Speaker 1: Welcome to Katy r h Garden Line with Skip Ricarda.
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Speaker 4: Sid alrighty, all right, let's let's do a garden show today.
Speaker 4: How about that Welcome to garden Line. We are here
Speaker 4: to answer your gardening questions and basically the way I
Speaker 4: like to put it here, to help you have a
Speaker 4: bountiful garden, a beautiful landscape and more fun in the process.
Speaker 4: Gardening should be fun. And I know sometimes you know,
Speaker 4: you try something doesn't work out like you intended it to,
Speaker 4: and it's like I wasn't much fun. Well, let's fix that.
Speaker 4: Give me a call. We can talk about it. Seven
Speaker 4: one three two one two fifty eight seventy four, or
Speaker 4: if you like to die, buy letters seven one three
Speaker 4: two one two kt R. H Uh. There is a
Speaker 4: lot that you can do to have more success, and
Speaker 4: it's just a matter of starting to think like a plant.
Speaker 4: Maybe that'd be a good name for the show, thinking
Speaker 4: like a plant. Anyway, We're glad you're here. Hey, the
Speaker 4: folks at Nitrovis have got you covered for your early
Speaker 4: spring green up. You go to my schedule, you'll see
Speaker 4: the early spring green up. That's an optional application, you know.
Speaker 4: It's if you want to see a greener early a earlier,
Speaker 4: do this and you will absolutely Well, they've got the
Speaker 4: nitro foss Imperial that's a fifteen to five to ten.
Speaker 4: This is a standard fertilizer ratio. It's a three one
Speaker 4: to two ratio. Lots of nitrogen, not much phosphorus, medium
Speaker 4: amount of potassium. If you take grass clippings and send
Speaker 4: them to the lab and say what's in this, that's
Speaker 4: what you're going to see. A three one two or
Speaker 4: four one two or something like that ratio of nutrients. Now,
Speaker 4: nitrofax in perial also comes. It is not the only
Speaker 4: form that it takes. They also have a nitrofoss fifteen
Speaker 4: to five to ten that has the ingredient TRIMEC in it.
Speaker 4: That is a post emergent broad leaf wheed control. So
Speaker 4: if you're looking at your yard right now and you're
Speaker 4: wanting to do a green app and it's just like
Speaker 4: there's all these brown weeds, there are green weeds that
Speaker 4: are in my lawn, well, that would be an option.
Speaker 4: You wet the lawn, you put it on it goes
Speaker 4: into the tissues, it kills the weeds, and then a
Speaker 4: couple of days after you apply it, go ahead and
Speaker 4: water it in. Get that fertilizer done in the soil.
Speaker 4: But that's kind of a two fur on that. And
Speaker 4: this is one of the times of the year and
Speaker 4: there's not a lot of them, or I'll say, put
Speaker 4: that combo on. Usually the time we put a herbicide
Speaker 4: and then we put a fertilizer on may not line
Speaker 4: up real good, especially with pre emergence in the spring.
Speaker 4: But I'm telling you that this stuff will work to
Speaker 4: do what it's supposed to do. The imperil, by the way,
Speaker 4: is a red bag. It's the red bag and the
Speaker 4: one with a trimec is kind of a bluish blue
Speaker 4: at lighter bluish colored bag, So be careful with that
Speaker 4: because there's a purple bag also that's a different ingredient.
Speaker 4: So whatever you're going after, just make sure that you've
Speaker 4: chosen the right product for your lawn. And when it
Speaker 4: comes to pretty much any kind of lawn, the either
Speaker 4: of these the Imperial, the red bag or the light
Speaker 4: blue bag would would be fine. We're going to head
Speaker 4: out and out a tumble and talk to Mel. Hello Mel,
Speaker 4: welcome to garden line.
Speaker 5: You know this, Hi, this is really weird. You answered
Speaker 5: the question I think to give you.
Speaker 4: All right, Well, all right, let's talk about it some
Speaker 4: more real. All right, let's talk about it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I put down my pre emergent about a week
Speaker 6: and a half something I got two weeks ago, and
Speaker 6: I did put fifteen five ten.
Speaker 5: But now what was this?
Speaker 6: My problem is I got so many leftover weeds that
Speaker 6: I'd like to get rid of it. I didn't want
Speaker 6: it to interfere with.
Speaker 4: And well, well yeah, but you've already put on your
Speaker 4: green up the fifteen five tens, so don't do it
Speaker 4: again with the weed control and that that's too much fertilizer.
Speaker 4: So in your situation, you're going to want to get
Speaker 4: something that you mix up in a sprayer and spot
Speaker 4: treat your weeds. And when you go, you know, you're
Speaker 4: up there in tom Ball area. You got You've got
Speaker 4: places like the arbigate is real close to you. D
Speaker 4: and D's out there in that area. They're going to
Speaker 4: have a product. You mix it, both of them, mixing water.
Speaker 4: You spray it on the broad leaf weeds. But take
Speaker 4: a good look make sure your weeds are broad leaf
Speaker 4: is supposed to grassy.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 4: And if they're primarily broad leaf weeds, which I suspect
Speaker 4: they are, then you just spot treat with that and
Speaker 4: the next your next time with fertilizers coming up here
Speaker 4: in April, when we mowed the lawn a couple of times,
Speaker 4: we're going to start putting on our summer application.
Speaker 6: Well do I put I put something down, I'll get today.
Speaker 5: Okay, then I don't forget the next question. But uh,
Speaker 5: what is it I got out here?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 5: What? What's the product that they have that it mixed
Speaker 5: with water?
Speaker 4: I'm sorry you said you have what out there?
Speaker 5: Oh we've got I've got D N D and arborgate
Speaker 5: close by.
Speaker 4: Like you say, yeah, what is the product? Yeah, there's
Speaker 4: a bunch of them. Yeah, there's a bunch of them. Uh,
Speaker 4: let's see Bonye mix one that's a weed beater. Fertilleugh
Speaker 4: makes one that's I think a weed free zone what
Speaker 4: they call there. Just go into the wherever you're going
Speaker 4: in those folks independent businesses, they're going to have the
Speaker 4: skill staff to point you at the right product that
Speaker 4: they carry, and they're gonna have probably more two or
Speaker 4: three options that you can use. So it's not like
Speaker 4: you have to go get this one spray for those weeds.
Speaker 4: There's a number of them out there. But the keys
Speaker 4: to the what you're asking them is broad leaf post emergent.
Speaker 4: I want to kill an existing broad leaf weed that
Speaker 4: and then they can point you at the right product
Speaker 4: that they care.
Speaker 5: Okay, post emergent.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Hey, it's not that hard. You're lucky man. When
Speaker 4: you got place like arbigate and D and D they'll
Speaker 4: take care of Grab a few of your weeds and
Speaker 4: walk in there and show them and they know exactly
Speaker 4: what to do. That's another way if you don't want
Speaker 4: to remember all the fancy words, just just grab a
Speaker 4: few weeds, throw them in a bag, and walk in
Speaker 4: and they'll point you at the right product. All right,
Speaker 4: oh cool, all you take care. I appreciate that a lot.
Speaker 4: You know, the I talk about the three sixty tree stabilizer,
Speaker 4: it is an amazing I'm gonna say no, because it's
Speaker 4: you know, in the last five ten years something like
Speaker 4: well probably five years. The three sixty tree stabilizer. You
Speaker 4: attach it to a post, you attach it to your tree,
Speaker 4: and it holds it in place and in fact, I'm
Speaker 4: gonna try later today. I want to post a video
Speaker 4: and show you of a tree in a strong wind
Speaker 4: with a stabilizer on it. It's amazing, you know. Now
Speaker 4: you can do one stabilizer or if you've got a
Speaker 4: bigger tree, you know, big jack canopy like a sail
Speaker 4: in the wind, you can do two. Do one east west,
Speaker 4: one north south. But they attached with a soft strap,
Speaker 4: so they allow the tree to move. That's important. If
Speaker 4: you honker a tree down where it cannot budget all
Speaker 4: the trunk will not develop strength, nor the top brace
Speaker 4: roots at the top near the base of the trunk,
Speaker 4: they're not going to develop that strength that they will
Speaker 4: if they're allowed to bend and push and twist a
Speaker 4: little bit. So you want a little bit of movement,
Speaker 4: and it's designed to do exactly that. You're gonna find
Speaker 4: three sixty tree stabilizers at you know, just talking about
Speaker 4: going out to Arburgate, Well they've got them there. You
Speaker 4: can go and if your shop at Buchanans or Jorgeshiden
Speaker 4: Gardens down South RCW Nursery, Ciena Molt, these are all
Speaker 4: places where you're going to find the three sixty tree
Speaker 4: stabilizer so whatever you're doing, if you planted a tree,
Speaker 4: even in the last year, I would go ahead and
Speaker 4: get something like that on it and make sure that
Speaker 4: it is held in the place and it can have
Speaker 4: the best chance possible of establishing. Very well, I'm gonna
Speaker 4: have to take quick break here and when we come back,
Speaker 4: Paul in the Woodlands, you're going to be our first up.
Speaker 4: All right, we're back, folks. Hey, welcome back to garden Line.
Speaker 4: Good to have you with us. Enjoy getting to visit
Speaker 4: with you about the things that are most of interest
Speaker 4: to you in Jenny Gardens out there in Richmond Rosenberg area.
Speaker 4: In fact, it's specifically it's on FM three point fifty
Speaker 4: nine north of Richmond between Katie you know, Katie Fullshire
Speaker 4: side of Richmond. Let's just do it that way, between
Speaker 4: Richmond and Katie Richmond and Katie in fullsher in there.
Speaker 4: All right, Well, anyway, bottom line is they've been arounted
Speaker 4: in nineteen ninety five. That is an unbelievable place. Unforgettable.
Speaker 4: I mean they I was there the other day for
Speaker 4: giving a talk and it just it's just always amazing.
Speaker 4: I never go out there that it is just not
Speaker 4: chock full of everything that is seasonal that you need
Speaker 4: and the help you get there. They know what they're
Speaker 4: talking about. This is an independent gardens and it's a
Speaker 4: family owned garden center. And listen, these folks know and
Speaker 4: do you go in and you may not even know
Speaker 4: the right question, and they can help you. They'll walk
Speaker 4: you around, talk to you, help you. You're gonna find
Speaker 4: herbs and vegetables, you know, roses, a great selection of seed.
Speaker 4: When I start talking about fertilizers and soils like Microlife,
Speaker 4: nitrofoss Nelson, Medina, Nature's Way, heirloom soil, they've got all
Speaker 4: of that there at Enchanted Gardens. You need to go
Speaker 4: to the website. It's Enchanted Gardens, Richmond. Enchanted Gardens, Richmond.
Speaker 4: And listen, we have got some great weather for most
Speaker 4: of this week. Oh man, today, it would be a
Speaker 4: good day to run out there check them out. It's
Speaker 4: just it's the kind of place where you're going to
Speaker 4: take a friend with you because it's just fun. It's
Speaker 4: just flat fun to go and check out the incredible
Speaker 4: combo planters that they have. Maria there is always creating
Speaker 4: something new. In fact, you follow them on social media,
Speaker 4: you can actually watch her build things and get some
Speaker 4: real good inspiration again Enchanted Gardens, Richmond dot com. Let's
Speaker 4: go out to the woodlands. Now we're going to talk
Speaker 4: to Paul. Hey, Paul, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 8: Good morning, Skiff. I got a question about most volcanos.
Speaker 8: I know that they are for trees, but is it
Speaker 8: also a problem for shrubs?
Speaker 5: It is?
Speaker 4: It is the above ground portions of plant trunks and
Speaker 4: stems aren't made to be underground. And when you pile
Speaker 4: it up and it tends to stay wet, it doesn't
Speaker 4: work well. And especially with newly planted plants, that volcano
Speaker 4: ends up on the like shedding water away from where
Speaker 4: that little root ball is you put in the ground,
Speaker 4: and so you right where you most need water to
Speaker 4: soak in. You got this big thick mulch that it's
Speaker 4: gonna absorb it and shut it off to the side.
Speaker 4: So not a good idea. Not a good idea.
Speaker 8: Okay, So when my gardener comes in mulch, is I
Speaker 8: gotta go out there and take it away not only
Speaker 8: from the trees, but from the shrubs.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And you know, if we're talking about an inch
Speaker 4: or or two or two inches of mulch or something
Speaker 4: that's fine. But just even if it's like three or
Speaker 4: four inches, pull it away from the base and the
Speaker 4: gardener if he's gonna if you're gonna pay him to
Speaker 4: do this, he needs to do it right. He needs
Speaker 4: to do what you tell him to do. And that
Speaker 4: is a it's one of those old things that happens
Speaker 4: around town, and so you see it, and so everybody
Speaker 4: does it, and that makes people do it more, and
Speaker 4: it's it's the wrong horticultural practice. Good enough, Thank you,
Speaker 4: all right, thanks for the call man. Take care all right. Hey,
Speaker 4: guess what I'm gonna be today up there at the
Speaker 4: Montgomery County Home and Outdoor Living Show at the Lone
Speaker 4: Star Convention Center up on Airport Road and Conrad. I'll
Speaker 4: be there from twelve to two, given a little talk
Speaker 4: and giving away a lot of products from the folks
Speaker 4: at Nelson, the folks at Medina. So you know, come
Speaker 4: check me out if you got some time. Take care,
Speaker 4: Thank you, all right, bye bye. Yeah, I'm really looking
Speaker 4: looking forward to that. We've got some great products, you know,
Speaker 4: folks at Nelson, they they've kind of got you covered
Speaker 4: on everything that you might need for any plant. You
Speaker 4: got a plant, you want it green or more productive, well,
Speaker 4: check out some of their products. You know, they've got
Speaker 4: the Nelson wheedon eater that is a product. There's not
Speaker 4: your typical whedon feed. This has a growth regulator in
Speaker 4: it that slows the grass down a little bit, which
Speaker 4: means you mow less. That's important because when spring fully hits,
Speaker 4: that grass is taken off. If you have to sleep
Speaker 4: on your lawn more because they wake up every few
Speaker 4: minutes to mote again. Anyway, it all also has the
Speaker 4: post emergered products gonna knock out a wide range of
Speaker 4: weeds like chickweed and clover and dandulion, dollar weed, person
Speaker 4: lane spurges those little vining weeds that get out in
Speaker 4: your grass. It takes care of it. That's a weedininator.
Speaker 4: And it will also feed a long time. So we're
Speaker 4: talking about you get some immediate release, but there's a
Speaker 4: number of kinds of nitrogen in it, so you're gonna
Speaker 4: end up getting feeding for you know, three or four months.
Speaker 4: You'll care. Let's just put this. It's gonna carry all
Speaker 4: the way up to the summer if you put out
Speaker 4: a full application of it. Also, you need to wet
Speaker 4: the weeds first. Anytime you're using a granular weed control,
Speaker 4: you gotta wet the weeds. You want the granules to
Speaker 4: stick to the weeds. And then immediately while the weeds
Speaker 4: were wet, put that product out. Let us sit a
Speaker 4: couple of days and a couple days later, watered down
Speaker 4: and there you go, You're covered. Got it done. Another
Speaker 4: product from the folks that Nelson boy. You can find
Speaker 4: those things all over town. So uh yeah, that that
Speaker 4: is the case. I was trying out some of their
Speaker 4: other product. I'll talk about those little later. Strang out
Speaker 4: some of the other products recently, and we're very impressed
Speaker 4: with the stuff they have now on guardline, I'm always
Speaker 4: saying brown stuff before green stuff, right, brown stuff before
Speaker 4: green stuff. That is basically a way of saying, get
Speaker 4: the soil right before you put the plants in. That's important.
Speaker 4: You got to do it that way. And it's so
Speaker 4: many people get inspired on a wim you know, warm
Speaker 4: sunny day. Let's go buy some plants. Great idea, by
Speaker 4: the way, go do that, but buy some soil too.
Speaker 4: Come home, get the foundation right, and it's like deciding,
Speaker 4: you know, I want a house and starting to hammer
Speaker 4: tubat for us together before you pour concrete on the foundation.
Speaker 4: You don't do it that way, and if you do,
Speaker 4: you're setting yourself up for success. Unless you just already
Speaker 4: happen to have wonderful soil, which almost no one does.
Speaker 4: So get the soil right, and heirloom soils. They are
Speaker 4: set up to sell you exactly what you need for
Speaker 4: exactly the planter you're ground. Are you going to plant
Speaker 4: fruit trees? Or how about vegetables and herbs by the way,
Speaker 4: there's a mix for that. How about roses, there's a
Speaker 4: mix for that. Really, any kind of shrubs and blooming plants.
Speaker 4: That rose product works excellent for now. You're going to
Speaker 4: find it in the bags all over the place. They
Speaker 4: are widely available. You can also drive out to porter
Speaker 4: and pick up bulk, take your trailer or you pick
Speaker 4: up go out there and get you some, or call
Speaker 4: them up and have them deliver it. There's so many
Speaker 4: options with airloom. You can have them bring a load
Speaker 4: of it, put it on the driveway and I've done
Speaker 4: that many times myself, and they know you will bear
Speaker 4: it around where you need it. Or you can have
Speaker 4: them bring a supersack that's a giant sack that holds
Speaker 4: a cubic yard, a cubic yard and a sack. It
Speaker 4: is neat and clean. I still have part of a
Speaker 4: sack on my driveway that I've been emptying, and I
Speaker 4: just keep getting sidetracked on other projects. But it's a neat,
Speaker 4: clean way to do it. It's all at Heirloom Soils Now.
Speaker 4: If you want to go out to the Porter area,
Speaker 4: it's on a US fifty nine access road out there
Speaker 4: in Porter. Here's a phone number if you'd like to
Speaker 4: call to talk about maybe a delivery or you know
Speaker 4: more detail you want about coming by to pick it up.
Speaker 4: Two eight one three five four nineteen fifty two eight
Speaker 4: one three five four one nine five zero. Let's go
Speaker 4: out to Galveston now, and we're going to talk to Bill. Hello, Bill,
Speaker 4: Welcome to guard Line. Thank you.
Speaker 9: I've always written this down. You've told me that I've
Speaker 9: lost a piece of paper that tells me where it
Speaker 9: is and what you're going to put that in a
Speaker 9: barricade this morning. But I forgot what the Speader settings
Speaker 9: were because I have one of these off brand Speader settings.
Speaker 9: And also, by the way, why I had it the
Speaker 9: same thing for Frue Leader.
Speaker 4: All right, so here here it is. I need to
Speaker 4: put this on my website. Make it just an easy
Speaker 4: reference for folks. If you've got to walk behind spruder,
Speaker 4: is that what you're talking about or are you talking
Speaker 4: about a handheld right? No, walk behy it, walk behind it. Okay,
Speaker 4: So you want to put it a notch or two
Speaker 4: above half way for fertilizer, So if you had a
Speaker 4: twenty notch spreader, that would be eleven or set it
Speaker 4: on eleven or twelve, a notch or two above the middle. Okay,
Speaker 4: that's for fertilizer. Now the barricade, we're talking about a
Speaker 4: notch above one quarter. So using that twenty notch example,
Speaker 4: that would be setting it on five or six, about
Speaker 4: a fourth of the way up. But I want to
Speaker 4: tell you something, that barricade is a very very fine
Speaker 4: textured product compared to fertilizer. And I would recommend under
Speaker 4: applying going let's say east west and then see where
Speaker 4: you are and then go north south to fill back
Speaker 4: in with the other half, because you know you can
Speaker 4: always go back over it again, and every time you
Speaker 4: split it up and go over it, you're getting a
Speaker 4: more even spread, right that you don't have the stripes
Speaker 4: or whatever in other words, so with the barricade, go
Speaker 4: light and and then come back and fill in, because
Speaker 4: a lot of folks I talk to, you know, they
Speaker 4: set it and they think they're good, and all of
Speaker 4: a sudden it's like I'm two thirds of the way
Speaker 4: through the yard and I just ran out of barricade. Well,
Speaker 4: that means you over applied it, and so that go
Speaker 4: light on that one notch above one quarter. Okay, I
Speaker 4: appreciate it, all right, Sure you bet good luck with that,
Speaker 4: and don't forget to water it in the barricade especially,
Speaker 4: gotta water that in with just about a half inch
Speaker 4: of water to get it down in the soil because
Speaker 4: weeds can germinate, but not after you've watered the barricade in.
Speaker 4: Thanks Bill, I I do appreciate your call and take
Speaker 4: care of it. Jorges Hiding Gardens is down in the
Speaker 4: Alven area, and Horay always has some really cool stuff
Speaker 4: coming in. He's got a lot of good free trees.
Speaker 5: Right now.
Speaker 4: We're talking about, you know, your decidrous fruit, you know,
Speaker 4: like the peaches and plums and so on. We're talking
Speaker 4: about the citrus, got goods, Citrius got blackberries. He's got
Speaker 4: some blueberries down there. I was seeing that Jorge has
Speaker 4: also got an excellent supply of herbs and vegetables when
Speaker 4: you're out there. And when it comes to trees, I
Speaker 4: mean that he always has a good supply. You want
Speaker 4: instant tree, you know, a bigger tree, he can provide
Speaker 4: that for you. You just go down to Jorges Hidden Gardens.
Speaker 4: They are on Elizabeth Street, so kind of to the
Speaker 4: south and east. I had to get the map in
Speaker 4: my brain here south and east of Alvin on south
Speaker 4: the Highway six, just south of the Highway six. So
Speaker 4: those of you listening in Arcadia, Arcadia, you know places
Speaker 4: like Dickinson and Hillcrest, Algoa, Santa Fe, all that area.
Speaker 4: This is your backyard garden center. And they do have
Speaker 4: that three sixty tree stabilizer too, so you need to
Speaker 4: check that out. If you're looking for flowers, Jorges got
Speaker 4: those as well. And roses. He has a really nice
Speaker 4: little artie trellist Peggy Martin. Roses I think are just
Speaker 4: a great way to get a good fast head start
Speaker 4: on those. And that's Hoores Hidden Gardens. I'm going to
Speaker 4: be there coming up in the future. I'm going to
Speaker 4: go down there In fact, let's see you next weekend.
Speaker 4: I'll be heading down to Horaes Hidden Gardens. All right,
Speaker 4: let's go up the tumbball and talk to David. Hey, David,
Speaker 4: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 10: Hey, good morning, Skip. Hey, I got a couple of
Speaker 10: questions for you.
Speaker 11: I plan at some tomatoes from seed oh several weeks ago,
Speaker 11: and these these little sprouts are about two inches inch
Speaker 11: and a half two inches tall, and it just seems
Speaker 11: like they've kind of stopped. They still look green and everything.
Speaker 11: What can I spray on them to kind of kickstart them?
Speaker 11: Because I want to I want to get him in
Speaker 11: the ground. And then the next thing once I get
Speaker 11: him in the ground. Last year with my tomatoes, I
Speaker 11: had to spray them about oh once every week to
Speaker 11: keep the bugs off my tomatoes. What can I buy
Speaker 11: in bulk form to just be the least expensive that
Speaker 11: will work as far as a spray that I can
Speaker 11: mix up in a spray bottle like a gallon and
Speaker 11: just keep it and spray it on a weekly basis.
Speaker 11: And then the last question you just raise when you
Speaker 11: toe that guy the water a half an inch if
Speaker 11: you have a sprinkler system, how do you measure a
Speaker 11: half an inch from on your sprinkler system.
Speaker 4: All right, I've got about thirty or almost a minute here,
Speaker 4: but let me answer one question and I'm gonna hold
Speaker 4: you over. We're going to finish this after the break.
Speaker 4: The way you find out how to apply half an
Speaker 4: inch is to get something that is straight sided and
Speaker 4: put them all over the yard. Turn on your water
Speaker 4: for now, do it for twenty minutes or fifteen minutes,
Speaker 4: see how much you catch, and then multiply it out
Speaker 4: to figure out how long it's going to take time
Speaker 4: wise to get half an inch. So that could be
Speaker 4: straight sided tuna, fish cans, cat food cans, a bean
Speaker 4: can or rain gauge if you got those, and just
Speaker 4: put them out there, and then you'll know once you
Speaker 4: do that, once you'll know, okay, my system puts water
Speaker 4: out at x inches per x minutes, you know kind
Speaker 4: of thing, and then you know exactly how long you
Speaker 4: water to do at half inch or an inch or
Speaker 4: whatever you're trying to do. Hey, David, hang on, I'm
Speaker 4: going to go and we'll be right back to continue
Speaker 4: your questions. Thanks for the call. All right, welcome back
Speaker 4: the guard Line. We are glad to have you with us.
Speaker 4: You know, one of the most important things you can
Speaker 4: do for your lawn when it is struggling, and I'm
Speaker 4: talking about soil compaction with these heavy clay soils, is
Speaker 4: to get it errated and put a compost top dressing down.
Speaker 4: That is important and here's why. What it does is
Speaker 4: it takes a heavy clay soil that doesn't allow oxygen in,
Speaker 4: that doesn't absorb water very fast. And by creating these
Speaker 4: holes and putting that compost on top, also, you end
Speaker 4: up getting oxygen down in the soil. You get that
Speaker 4: organic matter down in the soil, and it helps root
Speaker 4: system to thrive. And remember just rounds up over green stuff.
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Speaker 4: comes to core air rating. That's easy for me to
Speaker 4: say core aer rating and compost top dressing. You can
Speaker 4: do it yourself, but oh my gosh, it's cumbersome. You
Speaker 4: got pilesive compost on the driveway. You gotta clean up.
Speaker 4: Rent a machine, go get it, clean it up, take
Speaker 4: it back and those machines aren't as good as the
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Speaker 4: doing a core aeration, popping those cores out of the ground.
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Speaker 4: inside the Beltway. You know as you go inside the
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Speaker 4: five year round Houston dot com. I'm going to go
Speaker 4: back now and talk to David. And David, you were
Speaker 4: asking about the tomatoes, and let me let me hit
Speaker 4: that one. If your tomatoes have stopped growing, one something
Speaker 4: in this list has happened. They don't. They're not getting
Speaker 4: enough light to provide the energy to fuel growth. The
Speaker 4: soil is getting too dry or staying too wet, soggy, wet,
Speaker 4: the temperatures where they're growing or cooler than a tomato wants.
Speaker 4: Those are all things that slow growth on a little
Speaker 4: tender seedling. Usually it's the way we're watering that I
Speaker 4: find does that or maybe the cell that they're in
Speaker 4: is just doesn't have enough soil and the root system
Speaker 4: has filled it, and therefore the tomatoes kind of limited
Speaker 4: by that. If you can figure out which of those
Speaker 4: it might be with yours, that would be important. If
Speaker 4: you're not getting response from that anyway, I would probably
Speaker 4: get you use some Microlife orange label. It's called Biomatrix
Speaker 4: Microlife bio Matrix. It's a six two four liquid and
Speaker 4: when you when you use that, uh, it's got the
Speaker 4: seven percent nitrogen, one percent phosphorus, three percent potassium. So
Speaker 4: it's a good nitrogen boost for the plants. And I
Speaker 4: can burn them, which is why I like it in
Speaker 4: your situation for those seedlings. You don't want to use
Speaker 4: a salt based fertilizer where you could burn the little
Speaker 4: seedlings with that. But the biomatrix that'll give it the
Speaker 4: nutrient boost and they should take off from that.
Speaker 10: Okay.
Speaker 12: Now, when I.
Speaker 11: Once I get them in the ground and I got
Speaker 11: tomatoes actually growing, how do I. I used to spray
Speaker 11: them last year with a spray that I bought off
Speaker 11: the internet. But it was a little spray.
Speaker 5: Bottle and I went through quite a bit of it.
Speaker 11: Is there something that you can buy in bulk that uh,
Speaker 11: you can put in a gallon pump up sprayer and
Speaker 11: kind of make it.
Speaker 4: Not So, what are expansive right? What are we trying
Speaker 4: to control? Insects or diseases?
Speaker 11: Oh, insects eating the tomatoes.
Speaker 4: Insects, you know, I hate to spray the stuff. I'm
Speaker 4: gonna eat a lot, but primarily on tomatoes. Your pests
Speaker 4: are going to be the leaf footed bugs and stink
Speaker 4: bugs which which pierce the skin. They don't eat anything,
Speaker 4: they just poke a hole in it and leave a
Speaker 4: little little speck and a hard spot on the tomato.
Speaker 4: Those are hard to control, and it's going to take
Speaker 4: something that is more like a synthetic perrethoid. You might
Speaker 4: get it done with pyrethrin. But to kill those also
Speaker 4: just watching for them as they hatch out there. They
Speaker 4: don't have wings, and you can just knock them into
Speaker 4: a pail of water. They're real easy to control. Then
Speaker 4: the other thing is the caterpillars they get, you know,
Speaker 4: they can eat the leaves, they can get in the fruit.
Speaker 4: And for those I would use I would buy bt
Speaker 4: Bacillus thurin gensis. It's a it's an insecticide you can
Speaker 4: put it. I don't know it. You know, it comes
Speaker 4: in different volumes, but you shouldn't be having to spray
Speaker 4: your tomatoes that much. Do you have like a whole
Speaker 4: lot of plants.
Speaker 10: Not like four plants.
Speaker 11: They were kind of close together, and it would I
Speaker 11: could google search of Amazon tomato spray and it was
Speaker 11: just yeah, something specifically for tomatoes, and I don't even
Speaker 11: know what was in it, but yeah, I know I
Speaker 11: went through well several models of it last year.
Speaker 4: Okay, it kind of depends on the pest and so
Speaker 4: you know, aphids have one control, caterpillars have a control,
Speaker 4: stink bugs have a control that you're going after. I mean,
Speaker 4: if it was a synthetic peritharist's gonna kill most of
Speaker 4: those on there. The BT is organic that I mentioned.
Speaker 4: Uh So it's kind of up to you as to
Speaker 4: which way you go. You're up there in Tombol, I
Speaker 4: would run out to D and D Feed, which is
Speaker 4: on twenty nine to twenty just west of Taylor.
Speaker 8: D and D.
Speaker 4: Yeah, D and D has a wide variety when it
Speaker 4: comes to the different kinds of products for controlling pests
Speaker 4: and diseases, and go in there and talk to Jeff
Speaker 4: or one of the folks and just explain to him
Speaker 4: you're looking for something that you can use in your
Speaker 4: tomatoes that's going to knock out, you know, aphids and caterpillars,
Speaker 4: instinct bugs. And they're going to have products like that
Speaker 4: from the various folks, whether it's Boneye or Monterey or
Speaker 4: Fertile Loam or High Yield, all those companies have products
Speaker 4: for that, and that that's the route I would go.
Speaker 4: But depending on what you use, you're probably not gonna
Speaker 4: need to spray it more than once a week. That
Speaker 4: should be more more than enough.
Speaker 10: Well, they have that bio bio too.
Speaker 4: Yes, I think he does. They do carry micro life products.
Speaker 4: I'm pretty sure he has biomatrix. Uh. But anyway, if
Speaker 4: he doesn't, he's gonna If he doesn't, he'll he'll have
Speaker 4: something that's a liquid, you know, for like one of
Speaker 4: the Medina products for example, or something that might be
Speaker 4: a replacement for it. But just talk to them. They
Speaker 4: know what they're doing. That's the advantage of going to
Speaker 4: a mom and pop place is you know you're going
Speaker 4: to get people that know what they're doing. Hey, David,
Speaker 4: thanks for the call. I gotta run, but good luck
Speaker 4: with getting that all under control. Yeah, we're talking about
Speaker 4: microlife Biomatrix. They also have something called Ocean Harvest, which
Speaker 4: is a blue label that's a four to two three
Speaker 4: and the four to two three is a fish based
Speaker 4: product and it is another one that will provide you
Speaker 4: an extra little extra boost of nitrogen there as well
Speaker 4: as not burning your plants, and that that is important
Speaker 4: when you're dealing with especially with the tender new plants.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 4: You hear me talk about ACE on on this show
Speaker 4: all the time because ACE Hardware is the place. That's
Speaker 4: that's what they say, that's the motto. ACE is the place.
Speaker 4: And when you you go into ACE, you're gonna find
Speaker 4: everything I talk about regarding guarding gardening, but you're also
Speaker 4: going to find things like, Hey, it's spring, do you
Speaker 4: need to reseal your deck? Do you need to paint something?
Speaker 4: They've got all of They got you covered on all
Speaker 4: of that stuff. How about storage and organization in the garage.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, if you could see my garage right now,
Speaker 4: I'm about to call a realtor out and I have
Speaker 4: to clean it up. But ACE has got that. Do
Speaker 4: you need shelving? Do you need boxes? Shoving units. I'm
Speaker 4: talking about. Do you need cleaning supplies? Those storage tots,
Speaker 4: I say boxes, storage totes are a great way. That's
Speaker 4: how I'm organizing all my stuff. And then with lawn
Speaker 4: and garden season. Here you're gonna find expert advice and
Speaker 4: you're gonna find a lot a lot of products from
Speaker 4: fertilizers to we control, to pest control, disease control and tools.
Speaker 4: They've got you covered there at your ACE Hardware stores.
Speaker 4: Go to ACE Hardware dot Com and find go to
Speaker 4: the store locator, find the one nearest you, Find the
Speaker 4: one nearest you, and they'll get you all fixed up.
Speaker 4: Let's head out now to Walker County and we're going
Speaker 4: to talk to Bob. Hey, Bob, welcome to Guardline.
Speaker 13: Hey, thanks for taking my call again. Today's longtime listener. Hey,
Speaker 13: primary questions about hibiscus. I have two or three hibiscus
Speaker 13: in big pots, like four gallon pots, and I bring
Speaker 13: them into the garage every year. But the issue is
Speaker 13: trimming them and fertilizing them. They grow, they're healthy, they plant,
Speaker 13: produce flowers, but by the end of the year they're
Speaker 13: always six feet or more taller. Yes, I need to
Speaker 13: trim them so the question first question is when's the
Speaker 13: best time and how much can I trim them?
Speaker 4: Okay, I wouldn't trim until we get warm weather and
Speaker 4: we're not going to get any more frosts, and you
Speaker 4: feel pretty confident in that, and then you trim them
Speaker 4: back as you want. Every time you cut a branch back,
Speaker 4: it's going to sprout one or two or three branches
Speaker 4: back where you cut it. And so it's just a
Speaker 4: periodic bringing that stature of the plant down with some pruning.
Speaker 4: And as you're doing that, you get to shape it.
Speaker 4: Do you want a bush? Do you want it more upright,
Speaker 4: you know, with growth or and you just do it
Speaker 4: repeatedly through the season, and hibiscus can handle that. I
Speaker 4: will typically prune mine. Some people like to print it
Speaker 4: all at once, and that's fine. Sometimes I'm going in
Speaker 4: and I just take a tall shoot and I take
Speaker 4: it back, and that way, I've got other shoots that
Speaker 4: are still blooming. I haven't. You know, when you prune back,
Speaker 4: they have to regrow and then set buds to bloom.
Speaker 4: So I kind of like to do it a little
Speaker 4: at a time, so I always have blooms on the plant.
Speaker 4: But that'd be the approach i'd take, all right, Bob,
Speaker 4: during the year. Hey, Bob, I'm sorry, Bob, I'm sorry
Speaker 4: to interrupt you. They're telling me I'm way past break.
Speaker 4: Hang on, we'll finish when we come right back. All righty,
Speaker 4: welcome back, glad you're with us. Hey, RCW Nurseries. RCW Nurseries.
Speaker 4: That's the garden center there Tumball Parkway, which is two
Speaker 4: forty nine and belt Way eight. It's really easy to
Speaker 4: get to there if you don't go to the website.
Speaker 4: It's RCW Nurseries dot com. But I'm telling you they
Speaker 4: have stocked up on all kinds of things for the
Speaker 4: spring you're gonna find. I was checking out their herbs selection.
Speaker 4: It is extensive, vegetables, nice selection of vegetables, really good.
Speaker 4: And then when it comes to cool color, they've got
Speaker 4: all of that. Of course, they really are always going
Speaker 4: to have a great stock of shrubs and trees. And
Speaker 4: you know, whether you're looking for a plant in azalea
Speaker 4: or to plant a rose, yes, you can still plant
Speaker 4: a rose even though it's March first, a plane of
Speaker 4: rose any month of the year. They have a great
Speaker 4: selection of those. And you know, with RCW you know. Oh,
Speaker 4: here's another idea. How about camellias. You know, in the
Speaker 4: winter time it's hard to find things that bloom. But
Speaker 4: there's two kinds of comedias, says Sankwa in Japonica. One
Speaker 4: on blooms more in December. One I'm more in the
Speaker 4: February January time. They're really great. They're awesome, and they've
Speaker 4: got a really nice selection with fifteen percent on up
Speaker 4: there Azalea's and they're camellias right now at RCW. You
Speaker 4: need to get out there and check it out. They are.
Speaker 4: It's a fun place. I love walking through there, and
Speaker 4: they treat you right when you go into RCW Nurseries.
Speaker 4: They're experts at.
Speaker 14: What they do.
Speaker 4: They know what they do. They know how to have
Speaker 4: the right kinds of plants, how to grow the plants.
Speaker 4: They grow a lot of things themselves, especially those trees
Speaker 4: RCW Nurseries. See, we're going to go back out here
Speaker 4: to Bob and Walker County. All right, Bob, we had
Speaker 4: to kind of stop short there. Let's pick up the
Speaker 4: call from there.
Speaker 13: So, so you said warm weather in the spring, is
Speaker 13: that like mid March or late March or what are
Speaker 13: you thinking?
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, when we as we say, we get
Speaker 4: into mid march, you know that we're kind of done,
Speaker 4: you know, unless it's just a weird year, we're pretty
Speaker 4: done with the freezes in your Actually you're up in Walker, Yeah,
Speaker 4: mid to late mid to late March for you. So
Speaker 4: you just don't want to run a hibiscus and have
Speaker 4: it start to grow and then have a coal snap
Speaker 4: come in and the chances goes down every day of
Speaker 4: a freeze. Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 13: From a prune stock, how long does it take to
Speaker 13: actually produce flowers?
Speaker 4: About a month and a half or so. It is
Speaker 4: totally dependent on the temperature, Bob. In warm conditions, that
Speaker 4: thing's going to grow fast. And based on what you
Speaker 4: described as the height of it. You must be taking
Speaker 4: good care of it in terms of water, fertilizer, or things,
Speaker 4: because it obviously is happy, so good vigorous growth. And
Speaker 4: the most important thing is good sunlight, sunlight, sunlight, sunlight
Speaker 4: when they're in containers, keeping them watered so they don't
Speaker 4: dry out. All of those things affect how fast it's
Speaker 4: going to come back into bloom. So there's going to
Speaker 4: be a pretty big range there.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 4: If it's in a little bit of shade, it's slower.
Speaker 4: If it's getting dry at times, it's lower. If you
Speaker 4: see what I'm saying, Hey, quick, quick, similar question. I
Speaker 4: have a number of plumerias.
Speaker 13: Some are in pots, but I have several larger ones
Speaker 13: that aren't in pots, and I have historically.
Speaker 4: Because of the coldness.
Speaker 13: I take them out of the ground actually and dry
Speaker 13: them and to store them in a non freeze area,
Speaker 13: and I put them back in the spring. Same kind
Speaker 13: of question, what's the best you know, how early should
Speaker 13: I put them in? Obviously not before any it freezes,
Speaker 13: but and then is there any particular fertilizer I should
Speaker 13: use to help restart them?
Speaker 4: Just let it warm up even more For the plume areas,
Speaker 4: they don't like cold. They're going to just sit there.
Speaker 4: And I mean you can plan them, you know, the
Speaker 4: mid March late March, but it's cool and they're not
Speaker 4: going to want to get out and do much until
Speaker 4: it really warms up. They like hot weather. And as
Speaker 4: far as fertilizer, I like Nelson's Plumeria food. It's one
Speaker 4: of their nutri star products. Comes in little jars, so
Speaker 4: it's you know, it just takes little tablespoon sprinkle Summer
Speaker 4: around each plant watered in and it'll get you about
Speaker 4: three months of feed on those of Plumerius. So I
Speaker 4: would I would go with the Nelson Nutri Star Plumeria food. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that would be the one. And sounds like you got
Speaker 4: some good things there, Thank you very much. Yeah, hey, Bob,
Speaker 4: I'm going to be up at the Montgomery County Home
Speaker 4: and Outdoor Living Show in Conroe up on Airport Road today,
Speaker 4: be giving away some products, like I'll have some plumeria
Speaker 4: on hand. You show up and and uh, you might
Speaker 4: get a simple of some of that stuff to try yourself.
Speaker 4: I'd love to see you. If you got any other questions,
Speaker 4: put them in a zip lock bag, bring me a
Speaker 4: weed and we'll figure that out too. Thanks for your call, man,
Speaker 4: I really appreciate it. Thanks, take care all righty Hey,
Speaker 4: uh talking about medina a while ago. Medina has to
Speaker 4: grow six twelve six plant food. Is it is a
Speaker 4: great I'm going to use the word concoction because it
Speaker 4: has got it's got the six twelve six that's that's
Speaker 4: the levels of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium in a plant food.
Speaker 4: It's got Medina soil activator to stimulate the biological activity.
Speaker 4: It's got humate humic acid. We know that humis umic
Speaker 4: acids and things help improve soil structure. And as the
Speaker 4: soil gets better, your nutrient update gets better. And then
Speaker 4: it's got seaweed extracts in it, and you can use
Speaker 4: it for a folio application. In fact, this is a
Speaker 4: this mix could be used drenching in a new plant
Speaker 4: to help it get that root system going. That high
Speaker 4: phosphorus in it, the six twelve six, it would work
Speaker 4: great for that. You could use it as a folier
Speaker 4: feed it. Just use it however you want. You're not
Speaker 4: going to burn your plants with it. It's one of
Speaker 4: many Medina products that you're going to find out at
Speaker 4: your local garden centers, your feed stores, You're going to
Speaker 4: find it at ACE hardware stores. Those kinds of products
Speaker 4: are they work, they do, and products by Medina. And
Speaker 4: if you come up those of you listening anywhere up
Speaker 4: toward Montgomery County, I'm going to be giving away some
Speaker 4: Medina product is some really cool hosen spray product and
Speaker 4: some other things for your lawn and your other plants.
Speaker 4: Just show up today. That's on Airport Road at the
Speaker 4: Lone Star Convention Center and I'll be there from twelve
Speaker 4: to two. I'm gonna give a talk on spring gardening
Speaker 4: tips first and then just answer gardening questions. You get
Speaker 4: some baggies, bring me some weeds. Whatever you have a
Speaker 4: question about, we'll identify them and we will help you
Speaker 4: with either a diagnosis, identification, and certainly with what do
Speaker 4: you do about it? How do you control it?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 4: That is important to know, all right. Wildbird's Unlimited is
Speaker 4: an incredible place. That's what got me hooked on birds.
Speaker 4: It really is. I walked into a Wildbird store and
Speaker 4: it was like, holy cownot, I cannot believe the kinds
Speaker 4: of products. And it's just when you walk into Wildbirds.
Speaker 4: First of all, it's a business that's run with the
Speaker 4: right kind of principles. They bring people and nature together
Speaker 4: and they do it with act Their goal is to
Speaker 4: bring joy into your life with that passion by sharing
Speaker 4: their passionate. Boy, they are passionate about birds. How do
Speaker 4: you walk into wabirds? Ask any question you want, any
Speaker 4: question you want, and they're going to be able to
Speaker 4: answer it, like what is the best food for this,
Speaker 4: or what's the difference between this and this? And how
Speaker 4: do you attract that or how do you use this
Speaker 4: kind of product? They know what they're talking about. There's
Speaker 4: six stores. There's one in clear like when in Cyprus.
Speaker 4: When in Houston down on bel Air Boulevard, one on
Speaker 4: Memorial Drive on the west side of Houston, and go
Speaker 4: out to Kingwood on Kingwood Drive. There's one down in
Speaker 4: Paarland on Broadway. All while birds stores. Right now, you
Speaker 4: need to be putting out the Nesting super Blend. Nesting
Speaker 4: super Blend. It gives the birds the protein and calcium
Speaker 4: they need because they are going to be raising young
Speaker 4: and it's very important. Put away the winter blend. You
Speaker 4: can still use it that I've been talking about, but
Speaker 4: it's time to switch over now. Nesting super Blend works
Speaker 4: in all types of feed and it is the kind
Speaker 4: of thing that let's just put it this way. It
Speaker 4: will help your birds succeed. And we need to do
Speaker 4: that because you've heard before about songbirds being endangered in
Speaker 4: some areas for many reasons, especially as we sprawl around
Speaker 4: taking over the neighborhoods. Nesting super Blend to bring the
Speaker 4: birds to your house. I heard one yesterday morning singing,
Speaker 4: oh my gosh, that was a pop variety of all
Speaker 4: birds that's for sure. So if you're looking for an
Speaker 4: organic fertilizer for your lawn, Sweet Green by Nitrofoss that
Speaker 4: is one that'll do it. I'm going to take a
Speaker 4: little break here, but i want to come back. I
Speaker 4: want to tell you more about Sweet Green. When I do,
Speaker 4: it really does work and it is an eleven percent organic.
Speaker 4: So I hang around. Time for me to take a
Speaker 4: quick break for the top of the hour. Boy, this
Speaker 4: it's spring. Spring is sprung on guard line. That is
Speaker 4: for sure. It has happened. I will be at the
Speaker 4: Montgomery County Home and Outdoor Living Show. Come on out
Speaker 4: today twelve to one. That is a great show. I
Speaker 4: always like going to it because there's so much going
Speaker 4: on there. But I'm going to be giving a talk
Speaker 4: on spring tips for success and then just basically answering
Speaker 4: your questions. So on the air, I just have a
Speaker 4: short time. I can, you know, answer people who get
Speaker 4: to the next person and think what planning at two hours,
Speaker 4: I'll be there plenty of times, sit around, talk answer
Speaker 4: your questions, and I promise you we'll have fun and
Speaker 4: I'm gonna be giving away Nelson products and Medina products.
Speaker 1: Welcome to kt R H garden Line with Skip Rictor.
Speaker 2: It's just watch him as well, so many give a
Speaker 2: piece to Supt.
Speaker 15: Basic.
Speaker 4: All right, welcome back to garden Line. We got a
Speaker 4: lot to talk about, so I'm just gonna jump right
Speaker 4: in here in the middle of the music, I'm I'm
Speaker 4: cracking up. I had a I was talking about going
Speaker 4: up to the Montgomery County Home and Garden Show, and
Speaker 4: I think I said, I heard myself say. I think
Speaker 4: I said, put some weed in a in a plastic
Speaker 4: bag and bringing it weeds in a plastic bag and
Speaker 4: bringing in somebody. Want to know what kind of weed
Speaker 4: that I'm asking people? Let me be clear. I'm talking
Speaker 4: about the things that you have in your lawn that
Speaker 4: you want to get rid of. We're not going to
Speaker 4: go to that other place right now, so I can
Speaker 4: I can't identify the other That's not what I'm asking
Speaker 4: you to do. So let's keep it clean here, folks
Speaker 4: on guarden Line. All right, thanks for listening. I'm your host,
Speaker 4: Skip Richtor. We're having a good time. If you want
Speaker 4: to give me a call. Seven one three two one
Speaker 4: two k t r H. Seven one three two one
Speaker 4: two k t r H. I was telling you about
Speaker 4: sweet green from nitrofoss before a break. Sweet green from nitrophise.
Speaker 4: It's a really cool product. It is. You take a
Speaker 4: molasses base, you dot, the microbes do some work on
Speaker 4: it and basically turns it into an ale seven percent
Speaker 4: nitrogen levens zero type fertilizer. That it works. I put
Speaker 4: it on your lawn, you water it in really good.
Speaker 4: By the way, it smells great. You know, you know
Speaker 4: what molasses smells. That has that fresh sweet smell to it.
Speaker 4: That's why they call it sweet green. And the reason
Speaker 4: they call it green is eleven percent nitrogen will green
Speaker 4: up your lawn. You want to early green up, you
Speaker 4: want to use it. You can use it any time
Speaker 4: of the year. And by the way, I know it's
Speaker 4: for lawns, but if you want to give a boost
Speaker 4: of nitrogen to anything, it'll work for that. Sweet green
Speaker 4: is one of those products that it's just versatile. It
Speaker 4: really is versatile. It reacts with water, It has organic
Speaker 4: compounds and things in it. It just really stimulates the
Speaker 4: microbial activity of the swell. Also, organic gardeners have known
Speaker 4: for a long time that you know, molasses stimulates microbial activity.
Speaker 4: That is important. Now, sweet green, where do you get
Speaker 4: sweet green? Will you get it at places like Ace
Speaker 4: Hardware City down on Memorial Drive, Plants for all seasons
Speaker 4: two forty nine. How about Bearing's Hardware, Bisinet, Bearings Hardware, Westheimer.
Speaker 4: Those are all places that carry nitrofoss products, so go
Speaker 4: check them out. I had been out in my yard
Speaker 4: doing some early cleanup, getting things ready to go. I
Speaker 4: say early clean up, early cleanup for my summer plantings
Speaker 4: and things, and boy, the weeds are already starting. I
Speaker 4: looking out the other day and seeing them there, and
Speaker 4: you know, you gotta shut things down if you're gonna
Speaker 4: if you're gonna take a product like barricade, for example,
Speaker 4: and do it as a pre emergent, get it done
Speaker 4: soon because the warm season weeds this week is going
Speaker 4: to be I think we're going to see a lot
Speaker 4: of sprouting going on this week. And the sooner you
Speaker 4: get that down and watered in, the more you shut
Speaker 4: things down, and that that is important to remember. Well,
Speaker 4: I wanted to I want to talk a little bit
Speaker 4: about planting trees and shrubs. The sooner you get that done,
Speaker 4: the better. And I just want to emphasize that, you know,
Speaker 4: you spend some money when you buy a tree or
Speaker 4: a shrub. They're not cheap, but it's a light you know,
Speaker 4: it's a long term I say, lifetime plant that's in
Speaker 4: your landscape. Very valuable, so do it right. You want
Speaker 4: to cut the circling roots that come out of the pot.
Speaker 4: There's always going to be some roots circling around the pot.
Speaker 4: Just cut those, it's okay. Get them planted as soon
Speaker 4: as possible, to give them time to establish and to
Speaker 4: do well. That is important, okay. And then put a
Speaker 4: quality product into the soil to help them get established.
Speaker 4: You know, I was talking earlier about the Medina product
Speaker 4: the has to grow six twelve six. That is an
Speaker 4: example of that. Get them off to a good start,
Speaker 4: keep them well watered. Remember that root system. It came
Speaker 4: out of the pot as a cylinder of soil and roots.
Speaker 4: It went into the ground as a cylinder of soil
Speaker 4: and roots, and it takes time for those roots to
Speaker 4: start each way out where it becomes a resilient plant.
Speaker 4: In the meantime, you got a water where the roots are.
Speaker 4: That's really important to do and one of the best
Speaker 4: ways to do that is to use the watering device
Speaker 4: that goes around your tree or shrub hooks up to
Speaker 4: a hose and you just water it, wet it in
Speaker 4: really good. And I think that's an amazing device. The
Speaker 4: last time, let's see when was I, oh, for a
Speaker 4: rose bush. A rose bush is just a good example
Speaker 4: of something that you would want to do like that.
Speaker 4: It helps establish that plant. You can turn it on
Speaker 4: just a little bit if you want to turn it
Speaker 4: on just a little bit. And once you have the
Speaker 4: little trickling going on, it's wetting the base of that plant.
Speaker 4: It's wetting the roots right where the root zone is.
Speaker 4: That is important. You want to be able to get
Speaker 4: that root zone wet and when you do, it's going
Speaker 4: to keep it live and stretching the roots out. And
Speaker 4: you just turn the water up a little bit, turn
Speaker 4: it a little bit more, a little bit more, and
Speaker 4: you wet a larger and larger area and it just
Speaker 4: makes it easy. It's called a tree hugger because it
Speaker 4: hugs the base of the plant, and it's a tree
Speaker 4: hugger sprinkler. They're green. They come in seven inch and
Speaker 4: all the way up to eleven in its three different sizes,
Speaker 4: and so if you have a tree, maybe you have
Speaker 4: a tree that's I don't know, been in the ground
Speaker 4: ten years, but it's you know, a certain size, and
Speaker 4: we go into this summer and you need to give
Speaker 4: it good. Soakings tree hugger is the best way to
Speaker 4: do it because you can water that rescue water around
Speaker 4: the base of the tree and have success. That is
Speaker 4: why I think a lot about that tree hugger sprinkler.
Speaker 4: I was talking to somebody the other day about Antique
Speaker 4: rosen Porium and there's any never been out there before. Well,
Speaker 4: I told them, you got to go. It's a must
Speaker 4: visit destination.
Speaker 16: Now.
Speaker 4: The name is Antique rosen Porium because they sell old
Speaker 4: time roses antique roses. But there's display gardens that you
Speaker 4: have to visit that are gorgeous out there, and they
Speaker 4: have events. March seventh, like we're almost there at six
Speaker 4: pm is the Spring Garden Party. You buy tickets for
Speaker 4: it because this is a big deal. I mean, we're
Speaker 4: talking about shrimp boil dinner, Cajun chicken pasta, We're talking
Speaker 4: about the Wildfire METERI is gonna be there. They're gonna
Speaker 4: have someone there with craft beers and all kinds of
Speaker 4: cool stuff. But you got to go to Antique Roseemporium
Speaker 4: dot com Antique Rosenporium dot com to find out more
Speaker 4: about it, get your tickets. You got to do it
Speaker 4: because on tomorrow, that's March second, Tomorrow Sunday, tickets closed,
Speaker 4: so go ahead and grab them, but go check it out.
Speaker 4: The annual Spring Celebration follows out in the next two
Speaker 4: day two days after it, March eighth and ninth. Lots
Speaker 4: of speakers, workshops, vendors, food traits. It's fun. I've been
Speaker 4: to it for it is fun. And also you've got
Speaker 4: to get those tickets now. The Spring Break Kids Workshops
Speaker 4: are March tenth through thirteen. It's part of their Children
Speaker 4: in the Garden program. Hands on workshops start at ten
Speaker 4: am every day. Again, tickets on the website. Visit the
Speaker 4: Rose Imporium in person out there north of Brenham. Give
Speaker 4: them a call ninety seven nine eight three six fifty
Speaker 4: five forty eight or go to Antique Roseemporium dot com
Speaker 4: and remember their roses. But they are so much more
Speaker 4: native plants, flowers, trees. It's it's cool, all righty Well,
Speaker 4: I gotta take a little break here. When I come back,
Speaker 4: I'm going to be talking to Ron in Cleveland. Looking
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Speaker 4: go now out to Cleveland and talk to Ron. Hello, Ron,
Speaker 4: Welcome to guard Line.
Speaker 9: Good more on skip.
Speaker 17: Hey, I've got like nine different kinds of plants. I'm
Speaker 17: looking for the fertilizers that can be be used on
Speaker 17: all of them instead of having to buy three or
Speaker 17: four different kinds of fertilizer.
Speaker 4: You know I've got all right, give me the quick list,
Speaker 4: Go ahead.
Speaker 17: Sweet, I'm in Burbina by Texts Texas Mountain Laurel, double Knockout, Rose, Silverado,
Speaker 17: Sage Laurel, Pedlums, sun Leaf Sunshine, the Gustum Crpe, Myrtles
Speaker 17: and Bulgan via.
Speaker 4: You know what I would do. It's a lot of plants.
Speaker 4: Are they growing in your lawn or where? Okay, your lawn? Yeah,
Speaker 4: I use a turf type fertilizer for a lot of things.
Speaker 4: I mean, it sounds, you know, kind of funny to
Speaker 4: say that, but I do.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 4: There's a product that the folks at Nelson's Fertilizer have
Speaker 4: they called Bruce's Brew and it is a three one
Speaker 4: two ratio type fertilizer. It gives you some immediate feeding,
Speaker 4: but it feeds gradually over time too. Now it's used
Speaker 4: for lawns. That's that Primarily they're selling it as a
Speaker 4: lawn fertilizer. But I'm telling you that what it does.
Speaker 4: I use that kind of fertilizer in a lot of
Speaker 4: different places, and all of those with the roses, you
Speaker 4: want to have nitrogen to really encourage growth because growth
Speaker 4: is where the blooms form, the terminal ends of new growth.
Speaker 4: You named a lot of different plants, and I think
Speaker 4: if I were to just say one fertilizer, I would
Speaker 4: I would probably do that. Okay, that's like a.
Speaker 17: More cut garden, says, I haven't seen Bruce's Beloo before.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you can get uh so, well, I think
Speaker 4: they have. I think they probably have it up in
Speaker 4: there in your area. We'd have to call the folks
Speaker 4: at Nelson's to see you're You're a little far out
Speaker 4: there on the periphery for me to just off the
Speaker 4: top of my head, no it is, I might ask, Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's a Nelson's product. Uh Huh. You might ask out
Speaker 4: there one of your ace hardware stores, you know a
Speaker 4: place like that.
Speaker 18: Uh.
Speaker 4: And but I'm telling you if you if you go
Speaker 4: with a lawn type fertilizer, just don't get one that
Speaker 4: has any weed control in it for what you're wanting
Speaker 4: to do. Uh that that's not needed.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 4: But but just get a turf type fertilizer. When you
Speaker 4: hear me talking about this is a good fertilizer for
Speaker 4: your lawn. Or go to my schedule online at gardening
Speaker 4: with Skip dot com Gardening with Skip dot com and
Speaker 4: you'll see my lawn schedule. And if it's on the
Speaker 4: lawn schedule, I would use it for all those plants. Yes,
Speaker 4: there are fertilizer for roses and fluoper Yeah.
Speaker 19: Yeah, I've gotta I got your I just print it
Speaker 19: out of my garage.
Speaker 17: One more question, if you don't find a barricade, is
Speaker 17: it okay to get that up in these.
Speaker 4: Shrub beds and stuff like that. It's not labeled for
Speaker 4: application in shrub beds, but it is not going to
Speaker 4: hurt if you don't overdo it. Okay, So some lands
Speaker 4: in there, it's not it's not the end of the world. No,
Speaker 4: it's it's gonna stop. Yeah. It kills by It kills
Speaker 4: weeds by not letting the seeds get roots down and
Speaker 4: sprout and successfully establish. So if in those shrubbeds you
Speaker 4: were gonna plant some flowers like zinnias or something, the
Speaker 4: barricade would stop them. But it's not there. It's not
Speaker 4: going to kill your shrubs. But again, that's outside the label,
Speaker 4: and I never recommend things that are outside the label.
Speaker 4: So officially, that is not a place that.
Speaker 19: Yeah, I'm all right, so worried about it, if you know,
Speaker 19: because I've used a bra on that. I just want
Speaker 19: to make sure about that. Yeah, thanks CHIV. Well there
Speaker 19: you bet, Thanks for the call. I appreciate that a lot.
Speaker 19: I started talking about Pest.
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Speaker 4: about this really cool system they have. It's mosquito control
Speaker 4: bait buckets, and this is so cool. In the bait
Speaker 4: bucket is this product. They have to land on this
Speaker 4: little mesh and little tiny dusty microparticles stick to the
Speaker 4: mosquito and then they drop off in the water. So
Speaker 4: when the mosquito lays eggs, the eggs never become mosquitoes.
Speaker 4: It kills the larva. They don't even make it to
Speaker 4: the pupa stage. That's cool. Then it has this mosquito
Speaker 4: fungal disease and the mosquito carries it around and it
Speaker 4: slowly kills. And by the way, that mosquito goes to
Speaker 4: other watering spots, like that leaky gutter you got that
Speaker 4: holds water and stuff. When they lay an egg up
Speaker 4: in there, they're going to infect that water with this product.
Speaker 4: And it doesn't hurt anything. It's not gonna hurt ladybugs,
Speaker 4: not gonna hurt a family pattern. That is what makes
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Speaker 4: eight one two o six forty six seventy. We're going
Speaker 4: to go now to sugar Land and talk to Elizabeth. Hello, Elizabeth,
Speaker 4: Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 7: Oh and it's nice to talk to you. I've never
Speaker 7: spoken to you before. My question is, I don't seem
Speaker 7: to be very successful growing irises, and I'm not sure
Speaker 7: what I think that irises don't like too much water,
Speaker 7: am I right?
Speaker 4: Yes? They they don't want to be in a swamp.
Speaker 4: They don't want the soggy so that they you know,
Speaker 4: like any plant, they need some watering.
Speaker 7: Okay, So what is the best place to put them?
Speaker 5: Do they like?
Speaker 7: I don't think they like full sun, and the sun
Speaker 7: here is so fierce anyway, So would you think it
Speaker 7: would be like morning sun and afternoon shade or.
Speaker 4: What if you can give them that. If you can
Speaker 4: give them that, that's great. If you could put them
Speaker 4: under a deciduous tree, you know, this time of the year,
Speaker 4: the sun isn't brutal. And so when our trees don't
Speaker 4: have leaves on them, the iris can still get some
Speaker 4: light during you know, during the season when it has
Speaker 4: its leaves up. I like a deciduous shade for a
Speaker 4: lot of different kinds of bulbs that are going to
Speaker 4: get their follows a little early.
Speaker 7: Okay, And what about fertilizer? What should I use? Even
Speaker 7: there's something that's got go ahead, I was saying, because
Speaker 7: it's not really a bulb. It's more like a rhizome,
Speaker 7: isn't it? And so I was one. I mean, an
Speaker 7: organic fertilizer would work with them.
Speaker 4: You could do that. You could use a product like Microlife.
Speaker 4: I would use their six two four. That would be
Speaker 4: just fine. If you are you're already using that, that's
Speaker 4: especially a good idea use occasionally. Okay, Well, then there
Speaker 4: you go. You're set up. Occasionally you may want to
Speaker 4: add a little bit of bone meal a mixed into
Speaker 4: the soil, especially when you're gonna plant iris. It's the
Speaker 4: bone meal doesn't move down, the phosphorus doesn't move down
Speaker 4: in the soil. But getting a little bit in a
Speaker 4: new bed where you're going to plant them, mix some
Speaker 4: bone meal in and then just continue with your micro
Speaker 4: life six.
Speaker 7: Four okay, and so moderation and yes, thanks, moderation in
Speaker 7: water then just just normal water.
Speaker 4: Yes, moderate, just normal watering. Keep a moist malt around them.
Speaker 4: Keep the weeds away because weeds steal water and make
Speaker 4: it get dryer faster, and they compete for nutrients. So
Speaker 4: the malts. With some moderate watering, you should be good.
Speaker 4: All right, all right, thank you, thanks for the call, Elizabeth.
Speaker 4: You bet bye bye. Arburgate Garden Center is it's all.
Speaker 4: It's always fun to go there because they have so
Speaker 4: many different kinds of plants and stuff. They've got the
Speaker 4: standard meat and potatoes, you know that people don't want
Speaker 4: to go get and buy. But they've got stuff you
Speaker 4: haven't seen before. They've got stuff you haven't tried before,
Speaker 4: and they're always getting new things in. And go and
Speaker 4: talk to Beverly or Kennonan or any of the folks
Speaker 4: that are there on site. The nice thing about Arbigate
Speaker 4: they walk you around, they'll talk to you, they'll help
Speaker 4: you with things like you're going, well, I want some
Speaker 4: flowers to do a container, I want something for this area. Well,
Speaker 4: come over here and they'll talk to you and they'll
Speaker 4: help you. They are very knowledgeable, and I'm telling you
Speaker 4: that is so important to have that when you're shopping
Speaker 4: for plants. Remember they got the parking lot in the
Speaker 4: back that is off Trichel Road. It's a little loop
Speaker 4: that goes around behind Arburgate. Go back there and park.
Speaker 4: It's safe. It's easy access, all weather access too, by
Speaker 4: the way, and while you're there, pick up the organic
Speaker 4: food complete that is an organic food, a fertilizer if
Speaker 4: you will, the organic soil complete, and the organic compost complete.
Speaker 4: Those three bags are the whole deal. Both the soil
Speaker 4: and the compost have expanded shale in them, so that
Speaker 4: holds our heavy clays open even longer than the organic
Speaker 4: matter sticks around. They really did an ingenious job coming
Speaker 4: up with these three bags to put together because again membership,
Speaker 4: says Browns who I'm talking about myself and the third person,
Speaker 4: that's weird brown stuff before green stuff. Right, three bags
Speaker 4: organic food, organic soil, organic compost complete, that is the
Speaker 4: brown stuff. And then go get those plants and they
Speaker 4: you know, good healthy plants, and go home and have
Speaker 4: some fun. By the way, can you imagine a better
Speaker 4: week than this week to get out there. Oh, I
Speaker 4: love this weather that we're having. Let's head out to
Speaker 4: spring and we're going to talk to Trey. Oh, Trey.
Speaker 20: Heayscape, good morning.
Speaker 10: You might have mentioned this already, but it's just looking
Speaker 10: for what triggers we're looking for to put out the
Speaker 10: quick release fertilizer.
Speaker 4: Basically, you know, we want a little bit of warm
Speaker 4: in temperature, but the early green up. You're talking about
Speaker 4: a nitrofoss product. I believe correct, Yes, sir, Yeah, that's
Speaker 4: the Imperial, the Imperial lawn fertilizer. It's the red orange,
Speaker 4: kind of reddish orange bag fifteen five ten. Now, now's
Speaker 4: the time to do that. You can go ahead and
Speaker 4: do that. We do that in March to green things
Speaker 4: up a little bit. That's an optional application, but a
Speaker 4: lot of people like to get that early green. And
Speaker 4: then once we get into April, we're switching over to
Speaker 4: more gradual release fertilizers to carry us on through summer.
Speaker 4: And it is on the schedule at Gardening with Skip
Speaker 4: dot com.
Speaker 20: All right, perfect, thank you, share, all.
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Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 4: You were listening to garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richtor.
Speaker 4: We're here to help you have success in what you're growing,
Speaker 4: everything you want to try. You know, earlier on, as
Speaker 4: we were starting the new year, I kept saying, Hey,
Speaker 4: what are you going to do new this year? What
Speaker 4: are you gonna try new this year? What are you
Speaker 4: going to grow that you've never grown before? What are
Speaker 4: you gonna do plant care, landscape care, garden care wise
Speaker 4: that you've never done before. Maybe, Uh, here's an idea. U.
Speaker 4: There is a thing called garden mesh fabric. Garden mesh fabric,
Speaker 4: so think of something as soft as a bedsheet, but
Speaker 4: like a window screen for your house. That's a general
Speaker 4: idea of what we're talking about. You put it over
Speaker 4: your plants and bugs can't get in. So, whether you're
Speaker 4: an organic gardener or not, I mean, why spray if
Speaker 4: you don't have to You can put it over plants
Speaker 4: and keep the pass out. So if you're growing let's
Speaker 4: say tomatoes, and you want to keep out the stink bugs,
Speaker 4: you can do that. Tomatoes don't need bees to pollinate
Speaker 4: them just when moving it. Or should you shake the
Speaker 4: cage every morning or something, Well, however it goes about it,
Speaker 4: you can just put this over them and avoid that
Speaker 4: need to spray and boy, it's hard to control stink
Speaker 4: bugs anyway, and leave footed bugs. You can use it
Speaker 4: over your squash, just have to pick it up and
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Speaker 4: hatch out and hit a point where they're taking out
Speaker 4: the squash mines. Mesh fabric is a good tip that
Speaker 4: I think will work for you. Let's go back to
Speaker 4: Copperfield talk to Pamela. Hey, Pamela, welcome Reguard line.
Speaker 21: Oh, thank you.
Speaker 22: My question this morning is I need a weed killer
Speaker 22: for small red leaved clover that is creeping all over
Speaker 22: my backyard.
Speaker 4: Okay, there is a product that the folks at Nitrofoss have.
Speaker 4: It's a fifteen five to ten with trimeac and that
Speaker 4: will work. It's it's pretty widely available. So up there,
Speaker 4: you know, in the Copperfield area, you've got some Ace
Speaker 4: hardware stores that are very very close to you, and
Speaker 4: they will have that product. It is a blue bag
Speaker 4: and it's a fifteen five to ten. It's a trimec
Speaker 4: in it. You have to wet the lawn, just wet
Speaker 4: it a little bit, and when you when you wet
Speaker 4: the lawn, immediately spread that fertilizer so that it sticks
Speaker 4: to the wet leaves of the weeds. That's how it works,
Speaker 4: and you're going to find that it does work. It's
Speaker 4: real easy to do. There's a Cypress a hardware there
Speaker 4: on Jones Road. I don't know just exactly the area
Speaker 4: you're in, but M and D on Luetta is another
Speaker 4: one close by to you, right up in that area.
Speaker 4: Oh oh, you said Copperfield, didn't you. I'm sorry? What
Speaker 4: am I thinking? Langham Creek is on five twenty nine,
Speaker 4: just right there, Barker Cypress five twenty nine, Langham Creek's
Speaker 4: a great one. They just redid that store too, by
Speaker 4: the way.
Speaker 22: Yes, it's a very nice store and a great location.
Speaker 4: Excuse me to you now, When you said Copperfield, my
Speaker 4: brain hurts.
Speaker 22: Pardon, yes, can you repeat the product again they use.
Speaker 4: It's by nitro Foss. It is a light lightish blue bag,
Speaker 4: not dark, not purple, not dark blue blue, not purple.
Speaker 4: And you want it's called fifteen five to ten with Trimac.
Speaker 4: It's a product. It's one of the ones I call
Speaker 4: yeah with trimec. It's a weed and feed fifteen five
Speaker 4: ten with Trimac by Ninetro five and they they'll have
Speaker 4: it there. Talk to record Lacy or someone from the
Speaker 4: store and they'll be able to take you right to it.
Speaker 23: Great.
Speaker 6: Thank you so much.
Speaker 22: Enjoy your program, you bet.
Speaker 4: Thank you appreciate your call. Get under control. You know
Speaker 4: the reason we're dealing with weeds right now. But the
Speaker 4: reason we're controlling them is they're going to seed. No,
Speaker 4: I've been talking. People get confused. But there's two things.
Speaker 4: There is the idea that I've got a weed that
Speaker 4: I want to kill that's existing, that's a post emergent,
Speaker 4: or the weed I want to prevent that's a pre emergent.
Speaker 4: That would be like the barricade type product, So make
Speaker 4: sure you get the right one for what you're dealing with.
Speaker 4: Moss Nursery down in on Toddville Road in Seabrook is
Speaker 4: not just another garden center. It is a seventy year
Speaker 4: old family operated eight acre wonderland to wander through as
Speaker 4: lounging as someone the other day. I matter our experiences
Speaker 4: walking through there, and they, first of all, what do
Speaker 4: you need? I mean, do you want little boneseye starter plants?
Speaker 4: I got hundreds of those. Do you need some junipers?
Speaker 4: They have three or four varieties, Azelia's redbuds, Magnolia's hawthorns, hollies,
Speaker 4: Brazilian rain trees. You don't see those available everywhere. Use
Speaker 4: Laura pedlam, which is called Chinese witch hazel ball cypress
Speaker 4: loves to be here. And Portula Carria portulka, not porta laca.
Speaker 4: Portula caria. It's like it looks sort of like perce lane,
Speaker 4: but as a little woody, shrubby small plant. That was
Speaker 4: a nice eloquent description. Portula Caria, go into massy. I
Speaker 4: want to see this Porcula caria. Lots of hanging basket.
Speaker 4: Hundreds and hundreds of hanging baskets. Tadville Road, Seabrook, Texas
Speaker 4: mos Nursery dot Com two eight one four seven four
Speaker 4: twenty four eighty eight. I'll be right back, good already born.
Speaker 4: We're back brand, Welcome back to garden line.
Speaker 5: Boy.
Speaker 4: Is this ever a busy time of the year? It is,
Speaker 4: isn't it? I mean, gosh, they say spring has sprung? Boy,
Speaker 4: it has it ever? I you know, sitting here doing
Speaker 4: the radio, I want to say, could Joe hold on
Speaker 4: for just a minute and I go outside and work
Speaker 4: for about an hour in my yard, then come back
Speaker 4: and keep going. Because everything as I'm talking to you
Speaker 4: guys about your lawns and your flowers and trees and
Speaker 4: shrubs and everything else, I'm thinking about mine. I've got
Speaker 4: some containers that are waiting on me to plant my
Speaker 4: spring flowers in my warm season flowers, and I can't
Speaker 4: wait to get out and do that. In fact, I've
Speaker 4: got several things I want to pot up out there.
Speaker 4: And by the way, if you're looking for a quality
Speaker 4: potting MiGs, a jungle Land by Nitroposs is a good one.
Speaker 4: They have two different products. One is for indoor plants.
Speaker 4: It's called jungle Land water saving potting soil. I'm talking
Speaker 4: right now in my yard. I want to put some
Speaker 4: outdoor containers and the jungle land flour and vegetable potting soil.
Speaker 4: Jungle Land flour and vegetable potting soil from nitrophis it works.
Speaker 4: You're going to find that. The reason I say it
Speaker 4: works is because a potting soil you want to hoole
Speaker 4: moisture so you don't have the water it every day,
Speaker 4: but you want it to drain well so it doesn't
Speaker 4: get soggy and you lead to root rot. And jungle
Speaker 4: Land is designed to do just at all size mic
Speaker 4: arizel fungi in it that really help. They work with
Speaker 4: the plant roots. That's what micarizel do, mic hizal fungi do.
Speaker 4: And it's got four different sources of aged organic matter
Speaker 4: age bark. Basically, where do you find it, Well, you're
Speaker 4: gonna find it night frost products in Chenni Forest down
Speaker 4: to Richmond Rosenberg is going to have it. And if
Speaker 4: you go to let's say Katie Ace Hardware, Katie Hardware Ace,
Speaker 4: They're going to have it, as does the Ace and
Speaker 4: Sinkle Ranch all spas ace in the woodlands another place
Speaker 4: you're going to find these night frost prods ducks. The
Speaker 4: phone number if you'd like to give me call seven
Speaker 4: one three two one two KTRH seven one three two
Speaker 4: one two KTRH. I was looking at some pictures the
Speaker 4: other day in communication with Houston Powder Coats and some
Speaker 4: outdoor furniture they did was just unbelievable. It's one of
Speaker 4: these metal outdoor round tables, you know, with the little
Speaker 4: little slots or kind of a diamond pattern on the
Speaker 4: top and all the metal chairs that go around it,
Speaker 4: and they had recoated it. It was a beautiful green color.
Speaker 4: They can coat anything metal out there in your yard,
Speaker 4: you know, cast iron, wrought iron, aluminum, patio furniture, and
Speaker 4: they do the whole thing. They don't just coat it.
Speaker 4: I mean, if it needs new bolts, they put stainless
Speaker 4: steel to replace those old rusty bolts. If the little
Speaker 4: plastic caps on the legs, you know, they keep it
Speaker 4: from scratching on the on the patio, they'll replace those.
Speaker 4: If it needs little wells here and there, that's also
Speaker 4: part of the services that they can do. All you
Speaker 4: have to do is this take a picture of your
Speaker 4: furniture and send an email with your picture and say
Speaker 4: I need a quote, a quick quote, and they'll give
Speaker 4: you one. Sales at Houstoncoders dot com. Sales at Houston
Speaker 4: coders dot com. And if you don't go to the
Speaker 4: website see examples Houston Powdercoders dot com. Hundreds of colors
Speaker 4: in stock. If it is metal and you want it
Speaker 4: to look better, you need to go check out what
Speaker 4: they do, and you'll go. You'll start walking run the
Speaker 4: yard like I have going ooh, I need to get
Speaker 4: that done. I hadn't even thought about it, but I
Speaker 4: need to get that done. Much better than trying to
Speaker 4: paint that stuff. Let's go out to Spring and we're
Speaker 4: going to talk to Jerry. Hey, Jerry, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 20: Hi Skip, thank you for taking my call. I really
Speaker 20: enjoy your show. You may have addressed this before, but
Speaker 20: I have not heard you talk about it. My neighbor
Speaker 20: started using I used Microlife products. My neighbors started using
Speaker 20: a product call Bruce's Brew or something like that. He
Speaker 20: gets it from. Yes, yeah, it's just plan for all seasons.
Speaker 20: And I don't find it at my Ace hardware store
Speaker 20: where I get my micro Life I wondered if you
Speaker 20: could address this. What he said his understanding was it
Speaker 20: was kind of a blend of chemical and organic, But
Speaker 20: I don't know, I wonder if you could address this.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the Bruce Well Ace Hardware stores are independently owned,
Speaker 4: so each store is not a cookie cutter of the
Speaker 4: next one. That they do have all you know, the
Speaker 4: Ace brand products, and they do tend to carry you know,
Speaker 4: the lines and things that we may talk about in
Speaker 4: those stores and the same kinds of things like that.
Speaker 4: But yeah, there could be a product in one that
Speaker 4: may not be in another one. Bruce's Brew is a
Speaker 4: product from Nelson Plant Food and it is a product
Speaker 4: that is it leans more toward an immediate release, but
Speaker 4: it also has slow release, so it'll it'll give you
Speaker 4: something right now, but then it gradually releases as the
Speaker 4: forms of nitrogen in it start to kick in. There
Speaker 4: are different ways you can make nitrogen product. Some of
Speaker 4: them are ready right now, some of them it may
Speaker 4: take months and they're still releasing, still becoming available to
Speaker 4: the plants. And Brusus Brew is a blend like that,
Speaker 4: so it's an immediate release but also a gradual feed
Speaker 4: at the same time, and it's it's a lawn fertilizer
Speaker 4: for for your lawn.
Speaker 20: Okay, yeah, well there's lawn and really looks good. It's
Speaker 20: it's use okay, And so I thought maybe i'd give
Speaker 20: it a try. I just wondered if that would be
Speaker 20: something you'd recommend.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, it's a it's a good product. I've
Speaker 4: got it myself, so okay, all right, I'll look for you. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 4: and you know you can't if you if you see
Speaker 4: a yard and it looks good. H that's a good side.
Speaker 4: There's your answer right there. Thank you, Jerry, appreciate it.
Speaker 4: You all right? You bet you take care? Oh gosh.
Speaker 14: Uh.
Speaker 4: If you are wanting to prevent weeds, you need to
Speaker 4: listen to this. Nitropus barricade comes in ten pound bags
Speaker 4: that cover five thousand square feet because you just put
Speaker 4: out a little bit of barricade. Listen when you're using barricade,
Speaker 4: when you're using any product to control anything, follow the label.
Speaker 4: Do not double it up. Don't use half as much.
Speaker 4: It won't work. Don't use two or three times as much.
Speaker 4: You get stuff in trouble. Use the right amount the product.
Speaker 4: On any kind of product, the label is designed to
Speaker 4: give you success without problems. Okay, put it down according
Speaker 4: to the label, watered in with a half inch of water.
Speaker 4: It goes into the soil surface, where it sticks, it holds,
Speaker 4: it doesn't wash through it. It's designed a hold of
Speaker 4: the soil. Holds better than a lot of other pre mergers.
Speaker 4: There are other premergents on the market. The barricade that ingredient,
Speaker 4: and it does a better job of sticking up there
Speaker 4: in the top soil and not washing away. And when
Speaker 4: a weed tries to sprout, it shuts it down. But listen,
Speaker 4: this week, there are weeds going to be sprouting in
Speaker 4: your lawn. There are where the temperatures are perfect for that.
Speaker 4: Get out there, get it down. You could wait, put
Speaker 4: it on next week or the week after, but every
Speaker 4: day you wait, there may be some weeds that are
Speaker 4: already up and growing, and this is to prevent them
Speaker 4: from sprouting. So get your barricade down soon. It's gonna
Speaker 4: last sixty days. Depending on the conditions, it could be
Speaker 4: longer or shorter, but it's going to last a while.
Speaker 4: But get it down now as soon as you can.
Speaker 4: Barricade And where do you get it, Well, you get
Speaker 4: barricaded in chanted gardens down there in the Richmond Rosenberg area,
Speaker 4: hiding and feed on Stubner Airline, Fisher's Hardware, the thrim Pasadena,
Speaker 4: laport My, Bellevue, so the one on Southmore in Pasadena
Speaker 4: Broadway Street, Laporte, the one what is oh, it's FM
Speaker 4: thirty one eighty in Bellevue. And then finally Town there's
Speaker 4: a Fisher's Hardware down there on Alexander. Go get your products,
Speaker 4: get them down. It's time to do that. You are
Speaker 4: listening to Guardenline. The phone number here is seven one
Speaker 4: three two one two fifty four fifty eight seventy four.
Speaker 4: I can't even remember my number. Seven one three two
Speaker 4: one two ktr eight. Let's see, we're going to go
Speaker 4: out to sugar Land and Jill, I'm up against the
Speaker 4: top of the arbor. Let's see if we can help
Speaker 4: you here.
Speaker 24: Okay, I have five different citrus trees. They're getting brand
Speaker 24: new leaves, and I've heard that's when the leaf miners come.
Speaker 24: Can I spray that with a nim oil and the
Speaker 24: spinosa or will that harm the bees? Would it be
Speaker 24: better to just wick and touch?
Speaker 4: Yeah, you don't need to use both. I prefer the
Speaker 4: spinosa on that, but either way it's okay. Get it sprayed,
Speaker 4: try to avoid spray in the blooms. But in general
Speaker 4: that new growth is what you need to protect. You
Speaker 4: are correct about that. They don't attack those old art
Speaker 4: green leathery leaves. They attack the tender succulent stuff. Okay,
Speaker 4: that's what I needed. Thank you, all right, you bet
Speaker 4: good luck with that ohen. You know, on garden Line,
Speaker 4: our advice is free, but I do ask for half
Speaker 4: of the produce you get from my advice, so all
Speaker 4: they need is half your set are dropped off at
Speaker 4: the station.
Speaker 15: Thank you.
Speaker 4: There you go, man, that's a good deal. Thanks all right, folks,
Speaker 4: there you have it. There you have it. You know
Speaker 4: NIGHTE Fiss has that product call Sweet Green. It is awesome.
Speaker 4: It works. You put it down, you water it in,
Speaker 4: it dissolves. The microbes get happy because it's a it's
Speaker 4: a molasses based product, smells great. Eleven percent nitrogen. Eleven
Speaker 4: percent nitrogen. You're gonna find it at in Brunham at
Speaker 4: plants and things. You go to M and D on
Speaker 4: clear Lake, the M and D at Beamer in Sagemont,
Speaker 4: Dandy feed and Tamal. I know they have it up there.
Speaker 4: M and D Cypress up in the cypress area on Louisa.
Speaker 4: They carry nitrofoss products there too. And sweet Green is
Speaker 4: the kind of product that gives you that nice release
Speaker 4: for a nice green up and stimulation of the microbes
Speaker 4: in the soil. What marking you ask for it works well.
Speaker 4: I believe I'm about out of time here, have you
Speaker 4: hearing music about now? Probably? Anyway, if you want to
Speaker 4: go to my website, you're going to find my schedules
Speaker 4: on there and a lot of other great information. It's
Speaker 4: gardening with skip dot com. Gardening with skip dot com.
Speaker 4: You'll find the lawnface schedule. You'll find the pest disease
Speaker 4: and weed management schedule. They are all there. You will
Speaker 4: also find information on how to pasteurize growing media. Okay,
Speaker 4: question sometimes I got old media's okay to use it
Speaker 4: and leave plant. No, if you want to be sure,
Speaker 4: do it yourself. Information on controlling woody needs in the landscape.
Speaker 4: You know those vines poison ivy hack, where are you
Speaker 4: coming up in the fencil? Information on dealing with nematodes
Speaker 4: It's all on the website, all right. So I have
Speaker 4: to show. Today, I'm jumping in the car and heading
Speaker 4: to the Montgomery County Home and Outdoor Living Show. I'll
Speaker 4: beat it from twelve to two. It is at the
Speaker 4: Lone Stark Convention Center on Airport Road and hundred. I'm
Speaker 4: going to be giving away Nelson and the Dina products.
Speaker 4: Come on and see me.
Speaker 1: Welcome to kat r H Garden Line with Skip Ricter.
Speaker 1: Just watch you.
Speaker 2: As many bays not a sign.
Speaker 4: All right, folks, we're back. Welcome back to garden Line.
Speaker 4: I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we're here to have you,
Speaker 4: help you have success. That's what I was trying to say.
Speaker 4: Gardening should be fun and it can be fun. All
Speaker 4: you got to do is learn to think like a
Speaker 4: plant or know what a plant wants. How about that
Speaker 4: Plants like sunlight, plants like good drainage, plants like moist soil.
Speaker 4: Plants have certain nutrients and a certain salt pH that
Speaker 4: they prefer. And we can provide plants everything that they
Speaker 4: need by just taking care of them. Start off, there's one,
Speaker 4: two three. I need to come up with a I'm
Speaker 4: going to come up with something like this, But anyway,
Speaker 4: you need to pick the right plant you need to
Speaker 4: put it in the right place. You need to make
Speaker 4: sure that it is taking care of properly, and you
Speaker 4: can have success. And it's simple. It really isn't that difficult.
Speaker 4: It isn't and you don't learn it all in one day.
Speaker 4: But maybe you're trying a new Maybe you've never grown
Speaker 4: a pulumara before. You want to grow a plumaria, all right,
Speaker 4: you learn about it. There's a Easton has a great
Speaker 4: Plumeria Society where you can learn more about that since
Speaker 4: I picked that plant, for example. But once you know
Speaker 4: what a plumeria wants, you might as well, just you know,
Speaker 4: start making Hawaiian lays. Those strings of flowers. You know
Speaker 4: that they go around the neck. Those are plumeria flowers.
Speaker 4: Make your own at home because you know how to
Speaker 4: grow them. You give a plumeria what it wants, You
Speaker 4: give a rose what it wants, You give a peach
Speaker 4: tree what it wants, you give a tomato what it wants,
Speaker 4: You give your lawn what it wants, and you're going
Speaker 4: to have success. It really it's not rocket science. In fact,
Speaker 4: if you know if you are a rocket scientist, then
Speaker 4: you know exactly that it isn't rocket sciente either, in
Speaker 4: other words, if you know, if you know what you're doing,
Speaker 4: it's not hard. It is not hard to do. That
Speaker 4: certainly is true gardening, because gardening is not rocket science.
Speaker 4: All right, Hey, people are hearing me sell all these
Speaker 4: product names, you know, like there's this fertilizer, or there's
Speaker 4: that disease control or insect control or weed control or whatever.
Speaker 4: I start talking about a tool or something like that,
Speaker 4: and it's like, where can I get that? Where can
Speaker 4: I get that in my area? Well, I'll tell you
Speaker 4: this Southwist Fertilizer is a place that is going to
Speaker 4: have everything that I talk about. And I know people
Speaker 4: that drive it. Just I drive over there. It's a
Speaker 4: distance from me, but I drive over there because I
Speaker 4: know when I go in, Bob and his team are
Speaker 4: going to have what we need and I'm gonna be
Speaker 4: able to point me in the right direction. I like
Speaker 4: to go over and visit because there's always new things
Speaker 4: coming out, and we go over there and visit about it,
Speaker 4: and here's this new product from this company. And you know,
Speaker 4: those companies don't notify me when they have a new
Speaker 4: product coming out. I have to go out and I
Speaker 4: have to look at it. I have to try it out.
Speaker 4: I have to see how it works. I have to
Speaker 4: look at the research on it and things. Bob's got him,
Speaker 4: He's got all that there. Now, this is a seventieth
Speaker 4: anniversary year of Southist Fertlish. Can you believe that been
Speaker 4: a run since nineteen fifty five? And they carry everything
Speaker 4: that I endure here on Guardline. So go by, stop
Speaker 4: ins out those fertilizers. Say hey, happy seventy birthday. Say
Speaker 4: that to Bob, but tell him you understand that's not
Speaker 4: his birthday, that's the store's birthday. And so congratulations, man.
Speaker 4: We appreciate the work that they do there, because I'll
Speaker 4: tell you this, when you drive, if you go across
Speaker 4: town to get there, you're going to go in and
Speaker 4: you're going to find what you need. Every fertilizer I
Speaker 4: talk about, every product I talk about, and the advice
Speaker 4: you know you walk in. Let's say you walk in
Speaker 4: today and you got this little weed and you're showing
Speaker 4: it to them and they say, well, that is a
Speaker 4: here's what you need to do to prevent it, or
Speaker 4: here's what you need to do to kill the existing weed.
Speaker 4: And if you if you bring it in, it's an
Speaker 4: existing weed of course, and they got you covered. And listen,
Speaker 4: if you're organic going, I don't use all those chemicals.
Speaker 4: They have the biggest organic selection in the city. And
Speaker 4: let me expand that in the Houston area, the whole
Speaker 4: Houston area, Greater Houston area. They have tools, They have
Speaker 4: everything that you need. They even have a little lawn equipment,
Speaker 4: sales and service shop in the back. They can sharpen
Speaker 4: your blades and to all kinds of things back there. Listen,
Speaker 4: it's quality products and expert advice and old fashioned service.
Speaker 4: All three of those are Southwest Fertilizer, Southwest Fertilizer, dot Com,
Speaker 4: corner of Bissinet and Runwick seven one three six sixty
Speaker 4: six one seven four four. Simple as that they have
Speaker 4: things like, oh, Nitrofoss nitropos products. Yeah, nit fass Imperial,
Speaker 4: the fifteen to five to ten, the reddish orange bag.
Speaker 4: Do you know that Nitrofoss Imperial UH is the verse
Speaker 4: century ago? Oh, not a century, half century, fifty years ago.
Speaker 4: That UH research Texas A and M research throughut the
Speaker 4: Langa Universities of the of the Gulf Coast. You know
Speaker 4: a lot of places are doing turf research. LSU, Mississippi
Speaker 4: State Florida. Uh, you know, all the way up all
Speaker 4: through the They long ago realized that a three one
Speaker 4: two four one two kind of ratio is an excellent
Speaker 4: ratio for turf. It just is, and that is why
Speaker 4: Nitropuss Imperial was created fifty years ago fifteen five ten,
Speaker 4: the Red Orange bag, Red Orange Bag fifteen five to ten,
Speaker 4: still the same formula because it works. Why change it.
Speaker 4: If it ain't broke, don't fix it. And it does work.
Speaker 4: It's it's the spring green up product that we talk
Speaker 4: about here on garden Line. If you go to my
Speaker 4: schedule gardening with Skip dot com, look at my schedule
Speaker 4: for the lawns and the spring green Up night Foss
Speaker 4: Imperial Lawn Furtizure fifteen five to ten, it's right there.
Speaker 4: It does really work. It's nutrient rich. It'll help get
Speaker 4: that lawn greening up earlier. And then as we get
Speaker 4: into summer, we'll start putting on slower release things, where
Speaker 4: right now we own something that goes fast. And where
Speaker 4: are you going to get things like that? Well, for example,
Speaker 4: Court Hardware and Stafford they carry night Foss products. Katie
Speaker 4: Ace Hardware on Pinoak they carry Nitroposs products. Plants for
Speaker 4: all seasons. On Luetta carries nitroposs products. If you're done
Speaker 4: in Alvin, how about Stanton Shopping Center over on North Taylor.
Speaker 4: They've got the products there as well. Makes it easy,
Speaker 4: makes it easy. Let's see. Well we're already coming up
Speaker 4: almost on our first break. That's amazing. I was checking
Speaker 4: out Buchannan's Plants recently and I just love going in there.
Speaker 4: Buchanan's Native Plants has They always have the coolest stuff
Speaker 4: when it comes to natives. Nobody can touch them in
Speaker 4: the whole region. Like right now, they're talking about the
Speaker 4: Maximilian sunflower. That it is a tall stem that it
Speaker 4: blooms in August through November, just up and down the
Speaker 4: stem covered with yellow flowers. It's a perennial. But once
Speaker 4: you got it, they have a good selection of beautiful
Speaker 4: flowering house plants. You're not going to find a better selection.
Speaker 4: Their greenhouse for houseplants is amazing. Anything you want to know,
Speaker 4: you're gonna find out there because they are experts. Their
Speaker 4: people are trained, they know what they're doing. And you
Speaker 4: walk in and you say, I want a native tree,
Speaker 4: not too big, what can I plant? And they're just
Speaker 4: gonna start rattling it off Eastern Red Butt, Texas Mountain Laurel,
Speaker 4: Mexican plumb Mexican Buckeye, and on and on down the line,
Speaker 4: and they'll take you right over to the table and
Speaker 4: show you. They even have a table for just Houston
Speaker 4: area native plants. That's pretty cool. Well, Buchanan's Plants on
Speaker 4: Eleventh Street in the Heights. Here's the website, Buchanan's Plants
Speaker 4: dot Com. Start there, Buchanan's Plants dot Com. I have
Speaker 4: to take a little break. When I come back, we're
Speaker 4: going to talk to Greg and somebody else who's calling
Speaker 4: you in right now. See it a bit. Hey, welcome
Speaker 4: back to the garden line. Good to have you with us. Listen,
Speaker 4: if you had signed up for Warren Southern Garden Information
Speaker 4: newsletter email blasts and things, you would know this. You
Speaker 4: would know there was one sent out just yesterday. I
Speaker 4: believe ten percent off barcode applications on purchase of one
Speaker 4: hundred dollars or more. And they have their March Matteness
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Speaker 4: of tips like That's what I'm talking about. That's why
Speaker 4: I was telling you sign up for these newsletters. Man,
Speaker 4: sign up. It's cool stuff. When you go there, you're
Speaker 4: going to see just trailerfuls of all kinds of beautiful flowers.
Speaker 4: The spring flowers in that place are stunning. Really. When
Speaker 4: it comes to fruit trees, do you need blueberries, Do
Speaker 4: you need citrus? Do you need deciduous fruit, They've got
Speaker 4: a great selection of those as well. I just love
Speaker 4: going out there because every time you go, you're going
Speaker 4: to see everything you went for. You know, you go
Speaker 4: in thinking, oh, I need some fertilizer, I need some
Speaker 4: of this, I need some of that, I need a
Speaker 4: citrus tree. Whatever you're in there for. I need a
Speaker 4: house plan well, and then you get there and you
Speaker 4: see something like indigo blueberries tomatoes. Yeah, it's a tomato.
Speaker 4: It's red inside. On the outside it's a dark, dark,
Speaker 4: dark color. Indigo blueberries tomato. That's just one of the
Speaker 4: things that you didn't expect till you walk in, and
Speaker 4: when you do, there you go. They got plenty of
Speaker 4: onion sets and leakus eat potatoes. They've got lots and
Speaker 4: lots of seed. Warren's Southern Garden that's the one on
Speaker 4: North Park Drive, and not too far away nearby is
Speaker 4: the Kingwood Garden Center that's on Stone Hollow. Now, I
Speaker 4: can't talk about all of them, got calls waiting up here,
Speaker 4: but anyway, both of them seven days a week. They
Speaker 4: are outstanding garden centers that have beautiful plants in excellent
Speaker 4: health and the staff that can help you when you
Speaker 4: go there. We're going to head out now and talk
Speaker 4: to Greg. Hello, Greg, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 5: Morning. Skip.
Speaker 12: I was calling I see some pictures a couple of
Speaker 12: weeks ago, had a question about pruting a fig tree
Speaker 12: and a magnolia tree.
Speaker 4: Okay, Uh, go ahead with your with your question, I'm
Speaker 4: pulling it up.
Speaker 12: Well, I mean the fig tree the picture, it appears
Speaker 12: that it's got three trunks or two main trunks, and
Speaker 12: one of the time looked like it was a disease,
Speaker 12: like it had a crack in it and the bark
Speaker 12: was peeling. And my question was should I just remove
Speaker 12: that whole trunk or just see if it comes back
Speaker 12: the spree?
Speaker 4: You know what I saw in your pictures there was
Speaker 4: I saw the dark and cracking and the tissues underneath
Speaker 4: that are dead, and so there's no problem. We're just
Speaker 4: cutting it all out at the at the base that
Speaker 4: fig is going to send up suckers from the base. Now,
Speaker 4: if you you kind of have it in a tree
Speaker 4: form right now, where it has like a little mini
Speaker 4: trunk and then the branches, that's fine. Usually I grow
Speaker 4: my trees, my figs in a multi trunk system. You know,
Speaker 4: we have several, maybe five different trunks coming up, and
Speaker 4: that way, when one gets older, cracked or whatever, you
Speaker 4: can just cut it off at the ground and new
Speaker 4: ones come in and replace it. There's not a one
Speaker 4: way you have to do it, but the trunk you
Speaker 4: describe needs to come out as low as you can
Speaker 4: cut it off. And you already got some new shoots
Speaker 4: coming up there that are willing to step in and
Speaker 4: replace it.
Speaker 12: Yeah, okay, And I was wanting the top to it
Speaker 12: a little bit because I mean it gets so tall
Speaker 12: that I he breaks the figs and so.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that that's also a reason with a multi
Speaker 4: trunk like right now, the first little producing branches are
Speaker 4: about chest or head high. It looks like uh and
Speaker 4: the old old trunk. Would you know, Figs produce on
Speaker 4: on growth that grew last year and growth that grows
Speaker 4: this year, and depending on the kind of fig. So yeah,
Speaker 4: bringing all that production down. It ought to start producing
Speaker 4: the knee high, you know, and and go on up.
Speaker 4: And when you cut a whole shoot out at the base,
Speaker 4: you you come back to that pickable level.
Speaker 12: Yeah, and that and and the other picture I said
Speaker 12: you was a picture of it. I don't know what
Speaker 12: kind of magnoliatory, but it blooms this time of year
Speaker 12: and it's a beautiful multi gloom, purple yes bloom, and
Speaker 12: then it puts on leaves and it's just you know,
Speaker 12: it's just there.
Speaker 4: It's awesome.
Speaker 12: That's kind of gotten a little out of control and hot,
Speaker 12: and it wouldn't hurt once it once it blooms, just
Speaker 12: to cut it kind of like a great myrtle. But
Speaker 12: that's what it kind of looked like right now, you know,
Speaker 12: without great myrtle.
Speaker 4: Yeah you could, you could, you know. I'm not a
Speaker 4: big fan of that kind of marring of the beauty
Speaker 4: of the plants branches, but right now it's a conglomeration
Speaker 4: of branches that is a deciduous magnolia. I can't since
Speaker 4: it doesn't have a bloom, I can't tell you which
Speaker 4: it's either the tulip magnolia or possibly a saucer magnolia,
Speaker 4: but they both are deciduous and gorgeous. And then yeah,
Speaker 4: a tulip. Okay, good, yeah, all right, well yeah, if
Speaker 4: you do, but do that before midsummer. For sure. I
Speaker 4: would do it in the spring, after the blooms if possible.
Speaker 4: That gives it plenty of time to regrow. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna tell you.
Speaker 12: A few weeks ago also, I called you about transplanting
Speaker 12: a mountain laurel, and I plant transplanted five of them,
Speaker 12: and three of them look like survived. The other two
Speaker 12: all right, off, but I think that the three of
Speaker 12: them are gonna make it. So as soon as it
Speaker 12: puts on the leaves, all right, I'll stick.
Speaker 4: Down on the ground. Okay, Well, there you go. Well,
Speaker 4: try to keep keep it a little moist, but be
Speaker 4: real careful you don't overwater it, but don't let it
Speaker 4: dry out either. It's it's lost almost all its root systems,
Speaker 4: so it's touch and go. But good luck with that, Greg.
Speaker 4: I appreciate, appreciate your call, Yes, sir very much. If
Speaker 4: you are wanting to do a compost top dressing and
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Speaker 4: end at Sugarland, Missouri City, and then we swing down
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Speaker 4: It really does work. We're going to go now out
Speaker 4: to Jersey Village and talk to George. Hello, George, Welcome
Speaker 4: to garden Line.
Speaker 5: Good morning, Skip. It's good to see hearing you again.
Speaker 5: Excuse me.
Speaker 25: I've planned some Korean squash in my garden and I'm
Speaker 25: trying to prevent what happened last year, and that's the
Speaker 25: buying borders come along and they eat the whole thing up.
Speaker 25: So I've heard the way to do that is as
Speaker 25: the plants start to come out of the ground, to
Speaker 25: wrap the stalk in luminum foil or something like that.
Speaker 8: Do you have any better ideas.
Speaker 4: I actually did a trial where I tried wrapping the
Speaker 4: stems in aluminum foil. We wrapped stems and pantyhose, you know, figuring, well,
Speaker 4: they can't get through that and they'll just attack it
Speaker 4: further out than where you wrapped. So it doesn't really
Speaker 4: do a whole lot to do that. The bottom line,
Speaker 4: there's not a great thing because you don't want to
Speaker 4: kill your bees. And so if you're nuking it with insecticides,
Speaker 4: you're going to kill the bees that are coming to
Speaker 4: your blooms. So basically, a garden mesh fabric, it's like
Speaker 4: a soft as a bed sheet, a little tiny squares
Speaker 4: like a window screen, and you just lay it over
Speaker 4: the plant and the vine bore Mama, she comes and
Speaker 4: lands on that. She can't get to the squash to
Speaker 4: lay the egg. Can you leave it on, George until
Speaker 4: the first female blooms start to open, you know, because
Speaker 4: the first be male blooms and bees don't have to
Speaker 4: get to that. When the female bloom opens. You have
Speaker 4: two options. One is you can lift it up each
Speaker 4: day and go in there with a little artist brush
Speaker 4: and just quick, quickly takes two seconds pollen nature open
Speaker 4: female blooms. Or you can take the whole cover off
Speaker 4: and then the vine borer will find it. But by
Speaker 4: the time they actually cause the vine to collapse, at
Speaker 4: least you'll get somewhat of a yield out of those plants.
Speaker 4: So those are the two options I recommend.
Speaker 5: All right, okay, all right, you bet.
Speaker 4: Take care and you know on guard Line we just
Speaker 4: asked for half the produce and payment for our bus. Thanks.
Speaker 4: Thanks George, you take care Nelson Plant for Someone's asking
Speaker 4: me about Bruce's Brew earlier, and Bruce's Brew is a
Speaker 4: product that provides a nice quick green up, but it's
Speaker 4: not just an immediate release. It also has a slow
Speaker 4: release that spreads that release out over time to kind
Speaker 4: of regulate the growth. Do you get good root development
Speaker 4: when you you know, when you give a gradual feed
Speaker 4: to a grass like that, you're going to get a
Speaker 4: balanced growth, good root development, and as a result, your
Speaker 4: grass is going to be able to handle a thing
Speaker 4: like drought or maybe a little bit of a chomp
Speaker 4: here and there from a grub or something else. You
Speaker 4: get a good robust root system. It's a carbon based
Speaker 4: nitrogen source. It feeds the soil of microbes and that
Speaker 4: is very important. And you know, when you have healthy soil,
Speaker 4: you got healthy grass that's less vulnerable to best and diseases.
Speaker 4: That's Bruce's Brew from the folks at Nelson's Nelson Fertilizer
Speaker 4: Quality Products. Let's go out to Katie and we're going
Speaker 4: to talk to Ken. Hello, Ken, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 5: How are you doing there?
Speaker 26: Good morning, Good sir, and you may have just answered
Speaker 26: part of my question there with your last talking about
Speaker 26: the bruce soil there I'm putting in. I have totally
Speaker 26: new grass area, just soil with top toil has been
Speaker 26: put in, and I'm going to be planning for maybe
Speaker 26: a seed on that there slut on there, and I'd
Speaker 26: like to know if what kind of fertilizer would be
Speaker 26: good to help get it started.
Speaker 4: All right, So you want to hold off on fertilizing,
Speaker 4: you can do if you're preparing soil and mixing soil
Speaker 4: and stuff. You can put a fertilizer in it, but
Speaker 4: that's not as important as let's get the bermuda seed down.
Speaker 4: Let's get it sprouted and well on its way, and
Speaker 4: then begin to lightly fertilize, and you can use a product.
Speaker 4: I would use a product that is a little faster
Speaker 4: release initially, and the bruces Brew. You were just mentioning
Speaker 4: that that would be a good one for that. Just
Speaker 4: with the Bruces Brew, I'd probably put it out at
Speaker 4: about I don't know, five to seven pounds per thousand
Speaker 4: square feet, and those little seedlings, but let the seedlings sprout,
Speaker 4: get up and not just be a seedling, but start
Speaker 4: to make a little plant and then put the fertilizer
Speaker 4: down and it'll into high gear. But remember, the most
Speaker 4: important thing is light frequent waterings to help those seedlings
Speaker 4: not dry out while they're trying to establish.
Speaker 5: And that part's easy.
Speaker 26: One thing I mentioned there is that it is on.
Speaker 4: Okay, so of course before Hey Ken, Ken, I'm going
Speaker 4: to a hardbreak. Hang on just a second. If you
Speaker 4: want to continue, I'll stick with you.
Speaker 16: Just hang on.
Speaker 4: We'll be right back, folks. Let's run. Let's turn out here.
Speaker 4: First thing. We're gonna wind up this uh last bit
Speaker 4: here with Ken and Katie. Hey, Ken, so you got
Speaker 4: your seeds going in on a slope?
Speaker 5: Is that it?
Speaker 14: Yes?
Speaker 26: Yeah, And I'm wondering what kind of product I can
Speaker 26: use to help. I mean, we might get some good
Speaker 26: rains here in march, and I don't want it all
Speaker 26: growing at the bottom of the hill.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what happens with seed that's the drawback.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 4: Professionally, they do what's called hydromulching. They spray kind of
Speaker 4: a paper machetish kind of product, or they put some
Speaker 4: hay straw out there, just enough to kind of hold
Speaker 4: the soil, but not enough to shade out the plants.
Speaker 4: And that's that's kind of tricky to do from a
Speaker 4: home standpoint. I just don't know a good approach to that.
Speaker 4: I've seen people try a lot of different things. Say what.
Speaker 26: I have, I have a lot of.
Speaker 4: Okay, if there was a way to chop it up
Speaker 4: a little bit, uh and then you know, run over
Speaker 4: the mower. I don't know. Whatever. You can figure out
Speaker 4: and do it very lightly though, because it will shade
Speaker 4: out You're it's a mulch, so you don't want to
Speaker 4: put it at a mulch level. Just a little bit
Speaker 4: out there. That helps a lot. And if you have
Speaker 4: a gully washer, it's going to move that hay out anyway,
Speaker 4: so you know you're I guess look at the weather
Speaker 4: about ten days ahead before you plant.
Speaker 20: Okay, very okay, thank you very much.
Speaker 5: That helps a lot.
Speaker 4: Yeah, thanks appreciate that call very much. Nelson Water Garden
Speaker 4: and Nursery is out there, and Katie, now, I don't
Speaker 4: know if you've ever been before, but you need to go.
Speaker 4: It is an amazing place. Nelson Water Garden and Nursery
Speaker 4: is a complete deal. I mean, you walk in the store,
Speaker 4: there's some of the most beautiful house plants you've ever
Speaker 4: seen there, gorgeous you walk out the back door of
Speaker 4: the store. Color color, color everywhere then, and also vegetables
Speaker 4: and also herbs, any kind of bedding, nursery plants that
Speaker 4: you're looking for, they've got it. By the way, you
Speaker 4: might want to write this on your calendar. But coming up,
Speaker 4: there's an Easter egg hunt on Saturday, April nineteenth from
Speaker 4: nine to ten, and on the twenty six, a week
Speaker 4: later Saturday, there's a sip and stroll. This is the
Speaker 4: adult deal, right, You get a little sip and you
Speaker 4: get the stroll. There'll be some music. It's just a
Speaker 4: fun time and listen, it's therapy. You gotta go do
Speaker 4: this because here's why there is so much water splashing
Speaker 4: all around you that it's like you can't pay for
Speaker 4: that kind of therapy. And you can do that in
Speaker 4: your own backyard. The folks that Nelson's can help you
Speaker 4: create a water garden, a water feature, a waterfall, or
Speaker 4: a disappearing fountain coming out of a big urn, or
Speaker 4: they can just come out and do it for you.
Speaker 4: Nelsonwatergardens dot Com. Head out to Katie on ten turn
Speaker 4: north on Katie Fort ben Road. It's just a little
Speaker 4: piece up there on the right. I'm gonna head out
Speaker 4: now to sugar Land. We're gonna talk to Michael. Hey, Michael,
Speaker 4: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 5: Good morning guy.
Speaker 14: Always good to hear your voice. I have a question
Speaker 14: for you. I've been on the schedule now for about
Speaker 14: fifteen years, but I was looking at some stuff this
Speaker 14: you know, this morning, and I want you to give
Speaker 14: me your honest opinion. I've been using the fifteen five
Speaker 14: ten and the orange bag along with barricade, but I
Speaker 14: saw something I hadn't seen before. Appears nine Boss has
Speaker 14: a blue bag which contains trimac. Now my question is
Speaker 14: which would be better to use that one blue bag?
Speaker 14: All right, so or the other combination with the barricade.
Speaker 4: Okay, so you're doing two different things, and they can
Speaker 4: both be done together if you need to. The barricade
Speaker 4: is for the summer re weeds that you're not seeing yet.
Speaker 4: They're not big plants. It's to prevent them. The blue
Speaker 4: bag with the barrick with the fifteen to five to
Speaker 4: ten weed and feed blue bag that has trimeac that
Speaker 4: kills existing weeds. So right now, if you're looking in
Speaker 4: your lawn. You're seeing dandelion and clover and hand bent
Speaker 4: and chickweed and all the winter weeds that are broadly
Speaker 4: the blue bag is for that. So you're you're going
Speaker 4: after two sets of weeds with those two products, one
Speaker 4: that's already there and one that's about to be there.
Speaker 14: Okay, So if I use I use the orange bag.
Speaker 14: You can't use an orange bag in combination with the
Speaker 14: blue bag with the.
Speaker 4: Trimec because then you're double fertilizing and you don't need
Speaker 4: to do that. If you do the blue bag, you
Speaker 4: have done the orange bag plus the trimac.
Speaker 14: Great super answers my question. Thank you as always, to
Speaker 14: have a good weekend.
Speaker 4: All right, good luck, take care. Appreciate that. Yeah, that
Speaker 4: is important to understand and to you know, get that,
Speaker 4: get that all straight.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 4: Nature's Way Resources is having a really cool little shindig.
Speaker 4: I was telling you about a little bit earlier. But
Speaker 4: it is their spring fling, the spring Fling at Nature's
Speaker 4: Way Resources, and you really need to go out and
Speaker 4: check this out. I've been before. It is a fun time.
Speaker 4: I mean they're going to have when you go there.
Speaker 4: First of all, they're gonna be speakers, I've spoken at
Speaker 4: it in the past myself. It's great gardening education. They
Speaker 4: got some really cool, really nice talks scheduled.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 4: And then you're gonna be able to walk around, you know,
Speaker 4: though you enjoy. They'll have some sangria there for you.
Speaker 4: It's called sip and vendor and say, right, so you
Speaker 4: get your drink, you walk around, you visit the vendors.
Speaker 4: They got some really good vendors. They always do when
Speaker 4: I go by there, and then enjoy yourself without there,
Speaker 4: go listen to some of the talks and then pick
Speaker 4: up some plants or pick up some soil products. You know,
Speaker 4: they've got the best of the best out there. There'll
Speaker 4: be children's activities that children are certainly welcome to come out.
Speaker 4: They even have a player you kind of a sandbox,
Speaker 4: giant a giant sandbox. They have coloring and scavenger hut
Speaker 4: and stuff for the kids. This is all next week December,
Speaker 4: excuse me, December Wow. March ninth. March ninth, from nine
Speaker 4: to two in the morning. And where is Nature's Way?
Speaker 4: Go up forty five north right where fourteen eighty eight
Speaker 4: comes in from Magnolia. You instead of going left to
Speaker 4: Magnolia you turn right across the tracks in that Sherbrooke
Speaker 4: circle and you're there. It really is cool. And while
Speaker 4: you're there, pick up rus soil, pick up their leaf
Speaker 4: more composts, make an order to have them deliver it
Speaker 4: if you would like to, uh, just visit with them
Speaker 4: and you will find that they're very knowledgeable and you
Speaker 4: tell them what you want to grow and they'll put
Speaker 4: the right products in your hand. You're gonna have more
Speaker 4: than one option. Probably they'll put the right products in
Speaker 4: your hand. It all starts with the soil, broad stuff
Speaker 4: before green stuff. Remember that in Nature's way, it's built
Speaker 4: around making the soil right. Because John Ferguson when he
Speaker 4: created the place long ago that when you get things right,
Speaker 4: when you follow nature's way of doing things, you're gonna
Speaker 4: have plant success. And now I and his son running
Speaker 4: the place, same tradition, same quality products, same quality service.
Speaker 4: It's just not skipping a beat at Nature's way. Let's see,
Speaker 4: we're going to go now to talk to Tom somewhere
Speaker 4: in East Texas. Hey, Hey, Tom, how are you welcome
Speaker 4: to guard Line?
Speaker 5: Good morning? How you do it?
Speaker 4: I'm well, sir, How can we hope today?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 14: I'd sent in some pictures of my lawn after I
Speaker 14: had a couple of months from after I had fertilized it,
Speaker 14: and okay, it didn't look so great.
Speaker 4: So I'm not sure what's going on. Alrighty Uh, you
Speaker 4: sent me several pictures here, so let me just take
Speaker 4: a look at some of these. Uh, tell me a
Speaker 4: little bit about the history of this lawn. What has
Speaker 4: been done to it in the last six months or so.
Speaker 4: So this is fairly brand new lawn and it's probably
Speaker 4: just over a year old.
Speaker 7: It was a.
Speaker 5: New turf.
Speaker 4: Okay there at Courst got you? Okay, Hey, Tom, I'm
Speaker 4: gonna I'm gonna, I'm gonna cut in. I'm gonna cut
Speaker 4: in on you here. I I asked that, and I
Speaker 4: remember I looked at all your pictures. That is something
Speaker 4: called rizoctonia. It is also called brown patch. It's also
Speaker 4: called take all patch. I mean a large patch, not
Speaker 4: take off. It is a cool season condition when when
Speaker 4: the weather is cool and we get some moist it
Speaker 4: really takes off. We're about to leave that season. So
Speaker 4: I don't see a need at this point in treating
Speaker 4: what I see in the pictures. Now, that could be
Speaker 4: that you got something else going on. There could be
Speaker 4: grubs there, There could be you know, maybe last year
Speaker 4: you had some chinch bugs or something. But right now, uh,
Speaker 4: right now, we're we're I wouldn't treat that at this point.
Speaker 4: I would go ahead and give the lawn care according
Speaker 4: to my schedule, and I would say, let's just move on.
Speaker 4: If you want to use a fungicide for it, you
Speaker 4: can do that. That's fine. Uh, But if it were mine,
Speaker 4: I think I would just I would just move on.
Speaker 4: That's old damage and spraining. It won't make those spots
Speaker 4: of green. Warm weather, we'll make those spots green.
Speaker 5: Okay. Should I go ahead and use the you know,
Speaker 5: like the nightro Falls fifteen, Yeah.
Speaker 4: You could do that. You could do that. You just
Speaker 4: follow follow follow it on the schedule, and then then
Speaker 4: when we get to summer, we're going to go to
Speaker 4: the longer term fertilizers. But yes, it should be good,
Speaker 4: right okay, well all right now, yes, now, since that's
Speaker 4: been a problem, look at my schedule. Because we talk
Speaker 4: about brown patch in the fall, you do want to
Speaker 4: take action at that point, but for now we're moving
Speaker 4: into the warm season. Hey, thanks, man, I appreciate your call.
Speaker 4: I've got to run Folks Rooster and Brunham. Will you'll
Speaker 4: be first up when we come back. We're just gonna
Speaker 4: jump right back in andams. You're hopping on garden line today. Hey, listen.
Speaker 4: Micro Life has a product. It's a purple bag. It's
Speaker 4: called Humates Plus. It's a zero zero four fertilizer, but
Speaker 4: it's not a fertilizer. I mean, it's got the potassium
Speaker 4: in it, but I don't want you to think of
Speaker 4: it as a fertilizer. There are other products you used
Speaker 4: to fertilizer on, like they're six two four, But this
Speaker 4: is concentrated compost in a bag. When you take leaves
Speaker 4: and break them down, it makes composts. Did you know
Speaker 4: compost keeps breaking down until it becomes humous. Humus bills,
Speaker 4: soil quality, It really substances like humic and fulvic acids
Speaker 4: and things. It just improves yourself and Microlife hu makes plus.
Speaker 4: The purple bag can be used whenever you want to
Speaker 4: use it. I would say, if you're going to fertilize,
Speaker 4: go ahead and do your fertilizer six six two four,
Speaker 4: and then do the purple bag. You makes plus. You're
Speaker 4: not over fertilizing. By doing that, you put that down,
Speaker 4: you water it in, and you're going to do that once.
Speaker 4: You can do it many times as you want a year,
Speaker 4: but at least a couple times a year if you're
Speaker 4: trying to bring a lawn back from just a really
Speaker 4: difficult clay soil that it's struggling with. He makes plus
Speaker 4: works very well and it's one of the quality products
Speaker 4: mini quality products you find from Microlife Microlife Fertilizer dot com.
Speaker 4: That's the website if you want to learn more about it.
Speaker 4: We're going to head out to Brunham now and talk
Speaker 4: to Rooster. Hey, Rooster, what's up?
Speaker 15: Good morning Listen. I've been bathing to mate the plants,
Speaker 15: about fifteen of them in farage for a little more
Speaker 15: in three weeks, some of them and then some of
Speaker 15: them just just a week ago.
Speaker 5: And I had two different questions for you, can I
Speaker 5: go ahead and put them in my raised beds?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 5: Not worry about threason?
Speaker 14: Uh?
Speaker 4: I wish I had the crystal Yeah, I wish I
Speaker 4: had the crystal ball on that I don't if you
Speaker 4: look at the if you look at the average frost
Speaker 4: dates it were on the line. Uh, if you can
Speaker 4: cover them, if we have another little frost freeze, then
Speaker 4: I would put them out. If you can't, I might
Speaker 4: hold off a little bit. But I wish I had
Speaker 4: that crystal ball, and I don't.
Speaker 15: Well was the other question, Well, it might be just
Speaker 15: a helpful to somebody else, but I was curious myself.
Speaker 15: I purchased some Medina. I bought them a little little
Speaker 15: six tack deals just a little more than a week
Speaker 15: ago here in Brenham. I mentioned the name, but I
Speaker 15: don't know if that was the a good thing to do.
Speaker 15: But anyway, the six packs are really wonderful. And I
Speaker 15: don't know if it's because I put the Medina on it,
Speaker 15: mix it with water and the sort of water man.
Speaker 5: They almost caught up with the ones I've had in
Speaker 5: there for three weeks. I don't know.
Speaker 4: Well, products, well, it could be because Medina products they're designed,
Speaker 4: they work in so many ways. Some of them have
Speaker 4: the nutrient in them, you know, the the has to
Speaker 4: grow six twelve six or for example, But the the
Speaker 4: other ingredients that they have from seaweed and some to
Speaker 4: the microbial activity, to the other kinds of hormones or
Speaker 4: vitamins and other things there. It's a concoction of things,
Speaker 4: and plants benefit from it, and especially your little seedlings.
Speaker 4: This is a great way to do it. And with
Speaker 4: medina you're not going to burn them like you would
Speaker 4: with the salt based fertilizer that could be mixed too strong. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I would. I would attest that Medina probably had a
Speaker 4: huge part in that and the success on them.
Speaker 5: What about it?
Speaker 15: I have them all two gallons deals that I cut
Speaker 15: the bottoms out of and I'll press them over my
Speaker 15: new plants so that they get, yes, a little bit
Speaker 15: more wind resistant.
Speaker 4: That's a good idea, it would. You know what another
Speaker 4: thing you could do. Don't cut the bottoms out, just
Speaker 4: let the plants be there, and then if you have
Speaker 4: a frosty knite, turn the pot upside down over the
Speaker 4: plant if it's windy, put a little soil around it
Speaker 4: to hold it in place, and then you have even
Speaker 4: a better little protection against the frost that would hit.
Speaker 4: So either way you want to go, but hey, risk track,
Speaker 4: I got a run. But good luck, thank you.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 27: I know why you do.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know why you cut them back, and that's
Speaker 4: a good way to go. I'm just trying to think
Speaker 4: of how to get past the frost too. Thank you, sir.
Speaker 4: Take care out there and run them. Someone asked earlier
Speaker 4: about where's this place you get those buckets that are
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Speaker 4: you can call them two eight one two oh six
Speaker 4: forty six seventy. I wish I had time to fully
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Speaker 4: you don't have to go around the yard blasting his
Speaker 4: sex side ever, trying to kill mosquitoes more. Just gonna
Speaker 4: fly in. This stuff works dpestbros dot com. All right,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go to Spring now and talk to Trey.
Speaker 10: Hey, Trey, thank you calling you back again. I had
Speaker 10: another quick question. Figure. I jump in line and I'm
Speaker 10: trying to put some I want to put some pine
Speaker 10: straw mulch in my bids. It is that advisable, and
Speaker 10: it's so, what are some cautions that where can I find.
Speaker 4: Some locally up here some pine straw?
Speaker 10: You said, yes, sir, you know I would ask.
Speaker 4: At your local garden centers up there. I don't know
Speaker 4: offhand who's carrying it. I know anybody that's got property
Speaker 4: that pine trees, let's go and break it up because
Speaker 4: there's so many pine needles, or a yard with pine needles.
Speaker 4: In fact, I had neighbors that would bag all their
Speaker 4: pine straw and put it at the curb for me.
Speaker 4: They didn't know they were putting it there for me,
Speaker 4: but just brought it home with me. But you do occasionally,
Speaker 4: not so much around here as in other parts of
Speaker 4: the country. They think pine straw is pretty, and it's
Speaker 4: baled and sold in garden centers and other places. But
Speaker 4: I would just ask around your area and see if
Speaker 4: you know any of the garden centers are going to
Speaker 4: have it. Off the top of my head, I can't
Speaker 4: say if or where I've seen it around town.
Speaker 10: Is there any negatives to putting it in our bids
Speaker 10: for insects or anything?
Speaker 4: There No, not really, no insect negatives or anything. I
Speaker 4: think it holds in place better, and you just don't
Speaker 4: want to over use it as with anything, but you
Speaker 4: have to use enough because those little skinny pine needles
Speaker 4: don't block much sunlights. So you need enough to really
Speaker 4: block the sun. But it works pretty good. I've had
Speaker 4: good success, but I think it's pretty that bronze color.
Speaker 5: Yeah, thanks you.
Speaker 4: All right, sir, Thank you appreciate your call very much.
Speaker 4: If you're looking for a soil for your indoor plants,
Speaker 4: jungle Land by Nitrofoss jungle Land is the one. Now
Speaker 4: there's two jungle Lands. One is their flour and vegetable
Speaker 4: for outdoors a pause therve because let this kind of
Speaker 4: separate out in the head. The other one is jungle
Speaker 4: Land water Saving, putting soil for indoors. Okay, Now, the
Speaker 4: water saving has crystals in it that absorb water. So
Speaker 4: when you forget, I know you don't forget, when your
Speaker 4: neighbor forgets the water, that soil crystals will have a
Speaker 4: little extra reserve to get those plants through until they
Speaker 4: remember to water again. Both of them are quality products.
Speaker 4: Both of them are available in a wide variety of places.
Speaker 4: You're going to find them in place like Ace Hardware,
Speaker 4: Cityo Memorial Drive plants for all seasons. You're gonna find
Speaker 4: them at enchanted forests. You're gonna find them at a plantation.
Speaker 4: Ace Hardware, m and d Out there in Rosenberg has
Speaker 4: them as well. And you know, in fact, I could
Speaker 4: just go on, could I keep saying these Ace Hardware names.
Speaker 4: Ace Hardware is a company that has everything you need
Speaker 4: to have success outdoors. They just do fertilizers products to
Speaker 4: control pest, weeds and diseases. Right now, there's some good
Speaker 4: things going on we at Ace Hardware stores. They're still
Speaker 4: having the twenty percent off their Mowen faucets. Oh actually,
Speaker 4: I think I went a little long on that and
Speaker 4: that was actually last month. Excuse me, sorry about that.
Speaker 4: They do have their stains and their seals. If you
Speaker 4: want to redo your deck, they've got you covered there.
Speaker 4: You know, they've got a really good paint selection at
Speaker 4: Ace Hardware. Go to acehardware dot com, find the store locator,
Speaker 4: find the stores near you. There are so many great
Speaker 4: our Ace Hardware stores. Let me give you a few.
Speaker 4: Let me give you a few as an example, deer
Speaker 4: Park just east of Pasadena, Deer Park Lumber, Chalmers, Ace
Speaker 4: Hardware down in Galveston. For those of you over in
Speaker 4: Port Levaca, first of all, thanks for listening Port Levaca.
Speaker 4: Ace Hardware, Victoria Ace Hardware. Since we're hanging out in
Speaker 4: the Southwest right now, all of those are just examples
Speaker 4: of quality. Is hardware stores where you're gonna find everything
Speaker 4: indoors outdoors, that beautiful outdoor sitting area. Oh gosh, and
Speaker 4: check out those barbecue pits. Oh my, I was drooling
Speaker 4: over a tray groove of it.
Speaker 8: That's true.
Speaker 4: All right, Thanks for listening to Garlide. We're gonna take
Speaker 4: a break for the top of the hour.
Speaker 8: We'll be back.
Speaker 2: We will be back.
Speaker 4: Don't another hour.
Speaker 1: Welcome to kt r H Guarden Line with skimp Rickards.
Speaker 18: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Just watch him as.
Speaker 4: So many things.
Speaker 27: Welcome back to Garden Line, folks. We are glad to
Speaker 27: have you back with us. How can we help you today?
Speaker 27: Got a question on gardening? Give me a call seven
Speaker 27: one three two one two k t r H seven
Speaker 27: one three two one two k t r H. In fact,
Speaker 27: if you got a question, why not come out to
Speaker 27: the Montgomery County Home and Outdoor Living Show today. It's
Speaker 27: out on Airport Road on the north side of Conroe
Speaker 27: and I'm going to be there from twelve to two.
Speaker 27: You're given a little talk about tips for springs success.
Speaker 27: We'll talk about lawns and gardens and everything. Just kind
Speaker 27: of give you an overall, some ideas, some things you
Speaker 27: might not be aware of that you can do. And
Speaker 27: I'll be answering your question and so bring whatever questions
Speaker 27: you have. We'll have time then to really sit down
Speaker 27: and talk about it a little bit. Maybe you want
Speaker 27: to bring a sample in a bag of something that
Speaker 27: you would like me to identify, a bug or something
Speaker 27: growing in the lawn, whatever you got. Maybe you want
Speaker 27: to bring a picture on your phone, show me an
Speaker 27: area of the lawn and or the landscape, and we
Speaker 27: can look at it, we can talk about it, what
Speaker 27: to do. It's all going to be there again. That's
Speaker 27: the Lone Star Convention Center on Airport Road on the
Speaker 27: north side of Conroe, Montgomery County Home and Outdoor Living Show.
Speaker 27: I'm going to be giving away products from Nelson's and
Speaker 27: products from the Just a moment in fact, right before
Speaker 27: we went to break right there, we were talking about Medina.
Speaker 27: I'm going to be giving away Medina products as well.
Speaker 27: Up there, show up, maybe you win one. I've got
Speaker 27: quite a few to give away. Happy to do that.
Speaker 4: D and Defeed in Tomball is one of those feed
Speaker 4: stores that you go in and you know you're going
Speaker 4: to walk out with what you need. They have an
Speaker 4: excellence selection. You know you hear me talk about nitrophos
Speaker 4: or microlife, or Nelson turf star or Medina or heirloom
Speaker 4: soils or Nelson plant food jars or you know, just
Speaker 4: whatever it is. They even have plants out front seasonally
Speaker 4: as we go through the air. High quality dog food
Speaker 4: of course, all the livestock food and everything that you
Speaker 4: need as well. But do you need something to kill
Speaker 4: a weed, an insect, a disease. They not only have
Speaker 4: the products, they have the knowledge to point you at
Speaker 4: the right one. Dandy Feed is three miles west of
Speaker 4: ivy two forty nine on twenty nine twenty in Tomball.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna give you a phone number two eight one
Speaker 4: three five one seventy one forty four. Two eight one
Speaker 4: three five one seventy one forty four. Alrighty, we're gonna
Speaker 4: head out to Missouri City now and talk to Janey. Hello, Janey,
Speaker 4: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 21: Thank scampow are you this morning?
Speaker 4: I'm good, I'm good. What's up?
Speaker 8: Well?
Speaker 21: I ad I's a champ Until email you a question
Speaker 21: because I had pictures to send you, but I'm curious
Speaker 21: what you think about red creeping time as a groundcover
Speaker 21: in a small columbarium area at our.
Speaker 4: Church about creeping time. Creeping time is okay. You need
Speaker 4: to plant quite a bit of it because it doesn't
Speaker 4: like vine fast. It's a slope. The name creeping is appropriate,
Speaker 4: so you could do that. I find that with time,
Speaker 4: you know, if you don't share it back quite a bit,
Speaker 4: it gets to look in a little lot of dead
Speaker 4: twiggy growth in there, and it's not as attractive. So
Speaker 4: just count on sharing it back a little bit periodically
Speaker 4: and fertilizing it. You may find better success, you know,
Speaker 4: with like an oregano. But that's one that'll get awfully
Speaker 4: tall if you don't keep it shared back. But it's
Speaker 4: another one that will spread horizontally if you're looking for.
Speaker 21: This is kind of a corner are. It's under a
Speaker 21: magnolia tree, but it gets partial sun. The grass has
Speaker 21: just become weeds.
Speaker 7: It's not a.
Speaker 21: Huge area, and it's in a columbarium at our church.
Speaker 21: And I thought of time. It looks pretty in this picture,
Speaker 21: but I also have quite a nice groundcover under my
Speaker 21: live oak tree in my backyard that stays. I mean,
Speaker 21: it went through the freeze it's never had any problem,
Speaker 21: and I'm wondering if that isn't a better answer than
Speaker 21: trying to grow grass in there, and maybe the time
Speaker 21: is not my answer.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So unless you're just growing it for the fact
Speaker 4: that it's an herb, I would consider a couple of others.
Speaker 4: There's one called polygonum, and it has little tiny pink
Speaker 4: balls that are flower stalks coming up very low, very
Speaker 4: low growing polygonum. And another one is, oh gosh, what
Speaker 4: plumbago leadwart plumbago, not the regular plumbago that ever he
Speaker 4: thinks of. This is a flat groundcover with deep blue flowers.
Speaker 4: And now these are these are not things that are
Speaker 4: going to be there in the winter time, you know
Speaker 4: they they're not They're not an evergreen. But those are
Speaker 4: two groundcovers that are pretty easy to grow too. But
Speaker 4: if you're looking for something that's evergreen, uh, then you know,
Speaker 4: then you would have to to switch. A monkey grass
Speaker 4: is not a bad one either. The dwarf monkey grass,
Speaker 4: it stays very small and low and it looks pretty good.
Speaker 4: Is a groundcover also, and it can take a ton
Speaker 4: of shade.
Speaker 21: So so monkey grass might be the answer. I want
Speaker 21: something we have company the dwarf.
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, not the regular one. Yeah, the dwarf. No,
Speaker 4: you're gonna you said, yeah, you said that it was
Speaker 4: a small area. You're gonna have to buy a lot
Speaker 4: of monkey grass because you know, you can't put them
Speaker 4: six inches apart. I mean you got to plant them
Speaker 4: close together because they don't spread fast at all. So
Speaker 4: you would be buying a number of flats. So you
Speaker 4: just have to make that assessment yourself. Hey, uh, I
Speaker 4: hope that helps out there. Good luck with it. Sounds
Speaker 4: like you've got a good project on your hands.
Speaker 21: Yes, we do one other question for you on the myrtles.
Speaker 21: Do they they're kind of our myrtles around the property
Speaker 21: have kind of a black stuff on them right now.
Speaker 4: Mum, that's that's city mold and it's from crape crepe
Speaker 4: myrtle bark scale and so you need to treat for
Speaker 4: the scale. You can use a systemic insecticide. Follow the label,
Speaker 4: look for something with Do you have a pen handy?
Speaker 21: I am driving, so unfortunately I don't.
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, well, uh no I don't have that
Speaker 4: posted online. Uh think of remember the dinosaur. The beginning
Speaker 4: of the chemical is d I N O dino dino
Speaker 4: and that's ingredient. Just say it's a systemic insecticide dino.
Speaker 4: And you go to your local Ace hardware store down
Speaker 4: there Missouri City. You know you're not You're not too
Speaker 4: far away from you know, Southwest Fertilizers. There's a lot
Speaker 4: of places you can get it. But just you just
Speaker 4: need to say, Okay, I'm gonna have to run. I'm
Speaker 4: up against a hard break. But I appreciate your call
Speaker 4: very much. You bet good luck with that dandy feed
Speaker 4: and supply I was telling you about it before. It
Speaker 4: is it just is a great place and you need
Speaker 4: to go by and see it.
Speaker 7: I just.
Speaker 4: We've talked about it several times today because I keep
Speaker 4: sending people there because it's a good place to find
Speaker 4: whatever it is you're looking for. Well, I'm gonna take
Speaker 4: a little break. I'll be right back, and when we
Speaker 4: come back, Richard and sugar Land and James and Cyprus,
Speaker 4: you'll be our first two up. All right, all right,
Speaker 4: welcome back. Good to have you with us. Hey, have
Speaker 4: you been doing Shannon for us lately? You need to go.
Speaker 4: If you went three days ago, you need to go
Speaker 4: back because you wouldn't believe what they've got in the
Speaker 4: house splant selection is incredible. They have all the kalladiums
Speaker 4: in now, I mean a ton of kaladiums now. You
Speaker 4: don't want to delay whenever someplace has bulbs or corms
Speaker 4: or rhizomes or you know whatever in because it's gonna
Speaker 4: get picked over. And if you want the best selection,
Speaker 4: get there today. Enchanted Forest. It's easy to get to.
Speaker 4: It's out on FM twenty seven to fifty nine. If
Speaker 4: you're in Richmond going towards sugar Land, it's off to
Speaker 4: the right FM twenty seven to fifty nine Enchanted Forest.
Speaker 4: And I love, I always love going there. Knowledgeable people,
Speaker 4: very knowledgeable people. They can help you, they can direct you,
Speaker 4: they can provide you with exactly what you need to
Speaker 4: have success. That is very very important. You need that
Speaker 4: when you go to a garden center. Now, if you're
Speaker 4: looking for the website, I would recommend you go there
Speaker 4: for sure. Enchanted Forest, Richmond TX dot com. On the website,
Speaker 4: you can sign up for all kinds of things. You
Speaker 4: can find about their upcoming events, find out things like
Speaker 4: I just told you. You follow them on social media,
Speaker 4: for example, like on Facebook. They've got plenty of cool
Speaker 4: stuff there Oh, they also got in some Jack Daniels
Speaker 4: half whiskey barrels. What do you do? You're planning on them?
Speaker 4: Half whiskey bro They're really cool, real rustic planners. See
Speaker 4: what would you plant one of those? I guess you
Speaker 4: could plant some old fashioned flowers? Did you get that
Speaker 4: bourbon old fat? Anyway? Whatever, plant whatever you want at
Speaker 4: the plants will be happy. I've grown whiskey barrels myself.
Speaker 4: They're really cool. At Encented Forest in Richmond. We're gonna
Speaker 4: run out Sugarland now and talk to Richard. Hey, Richard,
Speaker 4: welcome to garden line.
Speaker 23: Oh, thank you.
Speaker 16: Hey.
Speaker 23: I've got a small satsuma tangerine tree that I've got
Speaker 23: growing in a pot. And this is his third year
Speaker 23: that I've had the first two years I've pulled the
Speaker 23: blooms off of it.
Speaker 5: Should I pull them off.
Speaker 23: Again this year?
Speaker 4: Third year? How big is it?
Speaker 5: It's only about.
Speaker 23: Six foot talks growing in a growing in a pot.
Speaker 23: It's a miniature.
Speaker 4: Well, ideally we say, uh, do it for three years,
Speaker 4: because you want to get the biggest tree you can
Speaker 4: get to hang future production seasons, you know, frud on.
Speaker 4: But if you want to let up a two or
Speaker 4: three grow just for fun, just have a taste, that's okay,
Speaker 4: But just in general, let's get it as big and
Speaker 4: strong as we can. Six foot is a good size.
Speaker 4: In fact, I'm getting kind of a mix. I'm getting
Speaker 4: I'm hearing tangerine, I'm hearing satsuma, and I'm hearing miniature,
Speaker 4: and those three don't quite go together. Being in a
Speaker 4: container is going to keep any cetr smaller, and satsuma
Speaker 4: compared to other ceptrus is less size of a tree,
Speaker 4: usually a little slower growing. But anyway, the same principle
Speaker 4: holds true.
Speaker 23: Yeah, let me ask us, it's got a whole lot
Speaker 23: of bloes on it this year? Should I pull half
Speaker 23: of them off? Would it hurt to pull half of
Speaker 23: them off?
Speaker 4: Or just you know, well, yeah you could do half
Speaker 4: or so I would look at the tree and if
Speaker 4: it's like, yeah, this still is kind of a scrawny thing,
Speaker 4: I would I would take more off. But uh, the
Speaker 4: tree is going to abort a lot of those blooms.
Speaker 4: When it has that many, you're gonna see a lot
Speaker 4: on the ground. You're gonna see a little tiny baby
Speaker 4: fruit on the ground that have been aboarded off too.
Speaker 4: So uh, but yeah, leave you some just a few
Speaker 4: to play with and and uh and then keep keep
Speaker 4: fertilizing and growing that tree.
Speaker 18: Uh.
Speaker 4: But that you're kind of on the line, I would
Speaker 4: get a furtilizer, yeah, fruit and ceteras. Uh do you
Speaker 4: do you do organic or synthetic? What do you prefer?
Speaker 23: Okay, either one? Okay, that'll be fine.
Speaker 5: Okay, I'll do that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, thank you, sir. I appreciate your call.
Speaker 4: Appreciate that very much.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 4: You are you are listening to Guardline and we are
Speaker 4: here to help you have success.
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Speaker 4: to go now up to Cypress and we're going to
Speaker 4: talk to James. Hey, James, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 5: Good morning. How are you, sir? I'm doing well, Thank you, okay,
Speaker 5: thank you.
Speaker 16: Hey.
Speaker 5: I have a strip of weed grass next to my
Speaker 5: driveway about fifteen feet by fifty feet, all weeds because
Speaker 5: I had a driveway put in and I want to
Speaker 5: replace that with side. My question is can I do
Speaker 5: I have to remove this layer of weeds before I
Speaker 5: level it and put in grass. I was thinking could
Speaker 5: I just till it up with a garden tiller and
Speaker 5: add the layer of pop soil and then put in
Speaker 5: said Okay.
Speaker 4: So, James, the answer to your question depends on one
Speaker 4: big thing. Are they perennial or are they annual weeds?
Speaker 4: So if they're annuals, you till it up, you don't
Speaker 4: worry about it. You put in your side, cover it
Speaker 4: all up, and you move on. If it was something
Speaker 4: like nuts edge or bermuda grass or some other perennial weed,
Speaker 4: then it's just gonna come up through your side, it's
Speaker 4: going to pop back through from underground.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 4: In general, tilling does a good job of destroying them.
Speaker 4: If you can rake or pick out a lot of
Speaker 4: the weeds, that's good. But that is you know, I
Speaker 4: can't tell you yes or no because I don't know
Speaker 4: exactly what weeds you have. Chances are you would be
Speaker 4: okay doing that, but you may be fighting weeds later
Speaker 4: in the lawn, which is also okay.
Speaker 5: You can do that sure. And then I was complaining
Speaker 5: about putting in bermuda grass. Kind of I don't have
Speaker 5: a sprinkler system. I like bermuda grass. Oh, okay, if
Speaker 5: there are a certain behind that you would recommend.
Speaker 4: There are a number of great kinds up there, and
Speaker 4: you know, I would do sod not seed. It's much better.
Speaker 4: Uh there, gosh, there's so many name Let me let
Speaker 4: me do this. If you go to Aggie turf website,
Speaker 4: it's Aggie turf dot TAMU dot ed you at the
Speaker 4: bottom left there's Texas turf Grass. You click on it
Speaker 4: and it goes through every turf grass and it gives
Speaker 4: you varieties and everything like that to look for. If
Speaker 4: you go locally here someplace you know, like, oh gosh,
Speaker 4: what's the King Ranch turf grass? For example, they're going
Speaker 4: to have certain cultivars of bermuda that they grow. You
Speaker 4: want a semi dwarf bermuda one that's kind of a
Speaker 4: golf course green height plant, not a golf course I'm sorry,
Speaker 4: golf course fairway. I said it backwards. The thing you
Speaker 4: see on golf course fairways and football fields. That's a
Speaker 4: semi dwarf, not a golf course green, and not a
Speaker 4: big old coastal bermuda that gets tall. But there are
Speaker 4: a lot of good varieties of it, and a good
Speaker 4: turf provider will be able to put you in touch
Speaker 4: with a good variety.
Speaker 5: Do you have to have one? More? Fast questions?
Speaker 4: Real quick? Okay?
Speaker 5: I need to fill in soil in the backyard where
Speaker 5: I have a leech field? Is there all right? I
Speaker 5: need a very light soil, very light so it does
Speaker 5: a compact leech field. Do you have a recommendation or
Speaker 5: can I have one mixed?
Speaker 4: All right? Real quick? I would go to Heirloom Soils
Speaker 4: and ask for their lawn mix. Lawn mix, okay, and
Speaker 4: you can call out to the porter place where they're
Speaker 4: probably shipping it out of. It's two eight one three
Speaker 4: five four nineteen fifty two eight one three five four
Speaker 4: nineteen fifty. Hey, thanks for the call. Appreciate that very much.
Speaker 4: Good luck with that fix. My slab is as I
Speaker 4: was telling you, A good place to go. Another example
Speaker 4: of a good place to go is League City Feed.
Speaker 4: The Thunderberg family has been doing this for forty years.
Speaker 4: It's an old time feed store. You're going to find
Speaker 4: the products that you need there. We're talking about nitrofoss azamite, microlife,
Speaker 4: heirloom soils, you know, Nelson Plant Food. They've got it
Speaker 4: all right there. Anything you need for your law and
Speaker 4: your garden. They also have good quality feed feed for
Speaker 4: maybe you got back your chickens. You need some feed
Speaker 4: for those feed for your pets, feed for other things.
Speaker 4: League City Feed is easy to get to because it's
Speaker 4: on Highway three, just a few blocks south of Highway
Speaker 4: ninety six in League City. Now. They're open every day
Speaker 4: except Sunday, nine am to six pm nine am to
Speaker 4: six pm. Here's the phone number two eight one three
Speaker 4: three two sixteen twelve. League City Feed two eight one
Speaker 4: three three two sixteen twelve. It's a place where they
Speaker 4: still carry your bags out for you. That a kind
Speaker 4: of old fashioned service. All right, you're listening to garden Line.
Speaker 4: I'm your host, Skip Ricker seven one three two one
Speaker 4: two KTRH. If you need to give us call, we'll
Speaker 4: be happy to help you with that. If you are
Speaker 4: doing any kind of potting up of plants jungle Land.
Speaker 4: Jungle Land from Nitrofoss has two products that work well.
Speaker 4: One is jungle Land Flour and Vegetable planting soil. It's
Speaker 4: a potting soil for outdoors in your containers. There's also
Speaker 4: a jungle Land water Saber potting soil for indoors that
Speaker 4: gives you a little extra water retention in case you
Speaker 4: can get to water. Now you're going to find Nitrofoss
Speaker 4: products at a lot of places Bearings Hardware. Both the
Speaker 4: one on Bissonet and Westeimer have it, M and D
Speaker 4: out in Rosenberg they carry it a City Hardware memorial
Speaker 4: or Northwest Plants for all seasons. They carry night frost
Speaker 4: products there as well. Someone was asking me about was
Speaker 4: that place that you say had all the roses and
Speaker 4: RCW Nursries. I've been talking about them all spring. They
Speaker 4: have a huge selection of roaches, pages and pages and pages.
Speaker 4: Find them on Facebook RCW Nursery. On Facebook you can
Speaker 4: go to the website it's RCW Nursries dot com. But
Speaker 4: on Facebook right top front center they've got they're twenty
Speaker 4: twenty five rows list there. And the Houston roadse Society.
Speaker 4: Those rosarians they know, they know RCW is a place
Speaker 4: where you can get those kind of roses. They are
Speaker 4: stocked on vegetables, they're stocked on color, they're stocked camellias.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, I was telling you earlier. You need
Speaker 4: to plant a camellia if you want flowers in December
Speaker 4: and January. There's two kinds of commiteas. It'll do just
Speaker 4: that for you. It's really easy to do. They have
Speaker 4: advice that is accurate. They have people that know what
Speaker 4: they're talking about. That's what I mean when I recommend
Speaker 4: you check out RCW nurseres right now. Fifteen percent off azaleas.
Speaker 4: Fifteen percent off azaleas at RCW Nurseries. There's also fifteen
Speaker 4: percent off their camellias. Don't delay. Now's the time to
Speaker 4: get it planted. RCW nurseries dot com. They're the garden
Speaker 4: center where Tombo Parkway, which is IA two forty nine
Speaker 4: comes into belt Way eight. Tombo Parkway a belt Way eight.
Speaker 4: In my own yard, was looking and I have some weeds, Yes,
Speaker 4: I know the garden line guy has weeds.
Speaker 5: I do.
Speaker 4: I just have a few, though, so I'm going to
Speaker 4: be hand pulling those. They're not enough. I you know,
Speaker 4: I could mix up a spray and square them with
Speaker 4: it and stuff, but I'd rather just not do that.
Speaker 4: And I was out doing some hand pulling on them,
Speaker 4: and I noticed that the hand bet flowers were just
Speaker 4: about to come out. And when the flowers come out,
Speaker 4: the seeds follow. And when the seeds follow, you're in
Speaker 4: trouble because next fall they'll sprout and you'll be up
Speaker 4: a creek as a result of that, And You don't
Speaker 4: want to mess around with that for sure, So time
Speaker 4: to get out and if you're hand pulling, now's the
Speaker 4: time definitely to get that done. Growers Outlet up in
Speaker 4: Willis is a great place to go. It's on It's
Speaker 4: on Highway seventy five, just minutes away from forty five.
Speaker 4: Here's the website. You need to write it down. Growers
Speaker 4: Outlet in Willis. Don't forget the word in Growers Outlet
Speaker 4: in Willis dot com. They carry fertilizers like Microlife and
Speaker 4: and Medina so on. They serve that whole region from
Speaker 4: Lake Conroe down to Conro, up to Willis up to
Speaker 4: New Waverley. You get everything you want there and they
Speaker 4: put their stuff online. You can check availability at Growers
Speaker 4: Outlets in Willis dot com. Go check them out. I
Speaker 4: was there the other day. Amazing. If you've got one
Speaker 4: drop of gardening blood in you, this is a week
Speaker 4: or as the song was playing, Walking on Sunshine, I'm
Speaker 4: telling you, if you could stay inside this week and
Speaker 4: I go outside and play in the dirt, there's something
Speaker 4: seriously wrong. We need to talk because this is a
Speaker 4: perfect week for gardening, A perfect week for gardening. Don't forget.
Speaker 4: You know, I've been talking about fertilizers all day. Asamite
Speaker 4: is a micro nutrient supplement that you put down. We
Speaker 4: also say trace mineral, trace mineral, micronutrients, basically the same thing,
Speaker 4: and you put it down because those tiny amounts of
Speaker 4: libdenum and manganese and iron and zinc and boron and all,
Speaker 4: you know, all the micro nutrients, they all need to
Speaker 4: be supplemented. And this is a product that's mined out
Speaker 4: of the ground in Utah. It's a natural product, comes
Speaker 4: out of the ground, made from volcanic ash and freshwater
Speaker 4: minerals basically, and it makes sure that the bank account
Speaker 4: in your soul has those things in it. And that's
Speaker 4: important because the grass every day that it's growing is
Speaker 4: taking up nutrients and it's taking up all of them.
Speaker 4: You can't make a grass blade without some obscure nutrient
Speaker 4: like boron, for example, and that's never on the fertilizer
Speaker 4: bag you see. You know, it's the big three numbers.
Speaker 4: You see. Well, asmite provides that you can go to
Speaker 4: Azmite Texas dot com if you just want to find it.
Speaker 4: Ace hardware stores, the feed stores that we talk about,
Speaker 4: the garden centers. We talk about lots of places you're
Speaker 4: going to find it. Southwest Fertilizer or course ees that
Speaker 4: they have everything, but you just need to get it
Speaker 4: and you get it out. And now it would be
Speaker 4: a good time to go ahead and get that done.
Speaker 4: Plants for all seasons is the Garden Center there on
Speaker 4: two forty nine on the way to Tomball Tomball Parkway.
Speaker 4: If you were going no, let me direct you this way.
Speaker 4: If you're going north toward Tomball from Houston direction, you
Speaker 4: exit Luetta Crossover Luetta and it's right there on to
Speaker 4: forty nine, right there past Lovetta and you need to
Speaker 4: go in. You need to check out their tool selection.
Speaker 4: They have a wonderful selection. I was in there the
Speaker 4: other day checking them over. Every single one. A quality brand.
Speaker 4: We're talking about a tool that you buy and it
Speaker 4: lasts forever. It lasts forever they have it. Do you
Speaker 4: go in there and ask them any question and they
Speaker 4: can help you. For example, I've got pets. I want
Speaker 4: house plants that won't poison my pets. What do you
Speaker 4: got and they can tell you that. See what I mean.
Speaker 4: They know the answers to all kinds of things. They're
Speaker 4: loaded up now with plants. It's spring, So what kind
Speaker 4: of herbs do you want? We were talking earlier about
Speaker 4: someone using our regano as a groundcover. Oh my god,
Speaker 4: they got a reguo. Do they have time?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: How many kinds of time do you want? Go by
Speaker 4: there and check out plants for all seasons. Expert advice,
Speaker 4: expert plants. It is time, folks. We gotta get busy
Speaker 4: this week. It is the week I'm officially kicking off spring. Now,
Speaker 4: please call the weather man and ask him to cancel
Speaker 4: any late for us. I don't think we're gonna have
Speaker 4: any so I'm kicking off spring at my house. At least.
Speaker 4: Let's go out to friends with We're gonna talk to Charlie. Hey, Charlie,
Speaker 4: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 5: Good morning to you, skip, good to talk to you.
Speaker 5: I got a question.
Speaker 18: Thinking about trying to put in blueberries for breakfast, and
Speaker 18: give me some.
Speaker 4: All right, Well, the first tip, I'm going to send
Speaker 4: you to a website because there after you and I
Speaker 4: quit talking and you're wondering what did he say about this?
Speaker 4: Or that, you can just go right there and you
Speaker 4: can see it. And that's the Aggie Horticulture website. Just search,
Speaker 4: do a search for Aggie horticulture. There is a fruit section,
Speaker 4: and there's a whole free publication multicolor on blueberries that
Speaker 4: goes into every aspect, Charlie, from the soils you put
Speaker 4: them in, to the way you fertilize them, to the
Speaker 4: way you prune them, to the varieties that do best.
Speaker 4: And here in our area, Charlie, you've got two options
Speaker 4: for blueberry varieties. One type is called the rabbit eye.
Speaker 4: It's called that because the immature berries are pink like
Speaker 4: a like an albino rabbit eye. They turn blue. The
Speaker 4: other type is called Southern high bush. That's a bigger berry,
Speaker 4: and it's a little picky about water quality, so you're
Speaker 4: gonna want probably depending on your water quality in your area,
Speaker 4: you may need to consider some rain water for it.
Speaker 4: But if you've got decent quality, that's okay too. Southern
Speaker 4: high bush I like those a lot, but I like
Speaker 4: the rabbit eyes too. So the Southern high bush is
Speaker 4: a little more, a little dwarfer, a little compared to
Speaker 4: rabbit eye. Doesn't get quite as large as rabbitie blueberries.
Speaker 4: So whether it's growing in a container or in the
Speaker 4: ground around your house, both of them will do well.
Speaker 4: And there's a lot of good a lot of good
Speaker 4: advice out there at Aggie horticulture dot com. That that's
Speaker 4: why I kind of recommending that.
Speaker 18: That also you tolerate that our blackberries are looking puny
Speaker 18: so far this year. Anyone perk them up? You recommend
Speaker 18: that's blackberries?
Speaker 4: What are they looking What are they looking like? Can
Speaker 4: you describe them to me?
Speaker 5: Just basically smaller moller than experience in the past.
Speaker 4: Okay, Uh, yeah, you know, who knows. It could be
Speaker 4: the weather, It could be a lot of things. Blackberries
Speaker 4: like a soil a little bit on the acidic side.
Speaker 4: Sometimes they get chlorotic. When they don't get that. Uh,
Speaker 4: they like good soil moisture. But then you're gonna need
Speaker 4: to fertilize them a little to keep them happy. It
Speaker 4: just gets you a good quality fruit type fertilizer. They'll
Speaker 4: do just fine with that. Any either way you go
Speaker 4: and you're down there, you know, with where you're located,
Speaker 4: I mean, you have so many Ace Hardware stores. It's
Speaker 4: not difficult at all to find one right there in
Speaker 4: the big middle of Friends, which You've got Ace Hardware
Speaker 4: on West Edgewood Drive right there. So that's probably the
Speaker 4: closest one to you. And they're going to have a
Speaker 4: quality fertilizer for fruit from the many different brands we
Speaker 4: talk about here, whether it's Microlife or Nitrofoss or Nelson,
Speaker 4: they're going to carry those kind of things.
Speaker 5: Ship.
Speaker 4: Thanks sir, Yeah, I appreciate that. Hey, speaking of Nitrofoss
Speaker 4: has their Imperial fifteen five to ten, and I want
Speaker 4: to tell you, I know it doesn't it's a lawn fertilizer,
Speaker 4: but if you buy some for your lawn, just get
Speaker 4: an extra bag, use it on your blackberries, using your
Speaker 4: fruit trees. It works really well, it really does. On
Speaker 4: that You can also buy the specific types made for
Speaker 4: fruit and stuff. That's fine, but nitro Foss Imperial is
Speaker 4: just great now for the lawn. It's my on the
Speaker 4: schedule as my early green up fertilizer, and if you
Speaker 4: get my schedule at gardening with Skip dot com you'll
Speaker 4: see it right there. A lot of people print it out.
Speaker 4: They print both of the schedules. I like to do
Speaker 4: them front back, safe piece of paper and you just
Speaker 4: put them out in the garage and you always got
Speaker 4: them there ready to go when you're ready to fertilize.
Speaker 4: Night foss Imperial is the orange red bag, the orange
Speaker 4: red bag. And you're gonna find it at all kinds
Speaker 4: of places because many places carry nitrofoss products. I mean,
Speaker 4: have you ever I don't. It's hard to go into
Speaker 4: a place that doesn't have nitrofoss. It just really is.
Speaker 4: For example, you're gonna find it at Lake hardwren Clute,
Speaker 4: Lake Hardwarn Angleton RCW Nursery carries these nitro frossprin Langham
Speaker 4: Creek Ace Hardware. We're talking about them earlier today on
Speaker 4: FM five point twenty nine right there in the big
Speaker 4: middle of Copperfield. And then Plantation Ace out there in
Speaker 4: the Richmond Rosenberg area, just another place you can get
Speaker 4: night foss products. I'm gonna head now out to Andy
Speaker 4: and you are sure. Hey, Andy, welcome to guarden Line.
Speaker 3: Good good morning, and thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 3: I'm a first time caller, but I do listen to
Speaker 3: your show. And what I have today, I have a project.
Speaker 3: I have a it's this is a rose bush that's
Speaker 3: over thirty years old and today I'm going to do
Speaker 3: the pruning of it. I need to cut some branches
Speaker 3: because it's really really has extended pretty well. But the
Speaker 3: question that I have is do I need to put
Speaker 3: like a ceilant after I cut? Or is it okay
Speaker 3: to leave it open as is after cutting? Would you
Speaker 3: recommend it open?
Speaker 4: No, it's fine, just leave it open. Yeah, that's okay, great, Great,
Speaker 4: do the prune in that you need to do. It's
Speaker 4: good that you're doing it now. Roses are amazingly resilient.
Speaker 4: You can cut them back pretty hard and they bounce
Speaker 4: right back. So bring it down to size like you want. Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 4: do you know what kind it is? By the way,
Speaker 4: happen to know what variety it is? Is it one
Speaker 4: that makes the long cutflower stems or is it more
Speaker 4: just a shrubby rose?
Speaker 22: They had?
Speaker 3: They had the okay, the stems are short and sometimes
Speaker 3: they're either yellow or they're pink. But they bloom like
Speaker 3: twice a year. And uh, my wife's grandfather planted that
Speaker 3: for us when we first moved in here. It's thirty
Speaker 3: five years old or more. The uh okay, the rose bush?
Speaker 4: Hey, and would you want to make would you take.
Speaker 23: Care of it?
Speaker 18: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, well I gotta I gotta run, But would I'm
Speaker 4: going to put you on hold if you're willing, would
Speaker 4: you get my email from the producer and when it blooms,
Speaker 4: so you send me a picture of it. I'd like
Speaker 4: to see, uh, the variety and just remind me of
Speaker 4: remind me you called and we talked about a thirty
Speaker 4: five year old rose. Thanks Andy, I appreciate that. Folks.
Speaker 4: It's time for me to take a little break here, uh,
Speaker 4: and I'll be right back for our last segment of
Speaker 4: the show today. All right, folks, stem you're back. Welcome
Speaker 4: back to Gardenline. Good to have you with us, Good
Speaker 4: to have you with us. So listen, if you are
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Speaker 4: Now you're thinking, well, birds eat seed. Come on, man, now,
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Speaker 4: birds are going to kick out to get to the
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Speaker 4: provides the protein they need, the calcium because we got
Speaker 4: birds that are nesting, they're laying eggs. They need they
Speaker 4: need that calcium obviously during an egg laying season, but
Speaker 4: they need it more than just now. When you buy
Speaker 4: a nesting super blend, you are going to get stuff
Speaker 4: that at Those birds are excited about every granule in
Speaker 4: that packet, sunflower chips, peanuts, meal worms, bark, butter bits,
Speaker 4: safflower tree nuts, and as I said, calcium. Now, we're
Speaker 4: coming up on hummingbird season. If however, you I'd hurry
Speaker 4: up and go ahead and get the high perched feeder.
Speaker 4: It's not too far away. We're about a month out
Speaker 4: before we see some humming birds coming through here. Well,
Speaker 4: and I just was reading some of my text other day.
Speaker 4: Some people had them stay all a few birds stay
Speaker 4: all winter, so there's that. The squirrel proof feeder is
Speaker 4: called the squirrel eliminator. Okay, the squirrel, the feeder, the eliminade.
Speaker 4: Just remember the word eliminator. It works, It really really works.
Speaker 4: I've got one. I love it, The birds love it,
Speaker 4: the squirrels hate it, which warms my heart. And then
Speaker 4: finally I just got one the other day. The hopper feeder.
Speaker 4: This is the called the Eco Tough and it was
Speaker 4: designed by the owner of Wildbirds. It's got excellent drainage,
Speaker 4: keeps your seeds dry. Gosh, it's so frustrating when it
Speaker 4: rains on your seeds and they got throw them away
Speaker 4: because they're all soggy, wet and molded. The Eco Tough
Speaker 4: hopper feeder is another one. It's it's just one of
Speaker 4: the basic If someone's coming and going, hey, Skip, I
Speaker 4: want to do birds, where should I start? I would
Speaker 4: Eco Tough hopper feeders just a great way to start.
Speaker 4: And don't forget that nesting super blend. All right, we
Speaker 4: are going to go out to Jim in Meadows Place.
Speaker 4: Hey Jim, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 5: Hello Skip.
Speaker 16: About a week ago I got two tomato plants to
Speaker 16: jalapena peppers. I put them in five gallon containers with
Speaker 16: Landscaper's Pride Magic, so we'll put a little bit of
Speaker 16: root stimulator in when I'm planning them. Question is what's
Speaker 16: the best fertilizer now to use on these for plants feed?
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's there are a number of things. I mean,
Speaker 4: you can use something that's a book bag, but I
Speaker 4: would I would probably well they've already been planted, So
Speaker 4: I was going to say, Neutristar Genesis is a great
Speaker 4: one to use. I would just switch over to the
Speaker 4: the Nelson product that is for vegetables. Okay, uh it
Speaker 4: it works well, it's going to give you a release
Speaker 4: over time, and I really I really like that because
Speaker 4: instead of all the fertilizer just washing right out and
Speaker 4: then you're done, you're going to get a feeding that
Speaker 4: lasts over time. And so it's one of the many
Speaker 4: products that's part of Nelson's Neutral Star line. So that
Speaker 4: that's the one I would suggest you use.
Speaker 16: Jack the granules that come in the plastic containers says
Speaker 16: for vegetables.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yes, Now they Nelson's makes one called organic Tomato
Speaker 4: and that's an eight five five that you could also
Speaker 4: use that's another option that you have there, uh, the
Speaker 4: one that I have used mostly in the past. It's
Speaker 4: called vegetable garden and vegetable garden. It is great. You
Speaker 4: just take your little teaspoon and put it in there.
Speaker 4: You don't have to put much and it's gonna last
Speaker 4: so and I like the jars. And also a lot
Speaker 4: of places will refill some of those products too.
Speaker 5: Okay, well that's what I needed to know. Appreciate the help, all.
Speaker 4: Right, sir, Thank you, appreciate your call very very much.
Speaker 4: Plants for all seasons. We were talking about those earlier,
Speaker 4: and I just love going to places like that. The
Speaker 4: last time I was in there, I was visiting with
Speaker 4: some of the Flowerdy family and we were just all
Speaker 4: excited because spring is here. Boy, is spring over here.
Speaker 4: I hope this You know what, Call into work and
Speaker 4: just tell them you need your vacation now and just
Speaker 4: take the Let's take the week off, get this done.
Speaker 4: If you are a gardener, you got to be on
Speaker 4: the edge of your chair ready to go. So many things,
Speaker 4: vegetables and herb. What have you not grown before? Let's
Speaker 4: grow some this year. Let's just do it that way. Hey,
Speaker 4: I told you about Pest Brothers earlier. In fact, we
Speaker 4: talked about them two or three times today. They're a
Speaker 4: regional pest company. They serve the whole Houston area. When
Speaker 4: I say the whole Houston area, I'm talking about from
Speaker 4: Texas City all the way up to the Woodlands, from
Speaker 4: Baytown all the way across the Kadie. And when I
Speaker 4: say pest control, I'm talking about the indoor things, you know,
Speaker 4: the termites and the other household pests. You know, if
Speaker 4: people are standing on the furniture screaming because the cockroach
Speaker 4: went across the floor, Well, called Pest Brothers. They'll put
Speaker 4: an end of that. And they do things effectively. They
Speaker 4: know how to do it effectively, and they know how
Speaker 4: to do it in the safest possible manner, so you
Speaker 4: get long term results without worries. Now, out in the yard,
Speaker 4: we got fire ants, and we got wall environments roming
Speaker 4: around like mice and rats. They take care of all
Speaker 4: that stuff. And then they have that thing that people
Speaker 4: have been asking me about. That is their mosquito system.
Speaker 4: That is a bucket, that is a bait and it
Speaker 4: is so cool and let me see if I want
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Speaker 4: This is state of the art and Pest Brothers has it.
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Speaker 4: you want effective and safe mosquito control. So they attract
Speaker 4: the adult mosquitos. They have a smell that attracts them in.
Speaker 4: Once inside them, mosquitos pick up this fine powder because
Speaker 4: they have to land on a little screen. Then they
Speaker 4: pick up the powder. Okay, two different products cling to
Speaker 4: their bodies. They lay eggs, and one product is in
Speaker 4: the is going to drop into the water. It's going
Speaker 4: to kill the larvae and the pupa before they even
Speaker 4: develop into adult mosquitos. So as I come over here,
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Speaker 4: will never show up. That's good. Secondly, the adults carry
Speaker 4: those two products with them as they fly. When they
Speaker 4: land a little body of water, maybe it is a
Speaker 4: bird bath, maybe it is a saggy uh you know,
Speaker 4: gutter on your house and it's holding water and they're
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Speaker 4: will not hurt birds or pets or lady beetles or
Speaker 4: it's it's designed for mosquitoes. The other product is a
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Speaker 4: two oh six forty six seventy. All right, I'm about
Speaker 4: to jump in a car. Here, I'm going to head
Speaker 4: to the Montgomery County Home and Living Show, an outdoor
Speaker 4: living show. It is at the Lone Start Convention Center
Speaker 4: on Airport Road on the north side of Conro I'll
Speaker 4: be there from twelve to two. I'm gonna give a
Speaker 4: talk on spring gardening tips. Come on out and see
Speaker 4: me giving away products from Medina and products from Nelson Fertilized.
Speaker 4: We were just talking about those a while ago, you know.
Speaker 4: Come on out there, and who knows, maybe you'll win
Speaker 4: one of those products. I'll answer your gardening questions. You
Speaker 4: can bring me samples if you like. You can bring
Speaker 4: me photos if you like. Today's been a busy day
Speaker 4: and I've just had a short time with each caller
Speaker 4: to be able to help out there at the Home
Speaker 4: and Garden Show. I got time to sit down and
Speaker 4: visit with you, So come on out. Hope to see
Speaker 4: you then. Oh, by the way, it's free to get
Speaker 4: in and free parking.