Speaker 1: Just watch him as were so many peace to see.
Speaker 2: Alrighty, let's do this this morning. Boy do we have
Speaker 2: a lot to talk about today. And we're going to
Speaker 2: talk about weather off and on throughout the day because
Speaker 2: we got some interesting things on the way. For that, well,
Speaker 2: we'll cover that. But we're in spring. We are officially
Speaker 2: in spring. I know the weather is not cooperating. It's
Speaker 2: throwing a little fit this week. But that's okay, that's
Speaker 2: all right. It is spring. You know, if you are
Speaker 2: looking at your lawn and your garden and trying to
Speaker 2: make decisions, is it time to do this? Is it
Speaker 2: time to do that? Well, I can tell you that
Speaker 2: us we got a hard freeze coming and so we
Speaker 2: don't want to run out there with something that's very tender.
Speaker 2: But that doesn't mean you shouldn't go get it. And
Speaker 2: I'll talk about this through the through the course of
Speaker 2: the show. Uh. For example, tomatoes, I'm picking up tomatoes
Speaker 2: today as a matter of fact. Now it's going to
Speaker 2: get too gold to plant a tomato. But if you
Speaker 2: don't get them now, the best ones, the ones you
Speaker 2: really want. Other people know about those, they're going to
Speaker 2: go pick them up themselves. And I can't tell you
Speaker 2: how many times I've gone to get a tomato plant
Speaker 2: in past years and it was picked over. You know,
Speaker 2: they're still good tomatoes, but the ones I wanted weren't there.
Speaker 2: So what I do is I buy the little tomato plants.
Speaker 2: Now take them home, water, you know, put a little
Speaker 2: dilute fertilizer on them, bump them up into a larger pot,
Speaker 2: put some of that uh Nelson's genesis in the in
Speaker 2: the soil, and just keep them growing. Put them outside
Speaker 2: as much you can't. If it's cool outside, that's okay.
Speaker 2: Tomatoes have to get used to cool nights. If it's cold,
Speaker 2: bring them in, and so you get a head start.
Speaker 2: You got the plant you want, And that's what I'm
Speaker 2: talking about. Don't let the freeze throw you off of
Speaker 2: your gardening game. Don't do that. For example, last week
Speaker 2: we had eighty degrees and I would just I'm still
Speaker 2: about ready to crawl around the lawn a little bit
Speaker 2: and look for sprouts of crabgrass and other things starting
Speaker 2: to germinate, because I'm telling you those things fifty five
Speaker 2: degrees soil temperature and crabgrass starts germinating. So you need
Speaker 2: to get ahead of them with your barricade. Barricade is
Speaker 2: a nitroposs product. If you've been struggling with weeds that
Speaker 2: are just difficult for you to manage in your lawn
Speaker 2: every year, here they come the cool season weeds of
Speaker 2: warm season weeds. Right now, warm season weeds are ready
Speaker 2: to germinate, so head them off at the pass, put
Speaker 2: down barricade watered in. You need about a third half
Speaker 2: inch of water or something like that just to get
Speaker 2: it down in the sole surface. Any pre emergent has
Speaker 2: to be put down into the sole surface with a
Speaker 2: little bit of an irrigation. A ten pound bag of
Speaker 2: barricade'll cover five thousand square feet, so it goes a
Speaker 2: long way, gets rid of broadly feeds, gets rid of
Speaker 2: grassy weeds. In fact, I say gets rid of them.
Speaker 2: You never even see them. And now if you wait
Speaker 2: until after they're up, our options for controlling them are fewer.
Speaker 2: And in fact, as it starts to get hot, they
Speaker 2: become even fewer. So why not prevent them in the
Speaker 2: first place, and barricade will do all that weeding for you.
Speaker 2: And you're going to find barricade at places like D
Speaker 2: and D Feed and Tomball. You're going to find it
Speaker 2: at Plants and Things out in Brenham, K and m
Speaker 2: A's Hardware and Kingwood Carries Barricade, many many places, widely
Speaker 2: widely available through all of our ace stores. As a
Speaker 2: matter of fact, let's turn out to the phones here.
Speaker 2: We're going to go to Spring and talk to Frank
Speaker 2: this morning. Hey Frank, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 3: Hey Skip, good morning. Quick question. I planned June first.
Speaker 3: It'll be five years. Ten mixed myrtles in the back
Speaker 3: and seven have done really well. Three you know they're
Speaker 3: not doing as well. I was out there last week
Speaker 3: and I never noticed they have like almost a lime
Speaker 3: green color. It's it's not. I thought it'd be a powder,
Speaker 3: but it's not. You know, coming from the main trunk
Speaker 3: all the way out to the end of the branch,
Speaker 3: is there, what is that I do fertilize? It did
Speaker 3: more last year the blue bag three times. I don't
Speaker 3: know if that's too much fertilized or what.
Speaker 2: No, that's not. Sometimes you see a lichen. Sometimes an
Speaker 2: algae can grow on the on the outer bark. Neither
Speaker 2: one is a disease. It's just out there, you know,
Speaker 2: on the outer dead periphery of the branch, so I
Speaker 2: wouldn't worry about the green as far as you know.
Speaker 2: Wax myrtles, they're they're native and they're very tolerant of
Speaker 2: our conditions here. If they're not growing, I would I
Speaker 2: would probably look at are they getting dependable moisture and
Speaker 2: are they are you fertilizing them? And if you're not,
Speaker 2: maybe kick that up a notch to try to spur
Speaker 2: some growth.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: Fertilizing today is not going to make them grow this
Speaker 2: week because it's it's cold weather, but it's always a
Speaker 2: good I idea in small doses to get out there
Speaker 2: and keep your shrubs moving with some fertilizers.
Speaker 3: Okay, well good, nothing wrong then, all right, I appreciate it,
Speaker 3: thank you.
Speaker 2: Not really, And and wax myrtle takes wet conditions pretty well,
Speaker 2: so you know, normally with the shrub, i'd say, yeah,
Speaker 2: maybe it's a little soggy wet there and the roots
Speaker 2: can't get oxygen or something, but.
Speaker 3: Pretty yeah, I know, I fertilize them. I water them
Speaker 3: to make sure those especially those three. The other you know,
Speaker 3: the other seven are doing fine now their established really well,
Speaker 3: it's just these three, so hopefully this year they and
Speaker 3: they shed, right, they do shid during the winter, all
Speaker 3: of them.
Speaker 2: Correct, Well, no, they're no, they're in They're kind of evergreen.
Speaker 2: But it just depends on the on the weather. You know,
Speaker 2: we get a good hard cold snap and you can
Speaker 2: you can lose some foliage. But they should they should
Speaker 2: retain foliage.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they do. Every year they all shed especially completely, No,
Speaker 3: not completely, just you know, maybe a third of the
Speaker 3: leaves every year. I noticed it. I just thought that
Speaker 3: there was normal.
Speaker 2: Okay, how long have they been in Frank.
Speaker 3: It'll be five It'll be five years June first.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they ought to be establishing. I'll tell you what
Speaker 2: one option be to send me a picture, let me
Speaker 2: take a look at the site, see what they're doing,
Speaker 2: show me a distant shot, and then get a close
Speaker 2: up of the like the green stuff you're talking about
Speaker 2: or whatever. I'll take it. I'll be happy to take
Speaker 2: a look at it. But other than that, I think
Speaker 2: we pretty well have covered it. I'm gonna put you
Speaker 2: on hold, and if you want to hang around and
Speaker 2: get an email, you're free to do that. Yeah, that
Speaker 2: is the case. I'll tell you. Boy D and De
Speaker 2: Feed store up in Tomball. They are loaded with everything
Speaker 2: you need, including chicks. Right now they have started their
Speaker 2: annual chick arrival and it just comes in waves. So
Speaker 2: you just need to go check them out, going, go
Speaker 2: check out their website and you know, go do whatever
Speaker 2: you need to do to keep up. They have a
Speaker 2: whole page just on schedule of when they're getting chicks
Speaker 2: in and they have a bazillion different kinds of chicks
Speaker 2: that are coming in. So if you're into chickens, I
Speaker 2: promise you this, they've got at least a dozen chickens
Speaker 2: you never even heard of coming in there. They are.
Speaker 2: It is amazing how they're set up for that. Of course,
Speaker 2: they have everything you need for that, you know, the feed,
Speaker 2: the waterers, the coming up here. We got some gold weathers.
Speaker 2: They got the little heat lamps that you that they
Speaker 2: gather under when you hang them down around where they
Speaker 2: are h d and de feet it's three miles west
Speaker 2: of two forty nine and Tom Ball. Of course, when
Speaker 2: you're there, grab you your nitrofoss, your microlife, your turf star,
Speaker 2: your medina, your heirloom soils, your Nelson plant food, and
Speaker 2: on and on and on everything you need to have
Speaker 2: success in your lawn d and d feed is going
Speaker 2: to have it two eight, one, three, five, one seventy
Speaker 2: one forty four. We're going to take a little break
Speaker 2: and I'll be back with Tony from Kingwood. Alrighty, welcome
Speaker 2: back to the garden Line. Let's keep going here. We've
Speaker 2: got a lot of things to cover today. I do
Speaker 2: want to remind you that we got some coal weather
Speaker 2: coming this weekend. I'm going to go into some details
Speaker 2: about the kind of coal we're having and the kind
Speaker 2: of things you would want to do about that. So
Speaker 2: stay tuned, hang around, we'll be we'll be right back. Well,
Speaker 2: we'll we'll be right back. We will talk about some
Speaker 2: of the things that are going on that you need
Speaker 2: you need to be aware of and know about. Out
Speaker 2: in Katie, Texas is a really special garden center for
Speaker 2: all of you on the west side of the Great
Speaker 2: Houston area out there. This is your hometown, hometown garden
Speaker 2: center and it's Nelson Water Gardens. Nelson is right off
Speaker 2: I ten, So if you're heading out you know I
Speaker 2: ten towards San Antonio direction, Nelson's you get to Katie,
Speaker 2: you just turn right on Katie Fort Ben Road and
Speaker 2: it's just across the tracks just a little bit right
Speaker 2: there on the right hand side. They are always loaded
Speaker 2: with everything you need now Nelson water Gardens and nursery
Speaker 2: or nurse in. Watergardens is a combination place where you
Speaker 2: can a get all the plants you're looking for and
Speaker 2: the products you need to have success with those plants.
Speaker 2: Remember brown stuff before green stuff. Don't go home without
Speaker 2: plants without going home without products. And it is also
Speaker 2: the place where you can create a water garden that
Speaker 2: is unbelievable. The sound of water in the backyard is
Speaker 2: one of the most cathartic things. Water and bird songs
Speaker 2: are just their therapy. It is nice. They've got the
Speaker 2: fish for the water gardens. They have the plants for
Speaker 2: the water gardens. They have the containers, the disappearing fountains
Speaker 2: that you know, the water goes over the top of
Speaker 2: the container and sort of just disappears into the ground
Speaker 2: and then it's being pumped back up through again. They
Speaker 2: invented that system. By the way, it's unbelievable. Nelsonwatergardens dot com.
Speaker 2: Nelson Watergardens dot Com. You need to go out there
Speaker 2: and check it out. We're going to go now to
Speaker 2: the phones and head out to Kingwood to talk to Tony. Hey, Tony,
Speaker 2: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 4: Hey doing today? Well, say, here's the thing. I got
Speaker 4: a lemon and a lime tree and about a thirty
Speaker 4: five forty gallon and those landscape or black containers. They're
Speaker 4: probably about three years old now. Well, anyways, they're blooming crazy.
Speaker 4: I took them in during the last snow and I'm
Speaker 4: going to probably take them in again. My question is
Speaker 4: to you, is fertilizing them. I don't want to go
Speaker 4: out and buy a big, huge bag of fertilizer. I
Speaker 4: just want enough to make sure I can fertilize them properly.
Speaker 4: What suggestions do you have that you know, maybe they
Speaker 4: have a small container of it or something, just to
Speaker 4: put it in there. Like I said, they're only thirty
Speaker 4: five forty gallon containers, you know, I.
Speaker 2: Would look for Nelson Plant Food has a line called
Speaker 2: nutral Star, and in the nutri Star there is a
Speaker 2: little jar fertilizer. It's a clear jar with a screw
Speaker 2: top lead. It's called cetrus Fruit and Avocado. So any
Speaker 2: basically any fruit that you're growing it would be a
Speaker 2: good choice for that kind of a gradual feed over time.
Speaker 2: About every three months. You just sprinkle it around in
Speaker 2: the container. You know, in a container you're just gonna
Speaker 2: be measuring it out by the teaspoon. Get around a
Speaker 2: tree or shrubbing the ground, and you can putting it
Speaker 2: out a lot more. But neutral star citrus fruit and
Speaker 2: avocado probably did one of your best choices. And it's
Speaker 2: available pretty widespread through the area. I think you may
Speaker 2: find it out at Jerry's Hardware stores out there. You
Speaker 2: may find it out at Warren Southern Gardens, you know,
Speaker 2: places like that.
Speaker 4: Right, that's what I was looking at, something like that. Now,
Speaker 4: the other question I got, I want to raise them
Speaker 4: up again. You know, after a couple of years they
Speaker 4: have sunken down with the dirt maybe a quarter what's
Speaker 4: a good time to basically lift them out, put some
Speaker 4: more soil underneath them and continue. But what's the good time?
Speaker 4: Because I've lost so many trees and over the past
Speaker 4: freeze in the last ten twelve years, I'm tired of it.
Speaker 4: That's why I'm bringing them in the garage now again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good idea, just to you know, strap
Speaker 2: them to a dolly and say your back, so I
Speaker 2: would say, you know, as we get ready to. We're
Speaker 2: kind of looking around, going, hey, I don't think there's
Speaker 2: can be any more freezes here we get into you know,
Speaker 2: in your area you're up in the king would probably
Speaker 2: sometime and maybe mid March or something like that. You
Speaker 2: just lay the pot over, slide the tree out, don't
Speaker 2: grab the trunk and try to lift it out of
Speaker 2: the pot, take a look at the roots, cut any
Speaker 2: roots that are going in a circle, and then put
Speaker 2: some fresh dirt in the bottom and reset it. Water
Speaker 2: it in real good.
Speaker 4: How did you see to do that? Again? I missed
Speaker 4: that part about not grabbing the trunk, So I usually
Speaker 4: grab the bottom of the tree and try to you know,
Speaker 4: work it out and then bring it upwards.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can do that. Then you're you know, you
Speaker 2: kind of got your knees or feet trying to hold
Speaker 2: the pot down while you lift the tree up. And
Speaker 2: I've strained my back that way. And plus some plants
Speaker 2: and this is probably not your citrus, but some plants
Speaker 2: it just you can get. You can break some things
Speaker 2: trying to pull them by the trunk up out of
Speaker 2: the ground when they're when they're connected to that pot
Speaker 2: real tight. So I'll lay the pot down kind of
Speaker 2: bump it with my hands, roll it over, bump it
Speaker 2: a little bit, and then that tree will slide right
Speaker 2: out to the side. There's no need to lift it
Speaker 2: at that point.
Speaker 4: Correct that everything in the past. Yeah, I just didn't
Speaker 4: hear you that part where you I put them on
Speaker 4: its side and kind of hit the size and roll
Speaker 4: and it comes out easy.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And when you when you put that new soil, fresh
Speaker 2: soil in there to kind of lift it up. Uh,
Speaker 2: mix in some of why you're getting Nelson's. They've also
Speaker 2: got something called Genesis and it's a it's a it's
Speaker 2: made for transplanting. So you mix it into the potting
Speaker 2: soil that you put in there. You can sprinkle a
Speaker 2: little more on the top and that that works really
Speaker 2: really well too, and then just continue as you're as
Speaker 2: it's growing and you're feeding. You can use the citrus
Speaker 2: fruit and avocao. The Genesis is more of an organic
Speaker 2: type product that isn't going to burn roots or anything.
Speaker 5: Great.
Speaker 4: All right, Well, thank you sir very much for the information.
Speaker 2: You bet, thanks for the call, man. I appreciate that
Speaker 2: a lot I mentioning earlier ACE hardware stores. ACE is
Speaker 2: set up for whatever you need to do. I mean,
Speaker 2: right now, I have got the barbecue fever. I've been
Speaker 2: looking at some Tragger grills and I'm kind of getting
Speaker 2: interested in this Tragger pellet grills. I have a Weber Girl,
Speaker 2: and Ace has Weber Aces, Tragger. Ace has every main
Speaker 2: brand that you can think of, including things like the
Speaker 2: Big Green Egg and here comes Spring. If you've got
Speaker 2: some propane tanks and you need to get those exchanged
Speaker 2: or topped off, however you do it, talk to your
Speaker 2: local ACE store. That's where I'd start with that. If
Speaker 2: you're going to be doing some outdoor spring cleaning and renovation,
Speaker 2: maybe your deck could use some receiling or replacing us
Speaker 2: some boards and things. You need to take care of
Speaker 2: that wood so that it does last, and ACE has
Speaker 2: everything you need for that. While you're in there, grab
Speaker 2: some air filters. You buy three, you get one free,
Speaker 2: and you're supposed to be putting them in every month,
Speaker 2: you know, So go ahead and get your little stock
Speaker 2: supply ready to go. At ACE Hardware, and there's a
Speaker 2: lot of great Ace hardware is around, you know. We've
Speaker 2: got the K and m Ace up in a Tascas Seda.
Speaker 2: We got Bay City Ace Hardware, Donad Wharton, there's Wharton
Speaker 2: Feed and Ace. I was out there giving to talk
Speaker 2: a while back. Hamilton Hardware off Highway six near Bear Creek.
Speaker 2: All just examples of the many, many ACE hardware stores
Speaker 2: in our area. Let's go now to Texas City and
Speaker 2: we're going to talk to Matt. Hey, Matt, welcome to
Speaker 2: garden Line.
Speaker 5: Hey, good morning, Skip. How you doing.
Speaker 2: I'm good.
Speaker 5: Hey, got a quick question. We have our lemon tree
Speaker 5: and it had suffered a little bit from the breeze.
Speaker 5: It did really well, but it seemed to drop ninety
Speaker 5: percent of its leaves. Well, it's got great new leads
Speaker 5: coming in, I mean everywhere, But it seems like every
Speaker 5: time we get new leads coming down on this thing,
Speaker 5: it's either eat up by some sort of bugs or
Speaker 5: catagillars or something like that. I was just wondering what
Speaker 5: would be a good way to protect all these new
Speaker 5: leads I have coming in, the new leaves.
Speaker 2: Well, number one, keep them out of the weather. You're
Speaker 2: about to beginting here this week. Excuse me, you want
Speaker 2: to keep them out of that weather? You uh, you know,
Speaker 2: the leaves ought to hold up. Okay, as long as
Speaker 2: you have moist soil, but not soggy conditions. So these
Speaker 2: are in containers, right, No, sir.
Speaker 5: It's in the ground, you know, in text the city.
Speaker 5: And I don't think we're gonna get you know, maybe
Speaker 5: in the mid low forties, So I'm not too concerned
Speaker 5: about that. It's just seems like they're always eat up
Speaker 5: by bugs every spring, okay, especially.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, just watch and see what you're seeing. It's
Speaker 2: either going to be caterpillars or beetles if it's literally
Speaker 2: eating the leaf. Now, there's things that you inside the
Speaker 2: leaf called leaf miners that cause the leaves to shrivel
Speaker 2: up and curl. But if you're seeing leaves literally chomped
Speaker 2: something ate them and ran away, then that's a caterpillar
Speaker 2: or a beetle that's doing that. And they're products that
Speaker 2: are very low toxicity that you can use to control those.
Speaker 2: As far as the fruit drop, anytime citrus gets stressed,
Speaker 2: it will do that. They tend to drop fruit anyway
Speaker 2: when they set a heavy load because they know they
Speaker 2: can't carry all those to maturity, so they'll drop. They'll
Speaker 2: abort some of the little ones, and sometimes it's a
Speaker 2: pretty significant loss of fruit. But that's just the tree
Speaker 2: balancing itself out. If you add drought to that, or
Speaker 2: if you add any other stress to that, then you're
Speaker 2: going to even have a greater fruit drop. So alleviating
Speaker 2: stress is the main thing in your power. Love, all right,
Speaker 2: all right, all right, sir, thank you very much. I
Speaker 2: appreciate your call. Our phone number they got to give
Speaker 2: it out today. Seven one three two one two kt
Speaker 2: r H seven one three two one two kt listen
Speaker 2: Warren seven Gardens, Kingwood Garden Center right now, they've got
Speaker 2: a Valentine's Day special going on for those of you
Speaker 2: out there in the Kingwood area. Warren's, by the way,
Speaker 2: is on North Park. Kingwood Garden Center is on Stone
Speaker 2: Hollow again. Both open seven days a week. If you
Speaker 2: buy a flower pot and four little items, you get
Speaker 2: twenty percent off the entire order, and that that's any
Speaker 2: size pottery and any four items that you put together.
Speaker 2: Just talk to them about their Valentine's Day special. This
Speaker 2: would be a great time to put together a combo container,
Speaker 2: you know, one of the a little bit larger pots
Speaker 2: where you plant a group of different kinds of flowers
Speaker 2: that really are attractive together. And warrants can tell you
Speaker 2: how to do that. They're experts at creating combination planters,
Speaker 2: so you can they can get you set up on
Speaker 2: everything that you need. They just got two container loads
Speaker 2: of pottery, so both of the stores are really stocked
Speaker 2: up out there. They got some really nice statuary. Whatever
Speaker 2: is of interest to you, saints, animals, golfers. I mean,
Speaker 2: there is statuary for everybody. And of course they're loaded
Speaker 2: up on their microlife. Something that I think is really
Speaker 2: of interest is their pro trade landscaping tools. And now these
Speaker 2: have a lifetime warranty and they have a huge selection
Speaker 2: of them. So if you're tired of buying tools they
Speaker 2: just break or fall apart and don't last. They're not quality.
Speaker 2: Go out to Warrens or King say I want to
Speaker 2: see your pro trade landscaping tools, and you will see
Speaker 2: some really nice stuff. They serve that whole area out there.
Speaker 2: So I keep saying Kingwood. But if you're an humble
Speaker 2: of Taska, set of Porter Valley Ranch, New Caney, any
Speaker 2: of those areas out there, this is it. Now you're
Speaker 2: gonna find out there. You're going to find everything you
Speaker 2: hear me talk about, like microlife and Nitrofoss and Nelson
Speaker 2: turf Star and Heirloom soils and Nelson plant foods in
Speaker 2: the jars like we were talking about earlier. Everything like
Speaker 2: that is going to be out there, so they'll get
Speaker 2: you set up. Warren Southern Gardens on North Park Drive,
Speaker 2: Kingwood Garden Center on Stone Hollow open seven days a week.
Speaker 2: And by the way, with these garden centers, you need
Speaker 2: to when you're not at once to say I want
Speaker 2: to get on your mailing list. And they have a
Speaker 2: little mailing list. They have a little kind of a
Speaker 2: newsletter thing that goes out that is very very helpful
Speaker 2: and it keeps you up the date. You find out
Speaker 2: about sales that are coming up, you find out about
Speaker 2: new arrivals, so really important to do that. Let's head
Speaker 2: out to Cyprus now and we're going to talk to Terry. Hello, Terry,
Speaker 2: good Morning's scared of How are you this morning? I'm well, sir,
Speaker 2: How can we help?
Speaker 6: Well? Was Donald planting my new potatoes this morning? And
Speaker 6: I want to bottom journey. I buy pretty good sized
Speaker 6: potatoes that have pretty decent sprouts on them, and I
Speaker 6: cut them in half and let them be dry out
Speaker 6: for a couple of three days, and then I plan
Speaker 6: them some bonemeo, okay, want of potatoes this time? They
Speaker 6: pretty well picked over, and they're small, maybe golf ball
Speaker 6: size to twice that size, and the sprouts were not
Speaker 6: very well established. Right, so I'm concerned that you lock
Speaker 6: it on about cut them in half to get a
Speaker 6: sprout on them.
Speaker 2: And I'm pretty good.
Speaker 6: I'm concerned that what when I plant those, either they're
Speaker 6: going to be real delayed and coming up, or they're
Speaker 6: just not going to produce.
Speaker 2: Gotcha, what's your feeling on that? All right, well, Terry,
Speaker 2: I've got thirty seconds to break. If we need to
Speaker 2: hold you over, we can do that. What Okay, there's
Speaker 2: a process called chitting c H I T T I
Speaker 2: n G chitting potatoes, and you put them on the
Speaker 2: counter and you let them kind of start to sprout.
Speaker 2: In those warmer conditions, they'll start pushing the sprout out
Speaker 2: and you can kind of watch them and see and
Speaker 2: plant the best ones that you have. Those immature buds
Speaker 2: that haven't developed as much. Yeah, that's going to at
Speaker 2: least be a delay in them coming up, and it's
Speaker 2: time to get them going. Hey, I got to run,
Speaker 2: but hang on if you want, and we'll continue this discussion.
Speaker 2: Folks will be right back and.
Speaker 1: Alrighty, we're back.
Speaker 2: We're going to head back out to Cyprus and continue
Speaker 2: our conversation with Terry this morning. All right, Terry, So
Speaker 2: we're talking potatoes and we got some that have undeveloped
Speaker 2: buds that you're a little concerned about, and for good reason,
Speaker 2: where do we go from here?
Speaker 6: Well, I think since it's not a big purchase, I
Speaker 6: only plan about fifty plants, I may just go ahead
Speaker 6: and try and find some bigger potatoes. And I don't
Speaker 6: have much patience, but I do have one other questions.
Speaker 7: You've got time?
Speaker 6: Is it too late to put out pre emergent herveside
Speaker 6: to control weeds?
Speaker 2: No, it's prime time. Go ahead and get it done though,
Speaker 2: And it's primetime.
Speaker 6: I have a bag of nitro tross fifteen to five
Speaker 6: ten with weed killer we control.
Speaker 2: You should should I just bypass.
Speaker 6: The barricade or and put that out? Or would you?
Speaker 8: So?
Speaker 2: Here here's the here's the thing on this, Terry. The
Speaker 2: weeds that you see now are cool season weeds and
Speaker 2: they're about to go to seed, so you would want
Speaker 2: to use something that kills them after the fact that
Speaker 2: they're up it's called a post emergent on those before
Speaker 2: they sentence you to five more years of pulling weeds
Speaker 2: out there. Now, the weeds that are going to be
Speaker 2: here all summer, they're sprouting as we get especially early
Speaker 2: into early March, and you want to have the pre emergent.
Speaker 2: The barricade type product would be for that. Now, Nitrophoss
Speaker 2: sells fertilizers that have both a post emergent and then
Speaker 2: they have a different product that has a pre emergent.
Speaker 2: The post emergent is going to have the trimec in it,
Speaker 2: so you wouldn't want to use fertilizer twice. So if
Speaker 2: you're gonna, you know, you can do a post emergent
Speaker 2: with your fertilizer to if you have broad leaf cool
Speaker 2: season weeds and that would work, or you could just
Speaker 2: use a pre emergent, or you could do both. But
Speaker 2: if you're gonna, if you're gonna fertilize, just fertilize once.
Speaker 2: So put out like the fifteen to five to ten
Speaker 2: with the trimac for example, if you're if you love
Speaker 2: those night Foss products and they do work very well,
Speaker 2: and then use the barricade as their pre emergent and
Speaker 2: then that way you've covered the weeds that are cool
Speaker 2: season that you see now, and you're shutting them down
Speaker 2: for they go to seed, and then you're preventing the
Speaker 2: warm season weeds that are going to be sprouting very
Speaker 2: soon from coming up. Okay, got you. Hey, I appreciate
Speaker 2: you guy.
Speaker 3: You're a big help.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 2: Thanks, appreciate your Kyle to take care alrighty our phone
Speaker 2: number seven one three two one two kt r H
Speaker 2: seven to one three two one two kt RH. We'll
Speaker 2: be happy to help you with whatever kinds of questions
Speaker 2: that you might have. There's a lot a lot of
Speaker 2: good things out there that we can be doing right now.
Speaker 2: I tell you you know, as I'm looking forward in
Speaker 2: this week, we're going to have that cool weather and
Speaker 2: I'm actually going to be getting together some seeds and
Speaker 2: doing some seeds starting indoors, because I don't want to
Speaker 2: go outside when it's you know, for below freezing and stuff.
Speaker 2: I mean, I could survive it, but i'd stay inside
Speaker 2: and get some of that done. Also, house plants, it's
Speaker 2: a good time to be taking care of those. But
Speaker 2: for me, it's going to be mainly seeds starting. I've
Speaker 2: got some seeds that are a little bit later. I
Speaker 2: hadn't gotten around to planning them, and we'll be doing
Speaker 2: that in the house as well. Now you've heard me
Speaker 2: talk about tree hugger sprinklers before, and if you have
Speaker 2: a tree that even when you've planted in the last
Speaker 2: five years or so, TreeHugger sprinklers are so I love
Speaker 2: this design. It's a little hinged sprinkler. Think of you
Speaker 2: open your put your thumbs together, and then make like
Speaker 2: a pac Man c shape with your hands, And that's
Speaker 2: just how it works. It just hinges right there where
Speaker 2: your thumbs come together, and it makes a circle around
Speaker 2: the tree. So when you look up to a garden hose,
Speaker 2: then you turn the hose on just enough to water
Speaker 2: the roots system that you want a water. So maybe
Speaker 2: you planted a tree this fall or this winter, maybe
Speaker 2: you're planting one this spring or even summer, especially in summer,
Speaker 2: you need a tree hugger. Hey, you just turn it
Speaker 2: on a little bit and you water enough to soak
Speaker 2: that root ball. After it's been in the ground for
Speaker 2: a year, or as it's going through its first year,
Speaker 2: you're gonna wet a larger area. You just turn on
Speaker 2: the water a little higher, I mean, and these things
Speaker 2: come in through sizes seven inch, eleven inch, and fifteen
Speaker 2: inch and they last. Rosarians love them because you know,
Speaker 2: you put them on a new rosebus and hey, February
Speaker 2: Valentine's I'm just saying it works really, really well. If
Speaker 2: I had a tree, even one that had been in
Speaker 2: the ground for ten or fifteen or more years, and
Speaker 2: we go this summer into a long hot dry spell,
Speaker 2: you don't have to turn on your water all the
Speaker 2: time to water your trees. You can put that tree
Speaker 2: hugger under there and do a rescue treatment and water
Speaker 2: the area beneath the branch spread and that's a rescue
Speaker 2: treatment for your trees. So it helps a very expensive
Speaker 2: component of your landscape to survive. So you're not buying
Speaker 2: a new tree or to grow faster, so you're not
Speaker 2: going you know, I bought this tree. I want a
Speaker 2: beautiful shade tree, and it's just sitting there, Well, was
Speaker 2: sitting there because it's struggling for water and survive. It
Speaker 2: may live, but it's not thriving. With tree hugger, they
Speaker 2: can and you can get tree huggers at D and
Speaker 2: D feed up in Tumble you can get them at
Speaker 2: League City feed down in League City, Enchanted Gardens and
Speaker 2: Chanted Forests both carry those out there r CW Nurseries
Speaker 2: as the tree Hugger sprinkler, as does Warren Southern Gardens
Speaker 2: and Kingwood Gardens out in Kingwood Arbor gate Way up
Speaker 2: and tom Ball there and Nelson, I say Nelson water
Speaker 2: Garden and Katie they have not there as well. Spring
Speaker 2: Creek feed up toward Magnolia direction. It's easy to find
Speaker 2: them Southwest Fertilizers, Sinkle ranch Ace, Katie A's k and
Speaker 2: m a s and a task Asda task aseda A's
Speaker 2: and fulshiare ace. Just lots of places. So in other words,
Speaker 2: you're going to find one, but you need to get
Speaker 2: it when you're not using it. Just hang it up
Speaker 2: on the garage. It'll be there for you. But I'll
Speaker 2: tell you this, if you have trees or shrubs, and
Speaker 2: especially if you've got young ones that you're gonna plan
Speaker 2: or haven't been planning very long, tree hugger is a
Speaker 2: way to save your money on that investment and get
Speaker 2: more out of it as well. I think that's a
Speaker 2: really cool design. If you can't tell I love those things,
Speaker 2: I think they think they work really really well. Did
Speaker 2: you know Microlife fertilizer is they're sixty four. That is
Speaker 2: the summer lawn fertilizer that we use when we start
Speaker 2: I say summer, we start it in spring. It's the
Speaker 2: number one selling organic fertilizer here in the Houston market
Speaker 2: and it's been around. Microlife products been around for over
Speaker 2: thirty five years. I was a little new to the party.
Speaker 2: I think it was about ten years ago that I
Speaker 2: began to use Microlife products myself. They're natural. They don't
Speaker 2: burn like a salt based could if you overdo as
Speaker 2: salt based fertilizer, Microlife is not going to burn. It's
Speaker 2: safe to use turf grass azalias. By the way. They
Speaker 2: have a fertilizer for azilias, for flowers, For vegetables, yes,
Speaker 2: they have fertilizers for those trees, shrubs, roses and things
Speaker 2: you can use in containers. I like their liquids. One
Speaker 2: of my favorite liquids for foliage plants is the Biomatrix.
Speaker 2: It's an orange label and it is an extra boost
Speaker 2: of nitrogen in the Biomatrix works really really well. Now
Speaker 2: you're going to find you're going to find Microlife forertilizers
Speaker 2: all over the place. If you want, you can go
Speaker 2: to Microlife Fertilizer dot com and see where all they're sold.
Speaker 2: But I can just tell you this Ace Hardware Store,
Speaker 2: Speed Store, Southwest Fertilizer, Our garden centers, mom and pop
Speaker 2: garden centers all over town and more carry the Microlife.
Speaker 2: Time for me to take a break and we'll be
Speaker 2: right back with our last segment of this hour. But
Speaker 2: we have plenty more to talk about, so stay tuned.
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Speaker 2: Say there you go, All right, welcome back to the garden line.
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Speaker 2: it out. Buchanans is well, first of all, it's just
Speaker 2: a fun place to go. Whenever I go into Buchanans,
Speaker 2: I just I find myself, let's just say, spending some
Speaker 2: time there, because you walk around and you see stuff.
Speaker 2: Then you got to look into u's like what is
Speaker 2: that plant? I haven't seen that plant before. You know,
Speaker 2: they specialize in natives, but they have everything, not just natives,
Speaker 2: but you know, I'm constantly seeing a plant like, well
Speaker 2: that's a new one. You know, if you're into house plants, tropicals,
Speaker 2: indoor tropicals and things, they got stuff you've never seen, like,
Speaker 2: for example, the Philodendron Colombia or the monstera esqualeto. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I hope I said that right, the amid drums, silver
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Speaker 2: huge and it's great. They got plenty of seeds on
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Speaker 2: comes to your gardens, they've got all the vegetables and
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Speaker 2: There's so much good educational material they're on eleventh Street
Speaker 2: in the Heights. And here's the website Buchanansplants dot com.
Speaker 2: Buchanans Plants dot com. I was visiting with some folks
Speaker 2: at a garden club on what day was that, That
Speaker 2: was Wednesday of this week, and we were talking about
Speaker 2: different things. One of the things that came up. Oh,
Speaker 2: actually I was talking with some folks at Ace hardware
Speaker 2: stores too. We were talking about compost top dressing and
Speaker 2: air rating and just you know, kind of getting some
Speaker 2: questions that are related to, Okay, what is it, why
Speaker 2: do you do it, how does it work well? Compost
Speaker 2: top dressing and air rating, I think should go hand
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Speaker 2: the folks at BnB turf Pros have that kind of machinery.
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Speaker 2: out to Kingwood again. We're going to talk to Woody
Speaker 2: this time. Hey Woody, Hey Skip.
Speaker 17: I called about a week ago and you had recommended
Speaker 17: a Nelson planting food product called Weedenator, and I found
Speaker 17: it at a place called Site one Landscape Supply in Humble.
Speaker 17: So I didn't know if your listeners wanted to, uh
Speaker 17: to to get that product, and that's where I found it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I had. I'd reached out and talked to Nelson,
Speaker 2: and that stuff's available at a lot of different areas.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: The spring has sprung on us and then the trucks
Speaker 2: are running and and uh so you know, if you'd
Speaker 2: been to a place and didn't find something, uh, talk
Speaker 2: to them and go back a week later, and they
Speaker 2: probably have it because they've been they've been getting that
Speaker 2: stuff out everywhere. But thanks for letting know. Yeah, Weedenators
Speaker 2: are great. A great product because it works in such
Speaker 2: unique ways. I think that's kind of cool. So did
Speaker 2: you get it down already?
Speaker 1: Are you?
Speaker 5: Are you?
Speaker 2: Is that still on the two do list?
Speaker 17: I was gonna wait on until next weekend after the freeze,
Speaker 17: so I was going to try.
Speaker 2: That, okay, all right, Well that's perfectly okay to do that,
Speaker 2: that's for sure.
Speaker 17: Well, we appreciate your show, and I hope you have
Speaker 17: a blessed day.
Speaker 2: All right, thank you, appreciate the call. You take care. Yeah,
Speaker 2: the Nelson that's been a popular product this year. I've
Speaker 2: gotten I don't know, lots of emails and phone calls
Speaker 2: too about folks looking for Nelson products, and they are
Speaker 2: widely available.
Speaker 18: You know.
Speaker 2: The the The other day, I was at a training
Speaker 2: and ran into Andy. Andy's from Medina. Medina is a
Speaker 2: product company that's been around since forever. They they first
Speaker 2: started sponsoring Guardenline before it was garden Line, when Dewey
Speaker 2: Compton had the show, and they've been sponsored. I think
Speaker 2: I'm probably the fifth host or so to speak, for
Speaker 2: a Medina. Their products work, that's why they're still around.
Speaker 2: That's why people like their products. You know, if it
Speaker 2: didn't work, people wouldn't use it. Medina has one call
Speaker 2: has to grow six twelve six, and we're in spring
Speaker 2: planting season. Then if you're going to get a woody
Speaker 2: ornamental on the ground, like a tree or a shrub
Speaker 2: or a woody vine, if you're putting a fruit tree in,
Speaker 2: if you're putting a rosebush in, if you're putting a
Speaker 2: bedding plants, flowers or herbs or tomatoes, whatever, Medina has
Speaker 2: to grow six twelve six is excellent for watering plants in.
Speaker 2: Now that doesn't mean that that's all it does. People
Speaker 2: use it as a folier feed. They use it as
Speaker 2: an ongoing feed for plants. But especially when you're putting
Speaker 2: that plant in, you want that root system to have
Speaker 2: everything it needs so the plant hits the ground running.
Speaker 2: And that's what medina does. Okay you The six twelve
Speaker 2: six has got high phosp is very important for good
Speaker 2: root growth, to have plenty of phosphors there in the soil.
Speaker 2: It also has seaweed extracts. It's got humate humic acid
Speaker 2: that improves soil structure and it helps improve nutrient uptake.
Speaker 2: It's got Medina soil activators stimulate biological activity. This is
Speaker 2: a concoction. Medina has to grow six twelve six plant food.
Speaker 2: It's got you covered on all your basis. So when
Speaker 2: you plant a plant, get some Medina has to grow
Speaker 2: six to six, Put it in a watering can, mix
Speaker 2: it according to the label concentration, and drench that root system.
Speaker 2: Then a week later, do it again, a week later,
Speaker 2: do it a third time. And by doing that, you'll
Speaker 2: give your plant the best chance of as I like
Speaker 2: to say, hit the ground running, give it the best
Speaker 2: start that it can get. And you're gonna find Medina
Speaker 2: products all over the place. You're gonna find them in
Speaker 2: these hardware stores. You're can find the Southwest Fertilizer. You
Speaker 2: can find them garden centers, our great independent garden centers
Speaker 2: have those. It feeds stores, Oh my gosh, beads stores
Speaker 2: carry Medina products. It's easy to find them. But the
Speaker 2: main thing is get out there and find them and
Speaker 2: get them on your shelfs. So whenever you need that,
Speaker 2: you just reach up there and you got it. Because
Speaker 2: you're planting year round, You're you're taking care of your
Speaker 2: plants year round, and you always want to have a
Speaker 2: supply of things on hand to help you have success. Well, gosh,
Speaker 2: this hour went kind of quick, as they usually do.
Speaker 2: We're gonna take a little break here in a minute,
Speaker 2: and I will be back with your calls. If you'd
Speaker 2: like to call during the break, that's a good way
Speaker 2: to get right up toward the front of the line.
Speaker 2: And that's seven one three two one two kt RH
Speaker 2: seven one three two one two KTRH. Will be glad
Speaker 2: to visit with you about the things that are of
Speaker 2: interest to you. And if you're some of the folks
Speaker 2: that have been emailing me this week with pictures and things,
Speaker 2: let's go ahead and knock those out too. We've got
Speaker 2: some interesting pictures that have come in. Be glad to
Speaker 2: help you have success with that. Don't forget that. My website,
Speaker 2: gardening with skip dot com contains the lawn schedule for mowing, watering, fertilizing,
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Speaker 7: Welcome to Katie r.
Speaker 9: H Garden Line with Skip Rictor's shows.
Speaker 1: Trim. You just watch him as we may give me
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Speaker 2: Alright, you all right, let's do this show. Let's talk gardening.
Speaker 2: We got a lot of gardening to talk right now,
Speaker 2: and we're gonna jump right in and do that.
Speaker 1: Have you.
Speaker 2: I was telling you about the watering device that I
Speaker 2: think is so cool for your trees because it helps
Speaker 2: that tree get its root systems established. I think you're
Speaker 2: probably remembering me talking about that. I think those are important,
Speaker 2: and because it's like an investment. It's an investment in
Speaker 2: the money that you've spent. It's cultree over sprinkler. There's
Speaker 2: another device though, it's called a three sixty tree stabilizer,
Speaker 2: and this is the same concept in terms of get
Speaker 2: one and take care of that new tree that you
Speaker 2: have instead of having to go out there and hammer
Speaker 2: tea posts in the ground three different directions. Get wires,
Speaker 2: get the little sections of hose or whatever, so the
Speaker 2: wire didn't cut into the tree, and you know, you
Speaker 2: create something now that you can trip over and it's
Speaker 2: just a pain in the neck. Why not just get
Speaker 2: a tree stabilizer. And here's why you should hammer tea
Speaker 2: post in the ground or put any kind of post.
Speaker 2: It doesn't have to be a tee. But they have
Speaker 2: a gadget that holds the teapot. It's about a two
Speaker 2: foot long arm that reaches out and the other side
Speaker 2: has a soft strap to hold onto your tree. Now,
Speaker 2: if you one is often enough to do that. But
Speaker 2: if you have a little bit larger tree and you
Speaker 2: know there's going to be more force of the wind
Speaker 2: on the leaves as the wind blows, you can do
Speaker 2: one from one angle and one from another, meaning like
Speaker 2: one's north south, one's east west, and that way you
Speaker 2: kind of hold it no matter which way the wind blows.
Speaker 2: These things last, and that soft strap allows the tree
Speaker 2: to move just a little bit, which is important. Movement
Speaker 2: helps create strength, strengthen the roots that are at the
Speaker 2: top that are bracing that trunk, strengthen the trunk itself,
Speaker 2: especially if it's a young tree that has a very
Speaker 2: very thin trunk. And three sixty tree stabilizers last forever.
Speaker 2: I mean you put them in your garage. They you know,
Speaker 2: anytime you plant a tree or an aghbor plant tree.
Speaker 2: It's a great little device and it works. You're gonna
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Speaker 20: All right, thanks for taking my call. I have raised
Speaker 20: beds with pansies and other flowers, and the pansies look
Speaker 20: like somebody took a pair of scissors and just cut them.
Speaker 20: It's only the pansies, not the other flowers. So do
Speaker 20: you know what that could be and what I need
Speaker 20: to do to treat that.
Speaker 2: So you're seeing a pansy pedal that looks like scissors
Speaker 2: cut through that pedal, is what you're talking about?
Speaker 20: Well, it's at the stem like it. It seems like
Speaker 20: they just cut the flower off.
Speaker 2: Oh, cut cut the whole so strange. Well, there are
Speaker 2: insects with chewing parts that are capable of that, beetles
Speaker 2: and caterpillars at this time of the year. You know,
Speaker 2: it could be either one. I'm just trying to think
Speaker 2: about it. But you see the flower lay in there, wilted, right,
Speaker 2: It's just it's not gone.
Speaker 20: Don't see the flower? Weird That's why it's so weird.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 20: I mean I've seen I've seen what what snails do,
Speaker 20: and but I've never and I've looked to see if
Speaker 20: there's any caterpillars or things like that, and I don't
Speaker 20: see anything.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, Well, if the flowers missing, then it wasn't
Speaker 2: a beatle or a caterpillar. I thought it was just
Speaker 2: cut off. So if the flowers missing, then we start
Speaker 2: to think, is there any way you might have deer
Speaker 2: in the area.
Speaker 20: No, no, no, no, no. I live in a gated
Speaker 20: community and it's off fence.
Speaker 21: In this in the city.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, well that would be a possible. I'm
Speaker 2: trying to think of what else would want to nip
Speaker 2: a flower off of a of a pansy. I can't
Speaker 2: think of it. I can't think of another critter that
Speaker 2: eats eats flowers like that off the top of my head.
Speaker 22: Strange.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, it is very strange. Huh that is that
Speaker 2: is strange. I don't know today. Yeah, well yeah, and
Speaker 2: I just don't know what would eat. I've never had
Speaker 2: someone describe this problem before, so anyway, that that is
Speaker 2: a stumper. I I can tell you things you might do,
Speaker 2: I don't know. I hate to send you out to
Speaker 2: buy and do things when we don't know for sure
Speaker 2: what's causing it. But there's a little motion activated sprinkler
Speaker 2: that when something comes around your plants, it comes on
Speaker 2: and like a little machine gun, strafes some with water
Speaker 2: for about eight seconds and then goes off. That would
Speaker 2: keep that would startle a lot of things that might
Speaker 2: be coming up doing that possibility. I don't think it's
Speaker 2: a I don't think it's an insect if the flower
Speaker 2: is truly gone, not just cut off.
Speaker 22: Okay, that's strange.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, it's got to be something time. All right. Well,
Speaker 2: now now you got me wondering, maybe you need to
Speaker 2: get you one of those wild game cameras like hunters
Speaker 2: use around a deer feeder and then you can watch
Speaker 2: the video. All right, Cherry, sorry I couldn't help you
Speaker 2: all that.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 2: That's all right, all right, bye bye. That is very interesting. Well,
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Speaker 2: Alrighty, alrighty, let's get back on guarden line.
Speaker 31: Here.
Speaker 2: We got things to talk about. The first thing I
Speaker 2: want to talk about is in Channy Gardens down on
Speaker 2: the Katie Bullsher side of Richmond. Hear me out here,
Speaker 2: hear this. I'm going to be there today from twelve
Speaker 2: to one thirty, and i hope you'll come out. I'm
Speaker 2: going to be giving a talk, first of all, on
Speaker 2: tips for making gardening less work. Now, who is not
Speaker 2: in favor of making gardening less work? I'll tell you
Speaker 2: about how to get more from your gardens with less
Speaker 2: sweat and ibuprofen. Yes, all of you north of forty
Speaker 2: I heard some amen's out there. I'll help you make
Speaker 2: your gardening easier, basically more productive, and certainly more fun.
Speaker 2: Remember that's one of the three most important things we
Speaker 2: do is have fun. We want it to be more productive.
Speaker 2: You know. We want to have a bountiful harvest, we
Speaker 2: want it to be beautiful, and we want to have
Speaker 2: fun doing it. And we're going to talk about all
Speaker 2: those things. We'll have a lot of fun in the
Speaker 2: process too. So if you know a lazy gardener, throw
Speaker 2: them in the car and bring them. We'll make their day.
Speaker 2: I'll cut down on their work. If you know somebody
Speaker 2: who is just enthusiastic, will come on out, bring them
Speaker 2: to I'll be there from twelve noon to one thirty today.
Speaker 2: Now you may look and see, well it may be
Speaker 2: starting to missed a little bit. That's okay. We're under
Speaker 2: a tent. There's no charge for this. Just come on
Speaker 2: out and we're going to have a good dry time
Speaker 2: out at Enchanted Gardens. And when you're out there you
Speaker 2: will find plenty of things to pick up. They are
Speaker 2: loaded with all kinds of plants. It's spring, of course,
Speaker 2: in Chenny gardens is load. They always stay stocked up
Speaker 2: on all kinds of things. If you haven't gotten your
Speaker 2: tomatoes yet, grab them today because I know it's gonna
Speaker 2: get a call. But take them home, start taking care
Speaker 2: of them. Bump them up to a bigger container if
Speaker 2: you want. But you got your selection at its best
Speaker 2: if you go out and get them early so you
Speaker 2: don't have to put them in the ground this week.
Speaker 2: Don't put him in the ground this week. Just put
Speaker 2: them in a container you can move in if you want.
Speaker 2: You move outside when they get a little sunshine. Come
Speaker 2: on out to in Chanty Gardens. I'm looking forward to
Speaker 2: seeing you out there. I hope you can make it again.
Speaker 2: It's on FM three fifty nine. FM three fifty nine
Speaker 2: Enchanted Gardens on the Katie Folscher side of Richmond. Let's
Speaker 2: head out now to League City and talk to Bill.
Speaker 2: Hey Bill, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 32: Hey, good morning, Skip, Thanks for taking the call. I
Speaker 32: have a pair of raised beds four feet by twenty
Speaker 32: five feet that are surrounded by pavers. I was turning
Speaker 32: some composts into the garden last weekend and I noted
Speaker 32: that it was covered with these one third to half
Speaker 32: inch spiral shell and I did a little Google search
Speaker 32: and it said these are white garden snails. The question,
Speaker 32: I have two questions for you. The first of those
Speaker 32: is what's the best way of controlling white garden scales.
Speaker 32: They were kind of all over where I had the
Speaker 32: p's planet, and I understand that they're particularly attracted to legos.
Speaker 2: Well, there are a couple of products. There are several
Speaker 2: products on the market for killing snails and slugs. The
Speaker 2: ones I like best are the iron based baits. There's
Speaker 2: one called slug O. I think there's also a slug
Speaker 2: O plus that has, in addition to the iron, some
Speaker 2: other kind of an insects side. That'll even a kill
Speaker 2: other kinds of little insects. But what happens is these
Speaker 2: snails come up and the bait looks good to them,
Speaker 2: and they eat it, and that excess amount of iron
Speaker 2: gives them a terminal case of constipation. So I'll just
Speaker 2: let you process that for a me. What a way
Speaker 2: to go. But that's how slugo baits and other iron
Speaker 2: fate baits work. But because it's just iron, you know,
Speaker 2: it's not like people that are more concerned about synthetic
Speaker 2: pesticides and things are especially fond of these. And they work,
Speaker 2: but you got to put them out in a good
Speaker 2: fresh quantity because you want the little critters to eat
Speaker 2: them and to get enough for it to be lethal.
Speaker 2: And so you need fresh bait and you need to
Speaker 2: put it out periodically.
Speaker 32: Okay, I had read that diatamacious earth is another option.
Speaker 18: What's your thought about D.
Speaker 2: I don't think it's practical technically. Well, D is basically
Speaker 2: like broken glass. So if you imagine if you had
Speaker 2: to walk barefoot through broken glass, that would that would
Speaker 2: cut you up and everything, and that's how it works,
Speaker 2: you know, with the slugs and snails and whatnot. But
Speaker 2: what happens is you get a few drops of rain
Speaker 2: or irrigation and it just sort of washes it around
Speaker 2: and it's not as effective. If you had a good dry,
Speaker 2: dusty environment, that would be fine. But I think the
Speaker 2: bait there's nothing wrong with doing de. I just don't
Speaker 2: think you're going to be fully happy unless you do
Speaker 2: it periodically to just try to keep fresh dee out there.
Speaker 32: Yeah, that was gonna be my question, because if you
Speaker 32: put it on the soil, then it's just going to
Speaker 32: wash into the soil. And if I put it on
Speaker 32: favors outside, then it doesn't necessarily work.
Speaker 24: On the snails.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so yeah, yeah, lego. The only other thing is,
Speaker 2: unfortunately those tails, those snails are too small. They're tiny,
Speaker 2: yes they are, and so you can't you can't make
Speaker 2: s cargo out of them. I guess you could, but
Speaker 2: you'd starve to death. All right, I probably will, thank you,
Speaker 2: all right, take care? All right, there you go. There,
Speaker 2: you got it. We love our feed source here on
Speaker 2: Garden Line and League City Feed done in League City,
Speaker 2: Texas is a great one. It's been around for forty years.
Speaker 2: Forty it's just that third generation of Thunderbergs that are
Speaker 2: running League City Feed. Grandpa built it over forty years
Speaker 2: ago in an Ochre patch, which I think is extra
Speaker 2: important because what can come out of Ochre patch is
Speaker 2: not a good thing. Right, So now you go down there.
Speaker 2: It's on Highway three, just a few blocks of south
Speaker 2: of Highway ninety six in League City and all those communities.
Speaker 2: You know, if you live in San Leon, if you
Speaker 2: live in Baycliff or Webster, Lamark or elkam Ino Reale,
Speaker 2: all through that area, Santa Fe, this is your hometown
Speaker 2: feed store. They are open. They are open until six
Speaker 2: Monday through Saturday, closed on Sunday. So if you're it's
Speaker 2: after work and you need to swing by and get
Speaker 2: some food for your chickens, or if you want to
Speaker 2: swing by and get some nitro phos fertilizer or azamite
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Speaker 2: food product or buy heirloom soil bags, They've got it
Speaker 2: and they're open till six, so you can do that.
Speaker 2: League City Feed two eight one eight three two sixteen
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Speaker 2: The weather I mentioned I was going to talk more
Speaker 2: about the weather, and I'm gonna do that right now.
Speaker 2: We are getting a really hard cold snap here midweek
Speaker 2: and depending on where you live. The last time I checked,
Speaker 2: and this is me looking at a weather app, so
Speaker 2: I'm definitely not a meteorologist. In fact, I have trouble
Speaker 2: saying the word. But when I look at it, it
Speaker 2: looks like Galveston's gonna be down around twenty five. Uh.
Speaker 2: And then excuse me, I'm sorry, yeah, twenty five. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's right. And then you get up and you start
Speaker 2: to get on the north side of Houston just a
Speaker 2: little bit. Uh in Tomball areas is twenty and then
Speaker 2: you know, it just kind of varies as you go
Speaker 2: north and south through there. Those of you that are
Speaker 2: up in college station, up in Conroe, Huntsville, Uh, some
Speaker 2: of those areas are going to be hitting the high
Speaker 2: teens with the cold. And it's gonna be cold several days,
Speaker 2: especially further north where it goes above freezing. But you know,
Speaker 2: one morning it drops I think it's Tuesday morning, maybe
Speaker 2: drops below anyway, this temperature comes up and then it
Speaker 2: drops way below and temperature comes up and it drops
Speaker 2: below freezing again. So you got several days there they're
Speaker 2: very cold. Now here's the concern I have. Our plants
Speaker 2: last week got the message from the weather that spring
Speaker 2: is on the way. Eighty degrees quite a bit of
Speaker 2: eighty degrees. Now you probably don't see buds now shooting
Speaker 2: out two inch shoots, but the dormancy started to break
Speaker 2: down in our plants because of that warm weather. So
Speaker 2: what would be an adequately dormant plant and very cold
Speaker 2: hearty whatever the species is as cold hearty as it's
Speaker 2: going to be as we get warm weather, it's like
Speaker 2: they start to wake up. And when they start to
Speaker 2: wake up and those juices start to flow, a good,
Speaker 2: hard cold spell will do way more damage than it
Speaker 2: would have had the plant been fully dormant. So I'm
Speaker 2: not driving all over town checking every plant and interviewing
Speaker 2: them and so on. This is a generalization I'm making,
Speaker 2: but I'm just saying that I would be a little
Speaker 2: more cautious about this cold for two reasons. Number one,
Speaker 2: it's very cold. Number two, it's coming after some warm
Speaker 2: weather as we move into what is spring as far
Speaker 2: south as we live down here. And also because of
Speaker 2: the number of days that it's going to be cold.
Speaker 2: So you know, it's one thing, a typical freeze here
Speaker 2: in our area. You know, about four am, it drops
Speaker 2: below freezing a little bit, and then by the time
Speaker 2: you know the sun comes starts to come up, we're
Speaker 2: already back above freezing. And so it's a very short
Speaker 2: duration of freezing conditions when you get that cold, and
Speaker 2: then you drop down below it, I think the chances
Speaker 2: of damage are greater. Now that is me giving you
Speaker 2: my best estimation based on plant principles. Okay, hopefully I'll
Speaker 2: be very wrong about that, but if you're going to
Speaker 2: cover plants, I would make sure you do get them covered.
Speaker 2: You hold whatever heat of the soil is in around
Speaker 2: the plant. So what happens on a cold night. Soil
Speaker 2: radiates heat up because the soil is much warmer than
Speaker 2: the air. And if you put a cover over the
Speaker 2: plant and drape it to the ground and seal it
Speaker 2: around the ground with rocks or stones or sticks or whatever,
Speaker 2: depending on how much wind you have, you may have
Speaker 2: to do a lot to hold that cover down. Then
Speaker 2: that warm air is trapped underneath there. It still gets
Speaker 2: cold under there, but not as cold, and you can
Speaker 2: make a lot of difference. If you have a plant
Speaker 2: that is very prone to cold damage, like citrus, most citrus,
Speaker 2: then definitely going to need some heat underneath there. And
Speaker 2: that's where we use the floodlight with the little aluminum
Speaker 2: fixtures clamb on fixtures. Point them down, don't point them
Speaker 2: at the plant. Point them down, not at the plant,
Speaker 2: and say that again, uh, because they get so hot
Speaker 2: that they can do damage themselves to the tissues of
Speaker 2: the plant. But have that heat rise up, so you
Speaker 2: shoot it at the ground, it warms up and the
Speaker 2: heat will rise up underneath there. And that makes a
Speaker 2: lot of difference if you've created dead air space. So
Speaker 2: the bigger the plant, the more dead air space, the
Speaker 2: more heat you're going to have to have. And I
Speaker 2: can't tell you, you know, as one hundred and fifty white
Speaker 2: bulb enough that got me through with a hibiscus, a
Speaker 2: tropical hibiscus, they got meat through the last breeze we had.
Speaker 2: One hundred and fifty white bulb did, but it was
Speaker 2: in a protected spot on the south side of the house,
Speaker 2: and I you know, it wasn't as bad. You get
Speaker 2: out there and you get a big old let's say,
Speaker 2: a satsuma orange or a myrlemon or a centrus orange
Speaker 2: tree of some sort. Now you've got a bigger area
Speaker 2: of air to keep warm, and it's going to take
Speaker 2: more heat to do that. So there's not a formula
Speaker 2: for saying how many bulbs do you need or when
Speaker 2: do you need to use a heat lamp, as opposed
Speaker 2: to just one hundred and fifty wive floodlight. The thing
Speaker 2: to remember though, is incandescent bulbs, not LED. Not LED
Speaker 2: LED does not produce the heat that we need. If
Speaker 2: you want more information, go to my website Gardening with
Speaker 2: Skip find the publication on protecting plants against frosts and freezes.
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Speaker 36: Hey, Jason, Hello, I've got a question skip about these
Speaker 36: little uh opposite of ladybugs.
Speaker 8: Are kind of orange and they get everywhere.
Speaker 22: Are they good for the garden or how do we
Speaker 22: get rid of if they're not?
Speaker 2: Okay? Well, without seeing a picture of it, I can't
Speaker 2: be sure, but I can tell you there's If they're orange,
Speaker 2: they are probably a lady beetle. There's many different types
Speaker 2: of lady beetles that have different markings and even different
Speaker 2: a little bit different size. The only other thing that
Speaker 2: comes to mind is a Colorado potato beetle, which love potatoes,
Speaker 2: but they're much bigger than a lady beetle. So I'm
Speaker 2: going to say about ninety percent sure you're talking about
Speaker 2: a lady beetle right now. They like to hibernate and
Speaker 2: typically they find their way into some protected spot to
Speaker 2: hibernate in the cool season. But you're seeing them outside.
Speaker 40: Right well that they're like get in the shed and
Speaker 40: they just thousands of them, and yeah about the spring summer,
Speaker 40: they're just laying everywhere.
Speaker 8: So yes, I do believe they hibernate.
Speaker 21: And they're about the size of.
Speaker 5: A pencil eriser on number.
Speaker 2: Two, Okay, that it's probably a species called the Harmonia
Speaker 2: lady beetle. It's got the lady beetle markings on its back,
Speaker 2: but in between its back and its head, if you
Speaker 2: look at that little section it's called the thorax, between
Speaker 2: the head and the back, you'll see big white splotches
Speaker 2: and maybe they're in the shape of a capital M.
Speaker 2: That's the harmonia. Now, it doesn't really matter which one
Speaker 2: it is. That's just one that is very vigorous. It's
Speaker 2: a great predator in our gardens. But some people even
Speaker 2: talk about that they will they will bite you, and
Speaker 2: that can happen. They have they have little pinching mouth parts,
Speaker 2: biting mouthparts. So it's they're capable of that, but they're
Speaker 2: not out to get you. Where we run into problems
Speaker 2: with them is when they invade people's homes by the Brazilians.
Speaker 2: That that's a little bit of a mess. Yes, sir,
Speaker 2: I wouldn't I wouldn't recommend controlling Yeah, I wouldn't recommend
Speaker 2: controlling them.
Speaker 21: Okay, well, all righty, thank you for the answer my question.
Speaker 2: All right, sir, thank you appreciate the call very much.
Speaker 2: That is for sure. Jorges Hidden Gardens is down there
Speaker 2: in Alvin, Texas. It's just outside of Alvin. In fact,
Speaker 2: the address is Alvin. It's seventeen seven twenty one Elizabeth Street,
Speaker 2: and he is. It just keeps growing down there. I mean,
Speaker 2: he's got a good supply of all kinds of plants.
Speaker 2: He's gonna always have good fruit tree selection. He's going
Speaker 2: to have roses, you know, like Peggy Martin's some beautiful
Speaker 2: roses hanging baskets, you know, herbs and vegetables and other things.
Speaker 2: Right now, he has an excellent supply of citrus. So
Speaker 2: if you're looking for a satsuma or a regular type
Speaker 2: of orange, a grapefruit, a mere lemon, even a variegated
Speaker 2: lemon variety. He's got that down there, along with all
Speaker 2: those great veggies that need to be going in your garden.
Speaker 2: That's at Orges Hidden Gardens on Elizabeth Street and Alvin.
Speaker 2: It's easy to find, it's easy to get in and out,
Speaker 2: and you're going to find some really good things when
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Speaker 2: Let me go now to Cove, Texas, and we're going
Speaker 2: to talk to Rufus.
Speaker 9: Hey, Rufus, I'm question my technique.
Speaker 3: If I killed this that it grows on the side
Speaker 3: of our tree limbs and stuff.
Speaker 6: It's a great thing.
Speaker 24: It's a real greeny green.
Speaker 3: I thought I killed that stuff, but apparently it could resistant.
Speaker 2: That is a that is some it's called lichen l
Speaker 2: A c H E N and it's not a disease
Speaker 2: of the plant, but it's often associated with declining plants.
Speaker 2: So people think, well, it's killing my limb, but actually
Speaker 2: the limb is declining and the canopy of the tree
Speaker 2: is opening up, you know, less folded shading at those branches,
Speaker 2: and you just get more like and growth there there
Speaker 2: is There are a couple of copper based products out
Speaker 2: there that will suppress the liking. It'll just keep coming
Speaker 2: back because it's kind of like mold and mildew. When
Speaker 2: the conditions are right, they're going to show up. You know,
Speaker 2: algae on a brick. If you keep that brick wet,
Speaker 2: it's going to grow algae on it.
Speaker 24: I mean the other day I walked by there and
Speaker 24: I went that thing is limey, darky green in places,
Speaker 24: and is like it's growing up killed this stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it grows back, Yeah, it grows back. Just
Speaker 2: know that it's not a diseasier plant. That's the good news.
Speaker 2: It's not a diseasier plant.
Speaker 3: Well, which is the one that they've been spraying for
Speaker 3: to keep from sucking life out of trees. Other than mill.
Speaker 2: Pope there, mistletoe's the only thing that sucks the life
Speaker 2: out of the tree. Ball moss, Spanish moss, and lichens.
Speaker 2: They are not they are not living off of the
Speaker 2: sap of the tree. Because you'll see lichens on fence
Speaker 2: posts and rocks.
Speaker 3: Okay, so okay.
Speaker 2: Alright, all right, good luck with it. But they absolutely are.
Speaker 2: I love them. I love watching them eat. Aphan's thanks, Rufus.
Speaker 2: Appreciate your call very much. That is for sure. As
Speaker 2: a mite is a mineral supplement that I talk about
Speaker 2: all the time, because your soil needs trace minerals and
Speaker 2: adequate supplies to support plant growth, whether that plant is
Speaker 2: a lawn grass or that plant is a tomato plant.
Speaker 2: If it's a plant, it needs trace minerals. And asamite
Speaker 2: comes in bags where you spread it out, it doesn't
Speaker 2: take much. It's a trace mineral. This isn't something you're
Speaker 2: dumping a ton of it on there. You're putting a
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Speaker 2: a little bit does not mean it is not every
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Speaker 2: you hear me talk about fertilizers for the lawn, and
Speaker 2: that's the big numbers. Typically well, asamite is a trace
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Speaker 2: do you put it out? Where? You can put it
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Speaker 2: look at my gardening schedule, you will notice that there
Speaker 2: is an optional early fertilization. It's called the early green
Speaker 2: up fertilization. If you want to get your lawn showing
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Speaker 2: because it works. It's in a red orange bag. So okay,
Speaker 2: hear me this make it easy. Look at the colors
Speaker 2: of the bag. Nitrofos Imperial fifteen five to ten red
Speaker 2: orange bag. It's tried and true for our soils, for
Speaker 2: our climate, for our turf species that we have here.
Speaker 2: It is very helpful and it comes in veri in
Speaker 2: types with different kinds of weed control also in it,
Speaker 2: so you have an option there as to how you
Speaker 2: go about it. But you're going to find Nitrofoss Imperial
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Speaker 2: Out in Rosenberg has it. Ace Hardware City and Memorial
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Speaker 2: I was just talking at them a minute ago. Highway
Speaker 2: two forty nine Nitrofoss Imperial and by the way, also
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Speaker 2: Don't delay. It's time to get that done. Don't delay.
Speaker 2: All right, We're gonna go out to the phones now
Speaker 2: and head to pair Land and talk to Sharon. Hey, Sharon,
Speaker 2: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 23: Hey Skip, thanks for taking my call. I am calling
Speaker 23: because the day of the rain I put down the barricade,
Speaker 23: and as it turns out, we received about four inches
Speaker 23: of rain. So I'm wanting to know if the barricade
Speaker 23: was just washed away, and we need to reply.
Speaker 2: Barricade is one of the best pre emergents for sticking
Speaker 2: to the soil. You know, there's some others out there,
Speaker 2: dethiopeas and other ingredients and sold in dimension and stuff.
Speaker 2: That stuff will pick up and wash away more readily
Speaker 2: than barricade will. Barricade is made to stick to the
Speaker 2: soil because if it doesn't stick up at the top,
Speaker 2: it's not going to control the wheat seeds that are
Speaker 2: sprouting up there. So it's designed to stick to the soil.
Speaker 2: I think you're going to be okay, and I would
Speaker 2: hate for you to go back and do another barricading,
Speaker 2: because when you start doubling up on on pesticide issue ingredients,
Speaker 2: you can run into some problems. So let's let's I'm
Speaker 2: gonna I'm gonna flip the coin and say, I'm pretty
Speaker 2: sure you're fine on the barricade. I would rather it
Speaker 2: hadn't rained four inches on it, but uh, I don't
Speaker 2: think I would. I would redo it at this point.
Speaker 23: Okay, Okay, So I can just spot sweet maybe with
Speaker 23: the Captain Jackson areas where the weeds get.
Speaker 2: Right, if you see some weeds that pop up, you
Speaker 2: can do that. I just don't think you're going to
Speaker 2: have to, but i'd be curious to hear from you
Speaker 2: how that works. If you've got a good application of
Speaker 2: barricade out, I'd like to hear how that goes. So anyway,
Speaker 2: that's my best shot on that one.
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Speaker 2: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 3: Hey, good morning.
Speaker 22: I took your advice a while back concerning a large premia.
Speaker 22: It stands about seven feet tall. I'll pull it out
Speaker 22: of the ground and hung it upside down in the garage.
Speaker 22: It's got a large rootball to it, and I've never
Speaker 22: had a area this size before. Okay, a month or
Speaker 22: so from now, when I get ready to plant it,
Speaker 22: do I plant it with that rootball still on it?
Speaker 22: Or do I cut it home?
Speaker 6: Or what do I do?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: You can, you can. You can put those roots back
Speaker 2: in the ground. Some of them are going to be
Speaker 2: driving dead on the outside, but it should be fine.
Speaker 2: It's gonna even if you plant dead roots where the
Speaker 2: new roots are going to come out of, it'll still
Speaker 2: come out and root just fine.
Speaker 22: Okay, is there a temperature I'm looking for for our planet?
Speaker 2: They like warm weather? Yeah, they like warm weather. And uh,
Speaker 2: we probably have some listeners from the Plumbaria Society. If
Speaker 2: one of our Plumerius Society leaders would like to call in,
Speaker 2: I would love to visit with them about that too.
Speaker 2: But it's not a matter of, you know, is it
Speaker 2: going to get cold damage, It's a matter of is
Speaker 2: it even going to want to be in that temperature?
Speaker 2: You know, So you're down in the forties, Plumaria is
Speaker 2: not very happy out there in the garden. So I
Speaker 2: would let it warm up really good before putting it out.
Speaker 22: Okay, yeah, no, no, Rush, Well, I appreciate.
Speaker 2: It, Thank you very much, all right, Larry, Thanks Thanks
Speaker 2: for the call. I appreciate that a lot as well.
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Speaker 44: You can tell I really needed to you, all right,
Speaker 44: your help. There was a wonderful arborist, Martin spoon Moore
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Speaker 2: Thank you? You bet so, Jonathan. We'll pick it up
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Speaker 45: Hello Marie, Well, Skip, thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 23: Skip.
Speaker 8: I have a question.
Speaker 45: I'm trying to decide whether to go ahead and apply
Speaker 45: the barricade today and let the rain water it in,
Speaker 45: and then later follow up with the nitro false weed
Speaker 45: and feed with Trimac fifteen five ten the teal colored.
Speaker 46: Bag, or.
Speaker 45: Switch instead to the Imperial fifteen five to ten. In
Speaker 45: other words, would I be overdoing it? Got weeds?
Speaker 2: Let's okay?
Speaker 8: Body else?
Speaker 2: Well, the barricade and the nitroposs fifteen five to ten
Speaker 2: with trimac are going after two different kinds of weed situations.
Speaker 2: The trimac is going after the weeds that are right
Speaker 2: now in your lawn. The barricade is stopping and preventing
Speaker 2: the weeds that will come up later, and you'll see
Speaker 2: them later. So I would do the barricade now we're
Speaker 2: going to get some rain. And from what I'm seeing,
Speaker 2: it's not a gully washer. You might check the weather
Speaker 2: in your area make sure, but in most of the
Speaker 2: areas I was looking at yesterday, it looked like it's
Speaker 2: not just a gully washer, and it'd be perfect for
Speaker 2: getting that barricade washed in. I think I would wait
Speaker 2: until you could do the trimac and the fertilizer now
Speaker 2: if you would like, that's the early green up. But
Speaker 2: we can do early greenups all the way into March too,
Speaker 2: So I might hold off a little bit. Let's get
Speaker 2: through the cold, let it warm up, and let those
Speaker 2: weeds get a little more active in terms of they
Speaker 2: like the weather. And then wet the weeds and put
Speaker 2: the trimac fifteen five to ten with trimac from nitrofoss
Speaker 2: put it on them and the wet the wet wheat. Yeah,
Speaker 2: the wet weeds is it sticks to them and you
Speaker 2: need it to the trimec to stick to them. And
Speaker 2: so I would do it then. I think you're going
Speaker 2: to get a little bit better results if you did
Speaker 2: it now, it would be just fine. You still are
Speaker 2: going to get results. I just I would do the
Speaker 2: barricade now, get it watered in, let's get through the
Speaker 2: rain we're about to have and it's not going to
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Speaker 8: Awesome.
Speaker 45: I will follow your recommendations and do the trimach in March.
Speaker 2: Then all right, much, Well, you bet. And when I
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Speaker 2: All right, folks, welcome back to your garden line up.
Speaker 2: Good to have you with us. We are here to
Speaker 2: answer your gardening questions at seven one three two one
Speaker 2: two k t R eight seven one three two one
Speaker 2: two k t r H. Now, if you've listened to
Speaker 2: me on guardenline much, you know that I have in
Speaker 2: the last few years become a bird enthusiast a back yard.
Speaker 2: But I'm not the guy with the safari hat in
Speaker 2: the shorts, you know, walking around binoculars all over creation
Speaker 2: in the woods. Although that's fun, I hear, I want
Speaker 2: them in my backyard, and boy does it change your backyard.
Speaker 2: The music of birds, just the color of birds, the
Speaker 2: antics of birds. I love watching them in the backyard.
Speaker 2: And you get your quality feeder. You get quality feed
Speaker 2: and you will have birds. If you build it, they
Speaker 2: will come. And Wildbird's Unlimited is the place you go
Speaker 2: to build it. Essentially, they have a wide variety of feeders,
Speaker 2: A wide variety of bird houses. And by the way,
Speaker 2: it's time to get the purple Martin houses out there.
Speaker 2: The scouts are going, hey, where's my house? Get it
Speaker 2: out there, or they're gonna find somebolace else to live.
Speaker 2: Get them in your backyard. And wildbirds has quality products
Speaker 2: on that quality feed. One of the cool things that
Speaker 2: they have is called bark butter. So think about a
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Speaker 2: peanut butter. All right. Bark butter can be smeared on trees.
Speaker 2: You can smear it on your you know, if your
Speaker 2: husband's knapping out in the yard, you can just smear
Speaker 2: it on him. The birds will come. One hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty different species of birds have been documented on bark butter.
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Speaker 2: bits with dried mealworms. Right now, the birds in your
Speaker 2: yard are hearing this as you listen to this, and
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Speaker 2: but if they can bark butter bits with dried meal worms.
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Speaker 2: because it's packed with energy and fats. My birds like it.
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Speaker 2: cardinals and other birds as well. It's got just a
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Speaker 2: You can put cardinal confetti in any kind of feeder.
Speaker 2: But they also have a good evening cardinal feeder, which
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Speaker 2: thing is just do it and then get ready to
Speaker 2: make a cup of coffee early in the morning. Go
Speaker 2: out and sit on your patio and just enjoy. I'm
Speaker 2: going to head out to Houston. Now we're going to
Speaker 2: talk to Helen. Hey, Helen, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 48: Hiks, skip this came.
Speaker 18: You came through quicker than.
Speaker 48: The guy telling me you would. So I have Okay,
Speaker 48: I have a picture of a Japanese maple and I
Speaker 48: wanted to send it to you and see if it okay. No,
Speaker 48: it looks like it needs some help. Some of the
Speaker 48: leaves are browning and some have fallen off.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, in the Japanese maple is a deciduous plant,
Speaker 2: so it's normal for the leaves to fall off in
Speaker 2: the in the winter season. When you're saying browning, are
Speaker 2: they browning starting at those little points the tips of
Speaker 2: the leaves? Yes, Okay, that it could be that your
Speaker 2: tree is just, you know, experiencing what they do when
Speaker 2: it when it comes into cold weather in the wintertime.
Speaker 2: But tip die back on a Japanese maple is sometimes
Speaker 2: not always, but sometimes related to a little bit of
Speaker 2: dry soil conditions or to burn from excessive salt based fertilizer,
Speaker 2: or just the stresses of summer where you know, it
Speaker 2: gets hot and it's hard to keep up, and sometimes
Speaker 2: you'll see that little tip burn on Japanese maples, and
Speaker 2: it just means the bottom line is something's wrong in
Speaker 2: the plumbing. The plumbing can't keep up with the water
Speaker 2: flow on hot days, or there's not enough water for
Speaker 2: the roots to take up to be able to keep up,
Speaker 2: or or something along those lines. A little bit of
Speaker 2: it is. Okay, you don't want all the leaves to
Speaker 2: fry though, that's for sure.
Speaker 48: Okay. I just sent the picture of it, so I
Speaker 48: hope you get that. This Japanese maple. I got it
Speaker 48: at Cornelia's and it was it's just a beautiful tree.
Speaker 6: I just love them.
Speaker 48: But I wanted to put it in a pot, so
Speaker 48: that's what we did. And does that have any effect
Speaker 48: on it? Would it be happier?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 2: Okay? I got you, I got your photo. I got
Speaker 2: your photo. So first of all, that is a lot
Speaker 2: of tree for that size pot. I think I would
Speaker 2: if you could move it up to twice that wide
Speaker 2: of a pot, it will be happier. You can grow
Speaker 2: it for a while in there, but you're gonna have
Speaker 2: to water it very very frequently when the weather warms
Speaker 2: up and the new growth comes out. I don't think
Speaker 2: that's dead. I think it'll be back, but time will
Speaker 2: tell on that. But what that kind of leaf drop
Speaker 2: in the periphery and hanging on to some leaves in
Speaker 2: the interior. That's kind of that in and of itself,
Speaker 2: does not look like you have a problem yet on
Speaker 2: that plant. But the pot is really small, and the
Speaker 2: only water that tree can get is that little bit
Speaker 2: of water in that small pot, And so I think
Speaker 2: you need to bump it up to I double the
Speaker 2: size if you could. Okay, okay, well we can do it.
Speaker 24: Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: I appreciate your looking at it, you bet Helen. And
Speaker 2: remember Japanese maple and our hot climate. If you can
Speaker 2: give it some morning sun and afternoon shade, it'll be
Speaker 2: very happy. Or a very bright dapple shade for a
Speaker 2: part of the day is good. But just don't don't
Speaker 2: let it be in too much sun.
Speaker 21: Okay, it's it's as soon as our patio.
Speaker 2: So alrighty, so all right nearby? So it does it
Speaker 2: all right, Helen? Well, thank you alrighty, you take care. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Japanese maples are so pretty and we're just kind of
Speaker 2: south in their rain. They will grow here, you can.
Speaker 2: I've seen some gorgeous Japanese maples in a Greater Houston area.
Speaker 2: But the number one thing that goes wrong is poor drainage,
Speaker 2: soggy roots, or or droughty conditions or especially just the hot,
Speaker 2: blazing sun. And not all varieties of Japanese maple are
Speaker 2: equally suited. Some do better than others. That's why I
Speaker 2: tell you go to your independent garden centers where they
Speaker 2: know what they're talking about, uh and visit with them
Speaker 2: about Japanese maple and they can put the right one
Speaker 2: in your hands if you would like. I like to
Speaker 2: be able to do that. All righty, Well, let's see
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Speaker 2: rh oh. I had a question that came in earlier.
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Speaker 2: year they get in this rose list that is like
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Speaker 2: Go buy RCW if you just go to their website. Okay,
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Speaker 2: arrive over at RCW. That is the case. Let's head
Speaker 2: out to Katie. Now we're going to talk to Scott. Hey, Scott,
Speaker 2: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 3: Hey, good morning.
Speaker 18: Quick question for you. You know how in the master
Speaker 18: planning communities, all of the yards are built to kind
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Speaker 18: the drainage all occurs out to the street, so it
Speaker 18: stays very very wet. You know, you drive it during
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Speaker 18: if I wanted to plant ahead, you're shrubbery kind of
Speaker 18: boundary between the yards and that very wet area. Is
Speaker 18: there anything that would work there?
Speaker 2: That's a good question. I would think that southern rox
Speaker 2: myrtle would do okay as long as it wasn't totally
Speaker 2: submerged for long, long periods of time. But those grow
Speaker 2: native out in our area, and we get a lot
Speaker 2: of rain in our area, and we have clay soils
Speaker 2: in our area. Yopon may do pretty good in that
Speaker 2: spot too. I'm trying to think what one if you've
Speaker 2: got a lot of room. Button bush loves to live
Speaker 2: on a river bed bank. Button bush is a native,
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Speaker 2: that looks like a dandelion seedhead. You know what backing about,
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Speaker 2: like that that tower up there. But it gets big,
Speaker 2: so it may be too big for what you're trying
Speaker 2: to accomplish right there. But those will be a few.
Speaker 2: But go to a you know, go to a good
Speaker 2: quality garden center and see what they carry. I guarantee
Speaker 2: you a Nelson Water Gardens and nursery adding Katie where
Speaker 2: you are that they're going to have some really good
Speaker 2: options for UH swamp tolerant plants.
Speaker 18: And is there is there anything you could do under it,
Speaker 18: like you know, I dig down deeper and put in
Speaker 18: some small pebbles to allow you know, a lower blow
Speaker 18: of water or something of that. Making right, It.
Speaker 2: Doesn't help to put gravelly stuff down in a trench
Speaker 2: because think of an aquarium, aquarium's whole water. Gravel in
Speaker 2: the bottom accomplishes nothing in an aquarium. But you can
Speaker 2: put a pipe down in a trench with gravel around it,
Speaker 2: and the water seeps into the pipe and it's like
Speaker 2: a backward septic system and then it has to slope
Speaker 2: off to the curb a lower area where it can
Speaker 2: drain away. So depending on the rules where you live there,
Speaker 2: that's called a French drain, and you can do you
Speaker 2: could do a French drain like that.
Speaker 6: That way.
Speaker 2: All right, folks, welcome back to guard Line. We are
Speaker 2: glad to have you with us and talking all kinds
Speaker 2: of things. Gardening. I mentioned talking to my a minute ago.
Speaker 2: Spring green up time is here. If you want to
Speaker 2: do the early spring green up, you can do that now,
Speaker 2: and that is on my schedule. That is an optional.
Speaker 2: It's like you have to do that. Our primary summer
Speaker 2: fertilization starts in April here in our area, but a
Speaker 2: lot of folks like to get a little early green up,
Speaker 2: and Nitrophos has an awesome product for that. It's Nitroposs Imperial.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: Imperial comes in a red orange bag, kind of reddish
Speaker 2: orange bag. It's a fifteen to five ten fertilizer. It
Speaker 2: takes about seven pounds per thousand square feet to do
Speaker 2: what you need to do at this time of the year.
Speaker 2: It's going to release those nutrients quickly. That's what helps
Speaker 2: get you the quick spring greenup. It doesn't make your
Speaker 2: grass take off growing instantly, but it does develop green
Speaker 2: collar and then the temperature worms just a little bit.
Speaker 2: You're going to see a significant growth response because of it.
Speaker 2: As a product's been around a long time. That kind
Speaker 2: of ratio of nutrient was researched about Texas and m
Speaker 2: years ago. It's long since been known as what you
Speaker 2: need when you're going to fertilize lawns in our area.
Speaker 2: The grasses we grow here are the soils we have here.
Speaker 2: Now you're going to find it. An enchanted forest out
Speaker 2: in Richmond Rosenberg at Ace Hardware, Sinkle Ranch, allspas Ace
Speaker 2: and the Woodlands has it. Or you can go up
Speaker 2: to Arborgate a garden center in Tumble and find it
Speaker 2: there as well. That is nitrofoss Imperial fifteen five ten.
Speaker 2: And while you're there, just go ahead and grab you
Speaker 2: some nitrofross barricade, which is the pre emergent that prevents
Speaker 2: the warm season weeds from ever showing up. You put
Speaker 2: it down, you water it in with a half inch
Speaker 2: of water, and you never see the weeds. That's how
Speaker 2: it works. Excuse me, no a scratchy throat today, So
Speaker 2: I don't need that. Not when you're in the radio.
Speaker 2: I'm going to talk for four hours. But anyway, hey,
Speaker 2: in chenned Forest Garden Center is down in Richmond Rosenberg.
Speaker 2: And if you are in let's say you're in Richmond Rosenberg,
Speaker 2: you're heading towards sugar Land. Enchanted forest is the garden
Speaker 2: center that it is off to the right, Okay, off
Speaker 2: to the right, if you're going up Highway fifty nine
Speaker 2: in that direction. Now, I love going to that place.
Speaker 2: There is always something going on. There, always something going
Speaker 2: on at Enchanted Forest, and the selection that they have
Speaker 2: is just amazing. It is time to be getting your
Speaker 2: vegetable gardens in at least by the plants. Get those
Speaker 2: plants so that when you do want to get out
Speaker 2: there and plant them, you're ready to go. That's important.
Speaker 2: You want to be able to have the selection that's best,
Speaker 2: and now's the time you get the selection that's best.
Speaker 2: So while you're out there, they have some really cool
Speaker 2: plants for indoor plants. There's some great gifts and things
Speaker 2: that are excellent for Valentine's Day, Valentine's Day? What was
Speaker 2: I about to say? There for Valentine's Day? And they
Speaker 2: also have a beautiful selection of other kinds of gifts
Speaker 2: that you're going to love and people on your list
Speaker 2: are going to love them too. Now they've got a
Speaker 2: crate gardening for kids. Krate gardening for kids. It's like
Speaker 2: using a crate, like the old milk crate kind of things,
Speaker 2: and you can grow in that. You get some burlap liner,
Speaker 2: put some good growing mix in there, and you can
Speaker 2: do it. Just go by there and ask about that, Okay,
Speaker 2: ask about the crate gardening and how kids can learn
Speaker 2: to do that. It's kind of fun. Their selection of
Speaker 2: tomatoes and everything else is just unbelievable, it really is.
Speaker 2: It's just outstanding, outstanding, as well as hanging baskets, Oh
Speaker 2: my gosh, so beautiful. But it's that way all the
Speaker 2: time you go out there. It's that way all the
Speaker 2: time at Enchanted Forest out in the Richmond Rosenberg area.
Speaker 2: So give them, give them a call, check them out.
Speaker 2: It is on FM twenty seven fifty nine outside of
Speaker 2: Richmond Rosenberg Highway or FM twenty seven fifty nine. You
Speaker 2: are listening to garden Line and the phone number here
Speaker 2: is seven one three two one two Ktright seven one
Speaker 2: three two one two kt r H. Scott had called
Speaker 2: earlier and I was talking about some drainage issues, you know,
Speaker 2: between the two houses at wet Spot, and I mentioned
Speaker 2: that Peerscapes was a company that could do that. And
Speaker 2: because Peerscapes is a company that can't do anything, I mean,
Speaker 2: I mean it stuff. If you want your landscape to
Speaker 2: be prettier, if you want your plants to do better,
Speaker 2: if you need to do any kinds of stuff to
Speaker 2: the landscape, so that can happen Pierscapes can do it.
Speaker 2: They do designs, so they can design a beautiful bit
Speaker 2: a beautiful landscape. They can do the whole nine yards
Speaker 2: if you want. They can do irrigation repairs and making
Speaker 2: sure that it is properly functioning, which you're gonna need
Speaker 2: it here pretty soon when it eats up. They do
Speaker 2: landscape lighting that is just incredible, the landscape light. Go
Speaker 2: online to their website piercescapes dot com, piercescapes dot com
Speaker 2: look at pictures of the landscape lighting that they do.
Speaker 2: But they also do drainage. So that area like I
Speaker 2: was talking about, you know between the houses, both houses
Speaker 2: slope down, it's always wet right there. What can we
Speaker 2: do well, talk to them about it and they can.
Speaker 2: They can also put in that French drain that we
Speaker 2: were talking about, which basically is an underground pipe that
Speaker 2: the excess water leaks into and drains off to a
Speaker 2: lower spot. Makes it easy. Here's the number two eight
Speaker 2: one three seven oh fifty sixty two eight one three
Speaker 2: seven oh fifty sixty or piercescapes dot com listening to
Speaker 2: garden line If you'd like to give me a call
Speaker 2: and ask a gardening question. We are happy to do that.
Speaker 2: In fact, I'm I love it best when we get
Speaker 2: to talk about the things you were interested in. I
Speaker 2: certainly have plenty of things I'm interested in. So that's
Speaker 2: what I'm gonna do right this moment. Remember, it's gonna
Speaker 2: get cold this week. Is going to get very cold
Speaker 2: this week. For those of you down in Galveston area,
Speaker 2: the last time I checked, twenty five. For those of
Speaker 2: you up in a Tomball area, probably twenty. And as
Speaker 2: you go north to Conroe and what College Station, Huntsville,
Speaker 2: going further and further north up, it just gets colder
Speaker 2: and colder to where you're done in the teens. It's
Speaker 2: going to be a cold that followed an eighty degree week.
Speaker 2: We had a number of days where it was in
Speaker 2: the eighties. And our plants that are dormant, when they
Speaker 2: have that kind of weather, they go, hey, let's quit
Speaker 2: being dormant, let's get ready to do some growing. And
Speaker 2: as they move out of dormance, they're more susceptible to cold.
Speaker 2: So a plant that could have taken cold three weeks
Speaker 2: ago takes less cold now. And I don't know how
Speaker 2: to quantify it as to how much less I can't
Speaker 2: give you a temperature, even if you gave me the
Speaker 2: plant exactly the temperature and stuff. But just know this
Speaker 2: that you need to be extra careful in protecting those
Speaker 2: plants this week. If it's a plant that comes up
Speaker 2: like a perennial out of the ground, protect the base.
Speaker 2: If it's a citrus tree, mound some soil, yes, you're
Speaker 2: gonna hear me say this, a volcano mound it up
Speaker 2: around the base of the trunk. So if it gets
Speaker 2: killed back, at least you'll have some of the graft
Speaker 2: union that can reach sprout and put you back in
Speaker 2: a tree or a bush real quick. You need to
Speaker 2: cover plants and seal the air so you create dead
Speaker 2: air space. So I'm covered that goes all the way
Speaker 2: over the plant. It's all in my publication on my website.
Speaker 2: I'm protecting plants against frosts and freezes and then some
Speaker 2: source of heat underneath that's pointing down towards the soil
Speaker 2: that and rises up and makes a big difference if
Speaker 2: you have prevented air movement underneath that cover. If you
Speaker 2: want to put a support over the cover, all you
Speaker 2: got to do is I like to use bent pieces
Speaker 2: of PVC pipe just you know, make a little igloo
Speaker 2: by having PVC going over north south and another in
Speaker 2: east west and so on. However you want to go
Speaker 2: about it, doesn't matter how you go about it. The
Speaker 2: key is create some dead airspace, put some heat underneath it,
Speaker 2: and get your plants through what we're about to go
Speaker 2: through this week. All right, time for me to take
Speaker 2: a break. I'll be right back with your calls in
Speaker 2: just a moment. All right, folks, we're back. Welcome back
Speaker 2: to garden Line. Glad you're with us. By the way,
Speaker 2: you hear me talk about Texas Gardener all the time.
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Speaker 2: going to be doing their free tomato event. They speakers
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Speaker 2: and things. You know how it is with tomatoes. I
Speaker 2: mean that's a there's a wing of the Betty Ford
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Speaker 2: about that. So they'll be they'll have some Bloody Mary's
Speaker 2: and mocktail bar and tomato basil souper lunch and it'll
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Speaker 2: r H gives caull we'll talk about the things that
Speaker 2: are most of interest to you.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: I had a question come in.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: Let's see, this was from Cindy, and it was earlier
Speaker 2: and we we had we weren't able to do the
Speaker 2: call on the air, so I'm just going to talk
Speaker 2: about it right now. Cindy sent me a couple of
Speaker 2: citrus leaves, and the leaves are turned upside down, and
Speaker 2: on the bottom of the leaves are lots of little
Speaker 2: white specks that look kind of fluffy, flaky, and then
Speaker 2: there's a lot of little black city spots in there.
Speaker 2: What that is is scale, Cindy. Uh. And if you've
Speaker 2: got cetrus and you turn the leaves over and you
Speaker 2: see stuff stuck to the bottom of the leaves. Now,
Speaker 2: sometimes aphits can be feeding on a plant. You know,
Speaker 2: there's certainly mealy bugs that can feed on plants, and
Speaker 2: white flies that'll be under the leaves. But scale was
Speaker 2: one of the most common ones on centrus. The simplest,
Speaker 2: least toxic way to control scale is with a dormant
Speaker 2: oil spray or a summer oil spray. You mix it
Speaker 2: according to the label. Don't spray it on a hot
Speaker 2: sunny day. But now'd be a fine time to do it.
Speaker 2: As we come out of spring or out of winter
Speaker 2: into spring, that's a very susceptible time for scale because
Speaker 2: the weather's warming, their respiration is increasing. But you got
Speaker 2: to coat the leaves with the scale spray with the oil.
Speaker 2: That means the undersides, especially of the leaves, need to
Speaker 2: be one hundred percent sprayed with oil. Because any scale
Speaker 2: that you don't cover with oil, it doesn't kill. It's
Speaker 2: a smothering thing. And so just do your sprays like
Speaker 2: that and thatt of work. There are also systemics in
Speaker 2: scale that are sucking juices out of the plant. When
Speaker 2: you put a systemic in the soil, it goes up
Speaker 2: in the plant and the scale or the insects that
Speaker 2: are doing that kind of feeding, they get that poison
Speaker 2: in them and it kills them that way. So that's
Speaker 2: another op. I like the oil options my first shot.
Speaker 2: You can use any kind of an oil. It could
Speaker 2: be neam oil, it could be summer oil, it could
Speaker 2: be a dorm and oil that's mixed according to the label.
Speaker 8: Rate.
Speaker 2: Be very careful when you use oil. But Cindy that
Speaker 2: that is what you got and that is what you
Speaker 2: can do about it. One of my favorite garden centers
Speaker 2: to go visit is Moss Nursery down in Seabrook. They
Speaker 2: are on Toddville Road down in Seabrook, and all of
Speaker 2: you down south and east of town they probably been
Speaker 2: to Moss one hundred times. But it is not just
Speaker 2: another garden center. This place is eight acres. For seventy years,
Speaker 2: this has been a family owned garden center for everything
Speaker 2: you need on landscapes, gardens, your indoor homescapes. Their houseplant
Speaker 2: greenhouse is incredible. Recently they got in a bunch of
Speaker 2: shipments of small cactus and succulents as well. They got
Speaker 2: lots of hanging baskets and right now the place is
Speaker 2: just loaded with trays of vegetables and herbs and flowers
Speaker 2: and everything you can imagine.
Speaker 7: And when you're in there in the you know, in
Speaker 7: the main.
Speaker 2: Barn where they do the check out and everything, you're
Speaker 2: going to see some of Jim's whimsical t shirt art.
Speaker 2: The eyeball plant that's something he created and it is
Speaker 2: really cool. If you get one of those, no one
Speaker 2: else you know who's going to have one. They're really special.
Speaker 2: They have all kinds of cool merchandise in there. They
Speaker 2: also had a good load of Japanese maples. We were
Speaker 2: talking earlier about you need to get good Japanese maples
Speaker 2: that are going to do well here and treat them right.
Speaker 2: You go into Moss Nursery and they're going to sell
Speaker 2: you one that will do well here, and they're going
Speaker 2: to tell you how to grow it. I've been in
Speaker 2: there visiting with employees, and you know, it's like master gardeners,
Speaker 2: people that have gardened forever that are the employees. They
Speaker 2: know what they're doing because it's a fun place to work.
Speaker 2: Moss Nursery, Toddville Road, Seabrook, Texas website, Maas nursery dot com.
Speaker 2: The phone number two eight one four seven four twenty
Speaker 2: four eighty eight. Alrighty our phone number seven one three
Speaker 2: two one two kt r H if you would like
Speaker 2: to give me a call seven one three two one
Speaker 2: two kt r H. Now I spend every garden Line
Speaker 2: show trying to convince you to take care of your
Speaker 2: soil and to fix the soil before you put the
Speaker 2: plants in the way I put it is brown stuff
Speaker 2: before green stuff. The one stop shop for bronz stuff
Speaker 2: for all of you down south of Houston is cn Maltch.
Speaker 2: Cinmultch is near the Highway six and two eighty eight area.
Speaker 2: It's on FM five twenty one FM five twenty one.
Speaker 2: Just do this, just write down the website cnmulch dot com,
Speaker 2: cnmulch dot com. It's a one stop shop. They've got
Speaker 2: your special soil blends like for example, they've got the
Speaker 2: Erlam Soils, Veggie Nerve Mix, and many many other options. Uh,
Speaker 2: they've got the mulches that you need. If you just
Speaker 2: want to buy compost, you can get just compost from them.
Speaker 2: They deliver bulk within about twenty miles for a small fee.
Speaker 2: Or you can just go by there and pick it up.
Speaker 2: But when you're in there, what else do you need
Speaker 2: for the brown stuff? You need fertilizer like microlife, azemite, Nelson,
Speaker 2: turf star, nitrofoss. They in Medina, they've got that. And
Speaker 2: so when you walk out of sea Inamaltz, or when
Speaker 2: you have them delivered, or when you go pick it
Speaker 2: up or whatever, you have everything you need to set
Speaker 2: the foundation for success with the plants you're going to grow.
Speaker 2: Don't PLoP an unprepared plant, a pooral plant, and an
Speaker 2: unprepared plot. Fix the soil, plant the plant then and
Speaker 2: everyone will think you have a green thumb, because remember,
Speaker 2: a green thumb is just an informed thumb. You're not
Speaker 2: born with a green or brown thumb. Your thumb is
Speaker 2: either knows how to take care of plants and what
Speaker 2: plants want, or it doesn't. You inform that thumb and
Speaker 2: suddenly everything grows. And I'm informing your thumb right now
Speaker 2: that soil first, soil first, drainage, nutrient content, good oxygen,
Speaker 2: good internal drainage, cenemulch does all that. That's the tip
Speaker 2: of the day. I don't know what else to say
Speaker 2: about it. That is the case. Hey, guess where I'm
Speaker 2: going to be after the show today at twelve noon,
Speaker 2: Not right after the show, but at twelve noon, I'm
Speaker 2: going to be at Enchanted Gardens down in the Richmond
Speaker 2: Rosenberg area on the Katie Fullscher side of Richmond. They're
Speaker 2: out on FM three point fifty nine, So if you're
Speaker 2: coming from a distance, come on out. I've been in
Speaker 2: Channed Gardens before. Talk to people that are from Austin, Texas.
Speaker 2: They heard about it and they drove all the way over.
Speaker 2: It's that kind of garden center. I want to be
Speaker 2: talking about tips for making gardening less work, giving away
Speaker 2: some pre samples from the folks at Medina, and answering
Speaker 2: your gardening questions.
Speaker 9: Welcome to KTRH Garden Line with Skimp Richt's.
Speaker 1: Just watch him as a world.
Speaker 21: A s.
Speaker 2: All right, folks, we're back. Welcome back to garden Line.
Speaker 2: Let's talk about the things that are most of interest
Speaker 2: to you. What kind of questions do you have? How
Speaker 2: do we help you have a bountiful garden and a
Speaker 2: beautiful landscape. That is what we're trying to do here.
Speaker 2: One way is to put you in touch with the
Speaker 2: kind of products that are going to help you achieve
Speaker 2: just that. You know, for example, Nelson Plant Foods turf
Speaker 2: Star Weedenator. Turf Star Weedenator is a really unique products,
Speaker 2: not your typical wheed and feed.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 2: They have a turf growth regulator in there. If you're
Speaker 2: grass rather than growing up vertically and your momo mo
Speaker 2: in it, it slows that and promotes the side growth
Speaker 2: where you're getting good fill, but you're not mown as much.
Speaker 2: That is how that regular works.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: It has a post emergent herbicide. So you've got to
Speaker 2: get the weeds wet and the grass turnal sprinkler just
Speaker 2: enough to wet the leaves and then put the weed
Speaker 2: inator out. It sticks to the leaves, It sticks to
Speaker 2: the leaves and soaks into those tissues and after a
Speaker 2: couple of days you're watered into the soil where it
Speaker 2: will continue to do what it does. Then it's going
Speaker 2: to start releasing these nutrients. You're going to get certain
Speaker 2: kinds of nitrogen early on to stimulate stimulate a little
Speaker 2: bit of the early growth, but also the weed growth
Speaker 2: because you want that weeds to be very happy and
Speaker 2: growing that way. When they take up the nutrient or
Speaker 2: the herbicide, it does even better. Then as the soul
Speaker 2: warms up, a different kind of nitrogen comes out, and
Speaker 2: then finally there's a very slow released type of nitrogen
Speaker 2: that will release even later down the line, so it
Speaker 2: lasts up the six months. Turfstar Weedenator is like a
Speaker 2: one shot stop, a one shot I can't even say
Speaker 2: the words. You do it one time. It gives you
Speaker 2: a lot of benefits for a period of time, and
Speaker 2: it's one of the great products in the turf Star
Speaker 2: line from the folks at Nelson Fertilizer. Again, widely available
Speaker 2: throughout the greater Houston area. I'm just talking to him earlier,
Speaker 2: and boy, they've been shipping that stuff out and it's
Speaker 2: showing up in a lot of our places. So you'll
Speaker 2: to be able to find it. We're going to go
Speaker 2: to Houston now and talk to Jed. Hey, Jed, welcome
Speaker 2: to Garden Line.
Speaker 46: Hey you boy.
Speaker 21: See, I've got buddy of mine brought back date from
Speaker 21: Saudi Arabia and I ate him and they were also
Speaker 21: the tasty, so I decided to plan a few of them.
Speaker 21: I've got a handful of bait Paul now, but I'm
Speaker 21: afraid they're going to die and the occasional freeze. Is
Speaker 21: there anything I can do to try to promote success
Speaker 21: with these trees?
Speaker 2: Well, are they in containers or they're growing in the ground.
Speaker 21: Yeah, right now, they're still growing a container. So when
Speaker 21: it gets cold like and bring them in. But probably
Speaker 21: by next year they're going to outgrow their five yellow buckets.
Speaker 2: I've got them in okay, yeah, just uh just bring them,
Speaker 2: bring them in when it's cold. Once they're in the ground,
Speaker 2: date palm is not very cold hearty. And with you
Speaker 2: you're somewhere in the Houston area, so you're going to
Speaker 2: have occasional winters where you're gonna need to protect the
Speaker 2: top bud on top of the trunk of the date palm.
Speaker 2: That's the part most susceptible to cold damage.
Speaker 21: Oh okay, just wrap that up in a sheet or
Speaker 21: something and best again and hope for the bed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well yeah, and just do a little searching online.
Speaker 2: But but you're protecting the trunk, but especially that top bud,
Speaker 2: that's the living bud that all the new growth has
Speaker 2: to come out of. It's it's right on top of
Speaker 2: the trunk. Uh, And so you know, see how far
Speaker 2: you can you can get along of them there. You know,
Speaker 2: it's a long process to go from seeds to a
Speaker 2: productive fruiting plant, so I know you're doing it for fun,
Speaker 2: but it just do the best you can to keep
Speaker 2: them going through those really hard coal spells. All right, sir.
Speaker 21: I'm three years in already, and I know it's gonna
Speaker 21: be a long road, so I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, sir, you take care. Thanks for Carl.
Speaker 2: It's a lot of fun to try out new things
Speaker 2: and stuff, isn't it. Spring Creek Feed is a feed
Speaker 2: store up there in the Tambol area toward Magnolia. So
Speaker 2: it's on It's on FM twenty nine seventy eight, just
Speaker 2: minutes away from Grand Parkway and Highway two forty nine
Speaker 2: up again Magnolia direction. All right, So they're going to
Speaker 2: have when you go in there, they're gonna have those
Speaker 2: products you hear me talk about. I'm talking about nitrophos
Speaker 2: I'm talking about microlife, I'm talking about turf sto. They
Speaker 2: carry all that. They have, things to control weeds, things
Speaker 2: to control diseases, to control insects. Real friendly folks there too,
Speaker 2: very courteous, very friendly. It will be a pleasure for
Speaker 2: you to do that now if you are, if you
Speaker 2: are wanting to have backyard chickens, they are starting to
Speaker 2: get their chick deliveries in. So they got some last Thursday,
Speaker 2: next Thursday, February twenty. If they're going to get in
Speaker 2: white leghorns and wyandotts, some orpington's, some olive eggar. Isn't
Speaker 2: that a weird name? Olive egg and some speaking of
Speaker 2: weird name, black ostralorp I don't even know what that is,
Speaker 2: and I used to raise chicken. Anyway, They're going to
Speaker 2: get a lot of different ones in. They have the supplies.
Speaker 2: They've got the feeders, the waterers, the heaters, everything you
Speaker 2: need to have success at Spring Creek feed Now they
Speaker 2: do delivery. They will special order some products. And if
Speaker 2: you're senior, citizen, military, or a four h f FA
Speaker 2: or excuse me, four h or ffa youth raising livestock,
Speaker 2: they are special discounts for all those groups there as well.
Speaker 2: Let's head out now to We're going to go to
Speaker 2: bel Air and talk to Michelle. Hey, Michelle, welcome to
Speaker 2: garden Line.
Speaker 49: Hey, Skip, good morning. This question concerns the soil leftover
Speaker 49: when you use fire ant bait. I love Bengal. But
Speaker 49: it's not organic and I had fire ants in my
Speaker 49: vegetable garden.
Speaker 18: Uh huh.
Speaker 2: And how long ago did you put that out?
Speaker 49: I put it out a couple of weeks ago, and
Speaker 49: should have called you at the time because I can't
Speaker 49: really see which soil has those white particles in them.
Speaker 49: But in general, what do we do with the contaminated soil?
Speaker 2: Well, I wouldn't, I wouldn't, you know, just assume that
Speaker 2: it like you got to get rid of the soil
Speaker 2: or whatnot. It is, there is a synthetic pyrethroide in that,
Speaker 2: and it is somewhat persistent, but it is not made
Speaker 2: to be taken up by the plants. It's not a
Speaker 2: systemic Now, if you were going to grow lettuce on it,
Speaker 2: where the dirt splashing on the leaves and things, well okay,
Speaker 2: I could see a concern there. But in general, it
Speaker 2: doesn't last forever, and in time it breaks down. It
Speaker 2: depends on the soil temperatures and moisture levels and sunlight
Speaker 2: exposure and other things as to how long it would last.
Speaker 2: But if it's just other kinds of plants and things,
Speaker 2: I wouldn't worry about growing them there.
Speaker 49: At all Thank you sir.
Speaker 2: All right, you take care nice for the call. Bye.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that you know, with chemicals and those sort of things,
Speaker 2: it is good to ask because there are bazillion kinds
Speaker 2: with a bazillion variations and how long they last, and
Speaker 2: a bazillion other factors like does a plant even take
Speaker 2: it up or not? So that's good question. We're gonna
Speaker 2: take a break here. I'll be right back, Bruce. You'll
Speaker 2: be our first step. It does a blast from the past.
Speaker 2: All right, welcome back to Guardline. Good have you with us. Listen.
Speaker 2: I want to tell you about a place that I
Speaker 2: haven't talked about before here on Guardline, and that is
Speaker 2: Growers Outlet up there in Willis. The Growers Outlet is
Speaker 2: a it's on Highway seventy five. Highway seventy five and Willis,
Speaker 2: you know, just off to the to the east of
Speaker 2: forty five, just minutes away from forty five. Services all
Speaker 2: the Lake Conroe area, all those communities out there from
Speaker 2: you know, Bentwater, a prisound so on. It services the
Speaker 2: woodlands too, by the way, not too far drive for
Speaker 2: you up in Willis, Texas. They carry fertilizers like micro
Speaker 2: life and nitrofoss and medina products for example, good selection
Speaker 2: of vegetables, bedding plants, lots and lots of perennials. By
Speaker 2: the way, you need to go to their website. The
Speaker 2: website is very, very helpful. It is Growers Outlet in Willis.
Speaker 2: That's the website Growers Outlet in Willis dot com. You'll
Speaker 2: find there a list of their plants, like if you
Speaker 2: want a fragrant plant, you click on plants, click on fragrant.
Speaker 2: You get a whole list of them. If you're looking
Speaker 2: for ornamental grasses or things that attract birds and bees
Speaker 2: and butterflies or whatever, they got you covered. They also
Speaker 2: have a really good selection by the way of local honey.
Speaker 2: It's very impressed, oppressive in the little kind of a
Speaker 2: gift shop area that they have inside. When you go there,
Speaker 2: you're going to find that you can both purchase things there,
Speaker 2: you can purchase them online for picking up as well veggies.
Speaker 2: Every Wednesday evening they update the veggie list, so it
Speaker 2: is an ongoing up to date list. Take some gorgeous
Speaker 2: huge hanging baskets. Last time I was up there, I
Speaker 2: was very impressed with the little greenhouse areas they do
Speaker 2: their own grown in products like geraniums of urbinas and
Speaker 2: certain other kind of plants right there in the own
Speaker 2: greenhouse they grown right there. And again that gift shop,
Speaker 2: you got to go see it now. If you go
Speaker 2: to Growers Outlet in Wellist dot com, that's the website.
Speaker 2: They are on Highway seventy five, just a few minutes
Speaker 2: from forty five up in the Willis area. Or you
Speaker 2: can follow them on social media. They've got a nice
Speaker 2: little Instagram presence and they have a nice little Facebook
Speaker 2: presence for Growers Outlet. Go check them out and you'll
Speaker 2: see what I'm talking about. Good selection, excellent. We're going
Speaker 2: to go now to Southwest Houston and talk to Bruce. Hey, Bruce,
Speaker 2: Welcome to Guardline.
Speaker 24: Hi Skip, enjoying the show.
Speaker 46: I've got some newly planted asparagus plants. I put one
Speaker 46: each in a five gallon bucket and they've been planted
Speaker 46: just about two weeks. I've already got shoots coming up.
Speaker 46: Do I need to protect them from the freeze or
Speaker 46: they go be okay?
Speaker 2: You know, let's see you are in Southwest Houston, You're
Speaker 2: probably okay. But since their young plants, if you want
Speaker 2: to put a little sheet or anything over them, just
Speaker 2: to kind of hole a little of a warmth. And
Speaker 2: how tall are the shoots that are on them?
Speaker 46: One of them is about six inches tall, the other
Speaker 46: ones are about an inch.
Speaker 2: Inch and a half. Yeah, they'd be really easy just
Speaker 2: to throw something over that plant. How many plants do
Speaker 2: you have?
Speaker 8: Four?
Speaker 2: Do you have a number of plants or just a few?
Speaker 46: I have four plants. I put one each in the
Speaker 46: five gallon in a five gallon container.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, Well, with where you're located, you're kind of
Speaker 2: on the line. I think probably you're looking at about
Speaker 2: twenty three degrees for the coldest this week. And I'm
Speaker 2: not a weather predictor. I'm just reading what's on the apps,
Speaker 2: and so that's getting a little colder than i'd like.
Speaker 2: I'd throw a little co okay, all right, right, smart enough,
Speaker 2: but didn't do the work.
Speaker 46: But it didn't have to.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, sorry, okay, all right, you take care now, Bruce.
Speaker 2: The real lo On Garden line is my advice is free.
Speaker 2: But I do ask you to bring me half of
Speaker 2: the produce that occurs because I gave you good advice.
Speaker 2: So just bring half the asparagus to the station and
Speaker 2: we'll call it even okay, Hey, I'm okay with that.
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Speaker 2: I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we're here. We are here.
Speaker 2: I'm here to help you have a bountiful garden, a
Speaker 2: beautiful landscape, and more fun in the process. That's how
Speaker 2: I like to put it. And speaking of that today
Speaker 2: after the show at twelve noon, not right after the show,
Speaker 2: but from twelve noon to one point thirty, I'm going
Speaker 2: to be an enchanted Gardens in Richmond Rosenberg area, just
Speaker 2: north of Richmond Rosenberg toward Katie Katie fullsher Side on
Speaker 2: FM three fifty nine. I'm going to be giving a
Speaker 2: talk on tips for making gardening less work. So I'm
Speaker 2: trying to help you have a garden that's easier to
Speaker 2: take care of, that's more productive, and that's more fun.
Speaker 2: My subtitle for tips for making gardening less work is
Speaker 2: how to get more from your gardens with less sweat
Speaker 2: and less ibuprofen. So that's what we're going to do.
Speaker 2: We have some fun in the process too. Hey, bring
Speaker 2: me samples, put them in a plastic bag. Do you
Speaker 2: have a bug, do you have a weed? Maybe you
Speaker 2: have a picture on your phone. We'll take a look
Speaker 2: at it. Well. You know, as they say that doctors in,
Speaker 2: I'm not a doctor, but I'm in. I'll be there answering, diagnosing,
Speaker 2: identifying whatever you want. So I'll be giving the talk
Speaker 2: for a while and then I'm gonna stick around and
Speaker 2: answer gardening questions. Bring an empty vehicle because they have
Speaker 2: plenty that you need to load up on out there
Speaker 2: at Enchanted Gardens just north of Richmond Rosenberg on FM
Speaker 2: three fifty nine, again twelve to one. Come on out there.
Speaker 2: I love going out and meeting gardeners. That's one of
Speaker 2: my favorite things to do is visiting with gardeners. I
Speaker 2: guess I'm doing I'm in the right role here, right,
Speaker 2: answering questions on the air. I've been doing this for
Speaker 2: thirty five years as a professional horticulturist and answering questions
Speaker 2: for people that you know, we're trying to have success.
Speaker 2: I want you to have success. It is not rocket science.
Speaker 2: But can I tell you something. If you're a rocket
Speaker 2: scientist and you know all about it, it's not rocket
Speaker 2: science for you either, because you know about it. For
Speaker 2: those of us that aren't educated in rocket science, well yeah,
Speaker 2: it's rocket science, right. But gardening is the same way
Speaker 2: you learn about it, you get better, you try things,
Speaker 2: you kill plants. Listen, I'm giving you permission to kill plants.
Speaker 2: The important part of becoming a better horticulturist is killing plants.
Speaker 2: A guy named J. C. Ralston one of the best
Speaker 2: horticultures in the Southeastern United States in the past decades.
Speaker 2: He said that to be a good gardener, you have
Speaker 2: to kill a lot of plants. Well, it's okay to
Speaker 2: do that, but you learn every time you do it,
Speaker 2: and hopefully we can help you avoid even killing some
Speaker 2: of the plants. So that's why we're here, all right.
Speaker 2: I hope that makes sense. If you want to have success,
Speaker 2: you just need to learn what you're doing. The other
Speaker 2: thing you need is to be able to find the
Speaker 2: products that are going to work. You don't want to
Speaker 2: go ten different places trying to find some particular product
Speaker 2: that I talked about on guard Line or that you're
Speaker 2: heard about. Just go to Southwest Fertilizer Southwest Fertilizers on
Speaker 2: the corner of Bisnett and Renwick, and I tell you this,
Speaker 2: there is no place in this region that has as
Speaker 2: much options as Southwest Fertilizer. Do you need to buy fertilizer?
Speaker 2: I think they have somewhere between eighteen and two hundred
Speaker 2: thousand bazillion fertilizers as Southwest Fertilizer. Everything I talk about
Speaker 2: here on Guardline, they've got it everything. You'll never hear
Speaker 2: a product name come out of my mouth. For herbicides
Speaker 2: killing weeds, either preventing or killing existing weeds, for insecticides
Speaker 2: killing insects, or for fungicides fighting diseases, or for bacteria
Speaker 2: sides fighting bacteria. You'll never hear a name come out
Speaker 2: of my mouth that Bob doesn't have it Southwest Fertilizer,
Speaker 2: because he has it all the way I like to
Speaker 2: put it. If he didn't have it, you don't need it.
Speaker 2: And that's really true. Now they're celebrating their seventieth year
Speaker 2: down there on the corner of Bisnett and Runwick in
Speaker 2: Southwest Houston. Here's the phone number seven to one three
Speaker 2: six sixty six seventeen forty four. Go buy there and
Speaker 2: check it out. It is printing season. Go look at
Speaker 2: their Fellco, their Corona and the other quality brands that
Speaker 2: they carry. They have a ninety foot wall of gardening tools.
Speaker 2: If you want to build a weed wiper like you
Speaker 2: see on my website gardening with Skip dot com, a
Speaker 2: homemade weed wiper, Bob carries what you need to build
Speaker 2: it with. He carries a grabber tool that's the right
Speaker 2: kind to build the weedwiper. He carries the kneeling seat,
Speaker 2: the garden kneeling seat, and that is so helpful when
Speaker 2: you're getting up and down and up and down working
Speaker 2: in the garden all day. Go by and see him
Speaker 2: corner Bissonette and Renwick. He carries things like Microlife fertilizer,
Speaker 2: for example. Now Microlife saying saying he carries Microlife fertilizer
Speaker 2: is like you know, saying a car dealer carries automobiles.
Speaker 2: Which automobiles, what kinds Well, in the case of Bob,
Speaker 2: it's all the above. Do you need Microlife sixty four,
Speaker 2: the green bag, the one we use in the spring
Speaker 2: to fertilize our lawns. Do you Microlife Humates Plus. They've
Speaker 2: got that very good, very good for your well. You
Speaker 2: make the soil right, you make the plants happy, and
Speaker 2: that's true with turf. Microlife Humates Plus will do that.
Speaker 2: Do you need a liquid product? They have a wide
Speaker 2: range of liquid products, including the Ocean Harvest, which is
Speaker 2: a blue label. It's a four two three fish based
Speaker 2: fertilizer that really works. They have the Biomatrix that's the
Speaker 2: orange label. By the way, these coming gallons and in quartz.
Speaker 2: Biomatrix orange label is high. It's a seven to one
Speaker 2: to three, so it's higher in nitrogen. So all your
Speaker 2: foliage house plants, you need to use it for that,
Speaker 2: any kind of foliage plant especially. It works well with
Speaker 2: you want to give your tomato plants a boost as
Speaker 2: they get growing. Biomatrix that'll do that too, Just another
Speaker 2: one of the awesome products from the folks at Microlife.
Speaker 2: I was visiting with one of the guys at Microlife
Speaker 2: just this past week. We were there both doing some
Speaker 2: training for some folks and just talking about the products
Speaker 2: they have and what they've come out with. And it's
Speaker 2: always good. It's always good to see so many helpful
Speaker 2: options for people that are trying to have success with
Speaker 2: what they do. Well, you are listening to garden Line.
Speaker 2: I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we're going to take
Speaker 2: a little break here in just a bit. If you
Speaker 2: would like to get on the board and be one
Speaker 2: of the first ones up when we come back, Well,
Speaker 2: now's a good time to doll seven to one three
Speaker 2: two one two kt rh seven to one three two
Speaker 2: one two kt r H. I'm going to take a
Speaker 2: break here in just one second, and I hope that
Speaker 2: you will come out and see me today at Enchanted Gardens.
Speaker 2: I don't care where you live in town. You need
Speaker 2: to see Enchanted Gardens. It is a very nice nursery,
Speaker 2: a very nice nursery. You will be very surprised. Bring
Speaker 2: some friends with you. We're going to have fun. I
Speaker 2: promise you that. And even if it starts to miss
Speaker 2: a little bit, they've got it all set up in
Speaker 2: a tent, so you're gonna be high and dry and
Speaker 2: we're gonna have a good time. So don't worry about
Speaker 2: any of that. I'm asking the weather to hold off anyway.
Speaker 2: But come on out and see me at Enchanted Gardens
Speaker 2: from twelve to one. All right, time for me to go.
Speaker 2: I'll be right back. All right, folks, we're back. We
Speaker 2: are gonna jump straight out to the phones here and
Speaker 2: let's see. We're going to talk to Joanne. Joanne. Welcome
Speaker 2: to garden Line. Hey, Joanne, you there? All right, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna put Joanne on hold. I will come right back,
Speaker 2: but we're gonna move on and talk to Sandy. Hey,
Speaker 2: Sandy Southwest. Here's welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 49: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I have a question about potting soils.
Speaker 36: I've always for my raised bids, I've used the two
Speaker 36: parts of roast soil the one part of compost.
Speaker 2: Do I do the same when I'm going to use
Speaker 2: pots or do I do something different? Well, you could
Speaker 2: in a very large pot used like a roast soil
Speaker 2: compost blend. You could also use a veedgy nerve mix
Speaker 2: blend if you want to do in a large pot.
Speaker 2: Even though it says vegetables and herbs, you can do
Speaker 2: it for flo It works well for flowers too. Or
Speaker 2: you could if your pot wasn't very large, you could
Speaker 2: just go with more of a potting mix, you know,
Speaker 2: like you would use for indoor plants and things. That's
Speaker 2: another option. It's just when you get a real large pot,
Speaker 2: some of the potting mixes can be a little bit
Speaker 2: dense and over time not have the best internal drainage.
Speaker 2: And when they're in a pot outdoors it's very large.
Speaker 2: Either way though, you're going to be okay either way
Speaker 2: you want.
Speaker 18: To go about it.
Speaker 2: Okay, The goal is just not yeah, the goal, just
Speaker 2: real quick is sandy, is not to have a real
Speaker 2: chunky mix in a smaller pot where the water just
Speaker 2: runs through it and you don't have a good root
Speaker 2: zone of moisture contact with soul moisture. So that's why
Speaker 2: we go with the little finer textured as we get
Speaker 2: in smaller pots. Okay, Okay, thank you, thank you, ma'am.
Speaker 2: Appreciate the call for sure. I'll tell you what if
Speaker 2: you want to see some unbelievably beautiful plants. In terms,
Speaker 2: I'm talking about everything from you know, comellas and azalias
Speaker 2: and down to a cool season, color plants, warm seats,
Speaker 2: color plants, vegetables, herbs, fruit trees, fruit trees, berries and grapes.
Speaker 2: Extensive selection. You're going to find all that at Arburgate.
Speaker 2: Arborgate Garden Center. That's a garden center up there in
Speaker 2: Tombaal it's out on twenty nine to twenty, just west
Speaker 2: of Tombol. They always have a good selection. And right
Speaker 2: now by the way go to Arburgate. There's a lot
Speaker 2: of people love to go to Arburgate. You need to
Speaker 2: go around the back, go down Trischel Road. It goes,
Speaker 2: it leaves twenty nine to twenty, swings around behind Arburgate
Speaker 2: and comes back into twenty nine to twenty. So whether
Speaker 2: you're coming or going, you missed it or you haven't
Speaker 2: gotten there yet. Either way, you're going to come to
Speaker 2: a Trishel Road. Just take it around to the back.
Speaker 2: That parking lot is all weather and it is gorgeous,
Speaker 2: really really beautiful. I mean that it's one of the
Speaker 2: kinds that I'm going into details here, but it's a
Speaker 2: kind that has that internal drainage so it can rain rain, rain,
Speaker 2: and the water just goes right through it. I think
Speaker 2: that's pretty cool. Well, when you walk in check out
Speaker 2: the roses. Check out the roses. They have a rosehouse
Speaker 2: dedicated to Gay Hammond, one of our outstanding ros specialists
Speaker 2: here in the Houston area. And they are loaded up.
Speaker 2: And if you need to do Valentine shopping, you got
Speaker 2: it there. Or go into the plant Indoor Planthouse and
Speaker 2: look at some of the gorgeous plants. It would make
Speaker 2: an outstanding gift as well. The gift shops at Arburgate
Speaker 2: are always worth writing home about. While you're there, pick
Speaker 2: up their one two three completely easy system that's a
Speaker 2: soil for anything with roots that is a compost and
Speaker 2: the soil and the compost itself they contain a expanded shale.
Speaker 2: I just went blank a minute. Just think of think
Speaker 2: a kitty litter that's been dried to a very very
Speaker 2: hot temperature, so it's swollen up and it has all
Speaker 2: these pitted holes in it, like LoVa rock on a
Speaker 2: barbecue pt but little tiny particles. Well, that holds that
Speaker 2: clay soil open for a long time and it is
Speaker 2: the best single way I know to give you a
Speaker 2: long term benefit to a clay soil. And mixing it
Speaker 2: with compost is also good. That gives you additional benefits
Speaker 2: to it. But they have that at Arbrogate. They also
Speaker 2: have an organic fertilizer for anything with roots, and so
Speaker 2: go by there pick those three bags up. Remember brown
Speaker 2: stuff before green stuff. So go home with those three
Speaker 2: bags when you go home with the plain from one
Speaker 2: of the favorite garden centers to go visit in the
Speaker 2: whole Greater Houston area at the Arbor Gate. All right,
Speaker 2: we are going to head now up to Conroe and
Speaker 2: talk to David. Hello, David, welcome to garden Line. Good morning.
Speaker 28: I'm getting ready to put out some fertilizer, the fifteen
Speaker 28: five to ten fertilizer, and I'm thinking also about ariating,
Speaker 28: having you are ariated and putting composts down that I
Speaker 28: did that last year and it really helped the grass.
Speaker 28: Is there any reason I should not do those two together,
Speaker 28: the fertilizer. If you m the composting, you could.
Speaker 2: There's not a reason why you shouldn't. But if I
Speaker 2: were you, I would do the fifteen five to ten
Speaker 2: is a quick greenup from nitrofiss and I would do that.
Speaker 2: Anytime at the end of February, even into March is
Speaker 2: great for doing the early greenup, especially as you know,
Speaker 2: as we go each week of the month, hopefully it's
Speaker 2: getting a little warmer and the grass is a little
Speaker 2: more willing to get up and get moving for that
Speaker 2: early green up. The fifteen to five to ten would
Speaker 2: I would let that grass start to grow and then
Speaker 2: go ahead and do your compost top dressing and aeration.
Speaker 2: There's no reason you can't do it. But I would
Speaker 2: let the grass get growing a little bit and then
Speaker 2: follow that up with that compost. The aerration and compost
Speaker 2: top dressing, and that those through two different things. There
Speaker 2: is nutrients in the compost, but you're you're doing those
Speaker 2: two the aeration and top dressing. You're doing that to
Speaker 2: get oxygen down in the soil, to get organic matter
Speaker 2: down in the soil, to stimulate biological activity and just
Speaker 2: get that grassroots system really healthy.
Speaker 28: Okay, so that that should wait a little bit longer.
Speaker 28: I should wait a little bit longer on that until
Speaker 28: things really start to grow.
Speaker 2: I would, well, I would, because you're going to go
Speaker 2: ahead and do that that fertilization earlier on with that
Speaker 2: fifteen five to ten green release and get that going.
Speaker 2: If you needed to get them both done in March,
Speaker 2: you could. But if you wait a little bit and
Speaker 2: you're starting to mow the lawn, that is prime time,
Speaker 2: you know, forgetting the aerration done to and you're not
Speaker 2: going to miss a boat by waiting on that. You
Speaker 2: can do that anytime you want through this season. Thank you, sir.
Speaker 2: Appreciate it, all right, you bet, thank you. I appreciate
Speaker 2: your call. Alrighty, well, here's another break. So looks like
Speaker 2: we got our we got our fill of phone calls
Speaker 2: for the last segment coming up, and that would be
Speaker 2: Jim and Susan and Cody. You will be the first
Speaker 2: three and probably the only three up when we come
Speaker 2: back after the break. Look forward to talking to you. Alrighty,
Speaker 2: we're back. All right, we're in our last shot of
Speaker 2: the day here, folks. We're gonna knock it out. Well,
Speaker 2: before we went to break, while ago, we were talking
Speaker 2: about Nitrophoss's Imperial fifteen five to ten, the Orange Red Bag,
Speaker 2: and you know we're entering that season where we do
Speaker 2: the early greenup. If you want to do an early greenup,
Speaker 2: that's a perfect product for doing it. But right now
Speaker 2: is this window where we need to get the barricade down.
Speaker 2: If you're going to prevent weeds in your lawn, you
Speaker 2: put on the barricade, You water it in with a
Speaker 2: half inch of water, and when they try to sprout,
Speaker 2: the barricade is sitting up there like a barricade over
Speaker 2: the soil surface that prevents the weeds from ever establishing.
Speaker 2: You don't even see the weats because it takes care
Speaker 2: of them. Now, a ten pound bag is going to
Speaker 2: cover about five thousand square feet. It controls both broad
Speaker 2: leaf and grassy weeds. And I was doing someone earlier.
Speaker 2: It sticks to the soul very well, better than some
Speaker 2: other pre emergence. By the way, so if we do
Speaker 2: get a little bit of a gully washer rain, it's
Speaker 2: probably going to hang on a lot better than some
Speaker 2: of the others would and still be around afterwards. Now,
Speaker 2: you always want to follow the label. Do not if
Speaker 2: the label says a teaspoon on an insecticide, fungicide, herbicide,
Speaker 2: whatever side is. Then if the label says a teaspoon,
Speaker 2: don't put a tablespoon. You can cause damage with products
Speaker 2: that you overapply or misapply. There's a reason the label
Speaker 2: has a number. That number is what works with the
Speaker 2: greatest degree of safety in using any particular product. That's
Speaker 2: why they have labels on them. So do that. Now,
Speaker 2: where do you get barricade, Well, I'll give you the
Speaker 2: quick answer. It's everywhere. A little bit longer answer. You're
Speaker 2: going to find barricade at ingented gardens, which I'm going
Speaker 2: to be at today from twelve to one. Come on down,
Speaker 2: you get your barricade there. You can find it at
Speaker 2: Hide and Feed on I forty five North. And then
Speaker 2: there's a number of Fishers Hardware's. There's one in Pasadena,
Speaker 2: one in Laporte, one in my Bellevue. There's a Fisher's Hardware,
Speaker 2: and Baytown. They all carry barricade as well. And I'm
Speaker 2: just giving you examples of a few of the mini
Speaker 2: mini stores that carry nine to FOSS products. Well, let's
Speaker 2: see here. We are going to go and talk to
Speaker 2: Jim in Santa Fe. Hey, Jim, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 24: Yes, I have a question down fertilizer. Last week the
Speaker 24: fifty five ten the grass is starting to green out,
Speaker 24: and then I see we're going.
Speaker 3: To have a light freeze coming, and I also put.
Speaker 24: Down the pre emergent. Do I need to We got
Speaker 24: the rain after I put the fertilizer down, and the
Speaker 24: grass is starting to green up and grow. It needs
Speaker 24: to be mowed, but I'm going to wait until after
Speaker 24: the freeze to mow. Okay, And do do I need
Speaker 24: to water the grass to kind of protect it the
Speaker 24: new grass from the upcoming freeze coming up?
Speaker 2: Not to protect it from the freeze. But if there
Speaker 2: has not been rain or irrigation put on the ground
Speaker 2: on the grass since you put the barricade or the
Speaker 2: pre emerging out, then you do need to water it in.
Speaker 2: Go ahead and get that done. Or if you want
Speaker 2: to wait and see if rain's going to take care
Speaker 2: of it, you can do that either way, but don't
Speaker 2: mow until you've watered in the pre emergent.
Speaker 24: Yeah, and it rained after I put it down for
Speaker 24: like a day and a half, so we got a
Speaker 24: nice light brain.
Speaker 2: Oh so okay, all right?
Speaker 24: So also I redid my beads because we have a
Speaker 24: new house.
Speaker 3: I didn't like what the builder put in.
Speaker 24: I haven't put mulch down yet now I'm going to
Speaker 24: have to cover the plants for the breeze coming out.
Speaker 24: Do I need to get the munch down to help
Speaker 24: insulate the keep the dirt around the plants warm.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, especially something that's a little bit marginally hardy,
Speaker 2: you know where you don't want it to kill it
Speaker 2: out right, killing a perennial to the ground. That's just
Speaker 2: part of the natural cycle. But you don't want to
Speaker 2: lose that crown the base of the plant. So mulch
Speaker 2: over the base of plants will give you that protection
Speaker 2: during cold and then pull it back away. You don't
Speaker 2: want a big ol'd pollo mouf smother in the base
Speaker 2: of the plant. But for a wade during the cold,
Speaker 2: it provides a little bit extra insulation. Not all plants
Speaker 2: need it, but uh, it's not a bad idea.
Speaker 24: Now, is it going to be cold enough where I
Speaker 24: have to cover some of my new flowers that put
Speaker 24: down and new flowering plants?
Speaker 2: Uh, you were in safe What are you going to
Speaker 2: get about twenty three? I believe in Santa Fang something
Speaker 2: like that. Check your weather. If it's going to get
Speaker 2: down in the mid twenties, I would cover And I'm
Speaker 2: pretty sure it is where you.
Speaker 24: Are, Yeah, because I think it's supposed to be in
Speaker 24: the twenties Thursday morning or Wednesday morning.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So so here's the thing. You know, we could gamble
Speaker 2: and I could give you my best guess is if
Speaker 2: it's going to kill him or not. But I would
Speaker 2: rather go conservative and say, you know what, I think
Speaker 2: you need to cover and that way you don't lose
Speaker 2: all those valuable plants and time and effort. You put in.
Speaker 24: Some type of covering that you put on there the greens.
Speaker 2: All right, let me you can buy it or anything
Speaker 2: anything to kind of hold some of the rising heat up.
Speaker 2: It could be a bed sheet, it could be a
Speaker 2: frost cloth if you have something to support it above
Speaker 2: the plants. I mean, you can cover it with a tarp.
Speaker 2: That's all you got on hand, but just just to
Speaker 2: hold that heat in. I've got a short time and
Speaker 2: some more collars waiting, so I'm gonna run, Jim. But
Speaker 2: good luck protecting those things and getting it under control.
Speaker 2: Let's run out to Patterson now and talk to Susan. Hey, Susan, hey, Skip,
Speaker 2: good morning.
Speaker 50: I have a question now that all my annuals have
Speaker 50: frozen down and we pulled all the dead stuff out.
Speaker 50: I've got axalis like crazy, and I try to be organic,
Speaker 50: but I know I can't dig these things up, so
Speaker 50: they just keep laughing at me. So what what do
Speaker 50: you recommend? Do I do the tricle peer or what
Speaker 50: would I use on those?
Speaker 2: Where is the oxalis grunt?
Speaker 45: What?
Speaker 2: What desirable is growing? Okay? So do you have flowers
Speaker 2: in the beds around the oxalis?
Speaker 11: Not?
Speaker 3: Not yet?
Speaker 2: Okay? Well, are we talking about the oxalis that the
Speaker 2: little three leaf clover leaves are about the size of
Speaker 2: a man's thumbnail, or are we talking about an oxalis
Speaker 2: that has leaves the size of a golf ball or
Speaker 2: something like that.
Speaker 7: I don't have.
Speaker 50: I kind of have some different sizes. I don't have
Speaker 50: any as big as a golf ball, but I do
Speaker 50: definitely have some that make Usually the bigger leaf ones
Speaker 50: make the pink flowers and the other ones don't. But
Speaker 50: I didn't know they just were immature and hadn't gotten.
Speaker 2: To that point yet. Now, those bigger leaf ones, if
Speaker 2: you got a little tuber underground and you got to
Speaker 2: get something to translocate down there, So your options for
Speaker 2: oxalis that are going to have a little bulb underground,
Speaker 2: I said, tuber bulb is to dig it up or
Speaker 2: to put something like you mentioned trimeac on it to
Speaker 2: go down in the plant. There's the little yellow flowering
Speaker 2: oxalis with the small leaves. If you can even put
Speaker 2: a leaf in your mouth chew on. It's got a
Speaker 2: lemony flavor. That kind is coming primarily from seed, and
Speaker 2: so you want a mulch on the surface, but pre
Speaker 2: emergent would be another option for that. If you go
Speaker 2: to my website gardening with skip dot Com, I have
Speaker 2: a device called a homemade weed wiper, and look at it.
Speaker 2: It's really easy to build. And then you like, let's
Speaker 2: say you were going to use trimec, you wouldn't have
Speaker 2: to spray it all over your beds. You put it
Speaker 2: on the sponges on the weed wiper and dab it
Speaker 2: right on the weed. Go look at it. I've got
Speaker 2: a publication that says here's the herbicide you use on
Speaker 2: the wiper, and I like that because we're not putting
Speaker 2: so much of that chemical out in the environment. We're
Speaker 2: targeting it, right.
Speaker 50: I was just going to dab it on individually.
Speaker 2: There you go, all right, sounds like you're in business. Sorry,
Speaker 2: I gave you work.
Speaker 50: It's okay. I wanted to put a plug in for
Speaker 50: Nelson's Watergarden Nursery and Katie, they're awesome.
Speaker 2: They are awesome. Thanks for that. I agree. I love
Speaker 2: going by there all right, Cody in Spring, you are
Speaker 2: our last caller of the day. Looks like I got
Speaker 2: a little over a minute. Let's see if we can
Speaker 2: help you. Hey, skip that great show. Thank you.
Speaker 34: Is there anything on the Virginia button weed that won't
Speaker 34: kill on Saint Augustine grass?
Speaker 2: Yes, pray. There are a number of products that will
Speaker 2: make it unhappy. The one that does the best job
Speaker 2: of outright killing it is called celsius, like the temperature
Speaker 2: fahrenheit and celsius. Celsius comes in a little pack that
Speaker 2: makes one gallon of mix. But you mix it up
Speaker 2: and you don't have to drench it. You just barely
Speaker 2: spray it. But right now Virginia button weed is not
Speaker 2: actively growing. It's not really happy right now. Wait until
Speaker 2: it warms up enough. Do we see some new growth
Speaker 2: coming on it? Spray it then, and you may have
Speaker 2: to repeat it about six weeks later. Spray it again,
Speaker 2: But that is probably as a single ingredient. One shot
Speaker 2: stop that would Celsius is what I would probably use
Speaker 2: on it. Okay, but don't spray it now. I appreciate right,
Speaker 2: all right, you take care, appreciate the call. Wow. Well
Speaker 2: that was another show that seem to go fast. Don't
Speaker 2: I say that every show? Because they say time flies
Speaker 2: when you're having fun, and I'm having fun. I hope
Speaker 2: you are. Actually Kermit the frog sets time says time's
Speaker 2: fun when you're having flies. But that's a whole other thing. Sorry,
Speaker 2: I had kids. I'm a dad. It's a dad joke.
Speaker 2: I specialize on them. When the kids were young, I
Speaker 2: could rule the room. About age ten, I started getting
Speaker 2: rolling eyes. And now they don't even react at all.
Speaker 2: You've experienced that probably. Hey, guess what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna grab me a bite to eat. I'm heading
Speaker 2: down to Enchanted Gardens. I'll be there from twelve noon
Speaker 2: to one thirty talking about tips for making gardening less work.
Speaker 2: We're gonna have fun. We are gonna have fun. If
Speaker 2: it decides to miss the little no problem. We're in
Speaker 2: a big, old covered tent. It's nice, the temperatures gonna
Speaker 2: be great. Come on out, bring me samples of plants
Speaker 2: in bags, samples of bugs and weeds and other things.
Speaker 2: We'll identify them, we'll diagnose them, we'll figure out what
Speaker 2: to do. Bring me pictures on your phone. Hey, here's
Speaker 2: a spot, what will grow there? And I'll just tell you.
Speaker 2: And they will have it in Chenny Gardens because they
Speaker 2: have everything again. They are on FM three point fifty
Speaker 2: nine north of Richmond, south of Kady, Chenny Gardens, twelve
Speaker 2: noon to one thirty. I hope you come out. Love
Speaker 2: to see you, love to meet you.