Speaker 2: you can buy by the bag too, well, you can
Speaker 2: buy by the way, but most people get a little
Speaker 2: caster of it and whenever they're doing a flower bed,
Speaker 2: they follow the label, sprinkle it out there and then
Speaker 2: plant their plants. Mix it in the soil. Plant their
Speaker 2: plants about every three to four months, just do some
Speaker 2: more color Star on that area. It will cause blooming
Speaker 2: to happen because it gives the plants the things they
Speaker 2: need to grow and thrive and bloom. Professional landscapers have
Speaker 2: been using color Star for a long time. You know,
Speaker 2: it's created like forty years ago. About forty years ago.
Speaker 2: Homeowners have known it for a long time. Got five
Speaker 2: different kinds of nitrogen in it, five different sources of nitrogen.
Speaker 2: That's really good to have a blend like that. And
Speaker 2: then they've got organic bone meal in there. They've got
Speaker 2: blood meal in there. That's part of the nutrient mix
Speaker 2: to feed the soil and to feed your plants. Color
Speaker 2: Star from Nelson's find it in a lot of places.
Speaker 2: Look for little canisters. Some places around town even have
Speaker 2: refills where you know how you go into the grocery
Speaker 2: store and you own some more peanuts, You pull the
Speaker 2: handle and get a bag full of peanuts. You can
Speaker 2: do that with Neilson Plant Food some of their products
Speaker 2: at a number of places around town too, which saves
Speaker 2: on plastic and which also is more economical. You're not
Speaker 2: buying a new plastic jar full of stop. So just
Speaker 2: a tip for the whys and those looking to save
Speaker 2: a bucker two in the process. You're not going to
Speaker 2: go wrong with color Star. It's an excellent, excellent product.
Speaker 2: The phone number is seven to one to three two
Speaker 2: one two k t r H. If you would like
Speaker 2: to give us a call. Uh are you someone who
Speaker 2: you drive up to your house and you look at
Speaker 2: the landscape and you go, you know, okay, that's that's okay,
Speaker 2: that's nice. But there's something missing. You know, there's I
Speaker 2: don't I don't see the eye catching thing where you
Speaker 2: know you can't drive by without noticing this gorgeous flower
Speaker 2: bed or this beautiful flowering tree in the front, or
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying, or maybe the way you've
Speaker 2: laid it out. Okay, let me can we talk.
Speaker 10: Mh.
Speaker 2: I'm just going to be real candid with you here.
Speaker 2: Just take a moment here and listen. Listen to this.
Speaker 2: When you are a plant collector like I am, and
Speaker 2: you're not a design expert, your garden tends to look
Speaker 2: like a bomb went off in a garden center and
Speaker 2: everything rooted where it landed. Do you know what I'm
Speaker 2: talking about? Yeah, okay, don't waste your hand. People are watching,
Speaker 2: uh and when that happened. You know, you have beautiful
Speaker 2: plants and you go shopping and say, oh, I gotta
Speaker 2: have this plant, and you bring it home where I'm
Speaker 2: gonna oh, there's a little place there and squeeze it in,
Speaker 2: and you're not looking at seasons like what blooms. When
Speaker 2: you may have all your yard on the left side
Speaker 2: bloom in the spring, on the right side bloom in
Speaker 2: the summer or fall. You're not considering design and aesthetics
Speaker 2: and colors and all that. If you're that kind of person,
Speaker 2: you should call Pierce Scapes. You can be the one
Speaker 2: who says, I want to use these kinds of plants
Speaker 2: in my yard. I love these plants. Or just tell
Speaker 2: them I want something's very drop resilient, I want something
Speaker 2: blooms in fall or whatever. They'll do it. You go
Speaker 2: to Pierscapes dot com, Piercescapes dot com or call them
Speaker 2: two eight one three seven fifty sixty. And when you
Speaker 2: have professional help in designing a landscape, it can be gorgeous. Now,
Speaker 2: if you want to go on being a plant collector,
Speaker 2: that's fine, go for it. But I'm just saying, you know,
Speaker 2: especially out front for that curb appeal, curve appeal, get
Speaker 2: some help and getting the design in. I know, and
Speaker 2: I'm telling you listen, I am a plant collector. I
Speaker 2: do that kind of thing. I can't say how many
Speaker 2: times I've come home I've got a plant, right I
Speaker 2: got two plants right now. They're in pots sitting in
Speaker 2: my house, and I'm trying to figure out what in
Speaker 2: the heck am I gonna do with I love these plants.
Speaker 2: I want these plants. They came home because I love
Speaker 2: them and want them, not because I know where I'm
Speaker 2: gonna put them.
Speaker 9: Yet.
Speaker 2: We'll we'll get back to you on that one later on.
Speaker 2: Oh man, Hey, thanks for listening to the garden Line. Listen,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna take a little break here if you would
Speaker 2: like to call and be first up when I'm gonna
Speaker 2: make that second up. I got somebody coming in being
Speaker 2: first up when we come back from break. Seven to
Speaker 2: one three two one two kt r H. Seven to
Speaker 2: one three two one two k t r H. Don't
Speaker 2: forget my last appearance of the year. Have you been
Speaker 2: listening this morning? You can probably finish this for me.
Speaker 2: Kingwood wild Birds Unlimited on Kingwood Drive. It's in the
Speaker 2: intersection there of West Lake, Houston and Kingwood. Right, there's
Speaker 2: a big old h be there. Well. Wild Birds is
Speaker 2: behind the torches Tacos. So when you're on Kingwood Drive
Speaker 2: and you see torches tacos, if it's before twelve o'clock,
Speaker 2: go ahead and neat. If it's after twelve o'clock, come
Speaker 2: see me. We'll go eat afterwards. I'll be there from
Speaker 2: twelve to two. Bring me samples. I'd love to help
Speaker 2: you with the plants that you're struggling with, or the
Speaker 2: ideas that you're looking for, or the bugs that you
Speaker 2: need help with identifying. Let's do that. I'll be there
Speaker 2: all right, folks, time take a break when we come back. Christine,
Speaker 2: you're first up. All right, welcome back, Welcome back to
Speaker 2: garden Line, Ajar. We're all smallest violin. You've heard that
Speaker 2: phrase I mentioned before, that's what the song drive. All right, guys,
Speaker 2: we're going to head straight out to the phones here
Speaker 2: and we're gonna go to Christine and Magnolia. Hey Christine,
Speaker 2: welcome to guard Line.
Speaker 17: Good morning, now are you.
Speaker 2: I'm good? I'm good. How can we help today?
Speaker 17: Before we go too farther, I'm driving, so hopefully I
Speaker 17: won't lose you. But I'm looking for unplugged blue salvia
Speaker 17: by proven Winners. I read an article about it in
Speaker 17: the paper, and we have some good success with salvia,
Speaker 17: like a lot of people, and so I want to
Speaker 17: put them in a pot. And I'm wondering if I
Speaker 17: can plant them. Now, where can I find them? And
Speaker 17: can I plant it?
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 2: Well, I don't keep up with every single species and variety,
Speaker 2: but I'll tell you this. You're closest place I would
Speaker 2: go right now is Arburgate. They're in tom Ball, okay,
Speaker 2: and I'm carry a lot of They have a lot
Speaker 2: of proven winters plant and just call them if you
Speaker 2: you know, I would go because whether they have it
Speaker 2: or not, I love to go to Arbigate. I'll find
Speaker 2: something else I'll want to. They've got a lot a
Speaker 2: lot of proven winters plants, and they have a really
Speaker 2: good collection of salvia's too, you know, rocking the blues.
Speaker 2: And they're just a whole bunch of new varieties of
Speaker 2: Salvia's that they carry. So check them out. They're they're
Speaker 2: likely to have it. They don't, I'll bet they can
Speaker 2: get it. And so they're real good about when they
Speaker 2: can get stuff in bringing it in a future shipment,
Speaker 2: you know. So just see that's where.
Speaker 17: I'd start, okay. And then do you think I can
Speaker 17: plant it now?
Speaker 2: Oh? Yes, yes, perennials. Now is great. They have all
Speaker 2: winter to settle in real good and when next summer comes,
Speaker 2: you'll be glad you fall planted.
Speaker 17: Okay, thank you so much.
Speaker 2: All right, Christine, Thanks for the for the call. I
Speaker 2: appreciate that. I you know I talk about the importance
Speaker 2: of getting your fall lawn care things done as ap. Well,
Speaker 2: I'm going to say it one more time. It is
Speaker 2: important when you play baseball. Do you start swinging when
Speaker 2: the ball gets over the plate, when it's trot in
Speaker 2: front of you, or do you start swinging after it
Speaker 2: comes out of the picture's hand. You make your judgment
Speaker 2: and start the swing right. Well, of course you start
Speaker 2: the second. When you're going to do fall long care.
Speaker 2: Do you wait until you see weeds to put on barricade? No,
Speaker 2: you put it on ahead of time. Do you wait
Speaker 2: until you see brown patch circles to put on egal
Speaker 2: turf funder side? No, you put it on ahead of time.
Speaker 2: It's taken up by the roots to fight the disease
Speaker 2: when it shows up. Do you wait until it's so
Speaker 2: cold the grass is barely taking up stuff from the
Speaker 2: roots anymore to put down fall special No? You do
Speaker 2: it now. Get them all done now, one, two, three, easy, easy.
Speaker 2: That's the Texas three step from nitroposs. You can do
Speaker 2: them all on the same day. Just don't put them
Speaker 2: on the same hopper. Just go out there and fertilize,
Speaker 2: go out there and put the barricade, go out there
Speaker 2: and put the funsize. Whichever of those products you you
Speaker 2: can do all three, Or if you typically don't have
Speaker 2: brown patch problems, well maybe you don't need the eagle turf.
Speaker 2: If you're not over water and overfertilizing and you haven't
Speaker 2: had that problem, if your lawn is good and dense,
Speaker 2: maybe you don't need the barricade. I'm just saying. I'm
Speaker 2: not saying you have to put out everything all the time.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying, those are the three things that are
Speaker 2: happening now that you need to take care of, and
Speaker 2: if they've been a problem, you definitely need to do it.
Speaker 2: But certainly all lawns that fall special winter riser to
Speaker 2: get it ready for winter very important. We're going to
Speaker 2: go back now to the phones to northwest Houston and
Speaker 2: talk to Barbara.
Speaker 13: Hello, Barbara, NY good morning or afternoon, it's still morning.
Speaker 2: We can talk till the cows come home. Thank you?
Speaker 10: Do you?
Speaker 2: But do you pay attention to what I'm saying, Barbara,
Speaker 2: That's a question. I know people listen, but I wonder
Speaker 2: if anybody is paying attention.
Speaker 14: Mine is just very well that's because I listened to you,
Speaker 14: so I have anybody.
Speaker 2: Who's okay, all right, I go for it. All right.
Speaker 14: It's dropping the leaves, the churning collar and it's dropping
Speaker 14: leaves like mad. And I just think that it never
Speaker 14: does it this early, and my little I know it's
Speaker 14: a peach tree, but it's got purple leaves.
Speaker 8: It never gets any peach.
Speaker 14: I think it's a decorative thing, but it's still doing
Speaker 14: the same thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this has been a very dry and unseasonably warm fall,
Speaker 2: and things are happening earlier. It was a month ago
Speaker 2: I had crape. I don't overwater my landscape and I
Speaker 2: kind of leave it to take care of itself on
Speaker 2: what comes to water, except for things like lawns. But
Speaker 2: my peach tree and my peach tree, my crpe myrtles
Speaker 2: were dropping leaves weeks ago. They were starting to do
Speaker 2: They get a little thirsty, and you know, just because
Speaker 2: they're a little thirsty doesn't mean you have to water
Speaker 2: them right away. But I think on those you're going
Speaker 2: to be okay. It is it is most likely ninety
Speaker 2: percent sure. This is nothing to worry about. This is
Speaker 2: just give them a good soaking, you know, whenever they're dry,
Speaker 2: and this fall snuck up on us. It just wasn't
Speaker 2: blazing hot like summer was, but it was hot and
Speaker 2: it was dry. It was a long time and we've
Speaker 2: we're seeing a lot of what you're describing. So I
Speaker 2: think you can worry about this one.
Speaker 14: Okay, Well, thank you so much, and have a wonderful weekend.
Speaker 2: Bye bye, all right, you too, Thank you very much.
Speaker 2: I appreciate that. Yeah, anybody who is married or has
Speaker 2: kids know that there is a difference between listening and
Speaker 2: paying attention. Anybody who's a school teacher knows there's an
Speaker 2: efferge between listening and paying attention. Oh gosh, somebody at
Speaker 2: the other day posted something. It was something along the
Speaker 2: lines of my wife said, are you even paying attention
Speaker 2: to me? And I thought, what a strange way to
Speaker 2: begin a conversation. Maybe that's too painful to be funny,
Speaker 2: but I think it's hilarious. We're going to go to
Speaker 2: the west side and talk to Carl. Now, Hey, Carl,
Speaker 2: welcome to garden Line. Thank you sir.
Speaker 18: Now, please have the spreader setting for the eagle fund
Speaker 18: a side.
Speaker 2: Oh boy, it depends on the spreader, and that is
Speaker 2: very fine textured stuff. If I were you, it's always
Speaker 2: better to I don't have a number for you. Am
Speaker 2: my head on that. And it depends on the spreader,
Speaker 2: but it's going to be a very cranked down small
Speaker 2: opening that you're going to use because that's a very
Speaker 2: fine textured product. Okay, I would use a handspreader, the
Speaker 2: low kind you go through the yard and you're turning
Speaker 2: it and walking, cause you can set those to put
Speaker 2: out a small rate, and I would go north and
Speaker 2: south across the yard, and then I would look at
Speaker 2: how much I used go east and west across the yard,
Speaker 2: and the more you kind of do that crisscross and
Speaker 2: you under apply. You can always come back and apply more.
Speaker 2: But what I've had two calls today, people that started
Speaker 2: off thinking they were on the right setting. They got
Speaker 2: less than halfway through the yard and they were out,
Speaker 2: and so obviously they weren't putting it out the right rate.
Speaker 2: So I would go that route. I do that with
Speaker 2: fertilizer and other things too. You can always come back
Speaker 2: and make another pass across them to get the rest
Speaker 2: of it out. But when you run out, that's a problem.
Speaker 2: Perfect well, great show, Thank you sir, right and don't
Speaker 2: forget to water that eagle inkral when you get done
Speaker 2: with it, because the roots are going to take it up.
Speaker 2: And you got to get that done real soon, because
Speaker 2: I'm already seeing bron patch in area of yards. Thanks sir.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, I guess people. I talk to people
Speaker 2: all the time, and they say things like I can't
Speaker 2: grow anything. I have trouble growing that. I tried that
Speaker 2: and I killed it, or I did this or did that,
Speaker 2: or what's the secret to? And then they fill in
Speaker 2: a plant plant And you know, there are a lot
Speaker 2: of things plants need. Plants need sunlight, plants need water,
Speaker 2: plants need good drainage. But I would say the one primary,
Speaker 2: single most important thing is good soil so the plant
Speaker 2: can thrive in it. And how do we do that?
Speaker 2: I call soil brown stuff? And what is brown stuff?
Speaker 2: Brown stuff is the soil particles that you have on
Speaker 2: your site, send, silk, clay, whatever you have on your site.
Speaker 2: So brown stuff is the organic matter that's in the soil.
Speaker 2: We call that compost when we're adding it. But nature
Speaker 2: creates organic matter in a process, a very slow version
Speaker 2: of composting, if you will. And the brown stuff is
Speaker 2: the nutrients, the nitrogen, phosphor's, potassium, and twenty plus other
Speaker 2: nutrients it plants need. Starting with the brown stuff means
Speaker 2: you start with the foundation for success. It's like building
Speaker 2: a house. Would you go out there on the you know,
Speaker 2: the beach and start laying two by fours on the
Speaker 2: ground to build your beach home. No, you wouldn't. That.
Speaker 2: That's a horrible foundation. It would never make it well.
Speaker 2: We do that when we plant without preparing the soil.
Speaker 2: Go to Cienamultch. If you're south of town. Ciena Maltch
Speaker 2: is just in your neighborhood. It's near near oh I
Speaker 2: guess you could say Highway six and two eighty eight
Speaker 2: somewhere in that region near Sienna. It's on FM five
Speaker 2: twenty one, five twenty one. Here's the website. Just write
Speaker 2: this down. Cienamultch dot com, cinamlts dot com. They've got
Speaker 2: bagged soil products, they have bulk soil products, and they
Speaker 2: have fertilizers and they have them on all the brands
Speaker 2: that I recommend on guard line. I cannot recommend this
Speaker 2: place enough. So we're talking about things like landscaper's pride.
Speaker 2: We're talking about things like the products from heirlooms soils,
Speaker 2: for example, we're talking about things like Microlife or Nelson's
Speaker 2: fertilizers or Nitrophoss fertilizers or Medina fertilizers. We're talking you
Speaker 2: about some best control stuff they have. But when you
Speaker 2: go to Siena or you call them up and have
Speaker 2: them to deliver it. By the way, they're closed today,
Speaker 2: but they're open Monay through Friday seven thirty to five,
Speaker 2: and they are open on Saturdays from seven thirty to two.
Speaker 2: They'll deliver within about twenty miles for a delivery fee,
Speaker 2: or you can just go get it however you want
Speaker 2: to go about it. The main thing is just do it.
Speaker 2: You're its fall planting season. Don't stick a ground in
Speaker 2: the plant in the soil that's not prepared. Don't stick
Speaker 2: a plant in the ground that's not prepared. I though
Speaker 2: another way you can put it, if you like Peter
Speaker 2: Piper picked a peck of pickle peppers, is don't PLoP
Speaker 2: a plant in another prepared plot. Don't do it. You
Speaker 2: spent money on that plant. You can envision the flowers
Speaker 2: or the fruit or the vegetables or whatever it's going
Speaker 2: to have. Realize that dream. By starting with the soil,
Speaker 2: brown stuff before green stuff, and sanamlch is a great
Speaker 2: place to do that. We're going to go now to
Speaker 2: Michael in Galveston. Hey, Michael, welcome to garden Line. Well,
Speaker 2: good morning. Hey.
Speaker 19: A friend of mine gave me a whole bunch of
Speaker 19: packets of blue bonnets, and it dawned on me. I
Speaker 19: have never seen blue bonnets in potted in pots? Can
Speaker 19: they be grown in pots? I've never even seen them
Speaker 19: sold in pots?
Speaker 2: Yes, you can do that. They they're not real big
Speaker 2: plants at that stage. You just gently get them out
Speaker 2: and put them in the soil and they can do
Speaker 2: that transplanting if you don't disturb the roots a lot.
Speaker 2: But you can get ahead start that way with blue
Speaker 2: bonnets and pots. What if I just wanted to grow
Speaker 2: them in the pot to full size? Well, they come
Speaker 2: in like typically, are you talking about like them? Usually
Speaker 2: they're sold in a little four inch pot?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Are you seeing them seeds? Okay? You can. You just
Speaker 2: need a real big pot for blue bonnets to do well.
Speaker 2: They don't. Don't give them too small of a container.
Speaker 2: But you can go grow blue bonnets and containers from seed.
Speaker 2: Yes you can.
Speaker 19: I could say I've just I've never seen it before.
Speaker 2: It's not going to try it. Oh yeah, yeah, it
Speaker 2: can be done. You know a lot of people don't
Speaker 2: do it because blue bonnets they don't look like much
Speaker 2: until we get to spring and then they look real
Speaker 2: great and then they die after that setting seats. But
Speaker 2: it absolutely can be done. All right, thanks for the call,
Speaker 2: Good luck with that. Thank you, bye bye, take care bye.
Speaker 2: Alrighty here, well, I am looking at another break coming
Speaker 2: up here. If you would like to give us a call,
Speaker 2: We've got to open lines right now. Seven one three
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Speaker 2: I feel that be right now. Let's let's talk. What
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Speaker 2: I'm your host, skip Rictor, and we're here to help
Speaker 2: you have a more beautiful garden, a more bountiful garden,
Speaker 2: a more beautiful landscape, and have more fun in the process.
Speaker 2: That's what we want to see happen. Give a call,
Speaker 2: we can make that happen, or he'll make that happen.
Speaker 2: And you know, gardening is fun and learning is forever.
Speaker 2: Do you know this gardening keep I'll tell you this,
Speaker 2: gardening keeps you young. And one reason is because it
Speaker 2: is a forever, hopeful, optimistic process. Now, I know you
Speaker 2: get discouraged and things. I understand that, but really, when
Speaker 2: you buy a seed, take a look at a handful
Speaker 2: of seeds, it is just dead detritus in your hand.
Speaker 2: But when you can look at a seed and see
Speaker 2: a tomato, you're starting to get it. You're starting to
Speaker 2: get it. And gardening is hope. When I purchase a
Speaker 2: pack of seat, when I purchase a plan at the
Speaker 2: garden center, somebody just calling about salvia is a while
Speaker 2: ago and we're talking about going bout Arburgat and getting
Speaker 2: that salvia. I'll walk into arbagate and I'll see the salve.
Speaker 2: I I mean, maybe have a fluid blooms on. It
Speaker 2: doesn't need to That's what people like to pick out.
Speaker 2: And once the balloom's on them, I pick that up.
Speaker 2: I already can see it in the landscape grown. It's
Speaker 2: full size with hummingbirds coming in to get the nectar.
Speaker 2: You know, I mean I can see like that and
Speaker 2: you can too. I know you can do this. You
Speaker 2: do it every time you buy a peach tree and
Speaker 2: you can taste peaches. I mean you just stop, closize
Speaker 2: a minute, think about what a peach tastes like. See,
Speaker 2: you can do that. And gardening is a hopeful, hopeful process.
Speaker 2: And we are optimists as gardeners. We believe in the future.
Speaker 2: You know, to plant, they say, to plant a tree
Speaker 2: is to believe in the future. They also say the
Speaker 2: best time to plant a tree is forty years ago.
Speaker 2: The second best time is today. And they also say,
Speaker 2: I'm full of quotes today. They also say that a
Speaker 2: society is great when old men plant trees under whose
Speaker 2: shade they will never set. That is good thinking. I
Speaker 2: like that. The point is gardening is an eye to
Speaker 2: the future. It's an eye to hope. And it keeps
Speaker 2: you young. It keeps you It keeps your body young
Speaker 2: by moving around, and actually it keeps your mind young.
Speaker 2: It does. And I'm telling you it's therapy. Gardening is
Speaker 2: therapy and it really does work. So I keep talking
Speaker 2: about that because I believe in it and I want
Speaker 2: you to believe in it too. I mean, it is
Speaker 2: it is absolutely so true. So anyway, so what is
Speaker 2: all that about. Well, I'll tell you what that's about.
Speaker 2: That means get out there and try it. That means learn.
Speaker 2: Listen to guard line all the time, set your clocks,
Speaker 2: say hey, wake up, guard lines coming on. I don't
Speaker 2: know some are going to do that, but I think
Speaker 2: you should. I used to say in the morning. First
Speaker 2: thing that if you look over next door and the
Speaker 2: lights are off, go bang on the door. Tell your
Speaker 2: neighbors they're missing garden line. They will thank you so
Speaker 2: much for that. Maybe not right away, but they will
Speaker 2: come to appreciate it. They sure will. We want to
Speaker 2: learn more, we want to have fun. So I like
Speaker 2: these appearances like the one I'm going to make it
Speaker 2: Wilbirds Unlimited out in Kingwood on Kingwood Drive, right behind
Speaker 2: Torchies next Saturday, Next Saturday, from twelve noon to two pm.
Speaker 2: It's okay if you want to go eat at Tarchi's
Speaker 2: just get over there about twelve noon because I don't
Speaker 2: want to sit overhead warbirds watching you eat at tarchis
Speaker 2: they You're going to make me hungry. So come on out,
Speaker 2: bring me some samples, let's get a picture made, and
Speaker 2: let's get you whatever kinds of questions you have. Let's
Speaker 2: get a mention. I'm have some giveaways out there too.
Speaker 2: I always do. Let me do these things, So come
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Speaker 2: going to head up to Type Cypress, Texas and talk
Speaker 2: to Tom. Hey, Tom, welcome to garden.
Speaker 10: Line more and skip. Just listen to you.
Speaker 18: Sounds like you got a shortage of callers this morning,
Speaker 18: so I thought i'd call in with a little comment
Speaker 18: of trick I came up with to save some of
Speaker 18: my plants from the Indian summer. I got a wild
Speaker 18: here and bought some turnips in September. When I was
Speaker 18: buying seedlings, they didn't have what I wanted, and I said, well,
Speaker 18: I never grew turnups, I'll try those. But once I
Speaker 18: got them growing, and it stayed so hot so long,
Speaker 18: I could.
Speaker 10: See every day the leaves would just wilt in.
Speaker 18: The middle of the afternoon. Then they'd start breaking off,
Speaker 18: you know, the vein down the center. After they wilt,
Speaker 18: it would just break. So I came up with a
Speaker 18: little trick. Didn't cost me a thing. I thought I
Speaker 18: might pass it on. I had three old card tables
Speaker 18: stored in the garage, and so I.
Speaker 10: Just pulled the legs down and at.
Speaker 18: About eleven o'clock in the morning, I would set that
Speaker 18: card table up over the turnt plant and then keep
Speaker 18: the sun off in between like eleven and four, and
Speaker 18: that kept those leaves from wilting and breaking off.
Speaker 10: So I thought, I just passed it on.
Speaker 18: A cool trick. I was just dreamed up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there you go. Well, I mean I've seen so
Speaker 2: many different ways of shading plants over the years, from
Speaker 2: an old license plate stuck halfway in the ground at
Speaker 2: an angle above a tomato a transplant, to you name it,
Speaker 2: and that I have not heard that one yet. So
Speaker 2: it's just people that live here, that live here that
Speaker 2: might have an opinion about me hauling a card table
Speaker 2: out to the garden. But we'll see.
Speaker 18: Well where I am, it's it's kind of a anachronism.
Speaker 18: It's an old neighborhood that was moved in here in
Speaker 18: the nineteen eighties, and it's sort of like a little
Speaker 18: island of country in the city. So nobody, you know,
Speaker 18: everybody's got like I mean, we're half an acre to
Speaker 18: two acres and you pretty much do whatever you want.
Speaker 10: So anyway, I thought, I I just pass on that
Speaker 10: little trick.
Speaker 18: So have a great day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Tom. Thanks, thank you appreciate that call. Thanks very much.
Speaker 2: It's always interesting to find the things that people come
Speaker 2: up with. You know, a day doesn't go by that
Speaker 2: I don't learn something in gardening, even if it's maybe
Speaker 2: not something I'm going to use, but at least learning something.
Speaker 2: Or I like talking to gardeners because listen to people
Speaker 2: that are out there gardening and trying things. Some times
Speaker 2: we get really creative and we can come up with
Speaker 2: some really cool, fun ideas. That's part of the fun
Speaker 2: of gardening. That is part of the fun of gardening.
Speaker 2: To do that. I talking about shades and things over plants,
Speaker 2: and one of the things I will often do is
Speaker 2: is just stretch a piece of shade fabric. You can
Speaker 2: buy shade fabric pretty inexpensively, little sections, maybe it's a
Speaker 2: little tart that's a shade tar or something. Cut it
Speaker 2: up and figure a way to just string it up
Speaker 2: over plants at an angle, you know, find that place
Speaker 2: where from especially after lunch and up to about four
Speaker 2: o'clock or so, when it's about the hottest time of
Speaker 2: the day, you can protect plants. Uh, And it works,
Speaker 2: it works really well. All right, Well, you are listening
Speaker 2: to Guarden Line, and I'm about to take a little
Speaker 2: break here we come back. We got one more second segment, folks,
Speaker 2: so hang around if you'd like to give me a call.
Speaker 2: Seven to one three two one two kt RH. That's
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Speaker 2: and I will be right back. All right, folks, it
Speaker 2: is time to kick off this last hour, last hour,
Speaker 2: last segment of the show, and we're going to jump
Speaker 2: right to the phones and get going here. We're going
Speaker 2: to head to Cyprus and let's see no excuse me,
Speaker 2: we're going to head to Uh. We're gonna head out
Speaker 2: and talk to Jay. Hey, Jay, welcome to Garden Line.
Speaker 7: Hello, Skip, Hey Jay, Yeah, he yes, Skip. I have
Speaker 7: a garden over here, and I've planted some broccoli. They
Speaker 7: were came up, beautiful plants. All of a sudden, I've
Speaker 7: got these small caterpillars that are attacking the leaves of
Speaker 7: the broncotic plants. And I've had a problem with.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, oh, go ahead and finish.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I had a problem with webworms in some of
Speaker 7: the trees around the garden. And I'm just wondering if
Speaker 7: it's kind of the same stuff.
Speaker 2: Now it's a different one. Have you looked at these
Speaker 2: caterpillars closely?
Speaker 10: Yes?
Speaker 2: Are they kind of a yeah? Are they kind of
Speaker 2: a light green color? Or are they? Do they have
Speaker 2: black and white stripes across their back?
Speaker 7: I think I have two kinds that I see. I
Speaker 7: have some that are it's they're very small and almost
Speaker 7: kind of a white color. I mean it's not a
Speaker 7: dark color. But then I have the dark ones like
Speaker 7: you just described. I do have some of those.
Speaker 2: Well, if it's on broccoli, you have two good options
Speaker 2: that are low tox. One of them is BT BAZ
Speaker 2: and boy teas in tom those sprays. When caterpillars eat
Speaker 2: leaves that have been sprayed with BT, they get sick.
Speaker 2: It's a disease of caterpillars. It only affects them. Doesn't
Speaker 2: affect grasshoppers and beetles and other things that eat leaves,
Speaker 2: just caterpillars. But BT lasts about a day or two
Speaker 2: in the environment, and you have to respray it. If
Speaker 2: you're on broccoli, you know how water balls up and
Speaker 2: runs off the leaves of the cold crops like broccoli.
Speaker 2: You're going to need to put a little bit of
Speaker 2: soap in the spray to make it stick a little bit.
Speaker 2: It's called a surfactant. You can buy surfactant where you
Speaker 2: buy pesticides like BT or you can you know, put
Speaker 2: a couple of drops the dish soap in there, but
Speaker 2: it's better to buy a surfactor to do it. But
Speaker 2: that'll make it stick because you need it to stick
Speaker 2: because you when the caterpillar feeds, you want them to
Speaker 2: eat it. And I if you can spray upward from
Speaker 2: under the planet's better because those young, young caterpillars usually
Speaker 2: start under the leaves when they're real small, and then
Speaker 2: they eventually are eating the whole leaf, top and bottom.
Speaker 2: But the other object is spin spin no said s
Speaker 2: p I N O S A D. There's several brands
Speaker 2: of spin no SID and that also kills caterpillars naturally.
Speaker 7: Uh so I saw exactly what you were saying. I sprayed,
Speaker 7: but it didn't stick. So I need to add this affect.
Speaker 2: To it, Yes, sir, Yes, sir. On the on on
Speaker 2: broad cauliflower kill.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, so I have a question the ones that
Speaker 7: that the leaves have been eaten on will will they
Speaker 7: eventually form the broccoli buds.
Speaker 2: It's a percentage game, Jay, like if you lost ninety
Speaker 2: percent of the leaves, they're not going to have the
Speaker 2: energy to really produce a good broccoli head. If you
Speaker 2: just lost maybe thirty percent, you'll still get a good
Speaker 2: broccoli head. So you know it's a percentage game in there.
Speaker 7: Okay, all right, well, hey Thanty very much. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Yep, you bet appreciate that. Thanks for the call. Oh
Speaker 2: let's head back to the phones and we're going to
Speaker 2: talk to Mary. Hello, Mary, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 20: Hi trip.
Speaker 21: Excuse me, skip, I'm sorry, good to talk to you.
Speaker 21: I really enjoy your show every week. I have a question.
Speaker 21: I bought it.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I lost Mary. Mary, call back. We
Speaker 2: will get you worked in here. If you can call quick,
Speaker 2: call back quickly, we'll get you back in I think
Speaker 2: I pushed a wrong button there. That's impersonal, that's for sure.
Speaker 2: Well let me just while we're waiting, see we got
Speaker 2: another call just about out of time. Looks like Mary's
Speaker 2: calling back. I do want to remind you that this
Speaker 2: week is what I'm calling final call on getting those
Speaker 2: things done in your lawn. Now, Yegg, you can do
Speaker 2: them next week and do them the week after that,
Speaker 2: but the sooner you do it the better. So don't
Speaker 2: put the lawn care things off, all the things we've
Speaker 2: been talking about this morning, don't put that off another day.
Speaker 2: Go ahead and get it done this week. If you're
Speaker 2: going to do fall planting, we are in prime season
Speaker 2: for getting that done. Get it done, whether it's shrubs
Speaker 2: or trees, which you absolutely can't find a better time
Speaker 2: than fall, and then winter is right next to it
Speaker 2: in terms of good time to plant. Get it done.
Speaker 2: Let's get it done. You're gonna get the advantages of it.
Speaker 2: I know that things get I get busy. You know,
Speaker 2: I've got plants at pots and outside waiting for me
Speaker 2: to get off the radio for crying out loud and
Speaker 2: come plant them. But make it a priority this week
Speaker 2: to get those things planted. If you want to put
Speaker 2: in perennials like salvias and ornamental grasses, and perennial herbs
Speaker 2: like a regano and rosemary and whatnot, get those in now.
Speaker 2: You will be so far ahead when it comes to
Speaker 2: next spring. And when the heat arrives, those plants you
Speaker 2: planted now will take on the summer much much better.
Speaker 2: They just have a better system.
Speaker 10: At that point.
Speaker 2: We're going to go back to Mary now, Mary, Sorry,
Speaker 2: I actually I think hung up on you by pushing
Speaker 2: the wrong but oh that's okay, not a problem. I
Speaker 2: thought it was my fault. I'm upside right now.
Speaker 21: The reason I'm calling is because i bought a house
Speaker 21: in Ramsas Pass and I'm not used to that type
Speaker 21: of sand soil over there. So I just I just
Speaker 21: know just from experience that I probably need to compost
Speaker 21: quite a bit. Is there anything else I can do
Speaker 21: to supplement the soil? There is a lot of Saint
Speaker 21: Augustine grass, but there are also a lot of the
Speaker 21: birds or whatever you call those little stickers out there,
Speaker 21: so graspers, yes, and I'm trying to eliminate those as
Speaker 21: much as I can. I'm very fortunate that I have
Speaker 21: well water that I can use, and I can water
Speaker 21: often without having a large cost.
Speaker 2: All right, let's do this quick. What you're going to
Speaker 2: do is the grasspers you need to put down barricade,
Speaker 2: and I would do it in that area. I would
Speaker 2: do it in early February. I'd put out the barricade
Speaker 2: I've watered in and it will stop the grasspurs. You're
Speaker 2: going to want to repeat that barricade about sixty days later,
Speaker 2: put it down again and watered in because graspers will
Speaker 2: keep germinating in the summer and the barricade doesn't last forever.
Speaker 2: So that's the answer to that. As far as those soils,
Speaker 2: organic matter, organic matter, organic matter, find bed mixes, find
Speaker 2: compost decomposed, you know, mulches that have been rotted down
Speaker 2: and ground down into a good quality product. Anytime you
Speaker 2: can improve the soil is a good idea. And just
Speaker 2: remember and sand, you water more often, but you don't
Speaker 2: have the water as much because water goes down through
Speaker 2: a sand much faster than it will through a clay.
Speaker 2: And as far as fertilizing, you want to fertilize in
Speaker 2: small doses or use a slow release product because also
Speaker 2: nutrients wash out of a sand more readily. So it's
Speaker 2: it's kind of a smaller doses along the way to
Speaker 2: keep them wet and to keep them fed. Okay, I
Speaker 2: appreciate that.
Speaker 21: Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: You have a great thank you. Yeah, I think thanks
Speaker 2: to the call. I have a good time down there
Speaker 2: at the beach. We're gonna go to Crosby now for
Speaker 2: our final call of the day. Gerald, Let's see how
Speaker 2: we can help.
Speaker 20: Yeah, I bought a bag of this pre emerging stuff.
Speaker 20: And is it okay to put it down now or
Speaker 20: is it too late to put it down?
Speaker 2: It's not too late, but don't delay another day. Get
Speaker 2: it out there. With the rain that came through some
Speaker 2: of the area, we're gonna have weed seeds germinating. And
Speaker 2: you got to you want to apply it and immediately
Speaker 2: water it in, because it doesn't do anything until you
Speaker 2: wash it into the soil with about a half inch.
Speaker 20: Of water, Okay, And then and I also put some fertilize.
Speaker 2: Down with it. Absolutely, put both the ball fertilizer and
Speaker 2: the pre emergent down, uh, and then water them in
Speaker 2: really well. And and that will set you up for
Speaker 2: for success with that.
Speaker 10: You know.
Speaker 2: That's a good idea, all right?
Speaker 20: Okay, Well that's what I needed to know. I figured
Speaker 20: I could put it down with all this rain we're
Speaker 20: getting and so.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, And and it wasn't it a good
Speaker 2: idea to get some rain. We have had a heck
Speaker 2: of a dry fall that we sure could have used
Speaker 2: some rain on. So we're all glad to have. By
Speaker 2: the way, you're out there in Crosby, you know you've
Speaker 2: got Crosby as hardware down there on Main Street, and
Speaker 2: they're going to carry these fertilizers and barricades and things
Speaker 2: like that, those products right there. So just a tip
Speaker 2: if you if you are looking for one.
Speaker 20: Yeah, well they had it, but I also try to
Speaker 20: get that Celsie's from them. They didn't have, so that's that's.
Speaker 2: Harder to Yeah, that's harder to find. And if what
Speaker 2: are the weeds you're going after with celsius, that Virginia
Speaker 2: button weed, well as a as a backup for that
Speaker 2: Celsi sadn't the only thing. They'll kill it. But if
Speaker 2: you have a bone eighted weed beater ultra if they can,
Speaker 2: if they have that, I would use that furt loan.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to remember the Ferd loan. It's got both
Speaker 2: have a product called Carfentra zone in them and that's
Speaker 2: pretty good on the Virginia button weed. So I wouldn't
Speaker 2: you know, cross the country looking for Celsius. Just bone
Speaker 2: eight weed beater Ultra or Carpentra Zone, but don't use
Speaker 2: them when the temperatures above mid eighties and they'll work.
Speaker 9: Okakay, all right, thanks sir, thank you.
Speaker 2: Appreciate you bet appreciate the call. Hey, you've been listening
Speaker 2: to the Garden Line. You need to tell your friends
Speaker 2: about this. We are here every Saturday, every Sunday from
Speaker 2: six to ten. I don't care where they live. We
Speaker 2: got people live out of state that listen to their
Speaker 2: show more than Mary. Let's do that. I had one
Speaker 2: final call. My last appearance of the year, last one
Speaker 2: for this year, is going to be at Wabird's Unlimited
Speaker 2: in Kingwood, Texas. Come on out there and see me
Speaker 2: next Saturday. Next Saturday, the ninth of November, from twelve
Speaker 2: noon to two. I'm gonna have giveaways, We're gonna answer
Speaker 2: your gardening questions, and you're gonna learn a lot about
Speaker 2: birds while we're out there too. It is a fun store,
Speaker 2: a fun place. It's Kingwood Drive, west Lake Houston Parkway,
Speaker 2: next to HGB and behind torchiese Hako make plants put
Speaker 2: on your counter. Come on out. Look forward to meeting you.