Speaker 1: Welcome to k t r H Garden Line with Skip Richard.
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Speaker 4: Salmon of well, good morning, gardeners. Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 4: I'm your host, Skip Richter, and looking forward to visiting
Speaker 4: with you today about the things that are of interest
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Speaker 4: You know, remember the days when we actually dialed. You
Speaker 4: had to stick your finger and this little round circle
Speaker 4: on the phone and turn it in a circle and
Speaker 4: it kind of roared it back to the number. Yep. Well,
Speaker 4: I still say dial. All right, anyway, punch in the numbers,
Speaker 4: maybe that's a better way to do it. Either way,
Speaker 4: we'll talk to you and we'll figure out what we
Speaker 4: need to be discussing today. Of course, the weather is
Speaker 4: a big deal. Today we got some rain blasting through
Speaker 4: various parts of the listening area, and uh, I just
Speaker 4: wanted to let you know, for those of you up
Speaker 4: well anywhere that we're planning on coming out to Kingwood
Speaker 4: to warrange Southern Gardens today, I'm not going to be there.
Speaker 4: We've had to reschedule that and obviously due to the
Speaker 4: weather and so we're gonna set that up for a
Speaker 4: different time. So if you're planning on it, well, not
Speaker 4: today we're gonna but we will be back out there,
Speaker 4: excuse me. In fact, I'm going to be there on Saturday,
Speaker 4: April nineteenth. That is the Saturday of eas Easter weekend,
Speaker 4: So Saturday April nineteenth, we'll be there at Warren's Southern Gardens.
Speaker 4: I apologize to that. I was really looking forward to
Speaker 4: going out there. I love going to Warren's. Is a
Speaker 4: wonderful place, lots of selection and we even had a
Speaker 4: little bit of an indoor area where we could gather
Speaker 4: and talk. But with weather like today, we figure people
Speaker 4: probably don't need to be out on the roads at
Speaker 4: that time, so we are rescheduling that one. To start off,
Speaker 4: I wanted to mention that when you're wanting to have
Speaker 4: beauty outside. You know, there's different ways we do. We
Speaker 4: revamped the landscape, we put in flower beds. I mean,
Speaker 4: there's a lot of great ways to create an environment.
Speaker 4: One of the simplest ways is just to use color containers.
Speaker 4: And I don't think we use enough color containers. Every
Speaker 4: year I add one a large container to the landscape.
Speaker 4: And when you put in a container, if you want success,
Speaker 4: it needs to have drain holes so that it doesn't
Speaker 4: get soggy bogged down as water builds up inside, the
Speaker 4: container needs to drain out, and you need a quality
Speaker 4: container mix to do that, and that would be jungle Land.
Speaker 4: Jungle Land is sold by Nitrofoss and they have the
Speaker 4: outdoor version called Flour and Vegetable Planting Soil. Jungle Land
Speaker 4: Flour and Vegetable Planting Soil, and you can find nit
Speaker 4: Fross products a lot of different places. Plants and things
Speaker 4: up in Brennam, M and D and Clear Lake as
Speaker 4: well as the M and D Beamer which is on
Speaker 4: Beamer in the Sagemond area. Those are all places where
Speaker 4: you're going to find Nitrofoss products. But remember, get a
Speaker 4: good quality potting soil. You want it to drain well,
Speaker 4: but you want it to hold some moisture too, and
Speaker 4: that's the blend. That's the goal of a quality soil,
Speaker 4: or one of the goals or two of the goals.
Speaker 4: But Junglelean will provide that for you. Let's head out
Speaker 4: to Magnolia and we're going to talk now to Cheryl. Hey, Cheryl,
Speaker 4: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 5: Yes, thank you, good morning, good morning. Yes, I'm a
Speaker 5: new azalea planter, and I had heard in the past
Speaker 5: that after azelia's bloom you should trim them. And mine
Speaker 5: are only eighteen inches tall and they're starting to lose
Speaker 5: their blooms.
Speaker 2: Do I still.
Speaker 5: Trim them at young of an age? And how would
Speaker 5: I do that?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 4: Not necessarily at all. The point that is being made
Speaker 4: when people say that is if you're going to prune them,
Speaker 4: prune them after they bloom, sometime between now and midsummer.
Speaker 4: That way they have time to grow new shoots and
Speaker 4: set bloom bud so next year you have a bloom show.
Speaker 4: If you prune them in winter, like we do a
Speaker 4: lot of plants, you'll be cutting off all your blooms.
Speaker 4: That doesn't mean you have to print them after they bloom. Uh,
Speaker 4: if they're missed, if they need shaping, if you've got
Speaker 4: you know, one bush that has a giant, gangly wild
Speaker 4: hair shoot coming out to the side and you kind
Speaker 4: of want to cut it back and balance it and things,
Speaker 4: that's what you would do after the bloom time. But
Speaker 4: just because you haven't the celia doesn't mean you need
Speaker 4: to print it.
Speaker 5: Okay, wonderful, Thank you so much.
Speaker 4: Well you bet enjoy those. They're beautiful plants. Appreciate the call, Cheryl.
Speaker 4: You take care. We're we're getting this rain today, and
Speaker 4: we do from time to time. In fact, here in
Speaker 4: southeast Texas, when it rains, it pours. It's the Morton
Speaker 4: Salt commercial. How many I'll remember that Morton Salt commercial,
Speaker 4: little girl carrying the umbrella with the salt spilling out
Speaker 4: behind her. Well, it does pour. When it rains here,
Speaker 4: we get the gully washers. And then in summer we
Speaker 4: get dry soil, dry conditions and dry soil, and that
Speaker 4: shrinking and swelling activity from getting wet, getting dry, getting wet,
Speaker 4: getting dry. That is what causes all these issues with
Speaker 4: hardscapes in our area, like a sidewalk, like a driveway,
Speaker 4: like the foundation in your house. And fix my slab
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Speaker 4: three years. He's a native Fewstonian, fifth generation Texan. As
Speaker 4: a matter of fact, he understands the soil, he understands
Speaker 4: the movement. He knows how to assess and how to fix.
Speaker 4: And it is a rare thing in the service industry
Speaker 4: to find somebody who gives you a fair price, shows
Speaker 4: up on time, and fixes it right. I'm sorry that
Speaker 4: that's just the way it is. No matter what you're
Speaker 4: hiring somebody to come do at the house. If you
Speaker 4: can find someone that shows up on time, fixes it right,
Speaker 4: and gives you a fair price, you've done something. And
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Speaker 4: cracks in the brick, cracks in the sheet rock, have
Speaker 4: him come take a look at it. That is very
Speaker 4: important not to be an ostrich and stick your head
Speaker 4: in the sand, but to take a good close look.
Speaker 4: I was checking out the roses at RCW Nursery recently
Speaker 4: and oh my gosh, their selection is just amazing. They
Speaker 4: still have good selection of roses. You know they they
Speaker 4: get in some All the rosarians know about RCW and
Speaker 4: the rose selection that they have, But did you know
Speaker 4: they have really nice selection of color too, annual color.
Speaker 4: Now you can go to RCW Nurseries dot com or
Speaker 4: just drive over there to the corner of Beltway eight
Speaker 4: and Tomball Parkway, which is highway to forty nine. You're
Speaker 4: going to find everything you're looking for from trees and
Speaker 4: shrubs to beautiful color, calibracoa and petunias and day and
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Speaker 4: Let me take a little break here and we'll come
Speaker 4: back with your calls.
Speaker 7: Win.
Speaker 4: Hey, welcome back to the garden line. Glad have you
Speaker 4: with us this morning. It's a good day to be
Speaker 4: inside talking about gardening for right now. That is what
Speaker 4: is That's exactly what we're gonna do. By the way,
Speaker 4: if you don't if you haven't downloaded my schedule on
Speaker 4: gardening with Skip dot com, that's my lawn care schedule.
Speaker 4: Actually there's two of them, lawn care and lawn pest
Speaker 4: disease and weed management. They're all free. You need to
Speaker 4: do that. And what you'll notice is we're getting in
Speaker 4: the time where we call summer fertilizing. We have our spring,
Speaker 4: we can do an early green up, we want to
Speaker 4: do that, but basically the bulk of the grass growing
Speaker 4: is kicking off big time now and that's when we
Speaker 4: switch over to a longer term fertilizer or I mean,
Speaker 4: you can still use one that's a meat release, you
Speaker 4: just have to do it in small fertilizations over time.
Speaker 4: But it's easier just to grab some Nitroposs Superturf. That's
Speaker 4: their silver bag. It's a nineteen four to ten fertilizer.
Speaker 4: Put it out and it's going to give you about
Speaker 4: four months of fertilizing and by gradually feeding like that,
Speaker 4: you don't get that flesh of growth, which means you're mowing, mowing, mowing,
Speaker 4: trying to keep up with it. It's a nice graduate release,
Speaker 4: really excellent design product. Night Foss Superturf's available in places
Speaker 4: like D and D feed in Tumbull Fisher's Hardware down
Speaker 4: in Baytown on Alexander and also the Fisher's Hardware on
Speaker 4: FM thirty one eighty and Mont Bellevue. Let's head back
Speaker 4: out to the phones. We're going to go to a
Speaker 4: memorial area and talk to Bruce. Hey, Bruce, Welcome to
Speaker 4: garden Line.
Speaker 8: Good morning, Stiff, Thank you. I have a couple of questions. One,
Speaker 8: my yard suffered last year a bit and I'm trying
Speaker 8: to catch back up. I've got weeds and I think
Speaker 8: we're switching from cool season herbicide treatments to warm so
Speaker 8: I needed, sorry for spot treating weeds for this warm time.
Speaker 8: And I have some concerns we have mature trees, so
Speaker 8: I've been trying to avoid the weed and seed wheat
Speaker 8: and feeds like with atrazine or dacanda and things like that.
Speaker 8: Is there something that's just taken up through the foliage
Speaker 8: and doesn't get taken up by roots through by the soil.
Speaker 4: Yeah, if it's a broad leaf weed, there are products
Speaker 4: that do control broad leafs selectively, they don't hurt grasses.
Speaker 4: And then there are if it's a grassy weed, it's
Speaker 4: hard to kill in your lawn because, with a few exceptions,
Speaker 4: if you kill a grassy weed. You kill a grassy lawn,
Speaker 4: and so we avoid those as post emergence, which is
Speaker 4: what you're asking about for the broadly weeds broadly okay, Well,
Speaker 4: for the broadleaf weeds, we're basically looking at something that's
Speaker 4: a combination of different products.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 4: And there are a lot of blends out there, you know,
Speaker 4: from Bonaie has their weed beater, the burd Loam has
Speaker 4: their weed free zone I believe as they call it.
Speaker 4: But they're combination. Sometimes you'll see a product that says
Speaker 4: trimac tri mec. That means it's a combination of three
Speaker 4: in that case, different broadly weed controls. And by doing
Speaker 4: those combos it covers a broader group of weeds, you know,
Speaker 4: and no one product until we'll kill every weed. So
Speaker 4: those combo products is what I would do. I'd mix
Speaker 4: them in a sprayer and then just spot spray. Do
Speaker 4: it in the morning when it's the coolest part of
Speaker 4: the day.
Speaker 8: Okay. And the second question on my laund rehab, I've
Speaker 8: got a copy of the schedule and this month I
Speaker 8: plan to airate gypsum get ready for summer fertilizing and
Speaker 8: top dressing with composts. But I also need to patch
Speaker 8: in some sod. Where does the sod patching fit into
Speaker 8: a combination like that after aeration?
Speaker 4: Yeah, well yeah, I would. Here, here's the thing. If
Speaker 4: you put the sod down, you're going to need to wait.
Speaker 4: I would probably wait about a month before I do
Speaker 4: the aeration. You want the side to root in really,
Speaker 4: really well and begin to grow and be a good,
Speaker 4: strong plant. It's a transplant, and so you want that
Speaker 4: transplant to get on its feet and get going, then
Speaker 4: do the aeration. Now, as far as gypsum, gypsum is
Speaker 4: helpful if your problem ishight sodium in the soil and
Speaker 4: a clay that doesn't drain well due to sodium. If
Speaker 4: you don't have a sodium problem, the gypsum is not
Speaker 4: a big help. It doesn't. Gypsum, contrary to popular belief,
Speaker 4: doesn't just break up a clay because it's a clay.
Speaker 4: What it does is that it makes sodium leave the
Speaker 4: clay particles, and therefore the soil can form a better structure.
Speaker 4: But if it's not a sodium problem, gypsum is don't
Speaker 4: worry about putting the gypsum down.
Speaker 8: Okay, I'm gonna guess that's it.
Speaker 4: Then all right, so we call back if you got
Speaker 4: any other questions. Appreciate it. Thanks a lot, you take care.
Speaker 4: You know, it's I know it's hard for me to
Speaker 4: talk about a sprinkler on a day like this because
Speaker 4: we're getting plenty of sprinkling. But you know, summer's coming
Speaker 4: in that tree you plant it last fall or this spring,
Speaker 4: especially this spring. And those of you who are continuing
Speaker 4: to plant trees, which I hope you are, trees and shrubs,
Speaker 4: those plants don't have extensive root systems. When this summer comes,
Speaker 4: they're starting to root in, but not like they need
Speaker 4: to be. And that's where a tree hugger sprinkler is
Speaker 4: so helpful. It goes around the tree. You hook it
Speaker 4: to your garden hose and you can turn it on
Speaker 4: just a little bit, so maybe it's just watering a
Speaker 4: little you know, eight inch circle or ten inch circle
Speaker 4: or whatever, or you can turn it up more and
Speaker 4: more and more to where maybe you've got a five
Speaker 4: year old tree that's getting some good size on it
Speaker 4: and you're water in a very large area to rescue
Speaker 4: it during the summer drought times, or to keep the
Speaker 4: growth going, keep it moving. Tree hugger sprinklers are available
Speaker 4: in seven inch, eleven inch, and fifteen inch sizes. You
Speaker 4: can go to tree Hugger Sprinklers dot com find out
Speaker 4: more information about them. But it says tree hugger. But
Speaker 4: if you're planting a rosebush or a shrub, it's good
Speaker 4: for that too, and you're gonna find them a lot
Speaker 4: of places. D and D feed up in tumble Spring
Speaker 4: Creek Feed Center, League City Feed Done in League City,
Speaker 4: Southwest Fertilizer, and many ace stores like Sinkle Ranch and
Speaker 4: Katie and K and M and A Task a seat
Speaker 4: in full Sure all the places you can get tree Hugger.
Speaker 4: I talked about RCW Wallago, they carry it, Nelson Watergarden,
Speaker 4: were in Southern Gardens, in Chanting Gardens, and in Channy Forest,
Speaker 4: a Kingwood Garden Center, Arborgate. You see what I'm talking about.
Speaker 4: They're widely available, So no excuse not to grab you
Speaker 4: one and keep it with you. Because anytime anything gets planted,
Speaker 4: or even something that's well established, like a tree, when
Speaker 4: we go into one hundred degrees for one hundred days
Speaker 4: with no rain at all, you know, rescue that tree
Speaker 4: and tree Hugger is the best way to do it.
Speaker 4: We're gonna head out to sugar Land now and talk
Speaker 4: to Michael. Hey, Michael, welcome to garden line Skid.
Speaker 10: I've got a couple of questions my garden from last year.
Speaker 10: It did very well. I put this. It's an outside
Speaker 10: in the backyard garden. I started garden now by putting
Speaker 10: down basically a plastic covering to keep the weeds out,
Speaker 10: covered it over the winter time, went out about two
Speaker 10: weeks ago and took the cover off, and I've got weeds,
Speaker 10: not necessarily leads with grass coming in. I want to
Speaker 10: know what can I do to treat that and the
Speaker 10: little pieces of clover that I'm seeing popping up before
Speaker 10: I put my plants in more.
Speaker 4: This is this vegetables or flowers or what all is
Speaker 4: going in here?
Speaker 10: It's vegetables, basically vegetables, squash, carriage beats. So that sort
Speaker 10: of things finached.
Speaker 4: Okay, Well, you got a couple of options, and we
Speaker 4: have several, and I'll just get maulty, some of which
Speaker 4: I'm sure won't be acceptable, but they are options. And
Speaker 4: that would start with, for example, getting a hoe or
Speaker 4: hand pulling and getting rid of the weeds that way.
Speaker 4: A second option would be to roto till the area
Speaker 4: and then multch it very well, very thickly, so any
Speaker 4: weeds trying to sprout from seed couldn't make it. What
Speaker 4: I did in an area I have an orchard area,
Speaker 4: I saw some grasses coming up, and so I just
Speaker 4: took a weed eater and took them to the ground
Speaker 4: and then I mulched it really heavily. And as those
Speaker 4: grasses try to sprout, they're going to try to push
Speaker 4: leaves up. But if they can't get them to sunlight there,
Speaker 4: it's going to kill the plant. And if they do
Speaker 4: get them to sunlight and throw more mulch on them.
Speaker 4: But so those those are some of the options that
Speaker 4: you can do. Back in the day when everybody took
Speaker 4: the newspaper, a newspaper was an excellent mulch to then
Speaker 4: cover with leaves. It would it would kill pretty much
Speaker 4: anything but bermuda and nuts edge under it. But you
Speaker 4: just need to smother them basically, And is a good
Speaker 4: way to do that.
Speaker 10: Is there no product chemical wise that could be put
Speaker 10: in there that would be safe to put in.
Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, if you're if you don't have any desire
Speaker 4: plants in them, is there nothing in there?
Speaker 11: Right?
Speaker 4: Now that you're afraid to killing.
Speaker 10: Well, there's you know, I haven't even started my planning yet.
Speaker 10: It's a it's basically took the cover off, so there's
Speaker 10: nothing in there other than I've looked at this grass.
Speaker 10: It's a strange grass that popped up last year. I've
Speaker 10: sent it all through boy Being County. It has the
Speaker 10: really really deep roots, so I'm having to pull it
Speaker 10: or warden it from the roots. That's what I'm meaning
Speaker 10: when to get rid of.
Speaker 4: Okay, so there there is a product.
Speaker 12: Uh.
Speaker 4: The ingredient is glue fascinate okay. Uh. And it's I'm
Speaker 4: gonna do you have a pen? Do you have a pen?
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 4: It's it's g l u fos I n ate glue
Speaker 4: foss and eight. And it's used in the same way
Speaker 4: that you would have used around up. Do you spray
Speaker 4: it on an existing plant and it kills it broad
Speaker 4: leaf or grass whatever, it kills it, and it moves
Speaker 4: down there. It's sold in a number of different brands.
Speaker 4: Let's see where you're calling from. Sugar. Oh, you're you're
Speaker 4: close to Southwest Fertilizer. Just just go over and talk
Speaker 4: to Bob about glue Fascinating he's going to have some
Speaker 4: products on hand from that. Your ACE hardware stores may
Speaker 4: have some of that as well.
Speaker 10: Great, thank you, Schi. One more question what I follow
Speaker 10: the schedule and you are looking pretty good right now,
Speaker 10: but I'm seeing some patches of clover. What would be
Speaker 10: a good post e merger to put down right now?
Speaker 4: Well, once these cool season weeds like clover become reproductive,
Speaker 4: meaning they're blooming and they have seeds on them already,
Speaker 4: they're harder to kill with the post and urgents. And
Speaker 4: just because of the growth stage therein it, the way
Speaker 4: these pre emergents often work, they don't work well and
Speaker 4: that in a weed in that stage. But that said,
Speaker 4: you can spray them with any post emergent broad leaf
Speaker 4: control that's labeled. Is this a lawn now, Michael, I
Speaker 4: missed that. If you said that, yeah, that we're.
Speaker 10: Talking about it's sin Augustine I've got in my.
Speaker 4: Backyard yet, Okay, okay, thank you? Yeah, And so something
Speaker 4: labeled for the turf you could use as a spray.
Speaker 4: I'll tell you what I've been doing, and that is
Speaker 4: hand pulling. And the reason is this. If you've got
Speaker 4: a clover and it has a hundred seeds on it,
Speaker 4: which wouldn't be a surprise. You could even if you
Speaker 4: killed that weed. Now you have one hundred seeds. You
Speaker 4: didn't accomplish a lot because the clover is going to
Speaker 4: die anyway when it heats up. So those weeds are
Speaker 4: about to go away anyway. And I would rather get
Speaker 4: the seeds out of there. And clover comes out of
Speaker 4: one spot in the ground, it's very easy and moist
Speaker 4: soil to pop it up. I have a little kneeling bunch.
Speaker 4: I'm out there with a long, little weeding fork, and
Speaker 4: you can cover a lot of ground pretty fast. Now,
Speaker 4: if you don't want to do that, or not able
Speaker 4: to do that, then you're left with two things. Number one,
Speaker 4: set your mower very low and mow and bag and
Speaker 4: capture as much of the seed therefore as you can,
Speaker 4: and don't get it out of there. Don't don't return
Speaker 4: the clippings get in this case, get the weed, seeds
Speaker 4: and clippings out of there. And then the second thing
Speaker 4: would be to sprim with a broad leaf post emergent.
Speaker 4: If you were going to do that, I would do
Speaker 4: that before I mow, because you want it to move
Speaker 4: down in the plant, all right.
Speaker 10: Thank you and yeah, I've been doing a lot of
Speaker 10: hand pulling on my knees, so I know we exactly
Speaker 10: what you talk about. I have a wonderful day, Skip,
Speaker 10: Thank you as always.
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Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 4: Visiting with Michael Wallago about you know, managing weeds and things,
Speaker 4: some of the post emergents and the whatnot that's out there.
Speaker 4: I just I think I mentioned to him Southwest Fertilizer.
Speaker 4: That's the place on the corner of Businest and Renwick,
Speaker 4: and I know that I can always send someone there
Speaker 4: and whatever they need is going to be there. You know,
Speaker 4: if I say, well you need to go fine in
Speaker 4: this case, I think someone else it's talking about a
Speaker 4: glue foscin eight. You know what is that you probably
Speaker 4: hadn't heard me say that one before on the air. Well,
Speaker 4: I know Bob's got it. It's Southwest Fertilizer because they
Speaker 4: have everything you need. If they don't have it, you
Speaker 4: don't need it. It's as simple as that, simple as that.
Speaker 4: And if you're an organic gardener and you're looking for
Speaker 4: the broadest selection of organic products in the greater Houston area,
Speaker 4: that's it Southwest Fertilizer. And you may be listening to
Speaker 4: me and Tim Buck two long far away, but I
Speaker 4: can tell you this. When you go to Southwest Fertilizer,
Speaker 4: it's worth the trip because you're going to find everything
Speaker 4: that you need. Corner of bis Nutton Runwick, Southwest Fertilizer
Speaker 4: dot com if you want to give them a call
Speaker 4: seven to one three six sixty six one seven four
Speaker 4: four seven one three six sixty six one seven four
Speaker 4: to four. I'm going to be there toward the end
Speaker 4: of this month too, looking forward to coming on down.
Speaker 4: All right, let's go out to Gary in Salt Lake
Speaker 4: and we'll see how we can help welcome garden line Gary.
Speaker 13: Good morning morning. A quick question. Now, I'm not slid
Speaker 13: like I'm a sergeant between a freeport and mad.
Speaker 4: Sergeant.
Speaker 13: Okay, thank you, yeah, sergeant, sergeant. Question salt water and
Speaker 13: sant augustine, Like on a high tide or a little
Speaker 13: serge or whatever it gets on that san augustine, will
Speaker 13: it kill it?
Speaker 4: Well, sant euxtine does not want to be watered with
Speaker 4: ocean water. That's for sure. One one good dosing of it,
Speaker 4: Probably not the end of the world, especially if you
Speaker 4: follow with an irrigation to kind of rense those salts
Speaker 4: out of the area. Right, you're probably that's a case
Speaker 4: where a little gypsum put on the soil to wash
Speaker 4: it down into the soil would be helpful. Is another
Speaker 4: part of the remedy. It's not just adding the gypsum.
Speaker 4: It's adding the gypsum and then getting a good drenching
Speaker 4: to wash it down through the soil. Profile. Now, there
Speaker 4: are some more salt tolerant There are some more salt
Speaker 4: tolerant turfs, but they have their own challenges other than
Speaker 4: the salt issue.
Speaker 13: Right, okay, all right, well, thank you very much. That's
Speaker 13: my question.
Speaker 4: All right, Gary, good luck have fun down there. All right,
Speaker 4: there you go, as simple as that, it is time
Speaker 4: to be fertilizing our lawns for summer. So I don't
Speaker 4: know where you are with this. If you did a
Speaker 4: spring green up, he probably used nitrofoss Imperial fifteen five
Speaker 4: to ten. It's been around for gosh, at least fifty years.
Speaker 4: It's created by the turf Research Universities of the Southern
Speaker 4: Gulf Coast. That not the fertilizer product itself, but that ratio,
Speaker 4: that three to one to two ratio, fifteen five to ten,
Speaker 4: lots of nitrogen, not much phosphorus, medium amount of potassium.
Speaker 4: That's what you're looking for, and that's what's in Imperial. Now.
Speaker 4: Imperial is in a reddish orange bag, kind of a
Speaker 4: red orange bag. And you know, if you want to
Speaker 4: use that, it's like, well, your schedule says we can
Speaker 4: use slow release. Yes, you can use slow release. You
Speaker 4: can also take something like Imperial and just do very
Speaker 4: small applications over time and sort of create your own
Speaker 4: slow release equivalent if you will. But whatever you want
Speaker 4: to do for a quick green up on your lawn,
Speaker 4: you know it's not looking good, Hey, I want to
Speaker 4: get something down quick, Go ahead and do that Imperial
Speaker 4: fifteen five to ten. Give it about a month or so,
Speaker 4: maybe six weeks, and then follow it up with your
Speaker 4: slow release fertilizer and you will have a beautiful lawn
Speaker 4: all the way up into fall.
Speaker 11: Now.
Speaker 4: Imperial is available at places like Fisher's Hardware and Pasadena
Speaker 4: Fisher's Hardware and Laport. If you go to D and
Speaker 4: D feed up in tomball or plants for all seasons.
Speaker 4: On two forty nine, I was just talking about them
Speaker 4: all places you're going to find nitrofoss products. We're going
Speaker 4: to head out now to Brookshire, Texas and talk to Sammy. Hello, Sammy,
Speaker 4: Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 14: Hey, thank you.
Speaker 11: It's honored to talk to you. I appreciate it.
Speaker 6: I was gonna ask about tomato plants.
Speaker 11: Is it okay to feed them once a week?
Speaker 15: Every week?
Speaker 6: I'm using a microlife. And the second one is trimming cucumbers.
Speaker 6: Last year I trimmed too much, and I don't think
Speaker 6: that cucumbers spared very well. Maybe I've cut too many
Speaker 6: leaves away. And this year I was thinking about leaving
Speaker 6: it all natural.
Speaker 11: I just go finding them. Would you recommend trimming them?
Speaker 11: And so how much? Thank you?
Speaker 4: You're talking about trimming the cucumber vines vines.
Speaker 11: Yes, or all the big leaves and the vines.
Speaker 4: Okay, Well, first of all, on the MICROLFE, that is
Speaker 4: a fertilizer that is going to release as the microbes
Speaker 4: break it down over time, so you don't need to
Speaker 4: fertilize it that often with microlife. If you put microlife down,
Speaker 4: oh maybe twice during that tomato growing season, you know
Speaker 4: we're gonna be growing. We're gonna be producing tomatoes on
Speaker 4: into June. I mean it could go longer than that.
Speaker 4: You could be in July for sure too. But I
Speaker 4: would say about every four weeks a good dose of microlife.
Speaker 4: You're not going to burn them with it, so you
Speaker 4: can put a little bit more down and that would
Speaker 4: be That should be good. A couple applications of it
Speaker 4: for that particular tomato season. Now, on the trimming, I
Speaker 4: wouldn't trim the cucumbers. If you need to trim, you
Speaker 4: know they're going in a direction you don't want. You're
Speaker 4: gonna cut that off and let the growth in other
Speaker 4: directions continue on. You can do that, but there's no
Speaker 4: specific cucumber pruning system that we have to follow.
Speaker 11: Terrifict, thank you for your time, have a great day.
Speaker 4: Ah right, good, thanks, appreciate your call.
Speaker 11: You too, by bye.
Speaker 4: I have lost control of the board.
Speaker 16: Here.
Speaker 4: Let's see here if I can get that thing. But
Speaker 4: there we go, get it back on there. Thanks, thanks
Speaker 4: for the help. There. We are talking about a lot
Speaker 4: of different topics here on garden Line today, but I
Speaker 4: do want to mention another one and that is turf
Speaker 4: aeration and compost top dressing. Now what is that all about. Well,
Speaker 4: in our heavy clay soils, especially in compacted clay soils,
Speaker 4: the oxygen can't get done in the soil very far.
Speaker 4: Water doesn't move in very fast, it runs off instead
Speaker 4: of soaking in well, and aeration makes little holes in
Speaker 4: the ground. It pops plugs out of the soil, drops
Speaker 4: them on the surface, which by the way helps reduce
Speaker 4: thatch a lot. And then compost top dressing gets that
Speaker 4: organic matter down into the soil. You know, with a
Speaker 4: gardening rototail every time between crops, but with a lawn
Speaker 4: you can't rototil your lawn and move organic matter into
Speaker 4: the soil. BnB turf pros is a professional when it
Speaker 4: comes to this process. If you are living from sugar
Speaker 4: Land to Missouri City all the way across to Manviln
Speaker 4: Paarland in the southwest part of Houston. That's your company.
Speaker 4: Go to bb turfpros dot com seven to one three
Speaker 4: two three four five five nine eight seven one three
Speaker 4: two three four fifty five ninety eight. Talk to them.
Speaker 4: They know how to do it. They'll treat you right. Alrighty,
Speaker 4: welcome back to the garden line. Good to have you
Speaker 4: with us. We'd like to give me a call. Seven
Speaker 4: one three two one two KTRH. I was out in
Speaker 4: the yard yesterday doing some things. And actually I was
Speaker 4: sitting around a little our table in the back the patio,
Speaker 4: sitting with my wife. They're talking about some various stuff,
Speaker 4: and uh, two cardinals came, male and female cardinal to
Speaker 4: the feeder. And it's it is because we put the
Speaker 4: kind of food they like in it. There's a product
Speaker 4: in the you only get it at Wildbird's Unlimited. It's
Speaker 4: called Cardinal Confetti Blend. And I mean they love this stuff.
Speaker 4: It's got black old sunflowers, sunflower chips, nutrisapp bark, butter bits,
Speaker 4: peanut has dried mealworms, striped sunflowers. See if there's a
Speaker 4: bird listening to this, they're salivating right now. I can
Speaker 4: tell you that. I mean they come to this. It's
Speaker 4: like me and inchu ladas. You know, if you want
Speaker 4: to set a trap for me, just put an inchilada
Speaker 4: in it and I'm gonna walk right in there. Cardinal
Speaker 4: confetti from wild Birds Unlimited is awesome. It's awesome stuff.
Speaker 4: Now when you're there, you're gonna find a lot of
Speaker 4: other quality blends. The nesting super blend very important this
Speaker 4: time of era because it has the protein and calcium
Speaker 4: that birds need to lay eggs to build the skeletal
Speaker 4: structures on the young as are coming up. Very important.
Speaker 4: Nesting super blend from Wildbirds. And where is Wildbirds? Well,
Speaker 4: there's six of them in the Greater Houston area. If
Speaker 4: you're in clear Lake on Eldorado, if you're in Cypress
Speaker 4: on Barker Cypress, if you are in West Houston on
Speaker 4: bel Air Boulevard, if you are excuse me, on Memorial Drive,
Speaker 4: and then Southwest Houston is bel Air Boulevard just south
Speaker 4: of downtown. Getting them all mixed up here Kingwood Drive
Speaker 4: in Kingwood, Pearland. How about East Broadlet Broadway in Paarland.
Speaker 4: Six different Wildbirds Unlimited stores. Go to WBU dot com
Speaker 4: forward slash Houston you can find the Wildbirds Store that's
Speaker 4: near you. I love I love watching the birds, I
Speaker 4: really do. And we have some swallows that are nesting
Speaker 4: on our front kind of our front porch. There's a
Speaker 4: little post up under the eaves and they've built their
Speaker 4: nest and they come back to it pretty much every year,
Speaker 4: and they're there now. I love to listen to those
Speaker 4: low guys as they chatter and it's like their chattering
Speaker 4: and fussing' or I don't know what, but it's a
Speaker 4: lot of fun. And they come and then they go,
Speaker 4: they fly the coop is, so to speak. They're gone again.
Speaker 4: Birds are a nice addition to the landscape. Just a
Speaker 4: reminder again, I'm not going to be at Warren's Southern
Speaker 4: Gardens today. I was, but because of the rain and
Speaker 4: the issues that we're dealing with, we have postponed that
Speaker 4: until Saturday, April nineteenth. That's a Saturday prior to Eastern Okay,
Speaker 4: Saturday April nineteenth, I will be at Warren Southern Gardens. Now,
Speaker 4: that doesn't mean you can't go to Warren Southern Gardens
Speaker 4: our Kingwood Garden Center. Both are there in Kingwood. Both
Speaker 4: are open seven days a week. This is on North
Speaker 4: Park Drive, Kingwood, is on stone Hollow Drive. It's easy
Speaker 4: to get to now. When you go in there, you're
Speaker 4: going to find the products I recommend, like products from
Speaker 4: Microlife and Nitrofoss, Neilson turf Star, airloom soils, the little
Speaker 4: jars of Nelson plant food. Both Warrens and Kingwood have
Speaker 4: the refilling stations where you can refill Microlife and Nelson products.
Speaker 4: You buy the jar originally and then you just bring
Speaker 4: the empty jar back in and pull down the hand.
Speaker 4: We'll fill it up like you're buying peanuts in the
Speaker 4: grocery store. And it's a very economical way to go,
Speaker 4: and it's also a way that avoids thrown more plastic
Speaker 4: out there in the environment. Right now, the color at
Speaker 4: those places is outstanding. You should see it. I mean
Speaker 4: it's it's beautiful and it is worth a trip out
Speaker 4: to either Warren Southern Gardens on North Park or Kingwood
Speaker 4: Garden Center on stone Hollow Drive. If you'd like to
Speaker 4: give me a call. We get a little bit of
Speaker 4: time here. We can get a quick call in seven
Speaker 4: to one three two one two kt r H seven
Speaker 4: one three two one two. Ktr Ace Hardware stores are
Speaker 4: all over this Greater Houston area. And you know, ACE
Speaker 4: Hardware is just all over the place, period, but here
Speaker 4: in the local area. If you're looking for that group
Speaker 4: of ACE Hardware stores that are here in our Houston
Speaker 4: area that we talk about all the time, that's Ace
Speaker 4: Hardware Texas dot Com. Put the word Texes in there.
Speaker 4: Ace Hardware Texas dot Com. No matter what you're looking for,
Speaker 4: Ace Hardware has got you covered. It is time to
Speaker 4: fertilize the lawn. It is time to do weed control
Speaker 4: in the lawn. And so what where do you go? Well,
Speaker 4: Ace Hardware They're going to have the fertilizers that I
Speaker 4: talk about. They're going to have the products to control
Speaker 4: insects and diseases and weeds not just in a lawn,
Speaker 4: but in your garden and in your landscape. Do you
Speaker 4: need tools for pruning? Do you need spreaders for your fertilizer,
Speaker 4: for your fireant, bad for all of those kinds of things.
Speaker 4: Ace Hardware that's the place to go. They will get
Speaker 4: you fixed up. And all you have to do is
Speaker 4: go to Acehardware Texas dot Com to find the store
Speaker 4: near you. Now, when you're there, I gotta warn you
Speaker 4: take an empty pickup or trailer so you can go.
Speaker 4: You're gonna see a barbecue pit that you can't live without.
Speaker 4: I promise you that every time I go in, I
Speaker 4: see a barbecue pit I can't live without. In all
Speaker 4: the outdoor living things and indoor living that ace hardware
Speaker 4: offers be a good day to visit too. It's indoors,
Speaker 4: don't have to worry about the rain. All right, let's
Speaker 4: see here. We're gonna go now and talk to Shane. Hello, Shane,
Speaker 4: Welcome to garden Line. Let's see do we have Shane? Well,
Speaker 4: you know what we do have, Shane. There we go. Hey, Shane,
Speaker 4: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 17: Hey, Skip, how you doing, sir?
Speaker 4: I'm doing good. How can we help?
Speaker 17: I want to see what you recommend. I'm looking to
Speaker 17: redo our flower beds and add some cactus, some cold hardy,
Speaker 17: probably down to twenty degrees. Okay, what would you recommend him?
Speaker 18: Where I find them?
Speaker 4: You're done in road sharing area? Yes, yes, sir, yeah
Speaker 4: you know I would.
Speaker 19: Uh.
Speaker 4: Well, first I just check out Jraes Hidden Gardens down
Speaker 4: in Alvin. Uh they do have I think the last
Speaker 4: time I was in there, I noticed that they did
Speaker 4: have cactus, some cactus in I could be wrong about that.
Speaker 4: You may want to give them a call first, uh,
Speaker 4: and see when you head down. You know from you
Speaker 4: just to the west is enchanted forest and chanted gardens
Speaker 4: out in Richmond. I do know that they carry some
Speaker 4: and they can go through them and tell you which
Speaker 4: ones are cold hearty.
Speaker 20: Uh.
Speaker 4: In terms of outdoors, you know, we when we say cactus,
Speaker 4: that covers a lot of different kinds of plants, and
Speaker 4: so whether it's cactus or agave or yuccas or you know,
Speaker 4: all the different desert type plants, they've got you covered
Speaker 4: on those.
Speaker 11: Okay, I appreciate it, all right.
Speaker 4: You bet, Thank you for the call. Appreciate that alrighty.
Speaker 4: Let's see here, Well I've got time for another call.
Speaker 4: We're going to go now to Waller and talk to Blake. Hey, Blake,
Speaker 4: welcome to garden Line. Hey, Skip, how you doing.
Speaker 3: Hey?
Speaker 4: It's actually Walker County, a Walker County, Okay?
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Hey, We've been in a new home for about two
Speaker 4: months and we put down some say Augustine.
Speaker 14: It's been growing great.
Speaker 4: But do I do you think I should put any
Speaker 4: fertilizer down?
Speaker 13: I mean, it's fresh sod.
Speaker 11: What are your thoughts?
Speaker 4: When did you plant it.
Speaker 13: Beginning of March.
Speaker 4: I would I would wait at least four weeks, if
Speaker 4: not six weeks before you start fertilizing that grass just
Speaker 4: isn't gonna need it until about them. Uh. And then
Speaker 4: I would you know, just maybe do a go ahead
Speaker 4: and do a slow release at this point so it
Speaker 4: will gradually feed it as it continues to establish and
Speaker 4: and and and grow in.
Speaker 21: Okay, and what products you think you'd recommend?
Speaker 4: Yeah, we got a couple of good good products out there.
Speaker 4: The Night of Fuss has the silver bag. It is
Speaker 4: called super Turf. Super Turf. It's a silver bag, real easy,
Speaker 4: easy to see, so that you know, that would be
Speaker 4: a good example. You know, it kind of depends on
Speaker 4: what's sold right in your area. I don't know the
Speaker 4: stores up there. Are you in Huntsville or just outside
Speaker 4: or what?
Speaker 13: Yeah, about fifteen minutes from Huntsville.
Speaker 4: Okay, I'm sure you've got some up there. I just
Speaker 4: haven't been to the garden centers up there recently, so sure.
Speaker 4: Probably if you've got an ACE hardware store, I'm sure
Speaker 4: they're going to carry stuff like that.
Speaker 22: Cool.
Speaker 4: Thanks, Skip, appreciate it.
Speaker 11: Man to have a good day.
Speaker 4: Yeah, thanks for the call. Take care. All right, there
Speaker 4: you go, well talking about you know, different things that
Speaker 4: we need to be doing. At this time of the year,
Speaker 4: it is it is time to make sure that you
Speaker 4: have done everything you can to avoid the weed problems.
Speaker 4: And a barricade by nitrofoss is a product that we
Speaker 4: put down and then we watered into about a half
Speaker 4: inch of water. It moves into the soil surface and
Speaker 4: then when a weed tries to germinate, maybe it's crabgrass
Speaker 4: or grassburrs. Those are summer weeds. You're not having to
Speaker 4: deal with them because they never show up. The barricade
Speaker 4: shuts them down before they get started. And you're going
Speaker 4: to find nitrofoss products at RCW nurseries, You're going to
Speaker 4: find it at Hiden and Feed on Student or Airline.
Speaker 4: You're going to find it at ACE Hardware City on
Speaker 4: Memorial Drive. Lots of places carry nitro foss products. And
Speaker 4: barricade is one that will put down a barricade and
Speaker 4: shut down the weeds before they even get started. Now
Speaker 4: you want to hurry up and do it because every
Speaker 4: day you wait as weeds get germinated and begin to
Speaker 4: make little plants. Barricade isn't a post emergent. It doesn't
Speaker 4: kill existing weeds, it prevents new ones from coming in.
Speaker 4: I've got a lot area that's very thin. That means
Speaker 4: weeds are going to show up wherever sunlight hits the soil.
Speaker 4: Nature plants a weed, so barricades away. We avoid that
Speaker 4: from nitroposs. Just one more reminder as we wind up
Speaker 4: this hour, I'm not going to be at Warren's Southern
Speaker 4: Gardens today as had been planned due to the weather.
Speaker 4: Just feel like I don't need to try to be
Speaker 4: pulling people out through that kind of weather that we're having,
Speaker 4: So we're going to postpone it. I'm going to put
Speaker 4: that off and on April nineteenth, that's a Saturday, April nineteenth,
Speaker 4: I'll be heading out to warren Southern Gardens. Okay, so
Speaker 4: that would be one to two saturdays from today. All right,
Speaker 4: there you go. Well, while I'm talking about that, I'll
Speaker 4: tell you where I will be next Saturday, and that
Speaker 4: is our seed w Nurseries. That's Saturday the twelve, from
Speaker 4: twelve to two at our c w R set. When
Speaker 4: I come back, i'll tell you a little bit more
Speaker 4: about that.
Speaker 1: Welcome to Katie r. H Garden Line. With Skip Richard.
Speaker 3: It's just watch him as so many good things to
Speaker 3: spot by.
Speaker 4: Hey, folks, welcome back to garden Line. I'm your host,
Speaker 4: Skip Richter. We're here to help you have a bountiful,
Speaker 4: bountiful garden, a beautiful landscape and more fun in the process.
Speaker 4: Gardening should be fun, and it is fun. Sometimes we
Speaker 4: get all tied up in a nott you know, sweating weather. Oh,
Speaker 4: I don't know how to grow a plan. I'm going
Speaker 4: to kill a plan. I always kill plans and all
Speaker 4: that kind of stuff. I understand that, but it's not
Speaker 4: necessary maybe and inundated with rules. You know, people say, well,
Speaker 4: you have to do this this way, you have to
Speaker 4: do that that way. Listen. The only rules are have fun.
Speaker 4: Oh and the rules that are between you and your hoa.
Speaker 4: I'll stay out of that one. But seriously, it's gardening.
Speaker 4: Is it's fun and it don't There's no shame in
Speaker 4: killing a plant. There's just not. That's part of the
Speaker 4: learning process. You can get you another one. Or maybe
Speaker 4: maybe you didn't plant it right. Maybe it wasn't a
Speaker 4: plant that wanted to grow here. Maybe you got busy,
Speaker 4: went on vacation, it didn't get watered or you know,
Speaker 4: all the billion things that can happen along the way.
Speaker 4: But the plants are for you to enjoy. That's why
Speaker 4: we plant them. You want to beautify your landscape, you
Speaker 4: want to add value to your landscape, and you want to
Speaker 4: have fun, and so have fun. It's okay, you can
Speaker 4: get you another plant. One of the best horticulturists in
Speaker 4: this country from over on the East Coast a number
Speaker 4: of years ago, made a statement, and it was to
Speaker 4: be a horticulture She got to kill a lot of plants.
Speaker 4: And I think that I'm giving you permission to kill plants. Okay,
Speaker 4: isn't that the weirdest thing to hear on a gardening show?
Speaker 4: You go kill plants. No, I'm not saying you should
Speaker 4: go do it. I'm just saying it's okay if you do.
Speaker 4: You're learning. Do you know that nature kills plants every year.
Speaker 4: They're called annuals at the end of the season. In fact,
Speaker 4: they commit suicide. They they bloom and they die because
Speaker 4: the season is changing. I mean it just it's part
Speaker 4: of the switchover of the landscape. And don't be afraid
Speaker 4: to do that. And know that all landscapes too. By
Speaker 4: the way are temporary. They all need renovating at some
Speaker 4: point or they become a mess, just a mess. You know,
Speaker 4: those shrubs you can't even are growing over the eaves
Speaker 4: of the house. You can't see out the windows, all
Speaker 4: that kind of thing. So it's a constant state of renovation.
Speaker 4: That's what nature is, and I think that's one of
Speaker 4: the best things about gardening because it's always a new star.
Speaker 4: There are not many places in life situations where you
Speaker 4: can just totally start fresh over. I mean zero. You
Speaker 4: could right now, get out there, pull every plant you
Speaker 4: got up, run a rototiller over the whole property, and
Speaker 4: replant everything the way you wanted to look. I know
Speaker 4: I wouldn't necessarily recommend that, but you could. You could.
Speaker 4: I guess what I'm trying to say is this, let's learn,
Speaker 4: let's have fun, and don't be afraid to try something new.
Speaker 4: I've planted things before, and later I thought, well, was
Speaker 4: I thinking I knew that plant wasn't going to work there?
Speaker 4: I mean, if I had thought about it, pull it up,
Speaker 4: move it somewhere else, or just put something else in
Speaker 4: its place. All right, I think that makes sense. Well,
Speaker 4: let's head straight out now to Kingwood, and we're going
Speaker 4: to talk to Mike. Hey, Mike, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 4: Thanks thanks for having me.
Speaker 7: Hey, I had some real hard packed dirk and a
Speaker 7: couple of places over by some big oak trees and
Speaker 7: sycamore trees. I mean just heart packs almost like seeing
Speaker 7: it and break down and put some new sawd there
Speaker 7: and and some sand in the step. But okay, growing
Speaker 7: in this hard pack, especially in the backyard is uh
Speaker 7: a layer of fungus. It's almost like its just picked fungus.
Speaker 7: It looks like a green AstroTurf carpet.
Speaker 2: It's not grass.
Speaker 4: Definitely a fungus.
Speaker 2: So what did I use to kill that before?
Speaker 7: I uh try to you know, first area and then
Speaker 7: put some new over it.
Speaker 4: Well, what it is is it's a moss, a moss
Speaker 4: and uh you you know you can you could spray
Speaker 4: it and kill her, or you could just kind of
Speaker 4: scrape it, or if you're going to do any spading
Speaker 4: and rototilling, it's going to break it up anyway. But
Speaker 4: if you just want to scrape it off, that's fine.
Speaker 4: There are products. There's a product called moss Max moss
Speaker 4: smacks that you can spray on it. But it's there
Speaker 4: because it's shady and it's wet and and other things
Speaker 4: just aren't growing, and it's filling in the space, and
Speaker 4: so I wouldn't worry about it a whole lot. Just
Speaker 4: scrape it off and go on with the preparation that
Speaker 4: you're talking about. That's good. You want to get that
Speaker 4: soil ready so you can have a chance for success.
Speaker 7: Okay, I appreciate you very much.
Speaker 4: Thanks, Hey, Mike, Thanks lot. Remember I'm not coming out
Speaker 4: to Kingwood this today, but I'll be there on Saturday,
Speaker 4: April nineteenth, So if y'all got it, you get a
Speaker 4: chance coming out and see me. Bring me some of
Speaker 4: your moss. I'd like to see it, all right, take care,
Speaker 4: all right, thank you. Okay, soil and quality in terms
Speaker 4: of nutrients, I want to talk about that just a minute.
Speaker 4: The way nature works, you know before we showed up
Speaker 4: with fertilizer spreaders. The way nature works is organic matter
Speaker 4: decomposes and it releases its nutrients into the mineral of
Speaker 4: the soil, which is also releasing the nutrients for the
Speaker 4: mineral particles that are on there, and it creates this
Speaker 4: perfect environment for roots to thrive microlife. Fertilizers designed around
Speaker 4: that principle. You know, every granule of microlife was once
Speaker 4: something living. Okay, there was something living that decomposed into
Speaker 4: what now is a fertilizer product. It has been produced
Speaker 4: into a fertilizer product that you put down and microbes
Speaker 4: get a hold of it like they do any organic
Speaker 4: matter in nature. They break it down and they get
Speaker 4: those nutrients out. So the green bag, the six to four,
Speaker 4: the number one selling organic fertilizer in Houston from microlife,
Speaker 4: that's what we're talking about. It's a good ratio, perfect
Speaker 4: ratio for plants, a three one two ratio for that
Speaker 4: lawn you're wanting to grow. It's time to get that out.
Speaker 4: You can do it now and you can repeat that
Speaker 4: through the season. If you follow my schedule, you'll see
Speaker 4: on there I got an organic row going across on
Speaker 4: the lawn care schedule, and you just apply it and
Speaker 4: allow it to come completely be released by nature to
Speaker 4: feed the grass. That's how it works. You can also
Speaker 4: put the purple bag hum mats plus. Think of that
Speaker 4: not as a fertilizer, but as a soil improver, a
Speaker 4: soil amendment. It is a final decomposed states of organic matter.
Speaker 4: Humates plus the purple bag by Microlife. Those two together
Speaker 4: make a really good way to kick off spring in
Speaker 4: a very good way so that you can have success.
Speaker 4: Now you're gonna find Microlife at a lot of different places.
Speaker 4: It's widely available. One example is Buchanan's Native Plants Downtown.
Speaker 4: They're on Eleventh Street and the Heights. And by the way,
Speaker 4: if you haven't been to the Buchanans you need to
Speaker 4: go Eleventh Street and the Heights. Here's the website, though
Speaker 4: I want to make sure I say this, Buchanansplants dot com.
Speaker 4: You need to go there, sign up for the newsletter.
Speaker 4: It is wonderful. It is informative and very helpful. And
Speaker 4: if you canons, you're gonna find the fertilizers you're looking for,
Speaker 4: the soil products you're looking for. But most important, you're
Speaker 4: going to find one of the best selections of native
Speaker 4: plants throughout this whole region, and non native plants as well.
Speaker 4: Today'd be a good day to be in their Houseplank greenhouse.
Speaker 4: It's huge and it's covered. I could get wet in there.
Speaker 4: Buchanans Native Plants eleven Street in the Heights. I'll be
Speaker 4: right back all right, Welcome back to Guardenline folks. Glad
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Speaker 4: go now to Tomaliah out in Walker County. Hey, Tomaliah,
Speaker 4: welcome to Gardenline.
Speaker 22: Good morning. I'm calling to ask you about my Esperanza. Okay, okay,
Speaker 22: true confession. I did not take any measures to protect
Speaker 22: her through this cold that we had up here in
Speaker 22: December and January. I don't see any signs of life
Speaker 22: should I? I mean, is well you start sprouting?
Speaker 4: You might? I mean what you probably got down did
Speaker 4: you get in the low twenties or how cold did
Speaker 4: it get for you.
Speaker 22: Very low teens?
Speaker 4: Lo teens?
Speaker 23: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Well, Esperanza, even you know in milder areas will die
Speaker 4: back considerably in the winter, often to the ground and
Speaker 4: come back. If that crown of the plant was up
Speaker 4: a little high and exposed, and if there was no
Speaker 4: mulch piled up against it to provide a little insulation,
Speaker 4: it's possible that you lost it. I would give it
Speaker 4: a little more time, though. Let's let it warm up
Speaker 4: a little more by the end of April, for sure it.
Speaker 4: If you don't see life on it, I don't think
Speaker 4: it's coming back. Esperanza likes warm weather, and in general
Speaker 4: they're pretty cold, Harty. But boy, if you were low teens,
Speaker 4: that you may have lost it in that one. So
Speaker 4: but I wouldn't give up quite yet.
Speaker 22: Okay, okay, thank you very much. Sir, appreciate it.
Speaker 4: You bet, and in future years, by the way, tummila
Speaker 4: just a pile of big old pollo mulch over the
Speaker 4: crown of the plant. Comp could be composed or mult
Speaker 4: or whatever. Just when we're going into a coal spell,
Speaker 4: you can buy a bag of compost and just dump
Speaker 4: it on the base and then pull it back after
Speaker 4: the cold spell. You don't leave it smother it all winter,
Speaker 4: but that'll get you through. These kinds of things provide
Speaker 4: that little extra thanks a lot for your call. Nine
Speaker 4: to fives. Barricade is the product that you put down
Speaker 4: to prevent weeds. I don't care if it's a grassy
Speaker 4: weed seed coming up, a broad leaf wheat seed coming up.
Speaker 4: But remember the word is prevent. It doesn't kill existing weeds.
Speaker 4: It prevents the wheat seeds. So when it works, you
Speaker 4: don't even know it because you never saw the weed.
Speaker 4: You know, if you got a weed, you spray and
Speaker 4: kill it. Well, you see that barricade is on the ground,
Speaker 4: forming that barricade to event the weed seeds from ever
Speaker 4: getting started. And if your lawne is thin, you will
Speaker 4: have weeds wherever sunlight hits the soil. Nature plants a weed,
Speaker 4: and wherever barricade hits the soil, that weed is prevented.
Speaker 4: Now you're gonna find barricade in a lot of places
Speaker 4: like M and D Cypress on Luetta Road, Langham Creek,
Speaker 4: Ace on FM five twenty nine. That's in the Copperfield area.
Speaker 4: Kde Ace Hardware on Pinoak all examples of places they're
Speaker 4: carry nitropost products. We're going to go now talk to
Speaker 4: Joe in Spring, Texas. Hey, Joe, welcome regardline.
Speaker 24: Hey you get Hey, I've got a weed in my
Speaker 24: yard that just will not go away. I've been pulling
Speaker 24: on it for about two years now. I think it's
Speaker 24: called Sunshine the mosa. It's kind of a thorny vine
Speaker 24: with little purple flowers on it, and you know, get
Speaker 24: out there and pull it up and it just keeps
Speaker 24: coming back. Anything I can spray on that.
Speaker 4: Have you noticed when you touch the leaves, does it
Speaker 4: do they close up like they're literally folding up from
Speaker 4: touch or not?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 4: Okay, Well that is a that is a semi woody weed.
Speaker 4: Those vines are like wire, aren't they very very strong?
Speaker 4: Zach Am, I correct about that? Yeah, okay, And the
Speaker 4: giveaway is those those little catclaw dorns on it. You're
Speaker 4: going to need to do one or two things. Either
Speaker 4: hand dig it up when the soil is moist, just
Speaker 4: get a spade or a I use a soil knife
Speaker 4: underneath it and lift it up out of there, or
Speaker 4: spray it with something that is a pretty powerful broad
Speaker 4: leaf control. There's a product called trimec that will hurt
Speaker 4: your lawn if you spray it discriminately. But if you
Speaker 4: can get just a little bit on the weed leaves
Speaker 4: and you'll minimize the damage to the lawn, but it
Speaker 4: will kill them. There are also some products that have
Speaker 4: trimech in them, TRIMEC, t r IMEC, that's three different
Speaker 4: broad leaf herbicides. They will at least make it weak
Speaker 4: and sick, and they may kill it and they may not.
Speaker 4: But that's a that's a tougher weed to control. But
Speaker 4: those would be the options.
Speaker 24: Okay, So if I get it a little bit on
Speaker 24: the grass, like say you get it on a few
Speaker 24: blades of the Saint Augustine, does it tend to kill
Speaker 24: off the whole runner of Saying Augustine or just at
Speaker 24: one little spot.
Speaker 4: Well, it might. It depends on the condition of the grass.
Speaker 4: You know what I would do. If you go to
Speaker 4: my website Gardening with Skip dot com, you're gonna find
Speaker 4: two things. One is the weed wiper. I make a
Speaker 4: homemade weed wiper that you can make two and I
Speaker 4: tell you how to do it. It sponges on the
Speaker 4: end of a stick that squeezed together, and you could
Speaker 4: put the product like trimec on the weed wiper and
Speaker 4: then reach down and just squeeze that weed, trying to
Speaker 4: get it mostly on the weed. Even if you kind
Speaker 4: of lifted and pull the weed up through the grass,
Speaker 4: get it up on top and just just squeeze a
Speaker 4: little bit on the weed. That would minimize damage about
Speaker 4: as minimal as you can as you can do it.
Speaker 13: Okay, okay, okay, all.
Speaker 4: Right, Joe. Thanks Gardening Gardening with Yeah, Gardening with Skip
Speaker 4: dot com. That's where you need to go. Thanks a lot.
Speaker 4: I do appreciate your call. If you go down to
Speaker 4: the Richmond Rosenberg area and you head northward, Katie Fulsher,
Speaker 4: you're going to come across Enchanted Gardens on FM three
Speaker 4: point fifty nine, and that is a special place. You
Speaker 4: can go to the website Enchanted Gardens Richmond, Enchanted Gardens
Speaker 4: Richmond dot com. And you're gonna find there a lot
Speaker 4: of information. When you walk up, your jaw's gonna drop
Speaker 4: because this is a sprawled out, beautiful place that everywhere
Speaker 4: you look there's something interesting you want to go see,
Speaker 4: whether it's vegetables and herbs or flowers, beautiful color, ornamental grasses, roses, trees, shrubs, pines,
Speaker 4: whatever kind of plant that you're looking for, you're gonna
Speaker 4: find it there at Enchanted Gardens and Richmond And again
Speaker 4: it's Katief of Richmond outside of town FM three point
Speaker 4: fifty nine. While you're there, you're going to see cool
Speaker 4: stuff like containers. They have a beautiful container selection, those
Speaker 4: nice wire baskets that you line with coconut core to
Speaker 4: keep core, to keep just a gorgeous, gorgeous hanging basket
Speaker 4: underneath your trees or wherever you choose to put it. Fountains,
Speaker 4: wind chimes, whimsical yard art. I mean, it's it's all there.
Speaker 4: And then when it comes to products, remember how I
Speaker 4: always say brown stuff before green stuff. When you leave
Speaker 4: in Chana Gardens, make sure you've grabbed some fertilizer from
Speaker 4: Microlife or Nitrofoss or Nelson or Medina. Make sure you've
Speaker 4: grabbed soil products from Nature's Way or airloom soils. That
Speaker 4: mean they they know what they're doing. They know that
Speaker 4: it's important to get the soil right. At enchanted gardens
Speaker 4: in Chenne Gardens Richmond dot com. That's it. That's what
Speaker 4: you need to know. So I in my landscape this
Speaker 4: past week, I did a major renovation cleanup of the lawn.
Speaker 4: I had some lawn areas I just hadn't gotten in
Speaker 4: in mode yet and they had a lot of dead
Speaker 4: grass and them, you know from last year's leaves it
Speaker 4: got frost burned or whatever, and got it all cleaned
Speaker 4: up and ready to go. I got as much of
Speaker 4: the old stuff as I could, just with a good
Speaker 4: lower mowing, not I wouldn't say scalping, not that low,
Speaker 4: but got a good low mowing on it. And it's
Speaker 4: it's coming back green already. It looks really good, by
Speaker 4: the way. And if you are looking to get your
Speaker 4: lawn in good shape, you need to use a quality
Speaker 4: product to do that. One example of that kind of
Speaker 4: product is sweet Green sweet Greens from Nitroposs and it's
Speaker 4: an organic plant food and they've really done their homework
Speaker 4: on this many years of research and getting this formulated
Speaker 4: and done right. But it's eleven percent nitrogen product that
Speaker 4: is a sugar base, a molasses type base, and as
Speaker 4: a result, it smells good. So when you put water
Speaker 4: on it or it rains on it, it reacts with
Speaker 4: the water and releases the nutrients into the soil to
Speaker 4: promote growth of the plant. Microbes love it. Any organic
Speaker 4: gardener can tell you that molasses is something they put
Speaker 4: on the soil to support a proliferation of microbe growth,
Speaker 4: especially those good bacteria that are in the soil, to
Speaker 4: promote that optimum health and performance of your plant. Now,
Speaker 4: sweet grains available from many places, as are other nitrofoss products.
Speaker 4: So you're going to find Nitrofoss products at Ace Hardware
Speaker 4: City on Memorial Drive. You're going to find it at
Speaker 4: Aspas Ace in the Woodlands, or at ACE at Sinkle
Speaker 4: Ranch on Mason Road out there in Katie. Another quality
Speaker 4: product from the folks at Nitrofoss. If you would like
Speaker 4: to give me a call, We've got time for a
Speaker 4: quick call here before the next break. Seven to one
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Speaker 4: and you've got metal furniture that ain't looking its best. Okay,
Speaker 4: we used to have those kinds of chairs that are
Speaker 4: tubular metal and then you sit on the metal plates.
Speaker 4: They're always painted primary colors, you know, real pretty. When
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Speaker 4: When they're done, time for me to take a break.
Speaker 4: If you want to give us all so your first
Speaker 4: stop seven one three two one two ktr h. All right, folks,
Speaker 4: that is wishful thinking today walking on sunshine. All right, Well,
Speaker 4: hope you get a little bit of sunshine. We certainly
Speaker 4: don't want to complain about the rain, though it's good
Speaker 4: for our plant. Nothing like rain water top quality water
Speaker 4: you can have. Hey, if you've got some indoor plants
Speaker 4: that you need to repot, and occasionally you do need
Speaker 4: to repot your plants, or maybe you bought a new
Speaker 4: little plant and you wanted to bring it home and
Speaker 4: put it in a container, make sure you get them
Speaker 4: the soil that they need. And just like soil is
Speaker 4: important outside brown stuff before green stuff, it's true inside
Speaker 4: in jungle land, water saving potting soil from night fuss.
Speaker 4: It's distributed by night fuss. It is a quality product
Speaker 4: that drains well but holds moisture well also, so the
Speaker 4: excess strains away, but then between waterings it holds onto
Speaker 4: that moisture to provide it to the plants. Those water
Speaker 4: saving crystals are there just to do that. That is
Speaker 4: exactly what they do. Even when the soil drives out
Speaker 4: a little bit, the roots can grab a hold of
Speaker 4: those crystals and they can continue to get some moisture
Speaker 4: out until you remember or I remember to water them again.
Speaker 4: That's jungle land, now, jungle land's available from m D
Speaker 4: and Cypress on Luetta Road. If you head up to
Speaker 4: Hide and Feed on stupidor Airline, or if maybe you're
Speaker 4: in bearings hardware on Businette or on West Timer, you're
Speaker 4: going to find nitropost products. Let's head to a Taska
Speaker 4: seed one now and we're going to visit with Jennifer.
Speaker 4: Good morning, Jennifer, Welcome to Gardenline.
Speaker 25: Hi, Skip, I have a bed by my house. It's
Speaker 25: about four foot by sixteen and it's on the north
Speaker 25: side of the road, I mean of the house, and
Speaker 25: so in the summer it gets full sun all day
Speaker 25: and in the winter is full shade all day. So
Speaker 25: I am trying to figure out what kind of plant
Speaker 25: I can grow there that has those kind of light
Speaker 25: requirements or we'll make it, I guess with those kind
Speaker 25: of light requirements.
Speaker 4: So it's it's shade in the winter because of the house.
Speaker 25: You're saying, yes, because of the house and where the
Speaker 25: sun is. Ok, it's shade in the winter. And then
Speaker 25: as the sun, who's it's sun in the summer.
Speaker 4: Yeah? Are you looking for a shrub or what kind
Speaker 4: of plant you're looking for?
Speaker 15: Yeah?
Speaker 25: I mean a shrub would be great. I've tried a
Speaker 25: couple when they've died, and I thought, oh, well, maybe
Speaker 25: I can make it a vegetable garden and then just
Speaker 25: have it be bear in the winter. That would be
Speaker 25: another option, yeah.
Speaker 4: Or in the wintertime. In the winter you'd get some light,
Speaker 4: not direct some, but you can get a little too.
Speaker 4: You probably could grow some greens there in the winter,
Speaker 4: lettuce and spinach kinds of things. I mean, they want
Speaker 4: a little more light than that, but they might do okay. Well,
Speaker 4: there are shrubs that can take both the sun and
Speaker 4: the shade that you know. There's there's one that's a
Speaker 4: good one for under the window so burglars can't get
Speaker 4: through it. And it's called Chinese holly. It has sharp
Speaker 4: pointed leaves that are very stiff, but it'll put up
Speaker 4: with quite a bit of shade and also quite a
Speaker 4: bit of sun. Yopon will do okay in some shade too,
Speaker 4: especially during that winter time when there's not a lot
Speaker 4: of demands on the plant. And so that a dwarf jopond,
Speaker 4: talking about the little dwarf joponds, that would be a possibility.
Speaker 4: Let's see. Then the other alternative would be instead of vegetables,
Speaker 4: you could do color, you could do shade loving plants
Speaker 4: and sun loving plants is in a transition if you're
Speaker 4: doing flowers or things like that, a few of them, Yeah,
Speaker 4: just to just trade them out as you go through.
Speaker 4: So those would be I guess there are a few
Speaker 4: options that come to mind. Okay, when you know, when
Speaker 4: we say sun and shade, we're talking about the sunlight
Speaker 4: hitting the soil. But there's there's a difference in light
Speaker 4: intensity within shade. You know, you can have a shade
Speaker 4: that is very bright and so there are there are
Speaker 4: solar rays that are are light rays that are reaching
Speaker 4: the plants. Or you can have a shade that's real
Speaker 4: dark where it's hard to grow anything but monkey grass.
Speaker 25: Yeah no, I don't want monkey grass. Yeah yeah, Okay,
Speaker 25: maybe maybe the dwarf gepon good and annual in front
Speaker 25: of it, you know, and and swamp those out.
Speaker 4: You you could that that is definitely a possibility. And
Speaker 4: so what I would do if I were you is,
Speaker 4: you know, go to a go to a good quality nursery,
Speaker 4: uh and and talk to them about it, let them,
Speaker 4: let them show you what they have and you know
Speaker 4: what what's going to do. Well, you're you're not far
Speaker 4: away from Kingwood and Warren Southern Gardens both. Uh right
Speaker 4: there in Kingwood, and I think i'd run over and
Speaker 4: and take a look at them, tell them, tell them
Speaker 4: about the spot, and ask them what they have. And
Speaker 4: they're going to have some other options. There's a lot
Speaker 4: of different options on plants and things.
Speaker 25: Okay, okay, all right, well that sounds good. Maybe this
Speaker 25: year is the year I can get something in there.
Speaker 13: Okay, figger around.
Speaker 4: Thank you, there you go, there you go, you bet,
Speaker 4: Thank you for the call. Appreciate that you take care,
Speaker 4: good luck getting all that set up. Arburgate Garden Center
Speaker 4: in Tomball is a destination place. It's as simple as that.
Speaker 4: If you've got family and friends that are coming to town,
Speaker 4: take them to Arburgate. They will love it, even if
Speaker 4: they're not gardeners. They will love the gift shops that
Speaker 4: are unbelievable. They'll love the landscape bling and I'll tell
Speaker 4: you this. They're going to see a plant they like.
Speaker 4: They're going to see a rose bush. They're going to
Speaker 4: see annuals or maybe some vegetables or herbs or whatever.
Speaker 4: House plants. They have a beautiful house plant selection there.
Speaker 4: Arburgate is just west of Tombull on twenty nine tw
Speaker 4: you head out that way, just look for Trichel Road,
Speaker 4: Trischel Road and it's a little loop that goes behind
Speaker 4: Arburgate and it gets you to that back parking lot
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Speaker 4: Also from sand to clay. Both the soil and compost
Speaker 4: have expended shale in them, which is very important, especially
Speaker 4: in our heavy clay soils around here. If you're looking
Speaker 4: for a pollinator garden, go talk to them at Arbrogate.
Speaker 4: Those folks are They're so nice, so hopeful, and so knowledgeable,
Speaker 4: and that's important. They'll walk with you. They'll say, well,
Speaker 4: here's some plant. Come over here, let me show you
Speaker 4: this plant. This is cool. Or maybe you want to
Speaker 4: create a color combo container and they'll help you put
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Speaker 4: they'll help you do all that and check out their
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Speaker 4: help you with any problem that you have, to help
Speaker 4: you find the solution. That's at Arburgate Garden Center. That's
Speaker 4: there just west of tom Ball again on twenty nine,
Speaker 4: twenty I love, I love going in there. I was
Speaker 4: visiting with some folks at Nelson the other day. We
Speaker 4: were talking about fertilizers and all of this, and Nelson
Speaker 4: has a couple of fertilizers that are part of their
Speaker 4: turf Star line. Turf Star just meets fertilizers designed for turf.
Speaker 4: Both of these blends can last up to six months
Speaker 4: that I'm talking about, and they are good for any
Speaker 4: turf grass you got here in the South, like let's
Speaker 4: see Saint Augustine, zoisia or beagrass, all of those they
Speaker 4: do well. One of them's Bruce's Brew. Bruce's Brew you
Speaker 4: apply it about every six months. It gives you a
Speaker 4: quick green up, but it does have some of the
Speaker 4: extended carbon sources or nitrogen sources that release over time,
Speaker 4: and that's important. Bruces Spruit. The second one is Weedinator
Speaker 4: now Weedenator's night your typical weed and feed. It is
Speaker 4: a product that has a growth regulator in it and
Speaker 4: a post emergent herbicide. So you wet the weeds or
Speaker 4: catch them right after a rain. Get those get that product.
Speaker 4: The dry granules on the weeds. They stick to the
Speaker 4: weeds because the weeds are wet. And I don't care
Speaker 4: if it's chickweed or clover or dandelion, dollar weed, grassburds,
Speaker 4: pig weed, purse lane, ragweed, you know, any of those
Speaker 4: vining weeds that are in your lawn. It'll get after
Speaker 4: them after I leave it about a day or two.
Speaker 4: And then what I would do is watered in to
Speaker 4: get that nitrogen down and other nutrients down into the soil.
Speaker 4: That's weedinator Bruce's spur and Weedinator two touch star lines
Speaker 4: from Nelson's that work. They absolutely do work. Let's see,
Speaker 4: we are kind of short here on time to take
Speaker 4: another call. When I come back from a break gym
Speaker 4: in meadows Place, You're gonna be our very first up.
Speaker 4: I want to be able to give you plenty of
Speaker 4: time to ask questions that you might have. At that point.
Speaker 4: I want to remind you that I'm gonna be at
Speaker 4: RCW Nurseries on next Saturday, the twelfth of April, from
Speaker 4: twelve noon to two pm. Come on and see me.
Speaker 4: We're gonna have some great giveaways. They always put on
Speaker 4: quite a show of giveaways and things out there at
Speaker 4: RCW Nursery. I'll be there to answer your gardening questions.
Speaker 4: This is a good time to bring me weeds and
Speaker 4: all other kinds of questions. We'll get to the bottom
Speaker 4: of it to help you have success. I'll be right back.
Speaker 4: All right, we're back. Welcome to Guardline. Good to have
Speaker 4: you with us. We're here to help you have success. Listen,
Speaker 4: it's mosquito season. When these rains are done, there are
Speaker 4: gonna be little pockets of water everywhere. And do you
Speaker 4: know that a mosquito only needs literally a capful of
Speaker 4: water for to lay an egg and reproduce and create
Speaker 4: another mosquito. So there are places everywhere where mosquitos are
Speaker 4: breeding on your property. Pest Brothers, the premiere pest control service,
Speaker 4: our company here on garden Line. They have a system
Speaker 4: that is wonderful. Just go ask them. I'm not going
Speaker 4: to describe the whole thing to you. Just go ask
Speaker 4: them about their mosquito buckets, mosquito containers, the stations. Basically,
Speaker 4: the bottom line is they attract mosquitos. They lay eggs
Speaker 4: in the buckets that never never turn into adult mosquitos.
Speaker 4: That's part of the system. Bring them in. They can't
Speaker 4: reproduce there. But the mosquito flies away with two different
Speaker 4: products on it. One of them when they land in
Speaker 4: one of those little cap full of water, places your
Speaker 4: gutters underneath the the catch basin, underneath the potted plant
Speaker 4: or bird baths or whatever where they land. They prevent
Speaker 4: mosquitoes from developing there without harm in the water to
Speaker 4: beneficial creatures like birds and cats and dogs and lady
Speaker 4: beetles and all that. And they walk away or they
Speaker 4: fly away with the disease that kills them. It's a
Speaker 4: fungal disease of mosquitoes affects mosquitoes. It's like BT and caterpillars.
Speaker 4: You know you spray BT at work because you know
Speaker 4: it's just gonna kill the caterpillars. This works on mosquitos
Speaker 4: that way. Dpestbros dot com, dpestbros dot com. You need
Speaker 4: to call them and get that system set up, because
Speaker 4: you once you get it going, then not only at
Speaker 4: your house or the mosquitos being treated, but your neighbor
Speaker 4: that has those tires in the backyard that are breeding mosquitos,
Speaker 4: the mosquitos will go over there and they'll make sure
Speaker 4: that water doesn't become a breeding station. Is that cool
Speaker 4: or what? Dpestbros dot Com two eight one, two oh
Speaker 4: six forty six seventy. Let's head to Meadows Place now
Speaker 4: and we're going to visit with Jim this morning. Hey, Jim,
Speaker 4: welcome back to garden Line.
Speaker 19: Thanks skip, good morning. About three weeks ago, I bought
Speaker 19: two six inch high to make a plant at Southwest Fertilizer.
Speaker 19: Brought a home transplant them in uh ten gallon containers.
Speaker 19: They're growing well. They're about three four feet high now
Speaker 19: and I've been trimming off the low suckers and anything
Speaker 19: touching the ground. My question is pruning them topping them out?
Speaker 19: What do I need to do to increase the fruit production.
Speaker 4: Well, the less you prune, the more fruit you will get,
Speaker 4: but it will become a jumble of vines. The fruit
Speaker 4: will be smaller and a little slower to reach maturity.
Speaker 4: The more you prune. Like tomatoes that are steak, they
Speaker 4: just have one trunk, that's it. Anything else coming off
Speaker 4: that you cut off and you just leave that steak,
Speaker 4: you get bigger fruit, earlier fruit, but less fruit. So
Speaker 4: there's a trade off. And generally, Jim, what I'll do
Speaker 4: on my vines is I'll allow them to have two
Speaker 4: or three or four maybe shoots coming out and then
Speaker 4: use as we call it, suckering them. Wherever a leaf
Speaker 4: comes off the vine, a shoot comes out right there,
Speaker 4: we pinch those out or break those off, or prune
Speaker 4: those off, and just sort of manage the number of
Speaker 4: vines that that plant can have, and that there's not
Speaker 4: a right or wrong number. There's you know, we got
Speaker 4: cherry tomatoes, and we got slicer tomatoes, and we got
Speaker 4: paste tomatoes, and each type is a little different. But
Speaker 4: basically you're doing selective removal of those shoots to keep
Speaker 4: it at a minimum so it's not just full of
Speaker 4: just solid, dense leaves everywhere.
Speaker 19: I understand. That's that's about what I've been doing. My
Speaker 19: question is they're getting getting really tall now they're topping
Speaker 19: them out to help or not.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, if you could fertilizing them and watering them,
Speaker 4: they wouldn't do that. You need to stick them in
Speaker 4: a bed full of gravel and tell them good luck. No,
Speaker 4: I seriously, on those you can top them and the
Speaker 4: side shoots then become the main shoots. What I'll do
Speaker 4: I usually grow mine on a fence kind of thing
Speaker 4: or in a very tall cage. I'll just let those
Speaker 4: shoots trail back down to the ground again and then
Speaker 4: cut them off there. Don't don't worry about don't be
Speaker 4: afraid of them draping on over.
Speaker 13: Okay, I understand, appreciate the hell, thank you sir.
Speaker 4: All right, Jim. Now, Jim, you know the rule on
Speaker 4: guard line is you got to give me half the
Speaker 4: produce if I've give you free advice.
Speaker 15: So I'll give you half.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there you go. Take care man. Appreciate the call
Speaker 4: for sure. Up in Willis is a garden center that
Speaker 4: if you live anywhere around there. I mean I'm talking
Speaker 4: about Willis or Tomball, I'm talking about the lake communities,
Speaker 4: you know, April Sound Belt, Water Point of Quarius, all those.
Speaker 4: I'm talking about New Waverley, anywhere in the area, even
Speaker 4: Conrad in the Woodlands. Growers outlet in Willis is the place,
Speaker 4: and that is also their website. Growers outlet in Willis. Now,
Speaker 4: why is that important? Well, you go to the website
Speaker 4: and they, unlike almost any other source you're gonna find,
Speaker 4: they'll tell you what's in stock now on the website,
Speaker 4: and they'll tell you how much it costs. If you
Speaker 4: want to go check it out. Check it out Growers
Speaker 4: Outlet in Willis. They're on Highway seventy five, just south
Speaker 4: of Willis, just a few minutes from Interstate forty five,
Speaker 4: easy to get to, and they have a wide variety
Speaker 4: of everything. Whether you're looking for vegetables and herbs to
Speaker 4: flower beds to giant, gorgeous hanging baskets, to shrubs and
Speaker 4: trees and fruit, they've got it all a Growers Outlet
Speaker 4: in Willis. They also carried the products to go with
Speaker 4: your plants, you know, the fertilizers and soils and things
Speaker 4: like that. And they have a wonderful little gift shop
Speaker 4: in there too with some nice home and garden related
Speaker 4: items and locally sourced honey, pickled foods, jellies and jams,
Speaker 4: bath and beauty products. It's just a fun place to shop.
Speaker 4: Growers Outlet in Willis. That's it. That's all you need
Speaker 4: to know. Good do me this favorite. Just write that
Speaker 4: website down and go check it out. See what I'm
Speaker 4: talking about about availability and pricing and everything. Growers outlet
Speaker 4: in Willis dot com. That's a website. I think it's
Speaker 4: pretty cool. I was talking earlier about Nature's Way Resources
Speaker 4: and the products that they have. You know, in Nature's
Speaker 4: Way they back products, So you can go there and
Speaker 4: buy them by the bag and bring them home, or
Speaker 4: you can go to they sell by the bag and
Speaker 4: a lot of different retail outlets around the Greater Houston area.
Speaker 4: Or you can go and take an empty pickup or
Speaker 4: trailer and pick up bulk product. Maybe you want a
Speaker 4: lot of leaf mole compost, or maybe you want a
Speaker 4: lot of fungal based compost, or maybe you need one
Speaker 4: of the many quality mulching products that they sell there
Speaker 4: in Nature's Way Resources for your bets, or you can
Speaker 4: call them and have them deliver it. They can do
Speaker 4: that too, however you want to go about it. The
Speaker 4: main thing is get that organic matter to your house,
Speaker 4: put the composts in the soil, put the mulches on
Speaker 4: top of the soil, and create that natural environment that
Speaker 4: plants were designed to thrive in. It's just as simple
Speaker 4: as that Nature's Way Resources dot Com. Nature's Way Resources
Speaker 4: dot Com two eight or excuse me nine three six
Speaker 4: two seven three twelve hundred nine three six two seven
Speaker 4: three twelve hundred in there. Their new renovated website, Nature'sway
Speaker 4: Resources dot Com is really cool. It's very helpful, a
Speaker 4: lot of good information on there. So go out and
Speaker 4: see Ian and you know, the whole gang out there,
Speaker 4: and they're very helpful, very friendly, and they can when
Speaker 4: you tell them what you're wanting to do. You know,
Speaker 4: like you may say, well, I want to grow azelias
Speaker 4: or I want to grow blueberries. They go, we have
Speaker 4: a soil for that, and they do. They have a
Speaker 4: soil for acid living plants. Or maybe you're wanting to
Speaker 4: grow something that needs a very gritty drained, well drained mix,
Speaker 4: like a cacti or succulent type of blend. Whatever you need,
Speaker 4: Nature's Way Resources is going to be able to provide that,
Speaker 4: no no hesitation at all on my part. And recommending
Speaker 4: them as a quality source for soil products. Well, let's
Speaker 4: see here we are about to put this hour in
Speaker 4: the books, and so I want to mention that I'm
Speaker 4: going to be at RCW Nursery's next Saturday, that is
Speaker 4: the twelfth of April Saturday. For twelfth I'll be there
Speaker 4: from twelve noon to two hours. There, I'll be answering
Speaker 4: your gardening questions. Last time I was out there, people
Speaker 4: had bagfuls of weeds and plants and you know what
Speaker 4: kind of plant? What is this? How do I get
Speaker 4: rid of it? Or I like this, how do I
Speaker 4: get more? People brought pictures on their phones, like you know, here,
Speaker 4: here's my neighbor has this beautiful blooming shrub. Do you
Speaker 4: know where I can get one of those? Or what
Speaker 4: that is? Or here's an area my landscape that I
Speaker 4: just can't get grass to grow, or I can't get
Speaker 4: flowers to bloom or whatever. That's what we're there for.
Speaker 4: We're there to eye, to have a good time and
Speaker 4: answer your gardening questions. And we'll be giving away a
Speaker 4: lot of cool giveaways too, right there from RCW Nurseries.
Speaker 4: And when you're out there, you're going to be able
Speaker 4: to pick up that rose bush that you can't live without,
Speaker 4: because they have plenty of those trees and shrubs. Maybe
Speaker 4: if it's a big tree, you know, you may have
Speaker 4: them come out and plant it. For you. You know,
Speaker 4: there's a certain sized plant that I can plant, and
Speaker 4: if it gets bigger than that, I'm in great danger
Speaker 4: of helping my chiropractor put their kids college, if you
Speaker 4: know what I'm saying. Because I think I can lift that,
Speaker 4: I think I can lift it. It's like that Toby
Speaker 4: Keith song, I ain't as good as I once was. Well, anyway,
Speaker 4: they'll come out and plan them for you. They've got
Speaker 4: the equipment, they know how to do it, and then
Speaker 4: they have all the supplies you need for planting shrubs
Speaker 4: and trees. And by the way, get that thing done
Speaker 4: now so that it has as much time as you
Speaker 4: can give it before weather gets really really hot. The
Speaker 4: best time to plan tree is forty years ago, the
Speaker 4: second best times today. That's kind of how we look
Speaker 4: at it. All Right, we're listening to Garden Line. I'm
Speaker 4: your host, Skip Richter. We're about to put this one
Speaker 4: in the books this hour, that is, and the books
Speaker 4: will be back with your questions and calls after that.
Speaker 4: So if you want to go ahead and get on
Speaker 4: the boards, you can be one of the first up
Speaker 4: seven to one three two one, two fifty eight seventy
Speaker 4: four or seven one three two one two KTRH and
Speaker 4: you can go about it that way. Now, today's a
Speaker 4: rainy day, so I know a lot of you aren't
Speaker 4: going to be getting out and doing a lot of
Speaker 4: yard work and things like that. But there are things
Speaker 4: you can do. You can take care of your house plants.
Speaker 4: Take a look at those. Lay the pot over, slide
Speaker 4: them out of the pot. Look at the roots. You know,
Speaker 4: are the is the pot so filled with roots that
Speaker 4: it's just like this white water roots. It's time to
Speaker 4: repot that thing. You need to get that done. Is
Speaker 4: the are the roots looking like they're rotten and brown?
Speaker 4: And water salt probably over the water. And check your
Speaker 4: house plants out, look them, look for past, look through
Speaker 4: all the things. Take advantage of a rainy day.
Speaker 1: Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Scared Ricter.
Speaker 3: It's just watch him as doubles.
Speaker 2: Sad.
Speaker 4: Well, well, well, welcome back, Welcome back to guard line.
Speaker 4: Good to have you with us. We got lots of
Speaker 4: things we can be talking about today, and we are.
Speaker 4: We're going to be talking about the things you are
Speaker 4: interested in. If you'd like to give us a call.
Speaker 4: Seven one three two one two KTRH seven one three
Speaker 4: two one two KTRH. Now, Nitroposs has a product called Imperial.
Speaker 4: It is the red orange bag, reddish orange bag, the
Speaker 4: fifteen five ten immediately released fertilizer. You put it down,
Speaker 4: you watered in, it dissolves the nutrients, it puts them
Speaker 4: in the root system and really than a day or
Speaker 4: two that the basically the plan is already taken those
Speaker 4: things up, so it gives you a quick result. You
Speaker 4: can use it at any time in the season you want.
Speaker 4: I mean, you could use it all through the season
Speaker 4: if you want to do it in small amounts over time,
Speaker 4: kind of creat your own manual slow release by just
Speaker 4: putting little that's out here and there. Primarily we use
Speaker 4: it for a good quick greenup and I'll often put
Speaker 4: something like that down as the first application of the
Speaker 4: year for the you know, the good quick results. And
Speaker 4: now's a good time to do it too. By the way.
Speaker 4: Nitrofis Imperial fifteen to five to ten available in places
Speaker 4: all over the Greater Houston area like D and D
Speaker 4: Feed and tom Ball Fisher's Hardware on Southmore in Pasadena,
Speaker 4: M and D and Beamer in Sagemont area. Let's head
Speaker 4: out now to Peerland, and we're going to talk with Troy. Hey, Troy,
Speaker 4: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 11: The Born and Scap.
Speaker 4: Morning.
Speaker 21: I add just a couple of questions for you. One
Speaker 21: is related to vi burnhams. I have a beautiful stand
Speaker 21: of them for probably four years now, and last year
Speaker 21: I got white flies in them real bad, and I
Speaker 21: got this black coating it seemed like on the leafs
Speaker 21: that I just could not ever get rid of until
Speaker 21: the winter and we had the big freeze. We cover
Speaker 21: them up well, but we still got a.
Speaker 15: Bit of burns.
Speaker 21: I trim most of that out, but I noticed the
Speaker 21: white flies are back, but the new growth is looking
Speaker 21: really healthy. So one, what do I treat the white
Speaker 21: flies with? And then two, now I am seeing what
Speaker 21: looks like a healthy limb. All of a sudden, the
Speaker 21: leaves are just starting to droop on.
Speaker 15: Them, and I have no idea what's that?
Speaker 4: Okay, Well that's a you got a couple of good
Speaker 4: complex questions there. First of all, the white flies. There
Speaker 4: are things that kill white flies, but they also killed
Speaker 4: the things that control white flies for you. And oftentimes
Speaker 4: what happens is you get on this treadmill of pesticide
Speaker 4: where you're killing white flies, and then you end up
Speaker 4: with a white fly outbreak because the things that were
Speaker 4: helping keep them somewhat in check are now gone, and
Speaker 4: the white flies come back faster, and so you're just
Speaker 4: you're kind of on a treadmill. I generally try to
Speaker 4: avoid that if possible. One way to avoid it is
Speaker 4: to use the systemic product that goes up in the plant,
Speaker 4: drenched on the roots, goes up in the plant, and
Speaker 4: anything sucking juice is out of the plant, whether it's
Speaker 4: scale or white flies, whether it's mealy bugs or aphids,
Speaker 4: is gonna receive that poison through the sap of the
Speaker 4: plant instead of nukenhole plant with a pesticide, So that
Speaker 4: that's one option. Another option would be to just treat regularly,
Speaker 4: and there's insecticides. There's things like horticultural oil sprayed on
Speaker 4: the undersides of the leaves that kills the eggs and
Speaker 4: the pupa of the white fly. They're underneath the leaf hiding.
Speaker 4: They're not the white things you see flying around, but
Speaker 4: they're part of the life cycle of that insect. So
Speaker 4: those would be a couple of options on the white flies.
Speaker 4: I like the systemic a little better because it doesn't
Speaker 4: It doesn't affect the lady beetles and lace wings and
Speaker 4: parasitoid wasps and other things that are helping keep those
Speaker 4: in check. As far as the wilting leaves, that just
Speaker 4: means water is not getting to that branch. It could
Speaker 4: be due to a damaged root. It could be due
Speaker 4: to a canker on the stem. That's that's shut down
Speaker 4: the pipeline from the root to the top. You know,
Speaker 4: there are different things, but the bottom line is if
Speaker 4: you've got a healthy plant and one shoot is turning
Speaker 4: brown or wilting, let's say at this point it's just wilting,
Speaker 4: follow that shot back and look at it real carefully
Speaker 4: and see if you see sunken areas or splits in
Speaker 4: the bark. It may have been that the coal snap
Speaker 4: we went through this year, that that you did get
Speaker 4: some tissue damage, and you would just print it off
Speaker 4: below that tissue damage and that would be all you
Speaker 4: have to do.
Speaker 21: All right, Great, any recommendation on the systemic, well, well
Speaker 21: pretty much.
Speaker 4: Now you know we're looking at emido cloprid. That is
Speaker 4: a product that is the ingredient. It's not the brand.
Speaker 4: It's sold in a lot of different brands, and so
Speaker 4: you just have to you know, you just have to
Speaker 4: wherever you shop, go and look for meadow meadow cloprid.
Speaker 4: Now you're let me see you are down You're in
Speaker 4: pair Land, is that right? Okay? Yeah? Uh, So you've
Speaker 4: got you've got a number of ACE hardware stores in
Speaker 4: your region there that you can go to that are
Speaker 4: probably going to carry a product that contains a meadow
Speaker 4: cloapred on it. There is an M and D on
Speaker 4: a beamer. Uh that's not too far away from you. Uh,
Speaker 4: they're kind of friends would area, So I would I'd
Speaker 4: probably I'd suggest I'm sorry, I said friends with They're
Speaker 4: they're up at gosh, the Beltway, Sammuston Tollway around the
Speaker 4: and then okay, good yeah, and then down Uh there's
Speaker 4: an ACE on Edgewood Drive to there in friends with It.
Speaker 4: So anyway, well it's not hard to find them. Just
Speaker 4: just look for the if the ingredient begins with I
Speaker 4: am I d o im me, Oh that's the right product.
Speaker 21: I'm gonna give it a shot. The one final question
Speaker 21: for you, I would really like to plant a couple
Speaker 21: of blue balcony Boganvillion.
Speaker 20: And I am.
Speaker 21: My research is suggesting now that it may not differ.
Speaker 21: Have you heard of it?
Speaker 13: If so, could you get it?
Speaker 11: Or is it just a myth?
Speaker 4: You said, balcony blue balcony.
Speaker 21: Balcony, Yeah, sir, if you if you google it, the
Speaker 21: images are just beautiful and it's the perfect color for what.
Speaker 11: I'm looking for. But I can't find it anywhere.
Speaker 4: Well, I've not seen that one before. What I would
Speaker 4: do if I were you is call Moss Nursery. They're
Speaker 4: just you know, east of you there in Seabrook. They
Speaker 4: carry a lot of different plants like that, and I
Speaker 4: would I would say do you have it or can
Speaker 4: you get it? And they'll be able to tell you
Speaker 4: yes or no on that. That's probably the simplest, fastest
Speaker 4: way to to to check it out. Yeah, that that
Speaker 4: would be that. Probably as far as selection they're they're
Speaker 4: probably gonna be as good as you're gonna get there.
Speaker 21: I was there a few weeks ago, but I didn't
Speaker 21: have it on my list at the time. But I
Speaker 21: did go by a stand a fars and they said
Speaker 21: they haven't seen it years.
Speaker 4: Okay, well yeah you may not if they didn't. If
Speaker 4: they hadn't seen it. You know, the mosque carries a
Speaker 4: lot of stuff. Or you may just call R. C. W.
Speaker 4: Nursuy too. They have a really good selection of bougainville
Speaker 4: is up there. I'm just trying to think of other places.
Speaker 4: Someone may go, well, let me go look for it
Speaker 4: and see if I can find it, but that that'd
Speaker 4: be my best suggestions. Okay, appreciate you. Yeah, I've got
Speaker 4: to I've got a YouTube. Take care, appreciate that. I'll
Speaker 4: be right back, folks. Oh man, I don't know when
Speaker 4: the last time I played some bond job here on
Speaker 4: garden Line. Hey, we're glad you're with us. Would you
Speaker 4: like to ask a question or just brag about the tomatoes?
Speaker 4: Jagury last year seven one three two one two fifty
Speaker 4: eight seventy four seven one three two one two ktrh.
Speaker 4: Now we'll bragging in moderation. We're not gonna listen to
Speaker 4: too much of that. But I know how it is
Speaker 4: as gardeners, you know that is right? You know what
Speaker 4: the best garden I've ever had in my life is
Speaker 4: my next one. It is gardeners are optimists. And when
Speaker 4: I look at a seed catalog, when I'm in a
Speaker 4: garden center, walking through looking at plants. I can just
Speaker 4: tell you that tomato right there, it's going to be
Speaker 4: six feet tall and have eight hundred thousand tomatoes on it,
Speaker 4: and they're all going to be perfect size and perfect shape.
Speaker 4: I can see it in my mind's eye. Now, reality
Speaker 4: doesn't always turn out that way, but we're dreamer because
Speaker 4: we've had those kind of seasons before. That's a good
Speaker 4: thing about gardening. Keeps you young, that's for sure, keeps
Speaker 4: you young. I mentioned moss nursery while ago I was
Speaker 4: talking to somebody about, you know, finding a particular kind
Speaker 4: of plant, and moss nursery is it's unique. It's just unique.
Speaker 4: You may think you've been to all kinds of garden centers.
Speaker 4: If you haven't been to a moss nursery, you haven't
Speaker 4: been to all kinds of garden centers. This is eight acres,
Speaker 4: family operated, seventy year old garden center that you wandered
Speaker 4: through and around each corner. Is something you didn't expect.
Speaker 4: And of course they have all the kinds of plants,
Speaker 4: you know, flowers and trees and hanging baskets and vegetables
Speaker 4: and herbs and houseplant. Their houseplant sections like second to none.
Speaker 4: Everything you're looking for, our fruit, trees and shrubs and
Speaker 4: so on. They have it all there. But it's just
Speaker 4: a pleasure to wander through and do. And the folks there,
Speaker 4: they are knowledgeable. I've been there more than once, and
Speaker 4: you know, visiting with someone working there and they're a
Speaker 4: master gardener and they're just doing. They're working there because
Speaker 4: they has love plants, you know, they love that. They're
Speaker 4: enthusiastic and they help you. I mean twenty different kinds
Speaker 4: of aalias. You know, hadranges and just everywhere you look,
Speaker 4: whatever you're looking for, they've got it. You may walk
Speaker 4: in and go, Yeah, while back, my neighbor had this
Speaker 4: thing that was blooming, didn't have any leaves on it,
Speaker 4: and you know I'd like to plant one. Well, the
Speaker 4: blooms are gone now, right, But they can point you
Speaker 4: to the plant. You're probably talking about a deciduous magnolia.
Speaker 4: They can put you in touch with it, tell you
Speaker 4: how to plant it, tell you how to take care
Speaker 4: of it. MOS Nursery Seabrook or Toddville Road, Seabrook, Texas
Speaker 4: maas Nursery dot Com two eight one, four seven four
Speaker 4: twenty four eighty eight. We're going to go now and
Speaker 4: talk to Sharon. Hello, Sharon, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 26: Good morning.
Speaker 5: I want to know what I can use to kill
Speaker 5: poison ivy?
Speaker 4: All right, where is it growing? What good plant is nearby?
Speaker 9: Oh?
Speaker 7: It was just among a lot of jew in the
Speaker 7: groundcover and a lot of weeds.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, Well, h wandering jew is hard to kill.
Speaker 4: So you probably kill the poison ivy and not killed
Speaker 4: the wandering jew. But I would what I would do is, well,
Speaker 4: let me ask you one more question. Does it have
Speaker 4: a trunk on it, you know, like as big as
Speaker 4: your little finger or larger or is it just a
Speaker 4: little little tiny thin things coming out of the ground. Well,
Speaker 4: it's smaller, yeah, smaller. Okay, I would use a product
Speaker 4: containing trichlop here t R I C l O P
Speaker 4: y R. Now, there's a publication on my website, and
Speaker 4: my website is Gardening with Skip dot com. It's a
Speaker 4: free publication. It's called Herbicides for Skips weed Wiper and
Speaker 4: you can see how to build a weed wiper. It's
Speaker 4: easy to build. I mean, you don't you don't have
Speaker 4: to have tools and all that to do it.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 4: And and then the herbicized to put on it, and
Speaker 4: for whatody weeds like pepperbine and poison ivy and hackberry
Speaker 4: seedlings and all that. Tricle Peer is listed and the
Speaker 4: brands of triclo peer are also listed. So you can
Speaker 4: just print that out off the web, take it with
Speaker 4: you when you go shopping. And uh, if you get
Speaker 4: the tricle Peer on desirable plants, it's probably going to
Speaker 4: kill them too. So the weed wiper allows you to
Speaker 4: get it just on the poison ivy leaves without having
Speaker 4: to touch them. So anyway, those are your options.
Speaker 27: Sharon, Okay, very good, Skip, Thank you so much.
Speaker 4: I appreciate you, Bet, thanks a lot. Appreciate appreciate your
Speaker 4: call a lot.
Speaker 13: Uh.
Speaker 4: Someone's the other day again is asking me about what
Speaker 4: are trace minerals. I don't understand this. What do you
Speaker 4: mean by trace? And what I mean by trace is
Speaker 4: that you only need a little of them. But the
Speaker 4: fact that you'll need a little doesn't mean it's not essential, right.
Speaker 4: I mean, you don't need a lot of vitamin D
Speaker 4: in your body, but if you had none, you'd have
Speaker 4: a creek, right, because it's essential. Well, trace minerals. He's
Speaker 4: not a mineral. I know that asmite is a mind
Speaker 4: product that contains trace minerals, and you put it down.
Speaker 4: You can do it once twice a year, whatever you need.
Speaker 4: A soil test really would tell you exactly what you need.
Speaker 4: But uh, most people will put it down when they fertilize,
Speaker 4: but you can do it anytime. It doesn't have to
Speaker 4: be done in conjunction with fertilizing, but it provides those
Speaker 4: trace minerals that are needed in small amounts, but that
Speaker 4: are essential. Basically, what you're doing is you're putting into
Speaker 4: your soil bank account all the things that you're gonna
Speaker 4: need when that grass starts making its withdrawals, and therefore
Speaker 4: you have healthy plants from azemite. Let's see here. I'm
Speaker 4: going to go now to Bill in the Houston area. Hey, Bill,
Speaker 4: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 20: Thanks Skip. I have a magnolia tree. It's about twenty
Speaker 20: feet tall and probably got about a ten inch circumference base.
Speaker 20: But yesterday I picked up a thirty gallon trash bag
Speaker 20: full of leaves off the ground. It just started dropping
Speaker 20: leaves over the last week or so, and I'm just
Speaker 20: wondering what may be going on.
Speaker 4: Okay, are the leaves at the end of the branch
Speaker 4: is still green, and on there it's the older leaves dropping.
Speaker 20: It's kind of on one branch every leaf is gone
Speaker 20: I noticed this morning, But most of them are are
Speaker 20: older leaves, and there's still lots of leaves on the tree.
Speaker 4: Okay, well, you know I'm not there looking at the
Speaker 4: tree and digging around everything. But my best guess, I
Speaker 4: think what you're looking at is normal transition leaf drop
Speaker 4: Magnolia's in the spring, as new growth starts coming, they
Speaker 4: drop all the old leaves. That that is. For some magnolias,
Speaker 4: that is a very dramatic drop. In some years it's
Speaker 4: a very dramatic drop, and for other magnolias in other
Speaker 4: years it's not as dramatic. But that's nothing to be
Speaker 4: concerned about. Now, when you have a branch with no leaves,
Speaker 4: something else is going on. Could be a freeze crack
Speaker 4: from freezing. It could be I don't know, a borer
Speaker 4: in the branch, or a canker killing the bark around
Speaker 4: the branch. But if you want, I can put you
Speaker 4: on hold and you can take a picture of it.
Speaker 4: Take me a picture of the whole plant. Then take
Speaker 4: some kind of up close, you know, showing the question
Speaker 4: I was asking, which leaves uh, And I'll be happy
Speaker 4: to take a second look and see if I see
Speaker 4: anything else on it. How about that?
Speaker 20: Well, I may have to do that after a while.
Speaker 20: I'm out running some errands. But I thought i'd give you.
Speaker 20: Thank you so much.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, no, no need, no need to do it
Speaker 4: at all, and no problem, no rush, I'm going to
Speaker 4: put you on hold if you want to do that,
Speaker 4: just hang on and Jonathan will get you an email.
Speaker 4: Appreciate your call. Yeah. Magnolias and live oaks do that.
Speaker 4: And I had two live oaks in my front yard
Speaker 4: and one of them each year it dropped leaves, but
Speaker 4: it's still had this full canopy. The other one almost
Speaker 4: went completely bare every year. Genetically different trees growing in
Speaker 4: the same yard. I don't know why, but it's it's
Speaker 4: just nature. It's what nature does. Not at all unusual
Speaker 4: to see that kind of thing. Well, I mentioned it
Speaker 4: was gonna rain today, right, It probably is raining today
Speaker 4: where you are right now, most areas are getting some
Speaker 4: Mosquito dunks are a really handy product that have been
Speaker 4: around for a long time. You can find them everywhere,
Speaker 4: you know, ace. Hardware stores are going to have them,
Speaker 4: Your nurseries are going to have them, your feed stores
Speaker 4: are going to have them. They're widely available. Mosquita dunks
Speaker 4: like a little small beige donut. It floats in water.
Speaker 4: And you know, you got this little pond out there,
Speaker 4: it's kind of still water, it's not moving. Well, that's
Speaker 4: where mosquitoes like to lay their eggs. Throw throw one
Speaker 4: onto the water. It floats and it releases a bacterium
Speaker 4: that is toxic to mosquito larva. It is not toxic
Speaker 4: to birds or fish, or the family pet or anything out, dragonflies,
Speaker 4: anything else that's around the water. It is specific to
Speaker 4: mosquito larva. So one dunk covers one hundred square feet
Speaker 4: for about thirty days or more as it slowly dissolves away.
Speaker 4: They also have a granular farm that you can scatter
Speaker 4: in smaller areas. But if you underneath the catch basins
Speaker 4: on your plants where water tends to stand, it works.
Speaker 4: Mosquito dunks again widely available. They work. Look for them
Speaker 4: in a garden center and a hardware store, a nursery,
Speaker 4: a feed store near you. Let's see, we're going to
Speaker 4: head out now to Tomball and talk to John. Hey John,
Speaker 4: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 15: Good morning, skiff, thank you. I've got to arbigate coming
Speaker 15: in to playing about ten Eagleston's hollies. So I've got
Speaker 15: to move to a yellow rose bush. So am I
Speaker 15: just fighting and losing battle here with this this time
Speaker 15: of year?
Speaker 13: Or is it doable?
Speaker 4: It's it's doable. It wouldn't be the time I would
Speaker 4: choose if I were given choices, but you know here
Speaker 4: we are, and so I would go ahead and give
Speaker 4: it a try. Uh is it a it's not a vine,
Speaker 4: it's not a tree climbing rose, it's a bush, correct?
Speaker 15: Correct?
Speaker 11: Yes?
Speaker 4: Okay? And about how long has it been in? More
Speaker 4: than three years?
Speaker 15: It's probably been in about two years?
Speaker 4: Two years?
Speaker 15: All right?
Speaker 4: All right? Well are you going to immediately replant it
Speaker 4: in another location?
Speaker 15: Yes? Yes, before the come yeah?
Speaker 4: Good. So what I do is go to the new spot,
Speaker 4: go ahead and dig the hole to get ready for it.
Speaker 4: But when you dig the rose bush, you want to
Speaker 4: go wider rather than deeper. So if you even get
Speaker 4: eight inches deep, that's plenty deep for the rose. But
Speaker 4: I will dig all the way around it, and then
Speaker 4: I will kind of dig underneath it with a flat shovel,
Speaker 4: not the curve shovel, but a flat one, and slicing
Speaker 4: the roots underneath it as you kind of lean the
Speaker 4: bush one way now for me, using twine or something
Speaker 4: to pull all the rose branches together and upwards so
Speaker 4: they look, you know, they look like a rocket coming
Speaker 4: out of the ground rather than a spreading bush. That
Speaker 4: makes it easier to get in and work around it.
Speaker 4: I slide a tarp underneath it as far as I
Speaker 4: can get it, and then I go to the other
Speaker 4: side and start digging the roots, cutting the roots as
Speaker 4: I go under it, and slide that bush onto the tarp.
Speaker 4: And you can drag it with quite a bit of
Speaker 4: soil that way without hurting your back to the new location.
Speaker 4: Slide it right into the ground planet make sure it's
Speaker 4: the same depth it was watered in really really well.
Speaker 4: And if you got some sort of a a light
Speaker 4: shade that you could cast over it, you know, a
Speaker 4: shade cover or something you could even be like the
Speaker 4: spun down polyester fabrics, something to just give it a
Speaker 4: little break from the sun while it gets some roots in.
Speaker 4: After two or three weeks of that, you can you
Speaker 4: can pull the cover off. But if you keep it moist,
Speaker 4: remembering that you've cut off most of the roots, keep
Speaker 4: the roots that are there moist, I think you're gonna
Speaker 4: find that you have really good success with that.
Speaker 15: Perfect thank you.
Speaker 4: They like today be a good day. Yeah, today be
Speaker 4: a good day to do it with all the overcast
Speaker 4: guys in rain. But I suspect you may not be
Speaker 4: interested and do it that today. Anyway, there you go. Hey,
Speaker 4: I gotta go to I gotta go to a break, folks.
Speaker 4: I'll be right back. Oh boy, I'm looking out the
Speaker 4: window right now and this rain, rhythm of the rain. Hey,
Speaker 4: we'll be glad we had it later. I wish we
Speaker 4: could bottle it up and keep it for July and August,
Speaker 4: but it is what it is. Right Welcome back to
Speaker 4: garden Line. Good to have you with us. Hey, if
Speaker 4: you haven't been down to Jorges Hidden Gardens down, you
Speaker 4: got to go. Orge just keeps making that place better
Speaker 4: and better and better. I mean he specializes in all
Speaker 4: kinds of trees, shrubs, things like that, because every kind
Speaker 4: of plan do you need a fruit tree? Peaches and
Speaker 4: on and on through the fruit tree, including ceteras too.
Speaker 4: By the way, and blueberries and whatnot. He's got that,
Speaker 4: He's got pretty much. The rose selection is really it's
Speaker 4: really excellent. I love the what is the Oh gosh,
Speaker 4: I got one in the backyard, Peggy Martin, Peggy Martin rose.
Speaker 4: Jory's got some wonderful Peggy Martin roses that just look excellent.
Speaker 4: And so anyway, yeah, that would be a good place
Speaker 4: to stop today. Jorge, starting at nine pm or nine am,
Speaker 4: they're going to have a herb gardening program there. It's
Speaker 4: free at Jorge's Hidden Gardens. It's on Elizabeth Street in Alvin.
Speaker 4: Elizabeth Street in Alvin, So if you're in Alvin, you're
Speaker 4: heading down towards Santa Fe direction. It's about halfway and
Speaker 4: then you turn off to the right to get to
Speaker 4: Hora Hidden Gardens. He also saw I got in some
Speaker 4: really beautiful bottle brush plants. A boy, the pollinators, the
Speaker 4: bees love those things, absolutely love those things. Anyway, go
Speaker 4: by and see it, say hey, hooray for us. And
Speaker 4: while are you there, you can get the three sixty
Speaker 4: tree stabilizer that is outstanding for securing and making sure
Speaker 4: your trees are off to the best start that they
Speaker 4: can get. Let's go to the phones. Now we're gonna
Speaker 4: go talk to Susan. Hey, Susan, welcome to garden line.
Speaker 16: Well hi there skip log time, no talk. How are
Speaker 16: you to everybody?
Speaker 13: Anybody?
Speaker 14: Okay, and nobody wants it?
Speaker 16: Okay, this load tree. Do you have the pictures?
Speaker 15: I hope.
Speaker 4: Uh, well i'm I'm I have the email, but there's
Speaker 4: no pictures attached.
Speaker 22: That won't work.
Speaker 13: Then okay, yeah, well.
Speaker 4: So I guess, uh the board pictures. Yeah. What you
Speaker 4: need to do, Susan on this is attach the email.
Speaker 4: Don't embed that, don't like paste it in the text,
Speaker 4: but attach it using that little paper club when you
Speaker 4: do send it and I think I'll get it that way, okay.
Speaker 16: Okay, because I said that's what you mean, right the
Speaker 16: leaves and then.
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, what whatever you want to ask questions about
Speaker 4: and call me back once you get it. Once you
Speaker 4: get it here, okay, thank you. M mmmm. Well, while
Speaker 4: we're talking about the emails and stuff, just so you know,
Speaker 4: I'm not able to just type answers to emails, so
Speaker 4: I can't do the pempal thing during the week. But
Speaker 4: if you have a question and I can attach a picture, uh,
Speaker 4: if not, just the question. Go ahead and send it
Speaker 4: to me and then follow it up with a call
Speaker 4: on Saturday Sunday morning on Guarden Line and we'll talk
Speaker 4: about it. We'll make sure and get it solved that way.
Speaker 4: I just the volume of email and the work that
Speaker 4: I do during the week as well, there's just no
Speaker 4: way I can tackle you know, just do an email
Speaker 4: typing back and forth. Plus I'm a slow typer. That's
Speaker 4: another thing. When you send me an email, always attach
Speaker 4: it rather than embed it. Embed it means pasting it
Speaker 4: in the text. It is very hard for me. Sometimes
Speaker 4: I open them and I can't see the whole picture
Speaker 4: without me saving it and then reopening the safe out
Speaker 4: and I just can't do all that at once while
Speaker 4: I'm trying to do the radio. So if you will
Speaker 4: attach it using the paper club thing, then I can
Speaker 4: open it up and I can take a good look
Speaker 4: at it. All right. I want to help you as
Speaker 4: best we can. I think that's the way we can
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Speaker 4: do a cororation and a compost top dressing on top
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Speaker 4: is absolutely essential if you're going to get out of
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Speaker 4: me a call today, the phone number is seven to
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Speaker 4: that my schedule is online if you if you want
Speaker 4: to see a copy of my lawn care schedule and
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Speaker 4: fading in and out here because I'm trying to reach
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Speaker 13: Right.
Speaker 4: That's that's the way we look at it. But go
Speaker 4: to gardening with Skip dot com. Look at my publications
Speaker 4: that are on there. Look at the schedules, and you'll
Speaker 4: see exactly what I'm talking about now, the new schedule,
Speaker 4: or the schedule that's been on there for a while,
Speaker 4: rather the lawn care schedule. If you look at it
Speaker 4: first of all, you can download it as a PDF
Speaker 4: and print it out. I'll talk to people all the
Speaker 4: time that have put it in their garage by their
Speaker 4: fertilizer spread or on the refrigerator or whatever. You will
Speaker 4: see that year now in the time when we start
Speaker 4: applying that slow release fertilizer to our lawns. And one
Speaker 4: of the products that I highly recommend is Nitropas super
Speaker 4: Turf Nitrofass Superturf. It's a silver bag. It's a nineteen
Speaker 4: four nine okay, nineteen excuse me, four to ten, sorry,
Speaker 4: nineteen four to ten fertilizer in a silver that's the easiest,
Speaker 4: the silver bag. You walk into an ACE hardware store,
Speaker 4: you look across the store, you see the silver bags
Speaker 4: way over there. It's only bag like that. Nitrofas super turf.
Speaker 4: You put it out at about five pounds per thousand
Speaker 4: square feet and it's going to feed your lawn for
Speaker 4: four months gradually. That's you know, when we dump a
Speaker 4: whole bunch of fast release fertilizer, a whole bunch of
Speaker 4: it right on the ground, Well, the grass can't take
Speaker 4: all that up at once, and we lose a lot
Speaker 4: of it. So when you do a slow release, the
Speaker 4: grass is taking up nutrients every day. And you want
Speaker 4: a fertilizer that's gradually releasing every day. That's super turf.
Speaker 4: And you're going to find it in places like plants
Speaker 4: for all seasons on Luetta. You're gonna find it at
Speaker 4: Ace Hardware, Sinco Ranch or M and Dace on Luetta.
Speaker 4: H those are all examples of places where you're gonna
Speaker 4: find nine to five super turb alrighty, well, let's see,
Speaker 4: I wanted to grab a phone call, but I don't
Speaker 4: quite have time. So when we come back, Doug and Richmond,
Speaker 4: you'll be first up, followed by William in beat eyes. Ooh,
Speaker 4: the metropolis of beat Iyes. Looking forward to.
Speaker 2: That is what my Brad says.
Speaker 4: Oh yes, you can uh huh, I can relate to
Speaker 4: that what Toby ddenttey is. When you go ahead and
Speaker 4: do it the next morning, your body says, that's right,
Speaker 4: that's right. Welcome back to Garden Line. Good to have
Speaker 4: you with us. Spring Creek Feed in Magnolia on FM
Speaker 4: twenty nine to seventy eight Grand Parkway and Highway two
Speaker 4: forty nine, just a few minutes away from Grand Parkway
Speaker 4: in two forty nine. This is one heck of a
Speaker 4: feed store. Beautiful inside you walk in, just like is
Speaker 4: this a feed store? He is so beautiful inside, all
Speaker 4: the different indoor giftings and you know, just an anything
Speaker 4: you can imagine really to decorate and around the place.
Speaker 4: But then you look left and you see feed everywhere.
Speaker 4: And then you look right and you see garden everywhere.
Speaker 4: Garden supplies, herbicides, fungicides, pesticides, fertilizers like turf Star from Nelson, Microlife, nitrofoss.
Speaker 4: They carry all of those products there at Spring Creek Feed.
Speaker 4: If you're an FFA or four h raising livestock, or
Speaker 4: if you're military or senior citizens, their discounts for you.
Speaker 4: Spring Creek will special order and they do have a
Speaker 4: delivery service as well. Again in Magnolia on FM twenty
Speaker 4: nine seventy eight just minutes away from Graham Parkway in
Speaker 4: Highway two forty nine. That is Spring Creek Feed. Let's
Speaker 4: head out to Richmond and talk to Doug. Hey, Doug,
Speaker 4: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 14: Thank you very much, Skip, Good morning morning. I have
Speaker 14: a q about leaf miners. My citrus started started sprouting
Speaker 14: fresh leaves about a month ago, and all four trees
Speaker 14: have got nice now full sized leaves and they're hardened up. Okay,
Speaker 14: but I want to know the trigger for leaf miners.
Speaker 14: Is it weather temperature? When do they start proliferating? And
Speaker 14: I'm going to get in touch in control of it
Speaker 14: with the spinosad this year. And yeah, only spinosad, no
Speaker 14: knee oil.
Speaker 4: And okay, Doug. So basically, leaf miners like tender succulent growth,
Speaker 4: as you indicated, and so whenever you have a flush,
Speaker 4: you're gonna have leaf miners around. They have they go
Speaker 4: through their life cycle. They when they finish in a leaf,
Speaker 4: they drop out on the ground, pupate, and then they're
Speaker 4: right back in the area again. So they're flying around
Speaker 4: looking for tender growth. So pretty much they're there all
Speaker 4: the time through this summer. Uh and so when you
Speaker 4: have that growth, treating spraying with spinosid as you indicated,
Speaker 4: just that growth, that's the way you need to go. Okay,
Speaker 4: well that sounds like that spinosa will so it'll soak in. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it'll soak into those tender tissues, and so spray both
Speaker 4: sides of the lead. Not necessary, but I would do
Speaker 4: it just to be sure.
Speaker 21: Uh.
Speaker 4: And that's it. You can get ahead of those things.
Speaker 4: Just remember too that if you've got a good sized
Speaker 4: ceentrus tree that's healthy and strong, they're not going to
Speaker 4: really hurt it much. I mean, they make it look bad,
Speaker 4: but the bottom line is they're not going to make
Speaker 4: you have less citrus because the amount of damage they
Speaker 4: do is not enough. Now, if it's a little young
Speaker 4: tree you're trying to get to grow, yes, yeah, don't
Speaker 4: don't let them set it back. I hope that helps. Uh.
Speaker 4: I do have a question, Yeah, you might. You might
Speaker 4: want to protect them, Okay, I just uh you're just
Speaker 4: gonna need to, uh give them a little more time
Speaker 4: on the flowers. They should if they have sunlight, sunlight
Speaker 4: and time on a cetrus, you should be getting blooms. Uh.
Speaker 4: If you want to send me some pictures of them.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna put you on hold and my producer can
Speaker 4: give you an email if you're want to send me
Speaker 4: some pictures of what you're seeing. Maybe I'll see something
Speaker 4: else and I'll be happy to do that. Sorry to
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Speaker 4: out to beat Eyes now and talk to William. Hey, William,
Speaker 4: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 28: I'm fine, I'm really in Plantersville.
Speaker 4: Oh pleasure. Okay, all right, I got a question.
Speaker 19: We had improved berry vines.
Speaker 28: I have blooms and they have little berries starting. How
Speaker 28: many should I trim some of these off?
Speaker 19: The berries?
Speaker 4: You tell about strawberries each all about strawberries, blackberries? Oh no,
Speaker 4: don't trim any of them off? No, no, leave them all.
Speaker 4: The plants can handle.
Speaker 15: Half about the twelve little berries on them.
Speaker 4: Yeah they do. How long have these plants been in
Speaker 4: the ground?
Speaker 28: About two years?
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, no, leave them that's okay. Just fertilize those things.
Speaker 4: Fertilize them with a good lawn fertilizer, and keep those
Speaker 4: things vigorous and growing, keep competition down, and you'll be
Speaker 4: good to go. All righty okay, okay?
Speaker 15: What about putting a's and mine around a pear tree?
Speaker 26: Will that hurt it?
Speaker 13: Called fireblight?
Speaker 4: They won't hurt it. No, it won't hurt it just no,
Speaker 4: it won't affect the fire blight at all. Just do
Speaker 4: it at the label according according to the label rate,
Speaker 4: and don't overdo it. William, I'm sorry, I'm up against
Speaker 4: a heartbreak here, but appreciate. I appreciate your call very much.
Speaker 25: Uh.
Speaker 4: Nelson Plant Food has the jars of product that are
Speaker 4: nutri Star line. The Nelson Plant Food has some excellent products.
Speaker 4: Bet they got one that's for vegetable gardens. They got
Speaker 4: one for the zalias and acid living plants. There's one
Speaker 4: for food areas. There's one for boog and villias. You
Speaker 4: know we're entering their season right now. It just goes
Speaker 4: on and on. It doesn't matter what kind of plant
Speaker 4: you want to fertilize. Nelson Plant Food nutri Star jars
Speaker 4: or the way to go. And there's a dozen places
Speaker 4: around town where you can take that old jar back
Speaker 4: in and you can refill it to save little money
Speaker 4: and quit throwing the quick having to throw the plastic away.
Speaker 4: It really it really works good. I think it's an
Speaker 4: ingenious thing that they've come up with to do that.
Speaker 4: Nelson products, you can depend on them. They work and
Speaker 4: I can tell you that because I use them I've seen.
Speaker 4: I've seen the results that they produce, and they're excellent.
Speaker 4: Earlier I was talking about containers. Everybody ought to have
Speaker 4: a container on the patio. It's it's important to create beauty.
Speaker 4: The nice thing about containers is they're versatile. They don't
Speaker 4: look good. Just take them out around behind the garage,
Speaker 4: put a new container in, or pull the plants out
Speaker 4: and put new plants in. Jungle Land potting mix is
Speaker 4: a quality product. It's called flour and Vegetable planting soil.
Speaker 4: It's an outdoor version of jungle land. It drains well,
Speaker 4: it holds water well, it holds nutrients well. It's just
Speaker 4: a good product. It's a good product and you're gonna
Speaker 4: find it in a lot of places. Use it to
Speaker 4: make those containers beautiful. Remember when you plant a container
Speaker 4: here in our area, make it an exercise larger or
Speaker 4: two in our heat going through the summer. It helps
Speaker 4: reduce stress that you don't have. The water is often
Speaker 4: and with jungle land you will have that water holding
Speaker 4: capacity and success. You're going to find it like other
Speaker 4: Nilsen products, You're going to find them in places like
Speaker 4: Chented Gardens at in Richmond Rosenberg area, the Plantation, Ace
Speaker 4: Hardware and the Richmond Rosenberg area. You're going to find
Speaker 4: it Aspase Ace in the Woodlands or Ace Hardware City
Speaker 4: on Memorial Drive. They work, and you ought to have
Speaker 4: more containers this year. Every year I add a container
Speaker 4: to the landscape because they're just beautiful. You can grow
Speaker 4: vegetables and containers. You can grow flowers and containers. They're
Speaker 4: just a wonderful, versatile way to garden. I like that,
Speaker 4: and we ought to have more. And by the way,
Speaker 4: if you get tired of watering your containers all the time,
Speaker 4: get you a drip irrigation system. They are not hard
Speaker 4: to find, they are not hard to set up. I
Speaker 4: have some that are just on a hose beb and
Speaker 4: there's a little timer on the hose bill and I
Speaker 4: tell it to water once or twice a day, depending
Speaker 4: on the containers and where they are, or every other day.
Speaker 4: You just set it and forget it, and the hose
Speaker 4: goes along the ground. A little tube comes up and
Speaker 4: goes into the container, and it takes care of it,
Speaker 4: and your place looks good. You know how when we
Speaker 4: forget somety like the other day, I forgot to water
Speaker 4: a tomato that's in a container and it wilted. Do
Speaker 4: you know what that means? It means that I'm going
Speaker 4: to have less production. And now the plant worked back
Speaker 4: up when I watered it, but it went into that stress.
Speaker 4: It was trying to set fruit, trying to develop prood.
Speaker 4: Who knows, I'm have blossom ind right now on that thing.
Speaker 4: Get you an automatic irrigation system on that and it'll
Speaker 4: work really well. Just a tip for those of you
Speaker 4: who are gardening in containers, whether it's herbs or vegetables
Speaker 4: or flowers or anything that you're growing. If you've not
Speaker 4: been out to Enchanted Forest in the Richmond Rosenberg area,
Speaker 4: you really need to go. This is This is the
Speaker 4: kind of nursery you take your friends too and they
Speaker 4: come and visit. It is outstanding, just beautiful. When you
Speaker 4: drive up, you feel like it's almost like you've entered
Speaker 4: an old Western town. You know, the storefronts and things
Speaker 4: like that, and then you walk in the beautiful shade
Speaker 4: trees to stroll under as you shop. It is Tanny
Speaker 4: Forest is great and when you go in, oh my gosh.
Speaker 4: Someone called me the other day or emailed me the
Speaker 4: day and they were looking for they have a certain
Speaker 4: kind of plant. They were looking for caterpillars for that plant,
Speaker 4: and I was just I told you go out to
Speaker 4: in Channet Forest. Actually they were asking about the caterpillars.
Speaker 4: I said, we'll just go there. They'll give you a starter,
Speaker 4: and they will. They had the best selection of pollinator
Speaker 4: plants and butterfly plants that you're gonna find anywhere. And they,
Speaker 4: of course because they have them all the butterflies. No,
Speaker 4: you ask a butterfly. You me and Santoni and ask
Speaker 4: a butterfly. They go, oh, yeah, go to in Channa
Speaker 4: Forest over there. They all show up there and you
Speaker 4: get to take the plant home with your starter caterpillar
Speaker 4: if you want to bring it home with you. They
Speaker 4: have a beautiful selection right now of roses too, by
Speaker 4: the way, Oh they're gorgeous. Clem How many of you
Speaker 4: tried clemitis? You can actually grow a clemitus here. You
Speaker 4: want to put it in a spot where it has
Speaker 4: afternoon shade and morning sun and moltz the roots really
Speaker 4: good and give it the best chance of success. But
Speaker 4: they have those here, beautiful annual color plants. They've gotten
Speaker 4: a shipment of Madagascar periwinkles. Some people call them Vinka.
Speaker 4: Oh it's just gorgeous. I mean I could go. I
Speaker 4: could just talk all the way through this commercial break
Speaker 4: about the products they have it in Channa. First, I
Speaker 4: forgot to tell you in Chinnish forest Enchanted Forest Richmond,
Speaker 4: TX dot com. That's the website, Enchanted Forest Richmond, TX
Speaker 4: dot com. They're on twenty seven.
Speaker 2: To fifty nine.
Speaker 4: Well, music means I gotta quit talking, but not until
Speaker 4: I tell you that Next Saturday, from twelve to two,
Speaker 4: I'll be at RCW Nursery. We're gonna have a good time.
Speaker 4: They always put on a good show there at rc
Speaker 4: There're gonna be lots of giveaways. I'll probably be some
Speaker 4: snacks and some drinks to have there while we're there.
Speaker 4: We're just gonna talk about all kinds of things gardening
Speaker 4: that are of interest to you. You want to bring
Speaker 4: in samples and things we can do that. Come on
Speaker 4: not meeting you. I'd love to be doole and listen
Speaker 4: to Garden.
Speaker 1: Welcome to Katie r h. Garden Line with Skip Rictor's Shoes.
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Speaker 4: All right, folks, we got some garden line to do.
Speaker 4: Let's talk gardening. Seven one three two one two ktrh.
Speaker 4: That's how you do it. Seven one three two on
Speaker 4: two ktr h. What are you interested in talking about?
Speaker 4: We can discuss that for sure. I got some emails
Speaker 4: and got that photo of a tree from Susan, so
Speaker 4: we're ready to go on that one. Whenever we are
Speaker 4: ready to go. U anyway, give me a call. Let's
Speaker 4: let's discuss the kinds of things that you are most
Speaker 4: interested And if you've been emailing me this morning, please
Speaker 4: follow up with a phone call because I'm just not
Speaker 4: able to respond to emails right now.
Speaker 28: Uh.
Speaker 4: Sanamlch is placed. I was there the other day for
Speaker 4: one of their big events that they have. They always
Speaker 4: put on a good party there. Sanamulch is the place
Speaker 4: you go to get everything set up for success with
Speaker 4: your plans, and it is so important. And there's a
Speaker 4: reason I say bronze stuff before green stuff. And here's
Speaker 4: what I'm talking about. People that are not educated in gardening,
Speaker 4: that they haven't learned how to take care of plants
Speaker 4: and what to do. Typically, what happens is you go
Speaker 4: to a garden center are you whatever? And you just
Speaker 4: buy a plant because it's pretty and you want to
Speaker 4: bring it home and you want to plant it, and
Speaker 4: then you walk around looking for well, where am I
Speaker 4: going to put this? Well, let's put it there, and
Speaker 4: you just PLoP it down in the spot. That is
Speaker 4: a recipe for disaster. You need to create a foundation
Speaker 4: for success. If you're building a house, you wouldn't just
Speaker 4: walk over in a pasture and go, well, I'm going
Speaker 4: to start laying two by four us right there on
Speaker 4: the ground. Now, you wouldn't do that. You'd build a
Speaker 4: foundation first. Of course, that's ridiculous to even think otherwise.
Speaker 4: It's true with plants too. Cienumult is a place where
Speaker 4: you go to get the foundation right. It's the brown
Speaker 4: stuff that comes before the green stuff. They sell a
Speaker 4: wide variety of compost and compost soil blends so you
Speaker 4: can have success, so you can get the root system
Speaker 4: happy from day one when it drops in the ground.
Speaker 4: They sell the mulches they go on top of the
Speaker 4: soil to prevent weeds, to keep the soil cool, to
Speaker 4: prevent erosion, to prevent crusting of the soil. They sell
Speaker 4: the fertilizers they go in to provide the nutrient boost
Speaker 4: from microlife from Nelson's both the turf Star and the
Speaker 4: plant food jars that they have from Medina, from nitrofoss
Speaker 4: from azamite. They even sell things like veggianeermicx from Heirloom soils.
Speaker 4: It is easy, easy to have success when you start
Speaker 4: at cienamlts. Ciena Maltz dot com is the website. Go
Speaker 4: to that Sienna Moltz dot com. It'll tell you that
Speaker 4: they're on FM five twenty one near six and two
Speaker 4: eighty eight. It'll tell you the hours, which, by the way,
Speaker 4: Monday through Friday seven thirty to five, Saturday seven thirty
Speaker 4: to two closed on Sunday. Sienna Maltz dot com south
Speaker 4: of Houston, so they serve that whole area, Siena Plantation
Speaker 4: in Quell Valley and Arcola and Lake Olympian, Pomona and
Speaker 4: Fresno and Sweetwater and sun Creek Estates and Pearland and
Speaker 4: if you're out near Brasispin State Park or First Colony,
Speaker 4: these are the communities that are just in the backyard
Speaker 4: there at Sienamulch dot com. I'm gonna go to the
Speaker 4: phones here and we're gonna talk again to Susan. Hey, Susan,
Speaker 4: I got that picture that you sent.
Speaker 26: Oh great.
Speaker 4: Good, And I can't well, A number of different plants
Speaker 4: have that leaf pattern, and at this young stage of
Speaker 4: the tree, it's hard for me to be certain, but
Speaker 4: I would say eighty percent sure it's some type of
Speaker 4: an ash tree. There's a lot of different kinds of
Speaker 4: ash trees that grow in the Greater Houston area, so
Speaker 4: I don't know which one, but it's not unusual at
Speaker 4: that stage for it to come out of the ground
Speaker 4: like a rocket and have a single trunk and just
Speaker 4: reach for the sky, and so you can leave it.
Speaker 4: It may end up being a tree that is not
Speaker 4: a good long term tree, or it may be a
Speaker 4: tree that is a good long term tree. There's good
Speaker 4: ash trees and then there's some ash trees that are
Speaker 4: not so good to have. And I can't tell you
Speaker 4: at this stage which of the two it is.
Speaker 2: Okay, well.
Speaker 16: Plant it, right or should I just leave it in
Speaker 16: the pot?
Speaker 15: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't leave in the pot. It won't. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it doesn't have a long term future in a pot
Speaker 4: just because it's going to be a very big tree.
Speaker 16: It is because I can plant it. I mean, I
Speaker 16: can plant it and give it a chance because it
Speaker 16: wants to survive. I've decided.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, all right, well that's an option in any
Speaker 4: way you want to go about it. But that's my
Speaker 4: best shot on it. It looks like some species of ash.
Speaker 16: Okay, And why the characteristics of an ash anything good
Speaker 16: or bad about them?
Speaker 4: I mean, well, they grow, they grow fast, which it
Speaker 4: sounds good, but a lot of times trees that grow
Speaker 4: fast or weak wooded, and they don't make a good
Speaker 4: long term tree. Not always, but sometimes ash trees are deciduous.
Speaker 4: They will, you know, Chris drop the foliage and the
Speaker 4: fall nothing spectacular on fall color, kind of a dirty
Speaker 4: yellow color, a golden yellow, dirty yellow color on the ash.
Speaker 4: But anyway, that's my best shot, you know, So good
Speaker 4: luck with that, and thank you, thank you for the question.
Speaker 4: I appreciate appreciate that very much. Nelson Water Garden is
Speaker 4: the west Houston nursery need to know about you if
Speaker 4: you're looking west. This is a destination place for many reasons.
Speaker 4: It's Nelson Nursery and water garden. So first of all,
Speaker 4: we know Nelson Water Garden. If you want a discipling
Speaker 4: fountain coming out of a beautiful container. If you want
Speaker 4: a waterfall in the backyard, they can build all that,
Speaker 4: or they can tell you how to do it. If
Speaker 4: you don't do it some of that, do it yourself.
Speaker 4: They're gonna have the fish and the plants for ponds
Speaker 4: and all of that, and ponds just that therapeutic sound
Speaker 4: of water is worth having a pond right there. But
Speaker 4: Nelson Nurserying Water Gardens has tons of beautiful plants. From
Speaker 4: the houseplants indoors that are some of the most beautiful
Speaker 4: houseplants you're going to see to the as you enter
Speaker 4: the outside and you get to the vegetables and the
Speaker 4: herbs and the flowers and all of that, moving on
Speaker 4: into the fruit trees, the shrubs or roses that you
Speaker 4: know they're a nursery. There are nursery and gardens that
Speaker 4: are there in West Here's how you get there. You
Speaker 4: go west the nine ten. You turn when you get
Speaker 4: to Katie, you turn north on Katie Fort Ben Road
Speaker 4: and it's just across the railroad tracks right there, just
Speaker 4: a little bit up the road on the right hand side.
Speaker 4: They're open Monday through Saturday, nine to six. Sundays from
Speaker 4: eleven to four Nelson Nursery and Water Gardens, West Houston's
Speaker 4: full service local destination nursery. It really is. I'm gonna
Speaker 4: have to run to a break here, Trey in Spring,
Speaker 4: you will be first when we come back. I just
Speaker 4: like the guy's eat a two big ball let men.
Speaker 4: Remember bj Thomas, it's my chest to get on all
Speaker 4: my rain songs. I think it had to rain for
Speaker 4: a while for me to cover all my rain songs.
Speaker 4: Got a lot of it. Hey, welcome back to Garden Line.
Speaker 4: We're glad you are with us. We're gonna run straight
Speaker 4: out here to the phones this hour and go talk
Speaker 4: to Trey in Spring. Hey, Trey, welcome to Garden Line.
Speaker 11: Thanks you get good morning.
Speaker 24: Quick question I.
Speaker 23: Had that's coming up? Okay, Yeah, I have some bermuda
Speaker 23: that's coming up in my Saint Augustine in a patch
Speaker 23: and I've not been able to get rid of it
Speaker 23: for a few years. So what would be the best
Speaker 23: rim for that?
Speaker 4: Well, the official best remedy is either live with the two,
Speaker 4: which isn't a remedy at all, or get rid of
Speaker 4: everything and start over with the grass you prefer, which
Speaker 4: sounds like it's Saint Augustine now there are some other options,
Speaker 4: but I can't go into them on the radio, the
Speaker 4: whole gamut of them, Trey. If you would like to
Speaker 4: email me, I can provide you with the information about it.
Speaker 4: I've got a sheet on that that I can tell you.
Speaker 4: There is a way to get rid of the Bermuda
Speaker 4: and the Saint Augustine, but typically you would hire somebody
Speaker 4: to come in and do it. There are a few
Speaker 4: people that will do it themselves. The problem is the
Speaker 4: products are so expensive that for you to buy it
Speaker 4: for just one yard doesn't make a lot of sense.
Speaker 4: But if you want to, if you want that route,
Speaker 4: just let me know. I'll put you on hold. You
Speaker 4: can send me an email and I'll send you the
Speaker 4: info on how to do it. But those are the options.
Speaker 4: Live with it, get rid of everything and start over,
Speaker 4: or this other more expensive but way that I think
Speaker 4: will work for you.
Speaker 11: Sound good, appreciate it?
Speaker 4: All right? All right, I'm putting you on hold and
Speaker 4: Jonathan will pick up and give you an email. Alrighty, Yeah,
Speaker 4: that's it. Speaking of if you if you want your
Speaker 4: if you want your grass to look good night to five,
Speaker 4: super turf is what you need to know about it
Speaker 4: is sitting nineteen four ten lots of nitrogen. You're thinking, well, skip,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna have to mow mo mo if I do that. No, no, no,
Speaker 4: you're not. And here's why. In lasts sixteen weeks. So
Speaker 4: you're just getting a little bit of that nineteen for
Speaker 4: the first week, and a little more the second week,
Speaker 4: and a little more the third week. You see what
Speaker 4: I'm saying. It's gradually feeding like your lawn gradually takes
Speaker 4: up nutrients nine to five superturf. It's an excellent product.
Speaker 4: It lasts again four months, sixteen weeks. So if you're
Speaker 4: going to look for it somewhere, well you're not gonna
Speaker 4: have trouble finding it. You're gonna find it at like
Speaker 4: D and D feed up in tomboal plants for all
Speaker 4: seasons on Luetta Lake Hardware, both the one in Angleton
Speaker 4: on Velasco and on Dixie Drive in Clute. So easy
Speaker 4: to find products from nitrofoss like that. Speaking of ACE Hardware,
Speaker 4: by the way, Ace Hardware always stays stocked up on
Speaker 4: whatever you need to have success in your lawn and
Speaker 4: garden and landscape, whether it's fertilizers, whether it's pest control,
Speaker 4: disease control, insect or well, I said pest control, the
Speaker 4: weed control. They have those products as well. And when
Speaker 4: you go into your ACE Hardware store, you're going to
Speaker 4: find people that can take you right to the product
Speaker 4: you need and make it easy for you. Now, when
Speaker 4: you're in ACE, you're going to see a lot of
Speaker 4: other stuff. Well, I didn't I thought there was just
Speaker 4: a hardware No, it is not just a hardware store.
Speaker 4: It's an ACE Hardware store. And there's a difference quality
Speaker 4: products for the home, for outdoor living, really cool stuff.
Speaker 4: I have a string of lights. We call them beer
Speaker 4: garden lights, those little string of bulbs that don't get
Speaker 4: real bright, but in the evenings they just create that ambiance.
Speaker 4: We got some of those around our patio. I love
Speaker 4: those things. Barbecue pits, all kinds of outdoor enjoyment comes
Speaker 4: from an ACE Hardware store as well as everything for
Speaker 4: your landscape, your lawn, in your garden. You can go
Speaker 4: to Acehardware Texas dot com. Don't forget Texas. Put Texas
Speaker 4: in there, Ace Hardware Texas dot com and you'll find
Speaker 4: the ACE Hardware stores near you. They're part of our
Speaker 4: Houston group here in the ACE Hardware world and you
Speaker 4: will have success. And there are stores near you and
Speaker 4: you need to go check one out. And today it'd
Speaker 4: be a good day, because I promise you it's not
Speaker 4: raining inside an Ace hardware store.
Speaker 13: There you go.
Speaker 4: Let's go out to Kingwood and talk now to Misty. Hey, Misty,
Speaker 4: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 27: Thank you very much. I was calling to see where
Speaker 27: I could find a Chinese fringe tree. And is it
Speaker 27: too late for me to plant?
Speaker 4: It is not too late. It's a great time to
Speaker 4: plan them. You're out there in Kingwood. I would probably
Speaker 4: go to Warren Southern Gardens already suspect there.
Speaker 27: Okay, they're all out.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, well it doesn't surprise me.
Speaker 7: It is.
Speaker 4: By the way, it's my favorite spring flowering tree. Now
Speaker 4: it's it's I love them. So if they didn't, I
Speaker 4: don't know. Maybe they can order to get them in
Speaker 4: for you. But let's see here where let me.
Speaker 17: Get my brain begin to order.
Speaker 27: They have to order in October, so I wouldn't be
Speaker 27: able to get any unless they're a nursery somewhere close
Speaker 27: Housard left.
Speaker 4: I just shooting from the hip here. I would say
Speaker 4: you you've got two options pretty close to the same
Speaker 4: distance for you. Probably the closer one is RCW Nurseries
Speaker 4: where I'm going to be next Saturday. They do carry
Speaker 4: fringe trees as well. Call them before you drive because
Speaker 4: they may have had a run on fringe. It's a
Speaker 4: great tree. But our CW Nurseries is where belt Way
Speaker 4: eight and two forty nine Tomball Parkway come together. Or
Speaker 4: a little further away for you is to go down
Speaker 4: go down to Seabrook which is way south on the
Speaker 4: Trinity Bay and Moss Nursery. Maas I know, they carry
Speaker 4: Chinese fringe trees also. They ought to be able to
Speaker 4: get you fixed up. But talk to RCW.
Speaker 27: I will hope to see you there next Saturday, but
Speaker 27: I don't want to wait until next Saturday to get
Speaker 27: it if they have it.
Speaker 25: But thank you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, we'll get hey. By the way I'm
Speaker 4: going to be, I'm going to come out to Warrens
Speaker 4: on the nineteenth, that's a Saturday of Easter weekend. Albe
Speaker 4: at Warrens. We had to postpone today's event until next Sat.
Speaker 4: Until two saturdays from now, but I'll be out in
Speaker 4: your neck of the woods as well. All right. Thanks
Speaker 4: for the call though, I appreciate that, mister. All right,
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Speaker 4: and core aeration. Someone asked me the other day if
Speaker 4: it's is it too late to use barricade, and it's like, well, no, yes, no,
Speaker 4: meaning if you had a weed that sprouted back in
Speaker 4: early March, well it's a little late to use barricade
Speaker 4: now right for that weed because it's already up and growing.
Speaker 4: But those weeds are going to sprout all through summer.
Speaker 4: Some of them come on later.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: Grass burr is a little slow to wake up in
Speaker 4: the spring, comes on a little bit later. Barricade will
Speaker 4: stop weeds for about forty five sixty days somewhere in
Speaker 4: there from whenever you apply it, and you want to
Speaker 4: follow the label, apply it at the label rate. Always
Speaker 4: do that. Very important to do that. But you know,
Speaker 4: you may have done a barricade in the spring, but
Speaker 4: there that doesn't mean you're good until fall. I mean
Speaker 4: there's weeds that will sprout during the summertime. There's weeds
Speaker 4: that are sprouting right now. Now. I've got an area
Speaker 4: where I just did some clean out of an area
Speaker 4: of lawn from some existing winter weeds that were about
Speaker 4: to go to seed. And as I was looking, I
Speaker 4: saw a little tiny seedling starting to come up from
Speaker 4: another kind of weeds. So there you go. Nitrofoss barricade.
Speaker 4: It works. It covers about five thousand square feet. That's
Speaker 4: just a little ten pound bag covers five thousand square feet.
Speaker 4: Don't overdo it. Do it according to the label. That
Speaker 4: way you get the best results. You're gonna find Barricade.
Speaker 4: Another nitrofoss products at Well add in Brenham plants and things.
Speaker 4: If you are done in Baytown, Fisher's Hardware in Angleton
Speaker 4: Lake Hardware. How about alvin Stanton Shopping Center. Just some
Speaker 4: examples of places, and there are many of them where
Speaker 4: you can find nitrofoss products. If you would like to
Speaker 4: give me a call in Talk Gardening phone number seven
Speaker 4: to one three two one two ktr H seven to
Speaker 4: one three two to one two kt r H. This
Speaker 4: this afternoon. I've got some indoor plant tasks to do.
Speaker 4: I've had some plants that'd spent winter underneath the light.
Speaker 4: They are beautiful house plants, but they, you know, they
Speaker 4: can't take the cold, and I just don't have enough
Speaker 4: areas in the house to put them. I mean, you know,
Speaker 4: you've only got so many windows, and I know, so
Speaker 4: many plants so little time. I suffer from the same
Speaker 4: issue as you probably do. Oh there's a great plant.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna buy it. I'm gonna bring it home. Where
Speaker 4: are you gonna put it? Don't bother me the questions
Speaker 4: like that. By this plant I'm bringing home, That's what
Speaker 4: I did. So it's time for them to go. Outside
Speaker 4: and start to enjoy the bright areas outdoors. And when
Speaker 4: I say that, I don't mean sun, I mean bright shade.
Speaker 4: So when you're dealing with plants that are accustomed to
Speaker 4: being in a lower light environment, don't stick them in
Speaker 4: the full sun. They'll sunburn. Put them in a bright
Speaker 4: shade like a porch or a patio, or underneath a
Speaker 4: beautiful shade tree. You know, underneath a live oak tree.
Speaker 4: A lot of things won't grow. Oh but boy, will
Speaker 4: house plants grow well. There there's a there's a brightness
Speaker 4: to the light that they can do pretty well. And
Speaker 4: so get them out into those areas, let them get
Speaker 4: some fresh air and enjoy it. And then give them
Speaker 4: a boost of fertilizer. You want to give them a
Speaker 4: product that is gonna do well for them. Now what
Speaker 4: I use most of the time when I'm dealing with
Speaker 4: my houseplants, I've got my micro Life Biomatrix. That's the
Speaker 4: orange label. It's sitting around all the time waiting for
Speaker 4: me to use it because I'm always using it. But
Speaker 4: Biomatrix orange label is a seven one three fertilizer that's
Speaker 4: a good boost of nitrogen. You can also use the
Speaker 4: Ocean Harvests blue label. I'll often use the Biomatrix indoors
Speaker 4: because it is an odorless fertilizer. The Ocean Harvest has
Speaker 4: a little bit of a fish smell, that's what it's
Speaker 4: based on, so I'll put it outdoors. But either one
Speaker 4: could be used outdoors, the orange label Biomatrix the blue
Speaker 4: labeled Ocean Harvest. And those are two of just a
Speaker 4: dozen gray products by micro Life that are in liquid form,
Speaker 4: both in quartz and in gallons. Give your plants a boost.
Speaker 4: They've been sitting there all winter with low light levels
Speaker 4: and just kind of hanging on. It's time now to
Speaker 4: get them growing, and a good boost of products like
Speaker 4: those will really help that happen. And where are you
Speaker 4: going to get Microlife everywhere? Go to Microlife Fertilizer dot
Speaker 4: com and find out about all the everywheres and their
Speaker 4: other products as well. I'm gonna take a break now,
Speaker 4: and when we come back Wayne in Baytown, you'll be
Speaker 4: the first stop.
Speaker 2: You got any sistan.
Speaker 28: Here you go?
Speaker 4: How long has it been since you heard that one?
Speaker 4: Welcome back to garden Line. Good to have you with
Speaker 4: us today. We're going to jump right out to Baytown,
Speaker 4: Texas and talk to Wayne. Hey, Wayne, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 28: Thank you. Yes, sir, Brandy live and used to tell
Speaker 28: us the warrant. I guess using weed and seeds fertilizers
Speaker 28: for your grass? What do you think about weed and
Speaker 28: feed for your dress?
Speaker 4: I miss some of what you said there, but I
Speaker 4: think your question is what I think about weed feed?
Speaker 15: Right?
Speaker 28: Yeah, weed and feed for loder.
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right. Well that's a hard one to answer fast,
Speaker 4: but I'll give it my best shot. If I'm given
Speaker 4: the choice, I would rather apply the fertilizer I choose
Speaker 4: when I want to apply it, and apply the weed
Speaker 4: control I need for the weed. When I need to
Speaker 4: do that, I prefer to do it separately. But there
Speaker 4: are times of the year when you can put the
Speaker 4: two together and it works. In the spring, the cool season,
Speaker 4: weeds are starting to, you know, really put on their
Speaker 4: growth and it's cool enough to where you're not going
Speaker 4: to damage the turf with the post emergent broad leaf
Speaker 4: weed control products, those kind of combinations could be used
Speaker 4: at that time and they would work. And then in
Speaker 4: the fall time we have an overlap between fertilizing season
Speaker 4: and pre emergent herbicide season, So you could do a
Speaker 4: combo like that at the time. But a lot of
Speaker 4: times in many of the products that are on the market,
Speaker 4: I don't like the weed control product that's in the
Speaker 4: weed and feed, or I don't like the fertilizer blend,
Speaker 4: for example, And so that's why I tend to prefer
Speaker 4: to do it myself separately. But like I said, there
Speaker 4: are times when you can do the both and it
Speaker 4: will work, and I generally those are the times when
Speaker 4: I'm talking about those products. If I'm talking.
Speaker 28: About them, well, okay, thank you ship yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah. So I don't know if that answer it well
Speaker 4: or not, but they're options and people like convenience, and
Speaker 4: I realize that. But yeah, I generally do it separately
Speaker 4: myself when I can, all right and now and okay,
Speaker 4: now would be an okay time to put out a
Speaker 4: product that if the weeds aren't too far advanced in
Speaker 4: terms of setting seed and they're about to die anyway,
Speaker 4: you could use those kind of products that kind of
Speaker 4: a post emergent broad leaf type product on it now
Speaker 4: and it would it would work. Generally, it's better the
Speaker 4: earlier you can get those applied, the more effective they're
Speaker 4: going to be. The younger a weed is, the more
Speaker 4: susceptible it is to being controlled. That's that's just the
Speaker 4: way it is. So you could do that now at
Speaker 4: that at that point in time.
Speaker 28: All right, Okay, thank you, Yeah, you bet.
Speaker 4: Thank you appreciate that call. Let's head now to Joe. Okay,
Speaker 4: see Joel and Magnolia. Hey, Joel, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 18: Hello, Skip, can you hear me?
Speaker 4: Yes, sir?
Speaker 18: All right, Hey, yeah, I've got a question regarding lagustrums.
Speaker 19: I've lost a few of them.
Speaker 18: Do that punk decide or the blight that they're susceptible to?
Speaker 11: And I've been spraying it, treating it.
Speaker 18: With console fourteen point three, and I just want to
Speaker 18: know if if is there a frequency?
Speaker 20: Is there a.
Speaker 18: Frequency that I should how often can I apply it?
Speaker 18: What's the dilutionary? Is it announce per gallon? And also
Speaker 18: is there should I be rotating that with some kind
Speaker 18: of copper fungicide between treatments.
Speaker 4: I don't I'm not picking up what that what that
Speaker 4: product is?
Speaker 25: Uh?
Speaker 11: There is it?
Speaker 18: Consand oh p R O P I C O M
Speaker 18: A Z O L E fourteen point three.
Speaker 4: Oh proper connasole. Okay, got you, got you? Okay, Uh,
Speaker 4: propa connaisole would should be effective against the gustrum leaves.
Speaker 4: That's a circaspar fungus that does that. Dacanil, which is
Speaker 4: chlorothal o'nil is another good leaf spot fungicide. You're just
Speaker 4: gonna need to do it periodically. And lagustoms are plagued
Speaker 4: by that, especially in areas you know where we get
Speaker 4: a lot of rain, which welcome to this area of
Speaker 4: the state.
Speaker 2: Uh and uh.
Speaker 4: It's one reason I'm not a big fan of wax
Speaker 4: leyflogostrum because once they get in and it looks bad
Speaker 4: and it's you're never going to eradicate it. You just
Speaker 4: are on a now for the rest of the time
Speaker 4: you have that bush. When you have rainy periods, you
Speaker 4: better put a spray on following the rain, if not
Speaker 4: a systemic before the rain.
Speaker 18: Okay, okay, all right, So and what come gluten rate
Speaker 18: for gallon?
Speaker 4: Do you oh that I'd have to read the label on?
Speaker 4: I don't know. I just just grab you a label.
Speaker 4: You can find labels online if you've lost yours for
Speaker 4: the product. But yeah, just just follow the label real carefully.
Speaker 4: But propagonazole is a product and it covers a lot
Speaker 4: of different fungi. All right, Uh, just one one last
Speaker 4: thought though, mark mark on one thing, mark before I
Speaker 4: let you go, get a second fungicide like the like
Speaker 4: the chlorthal nil or dacanil as an alternate to alternate
Speaker 4: between the two. Don't just use one fungicide. You know
Speaker 4: every week for the whole year, you're gonna end up
Speaker 4: creating resistance in the disease. So alternating fungicides is a
Speaker 4: good way to go and by to help prevent that
Speaker 4: resistance development. Okay, all right, wonderful, Hi, thank you, you
Speaker 4: take care for sure? That's here. Oh yeah, Medina products.
Speaker 4: Medina has so many good products. I was thinking the
Speaker 4: other day, like what what Medina products can I talk
Speaker 4: about it? I mean, there's has to grow, There's there's
Speaker 4: the super grow, the one that hooks up there's one
Speaker 4: that hooks up to your garden hose at sixteen percent
Speaker 4: nitrogen products, zero phosphorus and just a little bit of
Speaker 4: potassium in it. And you just spread over the law
Speaker 4: and I mean it'll give you a good green up.
Speaker 4: And by the way, even though it kind of is
Speaker 4: fore lines, you can use that or anything people used
Speaker 4: on their gardens, spray their tomato foliage and the ground
Speaker 4: around the tomatoes and watered in real good. I mean
Speaker 4: it's a good product, but that's a Medina example. The
Speaker 4: hastro growth the has to grow plus I like the
Speaker 4: hast grow six twelve six plant food six twelve six
Speaker 4: is six percent nitrogen, twelve percent phosphorus, six percent potassium.
Speaker 4: And I like to use that for watering in transplants.
Speaker 4: And what I'll do is whether it's a rosebush or
Speaker 4: a tomato plant, you just planch plant watered in really
Speaker 4: good with a drenching of has to grow six twelve
Speaker 4: six plant food mixed in water. I put mine into
Speaker 4: a watering can, and then a week or two later,
Speaker 4: do it again. A week or two later, do it again.
Speaker 4: And by doing that about a week apart or so,
Speaker 4: you're going to give that plant's root system the best
Speaker 4: chance of getting off to a good successful start. And
Speaker 4: phosphorus is very important. That's why it has a high
Speaker 4: middle number, very import and developing a good strong root system.
Speaker 4: That's from Medina, like many many other products that are
Speaker 4: widely available when you look at garden center speed stores,
Speaker 4: when you look at Ace Hardware stores South It's fertilizer,
Speaker 4: younifind Medina products all over the place. Let's see here
Speaker 4: we are. Tell you what, Mark, I'm gonna go ahead
Speaker 4: and start your call. I've got about one minute and
Speaker 4: we'll probably have to carry over break, but let's go
Speaker 4: ahead and get started.
Speaker 13: Yeah, Hey, good morning. Yeah.
Speaker 20: I was just wondering that.
Speaker 26: We control our ants pretty well in our yard, but
Speaker 26: our raised garden, we're starting to get a few in
Speaker 26: our garden and our potatoes come in in our beanside,
Speaker 26: and I'm just wondering what we could put on the
Speaker 26: match really that we can talk.
Speaker 4: The one product I know of it's called come and
Speaker 4: Get It by Fertile Loan and it's a fire amt
Speaker 4: bait that is organic that contains spinosid. Come and Get
Speaker 4: It by Fertile oam the bait. It's in a bluish
Speaker 4: colored bag. I know Bob's got it over there. It's
Speaker 4: Southwest Fertilizer. I don't know what part of Houston you're in,
Speaker 4: but it's not too hard to find Come and Get
Speaker 4: a fire ant bait labeled for use in vegetable gardens. Mark,
Speaker 4: I got to take a break, I put you on hold.
Speaker 4: But if that answered it, thank you. I will. If not,
Speaker 4: we'll talk to you when we come back. All right,
Speaker 4: we're back. Hey, welcome back to the garden line. Good
Speaker 4: to have you with us. I got one segment left today,
Speaker 4: So if you would like to call to day now
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Speaker 4: Do you need irrigation work done? Do you have an
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Speaker 4: We're going to head down to Paarland now and talk
Speaker 4: to Kay. Hello, Okay, welcome to guard Line.
Speaker 12: Good morning, Skip. Thank you for taking my call. Yes,
Speaker 12: I have a question. It's actually for a friend of mine.
Speaker 12: I heard you talking with a lady about ash trees earlier.
Speaker 12: And my friend has a couple of trees and it's
Speaker 12: not her property, she's leasing. And there are trees and
Speaker 12: the leaves. When the leafs fall, they pierce they're pointed,
Speaker 12: and they pierced the plants below. Do you have any
Speaker 12: idea what kind of it? She thinks it's some kind
Speaker 12: of an ashes.
Speaker 4: I need I need to see a picture of it now.
Speaker 4: Now ashes have little seeds that are like oval that
Speaker 4: are pointed at one end, and when they fall they
Speaker 4: often will kind of helicopter down. But some you know what,
Speaker 4: I need to see a picture. If they can take
Speaker 4: a picture of the leaf with something else stuck on
Speaker 4: it and tell what it is. Yeah, that's fine.
Speaker 12: I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 12: Have a roast day.
Speaker 4: You bet bye bye you two k bye bye. I
Speaker 4: appreciate your call very much.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: If you are looking for an outing to someplace magical,
Speaker 4: it's let me just suggest it's the anti grosing for him.
Speaker 4: You need to go see it. It's out there north
Speaker 4: of Brenham, Texas in Independence, the big metropolis of Independence, Texas,
Speaker 4: which I'm told by by the way, is where Sam
Speaker 4: Houston from Texas History was baptized. That's what they say.
Speaker 4: Well anyway, Antique Rosenporium they even breed their own roses
Speaker 4: out there.
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 4: They have two new releases that they bred. Call it
Speaker 4: once glass Slippers, Glass Slipper, excuse me, and the other
Speaker 4: one is Cupids sweetheart. You need to go see those now.
Speaker 4: There's events all the time. On April the ninth, just
Speaker 4: a few days from now, starting at ten am as
Speaker 4: the children in the Garden workshop. It's for ages three
Speaker 4: through ten. You get the tickets off the website. Here's
Speaker 4: the website. Everything I'm telling you you need this website
Speaker 4: for Antique Roseemporium dot com. Now you can give them
Speaker 4: a call nine seven nine eight three six fifty five
Speaker 4: forty eight or just go to Antique Roseemporium dot com.
Speaker 4: It's a good place to take a group for a tour.
Speaker 4: Contact them ask about that. They even have guided tours
Speaker 4: as well, where someone takes you around and answers questions
Speaker 4: and stuff. By the way, they're gonna be closed on
Speaker 4: Easter Sunday, April twentieth, but their normal business hours are
Speaker 4: Monday through Saturday from nine thirty in the morning till
Speaker 4: five thirty in the afternoon. Coming up is the annual
Speaker 4: Easter Egg Hunt on April nineteenth. You don't want to
Speaker 4: miss that. The kids are going to love that. One
Speaker 4: strucks at ten am. By the way, there's all kinds
Speaker 4: of stuff going on that day, from face painting to
Speaker 4: lunchboxes from smash burg serving smash Burgers to By the way,
Speaker 4: the proceeds from that annual Easter Egg Hunt go to
Speaker 4: the Branham Children's Museum and then a big deal Rose
Speaker 4: and Herb Conference April twenty six. Circle dot on your
Speaker 4: calendar April twenty six, ten am to three pm. They're
Speaker 4: going to have a whole day full of educational seminars
Speaker 4: and workshops and more. Also follow Antiqurosen for him on
Speaker 4: social media. Let's go out now to talk to Anna. Hello, Anna, Hi, Hi,
Speaker 4: Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 16: Yes, I have a quick question.
Speaker 9: I have an orange tree is having to lose their
Speaker 9: leaves and is the come of the year The leaf
Speaker 9: should be coming on, but they're coming on and they're
Speaker 9: falling off.
Speaker 4: Is it the older big leaves that are falling off?
Speaker 19: All of them?
Speaker 9: All of them well, because the old ones they fall
Speaker 9: when it was winter and now the new ones are coming.
Speaker 9: But they are falling.
Speaker 28: Well.
Speaker 4: And I can't tell you exactly what that is, just
Speaker 4: based on that description. If you will take a picture
Speaker 4: and email it to me, let me look, show me
Speaker 4: the whole bush, and then show me up close like
Speaker 4: what you're seeing on the branches, and then pick up
Speaker 4: some of the fallen leaves and show me. Because you're
Speaker 4: talking about little small leaves falling too, I'd like to
Speaker 4: see photos of that. Maybe I can help you better.
Speaker 3: Then.
Speaker 4: The only thing that comes to mind initially is if
Speaker 4: you if your tree is going through some sort of
Speaker 4: a root stress, you know, soggy conditions, no no good
Speaker 4: oxygen in the roots, or some other issue. But let
Speaker 4: me let me put you on hold, and uh, my
Speaker 4: producer will give you an email and show me some pictures,
Speaker 4: good sharp focus, attach them to the email, and I'll
Speaker 4: see if I can help you further from that. And
Speaker 4: thank you. I appreciate very much you calling.
Speaker 28: Uh.
Speaker 4: Let's go now to Baytown and talk to Carol. Hello, Carol,
Speaker 4: Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 18: Good morning.
Speaker 2: How are you, sir?
Speaker 4: Doing well?
Speaker 22: I am redoing a one of my bands. I just
Speaker 22: pulled up the broccoli. That's done now, and as I'm
Speaker 22: trying to turn over the dirt to add more, there's all.
Speaker 22: I sent you an email, by the way, and it
Speaker 22: says garden dirt.
Speaker 4: I think on it.
Speaker 22: There's white stuff at the bottom layer as I'm putting
Speaker 22: it over.
Speaker 19: Is that mold?
Speaker 13: Is that good stuff and that nutrients?
Speaker 22: Or I wouldn't sure what to do.
Speaker 4: That's good stuff. I see the picture. That's good stuff.
Speaker 4: That's called my celium, and basically it's little strands of fungus.
Speaker 4: But it's not a disease of your plants. It's one
Speaker 4: of the many, many kinds of fungus that turned tree
Speaker 4: trunks and leaves and other organic matter back into good dirt.
Speaker 4: And so all that's doing is it's it's breaking all
Speaker 4: that stuff down and releasing the nutrients for your plants.
Speaker 4: So don't worry about that at all. That's just part
Speaker 4: of it.
Speaker 9: Roast soil and some composts and roast soil to that
Speaker 9: bed to make it more so good.
Speaker 22: I didn't know how to do.
Speaker 15: So. It was good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, good news. I'll be the bearer of good news. Today.
Speaker 22: My asparagus is finally producing. I'ven't been enjoying my sparagus
Speaker 22: this year. I've waited three years for it.
Speaker 27: I'm really enjoying it.
Speaker 4: Oh boy, Oh that's good stuff. I love that. All right, Well,
Speaker 4: thanks for the call. Appreciate that. You bet you take
Speaker 4: care of Carol. If you're looking for a quality immediately
Speaker 4: releasing into the soil fertilizer for your lawn, sweet green
Speaker 4: is that now? It's not I say immediately. It dissolves
Speaker 4: and releases immediately. But basically it's coming from a molasses
Speaker 4: base that has lots of carbon, which makes your beneficial
Speaker 4: microubs very very happy. And it's by Nitrofoss and it's
Speaker 4: called Sweet Green. It's called Sweet Green. It's eleven percent nitrogen,
Speaker 4: one of the highest percentage of nitrogen of any organic
Speaker 4: product you're going to find on the market. And where
Speaker 4: do you get it, Well, you get Nitrofoss products a
Speaker 4: lot of places. You can go to Cyprus, M and
Speaker 4: D on Luetta Road. You'll find it there, the M
Speaker 4: and D, dun and Rosenberg on Avenue. I you can
Speaker 4: find it there. You can go to Ace Hardware, Citium Memoria,
Speaker 4: or Hiding and Feed on Stupent or Airline. You can
Speaker 4: go to Fisher's Hardware on Southmore in Pasadena, or D
Speaker 4: and D Feed and Tomball. That's just beginning the list
Speaker 4: of all the places you can get quality products from.
Speaker 4: Night Fross like this sweet green furliger smells wonderful too,
Speaker 4: by the way, smells wonderful. Well, wow, today flew by,
Speaker 4: it really did. It just seemed like we got started,
Speaker 4: but had a lot of good things to talk about.
Speaker 4: A lot of your calls too. I'll be back in
Speaker 4: the morning from six thirty to ten. For those of
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Speaker 4: to me live like right now, you could be out
Speaker 4: in the garage rummaging through your fertilizer making the plan
Speaker 4: for next months fertilizing. Or I was saying I was
Speaker 4: repotting plants. Today you could be doing that listening to
Speaker 4: Garden Line with your phone on in the pocket. Just
Speaker 4: listen live, so easy to listen to. Once it quits
Speaker 4: raining outside, you can take Garden Line with you to
Speaker 4: the garden and to be live from your garden. Send
Speaker 4: me a picture and we'll solve it right there on
Speaker 4: the air. One of these days, somebody's going to do that.
Speaker 4: I think that'd be an interesting way to do business. Well,
Speaker 4: thanks for listening. Remember next Saturday. Next Saturday, I'll be
Speaker 4: at RCW Nurseries from twelve to two, twelve to two
Speaker 4: at RCW Nursery right where Tamai Parkway comes at about
Speaker 4: way eight. For those of you who tune in late today,
Speaker 4: I'm not going to be at Warren's today. We postponed
Speaker 4: that until the week after next four, the nineteenth April nineteenth,
Speaker 4: twelve thirty two third. I'll tell you about that this
Speaker 4: coming weekend, but just go ahead and bump your Warren's
Speaker 4: appearance to the nineteenth the day before Easter and next Saturday,
Speaker 4: RCW twelve to two pm. I'll be giving away a
Speaker 4: lot of cool stuff. They always have a good time
Speaker 4: out there, and you got to go out there and
Speaker 4: see their boogain videos and their roses, both in the
Speaker 4: blooming Chinese fringe trees. They're so beautiful.