WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.040 --> 00:00:04.799 Welcome to Katie r. H. Garden Line with Skip Rictor. 2 00:00:04.919 --> 00:00:07.440 It's crazy. 3 00:00:13.640 --> 00:00:22.920 Just watch him as many thanks to see bats. 4 00:00:29.879 --> 00:00:32.000 Not a sign credit. 5 00:00:35.719 --> 00:00:43.200 Sunamwe all right? Good morning folks, Good Sunday morning. We 6 00:00:43.359 --> 00:00:45.600 are glad to have you joining us today. I'm your host, 7 00:00:45.600 --> 00:00:48.000 Skip Rictor, and this is Garden Line. Garden Line. For 8 00:00:48.079 --> 00:00:49.960 those of you who are tuning in for the first time, 9 00:00:50.520 --> 00:00:54.719 well welcome. First of all, it's a call in show 10 00:00:54.719 --> 00:00:57.520 where we answer your gardening questions and basically my job 11 00:00:58.079 --> 00:01:00.880 or what I try to accomplish or three things. I 12 00:01:00.920 --> 00:01:03.759 want you to have a more bountiful garden, I want 13 00:01:03.799 --> 00:01:05.680 you to have a more beautiful landscape, and I want 14 00:01:05.719 --> 00:01:08.040 you to have fun in the process. So that's what 15 00:01:08.079 --> 00:01:09.439 we try to do here. We'll have a little bit 16 00:01:09.480 --> 00:01:12.239 of fun today as we go along. But if you 17 00:01:12.359 --> 00:01:14.680 have a question you would like to call in seven 18 00:01:14.760 --> 00:01:18.640 one three two one two five eight seven four for 19 00:01:18.680 --> 00:01:21.560 our first public service announcement of the day is it 20 00:01:21.680 --> 00:01:23.760 is time to get stuff done in the garden and 21 00:01:23.840 --> 00:01:27.959 landscape and the folks at Nelson's have put together a 22 00:01:28.000 --> 00:01:31.319 combination of really great products. It works well. I was 23 00:01:31.359 --> 00:01:34.959 out at RCW Nursery yesterday and by the way, thanks 24 00:01:34.959 --> 00:01:37.560 folks for having us out there and for everybody that 25 00:01:37.599 --> 00:01:40.359 came out. We had a really really good time. And 26 00:01:40.799 --> 00:01:44.799 I was visiting with someone about carbo load they had 27 00:01:45.480 --> 00:01:47.840 they had a question about it. And carbo load is 28 00:01:47.840 --> 00:01:52.959 a product for fall fertilizing from Nelson's Okay, So carbo 29 00:01:53.000 --> 00:01:56.840 load has the perfect blend of nutrients for fall. The 30 00:01:56.920 --> 00:01:59.359 blend you want a little less nitrogen, a little more 31 00:01:59.400 --> 00:02:02.680 potassium to go into the fall season with good cold 32 00:02:02.680 --> 00:02:06.480 heartiness and to come out in the spring strong. It 33 00:02:06.560 --> 00:02:09.719 also has a pre emergent herbicide in it, so that 34 00:02:10.240 --> 00:02:13.039 means it's more important to get that thing down soon, 35 00:02:13.360 --> 00:02:18.919 like today tomorrow because our cool season, we'd start germinating 36 00:02:18.960 --> 00:02:21.479 when the soil taps sit about seventy degrees, which we're 37 00:02:21.560 --> 00:02:23.599 pretty much there. We just need a little water on 38 00:02:23.680 --> 00:02:26.120 the ground and we're going to see some cool season weeds. 39 00:02:26.919 --> 00:02:31.479 Well that's coming later this week, perhaps the rainfall. Get 40 00:02:31.520 --> 00:02:33.759 your carbo load down now, follow the label, put it 41 00:02:33.800 --> 00:02:35.560 down at the right rate and then watered inn with 42 00:02:35.599 --> 00:02:38.199 about a half inch of water, so that moves the 43 00:02:38.199 --> 00:02:41.639 fertilizer down into the soil, and it also moves the 44 00:02:41.680 --> 00:02:43.879 pre emerging into the soil surface where it can do 45 00:02:43.919 --> 00:02:47.680 its work. That's carbo load from Nelson. They call it 46 00:02:47.719 --> 00:02:51.400 carbo load because when you put it down, your grass 47 00:02:51.479 --> 00:02:54.759 plant kicks into gear, being able not just to take 48 00:02:54.800 --> 00:02:56.879 off growth. We don't need a lot of that now, 49 00:02:56.919 --> 00:03:02.400 but to produce carbohydrates in order to capture those stored 50 00:03:02.520 --> 00:03:05.840 energies for winter and for coming out in spring. Carboloat 51 00:03:05.879 --> 00:03:09.759 But I know, anyways, explaining to them how some of 52 00:03:09.759 --> 00:03:15.240 those different things work. You know, it's important that when 53 00:03:15.280 --> 00:03:16.960 we're gardening. I mean, we don't have to know all 54 00:03:16.960 --> 00:03:20.199 the details and the science of gardening and everything else 55 00:03:20.360 --> 00:03:23.479 like that, but it is important to be able to 56 00:03:23.599 --> 00:03:27.240 understand some of the principles because when you do, then 57 00:03:27.400 --> 00:03:29.840 you're able to have more success. You know, it's not 58 00:03:30.159 --> 00:03:34.479 just one particular go do this or go do that. 59 00:03:34.560 --> 00:03:36.719 But why why do we do that? Why do we 60 00:03:36.759 --> 00:03:42.560 time our things applications when we do well? This is 61 00:03:42.560 --> 00:03:46.120 your public a service public Oh, cal let me try 62 00:03:46.159 --> 00:03:50.039 it again. This is your public service announcement Number two. 63 00:03:50.759 --> 00:03:55.960 Don't delay your fall lawn care. It's important. There's three 64 00:03:56.039 --> 00:03:59.080 things basically that are part of fall lawn care, and 65 00:03:59.120 --> 00:04:01.719 that is number one and making sure we get our 66 00:04:01.800 --> 00:04:04.759 nutrients down. The sooner you get them down, the more 67 00:04:04.800 --> 00:04:07.000 time the plant has to take them up before we 68 00:04:07.039 --> 00:04:09.960 get into cold weather. And as the soil gets colder 69 00:04:09.960 --> 00:04:12.759 and colder, the root activity goes down and you don't 70 00:04:12.759 --> 00:04:15.240 get it's good to take up. So get it done now. 71 00:04:15.439 --> 00:04:17.920 Number two, if you're going to do a pre emergent, 72 00:04:17.959 --> 00:04:20.360 if you have a thin lawn where sunlight is hitting 73 00:04:20.360 --> 00:04:22.480 the soil, if you've got a problem with weeds every year, 74 00:04:23.120 --> 00:04:25.639 cool season weeds are about to germinate, get the pre 75 00:04:25.720 --> 00:04:29.319 emergent down now. It's like playing baseball. That's my analogy 76 00:04:29.360 --> 00:04:32.240 for this. If you wait to swing until the ball 77 00:04:32.360 --> 00:04:34.480 is in front of you at the plate, it's too late. 78 00:04:35.279 --> 00:04:37.120 You got to swing when the picture lets it go. 79 00:04:37.399 --> 00:04:40.160 The picture has let the ball go, It's time to 80 00:04:40.199 --> 00:04:43.639 get the pre emergent out so that when the weeds germinate, 81 00:04:43.800 --> 00:04:47.920 you've already put that protection down. Third thing is if 82 00:04:47.959 --> 00:04:50.240 you have a lawn that's been plagued by take all 83 00:04:50.319 --> 00:04:53.879 root rot and by a brown patch in the cool season, 84 00:04:54.360 --> 00:04:57.600 it's time to get something down to protect against that. 85 00:04:58.319 --> 00:05:01.160 And the reason is once the circles up here, it's 86 00:05:01.399 --> 00:05:03.959 you know, you can apply it and maybe stop additional circles, 87 00:05:03.959 --> 00:05:06.439 but you're gonna have brown ugly all winter until it 88 00:05:06.480 --> 00:05:09.600 greens up in the spring. So get ahead of these things. 89 00:05:10.040 --> 00:05:12.879 He who hesitates is lost. It is time to get 90 00:05:12.879 --> 00:05:17.519 all those done. You're listening to Guardline. I'm your host, 91 00:05:17.639 --> 00:05:22.120 Skip Richter, and I yesterday was down at or over 92 00:05:22.199 --> 00:05:25.480 at RCW Nursery and we had a really good time. 93 00:05:25.519 --> 00:05:28.879 They put on a really nice event over there, and 94 00:05:30.120 --> 00:05:32.720 I was just noticing that, you know, they are always 95 00:05:32.800 --> 00:05:36.720 loaded up on different kinds of things. They've got the 96 00:05:37.120 --> 00:05:40.800 shrubs and trees, for example, that they grow themselves up 97 00:05:40.839 --> 00:05:43.879 in the planters bill area at the tree farm. And 98 00:05:44.199 --> 00:05:46.759 so when you go to RCW and you buy a 99 00:05:46.800 --> 00:05:50.120 shrubber tree or woody vine, rose bush, those things, you 100 00:05:50.160 --> 00:05:53.199 know you're getting quality plants. You know you're getting plants 101 00:05:53.439 --> 00:05:55.600 that are going to succeed here because they're the right 102 00:05:55.720 --> 00:05:58.439 species for our area. They have all the things you 103 00:05:58.519 --> 00:06:01.759 need to plant those plants. It's the root stimulators and 104 00:06:01.879 --> 00:06:05.279 other things fertilizers that you might utilize in that process. 105 00:06:05.600 --> 00:06:07.959 And they can also, especially for larger plants, come out 106 00:06:08.000 --> 00:06:11.160 and do the planting for you at your place. So 107 00:06:12.000 --> 00:06:14.480 whatever size the plants you're looking for, you're going to 108 00:06:14.519 --> 00:06:17.439 find them there at RCW Chris. They always have things 109 00:06:17.480 --> 00:06:20.839 like vegetables and herbs and so on. But this is 110 00:06:20.879 --> 00:06:24.199 the fall season so important to plant. And RCW that's 111 00:06:24.240 --> 00:06:26.319 the garden center for those of you who don't know 112 00:06:26.680 --> 00:06:30.279 where tom Ball Parkway comes into Beltway eight right there. 113 00:06:31.040 --> 00:06:33.240 It's easy to get too, and all you got to 114 00:06:33.319 --> 00:06:34.920 do is just go in and check it out. The 115 00:06:34.959 --> 00:06:39.000 place looks great. They're doing a little renovation there and 116 00:06:39.040 --> 00:06:42.600 it's it just keeps getting better. And so RCW is 117 00:06:42.959 --> 00:06:45.399 it's a garden center you definitely need to go see. 118 00:06:45.439 --> 00:06:48.000 And especially now. You know I was talking about doing 119 00:06:48.040 --> 00:06:51.160 things sooner rather than later, Well it is time to 120 00:06:51.240 --> 00:06:54.800 get things planted. When you put a plant in right now, 121 00:06:55.040 --> 00:06:57.839 it's got all the rest of fall in winter to 122 00:06:57.920 --> 00:07:00.639 get roots going in the ground in a very low 123 00:07:00.680 --> 00:07:05.199 stress time, and then when next summer comes, which arrives 124 00:07:05.240 --> 00:07:08.000 early here, it has a better chance of survival and 125 00:07:08.160 --> 00:07:11.360 thriving even in fact, So go out to arciat I 126 00:07:11.439 --> 00:07:14.360 we get those woodies that you think you may want 127 00:07:14.360 --> 00:07:16.800 a plant, like a shrub or like a tree, get 128 00:07:16.839 --> 00:07:19.199 them in the ground. This is the time to do it. 129 00:07:22.079 --> 00:07:25.560 Someone when I was out there was asking me about 130 00:07:26.759 --> 00:07:30.800 some of the flowers, the fall flowers, the ones that 131 00:07:30.839 --> 00:07:32.240 look good in fall, and we kind of have a 132 00:07:32.319 --> 00:07:36.000 double season in fall. We've got the season where we're 133 00:07:36.160 --> 00:07:39.600 planting our warm season. Like you can still plant maragoles, 134 00:07:39.639 --> 00:07:42.519 for example, they just glow, they're beautiful in the fault, 135 00:07:42.560 --> 00:07:45.279 and then right at the towards the end of that 136 00:07:45.319 --> 00:07:48.240 they overlap with when we start planting cool season. Someone 137 00:07:48.360 --> 00:07:50.319 was talking to me about planting dianthus and we were 138 00:07:50.319 --> 00:07:54.120 talking about pansies, and we were talking about alyssum and 139 00:07:54.319 --> 00:07:56.519 snap dragons and all the things that can take a 140 00:07:56.519 --> 00:07:58.240 little bit of cold, some of which can take a 141 00:07:58.279 --> 00:08:02.240 lot of cold. Now time to get that done as well. Well, 142 00:08:02.240 --> 00:08:04.040 I will take a little break here and I'll be 143 00:08:04.160 --> 00:08:07.399 right back with your questions. Seven one three two one 144 00:08:07.519 --> 00:08:12.519 two KTRH seven three two one two k t RH. 145 00:08:12.560 --> 00:08:13.920 If you like to give us a call, if you 146 00:08:14.000 --> 00:08:16.399 got a gardening question, we'll be happy to help you 147 00:08:16.439 --> 00:08:16.639 with that. 148 00:08:17.360 --> 00:08:17.480 Uh. 149 00:08:18.040 --> 00:08:22.120 You know santamultch down south of Houston. They're located on 150 00:08:22.279 --> 00:08:24.959 FM five point twenty one, just north of Road Sharon, 151 00:08:25.040 --> 00:08:27.040 kind of near Highway six. And two eighty eight. That 152 00:08:27.160 --> 00:08:31.639 area sana mulch is the the like one stop shop 153 00:08:31.959 --> 00:08:34.679 for everything you need to set the foundation for a 154 00:08:34.720 --> 00:08:39.320 successful garden. And there's some things in horticulture that are 155 00:08:39.320 --> 00:08:42.559 hard sells to people, meaning that it's hard to get 156 00:08:42.600 --> 00:08:46.440 people to change, to think different or whatever. One of 157 00:08:46.480 --> 00:08:49.679 those is fall planting as boasted to spring. You can 158 00:08:49.720 --> 00:08:51.720 plan any month of the year, but fall is awesome, 159 00:08:51.759 --> 00:08:54.639 and it's just hard. Everybody's excited in spring. We should 160 00:08:54.679 --> 00:08:57.399 be just as excited in the fall. That's one Number two. 161 00:08:58.080 --> 00:09:00.519 Build the soil before you plant the plants. You know, 162 00:09:00.559 --> 00:09:02.399 you go to a garden center and there's flowers and 163 00:09:02.440 --> 00:09:04.919 colors and vegetables and everything everywhere, and it's just like, yeah, 164 00:09:04.960 --> 00:09:07.679 I get it. You love that stuff, but you want 165 00:09:07.679 --> 00:09:10.480 to be able to have success with it. And your 166 00:09:10.799 --> 00:09:13.279 plants live in their roots. Just think of it that way. 167 00:09:13.360 --> 00:09:15.600 Plants live in their root system. So how good is it? 168 00:09:15.679 --> 00:09:18.799 Is it compacted, is it water logged, is it droughty? 169 00:09:18.879 --> 00:09:21.799 Does it have nutrients? Does it have lots of organic 170 00:09:21.840 --> 00:09:25.840 matter just to stimulate microbial activity in the soil. You 171 00:09:25.919 --> 00:09:29.000 get all of that stuff at cienamals, and when you 172 00:09:29.120 --> 00:09:32.440 leave cenamalts with that and you put it in your yard, 173 00:09:32.799 --> 00:09:36.960 you get your gardens ready, you have a thousand percent 174 00:09:37.039 --> 00:09:40.799 chance increase in your success when you put your plants in. 175 00:09:41.200 --> 00:09:43.600 So I'm talking about things like mulch is on top 176 00:09:43.639 --> 00:09:45.799 of the ground. I'm talking about things like bed mixes 177 00:09:45.840 --> 00:09:48.120 and composts to go under the ground. I'm talking about 178 00:09:48.120 --> 00:09:51.120 things like every fertilizer you hear me mention on garden line, 179 00:09:51.679 --> 00:09:57.679 Microlife products, the Nelson products, the nitrofoss products, the Medina products, 180 00:09:57.720 --> 00:10:01.039 you know, Azamite on down the line, talking about brands 181 00:10:01.159 --> 00:10:05.600 like Landscaper's Pride, black Velvet molts, like Heirloom Soils, Veggie 182 00:10:05.600 --> 00:10:08.120 and Herb mix. They've got it all there and they'll 183 00:10:08.120 --> 00:10:10.919 deliver within about twenty miles of their location for a 184 00:10:10.960 --> 00:10:13.320 small fee, So if you need to have them bring 185 00:10:13.320 --> 00:10:15.720 it to you, they can do that. But the main 186 00:10:15.759 --> 00:10:18.840 thing is just go get that done. Follows planting season, 187 00:10:19.480 --> 00:10:22.679 it's time to get those products that you need to 188 00:10:22.720 --> 00:10:26.440 have success. And all cnimals carries as high quality products. 189 00:10:26.480 --> 00:10:28.480 Their stuff is good. You're not going to get cheap 190 00:10:28.519 --> 00:10:31.559 molts if somebody rushed through the process and now it's 191 00:10:31.639 --> 00:10:33.720 just a problem for your plants rather than a benefit. 192 00:10:34.240 --> 00:10:36.080 They know how to build it, they know how to 193 00:10:36.120 --> 00:10:39.039 do it. They know how to provide you the tools 194 00:10:39.039 --> 00:10:42.360 you need to have success. So let's do it. Let's 195 00:10:42.399 --> 00:10:45.519 get it done. It's fall. Let's get planting done with cnimals. 196 00:10:45.559 --> 00:10:48.879 Here's our website, Ciena mult dot com. A simple as that, 197 00:10:48.960 --> 00:10:51.919 cnamultch dot com. Go buy there, give them a call. 198 00:10:52.600 --> 00:10:54.759 Maps on the website if you want to know exactly 199 00:10:54.759 --> 00:10:57.480 how to get there and all that. But the main 200 00:10:57.519 --> 00:11:00.559 thing is just get going. Let's do it. Time to 201 00:11:00.639 --> 00:11:04.200 get that done. They say make hay while the sun shines. 202 00:11:04.320 --> 00:11:08.080 I say, make soil while the sunshines. You know, once 203 00:11:08.120 --> 00:11:10.000 it starts raining, it's hard to get out there and 204 00:11:10.080 --> 00:11:14.080 mix compost into soil. But now's a good time. We 205 00:11:14.200 --> 00:11:16.240 got quite a bit a week here where we can 206 00:11:16.240 --> 00:11:19.919 get stuff like that done. All right. I just always 207 00:11:19.960 --> 00:11:23.120 harp on that, you know, it's soil, soil, so for 208 00:11:24.039 --> 00:11:27.480 But it's true, it's true. One day everybody's can believe me, 209 00:11:27.600 --> 00:11:31.559 and what a wonderful world it will be. Well about 210 00:11:31.559 --> 00:11:35.759 the horticultural stuff, maybe all right, Well, in Channy Gardens 211 00:11:35.759 --> 00:11:39.120 in Richmond, they're on the Katie fullsher side of Richmond. 212 00:11:39.240 --> 00:11:41.279 And if you've been out there, you know what I'm 213 00:11:41.279 --> 00:11:44.559 talking about when I say it is a sprawling wonderland 214 00:11:44.559 --> 00:11:48.679 of plants, it really is. You. They're on FM three 215 00:11:48.879 --> 00:11:52.759 fifty nine again north of Richmond, Katie follsher side. And 216 00:11:53.080 --> 00:11:57.960 here's the website, write this down Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. 217 00:11:58.000 --> 00:11:59.799 They've got a great website with a lot of good 218 00:11:59.840 --> 00:12:02.960 information on it. And I tell you, the Lendermann family 219 00:12:03.080 --> 00:12:06.480 has been in the gardening business down there since nineteen 220 00:12:06.559 --> 00:12:09.159 ninety five, you know when in Chenna Gardens first open 221 00:12:09.720 --> 00:12:12.519 and that independent nursery, that garden center, that mom and 222 00:12:12.559 --> 00:12:15.440 pop the kind we love here in the Greater Houston area. 223 00:12:15.919 --> 00:12:19.039 They've got everything that you need. They've whatever kind of 224 00:12:19.039 --> 00:12:21.320 plant you want to plant, whatever kind of bling you 225 00:12:21.320 --> 00:12:24.679 want to add to the landscape, whatever is seasonal for 226 00:12:24.759 --> 00:12:28.440 that time of the year. And also they had the 227 00:12:28.480 --> 00:12:31.399 products to go with that that you need. So remember 228 00:12:31.720 --> 00:12:34.120 when you take a plan home, take something for the 229 00:12:34.120 --> 00:12:38.039 plant's roots, home, compost, fertilizer, things like that to have 230 00:12:38.120 --> 00:12:38.919 success with it. 231 00:12:39.000 --> 00:12:39.120 Now. 232 00:12:39.120 --> 00:12:42.440 They're open Saturday or Monday through Saturday from eight to 233 00:12:42.519 --> 00:12:46.039 five today Sundays from ten am to four pm. It's 234 00:12:46.080 --> 00:12:48.200 always a good day to visit. Why not hop out 235 00:12:48.200 --> 00:12:52.200 there this summer or this summer, this afternoon and grab 236 00:12:52.279 --> 00:12:54.639 some things. They've got a lot of cool stuff, including 237 00:12:54.759 --> 00:12:59.000 some really nice bulbs inside of their gift shop area. 238 00:12:59.159 --> 00:13:02.639 And boy, those are great for forcing things like m 239 00:13:02.799 --> 00:13:05.879 r ells for example. They just look so beautiful. Make 240 00:13:05.919 --> 00:13:08.240 a good gift too, if you're going anywhere for Thanksgiving, 241 00:13:09.200 --> 00:13:11.519 that would be a great gift for people you go see. 242 00:13:13.000 --> 00:13:15.320 We're going to go now out to Clear Lake, Texas 243 00:13:15.320 --> 00:13:18.279 and talk to Alan. Hey, Alan, welcome to garden Line. 244 00:13:19.039 --> 00:13:23.480 Good morning, Skip. My question actually got three about leaf 245 00:13:23.559 --> 00:13:27.679 mold compost. Every spring, every fall I go over to 246 00:13:27.720 --> 00:13:30.679 Master Nurse three can get a picked up truck full 247 00:13:30.720 --> 00:13:34.679 of They're a good leaf mold compost, and about one 248 00:13:34.720 --> 00:13:37.639 third of it goes into my garden beds. The other 249 00:13:37.720 --> 00:13:40.759 two thirds I scattered by hand over the whole yard. 250 00:13:41.600 --> 00:13:47.000 And I don't know why I did that, scattered over 251 00:13:47.000 --> 00:13:50.360 the whole yard. Maybe I heard it from some on 252 00:13:50.399 --> 00:13:52.919 the guarden line anyway, a long time ago. But I've 253 00:13:52.960 --> 00:13:55.159 been doing this for about five or six years, and 254 00:13:55.960 --> 00:13:58.240 this past Saturday, just to set it up a little bit, 255 00:13:58.240 --> 00:14:01.919 more this. I mean the second Saturday of October, I 256 00:14:02.039 --> 00:14:07.000 did the Texas three step. So okay, So since I 257 00:14:07.080 --> 00:14:10.720 put down the eagle and everything else, is it still 258 00:14:10.759 --> 00:14:13.879 okay for me? The scatter the extra leaf mold compost 259 00:14:13.919 --> 00:14:14.399 on the lawn. 260 00:14:15.000 --> 00:14:18.120 Oh yeah, oh yeah, it's fine. Huh, it's uh. It's 261 00:14:18.200 --> 00:14:22.279 it's organic matter that's in an advanced stage of decomposition 262 00:14:22.399 --> 00:14:25.759 that's ready to go down and enrich the soil. It's 263 00:14:25.799 --> 00:14:27.960 a lot of microbes, and anytime you put compost in 264 00:14:28.000 --> 00:14:31.879 your it's it's loaded with microbes that are helping those plants. 265 00:14:32.720 --> 00:14:35.840 You've got issues like brown patch, it may be attacking 266 00:14:35.879 --> 00:14:38.039 and things. So you've you've done with the three step. 267 00:14:38.120 --> 00:14:41.240 You've you've gotten everything down and done. Now throwing some 268 00:14:41.320 --> 00:14:43.919 compost on top, I've certainly done hurting thing, but in 269 00:14:43.960 --> 00:14:44.720 fact it helps. 270 00:14:44.799 --> 00:14:48.200 Yeah, okay, and then doing it twice a year, all right, 271 00:14:48.320 --> 00:14:50.200 spring and fall? Is that is that good? 272 00:14:50.679 --> 00:14:53.720 You can do that if you want to do that, 273 00:14:53.720 --> 00:14:56.840 that's fine. You just don't put it real deep. You know, 274 00:14:56.840 --> 00:14:58.720 you're putting it about a third of an inch or 275 00:14:58.720 --> 00:14:59.240 so deep. 276 00:14:59.639 --> 00:15:04.480 Yeah, well, this okay gets scattered the follow up, that's it. 277 00:15:06.080 --> 00:15:09.279 Oh okay, all right, well, good luck with that. Hope 278 00:15:09.279 --> 00:15:13.000 you have a beautiful lawn. Thanks Kevin, Thanks Thanks Allan. 279 00:15:13.120 --> 00:15:17.960 I appreciate your call. Take care you are listening to 280 00:15:18.000 --> 00:15:19.919 Garden Line our phone number if you'd like to call 281 00:15:19.960 --> 00:15:23.320 seven one three two one two kt r H seven 282 00:15:23.399 --> 00:15:26.080 one three two one two k t r H. We 283 00:15:26.120 --> 00:15:28.440 love feed stores here on Garden Line. And if you 284 00:15:28.480 --> 00:15:31.240 are down south of Houston in the League City area, 285 00:15:31.440 --> 00:15:35.440 when I say League City Area, I mean Santa Fe, Dickinson, Webster, 286 00:15:35.639 --> 00:15:38.600 El Camino, Real, Clare, Like Lamark Bankliss, San Leon, all 287 00:15:38.639 --> 00:15:41.759 those communities down there. League City Feed is your hometown 288 00:15:41.799 --> 00:15:45.240 feed store. And League City Feed has the fertilizers I'm 289 00:15:45.240 --> 00:15:47.279 talking about. When I'm sitting here telling you it's time 290 00:15:47.320 --> 00:15:49.240 to fertilize. If you're going to prevent, if you've got 291 00:15:49.240 --> 00:15:52.039 a brown Patch annual issue, now's the time to get 292 00:15:52.039 --> 00:15:54.279 something down. If you're going to prevent winner weeds, now's it. 293 00:15:55.080 --> 00:15:57.600 League City Feed's got all that. They've got it all there. 294 00:15:58.360 --> 00:16:01.080 It's it's an old time feedst or built over forty 295 00:16:01.159 --> 00:16:04.799 years ago. And you know, I love feed source because 296 00:16:04.960 --> 00:16:06.960 I just like the smell of feed stores. I just 297 00:16:07.120 --> 00:16:10.240 like the ambiance of a feedstore if you will. Uh, 298 00:16:10.440 --> 00:16:13.559 it's just fun. It's fun place to go, and they'll 299 00:16:13.559 --> 00:16:15.320 carry your bags out for you too. It's that kind 300 00:16:15.320 --> 00:16:18.399 of old time service. They're at League City Feed. But 301 00:16:18.480 --> 00:16:21.799 you will find what you need there, and I encourage 302 00:16:21.799 --> 00:16:24.120 you if you need really quality pet foods as well, 303 00:16:24.399 --> 00:16:27.919 they've got those always available there at a League City Feed. 304 00:16:28.559 --> 00:16:32.639 The phone number two eight one three three two one 305 00:16:32.799 --> 00:16:35.559 six one to two. They're located on Highway three, just 306 00:16:35.639 --> 00:16:39.039 a few blocks south of Highway ninety six in League City. 307 00:16:41.039 --> 00:16:45.399 League City Feed. They got a Dalmatian. Uh, they're one 308 00:16:45.399 --> 00:16:49.480 of the family pets named Rorshak. Now, I think Rorshak 309 00:16:49.639 --> 00:16:51.960 is the best name for a Dalmatian. You know, you 310 00:16:52.039 --> 00:16:54.240 walk into League City Feed, stare at the dog a while, 311 00:16:54.279 --> 00:16:56.240 and then tell them what you see. You know, maybe 312 00:16:56.279 --> 00:17:01.519 they'll help analyze what's going on. Rorshak for a delmat 313 00:17:01.759 --> 00:17:06.240 of course, you name it dalmation Rorshak. That's perfect. We 314 00:17:06.240 --> 00:17:08.559 were talking about with the Alan there. He said he 315 00:17:08.599 --> 00:17:10.519 did the Texas three step, and some of you may 316 00:17:10.559 --> 00:17:13.640 be going, what's the Texas three step? Well, it's Nitrofos's 317 00:17:13.680 --> 00:17:17.200 program that takes care of your nutrients, takes care of 318 00:17:17.240 --> 00:17:19.559 the weeds, takes care of the diseases. And here's how 319 00:17:19.559 --> 00:17:24.640 that works. Nutrients Nitropos fall special win riser. It's designed 320 00:17:25.160 --> 00:17:28.119 for building a strong turf plant to go into winter, 321 00:17:28.240 --> 00:17:31.920 to be heardy and resilient, and to come out stronger 322 00:17:31.960 --> 00:17:37.720 in the spring. Secondly, Nitropos barricade pre emergent that is 323 00:17:37.920 --> 00:17:41.480 washing down into the soil. After you apply it, it 324 00:17:41.519 --> 00:17:44.720 goes into the soil surface and it stays there, forming 325 00:17:44.799 --> 00:17:48.200 a barricade that weeds can't come through. Weed seeds trying 326 00:17:48.200 --> 00:17:51.240 to sprout cannot come through it. The third is Nitropos 327 00:17:51.279 --> 00:17:56.440 Eagle turf fungicide. If you plagued with brown patch, you've 328 00:17:56.480 --> 00:17:59.079 had that big brown circles in your lawn in the past, 329 00:17:59.119 --> 00:18:01.839 and you want to avoid that, Well, you get Eagle 330 00:18:01.920 --> 00:18:04.599 down ahead of time. The plant takes it up and 331 00:18:04.640 --> 00:18:05.960 it's kind of like our bodies. You know, you have 332 00:18:06.000 --> 00:18:08.880 antibiotics in your body and a disease tries to come 333 00:18:08.920 --> 00:18:11.559 and it says, you're not going to make this guy sick. 334 00:18:12.400 --> 00:18:15.039 That's what's happening in your lawn. With Eagle to our fundicide, 335 00:18:15.200 --> 00:18:18.200 the product moves in and it helps protect the plant. 336 00:18:18.319 --> 00:18:20.920 So don't wait until after the circles appear. Get it 337 00:18:20.960 --> 00:18:24.680 down now, all three of those right away. And I 338 00:18:24.720 --> 00:18:29.319 explained earlier why we get those things done soon. With fertilizing, 339 00:18:29.559 --> 00:18:31.279 you want the grass to have time to take it 340 00:18:31.400 --> 00:18:34.559 up and while it's still warm. With the barricade and 341 00:18:34.599 --> 00:18:37.559 the Eagle, you want to get it in the soil 342 00:18:37.599 --> 00:18:40.480 and in the plant in the case of Eagle, before 343 00:18:40.880 --> 00:18:43.720 the weeds sprout in the soil, before the disease appears 344 00:18:43.799 --> 00:18:46.480 in the plants. You're going to find Texas three Step 345 00:18:46.519 --> 00:18:49.119 at D and D Feed and Tomball Plantation, Ace Hardware, 346 00:18:49.119 --> 00:18:52.559 and Richmond and Hiden and Feed on Stubner Airline, among 347 00:18:52.680 --> 00:18:55.960 many many places you'll find nitro Fross products here in 348 00:18:56.000 --> 00:19:00.920 the Greater Houston area. Our phone here on Guarden Line 349 00:19:00.920 --> 00:19:02.480 if you'd like to give me a call seven to 350 00:19:02.480 --> 00:19:07.079 one three two one two kt r H seven one 351 00:19:07.200 --> 00:19:12.240 three two one two k t r H. I was 352 00:19:12.319 --> 00:19:15.440 up at the Arbor Gate a while back looking at 353 00:19:15.480 --> 00:19:17.319 some of the things that they have gotten in. You know, 354 00:19:17.559 --> 00:19:21.920 at the Arborgate there's always something coming in. 355 00:19:22.400 --> 00:19:22.599 You know. 356 00:19:22.640 --> 00:19:24.880 You go around the back of Arburgate, which is where 357 00:19:24.920 --> 00:19:28.440 that cool parking lot is. It's so convenient to get 358 00:19:28.440 --> 00:19:32.279 in and out just really easy. It's on Trishel Road, 359 00:19:32.440 --> 00:19:34.960 so you can it's a loop. So as you're coming 360 00:19:34.960 --> 00:19:37.680 toward Arburgate you're going to pass Treischel before you get 361 00:19:37.720 --> 00:19:39.839 to Arburgate, and then if you went past Arburgate you'd 362 00:19:39.839 --> 00:19:42.880 pass Trishel again, it's a loop behind Arburgate. Well, when 363 00:19:42.920 --> 00:19:44.200 you come in from that parking lot in the back, 364 00:19:44.200 --> 00:19:47.079 there's always giant racks of plants that have been coming 365 00:19:47.160 --> 00:19:48.920 in there on whe I mean, just like here we 366 00:19:49.000 --> 00:19:52.880 go a new set because they always keep up with 367 00:19:53.000 --> 00:19:57.160 the things that are timely for the season. That's important. 368 00:19:57.279 --> 00:19:59.000 You don't want to plant a plant when it's not 369 00:19:59.160 --> 00:20:02.680 time to plant it. But they also plant the species 370 00:20:02.680 --> 00:20:05.160 and the varieties that are going to do so very 371 00:20:05.319 --> 00:20:07.920 very well here, and that is important. 372 00:20:07.960 --> 00:20:08.160 You know. 373 00:20:08.240 --> 00:20:12.720 I've talked to Beverly and Kenn and all the folks 374 00:20:12.759 --> 00:20:16.119 out there from time to time, and the enthusiasm there 375 00:20:16.200 --> 00:20:18.640 for what they do, the quality of plants that they have, 376 00:20:19.440 --> 00:20:22.839 and just the variety, and you know, most importantly, I 377 00:20:22.880 --> 00:20:26.640 would say, most importantly the advice you get. You can 378 00:20:26.680 --> 00:20:28.680 go a lot of places to buy a plant, but 379 00:20:28.799 --> 00:20:31.000 when you go there, do they know what they're talking 380 00:20:31.000 --> 00:20:34.200 about and can they really help you with issues that 381 00:20:34.279 --> 00:20:37.799 you have? Can they help solve those issues? Can you 382 00:20:37.839 --> 00:20:39.799 walk in with a picture and say, hey, I need 383 00:20:39.839 --> 00:20:43.079 something to go in this bed? It's just kind of blah. 384 00:20:43.119 --> 00:20:45.839 How they can give you a lot of ideas for 385 00:20:46.119 --> 00:20:48.559 doing exactly that and taking care of it, and that 386 00:20:48.680 --> 00:20:54.400 is really really important. Wonderful plants, wonderful folks and wonderful products. 387 00:20:54.400 --> 00:20:56.519 Why are you there? Pick up their one two three 388 00:20:57.000 --> 00:21:00.000 completely easy system. There's three bags. One is a fertilize 389 00:21:00.400 --> 00:21:04.359 organic food Complete, one is a soil blend Organic soil Complete, 390 00:21:04.359 --> 00:21:07.920 and one is a compost blend organic compost complete member. 391 00:21:08.039 --> 00:21:10.839 Brown Stuff before green stuff. Those three bags set the 392 00:21:10.880 --> 00:21:14.240 foundation for your success with your plants that you're going 393 00:21:14.319 --> 00:21:17.799 to take home from Arburgate. Oh yeah, also got to 394 00:21:17.880 --> 00:21:23.240 check out there that just want blank gift shops Awesome, 395 00:21:23.279 --> 00:21:26.119 awesome gift shops loaded up for the holidays. All right, 396 00:21:26.200 --> 00:21:30.079 time for a break. I'll be right back country swinging 397 00:21:30.119 --> 00:21:31.839 with a sleep at the wheel on a Sunday morning. 398 00:21:32.160 --> 00:21:35.079 Welcome back to Guarden Line. We are glad you're listening 399 00:21:35.119 --> 00:21:36.799 this morning. I hope you got a cup of coffee 400 00:21:36.839 --> 00:21:39.839 and at least one eye opened at this hour seven 401 00:21:39.920 --> 00:21:42.759 one three two one two KTRH. That's the phone number. 402 00:21:42.799 --> 00:21:46.079 And if you would like to get give us a 403 00:21:46.079 --> 00:21:48.359 call at a time when you're not waiting in line. 404 00:21:48.440 --> 00:21:50.519 This is a good time. It's got to open lines 405 00:21:50.599 --> 00:21:53.519 right now. Of course, if everybody responds to that, we won't. 406 00:21:53.519 --> 00:21:56.480 But right now, the first couple of people who will 407 00:21:56.519 --> 00:22:00.200 get a real quick service, uh, Quality Home products. You 408 00:22:00.279 --> 00:22:02.759 hear me talk about them all the time. They sell 409 00:22:02.920 --> 00:22:08.359 the Generaic automatic standby generator. Their customer service is second 410 00:22:08.400 --> 00:22:11.160 to nine. I mean you just look at things like 411 00:22:11.200 --> 00:22:13.680 the Houston Chronicles Best of the Best awards, the Better 412 00:22:13.720 --> 00:22:15.400 Business Bureaus Awards. 413 00:22:15.039 --> 00:22:15.119 The. 414 00:22:16.720 --> 00:22:20.000 Tens of thousands of you know ratings that are like 415 00:22:20.039 --> 00:22:23.559 I think over fourteen thousand and five star ratings. People 416 00:22:24.200 --> 00:22:26.839 that purchase from them and deal with them, they love 417 00:22:26.880 --> 00:22:29.200 it because they give that kind of service. And right 418 00:22:29.640 --> 00:22:32.720 this year, oh my gosh, with two storms that knocked 419 00:22:32.720 --> 00:22:36.440 out power for a couple of weeks each, that really 420 00:22:36.680 --> 00:22:40.319 got people thinking generators. People were very interested and Quality 421 00:22:40.319 --> 00:22:41.880 Home was prepared for it. I went a long time 422 00:22:41.880 --> 00:22:44.880 ago to them just to their business and look, you know, 423 00:22:44.920 --> 00:22:47.599 walk through learned about products and met the people and stuff, 424 00:22:47.640 --> 00:22:50.559 and one thing I noticed a number one they are 425 00:22:50.559 --> 00:22:53.359 prepared and they're ready. And so when this stuff hit 426 00:22:53.640 --> 00:22:57.039 and everybody wanted to generate, they were set up to 427 00:22:57.079 --> 00:23:01.440 begin responding to that, but it was overwhelming. And they're 428 00:23:01.440 --> 00:23:05.279 looking now for licensed electricians and plumbers to come on 429 00:23:05.359 --> 00:23:07.359 board and help them because at Quality Home they don't 430 00:23:07.400 --> 00:23:10.880 sub out all the contractors. They have their contractors. That's 431 00:23:10.960 --> 00:23:13.000 part of the reason why they give you can give 432 00:23:13.000 --> 00:23:15.720 you the service that they do. But right now, license 433 00:23:15.759 --> 00:23:19.839 the electrician and plumbers. Are you looking for a great 434 00:23:19.839 --> 00:23:23.960 place to work with competitive pay, with comprehensive medical dental vision, 435 00:23:24.039 --> 00:23:26.039 with the retirement plans that they match for a one 436 00:23:26.119 --> 00:23:28.799 K two by the way, paid holidays and time off, 437 00:23:28.799 --> 00:23:32.160 and really good training programs so you can grow your career. 438 00:23:32.920 --> 00:23:34.839 This is the place you need to look at. Everybody 439 00:23:34.880 --> 00:23:37.680 I've talked to their at Quality Home, I can just 440 00:23:37.920 --> 00:23:40.400 tell they enjoy what they do because it's a great 441 00:23:40.400 --> 00:23:44.680 place to work. Go to Quality TX dot com, QUALITYTX 442 00:23:44.720 --> 00:23:48.000 dot com and there you can apply online if you 443 00:23:48.039 --> 00:23:52.960 are a licensed electrician or a plumber. So there you 444 00:23:53.039 --> 00:23:56.839 go and for the rest of you, that is the 445 00:23:57.599 --> 00:24:00.359 Quality Home is a place to call for you to 446 00:24:00.480 --> 00:24:03.319 have complete service from the time you walk in until 447 00:24:03.359 --> 00:24:06.599 the time in fact pass the time that everything is 448 00:24:06.640 --> 00:24:09.400 set up and they walk away because they continue three 449 00:24:09.480 --> 00:24:12.319 sixty five twenty four to seven to provide that kind 450 00:24:12.319 --> 00:24:19.640 of service. The other day, I was out dealing with 451 00:24:19.880 --> 00:24:22.880 some nut sedge in my yard. Yes, I have nutsedge. 452 00:24:23.119 --> 00:24:25.480 Don't tell anybody though, because I'm supposed to have everything 453 00:24:25.480 --> 00:24:28.960 together here on horticulturally on guarden line, But yeah, I 454 00:24:28.960 --> 00:24:31.000 have some nuts edge, And you know, I produce that 455 00:24:31.119 --> 00:24:33.880 nuts edge to publications on nuts edge that are on 456 00:24:33.920 --> 00:24:36.519 my website Gardening with Skip dot com. And I was 457 00:24:36.640 --> 00:24:38.960 using my weed wiper, which is also on the website 458 00:24:39.000 --> 00:24:41.519 at gardening with Skip dot com, to apply some product 459 00:24:41.559 --> 00:24:43.519 directly to the nutsedge. You know, I didn't want to 460 00:24:43.839 --> 00:24:45.960 spend money on a whole lot of product to kill 461 00:24:45.960 --> 00:24:47.880 it and just blast in the whole yards. I just 462 00:24:47.880 --> 00:24:50.079 put it on with the weed wiper wherever nutsedge sticks 463 00:24:50.160 --> 00:24:52.359 up above the grass, reach in there and wipe that 464 00:24:52.400 --> 00:24:54.519 stuff on it. And I'll tell you I've done it 465 00:24:54.799 --> 00:24:58.400 twice now and I'm down to a fraction of what 466 00:24:58.480 --> 00:25:00.720 I had. When we come back out in the spring, 467 00:25:01.119 --> 00:25:02.960 I will see some because there will be nuts that 468 00:25:03.039 --> 00:25:06.200 never did sprout, and then they sprout. But I get 469 00:25:06.200 --> 00:25:09.160 on it fast, and once the nutsedge has three to 470 00:25:09.240 --> 00:25:13.079 five leaves, you need to do something because after that 471 00:25:13.880 --> 00:25:17.039 it's going to start. It's gonna have enough. It's going 472 00:25:17.119 --> 00:25:20.359 to have enough leaf area up in the light to 473 00:25:20.480 --> 00:25:23.519 produce a lot of carbohydrates which go down and replenish 474 00:25:23.599 --> 00:25:27.000 what the bulb used to create that sprout, and then 475 00:25:27.400 --> 00:25:29.839 enough for the bulb to start sending out daughter bulbs 476 00:25:29.920 --> 00:25:33.599 in all directions. And you don't want to. If you wait, 477 00:25:34.279 --> 00:25:37.839 you're just you're just making it worse. If you don't 478 00:25:37.839 --> 00:25:40.240 stay up with it, it's gonna get worse, and it 479 00:25:40.279 --> 00:25:41.880 will get worse. And those of you when I said, 480 00:25:41.920 --> 00:25:43.440 you know what I'm talking about. But anyway, I was 481 00:25:43.440 --> 00:25:46.960 out wiping. I do that about every over a couple 482 00:25:47.000 --> 00:25:49.359 of weeks or so. I'll just if I'm looking around 483 00:25:49.359 --> 00:25:51.000 and I see, oh, there's a little bit popping back 484 00:25:51.079 --> 00:25:53.400 up over here over there, I just get the wiper 485 00:25:53.440 --> 00:25:55.839 out Saturday morning, cup of coffee in one hand, wiper 486 00:25:55.880 --> 00:25:57.400 on the other hand, and there we go. We go 487 00:25:57.440 --> 00:26:01.039 to town, get it done real easy, and I will win. 488 00:26:01.400 --> 00:26:03.400 I am winning, and I will win and you can 489 00:26:03.440 --> 00:26:07.519 too against this pernicious weed. By the way, that wiper 490 00:26:07.559 --> 00:26:09.759 is good for a lot of other things too, Like 491 00:26:09.839 --> 00:26:13.640 you got poison ivy growing among plants that are desirable, 492 00:26:13.759 --> 00:26:16.680 or bermuda grass coming up underneath your rose bush and 493 00:26:16.680 --> 00:26:19.000 you don't want to spray that. We'll round up and 494 00:26:19.079 --> 00:26:21.799 kill your rose bush when you kill the bermuda grass. 495 00:26:22.119 --> 00:26:24.279 The wiper applicator is the way to get in there 496 00:26:24.279 --> 00:26:27.599 and get that done. It's easy to make yourself. You 497 00:26:27.680 --> 00:26:31.359 got anybody who's got one tiny, tiny bit, I'll do 498 00:26:31.440 --> 00:26:33.279 it yourself on them. They can, they can make one 499 00:26:33.319 --> 00:26:36.720 of those real easy. We make that easy for you 500 00:26:37.000 --> 00:26:39.720 our phone number seven one three two one two k 501 00:26:40.079 --> 00:26:44.519 t r H seven one three two one two kt 502 00:26:45.279 --> 00:26:49.920 r H. Nature's Way resources is up toward Tombald. It's 503 00:26:49.920 --> 00:26:52.160 off forty five. If you're going north on forty five. 504 00:26:52.559 --> 00:26:55.519 When you get where fourteen eighty eight comes in from 505 00:26:55.559 --> 00:26:58.839 Magnolia from your left hand side, going north, you just 506 00:26:58.880 --> 00:27:01.759 turn right, cross over the railroad tracks, turn right again 507 00:27:02.079 --> 00:27:04.680 and you're there at Nature's Way. Nature's Way is a 508 00:27:05.200 --> 00:27:08.799 place with some really nice plants as well. I don't 509 00:27:08.799 --> 00:27:11.400 know if you've ever seen it. But they have, especially natives, 510 00:27:11.400 --> 00:27:13.279 but a lot of different kinds of plants that they 511 00:27:13.279 --> 00:27:16.680 have out there, and it's they're having a really big 512 00:27:16.720 --> 00:27:19.640 sale on plant right now. You can go everything, but 513 00:27:19.839 --> 00:27:26.319 the native sun perennials is on a great sale. Go 514 00:27:26.400 --> 00:27:27.720 through the end of the year. But the sooner you 515 00:27:27.759 --> 00:27:29.880 get out there, the better your your selection is going 516 00:27:29.960 --> 00:27:33.440 to be. But while you're out there, take take advantage 517 00:27:33.480 --> 00:27:35.720 of the fact that you're at the place where a 518 00:27:35.759 --> 00:27:39.240 lot of the well known soil products here in the 519 00:27:39.240 --> 00:27:42.799 Greater Houston area were born. So you've heard of rose 520 00:27:42.839 --> 00:27:45.559 soil well that was born at Nature's Way. You've heard 521 00:27:45.559 --> 00:27:49.559 of leaf mold compost that was that began at Nature's Way. 522 00:27:49.680 --> 00:27:52.920 You see what I'm saying. They John Ferguson his son Ian, 523 00:27:53.079 --> 00:27:58.240 They they have created a place where quality products come 524 00:27:58.279 --> 00:28:01.000 out of there to help you have quality results with 525 00:28:01.079 --> 00:28:05.519 your plans. So no matter what you're buying that you 526 00:28:05.680 --> 00:28:07.759 know when you leave there, or when you order it 527 00:28:07.799 --> 00:28:09.519 to be delivered, or when you buy a bag at 528 00:28:09.559 --> 00:28:12.039 a local garden center or some other place, you're going 529 00:28:12.119 --> 00:28:14.799 to get good stuff if it's a Nature's Way product, 530 00:28:14.880 --> 00:28:17.960 and the other the other thing that I would just 531 00:28:18.039 --> 00:28:21.799 mention about it is. Don't forget that every Friday is 532 00:28:21.880 --> 00:28:25.799 Fungal Friday, and they give twenty percent off their fungal compost, 533 00:28:26.000 --> 00:28:29.079 which is a really good deal. Fungal composts could be 534 00:28:29.200 --> 00:28:32.880 used for top dressing a lawn, for mixing into a bed. 535 00:28:33.000 --> 00:28:35.839 It's good stuff. And so on a Friday, that's your 536 00:28:35.920 --> 00:28:37.680 day to get out there get ready for that weekend 537 00:28:37.720 --> 00:28:40.480 by purchasing either going to pick it up or having 538 00:28:40.480 --> 00:28:43.680 it delivered some fungal compost. Time for me to take 539 00:28:43.680 --> 00:28:46.359 a little break. Now, I'll be right back, folks. We 540 00:28:46.519 --> 00:28:49.720 are going to continue here on Guardline with your questions. 541 00:28:50.000 --> 00:28:53.359 All right back here at Garden Line, we're ready to go. 542 00:28:54.920 --> 00:28:57.599 Seven three two one two k t RH if you'd 543 00:28:57.640 --> 00:29:00.279 like to give us a call. If you I've been 544 00:29:00.279 --> 00:29:03.880 looking at your landscape and it is like looks horrible 545 00:29:03.880 --> 00:29:06.240 coming out of summer, or maybe just for a couple 546 00:29:06.279 --> 00:29:09.240 of years now, you've been thinking, you know, it's kind 547 00:29:09.240 --> 00:29:11.359 of boring. What can I do to spice this up? 548 00:29:11.920 --> 00:29:16.279 Call Greenpro? Call Greenpro or go to their website greenpro 549 00:29:16.519 --> 00:29:20.200 dot net. I'm telling you, the one thing you do 550 00:29:20.519 --> 00:29:25.039 that makes your lawn just pop is that it's kind 551 00:29:25.079 --> 00:29:28.960 of a combo thing is aerration and compost top dressing. 552 00:29:29.400 --> 00:29:31.480 If you've got a loan that's struggling and it's like 553 00:29:31.920 --> 00:29:34.880 what can I do, well, call Greenpro They'll come out. 554 00:29:34.920 --> 00:29:38.880 They'll do a quality core aerration. That means they pop 555 00:29:38.960 --> 00:29:41.160 the cores out of the soil and eve on the surface. 556 00:29:41.319 --> 00:29:43.960 That's how you do it, not just those rental things 557 00:29:44.000 --> 00:29:47.200 that press the soil open, compacting the sides of the hole. 558 00:29:47.920 --> 00:29:50.519 They come out with really heavy duty equipment that I 559 00:29:50.519 --> 00:29:53.279 don't mean heavy duty equipment that can get the job 560 00:29:53.359 --> 00:29:56.200 done like you just can't do yourself. And then they 561 00:29:56.240 --> 00:29:58.240 come out with the compost spreaders to put that over 562 00:29:58.279 --> 00:29:59.839 the top. And when you do that, you got a 563 00:30:00.400 --> 00:30:03.200 in the soil, you got roots thriving. It's again, it's 564 00:30:03.240 --> 00:30:05.519 all about the soil. Even your lawn is all about 565 00:30:05.599 --> 00:30:09.559 soil quality and nutrient content, and Greenbroke can do that. 566 00:30:09.880 --> 00:30:12.559 They serve a forty five mile area for magnolia. So 567 00:30:12.599 --> 00:30:14.319 the easiest way to think about it is if you 568 00:30:14.319 --> 00:30:17.720 take Interstate forty five north and I ten west, that 569 00:30:17.839 --> 00:30:21.680 northwest quadrant of Houston area, that's what they serve. So 570 00:30:21.720 --> 00:30:23.200 that would be all the way up in Conroe and 571 00:30:23.240 --> 00:30:28.039 Willison Woodland, Cyprus, spring Over and Magnoliam Montgomery and then 572 00:30:28.079 --> 00:30:31.559 down Katie West Houston. You get the idea central Houston. 573 00:30:32.799 --> 00:30:35.640 If from now through fall, this is a special deal. 574 00:30:35.920 --> 00:30:39.200 If they will aerate your lawn for free if you 575 00:30:39.279 --> 00:30:43.039 purchase the compost top dressing service. So there's a two 576 00:30:43.119 --> 00:30:45.599 yard minimum. Don't just say well I need only one yard. 577 00:30:45.680 --> 00:30:47.599 Come all the way to timbuck to and now the 578 00:30:48.279 --> 00:30:52.279 two yard minimum and then they come out, they do 579 00:30:52.400 --> 00:30:55.160 the aer ration and the compost stop dressing. Their prices 580 00:30:55.200 --> 00:30:57.240 start at five point seventy five plus tax depends on 581 00:30:57.240 --> 00:31:00.839 how big area is. You can go to Greenpro dotting 582 00:31:00.839 --> 00:31:02.759 at the website or you can call them to eight 583 00:31:02.799 --> 00:31:07.720 one three five one three. Let's go out and out 584 00:31:07.759 --> 00:31:10.359 of Pairland. We're going to talk to Jason. Hey, Jason, 585 00:31:10.359 --> 00:31:11.279 welcome to guard Line. 586 00:31:12.319 --> 00:31:14.759 Hey, good morning, Skip, Thank you very much for taking 587 00:31:14.759 --> 00:31:18.440 my call. Got a small home in uh in the 588 00:31:18.440 --> 00:31:23.400 Pearland area, and about within the last four to six weeks, 589 00:31:23.400 --> 00:31:29.200 I'm seeing our grass started getting getting brown, started dying off, 590 00:31:29.680 --> 00:31:32.359 and our oak tree in the front some of the 591 00:31:32.440 --> 00:31:35.960 leaves started dropping and I noticed on the back of 592 00:31:36.000 --> 00:31:38.880 the leaves on the oak tree is some yellow fuzz. 593 00:31:40.279 --> 00:31:42.680 I really don't know any better way to describe it. 594 00:31:42.759 --> 00:31:47.799 But all season plans for all season is where I 595 00:31:47.880 --> 00:31:50.279 always purchase and try to follow the schedule. So within 596 00:31:50.319 --> 00:31:53.720 the last four weeks we've done the uh, the car 597 00:31:53.759 --> 00:31:59.200 belowed barricade, and the brown patch and the and they 598 00:31:59.240 --> 00:32:02.559 had also had some kind of a and I can't 599 00:32:02.599 --> 00:32:05.440 pronounce it, but it's it's similar to the bug out match, 600 00:32:06.480 --> 00:32:10.759 but it's a different things product. So, okay, I need 601 00:32:10.839 --> 00:32:12.400 some help. I don't know what to do now. 602 00:32:14.079 --> 00:32:16.920 Okay, Well, first of all, I have good news. You 603 00:32:16.920 --> 00:32:19.359 don't need to worry about those oak leaves. That is 604 00:32:19.559 --> 00:32:23.599 a little insect called a gall wasp that did that, 605 00:32:24.319 --> 00:32:26.559 and they there are different kinds of gall wasps. Some 606 00:32:26.599 --> 00:32:29.799 people to find these little round wooden balls on their 607 00:32:29.839 --> 00:32:32.920 oak trees. There's some little red things, little red slick 608 00:32:33.000 --> 00:32:34.960 balls that are underneath the leaf. And then this little 609 00:32:34.960 --> 00:32:38.480 fuzzy one that you're describing. Those are all caused by 610 00:32:38.480 --> 00:32:41.559 a little wasp that lays an egg inside the leaf tissue. 611 00:32:41.960 --> 00:32:46.680 And because of the the the actions of the plant 612 00:32:46.799 --> 00:32:49.480 and then what's the insects putting out? It causes that 613 00:32:49.519 --> 00:32:54.359 little gall to grow, but it's essentially of no harm 614 00:32:54.680 --> 00:32:57.400 to the tree. I mean it. You know if you 615 00:32:57.400 --> 00:33:00.319 had a little young tree and every single leaf was 616 00:33:00.359 --> 00:33:04.319 falling off because of it, Okay, yeah, But basically they're 617 00:33:04.400 --> 00:33:06.480 part of nature. They're out there. We just notice some 618 00:33:06.519 --> 00:33:08.720 when the leaves fall off and stuff. But you don't 619 00:33:08.720 --> 00:33:12.440 have to worry about that. Excellent peace of mind. I 620 00:33:12.480 --> 00:33:15.559 appreciate it very much, sir, peace of mind. You bet, 621 00:33:15.839 --> 00:33:20.599 you bet. Thanks for the call, Jason, take care you 622 00:33:20.599 --> 00:33:24.200 you bet. If you're in the Heights area, you already 623 00:33:24.240 --> 00:33:27.160 know about Buchanans native plants. But Buchanans is just a 624 00:33:27.400 --> 00:33:29.759 It's an awesome place. You know. They have every kind 625 00:33:29.799 --> 00:33:31.680 of it says native plants in the name, but they 626 00:33:31.720 --> 00:33:34.599 have every kind of plant from houseplants to fruit trees. 627 00:33:34.640 --> 00:33:37.759 Do you name it? But Texas Natives is what they 628 00:33:37.799 --> 00:33:40.079 specialize in it. I don't know anyone that has the 629 00:33:40.279 --> 00:33:44.519 selection that Buchanans does. For example, when you go in, 630 00:33:44.640 --> 00:33:46.359 you may say, you know what, I want some native 631 00:33:46.359 --> 00:33:49.480 plants to attract wildlife, or I want some native plants 632 00:33:49.599 --> 00:33:52.640 to support our birds, the ones that live here and 633 00:33:52.680 --> 00:33:56.119 the ones that migrate through. They can direct you to those. 634 00:33:56.160 --> 00:33:59.119 Do you need native plants that are for shady areas? 635 00:33:59.319 --> 00:34:01.880 Do you need native plants that you want a plant 636 00:34:01.880 --> 00:34:04.240 that are more on the zero side, meaning they can 637 00:34:04.279 --> 00:34:07.880 take drought better than other plants. Do do you want 638 00:34:07.880 --> 00:34:11.119 to hedge or something for privacy? They can set you 639 00:34:11.199 --> 00:34:13.760 up with natives for all those characteristics. You know, native 640 00:34:13.760 --> 00:34:18.920 plants are crucial in our ecosystems and important to support 641 00:34:19.519 --> 00:34:23.400 these birds and things like our native bees, moths, and 642 00:34:23.480 --> 00:34:26.000 butterflies that are here. And Buchanans is a place to 643 00:34:26.000 --> 00:34:30.239 get them. You've got a easy, easy access. They are 644 00:34:30.280 --> 00:34:33.280 on Eleventh Street and the Heights, and when you go 645 00:34:33.360 --> 00:34:37.400 in there, you will be very impressed with the kinds 646 00:34:37.440 --> 00:34:40.119 and the variety of things that they carry. And oh 647 00:34:40.119 --> 00:34:42.800 my gosh, go in the gift shop. Christmas is already 648 00:34:42.920 --> 00:34:45.079 arriving at the Buchanans gift shop and you got to 649 00:34:45.159 --> 00:34:48.440 check out the things they have there. I'm going to 650 00:34:48.559 --> 00:34:53.800 head now out to Galleria area and talk to guitar Dave. 651 00:34:54.159 --> 00:34:59.800 All right, Dave, Well, anyway, meanwhile, back at the ranch, 652 00:35:00.239 --> 00:35:02.000 you know, like when I was a kid, we had 653 00:35:02.119 --> 00:35:05.800 sixty two acres, sixteen cows, a bull and a horse 654 00:35:05.840 --> 00:35:09.000 and everything else. And I remember when we were planting 655 00:35:10.119 --> 00:35:13.400 corn purple hull peas, corn purple hull peas. And then 656 00:35:14.000 --> 00:35:16.159 one of the things my mom was always telling us 657 00:35:16.320 --> 00:35:23.920 is she swore by thirteen thirteen thirteen fertilizers and and 658 00:35:24.039 --> 00:35:26.480 but I mean my question is, you know, my dad 659 00:35:26.480 --> 00:35:29.239 would go out there with the once the cows were 660 00:35:29.280 --> 00:35:31.360 out there doing their business, then he would go out 661 00:35:31.360 --> 00:35:33.599 there with a disk and get that all in to 662 00:35:33.760 --> 00:35:37.719 the ground. And then every year we would mark where 663 00:35:37.000 --> 00:35:41.000 we did the corn and the purple hole peas, and 664 00:35:41.039 --> 00:35:45.159 then we changed the rows because I think the way 665 00:35:45.199 --> 00:35:48.679 we were taught that the nutrients from the purple old 666 00:35:48.760 --> 00:35:54.519 peas helped the corn, and like you know, vice versa. 667 00:35:55.360 --> 00:35:57.239 All right, Hello, yeah, I. 668 00:35:57.199 --> 00:35:59.679 Mean, yeah, I'm here. What's your question? 669 00:36:00.880 --> 00:36:04.199 Well, I mean, is that well, I mean, and then 670 00:36:04.239 --> 00:36:07.039 my mom told us about the manure or stuff like that, 671 00:36:07.719 --> 00:36:10.719 don't put it too close around a plant because it'll 672 00:36:10.719 --> 00:36:12.239 burn the roots or something like that. 673 00:36:13.760 --> 00:36:16.559 Huh you think, all right, so manure, Yeah, let me 674 00:36:16.639 --> 00:36:20.960 just address those things. A manure straight manur can cause 675 00:36:22.159 --> 00:36:25.840 damage to plant roots and I guess a tender stem 676 00:36:26.239 --> 00:36:28.639 if you put too much. Some miners are we say 677 00:36:28.760 --> 00:36:31.199 very hot, and that would be like poultry maneuver that 678 00:36:31.480 --> 00:36:34.320 that's tons of nitrogen and things like that in it. 679 00:36:35.199 --> 00:36:38.280 Other things like horse and cattle especially, they're they're kind 680 00:36:38.280 --> 00:36:41.039 of on the other end, not as potent and strong. 681 00:36:41.519 --> 00:36:43.480 The main thing with manure we worry about in an 682 00:36:43.639 --> 00:36:47.360 edible garden, though, is you can have some human diseases 683 00:36:47.440 --> 00:36:50.000 like salmonella and E. Coli and whatnot, and so if 684 00:36:50.039 --> 00:36:53.920 that splashes up onto your tomatoes or lettuce leaves or 685 00:36:53.960 --> 00:36:57.400 things like that. That's why even organic gardeners cannot use 686 00:36:57.760 --> 00:37:01.079 fresh manure that's not being composted for a very appropriate 687 00:37:01.239 --> 00:37:02.639 and long period of time. 688 00:37:04.800 --> 00:37:09.960 Golly, I got a question about my fig tree out here. 689 00:37:10.079 --> 00:37:12.960 You know it's actually it's a fig bush now, But 690 00:37:13.000 --> 00:37:15.920 what do I do about when the leaves start turning 691 00:37:16.000 --> 00:37:17.039 kind of yellows? 692 00:37:17.079 --> 00:37:21.199 Looking, all right, let's let's address that. And you're gonna 693 00:37:21.199 --> 00:37:23.199 hear music in just a second, and that'll be the 694 00:37:23.880 --> 00:37:28.199 end of this segment. EIGs get yellow leaves when they're 695 00:37:28.239 --> 00:37:31.880 stressed from a drought, from excessive nematodes on the roots, 696 00:37:32.599 --> 00:37:35.360 You'll get older leaves turning yellow and falling. It could 697 00:37:35.360 --> 00:37:38.599 also be a sign of extremely poor soil. But figs 698 00:37:38.599 --> 00:37:42.039 are pretty tough. They're not divas that need lots of fertilizer. 699 00:37:43.039 --> 00:37:45.119 The other thing that can cause that is a disease 700 00:37:45.199 --> 00:37:47.920 called rust that gets on the leaves and there's really 701 00:37:47.960 --> 00:37:50.840 not a practical control for that. But figs are tough. 702 00:37:52.239 --> 00:37:56.199 I appreciate everything, Man, Thanks for you. Thanks for Stephania Man. 703 00:37:56.559 --> 00:38:01.320 Yeah, thanks, thanks, appreciate that. Dave, take care all right, 704 00:38:01.320 --> 00:38:04.920 here we go. We are going to another break at 705 00:38:04.920 --> 00:38:06.800 the top of the hour. Guess where I'm gonna be 706 00:38:06.840 --> 00:38:10.159 next Saturday. Next Saturday, get this on your calendar. I'm 707 00:38:10.159 --> 00:38:12.960 gonna be at Katie Hardware out there in Katie, Texas. 708 00:38:12.960 --> 00:38:14.119 I'm going to tell you more about it as we 709 00:38:14.199 --> 00:38:16.239 go through the show this morning, but I'll be there 710 00:38:16.280 --> 00:38:19.039 from twelve to two Katie Hardware out in Katie, Texas. 711 00:38:19.039 --> 00:38:21.920 So all of you out that direction, Katie and all 712 00:38:21.960 --> 00:38:24.880 over there, come on, make plans, come out to see me, 713 00:38:24.960 --> 00:38:27.000 bring me some samples. We're gonna be having lots of 714 00:38:27.039 --> 00:38:30.400 good giveaways and as always, a good time leading you 715 00:38:30.559 --> 00:38:33.400 and basically helping you have a more pountiful garden than 716 00:38:33.400 --> 00:38:34.480 a beautiful landscape. 717 00:38:39.519 --> 00:38:44.159 Welcome to kat r h garden line with Skip Richter's. 718 00:38:50.480 --> 00:38:50.719 Trip. 719 00:38:52.079 --> 00:39:11.119 Just watch him as see. 720 00:39:08.559 --> 00:39:09.519 A side. 721 00:39:14.159 --> 00:39:14.480 Sun. 722 00:39:15.960 --> 00:39:19.400 Good Sunday morning, Good Sunday morning, on what's going to 723 00:39:19.440 --> 00:39:23.760 be a beautiful day out there. I hope this afternoon 724 00:39:23.760 --> 00:39:26.199 you got some plans to get out and about get 725 00:39:26.239 --> 00:39:28.320 a few things done in the landscaping in the garden. 726 00:39:28.320 --> 00:39:31.159 You know, if you've never planted a vegetable garden, why 727 00:39:31.199 --> 00:39:33.800 not do one this year? And when I say that, 728 00:39:33.880 --> 00:39:36.280 I'm not talking about you plowing up the back forty 729 00:39:36.360 --> 00:39:39.320 and turn in your yard into mixed up dirt. I'm 730 00:39:39.320 --> 00:39:42.360 talking about any kind of gardening that is at the 731 00:39:42.480 --> 00:39:45.639 level and the extent that you are interested in. For example, 732 00:39:45.719 --> 00:39:47.360 I've never grown anything for I'm going to get a 733 00:39:47.360 --> 00:39:49.360 five gallon bucket, droll holes in the bottom, put good 734 00:39:49.360 --> 00:39:52.199 soil in it, and grow a broccoli plant. I mean, 735 00:39:52.880 --> 00:39:55.440 it could be a container. It could be a nice bed. 736 00:39:55.559 --> 00:39:57.199 You know, one of those store bought beds that you 737 00:39:57.239 --> 00:40:00.440 fill up with quality mix. I've got one that we put. 738 00:40:00.719 --> 00:40:03.519 We put a veggo bed on our patio in the back, 739 00:40:03.639 --> 00:40:06.639 kind of an L shaped bed, and it's filled with 740 00:40:06.679 --> 00:40:08.800 a good quality mix. And my wife has a lot 741 00:40:08.840 --> 00:40:11.280 of our flowers and vegetables. You've got some broccoli in 742 00:40:11.280 --> 00:40:15.079 there right now, but those are very attractive. And rather 743 00:40:15.159 --> 00:40:17.760 than getting a rottailer out, we just dropped this thing 744 00:40:17.760 --> 00:40:20.320 on the ground, put it together, filled it with soil, 745 00:40:20.360 --> 00:40:22.599 and here we go. And you can garden that way. Now, 746 00:40:22.639 --> 00:40:24.400 if you want to plow up the back forty of 747 00:40:24.400 --> 00:40:26.920 course you can do that too, but make it easy 748 00:40:26.960 --> 00:40:31.119 on yourself. But above all, do something, grow something. Some 749 00:40:31.199 --> 00:40:35.280 of the best most health promoting vegetables you can grow 750 00:40:35.320 --> 00:40:38.079 all year you grow this season. And that would be 751 00:40:38.159 --> 00:40:42.199 things like kale and broccoli, the cruciferous plants, the blue 752 00:40:42.280 --> 00:40:45.719 leafed vegetables, the coal crops, those are all. They're all 753 00:40:45.719 --> 00:40:51.519 that describing the same thing. Broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, coabbie, kale, collareds. 754 00:40:51.679 --> 00:40:55.360 What am I leaving out? I think, well that's enough 755 00:40:55.400 --> 00:40:59.679 for right now. Anyway. Those are excellent for your health 756 00:40:59.679 --> 00:41:02.760 and they grow easy. How about carrots. Carrots are excellent 757 00:41:02.760 --> 00:41:04.800 for your health, and they grow in the cool season. 758 00:41:04.840 --> 00:41:06.639 In fact, they like to be a little bit cooler 759 00:41:06.719 --> 00:41:09.719 than it is right now to grow. So a good 760 00:41:09.760 --> 00:41:12.639 container with some depth, maybe ten inches of depth or so, 761 00:41:12.880 --> 00:41:17.039 can grow some really good carrots and we've done that before. 762 00:41:17.880 --> 00:41:21.800 How about other greens like Swiss charred or beats which 763 00:41:21.840 --> 00:41:24.519 we get the tops and the bottoms the greens and 764 00:41:24.239 --> 00:41:28.960 the swollen root for the beats. When I do that 765 00:41:29.039 --> 00:41:31.360 this year, that's kind of my I don't want to 766 00:41:31.400 --> 00:41:34.280 say challenge. That's a little corny, but that's what I 767 00:41:34.320 --> 00:41:37.599 would encourage you to consider. And if you've got kids, 768 00:41:37.760 --> 00:41:43.119 please consider it because as youth grow up growing food 769 00:41:43.480 --> 00:41:45.400 that number one. When you grow it, you're more likely 770 00:41:45.440 --> 00:41:48.400 to eat it. And our number one health problems are 771 00:41:48.679 --> 00:41:50.639 due to what we put in our mouth and our 772 00:41:50.719 --> 00:41:53.679 lack of activity. And gardening solves both. You know that 773 00:41:53.760 --> 00:41:55.960 thing that says every thirty minutes, get up, leave your desk, 774 00:41:56.039 --> 00:41:57.639 walk around for a minute, come back and sit down. 775 00:41:57.679 --> 00:42:00.920 That's true. What have I going out in the guard now? 776 00:42:01.000 --> 00:42:04.719 That is really true? And you know, rather than fast 777 00:42:04.760 --> 00:42:09.199 food and processed foods, healthy stuff, you grow yourself and 778 00:42:09.239 --> 00:42:10.840 you can and we'll help you do it. Here so 779 00:42:10.920 --> 00:42:14.320 well are independent garden centers all over the Greater Houston 780 00:42:14.360 --> 00:42:17.880 area that are stocked with plants and that are loaded 781 00:42:18.039 --> 00:42:20.719 with good advice people that know what they're talking about 782 00:42:21.159 --> 00:42:25.599 to help you have success. All right, Well, there was 783 00:42:25.639 --> 00:42:29.199 a little soapbox, but I believe it. I hope you 784 00:42:29.960 --> 00:42:34.000 will believe it too. While Birds Unlimited is the place 785 00:42:34.079 --> 00:42:37.440 I go for all the things related to birds that 786 00:42:38.039 --> 00:42:39.599 I do. If you need a bird house, if you 787 00:42:39.639 --> 00:42:43.599 need a bird feeder, if you need advice on birds especial, boy, 788 00:42:43.639 --> 00:42:47.400 they they know what they're talking about. If you are looking, 789 00:42:47.920 --> 00:42:52.000 you know, for quality bird food. You know, the winter season, 790 00:42:53.079 --> 00:42:56.480 as we're going into fall and then eventually winter, the 791 00:42:56.559 --> 00:42:59.400 day length, the day length gets shorter and shorter, and 792 00:42:59.639 --> 00:43:01.719 in that there's less time for birds to be out 793 00:43:01.719 --> 00:43:05.239 there finding food and a high quality food like Wildbirds 794 00:43:05.280 --> 00:43:08.800 Unlimited Winter super Blend that would be a great choice 795 00:43:08.960 --> 00:43:11.400 for this season because it's packed with bat and protein 796 00:43:11.719 --> 00:43:15.360 to help those birds out. It's still very dry out there. 797 00:43:15.400 --> 00:43:16.760 I know maybe at the end of the week we're 798 00:43:16.760 --> 00:43:19.039 going to get some rain, but every day of the 799 00:43:19.159 --> 00:43:21.679 year a bird has to drink water, So I don't 800 00:43:21.679 --> 00:43:24.800 care if it's December and cool outside, where are they 801 00:43:24.800 --> 00:43:26.559 going to get water? And if you make that war 802 00:43:26.800 --> 00:43:29.800 in your yard, they'll come to your yard. And that's 803 00:43:29.880 --> 00:43:33.000 why we want to put bird feeders and things out 804 00:43:33.000 --> 00:43:35.320 to attract birds. Water is one of the simplest way 805 00:43:35.360 --> 00:43:38.039 to do it. Warbird's Unlimited encourages you to leave a 806 00:43:38.159 --> 00:43:41.960 small hummingbird feeder filled out there through the holidays. You 807 00:43:42.039 --> 00:43:45.159 might be lucky enough to have one of these rufous hummingbirds. 808 00:43:45.199 --> 00:43:48.159 A lot of the rufous birds, they basically migrate all 809 00:43:48.199 --> 00:43:51.159 the way down to Mexico. Some of them come along 810 00:43:51.199 --> 00:43:52.880 the Gulf coast and hang out here for the winter, 811 00:43:53.159 --> 00:43:55.400 so we can still have one of that type of 812 00:43:55.480 --> 00:44:02.920 hummingbird still around. Wibirds Unlimited, WBUT dot com forward slash Houston. 813 00:44:03.159 --> 00:44:05.239 We'll give you the six stores here in the Greater 814 00:44:05.320 --> 00:44:11.880 Houston area. WBU dot com forward slash Houston. You are 815 00:44:11.920 --> 00:44:14.760 listening to Gardenline. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and our 816 00:44:14.800 --> 00:44:16.880 phone number here if you'd like to give me a call. 817 00:44:16.960 --> 00:44:21.400 Seven one three two one two five eight seven four 818 00:44:21.639 --> 00:44:25.760 seven one three two one two five eight seven four. 819 00:44:27.199 --> 00:44:32.440 Microlife has put together an outstanding list of products that 820 00:44:32.800 --> 00:44:36.159 are just perfect for the things you need to do 821 00:44:36.280 --> 00:44:40.119 to make the brown stuff richer for the plants that 822 00:44:40.159 --> 00:44:43.559 you put in it browns up in the soil. Microlife 823 00:44:43.599 --> 00:44:48.440 specializes in providing additional microbes and the things that microbes 824 00:44:48.679 --> 00:44:51.800 like to eat if you will, uh, so that those 825 00:44:51.880 --> 00:44:54.639 nutrients can get released to your plants. They also have 826 00:44:54.679 --> 00:44:58.320 a product now the fall. The fall fertilization from microlife 827 00:44:58.360 --> 00:45:00.760 is called brown patch. The bag of round patch is 828 00:45:00.800 --> 00:45:03.039 what you put out in the fall to provide those 829 00:45:03.119 --> 00:45:07.559 nutrients to your lawn. I would add to that especially 830 00:45:07.679 --> 00:45:13.400 the season micro grow bioanoculan. And this product has sixty 831 00:45:13.440 --> 00:45:16.519 three different beneficial microbes. And I'm looking here at the 832 00:45:16.559 --> 00:45:19.039 list of strains that are in it, and I mean 833 00:45:19.079 --> 00:45:22.679 there's some microbes here that are famous for what they do. 834 00:45:22.719 --> 00:45:27.320 A trichoderma microbe, for example. Their products you buy the 835 00:45:27.400 --> 00:45:31.400 commercial growers will buy to put in soil so that 836 00:45:31.440 --> 00:45:36.159 their little seedlings don't get root rot, and Trachoderma is 837 00:45:36.280 --> 00:45:40.519 in those because it helps fight root disease on those seedlings. 838 00:45:40.840 --> 00:45:46.239 There's other things like basilla subtlest. Basilla subtlest is sold 839 00:45:46.400 --> 00:45:49.280 in a bottle of liquid that you spray on your 840 00:45:49.280 --> 00:45:52.719 plants to fight disease. These are microbes that are in 841 00:45:52.840 --> 00:45:55.079 micro grow, sixty three different ones. I just told you 842 00:45:55.119 --> 00:45:57.920 about two put out a bag of micro grow. It 843 00:45:58.000 --> 00:46:01.000 goes out at a super low rate. It's not like fertilizing rate. 844 00:46:01.440 --> 00:46:03.639 So we're talking about you know, five to ten pounds 845 00:46:03.679 --> 00:46:05.639 per thousand square feet, and if you've got a lot 846 00:46:05.679 --> 00:46:07.519 of problems, you know, you can take that up to 847 00:46:07.559 --> 00:46:12.159 twenty pounds. But anytime you're wanting to improve the situation 848 00:46:12.280 --> 00:46:15.719 in the soil and on the plant surface, getting these 849 00:46:15.760 --> 00:46:18.760 products down from micro especially this micro grow in this 850 00:46:18.840 --> 00:46:21.760 specific situation, I would recommend you do that. You can 851 00:46:21.800 --> 00:46:24.719 find Microlife all over town. Just go to Microlife Fertilizer 852 00:46:24.800 --> 00:46:26.400 dot com. You can find out where to get it. 853 00:46:26.599 --> 00:46:27.960 But I can just tell you this, if it's a 854 00:46:27.960 --> 00:46:29.679 garden center, if it's a feed store, if it's an 855 00:46:29.679 --> 00:46:33.000 Ace hardware store, if it's Southwest Fertilizer, all those kinds 856 00:46:33.000 --> 00:46:39.880 of places, and also Cienemulch too. As Carrius. That all right, 857 00:46:40.000 --> 00:46:41.760 time for me to take a break. I'll be right 858 00:46:41.800 --> 00:46:43.440 back with your calls. If you want to call now 859 00:46:43.480 --> 00:46:45.239 and get on the board, you can be first up. 860 00:46:45.400 --> 00:46:49.079 Seven one three two one two KTRH. Welcome back to 861 00:46:49.159 --> 00:46:53.079 garden Line, folks. Good to be back with you. I 862 00:46:53.199 --> 00:46:55.519 tell you it is early in the morning right now, 863 00:46:55.519 --> 00:46:58.639 and I congratulate you for being up listening to garden Line. 864 00:46:59.039 --> 00:47:00.639 But I'm telling you today is going to be a 865 00:47:00.800 --> 00:47:03.280 great day, and I hope this afternoon you will get 866 00:47:03.320 --> 00:47:06.719 out and do some gardening, maybe some garden shopping. The 867 00:47:06.840 --> 00:47:10.199 garden centers right now or oh, they're beautiful loaded with 868 00:47:10.280 --> 00:47:14.800 fall color. They are just brimming to the top and 869 00:47:14.960 --> 00:47:17.119 starting to get a lot of winter color into a 870 00:47:17.119 --> 00:47:19.559 lot of good options for that. You know, we have 871 00:47:20.079 --> 00:47:24.639 four seasons a year here, like they do everywhere. Ours 872 00:47:24.880 --> 00:47:30.079 are different. You know, Summer is basically what ten months, 873 00:47:31.599 --> 00:47:37.000 Winter is about five days and fall in spring total 874 00:47:37.000 --> 00:47:39.840 of the rest of the time. No, seriously, though, every 875 00:47:39.880 --> 00:47:43.960 season there are flowers that do well, and there's foliage 876 00:47:44.119 --> 00:47:47.400 that does well. Don't forget foliage too, and so when 877 00:47:47.480 --> 00:47:50.480 wintertime comes, there's no reason not to have beautiful color 878 00:47:50.480 --> 00:47:52.199 in your landscape. There's a lot of ways we can 879 00:47:52.239 --> 00:47:55.559 go about that. But things like pansies and viola's everybody 880 00:47:55.559 --> 00:47:59.599 knows about those. Listen, snap dragons. Nastciam is one some 881 00:47:59.639 --> 00:48:03.239 people to grow those colendulas do well in the cool season, 882 00:48:03.400 --> 00:48:05.880 Dusty Miller. It's kind of a silvery plant, looks really 883 00:48:05.880 --> 00:48:09.440 good with blue flowers like blue iolas and things. There's 884 00:48:09.440 --> 00:48:11.440 a lot of cool color plants that we can put 885 00:48:11.440 --> 00:48:14.679 out there. Ornamental kale, there's a there are a number 886 00:48:14.679 --> 00:48:18.679 of kales that and cabbage too, that they're just grown 887 00:48:18.719 --> 00:48:21.559 for ornament because of the colors in the foliage. There's 888 00:48:21.599 --> 00:48:25.039 an edible kale that actually I guess all of it 889 00:48:25.119 --> 00:48:29.480 technically is edible, but there's one that is a very 890 00:48:29.480 --> 00:48:32.840 burgundy colored one that's really beautiful. I would like to 891 00:48:32.880 --> 00:48:35.119 call it maroon as a matter of fact, but it 892 00:48:35.199 --> 00:48:38.840 is a gorgeous, gorgeous little plant that looks good in 893 00:48:38.880 --> 00:48:41.039 the landscape, and in the spring when it bolts and 894 00:48:41.079 --> 00:48:43.639 sends up yellow flowers, it's even prettier. Then it's everything 895 00:48:43.719 --> 00:48:45.840 changes and suddenly from a little short plant, now you've 896 00:48:45.800 --> 00:48:48.800 got a big tall bloomstalks and things on it. Take 897 00:48:48.800 --> 00:48:51.480 advantage of that. And to do that first you got 898 00:48:51.519 --> 00:48:54.360 to get the soil right. So that's something to focus on. First, 899 00:48:54.440 --> 00:48:57.400 get the soil right, and then go out and get 900 00:48:57.480 --> 00:48:59.679 some quality plants. You know, a place like Plants for 901 00:48:59.719 --> 00:49:02.880 All Seas. For example, they're on two forty nine, right 902 00:49:03.079 --> 00:49:05.800 just north of Luetta on two forty nine, right there. 903 00:49:06.079 --> 00:49:08.119 It's easy to get in and out. They've been around 904 00:49:08.159 --> 00:49:10.960 since nineteen seventy three, and so everybody in that region 905 00:49:11.000 --> 00:49:13.559 knows them. I mean they're well known, a very very 906 00:49:13.599 --> 00:49:16.639 popular place because when you go there, they've got all 907 00:49:16.639 --> 00:49:18.519 the products you need to have success. You know, you 908 00:49:18.559 --> 00:49:20.559 hear me talk about a fertilizer or a soil here 909 00:49:20.599 --> 00:49:23.280 on Guardline, they're going to have them at Plants for 910 00:49:23.320 --> 00:49:25.679 all seasons. Then you hear me talk about plants. Well, 911 00:49:26.519 --> 00:49:30.320 no matter what it is, from your cool seasoned vegetables 912 00:49:30.360 --> 00:49:33.039 that I was encouraging you to get in plant earlier 913 00:49:33.119 --> 00:49:36.599 to herbs. Now fall is a great time for almost 914 00:49:36.599 --> 00:49:39.639 all herbs. Basils an exception, but I mean all of 915 00:49:39.679 --> 00:49:42.960 these perennial herbs, you know, time and rosemary and marjoram 916 00:49:43.039 --> 00:49:46.920 and oh gosh, what am I regano and I could 917 00:49:46.960 --> 00:49:49.280 just go on and on, chives and different things. Now's 918 00:49:49.280 --> 00:49:51.360 the time to get those planted. They got them at 919 00:49:51.400 --> 00:49:55.159 Plants for All seasons. If you need help with a problem, 920 00:49:55.320 --> 00:49:57.159 you can take a picture or a sample in there. 921 00:49:57.239 --> 00:50:00.559 They can help you with. That's the here's the phone number. 922 00:50:00.599 --> 00:50:02.400 You need to write this down because you'll need to 923 00:50:02.400 --> 00:50:05.800 give them a call. Seven or excuse me, two eight, one, three, seven, 924 00:50:05.920 --> 00:50:10.480 six sixteen forty six two eight one three seven six 925 00:50:10.840 --> 00:50:15.360 one six four six plants for all seasons. You are 926 00:50:15.400 --> 00:50:19.000 gonna take pride in your landscape when you start using 927 00:50:19.039 --> 00:50:21.719 their plants and taking their advice. To have that kind 928 00:50:21.719 --> 00:50:24.599 of success in your landscape, you need to visit. If 929 00:50:24.639 --> 00:50:26.400 you have a brown thumb and you won't turn it green, 930 00:50:26.480 --> 00:50:28.960 you need to visit plants for all seasons. If you've 931 00:50:28.960 --> 00:50:32.079 got a green thumb, well they'll make it greener. How 932 00:50:32.079 --> 00:50:36.559 about that you're listening to garden Line our phone number 933 00:50:36.599 --> 00:50:38.039 if you would like to give us a call and 934 00:50:38.079 --> 00:50:41.519 actually right now be top of the list. Seven one 935 00:50:41.599 --> 00:50:45.039 three two one two k t R eight seven one 936 00:50:45.119 --> 00:50:48.360 three two one two k t RH. So if you 937 00:50:48.400 --> 00:50:50.639 got a gardening question, this would be a good time 938 00:50:51.360 --> 00:50:56.159 to ask that question. I was talking earlier about airlom soils, 939 00:50:56.159 --> 00:50:58.039 the fact that some of the airlom cel products are 940 00:50:58.079 --> 00:51:02.239 available down there at Cnmulch Well airlom soils. If you 941 00:51:02.280 --> 00:51:04.480 go up to the Porter area, that's the soil yard 942 00:51:04.639 --> 00:51:07.719 up there, we're on rock and malts and airlom soils 943 00:51:07.840 --> 00:51:12.880 up in Porter they are I guess the source. I 944 00:51:12.880 --> 00:51:17.280 would say of a wide variety of quality products that 945 00:51:17.320 --> 00:51:21.880 are available in a wide range of places. It's hard 946 00:51:21.920 --> 00:51:24.239 to find places where you're not going to have somewhere 947 00:51:24.239 --> 00:51:27.760 nearby that you're going to find those airlom soil products. 948 00:51:28.079 --> 00:51:30.880 And we're talking about the kinds of things that make 949 00:51:31.239 --> 00:51:36.320 your garden successful, that make your landscape successful. For example, 950 00:51:36.599 --> 00:51:39.239 are you going to put in shrubs this fall or 951 00:51:39.320 --> 00:51:42.079 roses a type of shrub. How about the roses and 952 00:51:42.079 --> 00:51:45.760 bloomers blend that is an excellent soil for that. How 953 00:51:45.800 --> 00:51:48.800 about citrus mix. Fruit Berry and citrus mix is what 954 00:51:48.840 --> 00:51:51.679 it's called very good for all of those kinds of plants. 955 00:51:52.119 --> 00:51:54.679 They got landscape bed mixes. They've got the veggie and 956 00:51:54.679 --> 00:51:57.599 herb mix that is just pretty much good for anything 957 00:51:57.639 --> 00:52:00.440 growing like that that you're going to eat. I use 958 00:52:00.480 --> 00:52:04.480 the cactus, some succulent. My wife loves strings, strings of pearl, 959 00:52:04.559 --> 00:52:08.000 strings of We have strings of everything, strings of stuff. 960 00:52:08.000 --> 00:52:11.719 I didn't know there were strings of anyway, it's growing 961 00:52:12.000 --> 00:52:14.199 that you should see them. They look beautiful and they're 962 00:52:14.199 --> 00:52:18.199 growing in airloom soils. Cactus and succulent soil mix. They 963 00:52:18.239 --> 00:52:21.360 got the standard potting soil called the works. And then 964 00:52:21.440 --> 00:52:24.440 if you've got heavy clay expanded shale. You got to 965 00:52:24.480 --> 00:52:28.519 put expanded shell down. Compost improves a clay, but in 966 00:52:28.599 --> 00:52:32.440 time compost breaks down. So having expanded shale also in 967 00:52:32.480 --> 00:52:36.639 there with it, it's like hot I think of this. 968 00:52:36.639 --> 00:52:39.199 This isn't a totally accurate but it'll give you the 969 00:52:39.320 --> 00:52:41.880 right idea. If you take kitty litter and fire it 970 00:52:41.960 --> 00:52:44.920 in an oven so hot that it expands and you 971 00:52:44.960 --> 00:52:46.559 get all these little pores on it, so it looks 972 00:52:46.559 --> 00:52:50.079 like a lava rock under a microscope that's expanded shale 973 00:52:50.480 --> 00:52:53.519 and expanded jalil is a rock that holds its porosity 974 00:52:53.840 --> 00:52:57.079 and holds its structure over time and the soil, and 975 00:52:57.119 --> 00:53:00.679 it really really helps our heavy, heavy clay. Three or 976 00:53:00.719 --> 00:53:04.239 four inches of expanded shale would be good to fully 977 00:53:04.320 --> 00:53:07.960 do the job on a really yucky, sticky clay. And 978 00:53:08.000 --> 00:53:10.880 you can get it from Heirloom Soils. Just go to 979 00:53:11.320 --> 00:53:15.440 Heirloomsoils dot com. Heirloomsoils dot com. You can learn about 980 00:53:15.480 --> 00:53:17.559 all the products they have and then go to your 981 00:53:17.559 --> 00:53:21.480 local garden center, ace hardware store, feed store, sofa's fertilizer 982 00:53:21.760 --> 00:53:24.119 and all those kinds of places are going to carry 983 00:53:24.400 --> 00:53:29.800 the products. You're listening to Guardline, I'm your host Skip Richter, 984 00:53:29.920 --> 00:53:31.960 and we are now going to head out to sugar 985 00:53:32.079 --> 00:53:35.039 Land and talk to Ann. Hello Ann, good morning, and 986 00:53:35.079 --> 00:53:35.960 welcome to garden Line. 987 00:53:36.639 --> 00:53:40.719 Good morning. I have squirrels that are digging in my 988 00:53:40.920 --> 00:53:45.360 pots of pansies and wondered if there was anything I 989 00:53:45.400 --> 00:53:48.599 could do to discourage them. 990 00:53:49.599 --> 00:53:53.639 Well, you know that that's what squirrels do, and so 991 00:53:53.760 --> 00:53:57.280 it's hard to talk them out of that. I've known 992 00:53:57.280 --> 00:54:01.960 people that tried different things. You this is a little trouble. 993 00:54:02.079 --> 00:54:05.719 But if you've got some some plants that you can 994 00:54:05.760 --> 00:54:09.199 plant through a mesh like a like maybe you cut 995 00:54:09.199 --> 00:54:10.920 out a section a chicken wire or something like that, 996 00:54:10.960 --> 00:54:13.000 put it on the ground, and then and then you 997 00:54:13.039 --> 00:54:16.679 know your plants are going in there. Uh, it's trouble 998 00:54:16.800 --> 00:54:19.079 to do that. But it's hard for dogs and squirrels 999 00:54:19.119 --> 00:54:21.159 and cats and other things to dig in any four 1000 00:54:21.199 --> 00:54:24.719 better pot like that that. The only other thing would 1001 00:54:24.760 --> 00:54:28.239 be some sort of a repellent. Uh. And the ones 1002 00:54:28.320 --> 00:54:31.039 that are mainly used on squirrels are basically based on 1003 00:54:31.159 --> 00:54:35.000 hot pepper oil. And that that's because if they chew 1004 00:54:35.079 --> 00:54:38.199 on it, it burns their little mouths and they realize 1005 00:54:38.239 --> 00:54:41.079 they don't want to chew on that anymore. And so 1006 00:54:41.239 --> 00:54:45.400 that help some with the squirrels, but they are a problem. 1007 00:54:46.079 --> 00:54:48.639 You know, our urban neighborhoods are filled with squirrels. 1008 00:54:49.960 --> 00:54:51.360 Where would I get on. 1009 00:54:51.320 --> 00:54:56.320 A go to go to wild Birds unlimited. 1010 00:54:57.320 --> 00:54:57.920 Wold Bird? 1011 00:54:58.400 --> 00:55:02.119 Yeah, okay, warbirds will have it. They carry all those 1012 00:55:02.199 --> 00:55:02.960 kinds of things. 1013 00:55:03.480 --> 00:55:03.760 Uh. 1014 00:55:03.800 --> 00:55:06.960 And I would say, let me do something while we're 1015 00:55:06.960 --> 00:55:09.199 talking here. I'm gonna try to find that actually for you. 1016 00:55:10.119 --> 00:55:13.920 But you can go to w b U dot com 1017 00:55:13.960 --> 00:55:17.440 forward slash s Houston, okay, and that'll give you the 1018 00:55:17.480 --> 00:55:20.360 Wallbirds stores that are the closest to you. And you're 1019 00:55:20.440 --> 00:55:23.119 down in sugar Land, so you've got a store on 1020 00:55:23.280 --> 00:55:30.960 bel Air Boulevard that's probably the closest to you. Oh okay, 1021 00:55:31.000 --> 00:55:40.880 good good, okay, okay. Now test it on plants, because 1022 00:55:40.880 --> 00:55:44.039 you know oils just it's an oil and any kind 1023 00:55:44.039 --> 00:55:47.000 of an oil. We use a lot of types on plants. 1024 00:55:47.039 --> 00:55:49.760 But I've never tried spraying hot pepper on plants. So 1025 00:55:49.800 --> 00:55:51.800 test it on a little spot first before you just 1026 00:55:52.360 --> 00:55:55.880 you know, nuke the whole flower flower pot of pansies. 1027 00:55:56.320 --> 00:55:58.000 Make sure that's going to be okay. 1028 00:55:57.760 --> 00:56:00.840 All right, okay, thank you very much. 1029 00:56:01.840 --> 00:56:06.320 All right, thank you you take care. Yes, squirrels are 1030 00:56:06.360 --> 00:56:08.199 a problem, and that's a tough one. You know, if 1031 00:56:08.239 --> 00:56:11.880 they're if they're eating like bird seed, you can put 1032 00:56:11.880 --> 00:56:13.800 the pepper oil on them and they get a bite, 1033 00:56:13.880 --> 00:56:16.559 and I mean they're not gonna like that, you know, 1034 00:56:16.719 --> 00:56:19.320 like putting hob and arrow on my ice cream. I 1035 00:56:19.360 --> 00:56:21.679 think I would even stop eating ice cream if it 1036 00:56:21.719 --> 00:56:25.599 had hobbinn arrow oil on it. But when it comes 1037 00:56:25.639 --> 00:56:27.880 to like here's the plants and they're just digging around, 1038 00:56:27.880 --> 00:56:30.199 that's that's more difficult. In a little pot where you 1039 00:56:30.239 --> 00:56:32.159 got pansies, it's kind of hard to do. The wire 1040 00:56:32.199 --> 00:56:35.440 thing that works in a bed pretty well, I had 1041 00:56:35.480 --> 00:56:38.159 that in a bed where my dogs decided they wanted 1042 00:56:38.199 --> 00:56:40.159 to dig. Do you know I have two Golden retrievers, 1043 00:56:40.599 --> 00:56:44.880 Texan Ellie. Didn't I sound like a like some kind 1044 00:56:44.880 --> 00:56:49.079 of Stoga wagon going west Texan Ellie heading out to anyway? 1045 00:56:50.000 --> 00:56:52.599 They're Golden Retrievers. And I didn't know this when I 1046 00:56:52.639 --> 00:56:56.559 got them, but I thought golden retrievers were bred for 1047 00:56:56.719 --> 00:57:00.400 like retrieving a duck from a pond or retrieving Apparently 1048 00:57:00.440 --> 00:57:03.480 they were bread for retrieving plants. I'll go out and 1049 00:57:03.519 --> 00:57:05.920 plant a plant when these dogs were young. We've gotten 1050 00:57:05.960 --> 00:57:07.760 planet a plant i'd come back out. In fact, I've 1051 00:57:07.760 --> 00:57:11.360 posted this to Instagram a long long time ago. My 1052 00:57:11.400 --> 00:57:15.400 little four inch pots of I think it was cone 1053 00:57:15.400 --> 00:57:19.400 flower that I'd put out there. They Ellie retrieved them 1054 00:57:19.400 --> 00:57:21.159 for me. She brought him to the back porch and 1055 00:57:21.199 --> 00:57:23.239 had them lay in there while she sat with dirt 1056 00:57:23.280 --> 00:57:25.880 on her mouth, looking at me like I was going 1057 00:57:25.920 --> 00:57:27.559 to praise her. I guess I don't know what she 1058 00:57:27.639 --> 00:57:31.079 brought them to show me. But anyway, we need a 1059 00:57:31.119 --> 00:57:34.960 dog rehab service that can teach dogs how to retrieve 1060 00:57:35.039 --> 00:57:39.480 weeds instead of plants. Now, that would be a dog worth. 1061 00:57:40.519 --> 00:57:43.599 We love those dogs, but they also My wife planted 1062 00:57:44.039 --> 00:57:47.000 a rudbeccia recently and we came out and about half 1063 00:57:47.039 --> 00:57:49.079 the petals re eating off one flower, and it came 1064 00:57:49.119 --> 00:57:52.519 out and the flowers were gone. They just like to 1065 00:57:52.599 --> 00:57:58.079 chew on stuff. Anyway. They're good dogs other than that. 1066 00:57:58.760 --> 00:58:00.159 So if any of you know how to, if you 1067 00:58:00.159 --> 00:58:04.280 want to start a money making business, train dogs how 1068 00:58:04.280 --> 00:58:08.199 to retrieve weeds, I think that would be great. All right, 1069 00:58:08.280 --> 00:58:11.480 Spring Creek Feed is up there in Magnolion FM twenty 1070 00:58:11.559 --> 00:58:13.559 nine seventy eight, and you hear me talk about it 1071 00:58:13.599 --> 00:58:17.039 from time to time. It is an awesome feedstore is 1072 00:58:17.079 --> 00:58:19.760 actually a beautiful feed store. You go, you drive up 1073 00:58:19.840 --> 00:58:22.320 and this building is just inviting. I mean it's like, oh, 1074 00:58:22.360 --> 00:58:24.119 that looks good. And then you walk in and you 1075 00:58:24.239 --> 00:58:26.400 first thing, the first thing I think about is Okay, 1076 00:58:26.400 --> 00:58:29.199 did I come to the wrong place or this looks 1077 00:58:29.280 --> 00:58:34.360 more like a beautiful store of just all kinds of 1078 00:58:34.440 --> 00:58:37.760 displays of everything in the world you might want. And 1079 00:58:37.800 --> 00:58:39.760 then you look over to the side, Oh, there's feed there. 1080 00:58:39.800 --> 00:58:41.840 And then you look the other side and oh, there 1081 00:58:41.960 --> 00:58:44.519 is everything I need for my plants in the garden, 1082 00:58:44.639 --> 00:58:47.320 yard and landscape. So that would be the fertilizers I 1083 00:58:47.360 --> 00:58:52.159 talk about. That would be disease control, insect control, weed control. 1084 00:58:52.320 --> 00:58:55.400 It's all there. They've got it at Sprint Creek Feed. Now, 1085 00:58:55.440 --> 00:58:58.920 if you are a senior citizen or military or FFA 1086 00:58:59.159 --> 00:59:03.239 for hu raising animals, their discounts for that. They can 1087 00:59:03.280 --> 00:59:05.880 also special order and they do have a delivery service 1088 00:59:05.920 --> 00:59:07.519 if you need that, if you like to do that. 1089 00:59:07.880 --> 00:59:10.800 But the staff is friendly and courteous. And when you 1090 00:59:10.880 --> 00:59:14.880 consider the full line of Nelson, turf Star, the microlife, 1091 00:59:15.000 --> 00:59:19.199 the nitrophoss, all the things that they carry. It's just 1092 00:59:19.239 --> 00:59:22.079 an easy, one stop shop and you will like them 1093 00:59:22.079 --> 00:59:23.960 when you go in there. Though, if you're into backyard 1094 00:59:24.039 --> 00:59:26.039 chickens too, I mean, can they ever get you set 1095 00:59:26.119 --> 00:59:29.400 up on that? Lots of stuff? All right, time for 1096 00:59:29.440 --> 00:59:31.920 me to take a little break here. I am going 1097 00:59:32.000 --> 00:59:33.719 to be right back if you'd like to call us 1098 00:59:33.760 --> 00:59:38.000 seven one three two one two kt rh All right, folks, 1099 00:59:38.360 --> 00:59:41.840 welcome back to garden Line. We are going to keep 1100 00:59:41.880 --> 00:59:45.920 going here with advising and helping and doing whatever we 1101 00:59:46.000 --> 00:59:47.920 can to help you have a more bountiful garden, a 1102 00:59:47.920 --> 00:59:51.519 more beautiful landscape, and more fun in the process. That's 1103 00:59:51.599 --> 00:59:55.079 the that is the important one too. You know, gardening 1104 00:59:55.280 --> 00:59:58.280 is not remember the days when people had to like 1105 00:59:58.400 --> 01:00:01.280 hunt and gather. Member, of course you don't remember. None 1106 01:00:01.320 --> 01:00:03.119 of us are around people. I had hunt and gather 1107 01:00:03.280 --> 01:00:06.719 just to survive, right, And then we discovered farming and 1108 01:00:06.800 --> 01:00:08.880 you had to if you had a crop failure, you 1109 01:00:08.920 --> 01:00:11.599 starved out. Well, we don't live in that time anymore, 1110 01:00:11.719 --> 01:00:14.719 and here in the States at least, and we're fortunate, 1111 01:00:15.119 --> 01:00:20.440 extremely blessed for that. But you can grow your own food, 1112 01:00:20.679 --> 01:00:23.400 You can do all kinds of things and have fun 1113 01:00:23.519 --> 01:00:26.320 in the process, and gardening is just in our blood. 1114 01:00:26.440 --> 01:00:30.360 I really believe that. By the way, I will tell 1115 01:00:30.559 --> 01:00:36.000 people that I know that are under other professions, including medicine, 1116 01:00:36.039 --> 01:00:38.039 the ministry, all kinds of things. I'll say, you know, 1117 01:00:38.159 --> 01:00:41.199 I actually am in the profession, the first profession ever, 1118 01:00:41.599 --> 01:00:44.599 the profession officially ordained by God. Because he didn't make 1119 01:00:44.639 --> 01:00:48.159 a guard, a cubicle of Eden or a clinic of Eden. 1120 01:00:48.400 --> 01:00:50.400 He made a garden of Eden. And we get to 1121 01:00:50.880 --> 01:00:53.199 as gardeners. We get to do what I just think 1122 01:00:53.280 --> 01:00:56.760 mankind is basically designed for, and that that is to 1123 01:00:56.800 --> 01:00:59.760 get out there, to enjoy nature, to create, to build, 1124 01:01:00.079 --> 01:01:01.440 do all kinds of things. That's a little bit of 1125 01:01:01.440 --> 01:01:05.239 a soapbox, but I know this that I am happiest 1126 01:01:05.679 --> 01:01:09.440 when I'm in my garden. Someone once said that I 1127 01:01:09.480 --> 01:01:12.800 can't imagine when it comes to like building the soil, 1128 01:01:13.519 --> 01:01:18.119 allowing someone else else to rob for me. The opportunity 1129 01:01:18.239 --> 01:01:20.880 to get out in the soil and dirt and garden 1130 01:01:20.960 --> 01:01:26.000 and grow. It is a good with a lot of 1131 01:01:26.039 --> 01:01:28.480 good analogies too. By the way, I know I'm going 1132 01:01:28.559 --> 01:01:32.679 off topic here, but I think it's fun. For example, 1133 01:01:33.280 --> 01:01:36.320 Abraham Lincoln said this die when I may I want 1134 01:01:36.360 --> 01:01:39.119 it said by those who knew me the best, that 1135 01:01:39.239 --> 01:01:42.440 I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where 1136 01:01:42.440 --> 01:01:44.599 I thought a flower would grow. You know, he said that, 1137 01:01:46.119 --> 01:01:48.239 and't that? What we try to do is get out 1138 01:01:48.280 --> 01:01:51.079 there and make life a little better. When we say 1139 01:01:51.119 --> 01:01:54.519 improve your lot in life, well, your property is city 1140 01:01:54.599 --> 01:01:58.639 lots or country acreage, how can we improve it? That 1141 01:01:58.960 --> 01:02:03.440 is what it's about. Gardeners are optimists, and we know 1142 01:02:03.760 --> 01:02:06.320 we can it'll be better. You know, the best garden 1143 01:02:06.360 --> 01:02:09.920 I've ever had is the one I'm gonna plant. When 1144 01:02:09.960 --> 01:02:11.840 I go to a garden center and buy a fruit tree, 1145 01:02:12.960 --> 01:02:16.519 I let's say it's a peach. I can already see 1146 01:02:16.559 --> 01:02:19.960 that tree five years old in my yard, loaded with 1147 01:02:20.440 --> 01:02:24.039 the most delicious peaches on earth. Because we have that optimism, 1148 01:02:24.119 --> 01:02:28.239 we have that ability to do that. And Thomas Cooper 1149 01:02:28.880 --> 01:02:31.599 years ago said, garden is never so good as it 1150 01:02:31.599 --> 01:02:35.000 will be next year. And that's really true, really really true. 1151 01:02:35.199 --> 01:02:38.920 All Right, I'm gonna stop pontificating and we'll talk to 1152 01:02:38.960 --> 01:02:41.920 you about the things you're interested in if you give 1153 01:02:42.000 --> 01:02:44.760 us a call seven one three two one two K 1154 01:02:45.079 --> 01:02:49.480 t R. H Ace Hardware stores are all over the 1155 01:02:49.519 --> 01:02:53.679 Houston area over forty stores now in the Greater Houston area. 1156 01:02:53.719 --> 01:02:56.320 And when you go into ACE, first of all, if 1157 01:02:56.360 --> 01:03:00.480 you're one of the folks trying to do the nitrofoss one, two, 1158 01:03:00.599 --> 01:03:03.559 three or three step excuse me, the nine of us 1159 01:03:03.840 --> 01:03:09.400 three step fertilizer disease prevention, weed prevention in your yard, 1160 01:03:09.719 --> 01:03:11.400 go to Ace Hardware store. They're going to have it. 1161 01:03:11.440 --> 01:03:14.679 They're gonna have the whole package there. And you know, 1162 01:03:15.000 --> 01:03:17.079 in any season of the year, Ace is going to 1163 01:03:17.079 --> 01:03:19.280 have the things you need to have a beautiful lawn 1164 01:03:19.440 --> 01:03:22.280 and a beautiful garden and a productive garden. You got 1165 01:03:22.280 --> 01:03:25.559 pest and disease problems. They got you covered. Fall is 1166 01:03:25.679 --> 01:03:27.960 it's very important in the fall if you have fire ants, 1167 01:03:27.960 --> 01:03:29.239 which pretty much eyboy does. 1168 01:03:29.800 --> 01:03:29.920 Uh. 1169 01:03:30.480 --> 01:03:34.280 If you have fire ants, fall baiting is really really 1170 01:03:34.440 --> 01:03:37.239 a great way to knock them down a lot. So 1171 01:03:37.440 --> 01:03:40.679 next spring it's like, oh my gosh, I'm inundated. This 1172 01:03:40.760 --> 01:03:43.039 is way worse than it was in the fall. If 1173 01:03:43.079 --> 01:03:45.320 you will do your baiting now, and Ace Hardware has 1174 01:03:45.440 --> 01:03:48.840 all kinds of different bait options for you, that is 1175 01:03:48.880 --> 01:03:51.719 the least toxic way to control fire ants, and now's 1176 01:03:51.760 --> 01:03:53.880 the time to get it done. You want to put 1177 01:03:53.920 --> 01:03:57.639 baits out when the weather is conducive to the ants 1178 01:03:57.679 --> 01:04:00.960 being out, and in summertime during the middle of the day. 1179 01:04:01.000 --> 01:04:02.920 Do you know, even though they're called fire ants, they 1180 01:04:02.960 --> 01:04:05.079 don't like the hot, hot heat of the middle of 1181 01:04:05.079 --> 01:04:07.719 the day. They tend to come out more in the 1182 01:04:07.760 --> 01:04:12.320 mornings and later, cooler afternoon hours and things. But if 1183 01:04:12.360 --> 01:04:14.400 you don't know if it's time to put a bait out, 1184 01:04:14.519 --> 01:04:17.800 it's easy to get something that's oily, like an empty 1185 01:04:17.840 --> 01:04:21.360 tunican packed in oil or a potato chip. That's the 1186 01:04:21.400 --> 01:04:23.679 easiest one. I think. Toss a potato chip or two 1187 01:04:23.760 --> 01:04:26.280 or three around the garden a landscape, come back fifteen 1188 01:04:26.320 --> 01:04:28.559 minutes later, and if they're fire ants on it, if 1189 01:04:28.559 --> 01:04:31.119 they found it, which they will, they love that oil, 1190 01:04:31.840 --> 01:04:33.880 then it's time to put out the bait. I knew 1191 01:04:33.920 --> 01:04:37.360 a guy that took little flags, those little wire flags 1192 01:04:37.360 --> 01:04:40.039 that you put out marking a pipeline or something, and 1193 01:04:40.320 --> 01:04:44.360 he would cut a hot dog into little sections, little slices, 1194 01:04:44.760 --> 01:04:47.280 stick the wire flag through it, and stick that hot 1195 01:04:47.320 --> 01:04:50.719 dog out in the landscape. And with the flag, he 1196 01:04:50.800 --> 01:04:52.920 knew exactly where the hot dogs were. Come back fifteen 1197 01:04:52.960 --> 01:04:55.719 minutes later. That's how they decided when they were going 1198 01:04:55.800 --> 01:04:58.559 to do their treatments. He was actually a fire researcher 1199 01:04:58.880 --> 01:05:02.639 that taught me that Ester lives in the Greater Houston area. 1200 01:05:02.679 --> 01:05:05.559 But anyway, however you go about it, find the timing 1201 01:05:05.599 --> 01:05:07.840 that's right, and then get out there and get it done. 1202 01:05:07.880 --> 01:05:09.719 And ACE Hardware Store is going to have you covered 1203 01:05:10.000 --> 01:05:11.960 on the baits that you need. Go to ACE Hardware 1204 01:05:12.000 --> 01:05:15.480 dot com and find the store locator and when you do, 1205 01:05:15.679 --> 01:05:18.719 you're going to see the stores stores plural that are 1206 01:05:18.760 --> 01:05:23.199 nearest to you. Our phone number is seven one three 1207 01:05:23.280 --> 01:05:25.440 two one two k t R H. Give us a 1208 01:05:25.480 --> 01:05:28.000 call if you've got a question that we can help 1209 01:05:28.039 --> 01:05:31.559 you with. I heard something a while back. In fact, 1210 01:05:31.559 --> 01:05:34.599 I got a notice from Texas A and M Aggerlife 1211 01:05:35.079 --> 01:05:40.119 and the Research and Vegetable Improvement Center. That is a 1212 01:05:40.159 --> 01:05:43.960 facility that's a program too there on the Texas A 1213 01:05:43.960 --> 01:05:47.000 and M Campus Research and Vegetable Improvement Center. They have 1214 01:05:47.119 --> 01:05:52.679 for years worked on making healthier vegetables. You know, there's 1215 01:05:52.760 --> 01:05:56.400 compound in onions called corsetan that helps fight I believe 1216 01:05:56.440 --> 01:06:00.000 it's cancer with the corsetan. And they're so breeding onions 1217 01:06:00.239 --> 01:06:04.239 that have more corstant or breeding tomatoes and the lycopene 1218 01:06:04.360 --> 01:06:06.199 is one of the health things that we have in 1219 01:06:06.239 --> 01:06:11.559 tomatoes and developing vegetables that not only are more productive, 1220 01:06:11.599 --> 01:06:14.679 but that are better well. Now, there is a multi 1221 01:06:14.920 --> 01:06:20.159 university consortium that's been put together. This is led by 1222 01:06:20.320 --> 01:06:23.519 Texas A and m Agrilife and Extension and it includes 1223 01:06:23.519 --> 01:06:27.880 the University of Florida, Michigan, State University of California, Cornell, Arizona, 1224 01:06:28.039 --> 01:06:32.039 University of Washington, n C, State University of Georgia, Oregon 1225 01:06:32.159 --> 01:06:34.920 all over the country. This consortiums get together and guess what. 1226 01:06:35.079 --> 01:06:40.400 Experts from these major tomato breeding programs are developing regionally 1227 01:06:40.440 --> 01:06:45.840 adapted disease free tomato varieties to improve water use, sufficiency 1228 01:06:45.880 --> 01:06:49.519 and heat tolerance. They rang all the bells with that sentence, 1229 01:06:50.039 --> 01:06:53.920 because we know tomato struggle in the heat. Breeding tomatoes 1230 01:06:53.960 --> 01:06:56.519 that can grow in the heat better. We know water 1231 01:06:56.719 --> 01:07:02.719 is a limited resource. More efficient tomatoes when you consider, 1232 01:07:03.079 --> 01:07:06.360 you know, thousands of acres of tomatoes around the state 1233 01:07:06.480 --> 01:07:10.679 and the country, what are you Sufficiency is important? And 1234 01:07:10.679 --> 01:07:13.400 then disease resistance. How about not having to spray your 1235 01:07:13.400 --> 01:07:15.920 tomatoes as much because they've developed one that doesn't get 1236 01:07:15.920 --> 01:07:22.880 that disease. And then perhaps the most important flavor quality, flavor. 1237 01:07:23.800 --> 01:07:29.119 They are focusing on the old time flavors, the taste, 1238 01:07:29.239 --> 01:07:35.000 the texture, the aroma. Doctor Pattil who leads that up, 1239 01:07:35.599 --> 01:07:37.679 he made a statement, he said, the breeding programs will 1240 01:07:37.719 --> 01:07:41.039 focus on enhancing not just resilience of the tomatoes, but 1241 01:07:41.159 --> 01:07:45.199 also their taste, their texture, and their aroma. So I'm 1242 01:07:45.239 --> 01:07:47.599 all in. And it takes a while, and when these 1243 01:07:47.639 --> 01:07:50.119 programs get going on breeding and developing, it'll be a 1244 01:07:50.119 --> 01:07:52.679 while before we see the results. But can you imagine 1245 01:07:52.719 --> 01:07:55.960 tomatoes that are more tolerant, that are more disease tolerant, 1246 01:07:56.280 --> 01:07:59.480 that taste better, and that require less water to produce. 1247 01:08:00.320 --> 01:08:03.159 That's a that's a home run if they can hit 1248 01:08:03.159 --> 01:08:07.679 that one over the fence. So congratulations on lending that 1249 01:08:07.679 --> 01:08:12.239 that grant. And they're working with also the oh gosh, 1250 01:08:12.239 --> 01:08:16.439 what is it, the USDA Agriculture Research Service on that. 1251 01:08:17.079 --> 01:08:19.359 All right, folks, I have jabbered my way all the 1252 01:08:19.359 --> 01:08:22.279 way to another break. We will be right back. Hey, 1253 01:08:22.279 --> 01:08:24.039 if you want to be first up when we come back. 1254 01:08:24.239 --> 01:08:28.560 Calls seven one three two one two kt RH All right, 1255 01:08:28.600 --> 01:08:30.279 welcome back to the garden line. Good to have you, 1256 01:08:30.880 --> 01:08:33.039 Good to have you with us. Today we are going 1257 01:08:33.079 --> 01:08:37.439 to continue on here with your calls and also just 1258 01:08:37.680 --> 01:08:41.479 general advice about having success with gardening. I was out 1259 01:08:41.479 --> 01:08:44.840 at Enchanted Forest Garden Center, which is down there in 1260 01:08:44.880 --> 01:08:47.760 the Richmond Rosenberg area. In fact, if you're in Richmond 1261 01:08:47.800 --> 01:08:50.039 and you're heading towards sugar Land, it's way off to 1262 01:08:50.079 --> 01:08:53.640 the right. It's on a road called FM twenty seven 1263 01:08:53.800 --> 01:08:56.159 twenty seven fifty nine, and boy, when you get there, 1264 01:08:56.199 --> 01:08:58.960 you know it. I mean, this place is just a showplace. 1265 01:08:59.039 --> 01:09:03.760 It's beautiful, beautiful. They're loaded up. There's any pumpkins everywhere, 1266 01:09:03.800 --> 01:09:07.239 and moms everywhere, all kinds of fall color. It's really cool. 1267 01:09:07.600 --> 01:09:10.439 One thing I want to mention, they've gotten in some 1268 01:09:11.840 --> 01:09:15.880 plants that I think are under utilized, and that would 1269 01:09:15.920 --> 01:09:19.840 be cyclemen. Cyclemen is a gorgeous plant. Oftentimes they're given 1270 01:09:19.880 --> 01:09:21.640 as a gift plant to take inside and put on 1271 01:09:21.680 --> 01:09:23.680 a table, and they're not going to do good long 1272 01:09:23.760 --> 01:09:25.640 term in the house, but you can bring them in 1273 01:09:26.079 --> 01:09:29.079 these little falling star looking blooms. That blooms look like 1274 01:09:29.159 --> 01:09:31.520 falling stars, so you just have to see one, see 1275 01:09:31.520 --> 01:09:33.880 what I'm talking about. They're beautiful. They would be a 1276 01:09:33.880 --> 01:09:36.640 great decoration. They'd be a great gift to take to 1277 01:09:36.720 --> 01:09:39.520 family and friends for if you're traveling for Thanksgiving. But 1278 01:09:39.560 --> 01:09:41.119 put them in your own garden, if you've got a 1279 01:09:41.119 --> 01:09:43.960 bright shade an area like under even a live oak 1280 01:09:44.000 --> 01:09:46.640 tree area. They will do okay in there for a 1281 01:09:46.640 --> 01:09:48.880 good while, and you can put them in. They take 1282 01:09:48.960 --> 01:09:51.960 cold as long as it's not bitter bitter cold, so 1283 01:09:52.000 --> 01:09:54.560 they hold up. It's just a great plant for this 1284 01:09:54.720 --> 01:09:56.600 time of year. And I driving around town, I don't 1285 01:09:56.600 --> 01:09:58.880 see enough of those, I think in landscapes because they 1286 01:09:58.880 --> 01:10:03.840 are so pretty. Oh my, there Greenhouse has produced a 1287 01:10:03.880 --> 01:10:07.319 bunch more of these awesome vegetables that you find it 1288 01:10:07.439 --> 01:10:11.119 in Chenny Forest. They are loaded vegetables and herbs. You 1289 01:10:11.119 --> 01:10:13.000 just need to go in and see it. I was 1290 01:10:13.000 --> 01:10:15.319 talking to you earlier trying to get you plan a 1291 01:10:15.359 --> 01:10:18.600 gardener at least a container with vegetables this fall. That 1292 01:10:18.840 --> 01:10:21.800 is a great idea, and in Chenny Forest as you 1293 01:10:21.880 --> 01:10:22.479 set up for that. 1294 01:10:22.560 --> 01:10:22.760 Again. 1295 01:10:22.800 --> 01:10:25.760 They're on FM twenty seven fifty nine now. If you 1296 01:10:25.760 --> 01:10:27.479 would like to go to their website, I hope you 1297 01:10:27.560 --> 01:10:34.520 will because it is awesome. Enchanted Forest, Richmond TX dot com. 1298 01:10:34.520 --> 01:10:38.760 In chenned Forest, Richmond TX dot com, we're gonna go 1299 01:10:38.800 --> 01:10:42.760 down to north West Houston and talk to Ibrahim. Ibrahim, 1300 01:10:42.760 --> 01:10:43.760 welcome to garden Line. 1301 01:10:44.960 --> 01:10:46.439 Oh yes, sir, thank you. 1302 01:10:48.439 --> 01:10:49.159 My question. 1303 01:10:49.319 --> 01:10:51.760 I don't know I can get the answer it the whole. 1304 01:10:53.119 --> 01:10:53.479 Come up. 1305 01:10:53.560 --> 01:10:57.960 So I was talking about the tomato and I can 1306 01:10:58.039 --> 01:11:01.079 what kind of ground I can use because the sun 1307 01:11:01.159 --> 01:11:03.680 is shifting and that I cannot put the full sun 1308 01:11:03.800 --> 01:11:06.960 and then all kind of stuff uh, drying in the ground. 1309 01:11:08.000 --> 01:11:10.359 I mean, so you want to know about it about 1310 01:11:10.359 --> 01:11:17.880 the soiler. Yeah, so you want soil and then the yes, okay, 1311 01:11:18.319 --> 01:11:20.439 So if you're going to plant them in the ground, 1312 01:11:20.680 --> 01:11:24.840 I would get a quality soil blend for that, and 1313 01:11:24.920 --> 01:11:27.279 I would build up a little bit of a raised bed. 1314 01:11:27.359 --> 01:11:30.159 You can mix it into the soil you have and 1315 01:11:30.199 --> 01:11:33.000 then add more of the blend on top of that mix. 1316 01:11:33.520 --> 01:11:35.680 That way, as the roots go down, it's not like 1317 01:11:35.760 --> 01:11:38.159 they go down through this mix and suddenly they hit 1318 01:11:38.359 --> 01:11:41.119 clay soil or whatever is underneath. You sort of blend 1319 01:11:41.119 --> 01:11:44.119 them together a little bit. There's a veggie and herb 1320 01:11:44.239 --> 01:11:48.479 mix by Heirloom Soils that is excellent for that. Veggie 1321 01:11:48.520 --> 01:11:51.239 and herb mix by Airlomb Soil. 1322 01:11:53.119 --> 01:11:55.720 A g that's the name in the soil. 1323 01:11:55.640 --> 01:12:01.520 Veggie uh, veggie like vegetable veg They just veggie is 1324 01:12:01.560 --> 01:12:05.479 a short word for vegetable, but vegete veggie and herb mix, 1325 01:12:05.640 --> 01:12:09.840 heirloom soils uh. And wherever you shop, if you're if 1326 01:12:09.880 --> 01:12:13.840 you in your location, you've got some grade these hardware stores. 1327 01:12:13.880 --> 01:12:16.840 And you also have some great nurseries that will carry 1328 01:12:17.239 --> 01:12:20.560 these kinds of mixes. If you want to grow them 1329 01:12:20.600 --> 01:12:23.119 in a container, you need a container. I think you 1330 01:12:23.159 --> 01:12:24.239 need a container. 1331 01:12:23.880 --> 01:12:31.079 That's about exactly okay, yeah, so get get the veggie 1332 01:12:31.079 --> 01:12:33.439 and R mixed, put it in a container, but make 1333 01:12:33.439 --> 01:12:34.159 sure the container. 1334 01:12:34.199 --> 01:12:36.600 But by the way, it's it's too late now for tomatoes, 1335 01:12:36.640 --> 01:12:39.840 but next spring we will be planting them again. They 1336 01:12:39.880 --> 01:12:43.359 can't take take our freezing weather. But next spring, veggie 1337 01:12:43.399 --> 01:12:45.520 and RB mix and a container, and get a container 1338 01:12:46.119 --> 01:12:49.520 that's at least ten gallons in size. So you think 1339 01:12:49.560 --> 01:12:52.880 of a five gallon bucket, Yeah, a ten is better. 1340 01:12:53.600 --> 01:12:55.359 You can do it in a five gallon if it's 1341 01:12:55.399 --> 01:12:57.399 not too big of a tomato. And if you water 1342 01:12:57.520 --> 01:12:59.720 it when it gets hot, you're gonna be watering it, 1343 01:12:59.720 --> 01:13:02.039 like I said, ay, and a five gallon bucket. And 1344 01:13:02.079 --> 01:13:04.760 so that's why I like ten because it holds more 1345 01:13:04.800 --> 01:13:08.159 soil and more water available for the roots. So you 1346 01:13:08.279 --> 01:13:09.760 just have a little better success with that. 1347 01:13:12.079 --> 01:13:14.119 Yes, I appreciate the things. So I got two more 1348 01:13:14.159 --> 01:13:17.000 things to ask you. But if you have a private. 1349 01:13:17.199 --> 01:13:19.680 Yeah, go ahead, we got time. Go ahead. 1350 01:13:20.359 --> 01:13:22.359 One thing I want to tell you. The winter time 1351 01:13:22.479 --> 01:13:27.000 I plant tomato and that sounds funny. Uh, my sisters, 1352 01:13:27.000 --> 01:13:29.159 are you crazy? What you're doing in the is coming. 1353 01:13:29.520 --> 01:13:31.279 I just took them inside a couple of time, and 1354 01:13:32.399 --> 01:13:35.000 the real branches dry, but the fresh one came up too, 1355 01:13:35.279 --> 01:13:38.840 and the summertime turns out like a tomato and then 1356 01:13:39.119 --> 01:13:42.199 h five or six tomato, big tomato. I get. I 1357 01:13:42.279 --> 01:13:46.640 just showed my sisters that was funny for stuff. And yeah, 1358 01:13:47.239 --> 01:13:52.039 I want to ask you dogs pooping and anywhere. I 1359 01:13:52.119 --> 01:13:54.720 just I don't have that much experience that teach dogs. 1360 01:13:54.720 --> 01:13:56.600 Anybody can I mean, I don't know. If you can 1361 01:13:56.680 --> 01:13:59.399 give me some chip, how I can tell those how 1362 01:13:59.439 --> 01:14:02.560 I can teach where they can put. 1363 01:14:01.760 --> 01:14:04.640 You know, And it's a I don't know any way 1364 01:14:04.680 --> 01:14:06.640 to do that. I'm sure there are trainers who can 1365 01:14:06.680 --> 01:14:08.600 do it. What we do is we can let our 1366 01:14:08.640 --> 01:14:11.680 dogs out to a certain area first, uh, and and 1367 01:14:11.760 --> 01:14:13.920 get them over there and they get used to going there. 1368 01:14:14.000 --> 01:14:16.720 But uh it, I have that same problem in my yard, 1369 01:14:16.920 --> 01:14:19.119 and I don't know a good answer to that. Did 1370 01:14:19.159 --> 01:14:20.319 you have a follow up question? 1371 01:14:25.640 --> 01:14:25.760 Uh? 1372 01:14:27.720 --> 01:14:28.800 Oh, yes, sir, this is ea. 1373 01:14:30.199 --> 01:14:33.159 Okay, yes, yes, yeah. Did you have another question? 1374 01:14:34.439 --> 01:14:37.880 Another question I have? I have a birth for putting 1375 01:14:37.960 --> 01:14:40.760 the birth water, and I have a little birth full 1376 01:14:41.319 --> 01:14:46.439 and sometimes coming like somebody don't power top in the 1377 01:14:46.520 --> 01:14:49.640 water and this water doesn't look like good and I 1378 01:14:49.680 --> 01:14:54.119 just looked afresh every day. Do you know how I 1379 01:14:54.159 --> 01:14:57.119 can check this water? What's the problem? And that is somebody, 1380 01:14:57.119 --> 01:14:58.840 like you said, put in the power. Do you know 1381 01:14:58.880 --> 01:14:59.840 any place I can check? 1382 01:15:00.079 --> 01:15:04.800 Is this like a little pond in the ground or 1383 01:15:04.960 --> 01:15:07.239 is this like a little bowl above ground that holds 1384 01:15:07.239 --> 01:15:07.760 the water. 1385 01:15:09.520 --> 01:15:12.680 Hold just like berstwater like get in bed and all 1386 01:15:12.760 --> 01:15:15.119 kind of stuff drinking the same same place just like 1387 01:15:15.239 --> 01:15:15.399 you know. 1388 01:15:15.479 --> 01:15:18.960 I don't know. I don't know what Okay, I don't 1389 01:15:18.960 --> 01:15:23.439 know what. Powder on? Okay, why don't we do this? Abraham? 1390 01:15:23.520 --> 01:15:27.560 I'm going to put you on and my well, I 1391 01:15:27.560 --> 01:15:31.760 can't see it right now, but I will. I'm gonna 1392 01:15:31.760 --> 01:15:33.600 put you on hold and makes you get an email. 1393 01:15:33.640 --> 01:15:35.600 So you can email me that a picture if you 1394 01:15:35.600 --> 01:15:37.359 don't already have it, and they'll take a look at 1395 01:15:37.359 --> 01:15:39.119 it and see what I can see. I'm gonna have 1396 01:15:39.159 --> 01:15:43.119 to run. We're at the end of the hour. Uh. Okay, 1397 01:15:43.119 --> 01:15:45.000 I'm going to put you on hold and my producer 1398 01:15:45.199 --> 01:15:48.800 will give you my email. Okay, just hang on, don't 1399 01:15:48.840 --> 01:15:51.840 hang out. Yeah you bet, Yeah, and thanks for the call. 1400 01:15:51.960 --> 01:15:52.600 Appreciate that. 1401 01:15:53.359 --> 01:15:53.479 Uh. 1402 01:15:54.439 --> 01:15:57.640 I've talked a lot about Medina products. Medina has been 1403 01:15:57.680 --> 01:16:00.439 around for a very long time, and gardeners have been 1404 01:16:00.520 --> 01:16:04.399 fans of Medina for a very long time. The Medina 1405 01:16:04.479 --> 01:16:07.640 Soil Activator is one of their most famous products that 1406 01:16:07.680 --> 01:16:10.720 they put out there. They have taken Medina Soil Activator 1407 01:16:10.760 --> 01:16:14.680 and added to it some things and called it Medina Plus. 1408 01:16:14.760 --> 01:16:18.560 And that Medina Plus has over forty different trace elements. 1409 01:16:19.000 --> 01:16:22.159 It's got natural growth hormones from seaweed, It's got a 1410 01:16:22.239 --> 01:16:25.560 number of different additional nutrients, including even things like vitamins 1411 01:16:25.560 --> 01:16:29.560 and trace elements, and it just works. I just planted 1412 01:16:29.680 --> 01:16:31.439 a whole bit of strawberries. I don't know what I'm 1413 01:16:31.439 --> 01:16:33.840 gonna do if they'll start producing. I keep joking, you'll 1414 01:16:33.880 --> 01:16:36.600 have to bring strawberry your produce to the station. When 1415 01:16:36.640 --> 01:16:38.800 I advise you on something, I may have to take 1416 01:16:38.840 --> 01:16:41.119 my strawberries to your house because I'm going to have 1417 01:16:41.159 --> 01:16:43.800 more strawberries than I know what to do with. But anyway, 1418 01:16:44.039 --> 01:16:46.159 and one reason I am is when I planted on 1419 01:16:46.199 --> 01:16:48.680 my watered amen with medina plus, you just put it 1420 01:16:49.000 --> 01:16:52.000 in a watering can. That's how I do it. And 1421 01:16:52.159 --> 01:16:57.680 anything you plan, I mean tomato plants, broccoli plants, herb plants, 1422 01:16:57.800 --> 01:17:02.079 rose bushes. Shrubs it up, drench it in over the 1423 01:17:02.079 --> 01:17:05.520 soil and give those plants a head start boost. It's 1424 01:17:05.600 --> 01:17:07.439 okay to get it on the foliage. In fact, if 1425 01:17:07.439 --> 01:17:09.600 you've got foliage above on what you're planning, you can 1426 01:17:09.640 --> 01:17:12.640 sprinkle it over there because it also is a good 1427 01:17:12.640 --> 01:17:16.359 folio feed and will not burn. Thedina plus widely available 1428 01:17:16.359 --> 01:17:19.239 here in the Houston area, easy to find. And I'll 1429 01:17:19.279 --> 01:17:21.159 just say this, when you think about a plant going 1430 01:17:21.199 --> 01:17:23.960 in the ground, think about the dina plus put any 1431 01:17:24.039 --> 01:17:26.239 at the same time. It can be used for other things, 1432 01:17:26.520 --> 01:17:29.760 but definitely let that transplanting get that in the ground. 1433 01:17:32.039 --> 01:17:33.880 I don't know how time flies like this, but I'm 1434 01:17:33.920 --> 01:17:36.279 having a good time. I hope you are. We're about 1435 01:17:36.279 --> 01:17:39.119 to put an hour in the books. Next Saturday, I'm 1436 01:17:39.199 --> 01:17:43.760 going to be at the Ace Hardware storing Katie. Katie 1437 01:17:44.039 --> 01:17:46.600 Hardware is the name of the star Katie Hardware. I'll 1438 01:17:46.600 --> 01:17:47.960 tell you a little bit more about it when we 1439 01:17:48.000 --> 01:17:51.359 come back from this break. But twelve to two, go 1440 01:17:51.359 --> 01:17:53.680 ahead and just market on your calendar. Twelve to two 1441 01:17:53.720 --> 01:17:55.600 we're going to be giving away a lot of cool stuff. 1442 01:17:55.920 --> 01:17:57.680 I love to meet all of you the way out 1443 01:17:57.720 --> 01:17:59.880 that direction, but don't come to some of the other the. 1444 01:18:07.840 --> 01:18:12.359 Welcome to Katie r H Garden Line with Skip Ricord's. 1445 01:18:13.800 --> 01:18:19.079 Crazy trim. 1446 01:18:20.439 --> 01:18:28.199 Just watch him as well us so many good things 1447 01:18:28.239 --> 01:18:30.279 to Suprasyay. 1448 01:18:37.199 --> 01:18:44.520 Sorry you all right, welcome back, Welcome back to guard Line. 1449 01:18:45.840 --> 01:18:48.359 Glad you are joining us today. Thanks for listening. We 1450 01:18:48.399 --> 01:18:51.720 appreciate that. We enjoy visiting with you as well. And 1451 01:18:51.760 --> 01:18:55.000 if you have a gardening question, just give me a call. 1452 01:18:55.119 --> 01:18:58.880 Seven one three two one two k t r H 1453 01:18:59.000 --> 01:19:04.079 seven one three you want to kt RH. I talk 1454 01:19:04.159 --> 01:19:06.760 all the time about the importance of brown stuff, the soil, 1455 01:19:06.880 --> 01:19:09.399 the importance of the foundation for the plant, the importance 1456 01:19:09.439 --> 01:19:12.800 of everything we do before the plant goes in the ground. 1457 01:19:13.560 --> 01:19:17.399 Well Landscaper's pride. They fully understand that, and they have 1458 01:19:17.520 --> 01:19:21.560 created a couple dozen plus products that can help you 1459 01:19:21.720 --> 01:19:24.880 have that kind of success by taking care of the soil. 1460 01:19:25.560 --> 01:19:27.960 For example, they have a healthy Soil compost made from 1461 01:19:28.000 --> 01:19:33.079 one hundred percent locally sourced green materials. Healthy Soil Compost. Now, 1462 01:19:33.199 --> 01:19:35.680 this material can be mixed into your soil. If you've 1463 01:19:35.720 --> 01:19:39.319 got a clay, it helps it become more friable, not 1464 01:19:39.399 --> 01:19:41.760 just this massive hard rock when it's dry, but that 1465 01:19:41.840 --> 01:19:45.680 it crumbles because it has airspace. It also adds the 1466 01:19:45.880 --> 01:19:49.239 opportunity and food for microbes to thrive in your soil, 1467 01:19:49.279 --> 01:19:53.079 which helps roots thrive. Now, they also have something called 1468 01:19:53.520 --> 01:19:58.039 mushroom compost. I remember mushroom compost from years ago probably 1469 01:19:58.159 --> 01:20:00.279 oh gosh, I don't even remember how many years, over 1470 01:20:00.359 --> 01:20:03.119 thirty I know in the Conro area. I had a 1471 01:20:03.159 --> 01:20:06.159 little demonstration garden at the extension office and it was 1472 01:20:06.199 --> 01:20:10.720 a vacant lot that the builders had scraped everything off 1473 01:20:10.720 --> 01:20:12.359 of because that's what you do when you're gonna put 1474 01:20:12.359 --> 01:20:14.079 a building in, you know, you just get all flat 1475 01:20:14.199 --> 01:20:16.920 and hardened level so you can drop a building on it. Well, 1476 01:20:17.920 --> 01:20:20.079 it was horrible, I mean, it wouldn't grow. The weeds 1477 01:20:20.119 --> 01:20:23.079 it grew were even shartruse colored. They weren't They couldn't 1478 01:20:23.079 --> 01:20:26.039 even fully turn green. We went out there, we spread 1479 01:20:26.159 --> 01:20:30.520 mushroom compost. We disked it in with a little tractor 1480 01:20:30.680 --> 01:20:32.880 with a disc behind it and so not an't even 1481 01:20:32.960 --> 01:20:37.359 any fine rodotilling thing, and then scattered rye grass seed 1482 01:20:37.680 --> 01:20:40.000 all over that area. Some of it went past where 1483 01:20:40.000 --> 01:20:42.239 the mushroom compost was. We were just scattering it over. 1484 01:20:43.079 --> 01:20:45.760 When that came up where there wasn't mushroom compost, the 1485 01:20:45.840 --> 01:20:48.359 rye grass seed was spin ley. You could see soil 1486 01:20:48.439 --> 01:20:52.479 between the little spinley rye grass plants where there was 1487 01:20:52.600 --> 01:20:58.439 mushroom compost. That rye grass was emerald green, like two 1488 01:20:58.479 --> 01:21:02.800 feet toll flopping back over again and just dense, dense dance. 1489 01:21:02.840 --> 01:21:05.920 And the only difference and water differently, it was just rainfall, 1490 01:21:07.039 --> 01:21:09.920 same seeds it was. It was the mushroom compost. And 1491 01:21:10.279 --> 01:21:12.600 I go into that. It's kind of a long explanation, 1492 01:21:12.640 --> 01:21:14.279 but I want to tell you I've seen the results 1493 01:21:14.279 --> 01:21:18.760 of mushroom compost, and Landscaper's Pride has some really clean 1494 01:21:18.840 --> 01:21:21.920 local mushroom substrate, which is what we call mushroom compost. 1495 01:21:22.000 --> 01:21:24.199 It's what happens after they grow a crop of mushrooms. 1496 01:21:24.199 --> 01:21:25.920 They don't use that same stuff. They move it on 1497 01:21:26.000 --> 01:21:29.840 out and gardeners are sitting there drooling, going yes, yes, 1498 01:21:29.880 --> 01:21:33.319 me me well. Landscaperspride dot com is where you can 1499 01:21:33.319 --> 01:21:35.600 find out where to get these things. It's also where 1500 01:21:35.600 --> 01:21:38.840 you can find out details about these products and you 1501 01:21:38.840 --> 01:21:40.800 need to follow them on social media. You can find 1502 01:21:40.800 --> 01:21:47.319 the links there as well. And Landscaperspride dot com. So soil, soil, 1503 01:21:47.359 --> 01:21:51.159 I always talk about the soil. Dale in Jersey Village 1504 01:21:51.319 --> 01:21:54.319 is our next caller, up Dale, Welcome to garden. 1505 01:21:54.079 --> 01:21:58.920 Line, Good morning, Thank you for all you do. Two 1506 01:21:59.039 --> 01:22:02.319 questions one is just if it's I don't know if 1507 01:22:02.319 --> 01:22:04.359 it does it good or bad at this point in 1508 01:22:04.359 --> 01:22:08.439 time to trim or to prune some roses. 1509 01:22:08.560 --> 01:22:09.039 That's one. 1510 01:22:09.479 --> 01:22:12.159 And the second question is I think the name of 1511 01:22:12.199 --> 01:22:15.880 the the other type of weed slash grass in my 1512 01:22:16.119 --> 01:22:19.359 Saint Augustine Bahia or Bari. 1513 01:22:19.319 --> 01:22:20.239 Something like that. 1514 01:22:20.279 --> 01:22:24.960 It has the V type seed, if you know what 1515 01:22:25.000 --> 01:22:28.000 I mean, what's the best way of creating that in 1516 01:22:28.000 --> 01:22:31.079 my life? And it's quite a few different places, so 1517 01:22:31.119 --> 01:22:33.880 it's not a small amount to dig dig out will 1518 01:22:33.920 --> 01:22:36.920 not be practical so. 1519 01:22:37.760 --> 01:22:43.119 Yeah, uh yeah, okay, Oh boy, are you pretty sure 1520 01:22:43.159 --> 01:22:49.520 it's behea? Yeah, yeah, okay, because for me to go, 1521 01:22:49.680 --> 01:22:54.560 you know, recommending something it, we need to make sure 1522 01:22:54.600 --> 01:22:56.079 we have the right weed, you know, or right, I 1523 01:22:56.079 --> 01:23:00.840 would be mistaking you. So the hair grass is it 1524 01:23:00.960 --> 01:23:04.399 is a very tough grass. You see it everywhere on 1525 01:23:04.560 --> 01:23:08.960 the roadsides and whatnot, and it's a challenge, you know, 1526 01:23:09.079 --> 01:23:13.199 to get it under control. The hair grass. I think, 1527 01:23:13.600 --> 01:23:16.279 let me see what is the product that controls that 1528 01:23:16.640 --> 01:23:20.520 selectively in Saint Augustine's. I won't try to find it. 1529 01:23:20.520 --> 01:23:22.159 It's gonna take me just a second to find it. 1530 01:23:22.199 --> 01:23:23.560 I think I know what it is, but I don't 1531 01:23:23.560 --> 01:23:29.159 want to say it until I'm sure I'll find it 1532 01:23:29.159 --> 01:23:32.800 here in just a second. But you had a follow 1533 01:23:32.880 --> 01:23:36.680 up question. Let's go to that one for just a moment. Then, yeah, 1534 01:23:36.760 --> 01:23:41.000 not follow up, but another right, okay, another question, okay, 1535 01:23:41.079 --> 01:23:44.560 go ahead. Huh what it was? The other question? 1536 01:23:47.119 --> 01:23:49.399 Roses if now is a good time to prune or 1537 01:23:49.439 --> 01:23:51.800 should I hold off till later on the ear or 1538 01:23:51.880 --> 01:23:52.680 to say spring? 1539 01:23:52.960 --> 01:23:59.920 I don't know. Yeah, actually I would not prune them now. 1540 01:24:00.239 --> 01:24:02.399 I think it would be better, you know, to hold 1541 01:24:02.399 --> 01:24:07.479 off on Yeah, to hold off on that. The thing 1542 01:24:07.560 --> 01:24:11.239 that pruning does is it stimulates growth. And when you 1543 01:24:11.520 --> 01:24:14.840 stimulate growth, and we're, you know, just about to go 1544 01:24:14.920 --> 01:24:19.920 into this cold, cold weather, then you end up getting 1545 01:24:20.000 --> 01:24:24.199 more problems uh there on your on your lawns, I mean, 1546 01:24:24.199 --> 01:24:25.479 excuse me, on your roses. 1547 01:24:25.840 --> 01:24:26.039 Uh. 1548 01:24:26.079 --> 01:24:29.039 And so I would hold off and probably when we 1549 01:24:29.079 --> 01:24:31.560 get into February, go ahead and do most of your 1550 01:24:31.600 --> 01:24:38.359 pruning at that time. Okay, Yeah, I am not finding 1551 01:24:38.640 --> 01:24:43.560 the answer on behaey. I'm I'm pretty sure that a 1552 01:24:43.600 --> 01:24:46.039 product called man or M A n O R will 1553 01:24:46.039 --> 01:24:47.600 control it. But I tell you what I'm going to do. 1554 01:24:47.720 --> 01:24:50.399 Dale as I get a chance here and breaks and stuff, 1555 01:24:50.439 --> 01:24:52.159 I'm going to look into that because I should have 1556 01:24:52.199 --> 01:24:53.680 it at the top of my head and I just 1557 01:24:53.680 --> 01:24:55.439 want to be sure that I'm correct about it. But 1558 01:24:55.479 --> 01:24:56.880 that is a product that you can put down that 1559 01:24:57.000 --> 01:25:00.119 kills bhean doesn't kill your saint Augustine. 1560 01:25:00.319 --> 01:25:00.479 Uh. 1561 01:25:00.520 --> 01:25:02.319 But I'll just have to I'll just have to hunt 1562 01:25:02.319 --> 01:25:04.159 it down when I can actually do it. I can't 1563 01:25:04.159 --> 01:25:08.680 walk in chew gum at the same time, So talking 1564 01:25:08.720 --> 01:25:11.840 and searching, isn't it. Yes, thank you very much, and 1565 01:25:11.840 --> 01:25:14.359 good luck with those roses too. I'm glad to hear 1566 01:25:14.399 --> 01:25:18.760 you have those. Our phone number seven one three two 1567 01:25:18.840 --> 01:25:22.319 one two k t R H seven one three two 1568 01:25:22.439 --> 01:25:27.680 one two k t R h. Uh. If you have 1569 01:25:27.760 --> 01:25:29.319 a question and I'd like to give us a call, 1570 01:25:29.319 --> 01:25:32.560 be happy to answer that. I am checking the my 1571 01:25:32.760 --> 01:25:35.800 email periodically and people will often email me and send 1572 01:25:35.840 --> 01:25:38.439 photos and we want to I want to be able 1573 01:25:38.479 --> 01:25:41.680 to help that way as well. A lot of times, 1574 01:25:41.800 --> 01:25:44.880 you know, I'll get a question and there's the description 1575 01:25:45.039 --> 01:25:47.119 or maybe someone I get. I get this a lot. 1576 01:25:47.159 --> 01:25:49.560 People say I've got crib grass in my lawn, and 1577 01:25:49.960 --> 01:25:52.800 I think about half the time, it's not crabgrass that 1578 01:25:52.840 --> 01:25:55.239 they have in their lawn. It's just crabgrass. Everybody knows it. 1579 01:25:55.279 --> 01:25:58.239 And it looks like other grasses. Grasses look like grasses. 1580 01:25:58.960 --> 01:25:59.159 Uh. 1581 01:25:59.199 --> 01:26:01.800 And that's probably where people are coming up with that. 1582 01:26:02.000 --> 01:26:05.439 But anyway, being able to know for sure, have a picture, 1583 01:26:05.920 --> 01:26:08.800 make sure we're right about the identification that helps us 1584 01:26:08.840 --> 01:26:12.520 with the diagnosis and recommended controls. All right, I'm gonna 1585 01:26:12.520 --> 01:26:14.520 take a quick break. I'll be right back. 1586 01:26:14.840 --> 01:26:15.159 All right. 1587 01:26:15.199 --> 01:26:18.319 Welcome back, folks. Good to be back with you. We 1588 01:26:18.319 --> 01:26:21.319 were just having that question about controlling the haagrass and 1589 01:26:21.560 --> 01:26:26.600 a Saint Augustine lawn and I was correct. The first 1590 01:26:26.600 --> 01:26:28.279 thought that came to I was man or M A 1591 01:26:28.359 --> 01:26:32.439 and O R. It's a selective herbicide. It's also sold 1592 01:26:32.600 --> 01:26:38.399 in other names like MSM turf. That's another name for it. 1593 01:26:38.439 --> 01:26:40.119 There are some other names. I won't give all that 1594 01:26:40.199 --> 01:26:43.600 on the ear. But if you got to be careful 1595 01:26:43.600 --> 01:26:46.720 with manner. A manner can severely damage shrubs and trees. 1596 01:26:46.960 --> 01:26:49.960 So don't spray it onto your flower beds for example. 1597 01:26:50.159 --> 01:26:53.359 Just get it on the turf, don't overapply it as always, 1598 01:26:53.439 --> 01:26:55.279 follow the label and don't do it right before you 1599 01:26:55.279 --> 01:26:57.039 get a gully washer rain to wash it downe in 1600 01:26:57.079 --> 01:26:59.279 the root system. You want to be real careful with 1601 01:26:59.279 --> 01:27:02.159 It's very effect of herbicide, but you gotta be careful 1602 01:27:02.479 --> 01:27:05.600 also follow again, follow the label. It can yellow you're 1603 01:27:05.640 --> 01:27:07.840 Saint Augustine a little bit. But we're talking about trying 1604 01:27:07.840 --> 01:27:10.079 to kill a grass and a grass which generally is 1605 01:27:10.239 --> 01:27:13.560 quite impossible to try to do uh, but manner will 1606 01:27:13.560 --> 01:27:16.119 do that. If you want to go that route with it. 1607 01:27:16.640 --> 01:27:19.000 There are some other things that you can use. You 1608 01:27:19.000 --> 01:27:22.960 can spot treat with anything that kills the grass. You 1609 01:27:23.000 --> 01:27:25.079 can spot treat with that if you just have some 1610 01:27:25.159 --> 01:27:27.479 behavior and there that pray be the better way to 1611 01:27:27.520 --> 01:27:30.760 go about it. All right, We're going to go out 1612 01:27:30.760 --> 01:27:34.239 to Eagle Lake, Texas and talk to Stanley. Hey, Stanley, 1613 01:27:34.239 --> 01:27:36.359 welcome to guarden Line. 1614 01:27:39.720 --> 01:27:39.920 Hey. 1615 01:27:40.279 --> 01:27:42.479 Regarding regarding. 1616 01:27:43.600 --> 01:27:51.159 Previously, Hey you great, I guess I can say. It's fun. 1617 01:27:53.680 --> 01:27:59.079 Stanley. Uh, you're cutting out a lot, so I'm having 1618 01:27:59.119 --> 01:28:01.680 a hard time following you. Just go ahead. I heard 1619 01:28:01.720 --> 01:28:03.960 that regarding by Hey, you were going to give me 1620 01:28:04.079 --> 01:28:05.520 something you'd used. 1621 01:28:06.840 --> 01:28:07.439 Sammarron. 1622 01:28:09.520 --> 01:28:14.239 Okay, yeah, that's even I find but I. 1623 01:28:14.520 --> 01:28:19.399 Use that in hay patches, and I mean it took 1624 01:28:19.439 --> 01:28:22.279 me a second when he was talking about it, but yeah, 1625 01:28:22.439 --> 01:28:24.920 I guess it doesn't hurt Saint Augustine. I don't know. 1626 01:28:25.079 --> 01:28:28.279 But AnyWho, well, I didn't know that it has a 1627 01:28:28.359 --> 01:28:31.000 Saint august I just have to say, since a lot 1628 01:28:31.000 --> 01:28:34.039 of people are listening, and people don't always listen carefully, 1629 01:28:35.479 --> 01:28:39.079 do not use that on Saint Augustine without checking the label. Folks. 1630 01:28:39.119 --> 01:28:41.239 I'm not sure it has a label for Saint Augustine. 1631 01:28:41.239 --> 01:28:43.159 But okay, go ahead, Stanley. 1632 01:28:43.279 --> 01:28:47.079 Neither am I but I wanted to compliment you on 1633 01:28:48.439 --> 01:28:53.359 your soapbox earlier this morning and talking about kids, which 1634 01:28:53.399 --> 01:29:02.239 one talking about kids and grandkids whatever. I mean, uh, 1635 01:29:02.439 --> 01:29:05.319 and just just if you haven't planned the garden, do it. 1636 01:29:06.159 --> 01:29:11.319 And you know, turnips like for kids, you know, if 1637 01:29:11.359 --> 01:29:15.279 you remember when you and I were young, I mean, 1638 01:29:15.399 --> 01:29:18.520 like turnip seed they come up in what four days 1639 01:29:19.119 --> 01:29:19.760 for example? 1640 01:29:20.199 --> 01:29:24.800 Yeah, you know just now yeah, well there you go. 1641 01:29:25.039 --> 01:29:27.920 So you know it's something that way, you know, because 1642 01:29:28.039 --> 01:29:32.119 attention span on children, but it works. And broccoli you 1643 01:29:32.199 --> 01:29:36.600 were you were talking about broccoli and if with limited space, 1644 01:29:36.800 --> 01:29:38.920 I mean once you cut the head off and and 1645 01:29:39.079 --> 01:29:43.560 you know the main stem I mean a little bit later, 1646 01:29:43.880 --> 01:29:46.399 you have little flower ets that you can throw in 1647 01:29:46.479 --> 01:29:54.760 a salad or something some Yeah. Yeah, so as opposed 1648 01:29:54.800 --> 01:29:57.399 to cauliflower, you cut that off and you're done. I 1649 01:29:57.399 --> 01:29:58.920 mean you've got dead space now. 1650 01:30:00.720 --> 01:30:04.319 Yeah, I understand that that is true. Hey, thank you 1651 01:30:04.800 --> 01:30:06.479 Stanley for giving us a call. 1652 01:30:07.439 --> 01:30:10.119 Y'all have a great one. Thank you, bye bye. 1653 01:30:10.720 --> 01:30:13.960 Yeah, you take care, that's for sure. Now is the 1654 01:30:14.000 --> 01:30:17.239 time for your fall lawn care. I keep telling you 1655 01:30:17.479 --> 01:30:21.000 every day you wait is not good because one of 1656 01:30:21.000 --> 01:30:23.159 these days the weeds are going to be up. One 1657 01:30:23.159 --> 01:30:25.920 of these days the brown patch circles are going to 1658 01:30:26.000 --> 01:30:28.880 be there. One of these days, it's going to be 1659 01:30:28.920 --> 01:30:32.239 so cold that root's ability to take up some of 1660 01:30:32.279 --> 01:30:36.000 these nutrients is going to be greatly reduced. And so 1661 01:30:36.119 --> 01:30:41.840 do it now. Nitrofoss Texas three step fertilizer we prevention, 1662 01:30:42.560 --> 01:30:47.079 disease prevention nightro Fass Fall Special is a fertilizer. Nitrofos 1663 01:30:47.079 --> 01:30:52.159 Barricade is the weed prevention. Nitrofos Eagle is the turf fungicide. 1664 01:30:52.439 --> 01:30:56.159 And you can put all three down on the same day. 1665 01:30:56.960 --> 01:30:59.319 Just just do one, then come back, do the next one, 1666 01:30:59.359 --> 01:31:01.239 then come back and do the next one. Then turn 1667 01:31:01.279 --> 01:31:03.199 on the sprinklers for about a half inch of water. 1668 01:31:03.279 --> 01:31:05.600 Put something straight side containers out there to find out 1669 01:31:05.640 --> 01:31:07.840 how long that takes. You got to move all of 1670 01:31:07.840 --> 01:31:09.960 that into the soil for it to do what it's 1671 01:31:09.960 --> 01:31:12.640 going to do best, So don't forget to do that. 1672 01:31:12.720 --> 01:31:15.000 D and DE Feed has it in Tomball Plantation, Ace 1673 01:31:15.039 --> 01:31:18.600 and Richmond Ace Hardware, Sinkle Ranch, Arborgate and Tomball Shades 1674 01:31:18.640 --> 01:31:22.000 of Texas, Southeast Houston, on Genoa, Redbluff. Lots of places 1675 01:31:22.000 --> 01:31:27.199 you can get the Texas three step from Nitrofoss. You 1676 01:31:27.239 --> 01:31:29.640 were listening to Guardline. Our phone number is seven to 1677 01:31:29.680 --> 01:31:33.159 one three two one two k t RH seven one 1678 01:31:33.279 --> 01:31:36.119 three two one two kt R. 1679 01:31:36.680 --> 01:31:37.680 H Uh. 1680 01:31:37.840 --> 01:31:41.439 Anti Rosenborium is one of my favorite places to go 1681 01:31:41.520 --> 01:31:44.439 visit because it's like you enter another place in time 1682 01:31:44.479 --> 01:31:46.600 and if you've never been out there, you need to 1683 01:31:46.600 --> 01:31:47.800 try it. If you've been out there, you know what 1684 01:31:47.800 --> 01:31:51.199 I'm talking about. But it's up there in Independence, Texas, 1685 01:31:51.239 --> 01:31:53.039 which is north of Brunham, so it's just a nice 1686 01:31:53.039 --> 01:31:55.279 little drive, not too far at all. In fact, this 1687 01:31:55.359 --> 01:31:57.359 afternoon be a great time to get out and about 1688 01:31:57.520 --> 01:32:00.920 and see that. Uh So when you go to the 1689 01:32:00.960 --> 01:32:04.720 Antique rosen Porium you find a place overflowing with roses 1690 01:32:04.720 --> 01:32:08.640 and vegetables and herbs, native plants in color like you know, 1691 01:32:08.680 --> 01:32:11.760 the violism, snap dragons and dianthus and salvias and fall 1692 01:32:11.800 --> 01:32:14.319 asters and all that that you want to have. Now 1693 01:32:14.399 --> 01:32:17.640 that make the pollinators really happy. By the way, I 1694 01:32:17.680 --> 01:32:20.560 want to remind you they got some incredible programs coming 1695 01:32:20.680 --> 01:32:24.800 up on the Let's see here, what is today twenty? 1696 01:32:24.880 --> 01:32:29.000 He said? 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You know, 1723 01:33:59.439 --> 01:34:02.000 I went to rosen por I was out there when 1724 01:34:02.000 --> 01:34:04.600 it first opened up back in I don't know what 1725 01:34:04.680 --> 01:34:09.079 was that run eighty two, I believe eighty three sometime 1726 01:34:09.159 --> 01:34:10.520 like that was the first time I'd been out there, 1727 01:34:10.600 --> 01:34:13.359 hadn't been opened that long at least, and that was 1728 01:34:13.920 --> 01:34:16.800 That was a magical and still is a very magical 1729 01:34:16.840 --> 01:34:20.720 place to go. You are listening to Garden Line and 1730 01:34:20.800 --> 01:34:23.079 our phone number is seven to one three two one 1731 01:34:23.199 --> 01:34:27.720 two kt r H seven one three two one two 1732 01:34:28.399 --> 01:34:32.800 kt r H. If you're looking at your landscape and 1733 01:34:32.840 --> 01:34:37.600 you're thinking, I just need to do something different, you know, 1734 01:34:38.039 --> 01:34:40.199 maybe it's you don't like the way it looks. Maybe 1735 01:34:40.239 --> 01:34:41.960 it's like you want to take it up a notch. 1736 01:34:42.680 --> 01:34:46.000 Maybe it's a back yard area that you want to 1737 01:34:46.000 --> 01:34:48.279 beautify so that can be part of your living space. 1738 01:34:48.279 --> 01:34:50.079 You know, when we have an outdoor patio or an 1739 01:34:50.079 --> 01:34:53.159 outdoor porch or things. It's like taking your living space 1740 01:34:53.199 --> 01:34:56.800 outdoors to enjoy nature. Pierce Scapes can turn that into 1741 01:34:56.880 --> 01:35:00.880 a very magical place with things like hard scapes and 1742 01:35:01.000 --> 01:35:06.039 landscape lighting, with things that enhance your garden, maybe a 1743 01:35:06.159 --> 01:35:08.399 kind of a fountain, or maybe a brick barbie on 1744 01:35:08.479 --> 01:35:11.760 a brick or rock barbecue pit area to just really 1745 01:35:11.840 --> 01:35:13.399 make it a place you want to go hang out 1746 01:35:13.399 --> 01:35:15.960 with friends. We're getting in the fall season here and 1747 01:35:16.079 --> 01:35:18.800 our evenings are wonderful times to be out and about 1748 01:35:19.039 --> 01:35:21.119 why not have that kind of landscape. Get it set 1749 01:35:21.199 --> 01:35:25.520 up now. Call Pierscapes dot com. Pierce Scapes dot com. 1750 01:35:25.560 --> 01:35:28.960 It's two eight one, that's the website. The phone number 1751 01:35:29.000 --> 01:35:32.680 two eight one three seven oh fifty sixty two eight 1752 01:35:32.720 --> 01:35:36.000 one three seven oh fifty sixty. They also do quarterly 1753 01:35:36.039 --> 01:35:37.640 maintenance if you just want a harm to come out 1754 01:35:37.680 --> 01:35:40.319 and spruce things up, take care of your beds, change 1755 01:35:40.359 --> 01:35:42.319 out the color, things like that. They can do that 1756 01:35:42.439 --> 01:35:44.720 as well. Pierce Scapes can do a lot and they've 1757 01:35:44.760 --> 01:35:47.199 got some great designers for those of you who really 1758 01:35:47.239 --> 01:35:50.159 want to do a major renovation and make things just 1759 01:35:50.760 --> 01:35:57.840 stunningly beautiful. I was pulling some weeds in the front yard. 1760 01:35:58.479 --> 01:36:01.319 You know, those fall asters go to a neighbor who 1761 01:36:01.920 --> 01:36:04.079 does not control their weeds, and their weeds go to seed, 1762 01:36:04.079 --> 01:36:06.600 and the seed comes to see me. Because my yard 1763 01:36:07.000 --> 01:36:10.880 is a place that wants to be So every fall 1764 01:36:10.920 --> 01:36:13.960 I go out and here comes the fall aster. It's 1765 01:36:14.119 --> 01:36:18.359 actually called slender aster. You don't really notice them through 1766 01:36:18.359 --> 01:36:20.039 the year, although I've kind of learned to see them 1767 01:36:20.039 --> 01:36:23.159 because they have a dark blue green color of the leaf, 1768 01:36:23.239 --> 01:36:27.640 a very thin strappy leaves blue green color. But you 1769 01:36:27.720 --> 01:36:29.840 know they're there when it's time to bloom, and that's fall, 1770 01:36:29.920 --> 01:36:33.439 that's October. They start producing these little dime sized flowers 1771 01:36:33.439 --> 01:36:36.960 that look like multi pedal, strappy petal, skinny petal daisies 1772 01:36:37.000 --> 01:36:40.119 about the size of a dime. That's the time you 1773 01:36:40.239 --> 01:36:42.319 got to take action. It's too late to spray them. 1774 01:36:42.399 --> 01:36:44.359 So I go out in the morning. If I have 1775 01:36:44.399 --> 01:36:46.960 to wet the soil just to get it soft, go 1776 01:36:47.039 --> 01:36:49.079 out and every one of those things is coming out 1777 01:36:49.119 --> 01:36:51.239 of a tap root, and you may see something the 1778 01:36:51.239 --> 01:36:53.880 size of the steer wheel on your car growing everywhere. 1779 01:36:54.640 --> 01:36:57.359 Catch it at first, bloom, grab it and pull it 1780 01:36:57.399 --> 01:37:00.760 out and you'll get rid of potentially thousands of weed 1781 01:37:00.760 --> 01:37:04.840 seeds that will then be making it worse next year. 1782 01:37:05.279 --> 01:37:07.520 And I know people don't like to hand pull weeds, 1783 01:37:07.520 --> 01:37:10.159 but you know, take my little kneeling bench out there, 1784 01:37:10.199 --> 01:37:12.239 my folding kneeling bench by the way they got those 1785 01:37:12.359 --> 01:37:16.319 Southwest fertilizer, and I just kneel down a cup of 1786 01:37:16.319 --> 01:37:20.000 coffee usually out there, setting down in the grass to enjoy, 1787 01:37:20.439 --> 01:37:23.159 and just pull a few pill a five gallon bucket 1788 01:37:23.199 --> 01:37:24.640 here and there. I saw a guy the other day 1789 01:37:24.720 --> 01:37:29.720 that had probably four wheelbarrows full of those things because 1790 01:37:29.720 --> 01:37:31.560 they had cleaned. They were cleaning them out of their 1791 01:37:31.760 --> 01:37:34.520 entire front yard where they had proliferated. Don't let it 1792 01:37:34.560 --> 01:37:36.600 get that far along. Just when you see them, go 1793 01:37:36.600 --> 01:37:39.399 ahead and get them real quick. If your neighbor will 1794 01:37:39.479 --> 01:37:41.239 let you pull a few on the other side of 1795 01:37:41.279 --> 01:37:43.960 the line there this year, would make your life easier 1796 01:37:43.960 --> 01:37:46.439 on your side of the line. Anyway. I'm just saying 1797 01:37:46.560 --> 01:37:50.880 that's what I was spending some time doing out there. Well, 1798 01:37:51.239 --> 01:37:53.760 it is about time for me to take a break here, 1799 01:37:53.920 --> 01:37:56.920 so Jim in Meadows Place, you will be my first 1800 01:37:57.039 --> 01:37:58.960 up when I come right back from break. For the 1801 01:37:59.000 --> 01:38:02.560 rest of you seven one three two one two kt RH. 1802 01:38:02.680 --> 01:38:06.439 Welcome back, Welcome back to Guardline folks. Good to have 1803 01:38:06.720 --> 01:38:09.119 you with us. You know, if you're looking for any 1804 01:38:09.199 --> 01:38:12.039 kind of supplies for your lawn and your landscape and 1805 01:38:12.039 --> 01:38:14.600 your vegetable gardens, your flower bits, all that kind of stuff, 1806 01:38:14.960 --> 01:38:17.800 Ace Hardware's got you covered. And especially this season where 1807 01:38:17.800 --> 01:38:24.520 we're focusing on getting the soil right and getting the weeds, 1808 01:38:24.640 --> 01:38:29.760 diseases and just the health of the turf in our 1809 01:38:29.840 --> 01:38:32.960 lawns in better shape. Ace Hardware's got you covered. You 1810 01:38:32.960 --> 01:38:37.359 want to talk about the three step, the nitroposs has 1811 01:38:37.479 --> 01:38:40.199 the Texas three step. That is a fertilizer, that is 1812 01:38:40.279 --> 01:38:44.079 a weed control, and that is a disease control. Go 1813 01:38:44.119 --> 01:38:46.079 to Ace Hardware. You're going to find all three and 1814 01:38:46.199 --> 01:38:49.359 Ace Hardware is all over the place, forty plus stores 1815 01:38:49.399 --> 01:38:51.840 here in the area. Make it easy, but don't delay. 1816 01:38:52.199 --> 01:38:54.079 Get out there this afternoon, get that stuff, get it 1817 01:38:54.119 --> 01:38:57.479 down because we are you know, the first little colfront 1818 01:38:57.479 --> 01:38:59.399 comes in, get a little bit of rain, and these 1819 01:38:59.439 --> 01:39:02.239 weeds are they are ready to They're on the verge 1820 01:39:02.359 --> 01:39:04.319 of sprouting right now, so we need to get that 1821 01:39:04.439 --> 01:39:07.359 down asap, watered in with a half inch of water, 1822 01:39:07.439 --> 01:39:10.039 put all three down. All three of those down the 1823 01:39:10.079 --> 01:39:12.800 three step and watered in real good and Ace Hardware's 1824 01:39:12.840 --> 01:39:14.800 got you covered on it. They got the fire baits, 1825 01:39:14.840 --> 01:39:17.520 They've got everything you would need to do this season 1826 01:39:17.560 --> 01:39:20.039 of the year, and in fact, any season of the year. 1827 01:39:20.560 --> 01:39:21.319 I'm going to head out. 1828 01:39:21.359 --> 01:39:21.520 Now. 1829 01:39:21.680 --> 01:39:25.279 Let's see, we're going to go to gym in Meadows Place. 1830 01:39:25.399 --> 01:39:27.119 Hello Jim, Welcome to garden Line. 1831 01:39:27.720 --> 01:39:28.279 Hello Rick. 1832 01:39:29.800 --> 01:39:33.600 About two weeks ago, a friend gave me three crape myrtles. 1833 01:39:33.680 --> 01:39:35.960 One of them is about three foot tall, the other 1834 01:39:36.000 --> 01:39:39.439 two were about five foot tall. They had a limited 1835 01:39:39.600 --> 01:39:45.600 root base on them, and I dug up my spots. 1836 01:39:45.760 --> 01:39:55.000 I added some premium potting saw I got from garden 1837 01:39:55.039 --> 01:39:59.199 store and water moon, soaked the ground with the root 1838 01:39:59.239 --> 01:40:05.640 stimulator and planted them. The small one, the three footer, 1839 01:40:05.760 --> 01:40:09.159 is doing well, got green leaves, seems to be doing okay. 1840 01:40:09.199 --> 01:40:14.560 The two five footers with their limited root ball, We're 1841 01:40:14.560 --> 01:40:17.359 all green when I put them in, But after about 1842 01:40:17.439 --> 01:40:21.880 four days all the leaves have died, and I'm wondering 1843 01:40:21.960 --> 01:40:24.560 if then I'm not going to be able to save them. 1844 01:40:24.560 --> 01:40:28.039 There's still some green wood on the big ones, but 1845 01:40:28.319 --> 01:40:30.279 all the leaves that were on their died. 1846 01:40:31.600 --> 01:40:33.720 Can I say it should I. 1847 01:40:33.720 --> 01:40:37.279 Wait, I don't think they should have died. They should 1848 01:40:37.319 --> 01:40:41.439 have died that fast. Some sort of stress, transplant shock, 1849 01:40:41.560 --> 01:40:43.359 a little bit of droughty period for they got in 1850 01:40:43.359 --> 01:40:46.239 the ground, or who knows what caused them to drop 1851 01:40:46.239 --> 01:40:48.800 the leaves. Plus it's a season where micrapes that are 1852 01:40:48.840 --> 01:40:50.800 growing in the yard are dropping their leaves. I've been 1853 01:40:50.840 --> 01:40:55.000 for a while, so just make sure the soil stays moist. 1854 01:40:55.119 --> 01:40:58.079 Don't keep it soggy, trying to overwater, but just keep 1855 01:40:58.119 --> 01:40:59.600 it moist. And I think they're going to come out 1856 01:40:59.600 --> 01:41:01.479 in spring and be just fine. Sounds like you did 1857 01:41:01.520 --> 01:41:03.560 everything you need to do. You're on a good start. 1858 01:41:03.840 --> 01:41:06.239 As they begin growing next spring, just get you some 1859 01:41:06.239 --> 01:41:08.800 some fertilizer for shrubs and trees. Put it out there 1860 01:41:09.159 --> 01:41:10.600 and give them a little boost. 1861 01:41:10.800 --> 01:41:11.880 Already got that. 1862 01:41:11.880 --> 01:41:16.159 I got some great fertilizer. All right, ready to go? 1863 01:41:17.199 --> 01:41:19.039 Okay, well, all right, thank you. 1864 01:41:19.279 --> 01:41:20.119 I'll give them a shot. 1865 01:41:21.680 --> 01:41:23.680 Thank you, sir. I appreciate your call. Let's see here, 1866 01:41:23.720 --> 01:41:26.199 all of a sudden people woke up and found the phones. 1867 01:41:26.199 --> 01:41:28.319 These are all the aggies that partied all night last night. 1868 01:41:28.359 --> 01:41:31.760 They're finally getting a little bit donald in West Houston. 1869 01:41:32.640 --> 01:41:33.920 Welcome to Carlne. 1870 01:41:34.520 --> 01:41:35.000 How are you. 1871 01:41:35.319 --> 01:41:38.680 I'm good, I'm good. 1872 01:41:38.920 --> 01:41:43.159 Now here's a question. Yeah, what about walking around with 1873 01:41:43.239 --> 01:41:46.479 a long nozzle prop Paine torch. They make one that 1874 01:41:46.520 --> 01:41:48.279 you hold in your hand and you put the standard 1875 01:41:48.640 --> 01:41:51.960 canister on it and running those weeds. 1876 01:41:53.960 --> 01:41:56.920 That can be done if people do that, especially when 1877 01:41:56.960 --> 01:41:58.920 you got like a brick sidewalk and the weeds you're 1878 01:41:58.960 --> 01:42:01.399 coming up in the cracks and those things. Once you 1879 01:42:01.439 --> 01:42:03.359 get out in the garden and you got you know, 1880 01:42:03.600 --> 01:42:06.600 mulches and I don't know, dry grass or something as 1881 01:42:06.680 --> 01:42:09.319 dry as everything is now, I'd be a little concerned. 1882 01:42:09.680 --> 01:42:12.560 But if it's if there's nothing desirable in that area 1883 01:42:12.960 --> 01:42:15.960 and you don't have dry burnable stuff on the surface, 1884 01:42:16.439 --> 01:42:18.439 that's that's a legit deal. I've got one of those 1885 01:42:18.479 --> 01:42:22.359 and I use it driveway and weeds come up in 1886 01:42:22.399 --> 01:42:25.359 the driveway because it's hard to get in there with 1887 01:42:25.399 --> 01:42:27.199 a little hoe and get them out of me. You 1888 01:42:27.199 --> 01:42:29.439 can spray them too, but it's just another option. 1889 01:42:30.159 --> 01:42:32.479 Yeah, And because a lot of people are kind of 1890 01:42:32.520 --> 01:42:34.880 against the round up spring, you know, you want to 1891 01:42:34.920 --> 01:42:39.159 spray round up around that's that's commercially. That's how they 1892 01:42:39.199 --> 01:42:42.800 do it. So does it kill the roots though? When 1893 01:42:42.800 --> 01:42:44.840 you when you burn the top of the plant of 1894 01:42:44.920 --> 01:42:47.039 the weeds off that it doesn't kill the roots, especially 1895 01:42:47.239 --> 01:42:48.199 the dandelion. 1896 01:42:48.319 --> 01:42:48.479 No. 1897 01:42:49.520 --> 01:42:50.399 Oh, so they'll be. 1898 01:42:50.359 --> 01:42:54.079 Back, No, it doesn't. They'll be back. Yeah, they'll be back. 1899 01:42:54.319 --> 01:42:56.479 And if it's a very young plant, maybe, but if 1900 01:42:56.520 --> 01:42:59.800 it but some plants or annuals and they don't have 1901 01:42:59.800 --> 01:43:02.000 a system, that's going to come back. If it were 1902 01:43:02.359 --> 01:43:04.960 bermuda grass, it would bounce back through. If it's something 1903 01:43:05.000 --> 01:43:07.600 that's got underground structures like nut grass, that's gonna come 1904 01:43:07.680 --> 01:43:08.600 right back through that too. 1905 01:43:09.359 --> 01:43:11.199 Right, But you said you have a torch. You have 1906 01:43:11.279 --> 01:43:14.239 a torch, so you know it would be a week 1907 01:43:14.319 --> 01:43:16.439 two three probably, but two or three weeks before they 1908 01:43:16.520 --> 01:43:18.399 might even show up again. So you just take another 1909 01:43:18.399 --> 01:43:20.680 little pass on them with the burner and they're gone again. 1910 01:43:20.760 --> 01:43:23.479 Right, you could do that. Yeah, if you if you 1911 01:43:23.520 --> 01:43:25.279 never let them up for air, never let them a 1912 01:43:25.359 --> 01:43:28.159 chance to get gas on sunlight very long, you will 1913 01:43:28.199 --> 01:43:31.319 win that. You'll weaken them and you'll win that way too. Hey, Donald, 1914 01:43:31.359 --> 01:43:32.960 I got a few other calls I need to run to. 1915 01:43:33.079 --> 01:43:36.520 But good luck with that. Be careful though, be careful 1916 01:43:36.560 --> 01:43:39.880 out there. Let's see we are gonna I wanted to 1917 01:43:40.520 --> 01:43:44.960 just go to Lakes Side Estates and talk to Maureene. Hey, Maureen, 1918 01:43:45.079 --> 01:43:46.319 welcome to garden Line. 1919 01:43:47.439 --> 01:43:50.039 Yes, good morning, and you nailed me. I watched the 1920 01:43:50.279 --> 01:43:52.279 AM game and. 1921 01:43:53.920 --> 01:43:56.319 I wondered why y'all weren't calling. 1922 01:43:56.720 --> 01:43:58.680 Well, no, I've been up for a while trying to 1923 01:43:58.720 --> 01:43:59.600 catch up from. 1924 01:43:59.479 --> 01:44:01.800 What I want than doing while I was watching the game. 1925 01:44:02.319 --> 01:44:05.319 Okay, so here's the question. I always listened to you, 1926 01:44:06.000 --> 01:44:08.840 and but I didn't have a pencil to write it down. 1927 01:44:08.920 --> 01:44:12.880 You were talking about some plants have a disease, and 1928 01:44:12.960 --> 01:44:16.159 the plant some I believe you were talking about was 1929 01:44:16.239 --> 01:44:20.600 Vinca or dianthus, and there was nothing wrong with them 1930 01:44:20.920 --> 01:44:23.880 if they didn't get the disease. But you mentioned a 1931 01:44:23.920 --> 01:44:33.640 plant that was more resistant. It sounded like collistrum or no. 1932 01:44:35.840 --> 01:44:36.159 Whatever. 1933 01:44:36.720 --> 01:44:40.279 It was just a little it just had it was 1934 01:44:40.319 --> 01:44:42.880 more resistant. So I guess I have to listen. 1935 01:44:42.720 --> 01:44:46.840 To the Let me do well, let me do that 1936 01:44:47.239 --> 01:44:48.600 said something else? 1937 01:44:49.640 --> 01:44:50.439 Go ahead and tell. 1938 01:44:52.800 --> 01:44:57.439 Yeah, I liked I called vinca madagascar periwinkle, because we 1939 01:44:57.520 --> 01:45:00.279 have other things like a vining groundcover called venca too, 1940 01:45:01.119 --> 01:45:05.159 and so anyway, that that plant the summer bloomer and pink, 1941 01:45:05.560 --> 01:45:09.119 red and yellow and white. Uh, that plant can get 1942 01:45:09.119 --> 01:45:11.520 a disease that wipes it out. And there are there 1943 01:45:11.560 --> 01:45:14.479 is a resistant variety called Cora c o r a 1944 01:45:14.720 --> 01:45:19.000 like the girl's name. It doesn't resistant to that disease. 1945 01:45:19.479 --> 01:45:22.720 So if you want you need to get you need 1946 01:45:22.760 --> 01:45:26.000 to get Cora vinka and and that will be resistant. 1947 01:45:26.079 --> 01:45:28.600 Maybe that's what you're talking thinking, Yes. 1948 01:45:28.560 --> 01:45:30.680 It was, I just knew it was the sea. 1949 01:45:31.119 --> 01:45:32.079 But I've been reading a. 1950 01:45:32.000 --> 01:45:32.760 Lot about that. 1951 01:45:32.760 --> 01:45:36.479 That's the summer. Yeah, that's that's a summertime. 1952 01:45:37.880 --> 01:45:39.279 Okay, So what can I get? 1953 01:45:39.640 --> 01:45:40.439 Like the vinka? 1954 01:45:40.600 --> 01:45:43.560 I like the dianthus and the venka because they have 1955 01:45:43.680 --> 01:45:47.199 lots of variety of colors. So you can suggest something 1956 01:45:47.239 --> 01:45:52.800 else other than snap. Dragons that don't do well with snap, Well, 1957 01:45:53.079 --> 01:45:55.199 I need partial sonkay. 1958 01:45:57.000 --> 01:46:02.520 Okay? Well, uh, stock stock is pretty good in a 1959 01:46:02.600 --> 01:46:06.760 partial sun pretty much if it's a flower. Almost all 1960 01:46:06.800 --> 01:46:10.640 of them like sun because that helps them make carbohydrates. 1961 01:46:10.640 --> 01:46:14.760 But I would say another one. I like Viola's even 1962 01:46:14.800 --> 01:46:17.680 better than pansies in the cool season. They're extremely cold 1963 01:46:17.680 --> 01:46:20.640 hearty and they produce a lot more blooms than pansies, 1964 01:46:20.640 --> 01:46:24.199 even though they're smaller blooms. And after a rain, the 1965 01:46:24.359 --> 01:46:27.159 pansy blooms kind of get beat up pretty good, and 1966 01:46:27.199 --> 01:46:30.600 the viola blooms seem to just keep going better. So 1967 01:46:30.800 --> 01:46:32.760 a viola would be one I would put in the 1968 01:46:33.119 --> 01:46:34.039 cool season garden. 1969 01:46:34.159 --> 01:46:37.960 And for distance, for distance from my sidewalk, I get 1970 01:46:37.960 --> 01:46:40.680 a particular color I used to do when I've forgotten. 1971 01:46:40.239 --> 01:46:40.760 What it was. 1972 01:46:41.520 --> 01:46:42.439 Usually I would do. 1973 01:46:46.560 --> 01:46:50.119 It's going to be if it's no, No, it needs 1974 01:46:50.159 --> 01:46:53.720 to be a light bright color, especially in semi shade, 1975 01:46:53.880 --> 01:46:58.359 so light blues and bright yellows and white and things 1976 01:46:58.439 --> 01:47:00.600 like that. Hey, I'm there telling me in my ear 1977 01:47:00.640 --> 01:47:03.279 I got to go to a commercial. Thanks for the call, Marine, 1978 01:47:03.319 --> 01:47:06.920 I really appreciate it very much. When we come back, 1979 01:47:07.039 --> 01:47:10.199 let's see we've got Edward and Carol and Howard. You'll 1980 01:47:10.239 --> 01:47:13.800 be the first ones out, all right, Welcome back, Welcome 1981 01:47:13.800 --> 01:47:15.560 back to the garden line. Good to have you with us. 1982 01:47:15.680 --> 01:47:17.840 We are rolling today, got a lot of things to 1983 01:47:17.880 --> 01:47:19.359 cover and talk about. You know, I was selling you 1984 01:47:19.439 --> 01:47:23.479 Microlife had that micro grow bioinoculant. That's a dry granular. 1985 01:47:23.520 --> 01:47:25.119 You can buy it in a bag. You can buy 1986 01:47:25.119 --> 01:47:27.640 it in on one of the canisters plastic screw top 1987 01:47:27.720 --> 01:47:31.520 lid canisters. Either way. If you're looking for something similar 1988 01:47:31.600 --> 01:47:37.359 that is a liquid, they had Microlife liquid AF liquid AF. 1989 01:47:37.399 --> 01:47:41.680 It's also kind of in a maroon colored container. Buy 1990 01:47:41.800 --> 01:47:45.159 by the gallons what I'd recommend. But it has the 1991 01:47:45.159 --> 01:47:50.479 inoculation of all kinds of beneficial, very important microbes that 1992 01:47:50.600 --> 01:47:53.560 help fight soil and leaf pathogen. So you could use 1993 01:47:53.560 --> 01:47:58.439 it as a foliar spray. Then a spore lands on 1994 01:47:58.479 --> 01:48:00.640 a leaf and tries to attack, and you got things 1995 01:48:00.680 --> 01:48:04.600 on that leaf that are fighting that disease. You could 1996 01:48:04.600 --> 01:48:06.560 also use it as a drench. You could use it 1997 01:48:06.560 --> 01:48:09.079 as a folio spray over it through your flower beds, 1998 01:48:09.119 --> 01:48:11.399 through your lawn even if you would want to go 1999 01:48:11.479 --> 01:48:16.439 that route. One gallon jug micro Grow liquid AF would 2000 01:48:16.479 --> 01:48:18.560 be a good thing also to have on hand for 2001 01:48:18.640 --> 01:48:22.279 that natural approach to disease control. I'm going to head 2002 01:48:22.319 --> 01:48:25.640 now to let's see here who is who is hung 2003 01:48:25.640 --> 01:48:27.840 with us through the break. We're gonna go to Ed 2004 01:48:27.920 --> 01:48:30.520 and Dan Berry. Hey, Ed, welcome to garden Line. 2005 01:48:31.760 --> 01:48:36.560 Hik you I question hurt gang barrow. When it hit, 2006 01:48:36.680 --> 01:48:39.159 I had about a twenty foot tall cond tree and 2007 01:48:39.199 --> 01:48:41.600 a forty foot sycamore tree fall on the east side 2008 01:48:41.600 --> 01:48:44.159 of it, broke some limbs off. Should I put some 2009 01:48:44.319 --> 01:48:46.800 prune and spray or something with all those collars are. 2010 01:48:48.399 --> 01:48:51.760 No, you don't need to on a pecond tree. But 2011 01:48:51.760 --> 01:48:56.520 where it's all broken typically, yeah, Typically where branches break, 2012 01:48:56.600 --> 01:49:00.359 it's a very rough break, and you know it, it's 2013 01:49:00.439 --> 01:49:03.520 not gonna heal well. So usually you'll go back in there, 2014 01:49:03.960 --> 01:49:06.239 follow that branch back and cut it off where it 2015 01:49:06.399 --> 01:49:10.000 joins another branch with a fresh cut, that would be better. 2016 01:49:10.079 --> 01:49:13.159 But the treatment of a spray or a printing paint 2017 01:49:13.279 --> 01:49:14.680 that's not necessary. 2018 01:49:16.119 --> 01:49:18.720 So I'll do that about teguary normally, because I might 2019 01:49:18.720 --> 01:49:21.560 have to trim that west side real hard. It's gonna 2020 01:49:21.600 --> 01:49:25.119 grow all uneven. Yeah, he be on with the west side. 2021 01:49:26.520 --> 01:49:32.920 Next question, well do that, I'll go ahead, No, I said, yeah, 2022 01:49:33.000 --> 01:49:33.560 go do that. 2023 01:49:34.720 --> 01:49:38.479 Okay. The next question is BlackBerry bushes. I bought two 2024 01:49:38.479 --> 01:49:40.960 at pro Birds and I got them to Siftoes. I 2025 01:49:40.960 --> 01:49:44.560 overfertilized one and killed it. I was curious, where's a 2026 01:49:44.600 --> 01:49:46.439 good place to get any this time of the year. 2027 01:49:48.279 --> 01:49:51.319 Oh gosh, they're They're available all over the place. 2028 01:49:51.520 --> 01:49:51.640 Uh. 2029 01:49:52.199 --> 01:49:56.079 That I didn't realize Probergs carried those things. That's that's 2030 01:49:56.199 --> 01:49:56.760 kind of news. 2031 01:49:59.199 --> 01:50:01.199 Yeah, I found them there and I just had a 2032 01:50:01.239 --> 01:50:03.159 few on the table and I bought two of them. 2033 01:50:03.359 --> 01:50:05.079 That's the first time I ever saw in there. 2034 01:50:06.760 --> 01:50:10.960 Yeah, I'm looking at let's see what's near down there 2035 01:50:11.039 --> 01:50:14.159 near you. I would drive up to Alvin and I 2036 01:50:14.199 --> 01:50:19.600 would go to jose hold on just a second, let 2037 01:50:19.640 --> 01:50:22.720 me get his phone, his numb contact information here for you. 2038 01:50:23.399 --> 01:50:27.359 He has a backyard garden center there and he does 2039 01:50:27.560 --> 01:50:29.600 carry fruit and so you're gonna be able to get 2040 01:50:29.640 --> 01:50:30.560 blackberries from him. 2041 01:50:30.680 --> 01:50:37.399 Just a second, get all right on the. 2042 01:50:35.840 --> 01:50:40.039 Dead air space is bad radio, and all right now, 2043 01:50:40.319 --> 01:50:44.079 Heyjorges Hidden Gardens. I just I was letting go the 2044 01:50:44.720 --> 01:50:46.640 things go silent, which you don't do on the radio. 2045 01:50:47.199 --> 01:50:53.319 Jorges Hidden Gardens is on Elizabeth Street in Alvin, south 2046 01:50:53.319 --> 01:50:55.359 of Highway sixth, so it's it's pretty close to you 2047 01:50:57.039 --> 01:51:01.560 or Hayes Hidden Gardens Ores Hidden Gardens. He's opened today 2048 01:51:01.600 --> 01:51:04.520 from eight to four, that's the weekend hours and during 2049 01:51:04.560 --> 01:51:08.279 the week closed on Monday and open Tuesday through Friday 2050 01:51:08.359 --> 01:51:13.039 from nine to three. Oh right, you got to run here. 2051 01:51:14.600 --> 01:51:16.359 I don't have one right here in front of me. 2052 01:51:16.840 --> 01:51:18.399 But you can find. 2053 01:51:18.239 --> 01:51:22.079 Him, okay, Elizabeth Street off Highway six. 2054 01:51:23.640 --> 01:51:26.239 Yeah, thank you, just do a search for him. You 2055 01:51:26.319 --> 01:51:29.760 bet you take care. Thanks for the cow book. Uh, 2056 01:51:31.600 --> 01:51:34.920 there we go, all right. Three sixty tree stabilizer. If 2057 01:51:34.920 --> 01:51:36.920 you're going to plant a tree, you need a three 2058 01:51:37.000 --> 01:51:39.479 sixty tree stabilizer. And I really mean that. I'm not 2059 01:51:39.520 --> 01:51:42.199 being facetious when I say that. I have done the 2060 01:51:42.239 --> 01:51:44.800 thing where you cut pieces of garden hose, put them 2061 01:51:44.800 --> 01:51:48.000 through wires and strap it down. You know those guy 2062 01:51:48.079 --> 01:51:51.399 wires to steaks on the ground and three different directions, 2063 01:51:51.439 --> 01:51:53.279 and now you've got something to trip over. You had 2064 01:51:53.279 --> 01:51:55.520 to go buy wire and go do these things and 2065 01:51:55.680 --> 01:51:59.399 steaks and it's it's just a hassle. A three sixty 2066 01:51:59.439 --> 01:52:04.800 tree stable is a stiff, a very strong plastic arm 2067 01:52:04.960 --> 01:52:07.199 that attaches to a post. In fact, it even comes 2068 01:52:07.199 --> 01:52:09.720 with the thing that attaches perfectly to a t post, 2069 01:52:09.760 --> 01:52:11.640 so you can just hammer one in the ground, you know, 2070 01:52:11.680 --> 01:52:14.439 a couple of feet away from the plant. Attach that, 2071 01:52:14.600 --> 01:52:16.680 and then the other side attaches to your tree. But 2072 01:52:16.720 --> 01:52:20.359 it holds it loosely with a soft rubber type strap 2073 01:52:21.119 --> 01:52:24.199 that allows some movement, but not too much and a 2074 01:52:24.279 --> 01:52:27.359 little bit of movement helps the root structure gets stronger, 2075 01:52:27.399 --> 01:52:30.840 and it helps the trunk structure get stronger. Plants grow 2076 01:52:30.880 --> 01:52:33.760 stronger when there's movement, when they're stressed just a little bit, 2077 01:52:33.760 --> 01:52:37.479 when they're stretched and bent and things like that. Three 2078 01:52:37.600 --> 01:52:39.439 sixty allows that. And you can find these in a 2079 01:52:39.520 --> 01:52:42.399 lot of different places. You find them, you know Sienamltch. 2080 01:52:42.600 --> 01:52:45.319 I just mentioned Jorge Hidden Gardens. Orge has them down 2081 01:52:45.359 --> 01:52:48.760 there in Alvin Southwest Fertilizer. You go up to Arborgate 2082 01:52:48.920 --> 01:52:52.239 or Buchanans Native Plants or Plants for all Seasons RCW. 2083 01:52:52.359 --> 01:52:54.680 These are all places that you can get the three 2084 01:52:55.000 --> 01:52:58.439 sixty tree stabilizer. And I would recommend having it because 2085 01:52:58.479 --> 01:53:00.760 you're going to hang it up on the shelf after 2086 01:53:00.880 --> 01:53:03.399 it's done, after you've used it, and the next time 2087 01:53:03.399 --> 01:53:05.760 you need to plant something, you're ready to go, or 2088 01:53:05.800 --> 01:53:07.560 maybe you got a neighbor that would like to borrow it. 2089 01:53:07.880 --> 01:53:11.920 Three sixty tree Stabilizer. Let's go back now to Parland 2090 01:53:11.920 --> 01:53:14.239 and we're going to talk to Howard. Hello, Howard, welcome 2091 01:53:14.239 --> 01:53:15.039 to Regard Line. 2092 01:53:15.840 --> 01:53:17.239 Good morning, Skip. How are you. 2093 01:53:18.760 --> 01:53:19.760 I'm well? Thank you? 2094 01:53:20.880 --> 01:53:23.239 Yeah, let me take it off. Speaker might be easier. 2095 01:53:23.960 --> 01:53:27.560 See if I can do that. Okay, this is probably better. 2096 01:53:29.159 --> 01:53:31.319 I had sent you in some pictures earlier in the 2097 01:53:31.359 --> 01:53:33.359 week of some of my hot pepper plants. 2098 01:53:36.079 --> 01:53:41.000 Okay, yeah, and I'm I'm finding them. I'm pulling them up. 2099 01:53:42.119 --> 01:53:45.880 Yeah. The leave for a little bit, Yeah, stunted and curled. 2100 01:53:46.960 --> 01:53:48.279 And you said it was probably. 2101 01:53:48.039 --> 01:53:50.439 A nutrient deficiency, but I should give you a call, 2102 01:53:50.640 --> 01:53:51.680 So here I am. 2103 01:53:52.159 --> 01:53:56.520 Yeah, it looks like nutrient deficiency, the curling, the twisting. 2104 01:53:56.600 --> 01:53:59.439 It could also be a virus. There are a lot 2105 01:53:59.439 --> 01:54:02.119 of different viruses that can get into plants. And you know, 2106 01:54:02.199 --> 01:54:06.840 a virus typically occurs on new growth, so it's the 2107 01:54:06.920 --> 01:54:09.239 new like if you have an old leave, that leaf 2108 01:54:09.279 --> 01:54:13.880 that's normal, it doesn't become twisted, it stays normal, and 2109 01:54:13.920 --> 01:54:16.760 then the new growth shows the twisting on a virus. 2110 01:54:16.760 --> 01:54:19.760 So you might look your plants over. From what I 2111 01:54:19.800 --> 01:54:22.520 can see kind of in the fuzzy distance in the picture, 2112 01:54:22.600 --> 01:54:24.560 it looks like you had some normal leaves for a 2113 01:54:24.560 --> 01:54:27.359 while that now have But I see a lot of 2114 01:54:27.359 --> 01:54:31.039 what looks to me like iron deficiency, possibly a little 2115 01:54:31.079 --> 01:54:35.119 bit of magnesium deficiency. But that's just kind of guessing 2116 01:54:35.199 --> 01:54:39.319 from a photoshot. I would get a good complete fertilizer, 2117 01:54:39.479 --> 01:54:42.680 work it into the soil, especially one with micro nutrients. 2118 01:54:43.079 --> 01:54:45.800 Now that pepper is about to be toasted when we 2119 01:54:45.840 --> 01:54:48.680 get some cold weather. So I don't know if it's 2120 01:54:48.680 --> 01:54:51.119 worth trying to save this one, but if that starts 2121 01:54:51.159 --> 01:54:55.119 to happen again, definitely a good fertilizer that contains micros. 2122 01:54:55.239 --> 01:54:56.600 You could even get some aze mine and put it 2123 01:54:56.640 --> 01:54:59.760 in the soil, and then a spray that would would 2124 01:54:59.800 --> 01:55:02.000 be a liquid that you could spray on them to 2125 01:55:02.039 --> 01:55:02.840 do the same thing. 2126 01:55:03.960 --> 01:55:06.520 Yeah, you know what, Like you said, it's once you 2127 01:55:06.520 --> 01:55:09.199 get the cold weather, they're going to be gone. I'm 2128 01:55:09.199 --> 01:55:11.399 thinking it might almost be beneficial to me at this 2129 01:55:11.439 --> 01:55:15.079 point just to uproot them, get some fresh soil. He'll 2130 01:55:15.319 --> 01:55:18.079 lay it down in the in the bucket cover. I 2131 01:55:18.199 --> 01:55:20.319 cover it usually with like trash bags to keep the 2132 01:55:20.319 --> 01:55:23.319 weeds out of it. And when spring rolls are on 2133 01:55:23.359 --> 01:55:28.279 the corner, which would be right after January here in Houston, yeah, 2134 01:55:28.720 --> 01:55:30.680 I'll get some more pepper plants and start again. 2135 01:55:32.239 --> 01:55:34.199 Yeah, you could do that. You could even mix in. 2136 01:55:34.279 --> 01:55:37.920 These are in containers, you said, right, Yeah, these are. 2137 01:55:37.760 --> 01:55:41.279 In those thirty five gallon mesh bags. 2138 01:55:41.920 --> 01:55:44.800 Oh okay, yeah, you could even mix in something, you know, 2139 01:55:44.920 --> 01:55:47.960 like a microlife. I would just use the standard green 2140 01:55:48.000 --> 01:55:51.680 bag sixty four microlife in there. Mix it down in 2141 01:55:51.760 --> 01:55:54.520 really well because it's going to slowly decompose and release 2142 01:55:54.560 --> 01:55:58.760 and stimulate some microbactivity. And anytime you had compost or 2143 01:55:58.760 --> 01:56:02.000 what was once alive, you're adding micros because it took 2144 01:56:02.119 --> 01:56:05.640 micros to grow the plant material that they make the 2145 01:56:05.720 --> 01:56:08.960 material out of. So you know you're getting iron and 2146 01:56:09.079 --> 01:56:11.359 zinc and all kinds of things when you had composts, 2147 01:56:11.359 --> 01:56:13.520 because that's that's where it took to grow the plant 2148 01:56:13.560 --> 01:56:17.359 successfully that's now been composted. So that'd be my recommendation. 2149 01:56:17.439 --> 01:56:19.920 Okay, I'm good. I appreciate it. 2150 01:56:19.960 --> 01:56:23.319 All right, you bet, thank you very much. I appreciate 2151 01:56:23.640 --> 01:56:28.279 I appreciate your call. Well, there, there we go, there 2152 01:56:28.319 --> 01:56:31.039 we go. We are now back in the big middle 2153 01:56:31.199 --> 01:56:37.560 of a excuse my brain just went sideways of a 2154 01:56:38.000 --> 01:56:40.199 commercial break. I wanted to mention I'm going to be 2155 01:56:40.199 --> 01:56:43.960 at Katya's Hardware or Katie Hardware. It's on pin Oak Road, 2156 01:56:44.439 --> 01:56:47.479 hen Oak Road in Katie. I'll be there next Saturday 2157 01:56:48.000 --> 01:56:52.520 from noon until two. Definitely want to come out, bring 2158 01:56:52.560 --> 01:56:55.359 your samples and plants and questions and let's have some fun. 2159 01:56:55.439 --> 01:56:58.640 There'll be a lot of giveaways as well. 2160 01:56:58.680 --> 01:57:02.439 Welcome to kt RAGED garden Line with Scar Richard. 2161 01:57:02.520 --> 01:57:19.399 It's crazy just watching as many things to see. 2162 01:57:27.279 --> 01:57:36.159 You're not a sign. Welcome to guarden Line, folks. It 2163 01:57:36.319 --> 01:57:38.760 is good to have you with us, Glad to have 2164 01:57:38.840 --> 01:57:41.600 you back. Thanks for being a listener to guarden Line. 2165 01:57:41.600 --> 01:57:43.840 By the way, we really appreciate that. It is a 2166 01:57:43.880 --> 01:57:45.640 lot of fun to get to talk to gardeners and 2167 01:57:45.760 --> 01:57:48.760 help you have success. It breaks my heart to hear 2168 01:57:48.840 --> 01:57:51.159 someone say I tried gardening, I got a brown thumb. 2169 01:57:51.199 --> 01:57:51.800 I can't do it. 2170 01:57:51.880 --> 01:57:52.319 You do not. 2171 01:57:52.640 --> 01:57:54.399 You cannot fail at gardening. You do not have a 2172 01:57:54.439 --> 01:57:57.199 brown thumb. You can give up at gardening, and you 2173 01:57:57.239 --> 01:57:59.800 cannot continue to learn. You know, the more you learn, 2174 01:58:00.079 --> 01:58:03.279 the greener your thumb gets. It's true, because all the 2175 01:58:03.319 --> 01:58:05.479 green thumb is is people that know the right things 2176 01:58:05.479 --> 01:58:08.319 to do to make plants happy. You understand a plant, 2177 01:58:08.359 --> 01:58:10.199 your thumb gets greener. And that's what we do here 2178 01:58:10.199 --> 01:58:12.560 on garden Line that and hopefully help you have some 2179 01:58:12.600 --> 01:58:15.960 fun in the process. Warrens Southern Gardens and Kingwood Garden 2180 01:58:16.000 --> 01:58:18.079 Center they're both out there in Kingwood. Warns is on 2181 01:58:18.159 --> 01:58:21.359 North Park, Kingwood's on Stone Hollow. Both open seven days 2182 01:58:21.399 --> 01:58:24.279 a week out of Warrens set. Right now, they've got 2183 01:58:24.359 --> 01:58:27.319 their pansies party. What does that mean, Well, you buy 2184 01:58:27.520 --> 01:58:31.319 a flat of four inch pot pansies. They're eighteen of 2185 01:58:31.359 --> 01:58:33.760 them in a flat for twenty five bucks and it's 2186 01:58:33.760 --> 01:58:35.359 going to go all the way to November third, So 2187 01:58:35.399 --> 01:58:36.960 you don't have a lot of time here to drag 2188 01:58:37.000 --> 01:58:39.640 your feet get that done. But you put those out, 2189 01:58:39.680 --> 01:58:42.560 grab some pansy fertilizer while you're there and get those 2190 01:58:42.560 --> 01:58:44.840 in the ground. You're gonna have color all the way 2191 01:58:44.920 --> 01:58:47.520 through the cool season. Pansies are very, very cold, hardy. 2192 01:58:48.239 --> 01:58:51.000 They also have Amarilla's bulbs in stock. They've got an 2193 01:58:51.000 --> 01:58:54.359 abundance of fall vegetables there. Beautiful moms still there for 2194 01:58:55.119 --> 01:58:58.880 gorgeous color. Don't forget to join their newsletter. If you do, 2195 01:58:59.079 --> 01:59:01.359 you'll get special coup finds. You'll get offers like their 2196 01:59:01.399 --> 01:59:04.920 monthly lawn care coupines. It's real easy to join. You 2197 01:59:04.920 --> 01:59:06.199 and go to the website, or you can get them 2198 01:59:06.199 --> 01:59:07.880 a call, or when you're in the store you can 2199 01:59:07.960 --> 01:59:10.800 just tell them that the run Southern Gardens. Join that 2200 01:59:10.880 --> 01:59:14.479 newsletter and be part of that again Warren's Southern Gardens 2201 01:59:14.520 --> 01:59:17.319 Kingwood Gardens that are both open seven days a week 2202 01:59:17.439 --> 01:59:22.000 in Kingwood. I'm going to go now to Tomball, Texas 2203 01:59:22.119 --> 01:59:26.199 and talk to David Hey. David, welcome to garden Line. Well, 2204 01:59:26.239 --> 01:59:27.159 good morning, sir. 2205 01:59:27.199 --> 01:59:27.439 Hey. 2206 01:59:27.479 --> 01:59:32.279 I got two things. First thing is I've got it 2207 01:59:32.600 --> 01:59:35.199 appears to be some kind of a fungus growing on 2208 01:59:35.359 --> 01:59:39.880 my oak trees. It's kind of an avocado green and 2209 01:59:39.960 --> 01:59:43.720 it just just just covering the round the trunk, going 2210 01:59:43.800 --> 01:59:47.399 up about six feet or so. It doesn't bother me, 2211 01:59:47.600 --> 01:59:49.960 but it is if it's harming the tree, I want 2212 01:59:49.960 --> 01:59:54.279 to deal with it. The second thing is I'm okay, 2213 01:59:54.800 --> 01:59:57.720 do what or The second thing is I was looking 2214 01:59:57.760 --> 02:00:01.800 at your lawn for at your lawn furlization schedule, and 2215 02:00:01.880 --> 02:00:06.439 I don't see anything about when to put barricade down. 2216 02:00:06.640 --> 02:00:10.960 I want to get so aggressive to control these stickers. 2217 02:00:11.039 --> 02:00:13.000 I've been fighting them for three years. I put the 2218 02:00:13.000 --> 02:00:16.760 barricade down, and I just can't seem to get completely 2219 02:00:16.880 --> 02:00:20.000 rid of them. So when, when and how much can 2220 02:00:20.039 --> 02:00:23.199 I overdo it? I want to get rid of them stickers. 2221 02:00:23.520 --> 02:00:26.520 All right, So be careful with overdoing it. You can 2222 02:00:26.640 --> 02:00:29.720 damage your lawn. When you overdo a pre emergent herbicide, 2223 02:00:29.720 --> 02:00:32.800 it'll affect the rooting of your lawn runners. So don't 2224 02:00:33.000 --> 02:00:36.079 overdo it. Just follow the label. UH if you you 2225 02:00:36.239 --> 02:00:40.800 found online My lawn care schedule also online at gardening 2226 02:00:41.000 --> 02:00:45.119 with Skip dot com is a free lawn pest, disease 2227 02:00:45.319 --> 02:00:48.800 and weed schedule. It goes from January to December, and 2228 02:00:48.880 --> 02:00:50.600 as you go down it's like, what are we are? 2229 02:00:50.600 --> 02:00:52.399 You're going to use a pre emergent or a post 2230 02:00:52.399 --> 02:00:55.079 emergon on the weeds, how to control insects, how to 2231 02:00:55.119 --> 02:00:58.600 control diseases, and it tells you when for everything. The 2232 02:00:58.600 --> 02:01:01.960 bottom line is for grass in the lawn, is it 2233 02:01:02.000 --> 02:01:04.000 a grasper or is it a broadly plant with a 2234 02:01:04.000 --> 02:01:04.720 sticker on it? 2235 02:01:06.560 --> 02:01:08.840 I think it's the grass birds and things that stick 2236 02:01:08.880 --> 02:01:11.560 to your socks and tiny shoes when you're mowing grass. 2237 02:01:11.600 --> 02:01:14.880 They can't walk through the yard barefoot. 2238 02:01:16.159 --> 02:01:20.880 Okay, well, picker as you begin to get those, send 2239 02:01:20.920 --> 02:01:24.039 me pictures of them, because there's several different stickery things 2240 02:01:24.039 --> 02:01:25.920 that it could be, and a product that works on 2241 02:01:25.920 --> 02:01:28.319 one may not work on the other. So anyway, the 2242 02:01:28.399 --> 02:01:33.359 time to do that is in late February, okay, late February, 2243 02:01:33.640 --> 02:01:36.520 and then you're going to want to repeat it about 2244 02:01:36.760 --> 02:01:40.279 three months later, maybe two and a half months later. 2245 02:01:40.760 --> 02:01:43.479 So let's see, that'd be March April, about mid May 2246 02:01:43.640 --> 02:01:45.920 or early June, you know, probably mid May is when 2247 02:01:45.920 --> 02:01:48.760 I would do it. I would repeat that application because 2248 02:01:48.880 --> 02:01:51.760 those things will continue to sprout through the summer, and 2249 02:01:51.840 --> 02:01:55.720 the product that prevents them doesn't last forever. It breaks down. 2250 02:01:57.199 --> 02:01:59.319 Okay, And on your schedule it was called three. 2251 02:01:59.159 --> 02:02:00.880 Two one. 2252 02:02:03.960 --> 02:02:04.439 Oh oh no. 2253 02:02:04.720 --> 02:02:08.760 The what was the name of the schedule? 2254 02:02:09.000 --> 02:02:09.680 The publication. 2255 02:02:11.399 --> 02:02:15.680 The publication is the Pest Disease and Weed Management schedule. 2256 02:02:15.720 --> 02:02:19.119 If you go to gardening with skip dot com, it's 2257 02:02:19.159 --> 02:02:21.000 just right there. It's easy. You can scroll down and 2258 02:02:21.039 --> 02:02:23.039 see it. In fact, there's a little button there for 2259 02:02:23.159 --> 02:02:26.800 my schedules, and both schedules in full color are there. 2260 02:02:27.359 --> 02:02:29.239 I just print my not burnt and back so I 2261 02:02:29.239 --> 02:02:30.680 can flip it over and know how to keep up 2262 02:02:30.680 --> 02:02:31.640 with two pieces of paper. 2263 02:02:33.319 --> 02:02:35.800 Okay, So what about the oak tree? Do do anything 2264 02:02:35.800 --> 02:02:38.199 about the fungus it They ain't bothering me, But is 2265 02:02:38.239 --> 02:02:39.159 it harming the tree? 2266 02:02:39.479 --> 02:02:42.279 No? Now that's just on the bark it's grown on 2267 02:02:42.319 --> 02:02:46.199 the outer bark and it just ignore it. There are 2268 02:02:46.199 --> 02:02:48.680 a live things. Liking is the same way. Some of 2269 02:02:48.720 --> 02:02:50.840 the mosses that grow on things are the same way. 2270 02:02:51.439 --> 02:02:54.800 They're not a disease. They're just growing because they're getting 2271 02:02:54.800 --> 02:02:56.880 the right amount of moisture and light and something to 2272 02:02:56.920 --> 02:02:58.760 grow on that happens on oaks. 2273 02:03:00.039 --> 02:03:02.520 Alrighty, thank you, that's all I got. Have a good dame. 2274 02:03:03.960 --> 02:03:04.319 You too. 2275 02:03:04.720 --> 02:03:08.520 Thanks, take care all right our phone number seven one 2276 02:03:08.640 --> 02:03:11.840 three two one two fifty eight seventy four. You know, 2277 02:03:11.880 --> 02:03:14.800 he was talking about the the things that we do 2278 02:03:14.880 --> 02:03:18.239 in the fall and the nitropous three step. The three 2279 02:03:18.279 --> 02:03:22.039 step method is a fertilizer in the fall that is 2280 02:03:22.119 --> 02:03:25.600 designed for fall. It gets your grass into the fall 2281 02:03:25.640 --> 02:03:29.319 season with a lot of carbohydrate build up, which is 2282 02:03:29.399 --> 02:03:32.760 needed for cold heartiness and for spring growth. Your fall 2283 02:03:32.800 --> 02:03:36.880 fertilizer is what fuels your early spring growth next year. 2284 02:03:37.800 --> 02:03:40.239 So it's the most important fertilization of the year is 2285 02:03:40.279 --> 02:03:44.359 in the fall. Second is nitropas barricade, which you put 2286 02:03:44.399 --> 02:03:48.039 down and it prevents weeds seeds from coming through. It 2287 02:03:48.039 --> 02:03:51.119 doesn't kill existing weeds. When a seed sprouts, it can't 2288 02:03:51.159 --> 02:03:53.920 come through the barricade, that's why they call it a barricade. 2289 02:03:54.239 --> 02:03:57.840 And then nitroposs Eagle turf fungicide is a systemic product 2290 02:03:57.840 --> 02:04:01.039 that gets into the grass and so when let's say 2291 02:04:01.079 --> 02:04:05.239 spores of brown patch, large patch, or take a root 2292 02:04:05.319 --> 02:04:09.720 rod here, there is a protection in the plant against 2293 02:04:09.720 --> 02:04:12.600 that infection. So all three of those need to be 2294 02:04:12.640 --> 02:04:17.479 done asap. The longer you wait, the less good things 2295 02:04:17.560 --> 02:04:20.560 are going to happen because he uses these you wait 2296 02:04:20.640 --> 02:04:23.399 until we's already up too late for barricade. That's just 2297 02:04:23.439 --> 02:04:25.760 an example. So get him done. Now, where do you 2298 02:04:25.800 --> 02:04:28.199 find him, Well, you're going to find him at Ace Hardware, 2299 02:04:28.199 --> 02:04:29.680 at Single Ranch. You're going to find him at the 2300 02:04:29.800 --> 02:04:33.159 Arborgate tombol at Fisher's Hardware, both the ones in Baytown, 2301 02:04:33.399 --> 02:04:35.760 the one in Mount Bellevue, the one in Pasadena. The 2302 02:04:35.760 --> 02:04:38.760 Fishers Hardware and Report they all carry those things. And 2303 02:04:38.840 --> 02:04:40.439 if you go to Katie Ace Hardware, you're going to 2304 02:04:40.479 --> 02:04:45.199 find those two out there. Let's see you are listening 2305 02:04:45.199 --> 02:04:47.760 to Guardenline our phone number seven one three two one 2306 02:04:47.880 --> 02:04:50.920 two fifty eight seventy four. You know when I talk 2307 02:04:50.960 --> 02:04:53.920 about nutrients and things, I also like to mention the 2308 02:04:53.920 --> 02:04:58.760 product azo mighte ASA might is a micro nutrient, a 2309 02:04:58.920 --> 02:05:03.880 trace than same thing micronutrient trace mineral product that you 2310 02:05:03.920 --> 02:05:06.600 put in the soil to put those micros in the 2311 02:05:06.640 --> 02:05:09.880 bank account of the soil. Now, some nutrients we need 2312 02:05:09.920 --> 02:05:12.960 a lot of nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium. That's why you have 2313 02:05:13.039 --> 02:05:17.239 three numbers on every fertilizer bag. Well, trace minerals are 2314 02:05:17.319 --> 02:05:20.079 equally essential, but they're needed in tiny amounts, and that's 2315 02:05:20.119 --> 02:05:23.680 why we do microlife fertilizers. That's why we do some 2316 02:05:23.760 --> 02:05:26.840 of the things that have traces in them. Asamite is 2317 02:05:26.880 --> 02:05:30.359 designed exactly for that kind of thing. You put azamite 2318 02:05:30.359 --> 02:05:33.079 out in your lawn, watered in really good, you don't 2319 02:05:33.119 --> 02:05:34.600 have to do about once a year, and you're going 2320 02:05:34.680 --> 02:05:37.439 to be in really good shape going forward. It makes 2321 02:05:37.439 --> 02:05:40.239 it easy, easy to do. It's building the bank account. 2322 02:05:40.279 --> 02:05:42.800 It's not making the lawn grow, it's having the nutrients 2323 02:05:42.840 --> 02:05:44.880 the lawn needs when it tries to grow. Go to 2324 02:05:44.960 --> 02:05:48.560 Azamite Texas dot com. You're going to find asamite pretty 2325 02:05:48.600 --> 02:05:50.720 much every place I talk about, you know, garden centers, 2326 02:05:50.800 --> 02:05:55.439 land hardware store, ace hardware stores. The Southwest. Fertilizer feed 2327 02:05:55.520 --> 02:05:58.760 stores also are going to carry asme. We'll be right back, 2328 02:05:58.760 --> 02:06:01.600 and when we do, Dina, you'll be our first up. 2329 02:06:02.039 --> 02:06:05.319 All right, folks, we're back. We are back here on 2330 02:06:05.479 --> 02:06:10.000 a beautiful sunday talking gardening with you. If you'd like 2331 02:06:10.039 --> 02:06:12.560 to give us call someone three two on two KTRH. 2332 02:06:12.600 --> 02:06:14.760 We're going to run right out to the phones here 2333 02:06:14.800 --> 02:06:17.319 and talk to Dina in League City. Hey, Dinna, welcome 2334 02:06:17.319 --> 02:06:17.880 to Gardenline. 2335 02:06:18.760 --> 02:06:22.840 Thank you taking a call. I have a question. Recently, 2336 02:06:22.880 --> 02:06:25.359 Horhei cleaned out one of my flower beds and it 2337 02:06:25.399 --> 02:06:28.359 looks great. I have roses in there and some peaches 2338 02:06:28.640 --> 02:06:32.840 and monkey grass, but I see the baby nutsit coming 2339 02:06:32.880 --> 02:06:36.600 back up. Can I use weed lead complete in it 2340 02:06:37.199 --> 02:06:38.439 to prevent them coming up? 2341 02:06:38.680 --> 02:06:38.840 From? 2342 02:06:40.000 --> 02:06:40.359 All right? 2343 02:06:40.520 --> 02:06:43.000 It won't work. What you need to do, And this 2344 02:06:43.079 --> 02:06:46.079 is a it's a lot too what I'm going to say. 2345 02:06:46.079 --> 02:06:48.039 So I'm going to refer you to my website where 2346 02:06:48.039 --> 02:06:51.640 I've written something for that. It's Gardening with Skip dot 2347 02:06:51.680 --> 02:06:56.439 com and there's a publication called Nutsedge and Inside Look, 2348 02:06:56.680 --> 02:07:00.359 and I write about the how it grows and the 2349 02:07:00.399 --> 02:07:03.079 timing of what you do and what you use. It's 2350 02:07:03.119 --> 02:07:05.840 all there in that website tells you exactly what to 2351 02:07:05.880 --> 02:07:08.960 buy and but bottom line, if I were to summarize it, 2352 02:07:08.960 --> 02:07:12.119 it's when nutsedge comes up in your garden, let it 2353 02:07:12.159 --> 02:07:15.279 get three to five leaves, and then treat it with 2354 02:07:15.359 --> 02:07:17.600 one of the products that's on my list. One of 2355 02:07:17.640 --> 02:07:21.119 them would be called sedge hammer. There's other sed gender. 2356 02:07:22.520 --> 02:07:25.560 Pardon, can I use this in my yard? 2357 02:07:27.800 --> 02:07:29.720 Can use sedgehammer in your yard? 2358 02:07:31.359 --> 02:07:32.600 A sed hammer? 2359 02:07:33.640 --> 02:07:36.600 Oh? Oh, I see what you're saying. The we complete 2360 02:07:36.600 --> 02:07:38.760 it is fine to use in your yard. Just long 2361 02:07:38.840 --> 02:07:40.880 read the label, make sure it's labeled for the kind 2362 02:07:40.880 --> 02:07:43.159 of grass you have and all that. But I'm saying 2363 02:07:43.159 --> 02:07:45.399 for the nuts edge, let it get threely And but 2364 02:07:45.920 --> 02:07:48.359 you here's the deal, Denny. You gotta stay on it. 2365 02:07:48.439 --> 02:07:51.239 Like two weeks later, I've been dealing with some in 2366 02:07:51.239 --> 02:07:53.960 a bed, and two weeks later there's some new sprouts 2367 02:07:54.000 --> 02:07:56.079 in there, and you just when they get three to 2368 02:07:56.159 --> 02:07:57.960 five leaves, you get them. Don't leave them too long 2369 02:07:58.039 --> 02:08:00.239 or they'll make a bunch of daughter plants. Now more 2370 02:08:00.319 --> 02:08:04.560 nutsedge than you started with. But if on your. 2371 02:08:04.479 --> 02:08:07.520 Website is it a granular. 2372 02:08:07.560 --> 02:08:10.880 You mix No, No, you mix it in water and 2373 02:08:10.920 --> 02:08:12.600 you spray it on the leaves or wipe it on 2374 02:08:12.640 --> 02:08:16.119 the leaves. That's good. But if you're gonna there's a 2375 02:08:16.119 --> 02:08:18.319 bunch of brands that are in that publication. But if 2376 02:08:18.359 --> 02:08:21.640 you get sedgehammer, you want to get sedgehammer plus because 2377 02:08:21.680 --> 02:08:24.199 it already has something in it to make it stick 2378 02:08:24.239 --> 02:08:27.159 to those slick nutsedge leaves, sedge. 2379 02:08:28.600 --> 02:08:28.960 Anything. 2380 02:08:29.439 --> 02:08:30.000 It won't hurt. 2381 02:08:30.760 --> 02:08:33.079 You got to read. There are a lot of different 2382 02:08:33.119 --> 02:08:35.640 kinds of plants. If you get it. If you get 2383 02:08:35.680 --> 02:08:38.520 it on some plants, it will hurt them. It will, 2384 02:08:39.159 --> 02:08:41.039 but you have to read the label as to what 2385 02:08:41.119 --> 02:08:42.880 you can use it around. But here's what I do. 2386 02:08:43.039 --> 02:08:46.000 I use a wiper, a sponge of wiper that and 2387 02:08:46.039 --> 02:08:48.359 I wipe it right on the nutsedge leaves. There's no 2388 02:08:48.479 --> 02:08:51.239 need in spraying spray everywhere that might hurt something else. 2389 02:08:51.680 --> 02:08:54.039 Just wipe it right on those nuts edge leaves. And 2390 02:08:54.319 --> 02:08:56.439 I also on my website it shows you how to 2391 02:08:56.479 --> 02:08:58.720 how to create a little homemade wiper that you can 2392 02:08:58.840 --> 02:08:59.479 use to do that. 2393 02:09:00.319 --> 02:09:03.640 Okay, he is putting mults after I do that, putting 2394 02:09:03.680 --> 02:09:04.720 moulfs on top with that. 2395 02:09:04.840 --> 02:09:10.359 Hell, it won't touch nut sage. It'll stop weed seeds 2396 02:09:10.399 --> 02:09:12.359 of other weeds from coming out, but it won't hurt 2397 02:09:12.439 --> 02:09:14.000 nutsedge at all. West as not. 2398 02:09:14.920 --> 02:09:18.399 Put barricade after I cleaned out the flower bed. But 2399 02:09:19.039 --> 02:09:22.560 that's not helping it at all, So okay, right. 2400 02:09:22.560 --> 02:09:27.800 Barricade barricades for weed seeds. Okay, good, good luck with that, Nita, 2401 02:09:27.960 --> 02:09:30.239 Thank you for the call. I appreciate that. You know, 2402 02:09:30.279 --> 02:09:32.920 if you've got tree issues, folks, Affordable Trees the one 2403 02:09:32.960 --> 02:09:35.680 to call. They've been a sponsor of guarden Line and 2404 02:09:35.880 --> 02:09:38.800 the go to place since back when Randy was doing 2405 02:09:38.840 --> 02:09:42.479 the show. Affordable Tree Service. Uh, here's the phone number. 2406 02:09:42.600 --> 02:09:47.800 Seven one three six twenty six sixty three. Winter season 2407 02:09:48.039 --> 02:09:51.560 prime time for getting pruning done. Get on Martin's schedule. 2408 02:09:51.600 --> 02:09:53.840 Tell them you heard about it on guarden Line. Get 2409 02:09:53.880 --> 02:09:55.840 on the schedule so you can come out, take a look, 2410 02:09:55.880 --> 02:09:58.119 see what you got, see what's needed, and do it right. 2411 02:09:58.359 --> 02:10:00.920 Whatever your trees need, mark and can do it, not 2412 02:10:01.000 --> 02:10:04.000 just pruning, but you can do it all. But this 2413 02:10:04.039 --> 02:10:06.600 is printing season. Don't delay. The best time to get 2414 02:10:06.640 --> 02:10:09.840 your tree pruning done is upon us. Go to the 2415 02:10:09.840 --> 02:10:14.520 website if you wish Afftree Service dot com a f 2416 02:10:14.520 --> 02:10:16.920 F tree Service dot Com, but give them a call 2417 02:10:17.159 --> 02:10:21.760 seven one three six nine two six sixty three. If 2418 02:10:21.840 --> 02:10:25.000 Martin or Joe does not answer the phone. You've called 2419 02:10:25.039 --> 02:10:28.479 the wrong place. Hang up. Call again. Don't let just 2420 02:10:28.600 --> 02:10:31.439 anybody have access to your trees. They can do damage. 2421 02:10:31.479 --> 02:10:34.199 That's forever. You need someone that knows what they're doing. 2422 02:10:34.239 --> 02:10:37.159 That's Martin Spoon More Affordable Tree Service. We're gonna go 2423 02:10:37.279 --> 02:10:40.079 now to Brookshire and talk to Louise. Hello, Louise, welcome 2424 02:10:40.119 --> 02:10:40.880 to garden Line. 2425 02:10:41.680 --> 02:10:44.840 Oh, thank you so much. Good morning, Skip, Good morning Houston, 2426 02:10:45.000 --> 02:10:49.960 and good morning and our loud goos are God rest 2427 02:10:50.000 --> 02:10:53.479 his soul. Randy Lemon, I just wanted to ask you, Skip, 2428 02:10:53.960 --> 02:10:59.359 how do I combat this disease that is creeping on 2429 02:10:59.399 --> 02:11:00.840 my junipers? 2430 02:11:01.000 --> 02:11:01.439 I've got it. 2431 02:11:01.680 --> 02:11:06.359 I had an Italian cypress, beautiful, fervent, dark green tree, 2432 02:11:06.760 --> 02:11:12.640 and it started getting brown leaves, like brown brown branches, 2433 02:11:13.399 --> 02:11:18.119 and before I knew it, it overtook the whole tree 2434 02:11:18.119 --> 02:11:22.239 and the tree died. And now because the strong winds 2435 02:11:21.920 --> 02:11:26.279 out here, I think it's blown over to my junipers 2436 02:11:26.880 --> 02:11:29.439 and it's starting to show up on my junipers at 2437 02:11:29.479 --> 02:11:31.880 the bottom. Do you know what that could be? 2438 02:11:31.960 --> 02:11:34.520 So yeah, let me ask you a couple of real 2439 02:11:34.640 --> 02:11:38.000 quick questions. When it appears, do you see kind of 2440 02:11:38.039 --> 02:11:42.239 a slow loss of green color kind of almost gets 2441 02:11:42.279 --> 02:11:44.079 kind of yellow eve for a little bit and then 2442 02:11:44.119 --> 02:11:47.079 finally turns brown. And it's happening in a general area. 2443 02:11:47.199 --> 02:11:51.000 Or do you see individual branches that turn brown and 2444 02:11:51.319 --> 02:11:53.880 are tan and around them the branches are green. 2445 02:11:55.920 --> 02:11:58.600 The first one, he said, the first. 2446 02:11:58.319 --> 02:12:01.079 One, Okay, well, the first one. The first one could 2447 02:12:01.119 --> 02:12:04.720 be a canker that is killing the branches on it. 2448 02:12:04.720 --> 02:12:07.239 It could be something in the soil like a root rot. 2449 02:12:07.720 --> 02:12:11.119 Junifers and all that group of plants does not like 2450 02:12:11.199 --> 02:12:14.399 soggy soil conditions. It could be that too, Or it 2451 02:12:14.439 --> 02:12:16.920 could be a canker disease that attacks the branches. And 2452 02:12:16.960 --> 02:12:20.079 if you follow a branch that's dying backwards, look at 2453 02:12:20.079 --> 02:12:22.640 the stem, look all around and see if you see 2454 02:12:22.680 --> 02:12:24.760 a split in the bark. That's a sign of a 2455 02:12:24.800 --> 02:12:27.520 canker right there. These things are prone to those. It 2456 02:12:27.560 --> 02:12:31.479 could also be spider mites. They're not a problem we 2457 02:12:31.560 --> 02:12:34.439 have now this time of year that they love warm 2458 02:12:34.479 --> 02:12:37.119 weather and so all summer they've been going crazy and 2459 02:12:37.159 --> 02:12:40.359 they love They just basically suck the juices out of 2460 02:12:40.359 --> 02:12:43.760 the branch, and that's why it turns brown so gradually 2461 02:12:43.840 --> 02:12:46.720 and slowly as they feed on it. As their numbers 2462 02:12:46.720 --> 02:12:49.279 build up, so it's going to be one of the two. 2463 02:12:49.399 --> 02:12:52.399 The cankers you spray a funderside for and it's only 2464 02:12:52.439 --> 02:12:55.720 partially effective. The spider mites you would have to blast 2465 02:12:55.720 --> 02:12:58.279 them with water or spray something that kills mites in 2466 02:12:58.359 --> 02:13:01.920 there on them. But either way you just need to 2467 02:13:01.920 --> 02:13:03.960 watch your watering other plants. Make sure you're not keeping 2468 02:13:03.960 --> 02:13:04.920 them too soggy wet. 2469 02:13:06.119 --> 02:13:10.199 Wow, thank you, I'm gonna do it. Thank you so much. 2470 02:13:10.239 --> 02:13:13.239 I appreciate Sure, we'll good. There are not many people 2471 02:13:13.239 --> 02:13:14.920 in my life that listen to what I say, so 2472 02:13:15.000 --> 02:13:19.399 I'm glad you did that. Thank you, Thank you so much. 2473 02:13:19.399 --> 02:13:19.800 Good luck. 2474 02:13:19.800 --> 02:13:24.680 I have a great weekend, you too, My god. 2475 02:13:25.479 --> 02:13:27.840 Okay, I never know it's gonna come in my mouth. 2476 02:13:27.880 --> 02:13:30.079 My wife says, if I'm wondering if I should say 2477 02:13:30.079 --> 02:13:34.039 something or not, the anches always know because if I'm wondering, 2478 02:13:34.199 --> 02:13:36.840 then somewhere back way back when I passed the line 2479 02:13:37.239 --> 02:13:40.199 of what should come out of my mouth. Good advice 2480 02:13:40.239 --> 02:13:42.000 for a lot of us, and some of you listening 2481 02:13:42.039 --> 02:13:45.359 to RCW. Nurseres had a great time out there yesterday. 2482 02:13:45.359 --> 02:13:48.319 You know RCW is the garden center there where uh 2483 02:13:48.560 --> 02:13:51.520 Tomball Parkway two forty nine comes into belt wagh eight 2484 02:13:51.760 --> 02:13:53.680 and I call it to get It, Got It Nursery, 2485 02:13:53.800 --> 02:13:55.760 because if they don't have it, they'll get it. They'll 2486 02:13:55.760 --> 02:13:57.319 do their best to find it. They can find it, 2487 02:13:57.359 --> 02:13:59.680 they'll get it for you. They grow their own shrubs 2488 02:14:00.439 --> 02:14:03.279 up there in Plantersville at the tree Farm, And so 2489 02:14:03.439 --> 02:14:06.960 when you buy a shrubber tree from the RCW Nursery, 2490 02:14:07.000 --> 02:14:10.079 you know you're getting things that are grown right, first 2491 02:14:10.119 --> 02:14:12.880 of all, and secondly, want to be here. It's not 2492 02:14:12.960 --> 02:14:16.520 some species, you know, Colorado blue spruce that doesn't belong 2493 02:14:16.720 --> 02:14:19.479 in the Houston, Texas area for sure. No, they grow 2494 02:14:19.520 --> 02:14:21.039 the best kinds of things. They have one of the 2495 02:14:21.039 --> 02:14:23.520 best selections of roses you'll ever find. When we get 2496 02:14:23.560 --> 02:14:26.600 back into the early spring season and things start busting 2497 02:14:26.600 --> 02:14:29.800 and everybody thinks roses in February, oh my gosh, RCW 2498 02:14:29.960 --> 02:14:32.960 is gonna have a long list of roses. But right 2499 02:14:32.960 --> 02:14:35.359 now they've got trees from fifteen gallon up the two 2500 02:14:35.439 --> 02:14:37.239 hundred gallon. If it's too big for you to plant, 2501 02:14:37.319 --> 02:14:39.479 they can plant it. They got the supplies you need 2502 02:14:39.520 --> 02:14:41.760 to do that. And I was just out there yesterday 2503 02:14:41.800 --> 02:14:46.000 a really good time with everybody that came out herbs perennials, annuals, 2504 02:14:46.279 --> 02:14:48.520 a lot of different plants that are native too to 2505 02:14:48.560 --> 02:14:53.439 our area. RCW nurseries dot com. That's the website, RCW 2506 02:14:53.560 --> 02:14:57.800 nurseries dot com. All right, We're gonna go to Brookshire 2507 02:14:57.800 --> 02:15:08.399 and talk to Louise. Hello Louise, Hello, Hello Louise. Alrighty, 2508 02:15:08.680 --> 02:15:13.439 I think we just lost her there. Okay, Well, I 2509 02:15:13.560 --> 02:15:15.800 want to talk a little bit about Nelson fertilizer. Then. 2510 02:15:15.840 --> 02:15:20.680 You know, we have so many options when it comes 2511 02:15:20.880 --> 02:15:25.359 to making our plants happy. Nelson has created a product 2512 02:15:25.520 --> 02:15:27.880 called Genesis that I just think is one of the 2513 02:15:27.880 --> 02:15:30.079 best coolest new things I've seen on the market. When 2514 02:15:30.119 --> 02:15:32.000 I say new, it means in the last five years. 2515 02:15:32.159 --> 02:15:36.840 Actually Genesis is younger than five years. But Nelson's nutristar. 2516 02:15:36.920 --> 02:15:40.880 Genesis is loaded with microiza, the fungus that grows with 2517 02:15:41.000 --> 02:15:43.279 the roots and makes the roots more healthy and more 2518 02:15:43.319 --> 02:15:46.600 effective with the bacteria and other things that are part 2519 02:15:46.640 --> 02:15:50.239 of that microbiome in the soil that helps plants. We 2520 02:15:50.439 --> 02:15:54.520 use it as an amendment into the planting hole. Most 2521 02:15:54.880 --> 02:15:57.079 SAW based fertilizers, I would say, don't dump them in 2522 02:15:57.079 --> 02:15:59.279 the planting hole. You burn roots. Well, this isn't a 2523 02:15:59.319 --> 02:16:02.079 salt based fertile, and this does go in the planting hole. 2524 02:16:02.399 --> 02:16:04.720 You mix it in with the soil and then set 2525 02:16:04.760 --> 02:16:08.520 your plant and the plant thrives. If you're growing plants, 2526 02:16:08.560 --> 02:16:11.399 maybe for your garden, and you're growing them indoors, like 2527 02:16:11.720 --> 02:16:14.800 next spring, you'll be doing tomatoes, right, and so you're 2528 02:16:14.840 --> 02:16:16.960 growing them, you're gonna bump them up to a bigger size. 2529 02:16:17.239 --> 02:16:20.159 Always have Nelson in that potting mix that you're moving 2530 02:16:20.199 --> 02:16:22.439 them to. When you're out in the garden and you're 2531 02:16:22.439 --> 02:16:24.359 going to put a rose bush in or maybe an 2532 02:16:24.439 --> 02:16:27.960 herb in the herb garden mix, Nelson in that soil around. 2533 02:16:28.359 --> 02:16:30.640 Put that plant in and they will take off and 2534 02:16:30.680 --> 02:16:33.159 grow really really well. Whether it's soil in the ground, 2535 02:16:33.200 --> 02:16:36.600 soiling a container, soil in a raised bed, well, however 2536 02:16:36.600 --> 02:16:40.520 you go about it. Nutristar genesis for new plants is awesome. 2537 02:16:40.559 --> 02:16:42.440 It comes in a little jug, a plastic jug with 2538 02:16:42.440 --> 02:16:45.479 a screw top lid, easy to use, and it works. 2539 02:16:45.600 --> 02:16:48.280 I can tell you it works all right. Now I 2540 02:16:48.319 --> 02:16:50.959 am hearing in my ear that it is time for 2541 02:16:50.959 --> 02:16:53.120 a break, so I'm gonna stop talking. If you'd like 2542 02:16:53.159 --> 02:16:54.959 to give us a call, seven one three two one 2543 02:16:55.079 --> 02:17:01.120 two KTRH. All right, welcome back, folks, Welcome back to 2544 02:17:01.159 --> 02:17:02.879 Garden Line. If you'd like to give us a call 2545 02:17:03.159 --> 02:17:07.879 seven one three two to one two KTRH seven one 2546 02:17:08.000 --> 02:17:11.239 three two one two kt r H. If you're looking 2547 02:17:11.280 --> 02:17:14.600 for a place to find any product name that comes 2548 02:17:14.600 --> 02:17:17.959 out of my mouth on Garden Line, that Southwest Fertilizer. 2549 02:17:18.200 --> 02:17:21.760 Southwest Fertilizer has been around since what nineteen fifty five, 2550 02:17:22.360 --> 02:17:25.559 and they it's a fixture in the Houston area. I mean, 2551 02:17:25.600 --> 02:17:27.879 everybody knows that's where you go. I mean, I'm the 2552 02:17:27.920 --> 02:17:30.360 people that drive a great distance because there's things you 2553 02:17:30.799 --> 02:17:33.680 just have trouble finding in certain places. They're just not 2554 02:17:33.879 --> 02:17:37.440 commonly in the trade. Bob's got them in Southwest. That's 2555 02:17:37.440 --> 02:17:39.719 why I like to say, if Southwest doesn't have it, 2556 02:17:39.760 --> 02:17:42.600 you don't need it, because they have it. Because they 2557 02:17:42.600 --> 02:17:45.280 have it. All the fertilizers you hear me talk about, 2558 02:17:45.360 --> 02:17:48.639 you know, I'm talking about the the UH weed control, 2559 02:17:48.760 --> 02:17:51.719 the disease control in your lawn, of those kinds of things. 2560 02:17:52.159 --> 02:17:53.760 I used to say they had an eighty foot wall 2561 02:17:53.799 --> 02:17:55.840 of tools. Now I found out there's ninety feet long, 2562 02:17:55.959 --> 02:17:58.239 and I mean it is ever kind of tool you 2563 02:17:58.239 --> 02:18:00.280 can imagine, including if you want to make my little 2564 02:18:00.319 --> 02:18:03.000 weed wiper. I was talking to someone earlier just a 2565 02:18:03.120 --> 02:18:06.760 bit ago about the weed wiper. Making it yourself. You 2566 02:18:06.840 --> 02:18:09.319 have to start with this little grabber tool with suction cups, 2567 02:18:09.360 --> 02:18:11.280 and Bob's got them hanging right there on the wall. 2568 02:18:11.319 --> 02:18:13.440 They're ready to go. Go in there and grab one. 2569 02:18:13.559 --> 02:18:16.319 It is such a handy little tool. Bob's got the 2570 02:18:16.360 --> 02:18:18.680 start of it there for you, and it's easy to make, 2571 02:18:18.760 --> 02:18:22.360 easy to use. It helps you put out less pesticide 2572 02:18:22.360 --> 02:18:25.680 in the environment too, and in a safer way as well. 2573 02:18:25.799 --> 02:18:29.040 Another reason I like that tool. Do you need products 2574 02:18:29.120 --> 02:18:33.719 like azemite, like Nature's Way resources, heirloom soils, things from Medina. 2575 02:18:33.760 --> 02:18:37.079 They've got all of that. Bob is also in the 2576 02:18:37.120 --> 02:18:38.840 back that got this shop. Or you can get your 2577 02:18:38.879 --> 02:18:41.799 lawnmower blade sharp and ring it, small engine repair done. 2578 02:18:42.000 --> 02:18:44.399 We're entering the cool season. It's time to put some 2579 02:18:44.479 --> 02:18:46.399 of those things to bed for the fall. And when 2580 02:18:46.440 --> 02:18:48.079 you do, why not take them in there and go 2581 02:18:48.079 --> 02:18:50.959 ahead and get them ready to go for spring. That way, 2582 02:18:51.000 --> 02:18:53.200 in spring, when everybody else is trying to get their 2583 02:18:53.200 --> 02:18:55.639 blade sharpen and everything, you've already done. You don't have 2584 02:18:55.639 --> 02:18:57.879 to wait in a line like that. Bob can do 2585 02:18:57.920 --> 02:19:01.680 that there for you seven to three seventeen forty four, 2586 02:19:02.120 --> 02:19:05.280 or go to the website Southwest Fertilizer dot Comt's in 2587 02:19:05.360 --> 02:19:10.000 Southwest Houston, corner of Bisonet and Renwick. Bissonet and Renwick. 2588 02:19:10.200 --> 02:19:12.000 I'm gonna give you that phone number again. We've got 2589 02:19:12.040 --> 02:19:14.799 some openings on the line today. I usually it gets 2590 02:19:14.799 --> 02:19:16.200 real busy at the end. We kind of got a 2591 02:19:16.200 --> 02:19:18.760 low quiet here, so I still think that it's because 2592 02:19:18.760 --> 02:19:22.000 everybody stayed up last night watching football and whatever else 2593 02:19:22.079 --> 02:19:26.159 is sleeping in today. Our phone number is seven one 2594 02:19:26.200 --> 02:19:30.280 three two one two kt r H. Seven to one 2595 02:19:30.360 --> 02:19:33.920 three two one two kt r H. When was the 2596 02:19:34.000 --> 02:19:38.840 last time that you went out to Katie to Nelson Watergardens. 2597 02:19:39.079 --> 02:19:44.360 Nelson Watergardens is a wonderland. And I always call it 2598 02:19:44.399 --> 02:19:47.200 water gardens because that's what they begin with. That's what 2599 02:19:47.280 --> 02:19:50.879 they are famous, nationally famous for. But it's Nelson Nursery 2600 02:19:51.000 --> 02:19:53.559 and water Gardens, and that means they've got a lot 2601 02:19:53.600 --> 02:19:56.360 of different plants, and boy do they ever. They are 2602 02:19:56.399 --> 02:19:59.559 stocked up on everything that you might need this time 2603 02:19:59.559 --> 02:20:02.639 of the year. So are you looking for things like Dianthus, 2604 02:20:02.680 --> 02:20:06.280 Are you looking for things like cyclomon or Moms and 2605 02:20:06.360 --> 02:20:09.319 on and on and on down the line. They've got it. 2606 02:20:09.719 --> 02:20:13.719 Their interior plant list is awesome and it's beautiful stuff. 2607 02:20:13.760 --> 02:20:16.840 And I just you know, boring sea green house plants. 2608 02:20:17.159 --> 02:20:19.079 They've got some really cool stuff. When you walk in 2609 02:20:19.120 --> 02:20:20.920 the store, you have to walk right by the house plants, 2610 02:20:21.000 --> 02:20:26.000 And I think that's a good plan because beautiful, beautiful 2611 02:20:26.000 --> 02:20:29.200 old plants in awesome shape, and you're going to see 2612 02:20:29.200 --> 02:20:32.680 ones it's like, I've never seen that before. Well, that's 2613 02:20:32.680 --> 02:20:35.639 why they specialize in things that you've never seen before 2614 02:20:35.719 --> 02:20:38.840 and things that you have while you're out there. Of course, 2615 02:20:38.879 --> 02:20:41.399 you want to be around the water gardens, enjoy those. 2616 02:20:41.639 --> 02:20:43.879 Learn how to do that. You can do it yourself 2617 02:20:43.959 --> 02:20:46.319 with their supplies. If you want to, they'll hope you 2618 02:20:46.399 --> 02:20:48.200 do that, or if you want them to come out, 2619 02:20:48.680 --> 02:20:52.520 they'll come out. They can build a complete rock waterfall 2620 02:20:52.680 --> 02:20:56.040 that's just unbelievable. Stock it with all the cool kinds 2621 02:20:56.079 --> 02:20:59.600 of fish, you know, coy and shabunkin and things. Stock 2622 02:20:59.639 --> 02:21:01.840 it with lance. If you've got a low water feature 2623 02:21:01.840 --> 02:21:04.200 in your garden, you want some really cool water plants. 2624 02:21:04.200 --> 02:21:06.799 For They've got you covered on that too. All of 2625 02:21:06.840 --> 02:21:09.639 it is in Katie, Texas. Think of it as your 2626 02:21:09.680 --> 02:21:15.040 West Houston garden center, your West Houston destination garden center. 2627 02:21:15.360 --> 02:21:23.600 Nelson Watergardens plural dot com, Nelson watergardenswi an s dot com. 2628 02:21:23.840 --> 02:21:25.319 Head back to the phones here and we're going to 2629 02:21:25.399 --> 02:21:27.079 talk to Ronda in Magnolia. 2630 02:21:27.120 --> 02:21:35.120 Hello, Ronda, Hi, skim Say, I've got a question regarding Hello, 2631 02:21:35.520 --> 02:21:36.000 can you hear me? 2632 02:21:37.000 --> 02:21:38.239 Yeah, I'm here, you bet. 2633 02:21:38.760 --> 02:21:44.680 Okay, I've got a question regarding I've noticed in my yard. 2634 02:21:44.760 --> 02:21:47.200 I've got acreage I've got that. 2635 02:21:48.959 --> 02:21:50.959 Is it a wild rose or whatever? 2636 02:21:51.079 --> 02:21:51.479 It's that? 2637 02:21:52.000 --> 02:21:58.680 Yes, scrubby looks okay, I've got it, popsible mul there 2638 02:21:58.719 --> 02:22:02.200 you go. I've got it all over in kind of 2639 02:22:02.239 --> 02:22:05.440 my front pasture area that we actually keep mode that. 2640 02:22:05.559 --> 02:22:09.239 Now that the grass is kind of diminishing with the 2641 02:22:09.440 --> 02:22:13.079 drought and all, it's popping up everywhere, and I'd like 2642 02:22:13.120 --> 02:22:15.520 to get rid of it because I don't. I have dogs, 2643 02:22:15.559 --> 02:22:18.120 and you know they like to run in that pasture. 2644 02:22:18.639 --> 02:22:24.520 It's pretty strict, you know, prickly. Yeah, So what's there 2645 02:22:25.399 --> 02:22:27.840 to dig it up? Montgomery County? 2646 02:22:27.920 --> 02:22:30.520 No, you want to use it. Yeah, you're Montgomer County, 2647 02:22:30.520 --> 02:22:33.760 So the Montgomer Kenny Extension Office. There's a fellow over 2648 02:22:33.760 --> 02:22:36.399 there named Brandon. He's the ag agent, and I would 2649 02:22:36.440 --> 02:22:39.920 give him a call. He'll give you the best, most 2650 02:22:40.079 --> 02:22:42.639 up to date answer. I I'm aware of all the 2651 02:22:42.680 --> 02:22:45.440 pasture stuff, but that's not I deal more with stuff 2652 02:22:45.440 --> 02:22:47.639 in the yard and the garden and orchard and things. 2653 02:22:48.079 --> 02:22:51.239 You're probably going to use a product containing triclop here 2654 02:22:51.479 --> 02:22:56.559 t r I c l O p y r t 2655 02:22:56.799 --> 02:22:59.200 r I l O p y r. It kills, it 2656 02:22:59.280 --> 02:23:03.120 kills brush. People use it. There's versions in the garden 2657 02:23:03.159 --> 02:23:06.239 for poison ivy and little weed seed rush seeds coming 2658 02:23:06.280 --> 02:23:09.040 up in the fence. But there's a versions of it too, 2659 02:23:09.040 --> 02:23:11.079 And so you're gonna need more than off a garden 2660 02:23:11.079 --> 02:23:15.959 shelf bottle. You're gonna need quantity. And Brandon can talk 2661 02:23:15.959 --> 02:23:19.639 to you about that and get you get you perfect. 2662 02:23:19.719 --> 02:23:22.920 Yeah, that's that's the problem we've got. We've got like 2663 02:23:23.000 --> 02:23:30.399 four acres and I'm finding it, you know, popping up everywhere, and. 2664 02:23:28.840 --> 02:23:31.040 It's gonna be that's a problem. 2665 02:23:31.280 --> 02:23:32.680 Yes, major one. 2666 02:23:32.959 --> 02:23:34.360 So well, thank you. 2667 02:23:34.319 --> 02:23:37.200 I think very much. I think Falls Falls a good 2668 02:23:37.239 --> 02:23:39.159 time to hit it, so I would call them first 2669 02:23:39.159 --> 02:23:43.079 thing Monday morning and find out because in fall, plants 2670 02:23:43.079 --> 02:23:45.719 are pulling in carbohydrates to go through winter and whatnot, 2671 02:23:45.840 --> 02:23:48.920 and that's a good time to put a translocated herbicide 2672 02:23:48.959 --> 02:23:52.120 into that wild rose to take it down. You'll get 2673 02:23:52.120 --> 02:23:54.360 a good knockback. And I think in spring, when it's 2674 02:23:54.360 --> 02:23:56.680 pushing out the other way, it's not quite as effective. 2675 02:23:56.719 --> 02:23:59.479 But again I'll defer to Brand and tell him SKIP 2676 02:23:59.559 --> 02:24:02.719 sent you and he'll he'll get you straightened out on it. 2677 02:24:03.799 --> 02:24:05.120 Awesome, Thank you so much. 2678 02:24:05.159 --> 02:24:05.959 I appreciate it. 2679 02:24:07.440 --> 02:24:09.760 All right, you take care. You know, those of you 2680 02:24:09.879 --> 02:24:12.319 listening out there, did you know that there is an 2681 02:24:12.360 --> 02:24:16.600 Agrolife Extension office serving every county in Texas two hundred 2682 02:24:16.639 --> 02:24:19.319 and fifty four counties. Now, if you get way out 2683 02:24:19.360 --> 02:24:22.639 west where there's more jack rabbits and people in the county, uh, 2684 02:24:22.879 --> 02:24:26.639 the you may have an office that serves two counties. 2685 02:24:26.719 --> 02:24:29.040 Most counties two and fifty of the counties in Texas 2686 02:24:29.079 --> 02:24:31.200 have their own office and when you go in there 2687 02:24:31.239 --> 02:24:32.959 you can get help. I mean, if you got kiddos, 2688 02:24:33.040 --> 02:24:35.959 the four h program is awesome way for them to 2689 02:24:36.079 --> 02:24:41.120 learn about everything, including horticulture. If you are looking at 2690 02:24:41.479 --> 02:24:44.600 inside the home kinds of things, you know, they've got 2691 02:24:46.079 --> 02:24:49.079 agents that focus on that. If you're looking at agriculture, 2692 02:24:49.120 --> 02:24:51.120 they got agents that focus on that as well. 2693 02:24:51.399 --> 02:24:51.520 Well. 2694 02:24:51.559 --> 02:24:53.520 I got to take a little break here. It's time 2695 02:24:53.639 --> 02:24:55.000 and if you want to give us a call for 2696 02:24:55.040 --> 02:24:58.200 our last segment, here's last call seven one three two 2697 02:24:58.200 --> 02:25:02.840 one two KTRH. All right, all right, folks, welcome back. 2698 02:25:03.319 --> 02:25:05.399 Good to have you back with us on Guardline. Look, 2699 02:25:05.440 --> 02:25:07.600 we're in our last segment of the weekend. We're here 2700 02:25:07.639 --> 02:25:10.559 on Saturdays and Sundays from six am to ten am, 2701 02:25:11.079 --> 02:25:14.280 and I've got probably time for another call, maybe two 2702 02:25:14.319 --> 02:25:16.239 if we get going here. We're gonna start though, first 2703 02:25:16.280 --> 02:25:20.120 with Stephen in Sugarland. Hey Steven, welcome to guard Line. 2704 02:25:21.479 --> 02:25:23.319 Yes, sir, how are you doing today? I just have 2705 02:25:23.360 --> 02:25:24.120 a quick question. 2706 02:25:24.200 --> 02:25:24.760 I am good. 2707 02:25:26.079 --> 02:25:27.959 I think it's called a ROUNDO. 2708 02:25:29.639 --> 02:25:31.360 Okay, and it's in. 2709 02:25:31.319 --> 02:25:32.399 The back yard. 2710 02:25:33.200 --> 02:25:37.799 I chop down all the stems already, but the roots 2711 02:25:38.079 --> 02:25:41.239 are massive. Is there anything else I could do them? 2712 02:25:42.840 --> 02:25:45.440 Yeah? Other than digging them out, which is a job 2713 02:25:45.559 --> 02:25:48.360 because it has one heck of a root system. What 2714 02:25:48.440 --> 02:25:51.639 I would recommend you do next time? You're gonna next 2715 02:25:51.680 --> 02:25:55.479 time you have it growing, if you can do a 2716 02:25:55.520 --> 02:25:58.600 couple of things. You can put a glyco sate product 2717 02:25:58.719 --> 02:26:01.399 on the leaves. And if you go to my website 2718 02:26:01.440 --> 02:26:06.440 gardeningwiskip dot com, there's a publication for herbicides on there 2719 02:26:06.479 --> 02:26:10.200 and it talks about herbicides for grass and one of 2720 02:26:10.239 --> 02:26:12.760 them is glyphosate, and I give you all the examples 2721 02:26:12.799 --> 02:26:15.879 of it we used. People are familiar with the product 2722 02:26:15.959 --> 02:26:18.399 round Up, but now round Up at the Garden Center 2723 02:26:18.479 --> 02:26:21.239 does not contain glyphosate. It's the craziest thing I've ever 2724 02:26:21.239 --> 02:26:23.840 seen that they would keep that name and change the ingredient, 2725 02:26:23.879 --> 02:26:28.239 but anyway, they did so. But glyphase products are listed there. 2726 02:26:28.440 --> 02:26:30.920 You can put it on the leaves, but remember if 2727 02:26:30.920 --> 02:26:33.159 it gets on anything else, it'll kill that too. Round 2728 02:26:33.239 --> 02:26:38.040 Up kills lawns and flowers and other things. Another approach 2729 02:26:38.479 --> 02:26:42.319 is to when it grows up next year, when you 2730 02:26:42.399 --> 02:26:46.879 cut it off immediately I'll use the word paint that 2731 02:26:47.079 --> 02:26:52.799 cut surface with the glyphosate concoction, so you're not spraying it. 2732 02:26:52.879 --> 02:26:55.520 You're just you could use a little foam brush like 2733 02:26:55.559 --> 02:26:58.319 you use for painting, just dabbing all the cut ins 2734 02:26:58.360 --> 02:27:01.319 that you cut off, dabbing them. Even wiping a little 2735 02:27:01.319 --> 02:27:03.360 bit on the stems and leaves that are down low 2736 02:27:03.479 --> 02:27:06.200 like that, that'll help it get right into the plant 2737 02:27:06.239 --> 02:27:07.840 and move down. You're probably not going to get it 2738 02:27:07.840 --> 02:27:11.799 with one application. It's got enough underground storage that it's 2739 02:27:11.840 --> 02:27:14.840 going to have enough survive to try to come back again. 2740 02:27:14.920 --> 02:27:17.760 But after two, and definitely after three of those, you 2741 02:27:18.079 --> 02:27:19.559 should win that battle. 2742 02:27:21.079 --> 02:27:23.920 So the problem is that the property is next to 2743 02:27:23.959 --> 02:27:27.360 a city park and there's a lot of them, right, 2744 02:27:28.879 --> 02:27:31.959 So is this something that the city could get involved 2745 02:27:31.959 --> 02:27:32.399 as well? 2746 02:27:32.559 --> 02:27:38.319 Or well they could, you know, I if I ask 2747 02:27:38.440 --> 02:27:40.079 them about it, just say you know, you got this 2748 02:27:40.200 --> 02:27:43.520 and it's invading. They may want it there for some reason, 2749 02:27:43.719 --> 02:27:46.559 like a It makes a good screen, but it is 2750 02:27:46.680 --> 02:27:48.920 very invasive. You see it, and you drive through the 2751 02:27:48.920 --> 02:27:51.600 countryside and you'll see it, like you a little slough 2752 02:27:51.680 --> 02:27:53.719 comes underneath the highway or something, and there'll be a 2753 02:27:53.760 --> 02:27:56.399 whole bunch of We used to call it Georgia cane. 2754 02:27:56.440 --> 02:27:59.319 It's got some other names, but a roundo is its 2755 02:27:59.360 --> 02:28:03.799 proper name. It's a tough one to control. Yeah, especially 2756 02:28:03.799 --> 02:28:06.520 when it's around things you care about, plants you don't 2757 02:28:06.520 --> 02:28:06.879 want to get. 2758 02:28:06.959 --> 02:28:09.680 So the practice that I do could could I could 2759 02:28:09.680 --> 02:28:14.120 definitely limit on my property right the Oh yeah. 2760 02:28:13.879 --> 02:28:18.239 Yeah you could. And this is extra work for you. 2761 02:28:18.479 --> 02:28:20.639 But if you could go to your property line, dig 2762 02:28:20.680 --> 02:28:23.280 a trench and put in I don't know how deep 2763 02:28:23.319 --> 02:28:25.200 you need to go for this. When you dig one up, 2764 02:28:25.239 --> 02:28:28.840 you'll know most of the major rhizomes are up fairly 2765 02:28:28.840 --> 02:28:30.799 close to the surface. So let's say you got down 2766 02:28:31.959 --> 02:28:34.360 at least twelve inches, maybe twelve to eighteen inches, and 2767 02:28:34.399 --> 02:28:38.079 you had a vertical wall like a They make things 2768 02:28:38.120 --> 02:28:41.280 that are thick thick plastic that are made for creating 2769 02:28:41.440 --> 02:28:44.959 a barrier underground. Some people will use ten in that 2770 02:28:45.079 --> 02:28:48.319 same way, although ten doesn't last forever, but create that 2771 02:28:48.360 --> 02:28:50.840 wall barrier, then it can't come across to your side. 2772 02:28:50.920 --> 02:28:53.479 So if the city won't cooperate, that would save you 2773 02:28:53.559 --> 02:28:55.159 the constant having to retreat. 2774 02:28:56.920 --> 02:28:59.120 Okay, great, Thank you very much for information. 2775 02:29:00.680 --> 02:29:02.520 You bet good luck with that. Thanks for being a listener, 2776 02:29:02.600 --> 02:29:04.760 Thanks for being a caller. Appreciate that a lot. Stephen. 2777 02:29:05.600 --> 02:29:08.879 All right, folks, are we here? Yeah, I've been telling 2778 02:29:08.879 --> 02:29:10.959 you today that I'm going to be at Katie Ace 2779 02:29:11.040 --> 02:29:15.239 Hardware Katie Ace Hardware next Saturday. I'll be there from 2780 02:29:15.280 --> 02:29:19.319 twelve to two, twelve to two, And if you go 2781 02:29:19.440 --> 02:29:23.280 to Katie Ace Hardware and bring me samples, I'll be 2782 02:29:23.319 --> 02:29:26.639 glad to look at those, to identify them or to 2783 02:29:26.719 --> 02:29:29.280 diagnose them, depending on you know what kind of sample 2784 02:29:29.360 --> 02:29:31.559 it is. You can bring me pictures on your phone. 2785 02:29:31.600 --> 02:29:34.000 We'll do that. We're gonna have a lot of giveaways. 2786 02:29:34.000 --> 02:29:38.360 We always do. And Ace Hardware's are just wonderful places 2787 02:29:38.360 --> 02:29:39.959 to go. I mean a decision to coming out and 2788 02:29:39.959 --> 02:29:44.280 see me asking your questions, you're right there for everything 2789 02:29:44.319 --> 02:29:47.120 you're going to need for your fall gardening, your fall landscaping, 2790 02:29:47.360 --> 02:29:50.479 lawn care and whatnot. Katie Ace Hardware is on pin 2791 02:29:50.559 --> 02:29:54.920 Oak Road five point fifty nine pin Oak Road in Katie, Texas. 2792 02:29:55.319 --> 02:29:58.600 So it's it's easy to get to. But when you come, 2793 02:29:59.200 --> 02:30:02.440 come prepared with your questions and your samples, and come 2794 02:30:02.479 --> 02:30:05.159 prepared to have a good time. We're going to have 2795 02:30:05.159 --> 02:30:06.840 some fun there. I always like it's just by the 2796 02:30:06.879 --> 02:30:09.680 way Pinoak Road. It's north of IT ten, So if 2797 02:30:09.680 --> 02:30:12.479 you're going around I ten, you turn north to get 2798 02:30:12.479 --> 02:30:17.360 to Katie. Katie Hardware. One of the favorite things I 2799 02:30:17.399 --> 02:30:19.639 have is just having a good time with gardeners and 2800 02:30:19.639 --> 02:30:21.760 you know on the phone. Here, I've got just a 2801 02:30:21.799 --> 02:30:24.120 few maybe a minute or so with you for me 2802 02:30:24.200 --> 02:30:27.319 to help you with your question. There we can just 2803 02:30:27.440 --> 02:30:29.280 visit I mean, you know, and there are people that 2804 02:30:29.319 --> 02:30:30.760 will walk you over if I say you need this 2805 02:30:30.879 --> 02:30:32.799 or that, they'll walk over in the store to find 2806 02:30:32.959 --> 02:30:35.159 what that product is. But we can talk about all 2807 02:30:35.280 --> 02:30:38.719 kinds of things. It's a lot better opportunity for you 2808 02:30:38.840 --> 02:30:41.319 to get one on one to eye help from me 2809 02:30:42.079 --> 02:30:44.920 out there. And again, Katie is Hardware. So where do 2810 02:30:44.959 --> 02:30:47.360 you live? Where in that area do you live? I 2811 02:30:47.360 --> 02:30:51.040 hope you'll come out Katie. We got listeners out there 2812 02:30:51.040 --> 02:30:53.959 in Sealy. There's a pretty close chance. Drive on over 2813 02:30:54.040 --> 02:30:56.840 Eagle a come on up, Come up from wherever you 2814 02:30:56.879 --> 02:31:01.000 are and let's see you next Saturday from twelve to 2815 02:31:01.040 --> 02:31:03.799 two again Katie Hardware and Pennok Road just north of 2816 02:31:03.840 --> 02:31:06.040 by ten and we are going to have a good 2817 02:31:06.040 --> 02:31:10.360 time looking forward to that kind of winding down appearances. 2818 02:31:10.440 --> 02:31:12.479 So if you would like to get out to one 2819 02:31:12.479 --> 02:31:15.879 of the appearances, don't delay, because we're just about done 2820 02:31:15.920 --> 02:31:18.159 with that and a Katie Hardware visit would be a 2821 02:31:18.159 --> 02:31:20.760 good time for you to come out and to do that. 2822 02:31:22.360 --> 02:31:27.040 I have here. Pat from Fort Bend on the phone. Hey, Pat, 2823 02:31:27.120 --> 02:31:27.879 how can we help? 2824 02:31:28.920 --> 02:31:29.159 Hey? 2825 02:31:29.399 --> 02:31:32.680 I have a question about how close you can get 2826 02:31:32.799 --> 02:31:36.799 concrete to a pecan tree before it damages any roots, 2827 02:31:36.799 --> 02:31:38.760 because I know it has to get the water. 2828 02:31:38.600 --> 02:31:40.159 Down through the roots. 2829 02:31:40.680 --> 02:31:43.799 And my husband wants to redo our deck and concrete 2830 02:31:43.959 --> 02:31:46.559 and we've got a nice pecantry right beside it. 2831 02:31:46.680 --> 02:31:50.440 So I just want little ammunition here. 2832 02:31:52.000 --> 02:31:55.920 Uh oh, you're putting me on the spot. Okay, all right, Pat, 2833 02:31:56.680 --> 02:31:59.719 So here's here. Here's the deal. There's not a black 2834 02:31:59.719 --> 02:32:02.879 and white line. Okay. So if you were to get 2835 02:32:02.959 --> 02:32:05.840 in a bird's eye flying above, you're a hummingbird. You're 2836 02:32:05.879 --> 02:32:08.479 hovering above the pecan tree, looking straight down. You see 2837 02:32:08.479 --> 02:32:10.680 the trunk. The roots are going out as far as 2838 02:32:10.719 --> 02:32:13.799 the branches, and then two and a half times that 2839 02:32:13.879 --> 02:32:17.000 far in all directions. So anywhere you put something down, 2840 02:32:17.079 --> 02:32:20.280 you're gonna be covering some roots. But the closer you 2841 02:32:20.319 --> 02:32:22.879 get to the trunk, the more branches. So now, from 2842 02:32:22.920 --> 02:32:27.559 that hummingbird's eye view, imagine that's a big pie. And 2843 02:32:27.639 --> 02:32:29.559 where are you going to take your knife and slice 2844 02:32:29.559 --> 02:32:32.159 across the pie? If you slice right next to the trunk, 2845 02:32:32.159 --> 02:32:35.479 you've taken half the root system off because everything going 2846 02:32:35.520 --> 02:32:38.280 out in all directions, you've cut in half of it off. 2847 02:32:38.559 --> 02:32:41.239 You go out maybe where you just come in a 2848 02:32:41.280 --> 02:32:43.840 third from the outer branch bread and you've taken very 2849 02:32:43.840 --> 02:32:46.239 little of the root system. Again, think of a pie 2850 02:32:46.319 --> 02:32:49.200 and you slice it across with a knife, with the 2851 02:32:49.239 --> 02:32:51.760 trunk in the middle of the pie, and so you 2852 02:32:51.959 --> 02:32:55.079 determine how big is this trunk, how far away did 2853 02:32:55.120 --> 02:32:57.639 the branches go, how far in are you going to come. 2854 02:32:57.959 --> 02:33:00.799 That's the percentage of the roots that you're going to hurt. Now, 2855 02:33:00.799 --> 02:33:02.360 if there's a time to do it, it would be 2856 02:33:02.399 --> 02:33:05.159 now because we're entering the fall season and the stresses 2857 02:33:05.200 --> 02:33:08.959 are lower. But next summer if you do this, the 2858 02:33:09.040 --> 02:33:11.159 part of the roots that didn't get covered with the 2859 02:33:11.239 --> 02:33:15.040 slab need to get extra TLC and water because the 2860 02:33:15.079 --> 02:33:17.520 tree is having to get all of its nutrients and 2861 02:33:17.559 --> 02:33:20.159 water from living roots which are going to be over there. 2862 02:33:20.200 --> 02:33:23.079 The others are going to slowly mostly die the ones 2863 02:33:23.120 --> 02:33:25.440 you cover up because they're not ready for that kind 2864 02:33:25.479 --> 02:33:28.760 of covering. Had you put the slab in and then 2865 02:33:28.840 --> 02:33:31.600 planted a tree, that would be a different story. But 2866 02:33:31.760 --> 02:33:33.799 right now that tree thinks it can have roots where 2867 02:33:33.799 --> 02:33:35.040 you're about to say it can't. 2868 02:33:36.239 --> 02:33:42.319 Okay, Okay, may I ask one more question shot about trees. Okay, 2869 02:33:42.399 --> 02:33:46.639 I have a whole bunch of camarillas in ground. When 2870 02:33:47.120 --> 02:33:48.959 and how do I separate them? 2871 02:33:52.000 --> 02:33:54.280 Well, I mean you could, you could do that now. 2872 02:33:54.360 --> 02:33:57.440 They're they're gonna bloom, you know, late in the wintertime, 2873 02:33:57.479 --> 02:34:00.319 so it falls a good time to separate ahead and 2874 02:34:00.319 --> 02:34:03.040 dig them up, separate them out, and get them reset asap. 2875 02:34:03.879 --> 02:34:06.520 They are putting on the leaves. As things get cooler, 2876 02:34:06.520 --> 02:34:09.920 they're gonna be interested in growing again. Emma Ellis is 2877 02:34:09.920 --> 02:34:12.159 from a part of the world I believe it's South 2878 02:34:12.200 --> 02:34:17.440 Africa where they have hot, hot, dry late summers and 2879 02:34:17.479 --> 02:34:20.959 they basically go dormant at the end of summer. And 2880 02:34:21.040 --> 02:34:23.159 so people that have them in pots here will sometimes 2881 02:34:23.159 --> 02:34:25.360 set their pots on the side and let them just 2882 02:34:25.440 --> 02:34:28.280 dry out and shrivel and during the late summer and 2883 02:34:28.280 --> 02:34:31.399 then pop them back up again and that rejuvenates them 2884 02:34:31.440 --> 02:34:34.760 and they bloom much better as a result of that. Okay, 2885 02:34:34.879 --> 02:34:38.639 So get that dividing done asap, because they're fixing the 2886 02:34:38.680 --> 02:34:40.600 kick in the gear and get ready for what's going 2887 02:34:40.680 --> 02:34:42.200 to be a very beautiful show. 2888 02:34:43.600 --> 02:34:45.719 Okay, Well, thank you, So much for your help. 2889 02:34:45.799 --> 02:34:46.879 I appreciate it. 2890 02:34:47.959 --> 02:34:50.719 All right, Pat, thanks for listening. Glad to have you 2891 02:34:50.719 --> 02:34:52.719 as a listener. Look forward to you come up. See 2892 02:34:52.760 --> 02:34:54.319 me in Katie is harder if you get a chance 2893 02:34:54.399 --> 02:34:58.479 next weekend. Well, the music is playing the what do 2894 02:34:58.559 --> 02:35:01.440 they say? The Fat Lady has sun? So here we go. 2895 02:35:02.559 --> 02:35:05.399 I'm glad you're listening. I thank you for that. Any 2896 02:35:05.520 --> 02:35:11.479 questions during the week go to my website gardeningwiskip dot com. 2897 02:35:11.520 --> 02:35:15.319 Follow us on the Facebook Instagram I'm scume the Facebook 2898 02:35:15.360 --> 02:35:18.760 page and the Instagram page for garden Line, and there 2899 02:35:18.959 --> 02:35:21.799 you will find constant posts giving you a little tips 2900 02:35:21.799 --> 02:35:23.719 and tricks and things. I'm going to get something up 2901 02:35:23.719 --> 02:35:25.879 on nematodes this coming week, and I got some other 2902 02:35:25.920 --> 02:35:30.079 stuff too to put up. In the meantime, We'll see 2903 02:35:30.120 --> 02:35:33.680 you next Saturday, once you get to put kda's hardware 2904 02:35:33.799 --> 02:35:34.719 on your calendar.