Speaker 1: Welcome to Katie r h. Garden Line with Skip Richards.
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Speaker 3: Alrighty, here we go, ready for another day, Ready for
Speaker 3: another day out in the garden. You're listening to the
Speaker 3: garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we're here
Speaker 3: to help you have a more bountiful garden and a
Speaker 3: more beautiful landscape. That's what this is all about. And
Speaker 3: it's not that hard. I like, I often like to say,
Speaker 3: you don't have a brown thumb. There's no such thing
Speaker 3: as a brown thumb. You have an uninformed thumb, and
Speaker 3: we'll try to inform it today. How about that if
Speaker 3: you'd like to give us a call to get a
Speaker 3: little information for your thumb. Seven to one three two
Speaker 3: one two k t r H seven one three two
Speaker 3: one two k t r H. Well, first of all,
Speaker 3: I just want to start off and say thank you
Speaker 3: to the folks side at Nature's Way yesterday. We had
Speaker 3: a great time out there. Thanks for everybody that came
Speaker 3: out too. I think, uh it was uh think I
Speaker 3: had a great time. We had a lot of different
Speaker 3: questions about a lot of different things. And we just
Speaker 3: kind of covered the whole gimmut. Nice prizes for folks
Speaker 3: that came out and registered to win. So thanks again,
Speaker 3: Nature's Way, we had a good time. By the way,
Speaker 3: Nature's Way every Friday still has their Fungal Friday, which
Speaker 3: means twenty percent off their fungal compost to give away
Speaker 3: four bags of the fine textured screen fungal compost. I
Speaker 3: mean that stuff is just black gold. You can use
Speaker 3: it for top dressing a lawn, It's excellent for that.
Speaker 3: You can use it in pretty much in anything. It's
Speaker 3: such a high quality compost. It's so finely screened. You
Speaker 3: can mix it into some potting soil to kind of
Speaker 3: give it a little boost. You could put it into
Speaker 3: the soil and beds, garden beds, I mean, an excellent
Speaker 3: way to use it. Mix it in a little bit.
Speaker 3: You know, whenever you do that, you're just moving nature
Speaker 3: forward faster. That's what it amounts to. In Nature's Way
Speaker 3: has quality quality resources of all types. Do you need mulches,
Speaker 3: you know, do you need certain types of bed mixes.
Speaker 3: I could just go on and on. Lots of quality stuff,
Speaker 3: you know, from vegetables for vegetables, for herbs for roses,
Speaker 3: the soils, the composts, the mulches, everything you're gonna need,
Speaker 3: absolutely Nature's Way resources. They're out there on the way
Speaker 3: to Conra up forty five or fourteen eighty eight from
Speaker 3: Magnolia comes in from your left. You just turn right
Speaker 3: over the railroad tracks, turn right on Surbridge Circle and
Speaker 3: it's it's right there. Makes it makes it so easy
Speaker 3: to get to Nature's Way. If you'd like to give
Speaker 3: them a call, the phone number is nine three six
Speaker 3: seven or two seven three one two zero zero nine
Speaker 3: three six two seven three one two zero zero. Out
Speaker 3: of Nature's Way, I said, Nature's Way moves nature forward.
Speaker 3: And to you what I mean by that out in
Speaker 3: the natural system, and we talked about this a group
Speaker 3: that was out there when I went out to Nature's Way.
Speaker 3: Out in the natural system, nature drops leaves on the ground,
Speaker 3: and those leaves slowly decompose in time, and earthworms come
Speaker 3: up and they make channels through the soil and they
Speaker 3: literally take a leaf, sort of wrap it up and
Speaker 3: bring it back down in the hole. So they take
Speaker 3: organic matter underground. Plus there are roots that are growing
Speaker 3: and dying in the soil over time, adding to the
Speaker 3: soil organic content. They're also opening up the soil as
Speaker 3: they push a little channel through to grow. And over time,
Speaker 3: you know, you do that for one hundred years and
Speaker 3: you really built some soil, it makes a big difference.
Speaker 3: It just gets richer and richer and richer. Well, so
Speaker 3: you move into your property wherever you live, and you
Speaker 3: got let's say you just have a heavy clay soil
Speaker 3: and it's just you know, just not good for growing things. Well,
Speaker 3: you can go in and overnight you can do what
Speaker 3: takes nature one hundred years to do by getting products
Speaker 3: in places like Nature's Way, for example, you put those
Speaker 3: products that are quality. Don't buy cheap stuff. There are
Speaker 3: places out there that sell products that are just not
Speaker 3: They're not made with the time and the technique that
Speaker 3: is required to create the best types of products for you.
Speaker 3: But you put that good quality product down and you
Speaker 3: could be gardening tomorrow. Someone who's asking me about growing
Speaker 3: azaleas and they have a heavy clay soil, and I said,
Speaker 3: they go, what do I need to amend the soil with? Well,
Speaker 3: I wouldn't amend the soil. I mean I would a
Speaker 3: little bit, put down some composts, mix it into the
Speaker 3: top four inches or so in the clay, and then
Speaker 3: get you a good bed mix and create a bed
Speaker 3: essentially on top of the ground I'm mounted, you know,
Speaker 3: bed and plant in that. And if that doesn't make sense,
Speaker 3: here's a here's a kind of I think helpful way
Speaker 3: to think about it. Look at it there, Look out
Speaker 3: there where you want to put the azalea, Go out
Speaker 3: and set it on the ground, and then bring in
Speaker 3: a bed around it. Do you see what I'm saying
Speaker 3: That the idea is the azalea is sitting on that
Speaker 3: poorly drained soil above it, and the bed is all
Speaker 3: around the azalea. Now, actually we don't do it that way.
Speaker 3: We put the bed on the ground and plant the azalea.
Speaker 3: But if you think of it that way, because in
Speaker 3: the questions, you know, they kept asking, well, how do
Speaker 3: I dig down and do this and that? And should
Speaker 3: I excavate some soil? No, that just puts the azalia
Speaker 3: down lower. Where it now is an excavated underground bathtub,
Speaker 3: that hole water and those plants won't like that. So
Speaker 3: whatever you're growing, whether it's an aziure or a vegetable
Speaker 3: garden or a flower bet or whatever, just make sure
Speaker 3: and take nature one hundred years forward quickly and create
Speaker 3: that perfect environment. And you can do that. We have
Speaker 3: great products for doing just that out on your lawns.
Speaker 3: A couple of things we need to be thinking about
Speaker 3: if you haven't done azimite this year. Azamite is a
Speaker 3: micro nutrient supplement, micronutrient supplement, so you put it out
Speaker 3: in very low quantities. Micronutrients are not needed in high quantities.
Speaker 3: In fact, you get too much in an imbalance and
Speaker 3: you can create problems. Just like with any nutrient asumite,
Speaker 3: you put out a low amount. You know, a forty
Speaker 3: four pound bag will cover six to twelve thousand square feet,
Speaker 3: goes a long way in vegetable gardens. I'd say put
Speaker 3: about ten pounds per thousand square feet. Ten pounds per
Speaker 3: thousand in a vegetable garden. Mix it in and then
Speaker 3: you have a bank account of those essential nutrients that
Speaker 3: are needed in just small trace amounts, and your plants
Speaker 3: are ready to go. It's not like you have to
Speaker 3: do it all every month. I mean, once a year's
Speaker 3: probably fine. If you want to do a soul test,
Speaker 3: see where things stand, and make your fertilizing decisions based
Speaker 3: on that that's also a good idea because everybody's yards
Speaker 3: a little bit different. But as might works and you can.
Speaker 3: You can find more information at Azmite Texas dot com
Speaker 3: azimite Texas dot com. When you're out in the fall.
Speaker 3: I talk to a number of people yesterday that we're
Speaker 3: asking questions about fertilizing the lawn. I got a lot
Speaker 3: of different lawn questions, and Nitrophs has made things really
Speaker 3: easy by creating what they call their Texas three Step.
Speaker 3: Now on the dance floor, you do the two step
Speaker 3: right on a lawn, you dance the three step, and
Speaker 3: the three steps are nitropos Fault Special. That's a win
Speaker 3: a riser fertilizer designed for turf grass going into the
Speaker 3: cool season. It makes them more cold hardy. It makes
Speaker 3: sure turf come out stronger in the spring. Second step
Speaker 3: Nidrivius barricade. That is a pre emergent herbicide. You put
Speaker 3: it down and you water it in follow the label.
Speaker 3: Watered in and it prevents the cool season weeds which
Speaker 3: will be germinating soon from coming up. Once we get
Speaker 3: a cold front through here, some cool rain coming down
Speaker 3: those weed seeds. The temperature of the soil is right
Speaker 3: and they take off, and you don't want to wait
Speaker 3: until after they're up and growing. You want to get
Speaker 3: them right at the beginning, or before they start. Nine
Speaker 3: to FIUs eagles. The third step, that's a turf fungicide.
Speaker 3: It soaks into the tissues of the grass plant. It
Speaker 3: can even be taken up by the roots of the grass.
Speaker 3: Eagle can. And then when brown patch arrives to make
Speaker 3: those ugly brown circles in your lawn, there's something they're
Speaker 3: stopping it. If you wait until the circles are there,
Speaker 3: that means the leaves have already rotted off the runners
Speaker 3: and you're going to have a brown circle until spring.
Speaker 3: Do it beforehand. So now the three step I just
Speaker 3: was as I was saying this, I was just thinking
Speaker 3: about something. Actually, it's not necessarily in that order. In fact,
Speaker 3: I would say the most important thing to do right
Speaker 3: now is the barricade and the eagle turf, and the
Speaker 3: fund the fertilizing. Yes, you can do it now. You
Speaker 3: could do it in late September if you wanted to,
Speaker 3: but you're not trying to get ahead of anything on
Speaker 3: that fertilizing. You just want to get it done soon.
Speaker 3: So the grass has plenty of time to take it
Speaker 3: up for things cool off a lot. But the barricade
Speaker 3: and the eagle turf fungicide. Like I use the baseball analogy,
Speaker 3: you got to start swinging before the ball gets to
Speaker 3: the plate, right when the when the pitcher lets go
Speaker 3: of the ball, that batter had better be ready to
Speaker 3: start that bat around or it'll be too late. It'll
Speaker 3: already be in the catcher's myth. Well, let's just put
Speaker 3: it this way. When it comes to weeds, when it
Speaker 3: comes to diseases, the ball has already left the pitcher's hand.
Speaker 3: It's time to swing. And that would be eagle tar
Speaker 3: fungicide and nitrofuss barricade. And then of course get that
Speaker 3: that third step on there. Now, can you put them
Speaker 3: all on one day? Absolutely, don't put them in the
Speaker 3: same hopper. Put out one, then put out the next one,
Speaker 3: then put out the next one. Yes, you can put
Speaker 3: them all in on one day and water them in
Speaker 3: and that'll be just fine. Time for me to take
Speaker 3: a little break. I'll be right back. Welcome back, folks,
Speaker 3: Glad to have you back. Oh my gosh, I cannot
Speaker 3: wait to get out and get some things done outside
Speaker 3: it's dark outside right now. By the way, if you're
Speaker 3: if your neighbor's lights are off, go bang on the door,
Speaker 3: tell them they're missing garden line and they'll they'll really
Speaker 3: appreciate that. But I'm looking forward to getting outside and
Speaker 3: getting some things done. This is I keep telling you guys.
Speaker 3: Don't look at the at the temperature, look at the calendar.
Speaker 3: Don't look at the thermometer, look at the calendar. What
Speaker 3: does that mean? That means we got to get stuff
Speaker 3: done now. There is a frost coming someday, right it
Speaker 3: is coming. And the more you can get things done
Speaker 3: ahead of time, the better off you are. How about this.
Speaker 3: You want to plant, You want to plant in the
Speaker 3: fall because falls the best planting season of the year period,
Speaker 3: no question about that. It's the best other good seasons, yes,
Speaker 3: the best fall. Now, if you're going to do that,
Speaker 3: you got to prepare the soil. So get that soil
Speaker 3: ready to go, take your time and get it done.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: Landscaper's Pride has some super quality products. Landscaper's Pride has
Speaker 3: been around this part of the Neck of the Woods,
Speaker 3: as I say, for a long time, and they have
Speaker 3: been making quality products here locally in the East Texas
Speaker 3: area Southeast Texas area. Landscaper's Pride has things like black
Speaker 3: velvet molts superride quality goes on top of the soil
Speaker 3: beautifully black, not dyed, not diet it's that velvety rich
Speaker 3: look that just comes naturally because of the way they
Speaker 3: make it. They've got planting mix, which is an outstanding product.
Speaker 3: It's a locally sourced pine bark with some sandy loam
Speaker 3: and organics and it's really suitable for pretty much any
Speaker 3: growing conditions, helping your plants to thrive. So it's a
Speaker 3: very versatile product, the Landscaper's Pride Planting Mix. You can
Speaker 3: go to Landscaperspride dot com. Follow them on social media too.
Speaker 3: By the way, lots of information on the website. You'll
Speaker 3: find all the stores near you, and there are a
Speaker 3: lot of them widely available here in this area. And
Speaker 3: as they say at Landscaper's Pride, let's grow together. It's
Speaker 3: a good good slogan, good point, good idea too. By
Speaker 3: the way, next Saturday, I should have the little alert
Speaker 3: sounds like dinning, didding, did ding ding ding. Next Saturday,
Speaker 3: I'm going to be out at Enchanted Forest Garden Center
Speaker 3: out in the Richmond Rosenberg area. Actually, if you are
Speaker 3: in Richmond, heading toward sugar Land Way up towards Houston
Speaker 3: direction and Channa Forest is off to the right on
Speaker 3: FM twenty seven fifty nine. Now, I'll be there answering
Speaker 3: gardening questions and just pretty much the regular thing. You know,
Speaker 3: Let's come, let's talk, let's bring samples, let's bring pictures,
Speaker 3: and let's just help you have a more bountiful garden
Speaker 3: and a beautiful landscape. I'll be there. I'm just walking
Speaker 3: around to for those of you who you know, want
Speaker 3: to talk about some particular kinds of plants, but mainly
Speaker 3: I'll be hanging out at a table, providing some giveaways
Speaker 3: and just having a good time with everybody. We love
Speaker 3: to do that, and I hope all of you down
Speaker 3: Fort ben County and really that whole region down there,
Speaker 3: come on out and see me next Saturday at Nature's Way.
Speaker 3: That's where I was yesterday at Enchanted Forest, and I'll
Speaker 3: be there from eleven thirty to one thirty. Eleven thirty
Speaker 3: to one thirty Enchanted Forest. I'll be doing some giveaways
Speaker 3: of Medina products, and I have a few other surprises
Speaker 3: to give away there as well, So come on out
Speaker 3: and see me now in Chanty Forest again on FM
Speaker 3: twenty seven fifty nine. They are all the veggies for
Speaker 3: fall are in. So if you are thinking about planning
Speaker 3: any veggie and fall, you got to go by there
Speaker 3: and get some. They've got color galore. I mean it's
Speaker 3: everywhere around there, beautiful, beautiful fall color. If you're looking
Speaker 3: for pumpkins to decorate, if you're looking for moms, of
Speaker 3: course they've got that. New shipment of trees has come
Speaker 3: in with holly's and oaks and maples and one of
Speaker 3: my favorite trees, the China fringe. It is a compact
Speaker 3: version of other yard trees. You know, we have big
Speaker 3: giant shade trees that go across two lots in our
Speaker 3: modern lot sizes, and then we have Chinese fringe, you know,
Speaker 3: twenty five feet wide. After a long time, it takes
Speaker 3: it a while to get that big, but it's a
Speaker 3: it's a moderate sized tree, uh and a really beautiful
Speaker 3: spring bloomer. They've got shrubs both for shade and for sun.
Speaker 3: If you have not seen the Talibura pumpkins, that's one
Speaker 3: of my favorite things that those are just gorgeous gorgeous
Speaker 3: and again they're all an enchanted forest. Hey, here's a
Speaker 3: website I please write this down and go check it out.
Speaker 3: It is awesome and there is a lot of good
Speaker 3: information there. It is enchanted Forest Richmond, TX dot com.
Speaker 3: Enchanted Forest Richmond, t X dot com. You're listening to
Speaker 3: garden Line and if you would like to give me
Speaker 3: a call seven one three two one two kt r
Speaker 3: H seven one three two one two k t H.
Speaker 3: It's time to put out your fire ant baits for fall.
Speaker 3: Fire Ant bait is put out at a super low rate.
Speaker 3: The idea is not to dump it on a mound,
Speaker 3: but to sprinkle it everywhere because roving ants are everywhere.
Speaker 3: Fire Ant workers are out there looking all over your
Speaker 3: yard and gardens for food, and you sprinkle the bait
Speaker 3: at a super low rate everywhere and they take it back,
Speaker 3: feed it to the colony, feed it at the queen,
Speaker 3: and it does its job. It is the least toxic
Speaker 3: it is, and there's organic and synthetic versions of it both.
Speaker 3: But is the best way to control fire ants, and
Speaker 3: this is a season to do it now. You can
Speaker 3: find it at all your ACE hardware stores. In fact,
Speaker 3: ACE is going to have more than one brand of
Speaker 3: fire ant bait, and they work. You always want to
Speaker 3: use fresh bait. If you got some in the garage
Speaker 3: from last year, just get rid of it, spread it out.
Speaker 3: But it's not going to do any good. Get you
Speaker 3: some fresh bait, or it won't. Depending on how old
Speaker 3: it is, it may not do much good. Get you
Speaker 3: some fresh new bait. Because think of it this way.
Speaker 3: If I made a plate for your lunch today and
Speaker 3: it was about five days from now that you decided
Speaker 3: to get that plate, do you think you'd be interested
Speaker 3: in needing it. No, and fireut bait goes bad, it
Speaker 3: gets rancid and the ants aren't interested in it. Gets
Speaker 3: you some fresh bait. They have every fertilizer for fall,
Speaker 3: so while you're there, pick up your fall fertilizers. You
Speaker 3: hear me talk about a fertilizer, it's going to be
Speaker 3: there at a hardware store. They've got things to control
Speaker 3: pests and insects and diseases. They're just the place to go.
Speaker 3: As the slogan says, ACE is the place. There's forty
Speaker 3: stores around the Greater Houston area, and so it's easy
Speaker 3: to find one near You go to the ACE hardware
Speaker 3: dot com website, find the store locator, and you are
Speaker 3: in business. That makes it really, really easy. It's nice
Speaker 3: to be able to go in a place where pretty
Speaker 3: much everything you're going to need is already there and
Speaker 3: waiting for you. I was out and about a little
Speaker 3: bit yesterday, and you know, I've been working on my
Speaker 3: flower beds one at a time, getting them in shape.
Speaker 3: I had a front flower bed where I had an
Speaker 3: old nutsedge battle that I just about have finished and won.
Speaker 3: It takes a while, but I know how to do it.
Speaker 3: By the way, if you want to learn how to
Speaker 3: control nutsedge, go to my website Gardening with Skip dot com.
Speaker 3: There's a couple of free publications that you can read,
Speaker 3: and if you'll follow them, you will win that battle.
Speaker 3: If you have followed them, you will lose that battle.
Speaker 3: Nut's edge is an all in or not war. You
Speaker 3: either do the things you have to do on time regularly,
Speaker 3: so on and so on, or you're just wasting your time.
Speaker 3: But you can win anyway. But just about one of those,
Speaker 3: I've got some other beds where I'm about to put
Speaker 3: down some more organic materials to work them into the
Speaker 3: soil and get them ready to plan. I've got some
Speaker 3: number of perennials I need to get in the ground.
Speaker 3: I'm tired of watering them in the containers, you know,
Speaker 3: I need to get them in the ground. Anyway, that's
Speaker 3: all there, Hey, Spring Creek Feed is up on twenty
Speaker 3: nine seventy eight FM twenty nine seventy eight up in
Speaker 3: the Magnoia area, just north and little east of tombul
Speaker 3: Now Sprint Creek Feed Center. Beautiful place. You walk in
Speaker 3: and you think you've walked into a boutique or something.
Speaker 3: I mean, so beautiful inside. They the staff is so friendly,
Speaker 3: they're so courteous, so willing to help. I always like
Speaker 3: going in there. And when you walk in and you're
Speaker 3: a gardener, you're going to find fertilizers from the main
Speaker 3: lines I talk about here, things you know, things like
Speaker 3: Nelson Microlife, nitrofoss They carry all that. They carry all
Speaker 3: the things you need to control pest weeds and diseases. Also,
Speaker 3: if you are a senior citizen or military or maybe
Speaker 3: FFA or four H kido that's raising livestock, there is
Speaker 3: a discount for you, so ask about that. If you
Speaker 3: need something special ordered, they're willing to do that. So
Speaker 3: just tell them, you know, if they don't have something
Speaker 3: you want, we'll tell them. They'll get it in. They're
Speaker 3: very good about that. They even have a delivery service available.
Speaker 3: So Spring Creek Feed again communiately located there right in
Speaker 3: Magnoia on our FM Magnolia area on FM twenty nine
Speaker 3: seventy eight, nine seventy eight, just minutes away from ground
Speaker 3: Parkway and Highway to forty nine. Makes it easy to
Speaker 3: get in and out. And I promise you you'll go
Speaker 3: in and you'll you'll be impressed by that place. Gorgeous,
Speaker 3: beautiful and again really helpful folks coming around to help
Speaker 3: you out. We are. I've been talking about a number
Speaker 3: of different things over the past few weekends, and I've
Speaker 3: got a couple of things I'd like to continue with
Speaker 3: and I'm gonna take a little break here, but I
Speaker 3: do want to kind of give you some tips. I
Speaker 3: think that will help you kind of get a head
Speaker 3: start on successful fall planting. We don't want to let
Speaker 3: the best planning season of the year get by without
Speaker 3: us doing what we need to do to have success.
Speaker 3: And it's not that hard, So just stay tuned. If
Speaker 3: you'd like to get on the board, give Chris A
Speaker 3: calls one three two one two kt r H and
Speaker 3: you can meet our first s up when we come back. Hey,
Speaker 3: welcome back to Guardline folks. Good to have you with
Speaker 3: us today. You know, I talk about microlife fertilizers a lot.
Speaker 3: In fact, I was visiting with Mike Sarrant and some
Speaker 3: of the team out there at Nature's Way yesterday. They
Speaker 3: were also out there, and their goal is to provide
Speaker 3: a fertilizer that is natural, that is loaded with microbes,
Speaker 3: because microbes rule the world, and when it comes to plants,
Speaker 3: microbes definitely rule the world because your plants have symbiotic
Speaker 3: relationships with microbes. Is that too much too fancy talk
Speaker 3: on this hour of the morning. Basically, what it means
Speaker 3: is microbes work with the roots. They help the plants
Speaker 3: take up nutrients, They help the plants fight against disease.
Speaker 3: They coat the surfaces of plants to prevent the bad
Speaker 3: guys from getting in and getting an infection done on
Speaker 3: the plants. And that is why microlife brown Patch is made.
Speaker 3: Microlife brown Patch has a little lower nitrogen, a little
Speaker 3: bit higher phosphorus than their summer versions. The green bags
Speaker 3: do the nitrofries. Micro life brown patch. I can't even
Speaker 3: say words this morning. They basically are releasing those nutrients
Speaker 3: as those materials decomposed. So you want to get them
Speaker 3: down now in WATERMN. Get them in WATERMN. Splash that
Speaker 3: stuff around with some water. Then you know, I would
Speaker 3: recommend putting the microlife brown patch down and then following
Speaker 3: up right away, go ahead and put down microbe grow
Speaker 3: and bioenoculant. Sixty three different beneficial microbe strains, and you
Speaker 3: know we can go through these. There's Bacillus subtlest, which
Speaker 3: is an anti fungal strain. I'm very familiar with that
Speaker 3: particular one. There is. There are strains of fungi in there,
Speaker 3: Trachoderma that help fight root rots and diseases and whatnot.
Speaker 3: There are well, hair's one speaking of long words for
Speaker 3: early in the morning, basillis Amela likophacians. How's that?
Speaker 4: Do you know?
Speaker 3: That that be sells that bacteria. It affects the plant
Speaker 3: and causes the plant to become more disease resistant. The
Speaker 3: plant changes the way it grows in response to that
Speaker 3: fungus being right in that cool fungus bacteria being around.
Speaker 3: That's all in micro grow inoculant. Sixty three different strains.
Speaker 3: Put out the brown patch, put out the micro grow inoculant.
Speaker 3: Watermend really well. And when you do, you're given the
Speaker 3: soil the help that it needs. You're given the plants
Speaker 3: the help that they need to have good health and
Speaker 3: good success. That's what it's all about. Microlifefertilizer dot Com
Speaker 3: is the website if you want to find out where
Speaker 3: to get it, or I can just tell you this.
Speaker 3: Feed stores, garden centers, ace hardware stores, Southwest Fertilize. All
Speaker 3: those places carry Microlife. We can go out to the
Speaker 3: phones now and head to Katie and talk to Joseph.
Speaker 3: Good morning, Joseph, Good morning. How are you doing today.
Speaker 3: I'm well, sir, I'm well, Thank you. Good So.
Speaker 5: I'm noticing and it's probably because of the time of
Speaker 5: the year that my grass is starting to turn brown,
Speaker 5: and I guess that means that it's starting to go
Speaker 5: to sleep for the for the winner. If that's the case,
Speaker 5: should I reduce the amount of times.
Speaker 6: I'm watering per week? Or should I stop watering altogether?
Speaker 6: Not altogether, because we're still in the nineties. If you
Speaker 6: go to my website Gardening with skip dot com and
Speaker 6: you download my lawn care schedule. It's a multicolored chart
Speaker 6: from January to December. The blue row across is for watering.
Speaker 6: And if you look at that, I've put the historic
Speaker 6: average amount of water per week a lawn needs in
Speaker 6: the Greater Houston area. So for October, we're down to
Speaker 6: one half inch a week that's being used by a lawn.
Speaker 6: Now that's in the absence of rain. So let's say
Speaker 6: this week we got an inch of rain, then next
Speaker 6: week you would you wouldn't need to water because it's
Speaker 6: not all gone by the end of the week. But
Speaker 6: we're cutting it down to half an inch in October
Speaker 6: and November, and then December and January. We essentially in February,
Speaker 6: we essentially aren't watering unless we just go through an
Speaker 6: extended drought and some unusually warm, cool winter temperatures.
Speaker 7: Okay, all right, well, thank you very much for that.
Speaker 7: I appreciate it, you bet. And it's all free there,
Speaker 7: you can download it. It's got the fertilizers, it's got
Speaker 7: information on air raiding and mowing and whatnot, both organic
Speaker 7: and synthetic products on there.
Speaker 3: Thanks Joseph, appreciate your call. You you have a good Sunday. Yep,
Speaker 3: that schedule's there. I keep telling you guys about the schedule.
Speaker 3: And every time I go out and do an appearance
Speaker 3: and visit with people, I'm surprised how many people like, No,
Speaker 3: you have a website. Gosh, I only talk about it
Speaker 3: eight hundred times a day on garden Line. And it's free.
Speaker 3: It's free. How can you can't talk me down on
Speaker 3: that price? Everything on the website right now is free.
Speaker 3: Let's see. I wanted to talk about RCW. I mentioned
Speaker 3: this yesterday, but fall is the best time to plant
Speaker 3: woody ornamentals. Period period period. You put a shrub in
Speaker 3: the ground October November and it has months before it
Speaker 3: gets hot again next next May or June. And so
Speaker 3: if you do it now that it's going to survive better.
Speaker 3: It just makes sense and it's going to do better.
Speaker 3: It's not just a matter does it live or die.
Speaker 3: It's a matter of how does it perform? And so
Speaker 3: plant them now. RCW Nursery's got some really good deals
Speaker 3: going on. They right now. They as a matter of fact,
Speaker 3: have a discount on shrubs that is very significant, very impressive.
Speaker 3: If you go to the RCW Nurseries. Follow them on Facebook.
Speaker 3: That's a great way to do it. They got a website,
Speaker 3: RCW Nursery dot Com. I like to follow them on
Speaker 3: Facebook because it's it's kind of like what's going on
Speaker 3: right now out there, you know. They got the vegetables
Speaker 3: and stuff. They've got beautiful southern magnolia's out there. They
Speaker 3: have some beautiful burrows, lace bark elms, for example, that
Speaker 3: are ready to go. They also, by the way, this
Speaker 3: isn't a shade tree, but they've got citrus in with
Speaker 3: fruit on it, and it looks really, really really good.
Speaker 3: Beautiful cherry laurels. That's a native Southeastern native plant that
Speaker 3: is evergreen and really looks good. So go out there
Speaker 3: and take advantage of that. You will find a lot
Speaker 3: of good prices right now shrubs right now twenty percent
Speaker 3: off at RCW Nurseries, including for those deep shaded areas
Speaker 3: things like the gold dust to Cuba. RCW Nurseries dot
Speaker 3: Com is the website. They are located where Tamba Parkway
Speaker 3: Highway two forty nine comes into belt Way eight. Makes
Speaker 3: it really easy to get to. Let's head out to spring.
Speaker 8: Now.
Speaker 3: We're going to talk to Jody Hey Jody, oh.
Speaker 9: Money, Well, I have a backlass and my friend up okay,
Speaker 9: and I have a lot like it's by the way, okay,
Speaker 9: very easy to pull. Have one of the little little
Speaker 9: shrawa on the top. When I walk on the barner,
Speaker 9: you can see a lot of you know, uh.
Speaker 8: Seats, almost ships the seats.
Speaker 9: I went to Ace to ask, so, well, let's say
Speaker 9: I have some mothers. You know, I cannot spray whatever.
Speaker 9: I have to use my hand to pull. I can
Speaker 9: pull three days more in ten twelve hours, so hard.
Speaker 9: So I like to ask you a specialist, do you
Speaker 9: know what kind of way that is the one he
Speaker 9: doesn't know. And also I like to know we have
Speaker 9: anything can spray just like spind a way really pull out. Okay,
Speaker 9: quite a little little bit from m.
Speaker 3: Yeah you know, Jody, I I can't tell you just
Speaker 3: based on that description. Are you able to take a
Speaker 3: picture with your phone and email it to me?
Speaker 10: Oh?
Speaker 9: Yeah, he told me I did a grape of my eyepid. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 9: So you want me still.
Speaker 8: Seeing you the pictures?
Speaker 3: Yes, I do, because if it get up close and
Speaker 3: check your pictures before you send them, make sure they're
Speaker 3: in good sharp focus. But if you can. You can
Speaker 3: even pull a weed up and set it on the
Speaker 3: table and take a picture so it's easier to see,
Speaker 3: you know, the details of the weed, just in sharp focus.
Speaker 3: And if you'll do that, if you have more than
Speaker 3: one weed, you can send me more than one picture
Speaker 3: and let me look at it and I'll respond to you,
Speaker 3: because I don't want to recommend something not knowing for
Speaker 3: sure which weed you have. So I'm going to put
Speaker 3: you on hold, Jody, and uh, Chris, my producer, is
Speaker 3: going to pick it up, and he will give you
Speaker 3: an email address and you can send me those Oh
Speaker 3: he did, okay, good good, Well there you go.
Speaker 9: So right now I can go sometime to weed and
Speaker 9: there under the lights, take a picture, actually take some pictures,
Speaker 9: but another very focused.
Speaker 8: You know, I've took.
Speaker 11: All about you on the yad.
Speaker 9: You know, Okay, okay, So I'm going to say and
Speaker 9: then h do I need to call you back again
Speaker 9: or you can't answer.
Speaker 3: Or how I can answer on the air, but I
Speaker 3: probably just enter you in the email because you know,
Speaker 3: the recommendations. You know, the product names sometimes are hard
Speaker 3: to you know, they're hard to understand when you just
Speaker 3: say them. And if you take it out. It's a
Speaker 3: little bit easier for people.
Speaker 9: So all right, Judy, thank you so much, lovely bye.
Speaker 3: Thank thank you for calling. Appreciate that very much. You're
Speaker 3: listening to Gardenline our phone number seven one three two
Speaker 3: one two fifty eight seventy four. And it's guess what
Speaker 3: it is time for me to take another break, but
Speaker 3: I will be right back at a time like then.
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Speaker 12: Hey, thanks Skid, good morning. The question is about a
Speaker 12: couple of blueberry bushes that I pointed in the summer
Speaker 12: in a sunny spot in my backyard and as the
Speaker 12: seasons change, it's not getting the sunlight that it used to,
Speaker 12: and I was just wondering what your definition of full
Speaker 12: sun for blueberries would be ideal.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you could, if you could give blueberries six hours,
Speaker 3: that would be adequate. If it is a little less,
Speaker 3: they will grow there. The production starts to go down
Speaker 3: as you get less and less and less light. So
Speaker 3: it's not there's not a black and white line there,
Speaker 3: but six hours a good direct sun would I would
Speaker 3: aim for that, and more is better, of course, but that, yeah,
Speaker 3: that would be kind of a rough guess.
Speaker 12: Okay, So it's it's about four hours with full SOGN
Speaker 12: and two hours of the sun shake nix and that that'll.
Speaker 3: Work, okay for this time. You'll get some berries out
Speaker 3: of that. You'll get some berries. Yeah, that's for sure. Great,
Speaker 3: Thank you, thanks for the call, man, I appreciate that. Alright. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's a you know, in let me just put it
Speaker 3: this way. In nature, there's not a lot of black
Speaker 3: and white lines. They just aren't. And we have to
Speaker 3: give our best estimate, you know. I tell you, well,
Speaker 3: you need to use a fertilizer with a four one
Speaker 3: two or three one two ratio of nutrients. And that's
Speaker 3: a that is a very good general guide for vast
Speaker 3: majority of situations. But everything can be a little different.
Speaker 3: And and like we say, well to grow tomato, you
Speaker 3: need les six hours of sign that's another one these
Speaker 3: six hours of sign but you know, if you get
Speaker 3: five hours and fifty nine minutes, it's not a problem.
Speaker 3: But the tomato would like to have more than six.
Speaker 3: But I see that a lot in nature. It's just
Speaker 3: you know, it's a it's a percentage game kind of thing.
Speaker 3: So you know, we try to give you black and
Speaker 3: white answers to make it simple. But just remember that
Speaker 3: it's gray and fuzzy around the edges, that is for sure.
Speaker 3: That's how that works. Now is the time, by the way,
Speaker 3: I'm talking about fault fertilizing. But I'll tell you now
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Speaker 3: I wanted to talk a little a little bit about
Speaker 3: some of the fall planting tips. It is important when
Speaker 3: you put a plant in the ground that when you
Speaker 3: pull it out of that container. Now I'm talking about
Speaker 3: woody ornamentals here, not necessarily like a tomato plant so much,
Speaker 3: but or a broccoli plant, but a woody ornamental plant.
Speaker 3: When you put those in the ground, trees and shrubs,
Speaker 3: they're always going to have roots wrapping around the outside
Speaker 3: of the container because the root hits aside and has
Speaker 3: to go somewhere, and it starts circling and it goes around.
Speaker 3: When you put a planet out of the ground, cut
Speaker 3: those roots. I know that's hard to do, but you
Speaker 3: need to do it because those roots are not going
Speaker 3: to unwind underground. And if it's a small enough container,
Speaker 3: like let's say you have a gallon container and you've
Speaker 3: got a little spaghetti sized root going around the outside, Well,
Speaker 3: in time, that spaghetti sized roots going to be the
Speaker 3: size of your wrist or your arm, and the trunk
Speaker 3: is going to be, you know, getting even larger and
Speaker 3: will long before they reach that size. The root will
Speaker 3: now be wrapped around, strangling the trunk. And I've seen
Speaker 3: so many situations where eight years down the line, ten
Speaker 3: years down the line, plants are struggling and it's all
Speaker 3: because that wasn't done. If you cut the roots, here's
Speaker 3: what will happen. That cut root will branch and start
Speaker 3: to grow out into the soil naturally, and normally that
Speaker 3: is what it does. Just like if you cut a
Speaker 3: branch off on a tree, what happens when you cut
Speaker 3: a branch off, you get sprouts out the end of
Speaker 3: that cut off branch, the takeoff growing roots. Do the
Speaker 3: same thing underground and for what on a mountains, just
Speaker 3: do that. I've used you know, for bigger roots, I've
Speaker 3: used handprinters, but basically a little box cutter knife, you know,
Speaker 3: a little one inch blade. Just slice vertically from top
Speaker 3: to bottom through that cylinder of roots that came out
Speaker 3: of the pot in three or four places going around it.
Speaker 3: It works, and it is very important to do that.
Speaker 3: I would highly recommend you to do that. And that's
Speaker 3: just a tip for success with planting. Now we're planning
Speaker 3: during the fall season ideally, but anytime you need to
Speaker 3: cut the roots, go ahead and do it. Just water
Speaker 3: a little extra as you're helping it get established. But
Speaker 3: that is a tip to help you have success. Well,
Speaker 3: here we go. We've just put an hour in the books. Man,
Speaker 3: that went fast. Holy all right, Well, I'll be right back.
Speaker 3: We've got a lot more to talk about. I can't
Speaker 3: wait to visit with you. Give us a call if
Speaker 3: you want to get ahead of the line. I just
Speaker 3: called her in a break here seven one three two
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Speaker 3: We'll get right to your calls when we come back.
Speaker 3: And what do you want to talk about? Talk about
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Speaker 3: we can't talk about how to get your spouse to
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Speaker 3: I want to remind you next Saturday, I'm going to
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Speaker 3: Channet for US nursery. It is a wonderful place to be.
Speaker 3: You just got to go there. They are loaded up
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Speaker 3: I hope you got at least one eye open and
Speaker 3: a cup of coffee in your hand get rolling. Today's
Speaker 3: gonna be a good day. It is going to be
Speaker 3: a good one. I'm looking forward to it. As a
Speaker 3: matter of fact. If you'd like to give a skull
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Speaker 3: it's right there on the right hand side. It's just
Speaker 3: right there on two forty nine. Makes it easy to
Speaker 3: get in, easy get out, and when you get in there,
Speaker 3: you're just going to find the kind of expertise you need.
Speaker 3: You know, one of the most important things in choosing
Speaker 3: a garden center is choosing one that knows what they're
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Speaker 3: You know, however you want to go about it, they
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Speaker 3: Seasons dot com. The phone number you're gonna write this
Speaker 3: down two eight one three seven six sixteen forty six
Speaker 3: two eight one three seven six sixteen forty six. When
Speaker 3: you go in right now, you're going to find a
Speaker 3: new shipment of strawberries that have lended out there. And
Speaker 3: the best time to plant strawberries is in the fall.
Speaker 3: This I almost say that again. The best time to
Speaker 3: plant strawberries is in the fall. And the reason for
Speaker 3: that is is it gives them all winter to get
Speaker 3: roots established and they will grow during our mild, warm
Speaker 3: winters here. Now, once we get to about February, you
Speaker 3: could even start having ballooms and berries depending on the temperature.
Speaker 3: If you get a little frosty night, just throw a
Speaker 3: cloth over them for the night. You're not protecting the plant,
Speaker 3: you're protecting the blooms. But I have grown strawberries in
Speaker 3: this area and I have had I've had berries in February,
Speaker 3: late February, early March already and they'll go all the
Speaker 3: way into May. So it's a great plant to grow.
Speaker 3: But don't wait till spring to plant them. You will
Speaker 3: not have the same results. Get them now, Get them now,
Speaker 3: and they are stocked up there. Of course, they got
Speaker 3: a lot of other stuff. Plants for all seasons. Always
Speaker 3: is loaded up on all kinds of beautiful things far
Speaker 3: for the season, like the landscape color and herbs and
Speaker 3: vegetables and so on. They're all good to go. And
Speaker 3: boy do they ever have plenty of different kinds of
Speaker 3: soils and blends and composts and mulches and whatnot. And
Speaker 3: you know, you got to go home with bags of
Speaker 3: brown stuff if you're going to go home with something green,
Speaker 3: because you've got to prepare that foundation. And plants for
Speaker 3: all seasons can help you do just exactly that. You're
Speaker 3: listening to Garden Line. Our phone number is seven to
Speaker 3: one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven
Speaker 3: one three two one two five eight seven four. By
Speaker 3: the way, I was talking about brown stuff and I
Speaker 3: was mentioning yesterday, I was talking about Ciena Maltch. Cianamultch
Speaker 3: is the place to go to get everything. Let's put
Speaker 3: this way. It's the place to go to set the
Speaker 3: stage for success in your garden. And they're down south
Speaker 3: if you live down you know, near Highway six and
Speaker 3: two eighty eight Roach Sharon area. Ciana Maultch is located
Speaker 3: on FM five twenty one and they have premium hardwood
Speaker 3: mulches in bulk, you know, native hardwoods, double grounds, two
Speaker 3: inch screened. They have beautiful natural dark colors instead of
Speaker 3: just dyed. They have also in bulk things like Landscaperish Pride,
Speaker 3: black velvet molts that I've been telling you about, the
Speaker 3: rose soils, the organic composts of malt, soil, compost sand, gravel,
Speaker 3: and wonderful stone. They'll deliver within about twenty miles of
Speaker 3: the area while you're there. Part of the brown stuff.
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Speaker 3: They carry the best absolute, but they carry the best.
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Speaker 3: plant food, Medina. All of it is there when you
Speaker 3: go home from Cienamult or when you call them to deliver,
Speaker 3: they'll deliver within about twenty miles for a fee. When
Speaker 3: you call either way, you have set the stage for
Speaker 3: success with whatever quality plants you then bring in to
Speaker 3: put in the ground. I can't stress enough the importance
Speaker 3: of brown stuff before green stuff, and Ciena Maltch is
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Speaker 3: And you're lucky if you live down there because you
Speaker 3: got them right in your backyard. Let's go out to
Speaker 3: Humble now and we're going to talk to Lawrence. Hey, Lawrence,
Speaker 3: welcome to gardmline.
Speaker 20: Hey, good more and Skip.
Speaker 21: Thanks for taking McCall.
Speaker 3: You're listening in today. We've got plenty of things we
Speaker 3: can talk about. That is for sure. It is time
Speaker 3: to do your fall fertilization. I'm gonna say it again,
Speaker 3: it is time to do your fall fertilization. We are
Speaker 3: in the big middle of October, and October is a
Speaker 3: big month to get that done. Nit Fross has made
Speaker 3: it easy because they have a three step program. You're
Speaker 3: going to dance a two step on the dance floor
Speaker 3: and the three step on the lawn. And here's how
Speaker 3: the three step goes. You have Nitrofoss Fall special fertilizer
Speaker 3: designed for fall. It's called a winteriser because it's helped
Speaker 3: it's made to help these plants, the grass plants get
Speaker 3: ready we say hardened off, meaning they're ready for cold weather.
Speaker 3: They've got good carbohydrate reserves. That's like nafreeze in the plant.
Speaker 3: Nitrofoss fall special does that. It also helps a plant
Speaker 3: come out stronger in spring. Two. By the way, nite
Speaker 3: frous barricade is a second step barricade is a pre
Speaker 3: emergent herbicide. You put it down, You have to water
Speaker 3: it in because it needs to get war washed down
Speaker 3: into the soil surface where it sticks to the soil,
Speaker 3: and when a weed seed tries to come through it
Speaker 3: said no, no, no, no, no, not in this lawn.
Speaker 3: You're not. The third step nitrophius eagle eagle turf fungicide.
Speaker 3: You put it down, you water it in. The plant
Speaker 3: can take it up even through the roots, and it
Speaker 3: goes in systemically. And now that plant has this product
Speaker 3: inside of it that is fighting against diseases, kind of
Speaker 3: like when you take an antibiotic, you've got it in you,
Speaker 3: and the diseases that may be in you trying to infact,
Speaker 3: you know, cause problems, the antibiotic is fighting them. That's
Speaker 3: how Nitroposus egle tour fungicide works in the plant. It
Speaker 3: moves inside and It says no to the brown patch
Speaker 3: and to the take all root rot that do occur
Speaker 3: in the fall. Very important to get these down asaph.
Speaker 3: The earlier in October we do it the better, because
Speaker 3: you never know, here comes a colfront and a little
Speaker 3: bit of rain, and the chickweed and hen bet and
Speaker 3: clover and carpet weed and cleavers and all the other
Speaker 3: or cool season weeds begin to sprout, and we want
Speaker 3: to get the barrigate down ahead of them. The brown
Speaker 3: patch begins to show up, and we want to get
Speaker 3: the eagle down ahead of it. Three products, three steps
Speaker 3: fall special fertilizer, barricade, pre emergent eagle fundside. You're going
Speaker 3: to find nitrofoss products at enchanted gardens down in Richmond,
Speaker 3: Shades of Texas up in the woodlands, plans for all
Speaker 3: seasons on Tomball Parkway, D and D feed up in
Speaker 3: Tomball too, by the way, Plantation Ace Hardware down in
Speaker 3: Richmond are just all examples of places where you can
Speaker 3: find these nitrofoss products. Excuse me, something in my throat
Speaker 3: this morning. I'm not sure what that's about. You're listening
Speaker 3: to guard Line. I wanted to spend a little bit
Speaker 3: of time talking about fruit trees this morning. You know,
Speaker 3: fruit trees can be planted at any time of the year.
Speaker 3: It used to be that we got all our fruit
Speaker 3: trees bear root, and so we planted them in late winter.
Speaker 3: That's when bear root is dug and shipped and sold.
Speaker 3: Planted and typically January, maybe some February, depending on where
Speaker 3: you live. And bear root fruit trees are fine, you
Speaker 3: can still do that. But container grown fruit trees, those
Speaker 3: are sold year around, and fall is a good time
Speaker 3: to plant them. Listen, fruit, it's not just enornamental. It's
Speaker 3: a fruiting plant. But the same things I've been saying
Speaker 3: about trees and shrubs, woody ornamentals apply to fruit trees
Speaker 3: and vines, ambushes, so grapes and blueberries for example, Yeah,
Speaker 3: all of that. If you plant them in the fall,
Speaker 3: they get a head start. If they have circling roots,
Speaker 3: you need to cut the roots on the outside, and that,
Speaker 3: by the way, that includes blueberries. Blueberries you won't see
Speaker 3: the big circling roots like you do on other fruit.
Speaker 3: But it's a hair like matted root system and it
Speaker 3: benefits from slicing through those outer roots with a bock
Speaker 3: cutter blade. And I on a blueberry, I do it
Speaker 3: in about four places all around the plant, and that
Speaker 3: will help it establish better. I was in a blueberry
Speaker 3: orchard one time and they weren't thriving. We sent and
Speaker 3: grabbed a plant and kind of pulled on it, and
Speaker 3: it came out of the ground and there were a
Speaker 3: few roots at the top of the root ball going
Speaker 3: out in the soil, and the rest of it look
Speaker 3: like an upside Well, you look like the cylinder that
Speaker 3: came out of the pot, and it says they didn't
Speaker 3: cut those roots on the outside didn't establish well. So
Speaker 3: do that, make sure and do that. It is important
Speaker 3: with fruit that you give it as much sunlight as
Speaker 3: you can. Sun on leaves makes carbohydrates carbohydrates or sugars
Speaker 3: that make the fruit sweet and help a plant set
Speaker 3: fruit buds. Sun sun sun very important on fruit. Secondly,
Speaker 3: does the plant need a pollinating variety? Some fruit like figs,
Speaker 3: the standard figs we grow here in this area don't
Speaker 3: need a pollinator. There's other figs that do, but we
Speaker 3: don't grow those here. Let's see what Peaches do not
Speaker 3: need a pollinator. Nectarines do not need a pollinator, Apples do.
Speaker 3: Most pears do. And blueberries. If you want them to
Speaker 3: make the biggest berries, the best yield, give them a
Speaker 3: pollinator because in a okay nerd fun fact, do you
Speaker 3: know in a blueberry there's like thirty to sixty seeds
Speaker 3: and there's a little soft seeds. We just chump through them,
Speaker 3: don't even know they're there. Each seed releases hormones that
Speaker 3: form the fruit around that seed. So if you have
Speaker 3: an apple that has one hole of that those five
Speaker 3: seed sections, and an apple one of them doesn't have
Speaker 3: live seed, it's going to be a sunken inside of
Speaker 3: the apple, it'll be lopsided because it needed those seeds.
Speaker 3: So with the blueberry, every seed you get pollinated makes
Speaker 3: a bigger blueberry, So it makes sense. Can a blueberry
Speaker 3: grow without a pollinator? Most of them can, but they
Speaker 3: won't produce as well and the berries won't be as big.
Speaker 3: Give them pollinator. Check it out. Good garden centers can
Speaker 3: tell you whether it needs that or not. And you
Speaker 3: know you got to You gotta have both. What do
Speaker 3: they say you can't raise cattle if you shoot the bull. Well,
Speaker 3: when it comes to fruit trees, if you want to
Speaker 3: have fruit, some kinds of fruit, you got to have
Speaker 3: that second boliny or variety in order to have success.
Speaker 3: All right, we're gonna go to the phones now and
Speaker 3: talk to Steve in Spring. Hey, Steve, welcome to garden
Speaker 3: line and how are we doing this morning? Well, sir, well,
Speaker 3: how can we help you today?
Speaker 10: My yard, Saint Augustine, it's like sporadically turning dead and
Speaker 10: it looks like from the top down.
Speaker 3: Okay, and so it's kind of erratic, irregular patches.
Speaker 10: Well in the front mainly where the sun hits it
Speaker 10: all the time.
Speaker 3: Now where there's shade trees, it's it's good, but it's.
Speaker 10: The front yard, and like I said, it's uh, just
Speaker 10: kind of yellowish dead towards the top and working its
Speaker 10: way down to the bottom.
Speaker 3: Okay. Well, certainly water is one of the first things
Speaker 3: we think about, and in sun the demands are higher.
Speaker 3: So if the same amount of water and shade and sun,
Speaker 3: the sun may not do well and the shade may
Speaker 3: do well because of that demand issue. Good soakings. You know,
Speaker 3: when you water, it's not how often and all that.
Speaker 3: I recommend watering infrequently with a good deep soaking. But
Speaker 3: that's possibility number one. Number two, it may be a disease.
Speaker 3: There's a disease called take all root rot that can
Speaker 3: affect Saint Augustine and it rots the roots. And if
Speaker 3: you kill roots, then the plant looks drop stressed. So
Speaker 3: the same water issue is happening, but it's because the
Speaker 3: plant roots are dying from the disease. So it could
Speaker 3: be one of those two things. If it's only primarily
Speaker 3: happening like adjacent to or starting adjacent to a sidewalk
Speaker 3: or driveway or some other masonry, then chinchbugs or possibility.
Speaker 3: We are way too late for worrying about chinchbugs right now,
Speaker 3: so I don't correct unless it's started back in July.
Speaker 3: I don't think it's hinchbugs. I think take all root
Speaker 3: rot or a watering issue. Maybe what's going on.
Speaker 10: Well, it can't be watering because as I water the
Speaker 10: heck out of it every two days, maybe three, just
Speaker 10: depending on what it looks like.
Speaker 3: Okay, well, you know you heard me talk about natrofas
Speaker 3: eagle turfund side for bron patch and take all root rot.
Speaker 3: You may want to give that a try. Put some
Speaker 3: of that out now. There's a several different ingredient products
Speaker 3: that can fight take all root rot. The eagle is
Speaker 3: one of them. If you go on line to gardening
Speaker 3: with skip dot com my website, you will find the
Speaker 3: lawn pest disease and weed management schedule and if you
Speaker 3: go over to October November, you'll see take all listed
Speaker 3: twice there, once in October, once in November. There's a
Speaker 3: list of products for it. And you need to get
Speaker 3: them down. I would get them down now and watered
Speaker 3: in right away, and then I would.
Speaker 19: Go it again and.
Speaker 3: Go ahead.
Speaker 10: I put my file fall fertilizer down yesterday. So is
Speaker 10: that okay to put something down for the root rot
Speaker 10: just right away?
Speaker 3: Yeah? You know you need you need to not delay
Speaker 3: when it goes off a little bit. That root rot
Speaker 3: is going to be attacking. And a lot of these
Speaker 3: products for root rot are systemic. They move into the plant.
Speaker 3: Milot butte iil, which is what's an eagle, moves into
Speaker 3: the grass plant. Azoxystrobin is in other products. It moves
Speaker 3: into the plant, and those those are two of the
Speaker 3: better ones for fighting uh take all root rot. There's
Speaker 3: actually if they're a chemical that can do it. But
Speaker 3: just get them down and then be ready about a
Speaker 3: month later do it again.
Speaker 22: Uh.
Speaker 3: And that you may want to come back. And also
Speaker 3: if it's been a significant problem, you may want to
Speaker 3: also come back in spring. And that's also on my
Speaker 3: schedule for takeof. You got to get on that one.
Speaker 3: That is the worst of all our diseases of the lawn.
Speaker 3: Brown patch makes ugly circles. It looks ugly all winter
Speaker 3: and then it just regreens in spring. It doesn't kill
Speaker 3: your grass.
Speaker 10: The same thing happened last year.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, so is that roue Send me a picture
Speaker 3: if you want, but it's hard to tell. Yeah. There,
Speaker 3: most of them are granulars, most of them.
Speaker 10: Okay, Well, I sure appreciate it, and I'll run grabs
Speaker 10: some this morning.
Speaker 3: All right, sir, thanks a lot, you take care and
Speaker 3: good luck getting that accomplished for sure. Hey, So, Warren
Speaker 3: Southern Gardens out in Kingwood has outstanding plants in stock
Speaker 3: right now. For example, they got their full fledged vegetable
Speaker 3: selection all in stock and ready to go to your house.
Speaker 3: They got a really nice seed selection too, by the way,
Speaker 3: And talk about planting from seed a lot, but that's
Speaker 3: a great way to plant. When you're out at Warren
Speaker 3: Southern Gardens. You need to if you spend a hundred
Speaker 3: bucks and say that I sent you. I heard it,
Speaker 3: SKIP sent me from garden Line. You receive twenty dollars
Speaker 3: off your purchase. So basically, that's like getting one hundred
Speaker 3: dollars worth of stuff for eighty dollars. That's what that
Speaker 3: amounts to. That's a significant difference. Now that excludes something
Speaker 3: that's on sale or clearance or whatever. And it's only
Speaker 3: effective through today. I need you to hear that. It's
Speaker 3: only effective through today. At Warren Southern Gardens, they've got
Speaker 3: the carbon load out there from excuse me, from Nelson.
Speaker 3: They've got nitro fust Fall special. They got plenty of
Speaker 3: products asamites out there ready to go. They got mums
Speaker 3: and pumpkins and it's just beautiful out there. Go visit warrants.
Speaker 3: They'd be a good day to get out there and
Speaker 3: do that. And last day of that special save you
Speaker 3: a lot of money. I'll be right back, folks, take
Speaker 3: a little break. Talk to you a bit. I'm glad
Speaker 3: you're with us today. Hey, if you are in the
Speaker 3: League City area, and by League City area, I mean
Speaker 3: Santa Fe, Webster, clear Lake City, oh Comuny, Real, san
Speaker 3: Ley on Lamark Baycliff, Dickinson. Here's your home on feed store,
Speaker 3: League City Feed. We love our feed stores on Guardline
Speaker 3: and League City Feed is a great one. It's been
Speaker 3: around for forty years, started in an ochre patch. Now
Speaker 3: what can how can you not turn out good if
Speaker 3: you're starting an ochre patch. That's how I look at
Speaker 3: things for sure. The old time for service, you know,
Speaker 3: carry the bags out for you to the car, and
Speaker 3: it's just a I love going into feed stores. I
Speaker 3: just do. I like everything from the layout to the
Speaker 3: smells of a feed store. It's just I don't know,
Speaker 3: I love it. And League City Feed is that kind
Speaker 3: of feed store. You can give them a call at
Speaker 3: two eight one three three two sixteen twelve. Two eight
Speaker 3: one three three two sixteen twelve. They're open Monday through
Speaker 3: Saturday from nine to six pm, so you can swing
Speaker 3: by there after work. Now where is it located. Well,
Speaker 3: it's on Highway three, just a few blocks south of
Speaker 3: Highway ninety six, so it's really easy to get to.
Speaker 3: They got premium pet foods and you know other things
Speaker 3: you would expect to be at a feed store, like
Speaker 3: products to control pests, weeds and diseases and certainly all
Speaker 3: of the fertilizers. You hear me brag about here on
Speaker 3: garden Line. I want to go now out to Spring,
Speaker 3: Texas and talk to Tom. Hello, Tom, good morning.
Speaker 23: I skipt this, Tom.
Speaker 22: You got me?
Speaker 23: Yeah, yes, sir, Hey, I listened to you every Sunday
Speaker 23: morning on the way home from an overnight work job,
Speaker 23: and I wanted to talk to you about my grass.
Speaker 23: I just listened to you about the three part system
Speaker 23: for the grass a little while ago. Yes, And I've
Speaker 23: battled my lawn for the last three years or so
Speaker 23: with the drought, with the cold, with the hot and
Speaker 23: everything else. So I've got a mixed mash of Saint
Speaker 23: Augustine and another type of grass that's really coming in
Speaker 23: kind of good, and I don't want to kill it.
Speaker 24: So I want to just.
Speaker 23: Describe it to you. It's a very low, small grass
Speaker 23: like a comes up like a star with a little
Speaker 23: flower in it. It's very thick, but it's green and
Speaker 23: I kind of like it because it's green. And my
Speaker 23: lawn has not been green very well for the last
Speaker 23: couple of years. So if I do the step to
Speaker 23: the barricade, is that going to kill that? If it's
Speaker 23: a weed, I don't want.
Speaker 25: To kill it.
Speaker 3: Okay, Uh, well, I'm trying to picture what you're describing.
Speaker 3: It sounds like you may have a sedge. Is it
Speaker 3: almost kind of shiny? The leaves, they are a.
Speaker 23: Little bit of a gloss, skinny, kind of a blue green,
Speaker 23: very short, comes up like a star with a little
Speaker 23: flower in the middle.
Speaker 3: Up.
Speaker 23: Yes, it's like a very very small like a matchhead size.
Speaker 23: Uh you know, kind of purplish almost almost. You can't
Speaker 23: see it except for the color that it almost in
Speaker 23: every star that comes up out of the ground, there's
Speaker 23: a little bud of that, uh, that flower in the middle.
Speaker 23: But so if you you know, when I cut it,
Speaker 23: the flowers are gone, and then in a couple of
Speaker 23: days the flowers bloom back up. But it's nice because
Speaker 23: it's green, and my lawn has not been green and
Speaker 23: thick like this in years.
Speaker 3: Okay, well, I can't quite determine what weed you have.
Speaker 3: I wanted to say it was a sage, but not purple.
Speaker 3: Not purple star flower at the top of it. Anyway,
Speaker 3: here's the answer. Though nitrofos barricade prevents weed seeds from
Speaker 3: coming up for about sixty ninety days. Somewhere in there,
Speaker 3: maybe a little longer depending on the conditions. So if
Speaker 3: this is an annual weed, then putting nitrof barricade out
Speaker 3: now is not going to stop next year's warm season weeds,
Speaker 3: which if you're seeing it now, it's a warm season weed,
Speaker 3: so you would be okay on that. Now, if you
Speaker 3: applied the barricade in spring and this was coming back
Speaker 3: from seed, not a perennial, but from seed, then it
Speaker 3: would it would likely suppress it, depending on specifically which
Speaker 3: weed it is. And since I don't know for sure,
Speaker 3: it's hard to be ak.
Speaker 23: Yeah, it seems like skip a sea like it's it's
Speaker 23: a spreader, not a not a ro Rii zome spreader
Speaker 23: like Saint Augustine is. But it just kind of spreads
Speaker 23: to a new patch of dirt and to the point
Speaker 23: where it's is really green.
Speaker 3: Got you, So let's do this. If you want, go
Speaker 3: out and take a picture of it. We've got good
Speaker 3: light on it, and send me a picture email it.
Speaker 3: I'm going to put you on hold. My producer will
Speaker 3: pick up the phone and give you an email to
Speaker 3: send me that picture. If I have any additional comments
Speaker 3: on it, anything different than what I've already told you,
Speaker 3: I'll let you know in a reply.
Speaker 23: Okay, Okay, again, I'm on my way home from an
Speaker 23: overnight security job.
Speaker 3: That's yeah, so yeah, yeah, it's this week. I've got
Speaker 3: a kind of booked up week, so it may be
Speaker 3: towards the end of the week that I'm able to
Speaker 3: get back to you on a reply. But I'll get
Speaker 3: it to you, okay. I just don't want to kill it.
Speaker 4: Kill it.
Speaker 23: If it's green, I battle.
Speaker 3: It so long. All right, sounds good? Thanks Tom, Thank you.
Speaker 3: You have a good good you bet you have a
Speaker 3: good rest of your day. For sure. It's a great
Speaker 3: Sunday too. By the way, Hey, you know Nelson Plant Food.
Speaker 3: They have several lines of fertilizer. They've got the nutris
Speaker 3: Star line. They've got the Color Star line, which everybody
Speaker 3: raves about for sprinkling around your flower beds and things
Speaker 3: just to have outstanding growth and vigor and color in
Speaker 3: your flowers. They also have the Turf Star line. Turf
Speaker 3: of course, is for your lawn. Turf Star carbo Load
Speaker 3: is the fertilizer from Nelson Plant Food for fall, and
Speaker 3: it's designed for fall. The nutrient ratios are perfect for fall.
Speaker 3: A forty pound bag is going to cover about five
Speaker 3: thousand square feet, and carboload also has a pre emergent
Speaker 3: herbicide in it, meaning you gotta water the turf Star
Speaker 3: carbo load in with about a half inch of rain.
Speaker 3: Third to a half inch, probably a half inch better
Speaker 3: watered in, and that moves that product into the soil,
Speaker 3: so when a we tries to germinate, it stops it.
Speaker 3: So that also tells us another thing. This isn't just fertilizer,
Speaker 3: so it's got both. So you don't want to delay
Speaker 3: getting it out. If you waited until November to put
Speaker 3: it out, you're gonna already have some weed seeds that
Speaker 3: are starting to germinate by then. You got to get
Speaker 3: it out asap. So turf Star carbel Load is your
Speaker 3: fall fertilization and your fall pre emergent weed control all
Speaker 3: put into one. It's as simple as that. Another good
Speaker 3: product from the folks sitting now some plant food. Let's
Speaker 3: go out now to Beat Eyes. Is this beat Iyes,
Speaker 3: Texas Dame?
Speaker 26: It is, indeed, sir, good morning.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, you me and the people of Beat
Speaker 3: Eyes are the only ones that know where that is.
Speaker 3: I bet you're correct, all right? How can I help,
Speaker 3: sir man.
Speaker 26: I got four blueberry bushes. One of them I've had
Speaker 26: for several years, and the three I bought earlier this year.
Speaker 26: And I bet some of them there's some of the
Speaker 26: branches are not a single leaf on them. But if
Speaker 26: you go and some of them at the very end,
Speaker 26: if you snap it, it's just like a dry snap.
Speaker 26: And then some of them okay kind of you know,
Speaker 26: green and spongy, so got you.
Speaker 4: Deer.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, just make sure it gets water. Is your
Speaker 3: water high sodium out there and beat Eyes like it
Speaker 3: is and over and Brian Colors station near you. Well,
Speaker 3: let's it runs through a water softener. Oh yeah, okay, yeah, Well,
Speaker 3: if you can water your your blueberries with something that
Speaker 3: hadn't gone through the softener, that would be better. If
Speaker 3: you can find a if there's a way to go
Speaker 3: around that, if you've got a faucet or something. Blueberries
Speaker 3: hate that kind of water and it will cause them
Speaker 3: to get toasty and brown. So rain water or something
Speaker 3: the hard water is fine, but just uh yeah, that
Speaker 3: That's what I'd recommend, you know. As far as other things,
Speaker 3: there there are a few other things. It could be
Speaker 3: causing some issues with it. But I think I think
Speaker 3: basically I would fix that water thing first, whatever that takes.
Speaker 26: Okay, yeah, because all right would get very brown right
Speaker 26: at the tips, and then they would curl up.
Speaker 3: Yep. That's the sign of the sodium it is, and
Speaker 3: that that's soft water. Soft water. Yep. That'd be my
Speaker 3: number one recommendation that in acidifying plant food fertilizers and
Speaker 3: you know, good mulching and keep the soul moist. And
Speaker 3: that's the secret to blueberries out there. All right, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna have to run to a break that I'm due
Speaker 3: for here, sir. Okay, I hope that gets you off
Speaker 3: to good. Sorry, Now, if I save your blueberry plants,
Speaker 3: you need to bring me half of your produce and
Speaker 3: just leave it at the station. We'll call it even.
Speaker 3: That's a small charge, I'm sure. But hey, you have
Speaker 3: a good weekend, you too, appreciate Bye. All right, folks,
Speaker 3: time for you man. I wish I didn't have to
Speaker 3: take all these welcome back Guardline. Good to have you
Speaker 3: with us today. Hey, when was the last time you
Speaker 3: guys went out to Nelson Water Gardens? And Katie, you
Speaker 3: really ought to go Nelson Water Gardens. It's a destination nursery.
Speaker 3: It really is, and I shouldn't say what Nelson water Gardens.
Speaker 3: That's me the old time. They'll always been Nelson Water Gardens.
Speaker 3: It's Nelson Nursery in water gardens because they have an
Speaker 3: outstanding nursery. First of all, when you walk in, you
Speaker 3: will see a really cool plant shop for house plants inside.
Speaker 3: I mean quality, beautiful little plants looks. Really I always
Speaker 3: have to stop there and check that out first thing.
Speaker 3: Then getting out back, Oh my gosh, your fall color.
Speaker 3: You need pansies, you need you know, things like marigolds
Speaker 3: and everything else you would plant in the fall season
Speaker 3: for color. They've got it. They are stocked up on
Speaker 3: vegetable transplants as well. They've got pansies and biolo type
Speaker 3: plants in. I mean, they're ready to go. They really
Speaker 3: are ready to go, and you need to go check
Speaker 3: them out. Nelson Nursery and Water Gardens in Katie. You
Speaker 3: go out to Katie on Ien, turn north on Katie
Speaker 3: Fort Ben Road, turn right on Katie Fort Benroad or
Speaker 3: excuse me, yeah right, that's right. I had to turn
Speaker 3: around myself there. Anyway, you're gonna find beautiful water garden features.
Speaker 3: Those giant fountains that come out of pottery, those disappearing fountains.
Speaker 3: There are so many types of those there to make
Speaker 3: your head spin. And they've got the ponds, They've got
Speaker 3: the pond plants, they've got the pondfish. Anything you need.
Speaker 3: Do you want to hire them to come out and
Speaker 3: put one in, they can do that. Do you want
Speaker 3: to do it yourself? They will advise you on how
Speaker 3: to do that as well. All at Nelson Water Gardens
Speaker 3: and Nursery, take friends with you, allow time to sit
Speaker 3: and just enjoy the water. That is free therapy. It
Speaker 3: ought to be costing you one hundred dollars an hour.
Speaker 3: It's free. Go sit out there and enjoy the sound
Speaker 3: of water. I have two features in my backyard, and
Speaker 3: that is a peaceful, happy place to go set and
Speaker 3: Nelson Nursery and Water Gardens can make that magic happen.
Speaker 3: Nelsonwatergardens dot Com. That's the website. Go check it out.
Speaker 3: We're going to head out now to Lamark, Texas and
Speaker 3: talk to Desmond. Hey Desmond, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 4: Good.
Speaker 25: Yeah, thanks Scoop, thanks for picking up on this. Yeah,
Speaker 25: I've talked to you before about the dovewed, and I've
Speaker 25: been treating it with celsius. Okay, I had using blindside,
Speaker 25: but it's taken three treatments to have any effect on it.
Speaker 25: So my front garden, I've got to the stage where
Speaker 25: I'm pulling.
Speaker 3: That up by hand.
Speaker 25: My back garden, which is a much much larger area,
Speaker 25: is just blanketed with dunwick. Now it's starting to die
Speaker 25: and looking pretty dead.
Speaker 3: My question is should I.
Speaker 25: Go around and pull it all up, because it's just
Speaker 25: a blanket of sort of semi dead dovewed right now?
Speaker 25: Should I just wait for the ground to get a
Speaker 25: bit moist and then just go around and pull it
Speaker 25: all up to allow the Saint Augustine to start spreading again.
Speaker 3: Well, you could do that. You want to be careful.
Speaker 3: It's got a lot of seeds on it, and all
Speaker 3: those seeds are just gonna fall off as you try
Speaker 3: to pull it, So be as careful as you can
Speaker 3: with it, just to avoid, you know, getting getting more
Speaker 3: seeds down there and in the way and whatnot. Doveweed
Speaker 3: is a it is a problem, and it makes a
Speaker 3: very thick carpet and as a result, you end up
Speaker 3: kind of choking your areas of Saint Augustine out as
Speaker 3: you've learned, But pulling it by hand with the soil
Speaker 3: moist is really good. You want to pull them, I
Speaker 3: take like a five gallon bucket when I'm pulling weeds,
Speaker 3: and that way I can pull them and just set
Speaker 3: them right there in the bucket and get them out
Speaker 3: of there. Because doveweed is it can easily reroot on you.
Speaker 3: And uh, it's it's an issue. But yeah, you can.
Speaker 3: You can do as you said, just do it soon
Speaker 3: and do it as thoroughly as you can.
Speaker 22: Right.
Speaker 25: Yeah, I've never seen any flowers or anything like that
Speaker 25: on this. And I'll usually wheel my WHEELI bin which
Speaker 25: is a huge wheelly bin out there, and I'll filled
Speaker 25: that a couple of times. So, I mean, I've got
Speaker 25: a lot of it. But it seems to prevent the
Speaker 25: Saint Augustine from letting its roots get down to the soil.
Speaker 25: Is how it kills.
Speaker 3: Well, there's several plants. There are several plants that are
Speaker 3: related to doveweed. They all kind of have a wondering
Speaker 3: jew type growth habit. You know, the the ornamental plant
Speaker 3: wandering jew that's in baskets and sometimes grow. These are
Speaker 3: all these are all somewhat related to that, and they're
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Speaker 16: Yeah.
Speaker 25: Well, the root system is very very thin, but it
Speaker 25: goes for miles. Each root spreads miles, you know, and
Speaker 25: you put it up, you'll have a you have a
Speaker 25: string of root, you know, a couple of foot long
Speaker 25: or more where it's spreads.
Speaker 3: You know, could you could you take a picture of
Speaker 3: that and send it to me. I want to make
Speaker 3: sure we're talking about the same plant here. If you
Speaker 3: can take one in the yard or pull one up
Speaker 3: with that route and lay it on the table and
Speaker 3: take a good picture, Mike, sure it's in sharp focus
Speaker 3: as close as you can get. And the last thing
Speaker 3: about it Doesmond, is if you will attach it to
Speaker 3: the email rather than embed it into the text, you know,
Speaker 3: like pasting it into the text. Make it an attachment,
Speaker 3: use that little paper clip icon that allows me to
Speaker 3: get in quickly and getting close for a good close look.
Speaker 3: But won't we do that. I'm going to put you
Speaker 3: on hold and have my producer give you an email
Speaker 3: address to send it to me. Some things you're saying
Speaker 3: are kind of making me wonder if we're talking about
Speaker 3: the right weed or not, but I still want to
Speaker 3: be sure before we go any further. Yeah, wasting your Yeah, yeah, excellent,
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Speaker 3: Arbigate Garden Center is just looking awesome right now. Of
Speaker 3: course it always does. But they are loaded up with
Speaker 3: everything you need for fall. The gift shops are overflowing
Speaker 3: with really cool stuff. By the way, you know, I
Speaker 3: make a plant even makes a really good gift. You're
Speaker 3: gonna go visit somebody for Thanksgiving or going over to
Speaker 3: a meal of a with a friend or something like that.
Speaker 3: Swing by Arburgate and grab them something, Grab a cool plant,
Speaker 3: and boy did they ever have gorgeous plants right now.
Speaker 3: Some of the most beautiful agistas. You're ever gonna see that.
Speaker 3: It's just like that bees love that thing is there.
Speaker 3: They also have things like the one of my favorite
Speaker 3: fall plants, miragles. Couldn't even say it for a second,
Speaker 3: you know, miracles get eaten up by spider mites in
Speaker 3: the summer, but nonfall, the changing of the day links
Speaker 3: and temperatures and things. Spider mac populations are crashing and
Speaker 3: you're good to go. Marigoles will glow right up until
Speaker 3: the first frost. That makes it super super easy. Arbigate
Speaker 3: has the stuff you need to have success with your plants.
Speaker 3: You know how harp about brown stuff before green stuff.
Speaker 3: Here's Arbigate's version of that. When you go to Arbrogate
Speaker 3: to buy plants, go home with Organic food Complete. It's
Speaker 3: a four four three plus calcium food. It's a fertilizer
Speaker 3: for your plants. Organic soil Complete, the second bag, it
Speaker 3: is a quality soil with added expanded shale. Expanded shale
Speaker 3: lasts a long time, keeping a clay soil open and
Speaker 3: better drained. And the finally the third bag Organic compost Complete. Well,
Speaker 3: that's compost again with expanded shale. So when you do
Speaker 3: all three of those things, you have built a foundation
Speaker 3: for your plants to thrive. Actually, the organic food complete
Speaker 3: you can apply that after you put the plants into
Speaker 3: Just sprinkle it on the surface, watered in, scratch it
Speaker 3: into the surface and it does really well. But check
Speaker 3: out everything going on they man they have some of
Speaker 3: the most outstanding and beautiful plants that I've ever seen
Speaker 3: that are just glowing there at Arbrogate. And then they
Speaker 3: have the staff that knows what they're talking about. And
Speaker 3: that is important. In fact, it's not important, it is essential.
Speaker 3: It is essential. And Arbrogate scot those they know how
Speaker 3: to do things. They've grown here before, they're gardeners themselves,
Speaker 3: and they can help you transform your place into something special.
Speaker 3: You got problems with plants, bring them a picture, bring
Speaker 3: them a sample, say what is this? How do I
Speaker 3: do this? Or a picture? My neighbor's got one of these?
Speaker 3: You got any of these? I got to have one
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Speaker 3: west to Tomball on twenty nine to twenty. The website
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Speaker 3: It is very very good, very interesting. Some outstanding writers
Speaker 3: that they have help them with that too. By the way, Well,
Speaker 3: let me go out to David M. Bel Air. Now, hey, David,
Speaker 3: welcome to garden Line. Hello.
Speaker 8: I bought hi a bunch of Hi, thank you for
Speaker 8: your taking my call, a bunch of.
Speaker 21: Bulbs, mainly tulips from Hostco and bags from recently.
Speaker 28: And then I'm going back the next day next.
Speaker 22: Week, and they had them on sale, so I bought
Speaker 22: a whole bunch more.
Speaker 3: And how should I store.
Speaker 28: Them inside or in a refrigerator?
Speaker 21: And when should I plant up tulips and other springs blooming?
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, it kind of depends on the bulb. But
Speaker 3: tulips and hyacinth, the crocus, those kinds of bulbs we
Speaker 3: call them once you get one year, one year out
Speaker 3: of them, pardon and narcissus. Okay, you can plant the
Speaker 3: narcissus now, uh, the tulips, hyacinth, the crocus, those kinds
Speaker 3: of things. Put it in the refrigerator in a bin.
Speaker 3: Do not have apples in the bind with them. Apples
Speaker 3: give off at the lene that really messes up the bulbs.
Speaker 3: They the sprout that comes out looks all weird. But
Speaker 3: put them in a bin, store them and right for Christmas,
Speaker 3: get out there and put them in the ground. You
Speaker 3: can do them last week of December. You can do them,
Speaker 3: you know, early January. Get them in the ground of
Speaker 3: those narcissus and a lot of the other bulbs that
Speaker 3: have at least a hope of repeating, if you know,
Speaker 3: we get them at big box places like that. Typically
Speaker 3: you get bulbs that don't repeat well. Our garden centers
Speaker 3: carry the kinds the varieties that do. Once you plan them,
Speaker 3: you get year after year returns on them. But it's
Speaker 3: worth a try. You got them, give them a shot
Speaker 3: and get them in right now.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 3: It's a good time to plant bulbs now in next month. Two. Okay,
Speaker 3: thank you, all right, you bet take care. Thanks for
Speaker 3: the call. Appreciate that We're going to go now to
Speaker 3: College station. Talk to Daryl. Hey, Darryl, welcome to Guardline.
Speaker 28: Hey, County, and Gigam. I had the same thing.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I had the.
Speaker 28: Same thing that the guy driving home has. And I
Speaker 28: think I can get a little more flavor to what
Speaker 28: that looks like. And I think it's roadside aster.
Speaker 3: It has a.
Speaker 28: Central okayroot, and then it spreads out and when you
Speaker 28: mow it, it just keeps getting broader and broader. I
Speaker 28: want to get rid of it, okay, and it has
Speaker 28: you need to handle long uh huh.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, it's all over now and it's starting to bloom.
Speaker 3: I've just seen some flowers that have been for about
Speaker 3: a week. So roadside aster is is truly blue green,
Speaker 3: and it in a vacant lot, it'll get waist high
Speaker 3: in the lawn. It goes sideways and flat and as
Speaker 3: you described, but it does have the tap root, so
Speaker 3: make sure your lawn is well watered so the soil
Speaker 3: is really soft. You got a lot of clay soils
Speaker 3: up in that area, and if they're hard, that astra
Speaker 3: just breaks off. If you reach down and right at
Speaker 3: the top of the tap root, just underneath all the
Speaker 3: branches and kind of grab it and shake your hands
Speaker 3: to the side as you pull, you pull those out,
Speaker 3: and you can pull a lot of them out. Astra
Speaker 3: makes tons of flowers and seeds and so at this stage,
Speaker 3: no post emergent herbicide will kill it adequately. So you've
Speaker 3: got to get those out. If you wait until the
Speaker 3: flowers have finished and the seed pods are dried, when
Speaker 3: you pull it out, you're gonna lose a bunch of
Speaker 3: seeds in the process. So the sooner you get at
Speaker 3: the sign of the first flower, that means get in
Speaker 3: the lawn. I've got a five gallon bucket. I've got
Speaker 3: a neighbor that has some in in their yard and
Speaker 3: it keeps drifting over into mind. So every year have
Speaker 3: to go out there, get them my hands and knees
Speaker 3: and pull a bunch of it, because you really notice
Speaker 3: it in the fall. It's they're all summer. You just
Speaker 3: don't see it because it's smaller plants and kind of
Speaker 3: hidden in the grass. But pull, pull, be ruthless. You'll
Speaker 3: get your cut coffee or something.
Speaker 28: And yeah, I've been doing that, And is there anything
Speaker 28: Will the pre emergent take care of them for next year?
Speaker 3: Or what next next year? A pre emergent that will
Speaker 3: work on broad leaves. Barricade is one that you can use,
Speaker 3: but you're gonna apply it in your area. I would
Speaker 3: probably apply it at the end of February, and then
Speaker 3: I probably would repeat it again sixty days later to
Speaker 3: get a second application down, because that would be your
Speaker 3: best bet for getting ahead of it. Hey, I have
Speaker 3: got to run. Darryl, thank you so much for the call.
Speaker 3: I appreciate that you bet all right, folks, I'll be
Speaker 3: right back, and when I do, Robert and Mike you'll
Speaker 3: be the first hope is that you have a more
Speaker 3: bountiful garden and beautiful landscape through listening to this show.
Speaker 3: Even if you don't call in, we'd like you to
Speaker 3: call in because I know you have questions, and i'll
Speaker 3: tell you this. I hope you've listened to Garden Line
Speaker 3: enough to know that I don't treat questions like they're stupid.
Speaker 3: I'll say it this way. There are no stupid questions,
Speaker 3: just stupid answers, and that therefore the pressures on me,
Speaker 3: I'm the one giving, hopefully not stupid answers. Call away.
Speaker 3: Other people are going to have your same questions you have,
Speaker 3: so we're happy to deal with that. I want everybody
Speaker 3: to have success. I mean, if you're a veteran, i'll
Speaker 3: try to help you. If you know everything there is
Speaker 3: to know about gardening, I'll try to help you. If
Speaker 3: you only are pretty sure that when you put plants out,
Speaker 3: you put the green side up and the brown side down,
Speaker 3: I'll try to help you, too. Happy to do that.
Speaker 3: We're going to head out now too. Where are we
Speaker 3: going we're going to summer Wood and we're going to
Speaker 3: talk to Robert. Hey, Robert, welcome to Guardline.
Speaker 24: Good morning, Thank you.
Speaker 29: I want to see if you if you can solve
Speaker 29: a critical problem I have. Okay, I was preparing preparing
Speaker 29: a house to go on the market, and the front
Speaker 29: yard was a disaster. So I hired a company to
Speaker 29: re sought it. And they did what I thought was
Speaker 29: a good job. They put some top, they put soil down,
Speaker 29: then they put top soil on top of that, and
Speaker 29: they put their sod down. But by the second day
Speaker 29: all I had was yellow and pale green. The third
Speaker 29: day it was turning brown. Now I have a front
Speaker 29: yard full of brown stiff straw. How do I okay,
Speaker 29: do you do you have a magic answer for my problem?
Speaker 3: Well, you know, if if the problem was the initial
Speaker 3: you know, lack of water, like roots drying out and things,
Speaker 3: that's usually what happens with new sod. Uh, you just
Speaker 3: can't see. Just start watering it and see what if
Speaker 3: there's enough there to come back. Typically when we lay sod,
Speaker 3: we will put down a water twice a day for
Speaker 3: a week, once a day for another week, and then
Speaker 3: every other day for a week so those first three
Speaker 3: weeks we are making sure that little thin layer of
Speaker 3: roots and sod, that soil that comes in with the
Speaker 3: sod has a chance to get down in the ground
Speaker 3: and give the give the grass a chance. If you
Speaker 3: don't even a day without water earlier on in that
Speaker 3: process can cause what you're describing.
Speaker 29: If you water adequately starting when you see the problem,
Speaker 29: is likely that you can recover.
Speaker 3: If the runners aren't already dead. Saint Augustine is only
Speaker 3: alive in the runners above ground, the stolens. It doesn't
Speaker 3: have the underground rhizomes like bermuda grass and suysia do,
Speaker 3: so if the top drives and dies, it's dead. So
Speaker 3: I don't know how far gone it is. Hopefully you
Speaker 3: have enough that with watering it'll recover, and then you
Speaker 3: can get it going again next spring with following my
Speaker 3: loan schedule that's online at my website. Well, thank you
Speaker 3: very much. All right, sir, you bet good luck with that.
Speaker 3: Sorry to hear about those challenges. I know that can
Speaker 3: be frustrating. Medina products has been around. They have been
Speaker 3: around for a long time. They've got the Medina. Oh
Speaker 3: I guess one of my more famous products is Medina
Speaker 3: Soil Activator. You know, it's got all kinds of great
Speaker 3: stuff in it to help your plants. In general, they
Speaker 3: haven't called Medina Plus, and it is Medina Sool Activator Plus.
Speaker 3: It has over forty trace elements. It's got natural growth
Speaker 3: hormones from seaweed extract. It's got magnesium and iron and zinc,
Speaker 3: and you know of those vitamin type things like riboflav
Speaker 3: and thiamin, biotin, nicotinic acid, you know that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3: Lots of trace elements in it, and it's just good
Speaker 3: and you can use it in a lot of ways.
Speaker 3: I would recommend it as a folio spray. You're not
Speaker 3: going to burn plants with it, so all your plants, tree, shrubs, lawns.
Speaker 3: You can put it on a hose in spray or
Speaker 3: use it on your lawn. I like to use products
Speaker 3: from Medina in my transplanting processes. So falls for planting.
Speaker 3: You put a plant in the ground, get you a
Speaker 3: watering can fill it with Medina Soil Activator mixed at
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Speaker 3: do a hose in spray and do the same thing
Speaker 3: with it that way. I even use it seed soaking.
Speaker 3: You know, you get some little siege and I'll soak
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Speaker 3: Water them in. Medina cel Activator mixed at the right
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Speaker 3: over forty different trace elements and other very helpful compounds
Speaker 3: for plants. We're going to go now to Bay's City
Speaker 3: and talk to Mike. Hey, Mike, Hello, Olre.
Speaker 21: I know I've listened to you quite a bit and
Speaker 21: it sounds like you're fairly interested in okra.
Speaker 3: And I was wondering, I have an ocra problem, Mike,
Speaker 3: I have an Oprah addiction addiction, So.
Speaker 21: Yeah, I go, okay, well it sounds that way. And
Speaker 21: we had in our local newspaper down here, we had
Speaker 21: a little article on the tallest okra plant ever grown
Speaker 21: in Texas.
Speaker 20: And I didn't know if you were wear it.
Speaker 21: Well I can, but one of the one of your
Speaker 21: extension agents are not your extension agent. But anyway, his
Speaker 21: name's Holiday.
Speaker 6: He went down and.
Speaker 21: Major Oh the hardest one. Yeah, well I had to, Yeah,
Speaker 21: and I had to run out there and measure mine
Speaker 21: because mine has grown crazy so tall, and but of
Speaker 21: course mine.
Speaker 20: Didn't make it.
Speaker 21: His was His was fifteen feet six inches this guy
Speaker 21: in Santa Fe, Texas, and uh so my mind was
Speaker 21: only twelve foot eight inches. But kay, they're so tall
Speaker 21: this year.
Speaker 30: I don't know why.
Speaker 21: I might have beat his record if i'd have watered
Speaker 21: them more, but if I didn't, But it was interesting.
Speaker 21: I didn't mine were so tall. When I saw this article,
Speaker 21: I said, my gosh, they're they're tall.
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 3: If you thought if you find a copy of that
Speaker 3: or a link to it, I'd sure like to see it.
Speaker 3: I know boo friends a long time. I will do that,
Speaker 3: all right. Well, the problem with that is it is
Speaker 3: expensive to pick it because you got to hire helicopter
Speaker 3: to come in and fly to your get that pick.
Speaker 3: I got a long hook.
Speaker 21: But hey, so what are you you going to put
Speaker 21: me on there so I can get your email or
Speaker 21: what how you want me to send this to you?
Speaker 3: Yeah, let me let me put you on. I'm gonna
Speaker 3: put your on WHLD Crystal pick it up and he'll
Speaker 3: send you he'll give you an email. Thanks for the call.
Speaker 3: Appreciate that, Mike. It's always good to talk about OPRAH.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I know people don't listen every day,
Speaker 3: which breaks my heart, by the way, But I know
Speaker 3: people don't listen every day. And I say something one
Speaker 3: day and I think we'll say it again the next
Speaker 3: Andrews Probably yes, Probably yes. The other day, I was
Speaker 3: talking about mascots, high school mascots that were ridiculous, like
Speaker 3: the snails. I mean, think about that, the snails. Can
Speaker 3: you what are the cheerleaders say on the on the
Speaker 3: they go, you know, slim them snails, make them really
Speaker 3: really slippery or gross them out or snail snailses cargo.
Speaker 3: I don't know. Anyway. There's also a fighting Okra. There's
Speaker 3: a college in Mississippi, Delta State, that their unofficial mascot
Speaker 3: is the Fighting Okra, And it's just what you would expect,
Speaker 3: kind of looks like the fighting Irish guy, you know,
Speaker 3: the little green guy with his fists up and the
Speaker 3: frown on his face. But it's an Okra, So there
Speaker 3: you go. I don't know about these mascots. You'd think
Speaker 3: we'd at least look for something like you know, a
Speaker 3: giant lion or something that sounds a little vicious, but
Speaker 3: snails and okra. All right, Hey, Wibird's Unlimited is having
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Speaker 3: Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 20: Good morning, Skip. You were talking about strawberries long ago.
Speaker 8: I didn't get all of it, but yes, can I
Speaker 8: plant them now? With seed?
Speaker 3: Yes? No, with plants, transplants.
Speaker 8: Oh, okay, so it's too late for seed. Okay, well,
Speaker 8: we would.
Speaker 3: Never never plant them by seed. Really, it's just you'll
Speaker 3: never end up seeing plants that have strawberries. It's just
Speaker 3: get transplants in the fall. That's the way to go.
Speaker 20: Yeah, okay, uh, And now I'm gonna put them in pots,
Speaker 20: So I buy what type of bagged dirt gonna buy?
Speaker 3: There's a lot of good yeah, good quality pinting soil.
Speaker 3: You know, airlom Cells makes one called the Works that
Speaker 3: works really well. You could even use you can use
Speaker 3: a veggie and herb mix in those pots and it
Speaker 3: would be okay too. But you want a pot with
Speaker 3: a decent sized root volume because the smaller the pot,
Speaker 3: the more often you have to water. And if you
Speaker 3: forget the water and it's you know, we still have
Speaker 3: a ninety degree days, but even in December we can
Speaker 3: have ninety degree days sometimes. You know, you don't want
Speaker 3: to stress the plants, and so a little more soil
Speaker 3: volume is helpful for them. But yeah, you can grow
Speaker 3: strawberries like crazy. I mean, people grow them in hanging baskets,
Speaker 3: but you better be ready to water them all the
Speaker 3: time because that's a small amount of soil.
Speaker 8: Okay, Now I do have some some.
Speaker 20: Gumbo, uh in large containers? Would that be gumbo? Is
Speaker 20: okay as well?
Speaker 3: Like a black clay soil in large containers.
Speaker 13: Right right?
Speaker 20: I mean, but it's got a lot of gumbo in it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I would they like sandy loamy soils. If you look
Speaker 3: at strawberry growing regions, it's very sandy soil. I would
Speaker 3: you could buy sand, you know, from a garden place
Speaker 3: down there in Manville. You're not too far away from
Speaker 3: uh Siena Mulch which is over in Sienna. Uh and
Speaker 3: they have blends and sand. You could get sand and
Speaker 3: buy some composts to go with it and mix them
Speaker 3: together and it would do very very well.
Speaker 8: Okay, all right, well, thank you very much.
Speaker 3: Yep. All right, And you know, you know the rule
Speaker 3: on garden Line. The advice is free. But I just
Speaker 3: asked for half the strawberries. Drop them off at the
Speaker 3: station on it.
Speaker 20: Even take care, okay, one bucket for you and two
Speaker 20: buckets for me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, and you got to leave a bucket for
Speaker 3: the birds. But take care. I got to go to
Speaker 3: break here, folks. We'll be right back. Hey, welcome back
Speaker 3: to guard Line. Glad you are with us this morning.
Speaker 3: If you want to be on garden, if you got
Speaker 3: a question, I'd be happy to visit with you about that.
Speaker 3: You just got to give me a call. Seven one
Speaker 3: three two one two k t r H seven one
Speaker 3: three two one two kt r H. You know, ACE
Speaker 3: Hardware stores are the place to go for whatever you need,
Speaker 3: if it's inside the house, if it's outside the house.
Speaker 3: When it comes to fall in our gardens and lawns,
Speaker 3: we need the fall special types of fertilizer. We need
Speaker 3: the carba loads, we need the microlives and all those,
Speaker 3: and the certainly also the medinas. All of that and
Speaker 3: more is available there at your ACE Hardware store. If
Speaker 3: you're looking to control weeds with a pre emergent, it's there.
Speaker 3: If you're looking to prevent diseases, it's there. If you're
Speaker 3: looking for anything it takes to have success in your
Speaker 3: garden and landscape, it's there at ACE. That's what they
Speaker 3: do out on the patio. Boy, I am enjoying my patio.
Speaker 3: These evenings are a little bit cooler, and it's safe
Speaker 3: to get outside, and I'm really enjoying barbecue pits. They've
Speaker 3: got them. Do you need a string of lights to
Speaker 3: turn that ambiance on out there in the patio. They've
Speaker 3: got that. They have everything and inside the house for
Speaker 3: the holidays, everything you would think about is going to
Speaker 3: be at your Ace Hardburre store. I love going into
Speaker 3: ACE because I don't care if I need a piece
Speaker 3: of plumbing, a piece of wiring, if I need a
Speaker 3: tool for my garden, It doesn't matter what you need.
Speaker 3: Including some other really cool gifts too, by the way,
Speaker 3: they've got it at ACE. ACE is the place for that.
Speaker 3: I'll be telling you about their holiday They got some
Speaker 3: cool holiday lighting stuff coming up that. Just hang on,
Speaker 3: don't get your holiday lighting just yet. I'm gonna be
Speaker 3: telling you about some cool stuff coming up at ACE
Speaker 3: here before for long fire and control season is here.
Speaker 3: Get it done. Always have mosquito dunks on hand. You
Speaker 3: never know. We always we can have mosquitoes almost all
Speaker 3: the time unfortunately here in our area, and they've got
Speaker 3: the things for that as well. Just remember ACE is
Speaker 3: a place, and remember this. Go to Acehardware dot Com
Speaker 3: find the store locator. There's forty stores near you, and
Speaker 3: I would recommend anytime you're driving through someplace, stop in
Speaker 3: it at ACE and check it out. They're independently owned.
Speaker 3: Each is different in its own way, and it's always
Speaker 3: fun and cool to go in and see the different
Speaker 3: things that will surprise you that they carry at Ace
Speaker 3: Hardburre's because Ace truly is the place you know. At
Speaker 3: Ace Hardware, you're going to find that nitrop Texas three step,
Speaker 3: the Texas three step that is the fall special winter
Speaker 3: riser fertilizer designed for fall, and it's time to get
Speaker 3: it down now. The sooner you get it down, the
Speaker 3: more time that grass has to take up the nutrients
Speaker 3: to help it when it captures sunlight create winter heartiness,
Speaker 3: the equivalent of infries inside those plants. Secondly, they've got
Speaker 3: the barricade. That's the second step of the Texas three
Speaker 3: step by Nitrofoss. Barricade is a pre emergent What does
Speaker 3: that mean. It means you put it down, you water
Speaker 3: it in before the weeds emerge, and it will prevent
Speaker 3: them from ever showing up and causing a problem. The
Speaker 3: third step is nitrophoss eagle ter fungicide. Have you ever
Speaker 3: seen those big circles in the fall In the spring,
Speaker 3: that's brown patch eagle turf fungicide gets in the grass plant.
Speaker 3: It prevents brown patch from being able to attack take
Speaker 3: All root Rot Boy, we had some calls today about it.
Speaker 3: It kills grass. Take All is a good name for
Speaker 3: that disease. Eagle Turf Fungicide is on my schedule is
Speaker 3: one of your options for controlling take all root rot.
Speaker 3: And by the way, if you don't know what schedule
Speaker 3: is gardening with Skip dot com. Gardening with Skip dot
Speaker 3: Com on there you'll find a lot of information including
Speaker 3: two schedules, the lawn Care schedule with test fertilizers organic
Speaker 3: and synthetic, and the lawn Pest, Disease and Weed schedule,
Speaker 3: which has those products also synthetic and organic in both ways.
Speaker 3: And they're free. The schedules are free, print them out,
Speaker 3: check it out. In the meantime, head over to an
Speaker 3: ACE Hardware store and get you some nitoposs three step.
Speaker 3: You're going to find it at places you know, for
Speaker 3: example like Plantation Eights, ACE down in the Richmond area.
Speaker 3: You're going to find it at ACE Hardware City on
Speaker 3: Memorial Drive. You're going to find it at All Spas,
Speaker 3: ACE up in the Woodlands at Katie, ACE Hardware over
Speaker 3: in Katie. Easy to find and it works you are
Speaker 3: listening to Gardenline. The phone number if you'd like to
Speaker 3: give us skull seven one three two one two five
Speaker 3: eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty
Speaker 3: eight seventy four. That makes you really easy, you know,
Speaker 3: just write that down. I liked. I like to use
Speaker 3: the numbers. Some people like to do by letters. I
Speaker 3: find I'm sitting there looking trying to find that letter.
Speaker 3: I don't know, just it's just me. Either way you
Speaker 3: want to go, when was the last time you went
Speaker 3: out to Antique Rose Imporium. I'm telling you the place
Speaker 3: is looking great. You know. Antique Rose Imporium is up
Speaker 3: there in Independence, Texas, just north of Brunham. I mean,
Speaker 3: it's a nice little drive outside of town, not far,
Speaker 3: not far at all. But you get out there and
Speaker 3: it's like you've entered another time. You know, the Antique
Speaker 3: Rose Emporium. Doesn't that just create a picture in your mind? Well,
Speaker 3: that's what you'll see when you get out there. It's
Speaker 3: been around since nineteen eighty three. I remember when I
Speaker 3: first opened up. I was in grad school nineteen eighty three. Well, anyway,
Speaker 3: they are gearing up for fall out there. The roses
Speaker 3: are loaded everywhere they're releasing some new roses. I was
Speaker 3: talking with some of the folks at antiqu Rose Imporum
Speaker 3: just the other day, and they're going to be releasing
Speaker 3: and featuring varieties they haven't carried before. They've got some
Speaker 3: roses even the they've developed there. They're putting names on
Speaker 3: and releasing the perform well in trials. And this is
Speaker 3: all the way up to the Fall Festival of Roses,
Speaker 3: which is November one through third, November one, two and three. Now,
Speaker 3: the first day is a festive ticketed garden party, meaning
Speaker 3: you got to buy a ticket to go, but Saturday
Speaker 3: and Sunday are free and open to the public. They're
Speaker 3: going to have speakers like Paul Zimmerman or Rosarian Chris Weisinger,
Speaker 3: the bulb Hunter from Southern Bulb Company will be there,
Speaker 3: Mike Surrant from Microlife, the Man himself, Henry Flowers will
Speaker 3: be there. Doctor Stephen George, Oh, Doctor George a friend
Speaker 3: of mine. He is a extension specialist up in the Dallas,
Speaker 3: Texas area who created the Earthkind Program. The Earthkind Program
Speaker 3: looks at ways of managing issues in your garden by
Speaker 3: cultural practices that prevent the need for using a lot
Speaker 3: of toxic products, the Earthkind Program, good name for it,
Speaker 3: Doctor Stephen George, and he is a character. In fact,
Speaker 3: he's two characters. The man is a hoot. Fact these
Speaker 3: two hoots. They're gonna have an artist in market. Food, trucks, plants, natives, perennials, tools, fertilizers,
Speaker 3: gift items, and of course roses. Now, when you head
Speaker 3: out to Rose Imporium, tell them that I sent you
Speaker 3: and you get a ten percent discount at checkout. You
Speaker 3: need to hear this. I'm saying it again. When not if,
Speaker 3: when you go to the Antique Rose Imporium, tell them
Speaker 3: skip sent me from guardline. Skip from guard line sent me,
Speaker 3: and you've got a ten percent discount at checkout. You
Speaker 3: can't do better than that. Now, if you want to
Speaker 3: order online, which you can buy from Antiqurosenporium online, you
Speaker 3: can put in a coupon code Skip twenty twenty four
Speaker 3: Skip two zero two four at the coupon code. You
Speaker 3: know there are roses and so much more. If you
Speaker 3: want more information, you got to go to the website.
Speaker 3: You know there's events pages there and everything else. Antique
Speaker 3: Roseanmporium dot com or give them a call ninety seven nine, eight, three,
Speaker 3: six fifty five forty eight. In the meantime, mark November one, one,
Speaker 3: two and three on your calendar. You do not want
Speaker 3: to miss that fall festival of roses. Where are we now?
Speaker 3: Getting kind of close to the next break, so I'll
Speaker 3: just hold off there. If you'd like to be on
Speaker 3: Guarden Line, if you want to give us a call
Speaker 3: seven to one three two one two kt r H.
Speaker 3: You give us call soon here and you can be
Speaker 3: first up when we come back from our break. Thanks
Speaker 3: for being a listener, and we look forward to talking
Speaker 3: to you more because we've got plenty more to talk
Speaker 3: about about plants here on Guarden Welcome back to the
Speaker 3: guard Line. We've got plenty of talk about folks. Give
Speaker 3: us a call seven one three two one two kt
Speaker 3: r H if you have a question. I want to
Speaker 3: mention because I keep telling you you need to plant,
Speaker 3: You need to plant, you need to plant. It's fall.
Speaker 3: Fall is the season for planting. Fall is especially the
Speaker 3: season for planting. Wood are ornamentals. Well, when you plant
Speaker 3: a tree, you don't have to do the old way
Speaker 3: of three guy wires to hold the tree in place
Speaker 3: after you plan it. Those wires are for tripping over
Speaker 3: they're in the way. It's a lot of work. You
Speaker 3: gotta find wire. You got to put some kind of
Speaker 3: a cut section of garden hose around the wire so
Speaker 3: it didn't cut into the tree. And on and on
Speaker 3: just gets you a three sixty tree stabilizer. It is
Speaker 3: a bar. I think of it as an arm, and
Speaker 3: it grabs onto a post there is you can get
Speaker 3: a little. It comes with an attachment that attaches to
Speaker 3: t posts. You know, drive them in the ground. Makes
Speaker 3: it real easy. And you do it real close to
Speaker 3: the tree, not very far away you know maybe I
Speaker 3: don't know, foot a little over foot foot and a
Speaker 3: half eighteen inches somewhere in there. And you attach it
Speaker 3: to the tree with a soft strap. That allows movement,
Speaker 3: and that is important. Movement strengthens tissues. It strengthens our muscles.
Speaker 3: You think about this. You work out by lifting weights
Speaker 3: day after day after day. That strain, that stress, that pull,
Speaker 3: that movement, it strengthens your muscles. Well, you take a
Speaker 3: tree and you tie it perfectly still where it can't move.
Speaker 3: It will not get the strength of trunk that it
Speaker 3: will if you allow to move a little in the
Speaker 3: bin that that bin, that stress that movement strengthens it.
Speaker 3: Three sixty tree stabilizers designed to allow that.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 3: You're going to find them at RCW. You can find
Speaker 3: them down the Southwest Fertilizer. You can go up to
Speaker 3: Buchanan's Native Plants. You can go over down in Alvin.
Speaker 3: Jorges Hidden Gardens has them. Arborgate has them up in
Speaker 3: Tambail Plants for all seasons, Highway two forty nine and
Speaker 3: ed Luetta. These are all places you can get the
Speaker 3: three sixty tree stabilizer. If you're going to plant a
Speaker 3: tree that is an valuable part of your landscape, invest
Speaker 3: in a very reasonab reasonably priced three sixty tree stabilizer
Speaker 3: and your set and anytime you want to put another
Speaker 3: tree in, your neighbor wants to put a tree, and
Speaker 3: you can loan them, there's your tree stabilizer to put in.
Speaker 3: They work. If you've got a good sized tree. You
Speaker 3: can do two of them, one at kind of a
Speaker 3: right angle to the other one, so no matter which
Speaker 3: way the wind blows, you're good to go. I love
Speaker 3: that product. It's very ingenious. It is just outstanding and
Speaker 3: it really really works. We're going to head now to Spring,
Speaker 3: Texas and talk to Cody. Hey Cody, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 1: Good morning.
Speaker 4: I had a magnolia tree that died during the big freeze,
Speaker 4: and if I finally cut it down and everything and
Speaker 4: the roots, I'm gonna call it stems or shoots, it
Speaker 4: started sprouting up. I've got a clump of about about
Speaker 4: keen of them together. They are about three foot tall,
Speaker 4: and that leaves and everything, you know, starting to grow back.
Speaker 4: What's the best way to just trim all that back
Speaker 4: and keep one of those stocks coming up and try
Speaker 4: to get that to be a tree, or what's the
Speaker 4: best way to try to get that thing to come
Speaker 4: back as a tree.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you got if you got sucker or water
Speaker 3: spout or sucker spouts coming out from the base, it
Speaker 3: picked one and let it be the trunk and cut
Speaker 3: all the rest away, and it in time will form
Speaker 3: a good trunk again. Uh, it could be. It's gonna
Speaker 3: be a little bit of a weaker spot because is
Speaker 3: unlike a normal tree that just has a regular trunk
Speaker 3: with roots going to the sides coming out. It's gonna
Speaker 3: have kind of a dead spot on the side where
Speaker 3: that old trunk was.
Speaker 28: Right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but in time it will cover that over and
Speaker 3: get strong.
Speaker 8: Figure's worth a shot.
Speaker 30: It's free, so I'll do what I do with it.
Speaker 3: Hey can't beat that. I can't beat that. Like a
Speaker 3: friend of mine used to say, can't beat that with
Speaker 3: wet rope. I don't know what that means. It sounded funny,
Speaker 3: all right, Thanks a lot, Cody, you bet bye bye.
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Speaker 3: want to go now out to Oh there's already there. Okay, wrong, wrong,
Speaker 3: false alarm, Sorry about that. I am working on my
Speaker 3: vegetable garden. Unfortunately it's full of ochre right now, just
Speaker 3: about all okre. I've got some other things going, but
Speaker 3: it is time for me to pull that out. I'm
Speaker 3: a little late actually on getting all my broccoli and
Speaker 3: cabbage Califler cor Robbie Collared's kale. It's pretty soon. It's
Speaker 3: time to get the spinach and then lettuce in. We
Speaker 3: need cool offul just a little bit more for spinach,
Speaker 3: lettuce and carrots to do their best. But it's so easy.
Speaker 3: Swiss charred beats. Lots of things we want to grow
Speaker 3: in the gardens. And I tell you this, When you
Speaker 3: grow stuff yourself, you tend to eat it, and you
Speaker 3: tend to be healthier. And if you have kids, that
Speaker 3: is even more true. When kids grow their own vegetables,
Speaker 3: they are much more likely to eat them, much more likely.
Speaker 3: You know, you shove a piece of broccoli in front
Speaker 3: of a kid and they go, what's that? I ain't
Speaker 3: put not in my mouth? You know, and kids grow
Speaker 3: up to think that way too. Hey, remember years, years
Speaker 3: and years ago when the first Charge Bush was president,
Speaker 3: he made some snide comment about broccoli one time. It
Speaker 3: just kind of joking around, and I'm telling you, people
Speaker 3: got upset. And there was a guy in a broccoli suit,
Speaker 3: looked like a big gumby marching in front of the
Speaker 3: White House protesting the fact that he had made a
Speaker 3: dising comment about broccoli. Oh my gosh, is this the
Speaker 3: first world problem or what? But anyway, when kids eat
Speaker 3: their vegetables, you set them on a life of healthy eating.
Speaker 3: They learn to appreciate that. I got a granddaughter and
Speaker 3: the way my daughter and son and alive raised her.
Speaker 3: They just don't feed her dunk food. And I the
Speaker 3: other day she was visiting me and I was driving
Speaker 3: around town. It was lunchtime. I thought, hey, I said, hey,
Speaker 3: you want to grab something to eat? I think, and
Speaker 3: she's going to go, yeah, I want to go to
Speaker 3: get a burger or whatever. And she goes, you know
Speaker 3: where we can get a salad and I looked at
Speaker 3: her like, what is wrong with you? But good for her?
Speaker 3: Our number one health problems in our country are due
Speaker 3: to lack of moving around and exercise, and lack of
Speaker 3: eating right, eating jump putting processed junk in our mouths.
Speaker 3: Why not start your kids off right with a vegetableard.
Speaker 3: All right, that's my pitch for vegetable gardening. You don't
Speaker 3: want to dig up the backyard, that's fine, Get you
Speaker 3: some five gallon containers. Plan in those. You can grow
Speaker 3: anything you want to grow for fall in a five
Speaker 3: gallon bucket or a nice beautiful urn if you want
Speaker 3: to go that far. All right, Well, enough of me
Speaker 3: joking around about that. Hey, Donald, Donald, welcome to garden line.
Speaker 3: Good to have you with us. How can we help?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 22: Yeah, thank you. I've got a fifty fifty patch out
Speaker 22: behind the house, killed up, the plant blue on it.
Speaker 22: We have the seed. Yes, what's the there's a evidently
Speaker 22: a bunch of different ways of scarf on the seeds.
Speaker 22: But what do you recommend?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, the simplest thing for a patch like that,
Speaker 3: I'd get the seed, and I'd get some boiling hot
Speaker 3: water and I would pour it over the seeds and
Speaker 3: let it sit. Do it this afternoon, let it sit
Speaker 3: all night, and in the morning pour off the water
Speaker 3: and a lot of that water is going to already
Speaker 3: be soaked into the seed and the germination process will
Speaker 3: be triggered. Take the seeds out, roll them on a
Speaker 3: napkin or something to get the xus water out so
Speaker 3: it's easier to plant them. They don't stick to your hands.
Speaker 3: Wet seeds stick to your hands. Scatter them out, rake
Speaker 3: them in lightly and water them in well, and then
Speaker 3: about every four to six days give it another watering,
Speaker 3: another water, and keep them moist and that'll give them
Speaker 3: the best chance of getting started. Once we get a rain,
Speaker 3: you can kind of back off that, but we've got
Speaker 3: to go through that gener nation where it's kind of
Speaker 3: touch and go.
Speaker 22: Yeah, sir, thank you very much.
Speaker 3: You bet, Thanks for the call, and good luck with that.
Speaker 3: Send me a picture when you when you get that
Speaker 3: blue bennet patch up next year. I'd love to see that.
Speaker 3: All right, Well, I hear music. That means I got
Speaker 3: to go, Scott. You'll be are first up when we
Speaker 3: come back. Just a reminder next Saturday, I'll be enchanted
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Speaker 3: Richmond Rosenberg. We'll be doing some Medena giveaways. I got
Speaker 3: some other surprise. I'm gonnaive away down there while we're there,
Speaker 3: answering your gardening questions, and plus you get to see
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Speaker 3: because then they're loaded. I can't wait to talk to
Speaker 3: you and help answer your gardening questions. I'd eye down
Speaker 3: it in chunt it for us. Next Saturday from eleven
Speaker 3: thirty to one thirty.
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Speaker 1: This is used Radio seven k t r H Houston
Speaker 1: at r H Garden Line with Skip Rickard.
Speaker 3: It's just watch him as.
Speaker 2: Many.
Speaker 3: Welcome to guard Line. Welcome back to guard Line, folks.
Speaker 3: We're looking forward to visiting with you. Guess what we're
Speaker 3: entering our last hour of this Sunday morning, A beautiful
Speaker 3: Sunday morning, by the way, We're in our last hour
Speaker 3: and I hope if you have any questions you'll go
Speaker 3: ahead and get those calls in now so we can
Speaker 3: get that done. We got some folks on the board.
Speaker 3: We're going to jump to here, and just one one
Speaker 3: second first, I wanted to mention to you if you're
Speaker 3: doing fall transplanting of anything, and you really should be.
Speaker 3: I'm talking about putting broccoli transplants in a vegetable garden.
Speaker 3: I'm talking about putting flowers in a flower bed. I'm
Speaker 3: talking about annuals and perennials and shrubs and trees, and herbs,
Speaker 3: all that stuff you need to get you a jar
Speaker 3: of Nutristar Genesis. Nutri Star Genesis is a natural plant
Speaker 3: food that is loaded with micoriza, beneficial bacteria and other fungi.
Speaker 3: You mix it into the soil when you transplant. Now,
Speaker 3: normally I'll tell you don't put a salt based fertilizer
Speaker 3: in the hold and then sit roots right on top
Speaker 3: of it. You can burn roots that way, but when
Speaker 3: nutristar genesis, you just mix it in the soil. You're
Speaker 3: not can burn anything. And when those plant roots start out,
Speaker 3: it is all the good stuff that they need, nutrients
Speaker 3: and all the other microbial things that are very important
Speaker 3: for your plants. I used it for transplanting tomato plants
Speaker 3: last spring when I was working on Oh my gosh,
Speaker 3: the way they jumped out of the ground once those
Speaker 3: roots that genesis. It was crazy excellent, excellent product. So
Speaker 3: you're going to put an apple, apple tree, a peach tree,
Speaker 3: a rosebush, perennial herbs, you're going to put some something
Speaker 3: like rosemary in the ground or anything. Get some Nutristar Genesis.
Speaker 3: It comes in a clear jar with a screw top lid.
Speaker 3: Easy to use. It goes a long way, and it works.
Speaker 3: It works from Nelson neutrastar genesis. For all your transplanting
Speaker 3: in the ground in containers, whatever you're doing, you need
Speaker 3: to get that in the soil so the new roots
Speaker 3: have some good stuff to work with. I'm going to
Speaker 3: head out to Houston now and talk to Scott. Hello Scott,
Speaker 3: and welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 33: Hey, good morning, Skip. Thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 8: I appreciate it.
Speaker 33: Yes, I had been following the yard schedule religiously and
Speaker 33: it works perfectly. I've got the best grass in the
Speaker 33: entire neighborhood. But I've got one problem. I've got mutigrass
Speaker 33: that is creeping into my Saint Augustine. And back in
Speaker 33: May I sprayed some liquid achazine on it, the liquid type,
Speaker 33: just to diminish the health of the bermuda, to get
Speaker 33: it to get the Saint Augustine to take over. It
Speaker 33: didn't work as well as what I wanted. But there's
Speaker 33: a new product that has come to market. It's made
Speaker 33: by Syngenta and it's called Recognition, and then it also
Speaker 33: comes with a thing of fuselade too, and it's this
Speaker 33: post emergent herbicide that they swear will not harm the
Speaker 33: Saint Augustine and will work, but it's not cheap. So
Speaker 33: I wanted to get your thoughts on it because it's
Speaker 33: anywhere from two to four hundred bucks for this. Then
Speaker 33: I just wanted to get your thoughts and se if
Speaker 33: you had any experience with it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't talk about it on the air in
Speaker 3: general myself, no problem with you bringing it up. I
Speaker 3: don't talk about it because it is a huge It's
Speaker 3: a quantity that if you had like ten neighbors that
Speaker 3: got together and I wanted to do it, it would
Speaker 3: come down to an affordable price and it would cover
Speaker 3: every by yard, and so it's not practical for most
Speaker 3: own people. That is the only spray solution to the
Speaker 3: bermuda in Saint Augustine to get rid of the bermuda,
Speaker 3: but not the Saint Augustine. And you got to follow
Speaker 3: that very carefully, very carefully. A lot of professional landscapers
Speaker 3: don't even know about it, but yep, that's out there
Speaker 3: now other.
Speaker 33: Than readly available recently, and now it's now I'm able
Speaker 33: to get it. So I just wanted to get your
Speaker 33: thoughts on it. But I thank you for telling me
Speaker 33: that it does work, and I might give it a
Speaker 33: try here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it can work if you know any other people
Speaker 3: that need to do it in their lawns and get
Speaker 3: them to split it with you, because like I said,
Speaker 3: it's well, you know how expensive it is anyway. The
Speaker 3: only other thing other than that is, you know, we
Speaker 3: usually people either live with the two together mixed in
Speaker 3: the lawn. There's actually three solutions to it. That's one,
Speaker 3: and I don't talk about that for the obviously, and
Speaker 3: this is not practical for most people. Another is there's
Speaker 3: a type of Saint Augustine that doesn't that you can
Speaker 3: spray things that kill bermuda and it doesn't kill the
Speaker 3: Saint Augustine. It's a it's a variety that's out there
Speaker 3: that pretty much very few people have right now.
Speaker 4: I don't have that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Raley.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 23: Uh.
Speaker 3: The other thing is is to kill everything and replant.
Speaker 3: And and I've been telling people if you do that,
Speaker 3: you better wait because you think you killed all the
Speaker 3: bermuda and here comes the sprouts some back out of
Speaker 3: the ground. Do it again, maybe a third time, just
Speaker 3: to make sure you get it all out, or you
Speaker 3: just end up being back where you started.
Speaker 8: Yeah, they kill till phill and saw.
Speaker 33: It seems like that much more work when I compare
Speaker 33: it to the two hundred bucks at the four hundred,
Speaker 33: I'm like, I don't know what may.
Speaker 3: Can I get you to do? Can I get you
Speaker 3: to do me a favor? Scott? I'm gonna put you
Speaker 3: on hold and get my producer to give you my
Speaker 3: email address. I don't want to talk about this on
Speaker 3: the air, but I'd like to know where you found
Speaker 3: what you found, because that stuff was pretty hard to
Speaker 3: get for a while. And anyway, if you're just an
Speaker 3: email just just with that information, i'd appreciate it.
Speaker 33: You bet, I will do it. Thanks for taking my
Speaker 33: call this morning.
Speaker 8: Have a great day, all right, you bet?
Speaker 3: All right, Chris, if you can grab Scott and give
Speaker 3: him an email address. There, let's see here. I want
Speaker 3: to tell you about in Channa Gardens down in Richmond Rosenberg.
Speaker 3: Enchanted Gardens. Yes, that's a good name, Enchanted Gardens, because
Speaker 3: it's an enchanting place. I always love to go there.
Speaker 3: And when you go to a Channa Gardens, you just
Speaker 3: look around and it is amazing the stuff that they have.
Speaker 3: I mean, right now, the fall color they've got, the
Speaker 3: moms where you get several colors of mom and one
Speaker 3: big mounding plant. It's gorgeous. They've got the siloshas that
Speaker 3: have the beautiful red plumes and the burgundy splotched leaves,
Speaker 3: silver pony foot that just spills over containers with silver
Speaker 3: color marigals one of my favorite fall plants, marigals because
Speaker 3: they just glow and spider mites on a fall problem
Speaker 3: on maragals. And then of course the crowton that everything
Speaker 3: like that, and it's what you'd expect from a place
Speaker 3: that always has the best of plants. You know, it's
Speaker 3: fall gardening time. It's time to get out there, get
Speaker 3: your vegetable gardens, get your herb plants in the ground.
Speaker 3: They've got it all at Enchanted Gardens en Richmond are
Speaker 3: The Enchended Gardens is on FM three point fifty nine,
Speaker 3: So if you're in Richmond heading toward Katie direction, it's
Speaker 3: out there. Here's the website. You need to go because
Speaker 3: it's outstanding and it'll you won't even be able to
Speaker 3: finish looking at you'd be so excited you want to
Speaker 3: run out there and see this place and it's worth it.
Speaker 3: Take friends when you go to by the Way because
Speaker 3: it's a fun outing. Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. Enchanted
Speaker 3: Gardens Richmond dot com. They're open Monday through Saturday eight
Speaker 3: to five, and today they are open ten to four.
Speaker 3: Be a good afternoon to get out there and enjoy
Speaker 3: ingented gardens. Let's head to Spring Branch and we're going
Speaker 3: to talk to David. Hello, David, welcome to the garden Line.
Speaker 8: Yeah, thank you for taking my call a skiff. I
Speaker 8: appreciate that. You know, I caught about three weeks ago
Speaker 8: and you were spot on on the windmill palm tree
Speaker 8: that I had the way I described it to you
Speaker 8: had fate it leaves and you know it was browning
Speaker 8: and stuff like that. I mean, you didn't think it
Speaker 8: would make it. You tell me to weather it. But
Speaker 8: sure enough, like you said, you thought it was not
Speaker 8: going to make it, and it didn't make it. My
Speaker 8: question is I didn't go buy another palm tree. Yeah,
Speaker 8: I'm gonna go buy another one, should I?
Speaker 3: Is it o kid?
Speaker 8: I've had it in the exact hoe as the other one.
Speaker 13: Or don't do that?
Speaker 3: The end of today. If you are looking for a
Speaker 3: one stop shop for any kind of supply, you're going
Speaker 3: to need to have a beautiful lawn, a bountiful garden,
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Speaker 3: or small engine repairs. Accomplished seeds, great supplies of seeds,
Speaker 3: on and on and on. And I'm talking about organic products.
Speaker 3: I'm talking about synthetic products, all the above. Southwest Fertilizer
Speaker 3: at the corner of Bissinet and Runwick is that place. Now.
Speaker 3: It's easy to get to. People go from all over
Speaker 3: there really because they know when you go all the
Speaker 3: way there you are going to get what you need.
Speaker 3: So they're willing to drive to do it. But it's inconvenient,
Speaker 3: easy to get to, like I said, and they've always
Speaker 3: got stuff and they know what they're talking about. You
Speaker 3: walk in with a weed or a picture and say,
Speaker 3: is what is that? And how do I control it?
Speaker 3: I need to control you know? Is it a problem?
Speaker 3: They'll tell you and they'll point you to the right direction.
Speaker 3: They've been doing this since nineteen fifty five. Nineteen fifty five,
Speaker 3: it's not long. That's a long time. And it's Southwest Fertilizer.
Speaker 3: By the way, the website Southwest Fertilizer dot com. They
Speaker 3: have expert advice that knows what they're doing, and they
Speaker 3: have ext products to help accomplish what you're trying to do.
Speaker 3: And then they do that with the old fashioned service.
Speaker 3: That's why it's so popular. That's why it's so popular
Speaker 3: there seven one three six six six one seven four four.
Speaker 3: While you're there, ask about the soil probe that they
Speaker 3: have for loan. I believe they still have it there where.
Speaker 3: If you need to go out and do a soil sampling,
Speaker 3: there's an arrangement, you know, you leaves them behind so
Speaker 3: you don't run off with the soil probe and you
Speaker 3: can go borrow it and use it and come back
Speaker 3: and it helps you get a good salt test done properly.
Speaker 8: You can do that.
Speaker 3: Ask about the kneeling bench too, by the way, the
Speaker 3: kneeling bench, it's it's one of the best tools I
Speaker 3: have and it will be years too. And if you
Speaker 3: have anybody north of forty years old on your list
Speaker 3: of gifts for birthdays and Christmas or whatever, you got
Speaker 3: to get them a kneeling bitch. They will love it.
Speaker 3: And Bob's got them there at Southwest fertilizer. So just
Speaker 3: another reason to go there by the way too. If
Speaker 3: you want to make that skips weed wiper, that's on
Speaker 3: my website guardeningskip dot com. If you want to make
Speaker 3: one homemade. Bob got the initial tool with the suction
Speaker 3: cups that you need to start with. It's not expensive,
Speaker 3: it's easy to do, and it really really works cool.
Speaker 3: I gave out some handouts for those the other day
Speaker 3: at a talk I was giving somewhere. Let's add to
Speaker 3: Huffman now and we're going to talk to Cooper. Hey, Cooper,
Speaker 3: welcome to guard Line.
Speaker 20: Hey, how you doing, mister Skip?
Speaker 34: Look here, I have a Sago palm that was in
Speaker 34: my front yard and the freeze got it. So I
Speaker 34: cut it down because it was like five foot talls,
Speaker 34: so I cut it down. Now I got all the
Speaker 34: pups growing. How do I just feel it so I
Speaker 34: can put something else there? I mean like banana trees
Speaker 34: and other things you put black tarp, you know, lastic.
Speaker 3: That's a good question.
Speaker 8: How do I get rid of that from keeping growing?
Speaker 4: Please?
Speaker 3: Well, one way would just be grubbing out, you know,
Speaker 3: just just pull the plan out, check the soil off,
Speaker 3: and move on. That way you got it all. If
Speaker 3: you tried to spray it and kill it, you're still
Speaker 3: gonna have that kind of woody stumpthing at the base there.
Speaker 25: Uh these just a ball or is it?
Speaker 3: It's got it's got some pretty strong roots. Yeah, it's
Speaker 3: got some strong roots that go out in all directions. Uh,
Speaker 3: you know, you kind of chop it off because those
Speaker 3: things are they'll hurt you.
Speaker 19: You know.
Speaker 3: Ugo palm's got sharp little points on it, and if
Speaker 3: you're swinging a grubbing hoe or something, you hit your
Speaker 3: hands on those and you got a problem.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 3: So I would do that. Uh you know, if it
Speaker 3: were mine, I don't know if you can get to it.
Speaker 3: But here I go with my redneck advice of the
Speaker 3: way I do things. I would throw I throw a chain. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I throw a chain.
Speaker 34: It right by my front door. So no, that's not
Speaker 34: gonna work.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, I was gonna say, I throw a chain
Speaker 3: around the cut up you're pickup bumper.
Speaker 34: That would tear up more than it would it would
Speaker 34: tear up more less way my entry way.
Speaker 20: So yeah, no, we've already thought about it.
Speaker 34: I was just trying to you're just taking a plant
Speaker 34: something there sooner or later, just dig it out.
Speaker 3: Well, you're taking all the fun out of life because
Speaker 3: my favorite solutions involved chains, pick up bumpers, and fire.
Speaker 33: We can't use any of those pulled off her front
Speaker 33: yard front of the house.
Speaker 3: All right, so you're back to trying to grub it out. Yes, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: so they're okay. I don't know if this will work,
Speaker 3: but the only spray that I know of to try
Speaker 3: is something containing trichlope here t r I c l
Speaker 3: O p y R. I have never tried to poison
Speaker 3: a se palm.
Speaker 26: I just have, but I would that work.
Speaker 3: Oh, it's just it's ugly.
Speaker 34: I mean that's how I did my bananas and the
Speaker 34: stupid Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is more of almost a woody shrub. If
Speaker 3: you if you rate some tricle peer on it, don't
Speaker 3: get it on anything desirable because it kills broad leaf
Speaker 3: period flowers and shrubs and trees and whatnot. But just
Speaker 3: spread it on the or uh the way we use
Speaker 3: tricle pier in weeds, like you got hackberries and fence
Speaker 3: lines and stuff. You just cut them off and you
Speaker 3: you dab the product on the fresh cut. Just dab
Speaker 3: it right on that fresh cut and you don't have
Speaker 3: to spray it at all. So if you could break
Speaker 3: off a pup and dab it on that wound in there,
Speaker 3: I might try that and see if that works. Again,
Speaker 3: I'm not saying it'll work, because I've never tried to
Speaker 3: kill a track a h A, yeah, tracle palm, whatever
Speaker 3: you try, if it works, I'd like to know. I'd
Speaker 3: like to know because I may run into someone else
Speaker 3: whose wife doesn't want them tearing up the front of
Speaker 3: the house.
Speaker 20: You know, That's why I called you boss.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, thanks for the I appreciate it. You have
Speaker 3: a wonderful Sunday as well. You take care, Bobby. You
Speaker 3: know one thing I like about guarden line is I
Speaker 3: never know what the next question is going to be,
Speaker 3: and it's always yeah, I've been doing this thirty five years.
Speaker 3: I've been gardening my whole life. But I've been professionally
Speaker 3: doing this thirty five years, and I still hear questions.
Speaker 3: I've never heard, first time ever, anyone's ever asked me
Speaker 3: how to poison a well, I've ever had to try
Speaker 3: to think of a way to poison a sago palm.
Speaker 3: That's a new.
Speaker 4: One for me.
Speaker 3: All right, Well, The folks at Heirloom Soils have created
Speaker 3: a large selection of quality soil materials. You know, when
Speaker 3: I think about terms like well I want to plant
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Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: Talking to my sister the other day and she's looking
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Speaker 3: you get some of the works from Heirloom Soils. It's
Speaker 3: a good high quality potting soil. You got clay soils
Speaker 3: you're struggling with, Get you some expanded jail. Put that out.
Speaker 3: Mix it in late about two or three inches thick,
Speaker 3: and mix it in as deeply as you can and
Speaker 3: it'll work wonders on a clay and it'll last a
Speaker 3: long long time. Or you can buy their expanded jail
Speaker 3: mixed with compost, which is also a good way to
Speaker 3: work on a clay. That a clay soil that you're
Speaker 3: want to do a bid in. Just go to Heirloomsoils
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Speaker 3: them by the bulk. You can go out to Porter
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Speaker 3: You can have them deliver it to your house and
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Speaker 3: holds a cubic yard of soil and they just set
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Speaker 3: You can buy it by the bag at garden centers
Speaker 3: and feed stores. You can go down to Southwest Fertilizer
Speaker 3: I was talking about a minute ago. They've got those
Speaker 3: down there. They got their products down there as well.
Speaker 3: Ace hardware stores often carry those products. Just get airlom
Speaker 3: soils wherever you can get it, get it. It's gonna
Speaker 3: be a good soil. It's gonna be a good mix.
Speaker 3: You're gonna have good results because remember brown's up before
Speaker 3: green stuff. Airloom soils high high quality brown stuff. We're
Speaker 3: gonna go. Now, let's see what's the time. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: got time, Mary and Champions. Welcome to guard Line.
Speaker 13: I just listened to your aunt just now. And that
Speaker 13: was my question, is what brand of dirt would you recommend?
Speaker 13: I have some rich bushes in the backyard.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're in the Champions area. You can have them
Speaker 3: deliver it, or you can go get it on how
Speaker 3: much you want. If you're gonna do a big bed,
Speaker 3: I'd get it bulk. It's cheaper.
Speaker 13: I can't.
Speaker 3: If you just.
Speaker 13: Just a few bags, yeah, yeah, just.
Speaker 3: By the bag, you know. And let's see Champions. You
Speaker 3: you could call around. There's some Ace Hardware stores near you.
Speaker 3: I don't keep track of what each store carries of
Speaker 3: each of the many many product lines heirloom has, but uh,
Speaker 3: you're let's see Champions. That's nineteen sixty up in there.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to think of. You've got an Ace Hardware
Speaker 3: store on Jones Road that's gonna have a lot of things.
Speaker 3: You got m and d Ace Hardware a little for
Speaker 3: the north than that. Just go to Ace Hardware dot com. Uh,
Speaker 3: and do the store locator. I think you'll find it there.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: And then they're going to have it at some of
Speaker 3: your garden centers in your area as well.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I'm near to heat and feet. I think I'll
Speaker 13: give them a try. Do you have to know if
Speaker 13: they might carry it?
Speaker 3: I don't off the top of my hand, but you know,
Speaker 3: if you if you got a little time and a warning,
Speaker 3: they probably can get it in. But I would give
Speaker 3: give them a call see what they have.
Speaker 13: Okay, thanks a lot.
Speaker 3: All right, man, thanks a lot. Appreciate that call. You're
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Speaker 3: All right, folks, time for a quick break. I'll be
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Speaker 3: number seven one three two one two five eight seven
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Speaker 3: four makes it real easy to reach out and get
Speaker 3: some good information. Hopefully. That's what I try to provide,
Speaker 3: is good information to help you have a bountiful garden,
Speaker 3: a beautiful landscape and enjoy it in the process. And
Speaker 3: I got to remind I haven't said that in a while,
Speaker 3: but I need it. I need to say it again.
Speaker 3: Gardening is supposed to be fun. Gardening is definitely healthy,
Speaker 3: it's definitely good for your mind, it's good for your
Speaker 3: well being in general. But it's supposed to be fun.
Speaker 3: Don't worry about failing at gardening. You cannot fail at gardening.
Speaker 3: Unless you give up. Then you failed at gardening. Don't
Speaker 3: worry about it. Give me a call. Let's help you
Speaker 3: have success. Contact your county agro Life Extension office. That's
Speaker 3: what they're for. Reach out to some of the university
Speaker 3: websites that have research based information that will help you
Speaker 3: have success, like here in Texas our Aggie Horticulture websites
Speaker 3: very good for that. There's too many good resources out there.
Speaker 3: Your county Extension office is in Ever County in Texas,
Speaker 3: serves Ever County in Texas or Centre and fifty four counties.
Speaker 3: I think it's in two hundred and fifty or fifty two.
Speaker 3: You get out West Texas where there's more jack rabbits
Speaker 3: and people, and there may not be one in the county,
Speaker 3: but it's served by the next county. In other words,
Speaker 3: wherever you are. You got help and run the Houston area.
Speaker 3: You're fortunate because you actually have a lot of I
Speaker 3: think six different horticulturists here in the greater Houston area.
Speaker 3: Brass County, Montgomery County, out in Orange, down in Galveston,
Speaker 3: Fort ben County, Brazoria County. What I'm a Houston Harris County.
Speaker 3: I'm probably leaving somebody out anyway. There's a bunch here
Speaker 3: and you get good help that way. So no reason,
Speaker 3: no reason to not succeed in gardening. Just don't give up,
Speaker 3: don't don't quit, don't quit trying. All right, Well, I
Speaker 3: guess I've made my point there. If you'd like to
Speaker 3: give me call seven one three, two fifty eight seventy four.
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Speaker 3: cool varieties and four inch containers. Get now, get them
Speaker 3: in the ground, water them in well, and begin fertilizing them.
Speaker 3: Begin fertilizing. You can use fertilizers to sprinkle in the
Speaker 3: soil and water in. You can use a liquid food
Speaker 3: products by Medina for example. A Microlife has some good
Speaker 3: liquid food products as well. Keep those strawberries growing, because
Speaker 3: I'm telling you you will have the best crop you
Speaker 3: can imagine in early early spring all the way into
Speaker 3: about May if you get them planted now. Buchanan's got those.
Speaker 3: Of course, Buchanans has lots of fall color. They've got
Speaker 3: an unbelievable selection of houseplants as well. I was just
Speaker 3: in their houseplant greenhouse the other day. Gorgeous. Gorgeous. Go
Speaker 3: there Buchanans Plants dot com. Buchanans Plants dot com. Sign
Speaker 3: up for the newsletter. It is a load of good information.
Speaker 3: They've got plants, they got the fertilizers that I talk
Speaker 3: about on Gardenine. They've got a wonderful gift shop. And
Speaker 3: they're on Eleventh Street in the heights. Let's see, let's
Speaker 3: go to Donnie now in Montgomery, Texas. Hey, Donnie, welcome
Speaker 3: to garden Line.
Speaker 20: Good morning is good.
Speaker 30: I I cannot remember new to the Montgomery area. And
Speaker 30: you'd mentioned in the place to buy good fruit trees
Speaker 30: out there that will actually produce in this climate, and
Speaker 30: I cannot remember what that one?
Speaker 13: Would you?
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, your garden center, your hometown, your hometown garden center.
Speaker 3: Right there is a and A Plants and Produce there
Speaker 3: on the east side of Montgomery on one oh five,
Speaker 3: just on the edge of town as sure if you're
Speaker 3: going toward Conrad there on the left. So I would
Speaker 3: go there and I would talk to them, and they
Speaker 3: do carry free trees they have. I saw blueberries out
Speaker 3: there the other day, and I was trying to think
Speaker 3: of what else I did I notice. I was walking around,
Speaker 3: just kind of getting a lay of the land. They're
Speaker 3: probably going to be getting some others in, so you
Speaker 3: may want to give them a call or just stop
Speaker 3: in either way, but find out what they're getting and
Speaker 3: when so you can and maybe you know it may
Speaker 3: be that they can order for you depend on what
Speaker 3: the plan is. They may be able. Maybe they don't
Speaker 3: normally carry it, but they can get in. I know
Speaker 3: they have citrus right now out there at Ana Plants
Speaker 3: the last time I looked, too, so i'd give them
Speaker 3: a call. They're your backyard garden center. We got some
Speaker 3: others that aren't too far from you as well, but
Speaker 3: I would start there at A and E since you're
Speaker 3: there in Montgomery.
Speaker 30: Okay, all right, that's what I needed.
Speaker 3: You've got good luck with that, and call in anytime.
Speaker 3: We want to get you to have good success at
Speaker 3: your new place out there. We're going to go run
Speaker 3: now to Mike and let's see here if I can
Speaker 3: find the right button. Hey, Mike, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 24: Good morning, Skip real quick, I'd like to know how
Speaker 24: to get rid of a ever growing or increasing in
Speaker 24: size clump of bamboo cane out behind my garage. It's
Speaker 24: been there for years. I cut it back. It seems
Speaker 24: the more I cut it, the bigger the ball of
Speaker 24: it gets.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so it's a clump, not a running bamboo.
Speaker 24: That's now it's just one big giant clump. But it's
Speaker 24: got it's gotten big. I mean it started out as
Speaker 24: maybe a putting around, a put a half around, and
Speaker 24: now how you've got four feet around?
Speaker 3: Okay. If you go online to my website Gardening with
Speaker 3: Skip dot com, there's a publication it's called Herbicides for
Speaker 3: Skips weed wiper. But it's not just for the weed wiper,
Speaker 3: but it has by type of plant, which ingredients and
Speaker 3: then there's a list of products for that ingredient that
Speaker 3: you would get retail. You want a grass killer or
Speaker 3: you want to use glyphosate on those plants. Now, grass
Speaker 3: killers kill any grass, bamboos of grass. The glyphosate kills
Speaker 3: any plant in bamboos a plant, but don't get it
Speaker 3: on anything desirable. If when the shoots are coming up,
Speaker 3: you can wipe them with herbicide using my weed wiper.
Speaker 3: It shows you how to make one if you want
Speaker 3: to do that, or just spray the foliage and just
Speaker 3: stay with it. And if the bamboo needs to be
Speaker 3: actively growing for it to be effective. But those products
Speaker 3: will be effective, but you might start by, you know,
Speaker 3: cutting it all back to the ground again and when
Speaker 3: the new growth comes out, after it gets a foot
Speaker 3: or so high, you got some leaves to work with,
Speaker 3: begin to apply those to it and you just have
Speaker 3: to stay with it. It's got a ton of storage
Speaker 3: capacity underground, so one little application is not going to
Speaker 3: get rid of it. All you got to. You gotta
Speaker 3: kind of knock it back and then knock it back again.
Speaker 24: Okay, Well, thank you very much. I enjoy your show,
Speaker 24: and you've been very helpful.
Speaker 3: All right. You know, if you knew what kind you had,
Speaker 3: I bet there's some gardeners that come dig it up
Speaker 3: for you. A lot of people won't get this thing
Speaker 3: out of it. That's right, all right, man, I'm just
Speaker 3: trying to make you a few bucks. Got to buy
Speaker 3: those Christmas you might enjoy its. Thanks for the call.
Speaker 3: That's it. Yeah, there you go. You do need tobacco. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I need to write a humorous piece sometime. Plants you
Speaker 3: need a baco to get rid of. One of them
Speaker 3: is crying thems too. If you've ever tried to dig
Speaker 3: up a crinum, it'll kill you. All right, time for
Speaker 3: take a break. I'll be right back for our last segment.
Speaker 3: Hang around if you won't give us a call seven
Speaker 3: months listening the end of the day. We always appreciate
Speaker 3: having folks listen. I know I've got a lot of
Speaker 3: shy folks out there that listen but won't call in.
Speaker 3: I know that you should should call in, should ask
Speaker 3: your questions if you If you got a question, other
Speaker 3: people will too, and we will treat it with respect
Speaker 3: and make sure you get a good answer. That's how
Speaker 3: this works, all right. Well, gosh, there's so many things
Speaker 3: to talk about. I'm trying to figure out what to
Speaker 3: do with our last bit of the time here today.
Speaker 3: First of all, I want to tell you about some
Speaker 3: of the liquid products for Microlife because falls for planting
Speaker 3: and when you put a plant in the ground, to
Speaker 3: drench it in, to water it in with a good
Speaker 3: quality product, it really helps.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 3: I like the Biomatrix that's an orange label, orange label.
Speaker 3: It's a seven to one to three fertilizer. I use
Speaker 3: it for my indoor plants, and I can use it
Speaker 3: for outdoor plants too. It works good for that as well.
Speaker 3: There is a couple of products though, that I think
Speaker 3: you should consider when when you're watering a new plant in,
Speaker 3: things like the Microlife super Seaweed, the Microlife Ocean Harvest,
Speaker 3: the Microlife Liquid Humtes plus those are all excellent products
Speaker 3: for watering a new plant.
Speaker 4: In.
Speaker 3: They've got one now in a court bottle called Microlife
Speaker 3: Soil and Plant Energy, and it is a very effective product.
Speaker 3: It's a liquid and it provides the things that are
Speaker 3: necessary in the soil so that plant can produce success.
Speaker 3: That includes bigger that includes roots, that includes flowers or
Speaker 3: fruit or whatever you need. And they're all available from Microlife.
Speaker 3: Just mix them in, drench them in. Their natural products
Speaker 3: are not salt based. You're not king of burn plants
Speaker 3: with them. Just follow the label, dilute it down, make
Speaker 3: it go farther and it works really well. I like
Speaker 3: also their Microlife Humic Acid Complex. It's got humic acid
Speaker 3: and fulvic acid in it. And then the micro Grow
Speaker 3: liquid ap Do you hear how many products these are.
Speaker 3: They're all from Microlife. If you don't learn about them,
Speaker 3: go to Microlife for Fertilizer dot com Microlife Fertilizer dot com.
Speaker 3: They're widely available here in the Greater Houston area. In fact,
Speaker 3: they're widely available for outside of our area as well.
Speaker 3: But Microlife products work, and we talk a lot about
Speaker 3: the dry product, you know, the sixty four for summer
Speaker 3: fertilizing the lawn, the brown patch for fall fertilizing the
Speaker 3: bioinoculant that I keep recommending to you for adding to
Speaker 3: the brown patch to give better biological activity on the
Speaker 3: grass plant and around the root system for better success.
Speaker 3: Those are all there. But try some of these liquid products.
Speaker 3: They work well. Just keep them on hand. Anytime you're
Speaker 3: doing any thing for your plans, give them a boost
Speaker 3: of that, and you're going to find good success. That's
Speaker 3: how that works. Our phone number seven one three two
Speaker 3: one two five eight seven four or seven one three
Speaker 3: two one two KTRH. If that makes it a little
Speaker 3: easier for you. Now, I usually say this at the
Speaker 3: end of the show, and that is that people wait
Speaker 3: to call until the last minute and then you can't
Speaker 3: get in. I actually have an open board right now
Speaker 3: and I got about room for two calls probably, So
Speaker 3: if you like to give us a call and have
Speaker 3: a question, we could still do that. And if den
Speaker 3: calls occur, well, good luck. We'll just we'll just go
Speaker 3: with it that way. I wanted to mention a couple
Speaker 3: of other things about the fall season that we're entering.
Speaker 3: The season we are we are. We're waiting for the
Speaker 3: call front to hit. But if you look at the calendar.
Speaker 3: It's fall, and we got to go by the calendar
Speaker 3: because you never know when when we're entering the fall season.
Speaker 3: I would encourage you to think about it as a
Speaker 3: time to plan your renovations. You know, we've had another
Speaker 3: one of those summers that takes its toll on our plants.
Speaker 3: Absolutely takes a toll on our plants. And when we
Speaker 3: have that kind of thing, you can walk around right now,
Speaker 3: maybe this morning, get out there, walk around a little bit,
Speaker 3: a cup of coffee in your hand, and take a look.
Speaker 3: See what you see. Where's the lawn struggling. Maybe it's
Speaker 3: an area that you just can't water really well and
Speaker 3: it's struggling there. Maybe something else needs to be put there.
Speaker 3: Maybe you got a plant that's in too much shade
Speaker 3: or too much sun that's struggling. Maybe you look at
Speaker 3: your landscape and it's like, that's a sea of green.
Speaker 3: I mean green's pretty, but green, green and green. How
Speaker 3: about some other colors? What could we do there? What
Speaker 3: would be a fall blooming plant that would be blooming
Speaker 3: right now in the next couple now, in the coming month,
Speaker 3: that would go good there? Do that landscape planning, because
Speaker 3: fall is for planning. Whether you plant it this month
Speaker 3: or next month, or even if you wait till spring.
Speaker 3: Now's a good time because now shows you the truth.
Speaker 3: You know, this is when the ugly tends to be out.
Speaker 3: The end of summer. Our landscapes are tired. The landscapers
Speaker 3: are tired. We're hiding inside in the air conditioning, and
Speaker 3: our plants are screaming for us to get out there
Speaker 3: and water. Now's a good time to look because it
Speaker 3: gives you a chance to determine what needs to be done.
Speaker 3: What would I like to change, And we always need
Speaker 3: to be changing our plants, you know. Inside the house,
Speaker 3: you know, people occasionally repaint, I don't know. They may
Speaker 3: redo the furniture, put new drapes in or something like that,
Speaker 3: just to kind of spruce it up, make it look better,
Speaker 3: or just have a change. You know, do you still
Speaker 3: have those avocado colored appliances from nineteen seventies. It's time
Speaker 3: to change. The same is true in your landscape. Get
Speaker 3: out and check it out. Drive around towns, notice what
Speaker 3: you like. Go to a botanical garden it's beautiful, and
Speaker 3: get ideas. But mainly just walk around. Stand out at
Speaker 3: the street. You don't live at that house, at your house,
Speaker 3: but pretend you don't live there. You just drove up
Speaker 3: and looked what could be improved on? What could be
Speaker 3: improved by walk out in the backyard. You know, yeah,
Speaker 3: I haven't been out here because it's so blazing hot
Speaker 3: this summer. Okay, how about a trellis over that patio
Speaker 3: with a vine on it. Maybe a trellis with grapes
Speaker 3: on it, that's kind of cool that western wall. Go
Speaker 3: out and let's see do this. Go ahead at seven
Speaker 3: o'clock at night, put your hand on the western wall
Speaker 3: to your house and feel how hot it is. That
Speaker 3: heat is radiating back into your house into the early
Speaker 3: evening hours, and you're paying air conditioning money to overcome it.
Speaker 3: How about a vine, a trellis and a vine to
Speaker 3: shade that western wall, or maybe plant a tree there
Speaker 3: that can provide you that shange. Do you see what
Speaker 3: I'm talking about. I'm talking about getting out and planning,
Speaker 3: thinking about what would be better, what would look better.
Speaker 3: Maybe you got an area that's really a maintenance headache.
Speaker 3: It just is for whatever reason. How about changing that plan?
Speaker 3: How about doing something different there that is lower maintenance.
Speaker 3: You should always landscape with maintenance and mind. Among your
Speaker 3: other things, among the beauty and aesthetics, maintenance is a
Speaker 3: big deal. I do not create right angles in my
Speaker 3: lawn anymore. Quit doing that long time ago. Right angles.
Speaker 3: You run the lawn more up to them, and then
Speaker 3: you got to back up and try to go sideways down.
Speaker 3: A nice smooth curve that you can mow around is
Speaker 3: so much easier. It's a simple little maintenance trick that
Speaker 3: works really really well. Look at the weeds. If you
Speaker 3: got weeds, chances are you don't have good mulch cover. Now,
Speaker 3: there's some weeds that grow through maults, and that said
Speaker 3: bermuda grass grows through maults. But a lot of weeds
Speaker 3: are because we let sunlight hit the soil. Look at
Speaker 3: your lawn. Do you have weedy areas?
Speaker 4: All? Right?
Speaker 8: There?
Speaker 3: You go fall fertilizer. Let's get that thing strong. And
Speaker 3: next year you're going to mow, water and fertilize regularly,
Speaker 3: and your lawn's going to be sedentsa weeds. He doesn't
Speaker 3: have a chance, not a chance, because he can't get sunlight.
Speaker 3: Simple tip, simple topics, simple ideas, simple tricks, simple things
Speaker 3: to check, and let's make gardening more successful and more fun. Now,
Speaker 3: how about the fall garden. What have you not grown
Speaker 3: before that you might want to try? The fall garden
Speaker 3: is green season greens like kale, and collars like lettuce
Speaker 3: and spinach, like a regular with its nutty flavor, like sorel,
Speaker 3: which it's with its lemony flavors. Those are all cool
Speaker 3: season greens. They do really really well here. How about
Speaker 3: some of the Asian greens. Oh my gosh, there's so
Speaker 3: many good ones. Bock Choys about as easy as you
Speaker 3: can get. You just can't beat back choice. There's another
Speaker 3: one called chi jemsi. Oh boy, that's a long word.
Speaker 3: C h I j I m I s A. If
Speaker 3: you don't get that, listen to the podcast g GMSI
Speaker 3: is mild. It's not so mustardy as some Asian grands are.
Speaker 3: It's wonderful. If you're never grown it for the why
Speaker 3: not try it. If you don't like it, that's okay,
Speaker 3: But what if you do. It's a new thing to
Speaker 3: add to your salads, to add zip and flavor and
Speaker 3: interest new. Try something new. What rows would you like
Speaker 3: to have? You got a sunny spot for it, or
Speaker 3: a large large container you can grow a smaller rose in.
Speaker 3: Try one of those this fall. I guess what I'm
Speaker 3: saying is, let's get out and have fun. Use your imagination.
Speaker 3: You know, if we wait until fall for blooming plants,
Speaker 3: well we should have planted them before so we could
Speaker 3: enjoy them in the fall. That's the idea. Hey, next Saturday,
Speaker 3: Enchanted Forest one thirty or eleven thirty to one thirty.
Speaker 8: Be there.