WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.960 --> 00:00:04.799 Welcome to k t r H Garden Line with Skip Richard. 2 00:00:04.799 --> 00:00:07.719 It's crazy. 3 00:00:11.919 --> 00:00:23.280 Trim just watch him as well, make things superpazy. 4 00:00:28.760 --> 00:00:30.879 Again. Not a sign. 5 00:00:35.600 --> 00:00:42.799 Salmon of well, good morning, gardeners. Welcome to garden Line. 6 00:00:42.840 --> 00:00:46.479 I'm your host, Skip Richter, and looking forward to visiting 7 00:00:46.520 --> 00:00:49.600 with you today about the things that are of interest 8 00:00:49.640 --> 00:00:53.719 to you. Got questions, feel free to give me a 9 00:00:53.719 --> 00:00:57.119 call seven one three two one two k t r 10 00:00:57.320 --> 00:01:00.719 H seven one three two one two k t H. 11 00:01:00.840 --> 00:01:02.439 Or for those of you who like to die by 12 00:01:02.439 --> 00:01:05.239 the numbers and not hunt out the letters, seven one 13 00:01:05.280 --> 00:01:08.719 three two one two fifty eight seventy four five eight 14 00:01:08.840 --> 00:01:12.319 seven four. However you want to however, you want to 15 00:01:12.319 --> 00:01:14.640 dial it, and I always say dial. I still say dial. 16 00:01:14.879 --> 00:01:17.239 You know, remember the days when we actually dialed. You 17 00:01:17.280 --> 00:01:19.719 had to stick your finger and this little round circle 18 00:01:19.760 --> 00:01:22.480 on the phone and turn it in a circle and 19 00:01:22.519 --> 00:01:25.959 it kind of roared it back to the number. Yep. Well, 20 00:01:26.120 --> 00:01:28.879 I still say dial. All right, anyway, punch in the numbers, 21 00:01:29.040 --> 00:01:32.120 maybe that's a better way to do it. Either way, 22 00:01:32.200 --> 00:01:34.120 we'll talk to you and we'll figure out what we 23 00:01:34.159 --> 00:01:36.359 need to be discussing today. Of course, the weather is 24 00:01:36.400 --> 00:01:39.959 a big deal. Today we got some rain blasting through 25 00:01:40.040 --> 00:01:43.680 various parts of the listening area, and uh, I just 26 00:01:43.719 --> 00:01:46.280 wanted to let you know, for those of you up 27 00:01:46.879 --> 00:01:49.599 well anywhere that we're planning on coming out to Kingwood 28 00:01:49.760 --> 00:01:53.560 to warrange Southern Gardens today, I'm not going to be there. 29 00:01:54.040 --> 00:01:57.959 We've had to reschedule that and obviously due to the 30 00:01:58.000 --> 00:02:03.200 weather and so we're gonna set that up for a 31 00:02:03.239 --> 00:02:07.400 different time. So if you're planning on it, well, not 32 00:02:07.519 --> 00:02:11.120 today we're gonna but we will be back out there, 33 00:02:11.479 --> 00:02:15.479 excuse me. In fact, I'm going to be there on Saturday, 34 00:02:15.520 --> 00:02:19.560 April nineteenth. That is the Saturday of eas Easter weekend, 35 00:02:19.680 --> 00:02:25.080 So Saturday April nineteenth, we'll be there at Warren's Southern Gardens. 36 00:02:25.120 --> 00:02:27.400 I apologize to that. I was really looking forward to 37 00:02:27.400 --> 00:02:29.120 going out there. I love going to Warren's. Is a 38 00:02:29.120 --> 00:02:34.319 wonderful place, lots of selection and we even had a 39 00:02:34.319 --> 00:02:37.719 little bit of an indoor area where we could gather 40 00:02:37.919 --> 00:02:41.360 and talk. But with weather like today, we figure people 41 00:02:41.400 --> 00:02:42.960 probably don't need to be out on the roads at 42 00:02:42.960 --> 00:02:47.439 that time, so we are rescheduling that one. To start off, 43 00:02:47.680 --> 00:02:51.000 I wanted to mention that when you're wanting to have 44 00:02:51.120 --> 00:02:54.039 beauty outside. You know, there's different ways we do. We 45 00:02:54.520 --> 00:02:56.879 revamped the landscape, we put in flower beds. I mean, 46 00:02:56.919 --> 00:03:00.439 there's a lot of great ways to create an environment. 47 00:03:00.479 --> 00:03:03.240 One of the simplest ways is just to use color containers. 48 00:03:03.360 --> 00:03:07.520 And I don't think we use enough color containers. Every 49 00:03:07.560 --> 00:03:11.159 year I add one a large container to the landscape. 50 00:03:11.199 --> 00:03:13.479 And when you put in a container, if you want success, 51 00:03:13.479 --> 00:03:16.240 it needs to have drain holes so that it doesn't 52 00:03:16.280 --> 00:03:20.919 get soggy bogged down as water builds up inside, the 53 00:03:20.960 --> 00:03:23.560 container needs to drain out, and you need a quality 54 00:03:23.599 --> 00:03:25.800 container mix to do that, and that would be jungle Land. 55 00:03:25.879 --> 00:03:29.719 Jungle Land is sold by Nitrofoss and they have the 56 00:03:29.800 --> 00:03:34.919 outdoor version called Flour and Vegetable Planting Soil. Jungle Land 57 00:03:35.120 --> 00:03:38.039 Flour and Vegetable Planting Soil, and you can find nit 58 00:03:38.080 --> 00:03:40.680 Fross products a lot of different places. Plants and things 59 00:03:40.759 --> 00:03:43.159 up in Brennam, M and D and Clear Lake as 60 00:03:43.159 --> 00:03:45.639 well as the M and D Beamer which is on 61 00:03:45.800 --> 00:03:49.960 Beamer in the Sagemond area. Those are all places where 62 00:03:50.000 --> 00:03:54.360 you're going to find Nitrofoss products. But remember, get a 63 00:03:54.360 --> 00:03:56.520 good quality potting soil. You want it to drain well, 64 00:03:56.560 --> 00:03:58.680 but you want it to hold some moisture too, and 65 00:03:58.759 --> 00:04:03.080 that's the blend. That's the goal of a quality soil, 66 00:04:03.479 --> 00:04:05.240 or one of the goals or two of the goals. 67 00:04:05.879 --> 00:04:09.479 But Junglelean will provide that for you. Let's head out 68 00:04:09.479 --> 00:04:12.520 to Magnolia and we're going to talk now to Cheryl. Hey, Cheryl, 69 00:04:12.680 --> 00:04:14.560 welcome to garden Line. 70 00:04:14.759 --> 00:04:20.959 Yes, thank you, good morning, good morning. Yes, I'm a 71 00:04:21.000 --> 00:04:24.839 new azalea planter, and I had heard in the past 72 00:04:24.920 --> 00:04:29.120 that after azelia's bloom you should trim them. And mine 73 00:04:29.120 --> 00:04:32.399 are only eighteen inches tall and they're starting to lose 74 00:04:32.439 --> 00:04:33.319 their blooms. 75 00:04:33.600 --> 00:04:34.519 Do I still. 76 00:04:34.279 --> 00:04:36.759 Trim them at young of an age? And how would 77 00:04:36.759 --> 00:04:37.240 I do that? 78 00:04:37.519 --> 00:04:37.560 No? 79 00:04:38.639 --> 00:04:42.800 Not necessarily at all. The point that is being made 80 00:04:42.800 --> 00:04:45.199 when people say that is if you're going to prune them, 81 00:04:45.439 --> 00:04:49.279 prune them after they bloom, sometime between now and midsummer. 82 00:04:49.680 --> 00:04:53.759 That way they have time to grow new shoots and 83 00:04:53.800 --> 00:04:56.120 set bloom bud so next year you have a bloom show. 84 00:04:56.160 --> 00:04:57.759 If you prune them in winter, like we do a 85 00:04:57.759 --> 00:04:59.839 lot of plants, you'll be cutting off all your blooms. 86 00:05:00.319 --> 00:05:03.360 That doesn't mean you have to print them after they bloom. Uh, 87 00:05:03.560 --> 00:05:06.560 if they're missed, if they need shaping, if you've got 88 00:05:06.639 --> 00:05:10.000 you know, one bush that has a giant, gangly wild 89 00:05:10.000 --> 00:05:12.319 hair shoot coming out to the side and you kind 90 00:05:12.319 --> 00:05:14.279 of want to cut it back and balance it and things, 91 00:05:14.720 --> 00:05:17.439 that's what you would do after the bloom time. But 92 00:05:17.800 --> 00:05:19.759 just because you haven't the celia doesn't mean you need 93 00:05:19.800 --> 00:05:20.319 to print it. 94 00:05:21.319 --> 00:05:23.399 Okay, wonderful, Thank you so much. 95 00:05:24.560 --> 00:05:32.199 Well you bet enjoy those. They're beautiful plants. Appreciate the call, Cheryl. 96 00:05:32.600 --> 00:05:38.000 You take care. We're we're getting this rain today, and 97 00:05:38.040 --> 00:05:39.839 we do from time to time. In fact, here in 98 00:05:39.839 --> 00:05:43.639 southeast Texas, when it rains, it pours. It's the Morton 99 00:05:43.800 --> 00:05:48.360 Salt commercial. How many I'll remember that Morton Salt commercial, 100 00:05:48.399 --> 00:05:51.079 little girl carrying the umbrella with the salt spilling out 101 00:05:51.079 --> 00:05:54.759 behind her. Well, it does pour. When it rains here, 102 00:05:54.879 --> 00:05:57.000 we get the gully washers. And then in summer we 103 00:05:57.040 --> 00:06:00.600 get dry soil, dry conditions and dry soil, and that 104 00:06:00.759 --> 00:06:04.920 shrinking and swelling activity from getting wet, getting dry, getting wet, 105 00:06:04.920 --> 00:06:08.839 getting dry. That is what causes all these issues with 106 00:06:09.000 --> 00:06:12.959 hardscapes in our area, like a sidewalk, like a driveway, 107 00:06:13.079 --> 00:06:16.160 like the foundation in your house. And fix my slab 108 00:06:16.199 --> 00:06:19.879 foundation repair. That's our go to foundation repair company here 109 00:06:19.920 --> 00:06:22.879 on Garden Line. Ty Strickland's been doing this for twenty 110 00:06:22.879 --> 00:06:26.240 three years. He's a native Fewstonian, fifth generation Texan. As 111 00:06:26.279 --> 00:06:29.199 a matter of fact, he understands the soil, he understands 112 00:06:29.199 --> 00:06:32.959 the movement. He knows how to assess and how to fix. 113 00:06:34.000 --> 00:06:37.600 And it is a rare thing in the service industry 114 00:06:37.720 --> 00:06:41.360 to find somebody who gives you a fair price, shows 115 00:06:41.439 --> 00:06:45.040 up on time, and fixes it right. I'm sorry that 116 00:06:44.639 --> 00:06:47.240 that's just the way it is. No matter what you're 117 00:06:47.319 --> 00:06:49.480 hiring somebody to come do at the house. If you 118 00:06:49.480 --> 00:06:52.279 can find someone that shows up on time, fixes it right, 119 00:06:52.319 --> 00:06:54.399 and gives you a fair price, you've done something. And 120 00:06:54.439 --> 00:06:57.439 that is exactly what Ty does with fix my slab 121 00:06:57.519 --> 00:07:04.160 foundation repair the website, fixmyslab dot com, fixmislab dot com. 122 00:07:04.240 --> 00:07:07.120 The phone number two eight one two FI five forty 123 00:07:07.199 --> 00:07:10.759 ninety nine two eight one two FI five four nine 124 00:07:10.839 --> 00:07:12.959 four nine. Give them a call. If you've got sticky doors, 125 00:07:13.040 --> 00:07:15.560 cracks in the brick, cracks in the sheet rock, have 126 00:07:15.680 --> 00:07:18.439 him come take a look at it. That is very 127 00:07:18.480 --> 00:07:21.000 important not to be an ostrich and stick your head 128 00:07:21.000 --> 00:07:23.319 in the sand, but to take a good close look. 129 00:07:25.040 --> 00:07:28.560 I was checking out the roses at RCW Nursery recently 130 00:07:28.600 --> 00:07:32.040 and oh my gosh, their selection is just amazing. They 131 00:07:32.079 --> 00:07:35.040 still have good selection of roses. You know they they 132 00:07:35.120 --> 00:07:37.920 get in some All the rosarians know about RCW and 133 00:07:38.000 --> 00:07:40.000 the rose selection that they have, But did you know 134 00:07:40.040 --> 00:07:44.240 they have really nice selection of color too, annual color. 135 00:07:44.279 --> 00:07:46.839 Now you can go to RCW Nurseries dot com or 136 00:07:46.879 --> 00:07:49.560 just drive over there to the corner of Beltway eight 137 00:07:49.600 --> 00:07:52.839 and Tomball Parkway, which is highway to forty nine. You're 138 00:07:52.879 --> 00:07:55.079 going to find everything you're looking for from trees and 139 00:07:55.120 --> 00:08:00.639 shrubs to beautiful color, calibracoa and petunias and day and 140 00:08:00.959 --> 00:08:04.839 verbina and just all kinds of things at r CW Nurseries. 141 00:08:05.439 --> 00:08:06.959 Let me take a little break here and we'll come 142 00:08:07.000 --> 00:08:07.920 back with your calls. 143 00:08:11.000 --> 00:08:11.240 Win. 144 00:08:12.399 --> 00:08:15.680 Hey, welcome back to the garden line. Glad have you 145 00:08:15.720 --> 00:08:18.279 with us this morning. It's a good day to be 146 00:08:18.319 --> 00:08:21.879 inside talking about gardening for right now. That is what 147 00:08:22.199 --> 00:08:24.680 is That's exactly what we're gonna do. By the way, 148 00:08:24.800 --> 00:08:29.000 if you don't if you haven't downloaded my schedule on 149 00:08:29.120 --> 00:08:32.519 gardening with Skip dot com, that's my lawn care schedule. 150 00:08:32.519 --> 00:08:35.559 Actually there's two of them, lawn care and lawn pest 151 00:08:35.600 --> 00:08:40.159 disease and weed management. They're all free. You need to 152 00:08:40.200 --> 00:08:42.120 do that. And what you'll notice is we're getting in 153 00:08:42.159 --> 00:08:46.399 the time where we call summer fertilizing. We have our spring, 154 00:08:46.399 --> 00:08:47.840 we can do an early green up, we want to 155 00:08:47.879 --> 00:08:51.840 do that, but basically the bulk of the grass growing 156 00:08:52.039 --> 00:08:55.360 is kicking off big time now and that's when we 157 00:08:55.399 --> 00:08:58.320 switch over to a longer term fertilizer or I mean, 158 00:08:58.360 --> 00:09:00.600 you can still use one that's a meat release, you 159 00:09:00.720 --> 00:09:03.159 just have to do it in small fertilizations over time. 160 00:09:03.159 --> 00:09:06.320 But it's easier just to grab some Nitroposs Superturf. That's 161 00:09:06.360 --> 00:09:09.240 their silver bag. It's a nineteen four to ten fertilizer. 162 00:09:09.679 --> 00:09:11.360 Put it out and it's going to give you about 163 00:09:11.399 --> 00:09:15.639 four months of fertilizing and by gradually feeding like that, 164 00:09:15.720 --> 00:09:19.039 you don't get that flesh of growth, which means you're mowing, mowing, mowing, 165 00:09:19.120 --> 00:09:22.200 trying to keep up with it. It's a nice graduate release, 166 00:09:22.320 --> 00:09:27.000 really excellent design product. Night Foss Superturf's available in places 167 00:09:27.120 --> 00:09:30.440 like D and D feed in Tumbull Fisher's Hardware down 168 00:09:30.480 --> 00:09:34.960 in Baytown on Alexander and also the Fisher's Hardware on 169 00:09:35.360 --> 00:09:39.559 FM thirty one eighty and Mont Bellevue. Let's head back 170 00:09:39.559 --> 00:09:41.279 out to the phones. We're going to go to a 171 00:09:41.279 --> 00:09:44.320 memorial area and talk to Bruce. Hey, Bruce, Welcome to 172 00:09:44.360 --> 00:09:45.039 garden Line. 173 00:09:45.639 --> 00:09:49.519 Good morning, Stiff, Thank you. I have a couple of questions. One, 174 00:09:50.080 --> 00:09:52.600 my yard suffered last year a bit and I'm trying 175 00:09:52.600 --> 00:09:55.240 to catch back up. I've got weeds and I think 176 00:09:55.279 --> 00:09:59.360 we're switching from cool season herbicide treatments to warm so 177 00:09:59.440 --> 00:10:02.720 I needed, sorry for spot treating weeds for this warm time. 178 00:10:02.960 --> 00:10:05.600 And I have some concerns we have mature trees, so 179 00:10:05.600 --> 00:10:08.320 I've been trying to avoid the weed and seed wheat 180 00:10:08.360 --> 00:10:11.240 and feeds like with atrazine or dacanda and things like that. 181 00:10:11.679 --> 00:10:13.679 Is there something that's just taken up through the foliage 182 00:10:13.720 --> 00:10:16.519 and doesn't get taken up by roots through by the soil. 183 00:10:17.919 --> 00:10:20.960 Yeah, if it's a broad leaf weed, there are products 184 00:10:21.120 --> 00:10:25.080 that do control broad leafs selectively, they don't hurt grasses. 185 00:10:25.120 --> 00:10:27.159 And then there are if it's a grassy weed, it's 186 00:10:27.200 --> 00:10:30.639 hard to kill in your lawn because, with a few exceptions, 187 00:10:31.159 --> 00:10:33.600 if you kill a grassy weed. You kill a grassy lawn, 188 00:10:34.120 --> 00:10:37.519 and so we avoid those as post emergence, which is 189 00:10:37.519 --> 00:10:43.480 what you're asking about for the broadly weeds broadly okay, Well, 190 00:10:43.759 --> 00:10:47.480 for the broadleaf weeds, we're basically looking at something that's 191 00:10:47.519 --> 00:10:49.360 a combination of different products. 192 00:10:49.919 --> 00:10:50.039 Uh. 193 00:10:50.159 --> 00:10:52.480 And there are a lot of blends out there, you know, 194 00:10:52.759 --> 00:10:57.120 from Bonaie has their weed beater, the burd Loam has 195 00:10:57.159 --> 00:10:59.679 their weed free zone I believe as they call it. 196 00:11:00.279 --> 00:11:03.000 But they're combination. Sometimes you'll see a product that says 197 00:11:03.080 --> 00:11:07.320 trimac tri mec. That means it's a combination of three 198 00:11:07.679 --> 00:11:11.039 in that case, different broadly weed controls. And by doing 199 00:11:11.080 --> 00:11:14.879 those combos it covers a broader group of weeds, you know, 200 00:11:15.039 --> 00:11:18.519 and no one product until we'll kill every weed. So 201 00:11:19.399 --> 00:11:21.559 those combo products is what I would do. I'd mix 202 00:11:21.559 --> 00:11:24.080 them in a sprayer and then just spot spray. Do 203 00:11:24.120 --> 00:11:25.960 it in the morning when it's the coolest part of 204 00:11:26.000 --> 00:11:26.360 the day. 205 00:11:27.840 --> 00:11:31.600 Okay. And the second question on my laund rehab, I've 206 00:11:31.639 --> 00:11:33.720 got a copy of the schedule and this month I 207 00:11:33.799 --> 00:11:39.240 plan to airate gypsum get ready for summer fertilizing and 208 00:11:39.360 --> 00:11:42.759 top dressing with composts. But I also need to patch 209 00:11:42.759 --> 00:11:45.679 in some sod. Where does the sod patching fit into 210 00:11:45.720 --> 00:11:48.639 a combination like that after aeration? 211 00:11:48.840 --> 00:11:54.240 Yeah, well yeah, I would. Here, here's the thing. If 212 00:11:54.279 --> 00:11:56.440 you put the sod down, you're going to need to wait. 213 00:11:56.639 --> 00:11:59.200 I would probably wait about a month before I do 214 00:11:59.279 --> 00:12:02.720 the aeration. You want the side to root in really, 215 00:12:02.759 --> 00:12:06.000 really well and begin to grow and be a good, 216 00:12:06.039 --> 00:12:09.919 strong plant. It's a transplant, and so you want that 217 00:12:09.960 --> 00:12:12.480 transplant to get on its feet and get going, then 218 00:12:12.559 --> 00:12:15.720 do the aeration. Now, as far as gypsum, gypsum is 219 00:12:15.759 --> 00:12:20.480 helpful if your problem ishight sodium in the soil and 220 00:12:20.519 --> 00:12:24.320 a clay that doesn't drain well due to sodium. If 221 00:12:24.360 --> 00:12:27.000 you don't have a sodium problem, the gypsum is not 222 00:12:27.120 --> 00:12:30.960 a big help. It doesn't. Gypsum, contrary to popular belief, 223 00:12:31.039 --> 00:12:34.519 doesn't just break up a clay because it's a clay. 224 00:12:34.600 --> 00:12:38.000 What it does is that it makes sodium leave the 225 00:12:38.039 --> 00:12:43.720 clay particles, and therefore the soil can form a better structure. 226 00:12:44.639 --> 00:12:47.639 But if it's not a sodium problem, gypsum is don't 227 00:12:47.879 --> 00:12:49.519 worry about putting the gypsum down. 228 00:12:50.440 --> 00:12:53.679 Okay, I'm gonna guess that's it. 229 00:12:53.799 --> 00:12:57.039 Then all right, so we call back if you got 230 00:12:57.039 --> 00:13:01.679 any other questions. Appreciate it. Thanks a lot, you take care. 231 00:13:03.720 --> 00:13:06.080 You know, it's I know it's hard for me to 232 00:13:06.120 --> 00:13:09.159 talk about a sprinkler on a day like this because 233 00:13:09.200 --> 00:13:11.799 we're getting plenty of sprinkling. But you know, summer's coming 234 00:13:12.360 --> 00:13:14.879 in that tree you plant it last fall or this spring, 235 00:13:15.080 --> 00:13:18.159 especially this spring. And those of you who are continuing 236 00:13:18.159 --> 00:13:20.519 to plant trees, which I hope you are, trees and shrubs, 237 00:13:21.240 --> 00:13:25.000 those plants don't have extensive root systems. When this summer comes, 238 00:13:25.120 --> 00:13:28.080 they're starting to root in, but not like they need 239 00:13:28.120 --> 00:13:31.279 to be. And that's where a tree hugger sprinkler is 240 00:13:31.399 --> 00:13:34.120 so helpful. It goes around the tree. You hook it 241 00:13:34.159 --> 00:13:36.559 to your garden hose and you can turn it on 242 00:13:36.720 --> 00:13:38.799 just a little bit, so maybe it's just watering a 243 00:13:38.840 --> 00:13:42.279 little you know, eight inch circle or ten inch circle 244 00:13:42.720 --> 00:13:45.200 or whatever, or you can turn it up more and 245 00:13:45.240 --> 00:13:47.159 more and more to where maybe you've got a five 246 00:13:47.240 --> 00:13:49.440 year old tree that's getting some good size on it 247 00:13:49.480 --> 00:13:51.840 and you're water in a very large area to rescue 248 00:13:51.840 --> 00:13:54.960 it during the summer drought times, or to keep the 249 00:13:55.039 --> 00:13:58.600 growth going, keep it moving. Tree hugger sprinklers are available 250 00:13:58.639 --> 00:14:01.399 in seven inch, eleven inch, and fifteen inch sizes. You 251 00:14:01.399 --> 00:14:04.559 can go to tree Hugger Sprinklers dot com find out 252 00:14:04.559 --> 00:14:07.799 more information about them. But it says tree hugger. But 253 00:14:07.879 --> 00:14:10.200 if you're planting a rosebush or a shrub, it's good 254 00:14:10.200 --> 00:14:11.840 for that too, and you're gonna find them a lot 255 00:14:11.840 --> 00:14:14.679 of places. D and D feed up in tumble Spring 256 00:14:14.759 --> 00:14:18.519 Creek Feed Center, League City Feed Done in League City, 257 00:14:18.600 --> 00:14:22.399 Southwest Fertilizer, and many ace stores like Sinkle Ranch and 258 00:14:22.519 --> 00:14:24.639 Katie and K and M and A Task a seat 259 00:14:24.720 --> 00:14:28.200 in full Sure all the places you can get tree Hugger. 260 00:14:28.240 --> 00:14:32.200 I talked about RCW Wallago, they carry it, Nelson Watergarden, 261 00:14:32.399 --> 00:14:35.879 were in Southern Gardens, in Chanting Gardens, and in Channy Forest, 262 00:14:36.000 --> 00:14:39.519 a Kingwood Garden Center, Arborgate. You see what I'm talking about. 263 00:14:39.720 --> 00:14:42.279 They're widely available, So no excuse not to grab you 264 00:14:42.320 --> 00:14:45.879 one and keep it with you. Because anytime anything gets planted, 265 00:14:46.279 --> 00:14:49.720 or even something that's well established, like a tree, when 266 00:14:49.720 --> 00:14:51.840 we go into one hundred degrees for one hundred days 267 00:14:51.840 --> 00:14:57.480 with no rain at all, you know, rescue that tree 268 00:14:57.519 --> 00:14:59.200 and tree Hugger is the best way to do it. 269 00:15:00.320 --> 00:15:02.480 We're gonna head out to sugar Land now and talk 270 00:15:02.519 --> 00:15:06.480 to Michael. Hey, Michael, welcome to garden line Skid. 271 00:15:07.120 --> 00:15:10.919 I've got a couple of questions my garden from last year. 272 00:15:11.159 --> 00:15:15.600 It did very well. I put this. It's an outside 273 00:15:15.639 --> 00:15:18.639 in the backyard garden. I started garden now by putting 274 00:15:18.679 --> 00:15:23.000 down basically a plastic covering to keep the weeds out, 275 00:15:24.159 --> 00:15:26.840 covered it over the winter time, went out about two 276 00:15:26.879 --> 00:15:29.679 weeks ago and took the cover off, and I've got weeds, 277 00:15:29.799 --> 00:15:33.559 not necessarily leads with grass coming in. I want to 278 00:15:33.559 --> 00:15:36.279 know what can I do to treat that and the 279 00:15:36.320 --> 00:15:39.200 little pieces of clover that I'm seeing popping up before 280 00:15:39.240 --> 00:15:41.159 I put my plants in more. 281 00:15:41.960 --> 00:15:45.759 This is this vegetables or flowers or what all is 282 00:15:45.799 --> 00:15:46.440 going in here? 283 00:15:46.879 --> 00:15:52.799 It's vegetables, basically vegetables, squash, carriage beats. So that sort 284 00:15:52.840 --> 00:15:53.639 of things finached. 285 00:15:54.840 --> 00:15:58.600 Okay, Well, you got a couple of options, and we 286 00:15:58.919 --> 00:16:01.120 have several, and I'll just get maulty, some of which 287 00:16:01.360 --> 00:16:04.080 I'm sure won't be acceptable, but they are options. And 288 00:16:04.159 --> 00:16:07.559 that would start with, for example, getting a hoe or 289 00:16:07.799 --> 00:16:09.879 hand pulling and getting rid of the weeds that way. 290 00:16:10.559 --> 00:16:13.360 A second option would be to roto till the area 291 00:16:13.480 --> 00:16:17.759 and then multch it very well, very thickly, so any 292 00:16:17.799 --> 00:16:21.320 weeds trying to sprout from seed couldn't make it. What 293 00:16:21.440 --> 00:16:23.799 I did in an area I have an orchard area, 294 00:16:23.840 --> 00:16:27.240 I saw some grasses coming up, and so I just 295 00:16:27.279 --> 00:16:29.480 took a weed eater and took them to the ground 296 00:16:30.039 --> 00:16:32.360 and then I mulched it really heavily. And as those 297 00:16:32.399 --> 00:16:35.039 grasses try to sprout, they're going to try to push 298 00:16:35.600 --> 00:16:38.320 leaves up. But if they can't get them to sunlight there, 299 00:16:38.360 --> 00:16:40.480 it's going to kill the plant. And if they do 300 00:16:40.559 --> 00:16:42.480 get them to sunlight and throw more mulch on them. 301 00:16:42.879 --> 00:16:45.720 But so those those are some of the options that 302 00:16:45.799 --> 00:16:48.240 you can do. Back in the day when everybody took 303 00:16:48.279 --> 00:16:51.559 the newspaper, a newspaper was an excellent mulch to then 304 00:16:51.639 --> 00:16:54.080 cover with leaves. It would it would kill pretty much 305 00:16:54.120 --> 00:16:59.519 anything but bermuda and nuts edge under it. But you 306 00:16:59.600 --> 00:17:03.399 just need to smother them basically, And is a good 307 00:17:03.399 --> 00:17:04.119 way to do that. 308 00:17:04.880 --> 00:17:07.759 Is there no product chemical wise that could be put 309 00:17:07.759 --> 00:17:09.960 in there that would be safe to put in. 310 00:17:11.640 --> 00:17:14.920 Yeah? Yeah, if you're if you don't have any desire 311 00:17:15.359 --> 00:17:17.559 plants in them, is there nothing in there? 312 00:17:17.640 --> 00:17:17.799 Right? 313 00:17:17.839 --> 00:17:19.640 Now that you're afraid to killing. 314 00:17:20.799 --> 00:17:23.319 Well, there's you know, I haven't even started my planning yet. 315 00:17:23.319 --> 00:17:26.039 It's a it's basically took the cover off, so there's 316 00:17:26.079 --> 00:17:30.279 nothing in there other than I've looked at this grass. 317 00:17:30.279 --> 00:17:32.880 It's a strange grass that popped up last year. I've 318 00:17:32.920 --> 00:17:35.400 sent it all through boy Being County. It has the 319 00:17:35.640 --> 00:17:38.920 really really deep roots, so I'm having to pull it 320 00:17:39.279 --> 00:17:41.920 or warden it from the roots. That's what I'm meaning 321 00:17:41.920 --> 00:17:42.599 when to get rid of. 322 00:17:43.880 --> 00:17:46.240 Okay, so there there is a product. 323 00:17:46.720 --> 00:17:46.839 Uh. 324 00:17:47.079 --> 00:17:53.240 The ingredient is glue fascinate okay. Uh. And it's I'm 325 00:17:53.240 --> 00:17:54.920 gonna do you have a pen? Do you have a pen? 326 00:17:56.039 --> 00:17:56.200 Yeah? 327 00:17:57.480 --> 00:18:05.079 It's it's g l u fos I n ate glue 328 00:18:05.079 --> 00:18:07.920 foss and eight. And it's used in the same way 329 00:18:08.000 --> 00:18:10.519 that you would have used around up. Do you spray 330 00:18:10.519 --> 00:18:13.119 it on an existing plant and it kills it broad 331 00:18:13.200 --> 00:18:16.440 leaf or grass whatever, it kills it, and it moves 332 00:18:16.480 --> 00:18:20.440 down there. It's sold in a number of different brands. 333 00:18:20.920 --> 00:18:23.400 Let's see where you're calling from. Sugar. Oh, you're you're 334 00:18:23.440 --> 00:18:26.759 close to Southwest Fertilizer. Just just go over and talk 335 00:18:26.799 --> 00:18:30.160 to Bob about glue Fascinating he's going to have some 336 00:18:30.200 --> 00:18:33.160 products on hand from that. Your ACE hardware stores may 337 00:18:33.160 --> 00:18:34.240 have some of that as well. 338 00:18:35.599 --> 00:18:40.039 Great, thank you, Schi. One more question what I follow 339 00:18:40.039 --> 00:18:42.799 the schedule and you are looking pretty good right now, 340 00:18:42.839 --> 00:18:46.559 but I'm seeing some patches of clover. What would be 341 00:18:46.559 --> 00:18:48.720 a good post e merger to put down right now? 342 00:18:50.359 --> 00:18:54.240 Well, once these cool season weeds like clover become reproductive, 343 00:18:54.359 --> 00:18:56.720 meaning they're blooming and they have seeds on them already, 344 00:18:58.160 --> 00:19:01.240 they're harder to kill with the post and urgents. And 345 00:19:02.319 --> 00:19:05.880 just because of the growth stage therein it, the way 346 00:19:05.960 --> 00:19:09.480 these pre emergents often work, they don't work well and 347 00:19:09.519 --> 00:19:12.839 that in a weed in that stage. But that said, 348 00:19:13.200 --> 00:19:16.400 you can spray them with any post emergent broad leaf 349 00:19:16.480 --> 00:19:19.839 control that's labeled. Is this a lawn now, Michael, I 350 00:19:19.880 --> 00:19:22.359 missed that. If you said that, yeah, that we're. 351 00:19:22.279 --> 00:19:24.839 Talking about it's sin Augustine I've got in my. 352 00:19:24.799 --> 00:19:29.480 Backyard yet, Okay, okay, thank you? Yeah, And so something 353 00:19:29.559 --> 00:19:32.160 labeled for the turf you could use as a spray. 354 00:19:32.960 --> 00:19:34.720 I'll tell you what I've been doing, and that is 355 00:19:34.839 --> 00:19:37.200 hand pulling. And the reason is this. If you've got 356 00:19:37.200 --> 00:19:39.200 a clover and it has a hundred seeds on it, 357 00:19:39.440 --> 00:19:42.240 which wouldn't be a surprise. You could even if you 358 00:19:42.319 --> 00:19:44.599 killed that weed. Now you have one hundred seeds. You 359 00:19:44.640 --> 00:19:46.920 didn't accomplish a lot because the clover is going to 360 00:19:47.000 --> 00:19:50.920 die anyway when it heats up. So those weeds are 361 00:19:50.960 --> 00:19:54.799 about to go away anyway. And I would rather get 362 00:19:54.839 --> 00:19:57.240 the seeds out of there. And clover comes out of 363 00:19:57.279 --> 00:20:00.440 one spot in the ground, it's very easy and moist 364 00:20:00.440 --> 00:20:02.799 soil to pop it up. I have a little kneeling bunch. 365 00:20:02.839 --> 00:20:06.400 I'm out there with a long, little weeding fork, and 366 00:20:06.480 --> 00:20:08.319 you can cover a lot of ground pretty fast. Now, 367 00:20:08.400 --> 00:20:10.000 if you don't want to do that, or not able 368 00:20:10.039 --> 00:20:14.079 to do that, then you're left with two things. Number one, 369 00:20:14.319 --> 00:20:18.759 set your mower very low and mow and bag and 370 00:20:18.839 --> 00:20:21.759 capture as much of the seed therefore as you can, 371 00:20:22.160 --> 00:20:25.559 and don't get it out of there. Don't don't return 372 00:20:25.599 --> 00:20:28.160 the clippings get in this case, get the weed, seeds 373 00:20:28.200 --> 00:20:30.839 and clippings out of there. And then the second thing 374 00:20:30.880 --> 00:20:33.839 would be to sprim with a broad leaf post emergent. 375 00:20:34.240 --> 00:20:35.799 If you were going to do that, I would do 376 00:20:35.839 --> 00:20:39.400 that before I mow, because you want it to move 377 00:20:39.519 --> 00:20:41.240 down in the plant, all right. 378 00:20:42.079 --> 00:20:44.160 Thank you and yeah, I've been doing a lot of 379 00:20:44.200 --> 00:20:46.599 hand pulling on my knees, so I know we exactly 380 00:20:46.680 --> 00:20:48.599 what you talk about. I have a wonderful day, Skip, 381 00:20:48.680 --> 00:20:49.759 Thank you as always. 382 00:20:50.640 --> 00:20:54.000 All right, thanks Mike, appreciate you appreciate that call. Our 383 00:20:54.039 --> 00:20:55.839 phone number if you would like to give us a 384 00:20:55.880 --> 00:20:59.720 call is seven one three two one two kt r 385 00:20:59.759 --> 00:21:03.359 A seven one three two one two KTRH. 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They 430 00:23:36.480 --> 00:23:41.519 are true lawn and garden experts at Plants for All Seasons. 431 00:23:41.960 --> 00:23:42.160 Uh. 432 00:23:42.240 --> 00:23:46.640 Visiting with Michael Wallago about you know, managing weeds and things, 433 00:23:46.640 --> 00:23:49.599 some of the post emergents and the whatnot that's out there. 434 00:23:50.400 --> 00:23:53.039 I just I think I mentioned to him Southwest Fertilizer. 435 00:23:53.359 --> 00:23:55.519 That's the place on the corner of Businest and Renwick, 436 00:23:56.319 --> 00:23:58.519 and I know that I can always send someone there 437 00:23:58.599 --> 00:24:01.240 and whatever they need is going to be there. You know, 438 00:24:01.240 --> 00:24:02.960 if I say, well you need to go fine in 439 00:24:02.960 --> 00:24:05.480 this case, I think someone else it's talking about a 440 00:24:05.559 --> 00:24:07.759 glue foscin eight. You know what is that you probably 441 00:24:07.759 --> 00:24:10.240 hadn't heard me say that one before on the air. Well, 442 00:24:10.319 --> 00:24:13.240 I know Bob's got it. It's Southwest Fertilizer because they 443 00:24:13.279 --> 00:24:15.240 have everything you need. If they don't have it, you 444 00:24:15.240 --> 00:24:17.839 don't need it. It's as simple as that, simple as that. 445 00:24:18.519 --> 00:24:20.880 And if you're an organic gardener and you're looking for 446 00:24:21.079 --> 00:24:25.119 the broadest selection of organic products in the greater Houston area, 447 00:24:25.519 --> 00:24:28.519 that's it Southwest Fertilizer. And you may be listening to 448 00:24:28.559 --> 00:24:31.680 me and Tim Buck two long far away, but I 449 00:24:31.680 --> 00:24:33.799 can tell you this. When you go to Southwest Fertilizer, 450 00:24:33.799 --> 00:24:36.079 it's worth the trip because you're going to find everything 451 00:24:36.119 --> 00:24:39.799 that you need. Corner of bis Nutton Runwick, Southwest Fertilizer 452 00:24:39.839 --> 00:24:41.240 dot com if you want to give them a call 453 00:24:41.319 --> 00:24:45.359 seven to one three six sixty six one seven four 454 00:24:45.440 --> 00:24:48.799 four seven one three six sixty six one seven four 455 00:24:48.839 --> 00:24:50.160 to four. I'm going to be there toward the end 456 00:24:50.160 --> 00:24:52.519 of this month too, looking forward to coming on down. 457 00:24:54.279 --> 00:24:57.519 All right, let's go out to Gary in Salt Lake 458 00:24:57.839 --> 00:25:01.839 and we'll see how we can help welcome garden line Gary. 459 00:25:01.920 --> 00:25:08.000 Good morning morning. A quick question. Now, I'm not slid 460 00:25:08.039 --> 00:25:10.640 like I'm a sergeant between a freeport and mad. 461 00:25:12.640 --> 00:25:13.079 Sergeant. 462 00:25:13.200 --> 00:25:17.799 Okay, thank you, yeah, sergeant, sergeant. Question salt water and 463 00:25:18.079 --> 00:25:21.319 sant augustine, Like on a high tide or a little 464 00:25:21.359 --> 00:25:24.599 serge or whatever it gets on that san augustine, will 465 00:25:24.640 --> 00:25:25.119 it kill it? 466 00:25:27.200 --> 00:25:31.160 Well, sant euxtine does not want to be watered with 467 00:25:31.200 --> 00:25:36.160 ocean water. That's for sure. One one good dosing of it, 468 00:25:36.519 --> 00:25:38.519 Probably not the end of the world, especially if you 469 00:25:38.599 --> 00:25:41.720 follow with an irrigation to kind of rense those salts 470 00:25:41.799 --> 00:25:44.359 out of the area. Right, you're probably that's a case 471 00:25:44.400 --> 00:25:47.519 where a little gypsum put on the soil to wash 472 00:25:47.559 --> 00:25:51.160 it down into the soil would be helpful. Is another 473 00:25:51.279 --> 00:25:53.960 part of the remedy. It's not just adding the gypsum. 474 00:25:54.000 --> 00:25:57.400 It's adding the gypsum and then getting a good drenching 475 00:25:57.480 --> 00:26:00.559 to wash it down through the soil. Profile. Now, there 476 00:26:00.559 --> 00:26:05.039 are some more salt tolerant There are some more salt 477 00:26:05.039 --> 00:26:09.079 tolerant turfs, but they have their own challenges other than 478 00:26:09.119 --> 00:26:10.160 the salt issue. 479 00:26:10.920 --> 00:26:13.880 Right, okay, all right, well, thank you very much. That's 480 00:26:13.920 --> 00:26:14.359 my question. 481 00:26:15.599 --> 00:26:19.200 All right, Gary, good luck have fun down there. All right, 482 00:26:19.319 --> 00:26:23.079 there you go, as simple as that, it is time 483 00:26:23.359 --> 00:26:26.759 to be fertilizing our lawns for summer. So I don't 484 00:26:26.799 --> 00:26:29.079 know where you are with this. If you did a 485 00:26:29.160 --> 00:26:32.720 spring green up, he probably used nitrofoss Imperial fifteen five 486 00:26:32.720 --> 00:26:36.799 to ten. It's been around for gosh, at least fifty years. 487 00:26:37.799 --> 00:26:42.400 It's created by the turf Research Universities of the Southern 488 00:26:42.440 --> 00:26:47.200 Gulf Coast. That not the fertilizer product itself, but that ratio, 489 00:26:47.319 --> 00:26:49.960 that three to one to two ratio, fifteen five to ten, 490 00:26:50.240 --> 00:26:54.440 lots of nitrogen, not much phosphorus, medium amount of potassium. 491 00:26:54.480 --> 00:26:57.680 That's what you're looking for, and that's what's in Imperial. Now. 492 00:26:57.680 --> 00:26:59.920 Imperial is in a reddish orange bag, kind of a 493 00:27:00.039 --> 00:27:03.119 red orange bag. And you know, if you want to 494 00:27:03.240 --> 00:27:06.000 use that, it's like, well, your schedule says we can 495 00:27:06.079 --> 00:27:08.359 use slow release. Yes, you can use slow release. You 496 00:27:08.400 --> 00:27:11.359 can also take something like Imperial and just do very 497 00:27:11.559 --> 00:27:14.759 small applications over time and sort of create your own 498 00:27:14.880 --> 00:27:18.160 slow release equivalent if you will. But whatever you want 499 00:27:18.200 --> 00:27:20.119 to do for a quick green up on your lawn, 500 00:27:20.279 --> 00:27:22.000 you know it's not looking good, Hey, I want to 501 00:27:22.039 --> 00:27:24.400 get something down quick, Go ahead and do that Imperial 502 00:27:24.440 --> 00:27:27.319 fifteen five to ten. Give it about a month or so, 503 00:27:27.559 --> 00:27:30.759 maybe six weeks, and then follow it up with your 504 00:27:30.920 --> 00:27:34.440 slow release fertilizer and you will have a beautiful lawn 505 00:27:34.519 --> 00:27:35.759 all the way up into fall. 506 00:27:35.799 --> 00:27:35.920 Now. 507 00:27:35.960 --> 00:27:39.119 Imperial is available at places like Fisher's Hardware and Pasadena 508 00:27:39.200 --> 00:27:42.680 Fisher's Hardware and Laport. If you go to D and 509 00:27:42.759 --> 00:27:45.720 D feed up in tomball or plants for all seasons. 510 00:27:45.720 --> 00:27:47.640 On two forty nine, I was just talking about them 511 00:27:47.880 --> 00:27:52.400 all places you're going to find nitrofoss products. We're going 512 00:27:52.440 --> 00:27:57.319 to head out now to Brookshire, Texas and talk to Sammy. Hello, Sammy, 513 00:27:57.680 --> 00:27:58.599 Welcome to garden Line. 514 00:27:58.599 --> 00:28:00.359 Hey, thank you. 515 00:28:00.359 --> 00:28:01.920 It's honored to talk to you. I appreciate it. 516 00:28:03.240 --> 00:28:06.039 I was gonna ask about tomato plants. 517 00:28:06.640 --> 00:28:08.440 Is it okay to feed them once a week? 518 00:28:08.480 --> 00:28:08.920 Every week? 519 00:28:09.240 --> 00:28:13.160 I'm using a microlife. And the second one is trimming cucumbers. 520 00:28:14.319 --> 00:28:16.039 Last year I trimmed too much, and I don't think 521 00:28:16.119 --> 00:28:18.240 that cucumbers spared very well. Maybe I've cut too many 522 00:28:18.279 --> 00:28:21.119 leaves away. And this year I was thinking about leaving 523 00:28:21.160 --> 00:28:22.720 it all natural. 524 00:28:22.799 --> 00:28:25.240 I just go finding them. Would you recommend trimming them? 525 00:28:25.519 --> 00:28:28.079 And so how much? Thank you? 526 00:28:28.079 --> 00:28:31.519 You're talking about trimming the cucumber vines vines. 527 00:28:31.319 --> 00:28:32.880 Yes, or all the big leaves and the vines. 528 00:28:33.440 --> 00:28:36.400 Okay, Well, first of all, on the MICROLFE, that is 529 00:28:36.440 --> 00:28:39.839 a fertilizer that is going to release as the microbes 530 00:28:39.880 --> 00:28:42.960 break it down over time, so you don't need to 531 00:28:42.960 --> 00:28:46.640 fertilize it that often with microlife. If you put microlife down, 532 00:28:47.160 --> 00:28:51.240 oh maybe twice during that tomato growing season, you know 533 00:28:51.279 --> 00:28:53.799 we're gonna be growing. We're gonna be producing tomatoes on 534 00:28:53.880 --> 00:28:56.319 into June. I mean it could go longer than that. 535 00:28:56.359 --> 00:28:59.000 You could be in July for sure too. But I 536 00:28:59.000 --> 00:29:02.240 would say about every four weeks a good dose of microlife. 537 00:29:02.279 --> 00:29:03.640 You're not going to burn them with it, so you 538 00:29:03.640 --> 00:29:06.839 can put a little bit more down and that would 539 00:29:06.880 --> 00:29:09.880 be That should be good. A couple applications of it 540 00:29:09.680 --> 00:29:13.319 for that particular tomato season. Now, on the trimming, I 541 00:29:13.319 --> 00:29:16.279 wouldn't trim the cucumbers. If you need to trim, you 542 00:29:16.279 --> 00:29:18.240 know they're going in a direction you don't want. You're 543 00:29:18.240 --> 00:29:20.279 gonna cut that off and let the growth in other 544 00:29:20.319 --> 00:29:23.839 directions continue on. You can do that, but there's no 545 00:29:24.160 --> 00:29:27.559 specific cucumber pruning system that we have to follow. 546 00:29:28.799 --> 00:29:30.799 Terrifict, thank you for your time, have a great day. 547 00:29:31.920 --> 00:29:33.799 Ah right, good, thanks, appreciate your call. 548 00:29:34.759 --> 00:29:35.680 You too, by bye. 549 00:29:37.279 --> 00:29:39.160 I have lost control of the board. 550 00:29:39.240 --> 00:29:39.480 Here. 551 00:29:40.079 --> 00:29:41.680 Let's see here if I can get that thing. But 552 00:29:41.799 --> 00:29:44.400 there we go, get it back on there. Thanks, thanks 553 00:29:44.440 --> 00:29:48.400 for the help. There. We are talking about a lot 554 00:29:48.400 --> 00:29:51.880 of different topics here on garden Line today, but I 555 00:29:51.960 --> 00:29:55.119 do want to mention another one and that is turf 556 00:29:55.279 --> 00:30:00.359 aeration and compost top dressing. Now what is that all about. Well, 557 00:30:00.599 --> 00:30:04.920 in our heavy clay soils, especially in compacted clay soils, 558 00:30:06.039 --> 00:30:08.759 the oxygen can't get done in the soil very far. 559 00:30:09.000 --> 00:30:11.960 Water doesn't move in very fast, it runs off instead 560 00:30:11.960 --> 00:30:16.160 of soaking in well, and aeration makes little holes in 561 00:30:16.160 --> 00:30:18.720 the ground. It pops plugs out of the soil, drops 562 00:30:18.759 --> 00:30:21.519 them on the surface, which by the way helps reduce 563 00:30:21.559 --> 00:30:25.720 thatch a lot. And then compost top dressing gets that 564 00:30:25.920 --> 00:30:27.839 organic matter down into the soil. You know, with a 565 00:30:27.920 --> 00:30:31.079 gardening rototail every time between crops, but with a lawn 566 00:30:31.160 --> 00:30:34.359 you can't rototil your lawn and move organic matter into 567 00:30:34.359 --> 00:30:38.559 the soil. BnB turf pros is a professional when it 568 00:30:38.640 --> 00:30:42.519 comes to this process. If you are living from sugar 569 00:30:42.599 --> 00:30:45.200 Land to Missouri City all the way across to Manviln 570 00:30:45.240 --> 00:30:48.319 Paarland in the southwest part of Houston. That's your company. 571 00:30:48.400 --> 00:30:52.039 Go to bb turfpros dot com seven to one three 572 00:30:52.160 --> 00:30:55.240 two three four five five nine eight seven one three 573 00:30:55.319 --> 00:30:59.039 two three four fifty five ninety eight. Talk to them. 574 00:30:59.279 --> 00:31:04.720 They know how to do it. They'll treat you right. Alrighty, 575 00:31:05.359 --> 00:31:07.160 welcome back to the garden line. Good to have you 576 00:31:07.200 --> 00:31:10.519 with us. We'd like to give me a call. Seven 577 00:31:10.599 --> 00:31:13.599 one three two one two KTRH. I was out in 578 00:31:13.640 --> 00:31:16.920 the yard yesterday doing some things. And actually I was 579 00:31:16.960 --> 00:31:21.000 sitting around a little our table in the back the patio, 580 00:31:21.079 --> 00:31:23.839 sitting with my wife. They're talking about some various stuff, 581 00:31:23.880 --> 00:31:27.279 and uh, two cardinals came, male and female cardinal to 582 00:31:27.440 --> 00:31:30.799 the feeder. And it's it is because we put the 583 00:31:30.880 --> 00:31:32.960 kind of food they like in it. There's a product 584 00:31:33.079 --> 00:31:35.839 in the you only get it at Wildbird's Unlimited. It's 585 00:31:35.839 --> 00:31:39.200 called Cardinal Confetti Blend. And I mean they love this stuff. 586 00:31:39.240 --> 00:31:43.440 It's got black old sunflowers, sunflower chips, nutrisapp bark, butter bits, 587 00:31:43.480 --> 00:31:46.960 peanut has dried mealworms, striped sunflowers. See if there's a 588 00:31:46.960 --> 00:31:49.799 bird listening to this, they're salivating right now. I can 589 00:31:49.839 --> 00:31:51.720 tell you that. I mean they come to this. It's 590 00:31:51.720 --> 00:31:53.799 like me and inchu ladas. You know, if you want 591 00:31:53.839 --> 00:31:56.200 to set a trap for me, just put an inchilada 592 00:31:56.200 --> 00:31:59.519 in it and I'm gonna walk right in there. Cardinal 593 00:31:59.519 --> 00:32:04.279 confetti from wild Birds Unlimited is awesome. It's awesome stuff. 594 00:32:04.319 --> 00:32:07.000 Now when you're there, you're gonna find a lot of 595 00:32:07.000 --> 00:32:10.119 other quality blends. The nesting super blend very important this 596 00:32:10.200 --> 00:32:12.880 time of era because it has the protein and calcium 597 00:32:12.920 --> 00:32:15.559 that birds need to lay eggs to build the skeletal 598 00:32:15.599 --> 00:32:18.759 structures on the young as are coming up. Very important. 599 00:32:19.200 --> 00:32:22.799 Nesting super blend from Wildbirds. And where is Wildbirds? Well, 600 00:32:22.799 --> 00:32:25.079 there's six of them in the Greater Houston area. If 601 00:32:25.079 --> 00:32:27.920 you're in clear Lake on Eldorado, if you're in Cypress 602 00:32:28.000 --> 00:32:31.319 on Barker Cypress, if you are in West Houston on 603 00:32:31.480 --> 00:32:35.720 bel Air Boulevard, if you are excuse me, on Memorial Drive, 604 00:32:35.839 --> 00:32:39.160 and then Southwest Houston is bel Air Boulevard just south 605 00:32:39.200 --> 00:32:43.119 of downtown. Getting them all mixed up here Kingwood Drive 606 00:32:43.359 --> 00:32:47.400 in Kingwood, Pearland. How about East Broadlet Broadway in Paarland. 607 00:32:47.680 --> 00:32:53.240 Six different Wildbirds Unlimited stores. Go to WBU dot com 608 00:32:53.279 --> 00:32:56.720 forward slash Houston you can find the Wildbirds Store that's 609 00:32:56.759 --> 00:33:01.079 near you. I love I love watching the birds, I 610 00:33:01.200 --> 00:33:05.839 really do. And we have some swallows that are nesting 611 00:33:05.920 --> 00:33:09.640 on our front kind of our front porch. There's a 612 00:33:09.640 --> 00:33:11.960 little post up under the eaves and they've built their 613 00:33:12.000 --> 00:33:14.160 nest and they come back to it pretty much every year, 614 00:33:14.799 --> 00:33:16.839 and they're there now. I love to listen to those 615 00:33:16.839 --> 00:33:19.519 low guys as they chatter and it's like their chattering 616 00:33:19.599 --> 00:33:22.960 and fussing' or I don't know what, but it's a 617 00:33:22.960 --> 00:33:25.319 lot of fun. And they come and then they go, 618 00:33:25.640 --> 00:33:29.400 they fly the coop is, so to speak. They're gone again. 619 00:33:29.759 --> 00:33:33.319 Birds are a nice addition to the landscape. Just a 620 00:33:33.319 --> 00:33:36.960 reminder again, I'm not going to be at Warren's Southern 621 00:33:37.119 --> 00:33:40.880 Gardens today. I was, but because of the rain and 622 00:33:40.920 --> 00:33:44.119 the issues that we're dealing with, we have postponed that 623 00:33:44.440 --> 00:33:48.839 until Saturday, April nineteenth. That's a Saturday prior to Eastern Okay, 624 00:33:49.160 --> 00:33:52.680 Saturday April nineteenth, I will be at Warren Southern Gardens. Now, 625 00:33:52.759 --> 00:33:54.960 that doesn't mean you can't go to Warren Southern Gardens 626 00:33:54.960 --> 00:33:58.000 our Kingwood Garden Center. Both are there in Kingwood. Both 627 00:33:58.000 --> 00:34:00.599 are open seven days a week. This is on North 628 00:34:00.640 --> 00:34:04.279 Park Drive, Kingwood, is on stone Hollow Drive. It's easy 629 00:34:04.319 --> 00:34:05.759 to get to now. When you go in there, you're 630 00:34:05.759 --> 00:34:08.159 going to find the products I recommend, like products from 631 00:34:08.159 --> 00:34:12.519 Microlife and Nitrofoss, Neilson turf Star, airloom soils, the little 632 00:34:12.599 --> 00:34:15.840 jars of Nelson plant food. Both Warrens and Kingwood have 633 00:34:15.920 --> 00:34:20.159 the refilling stations where you can refill Microlife and Nelson products. 634 00:34:20.480 --> 00:34:22.440 You buy the jar originally and then you just bring 635 00:34:22.440 --> 00:34:24.639 the empty jar back in and pull down the hand. 636 00:34:24.679 --> 00:34:26.519 We'll fill it up like you're buying peanuts in the 637 00:34:26.519 --> 00:34:30.159 grocery store. And it's a very economical way to go, 638 00:34:30.280 --> 00:34:32.840 and it's also a way that avoids thrown more plastic 639 00:34:33.000 --> 00:34:35.679 out there in the environment. Right now, the color at 640 00:34:35.679 --> 00:34:38.960 those places is outstanding. You should see it. I mean 641 00:34:39.360 --> 00:34:42.440 it's it's beautiful and it is worth a trip out 642 00:34:42.639 --> 00:34:45.920 to either Warren Southern Gardens on North Park or Kingwood 643 00:34:45.960 --> 00:34:50.239 Garden Center on stone Hollow Drive. If you'd like to 644 00:34:50.239 --> 00:34:51.440 give me a call. We get a little bit of 645 00:34:51.480 --> 00:34:53.400 time here. We can get a quick call in seven 646 00:34:53.400 --> 00:34:57.480 to one three two one two kt r H seven 647 00:34:57.559 --> 00:35:04.199 one three two one two. Ktr Ace Hardware stores are 648 00:35:04.239 --> 00:35:08.280 all over this Greater Houston area. And you know, ACE 649 00:35:08.320 --> 00:35:11.119 Hardware is just all over the place, period, but here 650 00:35:11.159 --> 00:35:13.800 in the local area. If you're looking for that group 651 00:35:13.840 --> 00:35:17.239 of ACE Hardware stores that are here in our Houston 652 00:35:17.320 --> 00:35:19.679 area that we talk about all the time, that's Ace 653 00:35:19.760 --> 00:35:23.039 Hardware Texas dot Com. Put the word Texes in there. 654 00:35:23.360 --> 00:35:27.480 Ace Hardware Texas dot Com. No matter what you're looking for, 655 00:35:27.920 --> 00:35:30.280 Ace Hardware has got you covered. It is time to 656 00:35:30.280 --> 00:35:32.719 fertilize the lawn. It is time to do weed control 657 00:35:32.760 --> 00:35:36.199 in the lawn. And so what where do you go? Well, 658 00:35:36.639 --> 00:35:39.360 Ace Hardware They're going to have the fertilizers that I 659 00:35:39.400 --> 00:35:41.880 talk about. They're going to have the products to control 660 00:35:41.920 --> 00:35:44.880 insects and diseases and weeds not just in a lawn, 661 00:35:44.920 --> 00:35:47.400 but in your garden and in your landscape. Do you 662 00:35:47.440 --> 00:35:52.000 need tools for pruning? Do you need spreaders for your fertilizer, 663 00:35:52.159 --> 00:35:54.679 for your fireant, bad for all of those kinds of things. 664 00:35:55.159 --> 00:35:57.920 Ace Hardware that's the place to go. They will get 665 00:35:57.920 --> 00:35:59.639 you fixed up. And all you have to do is 666 00:35:59.639 --> 00:36:03.199 go to Acehardware Texas dot Com to find the store 667 00:36:03.239 --> 00:36:05.320 near you. Now, when you're there, I gotta warn you 668 00:36:06.079 --> 00:36:08.599 take an empty pickup or trailer so you can go. 669 00:36:08.800 --> 00:36:10.880 You're gonna see a barbecue pit that you can't live without. 670 00:36:10.920 --> 00:36:12.840 I promise you that every time I go in, I 671 00:36:12.880 --> 00:36:15.719 see a barbecue pit I can't live without. In all 672 00:36:15.840 --> 00:36:19.800 the outdoor living things and indoor living that ace hardware 673 00:36:19.880 --> 00:36:23.800 offers be a good day to visit too. It's indoors, 674 00:36:25.280 --> 00:36:27.440 don't have to worry about the rain. All right, let's 675 00:36:27.480 --> 00:36:31.239 see here. We're gonna go now and talk to Shane. Hello, Shane, 676 00:36:31.239 --> 00:36:38.159 Welcome to garden Line. Let's see do we have Shane? Well, 677 00:36:38.239 --> 00:36:40.800 you know what we do have, Shane. There we go. Hey, Shane, 678 00:36:40.800 --> 00:36:41.880 welcome to garden Line. 679 00:36:42.960 --> 00:36:44.079 Hey, Skip, how you doing, sir? 680 00:36:45.480 --> 00:36:47.039 I'm doing good. How can we help? 681 00:36:48.159 --> 00:36:50.559 I want to see what you recommend. I'm looking to 682 00:36:50.599 --> 00:36:55.559 redo our flower beds and add some cactus, some cold hardy, 683 00:36:55.639 --> 00:37:00.960 probably down to twenty degrees. Okay, what would you recommend him? 684 00:37:00.960 --> 00:37:02.239 Where I find them? 685 00:37:03.199 --> 00:37:08.039 You're done in road sharing area? Yes, yes, sir, yeah 686 00:37:08.239 --> 00:37:08.760 you know I would. 687 00:37:08.840 --> 00:37:09.000 Uh. 688 00:37:09.119 --> 00:37:12.039 Well, first I just check out Jraes Hidden Gardens down 689 00:37:12.119 --> 00:37:15.800 in Alvin. Uh they do have I think the last 690 00:37:15.800 --> 00:37:17.480 time I was in there, I noticed that they did 691 00:37:17.480 --> 00:37:20.440 have cactus, some cactus in I could be wrong about that. 692 00:37:20.480 --> 00:37:22.480 You may want to give them a call first, uh, 693 00:37:22.519 --> 00:37:25.719 and see when you head down. You know from you 694 00:37:25.960 --> 00:37:29.079 just to the west is enchanted forest and chanted gardens 695 00:37:29.079 --> 00:37:31.599 out in Richmond. I do know that they carry some 696 00:37:31.760 --> 00:37:33.719 and they can go through them and tell you which 697 00:37:33.719 --> 00:37:34.719 ones are cold hearty. 698 00:37:35.199 --> 00:37:35.440 Uh. 699 00:37:35.480 --> 00:37:39.000 In terms of outdoors, you know, we when we say cactus, 700 00:37:39.039 --> 00:37:41.800 that covers a lot of different kinds of plants, and 701 00:37:41.880 --> 00:37:46.480 so whether it's cactus or agave or yuccas or you know, 702 00:37:46.599 --> 00:37:50.880 all the different desert type plants, they've got you covered 703 00:37:50.880 --> 00:37:51.320 on those. 704 00:37:52.440 --> 00:37:55.360 Okay, I appreciate it, all right. 705 00:37:56.440 --> 00:38:01.239 You bet, Thank you for the call. Appreciate that alrighty. 706 00:38:01.320 --> 00:38:03.320 Let's see here, Well I've got time for another call. 707 00:38:03.320 --> 00:38:06.840 We're going to go now to Waller and talk to Blake. Hey, Blake, 708 00:38:07.039 --> 00:38:10.840 welcome to garden Line. Hey, Skip, how you doing. 709 00:38:10.960 --> 00:38:11.159 Hey? 710 00:38:11.199 --> 00:38:14.920 It's actually Walker County, a Walker County, Okay? 711 00:38:15.880 --> 00:38:16.360 Yeah. 712 00:38:16.519 --> 00:38:18.960 Hey, We've been in a new home for about two 713 00:38:19.000 --> 00:38:23.159 months and we put down some say Augustine. 714 00:38:23.199 --> 00:38:24.679 It's been growing great. 715 00:38:25.440 --> 00:38:27.360 But do I do you think I should put any 716 00:38:27.400 --> 00:38:29.039 fertilizer down? 717 00:38:29.119 --> 00:38:30.119 I mean, it's fresh sod. 718 00:38:30.280 --> 00:38:31.480 What are your thoughts? 719 00:38:32.760 --> 00:38:33.960 When did you plant it. 720 00:38:35.559 --> 00:38:36.440 Beginning of March. 721 00:38:38.280 --> 00:38:42.280 I would I would wait at least four weeks, if 722 00:38:42.320 --> 00:38:47.360 not six weeks before you start fertilizing that grass just 723 00:38:47.440 --> 00:38:50.239 isn't gonna need it until about them. Uh. And then 724 00:38:50.280 --> 00:38:53.079 I would you know, just maybe do a go ahead 725 00:38:53.079 --> 00:38:55.440 and do a slow release at this point so it 726 00:38:55.440 --> 00:38:58.960 will gradually feed it as it continues to establish and 727 00:38:58.960 --> 00:39:00.239 and and and grow in. 728 00:39:01.559 --> 00:39:04.280 Okay, and what products you think you'd recommend? 729 00:39:05.519 --> 00:39:08.039 Yeah, we got a couple of good good products out there. 730 00:39:08.079 --> 00:39:11.000 The Night of Fuss has the silver bag. It is 731 00:39:11.920 --> 00:39:15.880 called super Turf. Super Turf. It's a silver bag, real easy, 732 00:39:16.079 --> 00:39:17.920 easy to see, so that you know, that would be 733 00:39:18.239 --> 00:39:21.199 a good example. You know, it kind of depends on 734 00:39:21.239 --> 00:39:23.719 what's sold right in your area. I don't know the 735 00:39:23.840 --> 00:39:28.440 stores up there. Are you in Huntsville or just outside 736 00:39:28.519 --> 00:39:28.719 or what? 737 00:39:30.199 --> 00:39:31.960 Yeah, about fifteen minutes from Huntsville. 738 00:39:33.199 --> 00:39:35.840 Okay, I'm sure you've got some up there. I just 739 00:39:35.880 --> 00:39:40.400 haven't been to the garden centers up there recently, so sure. 740 00:39:40.719 --> 00:39:42.800 Probably if you've got an ACE hardware store, I'm sure 741 00:39:42.800 --> 00:39:44.119 they're going to carry stuff like that. 742 00:39:45.320 --> 00:39:45.599 Cool. 743 00:39:45.639 --> 00:39:46.559 Thanks, Skip, appreciate it. 744 00:39:46.559 --> 00:39:47.320 Man to have a good day. 745 00:39:48.599 --> 00:39:53.000 Yeah, thanks for the call. Take care. All right, there 746 00:39:53.039 --> 00:39:57.280 you go, well talking about you know, different things that 747 00:39:57.719 --> 00:39:59.400 we need to be doing. At this time of the year, 748 00:39:59.480 --> 00:40:03.480 it is it is time to make sure that you 749 00:40:03.760 --> 00:40:08.000 have done everything you can to avoid the weed problems. 750 00:40:08.119 --> 00:40:11.440 And a barricade by nitrofoss is a product that we 751 00:40:11.559 --> 00:40:13.880 put down and then we watered into about a half 752 00:40:13.880 --> 00:40:16.559 inch of water. It moves into the soil surface and 753 00:40:16.599 --> 00:40:19.400 then when a weed tries to germinate, maybe it's crabgrass 754 00:40:19.480 --> 00:40:22.480 or grassburrs. Those are summer weeds. You're not having to 755 00:40:22.519 --> 00:40:24.679 deal with them because they never show up. The barricade 756 00:40:24.679 --> 00:40:27.599 shuts them down before they get started. And you're going 757 00:40:27.599 --> 00:40:30.880 to find nitrofoss products at RCW nurseries, You're going to 758 00:40:30.960 --> 00:40:34.000 find it at Hiden and Feed on Student or Airline. 759 00:40:34.000 --> 00:40:35.719 You're going to find it at ACE Hardware City on 760 00:40:35.840 --> 00:40:40.039 Memorial Drive. Lots of places carry nitro foss products. And 761 00:40:40.119 --> 00:40:43.559 barricade is one that will put down a barricade and 762 00:40:43.599 --> 00:40:46.159 shut down the weeds before they even get started. Now 763 00:40:46.800 --> 00:40:48.760 you want to hurry up and do it because every 764 00:40:48.840 --> 00:40:52.239 day you wait as weeds get germinated and begin to 765 00:40:52.280 --> 00:40:55.679 make little plants. Barricade isn't a post emergent. It doesn't 766 00:40:55.760 --> 00:40:58.800 kill existing weeds, it prevents new ones from coming in. 767 00:40:59.320 --> 00:41:02.039 I've got a lot area that's very thin. That means 768 00:41:02.159 --> 00:41:04.920 weeds are going to show up wherever sunlight hits the soil. 769 00:41:05.039 --> 00:41:08.599 Nature plants a weed, so barricades away. We avoid that 770 00:41:08.719 --> 00:41:13.400 from nitroposs. Just one more reminder as we wind up 771 00:41:13.599 --> 00:41:17.840 this hour, I'm not going to be at Warren's Southern 772 00:41:17.880 --> 00:41:21.440 Gardens today as had been planned due to the weather. 773 00:41:21.800 --> 00:41:24.119 Just feel like I don't need to try to be 774 00:41:24.199 --> 00:41:27.519 pulling people out through that kind of weather that we're having, 775 00:41:27.880 --> 00:41:30.679 So we're going to postpone it. I'm going to put 776 00:41:30.679 --> 00:41:35.239 that off and on April nineteenth, that's a Saturday, April nineteenth, 777 00:41:35.320 --> 00:41:39.920 I'll be heading out to warren Southern Gardens. Okay, so 778 00:41:39.960 --> 00:41:45.400 that would be one to two saturdays from today. All right, 779 00:41:45.559 --> 00:41:49.239 there you go. Well, while I'm talking about that, I'll 780 00:41:49.239 --> 00:41:51.519 tell you where I will be next Saturday, and that 781 00:41:51.639 --> 00:41:55.519 is our seed w Nurseries. That's Saturday the twelve, from 782 00:41:55.559 --> 00:41:58.760 twelve to two at our c w R set. When 783 00:41:58.800 --> 00:42:00.559 I come back, i'll tell you a little bit more 784 00:42:00.599 --> 00:42:01.000 about that. 785 00:42:03.639 --> 00:42:07.440 Welcome to Katie r. H Garden Line. With Skip Richard. 786 00:42:07.519 --> 00:42:24.079 It's just watch him as so many good things to 787 00:42:24.199 --> 00:42:25.079 spot by. 788 00:42:32.960 --> 00:42:36.960 Hey, folks, welcome back to garden Line. I'm your host, 789 00:42:38.039 --> 00:42:41.000 Skip Richter. We're here to help you have a bountiful, 790 00:42:41.800 --> 00:42:46.519 bountiful garden, a beautiful landscape and more fun in the process. 791 00:42:46.599 --> 00:42:49.719 Gardening should be fun, and it is fun. Sometimes we 792 00:42:49.800 --> 00:42:52.760 get all tied up in a nott you know, sweating weather. Oh, 793 00:42:52.800 --> 00:42:54.119 I don't know how to grow a plan. I'm going 794 00:42:54.159 --> 00:42:55.960 to kill a plan. I always kill plans and all 795 00:42:55.960 --> 00:42:58.880 that kind of stuff. I understand that, but it's not 796 00:42:58.960 --> 00:43:03.000 necessary maybe and inundated with rules. You know, people say, well, 797 00:43:03.079 --> 00:43:05.000 you have to do this this way, you have to 798 00:43:05.039 --> 00:43:08.840 do that that way. Listen. The only rules are have fun. 799 00:43:09.239 --> 00:43:12.599 Oh and the rules that are between you and your hoa. 800 00:43:13.280 --> 00:43:18.199 I'll stay out of that one. But seriously, it's gardening. 801 00:43:18.320 --> 00:43:20.840 Is it's fun and it don't There's no shame in 802 00:43:20.920 --> 00:43:23.239 killing a plant. There's just not. That's part of the 803 00:43:23.320 --> 00:43:26.599 learning process. You can get you another one. Or maybe 804 00:43:27.199 --> 00:43:29.559 maybe you didn't plant it right. Maybe it wasn't a 805 00:43:29.559 --> 00:43:32.039 plant that wanted to grow here. Maybe you got busy, 806 00:43:32.440 --> 00:43:34.679 went on vacation, it didn't get watered or you know, 807 00:43:34.800 --> 00:43:37.519 all the billion things that can happen along the way. 808 00:43:38.239 --> 00:43:42.440 But the plants are for you to enjoy. That's why 809 00:43:42.480 --> 00:43:44.760 we plant them. You want to beautify your landscape, you 810 00:43:44.760 --> 00:43:48.039 want to add value to your landscape, and you want to 811 00:43:48.079 --> 00:43:51.519 have fun, and so have fun. It's okay, you can 812 00:43:51.599 --> 00:43:54.199 get you another plant. One of the best horticulturists in 813 00:43:54.280 --> 00:43:57.719 this country from over on the East Coast a number 814 00:43:57.719 --> 00:43:59.719 of years ago, made a statement, and it was to 815 00:43:59.760 --> 00:44:02.079 be a horticulture She got to kill a lot of plants. 816 00:44:02.320 --> 00:44:05.960 And I think that I'm giving you permission to kill plants. Okay, 817 00:44:06.159 --> 00:44:09.119 isn't that the weirdest thing to hear on a gardening show? 818 00:44:09.480 --> 00:44:12.960 You go kill plants. No, I'm not saying you should 819 00:44:13.039 --> 00:44:15.719 go do it. I'm just saying it's okay if you do. 820 00:44:15.920 --> 00:44:20.119 You're learning. Do you know that nature kills plants every year. 821 00:44:20.719 --> 00:44:23.599 They're called annuals at the end of the season. In fact, 822 00:44:23.599 --> 00:44:27.639 they commit suicide. They they bloom and they die because 823 00:44:27.679 --> 00:44:30.639 the season is changing. I mean it just it's part 824 00:44:30.679 --> 00:44:34.519 of the switchover of the landscape. And don't be afraid 825 00:44:34.519 --> 00:44:36.880 to do that. And know that all landscapes too. By 826 00:44:36.920 --> 00:44:40.559 the way are temporary. They all need renovating at some 827 00:44:40.679 --> 00:44:44.880 point or they become a mess, just a mess. You know, 828 00:44:44.880 --> 00:44:47.079 those shrubs you can't even are growing over the eaves 829 00:44:47.079 --> 00:44:49.440 of the house. You can't see out the windows, all 830 00:44:49.519 --> 00:44:53.559 that kind of thing. So it's a constant state of renovation. 831 00:44:53.840 --> 00:44:56.840 That's what nature is, and I think that's one of 832 00:44:56.880 --> 00:44:59.880 the best things about gardening because it's always a new star. 833 00:45:00.199 --> 00:45:03.360 There are not many places in life situations where you 834 00:45:03.960 --> 00:45:09.599 can just totally start fresh over. I mean zero. You 835 00:45:09.639 --> 00:45:11.599 could right now, get out there, pull every plant you 836 00:45:11.599 --> 00:45:13.800 got up, run a rototiller over the whole property, and 837 00:45:13.840 --> 00:45:16.000 replant everything the way you wanted to look. I know 838 00:45:16.079 --> 00:45:19.960 I wouldn't necessarily recommend that, but you could. You could. 839 00:45:20.400 --> 00:45:23.000 I guess what I'm trying to say is this, let's learn, 840 00:45:23.079 --> 00:45:26.760 let's have fun, and don't be afraid to try something new. 841 00:45:26.880 --> 00:45:30.000 I've planted things before, and later I thought, well, was 842 00:45:30.000 --> 00:45:32.760 I thinking I knew that plant wasn't going to work there? 843 00:45:32.880 --> 00:45:35.239 I mean, if I had thought about it, pull it up, 844 00:45:35.599 --> 00:45:37.840 move it somewhere else, or just put something else in 845 00:45:37.880 --> 00:45:41.320 its place. All right, I think that makes sense. Well, 846 00:45:42.199 --> 00:45:45.039 let's head straight out now to Kingwood, and we're going 847 00:45:45.119 --> 00:45:47.920 to talk to Mike. Hey, Mike, welcome to garden Line. 848 00:45:49.280 --> 00:45:50.760 Thanks thanks for having me. 849 00:45:51.079 --> 00:45:54.559 Hey, I had some real hard packed dirk and a 850 00:45:54.559 --> 00:45:57.679 couple of places over by some big oak trees and 851 00:45:57.719 --> 00:46:01.840 sycamore trees. I mean just heart packs almost like seeing 852 00:46:01.880 --> 00:46:06.760 it and break down and put some new sawd there 853 00:46:06.880 --> 00:46:10.760 and and some sand in the step. But okay, growing 854 00:46:10.800 --> 00:46:14.920 in this hard pack, especially in the backyard is uh 855 00:46:15.199 --> 00:46:19.159 a layer of fungus. It's almost like its just picked fungus. 856 00:46:19.280 --> 00:46:21.920 It looks like a green AstroTurf carpet. 857 00:46:22.199 --> 00:46:23.360 It's not grass. 858 00:46:23.400 --> 00:46:24.360 Definitely a fungus. 859 00:46:24.880 --> 00:46:27.440 So what did I use to kill that before? 860 00:46:27.480 --> 00:46:31.039 I uh try to you know, first area and then 861 00:46:31.159 --> 00:46:32.559 put some new over it. 862 00:46:33.280 --> 00:46:36.519 Well, what it is is it's a moss, a moss 863 00:46:36.679 --> 00:46:40.079 and uh you you know you can you could spray 864 00:46:40.079 --> 00:46:41.320 it and kill her, or you could just kind of 865 00:46:41.360 --> 00:46:43.400 scrape it, or if you're going to do any spading 866 00:46:43.440 --> 00:46:46.000 and rototilling, it's going to break it up anyway. But 867 00:46:46.079 --> 00:46:47.719 if you just want to scrape it off, that's fine. 868 00:46:47.760 --> 00:46:51.320 There are products. There's a product called moss Max moss 869 00:46:51.360 --> 00:46:54.519 smacks that you can spray on it. But it's there 870 00:46:54.639 --> 00:46:58.360 because it's shady and it's wet and and other things 871 00:46:58.400 --> 00:47:00.960 just aren't growing, and it's filling in the space, and 872 00:47:01.039 --> 00:47:04.599 so I wouldn't worry about it a whole lot. Just 873 00:47:04.639 --> 00:47:08.039 scrape it off and go on with the preparation that 874 00:47:08.079 --> 00:47:09.920 you're talking about. That's good. You want to get that 875 00:47:09.960 --> 00:47:12.559 soil ready so you can have a chance for success. 876 00:47:14.360 --> 00:47:16.159 Okay, I appreciate you very much. 877 00:47:16.360 --> 00:47:19.840 Thanks, Hey, Mike, Thanks lot. Remember I'm not coming out 878 00:47:19.880 --> 00:47:23.360 to Kingwood this today, but I'll be there on Saturday, 879 00:47:23.360 --> 00:47:25.480 April nineteenth, So if y'all got it, you get a 880 00:47:25.559 --> 00:47:27.000 chance coming out and see me. Bring me some of 881 00:47:27.039 --> 00:47:31.639 your moss. I'd like to see it, all right, take care, 882 00:47:34.320 --> 00:47:41.679 all right, thank you. Okay, soil and quality in terms 883 00:47:41.679 --> 00:47:43.800 of nutrients, I want to talk about that just a minute. 884 00:47:45.400 --> 00:47:48.320 The way nature works, you know before we showed up 885 00:47:48.400 --> 00:47:52.880 with fertilizer spreaders. The way nature works is organic matter 886 00:47:52.920 --> 00:47:56.599 decomposes and it releases its nutrients into the mineral of 887 00:47:56.639 --> 00:48:00.159 the soil, which is also releasing the nutrients for the 888 00:48:00.239 --> 00:48:03.159 mineral particles that are on there, and it creates this 889 00:48:03.239 --> 00:48:07.960 perfect environment for roots to thrive microlife. Fertilizers designed around 890 00:48:08.000 --> 00:48:12.400 that principle. You know, every granule of microlife was once 891 00:48:12.519 --> 00:48:17.159 something living. Okay, there was something living that decomposed into 892 00:48:17.199 --> 00:48:20.440 what now is a fertilizer product. It has been produced 893 00:48:20.440 --> 00:48:24.559 into a fertilizer product that you put down and microbes 894 00:48:24.639 --> 00:48:26.920 get a hold of it like they do any organic 895 00:48:27.000 --> 00:48:29.679 matter in nature. They break it down and they get 896 00:48:29.719 --> 00:48:32.360 those nutrients out. So the green bag, the six to four, 897 00:48:32.480 --> 00:48:36.360 the number one selling organic fertilizer in Houston from microlife, 898 00:48:37.079 --> 00:48:39.639 that's what we're talking about. It's a good ratio, perfect 899 00:48:39.719 --> 00:48:42.440 ratio for plants, a three one two ratio for that 900 00:48:42.519 --> 00:48:46.159 lawn you're wanting to grow. It's time to get that out. 901 00:48:46.280 --> 00:48:48.239 You can do it now and you can repeat that 902 00:48:48.280 --> 00:48:50.599 through the season. If you follow my schedule, you'll see 903 00:48:50.599 --> 00:48:54.280 on there I got an organic row going across on 904 00:48:54.400 --> 00:48:57.880 the lawn care schedule, and you just apply it and 905 00:48:58.159 --> 00:49:02.239 allow it to come completely be released by nature to 906 00:49:02.320 --> 00:49:04.719 feed the grass. That's how it works. You can also 907 00:49:04.760 --> 00:49:07.559 put the purple bag hum mats plus. Think of that 908 00:49:07.679 --> 00:49:11.039 not as a fertilizer, but as a soil improver, a 909 00:49:11.039 --> 00:49:15.119 soil amendment. It is a final decomposed states of organic matter. 910 00:49:15.199 --> 00:49:19.239 Humates plus the purple bag by Microlife. Those two together 911 00:49:19.679 --> 00:49:22.480 make a really good way to kick off spring in 912 00:49:22.760 --> 00:49:25.280 a very good way so that you can have success. 913 00:49:26.800 --> 00:49:29.760 Now you're gonna find Microlife at a lot of different places. 914 00:49:29.800 --> 00:49:33.840 It's widely available. One example is Buchanan's Native Plants Downtown. 915 00:49:33.840 --> 00:49:36.039 They're on Eleventh Street and the Heights. And by the way, 916 00:49:36.039 --> 00:49:37.639 if you haven't been to the Buchanans you need to 917 00:49:37.679 --> 00:49:41.559 go Eleventh Street and the Heights. Here's the website, though 918 00:49:41.800 --> 00:49:45.000 I want to make sure I say this, Buchanansplants dot com. 919 00:49:45.280 --> 00:49:48.199 You need to go there, sign up for the newsletter. 920 00:49:48.360 --> 00:49:52.480 It is wonderful. It is informative and very helpful. And 921 00:49:52.519 --> 00:49:55.039 if you canons, you're gonna find the fertilizers you're looking for, 922 00:49:55.199 --> 00:49:58.159 the soil products you're looking for. But most important, you're 923 00:49:58.159 --> 00:50:01.599 going to find one of the best selections of native 924 00:50:01.599 --> 00:50:05.760 plants throughout this whole region, and non native plants as well. 925 00:50:06.039 --> 00:50:08.719 Today'd be a good day to be in their Houseplank greenhouse. 926 00:50:08.760 --> 00:50:11.840 It's huge and it's covered. I could get wet in there. 927 00:50:12.239 --> 00:50:16.000 Buchanans Native Plants eleven Street in the Heights. 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We're going to 968 00:52:33.000 --> 00:52:37.039 go now to Tomaliah out in Walker County. Hey, Tomaliah, 969 00:52:37.079 --> 00:52:38.159 welcome to Gardenline. 970 00:52:39.639 --> 00:52:46.880 Good morning. I'm calling to ask you about my Esperanza. Okay, okay, 971 00:52:48.039 --> 00:52:51.239 true confession. I did not take any measures to protect 972 00:52:51.239 --> 00:52:54.079 her through this cold that we had up here in 973 00:52:54.159 --> 00:52:57.960 December and January. I don't see any signs of life 974 00:52:58.280 --> 00:53:04.400 should I? I mean, is well you start sprouting? 975 00:53:05.840 --> 00:53:09.039 You might? I mean what you probably got down did 976 00:53:09.039 --> 00:53:10.760 you get in the low twenties or how cold did 977 00:53:10.800 --> 00:53:11.559 it get for you. 978 00:53:14.559 --> 00:53:16.239 Very low teens? 979 00:53:16.960 --> 00:53:18.360 Lo teens? 980 00:53:19.159 --> 00:53:20.280 Yeah? 981 00:53:20.320 --> 00:53:25.960 Well, Esperanza, even you know in milder areas will die 982 00:53:26.000 --> 00:53:29.559 back considerably in the winter, often to the ground and 983 00:53:29.639 --> 00:53:32.920 come back. If that crown of the plant was up 984 00:53:32.920 --> 00:53:35.039 a little high and exposed, and if there was no 985 00:53:35.239 --> 00:53:38.719 mulch piled up against it to provide a little insulation, 986 00:53:39.639 --> 00:53:42.760 it's possible that you lost it. I would give it 987 00:53:42.760 --> 00:53:44.599 a little more time, though. Let's let it warm up 988 00:53:44.639 --> 00:53:47.960 a little more by the end of April, for sure it. 989 00:53:48.400 --> 00:53:51.119 If you don't see life on it, I don't think 990 00:53:51.199 --> 00:53:57.199 it's coming back. Esperanza likes warm weather, and in general 991 00:53:57.199 --> 00:53:59.719 they're pretty cold, Harty. But boy, if you were low teens, 992 00:53:59.800 --> 00:54:03.599 that you may have lost it in that one. So 993 00:54:03.800 --> 00:54:05.679 but I wouldn't give up quite yet. 994 00:54:05.800 --> 00:54:09.519 Okay, okay, thank you very much. Sir, appreciate it. 995 00:54:10.199 --> 00:54:12.280 You bet, and in future years, by the way, tummila 996 00:54:13.280 --> 00:54:15.360 just a pile of big old pollo mulch over the 997 00:54:15.360 --> 00:54:18.519 crown of the plant. Comp could be composed or mult 998 00:54:18.639 --> 00:54:21.280 or whatever. Just when we're going into a coal spell, 999 00:54:21.320 --> 00:54:23.079 you can buy a bag of compost and just dump 1000 00:54:23.079 --> 00:54:25.719 it on the base and then pull it back after 1001 00:54:25.760 --> 00:54:28.199 the cold spell. You don't leave it smother it all winter, 1002 00:54:28.880 --> 00:54:31.800 but that'll get you through. These kinds of things provide 1003 00:54:31.840 --> 00:54:35.360 that little extra thanks a lot for your call. Nine 1004 00:54:35.400 --> 00:54:38.840 to fives. Barricade is the product that you put down 1005 00:54:39.079 --> 00:54:41.440 to prevent weeds. I don't care if it's a grassy 1006 00:54:41.440 --> 00:54:44.360 weed seed coming up, a broad leaf wheat seed coming up. 1007 00:54:44.400 --> 00:54:47.360 But remember the word is prevent. It doesn't kill existing weeds. 1008 00:54:47.400 --> 00:54:50.199 It prevents the wheat seeds. So when it works, you 1009 00:54:50.199 --> 00:54:52.480 don't even know it because you never saw the weed. 1010 00:54:52.559 --> 00:54:54.079 You know, if you got a weed, you spray and 1011 00:54:54.159 --> 00:54:58.159 kill it. Well, you see that barricade is on the ground, 1012 00:54:58.360 --> 00:55:01.480 forming that barricade to event the weed seeds from ever 1013 00:55:01.519 --> 00:55:03.800 getting started. And if your lawne is thin, you will 1014 00:55:03.800 --> 00:55:07.320 have weeds wherever sunlight hits the soil. Nature plants a weed, 1015 00:55:07.719 --> 00:55:11.079 and wherever barricade hits the soil, that weed is prevented. 1016 00:55:11.280 --> 00:55:13.280 Now you're gonna find barricade in a lot of places 1017 00:55:13.320 --> 00:55:16.599 like M and D Cypress on Luetta Road, Langham Creek, 1018 00:55:16.679 --> 00:55:20.239 Ace on FM five twenty nine. That's in the Copperfield area. 1019 00:55:20.519 --> 00:55:24.159 Kde Ace Hardware on Pinoak all examples of places they're 1020 00:55:24.199 --> 00:55:27.480 carry nitropost products. We're going to go now talk to 1021 00:55:27.719 --> 00:55:31.519 Joe in Spring, Texas. Hey, Joe, welcome regardline. 1022 00:55:32.639 --> 00:55:35.360 Hey you get Hey, I've got a weed in my 1023 00:55:35.480 --> 00:55:38.920 yard that just will not go away. I've been pulling 1024 00:55:39.000 --> 00:55:41.199 on it for about two years now. I think it's 1025 00:55:41.199 --> 00:55:46.360 called Sunshine the mosa. It's kind of a thorny vine 1026 00:55:46.480 --> 00:55:49.519 with little purple flowers on it, and you know, get 1027 00:55:49.519 --> 00:55:51.639 out there and pull it up and it just keeps 1028 00:55:51.639 --> 00:55:53.760 coming back. Anything I can spray on that. 1029 00:55:55.280 --> 00:55:57.599 Have you noticed when you touch the leaves, does it 1030 00:55:57.800 --> 00:56:01.679 do they close up like they're literally folding up from 1031 00:56:01.760 --> 00:56:02.360 touch or not? 1032 00:56:03.960 --> 00:56:04.000 No? 1033 00:56:05.760 --> 00:56:09.480 Okay, Well that is a that is a semi woody weed. 1034 00:56:09.519 --> 00:56:13.039 Those vines are like wire, aren't they very very strong? 1035 00:56:14.360 --> 00:56:17.039 Zach Am, I correct about that? Yeah, okay, And the 1036 00:56:17.800 --> 00:56:22.079 giveaway is those those little catclaw dorns on it. You're 1037 00:56:22.079 --> 00:56:24.400 going to need to do one or two things. Either 1038 00:56:24.559 --> 00:56:27.159 hand dig it up when the soil is moist, just 1039 00:56:27.280 --> 00:56:30.440 get a spade or a I use a soil knife 1040 00:56:30.840 --> 00:56:33.320 underneath it and lift it up out of there, or 1041 00:56:33.840 --> 00:56:37.400 spray it with something that is a pretty powerful broad 1042 00:56:37.480 --> 00:56:41.519 leaf control. There's a product called trimec that will hurt 1043 00:56:41.559 --> 00:56:44.239 your lawn if you spray it discriminately. But if you 1044 00:56:44.239 --> 00:56:46.639 can get just a little bit on the weed leaves 1045 00:56:47.159 --> 00:56:49.840 and you'll minimize the damage to the lawn, but it 1046 00:56:49.880 --> 00:56:52.599 will kill them. There are also some products that have 1047 00:56:52.719 --> 00:56:57.280 trimech in them, TRIMEC, t r IMEC, that's three different 1048 00:56:57.400 --> 00:57:00.920 broad leaf herbicides. They will at least make it weak 1049 00:57:01.000 --> 00:57:04.239 and sick, and they may kill it and they may not. 1050 00:57:04.840 --> 00:57:08.039 But that's a that's a tougher weed to control. But 1051 00:57:08.119 --> 00:57:09.400 those would be the options. 1052 00:57:10.599 --> 00:57:12.679 Okay, So if I get it a little bit on 1053 00:57:12.719 --> 00:57:15.039 the grass, like say you get it on a few 1054 00:57:15.119 --> 00:57:18.440 blades of the Saint Augustine, does it tend to kill 1055 00:57:18.480 --> 00:57:21.079 off the whole runner of Saying Augustine or just at 1056 00:57:21.239 --> 00:57:22.480 one little spot. 1057 00:57:22.639 --> 00:57:26.039 Well, it might. It depends on the condition of the grass. 1058 00:57:26.079 --> 00:57:27.280 You know what I would do. If you go to 1059 00:57:27.320 --> 00:57:31.000 my website Gardening with Skip dot com, you're gonna find 1060 00:57:31.000 --> 00:57:34.159 two things. One is the weed wiper. I make a 1061 00:57:34.199 --> 00:57:36.440 homemade weed wiper that you can make two and I 1062 00:57:36.480 --> 00:57:38.960 tell you how to do it. It sponges on the 1063 00:57:39.000 --> 00:57:42.159 end of a stick that squeezed together, and you could 1064 00:57:42.239 --> 00:57:45.440 put the product like trimec on the weed wiper and 1065 00:57:45.480 --> 00:57:48.719 then reach down and just squeeze that weed, trying to 1066 00:57:48.719 --> 00:57:50.840 get it mostly on the weed. Even if you kind 1067 00:57:50.840 --> 00:57:53.239 of lifted and pull the weed up through the grass, 1068 00:57:53.239 --> 00:57:55.079 get it up on top and just just squeeze a 1069 00:57:55.119 --> 00:57:58.360 little bit on the weed. That would minimize damage about 1070 00:57:58.360 --> 00:58:00.519 as minimal as you can as you can do it. 1071 00:58:01.920 --> 00:58:04.679 Okay, okay, okay, all. 1072 00:58:04.679 --> 00:58:08.039 Right, Joe. Thanks Gardening Gardening with Yeah, Gardening with Skip 1073 00:58:08.119 --> 00:58:10.280 dot com. That's where you need to go. Thanks a lot. 1074 00:58:10.719 --> 00:58:13.360 I do appreciate your call. If you go down to 1075 00:58:13.440 --> 00:58:17.360 the Richmond Rosenberg area and you head northward, Katie Fulsher, 1076 00:58:18.360 --> 00:58:21.239 you're going to come across Enchanted Gardens on FM three 1077 00:58:21.239 --> 00:58:24.440 point fifty nine, and that is a special place. You 1078 00:58:24.480 --> 00:58:30.039 can go to the website Enchanted Gardens Richmond, Enchanted Gardens 1079 00:58:30.199 --> 00:58:34.480 Richmond dot com. And you're gonna find there a lot 1080 00:58:34.519 --> 00:58:37.519 of information. When you walk up, your jaw's gonna drop 1081 00:58:37.559 --> 00:58:41.519 because this is a sprawled out, beautiful place that everywhere 1082 00:58:41.559 --> 00:58:43.800 you look there's something interesting you want to go see, 1083 00:58:43.840 --> 00:58:51.159 whether it's vegetables and herbs or flowers, beautiful color, ornamental grasses, roses, trees, shrubs, pines, 1084 00:58:52.280 --> 00:58:54.800 whatever kind of plant that you're looking for, you're gonna 1085 00:58:54.800 --> 00:58:59.320 find it there at Enchanted Gardens and Richmond And again 1086 00:58:59.360 --> 00:59:03.360 it's Katief of Richmond outside of town FM three point 1087 00:59:03.360 --> 00:59:05.719 fifty nine. While you're there, you're going to see cool 1088 00:59:05.719 --> 00:59:09.440 stuff like containers. They have a beautiful container selection, those 1089 00:59:09.519 --> 00:59:12.599 nice wire baskets that you line with coconut core to 1090 00:59:12.679 --> 00:59:17.559 keep core, to keep just a gorgeous, gorgeous hanging basket 1091 00:59:17.639 --> 00:59:21.519 underneath your trees or wherever you choose to put it. Fountains, 1092 00:59:21.559 --> 00:59:25.039 wind chimes, whimsical yard art. I mean, it's it's all there. 1093 00:59:25.400 --> 00:59:27.559 And then when it comes to products, remember how I 1094 00:59:27.559 --> 00:59:30.360 always say brown stuff before green stuff. When you leave 1095 00:59:30.400 --> 00:59:33.800 in Chana Gardens, make sure you've grabbed some fertilizer from 1096 00:59:33.840 --> 00:59:37.480 Microlife or Nitrofoss or Nelson or Medina. Make sure you've 1097 00:59:37.480 --> 00:59:41.360 grabbed soil products from Nature's Way or airloom soils. That 1098 00:59:41.480 --> 00:59:45.800 mean they they know what they're doing. They know that 1099 00:59:45.840 --> 00:59:48.880 it's important to get the soil right. At enchanted gardens 1100 00:59:49.159 --> 00:59:52.599 in Chenne Gardens Richmond dot com. That's it. That's what 1101 00:59:52.639 --> 00:59:58.320 you need to know. So I in my landscape this 1102 00:59:58.400 --> 01:00:03.320 past week, I did a major renovation cleanup of the lawn. 1103 01:00:03.400 --> 01:00:05.440 I had some lawn areas I just hadn't gotten in 1104 01:00:05.440 --> 01:00:07.119 in mode yet and they had a lot of dead 1105 01:00:07.159 --> 01:00:09.760 grass and them, you know from last year's leaves it 1106 01:00:09.960 --> 01:00:13.039 got frost burned or whatever, and got it all cleaned 1107 01:00:13.119 --> 01:00:15.880 up and ready to go. I got as much of 1108 01:00:15.880 --> 01:00:18.079 the old stuff as I could, just with a good 1109 01:00:18.440 --> 01:00:22.000 lower mowing, not I wouldn't say scalping, not that low, 1110 01:00:22.639 --> 01:00:24.519 but got a good low mowing on it. And it's 1111 01:00:24.800 --> 01:00:27.599 it's coming back green already. It looks really good, by 1112 01:00:27.639 --> 01:00:30.880 the way. And if you are looking to get your 1113 01:00:30.920 --> 01:00:33.480 lawn in good shape, you need to use a quality 1114 01:00:33.519 --> 01:00:38.079 product to do that. One example of that kind of 1115 01:00:38.119 --> 01:00:41.280 product is sweet Green sweet Greens from Nitroposs and it's 1116 01:00:41.280 --> 01:00:44.880 an organic plant food and they've really done their homework 1117 01:00:44.920 --> 01:00:48.679 on this many years of research and getting this formulated 1118 01:00:48.760 --> 01:00:52.280 and done right. But it's eleven percent nitrogen product that 1119 01:00:52.440 --> 01:00:55.599 is a sugar base, a molasses type base, and as 1120 01:00:55.639 --> 01:00:58.639 a result, it smells good. So when you put water 1121 01:00:58.719 --> 01:01:00.840 on it or it rains on it, it reacts with 1122 01:01:00.880 --> 01:01:05.280 the water and releases the nutrients into the soil to 1123 01:01:05.400 --> 01:01:09.599 promote growth of the plant. Microbes love it. Any organic 1124 01:01:09.599 --> 01:01:12.480 gardener can tell you that molasses is something they put 1125 01:01:12.519 --> 01:01:16.559 on the soil to support a proliferation of microbe growth, 1126 01:01:16.599 --> 01:01:19.280 especially those good bacteria that are in the soil, to 1127 01:01:19.320 --> 01:01:22.920 promote that optimum health and performance of your plant. Now, 1128 01:01:23.239 --> 01:01:27.440 sweet grains available from many places, as are other nitrofoss products. 1129 01:01:27.440 --> 01:01:30.159 So you're going to find Nitrofoss products at Ace Hardware 1130 01:01:30.239 --> 01:01:32.840 City on Memorial Drive. You're going to find it at 1131 01:01:32.880 --> 01:01:36.480 Aspas Ace in the Woodlands, or at ACE at Sinkle 1132 01:01:36.559 --> 01:01:41.039 Ranch on Mason Road out there in Katie. Another quality 1133 01:01:41.039 --> 01:01:46.159 product from the folks at Nitrofoss. If you would like 1134 01:01:46.199 --> 01:01:47.480 to give me a call, We've got time for a 1135 01:01:47.519 --> 01:01:49.920 quick call here before the next break. Seven to one 1136 01:01:50.000 --> 01:01:54.440 three two one two kt RH seven to one three 1137 01:01:54.960 --> 01:01:59.159 two one two kt r H. If you look outside, 1138 01:01:59.360 --> 01:02:03.440 and you've got metal furniture that ain't looking its best. Okay, 1139 01:02:04.239 --> 01:02:06.800 we used to have those kinds of chairs that are 1140 01:02:06.840 --> 01:02:09.679 tubular metal and then you sit on the metal plates. 1141 01:02:09.840 --> 01:02:12.719 They're always painted primary colors, you know, real pretty. When 1142 01:02:12.719 --> 01:02:14.239 you sit them, you kind of bounce a little bit 1143 01:02:14.239 --> 01:02:16.800 because of the curve of the legs the way the 1144 01:02:16.840 --> 01:02:18.320 chair holds up. You know what I'm talking about. I 1145 01:02:18.320 --> 01:02:21.039 don't know the name of them, but I know they're cool. Well, 1146 01:02:21.280 --> 01:02:24.239 Houston Powder Coders can turn one of those into a 1147 01:02:24.280 --> 01:02:26.440 brand new chair. What they'll do is they'll bring it in. 1148 01:02:26.480 --> 01:02:28.840 They'll deal with any rust, if there's any wells that 1149 01:02:28.920 --> 01:02:32.519 need fixing, they can do that. All that rusty hardware 1150 01:02:32.599 --> 01:02:35.000 you know that bolts the chair to the leg, They'll 1151 01:02:35.000 --> 01:02:39.559 put brand new stainless steel bolts and screws and everything 1152 01:02:39.599 --> 01:02:42.599 on it. They make it look new. It's better, way 1153 01:02:42.639 --> 01:02:46.119 better than painting. Powder coating is. And they have over 1154 01:02:46.159 --> 01:02:48.760 one hundred different colors to choose from, so you can 1155 01:02:48.880 --> 01:02:52.000 choose everything from those big old primary colors red and 1156 01:02:52.079 --> 01:02:54.960 blue and whatever, all the way down to some real 1157 01:02:55.039 --> 01:02:57.639 subtle antique looking colors. I mean, they have them all. 1158 01:02:57.840 --> 01:03:01.079 They're all there and it looks really really good. 1159 01:03:01.480 --> 01:03:01.639 Uh. 1160 01:03:02.000 --> 01:03:04.280 They do with They deal with cast iron, they deal 1161 01:03:04.320 --> 01:03:07.400 with rot iron, They deal with the lunum patio furniture. 1162 01:03:08.000 --> 01:03:08.119 Uh. 1163 01:03:08.320 --> 01:03:10.719 They If you've got a lamppost out in the in 1164 01:03:10.840 --> 01:03:13.679 the landscape and you want to bring it in and 1165 01:03:13.719 --> 01:03:15.679 have them redo it, make it new, they can do that. 1166 01:03:15.880 --> 01:03:18.639 A railing maybe going down a porch railing or a 1167 01:03:18.679 --> 01:03:21.599 metal railing, they can do that. They can replace the 1168 01:03:21.719 --> 01:03:24.559 sling fabric and the vinyl straps in some of the furniture. 1169 01:03:24.559 --> 01:03:28.599 They can do it all. Houston Powdercoders dot Com Houston 1170 01:03:29.000 --> 01:03:34.079 Powdercoders dot com two eight one six seven six thirty 1171 01:03:34.119 --> 01:03:36.840 eight eighty eight. Here's what you need to do. Take 1172 01:03:36.840 --> 01:03:41.039 a picture of your furniture, email it to sales at 1173 01:03:41.360 --> 01:03:45.400 Houstoncoders dot com and they'll give you the results. They'll 1174 01:03:45.400 --> 01:03:47.199 tell you exactly what it's going to cost. So pick 1175 01:03:47.199 --> 01:03:49.760 it up and they'll deliver it in the Greater Houston Aio. 1176 01:03:49.800 --> 01:03:52.320 When they're done, time for me to take a break. 1177 01:03:53.119 --> 01:03:54.679 If you want to give us all so your first 1178 01:03:54.679 --> 01:04:02.199 stop seven one three two one two ktr h. All right, folks, 1179 01:04:03.800 --> 01:04:09.320 that is wishful thinking today walking on sunshine. All right, Well, 1180 01:04:09.320 --> 01:04:13.360 hope you get a little bit of sunshine. We certainly 1181 01:04:13.400 --> 01:04:16.199 don't want to complain about the rain, though it's good 1182 01:04:16.320 --> 01:04:19.239 for our plant. Nothing like rain water top quality water 1183 01:04:19.320 --> 01:04:21.679 you can have. Hey, if you've got some indoor plants 1184 01:04:21.679 --> 01:04:23.840 that you need to repot, and occasionally you do need 1185 01:04:23.880 --> 01:04:25.599 to repot your plants, or maybe you bought a new 1186 01:04:25.639 --> 01:04:27.199 little plant and you wanted to bring it home and 1187 01:04:27.199 --> 01:04:30.239 put it in a container, make sure you get them 1188 01:04:30.320 --> 01:04:32.800 the soil that they need. And just like soil is 1189 01:04:32.840 --> 01:04:36.559 important outside brown stuff before green stuff, it's true inside 1190 01:04:36.599 --> 01:04:39.880 in jungle land, water saving potting soil from night fuss. 1191 01:04:39.719 --> 01:04:43.320 It's distributed by night fuss. It is a quality product 1192 01:04:43.480 --> 01:04:47.519 that drains well but holds moisture well also, so the 1193 01:04:47.559 --> 01:04:51.960 excess strains away, but then between waterings it holds onto 1194 01:04:51.960 --> 01:04:54.119 that moisture to provide it to the plants. Those water 1195 01:04:54.199 --> 01:04:57.320 saving crystals are there just to do that. That is 1196 01:04:57.400 --> 01:04:59.599 exactly what they do. Even when the soil drives out 1197 01:04:59.599 --> 01:05:01.760 a little bit, the roots can grab a hold of 1198 01:05:01.760 --> 01:05:04.559 those crystals and they can continue to get some moisture 1199 01:05:04.599 --> 01:05:08.480 out until you remember or I remember to water them again. 1200 01:05:08.800 --> 01:05:11.519 That's jungle land, now, jungle land's available from m D 1201 01:05:11.639 --> 01:05:14.960 and Cypress on Luetta Road. If you head up to 1202 01:05:15.400 --> 01:05:18.920 Hide and Feed on stupidor Airline, or if maybe you're 1203 01:05:18.960 --> 01:05:22.199 in bearings hardware on Businette or on West Timer, you're 1204 01:05:22.239 --> 01:05:26.760 going to find nitropost products. Let's head to a Taska 1205 01:05:26.880 --> 01:05:29.000 seed one now and we're going to visit with Jennifer. 1206 01:05:29.079 --> 01:05:31.079 Good morning, Jennifer, Welcome to Gardenline. 1207 01:05:31.840 --> 01:05:35.840 Hi, Skip, I have a bed by my house. It's 1208 01:05:35.880 --> 01:05:39.559 about four foot by sixteen and it's on the north 1209 01:05:39.639 --> 01:05:42.400 side of the road, I mean of the house, and 1210 01:05:42.480 --> 01:05:45.199 so in the summer it gets full sun all day 1211 01:05:45.719 --> 01:05:49.039 and in the winter is full shade all day. So 1212 01:05:49.360 --> 01:05:51.400 I am trying to figure out what kind of plant 1213 01:05:51.440 --> 01:05:53.960 I can grow there that has those kind of light 1214 01:05:54.039 --> 01:05:58.280 requirements or we'll make it, I guess with those kind 1215 01:05:58.320 --> 01:05:59.599 of light requirements. 1216 01:06:01.000 --> 01:06:03.960 So it's it's shade in the winter because of the house. 1217 01:06:04.039 --> 01:06:07.159 You're saying, yes, because of the house and where the 1218 01:06:07.199 --> 01:06:09.760 sun is. Ok, it's shade in the winter. And then 1219 01:06:09.800 --> 01:06:12.960 as the sun, who's it's sun in the summer. 1220 01:06:14.400 --> 01:06:18.280 Yeah? Are you looking for a shrub or what kind 1221 01:06:18.320 --> 01:06:19.239 of plant you're looking for? 1222 01:06:19.519 --> 01:06:19.719 Yeah? 1223 01:06:19.760 --> 01:06:23.719 I mean a shrub would be great. I've tried a 1224 01:06:23.760 --> 01:06:29.079 couple when they've died, and I thought, oh, well, maybe 1225 01:06:29.119 --> 01:06:31.639 I can make it a vegetable garden and then just 1226 01:06:31.679 --> 01:06:33.480 have it be bear in the winter. That would be 1227 01:06:33.519 --> 01:06:37.519 another option, yeah. 1228 01:06:36.760 --> 01:06:41.360 Or in the wintertime. In the winter you'd get some light, 1229 01:06:42.280 --> 01:06:44.000 not direct some, but you can get a little too. 1230 01:06:44.079 --> 01:06:46.480 You probably could grow some greens there in the winter, 1231 01:06:46.599 --> 01:06:48.719 lettuce and spinach kinds of things. I mean, they want 1232 01:06:48.760 --> 01:06:52.400 a little more light than that, but they might do okay. Well, 1233 01:06:52.519 --> 01:06:54.519 there are shrubs that can take both the sun and 1234 01:06:54.559 --> 01:06:58.239 the shade that you know. There's there's one that's a 1235 01:06:58.280 --> 01:07:01.440 good one for under the window so burglars can't get 1236 01:07:01.440 --> 01:07:04.639 through it. And it's called Chinese holly. It has sharp 1237 01:07:04.760 --> 01:07:08.079 pointed leaves that are very stiff, but it'll put up 1238 01:07:08.079 --> 01:07:10.679 with quite a bit of shade and also quite a 1239 01:07:10.719 --> 01:07:13.519 bit of sun. Yopon will do okay in some shade too, 1240 01:07:13.679 --> 01:07:16.119 especially during that winter time when there's not a lot 1241 01:07:16.159 --> 01:07:20.039 of demands on the plant. And so that a dwarf jopond, 1242 01:07:20.320 --> 01:07:23.119 talking about the little dwarf joponds, that would be a possibility. 1243 01:07:24.119 --> 01:07:27.199 Let's see. Then the other alternative would be instead of vegetables, 1244 01:07:27.239 --> 01:07:30.599 you could do color, you could do shade loving plants 1245 01:07:30.719 --> 01:07:33.719 and sun loving plants is in a transition if you're 1246 01:07:33.719 --> 01:07:40.199 doing flowers or things like that, a few of them, Yeah, 1247 01:07:40.440 --> 01:07:43.280 just to just trade them out as you go through. 1248 01:07:44.239 --> 01:07:47.480 So those would be I guess there are a few 1249 01:07:47.519 --> 01:07:51.719 options that come to mind. Okay, when you know, when 1250 01:07:51.719 --> 01:07:54.800 we say sun and shade, we're talking about the sunlight 1251 01:07:54.880 --> 01:07:58.400 hitting the soil. But there's there's a difference in light 1252 01:07:58.519 --> 01:08:01.599 intensity within shade. You know, you can have a shade 1253 01:08:01.880 --> 01:08:04.800 that is very bright and so there are there are 1254 01:08:04.960 --> 01:08:09.159 solar rays that are are light rays that are reaching 1255 01:08:09.320 --> 01:08:11.480 the plants. Or you can have a shade that's real 1256 01:08:11.599 --> 01:08:13.880 dark where it's hard to grow anything but monkey grass. 1257 01:08:15.519 --> 01:08:20.159 Yeah no, I don't want monkey grass. Yeah yeah, Okay, 1258 01:08:21.079 --> 01:08:30.560 maybe maybe the dwarf gepon good and annual in front 1259 01:08:30.600 --> 01:08:33.279 of it, you know, and and swamp those out. 1260 01:08:34.439 --> 01:08:37.760 You you could that that is definitely a possibility. And 1261 01:08:37.840 --> 01:08:40.079 so what I would do if I were you is, 1262 01:08:40.119 --> 01:08:43.159 you know, go to a go to a good quality nursery, 1263 01:08:43.840 --> 01:08:46.560 uh and and talk to them about it, let them, 1264 01:08:46.640 --> 01:08:48.479 let them show you what they have and you know 1265 01:08:48.560 --> 01:08:51.119 what what's going to do. Well, you're you're not far 1266 01:08:51.159 --> 01:08:55.399 away from Kingwood and Warren Southern Gardens both. Uh right 1267 01:08:55.399 --> 01:08:57.920 there in Kingwood, and I think i'd run over and 1268 01:08:57.920 --> 01:08:59.439 and take a look at them, tell them, tell them 1269 01:08:59.479 --> 01:09:01.640 about the spot, and ask them what they have. And 1270 01:09:02.279 --> 01:09:04.079 they're going to have some other options. There's a lot 1271 01:09:04.119 --> 01:09:06.520 of different options on plants and things. 1272 01:09:06.880 --> 01:09:12.600 Okay, okay, all right, well that sounds good. Maybe this 1273 01:09:12.680 --> 01:09:15.439 year is the year I can get something in there. 1274 01:09:15.439 --> 01:09:16.880 Okay, figger around. 1275 01:09:18.079 --> 01:09:20.880 Thank you, there you go, there you go, you bet, 1276 01:09:20.960 --> 01:09:23.159 Thank you for the call. Appreciate that you take care, 1277 01:09:25.000 --> 01:09:29.840 good luck getting all that set up. Arburgate Garden Center 1278 01:09:29.960 --> 01:09:34.399 in Tomball is a destination place. It's as simple as that. 1279 01:09:34.800 --> 01:09:37.000 If you've got family and friends that are coming to town, 1280 01:09:37.479 --> 01:09:40.119 take them to Arburgate. They will love it, even if 1281 01:09:40.159 --> 01:09:43.199 they're not gardeners. They will love the gift shops that 1282 01:09:43.279 --> 01:09:47.000 are unbelievable. They'll love the landscape bling and I'll tell 1283 01:09:47.039 --> 01:09:48.680 you this. They're going to see a plant they like. 1284 01:09:48.760 --> 01:09:50.439 They're going to see a rose bush. They're going to 1285 01:09:50.479 --> 01:09:53.479 see annuals or maybe some vegetables or herbs or whatever. 1286 01:09:53.800 --> 01:09:56.319 House plants. They have a beautiful house plant selection there. 1287 01:09:56.760 --> 01:09:59.720 Arburgate is just west of Tombull on twenty nine tw 1288 01:10:00.159 --> 01:10:03.520 you head out that way, just look for Trichel Road, 1289 01:10:03.880 --> 01:10:07.399 Trischel Road and it's a little loop that goes behind 1290 01:10:07.479 --> 01:10:09.920 Arburgate and it gets you to that back parking lot 1291 01:10:09.960 --> 01:10:13.039 where you have all weather safe entrance and it's the 1292 01:10:13.079 --> 01:10:16.239 easiest way to park at Arburgate. Now, while you're there, 1293 01:10:16.359 --> 01:10:19.319 pick up their one two three completely easy system. That 1294 01:10:19.479 --> 01:10:22.920 is a food that feeds anything with roots, a soil 1295 01:10:23.000 --> 01:10:26.239 for any application, and a compost that don't improve any soil. 1296 01:10:26.359 --> 01:10:29.439 Also from sand to clay. Both the soil and compost 1297 01:10:29.520 --> 01:10:32.479 have expended shale in them, which is very important, especially 1298 01:10:32.520 --> 01:10:35.439 in our heavy clay soils around here. If you're looking 1299 01:10:35.520 --> 01:10:38.239 for a pollinator garden, go talk to them at Arbrogate. 1300 01:10:38.880 --> 01:10:42.319 Those folks are They're so nice, so hopeful, and so knowledgeable, 1301 01:10:42.399 --> 01:10:44.600 and that's important. They'll walk with you. They'll say, well, 1302 01:10:44.600 --> 01:10:46.279 here's some plant. Come over here, let me show you 1303 01:10:46.319 --> 01:10:48.760 this plant. This is cool. Or maybe you want to 1304 01:10:48.800 --> 01:10:51.439 create a color combo container and they'll help you put 1305 01:10:51.479 --> 01:10:55.159 that together. And plants that go together, plants that structurally 1306 01:10:56.199 --> 01:10:58.560 you know, are suited to each other in a container 1307 01:10:58.680 --> 01:11:00.760 they'll help you do all that and check out their 1308 01:11:00.760 --> 01:11:05.760 containers because they are stunningly beautiful quality experts that will 1309 01:11:05.760 --> 01:11:08.199 help you with any problem that you have, to help 1310 01:11:08.239 --> 01:11:11.279 you find the solution. That's at Arburgate Garden Center. That's 1311 01:11:11.279 --> 01:11:14.239 there just west of tom Ball again on twenty nine, 1312 01:11:14.640 --> 01:11:19.680 twenty I love, I love going in there. I was 1313 01:11:19.760 --> 01:11:22.199 visiting with some folks at Nelson the other day. We 1314 01:11:22.199 --> 01:11:25.079 were talking about fertilizers and all of this, and Nelson 1315 01:11:25.159 --> 01:11:28.680 has a couple of fertilizers that are part of their 1316 01:11:28.680 --> 01:11:32.199 turf Star line. Turf Star just meets fertilizers designed for turf. 1317 01:11:33.079 --> 01:11:35.720 Both of these blends can last up to six months 1318 01:11:35.720 --> 01:11:38.359 that I'm talking about, and they are good for any 1319 01:11:38.399 --> 01:11:41.680 turf grass you got here in the South, like let's 1320 01:11:41.680 --> 01:11:45.560 see Saint Augustine, zoisia or beagrass, all of those they 1321 01:11:45.600 --> 01:11:48.720 do well. One of them's Bruce's Brew. Bruce's Brew you 1322 01:11:48.760 --> 01:11:50.840 apply it about every six months. It gives you a 1323 01:11:50.880 --> 01:11:53.359 quick green up, but it does have some of the 1324 01:11:53.439 --> 01:11:58.800 extended carbon sources or nitrogen sources that release over time, 1325 01:11:59.279 --> 01:12:02.640 and that's important. Bruces Spruit. The second one is Weedinator 1326 01:12:02.720 --> 01:12:05.479 now Weedenator's night your typical weed and feed. It is 1327 01:12:05.520 --> 01:12:08.359 a product that has a growth regulator in it and 1328 01:12:08.479 --> 01:12:12.000 a post emergent herbicide. So you wet the weeds or 1329 01:12:12.039 --> 01:12:15.920 catch them right after a rain. Get those get that product. 1330 01:12:15.960 --> 01:12:18.600 The dry granules on the weeds. They stick to the 1331 01:12:18.600 --> 01:12:20.680 weeds because the weeds are wet. And I don't care 1332 01:12:20.680 --> 01:12:24.000 if it's chickweed or clover or dandelion, dollar weed, grassburds, 1333 01:12:24.000 --> 01:12:27.840 pig weed, purse lane, ragweed, you know, any of those 1334 01:12:27.920 --> 01:12:31.039 vining weeds that are in your lawn. It'll get after 1335 01:12:31.079 --> 01:12:32.880 them after I leave it about a day or two. 1336 01:12:33.119 --> 01:12:35.399 And then what I would do is watered in to 1337 01:12:35.399 --> 01:12:38.359 get that nitrogen down and other nutrients down into the soil. 1338 01:12:38.439 --> 01:12:41.479 That's weedinator Bruce's spur and Weedinator two touch star lines 1339 01:12:41.840 --> 01:12:49.119 from Nelson's that work. They absolutely do work. Let's see, 1340 01:12:49.159 --> 01:12:51.760 we are kind of short here on time to take 1341 01:12:51.760 --> 01:12:54.520 another call. When I come back from a break gym 1342 01:12:54.560 --> 01:12:57.119 in meadows Place, You're gonna be our very first up. 1343 01:12:57.279 --> 01:12:58.760 I want to be able to give you plenty of 1344 01:12:58.840 --> 01:13:02.920 time to ask questions that you might have. At that point. 1345 01:13:03.399 --> 01:13:05.439 I want to remind you that I'm gonna be at 1346 01:13:05.640 --> 01:13:10.319 RCW Nurseries on next Saturday, the twelfth of April, from 1347 01:13:10.399 --> 01:13:13.199 twelve noon to two pm. Come on and see me. 1348 01:13:13.239 --> 01:13:16.520 We're gonna have some great giveaways. They always put on 1349 01:13:16.680 --> 01:13:18.920 quite a show of giveaways and things out there at 1350 01:13:19.119 --> 01:13:22.199 RCW Nursery. I'll be there to answer your gardening questions. 1351 01:13:22.239 --> 01:13:23.880 This is a good time to bring me weeds and 1352 01:13:23.920 --> 01:13:26.600 all other kinds of questions. We'll get to the bottom 1353 01:13:26.640 --> 01:13:29.319 of it to help you have success. I'll be right back. 1354 01:13:32.000 --> 01:13:34.640 All right, we're back. Welcome to Guardline. Good to have 1355 01:13:34.720 --> 01:13:38.840 you with us. We're here to help you have success. Listen, 1356 01:13:39.199 --> 01:13:42.199 it's mosquito season. When these rains are done, there are 1357 01:13:42.199 --> 01:13:44.319 gonna be little pockets of water everywhere. And do you 1358 01:13:44.359 --> 01:13:47.840 know that a mosquito only needs literally a capful of 1359 01:13:47.920 --> 01:13:51.000 water for to lay an egg and reproduce and create 1360 01:13:51.039 --> 01:13:54.880 another mosquito. So there are places everywhere where mosquitos are 1361 01:13:54.880 --> 01:14:01.039 breeding on your property. Pest Brothers, the premiere pest control service, 1362 01:14:01.359 --> 01:14:06.920 our company here on garden Line. They have a system 1363 01:14:06.960 --> 01:14:09.239 that is wonderful. Just go ask them. I'm not going 1364 01:14:09.279 --> 01:14:11.479 to describe the whole thing to you. Just go ask 1365 01:14:11.520 --> 01:14:16.880 them about their mosquito buckets, mosquito containers, the stations. Basically, 1366 01:14:16.960 --> 01:14:19.880 the bottom line is they attract mosquitos. They lay eggs 1367 01:14:19.880 --> 01:14:23.119 in the buckets that never never turn into adult mosquitos. 1368 01:14:23.359 --> 01:14:25.920 That's part of the system. Bring them in. They can't 1369 01:14:25.920 --> 01:14:29.840 reproduce there. But the mosquito flies away with two different 1370 01:14:29.880 --> 01:14:32.560 products on it. One of them when they land in 1371 01:14:32.600 --> 01:14:35.119 one of those little cap full of water, places your 1372 01:14:35.159 --> 01:14:39.560 gutters underneath the the catch basin, underneath the potted plant 1373 01:14:39.720 --> 01:14:44.199 or bird baths or whatever where they land. They prevent 1374 01:14:44.279 --> 01:14:47.720 mosquitoes from developing there without harm in the water to 1375 01:14:47.920 --> 01:14:52.279 beneficial creatures like birds and cats and dogs and lady 1376 01:14:52.319 --> 01:14:55.399 beetles and all that. And they walk away or they 1377 01:14:55.479 --> 01:14:58.239 fly away with the disease that kills them. It's a 1378 01:14:58.279 --> 01:15:02.479 fungal disease of mosquitoes affects mosquitoes. It's like BT and caterpillars. 1379 01:15:02.520 --> 01:15:03.960 You know you spray BT at work because you know 1380 01:15:04.000 --> 01:15:06.840 it's just gonna kill the caterpillars. This works on mosquitos 1381 01:15:06.840 --> 01:15:11.319 that way. Dpestbros dot com, dpestbros dot com. You need 1382 01:15:11.359 --> 01:15:14.479 to call them and get that system set up, because 1383 01:15:14.880 --> 01:15:18.079 you once you get it going, then not only at 1384 01:15:18.119 --> 01:15:21.239 your house or the mosquitos being treated, but your neighbor 1385 01:15:21.319 --> 01:15:24.560 that has those tires in the backyard that are breeding mosquitos, 1386 01:15:24.840 --> 01:15:26.680 the mosquitos will go over there and they'll make sure 1387 01:15:26.680 --> 01:15:29.319 that water doesn't become a breeding station. Is that cool 1388 01:15:29.399 --> 01:15:32.640 or what? Dpestbros dot Com two eight one, two oh 1389 01:15:32.680 --> 01:15:36.239 six forty six seventy. Let's head to Meadows Place now 1390 01:15:36.279 --> 01:15:38.279 and we're going to visit with Jim this morning. Hey, Jim, 1391 01:15:38.319 --> 01:15:39.399 welcome back to garden Line. 1392 01:15:40.279 --> 01:15:44.119 Thanks skip, good morning. About three weeks ago, I bought 1393 01:15:44.359 --> 01:15:48.920 two six inch high to make a plant at Southwest Fertilizer. 1394 01:15:49.039 --> 01:15:56.239 Brought a home transplant them in uh ten gallon containers. 1395 01:15:56.600 --> 01:15:59.640 They're growing well. They're about three four feet high now 1396 01:16:00.119 --> 01:16:03.000 and I've been trimming off the low suckers and anything 1397 01:16:03.079 --> 01:16:08.640 touching the ground. My question is pruning them topping them out? 1398 01:16:08.880 --> 01:16:12.520 What do I need to do to increase the fruit production. 1399 01:16:14.800 --> 01:16:17.720 Well, the less you prune, the more fruit you will get, 1400 01:16:18.000 --> 01:16:20.520 but it will become a jumble of vines. The fruit 1401 01:16:20.600 --> 01:16:23.680 will be smaller and a little slower to reach maturity. 1402 01:16:24.479 --> 01:16:27.319 The more you prune. Like tomatoes that are steak, they 1403 01:16:27.560 --> 01:16:30.359 just have one trunk, that's it. Anything else coming off 1404 01:16:30.359 --> 01:16:32.640 that you cut off and you just leave that steak, 1405 01:16:32.720 --> 01:16:35.920 you get bigger fruit, earlier fruit, but less fruit. So 1406 01:16:35.960 --> 01:16:38.079 there's a trade off. And generally, Jim, what I'll do 1407 01:16:38.159 --> 01:16:41.000 on my vines is I'll allow them to have two 1408 01:16:41.199 --> 01:16:45.279 or three or four maybe shoots coming out and then 1409 01:16:45.560 --> 01:16:49.039 use as we call it, suckering them. Wherever a leaf 1410 01:16:49.119 --> 01:16:51.319 comes off the vine, a shoot comes out right there, 1411 01:16:51.359 --> 01:16:53.920 we pinch those out or break those off, or prune 1412 01:16:53.920 --> 01:16:57.079 those off, and just sort of manage the number of 1413 01:16:57.159 --> 01:17:00.399 vines that that plant can have, and that there's not 1414 01:17:00.439 --> 01:17:02.880 a right or wrong number. There's you know, we got 1415 01:17:03.000 --> 01:17:05.159 cherry tomatoes, and we got slicer tomatoes, and we got 1416 01:17:05.199 --> 01:17:08.319 paste tomatoes, and each type is a little different. But 1417 01:17:08.399 --> 01:17:12.039 basically you're doing selective removal of those shoots to keep 1418 01:17:12.119 --> 01:17:15.039 it at a minimum so it's not just full of 1419 01:17:15.760 --> 01:17:17.960 just solid, dense leaves everywhere. 1420 01:17:19.000 --> 01:17:21.319 I understand. That's that's about what I've been doing. My 1421 01:17:21.479 --> 01:17:25.239 question is they're getting getting really tall now they're topping 1422 01:17:25.239 --> 01:17:26.359 them out to help or not. 1423 01:17:27.960 --> 01:17:30.359 Well, you know, if you could fertilizing them and watering them, 1424 01:17:30.399 --> 01:17:34.560 they wouldn't do that. You need to stick them in 1425 01:17:34.600 --> 01:17:37.319 a bed full of gravel and tell them good luck. No, 1426 01:17:37.600 --> 01:17:41.840 I seriously, on those you can top them and the 1427 01:17:42.079 --> 01:17:45.279 side shoots then become the main shoots. What I'll do 1428 01:17:45.560 --> 01:17:47.920 I usually grow mine on a fence kind of thing 1429 01:17:48.079 --> 01:17:50.600 or in a very tall cage. I'll just let those 1430 01:17:50.800 --> 01:17:54.399 shoots trail back down to the ground again and then 1431 01:17:54.600 --> 01:17:57.760 cut them off there. Don't don't worry about don't be 1432 01:17:57.800 --> 01:17:59.680 afraid of them draping on over. 1433 01:18:00.880 --> 01:18:03.760 Okay, I understand, appreciate the hell, thank you sir. 1434 01:18:04.319 --> 01:18:06.159 All right, Jim. Now, Jim, you know the rule on 1435 01:18:06.239 --> 01:18:07.800 guard line is you got to give me half the 1436 01:18:07.840 --> 01:18:09.680 produce if I've give you free advice. 1437 01:18:09.760 --> 01:18:11.960 So I'll give you half. 1438 01:18:14.079 --> 01:18:17.800 Yeah, there you go. Take care man. Appreciate the call 1439 01:18:19.000 --> 01:18:22.520 for sure. Up in Willis is a garden center that 1440 01:18:22.920 --> 01:18:25.600 if you live anywhere around there. I mean I'm talking 1441 01:18:25.640 --> 01:18:28.359 about Willis or Tomball, I'm talking about the lake communities, 1442 01:18:28.399 --> 01:18:30.840 you know, April Sound Belt, Water Point of Quarius, all those. 1443 01:18:31.199 --> 01:18:34.439 I'm talking about New Waverley, anywhere in the area, even 1444 01:18:34.520 --> 01:18:38.279 Conrad in the Woodlands. Growers outlet in Willis is the place, 1445 01:18:38.640 --> 01:18:43.479 and that is also their website. Growers outlet in Willis. Now, 1446 01:18:43.479 --> 01:18:46.279 why is that important? Well, you go to the website 1447 01:18:46.359 --> 01:18:50.119 and they, unlike almost any other source you're gonna find, 1448 01:18:50.479 --> 01:18:53.039 they'll tell you what's in stock now on the website, 1449 01:18:53.079 --> 01:18:54.920 and they'll tell you how much it costs. If you 1450 01:18:54.960 --> 01:18:57.079 want to go check it out. Check it out Growers 1451 01:18:57.159 --> 01:19:01.119 Outlet in Willis. They're on Highway seventy five, just south 1452 01:19:01.119 --> 01:19:03.640 of Willis, just a few minutes from Interstate forty five, 1453 01:19:03.720 --> 01:19:06.319 easy to get to, and they have a wide variety 1454 01:19:06.359 --> 01:19:09.199 of everything. Whether you're looking for vegetables and herbs to 1455 01:19:09.359 --> 01:19:13.720 flower beds to giant, gorgeous hanging baskets, to shrubs and 1456 01:19:13.760 --> 01:19:17.039 trees and fruit, they've got it all a Growers Outlet 1457 01:19:17.239 --> 01:19:20.039 in Willis. They also carried the products to go with 1458 01:19:20.119 --> 01:19:22.920 your plants, you know, the fertilizers and soils and things 1459 01:19:22.960 --> 01:19:25.039 like that. And they have a wonderful little gift shop 1460 01:19:25.039 --> 01:19:27.720 in there too with some nice home and garden related 1461 01:19:27.760 --> 01:19:31.720 items and locally sourced honey, pickled foods, jellies and jams, 1462 01:19:31.840 --> 01:19:34.960 bath and beauty products. It's just a fun place to shop. 1463 01:19:35.039 --> 01:19:39.039 Growers Outlet in Willis. That's it. That's all you need 1464 01:19:39.079 --> 01:19:43.119 to know. Good do me this favorite. Just write that 1465 01:19:43.279 --> 01:19:45.319 website down and go check it out. See what I'm 1466 01:19:45.359 --> 01:19:49.159 talking about about availability and pricing and everything. Growers outlet 1467 01:19:49.279 --> 01:19:52.680 in Willis dot com. That's a website. I think it's 1468 01:19:52.720 --> 01:19:57.039 pretty cool. I was talking earlier about Nature's Way Resources 1469 01:19:57.159 --> 01:19:59.239 and the products that they have. You know, in Nature's 1470 01:19:59.239 --> 01:20:01.880 Way they back products, So you can go there and 1471 01:20:01.960 --> 01:20:04.920 buy them by the bag and bring them home, or 1472 01:20:04.960 --> 01:20:07.239 you can go to they sell by the bag and 1473 01:20:07.279 --> 01:20:10.359 a lot of different retail outlets around the Greater Houston area. 1474 01:20:10.840 --> 01:20:13.279 Or you can go and take an empty pickup or 1475 01:20:13.920 --> 01:20:17.199 trailer and pick up bulk product. Maybe you want a 1476 01:20:17.239 --> 01:20:19.319 lot of leaf mole compost, or maybe you want a 1477 01:20:19.319 --> 01:20:22.319 lot of fungal based compost, or maybe you need one 1478 01:20:22.399 --> 01:20:26.119 of the many quality mulching products that they sell there 1479 01:20:26.159 --> 01:20:29.359 in Nature's Way Resources for your bets, or you can 1480 01:20:29.399 --> 01:20:31.159 call them and have them deliver it. They can do 1481 01:20:31.239 --> 01:20:33.319 that too, however you want to go about it. The 1482 01:20:33.359 --> 01:20:35.800 main thing is get that organic matter to your house, 1483 01:20:36.279 --> 01:20:38.560 put the composts in the soil, put the mulches on 1484 01:20:38.600 --> 01:20:42.520 top of the soil, and create that natural environment that 1485 01:20:42.640 --> 01:20:45.720 plants were designed to thrive in. It's just as simple 1486 01:20:45.760 --> 01:20:50.760 as that Nature's Way Resources dot Com. Nature's Way Resources 1487 01:20:50.800 --> 01:20:54.039 dot Com two eight or excuse me nine three six 1488 01:20:54.760 --> 01:20:58.439 two seven three twelve hundred nine three six two seven 1489 01:20:58.560 --> 01:21:02.680 three twelve hundred in there. Their new renovated website, Nature'sway 1490 01:21:02.760 --> 01:21:05.960 Resources dot Com is really cool. It's very helpful, a 1491 01:21:05.960 --> 01:21:07.840 lot of good information on there. So go out and 1492 01:21:07.880 --> 01:21:10.720 see Ian and you know, the whole gang out there, 1493 01:21:11.039 --> 01:21:14.319 and they're very helpful, very friendly, and they can when 1494 01:21:14.359 --> 01:21:15.880 you tell them what you're wanting to do. You know, 1495 01:21:15.920 --> 01:21:17.960 like you may say, well, I want to grow azelias 1496 01:21:18.000 --> 01:21:19.760 or I want to grow blueberries. They go, we have 1497 01:21:19.840 --> 01:21:21.960 a soil for that, and they do. They have a 1498 01:21:22.000 --> 01:21:24.840 soil for acid living plants. Or maybe you're wanting to 1499 01:21:24.880 --> 01:21:28.479 grow something that needs a very gritty drained, well drained mix, 1500 01:21:28.760 --> 01:21:32.640 like a cacti or succulent type of blend. Whatever you need, 1501 01:21:33.039 --> 01:21:35.640 Nature's Way Resources is going to be able to provide that, 1502 01:21:37.000 --> 01:21:40.640 no no hesitation at all on my part. And recommending 1503 01:21:40.680 --> 01:21:44.960 them as a quality source for soil products. Well, let's 1504 01:21:44.960 --> 01:21:47.199 see here we are about to put this hour in 1505 01:21:47.359 --> 01:21:50.399 the books, and so I want to mention that I'm 1506 01:21:50.439 --> 01:21:54.199 going to be at RCW Nursery's next Saturday, that is 1507 01:21:54.720 --> 01:21:57.920 the twelfth of April Saturday. For twelfth I'll be there 1508 01:21:57.920 --> 01:22:01.680 from twelve noon to two hours. There, I'll be answering 1509 01:22:01.680 --> 01:22:04.319 your gardening questions. Last time I was out there, people 1510 01:22:04.359 --> 01:22:08.600 had bagfuls of weeds and plants and you know what 1511 01:22:08.720 --> 01:22:10.880 kind of plant? What is this? How do I get 1512 01:22:10.960 --> 01:22:12.720 rid of it? Or I like this, how do I 1513 01:22:12.760 --> 01:22:16.119 get more? People brought pictures on their phones, like you know, here, 1514 01:22:16.279 --> 01:22:20.319 here's my neighbor has this beautiful blooming shrub. Do you 1515 01:22:20.319 --> 01:22:21.760 know where I can get one of those? Or what 1516 01:22:21.800 --> 01:22:24.159 that is? Or here's an area my landscape that I 1517 01:22:24.279 --> 01:22:26.319 just can't get grass to grow, or I can't get 1518 01:22:26.359 --> 01:22:29.520 flowers to bloom or whatever. That's what we're there for. 1519 01:22:29.760 --> 01:22:31.920 We're there to eye, to have a good time and 1520 01:22:32.000 --> 01:22:34.199 answer your gardening questions. And we'll be giving away a 1521 01:22:34.239 --> 01:22:38.159 lot of cool giveaways too, right there from RCW Nurseries. 1522 01:22:38.159 --> 01:22:40.399 And when you're out there, you're going to be able 1523 01:22:40.439 --> 01:22:42.720 to pick up that rose bush that you can't live without, 1524 01:22:42.720 --> 01:22:45.640 because they have plenty of those trees and shrubs. Maybe 1525 01:22:45.720 --> 01:22:47.560 if it's a big tree, you know, you may have 1526 01:22:47.600 --> 01:22:49.399 them come out and plant it. For you. You know, 1527 01:22:49.920 --> 01:22:52.800 there's a certain sized plant that I can plant, and 1528 01:22:52.840 --> 01:22:57.319 if it gets bigger than that, I'm in great danger 1529 01:22:57.399 --> 01:23:00.920 of helping my chiropractor put their kids college, if you 1530 01:23:00.920 --> 01:23:04.399 know what I'm saying. Because I think I can lift that, 1531 01:23:05.680 --> 01:23:07.880 I think I can lift it. It's like that Toby 1532 01:23:07.920 --> 01:23:12.079 Keith song, I ain't as good as I once was. Well, anyway, 1533 01:23:12.479 --> 01:23:14.840 they'll come out and plan them for you. They've got 1534 01:23:14.840 --> 01:23:16.640 the equipment, they know how to do it, and then 1535 01:23:16.680 --> 01:23:19.319 they have all the supplies you need for planting shrubs 1536 01:23:19.319 --> 01:23:21.800 and trees. And by the way, get that thing done 1537 01:23:21.840 --> 01:23:24.039 now so that it has as much time as you 1538 01:23:24.079 --> 01:23:27.079 can give it before weather gets really really hot. The 1539 01:23:27.079 --> 01:23:29.039 best time to plan tree is forty years ago, the 1540 01:23:29.039 --> 01:23:31.479 second best times today. That's kind of how we look 1541 01:23:31.520 --> 01:23:35.199 at it. All Right, we're listening to Garden Line. I'm 1542 01:23:35.199 --> 01:23:37.399 your host, Skip Richter. We're about to put this one 1543 01:23:37.960 --> 01:23:40.560 in the books this hour, that is, and the books 1544 01:23:40.600 --> 01:23:44.720 will be back with your questions and calls after that. 1545 01:23:45.119 --> 01:23:47.039 So if you want to go ahead and get on 1546 01:23:47.079 --> 01:23:48.880 the boards, you can be one of the first up 1547 01:23:49.000 --> 01:23:52.760 seven to one three two one, two fifty eight seventy 1548 01:23:52.800 --> 01:23:56.479 four or seven one three two one two KTRH and 1549 01:23:56.479 --> 01:23:58.920 you can go about it that way. Now, today's a 1550 01:23:59.000 --> 01:24:01.079 rainy day, so I know a lot of you aren't 1551 01:24:01.079 --> 01:24:02.319 going to be getting out and doing a lot of 1552 01:24:02.479 --> 01:24:05.239 yard work and things like that. But there are things 1553 01:24:05.239 --> 01:24:07.119 you can do. You can take care of your house plants. 1554 01:24:07.159 --> 01:24:09.399 Take a look at those. Lay the pot over, slide 1555 01:24:09.399 --> 01:24:12.079 them out of the pot. Look at the roots. You know, 1556 01:24:12.760 --> 01:24:15.439 are the is the pot so filled with roots that 1557 01:24:15.479 --> 01:24:18.680 it's just like this white water roots. It's time to 1558 01:24:18.720 --> 01:24:22.159 repot that thing. You need to get that done. Is 1559 01:24:22.199 --> 01:24:24.880 the are the roots looking like they're rotten and brown? 1560 01:24:24.920 --> 01:24:27.800 And water salt probably over the water. And check your 1561 01:24:27.800 --> 01:24:30.119 house plants out, look them, look for past, look through 1562 01:24:30.159 --> 01:24:32.840 all the things. Take advantage of a rainy day. 1563 01:24:33.960 --> 01:24:44.800 Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Scared Ricter. 1564 01:24:37.840 --> 01:25:01.760 It's just watch him as doubles. 1565 01:25:03.319 --> 01:25:03.600 Sad. 1566 01:25:06.680 --> 01:25:10.800 Well, well, well, welcome back, Welcome back to guard line. 1567 01:25:11.920 --> 01:25:13.760 Good to have you with us. We got lots of 1568 01:25:13.840 --> 01:25:16.920 things we can be talking about today, and we are. 1569 01:25:17.079 --> 01:25:18.800 We're going to be talking about the things you are 1570 01:25:18.800 --> 01:25:20.920 interested in. If you'd like to give us a call. 1571 01:25:21.000 --> 01:25:24.520 Seven one three two one two KTRH seven one three 1572 01:25:24.600 --> 01:25:29.079 two one two KTRH. Now, Nitroposs has a product called Imperial. 1573 01:25:29.159 --> 01:25:33.079 It is the red orange bag, reddish orange bag, the 1574 01:25:33.159 --> 01:25:37.800 fifteen five ten immediately released fertilizer. You put it down, 1575 01:25:37.880 --> 01:25:40.319 you watered in, it dissolves the nutrients, it puts them 1576 01:25:40.319 --> 01:25:43.319 in the root system and really than a day or 1577 01:25:43.319 --> 01:25:46.199 two that the basically the plan is already taken those 1578 01:25:46.239 --> 01:25:49.640 things up, so it gives you a quick result. You 1579 01:25:49.640 --> 01:25:51.439 can use it at any time in the season you want. 1580 01:25:51.479 --> 01:25:53.079 I mean, you could use it all through the season 1581 01:25:53.079 --> 01:25:55.039 if you want to do it in small amounts over time, 1582 01:25:55.119 --> 01:25:58.600 kind of creat your own manual slow release by just 1583 01:25:58.800 --> 01:26:02.159 putting little that's out here and there. Primarily we use 1584 01:26:02.199 --> 01:26:04.720 it for a good quick greenup and I'll often put 1585 01:26:04.760 --> 01:26:08.520 something like that down as the first application of the 1586 01:26:08.600 --> 01:26:11.800 year for the you know, the good quick results. And 1587 01:26:12.279 --> 01:26:13.960 now's a good time to do it too. By the way. 1588 01:26:14.079 --> 01:26:17.039 Nitrofis Imperial fifteen to five to ten available in places 1589 01:26:17.680 --> 01:26:20.520 all over the Greater Houston area like D and D 1590 01:26:20.640 --> 01:26:24.119 Feed and tom Ball Fisher's Hardware on Southmore in Pasadena, 1591 01:26:24.760 --> 01:26:28.960 M and D and Beamer in Sagemont area. Let's head 1592 01:26:28.960 --> 01:26:32.239 out now to Peerland, and we're going to talk with Troy. Hey, Troy, 1593 01:26:32.319 --> 01:26:33.479 welcome to garden Line. 1594 01:26:34.680 --> 01:26:35.920 The Born and Scap. 1595 01:26:37.520 --> 01:26:37.840 Morning. 1596 01:26:39.359 --> 01:26:41.640 I add just a couple of questions for you. One 1597 01:26:41.760 --> 01:26:45.840 is related to vi burnhams. I have a beautiful stand 1598 01:26:45.880 --> 01:26:51.239 of them for probably four years now, and last year 1599 01:26:51.279 --> 01:26:53.720 I got white flies in them real bad, and I 1600 01:26:53.760 --> 01:26:57.439 got this black coating it seemed like on the leafs 1601 01:26:57.479 --> 01:27:00.319 that I just could not ever get rid of until 1602 01:27:00.359 --> 01:27:04.079 the winter and we had the big freeze. We cover 1603 01:27:04.159 --> 01:27:06.319 them up well, but we still got a. 1604 01:27:06.319 --> 01:27:07.000 Bit of burns. 1605 01:27:07.680 --> 01:27:10.319 I trim most of that out, but I noticed the 1606 01:27:10.319 --> 01:27:12.800 white flies are back, but the new growth is looking 1607 01:27:12.840 --> 01:27:16.079 really healthy. So one, what do I treat the white 1608 01:27:16.079 --> 01:27:20.680 flies with? And then two, now I am seeing what 1609 01:27:20.840 --> 01:27:23.479 looks like a healthy limb. All of a sudden, the 1610 01:27:23.560 --> 01:27:25.079 leaves are just starting to droop on. 1611 01:27:25.159 --> 01:27:27.880 Them, and I have no idea what's that? 1612 01:27:30.199 --> 01:27:32.399 Okay, Well that's a you got a couple of good 1613 01:27:32.640 --> 01:27:36.239 complex questions there. First of all, the white flies. There 1614 01:27:36.239 --> 01:27:38.800 are things that kill white flies, but they also killed 1615 01:27:38.800 --> 01:27:42.840 the things that control white flies for you. And oftentimes 1616 01:27:42.880 --> 01:27:45.680 what happens is you get on this treadmill of pesticide 1617 01:27:45.680 --> 01:27:48.279 where you're killing white flies, and then you end up 1618 01:27:48.279 --> 01:27:50.800 with a white fly outbreak because the things that were 1619 01:27:50.840 --> 01:27:53.960 helping keep them somewhat in check are now gone, and 1620 01:27:54.000 --> 01:27:57.039 the white flies come back faster, and so you're just 1621 01:27:57.239 --> 01:27:59.960 you're kind of on a treadmill. I generally try to 1622 01:28:00.199 --> 01:28:04.800 avoid that if possible. One way to avoid it is 1623 01:28:05.119 --> 01:28:07.920 to use the systemic product that goes up in the plant, 1624 01:28:08.000 --> 01:28:10.039 drenched on the roots, goes up in the plant, and 1625 01:28:10.079 --> 01:28:12.920 anything sucking juice is out of the plant, whether it's 1626 01:28:12.960 --> 01:28:16.920 scale or white flies, whether it's mealy bugs or aphids, 1627 01:28:17.199 --> 01:28:20.479 is gonna receive that poison through the sap of the 1628 01:28:20.520 --> 01:28:24.680 plant instead of nukenhole plant with a pesticide, So that 1629 01:28:24.680 --> 01:28:28.319 that's one option. Another option would be to just treat regularly, 1630 01:28:28.399 --> 01:28:32.960 and there's insecticides. There's things like horticultural oil sprayed on 1631 01:28:33.039 --> 01:28:35.880 the undersides of the leaves that kills the eggs and 1632 01:28:35.920 --> 01:28:39.199 the pupa of the white fly. They're underneath the leaf hiding. 1633 01:28:40.000 --> 01:28:42.159 They're not the white things you see flying around, but 1634 01:28:42.199 --> 01:28:45.159 they're part of the life cycle of that insect. So 1635 01:28:45.159 --> 01:28:47.479 those would be a couple of options on the white flies. 1636 01:28:48.399 --> 01:28:50.960 I like the systemic a little better because it doesn't 1637 01:28:51.239 --> 01:28:54.760 It doesn't affect the lady beetles and lace wings and 1638 01:28:54.800 --> 01:28:57.880 parasitoid wasps and other things that are helping keep those 1639 01:28:57.920 --> 01:29:00.680 in check. As far as the wilting leaves, that just 1640 01:29:00.720 --> 01:29:03.159 means water is not getting to that branch. It could 1641 01:29:03.159 --> 01:29:06.319 be due to a damaged root. It could be due 1642 01:29:06.319 --> 01:29:09.880 to a canker on the stem. That's that's shut down 1643 01:29:09.920 --> 01:29:13.239 the pipeline from the root to the top. You know, 1644 01:29:13.600 --> 01:29:15.880 there are different things, but the bottom line is if 1645 01:29:15.880 --> 01:29:18.279 you've got a healthy plant and one shoot is turning 1646 01:29:18.399 --> 01:29:21.079 brown or wilting, let's say at this point it's just wilting, 1647 01:29:21.600 --> 01:29:24.359 follow that shot back and look at it real carefully 1648 01:29:24.359 --> 01:29:26.840 and see if you see sunken areas or splits in 1649 01:29:26.880 --> 01:29:29.479 the bark. It may have been that the coal snap 1650 01:29:29.479 --> 01:29:32.840 we went through this year, that that you did get 1651 01:29:32.880 --> 01:29:35.479 some tissue damage, and you would just print it off 1652 01:29:35.520 --> 01:29:38.279 below that tissue damage and that would be all you 1653 01:29:38.359 --> 01:29:38.880 have to do. 1654 01:29:40.520 --> 01:29:47.680 All right, Great, any recommendation on the systemic, well, well 1655 01:29:47.680 --> 01:29:48.560 pretty much. 1656 01:29:48.640 --> 01:29:53.960 Now you know we're looking at emido cloprid. That is 1657 01:29:54.560 --> 01:29:57.600 a product that is the ingredient. It's not the brand. 1658 01:29:57.640 --> 01:30:00.520 It's sold in a lot of different brands, and so 1659 01:30:00.680 --> 01:30:02.800 you just have to you know, you just have to 1660 01:30:03.760 --> 01:30:09.199 wherever you shop, go and look for meadow meadow cloprid. 1661 01:30:09.479 --> 01:30:12.039 Now you're let me see you are down You're in 1662 01:30:12.119 --> 01:30:18.680 pair Land, is that right? Okay? Yeah? Uh, So you've 1663 01:30:18.720 --> 01:30:20.840 got you've got a number of ACE hardware stores in 1664 01:30:20.880 --> 01:30:24.319 your region there that you can go to that are 1665 01:30:24.479 --> 01:30:28.760 probably going to carry a product that contains a meadow 1666 01:30:28.840 --> 01:30:31.840 cloapred on it. There is an M and D on 1667 01:30:32.079 --> 01:30:35.279 a beamer. Uh that's not too far away from you. Uh, 1668 01:30:35.399 --> 01:30:39.399 they're kind of friends would area, So I would I'd 1669 01:30:39.399 --> 01:30:43.239 probably I'd suggest I'm sorry, I said friends with They're 1670 01:30:43.319 --> 01:30:50.319 they're up at gosh, the Beltway, Sammuston Tollway around the 1671 01:30:50.880 --> 01:30:55.199 and then okay, good yeah, and then down Uh there's 1672 01:30:55.239 --> 01:30:57.439 an ACE on Edgewood Drive to there in friends with It. 1673 01:30:57.479 --> 01:31:02.079 So anyway, well it's not hard to find them. Just 1674 01:31:02.079 --> 01:31:05.119 just look for the if the ingredient begins with I 1675 01:31:05.159 --> 01:31:09.000 am I d o im me, Oh that's the right product. 1676 01:31:10.239 --> 01:31:13.000 I'm gonna give it a shot. The one final question 1677 01:31:13.159 --> 01:31:18.680 for you, I would really like to plant a couple 1678 01:31:18.760 --> 01:31:22.000 of blue balcony Boganvillion. 1679 01:31:22.000 --> 01:31:22.640 And I am. 1680 01:31:22.800 --> 01:31:25.720 My research is suggesting now that it may not differ. 1681 01:31:27.359 --> 01:31:28.239 Have you heard of it? 1682 01:31:28.520 --> 01:31:30.520 If so, could you get it? 1683 01:31:30.640 --> 01:31:31.680 Or is it just a myth? 1684 01:31:34.159 --> 01:31:37.680 You said, balcony blue balcony. 1685 01:31:37.199 --> 01:31:40.159 Balcony, Yeah, sir, if you if you google it, the 1686 01:31:40.239 --> 01:31:43.560 images are just beautiful and it's the perfect color for what. 1687 01:31:43.560 --> 01:31:47.359 I'm looking for. But I can't find it anywhere. 1688 01:31:49.760 --> 01:31:53.680 Well, I've not seen that one before. What I would 1689 01:31:53.720 --> 01:31:56.840 do if I were you is call Moss Nursery. They're 1690 01:31:57.119 --> 01:32:00.319 just you know, east of you there in Seabrook. They 1691 01:32:00.399 --> 01:32:03.039 carry a lot of different plants like that, and I 1692 01:32:03.079 --> 01:32:04.840 would I would say do you have it or can 1693 01:32:04.920 --> 01:32:07.119 you get it? And they'll be able to tell you 1694 01:32:07.199 --> 01:32:11.640 yes or no on that. That's probably the simplest, fastest 1695 01:32:12.279 --> 01:32:18.039 way to to to check it out. Yeah, that that 1696 01:32:18.079 --> 01:32:21.319 would be that. Probably as far as selection they're they're 1697 01:32:21.319 --> 01:32:23.319 probably gonna be as good as you're gonna get there. 1698 01:32:25.039 --> 01:32:27.239 I was there a few weeks ago, but I didn't 1699 01:32:27.239 --> 01:32:29.640 have it on my list at the time. But I 1700 01:32:29.680 --> 01:32:31.640 did go by a stand a fars and they said 1701 01:32:31.640 --> 01:32:33.359 they haven't seen it years. 1702 01:32:34.560 --> 01:32:40.439 Okay, well yeah you may not if they didn't. If 1703 01:32:40.479 --> 01:32:45.039 they hadn't seen it. You know, the mosque carries a 1704 01:32:45.039 --> 01:32:47.560 lot of stuff. Or you may just call R. C. W. 1705 01:32:47.760 --> 01:32:50.560 Nursuy too. They have a really good selection of bougainville 1706 01:32:50.720 --> 01:32:53.840 is up there. I'm just trying to think of other places. 1707 01:32:53.880 --> 01:32:55.560 Someone may go, well, let me go look for it 1708 01:32:55.640 --> 01:32:58.399 and see if I can find it, but that that'd 1709 01:32:58.399 --> 01:33:02.399 be my best suggestions. Okay, appreciate you. Yeah, I've got 1710 01:33:02.439 --> 01:33:06.239 to I've got a YouTube. Take care, appreciate that. I'll 1711 01:33:06.279 --> 01:33:09.439 be right back, folks. Oh man, I don't know when 1712 01:33:09.439 --> 01:33:13.119 the last time I played some bond job here on 1713 01:33:13.239 --> 01:33:16.279 garden Line. Hey, we're glad you're with us. Would you 1714 01:33:16.359 --> 01:33:19.199 like to ask a question or just brag about the tomatoes? 1715 01:33:19.239 --> 01:33:23.600 Jagury last year seven one three two one two fifty 1716 01:33:23.680 --> 01:33:26.439 eight seventy four seven one three two one two ktrh. 1717 01:33:26.520 --> 01:33:29.079 Now we'll bragging in moderation. We're not gonna listen to 1718 01:33:29.079 --> 01:33:31.560 too much of that. But I know how it is 1719 01:33:31.560 --> 01:33:34.279 as gardeners, you know that is right? You know what 1720 01:33:34.359 --> 01:33:36.520 the best garden I've ever had in my life is 1721 01:33:37.239 --> 01:33:41.760 my next one. It is gardeners are optimists. And when 1722 01:33:41.760 --> 01:33:43.439 I look at a seed catalog, when I'm in a 1723 01:33:43.479 --> 01:33:46.119 garden center, walking through looking at plants. I can just 1724 01:33:46.119 --> 01:33:48.439 tell you that tomato right there, it's going to be 1725 01:33:48.560 --> 01:33:51.439 six feet tall and have eight hundred thousand tomatoes on it, 1726 01:33:51.439 --> 01:33:53.840 and they're all going to be perfect size and perfect shape. 1727 01:33:54.119 --> 01:33:57.319 I can see it in my mind's eye. Now, reality 1728 01:33:57.319 --> 01:34:01.119 doesn't always turn out that way, but we're dreamer because 1729 01:34:01.119 --> 01:34:04.079 we've had those kind of seasons before. That's a good 1730 01:34:04.079 --> 01:34:07.119 thing about gardening. Keeps you young, that's for sure, keeps 1731 01:34:07.119 --> 01:34:09.680 you young. I mentioned moss nursery while ago I was 1732 01:34:09.680 --> 01:34:13.439 talking to somebody about, you know, finding a particular kind 1733 01:34:13.479 --> 01:34:19.680 of plant, and moss nursery is it's unique. It's just unique. 1734 01:34:20.079 --> 01:34:22.439 You may think you've been to all kinds of garden centers. 1735 01:34:22.479 --> 01:34:24.439 If you haven't been to a moss nursery, you haven't 1736 01:34:24.439 --> 01:34:27.760 been to all kinds of garden centers. This is eight acres, 1737 01:34:28.199 --> 01:34:32.159 family operated, seventy year old garden center that you wandered 1738 01:34:32.159 --> 01:34:36.199 through and around each corner. Is something you didn't expect. 1739 01:34:36.720 --> 01:34:38.439 And of course they have all the kinds of plants, 1740 01:34:38.439 --> 01:34:41.119 you know, flowers and trees and hanging baskets and vegetables 1741 01:34:41.199 --> 01:34:45.199 and herbs and houseplant. Their houseplant sections like second to none. 1742 01:34:46.359 --> 01:34:48.319 Everything you're looking for, our fruit, trees and shrubs and 1743 01:34:48.359 --> 01:34:50.680 so on. They have it all there. But it's just 1744 01:34:50.760 --> 01:34:53.880 a pleasure to wander through and do. And the folks there, 1745 01:34:54.079 --> 01:34:56.279 they are knowledgeable. I've been there more than once, and 1746 01:34:56.399 --> 01:34:58.600 you know, visiting with someone working there and they're a 1747 01:34:58.640 --> 01:35:00.880 master gardener and they're just doing. They're working there because 1748 01:35:00.880 --> 01:35:04.319 they has love plants, you know, they love that. They're 1749 01:35:04.439 --> 01:35:08.000 enthusiastic and they help you. I mean twenty different kinds 1750 01:35:08.000 --> 01:35:11.640 of aalias. You know, hadranges and just everywhere you look, 1751 01:35:11.880 --> 01:35:14.880 whatever you're looking for, they've got it. You may walk 1752 01:35:14.920 --> 01:35:17.560 in and go, Yeah, while back, my neighbor had this 1753 01:35:17.600 --> 01:35:20.000 thing that was blooming, didn't have any leaves on it, 1754 01:35:20.119 --> 01:35:23.319 and you know I'd like to plant one. Well, the 1755 01:35:23.319 --> 01:35:26.079 blooms are gone now, right, But they can point you 1756 01:35:26.159 --> 01:35:29.600 to the plant. You're probably talking about a deciduous magnolia. 1757 01:35:29.680 --> 01:35:31.479 They can put you in touch with it, tell you 1758 01:35:31.479 --> 01:35:32.840 how to plant it, tell you how to take care 1759 01:35:32.880 --> 01:35:36.840 of it. MOS Nursery Seabrook or Toddville Road, Seabrook, Texas 1760 01:35:37.239 --> 01:35:41.000 maas Nursery dot Com two eight one, four seven four 1761 01:35:41.520 --> 01:35:44.199 twenty four eighty eight. We're going to go now and 1762 01:35:44.319 --> 01:35:47.479 talk to Sharon. Hello, Sharon, Welcome to garden Line. 1763 01:35:48.079 --> 01:35:48.840 Good morning. 1764 01:35:49.560 --> 01:35:51.720 I want to know what I can use to kill 1765 01:35:51.800 --> 01:35:52.760 poison ivy? 1766 01:35:54.439 --> 01:35:58.359 All right, where is it growing? What good plant is nearby? 1767 01:36:00.119 --> 01:36:00.279 Oh? 1768 01:36:01.279 --> 01:36:05.319 It was just among a lot of jew in the 1769 01:36:05.359 --> 01:36:07.439 groundcover and a lot of weeds. 1770 01:36:07.680 --> 01:36:13.359 Okay, okay, Well, h wandering jew is hard to kill. 1771 01:36:13.399 --> 01:36:16.039 So you probably kill the poison ivy and not killed 1772 01:36:16.079 --> 01:36:21.159 the wandering jew. But I would what I would do is, well, 1773 01:36:21.239 --> 01:36:23.319 let me ask you one more question. Does it have 1774 01:36:23.399 --> 01:36:26.199 a trunk on it, you know, like as big as 1775 01:36:26.239 --> 01:36:28.840 your little finger or larger or is it just a 1776 01:36:28.880 --> 01:36:32.640 little little tiny thin things coming out of the ground. Well, 1777 01:36:32.680 --> 01:36:37.319 it's smaller, yeah, smaller. Okay, I would use a product 1778 01:36:37.359 --> 01:36:42.960 containing trichlop here t R I C l O P 1779 01:36:43.399 --> 01:36:47.800 y R. Now, there's a publication on my website, and 1780 01:36:47.920 --> 01:36:52.279 my website is Gardening with Skip dot com. It's a 1781 01:36:52.279 --> 01:36:57.319 free publication. It's called Herbicides for Skips weed Wiper and 1782 01:36:57.399 --> 01:36:59.199 you can see how to build a weed wiper. It's 1783 01:36:59.239 --> 01:37:00.920 easy to build. I mean, you don't you don't have 1784 01:37:00.960 --> 01:37:02.399 to have tools and all that to do it. 1785 01:37:02.920 --> 01:37:03.279 Uh. 1786 01:37:03.319 --> 01:37:05.560 And and then the herbicized to put on it, and 1787 01:37:05.720 --> 01:37:10.800 for whatody weeds like pepperbine and poison ivy and hackberry 1788 01:37:10.800 --> 01:37:13.840 seedlings and all that. Tricle Peer is listed and the 1789 01:37:13.920 --> 01:37:17.640 brands of triclo peer are also listed. So you can 1790 01:37:17.720 --> 01:37:19.880 just print that out off the web, take it with 1791 01:37:19.960 --> 01:37:23.119 you when you go shopping. And uh, if you get 1792 01:37:23.199 --> 01:37:27.000 the tricle Peer on desirable plants, it's probably going to 1793 01:37:27.119 --> 01:37:30.520 kill them too. So the weed wiper allows you to 1794 01:37:30.560 --> 01:37:34.079 get it just on the poison ivy leaves without having 1795 01:37:34.079 --> 01:37:37.079 to touch them. So anyway, those are your options. 1796 01:37:37.079 --> 01:37:41.000 Sharon, Okay, very good, Skip, Thank you so much. 1797 01:37:41.159 --> 01:37:45.760 I appreciate you, Bet, thanks a lot. Appreciate appreciate your 1798 01:37:45.800 --> 01:37:46.600 call a lot. 1799 01:37:47.079 --> 01:37:47.159 Uh. 1800 01:37:48.119 --> 01:37:50.920 Someone's the other day again is asking me about what 1801 01:37:50.960 --> 01:37:53.119 are trace minerals. I don't understand this. What do you 1802 01:37:53.159 --> 01:37:56.239 mean by trace? And what I mean by trace is 1803 01:37:56.279 --> 01:37:59.199 that you only need a little of them. But the 1804 01:37:59.239 --> 01:38:03.159 fact that you'll need a little doesn't mean it's not essential, right. 1805 01:38:03.520 --> 01:38:05.159 I mean, you don't need a lot of vitamin D 1806 01:38:05.319 --> 01:38:08.520 in your body, but if you had none, you'd have 1807 01:38:08.560 --> 01:38:13.279 a creek, right, because it's essential. Well, trace minerals. He's 1808 01:38:13.319 --> 01:38:16.680 not a mineral. I know that asmite is a mind 1809 01:38:16.760 --> 01:38:19.760 product that contains trace minerals, and you put it down. 1810 01:38:20.039 --> 01:38:22.279 You can do it once twice a year, whatever you need. 1811 01:38:22.319 --> 01:38:24.640 A soil test really would tell you exactly what you need. 1812 01:38:24.680 --> 01:38:28.800 But uh, most people will put it down when they fertilize, 1813 01:38:28.880 --> 01:38:31.039 but you can do it anytime. It doesn't have to 1814 01:38:31.119 --> 01:38:35.119 be done in conjunction with fertilizing, but it provides those 1815 01:38:35.199 --> 01:38:37.680 trace minerals that are needed in small amounts, but that 1816 01:38:37.760 --> 01:38:40.600 are essential. Basically, what you're doing is you're putting into 1817 01:38:40.640 --> 01:38:43.760 your soil bank account all the things that you're gonna 1818 01:38:43.800 --> 01:38:47.960 need when that grass starts making its withdrawals, and therefore 1819 01:38:47.960 --> 01:38:52.239 you have healthy plants from azemite. Let's see here. I'm 1820 01:38:52.239 --> 01:38:55.399 going to go now to Bill in the Houston area. Hey, Bill, 1821 01:38:55.479 --> 01:38:56.399 welcome to garden Line. 1822 01:38:58.079 --> 01:39:03.920 Thanks Skip. I have a magnolia tree. It's about twenty 1823 01:39:04.000 --> 01:39:08.720 feet tall and probably got about a ten inch circumference base. 1824 01:39:09.399 --> 01:39:13.239 But yesterday I picked up a thirty gallon trash bag 1825 01:39:13.319 --> 01:39:16.039 full of leaves off the ground. It just started dropping 1826 01:39:16.119 --> 01:39:18.560 leaves over the last week or so, and I'm just 1827 01:39:18.600 --> 01:39:20.079 wondering what may be going on. 1828 01:39:21.600 --> 01:39:24.720 Okay, are the leaves at the end of the branch 1829 01:39:24.840 --> 01:39:27.600 is still green, and on there it's the older leaves dropping. 1830 01:39:29.520 --> 01:39:33.800 It's kind of on one branch every leaf is gone 1831 01:39:33.840 --> 01:39:36.560 I noticed this morning, But most of them are are 1832 01:39:36.640 --> 01:39:40.239 older leaves, and there's still lots of leaves on the tree. 1833 01:39:41.640 --> 01:39:44.960 Okay, well, you know I'm not there looking at the 1834 01:39:45.000 --> 01:39:50.119 tree and digging around everything. But my best guess, I 1835 01:39:50.119 --> 01:39:53.319 think what you're looking at is normal transition leaf drop 1836 01:39:53.560 --> 01:39:57.199 Magnolia's in the spring, as new growth starts coming, they 1837 01:39:57.319 --> 01:40:01.640 drop all the old leaves. That that is. For some magnolias, 1838 01:40:01.680 --> 01:40:04.399 that is a very dramatic drop. In some years it's 1839 01:40:04.399 --> 01:40:07.119 a very dramatic drop, and for other magnolias in other 1840 01:40:07.239 --> 01:40:10.479 years it's not as dramatic. But that's nothing to be 1841 01:40:10.600 --> 01:40:13.199 concerned about. Now, when you have a branch with no leaves, 1842 01:40:13.680 --> 01:40:15.880 something else is going on. Could be a freeze crack 1843 01:40:15.960 --> 01:40:20.000 from freezing. It could be I don't know, a borer 1844 01:40:20.039 --> 01:40:23.199 in the branch, or a canker killing the bark around 1845 01:40:23.199 --> 01:40:26.319 the branch. But if you want, I can put you 1846 01:40:26.399 --> 01:40:28.319 on hold and you can take a picture of it. 1847 01:40:28.359 --> 01:40:30.720 Take me a picture of the whole plant. Then take 1848 01:40:30.800 --> 01:40:33.479 some kind of up close, you know, showing the question 1849 01:40:33.560 --> 01:40:36.800 I was asking, which leaves uh, And I'll be happy 1850 01:40:36.800 --> 01:40:38.840 to take a second look and see if I see 1851 01:40:38.880 --> 01:40:40.520 anything else on it. How about that? 1852 01:40:41.119 --> 01:40:43.439 Well, I may have to do that after a while. 1853 01:40:43.520 --> 01:40:45.880 I'm out running some errands. But I thought i'd give you. 1854 01:40:46.439 --> 01:40:47.439 Thank you so much. 1855 01:40:47.680 --> 01:40:50.760 Yeah, yeah, no, no need, no need to do it 1856 01:40:50.800 --> 01:40:52.760 at all, and no problem, no rush, I'm going to 1857 01:40:52.840 --> 01:40:55.039 put you on hold if you want to do that, 1858 01:40:55.239 --> 01:40:57.880 just hang on and Jonathan will get you an email. 1859 01:40:58.000 --> 01:41:02.000 Appreciate your call. Yeah. Magnolias and live oaks do that. 1860 01:41:02.319 --> 01:41:04.479 And I had two live oaks in my front yard 1861 01:41:04.520 --> 01:41:07.199 and one of them each year it dropped leaves, but 1862 01:41:07.319 --> 01:41:09.560 it's still had this full canopy. The other one almost 1863 01:41:09.560 --> 01:41:13.960 went completely bare every year. Genetically different trees growing in 1864 01:41:13.960 --> 01:41:17.079 the same yard. I don't know why, but it's it's 1865 01:41:17.119 --> 01:41:20.479 just nature. It's what nature does. Not at all unusual 1866 01:41:20.600 --> 01:41:23.439 to see that kind of thing. Well, I mentioned it 1867 01:41:23.520 --> 01:41:27.479 was gonna rain today, right, It probably is raining today 1868 01:41:27.479 --> 01:41:29.760 where you are right now, most areas are getting some 1869 01:41:30.600 --> 01:41:34.239 Mosquito dunks are a really handy product that have been 1870 01:41:34.279 --> 01:41:37.119 around for a long time. You can find them everywhere, 1871 01:41:37.159 --> 01:41:38.960 you know, ace. Hardware stores are going to have them, 1872 01:41:39.000 --> 01:41:41.760 Your nurseries are going to have them, your feed stores 1873 01:41:41.800 --> 01:41:44.920 are going to have them. They're widely available. Mosquita dunks 1874 01:41:44.960 --> 01:41:47.479 like a little small beige donut. It floats in water. 1875 01:41:47.880 --> 01:41:50.119 And you know, you got this little pond out there, 1876 01:41:50.479 --> 01:41:53.000 it's kind of still water, it's not moving. Well, that's 1877 01:41:53.000 --> 01:41:55.640 where mosquitoes like to lay their eggs. Throw throw one 1878 01:41:55.680 --> 01:41:59.520 onto the water. It floats and it releases a bacterium 1879 01:41:59.560 --> 01:42:03.359 that is toxic to mosquito larva. It is not toxic 1880 01:42:03.760 --> 01:42:09.640 to birds or fish, or the family pet or anything out, dragonflies, 1881 01:42:09.680 --> 01:42:12.359 anything else that's around the water. It is specific to 1882 01:42:12.399 --> 01:42:16.479 mosquito larva. So one dunk covers one hundred square feet 1883 01:42:17.119 --> 01:42:20.199 for about thirty days or more as it slowly dissolves away. 1884 01:42:20.479 --> 01:42:22.960 They also have a granular farm that you can scatter 1885 01:42:23.000 --> 01:42:25.359 in smaller areas. But if you underneath the catch basins 1886 01:42:25.359 --> 01:42:28.600 on your plants where water tends to stand, it works. 1887 01:42:28.800 --> 01:42:32.960 Mosquito dunks again widely available. They work. Look for them 1888 01:42:33.239 --> 01:42:36.199 in a garden center and a hardware store, a nursery, 1889 01:42:36.279 --> 01:42:41.680 a feed store near you. Let's see, we're going to 1890 01:42:41.720 --> 01:42:44.680 head out now to Tomball and talk to John. Hey John, 1891 01:42:44.720 --> 01:42:45.800 welcome to garden Line. 1892 01:42:46.680 --> 01:42:51.279 Good morning, skiff, thank you. I've got to arbigate coming 1893 01:42:51.319 --> 01:42:56.680 in to playing about ten Eagleston's hollies. So I've got 1894 01:42:56.720 --> 01:43:01.119 to move to a yellow rose bush. So am I 1895 01:43:01.359 --> 01:43:04.600 just fighting and losing battle here with this this time 1896 01:43:04.640 --> 01:43:05.000 of year? 1897 01:43:05.119 --> 01:43:06.039 Or is it doable? 1898 01:43:07.479 --> 01:43:10.000 It's it's doable. It wouldn't be the time I would 1899 01:43:10.119 --> 01:43:12.920 choose if I were given choices, but you know here 1900 01:43:12.960 --> 01:43:15.119 we are, and so I would go ahead and give 1901 01:43:15.119 --> 01:43:19.039 it a try. Uh is it a it's not a vine, 1902 01:43:19.159 --> 01:43:23.000 it's not a tree climbing rose, it's a bush, correct? 1903 01:43:23.439 --> 01:43:23.920 Correct? 1904 01:43:24.079 --> 01:43:24.439 Yes? 1905 01:43:25.039 --> 01:43:27.600 Okay? And about how long has it been in? More 1906 01:43:27.640 --> 01:43:28.880 than three years? 1907 01:43:30.319 --> 01:43:33.159 It's probably been in about two years? 1908 01:43:33.920 --> 01:43:34.359 Two years? 1909 01:43:35.199 --> 01:43:35.600 All right? 1910 01:43:36.640 --> 01:43:40.239 All right? Well are you going to immediately replant it 1911 01:43:40.359 --> 01:43:41.399 in another location? 1912 01:43:43.279 --> 01:43:47.239 Yes? Yes, before the come yeah? 1913 01:43:47.279 --> 01:43:49.560 Good. So what I do is go to the new spot, 1914 01:43:49.920 --> 01:43:51.960 go ahead and dig the hole to get ready for it. 1915 01:43:52.079 --> 01:43:54.520 But when you dig the rose bush, you want to 1916 01:43:54.560 --> 01:43:56.920 go wider rather than deeper. So if you even get 1917 01:43:56.960 --> 01:44:00.159 eight inches deep, that's plenty deep for the rose. But 1918 01:44:00.960 --> 01:44:03.399 I will dig all the way around it, and then 1919 01:44:03.439 --> 01:44:06.800 I will kind of dig underneath it with a flat shovel, 1920 01:44:06.960 --> 01:44:10.000 not the curve shovel, but a flat one, and slicing 1921 01:44:10.039 --> 01:44:12.359 the roots underneath it as you kind of lean the 1922 01:44:12.359 --> 01:44:17.039 bush one way now for me, using twine or something 1923 01:44:17.079 --> 01:44:20.239 to pull all the rose branches together and upwards so 1924 01:44:20.279 --> 01:44:22.600 they look, you know, they look like a rocket coming 1925 01:44:22.640 --> 01:44:24.920 out of the ground rather than a spreading bush. That 1926 01:44:25.039 --> 01:44:27.319 makes it easier to get in and work around it. 1927 01:44:27.840 --> 01:44:30.239 I slide a tarp underneath it as far as I 1928 01:44:30.279 --> 01:44:31.600 can get it, and then I go to the other 1929 01:44:31.680 --> 01:44:33.920 side and start digging the roots, cutting the roots as 1930 01:44:33.920 --> 01:44:36.680 I go under it, and slide that bush onto the tarp. 1931 01:44:36.800 --> 01:44:38.479 And you can drag it with quite a bit of 1932 01:44:38.520 --> 01:44:42.239 soil that way without hurting your back to the new location. 1933 01:44:42.560 --> 01:44:44.800 Slide it right into the ground planet make sure it's 1934 01:44:44.800 --> 01:44:47.880 the same depth it was watered in really really well. 1935 01:44:47.960 --> 01:44:50.600 And if you got some sort of a a light 1936 01:44:50.720 --> 01:44:53.079 shade that you could cast over it, you know, a 1937 01:44:53.159 --> 01:44:56.720 shade cover or something you could even be like the 1938 01:44:57.560 --> 01:45:00.800 spun down polyester fabrics, something to just give it a 1939 01:45:00.880 --> 01:45:03.600 little break from the sun while it gets some roots in. 1940 01:45:03.640 --> 01:45:05.479 After two or three weeks of that, you can you 1941 01:45:05.520 --> 01:45:08.760 can pull the cover off. But if you keep it moist, 1942 01:45:08.880 --> 01:45:11.399 remembering that you've cut off most of the roots, keep 1943 01:45:11.439 --> 01:45:13.800 the roots that are there moist, I think you're gonna 1944 01:45:13.800 --> 01:45:15.720 find that you have really good success with that. 1945 01:45:17.000 --> 01:45:18.720 Perfect thank you. 1946 01:45:18.800 --> 01:45:21.840 They like today be a good day. Yeah, today be 1947 01:45:21.840 --> 01:45:23.640 a good day to do it with all the overcast 1948 01:45:23.640 --> 01:45:26.119 guys in rain. But I suspect you may not be 1949 01:45:26.159 --> 01:45:31.399 interested and do it that today. Anyway, there you go. Hey, 1950 01:45:31.439 --> 01:45:33.319 I gotta go to I gotta go to a break, folks. 1951 01:45:33.800 --> 01:45:40.960 I'll be right back. Oh boy, I'm looking out the 1952 01:45:41.000 --> 01:45:47.239 window right now and this rain, rhythm of the rain. Hey, 1953 01:45:47.279 --> 01:45:48.880 we'll be glad we had it later. I wish we 1954 01:45:48.920 --> 01:45:51.159 could bottle it up and keep it for July and August, 1955 01:45:51.199 --> 01:45:55.279 but it is what it is. Right Welcome back to 1956 01:45:55.319 --> 01:45:57.159 garden Line. Good to have you with us. Hey, if 1957 01:45:57.159 --> 01:46:00.520 you haven't been down to Jorges Hidden Gardens down, you 1958 01:46:00.520 --> 01:46:04.119 got to go. Orge just keeps making that place better 1959 01:46:04.199 --> 01:46:06.800 and better and better. I mean he specializes in all 1960 01:46:06.880 --> 01:46:10.399 kinds of trees, shrubs, things like that, because every kind 1961 01:46:10.399 --> 01:46:13.479 of plan do you need a fruit tree? Peaches and 1962 01:46:13.840 --> 01:46:16.319 on and on through the fruit tree, including ceteras too. 1963 01:46:16.319 --> 01:46:19.199 By the way, and blueberries and whatnot. He's got that, 1964 01:46:19.800 --> 01:46:23.920 He's got pretty much. The rose selection is really it's 1965 01:46:23.960 --> 01:46:27.079 really excellent. I love the what is the Oh gosh, 1966 01:46:27.119 --> 01:46:30.520 I got one in the backyard, Peggy Martin, Peggy Martin rose. 1967 01:46:30.800 --> 01:46:34.920 Jory's got some wonderful Peggy Martin roses that just look excellent. 1968 01:46:35.319 --> 01:46:38.239 And so anyway, yeah, that would be a good place 1969 01:46:38.239 --> 01:46:43.840 to stop today. Jorge, starting at nine pm or nine am, 1970 01:46:44.159 --> 01:46:46.640 they're going to have a herb gardening program there. It's 1971 01:46:46.680 --> 01:46:50.880 free at Jorge's Hidden Gardens. It's on Elizabeth Street in Alvin. 1972 01:46:51.039 --> 01:46:53.880 Elizabeth Street in Alvin, So if you're in Alvin, you're 1973 01:46:53.880 --> 01:46:57.119 heading down towards Santa Fe direction. It's about halfway and 1974 01:46:57.159 --> 01:46:59.439 then you turn off to the right to get to 1975 01:46:59.600 --> 01:47:03.560 Hora Hidden Gardens. He also saw I got in some 1976 01:47:03.720 --> 01:47:07.840 really beautiful bottle brush plants. A boy, the pollinators, the 1977 01:47:07.880 --> 01:47:11.800 bees love those things, absolutely love those things. Anyway, go 1978 01:47:11.840 --> 01:47:14.359 by and see it, say hey, hooray for us. And 1979 01:47:14.359 --> 01:47:16.279 while are you there, you can get the three sixty 1980 01:47:16.359 --> 01:47:22.159 tree stabilizer that is outstanding for securing and making sure 1981 01:47:22.199 --> 01:47:24.159 your trees are off to the best start that they 1982 01:47:24.199 --> 01:47:27.720 can get. Let's go to the phones. Now we're gonna 1983 01:47:27.720 --> 01:47:31.560 go talk to Susan. Hey, Susan, welcome to garden line. 1984 01:47:31.800 --> 01:47:37.439 Well hi there skip log time, no talk. How are 1985 01:47:37.479 --> 01:47:38.800 you to everybody? 1986 01:47:39.000 --> 01:47:39.600 Anybody? 1987 01:47:40.079 --> 01:47:42.119 Okay, and nobody wants it? 1988 01:47:44.000 --> 01:47:51.640 Okay, this load tree. Do you have the pictures? 1989 01:47:53.840 --> 01:47:54.840 I hope. 1990 01:47:55.680 --> 01:47:58.319 Uh, well i'm I'm I have the email, but there's 1991 01:47:58.319 --> 01:47:59.640 no pictures attached. 1992 01:48:00.800 --> 01:48:01.479 That won't work. 1993 01:48:01.560 --> 01:48:03.960 Then okay, yeah, well. 1994 01:48:04.039 --> 01:48:09.640 So I guess, uh the board pictures. Yeah. What you 1995 01:48:09.680 --> 01:48:14.119 need to do, Susan on this is attach the email. 1996 01:48:15.079 --> 01:48:17.720 Don't embed that, don't like paste it in the text, 1997 01:48:17.800 --> 01:48:21.159 but attach it using that little paper club when you 1998 01:48:21.199 --> 01:48:23.920 do send it and I think I'll get it that way, okay. 1999 01:48:24.000 --> 01:48:28.800 Okay, because I said that's what you mean, right the 2000 01:48:28.920 --> 01:48:29.800 leaves and then. 2001 01:48:30.920 --> 01:48:34.199 Well, yeah, what whatever you want to ask questions about 2002 01:48:34.239 --> 01:48:36.439 and call me back once you get it. Once you 2003 01:48:36.439 --> 01:48:42.760 get it here, okay, thank you. M mmmm. Well, while 2004 01:48:42.760 --> 01:48:45.800 we're talking about the emails and stuff, just so you know, 2005 01:48:46.920 --> 01:48:50.199 I'm not able to just type answers to emails, so 2006 01:48:50.279 --> 01:48:53.720 I can't do the pempal thing during the week. But 2007 01:48:54.159 --> 01:48:58.920 if you have a question and I can attach a picture, uh, 2008 01:48:59.039 --> 01:49:01.720 if not, just the question. Go ahead and send it 2009 01:49:01.760 --> 01:49:03.479 to me and then follow it up with a call 2010 01:49:03.760 --> 01:49:06.800 on Saturday Sunday morning on Guarden Line and we'll talk 2011 01:49:06.800 --> 01:49:09.600 about it. We'll make sure and get it solved that way. 2012 01:49:09.640 --> 01:49:12.840 I just the volume of email and the work that 2013 01:49:12.920 --> 01:49:15.239 I do during the week as well, there's just no 2014 01:49:15.319 --> 01:49:19.279 way I can tackle you know, just do an email 2015 01:49:19.319 --> 01:49:22.000 typing back and forth. Plus I'm a slow typer. That's 2016 01:49:22.039 --> 01:49:25.159 another thing. When you send me an email, always attach 2017 01:49:25.279 --> 01:49:28.159 it rather than embed it. Embed it means pasting it 2018 01:49:28.199 --> 01:49:31.359 in the text. It is very hard for me. Sometimes 2019 01:49:31.479 --> 01:49:33.720 I open them and I can't see the whole picture 2020 01:49:33.840 --> 01:49:36.439 without me saving it and then reopening the safe out 2021 01:49:36.479 --> 01:49:38.359 and I just can't do all that at once while 2022 01:49:38.359 --> 01:49:41.279 I'm trying to do the radio. 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If you're dealing with a compacted soil, it 2048 01:51:05.920 --> 01:51:08.520 is absolutely essential if you're going to get out of 2049 01:51:08.560 --> 01:51:11.840 the compaction problem, to do the correoration and the compost 2050 01:51:11.840 --> 01:51:14.920 top dressing and you can do that repeatedly over a 2051 01:51:14.960 --> 01:51:17.680 period of years, however you want to go about it. 2052 01:51:18.039 --> 01:51:22.600 But it does literally breathe life back into the lawn 2053 01:51:22.840 --> 01:51:25.960 because you're bringing oxygen down into the root system which 2054 01:51:25.960 --> 01:51:29.199 it couldn't get before because of the compactically soil year 2055 01:51:29.239 --> 01:51:31.960 around Houston dot com eight three two eight eight four 2056 01:51:32.399 --> 01:51:36.319 fifty three thirty five. If you would like to give 2057 01:51:36.319 --> 01:51:39.359 me a call today, the phone number is seven to 2058 01:51:39.399 --> 01:51:43.760 one three two one two KTRH seven one three two 2059 01:51:43.760 --> 01:51:46.520 one two k t RH. I want to remind you 2060 01:51:46.560 --> 01:51:50.600 that my schedule is online if you if you want 2061 01:51:50.640 --> 01:51:54.359 to see a copy of my lawn care schedule and 2062 01:51:55.039 --> 01:51:59.880 my lawn past disease and we'd management schedule. Excuse me 2063 01:52:00.119 --> 01:52:01.760 fading in and out here because I'm trying to reach 2064 01:52:01.800 --> 01:52:05.279 for something. Both of them are online. You go to 2065 01:52:05.359 --> 01:52:11.720 Gardening with Skip dot com Gardening with Skip dot com 2066 01:52:12.239 --> 01:52:14.239 and you'll find them there. There's a lot of other 2067 01:52:14.319 --> 01:52:17.680 information on that website too. By the way, I definitely 2068 01:52:17.720 --> 01:52:20.039 need to check it out Gardening with Skip dot Com. 2069 01:52:20.079 --> 01:52:22.680 Lots of good free information that I've put on there 2070 01:52:23.199 --> 01:52:25.760 that will help you have success, help you have a 2071 01:52:25.760 --> 01:52:29.600 bountiful garden, a beautiful landscape and more fun in the process. 2072 01:52:29.720 --> 01:52:29.960 Right. 2073 01:52:30.359 --> 01:52:32.840 That's that's the way we look at it. But go 2074 01:52:32.880 --> 01:52:36.159 to gardening with Skip dot com. Look at my publications 2075 01:52:36.159 --> 01:52:40.479 that are on there. Look at the schedules, and you'll 2076 01:52:40.479 --> 01:52:43.920 see exactly what I'm talking about now, the new schedule, 2077 01:52:44.319 --> 01:52:46.279 or the schedule that's been on there for a while, 2078 01:52:46.359 --> 01:52:49.359 rather the lawn care schedule. If you look at it 2079 01:52:50.039 --> 01:52:51.960 first of all, you can download it as a PDF 2080 01:52:52.000 --> 01:52:53.439 and print it out. I'll talk to people all the 2081 01:52:53.439 --> 01:52:55.560 time that have put it in their garage by their 2082 01:52:55.600 --> 01:52:59.319 fertilizer spread or on the refrigerator or whatever. You will 2083 01:52:59.359 --> 01:53:02.640 see that year now in the time when we start 2084 01:53:02.680 --> 01:53:06.960 applying that slow release fertilizer to our lawns. And one 2085 01:53:07.000 --> 01:53:11.039 of the products that I highly recommend is Nitropas super 2086 01:53:11.079 --> 01:53:15.000 Turf Nitrofass Superturf. It's a silver bag. It's a nineteen 2087 01:53:16.000 --> 01:53:21.479 four nine okay, nineteen excuse me, four to ten, sorry, 2088 01:53:21.880 --> 01:53:25.359 nineteen four to ten fertilizer in a silver that's the easiest, 2089 01:53:25.439 --> 01:53:27.520 the silver bag. You walk into an ACE hardware store, 2090 01:53:27.600 --> 01:53:29.880 you look across the store, you see the silver bags 2091 01:53:29.880 --> 01:53:33.479 way over there. It's only bag like that. Nitrofas super turf. 2092 01:53:33.800 --> 01:53:35.680 You put it out at about five pounds per thousand 2093 01:53:35.720 --> 01:53:37.800 square feet and it's going to feed your lawn for 2094 01:53:37.840 --> 01:53:42.000 four months gradually. That's you know, when we dump a 2095 01:53:42.000 --> 01:53:44.760 whole bunch of fast release fertilizer, a whole bunch of 2096 01:53:44.800 --> 01:53:48.000 it right on the ground, Well, the grass can't take 2097 01:53:48.000 --> 01:53:50.079 all that up at once, and we lose a lot 2098 01:53:50.119 --> 01:53:53.039 of it. So when you do a slow release, the 2099 01:53:53.119 --> 01:53:56.399 grass is taking up nutrients every day. And you want 2100 01:53:56.439 --> 01:53:59.359 a fertilizer that's gradually releasing every day. That's super turf. 2101 01:54:00.039 --> 01:54:01.960 And you're going to find it in places like plants 2102 01:54:01.960 --> 01:54:04.920 for all seasons on Luetta. You're gonna find it at 2103 01:54:04.960 --> 01:54:08.119 Ace Hardware, Sinco Ranch or M and Dace on Luetta. 2104 01:54:08.720 --> 01:54:11.000 H those are all examples of places where you're gonna 2105 01:54:11.039 --> 01:54:16.199 find nine to five super turb alrighty, well, let's see, 2106 01:54:16.239 --> 01:54:18.199 I wanted to grab a phone call, but I don't 2107 01:54:18.279 --> 01:54:20.680 quite have time. So when we come back, Doug and Richmond, 2108 01:54:20.720 --> 01:54:24.119 you'll be first up, followed by William in beat eyes. Ooh, 2109 01:54:24.199 --> 01:54:26.560 the metropolis of beat Iyes. Looking forward to. 2110 01:54:26.520 --> 01:54:30.520 That is what my Brad says. 2111 01:54:30.520 --> 01:54:34.720 Oh yes, you can uh huh, I can relate to 2112 01:54:34.800 --> 01:54:39.079 that what Toby ddenttey is. When you go ahead and 2113 01:54:39.079 --> 01:54:45.960 do it the next morning, your body says, that's right, 2114 01:54:46.119 --> 01:54:48.319 that's right. Welcome back to Garden Line. Good to have 2115 01:54:48.399 --> 01:54:52.079 you with us. Spring Creek Feed in Magnolia on FM 2116 01:54:52.159 --> 01:54:55.399 twenty nine to seventy eight Grand Parkway and Highway two 2117 01:54:55.439 --> 01:54:57.760 forty nine, just a few minutes away from Grand Parkway 2118 01:54:57.760 --> 01:55:01.239 in two forty nine. This is one heck of a 2119 01:55:01.279 --> 01:55:03.840 feed store. Beautiful inside you walk in, just like is 2120 01:55:03.880 --> 01:55:06.239 this a feed store? He is so beautiful inside, all 2121 01:55:06.279 --> 01:55:11.000 the different indoor giftings and you know, just an anything 2122 01:55:11.000 --> 01:55:14.039 you can imagine really to decorate and around the place. 2123 01:55:14.520 --> 01:55:16.960 But then you look left and you see feed everywhere. 2124 01:55:17.159 --> 01:55:19.960 And then you look right and you see garden everywhere. 2125 01:55:20.000 --> 01:55:27.920 Garden supplies, herbicides, fungicides, pesticides, fertilizers like turf Star from Nelson, Microlife, nitrofoss. 2126 01:55:27.960 --> 01:55:31.039 They carry all of those products there at Spring Creek Feed. 2127 01:55:31.039 --> 01:55:33.640 If you're an FFA or four h raising livestock, or 2128 01:55:33.680 --> 01:55:37.039 if you're military or senior citizens, their discounts for you. 2129 01:55:37.359 --> 01:55:39.880 Spring Creek will special order and they do have a 2130 01:55:39.960 --> 01:55:43.520 delivery service as well. Again in Magnolia on FM twenty 2131 01:55:43.640 --> 01:55:47.039 nine seventy eight just minutes away from Graham Parkway in 2132 01:55:47.119 --> 01:55:50.439 Highway two forty nine. That is Spring Creek Feed. Let's 2133 01:55:50.439 --> 01:55:53.079 head out to Richmond and talk to Doug. Hey, Doug, 2134 01:55:53.119 --> 01:55:54.159 welcome to garden Line. 2135 01:55:54.720 --> 01:55:59.640 Thank you very much, Skip, Good morning morning. I have 2136 01:55:59.680 --> 01:56:04.359 a q about leaf miners. My citrus started started sprouting 2137 01:56:04.359 --> 01:56:06.960 fresh leaves about a month ago, and all four trees 2138 01:56:07.000 --> 01:56:11.760 have got nice now full sized leaves and they're hardened up. Okay, 2139 01:56:11.880 --> 01:56:14.840 but I want to know the trigger for leaf miners. 2140 01:56:15.039 --> 01:56:19.159 Is it weather temperature? When do they start proliferating? And 2141 01:56:19.279 --> 01:56:21.920 I'm going to get in touch in control of it 2142 01:56:21.960 --> 01:56:26.640 with the spinosad this year. And yeah, only spinosad, no 2143 01:56:26.720 --> 01:56:27.560 knee oil. 2144 01:56:28.159 --> 01:56:33.479 And okay, Doug. So basically, leaf miners like tender succulent growth, 2145 01:56:33.520 --> 01:56:36.239 as you indicated, and so whenever you have a flush, 2146 01:56:36.439 --> 01:56:39.000 you're gonna have leaf miners around. They have they go 2147 01:56:39.039 --> 01:56:41.439 through their life cycle. They when they finish in a leaf, 2148 01:56:41.479 --> 01:56:43.560 they drop out on the ground, pupate, and then they're 2149 01:56:43.640 --> 01:56:46.199 right back in the area again. So they're flying around 2150 01:56:46.279 --> 01:56:48.560 looking for tender growth. So pretty much they're there all 2151 01:56:48.600 --> 01:56:51.000 the time through this summer. Uh and so when you 2152 01:56:51.039 --> 01:56:54.760 have that growth, treating spraying with spinosid as you indicated, 2153 01:56:54.880 --> 01:56:58.319 just that growth, that's the way you need to go. Okay, 2154 01:56:58.399 --> 01:57:01.600 well that sounds like that spinosa will so it'll soak in. Yeah, 2155 01:57:01.600 --> 01:57:04.760 it'll soak into those tender tissues, and so spray both 2156 01:57:04.760 --> 01:57:06.920 sides of the lead. Not necessary, but I would do 2157 01:57:06.960 --> 01:57:07.800 it just to be sure. 2158 01:57:08.319 --> 01:57:08.600 Uh. 2159 01:57:08.640 --> 01:57:11.359 And that's it. You can get ahead of those things. 2160 01:57:11.359 --> 01:57:13.199 Just remember too that if you've got a good sized 2161 01:57:13.199 --> 01:57:15.840 ceentrus tree that's healthy and strong, they're not going to 2162 01:57:15.880 --> 01:57:18.039 really hurt it much. I mean, they make it look bad, 2163 01:57:18.439 --> 01:57:20.199 but the bottom line is they're not going to make 2164 01:57:20.319 --> 01:57:23.640 you have less citrus because the amount of damage they 2165 01:57:23.680 --> 01:57:26.640 do is not enough. Now, if it's a little young 2166 01:57:26.680 --> 01:57:29.399 tree you're trying to get to grow, yes, yeah, don't 2167 01:57:29.439 --> 01:57:36.439 don't let them set it back. I hope that helps. Uh. 2168 01:57:39.439 --> 01:57:42.079 I do have a question, Yeah, you might. You might 2169 01:57:42.119 --> 01:57:47.239 want to protect them, Okay, I just uh you're just 2170 01:57:47.279 --> 01:57:49.880 gonna need to, uh give them a little more time 2171 01:57:50.000 --> 01:57:53.079 on the flowers. They should if they have sunlight, sunlight 2172 01:57:53.199 --> 01:57:57.039 and time on a cetrus, you should be getting blooms. Uh. 2173 01:57:57.159 --> 01:57:58.680 If you want to send me some pictures of them. 2174 01:57:58.680 --> 01:58:01.279 I'm gonna put you on hold and my producer can 2175 01:58:01.279 --> 01:58:03.039 give you an email if you're want to send me 2176 01:58:03.079 --> 01:58:05.960 some pictures of what you're seeing. Maybe I'll see something 2177 01:58:05.960 --> 01:58:08.039 else and I'll be happy to do that. Sorry to 2178 01:58:08.600 --> 01:58:12.479 have to run so fast on us here Heirloom Soils. 2179 01:58:13.119 --> 01:58:16.680 If you're looking for a quality soil product, no question 2180 01:58:17.000 --> 01:58:20.760 from beginning to end, whether it's composted cocoa core, fruit 2181 01:58:20.800 --> 01:58:24.840 berry and citrus mix, bed mixes for the landscape. If 2182 01:58:24.840 --> 01:58:26.720 you're looking for veggie and herb mix. Maybe you have 2183 01:58:26.800 --> 01:58:30.039 cacti and succulents and you want a specific blend for that, 2184 01:58:30.720 --> 01:58:33.960 or a potting soil called the works or rose bloomer 2185 01:58:34.119 --> 01:58:37.399 roses and bloomers blend covers roses and all the other 2186 01:58:37.760 --> 01:58:40.680 kinds of plants like that. Heirloom Sail has got premium, 2187 01:58:40.840 --> 01:58:42.720 top of the line premium. You're going to find the 2188 01:58:42.720 --> 01:58:45.039 bags all over the place and garden centers near you. 2189 01:58:45.439 --> 01:58:49.640 Just go to heirloomsoils dot com. Heirloomsoils dot com. Learn 2190 01:58:49.680 --> 01:58:52.079 about these products, look at their calculators, see you know 2191 01:58:52.119 --> 01:58:54.840 how much to get, and then call them and have 2192 01:58:54.880 --> 01:58:57.760 a delivery, have them bring out a supersack or find 2193 01:58:57.760 --> 01:58:59.640 out where you can get them by the bag, because 2194 01:58:59.640 --> 01:59:04.239 it's on the website Heirloomsoils dot com. We're gonna head 2195 01:59:04.239 --> 01:59:07.199 out to beat Eyes now and talk to William. Hey, William, 2196 01:59:07.239 --> 01:59:08.279 welcome to garden Line. 2197 01:59:09.079 --> 01:59:11.000 I'm fine, I'm really in Plantersville. 2198 01:59:12.359 --> 01:59:15.600 Oh pleasure. Okay, all right, I got a question. 2199 01:59:15.640 --> 01:59:18.760 We had improved berry vines. 2200 01:59:21.000 --> 01:59:25.560 I have blooms and they have little berries starting. How 2201 01:59:25.600 --> 01:59:28.039 many should I trim some of these off? 2202 01:59:29.279 --> 01:59:29.640 The berries? 2203 01:59:29.680 --> 01:59:35.239 You tell about strawberries each all about strawberries, blackberries? Oh no, 2204 01:59:35.359 --> 01:59:38.279 don't trim any of them off? No, no, leave them all. 2205 01:59:38.479 --> 01:59:39.640 The plants can handle. 2206 01:59:39.800 --> 01:59:43.199 Half about the twelve little berries on them. 2207 01:59:44.159 --> 01:59:46.600 Yeah they do. How long have these plants been in 2208 01:59:46.640 --> 01:59:47.039 the ground? 2209 01:59:48.239 --> 01:59:49.840 About two years? 2210 01:59:50.760 --> 01:59:54.279 Okay, yeah, no, leave them that's okay. Just fertilize those things. 2211 01:59:54.640 --> 01:59:58.479 Fertilize them with a good lawn fertilizer, and keep those 2212 01:59:58.479 --> 02:00:01.720 things vigorous and growing, keep competition down, and you'll be 2213 02:00:01.760 --> 02:00:04.680 good to go. All righty okay, okay? 2214 02:00:04.680 --> 02:00:08.000 What about putting a's and mine around a pear tree? 2215 02:00:08.039 --> 02:00:09.000 Will that hurt it? 2216 02:00:09.079 --> 02:00:09.840 Called fireblight? 2217 02:00:10.159 --> 02:00:12.239 They won't hurt it. No, it won't hurt it just no, 2218 02:00:12.319 --> 02:00:14.880 it won't affect the fire blight at all. Just do 2219 02:00:15.000 --> 02:00:17.960 it at the label according according to the label rate, 2220 02:00:18.079 --> 02:00:21.000 and don't overdo it. William, I'm sorry, I'm up against 2221 02:00:21.479 --> 02:00:24.880 a heartbreak here, but appreciate. I appreciate your call very much. 2222 02:00:25.319 --> 02:00:25.439 Uh. 2223 02:00:25.840 --> 02:00:30.399 Nelson Plant Food has the jars of product that are 2224 02:00:30.560 --> 02:00:35.600 nutri Star line. The Nelson Plant Food has some excellent products. 2225 02:00:35.640 --> 02:00:38.159 Bet they got one that's for vegetable gardens. They got 2226 02:00:38.199 --> 02:00:41.520 one for the zalias and acid living plants. There's one 2227 02:00:41.520 --> 02:00:43.800 for food areas. There's one for boog and villias. You 2228 02:00:43.800 --> 02:00:47.159 know we're entering their season right now. It just goes 2229 02:00:47.199 --> 02:00:49.199 on and on. It doesn't matter what kind of plant 2230 02:00:49.279 --> 02:00:53.319 you want to fertilize. Nelson Plant Food nutri Star jars 2231 02:00:53.439 --> 02:00:55.439 or the way to go. And there's a dozen places 2232 02:00:55.479 --> 02:00:57.800 around town where you can take that old jar back 2233 02:00:57.840 --> 02:01:00.479 in and you can refill it to save little money 2234 02:01:00.520 --> 02:01:03.640 and quit throwing the quick having to throw the plastic away. 2235 02:01:03.760 --> 02:01:06.560 It really it really works good. I think it's an 2236 02:01:06.760 --> 02:01:09.039 ingenious thing that they've come up with to do that. 2237 02:01:09.439 --> 02:01:12.239 Nelson products, you can depend on them. They work and 2238 02:01:12.640 --> 02:01:15.760 I can tell you that because I use them I've seen. 2239 02:01:16.399 --> 02:01:20.199 I've seen the results that they produce, and they're excellent. 2240 02:01:21.920 --> 02:01:24.199 Earlier I was talking about containers. Everybody ought to have 2241 02:01:24.239 --> 02:01:28.840 a container on the patio. It's it's important to create beauty. 2242 02:01:28.920 --> 02:01:31.640 The nice thing about containers is they're versatile. They don't 2243 02:01:31.680 --> 02:01:33.840 look good. Just take them out around behind the garage, 2244 02:01:33.840 --> 02:01:36.039 put a new container in, or pull the plants out 2245 02:01:36.039 --> 02:01:40.119 and put new plants in. Jungle Land potting mix is 2246 02:01:40.399 --> 02:01:44.960 a quality product. It's called flour and Vegetable planting soil. 2247 02:01:45.039 --> 02:01:48.399 It's an outdoor version of jungle land. It drains well, 2248 02:01:48.560 --> 02:01:51.279 it holds water well, it holds nutrients well. It's just 2249 02:01:51.319 --> 02:01:53.479 a good product. It's a good product and you're gonna 2250 02:01:53.479 --> 02:01:56.000 find it in a lot of places. Use it to 2251 02:01:56.079 --> 02:01:59.159 make those containers beautiful. Remember when you plant a container 2252 02:01:59.199 --> 02:02:02.439 here in our area, make it an exercise larger or 2253 02:02:02.439 --> 02:02:06.279 two in our heat going through the summer. It helps 2254 02:02:06.279 --> 02:02:08.439 reduce stress that you don't have. The water is often 2255 02:02:08.479 --> 02:02:11.239 and with jungle land you will have that water holding 2256 02:02:11.279 --> 02:02:14.359 capacity and success. You're going to find it like other 2257 02:02:14.439 --> 02:02:17.039 Nilsen products, You're going to find them in places like 2258 02:02:17.279 --> 02:02:21.520 Chented Gardens at in Richmond Rosenberg area, the Plantation, Ace 2259 02:02:21.560 --> 02:02:24.600 Hardware and the Richmond Rosenberg area. You're going to find 2260 02:02:24.600 --> 02:02:27.319 it Aspase Ace in the Woodlands or Ace Hardware City 2261 02:02:27.680 --> 02:02:30.680 on Memorial Drive. They work, and you ought to have 2262 02:02:30.760 --> 02:02:35.039 more containers this year. Every year I add a container 2263 02:02:35.159 --> 02:02:38.000 to the landscape because they're just beautiful. You can grow 2264 02:02:38.119 --> 02:02:41.439 vegetables and containers. You can grow flowers and containers. They're 2265 02:02:41.600 --> 02:02:45.960 just a wonderful, versatile way to garden. I like that, 2266 02:02:46.079 --> 02:02:47.920 and we ought to have more. And by the way, 2267 02:02:48.239 --> 02:02:50.680 if you get tired of watering your containers all the time, 2268 02:02:50.960 --> 02:02:53.560 get you a drip irrigation system. They are not hard 2269 02:02:53.560 --> 02:02:55.920 to find, they are not hard to set up. I 2270 02:02:56.000 --> 02:02:58.359 have some that are just on a hose beb and 2271 02:02:58.399 --> 02:03:00.920 there's a little timer on the hose bill and I 2272 02:03:01.039 --> 02:03:03.680 tell it to water once or twice a day, depending 2273 02:03:03.680 --> 02:03:06.319 on the containers and where they are, or every other day. 2274 02:03:06.600 --> 02:03:10.079 You just set it and forget it, and the hose 2275 02:03:10.119 --> 02:03:12.159 goes along the ground. A little tube comes up and 2276 02:03:12.199 --> 02:03:14.600 goes into the container, and it takes care of it, 2277 02:03:14.640 --> 02:03:17.079 and your place looks good. You know how when we 2278 02:03:17.199 --> 02:03:19.239 forget somety like the other day, I forgot to water 2279 02:03:19.319 --> 02:03:21.720 a tomato that's in a container and it wilted. Do 2280 02:03:21.760 --> 02:03:23.760 you know what that means? It means that I'm going 2281 02:03:23.800 --> 02:03:26.680 to have less production. And now the plant worked back 2282 02:03:26.760 --> 02:03:29.800 up when I watered it, but it went into that stress. 2283 02:03:29.840 --> 02:03:32.000 It was trying to set fruit, trying to develop prood. 2284 02:03:32.000 --> 02:03:34.399 Who knows, I'm have blossom ind right now on that thing. 2285 02:03:34.800 --> 02:03:37.920 Get you an automatic irrigation system on that and it'll 2286 02:03:37.920 --> 02:03:41.359 work really well. Just a tip for those of you 2287 02:03:41.399 --> 02:03:44.800 who are gardening in containers, whether it's herbs or vegetables 2288 02:03:44.880 --> 02:03:49.800 or flowers or anything that you're growing. If you've not 2289 02:03:49.960 --> 02:03:54.439 been out to Enchanted Forest in the Richmond Rosenberg area, 2290 02:03:54.640 --> 02:03:57.960 you really need to go. This is This is the 2291 02:03:58.039 --> 02:04:00.239 kind of nursery you take your friends too and they 2292 02:04:00.239 --> 02:04:04.119 come and visit. It is outstanding, just beautiful. When you 2293 02:04:04.199 --> 02:04:06.640 drive up, you feel like it's almost like you've entered 2294 02:04:06.640 --> 02:04:09.199 an old Western town. You know, the storefronts and things 2295 02:04:09.319 --> 02:04:12.159 like that, and then you walk in the beautiful shade 2296 02:04:12.199 --> 02:04:15.920 trees to stroll under as you shop. It is Tanny 2297 02:04:15.960 --> 02:04:19.079 Forest is great and when you go in, oh my gosh. 2298 02:04:19.079 --> 02:04:20.920 Someone called me the other day or emailed me the 2299 02:04:21.039 --> 02:04:24.079 day and they were looking for they have a certain 2300 02:04:24.159 --> 02:04:26.600 kind of plant. They were looking for caterpillars for that plant, 2301 02:04:27.079 --> 02:04:28.760 and I was just I told you go out to 2302 02:04:28.840 --> 02:04:31.880 in Channet Forest. Actually they were asking about the caterpillars. 2303 02:04:31.920 --> 02:04:34.039 I said, we'll just go there. They'll give you a starter, 2304 02:04:34.199 --> 02:04:36.840 and they will. They had the best selection of pollinator 2305 02:04:36.880 --> 02:04:40.640 plants and butterfly plants that you're gonna find anywhere. And they, 2306 02:04:41.119 --> 02:04:43.239 of course because they have them all the butterflies. No, 2307 02:04:43.359 --> 02:04:45.159 you ask a butterfly. You me and Santoni and ask 2308 02:04:45.199 --> 02:04:46.760 a butterfly. They go, oh, yeah, go to in Channa 2309 02:04:46.800 --> 02:04:50.119 Forest over there. They all show up there and you 2310 02:04:50.159 --> 02:04:52.640 get to take the plant home with your starter caterpillar 2311 02:04:52.680 --> 02:04:55.039 if you want to bring it home with you. They 2312 02:04:55.039 --> 02:04:57.800 have a beautiful selection right now of roses too, by 2313 02:04:57.800 --> 02:05:00.800 the way, Oh they're gorgeous. Clem How many of you 2314 02:05:00.880 --> 02:05:04.479 tried clemitis? You can actually grow a clemitus here. You 2315 02:05:04.520 --> 02:05:06.479 want to put it in a spot where it has 2316 02:05:06.760 --> 02:05:10.399 afternoon shade and morning sun and moltz the roots really 2317 02:05:10.439 --> 02:05:12.760 good and give it the best chance of success. But 2318 02:05:12.800 --> 02:05:16.880 they have those here, beautiful annual color plants. They've gotten 2319 02:05:16.920 --> 02:05:21.199 a shipment of Madagascar periwinkles. Some people call them Vinka. 2320 02:05:21.680 --> 02:05:24.119 Oh it's just gorgeous. I mean I could go. I 2321 02:05:24.119 --> 02:05:26.119 could just talk all the way through this commercial break 2322 02:05:26.399 --> 02:05:28.239 about the products they have it in Channa. First, I 2323 02:05:28.239 --> 02:05:32.520 forgot to tell you in Chinnish forest Enchanted Forest Richmond, 2324 02:05:32.560 --> 02:05:37.439 TX dot com. That's the website, Enchanted Forest Richmond, TX 2325 02:05:37.479 --> 02:05:38.840 dot com. They're on twenty seven. 2326 02:05:38.680 --> 02:05:39.960 To fifty nine. 2327 02:05:41.800 --> 02:05:45.359 Well, music means I gotta quit talking, but not until 2328 02:05:45.359 --> 02:05:48.079 I tell you that Next Saturday, from twelve to two, 2329 02:05:48.119 --> 02:05:50.640 I'll be at RCW Nursery. We're gonna have a good time. 2330 02:05:51.079 --> 02:05:54.039 They always put on a good show there at rc 2331 02:05:54.319 --> 02:05:56.359 There're gonna be lots of giveaways. I'll probably be some 2332 02:05:56.600 --> 02:05:59.039 snacks and some drinks to have there while we're there. 2333 02:06:00.159 --> 02:06:02.239 We're just gonna talk about all kinds of things gardening 2334 02:06:02.319 --> 02:06:04.199 that are of interest to you. You want to bring 2335 02:06:04.199 --> 02:06:06.479 in samples and things we can do that. Come on 2336 02:06:06.560 --> 02:06:08.439 not meeting you. I'd love to be doole and listen 2337 02:06:08.479 --> 02:06:09.159 to Garden. 2338 02:06:17.319 --> 02:06:22.920 Welcome to Katie r h. Garden Line with Skip Rictor's Shoes. 2339 02:06:22.600 --> 02:06:31.800 Man Crazy Gas Trim. You just watch him as well. 2340 02:06:36.760 --> 02:06:41.439 Many things to see back Crazy. 2341 02:06:41.479 --> 02:06:49.560 Gas not a sign credit Basis Gas. 2342 02:06:52.159 --> 02:06:56.039 All right, folks, we got some garden line to do. 2343 02:06:58.239 --> 02:07:02.359 Let's talk gardening. Seven one three two one two ktrh. 2344 02:07:02.960 --> 02:07:05.079 That's how you do it. Seven one three two on 2345 02:07:05.239 --> 02:07:09.800 two ktr h. What are you interested in talking about? 2346 02:07:10.199 --> 02:07:15.039 We can discuss that for sure. I got some emails 2347 02:07:15.079 --> 02:07:17.840 and got that photo of a tree from Susan, so 2348 02:07:17.960 --> 02:07:20.239 we're ready to go on that one. Whenever we are 2349 02:07:20.359 --> 02:07:24.760 ready to go. U anyway, give me a call. Let's 2350 02:07:25.039 --> 02:07:27.680 let's discuss the kinds of things that you are most 2351 02:07:27.800 --> 02:07:30.359 interested And if you've been emailing me this morning, please 2352 02:07:30.960 --> 02:07:33.119 follow up with a phone call because I'm just not 2353 02:07:33.279 --> 02:07:36.199 able to respond to emails right now. 2354 02:07:37.079 --> 02:07:37.199 Uh. 2355 02:07:37.600 --> 02:07:40.359 Sanamlch is placed. I was there the other day for 2356 02:07:41.119 --> 02:07:43.439 one of their big events that they have. They always 2357 02:07:43.439 --> 02:07:46.800 put on a good party there. Sanamulch is the place 2358 02:07:46.880 --> 02:07:51.239 you go to get everything set up for success with 2359 02:07:51.359 --> 02:07:55.239 your plans, and it is so important. And there's a 2360 02:07:55.359 --> 02:07:58.239 reason I say bronze stuff before green stuff. And here's 2361 02:07:58.279 --> 02:08:03.520 what I'm talking about. People that are not educated in gardening, 2362 02:08:03.720 --> 02:08:05.520 that they haven't learned how to take care of plants 2363 02:08:05.560 --> 02:08:07.479 and what to do. Typically, what happens is you go 2364 02:08:07.560 --> 02:08:09.800 to a garden center are you whatever? And you just 2365 02:08:10.199 --> 02:08:13.039 buy a plant because it's pretty and you want to 2366 02:08:13.079 --> 02:08:14.319 bring it home and you want to plant it, and 2367 02:08:14.359 --> 02:08:16.199 then you walk around looking for well, where am I 2368 02:08:16.279 --> 02:08:18.880 going to put this? Well, let's put it there, and 2369 02:08:19.199 --> 02:08:22.720 you just PLoP it down in the spot. That is 2370 02:08:23.000 --> 02:08:26.119 a recipe for disaster. You need to create a foundation 2371 02:08:26.319 --> 02:08:28.600 for success. If you're building a house, you wouldn't just 2372 02:08:29.159 --> 02:08:31.439 walk over in a pasture and go, well, I'm going 2373 02:08:31.479 --> 02:08:33.159 to start laying two by four us right there on 2374 02:08:33.239 --> 02:08:35.079 the ground. Now, you wouldn't do that. You'd build a 2375 02:08:35.159 --> 02:08:38.920 foundation first. Of course, that's ridiculous to even think otherwise. 2376 02:08:39.560 --> 02:08:43.319 It's true with plants too. Cienumult is a place where 2377 02:08:43.359 --> 02:08:46.640 you go to get the foundation right. It's the brown 2378 02:08:46.720 --> 02:08:50.079 stuff that comes before the green stuff. They sell a 2379 02:08:50.279 --> 02:08:54.720 wide variety of compost and compost soil blends so you 2380 02:08:54.840 --> 02:08:57.319 can have success, so you can get the root system 2381 02:08:57.600 --> 02:08:59.960 happy from day one when it drops in the ground. 2382 02:09:00.760 --> 02:09:02.880 They sell the mulches they go on top of the 2383 02:09:02.960 --> 02:09:05.479 soil to prevent weeds, to keep the soil cool, to 2384 02:09:05.560 --> 02:09:09.920 prevent erosion, to prevent crusting of the soil. They sell 2385 02:09:09.960 --> 02:09:13.359 the fertilizers they go in to provide the nutrient boost 2386 02:09:13.520 --> 02:09:16.479 from microlife from Nelson's both the turf Star and the 2387 02:09:16.560 --> 02:09:20.920 plant food jars that they have from Medina, from nitrofoss 2388 02:09:21.000 --> 02:09:26.079 from azamite. They even sell things like veggianeermicx from Heirloom soils. 2389 02:09:27.000 --> 02:09:30.119 It is easy, easy to have success when you start 2390 02:09:30.319 --> 02:09:33.239 at cienamlts. Ciena Maltz dot com is the website. Go 2391 02:09:33.399 --> 02:09:36.439 to that Sienna Moltz dot com. It'll tell you that 2392 02:09:36.600 --> 02:09:39.359 they're on FM five twenty one near six and two 2393 02:09:39.399 --> 02:09:41.680 eighty eight. It'll tell you the hours, which, by the way, 2394 02:09:41.800 --> 02:09:45.600 Monday through Friday seven thirty to five, Saturday seven thirty 2395 02:09:45.680 --> 02:09:49.960 to two closed on Sunday. Sienna Maltz dot com south 2396 02:09:50.000 --> 02:09:53.039 of Houston, so they serve that whole area, Siena Plantation 2397 02:09:53.199 --> 02:09:56.079 in Quell Valley and Arcola and Lake Olympian, Pomona and 2398 02:09:56.159 --> 02:09:59.119 Fresno and Sweetwater and sun Creek Estates and Pearland and 2399 02:10:00.319 --> 02:10:03.640 if you're out near Brasispin State Park or First Colony, 2400 02:10:03.720 --> 02:10:06.039 these are the communities that are just in the backyard 2401 02:10:06.159 --> 02:10:10.800 there at Sienamulch dot com. I'm gonna go to the 2402 02:10:10.880 --> 02:10:13.800 phones here and we're gonna talk again to Susan. Hey, Susan, 2403 02:10:13.880 --> 02:10:15.640 I got that picture that you sent. 2404 02:10:15.880 --> 02:10:17.199 Oh great. 2405 02:10:18.479 --> 02:10:23.920 Good, And I can't well, A number of different plants 2406 02:10:24.119 --> 02:10:26.960 have that leaf pattern, and at this young stage of 2407 02:10:27.039 --> 02:10:29.640 the tree, it's hard for me to be certain, but 2408 02:10:29.840 --> 02:10:32.479 I would say eighty percent sure it's some type of 2409 02:10:32.520 --> 02:10:35.439 an ash tree. There's a lot of different kinds of 2410 02:10:35.520 --> 02:10:39.159 ash trees that grow in the Greater Houston area, so 2411 02:10:39.239 --> 02:10:42.359 I don't know which one, but it's not unusual at 2412 02:10:42.399 --> 02:10:44.319 that stage for it to come out of the ground 2413 02:10:44.399 --> 02:10:46.319 like a rocket and have a single trunk and just 2414 02:10:46.399 --> 02:10:50.239 reach for the sky, and so you can leave it. 2415 02:10:50.720 --> 02:10:53.239 It may end up being a tree that is not 2416 02:10:53.399 --> 02:10:55.680 a good long term tree, or it may be a 2417 02:10:55.760 --> 02:10:57.960 tree that is a good long term tree. There's good 2418 02:10:58.560 --> 02:11:01.199 ash trees and then there's some ash trees that are 2419 02:11:01.640 --> 02:11:03.960 not so good to have. And I can't tell you 2420 02:11:04.000 --> 02:11:05.680 at this stage which of the two it is. 2421 02:11:06.760 --> 02:11:08.880 Okay, well. 2422 02:11:10.560 --> 02:11:12.920 Plant it, right or should I just leave it in 2423 02:11:12.960 --> 02:11:13.319 the pot? 2424 02:11:13.520 --> 02:11:13.720 Yeah? 2425 02:11:15.159 --> 02:11:19.159 Yeah, I don't leave in the pot. It won't. Yeah, 2426 02:11:19.199 --> 02:11:21.159 it doesn't have a long term future in a pot 2427 02:11:22.119 --> 02:11:24.079 just because it's going to be a very big tree. 2428 02:11:25.319 --> 02:11:28.960 It is because I can plant it. I mean, I 2429 02:11:29.039 --> 02:11:33.800 can plant it and give it a chance because it 2430 02:11:34.239 --> 02:11:36.359 wants to survive. I've decided. 2431 02:11:38.079 --> 02:11:41.760 Yeah, okay, all right, well that's an option in any 2432 02:11:41.800 --> 02:11:44.039 way you want to go about it. But that's my 2433 02:11:44.159 --> 02:11:48.640 best shot on it. It looks like some species of ash. 2434 02:11:49.840 --> 02:11:53.800 Okay, And why the characteristics of an ash anything good 2435 02:11:53.920 --> 02:11:54.880 or bad about them? 2436 02:11:55.359 --> 02:11:59.880 I mean, well, they grow, they grow fast, which it 2437 02:12:00.199 --> 02:12:02.720 sounds good, but a lot of times trees that grow 2438 02:12:02.840 --> 02:12:05.600 fast or weak wooded, and they don't make a good 2439 02:12:05.680 --> 02:12:12.359 long term tree. Not always, but sometimes ash trees are deciduous. 2440 02:12:13.000 --> 02:12:16.119 They will, you know, Chris drop the foliage and the 2441 02:12:16.199 --> 02:12:19.439 fall nothing spectacular on fall color, kind of a dirty 2442 02:12:19.520 --> 02:12:23.479 yellow color, a golden yellow, dirty yellow color on the ash. 2443 02:12:24.279 --> 02:12:30.720 But anyway, that's my best shot, you know, So good 2444 02:12:30.840 --> 02:12:33.319 luck with that, and thank you, thank you for the question. 2445 02:12:33.479 --> 02:12:39.039 I appreciate appreciate that very much. Nelson Water Garden is 2446 02:12:39.680 --> 02:12:43.159 the west Houston nursery need to know about you if 2447 02:12:43.159 --> 02:12:47.960 you're looking west. This is a destination place for many reasons. 2448 02:12:48.039 --> 02:12:51.880 It's Nelson Nursery and water garden. So first of all, 2449 02:12:52.039 --> 02:12:55.239 we know Nelson Water Garden. If you want a discipling 2450 02:12:55.279 --> 02:12:58.239 fountain coming out of a beautiful container. If you want 2451 02:12:58.359 --> 02:13:00.840 a waterfall in the backyard, they can build all that, 2452 02:13:01.159 --> 02:13:02.600 or they can tell you how to do it. If 2453 02:13:02.600 --> 02:13:04.560 you don't do it some of that, do it yourself. 2454 02:13:04.920 --> 02:13:07.520 They're gonna have the fish and the plants for ponds 2455 02:13:07.600 --> 02:13:13.239 and all of that, and ponds just that therapeutic sound 2456 02:13:13.279 --> 02:13:16.520 of water is worth having a pond right there. But 2457 02:13:16.720 --> 02:13:21.399 Nelson Nurserying Water Gardens has tons of beautiful plants. From 2458 02:13:21.479 --> 02:13:24.119 the houseplants indoors that are some of the most beautiful 2459 02:13:24.159 --> 02:13:27.760 houseplants you're going to see to the as you enter 2460 02:13:27.880 --> 02:13:30.159 the outside and you get to the vegetables and the 2461 02:13:30.239 --> 02:13:33.000 herbs and the flowers and all of that, moving on 2462 02:13:33.279 --> 02:13:36.479 into the fruit trees, the shrubs or roses that you 2463 02:13:36.600 --> 02:13:39.279 know they're a nursery. There are nursery and gardens that 2464 02:13:39.319 --> 02:13:44.000 are there in West Here's how you get there. You 2465 02:13:44.119 --> 02:13:45.880 go west the nine ten. You turn when you get 2466 02:13:45.920 --> 02:13:48.880 to Katie, you turn north on Katie Fort Ben Road 2467 02:13:49.039 --> 02:13:51.319 and it's just across the railroad tracks right there, just 2468 02:13:51.399 --> 02:13:53.319 a little bit up the road on the right hand side. 2469 02:13:53.600 --> 02:13:57.880 They're open Monday through Saturday, nine to six. Sundays from 2470 02:13:57.920 --> 02:14:02.920 eleven to four Nelson Nursery and Water Gardens, West Houston's 2471 02:14:03.000 --> 02:14:10.039 full service local destination nursery. It really is. I'm gonna 2472 02:14:10.079 --> 02:14:12.079 have to run to a break here, Trey in Spring, 2473 02:14:12.199 --> 02:14:16.560 you will be first when we come back. I just 2474 02:14:16.960 --> 02:14:20.399 like the guy's eat a two big ball let men. 2475 02:14:20.760 --> 02:14:24.520 Remember bj Thomas, it's my chest to get on all 2476 02:14:24.560 --> 02:14:27.640 my rain songs. I think it had to rain for 2477 02:14:27.680 --> 02:14:29.720 a while for me to cover all my rain songs. 2478 02:14:30.119 --> 02:14:33.159 Got a lot of it. Hey, welcome back to Garden Line. 2479 02:14:33.520 --> 02:14:37.119 We're glad you are with us. We're gonna run straight 2480 02:14:37.199 --> 02:14:40.359 out here to the phones this hour and go talk 2481 02:14:40.399 --> 02:14:43.640 to Trey in Spring. Hey, Trey, welcome to Garden Line. 2482 02:14:45.119 --> 02:14:45.960 Thanks you get good morning. 2483 02:14:47.119 --> 02:14:47.760 Quick question I. 2484 02:14:47.760 --> 02:14:52.359 Had that's coming up? Okay, Yeah, I have some bermuda 2485 02:14:52.439 --> 02:14:54.920 that's coming up in my Saint Augustine in a patch 2486 02:14:55.199 --> 02:14:57.279 and I've not been able to get rid of it 2487 02:14:57.399 --> 02:14:59.680 for a few years. So what would be the best 2488 02:14:59.760 --> 02:15:00.520 rim for that? 2489 02:15:02.960 --> 02:15:06.680 Well, the official best remedy is either live with the two, 2490 02:15:07.000 --> 02:15:11.000 which isn't a remedy at all, or get rid of 2491 02:15:11.079 --> 02:15:14.680 everything and start over with the grass you prefer, which 2492 02:15:14.720 --> 02:15:18.239 sounds like it's Saint Augustine now there are some other options, 2493 02:15:18.359 --> 02:15:20.479 but I can't go into them on the radio, the 2494 02:15:20.520 --> 02:15:24.560 whole gamut of them, Trey. If you would like to 2495 02:15:24.680 --> 02:15:28.840 email me, I can provide you with the information about it. 2496 02:15:29.039 --> 02:15:31.119 I've got a sheet on that that I can tell you. 2497 02:15:31.680 --> 02:15:33.720 There is a way to get rid of the Bermuda 2498 02:15:33.760 --> 02:15:37.239 and the Saint Augustine, but typically you would hire somebody 2499 02:15:37.359 --> 02:15:38.640 to come in and do it. There are a few 2500 02:15:38.680 --> 02:15:40.520 people that will do it themselves. The problem is the 2501 02:15:40.560 --> 02:15:43.359 products are so expensive that for you to buy it 2502 02:15:43.479 --> 02:15:46.439 for just one yard doesn't make a lot of sense. 2503 02:15:47.079 --> 02:15:50.119 But if you want to, if you want that route, 2504 02:15:50.720 --> 02:15:53.079 just let me know. I'll put you on hold. You 2505 02:15:53.159 --> 02:15:56.039 can send me an email and I'll send you the 2506 02:15:56.119 --> 02:15:58.920 info on how to do it. But those are the options. 2507 02:15:59.399 --> 02:16:01.520 Live with it, get rid of everything and start over, 2508 02:16:02.159 --> 02:16:05.600 or this other more expensive but way that I think 2509 02:16:05.640 --> 02:16:06.279 will work for you. 2510 02:16:08.199 --> 02:16:09.479 Sound good, appreciate it? 2511 02:16:10.319 --> 02:16:12.239 All right? All right, I'm putting you on hold and 2512 02:16:12.640 --> 02:16:16.840 Jonathan will pick up and give you an email. Alrighty, Yeah, 2513 02:16:16.960 --> 02:16:19.640 that's it. Speaking of if you if you want your 2514 02:16:20.039 --> 02:16:23.199 if you want your grass to look good night to five, 2515 02:16:23.239 --> 02:16:25.800 super turf is what you need to know about it 2516 02:16:25.920 --> 02:16:30.039 is sitting nineteen four ten lots of nitrogen. You're thinking, well, skip, 2517 02:16:30.159 --> 02:16:32.600 I'm gonna have to mow mo mo if I do that. No, no, no, 2518 02:16:33.079 --> 02:16:36.840 you're not. And here's why. In lasts sixteen weeks. So 2519 02:16:36.959 --> 02:16:39.399 you're just getting a little bit of that nineteen for 2520 02:16:39.520 --> 02:16:41.440 the first week, and a little more the second week, 2521 02:16:41.479 --> 02:16:42.920 and a little more the third week. You see what 2522 02:16:42.959 --> 02:16:46.799 I'm saying. It's gradually feeding like your lawn gradually takes 2523 02:16:46.879 --> 02:16:50.159 up nutrients nine to five superturf. It's an excellent product. 2524 02:16:50.719 --> 02:16:55.120 It lasts again four months, sixteen weeks. So if you're 2525 02:16:55.159 --> 02:16:57.319 going to look for it somewhere, well you're not gonna 2526 02:16:57.360 --> 02:17:00.559 have trouble finding it. You're gonna find it at like 2527 02:17:00.719 --> 02:17:03.520 D and D feed up in tomboal plants for all 2528 02:17:03.600 --> 02:17:07.920 seasons on Luetta Lake Hardware, both the one in Angleton 2529 02:17:08.040 --> 02:17:13.200 on Velasco and on Dixie Drive in Clute. So easy 2530 02:17:13.239 --> 02:17:18.399 to find products from nitrofoss like that. Speaking of ACE Hardware, 2531 02:17:18.440 --> 02:17:22.959 by the way, Ace Hardware always stays stocked up on 2532 02:17:23.280 --> 02:17:25.879 whatever you need to have success in your lawn and 2533 02:17:25.920 --> 02:17:29.200 garden and landscape, whether it's fertilizers, whether it's pest control, 2534 02:17:30.319 --> 02:17:35.680 disease control, insect or well, I said pest control, the 2535 02:17:35.760 --> 02:17:39.799 weed control. They have those products as well. And when 2536 02:17:39.840 --> 02:17:41.680 you go into your ACE Hardware store, you're going to 2537 02:17:41.719 --> 02:17:43.600 find people that can take you right to the product 2538 02:17:43.639 --> 02:17:46.040 you need and make it easy for you. Now, when 2539 02:17:46.040 --> 02:17:47.920 you're in ACE, you're going to see a lot of 2540 02:17:48.000 --> 02:17:50.959 other stuff. Well, I didn't I thought there was just 2541 02:17:51.040 --> 02:17:53.639 a hardware No, it is not just a hardware store. 2542 02:17:53.719 --> 02:17:57.200 It's an ACE Hardware store. And there's a difference quality 2543 02:17:57.280 --> 02:18:01.600 products for the home, for outdoor living, really cool stuff. 2544 02:18:01.680 --> 02:18:03.879 I have a string of lights. We call them beer 2545 02:18:03.920 --> 02:18:06.360 garden lights, those little string of bulbs that don't get 2546 02:18:06.360 --> 02:18:09.040 real bright, but in the evenings they just create that ambiance. 2547 02:18:09.079 --> 02:18:10.920 We got some of those around our patio. I love 2548 02:18:11.000 --> 02:18:16.520 those things. Barbecue pits, all kinds of outdoor enjoyment comes 2549 02:18:16.520 --> 02:18:18.840 from an ACE Hardware store as well as everything for 2550 02:18:18.959 --> 02:18:21.520 your landscape, your lawn, in your garden. You can go 2551 02:18:21.600 --> 02:18:25.120 to Acehardware Texas dot com. Don't forget Texas. Put Texas 2552 02:18:25.159 --> 02:18:28.760 in there, Ace Hardware Texas dot com and you'll find 2553 02:18:28.799 --> 02:18:31.000 the ACE Hardware stores near you. They're part of our 2554 02:18:31.040 --> 02:18:34.399 Houston group here in the ACE Hardware world and you 2555 02:18:34.479 --> 02:18:37.200 will have success. And there are stores near you and 2556 02:18:37.319 --> 02:18:38.799 you need to go check one out. And today it'd 2557 02:18:38.840 --> 02:18:40.399 be a good day, because I promise you it's not 2558 02:18:40.559 --> 02:18:42.600 raining inside an Ace hardware store. 2559 02:18:43.319 --> 02:18:43.799 There you go. 2560 02:18:44.600 --> 02:18:48.879 Let's go out to Kingwood and talk now to Misty. Hey, Misty, 2561 02:18:48.959 --> 02:18:49.879 welcome to garden Line. 2562 02:18:50.879 --> 02:18:54.600 Thank you very much. I was calling to see where 2563 02:18:54.840 --> 02:18:57.680 I could find a Chinese fringe tree. And is it 2564 02:18:57.799 --> 02:18:59.040 too late for me to plant? 2565 02:18:59.040 --> 02:19:02.680 It is not too late. It's a great time to 2566 02:19:02.799 --> 02:19:05.760 plan them. You're out there in Kingwood. I would probably 2567 02:19:05.799 --> 02:19:09.719 go to Warren Southern Gardens already suspect there. 2568 02:19:11.159 --> 02:19:14.479 Okay, they're all out. 2569 02:19:15.920 --> 02:19:17.600 Oh yeah, well it doesn't surprise me. 2570 02:19:17.760 --> 02:19:17.959 It is. 2571 02:19:18.159 --> 02:19:20.719 By the way, it's my favorite spring flowering tree. Now 2572 02:19:20.959 --> 02:19:26.000 it's it's I love them. So if they didn't, I 2573 02:19:26.079 --> 02:19:28.200 don't know. Maybe they can order to get them in 2574 02:19:28.319 --> 02:19:31.200 for you. But let's see here where let me. 2575 02:19:31.200 --> 02:19:33.360 Get my brain begin to order. 2576 02:19:34.120 --> 02:19:38.840 They have to order in October, so I wouldn't be 2577 02:19:38.920 --> 02:19:42.520 able to get any unless they're a nursery somewhere close 2578 02:19:42.600 --> 02:19:43.440 Housard left. 2579 02:19:44.840 --> 02:19:47.360 I just shooting from the hip here. I would say 2580 02:19:47.399 --> 02:19:50.799 you you've got two options pretty close to the same 2581 02:19:50.879 --> 02:19:54.200 distance for you. Probably the closer one is RCW Nurseries 2582 02:19:55.280 --> 02:19:57.760 where I'm going to be next Saturday. They do carry 2583 02:19:57.799 --> 02:20:01.040 fringe trees as well. Call them before you drive because 2584 02:20:01.120 --> 02:20:02.840 they may have had a run on fringe. It's a 2585 02:20:02.879 --> 02:20:06.559 great tree. But our CW Nurseries is where belt Way 2586 02:20:06.680 --> 02:20:10.639 eight and two forty nine Tomball Parkway come together. Or 2587 02:20:10.840 --> 02:20:12.959 a little further away for you is to go down 2588 02:20:13.319 --> 02:20:17.280 go down to Seabrook which is way south on the 2589 02:20:17.479 --> 02:20:22.719 Trinity Bay and Moss Nursery. Maas I know, they carry 2590 02:20:23.079 --> 02:20:27.559 Chinese fringe trees also. They ought to be able to 2591 02:20:28.000 --> 02:20:30.680 get you fixed up. But talk to RCW. 2592 02:20:33.559 --> 02:20:35.840 I will hope to see you there next Saturday, but 2593 02:20:37.079 --> 02:20:38.840 I don't want to wait until next Saturday to get 2594 02:20:38.879 --> 02:20:39.559 it if they have it. 2595 02:20:39.879 --> 02:20:40.360 But thank you. 2596 02:20:40.639 --> 02:20:44.360 Yeah, all right, we'll get hey. By the way I'm 2597 02:20:44.399 --> 02:20:48.120 going to be, I'm going to come out to Warrens 2598 02:20:48.360 --> 02:20:52.200 on the nineteenth, that's a Saturday of Easter weekend. Albe 2599 02:20:52.280 --> 02:20:55.600 at Warrens. We had to postpone today's event until next Sat. 2600 02:20:55.840 --> 02:20:58.239 Until two saturdays from now, but I'll be out in 2601 02:20:58.280 --> 02:21:00.280 your neck of the woods as well. All right. Thanks 2602 02:21:00.319 --> 02:21:05.120 for the call though, I appreciate that, mister. All right, 2603 02:21:06.159 --> 02:21:14.840 bye bye, green Pro. Green Pro remember that word. If 2604 02:21:14.879 --> 02:21:19.079 you live within forty five minutes of Magnolia, Texas, and 2605 02:21:19.239 --> 02:21:24.120 you need compost, top dressing and core aeration, either or 2606 02:21:24.360 --> 02:21:28.440 or both, preferably, you'll do both. Green pros experts at 2607 02:21:28.479 --> 02:21:32.799 providing that they use top quality products that help feed 2608 02:21:32.879 --> 02:21:35.719 the soil biology. See here's what happens. You get composts, 2609 02:21:35.840 --> 02:21:39.399 you get compost, you get compacted clays, and when you 2610 02:21:39.520 --> 02:21:41.520 go in and pop a core of soil out of 2611 02:21:41.559 --> 02:21:44.799 the ground, that's what core aeration is. It takes a 2612 02:21:44.959 --> 02:21:47.159 core out and drops it on the surface. Number One, 2613 02:21:47.559 --> 02:21:49.559 if you got any thatch, it helps, it's the best 2614 02:21:49.559 --> 02:21:52.000 way to get rid of thatch, to help it decompose away. 2615 02:21:52.559 --> 02:21:55.760 But it opens the soil up for air to move 2616 02:21:55.840 --> 02:21:57.799 down in and water to move down in, and then 2617 02:21:57.840 --> 02:22:00.719 that compost falls down in the holes as well. And 2618 02:22:00.920 --> 02:22:04.360 so as you do that, you're breathing life into your soil. 2619 02:22:04.520 --> 02:22:08.040 You're feeding the microbes that are good for your plant's roots. 2620 02:22:08.440 --> 02:22:11.079 That's what's happening there. So if your lawn is trying 2621 02:22:11.079 --> 02:22:13.920 to recover, maybe it was bron patch or takeoff patch 2622 02:22:14.040 --> 02:22:18.520 or chinchbugs or drought or who knows what. Correeration and 2623 02:22:18.559 --> 02:22:21.440 compostop dressing by Greenpro is the way to go. 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Someone asked me the other day if 2637 02:23:13.639 --> 02:23:19.360 it's is it too late to use barricade, and it's like, well, no, yes, no, 2638 02:23:20.760 --> 02:23:24.040 meaning if you had a weed that sprouted back in 2639 02:23:24.360 --> 02:23:27.399 early March, well it's a little late to use barricade 2640 02:23:27.440 --> 02:23:29.760 now right for that weed because it's already up and growing. 2641 02:23:30.360 --> 02:23:32.239 But those weeds are going to sprout all through summer. 2642 02:23:32.760 --> 02:23:33.799 Some of them come on later. 2643 02:23:33.920 --> 02:23:34.040 You know. 2644 02:23:34.479 --> 02:23:36.319 Grass burr is a little slow to wake up in 2645 02:23:36.399 --> 02:23:39.040 the spring, comes on a little bit later. Barricade will 2646 02:23:39.040 --> 02:23:42.079 stop weeds for about forty five sixty days somewhere in 2647 02:23:42.159 --> 02:23:44.680 there from whenever you apply it, and you want to 2648 02:23:44.719 --> 02:23:47.079 follow the label, apply it at the label rate. Always 2649 02:23:47.120 --> 02:23:50.360 do that. Very important to do that. But you know, 2650 02:23:50.479 --> 02:23:52.639 you may have done a barricade in the spring, but 2651 02:23:52.840 --> 02:23:55.840 there that doesn't mean you're good until fall. I mean 2652 02:23:56.079 --> 02:23:59.040 there's weeds that will sprout during the summertime. There's weeds 2653 02:23:59.079 --> 02:24:01.680 that are sprouting right now. Now. I've got an area 2654 02:24:01.719 --> 02:24:04.799 where I just did some clean out of an area 2655 02:24:04.840 --> 02:24:08.239 of lawn from some existing winter weeds that were about 2656 02:24:08.280 --> 02:24:10.440 to go to seed. And as I was looking, I 2657 02:24:10.479 --> 02:24:13.920 saw a little tiny seedling starting to come up from 2658 02:24:13.920 --> 02:24:17.239 another kind of weeds. So there you go. Nitrofoss barricade. 2659 02:24:17.440 --> 02:24:20.760 It works. It covers about five thousand square feet. That's 2660 02:24:20.840 --> 02:24:23.360 just a little ten pound bag covers five thousand square feet. 2661 02:24:23.719 --> 02:24:26.840 Don't overdo it. Do it according to the label. That 2662 02:24:26.959 --> 02:24:29.600 way you get the best results. You're gonna find Barricade. 2663 02:24:29.600 --> 02:24:33.719 Another nitrofoss products at Well add in Brenham plants and things. 2664 02:24:34.079 --> 02:24:37.399 If you are done in Baytown, Fisher's Hardware in Angleton 2665 02:24:37.959 --> 02:24:41.840 Lake Hardware. How about alvin Stanton Shopping Center. Just some 2666 02:24:42.000 --> 02:24:44.280 examples of places, and there are many of them where 2667 02:24:44.319 --> 02:24:48.399 you can find nitrofoss products. If you would like to 2668 02:24:48.440 --> 02:24:52.000 give me a call in Talk Gardening phone number seven 2669 02:24:52.000 --> 02:24:55.440 to one three two one two ktr H seven to 2670 02:24:55.440 --> 02:25:01.840 one three two to one two kt r H. This 2671 02:25:03.159 --> 02:25:06.920 this afternoon. I've got some indoor plant tasks to do. 2672 02:25:07.079 --> 02:25:10.639 I've had some plants that'd spent winter underneath the light. 2673 02:25:10.959 --> 02:25:14.000 They are beautiful house plants, but they, you know, they 2674 02:25:14.040 --> 02:25:15.840 can't take the cold, and I just don't have enough 2675 02:25:15.920 --> 02:25:18.399 areas in the house to put them. I mean, you know, 2676 02:25:18.479 --> 02:25:20.959 you've only got so many windows, and I know, so 2677 02:25:21.079 --> 02:25:24.040 many plants so little time. I suffer from the same 2678 02:25:24.159 --> 02:25:27.840 issue as you probably do. Oh there's a great plant. 2679 02:25:28.120 --> 02:25:29.719 I'm gonna buy it. I'm gonna bring it home. Where 2680 02:25:29.719 --> 02:25:31.719 are you gonna put it? Don't bother me the questions 2681 02:25:31.840 --> 02:25:35.440 like that. By this plant I'm bringing home, That's what 2682 02:25:35.520 --> 02:25:38.120 I did. So it's time for them to go. Outside 2683 02:25:38.280 --> 02:25:41.959 and start to enjoy the bright areas outdoors. And when 2684 02:25:42.000 --> 02:25:44.959 I say that, I don't mean sun, I mean bright shade. 2685 02:25:45.680 --> 02:25:48.760 So when you're dealing with plants that are accustomed to 2686 02:25:48.840 --> 02:25:52.120 being in a lower light environment, don't stick them in 2687 02:25:52.159 --> 02:25:54.159 the full sun. They'll sunburn. Put them in a bright 2688 02:25:54.200 --> 02:25:56.280 shade like a porch or a patio, or underneath a 2689 02:25:56.280 --> 02:25:59.000 beautiful shade tree. You know, underneath a live oak tree. 2690 02:25:59.040 --> 02:26:00.760 A lot of things won't grow. Oh but boy, will 2691 02:26:00.799 --> 02:26:04.120 house plants grow well. There there's a there's a brightness 2692 02:26:04.200 --> 02:26:06.799 to the light that they can do pretty well. And 2693 02:26:06.879 --> 02:26:08.959 so get them out into those areas, let them get 2694 02:26:08.959 --> 02:26:10.920 some fresh air and enjoy it. And then give them 2695 02:26:10.920 --> 02:26:14.239 a boost of fertilizer. You want to give them a 2696 02:26:14.360 --> 02:26:16.680 product that is gonna do well for them. Now what 2697 02:26:17.120 --> 02:26:19.799 I use most of the time when I'm dealing with 2698 02:26:19.879 --> 02:26:22.719 my houseplants, I've got my micro Life Biomatrix. That's the 2699 02:26:22.879 --> 02:26:26.520 orange label. It's sitting around all the time waiting for 2700 02:26:26.680 --> 02:26:29.200 me to use it because I'm always using it. But 2701 02:26:29.319 --> 02:26:32.959 Biomatrix orange label is a seven one three fertilizer that's 2702 02:26:33.040 --> 02:26:36.159 a good boost of nitrogen. You can also use the 2703 02:26:36.239 --> 02:26:41.239 Ocean Harvests blue label. I'll often use the Biomatrix indoors 2704 02:26:41.440 --> 02:26:45.000 because it is an odorless fertilizer. The Ocean Harvest has 2705 02:26:45.000 --> 02:26:46.680 a little bit of a fish smell, that's what it's 2706 02:26:46.719 --> 02:26:50.239 based on, so I'll put it outdoors. But either one 2707 02:26:50.319 --> 02:26:53.920 could be used outdoors, the orange label Biomatrix the blue 2708 02:26:54.000 --> 02:26:57.479 labeled Ocean Harvest. And those are two of just a 2709 02:26:57.600 --> 02:27:01.879 dozen gray products by micro Life that are in liquid form, 2710 02:27:01.959 --> 02:27:05.840 both in quartz and in gallons. Give your plants a boost. 2711 02:27:06.079 --> 02:27:08.520 They've been sitting there all winter with low light levels 2712 02:27:08.639 --> 02:27:10.799 and just kind of hanging on. It's time now to 2713 02:27:10.840 --> 02:27:13.200 get them growing, and a good boost of products like 2714 02:27:13.319 --> 02:27:15.879 those will really help that happen. And where are you 2715 02:27:15.920 --> 02:27:19.399 going to get Microlife everywhere? Go to Microlife Fertilizer dot 2716 02:27:19.479 --> 02:27:21.959 com and find out about all the everywheres and their 2717 02:27:22.040 --> 02:27:25.920 other products as well. I'm gonna take a break now, 2718 02:27:26.040 --> 02:27:27.959 and when we come back Wayne in Baytown, you'll be 2719 02:27:28.040 --> 02:27:28.639 the first stop. 2720 02:27:30.600 --> 02:27:34.040 You got any sistan. 2721 02:27:34.399 --> 02:27:34.959 Here you go? 2722 02:27:35.120 --> 02:27:36.639 How long has it been since you heard that one? 2723 02:27:37.280 --> 02:27:39.879 Welcome back to garden Line. Good to have you with 2724 02:27:40.000 --> 02:27:42.479 us today. We're going to jump right out to Baytown, 2725 02:27:42.639 --> 02:27:45.840 Texas and talk to Wayne. Hey, Wayne, welcome to garden Line. 2726 02:27:47.600 --> 02:27:52.920 Thank you. Yes, sir, Brandy live and used to tell 2727 02:27:53.040 --> 02:27:56.520 us the warrant. I guess using weed and seeds fertilizers 2728 02:27:56.959 --> 02:27:59.879 for your grass? What do you think about weed and 2729 02:28:00.040 --> 02:28:01.040 feed for your dress? 2730 02:28:03.360 --> 02:28:04.959 I miss some of what you said there, but I 2731 02:28:05.000 --> 02:28:08.239 think your question is what I think about weed feed? 2732 02:28:08.360 --> 02:28:08.479 Right? 2733 02:28:09.760 --> 02:28:11.840 Yeah, weed and feed for loder. 2734 02:28:12.239 --> 02:28:16.079 Yeah, all right. Well that's a hard one to answer fast, 2735 02:28:16.200 --> 02:28:19.079 but I'll give it my best shot. If I'm given 2736 02:28:19.159 --> 02:28:22.920 the choice, I would rather apply the fertilizer I choose 2737 02:28:23.200 --> 02:28:25.639 when I want to apply it, and apply the weed 2738 02:28:25.760 --> 02:28:29.360 control I need for the weed. When I need to 2739 02:28:29.440 --> 02:28:33.719 do that, I prefer to do it separately. But there 2740 02:28:33.760 --> 02:28:35.879 are times of the year when you can put the 2741 02:28:35.920 --> 02:28:39.879 two together and it works. In the spring, the cool season, 2742 02:28:39.920 --> 02:28:42.200 weeds are starting to, you know, really put on their 2743 02:28:42.280 --> 02:28:44.959 growth and it's cool enough to where you're not going 2744 02:28:45.000 --> 02:28:47.840 to damage the turf with the post emergent broad leaf 2745 02:28:47.879 --> 02:28:51.799 weed control products, those kind of combinations could be used 2746 02:28:51.799 --> 02:28:53.360 at that time and they would work. And then in 2747 02:28:53.440 --> 02:28:57.760 the fall time we have an overlap between fertilizing season 2748 02:28:57.959 --> 02:29:00.600 and pre emergent herbicide season, So you could do a 2749 02:29:00.680 --> 02:29:03.360 combo like that at the time. But a lot of 2750 02:29:03.440 --> 02:29:05.879 times in many of the products that are on the market, 2751 02:29:06.360 --> 02:29:09.120 I don't like the weed control product that's in the 2752 02:29:09.200 --> 02:29:12.319 weed and feed, or I don't like the fertilizer blend, 2753 02:29:12.440 --> 02:29:15.319 for example, And so that's why I tend to prefer 2754 02:29:15.600 --> 02:29:19.479 to do it myself separately. But like I said, there 2755 02:29:19.520 --> 02:29:22.399 are times when you can do the both and it 2756 02:29:23.280 --> 02:29:26.360 will work, and I generally those are the times when 2757 02:29:26.399 --> 02:29:29.239 I'm talking about those products. If I'm talking. 2758 02:29:29.040 --> 02:29:35.079 About them, well, okay, thank you ship yeah. 2759 02:29:35.639 --> 02:29:39.399 Yeah. So I don't know if that answer it well 2760 02:29:39.520 --> 02:29:44.239 or not, but they're options and people like convenience, and 2761 02:29:44.319 --> 02:29:47.760 I realize that. But yeah, I generally do it separately 2762 02:29:48.040 --> 02:29:51.520 myself when I can, all right and now and okay, 2763 02:29:54.639 --> 02:29:58.719 now would be an okay time to put out a 2764 02:29:58.959 --> 02:30:03.120 product that if the weeds aren't too far advanced in 2765 02:30:03.319 --> 02:30:06.159 terms of setting seed and they're about to die anyway, 2766 02:30:06.959 --> 02:30:10.559 you could use those kind of products that kind of 2767 02:30:10.639 --> 02:30:13.440 a post emergent broad leaf type product on it now 2768 02:30:13.559 --> 02:30:17.520 and it would it would work. Generally, it's better the 2769 02:30:17.639 --> 02:30:20.360 earlier you can get those applied, the more effective they're 2770 02:30:20.440 --> 02:30:22.559 going to be. The younger a weed is, the more 2771 02:30:22.639 --> 02:30:25.920 susceptible it is to being controlled. That's that's just the 2772 02:30:26.000 --> 02:30:28.920 way it is. So you could do that now at 2773 02:30:28.959 --> 02:30:30.079 that at that point in time. 2774 02:30:30.719 --> 02:30:34.719 All right, Okay, thank you, Yeah, you bet. 2775 02:30:34.680 --> 02:30:43.079 Thank you appreciate that call. Let's head now to Joe. Okay, 2776 02:30:43.600 --> 02:30:47.399 see Joel and Magnolia. Hey, Joel, welcome to garden Line. 2777 02:30:49.319 --> 02:30:50.440 Hello, Skip, can you hear me? 2778 02:30:51.799 --> 02:30:52.200 Yes, sir? 2779 02:30:53.319 --> 02:30:57.440 All right, Hey, yeah, I've got a question regarding lagustrums. 2780 02:30:58.600 --> 02:30:59.520 I've lost a few of them. 2781 02:30:59.559 --> 02:31:02.799 Do that punk decide or the blight that they're susceptible to? 2782 02:31:03.440 --> 02:31:05.120 And I've been spraying it, treating it. 2783 02:31:05.200 --> 02:31:12.120 With console fourteen point three, and I just want to 2784 02:31:12.200 --> 02:31:15.280 know if if is there a frequency? 2785 02:31:15.440 --> 02:31:15.760 Is there a. 2786 02:31:15.799 --> 02:31:21.079 Frequency that I should how often can I apply it? 2787 02:31:21.200 --> 02:31:24.319 What's the dilutionary? Is it announce per gallon? And also 2788 02:31:24.600 --> 02:31:27.639 is there should I be rotating that with some kind 2789 02:31:27.639 --> 02:31:30.159 of copper fungicide between treatments. 2790 02:31:33.040 --> 02:31:35.559 I don't I'm not picking up what that what that 2791 02:31:35.760 --> 02:31:36.520 product is? 2792 02:31:36.920 --> 02:31:37.040 Uh? 2793 02:31:37.200 --> 02:31:37.799 There is it? 2794 02:31:37.959 --> 02:31:44.799 Consand oh p R O P I C O M 2795 02:31:44.959 --> 02:31:47.520 A Z O L E fourteen point three. 2796 02:31:47.719 --> 02:31:54.280 Oh proper connasole. Okay, got you, got you? Okay, Uh, 2797 02:31:54.520 --> 02:31:59.920 propa connaisole would should be effective against the gustrum leaves. 2798 02:32:00.319 --> 02:32:05.639 That's a circaspar fungus that does that. Dacanil, which is 2799 02:32:05.799 --> 02:32:10.399 chlorothal o'nil is another good leaf spot fungicide. You're just 2800 02:32:10.520 --> 02:32:15.399 gonna need to do it periodically. And lagustoms are plagued 2801 02:32:15.440 --> 02:32:18.520 by that, especially in areas you know where we get 2802 02:32:18.520 --> 02:32:20.280 a lot of rain, which welcome to this area of 2803 02:32:20.319 --> 02:32:20.680 the state. 2804 02:32:21.239 --> 02:32:22.120 Uh and uh. 2805 02:32:22.680 --> 02:32:24.639 It's one reason I'm not a big fan of wax 2806 02:32:24.719 --> 02:32:28.040 leyflogostrum because once they get in and it looks bad 2807 02:32:28.920 --> 02:32:31.239 and it's you're never going to eradicate it. You just 2808 02:32:31.479 --> 02:32:33.680 are on a now for the rest of the time 2809 02:32:33.719 --> 02:32:35.479 you have that bush. When you have rainy periods, you 2810 02:32:35.559 --> 02:32:38.399 better put a spray on following the rain, if not 2811 02:32:38.879 --> 02:32:40.280 a systemic before the rain. 2812 02:32:40.600 --> 02:32:44.479 Okay, okay, all right, So and what come gluten rate 2813 02:32:44.600 --> 02:32:45.079 for gallon? 2814 02:32:45.120 --> 02:32:48.600 Do you oh that I'd have to read the label on? 2815 02:32:49.079 --> 02:32:51.239 I don't know. I just just grab you a label. 2816 02:32:51.360 --> 02:32:53.719 You can find labels online if you've lost yours for 2817 02:32:53.840 --> 02:32:57.639 the product. But yeah, just just follow the label real carefully. 2818 02:32:58.239 --> 02:33:01.799 But propagonazole is a product and it covers a lot 2819 02:33:01.879 --> 02:33:06.399 of different fungi. All right, Uh, just one one last 2820 02:33:06.440 --> 02:33:09.079 thought though, mark mark on one thing, mark before I 2821 02:33:09.200 --> 02:33:12.879 let you go, get a second fungicide like the like 2822 02:33:12.959 --> 02:33:17.280 the chlorthal nil or dacanil as an alternate to alternate 2823 02:33:17.399 --> 02:33:20.319 between the two. Don't just use one fungicide. You know 2824 02:33:20.479 --> 02:33:23.159 every week for the whole year, you're gonna end up 2825 02:33:23.200 --> 02:33:27.520 creating resistance in the disease. So alternating fungicides is a 2826 02:33:27.600 --> 02:33:30.239 good way to go and by to help prevent that 2827 02:33:30.479 --> 02:33:35.840 resistance development. Okay, all right, wonderful, Hi, thank you, you 2828 02:33:35.959 --> 02:33:40.959 take care for sure? That's here. Oh yeah, Medina products. 2829 02:33:41.239 --> 02:33:43.840 Medina has so many good products. I was thinking the 2830 02:33:43.920 --> 02:33:46.520 other day, like what what Medina products can I talk 2831 02:33:46.559 --> 02:33:48.920 about it? I mean, there's has to grow, There's there's 2832 02:33:49.000 --> 02:33:51.840 the super grow, the one that hooks up there's one 2833 02:33:51.879 --> 02:33:54.799 that hooks up to your garden hose at sixteen percent 2834 02:33:54.920 --> 02:33:57.760 nitrogen products, zero phosphorus and just a little bit of 2835 02:33:57.799 --> 02:33:59.920 potassium in it. And you just spread over the law 2836 02:34:00.200 --> 02:34:01.959 and I mean it'll give you a good green up. 2837 02:34:02.120 --> 02:34:04.559 And by the way, even though it kind of is 2838 02:34:04.680 --> 02:34:07.120 fore lines, you can use that or anything people used 2839 02:34:07.200 --> 02:34:09.920 on their gardens, spray their tomato foliage and the ground 2840 02:34:10.040 --> 02:34:12.760 around the tomatoes and watered in real good. I mean 2841 02:34:12.920 --> 02:34:16.360 it's a good product, but that's a Medina example. The 2842 02:34:16.399 --> 02:34:18.760 hastro growth the has to grow plus I like the 2843 02:34:18.840 --> 02:34:22.680 hast grow six twelve six plant food six twelve six 2844 02:34:22.959 --> 02:34:26.920 is six percent nitrogen, twelve percent phosphorus, six percent potassium. 2845 02:34:27.200 --> 02:34:30.559 And I like to use that for watering in transplants. 2846 02:34:31.239 --> 02:34:33.879 And what I'll do is whether it's a rosebush or 2847 02:34:33.879 --> 02:34:37.719 a tomato plant, you just planch plant watered in really 2848 02:34:37.760 --> 02:34:40.559 good with a drenching of has to grow six twelve 2849 02:34:40.639 --> 02:34:42.840 six plant food mixed in water. I put mine into 2850 02:34:42.840 --> 02:34:45.239 a watering can, and then a week or two later, 2851 02:34:45.559 --> 02:34:47.239 do it again. A week or two later, do it again. 2852 02:34:47.559 --> 02:34:49.399 And by doing that about a week apart or so, 2853 02:34:50.319 --> 02:34:52.959 you're going to give that plant's root system the best 2854 02:34:53.040 --> 02:34:55.879 chance of getting off to a good successful start. And 2855 02:34:56.000 --> 02:34:58.479 phosphorus is very important. That's why it has a high 2856 02:34:58.520 --> 02:35:02.399 middle number, very import and developing a good strong root system. 2857 02:35:02.600 --> 02:35:05.639 That's from Medina, like many many other products that are 2858 02:35:05.680 --> 02:35:08.680 widely available when you look at garden center speed stores, 2859 02:35:09.479 --> 02:35:12.159 when you look at Ace Hardware stores South It's fertilizer, 2860 02:35:12.159 --> 02:35:17.239 younifind Medina products all over the place. Let's see here 2861 02:35:17.680 --> 02:35:22.879 we are. Tell you what, Mark, I'm gonna go ahead 2862 02:35:22.879 --> 02:35:25.280 and start your call. I've got about one minute and 2863 02:35:25.399 --> 02:35:27.520 we'll probably have to carry over break, but let's go 2864 02:35:27.559 --> 02:35:28.440 ahead and get started. 2865 02:35:30.239 --> 02:35:31.799 Yeah, Hey, good morning. Yeah. 2866 02:35:31.799 --> 02:35:32.799 I was just wondering that. 2867 02:35:34.440 --> 02:35:38.000 We control our ants pretty well in our yard, but 2868 02:35:38.159 --> 02:35:41.559 our raised garden, we're starting to get a few in 2869 02:35:41.680 --> 02:35:46.760 our garden and our potatoes come in in our beanside, 2870 02:35:46.799 --> 02:35:49.000 and I'm just wondering what we could put on the 2871 02:35:49.159 --> 02:35:51.440 match really that we can talk. 2872 02:35:51.600 --> 02:35:55.600 The one product I know of it's called come and 2873 02:35:55.719 --> 02:35:58.959 Get It by Fertile Loan and it's a fire amt 2874 02:35:59.079 --> 02:36:04.000 bait that is organic that contains spinosid. Come and Get 2875 02:36:04.040 --> 02:36:07.079 It by Fertile oam the bait. It's in a bluish 2876 02:36:07.600 --> 02:36:09.879 colored bag. I know Bob's got it over there. It's 2877 02:36:09.920 --> 02:36:12.360 Southwest Fertilizer. I don't know what part of Houston you're in, 2878 02:36:12.520 --> 02:36:15.120 but it's not too hard to find Come and Get 2879 02:36:15.159 --> 02:36:19.000 a fire ant bait labeled for use in vegetable gardens. Mark, 2880 02:36:19.040 --> 02:36:20.840 I got to take a break, I put you on hold. 2881 02:36:20.879 --> 02:36:23.920 But if that answered it, thank you. I will. If not, 2882 02:36:24.079 --> 02:36:29.280 we'll talk to you when we come back. All right, 2883 02:36:29.360 --> 02:36:32.239 we're back. Hey, welcome back to the garden line. Good 2884 02:36:32.239 --> 02:36:36.040 to have you with us. I got one segment left today, 2885 02:36:36.799 --> 02:36:38.559 So if you would like to call to day now 2886 02:36:38.559 --> 02:36:40.280 would be the time to do it. Seven one three 2887 02:36:40.399 --> 02:36:44.000 two one two katrh If you want to see a 2888 02:36:44.159 --> 02:36:49.200 landscape change that when guests come to your house, they're 2889 02:36:49.280 --> 02:36:53.920 just like, whoa that? When did you do this? Pierce 2890 02:36:53.920 --> 02:36:57.319 Scapes is who you need to call, and it it's true. 2891 02:36:58.280 --> 02:37:01.120 Don't believe me. Go to the website and look at 2892 02:37:01.159 --> 02:37:05.360 the work they do Piercescapes dot com, pierscapes dot com. 2893 02:37:06.280 --> 02:37:09.840 And they can do the whole nine yards, you know, 2894 02:37:09.959 --> 02:37:14.799 the whole entire landscape creation or an entire landscape rework renovation. 2895 02:37:15.479 --> 02:37:18.559 But they can also do just a beautiful outdoor hardscape 2896 02:37:18.600 --> 02:37:21.879 area with maybe whatever kind of features you want in 2897 02:37:22.000 --> 02:37:24.840 that area. They can do that. Do you need landscape lighting? 2898 02:37:24.920 --> 02:37:27.239 Do you need irrigation work done? Do you have an 2899 02:37:27.239 --> 02:37:29.360 area that just doesn't drain well, you know it's always 2900 02:37:29.399 --> 02:37:31.639 wet over there, and you know all the plant bags 2901 02:37:31.680 --> 02:37:35.200 say it needs good drainage, Well you can make it 2902 02:37:35.319 --> 02:37:37.559 good drainage by having Peerscapes come out and fix that 2903 02:37:37.639 --> 02:37:41.079 problem for you. They are experts at what they do. 2904 02:37:41.799 --> 02:37:45.319 They have many licensed professionals on hand. They can do 2905 02:37:45.440 --> 02:37:49.879 everything from landscape irrigation, drainage, backflow prevention, you know that 2906 02:37:50.040 --> 02:37:52.280 kind of stuff that goes as part of irrigation system. 2907 02:37:52.600 --> 02:37:55.440 They got their pesticide certifications and licenses. You can have 2908 02:37:55.479 --> 02:37:57.159 them come out and do quarterly maintenance. You know, I 2909 02:37:57.200 --> 02:37:59.479 don't want you to plan anything, and don't you design anything. 2910 02:38:00.000 --> 02:38:01.440 I just want you to come out once a quarter, 2911 02:38:02.440 --> 02:38:05.200 take care of the weeds, replenish the mult change out 2912 02:38:05.239 --> 02:38:08.000 the plant color as needed, make sure the irrigation is 2913 02:38:08.079 --> 02:38:08.520 working well. 2914 02:38:08.600 --> 02:38:09.000 They do that. 2915 02:38:09.440 --> 02:38:12.879 And now piercescapes dot com that's the website. That's really 2916 02:38:12.920 --> 02:38:15.360 all you need, pierscapes dot com. But if you want 2917 02:38:15.360 --> 02:38:17.399 to give them a call. Two eight one three seven 2918 02:38:17.479 --> 02:38:22.040 oh fifty sixty two eight one three seven oh fifty sixty. 2919 02:38:22.120 --> 02:38:25.159 It's time to give your landscape a spring freshening up 2920 02:38:25.280 --> 02:38:30.079 and Pierscapes as your one stop shop for all things landscaping. 2921 02:38:31.959 --> 02:38:34.159 We're going to head down to Paarland now and talk 2922 02:38:34.239 --> 02:38:36.479 to Kay. Hello, Okay, welcome to guard Line. 2923 02:38:36.559 --> 02:38:39.520 Good morning, Skip. Thank you for taking my call. Yes, 2924 02:38:39.639 --> 02:38:42.399 I have a question. It's actually for a friend of mine. 2925 02:38:42.559 --> 02:38:47.959 I heard you talking with a lady about ash trees earlier. 2926 02:38:48.280 --> 02:38:52.399 And my friend has a couple of trees and it's 2927 02:38:52.479 --> 02:38:57.280 not her property, she's leasing. And there are trees and 2928 02:38:57.440 --> 02:39:02.120 the leaves. When the leafs fall, they pierce they're pointed, 2929 02:39:02.239 --> 02:39:07.520 and they pierced the plants below. Do you have any 2930 02:39:07.600 --> 02:39:10.280 idea what kind of it? She thinks it's some kind 2931 02:39:10.319 --> 02:39:11.159 of an ashes. 2932 02:39:13.000 --> 02:39:14.879 I need I need to see a picture of it now. 2933 02:39:15.079 --> 02:39:19.000 Now ashes have little seeds that are like oval that 2934 02:39:19.079 --> 02:39:22.239 are pointed at one end, and when they fall they 2935 02:39:22.319 --> 02:39:25.920 often will kind of helicopter down. But some you know what, 2936 02:39:26.319 --> 02:39:29.159 I need to see a picture. If they can take 2937 02:39:29.159 --> 02:39:31.520 a picture of the leaf with something else stuck on 2938 02:39:31.639 --> 02:39:35.639 it and tell what it is. Yeah, that's fine. 2939 02:39:35.840 --> 02:39:36.680 I appreciate it. 2940 02:39:36.920 --> 02:39:37.239 Thank you. 2941 02:39:37.799 --> 02:39:38.719 Have a roast day. 2942 02:39:38.879 --> 02:39:42.440 You bet bye bye you two k bye bye. I 2943 02:39:42.440 --> 02:39:43.760 appreciate your call very much. 2944 02:39:44.319 --> 02:39:44.399 Uh. 2945 02:39:44.639 --> 02:39:48.879 If you are looking for an outing to someplace magical, 2946 02:39:49.399 --> 02:39:52.760 it's let me just suggest it's the anti grosing for him. 2947 02:39:52.840 --> 02:39:54.639 You need to go see it. It's out there north 2948 02:39:54.680 --> 02:39:58.959 of Brenham, Texas in Independence, the big metropolis of Independence, Texas, 2949 02:39:59.280 --> 02:40:01.399 which I'm told by by the way, is where Sam 2950 02:40:01.479 --> 02:40:06.000 Houston from Texas History was baptized. That's what they say. 2951 02:40:06.680 --> 02:40:10.440 Well anyway, Antique Rosenporium they even breed their own roses 2952 02:40:10.479 --> 02:40:10.760 out there. 2953 02:40:10.799 --> 02:40:10.920 Now. 2954 02:40:10.959 --> 02:40:13.159 They have two new releases that they bred. Call it 2955 02:40:13.239 --> 02:40:16.559 once glass Slippers, Glass Slipper, excuse me, and the other 2956 02:40:16.600 --> 02:40:19.120 one is Cupids sweetheart. You need to go see those now. 2957 02:40:19.159 --> 02:40:23.079 There's events all the time. On April the ninth, just 2958 02:40:23.159 --> 02:40:26.040 a few days from now, starting at ten am as 2959 02:40:26.079 --> 02:40:29.360 the children in the Garden workshop. It's for ages three 2960 02:40:29.479 --> 02:40:32.239 through ten. You get the tickets off the website. Here's 2961 02:40:32.319 --> 02:40:35.079 the website. Everything I'm telling you you need this website 2962 02:40:35.159 --> 02:40:40.520 for Antique Roseemporium dot com. Now you can give them 2963 02:40:40.559 --> 02:40:44.520 a call nine seven nine eight three six fifty five 2964 02:40:44.680 --> 02:40:49.239 forty eight or just go to Antique Roseemporium dot com. 2965 02:40:49.360 --> 02:40:51.280 It's a good place to take a group for a tour. 2966 02:40:51.559 --> 02:40:54.680 Contact them ask about that. They even have guided tours 2967 02:40:55.280 --> 02:40:58.040 as well, where someone takes you around and answers questions 2968 02:40:58.120 --> 02:41:00.879 and stuff. By the way, they're gonna be closed on 2969 02:41:01.040 --> 02:41:04.520 Easter Sunday, April twentieth, but their normal business hours are 2970 02:41:04.559 --> 02:41:07.159 Monday through Saturday from nine thirty in the morning till 2971 02:41:07.239 --> 02:41:10.479 five thirty in the afternoon. Coming up is the annual 2972 02:41:10.760 --> 02:41:14.280 Easter Egg Hunt on April nineteenth. You don't want to 2973 02:41:14.319 --> 02:41:16.079 miss that. The kids are going to love that. One 2974 02:41:16.159 --> 02:41:18.680 strucks at ten am. By the way, there's all kinds 2975 02:41:18.719 --> 02:41:21.000 of stuff going on that day, from face painting to 2976 02:41:22.079 --> 02:41:26.680 lunchboxes from smash burg serving smash Burgers to By the way, 2977 02:41:26.760 --> 02:41:28.959 the proceeds from that annual Easter Egg Hunt go to 2978 02:41:29.079 --> 02:41:34.120 the Branham Children's Museum and then a big deal Rose 2979 02:41:34.319 --> 02:41:37.040 and Herb Conference April twenty six. Circle dot on your 2980 02:41:37.079 --> 02:41:39.959 calendar April twenty six, ten am to three pm. They're 2981 02:41:39.959 --> 02:41:42.399 going to have a whole day full of educational seminars 2982 02:41:42.479 --> 02:41:46.559 and workshops and more. Also follow Antiqurosen for him on 2983 02:41:46.719 --> 02:41:56.200 social media. Let's go out now to talk to Anna. Hello, Anna, Hi, Hi, 2984 02:41:56.399 --> 02:41:57.319 Welcome to garden Line. 2985 02:41:58.959 --> 02:42:00.719 Yes, I have a quick question. 2986 02:42:01.559 --> 02:42:06.959 I have an orange tree is having to lose their 2987 02:42:07.120 --> 02:42:12.280 leaves and is the come of the year The leaf 2988 02:42:12.399 --> 02:42:16.719 should be coming on, but they're coming on and they're 2989 02:42:16.920 --> 02:42:17.600 falling off. 2990 02:42:19.719 --> 02:42:21.959 Is it the older big leaves that are falling off? 2991 02:42:24.159 --> 02:42:24.760 All of them? 2992 02:42:26.840 --> 02:42:34.000 All of them well, because the old ones they fall 2993 02:42:34.159 --> 02:42:37.719 when it was winter and now the new ones are coming. 2994 02:42:38.280 --> 02:42:39.559 But they are falling. 2995 02:42:41.000 --> 02:42:41.200 Well. 2996 02:42:41.280 --> 02:42:43.639 And I can't tell you exactly what that is, just 2997 02:42:43.719 --> 02:42:47.280 based on that description. If you will take a picture 2998 02:42:47.479 --> 02:42:49.719 and email it to me, let me look, show me 2999 02:42:49.799 --> 02:42:53.840 the whole bush, and then show me up close like 3000 02:42:54.319 --> 02:42:57.159 what you're seeing on the branches, and then pick up 3001 02:42:57.200 --> 02:42:59.319 some of the fallen leaves and show me. Because you're 3002 02:42:59.319 --> 02:43:01.760 talking about little small leaves falling too, I'd like to 3003 02:43:01.840 --> 02:43:04.559 see photos of that. Maybe I can help you better. 3004 02:43:04.680 --> 02:43:04.840 Then. 3005 02:43:05.520 --> 02:43:07.879 The only thing that comes to mind initially is if 3006 02:43:07.959 --> 02:43:11.200 you if your tree is going through some sort of 3007 02:43:11.280 --> 02:43:15.000 a root stress, you know, soggy conditions, no no good 3008 02:43:15.040 --> 02:43:18.520 oxygen in the roots, or some other issue. But let 3009 02:43:18.600 --> 02:43:20.879 me let me put you on hold, and uh, my 3010 02:43:21.040 --> 02:43:23.879 producer will give you an email and show me some pictures, 3011 02:43:23.959 --> 02:43:26.959 good sharp focus, attach them to the email, and I'll 3012 02:43:26.959 --> 02:43:29.079 see if I can help you further from that. And 3013 02:43:29.200 --> 02:43:32.000 thank you. I appreciate very much you calling. 3014 02:43:32.879 --> 02:43:33.000 Uh. 3015 02:43:33.920 --> 02:43:37.319 Let's go now to Baytown and talk to Carol. Hello, Carol, 3016 02:43:37.399 --> 02:43:38.319 Welcome to garden Line. 3017 02:43:39.840 --> 02:43:40.479 Good morning. 3018 02:43:40.559 --> 02:43:41.200 How are you, sir? 3019 02:43:43.000 --> 02:43:43.399 Doing well? 3020 02:43:44.879 --> 02:43:47.479 I am redoing a one of my bands. I just 3021 02:43:47.600 --> 02:43:51.399 pulled up the broccoli. That's done now, and as I'm 3022 02:43:51.440 --> 02:43:53.840 trying to turn over the dirt to add more, there's all. 3023 02:43:54.159 --> 02:43:56.079 I sent you an email, by the way, and it 3024 02:43:56.159 --> 02:43:57.079 says garden dirt. 3025 02:43:57.120 --> 02:43:57.799 I think on it. 3026 02:43:59.639 --> 02:44:04.440 There's white stuff at the bottom layer as I'm putting 3027 02:44:04.479 --> 02:44:04.799 it over. 3028 02:44:05.879 --> 02:44:07.479 Is that mold? 3029 02:44:07.639 --> 02:44:09.399 Is that good stuff and that nutrients? 3030 02:44:09.520 --> 02:44:11.120 Or I wouldn't sure what to do. 3031 02:44:11.319 --> 02:44:14.319 That's good stuff. I see the picture. That's good stuff. 3032 02:44:14.399 --> 02:44:18.319 That's called my celium, and basically it's little strands of fungus. 3033 02:44:18.479 --> 02:44:21.840 But it's not a disease of your plants. It's one 3034 02:44:21.920 --> 02:44:24.719 of the many, many kinds of fungus that turned tree 3035 02:44:24.799 --> 02:44:28.159 trunks and leaves and other organic matter back into good dirt. 3036 02:44:28.600 --> 02:44:31.399 And so all that's doing is it's it's breaking all 3037 02:44:31.479 --> 02:44:34.680 that stuff down and releasing the nutrients for your plants. 3038 02:44:34.719 --> 02:44:37.200 So don't worry about that at all. That's just part 3039 02:44:37.239 --> 02:44:37.399 of it. 3040 02:44:38.399 --> 02:44:41.959 Roast soil and some composts and roast soil to that 3041 02:44:42.079 --> 02:44:45.200 bed to make it more so good. 3042 02:44:45.479 --> 02:44:46.239 I didn't know how to do. 3043 02:44:48.799 --> 02:44:49.319 So. It was good. 3044 02:44:49.399 --> 02:44:53.079 Yeah, good news. I'll be the bearer of good news. Today. 3045 02:44:53.799 --> 02:44:58.319 My asparagus is finally producing. I'ven't been enjoying my sparagus 3046 02:44:58.360 --> 02:44:59.799 this year. I've waited three years for it. 3047 02:45:00.440 --> 02:45:01.319 I'm really enjoying it. 3048 02:45:01.440 --> 02:45:05.559 Oh boy, Oh that's good stuff. I love that. All right, Well, 3049 02:45:05.600 --> 02:45:10.520 thanks for the call. Appreciate that. You bet you take 3050 02:45:10.600 --> 02:45:17.200 care of Carol. If you're looking for a quality immediately 3051 02:45:17.639 --> 02:45:22.639 releasing into the soil fertilizer for your lawn, sweet green 3052 02:45:23.399 --> 02:45:26.120 is that now? It's not I say immediately. It dissolves 3053 02:45:26.200 --> 02:45:30.479 and releases immediately. But basically it's coming from a molasses 3054 02:45:30.559 --> 02:45:34.040 base that has lots of carbon, which makes your beneficial 3055 02:45:34.159 --> 02:45:37.520 microubs very very happy. And it's by Nitrofoss and it's 3056 02:45:37.559 --> 02:45:41.520 called Sweet Green. It's called Sweet Green. It's eleven percent nitrogen, 3057 02:45:41.600 --> 02:45:44.280 one of the highest percentage of nitrogen of any organic 3058 02:45:44.360 --> 02:45:46.680 product you're going to find on the market. And where 3059 02:45:46.680 --> 02:45:49.000 do you get it, Well, you get Nitrofoss products a 3060 02:45:49.079 --> 02:45:51.680 lot of places. You can go to Cyprus, M and 3061 02:45:51.760 --> 02:45:54.200 D on Luetta Road. You'll find it there, the M 3062 02:45:54.239 --> 02:45:57.479 and D, dun and Rosenberg on Avenue. I you can 3063 02:45:57.559 --> 02:45:59.920 find it there. You can go to Ace Hardware, Citium Memoria, 3064 02:46:00.239 --> 02:46:03.239 or Hiding and Feed on Stupent or Airline. You can 3065 02:46:03.319 --> 02:46:06.079 go to Fisher's Hardware on Southmore in Pasadena, or D 3066 02:46:06.200 --> 02:46:09.879 and D Feed and Tomball. That's just beginning the list 3067 02:46:10.040 --> 02:46:14.680 of all the places you can get quality products from. 3068 02:46:14.760 --> 02:46:17.440 Night Fross like this sweet green furliger smells wonderful too, 3069 02:46:17.520 --> 02:46:22.559 by the way, smells wonderful. Well, wow, today flew by, 3070 02:46:23.600 --> 02:46:27.440 it really did. It just seemed like we got started, 3071 02:46:27.559 --> 02:46:29.479 but had a lot of good things to talk about. 3072 02:46:29.559 --> 02:46:31.200 A lot of your calls too. I'll be back in 3073 02:46:31.280 --> 02:46:34.600 the morning from six thirty to ten. For those of 3074 02:46:34.639 --> 02:46:38.639 you somewhat new to garden Line, garden Line is on 3075 02:46:39.040 --> 02:46:42.079 from six am to ten am every Saturday and every 3076 02:46:42.159 --> 02:46:47.559 Sunday right here on Katrh seven forty am. Now you 3077 02:46:47.680 --> 02:46:51.559 can also listen live and to pass shows by getting 3078 02:46:51.600 --> 02:46:54.479 the iHeartMedia app on your phone. It's a little app 3079 02:46:54.559 --> 02:46:57.799 with a red heart on it. It's easy to see 3080 02:46:58.399 --> 02:47:01.200 when you do you go to garden Line. There's only 3081 02:47:01.280 --> 02:47:03.360 two garden lines in the whole country. One is some 3082 02:47:03.559 --> 02:47:06.840 lady on the East Coast, I guess. But Garden Line 3083 02:47:07.079 --> 02:47:10.440 you just you know, bookmark that and you can listen 3084 02:47:10.479 --> 02:47:12.319 to me live like right now, you could be out 3085 02:47:12.319 --> 02:47:15.879 in the garage rummaging through your fertilizer making the plan 3086 02:47:16.079 --> 02:47:18.479 for next months fertilizing. Or I was saying I was 3087 02:47:18.559 --> 02:47:21.200 repotting plants. Today you could be doing that listening to 3088 02:47:21.319 --> 02:47:23.680 Garden Line with your phone on in the pocket. Just 3089 02:47:23.799 --> 02:47:27.079 listen live, so easy to listen to. Once it quits 3090 02:47:27.159 --> 02:47:29.520 raining outside, you can take Garden Line with you to 3091 02:47:29.559 --> 02:47:32.000 the garden and to be live from your garden. Send 3092 02:47:32.040 --> 02:47:34.040 me a picture and we'll solve it right there on 3093 02:47:34.120 --> 02:47:35.639 the air. One of these days, somebody's going to do that. 3094 02:47:36.559 --> 02:47:40.799 I think that'd be an interesting way to do business. Well, 3095 02:47:40.840 --> 02:47:44.600 thanks for listening. Remember next Saturday. Next Saturday, I'll be 3096 02:47:44.680 --> 02:47:48.159 at RCW Nurseries from twelve to two, twelve to two 3097 02:47:48.360 --> 02:47:51.399 at RCW Nursery right where Tamai Parkway comes at about 3098 02:47:51.440 --> 02:47:54.440 way eight. For those of you who tune in late today, 3099 02:47:54.639 --> 02:47:58.000 I'm not going to be at Warren's today. We postponed 3100 02:47:58.079 --> 02:48:05.000 that until the week after next four, the nineteenth April nineteenth, 3101 02:48:05.479 --> 02:48:08.399 twelve thirty two third. I'll tell you about that this 3102 02:48:09.200 --> 02:48:11.920 coming weekend, but just go ahead and bump your Warren's 3103 02:48:11.959 --> 02:48:16.600 appearance to the nineteenth the day before Easter and next Saturday, 3104 02:48:17.280 --> 02:48:20.920 RCW twelve to two pm. I'll be giving away a 3105 02:48:21.040 --> 02:48:23.399 lot of cool stuff. They always have a good time 3106 02:48:23.479 --> 02:48:25.239 out there, and you got to go out there and 3107 02:48:25.280 --> 02:48:28.120 see their boogain videos and their roses, both in the 3108 02:48:28.680 --> 02:48:32.120 blooming Chinese fringe trees. They're so beautiful.