Speaker 1: Welcome to Katie r. H. Garden Line with Skip Rictor.
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Speaker 2: Sunamwe all right? Good morning folks, Good Sunday morning. We
Speaker 2: are glad to have you joining us today. I'm your host,
Speaker 2: Skip Rictor, and this is Garden Line. Garden Line. For
Speaker 2: those of you who are tuning in for the first time,
Speaker 2: well welcome. First of all, it's a call in show
Speaker 2: where we answer your gardening questions and basically my job
Speaker 2: or what I try to accomplish or three things. I
Speaker 2: want you to have a more bountiful garden, I want
Speaker 2: you to have a more beautiful landscape, and I want
Speaker 2: you to have fun in the process. So that's what
Speaker 2: we try to do here. We'll have a little bit
Speaker 2: of fun today as we go along. But if you
Speaker 2: have a question you would like to call in seven
Speaker 2: one three two one two five eight seven four for
Speaker 2: our first public service announcement of the day is it
Speaker 2: is time to get stuff done in the garden and
Speaker 2: landscape and the folks at Nelson's have put together a
Speaker 2: combination of really great products. It works well. I was
Speaker 2: out at RCW Nursery yesterday and by the way, thanks
Speaker 2: folks for having us out there and for everybody that
Speaker 2: came out. We had a really really good time. And
Speaker 2: I was visiting with someone about carbo load they had
Speaker 2: they had a question about it. And carbo load is
Speaker 2: a product for fall fertilizing from Nelson's Okay, So carbo
Speaker 2: load has the perfect blend of nutrients for fall. The
Speaker 2: blend you want a little less nitrogen, a little more
Speaker 2: potassium to go into the fall season with good cold
Speaker 2: heartiness and to come out in the spring strong. It
Speaker 2: also has a pre emergent herbicide in it, so that
Speaker 2: means it's more important to get that thing down soon,
Speaker 2: like today tomorrow because our cool season, we'd start germinating
Speaker 2: when the soil taps sit about seventy degrees, which we're
Speaker 2: pretty much there. We just need a little water on
Speaker 2: the ground and we're going to see some cool season weeds.
Speaker 2: Well that's coming later this week, perhaps the rainfall. Get
Speaker 2: your carbo load down now, follow the label, put it
Speaker 2: down at the right rate and then watered inn with
Speaker 2: about a half inch of water, so that moves the
Speaker 2: fertilizer down into the soil, and it also moves the
Speaker 2: pre emerging into the soil surface where it can do
Speaker 2: its work. That's carbo load from Nelson. They call it
Speaker 2: carbo load because when you put it down, your grass
Speaker 2: plant kicks into gear, being able not just to take
Speaker 2: off growth. We don't need a lot of that now,
Speaker 2: but to produce carbohydrates in order to capture those stored
Speaker 2: energies for winter and for coming out in spring. Carboloat
Speaker 2: But I know, anyways, explaining to them how some of
Speaker 2: those different things work. You know, it's important that when
Speaker 2: we're gardening. I mean, we don't have to know all
Speaker 2: the details and the science of gardening and everything else
Speaker 2: like that, but it is important to be able to
Speaker 2: understand some of the principles because when you do, then
Speaker 2: you're able to have more success. You know, it's not
Speaker 2: just one particular go do this or go do that.
Speaker 2: But why why do we do that? Why do we
Speaker 2: time our things applications when we do well? This is
Speaker 2: your public a service public Oh, cal let me try
Speaker 2: it again. This is your public service announcement Number two.
Speaker 2: Don't delay your fall lawn care. It's important. There's three
Speaker 2: things basically that are part of fall lawn care, and
Speaker 2: that is number one and making sure we get our
Speaker 2: nutrients down. The sooner you get them down, the more
Speaker 2: time the plant has to take them up before we
Speaker 2: get into cold weather. And as the soil gets colder
Speaker 2: and colder, the root activity goes down and you don't
Speaker 2: get it's good to take up. So get it done now.
Speaker 2: Number two, if you're going to do a pre emergent,
Speaker 2: if you have a thin lawn where sunlight is hitting
Speaker 2: the soil, if you've got a problem with weeds every year,
Speaker 2: cool season weeds are about to germinate, get the pre
Speaker 2: emergent down now. It's like playing baseball. That's my analogy
Speaker 2: for this. If you wait to swing until the ball
Speaker 2: is in front of you at the plate, it's too late.
Speaker 2: You got to swing when the picture lets it go.
Speaker 2: The picture has let the ball go, It's time to
Speaker 2: get the pre emergent out so that when the weeds germinate,
Speaker 2: you've already put that protection down. Third thing is if
Speaker 2: you have a lawn that's been plagued by take all
Speaker 2: root rot and by a brown patch in the cool season,
Speaker 2: it's time to get something down to protect against that.
Speaker 2: And the reason is once the circles up here, it's
Speaker 2: you know, you can apply it and maybe stop additional circles,
Speaker 2: but you're gonna have brown ugly all winter until it
Speaker 2: greens up in the spring. So get ahead of these things.
Speaker 2: He who hesitates is lost. It is time to get
Speaker 2: all those done. You're listening to Guardline. I'm your host,
Speaker 2: Skip Richter, and I yesterday was down at or over
Speaker 2: at RCW Nursery and we had a really good time.
Speaker 2: They put on a really nice event over there, and
Speaker 2: I was just noticing that, you know, they are always
Speaker 2: loaded up on different kinds of things. They've got the
Speaker 2: shrubs and trees, for example, that they grow themselves up
Speaker 2: in the planters bill area at the tree farm. And
Speaker 2: so when you go to RCW and you buy a
Speaker 2: shrubber tree or woody vine, rose bush, those things, you
Speaker 2: know you're getting quality plants. You know you're getting plants
Speaker 2: that are going to succeed here because they're the right
Speaker 2: species for our area. They have all the things you
Speaker 2: need to plant those plants. It's the root stimulators and
Speaker 2: other things fertilizers that you might utilize in that process.
Speaker 2: And they can also, especially for larger plants, come out
Speaker 2: and do the planting for you at your place. So
Speaker 2: whatever size the plants you're looking for, you're going to
Speaker 2: find them there at RCW Chris. They always have things
Speaker 2: like vegetables and herbs and so on. But this is
Speaker 2: the fall season so important to plant. And RCW that's
Speaker 2: the garden center for those of you who don't know
Speaker 2: where tom Ball Parkway comes into Beltway eight right there.
Speaker 2: It's easy to get too, and all you got to
Speaker 2: do is just go in and check it out. The
Speaker 2: place looks great. They're doing a little renovation there and
Speaker 2: it's it just keeps getting better. And so RCW is
Speaker 2: it's a garden center you definitely need to go see.
Speaker 2: And especially now. You know I was talking about doing
Speaker 2: things sooner rather than later, Well it is time to
Speaker 2: get things planted. When you put a plant in right now,
Speaker 2: it's got all the rest of fall in winter to
Speaker 2: get roots going in the ground in a very low
Speaker 2: stress time, and then when next summer comes, which arrives
Speaker 2: early here, it has a better chance of survival and
Speaker 2: thriving even in fact, So go out to arciat I
Speaker 2: we get those woodies that you think you may want
Speaker 2: a plant, like a shrub or like a tree, get
Speaker 2: them in the ground. This is the time to do it.
Speaker 2: Someone when I was out there was asking me about
Speaker 2: some of the flowers, the fall flowers, the ones that
Speaker 2: look good in fall, and we kind of have a
Speaker 2: double season in fall. We've got the season where we're
Speaker 2: planting our warm season. Like you can still plant maragoles,
Speaker 2: for example, they just glow, they're beautiful in the fault,
Speaker 2: and then right at the towards the end of that
Speaker 2: they overlap with when we start planting cool season. Someone
Speaker 2: was talking to me about planting dianthus and we were
Speaker 2: talking about pansies, and we were talking about alyssum and
Speaker 2: snap dragons and all the things that can take a
Speaker 2: little bit of cold, some of which can take a
Speaker 2: lot of cold. Now time to get that done as well. Well,
Speaker 2: I will take a little break here and I'll be
Speaker 2: right back with your questions. Seven one three two one
Speaker 2: two KTRH seven three two one two k t RH.
Speaker 2: If you like to give us a call, if you
Speaker 2: got a gardening question, we'll be happy to help you
Speaker 2: with that.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: You know santamultch down south of Houston. They're located on
Speaker 2: FM five point twenty one, just north of Road Sharon,
Speaker 2: kind of near Highway six. And two eighty eight. That
Speaker 2: area sana mulch is the the like one stop shop
Speaker 2: for everything you need to set the foundation for a
Speaker 2: successful garden. And there's some things in horticulture that are
Speaker 2: hard sells to people, meaning that it's hard to get
Speaker 2: people to change, to think different or whatever. One of
Speaker 2: those is fall planting as boasted to spring. You can
Speaker 2: plan any month of the year, but fall is awesome,
Speaker 2: and it's just hard. Everybody's excited in spring. We should
Speaker 2: be just as excited in the fall. That's one Number two.
Speaker 2: Build the soil before you plant the plants. You know,
Speaker 2: you go to a garden center and there's flowers and
Speaker 2: colors and vegetables and everything everywhere, and it's just like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I get it. You love that stuff, but you want
Speaker 2: to be able to have success with it. And your
Speaker 2: plants live in their roots. Just think of it that way.
Speaker 2: Plants live in their root system. So how good is it?
Speaker 2: Is it compacted, is it water logged, is it droughty?
Speaker 2: Does it have nutrients? Does it have lots of organic
Speaker 2: matter just to stimulate microbial activity in the soil. You
Speaker 2: get all of that stuff at cienamals, and when you
Speaker 2: leave cenamalts with that and you put it in your yard,
Speaker 2: you get your gardens ready, you have a thousand percent
Speaker 2: chance increase in your success when you put your plants in.
Speaker 2: So I'm talking about things like mulch is on top
Speaker 2: of the ground. I'm talking about things like bed mixes
Speaker 2: and composts to go under the ground. I'm talking about
Speaker 2: things like every fertilizer you hear me mention on garden line,
Speaker 2: Microlife products, the Nelson products, the nitrofoss products, the Medina products,
Speaker 2: you know, Azamite on down the line, talking about brands
Speaker 2: like Landscaper's Pride, black Velvet molts, like Heirloom Soils, Veggie
Speaker 2: and Herb mix. They've got it all there and they'll
Speaker 2: deliver within about twenty miles of their location for a
Speaker 2: small fee, So if you need to have them bring
Speaker 2: it to you, they can do that. But the main
Speaker 2: thing is just go get that done. Follows planting season,
Speaker 2: it's time to get those products that you need to
Speaker 2: have success. And all cnimals carries as high quality products.
Speaker 2: Their stuff is good. You're not going to get cheap
Speaker 2: molts if somebody rushed through the process and now it's
Speaker 2: just a problem for your plants rather than a benefit.
Speaker 2: They know how to build it, they know how to
Speaker 2: do it. They know how to provide you the tools
Speaker 2: you need to have success. So let's do it. Let's
Speaker 2: get it done. It's fall. Let's get planting done with cnimals.
Speaker 2: Here's our website, Ciena mult dot com. A simple as that,
Speaker 2: cnamultch dot com. Go buy there, give them a call.
Speaker 2: Maps on the website if you want to know exactly
Speaker 2: how to get there and all that. But the main
Speaker 2: thing is just get going. Let's do it. Time to
Speaker 2: get that done. They say make hay while the sun shines.
Speaker 2: I say, make soil while the sunshines. You know, once
Speaker 2: it starts raining, it's hard to get out there and
Speaker 2: mix compost into soil. But now's a good time. We
Speaker 2: got quite a bit a week here where we can
Speaker 2: get stuff like that done. All right. I just always
Speaker 2: harp on that, you know, it's soil, soil, so for
Speaker 2: But it's true, it's true. One day everybody's can believe me,
Speaker 2: and what a wonderful world it will be. Well about
Speaker 2: the horticultural stuff, maybe all right, Well, in Channy Gardens
Speaker 2: in Richmond, they're on the Katie fullsher side of Richmond.
Speaker 2: And if you've been out there, you know what I'm
Speaker 2: talking about when I say it is a sprawling wonderland
Speaker 2: of plants, it really is. You. They're on FM three
Speaker 2: fifty nine again north of Richmond, Katie follsher side. And
Speaker 2: here's the website, write this down Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com.
Speaker 2: They've got a great website with a lot of good
Speaker 2: information on it. And I tell you, the Lendermann family
Speaker 2: has been in the gardening business down there since nineteen
Speaker 2: ninety five, you know when in Chenna Gardens first open
Speaker 2: and that independent nursery, that garden center, that mom and
Speaker 2: pop the kind we love here in the Greater Houston area.
Speaker 2: They've got everything that you need. They've whatever kind of
Speaker 2: plant you want to plant, whatever kind of bling you
Speaker 2: want to add to the landscape, whatever is seasonal for
Speaker 2: that time of the year. And also they had the
Speaker 2: products to go with that that you need. So remember
Speaker 2: when you take a plan home, take something for the
Speaker 2: plant's roots, home, compost, fertilizer, things like that to have
Speaker 2: success with it.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 2: They're open Saturday or Monday through Saturday from eight to
Speaker 2: five today Sundays from ten am to four pm. It's
Speaker 2: always a good day to visit. Why not hop out
Speaker 2: there this summer or this summer, this afternoon and grab
Speaker 2: some things. They've got a lot of cool stuff, including
Speaker 2: some really nice bulbs inside of their gift shop area.
Speaker 2: And boy, those are great for forcing things like m
Speaker 2: r ells for example. They just look so beautiful. Make
Speaker 2: a good gift too, if you're going anywhere for Thanksgiving,
Speaker 2: that would be a great gift for people you go see.
Speaker 2: We're going to go now out to Clear Lake, Texas
Speaker 2: and talk to Alan. Hey, Alan, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 7: Good morning, Skip. My question actually got three about leaf
Speaker 7: mold compost. Every spring, every fall I go over to
Speaker 7: Master Nurse three can get a picked up truck full
Speaker 7: of They're a good leaf mold compost, and about one
Speaker 7: third of it goes into my garden beds. The other
Speaker 7: two thirds I scattered by hand over the whole yard.
Speaker 7: And I don't know why I did that, scattered over
Speaker 7: the whole yard. Maybe I heard it from some on
Speaker 7: the guarden line anyway, a long time ago. But I've
Speaker 7: been doing this for about five or six years, and
Speaker 7: this past Saturday, just to set it up a little bit,
Speaker 7: more this. I mean the second Saturday of October, I
Speaker 7: did the Texas three step. So okay, So since I
Speaker 7: put down the eagle and everything else, is it still
Speaker 7: okay for me? The scatter the extra leaf mold compost
Speaker 7: on the lawn.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh yeah, it's fine. Huh, it's uh. It's
Speaker 2: it's organic matter that's in an advanced stage of decomposition
Speaker 2: that's ready to go down and enrich the soil. It's
Speaker 2: a lot of microbes, and anytime you put compost in
Speaker 2: your it's it's loaded with microbes that are helping those plants.
Speaker 2: You've got issues like brown patch, it may be attacking
Speaker 2: and things. So you've you've done with the three step.
Speaker 2: You've you've gotten everything down and done. Now throwing some
Speaker 2: compost on top, I've certainly done hurting thing, but in
Speaker 2: fact it helps.
Speaker 7: Yeah, okay, and then doing it twice a year, all right,
Speaker 7: spring and fall? Is that is that good?
Speaker 2: You can do that if you want to do that,
Speaker 2: that's fine. You just don't put it real deep. You know,
Speaker 2: you're putting it about a third of an inch or
Speaker 2: so deep.
Speaker 7: Yeah, well, this okay gets scattered the follow up, that's it.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, all right, well, good luck with that. Hope
Speaker 2: you have a beautiful lawn. Thanks Kevin, Thanks Thanks Allan.
Speaker 2: I appreciate your call. Take care you are listening to
Speaker 2: Garden Line our phone number if you'd like to call
Speaker 2: seven one three two one two kt r H seven
Speaker 2: one three two one two k t r H. We
Speaker 2: love feed stores here on Garden Line. And if you
Speaker 2: are down south of Houston in the League City area,
Speaker 2: when I say League City Area, I mean Santa Fe, Dickinson, Webster,
Speaker 2: El Camino, Real, Clare, Like Lamark Bankliss, San Leon, all
Speaker 2: those communities down there. League City Feed is your hometown
Speaker 2: feed store. And League City Feed has the fertilizers I'm
Speaker 2: talking about. When I'm sitting here telling you it's time
Speaker 2: to fertilize. If you're going to prevent, if you've got
Speaker 2: a brown Patch annual issue, now's the time to get
Speaker 2: something down. If you're going to prevent winner weeds, now's it.
Speaker 2: League City Feed's got all that. They've got it all there.
Speaker 2: It's it's an old time feedst or built over forty
Speaker 2: years ago. And you know, I love feed source because
Speaker 2: I just like the smell of feed stores. I just
Speaker 2: like the ambiance of a feedstore if you will. Uh,
Speaker 2: it's just fun. It's fun place to go, and they'll
Speaker 2: carry your bags out for you too. It's that kind
Speaker 2: of old time service. They're at League City Feed. But
Speaker 2: you will find what you need there, and I encourage
Speaker 2: you if you need really quality pet foods as well,
Speaker 2: they've got those always available there at a League City Feed.
Speaker 2: The phone number two eight one three three two one
Speaker 2: six one to two. They're located on Highway three, just
Speaker 2: a few blocks south of Highway ninety six in League City.
Speaker 2: League City Feed. They got a Dalmatian. Uh, they're one
Speaker 2: of the family pets named Rorshak. Now, I think Rorshak
Speaker 2: is the best name for a Dalmatian. You know, you
Speaker 2: walk into League City Feed, stare at the dog a while,
Speaker 2: and then tell them what you see. You know, maybe
Speaker 2: they'll help analyze what's going on. Rorshak for a delmat
Speaker 2: of course, you name it dalmation Rorshak. That's perfect. We
Speaker 2: were talking about with the Alan there. He said he
Speaker 2: did the Texas three step, and some of you may
Speaker 2: be going, what's the Texas three step? Well, it's Nitrofos's
Speaker 2: program that takes care of your nutrients, takes care of
Speaker 2: the weeds, takes care of the diseases. And here's how
Speaker 2: that works. Nutrients Nitropos fall special win riser. It's designed
Speaker 2: for building a strong turf plant to go into winter,
Speaker 2: to be heardy and resilient, and to come out stronger
Speaker 2: in the spring. Secondly, Nitropos barricade pre emergent that is
Speaker 2: washing down into the soil. After you apply it, it
Speaker 2: goes into the soil surface and it stays there, forming
Speaker 2: a barricade that weeds can't come through. Weed seeds trying
Speaker 2: to sprout cannot come through it. The third is Nitropos
Speaker 2: Eagle turf fungicide. If you plagued with brown patch, you've
Speaker 2: had that big brown circles in your lawn in the past,
Speaker 2: and you want to avoid that, Well, you get Eagle
Speaker 2: down ahead of time. The plant takes it up and
Speaker 2: it's kind of like our bodies. You know, you have
Speaker 2: antibiotics in your body and a disease tries to come
Speaker 2: and it says, you're not going to make this guy sick.
Speaker 2: That's what's happening in your lawn. With Eagle to our fundicide,
Speaker 2: the product moves in and it helps protect the plant.
Speaker 2: So don't wait until after the circles appear. Get it
Speaker 2: down now, all three of those right away. And I
Speaker 2: explained earlier why we get those things done soon. With fertilizing,
Speaker 2: you want the grass to have time to take it
Speaker 2: up and while it's still warm. With the barricade and
Speaker 2: the Eagle, you want to get it in the soil
Speaker 2: and in the plant in the case of Eagle, before
Speaker 2: the weeds sprout in the soil, before the disease appears
Speaker 2: in the plants. You're going to find Texas three Step
Speaker 2: at D and D Feed and Tomball Plantation, Ace Hardware,
Speaker 2: and Richmond and Hiden and Feed on Stubner Airline, among
Speaker 2: many many places you'll find nitro Fross products here in
Speaker 2: the Greater Houston area. Our phone here on Guarden Line
Speaker 2: if you'd like to give me a call seven to
Speaker 2: one three two one two kt r H seven one
Speaker 2: three two one two k t r H. I was
Speaker 2: up at the Arbor Gate a while back looking at
Speaker 2: some of the things that they have gotten in. You know,
Speaker 2: at the Arborgate there's always something coming in.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 2: You go around the back of Arburgate, which is where
Speaker 2: that cool parking lot is. It's so convenient to get
Speaker 2: in and out just really easy. It's on Trishel Road,
Speaker 2: so you can it's a loop. So as you're coming
Speaker 2: toward Arburgate you're going to pass Treischel before you get
Speaker 2: to Arburgate, and then if you went past Arburgate you'd
Speaker 2: pass Trishel again, it's a loop behind Arburgate. Well, when
Speaker 2: you come in from that parking lot in the back,
Speaker 2: there's always giant racks of plants that have been coming
Speaker 2: in there on whe I mean, just like here we
Speaker 2: go a new set because they always keep up with
Speaker 2: the things that are timely for the season. That's important.
Speaker 2: You don't want to plant a plant when it's not
Speaker 2: time to plant it. But they also plant the species
Speaker 2: and the varieties that are going to do so very
Speaker 2: very well here, and that is important.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 2: I've talked to Beverly and Kenn and all the folks
Speaker 2: out there from time to time, and the enthusiasm there
Speaker 2: for what they do, the quality of plants that they have,
Speaker 2: and just the variety, and you know, most importantly, I
Speaker 2: would say, most importantly the advice you get. You can
Speaker 2: go a lot of places to buy a plant, but
Speaker 2: when you go there, do they know what they're talking
Speaker 2: about and can they really help you with issues that
Speaker 2: you have? Can they help solve those issues? Can you
Speaker 2: walk in with a picture and say, hey, I need
Speaker 2: something to go in this bed? It's just kind of blah.
Speaker 2: How they can give you a lot of ideas for
Speaker 2: doing exactly that and taking care of it, and that
Speaker 2: is really really important. Wonderful plants, wonderful folks and wonderful products.
Speaker 2: Why are you there? Pick up their one two three
Speaker 2: completely easy system. There's three bags. One is a fertilize
Speaker 2: organic food Complete, one is a soil blend Organic soil Complete,
Speaker 2: and one is a compost blend organic compost complete member.
Speaker 2: Brown Stuff before green stuff. Those three bags set the
Speaker 2: foundation for your success with your plants that you're going
Speaker 2: to take home from Arburgate. Oh yeah, also got to
Speaker 2: check out there that just want blank gift shops Awesome,
Speaker 2: awesome gift shops loaded up for the holidays. All right,
Speaker 2: time for a break. I'll be right back country swinging
Speaker 2: with a sleep at the wheel on a Sunday morning.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to Guarden Line. We are glad you're listening
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Speaker 2: some nut sedge in my yard. Yes, I have nutsedge.
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Speaker 2: together here on horticulturally on guarden line, But yeah, I
Speaker 2: have some nuts edge, And you know, I produce that
Speaker 2: nuts edge to publications on nuts edge that are on
Speaker 2: my website Gardening with Skip dot com. And I was
Speaker 2: using my weed wiper, which is also on the website
Speaker 2: at gardening with Skip dot com, to apply some product
Speaker 2: directly to the nutsedge. You know, I didn't want to
Speaker 2: spend money on a whole lot of product to kill
Speaker 2: it and just blast in the whole yards. I just
Speaker 2: put it on with the weed wiper wherever nutsedge sticks
Speaker 2: up above the grass, reach in there and wipe that
Speaker 2: stuff on it. And I'll tell you I've done it
Speaker 2: twice now and I'm down to a fraction of what
Speaker 2: I had. When we come back out in the spring,
Speaker 2: I will see some because there will be nuts that
Speaker 2: never did sprout, and then they sprout. But I get
Speaker 2: on it fast, and once the nutsedge has three to
Speaker 2: five leaves, you need to do something because after that
Speaker 2: it's going to start. It's gonna have enough. It's going
Speaker 2: to have enough leaf area up in the light to
Speaker 2: produce a lot of carbohydrates which go down and replenish
Speaker 2: what the bulb used to create that sprout, and then
Speaker 2: enough for the bulb to start sending out daughter bulbs
Speaker 2: in all directions. And you don't want to. If you wait,
Speaker 2: you're just you're just making it worse. If you don't
Speaker 2: stay up with it, it's gonna get worse, and it
Speaker 2: will get worse. And those of you when I said,
Speaker 2: you know what I'm talking about. But anyway, I was
Speaker 2: out wiping. I do that about every over a couple
Speaker 2: of weeks or so. I'll just if I'm looking around
Speaker 2: and I see, oh, there's a little bit popping back
Speaker 2: up over here over there, I just get the wiper
Speaker 2: out Saturday morning, cup of coffee in one hand, wiper
Speaker 2: on the other hand, and there we go. We go
Speaker 2: to town, get it done real easy, and I will win.
Speaker 2: I am winning, and I will win and you can
Speaker 2: too against this pernicious weed. By the way, that wiper
Speaker 2: is good for a lot of other things too, Like
Speaker 2: you got poison ivy growing among plants that are desirable,
Speaker 2: or bermuda grass coming up underneath your rose bush and
Speaker 2: you don't want to spray that. We'll round up and
Speaker 2: kill your rose bush when you kill the bermuda grass.
Speaker 2: The wiper applicator is the way to get in there
Speaker 2: and get that done. It's easy to make yourself. You
Speaker 2: got anybody who's got one tiny, tiny bit, I'll do
Speaker 2: it yourself on them. They can, they can make one
Speaker 2: of those real easy. We make that easy for you
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Speaker 2: off forty five. If you're going north on forty five.
Speaker 2: When you get where fourteen eighty eight comes in from
Speaker 2: Magnolia from your left hand side, going north, you just
Speaker 2: turn right, cross over the railroad tracks, turn right again
Speaker 2: and you're there at Nature's Way. Nature's Way is a
Speaker 2: place with some really nice plants as well. I don't
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Speaker 2: day to get out there get ready for that weekend
Speaker 2: by purchasing either going to pick it up or having
Speaker 2: it delivered some fungal compost. Time for me to take
Speaker 2: a little break. Now, I'll be right back, folks. We
Speaker 2: are going to continue here on Guardline with your questions.
Speaker 2: All right back here at Garden Line, we're ready to go.
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Speaker 2: of Pairland. We're going to talk to Jason. Hey, Jason,
Speaker 2: welcome to guard Line.
Speaker 9: Hey, good morning, Skip, Thank you very much for taking
Speaker 9: my call. Got a small home in uh in the
Speaker 9: Pearland area, and about within the last four to six weeks,
Speaker 9: I'm seeing our grass started getting getting brown, started dying off,
Speaker 9: and our oak tree in the front some of the
Speaker 9: leaves started dropping and I noticed on the back of
Speaker 9: the leaves on the oak tree is some yellow fuzz.
Speaker 9: I really don't know any better way to describe it.
Speaker 9: But all season plans for all season is where I
Speaker 9: always purchase and try to follow the schedule. So within
Speaker 9: the last four weeks we've done the uh, the car
Speaker 9: belowed barricade, and the brown patch and the and they
Speaker 9: had also had some kind of a and I can't
Speaker 9: pronounce it, but it's it's similar to the bug out match,
Speaker 9: but it's a different things product. So, okay, I need
Speaker 9: some help. I don't know what to do now.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, first of all, I have good news. You
Speaker 2: don't need to worry about those oak leaves. That is
Speaker 2: a little insect called a gall wasp that did that,
Speaker 2: and they there are different kinds of gall wasps. Some
Speaker 2: people to find these little round wooden balls on their
Speaker 2: oak trees. There's some little red things, little red slick
Speaker 2: balls that are underneath the leaf. And then this little
Speaker 2: fuzzy one that you're describing. Those are all caused by
Speaker 2: a little wasp that lays an egg inside the leaf tissue.
Speaker 2: And because of the the the actions of the plant
Speaker 2: and then what's the insects putting out? It causes that
Speaker 2: little gall to grow, but it's essentially of no harm
Speaker 2: to the tree. I mean it. You know if you
Speaker 2: had a little young tree and every single leaf was
Speaker 2: falling off because of it, Okay, yeah, But basically they're
Speaker 2: part of nature. They're out there. We just notice some
Speaker 2: when the leaves fall off and stuff. But you don't
Speaker 2: have to worry about that. Excellent peace of mind. I
Speaker 2: appreciate it very much, sir, peace of mind. You bet,
Speaker 2: you bet. Thanks for the call, Jason, take care you
Speaker 2: you bet. If you're in the Heights area, you already
Speaker 2: know about Buchanans native plants. But Buchanans is just a
Speaker 2: It's an awesome place. You know. They have every kind
Speaker 2: of it says native plants in the name, but they
Speaker 2: have every kind of plant from houseplants to fruit trees.
Speaker 2: Do you name it? But Texas Natives is what they
Speaker 2: specialize in it. I don't know anyone that has the
Speaker 2: selection that Buchanans does. For example, when you go in,
Speaker 2: you may say, you know what, I want some native
Speaker 2: plants to attract wildlife, or I want some native plants
Speaker 2: to support our birds, the ones that live here and
Speaker 2: the ones that migrate through. They can direct you to those.
Speaker 2: Do you need native plants that are for shady areas?
Speaker 2: Do you need native plants that you want a plant
Speaker 2: that are more on the zero side, meaning they can
Speaker 2: take drought better than other plants. Do do you want
Speaker 2: to hedge or something for privacy? They can set you
Speaker 2: up with natives for all those characteristics. You know, native
Speaker 2: plants are crucial in our ecosystems and important to support
Speaker 2: these birds and things like our native bees, moths, and
Speaker 2: butterflies that are here. And Buchanans is a place to
Speaker 2: get them. You've got a easy, easy access. They are
Speaker 2: on Eleventh Street and the Heights, and when you go
Speaker 2: in there, you will be very impressed with the kinds
Speaker 2: and the variety of things that they carry. And oh
Speaker 2: my gosh, go in the gift shop. Christmas is already
Speaker 2: arriving at the Buchanans gift shop and you got to
Speaker 2: check out the things they have there. I'm going to
Speaker 2: head now out to Galleria area and talk to guitar Dave.
Speaker 10: All right, Dave, Well, anyway, meanwhile, back at the ranch,
Speaker 10: you know, like when I was a kid, we had
Speaker 10: sixty two acres, sixteen cows, a bull and a horse
Speaker 10: and everything else. And I remember when we were planting
Speaker 10: corn purple hull peas, corn purple hull peas. And then
Speaker 10: one of the things my mom was always telling us
Speaker 10: is she swore by thirteen thirteen thirteen fertilizers and and
Speaker 10: but I mean my question is, you know, my dad
Speaker 10: would go out there with the once the cows were
Speaker 10: out there doing their business, then he would go out
Speaker 10: there with a disk and get that all in to
Speaker 10: the ground. And then every year we would mark where
Speaker 10: we did the corn and the purple hole peas, and
Speaker 10: then we changed the rows because I think the way
Speaker 10: we were taught that the nutrients from the purple old
Speaker 10: peas helped the corn, and like you know, vice versa.
Speaker 10: All right, Hello, yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Mean, yeah, I'm here. What's your question?
Speaker 10: Well, I mean, is that well, I mean, and then
Speaker 10: my mom told us about the manure or stuff like that,
Speaker 10: don't put it too close around a plant because it'll
Speaker 10: burn the roots or something like that.
Speaker 2: Huh you think, all right, so manure, Yeah, let me
Speaker 2: just address those things. A manure straight manur can cause
Speaker 2: damage to plant roots and I guess a tender stem
Speaker 2: if you put too much. Some miners are we say
Speaker 2: very hot, and that would be like poultry maneuver that
Speaker 2: that's tons of nitrogen and things like that in it.
Speaker 2: Other things like horse and cattle especially, they're they're kind
Speaker 2: of on the other end, not as potent and strong.
Speaker 2: The main thing with manure we worry about in an
Speaker 2: edible garden, though, is you can have some human diseases
Speaker 2: like salmonella and E. Coli and whatnot, and so if
Speaker 2: that splashes up onto your tomatoes or lettuce leaves or
Speaker 2: things like that. That's why even organic gardeners cannot use
Speaker 2: fresh manure that's not being composted for a very appropriate
Speaker 2: and long period of time.
Speaker 10: Golly, I got a question about my fig tree out here.
Speaker 10: You know it's actually it's a fig bush now, But
Speaker 10: what do I do about when the leaves start turning
Speaker 10: kind of yellows?
Speaker 2: Looking, all right, let's let's address that. And you're gonna
Speaker 2: hear music in just a second, and that'll be the
Speaker 2: end of this segment. EIGs get yellow leaves when they're
Speaker 2: stressed from a drought, from excessive nematodes on the roots,
Speaker 2: You'll get older leaves turning yellow and falling. It could
Speaker 2: also be a sign of extremely poor soil. But figs
Speaker 2: are pretty tough. They're not divas that need lots of fertilizer.
Speaker 2: The other thing that can cause that is a disease
Speaker 2: called rust that gets on the leaves and there's really
Speaker 2: not a practical control for that. But figs are tough.
Speaker 10: I appreciate everything, Man, Thanks for you. Thanks for Stephania Man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks, thanks, appreciate that. Dave, take care all right,
Speaker 2: here we go. We are going to another break at
Speaker 2: the top of the hour. Guess where I'm gonna be
Speaker 2: next Saturday. Next Saturday, get this on your calendar. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna be at Katie Hardware out there in Katie, Texas.
Speaker 2: I'm going to tell you more about it as we
Speaker 2: go through the show this morning, but I'll be there
Speaker 2: from twelve to two Katie Hardware out in Katie, Texas.
Speaker 2: So all of you out that direction, Katie and all
Speaker 2: over there, come on, make plans, come out to see me,
Speaker 2: bring me some samples. We're gonna be having lots of
Speaker 2: good giveaways and as always, a good time leading you
Speaker 2: and basically helping you have a more pountiful garden than
Speaker 2: a beautiful landscape.
Speaker 1: Welcome to kat r h garden line with Skip Richter's.
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Speaker 2: Good Sunday morning, Good Sunday morning, on what's going to
Speaker 2: be a beautiful day out there. I hope this afternoon
Speaker 2: you got some plans to get out and about get
Speaker 2: a few things done in the landscaping in the garden.
Speaker 2: You know, if you've never planted a vegetable garden, why
Speaker 2: not do one this year? And when I say that,
Speaker 2: I'm not talking about you plowing up the back forty
Speaker 2: and turn in your yard into mixed up dirt. I'm
Speaker 2: talking about any kind of gardening that is at the
Speaker 2: level and the extent that you are interested in. For example,
Speaker 2: I've never grown anything for I'm going to get a
Speaker 2: five gallon bucket, droll holes in the bottom, put good
Speaker 2: soil in it, and grow a broccoli plant. I mean,
Speaker 2: it could be a container. It could be a nice bed.
Speaker 2: You know, one of those store bought beds that you
Speaker 2: fill up with quality mix. I've got one that we put.
Speaker 2: We put a veggo bed on our patio in the back,
Speaker 2: kind of an L shaped bed, and it's filled with
Speaker 2: a good quality mix. And my wife has a lot
Speaker 2: of our flowers and vegetables. You've got some broccoli in
Speaker 2: there right now, but those are very attractive. And rather
Speaker 2: than getting a rottailer out, we just dropped this thing
Speaker 2: on the ground, put it together, filled it with soil,
Speaker 2: and here we go. And you can garden that way. Now,
Speaker 2: if you want to plow up the back forty of
Speaker 2: course you can do that too, but make it easy
Speaker 2: on yourself. But above all, do something, grow something. Some
Speaker 2: of the best most health promoting vegetables you can grow
Speaker 2: all year you grow this season. And that would be
Speaker 2: things like kale and broccoli, the cruciferous plants, the blue
Speaker 2: leafed vegetables, the coal crops, those are all. They're all
Speaker 2: that describing the same thing. Broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, coabbie, kale, collareds.
Speaker 2: What am I leaving out? I think, well that's enough
Speaker 2: for right now. Anyway. Those are excellent for your health
Speaker 2: and they grow easy. How about carrots. Carrots are excellent
Speaker 2: for your health, and they grow in the cool season.
Speaker 2: In fact, they like to be a little bit cooler
Speaker 2: than it is right now to grow. So a good
Speaker 2: container with some depth, maybe ten inches of depth or so,
Speaker 2: can grow some really good carrots and we've done that before.
Speaker 2: How about other greens like Swiss charred or beats which
Speaker 2: we get the tops and the bottoms the greens and
Speaker 2: the swollen root for the beats. When I do that
Speaker 2: this year, that's kind of my I don't want to
Speaker 2: say challenge. That's a little corny, but that's what I
Speaker 2: would encourage you to consider. And if you've got kids,
Speaker 2: please consider it because as youth grow up growing food
Speaker 2: that number one. When you grow it, you're more likely
Speaker 2: to eat it. And our number one health problems are
Speaker 2: due to what we put in our mouth and our
Speaker 2: lack of activity. And gardening solves both. You know that
Speaker 2: thing that says every thirty minutes, get up, leave your desk,
Speaker 2: walk around for a minute, come back and sit down.
Speaker 2: That's true. What have I going out in the guard now?
Speaker 2: That is really true? And you know, rather than fast
Speaker 2: food and processed foods, healthy stuff, you grow yourself and
Speaker 2: you can and we'll help you do it. Here so
Speaker 2: well are independent garden centers all over the Greater Houston
Speaker 2: area that are stocked with plants and that are loaded
Speaker 2: with good advice people that know what they're talking about
Speaker 2: to help you have success. All right, Well, there was
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Speaker 2: you know, for quality bird food. You know, the winter season,
Speaker 2: as we're going into fall and then eventually winter, the
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Speaker 2: for this season because it's packed with bat and protein
Speaker 2: to help those birds out. It's still very dry out there.
Speaker 2: I know maybe at the end of the week we're
Speaker 2: going to get some rain, but every day of the
Speaker 2: year a bird has to drink water, So I don't
Speaker 2: care if it's December and cool outside, where are they
Speaker 2: going to get water? And if you make that war
Speaker 2: in your yard, they'll come to your yard. And that's
Speaker 2: why we want to put bird feeders and things out
Speaker 2: to attract birds. Water is one of the simplest way
Speaker 2: to do it. Warbird's Unlimited encourages you to leave a
Speaker 2: small hummingbird feeder filled out there through the holidays. You
Speaker 2: might be lucky enough to have one of these rufous hummingbirds.
Speaker 2: A lot of the rufous birds, they basically migrate all
Speaker 2: the way down to Mexico. Some of them come along
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Speaker 2: Microlife has put together an outstanding list of products that
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Speaker 2: three different beneficial microbes. And I'm looking here at the
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Speaker 2: commercial growers will buy to put in soil so that
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Speaker 2: There's other things like basilla subtlest. Basilla subtlest is sold
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Speaker 2: micro grow, sixty three different ones. I just told you
Speaker 2: about two put out a bag of micro grow. It
Speaker 2: goes out at a super low rate. It's not like fertilizing rate.
Speaker 2: So we're talking about you know, five to ten pounds
Speaker 2: per thousand square feet, and if you've got a lot
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Speaker 2: twenty pounds. But anytime you're wanting to improve the situation
Speaker 2: in the soil and on the plant surface, getting these
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Speaker 2: find Microlife all over town. Just go to Microlife Fertilizer
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Speaker 2: But I can just tell you this, if it's a
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Speaker 2: time for me to take a break. I'll be right
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Speaker 2: garden Line, folks. Good to be back with you. I
Speaker 2: tell you it is early in the morning right now,
Speaker 2: and I congratulate you for being up listening to garden Line.
Speaker 2: But I'm telling you today is going to be a
Speaker 2: great day, and I hope this afternoon you will get
Speaker 2: out and do some gardening, maybe some garden shopping. The
Speaker 2: garden centers right now or oh, they're beautiful loaded with
Speaker 2: fall color. They are just brimming to the top and
Speaker 2: starting to get a lot of winter color into a
Speaker 2: lot of good options for that. You know, we have
Speaker 2: four seasons a year here, like they do everywhere. Ours
Speaker 2: are different. You know, Summer is basically what ten months,
Speaker 2: Winter is about five days and fall in spring total
Speaker 2: of the rest of the time. No, seriously, though, every
Speaker 2: season there are flowers that do well, and there's foliage
Speaker 2: that does well. Don't forget foliage too, and so when
Speaker 2: wintertime comes, there's no reason not to have beautiful color
Speaker 2: in your landscape. There's a lot of ways we can
Speaker 2: go about that. But things like pansies and viola's everybody
Speaker 2: knows about those. Listen, snap dragons. Nastciam is one some
Speaker 2: people to grow those colendulas do well in the cool season,
Speaker 2: Dusty Miller. It's kind of a silvery plant, looks really
Speaker 2: good with blue flowers like blue iolas and things. There's
Speaker 2: a lot of cool color plants that we can put
Speaker 2: out there. Ornamental kale, there's a there are a number
Speaker 2: of kales that and cabbage too, that they're just grown
Speaker 2: for ornament because of the colors in the foliage. There's
Speaker 2: an edible kale that actually I guess all of it
Speaker 2: technically is edible, but there's one that is a very
Speaker 2: burgundy colored one that's really beautiful. I would like to
Speaker 2: call it maroon as a matter of fact, but it
Speaker 2: is a gorgeous, gorgeous little plant that looks good in
Speaker 2: the landscape, and in the spring when it bolts and
Speaker 2: sends up yellow flowers, it's even prettier. Then it's everything
Speaker 2: changes and suddenly from a little short plant, now you've
Speaker 2: got a big tall bloomstalks and things on it. Take
Speaker 2: advantage of that. And to do that first you got
Speaker 2: to get the soil right. So that's something to focus on. First,
Speaker 2: get the soil right, and then go out and get
Speaker 2: some quality plants. You know, a place like Plants for
Speaker 2: All Seas. For example, they're on two forty nine, right
Speaker 2: just north of Luetta on two forty nine, right there.
Speaker 2: It's easy to get in and out. They've been around
Speaker 2: since nineteen seventy three, and so everybody in that region
Speaker 2: knows them. I mean they're well known, a very very
Speaker 2: popular place because when you go there, they've got all
Speaker 2: the products you need to have success. You know, you
Speaker 2: hear me talk about a fertilizer or a soil here
Speaker 2: on Guardline, they're going to have them at Plants for
Speaker 2: all seasons. Then you hear me talk about plants. Well,
Speaker 2: no matter what it is, from your cool seasoned vegetables
Speaker 2: that I was encouraging you to get in plant earlier
Speaker 2: to herbs. Now fall is a great time for almost
Speaker 2: all herbs. Basils an exception, but I mean all of
Speaker 2: these perennial herbs, you know, time and rosemary and marjoram
Speaker 2: and oh gosh, what am I regano and I could
Speaker 2: just go on and on, chives and different things. Now's
Speaker 2: the time to get those planted. They got them at
Speaker 2: Plants for All seasons. If you need help with a problem,
Speaker 2: you can take a picture or a sample in there.
Speaker 2: They can help you with. That's the here's the phone number.
Speaker 2: You need to write this down because you'll need to
Speaker 2: give them a call. Seven or excuse me, two eight, one, three, seven,
Speaker 2: six sixteen forty six two eight one three seven six
Speaker 2: one six four six plants for all seasons. You are
Speaker 2: gonna take pride in your landscape when you start using
Speaker 2: their plants and taking their advice. To have that kind
Speaker 2: of success in your landscape, you need to visit. If
Speaker 2: you have a brown thumb and you won't turn it green,
Speaker 2: you need to visit plants for all seasons. If you've
Speaker 2: got a green thumb, well they'll make it greener. How
Speaker 2: about that you're listening to garden Line our phone number
Speaker 2: if you would like to give us a call and
Speaker 2: actually right now be top of the list. Seven one
Speaker 2: three two one two k t R eight seven one
Speaker 2: three two one two k t RH. So if you
Speaker 2: got a gardening question, this would be a good time
Speaker 2: to ask that question. I was talking earlier about airlom soils,
Speaker 2: the fact that some of the airlom cel products are
Speaker 2: available down there at Cnmulch Well airlom soils. If you
Speaker 2: go up to the Porter area, that's the soil yard
Speaker 2: up there, we're on rock and malts and airlom soils
Speaker 2: up in Porter they are I guess the source. I
Speaker 2: would say of a wide variety of quality products that
Speaker 2: are available in a wide range of places. It's hard
Speaker 2: to find places where you're not going to have somewhere
Speaker 2: nearby that you're going to find those airlom soil products.
Speaker 2: And we're talking about the kinds of things that make
Speaker 2: your garden successful, that make your landscape successful. For example,
Speaker 2: are you going to put in shrubs this fall or
Speaker 2: roses a type of shrub. How about the roses and
Speaker 2: bloomers blend that is an excellent soil for that. How
Speaker 2: about citrus mix. Fruit Berry and citrus mix is what
Speaker 2: it's called very good for all of those kinds of plants.
Speaker 2: They got landscape bed mixes. They've got the veggie and
Speaker 2: herb mix that is just pretty much good for anything
Speaker 2: growing like that that you're going to eat. I use
Speaker 2: the cactus, some succulent. My wife loves strings, strings of pearl,
Speaker 2: strings of We have strings of everything, strings of stuff.
Speaker 2: I didn't know there were strings of anyway, it's growing
Speaker 2: that you should see them. They look beautiful and they're
Speaker 2: growing in airloom soils. Cactus and succulent soil mix. They
Speaker 2: got the standard potting soil called the works. And then
Speaker 2: if you've got heavy clay expanded shale. You got to
Speaker 2: put expanded shell down. Compost improves a clay, but in
Speaker 2: time compost breaks down. So having expanded shale also in
Speaker 2: there with it, it's like hot I think of this.
Speaker 2: This isn't a totally accurate but it'll give you the
Speaker 2: right idea. If you take kitty litter and fire it
Speaker 2: in an oven so hot that it expands and you
Speaker 2: get all these little pores on it, so it looks
Speaker 2: like a lava rock under a microscope that's expanded shale
Speaker 2: and expanded jalil is a rock that holds its porosity
Speaker 2: and holds its structure over time and the soil, and
Speaker 2: it really really helps our heavy, heavy clay. Three or
Speaker 2: four inches of expanded shale would be good to fully
Speaker 2: do the job on a really yucky, sticky clay. And
Speaker 2: you can get it from Heirloom Soils. Just go to
Speaker 2: Heirloomsoils dot com. Heirloomsoils dot com. You can learn about
Speaker 2: all the products they have and then go to your
Speaker 2: local garden center, ace hardware store, feed store, sofa's fertilizer
Speaker 2: and all those kinds of places are going to carry
Speaker 2: the products. You're listening to Guardline, I'm your host Skip Richter,
Speaker 2: and we are now going to head out to sugar
Speaker 2: Land and talk to Ann. Hello Ann, good morning, and
Speaker 2: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 11: Good morning. I have squirrels that are digging in my
Speaker 11: pots of pansies and wondered if there was anything I
Speaker 11: could do to discourage them.
Speaker 2: Well, you know that that's what squirrels do, and so
Speaker 2: it's hard to talk them out of that. I've known
Speaker 2: people that tried different things. You this is a little trouble.
Speaker 2: But if you've got some some plants that you can
Speaker 2: plant through a mesh like a like maybe you cut
Speaker 2: out a section a chicken wire or something like that,
Speaker 2: put it on the ground, and then and then you
Speaker 2: know your plants are going in there. Uh, it's trouble
Speaker 2: to do that. But it's hard for dogs and squirrels
Speaker 2: and cats and other things to dig in any four
Speaker 2: better pot like that that. The only other thing would
Speaker 2: be some sort of a repellent. Uh. And the ones
Speaker 2: that are mainly used on squirrels are basically based on
Speaker 2: hot pepper oil. And that that's because if they chew
Speaker 2: on it, it burns their little mouths and they realize
Speaker 2: they don't want to chew on that anymore. And so
Speaker 2: that help some with the squirrels, but they are a problem.
Speaker 2: You know, our urban neighborhoods are filled with squirrels.
Speaker 11: Where would I get on.
Speaker 2: A go to go to wild Birds unlimited.
Speaker 11: Wold Bird?
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, warbirds will have it. They carry all those
Speaker 2: kinds of things.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: And I would say, let me do something while we're
Speaker 2: talking here. I'm gonna try to find that actually for you.
Speaker 2: But you can go to w b U dot com
Speaker 2: forward slash s Houston, okay, and that'll give you the
Speaker 2: Wallbirds stores that are the closest to you. And you're
Speaker 2: down in sugar Land, so you've got a store on
Speaker 2: bel Air Boulevard that's probably the closest to you. Oh okay,
Speaker 2: good good, okay, okay. Now test it on plants, because
Speaker 2: you know oils just it's an oil and any kind
Speaker 2: of an oil. We use a lot of types on plants.
Speaker 2: But I've never tried spraying hot pepper on plants. So
Speaker 2: test it on a little spot first before you just
Speaker 2: you know, nuke the whole flower flower pot of pansies.
Speaker 2: Make sure that's going to be okay.
Speaker 11: All right, okay, thank you very much.
Speaker 2: All right, thank you you take care. Yes, squirrels are
Speaker 2: a problem, and that's a tough one. You know, if
Speaker 2: they're if they're eating like bird seed, you can put
Speaker 2: the pepper oil on them and they get a bite,
Speaker 2: and I mean they're not gonna like that, you know,
Speaker 2: like putting hob and arrow on my ice cream. I
Speaker 2: think I would even stop eating ice cream if it
Speaker 2: had hobbinn arrow oil on it. But when it comes
Speaker 2: to like here's the plants and they're just digging around,
Speaker 2: that's that's more difficult. In a little pot where you
Speaker 2: got pansies, it's kind of hard to do. The wire
Speaker 2: thing that works in a bed pretty well, I had
Speaker 2: that in a bed where my dogs decided they wanted
Speaker 2: to dig. Do you know I have two Golden retrievers,
Speaker 2: Texan Ellie. Didn't I sound like a like some kind
Speaker 2: of Stoga wagon going west Texan Ellie heading out to anyway?
Speaker 2: They're Golden Retrievers. And I didn't know this when I
Speaker 2: got them, but I thought golden retrievers were bred for
Speaker 2: like retrieving a duck from a pond or retrieving Apparently
Speaker 2: they were bread for retrieving plants. I'll go out and
Speaker 2: plant a plant when these dogs were young. We've gotten
Speaker 2: planet a plant i'd come back out. In fact, I've
Speaker 2: posted this to Instagram a long long time ago. My
Speaker 2: little four inch pots of I think it was cone
Speaker 2: flower that I'd put out there. They Ellie retrieved them
Speaker 2: for me. She brought him to the back porch and
Speaker 2: had them lay in there while she sat with dirt
Speaker 2: on her mouth, looking at me like I was going
Speaker 2: to praise her. I guess I don't know what she
Speaker 2: brought them to show me. But anyway, we need a
Speaker 2: dog rehab service that can teach dogs how to retrieve
Speaker 2: weeds instead of plants. Now, that would be a dog worth.
Speaker 2: We love those dogs, but they also My wife planted
Speaker 2: a rudbeccia recently and we came out and about half
Speaker 2: the petals re eating off one flower, and it came
Speaker 2: out and the flowers were gone. They just like to
Speaker 2: chew on stuff. Anyway. They're good dogs other than that.
Speaker 2: So if any of you know how to, if you
Speaker 2: want to start a money making business, train dogs how
Speaker 2: to retrieve weeds, I think that would be great. All right,
Speaker 2: Spring Creek Feed is up there in Magnolion FM twenty
Speaker 2: nine seventy eight, and you hear me talk about it
Speaker 2: from time to time. It is an awesome feedstore is
Speaker 2: actually a beautiful feed store. You go, you drive up
Speaker 2: and this building is just inviting. I mean it's like, oh,
Speaker 2: that looks good. And then you walk in and you
Speaker 2: first thing, the first thing I think about is Okay,
Speaker 2: did I come to the wrong place or this looks
Speaker 2: more like a beautiful store of just all kinds of
Speaker 2: displays of everything in the world you might want. And
Speaker 2: then you look over to the side, Oh, there's feed there.
Speaker 2: And then you look the other side and oh, there
Speaker 2: is everything I need for my plants in the garden,
Speaker 2: yard and landscape. So that would be the fertilizers I
Speaker 2: talk about. That would be disease control, insect control, weed control.
Speaker 2: It's all there. They've got it at Sprint Creek Feed. Now,
Speaker 2: if you are a senior citizen or military or FFA
Speaker 2: for hu raising animals, their discounts for that. They can
Speaker 2: also special order and they do have a delivery service
Speaker 2: if you need that, if you like to do that.
Speaker 2: But the staff is friendly and courteous. And when you
Speaker 2: consider the full line of Nelson, turf Star, the microlife,
Speaker 2: the nitrophoss, all the things that they carry. It's just
Speaker 2: an easy, one stop shop and you will like them
Speaker 2: when you go in there. Though, if you're into backyard
Speaker 2: chickens too, I mean, can they ever get you set
Speaker 2: up on that? Lots of stuff? All right, time for
Speaker 2: me to take a little break here. I am going
Speaker 2: to be right back if you'd like to call us
Speaker 2: seven one three two one two kt rh All right, folks,
Speaker 2: welcome back to garden Line. We are going to keep
Speaker 2: going here with advising and helping and doing whatever we
Speaker 2: can to help you have a more bountiful garden, a
Speaker 2: more beautiful landscape, and more fun in the process. That's
Speaker 2: the that is the important one too. You know, gardening
Speaker 2: is not remember the days when people had to like
Speaker 2: hunt and gather. Member, of course you don't remember. None
Speaker 2: of us are around people. I had hunt and gather
Speaker 2: just to survive, right, And then we discovered farming and
Speaker 2: you had to if you had a crop failure, you
Speaker 2: starved out. Well, we don't live in that time anymore,
Speaker 2: and here in the States at least, and we're fortunate,
Speaker 2: extremely blessed for that. But you can grow your own food,
Speaker 2: You can do all kinds of things and have fun
Speaker 2: in the process, and gardening is just in our blood.
Speaker 2: I really believe that. By the way, I will tell
Speaker 2: people that I know that are under other professions, including medicine,
Speaker 2: the ministry, all kinds of things. I'll say, you know,
Speaker 2: I actually am in the profession, the first profession ever,
Speaker 2: the profession officially ordained by God. Because he didn't make
Speaker 2: a guard, a cubicle of Eden or a clinic of Eden.
Speaker 2: He made a garden of Eden. And we get to
Speaker 2: as gardeners. We get to do what I just think
Speaker 2: mankind is basically designed for, and that that is to
Speaker 2: get out there, to enjoy nature, to create, to build,
Speaker 2: do all kinds of things. That's a little bit of
Speaker 2: a soapbox, but I know this that I am happiest
Speaker 2: when I'm in my garden. Someone once said that I
Speaker 2: can't imagine when it comes to like building the soil,
Speaker 2: allowing someone else else to rob for me. The opportunity
Speaker 2: to get out in the soil and dirt and garden
Speaker 2: and grow. It is a good with a lot of
Speaker 2: good analogies too. By the way, I know I'm going
Speaker 2: off topic here, but I think it's fun. For example,
Speaker 2: Abraham Lincoln said this die when I may I want
Speaker 2: it said by those who knew me the best, that
Speaker 2: I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where
Speaker 2: I thought a flower would grow. You know, he said that,
Speaker 2: and't that? What we try to do is get out
Speaker 2: there and make life a little better. When we say
Speaker 2: improve your lot in life, well, your property is city
Speaker 2: lots or country acreage, how can we improve it? That
Speaker 2: is what it's about. Gardeners are optimists, and we know
Speaker 2: we can it'll be better. You know, the best garden
Speaker 2: I've ever had is the one I'm gonna plant. When
Speaker 2: I go to a garden center and buy a fruit tree,
Speaker 2: I let's say it's a peach. I can already see
Speaker 2: that tree five years old in my yard, loaded with
Speaker 2: the most delicious peaches on earth. Because we have that optimism,
Speaker 2: we have that ability to do that. And Thomas Cooper
Speaker 2: years ago said, garden is never so good as it
Speaker 2: will be next year. And that's really true, really really true.
Speaker 2: All Right, I'm gonna stop pontificating and we'll talk to
Speaker 2: you about the things you're interested in if you give
Speaker 2: us a call seven one three two one two K
Speaker 2: t R. H Ace Hardware stores are all over the
Speaker 2: Houston area over forty stores now in the Greater Houston area.
Speaker 2: And when you go into ACE, first of all, if
Speaker 2: you're one of the folks trying to do the nitrofoss one, two,
Speaker 2: three or three step excuse me, the nine of us
Speaker 2: three step fertilizer disease prevention, weed prevention in your yard,
Speaker 2: go to Ace Hardware store. They're going to have it.
Speaker 2: They're gonna have the whole package there. And you know,
Speaker 2: in any season of the year, Ace is going to
Speaker 2: have the things you need to have a beautiful lawn
Speaker 2: and a beautiful garden and a productive garden. You got
Speaker 2: pest and disease problems. They got you covered. Fall is
Speaker 2: it's very important in the fall if you have fire ants,
Speaker 2: which pretty much eyboy does.
Speaker 12: Uh.
Speaker 2: If you have fire ants, fall baiting is really really
Speaker 2: a great way to knock them down a lot. So
Speaker 2: next spring it's like, oh my gosh, I'm inundated. This
Speaker 2: is way worse than it was in the fall. If
Speaker 2: you will do your baiting now, and Ace Hardware has
Speaker 2: all kinds of different bait options for you, that is
Speaker 2: the least toxic way to control fire ants, and now's
Speaker 2: the time to get it done. You want to put
Speaker 2: baits out when the weather is conducive to the ants
Speaker 2: being out, and in summertime during the middle of the day.
Speaker 2: Do you know, even though they're called fire ants, they
Speaker 2: don't like the hot, hot heat of the middle of
Speaker 2: the day. They tend to come out more in the
Speaker 2: mornings and later, cooler afternoon hours and things. But if
Speaker 2: you don't know if it's time to put a bait out,
Speaker 2: it's easy to get something that's oily, like an empty
Speaker 2: tunican packed in oil or a potato chip. That's the
Speaker 2: easiest one. I think. Toss a potato chip or two
Speaker 2: or three around the garden a landscape, come back fifteen
Speaker 2: minutes later, and if they're fire ants on it, if
Speaker 2: they found it, which they will, they love that oil,
Speaker 2: then it's time to put out the bait. I knew
Speaker 2: a guy that took little flags, those little wire flags
Speaker 2: that you put out marking a pipeline or something, and
Speaker 2: he would cut a hot dog into little sections, little slices,
Speaker 2: stick the wire flag through it, and stick that hot
Speaker 2: dog out in the landscape. And with the flag, he
Speaker 2: knew exactly where the hot dogs were. Come back fifteen
Speaker 2: minutes later. That's how they decided when they were going
Speaker 2: to do their treatments. He was actually a fire researcher
Speaker 2: that taught me that Ester lives in the Greater Houston area.
Speaker 2: But anyway, however you go about it, find the timing
Speaker 2: that's right, and then get out there and get it done.
Speaker 2: And ACE Hardware Store is going to have you covered
Speaker 2: on the baits that you need. Go to ACE Hardware
Speaker 2: dot com and find the store locator and when you do,
Speaker 2: you're going to see the stores stores plural that are
Speaker 2: nearest to you. Our phone number is seven one three
Speaker 2: two one two k t R H. Give us a
Speaker 2: call if you've got a question that we can help
Speaker 2: you with. I heard something a while back. In fact,
Speaker 2: I got a notice from Texas A and M Aggerlife
Speaker 2: and the Research and Vegetable Improvement Center. That is a
Speaker 2: facility that's a program too there on the Texas A
Speaker 2: and M Campus Research and Vegetable Improvement Center. They have
Speaker 2: for years worked on making healthier vegetables. You know, there's
Speaker 2: compound in onions called corsetan that helps fight I believe
Speaker 2: it's cancer with the corsetan. And they're so breeding onions
Speaker 2: that have more corstant or breeding tomatoes and the lycopene
Speaker 2: is one of the health things that we have in
Speaker 2: tomatoes and developing vegetables that not only are more productive,
Speaker 2: but that are better well. Now, there is a multi
Speaker 2: university consortium that's been put together. This is led by
Speaker 2: Texas A and m Agrilife and Extension and it includes
Speaker 2: the University of Florida, Michigan, State University of California, Cornell, Arizona,
Speaker 2: University of Washington, n C, State University of Georgia, Oregon
Speaker 2: all over the country. This consortiums get together and guess what.
Speaker 2: Experts from these major tomato breeding programs are developing regionally
Speaker 2: adapted disease free tomato varieties to improve water use, sufficiency
Speaker 2: and heat tolerance. They rang all the bells with that sentence,
Speaker 2: because we know tomato struggle in the heat. Breeding tomatoes
Speaker 2: that can grow in the heat better. We know water
Speaker 2: is a limited resource. More efficient tomatoes when you consider,
Speaker 2: you know, thousands of acres of tomatoes around the state
Speaker 2: and the country, what are you Sufficiency is important? And
Speaker 2: then disease resistance. How about not having to spray your
Speaker 2: tomatoes as much because they've developed one that doesn't get
Speaker 2: that disease. And then perhaps the most important flavor quality, flavor.
Speaker 2: They are focusing on the old time flavors, the taste,
Speaker 2: the texture, the aroma. Doctor Pattil who leads that up,
Speaker 2: he made a statement, he said, the breeding programs will
Speaker 2: focus on enhancing not just resilience of the tomatoes, but
Speaker 2: also their taste, their texture, and their aroma. So I'm
Speaker 2: all in. And it takes a while, and when these
Speaker 2: programs get going on breeding and developing, it'll be a
Speaker 2: while before we see the results. But can you imagine
Speaker 2: tomatoes that are more tolerant, that are more disease tolerant,
Speaker 2: that taste better, and that require less water to produce.
Speaker 2: That's a that's a home run if they can hit
Speaker 2: that one over the fence. So congratulations on lending that
Speaker 2: that grant. And they're working with also the oh gosh,
Speaker 2: what is it, the USDA Agriculture Research Service on that.
Speaker 2: All right, folks, I have jabbered my way all the
Speaker 2: way to another break. We will be right back. Hey,
Speaker 2: if you want to be first up when we come back.
Speaker 2: Calls seven one three two one two kt RH All right,
Speaker 2: welcome back to the garden line. Good to have you,
Speaker 2: Good to have you with us. Today we are going
Speaker 2: to continue on here with your calls and also just
Speaker 2: general advice about having success with gardening. I was out
Speaker 2: at Enchanted Forest Garden Center, which is down there in
Speaker 2: the Richmond Rosenberg area. In fact, if you're in Richmond
Speaker 2: and you're heading towards sugar Land, it's way off to
Speaker 2: the right. It's on a road called FM twenty seven
Speaker 2: twenty seven fifty nine, and boy, when you get there,
Speaker 2: you know it. I mean, this place is just a showplace.
Speaker 2: It's beautiful, beautiful. They're loaded up. There's any pumpkins everywhere,
Speaker 2: and moms everywhere, all kinds of fall color. It's really cool.
Speaker 2: One thing I want to mention, they've gotten in some
Speaker 2: plants that I think are under utilized, and that would
Speaker 2: be cyclemen. Cyclemen is a gorgeous plant. Oftentimes they're given
Speaker 2: as a gift plant to take inside and put on
Speaker 2: a table, and they're not going to do good long
Speaker 2: term in the house, but you can bring them in
Speaker 2: these little falling star looking blooms. That blooms look like
Speaker 2: falling stars, so you just have to see one, see
Speaker 2: what I'm talking about. They're beautiful. They would be a
Speaker 2: great decoration. They'd be a great gift to take to
Speaker 2: family and friends for if you're traveling for Thanksgiving. But
Speaker 2: put them in your own garden, if you've got a
Speaker 2: bright shade an area like under even a live oak
Speaker 2: tree area. They will do okay in there for a
Speaker 2: good while, and you can put them in. They take
Speaker 2: cold as long as it's not bitter bitter cold, so
Speaker 2: they hold up. It's just a great plant for this
Speaker 2: time of year. And I driving around town, I don't
Speaker 2: see enough of those, I think in landscapes because they
Speaker 2: are so pretty. Oh my, there Greenhouse has produced a
Speaker 2: bunch more of these awesome vegetables that you find it
Speaker 2: in Chenny Forest. They are loaded vegetables and herbs. You
Speaker 2: just need to go in and see it. I was
Speaker 2: talking to you earlier trying to get you plan a
Speaker 2: gardener at least a container with vegetables this fall. That
Speaker 2: is a great idea, and in Chenny Forest as you
Speaker 2: set up for that.
Speaker 13: Again.
Speaker 2: They're on FM twenty seven fifty nine now. If you
Speaker 2: would like to go to their website, I hope you
Speaker 2: will because it is awesome. Enchanted Forest, Richmond TX dot com.
Speaker 2: In chenned Forest, Richmond TX dot com, we're gonna go
Speaker 2: down to north West Houston and talk to Ibrahim. Ibrahim,
Speaker 2: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 14: Oh yes, sir, thank you.
Speaker 2: My question.
Speaker 14: I don't know I can get the answer it the whole.
Speaker 5: Come up.
Speaker 14: So I was talking about the tomato and I can
Speaker 14: what kind of ground I can use because the sun
Speaker 14: is shifting and that I cannot put the full sun
Speaker 14: and then all kind of stuff uh, drying in the ground.
Speaker 2: I mean, so you want to know about it about
Speaker 2: the soiler. Yeah, so you want soil and then the yes, okay,
Speaker 2: So if you're going to plant them in the ground,
Speaker 2: I would get a quality soil blend for that, and
Speaker 2: I would build up a little bit of a raised bed.
Speaker 2: You can mix it into the soil you have and
Speaker 2: then add more of the blend on top of that mix.
Speaker 2: That way, as the roots go down, it's not like
Speaker 2: they go down through this mix and suddenly they hit
Speaker 2: clay soil or whatever is underneath. You sort of blend
Speaker 2: them together a little bit. There's a veggie and herb
Speaker 2: mix by Heirloom Soils that is excellent for that. Veggie
Speaker 2: and herb mix by Airlomb Soil.
Speaker 14: A g that's the name in the soil.
Speaker 2: Veggie uh, veggie like vegetable veg They just veggie is
Speaker 2: a short word for vegetable, but vegete veggie and herb mix,
Speaker 2: heirloom soils uh. And wherever you shop, if you're if
Speaker 2: you in your location, you've got some grade these hardware stores.
Speaker 2: And you also have some great nurseries that will carry
Speaker 2: these kinds of mixes. If you want to grow them
Speaker 2: in a container, you need a container. I think you
Speaker 2: need a container.
Speaker 15: That's about exactly okay, yeah, so get get the veggie
Speaker 15: and R mixed, put it in a container, but make
Speaker 15: sure the container.
Speaker 2: But by the way, it's it's too late now for tomatoes,
Speaker 2: but next spring we will be planting them again. They
Speaker 2: can't take take our freezing weather. But next spring, veggie
Speaker 2: and RB mix and a container, and get a container
Speaker 2: that's at least ten gallons in size. So you think
Speaker 2: of a five gallon bucket, Yeah, a ten is better.
Speaker 2: You can do it in a five gallon if it's
Speaker 2: not too big of a tomato. And if you water
Speaker 2: it when it gets hot, you're gonna be watering it,
Speaker 2: like I said, ay, and a five gallon bucket. And
Speaker 2: so that's why I like ten because it holds more
Speaker 2: soil and more water available for the roots. So you
Speaker 2: just have a little better success with that.
Speaker 14: Yes, I appreciate the things. So I got two more
Speaker 14: things to ask you. But if you have a private.
Speaker 2: Yeah, go ahead, we got time. Go ahead.
Speaker 14: One thing I want to tell you. The winter time
Speaker 14: I plant tomato and that sounds funny. Uh, my sisters,
Speaker 14: are you crazy? What you're doing in the is coming.
Speaker 14: I just took them inside a couple of time, and
Speaker 14: the real branches dry, but the fresh one came up too,
Speaker 14: and the summertime turns out like a tomato and then
Speaker 14: h five or six tomato, big tomato. I get. I
Speaker 14: just showed my sisters that was funny for stuff. And yeah,
Speaker 14: I want to ask you dogs pooping and anywhere. I
Speaker 14: just I don't have that much experience that teach dogs.
Speaker 14: Anybody can I mean, I don't know. If you can
Speaker 14: give me some chip, how I can tell those how
Speaker 14: I can teach where they can put.
Speaker 2: You know, And it's a I don't know any way
Speaker 2: to do that. I'm sure there are trainers who can
Speaker 2: do it. What we do is we can let our
Speaker 2: dogs out to a certain area first, uh, and and
Speaker 2: get them over there and they get used to going there.
Speaker 2: But uh it, I have that same problem in my yard,
Speaker 2: and I don't know a good answer to that. Did
Speaker 2: you have a follow up question?
Speaker 16: Uh?
Speaker 14: Oh, yes, sir, this is ea.
Speaker 2: Okay, yes, yes, yeah. Did you have another question?
Speaker 14: Another question I have? I have a birth for putting
Speaker 14: the birth water, and I have a little birth full
Speaker 14: and sometimes coming like somebody don't power top in the
Speaker 14: water and this water doesn't look like good and I
Speaker 14: just looked afresh every day. Do you know how I
Speaker 14: can check this water? What's the problem? And that is somebody,
Speaker 14: like you said, put in the power. Do you know
Speaker 14: any place I can check?
Speaker 2: Is this like a little pond in the ground or
Speaker 2: is this like a little bowl above ground that holds
Speaker 2: the water.
Speaker 14: Hold just like berstwater like get in bed and all
Speaker 14: kind of stuff drinking the same same place just like
Speaker 14: you know.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know what Okay, I don't
Speaker 2: know what. Powder on? Okay, why don't we do this? Abraham?
Speaker 2: I'm going to put you on and my well, I
Speaker 2: can't see it right now, but I will. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: put you on hold and makes you get an email.
Speaker 2: So you can email me that a picture if you
Speaker 2: don't already have it, and they'll take a look at
Speaker 2: it and see what I can see. I'm gonna have
Speaker 2: to run. We're at the end of the hour. Uh. Okay,
Speaker 2: I'm going to put you on hold and my producer
Speaker 2: will give you my email. Okay, just hang on, don't
Speaker 2: hang out. Yeah you bet, Yeah, and thanks for the call.
Speaker 2: Appreciate that.
Speaker 13: Uh.
Speaker 2: I've talked a lot about Medina products. Medina has been
Speaker 2: around for a very long time, and gardeners have been
Speaker 2: fans of Medina for a very long time. The Medina
Speaker 2: Soil Activator is one of their most famous products that
Speaker 2: they put out there. They have taken Medina Soil Activator
Speaker 2: and added to it some things and called it Medina Plus.
Speaker 2: And that Medina Plus has over forty different trace elements.
Speaker 2: It's got natural growth hormones from seaweed, It's got a
Speaker 2: number of different additional nutrients, including even things like vitamins
Speaker 2: and trace elements, and it just works. I just planted
Speaker 2: a whole bit of strawberries. I don't know what I'm
Speaker 2: gonna do if they'll start producing. I keep joking, you'll
Speaker 2: have to bring strawberry your produce to the station. When
Speaker 2: I advise you on something, I may have to take
Speaker 2: my strawberries to your house because I'm going to have
Speaker 2: more strawberries than I know what to do with. But anyway,
Speaker 2: and one reason I am is when I planted on
Speaker 2: my watered amen with medina plus, you just put it
Speaker 2: in a watering can. That's how I do it. And
Speaker 2: anything you plan, I mean tomato plants, broccoli plants, herb plants,
Speaker 2: rose bushes. Shrubs it up, drench it in over the
Speaker 2: soil and give those plants a head start boost. It's
Speaker 2: okay to get it on the foliage. In fact, if
Speaker 2: you've got foliage above on what you're planning, you can
Speaker 2: sprinkle it over there because it also is a good
Speaker 2: folio feed and will not burn. Thedina plus widely available
Speaker 2: here in the Houston area, easy to find. And I'll
Speaker 2: just say this, when you think about a plant going
Speaker 2: in the ground, think about the dina plus put any
Speaker 2: at the same time. It can be used for other things,
Speaker 2: but definitely let that transplanting get that in the ground.
Speaker 2: I don't know how time flies like this, but I'm
Speaker 2: having a good time. I hope you are. We're about
Speaker 2: to put an hour in the books. Next Saturday, I'm
Speaker 2: going to be at the Ace Hardware storing Katie. Katie
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Speaker 2: come back from this break. But twelve to two, go
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Speaker 2: we're going to be giving away a lot of cool stuff.
Speaker 2: I love to meet all of you the way out
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Speaker 2: mushroom compost. I remember mushroom compost from years ago probably
Speaker 2: oh gosh, I don't even remember how many years, over
Speaker 2: thirty I know in the Conro area. I had a
Speaker 2: little demonstration garden at the extension office and it was
Speaker 2: a vacant lot that the builders had scraped everything off
Speaker 2: of because that's what you do when you're gonna put
Speaker 2: a building in, you know, you just get all flat
Speaker 2: and hardened level so you can drop a building on it. Well,
Speaker 2: it was horrible, I mean, it wouldn't grow. The weeds
Speaker 2: it grew were even shartruse colored. They weren't They couldn't
Speaker 2: even fully turn green. We went out there, we spread
Speaker 2: mushroom compost. We disked it in with a little tractor
Speaker 2: with a disc behind it and so not an't even
Speaker 2: any fine rodotilling thing, and then scattered rye grass seed
Speaker 2: all over that area. Some of it went past where
Speaker 2: the mushroom compost was. We were just scattering it over.
Speaker 2: When that came up where there wasn't mushroom compost, the
Speaker 2: rye grass seed was spin ley. You could see soil
Speaker 2: between the little spinley rye grass plants where there was
Speaker 2: mushroom compost. That rye grass was emerald green, like two
Speaker 2: feet toll flopping back over again and just dense, dense dance.
Speaker 2: And the only difference and water differently, it was just rainfall,
Speaker 2: same seeds it was. It was the mushroom compost. And
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Speaker 2: I always talk about the soil. Dale in Jersey Village
Speaker 2: is our next caller, up Dale, Welcome to garden.
Speaker 17: Line, Good morning, Thank you for all you do. Two
Speaker 17: questions one is just if it's I don't know if
Speaker 17: it does it good or bad at this point in
Speaker 17: time to trim or to prune some roses.
Speaker 2: That's one.
Speaker 17: And the second question is I think the name of
Speaker 17: the the other type of weed slash grass in my
Speaker 17: Saint Augustine Bahia or Bari.
Speaker 2: Something like that.
Speaker 17: It has the V type seed, if you know what
Speaker 17: I mean, what's the best way of creating that in
Speaker 17: my life? And it's quite a few different places, so
Speaker 17: it's not a small amount to dig dig out will
Speaker 17: not be practical so.
Speaker 2: Yeah, uh yeah, okay, Oh boy, are you pretty sure
Speaker 2: it's behea? Yeah, yeah, okay, because for me to go,
Speaker 2: you know, recommending something it, we need to make sure
Speaker 2: we have the right weed, you know, or right, I
Speaker 2: would be mistaking you. So the hair grass is it
Speaker 2: is a very tough grass. You see it everywhere on
Speaker 2: the roadsides and whatnot, and it's a challenge, you know,
Speaker 2: to get it under control. The hair grass. I think,
Speaker 2: let me see what is the product that controls that
Speaker 2: selectively in Saint Augustine's. I won't try to find it.
Speaker 2: It's gonna take me just a second to find it.
Speaker 2: I think I know what it is, but I don't
Speaker 2: want to say it until I'm sure I'll find it
Speaker 2: here in just a second. But you had a follow
Speaker 2: up question. Let's go to that one for just a moment. Then, yeah,
Speaker 2: not follow up, but another right, okay, another question, okay,
Speaker 2: go ahead. Huh what it was? The other question?
Speaker 17: Roses if now is a good time to prune or
Speaker 17: should I hold off till later on the ear or
Speaker 17: to say spring?
Speaker 2: I don't know. Yeah, actually I would not prune them now.
Speaker 2: I think it would be better, you know, to hold
Speaker 2: off on Yeah, to hold off on that. The thing
Speaker 2: that pruning does is it stimulates growth. And when you
Speaker 2: stimulate growth, and we're, you know, just about to go
Speaker 2: into this cold, cold weather, then you end up getting
Speaker 2: more problems uh there on your on your lawns, I mean,
Speaker 2: excuse me, on your roses.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 2: And so I would hold off and probably when we
Speaker 2: get into February, go ahead and do most of your
Speaker 2: pruning at that time. Okay, Yeah, I am not finding
Speaker 2: the answer on behaey. I'm I'm pretty sure that a
Speaker 2: product called man or M A n O R will
Speaker 2: control it. But I tell you what I'm going to do.
Speaker 2: Dale as I get a chance here and breaks and stuff,
Speaker 2: I'm going to look into that because I should have
Speaker 2: it at the top of my head and I just
Speaker 2: want to be sure that I'm correct about it. But
Speaker 2: that is a product that you can put down that
Speaker 2: kills bhean doesn't kill your saint Augustine.
Speaker 15: Uh.
Speaker 2: But I'll just have to I'll just have to hunt
Speaker 2: it down when I can actually do it. I can't
Speaker 2: walk in chew gum at the same time, So talking
Speaker 2: and searching, isn't it. Yes, thank you very much, and
Speaker 2: good luck with those roses too. I'm glad to hear
Speaker 2: you have those. Our phone number seven one three two
Speaker 2: one two k t R H seven one three two
Speaker 2: one two k t R h. Uh. If you have
Speaker 2: a question and I'd like to give us a call,
Speaker 2: be happy to answer that. I am checking the my
Speaker 2: email periodically and people will often email me and send
Speaker 2: photos and we want to I want to be able
Speaker 2: to help that way as well. A lot of times,
Speaker 2: you know, I'll get a question and there's the description
Speaker 2: or maybe someone I get. I get this a lot.
Speaker 2: People say I've got crib grass in my lawn, and
Speaker 2: I think about half the time, it's not crabgrass that
Speaker 2: they have in their lawn. It's just crabgrass. Everybody knows it.
Speaker 2: And it looks like other grasses. Grasses look like grasses.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: And that's probably where people are coming up with that.
Speaker 2: But anyway, being able to know for sure, have a picture,
Speaker 2: make sure we're right about the identification that helps us
Speaker 2: with the diagnosis and recommended controls. All right, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: take a quick break. I'll be right back.
Speaker 6: All right.
Speaker 2: Welcome back, folks. Good to be back with you. We
Speaker 2: were just having that question about controlling the haagrass and
Speaker 2: a Saint Augustine lawn and I was correct. The first
Speaker 2: thought that came to I was man or M A
Speaker 2: and O R. It's a selective herbicide. It's also sold
Speaker 2: in other names like MSM turf. That's another name for it.
Speaker 2: There are some other names. I won't give all that
Speaker 2: on the ear. But if you got to be careful
Speaker 2: with manner. A manner can severely damage shrubs and trees.
Speaker 2: So don't spray it onto your flower beds for example.
Speaker 2: Just get it on the turf, don't overapply it as always,
Speaker 2: follow the label and don't do it right before you
Speaker 2: get a gully washer rain to wash it downe in
Speaker 2: the root system. You want to be real careful with
Speaker 2: It's very effect of herbicide, but you gotta be careful
Speaker 2: also follow again, follow the label. It can yellow you're
Speaker 2: Saint Augustine a little bit. But we're talking about trying
Speaker 2: to kill a grass and a grass which generally is
Speaker 2: quite impossible to try to do uh, but manner will
Speaker 2: do that. If you want to go that route with it.
Speaker 2: There are some other things that you can use. You
Speaker 2: can spot treat with anything that kills the grass. You
Speaker 2: can spot treat with that if you just have some
Speaker 2: behavior and there that pray be the better way to
Speaker 2: go about it. All right, We're going to go out
Speaker 2: to Eagle Lake, Texas and talk to Stanley. Hey, Stanley,
Speaker 2: welcome to guarden Line.
Speaker 6: Hey.
Speaker 18: Regarding regarding.
Speaker 6: Previously, Hey you great, I guess I can say. It's fun.
Speaker 2: Stanley. Uh, you're cutting out a lot, so I'm having
Speaker 2: a hard time following you. Just go ahead. I heard
Speaker 2: that regarding by Hey, you were going to give me
Speaker 2: something you'd used.
Speaker 18: Sammarron.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, that's even I find but I.
Speaker 18: Use that in hay patches, and I mean it took
Speaker 18: me a second when he was talking about it, but yeah,
Speaker 18: I guess it doesn't hurt Saint Augustine. I don't know.
Speaker 2: But AnyWho, well, I didn't know that it has a
Speaker 2: Saint august I just have to say, since a lot
Speaker 2: of people are listening, and people don't always listen carefully,
Speaker 2: do not use that on Saint Augustine without checking the label. Folks.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure it has a label for Saint Augustine.
Speaker 2: But okay, go ahead, Stanley.
Speaker 18: Neither am I but I wanted to compliment you on
Speaker 18: your soapbox earlier this morning and talking about kids, which
Speaker 18: one talking about kids and grandkids whatever. I mean, uh,
Speaker 18: and just just if you haven't planned the garden, do it.
Speaker 18: And you know, turnips like for kids, you know, if
Speaker 18: you remember when you and I were young, I mean,
Speaker 18: like turnip seed they come up in what four days
Speaker 18: for example?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know just now yeah, well there you go.
Speaker 18: So you know it's something that way, you know, because
Speaker 18: attention span on children, but it works. And broccoli you
Speaker 18: were you were talking about broccoli and if with limited space,
Speaker 18: I mean once you cut the head off and and
Speaker 18: you know the main stem I mean a little bit later,
Speaker 18: you have little flower ets that you can throw in
Speaker 18: a salad or something some Yeah. Yeah, so as opposed
Speaker 18: to cauliflower, you cut that off and you're done. I
Speaker 18: mean you've got dead space now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I understand that that is true. Hey, thank you
Speaker 2: Stanley for giving us a call.
Speaker 18: Y'all have a great one. Thank you, bye bye.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you take care, that's for sure. Now is the
Speaker 2: time for your fall lawn care. I keep telling you
Speaker 2: every day you wait is not good because one of
Speaker 2: these days the weeds are going to be up. One
Speaker 2: of these days the brown patch circles are going to
Speaker 2: be there. One of these days, it's going to be
Speaker 2: so cold that root's ability to take up some of
Speaker 2: these nutrients is going to be greatly reduced. And so
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Speaker 2: stunningly beautiful. I was pulling some weeds in the front yard.
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Speaker 2: does not control their weeds, and their weeds go to seed,
Speaker 2: and the seed comes to see me. Because my yard
Speaker 2: is a place that wants to be So every fall
Speaker 2: I go out and here comes the fall aster. It's
Speaker 2: actually called slender aster. You don't really notice them through
Speaker 2: the year, although I've kind of learned to see them
Speaker 2: because they have a dark blue green color of the leaf,
Speaker 2: a very thin strappy leaves blue green color. But you
Speaker 2: know they're there when it's time to bloom, and that's fall,
Speaker 2: that's October. They start producing these little dime sized flowers
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Speaker 2: got to take action. It's too late to spray them.
Speaker 2: So I go out in the morning. If I have
Speaker 2: to wet the soil just to get it soft, go
Speaker 2: out and every one of those things is coming out
Speaker 2: of a tap root, and you may see something the
Speaker 2: size of the steer wheel on your car growing everywhere.
Speaker 2: Catch it at first, bloom, grab it and pull it
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Speaker 2: seeds that will then be making it worse next year.
Speaker 2: And I know people don't like to hand pull weeds,
Speaker 2: but you know, take my little kneeling bench out there,
Speaker 2: my folding kneeling bench by the way they got those
Speaker 2: Southwest fertilizer, and I just kneel down a cup of
Speaker 2: coffee usually out there, setting down in the grass to enjoy,
Speaker 2: and just pull a few pill a five gallon bucket
Speaker 2: here and there. I saw a guy the other day
Speaker 2: that had probably four wheelbarrows full of those things because
Speaker 2: they had cleaned. They were cleaning them out of their
Speaker 2: entire front yard where they had proliferated. Don't let it
Speaker 2: get that far along. Just when you see them, go
Speaker 2: ahead and get them real quick. If your neighbor will
Speaker 2: let you pull a few on the other side of
Speaker 2: the line there this year, would make your life easier
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Speaker 2: that's what I was spending some time doing out there. Well,
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Speaker 2: we're focusing on getting the soil right and getting the weeds,
Speaker 2: diseases and just the health of the turf in our
Speaker 2: lawns in better shape. Ace Hardware's got you covered. You
Speaker 2: want to talk about the three step, the nitroposs has
Speaker 2: the Texas three step. That is a fertilizer, that is
Speaker 2: a weed control, and that is a disease control. Go
Speaker 2: to Ace Hardware. You're going to find all three and
Speaker 2: Ace Hardware is all over the place, forty plus stores
Speaker 2: here in the area. Make it easy, but don't delay.
Speaker 2: Get out there this afternoon, get that stuff, get it
Speaker 2: down because we are you know, the first little colfront
Speaker 2: comes in, get a little bit of rain, and these
Speaker 2: weeds are they are ready to They're on the verge
Speaker 2: of sprouting right now, so we need to get that
Speaker 2: down asap, watered in with a half inch of water,
Speaker 2: put all three down. All three of those down the
Speaker 2: three step and watered in real good and Ace Hardware's
Speaker 2: got you covered on it. They got the fire baits,
Speaker 2: They've got everything you would need to do this season
Speaker 2: of the year, and in fact, any season of the year.
Speaker 2: I'm going to head out.
Speaker 19: Now.
Speaker 2: Let's see, we're going to go to gym in Meadows Place.
Speaker 2: Hello Jim, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 6: Hello Rick.
Speaker 8: About two weeks ago, a friend gave me three crape myrtles.
Speaker 8: One of them is about three foot tall, the other
Speaker 8: two were about five foot tall. They had a limited
Speaker 8: root base on them, and I dug up my spots.
Speaker 8: I added some premium potting saw I got from garden
Speaker 8: store and water moon, soaked the ground with the root
Speaker 8: stimulator and planted them. The small one, the three footer,
Speaker 8: is doing well, got green leaves, seems to be doing okay.
Speaker 8: The two five footers with their limited root ball, We're
Speaker 8: all green when I put them in, But after about
Speaker 8: four days all the leaves have died, and I'm wondering
Speaker 8: if then I'm not going to be able to save them.
Speaker 8: There's still some green wood on the big ones, but
Speaker 8: all the leaves that were on their died.
Speaker 6: Can I say it should I.
Speaker 2: Wait, I don't think they should have died. They should
Speaker 2: have died that fast. Some sort of stress, transplant shock,
Speaker 2: a little bit of droughty period for they got in
Speaker 2: the ground, or who knows what caused them to drop
Speaker 2: the leaves. Plus it's a season where micrapes that are
Speaker 2: growing in the yard are dropping their leaves. I've been
Speaker 2: for a while, so just make sure the soil stays moist.
Speaker 2: Don't keep it soggy, trying to overwater, but just keep
Speaker 2: it moist. And I think they're going to come out
Speaker 2: in spring and be just fine. Sounds like you did
Speaker 2: everything you need to do. You're on a good start.
Speaker 2: As they begin growing next spring, just get you some
Speaker 2: some fertilizer for shrubs and trees. Put it out there
Speaker 2: and give them a little boost.
Speaker 8: Already got that.
Speaker 6: I got some great fertilizer. All right, ready to go?
Speaker 14: Okay, well, all right, thank you.
Speaker 6: I'll give them a shot.
Speaker 2: Thank you, sir. I appreciate your call. Let's see here,
Speaker 2: all of a sudden people woke up and found the phones.
Speaker 2: These are all the aggies that partied all night last night.
Speaker 2: They're finally getting a little bit donald in West Houston.
Speaker 2: Welcome to Carlne.
Speaker 16: How are you.
Speaker 2: I'm good, I'm good.
Speaker 16: Now here's a question. Yeah, what about walking around with
Speaker 16: a long nozzle prop Paine torch. They make one that
Speaker 16: you hold in your hand and you put the standard
Speaker 16: canister on it and running those weeds.
Speaker 2: That can be done if people do that, especially when
Speaker 2: you got like a brick sidewalk and the weeds you're
Speaker 2: coming up in the cracks and those things. Once you
Speaker 2: get out in the garden and you got you know,
Speaker 2: mulches and I don't know, dry grass or something as
Speaker 2: dry as everything is now, I'd be a little concerned.
Speaker 2: But if it's if there's nothing desirable in that area
Speaker 2: and you don't have dry burnable stuff on the surface,
Speaker 2: that's that's a legit deal. I've got one of those
Speaker 2: and I use it driveway and weeds come up in
Speaker 2: the driveway because it's hard to get in there with
Speaker 2: a little hoe and get them out of me. You
Speaker 2: can spray them too, but it's just another option.
Speaker 16: Yeah, And because a lot of people are kind of
Speaker 16: against the round up spring, you know, you want to
Speaker 16: spray round up around that's that's commercially. That's how they
Speaker 16: do it. So does it kill the roots though? When
Speaker 16: you when you burn the top of the plant of
Speaker 16: the weeds off that it doesn't kill the roots, especially
Speaker 16: the dandelion.
Speaker 6: No.
Speaker 16: Oh, so they'll be.
Speaker 2: Back, No, it doesn't. They'll be back. Yeah, they'll be back.
Speaker 2: And if it's a very young plant, maybe, but if
Speaker 2: it but some plants or annuals and they don't have
Speaker 2: a system, that's going to come back. If it were
Speaker 2: bermuda grass, it would bounce back through. If it's something
Speaker 2: that's got underground structures like nut grass, that's gonna come
Speaker 2: right back through that too.
Speaker 16: Right, But you said you have a torch. You have
Speaker 16: a torch, so you know it would be a week
Speaker 16: two three probably, but two or three weeks before they
Speaker 16: might even show up again. So you just take another
Speaker 16: little pass on them with the burner and they're gone again.
Speaker 2: Right, you could do that. Yeah, if you if you
Speaker 2: never let them up for air, never let them a
Speaker 2: chance to get gas on sunlight very long, you will
Speaker 2: win that. You'll weaken them and you'll win that way too. Hey, Donald,
Speaker 2: I got a few other calls I need to run to.
Speaker 2: But good luck with that. Be careful though, be careful
Speaker 2: out there. Let's see we are gonna I wanted to
Speaker 2: just go to Lakes Side Estates and talk to Maureene. Hey, Maureen,
Speaker 2: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 20: Yes, good morning, and you nailed me. I watched the
Speaker 20: AM game and.
Speaker 2: I wondered why y'all weren't calling.
Speaker 20: Well, no, I've been up for a while trying to
Speaker 20: catch up from.
Speaker 16: What I want than doing while I was watching the game.
Speaker 20: Okay, so here's the question. I always listened to you,
Speaker 20: and but I didn't have a pencil to write it down.
Speaker 20: You were talking about some plants have a disease, and
Speaker 20: the plant some I believe you were talking about was
Speaker 20: Vinca or dianthus, and there was nothing wrong with them
Speaker 20: if they didn't get the disease. But you mentioned a
Speaker 20: plant that was more resistant. It sounded like collistrum or no.
Speaker 12: Whatever.
Speaker 20: It was just a little it just had it was
Speaker 20: more resistant. So I guess I have to listen.
Speaker 2: To the Let me do well, let me do that
Speaker 2: said something else?
Speaker 8: Go ahead and tell.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I liked I called vinca madagascar periwinkle, because we
Speaker 2: have other things like a vining groundcover called venca too,
Speaker 2: and so anyway, that that plant the summer bloomer and pink,
Speaker 2: red and yellow and white. Uh, that plant can get
Speaker 2: a disease that wipes it out. And there are there
Speaker 2: is a resistant variety called Cora c o r a
Speaker 2: like the girl's name. It doesn't resistant to that disease.
Speaker 2: So if you want you need to get you need
Speaker 2: to get Cora vinka and and that will be resistant.
Speaker 2: Maybe that's what you're talking thinking, Yes.
Speaker 13: It was, I just knew it was the sea.
Speaker 14: But I've been reading a.
Speaker 10: Lot about that.
Speaker 2: That's the summer. Yeah, that's that's a summertime.
Speaker 20: Okay, So what can I get?
Speaker 6: Like the vinka?
Speaker 20: I like the dianthus and the venka because they have
Speaker 20: lots of variety of colors. So you can suggest something
Speaker 20: else other than snap. Dragons that don't do well with snap, Well,
Speaker 20: I need partial sonkay.
Speaker 2: Okay? Well, uh, stock stock is pretty good in a
Speaker 2: partial sun pretty much if it's a flower. Almost all
Speaker 2: of them like sun because that helps them make carbohydrates.
Speaker 2: But I would say another one. I like Viola's even
Speaker 2: better than pansies in the cool season. They're extremely cold
Speaker 2: hearty and they produce a lot more blooms than pansies,
Speaker 2: even though they're smaller blooms. And after a rain, the
Speaker 2: pansy blooms kind of get beat up pretty good, and
Speaker 2: the viola blooms seem to just keep going better. So
Speaker 2: a viola would be one I would put in the
Speaker 2: cool season garden.
Speaker 20: And for distance, for distance from my sidewalk, I get
Speaker 20: a particular color I used to do when I've forgotten.
Speaker 14: What it was.
Speaker 5: Usually I would do.
Speaker 2: It's going to be if it's no, No, it needs
Speaker 2: to be a light bright color, especially in semi shade,
Speaker 2: so light blues and bright yellows and white and things
Speaker 2: like that. Hey, I'm there telling me in my ear
Speaker 2: I got to go to a commercial. Thanks for the call, Marine,
Speaker 2: I really appreciate it very much. When we come back,
Speaker 2: let's see we've got Edward and Carol and Howard. You'll
Speaker 2: be the first ones out, all right, Welcome back, Welcome
Speaker 2: back to the garden line. Good to have you with us.
Speaker 2: We are rolling today, got a lot of things to
Speaker 2: cover and talk about. You know, I was selling you
Speaker 2: Microlife had that micro grow bioinoculant. That's a dry granular.
Speaker 2: You can buy it in a bag. You can buy
Speaker 2: it in on one of the canisters plastic screw top
Speaker 2: lid canisters. Either way. If you're looking for something similar
Speaker 2: that is a liquid, they had Microlife liquid AF liquid AF.
Speaker 2: It's also kind of in a maroon colored container. Buy
Speaker 2: by the gallons what I'd recommend. But it has the
Speaker 2: inoculation of all kinds of beneficial, very important microbes that
Speaker 2: help fight soil and leaf pathogen. So you could use
Speaker 2: it as a foliar spray. Then a spore lands on
Speaker 2: a leaf and tries to attack, and you got things
Speaker 2: on that leaf that are fighting that disease. You could
Speaker 2: also use it as a drench. You could use it
Speaker 2: as a folio spray over it through your flower beds,
Speaker 2: through your lawn even if you would want to go
Speaker 2: that route. One gallon jug micro Grow liquid AF would
Speaker 2: be a good thing also to have on hand for
Speaker 2: that natural approach to disease control. I'm going to head
Speaker 2: now to let's see here who is who is hung
Speaker 2: with us through the break. We're gonna go to Ed
Speaker 2: and Dan Berry. Hey, Ed, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 6: Hik you I question hurt gang barrow. When it hit,
Speaker 6: I had about a twenty foot tall cond tree and
Speaker 6: a forty foot sycamore tree fall on the east side
Speaker 6: of it, broke some limbs off. Should I put some
Speaker 6: prune and spray or something with all those collars are.
Speaker 2: No, you don't need to on a pecond tree. But
Speaker 2: where it's all broken typically, yeah, Typically where branches break,
Speaker 2: it's a very rough break, and you know it, it's
Speaker 2: not gonna heal well. So usually you'll go back in there,
Speaker 2: follow that branch back and cut it off where it
Speaker 2: joins another branch with a fresh cut, that would be better.
Speaker 2: But the treatment of a spray or a printing paint
Speaker 2: that's not necessary.
Speaker 6: So I'll do that about teguary normally, because I might
Speaker 6: have to trim that west side real hard. It's gonna
Speaker 6: grow all uneven. Yeah, he be on with the west side.
Speaker 2: Next question, well do that, I'll go ahead, No, I said, yeah,
Speaker 2: go do that.
Speaker 6: Okay. The next question is BlackBerry bushes. I bought two
Speaker 6: at pro Birds and I got them to Siftoes. I
Speaker 6: overfertilized one and killed it. I was curious, where's a
Speaker 6: good place to get any this time of the year.
Speaker 2: Oh gosh, they're They're available all over the place.
Speaker 12: Uh.
Speaker 2: That I didn't realize Probergs carried those things. That's that's
Speaker 2: kind of news.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I found them there and I just had a
Speaker 6: few on the table and I bought two of them.
Speaker 6: That's the first time I ever saw in there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm looking at let's see what's near down there
Speaker 2: near you. I would drive up to Alvin and I
Speaker 2: would go to jose hold on just a second, let
Speaker 2: me get his phone, his numb contact information here for you.
Speaker 2: He has a backyard garden center there and he does
Speaker 2: carry fruit and so you're gonna be able to get
Speaker 2: blackberries from him.
Speaker 6: Just a second, get all right on the.
Speaker 2: Dead air space is bad radio, and all right now,
Speaker 2: Heyjorges Hidden Gardens. I just I was letting go the
Speaker 2: things go silent, which you don't do on the radio.
Speaker 2: Jorges Hidden Gardens is on Elizabeth Street in Alvin, south
Speaker 2: of Highway sixth, so it's it's pretty close to you
Speaker 2: or Hayes Hidden Gardens Ores Hidden Gardens. He's opened today
Speaker 2: from eight to four, that's the weekend hours and during
Speaker 2: the week closed on Monday and open Tuesday through Friday
Speaker 2: from nine to three. Oh right, you got to run here.
Speaker 2: I don't have one right here in front of me.
Speaker 2: But you can find.
Speaker 6: Him, okay, Elizabeth Street off Highway six.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you, just do a search for him. You
Speaker 2: bet you take care. Thanks for the cow book. Uh,
Speaker 2: there we go, all right. Three sixty tree stabilizer. If
Speaker 2: you're going to plant a tree, you need a three
Speaker 2: sixty tree stabilizer. And I really mean that. I'm not
Speaker 2: being facetious when I say that. I have done the
Speaker 2: thing where you cut pieces of garden hose, put them
Speaker 2: through wires and strap it down. You know those guy
Speaker 2: wires to steaks on the ground and three different directions,
Speaker 2: and now you've got something to trip over. You had
Speaker 2: to go buy wire and go do these things and
Speaker 2: steaks and it's it's just a hassle. A three sixty
Speaker 2: tree stable is a stiff, a very strong plastic arm
Speaker 2: that attaches to a post. In fact, it even comes
Speaker 2: with the thing that attaches perfectly to a t post,
Speaker 2: so you can just hammer one in the ground, you know,
Speaker 2: a couple of feet away from the plant. Attach that,
Speaker 2: and then the other side attaches to your tree. But
Speaker 2: it holds it loosely with a soft rubber type strap
Speaker 2: that allows some movement, but not too much and a
Speaker 2: little bit of movement helps the root structure gets stronger,
Speaker 2: and it helps the trunk structure get stronger. Plants grow
Speaker 2: stronger when there's movement, when they're stressed just a little bit,
Speaker 2: when they're stretched and bent and things like that. Three
Speaker 2: sixty allows that. And you can find these in a
Speaker 2: lot of different places. You find them, you know Sienamltch.
Speaker 2: I just mentioned Jorge Hidden Gardens. Orge has them down
Speaker 2: there in Alvin Southwest Fertilizer. You go up to Arborgate
Speaker 2: or Buchanans Native Plants or Plants for all Seasons RCW.
Speaker 2: These are all places that you can get the three
Speaker 2: sixty tree stabilizer. And I would recommend having it because
Speaker 2: you're going to hang it up on the shelf after
Speaker 2: it's done, after you've used it, and the next time
Speaker 2: you need to plant something, you're ready to go, or
Speaker 2: maybe you got a neighbor that would like to borrow it.
Speaker 2: Three sixty tree Stabilizer. Let's go back now to Parland
Speaker 2: and we're going to talk to Howard. Hello, Howard, welcome
Speaker 2: to Regard Line.
Speaker 5: Good morning, Skip. How are you.
Speaker 2: I'm well? Thank you?
Speaker 5: Yeah, let me take it off. Speaker might be easier.
Speaker 5: See if I can do that. Okay, this is probably better.
Speaker 5: I had sent you in some pictures earlier in the
Speaker 5: week of some of my hot pepper plants.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, and I'm I'm finding them. I'm pulling them up.
Speaker 5: Yeah. The leave for a little bit, Yeah, stunted and curled.
Speaker 2: And you said it was probably.
Speaker 5: A nutrient deficiency, but I should give you a call,
Speaker 5: So here I am.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it looks like nutrient deficiency, the curling, the twisting.
Speaker 2: It could also be a virus. There are a lot
Speaker 2: of different viruses that can get into plants. And you know,
Speaker 2: a virus typically occurs on new growth, so it's the
Speaker 2: new like if you have an old leave, that leaf
Speaker 2: that's normal, it doesn't become twisted, it stays normal, and
Speaker 2: then the new growth shows the twisting on a virus.
Speaker 2: So you might look your plants over. From what I
Speaker 2: can see kind of in the fuzzy distance in the picture,
Speaker 2: it looks like you had some normal leaves for a
Speaker 2: while that now have But I see a lot of
Speaker 2: what looks to me like iron deficiency, possibly a little
Speaker 2: bit of magnesium deficiency. But that's just kind of guessing
Speaker 2: from a photoshot. I would get a good complete fertilizer,
Speaker 2: work it into the soil, especially one with micro nutrients.
Speaker 2: Now that pepper is about to be toasted when we
Speaker 2: get some cold weather. So I don't know if it's
Speaker 2: worth trying to save this one, but if that starts
Speaker 2: to happen again, definitely a good fertilizer that contains micros.
Speaker 2: You could even get some aze mine and put it
Speaker 2: in the soil, and then a spray that would would
Speaker 2: be a liquid that you could spray on them to
Speaker 2: do the same thing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know what, Like you said, it's once you
Speaker 5: get the cold weather, they're going to be gone. I'm
Speaker 5: thinking it might almost be beneficial to me at this
Speaker 5: point just to uproot them, get some fresh soil. He'll
Speaker 5: lay it down in the in the bucket cover. I
Speaker 5: cover it usually with like trash bags to keep the
Speaker 5: weeds out of it. And when spring rolls are on
Speaker 5: the corner, which would be right after January here in Houston, yeah,
Speaker 5: I'll get some more pepper plants and start again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you could do that. You could even mix in.
Speaker 2: These are in containers, you said, right, Yeah, these are.
Speaker 5: In those thirty five gallon mesh bags.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, yeah, you could even mix in something, you know,
Speaker 2: like a microlife. I would just use the standard green
Speaker 2: bag sixty four microlife in there. Mix it down in
Speaker 2: really well because it's going to slowly decompose and release
Speaker 2: and stimulate some microbactivity. And anytime you had compost or
Speaker 2: what was once alive, you're adding micros because it took
Speaker 2: micros to grow the plant material that they make the
Speaker 2: material out of. So you know you're getting iron and
Speaker 2: zinc and all kinds of things when you had composts,
Speaker 2: because that's that's where it took to grow the plant
Speaker 2: successfully that's now been composted. So that'd be my recommendation.
Speaker 5: Okay, I'm good. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: All right, you bet, thank you very much. I appreciate
Speaker 2: I appreciate your call. Well, there, there we go, there
Speaker 2: we go. We are now back in the big middle
Speaker 2: of a excuse my brain just went sideways of a
Speaker 2: commercial break. I wanted to mention I'm going to be
Speaker 2: at Katya's Hardware or Katie Hardware. It's on pin Oak Road,
Speaker 2: hen Oak Road in Katie. I'll be there next Saturday
Speaker 2: from noon until two. Definitely want to come out, bring
Speaker 2: your samples and plants and questions and let's have some fun.
Speaker 2: There'll be a lot of giveaways as well.
Speaker 1: Welcome to kt RAGED garden Line with Scar Richard.
Speaker 3: It's crazy just watching as many things to see.
Speaker 2: You're not a sign. Welcome to guarden Line, folks. It
Speaker 2: is good to have you with us, Glad to have
Speaker 2: you back. Thanks for being a listener to guarden Line.
Speaker 2: By the way, we really appreciate that. It is a
Speaker 2: lot of fun to get to talk to gardeners and
Speaker 2: help you have success. It breaks my heart to hear
Speaker 2: someone say I tried gardening, I got a brown thumb.
Speaker 2: I can't do it.
Speaker 4: You do not.
Speaker 2: You cannot fail at gardening. You do not have a
Speaker 2: brown thumb. You can give up at gardening, and you
Speaker 2: cannot continue to learn. You know, the more you learn,
Speaker 2: the greener your thumb gets. It's true, because all the
Speaker 2: green thumb is is people that know the right things
Speaker 2: to do to make plants happy. You understand a plant,
Speaker 2: your thumb gets greener. And that's what we do here
Speaker 2: on garden Line that and hopefully help you have some
Speaker 2: fun in the process. Warrens Southern Gardens and Kingwood Garden
Speaker 2: Center they're both out there in Kingwood. Warns is on
Speaker 2: North Park, Kingwood's on Stone Hollow. Both open seven days
Speaker 2: a week out of Warrens set. Right now, they've got
Speaker 2: their pansies party. What does that mean, Well, you buy
Speaker 2: a flat of four inch pot pansies. They're eighteen of
Speaker 2: them in a flat for twenty five bucks and it's
Speaker 2: going to go all the way to November third, So
Speaker 2: you don't have a lot of time here to drag
Speaker 2: your feet get that done. But you put those out,
Speaker 2: grab some pansy fertilizer while you're there and get those
Speaker 2: in the ground. You're gonna have color all the way
Speaker 2: through the cool season. Pansies are very, very cold, hardy.
Speaker 2: They also have Amarilla's bulbs in stock. They've got an
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Speaker 2: Kingwood Gardens that are both open seven days a week
Speaker 2: in Kingwood. I'm going to go now to Tomball, Texas
Speaker 2: and talk to David Hey. David, welcome to garden Line. Well,
Speaker 2: good morning, sir.
Speaker 5: Hey.
Speaker 21: I got two things. First thing is I've got it
Speaker 21: appears to be some kind of a fungus growing on
Speaker 21: my oak trees. It's kind of an avocado green and
Speaker 21: it just just just covering the round the trunk, going
Speaker 21: up about six feet or so. It doesn't bother me,
Speaker 21: but it is if it's harming the tree, I want
Speaker 21: to deal with it. The second thing is I'm okay,
Speaker 21: do what or The second thing is I was looking
Speaker 21: at your lawn for at your lawn furlization schedule, and
Speaker 21: I don't see anything about when to put barricade down.
Speaker 21: I want to get so aggressive to control these stickers.
Speaker 21: I've been fighting them for three years. I put the
Speaker 21: barricade down, and I just can't seem to get completely
Speaker 21: rid of them. So when, when and how much can
Speaker 21: I overdo it? I want to get rid of them stickers.
Speaker 2: All right, So be careful with overdoing it. You can
Speaker 2: damage your lawn. When you overdo a pre emergent herbicide,
Speaker 2: it'll affect the rooting of your lawn runners. So don't
Speaker 2: overdo it. Just follow the label. UH if you you
Speaker 2: found online My lawn care schedule also online at gardening
Speaker 2: with Skip dot com is a free lawn pest, disease
Speaker 2: and weed schedule. It goes from January to December, and
Speaker 2: as you go down it's like, what are we are?
Speaker 2: You're going to use a pre emergent or a post
Speaker 2: emergon on the weeds, how to control insects, how to
Speaker 2: control diseases, and it tells you when for everything. The
Speaker 2: bottom line is for grass in the lawn, is it
Speaker 2: a grasper or is it a broadly plant with a
Speaker 2: sticker on it?
Speaker 21: I think it's the grass birds and things that stick
Speaker 21: to your socks and tiny shoes when you're mowing grass.
Speaker 21: They can't walk through the yard barefoot.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, picker as you begin to get those, send
Speaker 2: me pictures of them, because there's several different stickery things
Speaker 2: that it could be, and a product that works on
Speaker 2: one may not work on the other. So anyway, the
Speaker 2: time to do that is in late February, okay, late February,
Speaker 2: and then you're going to want to repeat it about
Speaker 2: three months later, maybe two and a half months later.
Speaker 2: So let's see, that'd be March April, about mid May
Speaker 2: or early June, you know, probably mid May is when
Speaker 2: I would do it. I would repeat that application because
Speaker 2: those things will continue to sprout through the summer, and
Speaker 2: the product that prevents them doesn't last forever. It breaks down.
Speaker 21: Okay, And on your schedule it was called three.
Speaker 11: Two one.
Speaker 2: Oh oh no.
Speaker 21: The what was the name of the schedule?
Speaker 5: The publication.
Speaker 2: The publication is the Pest Disease and Weed Management schedule.
Speaker 2: If you go to gardening with skip dot com, it's
Speaker 2: just right there. It's easy. You can scroll down and
Speaker 2: see it. In fact, there's a little button there for
Speaker 2: my schedules, and both schedules in full color are there.
Speaker 2: I just print my not burnt and back so I
Speaker 2: can flip it over and know how to keep up
Speaker 2: with two pieces of paper.
Speaker 21: Okay, So what about the oak tree? Do do anything
Speaker 21: about the fungus it They ain't bothering me, But is
Speaker 21: it harming the tree?
Speaker 2: No? Now that's just on the bark it's grown on
Speaker 2: the outer bark and it just ignore it. There are
Speaker 2: a live things. Liking is the same way. Some of
Speaker 2: the mosses that grow on things are the same way.
Speaker 2: They're not a disease. They're just growing because they're getting
Speaker 2: the right amount of moisture and light and something to
Speaker 2: grow on that happens on oaks.
Speaker 21: Alrighty, thank you, that's all I got. Have a good dame.
Speaker 13: You too.
Speaker 2: Thanks, take care all right our phone number seven one
Speaker 2: three two one two fifty eight seventy four. You know,
Speaker 2: he was talking about the the things that we do
Speaker 2: in the fall and the nitropous three step. The three
Speaker 2: step method is a fertilizer in the fall that is
Speaker 2: designed for fall. It gets your grass into the fall
Speaker 2: season with a lot of carbohydrate build up, which is
Speaker 2: needed for cold heartiness and for spring growth. Your fall
Speaker 2: fertilizer is what fuels your early spring growth next year.
Speaker 2: So it's the most important fertilization of the year is
Speaker 2: in the fall. Second is nitropas barricade, which you put
Speaker 2: down and it prevents weeds seeds from coming through. It
Speaker 2: doesn't kill existing weeds. When a seed sprouts, it can't
Speaker 2: come through the barricade, that's why they call it a barricade.
Speaker 2: And then nitroposs Eagle turf fungicide is a systemic product
Speaker 2: that gets into the grass and so when let's say
Speaker 2: spores of brown patch, large patch, or take a root
Speaker 2: rod here, there is a protection in the plant against
Speaker 2: that infection. So all three of those need to be
Speaker 2: done asap. The longer you wait, the less good things
Speaker 2: are going to happen because he uses these you wait
Speaker 2: until we's already up too late for barricade. That's just
Speaker 2: an example. So get him done. Now, where do you
Speaker 2: find him, Well, you're going to find him at Ace Hardware,
Speaker 2: at Single Ranch. You're going to find him at the
Speaker 2: Arborgate tombol at Fisher's Hardware, both the ones in Baytown,
Speaker 2: the one in Mount Bellevue, the one in Pasadena. The
Speaker 2: Fishers Hardware and Report they all carry those things. And
Speaker 2: if you go to Katie Ace Hardware, you're going to
Speaker 2: find those two out there. Let's see you are listening
Speaker 2: to Guardenline our phone number seven one three two one
Speaker 2: two fifty eight seventy four. You know when I talk
Speaker 2: about nutrients and things, I also like to mention the
Speaker 2: product azo mighte ASA might is a micro nutrient, a
Speaker 2: trace than same thing micronutrient trace mineral product that you
Speaker 2: put in the soil to put those micros in the
Speaker 2: bank account of the soil. Now, some nutrients we need
Speaker 2: a lot of nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium. That's why you have
Speaker 2: three numbers on every fertilizer bag. Well, trace minerals are
Speaker 2: equally essential, but they're needed in tiny amounts, and that's
Speaker 2: why we do microlife fertilizers. That's why we do some
Speaker 2: of the things that have traces in them. Asamite is
Speaker 2: designed exactly for that kind of thing. You put azamite
Speaker 2: out in your lawn, watered in really good, you don't
Speaker 2: have to do about once a year, and you're going
Speaker 2: to be in really good shape going forward. It makes
Speaker 2: it easy, easy to do. It's building the bank account.
Speaker 2: It's not making the lawn grow, it's having the nutrients
Speaker 2: the lawn needs when it tries to grow. Go to
Speaker 2: Azamite Texas dot com. You're going to find asamite pretty
Speaker 2: much every place I talk about, you know, garden centers,
Speaker 2: land hardware store, ace hardware stores. The Southwest. Fertilizer feed
Speaker 2: stores also are going to carry asme. We'll be right back,
Speaker 2: and when we do, Dina, you'll be our first up.
Speaker 2: All right, folks, we're back. We are back here on
Speaker 2: a beautiful sunday talking gardening with you. If you'd like
Speaker 2: to give us call someone three two on two KTRH.
Speaker 2: We're going to run right out to the phones here
Speaker 2: and talk to Dina in League City. Hey, Dinna, welcome
Speaker 2: to Gardenline.
Speaker 13: Thank you taking a call. I have a question. Recently,
Speaker 13: Horhei cleaned out one of my flower beds and it
Speaker 13: looks great. I have roses in there and some peaches
Speaker 13: and monkey grass, but I see the baby nutsit coming
Speaker 13: back up. Can I use weed lead complete in it
Speaker 13: to prevent them coming up?
Speaker 16: From?
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 2: It won't work. What you need to do, And this
Speaker 2: is a it's a lot too what I'm going to say.
Speaker 2: So I'm going to refer you to my website where
Speaker 2: I've written something for that. It's Gardening with Skip dot
Speaker 2: com and there's a publication called Nutsedge and Inside Look,
Speaker 2: and I write about the how it grows and the
Speaker 2: timing of what you do and what you use. It's
Speaker 2: all there in that website tells you exactly what to
Speaker 2: buy and but bottom line, if I were to summarize it,
Speaker 2: it's when nutsedge comes up in your garden, let it
Speaker 2: get three to five leaves, and then treat it with
Speaker 2: one of the products that's on my list. One of
Speaker 2: them would be called sedge hammer. There's other sed gender.
Speaker 13: Pardon, can I use this in my yard?
Speaker 2: Can use sedgehammer in your yard?
Speaker 13: A sed hammer?
Speaker 2: Oh? Oh, I see what you're saying. The we complete
Speaker 2: it is fine to use in your yard. Just long
Speaker 2: read the label, make sure it's labeled for the kind
Speaker 2: of grass you have and all that. But I'm saying
Speaker 2: for the nuts edge, let it get threely And but
Speaker 2: you here's the deal, Denny. You gotta stay on it.
Speaker 2: Like two weeks later, I've been dealing with some in
Speaker 2: a bed, and two weeks later there's some new sprouts
Speaker 2: in there, and you just when they get three to
Speaker 2: five leaves, you get them. Don't leave them too long
Speaker 2: or they'll make a bunch of daughter plants. Now more
Speaker 2: nutsedge than you started with. But if on your.
Speaker 13: Website is it a granular.
Speaker 2: You mix No, No, you mix it in water and
Speaker 2: you spray it on the leaves or wipe it on
Speaker 2: the leaves. That's good. But if you're gonna there's a
Speaker 2: bunch of brands that are in that publication. But if
Speaker 2: you get sedgehammer, you want to get sedgehammer plus because
Speaker 2: it already has something in it to make it stick
Speaker 2: to those slick nutsedge leaves, sedge.
Speaker 16: Anything.
Speaker 6: It won't hurt.
Speaker 2: You got to read. There are a lot of different
Speaker 2: kinds of plants. If you get it. If you get
Speaker 2: it on some plants, it will hurt them. It will,
Speaker 2: but you have to read the label as to what
Speaker 2: you can use it around. But here's what I do.
Speaker 2: I use a wiper, a sponge of wiper that and
Speaker 2: I wipe it right on the nutsedge leaves. There's no
Speaker 2: need in spraying spray everywhere that might hurt something else.
Speaker 2: Just wipe it right on those nuts edge leaves. And
Speaker 2: I also on my website it shows you how to
Speaker 2: how to create a little homemade wiper that you can
Speaker 2: use to do that.
Speaker 13: Okay, he is putting mults after I do that, putting
Speaker 13: moulfs on top with that.
Speaker 2: Hell, it won't touch nut sage. It'll stop weed seeds
Speaker 2: of other weeds from coming out, but it won't hurt
Speaker 2: nutsedge at all. West as not.
Speaker 13: Put barricade after I cleaned out the flower bed. But
Speaker 13: that's not helping it at all, So okay, right.
Speaker 2: Barricade barricades for weed seeds. Okay, good, good luck with that, Nita,
Speaker 2: Thank you for the call. I appreciate that. You know,
Speaker 2: if you've got tree issues, folks, Affordable Trees the one
Speaker 2: to call. They've been a sponsor of guarden Line and
Speaker 2: the go to place since back when Randy was doing
Speaker 2: the show. Affordable Tree Service. Uh, here's the phone number.
Speaker 2: Seven one three six twenty six sixty three. Winter season
Speaker 2: prime time for getting pruning done. Get on Martin's schedule.
Speaker 2: Tell them you heard about it on guarden Line. Get
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Speaker 2: see what you got, see what's needed, and do it right.
Speaker 2: Whatever your trees need, mark and can do it, not
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Speaker 2: Martin or Joe does not answer the phone. You've called
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Speaker 2: That's Martin Spoon More Affordable Tree Service. We're gonna go
Speaker 2: now to Brookshire and talk to Louise. Hello, Louise, welcome
Speaker 2: to garden Line.
Speaker 12: Oh, thank you so much. Good morning, Skip, Good morning Houston,
Speaker 12: and good morning and our loud goos are God rest
Speaker 12: his soul. Randy Lemon, I just wanted to ask you, Skip,
Speaker 12: how do I combat this disease that is creeping on
Speaker 12: my junipers?
Speaker 16: I've got it.
Speaker 12: I had an Italian cypress, beautiful, fervent, dark green tree,
Speaker 12: and it started getting brown leaves, like brown brown branches,
Speaker 12: and before I knew it, it overtook the whole tree
Speaker 12: and the tree died. And now because the strong winds
Speaker 12: out here, I think it's blown over to my junipers
Speaker 12: and it's starting to show up on my junipers at
Speaker 12: the bottom. Do you know what that could be?
Speaker 2: So yeah, let me ask you a couple of real
Speaker 2: quick questions. When it appears, do you see kind of
Speaker 2: a slow loss of green color kind of almost gets
Speaker 2: kind of yellow eve for a little bit and then
Speaker 2: finally turns brown. And it's happening in a general area.
Speaker 2: Or do you see individual branches that turn brown and
Speaker 2: are tan and around them the branches are green.
Speaker 12: The first one, he said, the first.
Speaker 2: One, Okay, well, the first one. The first one could
Speaker 2: be a canker that is killing the branches on it.
Speaker 2: It could be something in the soil like a root rot.
Speaker 2: Junifers and all that group of plants does not like
Speaker 2: soggy soil conditions. It could be that too, Or it
Speaker 2: could be a canker disease that attacks the branches. And
Speaker 2: if you follow a branch that's dying backwards, look at
Speaker 2: the stem, look all around and see if you see
Speaker 2: a split in the bark. That's a sign of a
Speaker 2: canker right there. These things are prone to those. It
Speaker 2: could also be spider mites. They're not a problem we
Speaker 2: have now this time of year that they love warm
Speaker 2: weather and so all summer they've been going crazy and
Speaker 2: they love They just basically suck the juices out of
Speaker 2: the branch, and that's why it turns brown so gradually
Speaker 2: and slowly as they feed on it. As their numbers
Speaker 2: build up, so it's going to be one of the two.
Speaker 2: The cankers you spray a funderside for and it's only
Speaker 2: partially effective. The spider mites you would have to blast
Speaker 2: them with water or spray something that kills mites in
Speaker 2: there on them. But either way you just need to
Speaker 2: watch your watering other plants. Make sure you're not keeping
Speaker 2: them too soggy wet.
Speaker 12: Wow, thank you, I'm gonna do it. Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: I appreciate Sure, we'll good. There are not many people
Speaker 2: in my life that listen to what I say, so
Speaker 2: I'm glad you did that. Thank you, Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Good luck.
Speaker 12: I have a great weekend, you too, My god.
Speaker 2: Okay, I never know it's gonna come in my mouth.
Speaker 2: My wife says, if I'm wondering if I should say
Speaker 2: something or not, the anches always know because if I'm wondering,
Speaker 2: then somewhere back way back when I passed the line
Speaker 2: of what should come out of my mouth. Good advice
Speaker 2: for a lot of us, and some of you listening
Speaker 2: to RCW. Nurseres had a great time out there yesterday.
Speaker 2: You know RCW is the garden center there where uh
Speaker 2: Tomball Parkway two forty nine comes into belt wagh eight
Speaker 2: and I call it to get It, Got It Nursery,
Speaker 2: because if they don't have it, they'll get it. They'll
Speaker 2: do their best to find it. They can find it,
Speaker 2: they'll get it for you. They grow their own shrubs
Speaker 2: up there in Plantersville at the tree Farm, And so
Speaker 2: when you buy a shrubber tree from the RCW Nursery,
Speaker 2: you know you're getting things that are grown right, first
Speaker 2: of all, and secondly, want to be here. It's not
Speaker 2: some species, you know, Colorado blue spruce that doesn't belong
Speaker 2: in the Houston, Texas area for sure. No, they grow
Speaker 2: the best kinds of things. They have one of the
Speaker 2: best selections of roses you'll ever find. When we get
Speaker 2: back into the early spring season and things start busting
Speaker 2: and everybody thinks roses in February, oh my gosh, RCW
Speaker 2: is gonna have a long list of roses. But right
Speaker 2: now they've got trees from fifteen gallon up the two
Speaker 2: hundred gallon. If it's too big for you to plant,
Speaker 2: they can plant it. They got the supplies you need
Speaker 2: to do that. And I was just out there yesterday
Speaker 2: a really good time with everybody that came out herbs perennials, annuals,
Speaker 2: a lot of different plants that are native too to
Speaker 2: our area. RCW nurseries dot com. That's the website, RCW
Speaker 2: nurseries dot com. All right, We're gonna go to Brookshire
Speaker 2: and talk to Louise. Hello Louise, Hello, Hello Louise. Alrighty,
Speaker 2: I think we just lost her there. Okay, Well, I
Speaker 2: want to talk a little bit about Nelson fertilizer. Then.
Speaker 2: You know, we have so many options when it comes
Speaker 2: to making our plants happy. Nelson has created a product
Speaker 2: called Genesis that I just think is one of the
Speaker 2: best coolest new things I've seen on the market. When
Speaker 2: I say new, it means in the last five years.
Speaker 2: Actually Genesis is younger than five years. But Nelson's nutristar.
Speaker 2: Genesis is loaded with microiza, the fungus that grows with
Speaker 2: the roots and makes the roots more healthy and more
Speaker 2: effective with the bacteria and other things that are part
Speaker 2: of that microbiome in the soil that helps plants. We
Speaker 2: use it as an amendment into the planting hole. Most
Speaker 2: SAW based fertilizers, I would say, don't dump them in
Speaker 2: the planting hole. You burn roots. Well, this isn't a
Speaker 2: salt based fertile, and this does go in the planting hole.
Speaker 2: You mix it in with the soil and then set
Speaker 2: your plant and the plant thrives. If you're growing plants,
Speaker 2: maybe for your garden, and you're growing them indoors, like
Speaker 2: next spring, you'll be doing tomatoes, right, and so you're
Speaker 2: growing them, you're gonna bump them up to a bigger size.
Speaker 2: Always have Nelson in that potting mix that you're moving
Speaker 2: them to. When you're out in the garden and you're
Speaker 2: going to put a rose bush in or maybe an
Speaker 2: herb in the herb garden mix, Nelson in that soil around.
Speaker 2: Put that plant in and they will take off and
Speaker 2: grow really really well. Whether it's soil in the ground,
Speaker 2: soiling a container, soil in a raised bed, well, however
Speaker 2: you go about it. Nutristar genesis for new plants is awesome.
Speaker 2: It comes in a little jug, a plastic jug with
Speaker 2: a screw top lid, easy to use, and it works.
Speaker 2: I can tell you it works all right. Now I
Speaker 2: am hearing in my ear that it is time for
Speaker 2: a break, so I'm gonna stop talking. If you'd like
Speaker 2: to give us a call, seven one three two one
Speaker 2: two KTRH. All right, welcome back, folks, Welcome back to
Speaker 2: Garden Line. If you'd like to give us a call
Speaker 2: seven one three two to one two KTRH seven one
Speaker 2: three two one two kt r H. If you're looking
Speaker 2: for a place to find any product name that comes
Speaker 2: out of my mouth on Garden Line, that Southwest Fertilizer.
Speaker 2: Southwest Fertilizer has been around since what nineteen fifty five,
Speaker 2: and they it's a fixture in the Houston area. I mean,
Speaker 2: everybody knows that's where you go. I mean, I'm the
Speaker 2: people that drive a great distance because there's things you
Speaker 2: just have trouble finding in certain places. They're just not
Speaker 2: commonly in the trade. Bob's got them in Southwest. That's
Speaker 2: why I like to say, if Southwest doesn't have it,
Speaker 2: you don't need it, because they have it. Because they
Speaker 2: have it. All the fertilizers you hear me talk about,
Speaker 2: you know, I'm talking about the the UH weed control,
Speaker 2: the disease control in your lawn, of those kinds of things.
Speaker 2: I used to say they had an eighty foot wall
Speaker 2: of tools. Now I found out there's ninety feet long,
Speaker 2: and I mean it is ever kind of tool you
Speaker 2: can imagine, including if you want to make my little
Speaker 2: weed wiper. I was talking to someone earlier just a
Speaker 2: bit ago about the weed wiper. Making it yourself. You
Speaker 2: have to start with this little grabber tool with suction cups,
Speaker 2: and Bob's got them hanging right there on the wall.
Speaker 2: They're ready to go. Go in there and grab one.
Speaker 2: It is such a handy little tool. Bob's got the
Speaker 2: start of it there for you, and it's easy to make,
Speaker 2: easy to use. It helps you put out less pesticide
Speaker 2: in the environment too, and in a safer way as well.
Speaker 2: Another reason I like that tool. Do you need products
Speaker 2: like azemite, like Nature's Way resources, heirloom soils, things from Medina.
Speaker 2: They've got all of that. Bob is also in the
Speaker 2: back that got this shop. Or you can get your
Speaker 2: lawnmower blade sharp and ring it, small engine repair done.
Speaker 2: We're entering the cool season. It's time to put some
Speaker 2: of those things to bed for the fall. And when
Speaker 2: you do, why not take them in there and go
Speaker 2: ahead and get them ready to go for spring. That way,
Speaker 2: in spring, when everybody else is trying to get their
Speaker 2: blade sharpen and everything, you've already done. You don't have
Speaker 2: to wait in a line like that. Bob can do
Speaker 2: that there for you seven to three seventeen forty four,
Speaker 2: or go to the website Southwest Fertilizer dot Comt's in
Speaker 2: Southwest Houston, corner of Bisonet and Renwick. Bissonet and Renwick.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna give you that phone number again. We've got
Speaker 2: some openings on the line today. I usually it gets
Speaker 2: real busy at the end. We kind of got a
Speaker 2: low quiet here, so I still think that it's because
Speaker 2: everybody stayed up last night watching football and whatever else
Speaker 2: is sleeping in today. Our phone number is seven one
Speaker 2: three two one two kt r H. Seven to one
Speaker 2: three two one two kt r H. When was the
Speaker 2: last time that you went out to Katie to Nelson Watergardens.
Speaker 2: Nelson Watergardens is a wonderland. And I always call it
Speaker 2: water gardens because that's what they begin with. That's what
Speaker 2: they are famous, nationally famous for. But it's Nelson Nursery
Speaker 2: and water Gardens, and that means they've got a lot
Speaker 2: of different plants, and boy do they ever. They are
Speaker 2: stocked up on everything that you might need this time
Speaker 2: of the year. So are you looking for things like Dianthus,
Speaker 2: Are you looking for things like cyclomon or Moms and
Speaker 2: on and on and on down the line. They've got it.
Speaker 2: Their interior plant list is awesome and it's beautiful stuff.
Speaker 2: And I just you know, boring sea green house plants.
Speaker 2: They've got some really cool stuff. When you walk in
Speaker 2: the store, you have to walk right by the house plants,
Speaker 2: And I think that's a good plan because beautiful, beautiful
Speaker 2: old plants in awesome shape, and you're going to see
Speaker 2: ones it's like, I've never seen that before. Well, that's
Speaker 2: why they specialize in things that you've never seen before
Speaker 2: and things that you have while you're out there. Of course,
Speaker 2: you want to be around the water gardens, enjoy those.
Speaker 2: Learn how to do that. You can do it yourself
Speaker 2: with their supplies. If you want to, they'll hope you
Speaker 2: do that, or if you want them to come out,
Speaker 2: they'll come out. They can build a complete rock waterfall
Speaker 2: that's just unbelievable. Stock it with all the cool kinds
Speaker 2: of fish, you know, coy and shabunkin and things. Stock
Speaker 2: it with lance. If you've got a low water feature
Speaker 2: in your garden, you want some really cool water plants.
Speaker 2: For They've got you covered on that too. All of
Speaker 2: it is in Katie, Texas. Think of it as your
Speaker 2: West Houston garden center, your West Houston destination garden center.
Speaker 2: Nelson Watergardens plural dot com, Nelson watergardenswi an s dot com.
Speaker 2: Head back to the phones here and we're going to
Speaker 2: talk to Ronda in Magnolia.
Speaker 22: Hello, Ronda, Hi, skim Say, I've got a question regarding Hello,
Speaker 22: can you hear me?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm here, you bet.
Speaker 22: Okay, I've got a question regarding I've noticed in my yard.
Speaker 22: I've got acreage I've got that.
Speaker 12: Is it a wild rose or whatever?
Speaker 5: It's that?
Speaker 22: Yes, scrubby looks okay, I've got it, popsible mul there
Speaker 22: you go. I've got it all over in kind of
Speaker 22: my front pasture area that we actually keep mode that.
Speaker 22: Now that the grass is kind of diminishing with the
Speaker 22: drought and all, it's popping up everywhere, and I'd like
Speaker 22: to get rid of it because I don't. I have dogs,
Speaker 22: and you know they like to run in that pasture.
Speaker 22: It's pretty strict, you know, prickly. Yeah, So what's there
Speaker 22: to dig it up? Montgomery County?
Speaker 2: No, you want to use it. Yeah, you're Montgomer County,
Speaker 2: So the Montgomer Kenny Extension Office. There's a fellow over
Speaker 2: there named Brandon. He's the ag agent, and I would
Speaker 2: give him a call. He'll give you the best, most
Speaker 2: up to date answer. I I'm aware of all the
Speaker 2: pasture stuff, but that's not I deal more with stuff
Speaker 2: in the yard and the garden and orchard and things.
Speaker 2: You're probably going to use a product containing triclop here
Speaker 2: t r I c l O p y r t
Speaker 2: r I l O p y r. It kills, it
Speaker 2: kills brush. People use it. There's versions in the garden
Speaker 2: for poison ivy and little weed seed rush seeds coming
Speaker 2: up in the fence. But there's a versions of it too,
Speaker 2: And so you're gonna need more than off a garden
Speaker 2: shelf bottle. You're gonna need quantity. And Brandon can talk
Speaker 2: to you about that and get you get you perfect.
Speaker 22: Yeah, that's that's the problem we've got. We've got like
Speaker 22: four acres and I'm finding it, you know, popping up everywhere, and.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be that's a problem.
Speaker 14: Yes, major one.
Speaker 22: So well, thank you.
Speaker 2: I think very much. I think Falls Falls a good
Speaker 2: time to hit it, so I would call them first
Speaker 2: thing Monday morning and find out because in fall, plants
Speaker 2: are pulling in carbohydrates to go through winter and whatnot,
Speaker 2: and that's a good time to put a translocated herbicide
Speaker 2: into that wild rose to take it down. You'll get
Speaker 2: a good knockback. And I think in spring, when it's
Speaker 2: pushing out the other way, it's not quite as effective.
Speaker 2: But again I'll defer to Brand and tell him SKIP
Speaker 2: sent you and he'll he'll get you straightened out on it.
Speaker 14: Awesome, Thank you so much.
Speaker 22: I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: All right, you take care. You know, those of you
Speaker 2: listening out there, did you know that there is an
Speaker 2: Agrolife Extension office serving every county in Texas two hundred
Speaker 2: and fifty four counties. Now, if you get way out
Speaker 2: west where there's more jack rabbits and people in the county, uh,
Speaker 2: the you may have an office that serves two counties.
Speaker 2: Most counties two and fifty of the counties in Texas
Speaker 2: have their own office and when you go in there
Speaker 2: you can get help. I mean, if you got kiddos,
Speaker 2: the four h program is awesome way for them to
Speaker 2: learn about everything, including horticulture. If you are looking at
Speaker 2: inside the home kinds of things, you know, they've got
Speaker 2: agents that focus on that. If you're looking at agriculture,
Speaker 2: they got agents that focus on that as well.
Speaker 5: Well.
Speaker 2: I got to take a little break here. It's time
Speaker 2: and if you want to give us a call for
Speaker 2: our last segment, here's last call seven one three two
Speaker 2: one two KTRH. All right, all right, folks, welcome back.
Speaker 2: Good to have you back with us on Guardline. Look,
Speaker 2: we're in our last segment of the weekend. We're here
Speaker 2: on Saturdays and Sundays from six am to ten am,
Speaker 2: and I've got probably time for another call, maybe two
Speaker 2: if we get going here. We're gonna start though, first
Speaker 2: with Stephen in Sugarland. Hey Steven, welcome to guard Line.
Speaker 4: Yes, sir, how are you doing today? I just have
Speaker 4: a quick question.
Speaker 2: I am good.
Speaker 4: I think it's called a ROUNDO.
Speaker 2: Okay, and it's in.
Speaker 12: The back yard.
Speaker 4: I chop down all the stems already, but the roots
Speaker 4: are massive. Is there anything else I could do them?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Other than digging them out, which is a job
Speaker 2: because it has one heck of a root system. What
Speaker 2: I would recommend you do next time? You're gonna next
Speaker 2: time you have it growing, if you can do a
Speaker 2: couple of things. You can put a glyco sate product
Speaker 2: on the leaves. And if you go to my website
Speaker 2: gardeningwiskip dot com, there's a publication for herbicides on there
Speaker 2: and it talks about herbicides for grass and one of
Speaker 2: them is glyphosate, and I give you all the examples
Speaker 2: of it we used. People are familiar with the product
Speaker 2: round Up, but now round Up at the Garden Center
Speaker 2: does not contain glyphosate. It's the craziest thing I've ever
Speaker 2: seen that they would keep that name and change the ingredient,
Speaker 2: but anyway, they did so. But glyphase products are listed there.
Speaker 2: You can put it on the leaves, but remember if
Speaker 2: it gets on anything else, it'll kill that too. Round
Speaker 2: Up kills lawns and flowers and other things. Another approach
Speaker 2: is to when it grows up next year, when you
Speaker 2: cut it off immediately I'll use the word paint that
Speaker 2: cut surface with the glyphosate concoction, so you're not spraying it.
Speaker 2: You're just you could use a little foam brush like
Speaker 2: you use for painting, just dabbing all the cut ins
Speaker 2: that you cut off, dabbing them. Even wiping a little
Speaker 2: bit on the stems and leaves that are down low
Speaker 2: like that, that'll help it get right into the plant
Speaker 2: and move down. You're probably not going to get it
Speaker 2: with one application. It's got enough underground storage that it's
Speaker 2: going to have enough survive to try to come back again.
Speaker 2: But after two, and definitely after three of those, you
Speaker 2: should win that battle.
Speaker 4: So the problem is that the property is next to
Speaker 4: a city park and there's a lot of them, right,
Speaker 4: So is this something that the city could get involved
Speaker 4: as well?
Speaker 2: Or well they could, you know, I if I ask
Speaker 2: them about it, just say you know, you got this
Speaker 2: and it's invading. They may want it there for some reason,
Speaker 2: like a It makes a good screen, but it is
Speaker 2: very invasive. You see it, and you drive through the
Speaker 2: countryside and you'll see it, like you a little slough
Speaker 2: comes underneath the highway or something, and there'll be a
Speaker 2: whole bunch of We used to call it Georgia cane.
Speaker 2: It's got some other names, but a roundo is its
Speaker 2: proper name. It's a tough one to control. Yeah, especially
Speaker 2: when it's around things you care about, plants you don't
Speaker 2: want to get.
Speaker 4: So the practice that I do could could I could
Speaker 4: definitely limit on my property right the Oh yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah you could. And this is extra work for you.
Speaker 2: But if you could go to your property line, dig
Speaker 2: a trench and put in I don't know how deep
Speaker 2: you need to go for this. When you dig one up,
Speaker 2: you'll know most of the major rhizomes are up fairly
Speaker 2: close to the surface. So let's say you got down
Speaker 2: at least twelve inches, maybe twelve to eighteen inches, and
Speaker 2: you had a vertical wall like a They make things
Speaker 2: that are thick thick plastic that are made for creating
Speaker 2: a barrier underground. Some people will use ten in that
Speaker 2: same way, although ten doesn't last forever, but create that
Speaker 2: wall barrier, then it can't come across to your side.
Speaker 2: So if the city won't cooperate, that would save you
Speaker 2: the constant having to retreat.
Speaker 4: Okay, great, Thank you very much for information.
Speaker 2: You bet good luck with that. Thanks for being a listener,
Speaker 2: Thanks for being a caller. Appreciate that a lot. Stephen.
Speaker 2: All right, folks, are we here? Yeah, I've been telling
Speaker 2: you today that I'm going to be at Katie Ace
Speaker 2: Hardware Katie Ace Hardware next Saturday. I'll be there from
Speaker 2: twelve to two, twelve to two, And if you go
Speaker 2: to Katie Ace Hardware and bring me samples, I'll be
Speaker 2: glad to look at those, to identify them or to
Speaker 2: diagnose them, depending on you know what kind of sample
Speaker 2: it is. You can bring me pictures on your phone.
Speaker 2: We'll do that. We're gonna have a lot of giveaways.
Speaker 2: We always do. And Ace Hardware's are just wonderful places
Speaker 2: to go. I mean a decision to coming out and
Speaker 2: see me asking your questions, you're right there for everything
Speaker 2: you're going to need for your fall gardening, your fall landscaping,
Speaker 2: lawn care and whatnot. Katie Ace Hardware is on pin
Speaker 2: Oak Road five point fifty nine pin Oak Road in Katie, Texas.
Speaker 2: So it's it's easy to get to. But when you come,
Speaker 2: come prepared with your questions and your samples, and come
Speaker 2: prepared to have a good time. We're going to have
Speaker 2: some fun there. I always like it's just by the
Speaker 2: way Pinoak Road. It's north of IT ten, So if
Speaker 2: you're going around I ten, you turn north to get
Speaker 2: to Katie. Katie Hardware. One of the favorite things I
Speaker 2: have is just having a good time with gardeners and
Speaker 2: you know on the phone. Here, I've got just a
Speaker 2: few maybe a minute or so with you for me
Speaker 2: to help you with your question. There we can just
Speaker 2: visit I mean, you know, and there are people that
Speaker 2: will walk you over if I say you need this
Speaker 2: or that, they'll walk over in the store to find
Speaker 2: what that product is. But we can talk about all
Speaker 2: kinds of things. It's a lot better opportunity for you
Speaker 2: to get one on one to eye help from me
Speaker 2: out there. And again, Katie is Hardware. So where do
Speaker 2: you live? Where in that area do you live? I
Speaker 2: hope you'll come out Katie. We got listeners out there
Speaker 2: in Sealy. There's a pretty close chance. Drive on over
Speaker 2: Eagle a come on up, Come up from wherever you
Speaker 2: are and let's see you next Saturday from twelve to
Speaker 2: two again Katie Hardware and Pennok Road just north of
Speaker 2: by ten and we are going to have a good
Speaker 2: time looking forward to that kind of winding down appearances.
Speaker 2: So if you would like to get out to one
Speaker 2: of the appearances, don't delay, because we're just about done
Speaker 2: with that and a Katie Hardware visit would be a
Speaker 2: good time for you to come out and to do that.
Speaker 2: I have here. Pat from Fort Bend on the phone. Hey, Pat,
Speaker 2: how can we help?
Speaker 13: Hey?
Speaker 19: I have a question about how close you can get
Speaker 19: concrete to a pecan tree before it damages any roots,
Speaker 19: because I know it has to get the water.
Speaker 12: Down through the roots.
Speaker 19: And my husband wants to redo our deck and concrete
Speaker 19: and we've got a nice pecantry right beside it.
Speaker 22: So I just want little ammunition here.
Speaker 2: Uh oh, you're putting me on the spot. Okay, all right, Pat,
Speaker 2: So here's here. Here's the deal. There's not a black
Speaker 2: and white line. Okay. So if you were to get
Speaker 2: in a bird's eye flying above, you're a hummingbird. You're
Speaker 2: hovering above the pecan tree, looking straight down. You see
Speaker 2: the trunk. The roots are going out as far as
Speaker 2: the branches, and then two and a half times that
Speaker 2: far in all directions. So anywhere you put something down,
Speaker 2: you're gonna be covering some roots. But the closer you
Speaker 2: get to the trunk, the more branches. So now, from
Speaker 2: that hummingbird's eye view, imagine that's a big pie. And
Speaker 2: where are you going to take your knife and slice
Speaker 2: across the pie? If you slice right next to the trunk,
Speaker 2: you've taken half the root system off because everything going
Speaker 2: out in all directions, you've cut in half of it off.
Speaker 2: You go out maybe where you just come in a
Speaker 2: third from the outer branch bread and you've taken very
Speaker 2: little of the root system. Again, think of a pie
Speaker 2: and you slice it across with a knife, with the
Speaker 2: trunk in the middle of the pie, and so you
Speaker 2: determine how big is this trunk, how far away did
Speaker 2: the branches go, how far in are you going to come.
Speaker 2: That's the percentage of the roots that you're going to hurt. Now,
Speaker 2: if there's a time to do it, it would be
Speaker 2: now because we're entering the fall season and the stresses
Speaker 2: are lower. But next summer if you do this, the
Speaker 2: part of the roots that didn't get covered with the
Speaker 2: slab need to get extra TLC and water because the
Speaker 2: tree is having to get all of its nutrients and
Speaker 2: water from living roots which are going to be over there.
Speaker 2: The others are going to slowly mostly die the ones
Speaker 2: you cover up because they're not ready for that kind
Speaker 2: of covering. Had you put the slab in and then
Speaker 2: planted a tree, that would be a different story. But
Speaker 2: right now that tree thinks it can have roots where
Speaker 2: you're about to say it can't.
Speaker 19: Okay, Okay, may I ask one more question shot about trees. Okay,
Speaker 19: I have a whole bunch of camarillas in ground. When
Speaker 19: and how do I separate them?
Speaker 2: Well, I mean you could, you could do that now.
Speaker 2: They're they're gonna bloom, you know, late in the wintertime,
Speaker 2: so it falls a good time to separate ahead and
Speaker 2: dig them up, separate them out, and get them reset asap.
Speaker 2: They are putting on the leaves. As things get cooler,
Speaker 2: they're gonna be interested in growing again. Emma Ellis is
Speaker 2: from a part of the world I believe it's South
Speaker 2: Africa where they have hot, hot, dry late summers and
Speaker 2: they basically go dormant at the end of summer. And
Speaker 2: so people that have them in pots here will sometimes
Speaker 2: set their pots on the side and let them just
Speaker 2: dry out and shrivel and during the late summer and
Speaker 2: then pop them back up again and that rejuvenates them
Speaker 2: and they bloom much better as a result of that. Okay,
Speaker 2: So get that dividing done asap, because they're fixing the
Speaker 2: kick in the gear and get ready for what's going
Speaker 2: to be a very beautiful show.
Speaker 19: Okay, Well, thank you, So much for your help.
Speaker 12: I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: All right, Pat, thanks for listening. Glad to have you
Speaker 2: as a listener. Look forward to you come up. See
Speaker 2: me in Katie is harder if you get a chance
Speaker 2: next weekend. Well, the music is playing the what do
Speaker 2: they say? The Fat Lady has sun? So here we go.
Speaker 2: I'm glad you're listening. I thank you for that. Any
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Speaker 2: on nematodes this coming week, and I got some other
Speaker 2: stuff too to put up. In the meantime, We'll see
Speaker 2: you next Saturday, once you get to put kda's hardware
Speaker 2: on your calendar.