Speaker 1: Welcome to Katie r. H. Garden Line with Skip richardses Mill.
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Speaker 5: Good morning, Hey, welcome to garden Line. We're back. Good
Speaker 5: to have you with us. I'm your host, Skip Rictor,
Speaker 5: and we're here to help you have a bountiful garden,
Speaker 5: a beautiful landscape and more fun in the process. I
Speaker 5: got to adjust this heater around. It's cold in here
Speaker 5: this morning. I don't know what happens, like a window
Speaker 5: left cracked open or something. Anyway, we're doing good this
Speaker 5: morning and ready to talk all kinds of things. Gardening
Speaker 5: is a good day to be inside learning about gardening
Speaker 5: and perhaps doing some seed starting, also doing some rooting
Speaker 5: of cuttings. If you've never tried rooting cuttings before, you
Speaker 5: want to try that. It is a lot of fun.
Speaker 5: Some plants they make you look good because they want
Speaker 5: to root so bad. You know, Colius is that way,
Speaker 5: Tomato shoots or that way, and rosemary Rosemary actually is
Speaker 5: a very easy plant to root from cuttings. Others a
Speaker 5: little more of a challenge, but hey, you got to
Speaker 5: get out there and try something. I think you'll find
Speaker 5: that the more you learn about gardening, the more of
Speaker 5: the gardening techniques that you become more proficient at, the
Speaker 5: more fun it is all around. Just to enjoy being
Speaker 5: out and doing some gardening kinds of things, indoors and outdoors.
Speaker 5: Terrariums another good thing. You know, we're talking about looking
Speaker 5: at some rainy weather, some drizzly actually drizzly weather. It's
Speaker 5: more of a more of a constant annoying mist that
Speaker 5: we're talking about here. Not a gully washer for sure.
Speaker 5: But we can continue to garden. And so many of
Speaker 5: our garden centers too, they they have such nice indoor areas,
Speaker 5: maybe covered areas with house plants, or their indoor shops
Speaker 5: and things. It's just a good day to get out
Speaker 5: and you don't have to fight the crowds. That's a
Speaker 5: good thing too. So maybe you want to get out
Speaker 5: and do some of that. Tomorrow is going to be
Speaker 5: a great day. We're going to have some excellent weather
Speaker 5: and a good chance to in the afternoon get out
Speaker 5: and enjoy gardening as well. You're listening to garden Line.
Speaker 5: Our phone number is seven to one three two one
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Speaker 5: Feel free to give me a call. We'll talk about
Speaker 5: the things that are of interest to you. You know, probably,
Speaker 5: oh gosh, about fifty years ago, Nitrofoss introduced their red bag,
Speaker 5: the Imperial fifteen five to ten. Imperial is a lawn
Speaker 5: fertilizer that is a quick release. You put it down,
Speaker 5: you watered in or rain water sit in by the way,
Speaker 5: This would be great with this little missing rain we
Speaker 5: got coming along. To put a little Nitrofoss down as
Speaker 5: soon as you can ahead of it or just watered
Speaker 5: in later. Fifteen five to ten is a three one
Speaker 5: two racio fertilizer. Now, that's that is what researchers in
Speaker 5: turf science at Texas A and M and other universities
Speaker 5: throughout the South have proven is the best general ratio
Speaker 5: for lawns. Because if you were to take grass clippings,
Speaker 5: send them to a lab and say what's in them,
Speaker 5: They're going to tell you there is a three one
Speaker 5: two ratio of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. Well fifteen five
Speaker 5: ten is a three one two ratio of those three
Speaker 5: elements as well. Now, if you look at my schedule,
Speaker 5: if they are optional, early greenup application is now. Now's
Speaker 5: the time to be able to do that. You get
Speaker 5: it down, it goes into the ground, it goes into
Speaker 5: the root system, the plant takes it up, and you
Speaker 5: get a greener grass plant earlier on. It's not going
Speaker 5: to cause grass that's still cold to start growing actively,
Speaker 5: but it can give you an early greenup, and a
Speaker 5: lot of folks like that. Let's get that lawn looking
Speaker 5: good as soon as we can. Our main fertilization season
Speaker 5: is coming as we get further into spring and into
Speaker 5: the summertime for sure. But Nitrofoss Imperial the red bag
Speaker 5: is the one you need to look for for putting
Speaker 5: down that early greenup. You're going to find Nitrofoss products
Speaker 5: in a lot of different places. They're widely available here
Speaker 5: in the Greater Houston area. For example, you're going to
Speaker 5: find them at Bearings Hardware both on Bisonet and the
Speaker 5: one on Westheimer. Head out to Rosenberg and M and
Speaker 5: d Ace has Nitrofoss products. Ace Hardware City and Memorial
Speaker 5: and Plants for all seasons on Highway too forty nine.
Speaker 5: Just a few examples of the dozens of places you're
Speaker 5: going to find nitrofoss here in the Greater Houston area.
Speaker 5: I was out in I had a little bit of
Speaker 5: a trip yesterday, went all the way out to Fredericksburg
Speaker 5: and was talking to some folks from a few counties
Speaker 5: out there about some different aspects of gardening. And it's
Speaker 5: always interesting when you go out and visit with people
Speaker 5: about gardening the questions that come up. There's all the
Speaker 5: standard questions that you expect you're going to get, you know,
Speaker 5: the things like how do I get rid of fire ants?
Speaker 5: Or in that country out there, it's how do I
Speaker 5: stop year from attacking my gardens because boy deer appreciate
Speaker 5: the fact that you plant a salad bull for them.
Speaker 5: But there's always unusual questions too. People, you know, they
Speaker 5: have different things. Sometimes it's a plant that is not
Speaker 5: a common plant that they're trying to grow. Sometimes it
Speaker 5: is a particular thing that they heard are red online
Speaker 5: and they're wanting to know is this really true? Does
Speaker 5: that really work well? The bottom line to those kinds
Speaker 5: of things is usually beware. I find that in fact gardeners.
Speaker 5: Let me just put this me. Remember the ones that
Speaker 5: friends don't like friends drive drunk, don't let friends drive drunk. Right, okay,
Speaker 5: how about friends don't let friends garden based on social media.
Speaker 5: That's a good one. Friends don't let friends garden based
Speaker 5: on social media because there is so much nonsense out there.
Speaker 5: I saw a picture the other day and it was
Speaker 5: a cluster of tomatoes and they were nion primary color,
Speaker 5: purple blue, red, of course, orange yellow, But the colors
Speaker 5: were just so artificial and they were all in the
Speaker 5: same cluster. That's insane. That doesn't happen. It doesn't happen
Speaker 5: in nature. Don't believe it. Social media is full of
Speaker 5: none sense. There's this one account that actually follow because
Speaker 5: it's like what are they gonna do next? And it
Speaker 5: is just it's just lies, absolute lies, you know, selling
Speaker 5: you this plants that know it is not a plant
Speaker 5: like that, or you know, maybe it's a it's an
Speaker 5: apple tree that has five different colors of apples on
Speaker 5: the same tree and it's not been grafted a bunch
Speaker 5: of times. It's just one branch has all those colors
Speaker 5: and you can buy them from them as seeds. You
Speaker 5: can't plant apple seeds unless you want to wait what
Speaker 5: fifteen years to see your first apple. And when you do,
Speaker 5: it is not going to be an apple that produces
Speaker 5: all that kind of colors. It's just a lie, just
Speaker 5: a lie. B T. Barnum said it, right, buy or beware.
Speaker 5: There's a sucker born every minute. All right, well, don't
Speaker 5: be that sucker. We're going to help you by giving
Speaker 5: you a few more tips and to help you have
Speaker 5: success with your garden. Just hang around. I'll be right back, alrighty,
Speaker 5: welcome back, Welcome to garden Line. I mean your host,
Speaker 5: Skip Rictorum, if you'd like to give me a call
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Speaker 5: which is very very convenient. I was talking earlier about
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Speaker 5: I see it and I realize that they're lying to
Speaker 5: people and they are they're basically making money off of
Speaker 5: you not having success. And it just one of the
Speaker 5: things that it makes me sad is Gardener's saying, I
Speaker 5: can't grow anything everything I touch it eyes, I have
Speaker 5: a brown thumb, all of those kinds of things. I
Speaker 5: want you to look at your radio. That means, look
Speaker 5: at me. You do not have a brown thumb. I
Speaker 5: promise you do not have a brown thumb. You have
Speaker 5: an uninformed thumb. And when your thumb gets smarter and
Speaker 5: knows what plants want, it starts turning green. If you
Speaker 5: want to talk colors, that's how that works. You do
Speaker 5: not have a brown thumb. We can do this. Just
Speaker 5: keep listening to the guard line call and ask questions. Learn, learn, Learn.
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Speaker 5: an area that tends to be wet. If you cannot
Speaker 5: get rid of water in an area, you can build
Speaker 5: a bed on top of the ground to grow in.
Speaker 5: And so someone asked me recently, you know, I want
Speaker 5: to plant a blueberry, but I can't dig three feet
Speaker 5: deep to make the hole. Well, you never want to
Speaker 5: dig deeper than the root ball the root cylinder in
Speaker 5: the pot to plant a plant. But yes, if you
Speaker 5: sink a plant down in the ground and it is
Speaker 5: soggy area, that root system is going to stay soggy,
Speaker 5: and it's not good. But I'm going to use a
Speaker 5: kind of a crazy example just to create a mental
Speaker 5: picture for you as to how you have success with this,
Speaker 5: and that is set your camellia, your blueberry, your zealia,
Speaker 5: your guardena whatever, set it on top of the ground,
Speaker 5: and then bring in the bed mix and fill in
Speaker 5: around it. That's how you plant it. In other words, now,
Speaker 5: what you're really going to do is you're going to
Speaker 5: put in the bed mix and make a bed and
Speaker 5: then plant in that hole. But the concept is my
Speaker 5: plant is actually sitting on top of that soggy soil
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Speaker 5: you will have success. You can go out to central
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Speaker 5: the ground and put the bed around them. Again, that's
Speaker 5: that's backwards of what we're doing, but that gives you
Speaker 5: the visual concept, the cutaway vision. It works and it helps.
Speaker 5: And don't subject plants that don't want to be in
Speaker 5: a soggy swamp to those conditions or they'll get root
Speaker 5: rots and they'll die. And it's easy to avoid that.
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Speaker 5: there and take care of my lawns like I need to.
Speaker 5: And I've got a few broad leaf weeds that have
Speaker 5: popped up in some areas. I guess the grass was
Speaker 5: then because wherever sunlight hits the soil and nature plants
Speaker 5: a weed, and I have to get out and deal
Speaker 5: with those. I need to have got still some the
Speaker 5: old dead grass up on the top, and I'm not
Speaker 5: for too long now. I could do it this week.
Speaker 5: I may wait a little bit longer on it, but
Speaker 5: I'm going to do a lower mowing to clean out
Speaker 5: all the dead and let the fresh new growth come in.
Speaker 5: I like to wait, really to do that until the
Speaker 5: weather's warmed enough that the grass is going to take
Speaker 5: off growing. And the reason is if you scop it off,
Speaker 5: then the sunlight hits the soil and suddenly weed seeds
Speaker 5: start coming and your grass is still cold to begin
Speaker 5: actively rapidly growing. And so I usually wait for that
Speaker 5: first mowing until you know, I know the grass is
Speaker 5: ready to kind of get going. If you have weeds
Speaker 5: in your lawn, you do want to capture the clippings
Speaker 5: that first mowing, because clover and hand bit and chick
Speaker 5: weed and all the winter weeds, if they're going to seed,
Speaker 5: you want to get all those out of there because
Speaker 5: you don't you do not want to let them go
Speaker 5: to seed. So if you're waiting longer, you're going to
Speaker 5: start seeing them blooming and setting seed, and don't let
Speaker 5: them do that. Don't let them put those seeds in
Speaker 5: your yard. Let's head out to the phones here, we're
Speaker 5: going to talk to Pam. Pam Central Texas. Hey, Pam,
Speaker 5: how you doing. Welcome to guard Line.
Speaker 6: Good morning, Good morning. I'm so glad you're on this morning. Listen.
Speaker 6: My situation is that we moved here about four years ago,
Speaker 6: and I was I'm a butterfly, a freak, I like them,
Speaker 6: and I took to this Lisnia Mexican sunflower and I
Speaker 6: planted it in quite a big area and I'm like,
Speaker 6: I can't, I can't control it. It just you can't
Speaker 6: plant anything else with it. You know, you're you know,
Speaker 6: you're sains and you know other things that you want
Speaker 6: to plan. And I didn't know that.
Speaker 7: And they're growing.
Speaker 5: Are you saying they're growing? But Pam, are you saying
Speaker 5: they're growing like weeds are just too thick? When you
Speaker 5: say you can't control it, is that what you mean?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 8: No, I mean.
Speaker 6: They don't habitat with other flowers at all. I mean
Speaker 6: nothing can grow in the under you know, underneath them
Speaker 6: or you know. It's just I just don't like them
Speaker 6: anymore because they want okay. So I was looking online
Speaker 6: to find out, you know, how I could get rid
Speaker 6: of them, because I've been dealing with it for this
Speaker 6: would be the third year now, and my husband and
Speaker 6: I go out there in the early spring and we
Speaker 6: start pulling it and pulling it and pulling it, and
Speaker 6: it's still last year, it's still I couldn't plant a plant.
Speaker 6: Tried to plant then this underneath it and stuff, excuse me,
Speaker 6: and I still couldn't get anything to grow. Besides, it
Speaker 6: was only in the area. So I was looking online
Speaker 6: and even Texas A and M said had a big
Speaker 6: write up about doing herb side the some sort, but
Speaker 6: it didn't tell me what herbicide to use. Can you
Speaker 6: help me with that?
Speaker 5: Well? Uh, so I wouldn't use a pre emergent herbicide
Speaker 5: in that area because it'll prevent any seeds from coming
Speaker 5: up like your zenias, for example. You can use a
Speaker 5: post emergent that kills them, and there are a lot
Speaker 5: of different products that would kill them. I might let
Speaker 5: them go ahead and come up and then do the
Speaker 5: spray and that way as much of the seeds as
Speaker 5: as possible have gone ahead and sprouted, so you kill them,
Speaker 5: and then you can go in and plant your zeneas
Speaker 5: behind that. And there's there's a lot of different products
Speaker 5: that work on that as far as a post emergent killer.
Speaker 5: I'm hitting a hard break here, Pam where I've got
Speaker 5: to go to the to the news and I will.
Speaker 5: I'll put you on hold. If you want to hang around,
Speaker 5: we can continue the discussion. We can come back. If not,
Speaker 5: do you just need to get a post emergent out there. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 5: thank you, take care. All right, folks, A little quick
Speaker 5: break here and I'll be right back with your calls
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Speaker 5: the Beltway and out in the Richmond Rosenberg area. They
Speaker 5: also work out in that area too. All you have
Speaker 5: to do is go to the website year round Houston
Speaker 5: dot com, year round Houston dot com, or give them
Speaker 5: a call eight three to two eight eight four fifty
Speaker 5: three thirty five eight three two eight eight four fifty
Speaker 5: three thirty five year round Houston dot com for those
Speaker 5: of you inside the Beltway and out in the Richmond
Speaker 5: Rosenberg area. I saw a lawn not too long ago,
Speaker 5: Well it was last year, actually not too many years
Speaker 5: ago that had been air rated, and it just you know,
Speaker 5: when it first is done, it's like you have all
Speaker 5: this little pausa soil on top of the surface. That's
Speaker 5: a good thing because that is those little plugs that
Speaker 5: they drop on the surface as they pull them out
Speaker 5: of the ground. When they melt in irrigation and rain
Speaker 5: and stuff, they just sort of dissolve and spread out.
Speaker 5: And if you have a thatch problem, that is the
Speaker 5: single best way to get rid of thatch is a
Speaker 5: good aerration and compost top dressing over the top. It
Speaker 5: will speed the decomposition of that thatch up a lot.
Speaker 5: And you just can't believe the difference that it makes.
Speaker 5: It really does make a difference. You're listening to Gardenline.
Speaker 5: I'm your host, Skip Richtor, and we're here to answer
Speaker 5: your gardening questions and just give me a call. Let's
Speaker 5: figure out how we can help you. Seven one three
Speaker 5: two one two k t rh i UH stopped by
Speaker 5: Houston Power Coders a little while back and was looking
Speaker 5: at some of the jobs that they had gotten in
Speaker 5: and boy, they they have a extensive area, a shop
Speaker 5: area with many different kinds of bends where they can
Speaker 5: bring equipment and or bring furniture in from your yard
Speaker 5: and powder coated. Powder coating is better than painting. So
Speaker 5: if you've got some old furniture out there that's kind
Speaker 5: of getting rusty, maybe the bolts holding it together or resting.
Speaker 5: Maybe it's you know, it's nice cast iron. Maybe it
Speaker 5: is a wrought iron table, maybe it's a luminum patio furniture.
Speaker 5: Whatever you've got, have them take a look at it.
Speaker 5: You can get a quote from them. All you do
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Speaker 5: at Houstoncoaters dot com. Sales at Houstoncoders dot com. See
Speaker 5: I need to quote quote on this. They'll tell you
Speaker 5: they'll paint it. They'll put new hardware on it, you know,
Speaker 5: the bolts and nuts and bolts and washers and everything
Speaker 5: that holds everything together. And they use stainless steel for
Speaker 5: that so it doesn't rerust. They put plastic feed and
Speaker 5: end caps on. You know, I have you the tubular furniture
Speaker 5: where the ends are open, so they pop a plastic
Speaker 5: cap on there. They can do stairs, they can do
Speaker 5: rails along and maybe a portrail. Do you have a
Speaker 5: light pole, you know in the yard, like or a lampole,
Speaker 5: a little oil gas lamp, or a light pole. They
Speaker 5: can do anything that's mottled pretty much out there. And
Speaker 5: if you're down at the coast and you got that
Speaker 5: salt spray kind of issue, they have special coating techniques
Speaker 5: that they do that help that as well. You just
Speaker 5: got to give them a call to eight one six seven,
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Speaker 5: I think you're listening to Garden Line. I'm your host,
Speaker 5: Skip Rictor. We're here to answer your gardening questions and
Speaker 5: we'll be talking about a variety of different things from
Speaker 5: edibles to beautiful flowers and lawns and whatnot as we
Speaker 5: get through the show this morning. We're here from six
Speaker 5: to ten on Saturdays and Sundays, so we look forward
Speaker 5: to visiting with you and helping you have success with
Speaker 5: what you're doing. For those of you up in the
Speaker 5: Magnolia area, you've got Spring Creek Feed your hometown feed store.
Speaker 5: They're conveniently located in Mignoya on FM twenty nine seventy eight,
Speaker 5: so basically just minutes away from both Graham Parkway and
Speaker 5: Highway to forty nine. And they carry a full line
Speaker 5: of fertilizers like what you hear me talk about, the
Speaker 5: turf Star from Nelson, the Microlife, the nitrophoss. They have
Speaker 5: things to control weeds, pests, and diseases. I love to
Speaker 5: walk in because you're greeted by friendly staff and it's
Speaker 5: a really cool store too. You walk in, you go, wait,
Speaker 5: wait a minute, this a feed store, because there's so
Speaker 5: much cool stuff in here. Well, yes it is, and
Speaker 5: much much more. They have a delivery service. They can
Speaker 5: special order if you need them to. That's Spring Creek
Speaker 5: Feed on FM twenty nine seventy eight and Magnolia. Check
Speaker 5: them out. When you drive up, you'll know it. It's
Speaker 5: this big, beautiful, old time feed store facade that just
Speaker 5: looks great. Well, it looks to me like we're hitting
Speaker 5: time for me to take another break. I'll be right back. Folks, Hey,
Speaker 5: when was the last time that you took a trip
Speaker 5: out to Anti rosing for him? If you've never been
Speaker 5: to that place, you need to go. I love to go.
Speaker 5: And boy, when spring comes, oh my gosh, it's just
Speaker 5: it's incredible. But you know, spring is when the blue
Speaker 5: bonnets are out and you get to drive through that
Speaker 5: country out that direction. You know, they're north of Brenham
Speaker 5: by the way up in Independence. The blue bonnets are
Speaker 5: just gorgeous. And of course the roses. I mean, that
Speaker 5: is prime time for roses and things. But it's always
Speaker 5: a good time to go out and visit the Antique
Speaker 5: Rose Imporium. The spring's almost here, as these days get
Speaker 5: warmer and our gardens kind of come alive, lots of beautiful,
Speaker 5: vibrant boobs. There's not a better time to get out
Speaker 5: and explore the rose and Porium. Do you know they
Speaker 5: offer both free self guided tours and paid guided tours
Speaker 5: led by their owner, Jim Keater, So you can just
Speaker 5: wander the enchanting paths through the whole place yourself, at
Speaker 5: your own pace. Take a self guided tour, Look at
Speaker 5: the lush gardens, look at they have some cool historic structures.
Speaker 5: And they even have a little handy downloadable pamphlet so
Speaker 5: you can self guide yourself across learning about everything. Or
Speaker 5: you can go on a tour that Gym leads and
Speaker 5: those are more in depth. They dive deeper into the
Speaker 5: history and horticulture behind all these landscapes. You got a
Speaker 5: lot of insights that Jim has it shares with you
Speaker 5: on the decades of care and cultivation that have basically
Speaker 5: shaped that place into the floor paradise that it is
Speaker 5: right now. I always love to visit there. If you
Speaker 5: want to find out anything else about the Anti Grosmporium,
Speaker 5: you know the phone numbers, the how to get there,
Speaker 5: the what roses they have. Go to Antique Roseanmporium dot com.
Speaker 5: You need to follow them on social media because there's
Speaker 5: always things going on. Get on their email list Antique
Speaker 5: Roseanmporium dot com. They have events, they have workshops seasonally.
Speaker 5: They got some things coming up right now. But you've
Speaker 5: got to get out there and just check on it.
Speaker 5: Ars Anti Grosenporum. By the way, did I have to
Speaker 5: tell you that February is for roses. February definitely is
Speaker 5: for roses, and it would be a good time to
Speaker 5: get out there and to check them out. They got
Speaker 5: something coming up called the Garden Party. It's March seventh, eighth,
Speaker 5: the ninth. Is just basically we're on it right now.
Speaker 5: You ought to give them a call see if they
Speaker 5: still have space out there. Some of the events are
Speaker 5: like really cool, really cool events where there's dinners and
Speaker 5: other kinds of special things. But when you're out there,
Speaker 5: when you're calling them, rather going to visit the website,
Speaker 5: check out about that Spring celebration, the Garden Party, the
Speaker 5: Artisan Market. It's kind of drinks, desserts, music, and a
Speaker 5: lot lot more out there. It's a very special event
Speaker 5: in our lawns. I was talking to somebody the other
Speaker 5: day and they were asking about sweet Green. That's a
Speaker 5: product that nitroposs cells. Sweet green is basically it's like
Speaker 5: a molasses based product that, through microbial activity on the molasses,
Speaker 5: is turned into an eleven zero zero fertilizer. One of
Speaker 5: the highest analysis for an organic plant food in that
Speaker 5: nitrogen category is really a big number for an organic product.
Speaker 5: It smells sweet too. I mean, well, imagine open up
Speaker 5: a jar of molasses and smell as kind of what
Speaker 5: it smells like Sweet green is available all over the place.
Speaker 5: It's easy to find, not at all difficult, and it dissolves,
Speaker 5: you know, you put a little water on it, it
Speaker 5: dissolves away. And microbes love sugary carbon molasses types of
Speaker 5: materials that really stimulates their growth. And therefore the soil
Speaker 5: is better and the plants are happier. And sweet green
Speaker 5: is easy to find all over the place. For example,
Speaker 5: you got to Enchanted Forest and Richmond they got it there.
Speaker 5: You're going to find it down at Ace Sinkle Ranch
Speaker 5: and the allspa ace up in the woodlands as well,
Speaker 5: and arbigate nurseries carry nitrofoss products in general as well.
Speaker 5: And the bottom line is just get out there and enjoy.
Speaker 5: And if you I jokingly say that when you throw
Speaker 5: sweet green in the back of your car and you
Speaker 5: head home, it smells so good you just want to
Speaker 5: make another trip around the loop before you go. That
Speaker 5: must be a good smell. They want to drive Loop
Speaker 5: six ten for another lap. Nitropiz sweet green. The stuff works,
Speaker 5: It does for sure. I was talking with someone who
Speaker 5: was heading out to Nature's Way the other day and
Speaker 5: they were going to get some of the native plants.
Speaker 5: I don't know if you know this, But Nature's Way,
Speaker 5: you know, we think of them as soil because that's
Speaker 5: where gosh, that's the grandfather of the soil places in
Speaker 5: the Greater Houston area. It's been around a long time.
Speaker 5: John Ferguson years ago started that place, and his son
Speaker 5: Ian now runs a place. Same tradition, same quality products,
Speaker 5: same quality care and making composts. But did you know
Speaker 5: that they sell native plants? In fact, they sell more
Speaker 5: than just native plants. They have a lot of different
Speaker 5: kinds of plants. But they are excellent source for many
Speaker 5: kinds of natives for here in the Greater Houston area.
Speaker 5: For those of you haven't been there, it's up on
Speaker 5: Interstate forty five toward Conro. If you're going north on
Speaker 5: forty five, you exit fourteen eighty eight, which is the
Speaker 5: road that goes off to Montgomery. But instead of turning left,
Speaker 5: you're going to turn right across the railroad tracks and
Speaker 5: you're there at Nature's Way. You can go to uh
Speaker 5: you can give them a call, you can go by there.
Speaker 5: I just like to tell people, Hey, go to the
Speaker 5: website and check it out. You're gonna find a lot
Speaker 5: of information on the many different products that they carry.
Speaker 5: And the website is easy to remember because it's the
Speaker 5: name of the company, Nature's Way Resources dot com. Nature's
Speaker 5: Way Resources dot com. It is spring, it is time
Speaker 5: to plant brown stuff before green stuff. Don't put plants
Speaker 5: in until you fix the soil. Nature's Way has a
Speaker 5: lot of different ways that you can fix the soil
Speaker 5: that work. You are listening to garden Line phone number here.
Speaker 5: Seven one three two one two. Kind of a quiet
Speaker 5: day this morning on the phones here on garden Line,
Speaker 5: but we will be happy to take your call if
Speaker 5: you call, and maybe a little bit later, we're going
Speaker 5: about to hit break here pretty quick, and you just
Speaker 5: get on hold. We can make sure you're one of
Speaker 5: the first ones up when we come back from our
Speaker 5: top of the hour break that we're going to be
Speaker 5: looking at in just a little bit here. I love
Speaker 5: garden centers, and I keep telling you folks that listen
Speaker 5: to garden Line that we are fortunate in the greater
Speaker 5: Houston area to have so many awesome garden centers. I
Speaker 5: don't care if you live north, south, east, West, or Central,
Speaker 5: you have an outstanding garden center near you. And for
Speaker 5: those of you, I would say more of the Central area,
Speaker 5: especially although people drive there from all over. Buchanan's Native
Speaker 5: Plants on Eleventh Street is your local garden center right there,
Speaker 5: and Buchanans is just it's a wonderland of plants. They
Speaker 5: specialize in natives. They will have the most select the
Speaker 5: largest selection of natives in the whole region. And not
Speaker 5: just natives like Texas Natives, but natives like they have
Speaker 5: a table that's just say. These natives are right here
Speaker 5: in Harris County. Natives. You know, they're Houston Natives, and
Speaker 5: that's kind of cool. Of course, they got vegetable plants.
Speaker 5: They've got great plants for shade. Their Housepoint greenhouse is
Speaker 5: just unbelievable. It's just outstanding. On Saturdays in the spring,
Speaker 5: the spring starts in February, by the way, here Saturdays
Speaker 5: in the spring, they have talks out there at the event.
Speaker 5: They have wheat, they have events out there at Buchanans
Speaker 5: Native Plants. It's just a good place to go. Go
Speaker 5: to the website. Go to the website. You really need
Speaker 5: to do that. Buchanansplants dot com. Buchanansplants dot com. Check
Speaker 5: it out. Sign up for the newsletter. It is awesome.
Speaker 5: You get a lot of good information. When you go
Speaker 5: to the website, you're not just like, Okay, what are
Speaker 5: they selling me today? It's how to do stuff, how
Speaker 5: to prepare for a freeze, the garden to do checklist
Speaker 5: for February, for example. You know, you see what I'm saying,
Speaker 5: lot how to stuff that is very very helpful. Buchanan's
Speaker 5: Native plants. Go by and see them. It is a
Speaker 5: fun place to visit. I always like going in there
Speaker 5: because I always learned something. You know, I've been doing horticulture. Well,
Speaker 5: I've been doing horticulture my whole life. I've been doing
Speaker 5: it professionally for thirty six years now. And you would
Speaker 5: think that I've seen every plant that there is and
Speaker 5: heard every question that there is, and that's not the case.
Speaker 5: There's always something new. Some native now is making it
Speaker 5: to the market that we used to not have. Some
Speaker 5: new variety of tomato is out that is the best
Speaker 5: thing since slice bread. I don't know why they say
Speaker 5: that to me. The slice bread isn't as cool as
Speaker 5: a new tomato. We ought to say this is the
Speaker 5: best thing since a new tomato. Anyway, There's always something
Speaker 5: new out there to learn, and that's my gardening so
Speaker 5: much fun, just absolutely love it. Hey, guess what is
Speaker 5: going to be happening today. I'm going to be heading
Speaker 5: out to All Seasons, Ace Hardware and Willis. All Seasons,
Speaker 5: Ace Hardware and Willis. I'm going to be there from
Speaker 5: twelve noon to two pm. So grab you an early
Speaker 5: lunch and come on out. I'll be answering your gardening questions.
Speaker 5: Bring me pictures from your property that you want to
Speaker 5: ask questions about, bring me samples of plants. Shove a
Speaker 5: bug and a bag and bring him in and I'll
Speaker 5: make him confess his name and we'll figure out what
Speaker 5: to do about him. Same with diseases. Come on out there.
Speaker 5: I'm going to be giving away products from Nelson Plant
Speaker 5: Food and from the good folks at Medina. We've got
Speaker 5: a lot of good products to be given away out there.
Speaker 5: I even have a few Texas Gardener magazines on hand.
Speaker 5: If you haven't subscribed to that, that is an awesome magazine.
Speaker 5: If you need to subscribe, let me get a copy
Speaker 5: in your hand. Come on out again, All Seasons, Ace
Speaker 5: Hardware and Willis.
Speaker 1: Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Skip Rictor.
Speaker 3: It's crazy trip. Just watch him as we're going many
Speaker 3: batas to sup bat busy gas again, not a sun
Speaker 3: glass gas.
Speaker 2: The sun bemon down between.
Speaker 5: All right, folks, here we are, we're back, Welcome back
Speaker 5: to garden line. The other day, I was sitting early
Speaker 5: in the morning, actually in the house, and I heard
Speaker 5: it was dark outside. I heard a bird singing. It's like, what,
Speaker 5: you have to wait till some lights out there?
Speaker 9: Right?
Speaker 5: No, they don't. They get going early. And I love
Speaker 5: listening to birds sing. You know, I used to not
Speaker 5: be a bird person at all. I mean I didn't
Speaker 5: dislike birds. I just wasn't into birds. And then I
Speaker 5: discovered wild Birds Unlimited and began to enjoy the products
Speaker 5: they carry. And wild Birds Unlimited carries a wide variety
Speaker 5: bird houses, bird feeders, quality bird feed, and I say
Speaker 5: quality bird feed, not filled with the little red bebes
Speaker 5: that the birds are not interested in eating. You know,
Speaker 5: you get some cheap bird feed, and that's what it is,
Speaker 5: cheap bird feed. And if you lose, if the birds
Speaker 5: don't eat half of what's in the sack, was that
Speaker 5: cheap bird feed? No, you paid twice as much for it.
Speaker 5: Wild Birds Unlimited has quality seed. Now they're going to
Speaker 5: have things like you can buy what's called a no
Speaker 5: mess blend, where even like the little sunflower shells are
Speaker 5: already taken off the kernels, so there's absolutely nothing on
Speaker 5: the ground when you get through. But when they put
Speaker 5: something in a bag, they make sure that it's what
Speaker 5: birds are interested in eating. For example, their new product
Speaker 5: Cardinal Confetti Blend. It is awesome if you love redbirds,
Speaker 5: if you love the cardinals and bringing them in, Oh
Speaker 5: my gosh. They love safflower and black OL's sunflower and
Speaker 5: sunflower chips. They love the bark butter bits that are
Speaker 5: in it, the peanut haves, the dried mealworms, the striped sunflower,
Speaker 5: something called nutrisaff It is a concoction that is just
Speaker 5: rocket fuel for your cardinals and they'll love it. While
Speaker 5: you're at Wilbirds Unlimited, pick up a Cardinal tube feeder.
Speaker 5: You don't have to have that to feed the Confetti Blend,
Speaker 5: but it's a cool feeder. Good evening Cardinal feeder is
Speaker 5: another one that they have there, and they're going to
Speaker 5: be carrying this year round. This isn't just a spring
Speaker 5: thing at Wildbirds Unlimited. Now there's six Wildbirds Unlimited stores
Speaker 5: here in the Greater Houston area. Just go to WBU
Speaker 5: dot com forward slash Houston. You can find the store
Speaker 5: near you. When you walk in there, no matter what
Speaker 5: your bird question is, they're going to be able to
Speaker 5: help you. They're going to be able to point you
Speaker 5: in the right direction. And I warn you it's addictive
Speaker 5: because it happened to me. I love my warbird feeders
Speaker 5: from Warbirds Unlimited. They are just outstanding. I have one
Speaker 5: that the squirrels can't get into. I love listening to
Speaker 5: the squirrel's cuss about that the outside. But they have
Speaker 5: so many cool feeders. And if you talk to my birds,
Speaker 5: they can tell you that they like them a lot.
Speaker 5: They like that feed a lot. They haven't started pecking
Speaker 5: on the windows yet, going hey, it's time to fill
Speaker 5: that thing up again, but they love that stuff. All right, folks,
Speaker 5: stop by Wildbird's Unlimited. You will enjoy it just like
Speaker 5: I have. We're going to head out now to j
Speaker 5: D n fullsher Hey, JD. Welcome to Garden Line Hobby Skip.
Speaker 5: How you been doing I'm good, sir. How are you.
Speaker 10: Good?
Speaker 5: Doing good?
Speaker 8: I've talked to you before.
Speaker 11: I've got some chronic black city mold on my crate.
Speaker 11: Myrtles been battling it off and on for a couple
Speaker 11: of years now. Since you some pictures earlier in the week,
Speaker 11: I went ahead and I got that. I kind of
Speaker 11: followed the trim the crape myrtles the week of Valentine's
Speaker 11: so I trimmed them back this week. And I'm wondering
Speaker 11: if now is a good time to try something different,
Speaker 11: maybe some meam oil. I've tried some other kind of
Speaker 11: pesticide kind of oils and stuff from a big box store.
Speaker 11: But I want to try something a little bit different
Speaker 11: because because I don't get any blooms about right.
Speaker 5: No, it's it's a it's it's not a good thing.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 5: The the probumum problem the city. Most call it caused
Speaker 5: primarily by something called the crape murder bark scale. And
Speaker 5: you'll see some little white flecks in there in that
Speaker 5: in that black city bark and branches. Uh, that is
Speaker 5: creat murder bark scale. And those scales suck juices out
Speaker 5: of the plants plumbing system and they excrete a city
Speaker 5: sugary I mean, excuse me, a sugary water that the
Speaker 5: soot grows on. So the soot is just an after
Speaker 5: effect of what the insects doing the systemic insecticides will
Speaker 5: go up in the plant, and so when they drink
Speaker 5: from the sap of the plant, they're getting the product
Speaker 5: that way. They're not a surface sprayed product. They're drenched
Speaker 5: on the soil product that works good. The only drawback
Speaker 5: on systemics is when they're there during the time when
Speaker 5: blooms are on the plant. You can hurt bees that way,
Speaker 5: and so that's why we tend to avoid those when
Speaker 5: we can. In the spring, the bark scale, tiny baby
Speaker 5: crawlers come out from the little mother scale have produced
Speaker 5: and they crawl out all all over to create new
Speaker 5: spots you know, where they're feeding. They honker down and
Speaker 5: feed and have that protective covering over them. During that
Speaker 5: crawler stage. Are very susceptible, and that's going to be
Speaker 5: sometime in your area. That's going to be sometime in
Speaker 5: either late March or April that we typically see the crawlers,
Speaker 5: depending on how fast the year warms up. You can
Speaker 5: use a double sided sticky tape, put it around the
Speaker 5: branches and just check it every couple days. Just look
Speaker 5: at it and see if you see little tiny reddish
Speaker 5: bugs that are in There's that tells you it's time,
Speaker 5: and at that point you can treat them with oil
Speaker 5: sprays and any kind of insects said really is going
Speaker 5: to be effective against them. Then when they're in the
Speaker 5: scale stage, it's just hard to control them. We can
Speaker 5: use oils, but they're just not as effective as with
Speaker 5: other scales. So that's the challenge with those particular insects.
Speaker 11: Okay, I tried the double sided tape trick you had
Speaker 11: advised me on that last year, and I never could
Speaker 11: catch any of them, so I.
Speaker 5: Never could cut it. Okay, I don't know. Okay, h Well,
Speaker 5: that's interesting. Maybe maybe a little late, I don't know,
Speaker 5: but anyway, that's the way we monitor if we're gonna spray.
Speaker 5: Otherwise it would be drenching the soil. As the oath
Speaker 5: begins on the crpe myrtle, that's when to put the
Speaker 5: drench down. You can do it a little bit later,
Speaker 5: but that's when to put the drench down. It moves
Speaker 5: up in the plant at that time, and then when
Speaker 5: the spring scale hunker down season comes, that's that's when
Speaker 5: you'll you'll get them by putting the poison in the
Speaker 5: plumbing of the plant.
Speaker 11: Okay, okay, I appreciate it. And I held off doing
Speaker 11: the kind of the drenching in the spring and fall
Speaker 11: last year because I didn't want to hurt the bees
Speaker 11: or anything else.
Speaker 8: Yeah, but since I'm not.
Speaker 11: Getting I don't think I have many visits of any
Speaker 11: insects or birds.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Well, you know, oil sprays are the only other option,
Speaker 5: and you got to stay on them. And from what
Speaker 5: I've seen in the research, it's you know, for most scale,
Speaker 5: we just say spraying with oil in the winter and
Speaker 5: you're good. This one's a little different. So anyway, that's
Speaker 5: the challenge. Hey JD, good luck with that. I'm all
Speaker 5: run to a break, but I appreciate your call very much. Folks.
Speaker 5: I'll be right back and Elizabeth and Oak Chorus will
Speaker 5: be our first up. All right, here we go. Welcome
Speaker 5: back to Garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richtor, and
Speaker 5: we're here to help you have success. Listen, there is
Speaker 5: nothing that makes a patio more beautiful than gorgeous potted
Speaker 5: plants just putting all around the patty. I was talking
Speaker 5: to somebody the other day about how to set up
Speaker 5: a little drip irrigation system where there's a little sprinkler
Speaker 5: thing in each of your plant pots, and so it
Speaker 5: is on a timer. It comes on, it just does
Speaker 5: all the watering for you. And when you get a
Speaker 5: lot of containers, that's a challenge. I'll tell you. One
Speaker 5: of the secrets to success with those containers is quality soil.
Speaker 5: It browns up before green stuff, even in a container.
Speaker 5: It's true. Nothing makes a patty more more enjoyable, and
Speaker 5: nothing is going to help you have beautiful plants more
Speaker 5: than a quality makes it drains well. It holds moisture,
Speaker 5: but it drains excess moisture away. I don't care if
Speaker 5: you're growing flowers or if you're growing vegetables. And jungle
Speaker 5: land from nitrophoss is an example of that kind of
Speaker 5: soil mix, that kind of potting saut that kind of
Speaker 5: container mix. It's specifically blended with Canadian blond peat. It's
Speaker 5: got four different sources of a kind of an aged,
Speaker 5: decomposed bark. It's got micro rise of fungi in it also,
Speaker 5: and that you know, works with the plant roots to
Speaker 5: ensure that the plants are healthy for long lasting, beautiful,
Speaker 5: vibrant color. Now, if you want indoor plants, if you
Speaker 5: want something for them, there's a jungle land with water
Speaker 5: saving crystals, and it's called jungle land water saving potting soil.
Speaker 5: So these low crystals soak up with water and then
Speaker 5: when you forget, I know you don't forget, but if
Speaker 5: you were to forget to water, you've got a little
Speaker 5: extra reserve there of moisture to hold your plants because
Speaker 5: they can't yell at you and go, hey, we're dying
Speaker 5: in here. But the crystals hold them over until you
Speaker 5: get back to water in them. And you're going to
Speaker 5: find jungle land like other Microsoft Microsoft, Oh my god,
Speaker 5: Nitrofoss products at places like Ingenda Gardens down to Richmond,
Speaker 5: rosenber On I forty five hiding and feed up hiding
Speaker 5: on Stupor Airline actually north. Uh, you're gonna find it
Speaker 5: a Fisher's Harder. Both the one in Pasadena, the one
Speaker 5: in the Port, the one in Bellevue, and the one
Speaker 5: in Baytown all places to get quality products from Nitrofoss,
Speaker 5: not Microlife. You're not gonna get any of that for Microlife.
Speaker 5: No excuse me from Microsoft. I can't even talk this morning.
Speaker 5: Got good quality products out there, Oh my gosh, oh boy,
Speaker 5: All right, well, let's let me quit talking. I'm gonna
Speaker 5: put a collar up here, Elizabeth and Oak Forest, can
Speaker 5: you help make some sense. I'm having trouble today.
Speaker 12: Yip, good morning, and spring is coming. I can see it.
Speaker 12: I've seen it, all right. I've seen a red butt
Speaker 12: blooming and a couple of you know, purple magdilia's, and.
Speaker 5: I've just there you go, there you you know, Robin
Speaker 5: Williams says. He says spring. His nature's a way of saying,
Speaker 5: let's party.
Speaker 12: Yes, true, all right. So here's my conundrum. I have
Speaker 12: a piece of dirt between the sidewalk and the street.
Speaker 12: It's on a major four lane Houston City road with
Speaker 12: a median and a park across the street, so it's
Speaker 12: got a lot of high visibility. My mom always has
Speaker 12: the prettiest yard.
Speaker 13: Right now it looks horrible, and after the.
Speaker 12: Flood, the dirt is really poor.
Speaker 7: Right there.
Speaker 12: I can't even go the grass. It's just weaves will grow.
Speaker 12: So here's what I'm thinking. I was thinking about tilling
Speaker 12: it up and putting some kind of border around so
Speaker 12: the good dirt, good stuff whatever, won't wash out, and
Speaker 12: planning at what point crown cover h Okay, yeah, what
Speaker 12: what kind of dirt would I do? Would tilling it up,
Speaker 12: be good, mixing him sand and what else? And what
Speaker 12: would be a good order your mind? And what's creeping time?
Speaker 12: So it's loan, but that work here in Sell nine,
Speaker 12: what would you recommend?
Speaker 5: Okay, well, tilling it's fine, Adding compost. I'd put a
Speaker 5: couple of inches of compost on the surface and mix
Speaker 5: it in as deeply as you can. You're gonna have
Speaker 5: to make a number of passes over it to get
Speaker 5: deeper and deeper, to loosen that soil, water down, kind
Speaker 5: of settle the soil in and then do your planting.
Speaker 5: Time is okay. It doesn't spread very far or very fast.
Speaker 5: So take a lot of plants and time has its
Speaker 5: Sometimes it looks good. Sometimes you know you'll have areas
Speaker 5: that don't, and so you're not going to have that
Speaker 5: evenness across there that you might be looking for. There
Speaker 5: are other plants that do super well. If you want
Speaker 5: something that you almost can ignore and it looks pretty good.
Speaker 5: There is a groundcover called a frog fruit. Frog fruit,
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah. It has little tiny white flowers on sticks,
Speaker 5: but it's spreads, it gets thick, and it it basically
Speaker 5: is a weed. It's a native plant that grows in
Speaker 5: our area, and I've I've seen it making beautiful groundcovers
Speaker 5: and you're not gonna have to water it a lot,
Speaker 5: which is nicely so I was.
Speaker 12: I didn't want it to look too weedy, you know, weed, okay,
Speaker 12: but I want something in the bloom. I do not
Speaker 12: want Asian japin. Also there's that groundcover with the little yellow,
Speaker 12: cute flowers, but that's we once that spread, that's hard
Speaker 12: to get rid of.
Speaker 5: Ye. So yeah, Wadelia is a good ground cover, but
Speaker 5: it does have aspirations of taking over the world.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 12: So so the compost back to the dirt, just compost,
Speaker 12: no sand. It's already drying up.
Speaker 5: I guess yeah it. Do you think your soil is
Speaker 5: a heavy clay? Did you say out there in that
Speaker 5: medium it is?
Speaker 12: It is heavy clay? Yeah, and it's hard time and
Speaker 12: dry the boat and I about six inches?
Speaker 5: Go ahead, How big of an area is this? How wide?
Speaker 2: How long?
Speaker 13: I would say forty.
Speaker 8: Five?
Speaker 5: Okay, Well, I was going to suggest some I was
Speaker 5: going to suggest some expanded shale, but you're going to
Speaker 5: have to put it down at least a couple of
Speaker 5: inches deep and mix it in. But that's that may
Speaker 5: be a little pricey to do that big of an
Speaker 5: area with shale, But shale holds up longer than organic matter.
Speaker 5: You know, organic matter twenty years is going to decompose away.
Speaker 5: The shale is a hot fired. Think of it as
Speaker 5: little miniature lava rocks that have that porous surface in them,
Speaker 5: and it helps hold the clay open. But only if
Speaker 5: you use enough of it. You know, just putting a
Speaker 5: little bit of shale in doesn't accomplish much. Putting two
Speaker 5: or three inches in makes a lot of difference on it.
Speaker 5: But that would get that would get costly, so you
Speaker 5: may want to price that out.
Speaker 12: So is so compost, compost those sands and just killing
Speaker 12: back and forth and get it in a really deep Okay,
Speaker 12: I'll do it.
Speaker 6: And I.
Speaker 12: Thought about, well anyway, I'll let you know what happens.
Speaker 5: All right, good luck, picture all right. I hope you
Speaker 5: do it. I hope you do all right, Elizabeth, Thank
Speaker 5: you very much. I appreciate that.
Speaker 13: Bye bye.
Speaker 5: All right. Well, uh yeah, that those islands, those medians,
Speaker 5: the strip between the sidewalk and the curbs another one.
Speaker 5: Those are a challenge to water and can be a
Speaker 5: challenge to plant. Uh Intenna forest is one of those
Speaker 5: places that is just a haven for all kinds of plants,
Speaker 5: you know, vegetables and herb transplants. That place is crawling
Speaker 5: with them right now. It looks so good. They have
Speaker 5: a good array of different kinds of apples, peaches, plums
Speaker 5: that are low chill, that are able to survive and
Speaker 5: produce well in an area that doesn't get a whole
Speaker 5: lot of chilling like they do further up north. So
Speaker 5: certain varieties, but they know which ones to bring in.
Speaker 5: So when they say you have variety down, there's a
Speaker 5: variet it's going to grow well in your area. And
Speaker 5: when you're there, you can also pick up your citrus.
Speaker 5: They've got some really nice satsumas. Satsumas are about as
Speaker 5: cold hearty as citrus can get. You know, there are
Speaker 5: there's actually kum quats that are a little heartier. But
Speaker 5: if you want a mandarin type orange and you want
Speaker 5: something hardy, you're not going to do better than a
Speaker 5: good satsuma. They've got the soils, they've got the tools,
Speaker 5: they've got the fertilizers and everything else you need to
Speaker 5: have success. The way I would say is to creature,
Speaker 5: create your own garden. Of eaton, get it eat I
Speaker 5: n all right, I know you're rolling in the all
Speaker 5: out there, all right, but anyway, that's true. Vegetables, herbs,
Speaker 5: fruit trees, and while you're out there, check out the flowers,
Speaker 5: check out the shrubs. Grab you one of those beautiful
Speaker 5: flowering shrubs that they carry. They have crepe myrtle types
Speaker 5: out there. They also have my favorite spring flowering tree,
Speaker 5: which is Chinese fringe tree. Those are just beautiful and
Speaker 5: they don't get too big, so they fit a lot
Speaker 5: of local lots. You're gonna find them out on FM
Speaker 5: twenty seven fifty nine if you're heading from Richmond towards
Speaker 5: sugar Land. They're off to the right on twenty seven
Speaker 5: to fifty nine. That's Enchanted Forest. And I would recommend
Speaker 5: also when you're wanting to find out more about them,
Speaker 5: that you just go out to the web or go
Speaker 5: onto the website and check them out there. It is
Speaker 5: easy to find. Here's the web address Enchanted Forest, Richmond
Speaker 5: TX dot com. Enchanted Forest, Richmond, TX dot com. Check
Speaker 5: out their upcoming events this spring out there, and bottom
Speaker 5: line is just go get yourself out there and enjoy it.
Speaker 5: Tomorrow afternoon's going to be nice, perfect day. Go ahead
Speaker 5: and plant it tomorrow afternoon. Head out there, enchanted forest
Speaker 5: and Richmond. I get questions all the time about lawn
Speaker 5: nutrients and things, and one of the things people ask
Speaker 5: me about is trace minerals. What does that mean? Tracem
Speaker 5: or micro nutrients? What's the difference? There is no difference.
Speaker 5: Trace minerals or micronutrients are the same thing. Azimite is
Speaker 5: the product that we talk about on Gardenline. I talk
Speaker 5: about in girdline that has the trace minerals in it.
Speaker 5: It is mined out of the ground as a supplement
Speaker 5: that is ground up and made into a form that
Speaker 5: you can spread on your lawn, just like you spread
Speaker 5: fertilizers other fertilizers on the lawn. This has the tiny
Speaker 5: trace nutrients that are essential for a plant to grow,
Speaker 5: but are needed in small amounts. That's why forty four
Speaker 5: pound bag of azimite's going to cover six to twelve
Speaker 5: thousand square to your lawn. Now you can go to
Speaker 5: ASMIT Texas and find out more about it. But I'll
Speaker 5: tell you this pretty much the places you hear me
Speaker 5: talk about on garden Line, from feed stores to these
Speaker 5: hardware stores to garden centers and so on are going
Speaker 5: to have as amite. Now's a good time to put
Speaker 5: it out. In fact, anytime is a good time to
Speaker 5: put out asamite because it does work very, very very well,
Speaker 5: and you don't have to tie it to a growing
Speaker 5: season like we do with our nitrogen based fertilizers. Okay,
Speaker 5: the ones with the three numbers on the bag, those
Speaker 5: follow my schedule. Follow my schedule. It tells you when
Speaker 5: to put them on. And now's the early spring green
Speaker 5: up optional application. Once we get into April mode the
Speaker 5: lawns a couple of times, that's when we're going to
Speaker 5: be putting down starting our summer series of applications on
Speaker 5: the lawn. As amite. Anytime of the year. You can
Speaker 5: do it now, you know, you can do it when
Speaker 5: you fertilize. Just don't put the same product two products
Speaker 5: in the same hopper, you know, fertile and then as
Speaker 5: might think of it that way because a particle size
Speaker 5: is different, and that way you get it out nice
Speaker 5: and evenly. Something that is important to do now now.
Speaker 5: Now asap is barricade by nitrofoss. Barricade is a pre
Speaker 5: emergent herbicide. You gotta get it down before the warm
Speaker 5: season weeds start germinating, and they are going to be germinating.
Speaker 5: We get through this coal spell and they're gonna be
Speaker 5: popping up. Get some down. I'd get it down this weekend.
Speaker 5: Barricade pre Emergent, a ten pound bag covers five thousand
Speaker 5: square feet. You water it in with about a half
Speaker 5: inch of water and then you walk away and it
Speaker 5: takes you. You'll never see the weeds because it doesn't
Speaker 5: let them show up. You're gonna find it at Plantation
Speaker 5: Ace out there in Richmond Rosenberg at Langham Creek Ace
Speaker 5: on FM five twenty nine. You're gonna find it at
Speaker 5: RCW Nurser. You're going to find it at Lake Hardware,
Speaker 5: both the one in Angkleton and the one include All right,
Speaker 5: time for me to take a little bit of break
Speaker 5: here for some news and weather. And I don't know
Speaker 5: what all they're going to tell us here in just
Speaker 5: a minute, but I'll be back if you'd like to
Speaker 5: give me a callby first up seven one three two
Speaker 5: one two kt RH. All right, folks, welcome back to
Speaker 5: garden Line. Good to have you with us today. Really
Speaker 5: looking forward to visiting with you. About your gardening questions.
Speaker 5: We're going to go straight out to Houston here and
Speaker 5: talk to Mike. Good morning Mike, and welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 13: Hey are you talking to me?
Speaker 5: I'm Frank, Yes, sir, yes, sir. Welcome to guard Line.
Speaker 5: How can we help? Oh?
Speaker 13: Good to be here.
Speaker 7: Look.
Speaker 13: I bought a couple of papaya trees last April or
Speaker 13: May or May, about a foot and a half call
Speaker 13: and put them in containers of ceramic containers, and you know,
Speaker 13: not knowing much about papia trees, the pots were too small.
Speaker 13: They're definitely root bound. They're now six feet tall with
Speaker 13: abundance of fruit on them. They're in my garage, you
Speaker 13: can imagine, and this cold weather. So my question is
Speaker 13: do I have to break the pots to transplant these
Speaker 13: in a bigger pot? On one is it is a
Speaker 13: tear drop pot where the face is bigger than the neck.
Speaker 13: So okay, what about killing the tree if I try
Speaker 13: to dig it out there as a post? Yeah, so
Speaker 13: your your suggestion is helput.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you kind of up a creek there. I have
Speaker 5: had pots like that, and when I pulled a plan out,
Speaker 5: I had to use like a butcher NiFe and go
Speaker 5: straight down and cut a vertical wall cylinder out of
Speaker 5: it so I could slide it up out of there.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 5: You know, if the pot's not valuable, yeah, break it.
Speaker 5: But most of those kind of pots are pretty valuable.
Speaker 9: Uh yeah.
Speaker 5: If you leave it in there, that tree is just
Speaker 5: going to struggle. Now, if you can really frequently water
Speaker 5: and fertilize it to keep it from going into any
Speaker 5: drought stress, that would you probably could get by for
Speaker 5: a little while. But I don't know. I've never tried
Speaker 5: to cut u papaia out of a pot like that.
Speaker 5: That's going to take a lot of roots out of it.
Speaker 5: It probably is going to be okay. I'm sure it'll
Speaker 5: wilt for a while.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 5: You definitely want to keep it out of too much
Speaker 5: son until it get some fresh new roots on it.
Speaker 5: But depending on the size you said, six foot tree,
Speaker 5: how far is it across the pot from left, you know,
Speaker 5: left to right across the pot.
Speaker 13: I'm I'm thinking that there's two of them. Obviously one
Speaker 13: of them is in a better situation, But the tear
Speaker 13: drop pot is probably only about eighteen inches across. Uh,
Speaker 13: and it's I can tell buzz of the you're just
Speaker 13: totally bound.
Speaker 5: You know, if it were me, I probably wouldn't want
Speaker 5: to break a good pot if I really like the pot,
Speaker 5: so I might try cutting it out, But that's going
Speaker 5: to be hard to do because you're you're trying to like, uh,
Speaker 5: you know, saw up and down with a knife all
Speaker 5: the way around in a circle. But if you could
Speaker 5: get it out of there somehow, uh, it would give
Speaker 5: it a better longer term option, and then you can
Speaker 5: move it too a bigger pot, and and then that
Speaker 5: way always get you know, get a pot that has
Speaker 5: straight sides or more of a V shape than a
Speaker 5: capital A shaped as you have, and that way you
Speaker 5: can always bump it out if you want. All right,
Speaker 5: good luck.
Speaker 13: These are beautiful trees. These are beautiful trees. I just
Speaker 13: really have enjoyed growing there. Yes, so anyway, thank you, yes, yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that is a great fun fruit to grow. Appreciate
Speaker 5: that call. Thank you a lot. Uh. You know up
Speaker 5: in Willis, Texas, there's a place called Growers Outlet. Growers
Speaker 5: Outlet is a garden center and they serve that whole area,
Speaker 5: you know, Willis and Conro if you're looking at you know,
Speaker 5: down even down to the woodlands or out toward towards
Speaker 5: some of the lake neighborhoods like bent Water and April
Speaker 5: Sound Point Aquarius. UH Growers Outlet and Willis carries fertilizers
Speaker 5: that you hear me talk about like microlife, like nitrofoss
Speaker 5: like medina for example. UH and they have an excellent
Speaker 5: stock of all kinds of plants from veggies and bedding
Speaker 5: plants to perennials and ferns, nice shrubbery, lots of shrubbery,
Speaker 5: lots of trees as well. They even have big baskets,
Speaker 5: giant fern baskets that are just outstanding. Now. You can
Speaker 5: go to their website Growers Outlet in Willis. Don't forget
Speaker 5: the word in Growers Outlet in Willis dot com. They're
Speaker 5: on Highway seventy one in Willis, just a few months
Speaker 5: away from Interstate forty five, and you can go to
Speaker 5: the website and you can see plants and you can
Speaker 5: see what they have in stock. They update every Wednesday evening.
Speaker 5: They update their veggie list online, so there's no guessing.
Speaker 5: Go check them out, but do go buy there. They
Speaker 5: have a great gift shop, locally sourced honey and pickled
Speaker 5: food and jellies and jams and bath and beauty products.
Speaker 5: It's kind of a cool place when you walk around
Speaker 5: in there. Check out that greenhouse where they do grow
Speaker 5: a lot of their own stuff in there, and it
Speaker 5: is really nice. This is a special place Growers Outlet
Speaker 5: in Willis for all of you up in that area.
Speaker 5: This is really convenient Growers Outlet Willis dot Com. We're
Speaker 5: going to go to Port Arthur now and talk to Allen. Hey, Allen,
Speaker 5: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 13: Good morning.
Speaker 11: My question is I'm trying to decide whether I want
Speaker 11: to go in and fermize real quickly for the rains
Speaker 11: come or should Okay, that was kind of cold outside,
Speaker 11: or it would be more beneficial that wait to next
Speaker 11: week with it warms up and water in myself.
Speaker 14: You know.
Speaker 5: What I see in the in the weather, and you
Speaker 5: better check it. Don't trust me on the weather, but
Speaker 5: what I'm seeing is just kind of a little misty,
Speaker 5: not a whole lot of rain, and that would be
Speaker 5: great for something where you fertilized to move it down
Speaker 5: in the soil if we get a gully washer. The
Speaker 5: fertilizers you're using now are the fast release like nitrofoss Imperial,
Speaker 5: the red bag uh. And if you get a you know,
Speaker 5: two inches of rain, you're going to wash a lot
Speaker 5: of that away. And so you'd rather not do that,
Speaker 5: And I would wait and let my irrigation, which I'm
Speaker 5: in control of, do it. But from what I'm seeing
Speaker 5: in the weather, looks like maybe you could go ahead
Speaker 5: and get it down and let that dissolve it into
Speaker 5: the soil because it's going to start warming up a
Speaker 5: little next week and the grass will begin taking it
Speaker 5: up and getting greener as a result. Okay, very good.
Speaker 5: Then I'm going to get out there right now.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 5: That's it. Take care that fun, you bet Allen, that
Speaker 5: is the case for sure. Listen, fix my slab foundation repair.
Speaker 5: You hear me talk about him all the time. You
Speaker 5: hear me talk about Tie Strickland all time. Ties in
Speaker 5: native Ustonian, fifth generation Texan. He lives here in Houston.
Speaker 5: He has lived here in Houston. He knows exactly our
Speaker 5: soils and how to handle them in what they do.
Speaker 5: And here's the deal. Our soils that are clay, especially,
Speaker 5: they shrink and they swell, they get wet, they get bigger,
Speaker 5: they get dry, they shrink up, and that's why you
Speaker 5: see cracks in the ground, by the way in a
Speaker 5: clay soil, because it shrinks up. Well, if it's a
Speaker 5: sidewalk or driveway, it creates a mass. If it's a
Speaker 5: foundation of your home, it can crack the whole foundation.
Speaker 5: And you notice it because you walk around the house
Speaker 5: and you see bricks that have cracks in them. Especially
Speaker 5: look underneath the windows. That's one of the main places
Speaker 5: you see this. Like the corners of the windows going
Speaker 5: down toward the foundation, you see cracks there. Not the
Speaker 5: only place, but that's one of the places. Go inside
Speaker 5: you see sheet rock cracks, or maybe a door that
Speaker 5: wasn't sticking before starts to stick after some rain and
Speaker 5: the ground swells up, or after a dry spell and
Speaker 5: the ground shrinks up. That door is sticking and it
Speaker 5: used to not all signs you may have some movement.
Speaker 5: You need to have it looked at. Tye will do it. Listen.
Speaker 5: I recommend him without question, because he does it right.
Speaker 5: He shows up when he says he's going to show up.
Speaker 5: He gives you a fair price, and he fixes it right.
Speaker 5: And if it doesn't need to be done, he'll tell you.
Speaker 5: He goes, no, this is movement, but this isn't too
Speaker 5: much movement. You're okay, let's just keep an eye on it.
Speaker 5: He'll shoot straight with you on that. Tell him you're
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Speaker 5: Microlife Fertilizer has It's been around for over thirty five
Speaker 5: years and it is a favorite of landscape professionals and gardeners.
Speaker 5: It is the number one selling organic fertilizer here in
Speaker 5: the Houston area the Greater Houston area actually sold in
Speaker 5: a wide wide range of areas. Microlife works. It is
Speaker 5: a product that is a quality made product that releases
Speaker 5: through microbial activity in the soil. Most Microlife products are
Speaker 5: chock full of their own microbes as well, but that
Speaker 5: activity you get those products moist and the microbes go
Speaker 5: to work and they release the nutrients at a gradual
Speaker 5: pace for your plants the way nature does. That's how
Speaker 5: nature does.
Speaker 14: You know.
Speaker 5: Nature takes organic matter, it decomposes it, and it enlists
Speaker 5: the microbes to release the nutrients. That's it. So whether
Speaker 5: it's their Biomatrix, which is a liquid with an orange label,
Speaker 5: it's a seven to one three fertilizer. By the way,
Speaker 5: that that higher nitrogen number means it's great for your
Speaker 5: leafy houseplants, leafy grains outside. I mean, it's just good
Speaker 5: fertilizer period. Or if it's a dry granular fertilizer, it's
Speaker 5: going to do the same kinds of things and you're
Speaker 5: going to have success with it. With Microlife products now,
Speaker 5: Microlifefertilizer dot Com is a website. You can go there
Speaker 5: find out where to get it. But I can tell
Speaker 5: you this, it's about as widely available as any fertilizer
Speaker 5: you're gonna find here in the greater use scenario. I've
Speaker 5: been using it myself for over eight years now, and
Speaker 5: I find I've tried a lot of different ones. I'm
Speaker 5: working my way through their long list, extensive list of
Speaker 5: quality products, and every time I try one, I find
Speaker 5: that it does very, very well. Right now would be
Speaker 5: a good time to put out their humates. Plus, also,
Speaker 5: that's a purple bag and that has think of it
Speaker 5: this way, concentrated compost in a bag. That's what he
Speaker 5: makes amounts to you put that out. I would do
Speaker 5: it on an annual basis. Get it out there, get
Speaker 5: it and you put it on more than once a
Speaker 5: year if you want. But as it works its way
Speaker 5: into the soil, it's going to get better and better
Speaker 5: and better. Time for me to take a quick break
Speaker 5: when I come back. Kyle and Austin, you're gonna be
Speaker 5: our first up. He remembers that. All right, folks, welcome
Speaker 5: back to guarden Line. So glad you're with us today.
Speaker 5: We've got a lot of things to talk about and
Speaker 5: we're going to go right to the phone. Chare in
Speaker 5: just a second. I did want to mention to you
Speaker 5: that if you don't have a tree hugger sprinkler, you
Speaker 5: need to get one. Put in the garage, have it
Speaker 5: on hand because you're gonna need it. Treehagger sprinklers are cool.
Speaker 5: They have a little hinge and think of it as
Speaker 5: a circle that wraps around the tree trunk because it
Speaker 5: has a little hinge on it and it sprinkles as
Speaker 5: big of an area as you want. If you turn
Speaker 5: it on a little bit, it would be good for
Speaker 5: putting out I say tree, It would be good for
Speaker 5: putting on a rose bush. Maybe you plant it a
Speaker 5: rose bush this spring and you want to give it
Speaker 5: a little bit of water right there where the root
Speaker 5: ball is around the base. You just turn it on
Speaker 5: a little bit. That treeharker comes in a seven inch
Speaker 5: size diameter, an eleven inch and a fifteen inch size.
Speaker 5: And if you really crank it up. I mean, you
Speaker 5: may have a tree that's fifteen years old and we
Speaker 5: get into a summer drought one hundred degrees for one
Speaker 5: hundred days with no rain. That kind of thing. You
Speaker 5: crank that thing up and rescue your tree. And not
Speaker 5: only do you keep a plant from dying, but you
Speaker 5: help it to thrive so it gets bigger faster. In
Speaker 5: the case of a rose, you get nice, healthy rose bush,
Speaker 5: lots of blooms. In the case of a tree, you
Speaker 5: can hang a hammock in it sooner. You know what
Speaker 5: I'm saying. That's what I mean Tree huggersprinklers dot com.
Speaker 5: That's where you find a retailer near you or I
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Speaker 5: Nelson Water Gardens at RCW and Warren's Garden Center and
Speaker 5: Kingwood Garden Center out there in Kingwood, down in Richmond,
Speaker 5: Rosenberg and Chany Gardens and Channey Forests, D and D
Speaker 5: Feed and Supply in Tomball Spring Creek feed Center, League
Speaker 5: City feed down in League City, Southwest Fertilizer, and lots
Speaker 5: of Ace hardware stores like Single Ranch and Katie Ace
Speaker 5: and K and m Ace Hardware out in a Tascasita
Speaker 5: and fullsher Ace Hardware as well. All some of the
Speaker 5: many places where you can find tree hugger sprinklers. You
Speaker 5: need one, hang it in the garage. You're gonna want
Speaker 5: to pull it out for shrubs for trees, especially as
Speaker 5: we start getting into hotter weather and you're wanting to
Speaker 5: make sure that the water gets put in the right spot.
Speaker 5: We're gonna go now to Austin and talk to Kyle. Hello, Kyle,
Speaker 5: welcome to Garden Line.
Speaker 13: Hy there.
Speaker 5: Good talking to you this morning.
Speaker 11: How are you?
Speaker 5: I'm well, sir, Thank you? How can we help?
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, I think a few months ago. You thought
Speaker 4: I said I was from Boston. So this is my
Speaker 4: second time to call in. Not sure if you remember
Speaker 4: that conversation.
Speaker 5: We I do, and that I can tell from your axent.
Speaker 5: I can tell from your accent you're not from Boston,
Speaker 5: so sorry for that.
Speaker 4: I'm actually born in Austin, lived in Houston a long
Speaker 4: time and became an AM seven forty junkie. And uh,
Speaker 4: just it's back being back ten years, I still catch
Speaker 4: you on iHeart. I have reclaimed we claimed a lot
Speaker 4: of overgrown property here that for the previous about thirty
Speaker 4: years owner hadn't managed cutting back brush on trails and
Speaker 4: a pond and chicken run and a garden. I cut
Speaker 4: the brush out of the garden or early last fall,
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, early last spring.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 5: And and what I mean brush, I mean saplings.
Speaker 4: And you know half inch one inch brush that grows
Speaker 4: eight ten feet tall when you let it go for
Speaker 4: thirty years. So I had to use laffers down at
Speaker 4: dirt level and clear this all out. It's got a
Speaker 4: great irrigation that was set up PBC that rains in
Speaker 4: from six feet above the ground, and it's really set
Speaker 4: up to be a nice garden. It has in the
Speaker 4: past year grown a lot of weeds, and we had,
Speaker 4: you know, a pretty cold winter here, some spets, and
Speaker 4: we've had some drought. So a lot of the weeds
Speaker 4: that are there are just really desiccated dead. There's not
Speaker 4: a lot of green. I've followed your advice and gotten
Speaker 4: a bag of pre emergent that I'm going to put
Speaker 4: down after this rain passes today, and I'm curious what
Speaker 4: your thoughts are on best ways to manage this garden
Speaker 4: that hasn't been a garden, it's been an overgrown brush patch.
Speaker 5: It's about fifteen hundred square feet.
Speaker 4: When I cleared the brush out, I did till it,
Speaker 4: which made for some good weed growth. My plan is
Speaker 4: to just use a tool that I found in the here.
Speaker 4: It's I don't know what it's called, but you swing
Speaker 4: it back and forth at ground level it.
Speaker 15: Cuts yeah, and take all the yoyo called the yo
Speaker 15: yo okay, bringing back and forth and cutting h I
Speaker 15: plan on finishing with a dirt rake and putting down
Speaker 15: my pre emergent.
Speaker 4: I think what I do is about six months from
Speaker 4: now do that again. But I want your advice on
Speaker 4: how long it's going to be for us. Before we
Speaker 4: can actually use this as a garden. All right, I
Speaker 4: don't watch all these weeks.
Speaker 5: It's first of yeah, first to quick comment on the
Speaker 5: pre emergent. If you're gonna plant seed in the next
Speaker 5: sixty days or ninety days, I wouldn't put the pre
Speaker 5: emergent down in your vegetable or flower areas if you're
Speaker 5: gonna plant seed, uh, and so just know that it's
Speaker 5: going to last for a couple of months, and and
Speaker 5: and you don't want to do that. If you do,
Speaker 5: you just put it in, put it down and water
Speaker 5: it in. If you're going to use it, I would
Speaker 5: get any way. You can get mulch out there, and
Speaker 5: you know, grass clippings, leaves from people's yards, spend Hey,
Speaker 5: whatever kinds of mult you can get out over the
Speaker 5: garden would help prevent most of your weed problems if
Speaker 5: the brush starts to come back. There's a publication on
Speaker 5: my website and it's called Herbicides to use with Skips
Speaker 5: weed wiper, And basically what it amounts to. One of
Speaker 5: the items on there is for brushy weeds, and it
Speaker 5: tells you the product to get and all you do
Speaker 5: is you cut the weed off, the brush off and
Speaker 5: you dab that product directly on the fresh cut and
Speaker 5: it moves down in the plant and kills it. That's
Speaker 5: the best way. You don't need to spray and get
Speaker 5: that spray all over the place where you're going to
Speaker 5: hurt something. Just dab the fresh cut. But it's all
Speaker 5: on my website, so I'll just refer you to that.
Speaker 5: As far as the rest, again, multi is part of
Speaker 5: your best bet.
Speaker 4: We're thinking a little bit of a different direction, and
Speaker 4: our timeline is to retire and live here forever. So
Speaker 4: we're thinking a year before we're even ready to start
Speaker 4: using as a garden, so a six months later application
Speaker 4: of pre emergent so that we cover both season weeds.
Speaker 4: We're even thinking of rising beds that we bring some
Speaker 4: dirt in malts is not a problem. Is I've cleared
Speaker 4: brush out of the trail and pond. I've got mult
Speaker 4: and sleeve and dirt dirt raked up well with maybe
Speaker 4: some small twigs.
Speaker 5: All right, Well, Kyle, here's what I would do. And
Speaker 5: I got to run here, but I would take any
Speaker 5: kind of freemont you can get, including ground up brush
Speaker 5: or whatever you have, and I would moult that area deep.
Speaker 5: I mean a foot deep even and just cover it.
Speaker 5: And what's gonna happen is it's gonna start rotting down
Speaker 5: at the soil level, and by the time you're there
Speaker 5: and ready to put a garden in, you're gonna have
Speaker 5: a lot of rich material that's decomposed away. And in
Speaker 5: the meantime, it's gonna keep those weeds down where the
Speaker 5: number of weeds you're having a sprayer are much much less.
Speaker 5: But whatever kind of free organic matter you can get
Speaker 5: and get out there on the ground in a thick
Speaker 5: layer of mulch, that is going to be your friend.
Speaker 5: And in a long time you're gonna have a much
Speaker 5: better soil when you get ready to garden. I'm sorry
Speaker 5: I have to have to run, but I do against
Speaker 5: the clock here. Good luck with that. Thank you for
Speaker 5: the call. Call back anytime. Out in Kingwood. You got
Speaker 5: two garden centers. You got Warren Southern Gardens and you
Speaker 5: got Kingwood Garden Center. And they're both awesome. Warren's is
Speaker 5: on North Park, Kingwood's on Stone Hollow. They're both open
Speaker 5: seven days a week. They are the place to go
Speaker 5: to get beauty for your landscape. They're the place to
Speaker 5: go to get cool Statuary, to get gorgeous pottery, to
Speaker 5: get advice on how to put together your own mixed planter.
Speaker 5: You know what you want of those planters have several
Speaker 5: different kinds of flowers and plants in it, and it's
Speaker 5: just billowing up and spilling out and looks good. These
Speaker 5: places know what they're talking about. They're gonna carry the
Speaker 5: fertilizers that I talk about on Guardline, like Nitropossen and
Speaker 5: Nelson's in Microlife, and they're gonna have things like heirloom
Speaker 5: soils for example. They just have a wide variety of
Speaker 5: things and they sold serve that whole Northeast squadrant up
Speaker 5: there and that part of town. You got to go
Speaker 5: buy and check them out though, and go online and
Speaker 5: check them out there as well again. Warren Southern Gardens
Speaker 5: on North Park, Kingwood Garden Center on Stone Hollow. Those
Speaker 5: places are busting with the seams a good great plants
Speaker 5: right now, and you need to go see them all right,
Speaker 5: doing me for a little curve there. Hey, I'm gonna
Speaker 5: be today out at All Seasons, Ace Hardware and Willis
Speaker 5: All Seasons, Acehardware and Willis just go to aceharbare dot
Speaker 5: com buy in the store locator. If you don't know
Speaker 5: where All Seasons is, it'll take you right to it.
Speaker 5: Make it easy to find it. I'm gonna be giving
Speaker 5: away Nelson plant food products and Medina products as well.
Speaker 5: I got a lot of them on hand to give away,
Speaker 5: So if you show up, there's a good chance you're
Speaker 5: gonna get one. We're gonna have some Texas Gardener magazines.
Speaker 5: You got to see that if you haven't seen it before.
Speaker 5: Bring me samples, bring me pictures, let's meet, let's talk.
Speaker 5: Let's solve your gardening problems face to face on their air.
Speaker 5: I don't have a lot of time, but it face
Speaker 5: to face. We can talk on bay.
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Speaker 5: your hope host, Skip Richter, and we're here to help
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Speaker 5: That stuff works. Now, if you've got weeds in your
Speaker 5: lawn right now, that in other words, you see the
Speaker 5: weeds now, that is a cool season weed. The warm
Speaker 5: season weeds. They are little tiny seeds trying to germinate
Speaker 5: and get going here this time of the year. Time
Speaker 5: to stop them before they do. But if you've got
Speaker 5: weeds growing now, turf Star Weedinator buy Nelson is a
Speaker 5: product that works, and it works in many ways. Listen
Speaker 5: to this kind of cool. First of all, it's got
Speaker 5: a product in it to kill the weeds. I'm talking
Speaker 5: about chickweed, clover, dandelion, dollarweed, grasper, purslane, ragweedspurds, whatever the
Speaker 5: weeds are, it will kill them. You want to water
Speaker 5: your lawn just enough to wet the weeds. You're not
Speaker 5: trying to wet the soil. You just wet in the surface,
Speaker 5: and immediately you take your weedinator, which is a combination
Speaker 5: of fertilizer and a weed control, a post emergent broad
Speaker 5: leaf weed control. You're taking it out there and you're
Speaker 5: applying it, and those granules stick to the wet weed
Speaker 5: surfaces and they soak in. After a couple of days,
Speaker 5: good and watered in. Move it down in the soil.
Speaker 5: That's fine. Get that nutrient down in there. It's going
Speaker 5: to work. And for about the first six weeks you're
Speaker 5: going to get a quick release a fertilizer to start
Speaker 5: some growth. Get it going. As the soil warms up,
Speaker 5: a different kind of nitrogen in that product gets released,
Speaker 5: and in a late spring, a third kind of product
Speaker 5: is going to be released. So you're looking like months
Speaker 5: of feeding from this one application, and all the winter
Speaker 5: weeds that are about to go to seed, you shut
Speaker 5: them down now. Once they're blooming and setting seed, they're
Speaker 5: hard to kill. Don't delay. Do the weed inator right now.
Speaker 5: You can find it a lot of different places around town.
Speaker 5: But timing is everything, so don't delay. Get that done.
Speaker 5: Let's run out to West Houston and we're going to
Speaker 5: talk now to Mike. Hey, Mike, welcome to garden Mine.
Speaker 7: Thank you so much.
Speaker 16: I really had a quick question for you. A lot
Speaker 16: of plants last week for color in my yard, and
Speaker 16: then realized that we were going to have a freeze.
Speaker 16: But you know, that would probably kill them all before
Speaker 16: they even started going. But I wanted a lot of color.
Speaker 13: And so I suck them in my kitchen and my
Speaker 13: garage until after the freeze.
Speaker 16: Now I pulled them back out. Should I go ahead
Speaker 16: and plant them now? Or should I wait a little
Speaker 16: bit longer?
Speaker 5: You know, as I look forward about ten days out,
Speaker 5: I don't see any bad weather. But we technically would
Speaker 5: not be through all the possible freezes on an average
Speaker 5: of all the years. She said. What I'm saying, the
Speaker 5: average frost ate is what I should just put it
Speaker 5: that way. Is not quite past us yet, but we're
Speaker 5: on it. So you may put them out and be
Speaker 5: just fine. You may put them out and have a
Speaker 5: late cold in which you need to throw some sort
Speaker 5: of a light sheet or fabric or something over them,
Speaker 5: you know, just to protect them. Chances of us having
Speaker 5: just one of those in the teen's cold has diminished
Speaker 5: quite a bit. But I don't have a crystal ball,
Speaker 5: so we have to go by the averages. And if
Speaker 5: you want to be a little cautious, if you got
Speaker 5: a lot of dollars, you know, in all those plants,
Speaker 5: just hang onto a move mountain the sun, leave them
Speaker 5: out on the ground, make sure they get watered every day,
Speaker 5: and just give it a little bit more time. Head
Speaker 5: your bed a little bit if you want to go
Speaker 5: about it that way. That's perfectly okay, Thank you so much.
Speaker 5: I appreciate it all right, Mike, you take care, appreciate,
Speaker 5: appreciate your call. You know that that is funny that
Speaker 5: he said that I was looking at Orgey, you know
Speaker 5: Jorges Hidden gardens down in the Alvin area. It's just
Speaker 5: south of Highway six on Elizabeth Street. That's out there. Well.
Speaker 5: Horay posted to social media he had a living room
Speaker 5: full of plants and his wife's wanting to know one
Speaker 5: of these plants getting out of my living room because
Speaker 5: you know, we've had cold and Horay's got so many
Speaker 5: shipments in it is incredible. You see the place right now,
Speaker 5: I mean he really does. He's got all kinds of
Speaker 5: fruit trees if you're looking for apples and peaches, if
Speaker 5: you're looking for pears and plums. And I know he
Speaker 5: has blueberries, I know he has citrus trees. I know
Speaker 5: he has blackberries out there. He just has everything, shrubs
Speaker 5: and trees, plenty of things. Horace Hidden Gardens. They are
Speaker 5: a great place. And please get Orge out of the
Speaker 5: doghouse by helping get those plants out of the living room.
Speaker 5: Go pick some of them up and take them home
Speaker 5: with you. Horace Hidden Gardens. Got some good Peggy Martin
Speaker 5: roses out there again. They're on Elizabeth Street and Alvin,
Speaker 5: just south the highway six raz Hidden Gardens for all
Speaker 5: of you down in the Alvin, Santa Fe, Dickinson Hillcrest,
Speaker 5: Algoa Alta Loma, that whole region down there, Hidden Gardens.
Speaker 5: Time for me to take a break. We'll be back already.
Speaker 5: Welcome back to garden Line. You'd like to give me
Speaker 5: a call talk gardening seven one three two one two
Speaker 5: k t r H seven one three two on two
Speaker 5: k t r A A. It's gonna be raining today,
Speaker 5: a little bit misty, not messy rain, just eh, misty,
Speaker 5: messy rain, that kind of stuff. All right, what are
Speaker 5: you gonna do this afternoon? I have an idea. Grab
Speaker 5: you some lunch and then come on out, Come on
Speaker 5: up to Willis, come see me if you're up in
Speaker 5: that area. Lake Conroe, Uh Conroe itself, Willis New Waverley,
Speaker 5: that whole region up there. Come on and see me.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna be at All Seasons, Ace Hardware and Willis,
Speaker 5: and guess what will be indoors. It will be warm,
Speaker 5: it will be dry, and we're gonna be having a
Speaker 5: good time. I'm gonna be giving away Nelson plant Food
Speaker 5: Products and Medina Plant Food Products. Have some Texas Gardener
Speaker 5: magazines on hand for those of you who have not
Speaker 5: subscribe to that yet. You need to, by the way,
Speaker 5: and I'll be there answering your gardening questions. Take some
Speaker 5: pictures of the landscape, bring them to me, Bring some
Speaker 5: samples in if you want me to identify. And maybe
Speaker 5: you got a weed and it's like, what's this weed?
Speaker 5: And how do I kill it? Or can I eat it?
Speaker 5: I'll answer those questions however you want to, however you
Speaker 5: want to ask it. Come on out again. It is
Speaker 5: All Seasons, Ace Hardware and Willis. And like any Ace
Speaker 5: Hardware store, you just go to Acehardware dot Com find
Speaker 5: the store locator and you can find all the stores
Speaker 5: in the Greater Houston area. Just pict your zip code
Speaker 5: in there or whatever, tell them where you live, or
Speaker 5: just look at the whole map for Houston. There's a
Speaker 5: lot of good ones that you can go to. But
Speaker 5: today all season Ace and willis from twelve noon to
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Speaker 5: here on the phones to a task asita and talk
Speaker 5: to John. Hey, John, welcome to garden line.
Speaker 7: How you do it?
Speaker 5: You I'm doing okay?
Speaker 10: What good?
Speaker 7: I just uh, we wanted us to call to see
Speaker 7: about having a root to move from my oak trees,
Speaker 7: the ogating a large in the ground. When the would
Speaker 7: be a good time to have those removed.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you can. If you've got to establish tree, you
Speaker 5: want to be real careful and not stress it too much,
Speaker 5: not make it. You know structurally on sound where you
Speaker 5: take to many roots off one side and it blows over. Uh,
Speaker 5: but removing one root a year is usually okay. The
Speaker 5: alternative to that, when your roots are sticking up above
Speaker 5: the ground would be to bring in some fill around
Speaker 5: them about it. You know, you can do about an
Speaker 5: inch at a time or two inches maybe, and you
Speaker 5: can gradually sort of raise that level up and whatever
Speaker 5: is growing over it and you don't trip on the
Speaker 5: roots that way. So that would be an alternative to
Speaker 5: cutting a root off, but I would prefer to do
Speaker 5: the phill approach. But you can remove let's say a
Speaker 5: root a year and.
Speaker 7: You'll be all right, okay, all right, thank.
Speaker 5: You, yeah, you bet, good luck with that. Take care.
Speaker 5: That is the case. Absolutely. Hey. I mentioned earlier some
Speaker 5: nitrofoss products and how available they are. Well, Nitrofoss Imperial
Speaker 5: fifteen five ten been around for oh just decades. It
Speaker 5: is absolutely the go to on the quick release product
Speaker 5: for early green up. If you this is an optional
Speaker 5: on my schedule, but if you want to see your
Speaker 5: long get green early on and now the cool weather
Speaker 5: like this is not going to it's not going to
Speaker 5: grow yet until it warms up, but it will green up,
Speaker 5: and that's why we call it the early greenup. And
Speaker 5: Nitrofoss Imperial is a quick release fertilizer gets us nutrients
Speaker 5: right down there into the soil for that grass to
Speaker 5: take up into Greenup and it is people have been
Speaker 5: doing this for a very long time. Randy had heron
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Speaker 5: UH Nitrofoss Imperial fifteen five ten. And where do you
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Speaker 5: on the five twenty nine RCW Nursery Lake Hardware done
Speaker 5: in Angleton Lake Hardware done in Clute too, by the way,
Speaker 5: is a place that carries our Nitrofoss products. You are
Speaker 5: listening to garden Line the phone number seven one three
Speaker 5: two one two k t r H seven one three
Speaker 5: two one two kt r h H swinging by Arburgate
Speaker 5: the other day. I'm just I am just so impressed
Speaker 5: with the amount of stuff that they have gotten in it.
Speaker 5: I mean the truckloads of all kinds of things. And
Speaker 5: if you've been to Arburgate, you know it's always that way.
Speaker 5: Arbrogate is one of those destination garden centers. You know,
Speaker 5: you have family that comes in from out of town,
Speaker 5: you got to take them to Arbrogate. They've never seen
Speaker 5: anything like it. I mean, it is, it is just outstanding.
Speaker 5: Now Arbigate is going to be closing today at five pm.
Speaker 5: At five pm, just be aware of that. It's kind
Speaker 5: of cold out there. I'm kind of messy, and you know,
Speaker 5: people don't get enthusiastic about shopping on a day like this.
Speaker 5: But let me tell you this, Tomorrow afternoon is going
Speaker 5: to be awesome weather and Arburgate has got everything you need.
Speaker 5: Do you want to grow potatoes, They've got the potatoes.
Speaker 5: They even have a container that you can grow potatoes in.
Speaker 5: I mean, come up with your own if you want,
Speaker 5: plant them in the ground if you want, but go
Speaker 5: by there. Now's the time to get it done. Do
Speaker 5: you want beautiful color? How about some gorgeous echination? Echination
Speaker 5: is also called cone flower. You know, the native types
Speaker 5: are white and purple, but now there's so many colors
Speaker 5: and butterflies love them. They make good cut flowers. I mean,
Speaker 5: it's it's just typical of Arburgate to find everything that
Speaker 5: you might need to have success with your garden, from
Speaker 5: houseplants to fruit trees which they carry year round, to
Speaker 5: the quality products for the soil. Their one two three
Speaker 5: easy system, completely easy. It's a fertilizer for anything with
Speaker 5: roots and organic fertilizer. As a matter of fact, it
Speaker 5: is a compost or a soil based product. First of all,
Speaker 5: a soil based product for putting in your ground to
Speaker 5: create your beds, and then a compost to also mix
Speaker 5: into the soil to improve the soil. And both the
Speaker 5: soil and the compost have expanded shale added, which in
Speaker 5: our clay soils is essential. Remember what I say on
Speaker 5: garden Line, brown stuff before green stuff. When you go
Speaker 5: home from Arbrogate, go home with those three bags or
Speaker 5: more and your plants so that you can create the
Speaker 5: foundation to make your plants happy. Arburgate is west of
Speaker 5: Tombal on twenty nine to twenty easy to get to.
Speaker 5: Make sure to take Trischel Road which swings around behind
Speaker 5: Arburgate like a little loop. Off twenty nine to twenty.
Speaker 5: Park in the back. Awesome all weather lot right there
Speaker 5: behind Arburgate. We're gonna speaking of Tom Ball. We're gonna
Speaker 5: head out now to tom Ball and talk to John.
Speaker 5: Hey John, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 9: Good morning, Skip. Hope you're doing well. I had a
Speaker 9: quick question like probably five thousand questions today about fertilizer.
Speaker 9: I was just at Ace Hardware just now and I
Speaker 9: was gonna buy the not your Falsehood triumeac, and they
Speaker 9: said it's not good for bermuda to kill the bermuda.
Speaker 9: They use a not your False wheeding feet instead.
Speaker 5: I think I think you were getting two products mixed,
Speaker 5: or someone was. A nitrofiss has two products. One contains atrazine,
Speaker 5: which you don't want to use in bermuda. The other
Speaker 5: contains trimec, which is a broad leaf weed killer. H
Speaker 5: The atrozine is a pre emergent. It prevents the weeds,
Speaker 5: but the trimac kills existing weeds and it does not.
Speaker 5: Trimac does not hurt bermuda grass. So the fifteen five
Speaker 5: ten nitroposs with trimac will not hurt your bermuda grass.
Speaker 5: Let me don't don't use the scene.
Speaker 9: What color is that the light blue bag?
Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, hang on just a second. Let me
Speaker 5: let me pull one of those up here in front
Speaker 5: of me. Uh, we're doing shopping on the air, folks.
Speaker 5: This is good, all right, we'll do we'll do this.
Speaker 5: Hang on just a second. I'm trying to find it.
Speaker 5: It may take me a second to pull my sheet
Speaker 5: up on.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's a it's like a.
Speaker 5: Do you have any Jeopardy music, Jonathan that we could
Speaker 5: play while I'm.
Speaker 9: Well, Hey, I love your show, Skip. I'm outside in
Speaker 9: the coal with my crock oping just for you, so
Speaker 9: making sure.
Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, is that a sacrificer? No, you know
Speaker 5: what I'm not. I'm not gonna take airtime to hunt
Speaker 5: down pictures of bags and stuff. But I it's a
Speaker 5: it's a blue or teal, I think, but I don't
Speaker 5: want to tell you for sure until I actually look
Speaker 5: at it. But anyway, here's the bottom line. You can use,
Speaker 5: you can use. You can use Trimac nitrofoss with Trimac
Speaker 5: fifteen five timetriment. You can use that on Bermuda grass.
Speaker 5: So let's just leave it at that. And I'm gonna
Speaker 5: have to unfortunate, I'm gonna have to run here. But
Speaker 5: don't worry about using that one. Don't use don't use
Speaker 5: the actressne all right, all right, John, thank you? Yeah, yes, sir,
Speaker 5: appreciate that. Yeah. Ace Hardware stores are all over town
Speaker 5: with Ace Hardware. Everything you hear me talk about on Guardline.
Speaker 5: You're gonna find it Ace Hardware. ACE Hardware stores right now.
Speaker 5: This month. I have twenty percent off mon faucets this month.
Speaker 5: They have buy three air filters, get one free this month.
Speaker 5: Take advantage of that. The President's sale on all kinds
Speaker 5: of paint and supplies has been going on at ACE
Speaker 5: Hardware now. No matter what you need, you need to
Speaker 5: first make sure you sign up for the ACEH Rewards
Speaker 5: Program because you get discounts and you get special offers
Speaker 5: only for ACE Rewards customers that are part of the
Speaker 5: ACEH Rewards Program. If they email them directly to you.
Speaker 5: I belong myself. It works. Ace Hardware dot Com. Find
Speaker 5: the store locator, find the stores near you. They are
Speaker 5: all over this listening area. ACE Hardware the place for
Speaker 5: everything you need outside in your lawn and garden and landscape,
Speaker 5: but also a lot of things for indoors. Time for
Speaker 5: me to take a little quick break here. Don't forget today.
Speaker 5: I'm going to be up at ACE Hardware in Willis
Speaker 5: all seasons Ace from twelve noon to two pm. It
Speaker 5: will be dry inside, it will be warm inside. Come
Speaker 5: see me, let's talk gardening. I'll be right back.
Speaker 2: Ride girl.
Speaker 5: Guys, you need to listen to these lyrics, memorize them,
Speaker 5: let them come out of your mouth. Now that's my
Speaker 5: public service announcement. You can thank me later.
Speaker 2: And every time I'm of moms around.
Speaker 3: You, I feel like the frame it gets the whole
Speaker 3: the lias.
Speaker 5: There you go. Thank you Brad Paisley for that advice.
Speaker 5: All right, folks, we're on you are listening to garden Line.
Speaker 5: We're on a role here.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 5: Sweet Green is a nit frost product that is based
Speaker 5: on a molasses type substance that microbes get a hold
Speaker 5: of and basically they turn it into a high nitrogen
Speaker 5: fertilizer for an organic product, very high nitrogen. It's eleven
Speaker 5: zero zero eleven percent nitrogen. Now being a molasses sugary
Speaker 5: type product, you get it wet. It is all. It
Speaker 5: goes into the soil and it becomes available to those
Speaker 5: plants as microbes interact with those substances that are in
Speaker 5: sweet Green. It smells wonderful. You can find sweet green
Speaker 5: everywhere you find your nitrofoss products. You know places for
Speaker 5: example like Court Hardware down in Stafford, Katie Hardware, Ace
Speaker 5: out on Pinoak plants for all seasons. Luetta the Stanton
Speaker 5: shopping center down in Alvin, just some of the many
Speaker 5: places that carry Sweet Green by Nitrofoss. It's absolutely wonderful.
Speaker 5: I love the fragrance of it. I mean, it's weird
Speaker 5: to sit here and talk and go on and on
Speaker 5: about a fragrance of a fertilizer. But it really is good.
Speaker 5: It really is nice. They've really done their homework, and
Speaker 5: organic sweet Green, that plant food is a great, great
Speaker 5: way to go now. I was talking earlier to somebody.
Speaker 5: We were discussing the nitrofos, the one the wheat and
Speaker 5: feed that has trimec and the wheaton feed that has
Speaker 5: atrozine in it, And the two bag colors are so
Speaker 5: close in my mind's eye, I couldn't picture the difference.
Speaker 5: And I want to be real clear about this. The
Speaker 5: blue bag, the bright blue bag, that is the one
Speaker 5: that has trimec. The purple bag has atrozine. The call
Speaker 5: was about Bermuda grass, Slawns. You don't use atrozine on bermuda,
Speaker 5: but you can use trimech on bermuda. You can use
Speaker 5: trimec on Saint Augustine, Bermuda, centipede, Bhea's zoisia, a lot
Speaker 5: of things. But when it comes to the atrosine product.
Speaker 5: You don't hear me talk about that much. But no, no, no,
Speaker 5: on bermuda with that product only. But the trimeac product
Speaker 5: kills broad leaf weeds. Aderzine prevent weeds from germinating or
Speaker 5: kill very young seedlings too, But the trimec that is
Speaker 5: the one for broad leaf post emergent. The blue bag,
Speaker 5: So no matter what kind of long you have, the
Speaker 5: blue bag will work as a post emergent. I hope
Speaker 5: that's not too confusing. But you know, when we start
Speaker 5: talking about products, and any product can be made used
Speaker 5: any you know, any matter of the product, you got
Speaker 5: to be careful and you've got to follow the label
Speaker 5: and watch it because it matters. It matters, just like
Speaker 5: thinking medicine for your body. Maybe medicine that's making you healthier,
Speaker 5: but if you mistake it or if you take the
Speaker 5: wrong ones, I mean, that's a problem. And so don't
Speaker 5: just be indiscriminate, and please don't do the thing we
Speaker 5: guys often do where if a teaspoons good, a tablespoons better,
Speaker 5: you know it's a swatting a mosquito. I'm going to
Speaker 5: get a sixteen pound sedge hammer and kill it really did. Nah,
Speaker 5: don't take that approach. That will come back to bite you.
Speaker 5: For those of you down in the Seabrook area, down
Speaker 5: south and east of the Houston area, Moss Nursery is
Speaker 5: your hometown garden center. Of course, you've lived down there,
Speaker 5: you probabarily know about Mosh, probably been there to Moss.
Speaker 5: They in the spring. I mean that place is like
Speaker 5: it just lines of trucks, six to eight shipments day
Speaker 5: coming in literally just unloading all kinds of things, and
Speaker 5: right now they are stocked with vegetables and herbs and flowers.
Speaker 5: Of course, always you're gonna find beautiful hanging baskets at
Speaker 5: Moss Nursery. They always have beautiful hanging baskets. If you
Speaker 5: need fruit, trees, if you need shrubs, if you need anything.
Speaker 5: I think one of the most fun parts about Moss
Speaker 5: is walking around the eight acre that's right, eight Acre Nursery,
Speaker 5: and every time you turn a corner you see something
Speaker 5: else cool you didn't expect to see. Maybe it's something
Speaker 5: unusual like a carved out wooden canoe, or maybe it
Speaker 5: is some sort of a sculpture, a garden concrete garden
Speaker 5: sculpture out there, or a different kind of little fountain
Speaker 5: that they've got splashing the water and creating that beautiful ambient.
Speaker 5: This is a seventy year old family operated nursery in
Speaker 5: Seabrook on Toddville Road. For those of you who've never
Speaker 5: been out there, Hey, go down, get you some lunch
Speaker 5: in Kima, and go visit Moss Nursery. Make a nice
Speaker 5: outing of it. It's a great place. They got lots
Speaker 5: of a small cacti and succulents and wonderful tropical house
Speaker 5: plants in the houseplant greenhouse where I promise you it
Speaker 5: will be dry today inside the greenhouse. It's a nursery.
Speaker 5: It's not just another garden center. It is a destination place.
Speaker 5: Moss Nursery dot com, Maas Nursery dot com two eight
Speaker 5: one four seven four twenty four eighty eight two eight
Speaker 5: one four seven four two four eight eight.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 5: This is the time of year where everybody's asking questions
Speaker 5: about the lawn and fertilizers and about weed control and
Speaker 5: when do I do this and when do I do that.
Speaker 5: I created a schedule it's online at gardeningwith Skip dot com.
Speaker 5: In fact, there's two schedules. One of them is what
Speaker 5: I call the how to have a beautiful lawn schedule,
Speaker 5: and that tells you how to mow, water and fertilize,
Speaker 5: what products to use, when to apply them. The other
Speaker 5: is what goes wrong with your lawn schedule, and it's
Speaker 5: the weeds, the pests, and the diseases that attack lawns
Speaker 5: when they occur, and what to use. Both contain organic
Speaker 5: and synthetic options. So there's a lot of things on
Speaker 5: these schedules that help you time what you're gonna do right.
Speaker 5: For example, right now, if you're going to do a premergent,
Speaker 5: now's the time to do it, because if you wait
Speaker 5: until the weed drop too late, now's the time to
Speaker 5: do it. Now. You get my schedules out and you
Speaker 5: look at all those products, all the organics, all the synthetics,
Speaker 5: and you go, where can I find everything on this
Speaker 5: schedule and everything that comes out of Skip's mouth on
Speaker 5: guarden line. Southwest Fertilizer. Southwest Fertilizer has been around since
Speaker 5: nineteen fifty five. Seventieth anniversary, Happy birthday, Southwest Fertilizer. Happy
Speaker 5: birth I will say, happy birthday, Bob. The congratulations on
Speaker 5: the seventieth anniversary of Southwest Fertilizer. I'm going to hear
Speaker 5: about that the next time I go in there. Anyway,
Speaker 5: anything that comes out of my mouth's going to be
Speaker 5: in that store. They have everything you need. And if
Speaker 5: they don't have it, you don't need it, because they
Speaker 5: have everything you need. It doesn't matter if it's controlling
Speaker 5: bests controlling diseases. Do you need some tools, quality pruning tools? Well,
Speaker 5: do you think if you walked your way down on
Speaker 5: ninety foot wall of tools you could find something? Yes,
Speaker 5: you can, and they're good ones. Do you need seed
Speaker 5: like seed packets? Do you need seed like the bulk seed?
Speaker 5: You know the old time bends used to see those
Speaker 5: like you feed stores in places. You have a bin
Speaker 5: and you get a little scoop and scoop out the
Speaker 5: seed and put it in an Envelope's very economical way
Speaker 5: to buy seed. Bob's got one of those bends there
Speaker 5: at Southwest Fertilizer, so you can do that there too.
Speaker 5: Take them a sample, take them a picture, let them
Speaker 5: put their eyes on it, and they will tell you
Speaker 5: what it is and what you need to do. If
Speaker 5: you need to spray and they're going to have it,
Speaker 5: they'll walk you right over to it. It's friendly service,
Speaker 5: it's quality products, it's unbelievable selection. What else can you
Speaker 5: ask for? Southwest Fertilizer dot Com if you'd like to
Speaker 5: give them a call seven one three six sixty six
Speaker 5: one seven four four seven one three one six sixty
Speaker 5: sixty six one seven four four Now Neilson Plant Food
Speaker 5: has a coup a number of products that are in
Speaker 5: jars OH clear jars of the screw top lead. One
Speaker 5: of the lines of products they have is called nutris Star,
Speaker 5: and there's a nutri Star for all kinds of plants
Speaker 5: from plumerias to hibiscus, to citrus fruit and avocado and
Speaker 5: tree and shrub. Those last two I want to tell
Speaker 5: you about. Tree and shrub has five sources of nitrogen
Speaker 5: that feed for about three or four months, and they
Speaker 5: have the micronutrients in them. I don't care what kind
Speaker 5: of true or shrub you have. This stuff works. No
Speaker 5: nutri Star tree and shrub from Nelson. Now nutri Star
Speaker 5: citrus fruit and avocado. Anything that you're going to grow
Speaker 5: to eat fruit off of, put citrus fruit and avocado
Speaker 5: on it again about every three months. It's going to
Speaker 5: provide all the nutrients that it needs. And you know,
Speaker 5: whether you're growing fruit tree and the landscape or fruit
Speaker 5: tree and a container, nutri Star citrus fruit and avocado
Speaker 5: really really works. And you know a lot of these
Speaker 5: jar products from Nelson. There's several places around town that
Speaker 5: will give you a refill state. So just like you're
Speaker 5: buying peanuts in the grocery store, you know, you put
Speaker 5: a little handle and fill the bag. You can refill
Speaker 5: your Nelson products that way there at the stations, which
Speaker 5: is good for the environment, saves plastic and good for
Speaker 5: your pocket book as well. Time for me to take
Speaker 5: a break. We'll be right back. Hey, welcome to garden Line, folks.
Speaker 5: Good to have you with us. Thank you a little
Speaker 5: bit of pure prairie league there on this good Saturday morning.
Speaker 5: Good Saturday morning to be inside talking about gardening, learning
Speaker 5: about gardening. Glad you're with us today. Listen, if you
Speaker 5: have indoor plants and you are looking for a quality
Speaker 5: product for the soil for those indoor plants, that would
Speaker 5: be jungle land. You know, when you have houseplants and
Speaker 5: a container, you want a soil that drains well. You
Speaker 5: do not want it to stay mucky, soggy, wet. Buddy,
Speaker 5: you do want it to hold water. You don't want
Speaker 5: to water just to run right out and not hold
Speaker 5: any water. Jungle Land is a good quality soil like that,
Speaker 5: and they have an outdoor version called jungle Land Flour
Speaker 5: and Vegetable Potting Soil. I'm talking about the indoor version
Speaker 5: which is called jungle Land water saving potting soil. It
Speaker 5: has these little crystals in it and they get wet
Speaker 5: and swell up. They look like a little clear jello,
Speaker 5: a little tiny pieces of clear jello, and jungle Land
Speaker 5: by doing that allows your soil to dry out but
Speaker 5: still be a little bit of moisture there in case
Speaker 5: you forgot to water. So it makes it, let's say
Speaker 5: more forgiving of a neglectful watering schedule. Jungle Land is
Speaker 5: just one of the many quality products you can get
Speaker 5: from Nitrofosh. You can find it in a wide variety
Speaker 5: of the retailers of Nitrofoss kinds of products. Places you
Speaker 5: know that carry their products include M and D hardware
Speaker 5: that would be on Beamer, Sagemont that MD clear Lake
Speaker 5: out in clear Lake, of course, plants and things up
Speaker 5: in Brennam carries Nitrofoss products and MD up in Cyprus
Speaker 5: on Luetta. They also carry the nitrofoss types of products,
Speaker 5: quality products that work. You were listening to Garden Line.
Speaker 5: Our phone number is seven one three two one two
Speaker 5: ktr H seven one three two one two KTRH Black
Speaker 5: to give us a call and you don't delay. We
Speaker 5: can get you on here before we take a break.
Speaker 5: I was at it in Chanick Gardens not too long ago,
Speaker 5: giving a talk out there on basically lazy gardening is
Speaker 5: how to make gardening less work. And I had a
Speaker 5: really good time with all the folks that came out,
Speaker 5: and being out there just reminds me every time I
Speaker 5: go out, it reminds me again. This place is an
Speaker 5: expanse of everything you could need. This is another garden
Speaker 5: center destination. Family comes to town, take them out there.
Speaker 5: Tomorrow afternoon be a good time to get out too.
Speaker 5: It's gonna be good weather tomorrow to get out there
Speaker 5: doing Chenny Gardens. They are on the Katie fullsher Side
Speaker 5: of Richmond on FM three point fifty nine. So uh,
Speaker 5: I would just do it this way. I would just
Speaker 5: go to the website because there you're gonna find out everything.
Speaker 5: You can sign up for the newsletter it's an awesome website.
Speaker 5: It's Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot
Speaker 5: com has been around since nineteen ninety five, and it
Speaker 5: is truly an unforgettable garden center. Herbs and vegetables and
Speaker 5: native plants and roses and shrubs and trees and fruit
Speaker 5: and hanging baskets and just succulents and beautiful. Gosh, their
Speaker 5: pottery selections unbelievable. Gift shops are unbelievable. I mean, it's
Speaker 5: just you name it. It's good. You hear me talk
Speaker 5: about fertilizers like Microlife, nitroposs, Nelson Medina, they got them.
Speaker 5: You hear me talk about soil, Major's Way heirloom so
Speaker 5: they carry that stuff. They just everything you need, brown
Speaker 5: stuff and green stuff. They got you covered out there
Speaker 5: at in Chanty Gardens, including some really nice fountains and
Speaker 5: wim chimes and Whimsickle garden art. It's hard for me
Speaker 5: to say Whimsickle anyway, it's a fun play. You need
Speaker 5: to go if you haven't been, and you know, a
Speaker 5: little bit misty today, I understand that, but I'm telling
Speaker 5: you tomorrow afternoon, Oh gosh, you gotta get out there.
Speaker 5: Don't delay. Hey, you want first pick? By the way,
Speaker 5: I got a bunch of tomatoes in I saw the
Speaker 5: other day. Don't let them get all picked over. Get
Speaker 5: out and get your own there while you still have
Speaker 5: a really good supply. We're going to head now up
Speaker 5: to Nederland and talk to Randy. Hello, Randy, welcome to
Speaker 5: garden Line.
Speaker 10: How are you this morning?
Speaker 5: I'm good, sir. How can we help?
Speaker 10: I'd just like skip to get your thoughts on to
Speaker 10: use a blossom set on tomatoes?
Speaker 5: Okay, all right? So the products that are used for
Speaker 5: blossom set are a hormone that is the same hormone
Speaker 5: that seeds produce. And so what happens is when a tomato,
Speaker 5: for whatever reason, it could be cold weather, you know
Speaker 5: night's done in the fifties and things, the pollen doesn't
Speaker 5: grow and fertilize the tomato developed they did. It doesn't
Speaker 5: grow fast enough, and the flowers aboard. In the summertime,
Speaker 5: the pollen doesn't shed right and get to where it
Speaker 5: needs to be, and the tomatoes aboard, and so blossom
Speaker 5: set is a way of getting the tomato to not
Speaker 5: abort that little blossom, but to hang on to it
Speaker 5: and to help it to establish and grow, and so
Speaker 5: it's kind of a way around some of those issues
Speaker 5: that can happen with tomatoes in general. If you've got
Speaker 5: decent weather conditions and if your tomatoes are moving a
Speaker 5: little bit in the wind, you're going to get good
Speaker 5: Set in a greenhouse where there's no wind. They actually
Speaker 5: go in and shake the vines in different ways of
Speaker 5: doing that, but they shake the vines and cause that
Speaker 5: pollen to fall into the flower right where it can
Speaker 5: pollinate it. Tomatoes don't have to have a bee carrying
Speaker 5: pollen from flower to flower. They just need the flower
Speaker 5: to be moved around and shaken.
Speaker 10: Yes, sir, yes, sir. Does this change the makeup of
Speaker 10: the tomato at all? The taste, of size, the just
Speaker 10: make it a different.
Speaker 5: Tomato, not taste, maybe size a little bit. You know,
Speaker 5: seeds help contribute to the size of a fruit. If
Speaker 5: you ever see an apple that's lopsided and you cut
Speaker 5: it in half, you're going to see the seeds on
Speaker 5: that shrunken side are gone. They're not there. The hormone
Speaker 5: seeds release do that, so you're gonna get a little
Speaker 5: bit of that effect on them.
Speaker 10: Okay, all right, Skip I appreciate it. I use it
Speaker 10: and it does well for me, and I just won't good.
Speaker 10: And if I was changing the tomato in any way, No,
Speaker 10: you're not.
Speaker 5: You're just taking what nature is not providing in the
Speaker 5: case of a tomato that's not being pollinated, right, and
Speaker 5: you're giving it that same hormone in the place what.
Speaker 10: The seed would have done, just making it, just making
Speaker 10: it hold a little longer.
Speaker 5: Go all right, good luck with it now. You know
Speaker 5: on garden Line. You know the policy on Guardline, Randy
Speaker 5: is the advice is free. But I do expect any
Speaker 5: tomatoes that you have based on this advice for you
Speaker 5: to share half of them with me. So bring them
Speaker 5: to the station. We'll call it even thanks, Okay, I'll
Speaker 5: do it.
Speaker 10: I've got a few starting right now.
Speaker 5: I'm joking. Thank you a lot. I appreciate that. All right, boy,
Speaker 5: the phone took off here. I'll see how many we
Speaker 5: can get too before we have to go to break.
Speaker 5: We're going to go out to Cypress now and talk
Speaker 5: to Marsino. Hey Marsino, welcome to guard Line.
Speaker 6: Hi Skop, good morning, how are you.
Speaker 5: I'm well? Thank you?
Speaker 10: So I sent you a couple of.
Speaker 6: Pictures I had some large, two large live oak trees
Speaker 6: in my front yard and the roots are superficial and
Speaker 6: they're not allowing grass to grow on top of them.
Speaker 6: And I'm also having a lot of low spots, so
Speaker 6: they're a bit of a tripper.
Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, I got so. So bottom line on those
Speaker 5: h I would fill in with soil slowly, you know,
Speaker 5: maybe an inch or two at a time, just add
Speaker 5: about an inch. The grass will come up on through
Speaker 5: them and you'll avoid those tripper and lawnmower target roots
Speaker 5: that are up near the surface. You do need good
Speaker 5: light for the grass to grow. And looking at your grass,
Speaker 5: it almost looks like maybe you have a little take
Speaker 5: all root rod in there. I can't tell from a
Speaker 5: picture alone, but it may be that you're needing to
Speaker 5: do a little bit of a treatment of that lawn.
Speaker 5: And on my schedule online at gardening with Skip dot com,
Speaker 5: I have take all root rod on there and the
Speaker 5: things to use and when to use them. So I
Speaker 5: would do that just as a precaution because I'm about
Speaker 5: eighty percent sure that you've got some take all in there.
Speaker 6: Okay, so go ahead and for the take all root
Speaker 6: drops and then add in one to two inches. How
Speaker 6: often do I add that inches? I did it most
Speaker 6: of last year. I added in about an inch of
Speaker 6: soil in those areas every one two months.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you can do that. You can do that gradually
Speaker 5: over time. You just don't want to put three inches
Speaker 5: over the whole root system of a tree at once.
Speaker 5: That's too stressful tree. But what you're doing is just fine.
Speaker 5: All right, Okay, you're good, you bet all right. Music
Speaker 5: means time for me to quit talking. We've got top
Speaker 5: of our news. When we come back. Patricia in Bellville,
Speaker 5: Lisa and Houston, you two are going to be some
Speaker 5: of our first two callers when we come right back.
Speaker 5: If you can hang around at that time, don't forget today.
Speaker 5: Guess what noon, Willis be there or be squared. I'm
Speaker 5: going to be at the All Seasons Ace Hardware and
Speaker 5: Willis All Seasons Ace Hardware and Willis. We're going to
Speaker 5: be giving away some Nelson products. We're going to be
Speaker 5: given away some products from the fine folks at Medina
Speaker 5: as well. I'll have some Texas Gardener magazines on hand.
Speaker 5: If you haven't seen it, you've got to see that.
Speaker 5: Bring these samples, let's talk, let's meet, I'll have plenty
Speaker 5: of time that is up there at all seasons. Ace
Speaker 5: Hardware and.
Speaker 1: Willis welcome to Katie r. H. Garden Line with Skip Richter's.
Speaker 2: Trip. Just watch him as so many good things to
Speaker 2: set a sad.
Speaker 5: All right, folks, we're back. You're back with Garden Line.
Speaker 5: I'm your host, Skip Richter. We're here to help you
Speaker 5: have a bountiful garden, a beautiful landscape. And maybe this
Speaker 5: is almost the most important of all, more fun in
Speaker 5: the process. Gardening is supposed to be fun. It is,
Speaker 5: and it can be. All you got to do is
Speaker 5: inform your thumb and watch it turn green. That's kind
Speaker 5: of how it works when you use quality products. When
Speaker 5: you give a plant what it wants, you're going to
Speaker 5: have success. For example, you get a new transplant, it's
Speaker 5: time to you know, people buying tomatoes and herbs and
Speaker 5: rose bushes and all kinds of things to put in
Speaker 5: the ground, and all that root system is sort of
Speaker 5: wound up in that little cylinder of soil that came
Speaker 5: with the container. That's the whole root system. You want
Speaker 5: those roots to quickly begin to spread out, go out,
Speaker 5: not not like a root unwinds. But I'm saying, send
Speaker 5: out new roots into the soil around it so that
Speaker 5: it establishes quickly because summer's coming. It's hard to believe
Speaker 5: on a day like this, but summer's coming, and you
Speaker 5: want to give that plant the most time it has.
Speaker 10: So what do you do?
Speaker 5: You get a quality product like Medinas has to grow
Speaker 5: six twelve six six percent nitrogen, twelve percent phosphorus, six
Speaker 5: percent potassium. Mix it in water. You will not burn
Speaker 5: with this produce. It is not a salt based fertilizer
Speaker 5: going to it cannot burn your plants. You mix it
Speaker 5: with water. It's got Medina soil activator in it stimulates
Speaker 5: biological activity. It's got humid humic acid which humic acids
Speaker 5: humus all improves soil structure, making a better soil for
Speaker 5: better nutrient uptake. That's got seaweed extracts in it. You
Speaker 5: can follow your feed with it too. By the way,
Speaker 5: but I'm talking about here, watering in a trenchplant with it.
Speaker 5: Just one of the ways you can use Medina has
Speaker 5: to grow six twelve six. That twelve percent phosphorus is
Speaker 5: for roots. That helps the roots established. I do it
Speaker 5: when I plant a plant, I do it again. A
Speaker 5: week later, just get a watering can, mix it in
Speaker 5: according to label, water and in, and then a week
Speaker 5: later after that, So three times a week apart, I'm
Speaker 5: putting that Medina six twelve six a hash to go
Speaker 5: six twelve six. Plant food on the plant and getting
Speaker 5: it the best head start. That's one of the secrets
Speaker 5: to transplanting success. It's one of the things. You know,
Speaker 5: Each little thing we do that makes it a little better,
Speaker 5: a little better, a little easy for the plant, a
Speaker 5: little more stimulating for the plant. Everything along those lines
Speaker 5: gets you where you're trying to get. And Medina products
Speaker 5: are always going to be an effective way to have
Speaker 5: a better, more beautiful garden. And guess what if you
Speaker 5: would like to try some Medina products. Show up today
Speaker 5: at All Seasons Ace Hardware and Willis twelve pm noon,
Speaker 5: Grab some lunch first, come up there twelve pm to two.
Speaker 5: I have been guaranteed that it will be warm and
Speaker 5: it will not be raining inside inside All Seasons Ace Hardware.
Speaker 5: Bring me some samples and who knows, you might win
Speaker 5: one of the giveaways from Medina. Also some from Nelson too.
Speaker 5: While we're up there, looking forward to that. All right,
Speaker 5: I'm going to run down now to Houston and talk
Speaker 5: to Lisa. Hey, Lisa, welcome to garden Line. Oh thank you.
Speaker 6: My question is I would like to do my backyard
Speaker 6: over in native plants that are be and vert attractors,
Speaker 6: but I don't and I want to make beautiful. So
Speaker 6: do you have any recommendations on who I could call
Speaker 6: for that?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Well there are a number of good landscapers out there.
Speaker 5: Who who I'm sorry who where exactly in the Houston
Speaker 5: area are you located? What part of Houston area?
Speaker 6: We live in Westbury, southwest, Houston.
Speaker 5: Area west okay, southwest, So I would I would talk
Speaker 5: to Jorge at Jorges Hidden Gardens. He does some landscaping himself.
Speaker 5: He possibly would be one who could come out and
Speaker 5: help you with that. I would, and I would also.
Speaker 5: I don't stay up to date on all the landscapers
Speaker 5: all over, but you might want to talk to BMB
Speaker 5: turf Pros, which is in that area just a little
Speaker 5: southwest to be there. They do the compost top dressing
Speaker 5: and the fertilization, they do aeration and things. If they
Speaker 5: can't do the like that, they would tell you who could.
Speaker 5: And they're going to be more familiar with the people
Speaker 5: right around their area right down there that you might
Speaker 5: want to reach out to. Those would be a couple
Speaker 5: of good ones and and and I'm sorry, go ahead, Lisa.
Speaker 4: Could you repeat that last one?
Speaker 12: B and B Turf.
Speaker 5: Turf Pros BnB turf Pros there. We usually refer people
Speaker 5: to them for landscape, lawn aeration and top dressing down
Speaker 5: in that area. Okay, But any way you go, let
Speaker 5: me give you a phone number for them. You're just
Speaker 5: going to ask them, you know, they typically aren't a
Speaker 5: big landscaping company to my knowledge, but the phone number
Speaker 5: seven one three two three four fifty five ninety eight.
Speaker 5: That would be great for your lawn, by the way,
Speaker 5: but they can probably direct you also any good great
Speaker 5: garden center. You know, you talk to a good garden
Speaker 5: center and they're going to be able to point you
Speaker 5: to good landscapers because they deal with them. And you
Speaker 5: talked about at Southwest Fertilizer over there, and ask them
Speaker 5: who they have found to be good for that area
Speaker 5: of town. All right, Well, thank you so much. All right, Lisa,
Speaker 5: thanks for the call. Appreciate that. See here all right,
Speaker 5: speaking of good advice, Oh my gosh, at Lisa, I
Speaker 5: should have mentioned this to you. Cienam malts for crying
Speaker 5: out loud. That should have been the first ink in
Speaker 5: my mind. Santa Maltch is down south and south to
Speaker 5: a little bit southwest of Houston. They are near Highway
Speaker 5: six and two eighty eight on FM five point twenty one.
Speaker 5: They carry everything you need for the soil, everything composts,
Speaker 5: bed mixes, fertilizers. I'm talking about products from Microlife and
Speaker 5: Nilsen turf star Line, products from Medina, products from nitroposs azamite.
Speaker 5: You hear me bragging on those earlier. Today products from
Speaker 5: heirloom soils like the veggie and herb mix. They have mulches,
Speaker 5: they have landscape stone, they have gravel, they have sand,
Speaker 5: they have palettes, they have the flat rock for creating patio.
Speaker 5: They have everything. Sienna Moltz dot com is the website
Speaker 5: Cienamultch dot com. Now you go into Ciana Maltch, Lisa,
Speaker 5: if you're still listening, going to Ceanamult and say, hey,
Speaker 5: what landscapers do you recommend that might serve my area?
Speaker 5: And Cianama's a little south and west of you, but
Speaker 5: they may have some good ideas there too, because a
Speaker 5: lot of landscapers know to go to Ciena Maultch for
Speaker 5: high quality stuff. That's all they deal with in Sienna
Speaker 5: is high quality. And if you are a homeowner and
Speaker 5: you would like them to deliver, they deliver within about
Speaker 5: twenty miles for a fee of that area. Or you
Speaker 5: can just drive in, take your pickup, take your trailer,
Speaker 5: or just buy it by the bag. They have a
Speaker 5: lot of products buy the bag as well. All righty well,
Speaker 5: I'm needing to take a quick break, Patricia, you'll be
Speaker 5: first when we come back. We're working our way towards
Speaker 5: you up the line. Hang on out there in Bellville.
Speaker 5: We'll be right back. We are back. We're going to
Speaker 5: be heading to your calls here and long. In a
Speaker 5: second time, when I think about RCW Nursery, I think
Speaker 5: about a family garden center. Has been around since nineteen
Speaker 5: seventy nine, opened by the Williamson family, still run by
Speaker 5: the Williamson family. They raise their own trees up there
Speaker 5: in Plannersville. So when you go to RCW and you
Speaker 5: buy a tree or a shrub, there's a good chance
Speaker 5: they grew it themselves up there in the Plannersville area.
Speaker 5: So that means they picked a species that wants to
Speaker 5: grow here, so you're going to have success with it.
Speaker 5: They grew it in the right way, so it's ready
Speaker 5: to hit the ground running in your landscape. And they'll
Speaker 5: give you advice, you know, they'll tell you how to
Speaker 5: plant it. They'll say you the products to go along,
Speaker 5: fee on a root stimulator whatever. They've got it all there,
Speaker 5: or they'll come out and do it. You know, if
Speaker 5: it's of some size, have them do it. Unless you
Speaker 5: just enjoy putting your chiropractors kids through college. Don't try
Speaker 5: to pick that thing up yourself, but they can come
Speaker 5: out and professionally plant it for you. Right now, it
Speaker 5: is rose season at RCW and that place is loaded
Speaker 5: with rcwnurseries dot com. That's the website you can get information.
Speaker 5: You can get the roselist and see all the varieties
Speaker 5: they have. As I've been telling you for weeks. Now,
Speaker 5: the sooner you go by there, the better selection you're
Speaker 5: going to get. Because everybody knows euston rosarians know. RCW
Speaker 5: Nurseries got them all. They got all these roses there
Speaker 5: and they head there to get their roses. And so
Speaker 5: don't wait too long if you want to be able
Speaker 5: to pick all the different kinds of varieties that you
Speaker 5: might want to grow in your landscape at RCW nurseries
Speaker 5: dot com. That is the nursery that's located where Beltway
Speaker 5: eight and Highway two forty nine we call Tomball Parkway
Speaker 5: where they come together. It's easy to get to and
Speaker 5: when you get there, you're going to find what you need.
Speaker 5: And if they don't have it, I'll bet you they
Speaker 5: can get it for you. We're going to go out
Speaker 5: to Belleville now and talk to Patricia. Hello, Patricia, welcome
Speaker 5: to garden Line. Right, thanks skip.
Speaker 6: Can you hear me? Okay?
Speaker 5: I can? Okay?
Speaker 10: Good?
Speaker 17: What I'm calling about our cutter ants. I have an
Speaker 17: infestation here on our six acres and I've tried everything
Speaker 17: and nothing gets rid of them. And they are, you know,
Speaker 17: totally devastating my plants.
Speaker 5: What can I do?
Speaker 15: Yeah?
Speaker 5: They are quite a challenge. There there used to be
Speaker 5: there is a bait and it's one of the amro baits.
Speaker 5: And now I'm going to have to try to remember
Speaker 5: which one is it that you can use for the
Speaker 5: leaf cutter ants, And that has just escaped my brain.
Speaker 5: I have to think here a little bit. If I
Speaker 5: don't think of it while we are talking. I will
Speaker 5: I will think of it, and I'll say it on
Speaker 5: the air. But the problem with leaf cutters is they
Speaker 5: cut the leaves off, take them into their underground chamber,
Speaker 5: and stick them to the ceiling of the chamber, and
Speaker 5: then they eat the fungus that grows on the leaf
Speaker 5: cutter ants. Okay, so the putting a putting a poison out,
Speaker 5: it's not like they're it just doesn't work as well
Speaker 5: to try to do it that way. So what I
Speaker 5: would recommend is you can do a couple of things.
Speaker 5: I have dusted the trails with orthene coming out of
Speaker 5: the leaf cutter mound, and if you do that, what
Speaker 5: you're gonna find is it cuts down on them because
Speaker 5: they have to they have to track through that orthene,
Speaker 5: and in tracking through the orthene, they end up grooming
Speaker 5: themselves and getting the poison on them. That way, that
Speaker 5: is not a way to eradicate a mound, but it
Speaker 5: will suppress their activity so you don't lose two trees
Speaker 5: a night as they get out there and get working,
Speaker 5: get working on it, because they're really bad about that.
Speaker 5: But uh, I just the actual products is just escaping me.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna have to I'm have to hunt it down
Speaker 5: for you, but but we can give you some advice
Speaker 5: on that. I need to probably you know what I
Speaker 5: need to do. I need to just go ahead and
Speaker 5: put that on my website. I will add something like
Speaker 5: that to the website. All right. I just found it
Speaker 5: talk long enoughter. I found it some If you do
Speaker 5: the andro ant block. They did some studies on Amro
Speaker 5: ant block. It's about fifty percent effective against the leaf cutter,
Speaker 5: not one hundred percent, but it's different than the Amro
Speaker 5: fire ant bait. But some people will take a mixture
Speaker 5: of Amro ant block and Extinguish fire ant bait andro
Speaker 5: Ant block and Extinguish fire ant bait, and they'll make
Speaker 5: them fifty to fifty. They'll put them in a bucket
Speaker 5: and they'll let that bucket sip for several weeks, like
Speaker 5: three or four weeks, and in doing so, the products
Speaker 5: sort of infuse together, and when they put it out
Speaker 5: it is pretty effective. And a lot of our local
Speaker 5: pest control operators swear that that wre for them. So
Speaker 5: it's Amro ant block and Extinguish fire ant bait, two
Speaker 5: different products mixed together, set for three weeks or four
Speaker 5: and then put them out as a bait, and it
Speaker 5: seems to work pretty well. Just make sure I always
Speaker 5: use fresh products with ants with any baits you choose.
Speaker 5: If the if the bait has been sitting there and
Speaker 5: kind of gone rancid, the inter are going to pick
Speaker 5: it up right.
Speaker 17: And now the extinguished is that, uh a dry powder or.
Speaker 5: Something like the granular they're they're grant. It's a granular
Speaker 5: like fire ant baits. Yeah, so these are fire ant baits.
Speaker 5: But okay, and.
Speaker 17: I'm just mixing the two dry products. No, no water
Speaker 17: or anything, just the two dry dry products.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yes, mixing them together. Put them. I use a
Speaker 5: like a five gallon bucket, put a lid on a
Speaker 5: pop a lid down on it so I can just
Speaker 5: sit there, you know, and be kind of sealed up
Speaker 5: a little bit. Uh, mix them real well and let
Speaker 5: them sit and then use them. And I don't know why.
Speaker 5: I don't know why it is, but that is what
Speaker 5: the pcos are telling me has been effective for them.
Speaker 5: So give that a try and then let me know,
Speaker 5: let me know how it works for you. Of course,
Speaker 5: the ants are going to want it to warm up
Speaker 5: a little bit to be at their most activity. So
Speaker 5: you got time to create this concoction. Yes, okay, all right,
Speaker 5: I'll give it a shot.
Speaker 17: Thank you so much, thank you, good.
Speaker 5: Luck with it. Appreciate your call. Thanks a lot. Yeah,
Speaker 5: and where do you get stuff like that? Well, I'll
Speaker 5: tell you one place. You can go to Ace Hardware.
Speaker 5: Ace Hardware stores carry all kinds of products for your garden, landscape, gardens,
Speaker 5: herb beds, and tree shra everything, lawns. They got it all.
Speaker 5: And when it comes to past control operators are products
Speaker 5: like the fire at baits and these andro at block
Speaker 5: and andro or extinguished extinguished plus fire bait. They've got
Speaker 5: those there and you can you can them up. You
Speaker 5: can do it yourself. You want to go that route.
Speaker 5: But whatever the products is, whatever the plants you're growing,
Speaker 5: whatever the pest or disease you're dealing with, or the weeds,
Speaker 5: you're gonna find your products there at Ace Hardware. Now.
Speaker 5: Ace Hardware has twenty percent off their mon faucets this month,
Speaker 5: So if you've been thinking about replacing some faucets around
Speaker 5: the house's kitchen or bathroom, now's the time. Twenty percent
Speaker 5: off you can get that. Grab some of the air filters,
Speaker 5: they got to buy three, get one free, just an
Speaker 5: extra boost there. You know you're supposed to be replacing
Speaker 5: those about what once a month in our area, so
Speaker 5: make sure and keep those in good supply on hand.
Speaker 5: And if you're redoing your deck, and they even have
Speaker 5: stain and paint and some nice deals going on with
Speaker 5: the presidents, they say on all kinds of painting supplies,
Speaker 5: So stop buying and check it out yourself. ACE hardware
Speaker 5: all over the place, easy to find ACE. You're going
Speaker 5: to find Ace hardware City, a Memorial Drive. You're gonna
Speaker 5: find plants for all seasons on two forty nine. Then
Speaker 5: the Bearing Hardware on Business, the Bearing Hardware there on
Speaker 5: West Timer. Those are all places where you are going
Speaker 5: to find quality products, many mini quality products. But when
Speaker 5: you go to an ACE hardware store, you know that
Speaker 5: you're going to find everything that I just talked about.
Speaker 5: There's going to be success. But whether it's Aspa's ACE
Speaker 5: in the Woodlands, whether it's like Conroe, Ace Montgomery, Sinkle Ranch,
Speaker 5: Ace Sinkle Ranch out in Sincle Ranch, k and m
Speaker 5: Ace up in Kingwood or over in Kingwood, can m
Speaker 5: and a Taska Sita, there's an ACE down in Bay City.
Speaker 5: There's a Wharton Feed and Ace Hamilton's Hardware off Highway
Speaker 5: six near Bear Creek. All kinds of ACE hardware stores
Speaker 5: around the area. And when you go to an ACE
Speaker 5: Hardware store, you find what you're looking for. It's as
Speaker 5: simple as that. You can go to ACE Hardware dot Com,
Speaker 5: find the store locator and find the ones that you're
Speaker 5: looking for. That's another way to go about it. You
Speaker 5: were listening to Guardenline. The phone number here is seven
Speaker 5: one three two one two k t RH. Let's head
Speaker 5: out to Conroe and we're going to talk to best.
Speaker 5: Hello Bess, Hello, Yeah, you're on garden Line.
Speaker 18: I need to know how to get rid of palmetto
Speaker 18: I actually live in.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, at the out feel do you have a
Speaker 5: lot of it or is there a lot of it
Speaker 5: about acreage?
Speaker 18: Yes, we're two acres and some of it all leads,
Speaker 18: but some that like I have one clump that's coming
Speaker 18: up right by an old oak tree that I wanted
Speaker 18: to save and uh, and then it's sporadic around the yard,
Speaker 18: but I'm wanting to get it out of where we
Speaker 18: have to mow and all.
Speaker 5: Well, Bess, uh, you just won the game. Called stump
Speaker 5: the chump on garden line. I have never had anybody
Speaker 5: call me and ask me how to get rid of
Speaker 5: an acre of palmetto. Uh, let me work on that,
Speaker 5: and I will keep listening. I'll say something on the
Speaker 5: air about it. Palmetto palms are grass plants. Palms are
Speaker 5: a type of grass actually, and as opposed to being
Speaker 5: like a tree, you know, a broad leaf tree. So
Speaker 5: the things that would kill a tree may not kill
Speaker 5: a palm tree because tree in the word palm is
Speaker 5: just something we throw in there. But anyway, let me
Speaker 5: see what I can find for that palmetta. I know
Speaker 5: digging them up, but I don't think I'm on TALKI
Speaker 5: into digging up an acre a palmetto.
Speaker 18: So my husband has been trying to dig some up
Speaker 18: and then we put stump killer on it. But I
Speaker 18: have one that's right by an old oak tree that
Speaker 18: I don't want to kill the oak tree, so.
Speaker 12: May just have to leave it.
Speaker 18: And also my neighbor and I and Conro used demon
Speaker 18: WP poured down the leafcutter ant mounds and that seems
Speaker 18: to slow them.
Speaker 5: Okay, that slowed them down a little bit. Yeah, got
Speaker 5: insecticide in there. They have to track through. That'll slow
Speaker 5: them down. It's hard to shut down a colony. Hey,
Speaker 5: on the on the stump treatment she did on the palms.
Speaker 5: How long ago did you try that?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 5: That was that was probably a month and a half ago. Okay,
Speaker 5: so it's a little early to know how well it worked.
Speaker 5: Then they're tough. Okay, they're very tough.
Speaker 2: Yeah, them off the top?
Speaker 18: Are they gonna spread?
Speaker 5: Normally palm trees only have a living bud at the top,
Speaker 5: and so if you take any palm tree and just
Speaker 5: go out and saw off the top, you got a
Speaker 5: telephone pole that will never reach sprout, you know, just
Speaker 5: it can't. Some types of palms and palmettos this way
Speaker 5: can kind of come out at the bottom of a
Speaker 5: multi trunk type system. And so you I don't think
Speaker 5: the cutting the tops off is going to be effective.
Speaker 5: But let me look into this so that I know
Speaker 5: what I'm talking about. Rather than guessing, I hate, I
Speaker 5: just try not to ever guess on gardener. So I'll
Speaker 5: find out and i'll come up. I'll come up with
Speaker 5: something for you. All right, Thank you a lot, appreciate
Speaker 5: your calling. Bye bye bye Stone the Jump. Hey, Microlife
Speaker 5: fertilizers have a wide variety of products that are great.
Speaker 5: You know, if you're looking for a liquid to not
Speaker 5: only add nutrients for your plants, but also add microbes
Speaker 5: for your plants, well, Microlife fertilizers of products that are
Speaker 5: going to do that. Microlife has a Biomatrix orange label.
Speaker 5: That's a seven to one three. That high nitrogen liquid
Speaker 5: organic with the beneficial microbes is great for any kind
Speaker 5: of plant you're growing, especially for foliage like ass plants.
Speaker 5: That's what I use. Microlife has an Ocean Harvest that's
Speaker 5: a fish based product. It's a four two three fertilizer
Speaker 5: four to two three four percent nitrogen, two percent phosphorus,
Speaker 5: three percent potassium. Good for all your outdoor plants. You
Speaker 5: can use it to folder spray, not gonna burn your plant.
Speaker 5: You can drench the soil with it. It's gonna do
Speaker 5: just fine. Microlife Ocean Harvest it's a blue label Biomatrix Orange,
Speaker 5: Ocean Harvests Blue. Both work. I would suggest the Biometrix
Speaker 5: for indoors and put the Ocean Harvest outdoors. It's a
Speaker 5: fish based product and so it has a little bit
Speaker 5: of a fish odor to it that dissipates in time.
Speaker 5: But I wouldn't use it on my house plants. I
Speaker 5: would use it on the outdoors. All right, Time for
Speaker 5: me to take a quick break. I will be right
Speaker 5: back with your calls and don in champions. You will
Speaker 5: be our first up when we come back. All right,
Speaker 5: welcome back to the guarden line. Good to have you
Speaker 5: with us. Looking forward to helping you have a bountiful garden,
Speaker 5: beautiful landscape. By the way, if you want to you
Speaker 5: want to have a beautiful landscape, you need to know
Speaker 5: about beer scapes. I talk about them a lot because
Speaker 5: I am really impressed with the work they do. Go
Speaker 5: to the website pierscapes dot herescapes dot com. Look at it.
Speaker 5: I mean, if you want inspiration, if you want to
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Speaker 5: Oh my gosh. They can do that. They have designers
Speaker 5: and staff. They can design the beds and I mean
Speaker 5: they can revamp the whole landscape. They can do you know,
Speaker 5: a small area where you're wanting to do some things,
Speaker 5: you got bad drainage. They can fix that. You have
Speaker 5: irrigation that's sporadic and not well designed or not working right.
Speaker 5: Maybe some heads need replacing. Have them come out and
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Speaker 5: You can hire them to come out and be part
Speaker 5: of a quarterly maintenance program at your house. So they
Speaker 5: come out, they look, they go, Okay, this bed, we're
Speaker 5: gonna weed it, We're gonna spruce it up. Maybe the
Speaker 5: plants need to be pulled out and new plants put in.
Speaker 5: Check the irrigation, make sure it's working well. You know,
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Speaker 5: eight one three seven oh fifty sixty, or just go
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Speaker 5: You will be impressed when you see what they can do.
Speaker 5: We're going to go now out to Champions and talk
Speaker 5: to Don. Hey Don, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 14: Well, thank you very much appreciate you taking my call. Uh,
Speaker 14: just a quick question here. I've got a very small
Speaker 14: myrlemon tree and I didn't put out a whole lot
Speaker 14: of fruit last year because bugs started eating on it.
Speaker 14: And the best I can describe, as I recall, they
Speaker 14: kind of looked like little miniature grasshoppers that were eating
Speaker 14: the leaves. And so I've just tried to figure out
Speaker 14: because I'm starting to get some fruit buds on there
Speaker 14: now have to safeguard against those things. So what should
Speaker 14: I spray or what should I do to send those
Speaker 14: critters off?
Speaker 5: Yeah, when it could have been grasshoppers. Grasshoppers eat a
Speaker 5: lot of different kinds of plants. They're not what we
Speaker 5: think of as one of our major citrus pests, but
Speaker 5: they do feed on a lot of different kinds of plants.
Speaker 5: When they're hungry, especially, they'll eat about anything, it seems like.
Speaker 5: But I would, I would, I would look closely and
Speaker 5: watch those leaves and if you it's either going to
Speaker 5: be a caterpillar, which the best sprays, or BT and
Speaker 5: spinosid for caterpillars, or beetles for beetles, spinosid and oh gosh,
Speaker 5: I just went black as a direct and a name
Speaker 5: name products that contain as a direct and or organic,
Speaker 5: and they control things that eat leaves, caterpillars, and beetles.
Speaker 5: Do you may have luck those? Uh, well, there's two
Speaker 5: types of name. There's name oil, which has very little
Speaker 5: of that active ingredient in it. It acts like an oil.
Speaker 5: It just smothers. But neme is then on the label.
Speaker 5: But when you look at the ingredient, it says as
Speaker 5: a direct and it doesn't say neme oil, So that
Speaker 5: would be one. And then for grasshoppers, really, any kind
Speaker 5: of insecticide is gonna pretty well kill a grasshopper. There's
Speaker 5: a lot of products anything labeled for citrus, though you
Speaker 5: want to make sure it's label for cetrius. I like
Speaker 5: to stay with the organics when possible. I have not
Speaker 5: tried as a directing on grasshoppers. It it may well work,
Speaker 5: I need to. I would need to check on that because,
Speaker 5: like I said, I you're the first time anyone's ever
Speaker 5: said grasshoppers reading their ceterus to me. So, uh, if
Speaker 5: if I believe you, I just, I just I would
Speaker 5: have to check on that. But those are the look
Speaker 5: at him and.
Speaker 14: Look at him and look at him. I just I
Speaker 14: just looked out there one day I saw something was
Speaker 14: really and you my leaves. So I've started peering down
Speaker 14: and there was a couple of little tiny grasshopper looking
Speaker 14: things like maybe uh yeah, maybe three eighths of an
Speaker 14: inch long. Little things work big onn't they?
Speaker 5: Okay? Okay, Well, uh, here's the thing too. Citrus grows
Speaker 5: a lot of leaves and can afford to lose quite
Speaker 5: a bit of leaf area before you see a significant
Speaker 5: reduction in production. So you know, citrus will outgrow the
Speaker 5: citrus leaf minor issues. You know, even though they'll still
Speaker 5: be around, the citrus has enough leaves to still do
Speaker 5: what it needs to do. So just seeing some things
Speaker 5: eating leaves doesn't mean you need to control them. And
Speaker 5: so that may be another option. Is this this watch
Speaker 5: and if you're not losing you know, forty percent of
Speaker 5: the leaves or something crazy like that, Uh, the citrus
Speaker 5: may just bounce back and be okay with it.
Speaker 14: So that ye was to put them from the big
Speaker 14: freeze that we had a couple of years ago. So
Speaker 14: I'm surprised to survive it in a large pot. It's
Speaker 14: not in the ground, but normally I've gotten somewhere like
Speaker 14: ten or twelve lemons off of it. This last year,
Speaker 14: I think I got three and so so as far
Speaker 14: as a percentage of loss of production, it was kind
Speaker 14: of disturbing because it takes a long time for those
Speaker 14: myra limits to come around.
Speaker 5: You bet, you bet, you bet? All right, Well, good
Speaker 5: luck with it. I think you're off to You're off
Speaker 5: to a good start there, and I believe you're gonna
Speaker 5: be all right on this, all right.
Speaker 14: Appreciate your help.
Speaker 5: Have a good date, yes, sir, thank you. Don appreciate
Speaker 5: that call very much. Hey, Nelson Water Garden and Nursery
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Speaker 5: me to take a little break, and when we come back,
Speaker 5: we will be back with your calls. We'll be talking
Speaker 5: to John and Katie and another John waiting out there
Speaker 5: for some questions. Wait, has got to get a little
Speaker 5: boogie here, hang one, look, there we go. That's what
Speaker 5: we're talking about. No dancing on the bar, folks. All right,
Speaker 5: we're back. Welcome to Guardline. Good to have you with us,
Speaker 5: Looking forward to visiting with you. I was looking into
Speaker 5: that information on controlling the salt palmetto uh and and
Speaker 5: acreage and and whatnot, and ran across a couple of things.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 5: Someone actually had emailed in and indicated that they would
Speaker 5: they just poured a little bit of diesel into the
Speaker 5: middle of each plant.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 5: You know, gallons of it drenching down in the soil,
Speaker 5: but just just a little bit in the middle of
Speaker 5: each plant and kill that plant. You want to run
Speaker 5: around the center and all the way down, and it
Speaker 5: seemed to work for him. I haven't tried that, but
Speaker 5: that seems to work as far as a recommendation. You know,
Speaker 5: from a langrant research type standpoint, uh, products that contain
Speaker 5: metsulfurn along with products that contain tricle paer put together
Speaker 5: seeing that combo. Each one alone is not effective because
Speaker 5: they work in different ways on the palmetto. But that
Speaker 5: works well. So if you go to a place that
Speaker 5: has a wide variety of products, you know, like someplace
Speaker 5: like Southwest Spurtlizer, for example, you're gonna find products that
Speaker 5: say MSM M s MSM on the lab. I just
Speaker 5: tucked to bob there he can get you pointed at
Speaker 5: it and then triclope here. That's that's the one we
Speaker 5: use for poison ivy and brush control and things like that.
Speaker 5: Put those together and mix it make some according to label.
Speaker 5: Put it together and spread it on those plants and
Speaker 5: those that seems to give you the best results. Sometimes
Speaker 5: you have to redo it again because oftentimes with a
Speaker 5: good tough plant like that, one application doesn't take care
Speaker 5: of it. But it works pretty good. So anyway, give
Speaker 5: those a try see how they work for you. Let's
Speaker 5: go out to Katie here, we're going to talk to John. Hey, John,
Speaker 5: welcome to garden line.
Speaker 2: Good morning, sir.
Speaker 19: So went to in Channa Gardens a few weeks ago
Speaker 19: and I got two avocado trees, a Mexicola which looks
Speaker 19: absolutely beautiful, has a ton of flowering buds, perfect plan.
Speaker 19: Also got a Leila right next to it, and different story.
Speaker 19: It looked great at the nursery. I upotted both of
Speaker 19: them and to some miracle grow twenty five gallon pot.
Speaker 19: And the leila one have the leaves that turn brown.
Speaker 19: I did give it some of the medina has to
Speaker 19: grow to to help, you know, sell it into the
Speaker 19: ground bud. It does not look anywhere near as good
Speaker 19: as the the other one to Mexicola, and it looked.
Speaker 5: Good when you sign in the nursery. When you brought
Speaker 5: it home.
Speaker 19: Right correct, it looked like it was about to start
Speaker 19: blowing up.
Speaker 5: Now both treated the browning and they weren't subjected to
Speaker 5: too much cold.
Speaker 19: No, I bring them inside. They're in pots because I
Speaker 19: know if they get too cold or they're they're flowering
Speaker 19: them inside.
Speaker 5: That's unusual. Something happened in the roots. I don't know what.
Speaker 5: Typically you know, soggy wet root conditions can cause that.
Speaker 5: Drying out, of course is bad for plants, but I
Speaker 5: know yours didn't dry out that much.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 5: The only other thing will be like a root injury
Speaker 5: of some sort. I don't know what else would cause,
Speaker 5: just that overall loss of or dark browning, darkening, blackening
Speaker 5: or whatever of the foliage on the plant. I would
Speaker 5: give it time. I don't think it's a lost cause.
Speaker 5: You might try leaning it over, sliding it out of
Speaker 5: the pot, and look and see if the roots going
Speaker 5: around the pot are white and healthy, creamy white and healthy,
Speaker 5: or if they look gray brown, darkened, water soaked, sunken,
Speaker 5: kind of dead root. Look. If it's the latter, you
Speaker 5: may need to pull it up, kind of cut away
Speaker 5: some of the outer soil, repot it up real fresh,
Speaker 5: and try to avoid any stresses to it while it
Speaker 5: gets a new root system going. I'm thinking the roots
Speaker 5: are going to be okay, but just check that in
Speaker 5: case as far as.
Speaker 19: Oh okay, they were brown, So you break up little
Speaker 19: bit of the roots so they can get out of
Speaker 19: the rootbound condition.
Speaker 20: And then I said, the other one looks perfectly. You
Speaker 20: did all that correct. Okay, hang on to it. I
Speaker 20: think it's going to bounce back. I can't tell you
Speaker 20: exactly why that happened. Something went wrong in the plumbing somewhere,
Speaker 20: water from the soil making it to the top. Something
Speaker 20: went wrong. I don't know what I can tell you that.
Speaker 20: Then they're pretty resilient. I think it's going to bounce back,
Speaker 20: John or.
Speaker 19: Turning out Two more quick questions. How do you deal
Speaker 19: with fire ants in like twenty five gallon pots?
Speaker 5: I would use a bait. What's growing in the pots?
Speaker 19: Buh the ice cream banana and trying to move them
Speaker 19: inside before the freeze. I got about sixty ant bites
Speaker 19: all over my arm.
Speaker 5: Oh boy. Okay, Well, aside from needing to do it fast,
Speaker 5: there's a product by fertil and it comes in a
Speaker 5: light blue bag called come and Get It, and it's
Speaker 5: a bait that is an organic spinosid based de bait,
Speaker 5: and you put it all around the pots because finance,
Speaker 5: just because they're in a pot, they've got to be
Speaker 5: going out somewhere to get protein. You know, they eat insects,
Speaker 5: they eat all kinds of things, and so when you
Speaker 5: put the bait all around the pot, a little bit
Speaker 5: in the pot, but especially around it. They'll take it
Speaker 5: back and it'll kill the mound. If you need it fast.
Speaker 5: That's kind of different. Then you may have to get
Speaker 5: something like an orange oil that you drenched down through there,
Speaker 5: or some other insecticide that you literally drench the soil
Speaker 5: in the pot to be a quick kill on everything.
Speaker 5: And there's a lot of products out there that are
Speaker 5: like that. They're used for mound treatments, individual mound treatments.
Speaker 5: Since it's an edible plant, that's why I like the fertilom.
Speaker 5: Come and get it, because it's labeled for even vegetable
Speaker 5: gardens things like that, whereas things like endro are not
Speaker 5: going to be labeled for use in a vegetable garden.
Speaker 5: But you could always put it around the pot and
Speaker 5: let the ants find it and bring it back in
Speaker 5: and that would be that would be an okay up
Speaker 5: location perfect.
Speaker 19: One last question is you're talking about the incompetence of
Speaker 19: some of the big box stores. I went to the
Speaker 19: Orange big box store and they had some currant trees,
Speaker 19: and currents are one of my favorite fruits. I didn't
Speaker 19: think that they would do good over here. So is
Speaker 19: there any way to make currents grow in this area.
Speaker 5: If they truly are currents?
Speaker 14: No.
Speaker 5: I lived in Missouri for three years, which is way
Speaker 5: further north, and it was too hot for currents in Missouri.
Speaker 19: So it shows the incompetence of the big box stores
Speaker 19: and having plants that are not compatible here.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll just let that one go. I mean I could,
Speaker 5: I could if you want me to spend the next
Speaker 5: I don't have an hour and a half. I could rant,
Speaker 5: but I need to move on. Hey, thanks for the call.
Speaker 5: Appreciate that, John, thanks a lot. I really, I really
Speaker 5: do appreciate your call. Take care all right. I want
Speaker 5: to tell you about night frost barricade. What do you
Speaker 5: use it for weeds? Where do you put it all
Speaker 5: over your lawn? Follow the label? Do it according a
Speaker 5: little label? Watered in how much water? About a half inch?
Speaker 5: It moves it to the soil where it does its work.
Speaker 5: Nitro Foss barricade a ten pound bag covers five thousand
Speaker 5: square feet. And where do you find it? Well, everywhere.
Speaker 5: Nitrofoss products are sold everywhere. You're going to find them
Speaker 5: at Court Hardware, you know, down in Stafford you're going
Speaker 5: to find them in Katie Ace Hardware, Pinoak Street up
Speaker 5: over there in Katy. You're going to find them in
Speaker 5: a chanted forest down in the Richmond Rosenberg area on
Speaker 5: FM twenty seven to fifty nine. And you're going to
Speaker 5: find them at D and De Feed up in Tomboll
Speaker 5: FM twenty nine to twenty just west of town. Barricade works.
Speaker 5: But don't delayed. Now is the time to get it done.
Speaker 8: Now.
Speaker 5: I want to talk about a pest control company that
Speaker 5: I'm really excited about. Told you about them earlier, and
Speaker 5: that's Pest Brothers. It's a regional company serves a greater
Speaker 5: Houston area. I don't care if you're in Texas City
Speaker 5: all the way up to the Woodlands, if you're all
Speaker 5: in East in Baytown all the way across to Katie,
Speaker 5: they cover that area. They do termites, they do all
Speaker 5: your household pests in the yard, fire, ants and mosquitoes,
Speaker 5: wild varmints like rats and mice. I'm talking about wild varmits,
Speaker 5: not the kids their varmits anyway, wild varmits. They even
Speaker 5: have trapping services for larger things, you know, possums or
Speaker 5: raccoons coming through there. They know how to treat effectively.
Speaker 5: They know how to do it in the safest manner.
Speaker 5: You get long term control without all the worries about
Speaker 5: what kind of poison is out there? Is it going
Speaker 5: to kill the dog? No, talk to Pest Brothers. They
Speaker 5: know what they're doing. Call them for a quote two
Speaker 5: eight one two oh six forty six seventy. Say that
Speaker 5: again two eight one two o six forty six seventy.
Speaker 5: Or go to the website the pest Bros b rosvpestbros
Speaker 5: dot com. You gotta ask them. I spent a lot
Speaker 5: of time talking about this earlier today, their mosquito control stations,
Speaker 5: the bait buckets that they put out. It is the coolest, safest,
Speaker 5: most effect active way to control mosquitos. And if you
Speaker 5: just moved here from somewhere else, get ready, they're mosquitos
Speaker 5: around here. There are enough of them that are big
Speaker 5: enough to carry you across town. I mean they pick
Speaker 5: you up, just like little little little drones coming around.
Speaker 5: You gotta deal with mosquitos. And if you don't do
Speaker 5: it alone, Koppes Brothers they can do it. But ask
Speaker 5: them about that really cool mosquito bait station thing I
Speaker 5: told you all about it earlier. I'll tell you about
Speaker 5: it more later. Anyway, that's cool stuff. Let's head out
Speaker 5: to the phones. We got just a little bit of
Speaker 5: time left. We're going to go to Missouri City and
Speaker 5: see if we can help Ray. Hey, Ray, welcome to
Speaker 5: garden Line.
Speaker 8: Hey, thanks for taking my calls.
Speaker 5: Skip.
Speaker 8: Got a quick question. I'm beginning to see clover in
Speaker 8: my yard. I have Saint Augustine grass. Which of these
Speaker 8: products would you use? Nitro Foss fifteen five ten or
Speaker 8: the weed of.
Speaker 5: Native both work. The fifteen to five to ten has
Speaker 5: to be the one with trimech, not the one with
Speaker 5: atrozine to do what you're trying to do. Trimec fifteen
Speaker 5: five time with trimec. It's a blue bag. It's a
Speaker 5: blue bag, not a purple blue bag. And someone's asking
Speaker 5: about that. They were confused on bag colors. Nitrofis has
Speaker 5: a blue bag that kills weeds that are already there,
Speaker 5: and Nitrofis has a purple bag that kills that prevents
Speaker 5: weed seeds from getting established. Don't get those confused. If
Speaker 5: you go to a good Ace hardware store someplace you're
Speaker 5: going to buy those, they know what to tell you
Speaker 5: they'll sell you the right one for what you're going after. Now.
Speaker 5: The we donator is another product that works. But whether
Speaker 5: you use nitrofas with Trimec or Nelson's weedinator, you first
Speaker 5: turn on water enough to wet the weeds. Maybe you
Speaker 5: get a little of this misty rain. It'll do it
Speaker 5: for you. Then run out there with the spreader. Put
Speaker 5: that dry product out. It sticks to the weeds. If
Speaker 5: it has at least a few hours, better a couple
Speaker 5: of days, then it can be watered in real good
Speaker 5: and go into the soil. So you get the nutrients
Speaker 5: out of those products. But they both work.
Speaker 8: Okay, appreciate tale. That's what I needed to know.
Speaker 5: Alrighty, Well, that's it. Then good luck with that out
Speaker 5: there in Missouri City. You bet appreciate that call. Thanks
Speaker 5: a lot. Another day zoomed by and I'm about to
Speaker 5: hear music and guess what's happening today? Listen? I can
Speaker 5: tell you do you want to be warm and do
Speaker 5: you want to be dry? Today? Here's how you do it.
Speaker 5: You go to Willis at twelve o'clock to two o'clock.
Speaker 5: I'm going to be at All Seasons Ace Hardware and
Speaker 5: they guarantee me it will not be raining inside the store,
Speaker 5: and it will be warm inside the store, warm and dry.
Speaker 5: What can you ask for? We're going to be giving
Speaker 5: away Nelson plant food products and products from the folks
Speaker 5: at Medina, a lot of those give away. They've got
Speaker 5: some Texas Gardener magazines on hand. Look, grab some weeds,
Speaker 5: put them in a bag, bring them by. I'll identify
Speaker 5: and tell you what to do about them. And they
Speaker 5: got all the products there. You know that ACE Hardware
Speaker 5: store is it's well stocked with the kinds of things
Speaker 5: you need to have success, and that includes microlife products
Speaker 5: and Nelson rescuing me the nitrophos with the one I'm
Speaker 5: trying to say no, a night Fox product, Asam products
Speaker 5: are going to be there too, Nature's Way resources. They've
Speaker 5: got the topsoil, the potting soil, the composts, the rosemix,
Speaker 5: the landscaper's pride, all of it's there at All Seasons.
Speaker 5: ACE Hardware that is on I forty five North at
Speaker 5: the Freeway service Road exit inn willis easy to find
Speaker 5: or just go to Acehardware dot com find the store locator,
Speaker 5: say hey, where's Ace or excuse me. All Seasons Ace
Speaker 5: hardware you know on the radio. I have a short
Speaker 5: time to answer your questions. Come see me face to
Speaker 5: face today from twelve to two. They can talk and
Speaker 5: talk and talk. It's gonna have a good time. Hope
Speaker 5: you can make it. We'll be back on the air
Speaker 5: again tomorrow morning, six to ten am.