WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:04.960 Products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to kt 2 00:00:05.240 --> 00:00:15.080 r H Garden Line with Skip Rictrim. 3 00:00:16.440 --> 00:00:24.440 Just watch him as many thanks to. 4 00:00:24.399 --> 00:00:24.760 See what. 5 00:00:32.479 --> 00:00:33.520 They're not a sign. 6 00:00:37.920 --> 00:00:42.799 Well, well, welcome, welcome to Garden Line on a lovely 7 00:00:42.880 --> 00:00:46.479 Sunday morning. We're glad you're with us and looking forward 8 00:00:46.479 --> 00:00:50.280 to talking about the things you're interested in. I want 9 00:00:50.359 --> 00:00:54.439 you to have a beautiful, bountiful garden and landscape, and 10 00:00:54.479 --> 00:00:57.359 there's a way to do that. One of the things 11 00:00:57.439 --> 00:01:00.799 that I like to say is that there's no such 12 00:01:00.840 --> 00:01:03.640 thing as a brown thumb. There's just an uninformed thumb. 13 00:01:04.120 --> 00:01:06.719 And the words if you understand some of the basic 14 00:01:06.760 --> 00:01:11.359 principles of what plants want, well, then you can give 15 00:01:11.400 --> 00:01:13.719 them what they want and suddenly it looks like your 16 00:01:13.719 --> 00:01:19.840 thumb turned green. That's really that is really the way 17 00:01:19.840 --> 00:01:21.680 it works on this kind of thing. It's just a 18 00:01:21.680 --> 00:01:25.799 matter of given plants what they want. Well, I bet 19 00:01:25.840 --> 00:01:29.719 you have dealt with weeds that are problematic, but they're 20 00:01:29.760 --> 00:01:33.200 growing right next to a plant you like. In other words, 21 00:01:33.239 --> 00:01:34.879 if you tried to spray it, you would get it 22 00:01:34.920 --> 00:01:38.159 on the plant you like and cause collateral damage. Well, 23 00:01:38.200 --> 00:01:39.879 there's a couple of ways to avoid that. One is 24 00:01:39.879 --> 00:01:42.840 to use a shield, something like a board that you 25 00:01:42.920 --> 00:01:46.040 put in between the desirable plant and the weed, and 26 00:01:46.040 --> 00:01:49.519 then don't pump up your sprayer too much, because when 27 00:01:49.519 --> 00:01:51.319 you do pump it up too much, you create a 28 00:01:51.359 --> 00:01:54.519 mist that drifts off target, and that's a problem, and 29 00:01:54.560 --> 00:01:58.120 you can use that technique to avoid getting the spray 30 00:01:58.200 --> 00:02:01.439 on a desirable plant. Another one is to create a 31 00:02:01.480 --> 00:02:04.359 wheed wiper, and I've done one of those for you. 32 00:02:04.480 --> 00:02:07.280 I looked online, I've looked in stores and things, and 33 00:02:07.560 --> 00:02:10.919 I just don't see many weed wipers available in the 34 00:02:10.960 --> 00:02:14.479 gardening trade. So I created one homemade that you can 35 00:02:14.520 --> 00:02:18.719 make yourselves very inexpensive using a grabber tool, one of 36 00:02:18.759 --> 00:02:21.000 those things you used to get a jar off a shelf. 37 00:02:21.879 --> 00:02:23.960 And so if you would like, you can go to 38 00:02:24.000 --> 00:02:28.879 my website gardening with Skip dot com Gardening with Skip 39 00:02:29.000 --> 00:02:32.000 dot Com. It's one of the latest publications I put 40 00:02:32.039 --> 00:02:34.159 on there, and it tells you how to build your 41 00:02:34.199 --> 00:02:38.240 own weed wiper tool, and I love mine. It works good. 42 00:02:38.240 --> 00:02:42.400 I can reach underneath the rosebush and apply a herbicide 43 00:02:42.439 --> 00:02:45.159 to maybe a nuts edge plant coming up underneath it, 44 00:02:45.319 --> 00:02:48.240 or if I'm walking through the yard and wild onion 45 00:02:48.439 --> 00:02:52.240 is sticking up above the grass. I can use it 46 00:02:52.280 --> 00:02:55.680 to get the herbicide, wipe it directly on the wild onion. 47 00:02:55.719 --> 00:02:59.120 Do you have hackberries or maybe poison ivy coming up 48 00:02:59.159 --> 00:03:01.840 in a fence line and you don't want to spray 49 00:03:01.879 --> 00:03:06.120 something that's going to kill your grass around it, Well 50 00:03:06.199 --> 00:03:08.560 you can use the weed wiper tool to do just that. 51 00:03:08.599 --> 00:03:12.120 It's really handy, works really well, easy to make, very 52 00:03:12.159 --> 00:03:14.360 easy to make. And I also have to go with 53 00:03:14.400 --> 00:03:18.039 that a list of herbicides. It's a separate publication but 54 00:03:18.080 --> 00:03:21.199 it's also on my website, and depending on the weed 55 00:03:21.240 --> 00:03:23.439 you're going after, it tells you what to use. For example, 56 00:03:23.520 --> 00:03:26.599 wild onion in your lawn, you're going to use image 57 00:03:27.039 --> 00:03:29.000 for nuts edge. I know it says nuts edge and 58 00:03:29.039 --> 00:03:31.680 it's wild onion, but that's what works on wild onion, 59 00:03:31.919 --> 00:03:34.960 Image for nutst If you're going to go after to 60 00:03:35.479 --> 00:03:38.400 let's say peppervine, I had some cause yesterday. On peppervine, 61 00:03:38.879 --> 00:03:43.280 you can use something called tricl containing triclope here. That's 62 00:03:43.280 --> 00:03:45.319 a herbicide, but it's all on that chart. You don't 63 00:03:45.319 --> 00:03:47.639 have to worry about that. But for whatever kind of 64 00:03:47.680 --> 00:03:50.319 weed you're going at, there's that chart that says put 65 00:03:50.360 --> 00:03:52.560 this on the sponge. And the thing I like about 66 00:03:52.560 --> 00:03:56.759 this weed wiper is you're not spraying pesticide all out 67 00:03:56.800 --> 00:04:00.120 in the environment. You're applying it directly to the target 68 00:04:00.120 --> 00:04:02.879 weed and that takes very very little pesticide to do that. 69 00:04:03.000 --> 00:04:07.840 So check it out at gardening with skip dot com. Well, 70 00:04:07.879 --> 00:04:10.840 we're going to just start right off this morning, going 71 00:04:10.879 --> 00:04:13.479 straight to the phones and we're going to head out 72 00:04:13.560 --> 00:04:17.240 to Kingwood, Texas and talk to Anna. Hey, Anna, you 73 00:04:17.279 --> 00:04:23.800 get the Early Bird Awards today? Were you there? Yeah, 74 00:04:23.839 --> 00:04:24.199 I'm here. 75 00:04:24.279 --> 00:04:24.720 Can you hear me? 76 00:04:25.920 --> 00:04:27.439 I can now? Yeah? 77 00:04:27.600 --> 00:04:30.680 Good morning, okay, h good morning, scip. I have two 78 00:04:30.759 --> 00:04:35.040 questions about trees. The first one is we had we 79 00:04:35.079 --> 00:04:37.560 have a lot of trees of our property and we 80 00:04:37.639 --> 00:04:40.839 had them all trimmed before the hurricane, and now they're 81 00:04:40.879 --> 00:04:45.279 starting to grow back where they trimmed the low hanging branches. 82 00:04:46.040 --> 00:04:48.519 Is there something that should be done when they cut 83 00:04:48.600 --> 00:04:51.439 a branch to keep a phone growing back? 84 00:04:53.240 --> 00:04:55.319 So, in other words, where they cut the branch off 85 00:04:55.399 --> 00:04:58.319 around that cut, you're getting sprouts coming out. Is that 86 00:04:58.439 --> 00:05:03.360 the case right? Well, those that is the result of 87 00:05:03.560 --> 00:05:07.800 doing a significant prune to a branch and it's just 88 00:05:07.920 --> 00:05:10.399 the it's the tree saying, hey, I was sending all 89 00:05:10.399 --> 00:05:13.160 this energy down the branch, and now the branch is gone. 90 00:05:13.199 --> 00:05:15.079 So I'm going to push out some buds that are 91 00:05:15.079 --> 00:05:18.199 asleep all around that area and make them grow. So 92 00:05:18.199 --> 00:05:21.480 that's kind of normal. Usually what you do is you 93 00:05:21.600 --> 00:05:26.279 follow up with another pruning and settle those down. Other words, 94 00:05:26.279 --> 00:05:28.279 take those out as they try to grow, and it 95 00:05:28.319 --> 00:05:30.920 will settle down. It may have to do it once 96 00:05:31.000 --> 00:05:35.120 or tries to do that. There are some sprays that 97 00:05:35.319 --> 00:05:40.800 prevent sprouting and growing. Not real practical to apply in 98 00:05:40.839 --> 00:05:44.360 a lot of tree situations, but there's one called sucker stopper. 99 00:05:46.720 --> 00:05:48.439 There's another one. I can't think of the names of them, 100 00:05:48.480 --> 00:05:50.959 but sucker stopper is I mean, the name it tells 101 00:05:51.000 --> 00:05:52.519 you what it's going to do. It's going to stop 102 00:05:52.519 --> 00:05:55.360 those sucker shoots from coming out and doing that. 103 00:05:55.439 --> 00:05:59.879 Okay, question, After the hurricane and we had some trees, 104 00:06:00.040 --> 00:06:02.920 they came out and all these big logs are out there. 105 00:06:03.240 --> 00:06:05.399 Is the city going to come pick that stuff up? 106 00:06:06.600 --> 00:06:09.120 That? I don't know. I don't know the rules out 107 00:06:09.120 --> 00:06:13.639 there in Kingwood. In most cities there is a brush 108 00:06:13.680 --> 00:06:17.680 pick up. But I just don't know in your particular 109 00:06:17.680 --> 00:06:19.319 you'd have to call you, you'd have to call your 110 00:06:19.319 --> 00:06:20.759 city public works department. 111 00:06:20.839 --> 00:06:22.920 Well, I know they've been around and they have picked 112 00:06:23.000 --> 00:06:24.959 up a lot of stuff, but are they going to 113 00:06:25.079 --> 00:06:26.000 keep coming around? 114 00:06:27.800 --> 00:06:30.720 Yeah? That again, that one, you would just have to 115 00:06:30.800 --> 00:06:35.079 ask them and see that. I where I live, they 116 00:06:35.079 --> 00:06:37.240 come by once a week. But I don't you know, 117 00:06:37.360 --> 00:06:39.319 there's not not all places are the same. 118 00:06:41.279 --> 00:06:44.040 Is that like three one one to the city. 119 00:06:45.360 --> 00:06:52.480 No, I don't know. It's yeah, I just call our city. 120 00:06:52.759 --> 00:06:54.920 Like if you do, go on Google or something and 121 00:06:55.240 --> 00:06:59.480 do Kingwood City public Works or something, maybe that'll pop 122 00:06:59.519 --> 00:07:00.399 the number of for you. 123 00:07:01.079 --> 00:07:04.399 Okay, thank you, I appreciate it, all right, an a 124 00:07:04.439 --> 00:07:05.240 good luck out there. 125 00:07:05.959 --> 00:07:10.560 Okay, well you got here we go. We already hitting 126 00:07:10.560 --> 00:07:13.360 the calls this morning, so we welcome you to call in. 127 00:07:13.519 --> 00:07:16.279 Our phone number is seven to one three two one 128 00:07:16.399 --> 00:07:21.000 two fifty eight seventy four. Seven one three two one 129 00:07:21.079 --> 00:07:25.720 two fifty eight seventy four. That will get you right 130 00:07:25.720 --> 00:07:27.680 through here to me. And by the way, let me 131 00:07:27.720 --> 00:07:30.399 just here's a tip. Sometimes you get real busy here 132 00:07:30.399 --> 00:07:32.439 on Garden Line and the calls really back up. I 133 00:07:32.480 --> 00:07:34.959 do everything I can to get as many as possible 134 00:07:35.720 --> 00:07:39.240 h on air and to solve the issues that people 135 00:07:39.279 --> 00:07:42.360 are calling about. But as we get toward the end 136 00:07:42.399 --> 00:07:45.319 of a show, that's when oftentimes it get gets busy. 137 00:07:45.360 --> 00:07:48.560 Not every day, but oftentimes it does. And those of 138 00:07:48.560 --> 00:07:50.279 you who are listening early on, if you got a 139 00:07:50.360 --> 00:07:53.920 question early on is a time it's easy to get through. 140 00:07:54.319 --> 00:07:56.720 There's not a big backup of a bunch of calls 141 00:07:56.759 --> 00:08:00.000 sitting waiting at that time. So if you're trying to 142 00:08:00.279 --> 00:08:04.480 avoid having to sit or wait, you know, there's your tip. 143 00:08:04.560 --> 00:08:09.279 Early on is a good idea for that. Out in 144 00:08:09.319 --> 00:08:12.319 the lawn, I know everybody seems like everybody has a 145 00:08:12.399 --> 00:08:15.199 lawn that they care a lot about, and for good reason. 146 00:08:15.399 --> 00:08:18.600 Lines of the carpet, of the landscape. There's some things 147 00:08:18.680 --> 00:08:20.360 we can be doing right now, And when we come 148 00:08:20.399 --> 00:08:23.160 back from break, I will get right on that and 149 00:08:23.319 --> 00:08:25.639 start talking about a few tips for what do you 150 00:08:25.680 --> 00:08:31.519 do right now on your lawn. We'll be right back things. Well. 151 00:08:31.560 --> 00:08:33.240 One of the things you need to be doing is 152 00:08:33.320 --> 00:08:35.919 if you have not fertilized this summer, it's time to 153 00:08:35.960 --> 00:08:39.519 put on something that will provide a gradual release of 154 00:08:39.600 --> 00:08:44.159 nutrients over time. Now Nitrophoss is designed a product called Superturf. 155 00:08:44.200 --> 00:08:47.799 It's their silver bag. It's a nineteen four to ten fertilizer. 156 00:08:48.840 --> 00:08:51.840 You may think, well, nineteen that's a lot of nitrogen. Well, 157 00:08:52.159 --> 00:08:56.320 it's a lot in the ratio, which is okay. You 158 00:08:56.440 --> 00:08:58.120 just don't put as much on when you have a 159 00:08:58.120 --> 00:09:00.559 bigger number like that, you put less on. Take about 160 00:09:00.600 --> 00:09:04.240 five pounds of nineteen four ten per thousand square feet 161 00:09:04.720 --> 00:09:06.799 to cover over your lawn and it's going to gradually 162 00:09:06.840 --> 00:09:10.879 release those nutrients until it's time to It'll take you 163 00:09:10.960 --> 00:09:14.039 all the way up until you're going to put on 164 00:09:14.080 --> 00:09:17.039 a fall fertilizer. And my schedule online at gardening with 165 00:09:17.120 --> 00:09:19.559 Skip dot com. It tells you when to apply and 166 00:09:19.600 --> 00:09:21.600 what to apply and all of that. You're going to 167 00:09:21.639 --> 00:09:26.440 find Nitrofoss's Superturf at many places. Kingwood Ace has it, 168 00:09:26.679 --> 00:09:29.600 The arbor Gate carries it up the Shades of Green, Texas, 169 00:09:29.720 --> 00:09:33.120 up and down in southeaston on Genoa, Red Bluff. Those 170 00:09:33.120 --> 00:09:35.960 are all places that you're going to find Nitrofosh products 171 00:09:36.000 --> 00:09:38.960 such as the super Turf. I want to back out 172 00:09:38.960 --> 00:09:40.679 to the phones now and we're going to go to 173 00:09:40.799 --> 00:09:44.720 Northwest Houston and talk to Matthew. Welcome to Garden Line. 174 00:09:44.720 --> 00:09:45.120 Matthew. 175 00:09:46.559 --> 00:09:51.279 Hey, skip be a longtime listener. Somebody knock on my 176 00:09:51.399 --> 00:09:54.360 door at six am and woke me up and told 177 00:09:54.360 --> 00:09:57.120 me I need to listen to your show and wasn't 178 00:09:57.159 --> 00:09:58.120 happy at the moment. 179 00:10:00.159 --> 00:10:03.840 I don't shore. How do you just start saying that again? 180 00:10:03.840 --> 00:10:07.639 I haven't said that. You're funny? All right, what's up? 181 00:10:09.360 --> 00:10:11.279 So you know? 182 00:10:11.480 --> 00:10:15.200 I followed my wife. She has been a longtime gardener. 183 00:10:15.240 --> 00:10:19.879 In fact, she has terraformed our whole house. And now 184 00:10:19.879 --> 00:10:22.360 I've gotten into gardening myself. 185 00:10:22.639 --> 00:10:28.879 And I'm looking at it is it is. And now 186 00:10:29.120 --> 00:10:29.679 I am. 187 00:10:29.639 --> 00:10:34.200 Looking to put in a raised garden bed in our 188 00:10:34.279 --> 00:10:40.120 backyard and kind of do some kind of home garden 189 00:10:40.200 --> 00:10:48.639 things crops, edibles, herbs, peppers, onions, things like that. And 190 00:10:50.200 --> 00:10:55.360 the the problem I'm facing is our backyard, which is 191 00:10:55.399 --> 00:10:58.559 the only place I can really put it faces west 192 00:10:59.320 --> 00:11:03.200 and it just gets at Texas heat. And I'm looking 193 00:11:03.240 --> 00:11:07.679 for any advice you have before I put this in, 194 00:11:09.360 --> 00:11:11.759 because you say brown step before green stuff. 195 00:11:12.320 --> 00:11:13.840 I want to I want to plan this. 196 00:11:13.720 --> 00:11:20.360 For success, so I'm looking for anything, like. 197 00:11:22.240 --> 00:11:25.399 Any advice you have on positioning this thing. 198 00:11:27.320 --> 00:11:31.919 I want to put in a large raised bed and 199 00:11:32.399 --> 00:11:35.679 put in some uh I guess crops. 200 00:11:35.759 --> 00:11:38.279 I guess you would say. 201 00:11:40.159 --> 00:11:44.000 In any advice, you would have kind of planning for this. 202 00:11:45.240 --> 00:11:48.960 Okay, Well, first of all, I would make the raised 203 00:11:48.960 --> 00:11:52.320 bed at a height that suits you. If you're putting 204 00:11:52.360 --> 00:11:54.840 it on top of soil, it doesn't need to be 205 00:11:54.879 --> 00:11:56.600 as high as if you were setting it on a 206 00:11:56.639 --> 00:11:59.720 concrete patio, for example, where the only soil the roots 207 00:11:59.720 --> 00:12:03.120 can get is in the bed. But I would do that. 208 00:12:04.279 --> 00:12:08.759 I have mine. I try to keep mine about seventeen 209 00:12:08.799 --> 00:12:11.840 to twenty inches high somewhere in there. That's a nice 210 00:12:11.919 --> 00:12:15.120 height for not having to stoop so far when you garden. 211 00:12:15.519 --> 00:12:17.799 If you have a little seat or something, it's you 212 00:12:17.840 --> 00:12:20.840 can sit down and kind of work at a nice level. 213 00:12:21.879 --> 00:12:24.200 But the plants don't care if they're in a raised 214 00:12:24.200 --> 00:12:27.399 bed or not. But raised beds improve drainage, and so 215 00:12:27.519 --> 00:12:30.080 you choose the height. I like Vego Beds, which is 216 00:12:30.080 --> 00:12:32.000 a company just down the road from you, up in 217 00:12:32.000 --> 00:12:36.200 the Klein area in North Houston. That Vego Beds are handy, 218 00:12:36.240 --> 00:12:38.960 They put together modulely, and they work. You can build 219 00:12:38.960 --> 00:12:41.320 your own. I mean I've seen people stack up cinderblocks 220 00:12:41.320 --> 00:12:43.799 to make a bed. It's whatever you want and whatever 221 00:12:43.919 --> 00:12:46.399 esthetically you want to look at. As far as the content, 222 00:12:46.519 --> 00:12:49.519 you need to get a good bed mix, and places 223 00:12:49.799 --> 00:12:55.000 like Nature's Way Resources heirloom soils, they will provide a 224 00:12:55.240 --> 00:12:58.240 something called a veggiean herb type mix. You just tell 225 00:12:58.279 --> 00:13:00.639 them I'm going to grow a vegetable garden. They'll give 226 00:13:00.679 --> 00:13:03.720 you a nice blend that works for that, and they 227 00:13:03.759 --> 00:13:05.639 can both deliver it or you can go get it 228 00:13:05.639 --> 00:13:07.879 if you've got a trailer or a truck or something, 229 00:13:08.279 --> 00:13:10.399 but you want to fill the bed with that. I 230 00:13:10.519 --> 00:13:14.320 like beds that are about three feet or four feet 231 00:13:14.360 --> 00:13:17.480 wide at the most. And the reason is if you 232 00:13:17.519 --> 00:13:21.879 get like a two foot bed, well, you're you've got 233 00:13:21.960 --> 00:13:25.039 all these you're paying for all the bedsides without much 234 00:13:25.080 --> 00:13:28.080 growing area. But if you get past four feet, you 235 00:13:28.120 --> 00:13:30.720 can't reach it halfway from each side. And you never 236 00:13:30.759 --> 00:13:33.639 want to walk in a bed, and so you want 237 00:13:33.679 --> 00:13:36.080 to be able to reach all areas of the bed 238 00:13:36.240 --> 00:13:39.240 from you know, one side or the other at least. 239 00:13:39.559 --> 00:13:41.480 And so that I like about a three or four 240 00:13:41.480 --> 00:13:44.799 feet wide bed myself. And then as far as the 241 00:13:44.840 --> 00:13:46.440 you know the size of it, that's up to you. 242 00:13:47.759 --> 00:13:50.399 The mix is important, and getting it in full sun 243 00:13:50.519 --> 00:13:54.360 is important. If you don't have a lot of full sun, 244 00:13:54.559 --> 00:13:56.919 then give it as much sun as you can and 245 00:13:57.000 --> 00:14:00.720 you'll end up planting your leafy crops where there's not 246 00:14:00.840 --> 00:14:04.000 quite as much sun, and you're fruiting and rooting crops 247 00:14:04.000 --> 00:14:07.679 where there is full sun you don't have. 248 00:14:10.799 --> 00:14:14.879 So my concern is more with the heat that it's getting. 249 00:14:15.679 --> 00:14:20.360 Because it's west facing. I'm going to put it up 250 00:14:20.399 --> 00:14:25.159 against like the back fence so that it gets a 251 00:14:25.200 --> 00:14:33.639 little bit of that late afternoon shade. And because I've 252 00:14:33.720 --> 00:14:37.279 kind of taken my hand at growing peppers this summer and. 253 00:14:40.039 --> 00:14:41.679 It's kind of like you say, you have to hit 254 00:14:41.720 --> 00:14:42.039 it with. 255 00:14:42.120 --> 00:14:45.879 Water almost every day, and I'm wanting to kind of 256 00:14:45.960 --> 00:14:48.440 try to avoid that. And I don't think I'm gonna 257 00:14:48.440 --> 00:14:53.240 be all do that with the west facing bed. Will 258 00:14:53.360 --> 00:14:57.559 I have success if I put in a raised bed 259 00:14:59.039 --> 00:15:02.679 with that west facing sun and at late afternoon heat. 260 00:15:03.120 --> 00:15:06.720 Right well, you will? You will. And you know there's 261 00:15:06.720 --> 00:15:10.519 some there are probably some bed materials that you know 262 00:15:10.519 --> 00:15:12.679 would tend to heat up more than others. But I 263 00:15:12.759 --> 00:15:16.159 know I've got bego beds and I've got beds that 264 00:15:16.200 --> 00:15:18.440 are made out of treated wood, and I've made beds 265 00:15:18.440 --> 00:15:21.080 out of cinder blocks in the past. And the bottom 266 00:15:21.120 --> 00:15:23.120 line is you don't worry a lot about that. It's 267 00:15:23.279 --> 00:15:26.120 the volume of soil we're talking about holds a lot 268 00:15:26.120 --> 00:15:29.440 of moisture and plants are going to have to grow 269 00:15:29.519 --> 00:15:31.720 and those warm temperatures. Now, if you're going to put 270 00:15:31.720 --> 00:15:34.120 it up against a fence, then I definitely would probably 271 00:15:34.120 --> 00:15:36.240 go to about a three foot with. You go two 272 00:15:36.279 --> 00:15:38.799 foot if you want it, but about a three foot 273 00:15:38.840 --> 00:15:40.879 with because you're can only be able to reach from 274 00:15:40.879 --> 00:15:41.720 one side. 275 00:15:43.200 --> 00:15:46.399 Okay, okay, Now that's. 276 00:15:46.879 --> 00:15:48.559 You can grow anything you want to grow in a 277 00:15:48.559 --> 00:15:52.080 bed like that, with soil like that. 278 00:15:52.080 --> 00:15:55.799 That's excellent information. And I will send you half of 279 00:15:55.879 --> 00:15:57.039 what occur next season. 280 00:15:57.720 --> 00:15:59.799 That's it. That's part of the rule. Thanks a lot, 281 00:16:00.240 --> 00:16:05.840 appreciate your call, Matthew. You take care well. Yeah, he 282 00:16:05.960 --> 00:16:08.960 was referring to I used to say first thing in 283 00:16:09.000 --> 00:16:10.919 the morning that if you look at your neighbor's house 284 00:16:10.960 --> 00:16:13.639 and go and it's dark over there, go bang on 285 00:16:13.679 --> 00:16:15.639 the door and tell them they're missing garden line, and 286 00:16:15.679 --> 00:16:19.600 they will rise up and call you blessed that Actually, 287 00:16:19.600 --> 00:16:22.039 they tend to rise up and call you something else initially, 288 00:16:23.000 --> 00:16:27.799 but anyway, just having some fun there. But it isn't 289 00:16:27.799 --> 00:16:30.399 a bad idea to tell people about garden line. You 290 00:16:30.399 --> 00:16:32.440 know that neighbor that won't take care of his yard, 291 00:16:32.519 --> 00:16:34.960 maybe if he listened a few times, he would suddenly 292 00:16:35.039 --> 00:16:37.639 start to make that place right next to yours a 293 00:16:37.639 --> 00:16:42.519 little more attractive. So that's another perk, I guess tell 294 00:16:42.559 --> 00:16:47.080 them folks about garden line, talking about blends and bags 295 00:16:47.120 --> 00:16:50.399 and different things like that. Landscaper's Pride makes some awesome 296 00:16:50.480 --> 00:16:54.799 blends for garden soils. You can do these. It's just 297 00:16:54.879 --> 00:16:57.279 a mending a soil that's already in your garden. You 298 00:16:57.320 --> 00:17:00.600 can use them to actually create the garden. There's one 299 00:17:00.600 --> 00:17:05.119 called Garden Magic Gardener's Magic. It's an organic pine based, 300 00:17:05.279 --> 00:17:09.480 pine based blend. It's got like humus and screened pine bark, 301 00:17:09.599 --> 00:17:13.079 very finely screened pine bark, composted dry cells and a 302 00:17:13.200 --> 00:17:16.039 chicken pellet fertilizer and the chicken pellate actually gives you 303 00:17:16.079 --> 00:17:19.079 a nutrient release from up to six months. It's really 304 00:17:19.079 --> 00:17:22.480 good for raised and container gardens. Of course, they have 305 00:17:22.519 --> 00:17:27.160 other sources like the healthy soil compost. It's really high quality, 306 00:17:27.599 --> 00:17:31.119 very good for replenishing nutrients in an existing soil. It's 307 00:17:31.119 --> 00:17:34.440 not the bed mix itself. Mushroom compost is another one 308 00:17:34.519 --> 00:17:38.599 just like that, really really good at providing a boost. 309 00:17:38.920 --> 00:17:43.440 Mushroom compost is like rocket fuel for plants. Black humus. 310 00:17:43.480 --> 00:17:47.279 Black humus is a very dark, rich mix of composted 311 00:17:47.359 --> 00:17:50.160 bark loamy top soil. It would be good for an 312 00:17:50.240 --> 00:17:53.880 established bed or a new bed most growing conditions, I think. 313 00:17:53.960 --> 00:17:56.680 For you know, if you're looking at putting in a 314 00:17:56.720 --> 00:17:58.920 new bed, maybe the gardener's magic may be the best 315 00:17:58.960 --> 00:18:01.680 way to go for something like that. But however you 316 00:18:01.720 --> 00:18:04.960 go about it, get good quality soil and Landscaper's Pride 317 00:18:04.960 --> 00:18:08.480 can provide you with that as well. Landscaperspride dot com. 318 00:18:08.480 --> 00:18:10.279 That's their website if you want to go look. They 319 00:18:10.279 --> 00:18:13.599 have a lot of other products, including some really great mulches. 320 00:18:13.640 --> 00:18:16.400 And by the way, we got to keep a mulch 321 00:18:16.480 --> 00:18:19.440 on the soil surface for a number of reasons. So 322 00:18:19.559 --> 00:18:22.200 when it gets thin, when you start seeing weeds coming through, 323 00:18:22.559 --> 00:18:27.039 put more multch down, get it thicker. It does wonders. 324 00:18:27.160 --> 00:18:30.599 Mult is like the miracle cure. Multing compost for example, 325 00:18:30.599 --> 00:18:34.759 on malt're you're stopping erosion you're stopping crusting of the 326 00:18:34.799 --> 00:18:39.079 soil from rainfall. You're moderating soil temperatures. Go outside on 327 00:18:39.119 --> 00:18:41.079 a sunny day, put your hand down and feel the soil, 328 00:18:41.200 --> 00:18:43.640 even three inches deep. Feel how warm that is. Roots 329 00:18:43.680 --> 00:18:46.839 don't like that. Mulch helps with that as well. What's 330 00:18:46.880 --> 00:18:48.880 time for me to take a little break here coming up, 331 00:18:48.960 --> 00:18:51.599 if you would like to give me a call seven 332 00:18:51.640 --> 00:18:55.039 to one three two one two five eight seven four 333 00:18:55.480 --> 00:18:59.440 seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four 334 00:18:59.480 --> 00:19:01.640 give Chris. You can be our first up when we 335 00:19:01.720 --> 00:19:06.079 come right out of break. Dard Line, welcome back. Good 336 00:19:06.119 --> 00:19:08.680 to have you with us this morning. Congratulations you were 337 00:19:08.759 --> 00:19:11.799 up right and early. That's always a good day, A 338 00:19:11.839 --> 00:19:17.279 good way to start a day. I appreciate these early 339 00:19:17.319 --> 00:19:20.079 morning hours. Is nice and quiet. At least if I 340 00:19:20.160 --> 00:19:21.799 keep my voice down a little bit, it'll be nice 341 00:19:21.799 --> 00:19:25.720 and quiet. Uh. The chance to kind of do somethink 342 00:19:25.759 --> 00:19:27.839 and do some planning, get some things ready to go, 343 00:19:28.039 --> 00:19:30.359 just kind of wake up for the day. Today is 344 00:19:30.400 --> 00:19:32.240 going to be a nice day. I think I'm looking 345 00:19:32.279 --> 00:19:35.440 forward to this afternoon, getting out a little bit and 346 00:19:35.519 --> 00:19:38.920 enjoying some of the outdoors. I know it's warm, but hey, 347 00:19:39.880 --> 00:19:42.240 you know, we live here. It's it's just part of 348 00:19:42.279 --> 00:19:45.079 the package that goes here. At least we're not shoveling 349 00:19:45.119 --> 00:19:47.799 three feet of snow every one or time, so we're 350 00:19:47.839 --> 00:19:51.559 going to count that as a plus plus. We're glad 351 00:19:51.559 --> 00:19:53.000 you're listening with us. If you'd like to give us 352 00:19:53.039 --> 00:19:55.720 a call seven to one three two one two k 353 00:19:55.839 --> 00:20:00.599 t r H seven one three two one two KTR 354 00:20:00.920 --> 00:20:04.559 that's the number you need to reach out. Plans for 355 00:20:04.599 --> 00:20:08.400 All Seasons is up on two forty nine. That's Tomball Parkway. 356 00:20:08.400 --> 00:20:10.079 For those of you that are new here, if you're 357 00:20:10.119 --> 00:20:13.839 heading up toward Tomball, it'll be on the right hand side, 358 00:20:13.960 --> 00:20:17.319 so you exit Luetta if you're heading north and you 359 00:20:17.559 --> 00:20:19.680 cross over Luetta and it'll be right there on the 360 00:20:19.759 --> 00:20:21.759 right hand side. In other words, when when you're standing 361 00:20:21.799 --> 00:20:24.119 at Plants for All Seasons, you're just staring at top 362 00:20:24.160 --> 00:20:26.440 two forty nine right there in front of you, and 363 00:20:26.480 --> 00:20:29.200 so it's easy access, easy to get to. But folks 364 00:20:29.200 --> 00:20:33.079 that live in that region know that Plants for All 365 00:20:33.119 --> 00:20:37.240 Season is the place to go for awesome plants and 366 00:20:37.519 --> 00:20:40.240 awesome advice and all kinds of things that you need. 367 00:20:40.799 --> 00:20:43.039 And right now it's time to get ready for fall. 368 00:20:43.319 --> 00:20:46.799 I know it's hot, it's August, but fall is coming. 369 00:20:46.920 --> 00:20:49.759 And we were talking earlier, you know, about putting in 370 00:20:49.759 --> 00:20:53.000 a new bed with Matthew, and there's a there's a 371 00:20:53.039 --> 00:20:54.960 lot of things we can be doing right now so 372 00:20:55.000 --> 00:20:57.680 when fall comes, you're ready. And sole prep is an 373 00:20:57.680 --> 00:21:01.279 example of that, because when if you wait, let's say 374 00:21:01.279 --> 00:21:04.079 you're planning on putting in your broccoli and mid September 375 00:21:04.200 --> 00:21:07.440 or something, transplants or late September, and you get to 376 00:21:07.480 --> 00:21:11.559 that point and here comes a bunch of rainy weather. Well, 377 00:21:11.720 --> 00:21:14.119 now how do you work your soil because it's all soggy, 378 00:21:14.160 --> 00:21:16.599 wet and stuff. But if you build it now, you're 379 00:21:16.640 --> 00:21:19.599 ready to go. And plants for all seasons, carries all 380 00:21:19.720 --> 00:21:21.680 the products, I mean, you get to pick from all 381 00:21:21.720 --> 00:21:26.359 these different soil products, composts and mulches and bed mixes 382 00:21:26.440 --> 00:21:29.839 and everything, and you can get everything set up and 383 00:21:29.960 --> 00:21:33.039 ready to go. Now. They have beautiful containers, gorgeous. I've 384 00:21:33.039 --> 00:21:35.400 got one of the couple of their containers actually that 385 00:21:35.480 --> 00:21:38.720 are just beautiful glazed pottery and we just really enjoy them. 386 00:21:39.200 --> 00:21:42.759 They just gorgeous. And then of course plants, they've got 387 00:21:42.799 --> 00:21:45.839 all kinds of plants. And remember we have several months 388 00:21:46.400 --> 00:21:49.400 of warmer weather left. We got August, we got September, 389 00:21:49.440 --> 00:21:51.680 and we got a good part of October where the 390 00:21:51.720 --> 00:21:54.319 temperatures are quite warm. I mean around here, it doesn't 391 00:21:54.599 --> 00:21:58.079 We typically don't get those frosts until much later. So 392 00:21:58.359 --> 00:22:00.599 why not put in some color to carry you all 393 00:22:00.640 --> 00:22:02.960 the way through up until the time when you're gonna 394 00:22:03.000 --> 00:22:07.200 think about things like pansies and violas and alyssum and 395 00:22:07.279 --> 00:22:10.599 other other flowers like that. Plans for All Seasons has 396 00:22:10.599 --> 00:22:13.039 got all of that. Hey, The website is Plans for 397 00:22:13.079 --> 00:22:15.880 All Seasons dot Com. The phone number if you'd like 398 00:22:15.920 --> 00:22:18.400 to give them a call two eight one three seven 399 00:22:18.519 --> 00:22:21.880 six one six four six two eight one three seven 400 00:22:22.000 --> 00:22:25.880 six one six for six. They got good stock of 401 00:22:25.960 --> 00:22:28.680 all the things you need to get ready for the 402 00:22:28.759 --> 00:22:31.839 upcoming planning seasons or just to get out there and 403 00:22:31.880 --> 00:22:36.160 get some color going right now, tell you what, Let's 404 00:22:36.160 --> 00:22:39.559 head out to the Houston area and talk to Steven. 405 00:22:39.839 --> 00:22:41.880 Good morning, Stephen, Welcome to garden Line. 406 00:22:43.160 --> 00:22:43.559 Morning. 407 00:22:45.599 --> 00:22:50.039 Question is we're actually out on property in near Fayettville 408 00:22:50.200 --> 00:22:53.960 and we get Johnson Grass and I'm looking for herberside 409 00:22:54.079 --> 00:22:58.119 just to control the Johnson grass and not kill other stuff. 410 00:22:59.480 --> 00:23:01.880 What's growing around the Johnson grass. 411 00:23:03.400 --> 00:23:07.319 Bermuda mainly, and then weeds. 412 00:23:07.640 --> 00:23:10.880 So you're not wanting to kill the bermuda or or 413 00:23:10.920 --> 00:23:12.920 the other things, right, is that what you're saying? 414 00:23:13.240 --> 00:23:13.839 Not really? 415 00:23:14.400 --> 00:23:17.000 I mean, okay, I'm not too worried about it. 416 00:23:17.000 --> 00:23:21.799 But how big is this patch of Johnson grass? I 417 00:23:21.920 --> 00:23:23.839 need to kind of know just to kind of direct 418 00:23:23.960 --> 00:23:25.119 for the right technique. 419 00:23:26.160 --> 00:23:29.519 We're on thirty two acres, so it could it could 420 00:23:29.559 --> 00:23:30.359 be a lot. 421 00:23:31.400 --> 00:23:32.599 Oh, I mean, I've got. 422 00:23:33.039 --> 00:23:36.799 Yeah, it gets mainly trying to control it along my ditches. 423 00:23:36.400 --> 00:23:41.079 Along my road I see, and then in the entrance. 424 00:23:41.359 --> 00:23:46.440 I'm not too worried about field. Okay, all right, Well, uh, 425 00:23:46.480 --> 00:23:49.039 in that case, you're just going to have to try 426 00:23:49.079 --> 00:23:51.759 to apply a spray to the Johnson grass and minimize 427 00:23:51.799 --> 00:23:54.400 the amount that goes out all around it. 428 00:23:55.079 --> 00:23:55.200 Uh. 429 00:23:55.319 --> 00:23:57.759 And if you use a little course droplet spray and 430 00:23:57.759 --> 00:24:00.720 get close enough, you know, don't use a fog misty 431 00:24:00.920 --> 00:24:05.440 high pressure spray that drifts off target. Just apply it 432 00:24:05.440 --> 00:24:07.960 to the Johnson grass. You can you can do anything 433 00:24:08.000 --> 00:24:11.599 from a general weed killer, which glyphosate is the example 434 00:24:11.799 --> 00:24:14.680 that's been around for a long time on that. There's 435 00:24:14.720 --> 00:24:20.799 also grass only killers. There's one that sutoxiden as dim 436 00:24:20.839 --> 00:24:23.559 as the ingredient. The other is fluazephope, and I know 437 00:24:23.640 --> 00:24:27.559 those are okay who wrote that down right? So if 438 00:24:27.559 --> 00:24:30.240 you go to my website gardening with skip dot com, 439 00:24:30.839 --> 00:24:33.519 I've got instructions for building a weed wiper, which is 440 00:24:33.559 --> 00:24:36.440 not going to be practical for you using this huge, 441 00:24:36.599 --> 00:24:40.160 huge amounts of Johnson grass, but with it is a 442 00:24:40.200 --> 00:24:42.759 herbicide list of things to put on the weed wiper, 443 00:24:42.839 --> 00:24:45.720 and depending on the weed you're going after, it names 444 00:24:45.759 --> 00:24:48.480 the herbicide that you should use. Ok So those two 445 00:24:49.000 --> 00:24:51.519 those two words that I just said for grass, if 446 00:24:51.519 --> 00:24:54.119 you look over and it says grassy weeds, then look 447 00:24:54.160 --> 00:24:57.359 across and you're going to see those two ingredients as 448 00:24:57.440 --> 00:25:02.039 ones that you could use for the They translocate down. 449 00:25:02.200 --> 00:25:04.480 They do a pretty good job of killing the rhizomes. 450 00:25:04.559 --> 00:25:08.759 Johnsngrass has a lot of rhizomes underground, very thick, pencil 451 00:25:08.799 --> 00:25:11.599 sized rhizomes, and so you got to kill those two. 452 00:25:11.680 --> 00:25:14.160 So one spray may not get it all, but you 453 00:25:14.200 --> 00:25:16.200 can come back and do it again, but it will 454 00:25:16.279 --> 00:25:18.559 kill the bermuda that you get it on, so just 455 00:25:18.599 --> 00:25:23.799 try to focus on spraying the johnsngrass. They translated. Thank 456 00:25:23.839 --> 00:25:27.400 you all right, my bed Steven. Thanks for the call. Bye, 457 00:25:27.359 --> 00:25:31.279 I appreciate that. Let's go now out to Richmond and 458 00:25:31.319 --> 00:25:32.559 we're going to talk to Bernie. 459 00:25:32.799 --> 00:25:35.799 Hello, Bernie, Hey, hey, Skip, how you doing, man? 460 00:25:36.839 --> 00:25:37.920 I'm good? What's up? 461 00:25:39.519 --> 00:25:46.480 Got a promoted yard? Ties four nineteen chinch bug problems? 462 00:25:46.720 --> 00:25:49.559 Never dealt with it in my life before. I've been 463 00:25:49.559 --> 00:25:52.319 working in the yard for sixty years. I went and 464 00:25:52.359 --> 00:25:54.559 got the bug out, Max and put it down, watered 465 00:25:54.599 --> 00:25:59.640 it in. I've heard you say that chinchbugs are very 466 00:25:59.640 --> 00:26:03.440 hard to eradicate. Is there a second treatment I need 467 00:26:03.480 --> 00:26:08.039 to do with the bug out? And if not, do 468 00:26:08.160 --> 00:26:11.920 I need to go back and lay some sweet green 469 00:26:12.000 --> 00:26:14.920 down or something to try to stimulate the grass that's 470 00:26:14.920 --> 00:26:15.519 still alive. 471 00:26:17.160 --> 00:26:20.279 Well, I mean, you certainly could do that. I don't 472 00:26:20.440 --> 00:26:24.559 think of chinch bugs as being a pest of bermuda grass. 473 00:26:24.720 --> 00:26:27.000 So I'm kind of wonderfully seeing when you look at 474 00:26:27.039 --> 00:26:29.279 the bermuda grass. 475 00:26:29.279 --> 00:26:36.640 Well, a lots of patches of brown blades of grass. 476 00:26:36.720 --> 00:26:41.400 There's some green interspersed throughout the backyard. The backyard's much 477 00:26:41.400 --> 00:26:44.839 worse than the front. I have dealt with a fungus 478 00:26:45.839 --> 00:26:48.799 brown patch two different times in the seven years we've 479 00:26:48.880 --> 00:26:51.960 lived here, and I first thought that's what this was. 480 00:26:52.079 --> 00:26:55.400 I put a funge aside down, and then it became 481 00:26:55.480 --> 00:26:58.039 obvious with all that rain that we had in July 482 00:26:59.240 --> 00:27:03.079 that I might have chinchbug problems. I did the chichbug 483 00:27:03.160 --> 00:27:05.880 test where I took a tomato sauce can, took the 484 00:27:05.920 --> 00:27:08.920 top off, the bottom off, punched it into the ground, 485 00:27:09.000 --> 00:27:12.960 filled it with water, and we did see bugs float 486 00:27:13.000 --> 00:27:15.759 to the top. So that's what they made me think. 487 00:27:17.680 --> 00:27:19.440 Did they look like chinchbugs? 488 00:27:19.880 --> 00:27:23.440 Is that what you Well, they're so small, they're so tiny, 489 00:27:24.119 --> 00:27:27.920 it was hard for me to differentiate what kind of 490 00:27:27.960 --> 00:27:31.839 bug it might be. But all right, at that point, listen. 491 00:27:32.359 --> 00:27:36.079 Bernie, I'm gonna it's break time. Let me Will you 492 00:27:36.160 --> 00:27:38.319 hang on. I want to come back to this in 493 00:27:38.359 --> 00:27:40.720 the meantime. I got a computer nearby. Go to a 494 00:27:40.759 --> 00:27:44.640 website called Aggie Turf, and when you get there, look 495 00:27:44.640 --> 00:27:47.279 at turf, grass, insects and chinchbugs and we'll be right 496 00:27:47.319 --> 00:27:49.039 back and I'll talk about it some more. Whether you're 497 00:27:49.079 --> 00:27:50.799 able to get there or not, we'll be right back 498 00:27:50.839 --> 00:27:52.519 I'm good to good to have you with us today. 499 00:27:52.519 --> 00:27:55.359 We're going to jump right back in to our call 500 00:27:56.079 --> 00:27:59.240 with Bernie. Here if I can actually push on the 501 00:27:59.279 --> 00:28:01.799 right button, go hey, Bernie, did you happen to have 502 00:28:01.839 --> 00:28:04.400 a chance to look online or not? It's okay if 503 00:28:04.400 --> 00:28:04.759 you did. 504 00:28:04.839 --> 00:28:08.359 Not yet I'm on my walk skip okay, oh okay, 505 00:28:08.359 --> 00:28:08.960 that's fine. 506 00:28:09.039 --> 00:28:11.160 Well, if you go to Aggie Turf website, there is 507 00:28:11.200 --> 00:28:14.079 a publication on chinchbugs and you can see exactly what 508 00:28:14.160 --> 00:28:16.160 they look like. They have a bunch of them. They 509 00:28:16.200 --> 00:28:18.079 put on a dime so you can see how big 510 00:28:18.119 --> 00:28:20.839 they are, the colors they are. I would check that 511 00:28:21.200 --> 00:28:25.359 chinchbugs can feed on bermuda grass a little bit, but 512 00:28:25.400 --> 00:28:28.480 they don't do big damage. It's Saint Augustine that they 513 00:28:28.519 --> 00:28:32.079 really do the damage to. And I don't know what's 514 00:28:32.119 --> 00:28:34.240 going on on the bermuda. I think it's something else, 515 00:28:34.480 --> 00:28:38.759 and so I would you know, I I the only 516 00:28:38.799 --> 00:28:40.839 thing I can suggest if you want to take some 517 00:28:40.880 --> 00:28:44.119 pictures and send them via email, we could we could 518 00:28:44.160 --> 00:28:46.759 take a look, kind of show me from a distance, 519 00:28:46.799 --> 00:28:50.039 show me close up, and we'll see what else might 520 00:28:50.079 --> 00:28:54.599 be going on out there. But I'm really doubting if 521 00:28:54.599 --> 00:28:57.400 you're seeing significant browning, that that's a chinchbug thing. 522 00:28:58.200 --> 00:29:01.319 It's got to be a fungus, don't you think it. 523 00:29:01.279 --> 00:29:04.480 Would be a fungus? Or it could be a you know, 524 00:29:04.559 --> 00:29:09.400 drought related. It could be what else, something eating, you know, 525 00:29:09.480 --> 00:29:11.359 feeding on the roots. It could be you know, a 526 00:29:11.359 --> 00:29:14.359 herbicide or some product to use that burn the grass. 527 00:29:14.400 --> 00:29:19.519 I mean, there are possibilities of other things. But I'd 528 00:29:19.559 --> 00:29:21.960 like to see the pictures though, because the pattern of 529 00:29:22.000 --> 00:29:24.799 the damage, the extent of the damage, and all that 530 00:29:25.400 --> 00:29:27.839 kind of helped me narrow down who done it? 531 00:29:28.839 --> 00:29:31.279 Okay, I'll do it all right. 532 00:29:31.400 --> 00:29:33.759 Well, I appreciate that call. Thank you very much. 533 00:29:34.640 --> 00:29:35.480 Thank you. 534 00:29:35.599 --> 00:29:39.680 B Yes, sir, you take care, Yeah night for us. 535 00:29:39.880 --> 00:29:42.559 He was mentioning night frous bugout Max. That's an awesome 536 00:29:42.559 --> 00:29:45.119 product for chinchbugs. I mean, it's a granule, you put 537 00:29:45.119 --> 00:29:47.519 it out, you water it down, and it washes the 538 00:29:48.359 --> 00:29:52.279 pesticide ingredient, the insecticide off the granule and into the thatch. 539 00:29:52.319 --> 00:29:54.599 And that's where chinchbugs are hiding. That's why you have 540 00:29:54.640 --> 00:29:56.839 to pull the thatch apart if you're looking for them 541 00:29:56.880 --> 00:29:59.400 visually to get down there and see them. But it 542 00:29:59.440 --> 00:30:01.799 works well within forty eight hours, it's pretty well done 543 00:30:01.839 --> 00:30:05.000 its job and it continues to stick around for a while, 544 00:30:05.039 --> 00:30:07.319 so you're not gonna have to treat again this year. 545 00:30:08.039 --> 00:30:10.720 But it is chinchbug season, so you might want to 546 00:30:10.759 --> 00:30:13.559 have some of the bugout Max on hand. You're gonna 547 00:30:13.559 --> 00:30:16.519 find it at places like Stanton Shopping Center down in Alvin. 548 00:30:18.079 --> 00:30:21.480 Lake hardbur Done in Angleton on Alasco has it, as 549 00:30:21.480 --> 00:30:24.599 well as does Lake Harbar Clute on Dixie Drive and 550 00:30:24.960 --> 00:30:28.160 Lake Jackson. We're going to go back to the phones 551 00:30:28.240 --> 00:30:32.960 now and talk to Eddie and Kema. Hey Eddie, welcome 552 00:30:33.000 --> 00:30:33.519 to Darnline. 553 00:30:35.319 --> 00:30:36.880 Thank you, thank you for taking my call. 554 00:30:37.319 --> 00:30:41.720 I've got an orange tree that I planted and I 555 00:30:41.799 --> 00:30:46.160 got the instructions from moz over in Seabrook and it 556 00:30:46.319 --> 00:30:50.920 said to use the original dirt and it said watered 557 00:30:50.960 --> 00:30:54.319 every day. Well, when I dug the hole, there was 558 00:30:54.359 --> 00:30:56.920 a bunch of pine roots and I think that is 559 00:30:56.960 --> 00:31:01.519 what's keeping the tree from doing from growing because it's 560 00:31:01.559 --> 00:31:02.839 not doing well at all. 561 00:31:04.160 --> 00:31:08.319 Okay, And what do you think is he getting a 562 00:31:08.359 --> 00:31:09.319 lot of sun, Eddie? 563 00:31:10.599 --> 00:31:11.039 It is? 564 00:31:11.720 --> 00:31:15.079 It does get a long Okay. I would get a 565 00:31:15.119 --> 00:31:19.079 fertilizer and Moss going to have several of them that 566 00:31:19.160 --> 00:31:22.319 are options for a citrus. You know, Nelson's makes one, 567 00:31:22.440 --> 00:31:25.720 Nitruss makes one, micro Life makes one. Uh, there, there's 568 00:31:25.880 --> 00:31:28.839 there's there's plenty of options out there. I can't off 569 00:31:28.839 --> 00:31:30.480 the top of my head. I don't remember what Jim 570 00:31:30.559 --> 00:31:34.480 Carrey is there at Moss, but they'll have it. And 571 00:31:34.559 --> 00:31:36.400 I would put it out according to the label and 572 00:31:36.440 --> 00:31:39.359 watered in, and uh, I would do that now. I 573 00:31:39.359 --> 00:31:43.119 wouldn't probably wouldn't fertilize again because we're going toward winter 574 00:31:43.279 --> 00:31:44.680 and you don't want to push a lot of late 575 00:31:44.720 --> 00:31:47.680 season growth. Citrus is kind of cold tender, and uh, 576 00:31:47.720 --> 00:31:50.839 if you get real succulent growth, something that the tree 577 00:31:50.960 --> 00:31:54.799 could have survived, will be very damaging because you created 578 00:31:54.799 --> 00:31:58.359 that succulent late season growth. So now would be the 579 00:31:58.400 --> 00:32:02.160 time to do it. And then just keep adequate moisture. 580 00:32:02.200 --> 00:32:03.960 You know, it's hard to tell someone how much to 581 00:32:04.039 --> 00:32:08.599 water because the soil type, the rainfall and everything else. 582 00:32:09.240 --> 00:32:11.559 But I would just when you dig down around where 583 00:32:11.559 --> 00:32:14.160 the roots are, not out from the tree, but where 584 00:32:14.160 --> 00:32:16.440 the roots are, which is pretty much where you what 585 00:32:16.480 --> 00:32:19.319 you put in the ground still, and if it feels 586 00:32:19.319 --> 00:32:21.599 a little dry, it's time to water, but you want 587 00:32:21.599 --> 00:32:24.519 to not let it dry out or keep it in 588 00:32:24.599 --> 00:32:25.160 a swamp. 589 00:32:26.720 --> 00:32:29.880 So you don't think those are that you don't think 590 00:32:29.880 --> 00:32:32.440 the pine has heard it. 591 00:32:33.640 --> 00:32:35.559 I don't think that tree has had time to get 592 00:32:35.640 --> 00:32:39.160 roots out where the pine would roots would be. I 593 00:32:39.160 --> 00:32:42.119 think the tree's roots are still primarily in the cylinder 594 00:32:42.200 --> 00:32:43.839 you put in the ground when you pulled it out 595 00:32:43.839 --> 00:32:46.039 of how long would you plant it? 596 00:32:46.440 --> 00:32:48.240 About two months ago? 597 00:32:48.079 --> 00:32:49.000 Two three months ago? 598 00:32:49.200 --> 00:32:52.599 Yeah, yeah, they're still primarily in that container. They are 599 00:32:52.759 --> 00:32:55.279 venturing out. I mean you can cut some pine roots 600 00:32:55.279 --> 00:32:57.160 around it. You know, you went three feet out and 601 00:32:57.200 --> 00:33:02.640 did some roots to do that. Yeah. Yeah, But it's 602 00:33:02.720 --> 00:33:05.759 just it's going into an environment where the soil is 603 00:33:05.799 --> 00:33:09.079 full of wood would be in tree roots, and that's 604 00:33:09.160 --> 00:33:12.119 displacing soil volume and it's having to compete there. So 605 00:33:12.680 --> 00:33:14.680 but once you get it on its feet, it ought 606 00:33:14.680 --> 00:33:17.160 to be able to do. Okay, you just have to 607 00:33:18.440 --> 00:33:20.960 excuse me. You just have to make sure that it 608 00:33:21.279 --> 00:33:24.079 gets a boost of nutrients and consistent moisture. Those are 609 00:33:24.079 --> 00:33:25.279 the important things. 610 00:33:25.960 --> 00:33:27.039 Okay, thanks for your help. 611 00:33:28.319 --> 00:33:31.039 You bet good luck with that. I know, getting a 612 00:33:31.119 --> 00:33:34.000 brand new citrus tree is a is a fun thing 613 00:33:34.119 --> 00:33:35.880 to be able to do. Let's go out to Katie 614 00:33:35.880 --> 00:33:39.640 and talk to John. Hey, John, welcome to Guardline. Hey, 615 00:33:39.960 --> 00:33:42.960 good morning, Skip. I have a question for you. I 616 00:33:42.960 --> 00:33:45.480 sent you some pictures I called earlier. 617 00:33:45.119 --> 00:33:48.319 And your producer gave me your email. I have an 618 00:33:48.319 --> 00:33:52.160 oak tree in my backyard and it's got some it's 619 00:33:52.240 --> 00:33:57.079 like split, like a fissure opening up, and it's either 620 00:33:57.119 --> 00:33:59.640 a sick tree or it's a dying tree, or I 621 00:33:59.680 --> 00:34:00.920 don't know what I should do. 622 00:34:02.000 --> 00:34:03.799 Yeah, I had a chance to look at those pictures 623 00:34:03.880 --> 00:34:08.719 and something split the bark a long time ago. It's 624 00:34:08.800 --> 00:34:13.280 already callousing. You'll see this like lava flow of new 625 00:34:13.480 --> 00:34:17.039 callous growth coming back in to close over that area. Yeah, 626 00:34:18.039 --> 00:34:19.960 it could have been that when we went through the 627 00:34:20.039 --> 00:34:23.039 really bad freezes excuse me, a few years ago. It 628 00:34:23.039 --> 00:34:25.119 could have been that. It could have even been a 629 00:34:25.199 --> 00:34:29.920 very minor lightning strikes. It's got a characteristic to it 630 00:34:30.000 --> 00:34:33.440 that I couldn't eliminate a lightning strike from way back 631 00:34:33.480 --> 00:34:36.679 when being part of the problem. Not a major one 632 00:34:36.679 --> 00:34:39.559 that blows bark across the yard and kills the tree, 633 00:34:39.599 --> 00:34:43.079 but just a minor one. But the thing is, it 634 00:34:43.159 --> 00:34:46.440 is trying to regrow. So anything you do that builds 635 00:34:46.519 --> 00:34:49.719 vigor for the tree, helps speed that regrowth. Get the 636 00:34:49.760 --> 00:34:53.000 dead bark or tissues out that might be in the 637 00:34:53.039 --> 00:34:55.840 way but where it's trying to close back over from 638 00:34:55.920 --> 00:35:01.239 the sides. And how would I clean that out? Oh, 639 00:35:01.400 --> 00:35:03.400 just pulling on loose bark or. 640 00:35:03.800 --> 00:35:05.639 Oh okay, I'd take a screwdriver in the. 641 00:35:07.639 --> 00:35:09.800 Yeah, you're not doing surgery. Sometimes I use like a 642 00:35:09.920 --> 00:35:12.280 call hammer thing if I can't get my fingers on it, 643 00:35:12.320 --> 00:35:15.000 you know, just kind of breaking loose. But you're not 644 00:35:15.079 --> 00:35:17.760 doing You're not wounding the tree. I'm talking about just 645 00:35:17.800 --> 00:35:19.320 taking out dead stuff that's in. 646 00:35:19.559 --> 00:35:23.159 That's okay, yeah, okay, yeah, I agree that. 647 00:35:23.239 --> 00:35:26.000 But the main thing is the tree's got to heal itself. 648 00:35:26.199 --> 00:35:29.360 And anything you do that creates a bitterer that's fertilizing 649 00:35:29.360 --> 00:35:32.920 and watering basically water and during during hot dry weather. 650 00:35:34.119 --> 00:35:37.599 Thanks Jo, thank you, thank you. You bet good luck 651 00:35:37.639 --> 00:35:40.119 with that. All right, folks, I hear music from you. 652 00:35:41.000 --> 00:35:42.920 That means we're going to go to a break. When 653 00:35:42.960 --> 00:35:45.480 we come back, Larry and Alben you'll be our first up. 654 00:35:45.519 --> 00:35:50.239 And Andy in College Station you will be next. Don't 655 00:35:50.280 --> 00:35:54.599 forget my website gardening with Skip dot com Gardening with 656 00:35:54.800 --> 00:35:58.079 Skip dot Com. That's where you'll find the two new 657 00:35:58.119 --> 00:36:02.719 publications on nuts edge and the two publications on the 658 00:36:02.719 --> 00:36:05.079 weed wiper and the product that you put on the 659 00:36:05.119 --> 00:36:07.320 weed by how to build one yourself. You just gotta 660 00:36:07.320 --> 00:36:08.800 go see the thing. You look at him and go well, 661 00:36:08.840 --> 00:36:12.119 that's simple. Making it easy. 662 00:36:24.280 --> 00:36:29.360 Was advertised on this program. Welcome to kt r H 663 00:36:29.440 --> 00:36:31.679 Garden Line with Skip rictor. 664 00:36:33.599 --> 00:36:42.440 Crazy Trip. Just watch him as world. 665 00:36:46.360 --> 00:36:54.480 That so many bird things to see, black crazy ways. 666 00:36:56.480 --> 00:36:58.280 Not a side crazy. 667 00:37:01.840 --> 00:37:05.599 Welcome back, Welcome back to the guard Line. It is 668 00:37:06.360 --> 00:37:09.000 good to have you with us. We are looking forward 669 00:37:09.039 --> 00:37:12.679 to talking to you about whatever is of interest to you. 670 00:37:12.760 --> 00:37:17.239 We talk lawns, trees, shrubs, house plants, herbs, flowers, What 671 00:37:18.000 --> 00:37:20.119 kind of plant issues do you have? What kind of 672 00:37:20.119 --> 00:37:22.840 plant goals or plans do you have. This is a 673 00:37:23.000 --> 00:37:26.119 great time to be planting your fall garden. Fall is 674 00:37:26.360 --> 00:37:30.320 for planting. It is It is the best season overall 675 00:37:30.440 --> 00:37:34.400 around the year for planting all kinds of things. It 676 00:37:34.440 --> 00:37:39.239 gives the plants all winter to develop roots because they do. 677 00:37:39.280 --> 00:37:42.280 You know, roots grow in the soil temperatures like above 678 00:37:42.360 --> 00:37:44.880 fifty degrees or so I mean and it's out all 679 00:37:44.880 --> 00:37:48.400 the time in the winter here. And so that plant 680 00:37:48.440 --> 00:37:50.880 that you put in and let's say late October November, 681 00:37:51.119 --> 00:37:54.679 whenever you put it in, is going to be ready 682 00:37:54.719 --> 00:37:56.840 to hit the ground, run in when hot weather arrives 683 00:37:56.880 --> 00:37:59.360 next year. Compared to a plant that you put in 684 00:37:59.360 --> 00:38:02.480 in late spring. Now you can plant twelve months out 685 00:38:02.480 --> 00:38:04.800 of the year here in our area, this whole region 686 00:38:05.239 --> 00:38:07.679 of the country, you can plant twelve months out of 687 00:38:07.679 --> 00:38:10.239 the year. Well I say region, I mean Southeast Texas region. 688 00:38:11.239 --> 00:38:15.119 But the idea is to make it as easy as 689 00:38:15.119 --> 00:38:17.519 you count on yourself and your plants and fall planting 690 00:38:17.880 --> 00:38:20.199 is what does that. We're going to run now out 691 00:38:20.280 --> 00:38:24.639 to the phones and head to Alvin and talk to Larry. Hello, Larry, 692 00:38:24.679 --> 00:38:25.559 Welcome to guard Line. 693 00:38:26.480 --> 00:38:32.320 Good morning, Skip, Good morning. I got a question. I've 694 00:38:32.360 --> 00:38:34.599 got a ditch in the front of my house. It's 695 00:38:34.639 --> 00:38:38.119 about one hundred and fifty feet long, probably five or 696 00:38:38.159 --> 00:38:41.519 six foot deep. Anyway, it's just been solid weeds. So 697 00:38:41.639 --> 00:38:47.719 I killed the whole thing with round up, and I'm 698 00:38:47.760 --> 00:38:52.719 thinking about planting red clover or crimson clover. What do 699 00:38:52.760 --> 00:38:53.719 you think about that? 700 00:38:55.360 --> 00:38:57.679 It would look good for the season that it's growing, 701 00:38:58.280 --> 00:39:01.159 But then when the hot weather comes in, it's gonna 702 00:39:01.199 --> 00:39:05.159 all turn brown and then weeds. Arguing that because yeah, 703 00:39:05.159 --> 00:39:08.440 there's there's nothing shading the soil. So I think you 704 00:39:08.519 --> 00:39:10.960 need you probably need to go with something that's a 705 00:39:11.000 --> 00:39:15.559 little more of a perennial, maybe an evergreen year round. 706 00:39:15.719 --> 00:39:18.280 And that's gonna be a little bit of a challenge 707 00:39:18.280 --> 00:39:20.000 in a spot like you just described. 708 00:39:20.519 --> 00:39:25.000 Yeah it's adiot. I won't get something that's gonna block 709 00:39:25.079 --> 00:39:27.880 the weeds if nothing else, and I don't have to 710 00:39:27.920 --> 00:39:29.719 weed date. It's real hard to we date. 711 00:39:30.679 --> 00:39:35.320 And yeah, yeah, well there's some good native groundcovers, but 712 00:39:35.719 --> 00:39:38.960 the density is not going to quite cut it unless 713 00:39:39.000 --> 00:39:40.920 you're out there watering it and taking care of it 714 00:39:40.960 --> 00:39:42.119 a lot. And I know you don't. 715 00:39:43.519 --> 00:39:48.599 It's about three hundred feet after and a half. Greg oes, Oh. 716 00:39:48.440 --> 00:39:52.400 Boy, yeah, let's not do that. Oh boy, I tell you. 717 00:39:53.719 --> 00:39:55.960 I was trying to think of something to be a 718 00:39:56.000 --> 00:39:59.360 grasp but be lower growing U and that's kind of 719 00:39:59.400 --> 00:40:02.039 getting into to more of a native grass that you 720 00:40:02.119 --> 00:40:06.480 might I'm trying to think of what would be a 721 00:40:06.559 --> 00:40:10.719 good good option for that. Everything's going to require mowing, 722 00:40:10.960 --> 00:40:12.800 mow in or weed eating. That's the problem. And it 723 00:40:12.800 --> 00:40:14.400 sounds like it's too steep to mow. 724 00:40:14.320 --> 00:40:18.760 Right, Yeah, yeah, you can't mow with you can't get 725 00:40:18.760 --> 00:40:25.760 a mower down there, it's too steep. Yeah. What about 726 00:40:26.320 --> 00:40:29.400 I kind of wanted something that was flowering. I felt 727 00:40:29.440 --> 00:40:35.440 about wildflowers, but yeah, I don't know. And I saw 728 00:40:35.519 --> 00:40:38.880 that that I can buy the red clover seed its 729 00:40:38.880 --> 00:40:43.440 Stanton's here in town, and I thought wow that well 730 00:40:43.559 --> 00:40:45.800 I didn't look on the internet. 731 00:40:47.360 --> 00:40:50.920 Yeah yeah, well yeah, of course. Uh so that would 732 00:40:50.920 --> 00:40:53.159 be something that'll be a cool season. You know, playet 733 00:40:53.280 --> 00:40:55.480 like we do our blue bonnets, for example, and it 734 00:40:55.519 --> 00:40:58.679 comes up and the springtime is when it's going to 735 00:40:58.760 --> 00:41:01.079 do its growth, and look, look we'll get on spring 736 00:41:01.119 --> 00:41:04.880 cot early maybe early summer. Other than that, it's not 737 00:41:06.599 --> 00:41:08.800 I don't know. That's a that is a little bit 738 00:41:08.920 --> 00:41:12.440 of a that's not a yard question. So I'm not 739 00:41:12.559 --> 00:41:14.840 thinking we need to call our local lag agent and 740 00:41:14.840 --> 00:41:17.760 find out what is a native grasp, pasture grass or 741 00:41:17.800 --> 00:41:19.719 something that would stay low that you wouldn't have to 742 00:41:19.760 --> 00:41:21.639 be out there mowing all the time and weed eating. 743 00:41:21.960 --> 00:41:25.320 I know there's some there are some aquatic plants that 744 00:41:25.400 --> 00:41:29.000 will grow you see pickerel weed and others that grow 745 00:41:29.039 --> 00:41:31.719 in standing water down in a ditch and they bloom. 746 00:41:31.840 --> 00:41:32.480 They look good. 747 00:41:33.760 --> 00:41:40.199 Another one it's pretty much hard packed clay and uh 748 00:41:40.400 --> 00:41:47.760 it's uh, it's it's full sun all the time. So yeah, 749 00:41:47.960 --> 00:41:51.760 I thought that clover might be pretty nat because but 750 00:41:52.039 --> 00:41:53.800 you say it don't bloom. 751 00:41:53.400 --> 00:41:57.639 Long, Well, it's it's a it is a like a 752 00:41:57.679 --> 00:41:59.960 biennial that it s brought up in the cool season 753 00:42:00.199 --> 00:42:05.119 and then it grows and doesn't. It doesn't continue. It's 754 00:42:05.119 --> 00:42:07.119 not going to be blooming all summer and all fall 755 00:42:07.239 --> 00:42:08.119 and anything like that. 756 00:42:08.320 --> 00:42:13.800 It's I that's not it's grow clover, because I get 757 00:42:13.840 --> 00:42:14.599 that in the yard. 758 00:42:14.920 --> 00:42:15.159 You know. 759 00:42:15.480 --> 00:42:18.400 It's yeah, it's pretty yeah bees. 760 00:42:18.880 --> 00:42:23.199 Yet the problem with all everything that is coming to 761 00:42:23.280 --> 00:42:25.599 my mind is it's is not going to have the density. 762 00:42:25.760 --> 00:42:28.360 There is a native it's a weed. It's a low 763 00:42:28.440 --> 00:42:35.159 growing groundcover. It's called huh gosh, I just went blank. 764 00:42:35.239 --> 00:42:36.840 I was trying to say horse herb, and that's not 765 00:42:36.880 --> 00:42:38.719 the one. I'm I'm trying to think of frog fruit. 766 00:42:38.840 --> 00:42:39.800 It's called frog fruit. 767 00:42:40.400 --> 00:42:40.679 Uh. 768 00:42:40.840 --> 00:42:46.480 You some will sell it it grows crazy, but it's 769 00:42:46.559 --> 00:42:50.280 it's very low, very low, And I don't think the 770 00:42:50.400 --> 00:42:54.039 density is going to be adequate. To choke out everything, 771 00:42:54.159 --> 00:42:58.239 but that it might be a start. And it's it. 772 00:42:58.440 --> 00:43:04.679 I mean it, I around the bird bath and okay, 773 00:43:04.960 --> 00:43:06.599 it's pretty it's pretty good. 774 00:43:06.800 --> 00:43:07.039 Now. 775 00:43:07.159 --> 00:43:10.840 I do have edge coming up in it now, but 776 00:43:11.239 --> 00:43:14.119 so more that's only weeds that's come up in it. 777 00:43:16.679 --> 00:43:19.400 I mean that, I don't know that that's the panacea 778 00:43:19.480 --> 00:43:22.079 for your question, but that that's about all the king 779 00:43:22.079 --> 00:43:24.000 in mind the other thing. Let me just leave you 780 00:43:24.039 --> 00:43:26.360 with this, Larry, you might want to call a company 781 00:43:26.559 --> 00:43:30.679 called Native American Seed. They're in Junction, Texas, and they 782 00:43:30.719 --> 00:43:34.920 sell mixes for all regions of the state, really the country. 783 00:43:35.000 --> 00:43:37.159 They sell all over the country. But you can say, hey, 784 00:43:37.199 --> 00:43:40.639 I'm over here, you know, in Alvin, Texas, south east Texas, 785 00:43:40.719 --> 00:43:43.039 down Long not too far from the coast, and I 786 00:43:43.280 --> 00:43:46.400 would like something I can put out in a bardetch 787 00:43:46.440 --> 00:43:49.360 area that will grow. They probably have a blend that 788 00:43:49.440 --> 00:43:51.639 you could at least give it a try, and it 789 00:43:51.639 --> 00:43:55.679 would be They sell wildflower seed, but they sell pasture grasses, 790 00:43:55.920 --> 00:43:58.800 native pasture grasses and other things, so that may be 791 00:43:58.840 --> 00:44:00.880 worth a look. Or you can go online and look 792 00:44:00.880 --> 00:44:04.719 at what they have. Okay, Native American Seed and Junction, Texas. 793 00:44:05.280 --> 00:44:10.360 Okay, I'll check them out. I have bought stuff from that, uh, 794 00:44:10.920 --> 00:44:12.920 Wildflyers and Fredericksburg. 795 00:44:14.159 --> 00:44:17.199 Yes, while seed really well. 796 00:44:17.559 --> 00:44:18.800 To all I think. 797 00:44:20.280 --> 00:44:23.199 Okay, well, give give that a try. I'm gonna have 798 00:44:23.280 --> 00:44:25.360 to run to a break. But good luck with that. 799 00:44:26.320 --> 00:44:29.360 You came real close to stumping the chump on that one, Larry. 800 00:44:29.440 --> 00:44:29.719 Thank you. 801 00:44:30.840 --> 00:44:35.000 Well, I've been because I just won't do stuff. 802 00:44:36.239 --> 00:44:39.599 All right, Well, you take care. I appre I appreciate 803 00:44:39.639 --> 00:44:41.679 your call. Hey, we're gonna go to a break here. 804 00:44:41.719 --> 00:44:43.840 Andy in college station. You are first up when we 805 00:44:43.880 --> 00:44:50.440 come back, and just be a moment. With the snap 806 00:44:50.480 --> 00:44:54.199 of your fingers, you head up now to College Station. Andy, 807 00:44:54.280 --> 00:44:56.559 welcome to Guardline. All right, Texas, so long to get 808 00:44:56.599 --> 00:44:56.760 to you. 809 00:44:58.559 --> 00:45:00.800 Oh that's okay, Skip, Thank you so much for taking 810 00:45:00.840 --> 00:45:03.480 my call. I've kind of got I don't want to 811 00:45:03.519 --> 00:45:06.559 grow something. What we want to do is is I've 812 00:45:06.599 --> 00:45:10.920 got some Bermuda, not bermuna, Saint Augustine grass, and I 813 00:45:10.960 --> 00:45:13.280 want to make an area where I can have some 814 00:45:13.360 --> 00:45:14.159 crush grantitede. 815 00:45:14.360 --> 00:45:17.079 Uh do like a walkway out to a circle to. 816 00:45:17.039 --> 00:45:21.400 Put a fire fit out there and maybe my barbecue 817 00:45:21.400 --> 00:45:22.400 grill and stuff. 818 00:45:22.840 --> 00:45:23.039 Uh? 819 00:45:23.679 --> 00:45:26.760 Is it the best way to uh use like round 820 00:45:26.840 --> 00:45:28.920 up on the grass the way it is right now 821 00:45:29.039 --> 00:45:32.440 first and then kind of let that that hot sun 822 00:45:32.559 --> 00:45:35.280 kind of kill it out first. Or or what's what's 823 00:45:35.320 --> 00:45:38.119 the best to keep the grass from coming back in? 824 00:45:38.840 --> 00:45:42.239 What's is it only sit out there? What's that? 825 00:45:43.679 --> 00:45:46.079 Yeah? Is it only Saint Augustine or do you have 826 00:45:46.159 --> 00:45:49.679 other weeds or bermuda or anything mixed in there? 827 00:45:49.880 --> 00:45:51.639 Basically just Saint Augustine. 828 00:45:52.440 --> 00:45:56.079 Okay, So Saint Augustine is just it is all on 829 00:45:56.199 --> 00:46:00.000 top of the ground. There's no rhizomes underground or like bermuta. 830 00:46:00.079 --> 00:46:02.679 It can do. So if you were to take like 831 00:46:02.960 --> 00:46:05.639 a gardening hoe or show and just scrape a half 832 00:46:05.639 --> 00:46:09.199 inch under the soil surface, that it would completely get 833 00:46:09.280 --> 00:46:11.559 rid of Saint Augustine. It wouldn't come back. It could 834 00:46:11.639 --> 00:46:13.800 come in from the sides. That's always the case. That's 835 00:46:13.800 --> 00:46:16.239 why we have to use edgeres and things in our 836 00:46:16.760 --> 00:46:21.599 driveways and whatnot. But it's not hard to get you. 837 00:46:21.599 --> 00:46:23.639 You can spray it if you want, but then you're 838 00:46:23.679 --> 00:46:27.400 going to have the dead Saint Augustine material lay in there, uh, 839 00:46:27.559 --> 00:46:29.880 And so you're probably gonna rake that out anyway. So 840 00:46:30.000 --> 00:46:32.800 you choose which way you want to go yesh glif 841 00:46:32.880 --> 00:46:36.280 as they would kill that. There are a couple of 842 00:46:36.920 --> 00:46:42.000 grass only killers, septoxidam and fluezepholk or two. And if 843 00:46:42.000 --> 00:46:43.840 you'd like to see what those are, you can go 844 00:46:43.880 --> 00:46:47.400 to my website gardening with skip dot com and there's 845 00:46:47.440 --> 00:46:51.320 a new publication up there and it's it's herbicides that 846 00:46:51.360 --> 00:46:53.760 you would use with my weed wiper, and it lists 847 00:46:53.840 --> 00:46:55.840 the herbicides by grass type. So if you go to 848 00:46:56.000 --> 00:46:58.480 I mean by plant type, you go to grasses, you 849 00:46:58.519 --> 00:47:02.159 can see three things one the two grass only killers 850 00:47:02.239 --> 00:47:04.800 or the other two and you just go shopping for those. 851 00:47:04.880 --> 00:47:07.880 So either way is fine. Just if you kill it, 852 00:47:07.880 --> 00:47:10.000 you're gonna have to then rake it out, or you 853 00:47:10.039 --> 00:47:14.360 can just you know, hoe it out, or run a 854 00:47:14.360 --> 00:47:16.559 little rototiller over it and then rake it out, or 855 00:47:16.599 --> 00:47:17.719 however you want to go about it. 856 00:47:18.840 --> 00:47:22.760 Okay, I'm going to put that barrier, what is it 857 00:47:22.800 --> 00:47:26.480 a barrier? Cloths or plastic that's underneath it before I 858 00:47:26.599 --> 00:47:30.480 put the rock down. Is there one that's better than another? 859 00:47:30.519 --> 00:47:31.519 Are they all about. 860 00:47:31.320 --> 00:47:35.480 Saying you need to get one that is a true 861 00:47:35.679 --> 00:47:39.000 commercial landscape fabric. Some of the cheap oat things are 862 00:47:39.039 --> 00:47:42.320 almost just like a rubbery, plasticky thing that doesn't hold 863 00:47:42.400 --> 00:47:45.480 up at all. I don't know that you need that barrier. 864 00:47:45.800 --> 00:47:50.000 The barrier would keep things from coming upward, up from underneath. 865 00:47:50.559 --> 00:47:52.800 And again, if it's just Saint Augustine, that's not going 866 00:47:52.880 --> 00:47:55.760 to be happening. What happens when you do the barriers 867 00:47:55.840 --> 00:47:59.280 or anything is you get soil on top or seeds 868 00:47:59.360 --> 00:48:01.639 land on top, and then they sprout anyway. So I 869 00:48:01.639 --> 00:48:03.360 don't know that the barrier is going to help a lot, 870 00:48:03.400 --> 00:48:06.519 but it's certainly not a problem to use. It keeps 871 00:48:06.559 --> 00:48:10.239 your Decobo's granite from pushing down in the soil a 872 00:48:10.239 --> 00:48:11.960 little bit. It kind of gives a little bit of 873 00:48:11.960 --> 00:48:15.679 support for that Decombo's grantite is not the cheapest thing 874 00:48:15.719 --> 00:48:18.199 out there, and some people will get a little bit 875 00:48:18.239 --> 00:48:20.800 of a road based kind of material, put it down 876 00:48:20.920 --> 00:48:23.199 and then put the granite on top of it. I 877 00:48:23.199 --> 00:48:26.119 think if it's just a footpath like you're talking about, 878 00:48:26.159 --> 00:48:28.599 you're not putting landscape stones and trying to create a 879 00:48:28.679 --> 00:48:32.480 nice level patio. Uh, then it's probably okay just to 880 00:48:32.599 --> 00:48:35.599 use a thick enough layer of decomposed granite. 881 00:48:36.199 --> 00:48:37.920 Right, thank you so much. 882 00:48:38.360 --> 00:48:41.199 If you just yeah, hey, Andy, if you decide to 883 00:48:41.239 --> 00:48:46.840 get the landscape fabric, if you go down south Texas. Uh, 884 00:48:46.880 --> 00:48:54.000 there is Site one has a soil yard. You've probably 885 00:48:54.039 --> 00:48:56.760 seen it. Rocks and soil is right where six comes 886 00:48:56.800 --> 00:48:59.480 back into Texas and they're going to sell a commercial 887 00:48:59.519 --> 00:49:02.239 grade land kate fabric there. 888 00:49:02.599 --> 00:49:04.639 Okay, thank you so much, appreciate it. 889 00:49:05.679 --> 00:49:10.360 Yes, sir, you take care all right, folks our phone 890 00:49:10.440 --> 00:49:13.880 number seven one three two one two five eight seven 891 00:49:14.000 --> 00:49:16.880 four seven one three two one two fifty eight seven. 892 00:49:17.239 --> 00:49:19.280 We've been trying to catch up calls all morning and 893 00:49:19.360 --> 00:49:22.400 finally did that. Was that was a little bit of 894 00:49:22.400 --> 00:49:24.079 a chore there. I you know, normally we don't have 895 00:49:24.119 --> 00:49:26.679 that many calls early on. But that's fun. Makes it 896 00:49:26.719 --> 00:49:29.119 more fun to do radio, and I think more fun 897 00:49:29.119 --> 00:49:32.199 to listen to radio. If you haven't fertilized your lawn 898 00:49:32.519 --> 00:49:36.199 in a few months, well Microlife has got you covered. 899 00:49:36.320 --> 00:49:38.880 They have. They've got the green bag that is the 900 00:49:38.960 --> 00:49:41.519 six two four. They've got the Purple bag that is 901 00:49:41.599 --> 00:49:45.840 the zero zero four humates plus. The purple bag is 902 00:49:45.960 --> 00:49:49.880 concentrated compost in a bag. The green bag a sixty 903 00:49:50.000 --> 00:49:53.599 four nice ratio of nutrients for your lawn. Uh, Microlife 904 00:49:53.639 --> 00:49:56.880 also has a number of liquid products that are excellent. 905 00:49:56.920 --> 00:49:59.400 You know, there's a seaweed type product, there's a fish 906 00:49:59.480 --> 00:50:04.679 emotion product called Ocean Harvest. Then they Biomatrix is the 907 00:50:04.760 --> 00:50:09.719 orange label. That's a seven to one four seven one three. 908 00:50:09.920 --> 00:50:12.760 I can't remember that last number anyway, it's a good ratio. 909 00:50:12.800 --> 00:50:14.679 I use it for all kinds of things. You can 910 00:50:14.760 --> 00:50:17.599 use it for houseplinch, you can use it for containers outside. 911 00:50:17.679 --> 00:50:20.280 You can just use it to you know, spray and 912 00:50:20.360 --> 00:50:22.920 water in things. Do FOLDI your feeding with it. It 913 00:50:23.000 --> 00:50:25.920 won't burn. Microlife products are not salt based. They do 914 00:50:25.960 --> 00:50:29.159 not burn your plants. But they're very effective and they're 915 00:50:29.159 --> 00:50:34.519 widely available at Microlife Fertilizer dot com, Microlife Fertilizer dot com. 916 00:50:34.559 --> 00:50:36.239 You can find them all over the place. And i'd 917 00:50:36.280 --> 00:50:38.320 encourage you to try out some of these others. Maybe 918 00:50:38.320 --> 00:50:41.360 I mentioned some you haven't tried yet. They all work well. 919 00:50:41.400 --> 00:50:44.920 And I say that because I've used them, and that 920 00:50:45.159 --> 00:50:48.280 is important. You've heard me say that before, but it's 921 00:50:48.280 --> 00:50:51.000 important to me for you to know that I don't 922 00:50:51.079 --> 00:50:53.840 just recommend a product because they want to be a sponsor. 923 00:50:53.880 --> 00:50:57.119 We talked to our sponsors. We have had sponsors. We 924 00:50:57.480 --> 00:51:00.599 don't take on Guardline because I don't believe products are 925 00:51:00.599 --> 00:51:03.400 going to work. And if I have, if I'm talking 926 00:51:03.440 --> 00:51:05.960 about it, either I've seen research on it working or 927 00:51:06.039 --> 00:51:08.960 I've tried it myself and it works. That that's important 928 00:51:08.960 --> 00:51:11.119 to me. I'm put my name on these things. And 929 00:51:11.199 --> 00:51:15.480 so just know that when we talk about things on 930 00:51:15.559 --> 00:51:18.079 guard Line, there are things that I have a reason 931 00:51:18.599 --> 00:51:21.360 to believe you are going to have success with. Let's 932 00:51:21.440 --> 00:51:24.079 go back out to the phones and we're going to 933 00:51:24.119 --> 00:51:27.239 talk to Danny in Houston. Hello, Danny, welcome to garden Line. 934 00:51:27.800 --> 00:51:28.679 Yeah, good morning, sir. 935 00:51:29.440 --> 00:51:33.079 So my question, my question to you is I have 936 00:51:33.079 --> 00:51:37.559 a pool that's about to be finished, and what the 937 00:51:37.599 --> 00:51:42.400 pool guys did was they they put sand, you know, 938 00:51:42.480 --> 00:51:45.039 probably about four foot out around the whole perimeter of 939 00:51:45.079 --> 00:51:49.679 the pool, right and there's concrete around the pool as well, 940 00:51:49.920 --> 00:51:52.400 and so I'm going to be hosing that of from 941 00:51:52.400 --> 00:51:54.840 time to time, I'm sure. So I didn't know if 942 00:51:54.840 --> 00:51:59.639 it would be best to just put sod there or 943 00:52:00.079 --> 00:52:01.960 I have seen some people that have put like a 944 00:52:02.840 --> 00:52:08.039 like an eighteen inch rock bed around the edge and 945 00:52:08.079 --> 00:52:10.679 then they're grass. 946 00:52:10.800 --> 00:52:12.159 You know what you would suggest? 947 00:52:13.519 --> 00:52:18.039 Yeah, I generally like plants over hardscape just because reflective 948 00:52:18.039 --> 00:52:22.039 heat and I don't know, plants, they do a lot 949 00:52:22.039 --> 00:52:25.039 of things. You could do the Saint Augustine if you 950 00:52:25.079 --> 00:52:27.960 feel like foot traffic is going to be running outside 951 00:52:28.039 --> 00:52:31.760 that concrete around the pool, you know, and then in 952 00:52:31.840 --> 00:52:34.320 time that grass is going to get pounded. Of course, 953 00:52:34.320 --> 00:52:36.239 if it's gravel, they're not going to run their little 954 00:52:36.239 --> 00:52:38.719 bare feet out there. But if you've got a decent 955 00:52:38.840 --> 00:52:41.679 sized concrete pad around the pool for them to walk on, 956 00:52:42.400 --> 00:52:44.960 then I would just bring grass up to it and 957 00:52:45.000 --> 00:52:47.320 you can edge it and go with that. And if 958 00:52:47.320 --> 00:52:49.840 you get some if you get some water blown over 959 00:52:49.880 --> 00:52:52.559 that way, that's okay, it's not a big deal. 960 00:52:53.400 --> 00:52:56.079 Okay, Yeah, there's a four foot path of concrete around 961 00:52:56.079 --> 00:52:56.760 the whole perimeter. 962 00:52:57.960 --> 00:52:59.880 Yeah, but if you if you want to go with 963 00:53:00.119 --> 00:53:03.559 something gravelly, that's fine. Just gravel tends to get kicked 964 00:53:03.599 --> 00:53:06.960 and knocked and bounced around and end up on the 965 00:53:06.639 --> 00:53:12.079 on the and other things. So, uh, either way is fine. 966 00:53:12.159 --> 00:53:13.000 It's the bottom line. 967 00:53:13.039 --> 00:53:16.119 Got you all right, I appreciate your half this morning, 968 00:53:16.679 --> 00:53:17.400 Have a great days. 969 00:53:17.239 --> 00:53:19.760 All right, good luck. Uh, just you know, I can't 970 00:53:19.800 --> 00:53:23.360 I can't ask you, uh, to bring me produce as 971 00:53:23.360 --> 00:53:25.480 a result of this call. But I can say, let 972 00:53:25.519 --> 00:53:28.000 me know when it's time to come swimming. If you've 973 00:53:28.000 --> 00:53:29.760 got a margarita machine, we'll be there. 974 00:53:30.400 --> 00:53:35.480 Hey, it's yes, sir, all right. 975 00:53:35.840 --> 00:53:37.760 Got to have a little bit of fun here, card 976 00:53:39.000 --> 00:53:42.079 a little bit moderate everything in moderation. Is that what 977 00:53:42.119 --> 00:53:45.320 they say. Let's be speaking of moderation. The weather has 978 00:53:45.360 --> 00:53:49.000 not been in moderation this year. Boy, that first storm 979 00:53:49.320 --> 00:53:53.440 that came through that knocked out power. Uh family mine 980 00:53:53.480 --> 00:53:55.960 done in Houston was out. I think they were the last. 981 00:53:56.039 --> 00:53:59.920 My son is the last neighborhood to get power back, 982 00:54:00.239 --> 00:54:04.199 which is crazy. It took forever and then Hurricane Barrel 983 00:54:04.239 --> 00:54:07.400 comes through and here we are again. Well it didn't 984 00:54:07.440 --> 00:54:09.559 take people long to figure out it might be a 985 00:54:09.559 --> 00:54:12.639 good idea to have a generator. And oh my goodness, 986 00:54:13.400 --> 00:54:16.000 there is a lot of interest right now in generators. 987 00:54:16.159 --> 00:54:17.719 And that's a good thing. I mean, you know, we 988 00:54:17.800 --> 00:54:20.440 have portable generators and things like that that people carry, 989 00:54:20.440 --> 00:54:23.239 But what about the whole house? What about you know, 990 00:54:23.320 --> 00:54:27.000 something that comes on that's automated that the minute power 991 00:54:27.079 --> 00:54:29.920 goes off, the generator comes on. If you got a 992 00:54:30.119 --> 00:54:32.559 work from home job and you need internet all the time, 993 00:54:32.880 --> 00:54:34.679 you got it. If you need to take care of 994 00:54:34.719 --> 00:54:37.480 that refrigerator and freezer, you know, if power's going to 995 00:54:37.519 --> 00:54:41.239 be out for over a week, your food's in trouble. Right, Well, 996 00:54:42.360 --> 00:54:44.400 the folks at Quality Home have got you covered. They 997 00:54:44.440 --> 00:54:47.320 have Generaic and they have more than one branded generators, 998 00:54:47.320 --> 00:54:50.840 but they're generat high Quality Generator. If you bring in 999 00:54:50.920 --> 00:54:53.559 an old portable generator, they'll give you five hundred dollars 1000 00:54:53.559 --> 00:54:56.559 off your new generator that you're purchasing from them. They 1001 00:54:56.599 --> 00:54:59.880 have whole home generators standby power is how we call it. 1002 00:55:00.559 --> 00:55:03.400 But the thing about Quality Home is you're not just 1003 00:55:03.519 --> 00:55:08.559 buying a generator. What you're purchasing is the service and 1004 00:55:08.760 --> 00:55:11.440 the expertise that comes with it. And here's what I mean. 1005 00:55:12.000 --> 00:55:14.400 They talk to you about what do you want it 1006 00:55:14.519 --> 00:55:16.440 to do? How big is your house, what kinds of 1007 00:55:16.480 --> 00:55:18.360 things do you have? How big is the air conditioning 1008 00:55:18.440 --> 00:55:21.639 units and stuff. So you get a generator that will 1009 00:55:21.719 --> 00:55:24.960 service what you need it to service, and they design 1010 00:55:25.000 --> 00:55:26.880 it that way and they have a lot of technology. 1011 00:55:26.880 --> 00:55:28.360 I don't know if you heard the guy from Quality 1012 00:55:28.360 --> 00:55:30.559 Home on a few weeks ago. They were talking about 1013 00:55:30.559 --> 00:55:32.800 some of the ways that it just moves power from 1014 00:55:32.840 --> 00:55:36.280 one thing to another and it's cool. They pour the slab, 1015 00:55:36.360 --> 00:55:40.119 they talk to your city for the codes and the 1016 00:55:40.199 --> 00:55:43.719 regulations or HOA or whatever's involved and getting permission to 1017 00:55:43.719 --> 00:55:46.239 put a generator out. They do that for you. They 1018 00:55:46.239 --> 00:55:48.320 bring it out and then after it's done, they don't 1019 00:55:48.360 --> 00:55:51.679 just walk away. It's twenty four seven, three hundred and 1020 00:55:51.719 --> 00:55:55.079 sixty five days a year service. You can call them 1021 00:55:55.079 --> 00:55:58.119 now right now. They are getting a ton of calls 1022 00:55:58.280 --> 00:56:00.760 because everybody wants a generator. Be a little patient if 1023 00:56:00.800 --> 00:56:03.199 you call and have trouble getting through, they'll get back 1024 00:56:03.239 --> 00:56:06.440 to you. But when it comes to Quality Home, there's 1025 00:56:06.480 --> 00:56:10.000 a reason that they have over fourteen thousand five star reviews. 1026 00:56:10.079 --> 00:56:12.880 There's a reason that eight times they've won the Better 1027 00:56:13.000 --> 00:56:17.239 Business Bureau Pinnacle Customer Service Award because they take care 1028 00:56:17.239 --> 00:56:20.400 of their customers. And that's why, without a doubt, I 1029 00:56:20.559 --> 00:56:23.440 love to recommend Quality Home because I know the kind 1030 00:56:23.440 --> 00:56:25.880 of service you're going to get. We'll be right back. 1031 00:56:25.920 --> 00:56:31.400 When we come back, we'll talk to Paul over in Troy, Alabama. 1032 00:56:32.519 --> 00:56:34.719 You are Old Houston's News. 1033 00:56:34.760 --> 00:56:37.760 Why there are traffic plus breaking news twenty four to seven. 1034 00:56:38.079 --> 00:56:43.440 This is used Radio seven forty ktrh L Everywhere boys are. 1035 00:56:44.280 --> 00:56:47.599 More of what's happening now from the John Morris Services 1036 00:56:47.639 --> 00:56:49.800 Studios famalas. 1037 00:56:49.159 --> 00:56:52.320 Stealing a page out of Trump's playbook. I'm Jarret Lewis 1038 00:56:52.360 --> 00:56:54.920 at seven thirty on News Radio seven forty hr each 1039 00:56:55.119 --> 00:56:56.920 time for a look at trafficking and weather together. 1040 00:56:57.000 --> 00:56:58.800 This morning we have Gary Mack. 1041 00:57:04.519 --> 00:57:07.360 A ten minute setback from the Shepherd Curve. 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Drive in today, no appointment needed. 1148 01:02:40.119 --> 01:02:40.199 No. 1149 01:02:45.360 --> 01:02:49.079 Welcome back to Guardline. Welcome back. If you got a 1150 01:02:49.159 --> 01:02:51.960 question you'd like to discuss with me, you just doll 1151 01:02:52.079 --> 01:02:55.639 seven one three two one two k t RH and 1152 01:02:55.840 --> 01:02:58.320 we will see what we can do to resolve it 1153 01:02:58.400 --> 01:03:00.519 for you. We're going to head right now out to Troy, 1154 01:03:00.559 --> 01:03:03.559 Alabama and talk to Paul. Hello, Paul, Welcome to garden Line. 1155 01:03:04.440 --> 01:03:07.800 Good Laurene Skip the young man that had been uh 1156 01:03:08.239 --> 01:03:11.400 the problem with the ditch. The only thing I can 1157 01:03:11.440 --> 01:03:13.519 think of, don't know what your thoughts is. I hear 1158 01:03:13.559 --> 01:03:16.920 you use beheld grace for that gets up about a 1159 01:03:17.000 --> 01:03:20.039 good high. 1160 01:03:18.719 --> 01:03:19.760 And it's a good one. 1161 01:03:21.719 --> 01:03:24.119 It covers it. So that's the only thing I can have. 1162 01:03:24.320 --> 01:03:29.719 No flowers, you know, it would keep They actually did, Yeah, 1163 01:03:29.760 --> 01:03:32.440 I did think about. The thing is that the minute 1164 01:03:32.440 --> 01:03:35.519 after you mow it, it sends up those seedheads up 1165 01:03:35.639 --> 01:03:37.400 almost a knee high. And a lot of people don't 1166 01:03:37.440 --> 01:03:39.679 care for that. But boy it's tough. I mean, it 1167 01:03:39.679 --> 01:03:42.159 could be droughty, it could be poor soil, you know, 1168 01:03:42.280 --> 01:03:44.400 acid soil, or it's. 1169 01:03:44.239 --> 01:03:48.159 Pretty rights they have to try to keep out of 1170 01:03:48.199 --> 01:03:50.519 his loan mat. But that's the only thing I could 1171 01:03:50.559 --> 01:03:53.800 think of. What I really called about on composts that 1172 01:03:53.960 --> 01:03:57.519 has points zero five or the piney soil has zero five? 1173 01:03:58.199 --> 01:03:59.199 Is that too. 1174 01:03:59.000 --> 01:04:01.880 Strong to plant seed into it? Or do you need 1175 01:04:01.920 --> 01:04:06.119 to mix it with some souls to get your seeds 1176 01:04:06.199 --> 01:04:06.760 come up. 1177 01:04:08.840 --> 01:04:11.480 Point zero five? Like a nutrient content. 1178 01:04:11.559 --> 01:04:13.679 It's almost it's got some nitrogen. 1179 01:04:13.840 --> 01:04:17.159 It what I was looking at with black cow composts 1180 01:04:17.199 --> 01:04:19.360 the only thing I could find. And then there's a 1181 01:04:19.400 --> 01:04:22.840 potting soul says it's got the exact same thing in it. 1182 01:04:23.760 --> 01:04:26.159 But I was thinking it should be too strong. 1183 01:04:28.320 --> 01:04:31.559 Well, your thoughts usually I don't usually I don't put 1184 01:04:31.559 --> 01:04:33.719 seeds in straight composts, but I don't I don't think 1185 01:04:33.760 --> 01:04:37.400 it would hurt them. The only thing is, you know, 1186 01:04:37.519 --> 01:04:41.960 if it's if it's not what we say clean, But 1187 01:04:42.079 --> 01:04:44.519 basically what we're meaning is it doesn't have weed seeds 1188 01:04:44.519 --> 01:04:46.719 and doesn't have diseases and stuff like that in it, 1189 01:04:47.360 --> 01:04:50.400 that that should be fine. Otherwise, you know, you could 1190 01:04:50.440 --> 01:04:53.039 get into a situation where your little ceilings come up 1191 01:04:53.079 --> 01:04:55.760 and they rot and fall over. It's called damping off. 1192 01:04:55.800 --> 01:04:59.760 It's it's a fungal disease. But I think it'd be okay, 1193 01:04:59.760 --> 01:05:02.360 I'm mix it. What what what kind of seeds do 1194 01:05:02.400 --> 01:05:03.559 you want to plant, Paul. 1195 01:05:04.280 --> 01:05:07.559 I'm fishing some grass seed. I guess I could til 1196 01:05:07.639 --> 01:05:10.400 this into the soul that's there and that would weaken it. 1197 01:05:10.400 --> 01:05:13.840 It would work, Oh that stuff. 1198 01:05:13.519 --> 01:05:17.719 I see, Yes, yes, mm hmm, I would uh. But 1199 01:05:17.840 --> 01:05:19.360 you don't need to tell it. You don't need to 1200 01:05:19.400 --> 01:05:22.519 tell it a lot. Just barely scratch the surface. But 1201 01:05:22.639 --> 01:05:24.639 working a little bit in would help. And then raking 1202 01:05:24.679 --> 01:05:27.079 it smooth and putting your seed down and watering it in. 1203 01:05:27.679 --> 01:05:29.800 Are you are we talking about behea grass seed? 1204 01:05:30.719 --> 01:05:34.679 No not, I'm talking about loan seed. Like, uh oh, okay, 1205 01:05:35.559 --> 01:05:39.840 whatever kind I might come up, could be bermoodal ras, 1206 01:05:40.239 --> 01:05:44.800 something up. Okay, take make a solid loan. But yet 1207 01:05:44.920 --> 01:05:47.039 still I didn't want to that the seed to start 1208 01:05:47.039 --> 01:05:47.320 off with. 1209 01:05:48.920 --> 01:05:52.559 Yeah, well that was all you is this long? Is 1210 01:05:52.599 --> 01:05:58.440 this long one in Alabama? Or is it? Okay? So, uh, 1211 01:05:58.559 --> 01:06:01.559 I'm not I don't know. Troy is that north, south east, 1212 01:06:01.639 --> 01:06:03.519 north central or south what. 1213 01:06:03.559 --> 01:06:05.880 Bottom corner about a hundred miles from Georgia and one 1214 01:06:05.960 --> 01:06:07.760 hundred miles in Florida. 1215 01:06:08.280 --> 01:06:11.280 Okay, good. So there's a number of good bermudas that 1216 01:06:11.320 --> 01:06:15.440 you could use. Auburn University has a good turf department, 1217 01:06:15.559 --> 01:06:18.920 and if you go online, uh, they probably have a 1218 01:06:18.960 --> 01:06:21.519 list of some of the bermuda's they recommend. I know 1219 01:06:21.639 --> 01:06:25.800 over here Texas and m we've got Aggie Turf is 1220 01:06:25.880 --> 01:06:29.960 the website and if you click on on types of 1221 01:06:29.960 --> 01:06:32.920 grasses and then Bermuda, it gives you a list. And 1222 01:06:32.960 --> 01:06:37.239 of course most bermudas are vegetatively propagated, but there are 1223 01:06:37.360 --> 01:06:39.719 seated bermudas, and it'll give you a list to some 1224 01:06:39.760 --> 01:06:42.280 of the varieties to look for that are going to 1225 01:06:42.320 --> 01:06:47.440 stay kind of semicompact, you know, for lawn as opposed 1226 01:06:47.480 --> 01:06:50.360 to being like something in a pasture, a very tall 1227 01:06:50.480 --> 01:06:51.360 rangy bermuda. 1228 01:06:52.119 --> 01:06:56.239 What about cynipede that see you can. 1229 01:06:56.280 --> 01:06:58.840 It is your soul sandy or clay or what do 1230 01:06:58.840 --> 01:07:00.760 you have over there? It's a mixture. 1231 01:07:00.800 --> 01:07:02.280 It's not real real clay yet. 1232 01:07:03.199 --> 01:07:08.719 Mm hmm. Centipede uh does okay in in a little 1233 01:07:08.719 --> 01:07:11.400 bit of a more acidic soil. It doesn't have to 1234 01:07:11.440 --> 01:07:14.159 be like something a blueberry grows in. It just has 1235 01:07:14.239 --> 01:07:17.119 to be, you know, not super high pH which I 1236 01:07:17.119 --> 01:07:19.760 don't think you have in that area. The the thing 1237 01:07:19.760 --> 01:07:23.440 about centipede is it never gets a deep green. It 1238 01:07:23.880 --> 01:07:26.440 tends to stay more of a we would say, sharp 1239 01:07:26.480 --> 01:07:30.800 truce green, whereas Saint Augustine gets emerald green when you 1240 01:07:30.800 --> 01:07:33.960 fertilize it. A centipede doesn't want to be fertilized a lot. 1241 01:07:34.039 --> 01:07:36.159 It doesn't do well with a lot of fertilizer. Once 1242 01:07:36.199 --> 01:07:38.719 a year is about all they recommend for centipede. 1243 01:07:39.239 --> 01:07:39.360 Uh. 1244 01:07:39.559 --> 01:07:40.920 Well, win. 1245 01:07:42.480 --> 01:07:46.039 Zohia also there's here. 1246 01:07:47.559 --> 01:07:51.239 Yeah, well, all three are fine. I'm just telling you. 1247 01:07:51.280 --> 01:07:53.760 On centipede. The reason we don't see it over here 1248 01:07:53.760 --> 01:07:57.320 as much is because one reason is, Uh, in the 1249 01:07:57.360 --> 01:08:01.000 winter time, it just turns straw brown, uh, tan colored, 1250 01:08:01.599 --> 01:08:04.559 whereas some of the Saint Augustine is going to enjoys. 1251 01:08:04.559 --> 01:08:06.079 You're going to give you a little bit of green 1252 01:08:06.159 --> 01:08:10.000 still through the winter, centipede just turns completely tan, and 1253 01:08:10.039 --> 01:08:11.199 some people don't care for that. 1254 01:08:12.239 --> 01:08:17.279 I think we understand, certainly appreciate you. Thanks for the hell, thanks. 1255 01:08:17.119 --> 01:08:19.800 For the call. All right, tell everybody in Alabama to 1256 01:08:19.920 --> 01:08:27.640 listen to garden line right off. Okay, boy, let's uh, 1257 01:08:27.720 --> 01:08:31.640 let's go to Spring, Texas now and talk to Ken. Hello. 1258 01:08:31.720 --> 01:08:35.760 Ken, Hey, I'm calling about a peach. 1259 01:08:37.760 --> 01:08:38.800 Yeah, can you hear me? 1260 01:08:39.119 --> 01:08:41.920 All right, I'll tell you what. I'm sorry. I just 1261 01:08:41.960 --> 01:08:45.119 got a message. Well, let's go ahead, Ken, We're about 1262 01:08:45.159 --> 01:08:47.119 to break, but let's see if we can at least 1263 01:08:47.119 --> 01:08:48.159 get the question going. 1264 01:08:48.520 --> 01:08:50.600 Okay, I got a red bear and peach tree about 1265 01:08:50.600 --> 01:08:53.840 eight years old, and it looks like fall. It's losing 1266 01:08:53.880 --> 01:08:57.560 all of us leaves. They're turning yellow. And I was 1267 01:08:57.600 --> 01:09:00.640 just wondering to is that too much water? Are what 1268 01:09:00.760 --> 01:09:01.439 the problem was? 1269 01:09:02.520 --> 01:09:04.159 It could be too much, could be not enough. It 1270 01:09:04.159 --> 01:09:07.479 could be you know, drought. It could also be are 1271 01:09:07.520 --> 01:09:12.279 there holes in the leaves or are they not to 1272 01:09:12.279 --> 01:09:17.119 be begun? Okay, No, no, I would say, yeah, I 1273 01:09:17.119 --> 01:09:19.359 would say some sort of a stress. I don't know 1274 01:09:19.359 --> 01:09:22.439 what caused it, but some sort of a stress. You're 1275 01:09:22.479 --> 01:09:26.720 probably losing the older leaves turning yellow rather than the 1276 01:09:27.319 --> 01:09:30.239 leaves toward the end of a shoot. Is that correct? 1277 01:09:30.920 --> 01:09:35.279 Well, it's all over, it's it's it's like totally losing 1278 01:09:35.319 --> 01:09:35.840 all of them. 1279 01:09:36.159 --> 01:09:36.800 Huh. 1280 01:09:36.920 --> 01:09:41.840 It's it's bare like winter upfront up around. 1281 01:09:44.560 --> 01:09:50.920 Something is wrong underground, very wrong to dry to wet. 1282 01:09:51.359 --> 01:09:53.479 I don't know what else to tell you on that one, 1283 01:09:53.520 --> 01:09:56.359 but that it shouldn't be going completely like that. A 1284 01:09:56.359 --> 01:10:00.800 few older leaves, yes, but not completely. Something's very underground, ken, 1285 01:10:01.159 --> 01:10:03.359 I'm sorry, I have to run to break but I 1286 01:10:03.720 --> 01:10:05.319 can't tell you what it is. But I can tell 1287 01:10:05.319 --> 01:10:07.720 you this, it's happening down in the root system. You 1288 01:10:07.800 --> 01:10:10.960 might check the base of the trunk for sap and sawdust, 1289 01:10:11.000 --> 01:10:14.319 for borers cutting through the tissues and preventing water from 1290 01:10:14.359 --> 01:10:16.560 getting to the top. That would be the only other 1291 01:10:16.640 --> 01:10:20.760 thing I would suggest, Sorry, but I've got to run here. Uh, 1292 01:10:20.840 --> 01:10:22.800 we will be right back. 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Peerscapes is a 1314 01:11:24.199 --> 01:11:28.600 company that does all kinds of things to make your 1315 01:11:28.880 --> 01:11:31.840 landscape beautiful and successful. And here's what I'm talking about. 1316 01:11:32.079 --> 01:11:38.239 Irrigation systems typically are not designed properly. They get misaligned 1317 01:11:38.279 --> 01:11:40.439 over time. There all kinds of things happen to make 1318 01:11:40.479 --> 01:11:42.520 it go wrong and you're spending money on that water. 1319 01:11:43.239 --> 01:11:45.640 They can fix that up for you. They call them 1320 01:11:45.680 --> 01:11:47.159 to come in, take a look at your system, do 1321 01:11:47.199 --> 01:11:50.319 any kind of repairs that are needed. Some areas don't 1322 01:11:50.399 --> 01:11:53.000 drain well, and you can't grow plants in a swamp. 1323 01:11:53.039 --> 01:11:56.279 Most plants can't take that. Peerscapes can cause that area 1324 01:11:56.319 --> 01:11:58.600 to drainway. They can do the French strains and other 1325 01:11:59.000 --> 01:12:02.039 sub surface techniques to get water out of there from 1326 01:12:02.119 --> 01:12:04.800 that area. Do you want landscape lighting? Do you want 1327 01:12:04.800 --> 01:12:07.159 hard scapes? Would you like a design of your lands? 1328 01:12:07.199 --> 01:12:09.760 Would you like put in some new beds, or would 1329 01:12:09.800 --> 01:12:12.319 you like them just to come in and do quarterly maintenance. 1330 01:12:12.359 --> 01:12:15.920 That's it, come in once every quarter, trim weed, fertilized, 1331 01:12:16.039 --> 01:12:20.000 check the irrigation, seasonal color changes, mulchz. They can do 1332 01:12:20.079 --> 01:12:24.760 all of that. Piercescapes dot Com is their website. Piercescapes 1333 01:12:24.800 --> 01:12:26.800 dot com. Go check out the kinds of work they 1334 01:12:26.840 --> 01:12:30.399 do there. Two eight one three seven fifty sixty two 1335 01:12:30.399 --> 01:12:34.039 eight one three seven o five zero six zero. If 1336 01:12:34.039 --> 01:12:36.159 you go to the website, you'll be very impressed with 1337 01:12:36.159 --> 01:12:38.960 the kind of work Peerscapes can do. We're going to 1338 01:12:39.000 --> 01:12:42.439 head now out to Richmond, Texas and talk to Alan. 1339 01:12:42.760 --> 01:12:43.640 Welcome to Garden Line. 1340 01:12:43.680 --> 01:12:46.119 Alan, Hey, glad to be here. Thanks for having me. 1341 01:12:46.399 --> 01:12:48.800 I just had a live oak. I actually called you 1342 01:12:48.800 --> 01:12:50.880 about a couple of weeks ago that I finally had 1343 01:12:50.880 --> 01:12:54.399 taken down and the company left me with a bunch 1344 01:12:54.439 --> 01:12:58.680 of stump grind shavings. Now, can that be used in 1345 01:12:59.000 --> 01:13:01.199 any sort of way? Can I spread that out or 1346 01:13:01.279 --> 01:13:03.079 use it as malt, or mix it with compost or 1347 01:13:03.079 --> 01:13:03.760 anything like that. 1348 01:13:05.000 --> 01:13:06.640 You could use it as malt, you could let it 1349 01:13:06.640 --> 01:13:09.600 pile up and compost for a while. It just with 1350 01:13:09.760 --> 01:13:13.600 a fresh wood in the soil ties up nitrogen because 1351 01:13:13.760 --> 01:13:17.800 the microbes that break it down they need nitrogen and carbon. 1352 01:13:17.800 --> 01:13:19.840 The wood is the carbon, so they got to pull 1353 01:13:19.960 --> 01:13:22.359 nitrogen from somewhere to do it. And so I don't 1354 01:13:22.399 --> 01:13:25.880 like to mix wood into the soil, but as a 1355 01:13:25.960 --> 01:13:29.399 surface that like a mult that would be okay. 1356 01:13:30.560 --> 01:13:32.159 Okay, That's probably what I'll do with it. If I 1357 01:13:32.359 --> 01:13:34.760 were to buy some bags of mulch and are in 1358 01:13:34.760 --> 01:13:37.640 that mult but compost and mix it together with that, 1359 01:13:37.680 --> 01:13:39.880 would that help or it would still need to break down. 1360 01:13:40.920 --> 01:13:42.800 Now it's going to just the fact that soil is 1361 01:13:42.840 --> 01:13:45.840 touching wood, the microbes are there. They're ready to go. 1362 01:13:46.560 --> 01:13:49.159 If you were piling it up in like a compost 1363 01:13:49.159 --> 01:13:50.800 pile or something, you want to break it down a 1364 01:13:50.840 --> 01:13:53.039 little faster, you could throw a little bit of nitrogen 1365 01:13:53.199 --> 01:13:57.319 fertilizer on it. Then you're providing the nitrogen. The carbon 1366 01:13:57.399 --> 01:13:59.479 is there, the microbes are already there. You don't need 1367 01:13:59.520 --> 01:14:00.479 to bring them in. 1368 01:14:01.560 --> 01:14:03.880 Okay, well that sounds good. Might give those a shot. 1369 01:14:04.399 --> 01:14:06.880 Thanks for your help, all right, good, you bad. 1370 01:14:07.079 --> 01:14:12.239 Thanks for the calling. I appreciate that very much. Ace 1371 01:14:12.279 --> 01:14:15.439 hardware stores I talk about them all the time. And 1372 01:14:16.319 --> 01:14:19.000 here's the deal. If you just go to acehardware dot 1373 01:14:19.039 --> 01:14:22.640 com and you find the store locator right there on 1374 01:14:22.680 --> 01:14:24.319 the website. In fact, it probably is going to say 1375 01:14:24.359 --> 01:14:26.880 can we use your location? To say yes, and you'll 1376 01:14:26.920 --> 01:14:30.319 get this map that has dots all over the place. 1377 01:14:30.359 --> 01:14:32.760 There's forty eight hardware stores in the Greater Houston, Aario. 1378 01:14:32.760 --> 01:14:35.039 Of course they're all over the country, but that in 1379 01:14:35.159 --> 01:14:37.800 our Greater Houston, Aario there's forty stores that you can 1380 01:14:37.840 --> 01:14:40.119 go to and when you walk into ACE, you're going 1381 01:14:40.159 --> 01:14:42.279 to find what you need to have a beautiful landscape. 1382 01:14:42.319 --> 01:14:47.000 A beautiful garden, a beautiful lawn. Do you need tools, 1383 01:14:47.079 --> 01:14:50.479 Do you need hoses and sprinklers? Do you need fertilizers? 1384 01:14:50.600 --> 01:14:53.039 They have every fertilizer I talk about on guarden line. 1385 01:14:53.279 --> 01:14:56.600 Do you need pest control products or weed control products? 1386 01:14:56.600 --> 01:14:58.199 They have all of those. So if you go online 1387 01:14:58.279 --> 01:15:00.159 and you see my weed wiper and that list to 1388 01:15:00.199 --> 01:15:04.600 herbicides that go with it for particular kinds of weeds. 1389 01:15:04.640 --> 01:15:07.119 It's set up so that if you have like peppervine, 1390 01:15:07.159 --> 01:15:08.880 it gives you a certain herbicide. If you got wild 1391 01:15:08.920 --> 01:15:10.760 onion gives you a certain herbit. You go to ACE 1392 01:15:10.800 --> 01:15:13.359 and they're going to have those. That's what they do. 1393 01:15:13.439 --> 01:15:15.840 They stock up and they carry the things they need 1394 01:15:15.880 --> 01:15:20.920 to carry, plenty of tools. Right now, I'm in my yard. 1395 01:15:21.159 --> 01:15:23.399 A lot of fireant mounts popped up. I didn't even 1396 01:15:23.399 --> 01:15:26.119 know where they're from. That rain that's kind of drove 1397 01:15:26.119 --> 01:15:27.960 them up to the surface to create those little mounds 1398 01:15:28.000 --> 01:15:30.880 at appear above ground. Get you a fireant bait. They've 1399 01:15:30.920 --> 01:15:35.159 got several options at ACE that work very well. Mosquitoes 1400 01:15:35.199 --> 01:15:38.520 popped up after the rain, the little buggers. Well, ACE 1401 01:15:38.600 --> 01:15:40.680 has got the mosquito dunks we talk about they've got 1402 01:15:40.760 --> 01:15:44.720 mosquito fogers, They've got mosquito repellents. ACE is the place. 1403 01:15:44.880 --> 01:15:46.359 What do you need? They got it. You want to 1404 01:15:46.399 --> 01:15:51.239 have a beautiful outdoor patio, backyard, barbecue area, strings of lights, 1405 01:15:51.880 --> 01:15:54.159 they got all of that, including, by the way, some 1406 01:15:54.239 --> 01:15:57.000 really sweet barbecue pits. We're talking like Treger, and we're 1407 01:15:57.000 --> 01:16:00.159 talking like Big Green Egg and Weber and all the 1408 01:16:00.159 --> 01:16:03.319 accessories to go with them. Acehardware dot Com. Just go 1409 01:16:03.439 --> 01:16:06.800 check it out. There's one near you. You are listening 1410 01:16:06.880 --> 01:16:09.319 to guardline and our phone number we're about to take. 1411 01:16:09.560 --> 01:16:11.199 We're about to hit the end of the hour here, 1412 01:16:11.720 --> 01:16:14.079 but if you'd like to get on the boards with Chris, 1413 01:16:14.560 --> 01:16:16.479 you could be one of the first ones up when 1414 01:16:16.479 --> 01:16:19.560 we come back from break. Number is seven one three 1415 01:16:19.680 --> 01:16:23.560 two one two five eight seven four seven one three 1416 01:16:23.720 --> 01:16:27.239 two one two fifty eight seventy four. And I do 1417 01:16:27.359 --> 01:16:30.399 want to mention again, I know people kind of cut 1418 01:16:30.439 --> 01:16:32.399 in and then have to leave to go do something 1419 01:16:32.479 --> 01:16:34.960 and miss things. So I've learned the hard way through 1420 01:16:34.960 --> 01:16:38.279 the years. But people keep reminding me they didn't hear that. Well, 1421 01:16:38.600 --> 01:16:41.960 I'll say it again. Gardening with Skip dot Com is 1422 01:16:42.000 --> 01:16:45.600 my website on there there's some brand new publications. You 1423 01:16:45.800 --> 01:16:47.600 really need to go check them out. One of them. 1424 01:16:47.840 --> 01:16:51.720 Two of them are about nutsedge nut sedge. Also people 1425 01:16:51.720 --> 01:16:54.760 call it nutgrass. It's not a grass. There's a longer 1426 01:16:54.800 --> 01:16:58.000 publication that goes into great detail on nutsedge, so you 1427 01:16:58.159 --> 01:17:02.520 understand the the way that weed works and therefore how 1428 01:17:02.560 --> 01:17:06.600 to control it. People try all kinds of things and 1429 01:17:06.680 --> 01:17:10.239 say they don't work, and it's because they're not doing 1430 01:17:10.279 --> 01:17:13.039 it at the right time, at the right rate. They're 1431 01:17:13.079 --> 01:17:16.439 not following up. Bottom line on nuts edges, you got 1432 01:17:16.479 --> 01:17:19.239 to shut it down and never let it have a 1433 01:17:19.319 --> 01:17:22.359 chance to capture sunlight and replenish. So we say, by 1434 01:17:22.399 --> 01:17:25.399 the time nutsedge plant has three to five leaves, you 1435 01:17:25.479 --> 01:17:27.720 better be digging it, you better be spraying it, you 1436 01:17:27.760 --> 01:17:31.439 better be doing something to it in order to prevent 1437 01:17:31.520 --> 01:17:35.840 it from creating new tubers and just multiplying the problem 1438 01:17:35.880 --> 01:17:38.079 that you had. Do you know that by the time 1439 01:17:38.119 --> 01:17:41.000 you hit May, about May, maybe mid to late May, 1440 01:17:42.000 --> 01:17:44.720 one nuts edge tuber. We're gonna call it the mama 1441 01:17:44.760 --> 01:17:47.600 tuber from spring that popped up one plant, and you go, 1442 01:17:47.760 --> 01:17:49.560 I'll get to that later. By the time we get 1443 01:17:49.560 --> 01:17:55.199 to late May, it has eight or ten daughters. See 1444 01:17:55.239 --> 01:17:59.840 what I'm saying, a tenfold increase because you waited a while. 1445 01:18:00.479 --> 01:18:03.159 You can't do that. And in this publication it explains 1446 01:18:03.199 --> 01:18:06.359 the difference between yellow and purple nuts edge their products 1447 01:18:06.359 --> 01:18:08.880 don't work the same on those two types. Tells you 1448 01:18:08.920 --> 01:18:10.840 how to know what kind you have and what to do. 1449 01:18:11.399 --> 01:18:13.359 It's really thorough. There's another one that's kind of a 1450 01:18:13.399 --> 01:18:16.479 quick sheet, one page. Here's what you do. Also on 1451 01:18:16.520 --> 01:18:20.439 the website I put this up is the I call 1452 01:18:20.479 --> 01:18:23.359 it the Skip's weed wiper. You used to could find 1453 01:18:23.399 --> 01:18:25.399 weed wipers here and there in the trade. Now I 1454 01:18:25.479 --> 01:18:28.520 just find them really hard to find. And weed wipers 1455 01:18:29.000 --> 01:18:32.680 wipe a product onto the weed. Only you don't spray 1456 01:18:32.720 --> 01:18:34.640 it all over the environment. You don't get it on 1457 01:18:34.720 --> 01:18:37.520 things that are gonna that the curbside's going to kill 1458 01:18:37.600 --> 01:18:40.439 your good plants flowers and shrubs and trees and whatnot. 1459 01:18:40.800 --> 01:18:42.359 You just wipe it right on and I'll show you 1460 01:18:42.359 --> 01:18:44.600 how to build one. It's very inexpensive, but it's at 1461 01:18:44.680 --> 01:18:49.159 gardening with skip dot com. With that weed wiper. There's 1462 01:18:49.159 --> 01:18:53.880 another publication that has a list of the different orbicides 1463 01:18:54.000 --> 01:18:57.319 for each type of weeed, just to use as an example. 1464 01:18:57.399 --> 01:18:59.880 Wild onions and wild garlic coming up in your lawns 1465 01:19:00.159 --> 01:19:03.920 and above the lawn image is listed for those weeds 1466 01:19:04.000 --> 01:19:07.199 because that works best on those weeks. And you just 1467 01:19:07.319 --> 01:19:11.239 wipe that on to the weed itself. You didn't hurt 1468 01:19:11.239 --> 01:19:14.319 your lawn and you did what we would say a 1469 01:19:14.359 --> 01:19:17.720 little surgical application right to the weed itself. I think 1470 01:19:17.760 --> 01:19:19.520 these things are pretty cool. We spent a lot of 1471 01:19:19.520 --> 01:19:22.119 time putting them together. You can find them at gardening 1472 01:19:22.119 --> 01:19:23.840 with Skip dot com. And maybe we're gona take a 1473 01:19:23.840 --> 01:19:25.319 little break or I want to go check that out. 1474 01:19:25.720 --> 01:19:27.640 Tell your friends about it too, because I guarantee you 1475 01:19:27.640 --> 01:19:30.319 when it comes to nuts edge, everybody's got it, and 1476 01:19:30.600 --> 01:19:34.479 some people use language that just shouldn't poke out about 1477 01:19:34.520 --> 01:19:36.279 that infernal weed. 1478 01:19:38.239 --> 01:19:42.960 Products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to k 1479 01:19:43.399 --> 01:19:45.720 r H Guarden Line with skin Gritter. 1480 01:19:45.920 --> 01:20:02.199 Its just watch as so many good. 1481 01:20:02.159 --> 01:20:02.520 Things to. 1482 01:20:07.039 --> 01:20:11.319 Welcome to garden Line. Welcome back. It is good to 1483 01:20:11.359 --> 01:20:13.359 have you with us. We are going strong this morning, 1484 01:20:13.840 --> 01:20:16.680 answering your gardening questions, trying to help you have a 1485 01:20:16.840 --> 01:20:21.479 more bountiful garden and a more beautiful landscape. That is 1486 01:20:21.600 --> 01:20:24.199 the goal. Hey, if you have not fertilized in the 1487 01:20:24.279 --> 01:20:27.199 last few months, you might want to consider sweet green 1488 01:20:27.399 --> 01:20:31.560 from nitrophoss. Sweet green is a natural fertilizer. You call 1489 01:20:31.640 --> 01:20:35.600 it an organic type fertilizer because it has a base 1490 01:20:35.840 --> 01:20:41.640 of molasses, and organic gardeners know that molasses stimulates microbial 1491 01:20:41.680 --> 01:20:46.039 activity in the soil, specifically good bacteria. They need carbon. 1492 01:20:46.239 --> 01:20:48.359 That's part of that's what they eat. That's why they 1493 01:20:48.399 --> 01:20:52.199 eat organic matter and compost it and turn it into 1494 01:20:52.239 --> 01:20:55.079 compost is because of the carbon that's in it. Well, 1495 01:20:55.279 --> 01:20:58.840 sweet green is carbon. It's a molasses base and it's 1496 01:20:58.880 --> 01:21:01.960 eleven percent nitrogen, and you put it down and it 1497 01:21:02.199 --> 01:21:05.319 dissolves away and releases right into the soil. So it 1498 01:21:05.439 --> 01:21:08.960 not only is providing the nutrient eleven percent nitrogen nutrient, 1499 01:21:09.399 --> 01:21:12.760 it's stimulating the microbial growth, which is important. Now you're 1500 01:21:12.760 --> 01:21:16.199 going to find sweet Green, like other nitrofoss products all 1501 01:21:16.319 --> 01:21:19.760 over the place. It's very widespread. D and D feed 1502 01:21:19.880 --> 01:21:23.159 up in Tomball carries it. Lake Hardware down in Angleton 1503 01:21:23.239 --> 01:21:26.359 or Velasco. You can find it down there, Fisher's Hardware 1504 01:21:26.359 --> 01:21:28.920 out in Baytown, or go to Plants and Things up 1505 01:21:28.920 --> 01:21:32.800 in Brenham. All places where you're going to find nitrofoss products. 1506 01:21:34.239 --> 01:21:36.800 I'm going to head now out to League City and 1507 01:21:36.840 --> 01:21:39.239 we're going to talk to Suzanne this morning. Welcome to 1508 01:21:39.279 --> 01:21:40.159 garden Line, Suzann. 1509 01:21:41.800 --> 01:21:45.399 Thank you. I need help in identifying a weed that's 1510 01:21:45.439 --> 01:21:49.199 grown in my Saint Augustine grass. It's it's low to 1511 01:21:49.239 --> 01:21:53.600 the ground. It's dark, dark green, and kind of star shape. 1512 01:21:57.800 --> 01:22:00.279 The flower is star shaped, or the we it is 1513 01:22:00.319 --> 01:22:00.960 star shaped. 1514 01:22:02.159 --> 01:22:07.439 Look, there's no flower, it's it's the weed itself is 1515 01:22:07.560 --> 01:22:11.079 like a it's loaded. Like I said, it's tight to 1516 01:22:11.119 --> 01:22:13.840 the ground, and it's dark, dark green, and it's kind 1517 01:22:13.840 --> 01:22:21.000 of star shaped. But it's gotten multiple leaves. I've never 1518 01:22:21.039 --> 01:22:23.439 seen it before, and I've lived here for forty years. 1519 01:22:24.079 --> 01:22:27.880 Yeah, you are throwing me on the star shaped like 1520 01:22:27.920 --> 01:22:29.319 a five pointed star. 1521 01:22:30.439 --> 01:22:34.479 Well, yeah, well it could be more than that. 1522 01:22:36.000 --> 01:22:40.199 Okay, I'm sorry, I you know. 1523 01:22:40.359 --> 01:22:44.399 Okay, well I didn't know if you I mean. Yeah, 1524 01:22:44.640 --> 01:22:47.000 like I said, I've lived here more than fifty years. 1525 01:22:47.760 --> 01:22:48.560 I've never seen it. 1526 01:22:48.640 --> 01:22:51.680 Yeah, but I'm not. 1527 01:22:52.079 --> 01:22:55.239 I'm not upset about it because it's the same colors 1528 01:22:55.520 --> 01:22:58.399 as Saint Augustine and it's this looks good. 1529 01:23:00.239 --> 01:23:03.840 Okay, Well it's real. Send me a photo because. 1530 01:23:04.279 --> 01:23:06.800 Well I'll try. I'm away from my home right now. 1531 01:23:08.159 --> 01:23:10.960 Okay. Well, I mean there are some there are some 1532 01:23:11.079 --> 01:23:14.479 thistle kinds of weeds, you know that that can come 1533 01:23:14.560 --> 01:23:17.520 up and have a star shape to them. But that 1534 01:23:17.520 --> 01:23:20.840 that's unusual. You're not talking about each individual leaf is 1535 01:23:20.880 --> 01:23:22.359 star shaped. You're talking about the weeds. 1536 01:23:22.960 --> 01:23:26.760 No, no, no, no, there's a whole bunch of leaves 1537 01:23:26.840 --> 01:23:30.520 that are just shooting out from the plant. 1538 01:23:30.680 --> 01:23:36.560 Well, I okay, I'm gonna put you on hold. 1539 01:23:37.720 --> 01:23:39.039 What email do I send it to? 1540 01:23:40.359 --> 01:23:42.199 Just just hang on. I'm putting you on hold, and 1541 01:23:42.279 --> 01:23:45.800 Chris will pick up the phone. He's talking to another caller. 1542 01:23:45.800 --> 01:23:47.680 He'll pick up the phone just a second and he 1543 01:23:47.760 --> 01:23:52.119 will give you my email. Wow, that's interesting. I always 1544 01:23:52.159 --> 01:23:53.800 like to see the photo because when I see it, 1545 01:23:53.800 --> 01:23:56.800 it's gonna be like, oh, that's what that's what you're 1546 01:23:56.840 --> 01:23:59.760 doing about. All right, let's go up to Lee and Conroe. 1547 01:24:00.239 --> 01:24:04.159 Hello, Lee, good morning to skip them. Thanks for taking 1548 01:24:04.199 --> 01:24:07.880 my call. I just sent down three pictures of a 1549 01:24:07.920 --> 01:24:12.960 couple of lantana plants that we've had the inside of 1550 01:24:13.000 --> 01:24:17.399 our entry do very well with some get developing, some 1551 01:24:17.640 --> 01:24:22.279 holes in in the waves that I can't see whatever. 1552 01:24:24.479 --> 01:24:28.840 Yeah, tell you what I've got good good news for you. 1553 01:24:30.039 --> 01:24:32.880 Two bets of good news. Number one, that is so 1554 01:24:34.119 --> 01:24:37.119 little damage that I would not worry about it at all. 1555 01:24:37.760 --> 01:24:39.960 You are not. You know, if you killed every bug 1556 01:24:40.000 --> 01:24:43.319 that was possibly around doing that, you wouldn't benefit the 1557 01:24:43.359 --> 01:24:46.079 plants at all in terms of getting more blooms or anything. 1558 01:24:46.119 --> 01:24:51.000 That is a minuscule amount of loss of leaf area 1559 01:24:51.159 --> 01:24:54.039 compared to what the plants already have, So I wouldn't 1560 01:24:54.079 --> 01:24:56.560 do anything of it her mind. Secondly, when I look 1561 01:24:56.560 --> 01:25:00.640 at the holes, the edges around the holes are brown browning. 1562 01:25:01.000 --> 01:25:03.760 So that wasn't damage that occurred last night. That was 1563 01:25:03.840 --> 01:25:08.119 damage that occurred before, earlier on. And so I it 1564 01:25:08.239 --> 01:25:12.159 is very possible that those bugs are have already moved on, 1565 01:25:12.960 --> 01:25:15.039 or something got them and at them, or who knows what. 1566 01:25:15.760 --> 01:25:22.640 So I don't know that it's even a currently ongoing problem. 1567 01:25:22.800 --> 01:25:28.319 Are you there? Well, I think I lost him anyway. Yeah, 1568 01:25:28.399 --> 01:25:31.279 that and so my opinion now as far as what 1569 01:25:31.479 --> 01:25:33.560 did it, based on the shape of the holes where 1570 01:25:33.600 --> 01:25:38.279 they are and everything, probably a caterpillar, possibly a beetle 1571 01:25:38.720 --> 01:25:41.840 was the culprit in doing that. But I'm telling you 1572 01:25:41.960 --> 01:25:44.840 that is not that is not an issue that weren't spraying. 1573 01:25:45.560 --> 01:25:47.239 So I hate to go out and just spray because 1574 01:25:47.239 --> 01:25:51.720 you know, l Antenna's or there attract their flowers attract 1575 01:25:51.720 --> 01:25:54.680 certain things, and I'd rather not put a spray on 1576 01:25:54.720 --> 01:25:58.960 them if I didn't have to. We are folks. We're 1577 01:25:58.960 --> 01:26:01.800 having a problem with dropping this morning. I'm just I'm 1578 01:26:01.880 --> 01:26:04.239 watching people up here and disappear, so I don't know 1579 01:26:04.279 --> 01:26:06.560 what's going on there. If you know, I just one 1580 01:26:06.640 --> 01:26:08.159 or two, i'd say, well, people had to go do 1581 01:26:08.279 --> 01:26:11.199 something and they left. But that's kind of unusual. So 1582 01:26:11.239 --> 01:26:13.439 if you lost the car, just call right back in. 1583 01:26:13.640 --> 01:26:16.840 We'll get to you. Let's go to Northwest Houston and 1584 01:26:16.840 --> 01:26:20.399 we're going to talk to Marcy. Now, Hello, Marcy, I. 1585 01:26:20.520 --> 01:26:25.319 Keep good morning. I have exactly the same problem as 1586 01:26:25.359 --> 01:26:27.279 the lady before you last call. 1587 01:26:28.199 --> 01:26:29.800 I know what she's talking about. 1588 01:26:29.880 --> 01:26:36.640 And it looks like grass, very dark, dark green, and 1589 01:26:36.800 --> 01:26:42.000 it blends really well with sant agustine. But it's very invasive, okay, 1590 01:26:42.560 --> 01:26:47.359 but it's really easy to take out. It's like almost 1591 01:26:47.560 --> 01:26:50.600 like a succulent. You take it out and it doesn't 1592 01:26:50.640 --> 01:26:54.239 have like guides, you know, like sant agustine. Is really 1593 01:26:54.279 --> 01:26:57.079 easy to take it out. But it's very invasive. I 1594 01:26:57.079 --> 01:26:58.960 don't know what is it. This is the first time 1595 01:26:59.000 --> 01:26:59.600 that I see it. 1596 01:27:01.279 --> 01:27:04.159 You know what, As you're talking about that, now, something's 1597 01:27:04.199 --> 01:27:06.680 occurring to me. I bet it's a sedge. There are 1598 01:27:06.680 --> 01:27:10.560 some very low growing sedges. And there's also something called 1599 01:27:10.640 --> 01:27:16.600 ki linga that Suzanne. I guess it was it Suzanne 1600 01:27:16.640 --> 01:27:20.479 that had that question. Yeah, uh, Susanna, if you're still listening, 1601 01:27:20.640 --> 01:27:25.000 that may be kylinga, which is a sedge, and are 1602 01:27:25.079 --> 01:27:28.119 controls for it, kayling There are controls for it in 1603 01:27:28.239 --> 01:27:32.479 Saint Augustine. But I think Suzanne was happy just because 1604 01:27:32.520 --> 01:27:34.840 it's green, looks like grass, so she's happy to living with. 1605 01:27:36.800 --> 01:27:38.399 But he's very invasive. 1606 01:27:38.520 --> 01:27:40.600 So I can buy something to control that. 1607 01:27:42.439 --> 01:27:49.439 Yes, yes, okay, look look for something called sedge hammer. 1608 01:27:50.000 --> 01:27:54.279 Sedge hammer, Okay, okay, it'll come out of a little packet. 1609 01:27:54.439 --> 01:27:57.119 It's not Yeah, it's not cheap, the low packet, and 1610 01:27:57.159 --> 01:27:59.399 I think it makes each packet probably makes about a 1611 01:27:59.479 --> 01:28:02.239 gallon of liquid that you don't need a lot of it. 1612 01:28:02.760 --> 01:28:02.960 Uh. 1613 01:28:03.000 --> 01:28:06.079 And there's another one called sedge ender. Like I'm going 1614 01:28:06.119 --> 01:28:09.159 to put an end to this sedge ender. It's the 1615 01:28:09.199 --> 01:28:13.399 same ingredient and both sedge hammer and sedge ender and 1616 01:28:13.680 --> 01:28:17.479 they will work and follow the label very carefully, very carefully. 1617 01:28:17.560 --> 01:28:19.600 Okay, okay, thank you. 1618 01:28:19.520 --> 01:28:20.199 Thanks Marsy. 1619 01:28:20.279 --> 01:28:20.600 Bye bye. 1620 01:28:21.399 --> 01:28:24.119 Glad you're listening, and we got plenty to talk about. 1621 01:28:24.319 --> 01:28:27.920 We're going to head straight uh this segment to the 1622 01:28:27.920 --> 01:28:30.319 phones to West Houston and talk to Donald. 1623 01:28:30.399 --> 01:28:33.880 Hello, Donald, How much water is too much? 1624 01:28:33.920 --> 01:28:34.159 Water? 1625 01:28:36.960 --> 01:28:39.079 Good question? What do you? What do we? What plant 1626 01:28:39.119 --> 01:28:40.039 were talking about? 1627 01:28:40.359 --> 01:28:44.560 Well, like sunflowers and some other little weeds that actually 1628 01:28:44.600 --> 01:28:46.600 grow up with little blue flowers on them. I don't 1629 01:28:46.600 --> 01:28:49.159 know what they are. But the ground is rock hard. 1630 01:28:49.720 --> 01:28:53.239 But I water pretty much either in the evening or 1631 01:28:53.279 --> 01:28:55.239 early in the morning with a regular host, and this 1632 01:28:55.319 --> 01:28:57.760 spray around that it is every day too much. 1633 01:29:00.039 --> 01:29:06.560 Well, here's the thing the answers to your questions is 1634 01:29:06.880 --> 01:29:10.479 keep the soil moist and so if you had a 1635 01:29:10.479 --> 01:29:13.159 sandy soil, you'd water more often because the water runs 1636 01:29:13.239 --> 01:29:14.880 right through it. If you had a clay soil, you'd 1637 01:29:14.880 --> 01:29:17.560 water less often. In the shade and in the sun, 1638 01:29:17.760 --> 01:29:22.479 your watering schedule changes. The goal is to provide enough 1639 01:29:22.560 --> 01:29:26.279 water at one time to wet the soil about six inches. 1640 01:29:26.000 --> 01:29:28.600 Deep at water. 1641 01:29:28.680 --> 01:29:32.439 Until it dries up enough you may go, you know, 1642 01:29:32.479 --> 01:29:34.880 in a lawn. I don't water even once a week, 1643 01:29:34.920 --> 01:29:37.640 hardly on my lawn because I've got a good deep 1644 01:29:37.680 --> 01:29:39.479 root system. I give it a good soaking and let 1645 01:29:39.520 --> 01:29:41.439 it let the air come back down and the soil 1646 01:29:41.439 --> 01:29:45.720 as it dries out. So that schedule can be you know, 1647 01:29:45.800 --> 01:29:47.640 it could it could mean water, and twice a week, 1648 01:29:47.880 --> 01:29:49.479 you know, once a week it could mean water, and 1649 01:29:49.560 --> 01:29:52.520 once every two weeks. It depends on the weather, the temperature, 1650 01:29:52.960 --> 01:29:55.079 a lot of things. But the real bottom line is 1651 01:29:55.199 --> 01:29:57.359 is a soil moistu or not. And if it's soggy, 1652 01:29:57.399 --> 01:29:59.760 that's not good, and you don't want it to be soggy. 1653 01:30:00.239 --> 01:30:03.239 So I would go by that kind of schedule. Donald, 1654 01:30:03.279 --> 01:30:06.079 I think that if you can check that out, and 1655 01:30:06.399 --> 01:30:08.119 if you, let's say, how a launch you said the 1656 01:30:08.119 --> 01:30:11.479 soil was hard, and that gave me an idea. You 1657 01:30:11.520 --> 01:30:15.239 can take a long handle screwdriver, a flathead screwdriver, and 1658 01:30:15.600 --> 01:30:18.800 if you water for a while and then the water 1659 01:30:18.840 --> 01:30:21.560 goes off and you take that screwdriver come back. You'll 1660 01:30:21.600 --> 01:30:23.279 give it a little bit of time soak in maybe 1661 01:30:23.840 --> 01:30:27.000 forty minutes, and push that in the ground wherever the 1662 01:30:27.039 --> 01:30:29.760 soil is moist it'll go straight in the ground, like 1663 01:30:30.039 --> 01:30:33.880 pushing it through soft butter. And when you hit the 1664 01:30:33.960 --> 01:30:36.520 dry spot, it'll be like you hit an underground sidewalk 1665 01:30:36.600 --> 01:30:39.720 of concrete. I mean, it stops, and that measurement on 1666 01:30:39.760 --> 01:30:42.079 your screwdriver tells you how deep you've wet the soil. 1667 01:30:42.760 --> 01:30:45.680 So screwdriver works really well. Now in a fluffy landscape 1668 01:30:45.720 --> 01:30:48.560 bed full of bed mix and stuff, that technique doesn't 1669 01:30:48.560 --> 01:30:51.079 work because it's already loose. But where you said the 1670 01:30:51.079 --> 01:30:53.840 soil is hard, a lawn or anything like that, the 1671 01:30:53.880 --> 01:30:57.079 screwdriver test will tell you how deep did you wet it. 1672 01:30:57.119 --> 01:30:58.560 And if you wet it deep enough, you don't have 1673 01:30:58.600 --> 01:31:00.680 the water all the time. And it's better because you 1674 01:31:00.720 --> 01:31:03.000 get more use out of the water you apply with 1675 01:31:03.199 --> 01:31:06.319 less promotion of diseases by wetting it frequently. 1676 01:31:07.840 --> 01:31:13.600 Well. I actually have an am Leonard Horticultural catalog, a 1677 01:31:13.600 --> 01:31:16.720 gardening knife that has a measurements on it and six 1678 01:31:16.760 --> 01:31:19.560 inches long, And so if I stab that knife in 1679 01:31:19.600 --> 01:31:22.119 there that I can measure how I wouldn't think I 1680 01:31:22.119 --> 01:31:24.560 could put it in there more than two or three 1681 01:31:24.600 --> 01:31:27.239 inches editing day because it's really hard soil. 1682 01:31:27.319 --> 01:31:30.119 Yeah, the sole knives are a little hard to put, 1683 01:31:30.119 --> 01:31:32.159 harder to push in. I like the screwdriver because it's 1684 01:31:32.199 --> 01:31:33.560 real skinny and it's. 1685 01:31:33.520 --> 01:31:35.279 Well, that's true. I have plenty of those. 1686 01:31:36.560 --> 01:31:39.039 Yeah, I've got soil knives too. I would not use 1687 01:31:39.079 --> 01:31:41.239 this so all knife for this test. If you got 1688 01:31:41.279 --> 01:31:42.840 good at it, I guess you could kind of figure 1689 01:31:42.880 --> 01:31:47.439 that out. But the flathead screwdriver, it just is easy, 1690 01:31:47.479 --> 01:31:50.560 and it'll tell you when when you hit dry, it'll 1691 01:31:50.720 --> 01:31:51.319 it'll tell you. 1692 01:31:52.199 --> 01:31:54.119 Well, there's no point at which I can get it 1693 01:31:54.359 --> 01:31:59.079 mushy or sloppy. So if I water every evening and 1694 01:31:59.359 --> 01:32:01.520 I don't water an evening and then again in the morning, 1695 01:32:01.560 --> 01:32:03.760 but at least in the morning or in the evening, 1696 01:32:04.560 --> 01:32:06.880 I probably can't kill anything because I can't get enough 1697 01:32:06.960 --> 01:32:09.359 water on there to make it soft. 1698 01:32:11.199 --> 01:32:15.880 Well, so what there If your soil sheds water, which 1699 01:32:15.960 --> 01:32:19.560 clays can shed, it takes about an inch of water, 1700 01:32:19.640 --> 01:32:21.720 by the way, to wet a clay soil that deep. 1701 01:32:22.520 --> 01:32:26.199 But if you water for a while and then you're 1702 01:32:26.239 --> 01:32:28.359 going to see runoff, turn it off and let it 1703 01:32:28.399 --> 01:32:30.800 soak for forty five minutes and then turn it back 1704 01:32:30.800 --> 01:32:33.760 on again to water for low on. That's called cycle 1705 01:32:34.000 --> 01:32:37.039 and soak, And by doing that, you can get that 1706 01:32:37.119 --> 01:32:40.199 full inch on and I'll use a straight sided can 1707 01:32:40.319 --> 01:32:46.279 or a rain gauge or in anything like a tuna 1708 01:32:46.319 --> 01:32:48.479 fish can's got straight sides that can be your rain 1709 01:32:48.560 --> 01:32:51.000 gauge and it tells you you know then if you 1710 01:32:51.119 --> 01:32:53.159 put an inch of water down or not. But you'd 1711 01:32:53.199 --> 01:32:55.920 like to get an inch down, and you may have 1712 01:32:55.960 --> 01:32:58.039 to cycle and soak to be able to do that 1713 01:32:58.079 --> 01:32:58.880 without runoff. 1714 01:32:59.520 --> 01:33:02.039 Okay, I guess my big question I forgot to ask 1715 01:33:02.159 --> 01:33:06.079 is morning morning, so that you wet it down and 1716 01:33:06.079 --> 01:33:08.520 then the sun burns it off, or better to do 1717 01:33:08.560 --> 01:33:11.319 it at night so that stays wet the least overnight. 1718 01:33:12.600 --> 01:33:14.520 You would like it to dry out as soon as 1719 01:33:14.800 --> 01:33:17.960 as possible when you're done watering, because the water sitting 1720 01:33:18.000 --> 01:33:22.560 on the plant leaves are the mult or that it's 1721 01:33:22.640 --> 01:33:24.239 not going to go in the soil. It's going to 1722 01:33:24.279 --> 01:33:27.399 evaporate away. So let's let's get that done sooner rather 1723 01:33:27.439 --> 01:33:29.039 than later. Leaf. 1724 01:33:29.119 --> 01:33:31.199 So I water, If I water at night, I'm not 1725 01:33:31.199 --> 01:33:33.880 going to rot anything because it certainly dries out by 1726 01:33:33.880 --> 01:33:34.600 the next morning. 1727 01:33:36.359 --> 01:33:39.000 Yeah, but you've got hours then that it's staying wet. 1728 01:33:39.079 --> 01:33:41.279 If you got up and did your watering and let's 1729 01:33:41.319 --> 01:33:43.199 just say six am to pull a number out of 1730 01:33:43.199 --> 01:33:47.159 the air. Then by the time that watering cycle's done, 1731 01:33:47.640 --> 01:33:49.640 the sun is coming up and it's going to dry 1732 01:33:49.640 --> 01:33:52.800 out faster. Because leaf wetness is the number one thing 1733 01:33:52.920 --> 01:33:56.640 that promotes foliage diseases on grass and on flowers and 1734 01:33:56.680 --> 01:33:59.720 shrubs and trees and vegetables and everything else, we want 1735 01:33:59.760 --> 01:34:03.159 to keep bit wet for as little time as possible. 1736 01:34:04.520 --> 01:34:10.079 Oh so, okay, I thought I was thinking that the 1737 01:34:10.920 --> 01:34:13.560 longer it's wet, the better it is. But that's really not. 1738 01:34:13.439 --> 01:34:16.840 True, Absolutely not true. 1739 01:34:17.159 --> 01:34:19.199 Okay, good, all right, that's what I need to do, So 1740 01:34:19.239 --> 01:34:20.680 I'll do the six o'clock in the morning. 1741 01:34:22.039 --> 01:34:24.039 All right, sir, you take care. Thanks for the call. 1742 01:34:24.079 --> 01:34:28.079 Donald appreciate that. I hope that is very helpful. Yeah, 1743 01:34:28.119 --> 01:34:30.800 water and properly is something that doesn't come naturally to us, 1744 01:34:30.920 --> 01:34:34.039 and sometimes it's counterintuitive the things that we have to 1745 01:34:34.079 --> 01:34:38.159 be thinking about. If you're looking for supplies for your 1746 01:34:38.239 --> 01:34:41.680 lawn or for your garden, whatever you have in terms 1747 01:34:41.680 --> 01:34:45.960 of plants that you're growing, Southwest fertilizer is stocked up 1748 01:34:45.960 --> 01:34:49.319 with everything. They really are. If the Southwest doesn't have it, 1749 01:34:49.359 --> 01:34:51.760 you don't need it. It's as simple as that. They've 1750 01:34:51.800 --> 01:34:54.479 got every fertilizer I talk about. They have every kind 1751 01:34:54.520 --> 01:34:57.800 of pest control, disease control, weed control. Are you an 1752 01:34:57.840 --> 01:35:02.079 organic gardener? They have it all inorganic as well as synthetic. 1753 01:35:02.119 --> 01:35:04.079 They carry and both. They got an eighty foot wall 1754 01:35:04.119 --> 01:35:07.439 of tools. They've got that really cool folding kneeling bench 1755 01:35:07.479 --> 01:35:09.600 that I like so much. I'm telling you, if you've 1756 01:35:09.600 --> 01:35:13.159 never seen one, go buy Southwest. Say ask Bob or 1757 01:35:13.159 --> 01:35:15.760 Aaron or someone there, just say show me the folding 1758 01:35:15.800 --> 01:35:19.439 kneeling bench. And I'm telling you, of all my tools, 1759 01:35:19.479 --> 01:35:22.000 it's top five favorite of every tool I have or 1760 01:35:22.039 --> 01:35:25.079 have ever had. I love those things. Southwest has that. 1761 01:35:25.279 --> 01:35:26.880 They have that and then some Do you need a 1762 01:35:26.920 --> 01:35:30.000 fertilizer spreader? Do you need a little hand a little 1763 01:35:30.039 --> 01:35:33.760 hand crank spreader to put out I don't know, fire ant, 1764 01:35:33.760 --> 01:35:36.560 bait or whatever. Southwest has all of that and more. 1765 01:35:36.680 --> 01:35:40.520 Southwest Fertilizers on the corner of Bisinat and Renwick in 1766 01:35:40.640 --> 01:35:43.680 Southwest Houston. You can go to the website Southwest Fertilizer 1767 01:35:43.720 --> 01:35:46.359 dot com. But you need to check it out because 1768 01:35:46.680 --> 01:35:49.319 whatever kind of supply you need, they're gonna have it. 1769 01:35:49.359 --> 01:35:51.840 Along with good advice. You can take them a plant 1770 01:35:51.880 --> 01:35:53.560 in there, you can get a baggy, you can take 1771 01:35:53.600 --> 01:35:57.960 them a photo and they'll identify, they'll diagnose, they'll get 1772 01:35:58.000 --> 01:36:01.640 you the product that's gonna work. That that's really important. 1773 01:36:03.479 --> 01:36:07.239 I always like going in there because there's always always 1774 01:36:07.319 --> 01:36:09.800 something new, you know, there's new products coming out all 1775 01:36:09.840 --> 01:36:13.399 the time, and I wish companies would tell me, but 1776 01:36:13.520 --> 01:36:15.680 they don't. But I wish they tell me, Hey, we 1777 01:36:15.760 --> 01:36:17.680 got a new product. Here's what it is. And that 1778 01:36:17.720 --> 01:36:19.279 way I'd have a chance to check it out and 1779 01:36:19.319 --> 01:36:22.880 see if it's something I'm gonna recommend or not, something 1780 01:36:22.920 --> 01:36:25.880 that works or not. In other words, but I can 1781 01:36:25.920 --> 01:36:28.319 go to Southwest, Bob's going to have the newest ones 1782 01:36:28.319 --> 01:36:29.720 and we can talk about them. I can try them 1783 01:36:29.720 --> 01:36:32.439 out if I need to purchase one and give it 1784 01:36:32.479 --> 01:36:34.279 a try and see if it's going to work. Well, 1785 01:36:34.560 --> 01:36:39.479 that's another option. Bob's got things like supergrol Plus, that's 1786 01:36:39.520 --> 01:36:43.520 the one from Medina. You know, Medina's been making quality 1787 01:36:43.560 --> 01:36:47.119 products for a very long time, decades and decades and decades. 1788 01:36:48.079 --> 01:36:50.640 They've got the has to grow line. There's has to grow, 1789 01:36:50.680 --> 01:36:53.800 there's has to grow for lawns, that's a twelve percent 1790 01:36:53.920 --> 01:36:56.279 nitrogen fertilizer. It's a very good one, by the way. 1791 01:36:56.520 --> 01:36:59.119 And then they have Medina supergrol Plus that's a sixteen 1792 01:36:59.199 --> 01:37:02.720 zero two. It contains keylated iron, so if your grass 1793 01:37:02.760 --> 01:37:06.279 is turning a little yellow, the keylated iron prevents the 1794 01:37:06.319 --> 01:37:08.760 soil from tying that iron up and it releases it 1795 01:37:08.800 --> 01:37:13.159 for the plant. It's got molasses and humic acid. It's 1796 01:37:13.199 --> 01:37:15.960 it's just seaweed extract. Another thing is in it's a 1797 01:37:16.000 --> 01:37:18.199 great concoction. You hook it up to a garden hose. 1798 01:37:18.920 --> 01:37:22.000 One quart bottle that hooks to a hose, covers four 1799 01:37:22.039 --> 01:37:24.600 thousand square feet, takes about ten minutes to do a 1800 01:37:24.600 --> 01:37:26.199 whole area. And I was telling some of the other 1801 01:37:26.239 --> 01:37:27.960 day to use it on something else. You don't have 1802 01:37:28.039 --> 01:37:30.039 to just use it on your lawn. You use it 1803 01:37:30.079 --> 01:37:32.319 in the vegetable garden. You can use it on flowers. 1804 01:37:32.520 --> 01:37:34.520 Can't remember what the thing was the other day we 1805 01:37:34.520 --> 01:37:38.079 were suggesting they use it on but there it use 1806 01:37:38.159 --> 01:37:41.479 it on plants. How about that plants. It's made for lawns. 1807 01:37:41.520 --> 01:37:43.600 Good for lawns, but if you've got a plant that 1808 01:37:43.640 --> 01:37:45.880 needs a little quick boost, it's good for that too. 1809 01:37:47.479 --> 01:37:50.920 You were listening to garden Line and our phone number 1810 01:37:50.960 --> 01:37:53.439 if you'd like to give us a call seven one 1811 01:37:53.560 --> 01:37:58.359 three two one two five eight seven four seven one 1812 01:37:58.479 --> 01:38:04.079 three two five eight seven four. I was talking earlier 1813 01:38:04.159 --> 01:38:09.399 about the new publications that are online. You know you 1814 01:38:09.520 --> 01:38:14.800 need to check those out at Gardening with Skip dot 1815 01:38:14.840 --> 01:38:19.000 com Gardening with Skip dot com. And what are the publications. Well, 1816 01:38:19.079 --> 01:38:23.319 first of all, there is the two nutsedge publications, a 1817 01:38:23.359 --> 01:38:27.039 long version and a short version on how do you 1818 01:38:27.119 --> 01:38:31.039 control nut set? How do you control nutset? And there 1819 01:38:31.159 --> 01:38:34.600 is a science to it and if you just understand 1820 01:38:34.720 --> 01:38:37.239 number one what kind of nutset you have, and a 1821 01:38:37.279 --> 01:38:39.600 few other things about it that are in that publication, 1822 01:38:40.399 --> 01:38:42.880 it will help you have success with what you try 1823 01:38:42.920 --> 01:38:46.000 to do in controlling it, and that is important. There's 1824 01:38:46.039 --> 01:38:50.520 also the weed Wiper publication, a homemade, really cool little 1825 01:38:50.600 --> 01:38:54.720 device for getting weeds without damaging your plants. You welcome 1826 01:38:54.760 --> 01:38:58.279 back to Guardline. Glad you're listening with us. Hey, if 1827 01:38:58.279 --> 01:39:01.079 you'd like to give me a call seven two two 1828 01:39:01.159 --> 01:39:04.359 k t RH. That's the number seven one three two 1829 01:39:04.439 --> 01:39:08.680 one two k t RH. For those of you who 1830 01:39:08.720 --> 01:39:11.680 are wanting to have work donender your trees or those 1831 01:39:11.680 --> 01:39:13.239 of you who are wondering if you need work done 1832 01:39:13.279 --> 01:39:16.279 to your trees, you need to call Affordable Tree. Martin 1833 01:39:16.279 --> 01:39:18.840 Spoonmore has been doing this for a long long time 1834 01:39:18.920 --> 01:39:22.159 and he knows his stuff. When we're dealing with storms 1835 01:39:22.199 --> 01:39:24.800 that come through, there is a way that you can 1836 01:39:24.840 --> 01:39:28.479 do some selective pruning to help make your tree safer 1837 01:39:28.560 --> 01:39:30.960 when it comes to heavy winds. This doesn't mean somebody 1838 01:39:30.960 --> 01:39:33.199 goes in and butcher's everything up, and there are people 1839 01:39:33.199 --> 01:39:34.840 that don't know what they're doing that are out there 1840 01:39:34.880 --> 01:39:37.960 doing that. We're talking about a proper selective pruning to 1841 01:39:38.000 --> 01:39:41.039 be done. We're also talking about training your trees all 1842 01:39:41.079 --> 01:39:44.920 along their life to give them a good strong structure. 1843 01:39:45.199 --> 01:39:49.880 We're talking about providing help for trees during struggling conditions 1844 01:39:49.920 --> 01:39:53.479 such as drought. We're a good deep watering or deep 1845 01:39:53.520 --> 01:39:56.640 roof feeding. Those kinds of things can be helpful. We're 1846 01:39:56.640 --> 01:39:59.000 talking about knowing how to take care of a tree. 1847 01:39:59.119 --> 01:40:02.359 We're talking about a vice on things that might be done. 1848 01:40:02.520 --> 01:40:05.079 If you have a beautiful tree that you love, and 1849 01:40:05.119 --> 01:40:07.359 you're gonna do anything around the yard. You're gonna put 1850 01:40:07.359 --> 01:40:09.479 in a trench, You're gonna put in a driveway over 1851 01:40:10.119 --> 01:40:12.840 within the branch, spread of the tree, any of those 1852 01:40:12.920 --> 01:40:16.319 kinds of things. Call Martin first he comes out. There 1853 01:40:16.399 --> 01:40:18.560 is a charge for him to come out and look 1854 01:40:18.640 --> 01:40:21.960 at the situation. Consult. If you end up hiring him 1855 01:40:21.960 --> 01:40:25.359 to do something, that charge goes right into the the 1856 01:40:25.399 --> 01:40:27.079 cost of what it would have cost to get it done, 1857 01:40:27.119 --> 01:40:29.039 so you don't lose that money. You can give him 1858 01:40:29.039 --> 01:40:31.520 a call at seven one three six nine nine twenty 1859 01:40:31.520 --> 01:40:35.439 six sixty three. Say that again seven one three six 1860 01:40:35.680 --> 01:40:38.640 nine nine two six six three. I to just write 1861 01:40:38.680 --> 01:40:40.640 that down and keep it because you never know when 1862 01:40:40.880 --> 01:40:42.680 something's gonna happen. You need to give him a call 1863 01:40:43.239 --> 01:40:47.159 or go to the website aff tree Service dot com. 1864 01:40:47.199 --> 01:40:55.479 Aff tree Service dot com. Trees are extremely valuable in 1865 01:40:55.520 --> 01:41:01.800 our landscapes. They I have said this before, but trees 1866 01:41:01.840 --> 01:41:03.960 should never be planted on a whim. You can do 1867 01:41:04.039 --> 01:41:05.880 that in a flower bed. Oh there's a new flower. 1868 01:41:05.920 --> 01:41:07.439 I've never seen it, poort, let me try it out. 1869 01:41:07.560 --> 01:41:11.680 But trees, you should do your homework. Find the species, 1870 01:41:11.880 --> 01:41:14.439 even in some cases the varieties that are going to 1871 01:41:14.520 --> 01:41:17.000 do best for you for what you want, For what 1872 01:41:17.000 --> 01:41:18.239 you want it to be, How big do you want 1873 01:41:18.279 --> 01:41:20.560 it to be? Do you want it to bloom or not. 1874 01:41:20.800 --> 01:41:23.680 Do you want to be evergreen or deciduous. You want 1875 01:41:24.079 --> 01:41:27.000 a tree that grows at a moderately good rate, but 1876 01:41:27.199 --> 01:41:30.680 one that is going to last a lifetime and be 1877 01:41:31.119 --> 01:41:33.800 stronger and stronger as it gets older and older. And 1878 01:41:33.840 --> 01:41:36.479 that is very important. Never just plant a tree, becauld 1879 01:41:36.479 --> 01:41:38.640 you saw it at a garden center, find out which 1880 01:41:38.640 --> 01:41:41.520 one you want, then go find that tree HOMEO Guardline. 1881 01:41:41.560 --> 01:41:43.760 We'll put you in touch with somebody that can provide 1882 01:41:43.760 --> 01:41:46.760 that kind of tree for you. Because quality trees added 1883 01:41:46.800 --> 01:41:49.199 the value of your home. They add to the enjoyment 1884 01:41:49.279 --> 01:41:52.319 of your home. Planted properly, they can help cut down 1885 01:41:52.439 --> 01:41:56.159 on your summer electric bills, the cooling costs and things. 1886 01:41:56.479 --> 01:41:59.039 They can make that patio a pleasant place to be, 1887 01:42:00.079 --> 01:42:02.399 can just be beautiful. A blooms at certain times of 1888 01:42:02.439 --> 01:42:06.199 the year. So of all the plants out there, the 1889 01:42:06.279 --> 01:42:08.479 one you most need to not buy on a whim 1890 01:42:08.560 --> 01:42:10.520 as a tree. You need to know what you want. 1891 01:42:11.319 --> 01:42:15.119 That would be my suggestion to you. Let's go out 1892 01:42:15.159 --> 01:42:17.119 to a task a star. Now we're going to talk 1893 01:42:17.159 --> 01:42:20.680 to Thomas. Hello, Thomas, good morning. 1894 01:42:21.840 --> 01:42:26.039 I called you about a month ago. I told you 1895 01:42:26.119 --> 01:42:30.840 that my plants weren't flowering, and I have really good soil, 1896 01:42:32.039 --> 01:42:35.199 everything's great, and you told me they were probably too healthy, 1897 01:42:36.560 --> 01:42:42.079 so I stopped. I stopped feeding them. They finally started 1898 01:42:42.079 --> 01:42:45.960 a bloom again, but they're only but okay, one boom 1899 01:42:45.960 --> 01:42:50.479 at a time. To measure pH and soil, how far 1900 01:42:50.640 --> 01:42:51.439 down do you have to go? 1901 01:42:53.880 --> 01:42:57.560 I would take the soil in, let's say, I mean 1902 01:42:58.399 --> 01:43:03.039 probably the top six inches and just put some in 1903 01:43:03.079 --> 01:43:05.600 a in a cop Are you talking about doing it 1904 01:43:05.640 --> 01:43:07.359 yourself measuring? Are you talking about sending this? 1905 01:43:07.520 --> 01:43:07.720 Yeah? 1906 01:43:07.720 --> 01:43:09.000 I know how to I know how to measure it. 1907 01:43:09.039 --> 01:43:11.800 I just need to seek you. Yeah, put it in 1908 01:43:11.840 --> 01:43:14.239 a cop put some fill up with water, and just 1909 01:43:14.319 --> 01:43:17.039 kind of slash it around, you know, and then pour 1910 01:43:17.119 --> 01:43:19.800 off the water, just the water, and then measure the 1911 01:43:19.800 --> 01:43:20.960 pH of that liquid. 1912 01:43:21.359 --> 01:43:21.880 That is. 1913 01:43:22.760 --> 01:43:25.079 That's a good a good estimate. Now, when you do 1914 01:43:25.119 --> 01:43:28.560 a home measuring, those are not as accurate as sending 1915 01:43:28.560 --> 01:43:31.039 a souce ample in and so things can throw that 1916 01:43:31.119 --> 01:43:33.960 off a little bit. But that would be the best 1917 01:43:33.960 --> 01:43:36.760 way to do it with that With what you're asking. 1918 01:43:37.359 --> 01:43:43.800 Okay, if the pH is a little bit too high, 1919 01:43:43.880 --> 01:43:46.640 if I used to stilled water, would that cause more 1920 01:43:46.720 --> 01:43:48.800 damage than not try and flush. 1921 01:43:49.279 --> 01:43:55.640 No, no, it wouldn't. In fact, So first of all, 1922 01:43:56.159 --> 01:43:58.840 what kind of plants are you talking about? This producing 1923 01:43:58.880 --> 01:44:01.239 one flower? What kind of plant are we talking about? 1924 01:44:01.800 --> 01:44:04.560 Oh, got everything under the sun. I've got a lot 1925 01:44:04.560 --> 01:44:11.560 of climbing plants. I've got jasmine, I've got man carella. Everybody, 1926 01:44:11.600 --> 01:44:16.960 every everybody's just been complaining this past month or so. 1927 01:44:17.039 --> 01:44:20.560 Yeah, let's let's do this. So there's a lot of 1928 01:44:20.560 --> 01:44:24.760 things that make plants bloom. Nutrition is important. Now, Nitrogen 1929 01:44:24.840 --> 01:44:27.359 makes them grow fast, and that's probably what I was 1930 01:44:27.399 --> 01:44:30.319 talking about on our last call, is don't push a 1931 01:44:30.319 --> 01:44:33.359 lot of vigorous growth. You know, I wouldn't say don't 1932 01:44:33.399 --> 01:44:35.239 keep them too healthy. I would just say, in fact, 1933 01:44:35.279 --> 01:44:39.039 too much nitrogen makes them unhealthy. But there's also other 1934 01:44:39.159 --> 01:44:41.840 nutrients like phosphorus and potassium and others that are important 1935 01:44:41.880 --> 01:44:45.640 in blooming. Sunlight is important in blooming, and so there 1936 01:44:45.640 --> 01:44:47.560 are a lot of factors that go into whether a 1937 01:44:47.640 --> 01:44:51.640 plant blooms well or not. But when you're talking about 1938 01:44:52.079 --> 01:44:57.319 you know, changing pH pH is okay, let me do 1939 01:44:57.359 --> 01:44:59.880 it this way. You mentioned distilled water. If you take 1940 01:45:00.199 --> 01:45:04.800 straw and blow into distilled water while you're measuring pH 1941 01:45:04.840 --> 01:45:07.479 you can watch the pH change from the carbon dioxide 1942 01:45:07.520 --> 01:45:11.560 in your breath because there's no buffering in pure distilled water, 1943 01:45:12.199 --> 01:45:15.800 but most of our soils and moisture are very buffered, 1944 01:45:16.039 --> 01:45:19.640 and so you could add something to raise it or 1945 01:45:19.680 --> 01:45:21.520 lower it, and it may dip down and come right 1946 01:45:21.560 --> 01:45:25.720 back up again. That that happens, and so having the 1947 01:45:25.720 --> 01:45:27.960 soil test tells you how much you need to add. 1948 01:45:28.479 --> 01:45:33.600 Sulfur brings pH down, lime brings pH up. That's oversimplifying. 1949 01:45:33.640 --> 01:45:35.319 There's other ways to bring it up and down, but 1950 01:45:35.439 --> 01:45:39.840 that basically is the fast thing. I doubt that aph 1951 01:45:39.960 --> 01:45:42.960 is way out of whack unless there's some unusual situation 1952 01:45:43.079 --> 01:45:46.359 with your soil that I'm not aware of. In general, 1953 01:45:47.640 --> 01:45:50.439 I would say to suggest, why don't you just once 1954 01:45:50.600 --> 01:45:53.680 do a good soil test, get all the data you need, 1955 01:45:53.840 --> 01:45:54.880 and then work from that. 1956 01:45:56.119 --> 01:45:59.399 All right. I got frustrated last few because I've used 1957 01:46:00.159 --> 01:46:03.439 should see the mulch take the seat of moulch for years, 1958 01:46:04.079 --> 01:46:07.560 but when I'm not trying to dig, you know it's hot. 1959 01:46:07.720 --> 01:46:10.359 So I got I got to pull everything out of 1960 01:46:10.359 --> 01:46:14.079 the garden, turned all the soil mulch into my soil, 1961 01:46:15.199 --> 01:46:20.439 and then started using composts. But that I've got a 1962 01:46:20.520 --> 01:46:23.079 lot of mulch in the soil. Now, could that be 1963 01:46:23.600 --> 01:46:24.600 throwing everything arose? 1964 01:46:24.760 --> 01:46:26.840 That could be a problem. That could be tying up 1965 01:46:26.920 --> 01:46:29.960 nitrogen too. Generally, moulch goes on top of the soil. 1966 01:46:30.039 --> 01:46:34.279 Compost goes into the soil. But I'm hitting a hard break, Thomas. 1967 01:46:34.279 --> 01:46:36.319 I'm gonna have to run, but I would I would 1968 01:46:36.319 --> 01:46:39.039 get a quality compost, mix it into the soil periodically 1969 01:46:39.079 --> 01:46:41.800 once a year, just when you're redoing and changing colors 1970 01:46:41.840 --> 01:46:43.920 out or something. If you can do that, do that 1971 01:46:44.800 --> 01:46:46.840 and then keep your mulch up on top of the soil. 1972 01:46:46.880 --> 01:46:48.600 I hope that helps. I'm sorry I have to run, 1973 01:46:48.640 --> 01:46:52.880 but good luck with that situation. Our phone number seven 1974 01:46:52.920 --> 01:46:56.039 one three two fifty eight seventy four. I'll be right back. 1975 01:46:57.239 --> 01:46:59.800 Welcome back to the guard Line. Good to have you 1976 01:46:59.840 --> 01:47:02.279 with us this morning. We are hopping here this morning. 1977 01:47:02.279 --> 01:47:05.439 We're gonna keep going here. Let's see, we're gonna go 1978 01:47:05.560 --> 01:47:10.119 now out to John in Brownsville. Hello John, Welcome to 1979 01:47:10.119 --> 01:47:10.600 guard Line. 1980 01:47:11.600 --> 01:47:12.520 Yes, sir, good morning. 1981 01:47:13.479 --> 01:47:16.479 I heard a lady asking you to identify a plant 1982 01:47:16.560 --> 01:47:19.640 a few calls ago, and it got me to thinking, 1983 01:47:19.800 --> 01:47:23.840 have you tried or would you recommend those Plant Identify 1984 01:47:23.880 --> 01:47:25.560 your apps that you can get on your phone. 1985 01:47:28.119 --> 01:47:29.920 Have I done something? Yes, I have done some. 1986 01:47:30.720 --> 01:47:32.439 Can you hear me, yes, sir? 1987 01:47:33.239 --> 01:47:38.560 Hello? Okay, yes, sir, so I have done some. I 1988 01:47:38.840 --> 01:47:40.520 messed around with them for a while. I didn't buy 1989 01:47:40.560 --> 01:47:42.600 the app. I did the free version, you know, on 1990 01:47:42.720 --> 01:47:45.800 simper ones. I've tried. Oh gosh, what are some of 1991 01:47:45.800 --> 01:47:49.239 the ones? Oh, photo apps? Let me see. I was 1992 01:47:49.239 --> 01:47:53.159 just gonna look on my phone. No, nope, they're not there. Snapseed. 1993 01:47:53.239 --> 01:47:56.079 I tried that one. There's some others I'm trying. I 1994 01:47:56.079 --> 01:47:58.279 can't think of the names of them now. And they 1995 01:47:58.279 --> 01:48:01.079 were okay, they did pretty good on certain kinds of plants. 1996 01:48:01.159 --> 01:48:02.479 You know, if you've got a native plant in the 1997 01:48:02.520 --> 01:48:06.920 woods here in Texas, you probably are not going to 1998 01:48:06.960 --> 01:48:08.600 find the enter on some of those. They're just not 1999 01:48:08.720 --> 01:48:12.000 geared for that. I tell you what I use almost 2000 01:48:12.159 --> 01:48:15.640 all the time, though, and that is Google Lens. If 2001 01:48:15.640 --> 01:48:18.039 you have the Google app on an Android or an iPhone, 2002 01:48:18.079 --> 01:48:20.560 the Google app, you go to Google App, there's a 2003 01:48:20.600 --> 01:48:23.880 little kind of a square with the Google colors and 2004 01:48:23.920 --> 01:48:25.560 the dot in the middle. It's part of the search 2005 01:48:26.039 --> 01:48:29.399 and that does a search for an image. You can 2006 01:48:29.439 --> 01:48:31.800 search with your phone by pointing your phone at the plant, 2007 01:48:31.920 --> 01:48:33.359 or you can take a picture of the plant and 2008 01:48:33.399 --> 01:48:36.239 search the use the photo as your search. The other 2009 01:48:36.359 --> 01:48:42.680 thing I like to use is john is the Google 2010 01:48:42.760 --> 01:48:46.039 I mean, sorry, the Apple itself. If you go to 2011 01:48:46.279 --> 01:48:50.319 Apple Photos and you pick one of your photos, at 2012 01:48:50.359 --> 01:48:53.119 the bottom of the screen, there's a bunch of icons. 2013 01:48:53.199 --> 01:48:55.960 There's a heart and then one with an eye in it, 2014 01:48:56.039 --> 01:48:57.960 and the trash can right next to the trash can 2015 01:48:58.039 --> 01:49:00.640 that eye. When you click on that, we'll look at 2016 01:49:00.640 --> 01:49:02.520 the image and it will tell you what's in it. 2017 01:49:02.680 --> 01:49:05.119 And that. Both of those are so good that I 2018 01:49:05.199 --> 01:49:09.439 just haven't gone back to plant apps at all. They're 2019 01:49:09.479 --> 01:49:11.399 good for bugs too, by the bugs two. 2020 01:49:11.479 --> 01:49:15.159 By the way, oh wow, that would be awful. Okay. 2021 01:49:15.439 --> 01:49:18.880 The key to the key to using any app, including 2022 01:49:18.920 --> 01:49:21.760 the two my favorites, the Google Lens and then just 2023 01:49:21.800 --> 01:49:27.359 the the iPhone's natural ability to search is to make 2024 01:49:27.399 --> 01:49:31.039 sure that your photo shows what it is you're wanting 2025 01:49:31.439 --> 01:49:33.640 to ask about. In other words, if you have like 2026 01:49:33.680 --> 01:49:35.399 a whole bunch of plants at a garden center, and 2027 01:49:35.439 --> 01:49:37.279 you take a picture of the garden center, it doesn't 2028 01:49:37.319 --> 01:49:40.000 know what plants you're asking, and so getting up close 2029 01:49:40.079 --> 01:49:42.680 getting something maybe something dark behind it, so it really 2030 01:49:42.720 --> 01:49:46.199 sees the flower or the leave or whatever that helps 2031 01:49:46.239 --> 01:49:50.800 it to do a better job of identifying for you. 2032 01:49:50.840 --> 01:49:52.600 Well, I appreciate that, Thank you. 2033 01:49:54.119 --> 01:49:57.840 Yeah, sure, have fun out there. You're in Brownwood, Texas. 2034 01:49:57.920 --> 01:49:59.159 Huh oh, Brown's. 2035 01:50:00.119 --> 01:50:02.960 Still yes, Okay, it's very hot. 2036 01:50:04.680 --> 01:50:09.680 Okay, thanks a lot. I appreciate that. Appreciate the call 2037 01:50:09.880 --> 01:50:12.720 very much. Let's see here. Oh, I want to tell 2038 01:50:12.720 --> 01:50:16.000 you about Nelson Water Gardens. Nelson Water Gardens is outing Katie. 2039 01:50:16.359 --> 01:50:20.560 It's your West Houston independent garden center. It's your West 2040 01:50:20.600 --> 01:50:24.640 Houston destination garden center. And we got destination garden centers 2041 01:50:24.680 --> 01:50:26.760 here in the Greater Houston area. This one's the one 2042 01:50:26.760 --> 01:50:29.399 out west. You go to Katie, you turn north on 2043 01:50:29.479 --> 01:50:32.079 Katie Fort Ben Road and it's just a hop, skipping 2044 01:50:32.119 --> 01:50:34.039 or jump across the tracks on the right hand side, 2045 01:50:34.399 --> 01:50:37.239 easy to get to. Nelson Water Gardens and Nursery has 2046 01:50:37.239 --> 01:50:39.800 an outstanding selection on plants. They got some really good 2047 01:50:39.840 --> 01:50:42.399 deals on plants too. Right now by the way you 2048 01:50:42.399 --> 01:50:44.680 can get just to go check out their website. It's 2049 01:50:44.800 --> 01:50:50.199 Nelson Watergardens dot com. Nelson Watergardens dot Com. You're gonna 2050 01:50:50.239 --> 01:50:53.359 find a lot of great plants, and of course it's 2051 01:50:53.399 --> 01:50:59.319 a water garden. Beautiful beautiful fountains, those disappearing fountains where 2052 01:50:59.319 --> 01:51:02.960 it comes out of a a like a tall vase, 2053 01:51:03.039 --> 01:51:05.760 a glazed vase, and the water runs down, goes into gravel, 2054 01:51:05.800 --> 01:51:08.520 and then goes back up through the fountain. They invented that. 2055 01:51:08.640 --> 01:51:11.000 They've got it. They can install them for you. They 2056 01:51:11.000 --> 01:51:12.640 can tell you how to install them and save the 2057 01:51:12.680 --> 01:51:15.600 parts if you want to do that. Nelson Water Gardens 2058 01:51:16.000 --> 01:51:18.880 is a wonderful place to turn your backyard into the 2059 01:51:19.000 --> 01:51:23.199 kind of setting that is so nice and peaceful and 2060 01:51:23.239 --> 01:51:26.720 relaxing that attracts birds, just as sound of water attracts birds. 2061 01:51:26.720 --> 01:51:31.840 And Nelson Water Gardens and nursery out there in Katie, Texas. 2062 01:51:32.479 --> 01:51:35.279 I head over now to the Bear Creek area and 2063 01:51:35.319 --> 01:51:35.920 talk to Kay. 2064 01:51:35.960 --> 01:51:41.119 Hello, Okay, I I just heard you talking about trees 2065 01:51:41.199 --> 01:51:42.680 and shade and it made me think of a question 2066 01:51:42.720 --> 01:51:45.680 I've got for you. I had to have my beautiful 2067 01:51:45.720 --> 01:51:48.279 tree between me and the sun. 2068 01:51:48.119 --> 01:51:48.960 On the east side of my house. 2069 01:51:48.960 --> 01:51:50.159 I didn't have to take it down a few years 2070 01:51:50.159 --> 01:51:50.880 ago because it died. 2071 01:51:51.520 --> 01:51:53.880 They just cut it off at the ground. They cut 2072 01:51:53.920 --> 01:51:55.640 it off at the ground level. 2073 01:51:55.520 --> 01:51:58.039 And it's hotter than can be in this room now 2074 01:51:58.079 --> 01:52:02.000 because of that. So how close to that? It's not 2075 01:52:02.079 --> 01:52:04.119 a stomp, it's just you know, the root ball that's 2076 01:52:04.119 --> 01:52:06.439 still in the ground. How close or how far away 2077 01:52:06.479 --> 01:52:10.800 do I need to plant a new tree? 2078 01:52:10.920 --> 01:52:14.039 That's a good question. There's not a good They're not 2079 01:52:14.079 --> 01:52:17.399 a great black and white answer to that question. Uh, 2080 01:52:17.880 --> 01:52:20.359 you know, if you can move over, oh at least 2081 01:52:20.439 --> 01:52:23.560 four feet. The problem is if you if you stay 2082 01:52:23.600 --> 01:52:28.039 that close, you're digging into wood because those old giant 2083 01:52:28.119 --> 01:52:30.199 roots near the base of the tree are still there. 2084 01:52:30.279 --> 01:52:34.840 Did they they did grind it. You said you just 2085 01:52:34.880 --> 01:52:36.560 cut it off, Well they did. 2086 01:52:36.600 --> 01:52:38.359 They ground it down level with the ground, and it's 2087 01:52:38.399 --> 01:52:39.359 got grass cover over. 2088 01:52:39.479 --> 01:52:41.359 There's like there's no dent in the ground. 2089 01:52:42.680 --> 01:52:46.600 I think a really hard time. You're gonna have a 2090 01:52:46.640 --> 01:52:48.680 really hard time diggings. You're gonna have to get far. 2091 01:52:49.199 --> 01:52:52.560 Here's my answer, as close as you can where it's 2092 01:52:52.600 --> 01:52:56.600 possible to actually dig a hole. Okay, that's kind of 2093 01:52:56.600 --> 01:52:59.560 the answer. And those roots are gonna make you it's 2094 01:52:59.600 --> 01:53:02.800 gonna be eighty percent wood and twenty percent dirt. If 2095 01:53:02.800 --> 01:53:05.119 you get too close to it, so you're gonna have 2096 01:53:05.119 --> 01:53:07.640 to move away a little bit to do that. You know, 2097 01:53:07.760 --> 01:53:10.159 in the forest, it happens all the time. The tree 2098 01:53:10.199 --> 01:53:13.279 dies and falls and some little seedling sprouts up right 2099 01:53:13.319 --> 01:53:16.439 beside it, and as that old wood decomposes, it's just 2100 01:53:17.079 --> 01:53:20.680 more for the seedling to have, you know, the organic matter. 2101 01:53:20.760 --> 01:53:24.039 The microbes break it down and so it can grow 2102 01:53:24.119 --> 01:53:27.199 like that. It's more the practical of digging the hole 2103 01:53:27.319 --> 01:53:30.439 that That's also if they did a lot of grinding 2104 01:53:30.800 --> 01:53:33.279 and the soil was loosened, well, then we would have 2105 01:53:33.279 --> 01:53:35.159 the issue of that soil is going to settle. So 2106 01:53:35.199 --> 01:53:36.840 it's hard to plant a tree at the right rate 2107 01:53:36.880 --> 01:53:39.039 if it's going to end up dropping down several inches 2108 01:53:39.239 --> 01:53:40.479 in the next few months. 2109 01:53:40.960 --> 01:53:42.600 It's it's been a couple of years and it was 2110 01:53:42.640 --> 01:53:45.279 a big, old live oak, so I'm sure there's a 2111 01:53:45.640 --> 01:53:48.640 pretty decent sized system under there still. 2112 01:53:48.840 --> 01:53:51.159 Yeah, I bet there is. I bet there is. Well, 2113 01:53:51.239 --> 01:53:53.880 go buy a few sticks of dynamite and get your 2114 01:53:53.920 --> 01:53:55.880 new tree, and I think we can make it. We 2115 01:53:55.920 --> 01:53:57.960 can make it work. Oh, it's going to make the 2116 01:53:58.000 --> 01:54:02.319 neighborhood library one evening. They won't mind, they won't mind. 2117 01:54:02.960 --> 01:54:03.279 I live. 2118 01:54:03.359 --> 01:54:05.560 I live in an area where they shoot fireworks all 2119 01:54:05.600 --> 01:54:06.920 the time, so you know they. 2120 01:54:06.840 --> 01:54:10.279 Won't even You can volunteer. You can volunteer to place 2121 01:54:10.319 --> 01:54:12.119 the broken windows up and down the street. 2122 01:54:12.159 --> 01:54:12.479 And so. 2123 01:54:14.359 --> 01:54:17.359 All right, thank you very much. 2124 01:54:17.880 --> 01:54:20.079 I stay out of trouble. I did not say that 2125 01:54:20.159 --> 01:54:23.079 on the air, did I. Oh my gosh, bye bye, 2126 01:54:24.279 --> 01:54:29.279 there you go. Hush money. I like that a lot. Okay, well, 2127 01:54:29.319 --> 01:54:32.359 we are about to have music up here here on 2128 01:54:32.560 --> 01:54:34.560 guard Line because it's the end of the hour. It's 2129 01:54:34.640 --> 01:54:39.239 time to take a break. Uh medicea medici see I 2130 01:54:39.239 --> 01:54:42.880 believe as I pronounced it in Montgomery. You'll be Marisila. Okay, 2131 01:54:42.880 --> 01:54:45.079 you'll be the first up when we come back. Hang 2132 01:54:45.119 --> 01:54:47.439 on with us. We'll be right back with you for 2133 01:54:47.479 --> 01:54:50.680 the rest of you. Don't forget new publications on the 2134 01:54:50.720 --> 01:54:53.720 website that you need. If you've ever had nut sech, 2135 01:54:54.159 --> 01:54:57.319 if you've ever used fell language trying to control nut sedge, 2136 01:54:57.520 --> 01:55:00.600 stop it. I can fix that. Go to gardening with 2137 01:55:01.000 --> 01:55:05.479 Skip dot com and read the publication, the in depth 2138 01:55:05.560 --> 01:55:08.239 publication if you would. I've got two, one short one long. 2139 01:55:08.840 --> 01:55:12.600 Read the long one because it helps you understand why 2140 01:55:12.840 --> 01:55:15.520 and what you're doing. It's more than just saying, oh, 2141 01:55:15.520 --> 01:55:20.000 go spray this herbicide. That that's helpful. But done at 2142 01:55:20.039 --> 01:55:21.560 the wrong time of the year, done at the wrong 2143 01:55:21.600 --> 01:55:25.720 stage of growth, done on the wrong type of nutsedge, 2144 01:55:26.399 --> 01:55:28.640 you may not have a good success. We want you 2145 01:55:28.680 --> 01:55:30.600 to have success. That's why I put it up there. 2146 01:55:30.640 --> 01:55:34.920 Also up there is the weed wiper tool. How to 2147 01:55:35.000 --> 01:55:39.000 make a homemade weed wiper with sponges so that you 2148 01:55:39.039 --> 01:55:40.960 can put a little herbicide on the sponge and not 2149 01:55:41.119 --> 01:55:43.199 spray all over the place on your good plants, and 2150 01:55:43.479 --> 01:55:45.880 just retry it in there and get it just on 2151 01:55:46.239 --> 01:55:51.079 the weed. All on the website. 2152 01:55:51.880 --> 01:55:55.920 Welcome to KTRH Guarden Line with Skip rictor. 2153 01:56:04.479 --> 01:56:30.520 Just watch him as all. 2154 01:56:18.359 --> 01:56:22.520 Right, welcome back to garden Line. Let's just jump right 2155 01:56:22.560 --> 01:56:25.119 in here and get going again. We got got plenty 2156 01:56:25.119 --> 01:56:27.359 more to talk about today. By the way, this is 2157 01:56:27.399 --> 01:56:30.720 the last hour of garden Line on this weekend. We're 2158 01:56:30.720 --> 01:56:33.720 here every Saturday from six to ten in the morning. 2159 01:56:33.840 --> 01:56:36.800 Every Sunday from six to ten in the morning. Tell 2160 01:56:36.840 --> 01:56:39.880 your neighbors about it. You've heard today. We calls from 2161 01:56:39.920 --> 01:56:42.960 other states and other parts of the state. Here in Texas. 2162 01:56:43.640 --> 01:56:46.840 People listen and we help whoever We can however, we can, 2163 01:56:47.000 --> 01:56:49.800 so we do love to get the word out, tell 2164 01:56:49.840 --> 01:56:53.279 folks about garden Line and continue to listen. Thank you 2165 01:56:53.319 --> 01:56:55.800 for being a listener. I appreciate that we're going to 2166 01:56:55.880 --> 01:56:59.079 head out now to Montgomery, Texas and talk to Is 2167 01:56:59.119 --> 01:57:00.560 it Maricia. 2168 01:57:01.600 --> 01:57:02.600 Uh, Marisella? 2169 01:57:03.279 --> 01:57:09.079 Yes, good morning, Maroslla. 2170 01:57:10.039 --> 01:57:11.720 Thank you Skip. 2171 01:57:11.960 --> 01:57:15.439 Is it too late to apply nitropalls bug out next 2172 01:57:15.520 --> 01:57:18.359 to my flower beds to control grubs? 2173 01:57:21.600 --> 01:57:32.600 No, let me think just a minute. Probably here's the deal. 2174 01:57:33.239 --> 01:57:38.880 Grubs hatch out in this late spring and they feed 2175 01:57:38.920 --> 01:57:43.760 as little tiny grubs underneath the surface, and then as 2176 01:57:43.800 --> 01:57:47.000 it heats up, they go down deeper and deeper into 2177 01:57:47.000 --> 01:57:50.079 the soil. So when we treat them early on. If 2178 01:57:50.079 --> 01:57:53.560 you go to my lawn pest disease and we'd managed schedule, 2179 01:57:53.600 --> 01:57:55.920 and I realize that's for lawns, you're talking about flower beds. 2180 01:57:55.960 --> 01:57:57.880 But if you go there, you'll find out that we 2181 01:57:57.920 --> 01:58:01.279 have some products that we use when it is earlier 2182 01:58:01.319 --> 01:58:05.000 in the season, like June, and then we whenever it 2183 01:58:05.039 --> 01:58:08.920 gets later in the season, that's when the grubs get 2184 01:58:09.000 --> 01:58:11.720 a little bit older and we have to switch over 2185 01:58:11.960 --> 01:58:14.319 to some other things that will move down a little 2186 01:58:14.319 --> 01:58:17.159 bit further into the soil, you can give the bug 2187 01:58:17.159 --> 01:58:20.600 out Max a try. I think there are some things 2188 01:58:20.640 --> 01:58:22.720 that are going to move down a little bit deeper 2189 01:58:22.720 --> 01:58:26.159 in the soil, and you can also do that. But 2190 01:58:26.720 --> 01:58:28.439 let me ask a question first though. Are you just 2191 01:58:28.520 --> 01:58:30.880 finding a grub here and there or do you feel 2192 01:58:30.880 --> 01:58:33.640 like you're losing plants and you pull them up and 2193 01:58:33.680 --> 01:58:37.000 there's roots or full of grubs? Which is the situations 2194 01:58:37.000 --> 01:58:37.920 are you're seeing. 2195 01:58:37.640 --> 01:58:39.840 It's just here and there. 2196 01:58:40.000 --> 01:58:44.079 I applied the bug out Max to my lawn back 2197 01:58:44.119 --> 01:58:46.520 in June, but I failed to apply it to my 2198 01:58:46.680 --> 01:58:49.119 flower beds. And I don't have a lot of grubs 2199 01:58:49.199 --> 01:58:51.680 but I do want to keep them in check for 2200 01:58:51.760 --> 01:58:54.039 the last several years, so I have applied it back 2201 01:58:54.039 --> 01:58:54.680 in June. 2202 01:58:55.399 --> 01:58:57.039 I just happened to miss it this year. 2203 01:58:59.239 --> 01:59:05.279 Well, I would let me say this, if you're looking 2204 01:59:05.319 --> 01:59:07.680 at a lawn and you talk to a turf specialist, 2205 01:59:07.720 --> 01:59:10.399 they're going to tell you that you need to have 2206 01:59:10.840 --> 01:59:14.560 five to seven grubs per square foot in order for 2207 01:59:14.640 --> 01:59:17.439 it to be doing enough damage to warrant needing to 2208 01:59:17.479 --> 01:59:20.079 control it. So it's not just I saw a grub 2209 01:59:20.079 --> 01:59:22.680 in the lawn, it's there's a lot of them. Right. 2210 01:59:23.000 --> 01:59:25.800 I don't know that anybody has developed the number like 2211 01:59:25.840 --> 01:59:28.760 that for flower beds. But just because you see a 2212 01:59:28.800 --> 01:59:31.359 grub here and there, it doesn't mean you need to treat. Now, 2213 01:59:31.359 --> 01:59:33.560 there's nothing wrong with treating. If you want to treat, 2214 01:59:34.199 --> 01:59:38.319 you know, that's fine. Uh, just just know that just 2215 01:59:38.399 --> 01:59:42.720 because there's a grub doesn't necessarily warrant having to put 2216 01:59:42.720 --> 01:59:45.600 something down on it. So just something to think about. 2217 01:59:46.840 --> 01:59:49.439 Great, Okay, Well, thank you so very much. 2218 01:59:50.800 --> 01:59:54.319 All right, good luck up there, Montgomery. You've got a 2219 01:59:54.439 --> 01:59:56.560 and a plants and produce not very far away. I 2220 01:59:56.760 --> 01:59:58.119 wish I lived that close to it. 2221 01:59:58.720 --> 02:00:00.439 That's all I do. I enjoyed place. 2222 02:00:01.920 --> 02:00:05.560 Yeah, no kidding, all right, well, thank you very much 2223 02:00:05.720 --> 02:00:10.720 for your call. Yeah, those kind of products, by the way, 2224 02:00:10.760 --> 02:00:13.439 you can get nitro foss. She was talking about the 2225 02:00:13.439 --> 02:00:16.439 bugout Max. You can get that at ACE Hardware. I 2226 02:00:16.479 --> 02:00:18.159 was talking about different products. And you go to my 2227 02:00:18.239 --> 02:00:21.600 schedule and look at lawn pest Disease and Weed Management schedule, 2228 02:00:21.600 --> 02:00:24.840 and you'll see a bunch of things for chinchbugs, for 2229 02:00:24.920 --> 02:00:29.359 solid web worms, for grubs, for various diseases in the lawn. 2230 02:00:29.439 --> 02:00:32.640 They're all listed there, organic and synthetic and you know 2231 02:00:32.720 --> 02:00:36.560 what they're Alladays Hardware. You go to ACE Hardware and 2232 02:00:37.600 --> 02:00:41.880 you find whatever you need to cure what ails you 2233 02:00:41.960 --> 02:00:43.840 if you want to think of it that way, for weeds, 2234 02:00:43.880 --> 02:00:45.760 for insects, for diseases. Do you want to make your 2235 02:00:45.800 --> 02:00:49.640 lawn pretty? Ingreen, I talk about fertilizers, they're Holliday's Hardware. 2236 02:00:49.680 --> 02:00:51.560 If I talk about wrong guardline, you're going to find 2237 02:00:51.600 --> 02:00:55.039 them there. Ace Hardware is everywhere, forty stores in the 2238 02:00:55.079 --> 02:00:59.119 greater Houston area. Easy to find one, very easy driving distance. 2239 02:00:59.159 --> 02:01:03.560 If not across those from you go to Acehardware dot Com. 2240 02:01:03.840 --> 02:01:08.560 Acehardware dot Com, find the store locator and there you go. 2241 02:01:08.720 --> 02:01:11.560 It's as simple as that, no matter what the products 2242 02:01:11.600 --> 02:01:15.039 you need are. And we're entering the season now. Before 2243 02:01:15.199 --> 02:01:18.159 long we'll be doing our fall fertilizations. ACE has got 2244 02:01:18.159 --> 02:01:21.359 those fertilizers. Before long, we're going to be doing the 2245 02:01:22.199 --> 02:01:26.439 weed preventatives in the fall, and ACE has got those. 2246 02:01:28.039 --> 02:01:31.439 They just have what you need. Ace is truly the place. 2247 02:01:32.560 --> 02:01:34.640 Puts set out to Wharton, Texas now and we're going 2248 02:01:34.720 --> 02:01:35.399 to talk to Ann. 2249 02:01:35.520 --> 02:01:41.159 Hello, Anne, good morning, have a fifteen You have a 2250 02:01:41.199 --> 02:01:45.359 fifteen year old eight to nine foot Texas Mountain Laurel. 2251 02:01:45.880 --> 02:01:50.159 It bloomed beautifully this year. However, all of a sudden, 2252 02:01:50.439 --> 02:01:56.960 it's now the limbs are dying in intermittently in the 2253 02:01:57.039 --> 02:02:00.359 tree and the top of the leaves looks like they 2254 02:02:00.359 --> 02:02:03.000 could have a scale issue. But I'm concerned about the 2255 02:02:03.720 --> 02:02:07.840 brown limbs dying. And there I did lose another one 2256 02:02:08.279 --> 02:02:09.560 a couple of years ago. 2257 02:02:12.399 --> 02:02:15.880 Well, when the whole limb dies and the rest of 2258 02:02:15.880 --> 02:02:19.199 the tree at that point is still green, we got 2259 02:02:19.239 --> 02:02:24.239 a plumbing problem. So one of the worst things that 2260 02:02:24.439 --> 02:02:26.640 can happen to Texas Mountain Laurel is to go in 2261 02:02:26.680 --> 02:02:30.000 a swamp. And you know it's native to central Texas. 2262 02:02:30.000 --> 02:02:33.560 It grows on those limestone cliffs and bluffs and things. Yes, 2263 02:02:33.800 --> 02:02:37.239 it's a very tough plant, but when we put it 2264 02:02:37.239 --> 02:02:39.920 in a heavy clay soil with our typical amount of 2265 02:02:40.000 --> 02:02:43.239 rain over here, it can have problems. The roots just 2266 02:02:43.279 --> 02:02:45.560 aren't able to tolerate that. That's why we say put 2267 02:02:45.560 --> 02:02:48.399 them high and dry, meaning a raised mound that's going 2268 02:02:48.439 --> 02:02:50.800 to drain away well, and they'll do just fine. So 2269 02:02:50.840 --> 02:02:54.119 it could be a sm moisture excess that they're dealing with. 2270 02:02:54.920 --> 02:02:57.640 Anything that would plug the plumbing. You know, of course 2271 02:02:57.680 --> 02:03:01.640 physical root damage could do that. But sometimes we'll see 2272 02:03:01.960 --> 02:03:04.119 you may see something like a borer in a branch 2273 02:03:04.199 --> 02:03:07.279 that essentially is chewing through the tissues that are taking 2274 02:03:07.319 --> 02:03:10.359 water up and down. It could be something like that. 2275 02:03:10.720 --> 02:03:14.640 You just want to prune those out. I don't know 2276 02:03:14.880 --> 02:03:19.279 of a specific soil root rot that attacks those. There's 2277 02:03:19.279 --> 02:03:22.880 probably one, but I don't know of one. So I 2278 02:03:22.920 --> 02:03:26.119 think soil moisture is the thing I'd be most concerned about. 2279 02:03:26.119 --> 02:03:27.840 Prone out. The dead is not going to come back 2280 02:03:27.880 --> 02:03:32.039 to life, and then hopefully it'll continue on. Just watch 2281 02:03:32.079 --> 02:03:32.520 that water. 2282 02:03:33.960 --> 02:03:37.840 Okay, well, it's probably from the excess rain that we had. 2283 02:03:38.119 --> 02:03:40.479 But getting back to the scale, what do I do 2284 02:03:40.560 --> 02:03:43.199 for that? On the top may on the top of 2285 02:03:43.239 --> 02:03:45.039 the leaves. 2286 02:03:47.319 --> 02:03:50.600 There's not a scale insect that attacks the leaves of 2287 02:03:50.680 --> 02:03:56.039 Texas Mountain Laurel. There is an algal leaf spot. Are 2288 02:03:56.079 --> 02:03:58.560 these scale what you're calling scale? Is it a gray 2289 02:03:58.720 --> 02:04:00.560 colored area. 2290 02:04:00.239 --> 02:04:06.600 Yes, kind of spots. It's tiny covering the top, not 2291 02:04:06.600 --> 02:04:09.720 not specifically the back of the leaf, just the top. 2292 02:04:10.000 --> 02:04:14.640 Right, and that's the algol. That's the algyle leaf spot. 2293 02:04:14.800 --> 02:04:17.479 And uh, you know in our climate over here, it's 2294 02:04:17.640 --> 02:04:20.079 that can happen. A lot happens on southern magnolias too, 2295 02:04:20.119 --> 02:04:22.880 by the way, But I would tell you what if 2296 02:04:22.920 --> 02:04:25.000 you want. And but when you're done here with this call, 2297 02:04:25.039 --> 02:04:27.840 I'm gonna put you on hold and have Chris give 2298 02:04:27.920 --> 02:04:30.880 you an email. And if you'll take some good close 2299 02:04:30.960 --> 02:04:33.800 up pictures, make sure they're in sharp focus. First of all, 2300 02:04:33.840 --> 02:04:35.319 show me the whole plan. I want to see those 2301 02:04:35.399 --> 02:04:38.000 dying branches and where they are. But then get up 2302 02:04:38.000 --> 02:04:40.039 to those leaves and show me that. And I want 2303 02:04:40.039 --> 02:04:43.159 to make sure that I'm right about the algle leaf spot. 2304 02:04:43.199 --> 02:04:44.960 I think I am, but I want to be sure, 2305 02:04:45.000 --> 02:04:46.680 So send me, send me a photo, and I'll be 2306 02:04:46.680 --> 02:04:48.560 happy to take it to the next step if you like. 2307 02:04:49.520 --> 02:04:50.319 Takes a bunch. 2308 02:04:52.039 --> 02:04:53.479 All right, here we go. We're gonna put you on 2309 02:04:53.479 --> 02:04:56.319 hold and Chris will be right with you. Good luck 2310 02:04:56.319 --> 02:04:59.000 with that, you know, Texas. Mount Laurel is a wonderful, 2311 02:04:59.199 --> 02:05:01.319 wonderful plant. I want to talk about a little bit 2312 02:05:01.319 --> 02:05:03.399 when we come back, but it is if you like 2313 02:05:03.479 --> 02:05:06.600 to plant things for fragrance, that is a good plant 2314 02:05:06.640 --> 02:05:11.560 for that. We'll be right back. Welcome back to garden line. Hey, 2315 02:05:11.600 --> 02:05:14.439 We're glad you're listening. Today, we are here to answer 2316 02:05:14.479 --> 02:05:16.439 your gardening questions, try to help you have a more 2317 02:05:16.479 --> 02:05:20.560 beautiful and bountiful gardening landscape. That would be a goal 2318 02:05:20.640 --> 02:05:22.479 that I have at least in the deal. You can 2319 02:05:22.520 --> 02:05:25.039 give us a call at seven one three two one 2320 02:05:25.079 --> 02:05:28.560 two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one 2321 02:05:28.680 --> 02:05:31.960 two five eight seven four. I was just about to 2322 02:05:32.000 --> 02:05:34.359 head out to sugar Land, and I see we had 2323 02:05:34.439 --> 02:05:36.960 not one of those call drops. We're to figure out 2324 02:05:37.000 --> 02:05:39.760 what's going on with that kind of thing. Uh, If 2325 02:05:39.800 --> 02:05:44.359 you have been looking for a way to come up 2326 02:05:44.399 --> 02:05:49.239 with more, more interest, more color, more beauty for your landscape, 2327 02:05:49.520 --> 02:05:52.479 I think that it is important to recognize the fact 2328 02:05:52.479 --> 02:05:55.239 that every plant has its pros and cons and every 2329 02:05:55.239 --> 02:05:59.640 plant has its seasons. Perennials are nice because they really 2330 02:05:59.680 --> 02:06:02.359 look go and they go through their season and that 2331 02:06:02.479 --> 02:06:05.800 season is limited and then they die down or they 2332 02:06:05.840 --> 02:06:09.680 just quit blooming or whatever. And so that's not something's 2333 02:06:09.720 --> 02:06:11.520 going to give you color all year, but that's part 2334 02:06:11.520 --> 02:06:15.600 of the mix and having a beautiful landscape. Perennials and plus, 2335 02:06:15.640 --> 02:06:17.640 you buy them once and you want to buy them again. 2336 02:06:17.720 --> 02:06:21.680 They just keep coming back. That's why we call them perennials. Annuals, 2337 02:06:21.720 --> 02:06:24.199 on the other hand, can give you instant color, and 2338 02:06:24.239 --> 02:06:26.680 you can change your annuals out twice a year, like 2339 02:06:26.720 --> 02:06:31.199 spring and summer. You can change them out four times 2340 02:06:31.239 --> 02:06:34.359 a year. I mean, we call those color changes. So 2341 02:06:34.640 --> 02:06:39.560 if you're let's say you put the petunias in in 2342 02:06:39.600 --> 02:06:42.000 the spring, and by summer it's like, yeah, they're not 2343 02:06:42.079 --> 02:06:44.199 real happy to be here in the summer, then you 2344 02:06:44.239 --> 02:06:46.720 just change them out, put in angelonias or something else 2345 02:06:46.760 --> 02:06:48.680 that can take the heat of summer. And then when 2346 02:06:48.680 --> 02:06:50.600 we get to the end, you can put in marigols 2347 02:06:50.640 --> 02:06:52.760 to go into the fall, because they just glow in 2348 02:06:52.800 --> 02:06:55.720 the fall, they're beautiful. And then when it comes cool season, 2349 02:06:55.760 --> 02:06:57.800 you put in your pansies and violasm and listen and 2350 02:06:57.800 --> 02:07:00.279 snapdragons and all those other kinds. You can do color 2351 02:07:00.359 --> 02:07:02.680 changes all the time, but it comes at a cost 2352 02:07:02.720 --> 02:07:06.039 because you're constantly rebuying flats of plants to add the color. 2353 02:07:06.359 --> 02:07:08.359 Then we have our shrubs. But the thing that gets 2354 02:07:08.439 --> 02:07:14.479 neglected most is foliage. Foliage, especially in the summer, can 2355 02:07:14.520 --> 02:07:17.880 give you outstanding color at a time when blooms are 2356 02:07:17.920 --> 02:07:22.199 not as plentiful as they are in spring. So by foliage, 2357 02:07:22.239 --> 02:07:25.960 things like Joseph's coat, things like purple foliage of Persian 2358 02:07:26.000 --> 02:07:31.399 shield or the purple foliage of Secretia pallida. That those 2359 02:07:31.439 --> 02:07:37.720 are great plants. The coppery foliage of copper plants standing 2360 02:07:37.720 --> 02:07:42.920 at colius and kalladiums. Oh my gosh, so many colors 2361 02:07:42.920 --> 02:07:46.479 of foliage from colius and koladium. A beef steak plant 2362 02:07:46.560 --> 02:07:49.680 with its red, reddish flowers, and don't forget whites of 2363 02:07:49.720 --> 02:07:52.520 color too, and areas that are very shady and dark 2364 02:07:52.600 --> 02:07:55.399 white brightens it up and brings the eye in there 2365 02:07:55.640 --> 02:07:59.720 as tech grass, which is a loriape tight plant with 2366 02:08:00.039 --> 02:08:03.520 green and white striped leaves, can lead your eye around 2367 02:08:03.520 --> 02:08:05.199 a bed if you use it to border a bed, 2368 02:08:05.319 --> 02:08:07.159 or down a pathway if you use it to border 2369 02:08:07.159 --> 02:08:11.239 the pathway. Foliage, foliage, foliage, don't forget the foliage. That's 2370 02:08:11.279 --> 02:08:13.720 an important way that we bring color in. I like 2371 02:08:13.800 --> 02:08:19.720 the canna called phasian are also called tropic canna. It 2372 02:08:19.800 --> 02:08:23.680 has oh gosh, what are the colors? Yellow, it's got green, 2373 02:08:23.720 --> 02:08:26.199 it's got yellow, it's got a bronzing color in it. 2374 02:08:26.199 --> 02:08:30.079 It's just multiple colors that fade in and out across 2375 02:08:30.159 --> 02:08:33.079 that leaf. Very beautiful bolt. Even if the cana didn't 2376 02:08:33.119 --> 02:08:35.640 have blooms on it, which it does, it would still 2377 02:08:35.680 --> 02:08:38.520 be beautiful to plant. So just a tip there for 2378 02:08:38.640 --> 02:08:42.800 foliage color, especially in this hot season that we're dealing with, 2379 02:08:43.239 --> 02:08:46.720 you you should or for color, you should consider foliage 2380 02:08:46.960 --> 02:08:50.000 because it is a good dependable part of that overall 2381 02:08:50.079 --> 02:08:52.880 mix to have color in your landscape, and we should 2382 02:08:52.880 --> 02:08:54.920 have color through the year. We can do that here 2383 02:08:54.960 --> 02:08:57.960 in our area. We're going to head out now to Sugarland, 2384 02:08:58.000 --> 02:09:00.279 Texas and talk to Carol. 2385 02:09:01.800 --> 02:09:05.279 Yes, good morning. I've sent to a little by text 2386 02:09:05.439 --> 02:09:10.079 treaty last October and it's doing really well. But some 2387 02:09:10.199 --> 02:09:14.239 of the branches are trying to grow horizontally, and I 2388 02:09:14.359 --> 02:09:16.800 just wonder if there's a way to encourage them or 2389 02:09:16.840 --> 02:09:21.000 to force them to grow more vertically so it's taller 2390 02:09:21.159 --> 02:09:22.640 rather than wider. 2391 02:09:25.199 --> 02:09:28.640 Just by pruning it, just by doing the selected pruning. 2392 02:09:28.720 --> 02:09:30.720 Leave things that are going upright, cut off things that 2393 02:09:30.720 --> 02:09:34.880 are going sideways. Vtex is a difficult plant to shape. 2394 02:09:35.000 --> 02:09:37.439 It's not like a crack, which is easy to shape. 2395 02:09:37.479 --> 02:09:41.079 As it's growing, vtex wants to get wonky. You know. 2396 02:09:42.000 --> 02:09:43.840 I tried to prune one up one time, and when 2397 02:09:43.880 --> 02:09:45.359 I got through it that it looked more like a 2398 02:09:45.479 --> 02:09:48.399 zigzag than a trunk going up because it just is 2399 02:09:48.439 --> 02:09:52.800 always going the wrong way. That's my opinion. So just 2400 02:09:52.880 --> 02:09:54.800 do the best you can in shaping it like that. 2401 02:09:55.119 --> 02:09:59.079 Most people leave them as multi stem shrubs. Some people 2402 02:09:59.119 --> 02:10:01.239 like to try to cre et a trunk to them 2403 02:10:01.279 --> 02:10:03.520 with a top. You just have to get in it 2404 02:10:03.600 --> 02:10:06.640 early and stay with them because they are not easy. 2405 02:10:07.359 --> 02:10:09.920 They don't cooperate well with our attempts to train them. 2406 02:10:11.199 --> 02:10:15.439 Okay, thank you. 2407 02:10:13.680 --> 02:10:19.039 You bet you bet iex I tex agnes castis that's 2408 02:10:19.119 --> 02:10:21.840 the proper name for it. It typically is going to 2409 02:10:21.880 --> 02:10:24.720 have blue flowers. But I'm telling you you want something 2410 02:10:24.720 --> 02:10:28.000 that blooms through summer as long as you cut it 2411 02:10:28.039 --> 02:10:30.800 back because it'll make little seed pods and the energy 2412 02:10:30.840 --> 02:10:32.159 you don't want to go in there. The minute the 2413 02:10:32.159 --> 02:10:34.720 bloom spade cut it. Wherever you cut it, it's going 2414 02:10:34.760 --> 02:10:36.640 to send out two new shoots with new seed pods 2415 02:10:36.840 --> 02:10:40.720 or new bloom pods bloom stalks on them. And so 2416 02:10:40.760 --> 02:10:43.279 if I tax a great plant for many reasons, but 2417 02:10:43.880 --> 02:10:47.239 it has its drawbacks. We're going to now go to 2418 02:10:47.840 --> 02:10:53.640 Carol in Southwest Houston. Hello Carol, Welcome to garden line. 2419 02:10:53.920 --> 02:10:58.119 I'm having a problem with my okra budgs. They're covered 2420 02:10:58.159 --> 02:11:01.039 with tiny, tiny, tiny white specks. 2421 02:11:02.680 --> 02:11:08.560 Okay, well, a couple of things. Okra produces a little drop, 2422 02:11:08.640 --> 02:11:12.760 a little round ball drop. It's a sap like substance 2423 02:11:12.880 --> 02:11:16.159 that occurs on the outsides of parts of the different 2424 02:11:16.199 --> 02:11:21.840 parts of the ocra plant. But also okra can attract aphids, 2425 02:11:22.239 --> 02:11:26.199 and aphids will cast their skin like a snake grows 2426 02:11:26.199 --> 02:11:28.640 out of its skin and sheds its skin, gets a 2427 02:11:28.680 --> 02:11:32.279 new set new skin. Aphids do that, and when the 2428 02:11:32.319 --> 02:11:34.960 once are left behind, they look like little tiny white 2429 02:11:35.039 --> 02:11:38.800 things all over the plants. And so you're going to 2430 02:11:38.840 --> 02:11:40.760 be seeing one of the two. If it's white, I 2431 02:11:40.760 --> 02:11:43.840 think it's probably aphid skins as opposed to the natural 2432 02:11:43.920 --> 02:11:47.319 little eggjudate that comes out of okra. 2433 02:11:49.920 --> 02:11:51.680 Do I need to worry about it? 2434 02:11:51.720 --> 02:11:53.359 Do I need to put something on it? 2435 02:11:54.720 --> 02:11:56.800 You do one or two things. You can use an 2436 02:11:56.800 --> 02:12:00.720 insecticidal soap, spread very early in the morning and it's cool, 2437 02:12:00.960 --> 02:12:03.760 spray and spray upward it because those aphids are gonna 2438 02:12:03.760 --> 02:12:06.399 be under the leaves is much or more than they're 2439 02:12:06.439 --> 02:12:08.520 on the leaves. They're gonna be on the around the 2440 02:12:08.560 --> 02:12:13.079 pod bays. They may be on the stems of tender 2441 02:12:13.119 --> 02:12:15.920 new growth and you just spray the soap all over 2442 02:12:15.960 --> 02:12:18.640 it and let it dry out before the hot, hot 2443 02:12:18.640 --> 02:12:22.279 sun comes out, and that will control them on a 2444 02:12:22.279 --> 02:12:24.359 lot of my plants. If I'm out there, and I 2445 02:12:24.359 --> 02:12:26.039 don't know how much OKRE you have, but if it's 2446 02:12:26.079 --> 02:12:28.439 not too many plants, you can just take that water 2447 02:12:28.479 --> 02:12:30.880 hose with a gun on the end and just blast 2448 02:12:30.960 --> 02:12:34.720 the suppers off. I mean, you don't eradicate everyone, but 2449 02:12:34.840 --> 02:12:37.399 you knock off all the loose aphen skins, and you 2450 02:12:37.479 --> 02:12:40.000 knock off a lot of the aphids that way, and 2451 02:12:40.039 --> 02:12:45.199 that keeps the force of the water. Yeah, but just 2452 02:12:45.279 --> 02:12:48.680 remember under the leaves, there's gonna be a lot of aphids, 2453 02:12:48.720 --> 02:12:50.960 So don't just spray up on top what you can see. 2454 02:12:51.039 --> 02:12:52.960 Flip those leaves over and you're gonna see a lot 2455 02:12:53.039 --> 02:12:53.800 underneath there. 2456 02:12:55.000 --> 02:12:57.119 Oh good, Okay, great, Thank you. 2457 02:12:58.520 --> 02:13:02.359 All right, Carolyn, Thank you preciate that. I do love okra, 2458 02:13:02.720 --> 02:13:06.359 absolutely do love Okrah. Hey last week was it last week? Yeah? 2459 02:13:06.399 --> 02:13:09.000 Last week I was talking to Ty Strickland. He's the 2460 02:13:09.000 --> 02:13:12.800 guy that owns fixed my slab foundation repair and one 2461 02:13:12.840 --> 02:13:15.439 of my daughters is buying a house, and they were 2462 02:13:15.479 --> 02:13:19.239 looking at an inspection on a house and some issues 2463 02:13:19.279 --> 02:13:22.279 that occurred, cracks in the house and whatnot. And I 2464 02:13:22.359 --> 02:13:24.359 just was picking Ty's brain because I'm telling the guy 2465 02:13:25.039 --> 02:13:29.880 knows his stuff. He's forgotten more about foundations than most 2466 02:13:29.880 --> 02:13:32.800 people know. And he's been doing this for twenty three 2467 02:13:32.880 --> 02:13:35.520 years here in the area. Fix my slab as a 2468 02:13:35.560 --> 02:13:37.800 professional service. And I like a lot of things about 2469 02:13:37.800 --> 02:13:43.399 guy Number one, Guy Tye very knowledgeable. Ty is very knowledgeable. 2470 02:13:43.439 --> 02:13:46.359 He knows this stuff. Number two he says he's going 2471 02:13:46.439 --> 02:13:49.199 to show up. He shows up on time. Oh my goodness, 2472 02:13:49.760 --> 02:13:52.279 How valuable is that in this day and time anybody's 2473 02:13:52.279 --> 02:13:54.359 sat around waiting for someone to show up at the house. 2474 02:13:54.800 --> 02:13:58.880 He fixes it, right, that's the most important thing, Right, 2475 02:13:59.199 --> 02:14:01.159 we need to fix it. And then a fair price. 2476 02:14:01.239 --> 02:14:03.640 This is also very important. Tight us. All of those 2477 02:14:03.640 --> 02:14:07.279 things tell him you're a guardline listener. Get a free estimate. Uh, 2478 02:14:07.520 --> 02:14:10.000 if you see doors sticking, if you see cracks in 2479 02:14:10.039 --> 02:14:12.800 the brick, cracks in the sheet rock, those are all 2480 02:14:12.840 --> 02:14:15.560 warning signs. Doesn't mean it's the end of the world. 2481 02:14:15.640 --> 02:14:17.720 Just call him to come out and look at it. 2482 02:14:17.760 --> 02:14:19.960 The sooner you catch things the better you are. And 2483 02:14:20.000 --> 02:14:21.800 he is not going to jump the gun and go, oh, 2484 02:14:21.840 --> 02:14:23.600 there's a tiny crack. We got to go in and 2485 02:14:23.600 --> 02:14:26.319 do thousands of dollars worth. He's not going to do that. 2486 02:14:26.960 --> 02:14:30.159 He's going to tell you exactly when it is a 2487 02:14:30.199 --> 02:14:33.159 situation that warrants the efforts to control it, he knows 2488 02:14:33.159 --> 02:14:35.840 how to do it. He can also advise you on 2489 02:14:35.920 --> 02:14:37.880 things like, hey, why don't to put a dripper around 2490 02:14:37.920 --> 02:14:39.840 the sides of the house to keep that soil from 2491 02:14:39.920 --> 02:14:43.119 shrinking and swelling and shrinking and swelling. That's what causes 2492 02:14:43.159 --> 02:14:46.520 a lot of our problems. Here's his website. Write this down, 2493 02:14:46.600 --> 02:14:52.159 go see him. Fixmslab dot com. Fixmyslab dot com. Here's 2494 02:14:52.199 --> 02:14:56.279 his phone number. Two eight one two fiy five forty 2495 02:14:56.359 --> 02:15:00.279 nine forty nine two eight one two five five four 2496 02:15:00.479 --> 02:15:04.279 nine four nine. We live in an area with a 2497 02:15:04.319 --> 02:15:07.039 lot of clay soils that move a lot, and when 2498 02:15:07.119 --> 02:15:09.680 we have that gully washer rains, they swell up and 2499 02:15:09.720 --> 02:15:12.520 then when it gets dry, which it's doing now, it's 2500 02:15:12.560 --> 02:15:15.520 hot and it's drying. Out to you about the things 2501 02:15:15.600 --> 02:15:17.560 that interest you. How can we help you have a 2502 02:15:17.600 --> 02:15:21.359 more beautiful, bountiful garden and landscape that's what we're about 2503 02:15:21.359 --> 02:15:25.239 here on garden Line. Let's head out to Rosenberg now 2504 02:15:25.399 --> 02:15:28.359 and we are going to talk to Teresa. Welcome to 2505 02:15:28.399 --> 02:15:31.199 garden Line. Teresa, Hello, Skip. 2506 02:15:32.520 --> 02:15:33.680 I appreciate your show. 2507 02:15:34.720 --> 02:15:36.039 My question is. 2508 02:15:37.439 --> 02:15:44.359 I have soggy it's soggy and I was trying to 2509 02:15:44.960 --> 02:15:47.840 clay soil and I was trying to find out what 2510 02:15:48.039 --> 02:15:51.359 type of tree would grow into that. What would you recommend? 2511 02:15:53.680 --> 02:15:55.159 Are you wanting a tree that's for. 2512 02:15:55.119 --> 02:16:03.000 Shade possibly shade or what are my options shade or 2513 02:16:03.079 --> 02:16:04.680 what's what's the option. 2514 02:16:05.439 --> 02:16:10.840 Well flowers or you know, I mean, it depends on 2515 02:16:10.840 --> 02:16:13.760 the size of the tree you want and stuff. Well, 2516 02:16:13.840 --> 02:16:16.119 if let me start with a good shade tree. Uh, 2517 02:16:16.359 --> 02:16:18.520 there is a red oak, a type of red oak 2518 02:16:18.560 --> 02:16:21.159 called nut tall oak, and you t t a l 2519 02:16:21.720 --> 02:16:25.800 not tall oak, and that's all. Oak will provide you 2520 02:16:26.119 --> 02:16:29.720 with a very good growth rate and it makes a 2521 02:16:29.800 --> 02:16:33.639 large spreading tree, very very nice for shade and things. 2522 02:16:34.079 --> 02:16:37.159 And it tolerates some soggy soil conditions. You know, it 2523 02:16:37.200 --> 02:16:39.319 doesn't want to live in a swamp like a cypress can. 2524 02:16:39.799 --> 02:16:41.920 But when you have periodic times or it stays a 2525 02:16:41.920 --> 02:16:44.319 little wet for too long, not tall oak can tolerate 2526 02:16:44.399 --> 02:16:46.479 that and it does really well. So that would be 2527 02:16:46.760 --> 02:16:48.680 that probably be the first one that comes to mind. 2528 02:16:49.440 --> 02:16:53.200 Uh so, yeah, we think about that. 2529 02:16:54.399 --> 02:16:59.719 Okay, I think that's a nice suggestion. Now what about 2530 02:16:59.760 --> 02:17:02.760 some I think that's pretty with flowers or anything. Is 2531 02:17:02.799 --> 02:17:05.760 there anything you would recommend? 2532 02:17:07.000 --> 02:17:11.120 I think let me when you when we're talking about 2533 02:17:11.159 --> 02:17:14.600 wet how wet I mean, is this like water stands 2534 02:17:14.600 --> 02:17:16.399 for a week after a rain or. 2535 02:17:17.280 --> 02:17:18.000 Something like that? 2536 02:17:18.280 --> 02:17:19.159 Described that. 2537 02:17:19.799 --> 02:17:24.399 Oh okay, it rains and it stays wet for days. 2538 02:17:24.799 --> 02:17:28.600 Okay. Well, another thing too, as we get to smaller 2539 02:17:28.680 --> 02:17:31.799 stature trees, things that aren't gonna get so huge, uh, 2540 02:17:32.000 --> 02:17:34.239 is you can you can bring in some soil, create 2541 02:17:34.239 --> 02:17:37.600 a raised mound a little bit, and plant on that 2542 02:17:37.879 --> 02:17:41.719 and then your your your pallette expands quite a bit. 2543 02:17:42.200 --> 02:17:44.360 Crape myrtles don't want to be in a swamp, but 2544 02:17:44.399 --> 02:17:47.239 they can take some periods of leaf wetness I mean 2545 02:17:47.280 --> 02:17:50.680 a root sogginess for a while. And crapes can be 2546 02:17:50.760 --> 02:17:53.879 anything from a five foot high little mini tree to 2547 02:17:54.120 --> 02:17:57.840 something thirty five feet high. And so you get to 2548 02:17:57.879 --> 02:18:00.399 pick the color of the bloom, you get to pick 2549 02:18:00.520 --> 02:18:04.479 the size of the plant. There's so many new crapes. 2550 02:18:04.559 --> 02:18:08.879 I did a I created a chart online years ago 2551 02:18:09.120 --> 02:18:11.360 on crape myrtles, and I had crepes from three feet 2552 02:18:11.399 --> 02:18:14.799 to thirty five feet, and I showed that the bloom color. 2553 02:18:14.920 --> 02:18:17.360 It showed whether it was resistance of powdery milde or not. 2554 02:18:17.520 --> 02:18:20.760 It showed you whether the bark was just standard putty 2555 02:18:20.760 --> 02:18:22.959 colored like most crapes, or if it had a kind 2556 02:18:22.959 --> 02:18:25.559 of a cinnamon colored bark. And if you do a 2557 02:18:25.600 --> 02:18:28.680 Google search and you put in my name Skip Richter 2558 02:18:28.879 --> 02:18:31.600 and you put in crape myrtle in a search, that 2559 02:18:31.719 --> 02:18:33.879 you're probably gonna come up with that one. Still, the 2560 02:18:33.920 --> 02:18:37.360 problem with that chart is it's older now. Those varieties, 2561 02:18:37.399 --> 02:18:39.840 most of them are still around, but there's a lot 2562 02:18:39.840 --> 02:18:42.000 of newer stuff that you can choose from. One of 2563 02:18:42.040 --> 02:18:45.319 these days, maybe I'll tackle it and try to re 2564 02:18:45.319 --> 02:18:54.079 revisit it. Okay, I see h yeah, like the earthquake 2565 02:18:54.120 --> 02:18:59.200 scale r I C H T E er. Okay, that's it. Uh, 2566 02:18:59.360 --> 02:19:02.760 let me think of what else. I'm thinking of. Things 2567 02:19:02.799 --> 02:19:05.639 that are more shrub like button bush grows in a swamp. 2568 02:19:06.479 --> 02:19:09.520 It has little round blooms that look like a little 2569 02:19:11.120 --> 02:19:13.280 you know, when fireworks go up in there explode and 2570 02:19:13.319 --> 02:19:15.799 go in all directions. That little blooms remind me of 2571 02:19:15.840 --> 02:19:18.600 that little round balls that have little things sticking out 2572 02:19:18.639 --> 02:19:21.159 from them. But it's not going to be a big tree. 2573 02:19:21.200 --> 02:19:24.360 It'll get up about twelve feet or so in time 2574 02:19:24.479 --> 02:19:26.120 if you do a lot of pruning on it, but 2575 02:19:26.200 --> 02:19:30.479 in general it's going to be smaller. Let's see swamps 2576 02:19:30.520 --> 02:19:34.959 for trees. Two below is one that has some fault color, 2577 02:19:35.559 --> 02:19:39.280 and if the conditions are right, Tupelow can provide you 2578 02:19:39.360 --> 02:19:44.840 with a good swamp tolerant tree. Not really easy to 2579 02:19:44.879 --> 02:19:47.760 find those because there's not a high demand for them, 2580 02:19:48.479 --> 02:19:51.319 but that would be one you might want to consider 2581 02:19:51.840 --> 02:19:53.680 a little bit of a stretch there compared to some 2582 02:19:53.719 --> 02:19:55.479 of the other things I'm suggesting. 2583 02:19:57.680 --> 02:20:00.840 Okay, Skip, thank you so much, all right, and we 2584 02:20:00.920 --> 02:20:04.440 appreciate that, we appreciate you, and we appreciate you here 2585 02:20:04.440 --> 02:20:06.600 in Texas. Take care, Thank you. 2586 02:20:06.639 --> 02:20:10.360 Well, thank you glad you feel that way. Thanks a lot. 2587 02:20:10.559 --> 02:20:15.440 I appreciate you for calling. Take care. Let's see, I 2588 02:20:15.959 --> 02:20:20.520 was yester day, I was I have a bird feeder 2589 02:20:20.639 --> 02:20:24.120 that takes pictures. Yeah, the birds come and when they 2590 02:20:24.120 --> 02:20:26.920 sit there, there's a camera and it takes a picture 2591 02:20:26.959 --> 02:20:29.000 and it sends it to my phone or it says, hey, 2592 02:20:29.000 --> 02:20:30.920 you had a visitor, and I'm going to look through 2593 02:20:30.959 --> 02:20:33.319 them and I see little videos and I've got the 2594 02:20:33.520 --> 02:20:37.719 scruffiest looking birds you've ever seen. So naturally, who do 2595 02:20:37.719 --> 02:20:41.600 I call Wabird's Unlimited. I just sent a quick cup 2596 02:20:41.680 --> 02:20:44.639 few pictures over to Rich from the Cypress store. You know, 2597 02:20:44.680 --> 02:20:48.559 there's six Warbirds Unlimited stores in Houston. That's just one 2598 02:20:48.600 --> 02:20:50.719 of the six stores here in the greater Houston area. 2599 02:20:50.760 --> 02:20:53.040 And I said, Rich, what's going on? Is this still 2600 02:20:53.120 --> 02:20:56.040 molting going on? Or you know my birds have the 2601 02:20:56.360 --> 02:20:59.520 some new disease that appeared. He said, no, I just molting. 2602 02:21:00.120 --> 02:21:03.319 There's still Boy, do they look horrible. Oh the cardinals 2603 02:21:03.399 --> 02:21:05.600 looked like you ran them through a weed eater or something. 2604 02:21:05.760 --> 02:21:10.159 That's just they're just all messed up. And that reminded 2605 02:21:10.200 --> 02:21:13.639 me that Wabirds has a number of high quality feeds. 2606 02:21:13.680 --> 02:21:15.840 You know, when a bird is molting, and our birds 2607 02:21:15.879 --> 02:21:18.440 are I mean I had let's see, I had a 2608 02:21:18.479 --> 02:21:20.959 blue jay in the picture. I had a type of 2609 02:21:21.000 --> 02:21:23.840 finch in the picture, and I had cardinals in the picture. 2610 02:21:24.159 --> 02:21:26.840 Well they're all molting. Well when they're doing that, they 2611 02:21:26.879 --> 02:21:28.479 just can't fly all over the place. I mean they're 2612 02:21:28.520 --> 02:21:32.239 getting new feathers. They're kind of wonky. Well, what you 2613 02:21:32.319 --> 02:21:34.760 need to do is give them something like nesting super 2614 02:21:34.799 --> 02:21:39.360 Blend from Wabirds Unlimited. Unfortunately I already was and I 2615 02:21:39.399 --> 02:21:42.000 believe in that food. It's really good. It's got things 2616 02:21:42.040 --> 02:21:45.399 like sunflower chips and peanuts and dried mealworm and bark 2617 02:21:45.479 --> 02:21:49.440 butter bits and sapflower nuts and all kinds of tree nuts. 2618 02:21:49.879 --> 02:21:53.120 It's just a super food. And that helps because you 2619 02:21:53.120 --> 02:21:55.600 know they can't go flying all over creation trying to 2620 02:21:55.600 --> 02:21:58.479 fight food. Put that in your feeder. Get them also, 2621 02:21:58.600 --> 02:22:01.479 by the way, from waburd you need to get their cylinders, 2622 02:22:01.680 --> 02:22:03.479 especially if you're going to go on a trip. You 2623 02:22:03.600 --> 02:22:05.639 use cylinders whether you're going on a trip or not. 2624 02:22:06.239 --> 02:22:10.360 But with a cylinder, it's a hard packed cylinder of food. 2625 02:22:10.879 --> 02:22:12.520 And you go on a trip and you come back 2626 02:22:12.559 --> 02:22:14.680 and is still there. Birds are picking the seeds out, 2627 02:22:14.799 --> 02:22:17.159 so they got something not like your feeder goes dry. 2628 02:22:17.920 --> 02:22:20.639 But it works really well. I like the cylinders because 2629 02:22:20.639 --> 02:22:22.639 if you put them kind of near a window you 2630 02:22:22.680 --> 02:22:25.399 can watch the birds. It takes them instead of flying 2631 02:22:25.440 --> 02:22:28.079 in getting a few seeds and flying away. It takes 2632 02:22:28.079 --> 02:22:30.040 them just a second to kind of peck those out 2633 02:22:30.079 --> 02:22:31.719 and you get a little more time to get to 2634 02:22:31.719 --> 02:22:37.200 watch your birds. Anyway. That's Wabirds Unlimited. Warbirds Unlimited is 2635 02:22:37.440 --> 02:22:43.280 six stores, WBU dot com, slash Houston, WBU dot com 2636 02:22:43.319 --> 02:22:48.040 slash Houston. You need to check them out. Okay, it's 2637 02:22:48.040 --> 02:22:50.159 time for me take another break, and we'll be right 2638 02:22:50.200 --> 02:22:52.840 back for our last segment. If you'd like to give 2639 02:22:52.879 --> 02:22:55.600 us a call seven one three two one two five 2640 02:22:55.639 --> 02:23:00.879 eight seven four. He appreciate you joining us today for 2641 02:23:01.040 --> 02:23:04.159 all kinds of gardening advice. I hope you're enjoying the show. 2642 02:23:04.200 --> 02:23:06.760 We try to keep it a little entertaining as well 2643 02:23:06.799 --> 02:23:08.639 as we go along, because hey, you got to have fun, 2644 02:23:08.719 --> 02:23:12.479 right and when we are gardeners, we have issues we 2645 02:23:12.520 --> 02:23:16.399 have to deal with that break our heart first of all, 2646 02:23:16.920 --> 02:23:20.840 when a plant dies, or when something decides to come 2647 02:23:20.879 --> 02:23:24.479 in and chomp on our plant, or something that's happened 2648 02:23:24.479 --> 02:23:27.399 to me. The night before I was going to go 2649 02:23:27.440 --> 02:23:30.799 out the next morning and picked my sweet corn. Every 2650 02:23:30.920 --> 02:23:34.040 raccoon in town got together sent theired. I think they 2651 02:23:34.079 --> 02:23:36.920 have text communication or something, because they all came and 2652 02:23:36.959 --> 02:23:42.559 they stripped my corn patch. That'll break your heart, fire ants, nuts, 2653 02:23:42.680 --> 02:23:44.680 edge bermuda grass in the flight. We have a lot 2654 02:23:44.760 --> 02:23:47.799 of things we have to do with hey. Challenges build character. 2655 02:23:48.159 --> 02:23:50.959 They make us stronger. But you got to laugh occasionally 2656 02:23:51.520 --> 02:23:53.760 along with doing the things you need to do to 2657 02:23:53.760 --> 02:23:55.559 get them under control. And we help you with that. 2658 02:23:56.399 --> 02:23:58.920 But gardening is a fun hobby, you know it really, 2659 02:23:59.280 --> 02:24:01.920 it just is. It's the kind of hobby that I 2660 02:24:02.040 --> 02:24:05.040 personally I think is one of the best ones to have. 2661 02:24:05.079 --> 02:24:07.959 And here's why. You can spend a lot of money 2662 02:24:08.040 --> 02:24:10.239 on any hobby. I mean, if you want to, if 2663 02:24:10.239 --> 02:24:12.719 you want to buy a bass boat or a deer lease, 2664 02:24:12.920 --> 02:24:16.559 or if you want to buy a very expensive, you know, 2665 02:24:16.680 --> 02:24:19.680 Troy built rototiller, you can spend it on gardening too. 2666 02:24:20.079 --> 02:24:22.399 Or you can do it for almost nothing. You can 2667 02:24:22.399 --> 02:24:25.360 do almost nothing save your own seeds. You can make 2668 02:24:25.399 --> 02:24:29.200 your own compost. I mean, it's for everybody. If you 2669 02:24:29.520 --> 02:24:32.719 are young and able bodied, you can do all kinds 2670 02:24:32.760 --> 02:24:34.799 of work out there in the garden, do it yourselfing 2671 02:24:35.360 --> 02:24:39.120 around the place. If you are getting up in ages 2672 02:24:39.360 --> 02:24:41.719 and just not able to do that kind of thing, 2673 02:24:41.879 --> 02:24:44.840 we have ergonomic tools. We have beds that bring things 2674 02:24:44.879 --> 02:24:47.680 up high where you can you can get access to 2675 02:24:47.719 --> 02:24:49.600 them without having to stoop and go up and down 2676 02:24:49.600 --> 02:24:53.680 and up and down. Gardenings for everybody, and it's mental health. 2677 02:24:53.959 --> 02:24:56.879 It really is mental health. I promise you that the 2678 02:24:56.959 --> 02:25:01.479 benefits are. If you've never gardened, I highly recommend you 2679 02:25:01.520 --> 02:25:04.479 give it a try, because that is there a chance 2680 02:25:04.479 --> 02:25:06.879 of being outside in nature and breathing fresh air and 2681 02:25:06.920 --> 02:25:11.319 getting some sunshine and just enjoying the outdoors. That is 2682 02:25:11.360 --> 02:25:14.600 physically and mentally helpful too. And then of course the 2683 02:25:14.639 --> 02:25:18.239 physical ability, you know, getting up, walking around, taking steps. 2684 02:25:18.719 --> 02:25:22.200 Even people that work in an office cubicle are told 2685 02:25:22.280 --> 02:25:24.159 you need to get up ever so many minutes and 2686 02:25:24.239 --> 02:25:26.120 walk around for a minute and before you go back 2687 02:25:26.159 --> 02:25:29.239 and sit down. Well, gardening is more than a walk 2688 02:25:29.280 --> 02:25:31.079 around a minute. I mean, you can just walk around 2689 02:25:31.120 --> 02:25:34.120 the yard and go back inside. But anytime you're doing 2690 02:25:34.159 --> 02:25:37.239 any kind of exercise like that, even if it's not 2691 02:25:37.520 --> 02:25:41.440 you know, physical, big physical exercise, it benefits you. And 2692 02:25:41.479 --> 02:25:43.760 that's gardening. And it's one of the reasons why I 2693 02:25:43.760 --> 02:25:47.479 say it is the best hobby there is, the best 2694 02:25:47.760 --> 02:25:51.719 absolute hobby there is. Now, I know that I'm biased, 2695 02:25:52.239 --> 02:25:55.079 but that don't make me wrong. You can be biased 2696 02:25:55.840 --> 02:26:00.120 and wrong, or you can be biased and right, and 2697 02:26:00.159 --> 02:26:03.680 I think I'm biased and right. All right, Well, you're 2698 02:26:03.719 --> 02:26:06.760 listening to Guardline our phone number seven one three fifty 2699 02:26:06.799 --> 02:26:08.520 eight seventy four. I got a few minutes left here 2700 02:26:08.520 --> 02:26:10.159 if you'd like, I think you can take another call 2701 02:26:10.200 --> 02:26:12.959 if somebody wanted to call in, Uh, just one please. 2702 02:26:13.159 --> 02:26:14.559 That's about how much time we got. 2703 02:26:15.000 --> 02:26:15.280 Uh. 2704 02:26:15.680 --> 02:26:20.840 Nelson Plant Food is a quality fertilizer producer. They've been 2705 02:26:20.879 --> 02:26:25.159 producing fertilizers for decades. A Dean and the team out there. 2706 02:26:25.600 --> 02:26:28.280 They've got their turf Star line that is for lawns. 2707 02:26:28.600 --> 02:26:31.959 Things like slow and Easy that last for months after 2708 02:26:31.959 --> 02:26:35.200 you put them out, gradually feeding your lawn a little 2709 02:26:35.200 --> 02:26:38.000 bit of nitrogen at a time, keeping it growing at 2710 02:26:38.040 --> 02:26:42.319 a nice, even smooth rate. That's a quality fertilizer. Bruce 2711 02:26:42.399 --> 02:26:44.840 is Bro also has a slow release to it, by 2712 02:26:44.879 --> 02:26:47.360 the way, it's not all fast release, but it puts 2713 02:26:47.360 --> 02:26:50.319 them a little bit more out early and then continues 2714 02:26:50.360 --> 02:26:54.239 to feed over time. That's an excellent fertilizer. Then they're 2715 02:26:54.440 --> 02:26:57.719 canisters are fertilizer, the jars are fertilizer. The plastic jars, 2716 02:26:57.840 --> 02:27:01.479 the screw lids. Uh, there's things like Nutri Star line, 2717 02:27:01.600 --> 02:27:05.079 things like the tree and Shrub I recommended that earlier today. 2718 02:27:05.680 --> 02:27:09.120 Tree and Shrub or a neutral star from Nelson's is 2719 02:27:09.159 --> 02:27:13.719 a general fertilizer for woody ornamentals, whether it's a deciduous 2720 02:27:13.799 --> 02:27:16.079 or evergreen tree. It's going to give about three to 2721 02:27:16.159 --> 02:27:19.440 four months per application. So if you've planted a tree 2722 02:27:19.440 --> 02:27:21.399 in the last two years, you should be using this 2723 02:27:21.520 --> 02:27:24.319 the tree and shrub on that tree on a regular basis. 2724 02:27:24.920 --> 02:27:26.879 You can do it now and then when we come 2725 02:27:26.920 --> 02:27:28.959 out and get into late spring, go ahead and do 2726 02:27:28.959 --> 02:27:32.239 it again because spring, early spring growth, excuse me, late 2727 02:27:32.280 --> 02:27:35.040 winter early spring growth is going to begin and you 2728 02:27:35.040 --> 02:27:37.760 want to get that down where it can provide the feeding. 2729 02:27:38.040 --> 02:27:40.760 And there's many many others in the Nutri Star line. 2730 02:27:40.760 --> 02:27:43.959 Then there's a color Star which is for flowering plants, 2731 02:27:44.440 --> 02:27:47.520 and these also are available in the reef. You can 2732 02:27:47.559 --> 02:27:51.440 refill the canisters. There's almost a dozen places around the 2733 02:27:51.440 --> 02:27:54.559 Greater Houston area that have the low canister refills where 2734 02:27:54.600 --> 02:27:56.879 you take your empty plastic jar and you pull the handle, 2735 02:27:57.159 --> 02:27:59.479 just like you're buying peanuts at the grocery store, right 2736 02:28:00.079 --> 02:28:01.760 little things. You pull the handle and put your bag 2737 02:28:01.840 --> 02:28:04.680 underneath it. Does that. It's a less expensive way to 2738 02:28:04.680 --> 02:28:08.120 buy fertilizer. Plus you're not throwing even more plastic in 2739 02:28:08.159 --> 02:28:10.000 the environment. We all know why we don't want to 2740 02:28:10.040 --> 02:28:14.719 do that. Nelson Plant food quality products for whatever plant 2741 02:28:14.760 --> 02:28:18.479 you're growing easy to find across the Greater Houston area. 2742 02:28:20.000 --> 02:28:23.760 I was talking earlier about the birds and my scruffy 2743 02:28:23.799 --> 02:28:29.120 birds that are in their process of molting. I'm going 2744 02:28:29.200 --> 02:28:31.959 to post a picture to our Facebook page. And by 2745 02:28:32.000 --> 02:28:34.760 the way, if you don't follow the garden Line Facebook, 2746 02:28:35.040 --> 02:28:37.479 you ought to because we're always putting stuff up there. 2747 02:28:37.799 --> 02:28:40.200 You'll be the first to know when I'm putting up 2748 02:28:40.239 --> 02:28:43.399 new publications because I announce them. They're on the Facebook 2749 02:28:43.399 --> 02:28:48.040 page of garden Line. So I'll post something showing my 2750 02:28:48.120 --> 02:28:52.639 scruffy birds because when you look at them, it's like 2751 02:28:52.719 --> 02:28:55.159 you feel sorry for them, you know. I hear Sarah 2752 02:28:55.200 --> 02:29:00.159 McLoughlin singing in the background, these poor birds. If you 2753 02:29:00.159 --> 02:29:03.799 don't know what that means, I'll explain anyway. But they're 2754 02:29:03.840 --> 02:29:05.959 gonna get better because I'm feeding them good feed and 2755 02:29:06.000 --> 02:29:08.639 they are gonna get their new foliage and be as 2756 02:29:08.719 --> 02:29:11.760 beautiful as ever. I'm telling you right now, beautiful. They 2757 02:29:11.799 --> 02:29:16.680 are not the cardinals and whatnot. If you haven't purchased 2758 02:29:16.719 --> 02:29:18.840 a bird feeder, you ought to get a quality bird feeder. Two. 2759 02:29:18.840 --> 02:29:20.920 By the way, there are a lot of different kinds. 2760 02:29:21.159 --> 02:29:23.120 No matter what you're trying to feed, there's a great 2761 02:29:23.120 --> 02:29:24.840 way to do it. I like the ones that are scrolled, 2762 02:29:24.879 --> 02:29:30.600 excluding my favorite, absolute favorite. But if you we're about 2763 02:29:30.600 --> 02:29:32.159 to run out of time here today. But I did 2764 02:29:32.200 --> 02:29:34.319 want to mention that this week out there in the 2765 02:29:34.399 --> 02:29:38.360 lawn and garden, keep the lawn mode as regularly as 2766 02:29:38.360 --> 02:29:41.040 you can. The more often you mow, the better that 2767 02:29:41.120 --> 02:29:45.239 it's gonna look. Regular. Mowing sharp, more blade on a 2768 02:29:45.280 --> 02:29:48.840 regular basis, at a taller height. Those are the keys 2769 02:29:48.879 --> 02:29:51.559 to good density of your ear. I'm going to run 2770 02:29:51.600 --> 02:29:54.159 out to April and the woodlands real quick. April, we 2771 02:29:54.200 --> 02:29:55.920 got about a minute left. Let's see if we can 2772 02:29:55.959 --> 02:29:57.239 get it done. 2773 02:29:57.479 --> 02:30:01.079 Hi, we have some I think harvest strants in Kerrville. 2774 02:30:01.639 --> 02:30:06.319 They eat like a seven foot wide circle. Does that 2775 02:30:06.399 --> 02:30:10.239 sound about right, and then eat little paths away. 2776 02:30:13.239 --> 02:30:16.120 Yes, that is a harvard. That's the red harvest rant. 2777 02:30:16.239 --> 02:30:20.719 I grew up with those things and they I probably 2778 02:30:20.719 --> 02:30:22.399 am not going to convince you they're a good thing 2779 02:30:22.600 --> 02:30:25.559 out there but they are. That's one of the reasons 2780 02:30:25.719 --> 02:30:29.840 that the Texas horned lizard. We grew up calling them 2781 02:30:29.879 --> 02:30:34.239 horn toads. Those feed on harvest rants, and as people 2782 02:30:34.280 --> 02:30:37.520 have done things that have reduced harvest grant numbers, it's 2783 02:30:37.559 --> 02:30:40.520 been a crisis for the Texas horn toad. They can 2784 02:30:40.559 --> 02:30:44.159 be controlled, you know, pesticides will kill them if they're 2785 02:30:44.200 --> 02:30:47.520 not really bothering you're leaving them alone is certainly a 2786 02:30:47.559 --> 02:30:50.280 good idea. So that's kind of up to you, though. 2787 02:30:51.079 --> 02:30:53.280 Well, I have I have like a dozen, you know, 2788 02:30:53.399 --> 02:30:57.079 seven foot wide circles that these guys creating my lawn. 2789 02:30:57.840 --> 02:30:58.879 That's a little much. 2790 02:30:58.920 --> 02:31:05.079 Oh in your lawn. This is not in Purville, you said, yes, oh, okay, okay, 2791 02:31:05.200 --> 02:31:08.239 Well I was picturing just pastures and stuff like that. 2792 02:31:08.600 --> 02:31:12.159 So if you put any kind of a dust insecticide 2793 02:31:12.280 --> 02:31:14.159 right there at the opening, they all have to come 2794 02:31:14.200 --> 02:31:18.559 in and out of that opening. And it kills me 2795 02:31:18.600 --> 02:31:21.440 to talk about killing them. I understand what you're talking about. 2796 02:31:21.639 --> 02:31:23.280 Like I said, I grew up with them, and they 2797 02:31:23.319 --> 02:31:28.079 do create a vegetation free huge area around them. Yes, 2798 02:31:28.319 --> 02:31:31.079 but a dust whatever kind of a dust from ortheene 2799 02:31:31.120 --> 02:31:33.479 to seven dust or whatever they have to track through it. 2800 02:31:33.479 --> 02:31:35.399 It will kill them, but you just have to get 2801 02:31:35.440 --> 02:31:37.000 it just a little bit there at the mound. You 2802 02:31:37.000 --> 02:31:40.239 don't want to spray everywhere everything, No need to do that. 2803 02:31:40.239 --> 02:31:42.639 That one opening is where they all come in and out, 2804 02:31:42.879 --> 02:31:44.600 so that that would get them. 2805 02:31:44.559 --> 02:31:45.440 Under for you. 2806 02:31:46.040 --> 02:31:50.840 So don't bother with the red ant killer. So I've 2807 02:31:50.840 --> 02:31:53.719 been buying the twenty dollars bag red ant killer. 2808 02:31:56.000 --> 02:31:56.799 What is in that? 2809 02:31:56.879 --> 02:31:59.319 Do you happen to have a No, I don't have 2810 02:31:59.360 --> 02:32:00.520 it in front of me. Wish I did. 2811 02:32:00.559 --> 02:32:03.600 I'm sorry, red I'm gonna I'm gonna see if I 2812 02:32:03.639 --> 02:32:07.159 can find that red ant killer that is. I don't 2813 02:32:07.200 --> 02:32:07.559 know what that. 2814 02:32:07.680 --> 02:32:10.000 That's all I see there in curvill Is bags and 2815 02:32:10.040 --> 02:32:13.040 bags of red ant killer, not anything about harvest ants. 2816 02:32:15.399 --> 02:32:21.399 Hmm. Well, I don't see a product named red ant killer, 2817 02:32:21.520 --> 02:32:23.479 so I'm sure it exists. You're seeing it. I just 2818 02:32:23.479 --> 02:32:26.120 don't know which one that is, depending on the on 2819 02:32:26.280 --> 02:32:27.120 the name of it. 2820 02:32:28.000 --> 02:32:34.520 But that's what they kill. Okay, try for a more 2821 02:32:34.559 --> 02:32:37.520 specific harvest ant killer, or go get our go get 2822 02:32:37.559 --> 02:32:38.680 some horn toads. 2823 02:32:41.200 --> 02:32:43.000 Or go get some horn odes. That would be that 2824 02:32:43.040 --> 02:32:44.680 would be it. But you're not going to get results 2825 02:32:44.680 --> 02:32:46.719 in your lawn fast enough with the horn toads. I'm 2826 02:32:46.719 --> 02:32:49.040 sure you won't be happy, you know the speed of 2827 02:32:49.079 --> 02:32:51.520 those results. But all it takes is just a little 2828 02:32:51.600 --> 02:32:54.319 dust right in the entrance opening. You're not nuke in 2829 02:32:54.360 --> 02:32:57.040 the yard here. This is just a access. If they 2830 02:32:57.079 --> 02:32:59.079 have to crawl through it, you may have to reapply 2831 02:32:59.120 --> 02:33:01.440 it a week later, the reply it again a week later. 2832 02:33:02.120 --> 02:33:04.280 You know, with rain and different things, it's not going 2833 02:33:04.319 --> 02:33:06.440 to always stick around. But that'll do it. 2834 02:33:07.840 --> 02:33:08.040 Well. 2835 02:33:08.040 --> 02:33:08.840 Thank you for your time. 2836 02:33:09.000 --> 02:33:14.000 Appreciate it all right, good good luck out there. I 2837 02:33:14.000 --> 02:33:19.719 appreciated by the April. Bye bye. All right, there it's time. 2838 02:33:20.399 --> 02:33:23.239 Let's see. Ow we're about to the end of our 2839 02:33:23.319 --> 02:33:27.479 time here, right, do we need one more break? Nope, 2840 02:33:27.680 --> 02:33:29.319 we're looking at the end of the show. That's what. 2841 02:33:30.280 --> 02:33:34.200 All right. Why you've been listening to Gardenline. I'm your host, 2842 02:33:34.200 --> 02:33:38.280 Skip Richtor, and I appreciate you giving us a call today, 2843 02:33:38.319 --> 02:33:40.280 those of you who called in, those of you who listened, 2844 02:33:40.280 --> 02:33:42.520 thanks for listening. Don't forget that