Speaker 1: Welcome to Katie r h Garden Line with Scared Rict.
Speaker 2: It's the crazy watch a trim, just watch him as
Speaker 2: so many good things to set by.
Speaker 3: Hey, welcome, welcome, Welcome back to garden Line. It's good
Speaker 3: to be back this weekend. We got plenty of things
Speaker 3: to talk about, as always with gardening. You know that's
Speaker 3: a nice thing about gardening. There is always something to
Speaker 3: talk about. I mean, if you only own some fruit trees,
Speaker 3: we got something to talk about every day. If you
Speaker 3: only own a couple of herb plants or a couple
Speaker 3: of houseplants, we got something to talk about. Gardening is
Speaker 3: twelve months out of the year, three sixty five and
Speaker 3: twenty four hours a day. If you want, we always
Speaker 3: have something that is pertinent. We're going to talk about
Speaker 3: some of those things today. I'm gonna talk a little
Speaker 3: bit about pre emergent herbicides, so stay tuned for that.
Speaker 3: We're going to go into a little bit of a
Speaker 3: detail on that. I've had a lot of questions about
Speaker 3: pre emergence recently, and you know, it's important to get
Speaker 3: these things right because think of the pesticides we apply
Speaker 3: in sexicides, funch sides, herbicides, all of that. Think of
Speaker 3: it is like medicine. And in terms of dosing in things, right,
Speaker 3: I mean, you've got you take too much, it's not good.
Speaker 3: You don't take enough, it doesn't help. You don't follow
Speaker 3: the instructions on the prescribed medications, and you're probably going
Speaker 3: to get into troubles. And that is the way it
Speaker 3: is with any kind of product that we put on
Speaker 3: our plants, for insects, diseases, weeds, even fertilizers. Misapplication can
Speaker 3: cause problems. So we'll talk about that a little bit
Speaker 3: more in a bit. So just kind of stay tuned
Speaker 3: right now. Now, I wanted to tell you that the
Speaker 3: gate is wide open on getting some pre emergent fertilizers
Speaker 3: out there. It is important that we apply them at
Speaker 3: the right time and our If you look at my
Speaker 3: schedule at gardening with Skip dot com, you'll see October
Speaker 3: is the big month for doing that. Now. The idea
Speaker 3: is to get it ahead of times. So I'm saying
Speaker 3: I'm turning things loose here at the very end of September.
Speaker 3: If you want to put one out, especially those of
Speaker 3: you who live further north. It's a little cooler for
Speaker 3: the north, just a few degrees than it is all
Speaker 3: the way south you go to Galaston, for example, or
Speaker 3: other areas south. And so, you know, we when I'm
Speaker 3: saying on a radio show that goes from Huntsville down
Speaker 3: to the coast and then down Corpus over to really
Speaker 3: the edge of Austin and over the Louisiana border, you
Speaker 3: know saying, well, now is the time. It's kind of
Speaker 3: that's a little bit of a range. But I'll tell
Speaker 3: you this. For those of you in a little cooler
Speaker 3: parts of the zone, now is absolutely the time. And
Speaker 3: for those of your further south, if you want to
Speaker 3: get it done a little early, you can. And here's
Speaker 3: why those products last. I talk about barricade all the time,
Speaker 3: and barricade it's not like it's just going to work
Speaker 3: for a few weeks. It's going to be around. And
Speaker 3: so if you want to go a little earlier on it,
Speaker 3: you can. It's a little earlier. Maybe then you need
Speaker 3: to in the warmest parts of the area, but you
Speaker 3: never know what the weather. That's the thing. Weed seeds
Speaker 3: sprout based on temperature, and so when we get into
Speaker 3: the fall season, as it's cooling off the cool season,
Speaker 3: weeds they're sitting there going it's brout now, not when
Speaker 3: it's one hundred and twenty degrees, I'm not going to
Speaker 3: do it. And then when it cools off a little bit,
Speaker 3: it hits a temperature where they're willing to sprout, and
Speaker 3: we got to get our products down ahead of that.
Speaker 3: And so it's more important to be a little early
Speaker 3: than it is to be a little late. That's kind
Speaker 3: of the thing to remember. So now it's time to
Speaker 3: go ahead if you want. Early October is great to
Speaker 3: mid October, and these seeds will germinate on through the
Speaker 3: cool season. So if you know, if you perhaps stopped
Speaker 3: every weed that was going to germinate real soon, then
Speaker 3: there'd be weeds that are going to germinate in November
Speaker 3: germinate in December, for example. And that's why I like
Speaker 3: that barricade product because it covers your window there. Either way,
Speaker 3: if you don't get your pre emergent down on time,
Speaker 3: you can still put it down for the weeds that
Speaker 3: are going to germinate just a little bit later. But
Speaker 3: you may have missed a few of the weeds. But
Speaker 3: that's just part part of the deal. What's the best
Speaker 3: thing you can do? When you don't do the best thing. Well,
Speaker 3: it's it's the second best thing. And so whenever you
Speaker 3: can get those, get those applied Ice Hardware stores got
Speaker 3: you covered on that too. By the way, if you
Speaker 3: need barricade, they've got it. Any kind of a product
Speaker 3: that I talk about. The fertilizers we talked about, I'll
Speaker 3: be talking about fall fertilizing today again. And ACE has
Speaker 3: got you know, there's we have different brands that people follow.
Speaker 3: Some people like to do things organically, some people you know,
Speaker 3: synthetic is fine. And no matter how you want to
Speaker 3: go about your gardening, Ace has got the fertilizers for you,
Speaker 3: especially now and this time of year when it comes
Speaker 3: to the fall fertilization. They've got those in supply, things
Speaker 3: like Microlife's Brown Patches, which is their fall fertilizer. And
Speaker 3: then they're you know, each particular groups of fertilizer has
Speaker 3: theirs for the fall season. So Nelson's calls there's carbo
Speaker 3: Loade that's the one for that, and you know He's Hardware,
Speaker 3: it's got theirs as well. By the way, I'm going
Speaker 3: to be given away some of Ace Hardware's Fall Special,
Speaker 3: which is their fall fertilizer by by a Harder by
Speaker 3: Nitrophoss is fall special today when I'm down at Wharton
Speaker 3: Feed and Ace. I'll be there after a decent time
Speaker 3: after the show today because I got to make a
Speaker 3: good trip. But it's from one to three a'llbe at
Speaker 3: Wharton Feed and Ace, and we're going to give away
Speaker 3: a couple of bags of specially we're gonna give away
Speaker 3: a couple of bags of barricade too. So hey, if
Speaker 3: you haven't purchased them yet, you might get lucky. Come
Speaker 3: on down. If you don't get lucky, they've got them
Speaker 3: there in stock where you can get you some. While
Speaker 3: you're down there, you are listening to Garden Line And
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Speaker 3: Let's see, I wanted to there's a number of things
Speaker 3: I want to talk about today, but for right now.
Speaker 3: I think we probably need to go to a break,
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna stop talking for a second and I
Speaker 3: will be right back. Just hang on. Oh, I'm being
Speaker 3: told that I got a little bit more time, all right,
Speaker 3: let me know when we got a little late start,
Speaker 3: so we kind of shift our times a little bit.
Speaker 3: Just let me know when it's time. Well, I tell
Speaker 3: you what I wanted to. It's going to be a
Speaker 3: while before I'm out there. I'm going to be out
Speaker 3: it in Channit Forest a little bit later this fall,
Speaker 3: and I wanted to. I wanted to tell you a
Speaker 3: little bit about some things that are going on out
Speaker 3: there now. And Chenni Forest is down in Richmond Rosenberg
Speaker 3: area and that I love going to that place. It
Speaker 3: is always fun. Right now, when you walk in, you
Speaker 3: are going to see fall asters and moms everywhere. I
Speaker 3: mean they are this is their season and they are
Speaker 3: showing off. You need vegetable plant transplants to get going.
Speaker 3: You need herb transplants to get going. You're still working
Speaker 3: on your butterfly garden fall us for planting. You want
Speaker 3: to get some things planted that will attract the larvae
Speaker 3: and the adults in and Jenni Forest, has you covered today?
Speaker 3: Out there at ten Danny's going to be giving a
Speaker 3: presentation on his favorite trees and he does carry a
Speaker 3: number of trees out there. Start at ten on Saturday,
Speaker 3: So if you just want to string together a list
Speaker 3: of fun things on a trip, stop in at ten
Speaker 3: am there and then head down to Wharton and we'll
Speaker 3: talk down there as well. He's got plenty of shrubs
Speaker 3: and trees, you know, for fall planting a fault is
Speaker 3: the best time to get them planted. He's got some
Speaker 3: great camellias. Boy, they're loaded with buds. Camellias just a
Speaker 3: great thing to add flowers to a season when we
Speaker 3: don't have a lot of flowers, and that would be
Speaker 3: the cool season. He's got some good ones. And you
Speaker 3: got to look at his Talivera pumpkins. Those talaveras are
Speaker 3: absolutely gorgeous. I mean it's you know, when you walk
Speaker 3: into the store. Of course, the mums and the asters
Speaker 3: are going to catch your eye, but these talaveras are
Speaker 3: just beautiful painted pumpkins. That would be a great decoration
Speaker 3: that you would have for years and years and years
Speaker 3: to come. So you got to go by and check
Speaker 3: those out as well, and then he has all the
Speaker 3: other all decorations and everything you expect from Enchanted Gardens
Speaker 3: or Channet Forest actually in Chenne Forest. If you're in
Speaker 3: Richmond and you're heading towards sugar Land, it's off to
Speaker 3: the right on FM twenty seven fifty nine, twenty seven
Speaker 3: to fifty nine. I mean, you look it up on
Speaker 3: your maps, but Enchanted Forest is the place that you
Speaker 3: need to check out for all of the things I
Speaker 3: just talked about, and they are loaded ready for bear.
Speaker 3: And if you want to time your visit today to
Speaker 3: when Danny's gonna be giving that presentation that starts at
Speaker 3: ten am presentation on his favorite trees for the area.
Speaker 3: And he knows what he's talking about, that is for sure.
Speaker 3: Tell what we're going to run out now to Spring,
Speaker 3: Texas and talk to Andy. Hello, Andy, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 4: Hi, good morning, thank you for taking my call. I
Speaker 4: get some pright myrtles, probably about eight of them that
Speaker 4: are straight in the line, and they're about I guess
Speaker 4: fifteen feet tall, but these white spots all over them,
Speaker 4: and they have a kind of grayish looking colored to them,
Speaker 4: and the leaves are kind of like will teem, what's
Speaker 4: my problem?
Speaker 3: Okay, well you said from your descriptions, I think two things.
Speaker 3: The wilting is likely something preventing water for giving in
Speaker 3: the plant. You know, root damage could cause that, but
Speaker 3: it could just be a lack of water. It's been
Speaker 3: kind of dry, it's been kind of hot. In fact,
Speaker 3: we've got a hot week here coming up. Try giving
Speaker 3: them some good, a good deep slow soaking, you know,
Speaker 3: put a sprinkler out there, put a rain gauge or
Speaker 3: a straight sided can, and water as much as you
Speaker 3: can for it starts to run off, and then water again,
Speaker 3: and water again until you've caught about an inch of
Speaker 3: water in that rain gauger or straight sided can, and
Speaker 3: I think that will help. Crapes are starting to lose
Speaker 3: their leaves. They typically, you know, we'll do something like
Speaker 3: that when they're in a long, hot summer stress. But
Speaker 3: mine are starting to lose their leaves and that's just
Speaker 3: normal at this point. It is what it is. They
Speaker 3: are where they are, But if they're a little on
Speaker 3: the dry side, that can happen. Now, the white spots,
Speaker 3: that's the big problem. That is something called crape myrtle
Speaker 3: bark scale, and it shows up as little white things
Speaker 3: on the trunks and branches of the limbs. The scale
Speaker 3: puts out sugary substance that causes mold to grow on
Speaker 3: the trunks and branches. It's a black mold, so literal
Speaker 3: city out there. The scale is sucking juices out of
Speaker 3: your plant. So when we have scale, we can spray
Speaker 3: them with oil to smother them. That is one option.
Speaker 3: This particular scale has been a problem to control, and
Speaker 3: so people are also using systemic insecticides that are drenched
Speaker 3: onto the ground that the roots of the crape take up,
Speaker 3: and that the scale then gets the poison when it
Speaker 3: sucks the juices out of the plant. I like the
Speaker 3: systemic approach and in that you're not putting a pesticide
Speaker 3: all over the surface of your plants. So things like
Speaker 3: a lady beetle crawling around the surface isn't going to
Speaker 3: be affected. But the scale, anything sucking juices out will
Speaker 3: be that. The danger on those is when you do
Speaker 3: them before we go into our bloom season, that material
Speaker 3: can be up there in the nectar and and bees
Speaker 3: go to craig myrtles. So but at this point in
Speaker 3: the season you could use a systemic.
Speaker 4: Product Okay, is that available at a.
Speaker 3: C at Ace?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 4: At Ace, I'm sorry, y.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, absolutely yeah. Ace Hardware does carry them. And
Speaker 3: you're you're in the Spring.
Speaker 5: Area, yes aam is that right?
Speaker 3: Yeah? So let see you probably you've got you've got
Speaker 3: one on Memorial there Ace Hardware Memorial Drive just outside
Speaker 3: about eight. It kind of depends on where in Spring
Speaker 3: you are or your Spring or Spring brand.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm closer to twenty nine and forty five.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, yeah I should there's one. Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 6: Okay, Well I'll try that.
Speaker 3: It's the closest one to you. Yeah, just go in
Speaker 3: there and uh if you want to do you have
Speaker 3: a pin or pencil handy, Yeah, I do. I do
Speaker 3: write down I I am, I d O AM and
Speaker 3: there is a separate word right down and then as
Speaker 3: a separate word right down d I N O like
Speaker 3: dino dinosaur. Uh ef. Those aren't the whole names. But
Speaker 3: if if those two products that begin with those letters
Speaker 3: just two different ones, you can choose one or the other.
Speaker 4: For this, okay, okay.
Speaker 7: In business in the.
Speaker 3: Roots, yes, we'll tell you. Okay, Yeah, you mix it
Speaker 3: in water and you don't have to do it all
Speaker 3: over around the plant, just just around the base. Not
Speaker 3: too far out from the base is fine. It'll pick
Speaker 3: it up from there.
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, appreciate.
Speaker 3: It very much, you bet, you bet, Thank you very much.
Speaker 3: Appreciate that. Yeah, that great myrtle bark scale. Boy, what
Speaker 3: a mess. That is definitely a mess I was talking about.
Speaker 3: You know, the fall fertilizing and stuff. Nitrophoss has got
Speaker 3: you set up with what they call the Texas three step.
Speaker 3: You know, the dance is Texas two step. We're going
Speaker 3: to do the Texas three step in our lawns and
Speaker 3: that is three things fertilizer, weed control, and disease control.
Speaker 3: And here's how that works. The fertilizer's nitro Foss Fall
Speaker 3: Special Winterrizer Nitrofoss Fall Special Winter Riser. It has that
Speaker 3: potassium we need to help the plant to make let's
Speaker 3: just call it the ana freeze for cold protection or
Speaker 3: to store the energy that it needs to come out
Speaker 3: in the spring. Fall fertilization is very important and Nitrovos
Speaker 3: Fall Specials designed for that. It's got the barricade, which
Speaker 3: is the pre emergent. That is the second step. It's
Speaker 3: two different products, Fall Special and then barricade. Step two.
Speaker 3: You get it down, you water it in. It prevents
Speaker 3: weeds from sprouting. That's the cool season weeds, the ones
Speaker 3: we deal with in the spring or sprouting in the fall.
Speaker 3: Number three is the fungicide. It's nitrophuss Egle turf fungicide.
Speaker 3: And I was just telling Andy Imido that was one
Speaker 3: of the ingredients for the systemic well that is what's
Speaker 3: in nitrofuss Egle and night fuss Eagle will get in
Speaker 3: your turf and when brown patch tries to attack or
Speaker 3: take all root rot, which is also a fall attacking disease,
Speaker 3: it is there waiting for them. Those diseases. You don't
Speaker 3: wait till they're all infected and then try to cure
Speaker 3: the grass. It's not very effective to try to do
Speaker 3: it that way. You get in ahead of the disease.
Speaker 3: And that's what the third step of the Texas three
Speaker 3: step will do. You're going to find nitrofoss Texas three
Speaker 3: step products at Court Hardware and Stafford Katie and Katie
Speaker 3: Ace Hardware has them. You go up to Brunham plants
Speaker 3: or things those of you, and Willis go up to
Speaker 3: Growers Outlet. They've got them all there easy to find
Speaker 3: those products. Let's go now to Carol in Houston. Hello Carol,
Speaker 3: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 8: Thank you, good morning. I have several camellias and I'm
Speaker 8: having problems with scale. I've been treating with two systemic
Speaker 8: funge asides, two different ones. After listening to part of
Speaker 8: your call just a little while ago, maybe that's my problem.
Speaker 8: I have been spraying the whole bush, trying to get
Speaker 8: up under the where the scale is. Am I supposed
Speaker 8: to be spraying just in the around the base of
Speaker 8: the of the plant.
Speaker 3: Well, there's if you're using an oil, for example, that
Speaker 3: an oils are good for smothering scale. That's our one
Speaker 3: of our prime ways we control scale. You want to
Speaker 3: get it on the scale, So you would spray the
Speaker 3: above ground and you would spray all sides of all branches.
Speaker 3: In other words, you know, if you just blast over
Speaker 3: the top, you're not going to get any scale that
Speaker 3: might be underneath that. That doesn't have to you have
Speaker 3: to coat them in oil to kill them. So thorough
Speaker 3: coverage is critical for controlling scale with oil. If you're
Speaker 3: going to go with a systemic approach, then you're putting
Speaker 3: it in the roots to get it up in the plant,
Speaker 3: because what you're doing is you're poisoning the plumbing inside,
Speaker 3: and that's the juices the scale are drinking.
Speaker 8: Okay, I've been using let's say, proprocnisol and emit a cloprid.
Speaker 8: So maybe that's my problem because I've just been just
Speaker 8: been spraying the leaves and of course up under the leaves,
Speaker 8: which is almost impossible because there's so many leaves and
Speaker 8: it's hard to get up underneath. So if if I
Speaker 8: were to continue to.
Speaker 3: Plants that you're comella plants, you're using those two on.
Speaker 8: Community fa.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, if it's just community okay, go ahead.
Speaker 8: So if I were to continue using the one of
Speaker 8: these two systemic fungicides, do I saturate the around the
Speaker 8: base of the plant with that funge aside, you know,
Speaker 8: pretty much saturated with with the fuide?
Speaker 3: Are those two different products or are they mixed together?
Speaker 8: And they are two different want the let's see what
Speaker 8: the coronoisol is fertile and the motorcoporal is bonade. But
Speaker 8: I've tried both, you know, well, I couldn't get one
Speaker 8: to work, so I've tried the young one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you need to understand, those are very different
Speaker 3: products for very different things. In middow product is the
Speaker 3: systemic insecticide, and you drench the soil to get it
Speaker 3: up into the scale on your camellias, and that would
Speaker 3: work very well. Now, camellias attract bees, and we're about
Speaker 3: to enter their bloom season, so that's a concern that
Speaker 3: I have about putting the amitacloprid on at this time.
Speaker 3: Once we get past their bloom season, you can go
Speaker 3: after that scale with a vengeance with the amitacloprid, and
Speaker 3: that's fine. Proper connaisol is a fungicide, and so it
Speaker 3: would control diseases and you would spray it on the plant.
Speaker 8: Okay, the proper connaisol is a is tell me that
Speaker 8: again is fault.
Speaker 3: I think we lost you, Carol, if you.
Speaker 8: Would explain the proper Honda's all again for me. It's
Speaker 8: a funge a side proconsole.
Speaker 3: It's a funge a side. So if you've got fungal
Speaker 3: leaf spots on the plant, in all other kinds of disease,
Speaker 3: it can be. It's used on turf for some of
Speaker 3: the Jesus of turf. But those two just separate. Those
Speaker 3: two products. They are very different in what you need.
Speaker 7: Okay, okay, we have.
Speaker 3: To run to a break, but hopefully that'll get you
Speaker 3: off on a good start. And I do, I do
Speaker 3: appreciate your call. Folks. We are up against a heard break.
Speaker 3: I've got to run and I'll be right back. Hey,
Speaker 3: welcome back to Guardenline. Glad you are with us today.
Speaker 3: We are looking forward to continuing our conversation with you
Speaker 3: about the things that help you have a more beautiful
Speaker 3: on and a more bountiful excuse me, a more bountiful landscape.
Speaker 3: I wanted to go into a little bit of a
Speaker 3: talk here on some things related to pre emergent herbicides.
Speaker 3: I've been getting a lot of emails and online questions,
Speaker 3: all kinds of different things from people wanting to know
Speaker 3: or misunderstanding the application of pre emergent herbicides. So here,
Speaker 3: in a nutshell, is basically what you especially need to know.
Speaker 3: Number One, pre emergent herbicides prevent weed seeds from sprouting
Speaker 3: and establishing weed plants. They don't control plants coming back
Speaker 3: from underground storage structures. We call those perennial plants. They control,
Speaker 3: They stop weed seeds. They don't kill existing plants. You
Speaker 3: got weeds in your yard, you put a pre emergent
Speaker 3: on them. If it's a pre emergent, it's not going
Speaker 3: to kill them. You would need a post emergent, meaning
Speaker 3: after they come up to kill an existing weed. Second,
Speaker 3: you need to put them down before the weeds germinate.
Speaker 3: And the analogy I use. I did a Facebook post
Speaker 3: yesterday about it is the baseball analogy. If you wait
Speaker 3: to swing until the ball is over the plate, you're
Speaker 3: never going to hit the ball. You have to start
Speaker 3: swinging before the ball gets the plate. Right. Well, that
Speaker 3: is the analogy meaning that if you wait until the
Speaker 3: weeds are sprouting to put your pre emergent down, you're
Speaker 3: probably not going to do much of anything with it.
Speaker 3: It can be a good product that works, but you
Speaker 3: didn't apply it right. Third, they need to be incorporated
Speaker 3: into the soil, meaning you got to water them in.
Speaker 3: So when you put out barricade granules, for example, you
Speaker 3: water it in with just a little bit of water.
Speaker 3: About a third of an inch is adequate because all
Speaker 3: you're doing is getting the herbicide off that granule and
Speaker 3: into the soil surface. That's where the weed seed will germinate.
Speaker 3: That is where when it tries to push through and
Speaker 3: establish the barricade shuts it down. The pre emergent shuts
Speaker 3: it down. So that is important to understand what they control,
Speaker 3: and that is stopping weed seeds. That's what they do. Secondly,
Speaker 3: you need to apply them at the right also at
Speaker 3: the right time, meaning not after they're sprouted, before they're sprouted.
Speaker 3: And number three, you need to incorporate them with water.
Speaker 3: You need to water them in a little bit to
Speaker 3: get them into the surface for them to do what
Speaker 3: they do.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 3: The fourth thing I want to mention is premerging herbicides
Speaker 3: like any medication or any herbicide or insex side or fungicide,
Speaker 3: there's things that works against and things they don't work against.
Speaker 3: No one product controls every weed on earth. So I
Speaker 3: like barricade because it's got a wide spectrum, broad leaf
Speaker 3: weeds and grassy weeds. It controls a wide spectrum. But
Speaker 3: not every weed will be controlled with any one product.
Speaker 3: So if you've got a weed that you're not getting
Speaker 3: a response to from whatever product you use, you may
Speaker 3: need to switch to try something else for that weed.
Speaker 3: But most of the time a lack of performance is
Speaker 3: due to the applicator. If we put it down at
Speaker 3: the wrong time, we don't water it in and so on.
Speaker 3: And that is why I have I have my schedule
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Speaker 3: on those things so that you can do it the
Speaker 3: right way. And I've gotten a lot of questions about
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Speaker 3: it won't. Well you know I tried and something didn't work. Well,
Speaker 3: I just told you why they don't work. So keep
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Speaker 3: Welcome back to Gardenine. Good to have you with us today. Listen,
Speaker 3: if you haven't been to the Arbigate recently, you need
Speaker 3: to check it out. It is beautiful out there. You know.
Speaker 3: They have all their fall decorations out and if you
Speaker 3: look for if you're looking for plants, they absolutely have
Speaker 3: some stunning things. One thing that I think they do
Speaker 3: a really good job of is putting combo planters together.
Speaker 3: And they've got planters with you know, things like croaton,
Speaker 3: which is definitely fall colors, and the trailing plants, the
Speaker 3: grass like plants. By the way, fall is for grasses.
Speaker 3: If you think about ornamental grasses, Fall is the best season.
Speaker 3: It's when they really show off. Anyway, these combo planters
Speaker 3: look just gorgeous and you need to check them out
Speaker 3: and get you something like that because they are stunning.
Speaker 3: If you need things like snap dragons, if you need
Speaker 3: other fall planting flowers, if you want decorations for the holidays,
Speaker 3: a Halloween, they're getting ready gets all set up here
Speaker 3: for the Christmas season as well. But they've got these
Speaker 3: little they're like the little ghosts, little ceramic ghosts that
Speaker 3: on a little stick that you put in the garden.
Speaker 3: You just have to go by and see them. They're beautiful.
Speaker 3: Remember they got the new parking lot out back that
Speaker 3: is wonderful and easy, very safe entry to come in
Speaker 3: from the back that way just off Treshel Road, easy
Speaker 3: to get to. And when you're at Arburgate, always get
Speaker 3: a bag of organic food complete which contains everything your
Speaker 3: plants need. An organic soil complete, which is a quality
Speaker 3: soil with some expanded shale in an organic compost complete.
Speaker 3: It's a compost, but it also has some expanded sheale
Speaker 3: mixed in.
Speaker 5: One.
Speaker 3: Two three. You've taken care of the brown stuff, and
Speaker 3: you grab an arbigate plant and put it in that
Speaker 3: and you will have success. We love love kinds of
Speaker 3: things they carry there at arburgate dot com. They're just
Speaker 3: west of Tombaul. On twenty nine twenty I'm going to
Speaker 3: head out now to Paul on the southeast side. Hey Paul,
Speaker 3: welcome to garden.
Speaker 9: Line k skip Uh.
Speaker 10: I've got two questions please morning.
Speaker 6: How are you?
Speaker 10: I have sadmins, for lack of a better word, better
Speaker 10: ants inch and half. I want the pennsylan. I want
Speaker 10: to whack and paint them with something I've heard you
Speaker 10: talk about and passed to kill them down to the roots.
Speaker 10: And then I want to know the name of the
Speaker 10: app if you use for id id.
Speaker 3: Okay. So first the saplings. If you go to my
Speaker 3: website Gardening with Skip dot com, there is a free
Speaker 3: publication called Herbicides for Skips weed Wiper. Now those herbicides
Speaker 3: on there aren't just for the weed wiper But what
Speaker 3: it does is it tells you buy the kind of
Speaker 3: plant which herbicide to you. So if it's a grassy plant,
Speaker 3: if it's a sedge plant, if it's a woody sapling
Speaker 3: or a shrub or a woody vine like poison ivy,
Speaker 3: each of those categories has herbicides with brand names that
Speaker 3: I'll put in there. So it makes it real easy
Speaker 3: in case you know, you forget later or maybe have
Speaker 3: a next you're trying to kill nuts edge you want
Speaker 3: to know what to use for that. It's all on
Speaker 3: that page. Four saplings for woody plants, Try clow Peer
Speaker 3: t R I c l O p y R. And
Speaker 3: I'm not going to go through all the brand names
Speaker 3: that they won't all come back for me, but c
Speaker 3: l O p y R. So it's try clow Peer
Speaker 3: and it's sold typically in things that say they're for
Speaker 3: poison ivy or brush control or stumpery sprouting or things
Speaker 3: like that. But that's what you do. You cut off
Speaker 3: the sapling, if it's got any size to it at all,
Speaker 3: like at least the size of your thumb, cut it
Speaker 3: off and dab straight tricle pair right onto it. I
Speaker 3: use those little foam paint brushes, a little tiny ones
Speaker 3: on a stick. It makes it real easy, and you
Speaker 3: do it right away. Don't don't wait a day to
Speaker 3: do it, do it right away. If they're smaller and
Speaker 3: you can't cut them off, you can put a little
Speaker 3: bit of a diesel oil actually into a tricle peer
Speaker 3: and you can wipe them on the sides of the
Speaker 3: real small tender saplings because they don't they don't have
Speaker 3: bark on them yet, and it soaks. The diesel helps
Speaker 3: it stick and soak right in. So anyway, that is
Speaker 3: how I would go about those. Okay, what was the
Speaker 3: second part of your question?
Speaker 10: The app?
Speaker 3: With the app? You know, there are a bunch of
Speaker 3: them out there, and I played around with a few
Speaker 3: of them and everyone what basically my impression was, if
Speaker 3: it's something from Texas here, it seemed like they didn't
Speaker 3: represent well in those apps. Now, if you're talking about
Speaker 3: standard stuff like this is a petunia and you know
Speaker 3: this is a hollybush, those kind of things, it does
Speaker 3: pretty good at that. What I like to use is
Speaker 3: Google Lens, Google Lens l E N S and you
Speaker 3: can even if you have an Apple phone, there you
Speaker 3: can you can download the Google app, and it's in
Speaker 3: the Google app. Now Apple has one that I haven't
Speaker 3: thoroughly tried. I suspect it's probably very good too. But
Speaker 3: Google lens is good for identifying anything, I mean from
Speaker 3: that's just I have used with any kind of phone. Yeah,
Speaker 3: well then Google lens. Look for the Google l E
Speaker 3: n S. Go to your app store and look for
Speaker 3: Google Lens l E n S. Okay, all right, that'll
Speaker 3: do it. That's the best thing for me. But I'm
Speaker 3: sure there's some other good ones. Some of them costs
Speaker 3: money to get the good version of them. Google lenses
Speaker 3: for you, Yes, you bet appreciate, appreciate your call. Southwest
Speaker 3: Fertilizer is the place you go when you want anything.
Speaker 3: They're limited to anything. If you want something other than anything,
Speaker 3: you can't get so with fertilizer because if they don't
Speaker 3: have it, you don't need it. They do. They've been
Speaker 3: in Houston lawn and garden tradition since nineteen fifty five.
Speaker 3: They're down their corner Business and Renwick in Southwest Houston,
Speaker 3: hence Southwest Fertilizer. You can go to the website Southwest
Speaker 3: Fertilizer dot com and you're going to find every possible
Speaker 3: herbicide and sect aicide, fung just side fertilizers, gardening tools,
Speaker 3: on and on and on, things like Azemi. They've got
Speaker 3: it there. They also have a shop in the back
Speaker 3: that can do repair on your small engines. They've got
Speaker 3: more blade sharpening, a lot of very helpful things. Like
Speaker 3: I said, you just walk in there and pretty much
Speaker 3: everything you need for your lawn and gardens to make
Speaker 3: them successful. It's going to be a Southwest fertilizer to
Speaker 3: carry the Microlife products you know, and right now, for
Speaker 3: example on Microlife, they carry all the fertilizer on the
Speaker 3: Microlife I would suggest using their brown patch Microlife brown
Speaker 3: Patch it is a fertilizer that has a higher there's
Speaker 3: the nitrogen is a little less than their green bag
Speaker 3: and the bus potassium you know, real ratios a little higher.
Speaker 3: It's time to get that down Microlife fertilizers. I livevailable
Speaker 3: Microlifefertilizer dot COM's website. In fact, if you want to
Speaker 3: also add some of their products that are called bio inoculant.
Speaker 3: Can't go wrong with that. Lots of good microbes to
Speaker 3: help fight off disease issues that might be trying to
Speaker 3: infect so I do both. I do the Fall Special
Speaker 3: and I do the bioinoculate both when you put them
Speaker 3: out well, I hear music starting to play in the background.
Speaker 3: I need to quit talking and go to a break. Here.
Speaker 3: I want to tell you do not forget this. I
Speaker 3: will be at Wharton Feed and Ace Hardware today, but
Speaker 3: it's a later appearance from one to three out in Wharton, Texas.
Speaker 3: Wharton Feed and Ace you can find it on the maps.
Speaker 3: I'm going to give away two bags a Fall Special
Speaker 3: from Nitroposts, two bags from Barricade Medina, samples plants from
Speaker 3: green Lay Plants, and a gift certificate from the muck
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Speaker 9: Welcome to k t r H Garden Line with skimped Rickard.
Speaker 11: It's just watch him as Hey.
Speaker 3: Good morning, folks, Good morning on a nice Saturday morning.
Speaker 3: I'm looking forward to getting out and about today. I
Speaker 3: we'll be down at the Wharton Feed and Ace in Wharton, Texas.
Speaker 3: We'll be giving away products and answering your gardening questions.
Speaker 3: I'll be there from one to three today, so please
Speaker 3: come on out. Everybody listening. If you live way down
Speaker 3: Corpus Christy Jan had a chance to come see me
Speaker 3: at one of the appearances. Well, here's this is about
Speaker 3: as clothes as I'm gonna get. In fact, I've never
Speaker 3: been that far out, and I'm really looking forward to
Speaker 3: this new newly developed Ace hardware store down there, and
Speaker 3: Warton is just it's gonna be fun. We have a
Speaker 3: good time, and bring me samples of your plants. Put
Speaker 3: them in a bag so that you can bring in
Speaker 3: any bugs that are involved, won't crawl away. Bring me
Speaker 3: pictures of plants that you have. We'll just deal with them,
Speaker 3: all of the different things. You're tired, you're weary, your
Speaker 3: huddled masses of plants yearning to be disease and insect free.
Speaker 3: I'll be happy to take a look at them. Orges
Speaker 3: Hidden Gardens is a place you've heard me talk about before,
Speaker 3: but it's done in Alvin, Texas, and those of you
Speaker 3: down south, you need to know about it and you
Speaker 3: need to go there. By the way, Jorge just opened
Speaker 3: up his hours. He's now open every every weekday, okay,
Speaker 3: every weekday from nine into three, and then on week
Speaker 3: ends he's open from eight to four Saturday and Sunday,
Speaker 3: So nine to three during the week eight to four
Speaker 3: on Saturday and Sunday, he has gotten shipments of all
Speaker 3: kinds of things. And he's just got a bunch more
Speaker 3: of his Orgees special formula's fertilizer that he sells. Fruit trees,
Speaker 3: including cetrus. They've got those in. They got a beautiful
Speaker 3: of succulent types. Landscape plants, for example, cacti, things like
Speaker 3: the agave, you know that sort of thing. They're just beautiful.
Speaker 3: Some of them already have bloomstalks on them. It's got
Speaker 3: great trees. The Cassia, which is a yellow fall blooming bush.
Speaker 3: The oh my gosh. One of my favorite plants is
Speaker 3: Texas sage also called Cynizo, has a purple flowers. They
Speaker 3: call it a barometer plant because it's bloom cycles follow
Speaker 3: rain spells. Just go to Hore you're going to see
Speaker 3: them all down there again. It's on Elizabeth Road in Alvin, Texas.
Speaker 3: Elizabeth Road, Alvin, Texas. Jorges Hidden Gardens. You should go
Speaker 3: check those out. By the way, when you get a
Speaker 3: tree down there, they carry those three sixty tree stabilizers
Speaker 3: at Horehes two, So I always remember to pick one
Speaker 3: of those up when you get your tree so that
Speaker 3: you can stabilize it and have success. You are listening
Speaker 3: to garden Line. The phone number is seven one three
Speaker 3: two one two five eight seven four seven one three
Speaker 3: two one two fifty eight seventy four. That makes it real,
Speaker 3: real easy just to dial straight in. How about this,
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Speaker 3: two one two ktr H. How about that we'll go
Speaker 3: that way too, uh. BnB turf pros is one of
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Speaker 3: because we have we got cool season weeds sprouting, getting
Speaker 3: a little compost drop desting on top even has a
Speaker 3: little added benefit of shading the soil a little more
Speaker 3: to help suppress that we'd see germination. That's something I
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Speaker 3: That is the easy way to get a hold of me.
Speaker 3: I was visiting with some of the folks at Nelson's
Speaker 3: at a trade show not too long ago, and just
Speaker 3: talking about the different products that they have, and of
Speaker 3: course right now the one that's in the forefront is
Speaker 3: their carbo load. Carbo Load is a fertilizer designed for fall.
Speaker 3: Why carbo Well, here's why. When you put down a
Speaker 3: fertilizer that's got some nitrogen but also a good amount
Speaker 3: of potassium in it, that's what carbo load has. You
Speaker 3: are going to build essentially ana freeze in the plant
Speaker 3: to strengthen the plant for cold weather. But you're in
Speaker 3: by what you're really doing is you're building carbohydrates sugars
Speaker 3: in the plant. It does that cold protection, it also
Speaker 3: helps it come out strong in spring. They call it
Speaker 3: carbo load because when you put it down your lawn
Speaker 3: produces a good supply of carbohydrates to increase winter hardiness
Speaker 3: and improve spring growth. A forty pound bag covers five
Speaker 3: thous and square feet. Of course, you want to water
Speaker 3: it in after you apply it, get those nutrients down there,
Speaker 3: and it just works really, really well. And now's the
Speaker 3: time to get the carbload down. Go to my schedule
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Speaker 3: what you're looking for. You're going to find it as
Speaker 3: a widely available product in pretty much wherever you live.
Speaker 3: I'm going to go now to West Houston and we're
Speaker 3: going to talk to Mary.
Speaker 7: Hello, Mary, Hey, Stip, good morning. I just want to
Speaker 7: get your feet good morning to you. Can you hear me?
Speaker 3: Yes, ma'am?
Speaker 7: Hello, Okay, I just wanted to You're so knowledgeable about
Speaker 7: grass seed versus grass sod and I've heard your different
Speaker 7: comments in the past, and I'm in a situation now
Speaker 7: where I want to use or would like to use
Speaker 7: grass seed instead of grass sod. Okay, and I wanted
Speaker 7: to give you your feedback.
Speaker 3: You bet I'll be mourning good morning and on a
Speaker 3: good day for gardening. If you live up in the
Speaker 3: Montgomery area, Ana Plants and Produce on the east side
Speaker 3: of Montgomery, right there on one oh five is the
Speaker 3: place you need to go. Visit. All of you out
Speaker 3: there listening in the Lake Conroe area, certainly Montgomery and
Speaker 3: Conroe all through that area. Ana Plants and Produce has
Speaker 3: a great stock of things right now. They got beautiful
Speaker 3: moms out there. I saw some great asters out there
Speaker 3: too when I was there recently. Roses fall is for roses,
Speaker 3: and they've got a good stock of roses as well.
Speaker 3: Maybe some perennials like plumeria, you know, the little beautiful
Speaker 3: blue flowered plumeria. They have those, they're so beautiful. Plenty
Speaker 3: of lantanas to those. Bring those butterflies in Gardena's nice stock.
Speaker 3: Guardina's the Salvia leucanta Mexican bush sage. That's the one
Speaker 3: that blooms in the fall and has beautiful purple spikes. Oh,
Speaker 3: they have some great, really awesome plants. Of a savvy
Speaker 3: lecanta out there. They have everything, and they have every
Speaker 3: fertilizer you hear me talk about on guardline. If I
Speaker 3: talk about fall fertilizer, I don't care what brand it is.
Speaker 3: They've got it there. At Ana Plants and Produce, they
Speaker 3: carry products for soil member brown stuff first, like heirloom soils,
Speaker 3: like Nature's way. You're going to find that there at
Speaker 3: Ana Plants. Again, they are out in Montgomery, on the
Speaker 3: east side of town, on the east side of town
Speaker 3: in Montgomery toward Conra, toward Lake Conro. If you will,
Speaker 3: all right, let's go back. We were talking with Mary,
Speaker 3: and Mary I think I believe you had a question
Speaker 3: about seeding grass. So what is the type of grass
Speaker 3: seed that you want to plan? What species of grass?
Speaker 7: Well, this this is a replacement for Saint Augustine grass
Speaker 7: that was overtaken by crab grass. And I have pulled
Speaker 7: a half of the crab grass mountains and I have
Speaker 7: at least half more to pull up. And I'm we're
Speaker 7: talking about five hundred to seven hundred and fifty square
Speaker 7: feet and the cost of of of Saint Augustine. Uh,
Speaker 7: you know, by the Pallette's very expensive so I'm warning
Speaker 7: I'm interested in using grass seed, and I bought a
Speaker 7: product that says, uh yeah, it's it'll do uh seven
Speaker 7: hundred fifty square feet for a whole lot less money. Oh,
Speaker 7: then using set can't grasshop it? Well, that's the picture.
Speaker 7: That's why I'm calling you. The picture shows a very
Speaker 7: appears to be very lush, lush looks like a golf
Speaker 7: course or the picture on.
Speaker 3: The back of course it does. They're trying to sell
Speaker 3: it to you.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and it's temper says it's temporary.
Speaker 3: Okay, Uh yeah, you don't want to do that.
Speaker 7: Uh, that's that's.
Speaker 9: Where I.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it doesn't come from seed. That may be a fescue.
Speaker 3: If it's temporary, it may be a rye grass. That's
Speaker 3: kind of likely. If it's temporary, fescue grows better up north,
Speaker 3: not down where we live down here.
Speaker 7: That's right.
Speaker 3: What I do is, if I were you, I would
Speaker 3: I don't know how how big the areas where there's
Speaker 3: no Saint Augustine is. Oh, it's the whole yard where
Speaker 3: you have the whole yard's gone.
Speaker 7: Or the whole yard is I would say good, ninety
Speaker 7: to ninety five percent of the yard is Uh, crabgrass
Speaker 7: that has to come come up, and I have pulled
Speaker 7: it up.
Speaker 12: This I'm under the Uh.
Speaker 7: It's just that's your way, uh making me replace this grass.
Speaker 3: Mary, I'm yeah, I'm not convinced that it's crabgrass. There
Speaker 3: are several other grasses that can look like that. If
Speaker 3: you would like to take a picture and send it.
Speaker 7: To sent a picture I sent. I sent you a picture.
Speaker 13: In Zach.
Speaker 7: I got it. Yeah. I got a response from Texas
Speaker 7: A and M a gentleman after subsequent to sending you
Speaker 7: the picture.
Speaker 3: Okay, what did they? They said? Crabgrass? Yeah, okay, well
Speaker 3: I did. I didn't receive an email from you.
Speaker 7: But I'm going to. I'll forward his response.
Speaker 3: To the pictures and send me the picture. When you
Speaker 3: do the picture, my producer will give you the email
Speaker 3: to send them to me. Make sure you got the
Speaker 3: right email from the cross and well, let me take
Speaker 3: a look at those. Because crabgrass grass, it won't be back.
Speaker 3: It won't be back until its seeds sprout next spring.
Speaker 3: So that's easy to stop crabgrass from coming back. What
Speaker 3: we got to figure out is how to get you
Speaker 3: some Saint Augustine in there. If you've got a picture
Speaker 3: of your yard, would you send me that too, and
Speaker 3: I'll take a look at it. And I think that
Speaker 3: way we're going to be able to do a better
Speaker 3: a better job of helping you. Thank you very much.
Speaker 3: I appreciate appreciate that call. Mary. Uh. You know you
Speaker 3: hear me talk all the time about Landscaper's Pride. You
Speaker 3: hear me talk all the time about brown stuff before
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Speaker 3: It's not dyed naturally dark color. It's just beautiful and
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Speaker 3: I believe we are. Let's see. I think Marry, Are
Speaker 3: you back? I think I see it?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Waiting on your email?
Speaker 3: Oh okay, I'm gonna put you back on hold, Chris,
Speaker 3: would you give Mary my email? Hang on? Sorry about that, Mary?
Speaker 3: All right, We'll get an email there to marry and
Speaker 3: be on our way. You know, photos are always better
Speaker 3: and some things. If you think I might need to
Speaker 3: see the photo, you can always call and get the
Speaker 3: email to send it in. The reason I don't just
Speaker 3: give it out on the air is I'm not able
Speaker 3: to answer the emails, just the volume of it and
Speaker 3: keeping up with social media and everything else and my
Speaker 3: other tasks through the week that I have, I can't
Speaker 3: because there's more of you than there are me. And
Speaker 3: so what I do is I try to connect the
Speaker 3: emails to phone calls and help you that way as
Speaker 3: best I can. So please be understanding, Thanks for being
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Speaker 3: Our phone number is seven one three two one two
Speaker 3: five eight seven four. When was the last time you
Speaker 3: went to Moss Nursery? You know Moss Nursery down in Seebrook, Texas.
Speaker 3: Moss always has really cool stuff and stock Gem just
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Speaker 3: with beautiful blooms that go from white to kind of
Speaker 3: a deep reddish color. Oh, they're gorgeous. They have those.
Speaker 3: If they dive the ground in the winter and then
Speaker 3: they come back with a vengeance in the spring. You
Speaker 3: will not find a more interesting beautiful plant than they're
Speaker 3: gorgeous rangoon creepers. But I could go on and on
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Speaker 3: Toddville Road in Seabrook. Or go to the website m
Speaker 3: aas Nursery dot com m aa S Nursery dot com. Okay,
Speaker 3: I guess say one more plant. Chinese fringe trees. They
Speaker 3: have them in very small, smaller container pots as well,
Speaker 3: which makes it, you know, quite affordable for somebody want
Speaker 3: to get a tree, but you know, put it in
Speaker 3: a two hundred gallon tree. Well, Chinese friends from moss
Speaker 3: spring bloom, shaggy, fragrant, gorgeous. Perfect for modern lots that
Speaker 3: aren't really huge. You know, it used to be we
Speaker 3: had huge lots many many years ago. Now typical lot
Speaker 3: size is so small you can reach out your window
Speaker 3: and close your neighbors blinds. Chinese fringe is a good
Speaker 3: tree for that kind of lot. Okay, we'll go back
Speaker 3: to the phones here to Montgomery and talk to Brett. Hey, Brett,
Speaker 3: we are coming up on a break here. Let's see
Speaker 3: if we can get your question and I'll answer it
Speaker 3: when we come back.
Speaker 14: Good morning. I have a Chinese friends tree and we're
Speaker 14: getting a lot of the leaves or turn around, basically,
Speaker 14: have the lead. I was told that maybe some sort
Speaker 14: of fun guy need to spray. I didn't know what
Speaker 14: you knew about that.
Speaker 3: There is not a significant disease of Chinese fringe that
Speaker 3: I've seen here in our area. That's the bottom line.
Speaker 3: Uh and uh so I think it's probably a soil
Speaker 3: moisture stress related thing. Now I'm gonna put you on
Speaker 3: home because I do have to go to break, But
Speaker 3: if you want to hang on for more of an answer,
Speaker 3: I'd be happy to continue when we come right back.
Speaker 3: All right, folks, guarantee an thank you? Oh won't you
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Speaker 3: All right, we're going to head back now to Brett
Speaker 3: in Montgomery. Hello Brett, and let's get back to your question.
Speaker 3: You were talking about the Chinese francestry that had a
Speaker 3: fungus right.
Speaker 14: Well, I don't know that it's a fungus. I was
Speaker 14: told it could be. I can't pronounce is it ce
Speaker 14: er cos po r oi d fun guy. So I
Speaker 14: don't know what that was.
Speaker 3: I know what it was the last the last few letters.
Speaker 3: Someone went off the rail there. But I know what
Speaker 3: they're talking about. But those are spots on the leaves.
Speaker 3: Sircaspara is a spot. It's not a general browning of
Speaker 3: the leaf whicher you see in spots are just kind
Speaker 3: of like large areas of brown.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I'm kind of getting like the bottom half the
Speaker 14: whatever you want, the furthest away from the stem. The
Speaker 14: ends of the leaves are turning brown.
Speaker 6: Quite a few of them, and I have two of
Speaker 6: them in.
Speaker 14: The backyard and I may be drown on them. I
Speaker 14: don't know what I'm doing.
Speaker 3: Okay, So you think your water them at least enough,
Speaker 3: maybe too much. So when did you plant those things?
Speaker 14: I'm going to say six months ago.
Speaker 3: They're fairly new, Okay, Yeah, so they have a very
Speaker 3: limited root system. Well, in that limited root system, pretty
Speaker 3: much everything they're taking up is still mostly in the
Speaker 3: area where those the plant root ball went in. You know,
Speaker 3: when you pulled it out of the pot, that cylinder
Speaker 3: of roots and soil that's still where most of the
Speaker 3: roots are. So if you put that in the clay
Speaker 3: soil in the overwater, you end up with an underground
Speaker 3: bathtub and the roots are submerged and can't get oxygen.
Speaker 3: If the underwatering is so easy, because you know in
Speaker 3: the garden centers they're having to water those things every
Speaker 3: day to keep that little small area of roots supplying
Speaker 3: the leaves all over the plant, and so it's easy
Speaker 3: for them to get too dry in the ground because
Speaker 3: even though the soil around may be moist, the roots
Speaker 3: aren't out there much. They're still primarily confined to that
Speaker 3: pot area, and so I still think underwatering at times
Speaker 3: could be it. I know it's been a long hot
Speaker 3: summer and as a result plants have been struggling. I
Speaker 3: wouldn't get too alarmed. Just dig down, you know, with
Speaker 3: your fingers or a trowel, ride beside where that original
Speaker 3: root ball was and feel the soil. Go down about
Speaker 3: three or four inches and feel the soil. If it's moist,
Speaker 3: that's good. If it's getting a little dry, give it
Speaker 3: some water and let's get it on in the fall.
Speaker 3: They're going to drop their leaves and by spring, by
Speaker 3: next summer, they'll be much better prepared.
Speaker 14: All right, sounds good. I appreciate it, you bet, Brent.
Speaker 3: That's a great tree. But glad you got it. All right,
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Speaker 3: good morning morning. How can we help.
Speaker 6: Skiff? I have listened to you quite a bit and
Speaker 6: I really value I value your input. I have a
Speaker 6: quick question with regarding to a tree. Early this year,
Speaker 6: I lost a nut all oak and I think it
Speaker 6: was due to bores, and so I'm I'm intending to
Speaker 6: replace that tree with another nutall oak, and I was
Speaker 6: wondering if there's any kind of recommended soil treatment that
Speaker 6: I need to do before I plant that tree. In
Speaker 6: other words, of bores, are they in the four or
Speaker 6: or what?
Speaker 3: Yeah? No, no they're not. Tell me why do you
Speaker 3: think you lost it to bors. What did you see?
Speaker 6: Well, I noticed that there were holes around the bark.
Speaker 6: This was about a six or year old tree. But
Speaker 6: I did not see any kind of stall dust or
Speaker 6: anything of that nature.
Speaker 3: But we had just okay, you.
Speaker 6: Know, going through a big drought and then the previous
Speaker 6: year we had a freeze appearance spring. So I was
Speaker 6: just concerned that if I put another tree in, then.
Speaker 15: What I also.
Speaker 6: Have a problem with bars?
Speaker 3: Yeah all right, Well Kent, if you saw holes and
Speaker 3: no saw dust, you said six to eight year old tree?
Speaker 3: Was that correct?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 16: Rough?
Speaker 3: Yah, okay, so that tree could have had coal damage
Speaker 3: that kills some bark on one side, and that is
Speaker 3: not unusual with the cold we had less than six
Speaker 3: to eight years ago. February twenty one was horrible, and
Speaker 3: then we had a December freeze I believe about a
Speaker 3: year after that. The bottom line is borers go after
Speaker 3: week and stress trees, primarily. Nudall is an outstanding oak.
Speaker 3: It's a good choice. I'm glad you're replacing it with
Speaker 3: a nutdall because it's a good one. There's nothing you
Speaker 3: do in the soil that fixes borers. So what I
Speaker 3: would recommend is, if you want to do some amending
Speaker 3: of the soil. Do it in a really large area,
Speaker 3: mixing some compost in, and then dig the hole. Don't
Speaker 3: dig a hole and then put compost in the hole.
Speaker 3: That that just creates an underground bathtob you want to
Speaker 3: blend in, so blend in compost in a larger area,
Speaker 3: dig the hole. Plant the tree at the same depth
Speaker 3: it was before. If you're not sure, the topmost root
Speaker 3: on your tree should be right close to the soil level.
Speaker 3: Salt surface okay, and water in really good. Generally we
Speaker 3: just don't have problems with borers on those trees. I
Speaker 3: think that the boar you had was an after the
Speaker 3: fact boor. There are bores that tunnel in the living
Speaker 3: tissues around the trunk, and that's where we see sap
Speaker 3: and sawdust coming out. And then there are bores that
Speaker 3: go into the interior wood and you may get some
Speaker 3: sawdust out on that as well. But there there are
Speaker 3: bores that are the trees already on its way down,
Speaker 3: and then the boor shows up and.
Speaker 6: Had Yeah, I agree with you, where it probably was
Speaker 6: a stress tree and the moors took advantage of it,
Speaker 6: I guess.
Speaker 3: Okay, so the best get that new tree in Yes,
Speaker 3: but let me just tell you this can't get it
Speaker 3: done this fall. That's the best planting time. It gives
Speaker 3: that tree, that's best shot. If there's any roots going
Speaker 3: around the outside of the pot, or you see roots
Speaker 3: from when the pot was when it was in a
Speaker 3: smaller pot going around, cut those roots. It's okay to
Speaker 3: cut them. I would do that planting in October. Ideally,
Speaker 3: you can plan any month of the year, but October
Speaker 3: November is probably prime time. And then next spring start
Speaker 3: to fertilize it. Make sure it always has a good
Speaker 3: soaking of water, and see how fast we can get
Speaker 3: that thing growing.
Speaker 6: Okay, okay, skiff, thank you very much for your time.
Speaker 6: We appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Yes, sir, you bet absolutely happy to do that. If
Speaker 3: you are ready to do your lawn for fall, and
Speaker 3: I hope you are. We are entering the best season
Speaker 3: of the year for the most important fertilization of the year,
Speaker 3: and that's the fall fertilization and nitrophos is created. The
Speaker 3: Texas three step. Yep, that's a dance, but this dance
Speaker 3: is in a dance hall. It's in your lawn. Not
Speaker 3: a two step. It's a three step. What are the
Speaker 3: three fertilizer we control disease control fertilizer is Nitropos fall
Speaker 3: special winteriser Nitrofoss fall Special. It's the only time of
Speaker 3: year you hear me talk about Nitrofus fall specials. In
Speaker 3: the fall it has higher potassium levels, a little less nitrogen,
Speaker 3: and that is the blend that helps the plant produce
Speaker 3: the carbohydrates that makes it more cold, hardy and helps
Speaker 3: it come out in the spring better. Second step barricade
Speaker 3: nitrofus barricade. It's a pre emergent granule. You apply it
Speaker 3: out as evenly as you can. Follow the label. Always
Speaker 3: follow the label. Watered in with about a third of
Speaker 3: an inch of water, It's moves to the sole surface
Speaker 3: and it stops all the winter weeds that are going
Speaker 3: to be germinating over the next two or three months.
Speaker 3: And finally, Nitropuss turf eagle fungicide is a systemic fungicide
Speaker 3: that will soak into the tissues. So when brown patch,
Speaker 3: large patch take all root run when they arrive, it's ready.
Speaker 3: Don't wait until after you see circles. Nitropus turf eagle.
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Speaker 3: we'll good to have you with us. Say hey, listen,
Speaker 3: give us a call seven one three two one two
Speaker 3: k t r H. If you have a gardening question,
Speaker 3: I'll be happy to visit with you about that. By
Speaker 3: the way, if you want to get eye to eye
Speaker 3: and ask me questions, come down to Wharton Feed and
Speaker 3: Ace today. It's a later appearance in my normal because
Speaker 3: Wharton's ways out there for me to get to. From
Speaker 3: one o'clock to three o'clock Wharton Feed and Ace, we
Speaker 3: are going to be giving away night Foss is providing
Speaker 3: two bags of their fall special, the one I've been
Speaker 3: talking about. Their two bags of their barricade, the one
Speaker 3: I've been talking about. You might get lucky in one one.
Speaker 3: If you don't, they got plenty of them there at
Speaker 3: Wharton Feed and Ace. Bedina is going to be providing
Speaker 3: some samples of their product plants from green Leaf Plants.
Speaker 3: They'll be giving away some plants from green Leaf Plants.
Speaker 3: There are Wharton Feed and Ace and a gift certificate
Speaker 3: from the muck Boot Company. And when it finally starts training,
Speaker 3: you're gonna need some muck boots anyway. So I'm just saying,
Speaker 3: bring me samples of plants, things to identify, bring me
Speaker 3: photos on your phone. If you don't talk about landscaping
Speaker 3: the area, here's a photo. What do I do? Or Hey,
Speaker 3: my neighbor's got this plant? What is it? We'll do
Speaker 3: all that and more. Look forward to meeting you. Always
Speaker 3: love to get out there. I don't get to get
Speaker 3: out as far as Wharton very often. In fact, it's
Speaker 3: the first time I've been out there, and I love
Speaker 3: to meet people that listen to garden Line. It's kind
Speaker 3: of an eye to eye, face to face. You can
Speaker 3: hear the see the face that you hear the voice
Speaker 3: of Do I say that right? I think I said
Speaker 3: that right. Anyway, I'll be there from one to three
Speaker 3: today and I hope that you will come out. It
Speaker 3: is bird travel season. Birds have been booking with their
Speaker 3: travel agents for some time now. The hummingbirds are stocking
Speaker 3: up on nectar to make a trip across the Gulf
Speaker 3: of Mexico. And can we just talk here a minute,
Speaker 3: How on earth does a hummingbird with wings that beat
Speaker 3: sixty times a second fly all the way across the
Speaker 3: Gulf of Mexico. I mean I couldn't fly across the beach,
Speaker 3: much less the ocean like that. How do they do it?
Speaker 3: They do it? You need to help them out, give
Speaker 3: them plants that attract them, but also give them something
Speaker 3: in a form of sugar water and a bird feeder.
Speaker 3: And Wibird's Unlimited is the place for anything bird, including
Speaker 3: everything hummingbird. Do you They have several different types of
Speaker 3: bird feeders. I love I have two of them. I
Speaker 3: love them, absolutely love them. They have the nectar defender
Speaker 3: so that you know it's gonna be ninety plus degrees
Speaker 3: this week, and you put sugar water out in ninety
Speaker 3: degree weather and after two or three days, it's getting
Speaker 3: kind of funky out there, and you got to change
Speaker 3: it out with nectar defender to last over a week
Speaker 3: out in the landscapes. That makes it really easy. I
Speaker 3: got some in my feeders right now. Baltimore Orioles have
Speaker 3: been passing through. You know, if you need bird houses,
Speaker 3: if you need bird feeders, but especially if you need
Speaker 3: bird seed. Warbird's Unlimited, as you covered every kind of
Speaker 3: blend for every kind of bird and their seed. They
Speaker 3: have something called no mess. What does that mean? Basically?
Speaker 3: What that means is all the shells and stuff to
Speaker 3: get dropped on the ground, or bird seed that they
Speaker 3: don't want to eat, they get dropped on the ground.
Speaker 3: You don't have that with their no mess blends and
Speaker 3: that way when you buy seed, you get bird food.
Speaker 3: Cheap bird food is full of red bebes. The birds
Speaker 3: kick it on the ground because they don't like it.
Speaker 3: It's not their favorite feed. With Wildbirds feeds, if you
Speaker 3: buy a pound of feed, you get a bound in
Speaker 3: a bird's tummy somewhere out in your landscape. So let's
Speaker 3: get ready. Winner is going to be a great time
Speaker 3: for feeding birds. You need to get stocked up. Warbirds
Speaker 3: Unlimited wbu dot com forward Slash Houston gives you the
Speaker 3: six Wildbirds stores that are here in the Greater Houston area,
Speaker 3: so it makes it really easy. I was at a
Speaker 3: Wildbird's down Clear Lake the other I'm gonna be at
Speaker 3: another Walbirds later this fall. I'll be to you more
Speaker 3: about that later. Walbirds is just a great place to visit.
Speaker 3: I always like going in there. It's kind of fun
Speaker 3: and inspiring. And the folks that are helping you know
Speaker 3: what they're talking about out they can guide you. They
Speaker 3: they understand everything. You all the questions you have someone
Speaker 3: who's asking me questions about hot pepper and bird feeding there,
Speaker 3: I just said, go talk to those people over there.
Speaker 3: They know all about this kind of stuff. There were
Speaker 3: several other questions that I had no idea, and sure
Speaker 3: enough they did. In fact, they printed out something right
Speaker 3: from their printer there in Wildbirds and said, here's the
Speaker 3: answer to your question. Everything you need to know doesn't
Speaker 3: surprise me. That's how they do business. You are listening
Speaker 3: to garden Line. The number is seven one three two
Speaker 3: one two k t rh RCW Nursery is one of
Speaker 3: those garden centers where when you go there you find
Speaker 3: everything you need. And if there is something that you
Speaker 3: want that they don't have, ask them because they probably
Speaker 3: can get it. That's why I like to call them
Speaker 3: to get it. Got it Nursery. If they don't have it,
Speaker 3: they'll get They'll do their best to find it. The
Speaker 3: website is RCW nurseries dot com. They're the garden center
Speaker 3: that's there. Were built. Way eight comes into intersects with
Speaker 3: FM two forty nine Tumble Parkway. Great selection of roses
Speaker 3: by the way right now Shrubs twenty percent off at
Speaker 3: RCW Nursery, Big beautiful shrubs, gorgeous shrubs like they have
Speaker 3: the gold dust Cuba, which if you want a beautiful
Speaker 3: green shrub in a shady area, very shady area, a
Speaker 3: Cuba can do it. Gold dust a Cuba. It's really beautiful.
Speaker 3: They got hanging baskets trees this month fifteen percent off. Now,
Speaker 3: how much longer does this month last? Well, it's September
Speaker 3: twenty eighth. Get out there, Get out there now. Seven
Speaker 3: gallons to two hundred. You get a tree too big
Speaker 3: for you to carry and plant, they'll come out. They
Speaker 3: can do it. They've got Mexican white oaks. They got
Speaker 3: two hundred gallon magnolias. You want an instant southern magnolia,
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Speaker 3: There is not a better planting season of the year
Speaker 3: down fall for woody ornamentals, especially, so you do it
Speaker 3: now and that tree has a better chance of surviving
Speaker 3: when next summer comes. I'm just saying that's my advice.
Speaker 3: All Right, we're going to go out to the phones
Speaker 3: now and we're gonna talk to Bill Hope. Bill, Yeah,
Speaker 3: just call and hear the phone. Let's start. Let's see
Speaker 3: how far we can get on. We'll come back after birth.
Speaker 3: Go ahead. Yes, I had.
Speaker 17: Some areas in my Saint Augustine in my front yard
Speaker 17: that since spring has been uh uh running right, kind
Speaker 17: of like straws. I put out fungicide. I put out pesticide.
Speaker 17: I've dug up spots or no grubs. I put out
Speaker 17: killer for chance bugs. Uh fertilized.
Speaker 15: I've watered, I've got a sprink.
Speaker 3: I just don't know what to do.
Speaker 6: What's going on?
Speaker 3: Well, I'll tell you that's a wide open kt r
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Speaker 9: Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Skip Ricard.
Speaker 11: Just watch him ass.
Speaker 3: Hey, welcome back guard Line. We are glad to have
Speaker 3: you with us today on a good Saturday. I'm looking
Speaker 3: forward to this Saturday. Be heading down to Wharton Feed
Speaker 3: and Ace in Wharton, Texas. For those of you way southwest,
Speaker 3: you ought to be swinging by there, Say hi today
Speaker 3: from one to three o'clock. I'll be there from one
Speaker 3: pm to three pm. Be giving away some night frosses,
Speaker 3: providing actually some two bags of fall special two bags
Speaker 3: of barricade. We got some Medina samples to give away
Speaker 3: plants from green Lay Plants and a gift certificate certificate
Speaker 3: that's easy for you to say, from the muck Boot Company.
Speaker 3: From the muck Boot Company, we get some rain in here.
Speaker 3: You need some mug boots. Well, our phone number seven
Speaker 3: one three two one two k t r H if
Speaker 3: you'd like to call in and ask us a question.
Speaker 3: We're going to go straight out to Roger and Richmond. Hello, Roger,
Speaker 3: welcome to garden Line. Hello. Yes, I have a quick question.
Speaker 18: I just installed a brand new SOD and I had
Speaker 18: spaced them because it was they took like four palettes
Speaker 18: and so it's still not enough. So I faced them
Speaker 18: like a foot apart. And what's the best fertilizer and
Speaker 18: how much should I waterate? I've been watering every day
Speaker 18: for about about twenty minutes on the sprin closed system,
Speaker 18: and then, uh, we'll best fertilizer I can put on
Speaker 18: it right now?
Speaker 3: Okay, generally we would water twice a day for the
Speaker 3: first week, once a day for the second week, and
Speaker 3: then back off from there. It's but the volume twenty minutes,
Speaker 3: I don't know how fast your sprinklers put out water,
Speaker 3: but it could be too much or it could be
Speaker 3: just right depending on how much water they put out.
Speaker 3: But the main thing is keep it moist. We got
Speaker 3: another week of ninety mid nineties or so, and so
Speaker 3: you just need to know it. It has very little roots.
Speaker 3: Therefore it needs frequent waterings. Not necessarily a lot of
Speaker 3: water twice a week, twice a day, but it needs
Speaker 3: water regularly to supply it. So just just a tip
Speaker 3: there on that. As far as the fertilization is concerned,
Speaker 3: you could use a you want to use a fall fertilizer,
Speaker 3: one that is designed for fall. So for example, Nelson
Speaker 3: Blackfeet has one called carbo Load carbo load, and you're
Speaker 3: going to find carbo load works just fine for it.
Speaker 3: It's got that higher potassium and it works well in
Speaker 3: helping that plant produce carbohydrates. That's why it has that name.
Speaker 3: It's part of their turf Star line. A bag of
Speaker 3: carbo load will cover about five thousand square feet and
Speaker 3: your grass will make the carbs necessary to get stronger,
Speaker 3: to go into winter cold and to come out and
Speaker 3: spring better. So carbo load is the one you want.
Speaker 3: Now you've got some spaces in there of a foot
Speaker 3: between the pieces of sod. You got a couple of options. One,
Speaker 3: your grass is not going to do a lot of
Speaker 3: growing in terms of sending out runners and all of that.
Speaker 3: As we go further into fall it slows down. You
Speaker 3: might want to put on a pre emergent herbicide, but
Speaker 3: I kind of have a I kind of got mixed
Speaker 3: feelings about that right now, And I'll tell you why.
Speaker 3: If you put on a pre emergent herbside like barricade
Speaker 3: from nitrophoss, it will prevent the weed seeds that are
Speaker 3: going to be coming up this fall from filling your
Speaker 3: lawn full of weeds in those open bear soil spaces. However,
Speaker 3: don't overdo it because you want that product to be
Speaker 3: breaking down next spring when the grass runners are starting
Speaker 3: to come in, because you won't want to use the
Speaker 3: barricade in spring, because your grass is going to be
Speaker 3: crawling new runners out there and trying to get roots
Speaker 3: in the ground. And that is how barricade fights weeds
Speaker 3: is by stopping the roots from being able to expand
Speaker 3: into their soil. Was that confusing, Yeah, a little bit.
Speaker 18: I'll work on it, and I'm kind of got a couple,
Speaker 18: you know, lead now, so that'll give me something to
Speaker 18: work on our Google carbo load.
Speaker 6: Where do I get that?
Speaker 5: At?
Speaker 3: Ace Hardware stores have got that? You're out there, you
Speaker 3: could probably Yeah, you might want to try try one
Speaker 3: of the Enchendas Jennifer Forest, Channa Gardens. They may carry that.
Speaker 3: I just haven't looked to see what they're carrying in
Speaker 3: the way of of those those fertilizers they might have,
Speaker 3: but if not the Ace Hardware store, there's a plantation
Speaker 3: Ace and Richmond. It's uh, kind of on the Katie
Speaker 3: fullsher side up there, kind of up that in a
Speaker 3: little bit to the east, so that direction, I know plantations,
Speaker 3: got it? Yeah, just let me let me just yeah,
Speaker 3: barricade this thing, don't do it. Don't Yeah, don't do
Speaker 3: barricade in the spring. That's all you need to remember.
Speaker 9: Okay.
Speaker 18: I appreciate you taking my call, and I love to
Speaker 18: listen to your show every morning, every Saturday morning that
Speaker 18: you work in the garage and listen to this.
Speaker 3: Well, I love the fact that you're listening. Thanks a lot.
Speaker 3: I appreciate that call. Take care. Yeah, that is very important. Yeah,
Speaker 3: Nelson's that tur Turugh Star carbo load is the product
Speaker 3: that I was recommending to them. You're gonna find it
Speaker 3: a lot of places, easy to find. It's one of
Speaker 3: the excellent fall fertilizers. It's on my gardening schedule at
Speaker 3: gardeningwith Skip dot com Garden with Skip dot Com. Let's see,
Speaker 3: oh I wanted to mention. I talked about garden centers
Speaker 3: out in the Richmond area and Chanted Gardens is an
Speaker 3: outstanding garden center. They are on the Katie Folscher side
Speaker 3: of Richmond going north. They're on FM three fifty nine,
Speaker 3: three fifty nine. Again the name of the place Enchanted Gardens.
Speaker 3: Enchanted Gardens, and right now they are stocked up for fall.
Speaker 3: You are going to find plants that are fall color.
Speaker 3: You're going to find they still have like things like
Speaker 3: petunias that will carry you up until the first frost,
Speaker 3: which should be a long way away still, So get
Speaker 3: out there and enjoy that. By the way, Andy is
Speaker 3: going to be out there doing a fall vegetable seminar.
Speaker 3: We think the world of Andy for Medina and she's
Speaker 3: going to be doing that today out there. By the way,
Speaker 3: they're not going to start that. It's ten am, right
Speaker 3: when the show's over, so again you can go to
Speaker 3: that and then hey, while you're heading southwest, just keep driving.
Speaker 3: I'll be at Wharton feed Nace from one to three.
Speaker 3: But anyway, in Chended Gardens, beautiful baskets, great decorations for
Speaker 3: your home coming up later in October. They're going to
Speaker 3: have a welcome basket make and take a welcome basket
Speaker 3: making take go. On their social media, you'll see stuff
Speaker 3: like that. Do you need vegetables, they got them. Do
Speaker 3: you need fall color plants, they got them. Do you
Speaker 3: need trees, shrubs, vines, herbs, They got it all in
Speaker 3: Chended Gardens on the Katie Fusher side of Richmond FM
Speaker 3: three point fifty nine. The website in Chended Gardens Richmond
Speaker 3: dot com. We're going to go now to talk to
Speaker 3: Marty in Fairfield. Hello, Marty morning.
Speaker 19: Skip question about I killed my netgrass and doveweed. I
Speaker 19: know it's not dove wheed whatever the other name is.
Speaker 19: It did not kill my Saint Augustine, So I'm pretty
Speaker 19: excited about that. That's my go to now. But now I.
Speaker 3: Need I don't know use for that. I'm curious the
Speaker 3: weed beater ultra.
Speaker 19: Okay, anyway, I used the weed beater ultra. It killed
Speaker 19: the nutgrass, it killed the Virginia button weed weed, whatever
Speaker 19: you want to call it, and it also killed the bermuda,
Speaker 19: which I was glad about. Now I don't know whether
Speaker 19: I'm going back with Saint Augustine or whether I'm going
Speaker 19: to put in a walking path or whatever. If I
Speaker 19: do the Saint Augustine, I need to probably scratch the
Speaker 19: surface of the soil correct before I lay down any sod.
Speaker 3: It's a little helpful. I mean, if you didn't do it,
Speaker 3: it's not the end of the world. But if you
Speaker 3: can scratch it a little bit, it helps get good
Speaker 3: sod to soil contact, which is kind of important. Okay, Marty,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna, I'm gonna. I'm not gonna question your honesty
Speaker 3: or integrity, but we beat her. Altars should not have
Speaker 3: killed bermuda grass, and it should not have killed that sage.
Speaker 3: Now maybe it killed it back, but let's just go
Speaker 3: with the bermuda. I'm not convinced that the bermuda is
Speaker 3: really completely gone.
Speaker 19: So well it's dead, you can okay, Well, and you
Speaker 19: know what, on one part of the yard one and
Speaker 19: in my garden, I.
Speaker 20: I only did.
Speaker 3: I did what something else that you told me.
Speaker 19: But in my yard I had so much of the
Speaker 19: Virginia button weed that I put weed beater ultra all
Speaker 19: over it.
Speaker 20: And it did kill it killed it. It killed the bermuda.
Speaker 19: And I all I did is I put in one
Speaker 19: of two teeths foods of the weed beater ultra. I
Speaker 19: put it in a watering can and I just went
Speaker 19: around and sprinkled it all over every bit that I could.
Speaker 19: But it didn't kill the Saint August Tin.
Speaker 3: Hmm, all right, well, I have no I have no
Speaker 3: words on that. So I do know this. When like
Speaker 3: I'm telling people to use whatever to kill bermuda grass,
Speaker 3: I always say, just hang around if we've got some
Speaker 3: warm temperatures, see if it re sprouts, because you just
Speaker 3: almost never get all of it. Even if you use
Speaker 3: something that's going to be very effective against it, you
Speaker 3: just don't get all of it. And so I would
Speaker 3: I would, just i'd watch it so that you make
Speaker 3: sure and not have re sprouting after you put new
Speaker 3: stuff down.
Speaker 7: I haven't, I really have been.
Speaker 19: I'm I'm very determined to get it out of my garden.
Speaker 19: But anyway, okay, so I'm not trying to go in
Speaker 19: were with this other than I wanted to either lace
Speaker 19: and bermuda or not bermuda some Saint Augustine, scratch it planet.
Speaker 19: Is it okay now to put it down now?
Speaker 3: But don't. If you're going to do it, don't delay
Speaker 3: one bit because as we move into fall, like later
Speaker 3: in October November, that grassroots are going to really not
Speaker 3: be growing as much. So if you can get it
Speaker 3: down soon this week ideally, and get it watered in,
Speaker 3: remember twice a week the first week because we're gonna
Speaker 3: have ninety five degrees this week, and then once a
Speaker 3: week the second week, just because you don't want it
Speaker 3: to go into any kind of stress. Get those roots down.
Speaker 3: By the third week, you're backing off the water, and
Speaker 3: hopefully by then you're getting enough roots down to have
Speaker 3: really good success with it. By about the third week,
Speaker 3: usually grass comes in with enough nutrition to not have
Speaker 3: to fertilize for a mind. But I might go ahead
Speaker 3: and put down a fall fertilizer on it. Just don't
Speaker 3: overdo it, but fall fertilizer on it sometime maybe you know,
Speaker 3: toward mid to end of October. Just get a little
Speaker 3: down to have it ready to go. We're going to
Speaker 3: do everything you can to get that grass strong before
Speaker 3: going into winter, just in case we have one of
Speaker 3: those unusually cold winners.
Speaker 20: Yes, sir, okay, thank you.
Speaker 3: I appreciate your help. All right, thanks for the call,
Speaker 3: Take care by bye. All right, folks, you know we
Speaker 3: were talking about fall fertilizers and stuff. Nitrofoss has their
Speaker 3: three step one two three simple as that do you
Speaker 3: do two steps on the dance floor, you do three
Speaker 3: steps on the lawn. Night Fuss Fall Special Winter Riser.
Speaker 3: That's the fertilizer from Nitrofoss four fall applications designed for
Speaker 3: fall number two Nitrofuss Barricade. That's the weed control. It's
Speaker 3: a pre emergent weed control. Just talking with Marty about
Speaker 3: putting down sod. Do not put down pre emergent products
Speaker 3: before laying sod because they stop the roots from growing.
Speaker 3: That's how they kill the weeds. When the reach try
Speaker 3: to sprout, it kills it, doesn't let the root grow
Speaker 3: and it kills it. It's not going to kill the grass,
Speaker 3: but you won't be able to get it rooted in.
Speaker 3: So let's get that grass fully rooted in and then barricade.
Speaker 3: So if you're putting on new grass, or you have
Speaker 3: in the last week or so, just hold off on
Speaker 3: the barricade. Let's go ahead and just do it in
Speaker 3: the spring. I think that would be the best. Then
Speaker 3: nitropous eagle turf fungicide, systemic fungicide. Here comes the brown
Speaker 3: pat circles, not when you've already treated with eagle. Here
Speaker 3: comes take our root rot. It also prevents that if
Speaker 3: you wait until the circles appear, you're not going to
Speaker 3: have the results you want because the damage will have
Speaker 3: already been done. One, two, three from nitrophos three steps fertilizer,
Speaker 3: fall special barricade for weeds, preventing seeds, and eagle tour
Speaker 3: fungicides for diseases. You're going to find it at Enchended
Speaker 3: Forrest and Rechmond, aast hardware city on Memorial Drive up
Speaker 3: in Montgomery. Go to Gym's Hardware. If you're an Alvin,
Speaker 3: go to Stanton Shopping Center and you can find all
Speaker 3: those products. Let's go now to Tom and Dickinson. Hello Tom,
Speaker 3: and welcome to garden.
Speaker 21: Hey, how are you doing this morning?
Speaker 3: I'm good, sir. Get that radio off so we can
Speaker 3: talk over the phone, and how can I help?
Speaker 7: So?
Speaker 21: I have a plumb tree in the backyard and we've
Speaker 21: lived in this house for a few years. It was
Speaker 21: here when we got here. It's a lot of leaves,
Speaker 21: a lot of growth, not a whole lot of fruit,
Speaker 21: and what does come on doesn't seem to set. And
Speaker 21: then over our last when we had Barrel that big
Speaker 21: windstorm come through here, it was rocking. You could see
Speaker 21: the root ball kind of moving. Since then, it's been
Speaker 21: just kind of sickly looking and losing leaves. And I
Speaker 21: know we're just starting to change seasons, but it seemed
Speaker 21: like it was like a head of nor where it
Speaker 21: normally is. So should I be concerned? Is something going
Speaker 21: on with this guy?
Speaker 3: When did you plant it?
Speaker 21: I didn't plan it. It was here we moved into the house.
Speaker 3: Okay, so it's been in for at least a year
Speaker 3: or so.
Speaker 21: Oh no, No, it's a big tree.
Speaker 3: It's a mature tree. Okay, Okay, Well, a lot of
Speaker 3: our plants due to the heat, extended heat that we've had,
Speaker 3: or starting to drop some leaves. I've got some stuff
Speaker 3: in my yard that's dropping the leaves just because I
Speaker 3: wasn't watering the heck out of it. All the time.
Speaker 3: I think it'll be fine. It just gonna be a
Speaker 3: little bit of an early leaf drop. Just make sure
Speaker 3: we're going through another week in ninety five. So give
Speaker 3: it a really good soaking, you know, put something out
Speaker 3: there to measure your sprinkler, water and water until you've
Speaker 3: caught an inch. If you have to do that too,
Speaker 3: three applications because it's running off, do it that way,
Speaker 3: but totally within whatever day you water, give it an
Speaker 3: inch of water to get that down in the ground
Speaker 3: a little deeper, and I think you're gonna be just
Speaker 3: fine with that tree.
Speaker 21: So we're going on our third year here, and like
Speaker 21: I said, we don't get a good set of the fruit.
Speaker 21: What should I be doing this time of year going
Speaker 21: into next year to give it a better chance of
Speaker 21: a better crop?
Speaker 3: Okay? What variety of plum do you have?
Speaker 21: I don't know. They're dark purple.
Speaker 3: I don't know what.
Speaker 21: I'm not a Okay, I'm not very good at all this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, a lot of plums need two varieties to
Speaker 3: cross pollinate and do the best fruit set. Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 3: Methley plums, they they're pretty good at self fruiting, and
Speaker 3: they are they are a purplish plum, so you may
Speaker 3: have a methylee, in which case we didn't answer the question.
Speaker 3: Because you got a plumb that should sell fruit, why
Speaker 3: isn't it fruiting? But if it requires a pollinator, that's
Speaker 3: the reason they're not setting. If it doesn't require pollinator,
Speaker 3: then it has to be something preventing bees and pollinators
Speaker 3: from getting to them. Typically, if we or neighbors are
Speaker 3: using a lot of pesticide or insecticides on plants, that
Speaker 3: kills the bees, and then you don't have the bees,
Speaker 3: you can't get the pollinating done. So it's going to
Speaker 3: be one of those two things too.
Speaker 21: I have not seen a lot of bees there. We've
Speaker 21: been in the house for three years. I haven't seen
Speaker 21: a lot of bees here at all.
Speaker 3: Okay, well that could be part of it. I don't
Speaker 3: have to tell you on that we need to get
Speaker 3: some bees in there. You know, you're probably not going
Speaker 3: to go put in a backyard high but that would
Speaker 3: be one solution. You can do pollinating yourself by going
Speaker 3: around with a little artist paintbrush. Pretty tedious for big
Speaker 3: old tree like that, but you might try that. Get
Speaker 3: a little, you know, a little artist brush and just
Speaker 3: sort of tickle the flowers and go around tickling all
Speaker 3: the flowers, and you'll be transporting pollen when you do that.
Speaker 3: And even if you do it to one branch and
Speaker 3: then watch it and if it sets fruit, you know
Speaker 3: what was missing.
Speaker 21: That tells me what's going on.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, okay, thank you, thanks a lot, appreciate the call.
Speaker 3: But hey, you know what, just just for fun, just
Speaker 3: to give us an one extra tip for you, you
Speaker 3: might want to go ahead. I know Tom's you're listening
Speaker 3: hopefully by by the radio. Now, Tom, if you have
Speaker 3: a neighbor that has a what you think is probably
Speaker 3: a different kind of plumb tree, and it's blooming when
Speaker 3: yours is blooming, take if you they'll let you. Just
Speaker 3: snip a branch out of it, a small branch, put
Speaker 3: it in something to hold water, like a vase I
Speaker 3: usually use like a soft drink. Can put the stem
Speaker 3: right through the hole, put some water in there, and
Speaker 3: hang it in your tree, and the bees will visit
Speaker 3: those flowers in yours. Now, that only lasts for a
Speaker 3: couple of days and you need to put a new
Speaker 3: branch in. But if you do that and you start
Speaker 3: to see results, that's another sign that cross pollinating maybe
Speaker 3: what you needed. Hopefully that will be helpful for you.
Speaker 3: You know, we love our feed stores here on Garden Line,
Speaker 3: and D and D Feed in Tomball is an outstanding
Speaker 3: feed store. They're out west of town on twenty nine
Speaker 3: to twenty. You got out west of Tomball on the
Speaker 3: left hand side as you're driving out. They have the
Speaker 3: fertilizers I talk about here on Garden I especially night foss,
Speaker 3: have a really good supply of nitrofoss out there. They're fertilizers.
Speaker 13: I know.
Speaker 3: I've seen the microlives out there as well. They are
Speaker 3: going to have the fertilizers for this season. And I've
Speaker 3: been talking about barricade. They've got that out there as well.
Speaker 3: At D and D Feed, Leaf mol compost, rose soil,
Speaker 3: fruit and berry and citrus compost, the vegetable and herb
Speaker 3: mix for bed mixes. It's all a D and defeat again.
Speaker 3: They're out west of Tomball two eight, one, three, five,
Speaker 3: one seventy one forty four. I'll be right back, folks
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Speaker 3: Welcome back, Welcome back to the garden Line. Good to
Speaker 3: have you with us. Hey, I've talked about treecare a
Speaker 3: lot this summer after we had those storms that really
Speaker 3: wrecked havoc on the trees. I'm surprised there's a living
Speaker 3: standing tree in the Greater Houston area with the storms,
Speaker 3: the hurricane and the other beds from we had come through. Well,
Speaker 3: you know, affordable tree care is our go to arborist
Speaker 3: here with Guardline. Martin spoon Moore does great work. He
Speaker 3: knows what he's doing and that is important. Do not
Speaker 3: let anyone touch your trees. It doesn't know what they're doing.
Speaker 3: They can do damage that is forever. The tree never
Speaker 3: recovers from a really bad pruning job. Call Martin. The
Speaker 3: best time to get your tree pruned. It starts now
Speaker 3: really and it goes all the way through February. You
Speaker 3: need to call him and get on the schedule because
Speaker 3: he stays busy, because he does good work. Tell him
Speaker 3: you're a guarden line listener, gets you up to the
Speaker 3: front of the line. He can prune your trees, he
Speaker 3: does deep root feeding. He have just too general overall
Speaker 3: check of the tree health. If you've been seeing someone
Speaker 3: while ago I was talking about the wind was blowing
Speaker 3: on their plumb tree and it was moving in the soil.
Speaker 3: If you see that kind of saw movement at the
Speaker 3: base from the storms, that is a sample or an
Speaker 3: example that there is some issues going with that tree's
Speaker 3: anchorage and those storms are rough again. October to February
Speaker 3: is a short window, So call now to get on
Speaker 3: the schedule. I'd advise you to go ahead and get
Speaker 3: that booked so you can make sure that when you
Speaker 3: need the work done, you'll get it done. And it
Speaker 3: may be whatever month he gets there to do it
Speaker 3: is okay. This this winter times when we want to
Speaker 3: get the work done and fall by the way. Uh,
Speaker 3: just you got to call him seven one three six
Speaker 3: nine nine two six sixty three seven one three six
Speaker 3: nine nine two six six three. When you call, you're
Speaker 3: going to either talk to Martin or his wife Joe.
Speaker 3: That's who enters the phone. The owners do. If you
Speaker 3: don't get them, you've called the wrong place. Hang up
Speaker 3: and dial seven month three six nine nine two six
Speaker 3: sixty three. Here's his website for those of you who
Speaker 3: like to go that route. Aff Tree service dot com.
Speaker 3: We're going to go out now to Mike and Brunham. Hello, Mike,
Speaker 3: Welcome to Dovermine.
Speaker 5: Hello sir, thank you, sir, good morning.
Speaker 9: I'm just calling to trying to find out what's the
Speaker 9: best fall lawn organic fertilizer.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of great products out on the market. Uh,
Speaker 3: Microlife makes one called brown Patch. Micro Life brown Patch
Speaker 3: is one of those products, widely, widely available. You're not
Speaker 3: going to have trouble finding that, you know, throughout the
Speaker 3: greater Houston area. I would say, uh, the brown Patch
Speaker 3: would be the one for you for an organ and
Speaker 3: it's time to go ahead and get that one now.
Speaker 3: You need you need to go ahead and get it,
Speaker 3: get it.
Speaker 6: Done now, Okay, yes, sir, so Microlife brown Patch.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah. And if you think you're going to find
Speaker 3: Microlife well plants and things down south of Brenham, they're
Speaker 3: going to carry micro Life brown patch if you don't
Speaker 3: mind jumping over to to blue Bonnet House in Chapel Hill.
Speaker 3: They've got it over there too.
Speaker 6: Sounds great.
Speaker 14: I appreciate some time, sir.
Speaker 3: All right, thank you, thank you, appreciate your time. Oh
Speaker 3: I was going to tell you I forgot there's one more.
Speaker 3: It's right there in Brenham Ace Hardware, Brunham on Austin,
Speaker 3: North Austin Parkway's got.
Speaker 6: It perfect you so much, sir, all right, every day.
Speaker 3: All right, you are listening to garden Line. If you'd
Speaker 3: like to give us a call, here is our number
Speaker 3: seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four
Speaker 3: seven one three two one two five eight seven four
Speaker 3: And yes, microlife brown patch also. And this is just
Speaker 3: what I'm recommending you know, the brown patch. One of
Speaker 3: the way, the reason they call it brown patch is
Speaker 3: it's got a lot of beneficial microbes that populate that
Speaker 3: plant surface and makes it more difficult for diseases like
Speaker 3: brown patch or large patch to In fact, just think
Speaker 3: of it as putting good guys out there as the
Speaker 3: guard on the border the edges of the plant that
Speaker 3: are key being the diseases from getting into the plant. Itself.
Speaker 3: I would also consider if you're going to use that,
Speaker 3: why not go ahead and do their inoculant product called
Speaker 3: Microlife bio inoculant. It is loaded with sixty three different
Speaker 3: beneficial micro organisms. And you can do this as a
Speaker 3: granule too. You can put it out as you put
Speaker 3: out your fertilizer. Just first through the fertilization, then follow
Speaker 3: up with the bioinoculant or vice versa. Just to them
Speaker 3: separately and watered in water in really good. Get that
Speaker 3: water splashing around in there and distributing those things as
Speaker 3: you water. That is what I would recommend you do.
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Speaker 3: have a deal going on right now. If you're interested
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Speaker 3: If you haven't been to their website, it's Heirloomsoils dot com.
Speaker 3: Heirloomsoils dot com. And the reason I'm sending you there
Speaker 3: is you can see all the products that they have.
Speaker 3: I could spend a whole segment of the show just
Speaker 3: naming all the products that they have at Heirloom Soil,
Speaker 3: from leaf mold to rose sooil to veggie soil to
Speaker 3: the works potting soil, on and on and on, all
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Speaker 3: bulk as well. Go pick it up or have them
Speaker 3: deliver it. Either way, It's time for me to take
Speaker 3: a break, which is what I'm going to do. I
Speaker 3: will be right back with your gardening questions. The guard
Speaker 3: Line the lad to have you with us today. Look
Speaker 3: forward to visiting with you if you got garden about it?
Speaker 3: To Peter, Hey, Peter, where.
Speaker 6: You call them from Collins in Brookshire, Texas.
Speaker 14: Good morning, you get all right?
Speaker 3: Well, good welcome the guard Line.
Speaker 9: I've got it.
Speaker 14: Come part question.
Speaker 9: I've got four peach trees that basically died above the graft,
Speaker 9: but then at the roof base they do all some
Speaker 9: water sprouts, I guess, and I was wondering, can I
Speaker 9: graft those water sprouts with some variety of peach trees
Speaker 9: that I still have, and if so, what's the best
Speaker 9: time to grasp them?
Speaker 3: The best time, yes, you can. The best time is
Speaker 3: to do a tea bud on the new shoots that
Speaker 3: are coming up out of the base in the spring.
Speaker 3: Once we get new growth where we say that park
Speaker 3: that if you were to break them and peel them,
Speaker 3: you'd streak the outer bark off. In the winter time,
Speaker 3: it's not slipping, and if you break them, it's hard
Speaker 3: to pull the bark away from the inner. But in spring,
Speaker 3: once they get growing, let's say, let's talk about probably
Speaker 3: April May. In that time, you can do the tea
Speaker 3: bud when you go online and search for how to
Speaker 3: do a tea bude and it'll tell you. And that's
Speaker 3: the simplest one we make, essentially a little capital tea
Speaker 3: shaped cut in the shot coming out of the base
Speaker 3: of your tree, and you slip a bud right in
Speaker 3: that tea.
Speaker 23: Fantastic, Thank you, sir, appreciate it very much.
Speaker 3: All right, good luck with that. Thank you, Ey, take
Speaker 3: care you bet. We're going to go now to Liberty
Speaker 3: and talk to Tracy. Hello, Tracy, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 23: Good morning, skimp. I got a quick question.
Speaker 20: I bought some.
Speaker 23: BlackBerry plants from Stark Brothers and they shift them. They
Speaker 23: were beautiful when they got here. I repotted them and
Speaker 23: the only thing I had on hand was miracle growth,
Speaker 23: and after repotting them, I'll spray them down with America
Speaker 23: grow in my sprayer, and they all died within a week.
Speaker 23: Any idea what went wrong?
Speaker 14: Okay, too much a miracle growth the trend.
Speaker 3: It could be miracle grows a synthetic salt based fertilizer,
Speaker 3: and if you mix it too strong, it's like putting
Speaker 3: salt water, you know, on a plant, the same effect
Speaker 3: that you hurt that burning it can do that, and
Speaker 3: so that's possible. It's also since the whole thing died
Speaker 3: and you didn't just burn the top, I'm thinking it's
Speaker 3: also possible that maybe some roots dried out in that
Speaker 3: planet transplanting process, or maybe en root to you or
Speaker 3: after planting or something. Those plants are young and tender
Speaker 3: and not that big, and when you bought them it
Speaker 3: was plants, not root cuttings right from start.
Speaker 23: Yes, sir, it was a plant.
Speaker 3: Okay, Yeah, something dried out there, I think is a
Speaker 3: primary problem. But yes, miracles grow too strong, will burn
Speaker 3: burn plants.
Speaker 23: Okay, I was curious, and I'm gonna try it again.
Speaker 23: H We'll see what happens. I appreciate your time.
Speaker 3: Well, well, yeah, Tracy, and I would suggest that maybe
Speaker 3: you kind of look around here locally for some of
Speaker 3: the blackberries that we sell.
Speaker 15: Uh.
Speaker 3: Stark has been in fruit tree business a long time.
Speaker 3: They're in louisinga, Mississippi up on the river or Mississippi,
Speaker 3: Missouri up on the river. Uh, and some of the
Speaker 3: blackberries they have don't do well here. And so okay,
Speaker 3: I don't know what you got.
Speaker 13: Uh.
Speaker 3: Do you want thornless or thorny, It doesn't matter.
Speaker 23: I'm not that particular. Whatever. We'll thrive here to be
Speaker 23: able to make jelly.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay. Well, if it's a thorny variety, look for
Speaker 3: one that has the name of a Native American tribe,
Speaker 3: such as Shawnee. That kind of name Choctaw, Shawnee are Rappah.
Speaker 3: Those kinds of names mean that it's it's a good
Speaker 3: thorny for our area. If you want thornless, look for
Speaker 3: one that the first two words are prime prime and
Speaker 3: then a r K prime arc, and there's a primary
Speaker 3: freedom traveler prime arc. Prime means that it bears the
Speaker 3: first year normal blackberries. You have to grow a shoote
Speaker 3: one year. It goes through winter and bears the following
Speaker 3: year prim acne bearing ones like the two prime arks.
Speaker 3: I told you they're going to bear the first year
Speaker 3: the shoot grows and also after that and arc just
Speaker 3: means they were bred in Arkansas's our best blackberries that
Speaker 3: we have down here now were all bred in Arkansas
Speaker 3: at the University of Arkansas.
Speaker 23: Well, I'll look those, I do. Thank you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yep, you're out there in Liberty. You're not too
Speaker 3: far away from from more in Southern Garden in Kingwood.
Speaker 3: I bet they've got him out there, but call them first.
Speaker 23: I'll check on that. I appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Yes, sir, Yes, sir, you bet. Tracy take care,
Speaker 3: Uh watching my clock. This time we're going to go
Speaker 3: to Mike in China, Texas. Hey, Mike, how can we
Speaker 3: help see?
Speaker 18: I have a little a problem.
Speaker 6: I have a very old.
Speaker 1: Kate jasmine plant that was my great grandfather's that we
Speaker 1: moved several.
Speaker 14: Times and I need to move it again. But it
Speaker 14: was the best time. Or can I just take a
Speaker 14: cutting and move it because my brothers did it before,
Speaker 14: but he's no longer with us.
Speaker 23: I have no idea how to move.
Speaker 3: You said cape jasmine, right.
Speaker 9: Yes, sirs.
Speaker 23: The white flowers really sweet smell almost like a magnolia,
Speaker 23: the sweeter.
Speaker 3: All right, the best time is to get out of
Speaker 3: this heat and let it cool off. So it may
Speaker 3: be late October, it may be November. Either of those
Speaker 3: are generally good. But you want to you want to
Speaker 3: dig it and get wider rather than deeper. Right, Okay, roots,
Speaker 3: if you if you can get down even six eight
Speaker 3: inches deep is more way more than eight inches, way
Speaker 3: more than enough. And you need to do on depth.
Speaker 3: But about you, if you can get a foot out
Speaker 3: on each side, slide it up onto a tarp. I've
Speaker 3: done that and then sort of wrap the tarp around
Speaker 3: the base of the plant and tied it off. So
Speaker 3: I keep that roots moist, very important to keep of moist.
Speaker 3: Get them to the new spot, slide it off the
Speaker 3: tarp back where it's going to grow, and then watered
Speaker 3: in really good. And just remember the thing has no
Speaker 3: roots because you've come all off when you dug it up,
Speaker 3: no matter how much you treat it. And so you've
Speaker 3: got to keep that little root ball moist and it'll
Speaker 3: get established all winter and it'll be okay next spring.
Speaker 9: Ok.
Speaker 23: I need to add some special type of soil or
Speaker 23: and uh we have China.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would get I would get a good quality
Speaker 3: bed mix, you know, like a roast soil that you see.
Speaker 3: We talk about rose soils for sale all the time.
Speaker 3: Get a roast ol, spread it out real good, mix
Speaker 3: it in with the soil you have, and then add
Speaker 3: a little more on top, and then dig the hole
Speaker 3: after all that, and plant in it. Don't don't dig
Speaker 3: a hole and put rose soil in the hole. Use
Speaker 3: in an area and that plant will be very very happy.
Speaker 23: Okay.
Speaker 18: I have a backdough, so digging it that's not a problem,
Speaker 18: just too.
Speaker 23: But didn't want to move it and shock and kill it.
Speaker 14: Because it's been been with the family for many, many years.
Speaker 3: I understand, well the thing I recommend. If you'll do that,
Speaker 3: you'll be good. Hey, thanks for the call, Mike. I
Speaker 3: appreciate that. Yeah. I mentioned while I got a second
Speaker 3: to uh who is it Tracy and Liberty about blackberries
Speaker 3: and said, go over to Warren Southern Gardens. Warren Southern
Speaker 3: Gardens has an outste ending selection of all kinds of plants,
Speaker 3: and I know you can find fruit plants there as well,
Speaker 3: but I won't tell you this at warn Southern Guardens.
Speaker 3: Need I need everybody to listen to me for just
Speaker 3: a minute. I don't ask this very often, just for
Speaker 3: a minute. When you go to Warren Southern Gardens KMWA
Speaker 3: Garden Center, say I want to know about the skip special.
Speaker 3: If you spend one hundred dollars or more and falls
Speaker 3: the time to spend it, tree, shrubs, roses, all kinds
Speaker 3: of things, you'll get twenty five percent. That's that's twenty dollars.
Speaker 3: Exees me twenty nine twenty dollars off of your purchase.
Speaker 3: That's that's a one fifth off of that purchase. If
Speaker 3: you spend one hundred dollars or more at Warren's Southern
Speaker 3: Gardens and just tell them skip sent you, Skip sent
Speaker 3: you Okay. They got a great selection of fall plants.
Speaker 3: They've got all your veggies, cabbage, brussels, spouts, collared broccolis,
Speaker 3: all that kind of thing. They're pumpkin patches open. Oh
Speaker 3: my gosh, I see just numerous varieties for all your
Speaker 3: decorating needs there. They're tree sale thirty percent off some
Speaker 3: of their trees. I love that they've got the Traveler
Speaker 3: red bud, which is a weeping type of red Bud.
Speaker 3: You can get your live oaks, your Autumn Blaze maple,
Speaker 3: just go to Warn Southern Gardens. But that, by the way,
Speaker 3: that that skip twenty dollars off one hundred or more.
Speaker 3: Now that doesn't apply on top of sales, but it's
Speaker 3: off your purchase in general. Okay, do you need Church
Speaker 3: Star carbo Load, you need Microlife, do you need the
Speaker 3: brown Patch for Microlive? Do you need Sweet Green, Nicrofoss,
Speaker 3: Fall specials, Azemi. They're all in stock and they have
Speaker 3: lowered prices on all of those as well. At Warn
Speaker 3: Southern Gardens. At Warren's Inking, we both Kimra not can
Speaker 3: be better now, all right? I hear music means I
Speaker 3: got a hu share pretty quick, Rhea and the height
Speaker 3: you we are first up when we come back. Don't
Speaker 3: forget all of you, especially those of your way down
Speaker 3: southwest Wharton Feed and Ace. I'll be there today from
Speaker 3: one to three one to three at Wharton, Texas Eat
Speaker 3: and Ace Hardware. We're going to be giving away some
Speaker 3: stuff donated by Nitrofoss two bags of Fall Special, two
Speaker 3: bags of Barricade EDNA product samples, plants from Green Bay Plants,
Speaker 3: and a gift certificate from the Mutt Blue Company. Plus
Speaker 3: we get to meet talk. I'll look at your samples.
Speaker 3: I'll hope you diagnose and identify your problems, well at
Speaker 3: least with plants. Be right back.
Speaker 1: Garden Line with scamp Ricter.
Speaker 11: Just watch him assupatasy.
Speaker 15: Hey.
Speaker 3: Welcome back to guard Line.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 3: We've got another hour to do today. I hope you're
Speaker 3: in joining the show so far, I certainly am lots
Speaker 3: of things to talk about. I go several things I
Speaker 3: want to visit with you about as we're doing that.
Speaker 3: First thing I'm gonna do, though, is go out to
Speaker 3: the heights and talk to Rhea, who has been patiently waiting.
Speaker 3: Welcome to garden Line, Ria.
Speaker 20: Thank you, good morning.
Speaker 24: I have a about a twenty foot nashess crape myrtle
Speaker 24: that the hurricane had kind of knocked over like it
Speaker 24: was leaning, so the roots never kind of came out,
Speaker 24: So we tied it and straightened it up and propped it.
Speaker 24: How much longer should I leave it kind of tied tight,
Speaker 24: because I wanted to kind of wait till after the
Speaker 24: summer and any storms to kind of loosen it. But
Speaker 24: it's got to grow, so I don't know how much longer,
Speaker 24: I should leave it kind of.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, supporting on a tree that size. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's gonna be very hard to make it stay where
Speaker 3: you want it to stay now once, you know, if
Speaker 3: it was a less three year old plant, you could
Speaker 3: straighten it up, stake it for a while and hopefully
Speaker 3: get a good root system, and then it would be resilient.
Speaker 3: With one that high, you need to leave it a
Speaker 3: long time. And even at that it's it's you know,
Speaker 3: when it had its good, full strong root system, a
Speaker 3: storm knocked it over. So now it's had a lot
Speaker 3: of damage and it takes a long time for roots
Speaker 3: to grow and get big and strong and anchor the plant. Well,
Speaker 3: So if you can leave at steak for a few years,
Speaker 3: I definitely need to do that. But just know that
Speaker 3: it's going to be more likely to blow over in
Speaker 3: future storms than other plants might be.
Speaker 24: Oh them, okay, but I'll leave at state then.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much, all right, real, thanks for the call.
Speaker 3: Sorry to be the bear bad news. Oh no, that sure, okay,
Speaker 3: you hear me talk about fertilizing the lawn. How about
Speaker 3: as mighte? What's as might it? Actually? Technically I guess
Speaker 3: you could call it a fertilizer because it's nutrients, but
Speaker 3: instead of the big three on the bag nitrogen, phosphorus,
Speaker 3: potassium on a fertilizer bag, azmite is trace minerals. It's
Speaker 3: all the things that are needed in tiny qualities but
Speaker 3: essential that would be things you know. Trace minerals are
Speaker 3: things like iron and zinc and manganese and molibduum and
Speaker 3: who knows a bunch of others. Azmite is what we
Speaker 3: put down about once a year just to build up
Speaker 3: the bank account of those nutrients. Putting it now is
Speaker 3: not going to make your lawn takeoff growing. It's going
Speaker 3: to build the bank account. So when the weather allows
Speaker 3: your lawn to take off growing and when the moisture
Speaker 3: and all that, the bank account is there for the
Speaker 3: trace minerals as well. Azemite Texas dot Com is the
Speaker 3: website if you want to learn a bit more about it.
Speaker 3: Just remember you can put it on any month of
Speaker 3: the year. About once a year's enough, and don't put
Speaker 3: it in the same hopper as your fertilizer. Put out
Speaker 3: the fertilizer and put out the azmite separately from it,
Speaker 3: and it works really well that way. We're going to
Speaker 3: now go to Chris and the Woodlands. Hy Chris, Welcome
Speaker 3: to garden Line.
Speaker 1: Hey, hi, Skip, thank you very much for having me.
Speaker 3: You got.
Speaker 1: So, I've got a got three store bought or male
Speaker 1: order bot sweet Viburnhams out in front. They're did it
Speaker 1: really really well for a while. We've got our sprinklers
Speaker 1: working again, so they've been getting regularly watered. I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's too much, but but the uh, the leaves,
Speaker 1: the older leaves are extremely dark, and there's these white
Speaker 1: these white pests that just won't go away.
Speaker 6: They've tried every.
Speaker 3: Yeah, are they flying around or are they on the
Speaker 3: plant just standing on sitting on the plant.
Speaker 1: Both they uh, you know, they still fly around it.
Speaker 1: And then you know when you when you when you
Speaker 1: move the bush, you know, or trying treated or something.
Speaker 1: They just like scatter from underneath from on top. They're
Speaker 1: mostly underneath the leaves.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's probably white flies. There may be some meadia
Speaker 3: bugs involved, but probably white flies. And you need to
Speaker 3: put a systemic insecticide drenched into the soil around the plant.
Speaker 3: It takes up that product and anything sucking juices out
Speaker 3: of your plant, which is what white flies and meatia,
Speaker 3: bugs and aphids and scale all due. It will kill
Speaker 3: them because they're picking up the poison through the interior
Speaker 3: juices of the plant. So you can find Do you
Speaker 3: have a pin or pencil handy?
Speaker 15: Yeah?
Speaker 7: So sure do?
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 3: Okay, there's two ingredients that are sold in many different
Speaker 3: brand names. But I'm going to give you the first
Speaker 3: few letters of each of the two and just get
Speaker 3: one or the other one. It begins with I am
Speaker 3: id oh in mid doh I am id oh good.
Speaker 3: The other one begins with d I n o like dinosaur,
Speaker 3: d I no te f dino tef. So go find
Speaker 3: something that starts with a middo or dino tef and
Speaker 3: that's what you need to do. Follow the label. Drench
Speaker 3: it on. It's gonna take time to get up in there,
Speaker 3: but it will kill the things that are sucking juices
Speaker 3: out of your plant.
Speaker 1: All right, sir, okay, excellent, Thank yous, GiB all right, good?
Speaker 3: You bet good luck with that. I hope that goes
Speaker 3: well for you. H Medina has several products that are good.
Speaker 3: You know, fall it is transplanting season and they have
Speaker 3: several products that are good for transplanting. One of them
Speaker 3: in fact, I'm gonna I'm gonna recommend you do two.
Speaker 3: I would recommend a combination of Medina has to grow
Speaker 3: six twelve six. That's a plant food. It's got six
Speaker 3: percent nitrogen, twelve percent phosphors, six percent potassium. Phosphor's very
Speaker 3: important in root development. It also has Medina soil activator
Speaker 3: in it, and other, let me say other good things.
Speaker 3: It's excellent for transplanting. The other product is humate h
Speaker 3: U m at humic acid by Medina. Now, humis improves
Speaker 3: the soil. It improves the soil moisture retention by improving
Speaker 3: the structure of soil. Humus is the final decomposition product
Speaker 3: of compost. When compost goes past compost, it becomes it
Speaker 3: heads toward humus. It got micro nutrients, macronutrients, and it
Speaker 3: helps the physical properties of the soil and has other
Speaker 3: benefits as well. So here's the bottom line. You're going
Speaker 3: to put any transplant out in the garden, out in
Speaker 3: the landscape beds, in the ground, tree, shrub rose, herbs,
Speaker 3: perennial flowers, you name. It has to grow six to
Speaker 3: twelve six and humate humic acid from Medina widely available
Speaker 3: and very very effective at doing what they do. We're
Speaker 3: going to give them if you love Medina samples today
Speaker 3: down there at Wharton Feed and Ace where I'll be
Speaker 3: from one to three. So come I pick up some samples.
Speaker 3: Let's go now to Neph and Claire Lake. Hello Neph,
Speaker 3: Welcome to Gardenline.
Speaker 18: Hey, good morning, Skip.
Speaker 1: How are you doing?
Speaker 6: Can you hear me?
Speaker 1: Good?
Speaker 14: Hey, Skip?
Speaker 6: A quick question, yes, sir, so in regards to.
Speaker 1: I'm about to make a trip down to Ace Hardware.
Speaker 6: It's the pre mergent, herbicide, the barricade, my fall fertilizer,
Speaker 6: and my fung your side. Can you let me and
Speaker 6: the listeners know which what do you recommend lane first?
Speaker 6: In which order out of the all three?
Speaker 3: All right, good, I'm gonna have to go to break Nephew. Okay.
Speaker 3: We were visiting with Neph in clear Lake and he
Speaker 3: was talking about the three products and the nitrofoss three
Speaker 3: stuff or fall that would be the fertilizer, the weed control,
Speaker 3: and the disease contro and he asked which order to
Speaker 3: do those. The big answer to that is it doesn't
Speaker 3: matter any order you want. You can do them all
Speaker 3: on the same day. Now you wouldn't want to put
Speaker 3: the granule barricade in the same hopper at the same
Speaker 3: time as the fertilizer for fall, okay, because the particle
Speaker 3: size is different. But if you went with your hopper
Speaker 3: a fertilizer and then your hopper a barricade or in
Speaker 3: the opposite order, either way is fine. It can all
Speaker 3: be done. As far as timeliness, the most important two
Speaker 3: are the barricade for weed prevention and the eagle for
Speaker 3: disease prevention, because those if you wait too late, you're
Speaker 3: too late. If the weeds are already up, it's getting
Speaker 3: too late. If the disease is already in the lawn,
Speaker 3: it's getting too late. And we never know. Maybe here
Speaker 3: comes a cold front, some rain, and boom, both weeds
Speaker 3: and brown patch appear pretty quick because the temperatures dropped.
Speaker 3: So I would say that the fur liiser is the
Speaker 3: most flexible one that you could wait on if you
Speaker 3: couldn't get them all done in one day. But the
Speaker 3: other two are just waiting on a good cold front
Speaker 3: and some rain to show up. So that's how I
Speaker 3: would do that. Does that help, Yes, it does skip okay, Yeah,
Speaker 3: So you can do them all on the same day
Speaker 3: if you want just just you know, don't put them
Speaker 3: all in the same hopper.
Speaker 16: Yeah, okay, okay, have you do you know if Nitrophos
Speaker 16: does liquid applications.
Speaker 3: Uh, well, the ones that we're talking about in the
Speaker 3: Texas three step those are all granules and right right,
Speaker 3: And I've been yeah to do like, yeah, they don't
Speaker 3: have a barricade liquid for example, that would okay, I
Speaker 3: was just wondering that knowledge. Okay, yeah, all right, man,
Speaker 3: Well you're on.
Speaker 6: The well, I appreciate it, all right, let me get you.
Speaker 7: Let me.
Speaker 3: I appreciate your call.
Speaker 14: Yep, you're welcome.
Speaker 3: All right, you take care Yep. That's right. And remember
Speaker 3: you can get all of those products from night to
Speaker 3: us at ACE Hardware, that is Ace Hardware. They've got
Speaker 3: all the things you need. When I talk about these fertilizers,
Speaker 3: I've talked with the folks at ACE. They carry them,
Speaker 3: they're going to carry them. They're out there at the
Speaker 3: Ace Hardware stores. Each Ace Hardware stores independently owned, so
Speaker 3: you'll find a lot of different additional things at Ace Hardware.
Speaker 3: It's a cool place to go. I mean, you may think, okay,
Speaker 3: you're saying I'm going to go to a hardware store
Speaker 3: and have fun. Well any any do it yourself or
Speaker 3: nose hardware stores are fun, But yes, I don't care
Speaker 3: who you are. They have Ace Hardware stores that carry jewelry.
Speaker 3: The aceard restores have fudge bars. Ace hard restores that
Speaker 3: have a beautiful home decorations and oh gosh, we're about
Speaker 3: to start talking about holiday lighting and other things. Ace
Speaker 3: has got it all for your lawn and now's the
Speaker 3: time for your landscape. Ace Hardware has got your fertilizers,
Speaker 3: your pest control, your disease control products, it's got the
Speaker 3: fire ant control and yes, now is prime time for
Speaker 3: fire ant control. Fall is the best time to tackle
Speaker 3: fire ants. They did a program out of A and
Speaker 3: M Extension Horticulture or excuse me, extension entomology a while
Speaker 3: back that it was a program on tackle fireants and
Speaker 3: fall as in football season. Right, football season is firent
Speaker 3: control season. With bits from your local Ace Hardware store.
Speaker 3: Go to Ace Hardware dot com and you can find
Speaker 3: the store locator and the forty stores in the Greater
Speaker 3: Houston area so you can find one that is close
Speaker 3: to you. Let's go to Tomball. Now we're gonna visit
Speaker 3: with Jack. Hey John, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 15: Good morning, Skip. I got another silly question for you. Uh,
Speaker 15: I'm on a time cutch you. You can probably hear
Speaker 15: a bunch of construction in the background. I wanted to
Speaker 15: plant some eaglesons, but I want to know one shit on.
Speaker 15: I know now is the perfect time, but I can't
Speaker 15: do it because you're taken down part of my fence.
Speaker 15: So what do you think the best go ahead?
Speaker 3: It's fine, Yeah, it's fine. Now, it's fine, but you know,
Speaker 3: as you get into later in October and November, even
Speaker 3: those are also great times because it's cooled off a
Speaker 3: little bit more. There's less stress from transplanting. So if
Speaker 3: you want to buy them now, just set them off
Speaker 3: in kind of a maybe morning sun area and just
Speaker 3: keep them watered until you can get them in the ground,
Speaker 3: or you can wait and pick them up later. Sometimes
Speaker 3: the sales are better earlier, and sometimes the selection is
Speaker 3: better earlier, so you may go ahead and grab them.
Speaker 3: But either way, yeah, October, it even gets better as
Speaker 3: we moved toward October and November for planting shrubs and trees.
Speaker 15: Okay, then first of the year after the frost correct
Speaker 15: like faboys again or yeah, yeah, you can.
Speaker 3: Do it anytime starting from November. Here's a trade off,
Speaker 3: John in in the early part of the fall through
Speaker 3: winter planting season, you give the plants the most time
Speaker 3: to grow roots, establishing roots until summer arrives. The later,
Speaker 3: when you get in the colder part, it's less stress
Speaker 3: on the plants to plant those transplants. And so that's
Speaker 3: why I kind of aim for late October November if
Speaker 3: we were to pick ideal. But listen, you can plant
Speaker 3: an Egleston holly any month of the year. It's just
Speaker 3: when it's hot, blazing hot in summer. You got to
Speaker 3: water it with just a little amount of water every
Speaker 3: day to keep the thing alive. But you can do it. Okay, Thanks, thanks, thanks,
Speaker 3: thanks for the question. Appreciate that very very much. Let's
Speaker 3: see here, who's next. I believe we got Malcolm in
Speaker 3: northwest Houston. Hey, Malcolm, how can we help?
Speaker 9: Hey?
Speaker 3: Good morning?
Speaker 9: Hey.
Speaker 12: I was curious, is there any rhyme or reason to
Speaker 12: the numbers that they put the setting numbers on a spreader,
Speaker 12: you know, four point five or seven? You know, sometimes
Speaker 12: sometimes you're spreaders on the back of the bag and
Speaker 12: sometimes it's not so I mean is does four point
Speaker 12: five have a meaning like four point five pounds?
Speaker 3: No, it doesn't. It does have that meaning. And here's
Speaker 3: here is a sheet. Actually Randy Lemon, I'll give him
Speaker 3: credit because he did this, developed it a while back,
Speaker 3: and I think it's very very helpful. And are you
Speaker 3: putting out fertilizer or a pre emergent harveside? Which one?
Speaker 6: Nothing?
Speaker 23: Right now?
Speaker 12: I'm just curious in general, I've.
Speaker 13: Been wondering that.
Speaker 3: Okay, So what we do is we say, you know,
Speaker 3: read the If you've got a such and such brands
Speaker 3: breadder and on the bag it says such and such brand,
Speaker 3: then it's easy. Already you know what to do, right,
Speaker 3: you don't know for fertilizer. For fertilizers, and all of
Speaker 3: you listening to me out there, people miss here stuff.
Speaker 3: So please listen carefully to this. It matters a lot
Speaker 3: for fertilizers if you go a knock two above half.
Speaker 3: So let's say there were twenty notches on your spreader,
Speaker 3: just as an example, you would do eleven or twelve
Speaker 3: as your best guess for fertilizers. For pre emergent herbicides,
Speaker 3: it's different. We do a notch or above one quarter.
Speaker 3: So going back to our twenty notches five or six
Speaker 3: would be what you said it on for pre emergent herbicides,
Speaker 3: fertilizers a notch or two above half pre emerged herbicides
Speaker 3: a notch above one quarter, and that'll get you as
Speaker 3: close as you're going to get. And if ever you're
Speaker 3: in doubt anybody, and I do this myself, I'll set
Speaker 3: mind too low, not put enough out, because I know
Speaker 3: if I finish the yard and have some extra, I
Speaker 3: can come back across the other way and get an
Speaker 3: even more even spreading of product. If you go north
Speaker 3: south and then east west, that's the most carefully blended
Speaker 3: even application you can get. So it's better to go
Speaker 3: under than to go over, because if you get three
Speaker 3: fourths of the way through the yard and you run
Speaker 3: out of fertilizer, yeah, that's a problem. You know, we
Speaker 3: got to go get more.
Speaker 6: Awesome all rank you very much, Yes, sir.
Speaker 3: You bet appreciate appreciate your call very much. Uh, let's
Speaker 3: see we're going to go now to Carolyn and bel Air.
Speaker 3: Hey Carolyn, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 20: Thank you, good morning. I had foundation work done back
Speaker 20: in December, and when they did the foundation work, they
Speaker 20: had pulled up some of my azaleas, and I had
Speaker 20: about a mature azaleas. Now I only have two that
Speaker 20: are really healthy, one that's hanging on and one that
Speaker 20: I have doubts about. But I'm wondering to replace those.
Speaker 20: It's a front bed. What would you suggest I do?
Speaker 20: Should I get more azaleas or should I get something
Speaker 20: else that would grow faster?
Speaker 3: Well, the shrub you want is the shrub you want.
Speaker 3: So if you like azalies, if you like having them
Speaker 3: all across there, I would do azalias. If you start
Speaker 3: doing other shrubs, then you kind of have to look
Speaker 3: at how you lay them out and how big they're
Speaker 3: going to get, and make you know, make sure that
Speaker 3: everything is put where it belongs so there's room for
Speaker 3: it to grow and spread. There's a lot of great shrubs,
Speaker 3: but you know, you make the decision. And if you
Speaker 3: want azaleas, you definitely want to get a good quality
Speaker 3: mix for acid loving plants, a blend, a soil blend
Speaker 3: that's high quality to go in those beds. Make those
Speaker 3: azalie roots as happy as you can, and then plant
Speaker 3: if you fertilize, when you fertilize. You want to use
Speaker 3: an acid loving fertilizer, and there are many on the market. Microlife,
Speaker 3: for example, has one in a pink bag that's for
Speaker 3: acid loving plants. There are others on the market UH
Speaker 3: and fertilized with that. And if you keep them adequately
Speaker 3: watered where they're always moist, not soggy moist, and you
Speaker 3: are fertilizing regularly according to the cut the UH instructions
Speaker 3: on the bag, you can get pretty good growth of those.
Speaker 3: As now, anything you plant's going to sit there and
Speaker 3: pout for a while, you know, after travel. I think
Speaker 3: they kind of just sit there, but then they take
Speaker 3: off and so so yeah, I think you either way
Speaker 3: is a good idea.
Speaker 20: Is it too late to trim back the ones I
Speaker 20: have now because they they've really gotten big?
Speaker 3: For the for the fact that the plants are too
Speaker 3: big and the plants will survive that pruning. Yes, you
Speaker 3: can prune now, but you're cutting away the bloom buds,
Speaker 3: the spring bloom buds that you enjoy. Those are formed
Speaker 3: in late summer and fall, So prune now. Every pruning
Speaker 3: is taking away bloom buds. So okay, that's the trade off.
Speaker 3: I unless you have to get it pruned. I would
Speaker 3: wait until after the bloom is over and then do
Speaker 3: your pruning.
Speaker 20: Okay, so that's another six months. Thank you very much.
Speaker 3: All right, Carolyn, thank you. I appreciate that. Hey, folks,
Speaker 3: if you would like to give us a call, I'm
Speaker 3: going to a break, but you can get on the
Speaker 3: board seven one three two one two kt R h
Speaker 3: ibby right. Ciena Maltz. Ciena Maltz are down south of Houston,
Speaker 3: near the north of Road Sharon, near where Highway six
Speaker 3: and two eighty eight come together. The actual road is
Speaker 3: FM five twenty one. You can go to their website
Speaker 3: Sienna Maltz dot com and I hope you do.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 3: They serve that whole region Lake Olympia, Pomona, Fresno, Manville, Riverstone,
Speaker 3: Quell Valley, Iowa. Calling him Meridian first, cont need to
Speaker 3: keep going near the Braespin State Park. They are the
Speaker 3: place to go for the brown stuff. Remember brown stuff,
Speaker 3: the foundation for your garden. Brown stuff that makes everything grow.
Speaker 3: Brown stuff. You got the best plants in the world,
Speaker 3: But what are you going to put them in? Good stuff?
Speaker 3: You're gonna put them in compost materials. You're gonna put
Speaker 3: them in bed mixes. You're gonna make sure they have
Speaker 3: nutrients from quality fertilizers. All of the brown stuff is
Speaker 3: at Cienamultch. That includes native hardwood mulches, double ground mulches,
Speaker 3: that includes Landscaper's Pride, black velvet, the rose soils, organic compost.
Speaker 3: It includes things like the Vegian ir mix from heirloom soils,
Speaker 3: and on and on and on, sand rocks. Everything you
Speaker 3: need and part of the brown stuff the nutrients, microlife, fertilizers, nitrophots,
Speaker 3: Landscaper's Pride, Nelson plant Food, Medina, Azamite, the Nelson Turf
Speaker 3: Star line specifically too Bone Eye products, the heirloom soils, Pride,
Speaker 3: it's all there. When you go to Siena Moultch, you
Speaker 3: get quality stuff.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 3: Landscapers know what they're doing. They get their stuff from
Speaker 3: the the animalts folks and they're friendly two folks, very friendly.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 3: For example, bmb I was telling you about their services
Speaker 3: for compo stop dressing and narrating. They get their stuff
Speaker 3: from Ciana Maltz. They know it's quality stop and it
Speaker 3: is Sienna Maltch dot com fall is for planting. First
Speaker 3: comes the brown stuff, then comes the green stuff. Stop
Speaker 3: in at Cianna Malts if you're within twenty miles of them,
Speaker 3: they'll deliver for a fee, or just take your trailer
Speaker 3: over there. You pick up and pick it up. But
Speaker 3: whatever you do, get that so all right, and let's
Speaker 3: the animals help you do that. I'm going to head
Speaker 3: now to Sugarland and talk to Ross. Hello, Ross, Welcome
Speaker 3: to garden Line.
Speaker 13: Hey, hey, Skip, good morning. I've got funny saying. I
Speaker 13: got three Japanese you in the front yard, kind of
Speaker 13: basically little same light, same water and everything. Well, there's
Speaker 13: one the one plant on my right, individual stocks start off.
Speaker 13: I've had these things for three years, three or four years,
Speaker 13: and it's one place on the right I've replaced. This
Speaker 13: is the third time I've replaced it because as the
Speaker 13: stalks die off, it gets too thin to match the
Speaker 13: other one. So I bring in another full full plant.
Speaker 9: You have any.
Speaker 13: Idea of what it's called, it's just not the whole plant,
Speaker 13: just individual just slowly one dies two diyes.
Speaker 3: Three diyes. Yeah, and you said, Japanese you, that's what
Speaker 3: you meant, right, Japanese you, right, right, Okay, Uh, it's
Speaker 3: going to be that when on any plant you get
Speaker 3: individual shoots dying, it's either a little borer it's affecting
Speaker 3: those stalks, cutting off the moisture flow. But on a
Speaker 3: Japanese you that's the unlikely cause but possible, or a
Speaker 3: canker disease, and it's a little disease that infects the stem,
Speaker 3: kills the tissues that take water up and down, and
Speaker 3: then the whole thing turns brown. It's just like you're
Speaker 3: purened it off essentially. Uh and uh So I would
Speaker 3: follow the brown down to where it goes from brown
Speaker 3: to green and look around the stem there and see
Speaker 3: if you see splits in the bark or any holes
Speaker 3: and little tiny holes in the bark or anything like that,
Speaker 3: and that's going to point you to the solution. Normally
Speaker 3: we do not have to spray up in these views.
Speaker 3: They just are not prone to diseases impressed problems. But
Speaker 3: any plant, it could happen. The other thing, if it's
Speaker 3: happening following a hard, hard phraeze that they weren't ready for,
Speaker 3: that could be a cause. But I think probably some
Speaker 3: sort of a shoop canker is what you're looking at.
Speaker 3: And that's my best guess without being there and seeing it.
Speaker 13: Okay, so I mean, yeah it eventually the whole stock
Speaker 13: to the ground goes and I cut it off at
Speaker 13: the bottom. I mean, so you can't think anything like
Speaker 13: a it's a wet spot in.
Speaker 5: An area or.
Speaker 13: I mean, there's no way to treat what you're talking
Speaker 13: about the cankers.
Speaker 3: Not really. I mean could do fungicidal sprays on it,
Speaker 3: but generally that's not needed. When you prune it out.
Speaker 3: You need to go below the brown into the green,
Speaker 3: make your cut, and then spray your printers with life
Speaker 3: slid between each cut, so if it is a disease
Speaker 3: in there, you're not spreading it. Okay. That's the last
Speaker 3: tip that I can give you.
Speaker 5: Is great lilt oh on the pruning prun so that
Speaker 5: if you cut in and you got bacteria now on
Speaker 5: that prunter from the infection, you won't take that bacteria
Speaker 5: and make a new wound with it.
Speaker 3: Okay, russa for you on it, But good luck, you bet,
Speaker 3: good luck getting under control of that. We're going to
Speaker 3: go now to Kay in Houston. Hey, Kate, welcome to
Speaker 3: garden Line. How can we help hi?
Speaker 6: Thank you so much.
Speaker 22: I have two really healthy looking hibiscus and pots, and
Speaker 22: they're green and wonderful, and I've fed them and they
Speaker 22: loaded with blooms, and then before they loaded with buds,
Speaker 22: before they bloom, they just fall off. So I don't
Speaker 22: know if I've got bricks or aphid or rapids or
Speaker 22: what's wrong with them.
Speaker 3: That's unusual. Yeah, there are some little pests that can
Speaker 3: do that, of course, steps getting the flower and mess
Speaker 3: up flowers, but generally not that big of a problem.
Speaker 3: It could be, it could be a some moisture situation.
Speaker 3: Do you see any yellowing leaves on the plants of
Speaker 3: older leaves?
Speaker 22: No, very few, like maybe one or two, but there's
Speaker 22: huge bushes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm just just spraying. Yeah, I hate to send
Speaker 3: you out spray and everything under the sun, so like
Speaker 3: we don't know what, so we're gonna throw everything but
Speaker 3: the kitchen sink at it. That's not my general approach.
Speaker 3: But your spray and insecticide on them. It's hard to
Speaker 3: get those insecticides in the flower, so I'm just not
Speaker 3: inclined to suggest you do that one. Okay, moisture best
Speaker 3: you can. There are funguses funde that can attack blooms.
Speaker 3: It happens to roses a lot, especially during wet weather,
Speaker 3: and infects the pedals and blooms. But let's see this
Speaker 3: if you can, I'm gonna put you on hold. If
Speaker 3: you can take some pictures of it early on, you know,
Speaker 3: just a number of different pictures of this symptom, and
Speaker 3: then okay, send them to me by email. Let me look.
Speaker 3: Maybe I'll see something else in the pictures and I'll
Speaker 3: be happy to help. So I'm gonna put you on hold.
Speaker 3: Chris is going to pick up and he will give
Speaker 3: you an email to send those. Make sure the pictures
Speaker 3: are in good sharp focus and is show me one
Speaker 3: of the whole bush, but then show me as close
Speaker 3: as you can get to the blooms. That's helpful too.
Speaker 7: Okay, Okay, thank you so much.
Speaker 3: All right, you got a little bit of a walk
Speaker 3: off the earth. The first one I heard was not
Speaker 3: walk up there, although they sang that song. But I
Speaker 3: love that band. All right, let's see here. I want
Speaker 3: to tell you about fall Fest Buchanan's Native Plants. It's
Speaker 3: on October fifth. October fifth, next weekend, from ten to
Speaker 3: three pm. Ten to three. Now, this is a deal
Speaker 3: you want to be part of. I'm gonna be there
Speaker 3: from twelve to two. We'll be giving away a one
Speaker 3: hundred dollars gift card and you have to register to
Speaker 3: win that. We're gonna be given away a Microlife brown
Speaker 3: Patch bag giveaway the event itself, a pumpkin painting Halloween
Speaker 3: mask craft for kids. I'd to say that carefully. It's
Speaker 3: hard to get those words. Coloring stations for kids. There's
Speaker 3: gonna be a hay ride. There's gonna be a lot more.
Speaker 3: They're gonna have pumpkin ring toss for kid, game bag toss,
Speaker 3: a scavenger hut, live music, the local band Yopine. What
Speaker 3: a great name for a local band, Yopine. They're gonna
Speaker 3: have kids crafts. They're gonna have a moon Bounce. They're
Speaker 3: gonna have food, coffee, beer, wine and what else do
Speaker 3: you want?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 3: One more thing? It's all free. Buchanans Native Plants on
Speaker 3: Eleventh Street in the Heights. Now you know, Buchanans is
Speaker 3: the place you go for all kinds of native plants.
Speaker 3: Buchanans Native plants, that's the name of the place, and
Speaker 3: boy did they ever have an excellent selection of that.
Speaker 3: It's not just native plants though. Do you need house plants.
Speaker 3: They've got one of the biggest house plant green houses
Speaker 3: I've seen in the region. It's awesome. Do you need vegetables, herbs,
Speaker 3: everything you can imagine, including soils and products and things
Speaker 3: to go with it? Is it Buchanan's Plants. Come see
Speaker 3: me next October next talk so sober October the fifth,
Speaker 3: next weekend at Buchanan's Native Plants, ten am three pm
Speaker 3: is the whole event. I'll be there from twelve to two.
Speaker 3: I hope you can show up. Maybe one that one
Speaker 3: hundred dollars gift card. Boy, I have fun with one
Speaker 3: of those. At Buchan is the garden center. Let's go
Speaker 3: now to Mario and clearly, Hey Mario, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 6: Hey Skiff, thanks for taking my call. I have a
Speaker 6: couple of things I put Yo pound Holly's as a
Speaker 6: kind of a hedge around my beds. Always had boxes
Speaker 6: before and replaced them because they weren't doing well, and
Speaker 6: so I'm not familiar with what these things do. But
Speaker 6: the tips are turning yellow. Is that normal or is
Speaker 6: there's something going on?
Speaker 3: No, it's iron deficiency and that's not unusual on Holly's
Speaker 3: in general, especially if your pH is a little high.
Speaker 3: What I would recommend is begin for the rest of
Speaker 3: those Holly's life to fertilize them with an acid loving
Speaker 3: plant fertilizer. And there's different things in the market for that,
Speaker 3: like for fertilizer for acid loving plants. Microlife has their
Speaker 3: acid loving plant type and a kind of a pinkish
Speaker 3: bag that works really well. But it's just going forward.
Speaker 3: Everything you fertilize, you use that. In the meantime, gets
Speaker 3: you some keylated iron kelated. It's c H E L
Speaker 3: A T ED. Follow the label and apply it. It
Speaker 3: is a form of iron that doesn't tie up to
Speaker 3: the soil as fast and the plants can get it.
Speaker 3: So sprinkle it around the planet at the rate the
Speaker 3: label says, and watered in really good and you're going
Speaker 3: to be able to provide that quick boost to you know,
Speaker 3: to get that iron endo the plant. There's probably enough
Speaker 3: iron in the soil, it just can't get to the plant. Now,
Speaker 3: you're okay. And clear Lake, so if you'll go, if
Speaker 3: you'll go to the M and D clear Lake Ace
Speaker 3: Hardware on Bay Area Boulevard, they're going to have those
Speaker 3: kinds of products.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I use them, and I'll run over.
Speaker 3: There are students.
Speaker 6: We're done. Also, I'm in my front lawn. I'm seeing
Speaker 6: a lot of weeds, surprisingly because the lawn was really
Speaker 6: hearty and mush, and I bought a reed beater complete
Speaker 6: from Bowden. Is it a good idea to put that down?
Speaker 13: Now?
Speaker 3: It's a little hot, it's a little hot to apply
Speaker 3: weed beater to your lens. If it cools off a
Speaker 3: little bit, we get our daily highs mid eighties or below,
Speaker 3: that would be something you could use. Just remember that
Speaker 3: your broad leaf weeds, that's what that controls, not grasp,
Speaker 3: but broadly. Those broad leaf weeds are going to be
Speaker 3: mostly dying off already when cool weather hits, So it'd
Speaker 3: be next spring, early before it gets above eighty five
Speaker 3: when you would use that product again. But yes, just
Speaker 3: let it cool off a little bit, and if we
Speaker 3: get close maybe the mid to upper eighties, if you'll
Speaker 3: do it really early in the day when it's the
Speaker 3: coolest time of the day, that would also be okay
Speaker 3: for that bon eyed weed beater.
Speaker 6: Okay, And then we'd it be all right to do
Speaker 6: it my winter. Would it be all right then? Once
Speaker 6: I've put that down to use my winter fertilizer.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you could do it before or after that.
Speaker 3: It's unrelated.
Speaker 6: Okay, good. And then what about plants? What do I
Speaker 6: do with the plants for the fall?
Speaker 3: I've got a I'm not sure what you're asking me.
Speaker 14: Oh, well, I.
Speaker 6: Want to fertilize. I understand that it's time to fertilize
Speaker 6: trees and other plants.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for new things that you put in the ground,
Speaker 3: you can do that. We just want to be careful
Speaker 3: for fall for the other plants to not stimulate late
Speaker 3: season growth that's tender and it is more likely to
Speaker 3: get by a hard freeze that might show up a
Speaker 3: little early. So, especially things that are semi hardy, you
Speaker 3: want to be kind of careful. So I don't do
Speaker 3: a lot of fall fertilizing in general to those plants,
Speaker 3: but we do for the lawns.
Speaker 6: Okay, okay, all right, Well, as usual, you're terristic.
Speaker 3: It's a great deal.
Speaker 6: Thank you.
Speaker 3: Thanks for being listener, Mario. I appreciate that a lot.
Speaker 3: Let's see, we're going to go now to Oliver in
Speaker 3: North Houston. Hey, Oliver, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 16: When morning skip this our first stem collar a problem
Speaker 16: with some solid plants that I have, they're just about
Speaker 16: producing fruits. Well, I've noticed some of them are starting
Speaker 16: to die. The plants are dying. Could you see why
Speaker 16: they're dying?
Speaker 3: What kind of plant?
Speaker 16: Soril or high biscus at any call of Jamaican high
Speaker 16: biscus or roselle, they have different names with it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I don't know why they're dying. It could
Speaker 3: be due to a lack of moisture. It could be
Speaker 3: due to damage to the roots. It could be from
Speaker 3: keeping them too wet and the roots get root rot.
Speaker 3: So you know, a lot of things can kill a plant,
Speaker 3: and just the symptom that it's dying, I can't really
Speaker 3: tell you exactly which of the things that is.
Speaker 16: Well, I have not been wanting it a lot neither,
Speaker 16: you know. Just there. I have about seven plants and
Speaker 16: one saty to die, then another one so do not
Speaker 16: die on at the same time. And they just about
Speaker 16: producing some fruit, you know, the fruits red buds. So
Speaker 16: I'm concerned that I may lose all of my plans
Speaker 16: this year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's not typically very cold hearty of a plant.
Speaker 3: So give it some water, give it a good soaking,
Speaker 3: appliant oat the soil about six, six or eight inches deep.
Speaker 3: That takes a lot of water, and see if that
Speaker 3: perks it up and at least it'll get you through
Speaker 3: this season before it gets cold and everything shuts down.
Speaker 16: Okay, okay, skip cansel off taking my call?
Speaker 3: Yes, sir, thanks for calling. Appreciate you having you as
Speaker 3: a guardenline listener for sure. I want to remind you
Speaker 3: guys that I'm going to head to day to Wharton
Speaker 3: feed and Ace hardware done in Wharton, Texas. So if
Speaker 3: you are anywhere off that direction, come on up and
Speaker 3: let's talk. Bring me samples, bring me pictures. We'll identify,
Speaker 3: we'll diagnose, or we'll just sit and have fun and visit.
Speaker 3: I'm a giving away two bad eggs from nitrofoss of
Speaker 3: their Fall Special, two bags of their barricade time for
Speaker 3: all that be, giving away some medina samples, some plants
Speaker 3: from green Leaf Plants down there, and a gift certificate
Speaker 3: from the buck Boot Company now Wharton, Texas. I don't
Speaker 3: know if you know this, but this is God's country
Speaker 3: when it comes to agriculture. Cory Boy and the bag
Speaker 3: agent down in Wharton County was making sure that I
Speaker 3: knew and you know when we're I was a county agent,
Speaker 3: and number of counties here in Texas moved around in
Speaker 3: my career, and I'm always very proud of my county,
Speaker 3: and i know he is too. For good reason. Did
Speaker 3: you know Wharton County is the number one producer of
Speaker 3: horticulture crops in Texas. That's nursery and turf. And they
Speaker 3: got a lot of big turf farms down there in
Speaker 3: Wharton County, But horticulture crops are big. It used to
Speaker 3: be that it was just cotton and cattle, you know,
Speaker 3: that was that rule of the world. Horticulture crops have
Speaker 3: caken over. Wharton County is also the one or number
Speaker 3: one or number two agriculture production county in the state
Speaker 3: of Texas.
Speaker 5: That's what I mean.
Speaker 3: There is a God's country for agriculture and horticulture. By
Speaker 3: the way, I hope you guys that are gardeners down there,
Speaker 3: grab five friends and come on over. Let's let's have
Speaker 3: a good time at Wharton's Wharton Ace and feed down
Speaker 3: in that area. I also want to remind you October fifth,
Speaker 3: next weekend, the Brazoria County Extension Office is this having
Speaker 3: their first annual Figtoberfest, meaning you want to learn about figs.
Speaker 3: There's gonna be doctor Hartman from A and M's a
Speaker 3: friend of mine. It's gonna be doing a program on
Speaker 3: fig research and data. Steven Yannick from Techsager Life Extension
Speaker 3: Horticulture Department. Another friend's going to be talking about fig
Speaker 3: trials and pests and diseases destin note the Texas Garden
Speaker 3: Guy will be there. Philed Angelus from Phil's Figgs nine
Speaker 3: seventy nine, eight six, four, fifteen fifty eight for more
Speaker 3: information
Speaker 9: With over the