Speaker 1: In line with Skip Richter.
Speaker 2: Just watch him as.
Speaker 3: All right, gardeners, good morning, good morning on a good
Speaker 3: Sunday morning. We're glad to have you with us. Welcome
Speaker 3: to garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter. And what
Speaker 3: do we do here, Well, we answer your gardening questions.
Speaker 3: We try within our power to help you have a
Speaker 3: bountiful garden and a beautiful landscape because it is very doable.
Speaker 3: You know, here in the greater Houston area, in fact
Speaker 3: all of southeast Texas, it is. Our plant palette is huge.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 3: There are a lot of things we can't grow. They
Speaker 3: grow up north, or they grow somewhere else. There are
Speaker 3: so many things you can grow here that you can't
Speaker 3: grow other places. And we really enjoy a big plant pellette.
Speaker 3: I think that is that is one of the things
Speaker 3: probably maybe we don't appreciate as much now people that
Speaker 3: move from other areas, you know, they go, you can
Speaker 3: grow et ceterus. You know you can actually grow in avocado. Well,
Speaker 3: yeah you can. It's going to freeze back some, but
Speaker 3: yes you can. I was talking to somebody the other
Speaker 3: day at wild Birds down in clear Lake and he
Speaker 3: was showing me pictures of his avocado tree and it
Speaker 3: frozen back. I think a couple of times, I believe,
Speaker 3: but I mean it came right back like Gangbusters, and
Speaker 3: he's getting a lot of avocados out of it. We
Speaker 3: just have options down here, and I realized in the
Speaker 3: listening area we got folks you know, up in Huntsville
Speaker 3: on Interseate forty five and over down toward Karpas and Louisiana,
Speaker 3: and so there's a big range here, so any one
Speaker 3: plant may not go all areas, but my goodness, we
Speaker 3: have a lot of great, great options in this region
Speaker 3: for growing plants. And fall is a season for planting,
Speaker 3: so I want to encourage you to get out there
Speaker 3: and try planting something. Yesterday I was out at A
Speaker 3: and A Plants and Produce and Montgomery, and thanks for
Speaker 3: everybody that came out. I had a great time visiting
Speaker 3: with you guys, and as usual, you had a lot
Speaker 3: of questions. We kind of got hung up on weeds
Speaker 3: there for a while, and I was getting depressed because
Speaker 3: I want to talk about flowers and fruit and vegetables,
Speaker 3: loans and other things, and we were delving into how
Speaker 3: to kill nuts, edge and whatnot. But hey, it's your questions.
Speaker 3: That's what we're here for. And if I've answered them
Speaker 3: a hundred times, I'll answer them one hundred first time.
Speaker 3: I don't mind. I know how it is. That gardener
Speaker 3: has been doing this thirty five years and we typically
Speaker 3: have the same questions. And some people are new to gardening,
Speaker 3: and you know, they may have questions that a veteran
Speaker 3: gardener would go, oh my gosh, don't you know the
Speaker 3: answer to that? Well, I don't do that. I mean, seriously,
Speaker 3: if it's your question, it's going to get respected, it's
Speaker 3: going to get answered. That's how I look at it,
Speaker 3: because my goal is to take people that have never
Speaker 3: gardened before and make them enthusiastic green thumb, which means
Speaker 3: your thumb. It's educated gardeners. That's how that works. So
Speaker 3: give us a call. Our phone number is seven one
Speaker 3: three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Hey, thanks
Speaker 3: to A and A for having me out yesterday. It
Speaker 3: was great. While we were there, I was looking around
Speaker 3: at all the beautiful plants that they have in stock,
Speaker 3: and they are loaded up and it looks great out there.
Speaker 3: And of course, you know when you go to Ana,
Speaker 3: you've got every kind of fertilizer and soil product that
Speaker 3: I talk about here that are available. Just looking through
Speaker 3: all the different bag products and the fertilizers from Nitrofossen
Speaker 3: Nelson and from Microlife, you know, things from heirloom soils
Speaker 3: in Nature's way. They stay stocked up. And those of
Speaker 3: you who live out there in Montgomery, in Conroe, out
Speaker 3: by the Lake Lake Conroe neighborhoods, it's your backyard garden
Speaker 3: center and you need to run over there and check
Speaker 3: it out because it's close and it is well stocked,
Speaker 3: and the folks that are there to help you are
Speaker 3: very very good. I was talking with one of the staff.
Speaker 3: There's a master partner actually, someone that had been in
Speaker 3: some of my training classes when I speak in Montgomery County,
Speaker 3: and you know, that's that's kind of person that's going
Speaker 3: to be able to point you in the right direction.
Speaker 3: And that's what we like about independent garden centers is
Speaker 3: educated folks. I've talked about this before, but I had
Speaker 3: been in big box stores and I'm not going to
Speaker 3: name the stores. You know, it doesn't matter what I
Speaker 3: put the name on. It applies to about all of them.
Speaker 3: But I've been in big box stores and sometimes I'll
Speaker 3: go in and ask questions just to see, you know,
Speaker 3: the knowledge level of the staff. And you know, I'm
Speaker 3: stand in front of a pesticide aisle asking a question
Speaker 3: and the answer was like, are you kidding me? It
Speaker 3: would have been the worst thing for somebody to do.
Speaker 3: And I just say, oh, really, how long you been
Speaker 3: working here? I've been here a week? Oh really, we'll
Speaker 3: be doing for that. Well. In one case the answer
Speaker 3: was I was managing the jewelry counter. In another case
Speaker 3: it was I was cutting hair in a beauty shop.
Speaker 3: And do you see what I'm saying? That is not
Speaker 3: a person unless they just happened to be very knowledgeable
Speaker 3: as a gardener to be selling you pesticides or to
Speaker 3: be pointing you to the plant that's going to survive. Here.
Speaker 3: Another pet peeve of mine is going to those places.
Speaker 3: And I know people go in because they think, well,
Speaker 3: this is gonna be cheap. Well, remember, cheap and economical
Speaker 3: are not the same thing. And here's why. If you
Speaker 3: buy a plant that dies, if you buy a product
Speaker 3: that doesn't work or damages you're lawn, that's not cheap.
Speaker 3: You're going to go back after to buy another one.
Speaker 3: And other things and I see that happen. But I've
Speaker 3: been in those stores and they're selling raspberries, black cab raspberries.
Speaker 3: They don't grow down here, and maybe you kept one
Speaker 3: alive for five minutes, but listen, they don't grow down here.
Speaker 3: They're selling conquered grapes that down here. If you're in
Speaker 3: New York, that's great. That's a good grape. You know.
Speaker 3: Niagara is another one like that, conquered ripens, one berry
Speaker 3: at a time. Just go buy some Welch's grape juice
Speaker 3: that's conquered grapes and enjoy that, and don't try to
Speaker 3: plant one in your yard. But they're for sale here.
Speaker 3: And I could go on and on on and on.
Speaker 3: Northern high bush blueberries we can grow rabbitized in southern
Speaker 3: high Bush. We cannot grow Northern high bush down here,
Speaker 3: not successfully long term. And they shouldn't be settling them.
Speaker 3: But hey, big chain, that's what happens. All right, I'm
Speaker 3: through griping about that for now. Let's go out to
Speaker 3: the phones. See we're going to go to Kingwood now
Speaker 3: and talk to Angelo. Good morning Angelo. All right, we're
Speaker 3: gonna put Angelo on hold. Do we have you Angelo?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: You there yes, yes, how can we help today?
Speaker 6: Oh, yes, I have about it. Oh it's about a
Speaker 6: five foot Plemiri tree. They got kind of beat up
Speaker 6: with the hurricane. It's like at a ninety degree angle.
Speaker 6: It's blooming and everything. The leaves are getting kind of
Speaker 6: beat up though, with the sun and everything. But my
Speaker 6: question is, can I just cut it at the trunk
Speaker 6: about maybe three feet up and with something grow from there.
Speaker 6: It's healthy, but it's a little.
Speaker 3: Bread Yeah, you'll see branches come out on them. I
Speaker 3: saw one the other day that stem was dying and
Speaker 3: there were little shout shoots coming out of the base.
Speaker 3: So you could do that. I'm not a plumeria expert.
Speaker 3: I'll just tell you that up front. I know a
Speaker 3: lot of but but yeah, you can. You can do that,
Speaker 3: and just remember and winter. If you haven't had it
Speaker 3: to a winner already, you definitely need protection. Or pull
Speaker 3: it up and bring it in and hang it and
Speaker 3: hang it in the garage or something.
Speaker 6: Yeah. I've done that in the past, and I just
Speaker 6: want to cut it about instead of it's it was
Speaker 6: five foot before the hurricane beat it up. Okay, I'll
Speaker 6: just kind of down to about three foot. But no,
Speaker 6: branches on and everything. Just have the date of the trunk.
Speaker 6: That's that one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you might try it. You might try rooting
Speaker 3: some some branches and sections of it too that you
Speaker 3: cut cut off. Don't just throw them all away.
Speaker 6: But if I just cut that trunk, you know, cut
Speaker 6: that with that little there at the top of.
Speaker 3: It, it'll sprout out. But it yes, you can do that. Well,
Speaker 3: good luck with that. Thank you for the call. Shape
Speaker 3: that very much. We got to run to a quick break.
Speaker 3: Ann and Roger. You'll be our first two up when
Speaker 3: we come right back.
Speaker 7: If you had listened to.
Speaker 3: Forward to your calls and visiting with you about the
Speaker 3: things that interest you. You know, one of the one
Speaker 3: of the important things that we do in the garden
Speaker 3: landscape is build good soil but also support and in
Speaker 3: doing so, support microbial activity. There are a lot of
Speaker 3: microbes out there. Sometimes we think of funguses or bad
Speaker 3: bacteria or bad and some are, but there are a
Speaker 3: lot of good ones, a lot of ones that benefit
Speaker 3: our plants, that help turn organic matter like tree trunks
Speaker 3: back in the soil that would be the fungib or
Speaker 3: really shine at that microlife has put the kinds of
Speaker 3: beneficial microbes that I'm talking about in its products, and
Speaker 3: you'll find that there's a product called Microgo bio Andoculant.
Speaker 3: It's kind of a maroonish color, dark maroonish color bag
Speaker 3: and it also comes in the little clear jars with
Speaker 3: the screwtop lids. It has sixty three different beneficial strains
Speaker 3: of micro organisms, all kinds of different basillas and pseudomonas
Speaker 3: and streptomycees and others that are good guys. They do
Speaker 3: a lot of things. They fight disease, they outcompete bad
Speaker 3: organisms on the surfaces of plants. They connect to roots
Speaker 3: and help the roots to thrive. They just do a
Speaker 3: lot of things. And Microlife biinoculant is something that you
Speaker 3: can put out at any time of the year. Now
Speaker 3: it'd be a fine time to do it. I think
Speaker 3: anything we do prior to the season where we start
Speaker 3: to see brown patch and large patch is a good
Speaker 3: thing because the more that you enhance that plan, the
Speaker 3: more you protect that plant, the better your chances are
Speaker 3: to have success. And so try that micro grow biinoculant,
Speaker 3: either by the sack or by the large jar. Either
Speaker 3: way you go, I think you will be very pleased
Speaker 3: with it. Now you can use it on things other
Speaker 3: than your lawn. You can use it around all the
Speaker 3: plants that you have. Micro grow non occulant for microlife.
Speaker 3: Something to consider, and I think you should. I'm going
Speaker 3: to go now out to Wharton and we're going to
Speaker 3: talk to Ann. Hello, Anne, Welcome to garden line.
Speaker 4: Yes, sir, good morning. My big problem is a twenty
Speaker 4: foot bid of holly that is uh infested with scale, No,
Speaker 4: not scale, really whitefly. And I've sprayed that with knee
Speaker 4: oil and some dawn dish, so already twice this week.
Speaker 4: Do I just need to continue doing that?
Speaker 3: And you're you are? I just want to make sure
Speaker 3: you're sure it's scale. It's white flies, not scale, is
Speaker 3: what you're saying.
Speaker 4: No, this is whitefly. Now, do have what I call
Speaker 4: scale on my spineless prickly pair that I took a
Speaker 4: brush to and scraped what I could off. But this
Speaker 4: is this is basically the white fly on the holly
Speaker 4: as well as my miho satsuma ya.
Speaker 3: Okay, well white flies. What you see is the little
Speaker 3: white fly like a big gnat that's white flying around,
Speaker 3: bigger than a nat. But what is also happening is
Speaker 3: they're laying eggs typically under the leaf, and then the
Speaker 3: leaf the eggs hatch into a larvae that then turns
Speaker 3: into a pupa. And the pupa look like little tiny scales,
Speaker 3: like a fish scale, and they're about the size of
Speaker 3: a lowercase typed oh letter O. So you just kind
Speaker 3: of imagine maybe a ten point font typed oh. That's
Speaker 3: what you're looking for. If you will spray upward from
Speaker 3: underneath the plant with that kneem oil or any kind
Speaker 3: of an oil, summer oil, a horticultural oil, don't do
Speaker 3: it during the middle of a ninety degree day. You'll
Speaker 3: do it at a cooler time of day that that
Speaker 3: will cover and smother those And so you're if you
Speaker 3: stay at that for a period of time, not every day,
Speaker 3: but you know, once a week or so, you can
Speaker 3: break that life cycle that way. There's also systemics that
Speaker 3: you can put in the soil that go up in
Speaker 3: the plant and anything sucking juices out of the plant,
Speaker 3: like those white flies, then it will get them. But
Speaker 3: I prefer to go the other route if you could,
Speaker 3: but you're just gonna have to kind of stay on
Speaker 3: it to break up that life cycle.
Speaker 4: All right, So once once a week, what do I
Speaker 4: do to remedy the my miho satsuma leaves or literally
Speaker 4: black I've blasted them with a high frush of water
Speaker 4: and you just can't get that stuff off.
Speaker 8: You got to scrape it off.
Speaker 3: It kind of wears off in time. But I'm told
Speaker 3: some people will get like a soapy solution out there
Speaker 3: and spray it and let it sit and then blast
Speaker 3: it off. Or I've never tried that, and I wouldn't
Speaker 3: do it again. During the heat of the day. You
Speaker 3: might try that and they get a you know, get
Speaker 3: a something along those lines. Otherwise, it's just kind of
Speaker 3: something we live with. They put out new growth, the
Speaker 3: old eventually flakes off. But that's about all that's in
Speaker 3: your power. I mean to go out there with a
Speaker 3: bunge and wash every leaf with the soapy sponges. It
Speaker 3: is not practical, No, unless you have a very smart plan.
Speaker 4: No, the tree is way too big. In fact, it
Speaker 4: came back after the big freeze we had covered it
Speaker 4: in all okay and is producing. So I just need
Speaker 4: to continue with what I'm doing.
Speaker 3: Then, I think, I think so yeah, but just make
Speaker 3: sure you're directing that spray upward. Yeah, you have to
Speaker 3: completely coat the bottom of every possible leaf. That's what
Speaker 3: you're aiming at.
Speaker 8: That's the problem.
Speaker 2: And I'm going to be.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm going to be in Wharton on next Saturday,
Speaker 3: the twenty eighth. I'll be at Wharton Feed and Ace Hardware.
Speaker 3: Come on out and see me. And if you want
Speaker 3: to bring a leaf or two from that first plant,
Speaker 3: we'll look and i'll see if I can see those
Speaker 3: whitely pupa or larva, and i'll show you what they
Speaker 3: look like. All right, Okay, very good. That's from there
Speaker 3: from one to three. It's going to take you all
Speaker 3: to get there, so we're starting at one, go to three.
Speaker 3: We'll have some giveaways and it's gonna be a fun time.
Speaker 3: So tell you friends and come on out and see me.
Speaker 3: I don't get that far out of town very often.
Speaker 4: So no, I've never heard you come south this far,
Speaker 4: so look forward.
Speaker 3: I never had.
Speaker 9: Coming.
Speaker 3: People have said that so much that the show has
Speaker 3: gone south, but travel south. Thanks Anne, I appreciate, appreciate
Speaker 3: you very much. Bye bye. All Right, I got to
Speaker 3: be serious, but not today. You're listening to the garden Line.
Speaker 3: We're glad you are thanks for being a listener. Speaking
Speaker 3: of south down south of Houston, Ciena Maltz is the
Speaker 3: go to place. They're just north of Road Sharon. They're
Speaker 3: on FM five twenty one. And you know what I say,
Speaker 3: brown stuff for green stuff, meaning you get that soil
Speaker 3: perfect and whatever plant you put in is going to
Speaker 3: be very happy and you're going to pick good plans.
Speaker 3: But if you don't start with the soil, you're making
Speaker 3: a mistake. Ciena Maltch is the place for the brown stuff,
Speaker 3: meaning you can buy composts, you by bed mixes like
Speaker 3: Veggie and HERBX from Heirloom Soils. They carry that one there.
Speaker 3: Cianamulch has only quality products and they have every fertilizer
Speaker 3: you hear me talk about every brand, you know everything
Speaker 3: Microlife and Nelson's and nitrofoss, the products from Landscaper's Pride
Speaker 3: and Medina and Heirloom Soils, Asimite, all of that, all
Speaker 3: the soil stuff is there at Cienamlch. Of course, they
Speaker 3: also have rock beautiful rock gravel for creek drain ways
Speaker 3: and things. Everything you need is there. You just need
Speaker 3: to go Cienamultch dot com. That's the website. Cenamultch dot com.
Speaker 3: They are close today, close on Sundays, but they're open
Speaker 3: Monday through Friday seven thirty to five and Saturday from
Speaker 3: seven thirty to two. Let's go now out to kindod Taxis.
Speaker 10: Hello, Roger, Hey, how you done?
Speaker 3: I'm good, sir. How can we help today?
Speaker 6: Hey?
Speaker 11: So, I can't get my grass to grow, and I've
Speaker 11: been told it's because I have all these pine trees
Speaker 11: in my yard. And I've been told the pine trees
Speaker 11: they soak up all the water, they add too much
Speaker 11: acid to the soil. And I'm just wondering, is that
Speaker 11: Is there something that I can do?
Speaker 7: Or is that even? Is that is that true?
Speaker 11: Is it is the pine tree promitting my grass from
Speaker 11: going or what.
Speaker 3: They're not making? Yeah, they're not making the soil too
Speaker 3: acid for grass. What they do shade and their needles
Speaker 3: are falling and casting a little shade if you don't
Speaker 3: get those up pretty quick. But they shade themselves. And
Speaker 3: they also have a lot of roots up at the
Speaker 3: surface that are pulling moisture out of the grass. And also,
Speaker 3: you know when you have a whole lot of woody roots,
Speaker 3: there's not as much soil volume for the for the
Speaker 3: grassroots to be in and the closer you get to
Speaker 3: the pine, the worse that is because the bigger or
Speaker 3: roots you got, And so it's a factor of all
Speaker 3: of those things. I think the main thing you can
Speaker 3: do is just make sure it gets adequate water during
Speaker 3: periods when it hasn't rained, make sure you give it
Speaker 3: a good deep soaking, and continue to do the fertilizations
Speaker 3: that help provide the nitrogen needed for vigor. Of course,
Speaker 3: we're entering fall now, so it's time not for high nitrogen,
Speaker 3: but it's time to go to fall type fertilizers. But
Speaker 3: that's what's within your power.
Speaker 8: Okay, So it's it hard to go crass with pine tree.
Speaker 3: It can be a fair enough of them. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 3: I see a lot of yeah, two and they look good. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but it is just a matter of shading. That's why
Speaker 3: people switch over and they start you know, planting azalias
Speaker 3: the under the pines and other things that can grow
Speaker 3: and bloom with less than good full sunlight.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 11: I've got nine trees and it's only about twelve hundred
Speaker 11: square foot yards, So you know there's a wow.
Speaker 3: Okay, Yeah, that's a bunch. I think it I know
Speaker 3: we all loved have a nice turf area to walk
Speaker 3: on and whatnot, but you may want to start rethinking
Speaker 3: a landscape that may be more suited to an area
Speaker 3: with that many pine trees and that small that amount
Speaker 3: of space.
Speaker 7: All right, thank you, all right.
Speaker 3: Yes, sir, thanks for the call. I hate to be
Speaker 3: the bearer of bad news, but sometimes you know, it's
Speaker 3: just a situation that we we get into. It's it's
Speaker 3: what do they say, it's what happens. I was talking
Speaker 3: about cian a mult and carrying as m you know,
Speaker 3: asamite is the micronutrient supplement that we talk about putting down.
Speaker 3: I recommend about once a year is good. It's all
Speaker 3: my schedule. If you look at my schedule on gardening
Speaker 3: with Skip dot com, that's where all my schedules are.
Speaker 3: That's where all the info sheets I'm putting together are.
Speaker 3: We're continuing to grow it. We got plans for some
Speaker 3: new developments. So just bookmark gardening with Skip dot com
Speaker 3: and it helps. It helps me answer your questions because
Speaker 3: rather than taking a lot of airtime to try to
Speaker 3: explain something, I can put a publication together, may even
Speaker 3: have diagrams or something on it and it just directs
Speaker 3: you exactly and it's just easy and fast for you
Speaker 3: to get to and get your answers. So I encourage
Speaker 3: you to do that. But as a mite, micronutrients important
Speaker 3: trace minerals that plants have to have to survive. Putting
Speaker 3: them in the soil bank account so as the grass
Speaker 3: grows and needs them, it's there and you can use
Speaker 3: it in flower beds, you can use it in your gardens.
Speaker 3: I use it in vegetable gardens myself. But it's it's
Speaker 3: a great product and it goes a long way because
Speaker 3: you don't need a lot of micro nutrients, but you
Speaker 3: do need them, and so that's how as might works.
Speaker 3: Let's see how are we doing here on time. We're
Speaker 3: about running out of time here for the next break,
Speaker 3: so we're going to hold here if you would like
Speaker 3: to give us a call to be up after the break.
Speaker 3: Seven to one three two one two five eight seven
Speaker 3: four seven one three two one two. Hey, welcome back.
Speaker 3: We are back on a nice Sunday morning, and I'm
Speaker 3: glad you're listening in today to Garden Line. I'm your host,
Speaker 3: Skip Richter, and we're here to help you have a
Speaker 3: beautiful garden, a bountiful garden, a beautiful landscape, and all
Speaker 3: it takes is a little good information and some quality
Speaker 3: plants from a place that knows what they're doing. And
Speaker 3: that would be our mom and pop garden centers, all
Speaker 3: independent garden centers, if you will, the ones that are
Speaker 3: from here, that live here, the garden here, and that
Speaker 3: know how to garden here. That is very important. And
Speaker 3: a good example of that is Warren Southern Gardens out
Speaker 3: there in Kingwood and Kingwood Garden Center. They're both out
Speaker 3: in Kingwood. They've got new arrival, a nice group of
Speaker 3: citrus has arrived out there. This would be a good
Speaker 3: time to grab some get those in the ground fig
Speaker 3: trees as well. They have several different varieties, some you've
Speaker 3: probably never even heard of, that you can try out
Speaker 3: out at the Warren Southern Gardens. For example, they have
Speaker 3: fall veggies. It's time man to get in your cabbage
Speaker 3: and Brussels sprouts, coloreds, broccoli, cauliflower, lettuces, all kinds of
Speaker 3: things can be planted as we move into this cool season.
Speaker 3: And a nice shipment of cactus, including some really rare
Speaker 3: gems like the variegated chin cactus and the ghost cactus.
Speaker 3: I know you're thinking, what, what's a ghost cactor? Well
Speaker 3: go find out, go go check them out. It's time
Speaker 3: to get your planters ready for fall. They've got all
Speaker 3: the plants to have a beautiful fall planter. Now, if
Speaker 3: you don't know how to do it, you know, it's
Speaker 3: like I don't know how to do that. I don't
Speaker 3: know which one's a pick. They'll help you or drop
Speaker 3: your planters off and say you do it, and they'll
Speaker 3: do it and you come back and pick them up.
Speaker 3: Of course it gots to do that, but they are
Speaker 3: professionals and they can create some gorgeous, gorgeous planters for
Speaker 3: you for fall, and I know you would love to
Speaker 3: have a beautiful place going into this fall. Five bucks
Speaker 3: off micro Life sixty four, Microlife brown Patch, a nitrophost
Speaker 3: sweet Green, and Azamite through the end of this month.
Speaker 3: It ends September thirtieth, five dollars off each bag. Good deal.
Speaker 3: There's also sale on Bugginator for the pest control from
Speaker 3: Nitrofoss and they're super Turf from Nitrofoss. They have a
Speaker 3: tree sale going on right now now while supplies last,
Speaker 3: but thirty percent off any tree. I cannot emphasize enough
Speaker 3: how important it is if you're going to plant a
Speaker 3: tree or a shrub or a woody vine, get it
Speaker 3: in in the fall. The best planning season is coming
Speaker 3: up the next two months or just prime time for planning.
Speaker 3: You plan now, but it is prime time in the fall,
Speaker 3: and thirty percent off is a good deal. I mean
Speaker 3: that there's your chance right there. Don't forget. When you
Speaker 3: get a tree, you need to get the things to
Speaker 3: help the roots get established, the roots stimulator. You've got
Speaker 3: your compost materials. You're working in not the planning hole,
Speaker 3: but a very large area around the tree. Those tree
Speaker 3: roots are going to be primarily in the top foot
Speaker 3: of soil over time, and you don't put it in
Speaker 3: the planning hole, but you do it in a large area. So,
Speaker 3: for example, you've got a shale compost mix from airloom
Speaker 3: soils of Texas. They have that at War and Seven
Speaker 3: Guards and Kingwack Garden Center. So don't forget described the
Speaker 3: newsletter too. While you're out there. I wanted to let's see,
Speaker 3: I was going to I want to make a couple
Speaker 3: of comments about a couple things that i'd like to
Speaker 3: When I can occasionally talk to you about landscape tips.
Speaker 3: You know, just some ideas things that you might want
Speaker 3: to be aware of, and one of them, let's see here.
Speaker 3: First thing I want to talk about is landscape planning
Speaker 3: from a standpoint of texture. You know, when we look
Speaker 3: at a landscape and we want to plant things, we
Speaker 3: think about what kind of flowers can I plant there,
Speaker 3: or shrubs or things, but also consider texture. Texture means
Speaker 3: the big bold leaves of elephant ears or kalladiums versus
Speaker 3: the very fine textured leaves of something like, for example,
Speaker 3: firecracker fern. It's also called firecracker plant. It's a type
Speaker 3: of Ruscellia. This thing comes out of the ground. It's
Speaker 3: almost like a fountain. It comes out of the ground
Speaker 3: the straight stems with lots of small stems, and it
Speaker 3: loads up typically with a coral red flower. There's also
Speaker 3: a white form and kind of a yellowish form that
Speaker 3: are less common. But these coral red flowers are heavy
Speaker 3: and it makes each of the little small thin stems
Speaker 3: hang over, so it's just like it's weeping. But it's
Speaker 3: this giant mound of tubular flowers that hummingbirds and butterflies love.
Speaker 3: But it's a fine textured plant. That is a cool plant,
Speaker 3: and you can get them at our garden centers too.
Speaker 3: By the way, they freeze to the ground in a good,
Speaker 3: good hard cold snap, and then you just cut them
Speaker 3: off and they come right back out again. They look good.
Speaker 3: But that's an example of a fine textured plant. There's
Speaker 3: all kinds of textures to leave. Some are kind of
Speaker 3: soft and almost a velvety feel. Some are very glossy
Speaker 3: and shiny. When you do a landscape, don't just think
Speaker 3: about you know, it's a shrub or it's a hour
Speaker 3: or whatever. Think about those textures and mix it up
Speaker 3: a little bit. It really adds interest to have a
Speaker 3: variation in textures in your landscape. All right, here's a tip.
Speaker 3: You are listening to Guardenline our phone number seven one
Speaker 3: three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one
Speaker 3: three two one two five eight seven four. By the way,
Speaker 3: that firecracker fern gets about three to four feet tall,
Speaker 3: and because the weight of the blooms kind of causes
Speaker 3: the branches to lean out. You know, it may be
Speaker 3: four or five feet or your real ears is really happy,
Speaker 3: even a little wider in time. But you can prune it.
Speaker 3: You can trim it. You can control some of that,
Speaker 3: but well it's a good plant. Love that plant. I
Speaker 3: have been yesterday, of course, I was at at A
Speaker 3: and A Plants and Produce, And as I mentioned while ago,
Speaker 3: I'm going to be at the Wharton Feed Ace Hardware
Speaker 3: store next weekend, Saturday, the twenty eighth of September, and
Speaker 3: it's going to be an after lunch thing from one
Speaker 3: to three. So grab grab some lunch and then come
Speaker 3: on out to Wharton Ace Hardware, Wharton Feed and Ace
Speaker 3: Hardware store. They've gotten all set up out there. Y'all
Speaker 3: are fortunate to have that come in to the community
Speaker 3: out there, because it's gonna be a great store. It
Speaker 3: is a great store for being out there, and I'm
Speaker 3: going to be giving away some things as well as
Speaker 3: answering your gardening questions. And I don't get out to
Speaker 3: Wharton very far, so people listening down in Corpus Christy,
Speaker 3: I don't know, you know, be a fun day trip.
Speaker 3: Come on out. Where have you lived down in that direction?
Speaker 3: Come on out and see me out there at the
Speaker 3: Wharton Ace Hardware next Saturday, September twenty eighth. And again
Speaker 3: the time is not like my normal times, A little
Speaker 3: bit later from one to three one pm to three pm,
Speaker 3: I'll be out there, so hope you can come out
Speaker 3: and see me at the Ace Hardware. You know Ace Hardware's.
Speaker 3: We've got ACE Hardware's all over our Greater Houston area.
Speaker 3: They're forty stores in our Greater Houston Ace Hardware Group here,
Speaker 3: and it makes it really easy. All you have to
Speaker 3: do is go to Acehardware dot com and you can
Speaker 3: find a store near you, like Warden Ace Hardware for example,
Speaker 3: if you go to the store locator, and it makes
Speaker 3: it easy. Now when you get to ACE, you're going
Speaker 3: to find the fertilizers I talk about. You're going to
Speaker 3: find everything you need to have a bountiful garden and
Speaker 3: a beautiful landscape, whether you're managing pest, suedes and diseases,
Speaker 3: whether you are wanting to fertilize and stimulate the plants
Speaker 3: to grow organic products, synthetic products, whether you need tools, whatever,
Speaker 3: If you're just setting up a beautiful outdoor space in
Speaker 3: the garden with some landscape lights, and you know those
Speaker 3: little strings of I call them beer garden lights, but
Speaker 3: you know there's little strings of lights that don't shine
Speaker 3: really bright, but they create that overall this really nice
Speaker 3: glow of bombience in the back. They have things like that,
Speaker 3: things to really take it up a notch out there
Speaker 3: in the outdoor living spaces that we have. And it's
Speaker 3: solid A's Hardware and you need to go into an
Speaker 3: ACE Hardware because it is amazing what they have. Now,
Speaker 3: these are independently on stores and you never I mean
Speaker 3: there may be fudge bar, a really cool fudge bar
Speaker 3: in one or a place that you know, etches, cutting
Speaker 3: boards and things as for gifts, and it's just like, oh,
Speaker 3: I didn't know they had that. I promise you there's
Speaker 3: going to be some Oh I didn't know they had that.
Speaker 3: When you go into your local ACE Hardware store, it's
Speaker 3: a great place forget purchasing too. Well, I got to
Speaker 3: take a break. I'll be right back.
Speaker 2: Me the s of you Emmassy Dream Dream.
Speaker 3: Welcome back, Welcome back on a nice Sunday. I really
Speaker 3: appreciate you guys listening and let's have some fun talking
Speaker 3: about the things that interest you in gardening. Gardening is
Speaker 3: a great hobby. It is fun, it really is. And
Speaker 3: it doesn't matter what you're into. I mean, you may
Speaker 3: not want to go outside, but you may love houseplants.
Speaker 3: I'm telling you there are more house plants than you've
Speaker 3: got time left to grow them. I mean, every time
Speaker 3: I turn around, there's house plants I haven't even heard
Speaker 3: of that are now coming on the market. I don't know.
Speaker 3: Somebody crawling through some jungle somewhere found it and drug
Speaker 3: it back and started propagating it. It's really cool. And
Speaker 3: if you are into herbs, if you're into edibles, fruit,
Speaker 3: vegetables and herbs, for example, there's that. If you just
Speaker 3: want to look at hummingbirds and butterflies and whatnot, there's
Speaker 3: that kind of gardening. If you are a lawn ranger,
Speaker 3: you know, the weekend warrior on the lawn, and you
Speaker 3: want a big, beautiful green carpet and go for it.
Speaker 3: We can help you with that too. By the way,
Speaker 3: do you see what I'm saying. How about this? How
Speaker 3: about landscaping for fragrance, You're talking about different kinds of landscaping.
Speaker 3: There are so many plants that have lovely fragrance at
Speaker 3: different times of the year. One of these days, I'll
Speaker 3: let me put something together. I'll talk to you about
Speaker 3: some of the specific examples and things like that. But
Speaker 3: I love the fragrance and the landscape. And maybe you
Speaker 3: don't care about any of the things I talked about.
Speaker 3: Maybe just you would like to try to grow some
Speaker 3: healthy food and vegetables. You don't want to plow up
Speaker 3: the b you want to use containers. All right, let's
Speaker 3: do it. Let's have fun. Get the kids involved. You know,
Speaker 3: it is so important that kids get connected with nature.
Speaker 3: There is a stack of research them all high showing
Speaker 3: that when kids get in touch with nature, from a
Speaker 3: walk in the forest to time in the dirt in
Speaker 3: the garden, they are healthier in every possible way. We're
Speaker 3: talking about mental health, we're talking about physical health, we're
Speaker 3: talking about eating differently, because when you grow something, you're
Speaker 3: more likely to eat it. I just can't make enough
Speaker 3: sales pitches to you on the benefits of gardening. And
Speaker 3: if you feel like if you're afraid you're going to fail,
Speaker 3: don't be afraid. You got to kill a lot of
Speaker 3: plants to be a good gardener. So let's get going
Speaker 3: killing some plants, all right, and then we'll eventually not
Speaker 3: kill as many plants. I want you to loosen up
Speaker 3: and have fun. That is what we're here for, and
Speaker 3: I can help you do that. Like I like to
Speaker 3: tell you to say on the air, there are no
Speaker 3: brown thumbs. There are only uninformed thumbs. And as you
Speaker 3: get as you inform your thumb, it's greener and greener.
Speaker 3: The reason Grandma could grow seem like anything she put
Speaker 3: in the ground grew is Chris, Grandma knew how to
Speaker 3: do it. It's just a matter of knowledge. It's not magic.
Speaker 3: There is no special aura that comes out from some
Speaker 3: people that makes plants grow but not others. It's a
Speaker 3: matter of finding the right plant, putting it in the soil,
Speaker 3: and taking care of it right. And you can do that,
Speaker 3: you can, And so what is your interest? Are you
Speaker 3: interested in all of that? Do you want to get specific?
Speaker 3: You know, do you like orchids? Well you can that
Speaker 3: can be your gardening. You can just do orchids if
Speaker 3: you want to do that. I think you're going to
Speaker 3: want to do a lot more because once you get going,
Speaker 3: so many plants, so little time. It is it's an
Speaker 3: addictive hobby and it is fun. And we are fortunate
Speaker 3: in Houston to have excellent independent nurseries north, south, East, West,
Speaker 3: and Central. I mean they're all over the place here
Speaker 3: and they're all worth going to you know, I just
Speaker 3: I think it's a it's horticulture. Tourism is a good idea,
Speaker 3: and so I don't care where you live out in
Speaker 3: timbuck II. Well go to this nursery one weekend, then
Speaker 3: go to another nursery another week Just see what's there.
Speaker 3: And everywhere you're going to find a little different. Feel.
Speaker 3: You're going to find a little different a group of plants,
Speaker 3: for example, in some specialize in one thing or another.
Speaker 3: But it's going to be fun. You're going to enjoy
Speaker 3: doing it. And here comes fall, the best planning season
Speaker 3: of the year. Get out there now. I know it's
Speaker 3: still hot outside, but it's not the calendar. I mean,
Speaker 3: it's not the temperature. It's the calendar you need to
Speaker 3: walk worry about because the average frostate comes when the
Speaker 3: average frostate comes, and I don't care if it's hot
Speaker 3: going all the way up to that. You need to
Speaker 3: be doing what you need to do at the right times.
Speaker 3: Our vegetable planning schedules and things that you see around
Speaker 3: the Houston area, they're designated that way. The best time
Speaker 3: to get the soil ready is right now, because the
Speaker 3: best time to plant is in the fall. So let's
Speaker 3: get out, let's get going, and let's have some success
Speaker 3: and I'll help you do it. We're here, hold your
Speaker 3: hand if you want. We'll advise as you wish. And
Speaker 3: we got the great garden centers that we'll do that too.
Speaker 3: So don't let the thermometer stop you from getting started
Speaker 3: on the best planting season of the year. Let's go
Speaker 3: out to League City and we're going to talk to Rick. Hello, Rick,
Speaker 3: welcome to Garden Line.
Speaker 12: Nice skip, thank you for being on the on the
Speaker 12: show's morning. I was in the process of trying to
Speaker 12: send you a picture, but I didn't have time. There's
Speaker 12: a few spots in my yard that have a very
Speaker 12: low growing type of a I guess it's a weed.
Speaker 12: When i'd use my phone plant Identify, it says it's
Speaker 12: carpet grass, and it very low growing, doesn't look like
Speaker 12: Saint Augustine. It's close to the ground, and it seems
Speaker 12: to be kind of spreading.
Speaker 7: I just wanted to do I just treat.
Speaker 3: That like a weed and use it. It's either if
Speaker 3: it says it looks like carpet grass, then it's probably
Speaker 3: a dove weed. That's the closest looking weed to your
Speaker 3: Saint Augustine.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 3: And I here's what I want you to do. I
Speaker 3: want you to send me a picture. I'm going to
Speaker 3: put you on hold if you don't have the Do
Speaker 3: you have the email address or not?
Speaker 7: Yes?
Speaker 13: I do.
Speaker 3: Okay, get a get a good picture and send it
Speaker 3: to me, because I don't want to send you out
Speaker 3: buying and spraying something if we're not really sure of
Speaker 3: which weed we're dealing with. Okay, okay, okay, do that
Speaker 3: and I'll I'll check the email. I'll get you an answer. Okay, okay,
Speaker 3: thank you very Your answer is probably it's probably going
Speaker 3: to be celsius that comes out of my mouth when
Speaker 3: I when I see the weed. But let's not jump
Speaker 3: on that one. Let's be sure. Thanks a lot, fake Paul,
Speaker 3: appreciate that. Y. You take care? Yeah, you bet, bye
Speaker 3: bye uh night. FUSS has their three step program Three
Speaker 3: steps Fertilizer weed control, Fungicide for diseases, Fertilizer Night Frost
Speaker 3: Fall Special Winter Riser. It is designed for helping your
Speaker 3: grass go into winter strong, to be more cold hardy,
Speaker 3: and to come out of spring strong. Second barricade weed
Speaker 3: control Look at my schedule October October October, but earlier
Speaker 3: in October is better. You can do it now, but
Speaker 3: it's a little on the early side. We don't expect
Speaker 3: any cool season weeds to be germinating in the next
Speaker 3: couple of weeks. But I would get this out in
Speaker 3: early October because it if you wait until after they're
Speaker 3: up and grow and you've missed the window. Night frous
Speaker 3: barricade will work for that. And then finally night Fuss
Speaker 3: eagle turf fungicide. It's a systemic. It moves into the
Speaker 3: tissues of the grass. So when brown patch large patch
Speaker 3: and take all patch all try to infect, which they
Speaker 3: will this fall, then the Eagle fungicide helps shut that
Speaker 3: down before it even gets started. Don't wait till the
Speaker 3: circles appear. You can't make circles green with fungicide. You
Speaker 3: need to do it ahead of time. Look at my
Speaker 3: schedule and follow that and it'll guide you in that way.
Speaker 3: Night Fruss is widely available. You're going to find it
Speaker 3: at Fisher's Hardware and Baytown, the one in mop Bellevue,
Speaker 3: the one in Pasadena, and the one in the Port
Speaker 3: just as examples. You are listening to Guardline and we're
Speaker 3: here to direct you. You know, I keep bragging on
Speaker 3: our mom and pop garden centers, and Plants for All
Speaker 3: Seasons is an example of that. You know, this garden
Speaker 3: center's been around since nineteen seventy three, right there on
Speaker 3: Tombaill Parkway FM two forty nine. I just you know,
Speaker 3: I said that a thousand times in my life, and
Speaker 3: I just almost went blank. Plants for All Seasons dot
Speaker 3: Com is the website. When you go into Plants for
Speaker 3: All Seasons, you're going to find every season the best
Speaker 3: plants to be planting, and they're loaded and ready to
Speaker 3: go right now. For your fall planting. You're going to
Speaker 3: also find, and this is very important, the advice, and
Speaker 3: they are experts, they've been doing this a long time
Speaker 3: and they know what they're talking about. You bring them
Speaker 3: a weed, you bring them a plant that's sick, you
Speaker 3: bring them a bug, whatever, and they're going to identify
Speaker 3: it and they're going to tell you what to do
Speaker 3: about it, and they're not going to steer you wrong.
Speaker 3: That is why it is so important to go to
Speaker 3: an independent garden center like Plants for All Seasons and
Speaker 3: all the folks up in that whole area between Cyprus
Speaker 3: and Tombull. They know plants for all seasons because they've
Speaker 3: been there a long time and they've had good results
Speaker 3: from there. I can guarantee you that they are true
Speaker 3: lawn and garden experts and you will be happy with
Speaker 3: your results. We're going to head now out to Brazoria
Speaker 3: County and talk to Louis Lewis. You know what, Lewis,
Speaker 3: I did it again. I did this yesterday. I take
Speaker 3: a call right before it's time for a break. Sorry
Speaker 3: about that, man, I have to put you on hold.
Speaker 3: I will come right back to you. Sorry to have
Speaker 3: to false alarm. Golly, on these days, I'm gonnaigure out
Speaker 3: how not to do that. I just get so excited
Speaker 3: talking about plants and products and garden centers and whatnot. Hey,
Speaker 3: don't forget next Saturday, Wharton Feed and Ace Hardware from
Speaker 3: one to three. That's Saturday, September twenty eighth. Be there
Speaker 3: or be be squared. I'll be there. I'll be looking
Speaker 3: for you, and if you don't show up, I'm going
Speaker 3: to tell all your neighbors that show up to go
Speaker 3: to your house and plant grasp burds in the yard.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, it's it's gardening terrorism. But you need to
Speaker 3: show up and be there. That was that was uncalled for.
Speaker 3: That anyway, my attempted here. Looking forward to seeing out
Speaker 3: there though. Seriously, also don't forget I will be or
Speaker 3: there will be an excellent program coming up on growing
Speaker 3: food and I'll tell you about it when we come back.
Speaker 1: Hi.
Speaker 3: This is any of the products or services advertised on
Speaker 3: this program.
Speaker 1: Welcome to KTRH Garden Line with sci Rictor.
Speaker 2: It's so pay.
Speaker 13: Just what.
Speaker 3: Hey, folks, welcome back to Garden Line. We are glad
Speaker 3: to have you with us, and we're jumping right into
Speaker 3: it here. I mentioned right before we went into break
Speaker 3: there's an upcoming educational program you need to know about
Speaker 3: the folks. At Oba Organic Horticulture Benefits Alliance are putting
Speaker 3: on a program called So You Want to Grow Good Food?
Speaker 3: That's a good title. They have a number of speakers
Speaker 3: on it, including Bob Randall. Bob's of course you all
Speaker 3: know him. He's the author of Year Round Gardening, which
Speaker 3: if you vegetable garden here in the Greater Houston area,
Speaker 3: you need to not do it without that book. That
Speaker 3: is an excellent, outstanding book, by the way, and he's
Speaker 3: a great speaker too. If you want more information on
Speaker 3: this program, it is October fifth at the Houston Arboretom
Speaker 3: and Nature Center and it's all day on Saturday. It's
Speaker 3: eight am to three point thirty pm. And to get
Speaker 3: more information go to this website OBA online dot ORGHBA
Speaker 3: online one word dot org. All right, I was visiting
Speaker 3: with Luis from Airlom Soils the other day, and just
Speaker 3: give me some information on some of the products and
Speaker 3: the deals that are going on right now. There is
Speaker 3: a you know, Heirloom Soils is the one that has
Speaker 3: the veggie nerd mix, the rose mix, the excellent potting
Speaker 3: soils for indoor and for outdoor called the Works for example.
Speaker 3: I could just go on and on a while ago
Speaker 3: I was talking about the fact that at Warren's, you know,
Speaker 3: they they had their mix of compost and expanded shale,
Speaker 3: which is the best thing you can put into clay.
Speaker 3: Composts and expanded shale both help loosen up a clay
Speaker 3: really well well. Right now, right now at the Porter location,
Speaker 3: which is where Airloom Soils are made out at Porter
Speaker 3: for this is a limited time offer. By the way,
Speaker 3: you can either pick up or get a delivery bulk
Speaker 3: of the Heirloom Soils roast soil or their Veggie and
Speaker 3: Herb mix. Roast soil are veggie and herb mix very
Speaker 3: limited time, and when you do, you get a free
Speaker 3: bag of Microlife sixty four, the green bag of Microlife.
Speaker 3: This is at the porter location. If you want more
Speaker 3: information on the porter location, that's rock inmultch dot com,
Speaker 3: r O c K the letter N multch dot com.
Speaker 3: If you want more information in general on heirloom soils,
Speaker 3: heirloomsoils dot com, you need to go there and look
Speaker 3: at all of the products. And I've tried. I'm working
Speaker 3: my way through them. They got so many, I'm working
Speaker 3: my way through them, and I have not had one
Speaker 3: yet that didn't perform outstanding for me in growing plants,
Speaker 3: whether it's the container mixes. There's one four that I
Speaker 3: used for our succulents that's a cactus and succulent mix
Speaker 3: that's outstanding, and on and on down the line. We're
Speaker 3: going to go back out to the phones. Now we
Speaker 3: got Lewis and Lewis and Jorge. I think Lewis has
Speaker 3: been there a little longer. We're going to go straight
Speaker 3: to Lewis and Brassouri County Lewis, This isn't a false alarm.
Speaker 3: I'm actually here this time. How can we hit more?
Speaker 14: Good morning? My question this morning is about products like
Speaker 14: super Thrive or Garrett Juice or Medina for pre soaking
Speaker 14: say bedding plants, or barried strawberries or berry, say peach trees.
Speaker 14: When you're getting ready to plant stuff and you put
Speaker 14: on a pre soak, it even seeds, large seeds. What
Speaker 14: are your thoughts on those kind of products.
Speaker 3: Well, I can't speak to all of them, used all
Speaker 3: of them. Yeah, but I know with the Medina, for example,
Speaker 3: that whenever you are soaking plant roots, number one, soaking
Speaker 3: them in water is in and of itself beneficial because
Speaker 3: you're getting to making sure the roots are moist and
Speaker 3: held moist before you plan them. Drying out is a problem.
Speaker 3: Then when you have the microbial activity that is in
Speaker 3: these a lot of these Medina products specifically, that is
Speaker 3: beneficial because they're putting the kind of microbes in that
Speaker 3: either are helping fight, is helping colonize the roots and
Speaker 3: doing whatever things you know the microbes are going to do.
Speaker 3: Oftentimes will have other substances in them, you know from
Speaker 3: natural plant hormones that stimulate roots to I can't say
Speaker 3: the word vitamins, different kinds of other substances and all
Speaker 3: of that. It's just kind of amounts to a roots stimulator.
Speaker 3: So I think you're going to see a benefit from that,
Speaker 3: and I would encourage doing so. You're not going to
Speaker 3: ever burn the roots with those products. They're not salt based,
Speaker 3: you know, fertilizer where you can burn roots, especially if
Speaker 3: it was too high of a concentration. But yeah, I
Speaker 3: would do that. I have used a number of different
Speaker 3: products that they have, and it's always worked for me,
Speaker 3: always had good results with them. I've never set up
Speaker 3: a trial where you know, I replicate it and do
Speaker 3: all that kind of stuff, but from the standpoint of
Speaker 3: just trying them and seeing the results, I've had good
Speaker 3: results with that.
Speaker 14: I'm just curious if you knew of any there's the
Speaker 14: ever actually been any type of let's call it study
Speaker 14: or anything that was empirically measured where you know, they
Speaker 14: said yeah, okay, they have to look or lasses extract
Speaker 14: or whatever. Yeah, you don't like the super thrives, like
Speaker 14: the like the Garrett Juice is those kind of products.
Speaker 3: Right, I don't read. Yeah, I don't know I'm telling
Speaker 3: you that would be a hard trial to do, because
Speaker 3: you know, in a trial, you try to eliminate all
Speaker 3: the variables except the one thing you're looking at, you know,
Speaker 3: and when you're talking about microbes and microbe content, and
Speaker 3: you know, what is the mix of microbes and what's
Speaker 3: already in your soil. You know, you may have a
Speaker 3: very poor soil, you may have a very microbe enriched soil.
Speaker 3: You haven't been putting composts and all kinds of things
Speaker 3: in it, And so it's just really it's really hard
Speaker 3: to just set up a trial where you really could
Speaker 3: get a good answer on those kinds of things. So
Speaker 3: I think we depend on, you know, the the decades
Speaker 3: of gardeners and the results they've had and things like that.
Speaker 3: And for me, it comes down to just I'm going
Speaker 3: to try it. If I if I'm gonna to promote something,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna try it planet and see how it does.
Speaker 3: And I haven't done the strawberry root soaking, like you mentioned,
Speaker 3: with the products, but I have used them as transplant
Speaker 3: solutions and things. So I hope that helps.
Speaker 14: No, No, I just always look for another opinion. Thank you, Skip,
Speaker 14: I appreciate it.
Speaker 3: All right, Leis thanks, appreciate the call. Yeah, that is
Speaker 3: very very important. You know, we're talking about all the
Speaker 3: products he was mentioning products and things. Southwest Fertilizer is
Speaker 3: the go to company if you were looking for something
Speaker 3: that's hard to find it is. It's in Southwest Houston.
Speaker 3: It's on Bissonet and Renwick, and I know people that
Speaker 3: drive a long way to go there because Southwest is
Speaker 3: going to have they have all the standard stuff every
Speaker 3: fertilizer I talk about at Southwest. If you hear me
Speaker 3: mention a product to kill weeds, to fight disease, to
Speaker 3: deal with insects, it's there. But they have a lot
Speaker 3: of other things. And so someone I sent someone the
Speaker 3: other day there to get one product and they had
Speaker 3: like three different ops form. The person was asking me, well,
Speaker 3: they said they had that, but they also had this
Speaker 3: and this. Well all of them are good. They were
Speaker 3: all good for the thing. And Southwest is like that.
Speaker 3: They're not going to steer you wrong. They're not going
Speaker 3: to say you product just because they got it for
Speaker 3: sale that they want to get rid of the product.
Speaker 3: They're going to point you to one that'll be success.
Speaker 3: And that's why they hang around. You know, they've been
Speaker 3: around since n eighteen fifty five, So you don't do that
Speaker 3: if you don't a have products at work and be
Speaker 3: take care of your customers. Southwest Fertilizer dot Com is
Speaker 3: a website corner of Bisonette and Renwick. Get out there
Speaker 3: and check it out and you'll see why I am
Speaker 3: so big on that place. I have to take a
Speaker 3: little break here. When we come back, George, David and Joe,
Speaker 3: you will be our first ones up line listener. We
Speaker 3: appreciate that. Hey, have you been out to Enchannon Forest
Speaker 3: and Richmond Rosenberg. They are set up for fall. I
Speaker 3: mean you're going to find all your fall vegetables. They
Speaker 3: got a great stock of them, and now's the time
Speaker 3: to get them in. Now's the time. Remember what I
Speaker 3: said earlier, don't look at the thermometer, look at the
Speaker 3: calind Now's the time to get them in. They'll be fine.
Speaker 3: Put them in, water them in, get your herbs there.
Speaker 3: They are loaded up with herbs as well. They have
Speaker 3: a really good selection of tree planting options. I'm one
Speaker 3: of my favorite, and I think it's Danny's too, probably
Speaker 3: Chinese fringe tree, Chinese fringe blooms, in the spring and
Speaker 3: it is gorgeous. It is a billow of shaggy white
Speaker 3: blooms with a nice honey like scent, at least that's
Speaker 3: what it smells like to me. Somewhere in honey baby
Speaker 3: powder somewhere in there. It's a nice plant. And it
Speaker 3: doesn't get too big either for a tree. So if
Speaker 3: you want something that it's the typical lot sizes that
Speaker 3: we have today. Chinese fringe is excellent and they've got
Speaker 3: them an Enchanted Forest Garden Center out there in the
Speaker 3: Richmond Rosenberg area. You just head up, let's see, you're
Speaker 3: going to go on FM twenty seven fifty nine. So
Speaker 3: if you're in Richmond Rosenberg going towards sugar Land, it's
Speaker 3: off to the right FM twenty seven fifty nine. While
Speaker 3: you're out there, you're gonna find the Night to FoST
Speaker 3: Fall special. I talk about the carbo load us, I
Speaker 3: talk about the micro like brown patch, I talk about
Speaker 3: the barricade and Eagle Fund. All those things I was
Speaker 3: talking about, they're going to happen there at Enchanted Forest
Speaker 3: Garden Center. Go see, and by the way, take your
Speaker 3: camera because the lantana are so loaded with butterfly. I
Speaker 3: could not believe every time I go out there and
Speaker 3: they have Lananna blooming. It's like every butterfly in the
Speaker 3: country has gotten the message. Go to and channel for
Speaker 3: us and check out there because they are just everywhere
Speaker 3: on it and it's it's some fun butterfly pictures. Take
Speaker 3: the kids with you when you do that. Also, let's
Speaker 3: see here we are going to go to David in
Speaker 3: West Columbia. David, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 15: Yes, sir, my neighbor has an abundance of cats, and
Speaker 15: as you know, privacy fans don't de tear cats, and
Speaker 15: they are using my plants. They are using my plants
Speaker 15: as a as a litter box in my yard.
Speaker 3: Yes, and everywhere else.
Speaker 15: Is there something I can put on my plants and
Speaker 15: yard that will deter the cats but don't hurt the green.
Speaker 3: There are some smell things that I've heard people putting
Speaker 3: out there. I've never bought or used those things, so
Speaker 3: I don't know how well they work. I have put
Speaker 3: in potted plants, especially in the house. You can just
Speaker 3: cut a little section of like hardware cloth or something,
Speaker 3: and it sort of like becomes a little screen that
Speaker 3: sits on the surface, so they can't dig in the
Speaker 3: in the plant. I've known people that put pebbles almost
Speaker 3: like not river rock size, but pretty good chunk sized
Speaker 3: little rock pebbles in the surface of plants to also
Speaker 3: keep them out. That's about it as far as what
Speaker 3: I would suggest. But you might want to try one
Speaker 3: of those smelly scare them away sprays and see if
Speaker 3: that works. I haven't tried those a right jeep, Thank you,
Speaker 3: all right, David, good luck. Hey. I had a friend
Speaker 3: when I was a kid. I knew a guy that
Speaker 3: actually worked for my dad and he had He was
Speaker 3: so upset about it. He had actually done the map.
Speaker 3: He knew how many cats are wearing the neighborhood and
Speaker 3: how many times they went to the bathroom every day.
Speaker 3: It was hileritou but it's not funny, but it does
Speaker 3: help the laugh sometimes when you, oh, he was alerted,
Speaker 3: you should have heard him talk about it. He had
Speaker 3: done the math. Thanks David, I appreciate your call. George
Speaker 3: and Jersey Village, Welcome to guarden Line. How can we help?
Speaker 10: Good morning, Skiff, Good morning. I try to find that
Speaker 10: whibs that you just mentioned. The obo online dot org that.
Speaker 3: Doesn't seem to go h oh hb A oh hb
Speaker 3: A organic horticulture benefits all right, glad that all.
Speaker 10: Hold on, hold on, don't go away. My sweet potatoes
Speaker 10: when I picked them yesterday. They're beautiful, but they taste
Speaker 10: like junk. So why yelled at me? So how can
Speaker 10: I make them taste better? Can I want to plan them?
Speaker 10: Can I put some sugar in the bottom of the
Speaker 10: hole or something like that, or anything I can do
Speaker 10: to fix the beast.
Speaker 3: No sugar comes from the leaves getting sunlight. So I've
Speaker 3: not had a bad I've not had a junk tasting
Speaker 3: sweet potato like that. Grow. That's a new one to me.
Speaker 3: Are they good size? Are they good sized? Potatoes?
Speaker 10: Big as my hand or something like that? They're very
Speaker 10: beautiful statues. But yeah, okay, well.
Speaker 3: Right now, there is a there is a curing process.
Speaker 3: You know, when you dig a sweet potato, they typically
Speaker 3: put them in a warm not hot, but kind of
Speaker 3: a warm moist storage for a period of time, and
Speaker 3: it's it's part of the curing process and sets the skin.
Speaker 3: I've never tried eating one straight out of the ground,
Speaker 3: so I'm wondering if that may be part of it. Yeah, George,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna have to look into that again. I haven't
Speaker 3: had that problem before. And if they're a good sized
Speaker 3: sweet potato, that means the leaves made a lot of sugar,
Speaker 3: and so it may just be that there is a
Speaker 3: starch sugar thing that goes on there. I don't know
Speaker 3: that's the new one. I'll look into it.
Speaker 10: They're about six inches long and three inches in diameter
Speaker 10: or something like that. A pretty good size.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, let's see what I can find. I'll mention
Speaker 3: it on the air if I come up with anything.
Speaker 3: Appreciate the call. Thanks a lot, Thank you. You take care,
Speaker 3: you bet. Warbirds Unlimited is loaded up for the one
Speaker 3: of the best seasons of the year. I think hummingbirds
Speaker 3: are coming through and they are loading up. I don't
Speaker 3: know how hummingbird flies across the golf from Mexico, but
Speaker 3: it takes a lot of sugar to do it. And
Speaker 3: at my house they are going to the plants I
Speaker 3: planted for them, and they are going to my hummingbird feeders.
Speaker 3: I got two feeders, two from wabirds. As a matter
Speaker 3: of fact, the high perched feeder that it didn't matter
Speaker 3: what you put out there, you put a good quality
Speaker 3: feeder out there with good sugar water and it you
Speaker 3: can make your own, or you can buy one of
Speaker 3: their mixes. They have a thing that I use in
Speaker 3: my sugar water that makes it lasts longer. In a
Speaker 3: ninety five degree day, sugar water starts to get pretty
Speaker 3: nasty out there, and you can't leave it in the
Speaker 3: feeder for a week. It's not good for the hummingbirds.
Speaker 3: And so this stuff you put in it's a natural
Speaker 3: mineral substance and it makes it last over a week
Speaker 3: and it works really good. Also, other birds migrating through you,
Speaker 3: like Baltimore orioles, and then here comes wintertime just around
Speaker 3: the corner. They have the best selections of bird seed
Speaker 3: mixes that I know of. And that cheap bird seed
Speaker 3: you buy at other places where you get the little
Speaker 3: red bebes and the birds kick half of the all
Speaker 3: of that out because they don't want to eat it.
Speaker 3: You end up paying more for your bird seed because
Speaker 3: you don't they waste half of it, they're not going
Speaker 3: to use it. That's not the way it is with Walldbirds.
Speaker 3: And there's six Wallbirds stores near you go check one
Speaker 3: out wbu dot com, Forward Slash Houston that is where
Speaker 3: you need to go WBU dot com forward Slash Houston
Speaker 3: find the one closest to you. We're going to go
Speaker 3: now out to Kingwood and talk to Joe Hey, Joe.
Speaker 16: Good More Skip. I had a quick question for you.
Speaker 16: I've got my nitrofoss Fall special at barricade ready to go,
Speaker 16: and do you recommend go ahead and putting them down
Speaker 16: now or do you recommend wait a few weeks on
Speaker 16: putting those down?
Speaker 3: I would I would king what I would probably put
Speaker 3: those out about You could do it at the very
Speaker 3: end of September or at the very beginning of October.
Speaker 3: I think if it was mine, I'd probably do it at
Speaker 3: the beginning of October.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 3: And now, if we're going to get some coal front
Speaker 3: coming in and we're gonna get rain and the temperature
Speaker 3: is gonna drop down, you want to do it then? Okay?
Speaker 3: Because the weed seed germination is based on soil temperature,
Speaker 3: and as it cools off, the weeds you're going to
Speaker 3: prevent at this time of the year are going to
Speaker 3: start germinating, and you need that barricade down ahead of time.
Speaker 3: As far as the fertilization, late September is okay. I'd
Speaker 3: probably do it in first of October two and it
Speaker 3: will gradually provide those nutrients out there as the grass
Speaker 3: moves into the cool season. And so you got you
Speaker 3: got time for that one. But you don't want to
Speaker 3: delay for sure on the on the barricade.
Speaker 16: On this you say, do delay on the barricade.
Speaker 3: No, you don't. What you can delay. But as soon
Speaker 3: as the temperature's right, that coldfront, some cool rain and stuff,
Speaker 3: you're gonna start to see the cool season weeds beginning
Speaker 3: to germinate. And that's why I'd rather get it out
Speaker 3: and early. It's gonna last a while. So if you
Speaker 3: get it out the beginning of October, it's gonna still
Speaker 3: be working for you through November doing what it does.
Speaker 16: Great. And do you recommend waiting a few days between
Speaker 16: putting out the barricade and then the fertilizer later.
Speaker 3: No, I would do them both. And here's why. You
Speaker 3: put one out and you come back and don't put
Speaker 3: them in the same hopper. Come back, hold up the
Speaker 3: other one, put it out, and then turn on your
Speaker 3: sprinklers for about thirty and inch half inch of water,
Speaker 3: just enough to move it down into the soil surface
Speaker 3: and then both of them can go to work, especially
Speaker 3: that barricade. It doesn't the granules sitting on the ground
Speaker 3: dry or not controlling anything. When you get some water,
Speaker 3: it washes the product into the soil surface and then
Speaker 3: you get the weed control from that.
Speaker 16: Thank you, I appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Skip okay, you take care. Appreciate the colt trying to
Speaker 3: watch my clock a little bit better this time than
Speaker 3: I often do. Mucanna's Native Plants is an outstanding place
Speaker 3: to go to in the Heights. They're on Eleventh Street there.
Speaker 3: If you haven't been, you need to go just to
Speaker 3: see the place. Now. They specialize in natives, and if
Speaker 3: you're looking for any kind of I mean not just
Speaker 3: I want a native plant, but I want a nadi
Speaker 3: plant that attracts hummingbirds so that next year they're hanging
Speaker 3: out at my house just to go to the flowers
Speaker 3: on this plant. They can do that. I want butterfly
Speaker 3: native plant. I want you fill in the blank. They
Speaker 3: also have an outstanding selection of everything fall right now.
Speaker 3: All those fall colors, you know, the nges and reds
Speaker 3: and things that we think of is like Thanksgiving colors
Speaker 3: or Halloween colors. They've got all those kind of plants,
Speaker 3: and you can get set up and have a beautiful fall. Remember,
Speaker 3: forget the temperature, don't look at the thermometer, look at
Speaker 3: the calendar. It's time to do those things. Get those
Speaker 3: things in the ground so you can enjoy them. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I tell you, marigolds are a great fall plant. They're
Speaker 3: yellow and orange and kind of a color in between
Speaker 3: the two of those, and they just glow up until
Speaker 3: the first frost, which is a long time away done
Speaker 3: in our area here, and so take advantage of it.
Speaker 3: Go out to Buchanan's Plants while you're there, grab some
Speaker 3: of the fertilizer products they carry. They carry the things
Speaker 3: I talk about here on Guardline. They also have some
Speaker 3: great soil based products some of their own as well,
Speaker 3: and just get set up. Let's have a beautiful fall,
Speaker 3: and let's let Buchanan's Plants provide the supplies you need
Speaker 3: to make that happen. I'm going to go now out
Speaker 3: to friends would and we're going to talk to Jake. Jake,
Speaker 3: looks like I've got a couple of minutes here. See
Speaker 3: if we can get your question, or we'll carry you
Speaker 3: over if we need to.
Speaker 17: All right, should be quick, uh, We've got an area
Speaker 17: between the sidewalk and the street that was covered up
Speaker 17: with a debris from kirka burrow that is now contic
Speaker 17: but wheats and touch and.
Speaker 8: I want to put I'm thinking I want to put
Speaker 8: blue bonnets.
Speaker 18: Or other wild bird wild seeds out there. Is that
Speaker 18: how can I keep it attractive throughout the year, not
Speaker 18: just the eight to ten weeks that the flowers are blooming.
Speaker 3: So so you're wanting to not have grass there, but
Speaker 3: you're wanting to have other kinds of plants.
Speaker 17: I'm thinking blue bonnets, wildflowers, Texas wildflowers specifically the whole array.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Wildflowers are. Yeah, they're wonderful that you know, they
Speaker 3: have their seasons. And so since it's right out front,
Speaker 3: you have to be a little bit. You have to
Speaker 3: change your aesthetic opinion a little bit because you know,
Speaker 3: when you're blue bonnets are done blooming, they're not very pretty,
Speaker 3: you know, and then something else is coming on, So
Speaker 3: you can't mow the whole thing because you got another
Speaker 3: flower coming on.
Speaker 14: Uh.
Speaker 3: And so that that's just something you may want to
Speaker 3: think about. You could you could do other things out there.
Speaker 3: I don't know what your preferences would be. But you
Speaker 3: could certainly do just blue bonnets, for example, in that
Speaker 3: area initially, maybe do some different colors of blue bonnets, uh,
Speaker 3: and then when they start to go down, you could
Speaker 3: plant something like a zenia, a dwarf, a compact type
Speaker 3: of zenia, or one called narrow leaf sinia out there
Speaker 3: and do that. Those are just a few of the
Speaker 3: of the options options. Let's do this. I'm going to
Speaker 3: run to a break let if you if you want
Speaker 3: to keep talking about this, that's fine. Just hang on.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna put you on hold and we'll be back
Speaker 3: with you as soon as I get back. Welcome back
Speaker 3: to garden line. Hey, if you would like to visit
Speaker 3: about something regarding your plants, just give me a call
Speaker 3: seven one three two one two five eight seven for
Speaker 3: I'll listen to you brag about the tomato agree this summer,
Speaker 3: but only for a very short time. We can't put
Speaker 3: up with that now, seriously. I'll also listen to you
Speaker 3: and commiserate with you on the allergies going on. By
Speaker 3: the way, right now, let's see, we got grass allergies,
Speaker 3: we got ragweed allergies, and what is the other one
Speaker 3: that probably seed or I don't know. I know Central
Speaker 3: Texas they are suffering from cedar fever when it gets
Speaker 3: into the fall season and moves in the cooler weather.
Speaker 3: You know, we end up fighting them when we live
Speaker 3: anywhere in the country really just about. There are some
Speaker 3: areas that are fairly allergy free, but others it's just
Speaker 3: part of a seasonal deal. I know, by the third
Speaker 3: week of September it's going to hit every year about
Speaker 3: the time dove hunting season for those of you dove
Speaker 3: hunters hit. Somehow, allergies hit about that same time too. Ragweed,
Speaker 3: those are really really problematic. One well, I wanted to
Speaker 3: talk a little bit about the Nelson Water Garden folks.
Speaker 3: You know, I was out at Nelson Water Gardens visiting
Speaker 3: a while back, looking at the different products that they carry.
Speaker 3: Now it's actually Nelson Nursery and water Gardens. I still
Speaker 3: call it Nelson Water Garden because you know, they are
Speaker 3: nationally famous for water gardens. They've been doing that a very,
Speaker 3: very long time. But they also have an outstanding nursery.
Speaker 3: And every time I'm there, it's like, oh, you also
Speaker 3: carry that. I did not realize you also, Okay, and
Speaker 3: they do. They have so many things, you know, the
Speaker 3: fertilizers that you need for your plants to help them
Speaker 3: be successful. I love going to see the plants that
Speaker 3: they have, but I also love going to see the
Speaker 3: water features and to hear the water features they have.
Speaker 3: There is nothing as calming as the sound of running
Speaker 3: water out in your backyard, patio area or wherever you
Speaker 3: want to put it. You put in the front entrance
Speaker 3: if you want. It's just it's just nice. They have
Speaker 3: the disappearing fountains, they have the little waterfalls. They can
Speaker 3: build them. They can. They can sell you the product
Speaker 3: for them, and then you go build it yourself if
Speaker 3: you're that kind of do it yourself, or they don't
Speaker 3: mind doing that. But they do excellent work and they
Speaker 3: again are well known. They're nationally known. When it comes
Speaker 3: to those little discipearing fountains, there's like a large urn
Speaker 3: that the water comes over, rolls down the side and
Speaker 3: circulates back through again. They invented that and they know
Speaker 3: how to do those things. And whether you're wanting the
Speaker 3: plants that go in the water garden, the fish you know,
Speaker 3: like the koi and shabunk and whatnot, they go into
Speaker 3: a water garden They've got you covered. That's the bottom
Speaker 3: line on it. And you will find when you go
Speaker 3: there their pottery selection and it's the beautiful features they
Speaker 3: have are wonderful.
Speaker 8: It is.
Speaker 3: It's kind of a showplace, it really is, and a
Speaker 3: destination and I would encourage you think of it as
Speaker 3: your West Houston garden center. You know how said we
Speaker 3: got north south east west, Well directly out west on Katie.
Speaker 3: You just hit Katie turned north on Katie Fort Ben
Speaker 3: Road and you're there. Here's the website. Write this down
Speaker 3: and you can all that you want. Nelson Water Gardens
Speaker 3: Plural dot com, Nelson Watergardens dot com. I'm going to
Speaker 3: go out now to Jean in Chapel Hill. Hello, Jean,
Speaker 3: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 19: Good morning, Thank you for the call, taking my call.
Speaker 19: This you back late spring, early late spring, early summer,
Speaker 19: we had a lot hundreds, if not thousands of small
Speaker 19: eggcorns or oak trees growing up from all the acorns
Speaker 19: that came out of the shoe mart and the live
Speaker 19: oak trees. And we decided to dig up a few
Speaker 19: and put them into gallon pots. And they're growing fairly well,
Speaker 19: but they're pretty small. My question is when can we
Speaker 19: put those in the ground.
Speaker 3: You know, I would. I'd probably put them in the
Speaker 3: ground at the beginning of November. You could do it
Speaker 3: in late October, beginning of November something like that. We
Speaker 3: want the weather to cool enough to where the demands
Speaker 3: are minimals, so any transplant shock is minimum, but still
Speaker 3: get it done early enough to give them every possible
Speaker 3: week possible before next summer heat arrives. And so when
Speaker 3: you take them out of the pot, if they have
Speaker 3: circling roots, you either need to unwind the roots and
Speaker 3: dig a hole to fit or cut the roots one
Speaker 3: or the other. Don't leave them in the ground with
Speaker 3: circling roots because that tree will grow and the root
Speaker 3: will grow and one day it will start to strangle
Speaker 3: the tree and you have a mess on your hands.
Speaker 19: Okay, very good, Well, thank you. That answers my question.
Speaker 3: All right, all right, thank you very much, Thank you. Bye,
Speaker 3: appreciate that call you, Bye bye bye. I was talking
Speaker 3: earlier about this nitroposs three step program, and I think
Speaker 3: it's an ingenious thing that they've done, because this is
Speaker 3: a time of year where we need to be talking
Speaker 3: about getting our fall ready for the fertilizer. That's designed
Speaker 3: for fall to make our plants go into fall stronger,
Speaker 3: to be more cold hearty, and to come out of
Speaker 3: fall stronger as well in the spring. Just hear me
Speaker 3: again on this spring initial spring lawn and growth is
Speaker 3: based on stored energy in the grass plant and where
Speaker 3: did that stored energy come from? Nutrients and sunshine in
Speaker 3: the fall, So it's very important for your spring green up. Secondly,
Speaker 3: it's the time to deal with weeds once the temperature drops.
Speaker 3: Each weed species has a certain temperature where it'll start
Speaker 3: to germinate and grow. In the spring, it's the warming
Speaker 3: up of the soil for our warm season weeds. In
Speaker 3: the fall, it's the cooling down of the soil for
Speaker 3: our cool season weeds. So if you look at my schedule,
Speaker 3: October is the time I say get your pre emergence
Speaker 3: down now. Weeds are going to germinate November. There may
Speaker 3: be some germinating warm days in December if they haven't
Speaker 3: germinated yet, But you don't want to wait until they're
Speaker 3: already sprouting. You want to get ahead of them. And
Speaker 3: barricade is the product, by the way, for fall fertilizing.
Speaker 3: It's nitrophosphall special winter riser that's the name of the
Speaker 3: product for the weeds. It's barricade, and you put it down.
Speaker 3: It's a granule. You water it in, just a little
Speaker 3: bit of water moving into the surface, and then when
Speaker 3: the weed sprouts, it's going to shut it down and
Speaker 3: you don't have to reapply it and reapply it. Barricade's
Speaker 3: going to last you all all to the end of
Speaker 3: the year, really, and so you're good to go there.
Speaker 3: The third step is the fall diseases, which primarily is
Speaker 3: the large patch also called brown patch or formerly called
Speaker 3: brown patch. Most people still call it brown patch and
Speaker 3: take all root right. Those are the biggies and the
Speaker 3: fungicide called Eagle from nitrofoss. Eagle like the bird that
Speaker 3: is systemic. It moves into the plant and when those
Speaker 3: diseases show up, that plant is ready to fend them off.
Speaker 3: So if you wait until the big circles appear, you
Speaker 3: missed your window. Don't do that. Get that down follow
Speaker 3: my schedule. October. If you see a nice cool snap
Speaker 3: coming through with some rain and stuff, boy, I would
Speaker 3: immediately when that has passed so it doesn't wash it
Speaker 3: all the way, I would get out there and get
Speaker 3: that that Eagle down and water it in real good
Speaker 3: to shut it down. It'd be good to be ahead
Speaker 3: of that though, and being a systemic, it's gonna be
Speaker 3: in the ground or in the grass plant for a while,
Speaker 3: so it's not like you know, it just lasts a
Speaker 3: little bit. It's gonna give you good control. Now you're
Speaker 3: gonna find this at ACEH Hardware and Sinkle Ranch the
Speaker 3: Arborgate and Tomball Shades of Texas, either the one in
Speaker 3: South Houston, Southeast Houston, or actually the one in Southeast
Speaker 3: Houston on Genoa Red Bluff Road. I'm gonna take it. Hey,
Speaker 3: welcome to garden Line. Thanks for joining us. I appreciate that,
Speaker 3: I actually do. I don't take it for granted that
Speaker 3: you listen to garden Line. There's a lot of things
Speaker 3: you could be doing and listening to and whatnot, and
Speaker 3: we're glad to have you here. I personally think it
Speaker 3: is going to help you have better success in your garden.
Speaker 3: I've been doing this for thirty five years professionally. Actually
Speaker 3: have been doing it my whole life. I grew up
Speaker 3: with the garden. But I do know the things that
Speaker 3: it takes to have success, and that's what we try
Speaker 3: to do. And anytime you have something pop up, you know,
Speaker 3: what's this bug? What's this disease? I saw a plant
Speaker 3: the other day. Here's a picture of it. What is it?
Speaker 3: I'd like one? Does it grow here? All of those
Speaker 3: kinds of questions, we can help you with those in
Speaker 3: our number seven one, three, two, two, fifty eight seventy four.
Speaker 3: I tell you who else can help you with things
Speaker 3: like that, and that's our garden centers r CW Nursery,
Speaker 3: for example. That is a garden center that is there
Speaker 3: where Highway or FM two forty nine Tomball Parkway comes
Speaker 3: into Beltweg eight and r CW is always a good
Speaker 3: place to go and get whatever kind of plants, you know, vegetables, herbs, flowers, shrubs, trees, finds,
Speaker 3: you name it. Right now, I want to I just
Speaker 3: want to feature talking about the fact that they grow
Speaker 3: their own trees and they have outstanding trees, and their
Speaker 3: trees are fifteen percent off this month. This month is September,
Speaker 3: and you need to get a tree now because fall
Speaker 3: is the time to plant them. If you know, they
Speaker 3: say the best time to plant a tree is forty
Speaker 3: years ago. The second best time is today, and that's
Speaker 3: really true. Especially when today is in the fall and
Speaker 3: we're entering that season. They have them from seven gallons
Speaker 3: all the way up to two hundred gallons. Now, obviously
Speaker 3: you're not going to throw a two hundred gallon in
Speaker 3: the back of your ugo and take it home, but
Speaker 3: they'll bring it to you and plant it for you.
Speaker 3: They also offer that available service if you would like
Speaker 3: to do that. They have new Mexican white oaks, which
Speaker 3: is called Monterey oak. It is one of the fastest
Speaker 3: growing oaks and it is a long lived quality species
Speaker 3: Mexican white oak or monteraeak. They have them in a
Speaker 3: hunter gallon. They've got two hundred gallons southern magnolias that
Speaker 3: you want instant pizazz and wow, a two hundred gavan
Speaker 3: gallon southern magnolia is it. They'll provide all the information
Speaker 3: you need to find the right location. They'll give you
Speaker 3: planning tips. They even have the products, you know, the
Speaker 3: root stimulators and things like that that you can take
Speaker 3: with you when you buy a tree. RCW nurseries dot
Speaker 3: Com is the name is the website and if you
Speaker 3: want to actually go buy there and visit with them,
Speaker 3: they are it's actually fifteen eight oh nine Tombol Parkway.
Speaker 3: I like to just say Tombo Parkway at belt wag eight.
Speaker 3: Just look it up on your maps. It's easy to
Speaker 3: get to. And there could not be a better time
Speaker 3: for you to go buy and get one of their
Speaker 3: trees than this fifteen percent off sale that they're having
Speaker 3: right now. That's pretty amazing. Someone i think Lewis called
Speaker 3: earlier and was talking about some of the different companies
Speaker 3: that have different kinds of microbial products that are used
Speaker 3: in stimulating growth of plants or in transplanting or soaking roots.
Speaker 3: I think was part of the question that he had,
Speaker 3: and Medina has a number of those kinds of things.
Speaker 3: One of the ones that I would, you know, if
Speaker 3: I were going to the Medina line of plant foods,
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, I might use something like the
Speaker 3: hum atumic acid or the Medina Plus or or something
Speaker 3: like their seaweed products. But I think the best one
Speaker 3: for that might be there has to grow six twelve six. Now,
Speaker 3: the has to grow six twelve six. It's got the NPK,
Speaker 3: the six percent nitrogen, twelve percent phosphorus, phosphorus being very
Speaker 3: important for roots, and six percent of potassium. He's got
Speaker 3: the medina soil activator in it, which includes a lot
Speaker 3: of biological activity, and then the humate humic acid that's
Speaker 3: a final decomposition stage of compost is humus and the
Speaker 3: humte humic acids full of acids. Those kinds of things
Speaker 3: are part of that. They help improve the soil structure.
Speaker 3: It also has seweed extracts in it as well. You
Speaker 3: can do it as a folio. You're not going to
Speaker 3: burn your plants with it. It's but it's really good for
Speaker 3: transplanting and that's the has to grow six twelve six.
Speaker 3: It only takes one ounce in a gallon of water
Speaker 3: and you just I drench it over the whole plant
Speaker 3: with a watering can get them on the foliage, but
Speaker 3: you also get it down in the soil, which is
Speaker 3: the primary place where it's going to do what it
Speaker 3: does best. Medina has to grow six twelve six. Plant
Speaker 3: food would be the one I would point you to
Speaker 3: if you're going to do any planting and oh my gosh,
Speaker 3: it's fall. I hope you're planning on doing planting. I
Speaker 3: just am going to beat that drum as long and
Speaker 3: hard as I can because it's the best time. You know,
Speaker 3: I'm talking about fall for woody ornamentals, tree shrubs, woody vines, roses. Yes,
Speaker 3: I know February Valentine's Day is supposed to be when
Speaker 3: you plant roses. That's fine, you can do that. You
Speaker 3: can plant them in July if you want, if you
Speaker 3: take good care of them. But fall is an excellent
Speaker 3: time to plant roses. Don't wait till Valentine's Day. Do
Speaker 3: it now, get it done, and that rose will have
Speaker 3: a head start on the one you planted on Valentine's Day.
Speaker 3: You see what I'm saying. If you plant now, you're
Speaker 3: giving them a head start. That is really really important.
Speaker 3: You are listening to Gardenline. Our phone number is seven
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Speaker 3: I got time for one more call, I believe, before
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Speaker 9: Okay, yesterday, walking the perimeter of our yard, I noticed
Speaker 9: the gray circle and you said about the eagle product
Speaker 9: to put it out next month is but if you
Speaker 9: already have a circle, what do you need to do
Speaker 9: on that?
Speaker 3: Well, you can still put it out. You can put
Speaker 3: it out at the end of September. You can put
Speaker 3: it out in early October. I generally point to early
Speaker 3: October because that's when we finally start to get the
Speaker 3: real col fronts through here that are that are cooling
Speaker 3: things off. Either way, if you want, that's my answer
Speaker 3: to your question. If you want, you can send me
Speaker 3: a picture of what you're calling a gray circle. I'll
Speaker 3: be happy to take a look at it. And it
Speaker 3: may be that I see something else in the picture,
Speaker 3: but if it's truly a large patch, brown patch, what
Speaker 3: we just talked about is what you need to do.
Speaker 7: Great, Do I call back or just send the picture?
Speaker 3: No? No, no, just no, Just hang on and I'll
Speaker 3: I'm gonna put you on hold. The producer will pick
Speaker 3: it up. He's juggling a couple of things right now.
Speaker 3: To be patient. He'll be back with you and we'll
Speaker 3: get you. We'll get that picture and I'll answer you
Speaker 3: by email. All right, sir, thank you. There you go, folks,
Speaker 3: another hour in the books. I just want to remind
Speaker 3: you next Saturday, the twenty eighth, I'll be at Wharton Feed.
Speaker 3: So all of you way down south and west come
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Speaker 3: you have to come out. I think it's mandatory. They're
Speaker 3: going to be going house to house and warton and
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Speaker 3: all the fun stuff we do at appearances, Wharton Feed
Speaker 3: and Ace Hardware a new store down there, cool store.
Speaker 3: We're gonna have a lot of giveaways too. I hope
Speaker 3: you'll come out and see us.
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Speaker 3: Right, folks, welcome back to Guarden Line. Glad to have
Speaker 3: you with us, Good to be back. We've got I've
Speaker 3: got a special guest coming up here. I want to
Speaker 3: I want to take about from eight eight thirty. I
Speaker 3: think we're going to visit about a few things. You'll
Speaker 3: see it in just a moment. I'm gonna let the
Speaker 3: suspense build, I guess for just a moment. I wanted
Speaker 3: to mention I haven't talked about Star Hope in a while,
Speaker 3: and I just wanted to mention about Star of Hope.
Speaker 3: You know, summer is waning now and we're really looking
Speaker 3: forward to the holidays, but a lot of the people
Speaker 3: that are homeless here, they're basically looking forward to the
Speaker 3: next meal. And with Star of Hope, I cannot think
Speaker 3: of a better use of your hard earned money than
Speaker 3: to support someone who is in need. Through Star of Hope.
Speaker 3: The way that they manage and utilize funds is outstanding,
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Speaker 3: provide a meal to a homeless person. And homelessness has
Speaker 3: a lot of different faces across the Houston area. When
Speaker 3: you hear the stories, it's like, well, yeah, I never
Speaker 3: thought about that before, or oh, I see how that
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Speaker 3: you lose everything, you're homeless, you don't how do you
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Speaker 3: This month, three locations of suit Mart are hosting their
Speaker 3: annual September sale, and a portion of their selected suit
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Speaker 3: I just wanted to share that with you. Well, let's
Speaker 3: end the suspense. Our special guest today is the Texas
Speaker 3: Garden Guy, Dustin Oak, a friend of mine. Dustin and
Speaker 3: I have not been friends a long time. We met
Speaker 3: not too long ago, but I really liked the guy,
Speaker 3: and I know you do too. He is super popular
Speaker 3: on the social media. Hey, Destin, welcome to Garden Line.
Speaker 3: Are you there. It's going well? I can, yes, now
Speaker 3: I can. Good to talk to you. I was watching
Speaker 3: some of your stuff online, Uh, some of your online
Speaker 3: stuff the other day. Is it's just really great and
Speaker 3: you got I know you have a big following on
Speaker 3: that and I encourage anybody listening if you if you
Speaker 3: haven't found the Texas Garden Guy, you need to go.
Speaker 3: You need to go check him out. Pretty much every
Speaker 3: social media platform. It seems like you're you're ubiquitous out there. Well,
Speaker 3: I asked you, that's it, that's it. You're like Roy Kent,
Speaker 3: He's here, he's there, He's everywhere. Anyway. That's what's the
Speaker 3: name of that show. I can't even say it, Lasso
Speaker 3: ted Lasso comment. So I Askedston. I asked Destin to
Speaker 3: come on and talk about First of all, I want
Speaker 3: to talk about figgs, Deston, and I know you are
Speaker 3: a fig aficionado, uh, and a lot about it, and
Speaker 3: tell us a little bit about uh, you know figgs,
Speaker 3: Why why you like him? And some of your favorite
Speaker 3: types of figs to grow?
Speaker 8: Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 21: You know, now that we're getting more colder temperatures down
Speaker 21: here in the Houston area, a lot of people have
Speaker 21: been losing their citrus and losing their tropicals. A lot
Speaker 21: of the fruit trees, and one of the trees that
Speaker 21: I've been recommending people to grow that really can handle
Speaker 21: the cold. You know, it takes a whipping, it keeps
Speaker 21: on kicking, is the fig tree. You know, they do
Speaker 21: with containers. They do well on the ground, whether your
Speaker 21: soil is well draining or it's that black gumbo in
Speaker 21: a subdivision. They really don't care. They will grow it
Speaker 21: everywhere and within the first year you'll get you'll get fruits.
Speaker 21: So my favorite varieties or any of the LSU varieties.
Speaker 21: I love the work. I love the purple, I love
Speaker 21: the LSU black, I love I love them all. He
Speaker 21: can't go wrong with figs.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think the purple may be the most common
Speaker 3: one of those that I see around.
Speaker 21: Uh.
Speaker 3: And it does really work really well. What was bread,
Speaker 3: you know, for for this kind of climate down here?
Speaker 3: So so it does super And you're right, you know,
Speaker 3: figs being such a fast to fruit, uh is really amazing.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: Do you ever have to deal with problems on your figs?
Speaker 3: I know from time to time I get calls on
Speaker 3: people that have deals, you know, they maybe have polish
Speaker 3: diseases or some some souring of fruit or birds or
Speaker 3: any kind of critters like that. What are some of
Speaker 3: the challenges you might have to deal with or that
Speaker 3: you've dealt with on your figs.
Speaker 21: I'd say probably the most common message I get is
Speaker 21: about copper figure or fig rusts. You know, people are
Speaker 21: concerned that they're you know, their figs are getting rusty
Speaker 21: looking and they're falling off, and that's fine. Defoliation is
Speaker 21: common usually usually I'll get it right after the first
Speaker 21: crop in the spring. I'll get some defoliation, but then
Speaker 21: it comes right back. It's not really an issue do
Speaker 21: you need to worry about.
Speaker 8: Some people use.
Speaker 21: Fungus sides and all kinds of remedies, but I kind
Speaker 21: of just let the fig be the fig and let
Speaker 21: it drop its leaves and they come right back.
Speaker 8: And they are pretty resilient. Yes, they are.
Speaker 21: And another issue people will get with their figs is
Speaker 21: they keep losing their figs to either squirrels, possums, or
Speaker 21: the infamous mocking bird. And I've kind of kind of
Speaker 21: found a couple of methods that I use to keep
Speaker 21: them safe from the critters. I use those little Organza bags.
Speaker 21: People use them for you know, rice at weddings. They
Speaker 21: put the rice in their little bags at weddings and
Speaker 21: in them ount those little drawstring bags. You can put
Speaker 21: them over your figs as they start to ripen up,
Speaker 21: and typically the critters I can leave them alone, especially
Speaker 21: if you have insects.
Speaker 3: Issues as well.
Speaker 8: So lots of ways to keep cool. See.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and those are Ganza bags. Those are those are
Speaker 3: pretty darn handy. I use them for plant breeding, like
Speaker 3: breeding okra and stuff, because you put them over a
Speaker 3: bloom and the bugs can't get in there to mess
Speaker 3: up your breeding plans, you know, in other words, the
Speaker 3: bees and stuff. It allows you to protect the blooms
Speaker 3: and so you get to pollinate them. Ravan a pollinator. Uh,
Speaker 3: those are those are really cool? You know. I grew
Speaker 3: up with a fig tree. It was south of San
Speaker 3: Antonio in Jordantoon, Texas, Atascosa County, and we didn't freeze
Speaker 3: enough down there really at that time, at least it didn't,
Speaker 3: and we had a single trunk tree that came up
Speaker 3: and had branches. And I find that now it seems
Speaker 3: like we get freezes often enough to where we end up.
Speaker 3: They may freeze pretty far back and we end up
Speaker 3: more with multi stemmed fig bushes, but tree size. But
Speaker 3: fig bushes, is that it for you? Or do you
Speaker 3: try to train years into a single trunk?
Speaker 21: So I tend to try like a trim everything up
Speaker 21: like a tree. And figs are super easy to prune
Speaker 21: back because you can't really go wrong.
Speaker 3: For the most part.
Speaker 21: Most varieties that we have here in Houston are going
Speaker 21: to be the kind of you're talking about that will
Speaker 21: die back every single winter when they come back like
Speaker 21: a bunch of hands and fingers throw on the ground
Speaker 21: and looks at a giant bush, but a couple of
Speaker 21: rides that will stay a single stem. I've noticed in
Speaker 21: my lsu Or rourke white Mersailles have do not die
Speaker 21: back as hard and so they are actually still a
Speaker 21: single stem fig tree. So you're looking for like a
Speaker 21: single stem tree. The white mersai, the white mercies and
Speaker 21: the lsu Or work have not died.
Speaker 14: Back very hard for me, So.
Speaker 8: That those are true, it will say more the tree form.
Speaker 3: Well, that is really good to know, very good to know. Uh.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 3: When it comes to figs. Something people don't know is
Speaker 3: that historically we uh well, well, gosh it, here I
Speaker 3: go again. I get so into these talks that I
Speaker 3: forget about the time I got to take a quick break.
Speaker 3: Can you hang on just a little bit and come
Speaker 3: back and continue this discussion. Thank you very much. All right, folks,
Speaker 3: I'll be right back with Destin Noke, the Texas Garden Guy,
Speaker 3: and I'm gonna jump right back into our conversation we're
Speaker 3: having with Destin Noke, the Texts Garden guy. Hey, Dustin,
Speaker 3: we were talking figs, uh, and I just want to
Speaker 3: continue that for a little bit. And then I got
Speaker 3: one other topic. I'd like to pick your brain about
Speaker 3: because I know you know a lot about it. First
Speaker 3: of all, on the figs, people didn't realize that years ago,
Speaker 3: like one hundred years ago, this was a major commercial
Speaker 3: fig producing region. I mean, we're talking about hundreds of
Speaker 3: acres of figs in the Gulf Coast area here. I
Speaker 3: don't know if you've run across that, but that's you know,
Speaker 3: one fig tree produces a lot of figs. I don't
Speaker 3: know what you do with the one hundred acres of figs.
Speaker 3: That's a lot. Yeah.
Speaker 21: Actually, Paarland actually wasn't known for the pears back in
Speaker 21: the day. They're actually they had a large, large fig
Speaker 21: orchards out there in Parland. They were a huge producer.
Speaker 13: There.
Speaker 3: You go, well, so it's a good fruit. It's an
Speaker 3: easy fruit and for someone wanting to garden organically, fig
Speaker 3: is one of the top fruit that you can choose
Speaker 3: that you're not going to have to spray a lot,
Speaker 3: and you can get to get fruit you're gonna get
Speaker 3: by without spraying. And I mean there's a sales pitch
Speaker 3: for figs right there. Let me speaking of sales.
Speaker 21: Hold on hold real quick, I'm gonna say, if you're
Speaker 21: interested in getting into pigs. We're having our first annual
Speaker 21: fig Toberfest on October fifth down at Angels and Texas.
Speaker 21: You can you can find the event on Facebook as
Speaker 21: a free event. You come, there's a chance you're gonna
Speaker 21: end up with a fig tree, So come on, come
Speaker 21: all a bye.
Speaker 3: Well, you took the words out of my mouth. So
Speaker 3: that's exactly right in Angleton, the Brazoria County Extension, I
Speaker 3: was Kimberly, mayor the horticulturist. That's your that's your extension
Speaker 3: horticulturist in Brazoria County. Kimberley is a wonderful agent.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 3: She's gonna have this and she's going to have some speakers.
Speaker 3: Doctor Hartman from Texas and M is going to be
Speaker 3: talking about fig research. Uh. There'll be a talk by
Speaker 3: Steven Yannick uh from the Victoria area actually on fig
Speaker 3: trials and the pest disease and varieties of figs that
Speaker 3: do best. And then deston who you're hearing now, our
Speaker 3: Texas garden guy will be there talking. Uh, you have
Speaker 3: to tell me what your topic is. Gonna be Phil's Figs,
Speaker 3: your old buddy Phil de Angelus is gonna be there too.
Speaker 21: Is that right, Yes, sir, I'm gonna be more of
Speaker 21: a master of ceremonies and we'll be hosting kind of
Speaker 21: the thing.
Speaker 8: I'm gonna let the sky talk I'm left talking about.
Speaker 21: I'm we're bringing Phil Phil's Figs down from Wilmington, North Carolina,
Speaker 21: and actually the fig Hunter from California is coming down
Speaker 21: as well.
Speaker 8: So it's gonna be.
Speaker 3: An awesome time the fig Hunter. Oh my gosh, and
Speaker 3: you have to have this thing. Well, I'm trying to
Speaker 3: do garden line, so I can't go, dad gum it. Well,
Speaker 3: we will make sure.
Speaker 21: We will make sure to record and try to live
Speaker 21: stream a lot of it because there's a lot of
Speaker 21: people that want to come that can't make it.
Speaker 3: So oh, yes, hey, if y'all are interested in going
Speaker 3: to this, it's a great program. You know, the URLs
Speaker 3: and everything are kind of funky. Just call nine seven
Speaker 3: nine eight six four fifteen fifty eight. That's the Brazoria
Speaker 3: County Extension Office nine seven nine eight six four fifteen
Speaker 3: fifty eight again October fifth, from eight am to one
Speaker 3: pm in Angleton at Lakeside Park. Okay, but but call them.
Speaker 3: You got to go to this. This is cool stuff,
Speaker 3: all right, before we run out of time. It looks
Speaker 3: like I got about eight, eight or nine minutes here. Uh,
Speaker 3: tell me about the desert rose. I think people when
Speaker 3: they hear the word desert and rose, they probably don't
Speaker 3: know what the picture. And this is something I think
Speaker 3: you've really gotten into. Is that right?
Speaker 13: Yeah?
Speaker 8: I know for sure.
Speaker 21: I bought my first one a couple of years ago
Speaker 21: and I was at my buddy Jorges Hidden Gardens and
Speaker 21: you had this cool looking plant that I'd never seen before.
Speaker 21: It looked like a potato that had a bunch of
Speaker 21: branches coming out of the ground and had these beautiful,
Speaker 21: like almost almost pulmeria looking flowers.
Speaker 8: And I had to have it. I had to have it.
Speaker 21: I'm I'm a plant hoarder, and so you know when
Speaker 21: I when I see something I've never seen before, I.
Speaker 8: Got to get it, you know.
Speaker 21: And you know, over the last two or three years,
Speaker 21: I've accumulated probably thirty of them, and I've even started
Speaker 21: growing up for seed. But what they are there, the
Speaker 21: type of plane is called a cottiform, and a cottiform
Speaker 21: is like a camel, you know, it holds all its
Speaker 21: water in the base and when you buy them nurseries
Speaker 21: they're typically real swollen and they're submerged in soil. And
Speaker 21: the coolest thing about them is when you buy them,
Speaker 21: you can unpod them and you can see how much
Speaker 21: craziness is.
Speaker 8: Down to manique the soil.
Speaker 21: I mean, it looks insane videos with oh it's so
Speaker 21: cool looking and there. They really handle our climate really
Speaker 21: well with the hot, hot spring and summers we're getting.
Speaker 21: They just they are not full tolerant whatsoever.
Speaker 8: That's the only thing.
Speaker 3: But they're in a container you can bring them in
Speaker 3: the winter time and stuff. So it'd be a good
Speaker 3: one for a new gardener who's afraid they can't grow stuff,
Speaker 3: because it's not that hard keeping them going right.
Speaker 7: For sure.
Speaker 21: As long as they're a well draining soil, they will
Speaker 21: handle the It will handle pretty much everything you throw
Speaker 21: at them.
Speaker 8: A lot of first time.
Speaker 21: Gardeners, you know, they want to water, water, water, you know,
Speaker 21: and this is one of those things that you don't
Speaker 21: really have to water but maybe.
Speaker 8: Once a week. So it's it's it's something you don't
Speaker 8: have to worry about. You can just leave it.
Speaker 3: Alone, all right. Well, there you go. I mean you
Speaker 3: can't you can't ask for much more than that and
Speaker 3: you said you did? You say you have about thirty
Speaker 3: of them?
Speaker 8: Oh at least.
Speaker 3: Yeah. You know, folks, you get into horticulture and they
Speaker 3: don't warn you about this, but it is addictive. I'm
Speaker 3: pretty sure there's a wing of the Betty Ford Clinic
Speaker 3: for gardeners because you start getting into this and the
Speaker 3: next thing you know, you got eight hundred thousand plants
Speaker 3: and you know, the family can't even walk through the
Speaker 3: house or the yard. Oh boy, but that's fun, isn't it.
Speaker 21: Oh yes, sir, it's not hurting anybody because you know what,
Speaker 21: you can always send people homew with plants and make
Speaker 21: room for more.
Speaker 3: You know, there you go, you know, and that's something
Speaker 3: people need to think about.
Speaker 22: You know.
Speaker 3: Now's the time when you could be taking cuttings from
Speaker 3: something like a rosemary, for example, getting it rooted and
Speaker 3: giving it away is a gift plant, you know, sometime
Speaker 3: for the holidays, or maybe people come over with Thanksgiving
Speaker 3: for a meal, or you go to somebody's house for
Speaker 3: Thanksgiving and you take some little Rosemary's that you're rooted yourself.
Speaker 3: People appreciate getting gifts like that.
Speaker 16: One.
Speaker 21: Everybody has ever been to my house knows you leave
Speaker 21: with at least one plant.
Speaker 8: You never leave empty handed.
Speaker 3: All right, Well I'm going to bring my pickup when
Speaker 3: I get over there, so uh yeah, no problem at all. Yeah,
Speaker 3: there we go. Well that sounds good. Well tell us
Speaker 3: let's see here. I've got just a few minutes left.
Speaker 3: I'd like to hear more about some of your online activities.
Speaker 3: I kind of a chance to tell folks on Instagram, Facebook,
Speaker 3: you know, where can they see you? How can they
Speaker 3: find out more and stuff like that.
Speaker 21: Yeah, so I've got to go by Texas guard guy
Speaker 21: on pretty much every social media platform. Tak Go just
Speaker 21: got back from a road trip to Alabama that they
Speaker 21: went to a huge home homesteading YouTube meet up over there.
Speaker 21: Just posted the vlog of that I did about eight
Speaker 21: nursery tours. I like to go see nurseries on them
Speaker 21: in different places and check out se a varieties of
Speaker 21: stuff they are and so.
Speaker 8: That can do a little bit shopping.
Speaker 21: But so I've posted a lot of those videos on
Speaker 21: YouTube and Facebook, and then we also do our podcast,
Speaker 21: The Garden Party every week on Wednesday at seven pm
Speaker 21: live on Facebook and YouTube, and then you can find.
Speaker 8: It on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Wherever you listen to podcasts,
Speaker 8: you can find it there.
Speaker 3: Too, all right, and folks, it's called the Garden Party
Speaker 3: and just go online, Facebook and YouTube. Let's just start
Speaker 3: with those pretty much. I buy is on one or
Speaker 3: the other of those Garden Party on you said Tuesdays
Speaker 3: at seven.
Speaker 8: Wednesday seven, the Garden Party podcast Wednesday Wednesday, okay, sir,
Speaker 8: Wednesdays at seven pm.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, Wednesdays and seven. So yeah, I stalked
Speaker 3: you on your trip. It's like you were posting before
Speaker 3: you even got out of Texas. You were You're already
Speaker 3: posting stuff and then you're at this or that nursery
Speaker 3: and it sounded like a lot of fun.
Speaker 21: It was a blasting getting to meet new people and
Speaker 21: see different nurseries. I love going to check out nurseries
Speaker 21: and meeting the meeting the owners and finding out the
Speaker 21: stories behind out how everything got started.
Speaker 8: It's so much fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh gosh, I think horticultural tourism is something that
Speaker 3: we ought to talk about more and promote more, you know.
Speaker 3: I on on the guarden Line. I'm always saying to
Speaker 3: people living in the listening area, you live where there's
Speaker 3: so many great nurseries. I mean North South. I've been
Speaker 3: we are we are you know, I've lived in San
Speaker 3: Antonio area. I've lived in Dallas, I mean Austin. They
Speaker 3: have great nurseries there, some outstod you're going to go
Speaker 3: to one of those towns. Call me. I'll tell you
Speaker 3: which nurseries to go to. But not like Houston. Same
Speaker 3: thing with Dallas. Good nurseries, not like Houston. I've been
Speaker 3: to Atlanta thinking, oh my gosh. You know, Atlanta botanical
Speaker 3: gardens is great. I said, so, I can't wait to
Speaker 3: see these nurseries, and it's like, where are they? You know,
Speaker 3: I figured got more than Houston. They're not even hold
Speaker 3: a candle to us here. This is a great place
Speaker 3: for garden centers. And so I think maybe maybe you
Speaker 3: and I need to just get a bus rented one
Speaker 3: weekend and we'll just we'll do you know how they
Speaker 3: have pub crawls, We'll do a nursery crawl. Let us
Speaker 3: go from one garden center to another.
Speaker 8: That's a great idea. That's all we need is me, you,
Speaker 8: j White, and Jorge will be good.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, oh my gosh. I don't know the
Speaker 3: authorities might get winto that and shut it down cast
Speaker 3: of characters like that. Oh well yeah, well, well, you know,
Speaker 3: I really appreciate you coming on. Did you have any
Speaker 3: other thoughts you wanted to add before we move on?
Speaker 8: No, I just want to say thanks just giving you
Speaker 8: a chance. Yeah, now, thanks for having me.
Speaker 3: I appreciate it.
Speaker 21: I love the I love the garden line, and you
Speaker 21: do such a great job. And you know you've you've
Speaker 21: been such a great friend since since since you've taken over,
Speaker 21: and so I just appreciate you having me on.
Speaker 3: Well, I appreciate that. Thank you very much for coming on.
Speaker 3: I think that's great and I wanted to pick your
Speaker 3: brain on these topics. I mean we could probably talk
Speaker 3: about others as well, for sure, but it's been good
Speaker 3: and thanks a lot. I do appreciate you coming on today.
Speaker 3: You take care and be well anytime. Skip. Thanks all right,
Speaker 3: bye bye. Yeah that was destined. No Texas Garden Guy.
Speaker 3: You can find him on Instagram, Facebook, and a lot
Speaker 3: of other social media platforms that I know little to
Speaker 3: nothing about. Instagram and Facebook I'm familiar with. But anyway, seriously,
Speaker 3: you ought to check him out, especially that Garden Party
Speaker 3: podcast on Wednesdays at seven. That's a lot of fun.
Speaker 3: He has a cast of characters. You know. Phil Spiggs
Speaker 3: has comes in. He's from the North Carolina area. He's
Speaker 3: got a guy from up in the Amarillo area. Not sorry,
Speaker 3: not Amarillo, a Lobbuck area, Texas Tech a former coworker
Speaker 3: of mine as a matter of fact. So anyway, it's
Speaker 3: a good podcast. Well where are we on time here?
Speaker 3: We're pretty close to a break. I want to just
Speaker 3: remind you again if you missed that information in the
Speaker 3: inaugural inaugural that's easy for me to say. FIG Toberfest
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Speaker 3: to be a morning through early afternoon full of great
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Speaker 3: great visit with Destinoe, Texas garden guy. We are back
Speaker 3: to answer your calls right now if you'd like to
Speaker 3: give us a call. Seven one three two one two
Speaker 3: five eight seven four seven one three two one two
Speaker 3: fifty eight seventy four. I wanted to talk a little
Speaker 3: bit about the product from turf Star called Carboload, and
Speaker 3: the reason is it's time. It's time. Now we know
Speaker 3: fall fertilization needs to be done with product that has
Speaker 3: a good content of potassium the third number on the bag,
Speaker 3: because that helps potassium and nitrogen are taken up together
Speaker 3: by the grass plant. And I like to just as
Speaker 3: an easy to remember things, think of it as ana
Speaker 3: freeze for the plant. When you put those nutrients in
Speaker 3: the plant, it is able to create the carbohydrates. That's
Speaker 3: why it's called carbo load, to which you are sugars,
Speaker 3: and it helps cold heartiness. Have you ever made homemade popsicles?
Speaker 3: You know, you make the sugar, kool aid, sugar water, whatever.
Speaker 3: You put it in there and you freeze it. And
Speaker 3: have you ever noticed that at the bottom of the
Speaker 3: popsicle there's pure water and then as you get up
Speaker 3: to the top there's this real sticky sugary stuff that
Speaker 3: didn't quite freeze because sugar water it takes a lot
Speaker 3: colder temperature to freeze it. Well, that's a real fast
Speaker 3: analogy of what's going on in the plant. But I
Speaker 3: think it makes sense. It helps you understand what's going on.
Speaker 3: You need to get carbo load down soon. You can
Speaker 3: do it. The end of sep Setember You can do
Speaker 3: it in early October, but don't delay much past early October.
Speaker 3: Now it can be applied all through. But the fact
Speaker 3: that it has a pre emergent herbicide in it, something
Speaker 3: to prevent weed seeds from germinating, makes me want to
Speaker 3: push that toward the earlier part of October in case
Speaker 3: we get in early October this cold front with some
Speaker 3: rain and it cools off a little bit and suddenly
Speaker 3: the weed seeds go, hey, fall winters here, let's get going.
Speaker 3: You want the carbo load down ahead of that. That
Speaker 3: is how that works. One forty pound bag covers five
Speaker 3: thousand square feet. Now that one one thing to be
Speaker 3: aware of is if you plan on overseeding with rye grass,
Speaker 3: which I hope you don't because that's not good for
Speaker 3: your lawn. You don't want to use something with the
Speaker 3: pre emerging in it because it'll your rye grass won't
Speaker 3: come up. And so but other than that, it is
Speaker 3: an outstanding product that is from Nelson. It's part of
Speaker 3: their turf Star line. Carbo Load widely available around the
Speaker 3: Houston area, and you ought to consider it because it
Speaker 3: does work. You are listening to garden Line phone number
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Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 3: It's not like you call him and so he's going
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Speaker 3: Got cracks in the sheet rock, got cracks in the brick,
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Speaker 3: it out and see if it needs work or not.
Speaker 3: And if he does, he'll he'll shoot straight with you
Speaker 3: at fix my slab foundation repair. I enjoyed visiting with
Speaker 3: Destin and actually got a X a minute ago from
Speaker 3: someone going, Hey, you and Destin need to do that
Speaker 3: nursery crawl bus idea. So, Destin, if you're still listening,
Speaker 3: I think that may have some traction. We may have
Speaker 3: to get together sometime and and figure that out. It
Speaker 3: sounds like a fun idea to me. I mean, if
Speaker 3: you got like you remember the bus on the Muppets,
Speaker 3: it was rocking and rolling going down down the highway.
Speaker 3: We woul painting big flowers on the side. Because this
Speaker 3: is a nursery tour. Right, I'm going to head out
Speaker 3: the Pleasantville. We're going to talk to Deborah. Deborah, welcome
Speaker 3: to garden Linet skip.
Speaker 5: Hey.
Speaker 23: I just tried to say that overseeding with wryglass for
Speaker 23: the winner was bad for the yard. However, I have
Speaker 23: a bare patch that I have killed till the field
Speaker 23: and don't have time to resaw it until the Spring's.
Speaker 3: There you go. I'm glad to hear those words. Are
Speaker 3: sinking in out there with oaks. Yeah, No, overseed it,
Speaker 3: that's fine, those bear spots. You don't want the soil
Speaker 3: to crust your road. All that kind of thing. You
Speaker 3: can do it. Here's the thing on overseating, debor overseting
Speaker 3: is planting weeds in your grass to the grass plant.
Speaker 3: If you talk to your Saint Augustine or z always
Speaker 3: your Bermuda turf, it's a you just planted weeds all
Speaker 3: over the place. In me, Why are you doing that?
Speaker 3: Because they compete for light, they compete for water, they
Speaker 3: compete for nutrients. And then in spring, when your grass
Speaker 3: is trying to wake up and get going, the rye
Speaker 3: grass is just going crazy growing and it is a
Speaker 3: stress on your lawn. Now, if you've got one of
Speaker 3: those properties, it has to be green all year. I
Speaker 3: understand that, I know why people do it, but I
Speaker 3: tell you, and professional turf managers will tell you that
Speaker 3: if year after year after year you're overseeding, you're weakening.
Speaker 3: And usually that's done in bermuda grass properties, but it
Speaker 3: weakens it. So I try to talk people out of it.
Speaker 3: But if you don't do it, I can tell you
Speaker 3: how to do it. And for areas like yours, absolutely yeah,
Speaker 3: there's no grass there. You got to get some. You
Speaker 3: got to cover the ground.
Speaker 7: There's no grass there.
Speaker 23: So annual the seeds versus perennial rye should I just.
Speaker 7: Do the annual to do it what.
Speaker 3: You could do annual annual rye grass comes up faster,
Speaker 3: but it doesn't have the nice color perennial rye grass
Speaker 3: has a little bit makes a better grass plant a
Speaker 3: better color. Uh, And so usually I'll do an annual
Speaker 3: perennial mix. And so you know where wherever you would
Speaker 3: purchase that kind of thing, you you would if they
Speaker 3: have a mix, I would go with the mix. Work's
Speaker 3: a pleasant bill. I should know that. But it's not
Speaker 3: ringing a bell.
Speaker 23: It is East Houston, just past just before the ship
Speaker 23: travel bridge.
Speaker 7: Okay between between, I can and we just go it can.
Speaker 3: Okay? All right? Well good, well yeah, that that's the
Speaker 3: bottom line on it.
Speaker 23: So hey, and it's not if the guy that lives
Speaker 23: in me is listening us, would you tell him that
Speaker 23: you cannot buy Saint Augustine's seeds because he was arguing
Speaker 23: with me because he was the grass. He's a yard man,
Speaker 23: all right.
Speaker 3: Whoever it was out there arguing with Deborah, stop it.
Speaker 3: Don't get in a tangle with her. She will eat
Speaker 3: your lunch and pop the sock, pop the sack in
Speaker 3: your face. If you mess with her. You're wrong too.
Speaker 3: There you go. No, there, there isn't ryegra. There isn't
Speaker 3: Saint Augustine's seed. I think one time there was some,
Speaker 3: but it never was something that worked or a good idea.
Speaker 3: Just get sucked, all right. We solved that he's gonna
Speaker 3: leave you alone. Now, I guarantee you may send you
Speaker 3: an apology note after all that. BA, all right, we're
Speaker 3: gonna go out to pear Land and talk to Timmy. Hey, Timmy,
Speaker 3: welcome to guard Line. Hey, how's it going?
Speaker 7: Skip?
Speaker 3: I can't hear Timmy? Oh can you hear me?
Speaker 13: Now?
Speaker 3: Yes? I can't? Yes? Is this is this a quick call, Timmy?
Speaker 3: Or do I need to hold you on after we
Speaker 3: get back from the break.
Speaker 22: It's it's a quick call overfill myself the other day
Speaker 22: and i'd recently shocked it. I'd drained the water into
Speaker 22: my yard.
Speaker 3: Did I do wrong?
Speaker 24: Or what?
Speaker 3: Too much chlorine? Yeah, you can burn. You can burn
Speaker 3: plants with the chlorine.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 3: And when it's too strong. Uh, there's nothing to do
Speaker 3: about it now, so let's just watch and wait and
Speaker 3: hope for the best.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 3: It may or may not have damaged it. But there's
Speaker 3: no anti chlorine sprayed to butt down, uh, to undo
Speaker 3: if there was some damage. But in general I would
Speaker 3: not recommend that, of course.
Speaker 22: All right, one more quick, one more quick one, Skip. Uh,
Speaker 22: I've got outside chickens. What's your opinion on chicken manure?
Speaker 22: Is it helping or hurt?
Speaker 3: Chickens carry certain microbes that make us sick and chicken
Speaker 3: manure is one of the ones notorious that if you
Speaker 3: fully compost it, it is okay. If you put it
Speaker 3: down and mix it into the soil and let it
Speaker 3: decompose for a while, that's fine. If you're planting something
Speaker 3: that's edible, I would be more concerned. If it's something
Speaker 3: that's not edible, like lettuce leaves, you know where that
Speaker 3: it can splash into the lettuce, then I would be concerned. Okay,
Speaker 3: I'm sorry I have to go so quick, but I
Speaker 3: do need to run you bet, I will be right back. Folks.
Speaker 3: Good to have you with us. We got plenty of
Speaker 3: things to talk about today. I was telling you a
Speaker 3: little bit about some micro life products while ago, and
Speaker 3: I want to tell you about micro grow, the bioinoculant,
Speaker 3: and also well I mentioned that a little bit and
Speaker 3: the importance of putting the microbes into the soil that
Speaker 3: you get when you have micro grow, it absolutely loads
Speaker 3: things up. And when that happens and diseases try to
Speaker 3: come in, you've got a number of beneficial microbes that
Speaker 3: are there doing two things. Some of them actually help
Speaker 3: fight disease, some of them out compete the disease. On
Speaker 3: the plant's surface, and so it's like a hostile environment
Speaker 3: to try to land and infect the plant. That makes sense.
Speaker 3: Micro Grow bioinocculant comes in a bag and in a jar.
Speaker 3: Microlife also has this brown Patch fertilizer that is a
Speaker 3: fertilizer you would apply in the fall. If you go
Speaker 3: to my schedule at gardening with Skip dot com, you'll
Speaker 3: see that on there. And it is an organic product
Speaker 3: for fall application, natural product and it works. It does
Speaker 3: very very good job. And if you're going to do
Speaker 3: fall fertilization and you're looking for a natural product for that,
Speaker 3: and you got that fall fertilization balance of nutrients that
Speaker 3: I keep talking about, Microlife brown Patch would be the
Speaker 3: one to do it. And you can find it in
Speaker 3: a lot of places. For example, they're going to have
Speaker 3: it out there at in Chane Gardens in Richmond. Have
Speaker 3: you ever been there? Have you ever been doing Chana Gardens?
Speaker 3: If you're in Richmond going north toward Katie, it's it's
Speaker 3: up that direction. It's it's really easy to get to.
Speaker 3: It's on three point fifty nine. Just I guess you're
Speaker 3: going up seven to twenty three. That's a FM road.
Speaker 3: When you get to three fifty nine, you're there. It's
Speaker 3: right at the corner. It's easy to get to. And
Speaker 3: Enchanted Gardens is the kind of place where you're going
Speaker 3: to find everything you need right now. It's fall season,
Speaker 3: so unbelievable fall color, plants, unbelievable fall decorations indoor and outdoor.
Speaker 3: Their gift shops outstanding, by the way, but anything you're
Speaker 3: going to plant and fall, which I hope you're planning
Speaker 3: on planting a lot in fall because it's the best
Speaker 3: planning season of the year. Remember, don't look at the thermometer,
Speaker 3: look at the calendar. The calendar says, get your plants,
Speaker 3: get your soil, get ready, let's go. Let's do this.
Speaker 3: And if you delay, then next thing, you know, we're
Speaker 3: too cold, or some other thing has happened, there's a
Speaker 3: frost or whatever. You're missing that window of opportunity. Don't delay.
Speaker 3: Enchanted Gardens on three fifty nine on the Katie Fusher
Speaker 3: side of Richmond. Here's the website Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com.
Speaker 3: Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. We're going to go now
Speaker 3: to Cove, Texas and talk to Rufous Hello Rufous.
Speaker 25: YEP I got a sago palm out here, and it's
Speaker 25: put that ball on like it normally.
Speaker 3: Does you there, yes, yes, sir, Hey, it has.
Speaker 7: Not opened up yet.
Speaker 25: So I went out there and started looking at it,
Speaker 25: and it's like a cabbage on top. And I pull
Speaker 25: the leaves back and there's these little mushroom things growing
Speaker 25: everywhere on the inside. What's going wrong?
Speaker 3: Nothing wrong. That is a female sego palm. There's male
Speaker 3: that have a little plume of a of a pollen
Speaker 3: producing structure that's like a cone sticking straight up, an
Speaker 3: elongated pine cone thing. The females have that little bowling
Speaker 3: ball on the top, and those are seeds that you see.
Speaker 3: They make seeds that are on the size of a
Speaker 3: quarter or bigger right there all over in the middle.
Speaker 3: And there's nothing to worry about. It's just part of
Speaker 3: that plant doing its life cycle.
Speaker 25: So you know, I got the free zone and and
Speaker 25: a lot of the leaves are browned and stuff. I
Speaker 25: was hoping for the next green foliage to carry on
Speaker 25: for the next couple of years. Is it going to
Speaker 25: put those leaves on later on? After this drops off.
Speaker 3: You you probably should see some new leaf growth. You know,
Speaker 3: we're going into a cooler season here pretty quick. And
Speaker 3: so we'll just have to see as long as do
Speaker 3: you have some green leaves on the plant?
Speaker 25: Oh, yes, sir, I do have some?
Speaker 3: Okay, Yeah, well it's okay. You You may see a
Speaker 3: side branch come out. You may see some pups come
Speaker 3: out from the bottom, little babies coming out around the sides.
Speaker 13: Uh.
Speaker 3: And if if the worst case scenario is you would,
Speaker 3: you know, cut the trunk off and let let some
Speaker 3: side shoots come up out of the base. But I
Speaker 3: think it's going to be fine. I wouldn't at this point.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't be concerned. That's just part of what we
Speaker 3: see on those around here.
Speaker 25: That's my one right there.
Speaker 3: Thanks a lot, All right, well you bet, you bet.
Speaker 3: Just be careful boy, those things I had some sharp,
Speaker 3: pointy things. Kind of hard to get into the middle
Speaker 3: of that, as.
Speaker 7: You probably found out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, take care. You're listening to guardline folks. Seven
Speaker 3: to one three two one two kt r H seven
Speaker 3: one three two one two kt r H. Have you
Speaker 3: tried to products the products from Landscapers Pride. You know
Speaker 3: they got twenty something products out there, mulches and soil
Speaker 3: mixes and all kinds of things. Right now, it's fall planting.
Speaker 3: How about a rose mix. Their rose mix is outstanding quality.
Speaker 3: And if you're going to grow roses, shrubs, even a
Speaker 3: flower bed, you can do that with their rose mix.
Speaker 3: They have a premium potting mix that has incorporated into
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Speaker 3: You got outdoor plants, you want to do a container
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Speaker 3: your lawn that are low, that are holes your your
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Speaker 3: as you grow because it's not an even soil. Get
Speaker 3: some of their top soil from Landscaper's Pride, put that out,
Speaker 3: straighten them ounta and how's a good time to get
Speaker 3: that done. And finally, of course, black velvet malts. Every
Speaker 3: month of the year is a good time to malts.
Speaker 3: Wherever sunlight hits a soil. As Deborah was reminding us
Speaker 3: a moment ago, nature plants a weed. Wherever sunlight hits
Speaker 3: a soil, Nature plants a weed. You should never leave
Speaker 3: bear soil. Nature abhors a vacuum. It knows how to
Speaker 3: protect the soil from crusting and erosion and overheating and freezing.
Speaker 3: Put malts on the ground. It does that. Black velvet
Speaker 3: is an outstanding product, beautifully black, not dyed, from Landscaper's Pride.
Speaker 3: You can go to Landscaperspride dot com if you want
Speaker 3: to learn more about it. It's widely available. You're going
Speaker 3: to find it a lot of the retailers you hear
Speaker 3: me talk about here on garden Line, whether it's a
Speaker 3: garden center, whether it is a feed store, whether it
Speaker 3: is a Ace Hardware store or a Southwest Fertilizer, those
Speaker 3: are the kind of places where you find quality products
Speaker 3: from landsca Aprish Pride. Our phone number is seven one
Speaker 3: three two one two fifty eight seventy four. We're running
Speaker 3: a little short on time here, so we may have
Speaker 3: to bump a call to the next hour, but I
Speaker 3: just want to give you that number. I was saying
Speaker 3: you could find Landscapers Pride in places like an Ace
Speaker 3: Hardware store. Well, Ace Hardware is everywhere, forty stores in
Speaker 3: the Greater Houston area. By the way, don't forget I'm
Speaker 3: going to be at the Wharton Ace Hardware store next
Speaker 3: Saturday from one to three. Be there for two hours
Speaker 3: doing the thing we do on these appearances, and that
Speaker 3: is we diagnose your questions, We answer your questions. You
Speaker 3: can bring me samples. We can help make suggestions for
Speaker 3: planting areas, improving your landscape. I'll be giving away some
Speaker 3: giveaways there. You don't want to miss that. And I
Speaker 3: don't get out that far. In fact, I never have
Speaker 3: gotten out that far to the south and west. So
Speaker 3: even if you're listening way down in Corpus Christi or something,
Speaker 3: well here's a chance, come on up, let's meet. I
Speaker 3: love to meet the folks. They visit with us. I mean,
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Speaker 3: the store locator. There's forty stores in the Greater Houston
Speaker 3: area all the way out to Beaumont, and you're going
Speaker 3: to find the fire ant control. This is firent control season.
Speaker 3: Hit them now before we go into winter. Get out there,
Speaker 3: get that done, all right. We're putting an hour in
Speaker 3: the books. Today is flying by. But they say time fly,
Speaker 3: time flies when you're having fun. I'm having fun. I
Speaker 3: hope you are. Hermit. The frog, by the way, says
Speaker 3: that time's fun when you're having flies. But I'm just saying,
Speaker 3: all right, folks, I'll be right back in a little bit.
Speaker 3: Just one more reminder. I'll be at Wharton Ace Hardware,
Speaker 3: Wharton Feed and Acehrder is a new place out there
Speaker 3: on Saturday, this coming Saturday the twenty eight, from one
Speaker 3: to three pm. Remember that's a little later timeframe than
Speaker 3: my normal appearance timeframe. So that's your clocks and calendars
Speaker 3: for that. I hope you'll come out and see me
Speaker 3: if you want to be part of Figtoberfest October fifth
Speaker 3: and Angleton called Kimberly Mayer at the Brazoria County Extension
Speaker 3: Office at nine seven nine eight six four one five
Speaker 3: five eight nine seven nine eight six four one five
Speaker 3: five eight for all things figs. And you get to
Speaker 3: meet Destin out there too.
Speaker 1: Katie r h. Garden line with skimp Rictor.
Speaker 2: It's crazy.
Speaker 3: Trim.
Speaker 2: Just watch him astrays not a sound sum All right,
Speaker 2: all right, let's do this.
Speaker 3: We have another hour a guarden line left to go
Speaker 3: here and if you have a gardening question, now'd be
Speaker 3: a good time to call in. It's kind of quiet
Speaker 3: on the boards right here. Usually that way when we
Speaker 3: come right out of a break. Seven one three two
Speaker 3: one two k t rh would be a good number
Speaker 3: if you want to get on the garden line. Nine
Speaker 3: seven nine excuse me, seven one three two one two
Speaker 3: ktr eight. I've talked about a number of different things today,
Speaker 3: and I like to kind of throw out ideas, perhaps
Speaker 3: some things that you might want to know in order
Speaker 3: to have success as you plan your landscape. Fall is
Speaker 3: for planting. It is the best time of the year
Speaker 3: to get things done, absolutely, the best time of the year.
Speaker 3: Nothing nothing like fall for success because you got the
Speaker 3: whole whole season ahead of you, the cool season ahead
Speaker 3: of you, for roots to get established in the ground. Well,
Speaker 3: here's an idea if you're trying to do some landscape planting.
Speaker 3: I suggest one of the things you keep in mind
Speaker 3: is landscape color from fold. Now. I talked about earlier
Speaker 3: about landscape texture, but landscape color from foliage is important
Speaker 3: in the South where it gets hot. We just went
Speaker 3: through a blazing hot summer, right and a lot of
Speaker 3: things don't bloom in summer. We have a few good
Speaker 3: bloomers but not like spring. But in summer we can
Speaker 3: turn to foliage. And there's lots of great ideas for
Speaker 3: foliage out there, for example, Chinese witch hazel. It are
Speaker 3: also called lauro pedulum. That's the term a lot of
Speaker 3: people used for it. It's its genus name. It has
Speaker 3: purplish maroon, purplish colored leaves that are really striking sunshine.
Speaker 3: Lagustrum right up against it has yellow, bright yellow colored foliage.
Speaker 3: It's attractive, by the way. Anybody from Lsu might like
Speaker 3: that combination.
Speaker 7: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I'm just saying, although it looks a little more burgundy
Speaker 3: to me, but hey, I'm biased. How about a canna
Speaker 3: tropicana that is a bulb dies to the ground the
Speaker 3: rhizome does and to the rhizomes comes back out in
Speaker 3: the spring with gorgeous, gaudy looking colors. Canna tropicicana is
Speaker 3: so gaudy that if you put pink flaming in your yard,
Speaker 3: no one will notice them. They'll just notice the canna.
Speaker 3: I'm just saying. Abelia's come now, not just in green.
Speaker 3: But there's types that There's one called kaleidoscope that has
Speaker 3: multiple colors. There's some that are have some white variegations
Speaker 3: in the foliage and whatnot. Dwarf and andinas have always
Speaker 3: been a good choice. There's many different kinds of dwarf
Speaker 3: and anddinas out there. And then there's the perennials and
Speaker 3: the annuals. I mentioned one perennial be in the canna.
Speaker 3: There's one another cannon called Bengal Tiger that's yellow and
Speaker 3: green striped leaves, very striking, very very beautiful. Pretoria is
Speaker 3: another good choice, and there's a purple leaf one as well.
Speaker 3: Then there's things like copper plant and colias and kalladium bulbs.
Speaker 3: Do you see what I'm saying. You go through summer
Speaker 3: and you don't have those that don't have to bloom.
Speaker 3: They look good just as foliage. So as you're doing
Speaker 3: your fall planting, don't forget that foliage brings us color
Speaker 3: all year or a can and especially during those blazing
Speaker 3: hot summertimes. That's just a tip for you to think
Speaker 3: about as you're getting ready for your fall planting. The
Speaker 3: folks that Nelson Plant Food have a product that is
Speaker 3: one of the newest ones in their group and I
Speaker 3: love it. It is called Genesis and it is for
Speaker 3: transplanting it's got micoriza, and those are the fungi that
Speaker 3: get into the plant root and reach out into the
Speaker 3: soil to bring phosphorus and other important elements back to
Speaker 3: the plant that the plant can't reach with its own
Speaker 3: root system. There's other fungi that are beneficial to the microbiome.
Speaker 3: There's bacteria that benefit the plant. Now, it has nutrients
Speaker 3: in it, but it's not going to burn your plants.
Speaker 3: It's a natural source of nutrients. Okay, So when I'm
Speaker 3: moving small plants to a bigger container, always in that
Speaker 3: potting salt, mix in some nutristar genesis from Nelson. If
Speaker 3: you're going to plant a shrub or a perennial, or
Speaker 3: an herb or a winter vegetable in your gardens, mix
Speaker 3: some nutristar genesis into that soil and it will help
Speaker 3: get off to a good start. The stuff works, and
Speaker 3: I say that because I've used it, I've done it,
Speaker 3: I've seen it. It is an excellent product. Comes in
Speaker 3: little clear canisters with screwtop lids, call them jars. By
Speaker 3: the way, Also, whenever you get on Nelson's product in
Speaker 3: those jars, remember there are refail stations for Nelson products
Speaker 3: all over the Houston area, and that's just another way
Speaker 3: save a little money and also avoid adding more plastic
Speaker 3: to the environment. Well, let's head out to Spring, Texas
Speaker 3: and we're going to talk to Mike. Hello, Mike, Mike
Speaker 3: you there.
Speaker 7: That is Joe.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, how can we help?
Speaker 26: Yes, sir, I was calling a see one of the
Speaker 26: best time for me to plant my mustard grains, And
Speaker 26: I got a second question. Is older gentleman told me
Speaker 26: if the bulls get on my plate brains to soap
Speaker 26: some kayee pepper spray my greens.
Speaker 3: I've not had success with hot pepper for bugs now
Speaker 3: it'll keep squirrels out of things, But you can try it.
Speaker 3: I'm not saying it won't work. I've just never heard,
Speaker 3: you know, or seen any kind of trials or stuff
Speaker 3: where they tried that and had good success. So why
Speaker 3: don't you give it a try and then you tell
Speaker 3: me how it worked for you. As far as the
Speaker 3: mustard green, you want to plant them in October. That's
Speaker 3: a good time to plant mustard greens in your area.
Speaker 3: You can also plant them in November if you want.
Speaker 3: They're pretty cold, hardy, but I would do it in October.
Speaker 3: It needs to cool off just a little bit for
Speaker 3: mustard to be really happy. And as far as the bugs,
Speaker 3: what I do is I get some stuff called row
Speaker 3: cover fabric. It's a very fine polyester spun material that
Speaker 3: you get at garden centers and you put it over
Speaker 3: the mustard when you plant the seed. You can put
Speaker 3: some little sticks in there to hold it up so
Speaker 3: the rain doesn't get it in the dirt before the
Speaker 3: mustard comes up. But air goes through it, water goes
Speaker 3: through it, and it's like a screen porch around those
Speaker 3: mustard greens and all the caterpillars and beetles that like
Speaker 3: mustard can't get in. But you have to do it
Speaker 3: before the bugs get in, otherwise you're trapping them inside
Speaker 3: the cafeteria, if you know what I'm saying. Oh, thank you,
Speaker 3: roc up. Just yes, sir, you bet, Thank you very much.
Speaker 3: Appreciate your call. Let's see here we are going to
Speaker 3: go to David in Spring Branch. Hey, David, welcome, regardline.
Speaker 7: Thank you, thank you for taking my phone call. I
Speaker 7: had a question about my palm tree. It's only like
Speaker 7: about shoulder high, but it looks bad and I think
Speaker 7: it's a windmill. It's Coharty. It looks like a faded
Speaker 7: green leaves on it, and it looks groopy. It looks
Speaker 7: groopy as well, and I wanted to make sure there
Speaker 7: was no answer there or anything like that. I really
Speaker 7: didn't see any insects there that were could be affecting it.
Speaker 3: What do you propose, David, David, Yeah, it's going to
Speaker 3: be a soil problem, and I'm hitting up against a break. Basically,
Speaker 3: something's wrong in the soil. Too wet, too dry, I
Speaker 3: don't know, more likely to saggy. Is a problem. But
Speaker 3: if you want to hang on, we can continue this
Speaker 3: right after break. But I have to go for the
Speaker 3: news right quick, and i'll be right right to those.
Speaker 3: I want to remind you that I will be at
Speaker 3: Nature's Way Resources on October twelfth. That's a ways out,
Speaker 3: but I want you to get ready for this one.
Speaker 3: This is our fall festival and it is a I've
Speaker 3: officially declared it is a shindig that means fun lots
Speaker 3: going on, Latin food, local vendors, plant sales, live music,
Speaker 3: children's activities, and I'll be there from eleven thirty to
Speaker 3: one thirty and I'll be answering gardening questions I may
Speaker 3: stick around a little longer if you guys are still
Speaker 3: going and we're having fun doing it. Remember that at
Speaker 3: Nature's Way Fungal Friday sale is still on twenty percent
Speaker 3: off fungal compost, which you can use for top dressing
Speaker 3: if you would like to do that. You don't have
Speaker 3: to get leaf Moo compost, but you also get their
Speaker 3: fungal composts. Both of those quality products from Nature's Way
Speaker 3: work very well. You can also just mix it into
Speaker 3: the soil to build the soil stronger. It's an excellent
Speaker 3: compost for that. At Nature's Way Resources, which is go
Speaker 3: up I forty five north right where fourteen eighty eight
Speaker 3: comes in from Agnolia, Turn right across the tracks Nature's
Speaker 3: Way right there nine three six two seven three one
Speaker 3: two zero zero. Remember October twelfth. I'll be there for
Speaker 3: their Fall festival, and you do not want to miss
Speaker 3: that shindig. We're going to go right now. Back to
Speaker 3: David and Spring Branch. David, you're talking about your palm
Speaker 3: tree symptoms. I just wanted to add it's something in
Speaker 3: the soil. It could you know, it could be soggy,
Speaker 3: wet conditions that are just oversaturated for too long. Chances
Speaker 3: are you're not watering it that much, but if it's
Speaker 3: getting over there, and maybe that could happen. The worst
Speaker 3: case scenario is there's something called butt rot. Now that
Speaker 3: I didn't make that up and the ten year old
Speaker 3: boy and me thinks that's pretty funny, But bunt rot
Speaker 3: is a fungal disease called ganoderma butt rot, And when
Speaker 3: it's there, there's no treating it. You'll notice the new
Speaker 3: growth coming out is going to be yellow and pale
Speaker 3: and it's just going to decline. And should that progress
Speaker 3: to that point, you need to get it out of there.
Speaker 3: Get the base and as much of the roots as
Speaker 3: you can out of there. Because the fungus survives on
Speaker 3: plant tissues, So remove and destroy all of that plant tissue,
Speaker 3: the trunk, the base, and some of the roots before
Speaker 3: you replant in that area. Okay, any kind of wound
Speaker 3: on the trunk helps helps that particular disease enter. So
Speaker 3: just something to think about other than that, watch the
Speaker 3: watering on it. Maybe give it a little fertilizer if
Speaker 3: it's struggling a little bit, a palm fertilizer. But I
Speaker 3: think it's going to be a wait and watch Okay.
Speaker 7: Well, if it gets to that point, if I have
Speaker 7: to take it out, do I replant it elsewhere?
Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, you can't plant that plant, but you can
Speaker 3: buy another one and bring it in. Yes, and it
Speaker 3: probably be better. If you could put something else there,
Speaker 3: probably be better. But if you can get all those
Speaker 3: organic the plant parts out, then I would say you
Speaker 3: probably could go right back with another same kind of palm.
Speaker 3: All right, Hey, I got to run, but thank you
Speaker 3: and good luck with that, you bet. I wish you
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Speaker 3: you want to replace them. Peerscapes can advise you on
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Speaker 3: Let's head back out the pair land. Now we're going
Speaker 3: to talk to Sabrina. Hey, Sabrina, good.
Speaker 16: Morning, Skip.
Speaker 23: Hi.
Speaker 27: I have a question, and I'm sure you've probably addressed
Speaker 27: it before, but here it goes. I have some landscape
Speaker 27: services scheduled and we're having new beds new malt and
Speaker 27: I'm concerned because I was thinking about this. It seems
Speaker 27: like every time we do anything in our yard, we
Speaker 27: have ants. Whenever I plant my pot, my flowers and
Speaker 27: my pots, seems like the ants just take over everything.
Speaker 27: And I'm wondering if there's anything that we could do
Speaker 27: beforehand to try to alleviate this problem that we're having.
Speaker 27: I know in the past we have used I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, are you are you're talking about fire ants?
Speaker 3: Are you talking about fire ants?
Speaker 13: Yeah?
Speaker 27: They're red, yeah, and I guess they bite.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So you we need to find out what kind
Speaker 3: they are for sure, you have they bite, they're probably finance.
Speaker 3: Or you just get a friend you don't like and
Speaker 3: have them come over and tell them they have to
Speaker 3: walk barefoot across the yard and standing talking and if
Speaker 3: they start screaming, that's fire ants. So seriously their best Yeah, Okay,
Speaker 3: they're best controlled with a bait. Okay. Fire Ant baits
Speaker 3: are the best way to deal with them because it's
Speaker 3: the minimum amount of pesticide at a very low rate
Speaker 3: over a huge area and it even mounds you can't
Speaker 3: see underground. They have roving credit roving you know ants. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that are finding food to bring back and they'll bring
Speaker 3: the bait back. So get you a fresh bait. You
Speaker 3: said you were in Paarland, right, yes, and there in
Speaker 3: the Pearland area, you right there in town you got Pairland,
Speaker 3: Ace Lumber and Ace Hardware. On North Maine they will
Speaker 3: have for baits. There's several of them. There's Ambro, there's
Speaker 3: advance base baits, there's extinguished that's an excellent one. But
Speaker 3: they'll put you in touch with one or more of
Speaker 3: the baits. Follow the label, put it out. You may
Speaker 3: need de bait again a little bit later. But fall
Speaker 3: is the best time to do it, and it's the
Speaker 3: best way to do if any escape that you can
Speaker 3: follow up with an individual mound treatment. You know, some
Speaker 3: may pup, but don't just don't just use the dump
Speaker 3: it on the mound and kill the ants treatment, because
Speaker 3: then you're playing whack them mole with fire antce. You know,
Speaker 3: you kill this mound and the one pops up and
Speaker 3: you kill it and another one pops up. Do the baits.
Speaker 3: That's the way to go. And at Paarland at the
Speaker 3: Ash Hardware they got those.
Speaker 27: Okay, okay, And another quick question, do they actually you
Speaker 27: know when I put like flowers in my pots and
Speaker 27: then they get invaded with these ants? Are they harming
Speaker 27: the ant? The ants harming the plant actually that I've
Speaker 27: just potted also? Or is it doesn't harm the plant
Speaker 27: at all?
Speaker 3: Okay, you're not harming they some plants like Okay, I'll
Speaker 3: just this in your pots. But like okra, they'll get
Speaker 3: up there and they'll eat into the but the buds
Speaker 3: or the yeah bud okay, okra pods to get some
Speaker 3: moisture and protein out of there and stuff. But in general,
Speaker 3: they don't they don't attack plants. They are a protein feeder.
Speaker 3: They're looking for They're looking for caterpillars and flea larva
Speaker 3: and anything that's proteiny. That's what they're eating.
Speaker 27: Okay, all right, all right, well, thank you so much.
Speaker 3: I will try that, all right, Thanks appreciate that, Sabrina.
Speaker 3: Thanks for the call. Uh let's see, we're gonna go
Speaker 3: to Cypress and talk to John. Hey, John, welcome to Gardline.
Speaker 28: Hey, thanks for having me. So I've got a very
Speaker 28: common question regarding dollar weed. We get dollar weed in
Speaker 28: our yard, especially the front yard, is what really bothers me,
Speaker 28: you know, every spring, and I treat it with which
Speaker 28: is strange because it gets plenty of on it's on
Speaker 28: a slope, good drainage. But nevertheless, we get a big
Speaker 28: patch of it right in the middle of the front
Speaker 28: yard and I treat it with I believe it's bonn
Speaker 28: eyed weed beater ultra, which I know Randy lemon I
Speaker 28: mentioned that, you know, a long time ago, and it works.
Speaker 28: It works great, although I end up with these little
Speaker 28: patches of you know, dead spots waiting for weeks until
Speaker 28: the Saint Augustine kind of filled it in.
Speaker 7: But my question is why does it keep coming back?
Speaker 1: How can I just kill this?
Speaker 26: Well?
Speaker 3: Dollar weed has some underground structures that you may not
Speaker 3: get all of those that it primarily is coming back
Speaker 3: from those, So that would be you know that that
Speaker 3: is probably what you're seeing. There are a number of products.
Speaker 3: The bone eye that Randy had recommended works well. I
Speaker 3: try to watch out for the temperature though on those,
Speaker 3: you know, when you get up above eighty five degrees,
Speaker 3: some of those can damage your Saint Augustine lawn. And
Speaker 3: that's where I typically will shift over and send people
Speaker 3: to get celsius that you can buy on little packets
Speaker 3: that make one gallon of spray, which goes a long
Speaker 3: way if you're if you're spot treating, uh, that that
Speaker 3: is an option. There are other options out there for
Speaker 3: dollar weed control and they work. You just have to
Speaker 3: watch the temperature. Okay, okay, Celsius and that's that's all
Speaker 3: on the label. Yeah, that's all on the label too,
Speaker 3: So just always read the label. It'll tell you what
Speaker 3: grass you can use it on. It'll tell you any
Speaker 3: restrictions like temperature for example.
Speaker 28: Uh, and frustrate stop it from coming back.
Speaker 7: You know that's the thing.
Speaker 28: I keep thinking I'm killing it, and then then in
Speaker 28: the spring it comes right back, almost comes back worse,
Speaker 28: getting worse, and well.
Speaker 3: So, okay, a couple of things to do. The denture
Speaker 3: your lawn gets the more it fights weeds. But dollar
Speaker 3: weed can co exist with Saint Augustine even when it's
Speaker 3: dense very well. So look at your watering schedule. Anything
Speaker 3: you can do to dry the swell out as much
Speaker 3: as possible between waterings, that would be good. So instead
Speaker 3: of squirting it every day, you know, once a week
Speaker 3: a good soaking, but not much more. If there's bad
Speaker 3: drainage in the area. Anything you could do to improve
Speaker 3: drainage and dry it out a little more, it slows
Speaker 3: the dollar weed down. Otherwise, you know, it loves to
Speaker 3: live in a swamp, and so the wetter it is,
Speaker 3: the harder it is to fight because the dollar weat
Speaker 3: is just so vigorous. And they say at that point, okay.
Speaker 28: Okay, all right, great, Thanks a lot.
Speaker 3: That's the cultural thing you could do, all right, but
Speaker 3: you may want to try switching to the celsius. Go
Speaker 3: ahead and hit it now with the celsius, be ready
Speaker 3: to again in the spring. I think that you know,
Speaker 3: it's one of the better products, and it's even though
Speaker 3: our temperatures are high. If you do it early in
Speaker 3: the morning, you can have that celsius work without doing
Speaker 3: a lot of damage to your lawn. You know, it's
Speaker 3: not liking u celsius in ninety five degree weather, but
Speaker 3: if it's early in the morning, you can use it
Speaker 3: and it's not going to be as much of a
Speaker 3: problem as some of the others that want it. Gets
Speaker 3: above eighty five, it's a problem.
Speaker 7: Okay, all right, thanks a lot, all right.
Speaker 3: Good luck with that dollar weed. One time I was
Speaker 3: in a I was in a grocery store, I believe
Speaker 3: it's a Vietnamese grocery store, somewhere south east of Houston,
Speaker 3: maybe over toward Beaumont, I believe, anyway, and I saw
Speaker 3: a drink and it had dollar weed on the picture
Speaker 3: on the front of the can, and it is exactly
Speaker 3: what it was. It was a drink made from dollar weed.
Speaker 3: I had to buy one and drink it. You know,
Speaker 3: I'll put anything in my mouth once just about and
Speaker 3: I had to to try this stuff, and oh my gosh,
Speaker 3: it was like k ro syrup sweet. But they say, well,
Speaker 3: if you can't beat them, eat them. Well maybe maybe dandelions,
Speaker 3: maybe chick weed. I'll do that. Yeah, not dollar weed.
Speaker 3: I couldn't do that one. But that's an interesting approach
Speaker 3: to dealing with problems like that. Oh gosh. You know,
Speaker 3: when it comes to having success in your garden and
Speaker 3: your landscape, it really just boils down to the simple
Speaker 3: practices of sunlight and soil and good plants and good
Speaker 3: care following that. And so here's what I mean. Does
Speaker 3: it want to be in shade or sun? Does it
Speaker 3: take what soil or not? If it doesn't, you got
Speaker 3: to build up the soil in a raised bed, make
Speaker 3: better drainage, and you have success, and then give a
Speaker 3: good fertilizer. It's not really that difficult. Well, it's time
Speaker 3: for me to take a break and I will be
Speaker 3: right back our last thirty minutes of the show today,
Speaker 3: in fact, last thirty minutes of this weekend on Guardline.
Speaker 3: So if you got any questions that we can help
Speaker 3: you with. It'd be a good time to talk about
Speaker 3: those I wanted to tell you about Affordable Tree Care,
Speaker 3: and I do all the time. I talk about Martin
Speaker 3: spoon Moore, I talk about his wife Joe being the
Speaker 3: ones that answer the phone. This is a business where
Speaker 3: the owners are still actively involved. You make a phone
Speaker 3: call to Affordable Tree Care, and if you don't hear
Speaker 3: Martin or Joe on the phone, you call the wrong number,
Speaker 3: hang up, dial again because their number. You want to
Speaker 3: write this, just write this down and keep it because
Speaker 3: you never know you or maybe a neighbor has a
Speaker 3: tree issue. Seven to one three six nine nine twenty
Speaker 3: six sixty three seven one three six nine nine two
Speaker 3: six sixty three. And if you want to go to
Speaker 3: the website, it's Afftree Service dot com. But I want
Speaker 3: to tell you October through February is primetime for getting
Speaker 3: your trees pruned. And everybody else wants to get their
Speaker 3: trees pruned then too. So Martin's schedule fills up. Don't delay.
Speaker 3: Give him a call now, get on the schedule. Maybe
Speaker 3: you don't need him to come until January, but get
Speaker 3: on the schedule. Get that done. He will prune. He
Speaker 3: does deep root feeding. He'll check the trees overall health.
Speaker 3: If you've if you've noticed that a tree is like
Speaker 3: the ground is heaving up a little bit on one side,
Speaker 3: you know, the tree root base. Any kind of movement
Speaker 3: down in there. Uh, that's probably from the last storms
Speaker 3: that did some of their movement and damage to it.
Speaker 3: Give Martin a call, have him take a look at
Speaker 3: that and make sure it's all good and safe to go,
Speaker 3: and he'll advise you on things. The October February is
Speaker 3: really a short window when our best pruning time is here,
Speaker 3: So call now to get on the schedule. Martin stays
Speaker 3: busy because Martin does good work. It's as simple as that.
Speaker 3: That's also why we love to have Affordable Tree as
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Speaker 3: can send you them and they're going to do a
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Speaker 3: are now going to go out to tom Ball, Texas
Speaker 3: and talk to John. Hey, John, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 5: Good morning, Skiff. Have a couple of quick questions.
Speaker 16: One is.
Speaker 5: Fertilization. I did the sweet Green probably about four or
Speaker 5: five weeks ago.
Speaker 7: Okay, was it too?
Speaker 5: Did I wait a bit? Or what's your thinking on that?
Speaker 22: Uh?
Speaker 16: No?
Speaker 3: If you if you did sweet green, then I would
Speaker 3: in early October, I'd go ahead and put down the
Speaker 3: nitrofoss Fall special winner.
Speaker 7: I okay, okay.
Speaker 3: The sweet Green is a lot of super slow release. No,
Speaker 3: it's a you know it's going to break down pretty
Speaker 3: quick and release the nutrients.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 3: And so the Nitropuss three step that's going to be
Speaker 3: the higher potassium fertilizer to help your grass build the
Speaker 3: carbohydrates to have winter heartiness and come out stronger in
Speaker 3: the spring.
Speaker 7: Perfect.
Speaker 5: And one more quick question, Skip I called last week,
Speaker 5: I'll think about bermuda and so trying to choke out
Speaker 5: my say in Augustine, Well, I'm doing that, but now
Speaker 5: it'srill fin in a bunch of areas. You know it's
Speaker 5: got bermuta but a thrill fin. Back in the day
Speaker 5: you did sand. But that's not the way to go anymore.
Speaker 3: What's your suggestion, Uh, if you want to make the bermuda,
Speaker 3: you want to make the bermuda happy, I'd get a
Speaker 3: compost top dressing. You were up there in the Tamaul area,
Speaker 3: so you're not that terribly far away from Nature's Way Resources,
Speaker 3: which is up on I forty five where fourteen eighty
Speaker 3: eight comes in, and they've got every Friday is fungal Friday.
Speaker 3: Get I like the leaf mold composts that they have,
Speaker 3: but I also like the fungal compost And just call,
Speaker 3: you know, talk to Ian or one of the folks
Speaker 3: there and just tell them what you want to do.
Speaker 3: You talk to me on guardline. You're wanting to do
Speaker 3: a top dressing on your bermuda lawn and so you
Speaker 3: need something kind of screen down. Fine, and they've got
Speaker 3: that product. They they know what we're talking about. When
Speaker 3: you call them and they'll get you set up and
Speaker 3: that you can do. You can go pick it up
Speaker 3: if you've got a way to do it, or you
Speaker 3: can have them deliver it if you want to go
Speaker 3: about it that way.
Speaker 7: Perfect.
Speaker 3: Thank you having a going Yeah, thank you appreciate the call. John,
Speaker 3: John very good. Yeah, And I should have mentioned this
Speaker 3: when John was talking about while you're there, while you're
Speaker 3: doing nightro fast Fall special, get the barricade out because
Speaker 3: that prevents grassy weeds in thin areas. It where sunlight
Speaker 3: hits the soil. Nature plants a weed. So unless your
Speaker 3: lawn is just so thick, no sun can get to
Speaker 3: the soil, you're gonna see weeds pop up from seed
Speaker 3: because that's what they do. That's what nature does to
Speaker 3: prevent bear soil. Nature hates bear soil for good reason.
Speaker 3: So barricade put down in October early October, don't delay.
Speaker 3: You can apply it all October, you apply it November
Speaker 3: and all of that. But I say, why not get
Speaker 3: it done ahead of time because that barricade is gonna
Speaker 3: last you a couple of two three months easy, and
Speaker 3: so go ahead and get it down, especially in the
Speaker 3: cool season, and get it down and then let's cover
Speaker 3: that whole period where these will be sprouting and you
Speaker 3: won't be dealing with them in the spring. Then Nitro
Speaker 3: foster eagle turf funge aside is a systemic that helps
Speaker 3: prevent the large patch or brown patch. It also helps
Speaker 3: prevent takeof patch, which is really really important. You know,
Speaker 3: John's up there in the Tomball area and you're going
Speaker 3: to find you know, these kind of night fosh products
Speaker 3: at plant troll seasons of Tomball Parkway, for example, and
Speaker 3: Chenny Garden's din and Richmonds and those of you live
Speaker 3: up in the woodland shades of Texas has them, so
Speaker 3: it's easy easy to find those kinds of products from Nitrofoster.
Speaker 3: Let's go now to rop in North Houston. Hey Robert,
Speaker 3: welcome to garden Line. Hey, good morning, Skip. Hey Skip.
Speaker 24: I heard you make the analogy about the h the
Speaker 24: kool aid and making water, you know, harder to freeze.
Speaker 24: So it got me thinking, ID I was wondering if
Speaker 24: you if you watered plants with sugar water before a freeze,
Speaker 24: would they take up the sugar water and help you
Speaker 24: prevent or slow down the freezing process.
Speaker 3: And now it wouldn't. It wouldn't. The plant has a
Speaker 3: natural way of doing that, and that is sunshine on
Speaker 3: a green leaf. That's how you get carbohydrates. And the
Speaker 3: plant is designed to know how to do that. And
Speaker 3: and potassium is an important element in that process. But
Speaker 3: you need a little nitrogen with the potassium to go together.
Speaker 3: That's why we have our fall special fertilizers. But yeah,
Speaker 3: let the plant do it as the best way. I wish,
Speaker 3: I wish the other would work. But uh now, okay,
Speaker 3: one more question real quick. I heard you last week
Speaker 3: about the air potato is that edible, and if so,
Speaker 3: we're some horses for it. I do not think it's edible.
Speaker 3: I've seen them, you know, gardeners that love those to
Speaker 3: wrap around the pine trees and things. The only thing
Speaker 3: about air potato is it can be invasive, and it
Speaker 3: just depends on the area you're in and you know
Speaker 3: how close it is to other things. Always pick up
Speaker 3: all those potatoes when they fall if you have one,
Speaker 3: because you don't want to, you know, just have a bunch.
Speaker 3: It's not like kudzu, but but it is a potential problem.
Speaker 3: So be careful with the air potato if you're going
Speaker 3: to grow it. Okay, well, thanks so much for the information.
Speaker 3: Appreciate you you bet, Robert, thank you for calling. Take
Speaker 3: care Okay, you do good. Good rest of your weekend.
Speaker 3: When was the last time you went out to Arburgate. Well,
Speaker 3: if you haven't been recently, you need to go Arborgate.
Speaker 3: Is I tell you that place you ought to see it?
Speaker 3: I was looking, dad, That is just checking out.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 3: You just stand there and you look, and I mean
Speaker 3: you could stand in one spot for thirty minutes and
Speaker 3: not see everything that there is at Arburgate because there's
Speaker 3: all kinds of landscape bling, you know, beautiful things to
Speaker 3: put in your landscape decorations. There's plants galore, gorgeous pottery.
Speaker 3: I want you walk in. You just have to walk
Speaker 3: right past the pottery. If you come in the front door.
Speaker 3: By the way, there is a backdoor. It is that
Speaker 3: parking lot that's all weathered on off Trischel Roads. So
Speaker 3: if you drive past Arburgate and miss Trischel, it's coming
Speaker 3: back in on the other side. It's a loop behind Arburgate.
Speaker 3: I like that back patio best because it's easy to
Speaker 3: get in there and walk right in and be in business.
Speaker 3: Arburgates gift shops are loaded with beautiful stuff, beautiful stuff
Speaker 3: for Halloween decorations, for Thanksgiving decoration. I think they're even
Speaker 3: getting some Christmas stuff in already, So you need to
Speaker 3: go by there. Arburgate dot com is the website. Go there,
Speaker 3: subscribe to the newsletter and stuff too. While you're there.
Speaker 3: You will not be disappointed and take some prinds when
Speaker 3: you go. All right, time for a break. I'll be
Speaker 3: right back. Gad to have you with us. I was
Speaker 3: out in my garden this past week and do some multching,
Speaker 3: and I ran out a multch and it reminded me.
Speaker 3: You know, I thought, I know, always know better than this.
Speaker 3: I do this mental math in my head and I
Speaker 3: think I got enough, and then I run short, and
Speaker 3: it reminded me. There's a this is an author unknown quote,
Speaker 3: but this is so true. Here he goes. My rule
Speaker 3: of green thumb for malts is to double my initial
Speaker 3: estimate of the bags needed and then add three. That way,
Speaker 3: I'll only be two bags short. Unfortunately, that is too
Speaker 3: too true. We're gonna go out to Spring, Texas and
Speaker 3: talk to Mike. Hey, Mike, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 7: Good morning.
Speaker 13: I'm preparing to put a new grass down and what
Speaker 13: what is the preparation process once once the ground is
Speaker 13: completely cleaned of all weeds and all everything.
Speaker 3: First up, Yeah, first start, you want to get any
Speaker 3: pernial weed out of there, whether it's bermuda grass in
Speaker 3: a Saint Augustine to be planted lawn or whatever it is.
Speaker 3: You know the dollar we's we were talking about earlier,
Speaker 3: Virginia button, whatever it is. Kill the stuff, don't let
Speaker 3: it come back in your new lawn. Then you want
Speaker 3: to do a light tilling if you can, if it's practical,
Speaker 3: to do that. Get the old organic materials out of
Speaker 3: the way, because you want the sod to touch the
Speaker 3: soil rather than a bunch of dead weeds. If there's
Speaker 3: any areas that need to be filled, now's the time
Speaker 3: to do it. Get it all smooth. That way, when
Speaker 3: you mow, you get a nice even mowing, not one
Speaker 3: where the blade is tilting and gouging the ground as
Speaker 3: it bumps along. Get that smoothed out, and then get
Speaker 3: your grass down and do it as soon as you can.
Speaker 3: We are still warm, but it's not gonna be warm
Speaker 3: for a long time, and once we get into November,
Speaker 3: grassroot growth is slowing a whole lot, and so I
Speaker 3: would suggest asap getting all this done. In order to
Speaker 3: get that grass well rooted in. You want to water
Speaker 3: it every day for the first week, every other day
Speaker 3: for the second week, and then you can start to
Speaker 3: back off that watering schedule, especially as things cool off,
Speaker 3: you can back off a lot.
Speaker 13: So don't put any weed forgive on it before you
Speaker 13: put the new grass.
Speaker 3: Do not, absolutely do not put a pre emergent herbicide
Speaker 3: down before you put the grass down, because here's what's
Speaker 3: gonna happen. Those herbicides. When weed seed sprout, they keep
Speaker 3: the roots from being able to form. They make them stubby,
Speaker 3: they won't grow. The same thing will happen to your
Speaker 3: Saint Augustine roots on the side that you lay down
Speaker 3: on top of a just put down pre emergent herbicide,
Speaker 3: your grass's not gonna be able to root in. So
Speaker 3: do not do them ahead of time. Afterwards the top
Speaker 3: of the ground fine, but right now I would say
Speaker 3: this first. Now, let's get that stuff rooted in. We'll
Speaker 3: worry about pre emergence next year.
Speaker 14: Okay, what if I kind of put some humus and
Speaker 14: manure mixed in.
Speaker 3: You can mix maybe say an inch or so of
Speaker 3: that into the soil all over the place if you
Speaker 3: want to.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: It's gonna help for a little while, but not a
Speaker 3: long term, and don't overdo it.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 3: Be kind of light on that.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 3: But once you get that grass, our number one goal
Speaker 3: now is to get the weeds out of the way,
Speaker 3: the ground prepared and level, and the grass down and
Speaker 3: those roots from that sod down into your soil a
Speaker 3: s A p and down coming in.
Speaker 13: The last thing I want to say is before you
Speaker 13: put put the put the new grass down. Should you
Speaker 13: would all like to water it the ground before you
Speaker 13: put to the side down or just leave.
Speaker 3: It dry if it's if it's very dry, yes, get
Speaker 3: it moist because that way the roots go down into
Speaker 3: moist soil. If if the soil is too dry, they're
Speaker 3: not going to be to grow into there.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 3: Uh, but the watering you're doing is also going to
Speaker 3: get some water down into it. You're not putting a lot,
Speaker 3: you know. When we're saying water twice a day or
Speaker 3: and then once a day, we're not talking about putting
Speaker 3: two inches of water down twice a day. We're talking about,
Speaker 3: you know, just a little bit. You want to keep
Speaker 3: it moist because your grass is coming in with about
Speaker 3: a half inch to three quarter inch long roots and
Speaker 3: that doesn't do much, you know, and so asap, getting
Speaker 3: those roots in the ground is how that grass gets resilient.
Speaker 3: And so we're babying it along for the for the
Speaker 3: first little bit so that it can get roots down.
Speaker 3: But also just just get that done soon, Mike, because
Speaker 3: you'll end up with better stand.
Speaker 13: So it's okay to lightly water it before you put
Speaker 13: the new down.
Speaker 3: Yes, if the soil is dry, that's helpful. So the
Speaker 3: roots can go into moist already premic and soil. That's helpful.
Speaker 13: Appreciate all you have, but yep, yeah, a great day.
Speaker 3: All right, all right, love it all right, I appreciate,
Speaker 3: appreciate your call.
Speaker 7: Thank you.
Speaker 3: Might all right, folks, there we go. Uh there's the
Speaker 3: advice on lawns. You still do it, but don't delay.
Speaker 3: The more you delay, the less the less helpful it
Speaker 3: will be for that grass trying to get going. So anyway,
Speaker 3: I want to remind you that I am going to
Speaker 3: be going to where Wharton Feed Ace Hardware next Saturday
Speaker 3: from one a little bit later than normal, one to three,
Speaker 3: one to three pm. Grab you some lunch. You may
Speaker 3: have to bring me some lunch because I'll be flying
Speaker 3: down the highway during lunchtime. No, seriously, Wharton Feed one
Speaker 3: to three pm. When I'm there, the Lockley's owners of
Speaker 3: Wharton Feed and Ace are going to be providing some giveaways.
Speaker 3: They're going to have some plants from green Leaf Plants.
Speaker 3: They're gonna have a gift certificate from the muck Boot Company,
Speaker 3: and then Nitropos be there. There'll be a couple of
Speaker 3: bags of fall special that I've been bragging about all day.
Speaker 3: We'll be giving the two bags of that away, begin
Speaker 3: two bags of barricade away. So come out you might
Speaker 3: get lucky. If not Wharton Ace feed and hardware, or
Speaker 3: excuse me, Wharton Feed and Ace. That way I got
Speaker 3: to say it right, is gonna have plenty of those
Speaker 3: ninety fives and other products on hand. But come on
Speaker 3: out and we'll have a really good time. I'm gonna
Speaker 3: have some Texas Gardener magazines available out there too, some
Speaker 3: even not tried looking at the Texas Gardener. You gotta subscribe.
Speaker 3: That's a great magazine, and I have a couple a
Speaker 3: few copies of it to pass around. So come on
Speaker 3: out and see me. And you know, you can always
Speaker 3: bring me samples of plants to identify her to diagnose.
Speaker 3: If you got a bug crawling around you don't know
Speaker 3: what to do, bring it. I'll get it under a
Speaker 3: hot lamp and you know, put it through the make
Speaker 3: it confess its name, and we can that way get
Speaker 3: to the bottom of it. But we're gonna have a
Speaker 3: good time, and I'm looking forward to coming out for
Speaker 3: those of you way out southwest like that, even past
Speaker 3: Wharton down toward Corpus CHRISTI direction come on out, let's
Speaker 3: meet and let's get that opportunity. I don't get out
Speaker 3: that way often enough, in my opinion, so I hope
Speaker 3: you will do that. I love quotes. I love quotes
Speaker 3: on gardening because so many of them are are true,
Speaker 3: so true. A guy named doctor Alan Armitage, who is
Speaker 3: probably one of the most famous ornamental horticulturists in the
Speaker 3: southeast US. He's from Georgia originally uh and just a
Speaker 3: prolific writer and speaker. He said gardening simply does not
Speaker 3: allow one to become mentally old because too many hopes
Speaker 3: and dreams are yet to be realized. And that is
Speaker 3: so true. I'm going to tell you the best garden
Speaker 3: I've ever had in my life is my next one.
Speaker 3: It's true. It's true. You buy a fruit tree, you
Speaker 3: got that little tag with pictures of fruit on it,
Speaker 3: don't you just picture and taste? Right then what's gonna come?
Speaker 3: There's always hope for the future with gardening. And this
Speaker 3: is this is scientifically true. I'm talking about research that
Speaker 3: are dealing with dementia, people that are dealing with depression.
Speaker 3: When you get out and you play in the dirt
Speaker 3: and you plant stuff and you get involved in that.
Speaker 3: It is really therapy. Since I like quotes so much,
Speaker 3: here's another one. It's actually a little rhyming one. When
Speaker 3: I'm overwhelmed and stressed and unable to think, I go
Speaker 3: out and garden. It's cheaper than a shrink. That's true.
Speaker 3: It's good for you. So I hope this week you
Speaker 3: will have a wonderful time out in the garden. I
Speaker 3: hope that you will get out there. Remember, don't look
Speaker 3: at the thermometer, look at the calendar. It's time to
Speaker 3: get stuff done. So get out there and have some
Speaker 3: fun in the garden. Whatever you like to grow good,
Speaker 3: and then call garden I next week we'll talk about it.
Speaker 3: You got any questions, be glad to do that. I
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