Speaker 1: Things to see.
Speaker 2: A sign.
Speaker 3: Sand Bean Tween starting tea. Hey, good morning, good morning.
Speaker 3: I am glad you're with us this morning. We're here
Speaker 3: to talk about gardening. We got plenty of things we
Speaker 3: can talk about. As always, I say that every day
Speaker 3: because it's true every day. I uh want to first
Speaker 3: of all, thank the folks, Thank you, thank you very much.
Speaker 3: I really had a good time out there at Encented
Speaker 3: Forest yesterday. H Danny and Clay and the whole team
Speaker 3: out there. You guys have put together one heck of
Speaker 3: a beautiful nursery. Oh my gosh, I took all the pictures.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry posting some of them here to our Facebook account,
Speaker 3: our gardener and Facebook this week, I just want you
Speaker 3: to see the police. It looks so beautiful, lots and
Speaker 3: lots of color. Thanks for the folks that came out.
Speaker 3: We had a lot of good discussion, plenty of things
Speaker 3: to talk about. Kind of became a fireside chat where
Speaker 3: we just kind of all sat around and one question
Speaker 3: after another, samples and whatnot. It's what we do it
Speaker 3: our appearances. It's your chance to get out and kind
Speaker 3: of get eye to eye and talk, ask your questions.
Speaker 3: Have a lot more time than we do on the
Speaker 3: air to visit with you about things. Plus we can
Speaker 3: put our hands on pictures and also on samples and
Speaker 3: get a better look at things like that. I want
Speaker 3: to remind you that on Guardenline here, if you would
Speaker 3: like to send in a photo, you can call the
Speaker 3: the producer and get an email to do that. I
Speaker 3: don't just open email wide open. With six million people
Speaker 3: around Houston and me being one, there's no way I
Speaker 3: can can take the general through the week email onslaught
Speaker 3: because it's just too many, too many other activities as
Speaker 3: part of my horticulture tasks that I do my horticulture business,
Speaker 3: so just not able to you know, just do all
Speaker 3: the emails. But if you would like to send an
Speaker 3: email with a photo and then call in, we can
Speaker 3: certainly handle it that way and be happy, happy to
Speaker 3: do that. So if you if you have a question
Speaker 3: and you think you know it probably would be helpful
Speaker 3: if he could see this, that's the best way to
Speaker 3: do it. Give Chris a call, let's get you the email,
Speaker 3: send me some pictures. I had several people yesterday that
Speaker 3: send emails requesting to send in photos and whatnot, and
Speaker 3: so looking forward to those calls today as well. Being
Speaker 3: out yesterday and just enjoying a little bit of a
Speaker 3: break in the temperature. Hadn't it been great? Haven't you
Speaker 3: just really enjoyed that? I sure have. I you know,
Speaker 3: it's summers long, listen. I've been living in Texas for uh,
Speaker 3: let's say, a lot of years, a long long time,
Speaker 3: other than a three year stint out of state. I
Speaker 3: know what Texas summer is like, and it's long, and
Speaker 3: it's tough. I understand that, but hey, it's not that bad.
Speaker 3: I mean, we we survive it, and here comes some
Speaker 3: of the best seasons of the year. I love love fall.
Speaker 3: I love winter too, by the way, I actually do.
Speaker 3: I don't know. My mindset is. You know, when it's
Speaker 3: blazing hot, it's just kind of hard to not be
Speaker 3: sweating outside, and in the wintertime you oist throw on
Speaker 3: another coat and get warm. So anyway, that's one that's
Speaker 3: one man's perspective of it. While I was out at
Speaker 3: the in Chanet Forest yesterday, I had a conversation with
Speaker 3: somebody about microlife microlife products. They were asking me about
Speaker 3: different things, and in fact I was visiting also with
Speaker 3: Danny a little bit about it and you know, we
Speaker 3: were just talking about different things. You know, Microlife has
Speaker 3: their fall special me the fall Special. That's funny. Microlife
Speaker 3: has the brown Patch. And when you read brown patch,
Speaker 3: it's like, okay, well that's a that must be a
Speaker 3: fungicide or something, and it's not what it is. It's
Speaker 3: a fall fertilizer that's loaded with microbes. And it's the
Speaker 3: microbes in it that we're putting out and you put
Speaker 3: on irrigation or rain splashes things around and you just
Speaker 3: get microbes all over the surfaces of the plant, whether
Speaker 3: it's plant roots or plant plant tops and things, and
Speaker 3: microbes are beneficial. I would say that if you're going
Speaker 3: to do the fall fertilizer from Microlife, which is called
Speaker 3: brown Patch, I would also do their bioinoculant. And this
Speaker 3: is what I was visiting with them about out it
Speaker 3: and Channey forest Yestordy is that bioinoculant has sixty three
Speaker 3: different beneficial strains in it. And you know, if I
Speaker 3: tell you, well, there's bacteria all over that, there's microbes
Speaker 3: all over it, one may think, oh, well it's diseased.
Speaker 3: It's no. Most microbes are not out there to cause
Speaker 3: some plant disease we have a problem with a lot
Speaker 3: of them are beneficial to the plants. Bacillus. There's a
Speaker 3: you know, bt is a Basillis Basillis thuringiensis. There's also
Speaker 3: a Basillis melikopatians. Isn't that a word? Becauzon tite, And
Speaker 3: there's four different strains of it, and that particular basillis
Speaker 3: helps fight disease and it even gets get this, it
Speaker 3: gets on plant roots and it causes the plant. It
Speaker 3: communicates with the plant and causes the plant to develop
Speaker 3: in a way that makes certain diseases less able to
Speaker 3: attack the plant. Is that weird? I mean that is cool? Cool? Cool.
Speaker 3: There's also a basilla subtlest, Basilla subtlest. You can actually
Speaker 3: purchase basilla subtlest. I don't know still in the market,
Speaker 3: but there used to be a brand called Serenade that
Speaker 3: was a fungicide and basically the ingredient was basilla subtlest. Well,
Speaker 3: these are two of sixty three things. And micro grow bioinoculant.
Speaker 3: It's a kind of a maroon colored bag, kind of
Speaker 3: a burgundy maroon colored bag. Micro grow bioinoculant. So when
Speaker 3: you do your Microlife brown Patch do micro grow bioinoculan
Speaker 3: and also bioinoculant is not a fertilizer, it is an inoculant.
Speaker 3: You're putting a bazillion different microbes that do good things
Speaker 3: to plants out there, and that's the combination for microlife.
Speaker 3: Any we're visiting about that, and if you want to
Speaker 3: find out more about microlife products, you can go to
Speaker 3: microlifefertilizer dot com. They're they're pretty much for sale everywhere,
Speaker 3: real easy to find them. You hear me talking about
Speaker 3: garden centers and feed stores and Ace hardware store, Southwest Fertilizer,
Speaker 3: those places you're going to find it. But I just
Speaker 3: think that stuff's cool. I don't know, maybe maybe i'm
Speaker 3: a nerd. Well I actually am a gardening nerd, But
Speaker 3: I just think that's some really really cool stuff. Maybe
Speaker 3: one of these days I need to get a guest
Speaker 3: in a microbiologists just do some digging into that kind
Speaker 3: of thing, because it is really really interesting and cool.
Speaker 3: Driving through some neighborhoods and noticing the differences in landscapes,
Speaker 3: have you noticed how many landscapes are basically just a
Speaker 3: sea of green, Well, you don't need to have a
Speaker 3: sea a green. If you are tired of a boring landscape,
Speaker 3: call Piercecapes. If you want a small job done, you know,
Speaker 3: just some major revamping done. On the other hand, either
Speaker 3: way they can do it. They can do it. They
Speaker 3: can do irrigation repair. They can put on hard scapes
Speaker 3: and plant lighting or excuse me, the landscape lighting. Lighting
Speaker 3: not for plants, for you just makes your place magical
Speaker 3: in the evenings. They can do that. They also have
Speaker 3: a quarterly bed maintenance which is really nice because just
Speaker 3: once a quarter they come out and fertilize and weed
Speaker 3: and airate and multch and change out your seasonal color.
Speaker 3: And you can find all of that at piercescapes dot com.
Speaker 3: I go to that piercescapes dot com. Look at the
Speaker 3: work they do. You'd be very impressed if you want
Speaker 3: to get them a call. Two eight one three, seven
Speaker 3: oh fifty sixty. And with that, I'm going to take
Speaker 3: a break here for the news and I'll be right
Speaker 3: back to your calls. Starting you a morning. Good to
Speaker 3: have you with us. Hey, listen, uh, if you would
Speaker 3: like to give us a call, it would help if
Speaker 3: I gave you a phone number wouldn't it. Well, let's
Speaker 3: just do that. Seven one three two one two k
Speaker 3: t r H. Seven one three two one two k
Speaker 3: t r H. By the way, I wanted to let
Speaker 3: you guys know I will be at RCW Nurseries next Saturday,
Speaker 3: Next Saturday. Uh, and I'll be there from twelve to two.
Speaker 3: So come on out over the lunch hour and let's visit.
Speaker 3: Do you bring me samples, bring me photos. You know
Speaker 3: how we do it, you know the routine. Uh, And
Speaker 3: that's what we'll do. We'll walk around out there too,
Speaker 3: if you like. I want to. I want to show
Speaker 3: you some of the plants that they have, some of
Speaker 3: the trees and they oh gosh, they're outstanding the amount
Speaker 3: of plant material and the quality and it just says
Speaker 3: fall when you walk out there. They got great fall vegetables,
Speaker 3: they got good fall color and everything. It's good. Now,
Speaker 3: guess what's going on out there? A barbecue lunch. They're
Speaker 3: going to do a barbecue lunch out there. So we
Speaker 3: grab a bike. Yeah, twelve to two, So don't worry
Speaker 3: about eating. Just come on out. We'll visit with our
Speaker 3: mouthsful as we talk. We can. We're also going to
Speaker 3: have some prizes, you know, just there's games for kids
Speaker 3: and stuff like that again next Saturday, October twenty six,
Speaker 3: from twelve to two at r CW Nursery. If you're
Speaker 3: new to the Houston area, RCW is the garden center
Speaker 3: that is where Tomball Parkway Highway two forty nine comes
Speaker 3: into belt Way eight, just northwest corner of Houston.
Speaker 4: Right there.
Speaker 3: It's really easy, easy to get into and I always
Speaker 3: love going out there. That's a good group and it's
Speaker 3: a great, great location. Did you know that RCW? Did
Speaker 3: you know that that part of you Houston. Let me
Speaker 3: put that way, it was all dairy country at one time.
Speaker 3: Some people didn't know that. It dawned on me one
Speaker 3: day when I was I lived up in Cypress, and
Speaker 3: if you go up in Cypress, there's a place called
Speaker 3: Jersey Village, Jersey as in Jersey Milkcow, and there's also
Speaker 3: a dairy Ashford Dairy as in yeah, I don't need
Speaker 3: to do the sound effects again. Well that's all. That
Speaker 3: was all big big milk production company country. In fact,
Speaker 3: right where ARCW sits. I was talking to David a
Speaker 3: good while back and he was just telling me, you know,
Speaker 3: there's these big old giant, beautiful sycamores on their property.
Speaker 3: Oh they're gorgeous. And that also was, you know, right
Speaker 3: there in dairy country. And of course that's back in
Speaker 3: the days when nineteen sixty was a goat path way
Speaker 3: outside of town. But anyway, fun fact about Houston. Did
Speaker 3: you know those of you out there in Jersey Village,
Speaker 3: in Cypress and all of that, there was a time
Speaker 3: when you would be walking through a dairy cow pasture
Speaker 3: to do what you dry do driving down the street.
Speaker 3: Right now, you're listening to Garden Line, and I'm wanting
Speaker 3: to talk to you this morning about a few things,
Speaker 3: just kind of some heads up stuff. First of all,
Speaker 3: falls for planting. I love saying that. I hope you
Speaker 3: don't get tired of listening to it. But it is
Speaker 3: the most important planting season of the year. Please take
Speaker 3: advantage of it. If you're thinking about putting in a tree,
Speaker 3: do a tree now. Now's the time. It's the best time.
Speaker 3: If you're wanting to put in perennials like ornamental grasses
Speaker 3: or perennial flowers or anything, do it now. If you
Speaker 3: want some beautiful color, not only the warm season color
Speaker 3: that goes into fall, which we're planting those still right now,
Speaker 3: but also the cool season color and we're on the
Speaker 3: edge of cool season planting season two. All the things
Speaker 3: that can take cold but they're beautiful. You got to
Speaker 3: do it, but first you got to build the soil.
Speaker 3: And for those of you that have been out to
Speaker 3: Nature's Way Resources, you know the products that they have
Speaker 3: out there in high quality. They are you know, John
Speaker 3: Ferguson years ago, I started that place, and Nature's Way
Speaker 3: Resources is where a lot of quality soil materials were born,
Speaker 3: such as the rose soil. You know a lot of
Speaker 3: people have rose soil now. It started there at Nature's
Speaker 3: Way Resources. Leaf more compost it started there at Nature's
Speaker 3: Way Resources, and now they have the fungal compost by
Speaker 3: the way on Fridays. That's Fungal Fridays at Nature's Way
Speaker 3: twenty percent off, twenty percent off fungal compost. Do you
Speaker 3: need a top dress your lawn, grab some of the
Speaker 3: fungal composts or their leaf mold, But with the fungal
Speaker 3: compost you can just top dress off save quite a
Speaker 3: bit there on Friday. It just makes sense. And when
Speaker 3: you're out at Nature's Way Resources, remember that they are
Speaker 3: having right now a plant sale, and this is a
Speaker 3: big deal sale. It's the year end sale nursery discount,
Speaker 3: fifty percent off the huge variety native trees and fruit trees,
Speaker 3: houseplants and shrubs, but it does exclude native sun perennials.
Speaker 3: All the rest we're talking about on sale and it
Speaker 3: ends December first, so here's your chance to get those plants.
Speaker 3: It's the best time to put them in the ground.
Speaker 3: So in Nature's Way, you go home with the brown
Speaker 3: stuff and then take advantage of that sale and go
Speaker 3: home with the green stuff and get sat up. They've
Speaker 3: got a nice selection of natives and non natives out
Speaker 3: there as well at Nature's Way Resources. They're out at
Speaker 3: the where fourteen eighty eight comes into Interstate forty five.
Speaker 3: If you'd like to give them a call. Nine three
Speaker 3: six two seven three twelve hundred. We're going to go now,
Speaker 3: let's see where are we on time? Yeah, I always
Speaker 3: have to watch my clock because I get going here.
Speaker 3: We're going to go out Cyprus and talk to John. Hey, John,
Speaker 3: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 5: Good morning.
Speaker 6: How are you.
Speaker 3: I'm doing well? How can we help?
Speaker 7: My question is I recently had a diseased oak tree
Speaker 7: that was cut down, and the next day or two
Speaker 7: they're going to be doing some stump grinding. What is
Speaker 7: the best way to make sure I can get Saint
Speaker 7: Augustine saw to regrow in that area over where the
Speaker 7: stump was cut down.
Speaker 3: So yeah, So first of all, when they grind it,
Speaker 3: there's a lot of wood, not just the stump sticking up,
Speaker 3: but all the maiden roots that were underground of that tree.
Speaker 3: It's a lot of wood chunks, and the more of
Speaker 3: that they can get out of there the better, because
Speaker 3: it's not the wood is hurting something. It's that all
Speaker 3: that wood then will decompose, and so when they finish,
Speaker 3: if they leave it level, it'll end up sinking down.
Speaker 3: Because number one, when you fluff up soil, it sinks anyway,
Speaker 3: just like if you've ever dug a trench and tried
Speaker 3: to fill it in and then later you find out
Speaker 3: it's like you didn't have enough soil. But also that
Speaker 3: decomposition of the wood cause additional sinking. So I would
Speaker 3: get all that out you can and then leave it,
Speaker 3: mound it up a little bit, just a little bit
Speaker 3: of a mound, knowing that it's going to sink. And
Speaker 3: then when you put your side down. Hopefully you'll end
Speaker 3: up pretty close to level at the end of all
Speaker 3: that process, after a few months of the settling.
Speaker 7: Okay, So I don't need to put through that all
Speaker 7: the woodchips or anything.
Speaker 3: No, not unless you're you're you don't have enough soil,
Speaker 3: which could could happen if you don't have enough soil
Speaker 3: to level it off. Then you would add soil, but
Speaker 3: that would be just part of the filling process where
Speaker 3: we fill in all low areas before we lay saw it.
Speaker 3: And if you can get a good sandy low mix,
Speaker 3: that would be a good idea.
Speaker 7: Okay, perfect, thank you very much.
Speaker 3: Okay. Yeah, and don't just put composts and stuff down
Speaker 3: because that, like wood chips, that's going to decompose away
Speaker 3: and sink down too. You need something that's really soiled,
Speaker 3: like a sandy loam. Okay, perfect, good luck with it, Yes, sir,
Speaker 3: thanks for the call. Appreciate that the whenever you do
Speaker 3: have a tree taken out, it's just inevitable, you know,
Speaker 3: the tree as it grow. Yeah, start is a little
Speaker 3: seed unless you planet it, and that gets bigger and bigger.
Speaker 3: The roots get bigger and bigger. And if you ever
Speaker 3: looked like even in the forest around a tree that
Speaker 3: it's like the sool goes up, and it's because all
Speaker 3: this underground expansion has occurred of roots and the soil
Speaker 3: sort of pushes up and then it sort of washes
Speaker 3: away too, and that leaves roots exposed. But that process
Speaker 3: of getting rid of an old tree and getting something
Speaker 3: new in it's just part of part of how that works.
Speaker 3: If you are looking to do your fall fertilization or
Speaker 3: if you're looking to do a fall weed prevention, all
Speaker 3: you have to do is go to ACE Hardware and
Speaker 3: they're going to have every one of the fall fertilizers
Speaker 3: I talk about. They're also going to have the products
Speaker 3: like the barricade from night Fuss that you would put
Speaker 3: down to prevent weed seeds from germinating. And here's the thing.
Speaker 3: The sooner you get the fertilizer down at this point
Speaker 3: in the season, the sooner it is the better because
Speaker 3: it goes down and to the degree the grassroots are
Speaker 3: actively growing and the plants growing and it's mild temperatures,
Speaker 3: you're going to get a lot of nutrient that's taken
Speaker 3: up into that plant to make it stronger and hardier.
Speaker 3: If you wait longer and longer and longer you're getting.
Speaker 3: It's slows down more and it's just not taking it
Speaker 3: up as fast. So get it done now. If you're
Speaker 3: going to do the barricade and get it, go to
Speaker 3: Ace Hardware. They're going to have it. Knighte Fuss barricade.
Speaker 3: Put it down asap because it prevents weeds that are
Speaker 3: sprouting from establishing. A seed sprouts and it can't get going.
Speaker 3: Barricade shuts it down. Well, do that now and Ace
Speaker 3: Hardware is loaded. You know there's forty Ace Hardware stores
Speaker 3: around the Greater Houston area. It makes it really easy
Speaker 3: to get whatever you need for your lawn and garden.
Speaker 3: Maybe you're looking to do disease prevention, maybe it doesn't
Speaker 3: matter what it is. You need to make that lawn.
Speaker 3: Its best to make your fall flower beds their most beautiful.
Speaker 3: Now's the time to be planting those two. By the way,
Speaker 3: Ace Hardware has got you covered on that. While you're there,
Speaker 3: grab that fire ant bait because you know you need it.
Speaker 3: And fire ant control is best done by bait, and
Speaker 3: it's best done by fresh bait. So if you got
Speaker 3: some fire at bait that's been sitting out in the
Speaker 3: garage for a year and probably not that appealing. So
Speaker 3: go ahead and get you some fresh bait and let's
Speaker 3: knock those things out before we go into fall. Well,
Speaker 3: it's time here for me to take another break, and
Speaker 3: I just wanted to mention one more time. Next Saturday
Speaker 3: r CW Nursery, I'll be out there for their fall Fling.
Speaker 3: They always put on a good party there at RCW.
Speaker 3: They're gonna have barbecue, lunch, prizes, and games. We're gonna
Speaker 3: have a good time, and I hope you'll come out
Speaker 3: and I can help you with some of the questions
Speaker 3: you might have about some of your landscape plans, or
Speaker 3: maybe we'll just sit and visit. We had a good
Speaker 3: time doing that Yesterdayt's do that again. Look Saturday, Hey, folks,
Speaker 3: I'll be right back back. Welcome back to garden Line.
Speaker 3: Glad you are with us today. I was talking a
Speaker 3: while ago about how Ace Hardware Stores carries you know,
Speaker 3: your your products for fertilizing and for disease control, weed
Speaker 3: prevention and things. I mentioned the nitro Foss Barricade. You know,
Speaker 3: barricade is part of Nitrofoss's Fall three Step Texas three
Speaker 3: Step program. What is the Texas three step Well, it's
Speaker 3: a dance. You doing your lawn the first the first
Speaker 3: time around, you're doing the Fall Special win a riser
Speaker 3: that is a fertilizer design for fall. It is rich
Speaker 3: and phosphate to help promote your healthy root system. It's
Speaker 3: also high on potassium for winter heartiness and really vigorous
Speaker 3: initial growth when it comes out in the spring. Second
Speaker 3: one step is the barricade that prevents weeds. You put
Speaker 3: it down, you have to water it in always of
Speaker 3: the pre emergent. You've got to get it into the
Speaker 3: soil surface where it does its work. Ties up there
Speaker 3: at the soil surface, and when the weed comes through,
Speaker 3: it says, uh huh, not going to happen, Not on
Speaker 3: my watch. That's what barricade does. Third step Eagle turf fungicide.
Speaker 3: Egle turf fungicide is a systemic fungicide goes into the
Speaker 3: plant and it protects it against disease attack from brown
Speaker 3: patch or large patch as it's now called, and also
Speaker 3: from take all root rot, Take all root rot m
Speaker 3: large patch. Both can be controlled with the nitrof Egle
Speaker 3: turf fungicide. Three steps Fall Special Fertilizer barricade, pre emergent
Speaker 3: and nitrofos Egle turf fungicide. Step three. Now you're going
Speaker 3: to find these that in Chenny Gardens Downer Richmond. You're
Speaker 3: going to find them in Shades of Texas in the
Speaker 3: woodlands plants for all seasons up on Tomball Parkway as well.
Speaker 3: Easy to find these three products. But remember the time
Speaker 3: is short. Look at my schedule. Let's do it this month,
Speaker 3: and this month is well on its way. And you
Speaker 3: wait too long, and if we get a cold front
Speaker 3: and you get some weed sprouting, you get some brown
Speaker 3: pat showing up, you can still treat, but you've kind
Speaker 3: of missed the boat on some of those things. So
Speaker 3: don't delay. Get those things down a SAP that is important.
Speaker 3: We're going to go now out to Houston and talk
Speaker 3: to Dave. Hello, Dave, welcome to guarden Line.
Speaker 8: Hey there.
Speaker 9: I was going to try to yes, can you hear me?
Speaker 3: Yes, sir?
Speaker 9: I was what I was going to try to do
Speaker 9: was this week I was going to put down a
Speaker 9: weed killer. Next week I was going to try a
Speaker 9: pre mergent, and maybe the week after that maybe a fertilizer.
Speaker 3: Would that be a good?
Speaker 9: Would that be the best way.
Speaker 3: To go I would do. I would do everything you
Speaker 3: need to do right away that you don't have to wait.
Speaker 3: Uh And and I think of all those, the most
Speaker 3: important to do first is the pre emergent, because that
Speaker 3: if you missed that boat, you know, we get a
Speaker 3: cold front and some rain or something, you're gonna have
Speaker 3: weed sprouting. So go ahead and get the pre emergent down. Now. Now,
Speaker 3: when you say weed killer, I'm assuming it's because you're
Speaker 3: seeing weeds in the lawn you're wanting to kill.
Speaker 9: I don't see a lot, but I didn't want to wait.
Speaker 9: I just think if there were some there, I wanted
Speaker 9: to take them out. If there were some sprouted already,
Speaker 9: I wanted to take them out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would. I would just do the pre emergent.
Speaker 3: If you're not seeing anything, kind of walk around, look
Speaker 3: at especially in bear spots where your lawn's a little thin,
Speaker 3: look look there. And but right now, I'm not recommending
Speaker 3: a lot of post emergent products for various reasons. Uh,
Speaker 3: there's a place for them. But I think if you
Speaker 3: just do the pre emergent and then turn right around
Speaker 3: when you finish spreading it and put out your fertilizer
Speaker 3: for fall. Get a fall type fertilizer, put it down
Speaker 3: and then water it in with about a half inch
Speaker 3: of water, and you're good to go. You put a
Speaker 3: little more than a half if you want, but about
Speaker 3: a half something like that.
Speaker 9: Sounds good to meet.
Speaker 10: You do not have to.
Speaker 9: You don't even have to persuade this lazy person.
Speaker 10: That's perfect.
Speaker 3: I think it's funny. That's funny. Yeah, A lot of
Speaker 3: the weeds that are summer weeds, they're already setting seeds
Speaker 3: or blooming or whatever if they're in the lawn and
Speaker 3: and so it's a little late for the what you're
Speaker 3: referring to as weed killer for those. Okay, it's a
Speaker 3: little late for that. And I think we're still getting
Speaker 3: ahead of the cool season weeds. Just with the weather
Speaker 3: we've had, as dry as it's been and stuff, I
Speaker 3: think we're ahead of that. So I think just the
Speaker 3: pre emergent's gonna get you going.
Speaker 11: All right, Dave, thank you, thank you very much.
Speaker 3: Thanks for the call. Call back any time. Good talk
Speaker 3: to you. They care all right, folks. You are listening
Speaker 3: to garden Line and the phone number is seven one
Speaker 3: three two one two k t R seven one three
Speaker 3: two one two kt r H give us call. Let's
Speaker 3: talk about the things that are of interest to you.
Speaker 3: I mentioned that I was at in Channing Forest yesterday
Speaker 3: and a really good time out there. You need to
Speaker 3: go check that place out, you really do it is.
Speaker 3: It is beautiful out there. I mean, they just have
Speaker 3: tons of color, and the butterflies are going nuts and
Speaker 3: the bees are going nuts. You know, pollinators are they're
Speaker 3: really honkering down getting as much of the pollen and
Speaker 3: nectar and everything whatever kind of pollinator what they're looking
Speaker 3: for as they can right now, because they know the
Speaker 3: days you're getting short, and they know that they gotta
Speaker 3: you know, it's kind of like an old bear that
Speaker 3: gets all fat before hibernating for the winter. Well, it's
Speaker 3: a similar thing. They're they're busy. They are staying very
Speaker 3: very busy and outed in Channe and four. They have
Speaker 3: some outstanding beautiful plants too. I was looking at some
Speaker 3: of their trees yesterday and wow, they are beautiful. They've
Speaker 3: got some red buds that they just got in out
Speaker 3: there that look really really good, a number of different
Speaker 3: kinds of red buds. Of course, the herbs and the
Speaker 3: veggies always have to walk over to that area, and
Speaker 3: they are really stocked up with herbs and veggies and
Speaker 3: the cool season color even is coming in. You know,
Speaker 3: pansies and violas is what we start to put out
Speaker 3: when it really gets cool. And they're loaded up on
Speaker 3: that and Enchanted Forest. But those of you haven't been there.
Speaker 3: That's if you're in Richmond, you're heading up toward sugar
Speaker 3: Land direction. It's off to the right on FM twenty
Speaker 3: seven twenty seven fifty nine. Enchanted Forest. When you go in,
Speaker 3: check out the gift shops, check out the houseplants too.
Speaker 3: They look really good right now. I was really surprised
Speaker 3: at the selection that they still have, and it's an
Speaker 3: outstanding shape. And you know, this is house plant season.
Speaker 3: So we got holidays coming up even just you know,
Speaker 3: where are you going for Thanksgiving dinner? How about taking
Speaker 3: somebody a plant from Enchanted Forest or maybe taking them
Speaker 3: something from the gift shop. They've got some really cool
Speaker 3: stuff for a houseplant too. All there in Channing Forest,
Speaker 3: go check them out, and there's something going on there
Speaker 3: pretty much every Saturday. Now. They're staying keeping things, hopping
Speaker 3: makes it a lot of fun. I know D was
Speaker 3: out there talking about shade plants yesterday. And then I
Speaker 3: was out there and they got stuff always going on
Speaker 3: in Channing Forest. Hey, here's the website. Would you go
Speaker 3: look at it because it's really good. It is really
Speaker 3: really inspiring and good to check it out. Enchanted Forest, Richmond,
Speaker 3: TX dot com. Enchanted Forest, Richmond, TX dot com. So
Speaker 3: it was helpful when people put together a really good
Speaker 3: quality website. All right, it's time for me to take
Speaker 3: a little break here. I will be right back. Our
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Speaker 3: with someone this past week about black velvet multch. You know,
Speaker 3: black velvet is the maults from Landscaper's Pride. Uh, and
Speaker 3: it's not dyed. And they were they were going, I
Speaker 3: know you don't like dyed malts. Yes, I don't, neither
Speaker 3: did Randy, by the way.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 3: And just I just don't find I find it not
Speaker 3: very natural. Okay. And then we can get in debates
Speaker 3: about what it hurts and doesn't hurt and all that
Speaker 3: kind of stuff. But I just don't like the look
Speaker 3: of it. I don't care for the look of it.
Speaker 3: Black velvet is natural, it is naturally dark and just
Speaker 3: just a rich It's a good name, black velvet. That's
Speaker 3: a good name for it. Excellent name. As a matter
Speaker 3: of fact, it's a hardwood multch and uh it's one
Speaker 3: that you know, lose the landscaper's pride, folks. This is
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Speaker 3: of locally sourced pine barks, got sandy loam in it,
Speaker 3: so it's got that structure of soil in it and organics.
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Speaker 3: and it's going to hold up for a good while too,
Speaker 3: and it also adds as decomposing materials. Are those essential
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Speaker 3: let's row together and boys fall ever a good time
Speaker 3: to get some of their products and get off to
Speaker 3: a great start. I'm going to head out to pair
Speaker 3: Land and talk to Pam. Hello Pam, open to the
Speaker 3: garden line.
Speaker 11: And good morning, Skip.
Speaker 3: Morning.
Speaker 12: Can you hear me?
Speaker 3: What's up?
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I sure can.
Speaker 13: I am looking for an organic alternative or to pre
Speaker 13: emergent her beside. I had serious issues with mag Magnolia's
Speaker 13: in the spring. Of course, they were stressed by last
Speaker 13: summer and then the freeze. But one of the things
Speaker 13: that Augus pointed out was the use of weed killer.
Speaker 13: And I don't use any weed killer other than the
Speaker 13: pre mergent and I just have a six months follow up.
Speaker 13: Everything's good, but they really advise to stay away from that.
Speaker 13: Is there any practice I could implement that would achieve
Speaker 13: the same result.
Speaker 3: Here's the organic alternatives that are on my schedule. If
Speaker 3: you go to gardening with skip dot com, I have
Speaker 3: a lawn, pest, disease and weed management schedule that has
Speaker 3: synthetic and organic options. First of all, always be building
Speaker 3: turf density with proper fertilizing. The denser the turf gets
Speaker 3: by fertilizing properly and mowing, often the less weeds you're
Speaker 3: going to have. That's one because pre emergent stops weed
Speaker 3: seeds and dense lawn stops weed seeds too. Secondly, compost
Speaker 3: top dressing at the end of the season going into
Speaker 3: fall or in the spring coming out early. Either one
Speaker 3: of those puts a little bit more of a shade
Speaker 3: cover over the ground. You know what I'm saying. Even
Speaker 3: though you don't top dress deeply, it is blocking a
Speaker 3: little bit of light. So that also helps. And then finally,
Speaker 3: there is a product called corn gluten meal. Corn gluten
Speaker 3: meal is kind of a hit and miss. It can
Speaker 3: stop weed seeds if you get it out there and
Speaker 3: water it in. The problem is, we're not in control
Speaker 3: of rainfall, and if after putting on corn gluten meal
Speaker 3: you just get ongoing small amounts of rainfall, it's not
Speaker 3: going to be as effective. But that is the only
Speaker 3: organic pre emergent that I know of as corn gluten meal.
Speaker 14: Okay, okay, well, then you've managed my second question that
Speaker 14: I also need to I've been doing the aration twice
Speaker 14: a year for about four years now, but I probably
Speaker 14: still need to do it in the areas that continue
Speaker 14: to have weed issues.
Speaker 11: So thank you very much.
Speaker 15: Well.
Speaker 3: Aeration is yeah, aeration is mainly for comp action, so
Speaker 3: if you're doing trust year, that's a lot of erasi.
Speaker 3: But yeah, but it sounds like you're off to a
Speaker 3: good start. So I do wish you well with that.
Speaker 3: I appreciate it, all right, thank you for the call.
Speaker 3: Take care. Buchanan's Native Plants is on Eleventh Street in
Speaker 3: the Heights. Eleventh Street and if you've never been there,
Speaker 3: you gotta go. Fact this afternoon be a good time
Speaker 3: to get over to Buchanans. They are loaded up. They
Speaker 3: have beautiful fall color. Listen, we talk about pansies and
Speaker 3: viola's in the fall. Those are they're very hearty, very
Speaker 3: good cool season color. But Dianthus is another one, just beautiful.
Speaker 3: There's the shorter types of dianthus that we've always had,
Speaker 3: and then in recent years we started seeing these just
Speaker 3: neon glowing tall dianthus like Amazon is a series example
Speaker 3: of that, and the colors are just amazing. They make
Speaker 3: good cut flowers too, by the way, but Dianthus is
Speaker 3: a good one, cold cold, cold, hearty. Things like kale,
Speaker 3: ornamental kale and ornamental cabbage are also available. And then
Speaker 3: we have things like snap dragons. We got stock that's
Speaker 3: a really underplanted stock is a wonderful cool season color, plant, colangulas, nasturtiums.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of things we can do for some
Speaker 3: color as we go into the fall season. Alyssam isn't
Speaker 3: a good example. It's all there Buchanans. You know, they
Speaker 3: are Buchanans native plants. I mean, so they totally stocked
Speaker 3: up on natives. Last time I was out there, they
Speaker 3: had a great selection of strawberries. If you want awesome,
Speaker 3: Let's say February March April May through that region. Depending
Speaker 3: on where you live in the area that strawberry season,
Speaker 3: especially March, April and early May. Go to Buchanans, pick
Speaker 3: up some of the strawberries, get them in now, and
Speaker 3: you will have a really, really nice strawberry season. Let's
Speaker 3: head now to Mike in spring. Hello, Mike, welcome to
Speaker 3: garden Line.
Speaker 16: Good morning. Thanks for telling you, Micall. I'm getting ready
Speaker 16: to just put some saint always being down? Is it
Speaker 16: all right to put humans and we nower down on
Speaker 16: top of that before I planet.
Speaker 3: If you can mix it into the soil a little
Speaker 3: bit and then level it out real good, then you
Speaker 3: can lay your sid on top of that. But I
Speaker 3: don't do a whole lot. You can put a little bit,
Speaker 3: but don't do a whole lot. Maybe an inch or
Speaker 3: so would be enough for that. Okay.
Speaker 10: And another thing, what if you put some of that
Speaker 10: in your your long like like.
Speaker 16: You would.
Speaker 10: You are?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Uh, you you could do that if it was
Speaker 3: well composted. The humans is well composted just by nature
Speaker 3: of it being humans. But uh, the manures need to
Speaker 3: be very well composted. H and don't do too much,
Speaker 3: keep it very thin very.
Speaker 10: Then, yeah, in the loan. In the loan, that's already there.
Speaker 3: Yes, that's what I'm talking about, like a top dressing.
Speaker 3: The top dressing we put out at about a third
Speaker 3: of an inch deep.
Speaker 17: So yeah, that's why I mean to do that in
Speaker 17: in your loan. It is okay to do that, Yes,
Speaker 17: very lightly, very lightly.
Speaker 3: That's right. That's it.
Speaker 11: You got it.
Speaker 3: It is it probably even better, probably be even better
Speaker 3: to do it in the spring, but you can do it.
Speaker 3: All right. Well, good luck getting that lawn established. Mic,
Speaker 3: sounds like you got some work ahead of you.
Speaker 10: There, I'm about done.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, all right, well thanks for thanks for colling,
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Speaker 18: Hey.
Speaker 3: Welcome back, Welcome back to guarden Line. Good have you
Speaker 3: with us. We got a lot to talk about and
Speaker 3: a lot of people to talk to, So we're gonna
Speaker 3: jump right up there on the phones and go to
Speaker 3: Marene in Lakeside of States. Hey, Maureene, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 12: Thank you so much.
Speaker 19: I think I have a simple problem, but it's always
Speaker 19: best to check it out. During the storm, I had
Speaker 19: to have a fencing replaced, so they placed the wood
Speaker 19: on the ground and did their work all as well.
Speaker 10: They're gone, scleaned up, et cetera.
Speaker 4: But I did notice that the spot where the wood.
Speaker 19: Was that it was kind of turning straw looking, so
Speaker 19: I just watched it in et cetera, et cetera. But
Speaker 19: now I've always had an apossum pass through. I don't
Speaker 19: have a problem. He's welcome to share whatever I grow
Speaker 19: food wise, but it now looks like he was looking
Speaker 19: or she was looking for something, and it's kind of
Speaker 19: made hold and ripped up the grass and spots. So
Speaker 19: I'm now thinking I need to remove that straw grass
Speaker 19: where he's been looking or she he's been looking for,
Speaker 19: maybe grub or whatever else they find edible. But as
Speaker 19: I was passing by Low's or another big box store,
Speaker 19: I thought that they had on sale some sod, So
Speaker 19: my question is this should I put down some type
Speaker 19: of chemical But I'm not really seeing anything.
Speaker 10: That the possum would look for.
Speaker 19: But he's returned or she's returned. But now last night
Speaker 19: I did not see any evidence of a new area
Speaker 19: being dug up. But it's like a big dog was
Speaker 19: passing through my yard and you know, left me a
Speaker 19: gift and then did that back leg motion where he's
Speaker 19: digging everything up.
Speaker 12: So what do you think I have going on?
Speaker 3: Well, I don't think you need to put an insect
Speaker 3: aside down. I don't think he got a bug in
Speaker 3: there that needs to be treated. It also could be
Speaker 3: that the possum is more of a guilt by association
Speaker 3: unless you just have seen the possum doing the damage.
Speaker 3: That sounds more like something an armadilla would do, you know,
Speaker 3: rooting around with their nose, So you may also have
Speaker 3: something going on. There are the critters that can do that,
Speaker 3: but you have to.
Speaker 19: Come up with another critter. Lakeside of State is not
Speaker 19: known for having armadillos.
Speaker 7: And I'm in a you know, small.
Speaker 19: Property, so I'm not out in Cyprus.
Speaker 10: Or wall or I'm in the city.
Speaker 19: So those chances of that animal, although it does.
Speaker 10: That that it looks just like it.
Speaker 4: Okay, so then any.
Speaker 3: Area that is turning straw, I was like, how wide?
Speaker 16: How long?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 19: No, no, I got you.
Speaker 20: Uh, it is not a big area.
Speaker 19: It's just it's not typical for my backyard. So it's
Speaker 19: it's maybe five by five five, you know, six foot,
Speaker 19: it's not it's not a big area.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I don't I just don't think i'd
Speaker 3: do anything to it. I think it's gonna be fine,
Speaker 3: uh it, you know it. It's hard to say for
Speaker 3: sure what's doing that. Maybe it is the possum or
Speaker 3: some of the skunks do that too, by the way,
Speaker 3: but who knows exactly. But the straw colored could be
Speaker 3: due to a number of things, just the changing in
Speaker 3: the weather. Some people have had some lawns that are
Speaker 3: that are starting to I don't know, it's like they're
Speaker 3: they're tired and old looking.
Speaker 19: But yeah, it does look like that. It looks like
Speaker 19: somebody aging and you know, you're getting gray hair and
Speaker 19: losing some it's looking to it could be yeah.
Speaker 3: You know, we've had a dry period now and the
Speaker 3: temperature has been warm up until just recently, and so
Speaker 3: it could just be struggling a little bit for lack
Speaker 3: of moisture, so moisture or could be a little bit
Speaker 3: of a disease going on in there that's kind of
Speaker 3: causing some of the yellowing or some of the the
Speaker 3: lack of color, the straw color iss you described at
Speaker 3: the tan Uh. I would just kind of watch it
Speaker 3: and see, you know, without me seeing a sample in
Speaker 3: my hands and really examining it. That is kind of
Speaker 3: the best shot I can do for you on it.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't use an insecticide with an area of that size.
Speaker 3: I just am not real concerned about it. If it
Speaker 3: were a disease problem, I would expect to see more
Speaker 3: areas of the lawn showing the problem.
Speaker 19: Okay, so what about putting in two pieces of sod.
Speaker 3: If you want to do that, that's fine. In general,
Speaker 3: it's getting the end of the time, Yeah, to put
Speaker 3: side down, but if you hurry up, if you get
Speaker 3: all organic matter off the surface like dead grass and
Speaker 3: most stuff, so the side you put down can contact
Speaker 3: the soil, and you water real good before you put
Speaker 3: it down. You lay it down, and then you water
Speaker 3: it about twice a day for a week, and then
Speaker 3: once a day for a week. You might get that.
Speaker 19: I did that in a couple of spots.
Speaker 20: Yeah, okay, I just need you, I guess.
Speaker 19: I'm just calling to get a blessing about how to
Speaker 19: do it.
Speaker 12: And you're very good at.
Speaker 19: That, so.
Speaker 16: You can.
Speaker 3: You know, if it were mine, If it were mine,
Speaker 3: I'd give it a real long thought about maybe just
Speaker 3: waiting until it warms up in spring and really wants
Speaker 3: to grow and then do it the sod ddition.
Speaker 21: But there's not a right, you're me some energy extended?
Speaker 3: You got you got there? You go, all right, Thank you,
Speaker 3: appreciate your.
Speaker 11: Call so much.
Speaker 10: Appreciate appreciate you too bad.
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Speaker 3: Time for me to take a little break here and
Speaker 3: when I come back, Tim and Bill, you made my
Speaker 3: first two up. Welcome back to garden Line. We are
Speaker 3: glad to have you with us today. Someone I get
Speaker 3: this question a lot, and here it's it's varying versions
Speaker 3: of it, but basically here's the question, Uh, when do
Speaker 3: I When do I put out asmit? You know it's
Speaker 3: fertilizing season? Do I put out as Is now the
Speaker 3: time to put out as mite? And the answer is
Speaker 3: you put out as might whenever you want to put
Speaker 3: out azmite. As might is a micronutrient supplement. It is
Speaker 3: not something you put down like the standard fertilizers with
Speaker 3: lots of nitrogen in them that make your long take
Speaker 3: off growing and be green. It is a boy It
Speaker 3: is a bank account deposit. That's what you're doing of
Speaker 3: trace minerals. Okay, So when you put asmite down, any
Speaker 3: month of the year you put it down, it goes in.
Speaker 3: It attaches to the soil. The trace minerals attached to
Speaker 3: the soil, and when the plant roots need them. Whatever
Speaker 3: the mineral is, you know, maybe it's something like iron
Speaker 3: or zinc or whatever is it's needed in the trace
Speaker 3: mineral group, Well it's in that bank account and the
Speaker 3: plant can have it. So you could do it when
Speaker 3: you fertilize. You put your fertilizer oute, turn around, fill
Speaker 3: up with these might put the AZMTE out. However you
Speaker 3: want to go about it is up to you. The
Speaker 3: month doesn't matter, and so most people will do it
Speaker 3: when they fertilize because it's just easier. You're already out
Speaker 3: there running the spread or across the lawn, so why
Speaker 3: not just go ahead and do your asimite at that time.
Speaker 3: Either way you go about it is fine. Just just
Speaker 3: once a year. A good application of ASEM is usually
Speaker 3: what I would recommend for most long say you have
Speaker 3: a saw test just to check and make sure what
Speaker 3: levels of what you need. But as might goes a
Speaker 3: long way because it's a tracement or you're not putting
Speaker 3: the quantity out that you're putting of other fertilizers. So
Speaker 3: about forty four pounds bag is going to give you
Speaker 3: six to twelve thousand square feet of coverage? Works really well,
Speaker 3: It's as simple as that. All right, So let's go
Speaker 3: to Tim now in Oh gosh, Tim, where are you located?
Speaker 11: I'm out here by the Surprises being State Park.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, all right, good, well, how can I help today?
Speaker 22: I have a fig tree that's been in the ground
Speaker 22: for about five maybe six years. It seems that it
Speaker 22: only grows spread and out, not really up. But it
Speaker 22: doesn't produce any figs.
Speaker 11: It's done.
Speaker 3: It no figs, huh, four or five?
Speaker 11: And then a couple of years later it put on
Speaker 11: a few. And I just walked over here and I
Speaker 11: saw one, a green one on it. This year this
Speaker 11: is the first time this year it's done put a
Speaker 11: fig on.
Speaker 3: Wow. Well, uh, it's say that again. I was thinking,
Speaker 3: my soul, I didn't here something. Uh, well, it could
Speaker 3: be it could be. How much sunlight is that fig getting?
Speaker 22: I would say at least half a day. It's by
Speaker 22: big live okay, okay, goes.
Speaker 11: You know, and shades it for you, you know, but
Speaker 11: it gets a good morning and so.
Speaker 3: Well, uh, you're not putting too much of that chicken
Speaker 3: in her on it, are you.
Speaker 9: No.
Speaker 3: I hear them bragging in the background over there, so.
Speaker 11: Uh so you know, I don't know.
Speaker 20: Uh.
Speaker 3: There are a number of things that can stress a fig.
Speaker 3: Nematodes in the soil. If you have a somewhat sandy soil,
Speaker 3: you may have a lot of nematods and you get
Speaker 3: enough of them on a fig tree, and the roots
Speaker 3: just are very inefficient taking up water and nutrients and
Speaker 3: they struggle, so that the only way to check that
Speaker 3: is to wash out some roots, you know, get a
Speaker 3: spade and kind of pull up some soil and wash
Speaker 3: it out real good and look for bumps all over
Speaker 3: the roots.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: The other possibility is a variety, the variety of figs.
Speaker 3: Some figs produce better than others. They're not all equal,
Speaker 3: but generally figs are easy and almost no care. So
Speaker 3: that is a little bit of a mystery. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 3: it is a little bit of a mystery that you're
Speaker 3: not getting anything.
Speaker 22: It's a very large purple fig when it's on there.
Speaker 22: I'm talking golf ball or maybe slightly larger when they
Speaker 22: do produce one.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, I would you know, if you got room
Speaker 3: for another one, I would go buy a fig and
Speaker 3: get a get a good variety of l s. U
Speaker 3: Purple is a good one. One calls Celeste is a
Speaker 3: good one. It's a nice, smaller but real sweet fig
Speaker 3: and plant them out there and just see if they
Speaker 3: do better than that one did, because then we may
Speaker 3: be thinking, okay, that's the variety. Something's wrong with it.
Speaker 3: Don't overfertilize them. Just a moderate amount is all they need.
Speaker 3: If any figs are very tough, make sure you get
Speaker 3: them well watered. But check for those nematodes, just to
Speaker 3: make sure that's not on that because there's no cure
Speaker 3: in that. And you know, it's like having a dog
Speaker 3: with a thousand ticks on it. It just really just
Speaker 3: sucks the life out of of the fig tree to
Speaker 3: have all those nematodes on it.
Speaker 11: So you saying I can't fertilize it.
Speaker 3: You can, but moderately, don't overdo it, just modern and
Speaker 3: don't do it now do it? Well, that's true, that's true.
Speaker 3: But some situations the soil is so poor that a
Speaker 3: fertilizer is helpful, but very moderate in that, and I
Speaker 3: wouldn't do it now. I would only do it, you know,
Speaker 3: in the early in the spring or maybe early summer season.
Speaker 3: But that's if I were looking at a fig and
Speaker 3: it weren't growing, it didn't look good, it just kind
Speaker 3: of seemed to lack color and vigor. I might try
Speaker 3: the fertilizer. Then if your fig is growing healthy and
Speaker 3: it looks good, green, healthy, then I wouldn't wouldn't bother
Speaker 3: with it.
Speaker 22: Okay, Well, sound all right, We'll try a little fertilizer
Speaker 22: and go from there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, check, check for those nemotods and then yeah, just
Speaker 3: I try a different fig too, because I that's possibility.
Speaker 3: But that obviously your fig doesn't know how to read,
Speaker 3: because if it knew how to read, it would have
Speaker 3: learned a long time ago. That figs just don't need care.
Speaker 3: They just fruit for you no matter what.
Speaker 11: That's what I thought. You appreciate that, all right, sir?
Speaker 18: Thank you?
Speaker 3: You bet good luck with that. That is an unusual
Speaker 3: thing to have a fig that does not want to
Speaker 3: cooperate at all.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: You've heard me talk about Star Hope before, and the
Speaker 3: reason is because I believe in Star Hope. I've seen
Speaker 3: the work that Star Hope does. I mean it's decades ago.
Speaker 3: My wife and I volunteered with Star Hope back when
Speaker 3: we lived in the Houston area, and now it's just
Speaker 3: something we continue to believe in and support. You know,
Speaker 3: all it takes is two dollars and eighty five cents
Speaker 3: to provide a meal for a homeless man or a
Speaker 3: woman or children for that matter. You can go to
Speaker 3: Star of Hoope Mission's website. It's real easy. It's shmission
Speaker 3: dot org and there you can learn more and you
Speaker 3: can donate there, and I would encourage you to consider that.
Speaker 3: You know, Star Hope, when you put a dollar into
Speaker 3: Star Hope, it's a dollar that goes into changing lives.
Speaker 3: It really is. They don't just give people a nickel
Speaker 3: and say good luck. They actually bring people in. There's housing,
Speaker 3: there's food available. If mom or dad is dealing with
Speaker 3: substance abuse, they help with that. They have programs for that.
Speaker 3: If they're trying to get trained for a job so
Speaker 3: they can get on their feet, Star Hope has training
Speaker 3: like that, and then they have instructions on how do
Speaker 3: you get a job, and they help you through that process.
Speaker 3: That time at Star Hope is when you're saving your money,
Speaker 3: you're getting established, you're finding some dependable transportation, and you're
Speaker 3: getting the chance to actually turn your life around. And
Speaker 3: when you do that, you turn your children's life around.
Speaker 3: And that's the hope in Star of Hope. They provide
Speaker 3: Christ centered counseling and instruction and spiritual guidance as well.
Speaker 3: Star of Hope Mission is something that I hope you
Speaker 3: will put your compassion to work by providing a donation
Speaker 3: on an ongoing basis. Join myself and others and be
Speaker 3: a supporter of Starve Hope. I want to head to Westside,
Speaker 3: Houston and talk to Bill.
Speaker 18: Now.
Speaker 3: Hey, Bill, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 6: A good morning, Skip. Say, I have a two questions
Speaker 6: about fertilizing. One is probably a silly quest, but I
Speaker 6: always curious about it.
Speaker 3: If you have.
Speaker 6: Say a fifteen five ten, you have then seventy percent
Speaker 6: of the bag of fertilizers and erth would it be
Speaker 6: a greater value if just using those same numbers you
Speaker 6: got a thirty ten twenty with only thirty percent of
Speaker 6: the bag inert and put it out at half the.
Speaker 18: Measure?
Speaker 3: Yeah, why don't increase the Yes, sir, that's an insightful question,
Speaker 3: and you you kind of have hit on something. In general,
Speaker 3: if you're looking at per pound of nutrient, it is
Speaker 3: less expensive to buy a more concentrated fertilizer in general,
Speaker 3: but there's a lot of other factors, like is it
Speaker 3: in a slow release form? You know the chemistry, if
Speaker 3: you will, of the fertilizer itself. There are some things
Speaker 3: that cause the price to go up. A slow release
Speaker 3: tends to cost a little more than an immediate release,
Speaker 3: but it works a lot better and you end up
Speaker 3: getting more efficient use. So yeah, you paid more for it,
Speaker 3: but you're getting more of what you paid for it,
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying. And so there's a lot
Speaker 3: of trade offs there. Organics in general or lower concentration
Speaker 3: because they're natural. Nature does not pack, you know, thirty
Speaker 3: percent nutrient into a product like you can synthetically. But yes,
Speaker 3: in general, the more concentrated, the more bang you get
Speaker 3: for your buck.
Speaker 18: Okay, that makes sense.
Speaker 6: Then the other question is about the choices of the
Speaker 6: full fertilizer. I found a little confusing. I put out
Speaker 6: the nitroposs already, so it's just a academic question. The
Speaker 6: matrovos is eight twelve sixteen, with light on the nitrogen,
Speaker 6: heavy on the potassium within the southwest. It seems to be,
Speaker 6: it doesn't It seems to be for a different time
Speaker 6: of the year, like it's sixteen eighty twelve. It's confusing
Speaker 6: to me looking at the numbers. But I've used nitrogen, yeah,
Speaker 6: and nitrovosh.
Speaker 3: That's right, and there's there's a lot of that kind
Speaker 3: of variation out there. The bottom line is the majority
Speaker 3: of the nutrient your plant needs is already in the ground.
Speaker 3: It's in the soil. It's attached to the soil particles
Speaker 3: and things, and we are supplementing when we fertilize. It's
Speaker 3: not like there's zero out there and it only gets
Speaker 3: what we add. So in that our little supplementations can vary.
Speaker 3: You know, for decades triple thirteen and ten twenty ten,
Speaker 3: we're fertilizers that were recommended and it didn't kill the
Speaker 3: lawn to do it. But turf science and research throughout
Speaker 3: the South over the years has showed us that that
Speaker 3: middle number phosphorus tends to build up over time. And
Speaker 3: so if you constantly use something that has a lot
Speaker 3: of the middle number, over time, it builds up. Okay,
Speaker 3: it's not going to happen in five years or something,
Speaker 3: but it will happen. And so you see variations. Each
Speaker 3: nutrient has things it does for the grass, and so
Speaker 3: you can make a case for phosphorus being good for
Speaker 3: a root system. You can make a case for potassium
Speaker 3: being good for cold heartiness. You can make a case,
Speaker 3: you know, for nitrogen of course being good for supporting
Speaker 3: growth in general. A three, one two are something similar.
Speaker 3: Type ratio is what we use through the growing season,
Speaker 3: and it can be a little higher nitrogen, it can
Speaker 3: be a little lower. But you know, if you and
Speaker 3: ten of your neighbors or nine of your neighbors all
Speaker 3: did a soil test, you would find the results to
Speaker 3: be a little different in each yard. And so when
Speaker 3: I recommend a fertilizer, I'm giving you a good general
Speaker 3: ninety percent of the time, ninety five percent of the
Speaker 3: time probably a good fertilizer to put down. But each
Speaker 3: person's yard is different. And so for example, if you
Speaker 3: were overloaded with phosphorus, I would say use something with
Speaker 3: zero phosphorus. If you didn't have enough, I would use,
Speaker 3: say something with more than a three one two ratio.
Speaker 3: So it's a little more complicated than that. Or your
Speaker 3: questions are good, it's just in general. And what I
Speaker 3: would recommend finally, is just and I've got to go
Speaker 3: to a break here in about ten seconds. I would
Speaker 3: absolutely do the soil test periodically every three or four years,
Speaker 3: and then you know exactly the fertilizer that's best for you.
Speaker 3: And if you want to call into the show with
Speaker 3: your results, email them to me. I can help guide
Speaker 3: you in doing that. But for most people we give
Speaker 3: them a good general guide that's going to work and
Speaker 3: buy and large be you know, a great way to go.
Speaker 3: So if you want to hang on for after break
Speaker 3: to continue, I'll be happy to do that. I gotta
Speaker 3: run right here to take a break, folks, I'll be
Speaker 3: right back. I wanted to talk a little bit about
Speaker 3: birds and Wildbirds Unlimited. You know you hear me talk
Speaker 3: about them a lot, because I really believe in wild
Speaker 3: Birds stores and the products they carry as being superior.
Speaker 3: And here is an example of that. They're bird seed.
Speaker 3: It is quality seed. They don't throw the kinds of
Speaker 3: bird seed into the mix that are cheap, and that
Speaker 3: way they kind of make the bag bigger and make
Speaker 3: it look like more seed, but the birds aren't going
Speaker 3: to to eat it. They put the things in the
Speaker 3: birds eat And you could get blends. You know, what
Speaker 3: kind of birds are you trying to attract? Well, there's
Speaker 3: different mixes and blends that are options there at Waldbirds.
Speaker 3: You know, they have a standard blend that's contract pretty
Speaker 3: much everything, but they've got the special blends for different
Speaker 3: kinds of birds as well, and different times of the
Speaker 3: season as well. Right now, my feeders are stocked up
Speaker 3: with a couple of different options from Wildbirds Unlimited. You know,
Speaker 3: Wabird's Unlimited is not just the place for the quality seeds,
Speaker 3: but it's also the place for quality products. And if
Speaker 3: you're looking for a bird feeder that's quality, that's gonna last,
Speaker 3: that's gonna provide better access or maybe exclude squirrels. That's
Speaker 3: that's My favorite feeder is the squirrel excluder, and boy
Speaker 3: does it ever work. Although you have to put on
Speaker 3: earplugs because the language of the squirrels use when they
Speaker 3: try to encounter that feeder and can't get in, it'll
Speaker 3: make a sailor blush. It is horrible, But I appreciate
Speaker 3: the fact that the feeder works so well. They've got
Speaker 3: you know, we're going into the winter season and pretty
Speaker 3: soon we're gonna be looking at things like those little
Speaker 3: packages of suet, you know that you put inside a
Speaker 3: little warkage for the birds to peck out the sewet
Speaker 3: from and the seeds. They have seed that or feeders
Speaker 3: that fit any kind any kind of bird that you're
Speaker 3: trying to fix or to supply.
Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 3: The bird houses another thing I like from them. Listen
Speaker 3: if you or not if you don't consider yourself a
Speaker 3: bird person. I'm gonna suggest something, and that is to
Speaker 3: go into a Walldbirds and check it out and talk
Speaker 3: to some of the folks there. I think you will
Speaker 3: find this. Like, wait, I've been missing this.
Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 3: For years I gardened and I just didn't even think
Speaker 3: about the birds. I mean, I appreciated a bird and
Speaker 3: a bird song, but it was never part of my gardening.
Speaker 3: And now all of a sudden, it's like, yeah, every
Speaker 3: time I go outside, I almost set outside this early
Speaker 3: morning with a cup of coffee. Oh, the cacophony of
Speaker 3: music of the birds in the morning. I love it,
Speaker 3: and I actually look forward to it, and I think
Speaker 3: you will too. Go to WBU dot com, forward slash Houston,
Speaker 3: WBU dot com forward slash Houston, find one of the
Speaker 3: six wild Birds stores and just swing by there. Go
Speaker 3: go this afternoon. Go check that out. I think you
Speaker 3: will be very impressed. I'm going to go back here. Bill,
Speaker 3: we were in the middle of a philosophical question about
Speaker 3: fertilizer I believe, and so I wanted to continue that.
Speaker 3: I was mentioning, you know that the best way to
Speaker 3: know how to fertilize this have a soil test done,
Speaker 3: and it really is true. I one time when I
Speaker 3: was in Austin, Texas, we had a neighborhood we were
Speaker 3: working with from a water quality standpoint. They were concerned
Speaker 3: about runoff into some of the surface and groundwater they
Speaker 3: had up there, and we did a survey of two
Speaker 3: hundred homes in this particular neighborhood. It was a black
Speaker 3: clay soil and of those two hundred homes, I think
Speaker 3: one or zero needed phosphorus, and it's because they'd been
Speaker 3: using high fertilizers for years now. Just grass need phosphors,
Speaker 3: yes it does, but because of the soil and because
Speaker 3: of the fertilizer history, two hundred homes, not one needed phosphors.
Speaker 3: And it's normal that phosphorus is one we tend to
Speaker 3: not need to supplement for grass. I don't want to
Speaker 3: say grass didn't need phosphors. I mean we don't have
Speaker 3: to add more because there tends to be enough there
Speaker 3: for it. But every lawn's different. Bilso you know, for
Speaker 3: you to do a soil test is the best way
Speaker 3: to do it. And you know you ask a good
Speaker 3: question at the beginning, and that's why not buy a
Speaker 3: stronger fertilizer rather than one that's not as strong. That's
Speaker 3: a good question. Some people, though, have other goals other
Speaker 3: than just how cheap can I get a nutrient? You know,
Speaker 3: so if you're an organic gardener, you're going to want
Speaker 3: to use an organic fertilizer and those tend to be
Speaker 3: lowering concentration.
Speaker 18: Okay, you really did you have to.
Speaker 3: Follow up on that or are we good now?
Speaker 18: No answer, and thank you very much. And by the way,
Speaker 18: we love your skip, really enjoy listening to you.
Speaker 10: Well.
Speaker 3: Thanks, that's kind of you to say that. Yeah, it's
Speaker 3: you know, we on the air. One of my challenges
Speaker 3: has been been horticultures for over thirty five years. I
Speaker 3: think about the answers to simple questions and I could
Speaker 3: talk for an hour, but people's eyes the glaze over
Speaker 3: and they would forget everything I said. So we have
Speaker 3: to simplify. When we simplify, sometimes it comes at the
Speaker 3: expense of some detail. That's that's important, right, But that's
Speaker 3: just how it is with any topic in life, and
Speaker 3: so we try to keep it simple. We try to
Speaker 3: make it easy. But you know, someone like you calls
Speaker 3: in and wants to drill down a little for well, further. Well,
Speaker 3: we'll go ahead and do that too.
Speaker 6: Well, let me just say something about I think the
Speaker 6: best experts can explain things in simple and a simple matter.
Speaker 6: I found that in college too, you know that. You
Speaker 6: know it was complicated and the kind of scratch your head.
Speaker 6: But the good professor with one who could take complicated
Speaker 6: things and explain it to me, the fifth grader, you know,
Speaker 6: even though I was in college simplifying.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: And also the other comment is it's fun to watch
Speaker 6: or hear someone who loves what they're doing.
Speaker 18: It's very obvious to me that that that's you and gardening.
Speaker 6: I also like the I do love it philosophical philosophical
Speaker 6: thing you said about plant life. I can't remember. I
Speaker 6: wish you would repeat that sometime. But how plant life,
Speaker 6: you know, affects everything in our life. You know, when
Speaker 6: you were in a big steak, it was a plant
Speaker 6: in the beginning that provided the the.
Speaker 18: Food for that cattle. But just the way everything revolves
Speaker 18: around plant life. Do that again?
Speaker 11: All right?
Speaker 3: Well, I'll do that again. All right. Well, Well, as
Speaker 3: we hang up here, I'll make a couple of comments
Speaker 3: along those lines, because I think that is interesting. I
Speaker 3: think it's good to step back and just get some
Speaker 3: perspective and we forget about a lot of things about
Speaker 3: the just the miracle, it's nature and how it all works.
Speaker 3: And so thanks a lot, Bill, You take care and
Speaker 3: we'll talk to you again sometime.
Speaker 18: Thank you very much. Skidding all right, bye bye now bye.
Speaker 16: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I I really like that. You know, there's a there.
Speaker 3: There is something that I was thinking about the other
Speaker 3: day that is just amazing to me, and that is
Speaker 3: there's a little formula, uh and you know I won't
Speaker 3: read out all the letters, just like a chemistry formula.
Speaker 3: And basically what it means is that you take you
Speaker 3: take the substances that plants take up, and you sign
Speaker 3: shine sunshine on the leaves, and suddenly you've got the
Speaker 3: food that feeds every bit of life on the planet,
Speaker 3: virtually every bit of life on the planet. When I
Speaker 3: come back from a little break here, i'll talk about
Speaker 3: that just a little bit. But I think that is
Speaker 3: pretty amazing stuff. All right, folks, the number seven one
Speaker 3: three two one two k t R H. Give me
Speaker 3: a call. We'll talk about the things that interest you.
Speaker 20: With Boss L.
Speaker 3: Good have you with us today if you've not been
Speaker 3: out to in Chane Gardens. You need to run out there.
Speaker 3: That is the garden center if you're in Richmond heading
Speaker 3: up toward Katie Fullsher direction, heading north. It's on FM
Speaker 3: three fifty nine and it is loaded with all kinds
Speaker 3: of cool stuff for fall. It's the fall season, so
Speaker 3: you know within Chanet Gardens every season they're going to
Speaker 3: have the things you need for that season. Right now,
Speaker 3: it's the cool season. Color, it's vegetables, it's herbs, it's
Speaker 3: all the woody shrubs, trees and vines that you want
Speaker 3: to be planting now, and the perennials that you want
Speaker 3: to be planting now. When you go out there, you're
Speaker 3: going to find the products to go with it. Products
Speaker 3: by microlife, Nature's Way and nitrofoss and Nelson and airloom
Speaker 3: soils and Landscaper's Pride and Medina and so on. They
Speaker 3: are always stocked up on the things you need. And
Speaker 3: then they have the people on hand that can answer
Speaker 3: your questions in a way that sets you on the
Speaker 3: path to success. Very very important. Plus it's just fun.
Speaker 3: In fact, this afternoon, why run out and in Chanted Gardens.
Speaker 3: It is on the Katie Follsher side of Richmond, on
Speaker 3: FM three point fifty nine. Here's the website. Just go
Speaker 3: here and you'll find out everything you need to know
Speaker 3: Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com in China Gardens Richmond dot com.
Speaker 3: When you go, take someone with you, because this isn't
Speaker 3: just like you're going shopping. This is like you're going
Speaker 3: for an experience. Oh and you get to come home
Speaker 3: with cool plants too. That's a good way to look
Speaker 3: at it, you know, visiting with Bill, just thinking about
Speaker 3: the fact that you have this plant and it takes
Speaker 3: up water and nutrients from the soil, and it takes
Speaker 3: them to the leaves, and sunlight shines on those leaves,
Speaker 3: and carbon to oxide goes into the plant and out
Speaker 3: of it comes what supports all life on earth. It's
Speaker 3: pretty amazing that animals can't produce their own food. We
Speaker 3: have to eat food that has been produced because something
Speaker 3: can capture sunlight and make food. And that's true with plants.
Speaker 3: It's truth. Animals is truth with everything. It's a big cycle,
Speaker 3: but the whole thing runs on the fact that the sunshines.
Speaker 3: And another way to put it, I like this one.
Speaker 3: I don't know who said this, but man, despite his
Speaker 3: artistic pretensions his sophistication and his many accomplishments. OSE's existence
Speaker 3: to a six inch layer top soil and the fact
Speaker 3: that it rains, and I would add to that in
Speaker 3: the sunshines. All right, we're gonna go now to Bill
Speaker 3: in uh let's see do do no Gordon, excuse me,
Speaker 3: Gordon and Beaumont, Hey Gordon, welcome to garden line.
Speaker 23: Yes, sir, I have a question in regards to brown
Speaker 23: turkey figs. I had a tree that all planeted in spring.
Speaker 23: It grew very very little, but then all of a sudden,
Speaker 23: about two months ago, it started growing and put on
Speaker 23: new growth and lots of figs. However, the leaves, they're
Speaker 23: green on top, and then they'll turn a brownish color
Speaker 23: on the bottom, and then within three or four days
Speaker 23: the leaf will drop and just fall off.
Speaker 3: Is there some kind of disease or something that's.
Speaker 23: Identifiable with that brown of color on the bottom of
Speaker 23: the leaf?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Gooden, A couple of things. Leaves get old in time,
Speaker 3: and as we go through some summer droughts and stresses.
Speaker 3: Sounds like your tree got a little on the dry
Speaker 3: side and then yellow boost hair toward the end of
Speaker 3: the season to grow again. That can cause leaves to
Speaker 3: you know, get old, start looking tattered and torn and
Speaker 3: brown and other things yellowing and falling off. But there's
Speaker 3: also a disease called fig rust, and there's no controlling
Speaker 3: it really. I mean, there's things we can do to
Speaker 3: minimize it, but it's really hardly worth spraying for because
Speaker 3: not much watch or is labeled. Uh yeah, and that
Speaker 3: causes leaves to defoliate. Figs are so darn tough they
Speaker 3: can defoliate from rust and next thing you know, they're
Speaker 3: putting on new growth again. So I think in your case,
Speaker 3: just keep taking good care of it, keep it mulched,
Speaker 3: and and in the hot, hot summer weather, just give
Speaker 3: it enough water to keep it going. Yeah. I watered twice.
Speaker 23: I'm probably watered every day, and then uh wow, okay,
Speaker 23: and then triple eight fertilizer and it's growing like crazy.
Speaker 23: I don't open fertilized. I just but uh another hand
Speaker 23: on asparagus. If people are growing asparagus. I've got two
Speaker 23: asparagus beds that I'm on my about fifth crop of
Speaker 23: the year. Once they grow up to about four feet,
Speaker 23: I cut them and get a new crop of asparagus,
Speaker 23: and uh all I do for those are dolomite, lime,
Speaker 23: and Triple eight fertilizer besides mulch. And it's I got,
Speaker 23: like I said last time I called you, Hope, I'm
Speaker 23: over two hundred pounds on that.
Speaker 11: So and uh, I'll try to.
Speaker 3: So you're cutting, you're cutting it all back to the ground,
Speaker 3: cutting it back to the ground to get the spears up.
Speaker 23: Yes, sir, it's once you let it get up about
Speaker 23: three or four feet, the root grows.
Speaker 3: Is it going to grow that much more?
Speaker 23: So I cut it back to the ground and it's
Speaker 23: up to asparagus that is. I have three different brands
Speaker 23: of Jersey, Martha, Washington, Martha something else.
Speaker 3: But uh, yes, uh it's very good eating.
Speaker 11: But anyway, I thought i'd give that hit to callers.
Speaker 3: Thanks much, real quick. Yeah what ah right, Gordon, tell
Speaker 3: me one more, one more time? How many times you
Speaker 3: cut it this year to the ground.
Speaker 11: I'm on about the fifth cut.
Speaker 3: I'm fixture to cut it for the fifth time. All right,
Speaker 3: all right, Well, thanks a lot, and I appreciate I
Speaker 3: appreciate your call of very very much. That's interesting, very interesting.
Speaker 3: If you haven't done fall fertilization yet, I'm telling you Nelson.
Speaker 3: Plant food folks have got something that is kind of
Speaker 3: a twofer. It's carbo load. Carbo load it is a
Speaker 3: fall fertilizer to help produce the carbohydrates needed to go
Speaker 3: into the plant to create winter hardiness and to come
Speaker 3: out strong in the spring. New spring grass growth is
Speaker 3: based on stored energy carbohydrates from the fall season, primarily
Speaker 3: the fall season, and so it's so important your fall fertilization,
Speaker 3: perhaps the most important fertilization of the year. Now, in carboload,
Speaker 3: you also have a pre emergent herbicide. So when you
Speaker 3: put carbo load out, you need to water it in
Speaker 3: like any fertilizer would anyway, but you especially need to
Speaker 3: water it in soon because you want that pre emergent
Speaker 3: to be at the soil surface preventing cool seasoned weeds
Speaker 3: which will be germinating very very soon. So get the
Speaker 3: carbon load out watered in about a half inch of water,
Speaker 3: so you put a little more if you want, and
Speaker 3: then next thing, you know, when those seeds try to germinate,
Speaker 3: the pre emergence they are preventing it. Plus you got
Speaker 3: those nutrients there for your turf. Now, some plant food
Speaker 3: products are all quality. The turf star Line is excellent
Speaker 3: and carbol Load is the product for fall fertilization. I
Speaker 3: was hitting down. In fact, I've got just got five
Speaker 3: thoughts went through my head all at once. There. So
Speaker 3: the folks at s the aenemalts, I'm heading down that
Speaker 3: direction here in about another week, I'm heading down that way,
Speaker 3: and I always like to stop in it's the animals,
Speaker 3: because it's the enimaltch. You just have every product you
Speaker 3: need to have success. And I work and work and
Speaker 3: work at trying to convince listeners that start with the
Speaker 3: soil the way put it as brown stuff before green stuff.
Speaker 3: You get the soil right, and then you put good
Speaker 3: plants in and they naturally grow. They just do well
Speaker 3: because you've created the foundation for success. Ciena Maltz is
Speaker 3: the place for everything related to the brown stuff. That
Speaker 3: would include composts, that's embed mixes like the rose soil
Speaker 3: that we talk about, like the veggie and herb mix
Speaker 3: from airloom soils. I carry that there and it is
Speaker 3: also the place for fertilizers Nitrofoss, Nelson, Medina Microlife, Azamite,
Speaker 3: Nelson's Turf star Line, airloom soils. They carry all of that,
Speaker 3: and then they carry the stuff go on top of
Speaker 3: the ground. Native hardwood, multch is double ground Malta. Do
Speaker 3: you like Louisiana price black velvet. They got it there
Speaker 3: at Ciena Maltz. When you leave Ciena Malts, which is
Speaker 3: by the way on FM five point twenty one near
Speaker 3: where Highway six and two eighty eight come together, just
Speaker 3: north of Road Sharon, when you leave there, you've got
Speaker 3: the foundation for success. Don't put a plant in the
Speaker 3: ground without putting the foundation for success in place. From
Speaker 3: cienamlt cnamults dot com is the website. Easy, easy to
Speaker 3: get in and get out, and when you go in,
Speaker 3: you're going to be greeted. I love going to that place.
Speaker 3: It's just fun. You've ever heard Amon say a soil
Speaker 3: place is just fun?
Speaker 10: It is for me.
Speaker 3: I just get excited about it. In fact, one of
Speaker 3: these days I'm going to see if I pay them
Speaker 3: some money where they let me go lay in the
Speaker 3: compost piles and make compost angels. That's my goals. That's
Speaker 3: what I want to do next. If I do that,
Speaker 3: I'll post a picture to Facebook. All right, enough of that, Hey,
Speaker 3: guess where I'm going to be next Saturday RCW Nurseries.
Speaker 3: I hope you'll come out. RCW is the garden center
Speaker 3: where two forty nine comes into belt Wag eight. They
Speaker 3: are having their Fall Fling and I can't wait. I
Speaker 3: always love going out there, especially when they're having one
Speaker 3: of these shindigs. They're gonna have a barbecue, lunch and
Speaker 3: prizes and games for kids, and I'll be their entry
Speaker 3: your gardening questions and as you know, who knows what's
Speaker 3: gonna come out of my mouth, But we're gonna have
Speaker 3: a good time. We're gonna have a very good time.
Speaker 3: Bring me some samples to identify, to diagnose. We'll get
Speaker 3: all that taken care of. Next Saturday from twelve to
Speaker 3: two at r c W Nurseries.
Speaker 20: Welcome to Katie r h Garden Line with skimp Rickard's.
Speaker 17: Shoes, crazy.
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Speaker 16: Not a sign.
Speaker 4: Sun.
Speaker 3: Hey, welcome back. Good to have you back with us
Speaker 3: here on Garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and
Speaker 3: we're here to answer your gardening questions. Basically the way
Speaker 3: I like to look at it is, I'm here to
Speaker 3: help you have a more bountiful garden and a more
Speaker 3: beautiful Landscape's that's the way it works. There are no
Speaker 3: such thing as brown thumbs. There are only uninformed thumbs.
Speaker 3: And we're here to inform your thumb. And you'll be
Speaker 3: amazed as your thumb gets smarter, how green it becomes.
Speaker 3: That's one way to look at it. One way to
Speaker 3: look at it. If you've not done your fall fertilization yet,
Speaker 3: Nitrofoss has got you covered with their Texas three step program.
Speaker 3: You do the two step on the dance floor, you
Speaker 3: do the three step in your lawn. And here's the
Speaker 3: three steps. Fertilizer weed prevention, disease prevention. First fertilizer that
Speaker 3: is Nitrofoss Fall Special Winneriser. Nitro Foss Fall Special Winneriser
Speaker 3: provides the nutrients, especially that a very important potassium that's
Speaker 3: needed in order to create cool cold hearting and also
Speaker 3: to help the plant come out stronger in the spring.
Speaker 3: And here's how it works. When the plant takes up
Speaker 3: a little bit of nitrogen, not as much as in
Speaker 3: the summertime, but in the a little bit of nitrogen
Speaker 3: with the potassium, it is essentially like anaphreeze in the
Speaker 3: plant because it produces carbohydrates and carbohydrates are the anafreeze
Speaker 3: of the plant, and so it gets through winter better.
Speaker 3: But then in the spring, new growth begins with stored carbohydrates.
Speaker 3: And that is what you provided when you put your
Speaker 3: Nitropostphall special down as a winter riser.
Speaker 7: In the fall.
Speaker 3: Second step is here comes the brown patch, the large patch,
Speaker 3: the big circles, and take all root route also attacks
Speaker 3: in the fall as well. When you put down the
Speaker 3: turf fungicide actually is step three, but who's counting step
Speaker 3: three turf fungicide, then that gets in the plant of
Speaker 3: the grass plant, and it prevents the disease from infecting.
Speaker 3: And you got to get ahead of it. Wait until
Speaker 3: you see brown circles and they're going to be brown
Speaker 3: all winter, no no matter what you spray on them
Speaker 3: or applied to them. Get it done now. Second step
Speaker 3: that I skipped over is a barricade. That's weed prevention.
Speaker 3: So let me quit confusing you and just make it simple.
Speaker 3: Nitrofuss fall special winter riser number two, barricade for weed prevention.
Speaker 3: Number three, eagle turf fungicide for disease prevention. Water them
Speaker 3: all in, get them in the soil. Even the fungicide
Speaker 3: will be taken up by the roots and you're ready
Speaker 3: to go for fall. But here's what you shouldn't do. Delay.
Speaker 3: If you wait until weeds are up, if you wait
Speaker 3: until diseases have attacked, if you wait until it's cooled
Speaker 3: off so much, grassroots aren't taken up nutrients very much. Well,
Speaker 3: you just missed the opportunity. So get that done.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: You can find those products of D and D feed
Speaker 3: and TALML. You can go to Plantation, Ace Hardware and Richmond.
Speaker 3: You can go to Hiding and feed Out on Stubner Airline.
Speaker 3: Or you want some more, how about Stanton Shopping Center
Speaker 3: done in Alvin. How about Jim's Hardware and Montgomery Ace
Speaker 3: Hardware City a memorial drive Chenet Forest. I mean, it's
Speaker 3: easy to find nitroposs products, but the main thing is
Speaker 3: find them and get them down. It's time to do that.
Speaker 3: You are listening to Guardenline and the phone number is
Speaker 3: seven one three two one two k t r H
Speaker 3: seven one three two one two k t R eight.
Speaker 3: A little slower on the phones today. Maybe it's because
Speaker 3: we're getting philosophical. So either people's eyes are rolling back
Speaker 3: in their heads or it's just interesting. They're they're enjoying listening.
Speaker 3: I don't know. You tell me which which of the
Speaker 3: two that is. I know I'm interested, but that doesn't
Speaker 3: necessarily mean that everyone else is. What is my uh?
Speaker 3: Mom used to say a German phrase to me, and
Speaker 3: it was yetis tirkin zine plasier kid. It means ever
Speaker 3: creature has this pleasure for me, that's plants and talking
Speaker 3: about plants or one of my one of my pleasures.
Speaker 3: Plants are All Seasons on Highway two forty nine, Toma
Speaker 3: Parkway right up just north of Plants for All Seasons
Speaker 3: have been around since nineteen seventy three. This family owned operated,
Speaker 3: family owned and operated garden center has long been just
Speaker 3: a fixture in that whole area, that whole region because
Speaker 3: people know when you go there, you're going to get
Speaker 3: good plants, of course, but you're also going to get
Speaker 3: good service and knowledgeable service, and that is so important.
Speaker 10: You know.
Speaker 3: One of the things I hate on guardline is when
Speaker 3: someone calls me and go, yeah, I about this, and
Speaker 3: how about this? And how about this? And now you
Speaker 3: know what do I do? And I'm listening going why
Speaker 3: did you buy that? Why did you buy that? Why
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Speaker 3: that product doesn't work on this That product is for
Speaker 3: something other than what your problem is. You see what
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Speaker 3: help you with the diagnostics and the advice. Even if
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Speaker 3: I didn't buy it here, but it's doing that. They'll
Speaker 3: they'll talk to you about it. They'll tell you what
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Speaker 3: That's how it works at Plants for All Seasons Plants
Speaker 3: for All Seasons dot com. That's the website. Here's the
Speaker 3: phone number two eight one three seven six one six
Speaker 3: for six. I shouldn't have said the phones were slow,
Speaker 3: because here we go. Okay, well, let's go to Spring Branch.
Speaker 3: We're going to talk to Jeff. Hey, Jeff, you're first
Speaker 3: in line. What's up?
Speaker 21: Hey, Skip?
Speaker 20: Awesome, great to talk to you. Beautiful day two real
Speaker 20: quick questions.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 20: Eagle Turf Fund Eagle turf fungicide on Zoisia any temperature
Speaker 20: that I need to be worried about or just get
Speaker 20: it down.
Speaker 3: Just get it down, Just get it down. Zoezia has
Speaker 3: its own set of diseases. Each turf species does. Some
Speaker 3: of them they share.
Speaker 14: You know.
Speaker 3: Zoiaza can get take all root right, just like Saint
Speaker 3: Augustine can for example. Uh so, yeah, get it, get
Speaker 3: that down, do it soon. Water it in the roots
Speaker 3: of loysier will take it up, and it'll be in
Speaker 3: the in the plant to help protect it.
Speaker 20: And that'll that Eagle turf will help that take all
Speaker 20: root rot helpful.
Speaker 3: Yes it does. Yeah, Michael, Buttanhill is the ingredient in
Speaker 3: eagle turf and it is an effective product against take
Speaker 3: all root rot. There's there's two or three products that
Speaker 3: work really well on take all them, Michael, butanill is
Speaker 3: one of them. That's eagle turf.
Speaker 20: Gotcha another real quick question. I got so excited, but
Speaker 20: got caught up and got my tomatoes in late insidet
Speaker 20: just got him in last week. Uh, probably not going
Speaker 20: to produce anything, right because these cool nights.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's the case. Unfortunately it's a little late.
Speaker 3: But I mean you put a greenhouse over them, keep
Speaker 3: it warm. You have tomato us. But yeah, yeah, that's
Speaker 3: the case.
Speaker 18: Gotcha, all right?
Speaker 4: Perfect?
Speaker 10: Thank you. I appreciate everything you do for us.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Jeff, thanks for the call. Appreciate that. Uh let's
Speaker 3: see where where are we going from here?
Speaker 10: With?
Speaker 3: And I think next is Mark? Mark, Welcome to garden line.
Speaker 3: How can we help?
Speaker 18: Thanks?
Speaker 16: Kim.
Speaker 24: Hey, I've got a problem with my neighbor's dove weeds
Speaker 24: and now gotten into my yard. How can I control it?
Speaker 24: I've got I've got the celsius. I've done it one application,
Speaker 24: it doesn't seem to have affected it. And then and
Speaker 24: then went to seeds. So what can I put down
Speaker 24: and win for the seeds.
Speaker 3: At this point next spring? Those seeds aren't going to
Speaker 3: germinate until it warms up. So go ahead and wait.
Speaker 3: Get my schedule online at gardeningwith skip dot com. It
Speaker 3: tells you when to put out pre emergence in the spring.
Speaker 3: That's basically February celsius. Excuse me. Doveweed is a little
Speaker 3: bit later to germinate, so if you bumped it till early.
Speaker 3: If you're just going after dove weed, you can probably
Speaker 3: bump it into early March and be okay on that
Speaker 3: for that particular weed. But putting it down earlier is
Speaker 3: fine too, Okay.
Speaker 10: Is the.
Speaker 24: Is there a selective pre emergent for it or is
Speaker 24: it a general and barricade that work?
Speaker 3: Barricade will work, okay, And also there are some post
Speaker 3: emergents that you can use. Is this a big area
Speaker 3: or a small area?
Speaker 24: Well, you know, it took me about a gallon to treat.
Speaker 18: But what I what I treated?
Speaker 3: Okay, Yeah, that's what I would do. Hey, I got
Speaker 3: to run to a break. If you need to follow
Speaker 3: up on that, that's fine, just hang on, but I
Speaker 3: got to run right quick here. Uh, we'll be right back, folks,
Speaker 3: welcome back to guard Line. We're going to head out
Speaker 3: to clear leg now and talk to Mark. Hey, Mark,
Speaker 3: welcome to guard Line. Hey, good morning Skip. I had
Speaker 3: a couple of questions.
Speaker 25: Well, one is I put down some new sod in
Speaker 25: the backyard and I've been watering it like a fend
Speaker 25: twice a day for the last two weeks.
Speaker 3: And uh, you know, now there's no rain in our future.
Speaker 11: So should I what should I do?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 3: Should I back off to once a.
Speaker 16: Day on that?
Speaker 3: Yeah? For sure, Yeah, once a day is you did.
Speaker 3: It was put in two weeks ago, and you've watered
Speaker 3: it twice a day, you said, about ten days ago.
Speaker 3: And I've been watering it in the morning and in
Speaker 3: the evenings. Yeah, I got once a day for sure.
Speaker 3: And and in fact, you know, as our temperatures cool off,
Speaker 3: you may not have to water it every day. Now
Speaker 3: that's that's ten days of that. It ought to be
Speaker 3: rooting him pretty good. And so I just want to avoid.
Speaker 3: You know, we got this two things going on, and
Speaker 3: they're they're kind of the opposite of each other. One
Speaker 3: of them is we want to water it often to
Speaker 3: keep it wet to get those roots in successfully. Number two,
Speaker 3: we want to we don't want to water very much
Speaker 3: because we don't want to promote brown patch and fall disease.
Speaker 3: And so oh you kind of you kind of have
Speaker 3: to choose between the two. So I would back off
Speaker 3: of that watering a little little bit. Once a day
Speaker 3: should be fine. And you shouldn't have to put a
Speaker 3: whole lot of water on when you water, you don't
Speaker 3: don't put an inch on every day, you know, for example,
Speaker 3: just just a little bit to get it going. Kind
Speaker 3: of watch and see. You can also grab the turf
Speaker 3: and real gently kind of pull on it, and you
Speaker 3: can see, well, this is pegging down.
Speaker 20: You know.
Speaker 3: There's a low resistance to me just lifting it up.
Speaker 3: It's not like a throw rug.
Speaker 25: Ah Okay. The other question I had is I found
Speaker 25: a bag of sweet green in the garage, so I
Speaker 25: put that down last week. I didn't put it on
Speaker 25: the new turf, but I put it on the rest
Speaker 25: of the yard. What's your opinion about that sweet green?
Speaker 3: Well, it's a good fertilizer. I you know, it's all nitrogen,
Speaker 3: so generally this time of year we're going we're dropping
Speaker 3: the nitrogen and bringing the phosphorus up in our fall fertilizers.
Speaker 3: So I wouldn't I wouldn't generally recommend that for the falls.
Speaker 3: It's a good fertilizer for summertime, especially when we are
Speaker 3: wanting to push with a lot a nitrogen. It's not
Speaker 3: going to hurt your lawn. But anyway, yeah, okay.
Speaker 25: And then the pre emergence that you've been talking about,
Speaker 25: like barricade and such. I've seen those a day's hardware.
Speaker 25: That's an awful small bag. It doesn't take much, is
Speaker 25: that right?
Speaker 3: Yeah? No, it does not take much at all, and
Speaker 3: so just follow the labels on the bag. I don't
Speaker 3: have the rate in my head, okay, but follow the
Speaker 3: labels on the bag and it'll tell you. But it'll
Speaker 3: cover all the area you need to cover, that's for sure.
Speaker 3: And don't overdo it. Don't overdo it.
Speaker 25: I did have found a little brown patch or in
Speaker 25: the front yard, and I had this Eagle. I think
Speaker 25: it's called Eagle twenty. It's a liquid Okay, I think
Speaker 25: I got the name right. And then I just sprayed
Speaker 25: a little bit. I didn't saturate, but I sprayed that
Speaker 25: area just a little bit. But I mean it's still there.
Speaker 25: It's not going away. I just kind of wanted it
Speaker 25: to stop growing. Maybe I did something there. Yeah, no, No,
Speaker 25: Eagle's fine.
Speaker 3: Eagle is a fungicide that is systemic and moves into
Speaker 3: the plant, and so it's going to give you protection
Speaker 3: for a period of time here. Okay, Hey, thanks for
Speaker 3: taking my call. Skip have a good day. Well you bet,
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Speaker 3: We're going to go now to Paarland and talk to Hal. Hello,
Speaker 3: hol welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 2: Hey Skip, good morning, how you doing.
Speaker 3: I'm well sir.
Speaker 10: U.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you've covered this before, Skip, I just couldn't remember
Speaker 2: what you'd said. I've got several bucks was here in
Speaker 2: the backyard that have started getting I guess there's some
Speaker 2: sort of fungus or something else pretty and green, dark green,
Speaker 2: And then all of a sudden they'll have a limb
Speaker 2: or two that'll start turning like a light tan and
Speaker 2: it's obviously dead. Yeah, and it just slowly moves across
Speaker 2: the whole plant. I end up having to take it out.
Speaker 2: Is there cainy solution for this?
Speaker 18: Is it in the soil?
Speaker 3: It can be one of several things in the soil,
Speaker 3: or nematodes and some root rits that can kill boxwood
Speaker 3: above the soil is boxwood blight and some other types
Speaker 3: of disease issues and like coal damage and other things
Speaker 3: that can kill above ground. But none of that has
Speaker 3: a oh go by this spray and put it on
Speaker 3: it solution. It's just that they are what they are.
Speaker 3: It's one of the reasons why I see boxwood declining
Speaker 3: in terms of popularity around here.
Speaker 18: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just wondering would it be a good idea
Speaker 2: not to put something else not boxwoods back in the
Speaker 2: place of these plants.
Speaker 18: Would it have any effect on a new plant?
Speaker 3: I would I would not put boxwood back in. When
Speaker 3: you pull a boxwood up, it's pull one up right
Speaker 3: for it's dead, but while it's still has some green
Speaker 3: in it, but you just like the things, might as
Speaker 3: well pull it up. It's done. Look at the roots,
Speaker 3: take the soil off. Look for all little knots and
Speaker 3: bumps along the routes that indicate nematodes. That's one thing
Speaker 3: you need to know because once you put back in,
Speaker 3: it needs to be nemotoad resistant. And if you don't
Speaker 3: find those, then come up with some other kinds of
Speaker 3: a shrub. There's a lot of things from Dorf, Jopond,
Speaker 3: others that could kind of be a suitable substitute and
Speaker 3: go with something different than the box Would that would
Speaker 3: be my sub question?
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, okay, uh yeah, I got one question
Speaker 2: that has absolutely nothing to do with gardening.
Speaker 11: But what going to ask you? But I got to anyway,
Speaker 11: there was a.
Speaker 2: Lady i'll work with worked with back in the eighties,
Speaker 2: and I've always wondered if y'all are related or name
Speaker 2: was artist Richter?
Speaker 3: No no relation, No artists in the family. All right, hell,
Speaker 3: thanks a lot, all right, thank you, thank you, you
Speaker 3: take care all right bye bye uh. Microlife fertilizers have
Speaker 3: their fall fertilizer which is called brown patch Microlife brown patch,
Speaker 3: and it's for putting down in the fall. I would
Speaker 3: suggest that you also falls an important time also put
Speaker 3: down micro grow bio andoculan. That's a maroon bag bio
Speaker 3: inoculate micro grow bioinoculate sixty three different strains of beneficial microbes.
Speaker 3: When you get beneficial microbes around plants, they have different effects.
Speaker 3: Some just populate the plant surfaces and they make it
Speaker 3: hostile for a disease sport of land and be successful.
Speaker 3: Some of them actually interact with the roots. Several strains
Speaker 3: and this bioinoculant interact with the roots to cause the
Speaker 3: plant to become more disease resistance. It's kind of cool stuff.
Speaker 3: It's science we've been learning about in these last few
Speaker 3: years a lot, and it's a pretty amazing thing the
Speaker 3: way the natural system works out there about micro grow bioinoculant.
Speaker 3: Just do your brown patch and then come back load
Speaker 3: up and do a micro grow bio inoculant application and
Speaker 3: water it and really good. Give it a good watering,
Speaker 3: and you're good to go for fall with your organic
Speaker 3: lun care system. I'm going to head now to Katie
Speaker 3: and talk to Scott. Hey, Scott, welcome to guard Line.
Speaker 11: Hey morning, Skip.
Speaker 12: I have the question about application rates of some of
Speaker 12: the pre emergency Looking at your schedule and I like
Speaker 12: barricade locks can easily find it locally. But I'm reading
Speaker 12: the back of the package and there's a minimum and
Speaker 12: a maximum, and reading some on the internet. I'm trying
Speaker 12: to decide, you know, or told an earlier caller that
Speaker 12: you know, little goes a long way. But yeah, should
Speaker 12: I be going what what rate?
Speaker 11: Should I be.
Speaker 12: Putting that down to make sure I control weeds? You know,
Speaker 12: read on the internet? Put it down all the maximum rate,
Speaker 12: all all at once, But then I can only use
Speaker 12: Barry King once a season. What what's the what should
Speaker 12: I be doing? And what are the consequences of over application?
Speaker 12: Am I just wasting money or causing damage?
Speaker 3: Yeah? That's a good question, and they're telling me it's
Speaker 3: it's break time. I got to run for the news
Speaker 3: and when we come back, let me tackle that. Scott.
Speaker 3: We'd be happy to enter it. And Marty in Fairfield.
Speaker 3: You'll be right up after Scott. Thanks folks for listening,
Speaker 3: and I'll be right back head right out here in
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Speaker 3: they do. I'm going to move over now to Scott.
Speaker 3: In Katie and Scott, we were talking about application rates
Speaker 3: for barricade I believe when we left last time. So
Speaker 3: the barricade bag does have a little bit of a
Speaker 3: range on it. If you go with the higher end,
Speaker 3: it lasts longer, It gives you more months or more
Speaker 3: weeks if you will, of the protection out there. I'm
Speaker 3: a little bit hesitant ongoing too strong on that stuff
Speaker 3: because the way that a pre emergent works, almost all
Speaker 3: the pre emergence on the market work by inhibiting root
Speaker 3: growth in the grass. And so if you get the
Speaker 3: levels up high enough, and especially during the growing season
Speaker 3: when your grass is out there putting out runners and
Speaker 3: trying to send roots into the ground, it can affect
Speaker 3: that rooting in and people that overdo it can damage
Speaker 3: their grass that way by preventing good root development. And
Speaker 3: in the heat of summer that's very much needed this
Speaker 3: time of year. I would say go probably with the
Speaker 3: lower rate, and you're going to be okay, it's going
Speaker 3: to carry you all the way up until spring anyway,
Speaker 3: but you're going to be putting it on again as
Speaker 3: part of the schedule that I have online, you'd be
Speaker 3: putting it on in February. And so if you want
Speaker 3: to go medium rate, that's fine, but I wouldn't go
Speaker 3: high rate at this particular time of year. I don't
Speaker 3: think it's needed. We're just not having to get it
Speaker 3: to hold on. If you did a February application and
Speaker 3: you wanted to last further into the summer, you could
Speaker 3: go with a higher rate, but even then I like
Speaker 3: to go more moderate on it.
Speaker 11: Okay, Well that answers the question.
Speaker 3: Okay, sir, you take care. Thank you for that question.
Speaker 3: I appreciate that if you haven't met out to Arburgate,
Speaker 3: you need to go check them out. Arburgate Garden Center
Speaker 3: is one of those destination garden centers, one of the
Speaker 3: true garden centers, the mom and pops, the independence here
Speaker 3: in the Greater Houston area that we look to for
Speaker 3: quality plants and quality advice. You know, when you go
Speaker 3: to Arburgate right now, you're gonna find fall decorations. You're
Speaker 3: going to find gift shops that are brimming with really
Speaker 3: cool stuff, but you're going to find plants that are
Speaker 3: perfect for our climate, perfect for the season, whether it's
Speaker 3: fall vegetables and herbs, whether it's annual color. You know,
Speaker 3: to spruce up those beds and make it look good
Speaker 3: somebody coming over for Thanksgiving or Christmas. I get things
Speaker 3: looking good out there. Arburgate can help you do that.
Speaker 3: You know, there's no better season than fall for planting perennials,
Speaker 3: tree shrubs and herbs. Why not go out to Arbrogate
Speaker 3: and get the plants you need at the best time
Speaker 3: to get them planted, and that is in the fall.
Speaker 3: This is the season when garden centers should have a
Speaker 3: line backed up two blocks down the street because this
Speaker 3: is the season when you should be planting for the
Speaker 3: best success. Why you're at Arbigate, grabbed their organic food complete,
Speaker 3: their organic soil complete, and their organic compass complete. Three
Speaker 3: bags that I'll call the brown stuff. Get them in
Speaker 3: the ground, get that bed ready, and then when you
Speaker 3: get an Arbigate plant, put in the ground. Number one,
Speaker 3: you got the soil ready. Number two, you got a
Speaker 3: good quality plant. Number three, you've got advice and service
Speaker 3: there at the garden Center to help you have success
Speaker 3: before and after the sale. Arbrogate dot com. That's their website.
Speaker 3: They're located about a mile and a half west of
Speaker 3: two forty nine on twenty nine twenty they're in Tumble.
Speaker 3: And now we come to Marty, who gets the award
Speaker 3: for waiting the longest time all day of anybody. Thank you, Marty,
Speaker 3: Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 8: That's fine, thank you. It's I killed all the dowly
Speaker 8: on one whole side of my yard my house with ulster.
Speaker 8: We'd beat her ultra and I've been raking it up.
Speaker 8: It's a whole lot easier. It's to break up when
Speaker 8: it's dead, and I don't want to put sod down
Speaker 8: right now. I was thinking about bringing in some soil.
Speaker 8: Need to know what to bring in to fill in holes, okay,
Speaker 8: and to let it sit for the winter. What would
Speaker 8: you recommend that you could?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would do I would do a sandy loam
Speaker 3: type soil for filling in that. You know, it's a
Speaker 3: good solid soil, so when you fill in a hole.
Speaker 3: It doesn't just end up sinking down over time, like
Speaker 3: if you had a high compost material would decompose away
Speaker 3: and sink back down. So you can find a good
Speaker 3: sandy loan quality soil, that would be my option for that.
Speaker 3: You know, then when spring comes, just a light kind
Speaker 3: of rototilling or mixing of the surface. If you're able
Speaker 3: to get a piece of equipment out there and do
Speaker 3: that and then smooth it out to lay your sod on,
Speaker 3: that would be kind of finalizing it and getting it
Speaker 3: ready for the planting.
Speaker 8: Okay, is there anything else I need to do to
Speaker 8: make sure that this dove weed doesn't come up again
Speaker 8: and take over It literally took over the well.
Speaker 3: When you put Oh, I know, it's a mess when
Speaker 3: you when you have killed it. Now, it's not going
Speaker 3: to come up in the spring. In the winter, it's
Speaker 3: it's too cold for that. Unless we just have some
Speaker 3: really warm weather you might get some sprouting.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 3: And then when you put your sod down, the dove
Speaker 3: weeds not going to push through the sod. Now, what
Speaker 3: it'll do is if you've got a little gap between
Speaker 3: the side pieces and there's some dove weed seeds or
Speaker 3: whatever in there, they're going to sprout up, but you
Speaker 3: could just roll carefully with a little post treatment, just
Speaker 3: knock them out like you did with the uh, the
Speaker 3: bonny weed beatter ultra you know at that time. But anyway,
Speaker 3: I think you've done what you need to do for now,
Speaker 3: and so it's just a matter of of waiting until
Speaker 3: it's time to plant in the spring and then getting
Speaker 3: that down maybe a light rototilling. You'll get a few
Speaker 3: winter weeds that have come up in there. You could
Speaker 3: put a pre emergent down now on the bear soil
Speaker 3: because winter weeds are going to sprout and you're going
Speaker 3: to end up with some winter weeds when you're ready
Speaker 3: to plant. The rototilling could fix that. But if you
Speaker 3: wanted to put down some barricade, now, go with the
Speaker 3: lower rate, the lower rate of barricade, and that would
Speaker 3: kind of help hold it until you get ready to
Speaker 3: plant next March or April.
Speaker 8: All right, perfect, that's what I was thinking. I just
Speaker 8: wanted to clarify it. Thank you so much.
Speaker 3: You got it, Thanks Marty, Thanks for that call. Time
Speaker 3: for me to take a break. Folks will be right back.
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Speaker 3: plus right there to drench over the top. Drench it
Speaker 3: right over the foliage water that plan in. Soak it good,
Speaker 3: get it all the way down in the root system
Speaker 3: to get it off to a very very good start.
Speaker 3: That may be an herb or an ornamental grass or
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Speaker 3: head out now to Troy, Alabama and talk to Paul. Hey, Paul,
Speaker 3: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 11: Good morning, skipt. I was just gonna make a suggestion.
Speaker 26: We were talking about catalysts a few weeks back, and
Speaker 26: I dug mine up. They were in a ten by
Speaker 26: ten bed and they were so route down from all
Speaker 26: the boves that had grown that I dug them up
Speaker 26: and reclaimed them, put a little compost stuff back in there.
Speaker 26: But I think the problem was they just overgrew over years.
Speaker 26: I was thinking about the guy with the asparagust what
Speaker 26: kind of problems you now? But that's just a thought.
Speaker 26: So thought, yeah, that's a good point, you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, if you're growing kalal lily's successfully, you're doing
Speaker 3: a good thing because they're challenge for a lot of
Speaker 3: folks to grow. Maybe conditions in Troy over there is
Speaker 3: a little bit different than here. I don't know, but
Speaker 3: it is true that your points will taken that a
Speaker 3: lot of bulbs will and rhizome's plants will get kind
Speaker 3: of crowded, and they benefit from getting divided periodically. Give
Speaker 3: them a little room to grow.
Speaker 26: I say, take the exits, put them along the fence,
Speaker 26: row in your neighbors or take them from me.
Speaker 3: So all right, okay, well, how great, Thanks for appreciate
Speaker 3: to appreciate your call. You bet. We're gonna go now
Speaker 3: to Jackie in Baytown. Hey, Jackie, welcome to guard Line. Oh,
Speaker 3: thank you very much.
Speaker 16: Uh.
Speaker 11: I've got a problem.
Speaker 22: I have had a problem the last couple of years
Speaker 22: with Virginia button popping up.
Speaker 3: It never had it before. It just popped up.
Speaker 11: And I was given.
Speaker 22: Information to use blindside, uh, to work against, and I've
Speaker 22: been working to you know, patch my patch.
Speaker 11: Finally I thought I just about had it. It finally
Speaker 11: come back again this year and what IF's Uh?
Speaker 22: I was wondering, is there something I can do this
Speaker 22: time of the year that would help, you know, for
Speaker 22: like in the spring if it pops back up again,
Speaker 22: like a winter preventative or something that.
Speaker 3: Or do I just need to want a blind side? Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's it is cooling off right now, and uh, the
Speaker 3: Virginia button weed is not really interested in growing. It's
Speaker 3: it's starting to chill out a little bit.
Speaker 21: Uh.
Speaker 3: The the blind side that's not normally available typically over
Speaker 3: the retail counter.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: It has a mix of a couple of ingredients in it.
Speaker 3: One of them is met sulfur on methyl, the other
Speaker 3: self introzone. The met sulfur on methol. You want to
Speaker 3: be careful with that ingredient. And therefore with the blind Side,
Speaker 3: don't overapply it. Don't apply it and then overwater it in.
Speaker 3: It's it's not made you know, the way you have
Speaker 3: to water it in. It's just made for spraying on
Speaker 3: the plant because you can damage some of your woody
Speaker 3: ornamentals with it. But it is a it's a very
Speaker 3: effective herbicide as opposed to mergent. I would I would
Speaker 3: say when you see the virginia button weed making its
Speaker 3: space show again, that would be a time, you know,
Speaker 3: to go ahead and do a treatment like that for it.
Speaker 3: I have you used Blindside before you on your lawns
Speaker 3: or anything.
Speaker 22: You started using it last year, And I would spray
Speaker 22: it right on the plaid kind of go find the
Speaker 22: virginia button, kind of do the little twist, pull it
Speaker 22: out of the grass where it was above, spray it
Speaker 22: and then wait till it to turn brown and go
Speaker 22: back and pull it out, you know, and get the
Speaker 22: root and everything. And it seemed to be effective that way.
Speaker 22: But like I said, it's a little slow. You have
Speaker 22: to go place by place, and of course my neighbors
Speaker 22: just popping up in there. Then it jump back into
Speaker 22: my yard, so I'm having to kind of treat their
Speaker 22: yard too.
Speaker 3: So right, yeah, we'll just make sure your turf's in
Speaker 3: really good health. If it's stressed or coal damaged or
Speaker 3: you know, damaged from drought or whatever kinds of things.
Speaker 3: You don't want to just apply that blind side to it.
Speaker 3: You want to be in good, strong health, all of
Speaker 3: that label. Carefully, very very important to mix it right,
Speaker 3: apply it right, look for any restrictions you know that
Speaker 3: they give you in terms of using it. Sometimes you
Speaker 3: get a little discoloration and yellowing from that particular product.
Speaker 3: But just just be careful with it. But yeah, and
Speaker 3: for right now, what I would do on Virginia button weed.
Speaker 3: I know you don't want to be on your hands
Speaker 3: and knees, but if I had it in my lawn,
Speaker 3: which I happen to not have that weed, thank goodness currently,
Speaker 3: but getting it out of there by hand pulling some
Speaker 3: I know, breaking it off. It's going to break off,
Speaker 3: and you're not You're not eliminating the plant by pulling it.
Speaker 3: It breaks off. But you're all those seed pods that
Speaker 3: are along the stem. You can get those out of there,
Speaker 3: and so you're really cutting down on the amount of
Speaker 3: seed for next year by doing the best you can
Speaker 3: getting as much of it out as you can. And
Speaker 3: I know that's difficult because it intertwines with your grass. Yes,
Speaker 3: like a carpet. It's your eyes, doesn't it. Yeah. And finally, Jackie,
Speaker 3: just keep that watering down, you know, a good soaking
Speaker 3: on a very infrequent basis. The more you water, the
Speaker 3: happier and more vigorous Virginia button weed is. So we
Speaker 3: tend to water more than our Saint Augustine needs. Too little,
Speaker 3: too often is what's typical. But if you can let
Speaker 3: it dry on a little bit between waterings, it will
Speaker 3: at least slow down the Virginia button weed, making it
Speaker 3: easier to get ahead of it. Okay, all, well, thank
Speaker 3: you very much, sir, have a good we Thank you.
Speaker 3: I appreciate appreciate your call. You bet, you bet, you
Speaker 3: take care. Uh. You know, if you're looking for any
Speaker 3: kind of product, especially ones that are harder to find,
Speaker 3: like we've been talking about, Southwest Fertilizer has got them,
Speaker 3: you know, Bob doesn't have it. You don't need it,
Speaker 3: because he has everything. If I talk about a fertilizer
Speaker 3: and a sect a side, a fungicide on guardenline, Bob's
Speaker 3: got it, and including things like as might if you
Speaker 3: need a tool, if you need hoses, garden hoses, if
Speaker 3: you need the law on more blade sharping, by the way,
Speaker 3: go ahead and get that done now before there's a
Speaker 3: rush in the spring. He can do it. Small engine
Speaker 3: repair they got shopping back. Tell him you need one
Speaker 3: of those kneeling benches. I keep telling you about that
Speaker 3: of Southwest Fertilizer. That's the tool. You're gonna you give
Speaker 3: that as a gift, and you just wait. People are
Speaker 3: gonna love it. They may look at it and go hmm, okay,
Speaker 3: just tell them. Don't tell them I said, it's because
Speaker 3: they're old, because as you get old, you need you
Speaker 3: need a kneeling bench more. But don't tell them that.
Speaker 3: But anyway, how about one for my sister who is
Speaker 3: significantly older than me, A fact that I like to
Speaker 3: point out to her whenever I get a chance.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 3: And after I watched it, well, I thought, you know
Speaker 3: what I gotta get knew one of those and I did.
Speaker 3: I was talking like that's cool anyway. Just one of
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Speaker 10: With welcome to KTRH. Guarded line with skip rictor.
Speaker 7: So just watch him as we.
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Speaker 2: A sign.
Speaker 3: All right, here we go. We got another hour left
Speaker 3: today and we are kicking it off right here. Looking
Speaker 3: forward to your calls if you'd like to give us
Speaker 3: call seven one three two one two k t r
Speaker 3: H seven one three two one two k t r H.
Speaker 3: I have really looking forward to getting out in my
Speaker 3: garden this this week. I you know, sometimes I just
Speaker 3: get busy with horticulture business and other activities and things,
Speaker 3: and I just kind of hard to get back around
Speaker 3: get out in the garden. And there's a lot of
Speaker 3: things that could be done right now. I've got a
Speaker 3: couple of flower beds I'm fixing to get planted. Do
Speaker 3: you know, by the way, did you know that that
Speaker 3: means you're from Texas if you say fixing too. I didn't.
Speaker 3: I grew up saying it and I didn't know that
Speaker 3: was a thing. And until someone goes what is fixing
Speaker 3: to me? Well, it means the same thing as calling
Speaker 3: a reservoir a tank, and you all grow up doing that.
Speaker 3: It's a tank. Okay. Anyway, I'm fixing to get out
Speaker 3: there in the flower beds and get them planted. I've
Speaker 3: got some beautiful gingers, two different kinds of ornamental ginger,
Speaker 3: and if you haven't grown ornamental ginger before, you ought to.
Speaker 3: It is a great plant. A lot of the gingers, well,
Speaker 3: there's many different species and they each have their pros
Speaker 3: and cons. The kind I'm planting is butterfly ginger Jadicium.
Speaker 3: That's the genus, and there are a couple of different
Speaker 3: ones that I have that I'm really looking forward. I've
Speaker 3: never grown before, so I'm looking forward to getting those
Speaker 3: planted out there. They are typically a late summer bloomer,
Speaker 3: early fall, and so those need to get done. There's
Speaker 3: a lot of other plants that are just waiting on me.
Speaker 3: You know, they're in pots, and hopefully I remember to
Speaker 3: water them, keeping them alive long enough time get out
Speaker 3: there and get them planted. But I do practice what
Speaker 3: I preach in this. I'm not going to put a
Speaker 3: plant in the ground without preparing the soil. If you
Speaker 3: want a Peter piper tongue twister is don't PLoP a
Speaker 3: plant into an unprepared plot. That is the way to
Speaker 3: remember it. Don't pop a plant into an unprepared plot.
Speaker 3: So anyway, I am getting it ready and here we go.
Speaker 3: This week's the planting week. We're going to get it done.
Speaker 3: I mentioned, you know, I was talking about south As
Speaker 3: fertilizer before we went to break. Bob is going to
Speaker 3: provide you. I mentioned fertilizers and pesticize. What I always
Speaker 3: want to remind people is when you hear people talk
Speaker 3: about pesticides and fertilizer, organic gardeners often are like, yeah,
Speaker 3: I don't use that stuff, Well you do? You just
Speaker 3: use your organic versions of it, Okay. And when it
Speaker 3: comes to the best supply of organic products in town,
Speaker 3: the widest supply, Sophist Fertilizer is going to have it.
Speaker 3: They stock a wide selection of things that are natural
Speaker 3: as well as synthetics in their products. So just keep
Speaker 3: that in mind. I'm going to go now to Katie, Texas,
Speaker 3: and we're going to talk to Wally. Hello, Wally, Welcome
Speaker 3: to garden Line.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 5: Chip got a question on our favorite topic, Virginia button weed.
Speaker 5: I've been inundated in a couple areas on lawn, especially
Speaker 5: some low areas, and I've pulled it up like a
Speaker 5: cheaper rug. That stuff's amazing. Yeah, that question is. And
Speaker 5: I've got some of these are in some low depression
Speaker 5: areas and my intent is to backfield what's some new
Speaker 5: top soil, then put more augustine down sod what you
Speaker 5: know once that when you pull this stuff up, it
Speaker 5: seems like the you know, the top and that most
Speaker 5: of the roots come with it with a lot of
Speaker 5: the soil. But is there still some root systems stuck
Speaker 5: in the ground. Do I need to till that up
Speaker 5: before I put the.
Speaker 20: Uh?
Speaker 10: No?
Speaker 3: Well are you tilling it?
Speaker 10: Is?
Speaker 3: Just if the soil is hard, you want to loosen
Speaker 3: it up for a good sid to soil contact. But
Speaker 3: I would scrape everything off the surface in those low areas,
Speaker 3: you know, just scrape you get all the virginia button,
Speaker 3: we get all the grass and everything, and that way
Speaker 3: you don't have to spray it there and then put
Speaker 3: your soil down to level it out, and then put
Speaker 3: your side on top and you should be good to go.
Speaker 3: Just be ready because you know it's gonna pop up
Speaker 3: here and there, you're gonna miss a seed or two
Speaker 3: or who knows what. Uh, just be ready to treat
Speaker 3: as needed.
Speaker 5: And before I put the on new top soil, before
Speaker 5: I put the side down, should I bring anything to
Speaker 5: help the new root system?
Speaker 18: Take check.
Speaker 5: I've heard you talk about something breaking down to help
Speaker 5: the break down the clay in the sod.
Speaker 3: So you're outing, Katie, and you typically don't have high
Speaker 3: sodium soils out there. So because you don't, putting gypsum
Speaker 3: down is not going to be helpful to your soil
Speaker 3: out there. So the main thing is if you wanted
Speaker 3: to amend the soil with a little bit of a
Speaker 3: composting material, you could do that. Just loosening it up
Speaker 3: is good, you know, seeing augustine will grow on just straight,
Speaker 3: unimproved clay. All the sod farms, we got thousands of
Speaker 3: acres of sod around Texas, and all these sod farms
Speaker 3: down on the Gulf Coast they're on basically a lot
Speaker 3: of them are on clay soil, some not, but and
Speaker 3: the sod grows just fine on pure clay. So there's
Speaker 3: not a real need to have to do major amendments
Speaker 3: to it. You just want to get the nutrition right
Speaker 3: in the soil and that's what our fertilizing does.
Speaker 5: Okay, well, thank you very much.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, thank you. I appreciate you call very much.
Speaker 3: You take care. Yeah, that is important to remember. Hey,
Speaker 3: I'm going to be at RCW Nursery's next Saturday. Remember
Speaker 3: RCW is the garden center right there where a belt
Speaker 3: way e comes into Tomball Parkway Highway to forty nine.
Speaker 3: RCW is the get it got at nursery. Meaning well,
Speaker 3: first of all, they probably have it already, but if
Speaker 3: they don't give them a call, they don't have it.
Speaker 3: They'll do their best to find it. You're going to
Speaker 3: find a great selection right now really of herbs, perennials,
Speaker 3: coo season annuals, shrubs, and native plants. You know, they
Speaker 3: got those specials going on where we're talking about fifteen
Speaker 3: percent off of trees at RCW Nursery. I mean that
Speaker 3: is a good deal, right, a good deal. When you
Speaker 3: go to RCW, you're going to find everything that you
Speaker 3: need to have success in your lawn, your garden, your landscape.
Speaker 3: That is just what they specialize in. And when you
Speaker 3: get good advice from a good nursery like RCWU are
Speaker 3: going to have success with what you do. Come out
Speaker 3: and see me next Saturday from twelve to two. Twelve
Speaker 3: to two RCW Nursery, They're going to have their fall Fling.
Speaker 3: That means we're gonna have fun. We're gonna have a
Speaker 3: barbecue lunch, we're gonna have some prizes, we're gonna have
Speaker 3: some games, and then just you and I visiting talking
Speaker 3: about plants. So we had a great time when we
Speaker 3: go out to those kind of places. I had a
Speaker 3: great time last time I was at at RCW Nursery.
Speaker 3: I always love folks coming up. Gardeners are so enthusiastic
Speaker 3: and hopeful. And let's just kick off the rest of
Speaker 3: this fall with a good fall fling out there RCW
Speaker 3: next weekend. I want to go now to Leslie in
Speaker 3: a Missouri city. Hey, Leslie, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Good morning Skip. I have two questionships that
Speaker 1: are right.
Speaker 3: I have a yes.
Speaker 1: The first one is actually you may have answered it
Speaker 1: with the previous caller.
Speaker 3: I have a.
Speaker 1: Called a fire bed. It was an area where I
Speaker 1: had a tree and a semicircular area about fifteen twenty
Speaker 1: feet in diameter, and so I've just taken it down
Speaker 1: to ground level and I'm going to put.
Speaker 11: Sod on it.
Speaker 1: And I had had read a starter fertilizer was good,
Speaker 1: but I've got like a half a bag of nature's
Speaker 1: resources when a riser fertilizer, and I was wondering if
Speaker 1: I could just use that instead.
Speaker 3: Yeah, go ahead, you don't not this fall, not this
Speaker 3: fall on the sod. I mean, if you want to
Speaker 3: put a little bit down, that'd be fine, but especially
Speaker 3: the potassium the last number, the third number. But if
Speaker 3: you just want to lay it down, get it watered in.
Speaker 3: I planted sod this past spring and I did not
Speaker 3: fertilize for months. I couldn't get around to it, and
Speaker 3: I was surprised at what a good fertilizer charge came
Speaker 3: in with the soil and the sod. So don't feel
Speaker 3: like you have to fertilize right now. Wait until spring,
Speaker 3: and then when you've mowed the lawn twice, put out
Speaker 3: some fertilizer and it'll be good to go.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay.
Speaker 3: And the second question, Leslie, Yeah, I'm gonna have I'm
Speaker 3: sorry to interrupt you. I've got to go to a break.
Speaker 3: Hang on, we'll come back with your second question. All right, folks,
Speaker 3: seven one three two one two kt r HB right back.
Speaker 3: All right, welcome back to Guardline. Good heavy with us,
Speaker 3: looking forward to talking to you about the things that
Speaker 3: you're interested in as a gardener. We're going to head
Speaker 3: straight back out to Leslie and Missouri City.
Speaker 11: Leslie.
Speaker 3: We were we were halfway through your question, and I
Speaker 3: think you kind of had a follow up.
Speaker 1: Yes, thank you.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 1: My other question is I've heard, I think you and
Speaker 1: a number of others say that follow us actually a
Speaker 1: good time to plant new shrugs. But is it a
Speaker 1: good time to transplant shrucks I've got I've got some
Speaker 1: shrubs that have kind of grown together and I want
Speaker 1: to move.
Speaker 4: Some of them.
Speaker 3: It is the best time to transplant. In fact, you transplant,
Speaker 3: you can plant during the summer and get away with it.
Speaker 3: You try to transplant during the summer and you're gonna
Speaker 3: be up a creek. So yes, get that done. Dig
Speaker 3: it up, Get wider rather than deeper. You don't have
Speaker 3: to dig two feet deep, but you need to dig
Speaker 3: wider in about maybe eight inches or so deep. And
Speaker 3: then what I do to keep from hurting my back
Speaker 3: is I'll dig around a circle kind of almost like
Speaker 3: a little trench maybe eight inches deep around it, and
Speaker 3: then take a flat shovel and go underneath that and
Speaker 3: slide a tarp underneath it, and you kind of lean
Speaker 3: the plant one way, slide the tarp under, and then
Speaker 3: lean the plant the other ways. You cut roots and
Speaker 3: slide it up onto the tarp. And that way you
Speaker 3: never have to pick You never have to pick it up.
Speaker 3: You can just grab that tarp and drag it to
Speaker 3: the new spot and slide it right into the spot.
Speaker 3: If there is an obstruction where you can't drag it.
Speaker 3: Two people grabbing the four corners of a tarp can
Speaker 3: pick something up that's quite heavy without hurting your back.
Speaker 3: You don't stoop at all.
Speaker 4: Gotcha.
Speaker 5: That sounds like a great plan, Thank you very much.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just be patient and be careful because you don't
Speaker 3: want to you don't want to put your kids. Uh,
Speaker 3: you don't want to have to put your chiropractice kids
Speaker 3: through college. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, would you say that again?
Speaker 1: I interrupted?
Speaker 3: I just said, you don't want to put your cairo
Speaker 3: practice kids through college, so so be careful with lifting
Speaker 3: that stuff.
Speaker 1: Okay, that sounds like a really good plan. Should I
Speaker 1: amend the soil where I'm sent taking it.
Speaker 3: To uh in the entire bed area, Yes, but not
Speaker 3: in the planting hole. So if you if you want
Speaker 3: to mix in some composts to a large area and
Speaker 3: then dig the hole to plant, that's fine. But don't
Speaker 3: dig a hole and put compost in it.
Speaker 24: Oh.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's good because I'm glad I asked because that's
Speaker 1: exactly what I would have done. Okay, Thanksgiving?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, it's what a lot of people do.
Speaker 3: You bet you take care of you know night fussis Texas.
Speaker 3: Three step I keep telling you about it because it
Speaker 3: is time to do it. That three steps are fall fertilizer, barricade,
Speaker 3: weed preventter, and eagle turf fungicide disease prevent so fall
Speaker 3: special barricade eagle Simple as that you do all three.
Speaker 3: You do them all the same day. If you want,
Speaker 3: don't put them all in the same hopper, but do
Speaker 3: it all on the same day. Put out the fertilizer
Speaker 3: at the proper rate, follow the bag label. Put out
Speaker 3: the barricade at the proper rate, even a little on
Speaker 3: the low end of the rate. At this point in
Speaker 3: the season you can do that. It just stays within
Speaker 3: that rate and then the Eagle Turf fungicide put it
Speaker 3: out at the proper rate, watter it all in, get
Speaker 3: it in the ground. Even that even the fungicide will
Speaker 3: be taken up by the roots of the plant and
Speaker 3: it will give you protection against weeds sprouting for fall.
Speaker 3: It will give your turf the strength that needs to
Speaker 3: go through winter and come out strong. And it'll prevent
Speaker 3: diseases like take all root rot and like brown patch
Speaker 3: or large patch in your lawn. Now you're gonna find
Speaker 3: this type of product Night FoST Products at D and
Speaker 3: D Feed and Tombaal Plantation, Ace Hardware, and Richmond Hiding
Speaker 3: and Feed on Stubner Airline. You're going to find it
Speaker 3: at Ace Hardware and Sico Ranch, the Arborgate and Tomball
Speaker 3: and Shades of Texas down in southeast Houston on Genoa
Speaker 3: Red Bluff will also carry that. We're going to head
Speaker 3: now to sugar Land and talk to Patty. Hello, Patty,
Speaker 3: Welcome to Guardenline.
Speaker 21: Good morning, Skip. I have this Meyer lemon that's about
Speaker 21: going on its third year. The first and second year
Speaker 21: it blossomed and it put out a little baby fruit,
Speaker 21: but it aborted all of it. But this year, right now,
Speaker 21: it's totally green. It looks healthy, but it's in a
Speaker 21: sunny location and it's not blossoming at all.
Speaker 1: It's all green.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, well just be patient with it. It'll it'll
Speaker 3: settle in and it'll it'll be back in a blooming cycle.
Speaker 7: Here.
Speaker 3: I don't know exactly why there's not blooms on it
Speaker 3: any particular time. I mean, you've got good sunlight, that's important,
Speaker 3: that's needed. If it looks healthy, that means you're watering
Speaker 3: it and not letting it go into drought stress, because
Speaker 3: that can cause some problems with blooming and holding on
Speaker 3: to fruit.
Speaker 21: I can ask fertilizer or no anything so encourage you know.
Speaker 3: I don't recommend, yeah, I don't recommend fertilizing this time
Speaker 3: of year on something that's already kind of cold tender,
Speaker 3: because to push new growth and then have cool weather,
Speaker 3: it's even less cold hearty than if you didn't. Okay,
Speaker 3: so let's wait until spring and then begin fertilizing it
Speaker 3: again and get you a good centris fertilizer. We got
Speaker 3: a number of great brands out there on the market
Speaker 3: by the various people. You hear me talk about here,
Speaker 3: get a good fertilizer, put it down, follow the label,
Speaker 3: get it, keep it watered in. And I think I
Speaker 3: think next spring you'll be back in the blooming business.
Speaker 21: Okay, okay. I thought about, you know, going and buying
Speaker 21: some bees or something.
Speaker 3: All right, well, you know, if if you have if
Speaker 3: you have blooms, you need bees. But I bet there's
Speaker 3: enough bees unless you're just spraying and killing them all.
Speaker 3: No doubt you're doing that.
Speaker 21: So I mean, my tomato plants and my pepper plants
Speaker 21: have flowers, but they're blooming.
Speaker 18: There.
Speaker 3: You go, all right, well, well, you know sometimes plants
Speaker 3: just do different things, and so I just say, relaxed,
Speaker 3: it'll be okay, It'll be okay next year.
Speaker 21: Okay, thank you, Skip, I have a great thank you.
Speaker 3: I appreciate your call. You bet, Patty, You take care
Speaker 3: and a really wonderful rest of your weekend. You know,
Speaker 3: ACE Hardware is where you get pretty much anything you
Speaker 3: need to have success with your garden and landscape. I mean,
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Speaker 3: forty Ace Hardware stores in the Greater Houston area, so
Speaker 3: it's really easy to find yours. If you want to
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Speaker 3: and find the store locator and just put your zip
Speaker 3: code in there, and what you're going to see is
Speaker 3: a lot of red dots all over the place. And
Speaker 3: that's true here in Houston, of course. It's true. You
Speaker 3: got friends in Austin that need to know where an
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Speaker 3: It's all over the country, but here in the Houston
Speaker 3: area we are really fortunate to have some awesome, awesome
Speaker 3: Ace Hardware stores. While you're there, grab if you've not
Speaker 3: put out bait for fire ants yet, get that out too,
Speaker 3: because fall is the best time to get those baits out.
Speaker 3: We say fall is football season, right, So AGR Life
Speaker 3: Extension Entomology used to have a program called tackle fire
Speaker 3: Ants in the Fall, just reminding you it's time for
Speaker 3: football season. It's time to tackle fire ants. You put
Speaker 3: a bait out and knock those things down severely. If
Speaker 3: not a removing them in your spring's gonna be a
Speaker 3: lot better as a result of that. Nobody likes ants
Speaker 3: in the pants, that is for sure. All right, let's
Speaker 3: see where are we heading now. We're heading to Baytown
Speaker 3: to talk to Sandy. Hello Sandy, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 27: Hi, thank you, thank you, thank you. My question is
Speaker 27: is about fifty years ago I made a mistake by
Speaker 27: putting down a four inch pot of that little tiny leaf.
Speaker 27: I think it's a jasmine that they have around hospitals.
Speaker 19: And office buildings.
Speaker 1: It's a low grower.
Speaker 27: Well, it's taken over my backyard and I wanted to
Speaker 27: do something safely to remove it without messing up to
Speaker 27: eat because system. But I really need to get rid
Speaker 27: of it.
Speaker 1: It's a monster.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, okay, assuming that's Asian jasmine based on your
Speaker 3: description fIF so you would first up would be you
Speaker 3: could just scrape it off the soil, just you know,
Speaker 3: have some make it out there and basically scrape everything
Speaker 3: off the surface and just under the surface. You know,
Speaker 3: you hoe underneath the surface kind of horizontally. Not chopping down,
Speaker 3: didn't it, but just dragging a ho horizontally under the surface.
Speaker 3: Just rip it all out of there and get it
Speaker 3: all out with as much of the stem and roots
Speaker 3: and everything as you can. That will not eradicate it.
Speaker 3: You're always going to have some behind that will pop up,
Speaker 3: so you just have to have to deal with that.
Speaker 3: But the alternative to that is to apply a herbicide
Speaker 3: that kills it in a way that doesn't damage of
Speaker 3: the plants, and a wiper applicator is the way to
Speaker 3: do that. Products containing trichlope here t R I C
Speaker 3: l O P y R are very effective for doing that.
Speaker 3: For doing that, if you spray will carefully, you can
Speaker 3: do it, or you can do a wiper applicator to
Speaker 3: put it on there. Some people say that it helps
Speaker 3: to get like a weed eater, a mower or something
Speaker 3: and kind of chop it up real good and then
Speaker 3: and then spray on it that exposes some cut surfaces
Speaker 3: and things. However you want to go about it, just
Speaker 3: know you're going to be doing it again. One thing
Speaker 3: is not going to fix it all. Hey, Sandy, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna have to run to a commercial if you want
Speaker 3: to hang around and keep talking. If not, thanks, Thanks
Speaker 3: for calling Garden Line, folks. I'll be right by. Good
Speaker 3: to be back here on guard Line with you, and
Speaker 3: we are going to jump right into the phone calls
Speaker 3: and go to Bill in Galveston. Hey, Bill, welcome to
Speaker 3: garden Line.
Speaker 10: Hi.
Speaker 15: I got two questions for you. First one has to
Speaker 15: do with how I put Barricane on my along on Saturday.
Speaker 15: How do I have to wait before I put the
Speaker 15: fertilneser on?
Speaker 3: Not at all. You can do it immediately and then
Speaker 3: watering both them all right? Yeah.
Speaker 15: Second question, I had a Sego pond take it out
Speaker 15: about two years ago, and I try of grass to
Speaker 15: grow there, but it's always turning brown on me.
Speaker 3: Any suggestions, hmm, turning brown wonder why? Well, I don't
Speaker 3: know that the Sego did that. It probably you know,
Speaker 3: brown grass can be due to drought or disease, or
Speaker 3: possibly in sets. But do you feel like you're watering
Speaker 3: it adequately.
Speaker 15: I'm watering it everything days automatically.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that ought to be enough. If you're putting enough
Speaker 3: water down, that ought to be enough. I'm not sure
Speaker 3: why it's turning out, and it's only turning brown right
Speaker 3: where the sego was right.
Speaker 15: I was wondering there's some kind of chemical or something
Speaker 15: of the Sago crimes you've created the cause of the problem.
Speaker 3: I don't think so. I've never heard of that, and
Speaker 3: I've never seen that either. Otherwise around segos we'd see
Speaker 3: grass dyeing. I don't know what to tell you. If
Speaker 3: you want to send me a picture of the area,
Speaker 3: maybe from a distance, and then get up close and
Speaker 3: take a real close picture where I can see the
Speaker 3: actual symptoms on the grass, make sure it's in sharp focus.
Speaker 3: I'd be willing to take a look and see if
Speaker 3: there may be something appears in that area that I'm
Speaker 3: not picturing in my mind right now. But I'd be
Speaker 3: happy to have you take a look. If you'd like
Speaker 3: to go that route, Okay, I'll do that.
Speaker 15: Probably won't get to you till next week, though, because
Speaker 15: I'm I'm getting ready.
Speaker 3: To okay, yeah, sure, do you have an email or
Speaker 3: do you need one? I'll need one. Okay, hang on.
Speaker 3: I'm going to put you on hold and Chris will
Speaker 3: pick Yeah, Chris will pick up the phone. Call here
Speaker 3: in just second and he'll give you an email. Thanks
Speaker 3: a lot, Bill, see if we can help you further.
Speaker 3: All right, you are listening to Garden Line, and we
Speaker 3: are here to help you have a more bountiful garden
Speaker 3: and a more beautiful landscape. I think that it is,
Speaker 3: you know, just first of all, thanks for listening. I
Speaker 3: appreciate that we want to help you do that, and
Speaker 3: we do that by giving you good advice. If we can,
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Speaker 3: two five five forty nine, forty nine. We're gonna head
Speaker 3: now to the heights and talk to Clark. Hello Clark,
Speaker 3: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 18: I have a problem.
Speaker 4: I've basically lost ninety percent of my bro as, particularly
Speaker 4: after the ground that we add recently, so I ded
Speaker 4: some ideas on how to either replaced it, have somebody
Speaker 4: come in and soide it, or what's the best way
Speaker 4: to go about that.
Speaker 3: Well, first of all, at this point in the season,
Speaker 3: I think i'd i'd focus on, you know, getting any
Speaker 3: spots leveled out that you need to get leveled out
Speaker 3: in the area and get that grass planted next spring
Speaker 3: when it's going to take off running and grow. And
Speaker 3: if you need to plant it now, you can put
Speaker 3: saw down it just the root growth and development and
Speaker 3: everything as much slower as we get into cooler weather
Speaker 3: and so I you know, and we're kind of on
Speaker 3: the line. You could plant it now or you could wait.
Speaker 3: If it mine, I think i'd if there's any work
Speaker 3: to be done. You know, you got some roots sticking
Speaker 3: up above the surface. You got to kind of smooth
Speaker 3: that out and get soiled up there where you don't
Speaker 3: have roots sticking up out or low areas things. I'd
Speaker 3: get all that work done now. If you got any
Speaker 3: perennial weeds that have been giving you trouble, maybe bermuda
Speaker 3: is invading your Saint Augustine or some other weed issue,
Speaker 3: I'd take care of all that and then in the spring,
Speaker 3: gets you some grass down. Otherwise you can plant it now.
Speaker 3: You just have to, you know, find good local source
Speaker 3: on grass. We got a number of them throughout the
Speaker 3: Greater Houston area. Here where you can get some turf
Speaker 3: and put it in is the area pretty shady.
Speaker 18: Yeah, idio is big.
Speaker 4: The contrary is sort of just taking all the water
Speaker 4: out of the backyard. In the front yard, I have
Speaker 4: a red oak created all around it is just dirt
Speaker 4: and so obviously have water.
Speaker 3: Know, well, that could be the light too, you know,
Speaker 3: even Saint Augustine, which is probably your most shade tolerant option,
Speaker 3: Even Saint Augustine, if it didn't get enough light, it's
Speaker 3: just going to go downhill. So you may want to
Speaker 3: stop and kind of rethink do you want to go
Speaker 3: back with grass there? You know, it may be that
Speaker 3: a shade loving groundcover or some other options you may
Speaker 3: need to consider. If you feel like there's enough light
Speaker 3: for grass, then replant. But those shade trees, they're beautiful,
Speaker 3: and you know in the heights you got some gorgeous
Speaker 3: trees in there. But sometimes it's just the dense that
Speaker 3: lawn ceases to become an option. So that's the only
Speaker 3: caveat that I would throw out there for you to consider.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well we've got a garage doing closing part of that.
Speaker 4: But it's grown in the past. I've been here a
Speaker 4: very long time and it's never done this before in
Speaker 4: like fifty years and I've never had this bad problem before,
Speaker 4: so I'm thinking it's mostly the crees and the fact
Speaker 4: that I didn't water. Yeah, it could be because always
Speaker 4: came back.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because I thought I would everyone. Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 3: Every one of those fifty years has been getting shadier
Speaker 3: and shadier, you know, as the trees.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I wouldn't at some point.
Speaker 3: Yeah, at some point, you know, it kind of crosses
Speaker 3: the line where the grass cannot get enough energy from
Speaker 3: the sun to sustain itself. And then it gets in
Speaker 3: this week and stay. It's kind of like our bodies,
Speaker 3: you know. We get tired, we get weak, we're not
Speaker 3: eating rye or whatever, and suddenly you get sick more often,
Speaker 3: and the grass is the same way. And as that's
Speaker 3: something that is being more and more taken away, you
Speaker 3: kind of hit a point where suddenly it's going downhill
Speaker 3: and then diseases are worse and it's more susceptible to
Speaker 3: drought and other things. So anyway, just.
Speaker 11: Something to think about.
Speaker 3: But good luck with that. Thank you for calling. I
Speaker 3: appreciate that, and I do wish you you take care.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry I had to run there. Yeah, that would
Speaker 3: be a good thing for me to ask I know
Speaker 3: you're in the heights. I know Buchanan's keeps grass certain
Speaker 3: times of the year there, and so you might be
Speaker 3: able to get some over there, or give them a
Speaker 3: call and ask them, ask them who around that area
Speaker 3: they would would recommend if they don't have the turf
Speaker 3: on hand there off the top of it. Okay, okay,
Speaker 3: good luck with you, sir, Thank you appreciate your call.
Speaker 3: Bye bye. UH Nelson Plant Food. You know, they're the
Speaker 3: ones that have the turf Star Carbolode, which is a
Speaker 3: combination of a fall fertilizer and a pre emergent that
Speaker 3: you put it down, you water it in, and you
Speaker 3: covered both bases weed prevention, so those cool season weeds
Speaker 3: which are sprouting soon aren't able to get established. And
Speaker 3: then finally they are secondly the UH fertilizer that's an
Speaker 3: ideal blend, perfect for fall, perfect for helping your grass
Speaker 3: go into winter strong and come out strong. From Nelson
Speaker 3: Plant Food. Now they also have Neuster Star Genesis, which
Speaker 3: is what I would recommend for fertilizing new transplants in.
Speaker 3: So here's here's the way I would use that, and
Speaker 3: no way I do use that. You you wrinkles some
Speaker 3: into the potting mix of what you are going to
Speaker 3: use to repot a plant. Okay, so you've got a plant,
Speaker 3: you're going to move it into bigger pot. This putting
Speaker 3: soil you're gonna put in there. Mix some carbel load
Speaker 3: in a carbon to no not carbon genesis, mix some
Speaker 3: genesis into it. It is a natural fertilizer loaded with
Speaker 3: microizo bacteria and other fungi that kind of helped that
Speaker 3: soil microbiome. It's not a salt based product, and so
Speaker 3: you can use it in the planting hall without burning
Speaker 3: plant roots. In fact, it really helps if you're gonna
Speaker 3: put a rose bush in out in the garden bed,
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Speaker 3: It just it just works. It works very very well.
Speaker 3: It comes in the jars with a screw top lid,
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Speaker 3: So when those new roots come out, they've got some
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Speaker 3: to a better start, much less transplant shock and issues,
Speaker 3: better early growth. All of that from neutral star genesis
Speaker 3: from Neilson Plant Food. We are going to go out
Speaker 3: to Terry Sue in the gallery and now, hey, Terry Sue,
Speaker 3: welcome to guard Line.
Speaker 11: Hi Skip, I'm calling about the use of expanded shale.
Speaker 28: Okay, Gey, I know that you've talked about you need
Speaker 28: more than you think you need, and I've bought several
Speaker 28: bags of it and I've got it.
Speaker 3: Okay, three inches deep?
Speaker 4: Now I mix it in?
Speaker 28: Right?
Speaker 11: How much do I mix it in?
Speaker 3: How deep?
Speaker 10: You know?
Speaker 3: If you can get it? Yeah, if you can mix
Speaker 3: it in about six inches, that would be good because
Speaker 3: that's a good chunk of the root zone right there.
Speaker 3: I have seen research on it where it does best
Speaker 3: if you can put two or three inches on the
Speaker 3: surface and mix all of that in. And here's why.
Speaker 3: Just for a kind of an example, imagine you had
Speaker 3: modeling clay in your hands and you took just a
Speaker 3: little sprinkling of kitty litter and put it in there
Speaker 3: and then modeled it around. You would have clay with
Speaker 3: a few pieces of kitty litter in it, and that
Speaker 3: wouldn't accomplish much. But what if you put as much
Speaker 3: kitty litter as you had clay and mixed it around.
Speaker 3: Now you've got something chucky that breaks apart. It doesn't
Speaker 3: stick together so much because it's got so much of
Speaker 3: the kitty litter in it. Right, Well, expanded shale is
Speaker 3: basically like a super hot fired former clay dried material
Speaker 3: that now has big pores in it. And it works
Speaker 3: really well. But the more you get on the soil,
Speaker 3: the better it does. And it lasts longer than organic
Speaker 3: matter because it doesn't break down like organic matter. It
Speaker 3: stays open a little bit better. Yeah, well, so that's
Speaker 3: that's the principle. There's not a magic number like you
Speaker 3: have to put this much out, but I can just
Speaker 3: tell you two or three inches as best.
Speaker 28: Well, I've dug it down about a foot until I
Speaker 28: hit the oh okay and removes the big itchy chunky.
Speaker 28: I removed as much of the of the clay as
Speaker 28: I could, and so I hit the part was really solid,
Speaker 28: and then I put the expanded shale on top of
Speaker 28: that and was going to mix it in and then
Speaker 28: add other stuff with organic material and soil and mix
Speaker 28: it in and just kind of go from there on top.
Speaker 5: And then should I put some.
Speaker 11: On top of it?
Speaker 3: Well, only mix it in if you put it, if
Speaker 3: you sprinkle it on top, mix what you sprinkled in,
Speaker 3: because it doesn't help you on top of the soil.
Speaker 3: It helps you in the soil. And the deeper you
Speaker 3: work the soil, that's more volume. So, going back to
Speaker 3: my modeling clay and kitty litter example, if you double
Speaker 3: the amount of clay you're dealing with, you got to
Speaker 3: double amount the expanded shail you put in in order
Speaker 3: to have that good effect. So, yes, their organic materials
Speaker 3: not just fine in compost, but like a chunky you know,
Speaker 3: decomposed pine bark and things like that. Mix that in
Speaker 3: as well as you can as also, and it's also
Speaker 3: very helpful. You're going to create a real good bed
Speaker 3: when you do all that.
Speaker 28: Well, I hope so been dealing with this for five here,
Speaker 28: you know, I first put doug somehow and put in
Speaker 28: a compost.
Speaker 11: And mix it in.
Speaker 1: Now it looks like I didn't do anything.
Speaker 10: It's just.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well you're off to a good start. But also
Speaker 3: don't be afraid. Don't just go down, build up, add
Speaker 3: some bed mis on top, and you know, just keep
Speaker 3: using that bed up with additions and you'll be Hey.
Speaker 3: Thanks Terse, thanks for the call. I wish you well.
Speaker 3: Sounds like you're off to a good start and if
Speaker 3: you dug a foot down, you're a better gardener than
Speaker 3: I am. So congratulations on that as well. I do
Speaker 3: appreciate appreciate your call very much. Folks, you've been listening
Speaker 3: to guard Line and uh I just to tell you
Speaker 3: about something. It's a little news item here before we
Speaker 3: go for the day. You know how we complain about
Speaker 3: modern tomatoes don't taste good like an old time tomato
Speaker 3: does right well. Texas A and M Research and Vegetable
Speaker 3: Improvement Center. That's a real cool place, by the way.
Speaker 3: They are in they are breeding vegetables to be healthier.
Speaker 3: Onions with more cancer fighting corcetan and carrots that have
Speaker 3: more beta caroteene and stuff like that. Isn't that a
Speaker 3: nice change? There is a project where they got an
Speaker 3: eight point four million dollars grant from USDA, and they're
Speaker 3: working with a number of other universities. University of Florida,
Speaker 3: Michigan State, California, Cornell, Arizona, Washington, North Carolina, University of Georgia,
Speaker 3: Oregon State, and A and m's leading the charge on this,
Speaker 3: and they are breeding tomatoes that have exceptional heat tolerance,
Speaker 3: water use, efficiency, flavor and quality as well as human
Speaker 3: health properties and disease resistance. Can't wait till that project
Speaker 3: comes to its truition. This is gonna be a long
Speaker 3: term thing. But imagine that breeding tomatoes that are heat tolerant,
Speaker 3: that use water better, that have better flavor, and that
Speaker 3: help fight disease. They have the compounds that are naturally
Speaker 3: occurring in these tomatoes, like lycopene and a tomato that
Speaker 3: helps fight disease.
Speaker 16: That is an.
Speaker 3: Exciting new development. Congratulations to the Vegetable Improvement Center for
Speaker 3: Landing that you know, those are the folks that gave
Speaker 3: you the ten to fifteen onion, the Texas super sweet
Speaker 3: ten to fifteen onion. They're the folks that gave you
Speaker 3: some super high quality carrots, really high quality potatoes that
Speaker 3: they've bred developed and there's just a lot of good
Speaker 3: things happening up there. I just thought that was good news.
Speaker 3: You'd be interested in hearing about it. Experts from five
Speaker 3: major tomato breeding programs are going to be part of
Speaker 3: that multi university collaboration that's going to develop these regionally
Speaker 3: adapted disease resistant water proof, water use efficient, heat tolerant,
Speaker 3: nutrient rich to mate us that's good news, all right.
Speaker 3: Thanks for listening to the Guardenline. Next Saturday, I will
Speaker 3: be at RCW Nursery for the Fall f Lin from
Speaker 3: twelve to two. Barbecue, prizes, games, and you and me visiting.
Speaker 3: Come on out. I can't wait to see at RCW
Speaker 3: next Saturday