WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.359 --> 00:00:03.200 Things to see. 2 00:00:11.240 --> 00:00:12.119 A sign. 3 00:00:16.839 --> 00:00:32.280 Sand Bean Tween starting tea. Hey, good morning, good morning. 4 00:00:33.520 --> 00:00:36.320 I am glad you're with us this morning. We're here 5 00:00:36.320 --> 00:00:38.560 to talk about gardening. We got plenty of things we 6 00:00:38.600 --> 00:00:40.640 can talk about. As always, I say that every day 7 00:00:40.640 --> 00:00:43.640 because it's true every day. I uh want to first 8 00:00:43.640 --> 00:00:47.439 of all, thank the folks, Thank you, thank you very much. 9 00:00:47.520 --> 00:00:50.600 I really had a good time out there at Encented 10 00:00:50.759 --> 00:00:54.439 Forest yesterday. H Danny and Clay and the whole team 11 00:00:54.479 --> 00:00:57.719 out there. You guys have put together one heck of 12 00:00:57.759 --> 00:01:00.439 a beautiful nursery. Oh my gosh, I took all the pictures. 13 00:01:00.439 --> 00:01:03.759 I'm sorry posting some of them here to our Facebook account, 14 00:01:03.759 --> 00:01:06.040 our gardener and Facebook this week, I just want you 15 00:01:06.079 --> 00:01:09.799 to see the police. It looks so beautiful, lots and 16 00:01:09.840 --> 00:01:12.280 lots of color. Thanks for the folks that came out. 17 00:01:12.640 --> 00:01:15.120 We had a lot of good discussion, plenty of things 18 00:01:15.159 --> 00:01:18.159 to talk about. Kind of became a fireside chat where 19 00:01:18.159 --> 00:01:20.519 we just kind of all sat around and one question 20 00:01:20.599 --> 00:01:24.040 after another, samples and whatnot. It's what we do it 21 00:01:24.200 --> 00:01:26.439 our appearances. It's your chance to get out and kind 22 00:01:26.439 --> 00:01:30.040 of get eye to eye and talk, ask your questions. 23 00:01:30.159 --> 00:01:32.519 Have a lot more time than we do on the 24 00:01:32.560 --> 00:01:35.519 air to visit with you about things. Plus we can 25 00:01:35.879 --> 00:01:40.120 put our hands on pictures and also on samples and 26 00:01:40.159 --> 00:01:43.599 get a better look at things like that. I want 27 00:01:43.599 --> 00:01:46.959 to remind you that on Guardenline here, if you would 28 00:01:47.040 --> 00:01:49.120 like to send in a photo, you can call the 29 00:01:49.120 --> 00:01:52.200 the producer and get an email to do that. I 30 00:01:52.239 --> 00:01:55.959 don't just open email wide open. With six million people 31 00:01:55.959 --> 00:02:00.760 around Houston and me being one, there's no way I 32 00:02:00.799 --> 00:02:05.280 can can take the general through the week email onslaught 33 00:02:05.599 --> 00:02:08.759 because it's just too many, too many other activities as 34 00:02:08.800 --> 00:02:12.400 part of my horticulture tasks that I do my horticulture business, 35 00:02:12.520 --> 00:02:15.879 so just not able to you know, just do all 36 00:02:15.919 --> 00:02:17.960 the emails. But if you would like to send an 37 00:02:17.960 --> 00:02:20.919 email with a photo and then call in, we can 38 00:02:20.919 --> 00:02:23.280 certainly handle it that way and be happy, happy to 39 00:02:23.360 --> 00:02:26.599 do that. So if you if you have a question 40 00:02:26.719 --> 00:02:29.280 and you think you know it probably would be helpful 41 00:02:29.280 --> 00:02:31.960 if he could see this, that's the best way to 42 00:02:32.039 --> 00:02:35.479 do it. Give Chris a call, let's get you the email, 43 00:02:35.560 --> 00:02:38.000 send me some pictures. I had several people yesterday that 44 00:02:38.319 --> 00:02:41.479 send emails requesting to send in photos and whatnot, and 45 00:02:41.520 --> 00:02:48.199 so looking forward to those calls today as well. Being 46 00:02:48.240 --> 00:02:51.400 out yesterday and just enjoying a little bit of a 47 00:02:51.439 --> 00:02:53.800 break in the temperature. Hadn't it been great? Haven't you 48 00:02:54.319 --> 00:02:59.599 just really enjoyed that? I sure have. I you know, 49 00:02:59.639 --> 00:03:04.080 it's summers long, listen. I've been living in Texas for uh, 50 00:03:04.520 --> 00:03:07.599 let's say, a lot of years, a long long time, 51 00:03:08.919 --> 00:03:11.919 other than a three year stint out of state. I 52 00:03:12.960 --> 00:03:15.719 know what Texas summer is like, and it's long, and 53 00:03:15.759 --> 00:03:19.400 it's tough. I understand that, but hey, it's not that bad. 54 00:03:19.439 --> 00:03:21.639 I mean, we we survive it, and here comes some 55 00:03:21.719 --> 00:03:24.840 of the best seasons of the year. I love love fall. 56 00:03:24.919 --> 00:03:27.120 I love winter too, by the way, I actually do. 57 00:03:27.840 --> 00:03:30.199 I don't know. My mindset is. You know, when it's 58 00:03:30.240 --> 00:03:32.719 blazing hot, it's just kind of hard to not be 59 00:03:32.800 --> 00:03:36.039 sweating outside, and in the wintertime you oist throw on 60 00:03:36.080 --> 00:03:39.759 another coat and get warm. So anyway, that's one that's 61 00:03:39.800 --> 00:03:42.919 one man's perspective of it. While I was out at 62 00:03:44.240 --> 00:03:47.039 the in Chanet Forest yesterday, I had a conversation with 63 00:03:47.080 --> 00:03:50.680 somebody about microlife microlife products. They were asking me about 64 00:03:50.719 --> 00:03:53.639 different things, and in fact I was visiting also with 65 00:03:53.800 --> 00:03:56.199 Danny a little bit about it and you know, we 66 00:03:56.240 --> 00:03:58.199 were just talking about different things. You know, Microlife has 67 00:03:58.319 --> 00:04:03.280 their fall special me the fall Special. That's funny. Microlife 68 00:04:03.319 --> 00:04:08.479 has the brown Patch. And when you read brown patch, 69 00:04:08.520 --> 00:04:10.479 it's like, okay, well that's a that must be a 70 00:04:10.520 --> 00:04:13.719 fungicide or something, and it's not what it is. It's 71 00:04:13.759 --> 00:04:17.680 a fall fertilizer that's loaded with microbes. And it's the 72 00:04:17.800 --> 00:04:21.839 microbes in it that we're putting out and you put 73 00:04:21.879 --> 00:04:25.199 on irrigation or rain splashes things around and you just 74 00:04:25.279 --> 00:04:28.360 get microbes all over the surfaces of the plant, whether 75 00:04:28.360 --> 00:04:31.399 it's plant roots or plant plant tops and things, and 76 00:04:31.600 --> 00:04:34.839 microbes are beneficial. I would say that if you're going 77 00:04:34.920 --> 00:04:39.079 to do the fall fertilizer from Microlife, which is called 78 00:04:39.120 --> 00:04:43.000 brown Patch, I would also do their bioinoculant. And this 79 00:04:43.120 --> 00:04:47.480 is what I was visiting with them about out it 80 00:04:47.519 --> 00:04:51.600 and Channey forest Yestordy is that bioinoculant has sixty three 81 00:04:51.680 --> 00:04:56.560 different beneficial strains in it. And you know, if I 82 00:04:56.600 --> 00:04:59.480 tell you, well, there's bacteria all over that, there's microbes 83 00:04:59.519 --> 00:05:02.079 all over it, one may think, oh, well it's diseased. 84 00:05:02.160 --> 00:05:05.959 It's no. Most microbes are not out there to cause 85 00:05:06.279 --> 00:05:09.279 some plant disease we have a problem with a lot 86 00:05:09.360 --> 00:05:13.720 of them are beneficial to the plants. Bacillus. There's a 87 00:05:14.199 --> 00:05:18.199 you know, bt is a Basillis Basillis thuringiensis. There's also 88 00:05:18.439 --> 00:05:24.040 a Basillis melikopatians. Isn't that a word? Becauzon tite, And 89 00:05:24.519 --> 00:05:28.000 there's four different strains of it, and that particular basillis 90 00:05:28.319 --> 00:05:31.000 helps fight disease and it even gets get this, it 91 00:05:31.040 --> 00:05:34.519 gets on plant roots and it causes the plant. It 92 00:05:34.600 --> 00:05:38.319 communicates with the plant and causes the plant to develop 93 00:05:38.360 --> 00:05:42.279 in a way that makes certain diseases less able to 94 00:05:42.360 --> 00:05:46.639 attack the plant. Is that weird? I mean that is cool? Cool? Cool. 95 00:05:46.839 --> 00:05:50.439 There's also a basilla subtlest, Basilla subtlest. You can actually 96 00:05:50.480 --> 00:05:53.240 purchase basilla subtlest. I don't know still in the market, 97 00:05:53.240 --> 00:05:55.920 but there used to be a brand called Serenade that 98 00:05:56.040 --> 00:06:00.240 was a fungicide and basically the ingredient was basilla subtlest. Well, 99 00:06:00.279 --> 00:06:04.079 these are two of sixty three things. And micro grow bioinoculant. 100 00:06:04.720 --> 00:06:08.000 It's a kind of a maroon colored bag, kind of 101 00:06:08.000 --> 00:06:12.240 a burgundy maroon colored bag. Micro grow bioinoculant. So when 102 00:06:12.240 --> 00:06:16.959 you do your Microlife brown Patch do micro grow bioinoculan 103 00:06:17.000 --> 00:06:21.360 and also bioinoculant is not a fertilizer, it is an inoculant. 104 00:06:21.519 --> 00:06:25.360 You're putting a bazillion different microbes that do good things 105 00:06:25.360 --> 00:06:28.920 to plants out there, and that's the combination for microlife. 106 00:06:28.920 --> 00:06:31.439 Any we're visiting about that, and if you want to 107 00:06:31.439 --> 00:06:33.759 find out more about microlife products, you can go to 108 00:06:33.800 --> 00:06:37.759 microlifefertilizer dot com. They're they're pretty much for sale everywhere, 109 00:06:37.800 --> 00:06:40.560 real easy to find them. You hear me talking about 110 00:06:40.600 --> 00:06:45.319 garden centers and feed stores and Ace hardware store, Southwest Fertilizer, 111 00:06:45.399 --> 00:06:47.360 those places you're going to find it. But I just 112 00:06:47.399 --> 00:06:49.959 think that stuff's cool. I don't know, maybe maybe i'm 113 00:06:50.000 --> 00:06:53.920 a nerd. Well I actually am a gardening nerd, But 114 00:06:54.000 --> 00:06:56.600 I just think that's some really really cool stuff. Maybe 115 00:06:56.800 --> 00:06:58.959 one of these days I need to get a guest 116 00:06:59.079 --> 00:07:03.920 in a microbiologists just do some digging into that kind 117 00:07:03.959 --> 00:07:09.439 of thing, because it is really really interesting and cool. 118 00:07:10.199 --> 00:07:16.199 Driving through some neighborhoods and noticing the differences in landscapes, 119 00:07:16.240 --> 00:07:18.439 have you noticed how many landscapes are basically just a 120 00:07:18.560 --> 00:07:21.480 sea of green, Well, you don't need to have a 121 00:07:21.519 --> 00:07:25.240 sea a green. If you are tired of a boring landscape, 122 00:07:25.279 --> 00:07:28.199 call Piercecapes. If you want a small job done, you know, 123 00:07:28.360 --> 00:07:31.759 just some major revamping done. On the other hand, either 124 00:07:31.800 --> 00:07:33.839 way they can do it. They can do it. They 125 00:07:33.839 --> 00:07:37.199 can do irrigation repair. They can put on hard scapes 126 00:07:37.199 --> 00:07:42.399 and plant lighting or excuse me, the landscape lighting. Lighting 127 00:07:42.439 --> 00:07:45.959 not for plants, for you just makes your place magical 128 00:07:46.040 --> 00:07:48.519 in the evenings. They can do that. They also have 129 00:07:48.560 --> 00:07:51.639 a quarterly bed maintenance which is really nice because just 130 00:07:51.680 --> 00:07:53.759 once a quarter they come out and fertilize and weed 131 00:07:53.800 --> 00:07:56.720 and airate and multch and change out your seasonal color. 132 00:07:56.959 --> 00:07:59.839 And you can find all of that at piercescapes dot com. 133 00:08:00.000 --> 00:08:03.879 I go to that piercescapes dot com. Look at the 134 00:08:03.920 --> 00:08:06.439 work they do. You'd be very impressed if you want 135 00:08:06.439 --> 00:08:08.759 to get them a call. Two eight one three, seven 136 00:08:08.800 --> 00:08:12.680 oh fifty sixty. And with that, I'm going to take 137 00:08:12.680 --> 00:08:14.639 a break here for the news and I'll be right 138 00:08:14.639 --> 00:08:19.720 back to your calls. Starting you a morning. Good to 139 00:08:19.720 --> 00:08:21.920 have you with us. Hey, listen, uh, if you would 140 00:08:21.920 --> 00:08:23.600 like to give us a call, it would help if 141 00:08:23.600 --> 00:08:25.519 I gave you a phone number wouldn't it. Well, let's 142 00:08:25.560 --> 00:08:28.879 just do that. Seven one three two one two k 143 00:08:28.959 --> 00:08:32.519 t r H. Seven one three two one two k 144 00:08:32.840 --> 00:08:35.840 t r H. By the way, I wanted to let 145 00:08:35.879 --> 00:08:40.480 you guys know I will be at RCW Nurseries next Saturday, 146 00:08:40.679 --> 00:08:44.200 Next Saturday. Uh, and I'll be there from twelve to two. 147 00:08:44.639 --> 00:08:48.200 So come on out over the lunch hour and let's visit. 148 00:08:48.399 --> 00:08:50.399 Do you bring me samples, bring me photos. You know 149 00:08:50.440 --> 00:08:52.679 how we do it, you know the routine. Uh, And 150 00:08:53.120 --> 00:08:55.519 that's what we'll do. We'll walk around out there too, 151 00:08:55.559 --> 00:08:57.200 if you like. I want to. I want to show 152 00:08:57.200 --> 00:08:59.840 you some of the plants that they have, some of 153 00:08:59.840 --> 00:09:04.039 the trees and they oh gosh, they're outstanding the amount 154 00:09:04.279 --> 00:09:07.600 of plant material and the quality and it just says 155 00:09:07.639 --> 00:09:10.159 fall when you walk out there. They got great fall vegetables, 156 00:09:10.159 --> 00:09:13.240 they got good fall color and everything. It's good. Now, 157 00:09:13.320 --> 00:09:15.720 guess what's going on out there? A barbecue lunch. They're 158 00:09:15.759 --> 00:09:17.639 going to do a barbecue lunch out there. So we 159 00:09:17.720 --> 00:09:20.240 grab a bike. Yeah, twelve to two, So don't worry 160 00:09:20.279 --> 00:09:22.360 about eating. Just come on out. We'll visit with our 161 00:09:22.360 --> 00:09:25.919 mouthsful as we talk. We can. We're also going to 162 00:09:25.960 --> 00:09:29.519 have some prizes, you know, just there's games for kids 163 00:09:29.519 --> 00:09:32.440 and stuff like that again next Saturday, October twenty six, 164 00:09:32.519 --> 00:09:36.279 from twelve to two at r CW Nursery. If you're 165 00:09:36.279 --> 00:09:40.639 new to the Houston area, RCW is the garden center 166 00:09:40.759 --> 00:09:44.720 that is where Tomball Parkway Highway two forty nine comes 167 00:09:44.720 --> 00:09:47.919 into belt Way eight, just northwest corner of Houston. 168 00:09:48.000 --> 00:09:48.360 Right there. 169 00:09:48.399 --> 00:09:51.759 It's really easy, easy to get into and I always 170 00:09:51.840 --> 00:09:54.399 love going out there. That's a good group and it's 171 00:09:54.440 --> 00:09:58.879 a great, great location. Did you know that RCW? Did 172 00:09:58.919 --> 00:10:00.799 you know that that part of you Houston. Let me 173 00:10:00.840 --> 00:10:04.399 put that way, it was all dairy country at one time. 174 00:10:04.639 --> 00:10:07.519 Some people didn't know that. It dawned on me one 175 00:10:07.600 --> 00:10:10.240 day when I was I lived up in Cypress, and 176 00:10:10.279 --> 00:10:12.240 if you go up in Cypress, there's a place called 177 00:10:12.360 --> 00:10:18.480 Jersey Village, Jersey as in Jersey Milkcow, and there's also 178 00:10:18.559 --> 00:10:21.879 a dairy Ashford Dairy as in yeah, I don't need 179 00:10:21.919 --> 00:10:24.879 to do the sound effects again. Well that's all. That 180 00:10:25.000 --> 00:10:29.600 was all big big milk production company country. In fact, 181 00:10:29.679 --> 00:10:32.480 right where ARCW sits. I was talking to David a 182 00:10:32.480 --> 00:10:35.039 good while back and he was just telling me, you know, 183 00:10:35.080 --> 00:10:38.799 there's these big old giant, beautiful sycamores on their property. 184 00:10:38.919 --> 00:10:42.159 Oh they're gorgeous. And that also was, you know, right 185 00:10:42.200 --> 00:10:44.639 there in dairy country. And of course that's back in 186 00:10:44.720 --> 00:10:49.480 the days when nineteen sixty was a goat path way 187 00:10:49.639 --> 00:10:55.200 outside of town. But anyway, fun fact about Houston. Did 188 00:10:55.240 --> 00:10:58.480 you know those of you out there in Jersey Village, 189 00:10:58.480 --> 00:11:01.879 in Cypress and all of that, there was a time 190 00:11:01.919 --> 00:11:05.360 when you would be walking through a dairy cow pasture 191 00:11:06.360 --> 00:11:09.279 to do what you dry do driving down the street. 192 00:11:09.399 --> 00:11:13.039 Right now, you're listening to Garden Line, and I'm wanting 193 00:11:13.080 --> 00:11:14.960 to talk to you this morning about a few things, 194 00:11:15.039 --> 00:11:17.879 just kind of some heads up stuff. First of all, 195 00:11:18.759 --> 00:11:22.039 falls for planting. I love saying that. I hope you 196 00:11:22.039 --> 00:11:23.919 don't get tired of listening to it. But it is 197 00:11:24.039 --> 00:11:28.159 the most important planting season of the year. Please take 198 00:11:28.279 --> 00:11:31.240 advantage of it. If you're thinking about putting in a tree, 199 00:11:31.399 --> 00:11:34.120 do a tree now. Now's the time. It's the best time. 200 00:11:34.200 --> 00:11:37.200 If you're wanting to put in perennials like ornamental grasses 201 00:11:37.279 --> 00:11:40.639 or perennial flowers or anything, do it now. If you 202 00:11:40.679 --> 00:11:44.159 want some beautiful color, not only the warm season color 203 00:11:44.200 --> 00:11:47.600 that goes into fall, which we're planting those still right now, 204 00:11:47.879 --> 00:11:50.519 but also the cool season color and we're on the 205 00:11:50.639 --> 00:11:54.519 edge of cool season planting season two. All the things 206 00:11:54.600 --> 00:11:57.840 that can take cold but they're beautiful. You got to 207 00:11:57.840 --> 00:11:59.879 do it, but first you got to build the soil. 208 00:12:00.559 --> 00:12:03.000 And for those of you that have been out to 209 00:12:03.120 --> 00:12:06.240 Nature's Way Resources, you know the products that they have 210 00:12:06.279 --> 00:12:08.360 out there in high quality. They are you know, John 211 00:12:08.480 --> 00:12:12.480 Ferguson years ago, I started that place, and Nature's Way 212 00:12:12.519 --> 00:12:17.519 Resources is where a lot of quality soil materials were born, 213 00:12:17.919 --> 00:12:20.120 such as the rose soil. You know a lot of 214 00:12:20.120 --> 00:12:23.080 people have rose soil now. It started there at Nature's 215 00:12:23.120 --> 00:12:27.159 Way Resources. Leaf more compost it started there at Nature's 216 00:12:27.159 --> 00:12:29.759 Way Resources, and now they have the fungal compost by 217 00:12:29.759 --> 00:12:33.799 the way on Fridays. That's Fungal Fridays at Nature's Way 218 00:12:34.200 --> 00:12:38.519 twenty percent off, twenty percent off fungal compost. Do you 219 00:12:38.559 --> 00:12:40.440 need a top dress your lawn, grab some of the 220 00:12:40.440 --> 00:12:43.639 fungal composts or their leaf mold, But with the fungal 221 00:12:43.679 --> 00:12:45.960 compost you can just top dress off save quite a 222 00:12:46.039 --> 00:12:48.960 bit there on Friday. It just makes sense. And when 223 00:12:48.960 --> 00:12:53.759 you're out at Nature's Way Resources, remember that they are 224 00:12:53.799 --> 00:12:57.279 having right now a plant sale, and this is a 225 00:12:57.320 --> 00:13:00.799 big deal sale. It's the year end sale nursery discount, 226 00:13:01.159 --> 00:13:05.039 fifty percent off the huge variety native trees and fruit trees, 227 00:13:05.039 --> 00:13:10.639 houseplants and shrubs, but it does exclude native sun perennials. 228 00:13:10.720 --> 00:13:12.960 All the rest we're talking about on sale and it 229 00:13:13.080 --> 00:13:17.200 ends December first, so here's your chance to get those plants. 230 00:13:17.360 --> 00:13:19.240 It's the best time to put them in the ground. 231 00:13:19.320 --> 00:13:21.200 So in Nature's Way, you go home with the brown 232 00:13:21.240 --> 00:13:23.679 stuff and then take advantage of that sale and go 233 00:13:23.720 --> 00:13:26.840 home with the green stuff and get sat up. They've 234 00:13:26.840 --> 00:13:30.480 got a nice selection of natives and non natives out 235 00:13:30.480 --> 00:13:35.080 there as well at Nature's Way Resources. They're out at 236 00:13:35.080 --> 00:13:39.360 the where fourteen eighty eight comes into Interstate forty five. 237 00:13:40.000 --> 00:13:41.720 If you'd like to give them a call. Nine three 238 00:13:41.799 --> 00:13:47.000 six two seven three twelve hundred. We're going to go now, 239 00:13:47.120 --> 00:13:49.519 let's see where are we on time? Yeah, I always 240 00:13:49.559 --> 00:13:51.759 have to watch my clock because I get going here. 241 00:13:52.120 --> 00:13:55.480 We're going to go out Cyprus and talk to John. Hey, John, 242 00:13:55.519 --> 00:13:56.559 welcome to garden Line. 243 00:13:58.080 --> 00:13:58.559 Good morning. 244 00:13:58.600 --> 00:14:00.000 How are you. 245 00:14:00.840 --> 00:14:03.480 I'm doing well? How can we help? 246 00:14:03.799 --> 00:14:07.480 My question is I recently had a diseased oak tree 247 00:14:07.519 --> 00:14:09.679 that was cut down, and the next day or two 248 00:14:09.720 --> 00:14:12.080 they're going to be doing some stump grinding. What is 249 00:14:12.120 --> 00:14:13.879 the best way to make sure I can get Saint 250 00:14:13.879 --> 00:14:17.320 Augustine saw to regrow in that area over where the 251 00:14:17.360 --> 00:14:18.279 stump was cut down. 252 00:14:18.360 --> 00:14:22.519 So yeah, So first of all, when they grind it, 253 00:14:22.720 --> 00:14:25.799 there's a lot of wood, not just the stump sticking up, 254 00:14:25.799 --> 00:14:29.759 but all the maiden roots that were underground of that tree. 255 00:14:30.039 --> 00:14:32.039 It's a lot of wood chunks, and the more of 256 00:14:32.080 --> 00:14:35.360 that they can get out of there the better, because 257 00:14:35.480 --> 00:14:38.960 it's not the wood is hurting something. It's that all 258 00:14:39.000 --> 00:14:42.000 that wood then will decompose, and so when they finish, 259 00:14:42.039 --> 00:14:45.000 if they leave it level, it'll end up sinking down. 260 00:14:45.720 --> 00:14:48.919 Because number one, when you fluff up soil, it sinks anyway, 261 00:14:49.080 --> 00:14:50.879 just like if you've ever dug a trench and tried 262 00:14:50.919 --> 00:14:52.759 to fill it in and then later you find out 263 00:14:52.919 --> 00:14:56.320 it's like you didn't have enough soil. But also that 264 00:14:56.600 --> 00:15:01.919 decomposition of the wood cause additional sinking. So I would 265 00:15:01.960 --> 00:15:04.279 get all that out you can and then leave it, 266 00:15:04.440 --> 00:15:07.480 mound it up a little bit, just a little bit 267 00:15:07.480 --> 00:15:10.320 of a mound, knowing that it's going to sink. And 268 00:15:10.360 --> 00:15:12.480 then when you put your side down. Hopefully you'll end 269 00:15:12.519 --> 00:15:15.000 up pretty close to level at the end of all 270 00:15:15.000 --> 00:15:18.759 that process, after a few months of the settling. 271 00:15:20.320 --> 00:15:23.600 Okay, So I don't need to put through that all 272 00:15:23.639 --> 00:15:24.799 the woodchips or anything. 273 00:15:26.679 --> 00:15:30.519 No, not unless you're you're you don't have enough soil, 274 00:15:30.639 --> 00:15:34.679 which could could happen if you don't have enough soil 275 00:15:34.720 --> 00:15:37.240 to level it off. Then you would add soil, but 276 00:15:37.360 --> 00:15:41.120 that would be just part of the filling process where 277 00:15:41.159 --> 00:15:44.320 we fill in all low areas before we lay saw it. 278 00:15:44.840 --> 00:15:47.240 And if you can get a good sandy low mix, 279 00:15:47.399 --> 00:15:48.919 that would be a good idea. 280 00:15:50.360 --> 00:15:51.919 Okay, perfect, thank you very much. 281 00:15:52.519 --> 00:15:55.720 Okay. Yeah, and don't just put composts and stuff down 282 00:15:55.759 --> 00:15:58.519 because that, like wood chips, that's going to decompose away 283 00:15:58.559 --> 00:16:01.320 and sink down too. You need something that's really soiled, 284 00:16:01.320 --> 00:16:06.919 like a sandy loam. Okay, perfect, good luck with it, Yes, sir, 285 00:16:07.000 --> 00:16:13.919 thanks for the call. Appreciate that the whenever you do 286 00:16:14.240 --> 00:16:17.519 have a tree taken out, it's just inevitable, you know, 287 00:16:17.559 --> 00:16:19.399 the tree as it grow. Yeah, start is a little 288 00:16:19.480 --> 00:16:25.120 seed unless you planet it, and that gets bigger and bigger. 289 00:16:25.480 --> 00:16:27.120 The roots get bigger and bigger. And if you ever 290 00:16:27.200 --> 00:16:29.399 looked like even in the forest around a tree that 291 00:16:29.559 --> 00:16:32.000 it's like the sool goes up, and it's because all 292 00:16:32.039 --> 00:16:36.679 this underground expansion has occurred of roots and the soil 293 00:16:36.759 --> 00:16:38.559 sort of pushes up and then it sort of washes 294 00:16:38.600 --> 00:16:42.960 away too, and that leaves roots exposed. But that process 295 00:16:43.039 --> 00:16:44.919 of getting rid of an old tree and getting something 296 00:16:44.960 --> 00:16:48.600 new in it's just part of part of how that works. 297 00:16:50.200 --> 00:16:53.320 If you are looking to do your fall fertilization or 298 00:16:53.399 --> 00:16:58.360 if you're looking to do a fall weed prevention, all 299 00:16:58.399 --> 00:17:00.399 you have to do is go to ACE Hardware and 300 00:17:00.440 --> 00:17:03.360 they're going to have every one of the fall fertilizers 301 00:17:03.399 --> 00:17:06.279 I talk about. They're also going to have the products 302 00:17:06.279 --> 00:17:09.200 like the barricade from night Fuss that you would put 303 00:17:09.279 --> 00:17:14.960 down to prevent weed seeds from germinating. And here's the thing. 304 00:17:15.680 --> 00:17:18.119 The sooner you get the fertilizer down at this point 305 00:17:18.160 --> 00:17:21.279 in the season, the sooner it is the better because 306 00:17:21.359 --> 00:17:24.000 it goes down and to the degree the grassroots are 307 00:17:24.039 --> 00:17:28.240 actively growing and the plants growing and it's mild temperatures, 308 00:17:28.480 --> 00:17:30.359 you're going to get a lot of nutrient that's taken 309 00:17:30.440 --> 00:17:32.920 up into that plant to make it stronger and hardier. 310 00:17:33.359 --> 00:17:36.079 If you wait longer and longer and longer you're getting. 311 00:17:36.400 --> 00:17:39.279 It's slows down more and it's just not taking it 312 00:17:39.359 --> 00:17:41.920 up as fast. So get it done now. If you're 313 00:17:41.920 --> 00:17:44.559 going to do the barricade and get it, go to 314 00:17:44.599 --> 00:17:47.480 Ace Hardware. They're going to have it. Knighte Fuss barricade. 315 00:17:47.839 --> 00:17:51.720 Put it down asap because it prevents weeds that are 316 00:17:51.759 --> 00:17:56.119 sprouting from establishing. A seed sprouts and it can't get going. 317 00:17:56.640 --> 00:18:01.200 Barricade shuts it down. Well, do that now and Ace 318 00:18:01.240 --> 00:18:03.799 Hardware is loaded. You know there's forty Ace Hardware stores 319 00:18:03.960 --> 00:18:07.920 around the Greater Houston area. It makes it really easy 320 00:18:08.440 --> 00:18:11.400 to get whatever you need for your lawn and garden. 321 00:18:11.759 --> 00:18:15.920 Maybe you're looking to do disease prevention, maybe it doesn't 322 00:18:15.920 --> 00:18:18.920 matter what it is. You need to make that lawn. 323 00:18:18.960 --> 00:18:22.640 Its best to make your fall flower beds their most beautiful. 324 00:18:22.920 --> 00:18:25.240 Now's the time to be planting those two. By the way, 325 00:18:25.680 --> 00:18:28.119 Ace Hardware has got you covered on that. While you're there, 326 00:18:28.200 --> 00:18:31.319 grab that fire ant bait because you know you need it. 327 00:18:31.400 --> 00:18:34.079 And fire ant control is best done by bait, and 328 00:18:34.119 --> 00:18:37.160 it's best done by fresh bait. So if you got 329 00:18:37.160 --> 00:18:38.920 some fire at bait that's been sitting out in the 330 00:18:38.920 --> 00:18:42.799 garage for a year and probably not that appealing. So 331 00:18:43.000 --> 00:18:45.279 go ahead and get you some fresh bait and let's 332 00:18:45.319 --> 00:18:47.839 knock those things out before we go into fall. Well, 333 00:18:47.839 --> 00:18:50.960 it's time here for me to take another break, and 334 00:18:51.119 --> 00:18:54.640 I just wanted to mention one more time. Next Saturday 335 00:18:55.039 --> 00:18:58.039 r CW Nursery, I'll be out there for their fall Fling. 336 00:18:58.440 --> 00:19:00.880 They always put on a good party there at RCW. 337 00:19:01.160 --> 00:19:04.599 They're gonna have barbecue, lunch, prizes, and games. We're gonna 338 00:19:04.599 --> 00:19:06.359 have a good time, and I hope you'll come out 339 00:19:06.400 --> 00:19:08.480 and I can help you with some of the questions 340 00:19:08.480 --> 00:19:11.200 you might have about some of your landscape plans, or 341 00:19:11.240 --> 00:19:13.119 maybe we'll just sit and visit. We had a good 342 00:19:13.119 --> 00:19:16.359 time doing that Yesterdayt's do that again. Look Saturday, Hey, folks, 343 00:19:16.400 --> 00:19:21.359 I'll be right back back. Welcome back to garden Line. 344 00:19:21.680 --> 00:19:23.519 Glad you are with us today. I was talking a 345 00:19:23.519 --> 00:19:26.519 while ago about how Ace Hardware Stores carries you know, 346 00:19:26.599 --> 00:19:31.680 your your products for fertilizing and for disease control, weed 347 00:19:31.720 --> 00:19:34.440 prevention and things. I mentioned the nitro Foss Barricade. You know, 348 00:19:34.480 --> 00:19:38.720 barricade is part of Nitrofoss's Fall three Step Texas three 349 00:19:38.759 --> 00:19:41.960 Step program. What is the Texas three step Well, it's 350 00:19:42.000 --> 00:19:44.599 a dance. You doing your lawn the first the first 351 00:19:44.599 --> 00:19:47.200 time around, you're doing the Fall Special win a riser 352 00:19:47.359 --> 00:19:50.920 that is a fertilizer design for fall. It is rich 353 00:19:50.920 --> 00:19:53.839 and phosphate to help promote your healthy root system. It's 354 00:19:53.839 --> 00:19:57.359 also high on potassium for winter heartiness and really vigorous 355 00:19:57.400 --> 00:19:59.960 initial growth when it comes out in the spring. Second 356 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:03.279 one step is the barricade that prevents weeds. You put 357 00:20:03.319 --> 00:20:05.559 it down, you have to water it in always of 358 00:20:05.599 --> 00:20:07.200 the pre emergent. You've got to get it into the 359 00:20:07.200 --> 00:20:10.319 soil surface where it does its work. Ties up there 360 00:20:10.319 --> 00:20:12.359 at the soil surface, and when the weed comes through, 361 00:20:12.400 --> 00:20:14.680 it says, uh huh, not going to happen, Not on 362 00:20:14.759 --> 00:20:18.799 my watch. That's what barricade does. Third step Eagle turf fungicide. 363 00:20:18.839 --> 00:20:22.319 Egle turf fungicide is a systemic fungicide goes into the 364 00:20:22.359 --> 00:20:26.240 plant and it protects it against disease attack from brown 365 00:20:26.279 --> 00:20:30.319 patch or large patch as it's now called, and also 366 00:20:30.480 --> 00:20:33.680 from take all root rot, Take all root rot m 367 00:20:33.880 --> 00:20:38.039 large patch. Both can be controlled with the nitrof Egle 368 00:20:38.079 --> 00:20:43.079 turf fungicide. Three steps Fall Special Fertilizer barricade, pre emergent 369 00:20:43.440 --> 00:20:47.279 and nitrofos Egle turf fungicide. Step three. Now you're going 370 00:20:47.319 --> 00:20:49.440 to find these that in Chenny Gardens Downer Richmond. You're 371 00:20:49.440 --> 00:20:50.960 going to find them in Shades of Texas in the 372 00:20:50.960 --> 00:20:54.119 woodlands plants for all seasons up on Tomball Parkway as well. 373 00:20:54.519 --> 00:20:58.519 Easy to find these three products. But remember the time 374 00:20:58.599 --> 00:21:01.039 is short. Look at my schedule. Let's do it this month, 375 00:21:01.200 --> 00:21:04.519 and this month is well on its way. And you 376 00:21:04.599 --> 00:21:07.200 wait too long, and if we get a cold front 377 00:21:07.200 --> 00:21:09.440 and you get some weed sprouting, you get some brown 378 00:21:09.480 --> 00:21:12.720 pat showing up, you can still treat, but you've kind 379 00:21:12.720 --> 00:21:14.799 of missed the boat on some of those things. So 380 00:21:14.920 --> 00:21:20.359 don't delay. Get those things down a SAP that is important. 381 00:21:21.200 --> 00:21:23.519 We're going to go now out to Houston and talk 382 00:21:23.599 --> 00:21:26.160 to Dave. Hello, Dave, welcome to guarden Line. 383 00:21:27.519 --> 00:21:28.000 Hey there. 384 00:21:30.480 --> 00:21:33.319 I was going to try to yes, can you hear me? 385 00:21:35.079 --> 00:21:35.599 Yes, sir? 386 00:21:36.160 --> 00:21:38.519 I was what I was going to try to do 387 00:21:38.839 --> 00:21:41.440 was this week I was going to put down a 388 00:21:41.519 --> 00:21:44.680 weed killer. Next week I was going to try a 389 00:21:44.720 --> 00:21:48.759 pre mergent, and maybe the week after that maybe a fertilizer. 390 00:21:48.799 --> 00:21:49.920 Would that be a good? 391 00:21:51.880 --> 00:21:53.119 Would that be the best way. 392 00:21:52.960 --> 00:21:56.240 To go I would do. I would do everything you 393 00:21:56.319 --> 00:21:59.839 need to do right away that you don't have to wait. 394 00:22:00.519 --> 00:22:03.160 Uh And and I think of all those, the most 395 00:22:03.200 --> 00:22:07.440 important to do first is the pre emergent, because that 396 00:22:07.920 --> 00:22:09.920 if you missed that boat, you know, we get a 397 00:22:09.960 --> 00:22:13.240 cold front and some rain or something, you're gonna have 398 00:22:13.279 --> 00:22:16.640 weed sprouting. So go ahead and get the pre emergent down. Now. Now, 399 00:22:16.680 --> 00:22:20.599 when you say weed killer, I'm assuming it's because you're 400 00:22:20.640 --> 00:22:22.680 seeing weeds in the lawn you're wanting to kill. 401 00:22:24.160 --> 00:22:26.839 I don't see a lot, but I didn't want to wait. 402 00:22:26.920 --> 00:22:29.160 I just think if there were some there, I wanted 403 00:22:29.160 --> 00:22:32.480 to take them out. If there were some sprouted already, 404 00:22:32.519 --> 00:22:33.599 I wanted to take them out. 405 00:22:35.279 --> 00:22:37.799 Yeah, I would. I would just do the pre emergent. 406 00:22:37.839 --> 00:22:40.880 If you're not seeing anything, kind of walk around, look 407 00:22:40.920 --> 00:22:43.599 at especially in bear spots where your lawn's a little thin, 408 00:22:44.440 --> 00:22:47.839 look look there. And but right now, I'm not recommending 409 00:22:47.880 --> 00:22:51.359 a lot of post emergent products for various reasons. Uh, 410 00:22:51.480 --> 00:22:54.160 there's a place for them. But I think if you 411 00:22:54.240 --> 00:22:56.880 just do the pre emergent and then turn right around 412 00:22:56.960 --> 00:22:59.960 when you finish spreading it and put out your fertilizer 413 00:23:00.119 --> 00:23:03.160 for fall. Get a fall type fertilizer, put it down 414 00:23:03.759 --> 00:23:06.920 and then water it in with about a half inch 415 00:23:06.960 --> 00:23:10.200 of water, and you're good to go. You put a 416 00:23:10.240 --> 00:23:11.960 little more than a half if you want, but about 417 00:23:11.960 --> 00:23:13.160 a half something like that. 418 00:23:14.720 --> 00:23:15.640 Sounds good to meet. 419 00:23:15.680 --> 00:23:16.759 You do not have to. 420 00:23:19.720 --> 00:23:22.400 You don't even have to persuade this lazy person. 421 00:23:23.000 --> 00:23:23.720 That's perfect. 422 00:23:24.079 --> 00:23:27.200 I think it's funny. That's funny. Yeah, A lot of 423 00:23:27.200 --> 00:23:30.319 the weeds that are summer weeds, they're already setting seeds 424 00:23:30.400 --> 00:23:32.920 or blooming or whatever if they're in the lawn and 425 00:23:32.920 --> 00:23:34.839 and so it's a little late for the what you're 426 00:23:34.880 --> 00:23:38.680 referring to as weed killer for those. Okay, it's a 427 00:23:38.720 --> 00:23:41.799 little late for that. And I think we're still getting 428 00:23:41.839 --> 00:23:44.880 ahead of the cool season weeds. Just with the weather 429 00:23:44.920 --> 00:23:47.079 we've had, as dry as it's been and stuff, I 430 00:23:47.960 --> 00:23:50.079 think we're ahead of that. So I think just the 431 00:23:50.119 --> 00:23:51.519 pre emergent's gonna get you going. 432 00:23:52.599 --> 00:23:55.440 All right, Dave, thank you, thank you very much. 433 00:23:57.039 --> 00:23:59.519 Thanks for the call. Call back any time. Good talk 434 00:23:59.599 --> 00:24:04.279 to you. They care all right, folks. You are listening 435 00:24:04.279 --> 00:24:06.799 to garden Line and the phone number is seven one 436 00:24:06.880 --> 00:24:11.000 three two one two k t R seven one three 437 00:24:11.680 --> 00:24:15.000 two one two kt r H give us call. Let's 438 00:24:15.000 --> 00:24:16.799 talk about the things that are of interest to you. 439 00:24:17.079 --> 00:24:20.440 I mentioned that I was at in Channing Forest yesterday 440 00:24:20.519 --> 00:24:23.640 and a really good time out there. You need to 441 00:24:23.640 --> 00:24:26.720 go check that place out, you really do it is. 442 00:24:27.400 --> 00:24:30.319 It is beautiful out there. I mean, they just have 443 00:24:30.640 --> 00:24:35.000 tons of color, and the butterflies are going nuts and 444 00:24:35.079 --> 00:24:38.119 the bees are going nuts. You know, pollinators are they're 445 00:24:38.279 --> 00:24:41.400 really honkering down getting as much of the pollen and 446 00:24:41.480 --> 00:24:43.960 nectar and everything whatever kind of pollinator what they're looking 447 00:24:44.000 --> 00:24:46.400 for as they can right now, because they know the 448 00:24:46.440 --> 00:24:49.359 days you're getting short, and they know that they gotta 449 00:24:49.680 --> 00:24:50.960 you know, it's kind of like an old bear that 450 00:24:51.359 --> 00:24:54.359 gets all fat before hibernating for the winter. Well, it's 451 00:24:54.400 --> 00:24:57.880 a similar thing. They're they're busy. They are staying very 452 00:24:58.000 --> 00:25:00.519 very busy and outed in Channe and four. They have 453 00:25:00.559 --> 00:25:04.799 some outstanding beautiful plants too. I was looking at some 454 00:25:04.880 --> 00:25:10.000 of their trees yesterday and wow, they are beautiful. They've 455 00:25:10.000 --> 00:25:12.279 got some red buds that they just got in out 456 00:25:12.279 --> 00:25:14.920 there that look really really good, a number of different 457 00:25:15.000 --> 00:25:17.519 kinds of red buds. Of course, the herbs and the 458 00:25:17.599 --> 00:25:20.160 veggies always have to walk over to that area, and 459 00:25:20.200 --> 00:25:22.640 they are really stocked up with herbs and veggies and 460 00:25:22.680 --> 00:25:25.200 the cool season color even is coming in. You know, 461 00:25:25.319 --> 00:25:27.680 pansies and violas is what we start to put out 462 00:25:27.720 --> 00:25:30.559 when it really gets cool. And they're loaded up on 463 00:25:30.640 --> 00:25:33.519 that and Enchanted Forest. But those of you haven't been there. 464 00:25:33.599 --> 00:25:36.519 That's if you're in Richmond, you're heading up toward sugar 465 00:25:36.599 --> 00:25:39.920 Land direction. It's off to the right on FM twenty 466 00:25:40.079 --> 00:25:44.920 seven twenty seven fifty nine. Enchanted Forest. When you go in, 467 00:25:45.079 --> 00:25:47.440 check out the gift shops, check out the houseplants too. 468 00:25:47.480 --> 00:25:50.440 They look really good right now. I was really surprised 469 00:25:50.440 --> 00:25:54.319 at the selection that they still have, and it's an 470 00:25:54.359 --> 00:25:57.400 outstanding shape. And you know, this is house plant season. 471 00:25:58.119 --> 00:26:00.759 So we got holidays coming up even just you know, 472 00:26:00.920 --> 00:26:03.480 where are you going for Thanksgiving dinner? How about taking 473 00:26:03.519 --> 00:26:08.319 somebody a plant from Enchanted Forest or maybe taking them 474 00:26:08.359 --> 00:26:10.759 something from the gift shop. They've got some really cool 475 00:26:10.759 --> 00:26:14.200 stuff for a houseplant too. All there in Channing Forest, 476 00:26:14.240 --> 00:26:16.680 go check them out, and there's something going on there 477 00:26:16.680 --> 00:26:21.000 pretty much every Saturday. Now. They're staying keeping things, hopping 478 00:26:21.400 --> 00:26:23.960 makes it a lot of fun. I know D was 479 00:26:24.000 --> 00:26:26.160 out there talking about shade plants yesterday. And then I 480 00:26:26.279 --> 00:26:28.440 was out there and they got stuff always going on 481 00:26:28.519 --> 00:26:31.079 in Channing Forest. Hey, here's the website. Would you go 482 00:26:31.119 --> 00:26:34.039 look at it because it's really good. It is really 483 00:26:34.240 --> 00:26:38.839 really inspiring and good to check it out. Enchanted Forest, Richmond, 484 00:26:39.400 --> 00:26:47.400 TX dot com. Enchanted Forest, Richmond, TX dot com. So 485 00:26:47.440 --> 00:26:50.160 it was helpful when people put together a really good 486 00:26:50.240 --> 00:26:53.920 quality website. All right, it's time for me to take 487 00:26:53.960 --> 00:26:56.720 a little break here. I will be right back. Our 488 00:26:56.759 --> 00:26:58.359 phone number if you'd like to give us a call 489 00:26:58.480 --> 00:27:01.079 and be on the board when we come back. Seven 490 00:27:01.160 --> 00:27:05.119 one three two one two k t r H if 491 00:27:05.160 --> 00:27:07.039 you'd like to give me a call seven one three 492 00:27:07.119 --> 00:27:10.279 two one two k t r H. Seven one three 493 00:27:10.359 --> 00:27:13.160 two one two k t r H. I was visiting 494 00:27:13.200 --> 00:27:18.599 with someone this past week about black velvet multch. You know, 495 00:27:18.680 --> 00:27:22.319 black velvet is the maults from Landscaper's Pride. Uh, and 496 00:27:22.359 --> 00:27:25.160 it's not dyed. And they were they were going, I 497 00:27:25.200 --> 00:27:27.640 know you don't like dyed malts. Yes, I don't, neither 498 00:27:27.680 --> 00:27:28.680 did Randy, by the way. 499 00:27:29.079 --> 00:27:29.160 Uh. 500 00:27:29.279 --> 00:27:31.960 And just I just don't find I find it not 501 00:27:32.119 --> 00:27:34.480 very natural. Okay. And then we can get in debates 502 00:27:34.519 --> 00:27:37.319 about what it hurts and doesn't hurt and all that 503 00:27:37.359 --> 00:27:40.079 kind of stuff. But I just don't like the look 504 00:27:40.119 --> 00:27:41.599 of it. I don't care for the look of it. 505 00:27:41.680 --> 00:27:45.680 Black velvet is natural, it is naturally dark and just 506 00:27:45.680 --> 00:27:48.839 just a rich It's a good name, black velvet. That's 507 00:27:48.880 --> 00:27:51.119 a good name for it. Excellent name. As a matter 508 00:27:51.160 --> 00:27:54.160 of fact, it's a hardwood multch and uh it's one 509 00:27:54.200 --> 00:27:58.839 that you know, lose the landscaper's pride, folks. This is 510 00:27:58.880 --> 00:28:02.279 a this is a local company here in our region. 511 00:28:02.839 --> 00:28:07.240 It's a company that takes wood bait, wood type products 512 00:28:07.559 --> 00:28:11.240 and turns them into stuff that's garden gold. An example 513 00:28:11.279 --> 00:28:13.319 of that would be their planting mix. It's a blend 514 00:28:13.359 --> 00:28:16.279 of locally sourced pine barks, got sandy loam in it, 515 00:28:16.359 --> 00:28:19.279 so it's got that structure of soil in it and organics. 516 00:28:19.680 --> 00:28:22.519 And you can use it to revamp any garden bed. 517 00:28:22.559 --> 00:28:24.119 You got a bed that's kind of sinking down, you 518 00:28:24.160 --> 00:28:25.880 want to bring it up a little bit, go ahead 519 00:28:25.880 --> 00:28:27.519 and do that. You make a bed out of it too, 520 00:28:28.160 --> 00:28:31.200 Just choose that to create the bed. But it is 521 00:28:31.240 --> 00:28:35.680 an excellent product. It's very suitable for most growing seasons, 522 00:28:35.720 --> 00:28:40.160 really growing situations, growing conditions, I should say all seasons 523 00:28:40.920 --> 00:28:43.799 and it works well. Another one compass Pete that's locally 524 00:28:43.839 --> 00:28:47.200 screened pine excellent soil additive. It's going to improve structure 525 00:28:47.400 --> 00:28:49.200 and it's going to hold up for a good while too, 526 00:28:49.640 --> 00:28:55.160 and it also adds as decomposing materials. Are those essential 527 00:28:55.279 --> 00:28:58.319 organics that are so important for having success with your soil. 528 00:28:58.359 --> 00:29:00.359 You can go to landscapers Pride dot com. I'm feeling 529 00:29:00.400 --> 00:29:03.000 to find out more. It's widely available. You're not gonna 530 00:29:03.000 --> 00:29:08.599 have trouble finding Landscaper's Pride products, but Landscaperspride dot com 531 00:29:08.640 --> 00:29:11.119 can tell you all the places where you may find 532 00:29:11.160 --> 00:29:14.160 them in your area. And as they say at Landscaper's Pride, 533 00:29:14.240 --> 00:29:17.839 let's row together and boys fall ever a good time 534 00:29:18.200 --> 00:29:20.079 to get some of their products and get off to 535 00:29:20.119 --> 00:29:22.880 a great start. I'm going to head out to pair 536 00:29:23.000 --> 00:29:25.519 Land and talk to Pam. Hello Pam, open to the 537 00:29:25.519 --> 00:29:26.599 garden line. 538 00:29:27.880 --> 00:29:29.279 And good morning, Skip. 539 00:29:30.880 --> 00:29:31.200 Morning. 540 00:29:32.000 --> 00:29:32.599 Can you hear me? 541 00:29:33.039 --> 00:29:33.559 What's up? 542 00:29:34.279 --> 00:29:34.480 Yeah? 543 00:29:34.559 --> 00:29:35.240 I sure can. 544 00:29:36.240 --> 00:29:43.359 I am looking for an organic alternative or to pre 545 00:29:43.440 --> 00:29:48.079 emergent her beside. I had serious issues with mag Magnolia's 546 00:29:49.319 --> 00:29:52.880 in the spring. Of course, they were stressed by last 547 00:29:52.920 --> 00:29:56.119 summer and then the freeze. But one of the things 548 00:29:56.119 --> 00:30:00.799 that Augus pointed out was the use of weed killer. 549 00:30:00.839 --> 00:30:03.119 And I don't use any weed killer other than the 550 00:30:03.240 --> 00:30:07.400 pre mergent and I just have a six months follow up. 551 00:30:07.440 --> 00:30:11.960 Everything's good, but they really advise to stay away from that. 552 00:30:12.160 --> 00:30:15.960 Is there any practice I could implement that would achieve 553 00:30:16.039 --> 00:30:16.920 the same result. 554 00:30:19.480 --> 00:30:22.759 Here's the organic alternatives that are on my schedule. If 555 00:30:22.759 --> 00:30:25.799 you go to gardening with skip dot com, I have 556 00:30:25.839 --> 00:30:29.039 a lawn, pest, disease and weed management schedule that has 557 00:30:29.079 --> 00:30:34.119 synthetic and organic options. First of all, always be building 558 00:30:34.119 --> 00:30:37.839 turf density with proper fertilizing. The denser the turf gets 559 00:30:37.839 --> 00:30:42.119 by fertilizing properly and mowing, often the less weeds you're 560 00:30:42.119 --> 00:30:45.000 going to have. That's one because pre emergent stops weed 561 00:30:45.039 --> 00:30:50.720 seeds and dense lawn stops weed seeds too. Secondly, compost 562 00:30:50.799 --> 00:30:53.759 top dressing at the end of the season going into 563 00:30:53.759 --> 00:30:57.839 fall or in the spring coming out early. Either one 564 00:30:57.880 --> 00:31:00.400 of those puts a little bit more of a shade 565 00:31:00.440 --> 00:31:02.480 cover over the ground. You know what I'm saying. Even 566 00:31:02.519 --> 00:31:05.680 though you don't top dress deeply, it is blocking a 567 00:31:05.680 --> 00:31:08.319 little bit of light. So that also helps. And then finally, 568 00:31:08.359 --> 00:31:12.039 there is a product called corn gluten meal. Corn gluten 569 00:31:12.079 --> 00:31:15.759 meal is kind of a hit and miss. It can 570 00:31:15.880 --> 00:31:18.119 stop weed seeds if you get it out there and 571 00:31:18.200 --> 00:31:20.759 water it in. The problem is, we're not in control 572 00:31:20.759 --> 00:31:23.880 of rainfall, and if after putting on corn gluten meal 573 00:31:24.400 --> 00:31:28.559 you just get ongoing small amounts of rainfall, it's not 574 00:31:28.680 --> 00:31:31.400 going to be as effective. But that is the only 575 00:31:31.640 --> 00:31:35.599 organic pre emergent that I know of as corn gluten meal. 576 00:31:36.680 --> 00:31:40.720 Okay, okay, well, then you've managed my second question that 577 00:31:40.839 --> 00:31:45.200 I also need to I've been doing the aration twice 578 00:31:45.240 --> 00:31:48.839 a year for about four years now, but I probably 579 00:31:48.880 --> 00:31:52.839 still need to do it in the areas that continue 580 00:31:52.880 --> 00:31:54.480 to have weed issues. 581 00:31:54.960 --> 00:31:56.359 So thank you very much. 582 00:31:56.400 --> 00:31:56.599 Well. 583 00:31:56.599 --> 00:32:00.880 Aeration is yeah, aeration is mainly for comp action, so 584 00:32:01.000 --> 00:32:03.279 if you're doing trust year, that's a lot of erasi. 585 00:32:04.200 --> 00:32:06.599 But yeah, but it sounds like you're off to a 586 00:32:06.640 --> 00:32:09.599 good start. So I do wish you well with that. 587 00:32:09.880 --> 00:32:13.440 I appreciate it, all right, thank you for the call. 588 00:32:13.640 --> 00:32:17.519 Take care. Buchanan's Native Plants is on Eleventh Street in 589 00:32:17.559 --> 00:32:20.920 the Heights. Eleventh Street and if you've never been there, 590 00:32:21.000 --> 00:32:24.000 you gotta go. Fact this afternoon be a good time 591 00:32:24.000 --> 00:32:26.960 to get over to Buchanans. They are loaded up. They 592 00:32:27.000 --> 00:32:30.400 have beautiful fall color. Listen, we talk about pansies and 593 00:32:30.519 --> 00:32:33.359 viola's in the fall. Those are they're very hearty, very 594 00:32:33.400 --> 00:32:38.279 good cool season color. But Dianthus is another one, just beautiful. 595 00:32:38.319 --> 00:32:41.119 There's the shorter types of dianthus that we've always had, 596 00:32:41.200 --> 00:32:44.680 and then in recent years we started seeing these just 597 00:32:45.319 --> 00:32:50.920 neon glowing tall dianthus like Amazon is a series example 598 00:32:50.960 --> 00:32:54.680 of that, and the colors are just amazing. They make 599 00:32:54.680 --> 00:32:58.160 good cut flowers too, by the way, but Dianthus is 600 00:32:58.200 --> 00:33:02.160 a good one, cold cold, cold, hearty. Things like kale, 601 00:33:02.279 --> 00:33:06.480 ornamental kale and ornamental cabbage are also available. And then 602 00:33:06.519 --> 00:33:09.440 we have things like snap dragons. We got stock that's 603 00:33:09.480 --> 00:33:15.720 a really underplanted stock is a wonderful cool season color, plant, colangulas, nasturtiums. 604 00:33:15.759 --> 00:33:17.519 There's a lot of things we can do for some 605 00:33:17.640 --> 00:33:20.279 color as we go into the fall season. Alyssam isn't 606 00:33:20.279 --> 00:33:22.640 a good example. It's all there Buchanans. You know, they 607 00:33:22.640 --> 00:33:26.599 are Buchanans native plants. I mean, so they totally stocked 608 00:33:26.680 --> 00:33:28.880 up on natives. Last time I was out there, they 609 00:33:28.920 --> 00:33:32.559 had a great selection of strawberries. If you want awesome, 610 00:33:33.200 --> 00:33:36.839 Let's say February March April May through that region. Depending 611 00:33:36.880 --> 00:33:39.559 on where you live in the area that strawberry season, 612 00:33:39.759 --> 00:33:43.799 especially March, April and early May. Go to Buchanans, pick 613 00:33:43.880 --> 00:33:45.759 up some of the strawberries, get them in now, and 614 00:33:45.880 --> 00:33:49.880 you will have a really, really nice strawberry season. Let's 615 00:33:50.279 --> 00:33:55.000 head now to Mike in spring. Hello, Mike, welcome to 616 00:33:55.079 --> 00:33:55.559 garden Line. 617 00:33:56.839 --> 00:34:00.880 Good morning. Thanks for telling you, Micall. I'm getting ready 618 00:34:00.920 --> 00:34:06.599 to just put some saint always being down? Is it 619 00:34:06.759 --> 00:34:12.840 all right to put humans and we nower down on 620 00:34:13.039 --> 00:34:14.320 top of that before I planet. 621 00:34:17.360 --> 00:34:20.760 If you can mix it into the soil a little 622 00:34:20.800 --> 00:34:23.199 bit and then level it out real good, then you 623 00:34:23.280 --> 00:34:25.559 can lay your sid on top of that. But I 624 00:34:25.800 --> 00:34:28.320 don't do a whole lot. You can put a little bit, 625 00:34:28.360 --> 00:34:29.880 but don't do a whole lot. Maybe an inch or 626 00:34:29.960 --> 00:34:32.280 so would be enough for that. Okay. 627 00:34:33.679 --> 00:34:36.679 And another thing, what if you put some of that 628 00:34:36.960 --> 00:34:41.000 in your your long like like. 629 00:34:41.119 --> 00:34:41.719 You would. 630 00:34:43.079 --> 00:34:43.280 You are? 631 00:34:43.960 --> 00:34:47.519 Yeah? Uh, you you could do that if it was 632 00:34:47.639 --> 00:34:51.280 well composted. The humans is well composted just by nature 633 00:34:51.320 --> 00:34:54.719 of it being humans. But uh, the manures need to 634 00:34:54.800 --> 00:34:58.000 be very well composted. H and don't do too much, 635 00:34:58.239 --> 00:34:59.960 keep it very thin very. 636 00:35:00.079 --> 00:35:05.280 Then, yeah, in the loan. In the loan, that's already there. 637 00:35:07.159 --> 00:35:09.639 Yes, that's what I'm talking about, like a top dressing. 638 00:35:10.039 --> 00:35:12.119 The top dressing we put out at about a third 639 00:35:12.159 --> 00:35:13.519 of an inch deep. 640 00:35:13.719 --> 00:35:17.119 So yeah, that's why I mean to do that in 641 00:35:17.760 --> 00:35:24.239 in your loan. It is okay to do that, Yes, 642 00:35:26.880 --> 00:35:29.840 very lightly, very lightly. 643 00:35:30.519 --> 00:35:32.360 That's right. That's it. 644 00:35:32.840 --> 00:35:33.280 You got it. 645 00:35:35.400 --> 00:35:38.360 It is it probably even better, probably be even better 646 00:35:38.440 --> 00:35:40.840 to do it in the spring, but you can do it. 647 00:35:42.119 --> 00:35:44.599 All right. Well, good luck getting that lawn established. Mic, 648 00:35:44.760 --> 00:35:46.239 sounds like you got some work ahead of you. 649 00:35:46.320 --> 00:35:49.199 There, I'm about done. 650 00:35:51.159 --> 00:35:54.480 Oh okay, all right, well thanks for thanks for colling, 651 00:35:54.800 --> 00:35:56.679 and have a good rest of your good rest of 652 00:35:56.679 --> 00:36:00.159 your weekend. I really appreciate that. Uh yeah, I talk 653 00:36:00.199 --> 00:36:05.000 about the importance of tree care and affordable tree care 654 00:36:05.199 --> 00:36:07.000 is the place you need to call. Talking to somebody 655 00:36:07.079 --> 00:36:09.760 just the other day about Martin Spoon Moore. Write this 656 00:36:10.039 --> 00:36:13.960 number down seven one three six nine nine two six 657 00:36:14.119 --> 00:36:16.119 six three. I'll give it to you a minute. If 658 00:36:16.119 --> 00:36:17.719 you don't have a pen, I'll give you one second 659 00:36:17.760 --> 00:36:22.199 to grab one. Ay Fftree Service dot com. Martin stays busy, 660 00:36:22.280 --> 00:36:26.840 get on his schedule. It's fall and spring, see well, 661 00:36:26.880 --> 00:36:29.840 actually falling in winter. Important time to get some of 662 00:36:29.920 --> 00:36:33.480 that pruning done, and we're now in that season. Get 663 00:36:33.519 --> 00:36:37.320 it done. Seven one three, six nine nine two six 664 00:36:37.599 --> 00:36:41.400 sixty three. Tell him your Gardenline listener, get on far 665 00:36:41.559 --> 00:36:43.760 up in the line as you can. He is booking up. 666 00:36:43.920 --> 00:36:46.639 And stay in busy, don't delay. You want to get 667 00:36:46.679 --> 00:36:48.920 that printing done if you can by February. It's the 668 00:36:48.960 --> 00:36:51.840 best time you can prune all year. But call him now, 669 00:36:52.239 --> 00:36:56.239 don't don't lose the opportunity to get on this window 670 00:36:56.320 --> 00:36:58.599 and get that done. You want your trees to be 671 00:36:58.679 --> 00:37:01.840 well taken care of, in properly prune. Don't turn them 672 00:37:01.920 --> 00:37:04.159 over to somebody who knocked on the door and left 673 00:37:04.199 --> 00:37:07.079 your business card. Go with somebody knows what they're doing. 674 00:37:07.119 --> 00:37:10.599 That's Martin Spoon from Amal Trip. Well, we're going to 675 00:37:10.639 --> 00:37:12.719 take a break here for the news marine. I will 676 00:37:12.880 --> 00:37:15.239 put you up first, then we come back. Look forward 677 00:37:15.280 --> 00:37:30.719 to talking to you, savings. Just watch him as. 678 00:37:40.760 --> 00:37:40.960 Hey. 679 00:37:41.079 --> 00:37:46.639 Welcome back, Welcome back to guarden Line. Good have you 680 00:37:46.760 --> 00:37:48.800 with us. We got a lot to talk about and 681 00:37:48.840 --> 00:37:50.679 a lot of people to talk to, So we're gonna 682 00:37:50.719 --> 00:37:53.199 jump right up there on the phones and go to 683 00:37:53.360 --> 00:37:57.440 Marene in Lakeside of States. Hey, Maureene, welcome to garden Line. 684 00:37:58.440 --> 00:37:59.360 Thank you so much. 685 00:37:59.559 --> 00:38:02.400 I think I have a simple problem, but it's always 686 00:38:02.440 --> 00:38:06.119 best to check it out. During the storm, I had 687 00:38:06.239 --> 00:38:11.639 to have a fencing replaced, so they placed the wood 688 00:38:11.719 --> 00:38:13.960 on the ground and did their work all as well. 689 00:38:14.039 --> 00:38:15.639 They're gone, scleaned up, et cetera. 690 00:38:16.039 --> 00:38:18.639 But I did notice that the spot where the wood. 691 00:38:18.679 --> 00:38:23.159 Was that it was kind of turning straw looking, so 692 00:38:23.320 --> 00:38:26.039 I just watched it in et cetera, et cetera. But 693 00:38:26.280 --> 00:38:29.719 now I've always had an apossum pass through. I don't 694 00:38:29.760 --> 00:38:33.039 have a problem. He's welcome to share whatever I grow 695 00:38:33.440 --> 00:38:37.400 food wise, but it now looks like he was looking 696 00:38:37.599 --> 00:38:40.719 or she was looking for something, and it's kind of 697 00:38:40.840 --> 00:38:45.760 made hold and ripped up the grass and spots. So 698 00:38:47.480 --> 00:38:51.719 I'm now thinking I need to remove that straw grass 699 00:38:52.719 --> 00:38:55.599 where he's been looking or she he's been looking for, 700 00:38:55.920 --> 00:38:59.920 maybe grub or whatever else they find edible. But as 701 00:39:00.079 --> 00:39:05.199 I was passing by Low's or another big box store, 702 00:39:05.519 --> 00:39:08.360 I thought that they had on sale some sod, So 703 00:39:09.239 --> 00:39:12.199 my question is this should I put down some type 704 00:39:12.239 --> 00:39:16.000 of chemical But I'm not really seeing anything. 705 00:39:15.800 --> 00:39:17.559 That the possum would look for. 706 00:39:18.119 --> 00:39:21.639 But he's returned or she's returned. But now last night 707 00:39:21.719 --> 00:39:24.400 I did not see any evidence of a new area 708 00:39:24.559 --> 00:39:27.599 being dug up. But it's like a big dog was 709 00:39:28.000 --> 00:39:30.840 passing through my yard and you know, left me a 710 00:39:30.920 --> 00:39:35.079 gift and then did that back leg motion where he's 711 00:39:35.119 --> 00:39:36.119 digging everything up. 712 00:39:37.880 --> 00:39:40.000 So what do you think I have going on? 713 00:39:42.320 --> 00:39:44.119 Well, I don't think you need to put an insect 714 00:39:44.199 --> 00:39:46.159 aside down. I don't think he got a bug in 715 00:39:46.239 --> 00:39:49.639 there that needs to be treated. It also could be 716 00:39:49.760 --> 00:39:52.719 that the possum is more of a guilt by association 717 00:39:54.239 --> 00:39:56.880 unless you just have seen the possum doing the damage. 718 00:39:56.960 --> 00:40:00.239 That sounds more like something an armadilla would do, you know, 719 00:40:00.360 --> 00:40:02.800 rooting around with their nose, So you may also have 720 00:40:02.960 --> 00:40:06.320 something going on. There are the critters that can do that, 721 00:40:08.039 --> 00:40:08.639 but you have to. 722 00:40:08.679 --> 00:40:11.119 Come up with another critter. Lakeside of State is not 723 00:40:11.360 --> 00:40:13.039 known for having armadillos. 724 00:40:13.639 --> 00:40:15.559 And I'm in a you know, small. 725 00:40:16.159 --> 00:40:20.280 Property, so I'm not out in Cyprus. 726 00:40:20.119 --> 00:40:22.679 Or wall or I'm in the city. 727 00:40:23.199 --> 00:40:26.440 So those chances of that animal, although it does. 728 00:40:26.480 --> 00:40:27.960 That that it looks just like it. 729 00:40:28.719 --> 00:40:31.039 Okay, so then any. 730 00:40:34.039 --> 00:40:40.000 Area that is turning straw, I was like, how wide? 731 00:40:40.119 --> 00:40:40.559 How long? 732 00:40:41.360 --> 00:40:41.559 Yeah? 733 00:40:41.679 --> 00:40:42.440 No, no, I got you. 734 00:40:42.920 --> 00:40:44.599 Uh, it is not a big area. 735 00:40:44.920 --> 00:40:48.400 It's just it's not typical for my backyard. So it's 736 00:40:48.480 --> 00:40:51.480 it's maybe five by five five, you know, six foot, 737 00:40:51.639 --> 00:40:53.039 it's not it's not a big area. 738 00:40:53.800 --> 00:41:00.440 Yeah, you know, I don't I just don't think i'd 739 00:41:00.440 --> 00:41:02.280 do anything to it. I think it's gonna be fine, 740 00:41:02.559 --> 00:41:06.159 uh it, you know it. It's hard to say for 741 00:41:06.280 --> 00:41:09.000 sure what's doing that. Maybe it is the possum or 742 00:41:09.079 --> 00:41:11.159 some of the skunks do that too, by the way, 743 00:41:11.599 --> 00:41:16.039 but who knows exactly. But the straw colored could be 744 00:41:16.199 --> 00:41:18.440 due to a number of things, just the changing in 745 00:41:18.519 --> 00:41:20.719 the weather. Some people have had some lawns that are 746 00:41:21.239 --> 00:41:23.800 that are starting to I don't know, it's like they're 747 00:41:24.000 --> 00:41:25.599 they're tired and old looking. 748 00:41:26.320 --> 00:41:29.519 But yeah, it does look like that. It looks like 749 00:41:29.960 --> 00:41:32.400 somebody aging and you know, you're getting gray hair and 750 00:41:32.519 --> 00:41:37.599 losing some it's looking to it could be yeah. 751 00:41:37.519 --> 00:41:40.199 You know, we've had a dry period now and the 752 00:41:40.280 --> 00:41:43.639 temperature has been warm up until just recently, and so 753 00:41:44.000 --> 00:41:46.800 it could just be struggling a little bit for lack 754 00:41:46.880 --> 00:41:50.920 of moisture, so moisture or could be a little bit 755 00:41:50.960 --> 00:41:53.199 of a disease going on in there that's kind of 756 00:41:53.320 --> 00:41:55.880 causing some of the yellowing or some of the the 757 00:41:56.199 --> 00:41:58.719 lack of color, the straw color iss you described at 758 00:41:58.760 --> 00:42:01.119 the tan Uh. I would just kind of watch it 759 00:42:01.239 --> 00:42:03.599 and see, you know, without me seeing a sample in 760 00:42:03.679 --> 00:42:06.880 my hands and really examining it. That is kind of 761 00:42:06.920 --> 00:42:09.039 the best shot I can do for you on it. 762 00:42:09.159 --> 00:42:14.360 I wouldn't use an insecticide with an area of that size. 763 00:42:14.639 --> 00:42:17.960 I just am not real concerned about it. If it 764 00:42:18.039 --> 00:42:20.719 were a disease problem, I would expect to see more 765 00:42:20.840 --> 00:42:22.760 areas of the lawn showing the problem. 766 00:42:23.920 --> 00:42:26.920 Okay, so what about putting in two pieces of sod. 767 00:42:29.400 --> 00:42:31.760 If you want to do that, that's fine. In general, 768 00:42:32.599 --> 00:42:37.679 it's getting the end of the time, Yeah, to put 769 00:42:37.760 --> 00:42:39.800 side down, but if you hurry up, if you get 770 00:42:39.960 --> 00:42:42.719 all organic matter off the surface like dead grass and 771 00:42:43.280 --> 00:42:47.039 most stuff, so the side you put down can contact 772 00:42:47.159 --> 00:42:50.039 the soil, and you water real good before you put 773 00:42:50.079 --> 00:42:51.840 it down. You lay it down, and then you water 774 00:42:51.960 --> 00:42:54.760 it about twice a day for a week, and then 775 00:42:54.840 --> 00:42:57.920 once a day for a week. You might get that. 776 00:42:58.119 --> 00:42:59.880 I did that in a couple of spots. 777 00:43:00.079 --> 00:43:02.480 Yeah, okay, I just need you, I guess. 778 00:43:02.519 --> 00:43:04.639 I'm just calling to get a blessing about how to 779 00:43:04.760 --> 00:43:04.960 do it. 780 00:43:05.039 --> 00:43:06.599 And you're very good at. 781 00:43:06.519 --> 00:43:07.400 That, so. 782 00:43:09.159 --> 00:43:09.360 You can. 783 00:43:10.119 --> 00:43:12.599 You know, if it were mine, If it were mine, 784 00:43:12.639 --> 00:43:15.440 I'd give it a real long thought about maybe just 785 00:43:15.519 --> 00:43:18.199 waiting until it warms up in spring and really wants 786 00:43:18.280 --> 00:43:21.519 to grow and then do it the sod ddition. 787 00:43:21.840 --> 00:43:27.559 But there's not a right, you're me some energy extended? 788 00:43:28.400 --> 00:43:32.239 You got you got there? You go, all right, Thank you, 789 00:43:32.760 --> 00:43:33.599 appreciate your. 790 00:43:33.559 --> 00:43:34.199 Call so much. 791 00:43:34.239 --> 00:43:36.360 Appreciate appreciate you too bad. 792 00:43:37.519 --> 00:43:40.320 All right, bye bye. You guys have heard me talk 793 00:43:40.320 --> 00:43:42.360 about Quality Home. You know, when we had the storms 794 00:43:42.440 --> 00:43:45.960 this year, I think everybody in their dog wants to 795 00:43:46.000 --> 00:43:48.960 buy a generator, and for good reason, I mean, my gosh, 796 00:43:49.519 --> 00:43:51.599 and Quality Home. There's not a better place to get 797 00:43:51.639 --> 00:43:55.840 a quality generator one of these Generat automatic standby generators. 798 00:43:56.320 --> 00:43:56.440 Uh. 799 00:43:56.559 --> 00:44:00.840 The Generatic automatic stand by generator is outstanding. But when 800 00:44:00.880 --> 00:44:04.519 you buy it from Quality Home, you get service. That's 801 00:44:04.639 --> 00:44:09.400 why they're so highly rated rated. That's also why you know, 802 00:44:09.519 --> 00:44:13.000 Better Business Bureau gives them the highest word you can 803 00:44:13.039 --> 00:44:16.840 imagine repeatedly, because that's kind of service they provide. Now, 804 00:44:16.880 --> 00:44:20.000 what they're looking for is to hire somebody electricians and 805 00:44:20.159 --> 00:44:23.199 plumbers to help them in meeting the demand. You know, 806 00:44:23.280 --> 00:44:27.719 with Quality Home, all their contract work is inside the interior, 807 00:44:28.079 --> 00:44:32.679 meaning inside the company. They don't just contract everything out. 808 00:44:33.079 --> 00:44:36.000 And so when you have Quality Home, come do it 809 00:44:37.400 --> 00:44:41.440 automatic standby home generator for you. You know, the electricians coming, 810 00:44:41.519 --> 00:44:44.400 the plumbing coming, whoever's coming to do stuff. 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There's another application online that you can fill out. 822 00:45:24.480 --> 00:45:26.440 Time for me to take a little break here and 823 00:45:26.840 --> 00:45:28.920 when I come back, Tim and Bill, you made my 824 00:45:29.079 --> 00:45:34.599 first two up. Welcome back to garden Line. We are 825 00:45:34.679 --> 00:45:38.199 glad to have you with us today. Someone I get 826 00:45:38.239 --> 00:45:41.960 this question a lot, and here it's it's varying versions 827 00:45:42.000 --> 00:45:45.239 of it, but basically here's the question, Uh, when do 828 00:45:45.360 --> 00:45:49.199 I When do I put out asmit? You know it's 829 00:45:49.239 --> 00:45:51.519 fertilizing season? Do I put out as Is now the 830 00:45:51.599 --> 00:45:53.480 time to put out as mite? And the answer is 831 00:45:53.719 --> 00:45:55.320 you put out as might whenever you want to put 832 00:45:55.320 --> 00:45:59.079 out azmite. As might is a micronutrient supplement. It is 833 00:45:59.199 --> 00:46:02.199 not something you put down like the standard fertilizers with 834 00:46:02.360 --> 00:46:04.440 lots of nitrogen in them that make your long take 835 00:46:04.480 --> 00:46:07.360 off growing and be green. It is a boy It 836 00:46:07.480 --> 00:46:10.880 is a bank account deposit. That's what you're doing of 837 00:46:11.119 --> 00:46:15.239 trace minerals. Okay, So when you put asmite down, any 838 00:46:15.280 --> 00:46:17.079 month of the year you put it down, it goes in. 839 00:46:17.280 --> 00:46:20.440 It attaches to the soil. The trace minerals attached to 840 00:46:20.559 --> 00:46:24.119 the soil, and when the plant roots need them. Whatever 841 00:46:24.239 --> 00:46:27.239 the mineral is, you know, maybe it's something like iron 842 00:46:27.360 --> 00:46:30.519 or zinc or whatever is it's needed in the trace 843 00:46:30.599 --> 00:46:34.000 mineral group, Well it's in that bank account and the 844 00:46:34.039 --> 00:46:35.880 plant can have it. So you could do it when 845 00:46:35.920 --> 00:46:38.440 you fertilize. You put your fertilizer oute, turn around, fill 846 00:46:38.519 --> 00:46:40.800 up with these might put the AZMTE out. However you 847 00:46:40.840 --> 00:46:42.679 want to go about it is up to you. The 848 00:46:42.800 --> 00:46:46.199 month doesn't matter, and so most people will do it 849 00:46:46.280 --> 00:46:49.039 when they fertilize because it's just easier. You're already out 850 00:46:49.079 --> 00:46:51.400 there running the spread or across the lawn, so why 851 00:46:51.480 --> 00:46:53.239 not just go ahead and do your asimite at that time. 852 00:46:54.159 --> 00:46:56.840 Either way you go about it is fine. Just just 853 00:46:57.679 --> 00:47:01.440 once a year. A good application of ASEM is usually 854 00:47:01.519 --> 00:47:04.320 what I would recommend for most long say you have 855 00:47:04.360 --> 00:47:06.599 a saw test just to check and make sure what 856 00:47:06.800 --> 00:47:09.519 levels of what you need. But as might goes a 857 00:47:09.559 --> 00:47:12.079 long way because it's a tracement or you're not putting 858 00:47:12.159 --> 00:47:15.920 the quantity out that you're putting of other fertilizers. So 859 00:47:16.000 --> 00:47:17.920 about forty four pounds bag is going to give you 860 00:47:18.039 --> 00:47:21.960 six to twelve thousand square feet of coverage? Works really well, 861 00:47:22.360 --> 00:47:24.920 It's as simple as that. All right, So let's go 862 00:47:25.159 --> 00:47:29.159 to Tim now in Oh gosh, Tim, where are you located? 863 00:47:30.320 --> 00:47:32.239 I'm out here by the Surprises being State Park. 864 00:47:33.960 --> 00:47:36.440 Oh okay, all right, good, well, how can I help today? 865 00:47:37.480 --> 00:47:39.880 I have a fig tree that's been in the ground 866 00:47:39.920 --> 00:47:43.360 for about five maybe six years. It seems that it 867 00:47:43.519 --> 00:47:46.679 only grows spread and out, not really up. But it 868 00:47:46.760 --> 00:47:48.280 doesn't produce any figs. 869 00:47:49.480 --> 00:47:49.960 It's done. 870 00:47:50.000 --> 00:47:52.840 It no figs, huh, four or five? 871 00:47:53.199 --> 00:47:55.480 And then a couple of years later it put on 872 00:47:55.599 --> 00:47:57.760 a few. And I just walked over here and I 873 00:47:57.880 --> 00:48:00.159 saw one, a green one on it. This year this 874 00:48:00.239 --> 00:48:01.760 is the first time this year it's done put a 875 00:48:01.800 --> 00:48:02.119 fig on. 876 00:48:04.000 --> 00:48:13.039 Wow. Well, uh, it's say that again. I was thinking, 877 00:48:13.119 --> 00:48:18.480 my soul, I didn't here something. Uh, well, it could 878 00:48:18.519 --> 00:48:20.719 be it could be. How much sunlight is that fig getting? 879 00:48:21.880 --> 00:48:24.440 I would say at least half a day. It's by 880 00:48:24.559 --> 00:48:27.280 big live okay, okay, goes. 881 00:48:27.239 --> 00:48:28.800 You know, and shades it for you, you know, but 882 00:48:28.880 --> 00:48:30.639 it gets a good morning and so. 883 00:48:32.599 --> 00:48:35.480 Well, uh, you're not putting too much of that chicken 884 00:48:35.559 --> 00:48:36.360 in her on it, are you. 885 00:48:37.239 --> 00:48:37.280 No. 886 00:48:38.079 --> 00:48:41.599 I hear them bragging in the background over there, so. 887 00:48:42.239 --> 00:48:47.039 Uh so you know, I don't know. 888 00:48:47.519 --> 00:48:47.599 Uh. 889 00:48:48.039 --> 00:48:50.039 There are a number of things that can stress a fig. 890 00:48:50.519 --> 00:48:53.480 Nematodes in the soil. If you have a somewhat sandy soil, 891 00:48:54.159 --> 00:48:55.840 you may have a lot of nematods and you get 892 00:48:55.960 --> 00:48:58.719 enough of them on a fig tree, and the roots 893 00:48:58.840 --> 00:49:01.320 just are very inefficient taking up water and nutrients and 894 00:49:01.360 --> 00:49:04.039 they struggle, so that the only way to check that 895 00:49:04.280 --> 00:49:06.079 is to wash out some roots, you know, get a 896 00:49:06.119 --> 00:49:09.320 spade and kind of pull up some soil and wash 897 00:49:09.400 --> 00:49:11.239 it out real good and look for bumps all over 898 00:49:11.280 --> 00:49:11.679 the roots. 899 00:49:12.400 --> 00:49:12.519 Uh. 900 00:49:12.800 --> 00:49:15.880 The other possibility is a variety, the variety of figs. 901 00:49:15.960 --> 00:49:19.679 Some figs produce better than others. They're not all equal, 902 00:49:19.880 --> 00:49:24.320 but generally figs are easy and almost no care. So 903 00:49:25.480 --> 00:49:28.599 that is a little bit of a mystery. Yes, yeah, 904 00:49:29.000 --> 00:49:30.519 it is a little bit of a mystery that you're 905 00:49:30.559 --> 00:49:31.400 not getting anything. 906 00:49:32.480 --> 00:49:35.159 It's a very large purple fig when it's on there. 907 00:49:35.199 --> 00:49:38.800 I'm talking golf ball or maybe slightly larger when they 908 00:49:38.840 --> 00:49:39.519 do produce one. 909 00:49:41.400 --> 00:49:48.280 Okay, yeah, I would you know, if you got room 910 00:49:48.320 --> 00:49:50.639 for another one, I would go buy a fig and 911 00:49:50.760 --> 00:49:52.840 get a get a good variety of l s. U 912 00:49:52.960 --> 00:49:56.559 Purple is a good one. One calls Celeste is a 913 00:49:56.639 --> 00:49:59.719 good one. It's a nice, smaller but real sweet fig 914 00:50:00.480 --> 00:50:02.159 and plant them out there and just see if they 915 00:50:02.239 --> 00:50:05.599 do better than that one did, because then we may 916 00:50:05.679 --> 00:50:08.280 be thinking, okay, that's the variety. Something's wrong with it. 917 00:50:09.000 --> 00:50:12.400 Don't overfertilize them. Just a moderate amount is all they need. 918 00:50:12.519 --> 00:50:15.920 If any figs are very tough, make sure you get 919 00:50:15.960 --> 00:50:18.719 them well watered. But check for those nematodes, just to 920 00:50:18.800 --> 00:50:22.400 make sure that's not on that because there's no cure 921 00:50:22.480 --> 00:50:25.039 in that. And you know, it's like having a dog 922 00:50:25.159 --> 00:50:28.599 with a thousand ticks on it. It just really just 923 00:50:28.880 --> 00:50:31.760 sucks the life out of of the fig tree to 924 00:50:31.800 --> 00:50:33.159 have all those nematodes on it. 925 00:50:33.719 --> 00:50:35.559 So you saying I can't fertilize it. 926 00:50:38.320 --> 00:50:42.679 You can, but moderately, don't overdo it, just modern and 927 00:50:42.800 --> 00:50:47.639 don't do it now do it? Well, that's true, that's true. 928 00:50:47.800 --> 00:50:52.039 But some situations the soil is so poor that a 929 00:50:52.119 --> 00:50:55.239 fertilizer is helpful, but very moderate in that, and I 930 00:50:55.280 --> 00:50:57.320 wouldn't do it now. I would only do it, you know, 931 00:50:57.559 --> 00:51:01.880 in the early in the spring or maybe early summer season. 932 00:51:02.360 --> 00:51:04.199 But that's if I were looking at a fig and 933 00:51:04.280 --> 00:51:06.960 it weren't growing, it didn't look good, it just kind 934 00:51:07.000 --> 00:51:09.440 of seemed to lack color and vigor. I might try 935 00:51:09.480 --> 00:51:12.960 the fertilizer. Then if your fig is growing healthy and 936 00:51:13.119 --> 00:51:17.119 it looks good, green, healthy, then I wouldn't wouldn't bother 937 00:51:17.280 --> 00:51:17.480 with it. 938 00:51:18.360 --> 00:51:22.760 Okay, Well, sound all right, We'll try a little fertilizer 939 00:51:22.800 --> 00:51:23.400 and go from there. 940 00:51:24.920 --> 00:51:28.119 Yeah, check, check for those nemotods and then yeah, just 941 00:51:28.320 --> 00:51:31.480 I try a different fig too, because I that's possibility. 942 00:51:31.559 --> 00:51:33.880 But that obviously your fig doesn't know how to read, 943 00:51:33.920 --> 00:51:35.599 because if it knew how to read, it would have 944 00:51:35.719 --> 00:51:38.480 learned a long time ago. That figs just don't need care. 945 00:51:38.559 --> 00:51:39.960 They just fruit for you no matter what. 946 00:51:41.440 --> 00:51:45.639 That's what I thought. You appreciate that, all right, sir? 947 00:51:46.679 --> 00:51:46.920 Thank you? 948 00:51:47.039 --> 00:51:50.360 You bet good luck with that. That is an unusual 949 00:51:50.480 --> 00:51:52.679 thing to have a fig that does not want to 950 00:51:52.760 --> 00:51:53.599 cooperate at all. 951 00:51:54.119 --> 00:51:54.199 Uh. 952 00:51:54.519 --> 00:51:56.599 You've heard me talk about Star Hope before, and the 953 00:51:56.679 --> 00:51:59.800 reason is because I believe in Star Hope. I've seen 954 00:52:00.159 --> 00:52:02.760 the work that Star Hope does. I mean it's decades ago. 955 00:52:03.440 --> 00:52:06.400 My wife and I volunteered with Star Hope back when 956 00:52:06.480 --> 00:52:11.679 we lived in the Houston area, and now it's just 957 00:52:11.800 --> 00:52:14.159 something we continue to believe in and support. You know, 958 00:52:14.320 --> 00:52:16.400 all it takes is two dollars and eighty five cents 959 00:52:16.559 --> 00:52:18.880 to provide a meal for a homeless man or a 960 00:52:18.960 --> 00:52:23.400 woman or children for that matter. You can go to 961 00:52:23.519 --> 00:52:28.880 Star of Hoope Mission's website. It's real easy. It's shmission 962 00:52:29.199 --> 00:52:31.800 dot org and there you can learn more and you 963 00:52:31.880 --> 00:52:35.199 can donate there, and I would encourage you to consider that. 964 00:52:35.360 --> 00:52:37.760 You know, Star Hope, when you put a dollar into 965 00:52:37.800 --> 00:52:40.519 Star Hope, it's a dollar that goes into changing lives. 966 00:52:41.039 --> 00:52:45.039 It really is. They don't just give people a nickel 967 00:52:45.159 --> 00:52:49.039 and say good luck. They actually bring people in. There's housing, 968 00:52:49.639 --> 00:52:53.199 there's food available. If mom or dad is dealing with 969 00:52:53.280 --> 00:52:56.320 substance abuse, they help with that. They have programs for that. 970 00:52:57.079 --> 00:52:59.239 If they're trying to get trained for a job so 971 00:52:59.320 --> 00:53:01.800 they can get on their feet, Star Hope has training 972 00:53:02.000 --> 00:53:05.199 like that, and then they have instructions on how do 973 00:53:05.280 --> 00:53:07.960 you get a job, and they help you through that process. 974 00:53:08.079 --> 00:53:10.440 That time at Star Hope is when you're saving your money, 975 00:53:10.480 --> 00:53:14.840 you're getting established, you're finding some dependable transportation, and you're 976 00:53:14.880 --> 00:53:18.199 getting the chance to actually turn your life around. And 977 00:53:18.239 --> 00:53:21.159 when you do that, you turn your children's life around. 978 00:53:21.800 --> 00:53:25.239 And that's the hope in Star of Hope. They provide 979 00:53:25.320 --> 00:53:29.559 Christ centered counseling and instruction and spiritual guidance as well. 980 00:53:29.920 --> 00:53:33.079 Star of Hope Mission is something that I hope you 981 00:53:33.119 --> 00:53:37.159 will put your compassion to work by providing a donation 982 00:53:37.760 --> 00:53:42.679 on an ongoing basis. Join myself and others and be 983 00:53:42.719 --> 00:53:47.840 a supporter of Starve Hope. I want to head to Westside, 984 00:53:47.880 --> 00:53:49.039 Houston and talk to Bill. 985 00:53:49.159 --> 00:53:49.280 Now. 986 00:53:49.400 --> 00:53:50.800 Hey, Bill, welcome to garden Line. 987 00:53:51.800 --> 00:53:55.800 A good morning, Skip. Say, I have a two questions 988 00:53:55.840 --> 00:54:00.719 about fertilizing. One is probably a silly quest, but I 989 00:54:00.760 --> 00:54:02.000 always curious about it. 990 00:54:03.280 --> 00:54:03.960 If you have. 991 00:54:05.440 --> 00:54:11.400 Say a fifteen five ten, you have then seventy percent 992 00:54:11.599 --> 00:54:16.920 of the bag of fertilizers and erth would it be 993 00:54:17.079 --> 00:54:21.079 a greater value if just using those same numbers you 994 00:54:21.480 --> 00:54:26.039 got a thirty ten twenty with only thirty percent of 995 00:54:26.199 --> 00:54:29.719 the bag inert and put it out at half the. 996 00:54:31.440 --> 00:54:31.800 Measure? 997 00:54:33.760 --> 00:54:43.559 Yeah, why don't increase the Yes, sir, that's an insightful question, 998 00:54:43.920 --> 00:54:49.039 and you you kind of have hit on something. In general, 999 00:54:49.599 --> 00:54:54.079 if you're looking at per pound of nutrient, it is 1000 00:54:54.400 --> 00:54:58.559 less expensive to buy a more concentrated fertilizer in general, 1001 00:54:59.119 --> 00:55:01.679 but there's a lot of other factors, like is it 1002 00:55:01.760 --> 00:55:05.400 in a slow release form? You know the chemistry, if 1003 00:55:05.400 --> 00:55:09.000 you will, of the fertilizer itself. There are some things 1004 00:55:09.079 --> 00:55:11.480 that cause the price to go up. A slow release 1005 00:55:11.960 --> 00:55:14.760 tends to cost a little more than an immediate release, 1006 00:55:15.119 --> 00:55:16.800 but it works a lot better and you end up 1007 00:55:16.840 --> 00:55:19.199 getting more efficient use. So yeah, you paid more for it, 1008 00:55:19.320 --> 00:55:20.920 but you're getting more of what you paid for it, 1009 00:55:21.000 --> 00:55:23.639 you know what I'm saying. And so there's a lot 1010 00:55:23.679 --> 00:55:27.119 of trade offs there. Organics in general or lower concentration 1011 00:55:27.360 --> 00:55:30.480 because they're natural. Nature does not pack, you know, thirty 1012 00:55:30.599 --> 00:55:37.800 percent nutrient into a product like you can synthetically. But yes, 1013 00:55:38.280 --> 00:55:42.159 in general, the more concentrated, the more bang you get 1014 00:55:42.199 --> 00:55:42.719 for your buck. 1015 00:55:43.920 --> 00:55:45.079 Okay, that makes sense. 1016 00:55:45.320 --> 00:55:48.639 Then the other question is about the choices of the 1017 00:55:48.800 --> 00:55:53.119 full fertilizer. I found a little confusing. I put out 1018 00:55:53.159 --> 00:55:58.280 the nitroposs already, so it's just a academic question. The 1019 00:56:00.800 --> 00:56:06.800 matrovos is eight twelve sixteen, with light on the nitrogen, 1020 00:56:06.920 --> 00:56:10.599 heavy on the potassium within the southwest. It seems to be, 1021 00:56:11.280 --> 00:56:13.440 it doesn't It seems to be for a different time 1022 00:56:13.480 --> 00:56:18.079 of the year, like it's sixteen eighty twelve. It's confusing 1023 00:56:18.119 --> 00:56:21.920 to me looking at the numbers. But I've used nitrogen, yeah, 1024 00:56:22.119 --> 00:56:23.639 and nitrovosh. 1025 00:56:23.440 --> 00:56:27.599 That's right, and there's there's a lot of that kind 1026 00:56:27.639 --> 00:56:31.639 of variation out there. The bottom line is the majority 1027 00:56:31.920 --> 00:56:34.599 of the nutrient your plant needs is already in the ground. 1028 00:56:34.880 --> 00:56:38.000 It's in the soil. It's attached to the soil particles 1029 00:56:38.079 --> 00:56:41.320 and things, and we are supplementing when we fertilize. It's 1030 00:56:41.400 --> 00:56:44.559 not like there's zero out there and it only gets 1031 00:56:44.639 --> 00:56:49.159 what we add. So in that our little supplementations can vary. 1032 00:56:49.199 --> 00:56:53.159 You know, for decades triple thirteen and ten twenty ten, 1033 00:56:53.320 --> 00:56:56.480 we're fertilizers that were recommended and it didn't kill the 1034 00:56:56.559 --> 00:56:59.920 lawn to do it. But turf science and research throughout 1035 00:56:59.920 --> 00:57:02.760 the South over the years has showed us that that 1036 00:57:02.960 --> 00:57:06.559 middle number phosphorus tends to build up over time. And 1037 00:57:06.679 --> 00:57:10.000 so if you constantly use something that has a lot 1038 00:57:10.079 --> 00:57:12.920 of the middle number, over time, it builds up. Okay, 1039 00:57:13.079 --> 00:57:15.239 it's not going to happen in five years or something, 1040 00:57:15.320 --> 00:57:19.159 but it will happen. And so you see variations. Each 1041 00:57:19.320 --> 00:57:22.199 nutrient has things it does for the grass, and so 1042 00:57:22.360 --> 00:57:24.840 you can make a case for phosphorus being good for 1043 00:57:24.960 --> 00:57:27.840 a root system. You can make a case for potassium 1044 00:57:27.880 --> 00:57:31.440 being good for cold heartiness. You can make a case, 1045 00:57:31.519 --> 00:57:34.000 you know, for nitrogen of course being good for supporting 1046 00:57:34.079 --> 00:57:38.719 growth in general. A three, one two are something similar. 1047 00:57:38.920 --> 00:57:42.320 Type ratio is what we use through the growing season, 1048 00:57:42.920 --> 00:57:44.760 and it can be a little higher nitrogen, it can 1049 00:57:44.800 --> 00:57:46.920 be a little lower. But you know, if you and 1050 00:57:47.559 --> 00:57:51.119 ten of your neighbors or nine of your neighbors all 1051 00:57:51.239 --> 00:57:53.639 did a soil test, you would find the results to 1052 00:57:53.719 --> 00:57:56.599 be a little different in each yard. And so when 1053 00:57:56.679 --> 00:57:59.840 I recommend a fertilizer, I'm giving you a good general 1054 00:58:00.880 --> 00:58:03.719 ninety percent of the time, ninety five percent of the 1055 00:58:03.840 --> 00:58:07.400 time probably a good fertilizer to put down. But each 1056 00:58:07.480 --> 00:58:10.320 person's yard is different. And so for example, if you 1057 00:58:10.400 --> 00:58:13.519 were overloaded with phosphorus, I would say use something with 1058 00:58:13.840 --> 00:58:16.280 zero phosphorus. If you didn't have enough, I would use, 1059 00:58:16.360 --> 00:58:18.920 say something with more than a three one two ratio. 1060 00:58:19.280 --> 00:58:21.360 So it's a little more complicated than that. Or your 1061 00:58:21.440 --> 00:58:25.000 questions are good, it's just in general. And what I 1062 00:58:25.039 --> 00:58:27.239 would recommend finally, is just and I've got to go 1063 00:58:27.280 --> 00:58:30.079 to a break here in about ten seconds. I would 1064 00:58:30.280 --> 00:58:34.039 absolutely do the soil test periodically every three or four years, 1065 00:58:34.239 --> 00:58:37.400 and then you know exactly the fertilizer that's best for you. 1066 00:58:37.960 --> 00:58:39.719 And if you want to call into the show with 1067 00:58:39.840 --> 00:58:42.239 your results, email them to me. I can help guide 1068 00:58:42.320 --> 00:58:45.440 you in doing that. But for most people we give 1069 00:58:45.519 --> 00:58:48.280 them a good general guide that's going to work and 1070 00:58:48.800 --> 00:58:51.320 buy and large be you know, a great way to go. 1071 00:58:51.639 --> 00:58:53.760 So if you want to hang on for after break 1072 00:58:53.840 --> 00:58:56.000 to continue, I'll be happy to do that. I gotta 1073 00:58:56.079 --> 00:58:58.920 run right here to take a break, folks, I'll be 1074 00:58:59.000 --> 00:59:03.119 right back. I wanted to talk a little bit about 1075 00:59:03.599 --> 00:59:06.400 birds and Wildbirds Unlimited. You know you hear me talk 1076 00:59:06.440 --> 00:59:10.320 about them a lot, because I really believe in wild 1077 00:59:10.360 --> 00:59:14.519 Birds stores and the products they carry as being superior. 1078 00:59:14.639 --> 00:59:17.039 And here is an example of that. They're bird seed. 1079 00:59:17.800 --> 00:59:21.760 It is quality seed. They don't throw the kinds of 1080 00:59:21.840 --> 00:59:24.760 bird seed into the mix that are cheap, and that 1081 00:59:24.840 --> 00:59:27.000 way they kind of make the bag bigger and make 1082 00:59:27.079 --> 00:59:29.360 it look like more seed, but the birds aren't going 1083 00:59:29.400 --> 00:59:31.519 to to eat it. They put the things in the 1084 00:59:31.599 --> 00:59:33.639 birds eat And you could get blends. You know, what 1085 00:59:33.800 --> 00:59:35.480 kind of birds are you trying to attract? Well, there's 1086 00:59:35.519 --> 00:59:38.880 different mixes and blends that are options there at Waldbirds. 1087 00:59:38.880 --> 00:59:40.760 You know, they have a standard blend that's contract pretty 1088 00:59:40.840 --> 00:59:43.840 much everything, but they've got the special blends for different 1089 00:59:43.920 --> 00:59:46.480 kinds of birds as well, and different times of the 1090 00:59:46.559 --> 00:59:50.559 season as well. Right now, my feeders are stocked up 1091 00:59:50.760 --> 00:59:55.199 with a couple of different options from Wildbirds Unlimited. You know, 1092 00:59:55.400 --> 00:59:58.840 Wabird's Unlimited is not just the place for the quality seeds, 1093 00:59:59.360 --> 01:00:01.960 but it's also the place for quality products. And if 1094 01:00:02.039 --> 01:00:07.760 you're looking for a bird feeder that's quality, that's gonna last, 1095 01:00:08.119 --> 01:00:12.039 that's gonna provide better access or maybe exclude squirrels. That's 1096 01:00:12.199 --> 01:00:15.199 that's My favorite feeder is the squirrel excluder, and boy 1097 01:00:15.239 --> 01:00:17.880 does it ever work. Although you have to put on 1098 01:00:18.239 --> 01:00:20.880 earplugs because the language of the squirrels use when they 1099 01:00:21.000 --> 01:00:23.840 try to encounter that feeder and can't get in, it'll 1100 01:00:23.880 --> 01:00:28.159 make a sailor blush. It is horrible, But I appreciate 1101 01:00:28.599 --> 01:00:30.760 the fact that the feeder works so well. They've got 1102 01:00:30.840 --> 01:00:32.679 you know, we're going into the winter season and pretty 1103 01:00:32.679 --> 01:00:34.320 soon we're gonna be looking at things like those little 1104 01:00:34.360 --> 01:00:36.880 packages of suet, you know that you put inside a 1105 01:00:36.880 --> 01:00:39.800 little warkage for the birds to peck out the sewet 1106 01:00:39.880 --> 01:00:43.559 from and the seeds. They have seed that or feeders 1107 01:00:43.960 --> 01:00:47.920 that fit any kind any kind of bird that you're 1108 01:00:47.960 --> 01:00:50.280 trying to fix or to supply. 1109 01:00:50.760 --> 01:00:50.920 You know. 1110 01:00:51.360 --> 01:00:54.960 The bird houses another thing I like from them. Listen 1111 01:00:55.440 --> 01:00:57.239 if you or not if you don't consider yourself a 1112 01:00:57.320 --> 01:01:02.159 bird person. I'm gonna suggest something, and that is to 1113 01:01:02.239 --> 01:01:04.639 go into a Walldbirds and check it out and talk 1114 01:01:04.760 --> 01:01:06.559 to some of the folks there. I think you will 1115 01:01:06.639 --> 01:01:08.920 find this. Like, wait, I've been missing this. 1116 01:01:09.039 --> 01:01:09.159 You know. 1117 01:01:09.239 --> 01:01:11.599 For years I gardened and I just didn't even think 1118 01:01:11.639 --> 01:01:13.519 about the birds. I mean, I appreciated a bird and 1119 01:01:13.519 --> 01:01:16.079 a bird song, but it was never part of my gardening. 1120 01:01:16.280 --> 01:01:18.800 And now all of a sudden, it's like, yeah, every 1121 01:01:18.880 --> 01:01:21.639 time I go outside, I almost set outside this early 1122 01:01:21.719 --> 01:01:25.280 morning with a cup of coffee. Oh, the cacophony of 1123 01:01:25.440 --> 01:01:27.719 music of the birds in the morning. I love it, 1124 01:01:28.320 --> 01:01:30.239 and I actually look forward to it, and I think 1125 01:01:30.280 --> 01:01:33.760 you will too. Go to WBU dot com, forward slash Houston, 1126 01:01:34.400 --> 01:01:37.719 WBU dot com forward slash Houston, find one of the 1127 01:01:37.800 --> 01:01:40.880 six wild Birds stores and just swing by there. Go 1128 01:01:41.159 --> 01:01:43.440 go this afternoon. Go check that out. I think you 1129 01:01:43.519 --> 01:01:47.760 will be very impressed. I'm going to go back here. Bill, 1130 01:01:48.119 --> 01:01:51.400 we were in the middle of a philosophical question about 1131 01:01:51.440 --> 01:01:55.559 fertilizer I believe, and so I wanted to continue that. 1132 01:01:56.400 --> 01:01:58.960 I was mentioning, you know that the best way to 1133 01:01:59.039 --> 01:02:01.079 know how to fertilize this have a soil test done, 1134 01:02:01.360 --> 01:02:04.679 and it really is true. I one time when I 1135 01:02:04.800 --> 01:02:07.199 was in Austin, Texas, we had a neighborhood we were 1136 01:02:07.320 --> 01:02:11.199 working with from a water quality standpoint. They were concerned 1137 01:02:11.199 --> 01:02:14.920 about runoff into some of the surface and groundwater they 1138 01:02:14.960 --> 01:02:18.440 had up there, and we did a survey of two 1139 01:02:18.679 --> 01:02:22.199 hundred homes in this particular neighborhood. It was a black 1140 01:02:22.280 --> 01:02:25.920 clay soil and of those two hundred homes, I think 1141 01:02:27.679 --> 01:02:31.719 one or zero needed phosphorus, and it's because they'd been 1142 01:02:31.840 --> 01:02:35.519 using high fertilizers for years now. Just grass need phosphors, 1143 01:02:35.599 --> 01:02:38.920 yes it does, but because of the soil and because 1144 01:02:38.920 --> 01:02:43.239 of the fertilizer history, two hundred homes, not one needed phosphors. 1145 01:02:43.320 --> 01:02:46.920 And it's normal that phosphorus is one we tend to 1146 01:02:47.000 --> 01:02:50.440 not need to supplement for grass. I don't want to 1147 01:02:50.559 --> 01:02:53.559 say grass didn't need phosphors. I mean we don't have 1148 01:02:53.679 --> 01:02:56.119 to add more because there tends to be enough there 1149 01:02:56.199 --> 01:02:59.840 for it. But every lawn's different. Bilso you know, for 1150 01:03:00.039 --> 01:03:02.159 you to do a soil test is the best way 1151 01:03:02.199 --> 01:03:03.760 to do it. And you know you ask a good 1152 01:03:03.840 --> 01:03:06.119 question at the beginning, and that's why not buy a 1153 01:03:06.159 --> 01:03:11.119 stronger fertilizer rather than one that's not as strong. That's 1154 01:03:11.159 --> 01:03:14.159 a good question. Some people, though, have other goals other 1155 01:03:14.320 --> 01:03:16.920 than just how cheap can I get a nutrient? You know, 1156 01:03:17.079 --> 01:03:19.400 so if you're an organic gardener, you're going to want 1157 01:03:19.400 --> 01:03:21.719 to use an organic fertilizer and those tend to be 1158 01:03:21.800 --> 01:03:22.920 lowering concentration. 1159 01:03:25.599 --> 01:03:31.840 Okay, you really did you have to. 1160 01:03:31.880 --> 01:03:34.800 Follow up on that or are we good now? 1161 01:03:37.239 --> 01:03:40.639 No answer, and thank you very much. And by the way, 1162 01:03:40.679 --> 01:03:44.159 we love your skip, really enjoy listening to you. 1163 01:03:46.119 --> 01:03:46.239 Well. 1164 01:03:46.320 --> 01:03:48.719 Thanks, that's kind of you to say that. Yeah, it's 1165 01:03:49.039 --> 01:03:52.320 you know, we on the air. One of my challenges 1166 01:03:52.400 --> 01:03:55.880 has been been horticultures for over thirty five years. I 1167 01:03:57.280 --> 01:03:59.840 think about the answers to simple questions and I could 1168 01:03:59.840 --> 01:04:04.000 talk for an hour, but people's eyes the glaze over 1169 01:04:04.119 --> 01:04:06.559 and they would forget everything I said. So we have 1170 01:04:06.679 --> 01:04:10.000 to simplify. When we simplify, sometimes it comes at the 1171 01:04:10.119 --> 01:04:14.000 expense of some detail. That's that's important, right, But that's 1172 01:04:14.079 --> 01:04:16.760 just how it is with any topic in life, and 1173 01:04:16.960 --> 01:04:19.119 so we try to keep it simple. We try to 1174 01:04:19.159 --> 01:04:22.079 make it easy. But you know, someone like you calls 1175 01:04:22.119 --> 01:04:24.719 in and wants to drill down a little for well, further. Well, 1176 01:04:24.760 --> 01:04:25.920 we'll go ahead and do that too. 1177 01:04:26.559 --> 01:04:29.559 Well, let me just say something about I think the 1178 01:04:29.679 --> 01:04:33.599 best experts can explain things in simple and a simple matter. 1179 01:04:33.599 --> 01:04:36.320 I found that in college too, you know that. You 1180 01:04:36.400 --> 01:04:38.800 know it was complicated and the kind of scratch your head. 1181 01:04:39.199 --> 01:04:43.320 But the good professor with one who could take complicated 1182 01:04:43.440 --> 01:04:47.320 things and explain it to me, the fifth grader, you know, 1183 01:04:47.440 --> 01:04:50.079 even though I was in college simplifying. 1184 01:04:50.519 --> 01:04:50.719 Yeah. 1185 01:04:51.079 --> 01:04:55.159 And also the other comment is it's fun to watch 1186 01:04:55.519 --> 01:04:58.199 or hear someone who loves what they're doing. 1187 01:04:58.760 --> 01:05:04.079 It's very obvious to me that that that's you and gardening. 1188 01:05:05.440 --> 01:05:09.199 I also like the I do love it philosophical philosophical 1189 01:05:09.280 --> 01:05:13.280 thing you said about plant life. I can't remember. I 1190 01:05:13.280 --> 01:05:17.280 wish you would repeat that sometime. But how plant life, 1191 01:05:17.360 --> 01:05:21.360 you know, affects everything in our life. You know, when 1192 01:05:21.400 --> 01:05:23.679 you were in a big steak, it was a plant 1193 01:05:23.800 --> 01:05:26.320 in the beginning that provided the the. 1194 01:05:27.880 --> 01:05:31.559 Food for that cattle. But just the way everything revolves 1195 01:05:31.559 --> 01:05:34.000 around plant life. Do that again? 1196 01:05:34.239 --> 01:05:34.599 All right? 1197 01:05:34.679 --> 01:05:38.760 Well, I'll do that again. All right. Well, Well, as 1198 01:05:38.800 --> 01:05:41.079 we hang up here, I'll make a couple of comments 1199 01:05:41.119 --> 01:05:43.639 along those lines, because I think that is interesting. I 1200 01:05:43.679 --> 01:05:46.639 think it's good to step back and just get some 1201 01:05:46.760 --> 01:05:49.719 perspective and we forget about a lot of things about 1202 01:05:49.760 --> 01:05:53.280 the just the miracle, it's nature and how it all works. 1203 01:05:53.840 --> 01:05:57.360 And so thanks a lot, Bill, You take care and 1204 01:05:57.880 --> 01:05:59.159 we'll talk to you again sometime. 1205 01:06:00.480 --> 01:06:04.800 Thank you very much. Skidding all right, bye bye now bye. 1206 01:06:05.760 --> 01:06:05.960 Yeah. 1207 01:06:06.079 --> 01:06:10.119 I I really like that. You know, there's a there. 1208 01:06:10.280 --> 01:06:12.480 There is something that I was thinking about the other 1209 01:06:12.599 --> 01:06:15.800 day that is just amazing to me, and that is 1210 01:06:15.920 --> 01:06:19.280 there's a little formula, uh and you know I won't 1211 01:06:19.679 --> 01:06:22.119 read out all the letters, just like a chemistry formula. 1212 01:06:22.199 --> 01:06:27.159 And basically what it means is that you take you 1213 01:06:27.320 --> 01:06:31.280 take the substances that plants take up, and you sign 1214 01:06:31.679 --> 01:06:36.760 shine sunshine on the leaves, and suddenly you've got the 1215 01:06:36.880 --> 01:06:40.280 food that feeds every bit of life on the planet, 1216 01:06:40.559 --> 01:06:42.440 virtually every bit of life on the planet. When I 1217 01:06:42.480 --> 01:06:44.320 come back from a little break here, i'll talk about 1218 01:06:44.360 --> 01:06:46.679 that just a little bit. But I think that is 1219 01:06:47.199 --> 01:06:51.039 pretty amazing stuff. All right, folks, the number seven one 1220 01:06:51.159 --> 01:06:53.000 three two one two k t R H. Give me 1221 01:06:53.039 --> 01:06:55.199 a call. We'll talk about the things that interest you. 1222 01:06:56.920 --> 01:06:57.920 With Boss L. 1223 01:06:58.760 --> 01:07:01.320 Good have you with us today if you've not been 1224 01:07:01.400 --> 01:07:03.719 out to in Chane Gardens. You need to run out there. 1225 01:07:03.880 --> 01:07:07.000 That is the garden center if you're in Richmond heading 1226 01:07:07.079 --> 01:07:10.519 up toward Katie Fullsher direction, heading north. It's on FM 1227 01:07:10.760 --> 01:07:14.800 three fifty nine and it is loaded with all kinds 1228 01:07:14.920 --> 01:07:17.639 of cool stuff for fall. It's the fall season, so 1229 01:07:17.920 --> 01:07:20.840 you know within Chanet Gardens every season they're going to 1230 01:07:20.920 --> 01:07:22.840 have the things you need for that season. Right now, 1231 01:07:23.440 --> 01:07:26.519 it's the cool season. Color, it's vegetables, it's herbs, it's 1232 01:07:26.559 --> 01:07:29.119 all the woody shrubs, trees and vines that you want 1233 01:07:29.159 --> 01:07:31.880 to be planting now, and the perennials that you want 1234 01:07:32.079 --> 01:07:34.760 to be planting now. When you go out there, you're 1235 01:07:34.800 --> 01:07:37.480 going to find the products to go with it. Products 1236 01:07:37.519 --> 01:07:40.920 by microlife, Nature's Way and nitrofoss and Nelson and airloom 1237 01:07:40.960 --> 01:07:44.760 soils and Landscaper's Pride and Medina and so on. They 1238 01:07:45.039 --> 01:07:47.760 are always stocked up on the things you need. And 1239 01:07:47.880 --> 01:07:50.519 then they have the people on hand that can answer 1240 01:07:50.559 --> 01:07:54.039 your questions in a way that sets you on the 1241 01:07:54.079 --> 01:07:58.239 path to success. Very very important. Plus it's just fun. 1242 01:07:58.599 --> 01:08:02.280 In fact, this afternoon, why run out and in Chanted Gardens. 1243 01:08:03.320 --> 01:08:05.639 It is on the Katie Follsher side of Richmond, on 1244 01:08:05.840 --> 01:08:08.679 FM three point fifty nine. Here's the website. Just go 1245 01:08:08.840 --> 01:08:10.599 here and you'll find out everything you need to know 1246 01:08:11.320 --> 01:08:17.399 Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com in China Gardens Richmond dot com. 1247 01:08:18.079 --> 01:08:21.279 When you go, take someone with you, because this isn't 1248 01:08:21.399 --> 01:08:24.000 just like you're going shopping. This is like you're going 1249 01:08:24.039 --> 01:08:26.159 for an experience. Oh and you get to come home 1250 01:08:26.199 --> 01:08:29.319 with cool plants too. That's a good way to look 1251 01:08:29.359 --> 01:08:34.640 at it, you know, visiting with Bill, just thinking about 1252 01:08:34.680 --> 01:08:38.000 the fact that you have this plant and it takes 1253 01:08:38.199 --> 01:08:42.279 up water and nutrients from the soil, and it takes 1254 01:08:42.319 --> 01:08:45.960 them to the leaves, and sunlight shines on those leaves, 1255 01:08:46.880 --> 01:08:50.520 and carbon to oxide goes into the plant and out 1256 01:08:50.560 --> 01:08:54.920 of it comes what supports all life on earth. It's 1257 01:08:54.960 --> 01:09:01.079 pretty amazing that animals can't produce their own food. We 1258 01:09:01.199 --> 01:09:04.680 have to eat food that has been produced because something 1259 01:09:04.800 --> 01:09:08.600 can capture sunlight and make food. And that's true with plants. 1260 01:09:08.600 --> 01:09:11.039 It's truth. Animals is truth with everything. It's a big cycle, 1261 01:09:11.520 --> 01:09:14.720 but the whole thing runs on the fact that the sunshines. 1262 01:09:15.279 --> 01:09:17.760 And another way to put it, I like this one. 1263 01:09:17.800 --> 01:09:20.640 I don't know who said this, but man, despite his 1264 01:09:20.840 --> 01:09:27.119 artistic pretensions his sophistication and his many accomplishments. OSE's existence 1265 01:09:27.520 --> 01:09:29.680 to a six inch layer top soil and the fact 1266 01:09:29.720 --> 01:09:32.439 that it rains, and I would add to that in 1267 01:09:32.560 --> 01:09:37.359 the sunshines. All right, we're gonna go now to Bill 1268 01:09:37.840 --> 01:09:40.560 in uh let's see do do no Gordon, excuse me, 1269 01:09:40.640 --> 01:09:43.159 Gordon and Beaumont, Hey Gordon, welcome to garden line. 1270 01:09:44.479 --> 01:09:48.359 Yes, sir, I have a question in regards to brown 1271 01:09:48.520 --> 01:09:52.880 turkey figs. I had a tree that all planeted in spring. 1272 01:09:53.039 --> 01:09:57.039 It grew very very little, but then all of a sudden, 1273 01:09:57.119 --> 01:09:59.840 about two months ago, it started growing and put on 1274 01:10:00.119 --> 01:10:05.239 new growth and lots of figs. However, the leaves, they're 1275 01:10:05.319 --> 01:10:11.000 green on top, and then they'll turn a brownish color 1276 01:10:11.199 --> 01:10:14.479 on the bottom, and then within three or four days 1277 01:10:14.560 --> 01:10:16.680 the leaf will drop and just fall off. 1278 01:10:18.359 --> 01:10:21.840 Is there some kind of disease or something that's. 1279 01:10:23.159 --> 01:10:27.800 Identifiable with that brown of color on the bottom of 1280 01:10:27.880 --> 01:10:28.279 the leaf? 1281 01:10:30.279 --> 01:10:35.039 Yeah, Gooden, A couple of things. Leaves get old in time, 1282 01:10:35.119 --> 01:10:37.560 and as we go through some summer droughts and stresses. 1283 01:10:37.640 --> 01:10:39.239 Sounds like your tree got a little on the dry 1284 01:10:39.399 --> 01:10:42.439 side and then yellow boost hair toward the end of 1285 01:10:42.479 --> 01:10:46.199 the season to grow again. That can cause leaves to 1286 01:10:46.239 --> 01:10:48.359 you know, get old, start looking tattered and torn and 1287 01:10:48.479 --> 01:10:51.800 brown and other things yellowing and falling off. But there's 1288 01:10:51.840 --> 01:10:55.680 also a disease called fig rust, and there's no controlling 1289 01:10:55.720 --> 01:10:57.439 it really. I mean, there's things we can do to 1290 01:10:57.600 --> 01:11:00.600 minimize it, but it's really hardly worth spraying for because 1291 01:11:00.840 --> 01:11:04.479 not much watch or is labeled. Uh yeah, and that 1292 01:11:04.600 --> 01:11:07.720 causes leaves to defoliate. Figs are so darn tough they 1293 01:11:07.760 --> 01:11:10.159 can defoliate from rust and next thing you know, they're 1294 01:11:10.159 --> 01:11:13.399 putting on new growth again. So I think in your case, 1295 01:11:13.560 --> 01:11:15.640 just keep taking good care of it, keep it mulched, 1296 01:11:15.760 --> 01:11:18.000 and and in the hot, hot summer weather, just give 1297 01:11:18.039 --> 01:11:21.720 it enough water to keep it going. Yeah. I watered twice. 1298 01:11:22.439 --> 01:11:27.520 I'm probably watered every day, and then uh wow, okay, 1299 01:11:28.239 --> 01:11:32.680 and then triple eight fertilizer and it's growing like crazy. 1300 01:11:33.960 --> 01:11:38.680 I don't open fertilized. I just but uh another hand 1301 01:11:38.760 --> 01:11:42.840 on asparagus. If people are growing asparagus. I've got two 1302 01:11:42.920 --> 01:11:48.119 asparagus beds that I'm on my about fifth crop of 1303 01:11:48.239 --> 01:11:51.560 the year. Once they grow up to about four feet, 1304 01:11:51.600 --> 01:11:54.239 I cut them and get a new crop of asparagus, 1305 01:11:54.880 --> 01:11:59.760 and uh all I do for those are dolomite, lime, 1306 01:11:59.880 --> 01:12:05.159 and Triple eight fertilizer besides mulch. And it's I got, 1307 01:12:06.960 --> 01:12:09.680 like I said last time I called you, Hope, I'm 1308 01:12:09.800 --> 01:12:12.000 over two hundred pounds on that. 1309 01:12:12.439 --> 01:12:14.560 So and uh, I'll try to. 1310 01:12:14.720 --> 01:12:17.239 So you're cutting, you're cutting it all back to the ground, 1311 01:12:17.720 --> 01:12:19.760 cutting it back to the ground to get the spears up. 1312 01:12:20.760 --> 01:12:23.960 Yes, sir, it's once you let it get up about 1313 01:12:24.039 --> 01:12:25.880 three or four feet, the root grows. 1314 01:12:26.560 --> 01:12:28.239 Is it going to grow that much more? 1315 01:12:28.640 --> 01:12:31.199 So I cut it back to the ground and it's 1316 01:12:31.319 --> 01:12:35.399 up to asparagus that is. I have three different brands 1317 01:12:35.640 --> 01:12:40.479 of Jersey, Martha, Washington, Martha something else. 1318 01:12:41.119 --> 01:12:44.720 But uh, yes, uh it's very good eating. 1319 01:12:45.119 --> 01:12:49.000 But anyway, I thought i'd give that hit to callers. 1320 01:12:49.760 --> 01:12:54.760 Thanks much, real quick. Yeah what ah right, Gordon, tell 1321 01:12:54.760 --> 01:12:56.399 me one more, one more time? How many times you 1322 01:12:56.479 --> 01:12:57.920 cut it this year to the ground. 1323 01:12:58.840 --> 01:13:01.079 I'm on about the fifth cut. 1324 01:13:01.159 --> 01:13:03.720 I'm fixture to cut it for the fifth time. All right, 1325 01:13:05.119 --> 01:13:07.720 all right, Well, thanks a lot, and I appreciate I 1326 01:13:07.800 --> 01:13:11.319 appreciate your call of very very much. That's interesting, very interesting. 1327 01:13:11.960 --> 01:13:15.039 If you haven't done fall fertilization yet, I'm telling you Nelson. 1328 01:13:15.119 --> 01:13:18.079 Plant food folks have got something that is kind of 1329 01:13:18.119 --> 01:13:21.880 a twofer. It's carbo load. Carbo load it is a 1330 01:13:22.000 --> 01:13:26.479 fall fertilizer to help produce the carbohydrates needed to go 1331 01:13:26.680 --> 01:13:29.600 into the plant to create winter hardiness and to come 1332 01:13:29.640 --> 01:13:33.119 out strong in the spring. New spring grass growth is 1333 01:13:33.199 --> 01:13:38.600 based on stored energy carbohydrates from the fall season, primarily 1334 01:13:38.640 --> 01:13:42.600 the fall season, and so it's so important your fall fertilization, 1335 01:13:42.800 --> 01:13:46.279 perhaps the most important fertilization of the year. Now, in carboload, 1336 01:13:46.319 --> 01:13:50.279 you also have a pre emergent herbicide. So when you 1337 01:13:50.359 --> 01:13:53.000 put carbo load out, you need to water it in 1338 01:13:53.279 --> 01:13:56.239 like any fertilizer would anyway, but you especially need to 1339 01:13:56.319 --> 01:13:58.800 water it in soon because you want that pre emergent 1340 01:13:58.880 --> 01:14:01.600 to be at the soil surface preventing cool seasoned weeds 1341 01:14:01.680 --> 01:14:04.920 which will be germinating very very soon. So get the 1342 01:14:04.960 --> 01:14:07.199 carbon load out watered in about a half inch of water, 1343 01:14:07.439 --> 01:14:09.439 so you put a little more if you want, and 1344 01:14:10.199 --> 01:14:13.239 then next thing, you know, when those seeds try to germinate, 1345 01:14:13.560 --> 01:14:16.479 the pre emergence they are preventing it. Plus you got 1346 01:14:16.520 --> 01:14:19.760 those nutrients there for your turf. Now, some plant food 1347 01:14:19.760 --> 01:14:22.520 products are all quality. The turf star Line is excellent 1348 01:14:22.640 --> 01:14:28.439 and carbol Load is the product for fall fertilization. I 1349 01:14:29.640 --> 01:14:34.920 was hitting down. In fact, I've got just got five 1350 01:14:35.000 --> 01:14:38.119 thoughts went through my head all at once. There. So 1351 01:14:38.520 --> 01:14:41.479 the folks at s the aenemalts, I'm heading down that 1352 01:14:41.680 --> 01:14:45.680 direction here in about another week, I'm heading down that way, 1353 01:14:46.000 --> 01:14:47.760 and I always like to stop in it's the animals, 1354 01:14:47.880 --> 01:14:52.119 because it's the enimaltch. You just have every product you 1355 01:14:52.279 --> 01:14:55.279 need to have success. And I work and work and 1356 01:14:55.359 --> 01:14:58.600 work at trying to convince listeners that start with the 1357 01:14:58.720 --> 01:15:02.439 soil the way put it as brown stuff before green stuff. 1358 01:15:02.640 --> 01:15:05.319 You get the soil right, and then you put good 1359 01:15:05.359 --> 01:15:08.359 plants in and they naturally grow. They just do well 1360 01:15:08.399 --> 01:15:13.279 because you've created the foundation for success. Ciena Maltz is 1361 01:15:13.439 --> 01:15:16.920 the place for everything related to the brown stuff. That 1362 01:15:16.960 --> 01:15:21.159 would include composts, that's embed mixes like the rose soil 1363 01:15:22.319 --> 01:15:24.319 that we talk about, like the veggie and herb mix 1364 01:15:24.399 --> 01:15:27.439 from airloom soils. I carry that there and it is 1365 01:15:27.560 --> 01:15:33.479 also the place for fertilizers Nitrofoss, Nelson, Medina Microlife, Azamite, 1366 01:15:34.239 --> 01:15:38.119 Nelson's Turf star Line, airloom soils. They carry all of that, 1367 01:15:38.640 --> 01:15:40.439 and then they carry the stuff go on top of 1368 01:15:40.520 --> 01:15:43.399 the ground. Native hardwood, multch is double ground Malta. Do 1369 01:15:43.439 --> 01:15:46.319 you like Louisiana price black velvet. They got it there 1370 01:15:46.800 --> 01:15:49.840 at Ciena Maltz. When you leave Ciena Malts, which is 1371 01:15:49.920 --> 01:15:52.159 by the way on FM five point twenty one near 1372 01:15:52.199 --> 01:15:54.920 where Highway six and two eighty eight come together, just 1373 01:15:55.039 --> 01:15:57.760 north of Road Sharon, when you leave there, you've got 1374 01:15:58.039 --> 01:16:01.159 the foundation for success. Don't put a plant in the 1375 01:16:01.199 --> 01:16:05.520 ground without putting the foundation for success in place. From 1376 01:16:05.560 --> 01:16:09.920 cienamlt cnamults dot com is the website. Easy, easy to 1377 01:16:10.000 --> 01:16:11.880 get in and get out, and when you go in, 1378 01:16:12.039 --> 01:16:14.199 you're going to be greeted. I love going to that place. 1379 01:16:14.600 --> 01:16:18.359 It's just fun. You've ever heard Amon say a soil 1380 01:16:18.479 --> 01:16:19.720 place is just fun? 1381 01:16:20.840 --> 01:16:21.560 It is for me. 1382 01:16:22.479 --> 01:16:25.600 I just get excited about it. In fact, one of 1383 01:16:25.640 --> 01:16:27.159 these days I'm going to see if I pay them 1384 01:16:27.239 --> 01:16:28.920 some money where they let me go lay in the 1385 01:16:29.000 --> 01:16:32.520 compost piles and make compost angels. That's my goals. That's 1386 01:16:32.560 --> 01:16:34.319 what I want to do next. If I do that, 1387 01:16:34.359 --> 01:16:40.079 I'll post a picture to Facebook. All right, enough of that, Hey, 1388 01:16:40.159 --> 01:16:43.479 guess where I'm going to be next Saturday RCW Nurseries. 1389 01:16:43.600 --> 01:16:46.000 I hope you'll come out. RCW is the garden center 1390 01:16:46.319 --> 01:16:49.000 where two forty nine comes into belt Wag eight. They 1391 01:16:49.039 --> 01:16:52.000 are having their Fall Fling and I can't wait. I 1392 01:16:52.039 --> 01:16:54.479 always love going out there, especially when they're having one 1393 01:16:54.479 --> 01:16:57.359 of these shindigs. They're gonna have a barbecue, lunch and 1394 01:16:57.439 --> 01:16:59.920 prizes and games for kids, and I'll be their entry 1395 01:17:00.079 --> 01:17:02.560 your gardening questions and as you know, who knows what's 1396 01:17:02.600 --> 01:17:04.560 gonna come out of my mouth, But we're gonna have 1397 01:17:04.600 --> 01:17:06.800 a good time. We're gonna have a very good time. 1398 01:17:06.840 --> 01:17:10.720 Bring me some samples to identify, to diagnose. We'll get 1399 01:17:10.760 --> 01:17:13.479 all that taken care of. Next Saturday from twelve to 1400 01:17:13.720 --> 01:17:15.760 two at r c W Nurseries. 1401 01:17:16.800 --> 01:17:21.319 Welcome to Katie r h Garden Line with skimp Rickard's. 1402 01:17:20.880 --> 01:17:23.560 Shoes, crazy. 1403 01:17:27.720 --> 01:17:38.920 Trim. Just watch him as thanks to see botasy. 1404 01:17:45.640 --> 01:17:46.800 Not a sign. 1405 01:17:51.479 --> 01:17:51.760 Sun. 1406 01:17:54.239 --> 01:17:59.560 Hey, welcome back. Good to have you back with us 1407 01:17:59.600 --> 01:18:02.039 here on Garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and 1408 01:18:02.199 --> 01:18:04.840 we're here to answer your gardening questions. Basically the way 1409 01:18:04.880 --> 01:18:07.119 I like to look at it is, I'm here to 1410 01:18:07.159 --> 01:18:10.000 help you have a more bountiful garden and a more 1411 01:18:10.000 --> 01:18:14.399 beautiful Landscape's that's the way it works. There are no 1412 01:18:14.520 --> 01:18:18.680 such thing as brown thumbs. There are only uninformed thumbs. 1413 01:18:18.760 --> 01:18:21.159 And we're here to inform your thumb. And you'll be 1414 01:18:21.239 --> 01:18:25.439 amazed as your thumb gets smarter, how green it becomes. 1415 01:18:26.199 --> 01:18:28.560 That's one way to look at it. One way to 1416 01:18:28.600 --> 01:18:31.479 look at it. If you've not done your fall fertilization yet, 1417 01:18:31.640 --> 01:18:36.079 Nitrofoss has got you covered with their Texas three step program. 1418 01:18:36.439 --> 01:18:38.279 You do the two step on the dance floor, you 1419 01:18:38.359 --> 01:18:40.840 do the three step in your lawn. And here's the 1420 01:18:40.920 --> 01:18:46.880 three steps. Fertilizer weed prevention, disease prevention. First fertilizer that 1421 01:18:47.039 --> 01:18:52.199 is Nitrofoss Fall Special Winneriser. Nitro Foss Fall Special Winneriser 1422 01:18:52.319 --> 01:18:56.359 provides the nutrients, especially that a very important potassium that's 1423 01:18:56.520 --> 01:19:00.800 needed in order to create cool cold hearting and also 1424 01:19:00.960 --> 01:19:03.039 to help the plant come out stronger in the spring. 1425 01:19:03.119 --> 01:19:05.840 And here's how it works. When the plant takes up 1426 01:19:05.840 --> 01:19:07.640 a little bit of nitrogen, not as much as in 1427 01:19:07.720 --> 01:19:10.920 the summertime, but in the a little bit of nitrogen 1428 01:19:11.039 --> 01:19:14.840 with the potassium, it is essentially like anaphreeze in the 1429 01:19:14.920 --> 01:19:20.319 plant because it produces carbohydrates and carbohydrates are the anafreeze 1430 01:19:20.359 --> 01:19:23.079 of the plant, and so it gets through winter better. 1431 01:19:23.279 --> 01:19:27.640 But then in the spring, new growth begins with stored carbohydrates. 1432 01:19:27.720 --> 01:19:30.000 And that is what you provided when you put your 1433 01:19:30.079 --> 01:19:32.880 Nitropostphall special down as a winter riser. 1434 01:19:32.960 --> 01:19:33.399 In the fall. 1435 01:19:33.920 --> 01:19:37.039 Second step is here comes the brown patch, the large patch, 1436 01:19:37.079 --> 01:19:39.840 the big circles, and take all root route also attacks 1437 01:19:40.000 --> 01:19:42.920 in the fall as well. When you put down the 1438 01:19:43.479 --> 01:19:46.880 turf fungicide actually is step three, but who's counting step 1439 01:19:46.960 --> 01:19:50.920 three turf fungicide, then that gets in the plant of 1440 01:19:51.079 --> 01:19:53.920 the grass plant, and it prevents the disease from infecting. 1441 01:19:54.640 --> 01:19:57.079 And you got to get ahead of it. Wait until 1442 01:19:57.079 --> 01:19:59.439 you see brown circles and they're going to be brown 1443 01:19:59.479 --> 01:20:01.079 all winter, no no matter what you spray on them 1444 01:20:01.239 --> 01:20:04.720 or applied to them. Get it done now. Second step 1445 01:20:04.840 --> 01:20:07.920 that I skipped over is a barricade. That's weed prevention. 1446 01:20:08.039 --> 01:20:10.479 So let me quit confusing you and just make it simple. 1447 01:20:11.159 --> 01:20:16.319 Nitrofuss fall special winter riser number two, barricade for weed prevention. 1448 01:20:16.560 --> 01:20:22.159 Number three, eagle turf fungicide for disease prevention. Water them 1449 01:20:22.199 --> 01:20:24.399 all in, get them in the soil. Even the fungicide 1450 01:20:24.399 --> 01:20:26.720 will be taken up by the roots and you're ready 1451 01:20:26.760 --> 01:20:30.439 to go for fall. But here's what you shouldn't do. Delay. 1452 01:20:31.079 --> 01:20:32.880 If you wait until weeds are up, if you wait 1453 01:20:33.000 --> 01:20:36.239 until diseases have attacked, if you wait until it's cooled 1454 01:20:36.239 --> 01:20:39.920 off so much, grassroots aren't taken up nutrients very much. Well, 1455 01:20:40.039 --> 01:20:42.199 you just missed the opportunity. So get that done. 1456 01:20:42.279 --> 01:20:42.439 Now. 1457 01:20:42.520 --> 01:20:44.319 You can find those products of D and D feed 1458 01:20:44.359 --> 01:20:47.079 and TALML. You can go to Plantation, Ace Hardware and Richmond. 1459 01:20:47.479 --> 01:20:50.239 You can go to Hiding and feed Out on Stubner Airline. 1460 01:20:50.520 --> 01:20:53.000 Or you want some more, how about Stanton Shopping Center 1461 01:20:53.079 --> 01:20:56.239 done in Alvin. How about Jim's Hardware and Montgomery Ace 1462 01:20:56.319 --> 01:21:00.880 Hardware City a memorial drive Chenet Forest. I mean, it's 1463 01:21:00.920 --> 01:21:03.640 easy to find nitroposs products, but the main thing is 1464 01:21:03.920 --> 01:21:06.279 find them and get them down. It's time to do that. 1465 01:21:08.159 --> 01:21:10.920 You are listening to Guardenline and the phone number is 1466 01:21:11.000 --> 01:21:14.279 seven one three two one two k t r H 1467 01:21:14.439 --> 01:21:17.520 seven one three two one two k t R eight. 1468 01:21:17.800 --> 01:21:20.159 A little slower on the phones today. Maybe it's because 1469 01:21:20.159 --> 01:21:23.359 we're getting philosophical. So either people's eyes are rolling back 1470 01:21:23.439 --> 01:21:27.840 in their heads or it's just interesting. They're they're enjoying listening. 1471 01:21:28.199 --> 01:21:30.760 I don't know. You tell me which which of the 1472 01:21:30.840 --> 01:21:33.600 two that is. I know I'm interested, but that doesn't 1473 01:21:34.000 --> 01:21:39.399 necessarily mean that everyone else is. What is my uh? 1474 01:21:40.399 --> 01:21:43.239 Mom used to say a German phrase to me, and 1475 01:21:43.319 --> 01:21:46.000 it was yetis tirkin zine plasier kid. It means ever 1476 01:21:46.119 --> 01:21:50.199 creature has this pleasure for me, that's plants and talking 1477 01:21:50.239 --> 01:21:53.319 about plants or one of my one of my pleasures. 1478 01:21:54.279 --> 01:21:58.119 Plants are All Seasons on Highway two forty nine, Toma 1479 01:21:58.279 --> 01:22:01.920 Parkway right up just north of Plants for All Seasons 1480 01:22:01.960 --> 01:22:05.640 have been around since nineteen seventy three. This family owned operated, 1481 01:22:06.039 --> 01:22:11.640 family owned and operated garden center has long been just 1482 01:22:12.119 --> 01:22:15.800 a fixture in that whole area, that whole region because 1483 01:22:15.880 --> 01:22:17.600 people know when you go there, you're going to get 1484 01:22:17.600 --> 01:22:20.000 good plants, of course, but you're also going to get 1485 01:22:20.039 --> 01:22:24.159 good service and knowledgeable service, and that is so important. 1486 01:22:24.840 --> 01:22:25.000 You know. 1487 01:22:25.039 --> 01:22:26.840 One of the things I hate on guardline is when 1488 01:22:27.000 --> 01:22:28.720 someone calls me and go, yeah, I about this, and 1489 01:22:28.800 --> 01:22:30.640 how about this? And how about this? And now you 1490 01:22:30.720 --> 01:22:33.960 know what do I do? And I'm listening going why 1491 01:22:34.039 --> 01:22:35.840 did you buy that? Why did you buy that? Why 1492 01:22:35.920 --> 01:22:38.039 did you buy that because that plant doesn't grow here, 1493 01:22:38.159 --> 01:22:41.880 that product doesn't work on this That product is for 1494 01:22:42.000 --> 01:22:44.199 something other than what your problem is. You see what 1495 01:22:44.239 --> 01:22:46.680 I'm saying. When you go into Plants for All Seasons, 1496 01:22:46.920 --> 01:22:50.000 you get directed in the right direction to the plants 1497 01:22:50.039 --> 01:22:53.319 and the products that you need to have success. They 1498 01:22:53.439 --> 01:22:56.560 help you with the diagnostics and the advice. Even if 1499 01:22:56.600 --> 01:22:58.119 you didn't buy a plant there. You know, you may 1500 01:22:58.159 --> 01:23:00.000 show up and go, I got this such and such roads. 1501 01:23:00.439 --> 01:23:02.279 I didn't buy it here, but it's doing that. They'll 1502 01:23:02.399 --> 01:23:04.359 they'll talk to you about it. They'll tell you what 1503 01:23:04.479 --> 01:23:07.720 you need to do and hopefully put even a better 1504 01:23:07.800 --> 01:23:10.319 plant in your hands to take home to have success. 1505 01:23:10.600 --> 01:23:13.479 That's how it works at Plants for All Seasons Plants 1506 01:23:13.560 --> 01:23:16.720 for All Seasons dot com. That's the website. Here's the 1507 01:23:16.800 --> 01:23:20.600 phone number two eight one three seven six one six 1508 01:23:21.119 --> 01:23:25.359 for six. I shouldn't have said the phones were slow, 1509 01:23:25.560 --> 01:23:28.960 because here we go. Okay, well, let's go to Spring Branch. 1510 01:23:29.000 --> 01:23:31.680 We're going to talk to Jeff. Hey, Jeff, you're first 1511 01:23:31.720 --> 01:23:32.600 in line. What's up? 1512 01:23:33.760 --> 01:23:34.439 Hey, Skip? 1513 01:23:34.560 --> 01:23:37.520 Awesome, great to talk to you. Beautiful day two real 1514 01:23:37.600 --> 01:23:38.279 quick questions. 1515 01:23:38.359 --> 01:23:38.600 Thank you. 1516 01:23:38.800 --> 01:23:44.079 Eagle Turf Fund Eagle turf fungicide on Zoisia any temperature 1517 01:23:44.119 --> 01:23:46.119 that I need to be worried about or just get 1518 01:23:46.159 --> 01:23:46.479 it down. 1519 01:23:48.199 --> 01:23:50.399 Just get it down, Just get it down. Zoezia has 1520 01:23:50.439 --> 01:23:53.479 its own set of diseases. Each turf species does. Some 1521 01:23:53.640 --> 01:23:54.439 of them they share. 1522 01:23:54.520 --> 01:23:54.640 You know. 1523 01:23:54.760 --> 01:23:56.960 Zoiaza can get take all root right, just like Saint 1524 01:23:57.000 --> 01:23:59.800 Augustine can for example. Uh so, yeah, get it, get 1525 01:23:59.840 --> 01:24:02.960 that down, do it soon. Water it in the roots 1526 01:24:03.000 --> 01:24:04.720 of loysier will take it up, and it'll be in 1527 01:24:04.840 --> 01:24:06.720 the in the plant to help protect it. 1528 01:24:07.840 --> 01:24:11.119 And that'll that Eagle turf will help that take all 1529 01:24:11.439 --> 01:24:13.760 root rot helpful. 1530 01:24:14.159 --> 01:24:17.840 Yes it does. Yeah, Michael, Buttanhill is the ingredient in 1531 01:24:17.880 --> 01:24:21.439 eagle turf and it is an effective product against take 1532 01:24:21.479 --> 01:24:23.520 all root rot. There's there's two or three products that 1533 01:24:23.600 --> 01:24:26.439 work really well on take all them, Michael, butanill is 1534 01:24:26.479 --> 01:24:27.680 one of them. That's eagle turf. 1535 01:24:28.960 --> 01:24:31.920 Gotcha another real quick question. I got so excited, but 1536 01:24:32.920 --> 01:24:38.840 got caught up and got my tomatoes in late insidet 1537 01:24:38.880 --> 01:24:41.439 just got him in last week. Uh, probably not going 1538 01:24:41.520 --> 01:24:43.560 to produce anything, right because these cool nights. 1539 01:24:46.000 --> 01:24:49.680 Yeah, that's that's the case. Unfortunately it's a little late. 1540 01:24:50.159 --> 01:24:52.159 But I mean you put a greenhouse over them, keep 1541 01:24:52.199 --> 01:24:55.840 it warm. You have tomato us. But yeah, yeah, that's 1542 01:24:55.880 --> 01:24:56.239 the case. 1543 01:24:56.920 --> 01:24:57.600 Gotcha, all right? 1544 01:24:57.640 --> 01:24:57.960 Perfect? 1545 01:24:58.119 --> 01:24:59.960 Thank you. I appreciate everything you do for us. 1546 01:25:01.840 --> 01:25:05.119 Yeah, Jeff, thanks for the call. Appreciate that. Uh let's 1547 01:25:05.119 --> 01:25:07.600 see where where are we going from here? 1548 01:25:07.680 --> 01:25:07.720 With? 1549 01:25:07.840 --> 01:25:11.520 And I think next is Mark? Mark, Welcome to garden line. 1550 01:25:11.560 --> 01:25:12.199 How can we help? 1551 01:25:13.439 --> 01:25:13.720 Thanks? 1552 01:25:13.840 --> 01:25:14.039 Kim. 1553 01:25:14.239 --> 01:25:16.880 Hey, I've got a problem with my neighbor's dove weeds 1554 01:25:16.920 --> 01:25:19.840 and now gotten into my yard. How can I control it? 1555 01:25:20.960 --> 01:25:24.439 I've got I've got the celsius. I've done it one application, 1556 01:25:25.560 --> 01:25:28.840 it doesn't seem to have affected it. And then and 1557 01:25:28.920 --> 01:25:30.760 then went to seeds. So what can I put down 1558 01:25:30.800 --> 01:25:32.760 and win for the seeds. 1559 01:25:34.359 --> 01:25:37.119 At this point next spring? Those seeds aren't going to 1560 01:25:37.199 --> 01:25:40.840 germinate until it warms up. So go ahead and wait. 1561 01:25:41.159 --> 01:25:44.079 Get my schedule online at gardeningwith skip dot com. It 1562 01:25:44.159 --> 01:25:46.119 tells you when to put out pre emergence in the spring. 1563 01:25:46.239 --> 01:25:50.680 That's basically February celsius. Excuse me. Doveweed is a little 1564 01:25:50.720 --> 01:25:54.000 bit later to germinate, so if you bumped it till early. 1565 01:25:54.760 --> 01:25:56.600 If you're just going after dove weed, you can probably 1566 01:25:56.640 --> 01:25:59.399 bump it into early March and be okay on that 1567 01:26:00.119 --> 01:26:02.840 for that particular weed. But putting it down earlier is 1568 01:26:02.920 --> 01:26:05.760 fine too, Okay. 1569 01:26:06.000 --> 01:26:06.199 Is the. 1570 01:26:07.800 --> 01:26:09.840 Is there a selective pre emergent for it or is 1571 01:26:09.920 --> 01:26:12.880 it a general and barricade that work? 1572 01:26:14.520 --> 01:26:17.560 Barricade will work, okay, And also there are some post 1573 01:26:17.600 --> 01:26:19.880 emergents that you can use. Is this a big area 1574 01:26:20.039 --> 01:26:20.880 or a small area? 1575 01:26:22.960 --> 01:26:25.560 Well, you know, it took me about a gallon to treat. 1576 01:26:25.640 --> 01:26:27.279 But what I what I treated? 1577 01:26:27.720 --> 01:26:30.520 Okay, Yeah, that's what I would do. Hey, I got 1578 01:26:30.640 --> 01:26:32.479 to run to a break. If you need to follow 1579 01:26:32.560 --> 01:26:34.560 up on that, that's fine, just hang on, but I 1580 01:26:34.640 --> 01:26:37.840 got to run right quick here. Uh, we'll be right back, folks, 1581 01:26:41.640 --> 01:26:44.039 welcome back to guard Line. We're going to head out 1582 01:26:44.239 --> 01:26:46.800 to clear leg now and talk to Mark. Hey, Mark, 1583 01:26:46.840 --> 01:26:51.319 welcome to guard Line. Hey, good morning Skip. I had 1584 01:26:51.319 --> 01:26:52.239 a couple of questions. 1585 01:26:52.319 --> 01:26:55.560 Well, one is I put down some new sod in 1586 01:26:55.640 --> 01:26:57.920 the backyard and I've been watering it like a fend 1587 01:26:58.039 --> 01:27:00.640 twice a day for the last two weeks. 1588 01:27:01.520 --> 01:27:04.920 And uh, you know, now there's no rain in our future. 1589 01:27:05.079 --> 01:27:07.920 So should I what should I do? 1590 01:27:08.039 --> 01:27:08.119 Now? 1591 01:27:08.159 --> 01:27:09.439 Should I back off to once a. 1592 01:27:09.479 --> 01:27:09.920 Day on that? 1593 01:27:11.920 --> 01:27:14.680 Yeah? For sure, Yeah, once a day is you did. 1594 01:27:14.920 --> 01:27:16.760 It was put in two weeks ago, and you've watered 1595 01:27:16.800 --> 01:27:20.439 it twice a day, you said, about ten days ago. 1596 01:27:20.520 --> 01:27:22.439 And I've been watering it in the morning and in 1597 01:27:22.520 --> 01:27:26.840 the evenings. Yeah, I got once a day for sure. 1598 01:27:27.000 --> 01:27:29.479 And and in fact, you know, as our temperatures cool off, 1599 01:27:31.079 --> 01:27:32.800 you may not have to water it every day. Now 1600 01:27:32.920 --> 01:27:35.039 that's that's ten days of that. It ought to be 1601 01:27:35.159 --> 01:27:38.600 rooting him pretty good. And so I just want to avoid. 1602 01:27:39.399 --> 01:27:41.479 You know, we got this two things going on, and 1603 01:27:41.520 --> 01:27:44.560 they're they're kind of the opposite of each other. One 1604 01:27:44.600 --> 01:27:46.000 of them is we want to water it often to 1605 01:27:46.079 --> 01:27:49.239 keep it wet to get those roots in successfully. Number two, 1606 01:27:49.319 --> 01:27:51.000 we want to we don't want to water very much 1607 01:27:51.039 --> 01:27:53.560 because we don't want to promote brown patch and fall disease. 1608 01:27:54.319 --> 01:27:56.560 And so oh you kind of you kind of have 1609 01:27:56.640 --> 01:27:59.039 to choose between the two. So I would back off 1610 01:27:59.119 --> 01:28:01.000 of that watering a little little bit. Once a day 1611 01:28:01.079 --> 01:28:03.399 should be fine. And you shouldn't have to put a 1612 01:28:03.439 --> 01:28:06.279 whole lot of water on when you water, you don't 1613 01:28:06.359 --> 01:28:08.800 don't put an inch on every day, you know, for example, 1614 01:28:09.479 --> 01:28:11.439 just just a little bit to get it going. Kind 1615 01:28:11.439 --> 01:28:13.720 of watch and see. You can also grab the turf 1616 01:28:13.760 --> 01:28:15.359 and real gently kind of pull on it, and you 1617 01:28:15.399 --> 01:28:17.560 can see, well, this is pegging down. 1618 01:28:17.800 --> 01:28:17.960 You know. 1619 01:28:18.760 --> 01:28:21.039 There's a low resistance to me just lifting it up. 1620 01:28:21.119 --> 01:28:22.279 It's not like a throw rug. 1621 01:28:23.359 --> 01:28:27.239 Ah Okay. The other question I had is I found 1622 01:28:27.239 --> 01:28:32.319 a bag of sweet green in the garage, so I 1623 01:28:32.439 --> 01:28:34.680 put that down last week. I didn't put it on 1624 01:28:34.760 --> 01:28:36.680 the new turf, but I put it on the rest 1625 01:28:36.720 --> 01:28:39.840 of the yard. What's your opinion about that sweet green? 1626 01:28:41.800 --> 01:28:44.680 Well, it's a good fertilizer. I you know, it's all nitrogen, 1627 01:28:44.960 --> 01:28:47.560 so generally this time of year we're going we're dropping 1628 01:28:47.600 --> 01:28:51.840 the nitrogen and bringing the phosphorus up in our fall fertilizers. 1629 01:28:52.079 --> 01:28:55.279 So I wouldn't I wouldn't generally recommend that for the falls. 1630 01:28:55.319 --> 01:28:58.760 It's a good fertilizer for summertime, especially when we are 1631 01:28:58.920 --> 01:29:00.920 wanting to push with a lot a nitrogen. It's not 1632 01:29:01.000 --> 01:29:05.600 going to hurt your lawn. But anyway, yeah, okay. 1633 01:29:06.600 --> 01:29:09.439 And then the pre emergence that you've been talking about, 1634 01:29:09.960 --> 01:29:12.680 like barricade and such. I've seen those a day's hardware. 1635 01:29:13.159 --> 01:29:19.680 That's an awful small bag. It doesn't take much, is 1636 01:29:19.760 --> 01:29:20.119 that right? 1637 01:29:21.920 --> 01:29:24.359 Yeah? No, it does not take much at all, and 1638 01:29:24.479 --> 01:29:27.159 so just follow the labels on the bag. I don't 1639 01:29:27.239 --> 01:29:31.560 have the rate in my head, okay, but follow the 1640 01:29:31.640 --> 01:29:34.319 labels on the bag and it'll tell you. But it'll 1641 01:29:34.359 --> 01:29:37.439 cover all the area you need to cover, that's for sure. 1642 01:29:37.520 --> 01:29:39.399 And don't overdo it. Don't overdo it. 1643 01:29:40.479 --> 01:29:45.199 I did have found a little brown patch or in 1644 01:29:45.319 --> 01:29:48.359 the front yard, and I had this Eagle. I think 1645 01:29:48.399 --> 01:29:53.720 it's called Eagle twenty. It's a liquid Okay, I think 1646 01:29:53.760 --> 01:29:56.439 I got the name right. And then I just sprayed 1647 01:29:56.439 --> 01:29:58.560 a little bit. I didn't saturate, but I sprayed that 1648 01:29:58.680 --> 01:30:02.560 area just a little bit. But I mean it's still there. 1649 01:30:02.720 --> 01:30:04.840 It's not going away. I just kind of wanted it 1650 01:30:04.920 --> 01:30:10.920 to stop growing. Maybe I did something there. Yeah, no, No, 1651 01:30:11.079 --> 01:30:11.760 Eagle's fine. 1652 01:30:11.840 --> 01:30:17.159 Eagle is a fungicide that is systemic and moves into 1653 01:30:17.199 --> 01:30:19.199 the plant, and so it's going to give you protection 1654 01:30:19.399 --> 01:30:23.079 for a period of time here. Okay, Hey, thanks for 1655 01:30:23.239 --> 01:30:26.880 taking my call. Skip have a good day. Well you bet, 1656 01:30:27.039 --> 01:30:28.880 Thanks for the call, and you have good rest of 1657 01:30:28.920 --> 01:30:34.800 your weekend. Appreciate that Erlin Soils has produced some of 1658 01:30:34.840 --> 01:30:38.159 the best products that I've ever used, really for improving 1659 01:30:38.239 --> 01:30:40.840 your soil. So you know, they're composts, they're blends, you know, 1660 01:30:40.960 --> 01:30:43.960 the veggie and urb mix and all the many many 1661 01:30:44.000 --> 01:30:46.000 products they have. Right now, I want to tell you 1662 01:30:46.000 --> 01:30:48.119 about a limited time deal they've gotten, and I mean 1663 01:30:48.399 --> 01:30:52.560 very limited. This deal ends next Saturday. Okay, so you 1664 01:30:52.680 --> 01:30:55.399 got to get it done. But it's a one cubic 1665 01:30:55.520 --> 01:30:59.319 yard super sack. They've got a new branded one cubic 1666 01:30:59.439 --> 01:31:02.560 yard super for airloom, soils and worms, rock and mulch, 1667 01:31:03.439 --> 01:31:07.239 and you can get it full of age leaf mold 1668 01:31:07.319 --> 01:31:10.199 compost and the sack you get to keep itself for 1669 01:31:10.279 --> 01:31:14.479 only ninety nine dollars. That's seventy five dollars savings per sack. 1670 01:31:14.840 --> 01:31:17.680 Again only through next Saturday. So this is perfect for 1671 01:31:17.760 --> 01:31:21.479 guarding and landscaping. But leaf Mo compost, it's excellent for 1672 01:31:21.520 --> 01:31:25.039 top dressing your lawn. It's excellent for use as compost 1673 01:31:25.359 --> 01:31:28.720 just any bed you're doing and redoing and mixing and 1674 01:31:29.079 --> 01:31:31.560 you know planting, you're gonna mix some composts in the soil. 1675 01:31:31.960 --> 01:31:35.279 Leaf Mo Compost is Cadillac stuff and you either have 1676 01:31:35.359 --> 01:31:37.439 to go out to porter to pick it up or 1677 01:31:37.560 --> 01:31:40.760 they'll deliver it. But there's a three sack minimum for delivery. 1678 01:31:40.800 --> 01:31:42.439 They're not going to say one sack and haul it 1679 01:31:42.479 --> 01:31:46.439 all over town. So you know then their spees for 1680 01:31:46.640 --> 01:31:49.199 delivery as well, of course, but whether you got a 1681 01:31:49.239 --> 01:31:50.640 truck or trailer, you can go out there and they'll 1682 01:31:50.680 --> 01:31:52.479 set it right in the in the truck. And there's 1683 01:31:52.520 --> 01:31:55.319 nothing neaterer and cleaner than a supersack. I mean, it's 1684 01:31:55.760 --> 01:31:58.239 just like big old grocery sack, but it holds a 1685 01:31:58.319 --> 01:32:02.239 qbyard of soil. Out there on fifty nine Access Road 1686 01:32:02.279 --> 01:32:04.520 and Porter, that's where you find Warrens Rock and Moltz. 1687 01:32:04.560 --> 01:32:07.439 That's where you pick up your airloom source products. They're 1688 01:32:07.479 --> 01:32:10.399 open from seven am to three pm on Saturday and 1689 01:32:10.520 --> 01:32:13.720 on close today, but they're open Monday through Friday from 1690 01:32:13.800 --> 01:32:16.920 seven am to four pm. So if you want a 1691 01:32:16.920 --> 01:32:20.920 book a delivery, go to Rock the letter in and 1692 01:32:21.000 --> 01:32:26.399 the word Maltch Rockendmulch dot com slash delivery or call 1693 01:32:26.479 --> 01:32:31.640 this number two eight one three five four nineteen fifty 1694 01:32:32.000 --> 01:32:35.560 two eight one three five four one nine five zero. 1695 01:32:35.760 --> 01:32:38.520 We're going to go now to Paarland and talk to Hal. Hello, 1696 01:32:38.680 --> 01:32:39.920 hol welcome to garden Line. 1697 01:32:40.720 --> 01:32:42.560 Hey Skip, good morning, how you doing. 1698 01:32:44.319 --> 01:32:45.119 I'm well sir. 1699 01:32:46.479 --> 01:32:46.520 U. 1700 01:32:46.920 --> 01:32:50.039 Yeah, you've covered this before, Skip, I just couldn't remember 1701 01:32:50.159 --> 01:32:53.119 what you'd said. I've got several bucks was here in 1702 01:32:53.199 --> 01:32:57.720 the backyard that have started getting I guess there's some 1703 01:32:57.880 --> 01:33:03.039 sort of fungus or something else pretty and green, dark green, 1704 01:33:03.159 --> 01:33:05.760 And then all of a sudden they'll have a limb 1705 01:33:05.840 --> 01:33:08.720 or two that'll start turning like a light tan and 1706 01:33:08.840 --> 01:33:13.399 it's obviously dead. Yeah, and it just slowly moves across 1707 01:33:13.520 --> 01:33:15.840 the whole plant. I end up having to take it out. 1708 01:33:16.720 --> 01:33:19.279 Is there cainy solution for this? 1709 01:33:19.520 --> 01:33:20.359 Is it in the soil? 1710 01:33:23.119 --> 01:33:25.600 It can be one of several things in the soil, 1711 01:33:25.720 --> 01:33:29.119 or nematodes and some root rits that can kill boxwood 1712 01:33:29.359 --> 01:33:33.720 above the soil is boxwood blight and some other types 1713 01:33:33.920 --> 01:33:37.840 of disease issues and like coal damage and other things 1714 01:33:37.920 --> 01:33:41.000 that can kill above ground. But none of that has 1715 01:33:41.159 --> 01:33:43.039 a oh go by this spray and put it on 1716 01:33:43.159 --> 01:33:46.079 it solution. It's just that they are what they are. 1717 01:33:46.640 --> 01:33:49.560 It's one of the reasons why I see boxwood declining 1718 01:33:49.640 --> 01:33:51.239 in terms of popularity around here. 1719 01:33:52.239 --> 01:33:52.439 Yeah. 1720 01:33:52.760 --> 01:33:56.199 Yeah, I'm just wondering would it be a good idea 1721 01:33:56.560 --> 01:34:01.159 not to put something else not boxwoods back in the 1722 01:34:01.319 --> 01:34:02.640 place of these plants. 1723 01:34:03.159 --> 01:34:05.880 Would it have any effect on a new plant? 1724 01:34:08.640 --> 01:34:12.039 I would I would not put boxwood back in. When 1725 01:34:12.079 --> 01:34:15.079 you pull a boxwood up, it's pull one up right 1726 01:34:15.159 --> 01:34:17.279 for it's dead, but while it's still has some green 1727 01:34:17.359 --> 01:34:19.680 in it, but you just like the things, might as 1728 01:34:19.720 --> 01:34:22.159 well pull it up. It's done. Look at the roots, 1729 01:34:22.279 --> 01:34:24.600 take the soil off. Look for all little knots and 1730 01:34:24.680 --> 01:34:28.439 bumps along the routes that indicate nematodes. That's one thing 1731 01:34:28.520 --> 01:34:30.720 you need to know because once you put back in, 1732 01:34:31.079 --> 01:34:33.640 it needs to be nemotoad resistant. And if you don't 1733 01:34:33.640 --> 01:34:36.079 find those, then come up with some other kinds of 1734 01:34:36.119 --> 01:34:38.319 a shrub. There's a lot of things from Dorf, Jopond, 1735 01:34:38.960 --> 01:34:42.399 others that could kind of be a suitable substitute and 1736 01:34:42.520 --> 01:34:44.720 go with something different than the box Would that would 1737 01:34:44.720 --> 01:34:45.560 be my sub question? 1738 01:34:46.560 --> 01:34:50.479 Okay, all right, okay, uh yeah, I got one question 1739 01:34:50.600 --> 01:34:53.039 that has absolutely nothing to do with gardening. 1740 01:34:53.119 --> 01:34:56.880 But what going to ask you? But I got to anyway, 1741 01:34:57.520 --> 01:34:58.239 there was a. 1742 01:34:58.319 --> 01:35:01.600 Lady i'll work with worked with back in the eighties, 1743 01:35:02.319 --> 01:35:05.079 and I've always wondered if y'all are related or name 1744 01:35:05.239 --> 01:35:06.800 was artist Richter? 1745 01:35:08.199 --> 01:35:14.479 No no relation, No artists in the family. All right, hell, 1746 01:35:14.800 --> 01:35:17.199 thanks a lot, all right, thank you, thank you, you 1747 01:35:17.359 --> 01:35:23.399 take care all right bye bye uh. Microlife fertilizers have 1748 01:35:23.840 --> 01:35:27.359 their fall fertilizer which is called brown patch Microlife brown patch, 1749 01:35:27.560 --> 01:35:30.119 and it's for putting down in the fall. I would 1750 01:35:30.199 --> 01:35:33.800 suggest that you also falls an important time also put 1751 01:35:33.880 --> 01:35:38.640 down micro grow bio andoculan. That's a maroon bag bio 1752 01:35:38.880 --> 01:35:45.000 inoculate micro grow bioinoculate sixty three different strains of beneficial microbes. 1753 01:35:45.079 --> 01:35:49.880 When you get beneficial microbes around plants, they have different effects. 1754 01:35:50.000 --> 01:35:53.279 Some just populate the plant surfaces and they make it 1755 01:35:53.399 --> 01:35:56.319 hostile for a disease sport of land and be successful. 1756 01:35:56.880 --> 01:35:59.960 Some of them actually interact with the roots. Several strains 1757 01:36:00.239 --> 01:36:04.960 and this bioinoculant interact with the roots to cause the 1758 01:36:05.079 --> 01:36:08.039 plant to become more disease resistance. It's kind of cool stuff. 1759 01:36:08.119 --> 01:36:11.520 It's science we've been learning about in these last few 1760 01:36:11.640 --> 01:36:15.439 years a lot, and it's a pretty amazing thing the 1761 01:36:15.520 --> 01:36:19.520 way the natural system works out there about micro grow bioinoculant. 1762 01:36:19.680 --> 01:36:22.520 Just do your brown patch and then come back load 1763 01:36:22.640 --> 01:36:26.359 up and do a micro grow bio inoculant application and 1764 01:36:26.520 --> 01:36:28.600 water it and really good. Give it a good watering, 1765 01:36:29.079 --> 01:36:31.439 and you're good to go for fall with your organic 1766 01:36:31.760 --> 01:36:35.079 lun care system. I'm going to head now to Katie 1767 01:36:35.159 --> 01:36:37.560 and talk to Scott. Hey, Scott, welcome to guard Line. 1768 01:36:38.279 --> 01:36:39.159 Hey morning, Skip. 1769 01:36:40.199 --> 01:36:43.920 I have the question about application rates of some of 1770 01:36:43.960 --> 01:36:47.600 the pre emergency Looking at your schedule and I like 1771 01:36:47.720 --> 01:36:50.680 barricade locks can easily find it locally. But I'm reading 1772 01:36:50.720 --> 01:36:52.960 the back of the package and there's a minimum and 1773 01:36:53.039 --> 01:36:57.279 a maximum, and reading some on the internet. I'm trying 1774 01:36:57.319 --> 01:36:59.520 to decide, you know, or told an earlier caller that 1775 01:36:59.680 --> 01:37:03.640 you know, little goes a long way. But yeah, should 1776 01:37:03.680 --> 01:37:06.359 I be going what what rate? 1777 01:37:06.439 --> 01:37:06.880 Should I be. 1778 01:37:06.960 --> 01:37:10.079 Putting that down to make sure I control weeds? You know, 1779 01:37:10.319 --> 01:37:13.359 read on the internet? Put it down all the maximum rate, 1780 01:37:13.520 --> 01:37:15.800 all all at once, But then I can only use 1781 01:37:15.880 --> 01:37:21.119 Barry King once a season. What what's the what should 1782 01:37:21.199 --> 01:37:26.560 I be doing? And what are the consequences of over application? 1783 01:37:26.640 --> 01:37:28.640 Am I just wasting money or causing damage? 1784 01:37:29.720 --> 01:37:32.840 Yeah? That's a good question, and they're telling me it's 1785 01:37:32.920 --> 01:37:34.720 it's break time. I got to run for the news 1786 01:37:35.239 --> 01:37:37.840 and when we come back, let me tackle that. Scott. 1787 01:37:38.199 --> 01:37:40.439 We'd be happy to enter it. And Marty in Fairfield. 1788 01:37:40.520 --> 01:37:44.119 You'll be right up after Scott. Thanks folks for listening, 1789 01:37:44.279 --> 01:37:49.840 and I'll be right back head right out here in 1790 01:37:49.960 --> 01:37:52.199 just a moment back to the phones. I wanted to 1791 01:37:52.319 --> 01:37:55.920 mention a Star of Hope again to you and if 1792 01:37:56.000 --> 01:37:59.560 you you know, I consider people to be basically compassionate, 1793 01:37:59.720 --> 01:38:02.439 and but you want when you help someone for that 1794 01:38:02.640 --> 01:38:06.000 help to really help and not maybe just be part 1795 01:38:06.039 --> 01:38:08.319 of the problem or maybe just be a drop in 1796 01:38:08.520 --> 01:38:12.000 a nocean that doesn't accomplish much. Well, when you help 1797 01:38:12.079 --> 01:38:15.119 Star through Star of Hope, you are making a difference. 1798 01:38:15.159 --> 01:38:18.000 At last. Star of Hope takes good care of every 1799 01:38:18.079 --> 01:38:20.720 dollar and make sure it goes to changing lives. I've 1800 01:38:20.760 --> 01:38:23.680 seen the work they do. I have visited with folks 1801 01:38:23.760 --> 01:38:27.279 that have been through Star of Hope. I know what 1802 01:38:27.359 --> 01:38:29.680 I'm talking about on this. And for two dollars and 1803 01:38:29.720 --> 01:38:32.439 eighty five cents, you can provide a meal for a 1804 01:38:32.560 --> 01:38:35.159 homeless man or a woman or a family with kids. 1805 01:38:35.960 --> 01:38:40.119 You can go to Shmission dot org Sohmission dot org 1806 01:38:40.640 --> 01:38:44.079 and be part of providing over six thousand meals a 1807 01:38:44.159 --> 01:38:46.920 week that they do their at Star of Hope. Go 1808 01:38:47.079 --> 01:38:50.359 to Shmission dot org and would you join me and 1809 01:38:50.479 --> 01:38:53.359 being a supporter of Star Hope and putting your compassion 1810 01:38:53.439 --> 01:38:57.399 to work in a way that truly transforms lives and 1811 01:38:57.520 --> 01:39:01.880 not only helps the people, but certainly their children and 1812 01:39:03.159 --> 01:39:07.560 overall helps us in the Houston community as we turn 1813 01:39:07.680 --> 01:39:11.600 lives around Christ's name. Star of Hope does all that 1814 01:39:11.760 --> 01:39:16.560 they do. I'm going to move over now to Scott. 1815 01:39:16.760 --> 01:39:21.119 In Katie and Scott, we were talking about application rates 1816 01:39:21.199 --> 01:39:25.079 for barricade I believe when we left last time. So 1817 01:39:25.640 --> 01:39:27.520 the barricade bag does have a little bit of a 1818 01:39:27.640 --> 01:39:31.119 range on it. If you go with the higher end, 1819 01:39:31.520 --> 01:39:36.680 it lasts longer, It gives you more months or more 1820 01:39:36.960 --> 01:39:41.760 weeks if you will, of the protection out there. I'm 1821 01:39:41.800 --> 01:39:45.159 a little bit hesitant ongoing too strong on that stuff 1822 01:39:45.279 --> 01:39:47.840 because the way that a pre emergent works, almost all 1823 01:39:47.880 --> 01:39:50.439 the pre emergence on the market work by inhibiting root 1824 01:39:50.520 --> 01:39:53.399 growth in the grass. And so if you get the 1825 01:39:53.520 --> 01:39:57.159 levels up high enough, and especially during the growing season 1826 01:39:57.239 --> 01:39:59.479 when your grass is out there putting out runners and 1827 01:39:59.560 --> 01:40:02.239 trying to send roots into the ground, it can affect 1828 01:40:02.279 --> 01:40:06.840 that rooting in and people that overdo it can damage 1829 01:40:06.840 --> 01:40:09.680 their grass that way by preventing good root development. And 1830 01:40:09.760 --> 01:40:12.960 in the heat of summer that's very much needed this 1831 01:40:13.119 --> 01:40:15.159 time of year. I would say go probably with the 1832 01:40:15.239 --> 01:40:17.239 lower rate, and you're going to be okay, it's going 1833 01:40:17.319 --> 01:40:20.960 to carry you all the way up until spring anyway, 1834 01:40:21.079 --> 01:40:23.399 but you're going to be putting it on again as 1835 01:40:23.479 --> 01:40:25.840 part of the schedule that I have online, you'd be 1836 01:40:25.920 --> 01:40:29.279 putting it on in February. And so if you want 1837 01:40:29.319 --> 01:40:31.560 to go medium rate, that's fine, but I wouldn't go 1838 01:40:31.760 --> 01:40:34.159 high rate at this particular time of year. I don't 1839 01:40:34.199 --> 01:40:36.640 think it's needed. We're just not having to get it 1840 01:40:36.760 --> 01:40:39.119 to hold on. If you did a February application and 1841 01:40:39.199 --> 01:40:41.800 you wanted to last further into the summer, you could 1842 01:40:41.840 --> 01:40:44.720 go with a higher rate, but even then I like 1843 01:40:44.840 --> 01:40:46.479 to go more moderate on it. 1844 01:40:47.920 --> 01:40:49.800 Okay, Well that answers the question. 1845 01:40:51.720 --> 01:40:54.840 Okay, sir, you take care. Thank you for that question. 1846 01:40:55.079 --> 01:40:58.039 I appreciate that if you haven't met out to Arburgate, 1847 01:40:58.079 --> 01:41:00.920 you need to go check them out. Arburgate Garden Center 1848 01:41:01.239 --> 01:41:04.800 is one of those destination garden centers, one of the 1849 01:41:04.920 --> 01:41:08.000 true garden centers, the mom and pops, the independence here 1850 01:41:08.079 --> 01:41:11.079 in the Greater Houston area that we look to for 1851 01:41:11.239 --> 01:41:13.600 quality plants and quality advice. You know, when you go 1852 01:41:13.680 --> 01:41:17.760 to Arburgate right now, you're gonna find fall decorations. You're 1853 01:41:17.800 --> 01:41:20.880 going to find gift shops that are brimming with really 1854 01:41:21.000 --> 01:41:24.640 cool stuff, but you're going to find plants that are 1855 01:41:24.720 --> 01:41:28.439 perfect for our climate, perfect for the season, whether it's 1856 01:41:28.479 --> 01:41:31.920 fall vegetables and herbs, whether it's annual color. You know, 1857 01:41:32.079 --> 01:41:34.079 to spruce up those beds and make it look good 1858 01:41:34.239 --> 01:41:36.880 somebody coming over for Thanksgiving or Christmas. I get things 1859 01:41:36.960 --> 01:41:39.439 looking good out there. Arburgate can help you do that. 1860 01:41:39.640 --> 01:41:42.520 You know, there's no better season than fall for planting perennials, 1861 01:41:42.560 --> 01:41:46.079 tree shrubs and herbs. Why not go out to Arbrogate 1862 01:41:46.399 --> 01:41:48.760 and get the plants you need at the best time 1863 01:41:49.359 --> 01:41:51.439 to get them planted, and that is in the fall. 1864 01:41:51.680 --> 01:41:54.760 This is the season when garden centers should have a 1865 01:41:54.920 --> 01:41:58.880 line backed up two blocks down the street because this 1866 01:41:59.119 --> 01:42:02.039 is the season when you should be planting for the 1867 01:42:02.239 --> 01:42:07.399 best success. Why you're at Arbigate, grabbed their organic food complete, 1868 01:42:08.079 --> 01:42:12.840 their organic soil complete, and their organic compass complete. Three 1869 01:42:12.960 --> 01:42:16.199 bags that I'll call the brown stuff. Get them in 1870 01:42:16.239 --> 01:42:18.399 the ground, get that bed ready, and then when you 1871 01:42:18.479 --> 01:42:21.239 get an Arbigate plant, put in the ground. Number one, 1872 01:42:21.520 --> 01:42:23.319 you got the soil ready. Number two, you got a 1873 01:42:23.359 --> 01:42:26.840 good quality plant. Number three, you've got advice and service 1874 01:42:26.880 --> 01:42:29.159 there at the garden Center to help you have success 1875 01:42:29.279 --> 01:42:33.840 before and after the sale. Arbrogate dot com. That's their website. 1876 01:42:33.880 --> 01:42:36.119 They're located about a mile and a half west of 1877 01:42:36.159 --> 01:42:39.520 two forty nine on twenty nine twenty they're in Tumble. 1878 01:42:41.359 --> 01:42:43.840 And now we come to Marty, who gets the award 1879 01:42:44.000 --> 01:42:48.520 for waiting the longest time all day of anybody. Thank you, Marty, 1880 01:42:48.640 --> 01:42:49.760 Welcome to garden Line. 1881 01:42:50.880 --> 01:42:56.800 That's fine, thank you. It's I killed all the dowly 1882 01:42:57.119 --> 01:43:01.880 on one whole side of my yard my house with ulster. 1883 01:43:02.199 --> 01:43:05.159 We'd beat her ultra and I've been raking it up. 1884 01:43:05.199 --> 01:43:08.520 It's a whole lot easier. It's to break up when 1885 01:43:08.560 --> 01:43:11.640 it's dead, and I don't want to put sod down 1886 01:43:11.720 --> 01:43:15.640 right now. I was thinking about bringing in some soil. 1887 01:43:16.399 --> 01:43:20.479 Need to know what to bring in to fill in holes, okay, 1888 01:43:21.000 --> 01:43:25.279 and to let it sit for the winter. What would 1889 01:43:25.319 --> 01:43:26.960 you recommend that you could? 1890 01:43:29.239 --> 01:43:31.439 Yeah, I would do I would do a sandy loam 1891 01:43:31.760 --> 01:43:34.960 type soil for filling in that. You know, it's a 1892 01:43:35.000 --> 01:43:36.880 good solid soil, so when you fill in a hole. 1893 01:43:36.920 --> 01:43:39.520 It doesn't just end up sinking down over time, like 1894 01:43:39.680 --> 01:43:42.680 if you had a high compost material would decompose away 1895 01:43:42.760 --> 01:43:45.359 and sink back down. So you can find a good 1896 01:43:45.399 --> 01:43:49.000 sandy loan quality soil, that would be my option for that. 1897 01:43:51.600 --> 01:43:54.239 You know, then when spring comes, just a light kind 1898 01:43:54.239 --> 01:43:56.960 of rototilling or mixing of the surface. If you're able 1899 01:43:57.000 --> 01:43:58.760 to get a piece of equipment out there and do 1900 01:43:58.880 --> 01:44:02.399 that and then smooth it out to lay your sod on, 1901 01:44:02.760 --> 01:44:05.000 that would be kind of finalizing it and getting it 1902 01:44:05.159 --> 01:44:06.239 ready for the planting. 1903 01:44:07.880 --> 01:44:09.680 Okay, is there anything else I need to do to 1904 01:44:09.760 --> 01:44:11.920 make sure that this dove weed doesn't come up again 1905 01:44:11.960 --> 01:44:15.279 and take over It literally took over the well. 1906 01:44:15.239 --> 01:44:20.000 When you put Oh, I know, it's a mess when 1907 01:44:20.039 --> 01:44:23.439 you when you have killed it. Now, it's not going 1908 01:44:23.520 --> 01:44:25.399 to come up in the spring. In the winter, it's 1909 01:44:25.640 --> 01:44:27.840 it's too cold for that. Unless we just have some 1910 01:44:27.920 --> 01:44:30.079 really warm weather you might get some sprouting. 1911 01:44:30.800 --> 01:44:30.920 Uh. 1912 01:44:31.039 --> 01:44:33.720 And then when you put your sod down, the dove 1913 01:44:33.760 --> 01:44:36.079 weeds not going to push through the sod. Now, what 1914 01:44:36.199 --> 01:44:38.239 it'll do is if you've got a little gap between 1915 01:44:38.279 --> 01:44:40.920 the side pieces and there's some dove weed seeds or 1916 01:44:40.960 --> 01:44:44.000 whatever in there, they're going to sprout up, but you 1917 01:44:44.119 --> 01:44:49.319 could just roll carefully with a little post treatment, just 1918 01:44:49.479 --> 01:44:52.119 knock them out like you did with the uh, the 1919 01:44:52.359 --> 01:44:55.880 bonny weed beatter ultra you know at that time. But anyway, 1920 01:44:56.399 --> 01:44:58.760 I think you've done what you need to do for now, 1921 01:44:58.960 --> 01:45:01.800 and so it's just a matter of of waiting until 1922 01:45:01.840 --> 01:45:03.880 it's time to plant in the spring and then getting 1923 01:45:03.960 --> 01:45:06.039 that down maybe a light rototilling. You'll get a few 1924 01:45:06.079 --> 01:45:09.319 winter weeds that have come up in there. You could 1925 01:45:09.479 --> 01:45:13.239 put a pre emergent down now on the bear soil 1926 01:45:13.479 --> 01:45:16.079 because winter weeds are going to sprout and you're going 1927 01:45:16.159 --> 01:45:18.880 to end up with some winter weeds when you're ready 1928 01:45:18.960 --> 01:45:21.920 to plant. The rototilling could fix that. But if you 1929 01:45:22.000 --> 01:45:24.880 wanted to put down some barricade, now, go with the 1930 01:45:25.000 --> 01:45:29.119 lower rate, the lower rate of barricade, and that would 1931 01:45:29.199 --> 01:45:31.520 kind of help hold it until you get ready to 1932 01:45:31.680 --> 01:45:33.680 plant next March or April. 1933 01:45:34.760 --> 01:45:37.119 All right, perfect, that's what I was thinking. I just 1934 01:45:37.199 --> 01:45:39.680 wanted to clarify it. Thank you so much. 1935 01:45:41.439 --> 01:45:44.640 You got it, Thanks Marty, Thanks for that call. Time 1936 01:45:44.680 --> 01:45:47.199 for me to take a break. Folks will be right back. 1937 01:45:49.640 --> 01:45:52.119 Products you know, Benina's been around since Oh I don't 1938 01:45:52.159 --> 01:45:55.720 know a long time they've been. They're probably the oldest, 1939 01:45:56.680 --> 01:46:02.319 longest sponsor of Guardenline that they're back, Oh Doey Compton days. 1940 01:46:02.319 --> 01:46:04.039 I was talking to someone the other day that was 1941 01:46:04.399 --> 01:46:07.119 talking about, you know, listening to the radio back when 1942 01:46:07.199 --> 01:46:09.880 Ben Oldagg and Dewey Compton and different folks like that 1943 01:46:10.079 --> 01:46:12.880 were on before it was even called garden Line before 1944 01:46:12.960 --> 01:46:18.079 Randy Lemon certainly for me and Medina's sponsor since then. 1945 01:46:18.159 --> 01:46:20.399 And you know, a lot of you use their products. 1946 01:46:20.880 --> 01:46:24.239 Medina Soil Activator has been around for a long time 1947 01:46:24.439 --> 01:46:26.640 and a lot of people love it and swear by it. 1948 01:46:26.760 --> 01:46:29.960 And now they've got the Medina Plus, which is Medina 1949 01:46:30.000 --> 01:46:33.680 Sole Activator Plus. Over forty different trace elements. It's got 1950 01:46:34.159 --> 01:46:37.359 natural growth hormones from seaweed extract. It's got a number 1951 01:46:37.399 --> 01:46:40.520 of different mineral elements in it, you know, magnesium, iron, zinc, 1952 01:46:40.640 --> 01:46:44.039 things like that, as well as a lot of other 1953 01:46:44.359 --> 01:46:48.720 important ingredients that are part of plant growth support, things 1954 01:46:48.800 --> 01:46:52.880 like hormones, vitamins, different different things along those lines. Medina 1955 01:46:52.920 --> 01:46:56.319 cel Activator Plus will increase blooming and leaf growth, of course, 1956 01:46:56.399 --> 01:46:59.520 and promote fruit set on plants that do set fruit. 1957 01:47:00.399 --> 01:47:03.760 I would suggest right now. The front stage for Medina 1958 01:47:03.880 --> 01:47:09.439 Soil Active Miniina plus is transplanting. You put some of 1959 01:47:09.479 --> 01:47:11.680 that in water, follow the label. Mix it up. It's 1960 01:47:11.760 --> 01:47:13.760 not salt based. You will not burn plants with it. 1961 01:47:13.840 --> 01:47:15.479 You can use it as a foli or spray if 1962 01:47:15.479 --> 01:47:17.560 you want, but mix it in a can of water. 1963 01:47:17.640 --> 01:47:19.439 And when you put a plant in the ground, whatever 1964 01:47:19.520 --> 01:47:21.920 the plant is, just have your Medina so ILCTI beta 1965 01:47:21.960 --> 01:47:24.439 plus right there to drench over the top. Drench it 1966 01:47:24.560 --> 01:47:27.079 right over the foliage water that plan in. Soak it good, 1967 01:47:27.159 --> 01:47:28.800 get it all the way down in the root system 1968 01:47:29.319 --> 01:47:31.560 to get it off to a very very good start. 1969 01:47:31.760 --> 01:47:34.920 That may be an herb or an ornamental grass or 1970 01:47:35.159 --> 01:47:38.399 a perennial herb. Or it may be a vegetable or 1971 01:47:38.439 --> 01:47:41.600 a flower of a bedding plant flower or cool seasoned flour. 1972 01:47:41.960 --> 01:47:43.680 It may be a shrub or a tree, a rose 1973 01:47:43.760 --> 01:47:44.920 of vine whatever. 1974 01:47:45.000 --> 01:47:45.800 It is just. 1975 01:47:47.520 --> 01:47:49.640 One size fixed all when it comes to putting a 1976 01:47:49.720 --> 01:47:52.000 Medina Plus, drench over the top of those to get 1977 01:47:52.039 --> 01:47:55.720 them established for fall. Medina Plus widely available like other 1978 01:47:55.800 --> 01:47:59.560 Medina products, and it has long been proven and gardeners 1979 01:47:59.600 --> 01:48:04.399 can tell you that themselves. Medina Plus. I'm going to 1980 01:48:04.479 --> 01:48:08.359 head out now to Troy, Alabama and talk to Paul. Hey, Paul, 1981 01:48:08.560 --> 01:48:09.520 welcome to garden Line. 1982 01:48:10.600 --> 01:48:13.840 Good morning, skipt. I was just gonna make a suggestion. 1983 01:48:14.239 --> 01:48:17.960 We were talking about catalysts a few weeks back, and 1984 01:48:18.600 --> 01:48:20.600 I dug mine up. They were in a ten by 1985 01:48:20.720 --> 01:48:23.479 ten bed and they were so route down from all 1986 01:48:23.560 --> 01:48:26.680 the boves that had grown that I dug them up 1987 01:48:26.840 --> 01:48:29.560 and reclaimed them, put a little compost stuff back in there. 1988 01:48:30.119 --> 01:48:33.600 But I think the problem was they just overgrew over years. 1989 01:48:33.760 --> 01:48:36.920 I was thinking about the guy with the asparagust what 1990 01:48:37.079 --> 01:48:40.520 kind of problems you now? But that's just a thought. 1991 01:48:41.359 --> 01:48:44.159 So thought, yeah, that's a good point, you know. 1992 01:48:45.159 --> 01:48:47.920 Yeah, Well, if you're growing kalal lily's successfully, you're doing 1993 01:48:47.960 --> 01:48:50.079 a good thing because they're challenge for a lot of 1994 01:48:50.119 --> 01:48:54.640 folks to grow. Maybe conditions in Troy over there is 1995 01:48:54.640 --> 01:48:56.159 a little bit different than here. I don't know, but 1996 01:48:56.920 --> 01:48:58.840 it is true that your points will taken that a 1997 01:48:58.920 --> 01:49:02.960 lot of bulbs will and rhizome's plants will get kind 1998 01:49:03.000 --> 01:49:06.680 of crowded, and they benefit from getting divided periodically. Give 1999 01:49:06.680 --> 01:49:07.760 them a little room to grow. 2000 01:49:08.760 --> 01:49:10.840 I say, take the exits, put them along the fence, 2001 01:49:10.920 --> 01:49:12.479 row in your neighbors or take them from me. 2002 01:49:13.159 --> 01:49:22.279 So all right, okay, well, how great, Thanks for appreciate 2003 01:49:22.960 --> 01:49:26.880 to appreciate your call. You bet. We're gonna go now 2004 01:49:26.960 --> 01:49:30.920 to Jackie in Baytown. Hey, Jackie, welcome to guard Line. Oh, 2005 01:49:31.079 --> 01:49:31.840 thank you very much. 2006 01:49:32.159 --> 01:49:32.279 Uh. 2007 01:49:33.119 --> 01:49:34.039 I've got a problem. 2008 01:49:34.199 --> 01:49:36.279 I have had a problem the last couple of years 2009 01:49:36.399 --> 01:49:38.760 with Virginia button popping up. 2010 01:49:38.760 --> 01:49:40.479 It never had it before. It just popped up. 2011 01:49:41.159 --> 01:49:42.319 And I was given. 2012 01:49:42.600 --> 01:49:47.199 Information to use blindside, uh, to work against, and I've 2013 01:49:47.199 --> 01:49:49.520 been working to you know, patch my patch. 2014 01:49:49.600 --> 01:49:51.760 Finally I thought I just about had it. It finally 2015 01:49:51.800 --> 01:49:54.920 come back again this year and what IF's Uh? 2016 01:49:55.039 --> 01:49:56.800 I was wondering, is there something I can do this 2017 01:49:57.000 --> 01:50:00.279 time of the year that would help, you know, for 2018 01:50:00.439 --> 01:50:02.119 like in the spring if it pops back up again, 2019 01:50:02.279 --> 01:50:04.439 like a winter preventative or something that. 2020 01:50:05.439 --> 01:50:10.279 Or do I just need to want a blind side? Yeah, 2021 01:50:10.399 --> 01:50:14.439 it's it is cooling off right now, and uh, the 2022 01:50:14.600 --> 01:50:19.039 Virginia button weed is not really interested in growing. It's 2023 01:50:19.199 --> 01:50:21.479 it's starting to chill out a little bit. 2024 01:50:22.239 --> 01:50:22.359 Uh. 2025 01:50:22.840 --> 01:50:27.319 The the blind side that's not normally available typically over 2026 01:50:27.439 --> 01:50:28.399 the retail counter. 2027 01:50:29.000 --> 01:50:29.119 Uh. 2028 01:50:29.359 --> 01:50:32.159 It has a mix of a couple of ingredients in it. 2029 01:50:32.680 --> 01:50:34.920 One of them is met sulfur on methyl, the other 2030 01:50:35.119 --> 01:50:38.039 self introzone. The met sulfur on methol. You want to 2031 01:50:38.079 --> 01:50:41.399 be careful with that ingredient. And therefore with the blind Side, 2032 01:50:41.640 --> 01:50:45.680 don't overapply it. Don't apply it and then overwater it in. 2033 01:50:46.079 --> 01:50:48.520 It's it's not made you know, the way you have 2034 01:50:48.640 --> 01:50:50.800 to water it in. It's just made for spraying on 2035 01:50:50.880 --> 01:50:53.479 the plant because you can damage some of your woody 2036 01:50:53.560 --> 01:50:55.880 ornamentals with it. But it is a it's a very 2037 01:50:55.920 --> 01:50:59.680 effective herbicide as opposed to mergent. I would I would 2038 01:50:59.720 --> 01:51:04.880 say when you see the virginia button weed making its 2039 01:51:05.399 --> 01:51:08.680 space show again, that would be a time, you know, 2040 01:51:08.800 --> 01:51:12.039 to go ahead and do a treatment like that for it. 2041 01:51:13.079 --> 01:51:17.840 I have you used Blindside before you on your lawns 2042 01:51:17.960 --> 01:51:18.359 or anything. 2043 01:51:19.720 --> 01:51:22.199 You started using it last year, And I would spray 2044 01:51:22.239 --> 01:51:24.640 it right on the plaid kind of go find the 2045 01:51:24.760 --> 01:51:26.920 virginia button, kind of do the little twist, pull it 2046 01:51:26.960 --> 01:51:28.720 out of the grass where it was above, spray it 2047 01:51:29.119 --> 01:51:31.239 and then wait till it to turn brown and go 2048 01:51:31.319 --> 01:51:33.279 back and pull it out, you know, and get the 2049 01:51:33.359 --> 01:51:35.720 root and everything. And it seemed to be effective that way. 2050 01:51:36.119 --> 01:51:38.159 But like I said, it's a little slow. You have 2051 01:51:38.239 --> 01:51:40.600 to go place by place, and of course my neighbors 2052 01:51:40.680 --> 01:51:42.319 just popping up in there. Then it jump back into 2053 01:51:42.399 --> 01:51:44.359 my yard, so I'm having to kind of treat their 2054 01:51:44.439 --> 01:51:44.920 yard too. 2055 01:51:45.119 --> 01:51:48.880 So right, yeah, we'll just make sure your turf's in 2056 01:51:48.960 --> 01:51:51.800 really good health. If it's stressed or coal damaged or 2057 01:51:52.560 --> 01:51:55.399 you know, damaged from drought or whatever kinds of things. 2058 01:51:55.880 --> 01:51:58.279 You don't want to just apply that blind side to it. 2059 01:51:58.359 --> 01:52:00.239 You want to be in good, strong health, all of 2060 01:52:00.279 --> 01:52:03.239 that label. Carefully, very very important to mix it right, 2061 01:52:03.319 --> 01:52:06.720 apply it right, look for any restrictions you know that 2062 01:52:06.840 --> 01:52:10.680 they give you in terms of using it. Sometimes you 2063 01:52:10.760 --> 01:52:14.680 get a little discoloration and yellowing from that particular product. 2064 01:52:14.760 --> 01:52:16.840 But just just be careful with it. But yeah, and 2065 01:52:17.039 --> 01:52:19.199 for right now, what I would do on Virginia button weed. 2066 01:52:19.399 --> 01:52:20.560 I know you don't want to be on your hands 2067 01:52:20.560 --> 01:52:22.479 and knees, but if I had it in my lawn, 2068 01:52:22.520 --> 01:52:26.279 which I happen to not have that weed, thank goodness currently, 2069 01:52:26.960 --> 01:52:30.119 but getting it out of there by hand pulling some 2070 01:52:30.399 --> 01:52:32.439 I know, breaking it off. It's going to break off, 2071 01:52:32.479 --> 01:52:35.840 and you're not You're not eliminating the plant by pulling it. 2072 01:52:36.000 --> 01:52:39.159 It breaks off. But you're all those seed pods that 2073 01:52:39.199 --> 01:52:41.640 are along the stem. You can get those out of there, 2074 01:52:41.840 --> 01:52:45.760 and so you're really cutting down on the amount of 2075 01:52:45.840 --> 01:52:48.479 seed for next year by doing the best you can 2076 01:52:48.560 --> 01:52:50.760 getting as much of it out as you can. And 2077 01:52:50.880 --> 01:52:55.279 I know that's difficult because it intertwines with your grass. Yes, 2078 01:52:56.640 --> 01:53:01.199 like a carpet. It's your eyes, doesn't it. Yeah. And finally, Jackie, 2079 01:53:01.880 --> 01:53:04.399 just keep that watering down, you know, a good soaking 2080 01:53:04.479 --> 01:53:07.760 on a very infrequent basis. The more you water, the 2081 01:53:07.840 --> 01:53:11.479 happier and more vigorous Virginia button weed is. So we 2082 01:53:11.640 --> 01:53:16.000 tend to water more than our Saint Augustine needs. Too little, 2083 01:53:16.039 --> 01:53:19.319 too often is what's typical. But if you can let 2084 01:53:19.359 --> 01:53:21.600 it dry on a little bit between waterings, it will 2085 01:53:21.800 --> 01:53:25.279 at least slow down the Virginia button weed, making it 2086 01:53:25.399 --> 01:53:29.479 easier to get ahead of it. Okay, all, well, thank 2087 01:53:29.520 --> 01:53:32.279 you very much, sir, have a good we Thank you. 2088 01:53:32.439 --> 01:53:35.560 I appreciate appreciate your call. You bet, you bet, you 2089 01:53:35.720 --> 01:53:38.800 take care. Uh. You know, if you're looking for any 2090 01:53:38.960 --> 01:53:41.079 kind of product, especially ones that are harder to find, 2091 01:53:41.159 --> 01:53:43.760 like we've been talking about, Southwest Fertilizer has got them, 2092 01:53:43.840 --> 01:53:45.439 you know, Bob doesn't have it. You don't need it, 2093 01:53:45.600 --> 01:53:49.640 because he has everything. If I talk about a fertilizer 2094 01:53:49.760 --> 01:53:52.079 and a sect a side, a fungicide on guardenline, Bob's 2095 01:53:52.119 --> 01:53:55.520 got it, and including things like as might if you 2096 01:53:55.600 --> 01:53:58.439 need a tool, if you need hoses, garden hoses, if 2097 01:53:58.520 --> 01:54:01.439 you need the law on more blade sharping, by the way, 2098 01:54:01.479 --> 01:54:03.079 go ahead and get that done now before there's a 2099 01:54:03.159 --> 01:54:06.479 rush in the spring. He can do it. Small engine 2100 01:54:06.479 --> 01:54:09.640 repair they got shopping back. Tell him you need one 2101 01:54:09.680 --> 01:54:11.560 of those kneeling benches. I keep telling you about that 2102 01:54:11.720 --> 01:54:15.560 of Southwest Fertilizer. That's the tool. You're gonna you give 2103 01:54:15.640 --> 01:54:17.760 that as a gift, and you just wait. People are 2104 01:54:17.880 --> 01:54:20.960 gonna love it. They may look at it and go hmm, okay, 2105 01:54:21.960 --> 01:54:24.359 just tell them. Don't tell them I said, it's because 2106 01:54:24.359 --> 01:54:26.600 they're old, because as you get old, you need you 2107 01:54:26.720 --> 01:54:29.840 need a kneeling bench more. But don't tell them that. 2108 01:54:30.119 --> 01:54:32.760 But anyway, how about one for my sister who is 2109 01:54:33.359 --> 01:54:36.000 significantly older than me, A fact that I like to 2110 01:54:36.079 --> 01:54:38.279 point out to her whenever I get a chance. 2111 01:54:38.920 --> 01:54:39.039 Uh. 2112 01:54:39.279 --> 01:54:41.680 And after I watched it, well, I thought, you know 2113 01:54:41.800 --> 01:54:44.239 what I gotta get knew one of those and I did. 2114 01:54:44.560 --> 01:54:48.239 I was talking like that's cool anyway. Just one of 2115 01:54:48.279 --> 01:54:51.319 the things you get at Southwest Fertilizer dot Com corner 2116 01:54:51.359 --> 01:54:52.279 of bus Nut and run. 2117 01:54:52.159 --> 01:54:58.079 With welcome to KTRH. Guarded line with skip rictor. 2118 01:54:58.399 --> 01:55:08.600 So just watch him as we. 2119 01:55:13.800 --> 01:55:16.479 May give a piece SUPs. 2120 01:55:23.359 --> 01:55:24.079 A sign. 2121 01:55:27.560 --> 01:55:31.479 All right, here we go. We got another hour left 2122 01:55:31.520 --> 01:55:36.319 today and we are kicking it off right here. Looking 2123 01:55:36.399 --> 01:55:38.119 forward to your calls if you'd like to give us 2124 01:55:38.199 --> 01:55:41.239 call seven one three two one two k t r 2125 01:55:41.479 --> 01:55:46.479 H seven one three two one two k t r H. 2126 01:55:47.800 --> 01:55:50.760 I have really looking forward to getting out in my 2127 01:55:50.920 --> 01:55:54.520 garden this this week. I you know, sometimes I just 2128 01:55:54.560 --> 01:55:58.479 get busy with horticulture business and other activities and things, 2129 01:55:58.560 --> 01:56:00.399 and I just kind of hard to get back around 2130 01:56:00.640 --> 01:56:03.000 get out in the garden. And there's a lot of 2131 01:56:03.079 --> 01:56:05.600 things that could be done right now. I've got a 2132 01:56:05.640 --> 01:56:10.199 couple of flower beds I'm fixing to get planted. Do 2133 01:56:10.279 --> 01:56:11.920 you know, by the way, did you know that that 2134 01:56:12.079 --> 01:56:15.880 means you're from Texas if you say fixing too. I didn't. 2135 01:56:16.079 --> 01:56:17.640 I grew up saying it and I didn't know that 2136 01:56:17.800 --> 01:56:20.800 was a thing. And until someone goes what is fixing 2137 01:56:20.880 --> 01:56:24.319 to me? Well, it means the same thing as calling 2138 01:56:24.439 --> 01:56:28.680 a reservoir a tank, and you all grow up doing that. 2139 01:56:29.079 --> 01:56:32.800 It's a tank. Okay. Anyway, I'm fixing to get out 2140 01:56:32.840 --> 01:56:34.760 there in the flower beds and get them planted. I've 2141 01:56:34.760 --> 01:56:40.560 got some beautiful gingers, two different kinds of ornamental ginger, 2142 01:56:40.600 --> 01:56:43.000 and if you haven't grown ornamental ginger before, you ought to. 2143 01:56:43.239 --> 01:56:47.239 It is a great plant. A lot of the gingers, well, 2144 01:56:47.359 --> 01:56:50.119 there's many different species and they each have their pros 2145 01:56:50.159 --> 01:56:55.239 and cons. The kind I'm planting is butterfly ginger Jadicium. 2146 01:56:55.560 --> 01:56:58.640 That's the genus, and there are a couple of different 2147 01:56:58.680 --> 01:57:02.039 ones that I have that I'm really looking forward. I've 2148 01:57:02.079 --> 01:57:03.760 never grown before, so I'm looking forward to getting those 2149 01:57:03.800 --> 01:57:06.359 planted out there. They are typically a late summer bloomer, 2150 01:57:06.479 --> 01:57:09.720 early fall, and so those need to get done. There's 2151 01:57:09.760 --> 01:57:11.840 a lot of other plants that are just waiting on me. 2152 01:57:11.960 --> 01:57:13.960 You know, they're in pots, and hopefully I remember to 2153 01:57:14.039 --> 01:57:16.199 water them, keeping them alive long enough time get out 2154 01:57:16.199 --> 01:57:19.880 there and get them planted. But I do practice what 2155 01:57:19.960 --> 01:57:21.960 I preach in this. I'm not going to put a 2156 01:57:22.039 --> 01:57:25.479 plant in the ground without preparing the soil. If you 2157 01:57:25.560 --> 01:57:27.880 want a Peter piper tongue twister is don't PLoP a 2158 01:57:27.920 --> 01:57:30.439 plant into an unprepared plot. That is the way to 2159 01:57:30.520 --> 01:57:32.960 remember it. Don't pop a plant into an unprepared plot. 2160 01:57:33.680 --> 01:57:36.640 So anyway, I am getting it ready and here we go. 2161 01:57:36.840 --> 01:57:39.039 This week's the planting week. We're going to get it done. 2162 01:57:40.640 --> 01:57:42.079 I mentioned, you know, I was talking about south As 2163 01:57:42.119 --> 01:57:45.479 fertilizer before we went to break. Bob is going to 2164 01:57:45.560 --> 01:57:49.359 provide you. I mentioned fertilizers and pesticize. What I always 2165 01:57:49.359 --> 01:57:51.680 want to remind people is when you hear people talk 2166 01:57:51.680 --> 01:57:54.760 about pesticides and fertilizer, organic gardeners often are like, yeah, 2167 01:57:54.800 --> 01:57:57.079 I don't use that stuff, Well you do? You just 2168 01:57:57.199 --> 01:58:00.920 use your organic versions of it, Okay. And when it 2169 01:58:01.039 --> 01:58:04.720 comes to the best supply of organic products in town, 2170 01:58:05.119 --> 01:58:08.880 the widest supply, Sophist Fertilizer is going to have it. 2171 01:58:09.159 --> 01:58:12.960 They stock a wide selection of things that are natural 2172 01:58:13.039 --> 01:58:16.920 as well as synthetics in their products. So just keep 2173 01:58:17.000 --> 01:58:21.880 that in mind. I'm going to go now to Katie, Texas, 2174 01:58:21.960 --> 01:58:24.640 and we're going to talk to Wally. Hello, Wally, Welcome 2175 01:58:24.680 --> 01:58:25.319 to garden Line. 2176 01:58:26.279 --> 01:58:26.520 Thank you. 2177 01:58:26.680 --> 01:58:31.840 Chip got a question on our favorite topic, Virginia button weed. 2178 01:58:32.600 --> 01:58:36.159 I've been inundated in a couple areas on lawn, especially 2179 01:58:36.239 --> 01:58:39.720 some low areas, and I've pulled it up like a 2180 01:58:39.840 --> 01:58:46.439 cheaper rug. That stuff's amazing. Yeah, that question is. And 2181 01:58:46.520 --> 01:58:49.239 I've got some of these are in some low depression 2182 01:58:49.359 --> 01:58:54.279 areas and my intent is to backfield what's some new 2183 01:58:54.359 --> 01:59:00.079 top soil, then put more augustine down sod what you 2184 01:59:00.119 --> 01:59:02.479 know once that when you pull this stuff up, it 2185 01:59:02.560 --> 01:59:05.319 seems like the you know, the top and that most 2186 01:59:05.359 --> 01:59:07.079 of the roots come with it with a lot of 2187 01:59:07.159 --> 01:59:10.520 the soil. But is there still some root systems stuck 2188 01:59:10.600 --> 01:59:13.000 in the ground. Do I need to till that up 2189 01:59:13.079 --> 01:59:14.039 before I put the. 2190 01:59:17.079 --> 01:59:17.199 Uh? 2191 01:59:17.640 --> 01:59:17.680 No? 2192 01:59:17.920 --> 01:59:19.840 Well are you tilling it? 2193 01:59:20.199 --> 01:59:20.239 Is? 2194 01:59:20.399 --> 01:59:22.439 Just if the soil is hard, you want to loosen 2195 01:59:22.439 --> 01:59:24.960 it up for a good sid to soil contact. But 2196 01:59:25.520 --> 01:59:28.680 I would scrape everything off the surface in those low areas, 2197 01:59:28.960 --> 01:59:31.319 you know, just scrape you get all the virginia button, 2198 01:59:31.399 --> 01:59:33.760 we get all the grass and everything, and that way 2199 01:59:33.760 --> 01:59:35.640 you don't have to spray it there and then put 2200 01:59:35.680 --> 01:59:38.960 your soil down to level it out, and then put 2201 01:59:39.000 --> 01:59:40.760 your side on top and you should be good to go. 2202 01:59:41.399 --> 01:59:43.439 Just be ready because you know it's gonna pop up 2203 01:59:43.479 --> 01:59:45.239 here and there, you're gonna miss a seed or two 2204 01:59:45.439 --> 01:59:48.640 or who knows what. Uh, just be ready to treat 2205 01:59:48.760 --> 01:59:49.319 as needed. 2206 01:59:50.840 --> 01:59:54.119 And before I put the on new top soil, before 2207 01:59:54.159 --> 01:59:57.199 I put the side down, should I bring anything to 2208 01:59:57.279 --> 01:59:58.520 help the new root system? 2209 01:59:58.800 --> 01:59:59.600 Take check. 2210 02:00:00.479 --> 02:00:04.159 I've heard you talk about something breaking down to help 2211 02:00:04.239 --> 02:00:06.800 the break down the clay in the sod. 2212 02:00:11.000 --> 02:00:13.960 So you're outing, Katie, and you typically don't have high 2213 02:00:14.079 --> 02:00:19.840 sodium soils out there. So because you don't, putting gypsum 2214 02:00:19.920 --> 02:00:23.279 down is not going to be helpful to your soil 2215 02:00:23.359 --> 02:00:27.319 out there. So the main thing is if you wanted 2216 02:00:27.399 --> 02:00:29.359 to amend the soil with a little bit of a 2217 02:00:29.439 --> 02:00:32.800 composting material, you could do that. Just loosening it up 2218 02:00:32.960 --> 02:00:35.760 is good, you know, seeing augustine will grow on just straight, 2219 02:00:35.920 --> 02:00:40.039 unimproved clay. All the sod farms, we got thousands of 2220 02:00:40.079 --> 02:00:42.840 acres of sod around Texas, and all these sod farms 2221 02:00:42.920 --> 02:00:45.880 down on the Gulf Coast they're on basically a lot 2222 02:00:45.960 --> 02:00:49.039 of them are on clay soil, some not, but and 2223 02:00:49.399 --> 02:00:52.840 the sod grows just fine on pure clay. So there's 2224 02:00:52.920 --> 02:00:55.319 not a real need to have to do major amendments 2225 02:00:55.359 --> 02:00:57.159 to it. You just want to get the nutrition right 2226 02:00:57.680 --> 02:00:59.840 in the soil and that's what our fertilizing does. 2227 02:01:01.520 --> 02:01:03.159 Okay, well, thank you very much. 2228 02:01:04.079 --> 02:01:07.239 Okay, all right, thank you. I appreciate you call very much. 2229 02:01:08.039 --> 02:01:12.399 You take care. Yeah, that is important to remember. Hey, 2230 02:01:12.720 --> 02:01:16.079 I'm going to be at RCW Nursery's next Saturday. Remember 2231 02:01:16.279 --> 02:01:18.840 RCW is the garden center right there where a belt 2232 02:01:18.880 --> 02:01:23.479 way e comes into Tomball Parkway Highway to forty nine. 2233 02:01:24.720 --> 02:01:26.960 RCW is the get it got at nursery. Meaning well, 2234 02:01:27.039 --> 02:01:28.920 first of all, they probably have it already, but if 2235 02:01:28.920 --> 02:01:30.760 they don't give them a call, they don't have it. 2236 02:01:30.840 --> 02:01:33.079 They'll do their best to find it. You're going to 2237 02:01:33.119 --> 02:01:36.920 find a great selection right now really of herbs, perennials, 2238 02:01:37.520 --> 02:01:40.439 coo season annuals, shrubs, and native plants. You know, they 2239 02:01:40.520 --> 02:01:43.600 got those specials going on where we're talking about fifteen 2240 02:01:43.640 --> 02:01:46.560 percent off of trees at RCW Nursery. I mean that 2241 02:01:47.520 --> 02:01:50.720 is a good deal, right, a good deal. When you 2242 02:01:50.920 --> 02:01:53.720 go to RCW, you're going to find everything that you 2243 02:01:53.840 --> 02:01:57.119 need to have success in your lawn, your garden, your landscape. 2244 02:01:57.840 --> 02:02:01.600 That is just what they specialize in. And when you 2245 02:02:01.680 --> 02:02:04.800 get good advice from a good nursery like RCWU are 2246 02:02:04.880 --> 02:02:07.840 going to have success with what you do. Come out 2247 02:02:07.880 --> 02:02:10.920 and see me next Saturday from twelve to two. Twelve 2248 02:02:11.000 --> 02:02:14.479 to two RCW Nursery, They're going to have their fall Fling. 2249 02:02:14.920 --> 02:02:17.119 That means we're gonna have fun. We're gonna have a 2250 02:02:17.239 --> 02:02:19.560 barbecue lunch, we're gonna have some prizes, we're gonna have 2251 02:02:19.560 --> 02:02:22.640 some games, and then just you and I visiting talking 2252 02:02:22.640 --> 02:02:25.760 about plants. So we had a great time when we 2253 02:02:25.840 --> 02:02:27.159 go out to those kind of places. I had a 2254 02:02:27.159 --> 02:02:29.520 great time last time I was at at RCW Nursery. 2255 02:02:30.039 --> 02:02:32.960 I always love folks coming up. Gardeners are so enthusiastic 2256 02:02:33.039 --> 02:02:36.119 and hopeful. And let's just kick off the rest of 2257 02:02:36.199 --> 02:02:38.680 this fall with a good fall fling out there RCW 2258 02:02:38.840 --> 02:02:42.479 next weekend. I want to go now to Leslie in 2259 02:02:42.760 --> 02:02:45.359 a Missouri city. Hey, Leslie, welcome to garden Line. 2260 02:02:46.920 --> 02:02:50.199 Thank you, Good morning Skip. I have two questionships that 2261 02:02:50.319 --> 02:02:50.720 are right. 2262 02:02:51.640 --> 02:02:53.399 I have a yes. 2263 02:02:53.520 --> 02:02:55.960 The first one is actually you may have answered it 2264 02:02:56.039 --> 02:02:57.159 with the previous caller. 2265 02:02:57.439 --> 02:02:57.920 I have a. 2266 02:03:00.159 --> 02:03:01.920 Called a fire bed. It was an area where I 2267 02:03:02.000 --> 02:03:06.159 had a tree and a semicircular area about fifteen twenty 2268 02:03:06.199 --> 02:03:10.279 feet in diameter, and so I've just taken it down 2269 02:03:10.439 --> 02:03:13.680 to ground level and I'm going to put. 2270 02:03:13.600 --> 02:03:14.239 Sod on it. 2271 02:03:14.640 --> 02:03:18.640 And I had had read a starter fertilizer was good, 2272 02:03:18.720 --> 02:03:21.319 but I've got like a half a bag of nature's 2273 02:03:21.359 --> 02:03:25.880 resources when a riser fertilizer, and I was wondering if 2274 02:03:25.920 --> 02:03:27.399 I could just use that instead. 2275 02:03:32.760 --> 02:03:35.239 Yeah, go ahead, you don't not this fall, not this 2276 02:03:35.399 --> 02:03:37.319 fall on the sod. I mean, if you want to 2277 02:03:37.319 --> 02:03:39.800 put a little bit down, that'd be fine, but especially 2278 02:03:39.920 --> 02:03:43.840 the potassium the last number, the third number. But if 2279 02:03:43.880 --> 02:03:45.560 you just want to lay it down, get it watered in. 2280 02:03:45.760 --> 02:03:48.279 I planted sod this past spring and I did not 2281 02:03:48.520 --> 02:03:51.760 fertilize for months. I couldn't get around to it, and 2282 02:03:51.840 --> 02:03:56.039 I was surprised at what a good fertilizer charge came 2283 02:03:56.159 --> 02:03:59.680 in with the soil and the sod. So don't feel 2284 02:03:59.680 --> 02:04:02.239 like you have to fertilize right now. Wait until spring, 2285 02:04:02.439 --> 02:04:04.439 and then when you've mowed the lawn twice, put out 2286 02:04:04.479 --> 02:04:06.279 some fertilizer and it'll be good to go. 2287 02:04:07.039 --> 02:04:08.159 Okay, okay. 2288 02:04:08.800 --> 02:04:13.760 And the second question, Leslie, Yeah, I'm gonna have I'm 2289 02:04:13.760 --> 02:04:16.199 sorry to interrupt you. I've got to go to a break. 2290 02:04:16.279 --> 02:04:19.279 Hang on, we'll come back with your second question. All right, folks, 2291 02:04:19.600 --> 02:04:22.319 seven one three two one two kt r HB right back. 2292 02:04:22.520 --> 02:04:27.359 All right, welcome back to Guardline. Good heavy with us, 2293 02:04:27.600 --> 02:04:29.720 looking forward to talking to you about the things that 2294 02:04:30.000 --> 02:04:33.359 you're interested in as a gardener. We're going to head 2295 02:04:33.399 --> 02:04:35.319 straight back out to Leslie and Missouri City. 2296 02:04:35.720 --> 02:04:36.039 Leslie. 2297 02:04:36.079 --> 02:04:38.720 We were we were halfway through your question, and I 2298 02:04:38.800 --> 02:04:40.600 think you kind of had a follow up. 2299 02:04:42.319 --> 02:04:42.920 Yes, thank you. 2300 02:04:43.800 --> 02:04:44.000 Yeah. 2301 02:04:44.079 --> 02:04:48.319 My other question is I've heard, I think you and 2302 02:04:48.319 --> 02:04:50.239 a number of others say that follow us actually a 2303 02:04:50.319 --> 02:04:52.520 good time to plant new shrugs. But is it a 2304 02:04:52.560 --> 02:04:55.720 good time to transplant shrucks I've got I've got some 2305 02:04:55.840 --> 02:04:57.960 shrubs that have kind of grown together and I want 2306 02:04:58.000 --> 02:04:58.399 to move. 2307 02:04:58.319 --> 02:04:58.800 Some of them. 2308 02:05:00.680 --> 02:05:04.399 It is the best time to transplant. In fact, you transplant, 2309 02:05:04.760 --> 02:05:06.960 you can plant during the summer and get away with it. 2310 02:05:07.000 --> 02:05:09.039 You try to transplant during the summer and you're gonna 2311 02:05:09.039 --> 02:05:11.880 be up a creek. So yes, get that done. Dig 2312 02:05:11.960 --> 02:05:14.960 it up, Get wider rather than deeper. You don't have 2313 02:05:15.039 --> 02:05:17.039 to dig two feet deep, but you need to dig 2314 02:05:17.840 --> 02:05:22.159 wider in about maybe eight inches or so deep. And 2315 02:05:22.359 --> 02:05:25.359 then what I do to keep from hurting my back 2316 02:05:25.560 --> 02:05:28.000 is I'll dig around a circle kind of almost like 2317 02:05:28.039 --> 02:05:30.640 a little trench maybe eight inches deep around it, and 2318 02:05:30.760 --> 02:05:34.159 then take a flat shovel and go underneath that and 2319 02:05:34.680 --> 02:05:37.840 slide a tarp underneath it, and you kind of lean 2320 02:05:37.920 --> 02:05:40.039 the plant one way, slide the tarp under, and then 2321 02:05:40.479 --> 02:05:42.520 lean the plant the other ways. You cut roots and 2322 02:05:42.920 --> 02:05:45.439 slide it up onto the tarp. And that way you 2323 02:05:45.560 --> 02:05:47.479 never have to pick You never have to pick it up. 2324 02:05:47.600 --> 02:05:50.000 You can just grab that tarp and drag it to 2325 02:05:50.119 --> 02:05:52.359 the new spot and slide it right into the spot. 2326 02:05:53.039 --> 02:05:55.880 If there is an obstruction where you can't drag it. 2327 02:05:56.560 --> 02:05:59.399 Two people grabbing the four corners of a tarp can 2328 02:05:59.439 --> 02:06:03.079 pick something up that's quite heavy without hurting your back. 2329 02:06:03.159 --> 02:06:04.199 You don't stoop at all. 2330 02:06:05.600 --> 02:06:06.000 Gotcha. 2331 02:06:06.239 --> 02:06:08.680 That sounds like a great plan, Thank you very much. 2332 02:06:10.520 --> 02:06:13.239 Yeah, just be patient and be careful because you don't 2333 02:06:13.239 --> 02:06:15.000 want to you don't want to put your kids. Uh, 2334 02:06:15.359 --> 02:06:17.399 you don't want to have to put your chiropractice kids 2335 02:06:17.439 --> 02:06:18.880 through college. You know what I'm saying. 2336 02:06:20.159 --> 02:06:21.520 I'm sorry, would you say that again? 2337 02:06:22.840 --> 02:06:24.159 I interrupted? 2338 02:06:24.279 --> 02:06:27.640 I just said, you don't want to put your cairo 2339 02:06:27.800 --> 02:06:31.560 practice kids through college, so so be careful with lifting 2340 02:06:31.640 --> 02:06:32.159 that stuff. 2341 02:06:33.479 --> 02:06:36.680 Okay, that sounds like a really good plan. Should I 2342 02:06:36.760 --> 02:06:39.079 amend the soil where I'm sent taking it. 2343 02:06:39.119 --> 02:06:44.680 To uh in the entire bed area, Yes, but not 2344 02:06:44.840 --> 02:06:48.000 in the planting hole. So if you if you want 2345 02:06:48.039 --> 02:06:50.439 to mix in some composts to a large area and 2346 02:06:50.720 --> 02:06:53.520 then dig the hole to plant, that's fine. But don't 2347 02:06:53.560 --> 02:06:55.079 dig a hole and put compost in it. 2348 02:06:56.439 --> 02:06:56.560 Oh. 2349 02:06:56.680 --> 02:06:59.279 Okay, that's good because I'm glad I asked because that's 2350 02:06:59.319 --> 02:07:02.199 exactly what I would have done. Okay, Thanksgiving? 2351 02:07:02.279 --> 02:07:03.520 Yeah, I know, it's what a lot of people do. 2352 02:07:04.359 --> 02:07:10.520 You bet you take care of you know night fussis Texas. 2353 02:07:10.600 --> 02:07:12.920 Three step I keep telling you about it because it 2354 02:07:13.039 --> 02:07:18.239 is time to do it. That three steps are fall fertilizer, barricade, 2355 02:07:18.800 --> 02:07:26.520 weed preventter, and eagle turf fungicide disease prevent so fall 2356 02:07:26.600 --> 02:07:30.680 special barricade eagle Simple as that you do all three. 2357 02:07:31.159 --> 02:07:32.640 You do them all the same day. If you want, 2358 02:07:32.880 --> 02:07:34.439 don't put them all in the same hopper, but do 2359 02:07:34.560 --> 02:07:36.520 it all on the same day. Put out the fertilizer 2360 02:07:37.000 --> 02:07:40.720 at the proper rate, follow the bag label. Put out 2361 02:07:40.760 --> 02:07:43.680 the barricade at the proper rate, even a little on 2362 02:07:43.760 --> 02:07:45.319 the low end of the rate. At this point in 2363 02:07:45.359 --> 02:07:48.560 the season you can do that. It just stays within 2364 02:07:48.680 --> 02:07:51.880 that rate and then the Eagle Turf fungicide put it 2365 02:07:51.960 --> 02:07:54.079 out at the proper rate, watter it all in, get 2366 02:07:54.079 --> 02:07:56.600 it in the ground. Even that even the fungicide will 2367 02:07:56.600 --> 02:07:59.479 be taken up by the roots of the plant and 2368 02:07:59.640 --> 02:08:03.239 it will give you protection against weeds sprouting for fall. 2369 02:08:03.520 --> 02:08:05.880 It will give your turf the strength that needs to 2370 02:08:05.960 --> 02:08:08.800 go through winter and come out strong. And it'll prevent 2371 02:08:09.800 --> 02:08:13.239 diseases like take all root rot and like brown patch 2372 02:08:13.359 --> 02:08:16.279 or large patch in your lawn. Now you're gonna find 2373 02:08:16.279 --> 02:08:19.039 this type of product Night FoST Products at D and 2374 02:08:19.119 --> 02:08:23.119 D Feed and Tombaal Plantation, Ace Hardware, and Richmond Hiding 2375 02:08:23.199 --> 02:08:25.720 and Feed on Stubner Airline. You're going to find it 2376 02:08:25.800 --> 02:08:28.479 at Ace Hardware and Sico Ranch, the Arborgate and Tomball 2377 02:08:28.560 --> 02:08:32.359 and Shades of Texas down in southeast Houston on Genoa 2378 02:08:32.439 --> 02:08:35.680 Red Bluff will also carry that. We're going to head 2379 02:08:35.720 --> 02:08:38.399 now to sugar Land and talk to Patty. Hello, Patty, 2380 02:08:38.479 --> 02:08:39.359 Welcome to Guardenline. 2381 02:08:40.399 --> 02:08:45.079 Good morning, Skip. I have this Meyer lemon that's about 2382 02:08:45.279 --> 02:08:48.199 going on its third year. The first and second year 2383 02:08:48.319 --> 02:08:51.600 it blossomed and it put out a little baby fruit, 2384 02:08:51.760 --> 02:08:57.079 but it aborted all of it. But this year, right now, 2385 02:08:57.399 --> 02:09:01.680 it's totally green. It looks healthy, but it's in a 2386 02:09:01.760 --> 02:09:06.319 sunny location and it's not blossoming at all. 2387 02:09:06.640 --> 02:09:07.279 It's all green. 2388 02:09:08.399 --> 02:09:11.920 Okay, okay, well just be patient with it. It'll it'll 2389 02:09:11.960 --> 02:09:14.920 settle in and it'll it'll be back in a blooming cycle. 2390 02:09:15.000 --> 02:09:15.119 Here. 2391 02:09:16.079 --> 02:09:18.520 I don't know exactly why there's not blooms on it 2392 02:09:18.520 --> 02:09:22.760 any particular time. I mean, you've got good sunlight, that's important, 2393 02:09:23.000 --> 02:09:26.239 that's needed. If it looks healthy, that means you're watering 2394 02:09:26.319 --> 02:09:29.279 it and not letting it go into drought stress, because 2395 02:09:29.279 --> 02:09:31.600 that can cause some problems with blooming and holding on 2396 02:09:31.680 --> 02:09:32.079 to fruit. 2397 02:09:33.479 --> 02:09:40.600 I can ask fertilizer or no anything so encourage you know. 2398 02:09:40.720 --> 02:09:44.600 I don't recommend, yeah, I don't recommend fertilizing this time 2399 02:09:44.640 --> 02:09:47.079 of year on something that's already kind of cold tender, 2400 02:09:47.720 --> 02:09:50.560 because to push new growth and then have cool weather, 2401 02:09:50.800 --> 02:09:54.079 it's even less cold hearty than if you didn't. Okay, 2402 02:09:54.640 --> 02:09:57.560 so let's wait until spring and then begin fertilizing it 2403 02:09:57.640 --> 02:10:00.680 again and get you a good centris fertilizer. We got 2404 02:10:00.720 --> 02:10:03.199 a number of great brands out there on the market 2405 02:10:03.600 --> 02:10:05.600 by the various people. You hear me talk about here, 2406 02:10:06.560 --> 02:10:08.680 get a good fertilizer, put it down, follow the label, 2407 02:10:08.920 --> 02:10:10.920 get it, keep it watered in. And I think I 2408 02:10:11.039 --> 02:10:13.319 think next spring you'll be back in the blooming business. 2409 02:10:13.760 --> 02:10:17.039 Okay, okay. I thought about, you know, going and buying 2410 02:10:17.119 --> 02:10:18.239 some bees or something. 2411 02:10:20.239 --> 02:10:23.840 All right, well, you know, if if you have if 2412 02:10:23.880 --> 02:10:26.039 you have blooms, you need bees. But I bet there's 2413 02:10:26.119 --> 02:10:28.159 enough bees unless you're just spraying and killing them all. 2414 02:10:28.239 --> 02:10:29.079 No doubt you're doing that. 2415 02:10:29.359 --> 02:10:34.199 So I mean, my tomato plants and my pepper plants 2416 02:10:34.239 --> 02:10:37.239 have flowers, but they're blooming. 2417 02:10:37.239 --> 02:10:37.359 There. 2418 02:10:37.840 --> 02:10:41.359 You go, all right, well, well, you know sometimes plants 2419 02:10:41.600 --> 02:10:45.439 just do different things, and so I just say, relaxed, 2420 02:10:45.479 --> 02:10:47.279 it'll be okay, It'll be okay next year. 2421 02:10:47.359 --> 02:10:52.840 Okay, thank you, Skip, I have a great thank you. 2422 02:10:53.039 --> 02:10:56.319 I appreciate your call. You bet, Patty, You take care 2423 02:10:56.520 --> 02:11:01.199 and a really wonderful rest of your weekend. You know, 2424 02:11:01.279 --> 02:11:04.520 ACE Hardware is where you get pretty much anything you 2425 02:11:04.640 --> 02:11:07.319 need to have success with your garden and landscape. I mean, 2426 02:11:07.399 --> 02:11:11.079 they specialize in that that the motto for aces ace 2427 02:11:11.239 --> 02:11:13.600 is the place, and that's true whether you're talking about 2428 02:11:13.640 --> 02:11:17.119 paint or plumbing or electrical or whatever. It's definitely true 2429 02:11:17.159 --> 02:11:20.319 when you're talking about your lawn. Do you need fertilizers, 2430 02:11:20.520 --> 02:11:23.359 Do you need weed control? Do you need disease control? 2431 02:11:23.920 --> 02:11:26.880 Do you need garden hoses and sprinklers and hose and 2432 02:11:26.920 --> 02:11:30.279 shovels and rakes and everything else you could possibly want 2433 02:11:30.399 --> 02:11:32.840 for your landscape and for your lawn. They've got it 2434 02:11:32.960 --> 02:11:35.119 there at your local Ace Hardware store. You know, there's 2435 02:11:35.159 --> 02:11:37.720 forty Ace Hardware stores in the Greater Houston area, so 2436 02:11:37.800 --> 02:11:39.960 it's really easy to find yours. If you want to 2437 02:11:39.960 --> 02:11:42.119 see a little map, kind of cool map also to 2438 02:11:42.199 --> 02:11:44.600 find the ones near you. There may be some fairly 2439 02:11:44.680 --> 02:11:48.079 close you're not aware of. Go to Acehardware dot com 2440 02:11:48.680 --> 02:11:52.359 and find the store locator and just put your zip 2441 02:11:52.399 --> 02:11:54.319 code in there, and what you're going to see is 2442 02:11:54.359 --> 02:11:57.439 a lot of red dots all over the place. And 2443 02:11:57.560 --> 02:12:00.159 that's true here in Houston, of course. It's true. You 2444 02:12:00.239 --> 02:12:02.239 got friends in Austin that need to know where an 2445 02:12:02.239 --> 02:12:05.760 ACE Hardware is with they can use Ace Hardware Store Locator. 2446 02:12:05.800 --> 02:12:08.399 It's all over the country, but here in the Houston 2447 02:12:08.439 --> 02:12:11.239 area we are really fortunate to have some awesome, awesome 2448 02:12:11.279 --> 02:12:13.439 Ace Hardware stores. While you're there, grab if you've not 2449 02:12:13.560 --> 02:12:17.199 put out bait for fire ants yet, get that out too, 2450 02:12:17.640 --> 02:12:20.760 because fall is the best time to get those baits out. 2451 02:12:20.760 --> 02:12:24.079 We say fall is football season, right, So AGR Life 2452 02:12:24.119 --> 02:12:27.760 Extension Entomology used to have a program called tackle fire 2453 02:12:27.800 --> 02:12:30.680 Ants in the Fall, just reminding you it's time for 2454 02:12:30.760 --> 02:12:33.600 football season. It's time to tackle fire ants. You put 2455 02:12:33.640 --> 02:12:37.520 a bait out and knock those things down severely. If 2456 02:12:37.600 --> 02:12:40.439 not a removing them in your spring's gonna be a 2457 02:12:40.479 --> 02:12:44.479 lot better as a result of that. Nobody likes ants 2458 02:12:44.560 --> 02:12:47.720 in the pants, that is for sure. All right, let's 2459 02:12:47.760 --> 02:12:50.359 see where are we heading now. We're heading to Baytown 2460 02:12:50.880 --> 02:12:53.960 to talk to Sandy. Hello Sandy, welcome to garden Line. 2461 02:12:54.199 --> 02:12:58.840 Hi, thank you, thank you, thank you. My question is 2462 02:12:59.039 --> 02:13:01.960 is about fifty years ago I made a mistake by 2463 02:13:02.079 --> 02:13:05.960 putting down a four inch pot of that little tiny leaf. 2464 02:13:06.880 --> 02:13:11.079 I think it's a jasmine that they have around hospitals. 2465 02:13:10.520 --> 02:13:12.199 And office buildings. 2466 02:13:13.520 --> 02:13:14.640 It's a low grower. 2467 02:13:14.880 --> 02:13:19.279 Well, it's taken over my backyard and I wanted to 2468 02:13:19.520 --> 02:13:23.640 do something safely to remove it without messing up to 2469 02:13:23.680 --> 02:13:26.640 eat because system. But I really need to get rid 2470 02:13:26.640 --> 02:13:26.760 of it. 2471 02:13:26.920 --> 02:13:27.840 It's a monster. 2472 02:13:30.079 --> 02:13:34.920 Yeah, yeah, okay, assuming that's Asian jasmine based on your 2473 02:13:35.000 --> 02:13:41.000 description fIF so you would first up would be you 2474 02:13:41.079 --> 02:13:44.239 could just scrape it off the soil, just you know, 2475 02:13:44.640 --> 02:13:47.960 have some make it out there and basically scrape everything 2476 02:13:48.039 --> 02:13:50.039 off the surface and just under the surface. You know, 2477 02:13:50.159 --> 02:13:54.319 you hoe underneath the surface kind of horizontally. Not chopping down, 2478 02:13:54.439 --> 02:13:57.319 didn't it, but just dragging a ho horizontally under the surface. 2479 02:13:57.760 --> 02:13:59.560 Just rip it all out of there and get it 2480 02:13:59.640 --> 02:14:01.800 all out with as much of the stem and roots 2481 02:14:01.800 --> 02:14:04.840 and everything as you can. That will not eradicate it. 2482 02:14:04.920 --> 02:14:07.119 You're always going to have some behind that will pop up, 2483 02:14:07.239 --> 02:14:09.239 so you just have to have to deal with that. 2484 02:14:09.359 --> 02:14:12.520 But the alternative to that is to apply a herbicide 2485 02:14:12.920 --> 02:14:16.159 that kills it in a way that doesn't damage of 2486 02:14:16.239 --> 02:14:19.840 the plants, and a wiper applicator is the way to 2487 02:14:19.920 --> 02:14:24.960 do that. Products containing trichlope here t R I C 2488 02:14:25.359 --> 02:14:29.079 l O P y R are very effective for doing that. 2489 02:14:29.439 --> 02:14:32.800 For doing that, if you spray will carefully, you can 2490 02:14:32.880 --> 02:14:34.880 do it, or you can do a wiper applicator to 2491 02:14:34.920 --> 02:14:37.399 put it on there. Some people say that it helps 2492 02:14:37.479 --> 02:14:39.560 to get like a weed eater, a mower or something 2493 02:14:39.600 --> 02:14:41.560 and kind of chop it up real good and then 2494 02:14:41.760 --> 02:14:46.119 and then spray on it that exposes some cut surfaces 2495 02:14:46.199 --> 02:14:48.239 and things. However you want to go about it, just 2496 02:14:48.359 --> 02:14:51.079 know you're going to be doing it again. One thing 2497 02:14:51.199 --> 02:14:53.479 is not going to fix it all. Hey, Sandy, I'm 2498 02:14:53.520 --> 02:14:55.199 gonna have to run to a commercial if you want 2499 02:14:55.199 --> 02:14:57.920 to hang around and keep talking. If not, thanks, Thanks 2500 02:14:57.960 --> 02:15:01.319 for calling Garden Line, folks. I'll be right by. Good 2501 02:15:01.359 --> 02:15:03.079 to be back here on guard Line with you, and 2502 02:15:03.520 --> 02:15:06.359 we are going to jump right into the phone calls 2503 02:15:06.560 --> 02:15:11.079 and go to Bill in Galveston. Hey, Bill, welcome to 2504 02:15:11.119 --> 02:15:11.600 garden Line. 2505 02:15:12.800 --> 02:15:12.920 Hi. 2506 02:15:13.039 --> 02:15:14.920 I got two questions for you. First one has to 2507 02:15:15.000 --> 02:15:19.159 do with how I put Barricane on my along on Saturday. 2508 02:15:19.520 --> 02:15:21.000 How do I have to wait before I put the 2509 02:15:21.000 --> 02:15:21.600 fertilneser on? 2510 02:15:23.600 --> 02:15:26.920 Not at all. You can do it immediately and then 2511 02:15:27.000 --> 02:15:30.000 watering both them all right? Yeah. 2512 02:15:30.319 --> 02:15:33.319 Second question, I had a Sego pond take it out 2513 02:15:33.319 --> 02:15:36.319 about two years ago, and I try of grass to 2514 02:15:36.359 --> 02:15:39.039 grow there, but it's always turning brown on me. 2515 02:15:39.119 --> 02:15:47.159 Any suggestions, hmm, turning brown wonder why? Well, I don't 2516 02:15:47.199 --> 02:15:50.680 know that the Sego did that. It probably you know, 2517 02:15:51.000 --> 02:15:53.319 brown grass can be due to drought or disease, or 2518 02:15:53.439 --> 02:15:56.960 possibly in sets. But do you feel like you're watering 2519 02:15:57.039 --> 02:15:57.680 it adequately. 2520 02:15:59.000 --> 02:16:01.159 I'm watering it everything days automatically. 2521 02:16:03.199 --> 02:16:05.199 Yeah, that ought to be enough. If you're putting enough 2522 02:16:05.239 --> 02:16:06.840 water down, that ought to be enough. I'm not sure 2523 02:16:06.840 --> 02:16:08.760 why it's turning out, and it's only turning brown right 2524 02:16:08.800 --> 02:16:11.079 where the sego was right. 2525 02:16:11.199 --> 02:16:13.319 I was wondering there's some kind of chemical or something 2526 02:16:13.319 --> 02:16:16.800 of the Sago crimes you've created the cause of the problem. 2527 02:16:18.880 --> 02:16:20.960 I don't think so. I've never heard of that, and 2528 02:16:21.039 --> 02:16:24.600 I've never seen that either. Otherwise around segos we'd see 2529 02:16:24.640 --> 02:16:29.119 grass dyeing. I don't know what to tell you. If 2530 02:16:29.159 --> 02:16:30.720 you want to send me a picture of the area, 2531 02:16:30.840 --> 02:16:32.879 maybe from a distance, and then get up close and 2532 02:16:32.959 --> 02:16:34.719 take a real close picture where I can see the 2533 02:16:34.760 --> 02:16:37.600 actual symptoms on the grass, make sure it's in sharp focus. 2534 02:16:38.159 --> 02:16:40.000 I'd be willing to take a look and see if 2535 02:16:40.040 --> 02:16:43.600 there may be something appears in that area that I'm 2536 02:16:43.680 --> 02:16:46.360 not picturing in my mind right now. But I'd be 2537 02:16:46.360 --> 02:16:48.680 happy to have you take a look. If you'd like 2538 02:16:48.760 --> 02:16:52.120 to go that route, Okay, I'll do that. 2539 02:16:52.760 --> 02:16:54.600 Probably won't get to you till next week, though, because 2540 02:16:54.600 --> 02:16:56.879 I'm I'm getting ready. 2541 02:16:56.719 --> 02:17:00.920 To okay, yeah, sure, do you have an email or 2542 02:17:00.959 --> 02:17:05.639 do you need one? I'll need one. Okay, hang on. 2543 02:17:05.719 --> 02:17:07.360 I'm going to put you on hold and Chris will 2544 02:17:07.399 --> 02:17:09.959 pick Yeah, Chris will pick up the phone. Call here 2545 02:17:10.000 --> 02:17:12.040 in just second and he'll give you an email. Thanks 2546 02:17:12.040 --> 02:17:13.559 a lot, Bill, see if we can help you further. 2547 02:17:14.840 --> 02:17:17.399 All right, you are listening to Garden Line, and we 2548 02:17:17.559 --> 02:17:20.079 are here to help you have a more bountiful garden 2549 02:17:20.280 --> 02:17:24.159 and a more beautiful landscape. I think that it is, 2550 02:17:24.840 --> 02:17:27.760 you know, just first of all, thanks for listening. I 2551 02:17:27.879 --> 02:17:30.120 appreciate that we want to help you do that, and 2552 02:17:30.280 --> 02:17:33.559 we do that by giving you good advice. If we can, 2553 02:17:35.399 --> 02:17:37.760 you know, help you in some way, well then that 2554 02:17:38.000 --> 02:17:41.479 is exactly what we would like to do. So give 2555 02:17:41.520 --> 02:17:43.719 me a call. Seven one three two one two k 2556 02:17:43.959 --> 02:17:47.200 t r H seven one three two one two kt 2557 02:17:47.639 --> 02:17:51.280 r H. Have you noticed cracks in your brick on 2558 02:17:51.360 --> 02:17:53.200 the outside of the home or maybe cracks in the 2559 02:17:53.239 --> 02:17:56.159 sheet rock inside. Typically those cracks are going to start 2560 02:17:56.200 --> 02:17:58.399 at a window corner and go down or up to 2561 02:17:58.479 --> 02:18:02.079 the floor or ceiling, maybe a door that's sticking inside. 2562 02:18:02.479 --> 02:18:06.600 Those are all signs of foundation movement. And you need 2563 02:18:06.680 --> 02:18:11.239 to call fix my slab foundation repair. That's Tai Strickland's company. 2564 02:18:11.239 --> 02:18:14.040 He's been in business for over twenty three years now, 2565 02:18:14.479 --> 02:18:17.479 and ty knows what he's doing. I would, if I 2566 02:18:17.559 --> 02:18:19.319 were you, I would just give him a call two 2567 02:18:19.399 --> 02:18:22.799 eight one, two five five forty nine forty nine, have 2568 02:18:22.920 --> 02:18:25.520 him come out and look. Tell him you're a guardline listener. 2569 02:18:25.600 --> 02:18:29.079 It's a free estimate for garden line listeners. And ty 2570 02:18:29.239 --> 02:18:31.200 is not one who jumps the gun. You know, Oh, 2571 02:18:31.280 --> 02:18:33.280 I see a tiny crack. You got to have all 2572 02:18:33.360 --> 02:18:35.639 this foundation repair. He'll look at it and he'll tell 2573 02:18:35.639 --> 02:18:37.520 you whether it needs it or not. You know, it's 2574 02:18:37.600 --> 02:18:39.920 not unusual for foundations to get older to have a 2575 02:18:39.959 --> 02:18:43.840 little movement that just welcome to the soils and climate 2576 02:18:43.920 --> 02:18:47.319 we live in. That happens, but at times it is 2577 02:18:47.520 --> 02:18:49.799 something you need to jump on before it becomes a 2578 02:18:49.959 --> 02:18:53.520 major problem. And Ti is a native Houstonian, fifth generation 2579 02:18:53.719 --> 02:18:57.040 Texan by the way. And one thing I like about 2580 02:18:57.079 --> 02:19:01.399 Tye is his goals are to show up on time. 2581 02:19:01.600 --> 02:19:04.239 Oh my gosh, don't you wish every service person that 2582 02:19:04.319 --> 02:19:06.600 came to your house showed them on time. That's one 2583 02:19:06.639 --> 02:19:10.479 of Ty's commitments and secondly, to price it fair. 2584 02:19:11.200 --> 02:19:11.719 I like that. 2585 02:19:12.360 --> 02:19:14.399 And then to fix it right, what more do you 2586 02:19:14.479 --> 02:19:16.159 ask for? You show up on time, you give me 2587 02:19:16.159 --> 02:19:17.639 a fair price, and when you fix it, you do 2588 02:19:17.719 --> 02:19:21.159 a good job. That's fix my slab foundation repair. That's 2589 02:19:21.200 --> 02:19:26.000 how Ty Strickland does business. Go to the website fixmyslab 2590 02:19:26.360 --> 02:19:30.079 dot com find out more. Maybe your driveway is heaving 2591 02:19:30.200 --> 02:19:32.879 and cracking, maybe it's a sidewalk. He can handle those two. 2592 02:19:33.239 --> 02:19:35.120 He knows how to do it, and he can advise 2593 02:19:35.159 --> 02:19:37.239 you on all the other things about how to minimize 2594 02:19:37.280 --> 02:19:39.680 foundation damage, things that are in your power, not in 2595 02:19:39.719 --> 02:19:42.520 your power to do. Give him a call two eight one, 2596 02:19:42.840 --> 02:19:47.760 two five five forty nine, forty nine. We're gonna head 2597 02:19:47.760 --> 02:19:51.319 now to the heights and talk to Clark. Hello Clark, 2598 02:19:51.360 --> 02:19:52.280 welcome to garden Line. 2599 02:19:53.959 --> 02:19:54.239 Thank you. 2600 02:19:55.559 --> 02:19:56.719 I have a problem. 2601 02:19:56.840 --> 02:20:02.239 I've basically lost ninety percent of my bro as, particularly 2602 02:20:02.440 --> 02:20:07.760 after the ground that we add recently, so I ded 2603 02:20:07.840 --> 02:20:12.000 some ideas on how to either replaced it, have somebody 2604 02:20:12.079 --> 02:20:14.760 come in and soide it, or what's the best way 2605 02:20:14.799 --> 02:20:15.399 to go about that. 2606 02:20:19.680 --> 02:20:22.440 Well, first of all, at this point in the season, 2607 02:20:23.079 --> 02:20:26.280 I think i'd i'd focus on, you know, getting any 2608 02:20:26.559 --> 02:20:28.879 spots leveled out that you need to get leveled out 2609 02:20:29.399 --> 02:20:34.200 in the area and get that grass planted next spring 2610 02:20:34.520 --> 02:20:36.479 when it's going to take off running and grow. And 2611 02:20:36.559 --> 02:20:38.200 if you need to plant it now, you can put 2612 02:20:38.239 --> 02:20:41.319 saw down it just the root growth and development and 2613 02:20:41.360 --> 02:20:43.680 everything as much slower as we get into cooler weather 2614 02:20:43.840 --> 02:20:46.399 and so I you know, and we're kind of on 2615 02:20:46.479 --> 02:20:48.399 the line. You could plant it now or you could wait. 2616 02:20:48.440 --> 02:20:50.719 If it mine, I think i'd if there's any work 2617 02:20:50.760 --> 02:20:52.520 to be done. You know, you got some roots sticking 2618 02:20:52.600 --> 02:20:54.559 up above the surface. You got to kind of smooth 2619 02:20:54.639 --> 02:20:57.319 that out and get soiled up there where you don't 2620 02:20:57.360 --> 02:21:00.600 have roots sticking up out or low areas things. I'd 2621 02:21:00.639 --> 02:21:02.319 get all that work done now. If you got any 2622 02:21:02.399 --> 02:21:05.559 perennial weeds that have been giving you trouble, maybe bermuda 2623 02:21:05.639 --> 02:21:08.319 is invading your Saint Augustine or some other weed issue, 2624 02:21:08.360 --> 02:21:10.879 I'd take care of all that and then in the spring, 2625 02:21:11.000 --> 02:21:14.280 gets you some grass down. Otherwise you can plant it now. 2626 02:21:14.680 --> 02:21:17.399 You just have to, you know, find good local source 2627 02:21:17.520 --> 02:21:19.479 on grass. We got a number of them throughout the 2628 02:21:19.520 --> 02:21:22.399 Greater Houston area. Here where you can get some turf 2629 02:21:22.639 --> 02:21:25.040 and put it in is the area pretty shady. 2630 02:21:27.079 --> 02:21:31.120 Yeah, idio is big. 2631 02:21:31.200 --> 02:21:34.600 The contrary is sort of just taking all the water 2632 02:21:34.680 --> 02:21:37.280 out of the backyard. In the front yard, I have 2633 02:21:37.399 --> 02:21:40.280 a red oak created all around it is just dirt 2634 02:21:41.959 --> 02:21:43.520 and so obviously have water. 2635 02:21:43.840 --> 02:21:47.959 Know, well, that could be the light too, you know, 2636 02:21:48.159 --> 02:21:51.200 even Saint Augustine, which is probably your most shade tolerant option, 2637 02:21:52.360 --> 02:21:54.760 Even Saint Augustine, if it didn't get enough light, it's 2638 02:21:54.840 --> 02:21:57.000 just going to go downhill. So you may want to 2639 02:21:57.079 --> 02:21:59.200 stop and kind of rethink do you want to go 2640 02:21:59.319 --> 02:22:02.799 back with grass there? You know, it may be that 2641 02:22:02.959 --> 02:22:06.399 a shade loving groundcover or some other options you may 2642 02:22:06.479 --> 02:22:09.079 need to consider. If you feel like there's enough light 2643 02:22:09.239 --> 02:22:15.079 for grass, then replant. But those shade trees, they're beautiful, 2644 02:22:15.239 --> 02:22:17.079 and you know in the heights you got some gorgeous 2645 02:22:17.120 --> 02:22:20.200 trees in there. But sometimes it's just the dense that 2646 02:22:22.040 --> 02:22:26.200 lawn ceases to become an option. So that's the only 2647 02:22:26.440 --> 02:22:28.799 caveat that I would throw out there for you to consider. 2648 02:22:30.200 --> 02:22:33.639 Yeah, well we've got a garage doing closing part of that. 2649 02:22:34.000 --> 02:22:37.120 But it's grown in the past. I've been here a 2650 02:22:37.239 --> 02:22:40.360 very long time and it's never done this before in 2651 02:22:40.520 --> 02:22:43.879 like fifty years and I've never had this bad problem before, 2652 02:22:44.000 --> 02:22:46.840 so I'm thinking it's mostly the crees and the fact 2653 02:22:46.840 --> 02:22:49.399 that I didn't water. Yeah, it could be because always 2654 02:22:49.440 --> 02:22:49.879 came back. 2655 02:22:50.319 --> 02:22:54.840 Yeah, because I thought I would everyone. Yeah, that's true. 2656 02:22:54.920 --> 02:22:57.200 Every one of those fifty years has been getting shadier 2657 02:22:57.239 --> 02:22:59.159 and shadier, you know, as the trees. 2658 02:22:59.399 --> 02:23:01.479 Yeah, I wouldn't at some point. 2659 02:23:04.479 --> 02:23:07.799 Yeah, at some point, you know, it kind of crosses 2660 02:23:07.840 --> 02:23:11.040 the line where the grass cannot get enough energy from 2661 02:23:11.079 --> 02:23:14.719 the sun to sustain itself. And then it gets in 2662 02:23:14.840 --> 02:23:16.600 this week and stay. It's kind of like our bodies, 2663 02:23:16.680 --> 02:23:19.040 you know. We get tired, we get weak, we're not 2664 02:23:19.120 --> 02:23:22.319 eating rye or whatever, and suddenly you get sick more often, 2665 02:23:22.559 --> 02:23:25.520 and the grass is the same way. And as that's 2666 02:23:25.559 --> 02:23:29.360 something that is being more and more taken away, you 2667 02:23:29.520 --> 02:23:32.000 kind of hit a point where suddenly it's going downhill 2668 02:23:32.120 --> 02:23:35.399 and then diseases are worse and it's more susceptible to 2669 02:23:35.520 --> 02:23:37.520 drought and other things. So anyway, just. 2670 02:23:37.559 --> 02:23:38.440 Something to think about. 2671 02:23:38.799 --> 02:23:41.319 But good luck with that. Thank you for calling. I 2672 02:23:41.440 --> 02:23:44.520 appreciate that, and I do wish you you take care. 2673 02:23:46.799 --> 02:23:50.200 I'm sorry I had to run there. Yeah, that would 2674 02:23:50.239 --> 02:23:52.520 be a good thing for me to ask I know 2675 02:23:53.079 --> 02:23:55.879 you're in the heights. I know Buchanan's keeps grass certain 2676 02:23:55.959 --> 02:23:58.000 times of the year there, and so you might be 2677 02:23:58.040 --> 02:23:59.719 able to get some over there, or give them a 2678 02:23:59.760 --> 02:24:02.920 call and ask them, ask them who around that area 2679 02:24:03.000 --> 02:24:06.159 they would would recommend if they don't have the turf 2680 02:24:06.280 --> 02:24:12.719 on hand there off the top of it. Okay, okay, 2681 02:24:14.000 --> 02:24:17.959 good luck with you, sir, Thank you appreciate your call. 2682 02:24:18.840 --> 02:24:21.840 Bye bye. UH Nelson Plant Food. You know, they're the 2683 02:24:21.879 --> 02:24:24.239 ones that have the turf Star Carbolode, which is a 2684 02:24:24.319 --> 02:24:28.000 combination of a fall fertilizer and a pre emergent that 2685 02:24:28.239 --> 02:24:30.000 you put it down, you water it in, and you 2686 02:24:30.120 --> 02:24:33.920 covered both bases weed prevention, so those cool season weeds 2687 02:24:33.920 --> 02:24:37.000 which are sprouting soon aren't able to get established. And 2688 02:24:37.079 --> 02:24:40.440 then finally they are secondly the UH fertilizer that's an 2689 02:24:40.479 --> 02:24:44.120 ideal blend, perfect for fall, perfect for helping your grass 2690 02:24:44.360 --> 02:24:47.639 go into winter strong and come out strong. From Nelson 2691 02:24:47.680 --> 02:24:50.440 Plant Food. Now they also have Neuster Star Genesis, which 2692 02:24:50.520 --> 02:24:55.120 is what I would recommend for fertilizing new transplants in. 2693 02:24:55.600 --> 02:24:57.440 So here's here's the way I would use that, and 2694 02:24:57.479 --> 02:25:00.399 no way I do use that. You you wrinkles some 2695 02:25:00.639 --> 02:25:03.520 into the potting mix of what you are going to 2696 02:25:03.639 --> 02:25:06.319 use to repot a plant. Okay, so you've got a plant, 2697 02:25:06.319 --> 02:25:08.680 you're going to move it into bigger pot. This putting 2698 02:25:08.719 --> 02:25:11.000 soil you're gonna put in there. Mix some carbel load 2699 02:25:11.319 --> 02:25:14.120 in a carbon to no not carbon genesis, mix some 2700 02:25:14.280 --> 02:25:17.559 genesis into it. It is a natural fertilizer loaded with 2701 02:25:17.639 --> 02:25:20.280 microizo bacteria and other fungi that kind of helped that 2702 02:25:20.440 --> 02:25:24.639 soil microbiome. It's not a salt based product, and so 2703 02:25:25.040 --> 02:25:27.200 you can use it in the planting hall without burning 2704 02:25:27.280 --> 02:25:29.639 plant roots. In fact, it really helps if you're gonna 2705 02:25:29.639 --> 02:25:31.600 put a rose bush in out in the garden bed, 2706 02:25:32.120 --> 02:25:36.200 mix some genesis into that soil and then plant the rose. 2707 02:25:37.280 --> 02:25:39.799 It just it just works. It works very very well. 2708 02:25:39.840 --> 02:25:41.840 It comes in the jars with a screw top lid, 2709 02:25:42.239 --> 02:25:44.520 doesn't take a lot. You're just kind of mixing it in. 2710 02:25:44.719 --> 02:25:47.239 So when those new roots come out, they've got some 2711 02:25:47.440 --> 02:25:50.639 good stuff loaded with good microbes that are there to 2712 02:25:50.799 --> 02:25:54.200 help them to thrive, and your plants just get off 2713 02:25:54.280 --> 02:25:57.000 to a better start, much less transplant shock and issues, 2714 02:25:57.319 --> 02:26:01.520 better early growth. All of that from neutral star genesis 2715 02:26:01.559 --> 02:26:04.959 from Neilson Plant Food. We are going to go out 2716 02:26:05.079 --> 02:26:07.959 to Terry Sue in the gallery and now, hey, Terry Sue, 2717 02:26:07.959 --> 02:26:08.840 welcome to guard Line. 2718 02:26:12.440 --> 02:26:16.520 Hi Skip, I'm calling about the use of expanded shale. 2719 02:26:18.719 --> 02:26:22.959 Okay, Gey, I know that you've talked about you need 2720 02:26:23.239 --> 02:26:26.840 more than you think you need, and I've bought several 2721 02:26:26.920 --> 02:26:28.840 bags of it and I've got it. 2722 02:26:29.479 --> 02:26:31.559 Okay, three inches deep? 2723 02:26:31.799 --> 02:26:33.559 Now I mix it in? 2724 02:26:33.840 --> 02:26:34.000 Right? 2725 02:26:34.520 --> 02:26:36.120 How much do I mix it in? 2726 02:26:36.319 --> 02:26:36.719 How deep? 2727 02:26:39.760 --> 02:26:39.920 You know? 2728 02:26:39.959 --> 02:26:43.000 If you can get it? Yeah, if you can mix 2729 02:26:43.079 --> 02:26:45.719 it in about six inches, that would be good because 2730 02:26:45.760 --> 02:26:48.000 that's a good chunk of the root zone right there. 2731 02:26:49.079 --> 02:26:52.319 I have seen research on it where it does best 2732 02:26:52.399 --> 02:26:54.280 if you can put two or three inches on the 2733 02:26:54.440 --> 02:26:56.879 surface and mix all of that in. And here's why. 2734 02:26:57.920 --> 02:27:00.639 Just for a kind of an example, imagine you had 2735 02:27:00.719 --> 02:27:03.440 modeling clay in your hands and you took just a 2736 02:27:03.479 --> 02:27:05.879 little sprinkling of kitty litter and put it in there 2737 02:27:05.959 --> 02:27:08.680 and then modeled it around. You would have clay with 2738 02:27:08.760 --> 02:27:10.639 a few pieces of kitty litter in it, and that 2739 02:27:10.680 --> 02:27:13.200 wouldn't accomplish much. But what if you put as much 2740 02:27:13.639 --> 02:27:16.319 kitty litter as you had clay and mixed it around. 2741 02:27:16.879 --> 02:27:19.840 Now you've got something chucky that breaks apart. It doesn't 2742 02:27:19.879 --> 02:27:22.000 stick together so much because it's got so much of 2743 02:27:22.079 --> 02:27:24.959 the kitty litter in it. Right, Well, expanded shale is 2744 02:27:25.040 --> 02:27:30.879 basically like a super hot fired former clay dried material 2745 02:27:31.040 --> 02:27:33.360 that now has big pores in it. And it works 2746 02:27:33.399 --> 02:27:35.920 really well. But the more you get on the soil, 2747 02:27:36.680 --> 02:27:39.520 the better it does. And it lasts longer than organic 2748 02:27:39.600 --> 02:27:42.600 matter because it doesn't break down like organic matter. It 2749 02:27:42.680 --> 02:27:45.959 stays open a little bit better. Yeah, well, so that's 2750 02:27:46.079 --> 02:27:48.520 that's the principle. There's not a magic number like you 2751 02:27:48.639 --> 02:27:50.319 have to put this much out, but I can just 2752 02:27:50.360 --> 02:27:51.879 tell you two or three inches as best. 2753 02:27:53.079 --> 02:27:56.600 Well, I've dug it down about a foot until I 2754 02:27:56.719 --> 02:28:03.959 hit the oh okay and removes the big itchy chunky. 2755 02:28:05.000 --> 02:28:08.959 I removed as much of the of the clay as 2756 02:28:09.040 --> 02:28:13.440 I could, and so I hit the part was really solid, 2757 02:28:13.840 --> 02:28:16.120 and then I put the expanded shale on top of 2758 02:28:16.239 --> 02:28:18.760 that and was going to mix it in and then 2759 02:28:20.159 --> 02:28:24.520 add other stuff with organic material and soil and mix 2760 02:28:24.600 --> 02:28:27.200 it in and just kind of go from there on top. 2761 02:28:28.799 --> 02:28:29.959 And then should I put some. 2762 02:28:30.120 --> 02:28:30.639 On top of it? 2763 02:28:33.399 --> 02:28:36.280 Well, only mix it in if you put it, if 2764 02:28:36.319 --> 02:28:38.760 you sprinkle it on top, mix what you sprinkled in, 2765 02:28:39.040 --> 02:28:41.000 because it doesn't help you on top of the soil. 2766 02:28:41.040 --> 02:28:43.319 It helps you in the soil. And the deeper you 2767 02:28:43.440 --> 02:28:46.079 work the soil, that's more volume. So, going back to 2768 02:28:46.200 --> 02:28:49.719 my modeling clay and kitty litter example, if you double 2769 02:28:49.799 --> 02:28:51.479 the amount of clay you're dealing with, you got to 2770 02:28:51.520 --> 02:28:55.399 double amount the expanded shail you put in in order 2771 02:28:55.440 --> 02:28:58.719 to have that good effect. So, yes, their organic materials 2772 02:28:58.959 --> 02:29:03.319 not just fine in compost, but like a chunky you know, 2773 02:29:03.440 --> 02:29:06.159 decomposed pine bark and things like that. Mix that in 2774 02:29:06.319 --> 02:29:08.920 as well as you can as also, and it's also 2775 02:29:09.079 --> 02:29:10.959 very helpful. You're going to create a real good bed 2776 02:29:11.040 --> 02:29:11.760 when you do all that. 2777 02:29:12.760 --> 02:29:16.799 Well, I hope so been dealing with this for five here, 2778 02:29:18.040 --> 02:29:21.520 you know, I first put doug somehow and put in 2779 02:29:21.719 --> 02:29:24.079 a compost. 2780 02:29:23.639 --> 02:29:24.280 And mix it in. 2781 02:29:24.840 --> 02:29:26.680 Now it looks like I didn't do anything. 2782 02:29:26.799 --> 02:29:27.159 It's just. 2783 02:29:29.360 --> 02:29:32.719 Okay, Well you're off to a good start. But also 2784 02:29:32.799 --> 02:29:35.760 don't be afraid. Don't just go down, build up, add 2785 02:29:35.840 --> 02:29:38.479 some bed mis on top, and you know, just keep 2786 02:29:38.799 --> 02:29:42.159 using that bed up with additions and you'll be Hey. 2787 02:29:42.399 --> 02:29:45.200 Thanks Terse, thanks for the call. I wish you well. 2788 02:29:45.319 --> 02:29:47.319 Sounds like you're off to a good start and if 2789 02:29:47.360 --> 02:29:50.000 you dug a foot down, you're a better gardener than 2790 02:29:50.040 --> 02:29:54.120 I am. So congratulations on that as well. I do 2791 02:29:54.280 --> 02:29:58.079 appreciate appreciate your call very much. Folks, you've been listening 2792 02:29:58.120 --> 02:30:00.399 to guard Line and uh I just to tell you 2793 02:30:00.399 --> 02:30:03.040 about something. It's a little news item here before we 2794 02:30:03.120 --> 02:30:06.000 go for the day. You know how we complain about 2795 02:30:06.200 --> 02:30:09.680 modern tomatoes don't taste good like an old time tomato 2796 02:30:09.760 --> 02:30:13.879 does right well. Texas A and M Research and Vegetable 2797 02:30:13.920 --> 02:30:16.360 Improvement Center. That's a real cool place, by the way. 2798 02:30:16.479 --> 02:30:20.399 They are in they are breeding vegetables to be healthier. 2799 02:30:20.879 --> 02:30:25.479 Onions with more cancer fighting corcetan and carrots that have 2800 02:30:25.600 --> 02:30:28.000 more beta caroteene and stuff like that. Isn't that a 2801 02:30:28.120 --> 02:30:30.920 nice change? There is a project where they got an 2802 02:30:30.959 --> 02:30:33.959 eight point four million dollars grant from USDA, and they're 2803 02:30:34.040 --> 02:30:37.360 working with a number of other universities. University of Florida, 2804 02:30:37.399 --> 02:30:42.360 Michigan State, California, Cornell, Arizona, Washington, North Carolina, University of Georgia, 2805 02:30:42.440 --> 02:30:45.319 Oregon State, and A and m's leading the charge on this, 2806 02:30:45.600 --> 02:30:50.959 and they are breeding tomatoes that have exceptional heat tolerance, 2807 02:30:51.479 --> 02:30:57.079 water use, efficiency, flavor and quality as well as human 2808 02:30:57.159 --> 02:31:01.680 health properties and disease resistance. Can't wait till that project 2809 02:31:01.760 --> 02:31:03.440 comes to its truition. This is gonna be a long 2810 02:31:03.559 --> 02:31:08.079 term thing. But imagine that breeding tomatoes that are heat tolerant, 2811 02:31:08.559 --> 02:31:12.079 that use water better, that have better flavor, and that 2812 02:31:12.239 --> 02:31:15.239 help fight disease. They have the compounds that are naturally 2813 02:31:15.319 --> 02:31:18.479 occurring in these tomatoes, like lycopene and a tomato that 2814 02:31:18.680 --> 02:31:19.799 helps fight disease. 2815 02:31:20.079 --> 02:31:20.639 That is an. 2816 02:31:20.600 --> 02:31:25.200 Exciting new development. Congratulations to the Vegetable Improvement Center for 2817 02:31:25.319 --> 02:31:27.319 Landing that you know, those are the folks that gave 2818 02:31:27.440 --> 02:31:31.440 you the ten to fifteen onion, the Texas super sweet 2819 02:31:31.479 --> 02:31:33.559 ten to fifteen onion. They're the folks that gave you 2820 02:31:33.959 --> 02:31:37.959 some super high quality carrots, really high quality potatoes that 2821 02:31:38.079 --> 02:31:40.520 they've bred developed and there's just a lot of good 2822 02:31:40.600 --> 02:31:42.879 things happening up there. I just thought that was good news. 2823 02:31:42.920 --> 02:31:45.840 You'd be interested in hearing about it. Experts from five 2824 02:31:46.000 --> 02:31:48.799 major tomato breeding programs are going to be part of 2825 02:31:49.040 --> 02:31:55.040 that multi university collaboration that's going to develop these regionally 2826 02:31:55.079 --> 02:32:01.000 adapted disease resistant water proof, water use efficient, heat tolerant, 2827 02:32:01.639 --> 02:32:07.040 nutrient rich to mate us that's good news, all right. 2828 02:32:07.120 --> 02:32:09.520 Thanks for listening to the Guardenline. Next Saturday, I will 2829 02:32:09.559 --> 02:32:12.120 be at RCW Nursery for the Fall f Lin from 2830 02:32:12.319 --> 02:32:17.680 twelve to two. Barbecue, prizes, games, and you and me visiting. 2831 02:32:17.760 --> 02:32:20.159 Come on out. I can't wait to see at RCW 2832 02:32:20.680 --> 02:32:21.639 next Saturday