WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.399 --> 00:00:08.160 Welcome to Katie r. H. Garden Line with Skip richardses Mill. 2 00:00:08.160 --> 00:00:17.199 The Braasyn gas can trim. You just watch him as whom. 3 00:00:21.600 --> 00:00:27.440 So many potties to sup bopas in bags gas again 4 00:00:27.559 --> 00:00:34.560 you dabbles back again not a sign gas and gas. 5 00:00:36.759 --> 00:00:39.759 The sun beamon down between. 6 00:00:40.920 --> 00:00:47.920 The gas gas starting treat. 7 00:00:50.240 --> 00:00:50.439 Well. 8 00:00:50.439 --> 00:00:56.560 Good morning, Hey, welcome to garden Line. We're back. Good 9 00:00:56.560 --> 00:00:58.560 to have you with us. I'm your host, Skip Rictor, 10 00:00:58.640 --> 00:01:01.280 and we're here to help you have a bountiful garden, 11 00:01:01.320 --> 00:01:04.599 a beautiful landscape and more fun in the process. I 12 00:01:04.599 --> 00:01:07.239 got to adjust this heater around. It's cold in here 13 00:01:07.280 --> 00:01:09.879 this morning. I don't know what happens, like a window 14 00:01:09.959 --> 00:01:13.159 left cracked open or something. Anyway, we're doing good this 15 00:01:13.239 --> 00:01:16.319 morning and ready to talk all kinds of things. Gardening 16 00:01:16.560 --> 00:01:20.760 is a good day to be inside learning about gardening 17 00:01:21.040 --> 00:01:26.120 and perhaps doing some seed starting, also doing some rooting 18 00:01:26.159 --> 00:01:28.560 of cuttings. If you've never tried rooting cuttings before, you 19 00:01:28.640 --> 00:01:30.599 want to try that. It is a lot of fun. 20 00:01:30.680 --> 00:01:33.599 Some plants they make you look good because they want 21 00:01:33.599 --> 00:01:36.519 to root so bad. You know, Colius is that way, 22 00:01:36.879 --> 00:01:41.879 Tomato shoots or that way, and rosemary Rosemary actually is 23 00:01:41.920 --> 00:01:45.239 a very easy plant to root from cuttings. Others a 24 00:01:45.280 --> 00:01:47.120 little more of a challenge, but hey, you got to 25 00:01:47.159 --> 00:01:50.560 get out there and try something. I think you'll find 26 00:01:50.640 --> 00:01:53.640 that the more you learn about gardening, the more of 27 00:01:53.680 --> 00:01:58.519 the gardening techniques that you become more proficient at, the 28 00:01:58.599 --> 00:02:02.799 more fun it is all around. Just to enjoy being 29 00:02:02.799 --> 00:02:06.840 out and doing some gardening kinds of things, indoors and outdoors. 30 00:02:07.799 --> 00:02:10.439 Terrariums another good thing. You know, we're talking about looking 31 00:02:10.439 --> 00:02:14.280 at some rainy weather, some drizzly actually drizzly weather. It's 32 00:02:14.319 --> 00:02:18.000 more of a more of a constant annoying mist that 33 00:02:18.039 --> 00:02:21.120 we're talking about here. Not a gully washer for sure. 34 00:02:21.639 --> 00:02:24.280 But we can continue to garden. And so many of 35 00:02:24.319 --> 00:02:28.039 our garden centers too, they they have such nice indoor areas, 36 00:02:28.840 --> 00:02:31.560 maybe covered areas with house plants, or their indoor shops 37 00:02:31.560 --> 00:02:33.120 and things. It's just a good day to get out 38 00:02:33.159 --> 00:02:35.520 and you don't have to fight the crowds. That's a 39 00:02:35.520 --> 00:02:37.599 good thing too. So maybe you want to get out 40 00:02:37.639 --> 00:02:39.520 and do some of that. Tomorrow is going to be 41 00:02:39.560 --> 00:02:42.319 a great day. We're going to have some excellent weather 42 00:02:42.439 --> 00:02:46.080 and a good chance to in the afternoon get out 43 00:02:46.120 --> 00:02:49.439 and enjoy gardening as well. You're listening to garden Line. 44 00:02:49.479 --> 00:02:51.439 Our phone number is seven to one three two one 45 00:02:51.479 --> 00:02:55.639 two ktr H seven one three two one two KTRH. 46 00:02:55.639 --> 00:02:57.520 Feel free to give me a call. We'll talk about 47 00:02:57.560 --> 00:03:00.479 the things that are of interest to you. You know, probably, 48 00:03:00.800 --> 00:03:05.639 oh gosh, about fifty years ago, Nitrofoss introduced their red bag, 49 00:03:05.719 --> 00:03:09.319 the Imperial fifteen five to ten. Imperial is a lawn 50 00:03:09.360 --> 00:03:12.560 fertilizer that is a quick release. You put it down, 51 00:03:12.800 --> 00:03:15.360 you watered in or rain water sit in by the way, 52 00:03:16.319 --> 00:03:18.479 This would be great with this little missing rain we 53 00:03:18.520 --> 00:03:21.560 got coming along. To put a little Nitrofoss down as 54 00:03:21.599 --> 00:03:23.599 soon as you can ahead of it or just watered 55 00:03:23.599 --> 00:03:26.479 in later. Fifteen five to ten is a three one 56 00:03:26.520 --> 00:03:30.719 two racio fertilizer. Now, that's that is what researchers in 57 00:03:30.800 --> 00:03:33.719 turf science at Texas A and M and other universities 58 00:03:33.719 --> 00:03:39.560 throughout the South have proven is the best general ratio 59 00:03:40.039 --> 00:03:43.000 for lawns. Because if you were to take grass clippings, 60 00:03:43.039 --> 00:03:44.759 send them to a lab and say what's in them, 61 00:03:45.120 --> 00:03:47.159 They're going to tell you there is a three one 62 00:03:47.400 --> 00:03:52.599 two ratio of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. Well fifteen five 63 00:03:52.800 --> 00:03:56.879 ten is a three one two ratio of those three 64 00:03:57.080 --> 00:03:59.840 elements as well. Now, if you look at my schedule, 65 00:04:00.120 --> 00:04:05.400 if they are optional, early greenup application is now. Now's 66 00:04:05.439 --> 00:04:07.719 the time to be able to do that. You get 67 00:04:07.759 --> 00:04:10.240 it down, it goes into the ground, it goes into 68 00:04:10.280 --> 00:04:12.400 the root system, the plant takes it up, and you 69 00:04:12.520 --> 00:04:16.000 get a greener grass plant earlier on. It's not going 70 00:04:16.079 --> 00:04:21.000 to cause grass that's still cold to start growing actively, 71 00:04:21.439 --> 00:04:23.879 but it can give you an early greenup, and a 72 00:04:23.920 --> 00:04:26.040 lot of folks like that. Let's get that lawn looking 73 00:04:26.079 --> 00:04:29.279 good as soon as we can. Our main fertilization season 74 00:04:29.399 --> 00:04:32.199 is coming as we get further into spring and into 75 00:04:32.240 --> 00:04:36.160 the summertime for sure. But Nitrofoss Imperial the red bag 76 00:04:36.319 --> 00:04:38.439 is the one you need to look for for putting 77 00:04:38.480 --> 00:04:42.079 down that early greenup. You're going to find Nitrofoss products 78 00:04:42.120 --> 00:04:45.160 in a lot of different places. They're widely available here 79 00:04:45.199 --> 00:04:47.720 in the Greater Houston area. For example, you're going to 80 00:04:47.759 --> 00:04:50.199 find them at Bearings Hardware both on Bisonet and the 81 00:04:50.519 --> 00:04:53.240 one on Westheimer. Head out to Rosenberg and M and 82 00:04:53.279 --> 00:04:57.560 d Ace has Nitrofoss products. Ace Hardware City and Memorial 83 00:04:57.639 --> 00:05:00.519 and Plants for all seasons on Highway too forty nine. 84 00:05:00.600 --> 00:05:03.040 Just a few examples of the dozens of places you're 85 00:05:03.040 --> 00:05:06.000 going to find nitrofoss here in the Greater Houston area. 86 00:05:07.560 --> 00:05:10.720 I was out in I had a little bit of 87 00:05:10.720 --> 00:05:13.240 a trip yesterday, went all the way out to Fredericksburg 88 00:05:13.319 --> 00:05:16.399 and was talking to some folks from a few counties 89 00:05:16.839 --> 00:05:20.920 out there about some different aspects of gardening. And it's 90 00:05:20.959 --> 00:05:23.519 always interesting when you go out and visit with people 91 00:05:23.639 --> 00:05:26.879 about gardening the questions that come up. There's all the 92 00:05:26.920 --> 00:05:30.319 standard questions that you expect you're going to get, you know, 93 00:05:30.399 --> 00:05:33.160 the things like how do I get rid of fire ants? 94 00:05:33.319 --> 00:05:35.240 Or in that country out there, it's how do I 95 00:05:35.279 --> 00:05:40.720 stop year from attacking my gardens because boy deer appreciate 96 00:05:40.759 --> 00:05:43.079 the fact that you plant a salad bull for them. 97 00:05:45.000 --> 00:05:48.879 But there's always unusual questions too. People, you know, they 98 00:05:48.959 --> 00:05:52.720 have different things. Sometimes it's a plant that is not 99 00:05:52.800 --> 00:05:55.399 a common plant that they're trying to grow. Sometimes it 100 00:05:55.639 --> 00:06:02.360 is a particular thing that they heard are red online 101 00:06:02.639 --> 00:06:05.560 and they're wanting to know is this really true? Does 102 00:06:05.600 --> 00:06:11.160 that really work well? The bottom line to those kinds 103 00:06:11.199 --> 00:06:17.240 of things is usually beware. I find that in fact gardeners. 104 00:06:17.319 --> 00:06:19.959 Let me just put this me. Remember the ones that 105 00:06:20.240 --> 00:06:24.759 friends don't like friends drive drunk, don't let friends drive drunk. Right, okay, 106 00:06:24.800 --> 00:06:27.959 how about friends don't let friends garden based on social media. 107 00:06:28.160 --> 00:06:31.199 That's a good one. Friends don't let friends garden based 108 00:06:31.240 --> 00:06:33.920 on social media because there is so much nonsense out there. 109 00:06:34.319 --> 00:06:36.800 I saw a picture the other day and it was 110 00:06:36.839 --> 00:06:42.720 a cluster of tomatoes and they were nion primary color, 111 00:06:42.759 --> 00:06:49.279 purple blue, red, of course, orange yellow, But the colors 112 00:06:49.279 --> 00:06:51.160 were just so artificial and they were all in the 113 00:06:51.240 --> 00:06:56.079 same cluster. That's insane. That doesn't happen. It doesn't happen 114 00:06:56.120 --> 00:06:59.319 in nature. Don't believe it. Social media is full of 115 00:06:59.600 --> 00:07:04.319 none sense. There's this one account that actually follow because 116 00:07:04.319 --> 00:07:06.199 it's like what are they gonna do next? And it 117 00:07:06.319 --> 00:07:10.800 is just it's just lies, absolute lies, you know, selling 118 00:07:10.800 --> 00:07:13.639 you this plants that know it is not a plant 119 00:07:13.680 --> 00:07:16.519 like that, or you know, maybe it's a it's an 120 00:07:16.519 --> 00:07:19.120 apple tree that has five different colors of apples on 121 00:07:19.160 --> 00:07:21.240 the same tree and it's not been grafted a bunch 122 00:07:21.279 --> 00:07:23.680 of times. It's just one branch has all those colors 123 00:07:24.240 --> 00:07:27.879 and you can buy them from them as seeds. You 124 00:07:27.920 --> 00:07:31.360 can't plant apple seeds unless you want to wait what 125 00:07:31.560 --> 00:07:34.759 fifteen years to see your first apple. And when you do, 126 00:07:35.399 --> 00:07:37.240 it is not going to be an apple that produces 127 00:07:37.279 --> 00:07:39.439 all that kind of colors. It's just a lie, just 128 00:07:39.480 --> 00:07:42.319 a lie. B T. Barnum said it, right, buy or beware. 129 00:07:42.360 --> 00:07:46.079 There's a sucker born every minute. All right, well, don't 130 00:07:46.120 --> 00:07:49.319 be that sucker. We're going to help you by giving 131 00:07:49.319 --> 00:07:51.600 you a few more tips and to help you have 132 00:07:51.639 --> 00:07:56.160 success with your garden. Just hang around. I'll be right back, alrighty, 133 00:07:56.839 --> 00:08:00.399 welcome back, Welcome to garden Line. I mean your host, 134 00:08:01.000 --> 00:08:04.000 Skip Rictorum, if you'd like to give me a call 135 00:08:04.079 --> 00:08:07.360 this morning and ask a gardening question. Seven one three 136 00:08:08.000 --> 00:08:11.120 two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three 137 00:08:11.199 --> 00:08:16.399 two one two five eight seven four. 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You can gots, buy shale 149 00:08:54.559 --> 00:08:57.159 and compost blends there. They sell their products by the bag. 150 00:08:57.200 --> 00:08:58.960 They sell them by the bulk. You can have them 151 00:08:58.960 --> 00:09:01.600 deliver them, or you can drive out to Porter and 152 00:09:01.919 --> 00:09:04.279 bring your trailer and truck and get loaded up there. 153 00:09:04.480 --> 00:09:07.200 They even have a thing called a supersack. Supersack is 154 00:09:07.240 --> 00:09:11.279 a cubic yard in a big, giant strong sack that 155 00:09:11.360 --> 00:09:14.120 they pick up and set in your driveway. It's neat, clean, 156 00:09:14.279 --> 00:09:17.320 no mess. I've used them before. I love the supersacks. 157 00:09:18.120 --> 00:09:20.480 And all you gotta do is reach out to them 158 00:09:20.600 --> 00:09:24.000 and find out where or how to go about getting 159 00:09:24.039 --> 00:09:26.600 what you need. You can go to the UH. You 160 00:09:26.600 --> 00:09:28.080 can got to tell you what. Let's do it this way. 161 00:09:28.120 --> 00:09:30.799 Give them a call. It's two eight one three five 162 00:09:30.919 --> 00:09:34.279 four nineteen fifty two eight one three five four nineteen fifty, 163 00:09:34.399 --> 00:09:37.279 or if you want to drive out there, it's on 164 00:09:37.559 --> 00:09:41.039 the fifty nine access road in Porter. Here's a website. 165 00:09:41.080 --> 00:09:43.759 This will help you know exactly where to go. Rock 166 00:09:44.240 --> 00:09:48.200 in Moultch, the letter in Rock, the letter in multch 167 00:09:48.360 --> 00:09:51.200 All one word dot com and if you add a 168 00:09:51.240 --> 00:09:54.240 slash delivery to that, you can find out more about 169 00:09:54.279 --> 00:09:56.679 getting these things delivered. Now, there is a minimum three 170 00:09:56.720 --> 00:09:59.559 sacked minimum on the supersacks. You're not going to drive 171 00:09:59.559 --> 00:10:02.879 all the way cross Creation for one second delivery that 172 00:10:03.840 --> 00:10:06.000 book deliveries no matter what kind of products you're talking 173 00:10:06.000 --> 00:10:09.039 about in our area, book deliveries are coming to cost 174 00:10:09.279 --> 00:10:11.039 for the people that are bringing them out to you. 175 00:10:11.639 --> 00:10:13.240 And so if you can get a little maybe you 176 00:10:13.279 --> 00:10:16.440 and a neighbor would go together and purchase several of 177 00:10:16.480 --> 00:10:19.320 those kinds of things. That would be another great idea. 178 00:10:19.480 --> 00:10:22.600 But anyway, hairloom soil is a place now go go 179 00:10:22.679 --> 00:10:27.000 to your local garden centers, your feed stores, your Southwest Fertilizer, 180 00:10:27.240 --> 00:10:30.960 your Ace hardware store. You're going to find heirloom soil 181 00:10:31.039 --> 00:10:33.559 products in a lot of different places by the bag, 182 00:10:33.720 --> 00:10:38.919 which is very very convenient. I was talking earlier about 183 00:10:39.840 --> 00:10:43.720 you know, some of the things that you read on 184 00:10:43.759 --> 00:10:47.240 social media, and it just I have a combination I 185 00:10:47.320 --> 00:10:49.360 laugh and I get mad at the same time because 186 00:10:49.360 --> 00:10:51.080 I see it and I realize that they're lying to 187 00:10:51.120 --> 00:10:54.679 people and they are they're basically making money off of 188 00:10:55.000 --> 00:10:58.960 you not having success. And it just one of the 189 00:10:58.960 --> 00:11:02.960 things that it makes me sad is Gardener's saying, I 190 00:11:03.000 --> 00:11:06.120 can't grow anything everything I touch it eyes, I have 191 00:11:06.159 --> 00:11:08.960 a brown thumb, all of those kinds of things. I 192 00:11:09.000 --> 00:11:11.440 want you to look at your radio. That means, look 193 00:11:11.440 --> 00:11:15.440 at me. You do not have a brown thumb. I 194 00:11:15.480 --> 00:11:18.279 promise you do not have a brown thumb. You have 195 00:11:18.320 --> 00:11:22.000 an uninformed thumb. And when your thumb gets smarter and 196 00:11:22.080 --> 00:11:25.159 knows what plants want, it starts turning green. If you 197 00:11:25.200 --> 00:11:28.440 want to talk colors, that's how that works. You do 198 00:11:28.519 --> 00:11:30.919 not have a brown thumb. We can do this. Just 199 00:11:31.159 --> 00:11:35.799 keep listening to the guard line call and ask questions. Learn, learn, Learn. 200 00:11:35.879 --> 00:11:38.200 There's a lot of good opportunities to learn, and the 201 00:11:38.240 --> 00:11:40.759 more you learn, the better it gets and you can 202 00:11:41.200 --> 00:11:46.159 really have good success. So, for example, let me give 203 00:11:46.200 --> 00:11:49.720 you a little quick tip here that I think will 204 00:11:49.759 --> 00:11:54.200 help you with your plants, especially the acid loving plants, 205 00:11:54.200 --> 00:11:56.519 but really any kinds of shrubs that you're putting into 206 00:11:56.519 --> 00:11:59.480 an area that tends to be wet. If you cannot 207 00:11:59.519 --> 00:12:01.960 get rid of water in an area, you can build 208 00:12:01.960 --> 00:12:04.159 a bed on top of the ground to grow in. 209 00:12:04.960 --> 00:12:08.200 And so someone asked me recently, you know, I want 210 00:12:08.200 --> 00:12:11.120 to plant a blueberry, but I can't dig three feet 211 00:12:11.159 --> 00:12:13.840 deep to make the hole. Well, you never want to 212 00:12:13.840 --> 00:12:17.159 dig deeper than the root ball the root cylinder in 213 00:12:17.200 --> 00:12:20.120 the pot to plant a plant. But yes, if you 214 00:12:20.240 --> 00:12:22.559 sink a plant down in the ground and it is 215 00:12:22.679 --> 00:12:25.720 soggy area, that root system is going to stay soggy, 216 00:12:25.759 --> 00:12:28.559 and it's not good. But I'm going to use a 217 00:12:28.679 --> 00:12:31.360 kind of a crazy example just to create a mental 218 00:12:31.399 --> 00:12:34.080 picture for you as to how you have success with this, 219 00:12:34.200 --> 00:12:39.159 and that is set your camellia, your blueberry, your zealia, 220 00:12:39.279 --> 00:12:41.799 your guardena whatever, set it on top of the ground, 221 00:12:41.919 --> 00:12:44.200 and then bring in the bed mix and fill in 222 00:12:44.279 --> 00:12:47.559 around it. That's how you plant it. In other words, now, 223 00:12:47.679 --> 00:12:49.000 what you're really going to do is you're going to 224 00:12:49.039 --> 00:12:50.639 put in the bed mix and make a bed and 225 00:12:50.679 --> 00:12:53.519 then plant in that hole. But the concept is my 226 00:12:53.720 --> 00:12:57.240 plant is actually sitting on top of that soggy soil 227 00:12:57.360 --> 00:13:01.120 situation and growing in a high quality bed mix, and 228 00:13:01.200 --> 00:13:04.559 you will have success. You can go out to central 229 00:13:04.600 --> 00:13:08.600 Texas on a limestone outcropping and put a nice acidic 230 00:13:08.679 --> 00:13:11.240 mix on top of the ground and grow blueberry in 231 00:13:11.279 --> 00:13:12.919 it if you got the water quality to do it, 232 00:13:13.279 --> 00:13:17.399 or an azelle or something else. But fix your drainage. 233 00:13:17.440 --> 00:13:20.080 One way is just set your plants on top of 234 00:13:20.120 --> 00:13:22.399 the ground and put the bed around them. Again, that's 235 00:13:22.600 --> 00:13:25.320 that's backwards of what we're doing, but that gives you 236 00:13:25.360 --> 00:13:29.679 the visual concept, the cutaway vision. It works and it helps. 237 00:13:29.799 --> 00:13:33.360 And don't subject plants that don't want to be in 238 00:13:33.399 --> 00:13:36.159 a soggy swamp to those conditions or they'll get root 239 00:13:36.240 --> 00:13:38.600 rots and they'll die. And it's easy to avoid that. 240 00:13:40.039 --> 00:13:42.120 You are listening to garden Line. Our phone number is 241 00:13:42.279 --> 00:13:45.080 seven one three two one two kt r H seven 242 00:13:45.120 --> 00:13:47.840 one three two one two k t RIH. Give us 243 00:13:47.840 --> 00:13:51.720 a call. Let's help you have success. I love it 244 00:13:51.799 --> 00:13:55.120 when we can help somebody enjoy gardening and maybe learn 245 00:13:55.200 --> 00:13:57.440 a new kind of gardening, learn a new way to 246 00:13:57.480 --> 00:14:02.519 have success. That that is cool. Last year, those of 247 00:14:02.559 --> 00:14:04.679 you in the Houston area who were here last year, 248 00:14:04.720 --> 00:14:06.919 you know we had two heck of us storms that 249 00:14:07.080 --> 00:14:10.240 came through and knocked out power for weeks, and you 250 00:14:10.240 --> 00:14:12.639 know they're by family in Houstonaria that were out of 251 00:14:12.639 --> 00:14:15.639 power for over two weeks due to the fact that 252 00:14:15.799 --> 00:14:19.320 the storms blasted down trees and knock down power lines 253 00:14:19.360 --> 00:14:22.440 and they're up a creek. Generators are a way around that. 254 00:14:22.600 --> 00:14:25.960 But not just any generator and definitely not just any place. 255 00:14:26.440 --> 00:14:32.679 A Generac automatic standby generator, Generatic Generaic automatic stand by generator. 256 00:14:32.919 --> 00:14:35.240 They sit outside your house and when the power goes up, 257 00:14:35.279 --> 00:14:36.960 they just come on. You don't have to you don't 258 00:14:36.960 --> 00:14:38.720 have to get up and run outside and fire the 259 00:14:38.759 --> 00:14:42.720 thing up. They just automatically come on because they're constantly 260 00:14:42.840 --> 00:14:47.039 monitoring the power flow and when it senses you've lost power, 261 00:14:47.399 --> 00:14:50.279 they pop right back on and the lights just take off. 262 00:14:50.440 --> 00:14:54.759 They just keep going. Now, Generak is a great quality brand, 263 00:14:55.039 --> 00:14:57.840 but quality home Products of Texas is where you need 264 00:14:57.879 --> 00:14:59.720 to buy it. And it makes all the difference in 265 00:14:59.759 --> 00:15:02.399 the world world where you get these because it's not 266 00:15:02.639 --> 00:15:05.480 just getting a generator, it's getting people that know what 267 00:15:05.519 --> 00:15:09.279 they're doing putting it in. It's getting people to completely engineer, 268 00:15:09.480 --> 00:15:13.240 install and monitor the products they're selling you. That is 269 00:15:13.279 --> 00:15:16.000 a rare thing in the industry. They come out they 270 00:15:16.000 --> 00:15:18.879 even They don't just drop this cheap pad on the 271 00:15:18.879 --> 00:15:21.000 ground concrete pad to set it on where it's going 272 00:15:21.080 --> 00:15:24.480 to get bumped around. They build a quality pad for it. 273 00:15:24.759 --> 00:15:27.440 They deal with the regulations, you know, whatever the city 274 00:15:27.480 --> 00:15:29.679 is requiring or whatever. They handle all that for you. 275 00:15:29.919 --> 00:15:32.000 They have their own people, I mean, they are plumbers, 276 00:15:32.039 --> 00:15:35.200 they are electricians. They have their own contractors in house 277 00:15:35.720 --> 00:15:37.639 to do all of this for you. That's why people 278 00:15:37.679 --> 00:15:39.919 love them so much. 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That's as simple as that. 289 00:16:14.519 --> 00:16:18.039 Now seven to one three quality, and you'll find out 290 00:16:18.399 --> 00:16:21.919 exactly what I'm talking about with the difference with a 291 00:16:22.039 --> 00:16:27.000 quality company like Quality Home Products of Texas. I uh, 292 00:16:27.240 --> 00:16:31.120 this coming week is my week to get out in 293 00:16:31.159 --> 00:16:33.360 the lawns. I've been away. I've been traveling a lot 294 00:16:33.440 --> 00:16:36.679 and just haven't had time to, you know, get out 295 00:16:36.679 --> 00:16:39.399 there and take care of my lawns like I need to. 296 00:16:39.799 --> 00:16:42.519 And I've got a few broad leaf weeds that have 297 00:16:42.559 --> 00:16:44.840 popped up in some areas. I guess the grass was 298 00:16:44.879 --> 00:16:47.519 then because wherever sunlight hits the soil and nature plants 299 00:16:47.519 --> 00:16:49.159 a weed, and I have to get out and deal 300 00:16:49.200 --> 00:16:52.759 with those. I need to have got still some the 301 00:16:52.879 --> 00:16:55.399 old dead grass up on the top, and I'm not 302 00:16:55.600 --> 00:16:57.279 for too long now. I could do it this week. 303 00:16:57.320 --> 00:16:59.240 I may wait a little bit longer on it, but 304 00:16:59.279 --> 00:17:01.639 I'm going to do a lower mowing to clean out 305 00:17:01.679 --> 00:17:03.879 all the dead and let the fresh new growth come in. 306 00:17:04.200 --> 00:17:09.240 I like to wait, really to do that until the 307 00:17:09.240 --> 00:17:12.240 weather's warmed enough that the grass is going to take 308 00:17:12.279 --> 00:17:15.720 off growing. And the reason is if you scop it off, 309 00:17:15.759 --> 00:17:19.519 then the sunlight hits the soil and suddenly weed seeds 310 00:17:19.519 --> 00:17:22.559 start coming and your grass is still cold to begin 311 00:17:22.759 --> 00:17:27.240 actively rapidly growing. And so I usually wait for that 312 00:17:27.279 --> 00:17:30.240 first mowing until you know, I know the grass is 313 00:17:30.319 --> 00:17:33.240 ready to kind of get going. If you have weeds 314 00:17:33.240 --> 00:17:36.880 in your lawn, you do want to capture the clippings 315 00:17:37.279 --> 00:17:41.200 that first mowing, because clover and hand bit and chick 316 00:17:41.200 --> 00:17:43.519 weed and all the winter weeds, if they're going to seed, 317 00:17:43.839 --> 00:17:46.319 you want to get all those out of there because 318 00:17:46.720 --> 00:17:48.400 you don't you do not want to let them go 319 00:17:48.440 --> 00:17:50.359 to seed. So if you're waiting longer, you're going to 320 00:17:50.440 --> 00:17:53.640 start seeing them blooming and setting seed, and don't let 321 00:17:53.640 --> 00:17:55.599 them do that. Don't let them put those seeds in 322 00:17:55.680 --> 00:17:57.839 your yard. Let's head out to the phones here, we're 323 00:17:57.839 --> 00:18:01.279 going to talk to Pam. Pam Central Texas. Hey, Pam, 324 00:18:01.279 --> 00:18:03.119 how you doing. Welcome to guard Line. 325 00:18:03.160 --> 00:18:09.200 Good morning, Good morning. I'm so glad you're on this morning. Listen. 326 00:18:09.839 --> 00:18:13.799 My situation is that we moved here about four years ago, 327 00:18:13.880 --> 00:18:18.559 and I was I'm a butterfly, a freak, I like them, 328 00:18:18.720 --> 00:18:24.759 and I took to this Lisnia Mexican sunflower and I 329 00:18:24.920 --> 00:18:28.640 planted it in quite a big area and I'm like, 330 00:18:29.319 --> 00:18:33.200 I can't, I can't control it. It just you can't 331 00:18:33.200 --> 00:18:36.799 plant anything else with it. You know, you're you know, 332 00:18:36.839 --> 00:18:38.799 you're sains and you know other things that you want 333 00:18:38.839 --> 00:18:40.279 to plan. And I didn't know that. 334 00:18:41.039 --> 00:18:42.400 And they're growing. 335 00:18:42.680 --> 00:18:45.119 Are you saying they're growing? But Pam, are you saying 336 00:18:45.119 --> 00:18:47.160 they're growing like weeds are just too thick? When you 337 00:18:47.160 --> 00:18:48.920 say you can't control it, is that what you mean? 338 00:18:49.440 --> 00:18:49.640 Oh? 339 00:18:50.039 --> 00:18:50.920 No, I mean. 340 00:18:52.759 --> 00:18:57.039 They don't habitat with other flowers at all. I mean 341 00:18:57.160 --> 00:19:01.279 nothing can grow in the under you know, underneath them 342 00:19:01.359 --> 00:19:04.480 or you know. It's just I just don't like them 343 00:19:04.480 --> 00:19:08.400 anymore because they want okay. So I was looking online 344 00:19:09.000 --> 00:19:11.319 to find out, you know, how I could get rid 345 00:19:11.359 --> 00:19:13.519 of them, because I've been dealing with it for this 346 00:19:13.559 --> 00:19:16.440 would be the third year now, and my husband and 347 00:19:16.519 --> 00:19:18.319 I go out there in the early spring and we 348 00:19:18.400 --> 00:19:22.759 start pulling it and pulling it and pulling it, and 349 00:19:23.000 --> 00:19:26.160 it's still last year, it's still I couldn't plant a plant. 350 00:19:26.240 --> 00:19:29.799 Tried to plant then this underneath it and stuff, excuse me, 351 00:19:30.319 --> 00:19:35.119 and I still couldn't get anything to grow. Besides, it 352 00:19:35.240 --> 00:19:39.599 was only in the area. So I was looking online 353 00:19:39.640 --> 00:19:44.799 and even Texas A and M said had a big 354 00:19:44.839 --> 00:19:50.680 write up about doing herb side the some sort, but 355 00:19:50.720 --> 00:19:54.200 it didn't tell me what herbicide to use. Can you 356 00:19:54.240 --> 00:19:54.839 help me with that? 357 00:19:56.599 --> 00:20:01.119 Well? Uh, so I wouldn't use a pre emergent herbicide 358 00:20:01.319 --> 00:20:03.880 in that area because it'll prevent any seeds from coming 359 00:20:04.000 --> 00:20:06.519 up like your zenias, for example. You can use a 360 00:20:06.559 --> 00:20:09.279 post emergent that kills them, and there are a lot 361 00:20:09.319 --> 00:20:12.160 of different products that would kill them. I might let 362 00:20:12.200 --> 00:20:14.359 them go ahead and come up and then do the 363 00:20:14.440 --> 00:20:17.720 spray and that way as much of the seeds as 364 00:20:17.880 --> 00:20:20.960 as possible have gone ahead and sprouted, so you kill them, 365 00:20:21.480 --> 00:20:25.039 and then you can go in and plant your zeneas 366 00:20:25.079 --> 00:20:27.920 behind that. And there's there's a lot of different products 367 00:20:27.960 --> 00:20:32.160 that work on that as far as a post emergent killer. 368 00:20:32.559 --> 00:20:35.200 I'm hitting a hard break here, Pam where I've got 369 00:20:35.240 --> 00:20:37.599 to go to the to the news and I will. 370 00:20:37.920 --> 00:20:39.480 I'll put you on hold. If you want to hang around, 371 00:20:39.519 --> 00:20:41.720 we can continue the discussion. We can come back. If not, 372 00:20:42.440 --> 00:20:46.039 do you just need to get a post emergent out there. Yeah, okay, 373 00:20:46.440 --> 00:20:51.160 thank you, take care. All right, folks, A little quick 374 00:20:51.279 --> 00:20:53.599 break here and I'll be right back with your calls 375 00:20:53.640 --> 00:20:55.319 if you'd like to get on the board. Seven one 376 00:20:55.359 --> 00:21:02.279 three two one two ktr H. All right, folks, welcome 377 00:21:02.319 --> 00:21:06.240 back to garden Line. A little laid back morning going 378 00:21:06.279 --> 00:21:09.599 on here. I can give me a call Talk Gardening 379 00:21:09.720 --> 00:21:12.000 seven one three two one two k t r H 380 00:21:12.319 --> 00:21:15.799 seven one three two one two k t r H. Boy, 381 00:21:15.839 --> 00:21:18.279 I tell you if Plants for All Seasons has gotten 382 00:21:18.319 --> 00:21:22.920 in a bunch of things for your edible garden. Of course, 383 00:21:22.920 --> 00:21:26.359 they've got every kind of plant you can imagine. You know, shrubs, roses, 384 00:21:27.240 --> 00:21:31.559 I don't know, flowers, perennials, ornamental grasses, on and on 385 00:21:31.640 --> 00:21:34.480 and on and on. They have an awesome selection of seeds, 386 00:21:34.559 --> 00:21:36.640 one of the best selections of seeds I've seen in town. 387 00:21:36.960 --> 00:21:39.480 And it's just just a whole wall on them in 388 00:21:39.519 --> 00:21:44.200 their nice new renovated sales area. They're indoor sales area. 389 00:21:44.240 --> 00:21:46.359 It's really cool. I'm pretty it has a lot of 390 00:21:46.359 --> 00:21:48.160 good stuff in it too. You ought to go check 391 00:21:48.200 --> 00:21:50.880 that out. They got in some onions. They still got 392 00:21:50.920 --> 00:21:53.240 in some potatoes out there, and it's time to plant 393 00:21:53.319 --> 00:21:56.599 both of those, for sure. You can choose from several 394 00:21:56.640 --> 00:22:00.640 different types of white, yellow, and red onions. Little bundles 395 00:22:00.640 --> 00:22:03.799 are ready to go. Don't delay get those in, start 396 00:22:03.839 --> 00:22:06.240 fertilizing them. They need to hit the ground, run and 397 00:22:06.279 --> 00:22:08.799 never look back. The faster you grow an onion, the 398 00:22:08.799 --> 00:22:11.559 bigger that bulb can be. When the day length is 399 00:22:11.599 --> 00:22:15.079 long enough to cause them to make bulbs. So you 400 00:22:15.079 --> 00:22:16.920 can eat little bulbs, you can eat big bulbs. They 401 00:22:16.920 --> 00:22:19.119 taste the same, but if you want more yield out 402 00:22:19.119 --> 00:22:22.240 of it, hurry up. Get them in plants for all seasons. 403 00:22:22.279 --> 00:22:24.920 Has them. They also have a nice selection of herbs, 404 00:22:25.240 --> 00:22:27.440 and this is a time to get herbs planted. Really, 405 00:22:27.519 --> 00:22:30.039 year round is the time to get herbs planted. They 406 00:22:30.119 --> 00:22:33.720 have many options for you. Why not create either. If 407 00:22:33.720 --> 00:22:35.640 you don't want to do a formal herb garden, why 408 00:22:35.680 --> 00:22:39.200 not just plant herbs among your other plants or regano 409 00:22:39.279 --> 00:22:43.200 and time make nice groundcovers in beds. I will often 410 00:22:43.240 --> 00:22:46.599 put herbs at the ends of my vegetable rows in 411 00:22:46.640 --> 00:22:49.319 a vegetable bed, or hanging over the sides of the bed. 412 00:22:49.400 --> 00:22:51.920 You know, maybe you have tomatoes growing in a bed. 413 00:22:52.240 --> 00:22:54.599 Why not some herbs hanging over the side, like a 414 00:22:54.720 --> 00:22:57.440 regano growing right over the side. Put some basil at 415 00:22:57.440 --> 00:22:58.720 the end of the road. It's a little early for 416 00:22:58.759 --> 00:23:00.400 basil now, but put some basil at the end of 417 00:23:00.400 --> 00:23:02.240 the row, and you got your whole garden ready to 418 00:23:02.240 --> 00:23:06.720 go there, I mean, you're ready for pestos and bosta 419 00:23:06.759 --> 00:23:09.279 sauces and all kinds of things. When you put all 420 00:23:09.319 --> 00:23:11.599 that together, go to Plants for All Seasons. Check out 421 00:23:11.599 --> 00:23:12.799 what they have, and you know when you go there, 422 00:23:12.839 --> 00:23:15.240 you're gonna get good advice. They've been family owned and 423 00:23:15.319 --> 00:23:19.000 operated since nineteen seventy three. They're right there just north 424 00:23:19.000 --> 00:23:23.160 of Luetta on the Feeder Road beside Tomball Parkway, FM 425 00:23:23.200 --> 00:23:27.119 two forty nine. Plants for All Seasons dot com if 426 00:23:27.119 --> 00:23:30.039 you link at McCall two eight one, three seven six, 427 00:23:30.240 --> 00:23:35.039 sixteen forty six and they will take care of you there. Excellent, 428 00:23:35.160 --> 00:23:39.519 excellent service. I was visiting with somebody the other day 429 00:23:39.559 --> 00:23:42.440 and they were looking for someone to do some particular 430 00:23:42.519 --> 00:23:44.559 kinds of work in the yard. I was telling them 431 00:23:44.759 --> 00:23:46.799 they're out there in an area that a year round 432 00:23:46.839 --> 00:23:49.839 Houston services, and I said, you can go to these guys. 433 00:23:49.880 --> 00:23:52.839 They definitely do good work. You know, when it comes 434 00:23:52.880 --> 00:23:56.359 to things like aeration, for example, compost top dressing, those 435 00:23:56.359 --> 00:24:01.680 are two of the best benefit options that you can 436 00:24:01.720 --> 00:24:04.160 do on your lawn. It's important to water, it's important 437 00:24:04.200 --> 00:24:06.000 to mo it's important to fertilize and all of that, 438 00:24:06.880 --> 00:24:09.359 but compost top dressing and aeration, if you've got a 439 00:24:09.400 --> 00:24:13.400 compacted soil or if you have a clay soil. Either way, 440 00:24:13.720 --> 00:24:16.240 it helps get oxygen back in the soil, and year 441 00:24:16.319 --> 00:24:19.920 round Houston knows how to do it. They're specialists when 442 00:24:19.960 --> 00:24:23.119 it comes to compost, top dressing and aeration in your lawn. 443 00:24:23.440 --> 00:24:26.359 Now you can do it yourself. It's cumbersome. You're running equipment, 444 00:24:26.400 --> 00:24:28.559 you're cleaning up the equipment, you're hauling it back and 445 00:24:29.119 --> 00:24:32.359 dumping all the compost in your driveway. Just call them 446 00:24:32.359 --> 00:24:34.039 and let them come out and take care of the 447 00:24:34.079 --> 00:24:36.680 whole thing. They've got equipment that does a way better 448 00:24:36.759 --> 00:24:39.960 job of air rating than what you'll rent from the 449 00:24:40.000 --> 00:24:46.079 rental store. They serve inside the Beltway around Houston, inside 450 00:24:46.079 --> 00:24:48.839 the Beltway and out in the Richmond Rosenberg area. They 451 00:24:48.880 --> 00:24:51.279 also work out in that area too. All you have 452 00:24:51.359 --> 00:24:54.640 to do is go to the website year round Houston 453 00:24:54.720 --> 00:24:58.079 dot com, year round Houston dot com, or give them 454 00:24:58.079 --> 00:25:01.839 a call eight three to two eight eight four fifty 455 00:25:01.880 --> 00:25:06.279 three thirty five eight three two eight eight four fifty 456 00:25:06.359 --> 00:25:09.440 three thirty five year round Houston dot com for those 457 00:25:09.440 --> 00:25:11.839 of you inside the Beltway and out in the Richmond 458 00:25:11.960 --> 00:25:16.720 Rosenberg area. I saw a lawn not too long ago, 459 00:25:17.000 --> 00:25:19.640 Well it was last year, actually not too many years 460 00:25:19.640 --> 00:25:23.440 ago that had been air rated, and it just you know, 461 00:25:23.480 --> 00:25:25.240 when it first is done, it's like you have all 462 00:25:25.279 --> 00:25:27.839 this little pausa soil on top of the surface. That's 463 00:25:27.880 --> 00:25:30.839 a good thing because that is those little plugs that 464 00:25:30.880 --> 00:25:33.599 they drop on the surface as they pull them out 465 00:25:33.640 --> 00:25:37.480 of the ground. When they melt in irrigation and rain 466 00:25:37.599 --> 00:25:40.519 and stuff, they just sort of dissolve and spread out. 467 00:25:40.599 --> 00:25:43.359 And if you have a thatch problem, that is the 468 00:25:43.599 --> 00:25:45.839 single best way to get rid of thatch is a 469 00:25:45.880 --> 00:25:49.480 good aerration and compost top dressing over the top. It 470 00:25:49.519 --> 00:25:52.319 will speed the decomposition of that thatch up a lot. 471 00:25:52.559 --> 00:25:56.319 And you just can't believe the difference that it makes. 472 00:25:56.680 --> 00:26:01.480 It really does make a difference. You're listening to Gardenline. 473 00:26:01.480 --> 00:26:03.640 I'm your host, Skip Richtor, and we're here to answer 474 00:26:03.839 --> 00:26:07.799 your gardening questions and just give me a call. Let's 475 00:26:07.799 --> 00:26:10.079 figure out how we can help you. Seven one three 476 00:26:10.119 --> 00:26:14.359 two one two k t rh i UH stopped by 477 00:26:14.440 --> 00:26:17.640 Houston Power Coders a little while back and was looking 478 00:26:17.720 --> 00:26:19.680 at some of the jobs that they had gotten in 479 00:26:19.720 --> 00:26:25.519 and boy, they they have a extensive area, a shop 480 00:26:25.559 --> 00:26:28.279 area with many different kinds of bends where they can 481 00:26:28.319 --> 00:26:31.519 bring equipment and or bring furniture in from your yard 482 00:26:31.920 --> 00:26:35.359 and powder coated. Powder coating is better than painting. So 483 00:26:35.400 --> 00:26:37.480 if you've got some old furniture out there that's kind 484 00:26:37.480 --> 00:26:41.119 of getting rusty, maybe the bolts holding it together or resting. 485 00:26:41.440 --> 00:26:44.559 Maybe it's you know, it's nice cast iron. Maybe it 486 00:26:44.680 --> 00:26:47.680 is a wrought iron table, maybe it's a luminum patio furniture. 487 00:26:47.799 --> 00:26:50.759 Whatever you've got, have them take a look at it. 488 00:26:50.839 --> 00:26:52.519 You can get a quote from them. All you do 489 00:26:52.640 --> 00:26:56.160 is email a picture of what you got to Sales 490 00:26:56.440 --> 00:27:03.000 at Houstoncoaters dot com. Sales at Houstoncoders dot com. See 491 00:27:03.039 --> 00:27:05.119 I need to quote quote on this. They'll tell you 492 00:27:05.720 --> 00:27:08.960 they'll paint it. They'll put new hardware on it, you know, 493 00:27:09.000 --> 00:27:11.720 the bolts and nuts and bolts and washers and everything 494 00:27:11.720 --> 00:27:14.759 that holds everything together. And they use stainless steel for 495 00:27:14.799 --> 00:27:17.640 that so it doesn't rerust. They put plastic feed and 496 00:27:17.759 --> 00:27:20.079 end caps on. You know, I have you the tubular furniture 497 00:27:20.119 --> 00:27:22.480 where the ends are open, so they pop a plastic 498 00:27:22.559 --> 00:27:25.119 cap on there. They can do stairs, they can do 499 00:27:25.279 --> 00:27:28.799 rails along and maybe a portrail. Do you have a 500 00:27:28.880 --> 00:27:31.400 light pole, you know in the yard, like or a lampole, 501 00:27:31.440 --> 00:27:34.480 a little oil gas lamp, or a light pole. They 502 00:27:34.480 --> 00:27:37.519 can do anything that's mottled pretty much out there. And 503 00:27:37.559 --> 00:27:39.400 if you're down at the coast and you got that 504 00:27:39.599 --> 00:27:43.319 salt spray kind of issue, they have special coating techniques 505 00:27:43.319 --> 00:27:46.680 that they do that help that as well. You just 506 00:27:46.720 --> 00:27:49.440 got to give them a call to eight one six seven, 507 00:27:49.599 --> 00:27:53.200 six thirty eight eighty eight to eight one three seven 508 00:27:53.359 --> 00:27:57.319 six excuse me, six seven, six thirty eight eighty I'm 509 00:27:57.359 --> 00:28:00.640 gonna say that one more time. Two eight one six seven, 510 00:28:00.799 --> 00:28:06.400 six thirty eight eighty eight. Check out the website houstonpowdercoders 511 00:28:06.759 --> 00:28:10.720 dot com. Get some new life, oh in over one 512 00:28:10.759 --> 00:28:14.440 hundred colors, So whatever color you want something to be, 513 00:28:14.720 --> 00:28:18.039 they can make it that. It's amazing kind of cool. 514 00:28:18.119 --> 00:28:21.160 I think you're listening to Garden Line. I'm your host, 515 00:28:21.200 --> 00:28:23.480 Skip Rictor. We're here to answer your gardening questions and 516 00:28:23.480 --> 00:28:25.519 we'll be talking about a variety of different things from 517 00:28:25.680 --> 00:28:29.480 edibles to beautiful flowers and lawns and whatnot as we 518 00:28:29.519 --> 00:28:31.440 get through the show this morning. We're here from six 519 00:28:31.519 --> 00:28:35.559 to ten on Saturdays and Sundays, so we look forward 520 00:28:35.559 --> 00:28:38.039 to visiting with you and helping you have success with 521 00:28:38.079 --> 00:28:40.000 what you're doing. For those of you up in the 522 00:28:40.000 --> 00:28:43.640 Magnolia area, you've got Spring Creek Feed your hometown feed store. 523 00:28:43.680 --> 00:28:48.279 They're conveniently located in Mignoya on FM twenty nine seventy eight, 524 00:28:48.359 --> 00:28:51.799 so basically just minutes away from both Graham Parkway and 525 00:28:51.880 --> 00:28:54.799 Highway to forty nine. And they carry a full line 526 00:28:54.839 --> 00:28:57.759 of fertilizers like what you hear me talk about, the 527 00:28:57.839 --> 00:29:01.720 turf Star from Nelson, the Microlife, the nitrophoss. They have 528 00:29:01.799 --> 00:29:05.720 things to control weeds, pests, and diseases. I love to 529 00:29:05.759 --> 00:29:08.519 walk in because you're greeted by friendly staff and it's 530 00:29:08.519 --> 00:29:10.640 a really cool store too. You walk in, you go, wait, 531 00:29:10.680 --> 00:29:12.440 wait a minute, this a feed store, because there's so 532 00:29:12.519 --> 00:29:15.079 much cool stuff in here. Well, yes it is, and 533 00:29:15.200 --> 00:29:18.000 much much more. They have a delivery service. They can 534 00:29:18.079 --> 00:29:21.240 special order if you need them to. That's Spring Creek 535 00:29:21.319 --> 00:29:25.960 Feed on FM twenty nine seventy eight and Magnolia. Check 536 00:29:26.000 --> 00:29:27.799 them out. When you drive up, you'll know it. It's 537 00:29:27.799 --> 00:29:31.000 this big, beautiful, old time feed store facade that just 538 00:29:31.279 --> 00:29:36.319 looks great. Well, it looks to me like we're hitting 539 00:29:36.359 --> 00:29:46.839 time for me to take another break. I'll be right back. Folks, Hey, 540 00:29:46.880 --> 00:29:49.640 when was the last time that you took a trip 541 00:29:49.680 --> 00:29:52.599 out to Anti rosing for him? If you've never been 542 00:29:52.640 --> 00:29:55.079 to that place, you need to go. I love to go. 543 00:29:55.200 --> 00:29:58.759 And boy, when spring comes, oh my gosh, it's just 544 00:29:59.400 --> 00:30:01.559 it's incredible. But you know, spring is when the blue 545 00:30:01.559 --> 00:30:03.599 bonnets are out and you get to drive through that 546 00:30:03.680 --> 00:30:06.799 country out that direction. You know, they're north of Brenham 547 00:30:06.839 --> 00:30:10.160 by the way up in Independence. The blue bonnets are 548 00:30:10.200 --> 00:30:12.200 just gorgeous. And of course the roses. I mean, that 549 00:30:12.319 --> 00:30:15.279 is prime time for roses and things. But it's always 550 00:30:15.279 --> 00:30:17.000 a good time to go out and visit the Antique 551 00:30:17.039 --> 00:30:20.039 Rose Imporium. The spring's almost here, as these days get 552 00:30:20.039 --> 00:30:22.960 warmer and our gardens kind of come alive, lots of beautiful, 553 00:30:23.039 --> 00:30:25.880 vibrant boobs. There's not a better time to get out 554 00:30:25.880 --> 00:30:27.759 and explore the rose and Porium. Do you know they 555 00:30:27.799 --> 00:30:32.039 offer both free self guided tours and paid guided tours 556 00:30:32.200 --> 00:30:35.599 led by their owner, Jim Keater, So you can just 557 00:30:35.799 --> 00:30:39.400 wander the enchanting paths through the whole place yourself, at 558 00:30:39.440 --> 00:30:42.480 your own pace. Take a self guided tour, Look at 559 00:30:42.480 --> 00:30:45.759 the lush gardens, look at they have some cool historic structures. 560 00:30:46.599 --> 00:30:49.160 And they even have a little handy downloadable pamphlet so 561 00:30:49.200 --> 00:30:52.640 you can self guide yourself across learning about everything. Or 562 00:30:52.720 --> 00:30:55.680 you can go on a tour that Gym leads and 563 00:30:55.720 --> 00:30:58.799 those are more in depth. They dive deeper into the 564 00:30:58.920 --> 00:31:02.400 history and horticulture behind all these landscapes. You got a 565 00:31:02.440 --> 00:31:04.960 lot of insights that Jim has it shares with you 566 00:31:05.279 --> 00:31:07.759 on the decades of care and cultivation that have basically 567 00:31:07.799 --> 00:31:10.960 shaped that place into the floor paradise that it is 568 00:31:11.680 --> 00:31:14.359 right now. I always love to visit there. If you 569 00:31:14.440 --> 00:31:17.880 want to find out anything else about the Anti Grosmporium, 570 00:31:18.240 --> 00:31:20.519 you know the phone numbers, the how to get there, 571 00:31:20.720 --> 00:31:25.440 the what roses they have. Go to Antique Roseanmporium dot com. 572 00:31:25.680 --> 00:31:27.759 You need to follow them on social media because there's 573 00:31:27.799 --> 00:31:31.119 always things going on. Get on their email list Antique 574 00:31:31.359 --> 00:31:36.119 Roseanmporium dot com. They have events, they have workshops seasonally. 575 00:31:36.839 --> 00:31:38.759 They got some things coming up right now. But you've 576 00:31:38.759 --> 00:31:41.400 got to get out there and just check on it. 577 00:31:42.000 --> 00:31:45.880 Ars Anti Grosenporum. By the way, did I have to 578 00:31:45.880 --> 00:31:51.880 tell you that February is for roses. February definitely is 579 00:31:51.920 --> 00:31:54.240 for roses, and it would be a good time to 580 00:31:54.279 --> 00:31:56.559 get out there and to check them out. They got 581 00:31:56.559 --> 00:31:59.440 something coming up called the Garden Party. It's March seventh, eighth, 582 00:31:59.440 --> 00:32:03.000 the ninth. Is just basically we're on it right now. 583 00:32:03.079 --> 00:32:04.599 You ought to give them a call see if they 584 00:32:04.640 --> 00:32:07.200 still have space out there. Some of the events are 585 00:32:07.240 --> 00:32:11.920 like really cool, really cool events where there's dinners and 586 00:32:12.359 --> 00:32:15.880 other kinds of special things. But when you're out there, 587 00:32:15.920 --> 00:32:19.039 when you're calling them, rather going to visit the website, 588 00:32:19.160 --> 00:32:22.799 check out about that Spring celebration, the Garden Party, the 589 00:32:22.880 --> 00:32:27.240 Artisan Market. It's kind of drinks, desserts, music, and a 590 00:32:27.279 --> 00:32:29.519 lot lot more out there. It's a very special event 591 00:32:32.480 --> 00:32:36.039 in our lawns. I was talking to somebody the other 592 00:32:36.079 --> 00:32:40.599 day and they were asking about sweet Green. That's a 593 00:32:40.759 --> 00:32:45.599 product that nitroposs cells. Sweet green is basically it's like 594 00:32:45.640 --> 00:32:51.039 a molasses based product that, through microbial activity on the molasses, 595 00:32:51.240 --> 00:32:54.880 is turned into an eleven zero zero fertilizer. One of 596 00:32:54.920 --> 00:32:58.720 the highest analysis for an organic plant food in that 597 00:32:58.839 --> 00:33:02.279 nitrogen category is really a big number for an organic product. 598 00:33:02.920 --> 00:33:05.960 It smells sweet too. I mean, well, imagine open up 599 00:33:05.960 --> 00:33:07.720 a jar of molasses and smell as kind of what 600 00:33:07.720 --> 00:33:10.559 it smells like Sweet green is available all over the place. 601 00:33:10.599 --> 00:33:14.559 It's easy to find, not at all difficult, and it dissolves, 602 00:33:14.720 --> 00:33:16.519 you know, you put a little water on it, it 603 00:33:16.559 --> 00:33:22.079 dissolves away. And microbes love sugary carbon molasses types of 604 00:33:22.119 --> 00:33:26.680 materials that really stimulates their growth. And therefore the soil 605 00:33:26.839 --> 00:33:29.279 is better and the plants are happier. And sweet green 606 00:33:29.440 --> 00:33:32.039 is easy to find all over the place. For example, 607 00:33:32.079 --> 00:33:34.519 you got to Enchanted Forest and Richmond they got it there. 608 00:33:34.920 --> 00:33:37.720 You're going to find it down at Ace Sinkle Ranch 609 00:33:37.839 --> 00:33:40.559 and the allspa ace up in the woodlands as well, 610 00:33:40.759 --> 00:33:46.240 and arbigate nurseries carry nitrofoss products in general as well. 611 00:33:46.839 --> 00:33:50.799 And the bottom line is just get out there and enjoy. 612 00:33:51.160 --> 00:33:54.359 And if you I jokingly say that when you throw 613 00:33:54.400 --> 00:33:56.480 sweet green in the back of your car and you 614 00:33:57.000 --> 00:33:59.279 head home, it smells so good you just want to 615 00:33:59.319 --> 00:34:03.400 make another trip around the loop before you go. That 616 00:34:04.559 --> 00:34:06.799 must be a good smell. They want to drive Loop 617 00:34:06.880 --> 00:34:11.480 six ten for another lap. Nitropiz sweet green. The stuff works, 618 00:34:11.920 --> 00:34:18.599 It does for sure. I was talking with someone who 619 00:34:18.639 --> 00:34:21.400 was heading out to Nature's Way the other day and 620 00:34:21.440 --> 00:34:22.920 they were going to get some of the native plants. 621 00:34:22.920 --> 00:34:25.000 I don't know if you know this, But Nature's Way, 622 00:34:25.000 --> 00:34:26.840 you know, we think of them as soil because that's 623 00:34:26.880 --> 00:34:30.800 where gosh, that's the grandfather of the soil places in 624 00:34:30.840 --> 00:34:32.719 the Greater Houston area. It's been around a long time. 625 00:34:32.800 --> 00:34:36.360 John Ferguson years ago started that place, and his son 626 00:34:36.440 --> 00:34:40.079 Ian now runs a place. Same tradition, same quality products, 627 00:34:40.119 --> 00:34:43.840 same quality care and making composts. But did you know 628 00:34:43.920 --> 00:34:47.920 that they sell native plants? In fact, they sell more 629 00:34:48.000 --> 00:34:49.599 than just native plants. They have a lot of different 630 00:34:49.639 --> 00:34:52.960 kinds of plants. But they are excellent source for many 631 00:34:53.079 --> 00:34:55.480 kinds of natives for here in the Greater Houston area. 632 00:34:55.800 --> 00:34:57.480 For those of you haven't been there, it's up on 633 00:34:57.559 --> 00:35:00.440 Interstate forty five toward Conro. If you're going north on 634 00:35:00.559 --> 00:35:03.519 forty five, you exit fourteen eighty eight, which is the 635 00:35:03.559 --> 00:35:06.480 road that goes off to Montgomery. But instead of turning left, 636 00:35:06.519 --> 00:35:08.800 you're going to turn right across the railroad tracks and 637 00:35:09.119 --> 00:35:12.519 you're there at Nature's Way. You can go to uh 638 00:35:12.559 --> 00:35:14.679 you can give them a call, you can go by there. 639 00:35:14.760 --> 00:35:16.920 I just like to tell people, Hey, go to the 640 00:35:16.920 --> 00:35:19.760 website and check it out. You're gonna find a lot 641 00:35:19.800 --> 00:35:22.840 of information on the many different products that they carry. 642 00:35:22.880 --> 00:35:25.119 And the website is easy to remember because it's the 643 00:35:25.199 --> 00:35:30.400 name of the company, Nature's Way Resources dot com. Nature's 644 00:35:30.440 --> 00:35:34.400 Way Resources dot com. It is spring, it is time 645 00:35:34.480 --> 00:35:38.800 to plant brown stuff before green stuff. Don't put plants 646 00:35:38.800 --> 00:35:42.280 in until you fix the soil. Nature's Way has a 647 00:35:42.559 --> 00:35:44.679 lot of different ways that you can fix the soil 648 00:35:45.119 --> 00:35:49.800 that work. You are listening to garden Line phone number here. 649 00:35:49.920 --> 00:35:52.039 Seven one three two one two. Kind of a quiet 650 00:35:52.079 --> 00:35:55.000 day this morning on the phones here on garden Line, 651 00:35:55.320 --> 00:35:57.360 but we will be happy to take your call if 652 00:35:57.400 --> 00:35:59.480 you call, and maybe a little bit later, we're going 653 00:35:59.559 --> 00:36:02.760 about to hit break here pretty quick, and you just 654 00:36:02.800 --> 00:36:05.440 get on hold. We can make sure you're one of 655 00:36:05.480 --> 00:36:08.840 the first ones up when we come back from our 656 00:36:08.880 --> 00:36:10.599 top of the hour break that we're going to be 657 00:36:10.960 --> 00:36:15.679 looking at in just a little bit here. I love 658 00:36:15.760 --> 00:36:18.639 garden centers, and I keep telling you folks that listen 659 00:36:18.679 --> 00:36:22.280 to garden Line that we are fortunate in the greater 660 00:36:22.360 --> 00:36:27.679 Houston area to have so many awesome garden centers. I 661 00:36:27.719 --> 00:36:31.239 don't care if you live north, south, east, West, or Central, 662 00:36:31.800 --> 00:36:35.480 you have an outstanding garden center near you. And for 663 00:36:35.559 --> 00:36:38.719 those of you, I would say more of the Central area, 664 00:36:38.840 --> 00:36:42.199 especially although people drive there from all over. Buchanan's Native 665 00:36:42.199 --> 00:36:46.800 Plants on Eleventh Street is your local garden center right there, 666 00:36:47.159 --> 00:36:50.719 and Buchanans is just it's a wonderland of plants. They 667 00:36:50.800 --> 00:36:54.440 specialize in natives. They will have the most select the 668 00:36:54.519 --> 00:36:57.559 largest selection of natives in the whole region. And not 669 00:36:57.679 --> 00:37:00.800 just natives like Texas Natives, but natives like they have 670 00:37:00.840 --> 00:37:02.880 a table that's just say. These natives are right here 671 00:37:02.880 --> 00:37:05.920 in Harris County. Natives. You know, they're Houston Natives, and 672 00:37:06.320 --> 00:37:08.800 that's kind of cool. Of course, they got vegetable plants. 673 00:37:08.800 --> 00:37:11.639 They've got great plants for shade. Their Housepoint greenhouse is 674 00:37:11.719 --> 00:37:16.039 just unbelievable. It's just outstanding. On Saturdays in the spring, 675 00:37:16.280 --> 00:37:21.039 the spring starts in February, by the way, here Saturdays 676 00:37:21.079 --> 00:37:24.360 in the spring, they have talks out there at the event. 677 00:37:24.440 --> 00:37:28.800 They have wheat, they have events out there at Buchanans 678 00:37:28.880 --> 00:37:31.760 Native Plants. It's just a good place to go. Go 679 00:37:31.880 --> 00:37:35.199 to the website. Go to the website. You really need 680 00:37:35.239 --> 00:37:41.559 to do that. Buchanansplants dot com. Buchanansplants dot com. Check 681 00:37:41.599 --> 00:37:44.639 it out. Sign up for the newsletter. It is awesome. 682 00:37:44.800 --> 00:37:47.119 You get a lot of good information. When you go 683 00:37:47.159 --> 00:37:49.079 to the website, you're not just like, Okay, what are 684 00:37:49.079 --> 00:37:52.119 they selling me today? It's how to do stuff, how 685 00:37:52.119 --> 00:37:55.800 to prepare for a freeze, the garden to do checklist 686 00:37:55.920 --> 00:37:59.199 for February, for example. You know, you see what I'm saying, 687 00:37:59.679 --> 00:38:04.000 lot how to stuff that is very very helpful. Buchanan's 688 00:38:04.199 --> 00:38:06.639 Native plants. Go by and see them. It is a 689 00:38:06.679 --> 00:38:12.000 fun place to visit. I always like going in there 690 00:38:12.280 --> 00:38:17.119 because I always learned something. You know, I've been doing horticulture. Well, 691 00:38:17.159 --> 00:38:19.239 I've been doing horticulture my whole life. I've been doing 692 00:38:19.320 --> 00:38:24.360 it professionally for thirty six years now. And you would 693 00:38:24.400 --> 00:38:26.480 think that I've seen every plant that there is and 694 00:38:26.599 --> 00:38:29.360 heard every question that there is, and that's not the case. 695 00:38:29.519 --> 00:38:33.599 There's always something new. Some native now is making it 696 00:38:33.639 --> 00:38:36.199 to the market that we used to not have. Some 697 00:38:36.360 --> 00:38:40.079 new variety of tomato is out that is the best 698 00:38:40.119 --> 00:38:43.000 thing since slice bread. I don't know why they say 699 00:38:43.039 --> 00:38:46.239 that to me. The slice bread isn't as cool as 700 00:38:46.239 --> 00:38:48.320 a new tomato. We ought to say this is the 701 00:38:48.360 --> 00:38:51.880 best thing since a new tomato. Anyway, There's always something 702 00:38:51.960 --> 00:38:55.119 new out there to learn, and that's my gardening so 703 00:38:55.480 --> 00:38:59.760 much fun, just absolutely love it. Hey, guess what is 704 00:38:59.760 --> 00:39:03.400 going to be happening today. I'm going to be heading 705 00:39:03.440 --> 00:39:08.639 out to All Seasons, Ace Hardware and Willis. All Seasons, 706 00:39:08.719 --> 00:39:10.920 Ace Hardware and Willis. I'm going to be there from 707 00:39:10.960 --> 00:39:14.679 twelve noon to two pm. So grab you an early 708 00:39:14.760 --> 00:39:18.320 lunch and come on out. I'll be answering your gardening questions. 709 00:39:18.480 --> 00:39:21.039 Bring me pictures from your property that you want to 710 00:39:21.039 --> 00:39:24.519 ask questions about, bring me samples of plants. Shove a 711 00:39:24.559 --> 00:39:27.599 bug and a bag and bring him in and I'll 712 00:39:27.639 --> 00:39:29.960 make him confess his name and we'll figure out what 713 00:39:30.000 --> 00:39:33.360 to do about him. Same with diseases. Come on out there. 714 00:39:33.480 --> 00:39:36.360 I'm going to be giving away products from Nelson Plant 715 00:39:36.400 --> 00:39:40.920 Food and from the good folks at Medina. We've got 716 00:39:41.320 --> 00:39:43.840 a lot of good products to be given away out there. 717 00:39:44.320 --> 00:39:46.960 I even have a few Texas Gardener magazines on hand. 718 00:39:47.000 --> 00:39:50.320 If you haven't subscribed to that, that is an awesome magazine. 719 00:39:50.400 --> 00:39:52.239 If you need to subscribe, let me get a copy 720 00:39:52.280 --> 00:39:57.400 in your hand. Come on out again, All Seasons, Ace 721 00:39:57.480 --> 00:39:59.119 Hardware and Willis. 722 00:40:00.320 --> 00:40:04.079 Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Skip Rictor. 723 00:40:04.159 --> 00:40:20.079 It's crazy trip. Just watch him as we're going many 724 00:40:20.159 --> 00:40:29.920 batas to sup bat busy gas again, not a sun 725 00:40:31.320 --> 00:40:32.639 glass gas. 726 00:40:34.679 --> 00:40:37.280 The sun bemon down between. 727 00:40:40.719 --> 00:40:46.360 All right, folks, here we are, we're back, Welcome back 728 00:40:46.400 --> 00:40:52.639 to garden line. The other day, I was sitting early 729 00:40:52.719 --> 00:40:55.679 in the morning, actually in the house, and I heard 730 00:40:55.679 --> 00:40:58.119 it was dark outside. I heard a bird singing. It's like, what, 731 00:41:00.440 --> 00:41:02.199 you have to wait till some lights out there? 732 00:41:02.280 --> 00:41:02.360 Right? 733 00:41:02.440 --> 00:41:04.400 No, they don't. They get going early. And I love 734 00:41:04.519 --> 00:41:07.519 listening to birds sing. You know, I used to not 735 00:41:07.599 --> 00:41:09.719 be a bird person at all. I mean I didn't 736 00:41:09.960 --> 00:41:13.039 dislike birds. I just wasn't into birds. And then I 737 00:41:13.159 --> 00:41:18.000 discovered wild Birds Unlimited and began to enjoy the products 738 00:41:18.039 --> 00:41:22.079 they carry. And wild Birds Unlimited carries a wide variety 739 00:41:22.239 --> 00:41:26.440 bird houses, bird feeders, quality bird feed, and I say 740 00:41:26.519 --> 00:41:28.920 quality bird feed, not filled with the little red bebes 741 00:41:29.480 --> 00:41:32.000 that the birds are not interested in eating. You know, 742 00:41:32.119 --> 00:41:34.079 you get some cheap bird feed, and that's what it is, 743 00:41:34.239 --> 00:41:37.320 cheap bird feed. And if you lose, if the birds 744 00:41:37.400 --> 00:41:39.800 don't eat half of what's in the sack, was that 745 00:41:39.960 --> 00:41:42.320 cheap bird feed? No, you paid twice as much for it. 746 00:41:43.079 --> 00:41:47.119 Wild Birds Unlimited has quality seed. Now they're going to 747 00:41:47.239 --> 00:41:49.960 have things like you can buy what's called a no 748 00:41:50.199 --> 00:41:53.199 mess blend, where even like the little sunflower shells are 749 00:41:53.239 --> 00:41:56.320 already taken off the kernels, so there's absolutely nothing on 750 00:41:56.400 --> 00:41:58.920 the ground when you get through. But when they put 751 00:41:59.000 --> 00:42:01.559 something in a bag, they make sure that it's what 752 00:42:01.719 --> 00:42:06.320 birds are interested in eating. For example, their new product 753 00:42:06.440 --> 00:42:10.960 Cardinal Confetti Blend. It is awesome if you love redbirds, 754 00:42:11.000 --> 00:42:13.599 if you love the cardinals and bringing them in, Oh 755 00:42:13.639 --> 00:42:16.760 my gosh. They love safflower and black OL's sunflower and 756 00:42:16.880 --> 00:42:20.039 sunflower chips. They love the bark butter bits that are 757 00:42:20.119 --> 00:42:23.400 in it, the peanut haves, the dried mealworms, the striped sunflower, 758 00:42:23.840 --> 00:42:28.920 something called nutrisaff It is a concoction that is just 759 00:42:29.320 --> 00:42:32.159 rocket fuel for your cardinals and they'll love it. While 760 00:42:32.159 --> 00:42:34.840 you're at Wilbirds Unlimited, pick up a Cardinal tube feeder. 761 00:42:35.079 --> 00:42:37.440 You don't have to have that to feed the Confetti Blend, 762 00:42:37.480 --> 00:42:40.639 but it's a cool feeder. Good evening Cardinal feeder is 763 00:42:40.679 --> 00:42:42.360 another one that they have there, and they're going to 764 00:42:42.400 --> 00:42:44.800 be carrying this year round. This isn't just a spring 765 00:42:45.000 --> 00:42:49.760 thing at Wildbirds Unlimited. Now there's six Wildbirds Unlimited stores 766 00:42:49.840 --> 00:42:53.320 here in the Greater Houston area. Just go to WBU 767 00:42:53.800 --> 00:42:57.000 dot com forward slash Houston. You can find the store 768 00:42:57.119 --> 00:42:59.559 near you. When you walk in there, no matter what 769 00:42:59.639 --> 00:43:01.599 your bird question is, they're going to be able to 770 00:43:01.599 --> 00:43:03.320 help you. They're going to be able to point you 771 00:43:03.440 --> 00:43:06.719 in the right direction. And I warn you it's addictive 772 00:43:06.840 --> 00:43:10.239 because it happened to me. I love my warbird feeders 773 00:43:10.440 --> 00:43:15.360 from Warbirds Unlimited. They are just outstanding. I have one 774 00:43:15.480 --> 00:43:18.199 that the squirrels can't get into. I love listening to 775 00:43:18.280 --> 00:43:21.280 the squirrel's cuss about that the outside. But they have 776 00:43:21.480 --> 00:43:24.400 so many cool feeders. And if you talk to my birds, 777 00:43:24.400 --> 00:43:25.760 they can tell you that they like them a lot. 778 00:43:25.880 --> 00:43:28.599 They like that feed a lot. They haven't started pecking 779 00:43:28.639 --> 00:43:30.440 on the windows yet, going hey, it's time to fill 780 00:43:30.480 --> 00:43:35.039 that thing up again, but they love that stuff. All right, folks, 781 00:43:35.559 --> 00:43:38.599 stop by Wildbird's Unlimited. You will enjoy it just like 782 00:43:38.719 --> 00:43:41.159 I have. We're going to head out now to j 783 00:43:41.440 --> 00:43:47.199 D n fullsher Hey, JD. Welcome to Garden Line Hobby Skip. 784 00:43:47.239 --> 00:43:50.559 How you been doing I'm good, sir. How are you. 785 00:43:52.239 --> 00:43:52.440 Good? 786 00:43:52.559 --> 00:43:53.000 Doing good? 787 00:43:53.360 --> 00:43:54.400 I've talked to you before. 788 00:43:54.840 --> 00:43:59.840 I've got some chronic black city mold on my crate. 789 00:44:00.039 --> 00:44:02.920 Myrtles been battling it off and on for a couple 790 00:44:02.960 --> 00:44:06.239 of years now. Since you some pictures earlier in the week, 791 00:44:07.440 --> 00:44:09.760 I went ahead and I got that. I kind of 792 00:44:09.800 --> 00:44:14.280 followed the trim the crape myrtles the week of Valentine's 793 00:44:14.760 --> 00:44:17.400 so I trimmed them back this week. And I'm wondering 794 00:44:17.480 --> 00:44:20.920 if now is a good time to try something different, 795 00:44:21.000 --> 00:44:24.199 maybe some meam oil. I've tried some other kind of 796 00:44:24.480 --> 00:44:28.199 pesticide kind of oils and stuff from a big box store. 797 00:44:28.280 --> 00:44:30.519 But I want to try something a little bit different 798 00:44:31.039 --> 00:44:34.880 because because I don't get any blooms about right. 799 00:44:35.239 --> 00:44:37.920 No, it's it's a it's it's not a good thing. 800 00:44:38.119 --> 00:44:38.239 Uh. 801 00:44:38.480 --> 00:44:43.559 The the probumum problem the city. Most call it caused 802 00:44:43.599 --> 00:44:46.840 primarily by something called the crape murder bark scale. And 803 00:44:46.920 --> 00:44:49.320 you'll see some little white flecks in there in that 804 00:44:49.639 --> 00:44:53.800 in that black city bark and branches. Uh, that is 805 00:44:53.840 --> 00:44:56.920 creat murder bark scale. And those scales suck juices out 806 00:44:56.960 --> 00:45:01.880 of the plants plumbing system and they excrete a city 807 00:45:01.960 --> 00:45:04.199 sugary I mean, excuse me, a sugary water that the 808 00:45:04.320 --> 00:45:07.199 soot grows on. So the soot is just an after 809 00:45:07.320 --> 00:45:13.119 effect of what the insects doing the systemic insecticides will 810 00:45:13.159 --> 00:45:15.719 go up in the plant, and so when they drink 811 00:45:15.800 --> 00:45:18.480 from the sap of the plant, they're getting the product 812 00:45:19.079 --> 00:45:22.480 that way. They're not a surface sprayed product. They're drenched 813 00:45:22.519 --> 00:45:26.079 on the soil product that works good. The only drawback 814 00:45:26.119 --> 00:45:28.760 on systemics is when they're there during the time when 815 00:45:28.840 --> 00:45:32.840 blooms are on the plant. You can hurt bees that way, 816 00:45:33.079 --> 00:45:35.280 and so that's why we tend to avoid those when 817 00:45:35.320 --> 00:45:40.480 we can. In the spring, the bark scale, tiny baby 818 00:45:40.599 --> 00:45:44.519 crawlers come out from the little mother scale have produced 819 00:45:44.920 --> 00:45:47.960 and they crawl out all all over to create new 820 00:45:48.079 --> 00:45:50.679 spots you know, where they're feeding. They honker down and 821 00:45:50.760 --> 00:45:53.639 feed and have that protective covering over them. During that 822 00:45:53.800 --> 00:45:56.000 crawler stage. Are very susceptible, and that's going to be 823 00:45:56.159 --> 00:45:58.920 sometime in your area. That's going to be sometime in 824 00:45:59.039 --> 00:46:02.559 either late March or April that we typically see the crawlers, 825 00:46:02.599 --> 00:46:06.079 depending on how fast the year warms up. You can 826 00:46:06.199 --> 00:46:08.719 use a double sided sticky tape, put it around the 827 00:46:08.800 --> 00:46:12.519 branches and just check it every couple days. Just look 828 00:46:12.559 --> 00:46:14.719 at it and see if you see little tiny reddish 829 00:46:15.000 --> 00:46:18.400 bugs that are in There's that tells you it's time, 830 00:46:18.639 --> 00:46:20.760 and at that point you can treat them with oil 831 00:46:21.039 --> 00:46:25.480 sprays and any kind of insects said really is going 832 00:46:25.559 --> 00:46:27.639 to be effective against them. Then when they're in the 833 00:46:27.719 --> 00:46:30.960 scale stage, it's just hard to control them. We can 834 00:46:31.079 --> 00:46:33.400 use oils, but they're just not as effective as with 835 00:46:33.559 --> 00:46:38.079 other scales. So that's the challenge with those particular insects. 836 00:46:40.119 --> 00:46:43.400 Okay, I tried the double sided tape trick you had 837 00:46:43.400 --> 00:46:45.679 advised me on that last year, and I never could 838 00:46:45.760 --> 00:46:47.840 catch any of them, so I. 839 00:46:47.800 --> 00:46:51.079 Never could cut it. Okay, I don't know. Okay, h Well, 840 00:46:51.119 --> 00:46:53.840 that's interesting. Maybe maybe a little late, I don't know, 841 00:46:54.119 --> 00:46:56.920 but anyway, that's the way we monitor if we're gonna spray. 842 00:46:57.280 --> 00:47:00.280 Otherwise it would be drenching the soil. As the oath 843 00:47:00.400 --> 00:47:03.239 begins on the crpe myrtle, that's when to put the 844 00:47:03.320 --> 00:47:04.960 drench down. You can do it a little bit later, 845 00:47:05.079 --> 00:47:07.679 but that's when to put the drench down. It moves 846 00:47:07.760 --> 00:47:11.280 up in the plant at that time, and then when 847 00:47:11.360 --> 00:47:15.519 the spring scale hunker down season comes, that's that's when 848 00:47:15.599 --> 00:47:18.320 you'll you'll get them by putting the poison in the 849 00:47:18.400 --> 00:47:19.519 plumbing of the plant. 850 00:47:20.039 --> 00:47:24.000 Okay, okay, I appreciate it. And I held off doing 851 00:47:24.119 --> 00:47:27.280 the kind of the drenching in the spring and fall 852 00:47:27.400 --> 00:47:29.320 last year because I didn't want to hurt the bees 853 00:47:29.480 --> 00:47:30.719 or anything else. 854 00:47:31.039 --> 00:47:32.280 Yeah, but since I'm not. 855 00:47:32.320 --> 00:47:35.840 Getting I don't think I have many visits of any 856 00:47:36.000 --> 00:47:37.079 insects or birds. 857 00:47:37.280 --> 00:47:37.480 Yeah. 858 00:47:38.519 --> 00:47:41.840 Yeah, Well, you know, oil sprays are the only other option, 859 00:47:42.159 --> 00:47:45.119 and you got to stay on them. And from what 860 00:47:45.239 --> 00:47:48.239 I've seen in the research, it's you know, for most scale, 861 00:47:48.280 --> 00:47:49.920 we just say spraying with oil in the winter and 862 00:47:50.000 --> 00:47:53.880 you're good. This one's a little different. So anyway, that's 863 00:47:53.920 --> 00:47:56.280 the challenge. Hey JD, good luck with that. I'm all 864 00:47:56.360 --> 00:47:59.360 run to a break, but I appreciate your call very much. Folks. 865 00:47:59.440 --> 00:48:01.960 I'll be right back and Elizabeth and Oak Chorus will 866 00:48:02.000 --> 00:48:08.000 be our first up. All right, here we go. Welcome 867 00:48:08.039 --> 00:48:10.079 back to Garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richtor, and 868 00:48:10.159 --> 00:48:12.960 we're here to help you have success. Listen, there is 869 00:48:13.199 --> 00:48:17.599 nothing that makes a patio more beautiful than gorgeous potted 870 00:48:17.639 --> 00:48:20.559 plants just putting all around the patty. I was talking 871 00:48:20.559 --> 00:48:22.639 to somebody the other day about how to set up 872 00:48:22.800 --> 00:48:25.880 a little drip irrigation system where there's a little sprinkler 873 00:48:25.960 --> 00:48:28.679 thing in each of your plant pots, and so it 874 00:48:28.880 --> 00:48:31.079 is on a timer. It comes on, it just does 875 00:48:31.159 --> 00:48:32.800 all the watering for you. And when you get a 876 00:48:32.840 --> 00:48:36.320 lot of containers, that's a challenge. I'll tell you. One 877 00:48:36.360 --> 00:48:39.840 of the secrets to success with those containers is quality soil. 878 00:48:40.360 --> 00:48:43.280 It browns up before green stuff, even in a container. 879 00:48:43.400 --> 00:48:46.800 It's true. Nothing makes a patty more more enjoyable, and 880 00:48:46.920 --> 00:48:49.559 nothing is going to help you have beautiful plants more 881 00:48:49.920 --> 00:48:52.760 than a quality makes it drains well. It holds moisture, 882 00:48:52.920 --> 00:48:55.440 but it drains excess moisture away. I don't care if 883 00:48:55.440 --> 00:48:57.960 you're growing flowers or if you're growing vegetables. And jungle 884 00:48:58.039 --> 00:49:01.239 land from nitrophoss is an example of that kind of 885 00:49:01.639 --> 00:49:04.119 soil mix, that kind of potting saut that kind of 886 00:49:04.199 --> 00:49:08.079 container mix. It's specifically blended with Canadian blond peat. It's 887 00:49:08.119 --> 00:49:11.719 got four different sources of a kind of an aged, 888 00:49:11.960 --> 00:49:15.519 decomposed bark. It's got micro rise of fungi in it also, 889 00:49:15.639 --> 00:49:17.599 and that you know, works with the plant roots to 890 00:49:17.760 --> 00:49:21.039 ensure that the plants are healthy for long lasting, beautiful, 891 00:49:21.119 --> 00:49:24.320 vibrant color. Now, if you want indoor plants, if you 892 00:49:24.360 --> 00:49:27.280 want something for them, there's a jungle land with water 893 00:49:27.639 --> 00:49:32.320 saving crystals, and it's called jungle land water saving potting soil. 894 00:49:32.639 --> 00:49:34.800 So these low crystals soak up with water and then 895 00:49:34.840 --> 00:49:36.880 when you forget, I know you don't forget, but if 896 00:49:36.920 --> 00:49:39.719 you were to forget to water, you've got a little 897 00:49:39.800 --> 00:49:42.840 extra reserve there of moisture to hold your plants because 898 00:49:42.840 --> 00:49:44.599 they can't yell at you and go, hey, we're dying 899 00:49:44.639 --> 00:49:47.880 in here. But the crystals hold them over until you 900 00:49:47.960 --> 00:49:49.320 get back to water in them. And you're going to 901 00:49:49.360 --> 00:49:53.719 find jungle land like other Microsoft Microsoft, Oh my god, 902 00:49:54.880 --> 00:49:59.559 Nitrofoss products at places like Ingenda Gardens down to Richmond, 903 00:49:59.639 --> 00:50:02.880 rosenber On I forty five hiding and feed up hiding 904 00:50:03.000 --> 00:50:06.360 on Stupor Airline actually north. Uh, you're gonna find it 905 00:50:06.400 --> 00:50:08.719 a Fisher's Harder. Both the one in Pasadena, the one 906 00:50:08.800 --> 00:50:10.760 in the Port, the one in Bellevue, and the one 907 00:50:10.840 --> 00:50:15.800 in Baytown all places to get quality products from Nitrofoss, 908 00:50:16.199 --> 00:50:19.119 not Microlife. You're not gonna get any of that for Microlife. 909 00:50:20.320 --> 00:50:25.960 No excuse me from Microsoft. I can't even talk this morning. 910 00:50:26.440 --> 00:50:31.440 Got good quality products out there, Oh my gosh, oh boy, 911 00:50:32.400 --> 00:50:34.559 All right, well, let's let me quit talking. I'm gonna 912 00:50:34.559 --> 00:50:38.199 put a collar up here, Elizabeth and Oak Forest, can 913 00:50:38.280 --> 00:50:40.880 you help make some sense. I'm having trouble today. 914 00:50:42.519 --> 00:50:46.559 Yip, good morning, and spring is coming. I can see it. 915 00:50:47.880 --> 00:50:50.840 I've seen it, all right. I've seen a red butt 916 00:50:50.880 --> 00:50:54.840 blooming and a couple of you know, purple magdilia's, and. 917 00:50:54.920 --> 00:50:58.440 I've just there you go, there you you know, Robin 918 00:50:58.480 --> 00:51:02.480 Williams says. He says spring. His nature's a way of saying, 919 00:51:02.599 --> 00:51:03.199 let's party. 920 00:51:04.679 --> 00:51:09.760 Yes, true, all right. So here's my conundrum. I have 921 00:51:10.079 --> 00:51:14.119 a piece of dirt between the sidewalk and the street. 922 00:51:14.880 --> 00:51:18.559 It's on a major four lane Houston City road with 923 00:51:18.679 --> 00:51:21.400 a median and a park across the street, so it's 924 00:51:21.480 --> 00:51:24.880 got a lot of high visibility. My mom always has 925 00:51:24.920 --> 00:51:25.719 the prettiest yard. 926 00:51:26.039 --> 00:51:28.599 Right now it looks horrible, and after the. 927 00:51:28.639 --> 00:51:31.000 Flood, the dirt is really poor. 928 00:51:31.159 --> 00:51:31.519 Right there. 929 00:51:31.639 --> 00:51:34.199 I can't even go the grass. It's just weaves will grow. 930 00:51:34.960 --> 00:51:38.039 So here's what I'm thinking. I was thinking about tilling 931 00:51:38.079 --> 00:51:41.719 it up and putting some kind of border around so 932 00:51:41.880 --> 00:51:44.920 the good dirt, good stuff whatever, won't wash out, and 933 00:51:45.079 --> 00:51:53.000 planning at what point crown cover h Okay, yeah, what 934 00:51:53.400 --> 00:51:56.599 what kind of dirt would I do? Would tilling it up, 935 00:51:56.800 --> 00:51:59.239 be good, mixing him sand and what else? And what 936 00:51:59.320 --> 00:52:03.840 would be a good order your mind? And what's creeping time? 937 00:52:04.199 --> 00:52:06.480 So it's loan, but that work here in Sell nine, 938 00:52:07.239 --> 00:52:08.159 what would you recommend? 939 00:52:09.440 --> 00:52:13.000 Okay, well, tilling it's fine, Adding compost. I'd put a 940 00:52:13.039 --> 00:52:15.559 couple of inches of compost on the surface and mix 941 00:52:15.639 --> 00:52:17.519 it in as deeply as you can. You're gonna have 942 00:52:17.559 --> 00:52:20.360 to make a number of passes over it to get 943 00:52:20.440 --> 00:52:24.400 deeper and deeper, to loosen that soil, water down, kind 944 00:52:24.440 --> 00:52:26.760 of settle the soil in and then do your planting. 945 00:52:27.440 --> 00:52:30.960 Time is okay. It doesn't spread very far or very fast. 946 00:52:31.000 --> 00:52:33.400 So take a lot of plants and time has its 947 00:52:34.440 --> 00:52:37.320 Sometimes it looks good. Sometimes you know you'll have areas 948 00:52:37.360 --> 00:52:38.960 that don't, and so you're not going to have that 949 00:52:39.119 --> 00:52:43.400 evenness across there that you might be looking for. There 950 00:52:43.480 --> 00:52:46.599 are other plants that do super well. If you want 951 00:52:46.679 --> 00:52:50.079 something that you almost can ignore and it looks pretty good. 952 00:52:51.119 --> 00:52:58.599 There is a groundcover called a frog fruit. Frog fruit, 953 00:52:59.000 --> 00:53:04.639 Oh yeah, yeah. It has little tiny white flowers on sticks, 954 00:53:05.159 --> 00:53:08.559 but it's spreads, it gets thick, and it it basically 955 00:53:08.719 --> 00:53:11.079 is a weed. It's a native plant that grows in 956 00:53:11.119 --> 00:53:15.800 our area, and I've I've seen it making beautiful groundcovers 957 00:53:15.920 --> 00:53:17.400 and you're not gonna have to water it a lot, 958 00:53:17.480 --> 00:53:20.119 which is nicely so I was. 959 00:53:22.079 --> 00:53:28.039 I didn't want it to look too weedy, you know, weed, okay, 960 00:53:29.440 --> 00:53:31.519 but I want something in the bloom. I do not 961 00:53:31.679 --> 00:53:37.159 want Asian japin. Also there's that groundcover with the little yellow, 962 00:53:37.360 --> 00:53:41.760 cute flowers, but that's we once that spread, that's hard 963 00:53:41.800 --> 00:53:42.239 to get rid of. 964 00:53:42.800 --> 00:53:46.440 Ye. So yeah, Wadelia is a good ground cover, but 965 00:53:46.559 --> 00:53:49.639 it does have aspirations of taking over the world. 966 00:53:50.840 --> 00:53:51.039 Yeah. 967 00:53:52.039 --> 00:53:55.559 So so the compost back to the dirt, just compost, 968 00:53:55.639 --> 00:53:57.679 no sand. It's already drying up. 969 00:53:57.719 --> 00:54:00.840 I guess yeah it. Do you think your soil is 970 00:54:00.920 --> 00:54:03.199 a heavy clay? Did you say out there in that 971 00:54:03.480 --> 00:54:04.199 medium it is? 972 00:54:04.480 --> 00:54:08.039 It is heavy clay? Yeah, and it's hard time and 973 00:54:08.519 --> 00:54:12.480 dry the boat and I about six inches? 974 00:54:12.639 --> 00:54:16.840 Go ahead, How big of an area is this? How wide? 975 00:54:16.880 --> 00:54:17.239 How long? 976 00:54:18.519 --> 00:54:20.880 I would say forty. 977 00:54:22.320 --> 00:54:22.559 Five? 978 00:54:25.199 --> 00:54:28.400 Okay, Well, I was going to suggest some I was 979 00:54:28.440 --> 00:54:30.840 going to suggest some expanded shale, but you're going to 980 00:54:30.880 --> 00:54:32.159 have to put it down at least a couple of 981 00:54:32.199 --> 00:54:35.320 inches deep and mix it in. But that's that may 982 00:54:35.360 --> 00:54:37.960 be a little pricey to do that big of an 983 00:54:38.039 --> 00:54:42.039 area with shale, But shale holds up longer than organic matter. 984 00:54:42.159 --> 00:54:45.440 You know, organic matter twenty years is going to decompose away. 985 00:54:46.119 --> 00:54:49.119 The shale is a hot fired. Think of it as 986 00:54:49.159 --> 00:54:53.159 little miniature lava rocks that have that porous surface in them, 987 00:54:53.719 --> 00:54:56.079 and it helps hold the clay open. But only if 988 00:54:56.119 --> 00:54:58.039 you use enough of it. You know, just putting a 989 00:54:58.119 --> 00:55:01.119 little bit of shale in doesn't accomplish much. Putting two 990 00:55:01.199 --> 00:55:04.239 or three inches in makes a lot of difference on it. 991 00:55:05.199 --> 00:55:07.559 But that would get that would get costly, so you 992 00:55:07.679 --> 00:55:08.760 may want to price that out. 993 00:55:10.800 --> 00:55:16.280 So is so compost, compost those sands and just killing 994 00:55:16.400 --> 00:55:18.599 back and forth and get it in a really deep Okay, 995 00:55:18.719 --> 00:55:19.159 I'll do it. 996 00:55:19.280 --> 00:55:20.119 And I. 997 00:55:22.519 --> 00:55:25.320 Thought about, well anyway, I'll let you know what happens. 998 00:55:26.480 --> 00:55:29.880 All right, good luck, picture all right. I hope you 999 00:55:30.000 --> 00:55:32.800 do it. I hope you do all right, Elizabeth, Thank 1000 00:55:32.840 --> 00:55:34.079 you very much. I appreciate that. 1001 00:55:34.760 --> 00:55:35.280 Bye bye. 1002 00:55:37.079 --> 00:55:42.760 All right. Well, uh yeah, that those islands, those medians, 1003 00:55:43.320 --> 00:55:45.840 the strip between the sidewalk and the curbs another one. 1004 00:55:46.199 --> 00:55:48.519 Those are a challenge to water and can be a 1005 00:55:48.599 --> 00:55:52.719 challenge to plant. Uh Intenna forest is one of those 1006 00:55:52.920 --> 00:55:55.920 places that is just a haven for all kinds of plants, 1007 00:55:56.039 --> 00:55:59.360 you know, vegetables and herb transplants. That place is crawling 1008 00:55:59.440 --> 00:56:01.800 with them right now. It looks so good. They have 1009 00:56:01.920 --> 00:56:05.880 a good array of different kinds of apples, peaches, plums 1010 00:56:06.039 --> 00:56:10.000 that are low chill, that are able to survive and 1011 00:56:10.079 --> 00:56:13.119 produce well in an area that doesn't get a whole 1012 00:56:13.159 --> 00:56:16.480 lot of chilling like they do further up north. So 1013 00:56:16.639 --> 00:56:18.639 certain varieties, but they know which ones to bring in. 1014 00:56:18.760 --> 00:56:20.400 So when they say you have variety down, there's a 1015 00:56:20.480 --> 00:56:23.159 variet it's going to grow well in your area. And 1016 00:56:23.559 --> 00:56:26.760 when you're there, you can also pick up your citrus. 1017 00:56:26.880 --> 00:56:31.559 They've got some really nice satsumas. Satsumas are about as 1018 00:56:31.639 --> 00:56:34.840 cold hearty as citrus can get. You know, there are 1019 00:56:35.039 --> 00:56:37.159 there's actually kum quats that are a little heartier. But 1020 00:56:37.599 --> 00:56:40.800 if you want a mandarin type orange and you want 1021 00:56:40.880 --> 00:56:42.840 something hardy, you're not going to do better than a 1022 00:56:42.920 --> 00:56:46.119 good satsuma. They've got the soils, they've got the tools, 1023 00:56:46.199 --> 00:56:48.960 they've got the fertilizers and everything else you need to 1024 00:56:49.039 --> 00:56:52.079 have success. The way I would say is to creature, 1025 00:56:52.519 --> 00:56:57.119 create your own garden. Of eaton, get it eat I 1026 00:56:57.360 --> 00:56:59.880 n all right, I know you're rolling in the all 1027 00:57:00.079 --> 00:57:03.719 out there, all right, but anyway, that's true. Vegetables, herbs, 1028 00:57:03.840 --> 00:57:06.480 fruit trees, and while you're out there, check out the flowers, 1029 00:57:06.599 --> 00:57:10.119 check out the shrubs. Grab you one of those beautiful 1030 00:57:10.199 --> 00:57:12.840 flowering shrubs that they carry. They have crepe myrtle types 1031 00:57:12.880 --> 00:57:16.320 out there. They also have my favorite spring flowering tree, 1032 00:57:16.400 --> 00:57:20.400 which is Chinese fringe tree. Those are just beautiful and 1033 00:57:20.440 --> 00:57:22.159 they don't get too big, so they fit a lot 1034 00:57:22.239 --> 00:57:26.199 of local lots. You're gonna find them out on FM 1035 00:57:26.320 --> 00:57:29.639 twenty seven fifty nine if you're heading from Richmond towards 1036 00:57:29.679 --> 00:57:31.840 sugar Land. They're off to the right on twenty seven 1037 00:57:31.840 --> 00:57:36.199 to fifty nine. That's Enchanted Forest. And I would recommend 1038 00:57:36.360 --> 00:57:39.679 also when you're wanting to find out more about them, 1039 00:57:40.039 --> 00:57:42.239 that you just go out to the web or go 1040 00:57:42.400 --> 00:57:45.159 onto the website and check them out there. It is 1041 00:57:45.320 --> 00:57:50.920 easy to find. Here's the web address Enchanted Forest, Richmond 1042 00:57:51.559 --> 00:57:56.480 TX dot com. Enchanted Forest, Richmond, TX dot com. Check 1043 00:57:56.519 --> 00:58:00.320 out their upcoming events this spring out there, and bottom 1044 00:58:00.400 --> 00:58:02.840 line is just go get yourself out there and enjoy it. 1045 00:58:03.320 --> 00:58:06.559 Tomorrow afternoon's going to be nice, perfect day. Go ahead 1046 00:58:06.559 --> 00:58:09.480 and plant it tomorrow afternoon. Head out there, enchanted forest 1047 00:58:09.559 --> 00:58:15.440 and Richmond. I get questions all the time about lawn 1048 00:58:16.360 --> 00:58:19.719 nutrients and things, and one of the things people ask 1049 00:58:19.840 --> 00:58:23.519 me about is trace minerals. What does that mean? Tracem 1050 00:58:23.800 --> 00:58:26.039 or micro nutrients? What's the difference? There is no difference. 1051 00:58:26.119 --> 00:58:29.599 Trace minerals or micronutrients are the same thing. Azimite is 1052 00:58:29.639 --> 00:58:32.000 the product that we talk about on Gardenline. I talk 1053 00:58:32.039 --> 00:58:34.960 about in girdline that has the trace minerals in it. 1054 00:58:35.159 --> 00:58:40.239 It is mined out of the ground as a supplement 1055 00:58:40.559 --> 00:58:43.519 that is ground up and made into a form that 1056 00:58:43.599 --> 00:58:45.519 you can spread on your lawn, just like you spread 1057 00:58:45.559 --> 00:58:49.559 fertilizers other fertilizers on the lawn. This has the tiny 1058 00:58:49.719 --> 00:58:52.960 trace nutrients that are essential for a plant to grow, 1059 00:58:53.400 --> 00:58:56.760 but are needed in small amounts. That's why forty four 1060 00:58:56.840 --> 00:58:59.239 pound bag of azimite's going to cover six to twelve 1061 00:58:59.280 --> 00:59:01.559 thousand square to your lawn. Now you can go to 1062 00:59:01.599 --> 00:59:03.719 ASMIT Texas and find out more about it. But I'll 1063 00:59:03.760 --> 00:59:06.280 tell you this pretty much the places you hear me 1064 00:59:06.360 --> 00:59:08.400 talk about on garden Line, from feed stores to these 1065 00:59:08.480 --> 00:59:11.320 hardware stores to garden centers and so on are going 1066 00:59:11.400 --> 00:59:15.159 to have as amite. Now's a good time to put 1067 00:59:15.199 --> 00:59:17.400 it out. In fact, anytime is a good time to 1068 00:59:17.480 --> 00:59:21.760 put out asamite because it does work very, very very well, 1069 00:59:22.159 --> 00:59:25.000 and you don't have to tie it to a growing 1070 00:59:25.119 --> 00:59:28.719 season like we do with our nitrogen based fertilizers. Okay, 1071 00:59:29.519 --> 00:59:32.119 the ones with the three numbers on the bag, those 1072 00:59:32.400 --> 00:59:35.000 follow my schedule. Follow my schedule. It tells you when 1073 00:59:35.039 --> 00:59:39.440 to put them on. And now's the early spring green 1074 00:59:39.559 --> 00:59:43.480 up optional application. Once we get into April mode the 1075 00:59:43.519 --> 00:59:45.559 lawns a couple of times, that's when we're going to 1076 00:59:45.599 --> 00:59:49.480 be putting down starting our summer series of applications on 1077 00:59:49.639 --> 00:59:52.440 the lawn. As amite. Anytime of the year. You can 1078 00:59:52.519 --> 00:59:54.440 do it now, you know, you can do it when 1079 00:59:54.440 --> 00:59:58.519 you fertilize. Just don't put the same product two products 1080 00:59:58.559 --> 01:00:00.960 in the same hopper, you know, fertile and then as 1081 01:00:01.039 --> 01:00:03.360 might think of it that way because a particle size 1082 01:00:03.440 --> 01:00:05.440 is different, and that way you get it out nice 1083 01:00:05.480 --> 01:00:09.400 and evenly. Something that is important to do now now. 1084 01:00:09.559 --> 01:00:14.280 Now asap is barricade by nitrofoss. Barricade is a pre 1085 01:00:14.599 --> 01:00:17.719 emergent herbicide. You gotta get it down before the warm 1086 01:00:17.840 --> 01:00:21.440 season weeds start germinating, and they are going to be germinating. 1087 01:00:21.800 --> 01:00:23.440 We get through this coal spell and they're gonna be 1088 01:00:23.440 --> 01:00:26.360 popping up. Get some down. I'd get it down this weekend. 1089 01:00:26.559 --> 01:00:30.280 Barricade pre Emergent, a ten pound bag covers five thousand 1090 01:00:30.400 --> 01:00:33.000 square feet. You water it in with about a half 1091 01:00:33.039 --> 01:00:35.320 inch of water and then you walk away and it 1092 01:00:35.400 --> 01:00:37.599 takes you. You'll never see the weeds because it doesn't 1093 01:00:37.639 --> 01:00:40.000 let them show up. You're gonna find it at Plantation 1094 01:00:40.159 --> 01:00:43.559 Ace out there in Richmond Rosenberg at Langham Creek Ace 1095 01:00:43.880 --> 01:00:47.679 on FM five twenty nine. You're gonna find it at 1096 01:00:47.800 --> 01:00:50.199 RCW Nurser. You're going to find it at Lake Hardware, 1097 01:00:50.239 --> 01:00:54.519 both the one in Angkleton and the one include All right, 1098 01:00:54.880 --> 01:00:56.719 time for me to take a little bit of break 1099 01:00:56.760 --> 01:01:00.519 here for some news and weather. And I don't know 1100 01:01:00.599 --> 01:01:02.159 what all they're going to tell us here in just 1101 01:01:02.239 --> 01:01:04.199 a minute, but I'll be back if you'd like to 1102 01:01:04.239 --> 01:01:06.599 give me a callby first up seven one three two 1103 01:01:06.639 --> 01:01:13.239 one two kt RH. All right, folks, welcome back to 1104 01:01:13.400 --> 01:01:16.800 garden Line. Good to have you with us today. Really 1105 01:01:16.920 --> 01:01:19.559 looking forward to visiting with you. About your gardening questions. 1106 01:01:19.599 --> 01:01:21.400 We're going to go straight out to Houston here and 1107 01:01:21.639 --> 01:01:26.000 talk to Mike. Good morning Mike, and welcome to garden Line. 1108 01:01:28.920 --> 01:01:30.199 Hey are you talking to me? 1109 01:01:30.559 --> 01:01:33.719 I'm Frank, Yes, sir, yes, sir. Welcome to guard Line. 1110 01:01:33.760 --> 01:01:34.920 How can we help? Oh? 1111 01:01:35.480 --> 01:01:36.079 Good to be here. 1112 01:01:36.199 --> 01:01:36.400 Look. 1113 01:01:36.480 --> 01:01:39.599 I bought a couple of papaya trees last April or 1114 01:01:39.760 --> 01:01:42.440 May or May, about a foot and a half call 1115 01:01:42.599 --> 01:01:47.920 and put them in containers of ceramic containers, and you know, 1116 01:01:48.079 --> 01:01:51.960 not knowing much about papia trees, the pots were too small. 1117 01:01:52.400 --> 01:01:55.039 They're definitely root bound. They're now six feet tall with 1118 01:01:55.159 --> 01:01:58.159 abundance of fruit on them. They're in my garage, you 1119 01:01:58.199 --> 01:02:01.880 can imagine, and this cold weather. So my question is 1120 01:02:03.239 --> 01:02:05.960 do I have to break the pots to transplant these 1121 01:02:06.000 --> 01:02:08.440 in a bigger pot? On one is it is a 1122 01:02:08.519 --> 01:02:11.760 tear drop pot where the face is bigger than the neck. 1123 01:02:12.639 --> 01:02:17.559 So okay, what about killing the tree if I try 1124 01:02:17.639 --> 01:02:20.159 to dig it out there as a post? Yeah, so 1125 01:02:20.480 --> 01:02:22.519 your your suggestion is helput. 1126 01:02:23.480 --> 01:02:25.920 Yeah, you kind of up a creek there. I have 1127 01:02:26.079 --> 01:02:29.679 had pots like that, and when I pulled a plan out, 1128 01:02:29.880 --> 01:02:31.559 I had to use like a butcher NiFe and go 1129 01:02:31.679 --> 01:02:35.880 straight down and cut a vertical wall cylinder out of 1130 01:02:35.920 --> 01:02:37.400 it so I could slide it up out of there. 1131 01:02:37.960 --> 01:02:38.079 Uh. 1132 01:02:38.480 --> 01:02:40.519 You know, if the pot's not valuable, yeah, break it. 1133 01:02:40.639 --> 01:02:42.679 But most of those kind of pots are pretty valuable. 1134 01:02:43.199 --> 01:02:44.039 Uh yeah. 1135 01:02:44.559 --> 01:02:46.960 If you leave it in there, that tree is just 1136 01:02:47.079 --> 01:02:51.000 going to struggle. Now, if you can really frequently water 1137 01:02:51.159 --> 01:02:53.960 and fertilize it to keep it from going into any 1138 01:02:54.039 --> 01:02:57.679 drought stress, that would you probably could get by for 1139 01:02:57.719 --> 01:03:02.119 a little while. But I don't know. I've never tried 1140 01:03:02.199 --> 01:03:05.400 to cut u papaia out of a pot like that. 1141 01:03:06.039 --> 01:03:07.840 That's going to take a lot of roots out of it. 1142 01:03:08.679 --> 01:03:11.000 It probably is going to be okay. I'm sure it'll 1143 01:03:11.000 --> 01:03:11.800 wilt for a while. 1144 01:03:12.400 --> 01:03:12.519 Uh. 1145 01:03:12.639 --> 01:03:15.239 You definitely want to keep it out of too much 1146 01:03:15.400 --> 01:03:17.639 son until it get some fresh new roots on it. 1147 01:03:17.800 --> 01:03:19.960 But depending on the size you said, six foot tree, 1148 01:03:20.039 --> 01:03:22.760 how far is it across the pot from left, you know, 1149 01:03:22.880 --> 01:03:25.880 left to right across the pot. 1150 01:03:25.960 --> 01:03:28.360 I'm I'm thinking that there's two of them. Obviously one 1151 01:03:28.360 --> 01:03:31.159 of them is in a better situation, But the tear 1152 01:03:31.280 --> 01:03:36.719 drop pot is probably only about eighteen inches across. Uh, 1153 01:03:38.119 --> 01:03:40.079 and it's I can tell buzz of the you're just 1154 01:03:40.159 --> 01:03:41.039 totally bound. 1155 01:03:42.519 --> 01:03:44.519 You know, if it were me, I probably wouldn't want 1156 01:03:44.519 --> 01:03:47.079 to break a good pot if I really like the pot, 1157 01:03:47.280 --> 01:03:50.039 so I might try cutting it out, But that's going 1158 01:03:50.119 --> 01:03:52.960 to be hard to do because you're you're trying to like, uh, 1159 01:03:53.039 --> 01:03:55.239 you know, saw up and down with a knife all 1160 01:03:55.280 --> 01:03:58.000 the way around in a circle. But if you could 1161 01:03:58.039 --> 01:04:01.159 get it out of there somehow, uh, it would give 1162 01:04:01.159 --> 01:04:03.679 it a better longer term option, and then you can 1163 01:04:03.760 --> 01:04:05.960 move it too a bigger pot, and and then that 1164 01:04:06.119 --> 01:04:07.920 way always get you know, get a pot that has 1165 01:04:07.960 --> 01:04:10.239 straight sides or more of a V shape than a 1166 01:04:10.320 --> 01:04:13.960 capital A shaped as you have, and that way you 1167 01:04:14.000 --> 01:04:17.079 can always bump it out if you want. All right, 1168 01:04:17.639 --> 01:04:18.079 good luck. 1169 01:04:18.119 --> 01:04:20.760 These are beautiful trees. These are beautiful trees. I just 1170 01:04:20.920 --> 01:04:26.920 really have enjoyed growing there. Yes, so anyway, thank you, yes, yeah. 1171 01:04:27.159 --> 01:04:29.760 Yeah, that is a great fun fruit to grow. Appreciate 1172 01:04:29.880 --> 01:04:32.280 that call. Thank you a lot. Uh. You know up 1173 01:04:32.320 --> 01:04:35.719 in Willis, Texas, there's a place called Growers Outlet. Growers 1174 01:04:35.760 --> 01:04:38.440 Outlet is a garden center and they serve that whole area, 1175 01:04:38.519 --> 01:04:41.639 you know, Willis and Conro if you're looking at you know, 1176 01:04:41.719 --> 01:04:44.079 down even down to the woodlands or out toward towards 1177 01:04:44.119 --> 01:04:46.480 some of the lake neighborhoods like bent Water and April 1178 01:04:46.559 --> 01:04:51.800 Sound Point Aquarius. UH Growers Outlet and Willis carries fertilizers 1179 01:04:51.840 --> 01:04:55.360 that you hear me talk about like microlife, like nitrofoss 1180 01:04:55.599 --> 01:04:59.360 like medina for example. UH and they have an excellent 1181 01:04:59.440 --> 01:05:02.159 stock of all kinds of plants from veggies and bedding 1182 01:05:02.239 --> 01:05:06.239 plants to perennials and ferns, nice shrubbery, lots of shrubbery, 1183 01:05:06.360 --> 01:05:10.000 lots of trees as well. They even have big baskets, 1184 01:05:10.679 --> 01:05:15.000 giant fern baskets that are just outstanding. Now. You can 1185 01:05:15.039 --> 01:05:18.559 go to their website Growers Outlet in Willis. Don't forget 1186 01:05:18.599 --> 01:05:22.960 the word in Growers Outlet in Willis dot com. They're 1187 01:05:23.000 --> 01:05:25.400 on Highway seventy one in Willis, just a few months 1188 01:05:25.400 --> 01:05:28.639 away from Interstate forty five, and you can go to 1189 01:05:28.679 --> 01:05:30.360 the website and you can see plants and you can 1190 01:05:30.440 --> 01:05:33.519 see what they have in stock. They update every Wednesday evening. 1191 01:05:33.800 --> 01:05:37.079 They update their veggie list online, so there's no guessing. 1192 01:05:37.800 --> 01:05:40.320 Go check them out, but do go buy there. They 1193 01:05:40.400 --> 01:05:43.599 have a great gift shop, locally sourced honey and pickled 1194 01:05:43.599 --> 01:05:46.679 food and jellies and jams and bath and beauty products. 1195 01:05:46.800 --> 01:05:49.400 It's kind of a cool place when you walk around 1196 01:05:49.440 --> 01:05:51.639 in there. Check out that greenhouse where they do grow 1197 01:05:51.800 --> 01:05:53.800 a lot of their own stuff in there, and it 1198 01:05:53.920 --> 01:05:56.280 is really nice. This is a special place Growers Outlet 1199 01:05:56.719 --> 01:05:58.760 in Willis for all of you up in that area. 1200 01:05:59.159 --> 01:06:04.559 This is really convenient Growers Outlet Willis dot Com. We're 1201 01:06:04.599 --> 01:06:07.800 going to go to Port Arthur now and talk to Allen. Hey, Allen, 1202 01:06:08.199 --> 01:06:09.199 welcome to garden Line. 1203 01:06:10.280 --> 01:06:10.719 Good morning. 1204 01:06:11.599 --> 01:06:14.000 My question is I'm trying to decide whether I want 1205 01:06:14.000 --> 01:06:16.159 to go in and fermize real quickly for the rains 1206 01:06:16.199 --> 01:06:19.199 come or should Okay, that was kind of cold outside, 1207 01:06:19.480 --> 01:06:21.440 or it would be more beneficial that wait to next 1208 01:06:21.480 --> 01:06:23.960 week with it warms up and water in myself. 1209 01:06:26.119 --> 01:06:26.320 You know. 1210 01:06:27.880 --> 01:06:29.760 What I see in the in the weather, and you 1211 01:06:29.840 --> 01:06:32.119 better check it. Don't trust me on the weather, but 1212 01:06:32.280 --> 01:06:34.320 what I'm seeing is just kind of a little misty, 1213 01:06:34.559 --> 01:06:36.440 not a whole lot of rain, and that would be 1214 01:06:36.559 --> 01:06:40.239 great for something where you fertilized to move it down 1215 01:06:40.320 --> 01:06:42.719 in the soil if we get a gully washer. The 1216 01:06:42.920 --> 01:06:47.639 fertilizers you're using now are the fast release like nitrofoss Imperial, 1217 01:06:48.159 --> 01:06:50.920 the red bag uh. And if you get a you know, 1218 01:06:51.000 --> 01:06:52.840 two inches of rain, you're going to wash a lot 1219 01:06:52.880 --> 01:06:55.039 of that away. And so you'd rather not do that, 1220 01:06:55.360 --> 01:06:58.320 And I would wait and let my irrigation, which I'm 1221 01:06:58.360 --> 01:07:01.119 in control of, do it. But from what I'm seeing 1222 01:07:01.159 --> 01:07:03.239 in the weather, looks like maybe you could go ahead 1223 01:07:03.239 --> 01:07:05.239 and get it down and let that dissolve it into 1224 01:07:05.280 --> 01:07:07.360 the soil because it's going to start warming up a 1225 01:07:07.400 --> 01:07:09.519 little next week and the grass will begin taking it 1226 01:07:09.639 --> 01:07:13.920 up and getting greener as a result. Okay, very good. 1227 01:07:13.960 --> 01:07:15.719 Then I'm going to get out there right now. 1228 01:07:17.119 --> 01:07:17.480 All right. 1229 01:07:17.760 --> 01:07:23.440 That's it. Take care that fun, you bet Allen, that 1230 01:07:23.719 --> 01:07:28.199 is the case for sure. Listen, fix my slab foundation repair. 1231 01:07:28.360 --> 01:07:29.960 You hear me talk about him all the time. You 1232 01:07:30.039 --> 01:07:32.199 hear me talk about Tie Strickland all time. Ties in 1233 01:07:32.280 --> 01:07:36.519 native Ustonian, fifth generation Texan. He lives here in Houston. 1234 01:07:36.639 --> 01:07:40.360 He has lived here in Houston. He knows exactly our 1235 01:07:40.519 --> 01:07:42.639 soils and how to handle them in what they do. 1236 01:07:43.400 --> 01:07:46.440 And here's the deal. Our soils that are clay, especially, 1237 01:07:46.639 --> 01:07:49.239 they shrink and they swell, they get wet, they get bigger, 1238 01:07:49.360 --> 01:07:51.719 they get dry, they shrink up, and that's why you 1239 01:07:51.760 --> 01:07:53.320 see cracks in the ground, by the way in a 1240 01:07:53.400 --> 01:07:56.320 clay soil, because it shrinks up. Well, if it's a 1241 01:07:56.400 --> 01:07:59.400 sidewalk or driveway, it creates a mass. If it's a 1242 01:07:59.480 --> 01:08:02.199 foundation of your home, it can crack the whole foundation. 1243 01:08:02.840 --> 01:08:04.960 And you notice it because you walk around the house 1244 01:08:04.960 --> 01:08:07.239 and you see bricks that have cracks in them. Especially 1245 01:08:07.280 --> 01:08:09.760 look underneath the windows. That's one of the main places 1246 01:08:09.800 --> 01:08:12.320 you see this. Like the corners of the windows going 1247 01:08:12.400 --> 01:08:14.960 down toward the foundation, you see cracks there. Not the 1248 01:08:15.039 --> 01:08:17.920 only place, but that's one of the places. Go inside 1249 01:08:18.039 --> 01:08:20.840 you see sheet rock cracks, or maybe a door that 1250 01:08:21.039 --> 01:08:24.880 wasn't sticking before starts to stick after some rain and 1251 01:08:25.000 --> 01:08:27.479 the ground swells up, or after a dry spell and 1252 01:08:27.560 --> 01:08:29.720 the ground shrinks up. That door is sticking and it 1253 01:08:29.840 --> 01:08:32.720 used to not all signs you may have some movement. 1254 01:08:32.920 --> 01:08:35.800 You need to have it looked at. Tye will do it. Listen. 1255 01:08:36.359 --> 01:08:40.119 I recommend him without question, because he does it right. 1256 01:08:40.720 --> 01:08:42.840 He shows up when he says he's going to show up. 1257 01:08:43.279 --> 01:08:46.119 He gives you a fair price, and he fixes it right. 1258 01:08:46.239 --> 01:08:48.680 And if it doesn't need to be done, he'll tell you. 1259 01:08:48.800 --> 01:08:50.800 He goes, no, this is movement, but this isn't too 1260 01:08:50.920 --> 01:08:53.439 much movement. You're okay, let's just keep an eye on it. 1261 01:08:54.399 --> 01:08:56.760 He'll shoot straight with you on that. Tell him you're 1262 01:08:56.760 --> 01:08:59.560 a guarden Line listener. Get a free estimate fix my 1263 01:09:00.239 --> 01:09:04.439 dot com fixmislab dot com two eight one two fi 1264 01:09:04.640 --> 01:09:08.760 five forty nine forty nine two eight one two five 1265 01:09:08.920 --> 01:09:16.640 five forty nine forty nine. You are listening to garden 1266 01:09:16.720 --> 01:09:19.880 Line and I am your host, Skiprechtor, who at this 1267 01:09:20.079 --> 01:09:23.319 moment are slightly distracted by something going on in the room. 1268 01:09:23.680 --> 01:09:26.920 Seven one three two one two k t r h 1269 01:09:27.399 --> 01:09:30.000 seven one three two one two k t r h uh. 1270 01:09:30.279 --> 01:09:34.520 Microlife Fertilizer has It's been around for over thirty five 1271 01:09:34.640 --> 01:09:38.800 years and it is a favorite of landscape professionals and gardeners. 1272 01:09:39.239 --> 01:09:41.920 It is the number one selling organic fertilizer here in 1273 01:09:42.000 --> 01:09:44.920 the Houston area the Greater Houston area actually sold in 1274 01:09:44.960 --> 01:09:49.159 a wide wide range of areas. Microlife works. It is 1275 01:09:49.239 --> 01:09:53.159 a product that is a quality made product that releases 1276 01:09:53.399 --> 01:09:57.239 through microbial activity in the soil. Most Microlife products are 1277 01:09:57.359 --> 01:10:01.079 chock full of their own microbes as well, but that 1278 01:10:01.319 --> 01:10:04.880 activity you get those products moist and the microbes go 1279 01:10:05.000 --> 01:10:07.760 to work and they release the nutrients at a gradual 1280 01:10:07.880 --> 01:10:11.319 pace for your plants the way nature does. That's how 1281 01:10:11.439 --> 01:10:11.920 nature does. 1282 01:10:12.000 --> 01:10:12.159 You know. 1283 01:10:12.760 --> 01:10:17.039 Nature takes organic matter, it decomposes it, and it enlists 1284 01:10:17.159 --> 01:10:21.680 the microbes to release the nutrients. That's it. So whether 1285 01:10:21.800 --> 01:10:26.600 it's their Biomatrix, which is a liquid with an orange label, 1286 01:10:26.680 --> 01:10:29.359 it's a seven to one three fertilizer. By the way, 1287 01:10:29.439 --> 01:10:32.600 that that higher nitrogen number means it's great for your 1288 01:10:32.760 --> 01:10:36.479 leafy houseplants, leafy grains outside. I mean, it's just good 1289 01:10:36.640 --> 01:10:40.760 fertilizer period. Or if it's a dry granular fertilizer, it's 1290 01:10:40.880 --> 01:10:43.239 going to do the same kinds of things and you're 1291 01:10:43.279 --> 01:10:46.319 going to have success with it. With Microlife products now, 1292 01:10:46.399 --> 01:10:49.199 Microlifefertilizer dot Com is a website. You can go there 1293 01:10:49.439 --> 01:10:50.760 find out where to get it. But I can tell 1294 01:10:50.760 --> 01:10:53.279 you this, it's about as widely available as any fertilizer 1295 01:10:53.279 --> 01:10:55.680 you're gonna find here in the greater use scenario. I've 1296 01:10:55.680 --> 01:10:58.319 been using it myself for over eight years now, and 1297 01:10:58.760 --> 01:11:01.760 I find I've tried a lot of different ones. I'm 1298 01:11:01.840 --> 01:11:05.600 working my way through their long list, extensive list of 1299 01:11:05.760 --> 01:11:08.640 quality products, and every time I try one, I find 1300 01:11:08.680 --> 01:11:10.800 that it does very, very well. Right now would be 1301 01:11:10.800 --> 01:11:13.039 a good time to put out their humates. Plus, also, 1302 01:11:13.600 --> 01:11:16.880 that's a purple bag and that has think of it 1303 01:11:16.960 --> 01:11:19.600 this way, concentrated compost in a bag. That's what he 1304 01:11:19.680 --> 01:11:22.439 makes amounts to you put that out. I would do 1305 01:11:22.479 --> 01:11:24.479 it on an annual basis. Get it out there, get 1306 01:11:24.520 --> 01:11:25.720 it and you put it on more than once a 1307 01:11:25.800 --> 01:11:28.520 year if you want. But as it works its way 1308 01:11:28.560 --> 01:11:30.760 into the soil, it's going to get better and better 1309 01:11:31.039 --> 01:11:33.399 and better. Time for me to take a quick break 1310 01:11:33.439 --> 01:11:35.319 when I come back. Kyle and Austin, you're gonna be 1311 01:11:35.359 --> 01:11:44.479 our first up. He remembers that. All right, folks, welcome 1312 01:11:44.560 --> 01:11:46.720 back to guarden Line. So glad you're with us today. 1313 01:11:47.600 --> 01:11:49.199 We've got a lot of things to talk about and 1314 01:11:49.279 --> 01:11:50.560 we're going to go right to the phone. Chare in 1315 01:11:50.680 --> 01:11:53.239 just a second. I did want to mention to you 1316 01:11:53.640 --> 01:11:56.319 that if you don't have a tree hugger sprinkler, you 1317 01:11:56.439 --> 01:11:59.520 need to get one. Put in the garage, have it 1318 01:11:59.640 --> 01:12:03.680 on hand because you're gonna need it. Treehagger sprinklers are cool. 1319 01:12:04.119 --> 01:12:06.319 They have a little hinge and think of it as 1320 01:12:06.359 --> 01:12:10.319 a circle that wraps around the tree trunk because it 1321 01:12:10.399 --> 01:12:12.840 has a little hinge on it and it sprinkles as 1322 01:12:12.880 --> 01:12:14.840 big of an area as you want. If you turn 1323 01:12:14.920 --> 01:12:16.920 it on a little bit, it would be good for 1324 01:12:17.039 --> 01:12:19.520 putting out I say tree, It would be good for 1325 01:12:19.600 --> 01:12:21.239 putting on a rose bush. Maybe you plant it a 1326 01:12:21.359 --> 01:12:23.520 rose bush this spring and you want to give it 1327 01:12:23.560 --> 01:12:25.119 a little bit of water right there where the root 1328 01:12:25.159 --> 01:12:27.000 ball is around the base. You just turn it on 1329 01:12:27.039 --> 01:12:29.720 a little bit. That treeharker comes in a seven inch 1330 01:12:29.800 --> 01:12:33.479 size diameter, an eleven inch and a fifteen inch size. 1331 01:12:33.960 --> 01:12:35.600 And if you really crank it up. I mean, you 1332 01:12:35.640 --> 01:12:37.439 may have a tree that's fifteen years old and we 1333 01:12:37.560 --> 01:12:39.760 get into a summer drought one hundred degrees for one 1334 01:12:39.800 --> 01:12:42.520 hundred days with no rain. That kind of thing. You 1335 01:12:42.640 --> 01:12:45.479 crank that thing up and rescue your tree. And not 1336 01:12:45.640 --> 01:12:47.800 only do you keep a plant from dying, but you 1337 01:12:48.039 --> 01:12:50.840 help it to thrive so it gets bigger faster. In 1338 01:12:50.880 --> 01:12:53.560 the case of a rose, you get nice, healthy rose bush, 1339 01:12:53.680 --> 01:12:55.720 lots of blooms. In the case of a tree, you 1340 01:12:55.760 --> 01:12:57.760 can hang a hammock in it sooner. You know what 1341 01:12:57.800 --> 01:13:01.520 I'm saying. That's what I mean Tree huggersprinklers dot com. 1342 01:13:01.680 --> 01:13:03.880 That's where you find a retailer near you or I 1343 01:13:03.920 --> 01:13:05.479 can just save you some time. You're going to find 1344 01:13:05.520 --> 01:13:07.119 him at the arbor Gate. You're gonna find him at 1345 01:13:07.159 --> 01:13:10.239 Nelson Water Gardens at RCW and Warren's Garden Center and 1346 01:13:10.279 --> 01:13:13.359 Kingwood Garden Center out there in Kingwood, down in Richmond, 1347 01:13:13.439 --> 01:13:15.920 Rosenberg and Chany Gardens and Channey Forests, D and D 1348 01:13:16.000 --> 01:13:19.359 Feed and Supply in Tomball Spring Creek feed Center, League 1349 01:13:19.399 --> 01:13:22.960 City feed down in League City, Southwest Fertilizer, and lots 1350 01:13:23.000 --> 01:13:25.640 of Ace hardware stores like Single Ranch and Katie Ace 1351 01:13:25.720 --> 01:13:28.199 and K and m Ace Hardware out in a Tascasita 1352 01:13:29.079 --> 01:13:32.000 and fullsher Ace Hardware as well. All some of the 1353 01:13:32.039 --> 01:13:35.239 many places where you can find tree hugger sprinklers. You 1354 01:13:35.319 --> 01:13:37.319 need one, hang it in the garage. You're gonna want 1355 01:13:37.359 --> 01:13:41.159 to pull it out for shrubs for trees, especially as 1356 01:13:41.199 --> 01:13:43.720 we start getting into hotter weather and you're wanting to 1357 01:13:43.760 --> 01:13:46.119 make sure that the water gets put in the right spot. 1358 01:13:48.000 --> 01:13:51.239 We're gonna go now to Austin and talk to Kyle. Hello, Kyle, 1359 01:13:51.319 --> 01:13:52.199 welcome to Garden Line. 1360 01:13:53.479 --> 01:13:53.880 Hy there. 1361 01:13:54.000 --> 01:13:55.319 Good talking to you this morning. 1362 01:13:55.399 --> 01:13:55.720 How are you? 1363 01:13:57.159 --> 01:13:59.199 I'm well, sir, Thank you? How can we help? 1364 01:13:59.640 --> 01:14:02.319 Yes, yes, I think a few months ago. You thought 1365 01:14:02.359 --> 01:14:04.880 I said I was from Boston. So this is my 1366 01:14:05.319 --> 01:14:07.479 second time to call in. Not sure if you remember 1367 01:14:07.560 --> 01:14:08.239 that conversation. 1368 01:14:09.039 --> 01:14:12.199 We I do, and that I can tell from your axent. 1369 01:14:12.359 --> 01:14:14.560 I can tell from your accent you're not from Boston, 1370 01:14:14.720 --> 01:14:16.640 so sorry for that. 1371 01:14:17.199 --> 01:14:21.279 I'm actually born in Austin, lived in Houston a long 1372 01:14:21.359 --> 01:14:25.119 time and became an AM seven forty junkie. And uh, 1373 01:14:25.439 --> 01:14:28.520 just it's back being back ten years, I still catch 1374 01:14:28.560 --> 01:14:33.399 you on iHeart. I have reclaimed we claimed a lot 1375 01:14:33.479 --> 01:14:37.199 of overgrown property here that for the previous about thirty 1376 01:14:37.319 --> 01:14:41.439 years owner hadn't managed cutting back brush on trails and 1377 01:14:41.560 --> 01:14:45.439 a pond and chicken run and a garden. I cut 1378 01:14:45.520 --> 01:14:49.119 the brush out of the garden or early last fall, 1379 01:14:49.439 --> 01:14:50.840 I'm sorry, early last spring. 1380 01:14:51.520 --> 01:14:51.640 Uh. 1381 01:14:51.920 --> 01:14:54.239 And and what I mean brush, I mean saplings. 1382 01:14:54.359 --> 01:14:58.279 And you know half inch one inch brush that grows 1383 01:14:58.399 --> 01:15:00.279 eight ten feet tall when you let it go for 1384 01:15:00.399 --> 01:15:03.039 thirty years. So I had to use laffers down at 1385 01:15:03.079 --> 01:15:07.000 dirt level and clear this all out. It's got a 1386 01:15:07.119 --> 01:15:10.359 great irrigation that was set up PBC that rains in 1387 01:15:10.560 --> 01:15:14.359 from six feet above the ground, and it's really set 1388 01:15:14.479 --> 01:15:16.960 up to be a nice garden. It has in the 1389 01:15:17.079 --> 01:15:20.159 past year grown a lot of weeds, and we had, 1390 01:15:20.239 --> 01:15:23.720 you know, a pretty cold winter here, some spets, and 1391 01:15:23.800 --> 01:15:26.039 we've had some drought. So a lot of the weeds 1392 01:15:26.079 --> 01:15:28.960 that are there are just really desiccated dead. There's not 1393 01:15:29.079 --> 01:15:32.319 a lot of green. I've followed your advice and gotten 1394 01:15:32.920 --> 01:15:34.760 a bag of pre emergent that I'm going to put 1395 01:15:34.840 --> 01:15:39.119 down after this rain passes today, and I'm curious what 1396 01:15:39.279 --> 01:15:42.640 your thoughts are on best ways to manage this garden 1397 01:15:42.760 --> 01:15:46.520 that hasn't been a garden, it's been an overgrown brush patch. 1398 01:15:46.800 --> 01:15:49.199 It's about fifteen hundred square feet. 1399 01:15:50.279 --> 01:15:53.079 When I cleared the brush out, I did till it, 1400 01:15:53.439 --> 01:15:57.439 which made for some good weed growth. My plan is 1401 01:15:57.520 --> 01:16:00.399 to just use a tool that I found in the here. 1402 01:16:00.479 --> 01:16:02.560 It's I don't know what it's called, but you swing 1403 01:16:02.640 --> 01:16:04.279 it back and forth at ground level it. 1404 01:16:04.319 --> 01:16:08.680 Cuts yeah, and take all the yoyo called the yo 1405 01:16:08.760 --> 01:16:11.920 yo okay, bringing back and forth and cutting h I 1406 01:16:12.039 --> 01:16:15.800 plan on finishing with a dirt rake and putting down 1407 01:16:15.840 --> 01:16:16.640 my pre emergent. 1408 01:16:17.760 --> 01:16:20.640 I think what I do is about six months from 1409 01:16:20.720 --> 01:16:23.199 now do that again. But I want your advice on 1410 01:16:23.399 --> 01:16:25.880 how long it's going to be for us. Before we 1411 01:16:26.039 --> 01:16:29.399 can actually use this as a garden. All right, I 1412 01:16:29.439 --> 01:16:30.600 don't watch all these weeks. 1413 01:16:31.039 --> 01:16:35.119 It's first of yeah, first to quick comment on the 1414 01:16:35.159 --> 01:16:37.720 pre emergent. If you're gonna plant seed in the next 1415 01:16:37.800 --> 01:16:40.520 sixty days or ninety days, I wouldn't put the pre 1416 01:16:40.600 --> 01:16:44.520 emergent down in your vegetable or flower areas if you're 1417 01:16:44.560 --> 01:16:48.279 gonna plant seed, uh, and so just know that it's 1418 01:16:48.359 --> 01:16:50.279 going to last for a couple of months, and and 1419 01:16:50.520 --> 01:16:51.840 and you don't want to do that. If you do, 1420 01:16:52.000 --> 01:16:53.840 you just put it in, put it down and water 1421 01:16:53.920 --> 01:16:55.920 it in. If you're going to use it, I would 1422 01:16:55.960 --> 01:16:58.279 get any way. You can get mulch out there, and 1423 01:16:58.640 --> 01:17:03.039 you know, grass clippings, leaves from people's yards, spend Hey, 1424 01:17:03.119 --> 01:17:04.960 whatever kinds of mult you can get out over the 1425 01:17:05.000 --> 01:17:09.039 garden would help prevent most of your weed problems if 1426 01:17:09.119 --> 01:17:12.159 the brush starts to come back. There's a publication on 1427 01:17:12.279 --> 01:17:17.000 my website and it's called Herbicides to use with Skips 1428 01:17:17.039 --> 01:17:20.600 weed wiper, And basically what it amounts to. One of 1429 01:17:20.680 --> 01:17:23.359 the items on there is for brushy weeds, and it 1430 01:17:23.439 --> 01:17:25.720 tells you the product to get and all you do 1431 01:17:25.960 --> 01:17:29.239 is you cut the weed off, the brush off and 1432 01:17:29.359 --> 01:17:32.079 you dab that product directly on the fresh cut and 1433 01:17:32.199 --> 01:17:34.600 it moves down in the plant and kills it. That's 1434 01:17:34.720 --> 01:17:37.119 the best way. You don't need to spray and get 1435 01:17:37.199 --> 01:17:38.720 that spray all over the place where you're going to 1436 01:17:38.800 --> 01:17:41.520 hurt something. Just dab the fresh cut. But it's all 1437 01:17:41.600 --> 01:17:43.640 on my website, so I'll just refer you to that. 1438 01:17:44.359 --> 01:17:46.399 As far as the rest, again, multi is part of 1439 01:17:46.399 --> 01:17:47.039 your best bet. 1440 01:17:48.479 --> 01:17:50.640 We're thinking a little bit of a different direction, and 1441 01:17:50.720 --> 01:17:54.359 our timeline is to retire and live here forever. So 1442 01:17:54.520 --> 01:17:58.159 we're thinking a year before we're even ready to start 1443 01:17:58.279 --> 01:18:01.399 using as a garden, so a six months later application 1444 01:18:01.600 --> 01:18:05.800 of pre emergent so that we cover both season weeds. 1445 01:18:06.279 --> 01:18:08.800 We're even thinking of rising beds that we bring some 1446 01:18:08.920 --> 01:18:11.880 dirt in malts is not a problem. Is I've cleared 1447 01:18:12.279 --> 01:18:14.800 brush out of the trail and pond. I've got mult 1448 01:18:15.000 --> 01:18:18.359 and sleeve and dirt dirt raked up well with maybe 1449 01:18:18.399 --> 01:18:19.399 some small twigs. 1450 01:18:20.800 --> 01:18:22.960 All right, Well, Kyle, here's what I would do. And 1451 01:18:23.000 --> 01:18:25.399 I got to run here, but I would take any 1452 01:18:25.520 --> 01:18:28.000 kind of freemont you can get, including ground up brush 1453 01:18:28.159 --> 01:18:30.960 or whatever you have, and I would moult that area deep. 1454 01:18:31.119 --> 01:18:34.079 I mean a foot deep even and just cover it. 1455 01:18:34.199 --> 01:18:36.520 And what's gonna happen is it's gonna start rotting down 1456 01:18:36.560 --> 01:18:39.399 at the soil level, and by the time you're there 1457 01:18:39.560 --> 01:18:41.800 and ready to put a garden in, you're gonna have 1458 01:18:41.920 --> 01:18:45.119 a lot of rich material that's decomposed away. And in 1459 01:18:45.239 --> 01:18:47.560 the meantime, it's gonna keep those weeds down where the 1460 01:18:47.640 --> 01:18:50.520 number of weeds you're having a sprayer are much much less. 1461 01:18:51.239 --> 01:18:53.840 But whatever kind of free organic matter you can get 1462 01:18:53.920 --> 01:18:55.920 and get out there on the ground in a thick 1463 01:18:56.079 --> 01:18:58.920 layer of mulch, that is going to be your friend. 1464 01:18:59.159 --> 01:19:01.000 And in a long time you're gonna have a much 1465 01:19:01.039 --> 01:19:03.279 better soil when you get ready to garden. I'm sorry 1466 01:19:03.319 --> 01:19:06.479 I have to have to run, but I do against 1467 01:19:06.520 --> 01:19:09.039 the clock here. Good luck with that. Thank you for 1468 01:19:09.119 --> 01:19:12.520 the call. Call back anytime. Out in Kingwood. You got 1469 01:19:12.560 --> 01:19:14.880 two garden centers. You got Warren Southern Gardens and you 1470 01:19:14.960 --> 01:19:18.279 got Kingwood Garden Center. And they're both awesome. Warren's is 1471 01:19:18.359 --> 01:19:20.840 on North Park, Kingwood's on Stone Hollow. They're both open 1472 01:19:20.920 --> 01:19:23.640 seven days a week. They are the place to go 1473 01:19:24.079 --> 01:19:26.640 to get beauty for your landscape. They're the place to 1474 01:19:26.720 --> 01:19:30.119 go to get cool Statuary, to get gorgeous pottery, to 1475 01:19:30.239 --> 01:19:33.880 get advice on how to put together your own mixed planter. 1476 01:19:34.039 --> 01:19:35.720 You know what you want of those planters have several 1477 01:19:35.760 --> 01:19:37.680 different kinds of flowers and plants in it, and it's 1478 01:19:37.760 --> 01:19:41.560 just billowing up and spilling out and looks good. These 1479 01:19:41.640 --> 01:19:43.920 places know what they're talking about. They're gonna carry the 1480 01:19:43.960 --> 01:19:47.479 fertilizers that I talk about on Guardline, like Nitropossen and 1481 01:19:47.720 --> 01:19:51.199 Nelson's in Microlife, and they're gonna have things like heirloom 1482 01:19:51.319 --> 01:19:54.560 soils for example. They just have a wide variety of 1483 01:19:54.680 --> 01:19:58.640 things and they sold serve that whole Northeast squadrant up 1484 01:19:58.680 --> 01:20:01.479 there and that part of town. You got to go 1485 01:20:01.560 --> 01:20:04.239 buy and check them out though, and go online and 1486 01:20:04.319 --> 01:20:07.000 check them out there as well again. Warren Southern Gardens 1487 01:20:07.039 --> 01:20:10.359 on North Park, Kingwood Garden Center on Stone Hollow. Those 1488 01:20:10.439 --> 01:20:13.520 places are busting with the seams a good great plants 1489 01:20:13.640 --> 01:20:22.960 right now, and you need to go see them all right, 1490 01:20:25.399 --> 01:20:28.000 doing me for a little curve there. Hey, I'm gonna 1491 01:20:28.000 --> 01:20:33.640 be today out at All Seasons, Ace Hardware and Willis 1492 01:20:33.880 --> 01:20:37.279 All Seasons, Acehardware and Willis just go to aceharbare dot 1493 01:20:37.359 --> 01:20:39.520 com buy in the store locator. If you don't know 1494 01:20:39.560 --> 01:20:42.000 where All Seasons is, it'll take you right to it. 1495 01:20:42.439 --> 01:20:44.520 Make it easy to find it. I'm gonna be giving 1496 01:20:44.520 --> 01:20:50.000 away Nelson plant food products and Medina products as well. 1497 01:20:50.079 --> 01:20:51.800 I got a lot of them on hand to give away, 1498 01:20:51.880 --> 01:20:53.439 So if you show up, there's a good chance you're 1499 01:20:53.439 --> 01:20:56.000 gonna get one. We're gonna have some Texas Gardener magazines. 1500 01:20:56.000 --> 01:20:57.720 You got to see that if you haven't seen it before. 1501 01:20:58.079 --> 01:21:01.159 Bring me samples, bring me pictures, let's meet, let's talk. 1502 01:21:01.279 --> 01:21:05.119 Let's solve your gardening problems face to face on their air. 1503 01:21:05.279 --> 01:21:07.079 I don't have a lot of time, but it face 1504 01:21:07.159 --> 01:21:08.520 to face. We can talk on bay. 1505 01:21:10.239 --> 01:21:13.960 Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Scared Rict. 1506 01:21:14.119 --> 01:21:30.439 It's just watch him as alright. 1507 01:21:31.079 --> 01:21:35.760 I've got a that's a public public service announcement, public 1508 01:21:35.840 --> 01:21:39.600 help request. I don't know what it is. I've been contemplating. 1509 01:21:39.720 --> 01:21:43.199 It's been a long time, but I've been contemplating possibly 1510 01:21:43.520 --> 01:21:45.800 trying some different bumper music. I know this has been 1511 01:21:45.840 --> 01:21:48.680 a tradition for a long time to use this song, 1512 01:21:48.800 --> 01:21:53.000 and I get mixed reports from different people on the 1513 01:21:53.279 --> 01:21:56.199 like it, don't care, want something new, whatever? What would 1514 01:21:56.239 --> 01:22:00.279 you suggest for Bumper music for garden Line, just kind 1515 01:22:00.279 --> 01:22:02.720 of curious. Can you can call and tell my producer 1516 01:22:03.640 --> 01:22:07.000 email me the suggestions that you have. And I'm not 1517 01:22:07.079 --> 01:22:08.680 in a hurry to do anything right now, but I'm 1518 01:22:08.720 --> 01:22:11.319 just kind of curious what do the listeners think about that. 1519 01:22:11.600 --> 01:22:14.760 We'll see, Well, you are listening to garden Line. I'm 1520 01:22:14.760 --> 01:22:17.399 your hope host, Skip Richter, and we're here to help 1521 01:22:17.439 --> 01:22:20.000 you have a bountiful garden, a beautiful landscape, and definitely 1522 01:22:20.079 --> 01:22:22.399 more fun in the process. Now, if you live up 1523 01:22:22.439 --> 01:22:25.119 in the northwest quadrant of Houston, and by that I 1524 01:22:25.239 --> 01:22:29.680 mean Interstate forty five is your north south line, ien 1525 01:22:29.840 --> 01:22:32.760 is your East west line? Okay, that northwest quadrant, that 1526 01:22:32.840 --> 01:22:36.880 whole area. 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You're going to get better infiltration of water. 1537 01:23:11.760 --> 01:23:14.079 You're going to get better oxygen in the root system, 1538 01:23:14.439 --> 01:23:16.840 and your lawn whether it's been struggling from drought or 1539 01:23:16.880 --> 01:23:19.239 brown patch or takeoff patch or chinch bugs or whatever 1540 01:23:19.239 --> 01:23:22.920 you're dealing with. Certainly compaction is just going to recover 1541 01:23:23.359 --> 01:23:26.439 much much faster. If you've got a thatch layer, it 1542 01:23:26.600 --> 01:23:29.600 is going to decompose away faster than any other thing 1543 01:23:29.680 --> 01:23:33.199 we can do. That is compost top dressing. Corrooration is 1544 01:23:33.279 --> 01:23:35.880 the fastest way to get rid of thatched too. You're 1545 01:23:35.880 --> 01:23:38.039 going to get better rooting depth and your lawn's going 1546 01:23:38.119 --> 01:23:40.479 to be more resilient. So when hot weather comes it's 1547 01:23:40.479 --> 01:23:42.079 a little on the dry side, you're going to save 1548 01:23:42.159 --> 01:23:44.479 some money on those watering bills because you have a 1549 01:23:44.560 --> 01:23:47.000 more robust root system that doesn't have to be watered 1550 01:23:47.000 --> 01:23:49.279 every other day trying to keep the thing alive. Now, 1551 01:23:49.319 --> 01:23:52.279 about forty five miles from Magnolia is their service area, 1552 01:23:52.359 --> 01:23:56.880 So Spring Cyprus, Woodlands, Conroe, Willis, Magnolia, Montgomery, Katie, you know, 1553 01:23:57.039 --> 01:23:59.479 all the way down it ten I Interstate forty five. 1554 01:23:59.560 --> 01:24:03.800 That's a good way to do it. Greenprotexas dot com, 1555 01:24:04.439 --> 01:24:09.039 Greenprotexts dot Com eight three to two three five to 1556 01:24:09.079 --> 01:24:11.960 one zero zero three two. I'll give you that again 1557 01:24:12.640 --> 01:24:16.600 eight three two three five to one zero zero three two. 1558 01:24:18.359 --> 01:24:22.199 That stuff works. Now, if you've got weeds in your 1559 01:24:22.279 --> 01:24:25.880 lawn right now, that in other words, you see the 1560 01:24:25.920 --> 01:24:29.039 weeds now, that is a cool season weed. The warm 1561 01:24:29.119 --> 01:24:32.159 season weeds. They are little tiny seeds trying to germinate 1562 01:24:32.239 --> 01:24:35.119 and get going here this time of the year. Time 1563 01:24:35.159 --> 01:24:37.000 to stop them before they do. But if you've got 1564 01:24:37.079 --> 01:24:41.720 weeds growing now, turf Star Weedinator buy Nelson is a 1565 01:24:41.800 --> 01:24:44.720 product that works, and it works in many ways. Listen 1566 01:24:44.760 --> 01:24:46.880 to this kind of cool. First of all, it's got 1567 01:24:46.920 --> 01:24:48.680 a product in it to kill the weeds. I'm talking 1568 01:24:48.680 --> 01:24:53.560 about chickweed, clover, dandelion, dollarweed, grasper, purslane, ragweedspurds, whatever the 1569 01:24:53.600 --> 01:24:56.279 weeds are, it will kill them. You want to water 1570 01:24:56.359 --> 01:24:59.000 your lawn just enough to wet the weeds. You're not 1571 01:24:59.079 --> 01:25:01.800 trying to wet the soil. You just wet in the surface, 1572 01:25:02.279 --> 01:25:05.239 and immediately you take your weedinator, which is a combination 1573 01:25:05.359 --> 01:25:08.920 of fertilizer and a weed control, a post emergent broad 1574 01:25:08.960 --> 01:25:12.520 leaf weed control. You're taking it out there and you're 1575 01:25:12.600 --> 01:25:15.680 applying it, and those granules stick to the wet weed 1576 01:25:15.760 --> 01:25:18.479 surfaces and they soak in. After a couple of days, 1577 01:25:18.720 --> 01:25:20.920 good and watered in. Move it down in the soil. 1578 01:25:20.960 --> 01:25:23.960 That's fine. Get that nutrient down in there. It's going 1579 01:25:24.000 --> 01:25:26.760 to work. And for about the first six weeks you're 1580 01:25:26.760 --> 01:25:29.600 going to get a quick release a fertilizer to start 1581 01:25:29.680 --> 01:25:32.479 some growth. Get it going. As the soil warms up, 1582 01:25:32.600 --> 01:25:35.600 a different kind of nitrogen in that product gets released, 1583 01:25:35.800 --> 01:25:38.640 and in a late spring, a third kind of product 1584 01:25:39.239 --> 01:25:42.119 is going to be released. So you're looking like months 1585 01:25:42.439 --> 01:25:46.199 of feeding from this one application, and all the winter 1586 01:25:46.279 --> 01:25:48.159 weeds that are about to go to seed, you shut 1587 01:25:48.199 --> 01:25:51.279 them down now. Once they're blooming and setting seed, they're 1588 01:25:51.319 --> 01:25:55.640 hard to kill. Don't delay. Do the weed inator right now. 1589 01:25:55.920 --> 01:25:58.520 You can find it a lot of different places around town. 1590 01:25:59.199 --> 01:26:03.159 But timing is everything, so don't delay. Get that done. 1591 01:26:03.640 --> 01:26:06.119 Let's run out to West Houston and we're going to 1592 01:26:06.159 --> 01:26:08.520 talk now to Mike. Hey, Mike, welcome to garden Mine. 1593 01:26:09.640 --> 01:26:10.520 Thank you so much. 1594 01:26:10.720 --> 01:26:13.439 I really had a quick question for you. A lot 1595 01:26:13.520 --> 01:26:17.319 of plants last week for color in my yard, and 1596 01:26:17.680 --> 01:26:19.720 then realized that we were going to have a freeze. 1597 01:26:19.880 --> 01:26:22.920 But you know, that would probably kill them all before 1598 01:26:22.960 --> 01:26:26.800 they even started going. But I wanted a lot of color. 1599 01:26:26.680 --> 01:26:29.119 And so I suck them in my kitchen and my 1600 01:26:29.399 --> 01:26:31.439 garage until after the freeze. 1601 01:26:31.560 --> 01:26:34.720 Now I pulled them back out. Should I go ahead 1602 01:26:34.800 --> 01:26:37.680 and plant them now? Or should I wait a little 1603 01:26:37.680 --> 01:26:38.199 bit longer? 1604 01:26:39.880 --> 01:26:42.159 You know, as I look forward about ten days out, 1605 01:26:42.359 --> 01:26:47.840 I don't see any bad weather. But we technically would 1606 01:26:47.920 --> 01:26:52.880 not be through all the possible freezes on an average 1607 01:26:53.239 --> 01:26:54.800 of all the years. She said. What I'm saying, the 1608 01:26:54.840 --> 01:26:56.920 average frost ate is what I should just put it 1609 01:26:57.039 --> 01:26:59.800 that way. Is not quite past us yet, but we're 1610 01:27:00.239 --> 01:27:02.880 on it. So you may put them out and be 1611 01:27:03.079 --> 01:27:05.000 just fine. You may put them out and have a 1612 01:27:05.079 --> 01:27:07.359 late cold in which you need to throw some sort 1613 01:27:07.399 --> 01:27:09.880 of a light sheet or fabric or something over them, 1614 01:27:10.279 --> 01:27:13.079 you know, just to protect them. Chances of us having 1615 01:27:13.520 --> 01:27:17.239 just one of those in the teen's cold has diminished 1616 01:27:17.319 --> 01:27:19.960 quite a bit. But I don't have a crystal ball, 1617 01:27:20.479 --> 01:27:23.640 so we have to go by the averages. And if 1618 01:27:23.720 --> 01:27:26.319 you want to be a little cautious, if you got 1619 01:27:26.359 --> 01:27:29.359 a lot of dollars, you know, in all those plants, 1620 01:27:29.880 --> 01:27:32.159 just hang onto a move mountain the sun, leave them 1621 01:27:32.199 --> 01:27:34.399 out on the ground, make sure they get watered every day, 1622 01:27:35.039 --> 01:27:36.640 and just give it a little bit more time. Head 1623 01:27:36.680 --> 01:27:38.319 your bed a little bit if you want to go 1624 01:27:38.359 --> 01:27:42.279 about it that way. That's perfectly okay, Thank you so much. 1625 01:27:42.399 --> 01:27:46.560 I appreciate it all right, Mike, you take care, appreciate, 1626 01:27:46.800 --> 01:27:49.520 appreciate your call. You know that that is funny that 1627 01:27:49.640 --> 01:27:52.560 he said that I was looking at Orgey, you know 1628 01:27:53.000 --> 01:27:57.840 Jorges Hidden gardens down in the Alvin area. It's just 1629 01:27:57.880 --> 01:28:01.159 south of Highway six on Elizabeth Street. That's out there. Well. 1630 01:28:01.199 --> 01:28:04.199 Horay posted to social media he had a living room 1631 01:28:04.239 --> 01:28:06.079 full of plants and his wife's wanting to know one 1632 01:28:06.119 --> 01:28:08.399 of these plants getting out of my living room because 1633 01:28:08.439 --> 01:28:10.680 you know, we've had cold and Horay's got so many 1634 01:28:10.760 --> 01:28:13.960 shipments in it is incredible. You see the place right now, 1635 01:28:14.439 --> 01:28:17.079 I mean he really does. He's got all kinds of 1636 01:28:17.159 --> 01:28:19.680 fruit trees if you're looking for apples and peaches, if 1637 01:28:19.720 --> 01:28:22.880 you're looking for pears and plums. And I know he 1638 01:28:22.960 --> 01:28:25.439 has blueberries, I know he has citrus trees. I know 1639 01:28:25.520 --> 01:28:28.840 he has blackberries out there. He just has everything, shrubs 1640 01:28:28.880 --> 01:28:33.000 and trees, plenty of things. Horace Hidden Gardens. They are 1641 01:28:33.600 --> 01:28:36.359 a great place. And please get Orge out of the 1642 01:28:36.960 --> 01:28:39.720 doghouse by helping get those plants out of the living room. 1643 01:28:40.239 --> 01:28:43.119 Go pick some of them up and take them home 1644 01:28:43.239 --> 01:28:46.960 with you. Horace Hidden Gardens. Got some good Peggy Martin 1645 01:28:47.039 --> 01:28:49.520 roses out there again. They're on Elizabeth Street and Alvin, 1646 01:28:49.920 --> 01:28:52.840 just south the highway six raz Hidden Gardens for all 1647 01:28:52.920 --> 01:28:55.439 of you down in the Alvin, Santa Fe, Dickinson Hillcrest, 1648 01:28:55.520 --> 01:29:01.319 Algoa Alta Loma, that whole region down there, Hidden Gardens. 1649 01:29:02.199 --> 01:29:08.159 Time for me to take a break. We'll be back already. 1650 01:29:11.359 --> 01:29:14.560 Welcome back to garden Line. You'd like to give me 1651 01:29:14.600 --> 01:29:17.680 a call talk gardening seven one three two one two 1652 01:29:17.800 --> 01:29:19.680 k t r H seven one three two on two 1653 01:29:19.760 --> 01:29:21.680 k t r A A. It's gonna be raining today, 1654 01:29:21.960 --> 01:29:25.880 a little bit misty, not messy rain, just eh, misty, 1655 01:29:26.119 --> 01:29:28.960 messy rain, that kind of stuff. All right, what are 1656 01:29:28.960 --> 01:29:31.279 you gonna do this afternoon? I have an idea. Grab 1657 01:29:31.359 --> 01:29:34.000 you some lunch and then come on out, Come on 1658 01:29:34.119 --> 01:29:35.680 up to Willis, come see me if you're up in 1659 01:29:35.760 --> 01:29:41.399 that area. Lake Conroe, Uh Conroe itself, Willis New Waverley, 1660 01:29:41.520 --> 01:29:43.840 that whole region up there. Come on and see me. 1661 01:29:43.840 --> 01:29:46.720 I'm gonna be at All Seasons, Ace Hardware and Willis, 1662 01:29:46.760 --> 01:29:49.039 and guess what will be indoors. It will be warm, 1663 01:29:49.159 --> 01:29:50.760 it will be dry, and we're gonna be having a 1664 01:29:50.800 --> 01:29:54.000 good time. I'm gonna be giving away Nelson plant Food 1665 01:29:54.119 --> 01:29:57.680 Products and Medina Plant Food Products. Have some Texas Gardener 1666 01:29:57.760 --> 01:29:59.760 magazines on hand for those of you who have not 1667 01:30:00.000 --> 01:30:02.000 subscribe to that yet. You need to, by the way, 1668 01:30:02.880 --> 01:30:05.239 and I'll be there answering your gardening questions. Take some 1669 01:30:05.359 --> 01:30:07.439 pictures of the landscape, bring them to me, Bring some 1670 01:30:07.640 --> 01:30:09.640 samples in if you want me to identify. And maybe 1671 01:30:09.640 --> 01:30:11.199 you got a weed and it's like, what's this weed? 1672 01:30:11.239 --> 01:30:13.119 And how do I kill it? Or can I eat it? 1673 01:30:13.680 --> 01:30:16.640 I'll answer those questions however you want to, however you 1674 01:30:16.720 --> 01:30:19.479 want to ask it. Come on out again. It is 1675 01:30:19.680 --> 01:30:22.720 All Seasons, Ace Hardware and Willis. And like any Ace 1676 01:30:22.760 --> 01:30:25.880 Hardware store, you just go to Acehardware dot Com find 1677 01:30:25.920 --> 01:30:29.279 the store locator and you can find all the stores 1678 01:30:29.399 --> 01:30:31.359 in the Greater Houston area. Just pict your zip code 1679 01:30:31.399 --> 01:30:33.279 in there or whatever, tell them where you live, or 1680 01:30:33.399 --> 01:30:35.520 just look at the whole map for Houston. There's a 1681 01:30:35.600 --> 01:30:37.399 lot of good ones that you can go to. But 1682 01:30:37.520 --> 01:30:41.880 today all season Ace and willis from twelve noon to 1683 01:30:42.000 --> 01:30:44.800 two pm. Looking forward to seeing you out there. Hope 1684 01:30:44.840 --> 01:30:48.560 you can make it. We have a new sponsor here 1685 01:30:48.640 --> 01:30:52.039 on Guardline called Pest Brothers. Pest Brothers is a regional 1686 01:30:52.279 --> 01:30:55.880 pest control company and this is some cool stuff. I 1687 01:30:55.960 --> 01:30:58.560 want you to listen to this. They serve the greater 1688 01:30:58.640 --> 01:31:01.000 Houston area and I'm talking from Texas City all the 1689 01:31:01.039 --> 01:31:02.880 way up inter say forty five of the woodlands we're 1690 01:31:02.920 --> 01:31:06.119 talking about from Baytown over on the east, all the 1691 01:31:06.159 --> 01:31:08.439 way across to the Kadi area. I mean, this is 1692 01:31:08.520 --> 01:31:11.479 the greater Houston area. And I say past control that 1693 01:31:11.600 --> 01:31:14.520 that includes like termites and all the other indoor pasts 1694 01:31:14.560 --> 01:31:18.079 that you're dealing with, and indeed, go outside, it's the 1695 01:31:18.239 --> 01:31:21.520 fire ants, the mosquitos. They they handle all of that. 1696 01:31:21.640 --> 01:31:23.960 I'm gonna come back to that mosquitos because don't go away. 1697 01:31:24.000 --> 01:31:27.159 This is cool. And the wall of armit's running around 1698 01:31:27.199 --> 01:31:29.479 the property. Those four legged creatures. I'm not talking about 1699 01:31:29.479 --> 01:31:31.600 your kids. I'm talking about the wall farm that's with 1700 01:31:31.720 --> 01:31:35.439 four legs, mice and rats, and others. They can do 1701 01:31:35.479 --> 01:31:37.640 animal trapping if needed to get them out of there. 1702 01:31:38.000 --> 01:31:40.800 They know how to treat effectively. They know how to 1703 01:31:40.880 --> 01:31:44.359 do it in the safest manner, so you get a 1704 01:31:44.520 --> 01:31:48.920 long term control without the worries of oh, what are 1705 01:31:48.960 --> 01:31:51.159 they doing is a safe and whatever? Just call them 1706 01:31:51.279 --> 01:31:54.520 for a quote two eight one two oh six forty 1707 01:31:54.560 --> 01:31:57.159 six seventy two eight one two o six forty six 1708 01:31:57.279 --> 01:32:02.760 seventy or go to the website the pest brosbros dot 1709 01:32:02.880 --> 01:32:06.840 com vpestbros dot com. Now check out this mosquita thing. 1710 01:32:07.920 --> 01:32:11.000 They have a mosquito control system that is state of 1711 01:32:11.039 --> 01:32:14.039 the art, and it's not like they're going blasting mosquitos 1712 01:32:14.039 --> 01:32:17.039 all over the place. They use these little bucket type 1713 01:32:17.119 --> 01:32:20.000 bait stations that are put out. It's the industry's green 1714 01:32:20.119 --> 01:32:24.199 standard for safe effective mosquito control. So these bait stations, 1715 01:32:24.600 --> 01:32:27.479 they put out an odor that attracts mosquitos to them. 1716 01:32:27.800 --> 01:32:30.279 The mosquitos go in and they land on this little 1717 01:32:30.319 --> 01:32:33.439 screen that has a fine powder. And if you want 1718 01:32:33.439 --> 01:32:36.279 to get really nerdy, mosquitos when they fly around get 1719 01:32:36.359 --> 01:32:40.399 positively charged, and this is a negatively charged particles and 1720 01:32:40.520 --> 01:32:42.479 so it just like sticks to them like a magnet, 1721 01:32:43.039 --> 01:32:46.279 and they lay eggs, and the eggs land in that water, 1722 01:32:46.439 --> 01:32:49.119 and the pupa never make it. The larvae and pupa 1723 01:32:49.199 --> 01:32:54.239 never develop because there's two types of control in these granules. 1724 01:32:54.279 --> 01:32:56.840 There are these tiny particles. One of them kills the 1725 01:32:56.920 --> 01:32:59.920 larvae and the and the pupa if they try to 1726 01:33:00.079 --> 01:33:02.640 reach that stage in the water. In there, so, I 1727 01:33:02.720 --> 01:33:05.319 mean here, all these mosquitoes are being drawn in there. 1728 01:33:05.359 --> 01:33:08.680 They're laying the eggs. Eggs never hatch. The adults carry 1729 01:33:08.760 --> 01:33:11.399 that stuff, and if they land in water, they're also 1730 01:33:11.920 --> 01:33:14.960 gonna be controlling the larva that land in that water. 1731 01:33:15.199 --> 01:33:17.800 And then here's the cooler part. The second ingredient is 1732 01:33:17.880 --> 01:33:21.960 a fungus that invades the body of the mosquito and 1733 01:33:22.079 --> 01:33:24.119 it kills it. The Ising'm gonna kill your bees. It's 1734 01:33:24.159 --> 01:33:26.760 not gonna kill all the good animals out there, good creatures, 1735 01:33:26.880 --> 01:33:29.960 insects out there. It is strict to mosquitoes. Just like 1736 01:33:30.039 --> 01:33:34.279 bt just attack caterpillars. This attacks these mosquitos and their 1737 01:33:34.319 --> 01:33:36.880 body gets infested with a fungus and the adults in 1738 01:33:37.199 --> 01:33:40.239 a period of time they die. Now Is that amazing? 1739 01:33:40.359 --> 01:33:43.079 Is that fascinating? Is that an ingenious way to control 1740 01:33:43.159 --> 01:33:46.880 mosquitos in a safe manner, something safe to pets, the 1741 01:33:46.960 --> 01:33:50.760 people in the environment. Call Pestbros. Two eight one, two 1742 01:33:50.840 --> 01:33:53.640 oh six forty six seventy and say I want to 1743 01:33:53.680 --> 01:33:56.640 hear more about this mosquito control system because summer's coming, 1744 01:33:56.760 --> 01:33:59.560 and if you live in Houston, I have a I 1745 01:33:59.600 --> 01:34:02.239 don't even need a crystal ball. You're gonna have mosquitoes, 1746 01:34:02.800 --> 01:34:05.159 That's all I'm saying. All Right, we're gonna run out 1747 01:34:05.159 --> 01:34:07.920 here on the phones to a task asita and talk 1748 01:34:08.000 --> 01:34:10.920 to John. Hey, John, welcome to garden line. 1749 01:34:12.600 --> 01:34:13.159 How you do it? 1750 01:34:13.319 --> 01:34:16.239 You I'm doing okay? 1751 01:34:16.720 --> 01:34:18.079 What good? 1752 01:34:18.840 --> 01:34:21.920 I just uh, we wanted us to call to see 1753 01:34:21.960 --> 01:34:25.960 about having a root to move from my oak trees, 1754 01:34:27.119 --> 01:34:31.319 the ogating a large in the ground. When the would 1755 01:34:31.359 --> 01:34:32.920 be a good time to have those removed. 1756 01:34:34.960 --> 01:34:38.600 Yeah, you can. If you've got to establish tree, you 1757 01:34:38.680 --> 01:34:41.479 want to be real careful and not stress it too much, 1758 01:34:41.680 --> 01:34:43.960 not make it. You know structurally on sound where you 1759 01:34:44.039 --> 01:34:46.680 take to many roots off one side and it blows over. Uh, 1760 01:34:46.800 --> 01:34:51.199 but removing one root a year is usually okay. The 1761 01:34:51.319 --> 01:34:53.960 alternative to that, when your roots are sticking up above 1762 01:34:54.000 --> 01:34:55.960 the ground would be to bring in some fill around 1763 01:34:56.039 --> 01:34:57.600 them about it. You know, you can do about an 1764 01:34:57.640 --> 01:35:01.560 inch at a time or two inches maybe, and you 1765 01:35:01.680 --> 01:35:04.479 can gradually sort of raise that level up and whatever 1766 01:35:04.600 --> 01:35:06.239 is growing over it and you don't trip on the 1767 01:35:06.359 --> 01:35:09.399 roots that way. So that would be an alternative to 1768 01:35:09.479 --> 01:35:13.159 cutting a root off, but I would prefer to do 1769 01:35:13.319 --> 01:35:16.399 the phill approach. But you can remove let's say a 1770 01:35:16.479 --> 01:35:17.239 root a year and. 1771 01:35:17.319 --> 01:35:23.399 You'll be all right, okay, all right, thank. 1772 01:35:23.199 --> 01:35:27.119 You, yeah, you bet, good luck with that. Take care. 1773 01:35:28.319 --> 01:35:33.319 That is the case. Absolutely. Hey. I mentioned earlier some 1774 01:35:33.520 --> 01:35:37.560 nitrofoss products and how available they are. Well, Nitrofoss Imperial 1775 01:35:37.840 --> 01:35:42.039 fifteen five ten been around for oh just decades. It 1776 01:35:42.199 --> 01:35:48.239 is absolutely the go to on the quick release product 1777 01:35:48.359 --> 01:35:50.960 for early green up. If you this is an optional 1778 01:35:51.079 --> 01:35:53.039 on my schedule, but if you want to see your 1779 01:35:53.079 --> 01:35:55.439 long get green early on and now the cool weather 1780 01:35:55.640 --> 01:35:57.159 like this is not going to it's not going to 1781 01:35:57.199 --> 01:35:59.880 grow yet until it warms up, but it will green up, 1782 01:36:00.039 --> 01:36:02.000 and that's why we call it the early greenup. And 1783 01:36:02.119 --> 01:36:05.520 Nitrofoss Imperial is a quick release fertilizer gets us nutrients 1784 01:36:05.680 --> 01:36:08.199 right down there into the soil for that grass to 1785 01:36:08.319 --> 01:36:11.800 take up into Greenup and it is people have been 1786 01:36:11.840 --> 01:36:13.640 doing this for a very long time. Randy had heron 1787 01:36:13.720 --> 01:36:15.800 on his schedules as a matter of fact as well. 1788 01:36:16.640 --> 01:36:20.880 UH Nitrofoss Imperial fifteen five ten. And where do you 1789 01:36:21.000 --> 01:36:25.199 get Nitroposs Imperial fifteen five to ten? Well, anywhere? UH 1790 01:36:25.399 --> 01:36:28.439 Plantation Ace Hardware at Richmond Rosenberg. You're going to find 1791 01:36:28.479 --> 01:36:31.279 it at Langham Creek Ace Hardware in the Cypress area 1792 01:36:31.319 --> 01:36:35.239 on the five twenty nine RCW Nursery Lake Hardware done 1793 01:36:35.239 --> 01:36:37.760 in Angleton Lake Hardware done in Clute too, by the way, 1794 01:36:38.319 --> 01:36:42.880 is a place that carries our Nitrofoss products. You are 1795 01:36:42.920 --> 01:36:45.199 listening to garden Line the phone number seven one three 1796 01:36:45.279 --> 01:36:48.359 two one two k t r H seven one three 1797 01:36:48.479 --> 01:36:52.920 two one two kt r h H swinging by Arburgate 1798 01:36:52.960 --> 01:36:57.039 the other day. I'm just I am just so impressed 1799 01:36:57.159 --> 01:37:00.399 with the amount of stuff that they have gotten in it. 1800 01:37:00.520 --> 01:37:03.239 I mean the truckloads of all kinds of things. And 1801 01:37:03.279 --> 01:37:05.279 if you've been to Arburgate, you know it's always that way. 1802 01:37:06.000 --> 01:37:10.760 Arbrogate is one of those destination garden centers. You know, 1803 01:37:10.840 --> 01:37:12.720 you have family that comes in from out of town, 1804 01:37:12.880 --> 01:37:14.600 you got to take them to Arbrogate. They've never seen 1805 01:37:14.640 --> 01:37:18.039 anything like it. I mean, it is, it is just outstanding. 1806 01:37:18.840 --> 01:37:21.920 Now Arbigate is going to be closing today at five pm. 1807 01:37:22.319 --> 01:37:24.399 At five pm, just be aware of that. It's kind 1808 01:37:24.399 --> 01:37:27.079 of cold out there. I'm kind of messy, and you know, 1809 01:37:27.159 --> 01:37:29.880 people don't get enthusiastic about shopping on a day like this. 1810 01:37:30.000 --> 01:37:32.479 But let me tell you this, Tomorrow afternoon is going 1811 01:37:32.560 --> 01:37:37.000 to be awesome weather and Arburgate has got everything you need. 1812 01:37:37.039 --> 01:37:39.000 Do you want to grow potatoes, They've got the potatoes. 1813 01:37:39.079 --> 01:37:43.760 They even have a container that you can grow potatoes in. 1814 01:37:43.920 --> 01:37:45.840 I mean, come up with your own if you want, 1815 01:37:45.880 --> 01:37:47.640 plant them in the ground if you want, but go 1816 01:37:47.800 --> 01:37:49.479 by there. Now's the time to get it done. Do 1817 01:37:49.520 --> 01:37:54.359 you want beautiful color? How about some gorgeous echination? Echination 1818 01:37:54.479 --> 01:37:56.960 is also called cone flower. You know, the native types 1819 01:37:57.000 --> 01:37:59.880 are white and purple, but now there's so many colors 1820 01:38:00.520 --> 01:38:03.760 and butterflies love them. They make good cut flowers. I mean, 1821 01:38:03.760 --> 01:38:07.680 it's it's just typical of Arburgate to find everything that 1822 01:38:07.840 --> 01:38:10.600 you might need to have success with your garden, from 1823 01:38:10.720 --> 01:38:14.159 houseplants to fruit trees which they carry year round, to 1824 01:38:14.359 --> 01:38:17.359 the quality products for the soil. Their one two three 1825 01:38:17.479 --> 01:38:20.760 easy system, completely easy. It's a fertilizer for anything with 1826 01:38:20.880 --> 01:38:23.640 roots and organic fertilizer. As a matter of fact, it 1827 01:38:23.920 --> 01:38:26.840 is a compost or a soil based product. First of all, 1828 01:38:26.920 --> 01:38:30.439 a soil based product for putting in your ground to 1829 01:38:30.560 --> 01:38:33.680 create your beds, and then a compost to also mix 1830 01:38:33.720 --> 01:38:35.640 into the soil to improve the soil. And both the 1831 01:38:35.680 --> 01:38:38.439 soil and the compost have expanded shale added, which in 1832 01:38:38.520 --> 01:38:41.680 our clay soils is essential. Remember what I say on 1833 01:38:41.760 --> 01:38:44.399 garden Line, brown stuff before green stuff. When you go 1834 01:38:44.479 --> 01:38:47.279 home from Arbrogate, go home with those three bags or 1835 01:38:47.359 --> 01:38:50.760 more and your plants so that you can create the 1836 01:38:50.800 --> 01:38:55.000 foundation to make your plants happy. Arburgate is west of 1837 01:38:55.079 --> 01:38:57.399 Tombal on twenty nine to twenty easy to get to. 1838 01:38:57.880 --> 01:39:00.840 Make sure to take Trischel Road which swings around behind 1839 01:39:01.000 --> 01:39:03.520 Arburgate like a little loop. Off twenty nine to twenty. 1840 01:39:03.960 --> 01:39:07.159 Park in the back. Awesome all weather lot right there 1841 01:39:07.239 --> 01:39:10.880 behind Arburgate. We're gonna speaking of Tom Ball. We're gonna 1842 01:39:10.920 --> 01:39:12.880 head out now to tom Ball and talk to John. 1843 01:39:13.159 --> 01:39:14.720 Hey John, welcome to garden Line. 1844 01:39:15.800 --> 01:39:19.880 Good morning, Skip. Hope you're doing well. I had a 1845 01:39:20.000 --> 01:39:24.359 quick question like probably five thousand questions today about fertilizer. 1846 01:39:25.159 --> 01:39:28.560 I was just at Ace Hardware just now and I 1847 01:39:28.720 --> 01:39:31.640 was gonna buy the not your Falsehood triumeac, and they 1848 01:39:31.760 --> 01:39:35.439 said it's not good for bermuda to kill the bermuda. 1849 01:39:36.159 --> 01:39:39.079 They use a not your False wheeding feet instead. 1850 01:39:42.680 --> 01:39:46.800 I think I think you were getting two products mixed, 1851 01:39:47.039 --> 01:39:51.479 or someone was. A nitrofiss has two products. One contains atrazine, 1852 01:39:51.760 --> 01:39:54.319 which you don't want to use in bermuda. The other 1853 01:39:54.479 --> 01:39:58.439 contains trimec, which is a broad leaf weed killer. H 1854 01:39:58.640 --> 01:40:01.720 The atrozine is a pre emergent. It prevents the weeds, 1855 01:40:02.560 --> 01:40:05.720 but the trimac kills existing weeds and it does not. 1856 01:40:05.880 --> 01:40:09.239 Trimac does not hurt bermuda grass. So the fifteen five 1857 01:40:09.359 --> 01:40:12.720 ten nitroposs with trimac will not hurt your bermuda grass. 1858 01:40:14.399 --> 01:40:16.439 Let me don't don't use the scene. 1859 01:40:17.960 --> 01:40:20.399 What color is that the light blue bag? 1860 01:40:23.439 --> 01:40:25.359 Oh my gosh, hang on just a second. Let me 1861 01:40:25.800 --> 01:40:27.800 let me pull one of those up here in front 1862 01:40:27.840 --> 01:40:31.800 of me. Uh, we're doing shopping on the air, folks. 1863 01:40:32.840 --> 01:40:37.600 This is good, all right, we'll do we'll do this. 1864 01:40:37.840 --> 01:40:39.720 Hang on just a second. I'm trying to find it. 1865 01:40:40.760 --> 01:40:42.680 It may take me a second to pull my sheet 1866 01:40:42.720 --> 01:40:42.920 up on. 1867 01:40:44.840 --> 01:40:46.199 Yeah, it's a it's like a. 1868 01:40:48.359 --> 01:40:50.720 Do you have any Jeopardy music, Jonathan that we could 1869 01:40:50.760 --> 01:40:51.560 play while I'm. 1870 01:40:53.279 --> 01:40:56.680 Well, Hey, I love your show, Skip. I'm outside in 1871 01:40:56.760 --> 01:40:59.720 the coal with my crock oping just for you, so 1872 01:41:00.880 --> 01:41:01.600 making sure. 1873 01:41:01.439 --> 01:41:05.439 Oh my gosh, is that a sacrificer? No, you know 1874 01:41:05.560 --> 01:41:08.319 what I'm not. I'm not gonna take airtime to hunt 1875 01:41:08.439 --> 01:41:12.000 down pictures of bags and stuff. But I it's a 1876 01:41:12.479 --> 01:41:15.600 it's a blue or teal, I think, but I don't 1877 01:41:15.600 --> 01:41:17.760 want to tell you for sure until I actually look 1878 01:41:17.800 --> 01:41:21.239 at it. But anyway, here's the bottom line. You can use, 1879 01:41:21.520 --> 01:41:26.600 you can use. You can use Trimac nitrofoss with Trimac 1880 01:41:26.720 --> 01:41:29.279 fifteen five timetriment. You can use that on Bermuda grass. 1881 01:41:29.279 --> 01:41:31.479 So let's just leave it at that. And I'm gonna 1882 01:41:31.520 --> 01:41:34.119 have to unfortunate, I'm gonna have to run here. But 1883 01:41:34.359 --> 01:41:36.640 don't worry about using that one. Don't use don't use 1884 01:41:36.640 --> 01:41:41.319 the actressne all right, all right, John, thank you? Yeah, yes, sir, 1885 01:41:41.520 --> 01:41:45.720 appreciate that. Yeah. Ace Hardware stores are all over town 1886 01:41:46.279 --> 01:41:49.640 with Ace Hardware. Everything you hear me talk about on Guardline. 1887 01:41:49.680 --> 01:41:52.720 You're gonna find it Ace Hardware. ACE Hardware stores right now. 1888 01:41:53.159 --> 01:41:56.079 This month. I have twenty percent off mon faucets this month. 1889 01:41:56.359 --> 01:41:59.920 They have buy three air filters, get one free this month. 1890 01:42:00.039 --> 01:42:03.920 Take advantage of that. The President's sale on all kinds 1891 01:42:03.920 --> 01:42:06.159 of paint and supplies has been going on at ACE 1892 01:42:06.199 --> 01:42:10.439 Hardware now. No matter what you need, you need to 1893 01:42:10.560 --> 01:42:12.800 first make sure you sign up for the ACEH Rewards 1894 01:42:12.840 --> 01:42:15.560 Program because you get discounts and you get special offers 1895 01:42:15.680 --> 01:42:18.279 only for ACE Rewards customers that are part of the 1896 01:42:18.359 --> 01:42:21.279 ACEH Rewards Program. If they email them directly to you. 1897 01:42:21.439 --> 01:42:26.239 I belong myself. It works. Ace Hardware dot Com. Find 1898 01:42:26.279 --> 01:42:29.119 the store locator, find the stores near you. They are 1899 01:42:29.199 --> 01:42:33.760 all over this listening area. ACE Hardware the place for 1900 01:42:33.880 --> 01:42:37.920 everything you need outside in your lawn and garden and landscape, 1901 01:42:38.079 --> 01:42:43.119 but also a lot of things for indoors. Time for 1902 01:42:43.239 --> 01:42:45.840 me to take a little quick break here. Don't forget today. 1903 01:42:45.960 --> 01:42:49.520 I'm going to be up at ACE Hardware in Willis 1904 01:42:49.760 --> 01:42:53.600 all seasons Ace from twelve noon to two pm. It 1905 01:42:53.720 --> 01:42:57.199 will be dry inside, it will be warm inside. Come 1906 01:42:57.319 --> 01:42:59.960 see me, let's talk gardening. I'll be right back. 1907 01:43:00.399 --> 01:43:01.000 Ride girl. 1908 01:43:01.159 --> 01:43:04.880 Guys, you need to listen to these lyrics, memorize them, 1909 01:43:06.279 --> 01:43:09.359 let them come out of your mouth. Now that's my 1910 01:43:09.439 --> 01:43:11.760 public service announcement. You can thank me later. 1911 01:43:12.279 --> 01:43:15.680 And every time I'm of moms around. 1912 01:43:15.439 --> 01:43:19.800 You, I feel like the frame it gets the whole 1913 01:43:20.159 --> 01:43:24.600 the lias. 1914 01:43:28.520 --> 01:43:31.119 There you go. Thank you Brad Paisley for that advice. 1915 01:43:33.279 --> 01:43:36.159 All right, folks, we're on you are listening to garden Line. 1916 01:43:36.239 --> 01:43:37.119 We're on a role here. 1917 01:43:37.600 --> 01:43:37.720 Uh. 1918 01:43:38.079 --> 01:43:41.079 Sweet Green is a nit frost product that is based 1919 01:43:41.199 --> 01:43:46.079 on a molasses type substance that microbes get a hold 1920 01:43:46.119 --> 01:43:50.199 of and basically they turn it into a high nitrogen 1921 01:43:50.279 --> 01:43:53.079 fertilizer for an organic product, very high nitrogen. It's eleven 1922 01:43:53.359 --> 01:43:57.640 zero zero eleven percent nitrogen. Now being a molasses sugary 1923 01:43:57.840 --> 01:44:00.239 type product, you get it wet. It is all. It 1924 01:44:00.279 --> 01:44:03.399 goes into the soil and it becomes available to those 1925 01:44:03.520 --> 01:44:07.760 plants as microbes interact with those substances that are in 1926 01:44:08.199 --> 01:44:11.800 sweet Green. It smells wonderful. You can find sweet green 1927 01:44:11.880 --> 01:44:15.119 everywhere you find your nitrofoss products. You know places for 1928 01:44:15.359 --> 01:44:19.800 example like Court Hardware down in Stafford, Katie Hardware, Ace 1929 01:44:19.920 --> 01:44:23.680 out on Pinoak plants for all seasons. Luetta the Stanton 1930 01:44:23.720 --> 01:44:26.319 shopping center down in Alvin, just some of the many 1931 01:44:26.359 --> 01:44:31.960 places that carry Sweet Green by Nitrofoss. It's absolutely wonderful. 1932 01:44:32.079 --> 01:44:34.119 I love the fragrance of it. I mean, it's weird 1933 01:44:34.159 --> 01:44:35.680 to sit here and talk and go on and on 1934 01:44:35.760 --> 01:44:38.439 about a fragrance of a fertilizer. But it really is good. 1935 01:44:38.520 --> 01:44:41.520 It really is nice. They've really done their homework, and 1936 01:44:41.960 --> 01:44:45.760 organic sweet Green, that plant food is a great, great 1937 01:44:45.800 --> 01:44:49.119 way to go now. I was talking earlier to somebody. 1938 01:44:49.199 --> 01:44:53.119 We were discussing the nitrofos, the one the wheat and 1939 01:44:53.199 --> 01:44:56.880 feed that has trimec and the wheaton feed that has 1940 01:44:57.399 --> 01:44:59.880 atrozine in it, And the two bag colors are so 1941 01:45:00.159 --> 01:45:02.560 close in my mind's eye, I couldn't picture the difference. 1942 01:45:02.600 --> 01:45:04.680 And I want to be real clear about this. The 1943 01:45:04.840 --> 01:45:07.920 blue bag, the bright blue bag, that is the one 1944 01:45:07.960 --> 01:45:12.920 that has trimec. The purple bag has atrozine. The call 1945 01:45:13.159 --> 01:45:18.840 was about Bermuda grass, Slawns. You don't use atrozine on bermuda, 1946 01:45:19.279 --> 01:45:22.279 but you can use trimech on bermuda. You can use 1947 01:45:22.319 --> 01:45:26.800 trimec on Saint Augustine, Bermuda, centipede, Bhea's zoisia, a lot 1948 01:45:26.880 --> 01:45:30.279 of things. But when it comes to the atrosine product. 1949 01:45:30.399 --> 01:45:33.600 You don't hear me talk about that much. But no, no, no, 1950 01:45:33.920 --> 01:45:37.840 on bermuda with that product only. But the trimeac product 1951 01:45:37.960 --> 01:45:42.479 kills broad leaf weeds. Aderzine prevent weeds from germinating or 1952 01:45:42.560 --> 01:45:45.640 kill very young seedlings too, But the trimec that is 1953 01:45:45.720 --> 01:45:49.000 the one for broad leaf post emergent. The blue bag, 1954 01:45:49.439 --> 01:45:51.239 So no matter what kind of long you have, the 1955 01:45:51.319 --> 01:45:54.640 blue bag will work as a post emergent. I hope 1956 01:45:54.640 --> 01:45:57.159 that's not too confusing. But you know, when we start 1957 01:45:57.199 --> 01:46:00.479 talking about products, and any product can be made used 1958 01:46:00.520 --> 01:46:03.800 any you know, any matter of the product, you got 1959 01:46:03.920 --> 01:46:05.600 to be careful and you've got to follow the label 1960 01:46:05.600 --> 01:46:07.760 and watch it because it matters. It matters, just like 1961 01:46:07.840 --> 01:46:11.279 thinking medicine for your body. Maybe medicine that's making you healthier, 1962 01:46:12.000 --> 01:46:14.039 but if you mistake it or if you take the 1963 01:46:14.119 --> 01:46:18.000 wrong ones, I mean, that's a problem. And so don't 1964 01:46:18.520 --> 01:46:23.000 just be indiscriminate, and please don't do the thing we 1965 01:46:23.199 --> 01:46:27.439 guys often do where if a teaspoons good, a tablespoons better, 1966 01:46:27.720 --> 01:46:30.399 you know it's a swatting a mosquito. I'm going to 1967 01:46:30.439 --> 01:46:33.520 get a sixteen pound sedge hammer and kill it really did. Nah, 1968 01:46:33.680 --> 01:46:37.880 don't take that approach. That will come back to bite you. 1969 01:46:39.319 --> 01:46:43.159 For those of you down in the Seabrook area, down 1970 01:46:44.199 --> 01:46:47.560 south and east of the Houston area, Moss Nursery is 1971 01:46:47.600 --> 01:46:49.560 your hometown garden center. Of course, you've lived down there, 1972 01:46:49.560 --> 01:46:51.960 you probabarily know about Mosh, probably been there to Moss. 1973 01:46:52.560 --> 01:46:55.199 They in the spring. I mean that place is like 1974 01:46:56.800 --> 01:47:00.239 it just lines of trucks, six to eight shipments day 1975 01:47:00.319 --> 01:47:03.439 coming in literally just unloading all kinds of things, and 1976 01:47:03.600 --> 01:47:09.600 right now they are stocked with vegetables and herbs and flowers. 1977 01:47:09.640 --> 01:47:12.520 Of course, always you're gonna find beautiful hanging baskets at 1978 01:47:12.600 --> 01:47:15.960 Moss Nursery. They always have beautiful hanging baskets. If you 1979 01:47:16.039 --> 01:47:18.600 need fruit, trees, if you need shrubs, if you need anything. 1980 01:47:19.199 --> 01:47:21.720 I think one of the most fun parts about Moss 1981 01:47:22.039 --> 01:47:27.079 is walking around the eight acre that's right, eight Acre Nursery, 1982 01:47:27.640 --> 01:47:29.479 and every time you turn a corner you see something 1983 01:47:29.520 --> 01:47:32.359 else cool you didn't expect to see. Maybe it's something 1984 01:47:32.479 --> 01:47:35.760 unusual like a carved out wooden canoe, or maybe it 1985 01:47:35.920 --> 01:47:39.880 is some sort of a sculpture, a garden concrete garden 1986 01:47:40.000 --> 01:47:43.319 sculpture out there, or a different kind of little fountain 1987 01:47:43.439 --> 01:47:47.119 that they've got splashing the water and creating that beautiful ambient. 1988 01:47:47.560 --> 01:47:50.199 This is a seventy year old family operated nursery in 1989 01:47:50.359 --> 01:47:53.479 Seabrook on Toddville Road. For those of you who've never 1990 01:47:53.560 --> 01:47:56.720 been out there, Hey, go down, get you some lunch 1991 01:47:56.800 --> 01:48:00.439 in Kima, and go visit Moss Nursery. Make a nice 1992 01:48:00.520 --> 01:48:03.159 outing of it. It's a great place. They got lots 1993 01:48:03.239 --> 01:48:06.840 of a small cacti and succulents and wonderful tropical house 1994 01:48:06.880 --> 01:48:09.439 plants in the houseplant greenhouse where I promise you it 1995 01:48:09.479 --> 01:48:13.359 will be dry today inside the greenhouse. It's a nursery. 1996 01:48:13.840 --> 01:48:17.199 It's not just another garden center. It is a destination place. 1997 01:48:17.520 --> 01:48:21.399 Moss Nursery dot com, Maas Nursery dot com two eight 1998 01:48:21.479 --> 01:48:24.880 one four seven four twenty four eighty eight two eight 1999 01:48:24.920 --> 01:48:28.520 one four seven four two four eight eight. 2000 01:48:30.319 --> 01:48:30.439 Uh. 2001 01:48:30.640 --> 01:48:32.920 This is the time of year where everybody's asking questions 2002 01:48:32.920 --> 01:48:35.960 about the lawn and fertilizers and about weed control and 2003 01:48:36.039 --> 01:48:37.520 when do I do this and when do I do that. 2004 01:48:38.119 --> 01:48:42.039 I created a schedule it's online at gardeningwith Skip dot com. 2005 01:48:42.119 --> 01:48:45.319 In fact, there's two schedules. One of them is what 2006 01:48:45.439 --> 01:48:48.199 I call the how to have a beautiful lawn schedule, 2007 01:48:48.520 --> 01:48:50.560 and that tells you how to mow, water and fertilize, 2008 01:48:50.600 --> 01:48:53.640 what products to use, when to apply them. The other 2009 01:48:54.119 --> 01:48:56.520 is what goes wrong with your lawn schedule, and it's 2010 01:48:56.680 --> 01:49:00.439 the weeds, the pests, and the diseases that attack lawns 2011 01:49:01.039 --> 01:49:04.279 when they occur, and what to use. Both contain organic 2012 01:49:04.520 --> 01:49:07.800 and synthetic options. So there's a lot of things on 2013 01:49:07.920 --> 01:49:10.960 these schedules that help you time what you're gonna do right. 2014 01:49:11.520 --> 01:49:14.319 For example, right now, if you're going to do a premergent, 2015 01:49:14.560 --> 01:49:16.319 now's the time to do it, because if you wait 2016 01:49:16.399 --> 01:49:18.880 until the weed drop too late, now's the time to 2017 01:49:18.960 --> 01:49:21.079 do it. Now. You get my schedules out and you 2018 01:49:21.159 --> 01:49:24.039 look at all those products, all the organics, all the synthetics, 2019 01:49:24.319 --> 01:49:26.279 and you go, where can I find everything on this 2020 01:49:26.399 --> 01:49:28.680 schedule and everything that comes out of Skip's mouth on 2021 01:49:28.760 --> 01:49:34.439 guarden line. Southwest Fertilizer. Southwest Fertilizer has been around since 2022 01:49:34.600 --> 01:49:41.079 nineteen fifty five. Seventieth anniversary, Happy birthday, Southwest Fertilizer. Happy 2023 01:49:41.119 --> 01:49:44.520 birth I will say, happy birthday, Bob. The congratulations on 2024 01:49:44.720 --> 01:49:50.439 the seventieth anniversary of Southwest Fertilizer. I'm going to hear 2025 01:49:50.479 --> 01:49:52.760 about that the next time I go in there. Anyway, 2026 01:49:53.439 --> 01:49:54.960 anything that comes out of my mouth's going to be 2027 01:49:55.000 --> 01:49:57.840 in that store. They have everything you need. And if 2028 01:49:57.840 --> 01:49:59.520 they don't have it, you don't need it, because they 2029 01:49:59.560 --> 01:50:02.039 have everything you need. It doesn't matter if it's controlling 2030 01:50:02.239 --> 01:50:06.960 bests controlling diseases. Do you need some tools, quality pruning tools? Well, 2031 01:50:07.159 --> 01:50:08.880 do you think if you walked your way down on 2032 01:50:09.000 --> 01:50:11.159 ninety foot wall of tools you could find something? Yes, 2033 01:50:11.279 --> 01:50:13.800 you can, and they're good ones. Do you need seed 2034 01:50:14.000 --> 01:50:16.439 like seed packets? Do you need seed like the bulk seed? 2035 01:50:16.760 --> 01:50:18.680 You know the old time bends used to see those 2036 01:50:18.840 --> 01:50:21.600 like you feed stores in places. You have a bin 2037 01:50:21.680 --> 01:50:23.359 and you get a little scoop and scoop out the 2038 01:50:23.399 --> 01:50:25.640 seed and put it in an Envelope's very economical way 2039 01:50:25.680 --> 01:50:27.840 to buy seed. Bob's got one of those bends there 2040 01:50:28.640 --> 01:50:31.000 at Southwest Fertilizer, so you can do that there too. 2041 01:50:31.399 --> 01:50:33.479 Take them a sample, take them a picture, let them 2042 01:50:33.520 --> 01:50:35.239 put their eyes on it, and they will tell you 2043 01:50:35.560 --> 01:50:37.359 what it is and what you need to do. If 2044 01:50:37.399 --> 01:50:39.279 you need to spray and they're going to have it, 2045 01:50:39.319 --> 01:50:42.079 they'll walk you right over to it. It's friendly service, 2046 01:50:42.199 --> 01:50:46.880 it's quality products, it's unbelievable selection. What else can you 2047 01:50:46.920 --> 01:50:49.600 ask for? Southwest Fertilizer dot Com if you'd like to 2048 01:50:49.640 --> 01:50:52.800 give them a call seven one three six sixty six 2049 01:50:53.279 --> 01:50:56.680 one seven four four seven one three one six sixty 2050 01:50:56.680 --> 01:51:02.159 sixty six one seven four four Now Neilson Plant Food 2051 01:51:02.439 --> 01:51:04.680 has a coup a number of products that are in 2052 01:51:04.920 --> 01:51:07.920 jars OH clear jars of the screw top lead. One 2053 01:51:07.960 --> 01:51:10.399 of the lines of products they have is called nutris Star, 2054 01:51:10.840 --> 01:51:13.199 and there's a nutri Star for all kinds of plants 2055 01:51:13.239 --> 01:51:16.640 from plumerias to hibiscus, to citrus fruit and avocado and 2056 01:51:16.720 --> 01:51:18.640 tree and shrub. Those last two I want to tell 2057 01:51:18.640 --> 01:51:21.800 you about. Tree and shrub has five sources of nitrogen 2058 01:51:21.920 --> 01:51:25.079 that feed for about three or four months, and they 2059 01:51:25.159 --> 01:51:27.439 have the micronutrients in them. I don't care what kind 2060 01:51:27.479 --> 01:51:29.560 of true or shrub you have. This stuff works. No 2061 01:51:29.920 --> 01:51:33.920 nutri Star tree and shrub from Nelson. Now nutri Star 2062 01:51:34.079 --> 01:51:37.399 citrus fruit and avocado. Anything that you're going to grow 2063 01:51:37.439 --> 01:51:40.399 to eat fruit off of, put citrus fruit and avocado 2064 01:51:40.560 --> 01:51:43.039 on it again about every three months. It's going to 2065 01:51:43.079 --> 01:51:45.720 provide all the nutrients that it needs. And you know, 2066 01:51:45.800 --> 01:51:48.159 whether you're growing fruit tree and the landscape or fruit 2067 01:51:48.199 --> 01:51:52.439 tree and a container, nutri Star citrus fruit and avocado 2068 01:51:52.680 --> 01:51:54.800 really really works. And you know a lot of these 2069 01:51:54.880 --> 01:51:58.600 jar products from Nelson. There's several places around town that 2070 01:51:58.640 --> 01:52:00.880 will give you a refill state. So just like you're 2071 01:52:00.920 --> 01:52:03.119 buying peanuts in the grocery store, you know, you put 2072 01:52:03.159 --> 01:52:05.920 a little handle and fill the bag. You can refill 2073 01:52:06.319 --> 01:52:10.760 your Nelson products that way there at the stations, which 2074 01:52:11.000 --> 01:52:13.880 is good for the environment, saves plastic and good for 2075 01:52:13.960 --> 01:52:16.319 your pocket book as well. Time for me to take 2076 01:52:16.359 --> 01:52:21.199 a break. We'll be right back. Hey, welcome to garden Line, folks. 2077 01:52:21.640 --> 01:52:24.439 Good to have you with us. Thank you a little 2078 01:52:24.479 --> 01:52:28.880 bit of pure prairie league there on this good Saturday morning. 2079 01:52:29.159 --> 01:52:33.039 Good Saturday morning to be inside talking about gardening, learning 2080 01:52:33.079 --> 01:52:36.880 about gardening. Glad you're with us today. Listen, if you 2081 01:52:36.960 --> 01:52:39.600 have indoor plants and you are looking for a quality 2082 01:52:39.720 --> 01:52:43.520 product for the soil for those indoor plants, that would 2083 01:52:43.520 --> 01:52:46.159 be jungle land. You know, when you have houseplants and 2084 01:52:46.239 --> 01:52:49.800 a container, you want a soil that drains well. You 2085 01:52:49.920 --> 01:52:53.000 do not want it to stay mucky, soggy, wet. Buddy, 2086 01:52:53.039 --> 01:52:54.479 you do want it to hold water. You don't want 2087 01:52:54.479 --> 01:52:56.800 to water just to run right out and not hold 2088 01:52:56.840 --> 01:52:59.520 any water. Jungle Land is a good quality soil like that, 2089 01:53:00.119 --> 01:53:03.520 and they have an outdoor version called jungle Land Flour 2090 01:53:03.680 --> 01:53:07.520 and Vegetable Potting Soil. I'm talking about the indoor version 2091 01:53:07.560 --> 01:53:10.920 which is called jungle Land water saving potting soil. It 2092 01:53:11.039 --> 01:53:14.560 has these little crystals in it and they get wet 2093 01:53:14.720 --> 01:53:16.960 and swell up. They look like a little clear jello, 2094 01:53:17.560 --> 01:53:21.720 a little tiny pieces of clear jello, and jungle Land 2095 01:53:22.319 --> 01:53:26.079 by doing that allows your soil to dry out but 2096 01:53:26.239 --> 01:53:28.319 still be a little bit of moisture there in case 2097 01:53:28.359 --> 01:53:30.359 you forgot to water. So it makes it, let's say 2098 01:53:30.399 --> 01:53:36.039 more forgiving of a neglectful watering schedule. Jungle Land is 2099 01:53:36.159 --> 01:53:38.199 just one of the many quality products you can get 2100 01:53:38.239 --> 01:53:41.039 from Nitrofosh. You can find it in a wide variety 2101 01:53:41.079 --> 01:53:44.920 of the retailers of Nitrofoss kinds of products. Places you 2102 01:53:45.039 --> 01:53:48.399 know that carry their products include M and D hardware 2103 01:53:48.920 --> 01:53:52.840 that would be on Beamer, Sagemont that MD clear Lake 2104 01:53:52.960 --> 01:53:55.479 out in clear Lake, of course, plants and things up 2105 01:53:55.520 --> 01:53:58.840 in Brennam carries Nitrofoss products and MD up in Cyprus 2106 01:53:59.600 --> 01:54:04.840 on Luetta. They also carry the nitrofoss types of products, 2107 01:54:05.439 --> 01:54:10.000 quality products that work. You were listening to Garden Line. 2108 01:54:10.199 --> 01:54:12.399 Our phone number is seven one three two one two 2109 01:54:12.920 --> 01:54:16.279 ktr H seven one three two one two KTRH Black 2110 01:54:16.319 --> 01:54:18.239 to give us a call and you don't delay. We 2111 01:54:18.319 --> 01:54:20.039 can get you on here before we take a break. 2112 01:54:22.359 --> 01:54:25.319 I was at it in Chanick Gardens not too long ago, 2113 01:54:25.479 --> 01:54:29.079 giving a talk out there on basically lazy gardening is 2114 01:54:29.119 --> 01:54:31.680 how to make gardening less work. And I had a 2115 01:54:31.760 --> 01:54:33.560 really good time with all the folks that came out, 2116 01:54:33.960 --> 01:54:35.960 and being out there just reminds me every time I 2117 01:54:36.039 --> 01:54:39.000 go out, it reminds me again. This place is an 2118 01:54:39.079 --> 01:54:43.279 expanse of everything you could need. This is another garden 2119 01:54:43.399 --> 01:54:46.800 center destination. Family comes to town, take them out there. 2120 01:54:46.840 --> 01:54:48.600 Tomorrow afternoon be a good time to get out too. 2121 01:54:48.640 --> 01:54:51.000 It's gonna be good weather tomorrow to get out there 2122 01:54:51.039 --> 01:54:53.840 doing Chenny Gardens. They are on the Katie fullsher Side 2123 01:54:53.840 --> 01:54:57.159 of Richmond on FM three point fifty nine. So uh, 2124 01:54:57.520 --> 01:54:59.079 I would just do it this way. I would just 2125 01:54:59.119 --> 01:55:01.760 go to the website because there you're gonna find out everything. 2126 01:55:01.840 --> 01:55:05.119 You can sign up for the newsletter it's an awesome website. 2127 01:55:05.119 --> 01:55:10.600 It's Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot 2128 01:55:10.680 --> 01:55:13.760 com has been around since nineteen ninety five, and it 2129 01:55:13.960 --> 01:55:20.199 is truly an unforgettable garden center. Herbs and vegetables and 2130 01:55:20.960 --> 01:55:24.119 native plants and roses and shrubs and trees and fruit 2131 01:55:24.199 --> 01:55:28.720 and hanging baskets and just succulents and beautiful. Gosh, their 2132 01:55:28.800 --> 01:55:33.039 pottery selections unbelievable. Gift shops are unbelievable. I mean, it's 2133 01:55:33.119 --> 01:55:35.359 just you name it. It's good. You hear me talk 2134 01:55:35.359 --> 01:55:38.920 about fertilizers like Microlife, nitroposs, Nelson Medina, they got them. 2135 01:55:39.439 --> 01:55:42.039 You hear me talk about soil, Major's Way heirloom so 2136 01:55:42.159 --> 01:55:45.399 they carry that stuff. They just everything you need, brown 2137 01:55:45.439 --> 01:55:48.000 stuff and green stuff. They got you covered out there 2138 01:55:48.000 --> 01:55:51.239 at in Chanty Gardens, including some really nice fountains and 2139 01:55:51.399 --> 01:55:56.319 wim chimes and Whimsickle garden art. It's hard for me 2140 01:55:56.439 --> 01:56:00.680 to say Whimsickle anyway, it's a fun play. You need 2141 01:56:00.720 --> 01:56:03.319 to go if you haven't been, and you know, a 2142 01:56:03.359 --> 01:56:06.319 little bit misty today, I understand that, but I'm telling 2143 01:56:06.359 --> 01:56:09.399 you tomorrow afternoon, Oh gosh, you gotta get out there. 2144 01:56:09.520 --> 01:56:11.720 Don't delay. Hey, you want first pick? By the way, 2145 01:56:11.760 --> 01:56:13.279 I got a bunch of tomatoes in I saw the 2146 01:56:13.359 --> 01:56:15.439 other day. Don't let them get all picked over. Get 2147 01:56:15.479 --> 01:56:17.319 out and get your own there while you still have 2148 01:56:17.439 --> 01:56:21.079 a really good supply. We're going to head now up 2149 01:56:21.199 --> 01:56:25.359 to Nederland and talk to Randy. Hello, Randy, welcome to 2150 01:56:25.439 --> 01:56:25.920 garden Line. 2151 01:56:27.279 --> 01:56:28.279 How are you this morning? 2152 01:56:29.680 --> 01:56:31.199 I'm good, sir. How can we help? 2153 01:56:33.359 --> 01:56:35.760 I'd just like skip to get your thoughts on to 2154 01:56:36.039 --> 01:56:38.800 use a blossom set on tomatoes? 2155 01:56:40.199 --> 01:56:45.239 Okay, all right? So the products that are used for 2156 01:56:45.359 --> 01:56:49.439 blossom set are a hormone that is the same hormone 2157 01:56:49.520 --> 01:56:53.119 that seeds produce. And so what happens is when a tomato, 2158 01:56:53.399 --> 01:56:55.760 for whatever reason, it could be cold weather, you know 2159 01:56:55.920 --> 01:56:59.920 night's done in the fifties and things, the pollen doesn't 2160 01:57:00.239 --> 01:57:05.760 grow and fertilize the tomato developed they did. It doesn't 2161 01:57:05.760 --> 01:57:08.800 grow fast enough, and the flowers aboard. In the summertime, 2162 01:57:09.439 --> 01:57:12.119 the pollen doesn't shed right and get to where it 2163 01:57:12.199 --> 01:57:14.800 needs to be, and the tomatoes aboard, and so blossom 2164 01:57:14.920 --> 01:57:17.720 set is a way of getting the tomato to not 2165 01:57:17.840 --> 01:57:20.079 abort that little blossom, but to hang on to it 2166 01:57:20.680 --> 01:57:23.560 and to help it to establish and grow, and so 2167 01:57:23.680 --> 01:57:26.479 it's kind of a way around some of those issues 2168 01:57:26.600 --> 01:57:31.239 that can happen with tomatoes in general. If you've got 2169 01:57:31.399 --> 01:57:34.960 decent weather conditions and if your tomatoes are moving a 2170 01:57:35.039 --> 01:57:38.000 little bit in the wind, you're going to get good 2171 01:57:38.119 --> 01:57:41.760 Set in a greenhouse where there's no wind. They actually 2172 01:57:41.840 --> 01:57:44.920 go in and shake the vines in different ways of 2173 01:57:45.079 --> 01:57:47.720 doing that, but they shake the vines and cause that 2174 01:57:49.279 --> 01:57:51.920 pollen to fall into the flower right where it can 2175 01:57:52.000 --> 01:57:54.720 pollinate it. Tomatoes don't have to have a bee carrying 2176 01:57:54.800 --> 01:57:57.800 pollen from flower to flower. They just need the flower 2177 01:57:57.840 --> 01:57:59.439 to be moved around and shaken. 2178 01:58:00.720 --> 01:58:05.000 Yes, sir, yes, sir. Does this change the makeup of 2179 01:58:05.119 --> 01:58:08.840 the tomato at all? The taste, of size, the just 2180 01:58:08.960 --> 01:58:09.920 make it a different. 2181 01:58:09.680 --> 01:58:14.279 Tomato, not taste, maybe size a little bit. You know, 2182 01:58:14.439 --> 01:58:18.039 seeds help contribute to the size of a fruit. If 2183 01:58:18.079 --> 01:58:20.720 you ever see an apple that's lopsided and you cut 2184 01:58:20.760 --> 01:58:22.279 it in half, you're going to see the seeds on 2185 01:58:22.399 --> 01:58:26.800 that shrunken side are gone. They're not there. The hormone 2186 01:58:26.920 --> 01:58:29.079 seeds release do that, so you're gonna get a little 2187 01:58:29.079 --> 01:58:30.079 bit of that effect on them. 2188 01:58:31.960 --> 01:58:35.119 Okay, all right, Skip I appreciate it. I use it 2189 01:58:35.319 --> 01:58:38.399 and it does well for me, and I just won't good. 2190 01:58:38.439 --> 01:58:42.000 And if I was changing the tomato in any way, No, 2191 01:58:42.159 --> 01:58:42.399 you're not. 2192 01:58:42.680 --> 01:58:46.800 You're just taking what nature is not providing in the 2193 01:58:46.920 --> 01:58:49.640 case of a tomato that's not being pollinated, right, and 2194 01:58:49.760 --> 01:58:53.560 you're giving it that same hormone in the place what. 2195 01:58:53.640 --> 01:58:57.159 The seed would have done, just making it, just making 2196 01:58:57.239 --> 01:58:58.479 it hold a little longer. 2197 01:59:00.119 --> 01:59:02.640 Go all right, good luck with it now. You know 2198 01:59:02.720 --> 01:59:05.800 on garden Line. You know the policy on Guardline, Randy 2199 01:59:05.960 --> 01:59:09.279 is the advice is free. But I do expect any 2200 01:59:09.399 --> 01:59:12.119 tomatoes that you have based on this advice for you 2201 01:59:12.199 --> 01:59:14.039 to share half of them with me. So bring them 2202 01:59:14.079 --> 01:59:17.119 to the station. We'll call it even thanks, Okay, I'll 2203 01:59:17.199 --> 01:59:17.359 do it. 2204 01:59:17.479 --> 01:59:19.119 I've got a few starting right now. 2205 01:59:20.760 --> 01:59:23.720 I'm joking. Thank you a lot. I appreciate that. All right, boy, 2206 01:59:23.840 --> 01:59:25.720 the phone took off here. I'll see how many we 2207 01:59:25.760 --> 01:59:27.159 can get too before we have to go to break. 2208 01:59:27.199 --> 01:59:29.199 We're going to go out to Cypress now and talk 2209 01:59:29.239 --> 01:59:31.600 to Marsino. Hey Marsino, welcome to guard Line. 2210 01:59:32.760 --> 01:59:34.119 Hi Skop, good morning, how are you. 2211 01:59:35.520 --> 01:59:36.319 I'm well? Thank you? 2212 01:59:37.960 --> 01:59:39.119 So I sent you a couple of. 2213 01:59:39.199 --> 01:59:42.520 Pictures I had some large, two large live oak trees 2214 01:59:42.600 --> 01:59:45.640 in my front yard and the roots are superficial and 2215 01:59:45.800 --> 01:59:48.279 they're not allowing grass to grow on top of them. 2216 01:59:48.560 --> 01:59:50.279 And I'm also having a lot of low spots, so 2217 01:59:50.279 --> 01:59:51.239 they're a bit of a tripper. 2218 01:59:53.039 --> 01:59:58.880 Okay, yeah, I got so. So bottom line on those 2219 01:59:59.319 --> 02:00:03.079 h I would fill in with soil slowly, you know, 2220 02:00:03.239 --> 02:00:06.920 maybe an inch or two at a time, just add 2221 02:00:06.960 --> 02:00:09.319 about an inch. The grass will come up on through 2222 02:00:09.399 --> 02:00:13.960 them and you'll avoid those tripper and lawnmower target roots 2223 02:00:14.000 --> 02:00:16.600 that are up near the surface. You do need good 2224 02:00:16.680 --> 02:00:19.239 light for the grass to grow. And looking at your grass, 2225 02:00:19.279 --> 02:00:20.880 it almost looks like maybe you have a little take 2226 02:00:20.920 --> 02:00:22.880 all root rod in there. I can't tell from a 2227 02:00:22.960 --> 02:00:27.159 picture alone, but it may be that you're needing to 2228 02:00:27.279 --> 02:00:29.279 do a little bit of a treatment of that lawn. 2229 02:00:29.439 --> 02:00:33.600 And on my schedule online at gardening with Skip dot com, 2230 02:00:34.239 --> 02:00:36.119 I have take all root rod on there and the 2231 02:00:36.199 --> 02:00:39.159 things to use and when to use them. So I 2232 02:00:39.239 --> 02:00:42.720 would do that just as a precaution because I'm about 2233 02:00:42.800 --> 02:00:45.840 eighty percent sure that you've got some take all in there. 2234 02:00:46.359 --> 02:00:48.680 Okay, so go ahead and for the take all root 2235 02:00:48.760 --> 02:00:52.199 drops and then add in one to two inches. How 2236 02:00:52.319 --> 02:00:54.319 often do I add that inches? I did it most 2237 02:00:54.359 --> 02:00:56.319 of last year. I added in about an inch of 2238 02:00:56.399 --> 02:00:59.680 soil in those areas every one two months. 2239 02:01:01.079 --> 02:01:03.079 Yeah, you can do that. You can do that gradually 2240 02:01:03.199 --> 02:01:05.319 over time. You just don't want to put three inches 2241 02:01:05.359 --> 02:01:07.319 over the whole root system of a tree at once. 2242 02:01:07.600 --> 02:01:10.479 That's too stressful tree. But what you're doing is just fine. 2243 02:01:10.880 --> 02:01:18.279 All right, Okay, you're good, you bet all right. Music 2244 02:01:18.399 --> 02:01:20.680 means time for me to quit talking. We've got top 2245 02:01:20.720 --> 02:01:25.479 of our news. When we come back. Patricia in Bellville, 2246 02:01:25.760 --> 02:01:27.840 Lisa and Houston, you two are going to be some 2247 02:01:27.960 --> 02:01:29.920 of our first two callers when we come right back. 2248 02:01:29.920 --> 02:01:32.560 If you can hang around at that time, don't forget today. 2249 02:01:33.199 --> 02:01:38.000 Guess what noon, Willis be there or be squared. I'm 2250 02:01:38.039 --> 02:01:41.359 going to be at the All Seasons Ace Hardware and 2251 02:01:41.479 --> 02:01:44.760 Willis All Seasons Ace Hardware and Willis. We're going to 2252 02:01:44.760 --> 02:01:47.079 be giving away some Nelson products. We're going to be 2253 02:01:47.159 --> 02:01:50.359 given away some products from the fine folks at Medina 2254 02:01:50.479 --> 02:01:53.600 as well. I'll have some Texas Gardener magazines on hand. 2255 02:01:53.640 --> 02:01:54.960 If you haven't seen it, you've got to see that. 2256 02:01:55.479 --> 02:01:58.399 Bring these samples, let's talk, let's meet, I'll have plenty 2257 02:01:58.479 --> 02:02:01.800 of time that is up there at all seasons. Ace 2258 02:02:01.920 --> 02:02:02.479 Hardware and. 2259 02:02:02.720 --> 02:02:09.399 Willis welcome to Katie r. H. Garden Line with Skip Richter's. 2260 02:02:15.760 --> 02:02:25.239 Trip. Just watch him as so many good things to 2261 02:02:25.359 --> 02:02:34.439 set a sad. 2262 02:02:40.000 --> 02:02:46.039 All right, folks, we're back. You're back with Garden Line. 2263 02:02:46.239 --> 02:02:49.520 I'm your host, Skip Richter. We're here to help you 2264 02:02:49.640 --> 02:02:53.439 have a bountiful garden, a beautiful landscape. And maybe this 2265 02:02:53.640 --> 02:02:56.479 is almost the most important of all, more fun in 2266 02:02:56.560 --> 02:02:59.920 the process. Gardening is supposed to be fun. It is, 2267 02:03:00.359 --> 02:03:02.920 and it can be. All you got to do is 2268 02:03:03.199 --> 02:03:06.279 inform your thumb and watch it turn green. That's kind 2269 02:03:06.279 --> 02:03:09.880 of how it works when you use quality products. When 2270 02:03:10.039 --> 02:03:12.319 you give a plant what it wants, you're going to 2271 02:03:12.359 --> 02:03:15.840 have success. For example, you get a new transplant, it's 2272 02:03:15.920 --> 02:03:18.880 time to you know, people buying tomatoes and herbs and 2273 02:03:19.119 --> 02:03:20.920 rose bushes and all kinds of things to put in 2274 02:03:21.000 --> 02:03:23.640 the ground, and all that root system is sort of 2275 02:03:23.760 --> 02:03:26.960 wound up in that little cylinder of soil that came 2276 02:03:27.079 --> 02:03:30.119 with the container. That's the whole root system. You want 2277 02:03:30.159 --> 02:03:33.319 those roots to quickly begin to spread out, go out, 2278 02:03:33.479 --> 02:03:36.359 not not like a root unwinds. But I'm saying, send 2279 02:03:36.399 --> 02:03:40.039 out new roots into the soil around it so that 2280 02:03:40.119 --> 02:03:43.279 it establishes quickly because summer's coming. It's hard to believe 2281 02:03:43.319 --> 02:03:45.680 on a day like this, but summer's coming, and you 2282 02:03:45.760 --> 02:03:47.399 want to give that plant the most time it has. 2283 02:03:47.479 --> 02:03:48.079 So what do you do? 2284 02:03:48.479 --> 02:03:52.000 You get a quality product like Medinas has to grow 2285 02:03:52.159 --> 02:03:55.960 six twelve six six percent nitrogen, twelve percent phosphorus, six 2286 02:03:56.039 --> 02:03:59.399 percent potassium. Mix it in water. You will not burn 2287 02:03:59.479 --> 02:04:02.239 with this produce. It is not a salt based fertilizer 2288 02:04:02.359 --> 02:04:04.800 going to it cannot burn your plants. You mix it 2289 02:04:04.880 --> 02:04:07.640 with water. It's got Medina soil activator in it stimulates 2290 02:04:07.680 --> 02:04:11.720 biological activity. It's got humid humic acid which humic acids 2291 02:04:11.760 --> 02:04:16.560 humus all improves soil structure, making a better soil for 2292 02:04:16.680 --> 02:04:20.119 better nutrient uptake. That's got seaweed extracts in it. You 2293 02:04:20.199 --> 02:04:21.840 can follow your feed with it too. By the way, 2294 02:04:22.199 --> 02:04:24.800 but I'm talking about here, watering in a trenchplant with it. 2295 02:04:25.079 --> 02:04:26.880 Just one of the ways you can use Medina has 2296 02:04:26.960 --> 02:04:30.319 to grow six twelve six. That twelve percent phosphorus is 2297 02:04:30.439 --> 02:04:34.039 for roots. That helps the roots established. I do it 2298 02:04:34.199 --> 02:04:36.960 when I plant a plant, I do it again. A 2299 02:04:37.039 --> 02:04:39.119 week later, just get a watering can, mix it in 2300 02:04:39.199 --> 02:04:41.640 according to label, water and in, and then a week 2301 02:04:41.720 --> 02:04:44.199 later after that, So three times a week apart, I'm 2302 02:04:44.239 --> 02:04:47.279 putting that Medina six twelve six a hash to go 2303 02:04:47.439 --> 02:04:50.960 six twelve six. Plant food on the plant and getting 2304 02:04:51.000 --> 02:04:53.119 it the best head start. That's one of the secrets 2305 02:04:53.239 --> 02:04:56.039 to transplanting success. It's one of the things. You know, 2306 02:04:56.199 --> 02:04:58.520 Each little thing we do that makes it a little better, 2307 02:04:58.680 --> 02:05:00.680 a little better, a little easy for the plant, a 2308 02:05:00.720 --> 02:05:03.880 little more stimulating for the plant. Everything along those lines 2309 02:05:04.039 --> 02:05:06.640 gets you where you're trying to get. And Medina products 2310 02:05:07.079 --> 02:05:10.359 are always going to be an effective way to have 2311 02:05:10.479 --> 02:05:13.920 a better, more beautiful garden. And guess what if you 2312 02:05:13.960 --> 02:05:16.640 would like to try some Medina products. Show up today 2313 02:05:17.319 --> 02:05:21.000 at All Seasons Ace Hardware and Willis twelve pm noon, 2314 02:05:21.119 --> 02:05:23.399 Grab some lunch first, come up there twelve pm to two. 2315 02:05:23.840 --> 02:05:25.880 I have been guaranteed that it will be warm and 2316 02:05:25.960 --> 02:05:31.800 it will not be raining inside inside All Seasons Ace Hardware. 2317 02:05:31.880 --> 02:05:33.920 Bring me some samples and who knows, you might win 2318 02:05:34.439 --> 02:05:38.159 one of the giveaways from Medina. Also some from Nelson too. 2319 02:05:38.159 --> 02:05:40.720 While we're up there, looking forward to that. All right, 2320 02:05:40.760 --> 02:05:43.479 I'm going to run down now to Houston and talk 2321 02:05:43.520 --> 02:05:47.439 to Lisa. Hey, Lisa, welcome to garden Line. Oh thank you. 2322 02:05:49.199 --> 02:05:54.000 My question is I would like to do my backyard 2323 02:05:54.159 --> 02:05:58.159 over in native plants that are be and vert attractors, 2324 02:05:58.279 --> 02:06:01.199 but I don't and I want to make beautiful. So 2325 02:06:01.319 --> 02:06:04.039 do you have any recommendations on who I could call 2326 02:06:04.159 --> 02:06:04.359 for that? 2327 02:06:06.039 --> 02:06:06.239 Yeah? 2328 02:06:06.479 --> 02:06:08.680 Well there are a number of good landscapers out there. 2329 02:06:08.960 --> 02:06:14.359 Who who I'm sorry who where exactly in the Houston 2330 02:06:14.439 --> 02:06:17.800 area are you located? What part of Houston area? 2331 02:06:19.920 --> 02:06:22.840 We live in Westbury, southwest, Houston. 2332 02:06:22.520 --> 02:06:28.840 Area west okay, southwest, So I would I would talk 2333 02:06:28.880 --> 02:06:32.399 to Jorge at Jorges Hidden Gardens. He does some landscaping himself. 2334 02:06:33.079 --> 02:06:35.960 He possibly would be one who could come out and 2335 02:06:36.079 --> 02:06:39.000 help you with that. I would, and I would also. 2336 02:06:39.119 --> 02:06:41.880 I don't stay up to date on all the landscapers 2337 02:06:41.920 --> 02:06:45.239 all over, but you might want to talk to BMB 2338 02:06:45.399 --> 02:06:49.600 turf Pros, which is in that area just a little 2339 02:06:49.640 --> 02:06:54.880 southwest to be there. They do the compost top dressing 2340 02:06:55.279 --> 02:06:59.319 and the fertilization, they do aeration and things. If they 2341 02:06:59.439 --> 02:07:02.119 can't do the like that, they would tell you who could. 2342 02:07:02.479 --> 02:07:04.760 And they're going to be more familiar with the people 2343 02:07:04.920 --> 02:07:08.119 right around their area right down there that you might 2344 02:07:08.199 --> 02:07:11.239 want to reach out to. Those would be a couple 2345 02:07:11.319 --> 02:07:14.880 of good ones and and and I'm sorry, go ahead, Lisa. 2346 02:07:16.119 --> 02:07:17.359 Could you repeat that last one? 2347 02:07:17.479 --> 02:07:18.680 B and B Turf. 2348 02:07:20.159 --> 02:07:25.720 Turf Pros BnB turf Pros there. We usually refer people 2349 02:07:25.800 --> 02:07:32.079 to them for landscape, lawn aeration and top dressing down 2350 02:07:32.159 --> 02:07:36.479 in that area. Okay, But any way you go, let 2351 02:07:36.520 --> 02:07:38.439 me give you a phone number for them. You're just 2352 02:07:38.520 --> 02:07:41.520 going to ask them, you know, they typically aren't a 2353 02:07:41.680 --> 02:07:44.880 big landscaping company to my knowledge, but the phone number 2354 02:07:44.960 --> 02:07:48.680 seven one three two three four fifty five ninety eight. 2355 02:07:48.920 --> 02:07:50.960 That would be great for your lawn, by the way, 2356 02:07:51.199 --> 02:07:53.880 but they can probably direct you also any good great 2357 02:07:53.960 --> 02:07:55.920 garden center. You know, you talk to a good garden 2358 02:07:56.000 --> 02:07:57.680 center and they're going to be able to point you 2359 02:07:57.760 --> 02:08:00.479 to good landscapers because they deal with them. And you 2360 02:08:00.720 --> 02:08:03.319 talked about at Southwest Fertilizer over there, and ask them 2361 02:08:03.640 --> 02:08:06.239 who they have found to be good for that area 2362 02:08:06.319 --> 02:08:11.840 of town. All right, Well, thank you so much. All right, Lisa, 2363 02:08:11.920 --> 02:08:16.239 thanks for the call. Appreciate that. See here all right, 2364 02:08:16.800 --> 02:08:19.359 speaking of good advice, Oh my gosh, at Lisa, I 2365 02:08:19.399 --> 02:08:22.840 should have mentioned this to you. Cienam malts for crying 2366 02:08:22.880 --> 02:08:24.479 out loud. That should have been the first ink in 2367 02:08:24.600 --> 02:08:27.680 my mind. Santa Maltch is down south and south to 2368 02:08:27.800 --> 02:08:30.800 a little bit southwest of Houston. They are near Highway 2369 02:08:30.840 --> 02:08:33.520 six and two eighty eight on FM five point twenty one. 2370 02:08:33.960 --> 02:08:38.720 They carry everything you need for the soil, everything composts, 2371 02:08:39.239 --> 02:08:43.359 bed mixes, fertilizers. I'm talking about products from Microlife and 2372 02:08:43.439 --> 02:08:48.720 Nilsen turf star Line, products from Medina, products from nitroposs azamite. 2373 02:08:48.760 --> 02:08:51.600 You hear me bragging on those earlier. Today products from 2374 02:08:51.640 --> 02:08:55.039 heirloom soils like the veggie and herb mix. They have mulches, 2375 02:08:55.119 --> 02:08:58.680 they have landscape stone, they have gravel, they have sand, 2376 02:08:58.800 --> 02:09:01.479 they have palettes, they have the flat rock for creating patio. 2377 02:09:01.520 --> 02:09:05.520 They have everything. Sienna Moltz dot com is the website 2378 02:09:05.600 --> 02:09:08.319 Cienamultch dot com. Now you go into Ciana Maltch, Lisa, 2379 02:09:08.359 --> 02:09:10.880 if you're still listening, going to Ceanamult and say, hey, 2380 02:09:11.319 --> 02:09:14.239 what landscapers do you recommend that might serve my area? 2381 02:09:14.239 --> 02:09:16.800 And Cianama's a little south and west of you, but 2382 02:09:16.920 --> 02:09:19.119 they may have some good ideas there too, because a 2383 02:09:19.239 --> 02:09:21.920 lot of landscapers know to go to Ciena Maultch for 2384 02:09:22.159 --> 02:09:25.880 high quality stuff. That's all they deal with in Sienna 2385 02:09:26.000 --> 02:09:29.119 is high quality. And if you are a homeowner and 2386 02:09:29.239 --> 02:09:31.560 you would like them to deliver, they deliver within about 2387 02:09:31.600 --> 02:09:35.159 twenty miles for a fee of that area. Or you 2388 02:09:35.239 --> 02:09:37.920 can just drive in, take your pickup, take your trailer, 2389 02:09:38.079 --> 02:09:39.800 or just buy it by the bag. They have a 2390 02:09:39.920 --> 02:09:45.600 lot of products buy the bag as well. All righty well, 2391 02:09:45.720 --> 02:09:49.159 I'm needing to take a quick break, Patricia, you'll be 2392 02:09:49.279 --> 02:09:51.920 first when we come back. We're working our way towards 2393 02:09:51.920 --> 02:09:54.159 you up the line. Hang on out there in Bellville. 2394 02:09:54.199 --> 02:09:58.600 We'll be right back. We are back. We're going to 2395 02:09:58.640 --> 02:10:00.239 be heading to your calls here and long. In a 2396 02:10:00.279 --> 02:10:04.520 second time, when I think about RCW Nursery, I think 2397 02:10:04.640 --> 02:10:08.479 about a family garden center. Has been around since nineteen 2398 02:10:08.800 --> 02:10:11.600 seventy nine, opened by the Williamson family, still run by 2399 02:10:11.640 --> 02:10:15.359 the Williamson family. They raise their own trees up there 2400 02:10:15.439 --> 02:10:18.039 in Plannersville. So when you go to RCW and you 2401 02:10:18.159 --> 02:10:20.800 buy a tree or a shrub, there's a good chance 2402 02:10:20.880 --> 02:10:24.720 they grew it themselves up there in the Plannersville area. 2403 02:10:24.800 --> 02:10:27.359 So that means they picked a species that wants to 2404 02:10:27.399 --> 02:10:29.319 grow here, so you're going to have success with it. 2405 02:10:29.479 --> 02:10:32.279 They grew it in the right way, so it's ready 2406 02:10:32.319 --> 02:10:35.159 to hit the ground running in your landscape. And they'll 2407 02:10:35.199 --> 02:10:36.800 give you advice, you know, they'll tell you how to 2408 02:10:36.840 --> 02:10:38.479 plant it. They'll say you the products to go along, 2409 02:10:38.560 --> 02:10:41.079 fee on a root stimulator whatever. They've got it all there, 2410 02:10:41.920 --> 02:10:43.520 or they'll come out and do it. You know, if 2411 02:10:43.520 --> 02:10:47.199 it's of some size, have them do it. Unless you 2412 02:10:47.319 --> 02:10:50.319 just enjoy putting your chiropractors kids through college. Don't try 2413 02:10:50.359 --> 02:10:52.720 to pick that thing up yourself, but they can come 2414 02:10:52.760 --> 02:10:55.800 out and professionally plant it for you. Right now, it 2415 02:10:55.960 --> 02:10:59.600 is rose season at RCW and that place is loaded 2416 02:10:59.640 --> 02:11:05.319 with rcwnurseries dot com. That's the website you can get information. 2417 02:11:05.399 --> 02:11:07.960 You can get the roselist and see all the varieties 2418 02:11:08.000 --> 02:11:10.479 they have. As I've been telling you for weeks. Now, 2419 02:11:10.720 --> 02:11:13.920 the sooner you go by there, the better selection you're 2420 02:11:14.000 --> 02:11:18.960 going to get. Because everybody knows euston rosarians know. RCW 2421 02:11:19.119 --> 02:11:21.560 Nurseries got them all. They got all these roses there 2422 02:11:21.760 --> 02:11:24.119 and they head there to get their roses. And so 2423 02:11:24.520 --> 02:11:27.239 don't wait too long if you want to be able 2424 02:11:27.279 --> 02:11:29.800 to pick all the different kinds of varieties that you 2425 02:11:29.920 --> 02:11:33.720 might want to grow in your landscape at RCW nurseries 2426 02:11:33.720 --> 02:11:37.720 dot com. That is the nursery that's located where Beltway 2427 02:11:37.760 --> 02:11:40.760 eight and Highway two forty nine we call Tomball Parkway 2428 02:11:41.000 --> 02:11:43.640 where they come together. It's easy to get to and 2429 02:11:43.720 --> 02:11:45.680 when you get there, you're going to find what you need. 2430 02:11:45.840 --> 02:11:48.199 And if they don't have it, I'll bet you they 2431 02:11:48.279 --> 02:11:50.640 can get it for you. We're going to go out 2432 02:11:50.680 --> 02:11:54.359 to Belleville now and talk to Patricia. Hello, Patricia, welcome 2433 02:11:54.399 --> 02:11:56.680 to garden Line. Right, thanks skip. 2434 02:11:57.159 --> 02:11:58.039 Can you hear me? Okay? 2435 02:11:59.399 --> 02:12:01.119 I can? Okay? 2436 02:12:01.199 --> 02:12:01.359 Good? 2437 02:12:02.039 --> 02:12:04.720 What I'm calling about our cutter ants. I have an 2438 02:12:04.800 --> 02:12:08.840 infestation here on our six acres and I've tried everything 2439 02:12:09.000 --> 02:12:12.399 and nothing gets rid of them. And they are, you know, 2440 02:12:12.560 --> 02:12:14.800 totally devastating my plants. 2441 02:12:15.880 --> 02:12:16.479 What can I do? 2442 02:12:16.920 --> 02:12:17.119 Yeah? 2443 02:12:17.199 --> 02:12:22.159 They are quite a challenge. There there used to be 2444 02:12:22.960 --> 02:12:26.239 there is a bait and it's one of the amro baits. 2445 02:12:26.439 --> 02:12:28.560 And now I'm going to have to try to remember 2446 02:12:28.800 --> 02:12:32.399 which one is it that you can use for the 2447 02:12:32.560 --> 02:12:36.600 leaf cutter ants, And that has just escaped my brain. 2448 02:12:36.640 --> 02:12:38.520 I have to think here a little bit. If I 2449 02:12:38.560 --> 02:12:42.159 don't think of it while we are talking. I will 2450 02:12:42.439 --> 02:12:46.479 I will think of it, and I'll say it on 2451 02:12:46.560 --> 02:12:49.079 the air. But the problem with leaf cutters is they 2452 02:12:49.720 --> 02:12:53.479 cut the leaves off, take them into their underground chamber, 2453 02:12:54.000 --> 02:12:57.039 and stick them to the ceiling of the chamber, and 2454 02:12:57.159 --> 02:13:00.560 then they eat the fungus that grows on the leaf 2455 02:13:00.640 --> 02:13:06.560 cutter ants. Okay, so the putting a putting a poison out, 2456 02:13:06.680 --> 02:13:09.800 it's not like they're it just doesn't work as well 2457 02:13:09.960 --> 02:13:12.479 to try to do it that way. So what I 2458 02:13:12.479 --> 02:13:15.479 would recommend is you can do a couple of things. 2459 02:13:15.640 --> 02:13:19.079 I have dusted the trails with orthene coming out of 2460 02:13:19.159 --> 02:13:22.319 the leaf cutter mound, and if you do that, what 2461 02:13:22.439 --> 02:13:25.439 you're gonna find is it cuts down on them because 2462 02:13:25.439 --> 02:13:29.399 they have to they have to track through that orthene, 2463 02:13:29.960 --> 02:13:33.479 and in tracking through the orthene, they end up grooming 2464 02:13:33.560 --> 02:13:36.239 themselves and getting the poison on them. That way, that 2465 02:13:36.439 --> 02:13:38.920 is not a way to eradicate a mound, but it 2466 02:13:39.039 --> 02:13:42.079 will suppress their activity so you don't lose two trees 2467 02:13:42.119 --> 02:13:45.319 a night as they get out there and get working, 2468 02:13:45.600 --> 02:13:47.880 get working on it, because they're really bad about that. 2469 02:13:49.000 --> 02:13:52.960 But uh, I just the actual products is just escaping me. 2470 02:13:53.000 --> 02:13:54.800 I'm gonna have to I'm have to hunt it down 2471 02:13:54.840 --> 02:13:57.560 for you, but but we can give you some advice 2472 02:13:57.640 --> 02:13:59.319 on that. I need to probably you know what I 2473 02:13:59.399 --> 02:14:01.840 need to do. I need to just go ahead and 2474 02:14:02.439 --> 02:14:05.039 put that on my website. I will add something like 2475 02:14:05.159 --> 02:14:06.720 that to the website. All right. I just found it 2476 02:14:07.399 --> 02:14:11.720 talk long enoughter. I found it some If you do 2477 02:14:13.560 --> 02:14:17.840 the andro ant block. They did some studies on Amro 2478 02:14:18.319 --> 02:14:24.359 ant block. It's about fifty percent effective against the leaf cutter, 2479 02:14:24.479 --> 02:14:27.960 not one hundred percent, but it's different than the Amro 2480 02:14:28.119 --> 02:14:31.760 fire ant bait. But some people will take a mixture 2481 02:14:31.920 --> 02:14:37.720 of Amro ant block and Extinguish fire ant bait andro 2482 02:14:37.880 --> 02:14:41.319 Ant block and Extinguish fire ant bait, and they'll make 2483 02:14:41.399 --> 02:14:44.119 them fifty to fifty. They'll put them in a bucket 2484 02:14:44.439 --> 02:14:48.000 and they'll let that bucket sip for several weeks, like 2485 02:14:48.119 --> 02:14:51.199 three or four weeks, and in doing so, the products 2486 02:14:51.319 --> 02:14:54.399 sort of infuse together, and when they put it out 2487 02:14:54.760 --> 02:14:56.920 it is pretty effective. And a lot of our local 2488 02:14:57.000 --> 02:15:00.880 pest control operators swear that that wre for them. So 2489 02:15:01.000 --> 02:15:05.119 it's Amro ant block and Extinguish fire ant bait, two 2490 02:15:05.119 --> 02:15:09.319 different products mixed together, set for three weeks or four 2491 02:15:09.840 --> 02:15:12.039 and then put them out as a bait, and it 2492 02:15:12.119 --> 02:15:14.119 seems to work pretty well. Just make sure I always 2493 02:15:14.159 --> 02:15:17.520 use fresh products with ants with any baits you choose. 2494 02:15:17.920 --> 02:15:20.119 If the if the bait has been sitting there and 2495 02:15:20.239 --> 02:15:22.000 kind of gone rancid, the inter are going to pick 2496 02:15:22.039 --> 02:15:23.479 it up right. 2497 02:15:23.640 --> 02:15:28.199 And now the extinguished is that, uh a dry powder or. 2498 02:15:28.680 --> 02:15:32.439 Something like the granular they're they're grant. It's a granular 2499 02:15:32.560 --> 02:15:36.640 like fire ant baits. Yeah, so these are fire ant baits. 2500 02:15:36.720 --> 02:15:38.560 But okay, and. 2501 02:15:38.640 --> 02:15:41.680 I'm just mixing the two dry products. No, no water 2502 02:15:41.760 --> 02:15:44.319 or anything, just the two dry dry products. 2503 02:15:44.960 --> 02:15:48.520 Yeah, yes, mixing them together. Put them. I use a 2504 02:15:48.680 --> 02:15:50.239 like a five gallon bucket, put a lid on a 2505 02:15:50.319 --> 02:15:51.760 pop a lid down on it so I can just 2506 02:15:51.840 --> 02:15:53.880 sit there, you know, and be kind of sealed up 2507 02:15:53.880 --> 02:15:56.319 a little bit. Uh, mix them real well and let 2508 02:15:56.399 --> 02:15:59.439 them sit and then use them. And I don't know why. 2509 02:16:00.000 --> 02:16:02.239 I don't know why it is, but that is what 2510 02:16:02.359 --> 02:16:05.359 the pcos are telling me has been effective for them. 2511 02:16:05.520 --> 02:16:08.159 So give that a try and then let me know, 2512 02:16:08.319 --> 02:16:09.920 let me know how it works for you. Of course, 2513 02:16:10.000 --> 02:16:12.239 the ants are going to want it to warm up 2514 02:16:12.239 --> 02:16:15.479 a little bit to be at their most activity. So 2515 02:16:15.640 --> 02:16:20.640 you got time to create this concoction. Yes, okay, all right, 2516 02:16:20.680 --> 02:16:21.479 I'll give it a shot. 2517 02:16:21.560 --> 02:16:24.079 Thank you so much, thank you, good. 2518 02:16:24.079 --> 02:16:27.560 Luck with it. Appreciate your call. Thanks a lot. Yeah, 2519 02:16:27.640 --> 02:16:29.560 and where do you get stuff like that? Well, I'll 2520 02:16:29.560 --> 02:16:31.079 tell you one place. You can go to Ace Hardware. 2521 02:16:31.199 --> 02:16:38.399 Ace Hardware stores carry all kinds of products for your garden, landscape, gardens, 2522 02:16:39.360 --> 02:16:43.239 herb beds, and tree shra everything, lawns. They got it all. 2523 02:16:43.719 --> 02:16:47.799 And when it comes to past control operators are products 2524 02:16:48.559 --> 02:16:52.040 like the fire at baits and these andro at block 2525 02:16:52.120 --> 02:16:58.079 and andro or extinguished extinguished plus fire bait. They've got 2526 02:16:58.159 --> 02:17:00.479 those there and you can you can them up. You 2527 02:17:00.520 --> 02:17:02.120 can do it yourself. You want to go that route. 2528 02:17:02.760 --> 02:17:05.600 But whatever the products is, whatever the plants you're growing, 2529 02:17:05.680 --> 02:17:08.159 whatever the pest or disease you're dealing with, or the weeds, 2530 02:17:08.200 --> 02:17:10.719 you're gonna find your products there at Ace Hardware. Now. 2531 02:17:10.840 --> 02:17:14.440 Ace Hardware has twenty percent off their mon faucets this month, 2532 02:17:14.559 --> 02:17:17.440 So if you've been thinking about replacing some faucets around 2533 02:17:17.479 --> 02:17:21.319 the house's kitchen or bathroom, now's the time. Twenty percent 2534 02:17:21.360 --> 02:17:23.319 off you can get that. Grab some of the air filters, 2535 02:17:23.360 --> 02:17:25.920 they got to buy three, get one free, just an 2536 02:17:26.000 --> 02:17:28.239 extra boost there. You know you're supposed to be replacing 2537 02:17:28.280 --> 02:17:32.200 those about what once a month in our area, so 2538 02:17:32.840 --> 02:17:36.520 make sure and keep those in good supply on hand. 2539 02:17:37.239 --> 02:17:39.120 And if you're redoing your deck, and they even have 2540 02:17:39.239 --> 02:17:42.639 stain and paint and some nice deals going on with 2541 02:17:42.760 --> 02:17:45.319 the presidents, they say on all kinds of painting supplies, 2542 02:17:46.040 --> 02:17:49.239 So stop buying and check it out yourself. ACE hardware 2543 02:17:49.520 --> 02:17:52.239 all over the place, easy to find ACE. You're going 2544 02:17:52.280 --> 02:17:54.920 to find Ace hardware City, a Memorial Drive. You're gonna 2545 02:17:54.920 --> 02:17:58.360 find plants for all seasons on two forty nine. Then 2546 02:17:58.399 --> 02:18:01.200 the Bearing Hardware on Business, the Bearing Hardware there on 2547 02:18:01.280 --> 02:18:04.360 West Timer. Those are all places where you are going 2548 02:18:04.440 --> 02:18:08.879 to find quality products, many mini quality products. But when 2549 02:18:08.920 --> 02:18:12.120 you go to an ACE hardware store, you know that 2550 02:18:12.239 --> 02:18:14.520 you're going to find everything that I just talked about. 2551 02:18:14.799 --> 02:18:17.920 There's going to be success. But whether it's Aspa's ACE 2552 02:18:18.000 --> 02:18:22.159 in the Woodlands, whether it's like Conroe, Ace Montgomery, Sinkle Ranch, 2553 02:18:22.239 --> 02:18:24.920 Ace Sinkle Ranch out in Sincle Ranch, k and m 2554 02:18:25.000 --> 02:18:27.280 Ace up in Kingwood or over in Kingwood, can m 2555 02:18:27.360 --> 02:18:30.760 and a Taska Sita, there's an ACE down in Bay City. 2556 02:18:30.840 --> 02:18:34.639 There's a Wharton Feed and Ace Hamilton's Hardware off Highway 2557 02:18:34.680 --> 02:18:37.200 six near Bear Creek. All kinds of ACE hardware stores 2558 02:18:37.200 --> 02:18:39.760 around the area. And when you go to an ACE 2559 02:18:39.799 --> 02:18:41.920 Hardware store, you find what you're looking for. It's as 2560 02:18:41.920 --> 02:18:43.760 simple as that. You can go to ACE Hardware dot Com, 2561 02:18:44.280 --> 02:18:46.319 find the store locator and find the ones that you're 2562 02:18:46.360 --> 02:18:50.799 looking for. That's another way to go about it. You 2563 02:18:50.879 --> 02:18:53.399 were listening to Guardenline. The phone number here is seven 2564 02:18:53.440 --> 02:18:57.000 one three two one two k t RH. Let's head 2565 02:18:57.079 --> 02:18:59.879 out to Conroe and we're going to talk to best. 2566 02:19:00.239 --> 02:19:09.760 Hello Bess, Hello, Yeah, you're on garden Line. 2567 02:19:11.239 --> 02:19:14.799 I need to know how to get rid of palmetto 2568 02:19:15.840 --> 02:19:16.760 I actually live in. 2569 02:19:18.479 --> 02:19:24.399 Yeah, okay, at the out feel do you have a 2570 02:19:24.520 --> 02:19:27.079 lot of it or is there a lot of it 2571 02:19:27.680 --> 02:19:28.360 about acreage? 2572 02:19:29.319 --> 02:19:32.680 Yes, we're two acres and some of it all leads, 2573 02:19:33.159 --> 02:19:36.440 but some that like I have one clump that's coming 2574 02:19:36.520 --> 02:19:39.000 up right by an old oak tree that I wanted 2575 02:19:39.040 --> 02:19:42.920 to save and uh, and then it's sporadic around the yard, 2576 02:19:42.959 --> 02:19:44.799 but I'm wanting to get it out of where we 2577 02:19:44.959 --> 02:19:45.920 have to mow and all. 2578 02:19:47.840 --> 02:19:51.280 Well, Bess, uh, you just won the game. Called stump 2579 02:19:51.360 --> 02:19:54.440 the chump on garden line. I have never had anybody 2580 02:19:54.559 --> 02:19:56.239 call me and ask me how to get rid of 2581 02:19:56.239 --> 02:19:59.559 an acre of palmetto. Uh, let me work on that, 2582 02:20:00.000 --> 02:20:02.319 and I will keep listening. I'll say something on the 2583 02:20:02.399 --> 02:20:06.520 air about it. Palmetto palms are grass plants. Palms are 2584 02:20:08.319 --> 02:20:12.000 a type of grass actually, and as opposed to being 2585 02:20:12.159 --> 02:20:14.079 like a tree, you know, a broad leaf tree. So 2586 02:20:14.239 --> 02:20:16.840 the things that would kill a tree may not kill 2587 02:20:17.079 --> 02:20:20.840 a palm tree because tree in the word palm is 2588 02:20:20.959 --> 02:20:24.319 just something we throw in there. But anyway, let me 2589 02:20:24.360 --> 02:20:26.120 see what I can find for that palmetta. I know 2590 02:20:26.239 --> 02:20:27.920 digging them up, but I don't think I'm on TALKI 2591 02:20:28.000 --> 02:20:29.600 into digging up an acre a palmetto. 2592 02:20:29.760 --> 02:20:35.440 So my husband has been trying to dig some up 2593 02:20:35.479 --> 02:20:37.879 and then we put stump killer on it. But I 2594 02:20:38.040 --> 02:20:40.319 have one that's right by an old oak tree that 2595 02:20:40.399 --> 02:20:42.079 I don't want to kill the oak tree, so. 2596 02:20:42.600 --> 02:20:43.719 May just have to leave it. 2597 02:20:44.200 --> 02:20:49.360 And also my neighbor and I and Conro used demon 2598 02:20:49.600 --> 02:20:55.000 WP poured down the leafcutter ant mounds and that seems 2599 02:20:55.040 --> 02:20:55.520 to slow them. 2600 02:20:55.600 --> 02:20:58.760 Okay, that slowed them down a little bit. Yeah, got 2601 02:20:58.840 --> 02:21:02.840 insecticide in there. They have to track through. That'll slow 2602 02:21:02.840 --> 02:21:06.040 them down. It's hard to shut down a colony. Hey, 2603 02:21:06.159 --> 02:21:09.319 on the on the stump treatment she did on the palms. 2604 02:21:09.479 --> 02:21:11.559 How long ago did you try that? 2605 02:21:12.799 --> 02:21:12.959 Oh? 2606 02:21:13.159 --> 02:21:17.680 That was that was probably a month and a half ago. Okay, 2607 02:21:18.079 --> 02:21:20.840 so it's a little early to know how well it worked. 2608 02:21:21.280 --> 02:21:26.840 Then they're tough. Okay, they're very tough. 2609 02:21:27.159 --> 02:21:29.239 Yeah, them off the top? 2610 02:21:29.319 --> 02:21:30.399 Are they gonna spread? 2611 02:21:33.520 --> 02:21:36.600 Normally palm trees only have a living bud at the top, 2612 02:21:37.879 --> 02:21:39.959 and so if you take any palm tree and just 2613 02:21:40.000 --> 02:21:41.440 go out and saw off the top, you got a 2614 02:21:41.479 --> 02:21:44.120 telephone pole that will never reach sprout, you know, just 2615 02:21:44.760 --> 02:21:47.840 it can't. Some types of palms and palmettos this way 2616 02:21:47.920 --> 02:21:50.079 can kind of come out at the bottom of a 2617 02:21:50.200 --> 02:21:54.200 multi trunk type system. And so you I don't think 2618 02:21:54.319 --> 02:21:56.479 the cutting the tops off is going to be effective. 2619 02:21:56.520 --> 02:21:58.440 But let me look into this so that I know 2620 02:21:58.559 --> 02:22:01.040 what I'm talking about. Rather than guessing, I hate, I 2621 02:22:01.479 --> 02:22:04.840 just try not to ever guess on gardener. So I'll 2622 02:22:04.879 --> 02:22:07.639 find out and i'll come up. I'll come up with 2623 02:22:07.760 --> 02:22:10.159 something for you. All right, Thank you a lot, appreciate 2624 02:22:10.200 --> 02:22:16.440 your calling. Bye bye bye Stone the Jump. Hey, Microlife 2625 02:22:16.440 --> 02:22:19.479 fertilizers have a wide variety of products that are great. 2626 02:22:19.639 --> 02:22:22.799 You know, if you're looking for a liquid to not 2627 02:22:23.000 --> 02:22:27.440 only add nutrients for your plants, but also add microbes 2628 02:22:27.479 --> 02:22:31.079 for your plants, well, Microlife fertilizers of products that are 2629 02:22:31.159 --> 02:22:34.159 going to do that. Microlife has a Biomatrix orange label. 2630 02:22:34.200 --> 02:22:37.920 That's a seven to one three. That high nitrogen liquid 2631 02:22:38.000 --> 02:22:41.440 organic with the beneficial microbes is great for any kind 2632 02:22:41.440 --> 02:22:45.280 of plant you're growing, especially for foliage like ass plants. 2633 02:22:45.360 --> 02:22:48.520 That's what I use. Microlife has an Ocean Harvest that's 2634 02:22:48.559 --> 02:22:54.280 a fish based product. It's a four two three fertilizer 2635 02:22:54.680 --> 02:22:58.040 four to two three four percent nitrogen, two percent phosphorus, 2636 02:22:58.360 --> 02:23:01.239 three percent potassium. Good for all your outdoor plants. You 2637 02:23:01.239 --> 02:23:03.360 can use it to folder spray, not gonna burn your plant. 2638 02:23:03.399 --> 02:23:05.280 You can drench the soil with it. It's gonna do 2639 02:23:05.479 --> 02:23:10.680 just fine. Microlife Ocean Harvest it's a blue label Biomatrix Orange, 2640 02:23:11.239 --> 02:23:15.680 Ocean Harvests Blue. Both work. I would suggest the Biometrix 2641 02:23:15.760 --> 02:23:18.760 for indoors and put the Ocean Harvest outdoors. It's a 2642 02:23:18.799 --> 02:23:21.479 fish based product and so it has a little bit 2643 02:23:21.479 --> 02:23:23.639 of a fish odor to it that dissipates in time. 2644 02:23:23.879 --> 02:23:25.479 But I wouldn't use it on my house plants. I 2645 02:23:25.479 --> 02:23:27.680 would use it on the outdoors. All right, Time for 2646 02:23:27.799 --> 02:23:30.079 me to take a quick break. I will be right 2647 02:23:30.200 --> 02:23:33.040 back with your calls and don in champions. You will 2648 02:23:33.079 --> 02:23:38.159 be our first up when we come back. All right, 2649 02:23:39.079 --> 02:23:40.920 welcome back to the guarden line. Good to have you 2650 02:23:41.040 --> 02:23:44.799 with us. Looking forward to helping you have a bountiful garden, 2651 02:23:45.079 --> 02:23:47.879 beautiful landscape. By the way, if you want to you 2652 02:23:47.920 --> 02:23:50.959 want to have a beautiful landscape, you need to know 2653 02:23:51.000 --> 02:23:54.280 about beer scapes. I talk about them a lot because 2654 02:23:54.440 --> 02:23:57.360 I am really impressed with the work they do. Go 2655 02:23:58.239 --> 02:24:01.879 to the website pierscapes dot herescapes dot com. Look at it. 2656 02:24:02.120 --> 02:24:04.840 I mean, if you want inspiration, if you want to 2657 02:24:04.879 --> 02:24:11.159 see magic happen, whether it's landscape lighting around a home, hardscapes, pathways, patios, 2658 02:24:11.440 --> 02:24:14.399 you know all that you're creating that beautiful outdoor living environment. 2659 02:24:14.479 --> 02:24:16.959 Oh my gosh. They can do that. They have designers 2660 02:24:17.040 --> 02:24:19.360 and staff. They can design the beds and I mean 2661 02:24:19.399 --> 02:24:21.719 they can revamp the whole landscape. They can do you know, 2662 02:24:21.799 --> 02:24:24.079 a small area where you're wanting to do some things, 2663 02:24:24.159 --> 02:24:26.200 you got bad drainage. They can fix that. You have 2664 02:24:26.319 --> 02:24:30.799 irrigation that's sporadic and not well designed or not working right. 2665 02:24:30.959 --> 02:24:33.520 Maybe some heads need replacing. Have them come out and 2666 02:24:33.600 --> 02:24:35.799 do that. They can do all of that and above. 2667 02:24:35.879 --> 02:24:39.120 You can hire them to come out and be part 2668 02:24:39.280 --> 02:24:41.920 of a quarterly maintenance program at your house. So they 2669 02:24:42.000 --> 02:24:44.440 come out, they look, they go, Okay, this bed, we're 2670 02:24:44.479 --> 02:24:47.120 gonna weed it, We're gonna spruce it up. Maybe the 2671 02:24:47.200 --> 02:24:49.360 plants need to be pulled out and new plants put in. 2672 02:24:50.319 --> 02:24:53.239 Check the irrigation, make sure it's working well. You know, 2673 02:24:53.360 --> 02:24:56.639 any trimming that's needed. You just get on their quarterly 2674 02:24:57.040 --> 02:24:59.440 maintenance program and you can do that. You can give 2675 02:24:59.479 --> 02:25:02.680 them a call at this number seven excuse me two 2676 02:25:02.760 --> 02:25:07.200 eight one three seven oh fifty sixty, Pierce Scapes two 2677 02:25:07.280 --> 02:25:11.040 eight one three seven oh fifty sixty, or just go 2678 02:25:11.200 --> 02:25:13.319 to the lands. Go to the website. That's where the 2679 02:25:13.440 --> 02:25:18.799 phone numbers are too, piercescapes dot com. Piercescapes dot com. 2680 02:25:20.079 --> 02:25:22.159 You will be impressed when you see what they can do. 2681 02:25:22.680 --> 02:25:24.639 We're going to go now out to Champions and talk 2682 02:25:24.680 --> 02:25:27.239 to Don. Hey Don, welcome to garden Line. 2683 02:25:27.799 --> 02:25:31.239 Well, thank you very much appreciate you taking my call. Uh, 2684 02:25:31.719 --> 02:25:35.879 just a quick question here. I've got a very small 2685 02:25:36.319 --> 02:25:41.000 myrlemon tree and I didn't put out a whole lot 2686 02:25:41.079 --> 02:25:44.319 of fruit last year because bugs started eating on it. 2687 02:25:44.879 --> 02:25:49.040 And the best I can describe, as I recall, they 2688 02:25:49.159 --> 02:25:53.760 kind of looked like little miniature grasshoppers that were eating 2689 02:25:53.840 --> 02:25:56.959 the leaves. And so I've just tried to figure out 2690 02:25:57.559 --> 02:26:00.479 because I'm starting to get some fruit buds on there 2691 02:26:01.040 --> 02:26:05.399 now have to safeguard against those things. So what should 2692 02:26:05.440 --> 02:26:08.079 I spray or what should I do to send those 2693 02:26:08.239 --> 02:26:08.879 critters off? 2694 02:26:10.280 --> 02:26:13.200 Yeah, when it could have been grasshoppers. Grasshoppers eat a 2695 02:26:13.200 --> 02:26:15.200 lot of different kinds of plants. They're not what we 2696 02:26:15.319 --> 02:26:18.440 think of as one of our major citrus pests, but 2697 02:26:18.600 --> 02:26:21.120 they do feed on a lot of different kinds of plants. 2698 02:26:21.239 --> 02:26:25.040 When they're hungry, especially, they'll eat about anything, it seems like. 2699 02:26:25.440 --> 02:26:28.840 But I would, I would, I would look closely and 2700 02:26:29.000 --> 02:26:31.879 watch those leaves and if you it's either going to 2701 02:26:31.879 --> 02:26:35.280 be a caterpillar, which the best sprays, or BT and 2702 02:26:35.479 --> 02:26:44.440 spinosid for caterpillars, or beetles for beetles, spinosid and oh gosh, 2703 02:26:46.000 --> 02:26:48.239 I just went black as a direct and a name 2704 02:26:48.559 --> 02:26:53.120 name products that contain as a direct and or organic, 2705 02:26:53.319 --> 02:26:58.079 and they control things that eat leaves, caterpillars, and beetles. 2706 02:26:58.159 --> 02:27:03.319 Do you may have luck those? Uh, well, there's two 2707 02:27:03.399 --> 02:27:06.680 types of name. There's name oil, which has very little 2708 02:27:06.719 --> 02:27:09.680 of that active ingredient in it. It acts like an oil. 2709 02:27:09.920 --> 02:27:13.239 It just smothers. But neme is then on the label. 2710 02:27:13.319 --> 02:27:15.520 But when you look at the ingredient, it says as 2711 02:27:15.559 --> 02:27:18.200 a direct and it doesn't say neme oil, So that 2712 02:27:18.239 --> 02:27:21.479 would be one. And then for grasshoppers, really, any kind 2713 02:27:21.559 --> 02:27:26.000 of insecticide is gonna pretty well kill a grasshopper. There's 2714 02:27:26.040 --> 02:27:28.479 a lot of products anything labeled for citrus, though you 2715 02:27:28.520 --> 02:27:30.520 want to make sure it's label for cetrius. I like 2716 02:27:30.600 --> 02:27:33.440 to stay with the organics when possible. I have not 2717 02:27:33.680 --> 02:27:39.120 tried as a directing on grasshoppers. It it may well work, 2718 02:27:39.559 --> 02:27:41.600 I need to. I would need to check on that because, 2719 02:27:41.639 --> 02:27:43.799 like I said, I you're the first time anyone's ever 2720 02:27:43.879 --> 02:27:47.840 said grasshoppers reading their ceterus to me. So, uh, if 2721 02:27:48.079 --> 02:27:50.840 if I believe you, I just, I just I would 2722 02:27:50.879 --> 02:27:53.760 have to check on that. But those are the look 2723 02:27:53.799 --> 02:27:54.200 at him and. 2724 02:27:54.200 --> 02:27:56.399 Look at him and look at him. I just I 2725 02:27:56.559 --> 02:27:59.040 just looked out there one day I saw something was 2726 02:27:59.360 --> 02:28:02.600 really and you my leaves. So I've started peering down 2727 02:28:02.639 --> 02:28:06.079 and there was a couple of little tiny grasshopper looking 2728 02:28:06.120 --> 02:28:09.280 things like maybe uh yeah, maybe three eighths of an 2729 02:28:09.319 --> 02:28:12.360 inch long. Little things work big onn't they? 2730 02:28:12.719 --> 02:28:18.200 Okay? Okay, Well, uh, here's the thing too. Citrus grows 2731 02:28:18.239 --> 02:28:21.200 a lot of leaves and can afford to lose quite 2732 02:28:21.239 --> 02:28:24.479 a bit of leaf area before you see a significant 2733 02:28:24.760 --> 02:28:28.879 reduction in production. So you know, citrus will outgrow the 2734 02:28:28.959 --> 02:28:31.840 citrus leaf minor issues. You know, even though they'll still 2735 02:28:31.879 --> 02:28:34.600 be around, the citrus has enough leaves to still do 2736 02:28:34.719 --> 02:28:37.799 what it needs to do. So just seeing some things 2737 02:28:37.879 --> 02:28:40.520 eating leaves doesn't mean you need to control them. And 2738 02:28:40.680 --> 02:28:43.760 so that may be another option. Is this this watch 2739 02:28:43.840 --> 02:28:46.040 and if you're not losing you know, forty percent of 2740 02:28:46.120 --> 02:28:49.280 the leaves or something crazy like that, Uh, the citrus 2741 02:28:49.360 --> 02:28:51.319 may just bounce back and be okay with it. 2742 02:28:51.799 --> 02:28:55.440 So that ye was to put them from the big 2743 02:28:55.639 --> 02:28:58.200 freeze that we had a couple of years ago. So 2744 02:28:58.479 --> 02:29:01.600 I'm surprised to survive it in a large pot. It's 2745 02:29:01.680 --> 02:29:04.920 not in the ground, but normally I've gotten somewhere like 2746 02:29:05.079 --> 02:29:08.639 ten or twelve lemons off of it. This last year, 2747 02:29:08.680 --> 02:29:12.799 I think I got three and so so as far 2748 02:29:12.879 --> 02:29:15.920 as a percentage of loss of production, it was kind 2749 02:29:15.959 --> 02:29:18.319 of disturbing because it takes a long time for those 2750 02:29:18.399 --> 02:29:19.680 myra limits to come around. 2751 02:29:21.120 --> 02:29:23.879 You bet, you bet, you bet? All right, Well, good 2752 02:29:23.959 --> 02:29:26.200 luck with it. I think you're off to You're off 2753 02:29:26.239 --> 02:29:28.680 to a good start there, and I believe you're gonna 2754 02:29:28.680 --> 02:29:29.879 be all right on this, all right. 2755 02:29:29.920 --> 02:29:30.680 Appreciate your help. 2756 02:29:30.840 --> 02:29:34.479 Have a good date, yes, sir, thank you. Don appreciate 2757 02:29:34.559 --> 02:29:37.280 that call very much. Hey, Nelson Water Garden and Nursery 2758 02:29:37.399 --> 02:29:41.040 is your garden center out there in the Katy area. 2759 02:29:41.239 --> 02:29:46.079 It's Houston's let's say it's West Houston's full service local nursery. 2760 02:29:46.079 --> 02:29:48.079 So all of you that live way out west or 2761 02:29:48.239 --> 02:29:51.479 to the west, Nelson Water Garden just down I ten 2762 02:29:51.760 --> 02:29:54.920 go to Katie, turn right to go north on Katie 2763 02:29:54.959 --> 02:29:57.559 Fort Ben Road and it's just a stones throw up 2764 02:29:57.559 --> 02:30:01.280 the street on the right hand side there. Nationally recognized 2765 02:30:01.440 --> 02:30:04.520 for their water garden work. Whether you want a full pond, 2766 02:30:05.079 --> 02:30:08.200 whether you want a waterfall, whether you want a disappearing 2767 02:30:08.280 --> 02:30:12.559 fountain coming out of one of those large ceramic containers. 2768 02:30:12.600 --> 02:30:15.319 Where the water flows out and then just recirculates around. 2769 02:30:15.399 --> 02:30:18.079 They invented that. They know how to do it. They 2770 02:30:18.159 --> 02:30:19.879 can help you do it. I mean, if you're do 2771 02:30:19.959 --> 02:30:22.600 it yourself, or they don't mind help telling you how 2772 02:30:22.639 --> 02:30:24.360 to go about doing it, or they'll come out and 2773 02:30:24.479 --> 02:30:27.280 just do it for you, which with their expertise, that's 2774 02:30:27.280 --> 02:30:29.719 the way. That's the way I would go. Do you 2775 02:30:29.799 --> 02:30:34.520 need koi or shabunk and fish? Do you need Let's 2776 02:30:34.559 --> 02:30:37.159 see what lily pads. Everybody knows about lily pads and 2777 02:30:37.280 --> 02:30:40.760 water gardens. What about other kinds of water plants. They 2778 02:30:40.879 --> 02:30:43.239 carry a wide variety of those as well. Now, don't 2779 02:30:43.280 --> 02:30:47.280 forget it's Nelson Nursery and Water Garden. So you're going 2780 02:30:47.360 --> 02:30:50.760 to find all kinds of beautiful plants, roses and fruit 2781 02:30:50.840 --> 02:30:55.239 and perennials. You're going to find some beautiful herbs, some 2782 02:30:55.319 --> 02:31:01.639 beautiful vegetables as well. Nelson Water Gardens, Nursery and Watergardens, 2783 02:31:02.000 --> 02:31:05.239 West Houston's full service local nursery two generations and Nelson's 2784 02:31:05.239 --> 02:31:08.159 are out there waiting for you with their local expertise 2785 02:31:08.639 --> 02:31:12.440 to get you some inspiration. Just go out and visit. 2786 02:31:12.559 --> 02:31:14.639 They should they should charge admission for you to go 2787 02:31:14.760 --> 02:31:17.479 sit there because it is therapy. It's cheaper than therapy 2788 02:31:17.879 --> 02:31:21.040 to go out and just sit among the water features 2789 02:31:21.200 --> 02:31:24.959 and listen and relax and enter another land. And I 2790 02:31:25.280 --> 02:31:30.120 love the sound of water in the garden. Nelsonwatergardens dot com. 2791 02:31:30.440 --> 02:31:34.559 Nelsonwatergardens dot com. Go get inspired. All right, Time for 2792 02:31:34.639 --> 02:31:37.040 me to take a little break, and when we come back, 2793 02:31:37.440 --> 02:31:40.440 we will be back with your calls. We'll be talking 2794 02:31:40.479 --> 02:31:44.280 to John and Katie and another John waiting out there 2795 02:31:44.479 --> 02:31:48.559 for some questions. Wait, has got to get a little 2796 02:31:48.559 --> 02:31:58.159 boogie here, hang one, look, there we go. That's what 2797 02:31:58.319 --> 02:32:06.680 we're talking about. No dancing on the bar, folks. All right, 2798 02:32:07.159 --> 02:32:09.600 we're back. Welcome to Guardline. Good to have you with us, 2799 02:32:10.079 --> 02:32:11.840 Looking forward to visiting with you. I was looking into 2800 02:32:11.879 --> 02:32:19.840 that information on controlling the salt palmetto uh and and 2801 02:32:20.000 --> 02:32:23.760 acreage and and whatnot, and ran across a couple of things. 2802 02:32:24.200 --> 02:32:24.319 Uh. 2803 02:32:24.639 --> 02:32:28.799 Someone actually had emailed in and indicated that they would 2804 02:32:28.959 --> 02:32:30.920 they just poured a little bit of diesel into the 2805 02:32:31.000 --> 02:32:31.920 middle of each plant. 2806 02:32:32.440 --> 02:32:32.559 Uh. 2807 02:32:32.799 --> 02:32:35.639 You know, gallons of it drenching down in the soil, 2808 02:32:35.680 --> 02:32:37.000 but just just a little bit in the middle of 2809 02:32:37.040 --> 02:32:39.159 each plant and kill that plant. You want to run 2810 02:32:39.200 --> 02:32:40.840 around the center and all the way down, and it 2811 02:32:40.959 --> 02:32:43.079 seemed to work for him. I haven't tried that, but 2812 02:32:43.239 --> 02:32:46.639 that seems to work as far as a recommendation. You know, 2813 02:32:46.840 --> 02:32:53.000 from a langrant research type standpoint, uh, products that contain 2814 02:32:53.159 --> 02:32:57.120 metsulfurn along with products that contain tricle paer put together 2815 02:32:57.680 --> 02:33:00.920 seeing that combo. Each one alone is not effective because 2816 02:33:00.920 --> 02:33:03.239 they work in different ways on the palmetto. But that 2817 02:33:03.360 --> 02:33:05.760 works well. So if you go to a place that 2818 02:33:06.120 --> 02:33:08.600 has a wide variety of products, you know, like someplace 2819 02:33:08.680 --> 02:33:12.159 like Southwest Spurtlizer, for example, you're gonna find products that 2820 02:33:12.280 --> 02:33:16.719 say MSM M s MSM on the lab. I just 2821 02:33:16.799 --> 02:33:18.559 tucked to bob there he can get you pointed at 2822 02:33:18.600 --> 02:33:21.479 it and then triclope here. That's that's the one we 2823 02:33:21.639 --> 02:33:24.280 use for poison ivy and brush control and things like that. 2824 02:33:24.760 --> 02:33:28.159 Put those together and mix it make some according to label. 2825 02:33:28.159 --> 02:33:30.639 Put it together and spread it on those plants and 2826 02:33:31.280 --> 02:33:33.719 those that seems to give you the best results. Sometimes 2827 02:33:33.760 --> 02:33:37.479 you have to redo it again because oftentimes with a 2828 02:33:37.520 --> 02:33:40.520 good tough plant like that, one application doesn't take care 2829 02:33:40.559 --> 02:33:43.520 of it. But it works pretty good. So anyway, give 2830 02:33:43.600 --> 02:33:45.719 those a try see how they work for you. Let's 2831 02:33:45.760 --> 02:33:48.399 go out to Katie here, we're going to talk to John. Hey, John, 2832 02:33:48.440 --> 02:33:49.399 welcome to garden line. 2833 02:33:49.959 --> 02:33:50.639 Good morning, sir. 2834 02:33:51.200 --> 02:33:53.479 So went to in Channa Gardens a few weeks ago 2835 02:33:53.639 --> 02:33:57.760 and I got two avocado trees, a Mexicola which looks 2836 02:33:57.799 --> 02:34:02.159 absolutely beautiful, has a ton of flowering buds, perfect plan. 2837 02:34:02.879 --> 02:34:06.440 Also got a Leila right next to it, and different story. 2838 02:34:06.639 --> 02:34:09.479 It looked great at the nursery. I upotted both of 2839 02:34:09.559 --> 02:34:12.079 them and to some miracle grow twenty five gallon pot. 2840 02:34:12.799 --> 02:34:15.360 And the leila one have the leaves that turn brown. 2841 02:34:16.479 --> 02:34:19.319 I did give it some of the medina has to 2842 02:34:19.399 --> 02:34:22.520 grow to to help, you know, sell it into the 2843 02:34:22.559 --> 02:34:25.559 ground bud. It does not look anywhere near as good 2844 02:34:25.600 --> 02:34:29.680 as the the other one to Mexicola, and it looked. 2845 02:34:29.520 --> 02:34:32.040 Good when you sign in the nursery. When you brought 2846 02:34:32.079 --> 02:34:32.520 it home. 2847 02:34:32.479 --> 02:34:34.840 Right correct, it looked like it was about to start 2848 02:34:34.879 --> 02:34:35.399 blowing up. 2849 02:34:35.559 --> 02:34:42.159 Now both treated the browning and they weren't subjected to 2850 02:34:42.319 --> 02:34:43.079 too much cold. 2851 02:34:44.200 --> 02:34:46.120 No, I bring them inside. They're in pots because I 2852 02:34:46.159 --> 02:34:48.319 know if they get too cold or they're they're flowering 2853 02:34:50.959 --> 02:34:51.440 them inside. 2854 02:34:53.000 --> 02:34:55.760 That's unusual. Something happened in the roots. I don't know what. 2855 02:34:56.239 --> 02:34:59.040 Typically you know, soggy wet root conditions can cause that. 2856 02:34:59.600 --> 02:35:01.600 Drying out, of course is bad for plants, but I 2857 02:35:01.680 --> 02:35:03.040 know yours didn't dry out that much. 2858 02:35:03.719 --> 02:35:03.840 Uh. 2859 02:35:04.879 --> 02:35:07.200 The only other thing will be like a root injury 2860 02:35:07.280 --> 02:35:09.920 of some sort. I don't know what else would cause, 2861 02:35:10.600 --> 02:35:14.559 just that overall loss of or dark browning, darkening, blackening 2862 02:35:14.680 --> 02:35:17.719 or whatever of the foliage on the plant. I would 2863 02:35:17.760 --> 02:35:20.159 give it time. I don't think it's a lost cause. 2864 02:35:20.239 --> 02:35:22.200 You might try leaning it over, sliding it out of 2865 02:35:22.239 --> 02:35:24.079 the pot, and look and see if the roots going 2866 02:35:24.120 --> 02:35:28.159 around the pot are white and healthy, creamy white and healthy, 2867 02:35:28.319 --> 02:35:33.079 or if they look gray brown, darkened, water soaked, sunken, 2868 02:35:33.479 --> 02:35:38.159 kind of dead root. Look. If it's the latter, you 2869 02:35:38.280 --> 02:35:40.040 may need to pull it up, kind of cut away 2870 02:35:40.079 --> 02:35:42.479 some of the outer soil, repot it up real fresh, 2871 02:35:42.680 --> 02:35:45.319 and try to avoid any stresses to it while it 2872 02:35:45.360 --> 02:35:48.319 gets a new root system going. I'm thinking the roots 2873 02:35:48.360 --> 02:35:50.799 are going to be okay, but just check that in 2874 02:35:50.959 --> 02:35:52.079 case as far as. 2875 02:35:56.159 --> 02:36:00.280 Oh okay, they were brown, So you break up little 2876 02:36:00.280 --> 02:36:02.239 bit of the roots so they can get out of 2877 02:36:02.280 --> 02:36:03.079 the rootbound condition. 2878 02:36:03.959 --> 02:36:06.280 And then I said, the other one looks perfectly. You 2879 02:36:06.959 --> 02:36:11.079 did all that correct. Okay, hang on to it. I 2880 02:36:11.159 --> 02:36:13.319 think it's going to bounce back. I can't tell you 2881 02:36:13.360 --> 02:36:16.920 exactly why that happened. Something went wrong in the plumbing somewhere, 2882 02:36:17.040 --> 02:36:19.879 water from the soil making it to the top. Something 2883 02:36:19.879 --> 02:36:22.719 went wrong. I don't know what I can tell you that. 2884 02:36:23.159 --> 02:36:25.879 Then they're pretty resilient. I think it's going to bounce back, 2885 02:36:25.959 --> 02:36:26.600 John or. 2886 02:36:26.959 --> 02:36:29.959 Turning out Two more quick questions. How do you deal 2887 02:36:30.040 --> 02:36:32.559 with fire ants in like twenty five gallon pots? 2888 02:36:34.760 --> 02:36:38.440 I would use a bait. What's growing in the pots? 2889 02:36:39.239 --> 02:36:42.799 Buh the ice cream banana and trying to move them 2890 02:36:42.840 --> 02:36:45.920 inside before the freeze. I got about sixty ant bites 2891 02:36:45.920 --> 02:36:46.559 all over my arm. 2892 02:36:48.120 --> 02:36:51.280 Oh boy. Okay, Well, aside from needing to do it fast, 2893 02:36:51.879 --> 02:36:54.079 there's a product by fertil and it comes in a 2894 02:36:54.200 --> 02:36:56.559 light blue bag called come and Get It, and it's 2895 02:36:56.600 --> 02:37:00.360 a bait that is an organic spinosid based de bait, 2896 02:37:01.159 --> 02:37:03.200 and you put it all around the pots because finance, 2897 02:37:03.280 --> 02:37:04.879 just because they're in a pot, they've got to be 2898 02:37:04.959 --> 02:37:08.159 going out somewhere to get protein. You know, they eat insects, 2899 02:37:08.200 --> 02:37:10.760 they eat all kinds of things, and so when you 2900 02:37:10.840 --> 02:37:12.639 put the bait all around the pot, a little bit 2901 02:37:12.680 --> 02:37:15.079 in the pot, but especially around it. They'll take it 2902 02:37:15.159 --> 02:37:17.959 back and it'll kill the mound. If you need it fast. 2903 02:37:18.760 --> 02:37:20.840 That's kind of different. Then you may have to get 2904 02:37:20.920 --> 02:37:24.479 something like an orange oil that you drenched down through there, 2905 02:37:24.760 --> 02:37:29.319 or some other insecticide that you literally drench the soil 2906 02:37:29.399 --> 02:37:32.280 in the pot to be a quick kill on everything. 2907 02:37:32.920 --> 02:37:34.799 And there's a lot of products out there that are 2908 02:37:35.000 --> 02:37:38.840 like that. They're used for mound treatments, individual mound treatments. 2909 02:37:39.520 --> 02:37:42.799 Since it's an edible plant, that's why I like the fertilom. 2910 02:37:42.879 --> 02:37:45.360 Come and get it, because it's labeled for even vegetable 2911 02:37:45.399 --> 02:37:49.319 gardens things like that, whereas things like endro are not 2912 02:37:49.440 --> 02:37:52.079 going to be labeled for use in a vegetable garden. 2913 02:37:52.879 --> 02:37:55.040 But you could always put it around the pot and 2914 02:37:55.200 --> 02:37:57.040 let the ants find it and bring it back in 2915 02:37:58.000 --> 02:37:59.920 and that would be that would be an okay up 2916 02:38:00.000 --> 02:38:02.239 location perfect. 2917 02:38:02.280 --> 02:38:05.879 One last question is you're talking about the incompetence of 2918 02:38:05.959 --> 02:38:09.079 some of the big box stores. I went to the 2919 02:38:09.239 --> 02:38:13.959 Orange big box store and they had some currant trees, 2920 02:38:15.360 --> 02:38:17.440 and currents are one of my favorite fruits. I didn't 2921 02:38:17.440 --> 02:38:19.280 think that they would do good over here. So is 2922 02:38:19.280 --> 02:38:22.639 there any way to make currents grow in this area. 2923 02:38:23.719 --> 02:38:25.040 If they truly are currents? 2924 02:38:25.200 --> 02:38:25.239 No. 2925 02:38:26.479 --> 02:38:28.959 I lived in Missouri for three years, which is way 2926 02:38:29.079 --> 02:38:32.559 further north, and it was too hot for currents in Missouri. 2927 02:38:32.840 --> 02:38:36.159 So it shows the incompetence of the big box stores 2928 02:38:36.239 --> 02:38:39.680 and having plants that are not compatible here. 2929 02:38:39.959 --> 02:38:42.920 Yeah, I'll just let that one go. I mean I could, 2930 02:38:43.079 --> 02:38:44.959 I could if you want me to spend the next 2931 02:38:45.319 --> 02:38:47.479 I don't have an hour and a half. I could rant, 2932 02:38:47.559 --> 02:38:50.680 but I need to move on. Hey, thanks for the call. 2933 02:38:50.760 --> 02:38:53.600 Appreciate that, John, thanks a lot. I really, I really 2934 02:38:53.680 --> 02:38:56.520 do appreciate your call. Take care all right. I want 2935 02:38:56.600 --> 02:38:58.920 to tell you about night frost barricade. What do you 2936 02:38:59.079 --> 02:39:01.879 use it for weeds? Where do you put it all 2937 02:39:01.920 --> 02:39:04.760 over your lawn? Follow the label? Do it according a 2938 02:39:04.760 --> 02:39:08.079 little label? Watered in how much water? About a half inch? 2939 02:39:08.479 --> 02:39:10.680 It moves it to the soil where it does its work. 2940 02:39:11.120 --> 02:39:14.360 Nitro Foss barricade a ten pound bag covers five thousand 2941 02:39:14.440 --> 02:39:17.319 square feet. And where do you find it? Well, everywhere. 2942 02:39:17.520 --> 02:39:19.959 Nitrofoss products are sold everywhere. You're going to find them 2943 02:39:20.000 --> 02:39:23.200 at Court Hardware, you know, down in Stafford you're going 2944 02:39:23.239 --> 02:39:26.280 to find them in Katie Ace Hardware, Pinoak Street up 2945 02:39:26.360 --> 02:39:28.280 over there in Katy. You're going to find them in 2946 02:39:28.319 --> 02:39:31.799 a chanted forest down in the Richmond Rosenberg area on 2947 02:39:31.959 --> 02:39:34.159 FM twenty seven to fifty nine. And you're going to 2948 02:39:34.200 --> 02:39:36.360 find them at D and De Feed up in Tomboll 2949 02:39:37.120 --> 02:39:40.280 FM twenty nine to twenty just west of town. Barricade works. 2950 02:39:40.399 --> 02:39:43.040 But don't delayed. Now is the time to get it done. 2951 02:39:43.159 --> 02:39:43.319 Now. 2952 02:39:43.719 --> 02:39:45.920 I want to talk about a pest control company that 2953 02:39:46.120 --> 02:39:48.239 I'm really excited about. Told you about them earlier, and 2954 02:39:48.280 --> 02:39:50.840 that's Pest Brothers. It's a regional company serves a greater 2955 02:39:50.920 --> 02:39:53.200 Houston area. I don't care if you're in Texas City 2956 02:39:53.239 --> 02:39:54.760 all the way up to the Woodlands, if you're all 2957 02:39:54.760 --> 02:39:57.159 in East in Baytown all the way across to Katie, 2958 02:39:57.559 --> 02:39:59.879 they cover that area. They do termites, they do all 2959 02:40:00.120 --> 02:40:03.680 your household pests in the yard, fire, ants and mosquitoes, 2960 02:40:04.079 --> 02:40:08.520 wild varmints like rats and mice. I'm talking about wild varmits, 2961 02:40:08.600 --> 02:40:11.760 not the kids their varmits anyway, wild varmits. They even 2962 02:40:11.840 --> 02:40:14.680 have trapping services for larger things, you know, possums or 2963 02:40:14.719 --> 02:40:17.879 raccoons coming through there. They know how to treat effectively. 2964 02:40:18.479 --> 02:40:21.000 They know how to do it in the safest manner. 2965 02:40:21.200 --> 02:40:24.920 You get long term control without all the worries about 2966 02:40:25.239 --> 02:40:26.799 what kind of poison is out there? Is it going 2967 02:40:26.840 --> 02:40:29.520 to kill the dog? No, talk to Pest Brothers. They 2968 02:40:29.639 --> 02:40:32.079 know what they're doing. Call them for a quote two 2969 02:40:32.159 --> 02:40:35.799 eight one two oh six forty six seventy. Say that 2970 02:40:35.879 --> 02:40:39.559 again two eight one two o six forty six seventy. 2971 02:40:40.040 --> 02:40:46.159 Or go to the website the pest Bros b rosvpestbros 2972 02:40:46.799 --> 02:40:49.440 dot com. You gotta ask them. I spent a lot 2973 02:40:49.440 --> 02:40:54.280 of time talking about this earlier today, their mosquito control stations, 2974 02:40:54.399 --> 02:40:59.040 the bait buckets that they put out. It is the coolest, safest, 2975 02:40:59.399 --> 02:41:01.799 most effect active way to control mosquitos. And if you 2976 02:41:01.959 --> 02:41:06.319 just moved here from somewhere else, get ready, they're mosquitos 2977 02:41:06.319 --> 02:41:07.879 around here. There are enough of them that are big 2978 02:41:08.000 --> 02:41:10.399 enough to carry you across town. I mean they pick 2979 02:41:10.440 --> 02:41:14.799 you up, just like little little little drones coming around. 2980 02:41:15.200 --> 02:41:18.079 You gotta deal with mosquitos. And if you don't do 2981 02:41:18.159 --> 02:41:20.920 it alone, Koppes Brothers they can do it. But ask 2982 02:41:21.000 --> 02:41:25.639 them about that really cool mosquito bait station thing I 2983 02:41:25.719 --> 02:41:27.319 told you all about it earlier. I'll tell you about 2984 02:41:27.319 --> 02:41:30.159 it more later. Anyway, that's cool stuff. Let's head out 2985 02:41:30.200 --> 02:41:31.600 to the phones. We got just a little bit of 2986 02:41:31.639 --> 02:41:33.559 time left. We're going to go to Missouri City and 2987 02:41:33.639 --> 02:41:36.079 see if we can help Ray. Hey, Ray, welcome to 2988 02:41:36.159 --> 02:41:36.680 garden Line. 2989 02:41:38.079 --> 02:41:39.799 Hey, thanks for taking my calls. 2990 02:41:39.879 --> 02:41:40.159 Skip. 2991 02:41:40.280 --> 02:41:45.319 Got a quick question. I'm beginning to see clover in 2992 02:41:45.520 --> 02:41:49.200 my yard. I have Saint Augustine grass. Which of these 2993 02:41:49.360 --> 02:41:54.000 products would you use? Nitro Foss fifteen five ten or 2994 02:41:54.159 --> 02:41:54.680 the weed of. 2995 02:41:54.760 --> 02:41:59.440 Native both work. The fifteen to five to ten has 2996 02:41:59.479 --> 02:42:02.319 to be the one with trimech, not the one with 2997 02:42:02.440 --> 02:42:06.280 atrozine to do what you're trying to do. Trimec fifteen 2998 02:42:06.319 --> 02:42:08.479 five time with trimec. It's a blue bag. It's a 2999 02:42:08.559 --> 02:42:12.520 blue bag, not a purple blue bag. And someone's asking 3000 02:42:12.600 --> 02:42:16.040 about that. They were confused on bag colors. Nitrofis has 3001 02:42:16.079 --> 02:42:18.360 a blue bag that kills weeds that are already there, 3002 02:42:19.120 --> 02:42:22.239 and Nitrofis has a purple bag that kills that prevents 3003 02:42:22.319 --> 02:42:25.920 weed seeds from getting established. Don't get those confused. If 3004 02:42:25.959 --> 02:42:28.760 you go to a good Ace hardware store someplace you're 3005 02:42:28.760 --> 02:42:30.200 going to buy those, they know what to tell you 3006 02:42:30.319 --> 02:42:33.399 they'll sell you the right one for what you're going after. Now. 3007 02:42:34.000 --> 02:42:36.760 The we donator is another product that works. But whether 3008 02:42:36.840 --> 02:42:40.680 you use nitrofas with Trimec or Nelson's weedinator, you first 3009 02:42:40.799 --> 02:42:43.840 turn on water enough to wet the weeds. Maybe you 3010 02:42:43.879 --> 02:42:45.600 get a little of this misty rain. It'll do it 3011 02:42:45.680 --> 02:42:48.239 for you. Then run out there with the spreader. Put 3012 02:42:48.280 --> 02:42:51.120 that dry product out. It sticks to the weeds. If 3013 02:42:51.159 --> 02:42:53.760 it has at least a few hours, better a couple 3014 02:42:53.840 --> 02:42:56.680 of days, then it can be watered in real good 3015 02:42:57.040 --> 02:42:58.920 and go into the soil. So you get the nutrients 3016 02:42:58.959 --> 02:43:01.600 out of those products. But they both work. 3017 02:43:03.760 --> 02:43:06.280 Okay, appreciate tale. That's what I needed to know. 3018 02:43:07.879 --> 02:43:11.799 Alrighty, Well, that's it. Then good luck with that out 3019 02:43:11.799 --> 02:43:15.600 there in Missouri City. You bet appreciate that call. Thanks 3020 02:43:15.600 --> 02:43:20.200 a lot. Another day zoomed by and I'm about to 3021 02:43:20.239 --> 02:43:23.799 hear music and guess what's happening today? Listen? I can 3022 02:43:23.840 --> 02:43:25.520 tell you do you want to be warm and do 3023 02:43:25.559 --> 02:43:28.280 you want to be dry? Today? Here's how you do it. 3024 02:43:28.600 --> 02:43:31.639 You go to Willis at twelve o'clock to two o'clock. 3025 02:43:31.879 --> 02:43:35.120 I'm going to be at All Seasons Ace Hardware and 3026 02:43:35.200 --> 02:43:38.319 they guarantee me it will not be raining inside the store, 3027 02:43:38.520 --> 02:43:41.760 and it will be warm inside the store, warm and dry. 3028 02:43:41.840 --> 02:43:43.719 What can you ask for? We're going to be giving 3029 02:43:43.799 --> 02:43:47.479 away Nelson plant food products and products from the folks 3030 02:43:47.559 --> 02:43:49.959 at Medina, a lot of those give away. They've got 3031 02:43:50.000 --> 02:43:53.559 some Texas Gardener magazines on hand. Look, grab some weeds, 3032 02:43:53.600 --> 02:43:55.840 put them in a bag, bring them by. I'll identify 3033 02:43:55.879 --> 02:43:57.200 and tell you what to do about them. And they 3034 02:43:57.239 --> 02:44:00.280 got all the products there. You know that ACE Hardware 3035 02:44:00.319 --> 02:44:03.920 store is it's well stocked with the kinds of things 3036 02:44:03.959 --> 02:44:07.959 you need to have success, and that includes microlife products 3037 02:44:08.000 --> 02:44:11.040 and Nelson rescuing me the nitrophos with the one I'm 3038 02:44:11.079 --> 02:44:13.799 trying to say no, a night Fox product, Asam products 3039 02:44:13.840 --> 02:44:16.520 are going to be there too, Nature's Way resources. They've 3040 02:44:16.520 --> 02:44:20.440 got the topsoil, the potting soil, the composts, the rosemix, 3041 02:44:20.520 --> 02:44:23.959 the landscaper's pride, all of it's there at All Seasons. 3042 02:44:24.040 --> 02:44:28.959 ACE Hardware that is on I forty five North at 3043 02:44:29.040 --> 02:44:33.159 the Freeway service Road exit inn willis easy to find 3044 02:44:33.319 --> 02:44:36.639 or just go to Acehardware dot com find the store locator, 3045 02:44:36.879 --> 02:44:41.079 say hey, where's Ace or excuse me. All Seasons Ace 3046 02:44:41.120 --> 02:44:44.319 hardware you know on the radio. I have a short 3047 02:44:44.399 --> 02:44:46.879 time to answer your questions. Come see me face to 3048 02:44:46.920 --> 02:44:49.479 face today from twelve to two. They can talk and 3049 02:44:49.559 --> 02:44:52.520 talk and talk. It's gonna have a good time. Hope 3050 02:44:52.559 --> 02:44:55.719 you can make it. We'll be back on the air 3051 02:44:55.760 --> 02:44:57.680 again tomorrow morning, six to ten am.