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Speaker 2: Good morning, Good Sunday morning, and thanks for listening in
Speaker 2: to Garden Line. We're glad to have you with us today.
Speaker 2: If you would like to give us a call, maybe
Speaker 2: you got a gardening question. How about dialing seven one
Speaker 2: three dialing Listen to me, remember I used to dial
Speaker 2: Remember those funds seven one three two one two kat
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Speaker 2: r H. However you want to get there them on
Speaker 2: let's talk. We'll discuss what everything's sort of interest to you,
Speaker 2: that is for sure. I you know, they say, you've
Speaker 2: heard the term do as I say, not as I do.
Speaker 2: And you've heard the term the cobbler's kids go barefoot.
Speaker 2: If you ever heard that one, bonder that for a minute.
Speaker 2: I walked out one of my flower beds. That was
Speaker 2: it's just in an area where I don't get over
Speaker 2: there much often, and I've been traveling a lot lately
Speaker 2: AND's kind of barely keeping things going while I'm away.
Speaker 2: And I looked, and oh my gosh, there are weeds
Speaker 2: all over the place. And that was a mulch bed.
Speaker 2: But when you get in there and look at it,
Speaker 2: the mult is about an inch thick. And wherever sunlight
Speaker 2: hits the soil, nature plants of weed. It's as simple
Speaker 2: as that. Wherever sunlight hits the soil, nature plants a weed.
Speaker 2: And what we find is that when we don't keep
Speaker 2: a good thick mulch on the surface of the soil,
Speaker 2: we start to see weed seeds sprouting. And you may
Speaker 2: look and go out's mult It's not multipick enough. And
Speaker 2: if you've got a multitude chunky and so it's kind
Speaker 2: of like the particles hold themselves apart because they're big, old,
Speaker 2: chunky particles and light kind of can bounce through. It's
Speaker 2: got to be a little deeper then than a very
Speaker 2: fine textured mulch might need to be. But whatever you do,
Speaker 2: just remember multing is not a once and done. It's
Speaker 2: you just maintain it and watch it. One question I
Speaker 2: sometimes get is do I take the old mult away
Speaker 2: to put fresh mulch in? And the answer is no.
Speaker 2: And actually my answer is usually a question does anybody
Speaker 2: rake the leaves up off the forest floor before the
Speaker 2: next autumn arrives? Of course not. You drop new leaves
Speaker 2: on top of the old leaves, the old leaves decompose,
Speaker 2: and in addition to being a good mulch, now you're
Speaker 2: building the soil from the top down as well. So
Speaker 2: I always replenish on top and keep a good dense
Speaker 2: mulch on it, because guess what, I get to go
Speaker 2: out there and hoe or pull or whatever some weeds.
Speaker 2: That is what's going to have to happen now that
Speaker 2: I'm back in town and able to get some of
Speaker 2: that worked. Well. You are listening to garden Line, and
Speaker 2: I hope you're having so far a good Sunday morning.
Speaker 2: We are looking forward to visiting with you about the
Speaker 2: kinds of topics that are of interest to you. And
Speaker 2: so early on here usually it's a little quieter on
Speaker 2: the funes, I just talk about some of the things
Speaker 2: that I think are important for you to know. So,
Speaker 2: for example, we are in the big heat of summer.
Speaker 2: I know, I know, very very hot season of the year.
Speaker 2: You know, it's it's a kind of it's the time
Speaker 2: of the year when people just kind of lose their
Speaker 2: interest in gardening. Plants are wilting, but so are gardeners too,
Speaker 2: and it's a shame because we can still be planting,
Speaker 2: we still be doing a lot of things. Perhaps the
Speaker 2: most important thing to be doing right now is as
Speaker 2: you can using those early morning hours when it's as
Speaker 2: cool as it's going to be during the day, the
Speaker 2: sun's not shining out baking down on you yet to
Speaker 2: build the soil. Wherever you plan on doing any additions
Speaker 2: or change to the landscape, this is a great time
Speaker 2: to put in new landscape beds. Get them all ready,
Speaker 2: get them built up, get the irrigation and stuff set
Speaker 2: up on them. Because whether you plant now, which can
Speaker 2: be done with daily TLC on those new plants, or
Speaker 2: if you wait until fall follows the best planning season
Speaker 2: of the year for woody ornamentals, for perennials, many other things.
Speaker 2: Either way you go about it, you're ready to go.
Speaker 2: Whenever you're going to plant. You've got the beds ready.
Speaker 2: Remember brown stuff before green stuff. So what does that
Speaker 2: look like? Well, there's a range. You could just purchase
Speaker 2: compost and put it on the ground and rototillet or
Speaker 2: spade it into the soil to improve the soil you have.
Speaker 2: That's an option. A step above that, in my opinion,
Speaker 2: would be to buy a bed mix and lay some
Speaker 2: down on the ground on the soil surface and mix
Speaker 2: it in a little bit with the soil, and then
Speaker 2: lay more bed mix on top of that to build
Speaker 2: up your bed. Now why did I do that in
Speaker 2: two steps? Well, you can do it. But if you've
Speaker 2: got a really heavy clay soil and you set a
Speaker 2: really high quality just think of a potting soil or
Speaker 2: some nice kind of soil on top of it. There's
Speaker 2: an interface there where you go from wonderful soil to
Speaker 2: clay soil, and the water doesn't move readily into that clay,
Speaker 2: and we have what we called a perched water table.
Speaker 2: That means that underground, the water is going through the
Speaker 2: nice bed mix and it hits that clay and it
Speaker 2: sort of stops or it moves in, but it's extremely slow.
Speaker 2: Our Houston clays can take water in about an eighth
Speaker 2: of an inch an hour. That's how fast. Just the clay,
Speaker 2: not organic matter, roots and all that, just the clay
Speaker 2: can absorb the water. So that creates that underground water table.
Speaker 2: So it's better I think to put some moltch down
Speaker 2: or not molts, excuse me, bed mix down, mix it
Speaker 2: into the surface and then add the more bed mix
Speaker 2: on it. That way, when you go from the nice
Speaker 2: bed mix down into the clay, there's a transition, there's
Speaker 2: a gradient if you will going down. It's not you know,
Speaker 2: night and day difference. You absolutely have to do it
Speaker 2: this way, but I found that it works best. So
Speaker 2: think about that as you're preparing your swell areas and
Speaker 2: getting ready to do your fall planting, which is coming
Speaker 2: soon as we get to the end of August. We
Speaker 2: got this little window where we're putting in potatoes, the
Speaker 2: new potatoes, Irish potato, you know, not sweet potatoes, but
Speaker 2: the other kinds of potatoes. And typically it's going to
Speaker 2: happen at the end of August here, which hey, hello,
Speaker 2: we're there. You would take small hole potatoes that you
Speaker 2: saved from your spring potato crop and plant them whole
Speaker 2: in the ground. We don't want to have We don't
Speaker 2: want to plant something that's got you know, six eyes
Speaker 2: on it, because we just need one or two, and
Speaker 2: so we plant whole. You can plant like we do
Speaker 2: in spring, where you cut a potato up, set it out,
Speaker 2: allow that cut surface to kind of dry couple days,
Speaker 2: and then plant it. But in the warm, warm, warm
Speaker 2: soil of summer cup potatoes can rot pretty quick. I've
Speaker 2: i myself have even and this is not a normal
Speaker 2: practice you'll here, but I'll take a little four inch
Speaker 2: pots and put the cup pieces in four inch pots
Speaker 2: and just keep them in a cool kind of cooler spot,
Speaker 2: keep them waste and let them sprout. And once they
Speaker 2: get up and growing, and you got because you know
Speaker 2: you will already have roots then and you have the
Speaker 2: shoot coming up, you can transplant them out into the garden.
Speaker 2: So that that allows you to delay the planting a
Speaker 2: little bit without delaying actually getting that plant going because
Speaker 2: it's going in the four inch pot anyway. That most
Speaker 2: people aren't going to be willing to go through all that.
Speaker 2: But that's just another option because it's hard to find
Speaker 2: small whole potatoes this time of the year. All right, well,
Speaker 2: we'll take a quick break here and I will be back.
Speaker 2: I just want to remind you our number seven one
Speaker 2: three two one two ktr H. All right, go a
Speaker 2: little little balance in music for the first thing in
Speaker 2: the morning can help us along with a cup of coffee,
Speaker 2: get our eyes wide open here so we can keep
Speaker 2: going on on guardline advice. I want to mention that
Speaker 2: if you have not done your summer fertilization. You can
Speaker 2: still do some fertilization, especially if your grass is needing
Speaker 2: a boost. If it's just not looking like it should,
Speaker 2: you feel like you know it's lacking vigor. For example, Well,
Speaker 2: Nitrofoss has a product called super Turf. I think the
Speaker 2: easiest way to describe it is it's their silver bag.
Speaker 2: I love it when we color coat bags because that
Speaker 2: just makes it easy. You cannot can say super Turf,
Speaker 2: it's a nineteen four ten fertilizer and all that, and
Speaker 2: that's all true, But then you get to the store
Speaker 2: and you go which one was he talking about? Silver bag?
Speaker 2: Silver bag. It's slow release, slow release, so gradually, over
Speaker 2: time that nitrogen is released out of the product. That's
Speaker 2: important because it cuts down on such frequent mowing. Now,
Speaker 2: Super Turf, like all Nitrofoss products, is widely available. You're
Speaker 2: going to find it at OspA Ace up on Kirkandaal
Speaker 2: in the Woodlands. You're going to find it at Shades
Speaker 2: of Texas, which is also in the Woodlands on at
Speaker 2: fourteen eighty eight. If you're done the King or over
Speaker 2: in the King, whatever, you can go to Kingwood Ace
Speaker 2: at King would Drive, and they've got it there as well.
Speaker 2: Many many places carry these nitroposs products. I think it's
Speaker 2: time now to head out to the phones. We're going
Speaker 2: to go out to Parland and talk to Mason. Hello, Mason,
Speaker 2: welcome to garden.
Speaker 6: Good Morris, Kip, how are you?
Speaker 2: I'm well, Thank you. Hey.
Speaker 6: I got a question. It's regarding nutsedge. So I have
Speaker 6: a I have a garden that I've tilled into the ground,
Speaker 6: and every year the nutsedge keeps growing back and growing back.
Speaker 6: Now I've put mulch on top of my garden and
Speaker 6: I just can't get rid of the nutsedge. Do you
Speaker 6: have any tips, like should I put shall I put
Speaker 6: a fabric down before I before I start my planning
Speaker 6: or what?
Speaker 2: No, multi won't work and fabric. If the fabric is
Speaker 2: down tight on the ground, which is how you want
Speaker 2: it to be, the nutsedge just punches right through it.
Speaker 2: There are a few fabrics that are able to prevent
Speaker 2: nutsedge piercing them, but those are more expensive commercial grade,
Speaker 2: and to be honest, I'm not a fan of fabric
Speaker 2: in general. On the soul what I've done though, If
Speaker 2: you go to my website, do you have a pent
Speaker 2: or pencil hinting yes, sir, all righty go to Gardening
Speaker 2: with Skip dot com Gardening with s I have four
Speaker 2: new publications. Two of them are about nutsedge. There's a
Speaker 2: longer one called an in Depth Look, and a shorter one.
Speaker 2: I would encourage you to read the longer one. It's
Speaker 2: only about three pages, but it goes into some of
Speaker 2: the principles as to why it's difficult to control, which
Speaker 2: help us understand what to do so we can control.
Speaker 2: And a lot of people they go at it and
Speaker 2: they say I tried that it didn't work. Well, you'll
Speaker 2: understand why they didn't work in there, and it'll help
Speaker 2: you change what you do so that it does work.
Speaker 2: There's also two publications on a weed wiper. One of
Speaker 2: them is how to build a little weed wiper if
Speaker 2: you've got nutsedge, let's say, coming up underneath a rose
Speaker 2: bush or some other area where you just can't blast
Speaker 2: a spray into there, and it tells you how to
Speaker 2: do if you want to do that. The other one is,
Speaker 2: and this is the one we're getting to. It's called
Speaker 2: Herbicide Products to use with the weed wiper. And if
Speaker 2: you look at that one, it has products for if
Speaker 2: you're trying to control poison, ivy and brush, it has products.
Speaker 2: If you're trying to grow grasses, it has products if
Speaker 2: you're trying to control sedges, and that would be the
Speaker 2: list of the things that you would use. So you
Speaker 2: can go poke around up there see what you want.
Speaker 2: But especially read nutsedge and end Up's look. It really
Speaker 2: just a super oversimplified. It comes down to jumping on
Speaker 2: it early and consistently staying on it, never letting it
Speaker 2: up for air. When it gets up has three to
Speaker 2: five leaves, it needs to be hand dug. It needs
Speaker 2: to be sprayed, it needs to be whatever you're going
Speaker 2: to do to it, because after about five leaves it
Speaker 2: starts having producing the daughter tubers and now you're eight
Speaker 2: to ten times more nuts. At June you began with.
Speaker 6: Wow, Okay, I appreciate it, Thank.
Speaker 7: You very much.
Speaker 2: You bet check those out there. I spent a lot
Speaker 2: of time on them, and I think they'll be very
Speaker 2: very helpful. Appreciate that. CONTI yes, sir, all right, we're
Speaker 2: going to go now and talk to Jerry. Hey, Jerry,
Speaker 2: welcome to Guardline.
Speaker 8: Hi, thank you, sir. I was listening yesterday to your
Speaker 8: show about the monarch, butterfly, and milkweed native plants. Before
Speaker 8: I run around everywhere trying to find native do you
Speaker 8: recommend I think you could?
Speaker 2: You can of Yeah, are you in Bear Creek.
Speaker 9: Eron?
Speaker 8: No, you are too ninety.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, Yeah, Buchanans didn't too far for it's just
Speaker 2: down on eleven Street and the heights, and they carry
Speaker 2: probably the biggest selection of natives anybody I know. Now,
Speaker 2: all of our good garden centers, the ones you hear
Speaker 2: me talk about on Guardline, the independent nurseries, all of
Speaker 2: them are going to have some native plants, and so
Speaker 2: it just is a matter of you know, how how
Speaker 2: big of a selection are you looking for?
Speaker 10: Uh?
Speaker 2: And that's why I mentioned Buchannans, because it's in their
Speaker 2: name Buchanan's Native plants, that that they focus on. That
Speaker 2: that's it's not.
Speaker 7: All that hard.
Speaker 8: Scare me. I'm sure if they have it, I've never.
Speaker 11: Like.
Speaker 8: Maybe could check them out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, go run over there this afternoon, check it out
Speaker 2: and see what you see. Talk to him, tell them
Speaker 2: what you're looking for. Tell him you heard about, you know,
Speaker 2: tracting uh monarchs and things like that, because they're going
Speaker 2: to have a garden center is going to carry the
Speaker 2: flowers for attracting adults and right now, uh, there is
Speaker 2: a number of things we could be planting to continue
Speaker 2: to feed those adults before they start their journey back
Speaker 2: to Mexico. And they'll also have product or plants that
Speaker 2: the larva can eat, and that's basically the milk weeds.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I have plenty of the tropical, but I don't like it,
Speaker 8: and I don't any butterflies or caterpillars.
Speaker 2: Well, they they will, though they just haven't found years yet.
Speaker 2: But he went into he went into the issues that
Speaker 2: he has found in his research on on the tropical
Speaker 2: You know, they're not not great news about, but a
Speaker 2: lot of people like it. It looms all the time,
Speaker 2: and it's you know, it has its pluses, but it
Speaker 2: also has those negatives. And that's what he was spending
Speaker 2: his time talking about here when we're visiting on the show.
Speaker 2: The thing about the aphids, though, Jerry, that plant I
Speaker 2: have used it for years to attract beneficial insects. And
Speaker 2: here's how it works. The tropical milk weed gets a
Speaker 2: yellow aphid on it with little black tailpipes and black legs.
Speaker 2: It's called the oleander. Aphid. Funny thing is I've never
Speaker 2: seen it on oleanders, but you see it on monitor
Speaker 2: on tropical milk weed and other milk weeds too. By
Speaker 2: the way, now that aphid doesn't get on your other plants,
Speaker 2: I don't know another plant in the landscape it gets on.
Speaker 2: It's not the aphid on tomatoes, it's not the one
Speaker 2: on crape myrtles. You see what I'm saying. It's like
Speaker 2: all these things that can get aphids, it's not the
Speaker 2: aphid that gets on that plant. But what happens is
Speaker 2: when you have aphids on the milk weed, then lady
Speaker 2: beetles will show up to eat them and to lay
Speaker 2: eggs to raise their young. Lacewing larva show up to
Speaker 2: do the same thing. Parasitic wasp that lay eggs inside
Speaker 2: the aphid's body. Next time you're looking at your plant
Speaker 2: and you see aphids that aren't yellow, but they're kind
Speaker 2: of paper sacked brown colored or tan colored. Those have
Speaker 2: wasps growing inside of them, like the movie Alien. It's
Speaker 2: pretty cool. And so that plant is like a nursery
Speaker 2: raising beneficial insects. So if you put it beside I
Speaker 2: mentioned tomato, I mentioned crape myrtle, and you know a
Speaker 2: rose bush gets aphids, it's a different aphid. If you
Speaker 2: put it there, then when those insects grow up those beneficials,
Speaker 2: then they're right next to the plants that you would
Speaker 2: like them to help with aphids on as well. So
Speaker 2: don't look at the aphids as a negative on that milkweed.
Speaker 8: It just oh, I know, but it all thrown them
Speaker 8: a little bit. They're young.
Speaker 2: Yeah, of course you can cut them on the ground.
Speaker 2: You're not going to kill them. But what mister Nemrov
Speaker 2: was talking about yesterday, you know, is number one he
Speaker 2: was saying. He was suggesting people don't do that when
Speaker 2: do other milk weeds if you want to plant them,
Speaker 2: but if you have it, you need to cut it
Speaker 2: down at the end of September, and you need to
Speaker 2: cut it down again right before we get into the
Speaker 2: spring season at the end of winter, and get all
Speaker 2: of the what you cut down, get it out of there,
Speaker 2: because that is plant surfaces that can hold the spore.
Speaker 2: That's a disease for the monarchs. And you heard the
Speaker 2: show reiterate his whole segment. But twice a year taking
Speaker 2: it to the ground is probably best to Number one
Speaker 2: so that new arriving monarchs don't already get exposed to it.
Speaker 2: Number two, so that those about to head to Mexico
Speaker 2: don't carry all the spores with them as they go
Speaker 2: from that plant.
Speaker 8: I do have you on milkweed that I gut.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, it's a big one. Hey Gary, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: have to run, But good luck with that and have fun.
Speaker 2: Have fun shopping over at Buganon this afternoon or wherever
Speaker 2: you go. You're gonna find a lot of good native
Speaker 2: plants at our at our Mom and Bob garden centers.
Speaker 2: You yes, sir, thanks for the call.
Speaker 12: Uh.
Speaker 2: We're talking earlier, visiting with Mason about the nuts edge,
Speaker 2: and we're just talking to him about the different products
Speaker 2: that are on that list. The herbicide products for the
Speaker 2: wheat wiper. I like the weed wiper because you're not
Speaker 2: spraying a ton of pesticide in the environment. You're just
Speaker 2: wiping it directly on the target plant, which is the weed.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 2: And those herbicides that are on there, you're going to
Speaker 2: find those at any local ACE Hardware store. ACE Hardware
Speaker 2: cares a wide variety of products, and if you see
Speaker 2: things on my list on there, Ace Hardware is going
Speaker 2: to have them now. I want to tell you this.
Speaker 2: I was at at Langham Creek Ace Hardware. That's the
Speaker 2: one on five point twenty nine over in Cyprus. It's
Speaker 2: it's in the Copperfield neighborhood for those of you over
Speaker 2: in West Houston northwest Easton that know that area. They're
Speaker 2: going to have their grand reopening. They after I was
Speaker 2: out there, they had a time where they were kind
Speaker 2: of closed down and getting a bunch of work done.
Speaker 2: And man, they have redone the place and it's great.
Speaker 2: This coming Friday, Saturday and Sunday, they're going to be
Speaker 2: giving away an Eggo power trimmer two hundred and fifty
Speaker 2: dollars value, a Webers Guess grille four hundred and fifty
Speaker 2: dollars value, paint a room makeover two hundred dollars value.
Speaker 2: They're going to be doing demos on Big Green Eggs
Speaker 2: and Tregger grills and Weber grills and the Gosny Peacha
Speaker 2: oven on Saturday only. Saturday, only fifteen percent off all
Speaker 2: still units. So if you if you're looking for some
Speaker 2: power equipment, trimmors, weed eaters, whatever, Still's got a lot
Speaker 2: of them, fifteen percent off that day. Only at only
Speaker 2: at Langham Creek. Ace Hardware have forty ACE Hardware is
Speaker 2: in the Houston area. You can go to Acehardware dot
Speaker 2: com find the store locator and find the ones near you.
Speaker 2: But anyone over in that region you should just check
Speaker 2: out Langham Creek Case Hardware this coming weekend. Got three
Speaker 2: days to do it. Just check them out and I
Speaker 2: think you'll see there's a lot of really cool stuff,
Speaker 2: plus some fun activities that they got planned as well.
Speaker 2: All right, we're gonna take a little break here, it's
Speaker 2: time for the news. I'll be right back. Wishing you
Speaker 2: the best this morning. And you know what, I'm glad
Speaker 2: you're listening to the guard Line. We got plenty of
Speaker 2: things that we can discuss today to help you have
Speaker 2: more I don't know, bountiful garden, a more beautiful landscape.
Speaker 2: How about that. That's a goal that I have. You
Speaker 2: know what another goal I have in the garden, though,
Speaker 2: is is to have fun. And I one of the
Speaker 2: things that always makes me kind of sad. I want
Speaker 2: to talk to someone and it's like you talk about gardening.
Speaker 2: It's like, yeah, I tried that, I killed everything. I
Speaker 2: couldn't grow anything. I got a brown thumb, and you
Speaker 2: can just see they they did not have fun, and
Speaker 2: gardening should be fun. Listen, this is this is not
Speaker 2: like you're making a painting and you got to get
Speaker 2: it all right, and then you hang that thing on
Speaker 2: the wall and nothing changes. Gardens are forever evolving. They're
Speaker 2: forever evolving. Even that includes landscapes. I saw it went
Speaker 2: back to a place where I grew up many years ago.
Speaker 2: It went back probably I don't know, ten fifteen years
Speaker 2: after I had moved on to college, and the shrubs
Speaker 2: were like through the eaves of the house. You know.
Speaker 2: There were all kinds of abelias and red tip fotinias,
Speaker 2: all kinds of things like the traditional shrubs of those days,
Speaker 2: and they just had overgrown and it was time. It
Speaker 2: wasn't my place anymore, but it was time for them
Speaker 2: to pull those suckers out and get some new ones.
Speaker 2: Breeders have always coming up with new, more compact plants
Speaker 2: like lossy abelia. Now there's all these colors to the foliage.
Speaker 2: It's just beautiful. But that's how landscapes are. It's not
Speaker 2: a one and done and that's part of the fun
Speaker 2: of it. Can you imagine, well, some of you could
Speaker 2: if you if you just had one set of clothes
Speaker 2: and you never bought another set ever. I mean it
Speaker 2: just you wore the same thing day after day. We
Speaker 2: get kind of boring, wouldn't it. And you may look
Speaker 2: out there and go, oh, well, there's a beautiful new
Speaker 2: shirt or plouse or whatever, and you go get it
Speaker 2: and change the look a little bit. Why not do
Speaker 2: that with your landscape. By the way, I'll be real
Speaker 2: self deprecating here, one of my daughters said, when I
Speaker 2: look at old pictures of mom and Dad, I think
Speaker 2: she looks so good in that dress, and I also
Speaker 2: think he still has that shirt. Guilty is charged, Guilty charged? Yep,
Speaker 2: I do, I know, but some people like to eat
Speaker 2: new clothes all the time. But your landscape can be
Speaker 2: the same way. And I would encourage you to think
Speaker 2: about it that way. And you know, one way to
Speaker 2: go about this would be just to call beer scapes
Speaker 2: beerscapes is awesome at designing new landscape makeovers. I don't
Speaker 2: care if you got a pool that you want to
Speaker 2: get landscap. You know, sometimes pools can be a little
Speaker 2: bleak looking. Piercescapes can come in and I mean they
Speaker 2: can make it look great, absolutely great. Do you want
Speaker 2: an outdoor sitting area? Listen, it's a bazillion degrees outside
Speaker 2: right now, but fall is coming. How about an outdoor
Speaker 2: area with a built in fireplace? How about a one
Speaker 2: of those what do you call it, the little fire tables,
Speaker 2: something that's bricked in or landscape pavered in and you
Speaker 2: just gather around it on those crisp fall nights, or
Speaker 2: and here we can do it all winter because our
Speaker 2: winters are so mild, and you can just enjoy that
Speaker 2: with friends. Pierce Scapes can do all of that. Even
Speaker 2: if you just need a re re renovation of the
Speaker 2: landscape that you built and then you've changed a little bit,
Speaker 2: but it's just time to give it a new makeover.
Speaker 2: They can do all of that. They do all aspects
Speaker 2: from landscape lighting to drainage improvement, to fixing irrigation systems,
Speaker 2: to installations and design. Piercecapes is the number one company
Speaker 2: I can think of for doing just that. Go online,
Speaker 2: look at their look at their website pierscapes dot com,
Speaker 2: or give them a call. Two eight one three seven
Speaker 2: fifty sixty two eight one three seven zero five zero
Speaker 2: six zero. I was just on the phone a minute
Speaker 2: ago talking with someone about the discussion I had yesterday
Speaker 2: with mister Namrov regarding the research results of the milkweeds
Speaker 2: and the issue of the disease of caterpillars and so
Speaker 2: on like that. We're talking about using some native milkweeds
Speaker 2: and things. Well, I tell you, I just checking the
Speaker 2: other day out Nelson Watergarden and Nursery out there in Katie, Texas,
Speaker 2: and they have the orange tuberosa milkweed. They probably have
Speaker 2: some others out there. I didn't I didn't look around
Speaker 2: for all them, but the Tuberosa the main one. You see.
Speaker 2: It's a native Texas milkweed. It is orange flowers and
Speaker 2: it's one of the ones that will come out and
Speaker 2: bloom and look pretty and then it'll sort of die back.
Speaker 2: And that's good because all those shriveled up dead leaves
Speaker 2: now that could have been harboring and building up populations
Speaker 2: of the disease had been the plant essentially cleared all
Speaker 2: those leaves off. And it's a tough tough summer, tough survivor,
Speaker 2: but they got it out there, Nelson Water Garden and Nursery.
Speaker 2: Their nursery is outstanding really a lot of cool stuff,
Speaker 2: lots of vegetables now and it's time for the fall
Speaker 2: vegetable garden. We're planting our warm seasoned crop still, so
Speaker 2: you get a tomato that moves kind of quick, not
Speaker 2: one that takes forever to get the harvest. You can
Speaker 2: still plant them now. Squashes and other things, bell peppers,
Speaker 2: there's just a lot of things can go in now
Speaker 2: for fall harvest, and they've got that there at Nelson
Speaker 2: Water Gardens. And there's a great sale on hibiscus, oh
Speaker 2: my gosh, really good sales on both the three and
Speaker 2: five gallon bush forms and the three gallon tree forms
Speaker 2: of hibiscus. So this would be a great time to
Speaker 2: pick those up as well. All out there, where is it? Well,
Speaker 2: you got ten two Katie. When you get to Katie
Speaker 2: Fort Benroad, turn north and it's just as stones throw
Speaker 2: up the road there. Nelson Watergarden and Nursery, Nelson Watergardens
Speaker 2: dot com. That's their website if you want to check
Speaker 2: in to that, Nelson Watergardens dot com. So this morning
Speaker 2: talking about some of the things that we need to
Speaker 2: do and take care of in the garden, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: come back and we're going to do a little more
Speaker 2: discussion of that. I will be taking a break here
Speaker 2: in just a second. I just want to remind you
Speaker 2: one more time if you missed it, the place where
Speaker 2: all those publications, those new four four new publications have
Speaker 2: been added is Gardening with Skip dot Com. Gardening with
Speaker 2: Skip dot Com. That's also where you'll find my lawn
Speaker 2: care schedule, things to do in the lawn to make
Speaker 2: it grow better. That's more water fertilized. And the other
Speaker 2: schedule is pest disease and we'd management in the lawne
Speaker 2: and I refer to that one as things that go
Speaker 2: wrong and how to fix them. Both schedules are free.
Speaker 2: They're there, multi color, lots and lots of information on them.
Speaker 2: Print them out. It'd be good night time reading. If
Speaker 2: you can't fall asleep at night, you can just pull
Speaker 2: one of those out and away. All right, it's time
Speaker 2: to take a break. When we come back, Lewis and
Speaker 2: Brazoria County, you'll be our first up. If you for
Speaker 2: the rest of you seven two kt r h back guardline.
Speaker 2: Good have you with us. We are going to head
Speaker 2: straight out to the phones to Brazoria County and talk
Speaker 2: to Lewis this morning, Welcome to garden Line. Lewis.
Speaker 7: Question about seed germination. I had some really bad results
Speaker 7: this year, and I was gonna see if you had
Speaker 7: any tips. Green beans and cucumbers. Planted squash, yellow squashed,
Speaker 7: straight neck, and zucchini and that came up fine, and
Speaker 7: basil came up fine. I plant some green crop bush
Speaker 7: beings and I planted some sweet success cucumbers on a
Speaker 7: parthorin carpet type and got zero germination. Now, I pre
Speaker 7: watered my soil before I planted, and I soaked the
Speaker 7: seed for about twenty minutes before planting them, and we
Speaker 7: watered hand and watered in the morning and the evening.
Speaker 7: This is in full sun. And this was on the
Speaker 7: thirteenth of August. So it's been almost.
Speaker 13: Two weeks with nothing.
Speaker 7: Fresh seed from hot seed, no goodness, germ rates on it.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The only thing about that I would have done a
Speaker 2: little different. I don't think this is the cause of
Speaker 2: them not coming up, but I would have soaked them
Speaker 2: a little longer than twenty minutes, you know, give them
Speaker 2: about you know, several hours to fully imbibe that water
Speaker 2: in at that you know, that time in August, the
Speaker 2: soil temperatures are really hot, and those plants, those seeds
Speaker 2: are not planted that deep, right, and I think it
Speaker 2: could the excessive The only my suggestion to you, lewis,
Speaker 2: of course I don't have a crystal ball to know exactly,
Speaker 2: you know, whether there was like an underground disease that
Speaker 2: got them or something. But my thing would be soak
Speaker 2: a little longer. But then when you plant them, do
Speaker 2: something to shade the seed row if possible. You don't
Speaker 2: want them to come up and be bulched where they
Speaker 2: can't get light, but at least to get that germination
Speaker 2: going if you could, if you could just cool that
Speaker 2: soil off a little bit, because the soil an inch deep,
Speaker 2: I mean it can be way over one hundred degrees really,
Speaker 2: and when the sun is baking down on it in
Speaker 2: August like that, so that that could be a factor.
Speaker 7: I was going to ask you if you ever tried
Speaker 7: like soaking cardboard and laying over the soil and maybe
Speaker 7: picking it up every day, just checking so if you're
Speaker 7: getting emergents, check if as.
Speaker 2: Long as if you're really we didn't even have to
Speaker 2: soak it. I mean, it'd probably be better just to
Speaker 2: leave it dry. Because it doesn't stick down. So uh, yeah,
Speaker 2: you could do that. I've you know, I've suspended like
Speaker 2: a piece of shade cloth, doubled or tripled over just
Speaker 2: to take some of that light intensity down. Uh. Doing
Speaker 2: some frequent watering of the surface to too lightly to
Speaker 2: to keep it cooled off as it evaporates up there
Speaker 2: is helpful also. But I think any kind of a shade,
Speaker 2: I've tried things like a light scattering of pine needles.
Speaker 2: Uh see it gets some light through but a little
Speaker 2: bit of shade. But that's kind of hard to get
Speaker 2: that sort of just right at least that's been my
Speaker 2: experience with it. But anyway, Yeah, it's just it's just
Speaker 2: really hot soil.
Speaker 7: I think it's been two weeks. I don't know if
Speaker 7: the seed is lying dormant in the soil or could
Speaker 7: actually the heats killed you know.
Speaker 2: The Yeah, heavy worth getting in there and digging, digging
Speaker 2: around a little, see if you can find any seeds
Speaker 2: and see what they're doing.
Speaker 7: Yeah, having there's nothing, there's no coddle eatings, there's nothing
Speaker 7: on them. They're just yeah, you know, the beans are
Speaker 7: easy to find, let's.
Speaker 11: Just put it that way.
Speaker 7: There's nothing on them. So I think I'm just going
Speaker 7: to ahead and replant and call it up. But it
Speaker 7: was one hundred percent germ failure where like squashed and
Speaker 7: that pop right up four days like I expect because
Speaker 7: we can water in the morning in the evening with
Speaker 7: rain water. And yeah, I just I was just going
Speaker 7: to try something different. I'm doing these in vego bits too,
Speaker 7: so it's a little different.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, and you know, it's as possible that it
Speaker 2: could have been a bad pack of seeds, but you'll
Speaker 2: know that you could. You probably don't have a lot
Speaker 2: of seeds in that part and a carpet cucumber pack,
Speaker 2: but if you took a few out, put them in
Speaker 2: a wet pepper towel, moist paper towel rather, they're not
Speaker 2: stopping right right, slipping in a little zip lock and
Speaker 2: just set it on the counter, check it every every day.
Speaker 2: You can determine germination viability that way. And so if
Speaker 2: they all also have been.
Speaker 7: Pretty reliable on their germ rates, they're showing eighty six
Speaker 7: percent on the path because they're real proud of their testing.
Speaker 2: So well, yeah, I'm not casting dispersions on any any company.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying here's the things that could be happening.
Speaker 2: And so that's sure. Well, Louis Lewis, thank you very
Speaker 2: much and good luck with that. I hope the second round.
Speaker 7: Thank you appreciate.
Speaker 2: You appreciate that. Uh if you have been experiencing the
Speaker 2: shrink and swell of Houston's clay soils, and they do
Speaker 2: shrink and swell. This spring we had a lot of rain,
Speaker 2: but actually we had quite a bit of rain on
Speaker 2: endo summer pretty far and then it got hot and dry,
Speaker 2: and what happens the soil dries out, it shrinks. That's
Speaker 2: why you see cracks on the surface. Well, that wrex havoc.
Speaker 2: I mean that is a powerful force that can crack
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Speaker 2: talked to them and gotten to know them and looked
Speaker 2: at the kind of perspective that they have on serving
Speaker 2: their customers. And they are all about it. They're all
Speaker 2: about making a relationship with customers. Listen, Tizan native, he's
Speaker 2: stony in fifth generation Texan. They've been living here doing this.
Speaker 2: He's been doing it for twenty three years. And you
Speaker 2: don't stick around and have good ratings if you don't
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Speaker 2: And if you just tell him you're a guardenline listener,
Speaker 2: you get a free estimate. He'll come out. He'll take
Speaker 2: a look at it. And I was talking to Tay
Speaker 2: about a job the other day, about a situation, and
Speaker 2: you know, I expected to be like, well, you got
Speaker 2: to do this and this and this. No for him
Speaker 2: is like no, that's not enough movement to warrant going
Speaker 2: in and doing all of this, you know. And he'll
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Speaker 2: out to Dickinson now and talk to Karen. Hey, Karen,
Speaker 2: welcome to garden Line morning.
Speaker 4: I call him for two two.
Speaker 7: I have two questions.
Speaker 14: One is I got probably a little a quarter of
Speaker 14: an acre lawn use lawn.
Speaker 13: It goes into.
Speaker 11: This to the dishes and stuff for I've getting.
Speaker 14: To get a lot of crab gas in my yard
Speaker 14: and how do I get rid of the get rid
Speaker 14: of the crabgrass? And another one I heard you yesterday
Speaker 14: talking about somebody who could come in in that area
Speaker 14: I don't know, Dickens area. That would if you're gone
Speaker 14: for a period of time, in a long period of time,
Speaker 14: like a year or so, to take care of your
Speaker 14: flower bits and stuff like that.
Speaker 7: That was.
Speaker 2: I just I just drew a blank. Excuse me. That
Speaker 2: was perscapes I was talking about. They do quarterly maintenance.
Speaker 2: They come in and once a quarter. Yeah. So crabgrass
Speaker 2: you said, is in the lawn, right, Yes, it's all.
Speaker 14: Well, I've put the silver bag out two or three
Speaker 14: times and trying to get my lungs drinking that.
Speaker 2: But how do you get rid of crab gras well?
Speaker 2: The first number one is get a denser lawn, because
Speaker 2: it only can come up where sunlight hits the soil.
Speaker 2: So that means your lawn has thin areas, and so
Speaker 2: building that density is the simplest, most environmentally friendly way
Speaker 2: you can get rid of crabgrass. The second step would
Speaker 2: be next spring, assuming your lawn hasn't developed a density
Speaker 2: by then, a pre emergent herbicide like barricade by nitroposs.
Speaker 2: You need to follow my schedule online. It tells you
Speaker 2: exactly when to put it down water then and you
Speaker 2: may have to repeat that in about sixty days because
Speaker 2: the product eventually breaks down and crabgrass can sprout all
Speaker 2: through the summer. And so those two steps would be it.
Speaker 2: But number one is just determine that you're going to
Speaker 2: get that lawn dense and lush. And that's my mow,
Speaker 2: water and fertilized schedule that's free online that tells you
Speaker 2: exactly the things you need to do for that. So
Speaker 2: those two steps I think would be the key.
Speaker 15: Sound good?
Speaker 2: All right, Hey, thank you?
Speaker 14: Hey, Could you put me back to your receiver and
Speaker 14: I maybe get a number of the streetscape.
Speaker 2: I'm going to put you on hold. All right, folks,
Speaker 2: time for a break. I'll be right back. Welcome to
Speaker 2: kt r H Guarden Line with skin bricks.
Speaker 3: Just watch him as many kind of.
Speaker 11: Things to.
Speaker 2: All Right, let's get going on this again. We got
Speaker 2: plenty of go plenty to talk about, plenty of things
Speaker 2: to discuss today on garden Line. Thanks for listening. By
Speaker 2: the way, I'm your host, Skip Rector, and we're here
Speaker 2: to help you have success with your garden. That is
Speaker 2: it your garden and your landscape and whatever kind of
Speaker 2: gardener you are. You know some people, uh, it's all
Speaker 2: about the lawn. They are I call them lawn rangers,
Speaker 2: the weekend lawn rangers. They it's making that lawn perfect,
Speaker 2: you know, make it look as much like AstroTurf, I
Speaker 2: guess as you can in terms of perfect. No weeds,
Speaker 2: no anything. That's one kind of gardener, and that's fine.
Speaker 2: There's gardeners who are all into nature and they would
Speaker 2: just be happy having a weed growing in the lawn.
Speaker 2: If its flowers that are going to feed pollinators, they're
Speaker 2: good with that. Well that that's a little bit other
Speaker 2: end of the spectrum there. But that's another one of
Speaker 2: the kinds of gardeners we work with. Whether you're synthetic, organic,
Speaker 2: or don't care between the two, Whether you love color
Speaker 2: or love vegetables or love herbs? Where to help? How
Speaker 2: can we help you do that? And I hope you'll
Speaker 2: try a little bit of all of those. I find that,
Speaker 2: you know, I started off when I got my master's degree.
Speaker 2: The main focus I had was palmology. Do you know
Speaker 2: what pomology is? Pomology as in Pomona, the goddess of fruit, Pomona.
Speaker 2: Pomology is a study of fruit. Basically, it's a division
Speaker 2: of horticulture, and that was what I began my horticulture
Speaker 2: studies in and of course since then it's gone way
Speaker 2: past that and everything else, with ornamentals being the in
Speaker 2: turf being the big the big things now that really
Speaker 2: occupy my thoughts in time. But there's a lot of
Speaker 2: aspects of it. Some people just want some fruit trees.
Speaker 2: Maybe you like to have some grape vines. By the way,
Speaker 2: arbors are underutilized in our area. We should have more herbers.
Speaker 2: As hot and sunny as it is here, every patio
Speaker 2: ought to have a beautiful arbor over it that helps
Speaker 2: shade that patio. Now, of course you can put a
Speaker 2: roof on it, but why not a grape vine with
Speaker 2: clusters of grapes hanging down in it. That'd be kind
Speaker 2: of cool. I've got one that i'm training, a rose
Speaker 2: bush or rose vine vining type or rose to go over.
Speaker 2: It's a Peggy Martin, the one that everybody talks about
Speaker 2: from pink flowers, primarily a spring bloomer. But I'm working
Speaker 2: on getting that Peggy Martin to go over the top
Speaker 2: of it. That makes a really nice outdoor setting. If
Speaker 2: you're into herbs, you can go all the way and
Speaker 2: make an herb garden. You know those beautiful geometric gardens
Speaker 2: that you see from herbs. You can just put some
Speaker 2: herbs in a pot or down at the end of
Speaker 2: your veget will row, or in your flower bed. There's
Speaker 2: a lot of uses for those. I may come back
Speaker 2: and talk about that a little bit more. Right now,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go ahead and run out to Willis Styx's
Speaker 2: and talk to Sherry. Hello, Sherry, Welcome to Gardenline.
Speaker 16: I'm not doctor Sherry, and I'm not in the woodlands.
Speaker 16: Are you talking to me?
Speaker 11: No?
Speaker 2: Willis, Yeah, I'm talking to you.
Speaker 16: Oh Willis? Sorry? Yes, okay, great, Yes. So we have
Speaker 16: a place in our back lawn where we let the
Speaker 16: dogs out all the time, and we're just getting a
Speaker 16: lot of shade, and it was after we had built
Speaker 16: a pool and the pergola and everything, and there's just
Speaker 16: the grass is not thriving there at all, and so
Speaker 16: I was wondering, what can I plant in there instead
Speaker 16: of grass that's gonna be okay for the dogs to
Speaker 16: stomp on, and we'll actually grow in shade.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well that's a challenge right there. The part that
Speaker 2: makes it the biggest challenge is the dog stumping on part.
Speaker 2: When dogs I don't care what it is. When dogs
Speaker 2: are stomping back and forth over the same thing, it's
Speaker 2: just hard for any plant to do well.
Speaker 16: But some options to stomping and more than peeing. So
Speaker 16: it's the people round spots in the grass that is
Speaker 16: there that is getting some sunlight. So somehow, you know,
Speaker 16: it's a beautiful part of our law, our house and
Speaker 16: jarred and everything that I just need to make looks
Speaker 16: good and also not be where I can't see if
Speaker 16: there are snakes there, like you could put carolina jasmine
Speaker 16: or I don't know what, and then you don't see what.
Speaker 14: You need to see.
Speaker 2: I see, okay. Well, so the most shade tolerant groundcover
Speaker 2: there is is monkey grass it's mondo grass. Okay, it's dark, dark,
Speaker 2: dark green. There's a standard type that's going to get
Speaker 2: up oh, I don't know what, six inches or so.
Speaker 2: Then there's a dwarf type that's only going to get
Speaker 2: up about three inches. The problem with that is it
Speaker 2: doesn't spread very fast at all, so you got by
Speaker 2: a lot of it. You know, you're buying flats and
Speaker 2: flats of it and plugging it in in between it.
Speaker 2: But I'm telling you it makes a beautiful dark green,
Speaker 2: almost no mode turf. If you wanted to once a
Speaker 2: year kind of cut it back because it's looking a
Speaker 2: little rangy, maybe you could do that, but but that
Speaker 2: that would be the ideal. It's just going to take.
Speaker 2: You're going to buy a lot of flats of it
Speaker 2: to cover an area. There's taller things like ASTech grass,
Speaker 2: which is a type of it's like loriope and mondo,
Speaker 2: but it has white leaves with little green stripes in them,
Speaker 2: and that brightens up an area like that in the shade,
Speaker 2: So you could use it to border a bed, you
Speaker 2: could use it make it solid. You could put loriope
Speaker 2: in in areas like that too. On a native end,
Speaker 2: there's a groundcover call horse herb it is. It is
Speaker 2: a wild weed that has become popular with native folks
Speaker 2: because it does better in more shade. Now, if it's
Speaker 2: really shady.
Speaker 16: Going to struggle herb.
Speaker 2: What did you say, horse a horse herb and it's
Speaker 2: it's an horse herb. So if you have more of
Speaker 2: kind of a wildscape, kind of a native scape, it
Speaker 2: would fit in really well. If everything's super manicured, it's
Speaker 2: gonna look a little a little rangy for you probably,
Speaker 2: but just go online look at it, uh and see
Speaker 2: see what you see? So what else shade up there? Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean there's other things. You know, English ivy makes
Speaker 2: a good groundcover, but but that is a you're constantly
Speaker 2: going to be fighting to keep it in bounds, not
Speaker 2: climbing up the tree trunks and everything anything it can
Speaker 2: grab on. So that may be one that it's so
Speaker 2: kind of invasive in its tendency that I hesitate to
Speaker 2: recommend that one. Those are some options for you.
Speaker 16: Skate sd AP or Jake.
Speaker 2: Okay, no, horse it's horse herb h RB. Horse herb.
Speaker 2: It is a wild native groundcover with little yellow flowers,
Speaker 2: very inconspicuous, nothing write home about. But they yeah, but
Speaker 2: the pollinators and things might like that a little bit
Speaker 2: for that amount.
Speaker 16: Of shape because it's right next to our pool.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean it might. But the water and the
Speaker 2: pools can attract bees when they're thirsty. You know, you
Speaker 2: get some water splashing up on the sidewalk and they're
Speaker 2: thirsty and they need They can't drink out of a
Speaker 2: pool that they can drink out of small puddles up
Speaker 2: on the sidewalk around the pool. I wouldn't worry about
Speaker 2: it from that standpoint. Hey, I've run out of time
Speaker 2: on another break, but I appreciate your call, share and
Speaker 2: good luck, good luck turning you bad you've had. Thanks
Speaker 2: for the call, all right, folks, will be right back
Speaker 2: the number seven KTRH. He here on a Sunday morning.
Speaker 2: I hope you're having a good morning. By the way,
Speaker 2: we're going to start off by heading out to Magnolia
Speaker 2: and talking to Bruno. Hello Bruno, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 7: Good morning.
Speaker 17: I have a yeah out in Magnolia, so I've got
Speaker 17: clay soil with sand. It's actually qualified as a select fill,
Speaker 17: so it was great for building my new house, but
Speaker 17: not so good for a grass and such. I'm trying
Speaker 17: to get like a forest preserved look. And so I've
Speaker 17: had most of the disturbed areas hydro seated with bermuda,
Speaker 17: and i'd put down some rye earlier, but you know,
Speaker 17: with the heat, that's all gone. But I have a
Speaker 17: section also of about three quarters of an acre that's
Speaker 17: heavily shaded. But it's also got a couple of dry
Speaker 17: creeks that run through it, so the whole area will
Speaker 17: get wet and water moving pretty quickly in those heavy
Speaker 17: storms we get every couple of years. And uh, and
Speaker 17: so I'm looking. So the guy that did hydro seeds,
Speaker 17: so there's no point in trying to put the bermuda down.
Speaker 17: It's not going to like the shade. So you said
Speaker 17: it for things other than normal, normal grasses, and you know, again,
Speaker 17: I'm looking for more of a forest reserve look. He
Speaker 17: suggested that a grass called bahia might be good, or
Speaker 17: a crop called millet, but he said that can be
Speaker 17: a little difficult to mow if you let it go.
Speaker 17: And you know, I don't necessarily get out there every
Speaker 17: week or even every two to mow some of these areas.
Speaker 17: So I was wondering if you had a different type
Speaker 17: of grass that might work better for me.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, millet is a grain crop. So if you
Speaker 2: see sorghum in the field and wheat and oats, that's
Speaker 2: what millet's like. It's BacT just taller than wheat notes.
Speaker 2: So absolutely no mellet there. It won't grow in the
Speaker 2: shade either. The hair grass will take some shade. It'll
Speaker 2: take some shade. Now, if it gets dense enough, it's
Speaker 2: not going to be very thick, but I'll tell you, bahea,
Speaker 2: we'll give you a very thick root system to stop erosion.
Speaker 2: So if it'll grow there, that's fine. A lot of
Speaker 2: people don't like bahead because the day after you mow it,
Speaker 2: it sends up another seat head and it's like you
Speaker 2: didn't mow it. But it's not the it's there's a
Speaker 2: reason we don't have a lot of behalawns here in
Speaker 2: the area. But it is a survivor. And if you
Speaker 2: just have a little rangy area, kind of a mini meadow,
Speaker 2: whatever you want to put it in, it's fine for that.
Speaker 17: Uh.
Speaker 2: The only other thing, and how how dense is the
Speaker 2: shade and how big is this area?
Speaker 17: Oh, it's it's it's probably you know, it's more like
Speaker 17: a roadway that most of my property is. I really
Speaker 17: just mow the weeds and that look is okay for me.
Speaker 17: So it's not trying to get a manicured lawn. But
Speaker 17: it's probably all three quarters of an acre at least,
Speaker 17: and it's very densely wooded.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, but.
Speaker 17: It's it's the well texting from the erosion. I had
Speaker 17: to bring a lot of dirt in, and I want
Speaker 17: to get something down before that dirt's gone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So if you're talking about a big area like that,
Speaker 2: you may give seeding he a try, because every other
Speaker 2: kind of like horticultural plant, it would be completely cost
Speaker 2: prohibitive to try to, you know, put something like sedges
Speaker 2: or whatever through that whole area. They'll put up a
Speaker 2: shade and they help with erosion. But I don't think always.
Speaker 17: Really want more of a more of a grass because
Speaker 17: it's going to get some traffic on it.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 17: And but it's it's the erosion control that's that's a
Speaker 17: biggie for me. But it's it's it's fairly flat normally
Speaker 17: it's just just a whole lying area.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, all right, I would my suggestion would be, hey,
Speaker 2: if it's too shady, then we might have to look
Speaker 2: at something different, but that will probably be the best
Speaker 2: bet given all the factors you just told me.
Speaker 17: Okay, is that I haven't seen that in the gardens
Speaker 17: stores or in the what do you call big box
Speaker 17: stores and things? Is where where might I get that seed?
Speaker 18: Uh?
Speaker 2: Maybe online you might look, or if you go to
Speaker 2: go to a feed store and ask them, you know,
Speaker 2: do they carry it?
Speaker 11: Uh?
Speaker 2: You know you're up there in the Magnolia area. Uh,
Speaker 2: there's a D and D feed and outside of Tumbul
Speaker 2: to the west. I would just call them D and
Speaker 2: D Feed, They're not too far from you and just say, hey, look,
Speaker 2: do you guys carry a hal seed? Or do you
Speaker 2: know how we could get it? Can you get it
Speaker 2: in or whatever?
Speaker 11: Uh?
Speaker 2: And that would be probably where I would start.
Speaker 17: Okay, Now for planting that it's I know, right, I
Speaker 17: can just just really throw in the soil and it'll grow.
Speaker 17: The permuta didn't do that. I've got a garden tractor
Speaker 17: and a drag.
Speaker 9: Harrow.
Speaker 17: Uh, so I thought perhaps that would be a way
Speaker 17: to drag that thing back and forth, put down the
Speaker 17: seed and drag it again.
Speaker 2: Is that a good idea that would be Yeah, that'd
Speaker 2: be an option moet real short first, as short as
Speaker 2: you can get it. Uh and and that would be
Speaker 2: probably your best, your best approach.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 17: Well it just had a bunch of dirt put in
Speaker 17: in bulldoz, so there's nothing there right now. It's just
Speaker 17: exposed to play.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, well I hope that helps. I might
Speaker 2: have to run to another call, but good luck getting that.
Speaker 2: Hope you accomplish your goals there. Thank you for the call,
Speaker 2: Thank you very much. All right, let's see here. I
Speaker 2: wanted to mention that Medina has their new product, supergrol Plus.
Speaker 2: I knew it's been around a little while, but it's
Speaker 2: one of their newer ones. It's part of the hast
Speaker 2: grow line has to grow. Supergrol Plus is a sixteen
Speaker 2: zero two. It hooks up to a garden hose. It's
Speaker 2: a one quart bottle. It's going to cover about four
Speaker 2: thousand square feet, so in about ten minutes. Really, if
Speaker 2: you were trying to hurry, you could get done about
Speaker 2: ten minutes. It's got, of course, the big three nutrient
Speaker 2: you know, the MPK in it, but it's got the molasses,
Speaker 2: it's got the humic acid, it's got the seaweed extract.
Speaker 2: And it also has a keylated form of iron, so
Speaker 2: those yellow areas kind of get greened up a little bit.
Speaker 2: And that that is important because typically when you see
Speaker 2: yellow in your Saint Augustine lawn, it's due to a
Speaker 2: lack of iron in the plant for one reason or another.
Speaker 2: Or plus is widely available, easy to find, just a
Speaker 2: little post on it to Facebook the other day, something
Speaker 2: I like a lot. In fact, why you got it
Speaker 2: hooked up to the garden hose if you get through
Speaker 2: at the lawn, there's no problem at all the spraying
Speaker 2: your tomato plants in the vegetable garden or whatever else.
Speaker 2: It is a very good product for plants in general,
Speaker 2: So something you might want to consider. We're going to
Speaker 2: go now to Spring Branch and we're going to talk
Speaker 2: to Sally. Hello, Sally, welcome to guard Line.
Speaker 15: Good morning, Skiff. I have a very bad lawn in
Speaker 15: that I have those little weeds that look like little
Speaker 15: mimosa trees. I have spurge, I have cradgrass, and I
Speaker 15: have dove wheed. Is there one particular problem that would
Speaker 15: take care of all four?
Speaker 2: Sounds like you need to call a realtor and move
Speaker 2: you've got such a beyond trifecta there now, seriously joking aside.
Speaker 2: First thing is I'm hearing that lawn is not super dense,
Speaker 2: and so the long term solution is the mow water
Speaker 2: and fertilized according to my schedule to increase density, because
Speaker 2: every time you get a little more dense, you have
Speaker 2: a little less light and a little fewer weed problems.
Speaker 2: Some of the weeds, the one that looks like the
Speaker 2: little mimosa, that one, if you catch it early, you
Speaker 2: can spray the spray it with a product called Celsius
Speaker 2: and it will. It will kill the young immature seeds
Speaker 2: coming up. Once they get established and they're setting their
Speaker 2: seeds and stuff, it's a little harder to kill at
Speaker 2: that stage, but you can still give it a try
Speaker 2: with that product. Did you I can't remember the other
Speaker 2: weeds you say, button weed was.
Speaker 15: One, spurge crabgrass, and dovewed weed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, dove weed's another one. The Celsius would be an
Speaker 2: option for it. If dovewed isn't in really large areas,
Speaker 2: you can use a there's a cinnamon based product called
Speaker 2: Agra lawn a g r I l a wn that's
Speaker 2: the line of product. It will if the doveweeds damp,
Speaker 2: if you sprinkle it or have dew on it, and
Speaker 2: then you put that product on it, it will just fry
Speaker 2: it quick. I mean, it turns black. It works really well.
Speaker 2: But it comes in small canisters. And if you've got
Speaker 2: a big lawn area, it's it's tedious and cost prohibitive
Speaker 2: to do it that way. But it sounds to me
Speaker 2: like you're going to need to just do a combination
Speaker 2: of things in order to have success. And I would
Speaker 2: start with a product call celsius. If you can use it,
Speaker 2: you can use it now if you do it early,
Speaker 2: early in the morning, before the temperature gets up very far,
Speaker 2: because once we're up into the mid nineties, celsius is
Speaker 2: causing you some problems for sure. Okay, so you want
Speaker 2: to low nineties, okay, but try to do it early
Speaker 2: in the day.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 2: And and I would I would start with that and
Speaker 2: in the meantime be working on building that density in
Speaker 2: the lawn. The cradgrass is not going to be controlled
Speaker 2: by celsius, by the way, that's an annual weed. I
Speaker 2: would just now mow it and ignore it, and then
Speaker 2: the next spring a pre emergent product to prevent the
Speaker 2: crabgrass seeds from coming up would be helpful.
Speaker 15: Okay, okay, And one other thing. I have a thirty
Speaker 15: foot flower bed that I just turned over, and I
Speaker 15: wanted to plant some lawa pellam and some wandering jew
Speaker 15: but the dogweed has started to spring up in the
Speaker 15: flower bed. How can I mean, how can I plant
Speaker 15: something after spraying it with the.
Speaker 2: Celsius pretty quick? It's not real problem. Just spray it,
Speaker 2: let it do. It's what it's going to do. And
Speaker 2: then uh, just kind of mix up the soil a
Speaker 2: little bit and get it ready to plant in that area.
Speaker 15: Go ahead, I'm sorry, I say.
Speaker 2: Well, in addition to like a celsius attempt on it,
Speaker 2: you can also use a glyphosate type product just with
Speaker 2: a spreader sticker so it sticks to that doveweed better.
Speaker 2: In fact, that's true of any product you spray on doveweed.
Speaker 2: You ought to have a spreader sticker in there so
Speaker 2: that the spray sticks and doesn't just roll off the leaves.
Speaker 15: And do I have to wait a particular amount of
Speaker 15: time before I could plant my No, you.
Speaker 2: Want to tell them, you want to know you want
Speaker 2: to give both of those products about five to seven
Speaker 2: days to to kind of move down well into the plant. Uh.
Speaker 2: And after that you can do what you want in there,
Speaker 2: mix it up a little bit, new plant and there's
Speaker 2: not a problem.
Speaker 15: Okay, okay, this none of that can harm my St Augustine.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Oh, glypha sate will absolutely kill your Saint Augustine.
Speaker 2: We were talking a flower bed there, but the celsius
Speaker 2: can be used in your Saint Augustine.
Speaker 15: Okay, all right, yeah.
Speaker 2: Read the label because you know in the air, I
Speaker 2: don't have time to go into all the details of this,
Speaker 2: that and the other. It's all on the label. Follow
Speaker 2: that very carefully. Make sure and read it because any
Speaker 2: product can be damaging if you misuse it. Okay, Thanks Sally.
Speaker 2: I appreciate your call very much. We got to run
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Speaker 2: out now to Southwest. You said we're going to talk
Speaker 2: to Laurel. Hello Laurel, Welcome to Gardenline.
Speaker 19: Good morning, mister Skip and this is a thank you call.
Speaker 19: I asked you last week about where to get a
Speaker 19: because I was on a waiting list for a hands all. Okay,
Speaker 19: I went to HANT, I went to Southwest Fertilizer as
Speaker 19: you recommended. They delivered it within a couple of hours.
Speaker 19: Everyone was nice, everyone was congenial. They showed me how
Speaker 19: to offer read it, and Rudy and the crew asked
Speaker 19: me to say hello to you.
Speaker 2: All right, well hello back. Well that doesn't surprise me
Speaker 2: at all. But you know you didn't do one thing.
Speaker 2: You need to You need to ask Bob. You need
Speaker 2: to ask Bob to come to your house. And you
Speaker 2: need to say, you know, I don't know how to
Speaker 2: use a chainsaw. Could you fired up? And cut that
Speaker 2: limb off and show me how you do it. And
Speaker 2: when he's through with that, you need to say, you know,
Speaker 2: I learned a lot, but I'm still not quite comfortable
Speaker 2: with that. I know how to do it. Could you
Speaker 2: cut that other limb off, and then that other limb
Speaker 2: and then you see where we're going here.
Speaker 19: I would not take advantage of mister Bob that way.
Speaker 2: Oh come on, man, I know what he would say
Speaker 2: to the first. We got to have some fun here
Speaker 2: on guard Line. Thanks, thanks, thank you, and you have
Speaker 2: a great day.
Speaker 20: Thank you.
Speaker 15: All right, I want to question real quick, where do.
Speaker 19: I find twine?
Speaker 2: Say that again? What are you asking for? W I
Speaker 2: n E?
Speaker 6: Twine?
Speaker 2: Oh, Bob's got that. He's got He's got different kinds
Speaker 2: of gardening twine and stuff like that. I think even
Speaker 2: it may even have like a green Jude or something.
Speaker 2: To be honest, I haven't looked for that product in
Speaker 2: the store, but call them first for you run over there.
Speaker 2: But I'm sure they have. If they don't have it,
Speaker 2: you're gonna find it today's hardware stores too, so not
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Speaker 2: going over to Southwest, I would just give them a
Speaker 2: call first and see see what they say.
Speaker 21: Yeah, and we love a hardware too.
Speaker 2: All right, Well you're just hitting on all the right cylinders.
Speaker 21: Thanks a lot, because I listened to your show.
Speaker 2: This is where I get it from. Well, thank you.
Speaker 2: I appreciate that. All right, you too, Laurel. Thanks a lot.
Speaker 2: I have a wonderful day.
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Speaker 2: to go now to Tumball and talk to David. Hello, David,
Speaker 2: Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 22: Good good morning, Skip. Hey, I got a two questions.
Speaker 22: I've got some fruit trees, a fig, a grapefruit, and
Speaker 22: a meyer limon. A fig and the grapefruit. They say
Speaker 22: I planted them all probably about a year ago, year
Speaker 22: and a half. Go, Well, the fig and the grapefruit.
Speaker 22: They're taking off pretty good. The meyer lemon is not.
Speaker 7: It's it's still kind of small.
Speaker 22: It's got green leaves on it, but it's just not
Speaker 22: growing up like the other ones are. And I didn't
Speaker 22: know if that was just the nature of that particular
Speaker 22: plant or not.
Speaker 23: And then the other I was wondering, I'll.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, Well, no it's not. I mean it's it's
Speaker 2: not the same stature plant as a grapefruit. That's a
Speaker 2: huge plant compared to a mere lemon. H Are these
Speaker 2: in containers? Is a mere lemon and a container?
Speaker 11: No?
Speaker 2: I got them in the ground. Okay, Well, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Just I would continue to you know, give it adequate water,
Speaker 2: Keep the weeds away. That's the number one thing to
Speaker 2: keep the lawnmower and weed eater and the weed competition.
Speaker 2: Keep all that away from the base of the trunk. Uh,
Speaker 2: Fertilizing is helpful, I wouldn't. I would go ahead and
Speaker 2: fertilize it now if you haven't recently. But I wouldn't
Speaker 2: fertilize it once we get too far into September, because
Speaker 2: you don't want to push a lot of late season
Speaker 2: growth since those plants are already on the cold tender end.
Speaker 22: Anyway, Well, I've been I've been fertilizing it with some
Speaker 22: stuff I got at r C.
Speaker 9: Wh okay.
Speaker 22: Organic that you.
Speaker 2: Anyway, probably the microze.
Speaker 9: That's it.
Speaker 11: That's it.
Speaker 22: Matter of fact, they so me a container ody to
Speaker 22: go back go you can feel refill that container for
Speaker 22: half priced.
Speaker 2: So there's a little little plug for them.
Speaker 23: But anyway, hey, uh, the next question is these plants,
Speaker 23: the fig and the grapefruit and even the little limit
Speaker 23: they're getting little sprigs coming off the ground.
Speaker 22: I won't see these juvenile plants to grow up and okay,
Speaker 22: instead of growing when when should All.
Speaker 2: Right, here, here's what I'm to do. I'm already into
Speaker 2: my next break. Here, hang on just a second. We'll
Speaker 2: come back and we'll address that. Thank you, Thank you
Speaker 2: for hanging on. We'll be right back to have you
Speaker 2: with us today.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 2: Let's see here we are heading out to uh Pasadena
Speaker 2: to talk to Freda. Hello Frea, welcome to guard Mine.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 20: I have had discussed that my sister in law gave me.
Speaker 20: It was she got it from loads on work down
Speaker 20: and I put it the pot on my front porch
Speaker 20: and when I was watering it, I iiced there were
Speaker 20: a little white cotton looking things on the leaves.
Speaker 12: And.
Speaker 20: She gave me some spray and I tried that. Well,
Speaker 20: the white the little things that look like infectors, they
Speaker 20: weren't moving, but anyway, yeah, now I see like a
Speaker 20: pattery like snow on the leaves. And I strayed with
Speaker 20: what she gave me. And it's still I still have
Speaker 20: the pottery spray. I don't have the little white toots
Speaker 20: of cotton looking things.
Speaker 2: Okay, but do you know, you know I'm.
Speaker 20: Beginning to get hold in them.
Speaker 2: Okay, do you know what the spray was that you had?
Speaker 20: No, I asked her, Okay, something she mixed up and
Speaker 20: putting a bottle.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, all right. Uh so those are probably mealie bugs.
Speaker 2: And if you want to, if you're not squeamish, and
Speaker 2: you don't mind, go out and grab some of that
Speaker 2: cotton between your thumb and fore finger and kind of
Speaker 2: squeeze it and slide it to the side. And if
Speaker 2: you got all kinds of pinkish red goo on your finger,
Speaker 2: that's mealybugs. Okay. They're hard to control. There's two approaches.
Speaker 2: One is to individually go after them with a little
Speaker 2: like a cotton ball, dipped in alcohol and just kind
Speaker 2: of dab it on there. Some people use a cute
Speaker 2: tip if they're trying to get in because he sings,
Speaker 2: hide in the nooks and crannies of the plant and
Speaker 2: just stay on them like that. Another way is to
Speaker 2: put a product in the soil that'll go up in
Speaker 2: the plant, so when the Meaia bug sucks the juices
Speaker 2: out of the plant, which is what they're doing, that
Speaker 2: they pick up that poison that way. If you're going
Speaker 2: to do that, I would make sure you don't have
Speaker 2: blooms on it for a while, because you don't want
Speaker 2: bees to be feeding on nectar if the plant's been
Speaker 2: provided with a systemic insecticide like that. But those are
Speaker 2: the two approaches. The alcohol approach is more tedious and
Speaker 2: you have to stay with it. But that would be
Speaker 2: the way to go the holes in the leaves or
Speaker 2: something else, and probably not a cause for concern on hibiscus.
Speaker 20: Okay, all right, thank you so much for help you,
Speaker 20: bet Freda.
Speaker 2: Thank you for the call. Appreciate that very much. Let's
Speaker 2: go out now. We're going back. David and Tumbull I
Speaker 2: think we left you hanging a minute ago.
Speaker 22: That's Okay, Hey, I've got those fruit trees are coming
Speaker 22: up and they're they're putting out sprigs posting the ground.
Speaker 22: I won't pick trees to grow up and correct, so
Speaker 22: I can pick the fruit right, so, but I don't
Speaker 22: want them having the limb so postagram. When is the
Speaker 22: right time to prune them without harming these juvenile trees.
Speaker 2: Oh, you can prone them anytime you want. But those
Speaker 2: things at the bottom, as they're sprouting out and they're
Speaker 2: a little tender and succulent, you can just take your
Speaker 2: thumb and rub them to the side and they snap
Speaker 2: right off where they attach.
Speaker 22: But you I don't know if you're going to pick
Speaker 22: that young if I should just let them grow.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, there's not a right or wrong on it,
Speaker 2: to be honest, David, if I would if your plant
Speaker 2: doesn't have a lot of foliage on it, I would
Speaker 2: leave what's there to help keep supporting that root system
Speaker 2: for a while. But I wouldn't do the pruning too
Speaker 2: late into the fall, because when you prune, you stimulate
Speaker 2: new growth, and on something that's potentially going to be
Speaker 2: freeze damaged, you don't want to stimulate late season growth
Speaker 2: because that doesn't have that kind of growth doesn't have
Speaker 2: any future with the winter coming on, So I would
Speaker 2: if you're going to do some prune on it, I
Speaker 2: would do it now. If you feel like, you know,
Speaker 2: these plants don't have enough leaves or growth or whatever,
Speaker 2: you could just leave it for now and then you
Speaker 2: could get back on it next spring with some pruning
Speaker 2: and watering fertilizing at that time. Either way, it will work,
Speaker 2: work all right.
Speaker 9: Thank you, sir, You.
Speaker 2: Bet, thanks a lot. I appreciate your call. I've talked
Speaker 2: to you about different kinds of fertilizer products on the
Speaker 2: program before and Nelson Fertilizers. Dan Nelson and his team
Speaker 2: out there have created a wide range of products. Now
Speaker 2: we talk about the turf fertilizers like Slow and Easy
Speaker 2: soup Er slow release fertilizer for the lawn, Bruce's Brew
Speaker 2: which is more immediate release with some slow release activity
Speaker 2: as well. By the way, if you haven't fertilized this summer,
Speaker 2: you can put a little Bruce's Brew on now and
Speaker 2: that would carry you on into our fall fertilization. But
Speaker 2: I want to talk about some of the canisters that
Speaker 2: they have that would be things like color Star for
Speaker 2: any kind of bloom and flowering plant, the Plumeria food,
Speaker 2: the boog and villia food, the rose food, the crape myrtle,
Speaker 2: tree and shrub vegetable garden azaleas. There's one for citrus,
Speaker 2: fruit and avocados. There's another one for hibiscus, and these
Speaker 2: things can be refilled. There's a number of a dozen
Speaker 2: different companies around town, garden centers and whatnot that feed
Speaker 2: stores to that well. You can come out and you
Speaker 2: just pull the handle kind of like you're getting peanuts
Speaker 2: in the grocery store, put in a little bag. You
Speaker 2: just put your old jar up there and refill it.
Speaker 2: And it's a lot less expensive to do it that way.
Speaker 2: Plus you just don't throw more plastic in the environment.
Speaker 2: You just reuse that jar over and over again. It
Speaker 2: just makes sense with a high quality product like that
Speaker 2: and the ability to refill. I think Nelson Plant Food
Speaker 2: has a wonderful lineup and just makes sense. And you're
Speaker 2: going to find Nelson in a lot of different places
Speaker 2: in the area. We're going to now go to Isaiah. Hello, Isaiah,
Speaker 2: welcome to garden Line. I've got about a minute or
Speaker 2: so here. We'll see if we can get you taken
Speaker 2: care of. Thank you, Good morning morning.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I have a tellin the treda is green.
Speaker 16: It's about four feet now.
Speaker 2: But at least our calling is that it's a spring.
Speaker 3: Wasn't like that before.
Speaker 2: The I'm sorry, it's a What kind of plant?
Speaker 15: Is it?
Speaker 18: Thine?
Speaker 3: A tree?
Speaker 2: Okay? And and what is what is what do you
Speaker 2: mean by culling? What's it? What's happening? Is it throwing
Speaker 2: the fruit off?
Speaker 23: No, he's not yet, he's just you know, he's about
Speaker 23: four feet now.
Speaker 2: But at least colin you know, Oh, okay, okay, yes, okay,
Speaker 2: I got you, I got you, all right, Uh, Isaiah?
Speaker 2: What that is is it is something. It's a little
Speaker 2: insect that feeds in between the upper and lower leaf surface,
Speaker 2: so it tunnels out the fleshy material inside the leaf.
Speaker 2: And if you look at it close, you'll see little
Speaker 2: black lines or trails through there. And that's called the
Speaker 2: citrus leaf minor. And then the plant leaf starts to
Speaker 2: curl from all that feeding activity. Now, that doesn't kill
Speaker 2: your plant. It takes it takes away leaf area, though,
Speaker 2: so some people will ignore it and do nothing. If
Speaker 2: it's a young plant. I would say for the first
Speaker 2: couple of years. Let's go ahead and spray it, control
Speaker 2: those leaf miners and give the plant a chance to
Speaker 2: build a stronger, bigger plant. And the product I would
Speaker 2: recommend is called spin nosid. And if you have a
Speaker 2: pin or pencil, honey, I'm going to spell that word
Speaker 2: out for you. It's available in many brands in many places.
Speaker 2: I know our Ace hardware stores are all going to
Speaker 2: have spinosid in different forms. It's s p I N
Speaker 2: O s A D spin oh sad, sad, spin no sad.
Speaker 2: That's the ingredient. Just go into an Ace hardware store
Speaker 2: and or a garden center near you and just say hey,
Speaker 2: I need something with spinosid, and just spray it whenever
Speaker 2: there's new fresh growth. Okay, thank you, you bet good
Speaker 2: luck with that. I appreciate your call. I hear the
Speaker 2: music music playing here. We're going to take a break.
Speaker 2: I'll be back our number seven one three two one
Speaker 2: two fifty eight seventy four. Thank you, welcome back to
Speaker 2: the guarden line. Glad you're back with us. We are
Speaker 2: looking forward to helping you in any way. We can
Speaker 2: have a beautiful garden, a bountiful landscape, and perhaps most
Speaker 2: important of all having fun in the process. We're going
Speaker 2: to head straight out this hour to Maureene out in
Speaker 2: Lakeside of State. Hello.
Speaker 15: Maurene, Hello, I have a question.
Speaker 7: I've had to order a special product.
Speaker 18: To put in my small backyard pond, and I mean
Speaker 18: really small. I bought the smallest quantity, which was eight ounces.
Speaker 18: I'll try to say the name of the.
Speaker 15: Am I online.
Speaker 2: I guess not yes, uh huh, I'm listening.
Speaker 20: Oh oh, I'm sorry.
Speaker 18: Well, I made a mistake of leaving my radio one,
Speaker 18: so I'm gonna step side out.
Speaker 15: You have confusion, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 12: It looks like it.
Speaker 18: Is called Fluma max a scene. I'll spell it if
Speaker 18: you are not familiar. It's f l U f l
Speaker 18: U m A x A z I N. I purchased
Speaker 18: it because I have something called water meal, and I've
Speaker 18: had a great deal of trouble trying to fight this
Speaker 18: off in my little pond and had to go online.
Speaker 13: So what else?
Speaker 7: I believe?
Speaker 18: They told me it could be used to kill other plants,
Speaker 18: and I grasped, so I was trying to get a
Speaker 18: little bit more finite detail, as is it so strong
Speaker 18: or I'll let you talk.
Speaker 7: I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: Okay, So basically, first of all, that's outside my air
Speaker 2: of expertise. But that particular product is a herbicide and
Speaker 2: it's used, it can be used, and it's used on
Speaker 2: road sides in some situations for vegetation management. Did they
Speaker 2: tell you to put it in a pond? Is that?
Speaker 2: Is that what it was?
Speaker 15: Yes?
Speaker 2: I have it small.
Speaker 18: It's a small little irritant called water meal. It is
Speaker 18: so tiny it just looks.
Speaker 15: Like a little tiny round.
Speaker 18: It has no roots, but it multiplies quickly and it's
Speaker 18: covered the surface, so it looks terrible. So I'm going
Speaker 18: to kill the.
Speaker 13: But it's super expensive.
Speaker 18: So I'm thinking I don't want it to sit in
Speaker 18: my garage if there is another use for it in
Speaker 18: the rest of my yard.
Speaker 7: I have a small yard.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it doesn't have a label for anything anything else
Speaker 2: in the landscape, so you I can't reckon commend using
Speaker 2: it anywhere else. But that particular product is used for
Speaker 2: aquatic weeds and all these things that hydrilla and all
Speaker 2: kinds of other stuff that get into the into water systems.
Speaker 2: It helps control that. So as far as the use
Speaker 2: is for it, you know, there's not another labeled use
Speaker 2: in the landscape.
Speaker 18: Okay, all right, but I just thought best i'd try.
Speaker 11: Well.
Speaker 2: Good, good question, good question. Good you almost stump the
Speaker 2: chump on that one.
Speaker 18: But yeah, you might send me. You might send me
Speaker 18: out to a pe place. And that has not been fruitful.
Speaker 18: I haven't gotten any use out of anything that was recommended.
Speaker 18: I don't need to mention the name of the company.
Speaker 2: But so, but what I would like to, yeah, just
Speaker 2: stay kind of watch it and stay with it. And
Speaker 2: also just be aware that as you add nitrogen to water,
Speaker 2: you start to have a proferation of different things like algae.
Speaker 2: You know, you get that green algae in the water
Speaker 2: that uh so, anything that is a fertilizer kind of
Speaker 2: thing used in that water is going to proliferate some
Speaker 2: of those aquatic plant issues that you might have. It
Speaker 2: doesn't mean don't fertilize and you won't have it, just
Speaker 2: means don't aggravate it with fertilizer.
Speaker 13: Okay, I got you.
Speaker 7: I'll let you know how I do.
Speaker 21: Good Thank bye, bye, Yes, thank you.
Speaker 2: All right, We're going to go now out to Leanne
Speaker 2: in Cyprus. Hello Leanne, Welcome to guard Line.
Speaker 15: Good morning, Skip.
Speaker 10: I have to take down at least half of a
Speaker 10: thirty year old crate birdle that is probably twenty feet
Speaker 10: high to accommodate putting in a whole home generator. And
Speaker 10: the question is can I do this or do I
Speaker 10: have to remove the whole crate birdle? Really don't want to,
Speaker 10: but these limbs are massive as you might expect at
Speaker 10: that age, and I don't want it resprouting either, because
Speaker 10: that area has to be clear for them to have
Speaker 10: access for any.
Speaker 2: Just yeah, is it just how close will the slab
Speaker 2: for the generator be to the trunk of the.
Speaker 24: Crape myrtle twenty two inches?
Speaker 2: Oh wow? Okay, yeah, you need to have somebody dig
Speaker 2: that out. It would be the best bet. You can
Speaker 2: cut it off and you can treat the stump immediately
Speaker 2: with a product containing tricle paer and that will kill it.
Speaker 2: But craymurtle that size has huge roots underground that are
Speaker 2: going to rot over time, and then the soil sinks,
Speaker 2: and now your slab is on sinking. One end of
Speaker 2: the slab is going to be on a kind of
Speaker 2: a sinking area of soil, so that I would personally
Speaker 2: have somebody dig it out and put the saw back
Speaker 2: in kind of back down again before they come in
Speaker 2: with the slab. But if you just want to kill it,
Speaker 2: there is a product that when you cut it off,
Speaker 2: you treat the stump immediately, not half a day later,
Speaker 2: but right away. You put a tricle a peer on
Speaker 2: that stump and it will kill it may reach sprout
Speaker 2: once just because that's a huge crape myrtle with a
Speaker 2: lot of stored reserves. But that will be the way
Speaker 2: you get rid of the planet itself. But I don't
Speaker 2: think that's adequate if you're putting a slab in that close.
Speaker 24: Yeah, so you do recommend taking the whole thing down.
Speaker 2: Then I would get it out of there and get
Speaker 2: especially over toward the slab side, you know, getting some
Speaker 2: of those roots out of there, and you can hire
Speaker 2: somebody to come in and hang grub it out, or
Speaker 2: how are you going to go about it? The problem
Speaker 2: with the stump grinder is that fluff stuff up and
Speaker 2: leaves a lot of wood in the soil, so it's
Speaker 2: still going to sink afterward anyway. But those are your options.
Speaker 24: Yeah, not the wa and I wanted to hear I
Speaker 24: really wanted to leave. I wanted to leave half of
Speaker 24: it because I want the height there and the shade
Speaker 24: there in that corner of the house.
Speaker 2: Okay, But the people with the generator saying they can't
Speaker 2: get access right, well.
Speaker 24: They want twenty two inches clearance all the way around
Speaker 24: the generator to be able to service it, which you
Speaker 24: know is reasonable and to do that, and I do
Speaker 24: have to remove part of that crepe, at least half
Speaker 24: of it.
Speaker 7: But you're saying you're recommending all, well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean when you cut that back, it's just
Speaker 2: going to re spout all these suckers from the base.
Speaker 2: And now you've got a thicket coming back where you
Speaker 2: to replace the part of the trunk you took off
Speaker 2: or something. So I from what I can picture in
Speaker 2: my mind's eye, I don't see a way around this one.
Speaker 2: But if you want to, I'm going to put you
Speaker 2: on hold. If you want to get my email address,
Speaker 2: send me a photo oh of it. Remind me it's
Speaker 2: a follow up of this call. I'll take a look
Speaker 2: and maybe there's something I'm not picturing in my mind's eye.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry I'm late running to a break here, Liam,
Speaker 2: but I'm putting you on hold and Chris will give
Speaker 2: you an email address if you want to stick around
Speaker 2: all right, folks, I got to take a run. When
Speaker 2: we get back Blake and Cypress and Walter and Adolph,
Speaker 2: we will be getting to your calls right away. Hey,
Speaker 2: welcome back to guard Line. Glad you are. Glad you
Speaker 2: are with us today. We're answering questions and trying to
Speaker 2: help you have a more beautiful on more bountiful landscape
Speaker 2: and certainly more fun in the process of gardening. Let's
Speaker 2: head out to Blake and Cypress next. Hello, Blake and
Speaker 2: welcome to guard Line.
Speaker 4: Hiks, Skip, good morning. I've got several porter weed plants
Speaker 4: that we enjoy. They take the heat and the pots
Speaker 4: all summer. When we forget to water them. There's bees
Speaker 4: on them right now, I'm looking at it. But they
Speaker 4: get singed every they get killed every winter. So I'm
Speaker 4: thinking about trying to propagate them in from cuttings and
Speaker 4: that way move the pots in this winter, the small
Speaker 4: pots in overwinter.
Speaker 11: Right.
Speaker 4: So I got the hormone, I got the potting mix,
Speaker 4: But when is the best time of year for me
Speaker 4: to start that cutting process.
Speaker 2: You can try that at any time. I've never tried
Speaker 2: to cutting propagate porter weed before, so I'm not familiar
Speaker 2: you know with how successful that's going to be, you
Speaker 2: can try it. You can also do a division any
Speaker 2: kind of thing that's a perennial like that. You typically
Speaker 2: can get down at the base and divide the plant
Speaker 2: in two and have two viable plants. So that would
Speaker 2: be another option. You're not going to make a lot
Speaker 2: of plants out of it that way, but like you,
Speaker 2: cuttings can make a lot of plants. But if you're
Speaker 2: going to try a cutting, I would I would cut
Speaker 2: some tissues and leave Do you know what a node is?
Speaker 2: Where like a stem has a swollen spot where a
Speaker 2: leaf comes out, and then further down the stem there's
Speaker 2: another swollen spot. If you can get cuttings with at
Speaker 2: least two nodes, take the leaves off the bottom node,
Speaker 2: one closest to the base of the plant that you
Speaker 2: cut it off of, and then leave two leaves on
Speaker 2: the other one and dip them in a rooting hormone.
Speaker 2: You can get a powder rooting hormone powder from garden centers,
Speaker 2: Ace Hardware stores, Southwest Fertilizer wherever you are there. Actually
Speaker 2: you're up in the Cypress area, so you you got
Speaker 2: several good Ace Hardware stores in your area, get that powder,
Speaker 2: dip it in the powder, put it in a moist
Speaker 2: chamber with a clear cover over it, and put it
Speaker 2: in lots of light, but not direct sun, and that'll
Speaker 2: give it the best chance of rooting that you can.
Speaker 2: You want that bottom node and then a note above
Speaker 2: ground that has the leaves still on it.
Speaker 9: Perfect.
Speaker 2: All right, we'll give it a truck. Yeah. Yeah, I've
Speaker 2: used a lot of things for that. If you've got
Speaker 2: a container, you can put a little bread wrapper over
Speaker 2: the top of it to kind of create that little
Speaker 2: greenhouse chamber, you know, if you will. So it's pretty
Speaker 2: easy to do, but good luck doing it. Let me
Speaker 2: know how it works for you.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 2: I appreciate it, Skipt, thank you, sir. I appreciate that.
Speaker 2: We're going to go now into Stafford, Texas and talk
Speaker 2: to Walter. Hey, Walter, Hey, good morning.
Speaker 11: Skip.
Speaker 9: I normally listen to you from Stafford, Texas, but luckily
Speaker 9: I absolutely am up in New England, in the state
Speaker 9: of Rhode Island, staring out at aar at Kanton Bay.
Speaker 9: As I'm talking to you.
Speaker 2: I don't want to hear anything about temperatures, but I'll
Speaker 2: answer your question, all right.
Speaker 9: I won't mention temperatures. It's a half tide rising though.
Speaker 9: So Skip, I've got a question and I can't find
Speaker 9: a local resource for it, so I thought I'd turn
Speaker 9: to my home town resource. We have an invasive species
Speaker 9: weed tree up here known as the tree to Heaven.
Speaker 9: If you're just looking at it, the leaves are similar
Speaker 9: to a black walnut, but it's not a black walnut.
Speaker 9: It it doesn't produce any fruit or nuts right. And
Speaker 9: the tree, it grows very fast and it spreads or
Speaker 9: reproduces whatever you want to say, via the root system,
Speaker 9: which are much like riise zomes like you find on
Speaker 9: a fern, So they just pop up from the riise
Speaker 9: zomes that are out there supporting the tree. Is there
Speaker 9: any kind of a product that you can think of
Speaker 9: that as I cut this tree down, or lots of
Speaker 9: these trees down, that I can put into the soil
Speaker 9: to prevent the reproduction or the tree coming back.
Speaker 2: Not in the soil. Here's what you do. You go
Speaker 2: to my website gardening with Skip dot com Gardening Okay
Speaker 2: with Skip dot Com. I put four new publications in
Speaker 2: the top one on the page. As you go to
Speaker 2: that page is herbicide products to use with my weed wiper. Now, yeah,
Speaker 2: you're going to use the weed wiper to do this,
Speaker 2: but if you click on that, what I've done is
Speaker 2: I've grouped weeds. There's woodyweeds, shrubs, vines, and perennials. That's
Speaker 2: what we're talking about here, Tree of Heaven. There's grassyweeds,
Speaker 2: there's broad leafweeds. There's wild onion, wild garlic and their sedges,
Speaker 2: and each of those groups has a different product. Triclop
Speaker 2: Peer is the product that when you cut the branch,
Speaker 2: when you cut the stump off or the trunk off,
Speaker 2: or whatever, anytime you cut it, you immediately treat that
Speaker 2: cut surface with just straight triclo peer. And I have
Speaker 2: a list of all the products that contain triclo Peer
Speaker 2: right there that you can go shop for. But you
Speaker 2: cut it off, you immediately dab with. I use a
Speaker 2: little foam brush like from a paint store. You know
Speaker 2: those little foam brushes on a wooden stick. You just
Speaker 2: you dab that in the tricle paer and then just
Speaker 2: dab it on that fresh cut surface around the perimeter,
Speaker 2: especially of that cut. It moves right into that stump
Speaker 2: and it will really do a good job killing it back. Now,
Speaker 2: if you've got a huge lots of storage underground carbohydrate
Speaker 2: and whatnot, one little treatment or tricle paer may not
Speaker 2: get it all. You may have to do it again
Speaker 2: later when it tries to re sprout. But that is
Speaker 2: very effective. It's simple. It puts the least amount of
Speaker 2: chemical in the environment you can put, but it will
Speaker 2: move down in the tree and translocate through and kill it.
Speaker 2: Do a good job of killing that and other things
Speaker 2: like poison, ivy and other stuff like that.
Speaker 9: Okay, that's what I thought I heard you mentioned to
Speaker 9: the woman with the myrtle beach issue or myrtle create
Speaker 9: myrtle issue trechlopire. So I will try to find that
Speaker 9: up here. Now when you say immediately put on it,
Speaker 9: Can I cut Like they're about two inch stems right now?
Speaker 9: So can I cut maybe four to five of them
Speaker 9: and then apply it? Or as I cut one apply it,
Speaker 9: cut another one apply it.
Speaker 2: Yes. Yes, I'm just trying to get people from to
Speaker 2: not think well, I'll cut it today and I'll come
Speaker 2: dab it tomorrow kind of thing. Just go ahead and
Speaker 2: get it all done while you're there. If you need
Speaker 2: to cut about four or five of them and then
Speaker 2: go back and dab them. That's fine, there's not a
Speaker 2: problem with that. It's not that in me, okay.
Speaker 9: I just wanted to make sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, good question. Hey Walter, thanks and have fun up there.
Speaker 2: Bring bring back some cool weather if you come back
Speaker 2: this way. Well, all right, folks, I let's see here.
Speaker 2: You know what I was talking earlier to somebody about
Speaker 2: saying you need to go to any hardware if you
Speaker 2: weren't listening earlier. Langham Creek Ase Hardware, which is over
Speaker 2: in Cypress by the way where Blake was doing that
Speaker 2: Porter Weed transplant. Langham Creek Case Hardware is at the
Speaker 2: intersection of Barker Cypress. In five twenty nine, they are
Speaker 2: having a grand reopening. They'd opened, they'd been in the
Speaker 2: store new owners. I was over there, you know, we
Speaker 2: had one of those appearances where people came, there's a
Speaker 2: great time over there. They they kind of close things
Speaker 2: down and revamped all the inside and having their big
Speaker 2: grand reopening now out there, and it starts on Friday.
Speaker 2: This Friday goes through Sunday. They're giving away an Ego
Speaker 2: powered string tremor two hundred fifty dollars machine Ego powered.
Speaker 2: That's the battery powered device. They're giving away a Weber
Speaker 2: grass grill, a four hundred and fifty dollars grill, A paint.
Speaker 2: They're giving away a paint of Room Makeover two hundred
Speaker 2: dollar value. They're going to be demonstrations on various kinds
Speaker 2: of grills like Trager, Big Green Egg and Weber. They're
Speaker 2: going to demonstrate the Guy's Need Pizza oven, which is
Speaker 2: pretty cool if you haven't seen one of those before.
Speaker 2: But it's all at Lang mccreek Case Hardware, Barker, Cyprus
Speaker 2: in five twenty nine this coming weekend now on Saturday,
Speaker 2: this is a Friday, Saturday and Sunday event. On Saturday only,
Speaker 2: they're having their STILL Power Equipment open house fifteen percent
Speaker 2: off STILL units and that's that one day only, So
Speaker 2: that would be a good day if you're looking, if
Speaker 2: you're in the market for a weed eater or you know,
Speaker 2: any of those power equipment types of things from Still,
Speaker 2: this is a good opportunity to get that taken care of.
Speaker 2: All right, let's see here. I'm going to go now
Speaker 2: to Manville, Texas and talk to Adolf. Hello Adolf, Yes, sir.
Speaker 5: Good morning. Quick question in regard to a mind that
Speaker 5: has a couple of foot trees that so all the
Speaker 5: way to the ground they came back. Concern is whether
Speaker 5: they're any good. In other words, the graft where it
Speaker 5: was grafted, it's gone, yes, okay.
Speaker 2: So if it's coming from below the graft, dig it up.
Speaker 2: You only have two options. The easiest is dig it
Speaker 2: up and buy a new quality tree put it back
Speaker 2: in there immediately. Or you can try to bud or
Speaker 2: graft onto that rootstock that is hit and mess. It
Speaker 2: takes time, and I would for ninety nine percent of
Speaker 2: the people, I would just say, dig it up and
Speaker 2: put a new tree in.
Speaker 5: Okay, all right, Can I ask you one more real quick?
Speaker 2: Yes, real quick? Okay.
Speaker 5: The cons I've got some, you know, the ones that
Speaker 5: grow at in the back from squirrels.
Speaker 2: Uh, they're pretty big now, I'd.
Speaker 5: Say at least twenty foot fifteen foot.
Speaker 13: Can they be grafted?
Speaker 2: Absolutely? They can. If you go to online and look
Speaker 2: up the one lay bark graft i n LA y
Speaker 2: bark graft, you'll see how to do it. I believe
Speaker 2: there's one of those publications on Aggie Horticulture website, but
Speaker 2: look up the n lay bark graft. You're going to
Speaker 2: do it in the spring, and you're going to have
Speaker 2: stored the pecan wood from the variety you want to
Speaker 2: put on those that current tree, you're going to have
Speaker 2: stored it in a refrigerator, and you're using dormant wood
Speaker 2: in the spring when the tree you're grafting onto is
Speaker 2: the sap is flowing and the bark is stripping off
Speaker 2: and stuff. But just go look it up. I can't
Speaker 2: do the whole how to do it in the air,
Speaker 2: but in the bark graft, that's the one. Thank you, sir.
Speaker 2: I appreciate, appreciate your call very much. Plans for All
Speaker 2: Seasons is on Highway two forty nine tom Ball Parkway,
Speaker 2: just north of Luetta. Now you know, Plants for All Seasons.
Speaker 2: It's family owned operation by the Flowery. It's been around
Speaker 2: since what nineteen seventy three. When you walk in there,
Speaker 2: you're talking to experts who know what they're talking about.
Speaker 2: You're talking to people who absolutely can point you in
Speaker 2: the right direction. Plants for All Seasons dot Com is
Speaker 2: the website. Here's a phone number you want to call them.
Speaker 2: In fact, this afternoon be a good time to go
Speaker 2: buy to eight one, three, seven, six, sixteen forty six.
Speaker 2: I'll be right back guarden line. Hey, glad you're listening
Speaker 2: in today. I hope you're having a good time. I am,
Speaker 2: and I hope that we're helping you have more fun
Speaker 2: out there in your garden and landscape. You know, when
Speaker 2: you get to gardening, it's one of the great greatest
Speaker 2: hobbies I think that there is. It has so many
Speaker 2: benefits from mental benefits, to physical benefits, to culinary benefits
Speaker 2: and beauty benefits as well. Bring flowers indoors. We were
Speaker 2: just I was just out watering one of our beds
Speaker 2: where you got some zinias out there for cutflowers in
Speaker 2: the garden, and gardening just offers so many options. Well,
Speaker 2: let's go in and head out to Katie, Texas, and
Speaker 2: we're going to talk to Kevin. Hello, Kevin, Hey, good
Speaker 2: morning skit. I'm well, thank you all right.
Speaker 11: So, for the past couple.
Speaker 1: Of years, I've had some some spots show up on
Speaker 1: out of my house in between my neighbors uh lawn
Speaker 1: and my lawn, and I've always thought it was, uh
Speaker 1: some sort of fungus. So you know, I'd buy the
Speaker 1: nitro foss fungus side stuff. But this year it happened again,
Speaker 1: and it was also happening, you know, along the devil
Speaker 1: strip between the the road and the sidewalk on the grass.
Speaker 1: And and so one morning I went out and I'd
Speaker 1: see these kind of clumps of dirt on top of
Speaker 1: the soil, and I'm moved.
Speaker 4: I have a real mower, so.
Speaker 1: I'm own my lawn about five five eighths of an inch,
Speaker 1: and you know, so it's very easy for me to
Speaker 1: spot that. And I started digging around and I noticed
Speaker 1: there was a tunnel going into the dirt. So then,
Speaker 1: you know, I hopped on Google and I came up with,
Speaker 1: or what I thought it was, is a mold cricket.
Speaker 1: And I don't think i've heard you discuss these before, but.
Speaker 4: I went.
Speaker 1: I got some soapy water, a couple of gallons of
Speaker 1: soapy water, and I poured it on that that little
Speaker 1: clump of dirt, and eventually this really ugly, really ugly
Speaker 1: insect came crawling out, and sure enough it was a cricket.
Speaker 2: There you go, Well, good, so go ahead.
Speaker 1: Well, I was gonna say, so I put some insecticide
Speaker 1: out a granular that I just got from from you know,
Speaker 1: a big box store. But yesterday I was I was
Speaker 1: in the ace and I got some fife end. Thren
Speaker 1: Rady was a body of mine. He always told me
Speaker 1: to use by fitting thron. But I'm just not sure
Speaker 1: how I should apply it. Is this, you know, is
Speaker 1: am I gonna mix a couple of gallons in a
Speaker 1: in a pump sprayer and spray the yard and then
Speaker 1: water it in or I just thought, maybe you give
Speaker 1: me a little advice on on the best way to
Speaker 1: go out, And.
Speaker 2: In that case, I would I would do a hose
Speaker 2: end sprayer, and I would I would use it that
Speaker 2: way because that puts a little more water out and
Speaker 2: you can get it down in the thatch they're down
Speaker 2: chewing around down at and below the soil surface. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and so the I think the hose end will be
Speaker 2: a better approach. And by fen throing is fine. Uh,
Speaker 2: you know, it works, it works well. Uh, it does
Speaker 2: the job that it's supposed to do. So I certainly
Speaker 2: something you may want to try. The the uh nightro
Speaker 2: fiss bug out Max that you hear me talk about
Speaker 2: here is a by fen throwing granule. So that's another
Speaker 2: option you would you would put the bug out max
Speaker 2: granules out there, follow the label and then water it
Speaker 2: in really good. And if you got good coverage when
Speaker 2: you put it out and watered in, you're gonna get
Speaker 2: that chemical the bifendron off those granules and into the
Speaker 2: thatch and and soil surface area where they can also
Speaker 2: uh do work.
Speaker 1: Okay, going looking down the road, after I put this
Speaker 1: bipe in thre a out, is that going to kill
Speaker 1: not only the mole cricket but any kind of eggs
Speaker 1: or anything going forward? Or should I expect to you know,
Speaker 1: be more proactive, uh say, during the spring of next
Speaker 1: year and put out Now you're.
Speaker 2: It's not gonna yeah, it's not gonna kill eggs and
Speaker 2: stuff nothing that It basically is any critters that are
Speaker 2: crawling around in there will kill them. So it'll kill
Speaker 2: chinch bugs, if you happen to have some of those
Speaker 2: in there, it'll kill uh side web worms or in
Speaker 2: any other insects that live down in that that area,
Speaker 2: it will kill them. But as far as next year
Speaker 2: you would you would have to come back, you know
Speaker 2: what to look for now and early on try to
Speaker 2: try to get ahead of that.
Speaker 1: Okay, So this is gonna be a yearly routine, that
Speaker 1: that I put the nottro fast bug out.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, that is true. Uh, And so that
Speaker 2: that's really the only option. I mean, if someone is
Speaker 2: doing it organically, there is a type of nematode that
Speaker 2: can be applied that is a more difficult to do
Speaker 2: process successfully, but that that would be the only other
Speaker 2: thing that you might want to consider. But anyway, I
Speaker 2: think you're on the right track, and by fen thren
Speaker 2: is pretty much going to kill any insect out there. Okay,
Speaker 2: all right, thanks, good, all right, you bet, thank you
Speaker 2: for the call. Take care. Hey, our phone number is
Speaker 2: seven one three two one two k t r H
Speaker 2: if you want to give us a call. You know,
Speaker 2: by Fentherren is a nitrophosphor, and because it's a night
Speaker 2: frost product, you're going to find it a lot of
Speaker 2: places around town. You can find it at Lake Hardware
Speaker 2: and Angleton down of Alasko. You're going to find it
Speaker 2: at Gym's Hardware up there on Liberty FM fourteen ninety seven. Yeah,
Speaker 2: up in the Montgomery area. Also it in Brendan Plants
Speaker 2: and Things carries those products as well. So just a
Speaker 2: little tip there to get you off to a good
Speaker 2: start mentioning the dealing with pests and things. Don't forget
Speaker 2: I've got my lawn pest, disease and weed management schedule online.
Speaker 2: It's there. You can download it for free. Can just
Speaker 2: look it on the screen if you want. I like
Speaker 2: for people to print it out. It's multicolored so it's
Speaker 2: easy to follow. There's a whole there's a row from
Speaker 2: January to December for insects, a rope for diseases, a
Speaker 2: rope for preventing weeds, a rope for killing existing weeds,
Speaker 2: and then a whole bunch of product examples color coded
Speaker 2: for everything that's on the schedule. So no matter what
Speaker 2: ails your lawn, probably going to find an answer to
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Speaker 2: going to move on out to Montgomery, Texas and talk
Speaker 2: to Terry. Hello, Terry, Welcome to Guardline.
Speaker 12: Good morning, Thanks for taking my call. I have a
Speaker 12: couple million questions for you, but I'll only ask you
Speaker 12: to today.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm going to.
Speaker 15: Okay, I'll send you an email.
Speaker 12: I've been kind of investigating name oil.
Speaker 15: N E E M and watching a lot of YouTube
Speaker 15: videos on this. Mixing it with baking.
Speaker 12: Soda, they say, and water and a little soap for
Speaker 12: surfactants and spraying it on your plants will kill just
Speaker 12: about every bug and fungus known.
Speaker 5: Demand.
Speaker 12: Do you have anything to say about that?
Speaker 2: Well, that was an over sell when they say every
Speaker 2: bug in fungus known, when they start making wide claims. Now,
Speaker 2: nim oil is a product that is produced by this
Speaker 2: in the seeds of the nim tree. Do you know
Speaker 2: what a chinaberry tree is? Did you grow up with
Speaker 2: chinaberry trees around something. It's a weedy tree here in
Speaker 2: our area, but it is kinned closely kned to name
Speaker 2: mean trees. That's a different species. Anyway. The name oil
Speaker 2: is pressed out of the seeds and then it's mixed
Speaker 2: with water, and being an oil, it will kill small,
Speaker 2: soft bodied insects like spider mites for example, or you
Speaker 2: know larva hatching out of eggs and things those kind
Speaker 2: of things. Being an oil, it also has a little
Speaker 2: bit of a fungicidal property in that the spores on
Speaker 2: the leaves, when smothered with oil can be destroyed. Now,
Speaker 2: as far as plumerias are concerned, people that grow up
Speaker 2: plumerias will use mem oil. You just need to remember
Speaker 2: it's an oil, and when it's ninety five degrees and
Speaker 2: the sun is baking down, soaps and oils can burn plants,
Speaker 2: so you're going to be real careful with it. My
Speaker 2: recommendation will be to mix a little bit up and
Speaker 2: just spray it on a leaf somewhere down lower on
Speaker 2: the planet. Just spray it on a leaf and give
Speaker 2: it about twenty four hours or a little more and
Speaker 2: watch and if you don't see any ill effects, then
Speaker 2: you're good to go. I think I would avoid spring
Speaker 2: it during the day. I would do it super early
Speaker 2: in the morning probably is the best time to apply it.
Speaker 2: But depending on what you're going after on the plume area,
Speaker 2: nem oil may or may not be a good solution.
Speaker 12: Because enough, which brings me to my next question. I
Speaker 12: saw a new leaf on my plume area this morning,
Speaker 12: excuse me, and it looked like it had a black
Speaker 12: tar substance on the new leaf, and there was lots
Speaker 12: of tiny little holes within the area of where the
Speaker 12: black tar substance is. And I'm wondering, is that sooty
Speaker 12: mold or is it some kind of other fungus And
Speaker 12: what can I do to help my plumeria.
Speaker 2: That's interesting. It's probably not city mode. If it looks
Speaker 2: like tar. The city mold itself looks more like it
Speaker 2: looks like soot. So it's not shiny. Yes, it's not
Speaker 2: tar like. It's just just like if you stuck your
Speaker 2: finger up in the fireplace and wipe it on your finger,
Speaker 2: that the way your finger would look. That's what city
Speaker 2: molde looks like.
Speaker 12: Yes, I just sprayed some off of my Japanese you
Speaker 12: So yeah, okay, Well, do you have any idea what
Speaker 12: that might be?
Speaker 2: Well, you know, without seeing it, it's hard to say
Speaker 2: for sure. There are some fungal pathogens that can cause
Speaker 2: the leaves, new blumary leaves coming out to have a
Speaker 2: black turned black. There are you know, a number of
Speaker 2: different things can cause fungal growth. You know, certainly a
Speaker 2: lot moisture and whatnot, a lot of constant watering and whatnot.
Speaker 2: There are a few nutrient deficiencies that can result in
Speaker 2: that new growth turning black coming out. But when you
Speaker 2: say the tar, that throws me a little bit. And
Speaker 2: I'm not real sure on that one. That may be one.
Speaker 2: If we've got any Plumerius Society people listening that you
Speaker 2: just are going, oh my gosh, I know exactly what
Speaker 2: she's talking about. Well, feel free to call in. We'll
Speaker 2: all learn something. But that would be what I would
Speaker 2: suggest right now. Just continue to provide your plumeria with
Speaker 2: good care.
Speaker 12: And so they okay, thank you. And then one last
Speaker 12: really fast question. I have a chuffal era and it's
Speaker 12: in a pot and it needs to be reported, and
Speaker 12: I'm wondering if I can put it in the ground,
Speaker 12: and if so, where sunny, shady parts sun part shade.
Speaker 2: A very bright shade would be fine. You know, it
Speaker 2: could go in sun. But most of our schiffleras we
Speaker 2: treat them like hostplants, and they go in way less
Speaker 2: than full sun, and to suddenly move them into full sun,
Speaker 2: you get a lot of leaf burn on that, but
Speaker 2: a real bright straight The biggest thing is it has
Speaker 2: no cold heartiness whatsoever, So you're going to have to
Speaker 2: be able to really protect it during the winter if
Speaker 2: you're going to put it in the ground.
Speaker 12: Okay, all right, well, thank you for you have a
Speaker 12: good day.
Speaker 2: Yeah you too, thanks a lot terry, appreciate the call.
Speaker 2: Good luck with that. I was talking earlier about I
Speaker 2: was joking with some of my Southwest Fertilizer. You know,
Speaker 2: they had purchased a chainsaw from there. We were kidding
Speaker 2: about me trying to get them to have Bob come
Speaker 2: out and cut the tree form, which is ridiculous, but hey,
Speaker 2: you gotta have some fun. Southwest Fertilizer, is it. That
Speaker 2: is a no brainer for me to recommend people go there.
Speaker 2: And here's why, there's nothing you can need for your
Speaker 2: lawn and landscape to control pest weed diseases, to fertilize,
Speaker 2: you know, tools that you might need, spreaders for your fertilizer,
Speaker 2: spreaders for your fire at bait. All of that, there's
Speaker 2: nothing that you're not they're not going to have at Southwest.
Speaker 2: If you're an organic gardener, they probably have the most
Speaker 2: robust collection of organic products is anybody in town, just
Speaker 2: because Bob always keeps stocked up on everything and so
Speaker 2: you have options. But even more important than just the
Speaker 2: fact that the products are in the store is a
Speaker 2: fact that you've got knowledgeable folks from you know, Bob
Speaker 2: and Aaron and and really the whole team there at Southwest.
Speaker 2: They will point you in the right direction. So you
Speaker 2: bring a plant sample, you bring a picture of something
Speaker 2: on your phone, and they'll take a look at it
Speaker 2: and they'll try to do their best at assessing what
Speaker 2: it is and then tell you, well, here's here's what
Speaker 2: you need to use, here's when you need to use it,
Speaker 2: here's how do you need to use it, and there's
Speaker 2: that is priceless to have that kind of advice, but
Speaker 2: that's what they're all about. As Southwest Fertilizer. You can
Speaker 2: go to the website Southwest Fertilizer dot com. By the way,
Speaker 2: the store is on Bisonet and Renwick Bisonet and Renwick
Speaker 2: in southwest Houston, or you can give them a call.
Speaker 2: Seven one three six six six seventeen forty four seven
Speaker 2: one three six six six seventeen forty four of the
Speaker 2: Southwest for Life has been a Houston lawn and garden
Speaker 2: tradition since nineteen fifty five. And boy, is there a
Speaker 2: reason that they're still in business and people love that
Speaker 2: place so much. You are listening to Guardline and I'm
Speaker 2: your host, Skip Richter. We're here to help you have
Speaker 2: more success and hopefully have more fun out there in
Speaker 2: the garden and the landscape. You know, anytime you feel like,
Speaker 2: well you're just not good at growing plants, well you
Speaker 2: just need to tune in and you need to listen
Speaker 2: and you need to call in. Let's help you have success.
Speaker 2: Because I'm telling you it's not rocket science, not It's
Speaker 2: a matter of simple principles. Plants moods, soul, moisture, but
Speaker 2: not too much. Plants need sunlight, sun full sign Some
Speaker 2: parts in lance need excellent excellent drainage, they need certain nutrients.
Speaker 2: They some of them are adapted to here, some or not.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's a handful of things like that that
Speaker 2: really amount to the answer to most gardening questions, and
Speaker 2: we help you think through that here on guard Line.
Speaker 2: I sometimes I have to hold back because I would
Speaker 2: like to sit here and just teach all day. On
Speaker 2: guard Line, I have to hold back a little bit,
Speaker 2: but I do try to give you some of the why,
Speaker 2: because it's just it's one thing to tell you the what,
Speaker 2: and if you understand a little bit about the why,
Speaker 2: then as you go about, you just are able to
Speaker 2: encounter other situations and continue to have success. Hey, I'll
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Speaker 2: we're going to head straight to the phones right now
Speaker 2: and head out to Spring and talk to Lance. Hello Lance,
Speaker 2: and welcome to guard Line.
Speaker 11: Hey, good morning, Skip, Thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 13: All right, Clussure I've got some in the.
Speaker 11: Ground hibiscus plants, and one of them has gotten the
Speaker 11: little little white bugs on it, and it almost looks
Speaker 11: like dirt all over the leaves, and I'm trying to
Speaker 11: figure out what it is and how to get rid
Speaker 11: of it.
Speaker 2: Okay, my best guest without seeing them, is that you're
Speaker 2: looking at the cast skins of aphids. Aphids shed their
Speaker 2: skin just like a snake sheds its skin, and they
Speaker 2: leave these little whitish things that are like just shrunk
Speaker 2: and shrivel little aphid skin, and they're all over the leaf,
Speaker 2: and that would be one possibility. The other thing that's white.
Speaker 2: When I first you're talking about white on on on hibiscus,
Speaker 2: my first thought is, well, that's going to be mealy
Speaker 2: bugs because they are very tofty, cottony white. But it
Speaker 2: doesn't look like dirt on the leaf. It's clearly just
Speaker 2: like little pieces of cottony material, very tiny, that are
Speaker 2: there on the plant. That's a whole different insect.
Speaker 11: Okay, yeah, it's I don't know, they look like little
Speaker 11: white doodle bugs. I mean they're moving, so I don't
Speaker 11: know that they're just skin.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, Well, then you're probably looking at it. Then
Speaker 2: you're talking about meadie bugs. That's if they're like if
Speaker 2: they look like a doodle bug. I remember doodle bugs
Speaker 2: by the way, You know, you have to say the
Speaker 2: right words when you're stirring a doodle bug mound to
Speaker 2: get them to come out, right, Did you grow up
Speaker 2: with one with those? Okay, well that's a whole nother
Speaker 2: story anyway. Yeah, that's mealy bugs. And so what you
Speaker 2: can do, h let's see how big is this how
Speaker 2: biscus plants? It don't it contains Probably.
Speaker 11: No, it's in the ground. It's probably three feet tall
Speaker 11: and probably two and a half to three feet one.
Speaker 2: Okay, so you got a couple of options. One way
Speaker 2: that people deal with meadia bugs is they use alcohol
Speaker 2: rubbing alcohol on a cotton swab or a cotton bowl
Speaker 2: and they literally just kind of dab them with that,
Speaker 2: and that will kill them. Because they have that, they
Speaker 2: have a protective coating on them that makes it hard
Speaker 2: to get a pesticide to them. Now, if if that's
Speaker 2: gonna be tedious, and you're gonna have to keep watching
Speaker 2: them because there's always gonna be some you miss and
Speaker 2: they're popping up and sometime they're down right where a
Speaker 2: leaf attaches to the stem. They're kind of hidden down
Speaker 2: in that crevice, so you just have to really look
Speaker 2: all over it real good to do that. That's an option.
Speaker 2: The other option would be to use a systemic insecticide
Speaker 2: that you put in the soil. It goes up in
Speaker 2: the plant and it is in the plumbing of the plant,
Speaker 2: so when the media bug sucks juices out, it kills it.
Speaker 2: It's not a poisonous hot on the surface of the planet.
Speaker 2: It's in the plumbing of the plant. With those kind
Speaker 2: of things, I don't like to leave folded or flowers
Speaker 2: on the planet because you don't want to bring bees
Speaker 2: then to drink or from something that's got insecticide in
Speaker 2: the plumbing. So that would be the only caveat to
Speaker 2: using the systemic. There's pros and cons to every product,
Speaker 2: and that's the con for the systemics.
Speaker 11: Okay, all right, that sounds good. Well, I appreciate you
Speaker 11: taking a call.
Speaker 2: Yes sir, good luck with those control Yes sir, you
Speaker 2: too as well. Hey, I was talking about Southwest Fertilizer
Speaker 2: having everything. They also carry sweet grain. A sweet grain
Speaker 2: is nitroposs is organic type product. It's an eleven zero
Speaker 2: zero fertilizer, and what it basically is a is a
Speaker 2: molasses based fertilizer. So it smells great. Has that Just
Speaker 2: imagine what a molasses smells like. That's what the fertilizer
Speaker 2: smells like. It's eleven percent nitrogen. You put it down,
Speaker 2: it dissolves away, it goes into the soil, and it
Speaker 2: provides pretty quick release of those nutrients into the soil.
Speaker 2: If I were using it now on my lawn, I
Speaker 2: would normally you would play ten pounds of sweet Green
Speaker 2: per thousand square feet, and you can read the label
Speaker 2: on what to do. I would cut it in half
Speaker 2: and I would do half now, and I'm a month
Speaker 2: from now, do half again and spread that out a
Speaker 2: little bit because after that, the next fertilization is going
Speaker 2: to be our October fertilization for the things we do
Speaker 2: to help RASK go stronger into winter. But sweet Green
Speaker 2: excellent product, widely available. Certainly they have that at Southwest
Speaker 2: Fertilizer as well as other locations like you would expect
Speaker 2: of night FoST products. We're going to go back now
Speaker 2: to a task casita and talk to Jim. Hey, Jim,
Speaker 2: welcome to Garden line.
Speaker 13: Thank you so much for receiving my call. I just
Speaker 13: planted sod, and boy, you know as well as I did,
Speaker 13: this weather's beating up the sad farms. So here's a question.
Speaker 13: I put sod in yesterday. They told me to water
Speaker 13: the sod for two hours a day. That seems a
Speaker 13: little bit too much to water at one time. And
Speaker 13: then the other thing is yeah, and they said one time,
Speaker 13: but no, so I'm how many? Okay, First of all,
Speaker 13: I've got the rachio system watering system, and what I
Speaker 13: can do is do different times. Now, I was thinking
Speaker 13: about four times a day, twenty minutes a day and
Speaker 13: setting it up so I don't have water runoff. And
Speaker 13: then my question here is my question here is can
Speaker 13: I water my new sod and the heat of the day.
Speaker 2: Yes, and you should. Here's the thing this is, this
Speaker 2: is how I did it. When I put in my
Speaker 2: I put in four different turf grasses. This spring actually
Speaker 2: is early summer. And what I do is as I'm
Speaker 2: laying the turf grass. After I lay a section, I
Speaker 2: turned the water on because that grass has about what
Speaker 2: three quarters of an inch of soil that it comes.
Speaker 13: With no, no, And it actually is a little bit less,
Speaker 13: not because of the heat.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, the point is sick. Yeah, the whole root
Speaker 2: system can't be any deeper than that, which is essentially
Speaker 2: no root system to speak of. So what you want
Speaker 2: to do is keep that wet all the time, and
Speaker 2: I water it twice a day, and I put on
Speaker 2: the rough water to wet it and to soak into
Speaker 2: the soil a little bit below it, because you want
Speaker 2: the roots to go into wet soil, not dry soil.
Speaker 2: But for now, like if you put if you put
Speaker 2: two inches of water on it, it would get it
Speaker 2: nice and wet, and it would wet the soil deeply.
Speaker 2: But then within a matter of the course of most
Speaker 2: of a day, that surface is going to dry out
Speaker 2: because the sun is baking on those leaves and they
Speaker 2: got to have water, but they don't have roots. So
Speaker 2: that's why I would recommend not once a day, I'd
Speaker 2: do it twice a day. I would do it sometime
Speaker 2: in the morning. I would do it again sometime later
Speaker 2: in the day, like maybe two o'clock.
Speaker 13: What times would you pick? What times would you pick?
Speaker 2: It's not specific. I've got to run to a break,
Speaker 2: but just a quick answer would be I would probably
Speaker 2: do it about sometime around eight o'clock in the morning,
Speaker 2: because the sun's about to come out and start baking
Speaker 2: down on it. Eight or nine, we'll be fine. And
Speaker 2: then in the afternoon, I probably do it about two
Speaker 2: three or four o'clock because that's the heat of the
Speaker 2: day at four o'clock and so you don't want it
Speaker 2: to go into that too thirsty. Hey, Jim, I got
Speaker 2: to run take a break, but good luck getting that.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna put you on hold. If you don't stick
Speaker 2: around till we come back from break, that's fine. I'll
Speaker 2: be happy to talk to you again. We'll be right back, folks.
Speaker 2: Good to have Glad to have you with us. We
Speaker 2: are in head back out to Tescasida. Jim, I think
Speaker 2: you may have to follow up. Is that correct?
Speaker 13: Yes, I grew.
Speaker 11: I did.
Speaker 13: When we when we planted the sod, we put a
Speaker 13: top soil blend. I noticed it. To me, it did
Speaker 13: seemed like there were any nutrients in it. So I
Speaker 13: put I put my micro life, my life microL life
Speaker 13: six two four on top of the soil and I
Speaker 13: dropped my sod. And the reason why is I believe
Speaker 13: that this microlife will not burn the roots too, false?
Speaker 2: True?
Speaker 13: Right, right, because this is actually a nutrient for the soil.
Speaker 2: Correct, Yeah, it breaks down with microbial activity and releases
Speaker 2: the nutrients down in the zone. That's fine to do
Speaker 2: it that way, if you want to do it that way.
Speaker 13: Yeah, yeah, I already did it that way. And I'm saying,
Speaker 13: you know, that's the hole I did. Now, can what
Speaker 13: should I do with this DoD so I can protect
Speaker 13: it against the heat and keep it going. Sure, I
Speaker 13: put a compost on it, nature or whatever.
Speaker 2: Right now? Right now? Water water is the thing this
Speaker 2: odd needs, not excessive amounts, but never drying out. Get
Speaker 2: it going. Don't worry about any more fertilizing when we
Speaker 2: get into the fall season. And have you seen my
Speaker 2: fertilizing schedule online by any chance, Jim, Yes, yes, okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: if you look at it. If you're going to use
Speaker 2: microlife again as an organic starting in late September on
Speaker 2: into October, you would apply that for your fall fertilization.
Speaker 2: But there you're not going to use your six to
Speaker 2: two for when we get to that season. You're going
Speaker 2: to use the Microlife brown patch. Even though it says
Speaker 2: the brown pat, which is the disease.
Speaker 13: It's a five one three.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so but don't do anything. The sod that comes
Speaker 2: in has a lot of nutrients. Generally, I tell people
Speaker 2: you don't need to fertilize the first month when you
Speaker 2: put side in. It's not a lack of nutrients that
Speaker 2: we're worried about it. It's a lack of water. So but
Speaker 2: now you've done all you've done, that's fine. Just hold
Speaker 2: off and then put the Microlife brown patch down when
Speaker 2: we get into late September on in the first let's
Speaker 2: say three weeks of October. Ideally that would be the
Speaker 2: best range of time.
Speaker 13: To put it in, and that would be the Microlife
Speaker 13: five one three correct, five one three.
Speaker 2: That is the brown bag, I mean the brown patch, Yeah,
Speaker 2: brown patch Microlife all right.
Speaker 13: Coincidentally, it comes in a brown bag, so it's a
Speaker 13: brown patch bag.
Speaker 2: It comes in a brown bag. Yeah, makes it easy.
Speaker 2: I love color coding.
Speaker 13: That's good. Thank you, sir, Bye bye.
Speaker 2: You bet take care bye bye. Yeah. Microlife has a
Speaker 2: lot of different products. You know, I talk about the
Speaker 2: green bag all the time because that's a standard through
Speaker 2: the season lawn fertilizer. I'll be talking a lot about
Speaker 2: fall fertilization later and what we were just talking about
Speaker 2: Gemini there was talking about the fall fertilization with a
Speaker 2: Microlife product that was the brown bag. I don't want
Speaker 2: to confuse things now. I'm going to not talk a
Speaker 2: lot about Fall fertilizer now, but I will and it's
Speaker 2: on my schedule and all of them are listed on there,
Speaker 2: and Microlife if you want to find it, you can
Speaker 2: just go to Microlifefertilizer dot com, Microlife Fertilizer dot com
Speaker 2: and find it. But I can tell you this, if
Speaker 2: it's an ACE hardware store, if it's one of our
Speaker 2: independent garden centers I talk about, if it is a
Speaker 2: feed store we talk about here on guard Line, if
Speaker 2: a Southwest fertilizer we talk about on Garline. All of
Speaker 2: those places and more carry the Microlife products. Makes it
Speaker 2: really easy. We're going to go now out to Katie
Speaker 2: and talk to Hank. Hello, Hank, Hello, how are you?
Speaker 2: I'm well? Thank you?
Speaker 17: I had they had a question, a couple of questions, really,
Speaker 17: but not.
Speaker 7: Where it would be.
Speaker 22: The closest place to get too much compost by the
Speaker 22: Yordas of.
Speaker 16: Bel Air.
Speaker 2: Bel Air probably if are you able to pick it up. Yes, okay,
Speaker 2: I would go down to Siena Mulch. They are due
Speaker 2: south due south of the Houston area. You go down
Speaker 2: south toward if you know where the town of Sienna is.
Speaker 2: But it's down south and uh, that's not very far
Speaker 2: at all really for bell Air, they've got it by
Speaker 2: the bulk down there. They have different kinds of products
Speaker 2: by the bulk. They also have products by the bag,
Speaker 2: so depending on product you're looking for. Pardon it's called
Speaker 2: hum compost. Well, yeah, I'm saying that they have a
Speaker 2: number of different products down there, and the Microlife makes
Speaker 2: humates plus that is a purple bag which you'll find
Speaker 2: it's the animals too, uh, And it's it's the humus humates,
Speaker 2: which is a concentrated comp form of compost, the compost itself.
Speaker 2: Lots of great compost products out there that also work
Speaker 2: well that end up becoming reaching that humous state.
Speaker 6: Also sometimes you mentioned that a score that sells bird
Speaker 6: feeders and stuff like that that you highly recommend.
Speaker 2: They're really nice.
Speaker 20: You know their names.
Speaker 2: You said, bird feed.
Speaker 8: No bird bird, uh, bird feeders stuff like this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's wild birds unlimited. And do you have a
Speaker 2: pin or pencil handy, Yes, sir, all right, go to
Speaker 2: w B you that stands for wild Birds Unlimited w
Speaker 2: b EU dot com forward slash Houston. So that's six
Speaker 2: wallbirds stores will be there. You can find the ones
Speaker 2: that are closest to you. Uh. And it you know,
Speaker 2: there's plenty when you when you go to war Birds Unlimited,
Speaker 2: you're going to find everything you need for birds, including
Speaker 2: feeders and you know, just just the the birds themselves.
Speaker 2: A bird feed, the bird feed itself. You can't buy
Speaker 2: birds there. That was funny. I can't believe I said
Speaker 2: it that way, but yeah, that's true. And so for
Speaker 2: you know you're out in the Katie direction. Uh, there
Speaker 2: is one a Memorial Drive West. Memorial Drive West is
Speaker 2: probably the closest one to you out that direction.
Speaker 11: Okay, well, thank you, erny.
Speaker 2: Yes sir, you take care. Appreciate the call very much. Okay, now,
Speaker 2: now I just said, actually said online. You can get
Speaker 2: your birds there. No, you can't cat your birds there.
Speaker 2: I'm surprised birds don't hang out outside the place waiting
Speaker 2: for people to walk out so they can mug them
Speaker 2: and take their bird seed. But anyway, all right, you
Speaker 2: listening to the guard line our phone number seven one
Speaker 2: three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one
Speaker 2: three two one two five eight seven four. We're going
Speaker 2: to go now to Richmond, Texas and talk to Steve. Hey, Steve, Hey,
Speaker 2: they don't good.
Speaker 4: Hey.
Speaker 25: Yeah, I got a question about Roundup.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 25: I can't find anybody every time I buy some. I've
Speaker 25: been to all the big box stores and several nurse
Speaker 25: have been soaked through several bottles. It's all old brown.
Speaker 25: It looks like coffee. I just known because all the
Speaker 25: lawsuits and nobody's just buying it and it gets old.
Speaker 25: I've left it in my garage and it's turned brown.
Speaker 25: You know, it's my fault.
Speaker 13: But I don't know.
Speaker 25: If you get you recommend something else, or to buy
Speaker 25: some frits.
Speaker 2: Round Up that's free, where to purchase it? Okay? So, Steve,
Speaker 2: have you, by any chance been to my website Gardening
Speaker 2: with Skip dot com?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 2: If not, right down Gardening with Skip dot Com. And
Speaker 2: when you get there to the main page, all my
Speaker 2: publications are down belowed. The very top publication it's called
Speaker 2: herbicide Products to use with the weed wiper I created. Uh.
Speaker 2: But the reason I'm referring you to that is when
Speaker 2: you scroll down it there's a lot of different products,
Speaker 2: but for glyphosate, which is what was in round Up.
Speaker 2: Now over the counter garden center round Up doesn't have glyphosate,
Speaker 2: as you've discovered. It has a list of products that
Speaker 2: includes Eraser and high Yield Kills all and ACE Concentrated Weeding,
Speaker 2: grass Killer, and so on. And you can look at
Speaker 2: that list and take it with you and you're going
Speaker 2: to be able to find it at a place like that.
Speaker 2: And you're done in Richmond the Ace Hardware store. Uh there,
Speaker 2: you've got plantation Ace and you got another one down
Speaker 2: in the Richmond area. Both of those should have a
Speaker 2: form of glyphasate, like the ACE Concentrated Weed and grass
Speaker 2: killer that is the same ingredient as Roundup.
Speaker 25: Okay, what was the name of.
Speaker 2: It, Well, Ace Concentrated Weed and grass Killer. But Ace
Speaker 2: has different products that they bottle under their name. But
Speaker 2: if you go to that website, you'll see a list
Speaker 2: of others. The high Yield product, the Monterey product, a
Speaker 2: product called Eraser, and they're all the they're still glyphas
Speaker 2: If you want to use that.
Speaker 25: Spray that up phase weed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, Well I've got a break coming up here,
Speaker 2: I have to go, but good luck with that. Remember
Speaker 2: if the weed is actively growing. If it's actively growing,
Speaker 2: works very well. If it is just from drought or whatever,
Speaker 2: gla does not work well. So make sure water the
Speaker 2: weeds if you have to to get them up and growing.
Speaker 2: All right, thank you for that call. It's time for
Speaker 2: me to take a little break here. I want to
Speaker 2: remind you our phone number is seven one three two
Speaker 2: one two five eight seven four seven one three two
Speaker 2: one two fifty eight seventy four. When we come back
Speaker 2: Terry and Montgomery, let's see Cindy in spring and Charlie
Speaker 2: at West You you'll be our first up card line. Hey,
Speaker 2: thanks for joining us. Appreciate you being here. We got
Speaker 2: plenty more to talk about here, and the last bit
Speaker 2: of our show for today. I want to head the
Speaker 2: first thing out to let's see, we're going to go
Speaker 2: to Terry and Montgomery. Hello, Terry, welcome to Guardline.
Speaker 12: Hi, KiB I have two issues.
Speaker 21: One, I have nuts edge and I have sprayed it
Speaker 21: several times with that image nutsedge killer and whatever. I
Speaker 21: can't seem to get rid of it. Okay, I don't
Speaker 21: know how to.
Speaker 2: Get rid of it all right, So where's it growing?
Speaker 2: Is it in the lawn? Is it in a flower bed?
Speaker 12: Oh?
Speaker 21: I have an area that we're trying to get ready
Speaker 21: to put sawed down, but it is so innundated over there.
Speaker 21: I want to get rid of it before I put
Speaker 21: the sawed down.
Speaker 2: Okay, So what you want to use as a product
Speaker 2: called either sedge hammer, sedge hammer or oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: I just went blank on the other one. Hang on
Speaker 2: just a second. I'll say. First of all, let me
Speaker 2: give you a web a website gardening with Skip dot com.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you've been to my website or
Speaker 2: not gardening with Skip dot com. On there the publication
Speaker 2: When you scroll down the page, there is a list
Speaker 2: of publications. The first one says herveside products with skipsweed wiper,
Speaker 2: and you can see for sedges. Sedge hammer is one
Speaker 2: that I have on there and it works very very well.
Speaker 2: That will be a good one. There are other versions
Speaker 2: of that same ingredient. Monterey has one, Martin's one has one,
Speaker 2: high Yield has one. They're listed there also on the website.
Speaker 2: As you scroll down just right there, you'll see something
Speaker 2: called nutsedge an in depth. Look, now I'm kind of
Speaker 2: giving you a homework assignment here. That's about a three
Speaker 2: page publication, but it goes into that there's two types
Speaker 2: of nutsedge and they don't grow the same, and it
Speaker 2: tells you what to use, when to use it, and
Speaker 2: how to prevent nutsedge from proliferating. Because Terry, the bottom
Speaker 2: line is you got to get on it first thing
Speaker 2: in the spring, and you want to never let us
Speaker 2: nut sedge plant have more than three to five leaves
Speaker 2: on it. If it goes past that, it's making more plants,
Speaker 2: and a spray later on won't recapture the lost ground.
Speaker 2: In other words, it won't kill all the new plants
Speaker 2: that it produced. Rate it on. So it's if you
Speaker 2: read that and you kind of think about it, it
Speaker 2: makes a lot of sense. It's start early and be consistent,
Speaker 2: and if you do that, you can win the war
Speaker 2: on nuts it. You just have to. What people do
Speaker 2: is that they let up. And I would not recommend
Speaker 2: image as the best product. It works good on one
Speaker 2: type of nuts edge, but not on the other type.
Speaker 2: The halo sulfur on which is the sedge hammer works well.
Speaker 2: I think there's another one called sedge ender that has
Speaker 2: that same thing. In it too, But anyway, it's there
Speaker 2: on the website. Just read that, and you know, I
Speaker 2: could it take us an hour to fully discuss it.
Speaker 2: But if you're read it, I think it'll get you
Speaker 2: on the right foot. Just remember, start early and never rest.
Speaker 2: Never let it rest because it'll recouperate. You got to
Speaker 2: you gotta don't let it up for air.
Speaker 21: In other words, well, yeah, because I read, don't stress
Speaker 21: it out, don't pull it, don't you know? And so
Speaker 21: I'm trying to not do all of that. And some
Speaker 21: of it is turned yellow, but you know, and so
Speaker 21: I guess it's slowly dying.
Speaker 2: But well, and you have about yeah, you have about
Speaker 2: ten times more than you see right now. It's it
Speaker 2: just had pup up. Yet they're more, they are more nuts.
Speaker 2: So I can get on it now, but especially starting
Speaker 2: next spring. But read that publication. That really is worth
Speaker 2: an hour of talking.
Speaker 21: Is it around? Is it okay to put the spray
Speaker 21: that's nutsedge around like flowers?
Speaker 2: Uh? Read the label on the one that you choose
Speaker 2: to buy, and it'll tell you if you can or
Speaker 2: can't use it. I made something called a homemade weed
Speaker 2: wiper that's also a publication. And when I'm using like
Speaker 2: a nutsedge control, but I'm doing it among like flowers
Speaker 2: like lananas, and there's nuts edge coming up. I'll use
Speaker 2: my weed wiper to wipe it right on the nuts
Speaker 2: edge and not get the spray on designs.
Speaker 15: On the plant.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, yeah, border calls real quick, Terry.
Speaker 21: Okay, it's brown spot. So I'm the brown spot is
Speaker 21: the other issue. I've used that earth Ali, these disease
Speaker 21: control and the three and one spray, and I can't see.
Speaker 9: To get rid of it.
Speaker 2: Are you talking about brown patro on your lawn?
Speaker 21: No, I'm talking about brown spot on my wack leap
Speaker 21: Lagusto bushes.
Speaker 2: Oh, okay. A product a product containing Daca nil or
Speaker 2: a similar ingredient. So if you if you go up
Speaker 2: you're in Montgomery, if you've got the ana plants and produce,
Speaker 2: tell them you need something that has Daca nil in it,
Speaker 2: and you're going to have to spray it every time
Speaker 2: after a rain, spray it again. Rake up all the
Speaker 2: fallen leaves, get them out of the area because they're
Speaker 2: just a source of spores for more infection. Anything you
Speaker 2: can do to minimize wedding of the foliage. If your
Speaker 2: lagustrum helps slow it down a little bit, but the
Speaker 2: spray containing Sorry, I'm sorry, I had to run some
Speaker 2: best but I got I got some folks here that
Speaker 2: are that are waiting online? All right, Cindy and Spring,
Speaker 2: how can we help? Hey?
Speaker 15: Good morning?
Speaker 22: How are you?
Speaker 2: I am good good.
Speaker 8: I'm wondering.
Speaker 26: We just moved into a house and we have some
Speaker 26: very large pots by our pool, and we were trying
Speaker 26: to figure out some trees to put there that would
Speaker 26: have that were really pretty and showy. Can you offer
Speaker 26: any suggestions?
Speaker 2: You mean a tree and a pot. It must be
Speaker 2: a pretty big pot.
Speaker 26: Huh, it's it's a really big pot, two really big pots.
Speaker 2: Okay, what about a magnolia tree?
Speaker 26: Can you put a magnolia tree in a pot?
Speaker 2: It's going to be a struggle to try to keep
Speaker 2: it going. It doesn't want to be confined like that,
Speaker 2: So I would You could try it for a while
Speaker 2: and be okay, but in general I probably wouldn't do it.
Speaker 2: There's certainly palm trees that do well. Now, Plumeria is
Speaker 2: not a tree, but beside a pool, that's a beautiful,
Speaker 2: tropical a looking plant that gets up in the air
Speaker 2: a little bit okay that yeah, I mean you could
Speaker 2: you know, you can plant a ficus tree. You would
Speaker 2: just have to bring the pot into a protected spot
Speaker 2: during the wintertime. But that would be one that would
Speaker 2: grow out in the sun right out there. Okay, you
Speaker 2: know there there's a lot of plants that you can
Speaker 2: make tree like you like a crape myrtle. Train to
Speaker 2: a single trunk would be another option. Just get a
Speaker 2: dwarf type. You want one that's not gonna want to
Speaker 2: get more than about oh, let's say seven to ten
Speaker 2: feet tall, and there are varieties like that.
Speaker 21: What about fruit trees?
Speaker 26: Could you put fruit trees like those lemon trees that
Speaker 26: smells so wonderful when they bloom.
Speaker 2: Yeah, citrus CRUs uh huh meyer lemon h huh, satsu
Speaker 2: h satsuma orange. Satsuma oranges are more cold hearty than
Speaker 2: the other most other cris That would be a good one.
Speaker 2: And all the citrus when it blooms, it does smell wonderful,
Speaker 2: So that would be a good choice. You could train
Speaker 2: it up into a trunk, and it takes a little
Speaker 2: while to get it up there. To set suma growing
Speaker 2: in the ground, they'll get over eight feet high, but
Speaker 2: in a pot. That would be a nice it'd be
Speaker 2: a smaller, but a nice sized little tree. All right, Cindy,
Speaker 2: thank you so much for hi. Hey, thanks for your call.
Speaker 2: I appreciate that, folks. We are jumping through calls pretty
Speaker 2: quick here. I'm gonna go to Charlie and west you. Charlie.
Speaker 2: I'm really short on time here, but let's get your
Speaker 2: question and I'll answer it on the other side of
Speaker 2: the break.
Speaker 18: Is this a good time to plant a Saint Augustine plugs?
Speaker 13: Not laid the side down, but all right, individual plugs.
Speaker 2: That's that's easy. Yes, the answer is yes. Water water water,
Speaker 2: water them two or three times a day for the
Speaker 2: first week, and then water them every day for the
Speaker 2: next week, and then you can start weaning them off
Speaker 2: from that, but constantly keep the soil moist and you
Speaker 2: can plant Saint Augustine plugs right now. Thank you very much.
Speaker 2: I appreciate that call very much. Folks. We're gonna have
Speaker 2: to go to a break. I'll be right back, just
Speaker 2: trying to get through all these calls. Hey, welcome back
Speaker 2: to the garden line. We are glad to have you
Speaker 2: with us. Still, our last shot of the day coming up.
Speaker 2: Right here. So we're going to run right to the phones,
Speaker 2: head out to Friends with Texas and talk to Ken.
Speaker 27: Hello, Ken, I think it's actually Olivia. My husband called
Speaker 27: for me. My question, Hello, My question is I've been
Speaker 27: invaded by snails and slugs. I've tried throwing out coffee
Speaker 27: grounds to run them off. I've tried the what you
Speaker 27: can get at the box stores snail and slug bait,
Speaker 27: and I've tried cinnamon, but they just keep coming back
Speaker 27: with a vengeance. They're climbing the walls. They're killing my plants.
Speaker 27: What do you reckon?
Speaker 2: Okay, gotcha, got you? Got you all right? Well you
Speaker 2: need it. You're down in front Wood. You got some
Speaker 2: really good hardware stores. You know, you can go to
Speaker 2: ashardware dot com. There's some good stores down there.
Speaker 27: I do familiar with them.
Speaker 2: Some bait and now baits will work, but there's a
Speaker 2: little bit of a caveat. You need to get fresh bait,
Speaker 2: and it needs to be put out in a quantity
Speaker 2: enough to where they eat it and they die. If
Speaker 2: they eat a little bit and get sick, they kind
Speaker 2: of learn from that. We call that bait's shyness, and
Speaker 2: the bait that would work. They're not interested eating because
Speaker 2: they tried it and it made them sick. So you
Speaker 2: want to get a good fresh bait, get plenty of
Speaker 2: it out there. Uh. And there are a number of
Speaker 2: different ones. Most of them over the counter now contain
Speaker 2: iron phosphate, so it's not a it's not like a
Speaker 2: synthetic chemical poison as much as it's It gives them
Speaker 2: a terminal case of constipation, which ought to make you
Speaker 2: happy to know that's what's happening to them. But seriously,
Speaker 2: the iron phosphate baits work really well. There are some
Speaker 2: other baits, one that has metalla hyde in it, but
Speaker 2: I would I would go with the iron phosphates a
Speaker 2: little bit safer in the environment, and it works. You
Speaker 2: just have to You just have to use it, you know,
Speaker 2: periodically to do that. All that other stuff you're saying,
Speaker 2: don't bother cinnamon and some people put eggshells out that
Speaker 2: doesn't work.
Speaker 27: I coffee grounds. They don't like the smell I was getting.
Speaker 27: I'm getting desperate, That's why. That's my point I'm trying
Speaker 27: to make. But okay, so Ace.
Speaker 2: Hardware, get a good quality bait from Ace Hardware down there,
Speaker 2: and friends with and you'll be able to you'll be
Speaker 2: able to.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 2: It works, it works super super well. I mean it really,
Speaker 2: it's excellent. Uh yeah that I've I've had good success
Speaker 2: with those two.
Speaker 27: Okay, I will give it a t.
Speaker 2: If you don't Yeah, if you don't know, your your
Speaker 2: ACE hardware is on Edgewood Drive there in front.
Speaker 27: Oh, yes, I'm very familiar with it. All run down
Speaker 27: there today. Yes, thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Have a good cool all right, thank you, Ken Slash Olivia.
Speaker 2: I appreciate talking to you. All right, We're gonna go
Speaker 2: now to Humble and talk to Carrie. Hello, Kerry, say.
Speaker 28: There, I was calling if you're doing well.
Speaker 15: I planted some.
Speaker 28: Or few pond hollis a few weeks ago, and I
Speaker 28: guess the heat just kind of took off. I watered
Speaker 28: them pretty well at first, we got busy, and now
Speaker 28: now the turn brown.
Speaker 2: Okay, so do we need more water?
Speaker 28: I did plant them high.
Speaker 2: Tell me how how long ago you planted I missed that.
Speaker 28: Let's see, I would say that it's been about four weeks.
Speaker 2: Okay. So, so a woody plant like a trio shrub,
Speaker 2: all the roots are in the pot of course that
Speaker 2: you buy or when you put that in the ground.
Speaker 2: You need to pretend that it's still on the plastic pot,
Speaker 2: because what that'll do is it'll make you water the
Speaker 2: right area. If you knew there was a pot around
Speaker 2: it in the ground, you wouldn't water to feed out
Speaker 2: from the plant, you know, because there's no rooms out there.
Speaker 2: Water it is well, it takes. It's going to take it,
Speaker 2: you know, a year or two or three as it
Speaker 2: begins to expand those roots out into the soil around it.
Speaker 2: So especially for the first few months, watering that original
Speaker 2: roots cylinder that went to the ground is very important
Speaker 2: because you can have moist soil around it, but that
Speaker 2: that cylinder of roots gets pumped dry on a hot
Speaker 2: summer day, which we've been having, so that I would
Speaker 2: focus the watering on that. It doesn't mean you need
Speaker 2: to turn it into a swamp. It just means, yes,
Speaker 2: that we can have drought stress and you think you're
Speaker 2: watering it enough. But that's just the challenge of it.
Speaker 2: I would do that and then wait and see what regreens.
Speaker 2: You may have to do some pruning to remove some
Speaker 2: dead limbs if that turns out to be what they are.
Speaker 15: Okay, okay, all right, thanks, So much.
Speaker 13: Appreciate it all.
Speaker 2: Right, good luck with it. Yeah, thank you, appreciate appreciate
Speaker 2: your call very much. Talking about trees and shrubs, reminding
Speaker 2: me of Affordable Tree Service, you know, Martin spoon More.
Speaker 2: People all the time they call me like who can
Speaker 2: I call to trim on my trees? Or I need
Speaker 2: this and that done? Who do I call? It's always
Speaker 2: the same answer. It's Martin Spoonmore Affordable Tree Service. The
Speaker 2: phone number if you like that, it's seven one three
Speaker 2: six nine nine twenty six sixty three seven one three
Speaker 2: six nine nine two six six three. Listen, it's storm season.
Speaker 2: They're predicting a lot of hurricanes through the year. Well
Speaker 2: we're getting toward the end of the storm of the
Speaker 2: hurricane season. But you know, a storm can occur anytime.
Speaker 2: It can occur anytime, and your trees need to be
Speaker 2: adequately pruned to give them the best chance of surviving
Speaker 2: a storm. Bad branch angles are narrowed, they break off easily.
Speaker 2: That's a no. No. Martin can help fix that. He
Speaker 2: can help train a tree as it's growing, but also
Speaker 2: deal with a tree that's already established. Anything you need
Speaker 2: to do to take care of your trees, you need
Speaker 2: to call Martin first, and he's gonna come out, and
Speaker 2: he's going to charge you a fee to come out,
Speaker 2: a site visit fee, a uh, you know, just to
Speaker 2: show up and look at it and assess the situation.
Speaker 2: If you hire work done, that fee goes right into
Speaker 2: your work, so you've already paid for that much of
Speaker 2: the work at least. But having him come out and
Speaker 2: look at the site is really important because it's like
Speaker 2: me answering questions on guardline. I can't see the tree, right,
Speaker 2: I can't see exactly the situation. He's an expert at it.
Speaker 2: He knows what he's doing. You can go to the
Speaker 2: website too, a fftree service dot com afftree service dot
Speaker 2: com if you want to get a hold of him.
Speaker 2: And remember, Martin and his wife Joe answer the phones.
Speaker 2: It's a it's a mom and pop operation, right, I mean,
Speaker 2: they take care of their customers. And if you call
Speaker 2: in someplace and you don't hear Martin or Joe answer,
Speaker 2: and you probably call the wrong place, you need to die,
Speaker 2: hang up and dial again. Seven one three Can you
Speaker 2: tell me the phone number? I've said it enough times
Speaker 2: seven to one three six nine nine two six sixt' three.
Speaker 2: I want You've had a couple of things going on.
Speaker 2: First of all, next weekend Saturday, September seventh and by
Speaker 2: the way, and also September eighth, Montgomery County Fall Home
Speaker 2: and Outdoor Living Show Montgomery County Fall an outdoor home
Speaker 2: living show at the Lone Star Convention Center. So if
Speaker 2: you live anywhere up north in a direction, come on
Speaker 2: over and see me. I'll be there on Saturday from
Speaker 2: twelve to two. I'm going to be giving a little
Speaker 2: talk on fall gardening, some of the things we do
Speaker 2: and fall for success. And then i'll be answering your
Speaker 2: questions to the cows come home. I'll stick there as
Speaker 2: long as you want to talk. I'll be giving away
Speaker 2: some really cool products for you to try out, too,
Speaker 2: So another reason to come by. Stick your head in
Speaker 2: the door, say hi. The Montgomery County Fall Home and
Speaker 2: Outdoor Living Show September seventh and eighth. I'll be there
Speaker 2: on the seventh and next Saturday from twelve to two.
Speaker 2: That's at the Lone Star Convention and Expo Center. It's
Speaker 2: out there on Airport Road, north side of Conroe. Come
Speaker 2: on and see us. They'll have a lot of other
Speaker 2: fun stuff going on there as well. Also, if you
Speaker 2: are interested in growing strawberries, you need to attend this program.
Speaker 2: It's a second annual Strawberry Jamboree in Lake Jackson, Texas.
Speaker 2: Now the location has been shifted. It's now at the
Speaker 2: Lake Jackson Rec Center. Lake Jackson Rec Center. That's on
Speaker 2: ninety one. It's at ninety one Lake Drive in Lake Jackson.
Speaker 2: October Strawberry Planning Season. You go to this program, you
Speaker 2: can even put in an order from strawberry plants. They're
Speaker 2: going to be doing that, but you are going to
Speaker 2: hear from speakers that know all about it. It'll go
Speaker 2: from eight in the morning until twelve noon, and there'll
Speaker 2: be a strawberry shortcake contest. Wish they'd call me to
Speaker 2: be judge of that. I'd be willing to give one
Speaker 2: for the team and eat strawberry shortcake all day. Seriously.
Speaker 2: They'll be exhibitors, they'll be speakers, they'll be strawberry plugs
Speaker 2: to pre order the contest. If you think you can
Speaker 2: make strawberry shortcake, you need to join it. It's a
Speaker 2: free event. Nine seventy nine, eight six, four, fifteen fifty
Speaker 2: eight are called the Brazoria County Extension,