WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:03.919 Garden Line with skip Richard's shoes. 2 00:00:09.199 --> 00:00:10.800 Trim. 3 00:00:10.839 --> 00:00:20.399 Just watch him as many gas septs. 4 00:00:27.120 --> 00:00:28.160 Not a sign. 5 00:00:32.880 --> 00:00:33.159 Sun. 6 00:00:33.719 --> 00:00:38.200 Good morning, Good Sunday morning, and thanks for listening in 7 00:00:38.399 --> 00:00:40.439 to Garden Line. We're glad to have you with us today. 8 00:00:41.359 --> 00:00:43.119 If you would like to give us a call, maybe 9 00:00:43.119 --> 00:00:46.759 you got a gardening question. How about dialing seven one 10 00:00:46.799 --> 00:00:50.320 three dialing Listen to me, remember I used to dial 11 00:00:50.600 --> 00:00:53.960 Remember those funds seven one three two one two kat 12 00:00:54.439 --> 00:00:57.600 r H seven one three two one two k t 13 00:00:57.799 --> 00:01:00.320 r H. However you want to get there them on 14 00:01:00.439 --> 00:01:03.840 let's talk. We'll discuss what everything's sort of interest to you, 15 00:01:04.040 --> 00:01:09.719 that is for sure. I you know, they say, you've 16 00:01:09.719 --> 00:01:12.319 heard the term do as I say, not as I do. 17 00:01:12.719 --> 00:01:16.439 And you've heard the term the cobbler's kids go barefoot. 18 00:01:16.799 --> 00:01:19.560 If you ever heard that one, bonder that for a minute. 19 00:01:20.079 --> 00:01:23.120 I walked out one of my flower beds. That was 20 00:01:23.519 --> 00:01:25.519 it's just in an area where I don't get over 21 00:01:25.560 --> 00:01:27.799 there much often, and I've been traveling a lot lately 22 00:01:27.879 --> 00:01:31.000 AND's kind of barely keeping things going while I'm away. 23 00:01:31.560 --> 00:01:33.640 And I looked, and oh my gosh, there are weeds 24 00:01:33.640 --> 00:01:35.519 all over the place. And that was a mulch bed. 25 00:01:35.920 --> 00:01:37.439 But when you get in there and look at it, 26 00:01:37.519 --> 00:01:40.560 the mult is about an inch thick. And wherever sunlight 27 00:01:40.640 --> 00:01:43.840 hits the soil, nature plants of weed. It's as simple 28 00:01:43.879 --> 00:01:48.719 as that. Wherever sunlight hits the soil, nature plants a weed. 29 00:01:49.200 --> 00:01:52.319 And what we find is that when we don't keep 30 00:01:52.359 --> 00:01:55.560 a good thick mulch on the surface of the soil, 31 00:01:56.480 --> 00:01:58.840 we start to see weed seeds sprouting. And you may 32 00:01:58.840 --> 00:02:01.079 look and go out's mult It's not multipick enough. And 33 00:02:01.120 --> 00:02:04.599 if you've got a multitude chunky and so it's kind 34 00:02:04.599 --> 00:02:07.359 of like the particles hold themselves apart because they're big, old, 35 00:02:07.400 --> 00:02:10.039 chunky particles and light kind of can bounce through. It's 36 00:02:10.080 --> 00:02:12.400 got to be a little deeper then than a very 37 00:02:12.439 --> 00:02:15.639 fine textured mulch might need to be. But whatever you do, 38 00:02:15.800 --> 00:02:18.360 just remember multing is not a once and done. It's 39 00:02:18.520 --> 00:02:20.759 you just maintain it and watch it. One question I 40 00:02:20.800 --> 00:02:23.560 sometimes get is do I take the old mult away 41 00:02:23.560 --> 00:02:26.360 to put fresh mulch in? And the answer is no. 42 00:02:26.719 --> 00:02:30.080 And actually my answer is usually a question does anybody 43 00:02:30.120 --> 00:02:32.360 rake the leaves up off the forest floor before the 44 00:02:32.400 --> 00:02:35.479 next autumn arrives? Of course not. You drop new leaves 45 00:02:35.520 --> 00:02:37.800 on top of the old leaves, the old leaves decompose, 46 00:02:38.520 --> 00:02:41.080 and in addition to being a good mulch, now you're 47 00:02:41.319 --> 00:02:44.000 building the soil from the top down as well. So 48 00:02:44.719 --> 00:02:48.520 I always replenish on top and keep a good dense 49 00:02:48.840 --> 00:02:50.719 mulch on it, because guess what, I get to go 50 00:02:50.759 --> 00:02:53.919 out there and hoe or pull or whatever some weeds. 51 00:02:54.400 --> 00:02:57.159 That is what's going to have to happen now that 52 00:02:57.240 --> 00:02:59.479 I'm back in town and able to get some of 53 00:02:59.520 --> 00:03:02.840 that worked. Well. You are listening to garden Line, and 54 00:03:02.879 --> 00:03:05.319 I hope you're having so far a good Sunday morning. 55 00:03:05.719 --> 00:03:08.639 We are looking forward to visiting with you about the 56 00:03:08.719 --> 00:03:11.800 kinds of topics that are of interest to you. And 57 00:03:11.879 --> 00:03:14.800 so early on here usually it's a little quieter on 58 00:03:14.840 --> 00:03:17.120 the funes, I just talk about some of the things 59 00:03:17.159 --> 00:03:20.800 that I think are important for you to know. So, 60 00:03:21.039 --> 00:03:25.520 for example, we are in the big heat of summer. 61 00:03:25.759 --> 00:03:28.879 I know, I know, very very hot season of the year. 62 00:03:31.479 --> 00:03:34.800 You know, it's it's a kind of it's the time 63 00:03:34.840 --> 00:03:36.840 of the year when people just kind of lose their 64 00:03:36.879 --> 00:03:40.039 interest in gardening. Plants are wilting, but so are gardeners too, 65 00:03:40.560 --> 00:03:42.800 and it's a shame because we can still be planting, 66 00:03:42.800 --> 00:03:44.800 we still be doing a lot of things. Perhaps the 67 00:03:44.800 --> 00:03:48.000 most important thing to be doing right now is as 68 00:03:48.039 --> 00:03:51.120 you can using those early morning hours when it's as 69 00:03:51.159 --> 00:03:52.680 cool as it's going to be during the day, the 70 00:03:52.680 --> 00:03:55.639 sun's not shining out baking down on you yet to 71 00:03:55.759 --> 00:03:59.439 build the soil. Wherever you plan on doing any additions 72 00:03:59.520 --> 00:04:02.759 or change to the landscape, this is a great time 73 00:04:02.759 --> 00:04:04.719 to put in new landscape beds. Get them all ready, 74 00:04:04.800 --> 00:04:07.360 get them built up, get the irrigation and stuff set 75 00:04:07.439 --> 00:04:10.639 up on them. Because whether you plant now, which can 76 00:04:10.680 --> 00:04:14.000 be done with daily TLC on those new plants, or 77 00:04:14.039 --> 00:04:17.560 if you wait until fall follows the best planning season 78 00:04:17.560 --> 00:04:21.120 of the year for woody ornamentals, for perennials, many other things. 79 00:04:21.720 --> 00:04:23.920 Either way you go about it, you're ready to go. 80 00:04:24.600 --> 00:04:26.800 Whenever you're going to plant. You've got the beds ready. 81 00:04:26.839 --> 00:04:30.680 Remember brown stuff before green stuff. So what does that 82 00:04:30.720 --> 00:04:34.439 look like? Well, there's a range. You could just purchase 83 00:04:34.519 --> 00:04:37.560 compost and put it on the ground and rototillet or 84 00:04:37.600 --> 00:04:40.680 spade it into the soil to improve the soil you have. 85 00:04:40.879 --> 00:04:44.560 That's an option. A step above that, in my opinion, 86 00:04:44.560 --> 00:04:47.360 would be to buy a bed mix and lay some 87 00:04:47.519 --> 00:04:51.759 down on the ground on the soil surface and mix 88 00:04:51.800 --> 00:04:53.879 it in a little bit with the soil, and then 89 00:04:53.959 --> 00:04:56.199 lay more bed mix on top of that to build 90 00:04:56.279 --> 00:04:57.920 up your bed. Now why did I do that in 91 00:04:58.000 --> 00:05:00.879 two steps? Well, you can do it. But if you've 92 00:05:00.879 --> 00:05:03.519 got a really heavy clay soil and you set a 93 00:05:03.600 --> 00:05:06.480 really high quality just think of a potting soil or 94 00:05:06.879 --> 00:05:09.839 some nice kind of soil on top of it. There's 95 00:05:09.879 --> 00:05:13.439 an interface there where you go from wonderful soil to 96 00:05:13.839 --> 00:05:18.040 clay soil, and the water doesn't move readily into that clay, 97 00:05:18.199 --> 00:05:21.439 and we have what we called a perched water table. 98 00:05:21.800 --> 00:05:25.560 That means that underground, the water is going through the 99 00:05:25.680 --> 00:05:28.319 nice bed mix and it hits that clay and it 100 00:05:28.399 --> 00:05:31.560 sort of stops or it moves in, but it's extremely slow. 101 00:05:31.920 --> 00:05:34.720 Our Houston clays can take water in about an eighth 102 00:05:34.720 --> 00:05:37.839 of an inch an hour. That's how fast. Just the clay, 103 00:05:37.920 --> 00:05:40.279 not organic matter, roots and all that, just the clay 104 00:05:40.319 --> 00:05:44.680 can absorb the water. So that creates that underground water table. 105 00:05:44.720 --> 00:05:47.480 So it's better I think to put some moltch down 106 00:05:47.680 --> 00:05:51.720 or not molts, excuse me, bed mix down, mix it 107 00:05:51.759 --> 00:05:54.319 into the surface and then add the more bed mix 108 00:05:54.399 --> 00:05:56.120 on it. That way, when you go from the nice 109 00:05:56.160 --> 00:05:59.199 bed mix down into the clay, there's a transition, there's 110 00:05:59.240 --> 00:06:02.720 a gradient if you will going down. It's not you know, 111 00:06:03.600 --> 00:06:05.839 night and day difference. You absolutely have to do it 112 00:06:05.839 --> 00:06:08.680 this way, but I found that it works best. So 113 00:06:08.839 --> 00:06:11.480 think about that as you're preparing your swell areas and 114 00:06:11.519 --> 00:06:15.360 getting ready to do your fall planting, which is coming 115 00:06:15.439 --> 00:06:18.800 soon as we get to the end of August. We 116 00:06:18.920 --> 00:06:24.079 got this little window where we're putting in potatoes, the 117 00:06:24.120 --> 00:06:27.800 new potatoes, Irish potato, you know, not sweet potatoes, but 118 00:06:28.000 --> 00:06:32.240 the other kinds of potatoes. And typically it's going to 119 00:06:32.279 --> 00:06:34.639 happen at the end of August here, which hey, hello, 120 00:06:34.879 --> 00:06:39.800 we're there. You would take small hole potatoes that you 121 00:06:39.879 --> 00:06:43.000 saved from your spring potato crop and plant them whole 122 00:06:43.000 --> 00:06:44.959 in the ground. We don't want to have We don't 123 00:06:44.959 --> 00:06:47.040 want to plant something that's got you know, six eyes 124 00:06:47.160 --> 00:06:50.000 on it, because we just need one or two, and 125 00:06:50.600 --> 00:06:54.800 so we plant whole. You can plant like we do 126 00:06:54.839 --> 00:06:57.160 in spring, where you cut a potato up, set it out, 127 00:06:57.399 --> 00:07:00.759 allow that cut surface to kind of dry couple days, 128 00:07:01.560 --> 00:07:04.480 and then plant it. But in the warm, warm, warm 129 00:07:04.560 --> 00:07:09.399 soil of summer cup potatoes can rot pretty quick. I've 130 00:07:09.639 --> 00:07:12.600 i myself have even and this is not a normal 131 00:07:12.639 --> 00:07:15.199 practice you'll here, but I'll take a little four inch 132 00:07:15.279 --> 00:07:17.879 pots and put the cup pieces in four inch pots 133 00:07:18.279 --> 00:07:20.879 and just keep them in a cool kind of cooler spot, 134 00:07:21.759 --> 00:07:24.959 keep them waste and let them sprout. And once they 135 00:07:25.000 --> 00:07:28.040 get up and growing, and you got because you know 136 00:07:28.079 --> 00:07:29.800 you will already have roots then and you have the 137 00:07:29.800 --> 00:07:32.639 shoot coming up, you can transplant them out into the garden. 138 00:07:32.759 --> 00:07:35.079 So that that allows you to delay the planting a 139 00:07:35.120 --> 00:07:38.959 little bit without delaying actually getting that plant going because 140 00:07:38.959 --> 00:07:41.480 it's going in the four inch pot anyway. That most 141 00:07:41.519 --> 00:07:43.199 people aren't going to be willing to go through all that. 142 00:07:43.839 --> 00:07:46.399 But that's just another option because it's hard to find 143 00:07:46.600 --> 00:07:50.759 small whole potatoes this time of the year. All right, well, 144 00:07:50.879 --> 00:07:53.079 we'll take a quick break here and I will be back. 145 00:07:53.279 --> 00:07:55.120 I just want to remind you our number seven one 146 00:07:55.199 --> 00:08:00.360 three two one two ktr H. All right, go a 147 00:08:00.439 --> 00:08:03.199 little little balance in music for the first thing in 148 00:08:03.199 --> 00:08:05.560 the morning can help us along with a cup of coffee, 149 00:08:05.560 --> 00:08:07.439 get our eyes wide open here so we can keep 150 00:08:07.439 --> 00:08:11.959 going on on guardline advice. I want to mention that 151 00:08:12.040 --> 00:08:15.160 if you have not done your summer fertilization. You can 152 00:08:15.240 --> 00:08:19.279 still do some fertilization, especially if your grass is needing 153 00:08:19.279 --> 00:08:22.240 a boost. If it's just not looking like it should, 154 00:08:22.319 --> 00:08:25.319 you feel like you know it's lacking vigor. For example, Well, 155 00:08:25.480 --> 00:08:29.160 Nitrofoss has a product called super Turf. I think the 156 00:08:29.199 --> 00:08:32.679 easiest way to describe it is it's their silver bag. 157 00:08:33.279 --> 00:08:36.399 I love it when we color coat bags because that 158 00:08:36.480 --> 00:08:38.519 just makes it easy. You cannot can say super Turf, 159 00:08:38.679 --> 00:08:41.480 it's a nineteen four ten fertilizer and all that, and 160 00:08:41.559 --> 00:08:43.720 that's all true, But then you get to the store 161 00:08:43.720 --> 00:08:46.120 and you go which one was he talking about? Silver bag? 162 00:08:46.320 --> 00:08:50.080 Silver bag. It's slow release, slow release, so gradually, over 163 00:08:50.120 --> 00:08:53.440 time that nitrogen is released out of the product. That's 164 00:08:53.480 --> 00:08:56.519 important because it cuts down on such frequent mowing. Now, 165 00:08:56.519 --> 00:09:00.679 Super Turf, like all Nitrofoss products, is widely available. You're 166 00:09:00.679 --> 00:09:03.799 going to find it at OspA Ace up on Kirkandaal 167 00:09:03.879 --> 00:09:06.799 in the Woodlands. You're going to find it at Shades 168 00:09:06.840 --> 00:09:09.879 of Texas, which is also in the Woodlands on at 169 00:09:09.879 --> 00:09:12.720 fourteen eighty eight. If you're done the King or over 170 00:09:12.759 --> 00:09:14.440 in the King, whatever, you can go to Kingwood Ace 171 00:09:14.559 --> 00:09:17.000 at King would Drive, and they've got it there as well. 172 00:09:17.120 --> 00:09:21.879 Many many places carry these nitroposs products. I think it's 173 00:09:21.919 --> 00:09:24.120 time now to head out to the phones. We're going 174 00:09:24.159 --> 00:09:27.080 to go out to Parland and talk to Mason. Hello, Mason, 175 00:09:27.120 --> 00:09:27.960 welcome to garden. 176 00:09:29.120 --> 00:09:30.240 Good Morris, Kip, how are you? 177 00:09:31.039 --> 00:09:33.679 I'm well, Thank you. Hey. 178 00:09:33.720 --> 00:09:37.080 I got a question. It's regarding nutsedge. So I have 179 00:09:37.480 --> 00:09:40.759 a I have a garden that I've tilled into the ground, 180 00:09:41.559 --> 00:09:44.840 and every year the nutsedge keeps growing back and growing back. 181 00:09:44.919 --> 00:09:49.120 Now I've put mulch on top of my garden and 182 00:09:49.960 --> 00:09:52.240 I just can't get rid of the nutsedge. Do you 183 00:09:52.320 --> 00:09:55.480 have any tips, like should I put shall I put 184 00:09:55.480 --> 00:09:58.440 a fabric down before I before I start my planning 185 00:09:59.639 --> 00:09:59.879 or what? 186 00:10:01.000 --> 00:10:05.840 No, multi won't work and fabric. If the fabric is 187 00:10:06.279 --> 00:10:08.840 down tight on the ground, which is how you want 188 00:10:08.879 --> 00:10:12.840 it to be, the nutsedge just punches right through it. 189 00:10:12.919 --> 00:10:16.639 There are a few fabrics that are able to prevent 190 00:10:16.759 --> 00:10:21.360 nutsedge piercing them, but those are more expensive commercial grade, 191 00:10:21.639 --> 00:10:23.879 and to be honest, I'm not a fan of fabric 192 00:10:24.000 --> 00:10:28.000 in general. On the soul what I've done though, If 193 00:10:28.080 --> 00:10:29.559 you go to my website, do you have a pent 194 00:10:29.639 --> 00:10:34.720 or pencil hinting yes, sir, all righty go to Gardening 195 00:10:35.080 --> 00:10:40.519 with Skip dot com Gardening with s I have four 196 00:10:40.559 --> 00:10:45.279 new publications. Two of them are about nutsedge. There's a 197 00:10:45.519 --> 00:10:49.080 longer one called an in Depth Look, and a shorter one. 198 00:10:49.240 --> 00:10:51.159 I would encourage you to read the longer one. It's 199 00:10:51.159 --> 00:10:54.080 only about three pages, but it goes into some of 200 00:10:54.120 --> 00:10:57.240 the principles as to why it's difficult to control, which 201 00:10:57.240 --> 00:11:00.000 help us understand what to do so we can control. 202 00:11:01.120 --> 00:11:03.000 And a lot of people they go at it and 203 00:11:03.039 --> 00:11:05.600 they say I tried that it didn't work. Well, you'll 204 00:11:05.679 --> 00:11:09.000 understand why they didn't work in there, and it'll help 205 00:11:09.039 --> 00:11:11.360 you change what you do so that it does work. 206 00:11:11.519 --> 00:11:15.399 There's also two publications on a weed wiper. One of 207 00:11:15.440 --> 00:11:17.320 them is how to build a little weed wiper if 208 00:11:17.320 --> 00:11:19.919 you've got nutsedge, let's say, coming up underneath a rose 209 00:11:19.960 --> 00:11:22.840 bush or some other area where you just can't blast 210 00:11:22.879 --> 00:11:25.799 a spray into there, and it tells you how to 211 00:11:25.799 --> 00:11:27.799 do if you want to do that. The other one is, 212 00:11:28.440 --> 00:11:29.840 and this is the one we're getting to. It's called 213 00:11:29.840 --> 00:11:33.399 Herbicide Products to use with the weed wiper. And if 214 00:11:33.399 --> 00:11:37.440 you look at that one, it has products for if 215 00:11:37.440 --> 00:11:40.279 you're trying to control poison, ivy and brush, it has products. 216 00:11:40.320 --> 00:11:43.120 If you're trying to grow grasses, it has products if 217 00:11:43.120 --> 00:11:45.960 you're trying to control sedges, and that would be the 218 00:11:46.080 --> 00:11:50.840 list of the things that you would use. So you 219 00:11:50.879 --> 00:11:52.679 can go poke around up there see what you want. 220 00:11:52.679 --> 00:11:55.879 But especially read nutsedge and end Up's look. It really 221 00:11:56.000 --> 00:11:59.759 just a super oversimplified. It comes down to jumping on 222 00:11:59.799 --> 00:12:05.399 it early and consistently staying on it, never letting it 223 00:12:05.519 --> 00:12:08.039 up for air. When it gets up has three to 224 00:12:08.159 --> 00:12:11.279 five leaves, it needs to be hand dug. It needs 225 00:12:11.279 --> 00:12:13.480 to be sprayed, it needs to be whatever you're going 226 00:12:13.559 --> 00:12:17.960 to do to it, because after about five leaves it 227 00:12:18.080 --> 00:12:22.120 starts having producing the daughter tubers and now you're eight 228 00:12:22.159 --> 00:12:24.879 to ten times more nuts. At June you began with. 229 00:12:26.360 --> 00:12:28.240 Wow, Okay, I appreciate it, Thank. 230 00:12:28.159 --> 00:12:28.679 You very much. 231 00:12:29.240 --> 00:12:31.320 You bet check those out there. I spent a lot 232 00:12:31.320 --> 00:12:33.240 of time on them, and I think they'll be very 233 00:12:33.320 --> 00:12:38.360 very helpful. Appreciate that. CONTI yes, sir, all right, we're 234 00:12:38.399 --> 00:12:40.960 going to go now and talk to Jerry. Hey, Jerry, 235 00:12:41.080 --> 00:12:42.879 welcome to Guardline. 236 00:12:43.200 --> 00:12:47.399 Hi, thank you, sir. I was listening yesterday to your 237 00:12:47.440 --> 00:12:56.919 show about the monarch, butterfly, and milkweed native plants. Before 238 00:12:56.960 --> 00:13:02.240 I run around everywhere trying to find native do you 239 00:13:02.360 --> 00:13:04.440 recommend I think you could? 240 00:13:04.519 --> 00:13:08.600 You can of Yeah, are you in Bear Creek. 241 00:13:10.240 --> 00:13:10.440 Eron? 242 00:13:11.879 --> 00:13:13.519 No, you are too ninety. 243 00:13:14.159 --> 00:13:16.879 Yeah, okay, Yeah, Buchanans didn't too far for it's just 244 00:13:16.919 --> 00:13:19.480 down on eleven Street and the heights, and they carry 245 00:13:19.480 --> 00:13:22.759 probably the biggest selection of natives anybody I know. Now, 246 00:13:22.799 --> 00:13:25.000 all of our good garden centers, the ones you hear 247 00:13:25.039 --> 00:13:28.559 me talk about on Guardline, the independent nurseries, all of 248 00:13:28.559 --> 00:13:30.960 them are going to have some native plants, and so 249 00:13:31.039 --> 00:13:33.960 it just is a matter of you know, how how 250 00:13:34.000 --> 00:13:35.960 big of a selection are you looking for? 251 00:13:36.519 --> 00:13:36.679 Uh? 252 00:13:36.720 --> 00:13:38.720 And that's why I mentioned Buchannans, because it's in their 253 00:13:38.799 --> 00:13:42.840 name Buchanan's Native plants, that that they focus on. That 254 00:13:42.840 --> 00:13:43.399 that's it's not. 255 00:13:43.399 --> 00:13:44.120 All that hard. 256 00:13:45.799 --> 00:13:53.360 Scare me. I'm sure if they have it, I've never. 257 00:13:54.960 --> 00:13:55.039 Like. 258 00:13:55.559 --> 00:13:56.919 Maybe could check them out. 259 00:13:57.679 --> 00:13:59.840 Yeah, go run over there this afternoon, check it out 260 00:14:00.039 --> 00:14:01.720 and see what you see. Talk to him, tell them 261 00:14:01.720 --> 00:14:04.240 what you're looking for. Tell him you heard about, you know, 262 00:14:04.960 --> 00:14:09.120 tracting uh monarchs and things like that, because they're going 263 00:14:09.159 --> 00:14:12.159 to have a garden center is going to carry the 264 00:14:12.559 --> 00:14:16.799 flowers for attracting adults and right now, uh, there is 265 00:14:17.399 --> 00:14:20.519 a number of things we could be planting to continue 266 00:14:20.559 --> 00:14:23.399 to feed those adults before they start their journey back 267 00:14:23.679 --> 00:14:28.120 to Mexico. And they'll also have product or plants that 268 00:14:28.200 --> 00:14:30.399 the larva can eat, and that's basically the milk weeds. 269 00:14:31.960 --> 00:14:32.159 Yeah. 270 00:14:32.200 --> 00:14:35.960 I have plenty of the tropical, but I don't like it, 271 00:14:40.440 --> 00:14:44.759 and I don't any butterflies or caterpillars. 272 00:14:46.120 --> 00:14:49.639 Well, they they will, though they just haven't found years yet. 273 00:14:50.240 --> 00:14:53.480 But he went into he went into the issues that 274 00:14:53.519 --> 00:14:57.039 he has found in his research on on the tropical 275 00:14:57.519 --> 00:15:00.799 You know, they're not not great news about, but a 276 00:15:00.840 --> 00:15:03.039 lot of people like it. It looms all the time, 277 00:15:03.120 --> 00:15:06.200 and it's you know, it has its pluses, but it 278 00:15:06.240 --> 00:15:08.320 also has those negatives. And that's what he was spending 279 00:15:08.360 --> 00:15:10.840 his time talking about here when we're visiting on the show. 280 00:15:11.279 --> 00:15:16.399 The thing about the aphids, though, Jerry, that plant I 281 00:15:16.440 --> 00:15:20.399 have used it for years to attract beneficial insects. And 282 00:15:20.440 --> 00:15:23.759 here's how it works. The tropical milk weed gets a 283 00:15:23.840 --> 00:15:27.320 yellow aphid on it with little black tailpipes and black legs. 284 00:15:28.039 --> 00:15:31.879 It's called the oleander. Aphid. Funny thing is I've never 285 00:15:31.879 --> 00:15:35.559 seen it on oleanders, but you see it on monitor 286 00:15:35.720 --> 00:15:39.399 on tropical milk weed and other milk weeds too. By 287 00:15:39.440 --> 00:15:45.320 the way, now that aphid doesn't get on your other plants, 288 00:15:45.519 --> 00:15:47.600 I don't know another plant in the landscape it gets on. 289 00:15:47.679 --> 00:15:50.120 It's not the aphid on tomatoes, it's not the one 290 00:15:50.159 --> 00:15:52.320 on crape myrtles. You see what I'm saying. It's like 291 00:15:52.759 --> 00:15:55.039 all these things that can get aphids, it's not the 292 00:15:55.080 --> 00:15:58.360 aphid that gets on that plant. But what happens is 293 00:15:58.399 --> 00:16:02.279 when you have aphids on the milk weed, then lady 294 00:16:02.320 --> 00:16:05.200 beetles will show up to eat them and to lay 295 00:16:05.200 --> 00:16:08.279 eggs to raise their young. Lacewing larva show up to 296 00:16:08.320 --> 00:16:12.080 do the same thing. Parasitic wasp that lay eggs inside 297 00:16:12.120 --> 00:16:14.440 the aphid's body. Next time you're looking at your plant 298 00:16:14.480 --> 00:16:17.600 and you see aphids that aren't yellow, but they're kind 299 00:16:17.600 --> 00:16:21.480 of paper sacked brown colored or tan colored. Those have 300 00:16:22.200 --> 00:16:25.159 wasps growing inside of them, like the movie Alien. It's 301 00:16:25.159 --> 00:16:29.039 pretty cool. And so that plant is like a nursery 302 00:16:30.120 --> 00:16:34.000 raising beneficial insects. So if you put it beside I 303 00:16:34.120 --> 00:16:37.039 mentioned tomato, I mentioned crape myrtle, and you know a 304 00:16:37.159 --> 00:16:39.960 rose bush gets aphids, it's a different aphid. If you 305 00:16:40.000 --> 00:16:43.720 put it there, then when those insects grow up those beneficials, 306 00:16:43.960 --> 00:16:47.120 then they're right next to the plants that you would 307 00:16:47.200 --> 00:16:50.320 like them to help with aphids on as well. So 308 00:16:50.440 --> 00:16:53.480 don't look at the aphids as a negative on that milkweed. 309 00:16:53.679 --> 00:16:57.559 It just oh, I know, but it all thrown them 310 00:16:57.600 --> 00:17:00.000 a little bit. They're young. 311 00:17:01.919 --> 00:17:03.720 Yeah, of course you can cut them on the ground. 312 00:17:03.919 --> 00:17:08.200 You're not going to kill them. But what mister Nemrov 313 00:17:08.359 --> 00:17:11.480 was talking about yesterday, you know, is number one he 314 00:17:11.599 --> 00:17:14.480 was saying. He was suggesting people don't do that when 315 00:17:14.559 --> 00:17:17.119 do other milk weeds if you want to plant them, 316 00:17:17.680 --> 00:17:21.559 but if you have it, you need to cut it 317 00:17:21.599 --> 00:17:24.640 down at the end of September, and you need to 318 00:17:24.640 --> 00:17:27.640 cut it down again right before we get into the 319 00:17:27.680 --> 00:17:31.079 spring season at the end of winter, and get all 320 00:17:31.119 --> 00:17:33.319 of the what you cut down, get it out of there, 321 00:17:33.480 --> 00:17:36.960 because that is plant surfaces that can hold the spore. 322 00:17:37.079 --> 00:17:40.960 That's a disease for the monarchs. And you heard the 323 00:17:40.960 --> 00:17:46.160 show reiterate his whole segment. But twice a year taking 324 00:17:46.200 --> 00:17:49.519 it to the ground is probably best to Number one 325 00:17:50.000 --> 00:17:53.640 so that new arriving monarchs don't already get exposed to it. 326 00:17:53.799 --> 00:17:56.559 Number two, so that those about to head to Mexico 327 00:17:56.960 --> 00:17:59.119 don't carry all the spores with them as they go 328 00:17:59.720 --> 00:18:00.559 from that plant. 329 00:18:00.720 --> 00:18:04.920 I do have you on milkweed that I gut. 330 00:18:06.359 --> 00:18:12.039 Yeah, Yeah, it's a big one. Hey Gary, I'm gonna 331 00:18:12.039 --> 00:18:14.279 have to run, But good luck with that and have fun. 332 00:18:14.400 --> 00:18:17.480 Have fun shopping over at Buganon this afternoon or wherever 333 00:18:17.559 --> 00:18:19.000 you go. You're gonna find a lot of good native 334 00:18:19.039 --> 00:18:21.599 plants at our at our Mom and Bob garden centers. 335 00:18:22.000 --> 00:18:25.119 You yes, sir, thanks for the call. 336 00:18:26.000 --> 00:18:26.119 Uh. 337 00:18:26.519 --> 00:18:30.799 We're talking earlier, visiting with Mason about the nuts edge, 338 00:18:31.359 --> 00:18:34.119 and we're just talking to him about the different products 339 00:18:34.119 --> 00:18:36.640 that are on that list. The herbicide products for the 340 00:18:36.640 --> 00:18:39.880 wheat wiper. I like the weed wiper because you're not 341 00:18:40.119 --> 00:18:44.519 spraying a ton of pesticide in the environment. You're just 342 00:18:44.640 --> 00:18:48.079 wiping it directly on the target plant, which is the weed. 343 00:18:48.599 --> 00:18:48.799 Uh. 344 00:18:48.839 --> 00:18:50.799 And those herbicides that are on there, you're going to 345 00:18:50.880 --> 00:18:54.759 find those at any local ACE Hardware store. ACE Hardware 346 00:18:54.799 --> 00:18:57.000 cares a wide variety of products, and if you see 347 00:18:57.039 --> 00:18:59.079 things on my list on there, Ace Hardware is going 348 00:18:59.119 --> 00:19:01.160 to have them now. I want to tell you this. 349 00:19:01.240 --> 00:19:03.279 I was at at Langham Creek Ace Hardware. That's the 350 00:19:03.319 --> 00:19:05.880 one on five point twenty nine over in Cyprus. It's 351 00:19:05.920 --> 00:19:08.440 it's in the Copperfield neighborhood for those of you over 352 00:19:08.480 --> 00:19:12.599 in West Houston northwest Easton that know that area. They're 353 00:19:12.640 --> 00:19:15.680 going to have their grand reopening. They after I was 354 00:19:15.720 --> 00:19:17.640 out there, they had a time where they were kind 355 00:19:17.640 --> 00:19:19.839 of closed down and getting a bunch of work done. 356 00:19:19.920 --> 00:19:22.680 And man, they have redone the place and it's great. 357 00:19:23.279 --> 00:19:26.240 This coming Friday, Saturday and Sunday, they're going to be 358 00:19:26.240 --> 00:19:29.480 giving away an Eggo power trimmer two hundred and fifty 359 00:19:29.480 --> 00:19:32.519 dollars value, a Webers Guess grille four hundred and fifty 360 00:19:32.519 --> 00:19:35.920 dollars value, paint a room makeover two hundred dollars value. 361 00:19:36.039 --> 00:19:38.400 They're going to be doing demos on Big Green Eggs 362 00:19:38.400 --> 00:19:41.440 and Tregger grills and Weber grills and the Gosny Peacha 363 00:19:41.480 --> 00:19:46.680 oven on Saturday only. Saturday, only fifteen percent off all 364 00:19:46.920 --> 00:19:50.400 still units. So if you if you're looking for some 365 00:19:50.440 --> 00:19:53.880 power equipment, trimmors, weed eaters, whatever, Still's got a lot 366 00:19:53.920 --> 00:19:57.559 of them, fifteen percent off that day. Only at only 367 00:19:57.640 --> 00:20:01.000 at Langham Creek. Ace Hardware have forty ACE Hardware is 368 00:20:01.039 --> 00:20:03.119 in the Houston area. You can go to Acehardware dot 369 00:20:03.160 --> 00:20:06.200 com find the store locator and find the ones near you. 370 00:20:06.240 --> 00:20:08.759 But anyone over in that region you should just check 371 00:20:08.799 --> 00:20:11.960 out Langham Creek Case Hardware this coming weekend. Got three 372 00:20:12.000 --> 00:20:14.880 days to do it. Just check them out and I 373 00:20:14.880 --> 00:20:17.920 think you'll see there's a lot of really cool stuff, 374 00:20:17.960 --> 00:20:20.279 plus some fun activities that they got planned as well. 375 00:20:20.680 --> 00:20:22.480 All right, we're gonna take a little break here, it's 376 00:20:22.480 --> 00:20:25.079 time for the news. I'll be right back. Wishing you 377 00:20:25.160 --> 00:20:27.759 the best this morning. And you know what, I'm glad 378 00:20:27.799 --> 00:20:29.559 you're listening to the guard Line. We got plenty of 379 00:20:29.559 --> 00:20:31.960 things that we can discuss today to help you have 380 00:20:32.079 --> 00:20:35.720 more I don't know, bountiful garden, a more beautiful landscape. 381 00:20:35.720 --> 00:20:37.960 How about that. That's a goal that I have. You 382 00:20:38.000 --> 00:20:39.720 know what another goal I have in the garden, though, 383 00:20:39.799 --> 00:20:42.799 is is to have fun. And I one of the 384 00:20:42.799 --> 00:20:44.640 things that always makes me kind of sad. I want 385 00:20:44.640 --> 00:20:46.960 to talk to someone and it's like you talk about gardening. 386 00:20:46.960 --> 00:20:48.759 It's like, yeah, I tried that, I killed everything. I 387 00:20:48.759 --> 00:20:51.359 couldn't grow anything. I got a brown thumb, and you 388 00:20:51.400 --> 00:20:54.240 can just see they they did not have fun, and 389 00:20:54.319 --> 00:20:58.200 gardening should be fun. Listen, this is this is not 390 00:20:58.440 --> 00:21:01.119 like you're making a painting and you got to get 391 00:21:01.119 --> 00:21:03.400 it all right, and then you hang that thing on 392 00:21:03.440 --> 00:21:07.559 the wall and nothing changes. Gardens are forever evolving. They're 393 00:21:07.599 --> 00:21:12.519 forever evolving. Even that includes landscapes. I saw it went 394 00:21:12.559 --> 00:21:16.039 back to a place where I grew up many years ago. 395 00:21:16.599 --> 00:21:19.599 It went back probably I don't know, ten fifteen years 396 00:21:19.640 --> 00:21:24.480 after I had moved on to college, and the shrubs 397 00:21:24.599 --> 00:21:27.480 were like through the eaves of the house. You know. 398 00:21:27.519 --> 00:21:31.519 There were all kinds of abelias and red tip fotinias, 399 00:21:31.519 --> 00:21:34.279 all kinds of things like the traditional shrubs of those days, 400 00:21:34.880 --> 00:21:37.720 and they just had overgrown and it was time. It 401 00:21:37.759 --> 00:21:39.839 wasn't my place anymore, but it was time for them 402 00:21:39.880 --> 00:21:41.880 to pull those suckers out and get some new ones. 403 00:21:41.880 --> 00:21:44.720 Breeders have always coming up with new, more compact plants 404 00:21:45.519 --> 00:21:48.920 like lossy abelia. Now there's all these colors to the foliage. 405 00:21:48.960 --> 00:21:53.119 It's just beautiful. But that's how landscapes are. It's not 406 00:21:53.160 --> 00:21:55.400 a one and done and that's part of the fun 407 00:21:55.440 --> 00:21:58.039 of it. Can you imagine, well, some of you could 408 00:21:59.480 --> 00:22:02.160 if you if you just had one set of clothes 409 00:22:02.160 --> 00:22:03.880 and you never bought another set ever. I mean it 410 00:22:04.079 --> 00:22:07.440 just you wore the same thing day after day. We 411 00:22:07.599 --> 00:22:09.400 get kind of boring, wouldn't it. And you may look 412 00:22:09.440 --> 00:22:11.400 out there and go, oh, well, there's a beautiful new 413 00:22:11.440 --> 00:22:14.519 shirt or plouse or whatever, and you go get it 414 00:22:14.519 --> 00:22:16.480 and change the look a little bit. Why not do 415 00:22:16.559 --> 00:22:20.680 that with your landscape. By the way, I'll be real 416 00:22:20.880 --> 00:22:24.759 self deprecating here, one of my daughters said, when I 417 00:22:24.799 --> 00:22:27.759 look at old pictures of mom and Dad, I think 418 00:22:28.759 --> 00:22:30.960 she looks so good in that dress, and I also 419 00:22:31.079 --> 00:22:40.559 think he still has that shirt. Guilty is charged, Guilty charged? Yep, 420 00:22:40.759 --> 00:22:43.200 I do, I know, but some people like to eat 421 00:22:43.200 --> 00:22:45.799 new clothes all the time. But your landscape can be 422 00:22:45.839 --> 00:22:47.319 the same way. And I would encourage you to think 423 00:22:47.319 --> 00:22:49.519 about it that way. And you know, one way to 424 00:22:49.559 --> 00:22:51.480 go about this would be just to call beer scapes 425 00:22:51.559 --> 00:22:57.920 beerscapes is awesome at designing new landscape makeovers. I don't 426 00:22:57.920 --> 00:22:59.400 care if you got a pool that you want to 427 00:22:59.440 --> 00:23:01.720 get landscap. You know, sometimes pools can be a little 428 00:23:01.720 --> 00:23:04.440 bleak looking. Piercescapes can come in and I mean they 429 00:23:04.440 --> 00:23:07.119 can make it look great, absolutely great. Do you want 430 00:23:07.119 --> 00:23:10.799 an outdoor sitting area? Listen, it's a bazillion degrees outside 431 00:23:10.839 --> 00:23:14.799 right now, but fall is coming. How about an outdoor 432 00:23:14.880 --> 00:23:18.680 area with a built in fireplace? How about a one 433 00:23:18.680 --> 00:23:23.400 of those what do you call it, the little fire tables, 434 00:23:24.160 --> 00:23:29.480 something that's bricked in or landscape pavered in and you 435 00:23:29.519 --> 00:23:32.279 just gather around it on those crisp fall nights, or 436 00:23:32.319 --> 00:23:34.200 and here we can do it all winter because our 437 00:23:34.240 --> 00:23:36.759 winters are so mild, and you can just enjoy that 438 00:23:36.799 --> 00:23:39.599 with friends. Pierce Scapes can do all of that. Even 439 00:23:39.640 --> 00:23:44.359 if you just need a re re renovation of the 440 00:23:44.440 --> 00:23:46.880 landscape that you built and then you've changed a little bit, 441 00:23:46.920 --> 00:23:48.880 but it's just time to give it a new makeover. 442 00:23:49.319 --> 00:23:52.079 They can do all of that. They do all aspects 443 00:23:52.119 --> 00:23:57.799 from landscape lighting to drainage improvement, to fixing irrigation systems, 444 00:23:58.119 --> 00:24:03.359 to installations and design. Piercecapes is the number one company 445 00:24:03.400 --> 00:24:05.559 I can think of for doing just that. Go online, 446 00:24:05.559 --> 00:24:08.960 look at their look at their website pierscapes dot com, 447 00:24:09.039 --> 00:24:11.480 or give them a call. Two eight one three seven 448 00:24:11.759 --> 00:24:16.640 fifty sixty two eight one three seven zero five zero 449 00:24:17.240 --> 00:24:21.759 six zero. I was just on the phone a minute 450 00:24:21.799 --> 00:24:25.599 ago talking with someone about the discussion I had yesterday 451 00:24:25.640 --> 00:24:32.680 with mister Namrov regarding the research results of the milkweeds 452 00:24:32.839 --> 00:24:35.680 and the issue of the disease of caterpillars and so 453 00:24:35.759 --> 00:24:38.480 on like that. We're talking about using some native milkweeds 454 00:24:38.519 --> 00:24:41.559 and things. Well, I tell you, I just checking the 455 00:24:41.599 --> 00:24:45.640 other day out Nelson Watergarden and Nursery out there in Katie, Texas, 456 00:24:45.680 --> 00:24:50.839 and they have the orange tuberosa milkweed. They probably have 457 00:24:50.920 --> 00:24:53.279 some others out there. I didn't I didn't look around 458 00:24:53.279 --> 00:24:56.880 for all them, but the Tuberosa the main one. You see. 459 00:24:56.880 --> 00:25:00.279 It's a native Texas milkweed. It is orange flowers and 460 00:25:00.319 --> 00:25:02.279 it's one of the ones that will come out and 461 00:25:02.319 --> 00:25:04.759 bloom and look pretty and then it'll sort of die back. 462 00:25:05.079 --> 00:25:09.000 And that's good because all those shriveled up dead leaves 463 00:25:09.039 --> 00:25:12.599 now that could have been harboring and building up populations 464 00:25:12.599 --> 00:25:16.039 of the disease had been the plant essentially cleared all 465 00:25:16.079 --> 00:25:19.960 those leaves off. And it's a tough tough summer, tough survivor, 466 00:25:20.000 --> 00:25:22.640 but they got it out there, Nelson Water Garden and Nursery. 467 00:25:22.799 --> 00:25:25.960 Their nursery is outstanding really a lot of cool stuff, 468 00:25:26.839 --> 00:25:29.319 lots of vegetables now and it's time for the fall 469 00:25:29.400 --> 00:25:33.359 vegetable garden. We're planting our warm seasoned crop still, so 470 00:25:33.400 --> 00:25:35.240 you get a tomato that moves kind of quick, not 471 00:25:35.319 --> 00:25:38.079 one that takes forever to get the harvest. You can 472 00:25:38.079 --> 00:25:42.240 still plant them now. Squashes and other things, bell peppers, 473 00:25:42.279 --> 00:25:44.359 there's just a lot of things can go in now 474 00:25:44.400 --> 00:25:47.319 for fall harvest, and they've got that there at Nelson 475 00:25:47.400 --> 00:25:50.759 Water Gardens. And there's a great sale on hibiscus, oh 476 00:25:50.799 --> 00:25:54.160 my gosh, really good sales on both the three and 477 00:25:54.279 --> 00:25:57.400 five gallon bush forms and the three gallon tree forms 478 00:25:57.400 --> 00:26:00.160 of hibiscus. So this would be a great time to 479 00:26:00.200 --> 00:26:04.200 pick those up as well. All out there, where is it? Well, 480 00:26:04.279 --> 00:26:07.640 you got ten two Katie. When you get to Katie 481 00:26:07.640 --> 00:26:10.720 Fort Benroad, turn north and it's just as stones throw 482 00:26:10.799 --> 00:26:15.079 up the road there. Nelson Watergarden and Nursery, Nelson Watergardens 483 00:26:15.160 --> 00:26:18.079 dot com. That's their website if you want to check 484 00:26:18.119 --> 00:26:25.359 in to that, Nelson Watergardens dot com. So this morning 485 00:26:25.680 --> 00:26:27.680 talking about some of the things that we need to 486 00:26:27.720 --> 00:26:29.759 do and take care of in the garden, I'm gonna 487 00:26:29.759 --> 00:26:31.559 come back and we're going to do a little more 488 00:26:31.880 --> 00:26:35.400 discussion of that. I will be taking a break here 489 00:26:35.440 --> 00:26:37.440 in just a second. I just want to remind you 490 00:26:37.480 --> 00:26:40.599 one more time if you missed it, the place where 491 00:26:40.599 --> 00:26:44.839 all those publications, those new four four new publications have 492 00:26:44.839 --> 00:26:48.440 been added is Gardening with Skip dot Com. Gardening with 493 00:26:48.640 --> 00:26:52.599 Skip dot Com. That's also where you'll find my lawn 494 00:26:52.720 --> 00:26:57.039 care schedule, things to do in the lawn to make 495 00:26:57.079 --> 00:27:00.400 it grow better. That's more water fertilized. And the other 496 00:27:00.440 --> 00:27:03.880 schedule is pest disease and we'd management in the lawne 497 00:27:03.960 --> 00:27:05.960 and I refer to that one as things that go 498 00:27:06.079 --> 00:27:09.319 wrong and how to fix them. Both schedules are free. 499 00:27:09.440 --> 00:27:13.160 They're there, multi color, lots and lots of information on them. 500 00:27:13.640 --> 00:27:17.200 Print them out. It'd be good night time reading. If 501 00:27:17.200 --> 00:27:18.720 you can't fall asleep at night, you can just pull 502 00:27:18.759 --> 00:27:21.240 one of those out and away. All right, it's time 503 00:27:21.240 --> 00:27:23.240 to take a break. When we come back, Lewis and 504 00:27:23.359 --> 00:27:26.160 Brazoria County, you'll be our first up. If you for 505 00:27:26.240 --> 00:27:30.559 the rest of you seven two kt r h back guardline. 506 00:27:30.559 --> 00:27:32.440 Good have you with us. We are going to head 507 00:27:32.559 --> 00:27:36.000 straight out to the phones to Brazoria County and talk 508 00:27:36.119 --> 00:27:39.240 to Lewis this morning, Welcome to garden Line. Lewis. 509 00:27:41.960 --> 00:27:46.400 Question about seed germination. I had some really bad results 510 00:27:46.400 --> 00:27:47.880 this year, and I was gonna see if you had 511 00:27:47.880 --> 00:27:55.440 any tips. Green beans and cucumbers. Planted squash, yellow squashed, 512 00:27:55.480 --> 00:27:57.960 straight neck, and zucchini and that came up fine, and 513 00:27:58.039 --> 00:28:01.759 basil came up fine. I plant some green crop bush 514 00:28:01.799 --> 00:28:06.960 beings and I planted some sweet success cucumbers on a 515 00:28:07.039 --> 00:28:12.160 parthorin carpet type and got zero germination. Now, I pre 516 00:28:12.240 --> 00:28:15.039 watered my soil before I planted, and I soaked the 517 00:28:15.079 --> 00:28:18.839 seed for about twenty minutes before planting them, and we 518 00:28:18.880 --> 00:28:21.079 watered hand and watered in the morning and the evening. 519 00:28:21.119 --> 00:28:24.200 This is in full sun. And this was on the 520 00:28:24.240 --> 00:28:26.599 thirteenth of August. So it's been almost. 521 00:28:26.240 --> 00:28:28.000 Two weeks with nothing. 522 00:28:29.240 --> 00:28:33.359 Fresh seed from hot seed, no goodness, germ rates on it. 523 00:28:34.279 --> 00:28:34.480 Yeah. 524 00:28:34.839 --> 00:28:36.799 The only thing about that I would have done a 525 00:28:36.799 --> 00:28:39.240 little different. I don't think this is the cause of 526 00:28:39.279 --> 00:28:41.119 them not coming up, but I would have soaked them 527 00:28:41.119 --> 00:28:43.200 a little longer than twenty minutes, you know, give them 528 00:28:43.200 --> 00:28:47.279 about you know, several hours to fully imbibe that water 529 00:28:49.759 --> 00:28:52.720 in at that you know, that time in August, the 530 00:28:52.880 --> 00:28:55.960 soil temperatures are really hot, and those plants, those seeds 531 00:28:55.960 --> 00:28:59.640 are not planted that deep, right, and I think it 532 00:28:59.680 --> 00:29:03.279 could the excessive The only my suggestion to you, lewis, 533 00:29:03.319 --> 00:29:05.480 of course I don't have a crystal ball to know exactly, 534 00:29:05.640 --> 00:29:08.039 you know, whether there was like an underground disease that 535 00:29:08.440 --> 00:29:11.319 got them or something. But my thing would be soak 536 00:29:11.319 --> 00:29:14.039 a little longer. But then when you plant them, do 537 00:29:14.200 --> 00:29:18.400 something to shade the seed row if possible. You don't 538 00:29:18.440 --> 00:29:21.440 want them to come up and be bulched where they 539 00:29:21.440 --> 00:29:24.640 can't get light, but at least to get that germination 540 00:29:24.839 --> 00:29:27.440 going if you could, if you could just cool that 541 00:29:27.519 --> 00:29:30.640 soil off a little bit, because the soil an inch deep, 542 00:29:31.119 --> 00:29:34.720 I mean it can be way over one hundred degrees really, 543 00:29:36.039 --> 00:29:38.759 and when the sun is baking down on it in 544 00:29:39.200 --> 00:29:42.079 August like that, so that that could be a factor. 545 00:29:43.079 --> 00:29:44.480 I was going to ask you if you ever tried 546 00:29:44.559 --> 00:29:48.039 like soaking cardboard and laying over the soil and maybe 547 00:29:48.039 --> 00:29:49.680 picking it up every day, just checking so if you're 548 00:29:49.680 --> 00:29:52.240 getting emergents, check if as. 549 00:29:52.200 --> 00:29:55.319 Long as if you're really we didn't even have to 550 00:29:55.359 --> 00:29:57.519 soak it. I mean, it'd probably be better just to 551 00:29:57.599 --> 00:30:03.480 leave it dry. Because it doesn't stick down. So uh, yeah, 552 00:30:03.559 --> 00:30:06.319 you could do that. I've you know, I've suspended like 553 00:30:06.559 --> 00:30:11.240 a piece of shade cloth, doubled or tripled over just 554 00:30:11.279 --> 00:30:16.160 to take some of that light intensity down. Uh. Doing 555 00:30:16.240 --> 00:30:21.000 some frequent watering of the surface to too lightly to 556 00:30:21.000 --> 00:30:23.759 to keep it cooled off as it evaporates up there 557 00:30:23.839 --> 00:30:27.200 is helpful also. But I think any kind of a shade, 558 00:30:27.880 --> 00:30:31.839 I've tried things like a light scattering of pine needles. 559 00:30:32.319 --> 00:30:34.319 Uh see it gets some light through but a little 560 00:30:34.319 --> 00:30:35.960 bit of shade. But that's kind of hard to get 561 00:30:35.960 --> 00:30:38.480 that sort of just right at least that's been my 562 00:30:38.559 --> 00:30:41.680 experience with it. But anyway, Yeah, it's just it's just 563 00:30:41.720 --> 00:30:42.599 really hot soil. 564 00:30:42.720 --> 00:30:46.400 I think it's been two weeks. I don't know if 565 00:30:46.400 --> 00:30:49.000 the seed is lying dormant in the soil or could 566 00:30:49.000 --> 00:30:50.839 actually the heats killed you know. 567 00:30:50.880 --> 00:30:55.920 The Yeah, heavy worth getting in there and digging, digging 568 00:30:56.000 --> 00:30:58.000 around a little, see if you can find any seeds 569 00:30:58.039 --> 00:30:59.000 and see what they're doing. 570 00:30:59.240 --> 00:31:03.119 Yeah, having there's nothing, there's no coddle eatings, there's nothing 571 00:31:03.160 --> 00:31:05.400 on them. They're just yeah, you know, the beans are 572 00:31:05.400 --> 00:31:06.400 easy to find, let's. 573 00:31:06.240 --> 00:31:06.839 Just put it that way. 574 00:31:06.880 --> 00:31:08.960 There's nothing on them. So I think I'm just going 575 00:31:08.960 --> 00:31:10.480 to ahead and replant and call it up. But it 576 00:31:10.519 --> 00:31:13.759 was one hundred percent germ failure where like squashed and 577 00:31:13.839 --> 00:31:16.200 that pop right up four days like I expect because 578 00:31:16.200 --> 00:31:18.200 we can water in the morning in the evening with 579 00:31:18.400 --> 00:31:22.400 rain water. And yeah, I just I was just going 580 00:31:22.480 --> 00:31:25.599 to try something different. I'm doing these in vego bits too, 581 00:31:25.720 --> 00:31:27.480 so it's a little different. 582 00:31:28.359 --> 00:31:32.400 Yeah. Well, and you know, it's as possible that it 583 00:31:32.400 --> 00:31:34.359 could have been a bad pack of seeds, but you'll 584 00:31:34.400 --> 00:31:36.799 know that you could. You probably don't have a lot 585 00:31:36.839 --> 00:31:39.480 of seeds in that part and a carpet cucumber pack, 586 00:31:39.599 --> 00:31:41.240 but if you took a few out, put them in 587 00:31:41.240 --> 00:31:44.359 a wet pepper towel, moist paper towel rather, they're not 588 00:31:44.519 --> 00:31:47.839 stopping right right, slipping in a little zip lock and 589 00:31:47.960 --> 00:31:50.559 just set it on the counter, check it every every day. 590 00:31:51.000 --> 00:31:55.839 You can determine germination viability that way. And so if 591 00:31:55.880 --> 00:31:56.839 they all also have been. 592 00:31:56.720 --> 00:31:59.279 Pretty reliable on their germ rates, they're showing eighty six 593 00:31:59.359 --> 00:32:02.160 percent on the path because they're real proud of their testing. 594 00:32:02.319 --> 00:32:06.680 So well, yeah, I'm not casting dispersions on any any company. 595 00:32:07.519 --> 00:32:11.079 I'm just saying here's the things that could be happening. 596 00:32:11.279 --> 00:32:15.799 And so that's sure. Well, Louis Lewis, thank you very 597 00:32:15.880 --> 00:32:18.720 much and good luck with that. I hope the second round. 598 00:32:18.160 --> 00:32:21.319 Thank you appreciate. 599 00:32:20.960 --> 00:32:27.759 You appreciate that. Uh if you have been experiencing the 600 00:32:27.799 --> 00:32:31.559 shrink and swell of Houston's clay soils, and they do 601 00:32:31.720 --> 00:32:33.920 shrink and swell. This spring we had a lot of rain, 602 00:32:33.960 --> 00:32:35.440 but actually we had quite a bit of rain on 603 00:32:35.559 --> 00:32:38.319 endo summer pretty far and then it got hot and dry, 604 00:32:38.640 --> 00:32:41.200 and what happens the soil dries out, it shrinks. That's 605 00:32:41.240 --> 00:32:44.960 why you see cracks on the surface. Well, that wrex havoc. 606 00:32:45.039 --> 00:32:48.319 I mean that is a powerful force that can crack 607 00:32:48.519 --> 00:32:52.559 foundations of your home, certainly your driveways and sidewalks. Fix 608 00:32:52.640 --> 00:32:56.720 my slab foundation repair. Tie Strickland hands Down is a 609 00:32:56.799 --> 00:32:59.119 company that you need to call. And here's why I 610 00:32:59.160 --> 00:33:02.759 say that. I've sat with Tie and his wife. I've 611 00:33:02.799 --> 00:33:05.640 talked to them and gotten to know them and looked 612 00:33:05.680 --> 00:33:10.079 at the kind of perspective that they have on serving 613 00:33:10.079 --> 00:33:12.920 their customers. And they are all about it. They're all 614 00:33:12.960 --> 00:33:16.359 about making a relationship with customers. Listen, Tizan native, he's 615 00:33:16.359 --> 00:33:19.680 stony in fifth generation Texan. They've been living here doing this. 616 00:33:19.960 --> 00:33:22.359 He's been doing it for twenty three years. And you 617 00:33:22.400 --> 00:33:25.079 don't stick around and have good ratings if you don't 618 00:33:25.079 --> 00:33:27.640 take care of your customers. He shows up on time, 619 00:33:28.119 --> 00:33:32.480 that's big. He gives you a fair price, that's huge, 620 00:33:32.519 --> 00:33:35.599 and then he fixes it right. That is also huge. 621 00:33:36.000 --> 00:33:37.960 And if you just tell him you're a guardenline listener, 622 00:33:37.960 --> 00:33:40.119 you get a free estimate. He'll come out. He'll take 623 00:33:40.119 --> 00:33:41.839 a look at it. And I was talking to Tay 624 00:33:41.920 --> 00:33:44.519 about a job the other day, about a situation, and 625 00:33:44.640 --> 00:33:47.200 you know, I expected to be like, well, you got 626 00:33:47.240 --> 00:33:48.680 to do this and this and this. No for him 627 00:33:48.799 --> 00:33:52.079 is like no, that's not enough movement to warrant going 628 00:33:52.119 --> 00:33:55.720 in and doing all of this, you know. And he'll 629 00:33:55.799 --> 00:33:58.160 tell you that if something needs to be done, or 630 00:33:58.160 --> 00:34:00.240 if it doesn't need to be done, he will tell 631 00:34:00.279 --> 00:34:02.640 you that he can do driveways and sidewalks too. By 632 00:34:02.680 --> 00:34:06.240 the way, fix my slab foundation repair Ty Strickland. Here's 633 00:34:06.279 --> 00:34:11.079 the website fixmyslab dot com. Here's the phone number. Two 634 00:34:11.079 --> 00:34:15.519 eight one two five five forty nine forty nine two 635 00:34:15.559 --> 00:34:19.599 eight one two five five forty ninety nine. You go 636 00:34:19.639 --> 00:34:22.000 out to Dickinson now and talk to Karen. Hey, Karen, 637 00:34:22.039 --> 00:34:24.320 welcome to garden Line morning. 638 00:34:25.199 --> 00:34:26.440 I call him for two two. 639 00:34:26.719 --> 00:34:27.880 I have two questions. 640 00:34:28.559 --> 00:34:33.119 One is I got probably a little a quarter of 641 00:34:33.159 --> 00:34:34.960 an acre lawn use lawn. 642 00:34:35.119 --> 00:34:36.039 It goes into. 643 00:34:37.440 --> 00:34:41.360 This to the dishes and stuff for I've getting. 644 00:34:41.159 --> 00:34:44.119 To get a lot of crab gas in my yard 645 00:34:44.599 --> 00:34:47.039 and how do I get rid of the get rid 646 00:34:47.039 --> 00:34:50.800 of the crabgrass? And another one I heard you yesterday 647 00:34:50.840 --> 00:34:55.000 talking about somebody who could come in in that area 648 00:34:55.880 --> 00:34:58.719 I don't know, Dickens area. That would if you're gone 649 00:34:58.760 --> 00:35:01.400 for a period of time, in a long period of time, 650 00:35:01.440 --> 00:35:03.400 like a year or so, to take care of your 651 00:35:04.079 --> 00:35:07.239 flower bits and stuff like that. 652 00:35:07.239 --> 00:35:07.679 That was. 653 00:35:09.639 --> 00:35:11.400 I just I just drew a blank. Excuse me. That 654 00:35:11.480 --> 00:35:14.360 was perscapes I was talking about. They do quarterly maintenance. 655 00:35:15.079 --> 00:35:20.519 They come in and once a quarter. Yeah. So crabgrass 656 00:35:20.519 --> 00:35:23.440 you said, is in the lawn, right, Yes, it's all. 657 00:35:23.480 --> 00:35:26.679 Well, I've put the silver bag out two or three 658 00:35:26.719 --> 00:35:29.960 times and trying to get my lungs drinking that. 659 00:35:30.119 --> 00:35:32.719 But how do you get rid of crab gras well? 660 00:35:32.800 --> 00:35:37.079 The first number one is get a denser lawn, because 661 00:35:37.119 --> 00:35:39.800 it only can come up where sunlight hits the soil. 662 00:35:40.000 --> 00:35:42.760 So that means your lawn has thin areas, and so 663 00:35:42.840 --> 00:35:46.960 building that density is the simplest, most environmentally friendly way 664 00:35:47.000 --> 00:35:50.400 you can get rid of crabgrass. The second step would 665 00:35:50.400 --> 00:35:54.199 be next spring, assuming your lawn hasn't developed a density 666 00:35:54.199 --> 00:35:58.760 by then, a pre emergent herbicide like barricade by nitroposs. 667 00:35:59.440 --> 00:36:01.840 You need to follow my schedule online. It tells you 668 00:36:01.920 --> 00:36:04.719 exactly when to put it down water then and you 669 00:36:04.800 --> 00:36:07.519 may have to repeat that in about sixty days because 670 00:36:07.719 --> 00:36:12.079 the product eventually breaks down and crabgrass can sprout all 671 00:36:12.119 --> 00:36:15.559 through the summer. And so those two steps would be it. 672 00:36:15.599 --> 00:36:18.800 But number one is just determine that you're going to 673 00:36:18.840 --> 00:36:21.679 get that lawn dense and lush. And that's my mow, 674 00:36:21.760 --> 00:36:25.199 water and fertilized schedule that's free online that tells you 675 00:36:25.320 --> 00:36:27.679 exactly the things you need to do for that. So 676 00:36:27.719 --> 00:36:29.360 those two steps I think would be the key. 677 00:36:30.440 --> 00:36:31.280 Sound good? 678 00:36:32.000 --> 00:36:33.119 All right, Hey, thank you? 679 00:36:33.239 --> 00:36:36.679 Hey, Could you put me back to your receiver and 680 00:36:36.719 --> 00:36:38.360 I maybe get a number of the streetscape. 681 00:36:39.119 --> 00:36:42.159 I'm going to put you on hold. All right, folks, 682 00:36:42.440 --> 00:36:48.559 time for a break. I'll be right back. Welcome to 683 00:36:48.800 --> 00:36:51.559 kt r H Guarden Line with skin bricks. 684 00:37:00.480 --> 00:37:08.039 Just watch him as many kind of. 685 00:37:08.039 --> 00:37:08.400 Things to. 686 00:37:17.000 --> 00:37:19.199 All Right, let's get going on this again. We got 687 00:37:19.280 --> 00:37:22.000 plenty of go plenty to talk about, plenty of things 688 00:37:22.639 --> 00:37:25.800 to discuss today on garden Line. Thanks for listening. By 689 00:37:25.840 --> 00:37:28.519 the way, I'm your host, Skip Rector, and we're here 690 00:37:28.639 --> 00:37:31.239 to help you have success with your garden. That is 691 00:37:31.280 --> 00:37:35.039 it your garden and your landscape and whatever kind of 692 00:37:35.039 --> 00:37:37.800 gardener you are. You know some people, uh, it's all 693 00:37:37.800 --> 00:37:40.440 about the lawn. They are I call them lawn rangers, 694 00:37:40.519 --> 00:37:44.880 the weekend lawn rangers. They it's making that lawn perfect, 695 00:37:45.119 --> 00:37:47.760 you know, make it look as much like AstroTurf, I 696 00:37:47.760 --> 00:37:50.519 guess as you can in terms of perfect. No weeds, 697 00:37:50.639 --> 00:37:53.599 no anything. That's one kind of gardener, and that's fine. 698 00:37:54.000 --> 00:37:57.480 There's gardeners who are all into nature and they would 699 00:37:57.480 --> 00:37:59.719 just be happy having a weed growing in the lawn. 700 00:37:59.719 --> 00:38:02.079 If its flowers that are going to feed pollinators, they're 701 00:38:02.079 --> 00:38:04.199 good with that. Well that that's a little bit other 702 00:38:04.280 --> 00:38:06.679 end of the spectrum there. But that's another one of 703 00:38:06.719 --> 00:38:10.800 the kinds of gardeners we work with. Whether you're synthetic, organic, 704 00:38:10.920 --> 00:38:13.480 or don't care between the two, Whether you love color 705 00:38:13.559 --> 00:38:17.960 or love vegetables or love herbs? Where to help? How 706 00:38:17.960 --> 00:38:19.840 can we help you do that? And I hope you'll 707 00:38:19.840 --> 00:38:25.000 try a little bit of all of those. I find that, 708 00:38:25.320 --> 00:38:29.000 you know, I started off when I got my master's degree. 709 00:38:29.800 --> 00:38:32.480 The main focus I had was palmology. Do you know 710 00:38:32.519 --> 00:38:39.760 what pomology is? Pomology as in Pomona, the goddess of fruit, Pomona. 711 00:38:40.639 --> 00:38:44.559 Pomology is a study of fruit. Basically, it's a division 712 00:38:44.559 --> 00:38:48.559 of horticulture, and that was what I began my horticulture 713 00:38:48.559 --> 00:38:52.639 studies in and of course since then it's gone way 714 00:38:52.679 --> 00:38:55.840 past that and everything else, with ornamentals being the in 715 00:38:55.960 --> 00:38:59.239 turf being the big the big things now that really 716 00:38:59.280 --> 00:39:02.400 occupy my thoughts in time. But there's a lot of 717 00:39:02.440 --> 00:39:04.599 aspects of it. Some people just want some fruit trees. 718 00:39:05.400 --> 00:39:08.039 Maybe you like to have some grape vines. By the way, 719 00:39:08.880 --> 00:39:13.639 arbors are underutilized in our area. We should have more herbers. 720 00:39:13.679 --> 00:39:16.880 As hot and sunny as it is here, every patio 721 00:39:17.039 --> 00:39:19.719 ought to have a beautiful arbor over it that helps 722 00:39:19.760 --> 00:39:22.760 shade that patio. Now, of course you can put a 723 00:39:22.800 --> 00:39:25.679 roof on it, but why not a grape vine with 724 00:39:25.760 --> 00:39:27.800 clusters of grapes hanging down in it. That'd be kind 725 00:39:27.800 --> 00:39:31.920 of cool. I've got one that i'm training, a rose 726 00:39:31.960 --> 00:39:36.280 bush or rose vine vining type or rose to go over. 727 00:39:37.000 --> 00:39:39.440 It's a Peggy Martin, the one that everybody talks about 728 00:39:39.480 --> 00:39:43.440 from pink flowers, primarily a spring bloomer. But I'm working 729 00:39:43.480 --> 00:39:45.400 on getting that Peggy Martin to go over the top 730 00:39:45.440 --> 00:39:49.320 of it. That makes a really nice outdoor setting. If 731 00:39:49.360 --> 00:39:51.360 you're into herbs, you can go all the way and 732 00:39:51.360 --> 00:39:55.119 make an herb garden. You know those beautiful geometric gardens 733 00:39:55.119 --> 00:39:57.840 that you see from herbs. You can just put some 734 00:39:57.920 --> 00:39:59.519 herbs in a pot or down at the end of 735 00:39:59.559 --> 00:40:01.840 your veget will row, or in your flower bed. There's 736 00:40:01.880 --> 00:40:04.119 a lot of uses for those. I may come back 737 00:40:04.159 --> 00:40:05.880 and talk about that a little bit more. Right now, 738 00:40:05.920 --> 00:40:08.199 I'm gonna go ahead and run out to Willis Styx's 739 00:40:08.400 --> 00:40:12.000 and talk to Sherry. Hello, Sherry, Welcome to Gardenline. 740 00:40:14.599 --> 00:40:18.400 I'm not doctor Sherry, and I'm not in the woodlands. 741 00:40:18.440 --> 00:40:19.199 Are you talking to me? 742 00:40:20.119 --> 00:40:20.199 No? 743 00:40:20.320 --> 00:40:22.039 Willis, Yeah, I'm talking to you. 744 00:40:22.400 --> 00:40:27.159 Oh Willis? Sorry? Yes, okay, great, Yes. So we have 745 00:40:27.280 --> 00:40:29.280 a place in our back lawn where we let the 746 00:40:29.320 --> 00:40:31.519 dogs out all the time, and we're just getting a 747 00:40:31.760 --> 00:40:34.920 lot of shade, and it was after we had built 748 00:40:34.920 --> 00:40:37.280 a pool and the pergola and everything, and there's just 749 00:40:37.719 --> 00:40:41.760 the grass is not thriving there at all, and so 750 00:40:41.840 --> 00:40:45.599 I was wondering, what can I plant in there instead 751 00:40:45.639 --> 00:40:48.199 of grass that's gonna be okay for the dogs to 752 00:40:48.320 --> 00:40:52.159 stomp on, and we'll actually grow in shade. 753 00:40:52.400 --> 00:40:57.400 Okay, Well that's a challenge right there. The part that 754 00:40:57.440 --> 00:41:00.480 makes it the biggest challenge is the dog stumping on part. 755 00:41:01.000 --> 00:41:04.079 When dogs I don't care what it is. When dogs 756 00:41:04.079 --> 00:41:06.840 are stomping back and forth over the same thing, it's 757 00:41:06.920 --> 00:41:08.639 just hard for any plant to do well. 758 00:41:09.400 --> 00:41:13.320 But some options to stomping and more than peeing. So 759 00:41:13.440 --> 00:41:16.119 it's the people round spots in the grass that is 760 00:41:16.159 --> 00:41:20.159 there that is getting some sunlight. So somehow, you know, 761 00:41:20.239 --> 00:41:23.239 it's a beautiful part of our law, our house and 762 00:41:23.639 --> 00:41:26.280 jarred and everything that I just need to make looks 763 00:41:26.559 --> 00:41:29.960 good and also not be where I can't see if 764 00:41:29.960 --> 00:41:32.639 there are snakes there, like you could put carolina jasmine 765 00:41:32.679 --> 00:41:35.480 or I don't know what, and then you don't see what. 766 00:41:35.320 --> 00:41:36.719 You need to see. 767 00:41:37.079 --> 00:41:42.599 I see, okay. Well, so the most shade tolerant groundcover 768 00:41:42.679 --> 00:41:48.199 there is is monkey grass it's mondo grass. Okay, it's dark, dark, 769 00:41:48.280 --> 00:41:50.760 dark green. There's a standard type that's going to get 770 00:41:50.840 --> 00:41:52.639 up oh, I don't know what, six inches or so. 771 00:41:53.039 --> 00:41:54.880 Then there's a dwarf type that's only going to get 772 00:41:54.920 --> 00:41:57.280 up about three inches. The problem with that is it 773 00:41:57.280 --> 00:42:00.239 doesn't spread very fast at all, so you got by 774 00:42:00.280 --> 00:42:02.280 a lot of it. You know, you're buying flats and 775 00:42:02.320 --> 00:42:04.519 flats of it and plugging it in in between it. 776 00:42:04.599 --> 00:42:08.280 But I'm telling you it makes a beautiful dark green, 777 00:42:09.079 --> 00:42:11.760 almost no mode turf. If you wanted to once a 778 00:42:11.840 --> 00:42:13.679 year kind of cut it back because it's looking a 779 00:42:13.719 --> 00:42:16.840 little rangy, maybe you could do that, but but that 780 00:42:16.840 --> 00:42:18.800 that would be the ideal. It's just going to take. 781 00:42:18.880 --> 00:42:20.440 You're going to buy a lot of flats of it 782 00:42:20.519 --> 00:42:24.880 to cover an area. There's taller things like ASTech grass, 783 00:42:24.920 --> 00:42:28.760 which is a type of it's like loriope and mondo, 784 00:42:29.280 --> 00:42:32.760 but it has white leaves with little green stripes in them, 785 00:42:33.239 --> 00:42:35.880 and that brightens up an area like that in the shade, 786 00:42:35.880 --> 00:42:37.800 So you could use it to border a bed, you 787 00:42:37.840 --> 00:42:41.559 could use it make it solid. You could put loriope 788 00:42:41.559 --> 00:42:45.440 in in areas like that too. On a native end, 789 00:42:45.679 --> 00:42:50.280 there's a groundcover call horse herb it is. It is 790 00:42:50.280 --> 00:42:54.920 a wild weed that has become popular with native folks 791 00:42:55.039 --> 00:42:58.679 because it does better in more shade. Now, if it's 792 00:42:58.719 --> 00:43:00.920 really shady. 793 00:43:00.119 --> 00:43:02.119 Going to struggle herb. 794 00:43:03.000 --> 00:43:08.599 What did you say, horse a horse herb and it's 795 00:43:08.639 --> 00:43:12.119 it's an horse herb. So if you have more of 796 00:43:12.320 --> 00:43:14.559 kind of a wildscape, kind of a native scape, it 797 00:43:14.559 --> 00:43:18.119 would fit in really well. If everything's super manicured, it's 798 00:43:18.159 --> 00:43:22.199 gonna look a little a little rangy for you probably, 799 00:43:22.639 --> 00:43:25.320 but just go online look at it, uh and see 800 00:43:25.400 --> 00:43:32.639 see what you see? So what else shade up there? Yeah, 801 00:43:32.679 --> 00:43:35.480 I mean there's other things. You know, English ivy makes 802 00:43:35.480 --> 00:43:38.760 a good groundcover, but but that is a you're constantly 803 00:43:38.800 --> 00:43:42.079 going to be fighting to keep it in bounds, not 804 00:43:42.239 --> 00:43:44.920 climbing up the tree trunks and everything anything it can 805 00:43:44.920 --> 00:43:48.559 grab on. So that may be one that it's so 806 00:43:48.840 --> 00:43:52.280 kind of invasive in its tendency that I hesitate to 807 00:43:52.320 --> 00:43:58.199 recommend that one. Those are some options for you. 808 00:44:00.360 --> 00:44:03.000 Skate sd AP or Jake. 809 00:44:02.880 --> 00:44:11.519 Okay, no, horse it's horse herb h RB. Horse herb. 810 00:44:12.440 --> 00:44:17.440 It is a wild native groundcover with little yellow flowers, 811 00:44:17.559 --> 00:44:21.320 very inconspicuous, nothing write home about. But they yeah, but 812 00:44:21.400 --> 00:44:24.360 the pollinators and things might like that a little bit 813 00:44:25.000 --> 00:44:25.840 for that amount. 814 00:44:25.599 --> 00:44:29.159 Of shape because it's right next to our pool. 815 00:44:30.880 --> 00:44:33.239 Well, I mean it might. But the water and the 816 00:44:33.239 --> 00:44:35.760 pools can attract bees when they're thirsty. You know, you 817 00:44:35.800 --> 00:44:38.920 get some water splashing up on the sidewalk and they're 818 00:44:39.000 --> 00:44:41.559 thirsty and they need They can't drink out of a 819 00:44:41.599 --> 00:44:44.360 pool that they can drink out of small puddles up 820 00:44:44.360 --> 00:44:47.519 on the sidewalk around the pool. I wouldn't worry about 821 00:44:47.519 --> 00:44:50.639 it from that standpoint. Hey, I've run out of time 822 00:44:51.039 --> 00:44:54.280 on another break, but I appreciate your call, share and 823 00:44:54.559 --> 00:44:57.920 good luck, good luck turning you bad you've had. Thanks 824 00:44:57.960 --> 00:45:00.639 for the call, all right, folks, will be right back 825 00:45:00.679 --> 00:45:07.320 the number seven KTRH. He here on a Sunday morning. 826 00:45:07.320 --> 00:45:08.840 I hope you're having a good morning. By the way, 827 00:45:09.360 --> 00:45:11.679 we're going to start off by heading out to Magnolia 828 00:45:11.800 --> 00:45:14.639 and talking to Bruno. Hello Bruno, welcome to garden Line. 829 00:45:15.519 --> 00:45:16.280 Good morning. 830 00:45:18.199 --> 00:45:21.639 I have a yeah out in Magnolia, so I've got 831 00:45:21.920 --> 00:45:25.840 clay soil with sand. It's actually qualified as a select fill, 832 00:45:25.960 --> 00:45:27.679 so it was great for building my new house, but 833 00:45:27.719 --> 00:45:30.679 not so good for a grass and such. I'm trying 834 00:45:30.719 --> 00:45:33.199 to get like a forest preserved look. And so I've 835 00:45:33.199 --> 00:45:37.159 had most of the disturbed areas hydro seated with bermuda, 836 00:45:37.440 --> 00:45:39.559 and i'd put down some rye earlier, but you know, 837 00:45:39.559 --> 00:45:41.599 with the heat, that's all gone. But I have a 838 00:45:41.639 --> 00:45:44.599 section also of about three quarters of an acre that's 839 00:45:44.719 --> 00:45:47.920 heavily shaded. But it's also got a couple of dry 840 00:45:47.960 --> 00:45:50.079 creeks that run through it, so the whole area will 841 00:45:50.119 --> 00:45:54.039 get wet and water moving pretty quickly in those heavy 842 00:45:54.079 --> 00:45:56.679 storms we get every couple of years. And uh, and 843 00:45:56.760 --> 00:45:59.440 so I'm looking. So the guy that did hydro seeds, 844 00:45:59.440 --> 00:46:01.800 so there's no point in trying to put the bermuda down. 845 00:46:01.840 --> 00:46:05.559 It's not going to like the shade. So you said 846 00:46:05.599 --> 00:46:10.480 it for things other than normal, normal grasses, and you know, again, 847 00:46:10.519 --> 00:46:12.719 I'm looking for more of a forest reserve look. He 848 00:46:12.840 --> 00:46:16.719 suggested that a grass called bahia might be good, or 849 00:46:16.760 --> 00:46:19.920 a crop called millet, but he said that can be 850 00:46:19.960 --> 00:46:22.239 a little difficult to mow if you let it go. 851 00:46:22.360 --> 00:46:25.159 And you know, I don't necessarily get out there every 852 00:46:25.159 --> 00:46:27.920 week or even every two to mow some of these areas. 853 00:46:28.159 --> 00:46:29.679 So I was wondering if you had a different type 854 00:46:29.679 --> 00:46:31.119 of grass that might work better for me. 855 00:46:32.039 --> 00:46:34.360 Okay, Well, millet is a grain crop. So if you 856 00:46:34.400 --> 00:46:38.840 see sorghum in the field and wheat and oats, that's 857 00:46:38.880 --> 00:46:41.559 what millet's like. It's BacT just taller than wheat notes. 858 00:46:41.880 --> 00:46:44.199 So absolutely no mellet there. It won't grow in the 859 00:46:44.199 --> 00:46:47.519 shade either. The hair grass will take some shade. It'll 860 00:46:47.519 --> 00:46:49.920 take some shade. Now, if it gets dense enough, it's 861 00:46:49.960 --> 00:46:52.519 not going to be very thick, but I'll tell you, bahea, 862 00:46:52.559 --> 00:46:55.840 we'll give you a very thick root system to stop erosion. 863 00:46:56.480 --> 00:46:58.599 So if it'll grow there, that's fine. A lot of 864 00:46:58.599 --> 00:47:01.159 people don't like bahead because the day after you mow it, 865 00:47:01.159 --> 00:47:03.400 it sends up another seat head and it's like you 866 00:47:03.440 --> 00:47:07.079 didn't mow it. But it's not the it's there's a 867 00:47:07.119 --> 00:47:10.000 reason we don't have a lot of behalawns here in 868 00:47:10.039 --> 00:47:13.079 the area. But it is a survivor. And if you 869 00:47:13.159 --> 00:47:15.480 just have a little rangy area, kind of a mini meadow, 870 00:47:15.519 --> 00:47:17.880 whatever you want to put it in, it's fine for that. 871 00:47:18.760 --> 00:47:18.880 Uh. 872 00:47:19.039 --> 00:47:22.039 The only other thing, and how how dense is the 873 00:47:22.079 --> 00:47:23.519 shade and how big is this area? 874 00:47:24.599 --> 00:47:28.719 Oh, it's it's it's probably you know, it's more like 875 00:47:29.079 --> 00:47:32.559 a roadway that most of my property is. I really 876 00:47:32.599 --> 00:47:35.320 just mow the weeds and that look is okay for me. 877 00:47:35.440 --> 00:47:38.480 So it's not trying to get a manicured lawn. But 878 00:47:38.760 --> 00:47:42.480 it's probably all three quarters of an acre at least, 879 00:47:42.760 --> 00:47:44.719 and it's very densely wooded. 880 00:47:46.320 --> 00:47:48.679 Okay, okay, but. 881 00:47:48.679 --> 00:47:51.719 It's it's the well texting from the erosion. I had 882 00:47:51.719 --> 00:47:53.480 to bring a lot of dirt in, and I want 883 00:47:53.519 --> 00:47:55.800 to get something down before that dirt's gone. 884 00:47:56.039 --> 00:47:58.559 Yeah, So if you're talking about a big area like that, 885 00:47:58.679 --> 00:48:03.519 you may give seeding he a try, because every other 886 00:48:03.599 --> 00:48:07.400 kind of like horticultural plant, it would be completely cost 887 00:48:07.440 --> 00:48:12.199 prohibitive to try to, you know, put something like sedges 888 00:48:12.360 --> 00:48:14.320 or whatever through that whole area. They'll put up a 889 00:48:14.320 --> 00:48:18.119 shade and they help with erosion. But I don't think always. 890 00:48:17.920 --> 00:48:19.840 Really want more of a more of a grass because 891 00:48:19.880 --> 00:48:21.440 it's going to get some traffic on it. 892 00:48:22.039 --> 00:48:22.400 Uh. 893 00:48:22.440 --> 00:48:25.880 And but it's it's the erosion control that's that's a 894 00:48:25.920 --> 00:48:28.880 biggie for me. But it's it's it's fairly flat normally 895 00:48:29.119 --> 00:48:30.760 it's just just a whole lying area. 896 00:48:31.519 --> 00:48:34.519 Yeah, well, all right, I would my suggestion would be, hey, 897 00:48:34.559 --> 00:48:36.599 if it's too shady, then we might have to look 898 00:48:36.639 --> 00:48:39.599 at something different, but that will probably be the best 899 00:48:39.679 --> 00:48:41.840 bet given all the factors you just told me. 900 00:48:43.159 --> 00:48:45.760 Okay, is that I haven't seen that in the gardens 901 00:48:45.800 --> 00:48:47.920 stores or in the what do you call big box 902 00:48:47.960 --> 00:48:50.480 stores and things? Is where where might I get that seed? 903 00:48:51.480 --> 00:48:52.519 Uh? 904 00:48:53.280 --> 00:48:56.079 Maybe online you might look, or if you go to 905 00:48:56.199 --> 00:48:58.800 go to a feed store and ask them, you know, 906 00:48:58.840 --> 00:48:59.679 do they carry it? 907 00:49:00.159 --> 00:49:00.280 Uh? 908 00:49:00.559 --> 00:49:03.679 You know you're up there in the Magnolia area. Uh, 909 00:49:03.920 --> 00:49:06.639 there's a D and D feed and outside of Tumbul 910 00:49:06.719 --> 00:49:10.199 to the west. I would just call them D and 911 00:49:10.320 --> 00:49:14.360 D Feed, They're not too far from you and just say, hey, look, 912 00:49:14.440 --> 00:49:16.719 do you guys carry a hal seed? Or do you 913 00:49:16.920 --> 00:49:19.239 know how we could get it? Can you get it 914 00:49:19.239 --> 00:49:20.000 in or whatever? 915 00:49:20.599 --> 00:49:20.800 Uh? 916 00:49:20.840 --> 00:49:24.159 And that would be probably where I would start. 917 00:49:25.039 --> 00:49:29.119 Okay, Now for planting that it's I know, right, I 918 00:49:29.119 --> 00:49:31.840 can just just really throw in the soil and it'll grow. 919 00:49:32.079 --> 00:49:35.840 The permuta didn't do that. I've got a garden tractor 920 00:49:35.880 --> 00:49:37.320 and a drag. 921 00:49:38.960 --> 00:49:39.280 Harrow. 922 00:49:39.800 --> 00:49:42.679 Uh, so I thought perhaps that would be a way 923 00:49:42.679 --> 00:49:45.239 to drag that thing back and forth, put down the 924 00:49:45.280 --> 00:49:46.519 seed and drag it again. 925 00:49:47.039 --> 00:49:49.480 Is that a good idea that would be Yeah, that'd 926 00:49:49.480 --> 00:49:51.800 be an option moet real short first, as short as 927 00:49:51.800 --> 00:49:54.360 you can get it. Uh and and that would be 928 00:49:54.400 --> 00:49:56.400 probably your best, your best approach. 929 00:49:56.480 --> 00:49:56.679 Yeah. 930 00:49:56.719 --> 00:49:58.320 Well it just had a bunch of dirt put in 931 00:49:58.320 --> 00:50:00.480 in bulldoz, so there's nothing there right now. It's just 932 00:50:00.519 --> 00:50:01.239 exposed to play. 933 00:50:01.400 --> 00:50:04.039 Yeah, all right, well I hope that helps. I might 934 00:50:04.039 --> 00:50:06.199 have to run to another call, but good luck getting that. 935 00:50:06.760 --> 00:50:09.320 Hope you accomplish your goals there. Thank you for the call, 936 00:50:09.440 --> 00:50:13.280 Thank you very much. All right, let's see here. I 937 00:50:13.320 --> 00:50:17.719 wanted to mention that Medina has their new product, supergrol Plus. 938 00:50:17.800 --> 00:50:19.440 I knew it's been around a little while, but it's 939 00:50:19.480 --> 00:50:21.320 one of their newer ones. It's part of the hast 940 00:50:21.440 --> 00:50:24.199 grow line has to grow. Supergrol Plus is a sixteen 941 00:50:24.320 --> 00:50:26.880 zero two. It hooks up to a garden hose. It's 942 00:50:26.880 --> 00:50:29.519 a one quart bottle. It's going to cover about four 943 00:50:29.519 --> 00:50:32.119 thousand square feet, so in about ten minutes. Really, if 944 00:50:32.159 --> 00:50:34.360 you were trying to hurry, you could get done about 945 00:50:34.360 --> 00:50:38.119 ten minutes. It's got, of course, the big three nutrient 946 00:50:38.159 --> 00:50:42.679 you know, the MPK in it, but it's got the molasses, 947 00:50:42.760 --> 00:50:45.840 it's got the humic acid, it's got the seaweed extract. 948 00:50:45.880 --> 00:50:48.000 And it also has a keylated form of iron, so 949 00:50:48.039 --> 00:50:50.800 those yellow areas kind of get greened up a little bit. 950 00:50:51.440 --> 00:50:53.920 And that that is important because typically when you see 951 00:50:53.960 --> 00:50:56.480 yellow in your Saint Augustine lawn, it's due to a 952 00:50:56.599 --> 00:50:59.239 lack of iron in the plant for one reason or another. 953 00:51:00.119 --> 00:51:03.320 Or plus is widely available, easy to find, just a 954 00:51:03.840 --> 00:51:08.039 little post on it to Facebook the other day, something 955 00:51:08.079 --> 00:51:09.480 I like a lot. In fact, why you got it 956 00:51:09.480 --> 00:51:11.079 hooked up to the garden hose if you get through 957 00:51:11.079 --> 00:51:13.840 at the lawn, there's no problem at all the spraying 958 00:51:13.880 --> 00:51:16.840 your tomato plants in the vegetable garden or whatever else. 959 00:51:17.599 --> 00:51:20.760 It is a very good product for plants in general, 960 00:51:20.920 --> 00:51:23.400 So something you might want to consider. We're going to 961 00:51:23.440 --> 00:51:25.639 go now to Spring Branch and we're going to talk 962 00:51:25.840 --> 00:51:28.199 to Sally. Hello, Sally, welcome to guard Line. 963 00:51:29.280 --> 00:51:33.559 Good morning, Skiff. I have a very bad lawn in 964 00:51:33.599 --> 00:51:37.559 that I have those little weeds that look like little 965 00:51:37.599 --> 00:51:40.920 mimosa trees. I have spurge, I have cradgrass, and I 966 00:51:40.960 --> 00:51:44.840 have dove wheed. Is there one particular problem that would 967 00:51:44.880 --> 00:51:46.119 take care of all four? 968 00:51:48.440 --> 00:51:50.920 Sounds like you need to call a realtor and move 969 00:51:52.239 --> 00:51:58.719 you've got such a beyond trifecta there now, seriously joking aside. 970 00:51:59.440 --> 00:52:04.480 First thing is I'm hearing that lawn is not super dense, 971 00:52:04.679 --> 00:52:08.360 and so the long term solution is the mow water 972 00:52:08.480 --> 00:52:12.119 and fertilized according to my schedule to increase density, because 973 00:52:12.119 --> 00:52:14.239 every time you get a little more dense, you have 974 00:52:14.280 --> 00:52:16.920 a little less light and a little fewer weed problems. 975 00:52:17.719 --> 00:52:19.920 Some of the weeds, the one that looks like the 976 00:52:19.920 --> 00:52:23.280 little mimosa, that one, if you catch it early, you 977 00:52:23.280 --> 00:52:26.760 can spray the spray it with a product called Celsius 978 00:52:27.400 --> 00:52:34.000 and it will. It will kill the young immature seeds 979 00:52:34.119 --> 00:52:38.079 coming up. Once they get established and they're setting their 980 00:52:38.119 --> 00:52:40.400 seeds and stuff, it's a little harder to kill at 981 00:52:40.400 --> 00:52:42.400 that stage, but you can still give it a try 982 00:52:43.199 --> 00:52:46.719 with that product. Did you I can't remember the other 983 00:52:46.719 --> 00:52:48.320 weeds you say, button weed was. 984 00:52:48.280 --> 00:52:53.079 One, spurge crabgrass, and dovewed weed. 985 00:52:54.360 --> 00:52:56.880 Yeah, dove weed's another one. The Celsius would be an 986 00:52:56.880 --> 00:53:00.840 option for it. If dovewed isn't in really large areas, 987 00:53:00.920 --> 00:53:04.039 you can use a there's a cinnamon based product called 988 00:53:04.119 --> 00:53:08.639 Agra lawn a g r I l a wn that's 989 00:53:08.719 --> 00:53:15.119 the line of product. It will if the doveweeds damp, 990 00:53:15.159 --> 00:53:17.199 if you sprinkle it or have dew on it, and 991 00:53:17.199 --> 00:53:21.320 then you put that product on it, it will just fry 992 00:53:21.360 --> 00:53:24.159 it quick. I mean, it turns black. It works really well. 993 00:53:24.719 --> 00:53:27.000 But it comes in small canisters. And if you've got 994 00:53:27.000 --> 00:53:29.880 a big lawn area, it's it's tedious and cost prohibitive 995 00:53:29.960 --> 00:53:33.639 to do it that way. But it sounds to me 996 00:53:33.880 --> 00:53:36.599 like you're going to need to just do a combination 997 00:53:36.800 --> 00:53:39.599 of things in order to have success. And I would 998 00:53:39.639 --> 00:53:43.039 start with a product call celsius. If you can use it, 999 00:53:43.719 --> 00:53:45.880 you can use it now if you do it early, 1000 00:53:45.920 --> 00:53:48.880 early in the morning, before the temperature gets up very far, 1001 00:53:49.280 --> 00:53:52.280 because once we're up into the mid nineties, celsius is 1002 00:53:52.320 --> 00:53:55.760 causing you some problems for sure. Okay, so you want 1003 00:53:55.800 --> 00:53:58.760 to low nineties, okay, but try to do it early 1004 00:53:58.960 --> 00:53:59.519 in the day. 1005 00:54:00.119 --> 00:54:00.239 Uh. 1006 00:54:00.360 --> 00:54:02.840 And and I would I would start with that and 1007 00:54:02.920 --> 00:54:07.239 in the meantime be working on building that density in 1008 00:54:07.320 --> 00:54:11.760 the lawn. The cradgrass is not going to be controlled 1009 00:54:11.760 --> 00:54:14.840 by celsius, by the way, that's an annual weed. I 1010 00:54:14.880 --> 00:54:17.519 would just now mow it and ignore it, and then 1011 00:54:17.840 --> 00:54:21.159 the next spring a pre emergent product to prevent the 1012 00:54:21.199 --> 00:54:24.000 crabgrass seeds from coming up would be helpful. 1013 00:54:24.159 --> 00:54:28.280 Okay, okay, And one other thing. I have a thirty 1014 00:54:28.320 --> 00:54:31.280 foot flower bed that I just turned over, and I 1015 00:54:31.320 --> 00:54:37.800 wanted to plant some lawa pellam and some wandering jew 1016 00:54:39.079 --> 00:54:42.880 but the dogweed has started to spring up in the 1017 00:54:42.920 --> 00:54:47.119 flower bed. How can I mean, how can I plant 1018 00:54:47.159 --> 00:54:49.039 something after spraying it with the. 1019 00:54:51.079 --> 00:54:55.199 Celsius pretty quick? It's not real problem. Just spray it, 1020 00:54:55.280 --> 00:54:57.000 let it do. It's what it's going to do. And 1021 00:54:57.079 --> 00:54:59.079 then uh, just kind of mix up the soil a 1022 00:54:59.119 --> 00:55:04.920 little bit and get it ready to plant in that area. 1023 00:55:06.039 --> 00:55:09.199 Go ahead, I'm sorry, I say. 1024 00:55:09.320 --> 00:55:12.039 Well, in addition to like a celsius attempt on it, 1025 00:55:12.280 --> 00:55:16.159 you can also use a glyphosate type product just with 1026 00:55:16.239 --> 00:55:19.280 a spreader sticker so it sticks to that doveweed better. 1027 00:55:19.320 --> 00:55:21.880 In fact, that's true of any product you spray on doveweed. 1028 00:55:21.880 --> 00:55:24.639 You ought to have a spreader sticker in there so 1029 00:55:24.719 --> 00:55:27.800 that the spray sticks and doesn't just roll off the leaves. 1030 00:55:28.639 --> 00:55:30.800 And do I have to wait a particular amount of 1031 00:55:30.840 --> 00:55:34.199 time before I could plant my No, you. 1032 00:55:34.159 --> 00:55:36.239 Want to tell them, you want to know you want 1033 00:55:36.239 --> 00:55:39.679 to give both of those products about five to seven 1034 00:55:39.760 --> 00:55:44.280 days to to kind of move down well into the plant. Uh. 1035 00:55:44.320 --> 00:55:46.320 And after that you can do what you want in there, 1036 00:55:46.360 --> 00:55:47.920 mix it up a little bit, new plant and there's 1037 00:55:47.960 --> 00:55:49.360 not a problem. 1038 00:55:49.639 --> 00:55:54.639 Okay, okay, this none of that can harm my St Augustine. 1039 00:55:55.960 --> 00:56:00.679 Oh yeah, Oh, glypha sate will absolutely kill your Saint Augustine. 1040 00:56:00.800 --> 00:56:04.519 We were talking a flower bed there, but the celsius 1041 00:56:04.639 --> 00:56:06.719 can be used in your Saint Augustine. 1042 00:56:07.440 --> 00:56:10.519 Okay, all right, yeah. 1043 00:56:09.800 --> 00:56:11.719 Read the label because you know in the air, I 1044 00:56:11.719 --> 00:56:13.599 don't have time to go into all the details of this, 1045 00:56:13.679 --> 00:56:16.079 that and the other. It's all on the label. Follow 1046 00:56:16.119 --> 00:56:19.159 that very carefully. Make sure and read it because any 1047 00:56:19.199 --> 00:56:23.400 product can be damaging if you misuse it. Okay, Thanks Sally. 1048 00:56:23.480 --> 00:56:26.119 I appreciate your call very much. We got to run 1049 00:56:26.159 --> 00:56:28.760 to a break. When we come back. A little announcement here. 1050 00:56:29.400 --> 00:56:31.800 Quality Home products. You've heard me talk about them before. 1051 00:56:32.280 --> 00:56:35.559 They sell a number of different things, including generators like 1052 00:56:35.599 --> 00:56:39.199 the Generac, which is an outstanding generator. Now you can 1053 00:56:39.199 --> 00:56:42.360 buy generators for a lot of places, but to get 1054 00:56:43.280 --> 00:56:45.920 treated right, to get the deal, you want to get 1055 00:56:45.960 --> 00:56:49.199 the service after the sale. Quality Home is the only 1056 00:56:49.239 --> 00:56:53.199 way to go. And here's why. 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Hello Laurel, Welcome to Gardenline. 1085 00:58:29.159 --> 00:58:32.599 Good morning, mister Skip and this is a thank you call. 1086 00:58:33.880 --> 00:58:38.519 I asked you last week about where to get a 1087 00:58:39.760 --> 00:58:44.519 because I was on a waiting list for a hands all. Okay, 1088 00:58:45.480 --> 00:58:49.559 I went to HANT, I went to Southwest Fertilizer as 1089 00:58:49.599 --> 00:58:53.920 you recommended. They delivered it within a couple of hours. 1090 00:58:55.199 --> 00:58:59.440 Everyone was nice, everyone was congenial. They showed me how 1091 00:58:59.480 --> 00:59:02.719 to offer read it, and Rudy and the crew asked 1092 00:59:02.719 --> 00:59:04.159 me to say hello to you. 1093 00:59:05.280 --> 00:59:08.440 All right, well hello back. Well that doesn't surprise me 1094 00:59:08.480 --> 00:59:10.320 at all. But you know you didn't do one thing. 1095 00:59:10.920 --> 00:59:13.800 You need to You need to ask Bob. You need 1096 00:59:13.840 --> 00:59:15.840 to ask Bob to come to your house. And you 1097 00:59:15.920 --> 00:59:17.280 need to say, you know, I don't know how to 1098 00:59:17.360 --> 00:59:20.639 use a chainsaw. Could you fired up? And cut that 1099 00:59:20.679 --> 00:59:22.199 limb off and show me how you do it. And 1100 00:59:22.239 --> 00:59:24.119 when he's through with that, you need to say, you know, 1101 00:59:24.159 --> 00:59:26.679 I learned a lot, but I'm still not quite comfortable 1102 00:59:26.679 --> 00:59:28.199 with that. I know how to do it. Could you 1103 00:59:28.239 --> 00:59:30.599 cut that other limb off, and then that other limb 1104 00:59:30.599 --> 00:59:32.559 and then you see where we're going here. 1105 00:59:33.880 --> 00:59:36.760 I would not take advantage of mister Bob that way. 1106 00:59:37.039 --> 00:59:40.519 Oh come on, man, I know what he would say 1107 00:59:40.519 --> 00:59:43.880 to the first. We got to have some fun here 1108 00:59:43.880 --> 00:59:47.840 on guard Line. Thanks, thanks, thank you, and you have 1109 00:59:47.920 --> 00:59:48.599 a great day. 1110 00:59:49.079 --> 00:59:49.559 Thank you. 1111 00:59:50.599 --> 00:59:53.960 All right, I want to question real quick, where do. 1112 00:59:54.039 --> 00:59:55.119 I find twine? 1113 00:59:57.159 --> 01:00:00.760 Say that again? What are you asking for? W I 1114 01:00:01.159 --> 01:00:01.519 n E? 1115 01:00:01.920 --> 01:00:02.360 Twine? 1116 01:00:02.559 --> 01:00:05.719 Oh, Bob's got that. He's got He's got different kinds 1117 01:00:05.760 --> 01:00:09.159 of gardening twine and stuff like that. I think even 1118 01:00:09.199 --> 01:00:11.159 it may even have like a green Jude or something. 1119 01:00:11.480 --> 01:00:14.000 To be honest, I haven't looked for that product in 1120 01:00:14.039 --> 01:00:16.519 the store, but call them first for you run over there. 1121 01:00:16.559 --> 01:00:17.920 But I'm sure they have. If they don't have it, 1122 01:00:17.920 --> 01:00:20.519 you're gonna find it today's hardware stores too, so not 1123 01:00:20.599 --> 01:00:22.840 too hard to find. But since you know you love 1124 01:00:22.880 --> 01:00:25.000 going over to Southwest, I would just give them a 1125 01:00:25.039 --> 01:00:26.920 call first and see see what they say. 1126 01:00:26.880 --> 01:00:29.039 Yeah, and we love a hardware too. 1127 01:00:30.159 --> 01:00:33.639 All right, Well you're just hitting on all the right cylinders. 1128 01:00:34.159 --> 01:00:36.239 Thanks a lot, because I listened to your show. 1129 01:00:36.400 --> 01:00:39.079 This is where I get it from. Well, thank you. 1130 01:00:39.119 --> 01:00:42.119 I appreciate that. All right, you too, Laurel. Thanks a lot. 1131 01:00:42.360 --> 01:00:43.320 I have a wonderful day. 1132 01:00:43.880 --> 01:00:44.000 Uh. 1133 01:00:44.639 --> 01:00:47.280 It is very important if you want to have success 1134 01:00:47.320 --> 01:00:49.320 with plants that number one you build the soil and 1135 01:00:49.440 --> 01:00:51.280 number two you throw a mulch on top of it. 1136 01:00:51.559 --> 01:00:55.079 And why is that? We'll building the soil creates the 1137 01:00:55.159 --> 01:00:59.960 foundation for plant success and landscaper's pride. They have got 1138 01:01:00.079 --> 01:01:02.760 gardener's magic. That is an awesome soil. It's got a 1139 01:01:02.840 --> 01:01:05.840 chicken pellet fertilizer in it that lasts up to three months. 1140 01:01:05.840 --> 01:01:08.760 It's good for a raised garden. You can use it 1141 01:01:08.760 --> 01:01:12.760 in your containers as well, organic pine based screen, pine 1142 01:01:12.760 --> 01:01:16.199 composted dry salts. Then there's the mushroom compost and that's 1143 01:01:16.280 --> 01:01:19.719 just rocket fuel. You mix mushroom compost into soil and 1144 01:01:19.800 --> 01:01:23.239 it really does help plants take off and grow. They've 1145 01:01:23.239 --> 01:01:25.599 got that, They've got the healthy soil compost. It's one 1146 01:01:25.679 --> 01:01:29.360 hundred percent recycled composted plant material, got a good neutral 1147 01:01:29.360 --> 01:01:32.440 pH in there. It adds nutrients as it continues to 1148 01:01:32.480 --> 01:01:36.280 decompose in your soil. Black humus is a rich organic 1149 01:01:36.320 --> 01:01:39.880 mix of composted bark and top soil which helps the 1150 01:01:39.920 --> 01:01:43.599 soil whole moisture while still draining adequately well. You can 1151 01:01:43.679 --> 01:01:45.840 use it in a new bed, you can use it 1152 01:01:45.880 --> 01:01:49.079 to top off and mix in to an existing bed, 1153 01:01:49.360 --> 01:01:52.800 and then Landscaperspride has a lot of different mulches. Always 1154 01:01:52.880 --> 01:01:56.239 keep the surface of your soil mulched so that sunlight 1155 01:01:56.320 --> 01:01:59.599 doesn't reach the soil or overheat the soil, which it 1156 01:01:59.639 --> 01:02:02.159 will do. Right now, go to Landscaperspride dot com. You 1157 01:02:02.159 --> 01:02:04.920 can find out all the many places that you can 1158 01:02:04.920 --> 01:02:08.920 get Landscaper's Pride products here in our area. We're going 1159 01:02:09.000 --> 01:02:12.639 to go now to Tumball and talk to David. Hello, David, 1160 01:02:12.800 --> 01:02:13.920 Welcome to garden Line. 1161 01:02:14.079 --> 01:02:19.880 Good good morning, Skip. Hey, I got a two questions. 1162 01:02:20.199 --> 01:02:23.920 I've got some fruit trees, a fig, a grapefruit, and 1163 01:02:23.960 --> 01:02:29.559 a meyer limon. A fig and the grapefruit. They say 1164 01:02:29.639 --> 01:02:31.960 I planted them all probably about a year ago, year 1165 01:02:31.960 --> 01:02:35.199 and a half. Go, Well, the fig and the grapefruit. 1166 01:02:35.360 --> 01:02:39.880 They're taking off pretty good. The meyer lemon is not. 1167 01:02:40.239 --> 01:02:42.719 It's it's still kind of small. 1168 01:02:42.760 --> 01:02:44.800 It's got green leaves on it, but it's just not 1169 01:02:45.320 --> 01:02:48.400 growing up like the other ones are. And I didn't 1170 01:02:48.400 --> 01:02:50.320 know if that was just the nature of that particular 1171 01:02:50.400 --> 01:02:50.960 plant or not. 1172 01:02:51.880 --> 01:02:54.800 And then the other I was wondering, I'll. 1173 01:02:54.679 --> 01:02:58.159 Go ahead, Well, no it's not. I mean it's it's 1174 01:02:58.159 --> 01:03:02.360 not the same stature plant as a grapefruit. That's a 1175 01:03:02.480 --> 01:03:05.679 huge plant compared to a mere lemon. H Are these 1176 01:03:05.679 --> 01:03:07.800 in containers? Is a mere lemon and a container? 1177 01:03:09.039 --> 01:03:09.119 No? 1178 01:03:09.280 --> 01:03:12.599 I got them in the ground. Okay, Well, I don't know. 1179 01:03:13.079 --> 01:03:16.159 Just I would continue to you know, give it adequate water, 1180 01:03:16.679 --> 01:03:19.159 Keep the weeds away. That's the number one thing to 1181 01:03:19.239 --> 01:03:21.840 keep the lawnmower and weed eater and the weed competition. 1182 01:03:22.000 --> 01:03:24.639 Keep all that away from the base of the trunk. Uh, 1183 01:03:24.920 --> 01:03:27.239 Fertilizing is helpful, I wouldn't. I would go ahead and 1184 01:03:27.280 --> 01:03:30.599 fertilize it now if you haven't recently. But I wouldn't 1185 01:03:30.639 --> 01:03:34.239 fertilize it once we get too far into September, because 1186 01:03:34.239 --> 01:03:36.239 you don't want to push a lot of late season 1187 01:03:36.280 --> 01:03:39.840 growth since those plants are already on the cold tender end. 1188 01:03:39.960 --> 01:03:44.320 Anyway, Well, I've been I've been fertilizing it with some 1189 01:03:44.360 --> 01:03:45.400 stuff I got at r C. 1190 01:03:45.760 --> 01:03:47.599 Wh okay. 1191 01:03:48.880 --> 01:03:53.360 Organic that you. 1192 01:03:52.480 --> 01:03:55.480 Anyway, probably the microze. 1193 01:03:56.840 --> 01:03:57.320 That's it. 1194 01:03:57.679 --> 01:03:57.960 That's it. 1195 01:04:00.119 --> 01:04:02.199 Matter of fact, they so me a container ody to 1196 01:04:02.239 --> 01:04:05.119 go back go you can feel refill that container for 1197 01:04:05.199 --> 01:04:05.760 half priced. 1198 01:04:05.800 --> 01:04:08.000 So there's a little little plug for them. 1199 01:04:08.039 --> 01:04:15.000 But anyway, hey, uh, the next question is these plants, 1200 01:04:15.639 --> 01:04:18.960 the fig and the grapefruit and even the little limit 1201 01:04:19.320 --> 01:04:21.920 they're getting little sprigs coming off the ground. 1202 01:04:21.960 --> 01:04:26.360 I won't see these juvenile plants to grow up and okay, 1203 01:04:27.000 --> 01:04:30.679 instead of growing when when should All. 1204 01:04:30.639 --> 01:04:33.320 Right, here, here's what I'm to do. I'm already into 1205 01:04:33.360 --> 01:04:35.280 my next break. Here, hang on just a second. We'll 1206 01:04:35.280 --> 01:04:37.400 come back and we'll address that. Thank you, Thank you 1207 01:04:37.440 --> 01:04:39.599 for hanging on. We'll be right back to have you 1208 01:04:39.719 --> 01:04:40.400 with us today. 1209 01:04:40.800 --> 01:04:40.920 Uh. 1210 01:04:40.960 --> 01:04:46.039 Let's see here we are heading out to uh Pasadena 1211 01:04:46.480 --> 01:04:49.159 to talk to Freda. Hello Frea, welcome to guard Mine. 1212 01:04:50.599 --> 01:04:50.960 Thank you. 1213 01:04:52.000 --> 01:04:55.119 I have had discussed that my sister in law gave me. 1214 01:04:55.840 --> 01:04:58.840 It was she got it from loads on work down 1215 01:04:59.400 --> 01:05:01.559 and I put it the pot on my front porch 1216 01:05:02.360 --> 01:05:05.239 and when I was watering it, I iiced there were 1217 01:05:05.239 --> 01:05:10.679 a little white cotton looking things on the leaves. 1218 01:05:10.840 --> 01:05:10.920 And. 1219 01:05:12.639 --> 01:05:15.679 She gave me some spray and I tried that. Well, 1220 01:05:15.719 --> 01:05:20.639 the white the little things that look like infectors, they 1221 01:05:20.639 --> 01:05:24.039 weren't moving, but anyway, yeah, now I see like a 1222 01:05:24.079 --> 01:05:29.239 pattery like snow on the leaves. And I strayed with 1223 01:05:29.519 --> 01:05:33.519 what she gave me. And it's still I still have 1224 01:05:33.559 --> 01:05:36.199 the pottery spray. I don't have the little white toots 1225 01:05:36.239 --> 01:05:37.760 of cotton looking things. 1226 01:05:37.960 --> 01:05:40.320 Okay, but do you know, you know I'm. 1227 01:05:40.199 --> 01:05:42.400 Beginning to get hold in them. 1228 01:05:42.800 --> 01:05:45.599 Okay, do you know what the spray was that you had? 1229 01:05:45.800 --> 01:05:49.000 No, I asked her, Okay, something she mixed up and 1230 01:05:49.000 --> 01:05:49.679 putting a bottle. 1231 01:05:50.559 --> 01:05:54.559 Oh okay, all right. Uh so those are probably mealie bugs. 1232 01:05:54.599 --> 01:05:56.440 And if you want to, if you're not squeamish, and 1233 01:05:56.480 --> 01:05:58.280 you don't mind, go out and grab some of that 1234 01:05:58.360 --> 01:06:01.119 cotton between your thumb and fore finger and kind of 1235 01:06:01.159 --> 01:06:03.719 squeeze it and slide it to the side. And if 1236 01:06:03.760 --> 01:06:06.480 you got all kinds of pinkish red goo on your finger, 1237 01:06:06.840 --> 01:06:12.039 that's mealybugs. Okay. They're hard to control. There's two approaches. 1238 01:06:12.239 --> 01:06:15.880 One is to individually go after them with a little 1239 01:06:15.960 --> 01:06:18.760 like a cotton ball, dipped in alcohol and just kind 1240 01:06:18.760 --> 01:06:20.920 of dab it on there. Some people use a cute 1241 01:06:20.960 --> 01:06:22.679 tip if they're trying to get in because he sings, 1242 01:06:22.760 --> 01:06:26.320 hide in the nooks and crannies of the plant and 1243 01:06:26.440 --> 01:06:28.840 just stay on them like that. Another way is to 1244 01:06:28.880 --> 01:06:31.000 put a product in the soil that'll go up in 1245 01:06:31.039 --> 01:06:34.320 the plant, so when the Meaia bug sucks the juices 1246 01:06:34.480 --> 01:06:37.159 out of the plant, which is what they're doing, that 1247 01:06:37.320 --> 01:06:40.199 they pick up that poison that way. If you're going 1248 01:06:40.280 --> 01:06:42.280 to do that, I would make sure you don't have 1249 01:06:42.360 --> 01:06:45.039 blooms on it for a while, because you don't want 1250 01:06:45.079 --> 01:06:48.039 bees to be feeding on nectar if the plant's been 1251 01:06:49.400 --> 01:06:53.320 provided with a systemic insecticide like that. But those are 1252 01:06:53.320 --> 01:06:57.960 the two approaches. The alcohol approach is more tedious and 1253 01:06:58.000 --> 01:07:00.480 you have to stay with it. But that would be 1254 01:07:00.519 --> 01:07:02.079 the way to go the holes in the leaves or 1255 01:07:02.119 --> 01:07:06.599 something else, and probably not a cause for concern on hibiscus. 1256 01:07:07.840 --> 01:07:11.480 Okay, all right, thank you so much for help you, 1257 01:07:11.559 --> 01:07:12.079 bet Freda. 1258 01:07:12.159 --> 01:07:15.079 Thank you for the call. Appreciate that very much. Let's 1259 01:07:15.079 --> 01:07:17.760 go out now. We're going back. David and Tumbull I 1260 01:07:17.800 --> 01:07:19.559 think we left you hanging a minute ago. 1261 01:07:20.719 --> 01:07:27.400 That's Okay, Hey, I've got those fruit trees are coming 1262 01:07:27.480 --> 01:07:31.639 up and they're they're putting out sprigs posting the ground. 1263 01:07:31.880 --> 01:07:35.280 I won't pick trees to grow up and correct, so 1264 01:07:35.360 --> 01:07:38.000 I can pick the fruit right, so, but I don't 1265 01:07:38.039 --> 01:07:40.679 want them having the limb so postagram. When is the 1266 01:07:40.760 --> 01:07:43.519 right time to prune them without harming these juvenile trees. 1267 01:07:44.639 --> 01:07:46.480 Oh, you can prone them anytime you want. But those 1268 01:07:46.559 --> 01:07:48.599 things at the bottom, as they're sprouting out and they're 1269 01:07:48.599 --> 01:07:50.719 a little tender and succulent, you can just take your 1270 01:07:50.760 --> 01:07:52.719 thumb and rub them to the side and they snap 1271 01:07:52.840 --> 01:07:54.679 right off where they attach. 1272 01:07:55.559 --> 01:07:57.280 But you I don't know if you're going to pick 1273 01:07:57.360 --> 01:07:58.960 that young if I should just let them grow. 1274 01:08:00.639 --> 01:08:04.280 Well, you know, there's not a right or wrong on it, 1275 01:08:04.679 --> 01:08:09.239 to be honest, David, if I would if your plant 1276 01:08:09.239 --> 01:08:10.960 doesn't have a lot of foliage on it, I would 1277 01:08:11.079 --> 01:08:14.519 leave what's there to help keep supporting that root system 1278 01:08:14.599 --> 01:08:18.399 for a while. But I wouldn't do the pruning too 1279 01:08:18.479 --> 01:08:21.760 late into the fall, because when you prune, you stimulate 1280 01:08:21.800 --> 01:08:24.840 new growth, and on something that's potentially going to be 1281 01:08:24.880 --> 01:08:28.199 freeze damaged, you don't want to stimulate late season growth 1282 01:08:28.239 --> 01:08:30.399 because that doesn't have that kind of growth doesn't have 1283 01:08:30.399 --> 01:08:33.680 any future with the winter coming on, So I would 1284 01:08:33.680 --> 01:08:35.279 if you're going to do some prune on it, I 1285 01:08:35.279 --> 01:08:37.439 would do it now. If you feel like, you know, 1286 01:08:37.520 --> 01:08:40.199 these plants don't have enough leaves or growth or whatever, 1287 01:08:40.520 --> 01:08:42.720 you could just leave it for now and then you 1288 01:08:42.720 --> 01:08:45.359 could get back on it next spring with some pruning 1289 01:08:45.399 --> 01:08:49.439 and watering fertilizing at that time. Either way, it will work, 1290 01:08:49.239 --> 01:08:50.800 work all right. 1291 01:08:50.880 --> 01:08:52.600 Thank you, sir, You. 1292 01:08:52.600 --> 01:08:57.399 Bet, thanks a lot. I appreciate your call. I've talked 1293 01:08:57.439 --> 01:09:00.520 to you about different kinds of fertilizer products on the 1294 01:09:00.560 --> 01:09:06.760 program before and Nelson Fertilizers. Dan Nelson and his team 1295 01:09:06.800 --> 01:09:11.000 out there have created a wide range of products. Now 1296 01:09:11.119 --> 01:09:13.920 we talk about the turf fertilizers like Slow and Easy 1297 01:09:14.119 --> 01:09:17.640 soup Er slow release fertilizer for the lawn, Bruce's Brew 1298 01:09:17.680 --> 01:09:21.279 which is more immediate release with some slow release activity 1299 01:09:21.319 --> 01:09:24.199 as well. By the way, if you haven't fertilized this summer, 1300 01:09:24.359 --> 01:09:26.239 you can put a little Bruce's Brew on now and 1301 01:09:26.319 --> 01:09:29.359 that would carry you on into our fall fertilization. But 1302 01:09:29.399 --> 01:09:32.079 I want to talk about some of the canisters that 1303 01:09:32.119 --> 01:09:34.359 they have that would be things like color Star for 1304 01:09:34.640 --> 01:09:38.079 any kind of bloom and flowering plant, the Plumeria food, 1305 01:09:38.119 --> 01:09:40.800 the boog and villia food, the rose food, the crape myrtle, 1306 01:09:40.880 --> 01:09:44.920 tree and shrub vegetable garden azaleas. There's one for citrus, 1307 01:09:44.920 --> 01:09:49.319 fruit and avocados. There's another one for hibiscus, and these 1308 01:09:49.359 --> 01:09:51.720 things can be refilled. There's a number of a dozen 1309 01:09:51.800 --> 01:09:56.960 different companies around town, garden centers and whatnot that feed 1310 01:09:57.000 --> 01:09:59.760 stores to that well. You can come out and you 1311 01:09:59.840 --> 01:10:01.720 just pull the handle kind of like you're getting peanuts 1312 01:10:01.720 --> 01:10:03.680 in the grocery store, put in a little bag. You 1313 01:10:03.760 --> 01:10:06.000 just put your old jar up there and refill it. 1314 01:10:06.159 --> 01:10:08.560 And it's a lot less expensive to do it that way. 1315 01:10:08.600 --> 01:10:11.319 Plus you just don't throw more plastic in the environment. 1316 01:10:11.560 --> 01:10:13.640 You just reuse that jar over and over again. It 1317 01:10:13.720 --> 01:10:16.560 just makes sense with a high quality product like that 1318 01:10:16.600 --> 01:10:19.680 and the ability to refill. I think Nelson Plant Food 1319 01:10:19.960 --> 01:10:24.119 has a wonderful lineup and just makes sense. And you're 1320 01:10:24.119 --> 01:10:26.640 going to find Nelson in a lot of different places 1321 01:10:26.640 --> 01:10:31.720 in the area. We're going to now go to Isaiah. Hello, Isaiah, 1322 01:10:31.840 --> 01:10:34.279 welcome to garden Line. I've got about a minute or 1323 01:10:34.319 --> 01:10:36.199 so here. We'll see if we can get you taken 1324 01:10:36.199 --> 01:10:40.119 care of. Thank you, Good morning morning. 1325 01:10:41.560 --> 01:10:45.359 Yeah, I have a tellin the treda is green. 1326 01:10:45.880 --> 01:10:47.800 It's about four feet now. 1327 01:10:48.239 --> 01:10:50.760 But at least our calling is that it's a spring. 1328 01:10:50.880 --> 01:10:52.199 Wasn't like that before. 1329 01:10:53.840 --> 01:10:57.439 The I'm sorry, it's a What kind of plant? 1330 01:10:57.520 --> 01:10:57.680 Is it? 1331 01:10:58.720 --> 01:10:59.359 Thine? 1332 01:10:59.439 --> 01:10:59.920 A tree? 1333 01:11:00.920 --> 01:11:04.000 Okay? And and what is what is what do you 1334 01:11:04.039 --> 01:11:06.760 mean by culling? What's it? What's happening? Is it throwing 1335 01:11:06.760 --> 01:11:07.399 the fruit off? 1336 01:11:08.520 --> 01:11:11.840 No, he's not yet, he's just you know, he's about 1337 01:11:11.880 --> 01:11:12.640 four feet now. 1338 01:11:13.279 --> 01:11:20.319 But at least colin you know, Oh, okay, okay, yes, okay, 1339 01:11:20.359 --> 01:11:23.479 I got you, I got you, all right, Uh, Isaiah? 1340 01:11:23.520 --> 01:11:27.319 What that is is it is something. It's a little 1341 01:11:27.359 --> 01:11:31.640 insect that feeds in between the upper and lower leaf surface, 1342 01:11:31.720 --> 01:11:37.520 so it tunnels out the fleshy material inside the leaf. 1343 01:11:37.960 --> 01:11:39.920 And if you look at it close, you'll see little 1344 01:11:39.960 --> 01:11:44.000 black lines or trails through there. And that's called the 1345 01:11:44.000 --> 01:11:47.920 citrus leaf minor. And then the plant leaf starts to 1346 01:11:48.000 --> 01:11:51.159 curl from all that feeding activity. Now, that doesn't kill 1347 01:11:51.199 --> 01:11:54.119 your plant. It takes it takes away leaf area, though, 1348 01:11:55.600 --> 01:11:58.960 so some people will ignore it and do nothing. If 1349 01:11:58.960 --> 01:12:01.239 it's a young plant. I would say for the first 1350 01:12:01.319 --> 01:12:04.159 couple of years. Let's go ahead and spray it, control 1351 01:12:04.239 --> 01:12:08.520 those leaf miners and give the plant a chance to 1352 01:12:08.600 --> 01:12:11.680 build a stronger, bigger plant. And the product I would 1353 01:12:11.680 --> 01:12:14.760 recommend is called spin nosid. And if you have a 1354 01:12:14.760 --> 01:12:17.039 pin or pencil, honey, I'm going to spell that word 1355 01:12:17.640 --> 01:12:21.760 out for you. It's available in many brands in many places. 1356 01:12:22.680 --> 01:12:24.760 I know our Ace hardware stores are all going to 1357 01:12:24.800 --> 01:12:32.000 have spinosid in different forms. It's s p I N 1358 01:12:32.279 --> 01:12:41.640 O s A D spin oh sad, sad, spin no sad. 1359 01:12:41.840 --> 01:12:44.199 That's the ingredient. Just go into an Ace hardware store 1360 01:12:44.199 --> 01:12:47.119 and or a garden center near you and just say hey, 1361 01:12:47.119 --> 01:12:50.119 I need something with spinosid, and just spray it whenever 1362 01:12:50.159 --> 01:12:56.199 there's new fresh growth. Okay, thank you, you bet good 1363 01:12:56.279 --> 01:12:59.039 luck with that. I appreciate your call. I hear the 1364 01:12:59.119 --> 01:13:02.279 music music playing here. We're going to take a break. 1365 01:13:02.640 --> 01:13:04.840 I'll be back our number seven one three two one 1366 01:13:04.920 --> 01:13:13.279 two fifty eight seventy four. Thank you, welcome back to 1367 01:13:13.319 --> 01:13:16.640 the guarden line. Glad you're back with us. We are 1368 01:13:16.680 --> 01:13:18.960 looking forward to helping you in any way. We can 1369 01:13:19.159 --> 01:13:23.279 have a beautiful garden, a bountiful landscape, and perhaps most 1370 01:13:23.319 --> 01:13:26.439 important of all having fun in the process. We're going 1371 01:13:26.479 --> 01:13:29.880 to head straight out this hour to Maureene out in 1372 01:13:29.960 --> 01:13:31.079 Lakeside of State. Hello. 1373 01:13:31.159 --> 01:13:36.119 Maurene, Hello, I have a question. 1374 01:13:36.880 --> 01:13:40.079 I've had to order a special product. 1375 01:13:40.159 --> 01:13:44.000 To put in my small backyard pond, and I mean 1376 01:13:44.119 --> 01:13:50.560 really small. I bought the smallest quantity, which was eight ounces. 1377 01:13:51.439 --> 01:13:54.920 I'll try to say the name of the. 1378 01:13:57.039 --> 01:13:57.920 Am I online. 1379 01:13:58.159 --> 01:14:00.000 I guess not yes, uh huh, I'm listening. 1380 01:14:00.640 --> 01:14:01.720 Oh oh, I'm sorry. 1381 01:14:01.760 --> 01:14:06.039 Well, I made a mistake of leaving my radio one, 1382 01:14:06.119 --> 01:14:09.279 so I'm gonna step side out. 1383 01:14:08.199 --> 01:14:10.760 You have confusion, I'm sorry. 1384 01:14:10.880 --> 01:14:11.239 All right. 1385 01:14:11.319 --> 01:14:12.359 It looks like it. 1386 01:14:12.319 --> 01:14:17.319 Is called Fluma max a scene. I'll spell it if 1387 01:14:17.359 --> 01:14:22.479 you are not familiar. It's f l U f l 1388 01:14:22.760 --> 01:14:29.000 U m A x A z I N. I purchased 1389 01:14:29.039 --> 01:14:35.439 it because I have something called water meal, and I've 1390 01:14:35.479 --> 01:14:37.560 had a great deal of trouble trying to fight this 1391 01:14:37.720 --> 01:14:41.119 off in my little pond and had to go online. 1392 01:14:42.000 --> 01:14:42.920 So what else? 1393 01:14:43.199 --> 01:14:43.720 I believe? 1394 01:14:43.760 --> 01:14:46.960 They told me it could be used to kill other plants, 1395 01:14:47.680 --> 01:14:51.119 and I grasped, so I was trying to get a 1396 01:14:51.159 --> 01:14:57.359 little bit more finite detail, as is it so strong 1397 01:14:57.880 --> 01:14:59.239 or I'll let you talk. 1398 01:14:59.439 --> 01:15:00.159 I'm sorry. 1399 01:15:00.439 --> 01:15:05.840 Okay, So basically, first of all, that's outside my air 1400 01:15:05.880 --> 01:15:10.720 of expertise. But that particular product is a herbicide and 1401 01:15:10.760 --> 01:15:14.640 it's used, it can be used, and it's used on 1402 01:15:14.760 --> 01:15:19.600 road sides in some situations for vegetation management. Did they 1403 01:15:19.600 --> 01:15:21.560 tell you to put it in a pond? Is that? 1404 01:15:22.000 --> 01:15:22.800 Is that what it was? 1405 01:15:22.880 --> 01:15:23.279 Yes? 1406 01:15:23.600 --> 01:15:25.479 I have it small. 1407 01:15:25.680 --> 01:15:30.840 It's a small little irritant called water meal. It is 1408 01:15:30.880 --> 01:15:32.600 so tiny it just looks. 1409 01:15:32.359 --> 01:15:33.840 Like a little tiny round. 1410 01:15:34.000 --> 01:15:37.800 It has no roots, but it multiplies quickly and it's 1411 01:15:37.800 --> 01:15:42.439 covered the surface, so it looks terrible. So I'm going 1412 01:15:42.520 --> 01:15:42.920 to kill the. 1413 01:15:43.399 --> 01:15:45.079 But it's super expensive. 1414 01:15:45.239 --> 01:15:47.000 So I'm thinking I don't want it to sit in 1415 01:15:47.039 --> 01:15:50.920 my garage if there is another use for it in 1416 01:15:50.960 --> 01:15:52.279 the rest of my yard. 1417 01:15:52.319 --> 01:15:53.239 I have a small yard. 1418 01:15:54.479 --> 01:15:57.279 Yeah, it doesn't have a label for anything anything else 1419 01:15:57.319 --> 01:16:00.640 in the landscape, so you I can't reckon commend using 1420 01:16:00.640 --> 01:16:05.199 it anywhere else. But that particular product is used for 1421 01:16:05.239 --> 01:16:11.039 aquatic weeds and all these things that hydrilla and all 1422 01:16:11.119 --> 01:16:14.239 kinds of other stuff that get into the into water systems. 1423 01:16:14.279 --> 01:16:17.520 It helps control that. So as far as the use 1424 01:16:17.640 --> 01:16:20.119 is for it, you know, there's not another labeled use 1425 01:16:20.159 --> 01:16:21.159 in the landscape. 1426 01:16:22.319 --> 01:16:26.880 Okay, all right, but I just thought best i'd try. 1427 01:16:27.680 --> 01:16:27.840 Well. 1428 01:16:27.840 --> 01:16:31.640 Good, good question, good question. Good you almost stump the 1429 01:16:31.720 --> 01:16:32.600 chump on that one. 1430 01:16:32.640 --> 01:16:37.840 But yeah, you might send me. You might send me 1431 01:16:37.920 --> 01:16:42.319 out to a pe place. And that has not been fruitful. 1432 01:16:43.319 --> 01:16:46.600 I haven't gotten any use out of anything that was recommended. 1433 01:16:46.680 --> 01:16:49.199 I don't need to mention the name of the company. 1434 01:16:49.640 --> 01:16:53.520 But so, but what I would like to, yeah, just 1435 01:16:53.600 --> 01:16:55.439 stay kind of watch it and stay with it. And 1436 01:16:55.520 --> 01:16:58.239 also just be aware that as you add nitrogen to water, 1437 01:16:58.800 --> 01:17:01.840 you start to have a proferation of different things like algae. 1438 01:17:01.880 --> 01:17:04.640 You know, you get that green algae in the water 1439 01:17:04.800 --> 01:17:09.119 that uh so, anything that is a fertilizer kind of 1440 01:17:09.119 --> 01:17:12.399 thing used in that water is going to proliferate some 1441 01:17:12.439 --> 01:17:17.279 of those aquatic plant issues that you might have. It 1442 01:17:17.319 --> 01:17:19.279 doesn't mean don't fertilize and you won't have it, just 1443 01:17:19.319 --> 01:17:21.159 means don't aggravate it with fertilizer. 1444 01:17:22.439 --> 01:17:24.479 Okay, I got you. 1445 01:17:25.159 --> 01:17:26.399 I'll let you know how I do. 1446 01:17:27.600 --> 01:17:30.079 Good Thank bye, bye, Yes, thank you. 1447 01:17:31.439 --> 01:17:34.159 All right, We're going to go now out to Leanne 1448 01:17:34.199 --> 01:17:36.479 in Cyprus. Hello Leanne, Welcome to guard Line. 1449 01:17:37.439 --> 01:17:38.479 Good morning, Skip. 1450 01:17:39.199 --> 01:17:44.960 I have to take down at least half of a 1451 01:17:45.039 --> 01:17:48.920 thirty year old crate birdle that is probably twenty feet 1452 01:17:49.000 --> 01:17:54.239 high to accommodate putting in a whole home generator. And 1453 01:17:54.479 --> 01:17:57.279 the question is can I do this or do I 1454 01:17:57.359 --> 01:18:00.479 have to remove the whole crate birdle? Really don't want to, 1455 01:18:00.800 --> 01:18:06.079 but these limbs are massive as you might expect at 1456 01:18:06.119 --> 01:18:10.199 that age, and I don't want it resprouting either, because 1457 01:18:10.239 --> 01:18:13.439 that area has to be clear for them to have 1458 01:18:13.560 --> 01:18:16.159 access for any. 1459 01:18:16.439 --> 01:18:19.760 Just yeah, is it just how close will the slab 1460 01:18:19.800 --> 01:18:22.279 for the generator be to the trunk of the. 1461 01:18:22.239 --> 01:18:25.199 Crape myrtle twenty two inches? 1462 01:18:26.319 --> 01:18:29.199 Oh wow? Okay, yeah, you need to have somebody dig 1463 01:18:29.239 --> 01:18:33.199 that out. It would be the best bet. You can 1464 01:18:33.239 --> 01:18:36.399 cut it off and you can treat the stump immediately 1465 01:18:37.560 --> 01:18:40.760 with a product containing tricle paer and that will kill it. 1466 01:18:40.840 --> 01:18:45.239 But craymurtle that size has huge roots underground that are 1467 01:18:45.239 --> 01:18:47.520 going to rot over time, and then the soil sinks, 1468 01:18:47.560 --> 01:18:52.199 and now your slab is on sinking. One end of 1469 01:18:52.239 --> 01:18:53.600 the slab is going to be on a kind of 1470 01:18:53.600 --> 01:18:57.239 a sinking area of soil, so that I would personally 1471 01:18:57.279 --> 01:18:59.199 have somebody dig it out and put the saw back 1472 01:18:59.239 --> 01:19:02.479 in kind of back down again before they come in 1473 01:19:02.520 --> 01:19:04.920 with the slab. But if you just want to kill it, 1474 01:19:05.720 --> 01:19:07.840 there is a product that when you cut it off, 1475 01:19:07.880 --> 01:19:11.880 you treat the stump immediately, not half a day later, 1476 01:19:11.960 --> 01:19:14.319 but right away. You put a tricle a peer on 1477 01:19:14.399 --> 01:19:17.359 that stump and it will kill it may reach sprout 1478 01:19:17.439 --> 01:19:19.800 once just because that's a huge crape myrtle with a 1479 01:19:19.800 --> 01:19:24.079 lot of stored reserves. But that will be the way 1480 01:19:24.119 --> 01:19:25.920 you get rid of the planet itself. But I don't 1481 01:19:25.920 --> 01:19:28.520 think that's adequate if you're putting a slab in that close. 1482 01:19:30.680 --> 01:19:34.680 Yeah, so you do recommend taking the whole thing down. 1483 01:19:34.760 --> 01:19:37.720 Then I would get it out of there and get 1484 01:19:37.920 --> 01:19:41.880 especially over toward the slab side, you know, getting some 1485 01:19:41.960 --> 01:19:44.479 of those roots out of there, and you can hire 1486 01:19:44.520 --> 01:19:46.720 somebody to come in and hang grub it out, or 1487 01:19:46.760 --> 01:19:49.319 how are you going to go about it? The problem 1488 01:19:49.319 --> 01:19:51.359 with the stump grinder is that fluff stuff up and 1489 01:19:51.479 --> 01:19:53.159 leaves a lot of wood in the soil, so it's 1490 01:19:53.199 --> 01:19:57.520 still going to sink afterward anyway. But those are your options. 1491 01:19:59.079 --> 01:20:01.800 Yeah, not the wa and I wanted to hear I 1492 01:20:01.840 --> 01:20:04.560 really wanted to leave. I wanted to leave half of 1493 01:20:04.640 --> 01:20:06.920 it because I want the height there and the shade 1494 01:20:06.920 --> 01:20:08.600 there in that corner of the house. 1495 01:20:10.560 --> 01:20:13.359 Okay, But the people with the generator saying they can't 1496 01:20:13.359 --> 01:20:16.199 get access right, well. 1497 01:20:16.000 --> 01:20:22.239 They want twenty two inches clearance all the way around 1498 01:20:22.439 --> 01:20:27.039 the generator to be able to service it, which you 1499 01:20:27.079 --> 01:20:32.800 know is reasonable and to do that, and I do 1500 01:20:32.920 --> 01:20:35.520 have to remove part of that crepe, at least half 1501 01:20:35.560 --> 01:20:35.840 of it. 1502 01:20:36.920 --> 01:20:39.399 But you're saying you're recommending all, well. 1503 01:20:40.199 --> 01:20:42.239 Yeah, I mean when you cut that back, it's just 1504 01:20:42.279 --> 01:20:44.640 going to re spout all these suckers from the base. 1505 01:20:44.720 --> 01:20:46.960 And now you've got a thicket coming back where you 1506 01:20:47.159 --> 01:20:49.840 to replace the part of the trunk you took off 1507 01:20:49.920 --> 01:20:52.159 or something. So I from what I can picture in 1508 01:20:52.159 --> 01:20:54.600 my mind's eye, I don't see a way around this one. 1509 01:20:55.199 --> 01:20:56.359 But if you want to, I'm going to put you 1510 01:20:56.439 --> 01:20:59.199 on hold. If you want to get my email address, 1511 01:20:59.239 --> 01:21:01.760 send me a photo oh of it. Remind me it's 1512 01:21:01.800 --> 01:21:03.880 a follow up of this call. I'll take a look 1513 01:21:03.960 --> 01:21:06.560 and maybe there's something I'm not picturing in my mind's eye. 1514 01:21:06.680 --> 01:21:08.840 I'm sorry I'm late running to a break here, Liam, 1515 01:21:08.920 --> 01:21:11.119 but I'm putting you on hold and Chris will give 1516 01:21:11.159 --> 01:21:13.119 you an email address if you want to stick around 1517 01:21:13.680 --> 01:21:15.520 all right, folks, I got to take a run. When 1518 01:21:15.520 --> 01:21:19.600 we get back Blake and Cypress and Walter and Adolph, 1519 01:21:19.680 --> 01:21:23.800 we will be getting to your calls right away. Hey, 1520 01:21:23.880 --> 01:21:27.239 welcome back to guard Line. Glad you are. Glad you 1521 01:21:27.319 --> 01:21:30.439 are with us today. We're answering questions and trying to 1522 01:21:30.479 --> 01:21:32.960 help you have a more beautiful on more bountiful landscape 1523 01:21:32.960 --> 01:21:36.159 and certainly more fun in the process of gardening. Let's 1524 01:21:36.199 --> 01:21:39.720 head out to Blake and Cypress next. Hello, Blake and 1525 01:21:39.760 --> 01:21:40.760 welcome to guard Line. 1526 01:21:41.359 --> 01:21:46.079 Hiks, Skip, good morning. I've got several porter weed plants 1527 01:21:46.079 --> 01:21:48.319 that we enjoy. They take the heat and the pots 1528 01:21:48.319 --> 01:21:50.920 all summer. When we forget to water them. There's bees 1529 01:21:51.000 --> 01:21:53.279 on them right now, I'm looking at it. But they 1530 01:21:53.319 --> 01:21:56.840 get singed every they get killed every winter. So I'm 1531 01:21:56.840 --> 01:22:02.039 thinking about trying to propagate them in from cuttings and 1532 01:22:02.079 --> 01:22:04.439 that way move the pots in this winter, the small 1533 01:22:04.439 --> 01:22:05.680 pots in overwinter. 1534 01:22:05.920 --> 01:22:06.119 Right. 1535 01:22:06.159 --> 01:22:08.079 So I got the hormone, I got the potting mix, 1536 01:22:08.199 --> 01:22:10.119 But when is the best time of year for me 1537 01:22:10.199 --> 01:22:12.079 to start that cutting process. 1538 01:22:12.920 --> 01:22:15.319 You can try that at any time. I've never tried 1539 01:22:15.359 --> 01:22:20.000 to cutting propagate porter weed before, so I'm not familiar 1540 01:22:20.199 --> 01:22:22.159 you know with how successful that's going to be, you 1541 01:22:22.199 --> 01:22:24.520 can try it. You can also do a division any 1542 01:22:24.560 --> 01:22:27.000 kind of thing that's a perennial like that. You typically 1543 01:22:27.000 --> 01:22:29.800 can get down at the base and divide the plant 1544 01:22:29.880 --> 01:22:33.640 in two and have two viable plants. So that would 1545 01:22:33.640 --> 01:22:36.039 be another option. You're not going to make a lot 1546 01:22:36.039 --> 01:22:38.439 of plants out of it that way, but like you, 1547 01:22:38.600 --> 01:22:41.279 cuttings can make a lot of plants. But if you're 1548 01:22:41.279 --> 01:22:43.520 going to try a cutting, I would I would cut 1549 01:22:43.560 --> 01:22:47.880 some tissues and leave Do you know what a node is? 1550 01:22:48.000 --> 01:22:50.439 Where like a stem has a swollen spot where a 1551 01:22:50.479 --> 01:22:52.680 leaf comes out, and then further down the stem there's 1552 01:22:52.720 --> 01:22:55.840 another swollen spot. If you can get cuttings with at 1553 01:22:55.960 --> 01:22:59.399 least two nodes, take the leaves off the bottom node, 1554 01:23:00.039 --> 01:23:02.079 one closest to the base of the plant that you 1555 01:23:02.239 --> 01:23:04.760 cut it off of, and then leave two leaves on 1556 01:23:04.840 --> 01:23:07.439 the other one and dip them in a rooting hormone. 1557 01:23:07.439 --> 01:23:10.760 You can get a powder rooting hormone powder from garden centers, 1558 01:23:10.800 --> 01:23:15.319 Ace Hardware stores, Southwest Fertilizer wherever you are there. Actually 1559 01:23:15.319 --> 01:23:17.520 you're up in the Cypress area, so you you got 1560 01:23:17.560 --> 01:23:20.840 several good Ace Hardware stores in your area, get that powder, 1561 01:23:20.880 --> 01:23:24.239 dip it in the powder, put it in a moist 1562 01:23:24.600 --> 01:23:28.199 chamber with a clear cover over it, and put it 1563 01:23:28.239 --> 01:23:31.079 in lots of light, but not direct sun, and that'll 1564 01:23:31.079 --> 01:23:34.439 give it the best chance of rooting that you can. 1565 01:23:34.600 --> 01:23:36.800 You want that bottom node and then a note above 1566 01:23:36.840 --> 01:23:39.239 ground that has the leaves still on it. 1567 01:23:40.279 --> 01:23:40.680 Perfect. 1568 01:23:41.039 --> 01:23:43.720 All right, we'll give it a truck. Yeah. Yeah, I've 1569 01:23:43.800 --> 01:23:46.439 used a lot of things for that. If you've got 1570 01:23:46.439 --> 01:23:48.239 a container, you can put a little bread wrapper over 1571 01:23:48.239 --> 01:23:50.079 the top of it to kind of create that little 1572 01:23:50.560 --> 01:23:53.720 greenhouse chamber, you know, if you will. So it's pretty 1573 01:23:53.720 --> 01:23:55.640 easy to do, but good luck doing it. Let me 1574 01:23:55.680 --> 01:23:56.479 know how it works for you. 1575 01:23:57.439 --> 01:23:57.640 Well. 1576 01:23:57.680 --> 01:24:01.199 I appreciate it, Skipt, thank you, sir. I appreciate that. 1577 01:24:01.439 --> 01:24:03.560 We're going to go now into Stafford, Texas and talk 1578 01:24:03.600 --> 01:24:06.840 to Walter. Hey, Walter, Hey, good morning. 1579 01:24:06.920 --> 01:24:07.279 Skip. 1580 01:24:07.439 --> 01:24:11.359 I normally listen to you from Stafford, Texas, but luckily 1581 01:24:11.479 --> 01:24:14.199 I absolutely am up in New England, in the state 1582 01:24:14.199 --> 01:24:17.079 of Rhode Island, staring out at aar at Kanton Bay. 1583 01:24:17.079 --> 01:24:18.079 As I'm talking to you. 1584 01:24:18.840 --> 01:24:21.079 I don't want to hear anything about temperatures, but I'll 1585 01:24:21.079 --> 01:24:23.239 answer your question, all right. 1586 01:24:23.279 --> 01:24:26.800 I won't mention temperatures. It's a half tide rising though. 1587 01:24:27.319 --> 01:24:29.880 So Skip, I've got a question and I can't find 1588 01:24:29.880 --> 01:24:32.279 a local resource for it, so I thought I'd turn 1589 01:24:32.319 --> 01:24:37.119 to my home town resource. We have an invasive species 1590 01:24:37.239 --> 01:24:40.880 weed tree up here known as the tree to Heaven. 1591 01:24:41.800 --> 01:24:44.560 If you're just looking at it, the leaves are similar 1592 01:24:44.600 --> 01:24:47.039 to a black walnut, but it's not a black walnut. 1593 01:24:48.000 --> 01:24:51.520 It it doesn't produce any fruit or nuts right. And 1594 01:24:52.439 --> 01:24:57.840 the tree, it grows very fast and it spreads or 1595 01:24:57.960 --> 01:25:01.760 reproduces whatever you want to say, via the root system, 1596 01:25:01.800 --> 01:25:04.520 which are much like riise zomes like you find on 1597 01:25:04.560 --> 01:25:08.239 a fern, So they just pop up from the riise 1598 01:25:08.279 --> 01:25:11.359 zomes that are out there supporting the tree. Is there 1599 01:25:11.640 --> 01:25:14.520 any kind of a product that you can think of 1600 01:25:14.680 --> 01:25:17.119 that as I cut this tree down, or lots of 1601 01:25:17.159 --> 01:25:20.199 these trees down, that I can put into the soil 1602 01:25:20.319 --> 01:25:23.399 to prevent the reproduction or the tree coming back. 1603 01:25:24.279 --> 01:25:26.159 Not in the soil. Here's what you do. You go 1604 01:25:26.239 --> 01:25:31.680 to my website gardening with Skip dot com Gardening Okay 1605 01:25:31.720 --> 01:25:35.279 with Skip dot Com. I put four new publications in 1606 01:25:35.399 --> 01:25:37.520 the top one on the page. As you go to 1607 01:25:37.560 --> 01:25:42.600 that page is herbicide products to use with my weed wiper. Now, yeah, 1608 01:25:42.640 --> 01:25:44.600 you're going to use the weed wiper to do this, 1609 01:25:44.800 --> 01:25:48.039 but if you click on that, what I've done is 1610 01:25:48.079 --> 01:25:52.960 I've grouped weeds. There's woodyweeds, shrubs, vines, and perennials. That's 1611 01:25:53.000 --> 01:25:56.039 what we're talking about here, Tree of Heaven. There's grassyweeds, 1612 01:25:56.079 --> 01:25:59.560 there's broad leafweeds. There's wild onion, wild garlic and their sedges, 1613 01:25:59.600 --> 01:26:02.920 and each of those groups has a different product. Triclop 1614 01:26:02.920 --> 01:26:06.920 Peer is the product that when you cut the branch, 1615 01:26:07.079 --> 01:26:09.439 when you cut the stump off or the trunk off, 1616 01:26:09.520 --> 01:26:12.680 or whatever, anytime you cut it, you immediately treat that 1617 01:26:12.800 --> 01:26:16.439 cut surface with just straight triclo peer. And I have 1618 01:26:16.520 --> 01:26:19.119 a list of all the products that contain triclo Peer 1619 01:26:19.319 --> 01:26:22.199 right there that you can go shop for. But you 1620 01:26:22.279 --> 01:26:26.000 cut it off, you immediately dab with. I use a 1621 01:26:26.000 --> 01:26:29.119 little foam brush like from a paint store. You know 1622 01:26:29.119 --> 01:26:31.920 those little foam brushes on a wooden stick. You just 1623 01:26:32.159 --> 01:26:34.159 you dab that in the tricle paer and then just 1624 01:26:34.239 --> 01:26:36.880 dab it on that fresh cut surface around the perimeter, 1625 01:26:37.000 --> 01:26:40.479 especially of that cut. It moves right into that stump 1626 01:26:40.920 --> 01:26:43.479 and it will really do a good job killing it back. Now, 1627 01:26:43.479 --> 01:26:47.039 if you've got a huge lots of storage underground carbohydrate 1628 01:26:47.039 --> 01:26:50.159 and whatnot, one little treatment or tricle paer may not 1629 01:26:50.239 --> 01:26:52.000 get it all. You may have to do it again 1630 01:26:52.119 --> 01:26:54.520 later when it tries to re sprout. But that is 1631 01:26:54.680 --> 01:26:57.479 very effective. It's simple. It puts the least amount of 1632 01:26:57.560 --> 01:27:00.119 chemical in the environment you can put, but it will 1633 01:27:00.119 --> 01:27:02.560 move down in the tree and translocate through and kill it. 1634 01:27:02.640 --> 01:27:05.359 Do a good job of killing that and other things 1635 01:27:05.359 --> 01:27:08.199 like poison, ivy and other stuff like that. 1636 01:27:09.239 --> 01:27:11.199 Okay, that's what I thought I heard you mentioned to 1637 01:27:11.199 --> 01:27:14.239 the woman with the myrtle beach issue or myrtle create 1638 01:27:14.319 --> 01:27:18.079 myrtle issue trechlopire. So I will try to find that 1639 01:27:18.239 --> 01:27:21.000 up here. Now when you say immediately put on it, 1640 01:27:21.319 --> 01:27:24.159 Can I cut Like they're about two inch stems right now? 1641 01:27:24.439 --> 01:27:26.560 So can I cut maybe four to five of them 1642 01:27:26.600 --> 01:27:29.439 and then apply it? Or as I cut one apply it, 1643 01:27:29.520 --> 01:27:30.600 cut another one apply it. 1644 01:27:30.680 --> 01:27:33.560 Yes. Yes, I'm just trying to get people from to 1645 01:27:34.000 --> 01:27:35.800 not think well, I'll cut it today and I'll come 1646 01:27:35.840 --> 01:27:38.119 dab it tomorrow kind of thing. Just go ahead and 1647 01:27:38.159 --> 01:27:40.479 get it all done while you're there. If you need 1648 01:27:40.520 --> 01:27:41.960 to cut about four or five of them and then 1649 01:27:41.960 --> 01:27:43.720 go back and dab them. That's fine, there's not a 1650 01:27:43.760 --> 01:27:45.720 problem with that. It's not that in me, okay. 1651 01:27:45.840 --> 01:27:46.800 I just wanted to make sure. 1652 01:27:47.720 --> 01:27:50.600 Yeah, good question. Hey Walter, thanks and have fun up there. 1653 01:27:51.119 --> 01:27:53.279 Bring bring back some cool weather if you come back 1654 01:27:53.319 --> 01:28:01.039 this way. Well, all right, folks, I let's see here. 1655 01:28:01.079 --> 01:28:02.920 You know what I was talking earlier to somebody about 1656 01:28:02.960 --> 01:28:05.239 saying you need to go to any hardware if you 1657 01:28:05.279 --> 01:28:08.239 weren't listening earlier. Langham Creek Ase Hardware, which is over 1658 01:28:08.319 --> 01:28:11.359 in Cypress by the way where Blake was doing that 1659 01:28:11.600 --> 01:28:15.560 Porter Weed transplant. Langham Creek Case Hardware is at the 1660 01:28:15.560 --> 01:28:19.279 intersection of Barker Cypress. In five twenty nine, they are 1661 01:28:19.319 --> 01:28:22.720 having a grand reopening. They'd opened, they'd been in the 1662 01:28:22.760 --> 01:28:25.600 store new owners. I was over there, you know, we 1663 01:28:25.680 --> 01:28:28.520 had one of those appearances where people came, there's a 1664 01:28:28.520 --> 01:28:31.159 great time over there. They they kind of close things 1665 01:28:31.199 --> 01:28:34.760 down and revamped all the inside and having their big 1666 01:28:34.800 --> 01:28:39.399 grand reopening now out there, and it starts on Friday. 1667 01:28:39.439 --> 01:28:42.720 This Friday goes through Sunday. They're giving away an Ego 1668 01:28:42.840 --> 01:28:46.399 powered string tremor two hundred fifty dollars machine Ego powered. 1669 01:28:46.720 --> 01:28:52.560 That's the battery powered device. They're giving away a Weber 1670 01:28:52.640 --> 01:28:55.920 grass grill, a four hundred and fifty dollars grill, A paint. 1671 01:28:55.920 --> 01:28:58.520 They're giving away a paint of Room Makeover two hundred 1672 01:28:58.520 --> 01:29:01.720 dollar value. They're going to be demonstrations on various kinds 1673 01:29:01.760 --> 01:29:04.520 of grills like Trager, Big Green Egg and Weber. They're 1674 01:29:04.560 --> 01:29:07.119 going to demonstrate the Guy's Need Pizza oven, which is 1675 01:29:07.159 --> 01:29:09.479 pretty cool if you haven't seen one of those before. 1676 01:29:09.680 --> 01:29:13.000 But it's all at Lang mccreek Case Hardware, Barker, Cyprus 1677 01:29:13.000 --> 01:29:15.960 in five twenty nine this coming weekend now on Saturday, 1678 01:29:16.079 --> 01:29:19.720 this is a Friday, Saturday and Sunday event. On Saturday only, 1679 01:29:20.279 --> 01:29:24.359 they're having their STILL Power Equipment open house fifteen percent 1680 01:29:24.439 --> 01:29:28.000 off STILL units and that's that one day only, So 1681 01:29:28.119 --> 01:29:29.560 that would be a good day if you're looking, if 1682 01:29:29.600 --> 01:29:32.159 you're in the market for a weed eater or you know, 1683 01:29:32.319 --> 01:29:35.039 any of those power equipment types of things from Still, 1684 01:29:35.399 --> 01:29:37.479 this is a good opportunity to get that taken care of. 1685 01:29:38.479 --> 01:29:40.079 All right, let's see here. I'm going to go now 1686 01:29:40.119 --> 01:29:44.560 to Manville, Texas and talk to Adolf. Hello Adolf, Yes, sir. 1687 01:29:44.439 --> 01:29:49.159 Good morning. Quick question in regard to a mind that 1688 01:29:49.720 --> 01:29:55.560 has a couple of foot trees that so all the 1689 01:29:55.600 --> 01:30:02.079 way to the ground they came back. Concern is whether 1690 01:30:02.880 --> 01:30:07.640 they're any good. In other words, the graft where it 1691 01:30:07.680 --> 01:30:11.520 was grafted, it's gone, yes, okay. 1692 01:30:11.640 --> 01:30:14.880 So if it's coming from below the graft, dig it up. 1693 01:30:15.039 --> 01:30:17.479 You only have two options. The easiest is dig it 1694 01:30:17.560 --> 01:30:19.960 up and buy a new quality tree put it back 1695 01:30:20.000 --> 01:30:23.640 in there immediately. Or you can try to bud or 1696 01:30:23.720 --> 01:30:27.159 graft onto that rootstock that is hit and mess. It 1697 01:30:27.199 --> 01:30:29.800 takes time, and I would for ninety nine percent of 1698 01:30:29.800 --> 01:30:31.399 the people, I would just say, dig it up and 1699 01:30:31.399 --> 01:30:32.239 put a new tree in. 1700 01:30:33.279 --> 01:30:36.520 Okay, all right, Can I ask you one more real quick? 1701 01:30:37.479 --> 01:30:38.960 Yes, real quick? Okay. 1702 01:30:39.119 --> 01:30:42.760 The cons I've got some, you know, the ones that 1703 01:30:42.840 --> 01:30:44.840 grow at in the back from squirrels. 1704 01:30:45.680 --> 01:30:48.880 Uh, they're pretty big now, I'd. 1705 01:30:48.720 --> 01:30:50.560 Say at least twenty foot fifteen foot. 1706 01:30:51.640 --> 01:30:52.800 Can they be grafted? 1707 01:30:54.600 --> 01:30:58.840 Absolutely? They can. If you go to online and look 1708 01:30:58.920 --> 01:31:04.640 up the one lay bark graft i n LA y 1709 01:31:05.760 --> 01:31:09.039 bark graft, you'll see how to do it. I believe 1710 01:31:09.079 --> 01:31:12.439 there's one of those publications on Aggie Horticulture website, but 1711 01:31:12.640 --> 01:31:14.640 look up the n lay bark graft. You're going to 1712 01:31:14.760 --> 01:31:17.039 do it in the spring, and you're going to have 1713 01:31:17.279 --> 01:31:20.640 stored the pecan wood from the variety you want to 1714 01:31:20.680 --> 01:31:23.319 put on those that current tree, you're going to have 1715 01:31:23.359 --> 01:31:27.399 stored it in a refrigerator, and you're using dormant wood 1716 01:31:27.720 --> 01:31:30.880 in the spring when the tree you're grafting onto is 1717 01:31:31.239 --> 01:31:33.760 the sap is flowing and the bark is stripping off 1718 01:31:33.800 --> 01:31:36.760 and stuff. But just go look it up. I can't 1719 01:31:36.760 --> 01:31:38.840 do the whole how to do it in the air, 1720 01:31:38.880 --> 01:31:41.319 but in the bark graft, that's the one. Thank you, sir. 1721 01:31:41.359 --> 01:31:44.600 I appreciate, appreciate your call very much. Plans for All 1722 01:31:44.640 --> 01:31:48.319 Seasons is on Highway two forty nine tom Ball Parkway, 1723 01:31:48.520 --> 01:31:51.000 just north of Luetta. Now you know, Plants for All Seasons. 1724 01:31:51.000 --> 01:31:54.199 It's family owned operation by the Flowery. It's been around 1725 01:31:54.239 --> 01:31:57.439 since what nineteen seventy three. When you walk in there, 1726 01:31:57.600 --> 01:31:59.920 you're talking to experts who know what they're talking about. 1727 01:32:00.039 --> 01:32:03.439 You're talking to people who absolutely can point you in 1728 01:32:03.479 --> 01:32:06.840 the right direction. Plants for All Seasons dot Com is 1729 01:32:06.920 --> 01:32:09.600 the website. Here's a phone number you want to call them. 1730 01:32:09.640 --> 01:32:11.479 In fact, this afternoon be a good time to go 1731 01:32:11.520 --> 01:32:16.359 buy to eight one, three, seven, six, sixteen forty six. 1732 01:32:16.479 --> 01:32:19.800 I'll be right back guarden line. Hey, glad you're listening 1733 01:32:19.840 --> 01:32:21.760 in today. I hope you're having a good time. I am, 1734 01:32:21.880 --> 01:32:24.119 and I hope that we're helping you have more fun 1735 01:32:24.560 --> 01:32:26.479 out there in your garden and landscape. You know, when 1736 01:32:26.520 --> 01:32:29.159 you get to gardening, it's one of the great greatest 1737 01:32:29.199 --> 01:32:31.640 hobbies I think that there is. It has so many 1738 01:32:31.680 --> 01:32:36.800 benefits from mental benefits, to physical benefits, to culinary benefits 1739 01:32:36.840 --> 01:32:41.960 and beauty benefits as well. Bring flowers indoors. We were 1740 01:32:42.000 --> 01:32:44.319 just I was just out watering one of our beds 1741 01:32:44.319 --> 01:32:46.880 where you got some zinias out there for cutflowers in 1742 01:32:46.920 --> 01:32:52.000 the garden, and gardening just offers so many options. Well, 1743 01:32:53.359 --> 01:32:55.720 let's go in and head out to Katie, Texas, and 1744 01:32:55.720 --> 01:32:59.199 we're going to talk to Kevin. Hello, Kevin, Hey, good 1745 01:32:59.199 --> 01:33:03.720 morning skit. I'm well, thank you all right. 1746 01:33:03.800 --> 01:33:05.439 So, for the past couple. 1747 01:33:05.319 --> 01:33:10.479 Of years, I've had some some spots show up on 1748 01:33:11.439 --> 01:33:14.720 out of my house in between my neighbors uh lawn 1749 01:33:14.760 --> 01:33:18.399 and my lawn, and I've always thought it was, uh 1750 01:33:18.560 --> 01:33:21.479 some sort of fungus. So you know, I'd buy the 1751 01:33:21.560 --> 01:33:27.920 nitro foss fungus side stuff. But this year it happened again, 1752 01:33:28.920 --> 01:33:32.399 and it was also happening, you know, along the devil 1753 01:33:32.439 --> 01:33:38.079 strip between the the road and the sidewalk on the grass. 1754 01:33:38.119 --> 01:33:42.039 And and so one morning I went out and I'd 1755 01:33:42.079 --> 01:33:47.479 see these kind of clumps of dirt on top of 1756 01:33:47.199 --> 01:33:49.039 the soil, and I'm moved. 1757 01:33:49.159 --> 01:33:50.359 I have a real mower, so. 1758 01:33:50.319 --> 01:33:53.479 I'm own my lawn about five five eighths of an inch, 1759 01:33:53.560 --> 01:33:55.960 and you know, so it's very easy for me to 1760 01:33:56.159 --> 01:34:00.479 spot that. And I started digging around and I noticed 1761 01:34:00.520 --> 01:34:04.840 there was a tunnel going into the dirt. So then, 1762 01:34:05.119 --> 01:34:09.239 you know, I hopped on Google and I came up with, 1763 01:34:09.640 --> 01:34:13.600 or what I thought it was, is a mold cricket. 1764 01:34:13.720 --> 01:34:17.920 And I don't think i've heard you discuss these before, but. 1765 01:34:19.479 --> 01:34:19.800 I went. 1766 01:34:20.000 --> 01:34:22.600 I got some soapy water, a couple of gallons of 1767 01:34:22.600 --> 01:34:26.399 soapy water, and I poured it on that that little 1768 01:34:26.479 --> 01:34:33.439 clump of dirt, and eventually this really ugly, really ugly 1769 01:34:33.840 --> 01:34:37.479 insect came crawling out, and sure enough it was a cricket. 1770 01:34:38.319 --> 01:34:42.439 There you go, Well, good, so go ahead. 1771 01:34:43.479 --> 01:34:46.319 Well, I was gonna say, so I put some insecticide 1772 01:34:46.319 --> 01:34:51.159 out a granular that I just got from from you know, 1773 01:34:51.399 --> 01:34:54.920 a big box store. But yesterday I was I was 1774 01:34:54.920 --> 01:34:58.000 in the ace and I got some fife end. Thren 1775 01:34:59.399 --> 01:35:01.319 Rady was a body of mine. He always told me 1776 01:35:01.359 --> 01:35:04.960 to use by fitting thron. But I'm just not sure 1777 01:35:05.079 --> 01:35:08.960 how I should apply it. Is this, you know, is 1778 01:35:09.279 --> 01:35:12.319 am I gonna mix a couple of gallons in a 1779 01:35:12.399 --> 01:35:16.520 in a pump sprayer and spray the yard and then 1780 01:35:16.880 --> 01:35:19.720 water it in or I just thought, maybe you give 1781 01:35:19.720 --> 01:35:21.760 me a little advice on on the best way to 1782 01:35:21.760 --> 01:35:22.439 go out, And. 1783 01:35:23.159 --> 01:35:25.079 In that case, I would I would do a hose 1784 01:35:25.159 --> 01:35:27.399 end sprayer, and I would I would use it that 1785 01:35:27.439 --> 01:35:29.000 way because that puts a little more water out and 1786 01:35:29.039 --> 01:35:31.119 you can get it down in the thatch they're down 1787 01:35:31.920 --> 01:35:36.199 chewing around down at and below the soil surface. Yeah, 1788 01:35:36.239 --> 01:35:39.039 and so the I think the hose end will be 1789 01:35:39.079 --> 01:35:42.560 a better approach. And by fen throing is fine. Uh, 1790 01:35:42.600 --> 01:35:46.199 you know, it works, it works well. Uh, it does 1791 01:35:46.319 --> 01:35:50.760 the job that it's supposed to do. So I certainly 1792 01:35:50.800 --> 01:35:54.840 something you may want to try. The the uh nightro 1793 01:35:54.840 --> 01:35:58.359 fiss bug out Max that you hear me talk about 1794 01:35:58.359 --> 01:36:01.760 here is a by fen throwing granule. So that's another 1795 01:36:01.800 --> 01:36:04.159 option you would you would put the bug out max 1796 01:36:04.239 --> 01:36:07.520 granules out there, follow the label and then water it 1797 01:36:07.560 --> 01:36:10.239 in really good. And if you got good coverage when 1798 01:36:10.239 --> 01:36:12.600 you put it out and watered in, you're gonna get 1799 01:36:12.640 --> 01:36:16.560 that chemical the bifendron off those granules and into the 1800 01:36:16.680 --> 01:36:19.560 thatch and and soil surface area where they can also 1801 01:36:19.960 --> 01:36:21.319 uh do work. 1802 01:36:23.079 --> 01:36:27.920 Okay, going looking down the road, after I put this 1803 01:36:28.319 --> 01:36:32.840 bipe in thre a out, is that going to kill 1804 01:36:33.600 --> 01:36:36.479 not only the mole cricket but any kind of eggs 1805 01:36:36.600 --> 01:36:40.680 or anything going forward? Or should I expect to you know, 1806 01:36:40.800 --> 01:36:46.079 be more proactive, uh say, during the spring of next 1807 01:36:46.119 --> 01:36:48.800 year and put out Now you're. 1808 01:36:48.960 --> 01:36:51.199 It's not gonna yeah, it's not gonna kill eggs and 1809 01:36:51.239 --> 01:36:55.119 stuff nothing that It basically is any critters that are 1810 01:36:55.119 --> 01:36:56.920 crawling around in there will kill them. So it'll kill 1811 01:36:57.000 --> 01:36:58.520 chinch bugs, if you happen to have some of those 1812 01:36:58.560 --> 01:37:01.199 in there, it'll kill uh side web worms or in 1813 01:37:01.239 --> 01:37:03.760 any other insects that live down in that that area, 1814 01:37:03.840 --> 01:37:06.680 it will kill them. But as far as next year 1815 01:37:06.720 --> 01:37:08.359 you would you would have to come back, you know 1816 01:37:08.399 --> 01:37:11.199 what to look for now and early on try to 1817 01:37:11.279 --> 01:37:12.239 try to get ahead of that. 1818 01:37:13.840 --> 01:37:17.000 Okay, So this is gonna be a yearly routine, that 1819 01:37:17.000 --> 01:37:19.479 that I put the nottro fast bug out. 1820 01:37:20.800 --> 01:37:24.319 Yes, yes, yes, that is true. Uh, And so that 1821 01:37:24.319 --> 01:37:26.439 that's really the only option. I mean, if someone is 1822 01:37:26.479 --> 01:37:29.479 doing it organically, there is a type of nematode that 1823 01:37:29.640 --> 01:37:33.560 can be applied that is a more difficult to do 1824 01:37:34.239 --> 01:37:38.840 process successfully, but that that would be the only other 1825 01:37:38.920 --> 01:37:41.960 thing that you might want to consider. But anyway, I 1826 01:37:42.560 --> 01:37:44.399 think you're on the right track, and by fen thren 1827 01:37:44.520 --> 01:37:47.880 is pretty much going to kill any insect out there. Okay, 1828 01:37:47.960 --> 01:37:51.279 all right, thanks, good, all right, you bet, thank you 1829 01:37:51.319 --> 01:37:53.800 for the call. Take care. Hey, our phone number is 1830 01:37:53.840 --> 01:37:56.399 seven one three two one two k t r H 1831 01:37:56.520 --> 01:37:58.000 if you want to give us a call. You know, 1832 01:37:58.079 --> 01:38:01.680 by Fentherren is a nitrophosphor, and because it's a night 1833 01:38:01.760 --> 01:38:03.560 frost product, you're going to find it a lot of 1834 01:38:03.560 --> 01:38:06.760 places around town. You can find it at Lake Hardware 1835 01:38:06.840 --> 01:38:09.239 and Angleton down of Alasko. You're going to find it 1836 01:38:09.279 --> 01:38:15.319 at Gym's Hardware up there on Liberty FM fourteen ninety seven. Yeah, 1837 01:38:15.600 --> 01:38:20.439 up in the Montgomery area. Also it in Brendan Plants 1838 01:38:20.439 --> 01:38:23.039 and Things carries those products as well. So just a 1839 01:38:23.079 --> 01:38:25.239 little tip there to get you off to a good 1840 01:38:25.279 --> 01:38:32.079 start mentioning the dealing with pests and things. Don't forget 1841 01:38:32.119 --> 01:38:35.720 I've got my lawn pest, disease and weed management schedule online. 1842 01:38:36.159 --> 01:38:38.399 It's there. You can download it for free. Can just 1843 01:38:38.399 --> 01:38:40.760 look it on the screen if you want. I like 1844 01:38:40.840 --> 01:38:43.760 for people to print it out. It's multicolored so it's 1845 01:38:43.800 --> 01:38:46.399 easy to follow. There's a whole there's a row from 1846 01:38:46.479 --> 01:38:49.319 January to December for insects, a rope for diseases, a 1847 01:38:49.399 --> 01:38:52.800 rope for preventing weeds, a rope for killing existing weeds, 1848 01:38:53.279 --> 01:38:55.840 and then a whole bunch of product examples color coded 1849 01:38:55.960 --> 01:38:58.920 for everything that's on the schedule. So no matter what 1850 01:38:58.960 --> 01:39:01.199 ails your lawn, probably going to find an answer to 1851 01:39:01.279 --> 01:39:05.399 it right on that free schedule online gardening with Skip 1852 01:39:05.760 --> 01:39:10.520 dot com. Wild Birds Unlimited. I love to talk about 1853 01:39:10.520 --> 01:39:13.359 them because I love to go into wallbirds. Every time 1854 01:39:13.359 --> 01:39:15.840 I go into a wallbird's I learn something because they 1855 01:39:15.840 --> 01:39:19.119 are knowledgeable and I learn about new products that are 1856 01:39:19.119 --> 01:39:21.960 out and about you know, I used to I'll just 1857 01:39:22.279 --> 01:39:25.199 true confession here. I used to buy cheap bird seed 1858 01:39:25.640 --> 01:39:28.119 just good, find a big old bag of cheap bird seed, 1859 01:39:28.319 --> 01:39:32.840 and then I realized that those little red bebies I 1860 01:39:32.880 --> 01:39:35.760 call them the little red milo seeds, sorghum seeds in there. 1861 01:39:36.520 --> 01:39:38.640 The birds don't care for those in general, they don't. 1862 01:39:38.680 --> 01:39:40.600 They kick them out. And so you buy this bag 1863 01:39:40.640 --> 01:39:43.399 of seed. But I've looked, I've seen seed packs that 1864 01:39:43.439 --> 01:39:47.439 are like fifty percent of that stuff birds don't eat. Well, 1865 01:39:47.439 --> 01:39:49.920 that wasn't a good deal. You essentially have to buy 1866 01:39:49.920 --> 01:39:52.000 twice as much just to get bird seed out of 1867 01:39:52.039 --> 01:39:56.119 the deal. Wabirds unlimited. They have the seeds for whatever 1868 01:39:56.159 --> 01:39:58.439 kind of birds you're trying to attract. They have no 1869 01:39:58.640 --> 01:40:01.680 mess blends where I'm I mean, there's not even you know, 1870 01:40:02.199 --> 01:40:04.520 sunflower holes that are going to be on the ground 1871 01:40:04.840 --> 01:40:07.439 from it. They've already got them shelled into the blend. So, 1872 01:40:07.479 --> 01:40:10.159 however you want to go about it, wabirds is it. 1873 01:40:10.279 --> 01:40:12.119 And right now you still need to be using the 1874 01:40:12.199 --> 01:40:16.479 nesting super blend. I know that my birds are molting, 1875 01:40:17.079 --> 01:40:19.680 uh and oh my gosh, they look horrible, looks like 1876 01:40:19.680 --> 01:40:21.680 they got in a fight with a wheat eater and lost. 1877 01:40:22.520 --> 01:40:24.960 But Nesting super Blend provides them the calcium and the 1878 01:40:24.960 --> 01:40:27.840 protein that they need at a time when they're just 1879 01:40:27.920 --> 01:40:30.239 not as able to just fly around just as easily. 1880 01:40:30.640 --> 01:40:34.520 All over the place, WBU dot com forward slash Houston. 1881 01:40:34.800 --> 01:40:39.359 W b U dot com Forward slash Houston. That'll get 1882 01:40:39.399 --> 01:40:42.039 you to the six Wallbird stores here in the Greater 1883 01:40:42.119 --> 01:40:45.319 Houston area. I'll be right back time for another break. 1884 01:40:45.319 --> 01:40:47.199 Our number if you'd like to call in seven one 1885 01:40:47.239 --> 01:40:51.159 three two one two kat r h which one. I'm 1886 01:40:51.199 --> 01:40:53.800 glad you're with us, Glad you're with us. Today we're 1887 01:40:53.800 --> 01:40:57.600 going to move on out to Montgomery, Texas and talk 1888 01:40:57.680 --> 01:41:00.720 to Terry. Hello, Terry, Welcome to Guardline. 1889 01:41:01.560 --> 01:41:04.359 Good morning, Thanks for taking my call. I have a 1890 01:41:04.399 --> 01:41:07.680 couple million questions for you, but I'll only ask you 1891 01:41:07.760 --> 01:41:08.520 to today. 1892 01:41:08.800 --> 01:41:11.159 Well, I'm going to. 1893 01:41:13.479 --> 01:41:15.479 Okay, I'll send you an email. 1894 01:41:17.439 --> 01:41:23.000 I've been kind of investigating name oil. 1895 01:41:24.920 --> 01:41:28.399 N E E M and watching a lot of YouTube 1896 01:41:28.439 --> 01:41:31.439 videos on this. Mixing it with baking. 1897 01:41:31.159 --> 01:41:34.479 Soda, they say, and water and a little soap for 1898 01:41:34.560 --> 01:41:38.840 surfactants and spraying it on your plants will kill just 1899 01:41:38.880 --> 01:41:41.800 about every bug and fungus known. 1900 01:41:41.840 --> 01:41:42.199 Demand. 1901 01:41:42.800 --> 01:41:45.600 Do you have anything to say about that? 1902 01:41:46.920 --> 01:41:49.640 Well, that was an over sell when they say every 1903 01:41:49.640 --> 01:41:53.319 bug in fungus known, when they start making wide claims. Now, 1904 01:41:53.760 --> 01:41:59.199 nim oil is a product that is produced by this 1905 01:41:59.479 --> 01:42:03.439 in the seeds of the nim tree. Do you know 1906 01:42:03.520 --> 01:42:05.520 what a chinaberry tree is? Did you grow up with 1907 01:42:05.600 --> 01:42:11.880 chinaberry trees around something. It's a weedy tree here in 1908 01:42:11.920 --> 01:42:15.560 our area, but it is kinned closely kned to name 1909 01:42:15.800 --> 01:42:19.640 mean trees. That's a different species. Anyway. The name oil 1910 01:42:19.760 --> 01:42:21.840 is pressed out of the seeds and then it's mixed 1911 01:42:21.880 --> 01:42:27.520 with water, and being an oil, it will kill small, 1912 01:42:27.560 --> 01:42:31.560 soft bodied insects like spider mites for example, or you 1913 01:42:31.600 --> 01:42:35.159 know larva hatching out of eggs and things those kind 1914 01:42:35.239 --> 01:42:39.359 of things. Being an oil, it also has a little 1915 01:42:39.399 --> 01:42:42.800 bit of a fungicidal property in that the spores on 1916 01:42:42.840 --> 01:42:46.960 the leaves, when smothered with oil can be destroyed. Now, 1917 01:42:47.000 --> 01:42:49.560 as far as plumerias are concerned, people that grow up 1918 01:42:49.560 --> 01:42:52.399 plumerias will use mem oil. You just need to remember 1919 01:42:53.760 --> 01:42:56.960 it's an oil, and when it's ninety five degrees and 1920 01:42:57.039 --> 01:43:00.600 the sun is baking down, soaps and oils can burn plants, 1921 01:43:01.039 --> 01:43:02.680 so you're going to be real careful with it. My 1922 01:43:02.760 --> 01:43:04.960 recommendation will be to mix a little bit up and 1923 01:43:05.079 --> 01:43:07.399 just spray it on a leaf somewhere down lower on 1924 01:43:07.439 --> 01:43:09.479 the planet. Just spray it on a leaf and give 1925 01:43:09.520 --> 01:43:11.680 it about twenty four hours or a little more and 1926 01:43:11.800 --> 01:43:13.920 watch and if you don't see any ill effects, then 1927 01:43:13.920 --> 01:43:16.840 you're good to go. I think I would avoid spring 1928 01:43:16.840 --> 01:43:18.720 it during the day. I would do it super early 1929 01:43:18.760 --> 01:43:21.880 in the morning probably is the best time to apply it. 1930 01:43:22.640 --> 01:43:25.920 But depending on what you're going after on the plume area, 1931 01:43:26.600 --> 01:43:28.680 nem oil may or may not be a good solution. 1932 01:43:29.279 --> 01:43:34.319 Because enough, which brings me to my next question. I 1933 01:43:34.359 --> 01:43:37.680 saw a new leaf on my plume area this morning, 1934 01:43:38.239 --> 01:43:42.920 excuse me, and it looked like it had a black 1935 01:43:43.880 --> 01:43:49.600 tar substance on the new leaf, and there was lots 1936 01:43:49.640 --> 01:43:53.359 of tiny little holes within the area of where the 1937 01:43:53.399 --> 01:43:58.800 black tar substance is. And I'm wondering, is that sooty 1938 01:43:58.920 --> 01:44:03.119 mold or is it some kind of other fungus And 1939 01:44:03.439 --> 01:44:05.960 what can I do to help my plumeria. 1940 01:44:07.159 --> 01:44:10.560 That's interesting. It's probably not city mode. If it looks 1941 01:44:10.640 --> 01:44:19.399 like tar. The city mold itself looks more like it 1942 01:44:19.520 --> 01:44:22.720 looks like soot. So it's not shiny. Yes, it's not 1943 01:44:22.840 --> 01:44:25.960 tar like. It's just just like if you stuck your 1944 01:44:25.960 --> 01:44:28.720 finger up in the fireplace and wipe it on your finger, 1945 01:44:28.760 --> 01:44:30.760 that the way your finger would look. That's what city 1946 01:44:30.800 --> 01:44:31.640 molde looks like. 1947 01:44:32.560 --> 01:44:35.520 Yes, I just sprayed some off of my Japanese you 1948 01:44:36.359 --> 01:44:38.880 So yeah, okay, Well, do you have any idea what 1949 01:44:38.960 --> 01:44:39.479 that might be? 1950 01:44:40.560 --> 01:44:44.199 Well, you know, without seeing it, it's hard to say 1951 01:44:44.239 --> 01:44:48.560 for sure. There are some fungal pathogens that can cause 1952 01:44:49.039 --> 01:44:53.119 the leaves, new blumary leaves coming out to have a 1953 01:44:53.159 --> 01:44:57.319 black turned black. There are you know, a number of 1954 01:44:57.359 --> 01:44:59.720 different things can cause fungal growth. You know, certainly a 1955 01:44:59.760 --> 01:45:03.640 lot moisture and whatnot, a lot of constant watering and whatnot. 1956 01:45:04.079 --> 01:45:09.079 There are a few nutrient deficiencies that can result in 1957 01:45:09.600 --> 01:45:13.640 that new growth turning black coming out. But when you 1958 01:45:13.720 --> 01:45:16.039 say the tar, that throws me a little bit. And 1959 01:45:16.119 --> 01:45:19.279 I'm not real sure on that one. That may be one. 1960 01:45:19.319 --> 01:45:22.239 If we've got any Plumerius Society people listening that you 1961 01:45:22.359 --> 01:45:24.600 just are going, oh my gosh, I know exactly what 1962 01:45:24.640 --> 01:45:27.199 she's talking about. Well, feel free to call in. We'll 1963 01:45:27.239 --> 01:45:31.239 all learn something. But that would be what I would 1964 01:45:31.399 --> 01:45:35.640 suggest right now. Just continue to provide your plumeria with 1965 01:45:35.680 --> 01:45:36.159 good care. 1966 01:45:36.560 --> 01:45:39.720 And so they okay, thank you. And then one last 1967 01:45:39.840 --> 01:45:43.520 really fast question. I have a chuffal era and it's 1968 01:45:43.520 --> 01:45:47.479 in a pot and it needs to be reported, and 1969 01:45:47.840 --> 01:45:50.039 I'm wondering if I can put it in the ground, 1970 01:45:50.239 --> 01:45:56.840 and if so, where sunny, shady parts sun part shade. 1971 01:45:57.600 --> 01:46:01.199 A very bright shade would be fine. You know, it 1972 01:46:01.279 --> 01:46:04.359 could go in sun. But most of our schiffleras we 1973 01:46:04.479 --> 01:46:06.800 treat them like hostplants, and they go in way less 1974 01:46:06.800 --> 01:46:09.359 than full sun, and to suddenly move them into full sun, 1975 01:46:09.720 --> 01:46:11.760 you get a lot of leaf burn on that, but 1976 01:46:11.800 --> 01:46:14.199 a real bright straight The biggest thing is it has 1977 01:46:14.279 --> 01:46:17.119 no cold heartiness whatsoever, So you're going to have to 1978 01:46:17.159 --> 01:46:20.159 be able to really protect it during the winter if 1979 01:46:20.159 --> 01:46:21.359 you're going to put it in the ground. 1980 01:46:22.640 --> 01:46:26.520 Okay, all right, well, thank you for you have a 1981 01:46:26.560 --> 01:46:27.000 good day. 1982 01:46:27.960 --> 01:46:30.079 Yeah you too, thanks a lot terry, appreciate the call. 1983 01:46:30.640 --> 01:46:34.920 Good luck with that. I was talking earlier about I 1984 01:46:34.960 --> 01:46:37.279 was joking with some of my Southwest Fertilizer. You know, 1985 01:46:37.319 --> 01:46:39.760 they had purchased a chainsaw from there. We were kidding 1986 01:46:39.760 --> 01:46:42.039 about me trying to get them to have Bob come 1987 01:46:42.039 --> 01:46:45.840 out and cut the tree form, which is ridiculous, but hey, 1988 01:46:45.840 --> 01:46:49.960 you gotta have some fun. Southwest Fertilizer, is it. That 1989 01:46:50.119 --> 01:46:52.840 is a no brainer for me to recommend people go there. 1990 01:46:52.920 --> 01:46:56.319 And here's why, there's nothing you can need for your 1991 01:46:56.399 --> 01:47:00.760 lawn and landscape to control pest weed diseases, to fertilize, 1992 01:47:01.560 --> 01:47:05.840 you know, tools that you might need, spreaders for your fertilizer, 1993 01:47:05.920 --> 01:47:08.640 spreaders for your fire at bait. All of that, there's 1994 01:47:08.640 --> 01:47:11.119 nothing that you're not they're not going to have at Southwest. 1995 01:47:11.239 --> 01:47:14.279 If you're an organic gardener, they probably have the most 1996 01:47:14.359 --> 01:47:18.760 robust collection of organic products is anybody in town, just 1997 01:47:18.800 --> 01:47:22.119 because Bob always keeps stocked up on everything and so 1998 01:47:22.239 --> 01:47:25.319 you have options. But even more important than just the 1999 01:47:25.359 --> 01:47:27.600 fact that the products are in the store is a 2000 01:47:27.680 --> 01:47:32.239 fact that you've got knowledgeable folks from you know, Bob 2001 01:47:32.319 --> 01:47:35.840 and Aaron and and really the whole team there at Southwest. 2002 01:47:36.199 --> 01:47:38.119 They will point you in the right direction. So you 2003 01:47:38.159 --> 01:47:42.119 bring a plant sample, you bring a picture of something 2004 01:47:42.319 --> 01:47:44.479 on your phone, and they'll take a look at it 2005 01:47:44.640 --> 01:47:46.960 and they'll try to do their best at assessing what 2006 01:47:47.039 --> 01:47:49.199 it is and then tell you, well, here's here's what 2007 01:47:49.279 --> 01:47:51.039 you need to use, here's when you need to use it, 2008 01:47:51.039 --> 01:47:53.520 here's how do you need to use it, and there's 2009 01:47:53.920 --> 01:47:56.680 that is priceless to have that kind of advice, but 2010 01:47:56.720 --> 01:47:59.319 that's what they're all about. As Southwest Fertilizer. You can 2011 01:47:59.359 --> 01:48:02.039 go to the website Southwest Fertilizer dot com. By the way, 2012 01:48:02.079 --> 01:48:05.760 the store is on Bisonet and Renwick Bisonet and Renwick 2013 01:48:05.800 --> 01:48:08.439 in southwest Houston, or you can give them a call. 2014 01:48:08.920 --> 01:48:13.960 Seven one three six six six seventeen forty four seven 2015 01:48:14.000 --> 01:48:18.079 one three six six six seventeen forty four of the 2016 01:48:18.239 --> 01:48:20.520 Southwest for Life has been a Houston lawn and garden 2017 01:48:20.560 --> 01:48:24.439 tradition since nineteen fifty five. And boy, is there a 2018 01:48:24.560 --> 01:48:27.239 reason that they're still in business and people love that 2019 01:48:27.279 --> 01:48:32.039 place so much. You are listening to Guardline and I'm 2020 01:48:32.039 --> 01:48:34.119 your host, Skip Richter. We're here to help you have 2021 01:48:34.279 --> 01:48:37.680 more success and hopefully have more fun out there in 2022 01:48:37.720 --> 01:48:41.960 the garden and the landscape. You know, anytime you feel like, 2023 01:48:42.079 --> 01:48:44.800 well you're just not good at growing plants, well you 2024 01:48:44.880 --> 01:48:47.239 just need to tune in and you need to listen 2025 01:48:47.279 --> 01:48:50.479 and you need to call in. Let's help you have success. 2026 01:48:50.520 --> 01:48:54.960 Because I'm telling you it's not rocket science, not It's 2027 01:48:55.000 --> 01:48:58.319 a matter of simple principles. Plants moods, soul, moisture, but 2028 01:48:58.439 --> 01:49:01.960 not too much. Plants need sunlight, sun full sign Some 2029 01:49:02.119 --> 01:49:07.159 parts in lance need excellent excellent drainage, they need certain nutrients. 2030 01:49:07.239 --> 01:49:10.560 They some of them are adapted to here, some or not. 2031 01:49:10.720 --> 01:49:14.359 I mean, there's a handful of things like that that 2032 01:49:14.520 --> 01:49:17.239 really amount to the answer to most gardening questions, and 2033 01:49:17.279 --> 01:49:19.239 we help you think through that here on guard Line. 2034 01:49:19.279 --> 01:49:21.840 I sometimes I have to hold back because I would 2035 01:49:21.880 --> 01:49:24.239 like to sit here and just teach all day. On 2036 01:49:24.319 --> 01:49:26.159 guard Line, I have to hold back a little bit, 2037 01:49:26.199 --> 01:49:27.960 but I do try to give you some of the why, 2038 01:49:28.399 --> 01:49:30.920 because it's just it's one thing to tell you the what, 2039 01:49:31.399 --> 01:49:33.880 and if you understand a little bit about the why, 2040 01:49:34.439 --> 01:49:37.399 then as you go about, you just are able to 2041 01:49:37.560 --> 01:49:41.279 encounter other situations and continue to have success. Hey, I'll 2042 01:49:41.279 --> 01:49:44.920 be right back seven one three two one two katrh 2043 01:49:47.760 --> 01:49:51.359 Thanks all right, welcome back. We're back in the saddle again, 2044 01:49:51.479 --> 01:49:55.000 ready to go for our last hour of this weekend. 2045 01:49:55.680 --> 01:49:57.800 We'll be done here at ten am. If you got 2046 01:49:57.840 --> 01:49:59.319 a phone call and you'd like to give us a 2047 01:49:59.319 --> 01:50:03.159 call three two one two k t r H. And 2048 01:50:03.199 --> 01:50:04.960 we're going to head straight to the phones right now 2049 01:50:05.399 --> 01:50:08.880 and head out to Spring and talk to Lance. Hello Lance, 2050 01:50:08.920 --> 01:50:09.920 and welcome to guard Line. 2051 01:50:10.600 --> 01:50:12.640 Hey, good morning, Skip, Thanks for taking my call. 2052 01:50:13.760 --> 01:50:15.800 All right, Clussure I've got some in the. 2053 01:50:15.760 --> 01:50:19.680 Ground hibiscus plants, and one of them has gotten the 2054 01:50:19.840 --> 01:50:23.159 little little white bugs on it, and it almost looks 2055 01:50:23.199 --> 01:50:26.159 like dirt all over the leaves, and I'm trying to 2056 01:50:26.159 --> 01:50:27.800 figure out what it is and how to get rid 2057 01:50:27.800 --> 01:50:28.000 of it. 2058 01:50:29.159 --> 01:50:32.680 Okay, my best guest without seeing them, is that you're 2059 01:50:32.720 --> 01:50:37.199 looking at the cast skins of aphids. Aphids shed their 2060 01:50:37.239 --> 01:50:40.119 skin just like a snake sheds its skin, and they 2061 01:50:40.199 --> 01:50:43.800 leave these little whitish things that are like just shrunk 2062 01:50:43.840 --> 01:50:48.560 and shrivel little aphid skin, and they're all over the leaf, 2063 01:50:48.960 --> 01:50:52.520 and that would be one possibility. The other thing that's white. 2064 01:50:53.039 --> 01:50:57.279 When I first you're talking about white on on on hibiscus, 2065 01:50:57.319 --> 01:50:59.239 my first thought is, well, that's going to be mealy 2066 01:50:59.319 --> 01:51:02.960 bugs because they are very tofty, cottony white. But it 2067 01:51:03.000 --> 01:51:06.039 doesn't look like dirt on the leaf. It's clearly just 2068 01:51:06.079 --> 01:51:09.880 like little pieces of cottony material, very tiny, that are 2069 01:51:09.920 --> 01:51:12.640 there on the plant. That's a whole different insect. 2070 01:51:14.000 --> 01:51:17.960 Okay, yeah, it's I don't know, they look like little 2071 01:51:17.960 --> 01:51:20.319 white doodle bugs. I mean they're moving, so I don't 2072 01:51:20.359 --> 01:51:21.279 know that they're just skin. 2073 01:51:22.199 --> 01:51:24.359 Oh okay, Well, then you're probably looking at it. Then 2074 01:51:24.399 --> 01:51:27.720 you're talking about meadie bugs. That's if they're like if 2075 01:51:27.760 --> 01:51:31.239 they look like a doodle bug. I remember doodle bugs 2076 01:51:31.279 --> 01:51:33.000 by the way, You know, you have to say the 2077 01:51:33.079 --> 01:51:35.319 right words when you're stirring a doodle bug mound to 2078 01:51:35.319 --> 01:51:37.840 get them to come out, right, Did you grow up 2079 01:51:37.880 --> 01:51:42.399 with one with those? Okay, well that's a whole nother 2080 01:51:42.439 --> 01:51:46.239 story anyway. Yeah, that's mealy bugs. And so what you 2081 01:51:46.279 --> 01:51:49.239 can do, h let's see how big is this how 2082 01:51:49.279 --> 01:51:51.640 biscus plants? It don't it contains Probably. 2083 01:51:51.920 --> 01:51:53.920 No, it's in the ground. It's probably three feet tall 2084 01:51:54.159 --> 01:51:56.760 and probably two and a half to three feet one. 2085 01:51:57.760 --> 01:52:00.840 Okay, so you got a couple of options. One way 2086 01:52:00.920 --> 01:52:03.880 that people deal with meadia bugs is they use alcohol 2087 01:52:03.960 --> 01:52:07.479 rubbing alcohol on a cotton swab or a cotton bowl 2088 01:52:07.640 --> 01:52:10.600 and they literally just kind of dab them with that, 2089 01:52:10.920 --> 01:52:13.239 and that will kill them. Because they have that, they 2090 01:52:13.279 --> 01:52:16.439 have a protective coating on them that makes it hard 2091 01:52:16.439 --> 01:52:20.840 to get a pesticide to them. Now, if if that's 2092 01:52:20.880 --> 01:52:23.680 gonna be tedious, and you're gonna have to keep watching 2093 01:52:23.720 --> 01:52:25.560 them because there's always gonna be some you miss and 2094 01:52:25.600 --> 01:52:27.840 they're popping up and sometime they're down right where a 2095 01:52:27.960 --> 01:52:30.920 leaf attaches to the stem. They're kind of hidden down 2096 01:52:30.920 --> 01:52:32.840 in that crevice, so you just have to really look 2097 01:52:32.880 --> 01:52:35.479 all over it real good to do that. That's an option. 2098 01:52:35.600 --> 01:52:38.399 The other option would be to use a systemic insecticide 2099 01:52:38.399 --> 01:52:40.880 that you put in the soil. It goes up in 2100 01:52:40.920 --> 01:52:44.800 the plant and it is in the plumbing of the plant, 2101 01:52:44.920 --> 01:52:48.680 so when the media bug sucks juices out, it kills it. 2102 01:52:48.680 --> 01:52:51.399 It's not a poisonous hot on the surface of the planet. 2103 01:52:51.399 --> 01:52:53.760 It's in the plumbing of the plant. With those kind 2104 01:52:53.840 --> 01:52:56.840 of things, I don't like to leave folded or flowers 2105 01:52:56.880 --> 01:52:58.760 on the planet because you don't want to bring bees 2106 01:52:58.800 --> 01:53:02.640 then to drink or from something that's got insecticide in 2107 01:53:02.680 --> 01:53:06.960 the plumbing. So that would be the only caveat to 2108 01:53:07.119 --> 01:53:11.119 using the systemic. There's pros and cons to every product, 2109 01:53:11.199 --> 01:53:14.199 and that's the con for the systemics. 2110 01:53:16.520 --> 01:53:19.560 Okay, all right, that sounds good. Well, I appreciate you 2111 01:53:19.600 --> 01:53:20.119 taking a call. 2112 01:53:21.199 --> 01:53:25.920 Yes sir, good luck with those control Yes sir, you 2113 01:53:26.039 --> 01:53:29.880 too as well. Hey, I was talking about Southwest Fertilizer 2114 01:53:29.920 --> 01:53:34.079 having everything. They also carry sweet grain. A sweet grain 2115 01:53:34.239 --> 01:53:39.119 is nitroposs is organic type product. It's an eleven zero 2116 01:53:39.319 --> 01:53:43.800 zero fertilizer, and what it basically is a is a 2117 01:53:43.840 --> 01:53:47.880 molasses based fertilizer. So it smells great. Has that Just 2118 01:53:48.000 --> 01:53:50.479 imagine what a molasses smells like. That's what the fertilizer 2119 01:53:50.520 --> 01:53:53.680 smells like. It's eleven percent nitrogen. You put it down, 2120 01:53:53.800 --> 01:53:56.039 it dissolves away, it goes into the soil, and it 2121 01:53:56.079 --> 01:53:59.560 provides pretty quick release of those nutrients into the soil. 2122 01:54:00.079 --> 01:54:02.439 If I were using it now on my lawn, I 2123 01:54:02.479 --> 01:54:06.680 would normally you would play ten pounds of sweet Green 2124 01:54:06.720 --> 01:54:08.640 per thousand square feet, and you can read the label 2125 01:54:09.000 --> 01:54:10.560 on what to do. I would cut it in half 2126 01:54:10.680 --> 01:54:12.199 and I would do half now, and I'm a month 2127 01:54:12.239 --> 01:54:14.720 from now, do half again and spread that out a 2128 01:54:14.720 --> 01:54:17.319 little bit because after that, the next fertilization is going 2129 01:54:17.399 --> 01:54:21.319 to be our October fertilization for the things we do 2130 01:54:21.840 --> 01:54:25.119 to help RASK go stronger into winter. But sweet Green 2131 01:54:25.279 --> 01:54:29.000 excellent product, widely available. Certainly they have that at Southwest 2132 01:54:29.000 --> 01:54:32.560 Fertilizer as well as other locations like you would expect 2133 01:54:32.600 --> 01:54:35.760 of night FoST products. We're going to go back now 2134 01:54:35.920 --> 01:54:39.279 to a task casita and talk to Jim. Hey, Jim, 2135 01:54:39.359 --> 01:54:40.319 welcome to Garden line. 2136 01:54:42.000 --> 01:54:45.600 Thank you so much for receiving my call. I just 2137 01:54:45.720 --> 01:54:52.720 planted sod, and boy, you know as well as I did, 2138 01:54:52.720 --> 01:54:56.399 this weather's beating up the sad farms. So here's a question. 2139 01:54:56.560 --> 01:55:01.439 I put sod in yesterday. They told me to water 2140 01:55:01.600 --> 01:55:06.119 the sod for two hours a day. That seems a 2141 01:55:06.159 --> 01:55:09.560 little bit too much to water at one time. And 2142 01:55:09.600 --> 01:55:13.880 then the other thing is yeah, and they said one time, 2143 01:55:13.880 --> 01:55:17.920 but no, so I'm how many? Okay, First of all, 2144 01:55:18.000 --> 01:55:22.000 I've got the rachio system watering system, and what I 2145 01:55:22.039 --> 01:55:26.399 can do is do different times. Now, I was thinking 2146 01:55:27.079 --> 01:55:32.600 about four times a day, twenty minutes a day and 2147 01:55:32.720 --> 01:55:36.439 setting it up so I don't have water runoff. And 2148 01:55:36.479 --> 01:55:41.479 then my question here is my question here is can 2149 01:55:41.640 --> 01:55:50.760 I water my new sod and the heat of the day. 2150 01:55:48.680 --> 01:55:54.039 Yes, and you should. Here's the thing this is, this 2151 01:55:54.079 --> 01:55:55.720 is how I did it. When I put in my 2152 01:55:55.880 --> 01:55:59.880 I put in four different turf grasses. This spring actually 2153 01:56:00.840 --> 01:56:05.119 is early summer. And what I do is as I'm 2154 01:56:05.239 --> 01:56:07.760 laying the turf grass. After I lay a section, I 2155 01:56:07.840 --> 01:56:11.479 turned the water on because that grass has about what 2156 01:56:12.119 --> 01:56:15.359 three quarters of an inch of soil that it comes. 2157 01:56:15.039 --> 01:56:18.600 With no, no, And it actually is a little bit less, 2158 01:56:18.680 --> 01:56:19.680 not because of the heat. 2159 01:56:20.720 --> 01:56:25.039 Yeah, Well, the point is sick. Yeah, the whole root 2160 01:56:25.119 --> 01:56:28.279 system can't be any deeper than that, which is essentially 2161 01:56:28.319 --> 01:56:31.920 no root system to speak of. So what you want 2162 01:56:31.960 --> 01:56:34.960 to do is keep that wet all the time, and 2163 01:56:35.000 --> 01:56:38.600 I water it twice a day, and I put on 2164 01:56:38.680 --> 01:56:41.279 the rough water to wet it and to soak into 2165 01:56:41.319 --> 01:56:43.640 the soil a little bit below it, because you want 2166 01:56:44.199 --> 01:56:47.840 the roots to go into wet soil, not dry soil. 2167 01:56:48.640 --> 01:56:51.720 But for now, like if you put if you put 2168 01:56:51.720 --> 01:56:53.640 two inches of water on it, it would get it 2169 01:56:53.720 --> 01:56:55.640 nice and wet, and it would wet the soil deeply. 2170 01:56:56.239 --> 01:56:59.560 But then within a matter of the course of most 2171 01:56:59.560 --> 01:57:02.239 of a day, that surface is going to dry out 2172 01:57:02.239 --> 01:57:04.680 because the sun is baking on those leaves and they 2173 01:57:04.760 --> 01:57:07.159 got to have water, but they don't have roots. So 2174 01:57:07.239 --> 01:57:09.600 that's why I would recommend not once a day, I'd 2175 01:57:09.600 --> 01:57:11.359 do it twice a day. I would do it sometime 2176 01:57:11.399 --> 01:57:14.199 in the morning. I would do it again sometime later 2177 01:57:14.239 --> 01:57:15.840 in the day, like maybe two o'clock. 2178 01:57:16.399 --> 01:57:20.319 What times would you pick? What times would you pick? 2179 01:57:21.399 --> 01:57:25.159 It's not specific. I've got to run to a break, 2180 01:57:25.159 --> 01:57:27.920 but just a quick answer would be I would probably 2181 01:57:27.960 --> 01:57:30.800 do it about sometime around eight o'clock in the morning, 2182 01:57:31.359 --> 01:57:33.319 because the sun's about to come out and start baking 2183 01:57:33.359 --> 01:57:36.439 down on it. Eight or nine, we'll be fine. And 2184 01:57:36.479 --> 01:57:39.119 then in the afternoon, I probably do it about two 2185 01:57:39.159 --> 01:57:41.800 three or four o'clock because that's the heat of the 2186 01:57:41.880 --> 01:57:44.479 day at four o'clock and so you don't want it 2187 01:57:44.520 --> 01:57:46.760 to go into that too thirsty. Hey, Jim, I got 2188 01:57:46.800 --> 01:57:49.359 to run take a break, but good luck getting that. 2189 01:57:49.600 --> 01:57:50.960 I'm gonna put you on hold. If you don't stick 2190 01:57:51.000 --> 01:57:53.159 around till we come back from break, that's fine. I'll 2191 01:57:53.199 --> 01:57:55.640 be happy to talk to you again. We'll be right back, folks. 2192 01:57:58.119 --> 01:58:00.319 Good to have Glad to have you with us. We 2193 01:58:00.359 --> 01:58:03.199 are in head back out to Tescasida. Jim, I think 2194 01:58:03.239 --> 01:58:05.000 you may have to follow up. Is that correct? 2195 01:58:05.479 --> 01:58:06.039 Yes, I grew. 2196 01:58:06.960 --> 01:58:07.359 I did. 2197 01:58:08.000 --> 01:58:13.079 When we when we planted the sod, we put a 2198 01:58:13.319 --> 01:58:16.119 top soil blend. I noticed it. To me, it did 2199 01:58:16.199 --> 01:58:18.159 seemed like there were any nutrients in it. So I 2200 01:58:18.279 --> 01:58:28.279 put I put my micro life, my life microL life 2201 01:58:28.800 --> 01:58:32.680 six two four on top of the soil and I 2202 01:58:32.760 --> 01:58:35.760 dropped my sod. And the reason why is I believe 2203 01:58:35.880 --> 01:58:39.479 that this microlife will not burn the roots too, false? 2204 01:58:41.279 --> 01:58:41.560 True? 2205 01:58:44.079 --> 01:58:47.239 Right, right, because this is actually a nutrient for the soil. 2206 01:58:47.359 --> 01:58:52.079 Correct, Yeah, it breaks down with microbial activity and releases 2207 01:58:52.119 --> 01:58:54.000 the nutrients down in the zone. That's fine to do 2208 01:58:54.039 --> 01:58:55.279 it that way, if you want to do it that way. 2209 01:58:55.960 --> 01:58:58.039 Yeah, yeah, I already did it that way. And I'm saying, 2210 01:58:58.039 --> 01:59:01.119 you know, that's the hole I did. Now, can what 2211 01:59:01.239 --> 01:59:05.439 should I do with this DoD so I can protect 2212 01:59:05.479 --> 01:59:07.920 it against the heat and keep it going. Sure, I 2213 01:59:07.920 --> 01:59:12.119 put a compost on it, nature or whatever. 2214 01:59:14.039 --> 01:59:18.279 Right now? Right now? Water water is the thing this 2215 01:59:18.319 --> 01:59:23.039 odd needs, not excessive amounts, but never drying out. Get 2216 01:59:23.039 --> 01:59:25.960 it going. Don't worry about any more fertilizing when we 2217 01:59:26.039 --> 01:59:29.479 get into the fall season. And have you seen my 2218 01:59:29.600 --> 01:59:36.279 fertilizing schedule online by any chance, Jim, Yes, yes, okay, yeah, 2219 01:59:36.279 --> 01:59:38.880 if you look at it. If you're going to use 2220 01:59:38.920 --> 01:59:42.920 microlife again as an organic starting in late September on 2221 01:59:43.199 --> 01:59:48.199 into October, you would apply that for your fall fertilization. 2222 01:59:48.399 --> 01:59:50.520 But there you're not going to use your six to 2223 01:59:50.640 --> 01:59:54.000 two for when we get to that season. You're going 2224 01:59:54.079 --> 01:59:59.239 to use the Microlife brown patch. Even though it says 2225 01:59:59.279 --> 02:00:01.119 the brown pat, which is the disease. 2226 02:00:01.560 --> 02:00:04.239 It's a five one three. 2227 02:00:05.119 --> 02:00:08.560 Yeah, so but don't do anything. The sod that comes 2228 02:00:08.640 --> 02:00:11.000 in has a lot of nutrients. Generally, I tell people 2229 02:00:11.199 --> 02:00:13.199 you don't need to fertilize the first month when you 2230 02:00:13.239 --> 02:00:15.600 put side in. It's not a lack of nutrients that 2231 02:00:15.640 --> 02:00:18.279 we're worried about it. It's a lack of water. So but 2232 02:00:18.680 --> 02:00:21.800 now you've done all you've done, that's fine. Just hold 2233 02:00:21.840 --> 02:00:25.159 off and then put the Microlife brown patch down when 2234 02:00:25.199 --> 02:00:28.199 we get into late September on in the first let's 2235 02:00:28.199 --> 02:00:30.640 say three weeks of October. Ideally that would be the 2236 02:00:30.640 --> 02:00:31.760 best range of time. 2237 02:00:31.560 --> 02:00:33.479 To put it in, and that would be the Microlife 2238 02:00:33.720 --> 02:00:36.760 five one three correct, five one three. 2239 02:00:36.840 --> 02:00:41.720 That is the brown bag, I mean the brown patch, Yeah, 2240 02:00:41.720 --> 02:00:43.479 brown patch Microlife all right. 2241 02:00:44.680 --> 02:00:46.680 Coincidentally, it comes in a brown bag, so it's a 2242 02:00:46.680 --> 02:00:47.600 brown patch bag. 2243 02:00:47.760 --> 02:00:49.840 It comes in a brown bag. Yeah, makes it easy. 2244 02:00:49.920 --> 02:00:50.920 I love color coding. 2245 02:00:51.720 --> 02:00:55.880 That's good. Thank you, sir, Bye bye. 2246 02:00:55.760 --> 02:00:59.000 You bet take care bye bye. Yeah. Microlife has a 2247 02:00:59.000 --> 02:01:00.960 lot of different products. You know, I talk about the 2248 02:01:00.960 --> 02:01:03.119 green bag all the time because that's a standard through 2249 02:01:03.119 --> 02:01:06.840 the season lawn fertilizer. I'll be talking a lot about 2250 02:01:06.840 --> 02:01:10.000 fall fertilization later and what we were just talking about 2251 02:01:10.039 --> 02:01:14.840 Gemini there was talking about the fall fertilization with a 2252 02:01:14.920 --> 02:01:17.039 Microlife product that was the brown bag. I don't want 2253 02:01:17.039 --> 02:01:19.279 to confuse things now. I'm going to not talk a 2254 02:01:19.279 --> 02:01:22.720 lot about Fall fertilizer now, but I will and it's 2255 02:01:22.760 --> 02:01:25.159 on my schedule and all of them are listed on there, 2256 02:01:25.199 --> 02:01:27.840 and Microlife if you want to find it, you can 2257 02:01:27.880 --> 02:01:32.319 just go to Microlifefertilizer dot com, Microlife Fertilizer dot com 2258 02:01:32.359 --> 02:01:34.239 and find it. But I can tell you this, if 2259 02:01:34.279 --> 02:01:36.399 it's an ACE hardware store, if it's one of our 2260 02:01:36.439 --> 02:01:39.159 independent garden centers I talk about, if it is a 2261 02:01:39.199 --> 02:01:41.279 feed store we talk about here on guard Line, if 2262 02:01:41.319 --> 02:01:44.159 a Southwest fertilizer we talk about on Garline. All of 2263 02:01:44.159 --> 02:01:48.319 those places and more carry the Microlife products. Makes it 2264 02:01:48.439 --> 02:01:52.159 really easy. We're going to go now out to Katie 2265 02:01:52.520 --> 02:01:57.000 and talk to Hank. Hello, Hank, Hello, how are you? 2266 02:01:58.319 --> 02:01:59.159 I'm well? Thank you? 2267 02:01:59.239 --> 02:02:02.920 I had they had a question, a couple of questions, really, 2268 02:02:03.000 --> 02:02:03.399 but not. 2269 02:02:04.880 --> 02:02:05.640 Where it would be. 2270 02:02:05.680 --> 02:02:08.640 The closest place to get too much compost by the 2271 02:02:08.760 --> 02:02:09.920 Yordas of. 2272 02:02:09.920 --> 02:02:10.560 Bel Air. 2273 02:02:14.399 --> 02:02:22.399 Bel Air probably if are you able to pick it up. Yes, okay, 2274 02:02:22.680 --> 02:02:25.319 I would go down to Siena Mulch. They are due 2275 02:02:25.359 --> 02:02:31.319 south due south of the Houston area. You go down 2276 02:02:31.399 --> 02:02:35.399 south toward if you know where the town of Sienna is. 2277 02:02:36.199 --> 02:02:41.359 But it's down south and uh, that's not very far 2278 02:02:41.399 --> 02:02:43.760 at all really for bell Air, they've got it by 2279 02:02:43.760 --> 02:02:46.600 the bulk down there. They have different kinds of products 2280 02:02:46.640 --> 02:02:48.800 by the bulk. They also have products by the bag, 2281 02:02:49.399 --> 02:02:54.439 so depending on product you're looking for. Pardon it's called 2282 02:02:54.560 --> 02:03:00.119 hum compost. Well, yeah, I'm saying that they have a 2283 02:03:00.199 --> 02:03:03.199 number of different products down there, and the Microlife makes 2284 02:03:03.800 --> 02:03:07.279 humates plus that is a purple bag which you'll find 2285 02:03:07.319 --> 02:03:12.079 it's the animals too, uh, And it's it's the humus humates, 2286 02:03:12.119 --> 02:03:16.520 which is a concentrated comp form of compost, the compost itself. 2287 02:03:17.319 --> 02:03:20.359 Lots of great compost products out there that also work 2288 02:03:20.439 --> 02:03:25.159 well that end up becoming reaching that humous state. 2289 02:03:26.800 --> 02:03:31.319 Also sometimes you mentioned that a score that sells bird 2290 02:03:31.359 --> 02:03:34.399 feeders and stuff like that that you highly recommend. 2291 02:03:34.439 --> 02:03:35.239 They're really nice. 2292 02:03:35.640 --> 02:03:36.960 You know their names. 2293 02:03:38.159 --> 02:03:39.640 You said, bird feed. 2294 02:03:40.640 --> 02:03:45.000 No bird bird, uh, bird feeders stuff like this. 2295 02:03:46.520 --> 02:03:49.520 Yeah, that's wild birds unlimited. And do you have a 2296 02:03:49.520 --> 02:03:54.000 pin or pencil handy, Yes, sir, all right, go to 2297 02:03:54.359 --> 02:03:59.399 w B you that stands for wild Birds Unlimited w 2298 02:03:59.760 --> 02:04:06.279 b EU dot com forward slash Houston. So that's six 2299 02:04:06.560 --> 02:04:09.680 wallbirds stores will be there. You can find the ones 2300 02:04:09.840 --> 02:04:13.560 that are closest to you. Uh. And it you know, 2301 02:04:13.560 --> 02:04:17.119 there's plenty when you when you go to war Birds Unlimited, 2302 02:04:17.159 --> 02:04:20.520 you're going to find everything you need for birds, including 2303 02:04:20.600 --> 02:04:25.159 feeders and you know, just just the the birds themselves. 2304 02:04:27.359 --> 02:04:29.840 A bird feed, the bird feed itself. You can't buy 2305 02:04:29.840 --> 02:04:32.840 birds there. That was funny. I can't believe I said 2306 02:04:32.840 --> 02:04:35.640 it that way, but yeah, that's true. And so for 2307 02:04:35.800 --> 02:04:38.960 you know you're out in the Katie direction. Uh, there 2308 02:04:39.039 --> 02:04:43.560 is one a Memorial Drive West. Memorial Drive West is 2309 02:04:43.680 --> 02:04:46.600 probably the closest one to you out that direction. 2310 02:04:48.720 --> 02:04:50.159 Okay, well, thank you, erny. 2311 02:04:50.920 --> 02:04:56.359 Yes sir, you take care. Appreciate the call very much. Okay, now, 2312 02:04:56.800 --> 02:04:59.119 now I just said, actually said online. You can get 2313 02:04:59.159 --> 02:05:01.640 your birds there. No, you can't cat your birds there. 2314 02:05:02.199 --> 02:05:05.119 I'm surprised birds don't hang out outside the place waiting 2315 02:05:05.119 --> 02:05:07.399 for people to walk out so they can mug them 2316 02:05:07.399 --> 02:05:10.960 and take their bird seed. But anyway, all right, you 2317 02:05:11.000 --> 02:05:14.399 listening to the guard line our phone number seven one 2318 02:05:14.800 --> 02:05:20.279 three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one 2319 02:05:20.359 --> 02:05:23.279 three two one two five eight seven four. We're going 2320 02:05:23.359 --> 02:05:27.840 to go now to Richmond, Texas and talk to Steve. Hey, Steve, Hey, 2321 02:05:27.960 --> 02:05:29.960 they don't good. 2322 02:05:30.079 --> 02:05:30.199 Hey. 2323 02:05:30.279 --> 02:05:33.000 Yeah, I got a question about Roundup. 2324 02:05:34.319 --> 02:05:35.239 Yeah. 2325 02:05:35.399 --> 02:05:39.159 I can't find anybody every time I buy some. I've 2326 02:05:39.159 --> 02:05:41.720 been to all the big box stores and several nurse 2327 02:05:41.760 --> 02:05:45.359 have been soaked through several bottles. It's all old brown. 2328 02:05:45.399 --> 02:05:49.319 It looks like coffee. I just known because all the 2329 02:05:49.520 --> 02:05:52.000 lawsuits and nobody's just buying it and it gets old. 2330 02:05:52.039 --> 02:05:54.760 I've left it in my garage and it's turned brown. 2331 02:05:54.840 --> 02:05:55.760 You know, it's my fault. 2332 02:05:56.680 --> 02:05:57.159 But I don't know. 2333 02:05:57.159 --> 02:06:00.399 If you get you recommend something else, or to buy 2334 02:06:00.479 --> 02:06:00.920 some frits. 2335 02:06:01.079 --> 02:06:09.000 Round Up that's free, where to purchase it? Okay? So, Steve, 2336 02:06:09.079 --> 02:06:11.720 have you, by any chance been to my website Gardening 2337 02:06:11.760 --> 02:06:13.960 with Skip dot com? 2338 02:06:14.199 --> 02:06:14.359 Now? 2339 02:06:15.520 --> 02:06:19.640 If not, right down Gardening with Skip dot Com. And 2340 02:06:19.680 --> 02:06:21.319 when you get there to the main page, all my 2341 02:06:21.359 --> 02:06:24.439 publications are down belowed. The very top publication it's called 2342 02:06:24.520 --> 02:06:29.399 herbicide Products to use with the weed wiper I created. Uh. 2343 02:06:30.159 --> 02:06:33.319 But the reason I'm referring you to that is when 2344 02:06:33.640 --> 02:06:36.560 you scroll down it there's a lot of different products, 2345 02:06:36.600 --> 02:06:40.279 but for glyphosate, which is what was in round Up. 2346 02:06:40.439 --> 02:06:44.199 Now over the counter garden center round Up doesn't have glyphosate, 2347 02:06:44.279 --> 02:06:47.960 as you've discovered. It has a list of products that 2348 02:06:48.079 --> 02:06:52.680 includes Eraser and high Yield Kills all and ACE Concentrated Weeding, 2349 02:06:52.760 --> 02:06:56.199 grass Killer, and so on. And you can look at 2350 02:06:56.199 --> 02:06:58.279 that list and take it with you and you're going 2351 02:06:58.319 --> 02:07:00.880 to be able to find it at a place like that. 2352 02:07:01.000 --> 02:07:04.960 And you're done in Richmond the Ace Hardware store. Uh there, 2353 02:07:05.039 --> 02:07:07.359 you've got plantation Ace and you got another one down 2354 02:07:07.439 --> 02:07:11.000 in the Richmond area. Both of those should have a 2355 02:07:11.039 --> 02:07:15.319 form of glyphasate, like the ACE Concentrated Weed and grass 2356 02:07:15.399 --> 02:07:17.720 killer that is the same ingredient as Roundup. 2357 02:07:19.319 --> 02:07:21.600 Okay, what was the name of. 2358 02:07:21.560 --> 02:07:29.279 It, Well, Ace Concentrated Weed and grass Killer. But Ace 2359 02:07:29.359 --> 02:07:32.560 has different products that they bottle under their name. But 2360 02:07:32.800 --> 02:07:35.199 if you go to that website, you'll see a list 2361 02:07:35.239 --> 02:07:37.720 of others. The high Yield product, the Monterey product, a 2362 02:07:37.800 --> 02:07:40.840 product called Eraser, and they're all the they're still glyphas 2363 02:07:41.720 --> 02:07:42.920 If you want to use that. 2364 02:07:44.279 --> 02:07:46.920 Spray that up phase weed. 2365 02:07:48.520 --> 02:07:53.319 Yeah, all right, Well I've got a break coming up here, 2366 02:07:53.319 --> 02:07:55.560 I have to go, but good luck with that. Remember 2367 02:07:55.640 --> 02:07:59.199 if the weed is actively growing. If it's actively growing, 2368 02:08:00.159 --> 02:08:03.720 works very well. If it is just from drought or whatever, 2369 02:08:03.920 --> 02:08:07.319 gla does not work well. So make sure water the 2370 02:08:07.319 --> 02:08:09.239 weeds if you have to to get them up and growing. 2371 02:08:09.600 --> 02:08:11.560 All right, thank you for that call. It's time for 2372 02:08:11.600 --> 02:08:13.079 me to take a little break here. I want to 2373 02:08:13.079 --> 02:08:15.800 remind you our phone number is seven one three two 2374 02:08:15.880 --> 02:08:19.520 one two five eight seven four seven one three two 2375 02:08:19.560 --> 02:08:23.119 one two fifty eight seventy four. When we come back 2376 02:08:23.560 --> 02:08:27.279 Terry and Montgomery, let's see Cindy in spring and Charlie 2377 02:08:27.359 --> 02:08:31.319 at West You you'll be our first up card line. Hey, 2378 02:08:31.680 --> 02:08:34.000 thanks for joining us. Appreciate you being here. We got 2379 02:08:34.000 --> 02:08:36.399 plenty more to talk about here, and the last bit 2380 02:08:36.520 --> 02:08:39.039 of our show for today. I want to head the 2381 02:08:39.119 --> 02:08:41.560 first thing out to let's see, we're going to go 2382 02:08:41.640 --> 02:08:45.239 to Terry and Montgomery. Hello, Terry, welcome to Guardline. 2383 02:08:45.960 --> 02:08:49.359 Hi, KiB I have two issues. 2384 02:08:50.159 --> 02:08:53.600 One, I have nuts edge and I have sprayed it 2385 02:08:53.640 --> 02:08:58.039 several times with that image nutsedge killer and whatever. I 2386 02:08:58.039 --> 02:09:01.680 can't seem to get rid of it. Okay, I don't 2387 02:09:01.720 --> 02:09:02.000 know how to. 2388 02:09:01.960 --> 02:09:05.119 Get rid of it all right, So where's it growing? 2389 02:09:05.359 --> 02:09:07.279 Is it in the lawn? Is it in a flower bed? 2390 02:09:07.920 --> 02:09:08.520 Oh? 2391 02:09:08.560 --> 02:09:11.520 I have an area that we're trying to get ready 2392 02:09:11.600 --> 02:09:14.640 to put sawed down, but it is so innundated over there. 2393 02:09:14.640 --> 02:09:16.279 I want to get rid of it before I put 2394 02:09:16.279 --> 02:09:16.880 the sawed down. 2395 02:09:17.760 --> 02:09:20.359 Okay, So what you want to use as a product 2396 02:09:20.760 --> 02:09:30.520 called either sedge hammer, sedge hammer or oh my gosh, 2397 02:09:30.520 --> 02:09:32.920 I just went blank on the other one. Hang on 2398 02:09:33.039 --> 02:09:34.880 just a second. I'll say. First of all, let me 2399 02:09:34.880 --> 02:09:38.680 give you a web a website gardening with Skip dot com. 2400 02:09:38.760 --> 02:09:40.720 I don't know if you've been to my website or 2401 02:09:40.760 --> 02:09:46.960 not gardening with Skip dot com. On there the publication 2402 02:09:47.000 --> 02:09:48.680 When you scroll down the page, there is a list 2403 02:09:48.720 --> 02:09:54.239 of publications. The first one says herveside products with skipsweed wiper, 2404 02:09:54.439 --> 02:09:58.560 and you can see for sedges. Sedge hammer is one 2405 02:09:58.560 --> 02:10:02.079 that I have on there and it works very very well. 2406 02:10:02.520 --> 02:10:05.800 That will be a good one. There are other versions 2407 02:10:05.880 --> 02:10:09.840 of that same ingredient. Monterey has one, Martin's one has one, 2408 02:10:09.880 --> 02:10:13.359 high Yield has one. They're listed there also on the website. 2409 02:10:13.359 --> 02:10:15.560 As you scroll down just right there, you'll see something 2410 02:10:15.600 --> 02:10:20.279 called nutsedge an in depth. Look, now I'm kind of 2411 02:10:20.319 --> 02:10:23.000 giving you a homework assignment here. That's about a three 2412 02:10:23.039 --> 02:10:27.439 page publication, but it goes into that there's two types 2413 02:10:27.479 --> 02:10:31.000 of nutsedge and they don't grow the same, and it 2414 02:10:31.079 --> 02:10:35.079 tells you what to use, when to use it, and 2415 02:10:35.199 --> 02:10:39.560 how to prevent nutsedge from proliferating. Because Terry, the bottom 2416 02:10:39.600 --> 02:10:41.800 line is you got to get on it first thing 2417 02:10:41.840 --> 02:10:44.159 in the spring, and you want to never let us 2418 02:10:44.319 --> 02:10:47.319 nut sedge plant have more than three to five leaves 2419 02:10:47.359 --> 02:10:50.720 on it. If it goes past that, it's making more plants, 2420 02:10:51.239 --> 02:10:55.800 and a spray later on won't recapture the lost ground. 2421 02:10:55.840 --> 02:10:57.680 In other words, it won't kill all the new plants 2422 02:10:57.680 --> 02:11:02.079 that it produced. Rate it on. So it's if you 2423 02:11:02.119 --> 02:11:04.079 read that and you kind of think about it, it 2424 02:11:04.119 --> 02:11:07.760 makes a lot of sense. It's start early and be consistent, 2425 02:11:07.920 --> 02:11:09.960 and if you do that, you can win the war 2426 02:11:10.039 --> 02:11:13.359 on nuts it. You just have to. What people do 2427 02:11:13.640 --> 02:11:15.760 is that they let up. And I would not recommend 2428 02:11:15.800 --> 02:11:19.119 image as the best product. It works good on one 2429 02:11:19.159 --> 02:11:22.600 type of nuts edge, but not on the other type. 2430 02:11:22.319 --> 02:11:28.680 The halo sulfur on which is the sedge hammer works well. 2431 02:11:28.680 --> 02:11:31.359 I think there's another one called sedge ender that has 2432 02:11:31.399 --> 02:11:33.800 that same thing. In it too, But anyway, it's there 2433 02:11:33.840 --> 02:11:36.600 on the website. Just read that, and you know, I 2434 02:11:36.640 --> 02:11:40.000 could it take us an hour to fully discuss it. 2435 02:11:40.119 --> 02:11:41.920 But if you're read it, I think it'll get you 2436 02:11:41.960 --> 02:11:46.520 on the right foot. Just remember, start early and never rest. 2437 02:11:46.800 --> 02:11:50.000 Never let it rest because it'll recouperate. You got to 2438 02:11:50.399 --> 02:11:52.920 you gotta don't let it up for air. 2439 02:11:53.119 --> 02:11:55.560 In other words, well, yeah, because I read, don't stress 2440 02:11:55.600 --> 02:11:57.840 it out, don't pull it, don't you know? And so 2441 02:11:57.840 --> 02:11:59.520 I'm trying to not do all of that. And some 2442 02:11:59.600 --> 02:12:02.039 of it is turned yellow, but you know, and so 2443 02:12:02.119 --> 02:12:03.319 I guess it's slowly dying. 2444 02:12:04.279 --> 02:12:08.800 But well, and you have about yeah, you have about 2445 02:12:08.800 --> 02:12:11.479 ten times more than you see right now. It's it 2446 02:12:11.560 --> 02:12:13.960 just had pup up. Yet they're more, they are more nuts. 2447 02:12:14.000 --> 02:12:17.920 So I can get on it now, but especially starting 2448 02:12:17.960 --> 02:12:21.640 next spring. But read that publication. That really is worth 2449 02:12:22.119 --> 02:12:23.039 an hour of talking. 2450 02:12:24.159 --> 02:12:26.520 Is it around? Is it okay to put the spray 2451 02:12:26.520 --> 02:12:28.920 that's nutsedge around like flowers? 2452 02:12:30.680 --> 02:12:33.680 Uh? Read the label on the one that you choose 2453 02:12:33.720 --> 02:12:37.279 to buy, and it'll tell you if you can or 2454 02:12:37.319 --> 02:12:40.319 can't use it. I made something called a homemade weed 2455 02:12:40.359 --> 02:12:45.119 wiper that's also a publication. And when I'm using like 2456 02:12:45.159 --> 02:12:48.399 a nutsedge control, but I'm doing it among like flowers 2457 02:12:48.880 --> 02:12:51.760 like lananas, and there's nuts edge coming up. I'll use 2458 02:12:51.760 --> 02:12:54.279 my weed wiper to wipe it right on the nuts 2459 02:12:54.399 --> 02:12:58.399 edge and not get the spray on designs. 2460 02:12:58.000 --> 02:12:58.560 On the plant. 2461 02:12:58.920 --> 02:13:04.840 Okay, okay, yeah, border calls real quick, Terry. 2462 02:13:05.279 --> 02:13:07.560 Okay, it's brown spot. So I'm the brown spot is 2463 02:13:07.600 --> 02:13:11.479 the other issue. I've used that earth Ali, these disease 2464 02:13:11.520 --> 02:13:14.159 control and the three and one spray, and I can't see. 2465 02:13:14.039 --> 02:13:14.600 To get rid of it. 2466 02:13:15.399 --> 02:13:17.199 Are you talking about brown patro on your lawn? 2467 02:13:18.079 --> 02:13:20.800 No, I'm talking about brown spot on my wack leap 2468 02:13:20.880 --> 02:13:22.359 Lagusto bushes. 2469 02:13:22.840 --> 02:13:28.640 Oh, okay. A product a product containing Daca nil or 2470 02:13:28.680 --> 02:13:32.520 a similar ingredient. So if you if you go up 2471 02:13:32.560 --> 02:13:35.199 you're in Montgomery, if you've got the ana plants and produce, 2472 02:13:35.279 --> 02:13:38.560 tell them you need something that has Daca nil in it, 2473 02:13:38.800 --> 02:13:40.960 and you're going to have to spray it every time 2474 02:13:41.039 --> 02:13:43.560 after a rain, spray it again. Rake up all the 2475 02:13:43.600 --> 02:13:46.600 fallen leaves, get them out of the area because they're 2476 02:13:46.720 --> 02:13:50.039 just a source of spores for more infection. Anything you 2477 02:13:50.039 --> 02:13:52.399 can do to minimize wedding of the foliage. If your 2478 02:13:52.439 --> 02:13:55.640 lagustrum helps slow it down a little bit, but the 2479 02:13:55.680 --> 02:13:58.359 spray containing Sorry, I'm sorry, I had to run some 2480 02:13:58.439 --> 02:14:00.159 best but I got I got some folks here that 2481 02:14:00.159 --> 02:14:02.720 are that are waiting online? All right, Cindy and Spring, 2482 02:14:02.760 --> 02:14:04.760 how can we help? Hey? 2483 02:14:05.119 --> 02:14:05.560 Good morning? 2484 02:14:05.600 --> 02:14:06.039 How are you? 2485 02:14:06.520 --> 02:14:09.640 I am good good. 2486 02:14:10.279 --> 02:14:10.880 I'm wondering. 2487 02:14:10.920 --> 02:14:12.720 We just moved into a house and we have some 2488 02:14:12.840 --> 02:14:16.000 very large pots by our pool, and we were trying 2489 02:14:16.000 --> 02:14:18.920 to figure out some trees to put there that would 2490 02:14:19.000 --> 02:14:21.720 have that were really pretty and showy. Can you offer 2491 02:14:21.760 --> 02:14:22.680 any suggestions? 2492 02:14:23.960 --> 02:14:25.960 You mean a tree and a pot. It must be 2493 02:14:25.960 --> 02:14:26.720 a pretty big pot. 2494 02:14:26.800 --> 02:14:31.000 Huh, it's it's a really big pot, two really big pots. 2495 02:14:32.520 --> 02:14:34.079 Okay, what about a magnolia tree? 2496 02:14:34.119 --> 02:14:36.399 Can you put a magnolia tree in a pot? 2497 02:14:37.640 --> 02:14:40.119 It's going to be a struggle to try to keep 2498 02:14:40.159 --> 02:14:43.159 it going. It doesn't want to be confined like that, 2499 02:14:43.359 --> 02:14:45.920 So I would You could try it for a while 2500 02:14:46.000 --> 02:14:49.960 and be okay, but in general I probably wouldn't do it. 2501 02:14:49.960 --> 02:14:52.960 There's certainly palm trees that do well. Now, Plumeria is 2502 02:14:53.000 --> 02:14:55.279 not a tree, but beside a pool, that's a beautiful, 2503 02:14:55.279 --> 02:14:58.399 tropical a looking plant that gets up in the air 2504 02:14:58.439 --> 02:15:02.880 a little bit okay that yeah, I mean you could 2505 02:15:03.119 --> 02:15:05.000 you know, you can plant a ficus tree. You would 2506 02:15:05.039 --> 02:15:07.680 just have to bring the pot into a protected spot 2507 02:15:07.760 --> 02:15:10.479 during the wintertime. But that would be one that would 2508 02:15:10.479 --> 02:15:13.880 grow out in the sun right out there. Okay, you 2509 02:15:13.920 --> 02:15:17.840 know there there's a lot of plants that you can 2510 02:15:17.880 --> 02:15:20.079 make tree like you like a crape myrtle. Train to 2511 02:15:20.119 --> 02:15:22.800 a single trunk would be another option. Just get a 2512 02:15:22.920 --> 02:15:25.279 dwarf type. You want one that's not gonna want to 2513 02:15:25.319 --> 02:15:28.840 get more than about oh, let's say seven to ten 2514 02:15:28.880 --> 02:15:31.479 feet tall, and there are varieties like that. 2515 02:15:32.520 --> 02:15:33.720 What about fruit trees? 2516 02:15:33.760 --> 02:15:36.319 Could you put fruit trees like those lemon trees that 2517 02:15:36.960 --> 02:15:38.800 smells so wonderful when they bloom. 2518 02:15:39.000 --> 02:15:42.800 Yeah, citrus CRUs uh huh meyer lemon h huh, satsu 2519 02:15:43.079 --> 02:15:47.880 h satsuma orange. Satsuma oranges are more cold hearty than 2520 02:15:47.880 --> 02:15:51.319 the other most other cris That would be a good one. 2521 02:15:51.359 --> 02:15:54.439 And all the citrus when it blooms, it does smell wonderful, 2522 02:15:54.479 --> 02:15:56.399 So that would be a good choice. You could train 2523 02:15:56.439 --> 02:15:58.640 it up into a trunk, and it takes a little 2524 02:15:58.680 --> 02:16:01.960 while to get it up there. To set suma growing 2525 02:16:02.039 --> 02:16:05.199 in the ground, they'll get over eight feet high, but 2526 02:16:05.279 --> 02:16:07.159 in a pot. That would be a nice it'd be 2527 02:16:07.159 --> 02:16:10.279 a smaller, but a nice sized little tree. All right, Cindy, 2528 02:16:11.199 --> 02:16:14.520 thank you so much for hi. Hey, thanks for your call. 2529 02:16:14.600 --> 02:16:17.880 I appreciate that, folks. We are jumping through calls pretty 2530 02:16:17.920 --> 02:16:20.640 quick here. I'm gonna go to Charlie and west you. Charlie. 2531 02:16:20.680 --> 02:16:23.039 I'm really short on time here, but let's get your 2532 02:16:23.119 --> 02:16:24.920 question and I'll answer it on the other side of 2533 02:16:24.920 --> 02:16:25.279 the break. 2534 02:16:26.560 --> 02:16:31.199 Is this a good time to plant a Saint Augustine plugs? 2535 02:16:32.079 --> 02:16:36.079 Not laid the side down, but all right, individual plugs. 2536 02:16:36.200 --> 02:16:41.079 That's that's easy. Yes, the answer is yes. Water water water, 2537 02:16:41.319 --> 02:16:43.479 water them two or three times a day for the 2538 02:16:43.520 --> 02:16:46.360 first week, and then water them every day for the 2539 02:16:46.399 --> 02:16:49.079 next week, and then you can start weaning them off 2540 02:16:49.079 --> 02:16:52.559 from that, but constantly keep the soil moist and you 2541 02:16:52.600 --> 02:16:56.040 can plant Saint Augustine plugs right now. Thank you very much. 2542 02:16:56.079 --> 02:16:59.200 I appreciate that call very much. Folks. We're gonna have 2543 02:16:59.200 --> 02:17:00.680 to go to a break. I'll be right back, just 2544 02:17:00.719 --> 02:17:03.799 trying to get through all these calls. Hey, welcome back 2545 02:17:03.840 --> 02:17:06.479 to the garden line. We are glad to have you 2546 02:17:06.520 --> 02:17:09.239 with us. Still, our last shot of the day coming up. 2547 02:17:09.319 --> 02:17:11.719 Right here. So we're going to run right to the phones, 2548 02:17:12.239 --> 02:17:14.600 head out to Friends with Texas and talk to Ken. 2549 02:17:14.639 --> 02:17:19.680 Hello, Ken, I think it's actually Olivia. My husband called 2550 02:17:19.719 --> 02:17:26.719 for me. My question, Hello, My question is I've been 2551 02:17:26.760 --> 02:17:31.879 invaded by snails and slugs. I've tried throwing out coffee 2552 02:17:31.879 --> 02:17:35.680 grounds to run them off. I've tried the what you 2553 02:17:35.719 --> 02:17:38.200 can get at the box stores snail and slug bait, 2554 02:17:38.719 --> 02:17:43.000 and I've tried cinnamon, but they just keep coming back 2555 02:17:43.079 --> 02:17:46.280 with a vengeance. They're climbing the walls. They're killing my plants. 2556 02:17:46.760 --> 02:17:47.399 What do you reckon? 2557 02:17:47.479 --> 02:17:50.239 Okay, gotcha, got you? Got you all right? Well you 2558 02:17:50.239 --> 02:17:52.000 need it. You're down in front Wood. You got some 2559 02:17:52.120 --> 02:17:54.159 really good hardware stores. You know, you can go to 2560 02:17:54.200 --> 02:17:56.719 ashardware dot com. There's some good stores down there. 2561 02:17:57.079 --> 02:17:58.399 I do familiar with them. 2562 02:17:58.760 --> 02:18:03.159 Some bait and now baits will work, but there's a 2563 02:18:03.159 --> 02:18:05.559 little bit of a caveat. You need to get fresh bait, 2564 02:18:06.239 --> 02:18:08.520 and it needs to be put out in a quantity 2565 02:18:08.639 --> 02:18:11.760 enough to where they eat it and they die. If 2566 02:18:11.799 --> 02:18:14.559 they eat a little bit and get sick, they kind 2567 02:18:14.559 --> 02:18:17.399 of learn from that. We call that bait's shyness, and 2568 02:18:17.680 --> 02:18:20.040 the bait that would work. They're not interested eating because 2569 02:18:20.239 --> 02:18:22.440 they tried it and it made them sick. So you 2570 02:18:22.479 --> 02:18:24.159 want to get a good fresh bait, get plenty of 2571 02:18:24.239 --> 02:18:27.120 it out there. Uh. And there are a number of 2572 02:18:27.120 --> 02:18:30.639 different ones. Most of them over the counter now contain 2573 02:18:30.840 --> 02:18:34.920 iron phosphate, so it's not a it's not like a 2574 02:18:34.959 --> 02:18:38.600 synthetic chemical poison as much as it's It gives them 2575 02:18:38.639 --> 02:18:41.719 a terminal case of constipation, which ought to make you 2576 02:18:41.799 --> 02:18:45.520 happy to know that's what's happening to them. But seriously, 2577 02:18:46.000 --> 02:18:49.159 the iron phosphate baits work really well. There are some 2578 02:18:49.280 --> 02:18:52.360 other baits, one that has metalla hyde in it, but 2579 02:18:52.520 --> 02:18:54.200 I would I would go with the iron phosphates a 2580 02:18:54.239 --> 02:18:56.840 little bit safer in the environment, and it works. You 2581 02:18:56.920 --> 02:18:59.200 just have to You just have to use it, you know, 2582 02:18:59.239 --> 02:19:02.440 periodically to do that. All that other stuff you're saying, 2583 02:19:02.479 --> 02:19:06.479 don't bother cinnamon and some people put eggshells out that 2584 02:19:06.520 --> 02:19:07.040 doesn't work. 2585 02:19:07.840 --> 02:19:12.079 I coffee grounds. They don't like the smell I was getting. 2586 02:19:12.239 --> 02:19:15.200 I'm getting desperate, That's why. That's my point I'm trying 2587 02:19:15.200 --> 02:19:17.319 to make. But okay, so Ace. 2588 02:19:17.040 --> 02:19:20.040 Hardware, get a good quality bait from Ace Hardware down there, 2589 02:19:20.040 --> 02:19:23.159 and friends with and you'll be able to you'll be 2590 02:19:23.200 --> 02:19:23.559 able to. 2591 02:19:24.079 --> 02:19:24.239 Uh. 2592 02:19:24.760 --> 02:19:27.959 It works, it works super super well. I mean it really, 2593 02:19:29.319 --> 02:19:33.959 it's excellent. Uh yeah that I've I've had good success 2594 02:19:34.040 --> 02:19:34.760 with those two. 2595 02:19:35.600 --> 02:19:37.239 Okay, I will give it a t. 2596 02:19:38.399 --> 02:19:40.520 If you don't Yeah, if you don't know, your your 2597 02:19:40.639 --> 02:19:43.079 ACE hardware is on Edgewood Drive there in front. 2598 02:19:43.120 --> 02:19:46.959 Oh, yes, I'm very familiar with it. All run down 2599 02:19:47.000 --> 02:19:49.239 there today. Yes, thank you so much. 2600 02:19:50.079 --> 02:19:55.040 Have a good cool all right, thank you, Ken Slash Olivia. 2601 02:19:55.079 --> 02:19:58.600 I appreciate talking to you. All right, We're gonna go 2602 02:19:58.639 --> 02:20:02.200 now to Humble and talk to Carrie. Hello, Kerry, say. 2603 02:20:02.040 --> 02:20:05.920 There, I was calling if you're doing well. 2604 02:20:07.040 --> 02:20:08.280 I planted some. 2605 02:20:09.559 --> 02:20:12.479 Or few pond hollis a few weeks ago, and I 2606 02:20:12.520 --> 02:20:15.399 guess the heat just kind of took off. I watered 2607 02:20:15.440 --> 02:20:18.000 them pretty well at first, we got busy, and now 2608 02:20:18.639 --> 02:20:19.639 now the turn brown. 2609 02:20:21.079 --> 02:20:23.000 Okay, so do we need more water? 2610 02:20:23.120 --> 02:20:26.520 I did plant them high. 2611 02:20:26.719 --> 02:20:29.159 Tell me how how long ago you planted I missed that. 2612 02:20:31.280 --> 02:20:35.760 Let's see, I would say that it's been about four weeks. 2613 02:20:36.799 --> 02:20:41.360 Okay. So, so a woody plant like a trio shrub, 2614 02:20:42.200 --> 02:20:44.000 all the roots are in the pot of course that 2615 02:20:44.120 --> 02:20:46.559 you buy or when you put that in the ground. 2616 02:20:46.760 --> 02:20:49.479 You need to pretend that it's still on the plastic pot, 2617 02:20:49.719 --> 02:20:52.719 because what that'll do is it'll make you water the 2618 02:20:52.840 --> 02:20:55.159 right area. If you knew there was a pot around 2619 02:20:55.200 --> 02:20:57.760 it in the ground, you wouldn't water to feed out 2620 02:20:57.760 --> 02:20:59.920 from the plant, you know, because there's no rooms out there. 2621 02:21:00.159 --> 02:21:03.479 Water it is well, it takes. It's going to take it, 2622 02:21:03.879 --> 02:21:05.799 you know, a year or two or three as it 2623 02:21:05.840 --> 02:21:09.079 begins to expand those roots out into the soil around it. 2624 02:21:09.600 --> 02:21:14.000 So especially for the first few months, watering that original 2625 02:21:14.079 --> 02:21:16.520 roots cylinder that went to the ground is very important 2626 02:21:16.959 --> 02:21:19.319 because you can have moist soil around it, but that 2627 02:21:19.760 --> 02:21:22.879 that cylinder of roots gets pumped dry on a hot 2628 02:21:22.879 --> 02:21:26.239 summer day, which we've been having, so that I would 2629 02:21:26.280 --> 02:21:29.600 focus the watering on that. It doesn't mean you need 2630 02:21:29.639 --> 02:21:32.200 to turn it into a swamp. It just means, yes, 2631 02:21:32.920 --> 02:21:35.120 that we can have drought stress and you think you're 2632 02:21:35.120 --> 02:21:38.159 watering it enough. But that's just the challenge of it. 2633 02:21:38.680 --> 02:21:41.239 I would do that and then wait and see what regreens. 2634 02:21:41.239 --> 02:21:43.000 You may have to do some pruning to remove some 2635 02:21:43.079 --> 02:21:45.360 dead limbs if that turns out to be what they are. 2636 02:21:46.319 --> 02:21:49.159 Okay, okay, all right, thanks, So much. 2637 02:21:49.559 --> 02:21:50.479 Appreciate it all. 2638 02:21:50.399 --> 02:21:53.440 Right, good luck with it. Yeah, thank you, appreciate appreciate 2639 02:21:53.479 --> 02:21:57.520 your call very much. Talking about trees and shrubs, reminding 2640 02:21:57.559 --> 02:21:59.840 me of Affordable Tree Service, you know, Martin spoon More. 2641 02:22:00.120 --> 02:22:03.159 People all the time they call me like who can 2642 02:22:03.200 --> 02:22:05.440 I call to trim on my trees? Or I need 2643 02:22:05.440 --> 02:22:07.280 this and that done? Who do I call? It's always 2644 02:22:07.280 --> 02:22:10.799 the same answer. It's Martin Spoonmore Affordable Tree Service. The 2645 02:22:11.000 --> 02:22:13.879 phone number if you like that, it's seven one three 2646 02:22:14.079 --> 02:22:18.319 six nine nine twenty six sixty three seven one three 2647 02:22:18.399 --> 02:22:22.680 six nine nine two six six three. Listen, it's storm season. 2648 02:22:22.719 --> 02:22:25.920 They're predicting a lot of hurricanes through the year. Well 2649 02:22:25.959 --> 02:22:28.120 we're getting toward the end of the storm of the 2650 02:22:28.200 --> 02:22:31.200 hurricane season. But you know, a storm can occur anytime. 2651 02:22:31.840 --> 02:22:33.879 It can occur anytime, and your trees need to be 2652 02:22:33.920 --> 02:22:37.760 adequately pruned to give them the best chance of surviving 2653 02:22:37.760 --> 02:22:41.639 a storm. Bad branch angles are narrowed, they break off easily. 2654 02:22:41.840 --> 02:22:44.399 That's a no. No. Martin can help fix that. He 2655 02:22:44.440 --> 02:22:47.399 can help train a tree as it's growing, but also 2656 02:22:47.879 --> 02:22:50.760 deal with a tree that's already established. Anything you need 2657 02:22:50.799 --> 02:22:53.079 to do to take care of your trees, you need 2658 02:22:53.079 --> 02:22:55.200 to call Martin first, and he's gonna come out, and 2659 02:22:55.200 --> 02:22:58.520 he's going to charge you a fee to come out, 2660 02:22:58.559 --> 02:23:01.840 a site visit fee, a uh, you know, just to 2661 02:23:01.879 --> 02:23:04.319 show up and look at it and assess the situation. 2662 02:23:04.600 --> 02:23:06.760 If you hire work done, that fee goes right into 2663 02:23:06.799 --> 02:23:08.639 your work, so you've already paid for that much of 2664 02:23:08.680 --> 02:23:11.760 the work at least. But having him come out and 2665 02:23:11.799 --> 02:23:15.360 look at the site is really important because it's like 2666 02:23:15.440 --> 02:23:19.000 me answering questions on guardline. I can't see the tree, right, 2667 02:23:19.079 --> 02:23:23.159 I can't see exactly the situation. He's an expert at it. 2668 02:23:23.200 --> 02:23:24.920 He knows what he's doing. You can go to the 2669 02:23:24.920 --> 02:23:31.319 website too, a fftree service dot com afftree service dot 2670 02:23:31.360 --> 02:23:32.879 com if you want to get a hold of him. 2671 02:23:33.120 --> 02:23:36.000 And remember, Martin and his wife Joe answer the phones. 2672 02:23:36.479 --> 02:23:40.200 It's a it's a mom and pop operation, right, I mean, 2673 02:23:40.440 --> 02:23:43.239 they take care of their customers. And if you call 2674 02:23:43.280 --> 02:23:45.680 in someplace and you don't hear Martin or Joe answer, 2675 02:23:45.680 --> 02:23:48.040 and you probably call the wrong place, you need to die, 2676 02:23:48.399 --> 02:23:51.639 hang up and dial again. Seven one three Can you 2677 02:23:51.680 --> 02:23:53.520 tell me the phone number? I've said it enough times 2678 02:23:53.840 --> 02:23:58.280 seven to one three six nine nine two six sixt' three. 2679 02:23:58.360 --> 02:23:59.920 I want You've had a couple of things going on. 2680 02:24:00.239 --> 02:24:06.079 First of all, next weekend Saturday, September seventh and by 2681 02:24:06.159 --> 02:24:09.680 the way, and also September eighth, Montgomery County Fall Home 2682 02:24:09.719 --> 02:24:13.600 and Outdoor Living Show Montgomery County Fall an outdoor home 2683 02:24:13.760 --> 02:24:16.680 living show at the Lone Star Convention Center. So if 2684 02:24:16.719 --> 02:24:19.440 you live anywhere up north in a direction, come on 2685 02:24:19.479 --> 02:24:22.000 over and see me. I'll be there on Saturday from 2686 02:24:22.079 --> 02:24:24.520 twelve to two. I'm going to be giving a little 2687 02:24:24.559 --> 02:24:28.520 talk on fall gardening, some of the things we do 2688 02:24:28.600 --> 02:24:31.559 and fall for success. And then i'll be answering your 2689 02:24:31.639 --> 02:24:34.079 questions to the cows come home. I'll stick there as 2690 02:24:34.120 --> 02:24:36.639 long as you want to talk. I'll be giving away 2691 02:24:36.680 --> 02:24:39.120 some really cool products for you to try out, too, 2692 02:24:39.280 --> 02:24:41.639 So another reason to come by. Stick your head in 2693 02:24:41.680 --> 02:24:45.879 the door, say hi. The Montgomery County Fall Home and 2694 02:24:45.920 --> 02:24:49.079 Outdoor Living Show September seventh and eighth. I'll be there 2695 02:24:49.120 --> 02:24:51.520 on the seventh and next Saturday from twelve to two. 2696 02:24:51.600 --> 02:24:56.079 That's at the Lone Star Convention and Expo Center. It's 2697 02:24:56.079 --> 02:24:59.840 out there on Airport Road, north side of Conroe. Come 2698 02:24:59.879 --> 02:25:01.280 on and see us. They'll have a lot of other 2699 02:25:01.319 --> 02:25:04.559 fun stuff going on there as well. Also, if you 2700 02:25:04.559 --> 02:25:07.799 are interested in growing strawberries, you need to attend this program. 2701 02:25:07.879 --> 02:25:12.159 It's a second annual Strawberry Jamboree in Lake Jackson, Texas. 2702 02:25:12.559 --> 02:25:15.520 Now the location has been shifted. It's now at the 2703 02:25:15.639 --> 02:25:20.639 Lake Jackson Rec Center. Lake Jackson Rec Center. That's on 2704 02:25:21.120 --> 02:25:24.040 ninety one. It's at ninety one Lake Drive in Lake Jackson. 2705 02:25:24.719 --> 02:25:28.319 October Strawberry Planning Season. You go to this program, you 2706 02:25:28.319 --> 02:25:30.559 can even put in an order from strawberry plants. They're 2707 02:25:30.559 --> 02:25:32.360 going to be doing that, but you are going to 2708 02:25:32.399 --> 02:25:35.159 hear from speakers that know all about it. It'll go 2709 02:25:35.600 --> 02:25:39.079 from eight in the morning until twelve noon, and there'll 2710 02:25:39.120 --> 02:25:42.760 be a strawberry shortcake contest. Wish they'd call me to 2711 02:25:42.799 --> 02:25:45.959 be judge of that. I'd be willing to give one 2712 02:25:45.959 --> 02:25:49.600 for the team and eat strawberry shortcake all day. Seriously. 2713 02:25:49.799 --> 02:25:53.000 They'll be exhibitors, they'll be speakers, they'll be strawberry plugs 2714 02:25:53.000 --> 02:25:55.319 to pre order the contest. If you think you can 2715 02:25:55.360 --> 02:25:57.799 make strawberry shortcake, you need to join it. It's a 2716 02:25:57.799 --> 02:26:02.639 free event. Nine seventy nine, eight six, four, fifteen fifty 2717 02:26:02.680 --> 02:26:05.760 eight are called the Brazoria County Extension,