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Speaker 5: Well, well, welcome, welcome to Garden Line on a lovely
Speaker 5: Sunday morning. We're glad you're with us and looking forward
Speaker 5: to talking about the things you're interested in. I want
Speaker 5: you to have a beautiful, bountiful garden and landscape, and
Speaker 5: there's a way to do that. One of the things
Speaker 5: that I like to say is that there's no such
Speaker 5: thing as a brown thumb. There's just an uninformed thumb.
Speaker 5: And the words if you understand some of the basic
Speaker 5: principles of what plants want, well, then you can give
Speaker 5: them what they want and suddenly it looks like your
Speaker 5: thumb turned green. That's really that is really the way
Speaker 5: it works on this kind of thing. It's just a
Speaker 5: matter of given plants what they want. Well, I bet
Speaker 5: you have dealt with weeds that are problematic, but they're
Speaker 5: growing right next to a plant you like. In other words,
Speaker 5: if you tried to spray it, you would get it
Speaker 5: on the plant you like and cause collateral damage. Well,
Speaker 5: there's a couple of ways to avoid that. One is
Speaker 5: to use a shield, something like a board that you
Speaker 5: put in between the desirable plant and the weed, and
Speaker 5: then don't pump up your sprayer too much, because when
Speaker 5: you do pump it up too much, you create a
Speaker 5: mist that drifts off target, and that's a problem, and
Speaker 5: you can use that technique to avoid getting the spray
Speaker 5: on a desirable plant. Another one is to create a
Speaker 5: wheed wiper, and I've done one of those for you.
Speaker 5: I looked online, I've looked in stores and things, and
Speaker 5: I just don't see many weed wipers available in the
Speaker 5: gardening trade. So I created one homemade that you can
Speaker 5: make yourselves very inexpensive using a grabber tool, one of
Speaker 5: those things you used to get a jar off a shelf.
Speaker 5: And so if you would like, you can go to
Speaker 5: my website gardening with Skip dot com Gardening with Skip
Speaker 5: dot Com. It's one of the latest publications I put
Speaker 5: on there, and it tells you how to build your
Speaker 5: own weed wiper tool, and I love mine. It works good.
Speaker 5: I can reach underneath the rosebush and apply a herbicide
Speaker 5: to maybe a nuts edge plant coming up underneath it,
Speaker 5: or if I'm walking through the yard and wild onion
Speaker 5: is sticking up above the grass. I can use it
Speaker 5: to get the herbicide, wipe it directly on the wild onion.
Speaker 5: Do you have hackberries or maybe poison ivy coming up
Speaker 5: in a fence line and you don't want to spray
Speaker 5: something that's going to kill your grass around it, Well
Speaker 5: you can use the weed wiper tool to do just that.
Speaker 5: It's really handy, works really well, easy to make, very
Speaker 5: easy to make. And I also have to go with
Speaker 5: that a list of herbicides. It's a separate publication but
Speaker 5: it's also on my website, and depending on the weed
Speaker 5: you're going after, it tells you what to use. For example,
Speaker 5: wild onion in your lawn, you're going to use image
Speaker 5: for nuts edge. I know it says nuts edge and
Speaker 5: it's wild onion, but that's what works on wild onion,
Speaker 5: Image for nutst If you're going to go after to
Speaker 5: let's say peppervine, I had some cause yesterday. On peppervine,
Speaker 5: you can use something called tricl containing triclope here. That's
Speaker 5: a herbicide, but it's all on that chart. You don't
Speaker 5: have to worry about that. But for whatever kind of
Speaker 5: weed you're going at, there's that chart that says put
Speaker 5: this on the sponge. And the thing I like about
Speaker 5: this weed wiper is you're not spraying pesticide all out
Speaker 5: in the environment. You're applying it directly to the target
Speaker 5: weed and that takes very very little pesticide to do that.
Speaker 5: So check it out at gardening with skip dot com. Well,
Speaker 5: we're going to just start right off this morning, going
Speaker 5: straight to the phones and we're going to head out
Speaker 5: to Kingwood, Texas and talk to Anna. Hey, Anna, you
Speaker 5: get the Early Bird Awards today? Were you there? Yeah,
Speaker 5: I'm here.
Speaker 6: Can you hear me?
Speaker 5: I can now? Yeah?
Speaker 7: Good morning, okay, h good morning, scip. I have two
Speaker 7: questions about trees. The first one is we had we
Speaker 7: have a lot of trees of our property and we
Speaker 7: had them all trimmed before the hurricane, and now they're
Speaker 7: starting to grow back where they trimmed the low hanging branches.
Speaker 7: Is there something that should be done when they cut
Speaker 7: a branch to keep a phone growing back?
Speaker 5: So, in other words, where they cut the branch off
Speaker 5: around that cut, you're getting sprouts coming out. Is that
Speaker 5: the case right? Well, those that is the result of
Speaker 5: doing a significant prune to a branch and it's just
Speaker 5: the it's the tree saying, hey, I was sending all
Speaker 5: this energy down the branch, and now the branch is gone.
Speaker 5: So I'm going to push out some buds that are
Speaker 5: asleep all around that area and make them grow. So
Speaker 5: that's kind of normal. Usually what you do is you
Speaker 5: follow up with another pruning and settle those down. Other words,
Speaker 5: take those out as they try to grow, and it
Speaker 5: will settle down. It may have to do it once
Speaker 5: or tries to do that. There are some sprays that
Speaker 5: prevent sprouting and growing. Not real practical to apply in
Speaker 5: a lot of tree situations, but there's one called sucker stopper.
Speaker 5: There's another one. I can't think of the names of them,
Speaker 5: but sucker stopper is I mean, the name it tells
Speaker 5: you what it's going to do. It's going to stop
Speaker 5: those sucker shoots from coming out and doing that.
Speaker 7: Okay, question, After the hurricane and we had some trees,
Speaker 7: they came out and all these big logs are out there.
Speaker 7: Is the city going to come pick that stuff up?
Speaker 5: That? I don't know. I don't know the rules out
Speaker 5: there in Kingwood. In most cities there is a brush
Speaker 5: pick up. But I just don't know in your particular
Speaker 5: you'd have to call you, you'd have to call your
Speaker 5: city public works department.
Speaker 7: Well, I know they've been around and they have picked
Speaker 7: up a lot of stuff, but are they going to
Speaker 7: keep coming around?
Speaker 5: Yeah? That again, that one, you would just have to
Speaker 5: ask them and see that. I where I live, they
Speaker 5: come by once a week. But I don't you know,
Speaker 5: there's not not all places are the same.
Speaker 7: Is that like three one one to the city.
Speaker 5: No, I don't know. It's yeah, I just call our city.
Speaker 5: Like if you do, go on Google or something and
Speaker 5: do Kingwood City public Works or something, maybe that'll pop
Speaker 5: the number of for you.
Speaker 8: Okay, thank you, I appreciate it, all right, an a
Speaker 8: good luck out there.
Speaker 5: Okay, well you got here we go. We already hitting
Speaker 5: the calls this morning, so we welcome you to call in.
Speaker 5: Our phone number is seven to one three two one
Speaker 5: two fifty eight seventy four. Seven one three two one
Speaker 5: two fifty eight seventy four. That will get you right
Speaker 5: through here to me. And by the way, let me
Speaker 5: just here's a tip. Sometimes you get real busy here
Speaker 5: on Garden Line and the calls really back up. I
Speaker 5: do everything I can to get as many as possible
Speaker 5: h on air and to solve the issues that people
Speaker 5: are calling about. But as we get toward the end
Speaker 5: of a show, that's when oftentimes it get gets busy.
Speaker 5: Not every day, but oftentimes it does. And those of
Speaker 5: you who are listening early on, if you got a
Speaker 5: question early on is a time it's easy to get through.
Speaker 5: There's not a big backup of a bunch of calls
Speaker 5: sitting waiting at that time. So if you're trying to
Speaker 5: avoid having to sit or wait, you know, there's your tip.
Speaker 5: Early on is a good idea for that. Out in
Speaker 5: the lawn, I know everybody seems like everybody has a
Speaker 5: lawn that they care a lot about, and for good reason.
Speaker 5: Lines of the carpet, of the landscape. There's some things
Speaker 5: we can be doing right now, And when we come
Speaker 5: back from break, I will get right on that and
Speaker 5: start talking about a few tips for what do you
Speaker 5: do right now on your lawn. We'll be right back things. Well.
Speaker 5: One of the things you need to be doing is
Speaker 5: if you have not fertilized this summer, it's time to
Speaker 5: put on something that will provide a gradual release of
Speaker 5: nutrients over time. Now Nitrophoss is designed a product called Superturf.
Speaker 5: It's their silver bag. It's a nineteen four to ten fertilizer.
Speaker 5: You may think, well, nineteen that's a lot of nitrogen. Well,
Speaker 5: it's a lot in the ratio, which is okay. You
Speaker 5: just don't put as much on when you have a
Speaker 5: bigger number like that, you put less on. Take about
Speaker 5: five pounds of nineteen four ten per thousand square feet
Speaker 5: to cover over your lawn and it's going to gradually
Speaker 5: release those nutrients until it's time to It'll take you
Speaker 5: all the way up until you're going to put on
Speaker 5: a fall fertilizer. And my schedule online at gardening with
Speaker 5: Skip dot com. It tells you when to apply and
Speaker 5: what to apply and all of that. You're going to
Speaker 5: find Nitrofoss's Superturf at many places. Kingwood Ace has it,
Speaker 5: The arbor Gate carries it up the Shades of Green, Texas,
Speaker 5: up and down in southeaston on Genoa, Red Bluff. Those
Speaker 5: are all places that you're going to find Nitrofosh products
Speaker 5: such as the super Turf. I want to back out
Speaker 5: to the phones now and we're going to go to
Speaker 5: Northwest Houston and talk to Matthew. Welcome to Garden Line.
Speaker 9: Matthew.
Speaker 10: Hey, skip be a longtime listener. Somebody knock on my
Speaker 10: door at six am and woke me up and told
Speaker 10: me I need to listen to your show and wasn't
Speaker 10: happy at the moment.
Speaker 5: I don't shore. How do you just start saying that again?
Speaker 5: I haven't said that. You're funny? All right, what's up?
Speaker 11: So you know?
Speaker 12: I followed my wife. She has been a longtime gardener.
Speaker 12: In fact, she has terraformed our whole house. And now
Speaker 12: I've gotten into gardening myself.
Speaker 9: And I'm looking at it is it is. And now
Speaker 9: I am.
Speaker 12: Looking to put in a raised garden bed in our
Speaker 12: backyard and kind of do some kind of home garden
Speaker 12: things crops, edibles, herbs, peppers, onions, things like that. And
Speaker 12: the the problem I'm facing is our backyard, which is
Speaker 12: the only place I can really put it faces west
Speaker 12: and it just gets at Texas heat. And I'm looking
Speaker 12: for any advice you have before I put this in,
Speaker 12: because you say brown step before green stuff.
Speaker 9: I want to I want to plan this.
Speaker 12: For success, so I'm looking for anything, like.
Speaker 9: Any advice you have on positioning this thing.
Speaker 12: I want to put in a large raised bed and
Speaker 12: put in some uh I guess crops.
Speaker 9: I guess you would say.
Speaker 12: In any advice, you would have kind of planning for this.
Speaker 5: Okay, Well, first of all, I would make the raised
Speaker 5: bed at a height that suits you. If you're putting
Speaker 5: it on top of soil, it doesn't need to be
Speaker 5: as high as if you were setting it on a
Speaker 5: concrete patio, for example, where the only soil the roots
Speaker 5: can get is in the bed. But I would do that.
Speaker 5: I have mine. I try to keep mine about seventeen
Speaker 5: to twenty inches high somewhere in there. That's a nice
Speaker 5: height for not having to stoop so far when you garden.
Speaker 5: If you have a little seat or something, it's you
Speaker 5: can sit down and kind of work at a nice level.
Speaker 5: But the plants don't care if they're in a raised
Speaker 5: bed or not. But raised beds improve drainage, and so
Speaker 5: you choose the height. I like Vego Beds, which is
Speaker 5: a company just down the road from you, up in
Speaker 5: the Klein area in North Houston. That Vego Beds are handy,
Speaker 5: They put together modulely, and they work. You can build
Speaker 5: your own. I mean I've seen people stack up cinderblocks
Speaker 5: to make a bed. It's whatever you want and whatever
Speaker 5: esthetically you want to look at. As far as the content,
Speaker 5: you need to get a good bed mix, and places
Speaker 5: like Nature's Way Resources heirloom soils, they will provide a
Speaker 5: something called a veggiean herb type mix. You just tell
Speaker 5: them I'm going to grow a vegetable garden. They'll give
Speaker 5: you a nice blend that works for that, and they
Speaker 5: can both deliver it or you can go get it
Speaker 5: if you've got a trailer or a truck or something,
Speaker 5: but you want to fill the bed with that. I
Speaker 5: like beds that are about three feet or four feet
Speaker 5: wide at the most. And the reason is if you
Speaker 5: get like a two foot bed, well, you're you've got
Speaker 5: all these you're paying for all the bedsides without much
Speaker 5: growing area. But if you get past four feet, you
Speaker 5: can't reach it halfway from each side. And you never
Speaker 5: want to walk in a bed, and so you want
Speaker 5: to be able to reach all areas of the bed
Speaker 5: from you know, one side or the other at least.
Speaker 5: And so that I like about a three or four
Speaker 5: feet wide bed myself. And then as far as the
Speaker 5: you know the size of it, that's up to you.
Speaker 5: The mix is important, and getting it in full sun
Speaker 5: is important. If you don't have a lot of full sun,
Speaker 5: then give it as much sun as you can and
Speaker 5: you'll end up planting your leafy crops where there's not
Speaker 5: quite as much sun, and you're fruiting and rooting crops
Speaker 5: where there is full sun you don't have.
Speaker 12: So my concern is more with the heat that it's getting.
Speaker 12: Because it's west facing. I'm going to put it up
Speaker 12: against like the back fence so that it gets a
Speaker 12: little bit of that late afternoon shade. And because I've
Speaker 12: kind of taken my hand at growing peppers this summer and.
Speaker 9: It's kind of like you say, you have to hit
Speaker 9: it with.
Speaker 12: Water almost every day, and I'm wanting to kind of
Speaker 12: try to avoid that. And I don't think I'm gonna
Speaker 12: be all do that with the west facing bed. Will
Speaker 12: I have success if I put in a raised bed
Speaker 12: with that west facing sun and at late afternoon heat.
Speaker 5: Right well, you will? You will. And you know there's
Speaker 5: some there are probably some bed materials that you know
Speaker 5: would tend to heat up more than others. But I
Speaker 5: know I've got bego beds and I've got beds that
Speaker 5: are made out of treated wood, and I've made beds
Speaker 5: out of cinder blocks in the past. And the bottom
Speaker 5: line is you don't worry a lot about that. It's
Speaker 5: the volume of soil we're talking about holds a lot
Speaker 5: of moisture and plants are going to have to grow
Speaker 5: and those warm temperatures. Now, if you're going to put
Speaker 5: it up against a fence, then I definitely would probably
Speaker 5: go to about a three foot with. You go two
Speaker 5: foot if you want it, but about a three foot
Speaker 5: with because you're can only be able to reach from
Speaker 5: one side.
Speaker 9: Okay, okay, Now that's.
Speaker 5: You can grow anything you want to grow in a
Speaker 5: bed like that, with soil like that.
Speaker 12: That's excellent information. And I will send you half of
Speaker 12: what occur next season.
Speaker 5: That's it. That's part of the rule. Thanks a lot,
Speaker 5: appreciate your call, Matthew. You take care well. Yeah, he
Speaker 5: was referring to I used to say first thing in
Speaker 5: the morning that if you look at your neighbor's house
Speaker 5: and go and it's dark over there, go bang on
Speaker 5: the door and tell them they're missing garden line, and
Speaker 5: they will rise up and call you blessed that Actually,
Speaker 5: they tend to rise up and call you something else initially,
Speaker 5: but anyway, just having some fun there. But it isn't
Speaker 5: a bad idea to tell people about garden line. You
Speaker 5: know that neighbor that won't take care of his yard,
Speaker 5: maybe if he listened a few times, he would suddenly
Speaker 5: start to make that place right next to yours a
Speaker 5: little more attractive. So that's another perk, I guess tell
Speaker 5: them folks about garden line, talking about blends and bags
Speaker 5: and different things like that. Landscaper's Pride makes some awesome
Speaker 5: blends for garden soils. You can do these. It's just
Speaker 5: a mending a soil that's already in your garden. You
Speaker 5: can use them to actually create the garden. There's one
Speaker 5: called Garden Magic Gardener's Magic. It's an organic pine based,
Speaker 5: pine based blend. It's got like humus and screened pine bark,
Speaker 5: very finely screened pine bark, composted dry cells and a
Speaker 5: chicken pellet fertilizer and the chicken pellate actually gives you
Speaker 5: a nutrient release from up to six months. It's really
Speaker 5: good for raised and container gardens. Of course, they have
Speaker 5: other sources like the healthy soil compost. It's really high quality,
Speaker 5: very good for replenishing nutrients in an existing soil. It's
Speaker 5: not the bed mix itself. Mushroom compost is another one
Speaker 5: just like that, really really good at providing a boost.
Speaker 5: Mushroom compost is like rocket fuel for plants. Black humus.
Speaker 5: Black humus is a very dark, rich mix of composted
Speaker 5: bark loamy top soil. It would be good for an
Speaker 5: established bed or a new bed most growing conditions, I think.
Speaker 5: For you know, if you're looking at putting in a
Speaker 5: new bed, maybe the gardener's magic may be the best
Speaker 5: way to go for something like that. But however you
Speaker 5: go about it, get good quality soil and Landscaper's Pride
Speaker 5: can provide you with that as well. Landscaperspride dot com.
Speaker 5: That's their website if you want to go look. They
Speaker 5: have a lot of other products, including some really great mulches.
Speaker 5: And by the way, we got to keep a mulch
Speaker 5: on the soil surface for a number of reasons. So
Speaker 5: when it gets thin, when you start seeing weeds coming through,
Speaker 5: put more multch down, get it thicker. It does wonders.
Speaker 5: Mult is like the miracle cure. Multing compost for example,
Speaker 5: on malt're you're stopping erosion you're stopping crusting of the
Speaker 5: soil from rainfall. You're moderating soil temperatures. Go outside on
Speaker 5: a sunny day, put your hand down and feel the soil,
Speaker 5: even three inches deep. Feel how warm that is. Roots
Speaker 5: don't like that. Mulch helps with that as well. What's
Speaker 5: time for me to take a little break here coming up,
Speaker 5: if you would like to give me a call seven
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Speaker 5: give Chris. You can be our first up when we
Speaker 5: come right out of break. Dard Line, welcome back. Good
Speaker 5: to have you with us this morning. Congratulations you were
Speaker 5: up right and early. That's always a good day, A
Speaker 5: good way to start a day. I appreciate these early
Speaker 5: morning hours. Is nice and quiet. At least if I
Speaker 5: keep my voice down a little bit, it'll be nice
Speaker 5: and quiet. Uh. The chance to kind of do somethink
Speaker 5: and do some planning, get some things ready to go,
Speaker 5: just kind of wake up for the day. Today is
Speaker 5: going to be a nice day. I think I'm looking
Speaker 5: forward to this afternoon, getting out a little bit and
Speaker 5: enjoying some of the outdoors. I know it's warm, but hey,
Speaker 5: you know, we live here. It's it's just part of
Speaker 5: the package that goes here. At least we're not shoveling
Speaker 5: three feet of snow every one or time, so we're
Speaker 5: going to count that as a plus plus. We're glad
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Speaker 5: that's the number you need to reach out. Plans for
Speaker 5: All Seasons is up on two forty nine. That's Tomball Parkway.
Speaker 5: For those of you that are new here, if you're
Speaker 5: heading up toward Tomball, it'll be on the right hand side,
Speaker 5: so you exit Luetta if you're heading north and you
Speaker 5: cross over Luetta and it'll be right there on the
Speaker 5: right hand side. In other words, when when you're standing
Speaker 5: at Plants for All Seasons, you're just staring at top
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Speaker 5: so it's easy access, easy to get to. But folks
Speaker 5: that live in that region know that Plants for All
Speaker 5: Season is the place to go for awesome plants and
Speaker 5: awesome advice and all kinds of things that you need.
Speaker 5: And right now it's time to get ready for fall.
Speaker 5: I know it's hot, it's August, but fall is coming.
Speaker 5: And we were talking earlier, you know, about putting in
Speaker 5: a new bed with Matthew, and there's a there's a
Speaker 5: lot of things we can be doing right now so
Speaker 5: when fall comes, you're ready. And sole prep is an
Speaker 5: example of that, because when if you wait, let's say
Speaker 5: you're planning on putting in your broccoli and mid September
Speaker 5: or something, transplants or late September, and you get to
Speaker 5: that point and here comes a bunch of rainy weather. Well,
Speaker 5: now how do you work your soil because it's all soggy,
Speaker 5: wet and stuff. But if you build it now, you're
Speaker 5: ready to go. And plants for all seasons, carries all
Speaker 5: the products, I mean, you get to pick from all
Speaker 5: these different soil products, composts and mulches and bed mixes
Speaker 5: and everything, and you can get everything set up and
Speaker 5: ready to go. Now. They have beautiful containers, gorgeous. I've
Speaker 5: got one of the couple of their containers actually that
Speaker 5: are just beautiful glazed pottery and we just really enjoy them.
Speaker 5: They just gorgeous. And then of course plants, they've got
Speaker 5: all kinds of plants. And remember we have several months
Speaker 5: of warmer weather left. We got August, we got September,
Speaker 5: and we got a good part of October where the
Speaker 5: temperatures are quite warm. I mean around here, it doesn't
Speaker 5: We typically don't get those frosts until much later. So
Speaker 5: why not put in some color to carry you all
Speaker 5: the way through up until the time when you're gonna
Speaker 5: think about things like pansies and violas and alyssum and
Speaker 5: other other flowers like that. Plans for All Seasons has
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Speaker 5: all the things you need to get ready for the
Speaker 5: upcoming planning seasons or just to get out there and
Speaker 5: get some color going right now, tell you what, Let's
Speaker 5: head out to the Houston area and talk to Steven.
Speaker 5: Good morning, Stephen, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 11: Morning.
Speaker 13: Question is we're actually out on property in near Fayettville
Speaker 13: and we get Johnson Grass and I'm looking for herberside
Speaker 13: just to control the Johnson grass and not kill other stuff.
Speaker 5: What's growing around the Johnson grass.
Speaker 13: Bermuda mainly, and then weeds.
Speaker 5: So you're not wanting to kill the bermuda or or
Speaker 5: the other things, right, is that what you're saying?
Speaker 11: Not really?
Speaker 14: I mean, okay, I'm not too worried about it.
Speaker 5: But how big is this patch of Johnson grass? I
Speaker 5: need to kind of know just to kind of direct
Speaker 5: for the right technique.
Speaker 13: We're on thirty two acres, so it could it could
Speaker 13: be a lot.
Speaker 5: Oh, I mean, I've got.
Speaker 13: Yeah, it gets mainly trying to control it along my ditches.
Speaker 5: Along my road I see, and then in the entrance.
Speaker 5: I'm not too worried about field. Okay, all right, Well, uh,
Speaker 5: in that case, you're just going to have to try
Speaker 5: to apply a spray to the Johnson grass and minimize
Speaker 5: the amount that goes out all around it.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 5: And if you use a little course droplet spray and
Speaker 5: get close enough, you know, don't use a fog misty
Speaker 5: high pressure spray that drifts off target. Just apply it
Speaker 5: to the Johnson grass. You can you can do anything
Speaker 5: from a general weed killer, which glyphosate is the example
Speaker 5: that's been around for a long time on that. There's
Speaker 5: also grass only killers. There's one that sutoxiden as dim
Speaker 5: as the ingredient. The other is fluazephope, and I know
Speaker 5: those are okay who wrote that down right? So if
Speaker 5: you go to my website gardening with skip dot com,
Speaker 5: I've got instructions for building a weed wiper, which is
Speaker 5: not going to be practical for you using this huge,
Speaker 5: huge amounts of Johnson grass, but with it is a
Speaker 5: herbicide list of things to put on the weed wiper,
Speaker 5: and depending on the weed you're going after, it names
Speaker 5: the herbicide that you should use. Ok So those two
Speaker 5: those two words that I just said for grass, if
Speaker 5: you look over and it says grassy weeds, then look
Speaker 5: across and you're going to see those two ingredients as
Speaker 5: ones that you could use for the They translocate down.
Speaker 5: They do a pretty good job of killing the rhizomes.
Speaker 5: Johnsngrass has a lot of rhizomes underground, very thick, pencil
Speaker 5: sized rhizomes, and so you got to kill those two.
Speaker 5: So one spray may not get it all, but you
Speaker 5: can come back and do it again, but it will
Speaker 5: kill the bermuda that you get it on, so just
Speaker 5: try to focus on spraying the johnsngrass. They translated. Thank
Speaker 5: you all right, my bed Steven. Thanks for the call. Bye,
Speaker 5: I appreciate that. Let's go now out to Richmond and
Speaker 5: we're going to talk to Bernie.
Speaker 11: Hello, Bernie, Hey, hey, Skip, how you doing, man?
Speaker 5: I'm good? What's up?
Speaker 11: Got a promoted yard? Ties four nineteen chinch bug problems?
Speaker 11: Never dealt with it in my life before. I've been
Speaker 11: working in the yard for sixty years. I went and
Speaker 11: got the bug out, Max and put it down, watered
Speaker 11: it in. I've heard you say that chinchbugs are very
Speaker 11: hard to eradicate. Is there a second treatment I need
Speaker 11: to do with the bug out? And if not, do
Speaker 11: I need to go back and lay some sweet green
Speaker 11: down or something to try to stimulate the grass that's
Speaker 11: still alive.
Speaker 5: Well, I mean, you certainly could do that. I don't
Speaker 5: think of chinch bugs as being a pest of bermuda grass.
Speaker 5: So I'm kind of wonderfully seeing when you look at
Speaker 5: the bermuda grass.
Speaker 11: Well, a lots of patches of brown blades of grass.
Speaker 11: There's some green interspersed throughout the backyard. The backyard's much
Speaker 11: worse than the front. I have dealt with a fungus
Speaker 11: brown patch two different times in the seven years we've
Speaker 11: lived here, and I first thought that's what this was.
Speaker 11: I put a funge aside down, and then it became
Speaker 11: obvious with all that rain that we had in July
Speaker 11: that I might have chinchbug problems. I did the chichbug
Speaker 11: test where I took a tomato sauce can, took the
Speaker 11: top off, the bottom off, punched it into the ground,
Speaker 11: filled it with water, and we did see bugs float
Speaker 11: to the top. So that's what they made me think.
Speaker 5: Did they look like chinchbugs?
Speaker 11: Is that what you Well, they're so small, they're so tiny,
Speaker 11: it was hard for me to differentiate what kind of
Speaker 11: bug it might be. But all right, at that point, listen.
Speaker 5: Bernie, I'm gonna it's break time. Let me Will you
Speaker 5: hang on. I want to come back to this in
Speaker 5: the meantime. I got a computer nearby. Go to a
Speaker 5: website called Aggie Turf, and when you get there, look
Speaker 5: at turf, grass, insects and chinchbugs and we'll be right
Speaker 5: back and I'll talk about it some more. Whether you're
Speaker 5: able to get there or not, we'll be right back
Speaker 5: I'm good to good to have you with us today.
Speaker 5: We're going to jump right back in to our call
Speaker 5: with Bernie. Here if I can actually push on the
Speaker 5: right button, go hey, Bernie, did you happen to have
Speaker 5: a chance to look online or not? It's okay if
Speaker 5: you did.
Speaker 11: Not yet I'm on my walk skip okay, oh okay,
Speaker 11: that's fine.
Speaker 5: Well, if you go to Aggie Turf website, there is
Speaker 5: a publication on chinchbugs and you can see exactly what
Speaker 5: they look like. They have a bunch of them. They
Speaker 5: put on a dime so you can see how big
Speaker 5: they are, the colors they are. I would check that
Speaker 5: chinchbugs can feed on bermuda grass a little bit, but
Speaker 5: they don't do big damage. It's Saint Augustine that they
Speaker 5: really do the damage to. And I don't know what's
Speaker 5: going on on the bermuda. I think it's something else,
Speaker 5: and so I would you know, I I the only
Speaker 5: thing I can suggest if you want to take some
Speaker 5: pictures and send them via email, we could we could
Speaker 5: take a look, kind of show me from a distance,
Speaker 5: show me close up, and we'll see what else might
Speaker 5: be going on out there. But I'm really doubting if
Speaker 5: you're seeing significant browning, that that's a chinchbug thing.
Speaker 11: It's got to be a fungus, don't you think it.
Speaker 5: Would be a fungus? Or it could be a you know,
Speaker 5: drought related. It could be what else, something eating, you know,
Speaker 5: feeding on the roots. It could be you know, a
Speaker 5: herbicide or some product to use that burn the grass.
Speaker 5: I mean, there are possibilities of other things. But I'd
Speaker 5: like to see the pictures though, because the pattern of
Speaker 5: the damage, the extent of the damage, and all that
Speaker 5: kind of helped me narrow down who done it?
Speaker 11: Okay, I'll do it all right.
Speaker 5: Well, I appreciate that call. Thank you very much.
Speaker 11: Thank you.
Speaker 5: B Yes, sir, you take care, Yeah night for us.
Speaker 5: He was mentioning night frous bugout Max. That's an awesome
Speaker 5: product for chinchbugs. I mean, it's a granule, you put
Speaker 5: it out, you water it down, and it washes the
Speaker 5: pesticide ingredient, the insecticide off the granule and into the thatch.
Speaker 5: And that's where chinchbugs are hiding. That's why you have
Speaker 5: to pull the thatch apart if you're looking for them
Speaker 5: visually to get down there and see them. But it
Speaker 5: works well within forty eight hours, it's pretty well done
Speaker 5: its job and it continues to stick around for a while,
Speaker 5: so you're not gonna have to treat again this year.
Speaker 5: But it is chinchbug season, so you might want to
Speaker 5: have some of the bugout Max on hand. You're gonna
Speaker 5: find it at places like Stanton Shopping Center down in Alvin.
Speaker 5: Lake hardbur Done in Angleton on Alasco has it, as
Speaker 5: well as does Lake Harbar Clute on Dixie Drive and
Speaker 5: Lake Jackson. We're going to go back to the phones
Speaker 5: now and talk to Eddie and Kema. Hey Eddie, welcome
Speaker 5: to Darnline.
Speaker 15: Thank you, thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 16: I've got an orange tree that I planted and I
Speaker 16: got the instructions from moz over in Seabrook and it
Speaker 16: said to use the original dirt and it said watered
Speaker 16: every day. Well, when I dug the hole, there was
Speaker 16: a bunch of pine roots and I think that is
Speaker 16: what's keeping the tree from doing from growing because it's
Speaker 16: not doing well at all.
Speaker 5: Okay, And what do you think is he getting a
Speaker 5: lot of sun, Eddie?
Speaker 17: It is?
Speaker 5: It does get a long Okay. I would get a
Speaker 5: fertilizer and Moss going to have several of them that
Speaker 5: are options for a citrus. You know, Nelson's makes one,
Speaker 5: Nitruss makes one, micro Life makes one. Uh, there, there's
Speaker 5: there's there's plenty of options out there. I can't off
Speaker 5: the top of my head. I don't remember what Jim
Speaker 5: Carrey is there at Moss, but they'll have it. And
Speaker 5: I would put it out according to the label and
Speaker 5: watered in, and uh, I would do that now. I
Speaker 5: wouldn't probably wouldn't fertilize again because we're going toward winter
Speaker 5: and you don't want to push a lot of late
Speaker 5: season growth. Citrus is kind of cold tender, and uh,
Speaker 5: if you get real succulent growth, something that the tree
Speaker 5: could have survived, will be very damaging because you created
Speaker 5: that succulent late season growth. So now would be the
Speaker 5: time to do it. And then just keep adequate moisture.
Speaker 5: You know, it's hard to tell someone how much to
Speaker 5: water because the soil type, the rainfall and everything else.
Speaker 5: But I would just when you dig down around where
Speaker 5: the roots are, not out from the tree, but where
Speaker 5: the roots are, which is pretty much where you what
Speaker 5: you put in the ground still, and if it feels
Speaker 5: a little dry, it's time to water, but you want
Speaker 5: to not let it dry out or keep it in
Speaker 5: a swamp.
Speaker 16: So you don't think those are that you don't think
Speaker 16: the pine has heard it.
Speaker 5: I don't think that tree has had time to get
Speaker 5: roots out where the pine would roots would be. I
Speaker 5: think the tree's roots are still primarily in the cylinder
Speaker 5: you put in the ground when you pulled it out
Speaker 5: of how long would you plant it?
Speaker 15: About two months ago?
Speaker 9: Two three months ago?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, they're still primarily in that container. They are
Speaker 5: venturing out. I mean you can cut some pine roots
Speaker 5: around it. You know, you went three feet out and
Speaker 5: did some roots to do that. Yeah. Yeah, But it's
Speaker 5: just it's going into an environment where the soil is
Speaker 5: full of wood would be in tree roots, and that's
Speaker 5: displacing soil volume and it's having to compete there. So
Speaker 5: but once you get it on its feet, it ought
Speaker 5: to be able to do. Okay, you just have to
Speaker 5: excuse me. You just have to make sure that it
Speaker 5: gets a boost of nutrients and consistent moisture. Those are
Speaker 5: the important things.
Speaker 15: Okay, thanks for your help.
Speaker 5: You bet good luck with that. I know, getting a
Speaker 5: brand new citrus tree is a is a fun thing
Speaker 5: to be able to do. Let's go out to Katie
Speaker 5: and talk to John. Hey, John, welcome to Guardline. Hey,
Speaker 5: good morning, Skip. I have a question for you. I
Speaker 5: sent you some pictures I called earlier.
Speaker 18: And your producer gave me your email. I have an
Speaker 18: oak tree in my backyard and it's got some it's
Speaker 18: like split, like a fissure opening up, and it's either
Speaker 18: a sick tree or it's a dying tree, or I
Speaker 18: don't know what I should do.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I had a chance to look at those pictures
Speaker 5: and something split the bark a long time ago. It's
Speaker 5: already callousing. You'll see this like lava flow of new
Speaker 5: callous growth coming back in to close over that area. Yeah,
Speaker 5: it could have been that when we went through the
Speaker 5: really bad freezes excuse me, a few years ago. It
Speaker 5: could have been that. It could have even been a
Speaker 5: very minor lightning strikes. It's got a characteristic to it
Speaker 5: that I couldn't eliminate a lightning strike from way back
Speaker 5: when being part of the problem. Not a major one
Speaker 5: that blows bark across the yard and kills the tree,
Speaker 5: but just a minor one. But the thing is, it
Speaker 5: is trying to regrow. So anything you do that builds
Speaker 5: vigor for the tree, helps speed that regrowth. Get the
Speaker 5: dead bark or tissues out that might be in the
Speaker 5: way but where it's trying to close back over from
Speaker 5: the sides. And how would I clean that out? Oh,
Speaker 5: just pulling on loose bark or.
Speaker 9: Oh okay, I'd take a screwdriver in the.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you're not doing surgery. Sometimes I use like a
Speaker 5: call hammer thing if I can't get my fingers on it,
Speaker 5: you know, just kind of breaking loose. But you're not
Speaker 5: doing You're not wounding the tree. I'm talking about just
Speaker 5: taking out dead stuff that's in.
Speaker 9: That's okay, yeah, okay, yeah, I agree that.
Speaker 5: But the main thing is the tree's got to heal itself.
Speaker 5: And anything you do that creates a bitterer that's fertilizing
Speaker 5: and watering basically water and during during hot dry weather.
Speaker 5: Thanks Jo, thank you, thank you. You bet good luck
Speaker 5: with that. All right, folks, I hear music from you.
Speaker 5: That means we're going to go to a break. When
Speaker 5: we come back, Larry and Alben you'll be our first up.
Speaker 5: And Andy in College Station you will be next. Don't
Speaker 5: forget my website gardening with Skip dot com Gardening with
Speaker 5: Skip dot Com. That's where you'll find the two new
Speaker 5: publications on nuts edge and the two publications on the
Speaker 5: weed wiper and the product that you put on the
Speaker 5: weed by how to build one yourself. You just gotta
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Speaker 5: Welcome back, Welcome back to the guard Line. It is
Speaker 5: good to have you with us. We are looking forward
Speaker 5: to talking to you about whatever is of interest to you.
Speaker 5: We talk lawns, trees, shrubs, house plants, herbs, flowers, What
Speaker 5: kind of plant issues do you have? What kind of
Speaker 5: plant goals or plans do you have. This is a
Speaker 5: great time to be planting your fall garden. Fall is
Speaker 5: for planting. It is It is the best season overall
Speaker 5: around the year for planting all kinds of things. It
Speaker 5: gives the plants all winter to develop roots because they do.
Speaker 5: You know, roots grow in the soil temperatures like above
Speaker 5: fifty degrees or so I mean and it's out all
Speaker 5: the time in the winter here. And so that plant
Speaker 5: that you put in and let's say late October November,
Speaker 5: whenever you put it in, is going to be ready
Speaker 5: to hit the ground, run in when hot weather arrives
Speaker 5: next year. Compared to a plant that you put in
Speaker 5: in late spring. Now you can plant twelve months out
Speaker 5: of the year here in our area, this whole region
Speaker 5: of the country, you can plant twelve months out of
Speaker 5: the year. Well I say region, I mean Southeast Texas region.
Speaker 5: But the idea is to make it as easy as
Speaker 5: you count on yourself and your plants and fall planting
Speaker 5: is what does that. We're going to run now out
Speaker 5: to the phones and head to Alvin and talk to Larry. Hello, Larry,
Speaker 5: Welcome to guard Line.
Speaker 14: Good morning, Skip, Good morning. I got a question. I've
Speaker 14: got a ditch in the front of my house. It's
Speaker 14: about one hundred and fifty feet long, probably five or
Speaker 14: six foot deep. Anyway, it's just been solid weeds. So
Speaker 14: I killed the whole thing with round up, and I'm
Speaker 14: thinking about planting red clover or crimson clover. What do
Speaker 14: you think about that?
Speaker 5: It would look good for the season that it's growing,
Speaker 5: But then when the hot weather comes in, it's gonna
Speaker 5: all turn brown and then weeds. Arguing that because yeah,
Speaker 5: there's there's nothing shading the soil. So I think you
Speaker 5: need you probably need to go with something that's a
Speaker 5: little more of a perennial, maybe an evergreen year round.
Speaker 5: And that's gonna be a little bit of a challenge
Speaker 5: in a spot like you just described.
Speaker 14: Yeah it's adiot. I won't get something that's gonna block
Speaker 14: the weeds if nothing else, and I don't have to
Speaker 14: weed date. It's real hard to we date.
Speaker 5: And yeah, yeah, well there's some good native groundcovers, but
Speaker 5: the density is not going to quite cut it unless
Speaker 5: you're out there watering it and taking care of it
Speaker 5: a lot. And I know you don't.
Speaker 14: It's about three hundred feet after and a half. Greg oes, Oh.
Speaker 5: Boy, yeah, let's not do that. Oh boy, I tell you.
Speaker 5: I was trying to think of something to be a
Speaker 5: grasp but be lower growing U and that's kind of
Speaker 5: getting into to more of a native grass that you
Speaker 5: might I'm trying to think of what would be a
Speaker 5: good good option for that. Everything's going to require mowing,
Speaker 5: mow in or weed eating. That's the problem. And it
Speaker 5: sounds like it's too steep to mow.
Speaker 14: Right, Yeah, yeah, you can't mow with you can't get
Speaker 14: a mower down there, it's too steep. Yeah. What about
Speaker 14: I kind of wanted something that was flowering. I felt
Speaker 14: about wildflowers, but yeah, I don't know. And I saw
Speaker 14: that that I can buy the red clover seed its
Speaker 14: Stanton's here in town, and I thought wow that well
Speaker 14: I didn't look on the internet.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, well yeah, of course. Uh so that would
Speaker 5: be something that'll be a cool season. You know, playet
Speaker 5: like we do our blue bonnets, for example, and it
Speaker 5: comes up and the springtime is when it's going to
Speaker 5: do its growth, and look, look we'll get on spring
Speaker 5: cot early maybe early summer. Other than that, it's not
Speaker 5: I don't know. That's a that is a little bit
Speaker 5: of a that's not a yard question. So I'm not
Speaker 5: thinking we need to call our local lag agent and
Speaker 5: find out what is a native grasp, pasture grass or
Speaker 5: something that would stay low that you wouldn't have to
Speaker 5: be out there mowing all the time and weed eating.
Speaker 5: I know there's some there are some aquatic plants that
Speaker 5: will grow you see pickerel weed and others that grow
Speaker 5: in standing water down in a ditch and they bloom.
Speaker 5: They look good.
Speaker 14: Another one it's pretty much hard packed clay and uh
Speaker 14: it's uh, it's it's full sun all the time. So yeah,
Speaker 14: I thought that clover might be pretty nat because but
Speaker 14: you say it don't bloom.
Speaker 5: Long, Well, it's it's a it is a like a
Speaker 5: biennial that it s brought up in the cool season
Speaker 5: and then it grows and doesn't. It doesn't continue. It's
Speaker 5: not going to be blooming all summer and all fall
Speaker 5: and anything like that.
Speaker 14: It's I that's not it's grow clover, because I get
Speaker 14: that in the yard.
Speaker 19: You know.
Speaker 14: It's yeah, it's pretty yeah bees.
Speaker 5: Yet the problem with all everything that is coming to
Speaker 5: my mind is it's is not going to have the density.
Speaker 5: There is a native it's a weed. It's a low
Speaker 5: growing groundcover. It's called huh gosh, I just went blank.
Speaker 5: I was trying to say horse herb, and that's not
Speaker 5: the one. I'm I'm trying to think of frog fruit.
Speaker 5: It's called frog fruit.
Speaker 17: Uh.
Speaker 5: You some will sell it it grows crazy, but it's
Speaker 5: it's very low, very low, And I don't think the
Speaker 5: density is going to be adequate. To choke out everything,
Speaker 5: but that it might be a start. And it's it.
Speaker 14: I mean it, I around the bird bath and okay,
Speaker 14: it's pretty it's pretty good.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 14: I do have edge coming up in it now, but
Speaker 14: so more that's only weeds that's come up in it.
Speaker 5: I mean that, I don't know that that's the panacea
Speaker 5: for your question, but that that's about all the king
Speaker 5: in mind the other thing. Let me just leave you
Speaker 5: with this, Larry, you might want to call a company
Speaker 5: called Native American Seed. They're in Junction, Texas, and they
Speaker 5: sell mixes for all regions of the state, really the country.
Speaker 5: They sell all over the country. But you can say, hey,
Speaker 5: I'm over here, you know, in Alvin, Texas, south east Texas,
Speaker 5: down Long not too far from the coast, and I
Speaker 5: would like something I can put out in a bardetch
Speaker 5: area that will grow. They probably have a blend that
Speaker 5: you could at least give it a try, and it
Speaker 5: would be They sell wildflower seed, but they sell pasture grasses,
Speaker 5: native pasture grasses and other things, so that may be
Speaker 5: worth a look. Or you can go online and look
Speaker 5: at what they have. Okay, Native American Seed and Junction, Texas.
Speaker 14: Okay, I'll check them out. I have bought stuff from that, uh,
Speaker 14: Wildflyers and Fredericksburg.
Speaker 5: Yes, while seed really well.
Speaker 14: To all I think.
Speaker 5: Okay, well, give give that a try. I'm gonna have
Speaker 5: to run to a break. But good luck with that.
Speaker 5: You came real close to stumping the chump on that one, Larry.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 14: Well, I've been because I just won't do stuff.
Speaker 5: All right, Well, you take care. I appre I appreciate
Speaker 5: your call. Hey, we're gonna go to a break here.
Speaker 5: Andy in college station. You are first up when we
Speaker 5: come back, and just be a moment. With the snap
Speaker 5: of your fingers, you head up now to College Station. Andy,
Speaker 5: welcome to Guardline. All right, Texas, so long to get
Speaker 5: to you.
Speaker 20: Oh that's okay, Skip, Thank you so much for taking
Speaker 20: my call. I've kind of got I don't want to
Speaker 20: grow something. What we want to do is is I've
Speaker 20: got some Bermuda, not bermuna, Saint Augustine grass, and I
Speaker 20: want to make an area where I can have some
Speaker 20: crush grantitede.
Speaker 9: Uh do like a walkway out to a circle to.
Speaker 20: Put a fire fit out there and maybe my barbecue
Speaker 20: grill and stuff.
Speaker 21: Uh?
Speaker 20: Is it the best way to uh use like round
Speaker 20: up on the grass the way it is right now
Speaker 20: first and then kind of let that that hot sun
Speaker 20: kind of kill it out first. Or or what's what's
Speaker 20: the best to keep the grass from coming back in?
Speaker 9: What's is it only sit out there? What's that?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Is it only Saint Augustine or do you have
Speaker 5: other weeds or bermuda or anything mixed in there?
Speaker 9: Basically just Saint Augustine.
Speaker 5: Okay, So Saint Augustine is just it is all on
Speaker 5: top of the ground. There's no rhizomes underground or like bermuta.
Speaker 5: It can do. So if you were to take like
Speaker 5: a gardening hoe or show and just scrape a half
Speaker 5: inch under the soil surface, that it would completely get
Speaker 5: rid of Saint Augustine. It wouldn't come back. It could
Speaker 5: come in from the sides. That's always the case. That's
Speaker 5: why we have to use edgeres and things in our
Speaker 5: driveways and whatnot. But it's not hard to get you.
Speaker 5: You can spray it if you want, but then you're
Speaker 5: going to have the dead Saint Augustine material lay in there, uh,
Speaker 5: And so you're probably gonna rake that out anyway. So
Speaker 5: you choose which way you want to go yesh glif
Speaker 5: as they would kill that. There are a couple of
Speaker 5: grass only killers, septoxidam and fluezepholk or two. And if
Speaker 5: you'd like to see what those are, you can go
Speaker 5: to my website gardening with skip dot com and there's
Speaker 5: a new publication up there and it's it's herbicides that
Speaker 5: you would use with my weed wiper, and it lists
Speaker 5: the herbicides by grass type. So if you go to
Speaker 5: I mean by plant type, you go to grasses, you
Speaker 5: can see three things one the two grass only killers
Speaker 5: or the other two and you just go shopping for those.
Speaker 5: So either way is fine. Just if you kill it,
Speaker 5: you're gonna have to then rake it out, or you
Speaker 5: can just you know, hoe it out, or run a
Speaker 5: little rototiller over it and then rake it out, or
Speaker 5: however you want to go about it.
Speaker 20: Okay, I'm going to put that barrier, what is it
Speaker 20: a barrier? Cloths or plastic that's underneath it before I
Speaker 20: put the rock down. Is there one that's better than another?
Speaker 9: Are they all about.
Speaker 5: Saying you need to get one that is a true
Speaker 5: commercial landscape fabric. Some of the cheap oat things are
Speaker 5: almost just like a rubbery, plasticky thing that doesn't hold
Speaker 5: up at all. I don't know that you need that barrier.
Speaker 5: The barrier would keep things from coming upward, up from underneath.
Speaker 5: And again, if it's just Saint Augustine, that's not going
Speaker 5: to be happening. What happens when you do the barriers
Speaker 5: or anything is you get soil on top or seeds
Speaker 5: land on top, and then they sprout anyway. So I
Speaker 5: don't know that the barrier is going to help a lot,
Speaker 5: but it's certainly not a problem to use. It keeps
Speaker 5: your Decobo's granite from pushing down in the soil a
Speaker 5: little bit. It kind of gives a little bit of
Speaker 5: support for that Decombo's grantite is not the cheapest thing
Speaker 5: out there, and some people will get a little bit
Speaker 5: of a road based kind of material, put it down
Speaker 5: and then put the granite on top of it. I
Speaker 5: think if it's just a footpath like you're talking about,
Speaker 5: you're not putting landscape stones and trying to create a
Speaker 5: nice level patio. Uh, then it's probably okay just to
Speaker 5: use a thick enough layer of decomposed granite.
Speaker 9: Right, thank you so much.
Speaker 5: If you just yeah, hey, Andy, if you decide to
Speaker 5: get the landscape fabric, if you go down south Texas. Uh,
Speaker 5: there is Site one has a soil yard. You've probably
Speaker 5: seen it. Rocks and soil is right where six comes
Speaker 5: back into Texas and they're going to sell a commercial
Speaker 5: grade land kate fabric there.
Speaker 9: Okay, thank you so much, appreciate it.
Speaker 5: Yes, sir, you take care all right, folks our phone
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Speaker 5: We've been trying to catch up calls all morning and
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Speaker 5: talk to Danny in Houston. Hello, Danny, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 9: Yeah, good morning, sir.
Speaker 17: So my question, my question to you is I have
Speaker 17: a pool that's about to be finished, and what the
Speaker 17: pool guys did was they they put sand, you know,
Speaker 17: probably about four foot out around the whole perimeter of
Speaker 17: the pool, right and there's concrete around the pool as well,
Speaker 17: and so I'm going to be hosing that of from
Speaker 17: time to time, I'm sure. So I didn't know if
Speaker 17: it would be best to just put sod there or
Speaker 17: I have seen some people that have put like a
Speaker 17: like an eighteen inch rock bed around the edge and
Speaker 17: then they're grass.
Speaker 9: You know what you would suggest?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I generally like plants over hardscape just because reflective
Speaker 5: heat and I don't know, plants, they do a lot
Speaker 5: of things. You could do the Saint Augustine if you
Speaker 5: feel like foot traffic is going to be running outside
Speaker 5: that concrete around the pool, you know, and then in
Speaker 5: time that grass is going to get pounded. Of course,
Speaker 5: if it's gravel, they're not going to run their little
Speaker 5: bare feet out there. But if you've got a decent
Speaker 5: sized concrete pad around the pool for them to walk on,
Speaker 5: then I would just bring grass up to it and
Speaker 5: you can edge it and go with that. And if
Speaker 5: you get some if you get some water blown over
Speaker 5: that way, that's okay, it's not a big deal.
Speaker 17: Okay, Yeah, there's a four foot path of concrete around
Speaker 17: the whole perimeter.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but if you if you want to go with
Speaker 5: something gravelly, that's fine. Just gravel tends to get kicked
Speaker 5: and knocked and bounced around and end up on the
Speaker 5: on the and other things. So, uh, either way is fine.
Speaker 5: It's the bottom line.
Speaker 17: Got you all right, I appreciate your half this morning,
Speaker 17: Have a great days.
Speaker 5: All right, good luck. Uh, just you know, I can't
Speaker 5: I can't ask you, uh, to bring me produce as
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Speaker 5: got a margarita machine, we'll be there.
Speaker 9: Hey, it's yes, sir, all right.
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Speaker 5: Alabama and talk to Paul. Hello, Paul, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 34: Good Laurene Skip the young man that had been uh
Speaker 34: the problem with the ditch. The only thing I can
Speaker 34: think of, don't know what your thoughts is. I hear
Speaker 34: you use beheld grace for that gets up about a
Speaker 34: good high.
Speaker 5: And it's a good one.
Speaker 34: It covers it. So that's the only thing I can have.
Speaker 5: No flowers, you know, it would keep They actually did, Yeah,
Speaker 5: I did think about. The thing is that the minute
Speaker 5: after you mow it, it sends up those seedheads up
Speaker 5: almost a knee high. And a lot of people don't
Speaker 5: care for that. But boy it's tough. I mean, it
Speaker 5: could be droughty, it could be poor soil, you know,
Speaker 5: acid soil, or it's.
Speaker 34: Pretty rights they have to try to keep out of
Speaker 34: his loan mat. But that's the only thing I could
Speaker 34: think of. What I really called about on composts that
Speaker 34: has points zero five or the piney soil has zero five?
Speaker 14: Is that too.
Speaker 34: Strong to plant seed into it? Or do you need
Speaker 34: to mix it with some souls to get your seeds
Speaker 34: come up.
Speaker 5: Point zero five? Like a nutrient content.
Speaker 14: It's almost it's got some nitrogen.
Speaker 34: It what I was looking at with black cow composts
Speaker 34: the only thing I could find. And then there's a
Speaker 34: potting soul says it's got the exact same thing in it.
Speaker 34: But I was thinking it should be too strong.
Speaker 5: Well, your thoughts usually I don't usually I don't put
Speaker 5: seeds in straight composts, but I don't I don't think
Speaker 5: it would hurt them. The only thing is, you know,
Speaker 5: if it's if it's not what we say clean, But
Speaker 5: basically what we're meaning is it doesn't have weed seeds
Speaker 5: and doesn't have diseases and stuff like that in it,
Speaker 5: that that should be fine. Otherwise, you know, you could
Speaker 5: get into a situation where your little ceilings come up
Speaker 5: and they rot and fall over. It's called damping off.
Speaker 5: It's it's a fungal disease. But I think it'd be okay,
Speaker 5: I'm mix it. What what what kind of seeds do
Speaker 5: you want to plant, Paul.
Speaker 34: I'm fishing some grass seed. I guess I could til
Speaker 34: this into the soul that's there and that would weaken it.
Speaker 4: It would work, Oh that stuff.
Speaker 5: I see, Yes, yes, mm hmm, I would uh. But
Speaker 5: you don't need to tell it. You don't need to
Speaker 5: tell it a lot. Just barely scratch the surface. But
Speaker 5: working a little bit in would help. And then raking
Speaker 5: it smooth and putting your seed down and watering it in.
Speaker 5: Are you are we talking about behea grass seed?
Speaker 34: No not, I'm talking about loan seed. Like, uh oh, okay,
Speaker 34: whatever kind I might come up, could be bermoodal ras,
Speaker 34: something up. Okay, take make a solid loan. But yet
Speaker 34: still I didn't want to that the seed to start
Speaker 34: off with.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well that was all you is this long? Is
Speaker 5: this long one in Alabama? Or is it? Okay? So, uh,
Speaker 5: I'm not I don't know. Troy is that north, south east,
Speaker 5: north central or south what.
Speaker 34: Bottom corner about a hundred miles from Georgia and one
Speaker 34: hundred miles in Florida.
Speaker 5: Okay, good. So there's a number of good bermudas that
Speaker 5: you could use. Auburn University has a good turf department,
Speaker 5: and if you go online, uh, they probably have a
Speaker 5: list of some of the bermuda's they recommend. I know
Speaker 5: over here Texas and m we've got Aggie Turf is
Speaker 5: the website and if you click on on types of
Speaker 5: grasses and then Bermuda, it gives you a list. And
Speaker 5: of course most bermudas are vegetatively propagated, but there are
Speaker 5: seated bermudas, and it'll give you a list to some
Speaker 5: of the varieties to look for that are going to
Speaker 5: stay kind of semicompact, you know, for lawn as opposed
Speaker 5: to being like something in a pasture, a very tall
Speaker 5: rangy bermuda.
Speaker 34: What about cynipede that see you can.
Speaker 5: It is your soul sandy or clay or what do
Speaker 5: you have over there? It's a mixture.
Speaker 34: It's not real real clay yet.
Speaker 5: Mm hmm. Centipede uh does okay in in a little
Speaker 5: bit of a more acidic soil. It doesn't have to
Speaker 5: be like something a blueberry grows in. It just has
Speaker 5: to be, you know, not super high pH which I
Speaker 5: don't think you have in that area. The the thing
Speaker 5: about centipede is it never gets a deep green. It
Speaker 5: tends to stay more of a we would say, sharp
Speaker 5: truce green, whereas Saint Augustine gets emerald green when you
Speaker 5: fertilize it. A centipede doesn't want to be fertilized a lot.
Speaker 5: It doesn't do well with a lot of fertilizer. Once
Speaker 5: a year is about all they recommend for centipede.
Speaker 33: Uh.
Speaker 11: Well, win.
Speaker 34: Zohia also there's here.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, all three are fine. I'm just telling you.
Speaker 5: On centipede. The reason we don't see it over here
Speaker 5: as much is because one reason is, Uh, in the
Speaker 5: winter time, it just turns straw brown, uh, tan colored,
Speaker 5: whereas some of the Saint Augustine is going to enjoys.
Speaker 5: You're going to give you a little bit of green
Speaker 5: still through the winter, centipede just turns completely tan, and
Speaker 5: some people don't care for that.
Speaker 34: I think we understand, certainly appreciate you. Thanks for the hell, thanks.
Speaker 5: For the call. All right, tell everybody in Alabama to
Speaker 5: listen to garden line right off. Okay, boy, let's uh,
Speaker 5: let's go to Spring, Texas now and talk to Ken. Hello.
Speaker 11: Ken, Hey, I'm calling about a peach.
Speaker 35: Yeah, can you hear me?
Speaker 5: All right, I'll tell you what. I'm sorry. I just
Speaker 5: got a message. Well, let's go ahead, Ken, We're about
Speaker 5: to break, but let's see if we can at least
Speaker 5: get the question going.
Speaker 35: Okay, I got a red bear and peach tree about
Speaker 35: eight years old, and it looks like fall. It's losing
Speaker 35: all of us leaves. They're turning yellow. And I was
Speaker 35: just wondering to is that too much water? Are what
Speaker 35: the problem was?
Speaker 5: It could be too much, could be not enough. It
Speaker 5: could be you know, drought. It could also be are
Speaker 5: there holes in the leaves or are they not to
Speaker 5: be begun? Okay, No, no, I would say, yeah, I
Speaker 5: would say some sort of a stress. I don't know
Speaker 5: what caused it, but some sort of a stress. You're
Speaker 5: probably losing the older leaves turning yellow rather than the
Speaker 5: leaves toward the end of a shoot. Is that correct?
Speaker 35: Well, it's all over, it's it's it's like totally losing
Speaker 35: all of them.
Speaker 11: Huh.
Speaker 35: It's it's bare like winter upfront up around.
Speaker 5: Something is wrong underground, very wrong to dry to wet.
Speaker 5: I don't know what else to tell you on that one,
Speaker 5: but that it shouldn't be going completely like that. A
Speaker 5: few older leaves, yes, but not completely. Something's very underground, ken,
Speaker 5: I'm sorry, I have to run to break but I
Speaker 5: can't tell you what it is. But I can tell
Speaker 5: you this, it's happening down in the root system. You
Speaker 5: might check the base of the trunk for sap and sawdust,
Speaker 5: for borers cutting through the tissues and preventing water from
Speaker 5: getting to the top. That would be the only other
Speaker 5: thing I would suggest, Sorry, but I've got to run here. Uh,
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Speaker 5: Welcome to Garden Line.
Speaker 37: Alan, Hey, glad to be here. Thanks for having me.
Speaker 37: I just had a live oak. I actually called you
Speaker 37: about a couple of weeks ago that I finally had
Speaker 37: taken down and the company left me with a bunch
Speaker 37: of stump grind shavings. Now, can that be used in
Speaker 37: any sort of way? Can I spread that out or
Speaker 37: use it as malt, or mix it with compost or
Speaker 37: anything like that.
Speaker 5: You could use it as malt, you could let it
Speaker 5: pile up and compost for a while. It just with
Speaker 5: a fresh wood in the soil ties up nitrogen because
Speaker 5: the microbes that break it down they need nitrogen and carbon.
Speaker 5: The wood is the carbon, so they got to pull
Speaker 5: nitrogen from somewhere to do it. And so I don't
Speaker 5: like to mix wood into the soil, but as a
Speaker 5: surface that like a mult that would be okay.
Speaker 37: Okay, That's probably what I'll do with it. If I
Speaker 37: were to buy some bags of mulch and are in
Speaker 37: that mult but compost and mix it together with that,
Speaker 37: would that help or it would still need to break down.
Speaker 5: Now it's going to just the fact that soil is
Speaker 5: touching wood, the microbes are there. They're ready to go.
Speaker 5: If you were piling it up in like a compost
Speaker 5: pile or something, you want to break it down a
Speaker 5: little faster, you could throw a little bit of nitrogen
Speaker 5: fertilizer on it. Then you're providing the nitrogen. The carbon
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Speaker 37: Okay, well that sounds good. Might give those a shot.
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Speaker 5: Do you need pest control products or weed control products?
Speaker 5: They have all of those. So if you go online
Speaker 5: and you see my weed wiper and that list to
Speaker 5: herbicides that go with it for particular kinds of weeds.
Speaker 5: It's set up so that if you have like peppervine,
Speaker 5: it gives you a certain herbicide. If you got wild
Speaker 5: onion gives you a certain herbit. You go to ACE
Speaker 5: and they're going to have those. That's what they do.
Speaker 5: They stock up and they carry the things they need
Speaker 5: to carry, plenty of tools. Right now, I'm in my yard.
Speaker 5: A lot of fireant mounts popped up. I didn't even
Speaker 5: know where they're from. That rain that's kind of drove
Speaker 5: them up to the surface to create those little mounds
Speaker 5: at appear above ground. Get you a fireant bait. They've
Speaker 5: got several options at ACE that work very well. Mosquitoes
Speaker 5: popped up after the rain, the little buggers. Well, ACE
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Speaker 5: mosquito fogers, They've got mosquito repellents. ACE is the place.
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Speaker 5: to guardline and our phone number we're about to take.
Speaker 5: We're about to hit the end of the hour here,
Speaker 5: but if you'd like to get on the boards with Chris,
Speaker 5: you could be one of the first ones up when
Speaker 5: we come back from break. Number is seven one three
Speaker 5: two one two five eight seven four seven one three
Speaker 5: two one two fifty eight seventy four. And I do
Speaker 5: want to mention again, I know people kind of cut
Speaker 5: in and then have to leave to go do something
Speaker 5: and miss things. So I've learned the hard way through
Speaker 5: the years. But people keep reminding me they didn't hear that. Well,
Speaker 5: I'll say it again. Gardening with Skip dot Com is
Speaker 5: my website on there there's some brand new publications. You
Speaker 5: really need to go check them out. One of them.
Speaker 5: Two of them are about nutsedge nut sedge. Also people
Speaker 5: call it nutgrass. It's not a grass. There's a longer
Speaker 5: publication that goes into great detail on nutsedge, so you
Speaker 5: understand the the way that weed works and therefore how
Speaker 5: to control it. People try all kinds of things and
Speaker 5: say they don't work, and it's because they're not doing
Speaker 5: it at the right time, at the right rate. They're
Speaker 5: not following up. Bottom line on nuts edges, you got
Speaker 5: to shut it down and never let it have a
Speaker 5: chance to capture sunlight and replenish. So we say, by
Speaker 5: the time nutsedge plant has three to five leaves, you
Speaker 5: better be digging it, you better be spraying it, you
Speaker 5: better be doing something to it in order to prevent
Speaker 5: it from creating new tubers and just multiplying the problem
Speaker 5: that you had. Do you know that by the time
Speaker 5: you hit May, about May, maybe mid to late May,
Speaker 5: one nuts edge tuber. We're gonna call it the mama
Speaker 5: tuber from spring that popped up one plant, and you go,
Speaker 5: I'll get to that later. By the time we get
Speaker 5: to late May, it has eight or ten daughters. See
Speaker 5: what I'm saying, a tenfold increase because you waited a while.
Speaker 5: You can't do that. And in this publication it explains
Speaker 5: the difference between yellow and purple nuts edge their products
Speaker 5: don't work the same on those two types. Tells you
Speaker 5: how to know what kind you have and what to do.
Speaker 5: It's really thorough. There's another one that's kind of a
Speaker 5: quick sheet, one page. Here's what you do. Also on
Speaker 5: the website I put this up is the I call
Speaker 5: it the Skip's weed wiper. You used to could find
Speaker 5: weed wipers here and there in the trade. Now I
Speaker 5: just find them really hard to find. And weed wipers
Speaker 5: wipe a product onto the weed. Only you don't spray
Speaker 5: it all over the environment. You don't get it on
Speaker 5: things that are gonna that the curbside's going to kill
Speaker 5: your good plants flowers and shrubs and trees and whatnot.
Speaker 5: You just wipe it right on and I'll show you
Speaker 5: how to build one. It's very inexpensive, but it's at
Speaker 5: gardening with skip dot com. With that weed wiper. There's
Speaker 5: another publication that has a list of the different orbicides
Speaker 5: for each type of weeed, just to use as an example.
Speaker 5: Wild onions and wild garlic coming up in your lawns
Speaker 5: and above the lawn image is listed for those weeds
Speaker 5: because that works best on those weeks. And you just
Speaker 5: wipe that on to the weed itself. You didn't hurt
Speaker 5: your lawn and you did what we would say a
Speaker 5: little surgical application right to the weed itself. I think
Speaker 5: these things are pretty cool. We spent a lot of
Speaker 5: time putting them together. You can find them at gardening
Speaker 5: with Skip dot com. And maybe we're gona take a
Speaker 5: little break or I want to go check that out.
Speaker 5: Tell your friends about it too, because I guarantee you
Speaker 5: when it comes to nuts edge, everybody's got it, and
Speaker 5: some people use language that just shouldn't poke out about
Speaker 5: that infernal weed.
Speaker 1: Products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to k
Speaker 1: r H Guarden Line with skin Gritter.
Speaker 4: Its just watch as so many good.
Speaker 19: Things to.
Speaker 5: Welcome to garden Line. Welcome back. It is good to
Speaker 5: have you with us. We are going strong this morning,
Speaker 5: answering your gardening questions, trying to help you have a
Speaker 5: more bountiful garden and a more beautiful landscape. That is
Speaker 5: the goal. Hey, if you have not fertilized in the
Speaker 5: last few months, you might want to consider sweet green
Speaker 5: from nitrophoss. Sweet green is a natural fertilizer. You call
Speaker 5: it an organic type fertilizer because it has a base
Speaker 5: of molasses, and organic gardeners know that molasses stimulates microbial
Speaker 5: activity in the soil, specifically good bacteria. They need carbon.
Speaker 5: That's part of that's what they eat. That's why they
Speaker 5: eat organic matter and compost it and turn it into
Speaker 5: compost is because of the carbon that's in it. Well,
Speaker 5: sweet green is carbon. It's a molasses base and it's
Speaker 5: eleven percent nitrogen, and you put it down and it
Speaker 5: dissolves away and releases right into the soil. So it
Speaker 5: not only is providing the nutrient eleven percent nitrogen nutrient,
Speaker 5: it's stimulating the microbial growth, which is important. Now you're
Speaker 5: going to find sweet Green, like other nitrofoss products all
Speaker 5: over the place. It's very widespread. D and D feed
Speaker 5: up in Tomball carries it. Lake Hardware down in Angleton
Speaker 5: or Velasco. You can find it down there, Fisher's Hardware
Speaker 5: out in Baytown, or go to Plants and Things up
Speaker 5: in Brenham. All places where you're going to find nitrofoss products.
Speaker 5: I'm going to head now out to League City and
Speaker 5: we're going to talk to Suzanne this morning. Welcome to
Speaker 5: garden Line, Suzann.
Speaker 33: Thank you. I need help in identifying a weed that's
Speaker 33: grown in my Saint Augustine grass. It's it's low to
Speaker 33: the ground. It's dark, dark green, and kind of star shape.
Speaker 5: The flower is star shaped, or the we it is
Speaker 5: star shaped.
Speaker 33: Look, there's no flower, it's it's the weed itself is
Speaker 33: like a it's loaded. Like I said, it's tight to
Speaker 33: the ground, and it's dark, dark green, and it's kind
Speaker 33: of star shaped. But it's gotten multiple leaves. I've never
Speaker 33: seen it before, and I've lived here for forty years.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you are throwing me on the star shaped like
Speaker 5: a five pointed star.
Speaker 33: Well, yeah, well it could be more than that.
Speaker 5: Okay, I'm sorry, I you know.
Speaker 33: Okay, well I didn't know if you I mean. Yeah,
Speaker 33: like I said, I've lived here more than fifty years.
Speaker 33: I've never seen it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but I'm not.
Speaker 33: I'm not upset about it because it's the same colors
Speaker 33: as Saint Augustine and it's this looks good.
Speaker 5: Okay, Well it's real. Send me a photo because.
Speaker 33: Well I'll try. I'm away from my home right now.
Speaker 5: Okay. Well, I mean there are some there are some
Speaker 5: thistle kinds of weeds, you know that that can come
Speaker 5: up and have a star shape to them. But that
Speaker 5: that's unusual. You're not talking about each individual leaf is
Speaker 5: star shaped. You're talking about the weeds.
Speaker 33: No, no, no, no, there's a whole bunch of leaves
Speaker 33: that are just shooting out from the plant.
Speaker 5: Well, I okay, I'm gonna put you on hold.
Speaker 33: What email do I send it to?
Speaker 5: Just just hang on. I'm putting you on hold, and
Speaker 5: Chris will pick up the phone. He's talking to another caller.
Speaker 5: He'll pick up the phone just a second and he
Speaker 5: will give you my email. Wow, that's interesting. I always
Speaker 5: like to see the photo because when I see it,
Speaker 5: it's gonna be like, oh, that's what that's what you're
Speaker 5: doing about. All right, let's go up to Lee and Conroe.
Speaker 38: Hello, Lee, good morning to skip them. Thanks for taking
Speaker 38: my call. I just sent down three pictures of a
Speaker 38: couple of lantana plants that we've had the inside of
Speaker 38: our entry do very well with some get developing, some
Speaker 38: holes in in the waves that I can't see whatever.
Speaker 5: Yeah, tell you what I've got good good news for you.
Speaker 5: Two bets of good news. Number one, that is so
Speaker 5: little damage that I would not worry about it at all.
Speaker 5: You are not. You know, if you killed every bug
Speaker 5: that was possibly around doing that, you wouldn't benefit the
Speaker 5: plants at all in terms of getting more blooms or anything.
Speaker 5: That is a minuscule amount of loss of leaf area
Speaker 5: compared to what the plants already have, So I wouldn't
Speaker 5: do anything of it her mind. Secondly, when I look
Speaker 5: at the holes, the edges around the holes are brown browning.
Speaker 5: So that wasn't damage that occurred last night. That was
Speaker 5: damage that occurred before, earlier on. And so I it
Speaker 5: is very possible that those bugs are have already moved on,
Speaker 5: or something got them and at them, or who knows what.
Speaker 5: So I don't know that it's even a currently ongoing problem.
Speaker 5: Are you there? Well, I think I lost him anyway. Yeah,
Speaker 5: that and so my opinion now as far as what
Speaker 5: did it, based on the shape of the holes where
Speaker 5: they are and everything, probably a caterpillar, possibly a beetle
Speaker 5: was the culprit in doing that. But I'm telling you
Speaker 5: that is not that is not an issue that weren't spraying.
Speaker 5: So I hate to go out and just spray because
Speaker 5: you know, l Antenna's or there attract their flowers attract
Speaker 5: certain things, and I'd rather not put a spray on
Speaker 5: them if I didn't have to. We are folks. We're
Speaker 5: having a problem with dropping this morning. I'm just I'm
Speaker 5: watching people up here and disappear, so I don't know
Speaker 5: what's going on there. If you know, I just one
Speaker 5: or two, i'd say, well, people had to go do
Speaker 5: something and they left. But that's kind of unusual. So
Speaker 5: if you lost the car, just call right back in.
Speaker 5: We'll get to you. Let's go to Northwest Houston and
Speaker 5: we're going to talk to Marcy. Now, Hello, Marcy, I.
Speaker 26: Keep good morning. I have exactly the same problem as
Speaker 26: the lady before you last call.
Speaker 11: I know what she's talking about.
Speaker 26: And it looks like grass, very dark, dark green, and
Speaker 26: it blends really well with sant agustine. But it's very invasive, okay,
Speaker 26: but it's really easy to take out. It's like almost
Speaker 26: like a succulent. You take it out and it doesn't
Speaker 26: have like guides, you know, like sant agustine. Is really
Speaker 26: easy to take it out. But it's very invasive. I
Speaker 26: don't know what is it. This is the first time
Speaker 26: that I see it.
Speaker 5: You know what, As you're talking about that, now, something's
Speaker 5: occurring to me. I bet it's a sedge. There are
Speaker 5: some very low growing sedges. And there's also something called
Speaker 5: ki linga that Suzanne. I guess it was it Suzanne
Speaker 5: that had that question. Yeah, uh, Susanna, if you're still listening,
Speaker 5: that may be kylinga, which is a sedge, and are
Speaker 5: controls for it, kayling There are controls for it in
Speaker 5: Saint Augustine. But I think Suzanne was happy just because
Speaker 5: it's green, looks like grass, so she's happy to living with.
Speaker 11: But he's very invasive.
Speaker 26: So I can buy something to control that.
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, okay, look look for something called sedge hammer.
Speaker 5: Sedge hammer, Okay, okay, it'll come out of a little packet.
Speaker 5: It's not Yeah, it's not cheap, the low packet, and
Speaker 5: I think it makes each packet probably makes about a
Speaker 5: gallon of liquid that you don't need a lot of it.
Speaker 19: Uh.
Speaker 5: And there's another one called sedge ender. Like I'm going
Speaker 5: to put an end to this sedge ender. It's the
Speaker 5: same ingredient and both sedge hammer and sedge ender and
Speaker 5: they will work and follow the label very carefully, very carefully.
Speaker 19: Okay, okay, thank you.
Speaker 5: Thanks Marsy.
Speaker 39: Bye bye.
Speaker 5: Glad you're listening, and we got plenty to talk about.
Speaker 5: We're going to head straight uh this segment to the
Speaker 5: phones to West Houston and talk to Donald.
Speaker 6: Hello, Donald, How much water is too much?
Speaker 9: Water?
Speaker 5: Good question? What do you? What do we? What plant
Speaker 5: were talking about?
Speaker 6: Well, like sunflowers and some other little weeds that actually
Speaker 6: grow up with little blue flowers on them. I don't
Speaker 6: know what they are. But the ground is rock hard.
Speaker 6: But I water pretty much either in the evening or
Speaker 6: early in the morning with a regular host, and this
Speaker 6: spray around that it is every day too much.
Speaker 5: Well, here's the thing the answers to your questions is
Speaker 5: keep the soil moist and so if you had a
Speaker 5: sandy soil, you'd water more often because the water runs
Speaker 5: right through it. If you had a clay soil, you'd
Speaker 5: water less often. In the shade and in the sun,
Speaker 5: your watering schedule changes. The goal is to provide enough
Speaker 5: water at one time to wet the soil about six inches.
Speaker 14: Deep at water.
Speaker 5: Until it dries up enough you may go, you know,
Speaker 5: in a lawn. I don't water even once a week,
Speaker 5: hardly on my lawn because I've got a good deep
Speaker 5: root system. I give it a good soaking and let
Speaker 5: it let the air come back down and the soil
Speaker 5: as it dries out. So that schedule can be you know,
Speaker 5: it could it could mean water, and twice a week,
Speaker 5: you know, once a week it could mean water, and
Speaker 5: once every two weeks. It depends on the weather, the temperature,
Speaker 5: a lot of things. But the real bottom line is
Speaker 5: is a soil moistu or not. And if it's soggy,
Speaker 5: that's not good, and you don't want it to be soggy.
Speaker 5: So I would go by that kind of schedule. Donald,
Speaker 5: I think that if you can check that out, and
Speaker 5: if you, let's say, how a launch you said the
Speaker 5: soil was hard, and that gave me an idea. You
Speaker 5: can take a long handle screwdriver, a flathead screwdriver, and
Speaker 5: if you water for a while and then the water
Speaker 5: goes off and you take that screwdriver come back. You'll
Speaker 5: give it a little bit of time soak in maybe
Speaker 5: forty minutes, and push that in the ground wherever the
Speaker 5: soil is moist it'll go straight in the ground, like
Speaker 5: pushing it through soft butter. And when you hit the
Speaker 5: dry spot, it'll be like you hit an underground sidewalk
Speaker 5: of concrete. I mean, it stops, and that measurement on
Speaker 5: your screwdriver tells you how deep you've wet the soil.
Speaker 5: So screwdriver works really well. Now in a fluffy landscape
Speaker 5: bed full of bed mix and stuff, that technique doesn't
Speaker 5: work because it's already loose. But where you said the
Speaker 5: soil is hard, a lawn or anything like that, the
Speaker 5: screwdriver test will tell you how deep did you wet it.
Speaker 5: And if you wet it deep enough, you don't have
Speaker 5: the water all the time. And it's better because you
Speaker 5: get more use out of the water you apply with
Speaker 5: less promotion of diseases by wetting it frequently.
Speaker 6: Well. I actually have an am Leonard Horticultural catalog, a
Speaker 6: gardening knife that has a measurements on it and six
Speaker 6: inches long, And so if I stab that knife in
Speaker 6: there that I can measure how I wouldn't think I
Speaker 6: could put it in there more than two or three
Speaker 6: inches editing day because it's really hard soil.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the sole knives are a little hard to put,
Speaker 5: harder to push in. I like the screwdriver because it's
Speaker 5: real skinny and it's.
Speaker 6: Well, that's true. I have plenty of those.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I've got soil knives too. I would not use
Speaker 5: this so all knife for this test. If you got
Speaker 5: good at it, I guess you could kind of figure
Speaker 5: that out. But the flathead screwdriver, it just is easy,
Speaker 5: and it'll tell you when when you hit dry, it'll
Speaker 5: it'll tell you.
Speaker 6: Well, there's no point at which I can get it
Speaker 6: mushy or sloppy. So if I water every evening and
Speaker 6: I don't water an evening and then again in the morning,
Speaker 6: but at least in the morning or in the evening,
Speaker 6: I probably can't kill anything because I can't get enough
Speaker 6: water on there to make it soft.
Speaker 5: Well, so what there If your soil sheds water, which
Speaker 5: clays can shed, it takes about an inch of water,
Speaker 5: by the way, to wet a clay soil that deep.
Speaker 5: But if you water for a while and then you're
Speaker 5: going to see runoff, turn it off and let it
Speaker 5: soak for forty five minutes and then turn it back
Speaker 5: on again to water for low on. That's called cycle
Speaker 5: and soak, And by doing that, you can get that
Speaker 5: full inch on and I'll use a straight sided can
Speaker 5: or a rain gauge or in anything like a tuna
Speaker 5: fish can's got straight sides that can be your rain
Speaker 5: gauge and it tells you you know then if you
Speaker 5: put an inch of water down or not. But you'd
Speaker 5: like to get an inch down, and you may have
Speaker 5: to cycle and soak to be able to do that
Speaker 5: without runoff.
Speaker 6: Okay, I guess my big question I forgot to ask
Speaker 6: is morning morning, so that you wet it down and
Speaker 6: then the sun burns it off, or better to do
Speaker 6: it at night so that stays wet the least overnight.
Speaker 5: You would like it to dry out as soon as
Speaker 5: as possible when you're done watering, because the water sitting
Speaker 5: on the plant leaves are the mult or that it's
Speaker 5: not going to go in the soil. It's going to
Speaker 5: evaporate away. So let's let's get that done sooner rather
Speaker 5: than later. Leaf.
Speaker 6: So I water, If I water at night, I'm not
Speaker 6: going to rot anything because it certainly dries out by
Speaker 6: the next morning.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but you've got hours then that it's staying wet.
Speaker 5: If you got up and did your watering and let's
Speaker 5: just say six am to pull a number out of
Speaker 5: the air. Then by the time that watering cycle's done,
Speaker 5: the sun is coming up and it's going to dry
Speaker 5: out faster. Because leaf wetness is the number one thing
Speaker 5: that promotes foliage diseases on grass and on flowers and
Speaker 5: shrubs and trees and vegetables and everything else, we want
Speaker 5: to keep bit wet for as little time as possible.
Speaker 6: Oh so, okay, I thought I was thinking that the
Speaker 6: longer it's wet, the better it is. But that's really not.
Speaker 5: True, Absolutely not true.
Speaker 6: Okay, good, all right, that's what I need to do, So
Speaker 6: I'll do the six o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 5: All right, sir, you take care. Thanks for the call.
Speaker 5: Donald appreciate that. I hope that is very helpful. Yeah,
Speaker 5: water and properly is something that doesn't come naturally to us,
Speaker 5: and sometimes it's counterintuitive the things that we have to
Speaker 5: be thinking about. If you're looking for supplies for your
Speaker 5: lawn or for your garden, whatever you have in terms
Speaker 5: of plants that you're growing, Southwest fertilizer is stocked up
Speaker 5: with everything. They really are. If the Southwest doesn't have it,
Speaker 5: you don't need it. It's as simple as that. They've
Speaker 5: got every fertilizer I talk about. They have every kind
Speaker 5: of pest control, disease control, weed control. Are you an
Speaker 5: organic gardener? They have it all inorganic as well as synthetic.
Speaker 5: They carry and both. They got an eighty foot wall
Speaker 5: of tools. They've got that really cool folding kneeling bench
Speaker 5: that I like so much. I'm telling you, if you've
Speaker 5: never seen one, go buy Southwest. Say ask Bob or
Speaker 5: Aaron or someone there, just say show me the folding
Speaker 5: kneeling bench. And I'm telling you, of all my tools,
Speaker 5: it's top five favorite of every tool I have or
Speaker 5: have ever had. I love those things. Southwest has that.
Speaker 5: They have that and then some Do you need a
Speaker 5: fertilizer spreader? Do you need a little hand a little
Speaker 5: hand crank spreader to put out I don't know, fire ant,
Speaker 5: bait or whatever. Southwest has all of that and more.
Speaker 5: Southwest Fertilizers on the corner of Bisinat and Renwick in
Speaker 5: Southwest Houston. You can go to the website Southwest Fertilizer
Speaker 5: dot com. But you need to check it out because
Speaker 5: whatever kind of supply you need, they're gonna have it.
Speaker 5: Along with good advice. You can take them a plant
Speaker 5: in there, you can get a baggy, you can take
Speaker 5: them a photo and they'll identify, they'll diagnose, they'll get
Speaker 5: you the product that's gonna work. That that's really important.
Speaker 5: I always like going in there because there's always always
Speaker 5: something new, you know, there's new products coming out all
Speaker 5: the time, and I wish companies would tell me, but
Speaker 5: they don't. But I wish they tell me, Hey, we
Speaker 5: got a new product. Here's what it is. And that
Speaker 5: way I'd have a chance to check it out and
Speaker 5: see if it's something I'm gonna recommend or not, something
Speaker 5: that works or not. In other words, but I can
Speaker 5: go to Southwest, Bob's going to have the newest ones
Speaker 5: and we can talk about them. I can try them
Speaker 5: out if I need to purchase one and give it
Speaker 5: a try and see if it's going to work. Well,
Speaker 5: that's another option. Bob's got things like supergrol Plus, that's
Speaker 5: the one from Medina. You know, Medina's been making quality
Speaker 5: products for a very long time, decades and decades and decades.
Speaker 5: They've got the has to grow line. There's has to grow,
Speaker 5: there's has to grow for lawns, that's a twelve percent
Speaker 5: nitrogen fertilizer. It's a very good one, by the way.
Speaker 5: And then they have Medina supergrol Plus that's a sixteen
Speaker 5: zero two. It contains keylated iron, so if your grass
Speaker 5: is turning a little yellow, the keylated iron prevents the
Speaker 5: soil from tying that iron up and it releases it
Speaker 5: for the plant. It's got molasses and humic acid. It's
Speaker 5: it's just seaweed extract. Another thing is in it's a
Speaker 5: great concoction. You hook it up to a garden hose.
Speaker 5: One quart bottle that hooks to a hose, covers four
Speaker 5: thousand square feet, takes about ten minutes to do a
Speaker 5: whole area. And I was telling some of the other
Speaker 5: day to use it on something else. You don't have
Speaker 5: to just use it on your lawn. You use it
Speaker 5: in the vegetable garden. You can use it on flowers.
Speaker 5: Can't remember what the thing was the other day we
Speaker 5: were suggesting they use it on but there it use
Speaker 5: it on plants. How about that plants. It's made for lawns.
Speaker 5: Good for lawns, but if you've got a plant that
Speaker 5: needs a little quick boost, it's good for that too.
Speaker 5: You were listening to garden Line and our phone number
Speaker 5: if you'd like to give us a call seven one
Speaker 5: three two one two five eight seven four seven one
Speaker 5: three two five eight seven four. I was talking earlier
Speaker 5: about the new publications that are online. You know you
Speaker 5: need to check those out at Gardening with Skip dot
Speaker 5: com Gardening with Skip dot com. And what are the publications. Well,
Speaker 5: first of all, there is the two nutsedge publications, a
Speaker 5: long version and a short version on how do you
Speaker 5: control nut set? How do you control nutset? And there
Speaker 5: is a science to it and if you just understand
Speaker 5: number one what kind of nutset you have, and a
Speaker 5: few other things about it that are in that publication,
Speaker 5: it will help you have success with what you try
Speaker 5: to do in controlling it, and that is important. There's
Speaker 5: also the weed Wiper publication, a homemade, really cool little
Speaker 5: device for getting weeds without damaging your plants. You welcome
Speaker 5: back to Guardline. Glad you're listening with us. Hey, if
Speaker 5: you'd like to give me a call seven two two
Speaker 5: k t RH. That's the number seven one three two
Speaker 5: one two k t RH. For those of you who
Speaker 5: are wanting to have work donender your trees or those
Speaker 5: of you who are wondering if you need work done
Speaker 5: to your trees, you need to call Affordable Tree. Martin
Speaker 5: Spoonmore has been doing this for a long long time
Speaker 5: and he knows his stuff. When we're dealing with storms
Speaker 5: that come through, there is a way that you can
Speaker 5: do some selective pruning to help make your tree safer
Speaker 5: when it comes to heavy winds. This doesn't mean somebody
Speaker 5: goes in and butcher's everything up, and there are people
Speaker 5: that don't know what they're doing that are out there
Speaker 5: doing that. We're talking about a proper selective pruning to
Speaker 5: be done. We're also talking about training your trees all
Speaker 5: along their life to give them a good strong structure.
Speaker 5: We're talking about providing help for trees during struggling conditions
Speaker 5: such as drought. We're a good deep watering or deep
Speaker 5: roof feeding. Those kinds of things can be helpful. We're
Speaker 5: talking about knowing how to take care of a tree.
Speaker 5: We're talking about a vice on things that might be done.
Speaker 5: If you have a beautiful tree that you love, and
Speaker 5: you're gonna do anything around the yard. You're gonna put
Speaker 5: in a trench, You're gonna put in a driveway over
Speaker 5: within the branch, spread of the tree, any of those
Speaker 5: kinds of things. Call Martin first he comes out. There
Speaker 5: is a charge for him to come out and look
Speaker 5: at the situation. Consult. If you end up hiring him
Speaker 5: to do something, that charge goes right into the the
Speaker 5: cost of what it would have cost to get it done,
Speaker 5: so you don't lose that money. You can give him
Speaker 5: a call at seven one three six nine nine twenty
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Speaker 5: nine nine two six six three. I to just write
Speaker 5: that down and keep it because you never know when
Speaker 5: something's gonna happen. You need to give him a call
Speaker 5: or go to the website aff tree Service dot com.
Speaker 5: Aff tree Service dot com. Trees are extremely valuable in
Speaker 5: our landscapes. They I have said this before, but trees
Speaker 5: should never be planted on a whim. You can do
Speaker 5: that in a flower bed. Oh there's a new flower.
Speaker 5: I've never seen it, poort, let me try it out.
Speaker 5: But trees, you should do your homework. Find the species,
Speaker 5: even in some cases the varieties that are going to
Speaker 5: do best for you for what you want, For what
Speaker 5: you want it to be, How big do you want
Speaker 5: it to be? Do you want it to bloom or not.
Speaker 5: Do you want to be evergreen or deciduous. You want
Speaker 5: a tree that grows at a moderately good rate, but
Speaker 5: one that is going to last a lifetime and be
Speaker 5: stronger and stronger as it gets older and older. And
Speaker 5: that is very important. Never just plant a tree, becauld
Speaker 5: you saw it at a garden center, find out which
Speaker 5: one you want, then go find that tree HOMEO Guardline.
Speaker 5: We'll put you in touch with somebody that can provide
Speaker 5: that kind of tree for you. Because quality trees added
Speaker 5: the value of your home. They add to the enjoyment
Speaker 5: of your home. Planted properly, they can help cut down
Speaker 5: on your summer electric bills, the cooling costs and things.
Speaker 5: They can make that patio a pleasant place to be,
Speaker 5: can just be beautiful. A blooms at certain times of
Speaker 5: the year. So of all the plants out there, the
Speaker 5: one you most need to not buy on a whim
Speaker 5: as a tree. You need to know what you want.
Speaker 5: That would be my suggestion to you. Let's go out
Speaker 5: to a task a star. Now we're going to talk
Speaker 5: to Thomas. Hello, Thomas, good morning.
Speaker 19: I called you about a month ago. I told you
Speaker 19: that my plants weren't flowering, and I have really good soil,
Speaker 19: everything's great, and you told me they were probably too healthy,
Speaker 19: so I stopped. I stopped feeding them. They finally started
Speaker 19: a bloom again, but they're only but okay, one boom
Speaker 19: at a time. To measure pH and soil, how far
Speaker 19: down do you have to go?
Speaker 5: I would take the soil in, let's say, I mean
Speaker 5: probably the top six inches and just put some in
Speaker 5: a in a cop Are you talking about doing it
Speaker 5: yourself measuring? Are you talking about sending this?
Speaker 33: Yeah?
Speaker 19: I know how to I know how to measure it.
Speaker 5: I just need to seek you. Yeah, put it in
Speaker 5: a cop put some fill up with water, and just
Speaker 5: kind of slash it around, you know, and then pour
Speaker 5: off the water, just the water, and then measure the
Speaker 5: pH of that liquid.
Speaker 19: That is.
Speaker 5: That's a good a good estimate. Now, when you do
Speaker 5: a home measuring, those are not as accurate as sending
Speaker 5: a souce ample in and so things can throw that
Speaker 5: off a little bit. But that would be the best
Speaker 5: way to do it with that With what you're asking.
Speaker 19: Okay, if the pH is a little bit too high,
Speaker 19: if I used to stilled water, would that cause more
Speaker 19: damage than not try and flush.
Speaker 5: No, no, it wouldn't. In fact, So first of all,
Speaker 5: what kind of plants are you talking about? This producing
Speaker 5: one flower? What kind of plant are we talking about?
Speaker 19: Oh, got everything under the sun. I've got a lot
Speaker 19: of climbing plants. I've got jasmine, I've got man carella. Everybody,
Speaker 19: every everybody's just been complaining this past month or so.
Speaker 5: Yeah, let's let's do this. So there's a lot of
Speaker 5: things that make plants bloom. Nutrition is important. Now, Nitrogen
Speaker 5: makes them grow fast, and that's probably what I was
Speaker 5: talking about on our last call, is don't push a
Speaker 5: lot of vigorous growth. You know, I wouldn't say don't
Speaker 5: keep them too healthy. I would just say, in fact,
Speaker 5: too much nitrogen makes them unhealthy. But there's also other
Speaker 5: nutrients like phosphorus and potassium and others that are important
Speaker 5: in blooming. Sunlight is important in blooming, and so there
Speaker 5: are a lot of factors that go into whether a
Speaker 5: plant blooms well or not. But when you're talking about
Speaker 5: you know, changing pH pH is okay, let me do
Speaker 5: it this way. You mentioned distilled water. If you take
Speaker 5: straw and blow into distilled water while you're measuring pH
Speaker 5: you can watch the pH change from the carbon dioxide
Speaker 5: in your breath because there's no buffering in pure distilled water,
Speaker 5: but most of our soils and moisture are very buffered,
Speaker 5: and so you could add something to raise it or
Speaker 5: lower it, and it may dip down and come right
Speaker 5: back up again. That that happens, and so having the
Speaker 5: soil test tells you how much you need to add.
Speaker 5: Sulfur brings pH down, lime brings pH up. That's oversimplifying.
Speaker 5: There's other ways to bring it up and down, but
Speaker 5: that basically is the fast thing. I doubt that aph
Speaker 5: is way out of whack unless there's some unusual situation
Speaker 5: with your soil that I'm not aware of. In general,
Speaker 5: I would say to suggest, why don't you just once
Speaker 5: do a good soil test, get all the data you need,
Speaker 5: and then work from that.
Speaker 19: All right. I got frustrated last few because I've used
Speaker 19: should see the mulch take the seat of moulch for years,
Speaker 19: but when I'm not trying to dig, you know it's hot.
Speaker 19: So I got I got to pull everything out of
Speaker 19: the garden, turned all the soil mulch into my soil,
Speaker 19: and then started using composts. But that I've got a
Speaker 19: lot of mulch in the soil. Now, could that be
Speaker 19: throwing everything arose?
Speaker 5: That could be a problem. That could be tying up
Speaker 5: nitrogen too. Generally, moulch goes on top of the soil.
Speaker 5: Compost goes into the soil. But I'm hitting a hard break, Thomas.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna have to run, but I would I would
Speaker 5: get a quality compost, mix it into the soil periodically
Speaker 5: once a year, just when you're redoing and changing colors
Speaker 5: out or something. If you can do that, do that
Speaker 5: and then keep your mulch up on top of the soil.
Speaker 5: I hope that helps. I'm sorry I have to run,
Speaker 5: but good luck with that situation. Our phone number seven
Speaker 5: one three two fifty eight seventy four. I'll be right back.
Speaker 5: Welcome back to the guard Line. Good to have you
Speaker 5: with us this morning. We are hopping here this morning.
Speaker 5: We're gonna keep going here. Let's see, we're gonna go
Speaker 5: now out to John in Brownsville. Hello John, Welcome to
Speaker 5: guard Line.
Speaker 9: Yes, sir, good morning.
Speaker 3: I heard a lady asking you to identify a plant
Speaker 3: a few calls ago, and it got me to thinking,
Speaker 3: have you tried or would you recommend those Plant Identify
Speaker 3: your apps that you can get on your phone.
Speaker 5: Have I done something? Yes, I have done some.
Speaker 9: Can you hear me, yes, sir?
Speaker 5: Hello? Okay, yes, sir, so I have done some. I
Speaker 5: messed around with them for a while. I didn't buy
Speaker 5: the app. I did the free version, you know, on
Speaker 5: simper ones. I've tried. Oh gosh, what are some of
Speaker 5: the ones? Oh, photo apps? Let me see. I was
Speaker 5: just gonna look on my phone. No, nope, they're not there. Snapseed.
Speaker 5: I tried that one. There's some others I'm trying. I
Speaker 5: can't think of the names of them now. And they
Speaker 5: were okay, they did pretty good on certain kinds of plants.
Speaker 5: You know, if you've got a native plant in the
Speaker 5: woods here in Texas, you probably are not going to
Speaker 5: find the enter on some of those. They're just not
Speaker 5: geared for that. I tell you what I use almost
Speaker 5: all the time, though, and that is Google Lens. If
Speaker 5: you have the Google app on an Android or an iPhone,
Speaker 5: the Google app, you go to Google App, there's a
Speaker 5: little kind of a square with the Google colors and
Speaker 5: the dot in the middle. It's part of the search
Speaker 5: and that does a search for an image. You can
Speaker 5: search with your phone by pointing your phone at the plant,
Speaker 5: or you can take a picture of the plant and
Speaker 5: search the use the photo as your search. The other
Speaker 5: thing I like to use is john is the Google
Speaker 5: I mean, sorry, the Apple itself. If you go to
Speaker 5: Apple Photos and you pick one of your photos, at
Speaker 5: the bottom of the screen, there's a bunch of icons.
Speaker 5: There's a heart and then one with an eye in it,
Speaker 5: and the trash can right next to the trash can
Speaker 5: that eye. When you click on that, we'll look at
Speaker 5: the image and it will tell you what's in it.
Speaker 5: And that. Both of those are so good that I
Speaker 5: just haven't gone back to plant apps at all. They're
Speaker 5: good for bugs too, by the bugs two.
Speaker 9: By the way, oh wow, that would be awful. Okay.
Speaker 5: The key to the key to using any app, including
Speaker 5: the two my favorites, the Google Lens and then just
Speaker 5: the the iPhone's natural ability to search is to make
Speaker 5: sure that your photo shows what it is you're wanting
Speaker 5: to ask about. In other words, if you have like
Speaker 5: a whole bunch of plants at a garden center, and
Speaker 5: you take a picture of the garden center, it doesn't
Speaker 5: know what plants you're asking, and so getting up close
Speaker 5: getting something maybe something dark behind it, so it really
Speaker 5: sees the flower or the leave or whatever that helps
Speaker 5: it to do a better job of identifying for you.
Speaker 9: Well, I appreciate that, Thank you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, sure, have fun out there. You're in Brownwood, Texas.
Speaker 5: Huh oh, Brown's.
Speaker 9: Still yes, Okay, it's very hot.
Speaker 5: Okay, thanks a lot. I appreciate that. Appreciate the call
Speaker 5: very much. Let's see here. Oh, I want to tell
Speaker 5: you about Nelson Water Gardens. Nelson Water Gardens is outing Katie.
Speaker 5: It's your West Houston independent garden center. It's your West
Speaker 5: Houston destination garden center. And we got destination garden centers
Speaker 5: here in the Greater Houston area. This one's the one
Speaker 5: out west. You go to Katie, you turn north on
Speaker 5: Katie Fort Ben Road and it's just a hop, skipping
Speaker 5: or jump across the tracks on the right hand side,
Speaker 5: easy to get to. Nelson Water Gardens and Nursery has
Speaker 5: an outstanding selection on plants. They got some really good
Speaker 5: deals on plants too. Right now by the way you
Speaker 5: can get just to go check out their website. It's
Speaker 5: Nelson Watergardens dot com. Nelson Watergardens dot Com. You're gonna
Speaker 5: find a lot of great plants, and of course it's
Speaker 5: a water garden. Beautiful beautiful fountains, those disappearing fountains where
Speaker 5: it comes out of a a like a tall vase,
Speaker 5: a glazed vase, and the water runs down, goes into gravel,
Speaker 5: and then goes back up through the fountain. They invented that.
Speaker 5: They've got it. They can install them for you. They
Speaker 5: can tell you how to install them and save the
Speaker 5: parts if you want to do that. Nelson Water Gardens
Speaker 5: is a wonderful place to turn your backyard into the
Speaker 5: kind of setting that is so nice and peaceful and
Speaker 5: relaxing that attracts birds, just as sound of water attracts birds.
Speaker 5: And Nelson Water Gardens and nursery out there in Katie, Texas.
Speaker 5: I head over now to the Bear Creek area and
Speaker 5: talk to Kay.
Speaker 40: Hello, Okay, I I just heard you talking about trees
Speaker 40: and shade and it made me think of a question
Speaker 40: I've got for you. I had to have my beautiful
Speaker 40: tree between me and the sun.
Speaker 4: On the east side of my house.
Speaker 41: I didn't have to take it down a few years
Speaker 41: ago because it died.
Speaker 9: They just cut it off at the ground. They cut
Speaker 9: it off at the ground level.
Speaker 41: And it's hotter than can be in this room now
Speaker 41: because of that. So how close to that? It's not
Speaker 41: a stomp, it's just you know, the root ball that's
Speaker 41: still in the ground. How close or how far away
Speaker 41: do I need to plant a new tree?
Speaker 5: That's a good question. There's not a good They're not
Speaker 5: a great black and white answer to that question. Uh,
Speaker 5: you know, if you can move over, oh at least
Speaker 5: four feet. The problem is if you if you stay
Speaker 5: that close, you're digging into wood because those old giant
Speaker 5: roots near the base of the tree are still there.
Speaker 5: Did they they did grind it. You said you just
Speaker 5: cut it off, Well they did.
Speaker 41: They ground it down level with the ground, and it's
Speaker 41: got grass cover over.
Speaker 40: There's like there's no dent in the ground.
Speaker 5: I think a really hard time. You're gonna have a
Speaker 5: really hard time diggings. You're gonna have to get far.
Speaker 5: Here's my answer, as close as you can where it's
Speaker 5: possible to actually dig a hole. Okay, that's kind of
Speaker 5: the answer. And those roots are gonna make you it's
Speaker 5: gonna be eighty percent wood and twenty percent dirt. If
Speaker 5: you get too close to it, so you're gonna have
Speaker 5: to move away a little bit to do that. You know,
Speaker 5: in the forest, it happens all the time. The tree
Speaker 5: dies and falls and some little seedling sprouts up right
Speaker 5: beside it, and as that old wood decomposes, it's just
Speaker 5: more for the seedling to have, you know, the organic matter.
Speaker 5: The microbes break it down and so it can grow
Speaker 5: like that. It's more the practical of digging the hole
Speaker 5: that That's also if they did a lot of grinding
Speaker 5: and the soil was loosened, well, then we would have
Speaker 5: the issue of that soil is going to settle. So
Speaker 5: it's hard to plant a tree at the right rate
Speaker 5: if it's going to end up dropping down several inches
Speaker 5: in the next few months.
Speaker 41: It's it's been a couple of years and it was
Speaker 41: a big, old live oak, so I'm sure there's a
Speaker 41: pretty decent sized system under there still.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I bet there is. I bet there is. Well,
Speaker 5: go buy a few sticks of dynamite and get your
Speaker 5: new tree, and I think we can make it. We
Speaker 5: can make it work. Oh, it's going to make the
Speaker 5: neighborhood library one evening. They won't mind, they won't mind.
Speaker 9: I live.
Speaker 41: I live in an area where they shoot fireworks all
Speaker 41: the time, so you know they.
Speaker 5: Won't even You can volunteer. You can volunteer to place
Speaker 5: the broken windows up and down the street.
Speaker 32: And so.
Speaker 33: All right, thank you very much.
Speaker 5: I stay out of trouble. I did not say that
Speaker 5: on the air, did I. Oh my gosh, bye bye,
Speaker 5: there you go. Hush money. I like that a lot. Okay, well,
Speaker 5: we are about to have music up here here on
Speaker 5: guard Line because it's the end of the hour. It's
Speaker 5: time to take a break. Uh medicea medici see I
Speaker 5: believe as I pronounced it in Montgomery. You'll be Marisila. Okay,
Speaker 5: you'll be the first up when we come back. Hang
Speaker 5: on with us. We'll be right back with you for
Speaker 5: the rest of you. Don't forget new publications on the
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Speaker 5: Read the long one because it helps you understand why
Speaker 5: and what you're doing. It's more than just saying, oh,
Speaker 5: go spray this herbicide. That that's helpful. But done at
Speaker 5: the wrong time of the year, done at the wrong
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Speaker 1: Welcome to KTRH Guarden Line with Skip rictor.
Speaker 2: Just watch him as all.
Speaker 5: Right, welcome back to garden Line. Let's just jump right
Speaker 5: in here and get going again. We got got plenty
Speaker 5: more to talk about today. By the way, this is
Speaker 5: the last hour of garden Line on this weekend. We're
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Speaker 5: for being a listener. I appreciate that we're going to
Speaker 5: head out now to Montgomery, Texas and talk to Is
Speaker 5: it Maricia.
Speaker 4: Uh, Marisella?
Speaker 5: Yes, good morning, Maroslla.
Speaker 9: Thank you Skip.
Speaker 42: Is it too late to apply nitropalls bug out next
Speaker 42: to my flower beds to control grubs?
Speaker 5: No, let me think just a minute. Probably here's the deal.
Speaker 5: Grubs hatch out in this late spring and they feed
Speaker 5: as little tiny grubs underneath the surface, and then as
Speaker 5: it heats up, they go down deeper and deeper into
Speaker 5: the soil. So when we treat them early on. If
Speaker 5: you go to my lawn pest disease and we'd managed schedule,
Speaker 5: and I realize that's for lawns, you're talking about flower beds.
Speaker 5: But if you go there, you'll find out that we
Speaker 5: have some products that we use when it is earlier
Speaker 5: in the season, like June, and then we whenever it
Speaker 5: gets later in the season, that's when the grubs get
Speaker 5: a little bit older and we have to switch over
Speaker 5: to some other things that will move down a little
Speaker 5: bit further into the soil, you can give the bug
Speaker 5: out Max a try. I think there are some things
Speaker 5: that are going to move down a little bit deeper
Speaker 5: in the soil, and you can also do that. But
Speaker 5: let me ask a question first though. Are you just
Speaker 5: finding a grub here and there or do you feel
Speaker 5: like you're losing plants and you pull them up and
Speaker 5: there's roots or full of grubs? Which is the situations
Speaker 5: are you're seeing.
Speaker 9: It's just here and there.
Speaker 42: I applied the bug out Max to my lawn back
Speaker 42: in June, but I failed to apply it to my
Speaker 42: flower beds. And I don't have a lot of grubs
Speaker 42: but I do want to keep them in check for
Speaker 42: the last several years, so I have applied it back
Speaker 42: in June.
Speaker 9: I just happened to miss it this year.
Speaker 5: Well, I would let me say this, if you're looking
Speaker 5: at a lawn and you talk to a turf specialist,
Speaker 5: they're going to tell you that you need to have
Speaker 5: five to seven grubs per square foot in order for
Speaker 5: it to be doing enough damage to warrant needing to
Speaker 5: control it. So it's not just I saw a grub
Speaker 5: in the lawn, it's there's a lot of them. Right.
Speaker 5: I don't know that anybody has developed the number like
Speaker 5: that for flower beds. But just because you see a
Speaker 5: grub here and there, it doesn't mean you need to treat. Now,
Speaker 5: there's nothing wrong with treating. If you want to treat,
Speaker 5: you know, that's fine. Uh, just just know that just
Speaker 5: because there's a grub doesn't necessarily warrant having to put
Speaker 5: something down on it. So just something to think about.
Speaker 9: Great, Okay, Well, thank you so very much.
Speaker 5: All right, good luck up there, Montgomery. You've got a
Speaker 5: and a plants and produce not very far away. I
Speaker 5: wish I lived that close to it.
Speaker 9: That's all I do. I enjoyed place.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no kidding, all right, well, thank you very much
Speaker 5: for your call. Yeah, those kind of products, by the way,
Speaker 5: you can get nitro foss. She was talking about the
Speaker 5: bugout Max. You can get that at ACE Hardware. I
Speaker 5: was talking about different products. And you go to my
Speaker 5: schedule and look at lawn pest Disease and Weed Management schedule,
Speaker 5: and you'll see a bunch of things for chinchbugs, for
Speaker 5: solid web worms, for grubs, for various diseases in the lawn.
Speaker 5: They're all listed there, organic and synthetic and you know
Speaker 5: what they're Alladays Hardware. You go to ACE Hardware and
Speaker 5: you find whatever you need to cure what ails you
Speaker 5: if you want to think of it that way, for weeds,
Speaker 5: for insects, for diseases. Do you want to make your
Speaker 5: lawn pretty? Ingreen, I talk about fertilizers, they're Holliday's Hardware.
Speaker 5: If I talk about wrong guardline, you're going to find
Speaker 5: them there. Ace Hardware is everywhere, forty stores in the
Speaker 5: greater Houston area. Easy to find one, very easy driving distance.
Speaker 5: If not across those from you go to Acehardware dot Com.
Speaker 5: Acehardware dot Com, find the store locator and there you go.
Speaker 5: It's as simple as that, no matter what the products
Speaker 5: you need are. And we're entering the season now. Before
Speaker 5: long we'll be doing our fall fertilizations. ACE has got
Speaker 5: those fertilizers. Before long, we're going to be doing the
Speaker 5: weed preventatives in the fall, and ACE has got those.
Speaker 5: They just have what you need. Ace is truly the place.
Speaker 5: Puts set out to Wharton, Texas now and we're going
Speaker 5: to talk to Ann.
Speaker 21: Hello, Anne, good morning, have a fifteen You have a
Speaker 21: fifteen year old eight to nine foot Texas Mountain Laurel.
Speaker 21: It bloomed beautifully this year. However, all of a sudden,
Speaker 21: it's now the limbs are dying in intermittently in the
Speaker 21: tree and the top of the leaves looks like they
Speaker 21: could have a scale issue. But I'm concerned about the
Speaker 21: brown limbs dying. And there I did lose another one
Speaker 21: a couple of years ago.
Speaker 5: Well, when the whole limb dies and the rest of
Speaker 5: the tree at that point is still green, we got
Speaker 5: a plumbing problem. So one of the worst things that
Speaker 5: can happen to Texas Mountain Laurel is to go in
Speaker 5: a swamp. And you know it's native to central Texas.
Speaker 5: It grows on those limestone cliffs and bluffs and things. Yes,
Speaker 5: it's a very tough plant, but when we put it
Speaker 5: in a heavy clay soil with our typical amount of
Speaker 5: rain over here, it can have problems. The roots just
Speaker 5: aren't able to tolerate that. That's why we say put
Speaker 5: them high and dry, meaning a raised mound that's going
Speaker 5: to drain away well, and they'll do just fine. So
Speaker 5: it could be a sm moisture excess that they're dealing with.
Speaker 5: Anything that would plug the plumbing. You know, of course
Speaker 5: physical root damage could do that. But sometimes we'll see
Speaker 5: you may see something like a borer in a branch
Speaker 5: that essentially is chewing through the tissues that are taking
Speaker 5: water up and down. It could be something like that.
Speaker 5: You just want to prune those out. I don't know
Speaker 5: of a specific soil root rot that attacks those. There's
Speaker 5: probably one, but I don't know of one. So I
Speaker 5: think soil moisture is the thing I'd be most concerned about.
Speaker 5: Prone out. The dead is not going to come back
Speaker 5: to life, and then hopefully it'll continue on. Just watch
Speaker 5: that water.
Speaker 21: Okay, well, it's probably from the excess rain that we had.
Speaker 21: But getting back to the scale, what do I do
Speaker 21: for that? On the top may on the top of
Speaker 21: the leaves.
Speaker 5: There's not a scale insect that attacks the leaves of
Speaker 5: Texas Mountain Laurel. There is an algal leaf spot. Are
Speaker 5: these scale what you're calling scale? Is it a gray
Speaker 5: colored area.
Speaker 21: Yes, kind of spots. It's tiny covering the top, not
Speaker 21: not specifically the back of the leaf, just the top.
Speaker 5: Right, and that's the algol. That's the algyle leaf spot.
Speaker 5: And uh, you know in our climate over here, it's
Speaker 5: that can happen. A lot happens on southern magnolias too,
Speaker 5: by the way, But I would tell you what if
Speaker 5: you want. And but when you're done here with this call,
Speaker 5: I'm gonna put you on hold and have Chris give
Speaker 5: you an email. And if you'll take some good close
Speaker 5: up pictures, make sure they're in sharp focus. First of all,
Speaker 5: show me the whole plan. I want to see those
Speaker 5: dying branches and where they are. But then get up
Speaker 5: to those leaves and show me that. And I want
Speaker 5: to make sure that I'm right about the algle leaf spot.
Speaker 5: I think I am, but I want to be sure,
Speaker 5: So send me, send me a photo, and I'll be
Speaker 5: happy to take it to the next step if you like.
Speaker 21: Takes a bunch.
Speaker 5: All right, here we go. We're gonna put you on
Speaker 5: hold and Chris will be right with you. Good luck
Speaker 5: with that, you know, Texas. Mount Laurel is a wonderful,
Speaker 5: wonderful plant. I want to talk about a little bit
Speaker 5: when we come back, but it is if you like
Speaker 5: to plant things for fragrance, that is a good plant
Speaker 5: for that. We'll be right back. Welcome back to garden line. Hey,
Speaker 5: We're glad you're listening. Today, we are here to answer
Speaker 5: your gardening questions, try to help you have a more
Speaker 5: beautiful and bountiful gardening landscape. That would be a goal
Speaker 5: that I have at least in the deal. You can
Speaker 5: give us a call at seven one three two one
Speaker 5: two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one
Speaker 5: two five eight seven four. I was just about to
Speaker 5: head out to sugar Land, and I see we had
Speaker 5: not one of those call drops. We're to figure out
Speaker 5: what's going on with that kind of thing. Uh, If
Speaker 5: you have been looking for a way to come up
Speaker 5: with more, more interest, more color, more beauty for your landscape,
Speaker 5: I think that it is important to recognize the fact
Speaker 5: that every plant has its pros and cons and every
Speaker 5: plant has its seasons. Perennials are nice because they really
Speaker 5: look go and they go through their season and that
Speaker 5: season is limited and then they die down or they
Speaker 5: just quit blooming or whatever. And so that's not something's
Speaker 5: going to give you color all year, but that's part
Speaker 5: of the mix and having a beautiful landscape. Perennials and plus,
Speaker 5: you buy them once and you want to buy them again.
Speaker 5: They just keep coming back. That's why we call them perennials. Annuals,
Speaker 5: on the other hand, can give you instant color, and
Speaker 5: you can change your annuals out twice a year, like
Speaker 5: spring and summer. You can change them out four times
Speaker 5: a year. I mean, we call those color changes. So
Speaker 5: if you're let's say you put the petunias in in
Speaker 5: the spring, and by summer it's like, yeah, they're not
Speaker 5: real happy to be here in the summer, then you
Speaker 5: just change them out, put in angelonias or something else
Speaker 5: that can take the heat of summer. And then when
Speaker 5: we get to the end, you can put in marigols
Speaker 5: to go into the fall, because they just glow in
Speaker 5: the fall, they're beautiful. And then when it comes cool season,
Speaker 5: you put in your pansies and violasm and listen and
Speaker 5: snapdragons and all those other kinds. You can do color
Speaker 5: changes all the time, but it comes at a cost
Speaker 5: because you're constantly rebuying flats of plants to add the color.
Speaker 5: Then we have our shrubs. But the thing that gets
Speaker 5: neglected most is foliage. Foliage, especially in the summer, can
Speaker 5: give you outstanding color at a time when blooms are
Speaker 5: not as plentiful as they are in spring. So by foliage,
Speaker 5: things like Joseph's coat, things like purple foliage of Persian
Speaker 5: shield or the purple foliage of Secretia pallida. That those
Speaker 5: are great plants. The coppery foliage of copper plants standing
Speaker 5: at colius and kalladiums. Oh my gosh, so many colors
Speaker 5: of foliage from colius and koladium. A beef steak plant
Speaker 5: with its red, reddish flowers, and don't forget whites of
Speaker 5: color too, and areas that are very shady and dark
Speaker 5: white brightens it up and brings the eye in there
Speaker 5: as tech grass, which is a loriape tight plant with
Speaker 5: green and white striped leaves, can lead your eye around
Speaker 5: a bed if you use it to border a bed,
Speaker 5: or down a pathway if you use it to border
Speaker 5: the pathway. Foliage, foliage, foliage, don't forget the foliage. That's
Speaker 5: an important way that we bring color in. I like
Speaker 5: the canna called phasian are also called tropic canna. It
Speaker 5: has oh gosh, what are the colors? Yellow, it's got green,
Speaker 5: it's got yellow, it's got a bronzing color in it.
Speaker 5: It's just multiple colors that fade in and out across
Speaker 5: that leaf. Very beautiful bolt. Even if the cana didn't
Speaker 5: have blooms on it, which it does, it would still
Speaker 5: be beautiful to plant. So just a tip there for
Speaker 5: foliage color, especially in this hot season that we're dealing with,
Speaker 5: you you should or for color, you should consider foliage
Speaker 5: because it is a good dependable part of that overall
Speaker 5: mix to have color in your landscape, and we should
Speaker 5: have color through the year. We can do that here
Speaker 5: in our area. We're going to head out now to Sugarland,
Speaker 5: Texas and talk to Carol.
Speaker 43: Yes, good morning. I've sent to a little by text
Speaker 43: treaty last October and it's doing really well. But some
Speaker 43: of the branches are trying to grow horizontally, and I
Speaker 43: just wonder if there's a way to encourage them or
Speaker 43: to force them to grow more vertically so it's taller
Speaker 43: rather than wider.
Speaker 5: Just by pruning it, just by doing the selected pruning.
Speaker 5: Leave things that are going upright, cut off things that
Speaker 5: are going sideways. Vtex is a difficult plant to shape.
Speaker 5: It's not like a crack, which is easy to shape.
Speaker 5: As it's growing, vtex wants to get wonky. You know.
Speaker 5: I tried to prune one up one time, and when
Speaker 5: I got through it that it looked more like a
Speaker 5: zigzag than a trunk going up because it just is
Speaker 5: always going the wrong way. That's my opinion. So just
Speaker 5: do the best you can in shaping it like that.
Speaker 5: Most people leave them as multi stem shrubs. Some people
Speaker 5: like to try to cre et a trunk to them
Speaker 5: with a top. You just have to get in it
Speaker 5: early and stay with them because they are not easy.
Speaker 5: They don't cooperate well with our attempts to train them.
Speaker 43: Okay, thank you.
Speaker 5: You bet you bet iex I tex agnes castis that's
Speaker 5: the proper name for it. It typically is going to
Speaker 5: have blue flowers. But I'm telling you you want something
Speaker 5: that blooms through summer as long as you cut it
Speaker 5: back because it'll make little seed pods and the energy
Speaker 5: you don't want to go in there. The minute the
Speaker 5: bloom spade cut it. Wherever you cut it, it's going
Speaker 5: to send out two new shoots with new seed pods
Speaker 5: or new bloom pods bloom stalks on them. And so
Speaker 5: if I tax a great plant for many reasons, but
Speaker 5: it has its drawbacks. We're going to now go to
Speaker 5: Carol in Southwest Houston. Hello Carol, Welcome to garden line.
Speaker 33: I'm having a problem with my okra budgs. They're covered
Speaker 33: with tiny, tiny, tiny white specks.
Speaker 5: Okay, well, a couple of things. Okra produces a little drop,
Speaker 5: a little round ball drop. It's a sap like substance
Speaker 5: that occurs on the outsides of parts of the different
Speaker 5: parts of the ocra plant. But also okra can attract aphids,
Speaker 5: and aphids will cast their skin like a snake grows
Speaker 5: out of its skin and sheds its skin, gets a
Speaker 5: new set new skin. Aphids do that, and when the
Speaker 5: once are left behind, they look like little tiny white
Speaker 5: things all over the plants. And so you're going to
Speaker 5: be seeing one of the two. If it's white, I
Speaker 5: think it's probably aphid skins as opposed to the natural
Speaker 5: little eggjudate that comes out of okra.
Speaker 26: Do I need to worry about it?
Speaker 33: Do I need to put something on it?
Speaker 5: You do one or two things. You can use an
Speaker 5: insecticidal soap, spread very early in the morning and it's cool,
Speaker 5: spray and spray upward it because those aphids are gonna
Speaker 5: be under the leaves is much or more than they're
Speaker 5: on the leaves. They're gonna be on the around the
Speaker 5: pod bays. They may be on the stems of tender
Speaker 5: new growth and you just spray the soap all over
Speaker 5: it and let it dry out before the hot, hot
Speaker 5: sun comes out, and that will control them on a
Speaker 5: lot of my plants. If I'm out there, and I
Speaker 5: don't know how much OKRE you have, but if it's
Speaker 5: not too many plants, you can just take that water
Speaker 5: hose with a gun on the end and just blast
Speaker 5: the suppers off. I mean, you don't eradicate everyone, but
Speaker 5: you knock off all the loose aphen skins, and you
Speaker 5: knock off a lot of the aphids that way, and
Speaker 5: that keeps the force of the water. Yeah, but just
Speaker 5: remember under the leaves, there's gonna be a lot of aphids,
Speaker 5: So don't just spray up on top what you can see.
Speaker 5: Flip those leaves over and you're gonna see a lot
Speaker 5: underneath there.
Speaker 26: Oh good, Okay, great, Thank you.
Speaker 5: All right, Carolyn, Thank you preciate that. I do love okra,
Speaker 5: absolutely do love Okrah. Hey last week was it last week? Yeah?
Speaker 5: Last week I was talking to Ty Strickland. He's the
Speaker 5: guy that owns fixed my slab foundation repair and one
Speaker 5: of my daughters is buying a house, and they were
Speaker 5: looking at an inspection on a house and some issues
Speaker 5: that occurred, cracks in the house and whatnot. And I
Speaker 5: just was picking Ty's brain because I'm telling the guy
Speaker 5: knows his stuff. He's forgotten more about foundations than most
Speaker 5: people know. And he's been doing this for twenty three
Speaker 5: years here in the area. Fix my slab as a
Speaker 5: professional service. And I like a lot of things about
Speaker 5: guy Number one, Guy Tye very knowledgeable. Ty is very knowledgeable.
Speaker 5: He knows this stuff. Number two he says he's going
Speaker 5: to show up. He shows up on time. Oh my goodness,
Speaker 5: How valuable is that in this day and time anybody's
Speaker 5: sat around waiting for someone to show up at the house.
Speaker 5: He fixes it, right, that's the most important thing, Right,
Speaker 5: we need to fix it. And then a fair price.
Speaker 5: This is also very important. Tight us. All of those
Speaker 5: things tell him you're a guardline listener. Get a free estimate. Uh,
Speaker 5: if you see doors sticking, if you see cracks in
Speaker 5: the brick, cracks in the sheet rock, those are all
Speaker 5: warning signs. Doesn't mean it's the end of the world.
Speaker 5: Just call him to come out and look at it.
Speaker 5: The sooner you catch things the better you are. And
Speaker 5: he is not going to jump the gun and go, oh,
Speaker 5: there's a tiny crack. We got to go in and
Speaker 5: do thousands of dollars worth. He's not going to do that.
Speaker 5: He's going to tell you exactly when it is a
Speaker 5: situation that warrants the efforts to control it, he knows
Speaker 5: how to do it. He can also advise you on
Speaker 5: things like, hey, why don't to put a dripper around
Speaker 5: the sides of the house to keep that soil from
Speaker 5: shrinking and swelling and shrinking and swelling. That's what causes
Speaker 5: a lot of our problems. Here's his website. Write this down,
Speaker 5: go see him. Fixmslab dot com. Fixmyslab dot com. Here's
Speaker 5: his phone number. Two eight one two fiy five forty
Speaker 5: nine forty nine two eight one two five five four
Speaker 5: nine four nine. We live in an area with a
Speaker 5: lot of clay soils that move a lot, and when
Speaker 5: we have that gully washer rains, they swell up and
Speaker 5: then when it gets dry, which it's doing now, it's
Speaker 5: hot and it's drying. Out to you about the things
Speaker 5: that interest you. How can we help you have a
Speaker 5: more beautiful, bountiful garden and landscape that's what we're about
Speaker 5: here on garden Line. Let's head out to Rosenberg now
Speaker 5: and we are going to talk to Teresa. Welcome to
Speaker 5: garden Line. Teresa, Hello, Skip.
Speaker 39: I appreciate your show.
Speaker 5: My question is.
Speaker 39: I have soggy it's soggy and I was trying to
Speaker 39: clay soil and I was trying to find out what
Speaker 39: type of tree would grow into that. What would you recommend?
Speaker 5: Are you wanting a tree that's for.
Speaker 39: Shade possibly shade or what are my options shade or
Speaker 39: what's what's the option.
Speaker 5: Well flowers or you know, I mean, it depends on
Speaker 5: the size of the tree you want and stuff. Well,
Speaker 5: if let me start with a good shade tree. Uh,
Speaker 5: there is a red oak, a type of red oak
Speaker 5: called nut tall oak, and you t t a l
Speaker 5: not tall oak, and that's all. Oak will provide you
Speaker 5: with a very good growth rate and it makes a
Speaker 5: large spreading tree, very very nice for shade and things.
Speaker 5: And it tolerates some soggy soil conditions. You know, it
Speaker 5: doesn't want to live in a swamp like a cypress can.
Speaker 5: But when you have periodic times or it stays a
Speaker 5: little wet for too long, not tall oak can tolerate
Speaker 5: that and it does really well. So that would be
Speaker 5: that probably be the first one that comes to mind.
Speaker 5: Uh so, yeah, we think about that.
Speaker 39: Okay, I think that's a nice suggestion. Now what about
Speaker 39: some I think that's pretty with flowers or anything. Is
Speaker 39: there anything you would recommend?
Speaker 5: I think let me when you when we're talking about
Speaker 5: wet how wet I mean, is this like water stands
Speaker 5: for a week after a rain or.
Speaker 11: Something like that?
Speaker 5: Described that.
Speaker 39: Oh okay, it rains and it stays wet for days.
Speaker 5: Okay. Well, another thing too, as we get to smaller
Speaker 5: stature trees, things that aren't gonna get so huge, uh,
Speaker 5: is you can you can bring in some soil, create
Speaker 5: a raised mound a little bit, and plant on that
Speaker 5: and then your your your pallette expands quite a bit.
Speaker 5: Crape myrtles don't want to be in a swamp, but
Speaker 5: they can take some periods of leaf wetness I mean
Speaker 5: a root sogginess for a while. And crapes can be
Speaker 5: anything from a five foot high little mini tree to
Speaker 5: something thirty five feet high. And so you get to
Speaker 5: pick the color of the bloom, you get to pick
Speaker 5: the size of the plant. There's so many new crapes.
Speaker 5: I did a I created a chart online years ago
Speaker 5: on crape myrtles, and I had crepes from three feet
Speaker 5: to thirty five feet, and I showed that the bloom color.
Speaker 5: It showed whether it was resistance of powdery milde or not.
Speaker 5: It showed you whether the bark was just standard putty
Speaker 5: colored like most crapes, or if it had a kind
Speaker 5: of a cinnamon colored bark. And if you do a
Speaker 5: Google search and you put in my name Skip Richter
Speaker 5: and you put in crape myrtle in a search, that
Speaker 5: you're probably gonna come up with that one. Still, the
Speaker 5: problem with that chart is it's older now. Those varieties,
Speaker 5: most of them are still around, but there's a lot
Speaker 5: of newer stuff that you can choose from. One of
Speaker 5: these days, maybe I'll tackle it and try to re
Speaker 5: revisit it. Okay, I see h yeah, like the earthquake
Speaker 5: scale r I C H T E er. Okay, that's it. Uh,
Speaker 5: let me think of what else. I'm thinking of. Things
Speaker 5: that are more shrub like button bush grows in a swamp.
Speaker 5: It has little round blooms that look like a little
Speaker 5: you know, when fireworks go up in there explode and
Speaker 5: go in all directions. That little blooms remind me of
Speaker 5: that little round balls that have little things sticking out
Speaker 5: from them. But it's not going to be a big tree.
Speaker 5: It'll get up about twelve feet or so in time
Speaker 5: if you do a lot of pruning on it, but
Speaker 5: in general it's going to be smaller. Let's see swamps
Speaker 5: for trees. Two below is one that has some fault color,
Speaker 5: and if the conditions are right, Tupelow can provide you
Speaker 5: with a good swamp tolerant tree. Not really easy to
Speaker 5: find those because there's not a high demand for them,
Speaker 5: but that would be one you might want to consider
Speaker 5: a little bit of a stretch there compared to some
Speaker 5: of the other things I'm suggesting.
Speaker 39: Okay, Skip, thank you so much, all right, and we
Speaker 39: appreciate that, we appreciate you, and we appreciate you here
Speaker 39: in Texas. Take care, Thank you.
Speaker 5: Well, thank you glad you feel that way. Thanks a lot.
Speaker 5: I appreciate you for calling. Take care. Let's see, I
Speaker 5: was yester day, I was I have a bird feeder
Speaker 5: that takes pictures. Yeah, the birds come and when they
Speaker 5: sit there, there's a camera and it takes a picture
Speaker 5: and it sends it to my phone or it says, hey,
Speaker 5: you had a visitor, and I'm going to look through
Speaker 5: them and I see little videos and I've got the
Speaker 5: scruffiest looking birds you've ever seen. So naturally, who do
Speaker 5: I call Wabird's Unlimited. I just sent a quick cup
Speaker 5: few pictures over to Rich from the Cypress store. You know,
Speaker 5: there's six Warbirds Unlimited stores in Houston. That's just one
Speaker 5: of the six stores here in the greater Houston area.
Speaker 5: And I said, Rich, what's going on? Is this still
Speaker 5: molting going on? Or you know my birds have the
Speaker 5: some new disease that appeared. He said, no, I just molting.
Speaker 5: There's still Boy, do they look horrible. Oh the cardinals
Speaker 5: looked like you ran them through a weed eater or something.
Speaker 5: That's just they're just all messed up. And that reminded
Speaker 5: me that Wabirds has a number of high quality feeds.
Speaker 5: You know, when a bird is molting, and our birds
Speaker 5: are I mean I had let's see, I had a
Speaker 5: blue jay in the picture. I had a type of
Speaker 5: finch in the picture, and I had cardinals in the picture.
Speaker 5: Well they're all molting. Well when they're doing that, they
Speaker 5: just can't fly all over the place. I mean they're
Speaker 5: getting new feathers. They're kind of wonky. Well, what you
Speaker 5: need to do is give them something like nesting super
Speaker 5: Blend from Wabirds Unlimited. Unfortunately I already was and I
Speaker 5: believe in that food. It's really good. It's got things
Speaker 5: like sunflower chips and peanuts and dried mealworm and bark
Speaker 5: butter bits and sapflower nuts and all kinds of tree nuts.
Speaker 5: It's just a super food. And that helps because you
Speaker 5: know they can't go flying all over creation trying to
Speaker 5: fight food. Put that in your feeder. Get them also,
Speaker 5: by the way, from waburd you need to get their cylinders,
Speaker 5: especially if you're going to go on a trip. You
Speaker 5: use cylinders whether you're going on a trip or not.
Speaker 5: But with a cylinder, it's a hard packed cylinder of food.
Speaker 5: And you go on a trip and you come back
Speaker 5: and is still there. Birds are picking the seeds out,
Speaker 5: so they got something not like your feeder goes dry.
Speaker 5: But it works really well. I like the cylinders because
Speaker 5: if you put them kind of near a window you
Speaker 5: can watch the birds. It takes them instead of flying
Speaker 5: in getting a few seeds and flying away. It takes
Speaker 5: them just a second to kind of peck those out
Speaker 5: and you get a little more time to get to
Speaker 5: watch your birds. Anyway. That's Wabirds Unlimited. Warbirds Unlimited is
Speaker 5: six stores, WBU dot com, slash Houston, WBU dot com
Speaker 5: slash Houston. You need to check them out. Okay, it's
Speaker 5: time for me take another break, and we'll be right
Speaker 5: back for our last segment. If you'd like to give
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Speaker 5: all kinds of gardening advice. I hope you're enjoying the show.
Speaker 5: We try to keep it a little entertaining as well
Speaker 5: as we go along, because hey, you got to have fun,
Speaker 5: right and when we are gardeners, we have issues we
Speaker 5: have to deal with that break our heart first of all,
Speaker 5: when a plant dies, or when something decides to come
Speaker 5: in and chomp on our plant, or something that's happened
Speaker 5: to me. The night before I was going to go
Speaker 5: out the next morning and picked my sweet corn. Every
Speaker 5: raccoon in town got together sent theired. I think they
Speaker 5: have text communication or something, because they all came and
Speaker 5: they stripped my corn patch. That'll break your heart, fire ants, nuts,
Speaker 5: edge bermuda grass in the flight. We have a lot
Speaker 5: of things we have to do with hey. Challenges build character.
Speaker 5: They make us stronger. But you got to laugh occasionally
Speaker 5: along with doing the things you need to do to
Speaker 5: get them under control. And we help you with that.
Speaker 5: But gardening is a fun hobby, you know it really,
Speaker 5: it just is. It's the kind of hobby that I
Speaker 5: personally I think is one of the best ones to have.
Speaker 5: And here's why. You can spend a lot of money
Speaker 5: on any hobby. I mean, if you want to, if
Speaker 5: you want to buy a bass boat or a deer lease,
Speaker 5: or if you want to buy a very expensive, you know,
Speaker 5: Troy built rototiller, you can spend it on gardening too.
Speaker 5: Or you can do it for almost nothing. You can
Speaker 5: do almost nothing save your own seeds. You can make
Speaker 5: your own compost. I mean, it's for everybody. If you
Speaker 5: are young and able bodied, you can do all kinds
Speaker 5: of work out there in the garden, do it yourselfing
Speaker 5: around the place. If you are getting up in ages
Speaker 5: and just not able to do that kind of thing,
Speaker 5: we have ergonomic tools. We have beds that bring things
Speaker 5: up high where you can you can get access to
Speaker 5: them without having to stoop and go up and down
Speaker 5: and up and down. Gardenings for everybody, and it's mental health.
Speaker 5: It really is mental health. I promise you that the
Speaker 5: benefits are. If you've never gardened, I highly recommend you
Speaker 5: give it a try, because that is there a chance
Speaker 5: of being outside in nature and breathing fresh air and
Speaker 5: getting some sunshine and just enjoying the outdoors. That is
Speaker 5: physically and mentally helpful too. And then of course the
Speaker 5: physical ability, you know, getting up, walking around, taking steps.
Speaker 5: Even people that work in an office cubicle are told
Speaker 5: you need to get up ever so many minutes and
Speaker 5: walk around for a minute and before you go back
Speaker 5: and sit down. Well, gardening is more than a walk
Speaker 5: around a minute. I mean, you can just walk around
Speaker 5: the yard and go back inside. But anytime you're doing
Speaker 5: any kind of exercise like that, even if it's not
Speaker 5: you know, physical, big physical exercise, it benefits you. And
Speaker 5: that's gardening. And it's one of the reasons why I
Speaker 5: say it is the best hobby there is, the best
Speaker 5: absolute hobby there is. Now, I know that I'm biased,
Speaker 5: but that don't make me wrong. You can be biased
Speaker 5: and wrong, or you can be biased and right, and
Speaker 5: I think I'm biased and right. All right, Well, you're
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Speaker 19: Uh.
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Speaker 5: I was talking earlier about the birds and my scruffy
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Speaker 5: you ought to because we're always putting stuff up there.
Speaker 5: You'll be the first to know when I'm putting up
Speaker 5: new publications because I announce them. They're on the Facebook
Speaker 5: page of garden Line. So I'll post something showing my
Speaker 5: scruffy birds because when you look at them, it's like
Speaker 5: you feel sorry for them, you know. I hear Sarah
Speaker 5: McLoughlin singing in the background, these poor birds. If you
Speaker 5: don't know what that means, I'll explain anyway. But they're
Speaker 5: gonna get better because I'm feeding them good feed and
Speaker 5: they are gonna get their new foliage and be as
Speaker 5: beautiful as ever. I'm telling you right now, beautiful. They
Speaker 5: are not the cardinals and whatnot. If you haven't purchased
Speaker 5: a bird feeder, you ought to get a quality bird feeder. Two.
Speaker 5: By the way, there are a lot of different kinds.
Speaker 5: No matter what you're trying to feed, there's a great
Speaker 5: way to do it. I like the ones that are scrolled,
Speaker 5: excluding my favorite, absolute favorite. But if you we're about
Speaker 5: to run out of time here today. But I did
Speaker 5: want to mention that this week out there in the
Speaker 5: lawn and garden, keep the lawn mode as regularly as
Speaker 5: you can. The more often you mow, the better that
Speaker 5: it's gonna look. Regular. Mowing sharp, more blade on a
Speaker 5: regular basis, at a taller height. Those are the keys
Speaker 5: to good density of your ear. I'm going to run
Speaker 5: out to April and the woodlands real quick. April, we
Speaker 5: got about a minute left. Let's see if we can
Speaker 5: get it done.
Speaker 15: Hi, we have some I think harvest strants in Kerrville.
Speaker 15: They eat like a seven foot wide circle. Does that
Speaker 15: sound about right, and then eat little paths away.
Speaker 5: Yes, that is a harvard. That's the red harvest rant.
Speaker 5: I grew up with those things and they I probably
Speaker 5: am not going to convince you they're a good thing
Speaker 5: out there but they are. That's one of the reasons
Speaker 5: that the Texas horned lizard. We grew up calling them
Speaker 5: horn toads. Those feed on harvest rants, and as people
Speaker 5: have done things that have reduced harvest grant numbers, it's
Speaker 5: been a crisis for the Texas horn toad. They can
Speaker 5: be controlled, you know, pesticides will kill them if they're
Speaker 5: not really bothering you're leaving them alone is certainly a
Speaker 5: good idea. So that's kind of up to you, though.
Speaker 15: Well, I have I have like a dozen, you know,
Speaker 15: seven foot wide circles that these guys creating my lawn.
Speaker 15: That's a little much.
Speaker 5: Oh in your lawn. This is not in Purville, you said, yes, oh, okay, okay,
Speaker 5: Well I was picturing just pastures and stuff like that.
Speaker 5: So if you put any kind of a dust insecticide
Speaker 5: right there at the opening, they all have to come
Speaker 5: in and out of that opening. And it kills me
Speaker 5: to talk about killing them. I understand what you're talking about.
Speaker 5: Like I said, I grew up with them, and they
Speaker 5: do create a vegetation free huge area around them. Yes,
Speaker 5: but a dust whatever kind of a dust from ortheene
Speaker 5: to seven dust or whatever they have to track through it.
Speaker 5: It will kill them, but you just have to get
Speaker 5: it just a little bit there at the mound. You
Speaker 5: don't want to spray everywhere everything, No need to do that.
Speaker 5: That one opening is where they all come in and out,
Speaker 5: so that that would get them.
Speaker 9: Under for you.
Speaker 15: So don't bother with the red ant killer. So I've
Speaker 15: been buying the twenty dollars bag red ant killer.
Speaker 5: What is in that?
Speaker 15: Do you happen to have a No, I don't have
Speaker 15: it in front of me. Wish I did.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry, red I'm gonna I'm gonna see if I
Speaker 5: can find that red ant killer that is. I don't
Speaker 5: know what that.
Speaker 15: That's all I see there in curvill Is bags and
Speaker 15: bags of red ant killer, not anything about harvest ants.
Speaker 5: Hmm. Well, I don't see a product named red ant killer,
Speaker 5: so I'm sure it exists. You're seeing it. I just
Speaker 5: don't know which one that is, depending on the on
Speaker 5: the name of it.
Speaker 15: But that's what they kill. Okay, try for a more
Speaker 15: specific harvest ant killer, or go get our go get
Speaker 15: some horn toads.
Speaker 5: Or go get some horn odes. That would be that
Speaker 5: would be it. But you're not going to get results
Speaker 5: in your lawn fast enough with the horn toads. I'm
Speaker 5: sure you won't be happy, you know the speed of
Speaker 5: those results. But all it takes is just a little
Speaker 5: dust right in the entrance opening. You're not nuke in
Speaker 5: the yard here. This is just a access. If they
Speaker 5: have to crawl through it, you may have to reapply
Speaker 5: it a week later, the reply it again a week later.
Speaker 5: You know, with rain and different things, it's not going
Speaker 5: to always stick around. But that'll do it.
Speaker 9: Well.
Speaker 4: Thank you for your time.
Speaker 5: Appreciate it all right, good good luck out there. I
Speaker 5: appreciated by the April. Bye bye. All right, there it's time.
Speaker 5: Let's see. Ow we're about to the end of our
Speaker 5: time here, right, do we need one more break? Nope,
Speaker 5: we're looking at the end of the show. That's what.
Speaker 5: All right. Why you've been listening to Gardenline. I'm your host,
Speaker 5: Skip Richtor, and I appreciate you giving us a call today,
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