Speaker 1: Kat r H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any
Speaker 1: of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome
Speaker 1: to kt r H Garden Line with Skip ricteres.
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Speaker 5: Good morning, good morning on a great heay for gardening.
Speaker 5: I tell you, as we get further and further into
Speaker 5: this fall season, the temperature start to modify a little bit,
Speaker 5: it just makes you want to get outside. There's a
Speaker 5: lot to be done, you know, all is the planting season.
Speaker 5: And I keep saying that, and I hope that I can.
Speaker 5: You know, if I could do one thing. I've said
Speaker 5: this before, but if I could find some little drops
Speaker 5: of fall fever and put them in the water supply
Speaker 5: for all the communities around here, so that people would
Speaker 5: get the excitement from spring gardening, that they would get
Speaker 5: it in the fall, because fall is at least as
Speaker 5: good of a season as spring, and it's actually even
Speaker 5: a better season. When you're planning woody ornamentals, any kind
Speaker 5: of perennials, whatever, whatever you're putting in, it follows a
Speaker 5: planning season. It's the good one. It's the best one.
Speaker 5: You can plant twelve months out of the year here.
Speaker 5: That's one of the advantages of living down this far
Speaker 5: south in the country that we can plant every month
Speaker 5: of the year something out there in the garden and landscape.
Speaker 5: Summer's a tough time. We have to that's the price
Speaker 5: to pay for getting to grow things like avocado or
Speaker 5: a citrus, or a lot of things that are kind
Speaker 5: of cold, hardy, cold tender. Excuse me. In other areas
Speaker 5: we have to deal with the summer. But hey, that's
Speaker 5: behind us. It is time to get fall fever and
Speaker 5: get excited because there's a lot that we can be planning.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 5: We love our feed stores here on guard Line and
Speaker 5: Leak City. Feed down there in Leake City. It serves
Speaker 5: that whole area, so I don't care if you live
Speaker 5: anywhere around there, Lamark Bay, Cliff, Webster, League City, Santa Fe, Dickinson, Elka, MI.
Speaker 5: In a real color, Lake City, all those areas. Leake
Speaker 5: City feeds your hometown feed store. They're on Highway three
Speaker 5: in Leake City, just a few blocks south of Highway
Speaker 5: ninety six, very easy to get to. The Thunderbergs have
Speaker 5: run that store now it's third generation now running. That
Speaker 5: store's been there over forty years ago, and you can
Speaker 5: go in there and get that old time feed store service.
Speaker 5: You know where they carry the bags out for you. Also,
Speaker 5: when you get in there, you hear me talk about
Speaker 5: fertilizers and products and soils and things to control this
Speaker 5: pest or that disease or prevent this weed or whatever.
Speaker 5: It's all there. City Feed. It makes it really easy.
Speaker 5: Monday through Saturday, nine to six, closed on Sunday, closed
Speaker 5: today or tomorrow, So you can get out there today
Speaker 5: or any day after work during the week. Just stop
Speaker 5: by and get the products you need to have success.
Speaker 5: Sales products of course, feed, premium pet food, some supplies
Speaker 5: for various kinds of craters around the place. League City
Speaker 5: Feed again Highway three, a few blocks south of Highway
Speaker 5: ninety six. When see when was it, I don't know,
Speaker 5: recently checking out the plans for all seasons. It's a
Speaker 5: little blank there in the morning checking out plants for
Speaker 5: all seasons. They have gotten in one of the coolest
Speaker 5: plants that is way underutilized around here, and that is
Speaker 5: the adenium. It's also called desert rose. And boy did
Speaker 5: they ever have a great stock of it desert rose.
Speaker 5: I can't even describe the ballooms, do you. I'll just
Speaker 5: tell you all kinds of shades of red to burgundy
Speaker 5: so deep that it's black, to petals that are speckled
Speaker 5: and striped, and all kinds of beautiful. That is a
Speaker 5: tough plant. I mean, in fact, you know how you
Speaker 5: kill doesn't rose. You overwater it. So all you got
Speaker 5: to do. All you got to do is just get
Speaker 5: it in a really well drained soil, which is what
Speaker 5: it comes in when you buy it, and then make
Speaker 5: sure it gets full sunlight and just watered occasionally. You
Speaker 5: don't have to water it a lot. Just if it's
Speaker 5: going to freeze, you got to bring that little pot
Speaker 5: in protect it. But oh my gosh, the blooms are stunning,
Speaker 5: and they got them there plants for all seasons. They
Speaker 5: are stocked up and ready to go. Of course, while
Speaker 5: you're by there lots of other things. They have a
Speaker 5: really good supply of roses. And I know everybody thinks
Speaker 5: about roses on Valentine's Day, right, That's when you pun
Speaker 5: your roses. That's when you plant your roses. It is
Speaker 5: better to plant a rose today than on Valentine's Day.
Speaker 5: So go by there and get a rose, get it
Speaker 5: in your landscape, get it established. By the time Valentine's
Speaker 5: Day comes, the rose you planted now will already be
Speaker 5: establishing roots out in the soil and have a big
Speaker 5: head start on summer. They also have pots of marigoals,
Speaker 5: you know, marrigals. We call the big African type marigals
Speaker 5: marramums because if you plant them in the fall, they
Speaker 5: just glow like big old palm palm mums. I mean,
Speaker 5: they're beautiful, beautiful. And so if you have a chrysanthemum,
Speaker 5: or don't have a chrysanthemum, why not try marigold from
Speaker 5: Plants for all seasons just a few of the brazilion
Speaker 5: plants they have there, And you know when you go there,
Speaker 5: you're going to get great success. Family owned business owned
Speaker 5: and operate since nineteen seventy three. And when we talk
Speaker 5: when we brag about mom and pop garden centers, local
Speaker 5: garden centers, the knowledge you get, the service you get.
Speaker 5: We're talking about plants for all seasons, full service retail
Speaker 5: garden center since nineteen seventy three. Go to the website
Speaker 5: plants for All Seasons dot com or give them a
Speaker 5: call two eight one three seven six one six or six.
Speaker 5: Well garden line is a call in show and if
Speaker 5: you would like to call in, our phone number is
Speaker 5: seven to one three two one two k t r
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Speaker 5: It's always kind of quiet first thing in the morning.
Speaker 5: And I tell people that, you know, that's the easiest
Speaker 5: time to get through and not have to wait long
Speaker 5: on a on a call, first thing in the morning.
Speaker 5: So the word of the wise, we'll get pretty busy
Speaker 5: as things go through the day. Here. Uh, it is
Speaker 5: fall fertilizing season. It is time to get that done.
Speaker 5: It is also the time to put down something to
Speaker 5: prevent the weeds that come up in your lawn. If
Speaker 5: your lawn is thin, maybe drought hit it, maybe just
Speaker 5: you know, compacted soil. I don't know, uh, whatever the
Speaker 5: reason is. If sunlight hits the soil, nature plants a weed.
Speaker 5: And if you want to get your fertilizing done and
Speaker 5: your weed prevention done in one step, Nelson carbl load
Speaker 5: is the thing you need to do. Nelson carble load.
Speaker 5: So all you have to do is go buy your
Speaker 5: local garden center, feed stores, Ace hardware stores. You know
Speaker 5: Southwest Fertilizers, people carry Nelson's Plant Foods and carbo Load
Speaker 5: covers five thousand square feet. It's packed with the right
Speaker 5: ratio of nutrients for fall. Carbo Load is the fall
Speaker 5: fertilizer from Nelson's and it also has that pre emergent
Speaker 5: so put it down soon. If you wait until weed
Speaker 5: seeds germinate, it's hard to prevent them germinating and establishing
Speaker 5: if they're already up and growing. Get it down and
Speaker 5: watered in immediately. When you finish with the fertilizer spreader,
Speaker 5: turn on the water about a half inch water. Get
Speaker 5: that down in the soil. That gets the nutrients down.
Speaker 5: It gets the prevention of weed, the product that prevents
Speaker 5: weeds down in the surface where it locks into the
Speaker 5: soil and says no weed can come through here. Nelson
Speaker 5: carbo Load from the folks at Nelson Fertilizer. We're going
Speaker 5: to head out now to League City and talk to Jackie.
Speaker 5: Good morning, Jackie, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 6: Good morning. I have a question. I have purchased what's
Speaker 6: called a root beer plant. I don't know what the
Speaker 6: proper name for it is, but is it okay that
Speaker 6: I put that plant that in the ground now, or
Speaker 6: should I wait, like overwintered in the greenhouse and then
Speaker 6: prying it in the spring.
Speaker 5: You can do it either way. It is a root
Speaker 5: hardy plant, so if you plant it now, just throw
Speaker 5: a bunch of mulch over the soil, just kind of
Speaker 5: give a little bit of a blanket to hold that
Speaker 5: soil temperature in h and it should be fine.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Okay. I also bought a Oh, I can't think
Speaker 6: of it right now. I think it's in the same
Speaker 6: line of that. So I was just you know, I'm
Speaker 6: just on the fence of should I put it in
Speaker 6: the ground or like just baby it or just go
Speaker 6: ahead and put it in the greenhouse, so I might
Speaker 6: just protect it.
Speaker 7: I don't know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you can do it either way. It doesn't really matter.
Speaker 5: You know, in a good cold snap, it'll it'll it'll
Speaker 5: take the back top back, but the roots roots will
Speaker 5: be fine. If if that's why I throw the mulch on,
Speaker 5: that's a little extra insurance if you're gonna.
Speaker 2: Go and plant it out.
Speaker 6: Okay, And what about Pride Barbados? Is that a freeze tolerant?
Speaker 5: That one is on the on the line. Uh And
Speaker 5: most winters it comes back just fine here, no problems
Speaker 5: of uh it just if we have one of the
Speaker 5: doozy winters that we can have, uh, you know, you
Speaker 5: can get some damage on it, but just know this,
Speaker 5: go ahead and plant it out, don't don't hold off
Speaker 5: on that one. And do mulch it too at the
Speaker 5: base pretty good. I'd put about four inches of mulch
Speaker 5: over the crown and base of the plant, okay, and
Speaker 5: it will freeze back most likely. And uh in spring,
Speaker 5: you're gonna think it died. It didn't. It just it's
Speaker 5: like a teenager on a Saturday morning. It doesn't want
Speaker 5: to wake up until that.
Speaker 8: Okay.
Speaker 5: So if you don't see signs of life movement, I
Speaker 5: just think of it the way I've described That's the
Speaker 5: best way I can describe that plant.
Speaker 6: Well, I've learned to kind of hold off. I've learned
Speaker 6: to hold off and like it might be.
Speaker 5: So much.
Speaker 9: It is.
Speaker 6: Will thank you so much.
Speaker 5: All right, you take care, you have a good day.
Speaker 5: All right, folks, we're going you two, We're gonna take
Speaker 5: a little break here. I'll be right back. Welcome back,
Speaker 5: Welcome back to garden Line. On a great day for gardening.
Speaker 5: You know, every day is a good day for gardening.
Speaker 5: I know it hadn't rained since I don't know when.
Speaker 5: Maybe you got to look up the other day. But
Speaker 5: first I'm still high and dry. But you know, it
Speaker 5: don't matter if it's pouring rains. A good day for
Speaker 5: gardening because we've got all kinds of things that we
Speaker 5: can do inside, from planning to starting seeds, to take
Speaker 5: care of house plants. There's always stuff to be doing
Speaker 5: propagating plants indoors, so the weather does not stop us
Speaker 5: from gardening. There is lots and lots to do. In fact,
Speaker 5: I got a box full of seeds. Then I wanted
Speaker 5: to start some transplants from a cool, cool season garden
Speaker 5: and I still haven't got them planted. With our nice
Speaker 5: mile winters here out and plan all winter, so I'll
Speaker 5: get it done. But anyway, always something we can be
Speaker 5: doing out there for gardening. Ace Hardware Store is going
Speaker 5: to have you covered with whatever you're going to be
Speaker 5: doing for gardening. You know, when it comes to the
Speaker 5: fall season, we got three big activities that happen in
Speaker 5: the lawns. There is the fertilizing with the fall fertilizer
Speaker 5: there is the weed prevention. The cool season. Weeds germinate
Speaker 5: in the fall, so those things you deal with in
Speaker 5: spring that are just sprout and everwhere, and weeds you know,
Speaker 5: clover and chickweed and handbit and all that stuff that
Speaker 5: started in the fall, and a pre emergent would prevent that.
Speaker 5: Third thing is disease prevention. The big brown circles. They
Speaker 5: are appearing in lawns already. I'm seeing them everywhere, and
Speaker 5: you got to get ahead of them by the time.
Speaker 5: When you apply a product, it gets in the plant
Speaker 5: and it stops it from getting sick, if you will,
Speaker 5: from the brown path, your large patches it's now called.
Speaker 5: But you got to get down ahead of time. If
Speaker 5: you already got some circles, you can put it down
Speaker 5: prevent additional ones, not going to make the ones you
Speaker 5: have green, but the sooner the better. And ACE Hardware's
Speaker 5: got you covered on all those things to care for
Speaker 5: your lawn. It makes it super super easy when you
Speaker 5: just go to ACE. For example, they've got the Texas
Speaker 5: three Step, which is Nitroposs's products that do exactly what
Speaker 5: I just said, three steps fertilizer, weed prevention, turf funge aside,
Speaker 5: those three, So do them all. Do them all the
Speaker 5: same time, same date, not in the same hopper. Just
Speaker 5: do them all together. You can apply them and then
Speaker 5: you want to water the whole nine yards, all three
Speaker 5: of them. Water men. About a half inch of water
Speaker 5: gets a fertilizer in the ground, gets the weed prevention
Speaker 5: in the soles surface, and it gets the fung aside
Speaker 5: in the ground. And this is interesting. You think, well,
Speaker 5: why I want to put on a lawn, Why don't
Speaker 5: I want to wash it down in the soil. It
Speaker 5: takes up by the roots. It's systemic, and it's like
Speaker 5: you take in an antibiotic and now a disease comes
Speaker 5: or is attacking your body, and it shuts it down
Speaker 5: from the inside. That's what Eagle turfungicide does. You can
Speaker 5: find nitro foss products a lot of different places. You know,
Speaker 5: Ace Hardwur's has them, Katie Ash Hardware, which is where
Speaker 5: I'm going to be a little bit later. I'll tell
Speaker 5: you about that in just a second. If you go
Speaker 5: to Aspase Ace up in the Woodlands, for example, or
Speaker 5: if you were to go down to Ace Hardware City
Speaker 5: on Memorial Drive, all those are places you can get
Speaker 5: the Nitrofoss three step and yes, I'm going to be
Speaker 5: at Katie Hardware. Katie Hardware that is on pin Oak
Speaker 5: Road and Katie I'll be there today. I hope you'll
Speaker 5: come out and see me. Do you have a plant?
Speaker 5: This is a last appearance of the year that I'm
Speaker 5: doing anywhere toward the West side. So if you live
Speaker 5: in central to West Houston or this whole area, see Lee.
Speaker 5: You know Waller down in Heck, Doune and Wharton, if
Speaker 5: you're down there, come on them and see me at
Speaker 5: Katie A's Hardware. I'll be there answering your gardening questions.
Speaker 5: I'm going to have some information on hand to guide you.
Speaker 5: I've got some new schedule, I got my schedules. I've
Speaker 5: got some new publication stuff that I'm going to be
Speaker 5: bringing with me. But come on out. I want to
Speaker 5: get picture made with you. I want to visit with
Speaker 5: you on the phone. Here on the radio show, we
Speaker 5: visit for a short time. There it's face to face.
Speaker 5: We've got time to talk about things. And what usually
Speaker 5: happens at these events is, you know, people will gather
Speaker 5: and when someone walks up with a question, I'll just
Speaker 5: start talking about to the whole group because I don't know,
Speaker 5: maybe you brought in a picture of a weed and
Speaker 5: somebody else has that weed, but they didn't happen to
Speaker 5: come in for that today. But they can learn from
Speaker 5: what I'm telling you. And that's kind of how that works.
Speaker 5: It's a fun time. We always have a good time. Boy.
Speaker 5: Nitropos is going to be given away a lot several
Speaker 5: bags of each of the three steps from the Nitropaus
Speaker 5: three Step, the fertilizer, the barricade, and the Eagle Turf
Speaker 5: fund aside. But you got to come out to Katie
Speaker 5: Ace Hardware, Katie Hardware on Pinoak Road. It's an Ace
Speaker 5: store Katie Hardware on Pinoak Road. Come out and see me,
Speaker 5: and you got a good chance to win. I mean
Speaker 5: that there's a lot of products that they're gonna be
Speaker 5: given out. All right, Well, there you go. I'll tell
Speaker 5: you more about that as we go through. But right now,
Speaker 5: just you know, wake up if somebody's house is sleep
Speaker 5: and just say wake up and get ready because right
Speaker 5: after the show today we got to we gotta go
Speaker 5: to Katie Hardware. I'm gonna head out to Jay now
Speaker 5: in Deer Park. Hey, j welcome, to garden.
Speaker 10: Good morning, Hey, Skip, good morning, Good morning. I've got
Speaker 10: some of the brown spots showing up in my yard.
Speaker 10: I send over some pictures. I'm not sure if you've
Speaker 10: got those available, and I wanted to get your expert
Speaker 10: opinion before I start throwing stuff at it.
Speaker 5: All right, I don't see the name Jay on a picture.
Speaker 4: Let's see.
Speaker 5: Uh can you tell me? Would it have come from
Speaker 5: another name?
Speaker 4: Maybe Jane? The title of it was Jay from Deer Park.
Speaker 5: Well, I'm not seeing it. Let's keep talking about it,
Speaker 5: and I'm gonna keep looking.
Speaker 2: But all right, it's a pretty healthy yard.
Speaker 4: I follow most of the schedule.
Speaker 10: I haven't put down any of the fall stuff yet
Speaker 10: to plan on doing it this weekend. But the past
Speaker 10: week or so, I've noticed some brown spots that have
Speaker 10: come in. They're not their regular in shape, but they're
Speaker 10: definitely not as green and a little bit different than
Speaker 10: the rest of the yard.
Speaker 4: And I'm assume.
Speaker 5: They don't look like that brown patch you're saying, Well,
Speaker 5: they're not circular, Okay, James or j I didn't I
Speaker 5: did not get your email. I don't know what's happened,
Speaker 5: but all right, Uh, we can do we can do
Speaker 5: a couple of things. I'll give you a quick answer here,
Speaker 5: and then if you want to try Reese, I'm gonna
Speaker 5: put you on hold and have the producer regive you
Speaker 5: my email to make sure you have the right address,
Speaker 5: and if you want to resend it, if I see it,
Speaker 5: I'll just talk about it on the air. If there's
Speaker 5: anything else to add. Okay, So if they're not circular,
Speaker 5: brown patch doesn't have to be circular, but it generally is,
Speaker 5: and it generally you kind of have a yellowing going
Speaker 5: on and then it actually you know, rots and the
Speaker 5: leaves rot and turned brown. If it's not that, it
Speaker 5: could be it could be taken root rot just finally
Speaker 5: showing some symptoms on there. It could be I don't know.
Speaker 5: There's not really another disease other than those two that
Speaker 5: is that we see these kind of symptoms on, especially
Speaker 5: this time of year. It's not chinchbugs. So I still
Speaker 5: am leaning toward some type of rizoctonia. That's the group
Speaker 5: of diseases that brown patches in.
Speaker 10: And the treatment for that, whether it be take our
Speaker 10: rot rot or the brown patch, it's still I cross
Speaker 10: eagle or something like that.
Speaker 4: It's the same.
Speaker 5: Yeah, eagle turf fund, eagle turf fund, just side, follow
Speaker 5: the label, put it down, and then water it in
Speaker 5: right away and get it in the ground, get so
Speaker 5: the roots can take it up. And you got that
Speaker 5: product in the plumbing of the plant to fight against
Speaker 5: whatever might might attack.
Speaker 10: And and the thought as far as just the application
Speaker 10: of that, if I do my pre emergent and fertilizer first,
Speaker 10: water those in and then lastly go over with the
Speaker 10: fund side with the water in, that is that I
Speaker 10: would do.
Speaker 5: If in my yard, I would do all three and
Speaker 5: then water it in. I mean, so you could get
Speaker 5: fill your hopper full of fertilizer, do it, come right back,
Speaker 5: get the barricade, do it, come right back, get the eagle,
Speaker 5: do it, and then water the whole thing in. Just
Speaker 5: don't appreciate it together in the same hopper.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I've heard you say that before, so I appreciate that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, that's true. All right, let's see it. Well,
Speaker 5: I'm gonna put you on hold and go ahead and
Speaker 5: send me the pictures. Just maybe i'll see something that
Speaker 5: didn't occur to me. Okay, I will thank you. All right,
Speaker 5: you take care, all right, folks, you are listening to
Speaker 5: garden Line our phone number seven one three two one
Speaker 5: two fifty eight seventy four. Uh, have you been to Cienamulch.
Speaker 5: Cienamulch is down south of town, and it's the place
Speaker 5: I talk about as being the place to get the
Speaker 5: brown stuff brown stuff for green stuff, meaning get the soil.
Speaker 5: Right when you go to Sienna. You've got by bag
Speaker 5: and by bulk all the famous garden line, famous mulches
Speaker 5: and soil products from all kinds of place. You got
Speaker 5: all the fertilizers that I talk about here. You know,
Speaker 5: whether it's Nelson's or Microlife or as amide or nitrofoss
Speaker 5: or Medina. You're gonna have landscapers, pride, you're gonna have airloom.
Speaker 5: So everything you need you can go pick it up yourself.
Speaker 5: They'll deliver within twenty miles. They are located on five
Speaker 5: twenty one FM five twenty one, just in Well, just
Speaker 5: north really or near rather the highway six and two
Speaker 5: eighty eight. Here's the website, Sienna Mulch dot com. You
Speaker 5: really need to check them out. They're open today till
Speaker 5: two o'clock. All right, we're gonna go to break. I'll
Speaker 5: be right back, all right, welcome back, Welcome back to gardening.
Speaker 5: We are a call in show, meaning you got a question,
Speaker 5: you may call seven one three two one two k
Speaker 5: t r H. Seven one three two one two k
Speaker 5: t r H. I was really impressed checking out Ugandas
Speaker 5: Native Plants, which is on Eleventh Street and the Heights.
Speaker 5: For those of you haven't been there yet, you really
Speaker 5: need to go. They specialize in natives. Now they don't
Speaker 5: only have natives. I mean they have a ton of
Speaker 5: other things, any kind of you know, do you want
Speaker 5: annual color, do you want vegetables, do you want herbs?
Speaker 5: Their houseplant greenhouse is huge. It's it's unbelievable. You need
Speaker 5: plants for shade, you need fruiting plants. But natives, that is,
Speaker 5: they have the best selection natives anywhere in the region,
Speaker 5: really really good selection. And I was just looking at
Speaker 5: some of the different kinds of plants that they have
Speaker 5: and it reminded me of something. And I don't talk
Speaker 5: a lot about a yopon. You know, there are a
Speaker 5: number of different types of yopon, but they're berries are
Speaker 5: just gorgeous during the cool season. Now, I will say this,
Speaker 5: you got little bitty kids that don't know not to
Speaker 5: put stuff in their mouth. Well, yopon berries are a purgative.
Speaker 5: In other words, they make you throw up. Do you
Speaker 5: know what The genus of our species of yopon is
Speaker 5: Vomitoria ilex vomitoria. That ought to tell you something. Sorry
Speaker 5: for that so early in the morning. But I love
Speaker 5: those plants. I got one in my backyard and it
Speaker 5: loads up with berries. Bring them in for decorating, just
Speaker 5: enjoy them in the landscape. But they don't have yopon.
Speaker 5: They've got a lot of other things. How about possum
Speaker 5: hau Possum hauw is like a deciduous think of a yopon,
Speaker 5: this decidious sort of like that's the different species. But
Speaker 5: it drops it sleeves and now you have all of
Speaker 5: these branches, naked branches with berries all over them in
Speaker 5: the cool season. That's another great one. They have things
Speaker 5: that are just well. I could just go on and
Speaker 5: on naming specific natives, but you need to go You
Speaker 5: really need to go by and check it out. If
Speaker 5: you want flowers, if you want berries, if you want
Speaker 5: fall color, do you want shrubs, trees, groundcovers. They have
Speaker 5: natives for everything there. And native plants are well, if
Speaker 5: they're native, that means that they like it here, right.
Speaker 5: We bring plants in from all over the world. Sometimes
Speaker 5: it works, sometimes they're not very happy here. Natives are
Speaker 5: and that you can get natives that are just native
Speaker 5: to Houston area at Buchanans Native Plants, or you can
Speaker 5: get natives that are native to our region. It really
Speaker 5: really is cool and when you go in there, you're
Speaker 5: gonna enjoy it. It's a great place to shop, just
Speaker 5: just enjoyable. Leven Street in the Heights Buchanan's Native Plants.
Speaker 5: Go to the website Buchanansplants dot Com. Go to that
Speaker 5: website and then sign up to receive their newsletter. It
Speaker 5: is very informative and you'll find a lot of good
Speaker 5: informative stuff on their website as well. Out in my
Speaker 5: yard this week, I've been working on a number of things.
Speaker 5: I've got a patio that i'm creating or building. I
Speaker 5: started it a while back and then I got sidetracked
Speaker 5: doing some other projects that were kind of more front
Speaker 5: burner things. But this is going to be It's a
Speaker 5: flat stone patio. I've got a nice base laid down
Speaker 5: for it, and I'm fixing the laith the flat stones.
Speaker 5: We were just out picking out some stune the other
Speaker 5: day and the grit that's going to go in between them,
Speaker 5: and it's expanding. Arnold patio is not big enough for me.
Speaker 5: I want it bigger. And because you know, when you
Speaker 5: have more than a half dozen people or something, you
Speaker 5: need space to kind of spread out. So anyway, we're
Speaker 5: putting that down. That is a project that now has
Speaker 5: made it to my front burner and just really looking
Speaker 5: forward to. I got some beds that I'm redoing also,
Speaker 5: in fact, just finished yesterday doing some repotting. My wife
Speaker 5: love strings a string of and I think she has
Speaker 5: a string of everything, you know, pearls and tears and hearts.
Speaker 5: I'm trying to go through in my head all these things. Anyway,
Speaker 5: she's got a string of just oh, bananas, dolphins, andy.
Speaker 5: We're repotting them up and getting those set up inside
Speaker 5: the house. See, I told you gardening you can do
Speaker 5: it on any kind of day, and this was at
Speaker 5: night we were working on them. Last night was dark
Speaker 5: out side. Still gardening, but it's just fun to get
Speaker 5: out and do it. I encourage you. What kind of
Speaker 5: gardening have you not done much of, or if any like,
Speaker 5: for example, have you ever tried to grow African violence inside?
Speaker 5: They are not that difficult. You just give them a
Speaker 5: few things they really want and they will do very
Speaker 5: well on their beautiful plants. Have you ever tried to
Speaker 5: grow the holiday cacti? There's a Christmas Thanksgiving an Easter
Speaker 5: cactied named for a when they bloom, I've got a
Speaker 5: bunch of them. Seems like every year I buy another
Speaker 5: one and then I keep it, so I probably have
Speaker 5: five different holiday cac die from the last five years
Speaker 5: that are still around there. Tough, easy, easy plants to grow.
Speaker 5: They do well. Have you ever grown a vegetable garden?
Speaker 5: You don't have room for one, Well, then get you
Speaker 5: a container you can grow vegetables and a candentate. Try
Speaker 5: that this year. Try make a fresh salad garden. I've
Speaker 5: done that before. You take a big old pot something
Speaker 5: I have, whiskey barrel size, let's say, and you plan
Speaker 5: a little bit of kale in it. You plant a
Speaker 5: little bit of a regular, a little bit of lettuce,
Speaker 5: a little bit of spinach. Do you see what I'm saying?
Speaker 5: And when it's time to harvest, you just have this
Speaker 5: mixed salad of all kinds of things that you can grow.
Speaker 5: It's really easy to do. You should try that. What
Speaker 5: kind of gardening have you not done before? Why not
Speaker 5: try that one? How about? Do you have things that
Speaker 5: attract butterflies in your landscape? Do you have things that
Speaker 5: attract hummingbirds to your landscape? I was out this past
Speaker 5: late summer spring and we had some things blooming vy
Speaker 5: Texas still blooming out there, and the hummingbirds were just
Speaker 5: coming to it. I was watching those things go after it.
Speaker 5: Right now, I'm looking out the window at some lantanas
Speaker 5: that I'm not right now, but it's dark outside, but anyway,
Speaker 5: the lantanas are blooming, and here come all kinds of
Speaker 5: butterflies and bees. A little. We have a number of
Speaker 5: plants that we planted for the bees. Mexican heather, surprising
Speaker 5: little bitty thing with tiny little blooms, and boy, the
Speaker 5: bees love that stuff. What kind of gardening have you
Speaker 5: not tried to do? What kind of plants have you
Speaker 5: not tried to grow? How about trying that? If you
Speaker 5: had any questions about them, give us a call. We
Speaker 5: can help you have success with that. I'm gonna go
Speaker 5: now to North Houston and we're going to talk to Robert. Hello, Robert,
Speaker 5: welcome to garden Line. Good morning, skib Hey.
Speaker 11: I want to talk to you about how you propagate
Speaker 11: plants from root cuttings and is it just pretty much
Speaker 11: any plants you can propagate with root cuttings or is
Speaker 11: it just specific now just specific ones?
Speaker 5: You know, it depends on the plant. Some plants are
Speaker 5: able to propagate that way and others are not, and
Speaker 5: you would just have to kind of go online to
Speaker 5: a search for whatever plant you're looking for. It's real
Speaker 5: common with like blackberries, they'll propagate from root cutting. So
Speaker 5: people that have a single plant can make more plants
Speaker 5: out of that very easily by digging up the roots
Speaker 5: six inch long and moving them down the road, making
Speaker 5: your row longer. But there are some that will do
Speaker 5: that and it basically is just a matter of cutting
Speaker 5: the roots. And again you got to know the type
Speaker 5: of plant as to exactly how you would go about it.
Speaker 5: But root cutting is about the easiest type of propagation
Speaker 5: you can do. Okay, let me ask him.
Speaker 11: Would you use the hormones to like dip the roots
Speaker 11: in the hormones when you're doing root cuttings.
Speaker 5: No, you don't need to do that with root cuttings.
Speaker 5: You just plant them and get them in the ground.
Speaker 5: Watermen real good and you know they'll they'll make it.
Speaker 5: They do not need hormones. Okay, you can you have
Speaker 5: the hormone portion, yes, one more, go ahead.
Speaker 11: You know, have you seen those pictures like up in
Speaker 11: the Alaska, like I think it's maybe Fairbanks, it was
Speaker 11: Alaska much seeing the pictures of the six hundred pounds
Speaker 11: cabbages and they say it's because of the it gets
Speaker 11: six months the daylight and six months of darkness.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, could you could you.
Speaker 11: Like put grow lights out at night here and when
Speaker 11: it gets dark kind of simulate that by doing that
Speaker 11: with grow lights?
Speaker 5: Well, is it possible? Yes? Is it practical? No, it
Speaker 5: takes a lot of light and grow lights. If you
Speaker 5: had very nice, expensive grow lights and you were almost
Speaker 5: making them think it was daytime out there. Number one,
Speaker 5: the neighbors are going to not appreciate that. But uh,
Speaker 5: you could make a plant grow a little bit longer,
Speaker 5: but it it. Yeah, it just depends that and good
Speaker 5: soil and good fertilizer or kind of all added together.
Speaker 5: That's how they grow those monsters. Okay, Hey, Robert, thank
Speaker 5: you I appreciate your call very much. Call us again.
Speaker 5: Sometimes you take care, you know. I talk about Medina
Speaker 5: products a lot, and Medina is an outstanding brand. It's
Speaker 5: been around for a very long time, and the Medina
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Speaker 5: T like substances in it. It's going to increase blooming.
Speaker 5: Leaf growth is going to be better. I would say
Speaker 5: it's fall season. A lot of people are planting and transplanting.
Speaker 5: Have some Medina Soil Activator on the shelf twelve months
Speaker 5: out of the year. Because you put it in a
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Speaker 5: Time for me to take a break. I'll be right
Speaker 5: back side seven one three, two, one two KTRH. Hey,
Speaker 5: welcome to garden Line. Welcome back to the Garden Line.
Speaker 5: I have got a number of things I want to
Speaker 5: talk about today. One of the things that I wanted
Speaker 5: to mention to you is we deal with nematodes in
Speaker 5: our gardens, and I have found them in two different places.
Speaker 5: You know, we're in a home we've only been in
Speaker 5: about four years now, and the the types of soil
Speaker 5: beds and things, most of them I haven't built. Most
Speaker 5: of them. I'm rebuilding as I go through. And I
Speaker 5: I pulled some boxwood that just wasn't doing good out
Speaker 5: of a bed and pulled it up, and boy, there
Speaker 5: are Nema toads all over the route. So, okay, we
Speaker 5: got Nema toads here. I went out in the garden
Speaker 5: and I had a spot in my garden where I'd
Speaker 5: never had nematoads before. And suddenly there are some nematodes.
Speaker 5: And I'll tell you how I got them. I brought
Speaker 5: in kind of a sandy soul mix. And nematods can
Speaker 5: be in any soul, but they love sand. They love sand.
Speaker 5: Had they just proliferate better. And so I basically unknowingly
Speaker 5: brought them in. You can't look at a sand to go, oh,
Speaker 5: it's got nematodes in it. It does or it doesn't. Anyway,
Speaker 5: I pulled up some okra, and boy, there they are.
Speaker 5: And okra is something that I kind of get obsessed over.
Speaker 5: I do okrah breeding and crossing, and I'm creating new varieties.
Speaker 5: I'm going beyond the normal okra grower to the I'm
Speaker 5: the abnormal okra grower. Anyway, nematodes is bad news for
Speaker 5: okra and figs and bazillion other types of plants. I
Speaker 5: put something online. If you go to my website, which
Speaker 5: is gardening with Skip dot com, we just put up
Speaker 5: a little publication I wrote, managing root not nematodes in
Speaker 5: gardens and landscapes. You do not eradicate root not nematodes.
Speaker 5: There's no spray that kills all the root not nematodes.
Speaker 5: You manage them once you have them. And there are
Speaker 5: a lot of things that you can do, and this
Speaker 5: publication goes through each one, and I would suggest do
Speaker 5: as many of them as you can. In areas that
Speaker 5: you have nematodes. Number one, don't bring them in, and
Speaker 5: we sometimes bring them in on plants too. I have
Speaker 5: turned a plant upside down, pulled the pot off of it,
Speaker 5: looked at it and saw little nematode roots. And not
Speaker 5: the garden centers I talk about here on guarden Line,
Speaker 5: but I've been to a garden center that I found
Speaker 5: nematodes on the plants. So somebody just used a sandy
Speaker 5: mix in the growing mix to grow those plants and
Speaker 5: there they were. Don't bring that plant home, I mean
Speaker 5: that one. Let the garden center know they need to
Speaker 5: not be selling that. And it's not the garden center's fault,
Speaker 5: you know. They bring the plants in and they come
Speaker 5: from a grower. Almost always a few people grow their own.
Speaker 5: But anyway, managing root not nematods and gardens and landscapes,
Speaker 5: there's a lot of things you can do to suppress
Speaker 5: them and still have a really good productive garden. And
Speaker 5: that's what I'm going to start doing. You know, I
Speaker 5: find that whenever I have a problem, Number one I
Speaker 5: get I'm annoyed by that, but number two, I kind
Speaker 5: of get a little bit excited about it because it
Speaker 5: gives me a chance to experiment and to try some
Speaker 5: new things and to learn. You know, I did a
Speaker 5: nutsedge publication a while back, and I have been working
Speaker 5: on nuts edge with a number of different approaches and
Speaker 5: as a result things I learned. It's like, okay, here's
Speaker 5: how you do it. Well, here's the name of toad one.
Speaker 5: And I'm dealing with those as well. So I feel
Speaker 5: your pain. All right, We're going to go out to
Speaker 5: Kingwood and talk to Liz. Hello, Liz, good morning.
Speaker 12: How are you today.
Speaker 5: I'm well, thank you.
Speaker 13: I'm calling because we got over the last couple of years.
Speaker 13: We are randomly losing trees around our fence line. They're
Speaker 13: not sweet thems, they're not oaks. Some of them are pines.
Speaker 13: They've been here for a really long time. The trees,
Speaker 13: some are not pines. We were gone for two weeks,
Speaker 13: came back and I have a tree in my front
Speaker 13: yard that's absolutely stunning. At the pine it's like a
Speaker 13: twisty pine, is a very unique almost like a stunt pine.
Speaker 13: It's very interesting and it's goodly dead and there's nothing
Speaker 13: in the trees. There's no sap on it, like, I'm
Speaker 13: not seeing any bugs. I'm not seeing anything that will
Speaker 13: indicates that I have any infestations.
Speaker 8: And I know king was the unique air, but.
Speaker 5: You need our trees, all right, okay, Liz. So are
Speaker 5: these trees ones you've planted in the last five years,
Speaker 5: or are these some of them that are just in nature,
Speaker 5: coming from nature? Are they there long long before you
Speaker 5: you start gardening?
Speaker 13: Are definitely from nature, and some have just been there
Speaker 13: planted since the house from the seventies, so I would
Speaker 13: assume some of them have been around that.
Speaker 9: Are right.
Speaker 14: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Well, whenever we see a loss of plants of different
Speaker 5: species all happening at once, it usually is signs of
Speaker 5: a weather related type problem. It's usually not a disease.
Speaker 5: There are some diseases that will kill a bunch of
Speaker 5: different kinds of plants by rotting the roots. There's one
Speaker 5: one called oak root rot that occurs in some of
Speaker 5: the acidic soils, which a lot of the soils out
Speaker 5: there in the Kingwood area can be. Anything that's once
Speaker 5: a forest out in East Texas area is potentially an
Speaker 5: acidic soil, and it can attack a number trees, but
Speaker 5: doesn't attack pine trees. So I think what we're looking
Speaker 5: at is the results of a combination. Typically, droughts will
Speaker 5: stress the trees, and we've had a couple of doozies
Speaker 5: in the last five years, and then the cold and
Speaker 5: we've had some really serious cold damage occurs inside. One
Speaker 5: thing leads to another and eventually the plant gets weak
Speaker 5: and trees. I guess the analogy that helps it make
Speaker 5: sense a little bit is if you were standing on
Speaker 5: the edge of a table and you leaned forward. You
Speaker 5: could lean and lean and lean, but there's some point
Speaker 5: where you start to go over and you can't stop right,
Speaker 5: You're going to fall off the table. And it's like,
Speaker 5: these trees are there, they're resilient, they're looking good, but
Speaker 5: at some point they just hit that spot where they're
Speaker 5: going downhill and it's hard to stop it. And I
Speaker 5: think that is probably what you're looking at, combinations either
Speaker 5: cold and or drought, drought being more likely, or if
Speaker 5: you change anything where suddenly an area that was dry
Speaker 5: now becomes a swamp, or an area that was swamp
Speaker 5: suddenly becomes very dry. Those kind of sudden changes, trees
Speaker 5: can't react to them fast enough.
Speaker 13: Okay, So I shouldn't be concerned about taking them up
Speaker 13: and replacing a different tree or bush in those places.
Speaker 5: I don't think so. I don't think so. The only
Speaker 5: exception would be the root, the root rod. But you
Speaker 5: know they've been there a long long time, and root
Speaker 5: rod doesn't didn't just drop out of an airplane and
Speaker 5: land on your property one day. So it I don't
Speaker 5: think that's you know, the description you're giving me. Tree
Speaker 5: has been there a long time, lots of species. All
Speaker 5: of a sudden we're dying. I think, yeah, I think
Speaker 5: that's accumulated stress and it just it just finally hit
Speaker 5: the point where it's too much.
Speaker 13: Okay, well, thank you for your advice.
Speaker 15: I appreciate that, all right.
Speaker 5: Liz, thanks, thanks, Lacole, appreciate that. Hey, I'm going to
Speaker 5: be out there in Kingwood. Let's see here where I
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Speaker 8: Okay, we'll definitely do that.
Speaker 13: Thank you so much for your help.
Speaker 5: I appreciate it, all right, you bet take care. I
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Speaker 5: Hey Welcome back, Welcome back to the garden Line. I'm
Speaker 5: your host, Stip Richter, and we're here to answer your
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Speaker 5: at the end of the night at the dance hall,
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Speaker 5: all of the things you want to be doing in
Speaker 5: the lawn. Every week you wait from here on is
Speaker 5: a week that the benefits you can achieve go down
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Speaker 5: has their three step. It is a fertilizer. It is
Speaker 5: a weak prevention, and it is a disease prevention. You
Speaker 5: wait until disease shows up. You can stop more disease,
Speaker 5: but you still got those brown circles in the yard.
Speaker 5: Weed prevention, you wait until some weeds sprout. Well, you
Speaker 5: got them, you can prevent additional sprouting which will continue
Speaker 5: to go on, and then fall fertilizer. The longer you wait,
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Speaker 5: conditions where it can take up those nutrients. So that's
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Speaker 5: existing weed, but a weed seed trying to sprout, which
Speaker 5: they're going to be doing here. Some may already be
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Speaker 5: funge a side taken up by the roots to prevent
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Speaker 5: large patch, or by take our root rot. All three
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Speaker 5: and talk to Calvin. Hello, Calvin, Hello, how are you doing.
Speaker 5: We're good, We're good. How can we help?
Speaker 16: It's my first time calling in. I've been been wanting to.
Speaker 16: I have a single story U shaped house. It's small footage,
Speaker 16: it's like sixteen hundred square feet maybe, but the sidewalk runs,
Speaker 16: you know, inside the you to the entrance door, and
Speaker 16: on both sides of the sidewalk do you get to
Speaker 16: the structure. It's about thirty inch by ten feet, let's say,
Speaker 16: on both sides, and it doesn't get much sun because
Speaker 16: of the structure itself. And I'm looking what to do
Speaker 16: there in that area, and I was thinking some kind
Speaker 16: of groundcover. We're but I'm looking a course for well
Speaker 16: not a course, but I'm looking for something inexpensive, but aesthetics.
Speaker 5: Okay, Well, Asian jasmine is a great groundcover. It probably
Speaker 5: needs go ahead.
Speaker 16: I'm sorry, Or is there something I need to do?
Speaker 16: Maybe the yard, the soil. I've fed it several times
Speaker 16: this last year and it seems like it's improving as
Speaker 16: far as the San augustine crawling, But I mean, can
Speaker 16: you can you get sant augustine to grow in there?
Speaker 16: Or that's I believe that's a's the historic problem.
Speaker 5: Right, all right, Calvin, I'm up against the heartbreak here.
Speaker 15: Hang on.
Speaker 5: When we come back, I will give you some matchers
Speaker 5: to that. We'll be right back, all right, Welcome back
Speaker 5: to guard Line. Got a lot of things to talk
Speaker 5: about today. You know, it's it is fall, and fall
Speaker 5: is the best planning season of the year. We're in
Speaker 5: the big middle of it. Let's get right to it.
Speaker 5: If you're going to plan a tree, first of all,
Speaker 5: now is that underdo it? I've been saying that morning.
Speaker 5: But one thing you need to know about. Grab you
Speaker 5: a three sixty tree stabilizer. Now I've done the thing
Speaker 5: where you get steaks and those wires and kind of
Speaker 5: piece of garden hose off so the wire doesn't cut
Speaker 5: into the tree to put around the branch there. It's
Speaker 5: a lot of work and time and then you go
Speaker 5: tripping over those things. You don't need to do that.
Speaker 5: You get a three sixty tree stabilizer and just like
Speaker 5: a I would use a teepost. Drive it into the ground.
Speaker 5: You can plant a post in the ground like you
Speaker 5: building a fence kind of post if you want to
Speaker 5: do that, but I would just use a teapost. You
Speaker 5: hook that stabilizer up to the tree post. It's only
Speaker 5: going to be a couple feet away from the tree
Speaker 5: even less, and it hooks onto the post very firmly.
Speaker 5: And then it hooks on to the tree with a loose,
Speaker 5: soft metal strap so the tree can move just a
Speaker 5: little bit, which is very important, as those branches, as
Speaker 5: the trunk bends a little bit in the wind, and
Speaker 5: as the roots are pulled on a little bit, they
Speaker 5: get stronger, and that principle of nature that and you
Speaker 5: bend something when you work something it gets stronger. That
Speaker 5: is exactly what happens with the tree three sixty tree
Speaker 5: stabilizer when you set it up like it's designed to
Speaker 5: be set up. You can get them at RCW. You
Speaker 5: can get them at Jegesit and Guards down in Alvin
Speaker 5: Bukens Native Plants in the Heights, Southwest Fertilizer Southwest Houston,
Speaker 5: Arborgate and Tomball Plants for all seasons on two forty
Speaker 5: nine up on the way to Tomwall and Sienna Maltch
Speaker 5: down south near Sienna. All those places carry the three
Speaker 5: sixty tree stabilizer. We're going to go back out to
Speaker 5: the phones now, and Calvin, I'm going to jump back
Speaker 5: into our conversation. Basically, if that area is as you describe,
Speaker 5: I wouldn't try putting grass in it. I don't think
Speaker 5: it'll be successful. The Asian jasmine is an inexpensive groundcover
Speaker 5: because it spreads, so you can plant a few plants
Speaker 5: and they kind of fill in over time. But I
Speaker 5: don't think it's going to be really happy in that area.
Speaker 5: But you may want to give that a try. If
Speaker 5: I were you and you're looking to save some money,
Speaker 5: I would maybe put something like cast iron plant around
Speaker 5: along beside the house. It's about knee high, and just
Speaker 5: do a strip of that around the sides. And then
Speaker 5: I would use some as tech grass or another thing
Speaker 5: that you as tech grass is not a grass, it's
Speaker 5: a it's like a riopy, but it's white and it
Speaker 5: helps brighten up a shady area. I would use that
Speaker 5: and I've done that in my front bed and I
Speaker 5: bought oh, I don't know, I had them. I probably
Speaker 5: planted them about or so apart, putt and a half apart.
Speaker 5: And then at the end of a season, you go
Speaker 5: in with a shovel and you divide each of those
Speaker 5: and you plant them in between. And so you went
Speaker 5: you doubled your amount and save some money by just
Speaker 5: being patient and then doing that division later. So that's
Speaker 5: another way that you can cover.
Speaker 16: Are life and that's called as tech grass.
Speaker 5: As tech as tech grass, but it it's a if
Speaker 5: you know what loriapi is, it's got a strappy green leaf.
Speaker 5: Aztec grass has a green and white striped leaf, mostly white,
Speaker 5: and it really brightens up a shade area. So those
Speaker 5: and then just put a multch, put a real thick
Speaker 5: multch through that area, and then in time you can
Speaker 5: add more to it. But the maltch keeps weeds down
Speaker 5: and I think it looks fine. So those would be
Speaker 5: some tips for you. I got to run to another call,
Speaker 5: but thank you very much and good luck getting that
Speaker 5: getting that going in Chena Forest is the garden center
Speaker 5: down there. As you are in let's say you're in
Speaker 5: Richmond Rosenberg, you're you're heading up fifty nine toward Sugarland direction.
Speaker 5: Well it's down FM twenty seven nine twenty seven to
Speaker 5: fifty nine, so it's south of Brases River down there.
Speaker 5: It is a garden center that has everything you're looking for,
Speaker 5: including expert advice. Now that's just the way it is there.
Speaker 5: By the way. Today out there this afternoon, they're going
Speaker 5: to have a meet and great with the Houston Society,
Speaker 5: let's the SPCA. I think they're going to be talking
Speaker 5: about native wildlife. They're going to bring what they call
Speaker 5: their ambassadors. I think that would mean some living furry
Speaker 5: things and maybe feathery things for a show and tell.
Speaker 5: The four ben Master Gardeners will be out there from
Speaker 5: ten to two answering your questions about the Superstar program,
Speaker 5: you know, and Chenned Forest has lots of Superstar plants
Speaker 5: for sale. So when you learn about these wonderful plants
Speaker 5: that are proven tested by Texas A and m Agrolife Extension
Speaker 5: and Research, you can just pick one up there and
Speaker 5: then they're gonna have a puppy and dog adoption with
Speaker 5: the saving our Companion Animals Fort Ben County. So if
Speaker 5: you're looking for a special little furry friend, stop buying.
Speaker 5: See if one steals your heart. And of course they do.
Speaker 5: I mean, who doesn't like puppies anyway. Around the nursery,
Speaker 5: they got cycomanes in fall, veggies, fall color, lots and
Speaker 5: lots of trees. I talked earlier about maybe a flowering tree.
Speaker 5: How about a Chinese friene one of my favorite flowering trees, white,
Speaker 5: shaggy blue in the spring with a faint fragrance. It's wonderful.
Speaker 5: Red buds. I got a lot of types of red buds,
Speaker 5: the native Mexican plum, walter I Burnham, rough leaf, dogwood.
Speaker 5: It's all there. Just go out to Intended Forest. They're
Speaker 5: out FM twenty seven fifty nine, specifically twenty seven fifty
Speaker 5: nine FM twenty seven fifty nine. Go out and check
Speaker 5: them out. We're going to go now to sugarland and
Speaker 5: talk to Carol.
Speaker 17: Hello, Carol, good morning.
Speaker 12: I wanted to plant a small, a small tree, something
Speaker 12: that won't get more than maybe fifteen feet, but I
Speaker 12: still need some shade and it's going to be in
Speaker 12: full sun, so I wonder if you have any recommendations.
Speaker 5: I put a Chinese fringe tree there. They are a
Speaker 5: medium rate grower and they're only it'll take them a
Speaker 5: while to get bigger than fifteen feet. They can they
Speaker 5: will get bigger in time, but you can do a
Speaker 5: little proning on them too. But a Chinese fringe gives
Speaker 5: you those spring blooms and it's just wonderful. A red
Speaker 5: bud would be okay. Generally we put those in a
Speaker 5: partial shade area, but that would be okay. Mexican plum
Speaker 5: is a native plant that that would fit that bill
Speaker 5: pretty good. And then there are crape myrtles in the
Speaker 5: medium size range. If you go if you do this,
Speaker 5: do a web search and put in crape myrtle and
Speaker 5: my name Skip Richter. If you do a web search
Speaker 5: for those two things, you're going to see a chart
Speaker 5: that I put together a long time ago, and it
Speaker 5: has crape myrtles from three feet high to thirty five
Speaker 5: feet high, and it tells you the color, it tells
Speaker 5: you the size and other factors about them. Now, not
Speaker 5: ever crape myrtle is on that list, but it'll at
Speaker 5: least get you thinking in the right way. You probably
Speaker 5: want one that's going to get, you know, fifteen seventeen
Speaker 5: somewhere in their feet range, and it wouldn't be a
Speaker 5: bad idea for that. Plus crape myrtles will give you
Speaker 5: a little bit of fall color. Two.
Speaker 12: Do those look good true the winter?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 5: Uh, I think crape myrtles do because they have that
Speaker 5: smooth bark. Some types have a cinnamon colored bark that's
Speaker 5: even prettier. A lot of types have kind of a
Speaker 5: putty colored bark, but it's smooth, and so it is.
Speaker 5: It is an interest, a winter interest in and of itself.
Speaker 5: You know, in the wintertime, you're not really having trees blooming.
Speaker 5: You may have something with berries on it. So you
Speaker 5: could do something like a possum haul, but that's more
Speaker 5: like a large multi stem shrub. But it would have
Speaker 5: berries on it in the winter, but it wouldn't look
Speaker 5: like much during the regular main part of the growing season.
Speaker 12: Okay, thank you very much.
Speaker 5: You bet, Thank you for the call. Appreciate that our
Speaker 5: phone number seven one three two one two k t
Speaker 5: r H. Seven one three two one two k t
Speaker 5: r H. Folks that know some plant food have a
Speaker 5: product that I know you've heard it, you've probably used
Speaker 5: it before. It is basically it is a famous fertilizer
Speaker 5: called color Star. A color Star is for anything that flowers.
Speaker 5: So you know, if you're going to plant some pansies
Speaker 5: and violas and a lissa and snap dragons and what
Speaker 5: else goes in the cool scene of stock can go
Speaker 5: in the cool season, all those kind of plants, get
Speaker 5: some color Star and mix it into the soil and
Speaker 5: then plant and then you can apply it about every
Speaker 5: three months or so during the throughout the growing season
Speaker 5: of whatever plants you're planting right now it's a cool
Speaker 5: season and you'll be planting warm season. Created over forty
Speaker 5: years ago, professional landscapers use it, homeowners across taxis, even
Speaker 5: outside of state. People buy it outside of state. Five
Speaker 5: different sources of nitrogen. It's got organic bone meal and
Speaker 5: organic blood meal to feed the soil and your plants.
Speaker 5: Color Star has a phosphorus they need for good root
Speaker 5: system and good flower development. And it has a boost
Speaker 5: of nitrogen that is going to provide that feeding and
Speaker 5: just keep things looking good even in the cool In fact,
Speaker 5: especially in the cool season, the biological activity slows down,
Speaker 5: and getting that extra boost of nitrogen keeps your pansies
Speaker 5: and violis, as an example, keeps them blooming because you've
Speaker 5: got to have good vegetative growth to provide the carbohydrates
Speaker 5: to create the bloom. So you want your pansies and
Speaker 5: violas blooming all winter. Give them a boost with color
Speaker 5: Star from Nelson's available little little jars at garden centers.
Speaker 5: It makes it real easy to scoop out and put
Speaker 5: down what you want. Nelson Plat Food another good quality
Speaker 5: product from those folks. We're going to go now to
Speaker 5: Cindy and Friends with Hey, Cindy, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 2: Hey, good morning.
Speaker 18: I got a quick question for you.
Speaker 2: We had a peachtree.
Speaker 7: We had a peachtree in our backyard and it died
Speaker 7: and we had to pull it up, and I'm wanting
Speaker 7: to replace it, and I'm trying to find out if
Speaker 7: now it's a good time to do that, and what
Speaker 7: kind you recommend for this area?
Speaker 5: All right, Yes, now's a good time to do that.
Speaker 5: If you're going to plant it from a container, you
Speaker 5: can plan any month of the year, but this would
Speaker 5: be the best. Now in winter are the best. If
Speaker 5: you're going to do bear root plants, then those those
Speaker 5: go in and in late January typically is about when
Speaker 5: you try to aim for some time around then. As
Speaker 5: far as the types, there's a lot of good peaches here.
Speaker 5: If you go to the Aggie Horticulture website, just search
Speaker 5: for Aggie Horticulture on the front page. There is a
Speaker 5: link to the Fruit and Not publications, and when you
Speaker 5: go to Fruit and Nut there is a publication on
Speaker 5: everything from avocados to whatever is at the end of
Speaker 5: that list, and peaches and stone fruit and plums or
Speaker 5: one of them, and they give you a list of varieties.
Speaker 5: And with peaches, it's very important you buy a variety
Speaker 5: that has the same number of chill hours. So you
Speaker 5: are a little bit south of Houston there and so
Speaker 5: you're gonna to want one hopefully that's going to be
Speaker 5: in about the three four hundred range of chilling hours
Speaker 5: somewhere roughly in there, and you want to aim your
Speaker 5: purchase for that zone that you're in down there. But
Speaker 5: when you look at the publication on Aggie Horticulture. It's
Speaker 5: a free multicolor publication. You'll see exactly how many hours
Speaker 5: to aim for there.
Speaker 7: Okay, okay, And do you have any idea of like
Speaker 7: what stores are around my area would have a good
Speaker 7: selection of.
Speaker 5: Them down in your area. You go over to Moss Nursery,
Speaker 5: they're going to have them there. And Jorge's Garden Center
Speaker 5: down in Alvin he always has fan. In fact, right
Speaker 5: now he's got a good deal on a bunch of
Speaker 5: fruit down at Horta.
Speaker 19: Awesome.
Speaker 5: Okay, well, great, thank you so much.
Speaker 2: I appreciate it.
Speaker 5: Thank you. I appreciate that very much. All Right, Well,
Speaker 5: it's time for me to take a little quick break here.
Speaker 5: I will do that up. Before I do that, though,
Speaker 5: I just want to tell you Heirloom Soils and Orange
Speaker 5: Rock and Molds has this. They're continuing their deal on
Speaker 5: the one Qbyard supersack so now the in fact they're
Speaker 5: expanding it. You can get a one Qbyard sack of
Speaker 5: either their leaf mold compost or their veggie and herb
Speaker 5: mix for one hundred and twenty nine dollars and you
Speaker 5: get to keep the sack. That's kind of cool. They
Speaker 5: just bring it and set it in your yard. If
Speaker 5: you want delivery, there's a cost for delivery and you
Speaker 5: have to do a three sack minimum for delivery. Or
Speaker 5: you can just take your truck or trailer out there
Speaker 5: and go get it in Porter, Texas at Orange Rock
Speaker 5: and Moltz. They are open out there from seven am
Speaker 5: to four pm Monday through Friday, seven to three today,
Speaker 5: closed on Sunday. All you have to do is go
Speaker 5: to this website, Rock the Letter n Mulch dot com
Speaker 5: slash Delivery, Rock the Letter n Multch dot com slash Delivery.
Speaker 5: And while you're out there, there are a lot of
Speaker 5: other great, great products, such as the Premium lawn Mix,
Speaker 5: which only seven four dollars a sack. It's good for
Speaker 5: leveling out your sword's got some sand in it. You know,
Speaker 5: you know you're going to redo your yard. You're on
Speaker 5: level some areas. It's an excellent product just for that.
Speaker 5: All right, folks, I'll be right back, all right, welcome
Speaker 5: to Guarden Line. Good to have you with us. We're
Speaker 5: glad to be back with you and with your calls
Speaker 5: before we went to break. Let's see who was Oh,
Speaker 5: Cindy was asking about getting a peach tree, and I
Speaker 5: mentioned Jorge down there in Alvinjorge Hoges Hidden Gardens, that's
Speaker 5: the name of the place. It is down there in
Speaker 5: the Alvin area. They are on Elizabeth Street in Alvin,
Speaker 5: just south south the Highway six. So all those of
Speaker 5: you down in that region, Alvin, Santa Fe, Dickinson Hillcrest, Algoa, Arcadia, Altaaloma,
Speaker 5: all those communities, this is your hometown garden center. Right
Speaker 5: down there. They do carry this three sixty tree stabilizer.
Speaker 5: And right now they have got a lot of great
Speaker 5: shade trees. They've got the elm and the oak, and
Speaker 5: the magnolia, the they've got maples. They've got the Chinese fringe,
Speaker 5: and the red bud and the vitex three flowering trees
Speaker 5: that are excellent in our area. He's stocked up on
Speaker 5: all of that. His hours are Monday, they're closed, so
Speaker 5: today and tomorrow eight am to four pm. Got a
Speaker 5: lot of shopping hours today and tomorrow and then on
Speaker 5: Tuesday through Friday nine am to three pm at Jorges
Speaker 5: Hidden Gardens. I'm going to head now to a norm
Speaker 5: if I can find the right button. There we go.
Speaker 5: Norm welcome to Garden Line.
Speaker 19: Hey, I'm driving listening to you love your show. I
Speaker 19: have a question about growing grass on the north side
Speaker 19: of my house. I've been in fifteen years and I
Speaker 19: just can't keep grass. There is there a Saint Augustine
Speaker 19: type of grass that's made for the shade.
Speaker 5: Well, Saint Augustine is a species. Is about our most
Speaker 5: shade tolerant of the grasses. Now there are some that
Speaker 5: claim to have a little bit better shade tolerance, but
Speaker 5: actually I the difference is minimal, and in some cases
Speaker 5: I wouldn't recommend the variety for other reasons. I would
Speaker 5: just get you a good, good quality Saint Augustine, and
Speaker 5: there are a number of them out there. Depends on
Speaker 5: what you're looking to achieve. Uh, there's yeah, so it is.
Speaker 5: It just kind of depends on, you know, specifically what
Speaker 5: you're you're looking for.
Speaker 19: It's under a pecan tree that I ascend. Should I
Speaker 19: take the tree out to get it more sun.
Speaker 5: Well, I mean that would give it all full sign
Speaker 5: But do you want the pecan tree? I mean, that's
Speaker 5: a that's a pretty drastic measure to have a long
Speaker 5: But that's that's your that's your business.
Speaker 19: Okay, Well it's on the north side of my house,
Speaker 19: so I don't look at so yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: Well you even disappoint a lot of squirrels.
Speaker 19: Well that's one of my problems too, so I could
Speaker 19: lose one.
Speaker 8: I also have.
Speaker 5: If you can't eat pecans, you need squirrels, norm.
Speaker 19: I have I have. I have an orange tree. This
Speaker 19: turning yellow?
Speaker 4: Is that?
Speaker 19: Is that possibly overwatering? I've tried the osma coat things
Speaker 19: like that, but nothing orangetree.
Speaker 5: When you when you overwater and dam and the roots
Speaker 5: literally are submerged and can't get oxygen, that's hard on
Speaker 5: almost any plant. But drought can also be the same.
Speaker 5: And we've had some hot weather for as late as
Speaker 5: it is, and we've had some real dry weather for
Speaker 5: an extented period of time. And sometimes when we water,
Speaker 5: we think we're giving a good soaking, but we're really not.
Speaker 5: So I would lean more toward maybe a little bit
Speaker 5: of a lack of water or just going from soggy
Speaker 5: to to row wet. Uh. If the yellowing is on
Speaker 5: the newest growth and the older leaves look good, maybe
Speaker 5: you're looking at an iron deficiency. If the yellowing is
Speaker 5: just all over the tree, Uh, it may need maybe
Speaker 5: the water, but it also may need some nitrogen. But
Speaker 5: I tell you I wouldn't fertilize much now because you
Speaker 5: don't want citrus to start growing when we're about to
Speaker 5: have a freeze. That's not a good combination.
Speaker 19: Okay, thank you appreciate this talk.
Speaker 5: All right, all right, Norman, you take care. We're going
Speaker 5: to go now to sugar Land and talk to Nick. Hey, Nick,
Speaker 5: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 20: Hi. So I have a yard and my kids often
Speaker 20: go out and play in the yard, and I've noticed
Speaker 20: lately that they're picking up a lot of tree cockroaches,
Speaker 20: really like baby or adolescent keep tree cockroaches are all
Speaker 20: over our lawn, and I was wondering if there's a
Speaker 20: safe way of dealing with them, whether it's you know,
Speaker 20: repelling them or killing them, or what's a good way.
Speaker 21: Of dealing with this issue.
Speaker 5: You know, you kind of have a combination of issues.
Speaker 5: That's hard to find a one size fits all answer
Speaker 5: for that. First of all, you know, roaches out in
Speaker 5: the landscape, that's just kind of like part of nature,
Speaker 5: and that you're going to have things like that out there,
Speaker 5: part of the bugs that are out there. And so
Speaker 5: I have that in my landscape, especially in my garden
Speaker 5: where I have a lot of leaves, there's little roaches
Speaker 5: come out of there and I just ignore it because
Speaker 5: I don't want to treat them. But there are insecticides
Speaker 5: that you put down in the soil and they will
Speaker 5: kill insects that come out. Nitrophos has one called bug
Speaker 5: out Max that is sprink It's a granular. You sprinkle
Speaker 5: it out and you water it, and it would be
Speaker 5: probably helpful for that. There are others that you would
Speaker 5: spray down, but then you got kids and dogs and
Speaker 5: stuff rolling around playing in the grass, and so I
Speaker 5: don't know, it's your call on it. I would I
Speaker 5: would probably lean toward just not worrying about it. But
Speaker 5: if you do want to treat, those are those are
Speaker 5: some options.
Speaker 20: Okay, all right, that sounds that sounds good, thank you.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, there's also I should mention this too, and
Speaker 5: I don't have a name of a product in my head,
Speaker 5: but there's also insect growth regulators that you can put
Speaker 5: out that that's what people do in the yard, like
Speaker 5: with fleas, and that the little critters when they try
Speaker 5: to go from one stage to another, it shuts them
Speaker 5: down and they're not able to do that, so you
Speaker 5: might want to think about that.
Speaker 20: Okay, are those less like? Are those less dangerous?
Speaker 5: Yeah they're not. Yeah, they're not a poison. They just
Speaker 5: they because of insects having to make kite in their shells.
Speaker 5: Outside the insect it stops that. So we don't have kite. Kids,
Speaker 5: dogs don't have kite. It's not an issue that affects
Speaker 5: kids and dogs. Well, Nick, I wish you well with that.
Speaker 5: Go ahead? No, no, go ahead, No, I was just
Speaker 5: saying I wish you well. I was I was moving on.
Speaker 5: But did you have a follow up?
Speaker 9: No, no follow up.
Speaker 20: I think this is this is good information and I
Speaker 20: really appreciate it.
Speaker 5: All right, thank you. I appreciate that call. You know,
Speaker 5: we've been talking trees a lot today and Affordable Tree
Speaker 5: Care is who I would call for anything needing to
Speaker 5: be done around your trees. We're in the big printing
Speaker 5: season and you know we talked about printing out some
Speaker 5: branches in a pecan to get more light in down
Speaker 5: to the ground, any kind of printing. Martin is an
Speaker 5: expert at that. Martin spoon More at Affordable Tree You
Speaker 5: need to call seven to one, three, six nine, nine
Speaker 5: two six sixty three, seven one three, six nine nine
Speaker 5: twenty six sixty three. You can go to his website
Speaker 5: aff Tree service dot com. When you call Martin or
Speaker 5: his wife, Joe will answer. If you don't get Martin
Speaker 5: or Joe, you've called the wrong place. Seven one three,
Speaker 5: six nine nine two six six three. From deep root
Speaker 5: feeding to pruning to advising you on you know, maybe
Speaker 5: you're going to do a landscape change like a driveway
Speaker 5: or a trench or something like. Call Martin first. Seven
Speaker 5: one three, six nine nine two six six three. Time
Speaker 5: for me to take a break. I'll be right back, Karen,
Speaker 5: you'll be our first up. Welcome back, it's the garden Line.
Speaker 5: Welcome back to garden Line. Hey. Someone asked me the
Speaker 5: other day about azmie. What's in as min? Well, what's
Speaker 5: in asmite is the micronutrients. Uh, you know they looking
Speaker 5: at trying to build the soil and things like that.
Speaker 5: Another common question I get is, you know, is it
Speaker 5: gonna make my grass grow? Well, A micronutrients are needed
Speaker 5: for grass growth. It's the nitrogen in fertilizer, those three
Speaker 5: numbers in the bag. We need lots of that stuff
Speaker 5: with with micros we just need a little bit, just
Speaker 5: a little bit, but they are essential. So if let
Speaker 5: me put it this way, if you could take every
Speaker 5: molecula zinc or iron or manganese for example, out of
Speaker 5: the soil, you can't grow a plant. It has to
Speaker 5: have those three, but it only needs a tiny trace amount.
Speaker 5: That's why we call them trace elements. As might provides
Speaker 5: that ASMI Texas dot com is the website if you
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Speaker 5: Texas dot com for more information. Now it'd be a
Speaker 5: good time to do that. Let's see. We are now
Speaker 5: going to go to Karen. Hello, Karen, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 8: Oh, good morning.
Speaker 18: How are you skip?
Speaker 5: Well? Thank you?
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 18: My question is I moved to Magnolia about four years
Speaker 18: ago and I was down in the Parland area and
Speaker 18: we had a full landscape design done for our house
Speaker 18: down there, and we added to We didn't do everything
Speaker 18: at once, but we added over the years to to there.
Speaker 18: We I guess acted on the planned and added plants
Speaker 18: to our yard. So I'm looking for a recommendation to
Speaker 18: kind of do the same thing in the Magnolia area,
Speaker 18: and I just don't know like who to turn to
Speaker 18: for that type of full plan that is, you know,
Speaker 18: drawing out with.
Speaker 5: A with a big I'll tell you. I'll tell you
Speaker 5: exactly who you need to call. Okay, great, you need
Speaker 5: you need to call Pierce Scapes. Pierscapes has designers on staff.
Speaker 5: You if you go to their website Piercescapes dot com
Speaker 5: p e A r CE s c A p e
Speaker 5: S Pierce Scapes dot com, you will see the kind
Speaker 5: of work they do and it is unbelievable. They're excellent.
Speaker 9: Edit.
Speaker 5: They can do anything you need out there too. I mean,
Speaker 5: if you need quarterly maintenance, they come do that. If
Speaker 5: you need your irrigation system worked on, they can do that.
Speaker 5: You want landscape lighting, do you have poor drainage in
Speaker 5: an area? Do you want to have a rock pathway
Speaker 5: or patio or they can do all of that kind
Speaker 5: of stuff at Peerscapes. Here's a phone number for them.
Speaker 5: You got your pin ready, right?
Speaker 9: Yes?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 9: Huh?
Speaker 5: Two eight one three seven oh fifty sixty two eight
Speaker 5: one three seven zero five zero six zero, Yeah, and
Speaker 5: they'll they'll work up there in your area, and uh yeah,
Speaker 5: give them a call telling me you heard about it
Speaker 5: on guardline.
Speaker 18: Oh perfect, that's that's good to know because it's it's
Speaker 18: difficult to find, you know, reliable company.
Speaker 5: You bet, yeah, thank you, you bet all right, absolutely,
Speaker 5: thank you, thank you for the call. Uh. If those
Speaker 5: of you living down in the far South and east,
Speaker 5: uh here down in let's say the Seabrook area, you
Speaker 5: know about Moss Nursery already, Moss has been around, Gosh,
Speaker 5: I don't know how many decades, has been a long time.
Speaker 5: They're on Toddville Road there in Seabrook.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 5: Check out their website Moss Nursery dot com. It tells
Speaker 5: you the information you need, how to find them in
Speaker 5: phone and all that kind of stuff. M A A
Speaker 5: S Nursery dot com, Moss Nursery. I love going out
Speaker 5: to Moss. When you go to Moss that they always
Speaker 5: have really cool stuff. Right now, I mentioned earlier, uh
Speaker 5: Chi lenging to try some new plants about African violence.
Speaker 5: They've had a great selection of African violence out there.
Speaker 5: They have a wonderful selection of bulbs for forcing. Hey.
Speaker 5: Thanksgivings around the corner. You want to take a gift
Speaker 5: to somebody, Try that forcing amarillas or something so beautiful,
Speaker 5: really really cool. Now they're going to have everything else
Speaker 5: at Moss. You know, their houseplant greenhouse is just unmatched.
Speaker 5: It's just unbelievable. If you love succulents, if you like
Speaker 5: foliage house plants or flowering house plants, do you want
Speaker 5: to put some cyclement out in the yard? Beautiful color.
Speaker 5: I keep telling you fall is for marigoals. They're beautiful,
Speaker 5: and of course everybody knows about moms this time of year. Well,
Speaker 5: you think of a plant and you can get it
Speaker 5: at Moss Nursery. That's just it a plus unbelievable pottery
Speaker 5: and that landscape bling these unusual structures and things to
Speaker 5: really set your landscape apart again. Moss Nursery, Toddville Road
Speaker 5: and Seabrook Moss Nursery dot Com. I'm gonna head out
Speaker 5: now to Brenham and talk to Rooster.
Speaker 4: Hey, Rooster, good morning.
Speaker 21: I've got a problem that's been so dry up here.
Speaker 21: I'm having to put out my soaker hose under my
Speaker 21: two really nice trees oak trees in my front yard
Speaker 21: and in the Saint orgestringe grass keep them off from
Speaker 21: trying to.
Speaker 4: Die on me.
Speaker 21: And every time I do that, there's some barming and
Speaker 21: I think it's the armadella. I'm not sure it comes
Speaker 21: in it and he digs holes everywhere there's six seven
Speaker 21: inches deep, and uh, it's just a real nuisance. I
Speaker 21: was wondering if I think there after the grubs, it's
Speaker 21: in the in the soil under to kill those grubs,
Speaker 21: maybe that would make the it might even be deer also, Uh.
Speaker 5: Okay, well, I don't think killing the grubs. I don't
Speaker 5: think killing the grub is gonna help a lot because
Speaker 5: earthworms they dig earth worms too, and when you start watering,
Speaker 5: the earth worms get interested in coming up. For that,
Speaker 5: it will be helpful to know what the varm it is,
Speaker 5: so other than a wild game camera to sit there
Speaker 5: at night and take pictures of Yeah, if you can
Speaker 5: find out what they are armadilla's, you can trap them
Speaker 5: in live traps. And let's just say it's an armadilla,
Speaker 5: because what you would do is you'd figure out their
Speaker 5: little pathway. They typically well, if you've got like a
Speaker 5: privacy fence or side of the house. They they're bumbling creatures.
Speaker 5: And they tend to kind of bounce along the wall there.
Speaker 5: And you can put a live trap out and put
Speaker 5: two boards coming out like the shape of a V
Speaker 5: out of the entrance to the trap, so you're basically
Speaker 5: hurting them into the trap. Yeah, leads them into it
Speaker 5: if you boil elbow elbow macaroni in beef bo yon uh,
Speaker 5: and then you drop though, don't put too many. You
Speaker 5: don't want them to get full before they get in
Speaker 5: the trap. But you put one here and then one
Speaker 5: little for they're one a little bit further, and then
Speaker 5: put something that lead them right into the trap. You
Speaker 5: can trap an armadella that way. Now, if it's a
Speaker 5: I don't know, maybe possum would go after that too.
Speaker 5: I don't know. But depending on the animal, the approach
Speaker 5: to capture them is gonna be a little different. But
Speaker 5: I think a live trap at night is probably your
Speaker 5: best bet.
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, Well, if you got a moment.
Speaker 21: I got another question I had last week, and you
Speaker 21: told me to send you a picture, And every time
Speaker 21: I do that, I don't know anything about computers and
Speaker 21: I have to get somebody else to do it. So
Speaker 21: I haven't been able to do that. But my box
Speaker 21: was dying, and I know they're not dead. So I
Speaker 21: was asking now if you could suggest somethings long thirty
Speaker 21: foot bed in front of my house that I've had
Speaker 21: those box woods there before. I'm trying try and from
Speaker 21: now I'm going to get something different.
Speaker 4: I'd like some kind of.
Speaker 5: Okay, there are a number of different shrubs depending on
Speaker 5: what kill the box. Would you you probably would be
Speaker 5: okay with a dwarf jopon that's been hedged, they make
Speaker 5: a little plant. If you want something taller than that,
Speaker 5: there are a number of hollies that will will do
Speaker 5: good they get taller than that. How big is big?
Speaker 21: When you say big, i'd say not quite three feet tall.
Speaker 21: I just I don't want to sort of a border
Speaker 21: there that looks nice and in front of the house
Speaker 21: it's a long porch there. Yeah, and it has to
Speaker 21: come up a little bit even like it's something not elephantears,
Speaker 21: but something like that, but that I won't have to
Speaker 21: replace every year because they get frozen. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 21: want to do that.
Speaker 5: Well, I'd go back to dwarf jopon as being a standard.
Speaker 5: You know, you got yopin that run wild out in
Speaker 5: that area, So it's a it's a plant that's very
Speaker 5: adapted to that area.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 5: The thing with elephant ears, they die on in the
Speaker 5: winter and you got to cut all that mush out
Speaker 5: and then they come back. There's nothing wrong with an
Speaker 5: elephant who they probably get too wide for you too.
Speaker 5: But those would be a few options. Ornamental grasses are
Speaker 5: beautiful if you get one that's not so tall. There
Speaker 5: are some some fountain grasses that are that are dwarfed
Speaker 5: there and others that'd be an option.
Speaker 4: But I think you'll call my best look of.
Speaker 21: The box would but I'm just getting tired of them
Speaker 21: dying on me.
Speaker 5: And okay, then I dwarf. A dwarf you opon is
Speaker 5: probably going to be your best bet.
Speaker 21: Hey, thank you very much.
Speaker 4: I won't.
Speaker 21: I think I'm gonna.
Speaker 5: Try that out, all right, you take care, all right?
Speaker 5: All right? I hear music that means we're about to
Speaker 5: go to a break here. Listen, I'm gonna be at
Speaker 5: Katie Hardware today. I'll when i I'll be there from
Speaker 5: twelve to two today. Now, Katie Hardware is on pin
Speaker 5: Oak Road and Katie just not far from E ten.
Speaker 5: Come on, I'm seeing it. I'll be giving away like
Speaker 5: I don't know, twelve or so bags of microfoss is
Speaker 5: one two three system their three step really cool.
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Speaker 5: All right, folks, let's jump right in here and get
Speaker 5: this hour going. There's a lot to talk about. There's
Speaker 5: always a lot to talk about. You know, it doesn't
Speaker 5: matter what day of the year it is. There is
Speaker 5: so much more culturally going on that you need to know,
Speaker 5: you need to do, you should do, and we're here
Speaker 5: to help you with those kinds of things. RCW Nursery
Speaker 5: is the garden center there where two forty nine two
Speaker 5: forty nine Tomball Parkway where it comes into belt WAYA,
Speaker 5: and it's been there. I don't know, you guys have
Speaker 5: probably known it for a long time. I think it
Speaker 5: opened in nineteen seventy nine by the Williamson family who
Speaker 5: still run it. So that is a history here in
Speaker 5: the Greater Houston area of providing quality plants. That's why
Speaker 5: they have the reputation of the get It, Got It nursery.
Speaker 5: What that means is give them a call. If they
Speaker 5: don't have it and it's out there available, they can
Speaker 5: probably get it and bring it in for you. You're
Speaker 5: going to go in there and you're going to find
Speaker 5: the fertilizers that I recommend here on garden. You're going
Speaker 5: to find things like Landscaper's Pride, the molt products and
Speaker 5: soil products that they have there. RCW is a great
Speaker 5: source of roses too. You know, of course typically the
Speaker 5: February times when everybody is thinking roses, but now's a
Speaker 5: good time to plant roses. Now's a good time to
Speaker 5: plant trees. And they've got some really really good specials
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Speaker 5: in there, take advantage of it, don't delay. I mean,
Speaker 5: you're not going to find a better deal than that.
Speaker 5: And RCW also of course has the expert advice and
Speaker 5: direction to help you have success. Our phone number if
Speaker 5: you would like to give me a call is seven
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Speaker 5: I was visiting with Ian up at Nature's Way Resources
Speaker 5: a while back. I was up there for their Fall festival. Gosh,
Speaker 5: that was back mid October, and they are continuing to
Speaker 5: have their Fungal Friday Sale. It's still on up there,
Speaker 5: so twenty percent off fungal compost. Fungo compost. That's what
Speaker 5: happens in the woods. You know, when leaves fall on
Speaker 5: the ground in the woods, it's primarily fungi that are
Speaker 5: doing the decomposition in that environment. And a fungo based
Speaker 5: compost is excellent for plants that are broad leaf plants
Speaker 5: like your shrubs and trees and flowers and vegetables and
Speaker 5: herbs and things like that. Fungo composts outstanding. Also if
Speaker 5: you want to use it as a top dressing, it
Speaker 5: works very well. You know, we talk about leaf mold
Speaker 5: compost well, a fungo compost or leaf old compost, get
Speaker 5: them screened down to a good size, and they make
Speaker 5: an excellent top dressing material. Also, all of that is
Speaker 5: up there at Nature's Way Resources. If you go up
Speaker 5: Interstate forty five where fourteen eighty eight comes in from Magnolia,
Speaker 5: you just turn right and go across the railroad tracks
Speaker 5: and you were there at Nature's Way. You need to
Speaker 5: have a vehicle that can hold some stuff. I mean,
Speaker 5: whether it's a pickup or a trailer that you're bringing
Speaker 5: back bulkloads with or just bringing back bags from them.
Speaker 5: By the way. Their bags are also available in local
Speaker 5: garden centers and ace hardware stores, just all kinds of
Speaker 5: places all over the greater Houston area, all part of
Speaker 5: the product line. There at Nature's Way where a lot
Speaker 5: of our best soil products began. You know, you hear
Speaker 5: people talk about rose soil born it Nature's Way. You're
Speaker 5: about talking about fungal or leaf mo compost born it
Speaker 5: Nature's Way. That's what I'm talking about. Super quality products
Speaker 5: and just friendly service and easy to get too, easy
Speaker 5: to get out, and they can deliver too if you
Speaker 5: would like that. Let's see here We're going to go
Speaker 5: now out to the west side and talk to Joe. Hey, Joe,
Speaker 5: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 22: How you doing good to hear.
Speaker 5: You, I'm well, yeah, what's up?
Speaker 22: So we have so my problem is I have some
Speaker 22: wild violet in my yard. It's that root that's like
Speaker 22: a carrot that goes underneath it, and I've been trying
Speaker 22: to get rid of it into Santa Augustine. And I
Speaker 22: was wondering if you had a product that would help,
Speaker 22: you know, get rid of that and not hurt the
Speaker 22: Santa Augustine.
Speaker 5: Yeah, products that contain two four D, which is in
Speaker 5: things like Trimac, for example, it's one of the products
Speaker 5: in there, Dicama, Trimac, those things, those are pretty effective
Speaker 5: against it. There are some things that are more effective,
Speaker 5: but they're going to hurt your Saint Augustine. And so
Speaker 5: unless you just have solid violets and you can, you know,
Speaker 5: just spray something to kill them all, then I would
Speaker 5: just go with a trimac or just a two four
Speaker 5: D type lawn product labeled for Saint Augustine.
Speaker 4: Okay, thank you.
Speaker 22: I'm having a hard time hearing you, so I'm gonna
Speaker 22: hang up, but thank you.
Speaker 21: For that information.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and if you need to check back, if you
Speaker 5: need to check back on it. All the shows are
Speaker 5: put on podcasts there we can go re listen to
Speaker 5: them on KTRH.
Speaker 17: So, all right, thank you on the podcast.
Speaker 5: All right, thank you you Take care by H. Nitrofoss
Speaker 5: has their three Step program, and I've been talking about
Speaker 5: it and talking about it this fall, and I guess
Speaker 5: I'm just telling you. I don't know it's last call,
Speaker 5: but I will say he has He who hesitates is
Speaker 5: lost because nitrophoss is three Step is their fall special
Speaker 5: Winter Riser designed for making your southern lawn go into
Speaker 5: winter stronger and come out stronger in spring. Second barricade
Speaker 5: pre emergent herbicide prevents weed seeds from being able to
Speaker 5: sprout and establish. It forms a barricade over the soil
Speaker 5: surface and says no, no, you cannot you cannot grow here.
Speaker 5: And then finally Eagle turf fungicide that is a systemic fungicide.
Speaker 5: It gets in the plant. So when brown patch those
Speaker 5: big circles up here, when take all root rot tries
Speaker 5: to attack, you've got a grass plant that has got
Speaker 5: the protective fungicide inside of it to prevent that. Now
Speaker 5: you're going to find this at Bearings Hardware, both the
Speaker 5: one on Biscinette and the one in Westtheimer. You're going
Speaker 5: to find it at Lake Hardware, both the one in
Speaker 5: Angleton and the one at Lake Jackson, and of course
Speaker 5: at RCW Nurseries, Nitrofoss Texas three step. Well, I am
Speaker 5: looking at the clock here. I don't have time to
Speaker 5: take another call. When we come back from a break,
Speaker 5: Jose and let's see Vernon and Darryl. You'll be our
Speaker 5: first three up and we'll visit with you. I did
Speaker 5: want to tell you about spring Creek Feed though. Spring
Speaker 5: Creek Feed is up there on FM twenty nine seventy
Speaker 5: eight to Magnolia, just north and east of Tomball. Spring
Speaker 5: Creek Feed has fertilizers that I talk about on Garden Line,
Speaker 5: like the Nelson Turf Star Line, like Microlife Mike, Nitrofoss.
Speaker 5: They've got lawn and garden and pond supplies, herbicides, fungicized pastes,
Speaker 5: whatever you need to control issues in your plants. If
Speaker 5: you are ffa military or senior citizen, there's discounts for
Speaker 5: you and they'll even do special order and they have
Speaker 5: a delivery service as well. I think one of the
Speaker 5: best things is you walk in. It is a wonderful place.
Speaker 5: You're greeted by friendly, courteous staff. I think you would
Speaker 5: expect from a quality feed store like Spring Creek. Feed
Speaker 5: again in Magnolia on FM twenty nine seventy eight, just
Speaker 5: minutes away from Graham Parkway and Highway two forty nine.
Speaker 5: All right, here I go. When I come back again,
Speaker 5: Jose and Vernon and Daryl, you'll be our first. Welcome
Speaker 5: back to garden Line, folks. Good to have you with us.
Speaker 5: We're gonna jump right out there on the phones and
Speaker 5: we'll start. Let's see here, I think we said Darryl
Speaker 5: in Northwest Houston. Welcome to garden Line. Darryl. Hello, hey, Darryl. Yes,
Speaker 5: I'm here.
Speaker 2: I am.
Speaker 4: Perhaps blueberries.
Speaker 23: Wow, I don't even remember the can be honest with you,
Speaker 23: but I have them in pots and I'm curious as
Speaker 23: to how to prune them.
Speaker 5: Okay, so what we do on blue Yeah, late winter
Speaker 5: is the best time to go ahead and prone them.
Speaker 5: You don't have an acre blueberry seat, yeah, so what
Speaker 5: you want to do is a blueberry We call them canes.
Speaker 5: The shoots coming up out of the ground. They should
Speaker 5: live up about five years and then be removed and replaced.
Speaker 5: And that way you have a constant twenty percent of
Speaker 5: the plant being rejuvenated each year. As a blueberry king
Speaker 5: gets really old and it's just been there a long
Speaker 5: time and it's produced several times, it just it loses
Speaker 5: vigor and it isn't as productive and the branch growth
Speaker 5: is real twiggy. And and so after you've had one
Speaker 5: for you know, about four or five years. Uh, just
Speaker 5: look on it and you see some of those old
Speaker 5: growths that are just twiggy and not really productive. Just
Speaker 5: take it out at the base, cut it off at
Speaker 5: the base, and you will continually have new new ones
Speaker 5: coming up and growing.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 5: And that that's how you do it.
Speaker 4: Sounds good, Like I said that the plant.
Speaker 23: The plants have been in a pot for about a year,
Speaker 23: and I don't they weren't maybe too foot tall at
Speaker 23: the most, so they're not real old.
Speaker 5: Okay, well they're.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 23: Just I wouldn't need to be anything out just wherever,
Speaker 23: like the branches are crossing each other or something or well.
Speaker 5: I mean, if you have little tiny twiggy stuff as
Speaker 5: you grow blueberries, notice in late winter that the buds
Speaker 5: that are real plump, those are the ones that are
Speaker 5: gonna have blooms, and the ones that aren't plump don't
Speaker 5: have blooms. And you can see on that kind of
Speaker 5: burgundy colored wood that they develops and that that is
Speaker 5: that's fruiting wood. And you kind of learn and then
Speaker 5: from there, if you've got little twiggies that and I
Speaker 5: mount anything, just take them out because they're not doing
Speaker 5: the okay.
Speaker 23: Also, also, I had a it's a red berring peach
Speaker 23: and it's been in the ground for a year. Should
Speaker 23: does it require any top of pruning? Maybe some of
Speaker 23: the lower lowers.
Speaker 5: Well, when we prune a peach, we're going to eat,
Speaker 5: which you can eat red barren fruit. We generally make
Speaker 5: it a big, big open bowl to allow light inside
Speaker 5: so you get more fruiting wood and fruit inside. Otherwise
Speaker 5: a tree, a peach tree, will become an umbrella of
Speaker 5: foliage and fruit on top and it's all dead and
Speaker 5: twiggy inside, So you got to keep that light coming in. Now,
Speaker 5: if you're just looking for a just a flowering tree,
Speaker 5: then you don't have to go through that pruning, uh,
Speaker 5: just kind of thinning them out A little bit is
Speaker 5: all you need to do.
Speaker 4: I will I want to eat.
Speaker 5: Okay, well, there you go. Uh go go to the Aggie, hey, Daryl,
Speaker 5: go to Aggie Horticulture website. Just do a search for it.
Speaker 5: There's a fruit fruit link on it, and there's a
Speaker 5: peach publication and it shows you exactly how to prone
Speaker 5: it better than I can try to describe it over
Speaker 5: the air. Okay, Horticulture, it's free.
Speaker 4: I will do that. Thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 5: Appreciate that. Appreciate that very much. Let's see we're going
Speaker 5: to go out to Vernon in Needville, speaking of peaches. Hey, Vernon,
Speaker 5: welcome to garden Line. Do we have Vernon with us? Still? Okay? Vernon?
Speaker 5: Hey Veron, Hey, welcome to garden Line. This is Skip.
Speaker 24: Yes, sir, Hey, I've got a I got a good
Speaker 24: deal on a couple of brown Turkey figs and a
Speaker 24: couple of Celestie figs and a couple of Florida Pride peaches.
Speaker 4: I've got them in containers.
Speaker 24: Should I go ahead and put them on the ground now?
Speaker 24: And if I do, I need to protect them through
Speaker 24: the any freezes or what do you think?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: You can you can go ahead and plant them now,
Speaker 5: that's fine. The the the peaches are not going to
Speaker 5: be cold tender. You're fine on those. The figs. You know,
Speaker 5: you get a doozy of a of a cold snap
Speaker 5: this winter and you can get damage to a fig.
Speaker 5: But I would still plan them. Get them in the
Speaker 5: ground and then mulch them, roll well at the base,
Speaker 5: and if we're going to have a freeze, I would
Speaker 5: just mound up soil or or or compost around the base,
Speaker 5: uh to protect that during the freeze. I have also
Speaker 5: seen people put a little cage around them, uh and
Speaker 5: then fill it full of leaves and things, just to
Speaker 5: provide some extra cold protection in there. And again it's
Speaker 5: just because it's a brand new tree and they're a
Speaker 5: little more susceptible to issues, so to do that.
Speaker 24: Yeah, I believe the celesti is a little more cold
Speaker 24: hardy than the other one. But okay, well and get
Speaker 24: them in the ground.
Speaker 5: Yes, well good, have fun with him now. You know,
Speaker 5: on garden Line, we don't charge for advice, but I
Speaker 5: do ask you to bring me half the produce you grow.
Speaker 5: So just drop that off and you'll call it even.
Speaker 4: All right, I'm hoping to get some figs the price
Speaker 4: is a fig.
Speaker 24: Now they I'm gonna grow them all.
Speaker 5: Oh man, everybody ought to have a fig tree. They're good.
Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, I don't get me started on fixed. Hey,
Speaker 5: thanks Vernon, I appreciate I appreciate your call very much.
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Speaker 5: going to go now to talk to Jim in Montgomery. Hey, Jim,
Speaker 5: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 9: Hey, I got some seeds from for the desert rows.
Speaker 9: And it didn't come with instructions. As far as I know,
Speaker 9: they're hardy only in like ten I think I'm in
Speaker 9: nine or eight up here in Montgomery. I was wondering
Speaker 9: when should that plant? What I grow licral greens under
Speaker 9: grow lights in the window in the south part of
Speaker 9: the house. So I got that down pretty good. Can
Speaker 9: I start those seeds now or should I wait till spring?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 5: You can. You can start them now and get them
Speaker 5: going if you've got really really good.
Speaker 9: Light.
Speaker 5: And you know, greens they do best and as much
Speaker 5: light as you can give them, but they'll grow in less.
Speaker 5: But what does it rose? I would want to make
Speaker 5: sure you get that light right down on the plants.
Speaker 5: Get as much.
Speaker 9: Light the lights. And I got like three or four
Speaker 9: led grow lights that I use for the greens, and
Speaker 9: it seems to work fine for that. And they're in
Speaker 9: a window as well, so that they get some natural
Speaker 9: light a little bit well, I mean, you know during
Speaker 9: summer anyway, but this winter, you know, it's a little
Speaker 9: it's not quite as bright, you know.
Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, I understand, But get them as much light
Speaker 5: as you can if sometimes windows are a little bit
Speaker 5: of a cold spot in the house, so they're a
Speaker 5: little heating match you can put down just to kind
Speaker 5: of keep it a little warm on the warm side. Uh,
Speaker 5: that would be better on helping them get going and
Speaker 5: starting from seed. But you want a very gritty, well
Speaker 5: drained mix, like it's got a lot of pearlite and
Speaker 5: sand and grit kinds of things in it, because it
Speaker 5: needs to drain really well. Water them very sparingly, keep
Speaker 5: it slightly moist, but be very careful not to over
Speaker 5: water them, and they'll do it. They'll do well for you. Hey, Jim,
Speaker 5: I got a run for a break here, but good
Speaker 5: luck with your project. I wish don't definitely wish you well. Folks.
Speaker 5: It's time for me to take a little break. I
Speaker 5: want me come back. Let's see goodness sake. Brett and
Speaker 5: Bill and Jason, you'll be our first ones up. Welcome
Speaker 5: back to the garden line. Glad you are listening in today.
Speaker 5: Good to have you with us. For those of you
Speaker 5: who walk to garden organically, well you probably already know
Speaker 5: about microlife, but you need to know about microlife. Microlife
Speaker 5: is a number one selling organic fertilizer throughout the Greater
Speaker 5: House scenario in fact, is sold a way beyond the
Speaker 5: Greater Houston area. They have a product called Microgrow Liquid AF.
Speaker 5: It is of course a liquid product, but it is
Speaker 5: loaded with beneficial microbes, the types of microbes that fight
Speaker 5: disease specifically, so when you put it down, it goes
Speaker 5: down into the root system of the soil, protects roots,
Speaker 5: and actually some of these microbes actually communicate with the
Speaker 5: plant and cause the plant to grow different. Is that
Speaker 5: amazing or what that a microbe would signal a plant
Speaker 5: and cause that plant to grow in a way that
Speaker 5: makes it more difficult for a disease to infect it.
Speaker 5: Micro Grow Liquid AF from Microlife Fertilizers. You can go
Speaker 5: to the website Microlifefertilizer dot com and you can find
Speaker 5: a lot of information there as well as where to
Speaker 5: get it, and it's pretty much available everywhere just about
Speaker 5: everycause microlife products. While you're there, check out the micro
Speaker 5: Grow bio andoculent that is an organic biological inoculent. It
Speaker 5: has even more beneficial microbes in it. It's a dry
Speaker 5: granular you can buy by the bag or bye by
Speaker 5: a large plastic jar container. Use it any kind of
Speaker 5: soil that you're using any kind of plants. I would say,
Speaker 5: with the micro grow bio inoculant, I'll put it on
Speaker 5: the lawn and I would do that this fall and
Speaker 5: water it in and get those microbes working for you.
Speaker 5: Time for me to head out to let's see we
Speaker 5: have a Brett in Richmond, I believe was the next
Speaker 5: one up. Hey Brett, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 25: Hey Skip, thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 4: I just had a question.
Speaker 25: My wife and I have a little ranch down in
Speaker 25: Mattagorda County, and you know, of course he always the
Speaker 25: battle down there is the McCartney rose or the wild roseheads,
Speaker 25: and so I kill that with tricle per. But I
Speaker 25: was noticing yesterday while I was in the pasture that
Speaker 25: in the Bermuda field, I've got tons of dewberry vines
Speaker 25: coming up. Is there a way to kill those where
Speaker 25: my grazing cattle will not get poisoned?
Speaker 5: Same same thing. There are tricle peer products once called
Speaker 5: remedy for ag use that are made for a grazeline.
Speaker 5: Just read the label when you go in to buy them.
Speaker 5: Just check the label. But they should be safe to use.
Speaker 5: And the BlackBerry if you'll hit them in the fall
Speaker 5: hit them. Now they're pulling in a lot of sugars
Speaker 5: to go into the dormant season, and you get a
Speaker 5: little bit better killed than you do. Sometimes in spring
Speaker 5: it's like the growth the flow is going the other way,
Speaker 5: you know, out from the roots to push new growth.
Speaker 5: But fall is an excellent time to make that first
Speaker 5: good hit with those products.
Speaker 4: Perfect.
Speaker 25: Perfect, that's what I need to know.
Speaker 4: Thank you, all.
Speaker 5: Right, sir, thank you for the call. Appreciate that. All right,
Speaker 5: let's see here, let's head out now to Brett in
Speaker 5: No excuse me, Bill in Montgomery. Hey, Bill, welcome to
Speaker 5: guarden line.
Speaker 8: Yeah, thanks for taking my call. I had a question.
Speaker 8: I've got to several crt myrtles in the yard. I
Speaker 8: think over the last couple of years the heath cold
Speaker 8: has kind of stressed them a little bit. I typically
Speaker 8: have probably made a mistake over the years when I
Speaker 8: in the winter time go to throw them back, I
Speaker 8: have just sort of locked them off at the top.
Speaker 8: Now I tend seem to have kind of gnarly growth
Speaker 8: at the top. Seems like the in the spring, the
Speaker 8: new growth isn't as healthy as it has been in
Speaker 8: the past. Did a problem to just lop off those
Speaker 8: gnarly formations.
Speaker 5: No, you can do that. It. Crapes are a challenge,
Speaker 5: and everybody overpruns them like you're describing, and you end
Speaker 5: up destroying that beautiful structure of the plant. You can
Speaker 5: knock those off, but what's going to happen is you're
Speaker 5: going to get a whole bunch of sprouts where you
Speaker 5: cut it back. And so if you can follow one
Speaker 5: of those gnarlies that you're describing, follow that that stem
Speaker 5: back to where there's a side branch and cut it
Speaker 5: off just above that, and then when it tries to resprout,
Speaker 5: break off all the sprouts as they're trying to grow
Speaker 5: and let the new growth be more natural. That would
Speaker 5: be the best bet. Now, if if the whole thing
Speaker 5: just looks horrible and there's no side shoots to work with,
Speaker 5: you either have to live with the narlies or you
Speaker 5: cut the whole thing back to the ground and let
Speaker 5: fresh new growth come out. But at this point in
Speaker 5: the season, I would not do that. They don't have
Speaker 5: time to be established.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 5: We had a freeze couple of years ago that killed
Speaker 5: some crapes to the ground, and people were doing that.
Speaker 5: They were selecting two or three or four branch or
Speaker 5: shoots to come up and cutting all the rest away. Uh,
Speaker 5: you know, in that retri process.
Speaker 8: Okay, one other question regarding them. For myrtle's uh uh
Speaker 8: mine tend to have uh mold or a black mood
Speaker 8: develop on uh the trunk and the limbs. I think
Speaker 8: it's if it's I don't know what is it? Is
Speaker 8: it dormant oil is the best treatment for that? Or
Speaker 8: and when would you applish it?
Speaker 5: That's actually scale most likely if it's can do that.
Speaker 5: There are other insects that can do it on crepes.
Speaker 5: If if you look in the black, what you're going
Speaker 5: to see is little white things in the black, and
Speaker 5: that this scale themselves. Uh and so yeah, at this point,
Speaker 5: you could use a systemic product if you do it
Speaker 5: before long, because the leaves are coming off those things.
Speaker 5: You want the plant to take it up. But systemics
Speaker 5: get in the plant and anything sucking juices out of
Speaker 5: the plant gets that poison out of the plumbing of
Speaker 5: the plant. And so there are a couple of good
Speaker 5: products out there, a couple of ingredients that will do that.
Speaker 5: You just want to be careful if you do that
Speaker 5: right for bloom season, that products are up in the
Speaker 5: plant and then when bees come to the flowers they
Speaker 5: could be exposed to some of those products, and we
Speaker 5: don't we don't need that.
Speaker 8: Okay, well, thanks for your information.
Speaker 5: Yeah you bet, Thanks and good luck with that. Yeah,
Speaker 5: all right, folks, thank you very much. All Right, we
Speaker 5: are let's see here. We are gonna give us a call.
Speaker 5: If you do have a call seven one three two
Speaker 5: two k H, I'd be happy to help you with that.
Speaker 5: I just wanted to mention again Ace Hardware. You know,
Speaker 5: I'm going to be at the hardware store in Katie.
Speaker 5: It's called Katie Hardware and it is really really easy
Speaker 5: to get to. You know, you're sitting right there on
Speaker 5: I ten wherever you're coming from toward Katie. And if
Speaker 5: you if you will stop in this after this afternoon,
Speaker 5: I'm gonna be there from twelve to two. Excuse me,
Speaker 5: I'm trying to do three things at once here. Uh,
Speaker 5: if you stop in, I will have a number of
Speaker 5: bags the folks from night Foss is gonna be there.
Speaker 5: We're gonna have a number of bags of the nitrofoss
Speaker 5: texas three step. That's three different products. But we're gonna
Speaker 5: have several bags of each one that we're gonna be
Speaker 5: given away. And it's just uh, this hardware is just
Speaker 5: south of IT ten, just a little bit on Pinoak Road,
Speaker 5: so it's really easy to get to. I'm sorry, south
Speaker 5: north wrong direction, in between Highway ninety and I ten
Speaker 5: on pin Oak Road. Goodness Sakes. If you haven't been
Speaker 5: to this before, it's a really cool ice store. Now
Speaker 5: a stores independently owned. Each one's unique there, each one
Speaker 5: is special in its own way. It's always fun to
Speaker 5: go into an Ace Hardware because you're going to find
Speaker 5: everything that I talk about in the way of taking
Speaker 5: care of your lawn. You like fertilizers, like a weed prevention,
Speaker 5: like disease prevention in the lawn. You're going to find
Speaker 5: products for every kind of plant you would want to grow.
Speaker 5: You're going to find things to control diseases, to control
Speaker 5: weeds that are already existing. You're going to find things
Speaker 5: to control insects when you need to do that. Plus
Speaker 5: you're going to find all the seasonal items that you
Speaker 5: need have a beautiful both indoor and outdoor part of
Speaker 5: your home, and so ACE Hardware come out and see
Speaker 5: me today at the Katie Hardware again, Katie Hardware on
Speaker 5: Pinoak Road, just north of IT ten and I look
Speaker 5: forward to seeing you. Bring me plants, samples, will identify them,
Speaker 5: will diagnose them. Bring me photos from your phone, we'll
Speaker 5: talk about those. If you want to take some pictures,
Speaker 5: we'll do that too. I always like tapictures of folks
Speaker 5: that are listening to guard Line. I'm gonna have to
Speaker 5: go to a break here, and when I come back,
Speaker 5: let's see who we got. We've got Les and Lisa,
Speaker 5: Oh gosh, Melanie and Herte. All right, we got a
Speaker 5: full board there, folks. We'll be right back. Welcome back
Speaker 5: to Garden. I'm good to have you with us. Lots
Speaker 5: more to go here on Garden. I'll stick with us.
Speaker 5: We'll be here till ten am this morning and back
Speaker 5: six to ten tomorrow morning as well. For those of
Speaker 5: you down in the Richmond Rosenberg area, have you been
Speaker 5: to in Chenni Gardens there on the Katie Fullsher side
Speaker 5: of Richmond. So you just head up FM seven twenty
Speaker 5: three and when you get to three fifty nine you're there.
Speaker 5: Corner is seven twenty three and three fifty nine in
Speaker 5: Chenny guards In Chennigardensrichmond dot Com is the website and
Speaker 5: Linnemann family has been part of that community since nineteen
Speaker 5: ninety five when Chenni Garden's first opened. This is one
Speaker 5: of those independent garden centers. It's just an absolutely unforgettable experience.
Speaker 5: There is no match in their selection when it comes
Speaker 5: to plants and trees and certainly knowledge. They've been in
Speaker 5: the nursery business a long time. They've seen it all,
Speaker 5: they know it. You have issues to ask them about,
Speaker 5: you know, what about this plant or what's this problem?
Speaker 5: Or name that bug or what's wrong with this? They
Speaker 5: can do that. Bring them a sample, bring them a picture.
Speaker 5: Their helpful team is so enthusiastic and body as enthusiastic
Speaker 5: as they come. So just bring those examples and photos
Speaker 5: and things like samples in to get the expert advice.
Speaker 5: Why you're there, Not only are you going to find
Speaker 5: every kind of plant you could possibly need, You're going
Speaker 5: to find fertilizers like microlife and nitroposs and Nelson and Medena.
Speaker 5: You're going to find soil and multch products from Nature's
Speaker 5: Way and Heirloom and Landscaper's Pride. They are open Monday
Speaker 5: through Saturday eight to five and tomorrow ten am to
Speaker 5: four pm. If you've never been there, you got to go.
Speaker 5: If you've already been there, you know what I'm talking about,
Speaker 5: head back out there. It's a good time to visit.
Speaker 5: The weather is perfect out there where in Jenny Gardens.
Speaker 5: I always love to go. I love the folks, I
Speaker 5: love the plants. It's just a good time. We're going
Speaker 5: to head out and out of the phones and we
Speaker 5: are going to talk to Less in Dickinson. Hello, Less,
Speaker 5: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 19: Good morning.
Speaker 4: How you doing.
Speaker 5: I'm good, sir. How can I help?
Speaker 4: Okay? I got a couple of questions. BlackBerry we're talking
Speaker 4: about that earlier.
Speaker 26: I've got one that I'm trying to grow and planeted
Speaker 26: it and spring now it's it's starting to take over
Speaker 26: the ground.
Speaker 4: Pruning it.
Speaker 26: Is there any special way I need to look at
Speaker 26: pruning that?
Speaker 5: Or blackberries are on a two year schedule, So this
Speaker 5: spring a shoot grew and it'll go through winter and
Speaker 5: its fruiting year would be next year, and then after
Speaker 5: fruits it tends to eventually die. So once you've harvested
Speaker 5: the fruit, you cut all the fruiting shoots off at
Speaker 5: the ground because you're gonna have new shoots coming up
Speaker 5: from the ground that'll be the next year shoot. So
Speaker 5: there's always two different types of shoots in your BlackBerry patch.
Speaker 5: One is the growing shoots we call those prima canes.
Speaker 5: Prime is in one first year and the second year
Speaker 5: they become flora caanes as in flowering. So it's a
Speaker 5: BlackBerry shoot coming out of the ground only lives. You
Speaker 5: only leave it two years after the fruit happens. Cut
Speaker 5: it out and new ones will be back and you
Speaker 5: have the best looking patch.
Speaker 26: So since this is the first year I planned it,
Speaker 26: pretty much everything that's growing.
Speaker 5: Is yeah, just leave it, no pruning, right, no pruning
Speaker 5: this year, and it'll be kind of probably, you know,
Speaker 5: not real impressive the first year. But next year you'll
Speaker 5: start see some better growth and it just gets stronger. Okay, okay, okay,
Speaker 5: I got to come home more. Okay, let me do
Speaker 5: them real quick, because I got to row row folks
Speaker 5: here waiting, So let's do plant.
Speaker 4: Is this the time to plant free trees?
Speaker 5: Yes, it's an excellent time all the way. Now through
Speaker 5: winter is the best time of the year. You can
Speaker 5: plant them any month of the year, but now's the
Speaker 5: best time.
Speaker 26: And can you grow a fig tree and a pot?
Speaker 5: You can? There are figs that are smaller, uh. You know,
Speaker 5: I'm a variety called miss Figy I think is one
Speaker 5: of those, uh that you can grow them in a pot.
Speaker 5: It's just the kind that want to be real big bushes.
Speaker 5: Unless your pot has some some volume to the soil,
Speaker 5: you're going to have trouble with that. So it was
Speaker 5: a big of a well. I mean, you know people
Speaker 5: that don't have space or they just want to fig
Speaker 5: on the patio. Get you something the size of a
Speaker 5: half whiskey barrel that'll stand up and you know, to
Speaker 5: time whiskey barrel won't uh, And and plant a fig
Speaker 5: in that and get one that's a little more compound size.
Speaker 5: You'll be all right. All right, Thanks, Les, appreciate the
Speaker 5: calls you take care of. We're going to Lisa and Brian. Hey, Lisa,
Speaker 5: welcome to the garden Line.
Speaker 21: Hello.
Speaker 6: Hello.
Speaker 15: I said, some pictures of some vica that I have
Speaker 15: that is declining. You can see the healthy vinka in
Speaker 15: the part. I just don't want the healthy part to
Speaker 15: start looking like the other. And then I also have
Speaker 15: a question about the weeds and whether we can use
Speaker 15: a pre emergent and post emergent to keep the weeds
Speaker 15: out of it, out of the venka.
Speaker 5: Okay, So first of all, that picture wasn't taken in
Speaker 5: Brian area, was it.
Speaker 6: No, it's in Hunt Hunt Okay.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Look it looks look more hill country to me.
Speaker 5: So outxactly, you got some higher you got some higher
Speaker 5: pH soils. Uh. And when the pH goes high, you
Speaker 5: start to get iron chlorosis, which is when the yellow
Speaker 5: the new growth shows yellow and the old growth remains green.
Speaker 5: So I would get a helated kelated iron product. I
Speaker 5: would apply it to that area, especially next spring when
Speaker 5: new growth is going to begin. It's going to kind
Speaker 5: of slope right now when it cools off. But akelated iron.
Speaker 5: Make sure you do that, and then blow it off
Speaker 5: those limestone walkways because iron will stain concrete and limestone
Speaker 5: stain at kind of a reddish brown color, a rust color,
Speaker 5: and you don't want to do that, so blow it
Speaker 5: off and then water it all in. What's really the
Speaker 5: problem on your plants though, is the vink of leaf roller.
Speaker 5: And if you go up and look real close, you'll
Speaker 5: see leaves that are folded over. And if you hope
Speaker 5: if you pull them open, there there's webbing holding them
Speaker 5: folded over and inside is either a caterpillar or a
Speaker 5: pupa or there used to be. And so that you
Speaker 5: can control with either products containing bt B as in
Speaker 5: boy tea is in tom or spinosid s p I
Speaker 5: n O s A D. Both are organic. The spinosid
Speaker 5: soaks into the tissue and gives you a little longer control.
Speaker 5: BT only lasts about a day before you have to
Speaker 5: spray it again. Uh, And so I would do the
Speaker 5: spinosid version on those, but pretty much how many sex
Speaker 5: side's going to kill them. But I like the spinosa
Speaker 5: because it soaks in that that leaf tissue and that
Speaker 5: that will shut it down for next year. I wouldn't
Speaker 5: worry about them right now. They're they've kind of done
Speaker 5: with their don't.
Speaker 15: Do anything right now, Wait until the spring.
Speaker 5: New leaves being If you see some new leaves being
Speaker 5: folded over, you can do it now. But it's primarily
Speaker 5: when the spring growth and then you see them more,
Speaker 5: not just in spring. They come a little bit later.
Speaker 5: But the first sign of those little boogers, that's when
Speaker 5: you get the spinosid out.
Speaker 15: Okay, okay, and then can we use barricade or something
Speaker 15: like that as a pre emergent on the vinka like
Speaker 15: you would with the grass.
Speaker 5: You can, yes, and then both emerge.
Speaker 15: What about post emerged or something I can use.
Speaker 5: Yes, grassy weeds. Okay, uh, there are two products. I'll
Speaker 5: tell you what. Go to my website gardening with skip
Speaker 5: dot com. Yeah, and there's a publication that says herbicides
Speaker 5: for the weed wiper. And if you look at those herbicides,
Speaker 5: go down to the grassy weeds and then go across
Speaker 5: to the right. There's two ingredients and then there's a
Speaker 5: list of products that have those two ingredients. Do that
Speaker 5: Having said that, you're talking about the barricade, I would
Speaker 5: I'm not sure that would help a lot. And here's
Speaker 5: why that vinka is so dense. Sunlight isn't hitting the soil.
Speaker 5: And I don't think you're getting weeds seed sprouting. I
Speaker 5: think you're having perenny weeds. I don't know, viudograss or
Speaker 5: something that's coming up in there. So it's probably just
Speaker 5: hitting them after they come up with the products that
Speaker 5: are on my list there.
Speaker 6: Okay, okay, all right, thank you so much.
Speaker 5: All right, Lisa, all right, you bet, thank you. I
Speaker 5: appreciate appreciate your call very very much. You know, D
Speaker 5: and D Feed is up in the Tomball area. They're
Speaker 5: just three miles west of two four on twenty nine
Speaker 5: to twenty, So if you're heading west on twenty nine
Speaker 5: twenty about three miles on the left, you'll see D
Speaker 5: and Defeat. It's been around since nineteen eighty nine. The
Speaker 5: Dover family has been operating it and they still do.
Speaker 5: I'd expanded it earlier on and it just keeps getting better.
Speaker 5: But when you go there, you're going to find a
Speaker 5: wide variety of products that you hear me talk about.
Speaker 5: Things from nitrofoss, things from microlife, things from Nelson's, things
Speaker 5: from Medina, heirlooms, soils, landscaper's pride, Everything you need to
Speaker 5: control any kind of pastor, disease or weed is going
Speaker 5: to be there. They always stay up and supply if
Speaker 5: you want to give them a call. Two eight one
Speaker 5: three five one seventy one forty four. I hear music
Speaker 5: going that means I have to shut up melody and
Speaker 5: heard it. I tried my best. You will be our
Speaker 5: first two up when we come back from break. If
Speaker 5: you're able to hang around. We'll visit with you at
Speaker 5: that time again. One more reminder and not one more.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna do it again and again. I'm going to
Speaker 5: be at the Ace Hardware store over in Katie, Texas.
Speaker 5: It's called Katie's Hardware. It's on pin Oak Road. If
Speaker 5: you're heading out I ten or coming in it ten
Speaker 5: for me the way, just go north on pin Oak
Speaker 5: Road and a little bit before you get Highway ninety on
Speaker 5: the left, that will be katie a hardware store. I'm
Speaker 5: going to be doing samples and diagnosing and just helping
Speaker 5: you find success and giving away a lot of great
Speaker 5: nitrofoss products.
Speaker 1: Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Scamp Richter's.
Speaker 2: Trim.
Speaker 3: Just watch him as.
Speaker 5: Many Hey, welcome back to garden Lines. Welcome back to
Speaker 5: garden Line. Those of you in Kingwood, you know you're fortunate.
Speaker 5: You got two great guard centers out there. You've got
Speaker 5: Kingwood Garden Center which is over on Stone Hollow Drive,
Speaker 5: and then you got Warren Southern Gardens North Park Drive,
Speaker 5: and they are still effect. Today is the last no.
Speaker 5: Tomorrow is the last day of the what they call
Speaker 5: the Pansy Party. You can buy a flat of pansies.
Speaker 5: That's four inch pots, eighteen containers, eighteen pansy plants for
Speaker 5: twenty five bucks. Just under twenty five bucks. Now, don't
Speaker 5: forget to grab some fertilizer to keep them blooming. Remember
Speaker 5: I was talking about that before the importance of keeping
Speaker 5: that nutrient going all winter. When you push growth on
Speaker 5: these cool seasoned flowers, that foliage captures sun that helps
Speaker 5: them keep blooming. It takes a lot of carbhydrates to
Speaker 5: produce a flour and then plants it fruit to fruit.
Speaker 5: So you got to keep them growing, keep them going.
Speaker 5: They've got Marilla's bulbs and stock lots of fall veggies.
Speaker 5: You know, I challenge you this year, grow something different.
Speaker 5: You've never grown a vegetable before. Grab a container out
Speaker 5: there at Warren Southern Gardens and then grab use some
Speaker 5: veggies to go in it, some herbs to go in it.
Speaker 5: Still got beautiful moms out there. When you're out there,
Speaker 5: make sure and join their newsletter. You can tell them
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Speaker 5: you want to do that. But join the newsletter because
Speaker 5: there are special coupons and offers, especially for example, they're
Speaker 5: monthly lawn care coupons. That's real easy to do, and
Speaker 5: you just want to make sure you're plugged in that
Speaker 5: way so you can stay on top of things and
Speaker 5: get some great deals. Let's go to Lamark and we're
Speaker 5: going to talk to Melanie. Hello, Melanie, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 2: Good morning. I have a question.
Speaker 15: My grandmother passed away a.
Speaker 12: Couple months back.
Speaker 27: She lived in South Dakota, and we've been invited.
Speaker 2: H to dig up her garden.
Speaker 15: She has tulips and hyacinths and hollyhawks and daffodils.
Speaker 7: I'm wondering, well I'd be able to transplant them successfully
Speaker 7: down here.
Speaker 5: Well, tulips down here are one shot wonders, meaning you
Speaker 5: plant the bulb, they bloom, and they because of our climate,
Speaker 5: they just aren't able to get all set up to
Speaker 5: do it again the next year, so you kind of
Speaker 5: get a one shot out of them. I don't know
Speaker 5: if that's worth the trouble. You know, there's a lot
Speaker 5: of things that can get in the way of that.
Speaker 5: But if you can get them planted, let's say sometime
Speaker 5: just after Christmas, right around New Year's or a little later,
Speaker 5: even you may get one shot out of those tulips,
Speaker 5: So that would be one thing. What was the other
Speaker 5: two plants you said.
Speaker 13: As the highacins, the daffodils.
Speaker 22: And hollyhawks.
Speaker 5: Hyacinth again one shot wonder daffodils. Depending on the cultivar,
Speaker 5: it may naturalize here or it may decline slowly. We
Speaker 5: have certain types. If you knew the exact names of them,
Speaker 5: then you could check that out. There's a place here
Speaker 5: in Texas called Southern Bulb Company that specializes in things
Speaker 5: that come back year after year after year. They've collected
Speaker 5: these things from old homesteads that are abandoned and whatnot.
Speaker 5: And so if you want some of those kinds of plants,
Speaker 5: I would I would get them from Southern Bulb here
Speaker 5: and some of our local garden centers will carry those two.
Speaker 5: By the way. As far as the hollyhawks, they do
Speaker 5: okay here, but there's a disease called rust that gets
Speaker 5: on them and creates some issues for them. But you
Speaker 5: could give that a try. It Just you know, when
Speaker 5: we go that far away from here to get a plant,
Speaker 5: the chances are less than fifty percent it's gonna like
Speaker 5: it here. Okay, thanks, all right, mil Sorry to be
Speaker 5: the bear of bad news on that, but why don't
Speaker 5: you try one of those and prove me wrong? Maybe
Speaker 5: maybe you maybe you will, all right, Thank you appreciate that.
Speaker 5: Talked about microlife fertilizers a little bit earlier that micro
Speaker 5: grow liquid AF. Microgrow liquid AF is the fertilizer, a
Speaker 5: liquid that is loaded with some in fact, about eight
Speaker 5: extremely dominating beneficial microbes that live in the soils. Some
Speaker 5: of me can exist on the leaves for a little bit,
Speaker 5: helping make that an inhospitable place for diseases to attack.
Speaker 5: That's how beneficial microbes work for our plants. They also
Speaker 5: have a different product, not liquid AF, but microbioanoculant that's
Speaker 5: a granular. You can buy it in bags to put
Speaker 5: on your lawn, you can brighten containers to put around
Speaker 5: all kinds of other plants, and it has sixty three
Speaker 5: different of those same kinds of microbes. When basically, here's
Speaker 5: the point. Microbes rule the world, and if you want
Speaker 5: your plants to be healthy, you got to have a
Speaker 5: lot of healthy microbes around the plants. Those exist naturally
Speaker 5: in the soil, and we can always enhance with products
Speaker 5: that provide those These two products for Microlife are examples
Speaker 5: of that type of supplementation. Microlife Fertilizer dot com. You
Speaker 5: can find Microlife pretty much everywhere. It's widely available feed stores,
Speaker 5: ace hardware stores, garden centers, Southwest Fertilizer, all places you
Speaker 5: can get microlife. Now we're going to go to Hurda
Speaker 5: and Spring Brands Herder. Congratulations, you have waited longer than
Speaker 5: any human being is probably weighted.
Speaker 27: If I've been picking away at some paperwork. My questions
Speaker 27: about foxtail ferns, mine all died, but at any rate.
Speaker 27: At the Credit Union war I Bank, their gardener has
Speaker 27: put in just two fronds. Now I bought two three
Speaker 27: gallon pots of foxtail firm. How do I separate them?
Speaker 27: Do I take a knife and cut those roots? Or
Speaker 27: do I just take fingers and work the roots apart
Speaker 27: to plant to well you'll.
Speaker 5: Wear Yeah, you'll wear your fingers out doing that. Thing
Speaker 5: for the plant is to just plant the whole plant
Speaker 5: in the ground. But I have taken them before. If
Speaker 5: you get a good butcher knife kind of thing, kind
Speaker 5: of break them apart and then pull on them a
Speaker 5: little bit, and then cut and pull a little bit
Speaker 5: and you can separate them out and they'll they'll do fine.
Speaker 5: You just have to get a good stem connected to
Speaker 5: some roots and some of those underground swollen structures that
Speaker 5: are important to get with the plant. But yeah, you
Speaker 5: can separate them.
Speaker 27: Okay, they kind of swell.
Speaker 4: After.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's kind of like a little water holding type structure.
Speaker 5: It looks like a little potato underground but almost translucent.
Speaker 27: Okay, I did.
Speaker 5: Not anyway anyway. Yeah, just divide them in half and
Speaker 5: you'll do fine.
Speaker 27: We're all right.
Speaker 5: Good luck with those. You got to get them going,
Speaker 5: because yeah, you got to get them going so you
Speaker 5: can show up the credit Union.
Speaker 27: They can't have a prettier landscape than right now. Step
Speaker 27: right and plant right now now.
Speaker 5: Be fine. If you want to wait and do it
Speaker 5: in spring, that's fine too, It doesn't matter. Okay, thanks RDA.
Speaker 27: Thank you, Bye you.
Speaker 5: Bet bye bye. All right, I'm gonna take a little
Speaker 5: break here. We'll be right back with your calls. Alrighty, alrighty,
Speaker 5: we're back. We are back here on guard line. Glad
Speaker 5: you are joining us today. Appreciate you listening in hope
Speaker 5: you are enjoying yourself. You know my goal on guard
Speaker 5: line is to help you have a more bountiful garden,
Speaker 5: a more beautiful landscape, and more fun in the process.
Speaker 5: Because gardening is fine. Don't worry about if you kill plants.
Speaker 5: If you kill plants, that just means you're becoming a
Speaker 5: better and better gardener because we all kill a lot
Speaker 5: of plants in our life. That's part of the way
Speaker 5: we learn. Sometimes tough for the plants, but it's part
Speaker 5: of the way. The part of the way we learn.
Speaker 5: We're going to go to Baytown now and talk to Alan. Hey, Alan,
Speaker 5: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 4: Good boy.
Speaker 8: I have a quick question, pardon my boys. Four lots
Speaker 8: of spreads. I had to buy a new one, and
Speaker 8: it's a.
Speaker 22: Well known brand, but it's not listed on any of
Speaker 22: the bags of nitro falls ye by, So I'm curious
Speaker 22: where I'm setting that dial.
Speaker 8: It's minus in zero, just fifteen.
Speaker 5: All right, zero and fifteen. So general rule of thumb
Speaker 5: for people with a fertilizer spreader and they don't know
Speaker 5: where to put it, your best guess is to do
Speaker 5: a notch or two above half. So for fifteen, if
Speaker 5: you put it on eight, that should be about right.
Speaker 5: I've been doing it eight or nine yeah, what else
Speaker 5: will do? Yeah, getting getting to know this reader a
Speaker 5: little bit better and you'll you'll adjust that. But here's
Speaker 5: the thing. It doesn't hurt to underspread. You don't want
Speaker 5: to overspread. Like if you put a bag of fertilizer
Speaker 5: in your thing and and you're spreading it and you
Speaker 5: get halfway across the yard and it should have covered
Speaker 5: the whole thing and you've already run out, Well that's
Speaker 5: a problem. So if you underspread, you can always go
Speaker 5: back sideways or crossways. In fact, I like to put
Speaker 5: about half of it out like north south and half
Speaker 5: of it out east west, and that way you get
Speaker 5: a nice even blend and everything looks good. So that's
Speaker 5: just a tip.
Speaker 8: Okay, that's what I normally do.
Speaker 4: It's how I'm molograss too anyway.
Speaker 5: So yeah, there you go. There you go. Good luck
Speaker 5: with that. Thank you, sir, Congratulations on your new spreader.
Speaker 5: You bet by bye. It's not of a fertilizer. It's
Speaker 5: speaking of fertilizers and spreading and really spreading any of
Speaker 5: the products you hear me talk about, whether it's stuff
Speaker 5: like barricade to prevent you know, weeds from sprouting or
Speaker 5: putting out a product like Eagle to prevent diseases and stuff. Well, Southwest,
Speaker 5: first of all, they carry all those products. They also
Speaker 5: have fertilizer spreaders and they also have the little handheld
Speaker 5: spreaders you crank. I use those for putting out fire
Speaker 5: at bait oh and Southwest has firet bait. In fact,
Speaker 5: let me make this easy. If they don't have it,
Speaker 5: you don't need it. They have everything you need at
Speaker 5: Southwest Fertilizer. I've been around since nineteen fifty five, and
Speaker 5: they're in Southwest Houston corner Bisonett and Runwick. While you're
Speaker 5: in there, you're going to see a ninety foot wall
Speaker 5: of tools, gardening tools, so every kind of tool you
Speaker 5: can imagine. Someone contacted me of the day they want
Speaker 5: to make my little fertilizer or my weed wiper that
Speaker 5: I have on my website at Gardening with Skip dot com,
Speaker 5: and I just said, well, go to Southwest. They sell
Speaker 5: the little grabber tool that you used to make a
Speaker 5: weed wiper. It's a really cool too. If you haven't
Speaker 5: seen one before, go to Gardening with Skip dot com.
Speaker 5: Check out that weed wiper. I'm telling you I use
Speaker 5: it all the time for different things. If you got
Speaker 5: poison ivy coming up under eat the rosebush. You can
Speaker 5: get the you can get the product on the poison
Speaker 5: ivy without killing your rosebush. You see what I'm talking
Speaker 5: about has a lot of good uses. Southwest Fertilizer is
Speaker 5: always going to have stuff. They have a little shop
Speaker 5: in the back for your engine repair. They've got they're
Speaker 5: able to sharpen mower blades, which hey, mowing seasons coming
Speaker 5: down here to winding down. Go ahead and get those
Speaker 5: blades sharpen. That's very very important. And anything you want
Speaker 5: to take in there and show them, Hey, what do
Speaker 5: I use for this? What is this? Is this bug dangerous?
Speaker 5: Or is it harmful to my plants? They can tell
Speaker 5: you that. Southwest Fertilizer dot Com seven to one three
Speaker 5: six six six, seventeen forty four. We are now going
Speaker 5: to go out to talk to one in Cyprus. Hey one,
Speaker 5: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 28: Hey guys, how are y'all doing? Yeah, we love Southwest Fertilizer.
Speaker 28: By the way, anyways, I have this oleander that I
Speaker 28: just realized. My wife told me that I guess it's
Speaker 28: poisonous and kind of I guess. We have little kids
Speaker 28: and dogs I'm not sure if it's which is kind
Speaker 28: of gets one of replace it with something else.
Speaker 5: Okay, Well, oleander's an evergreen shrub, so I guess you're
Speaker 5: looking for kind of an evergreen shrub. Does it need
Speaker 5: to be a certain height or what?
Speaker 28: It's right next to the wind somewhere out right next
Speaker 28: to the windows and kind of by the door, so
Speaker 28: maybe maybe four to five feet.
Speaker 5: Okay, in decent It takes decent sunlight to grow a
Speaker 5: good dense shrub, and I assume if oleander was there,
Speaker 5: it must be getting some sun, right.
Speaker 28: Yeah, it is facing southeast, we get the morning all
Speaker 28: morning sun. In the afternoon, well yeah, kind of in yeah,
Speaker 28: the morning sun, so it does get a lot of light.
Speaker 5: Okay, Well, there's a lot of good options. There are
Speaker 5: some dwarf types of Chinese witch hazel. Chinese witch hazel,
Speaker 5: the new growth comes out burgundy, especially in cooler temperatures,
Speaker 5: and in spring they produce these hot, pink, shaggy blooms
Speaker 5: that are really pretty. Now, some of the Chinese witch
Speaker 5: hazel can get huge, and you don't want to have
Speaker 5: to be printing them all the time to keep them small.
Speaker 5: So when you go shopping for one. You're up in
Speaker 5: the Cypress area, you know, you can head up to
Speaker 5: Arbrigade or over to Plants Rail Seasons. Both those places
Speaker 5: are going to carry these shrubs. Get one that's a
Speaker 5: little more dwarf and you can look on there. There
Speaker 5: are several that'll be in the four foot range. Could
Speaker 5: be kept a little smaller if you had to. But
Speaker 5: I think it's a pretty shrub, and so I would
Speaker 5: try that one. It likes a little bit of an
Speaker 5: acidic soil, so if you can put a lot of
Speaker 5: compost and a little bit of sulfur down in the
Speaker 5: soil to lower the pH it does even better. Or
Speaker 5: you can just add keylated lime to it if you
Speaker 5: start to see yellowing new growth. But it is a
Speaker 5: pretty shrub.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 9: That sounds good.
Speaker 5: I appreciate it. Yeah, And when you're up at either
Speaker 5: of those garden centers, they know so much about everything,
Speaker 5: they probably have five or six different shrubs. They would
Speaker 5: tell you, hey, consider this one too while you're up there.
Speaker 5: Good luck with that one.
Speaker 4: Thank you so much, all.
Speaker 5: Right, take care you bye. Appreciate your call. By by h,
Speaker 5: we wanna we want to go to Memorial now and
Speaker 5: talk to Chad. Hey, Chad, welcome to guarden Line.
Speaker 9: Gay.
Speaker 17: Thank you for having me. And you mentioned earlier killing
Speaker 17: plants you learned, So here we are. But uh, I
Speaker 17: got a question for you. We wrote back on buffalo
Speaker 17: value in the Memorial area and have a uh. We
Speaker 17: have eagleson hollies and southern wax myrtles aligning the fence
Speaker 17: lines in the back for privacy hedges. And I had
Speaker 17: about a twenty foot section of scents that was was
Speaker 17: partial shade that we came in the last spring. I
Speaker 17: did a bunch of Japanese used. They were thirty gallon
Speaker 17: Japanese used. The reason we went with them is they
Speaker 17: weren't getting full sun in that area at the time,
Speaker 17: and we thought they could. You know, it's partial son.
Speaker 17: They were getting some but not not full on like
Speaker 17: the rest of the backyard. Anyway, during the storm the
Speaker 17: hurricane we lost lost a huge retto that was shading
Speaker 17: providing partial shade to these us And ever since then,
Speaker 17: starting about I guess about forty five days ago, I'm
Speaker 17: starting to get these brown stalks on the US and
Speaker 17: they're dying back and I'm just I'm perplexed. I don't
Speaker 17: know if I'm underwatering them. I don't know if I'm
Speaker 17: overwater them. I don't think i'm overwater them. I don't
Speaker 17: know if it's just too much sun coming in there now.
Speaker 17: But these are thirty gallon used, and there was a
Speaker 17: little bit of an investment here, and I'm just trying
Speaker 17: to decide if I need a kind of maybe these
Speaker 17: or if I just working out coming in with something
Speaker 17: something else.
Speaker 5: So yeah, Japanese use can take the sun now. A
Speaker 5: supply change with any plant catches them off guard. But
Speaker 5: the branch is turning brown is not a sun symptom.
Speaker 5: The only thing sun is doing is it's making the
Speaker 5: water use go way way up on those plates compared
Speaker 5: to partial shade. So it could be a lack of water.
Speaker 5: We have had an extended period of dry and most
Speaker 5: of the listening area here, and I would lean toward that.
Speaker 5: If you get a little hand trowel and go out
Speaker 5: about a foot or so from the plant and dig
Speaker 5: down about four to six inches and feel the soil
Speaker 5: moist soil, you know you can feel what moist is.
Speaker 5: I mean if if you squeeze soil and water drips out,
Speaker 5: that's too wet. And if you if you can tell
Speaker 5: by you're just feeling it if it's not moist or not.
Speaker 5: I my guess is you need to give a good
Speaker 5: soaking when you water a better more volume gradually applied
Speaker 5: to solve the soil deeply, and you don't have the
Speaker 5: water as often. But you don't want to water shallowly
Speaker 5: and and where the root system develops real shallow because
Speaker 5: that's much more erratic in terms of performance.
Speaker 17: Yeah, I think what happened here is I got in
Speaker 17: August when this drought was settling in. I got a
Speaker 17: little behind schedule, and I've been trying to catch up
Speaker 17: what I've learned about these uses.
Speaker 4: Once they start going brown, there's.
Speaker 17: Really no recovery hard.
Speaker 5: So we'll get Yeah, give them those good soakings, I
Speaker 5: think probably my guess. I mean, of course I'm having
Speaker 5: to guess, but lack of water, I think is probably
Speaker 5: what you're you're looking at. And also follow a branch
Speaker 5: that's brown downward until it attaches to something that has
Speaker 5: green leaf, in other words, that's alive. And just see
Speaker 5: if you see any splits in the bark along there,
Speaker 5: if you've see any holes in the bark like something
Speaker 5: drilled in, or look for those splits could be due
Speaker 5: to cold, they could be due to a canker. But
Speaker 5: prune all the dead out just in case a canker
Speaker 5: were involved, cut it back to where it joins a
Speaker 5: living stem, and then in between cuts, spray spray your
Speaker 5: pruners with lysol just in case, like there were a
Speaker 5: bacteria or something that's on it. You don't want to
Speaker 5: spread it with new wounds that you're going to make,
Speaker 5: So just disinfect between cuts. We're being extra cautious in
Speaker 5: case a canker disease were involved.
Speaker 4: Gotcha, gotcha? All right?
Speaker 20: I appreciate your time, appreciate you buyes.
Speaker 4: Thank you very much.
Speaker 5: All right, you bet, thanks for the call. You take care,
Speaker 5: appreciate that.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 5: I love birds. I talk about birds all the time
Speaker 5: in my landscape, and now is the time to be
Speaker 5: taking care of the birds for the winter season coming up.
Speaker 5: You know, as the days get shorter, and isn't you know,
Speaker 5: get weather gets colder, birds need fuel and they have
Speaker 5: less time out there to fly around looking for food.
Speaker 5: So a good feeder that is stocked up with wild birds,
Speaker 5: unlimited super blend, it's a winter super blend. I know
Speaker 5: it's not winter but it's time to use the winter
Speaker 5: super blend. It's packed with fat and protein. And always
Speaker 5: remember these dry conditions. I was just visiting about there
Speaker 5: which had birds need water every day. I mean it
Speaker 5: could be zero degrees outside in the winter, they got
Speaker 5: to drink that day, so they got to have water
Speaker 5: every day of the year. Keep a reliable water source,
Speaker 5: especially with this drought we've been having. If you want
Speaker 5: to keep one of your humming bird feeders up, maybe
Speaker 5: just one, a small one through the holidays, you may
Speaker 5: find a wintering roofous hummingbirds sticking around. Some of them,
Speaker 5: you know, head onto Mexico go, but a lot of
Speaker 5: them kind of hit our way along the Gulf coast
Speaker 5: and hang out here. Wildbird's Unlimited is the place to go.
Speaker 5: By the way, next weekend, I'm going to be in
Speaker 5: Kingwood at the wild Birds Store there. I'll tell you
Speaker 5: more about that tomorrow. But anyone out at Kingwood, if
Speaker 5: you've never been to a wild Birds store, come out
Speaker 5: and see me out there too. By the way, wildbirds
Speaker 5: feed feeders, houses, quality bird seed, everything you need, and
Speaker 5: oh most importantly, perhaps is really good advice from wildbirds. Well,
Speaker 5: it looks like I am seeing another break approaching here. Wow,
Speaker 5: that went kind of fast. I want to mention the
Speaker 5: folks at Nelson Water Gardens. If you are out in
Speaker 5: the West Houston area, this is your i'll say hometown, hometown,
Speaker 5: West Houston garden center. It's really a destination place. You
Speaker 5: go to Nelson Water Gardens. Of course you're going to
Speaker 5: find things like water gardening plants and fish for water gardens,
Speaker 5: and the water gardens themselves and the beautiful, disappearing fountains
Speaker 5: where the water spills over this tall, tall vase looking
Speaker 5: structure in the land. Oh, those are so gargeous. The
Speaker 5: sound of water is therapy and you need something like
Speaker 5: that for your backyard, and Nelson Watergardens has it. Nelson
Speaker 5: Nursery and water Gardens actually, because they are loaded with
Speaker 5: lots of quality plants. Whatever the plants for the season are,
Speaker 5: you're going to find them and more, that and more
Speaker 5: at Nelson Water Gardens. Got to I tend to Katie
Speaker 5: turned north on Katie Fort Ben Road and they'll just
Speaker 5: be just a little bit down the road there on
Speaker 5: the right hand side. Nelson Watergardens dot com. Nelson Watergardens
Speaker 5: dot com. Go check out their website, follow them on
Speaker 5: social media. It's a really cool place. All right, folks,
Speaker 5: I'll be right back. Welcome back to garden Line, folks.
Speaker 5: It is good to have you with us. We still
Speaker 5: got stuff to talk about, stuff to talk about. How
Speaker 5: do we hope you have success? Earlier I was talking
Speaker 5: to some folks about planting fruit trees a couple different calls,
Speaker 5: and I mentioned something called chilling hours. Chilling hours are
Speaker 5: an important thing that you need to be aware of
Speaker 5: when you're doing any kind of gardening with fruit trees.
Speaker 5: All right, so let me explain chilling hours. Basically, a
Speaker 5: chilling hour is an hour spent at a temperature around
Speaker 5: forty to forty five degrees in the wintertime, of course,
Speaker 5: and what happens is your fruit trees go dormant and
Speaker 5: the leaves fall off and the fruit buds are already there.
Speaker 5: They formed in late summer and fall early fall, and
Speaker 5: so they're on the trees. Now, those buds don't just
Speaker 5: start growing because they have an inhibitor in them. And
Speaker 5: when temperatures are around forty to forty five degrees, that's
Speaker 5: when you get the most chilling hours. Colder, a little
Speaker 5: bit warm, a little bit but not much, but that's
Speaker 5: the sweet spot our spent at that time. It's breaking
Speaker 5: down those inhibitors so that when we get warm weather
Speaker 5: then the buds burst forth and grow. So if you
Speaker 5: have a tree that's low chilling, like let's says that's
Speaker 5: two hundred hours, and you live in an area that
Speaker 5: gets five hundred hours or six hundred hours, well it's
Speaker 5: going to have achieved that two hundred hours chilling requirement
Speaker 5: way before spring. So the first warm days in January
Speaker 5: or February, it's busting out in blooming and we may
Speaker 5: still have another freeze left. On the other hand, if
Speaker 5: you have a variety that needs six hundred hours and
Speaker 5: you only get two hundred, well here comes spring. It
Speaker 5: warms up and everything else is growing, but this thing
Speaker 5: is still inhibited. It's still going wait, wait, wait, I'm
Speaker 5: not done with getting my chilling hours. And it sputters
Speaker 5: out of spring. It doesn't perform well. You get some
Speaker 5: leaves at the end of the branch and then long
Speaker 5: sections of branch with nothing on them either way is
Speaker 5: a mess. Always look for the chilling requirement of your pair,
Speaker 5: your peaches, plums, apples, those kinds of things. Those fruit
Speaker 5: trees have a certain chilling requirement. You want to make
Speaker 5: sure and buy varieties that have that requirement that match
Speaker 5: where you live, and they'll do real well. You can
Speaker 5: go to Aggie Horticulture's website, find the fruit and nuts section,
Speaker 5: click on those publications by for apples or four pears
Speaker 5: or for peaches, for example, and it'll tell you the
Speaker 5: chilling ranges across the state and the varieties that might
Speaker 5: fit that. Pretty well. Let's see, We're going to go
Speaker 5: now to Clear Lake and talk to Mario. I'm good,
Speaker 5: what's up?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 21: I planted a I planted.
Speaker 5: A Japanese blueberry in the spring and it has not
Speaker 5: grown at all in height.
Speaker 8: Now I'm wondering if I if they.
Speaker 21: Come in various varieties.
Speaker 8: Where some of them just play us at height, or
Speaker 8: if I'm doing something wrong.
Speaker 5: I'm not aware of a dwarf when it may exist
Speaker 5: out there. Most of the ones I know get pretty
Speaker 5: pretty large in time. Yeah, it's establishing. It's establishing itself,
Speaker 5: so it should grow a little bit first year, not
Speaker 5: like it'll grow in future years. But I would say
Speaker 5: maybe a lack of water. Maybe water is enough to
Speaker 5: keep it alive, but not enough to restimulate growth. I
Speaker 5: wouldn't at this point in time do much because we're
Speaker 5: going into winter and you don't want to stimulate succulent
Speaker 5: new growth that's just going to be cold burn, cold
Speaker 5: killed when we have a hard freeze. So I would
Speaker 5: have I would avoid I would avoid pushing it now,
Speaker 5: but in spring, I would start off with a good
Speaker 5: quality fertilizer. You know, I've I've talked about a lot
Speaker 5: of the different fertilizers that we have. The folks and
Speaker 5: Nielson plant Food. They have a fertilizer that is excellent
Speaker 5: for tree and shrubs that you may want to consider. Well,
Speaker 5: those are some ideas.
Speaker 8: Now, should I put heavy watering before it gets cold
Speaker 8: or just leave it alone?
Speaker 5: No, not heavy watering, just a good soaking. Just put
Speaker 5: enough water out there so that you know so that
Speaker 5: it's going to capture about an inch of water, so
Speaker 5: that you know it. Maybe that it runs off before
Speaker 5: you put on on the inch, so you water a
Speaker 5: little while, let it soak in water a little while. Again,
Speaker 5: if you got a sprinkler, just set a straight sided
Speaker 5: can or rain gage or anything to measure rain or
Speaker 5: irrigation and water until you've caught an inch. And again
Speaker 5: if you have to do that in two waterings.
Speaker 8: That's fine, okay, great, Well, you've always been very helpful.
Speaker 21: I really appreciate your advice.
Speaker 19: Thank you so much.
Speaker 5: You bet, thank you very much. Appreciate your call. All right,
Speaker 5: let's see here, Bye bye. Arburgate is one of the
Speaker 5: most well known garden centers in our area, and for
Speaker 5: good reason. It's because it is a destination. You go
Speaker 5: out to Arburgate, which by the way, is a mile
Speaker 5: and a half west of two forty nine on twenty
Speaker 5: nine to twenty in Tomball, So go up to tom
Speaker 5: Ball if you're going from Houston area, go up, turn
Speaker 5: left on twenty nine to twenty gobout a mile and
Speaker 5: a half and it's on the left there. They have
Speaker 5: a nice parking lot in the back on something called
Speaker 5: Trichel Road, which is a little loop that goes around.
Speaker 5: So whether you're before Arbrogate or after Arburgate, there's a
Speaker 5: Trischel Road. You turned on either one and it'll swing
Speaker 5: around behind it and you really really good parking there.
Speaker 5: Arburgate always has whatever you need for the season, and
Speaker 5: their gift shops are always stocked with really nice gifts,
Speaker 5: really nice things for a gift, so you're going to
Speaker 5: go see Grandma or family for Thanksgiving, good night, grabbing
Speaker 5: something from Arbigate could be a plant, could be something
Speaker 5: from the gift shop. I like to get plants because
Speaker 5: you know, plants just keep on giving a year after
Speaker 5: year after year. And I look at plants someone gave me.
Speaker 5: I always remember who gave me that plant, and it's
Speaker 5: just a it's a fond memory. But Arbigate will get
Speaker 5: you set up. Make sure when you go to Arbigate,
Speaker 5: you go home with the plants you want, but also
Speaker 5: with the three bags Arbigates Organic Food Complete, Herbrigates Organic
Speaker 5: Soil Complete, and Arbigates Organic Compost Complete. Those three are as,
Speaker 5: I like to say, the brown stuff that makes the
Speaker 5: green stuff grow. Always go home with that. And when
Speaker 5: you're out there, you're going to find fruit trees. You're around,
Speaker 5: you're gonna find flowers and herbs and vegetables and just
Speaker 5: whatever plant. But I would say most importantly, other than
Speaker 5: the fact that it's just fun to go, is the
Speaker 5: staff that knows what they're talking about and can steer
Speaker 5: you right. They've got experience, they've got knowledge. I talk
Speaker 5: to them all the time, and I mean we sometimes
Speaker 5: we work out some really hard problems on plants and
Speaker 5: issues that come in. But they are on top of it.
Speaker 5: They know their stuff that, as they say, is worth
Speaker 5: the price of admission right there by the way, it
Speaker 5: doesn't cost anything to get into Urbrocade. All right, Well,
Speaker 5: I got to take a little break. When I come back.
Speaker 5: David and Clare Lake, you'll be the first. All right,
Speaker 5: Welcome to Goldline folks. Good to have you with us.
Speaker 5: Just want to remind you that I'm gonna be heading
Speaker 5: over to Katie Hardware on Penoak Road after the show today.
Speaker 5: I'll be there from twelve noon to two pm. Come
Speaker 5: on out and see me. Katie Hardware, Pinoak Road that's
Speaker 5: north of I ten, north of I ten, a little
Speaker 5: easy to find. We will be giving away twelve or
Speaker 5: three different nine to five products that are part of
Speaker 5: their three step program. We're gonna be at twelve backs,
Speaker 5: like four bags of each, I believe is the number.
Speaker 5: It's like stuff's gonna be going everywhere. Come on out,
Speaker 5: you got a good chance to win. I'll be there
Speaker 5: answering your questions. Bring me samples in a bag, bring
Speaker 5: me pictures on your phone. We will solve the problems
Speaker 5: and get to the bottom of it, get a good
Speaker 5: photo taken. And while you're out there you can see
Speaker 5: a really cool Ace Hardware store. That is a really
Speaker 5: nice place, and I hope you'll come out again twelve
Speaker 5: to two pm today Katie Hardware on Pinoak Road, just
Speaker 5: north of Y ten out there in Katy by the way. Again,
Speaker 5: kind of wanting you to be aware of this. I've
Speaker 5: been doing a lot of appearances this fall. This is
Speaker 5: the last one I'm going to do that's anywhere toward
Speaker 5: the west. Next time I'm do it an appearance way
Speaker 5: out in Kingwood to these So for all of you
Speaker 5: from Central on to the west, this is a good
Speaker 5: chance to come on out and see me. Maybe last
Speaker 5: call I should say, we're going to go to clear
Speaker 5: Lake now and talk to David. Hello, David, welcome to
Speaker 5: garden Line.
Speaker 4: Hey Skip, good to talk to you.
Speaker 8: Quick quick question.
Speaker 17: I was going to put down carbaload on my yard.
Speaker 6: Can I put it into the flower beds?
Speaker 3: That?
Speaker 9: Okay?
Speaker 5: Are you ever going to plant c in the flower beds?
Speaker 17: Not not this year.
Speaker 5: The next year, next year? Okay, then then you could.
Speaker 5: Carbo looad has a pre emergent herbicide in it and
Speaker 5: so you know, if you were going to seed, it
Speaker 5: will prevent flower seeds just like it prevents weed seeds.
Speaker 5: So you could do that. If I were you, though,
Speaker 5: I would grab a different product from Nelson. Nelson has
Speaker 5: a lot of good products out there. Carverload is fine.
Speaker 5: I mean it's awesome for the lawn, but just to avoid,
Speaker 5: you know, adding the herbicide into the bed, should you
Speaker 5: decide to plan any seeds, why don't you grab one
Speaker 5: of their other products. Bruce's Brew is one that they
Speaker 5: have that would be an excellent one going in for
Speaker 5: winter color. It's it's got a good boost of nitrogen
Speaker 5: in it, and it would be a good choice. That
Speaker 5: is a Nelson product that would work real well.
Speaker 17: And then should I put that before I remote for
Speaker 17: the winter?
Speaker 5: Yeah, you would do that. I mean if you had
Speaker 5: mulched down, you could sprinkle it kind of rake the
Speaker 5: maultch just so the particles fall into the soil and
Speaker 5: then water it in. But if you haven't meltched yet, yeah, Now,
Speaker 5: I said Bruce is Bury. You know you were talking
Speaker 5: about lawn fertilizers and Bruce's Bruce is a lawn fertilizer
Speaker 5: you could use for that You could also get color Star,
Speaker 5: which is made for that It's made for blooming beds,
Speaker 5: blooming plants, and so Colorstar comes. You probably buy it
Speaker 5: by the bag, but typically in garden centers you're gonna
Speaker 5: find the little jars of it that you can sprinkle out.
Speaker 17: Okay, perfect good information.
Speaker 5: Okay, all right, thank you very much. Have fun creating
Speaker 5: a beautiful place out there. You know. Green Pro is
Speaker 5: a company that provides aeration and compost top dressing for
Speaker 5: the northwest quadron of Houston. And when I say that,
Speaker 5: I mean intertate forty five to I ten basically. So anyway,
Speaker 5: the other way to put it is about forty five
Speaker 5: miles from Magnolia. So if you're up north and you
Speaker 5: know the Woodlands and Conroe and Willis direction, if you're
Speaker 5: down towards Spring and Cyprus up in Montgomery and Magnolia
Speaker 5: up kind of north and west down to Katie West
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Speaker 5: You have to buy two yards at compost on that offer.
Speaker 5: They're not going to drive tim buck two with one
Speaker 5: yard at compost to do it, so you need to
Speaker 5: buy two but rice to start at five seventy five
Speaker 5: plus tax. Of course, it depends on how big your
Speaker 5: yard is and how much composts you're putting out and
Speaker 5: all that kind of thing. All you have to do
Speaker 5: is go to the website greenpro dot net, greenpro dot net.
Speaker 5: Here's a phone numbers two eight one three five one
Speaker 5: forty seven thirty three two eight one three five one
Speaker 5: forty seven thirty three. Listen. Aerating and composttop dressing helps
Speaker 5: whole moisture. It allows you to get a good deep
Speaker 5: soaking from rain or your irrigation, which means you're watering
Speaker 5: a little bit less because you're getting that water you're
Speaker 5: plying down into the soil. They've been doing this longer
Speaker 5: than anyone here in the Houston area. And although it
Speaker 5: is an investment to do aeration and compost stop dressing,
Speaker 5: it's a lot cheaper than resotting. And a lot of
Speaker 5: lawns I've seen around the area from the heat the
Speaker 5: drought we had take all root, rock, chinchbugs, all the
Speaker 5: stresses are really losing sections of the lawn and green
Speaker 5: pro is can come out and do that aeration compost
Speaker 5: top dressing in a way that helps you get your
Speaker 5: lawn growing and back in business again. Greenpro dot net
Speaker 5: go check them out. That's a good deal too, by
Speaker 5: the way, free aeration with a two yard minimum comp
Speaker 5: top dressing. I like that well. Our phone number if
Speaker 5: you'd like to give me a call seven to one
Speaker 5: to three two one two kt RH. I got time
Speaker 5: for a really quick call. I mean, if it's really quick,
Speaker 5: I got one in me left, so let's do that.
Speaker 5: I just want to remind you again, I've talked about
Speaker 5: a number of things today, but this is the last call,
Speaker 5: uh pretty much on taking care of those lawns and
Speaker 5: getting ready for spring. Every week you wait makes the
Speaker 5: things you're doing a little less effective. You know, you
Speaker 5: wait too long to put a P for emergent down
Speaker 5: the weeds are very sprouted. You wait too long to
Speaker 5: put disease prevention down the rompat circles already there. You
Speaker 5: wait too long to fertilize, and it's cooling off enough
Speaker 5: to where the grass is kind of in a holding
Speaker 5: pattern and it's not taking up and utilizing those nutrients
Speaker 5: as well, and that fall fertilization is so important. And
Speaker 5: it's hard to convince people of this, but the most
Speaker 5: important furtize of the year is the fall application. And
Speaker 5: here's why. It strengthens the plant coming out of the
Speaker 5: summer that we just had. It also puts the carbohyd
Speaker 5: It helps the plant make carbohydrates for winter heartiness. Sun
Speaker 5: shines on leaves. It's right now, they say, make hay
Speaker 5: while the sun shines. Make carbohydrates while the sunshines. And
Speaker 5: your grass is doing that right now, and that helps
Speaker 5: for winter hardiness. And then finally, do you know that
Speaker 5: when the grass starts to grow in the spring, it
Speaker 5: is not your spring fertilizer that's making it grow. It's
Speaker 5: the fall fertilizer because the energy is stored in the
Speaker 5: plant and form a carbohydrates to support spring growth. So
Speaker 5: when things warm up a little bit and the grass
Speaker 5: begins to grow based on that fall fertilization energy, then
Speaker 5: we put our spring fertilizations on. When we begin to
Speaker 5: mow the lawn, that's time to start the spring fertilizations
Speaker 5: out there. Fall is so important. So if you're only
Speaker 5: a fertilized once a year, I'd say do it in
Speaker 5: the fall, but I hope you do it twice at
Speaker 5: least fallen spring, and then of course summer if you
Speaker 5: want to just take a notch further. We're going to
Speaker 5: see if we can get a call in real quick care.
Speaker 5: We're gonna go to Sabrina. Hey, Sabrina, how can we
Speaker 5: help today?
Speaker 20: Hi?
Speaker 14: Very quickly. I've got a weed and it's in my backyard.
Speaker 14: It's kind of a wiry, bright green weed with the
Speaker 14: little white flower that's bloomed with a little yellow dot
Speaker 14: in the center. They're very hard to pull. I was wondering.
Speaker 14: I know you've talked about your your weed things that
Speaker 14: you dabber, but what kind of We put down the
Speaker 14: nitrophoss barricade, and we did the fall special fertilizer. But
Speaker 14: with this rain, all of a sudden these popped up
Speaker 14: all over. How can I resolve this?
Speaker 5: Okay? Does the white flower look like almost like a
Speaker 5: little daisy with little white strappy palace?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 5: Yes, okay, that is fall that's fall aster and you
Speaker 5: need to hand pull them right now. No post emergency.
Speaker 5: Oh one fall aster plant. I posted something to to
Speaker 5: facebook page. Go look at our guardline Facebook. I talked
Speaker 5: about them. One fall will produce, can produce thousands of seeds,
Speaker 5: and pull that plant as soon as possible before the
Speaker 5: seed pods all dry and start to fall apart. It
Speaker 5: comes out of one spot. It may be as big
Speaker 5: as the steering wheel on your car. It's got one
Speaker 5: tap root, and if the soil is moist, you can
Speaker 5: grab it and wiggle as you pull, and it comes
Speaker 5: right out. I have a neighbor that never controls their weeds.
Speaker 5: Their fall asters come onto my side and every fall
Speaker 5: I go out there with the five gallon bucket and
Speaker 5: pull them out. And this year I didn't see one
Speaker 5: fall aster on my side coming out. Okay, because you will.
Speaker 5: You will win that war if you don't let them
Speaker 5: produce seed.
Speaker 14: Okay, okay, great, thank you so much. I will go
Speaker 14: out there and pull up my whole yard. You have
Speaker 14: a wonderful weekend.
Speaker 5: All right, weekend too, take care of thank you. You know,
Speaker 5: growing up, growing up, I have to pull weeds whenever
Speaker 5: I misbehaved. And I'm just gonna say this, and you
Speaker 5: can see if you can make a plus B equal C.
Speaker 5: We had the most weed free garden in town. Let
Speaker 5: you figure that out. It's a wonder I ever became
Speaker 5: a horticultures of My basic experience was hoeing. Hey, I'm
Speaker 5: about to leave and head to Katie Hardware on Pinoak Road.
Speaker 5: Out in Katie, come on out and see me. Bring
Speaker 5: some plants, bring some pictures. Mainly bring yourself and perhaps
Speaker 5: win some Nelson or scanning nitrophos lots of bags of
Speaker 5: nitrofos fall special and barricade and egle