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Speaker 5: With the calendar. And here's why we know that the
Speaker 5: average frostedate arrives fill in the blank for your area.
Speaker 5: It varies a lot through the garden Line listening area,
Speaker 5: but when it's scheduled to generally arrive, that's probably on
Speaker 5: the average when it's going to arrive, and so we
Speaker 5: got to do things to be ready for it. Now
Speaker 5: that means we need to be fertilizing our lawns right now,
Speaker 5: Right now is the time to get out there and
Speaker 5: get your fall fertilization down. We are in the big
Speaker 5: prime time for getting that done. October big month, big
Speaker 5: month that as we go further into fall, grassroot growth
Speaker 5: slows down, and we would like to get those nutrients
Speaker 5: down so they can take them up so that grass
Speaker 5: plant can be as strong as possible going into winter
Speaker 5: and coming out in spring. And that's something that's hard
Speaker 5: for people to follow or to I guess, well, get
Speaker 5: their head around. Maybe is the idea that we think
Speaker 5: about fertilizing like we think about eating us for example,
Speaker 5: like if I go eat breakfast this morning, that food
Speaker 5: is taking care of me today, but not so much tomorrow.
Speaker 5: I have to eat again tomorrow. Well, when we fertilize
Speaker 5: our turf, we're not just feeding the grass in the
Speaker 5: sense of we put it down and the grass takes
Speaker 5: it all up and eats it like I would my breakfast.
Speaker 5: What we are doing is we're putting it in the
Speaker 5: soil so that as the grass day by day by
Speaker 5: day by day needs nutrient, it's taking those nutrients up
Speaker 5: day by day by day by day. So the sooner
Speaker 5: you get it down, the sooner it can begin to
Speaker 5: do that. And with our nice warm temperatures right now,
Speaker 5: it will take it up very rapidly. And as we
Speaker 5: go further and further in fall, once we get into
Speaker 5: mid November and so it slowed down a lot, a lot,
Speaker 5: and so get those fertilizations done now. Night Fist has
Speaker 5: their three step program. I like that term three step.
Speaker 5: It's kind of like you dance on the dance floor,
Speaker 5: the two step, you dance on the lawn. The three
Speaker 5: step and the three step is number one in the
Speaker 5: fall special fertilizer. It's a winneriser. It helps your grass
Speaker 5: get ready for winter and therefore come out better in spring. Secondly,
Speaker 5: the second step of the three step is barricade, which
Speaker 5: is a pre emergent weed prevention. All the weeds that
Speaker 5: you saw taking over your lawn last spring, late winter
Speaker 5: and spring, they sprouted in the fall, and barricade stops
Speaker 5: at If you put it down now watered in about
Speaker 5: a half inch of water, then those weed seeds. When
Speaker 5: we get a col front and a little bit of
Speaker 5: a rain and a cold front, those weeds are going
Speaker 5: to sprout because the sul tent drops down to where
Speaker 5: they can it triggers them to sprout. You want the
Speaker 5: barricade down before that because that way, when they try
Speaker 5: to sprout, barricade is there forming a barricade over the
Speaker 5: ground and they can't. Second or third excuse me Nitrifus
Speaker 5: eagle turf fungicide. Eagle turf fungicides is a stomach. And
Speaker 5: one thing about preventing diseases in the lawn that's different
Speaker 5: from preventing somewhat different from preventing diseases in our bodies,
Speaker 5: is that we get sick and you go the doctor
Speaker 5: and they give you medicine to fix it. Unless it's
Speaker 5: a virus or something well in the lawn. We have
Speaker 5: to put that down ahead of time, so when the
Speaker 5: disease shows up, the preventative is there in the grass plant, okay,
Speaker 5: or on the grass plant. In the case of nitrophoss eagle,
Speaker 5: it's a systemic It moves in the plant. So when
Speaker 5: again here comes a cold front, some cool temperatures, and
Speaker 5: those big brown circles start to appear in your lawn.
Speaker 5: When the circles are there, that means the leaves have
Speaker 5: been rotted off the runners and you're gonna have a
Speaker 5: brown circle all winter, and when it warms up in
Speaker 5: spring the grass will regreen. But you look at the
Speaker 5: circle all winter. The sunlight hits the soil all winter,
Speaker 5: the weeds are sprouting, and other issues happen. Go backwards
Speaker 5: in time before that, put the eagle down, and now
Speaker 5: when the disease shows up, it's prevented from infecting the grass.
Speaker 5: Same thing is true with take all root rot, which
Speaker 5: also occurs in the fall. So here's what I'm saying,
Speaker 5: do the three step and do it now, especially doing
Speaker 5: the barricade and especially getting the eagle turf fungicide down.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 5: I would do all three right now, but time wise,
Speaker 5: the most important is getting the weed control ahead of
Speaker 5: time and the fungicide protection ahead of time. Nitrofoss Texas
Speaker 5: three step, It's as simple as that. You're going to
Speaker 5: find nitrofoss Texas three step at d and de Feed
Speaker 5: and Tumbull. You're going to find it at Plantation Ace
Speaker 5: Hardware out in Richmond, and you're going to find it
Speaker 5: at Sinco Ranch the Ace hardware out there as well.
Speaker 5: It's widely available and it works. I want to thank everybody,
Speaker 5: Buchanans and the folks that came out yesterday. We had
Speaker 5: a really good time there. Boy, their fall fest was outstanding,
Speaker 5: those of you who are there. I mean it was
Speaker 5: something every time everywhere I went, Every time I turned around,
Speaker 5: there was some kids activity and kids are getting their
Speaker 5: faces painted there were painting pumpkins. I mean, it was
Speaker 5: just on and on and on. It was a blast,
Speaker 5: had a good time. Loved meeting all the folks out there,
Speaker 5: and so it's kind of fun meeting people that listen
Speaker 5: to garden Line and helping folks with their questions and
Speaker 5: directing the things and quite the shindig there. Thank you
Speaker 5: Buchanons for having me out and for everybody for coming out.
Speaker 5: That was those of you who came, no just how
Speaker 5: much fun that was, and it really really was fun.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 5: Buchanans is on Eleventh Street in the Heights and it's easy.
Speaker 5: It's easy to get to, it's easy to get in
Speaker 5: and out of the product they have there is outstanding.
Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, the fall color that they have is stupendous.
Speaker 5: The pumpkins and all the gourds and ornamentals and things.
Speaker 5: I mean, you could decorate a gymnasium of all the
Speaker 5: different things that they have. They're ready to go in
Speaker 5: the way of pumpkins, you know, the carving pumpkins if
Speaker 5: you want to do Jack O Lennard, the little fairy
Speaker 5: tail pumpkins which are flattened. They kind of look like
Speaker 5: What'srella's coach or something like that, miniature pumpkins and gourds
Speaker 5: and everything native plants. I was directing people to native
Speaker 5: plants all day out there lots of really cool things,
Speaker 5: including things to attract butterflies, things to attract hummingbirds. And
Speaker 5: of course we spend time in the houseplat Greenhouse. My
Speaker 5: wife loves strings, a string of If they created a
Speaker 5: new string of, I think we'd be out there buying
Speaker 5: it the next day because we love strings at our house. Anyway,
Speaker 5: They've got you set up for all that and more
Speaker 5: out there at Buchanans Native Plants in the Heights on
Speaker 5: eleven Street. By the way, Buchanans Plants dot COM's their
Speaker 5: website Buchanans Plants dot com. You need to go check
Speaker 5: that out. Their newsletter is outstanding, their website is outstanding.
Speaker 5: There are monthly to do lists on there. There are
Speaker 5: other kinds of resources, you know, how to videos, gardening articles,
Speaker 5: garden guides and so on. Makes it easy, makes it
Speaker 5: really really easy. This is a call in show, and
Speaker 5: you know what the first thing that a host should
Speaker 5: do on a call in show is give you the
Speaker 5: phone number. How about I do that? Maybe not first thing,
Speaker 5: how about second thing? Seven one three two one two
Speaker 5: KTRH seven one three two one two ktrh. You'd like
Speaker 5: to give me a call talk about the things that
Speaker 5: are of interest to you. Hey, let's do that. Let
Speaker 5: us do that. We're going to take a break right
Speaker 5: now and I'll be right back.
Speaker 4: Like while you still can don't even try.
Speaker 5: Well, well, welcome, welcome back to Guardenline. Good to have
Speaker 5: you with us. He our phone number seven one three
Speaker 5: two one two fifty eight seventy four.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 5: You know that when you're looking for supplies for anything
Speaker 5: to make your garden, landscaping, lawn beautiful, Ace Hardware is
Speaker 5: the place to go. ACE is the place, that's what
Speaker 5: they say, and it is a place for everything. It's
Speaker 5: a place for fertilizers like the fall fertilizers. It's a
Speaker 5: place for fire, ink control, mosquito control. It's the place
Speaker 5: to get your decorations for inc and for outside. It's
Speaker 5: a place to create that beautiful outdoor patio that you
Speaker 5: so much enjoy. And when you're dealing with pests and
Speaker 5: weeds and diseases, ACE is a place for that as well.
Speaker 5: Ace Hardware stores forty of them in the Greater Houston area.
Speaker 5: So if you're listening to Guardline, there's an ACE Hardware
Speaker 5: store near you. And ACE Hardware stores are going to
Speaker 5: stay stocked with those things that you need to have
Speaker 5: that gorgeous landscape, to have that bountiful garden. So just
Speaker 5: check it out Acehardware dot Com, find the store locator,
Speaker 5: find the store near you, and everything you need is there.
Speaker 5: And oh, the holidays are coming, holiday decorations, lands are
Speaker 5: lighting and all the I'll be taking a lot about
Speaker 5: that really soon because it's just around the corner and
Speaker 5: it's also available at ACE. I talk about fall fertilizing,
Speaker 5: and sometimes people get a little confused, like, well, why
Speaker 5: not just use your summer lawn fertilizer for fall. Well,
Speaker 5: here's why. You know, you can fertilize with a summer
Speaker 5: fertilizer all year round, but the best fertilizer for fall
Speaker 5: is one that's a little lower in nitrogen, a little
Speaker 5: higher in the third number, which is potassium, and nitrogen
Speaker 5: pushes growth. That makes things, you know, take off green,
Speaker 5: grow fast and in warm temperatures. That's what we're doing
Speaker 5: all summer to our lawns. But in the fall, we
Speaker 5: want things to slow down because they are slowing down,
Speaker 5: the days are getting shorter, the temperatures are cool enough,
Speaker 5: and we want less nitrogen and a little more potassium
Speaker 5: the third number. Those two nitrogen and potassium, the first
Speaker 5: number of the third number. They go into the grass
Speaker 5: plant together and they help build winter hardiness. They help
Speaker 5: the plant produce carbohydrates that prepare it for cold weather. Secondly,
Speaker 5: they stock that plant with carbohydrates. The grass plant so
Speaker 5: in the spring it can take off growing. In the spring,
Speaker 5: the old root system is going away and the new
Speaker 5: root system is beginning to get established, and that early
Speaker 5: growth needs carbs that are stored in the grass plant
Speaker 5: to take off and do its. So your best early
Speaker 5: spring growth spurring along is done by your fall fertilization.
Speaker 5: Very important, probably the most important fertilization of the year.
Speaker 5: That I would say, the fall fertilization. We want to
Speaker 5: get it down in October here in the gardenline listening area.
Speaker 5: That's the best time to do it. A little earlier
Speaker 5: better than is better than a little bit later. But
Speaker 5: go ahead and get those down and that's how those work.
Speaker 5: That's why we make that change in the fall. And
Speaker 5: it's all available on my schedule at gardening with Skip
Speaker 5: dot com. Youne see the whole thing right there. I
Speaker 5: was talking about things you could get at ACE Hardware.
Speaker 5: Another thing you can get at ACE Hardware is azomite.
Speaker 5: You know. Asi Mite is the micro nutrient supplement that
Speaker 5: we put down to build the bank account in the soil.
Speaker 5: So when grass needs those obscure nutrients that you may
Speaker 5: have heard of but you certainly never see on the
Speaker 5: numbers on a fertilizer bag, it's in the soil and
Speaker 5: the grass is able to just continue growth as normal.
Speaker 5: There's twenty nutrients that plants need to do well and
Speaker 5: they're essential. When I see need, I don't mean it
Speaker 5: would be nice. I mean they have to have them,
Speaker 5: and if you don't have them, if there's not enough,
Speaker 5: it limits plant growth. And asumite that's why we put
Speaker 5: that down to buy once a year's enough, do as
Speaker 5: sult test and then you know exactly what you need
Speaker 5: on every nutrient. That's the best. I mean, we give
Speaker 5: you guidelines and stuff, but in the absence of that,
Speaker 5: an ASMIE application about once a year is a good
Speaker 5: way to go. You can go to azmite Texas dot com.
Speaker 5: Just remember it's a small particle sized product, So don't
Speaker 5: mix it with your fertilize other fertilizers, because you know,
Speaker 5: when you got large particles and small particles, they don't
Speaker 5: all get spread at the same rate. One of them
Speaker 5: settles and one of them comes up in the in
Speaker 5: the hopper as it bounces along. So do your fertilization
Speaker 5: and do your asmite applications separately. Do them separately, but
Speaker 5: you can do them the same day, you can do
Speaker 5: them the same hour. Just just do them separately. As
Speaker 5: Mite's widely available, you're gonna find it pretty much everywhere
Speaker 5: you hear me talk about on garden line. Feed stores,
Speaker 5: garden centers, ace hardware stores, Southwest fertilizer, all those kinds
Speaker 5: of places and more will carry the asmite. You are
Speaker 5: listening to garden Line, I'm your host, Skip Richter, and
Speaker 5: the number, if you'd like to give us a call
Speaker 5: is seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy
Speaker 5: four seven one three two one two five eight seven four. Now,
Speaker 5: one of my favorite things to say on garden line
Speaker 5: is brown stuff before green stuff. And why do I
Speaker 5: do that? Well, here's why it's easy to go to
Speaker 5: a garden center and get excited about plants. You know,
Speaker 5: here's all these green, beautiful flowers. There's a tomato I'm
Speaker 5: gonna eat like a king. I can't wait to put
Speaker 5: it in the ground. It's easy to get and good
Speaker 5: for you. I mean, I get excited about that. But
Speaker 5: the success of any plant you bring home, and hopefully
Speaker 5: you're bringing one that's adapted and wants to grow here.
Speaker 5: This success up any plant is based on the soil.
Speaker 5: Think of it this way. Plants live in their roots.
Speaker 5: That's that's one way to think about it. That makes
Speaker 5: the point I'm trying to make, and that is when
Speaker 5: the soil is well aer rated, that could be expanded shale,
Speaker 5: that could be compost additions, bed mixes that you're buying
Speaker 5: to grow the plants in. When it's well aer rated
Speaker 5: and well drained, it's going to thrive. When it can
Speaker 5: hole water but drain well. Also, when it can hold
Speaker 5: nutrients and keep them available, the plants have a chance
Speaker 5: to thrive. It's setting them up for success. You know.
Speaker 5: It's like you want to go on a trip and
Speaker 5: what you're going to take your car, Well, your car's
Speaker 5: got to have tires on it. Your car's got to
Speaker 5: have gas in the tank. You know, you see what
Speaker 5: I'm saying. You need all that there, so when you
Speaker 5: go to go somewhere, you got everything you need to go.
Speaker 5: That is what we do. When we build the soil,
Speaker 5: we get those plants ready to go. The roots can thrive,
Speaker 5: they can grow in a big area. They have lots
Speaker 5: of zone to draw water and nutrients from. There's good
Speaker 5: root health. There's not soggy anaerobic conditions and root rots
Speaker 5: and stuff like that. It's all in the soil. Very
Speaker 5: very important. Cnamlts south of Houston, Ciena Malts is your
Speaker 5: bronze stuff place. That's the way I'll put it. That
Speaker 5: means the composts, that means the expanded shill, that means
Speaker 5: every fertilizer I talk about on Guardline is at Cienamalts.
Speaker 5: It is when you drive in there and drive out,
Speaker 5: you have the foundation for success. Whether you're growing a lawn,
Speaker 5: a flowerbed, herbs, vegetables, you name it, it's all there
Speaker 5: at Cenamalts. Now. They're down on Highway near Highway six
Speaker 5: and two eighty eight, just north of ROAs Sharon on
Speaker 5: FM five twenty one. Right down their website. Sienna Maltz
Speaker 5: dot com, cnamlts dot com Monday through Friday seven thirty
Speaker 5: to five, Saturday seven thirty to two, closed on Sundays.
Speaker 5: But when you come out of Cienamalts, you're ready to go.
Speaker 5: You're ready to get it ready for a successful planting
Speaker 5: falls the best planting season. Now's the time to build
Speaker 5: your beds. Get over there to see them all and
Speaker 5: get the stuff you need. I see so many people.
Speaker 5: One of the main reasons people fail when they plant
Speaker 5: things is because they don't prepare their soul first. That's
Speaker 5: one of the main things. Don't be that person. Get
Speaker 5: it ready to go before you get started. We're going
Speaker 5: to go out now to Kingwood and talk to Pamela. Hello, Pamela,
Speaker 5: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 8: She started.
Speaker 9: Yes, can you hear me? Now?
Speaker 5: I can go ahead?
Speaker 9: Okay, great, Yes, I'm leaving for Spain for a month.
Speaker 9: And I lost the trees that shaded my azaleus and
Speaker 9: they're turning kind of a brighter light green with.
Speaker 7: A little bit of.
Speaker 9: Brown that not dying the stuff. What can I do
Speaker 9: to shave them? Could I put like that freeze cloth
Speaker 9: on top of them until it cool off. I've got
Speaker 9: somebody watering them every day while I'm gone, plus the
Speaker 9: sprinkler system.
Speaker 5: Well, I think I think if you're concerned about too
Speaker 5: much sun on those asalias, suddenly a shade cloth could
Speaker 5: be put over them. You can purchase shake cloth materials.
Speaker 5: It's very very thin, and it helps, you know, keep
Speaker 5: the some of the sun off. You don't want to
Speaker 5: get all the sun off, you just want to take
Speaker 5: it down a little bit. That's probably what I would use,
Speaker 5: Just lay that over them. But how long ago did
Speaker 5: these trees go away.
Speaker 10: Barrel?
Speaker 5: Well, that's been long. That's been a long time. Those
Speaker 5: azaleas ought to be okay for right now, I don't
Speaker 5: know that, you know, I mean certainly right after Barrel,
Speaker 5: through the hot, hot summer weathers and all that kind
Speaker 5: of stuff, that was a critical time. But I think
Speaker 5: we're kind of hitting a time now where I'm not
Speaker 5: as concerned about them. They've made it through up to now.
Speaker 5: I don't know. There's a lot more damage to be
Speaker 5: done on that.
Speaker 9: Okay, I'm going to have some trees planted when the
Speaker 9: Kingwood Garden Club has their Trees Sail in November. I'll
Speaker 9: buy some gonna put where they'll shade them. The other
Speaker 9: thing I wanted to talk to you because I've watched
Speaker 9: you told me about the power point you did about
Speaker 9: composting for kids.
Speaker 5: Why don't you.
Speaker 9: Think about, yeah, doing a children's hour once or twice
Speaker 9: a month on garden line and parents get parents get
Speaker 9: their grandchildren.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 9: I bring my neighbors kids over because the parents won't
Speaker 9: listen to you, and fix some pancakes and then you
Speaker 9: can do some like the power points, you know, because
Speaker 9: everybody's got a laptop, computer, you know, tablet, and you
Speaker 9: know that you can see stuff.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know. I don't know about that, but
Speaker 5: but that's a good that's a fun thought. Uh yeah,
Speaker 5: My my composting for kids PowerPoint thing is online at
Speaker 5: the Aggie Horticulture website. You just have to do a
Speaker 5: search for composting four kids and put my name in there.
Speaker 5: Skip Richter.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I've done by the way I've done it. The
Speaker 9: kids would love to dig those trenches and put the
Speaker 9: leads down.
Speaker 8: And what kid wouldn't learn to do that?
Speaker 5: Yeah, you gotta have to play in the dirt. That's right. Well,
Speaker 5: let me tell you another thing. There there is a
Speaker 5: some really good youth gardening stuff at the Aggie Horticulture
Speaker 5: website that the that if anybody goes there, oh my gosh,
Speaker 5: they have a ton of really really good stuff.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 5: And I would I would recommend that. I've I've worked
Speaker 5: on their youth with them on their youth programs a
Speaker 5: number of times. And it's it's top not it really
Speaker 5: is called. It's called j MG Junior Master Gardener j MG.
Speaker 9: Oh okay, god.
Speaker 5: Aggie Horticulture. There's a whole section, and there is a
Speaker 5: there's curriculums for teachers, you know if at homeschool or
Speaker 5: public school uses those both uh and lots of good stuff.
Speaker 5: So anybody wanted to gardening with kids, I would just
Speaker 5: start by going to the Junior Master Garden. The website's easy.
Speaker 5: It's j MG kids dot U s J do that.
Speaker 9: And you once said something and you had the dean
Speaker 9: of the.
Speaker 12: Horticultural school on yes.
Speaker 9: Man, the Horticultural school they only have about thirty students
Speaker 9: and basically if you go to A and M and
Speaker 9: go into that you get a full ride.
Speaker 5: And I checked, well, there's not there's more than thirty.
Speaker 5: There's way more than thirty students todaymore.
Speaker 9: Okay, okay, because I checked it out that.
Speaker 5: I'm hearing in my I'm here in my ear that
Speaker 5: I got to take a break for the news. For
Speaker 5: the news, I'm gonna have to run. I'm sorry I
Speaker 5: have to cut us off, but I'm up against a heartbreak.
Speaker 5: Thank you so much for your call, though I appreciate that.
Speaker 12: Thank you.
Speaker 5: Bye bye the cow. Not a little bit of yodling
Speaker 5: music this morning. You can thank me later.
Speaker 13: I want to be a Canbu site live the best audiari.
Speaker 5: All right, folks, welcome back to garden Line. Getting a
Speaker 5: little smooth start this morning before we play some weird stuff.
Speaker 5: By the way, stay tuned. I got some weird stuff
Speaker 5: coming up later. Thanks for being a listener to garden Line.
Speaker 5: We're glad to have you here with us today. If
Speaker 5: you've been out to in Channa Gardens recently, they're in
Speaker 5: Richmond on the Katie fullsher Side. It's up on FM
Speaker 5: three nine f three fifty nine, just north of Richmond.
Speaker 5: H In Channa Gardens is the kind of place you
Speaker 5: go just you could go there just to see right now,
Speaker 5: I'm just to see what they have because it is
Speaker 5: so cool. There is like the Pumpkin House, but just
Speaker 5: wall of pumpkins on a building. Go see it. You'll
Speaker 5: see what I'm talking about. There's things for photo shop
Speaker 5: or a field photoshop, photo taking with kids. You need
Speaker 5: to get your picture made by the Pumpkin House. There's
Speaker 5: a big old butterfly that you stand in front of.
Speaker 5: It looks like you got the wings. Kids are gonna
Speaker 5: like that kind of stuff. And then there's always plenty
Speaker 5: of things to do and purchase there. Right now, the
Speaker 5: fall color is unbe believable. You want, you want snap dragons,
Speaker 5: you want crotons, you want I mean, what are you
Speaker 5: looking for in the fall? It is? It is there
Speaker 5: at in Chanda Gardens and Chanted Gardens is the kind
Speaker 5: of place where you're gonna get good advice because they
Speaker 5: have trained people that know what they're talking about. And
Speaker 5: it's expensive. Grab a friend or tooth, throw them in
Speaker 5: the car. Head out there. If you're already in Richmond Rosenberg, congratulations,
Speaker 5: that's a great place. You're gonna find everything you need
Speaker 5: and you're going to really really enjoy your trip to
Speaker 5: They just make it fun. Their shops are cool, that
Speaker 5: the containers that they have are just outstanding, outstanding containers,
Speaker 5: really whimsicle. If you're looking for a gift for somebody
Speaker 5: through this holiday season, you're going to visit somebody, grab
Speaker 5: something from a Chenna garden to take it with you.
Speaker 5: But just know this that no matter what season you
Speaker 5: go out there, you're going to find the widest selection
Speaker 5: of all kinds of things. You're going to find any place.
Speaker 5: It is an outstanding place in Chenna gardens. Adam Richmond
Speaker 5: Rosenberg on three fifty nine FM three fifty nine just
Speaker 5: north of the of Richmond. What let's head out to
Speaker 5: the phones here. We're going to go to northwest Houston
Speaker 5: and talk to Paula. Hello, Paula, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 12: Thank you very much.
Speaker 14: Listen. I have three large spicebush plants that I had
Speaker 14: to attract spotsbush small tailed butterflies, and I bought I
Speaker 14: bought two all aer ones last spring because I wanted
Speaker 14: to do I don't know that for some reason, the
Speaker 14: spice this caterpillars must taste really good because they had
Speaker 14: so many predators, so I like to put them in
Speaker 14: cages and raise them in cages. So I bought two
Speaker 14: smaller spice bitch plants last spring, and they ended up
Speaker 14: dying in the pots. Before they even you know, grew
Speaker 14: very much and so with in Buchanan's last Friday, and
Speaker 14: they had some beautiful spice besh plants, so I bought
Speaker 14: some more. So my question is how long should I
Speaker 14: keep them in their original containers? And then when I
Speaker 14: do RePOP them, what is the best kind of potting
Speaker 14: full to use? Because I mean I'm going to be
Speaker 14: putting them in cages, you know for the cats.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's no need to keep them in their containing
Speaker 5: I mean, you pot them up the day, bring them home. Uh,
Speaker 5: But just as you pot them up, noticed the rich
Speaker 5: on the outside. If they're kind of all packed on
Speaker 5: the outside of the pot, you can you can do
Speaker 5: some uh we say, teasing them apart. You know, you're
Speaker 5: kind of pulling them out with your fingers or with
Speaker 5: a little gardening car to open them up a little
Speaker 5: bit and then replant. If it's real packed, I would
Speaker 5: even cut some roots. But if you put them in
Speaker 5: the new container and watermen, well keep them moderately moist
Speaker 5: They don't want to be in a swamp, but they
Speaker 5: do need so moisture. Well you might have yeah, you
Speaker 5: absolutely might have their native from everywhere from over in
Speaker 5: central Texas across. They go the whole southeastern up to Oklahoma,
Speaker 5: all the way over to the east coast, even up
Speaker 5: into to Maine in Ontario. That's uh, spice bushes. It's
Speaker 5: got a wide area, it tolerates dry sites. Once it's established,
Speaker 5: can take you know a range of different conditions, which
Speaker 5: that wide area would would give them a range.
Speaker 15: Uh.
Speaker 5: But you know, just make sure there's drainer tolls, but
Speaker 5: then keep them adequately moist and they'll do good. Any
Speaker 5: point you put in a container is more stressed because
Speaker 5: its roots are confined, you know, as a nature where
Speaker 5: it has this wide root system, so you can grow
Speaker 5: them in a container. Just just keep in mind that
Speaker 5: you're watering and things have to be a little more regular.
Speaker 14: Is there any kind of soil, any specific kind of
Speaker 14: soil that they should.
Speaker 5: Have, just a good quality good quality blood well okay, okay, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: you could use you could use what they call rose
Speaker 5: soil around here, you know, for example, or whatever they
Speaker 5: grow and alkaline soils, soils they grow in both kinds
Speaker 5: of soils. So okay, I've got a I've got a
Speaker 5: run for a break here. But I hope that helps.
Speaker 5: And that's a great, you made a good choice. That's
Speaker 5: a great plant. Really is cool. Thanks, thanks a lot.
Speaker 5: All right, folks, I'll be right back. All right, Little
Speaker 5: Aretha Franklin this morning, on a good Sunday morning, Welcome
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Speaker 5: are here to answer your gardening questions, whatever kinds of
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Speaker 5: ask me some questions. Let's help you have success. Gardening
Speaker 5: is the best hobby I think in the world. I'm biased,
Speaker 5: but that doesn't mean, I'm wrong. It is a great hobby.
Speaker 5: It's good physical exercise, it's good mental exercise, and the
Speaker 5: benefits of gardening go on and on and on, and
Speaker 5: I mean that I talk about this often, but if
Speaker 5: you're talking about senior adults struggling with dementia, gardening research
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Speaker 5: are trying to get out and get active but they
Speaker 5: can't play sports or go jogging or things, gardening is
Speaker 5: great exercise. I mean, we know we live sedentary lifestyles,
Speaker 5: and just getting up out of your chair and walking
Speaker 5: around over thirty minutes helps. We'll put gardening in there,
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Speaker 5: and the peace of mind, the joy, the beauty, the hope.
Speaker 5: Gardeners are forever optimists because every year is going to
Speaker 5: be the best. When I plan a tomato, it's always
Speaker 5: I can already tell you how many fruit it's going
Speaker 5: to have and how good it's going to taste. Even
Speaker 5: if it's not right, I still think I know because
Speaker 5: I'm hopeful. That is what we do as gardeners, and
Speaker 5: that in and of itself, as they say, is worth
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Speaker 5: other day that had some issues where they saw cracks
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Speaker 5: and so on. When you see a crack, when a
Speaker 5: door is sticking, it's time to check into it. Tie
Speaker 5: will not jump to conclusions. He'll take a look at it.
Speaker 5: I talked to him one time about a situation. He said,
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Speaker 5: Nobody wants to deal with foundation issues, but I'm telling you,
Speaker 5: putting your head in the sand doesn't make it get better.
Speaker 5: Let's go ahead and deal with it. Let's get a
Speaker 5: professional in there. Let's get some peace of mind. That
Speaker 5: is important. I was visiting with some of the folks
Speaker 5: from Microlife yesterday when I was at at Buchanan's Native Plants,
Speaker 5: and it just reminded me of the wide variety of
Speaker 5: products that Microlife has out there on the market. And
Speaker 5: they do. You know, we talk about the green fertilizer
Speaker 5: all summer, the six two four green bag, green fertilizer,
Speaker 5: green bag. In the fall we switch to the fall
Speaker 5: fertilizer and it's called Microlife brown Patch because brown patch
Speaker 5: occurs mostly in the fall. It can occur in the
Speaker 5: winter and a mile see part of the season. It
Speaker 5: can occur in the spring as well, but Microlife brown
Speaker 5: Patch is your fall fertilizer. If you go to my
Speaker 5: gardening schedule at gardening with skip dot com. My lawn schedule.
Speaker 5: Excuse me, my lawn schedule gardening with skip dot com.
Speaker 5: You'll see the microlife of brown patch on there. You
Speaker 5: need to get that down now, and you need to
Speaker 5: water it in because it's loaded with microbes that help
Speaker 5: populate the surfaces of your grass plant to make it
Speaker 5: a more hosp inhospitable place for something like a brown
Speaker 5: patch spore. Take all root rot things like that to infect. Now,
Speaker 5: microgrow bianoculant. Is there burgundy or maroon bag that is
Speaker 5: loaded with sixty three different strains of microbes, a lot
Speaker 5: of beneficial. There's microbes in there that produce antibiotics to
Speaker 5: help fight disease. There's microbes in there that work with
Speaker 5: plant roots to enhance the growth of the plant and
Speaker 5: the disease resistant. Did you know that there are microbes
Speaker 5: that make a plant more disease resistant?
Speaker 11: Here?
Speaker 5: Okay, for all you horticultural Cliff clavens s ja'll ever
Speaker 5: watch cheers. Yeah, you know Cliff Claven the middlement, Well,
Speaker 5: you can become the horticultural Cliff Claven. Just write this down.
Speaker 5: Basillis amelolycopations because on type yeah, we have BT for caterpillars. Right,
Speaker 5: we have basillis amelo licopations. It gets on the roots
Speaker 5: of plants. It gets on the plants, and it causes
Speaker 5: the plants to grow differently in a way that helps
Speaker 5: fight disease. Isn't that cool? Well, sixty three different strains
Speaker 5: I just named one right there of basillis and other
Speaker 5: good microbes. In micro grow bioanoculant, I would do both.
Speaker 5: I do the fertilization with brown patch and micro like
Speaker 5: brown patch, and then I do the bio ooculant. I
Speaker 5: think that you will find that to be very helpful
Speaker 5: for your long especially those of you wanting to garden
Speaker 5: organically and wanting to help suppress some of the issues
Speaker 5: that we do have here with diseases in our area.
Speaker 5: You are listening to Guarden Line, We're coming out pretty
Speaker 5: close here on a little break, and if you'd like
Speaker 5: to give us a call, our phone number is seven
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Speaker 5: you get on the boards and we're not able to
Speaker 5: come to you'll be first up when we come back.
Speaker 5: But I would like to try to help with the
Speaker 5: kinds of questions that you do have, and I know
Speaker 5: I get by yesterday, I think I answered so many
Speaker 5: questions my brain turned to jello and kind of flowed
Speaker 5: out my ears. It was it was a great I
Speaker 5: love doing that. I love talking to gardeners and helping
Speaker 5: them have success because I know that when I give
Speaker 5: you a good answer to a question, one based on research,
Speaker 5: one based on my personal experience, that you can have success.
Speaker 5: The thing that breaks my heart most is to talk
Speaker 5: to a gardener who says things like, yeah, I just
Speaker 5: have a brown thumb, or I tried to grow gardening
Speaker 5: once and I just killed everything. Okay, you got to
Speaker 5: kill a lot of plants to be a good gardener.
Speaker 5: Just accept that. That's okay, you can do that. We
Speaker 5: can help you get better and have more success because
Speaker 5: gardening is fun and you don't have a brown thumb.
Speaker 5: I promise you you do not. You may have an
Speaker 5: uninformed thumb, and we know how to inform your thumbs.
Speaker 5: When your thumb gets smarter, it turns green. I'm just
Speaker 5: saying that's kind of how that works. It really and
Speaker 5: it really really does work. We're about to take a
Speaker 5: little break here. I can hear some music playing here
Speaker 5: in the background, So just a fun fact as we're
Speaker 5: heading out. Guess what happens next weekend. I'm going to
Speaker 5: be at Are you ready for this Nature's Way Resources
Speaker 5: up toward Conrod, Texas. Nature's Way is a place you
Speaker 5: go for high quality, high quality soil products. You want
Speaker 5: to make your soil good, to make your plants good,
Speaker 5: to make you look like you have a green thumb. Yes,
Speaker 5: Nature's Way Resource. I'm gonna be there there having their fallfest.
Speaker 5: It is one heck of a shin dig it is.
Speaker 5: They got bands, they got music, and food and all
Speaker 5: kinds of stuff for kids. It's gonna be a blast.
Speaker 5: I'll be there answering your gardening questions from eleven thirty
Speaker 5: to one thirty at Nature's Way Resources up Interstate forty
Speaker 5: five out where fourteen eighty eight comes in from Magnolia.
Speaker 5: I'll tell you more about that a little bit later
Speaker 5: this morning.
Speaker 1: Welcome to kt RH Garden Line with Scamp Rickard.
Speaker 4: It's just watch him as the world God.
Speaker 3: What so many a sign?
Speaker 5: Well, Hello, well, hello, welcome back. We are glad you're
Speaker 5: with us today. We got a lot to talk about.
Speaker 5: That's what we do here. On Guardline, we answer gardening
Speaker 5: questions and talk to you. What do you want to
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Speaker 5: seven one three two one two k t r H.
Speaker 5: If you want to have success with your plants, you
Speaker 5: need to make those plants happy from the time they
Speaker 5: are roots hit the ground, and that means getting the
Speaker 5: soil right. If you're going to grow something like shrubs
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Speaker 5: and all the things you'd want a plant, you got
Speaker 5: to have good soil to put them in. For example,
Speaker 5: Landscapeer's Pride they have a two dozen different kinds of
Speaker 5: blends of soils and mulches and things. Their planting mix
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Speaker 5: soil and organics, various types of decomposed organic materials, which
Speaker 5: just creates a root zone where plants can thrive. It
Speaker 5: is high quality stuff they're planting mixed from landscapers Pride.
Speaker 5: Now they also got something called compost Peat. It's made
Speaker 5: from locally sourced pine excellent soil additive. It helps with
Speaker 5: the structure in the soil, and that's important because that
Speaker 5: helps with internal drainage and getting oxygen in the roots.
Speaker 5: Roots have to have oxygen to thrive. It does it
Speaker 5: very very well. Now on top of the ground, you
Speaker 5: always want to have a mulch, and their black velvet
Speaker 5: is probably the prettiest maults you're going to see. It
Speaker 5: is not dyed. It is naturally just dark, soft, rich,
Speaker 5: velvety color material. It keeps the soil cooler in the summer,
Speaker 5: which is a deal. It keeps a moderate soel temperature
Speaker 5: in winter too, for that matter. But it blocks the
Speaker 5: sunlight and when sunlight can't hit the soil, read seats
Speaker 5: can't get started. And maltz takes a lot of the
Speaker 5: workout of things for you. Plus it just makes the
Speaker 5: place prettier. Also about maltz, it decomposes over time. So
Speaker 5: when you use black velvet after a while, if it's
Speaker 5: getting a little thinner, it's decomposing. Away. Put some more
Speaker 5: black velvet on top of it. Don't take the old away.
Speaker 5: The old is just getting to become good soil building stuff.
Speaker 5: Now throw some more on top and you do. Just
Speaker 5: find Landscaperspride dot Com is a website for all those products.
Speaker 5: As they say, with Landscaper's Pride, let's grow together, and
Speaker 5: you're going to find their products all over the greater
Speaker 5: Houston area. When I talk about garden centers and feed
Speaker 5: stores and ace hardware stores and Southwest Fertilizer, those are
Speaker 5: all the kinds of places where you find Landscaper's Pride
Speaker 5: products and they're widely available. Someone had asked me about
Speaker 5: fall fertilizer. What is fall fertilizer? What is fallfuri? What
Speaker 5: fall fertilizer is is it's basically a higher potassium a
Speaker 5: little bit lower nitrogen level fertilizer than we use in
Speaker 5: the summertime, and it's to help the plant build cold
Speaker 5: hardiness going into fall. That is very important. Now we
Speaker 5: don't need to push with nitrogen, but we need some
Speaker 5: nitrogen in the fall. So there is nitrogen in fall fertilizer.
Speaker 5: It's taken up with the potassium to create in the
Speaker 5: plant with sunlight carbohydrates that make winter hardiness and put
Speaker 5: the energy in the plant. So coming out in the
Speaker 5: fall when the root system in this coming out of
Speaker 5: the fall, when the root system in spring is not
Speaker 5: taking off early enough to really create that early growth spurt.
Speaker 5: It's using stored energy to do that, and that's exactly
Speaker 5: what faull fertilizers do. That's why on my schedule there
Speaker 5: are fertilizers for spring and summer, and then there's fertilizers
Speaker 5: for the fall. And that's why we go with a
Speaker 5: different blend. And that's why our quality fertilizer manufactur choose
Speaker 5: a different blend based on turf grass science and research
Speaker 5: for what's best for your lawn in the fall, and
Speaker 5: that is a fall type fertilizer. Some people call them
Speaker 5: win arisers. You can do that if you want fall
Speaker 5: type fertilizer. Look at my schedule guarding with skip dot
Speaker 5: com and you'll find out more about them there. I
Speaker 5: recently I was looking at a listing of mascots. Mascots, yeah,
Speaker 5: high school mascots. And you know, mascots are supposed to
Speaker 5: be some formidable thing, like the hornets. You know they're
Speaker 5: going to attack you and the wildcats that are going
Speaker 5: to eat you up and stuff. I want to tell
Speaker 5: you about a few of the mascots that I found
Speaker 5: across the country. The snails. The snails. Now, doesn't that
Speaker 5: strike terror in your heart? That you're going to go
Speaker 5: up against the snails. There's an the one. There's another
Speaker 5: one in Key West, Florida. The conks. Yeah, all that
Speaker 5: is is a saltwater snail underground. What are you gonna do?
Speaker 5: Slime them snails? I'd like to hear the fight song
Speaker 5: for that. Anyway. Hey, if any of you are from
Speaker 5: these places, my apologies, but really, you gotta you gotta
Speaker 5: work on your mascots. How about the mighty bunnies from Omaha,
Speaker 5: Nebraska eat their vegetable garden bunnies, go go go? What
Speaker 5: I come on?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 5: Okay, let's let's let's uh, let's be fair here. How
Speaker 5: about some horticultural mascots. Well, but no, first I have
Speaker 5: to do an insect mascot. The crickets, the Fall Creek,
Speaker 5: Wisconsin crickets. What is the fight song? What is the chant?
Speaker 5: Make noise and keep them up all night? Crickets? I
Speaker 5: don't know. Okay, horticulture. The beat diggers from Sandy, Utah.
Speaker 5: Now there's one I can get behind, you know, help
Speaker 5: them garden. How about this the dustin California tillers. That's
Speaker 5: based on the farming community around Historically, the farming community
Speaker 5: they're on tusk in California. The tillers break up their soil,
Speaker 5: you know, dig up the weeds. I don't know, we
Speaker 5: need to work on that anyway, since it's football season.
Speaker 5: I thought you might get a kick out of that.
Speaker 5: Or it's just me. You know what do they say?
Speaker 5: Simple pleasure, simple minds. You're listening to garden Line the
Speaker 5: phone number seven one three two one two kt RH
Speaker 5: to give us a call. Spare your friends these bad jokes.
Speaker 5: Nelson plant Food has the fall fertilizer that will do
Speaker 5: two things in your lawn. Number one, it will provide
Speaker 5: the nutrients like I was just describing, little less nitrogen,
Speaker 5: little more potassium to get that plant ready to go.
Speaker 5: It's called carbo load because it helps your plant produce carbohydrates,
Speaker 5: which is winter hardiness and spring growth. That's what carbohydrates do.
Speaker 5: That's why sunlight shines on green leaves, and plants make
Speaker 5: carbohydrates for supporting that growth. Now, carbo load also has
Speaker 5: a pre emergent herbicide in it. You put it down,
Speaker 5: you watered in. You gotta water it in. Anytime you're
Speaker 5: doing fertilizers and pre emergent herbicides, you need get a
Speaker 5: little water on them, about a half inch or so,
Speaker 5: could be a little more, and move that down into
Speaker 5: the soil and that's where it does its work. Also,
Speaker 5: because carbo load has the pre emergent, don't delay on
Speaker 5: my schedule for fall fertilizers. You will see that the
Speaker 5: month of October is a good time to put those
Speaker 5: down as well as for weed prevention. But you won't
Speaker 5: do it sooner rather than later. Those things last a
Speaker 5: while in the soil, and if you wait until we
Speaker 5: get a call front, some rain and the weed sprout, well,
Speaker 5: now you're not needing a pre emergent, You're needing a
Speaker 5: post emergent fertilizer or herbicide. So carbo load, I'd get
Speaker 5: that done the next week or two. I'd do it
Speaker 5: in this week if I were you, Just to head
Speaker 5: your bet and get ahead of things. Because the analogy
Speaker 5: I use for fall disease in the garden fall weed
Speaker 5: control in the garden is baseball. You swing. You start
Speaker 5: your swing before the ball gets to the plate. If
Speaker 5: you wait until it's in the catcher's mitt to start
Speaker 5: your swing, you're never going to hit the ball. Right.
Speaker 5: Let's just put it this way. The ball is on
Speaker 5: the way for lawn weeds, and the ball is on
Speaker 5: the way already for the lawn diseases, and just you
Speaker 5: need to get out there, get ahead of it so
Speaker 5: that when they finally arrive and it's just around the corner,
Speaker 5: you're ready to go. And Nelson carbo Load can do
Speaker 5: you just that. And they're available widely all over the area.
Speaker 5: Let's go now to north west Houston. We're going to
Speaker 5: talk to Ralph. Good morning, Ralph, good morning.
Speaker 11: It is a good of a morning. Help and walk
Speaker 11: and you know, help me this old and all that. Anyway,
Speaker 11: my garden needs help too. So I need to put
Speaker 11: down a top saw on our guard cause the last
Speaker 11: year I just planted and this just didn't do right. No,
Speaker 11: so I need to really add some to it, like
Speaker 11: your c whatever you say.
Speaker 5: Yeah, what kind of do you have? Is it is
Speaker 5: your soil of clay or sand or what kind of
Speaker 5: soil do you have?
Speaker 11: It's bit noise, it's pretty, it's don't know it it's
Speaker 11: not sand. Is whole clay work like the front yard.
Speaker 16: I got it.
Speaker 11: It's really by front yard too. If I haven't grass
Speaker 11: won't even growing that whrse stuff. Well it's got hard
Speaker 11: this year, and I told you it's like growing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Ralph, I would. I would get a compost material
Speaker 5: to put on your garden. Any kind of a decomposed
Speaker 5: organic matter compost. If you want to get a veggie,
Speaker 5: a nerd mix, that would be good. Put about two
Speaker 5: inches of compost out there, mix it into your garden.
Speaker 5: You may have to wet the soil a little a
Speaker 5: day or two ahead of time so that you can
Speaker 5: mix it in. But always, every time you get a chance,
Speaker 5: mix some compost into your garden soil. And I think
Speaker 5: that's going to do a world of good for you.
Speaker 5: All right, Okay, that's what I need you to do. Yes,
Speaker 5: you bet well. They're telling me I got to go
Speaker 5: to a break. Okay, they're telling me I got to
Speaker 5: go to a break. Thank you for the call, Ralph.
Speaker 5: Take care. I'll be right back. Folks. Just consider this
Speaker 5: your moment is zen. You can thank me later.
Speaker 3: Sorry.
Speaker 5: Everybody that's ever heard yodling chickens, raise your hand. That's
Speaker 5: what I thought. That's what I Welcome back to garden Line. Hey,
Speaker 5: we try to have a little bit of fun at
Speaker 5: least keep you on your toeser here. So yeah, send
Speaker 5: money if you don't ever want to hear that again,
Speaker 5: I'll be happy to be paid hush money for the
Speaker 5: yodling chickens. Oh gosh, our phone number seven one three
Speaker 5: two one two k t r H. Seven one three
Speaker 5: two one two k t r H. Let's have some
Speaker 5: fun together today on garden Line. Lots to talk about,
Speaker 5: you know, when it comes to every kind of supply
Speaker 5: of whatever, talk about here on guard Line, from fertilizers
Speaker 5: to pesticides, to disease control, insect control, weed control, you
Speaker 5: name it. Southwest Fertilizer has got it all and then
Speaker 5: some They stay so on top of things. When any
Speaker 5: kind of new technology in terms of pest management comes
Speaker 5: onto the market, they've got it. They just do. That's
Speaker 5: how Bob is there. Southwest been doing it since nineteen
Speaker 5: fifty five at Southwest Fertilizer, and they're still the place.
Speaker 5: People drive good distances really to go there because they
Speaker 5: know when they get there, they're gonna have options. They're
Speaker 5: gonna have people that know what they're talking about. You know,
Speaker 5: you walk into Southwest with a weed and you go, hey,
Speaker 5: what's this and how do I kill it? Or you
Speaker 5: take a picture of something you go is this some problem,
Speaker 5: and they'll say, no, that's not a problem, you don't
Speaker 5: need to worry about. Oh yeah, here it is, and
Speaker 5: they give you your options because they know their stuff.
Speaker 5: That's how that works. If you are organic, they have
Speaker 5: the largest selection of organic products pretty much anywhere you're
Speaker 5: going to find. If you don't care whether it's organic
Speaker 5: or synthetic, they've got the largest selection you're going to
Speaker 5: find any That's what they do. Eighty foot wall of tools,
Speaker 5: eighty feet of tools. My weed wiper, skips weedwiper on
Speaker 5: my website gardening with skip dot com. If you want
Speaker 5: to build one, they've got the little tool that has
Speaker 5: the section cops to build it with.
Speaker 17: There.
Speaker 5: That's what I'm talking about. They have everything there. We're
Speaker 5: entering fall, we're going to be putting that lawn mower up.
Speaker 5: Why not have them get that sharpened. They got a
Speaker 5: shop in the back. Do you need some engine repair?
Speaker 5: They got a shop in the back for that. Whatever
Speaker 5: you need is going to be there at Southwest Fertilizer.
Speaker 5: I have never mentioned a productor or a fertilizer that
Speaker 5: they already don't have there at Southwest Fertilizer. Southwest Fertilizer
Speaker 5: dot com. They're on the corner of Bissinet and Runwick
Speaker 5: in Southwest Houston. If you haven't been there, you need
Speaker 5: to go. And when you go, say I want to
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Speaker 5: going to go to Spring Branch now and talk to Daisy. Hello, Daisy,
Speaker 5: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 15: Hi, thank you. How are you today?
Speaker 5: I'm good, I'm good.
Speaker 13: How can we help today?
Speaker 15: Well, I'm calling.
Speaker 18: I've had on I guess an issue is needing to
Speaker 18: get some planting done in the back of the pool
Speaker 18: area I previously had I want to say, American hollies
Speaker 18: that died almost a year ago, and I bought two
Speaker 18: good sized bogun vas to just put color because it's
Speaker 18: maybe seven foot maximum area that wraps around the back
Speaker 18: of the pool.
Speaker 15: So our bogunv is a.
Speaker 18: Bad idea, a good idea or do you have any
Speaker 18: other suggestions for what we can put there?
Speaker 5: Yeah, they're a nice plant. They grow in the they
Speaker 5: bloom in the summertime when you're using the pool. A
Speaker 5: couple of other good color plants for summer are the
Speaker 5: Pride of Barbados. It is a orange, yellow, and red
Speaker 5: colored flower that attracts swallowtail one type of swallowtail, butterfly,
Speaker 5: and some others. It doesn't even want to really be
Speaker 5: growing and stuff until about May, so it's a great
Speaker 5: one for summer color all the way up until late
Speaker 5: in the season. There are other plants. The esperanza or
Speaker 5: yellowbells looks good. The fire bush fire bush is one
Speaker 5: that has red tubular flowers. Uh, and it's a it's
Speaker 5: an attractive little plant that does good in an area
Speaker 5: like that. If you were placing an American holly, that
Speaker 5: of course that would be a evergreen screen plant. So
Speaker 5: there are plants that will give you, you know, good
Speaker 5: foliage cover that block of you. If that's part of
Speaker 5: the strategy too. Those some of the other evergreen shrubs
Speaker 5: could be used like that.
Speaker 18: Okay, what about a tall evergreen shrub to be the backdrop.
Speaker 18: Do you have any suggestions for that that could kind
Speaker 18: of maybe go in back of the esperanzas.
Speaker 5: Something tall. The Japanese u ye w u does really good.
Speaker 5: It can be trimmed to make a hedge that's not
Speaker 5: too thick. You know, with with plants they get tall.
Speaker 5: If they get wide too, they're taking up all your
Speaker 5: area and that's not good. So Japanese you could be
Speaker 5: trimmed to make a very nice backdrop hedge that's evergreen.
Speaker 5: They could go behind whatever you're going.
Speaker 15: To plant that'll look pretty Okay. So on bogun villas,
Speaker 15: I didn't realize they all drop their flowers, is that?
Speaker 15: Why don't Why don't I see that all over town?
Speaker 18: You see them everywhere and they look gorgeous. But I
Speaker 18: have them home now and I'm noticing like a lot
Speaker 18: of their droppings all over.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Well, everything's that has a everything that has a bloom,
Speaker 5: Eventually that bloom falls off. And so with boogainvillias, as
Speaker 5: we get into cooler weather, you're going to see that.
Speaker 5: Of course it's not cooler weather yet, but different kinds
Speaker 5: of stresses can cause a plant to drop flowers earlier
Speaker 5: than it normally would. But yes, they can do that,
Speaker 5: they sure can, but that's not just unique to booginvillas.
Speaker 15: Got it?
Speaker 10: Okay?
Speaker 15: All right, Well I will definitely look into the use that.
Speaker 15: That'll look pretty.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Another another option to daisy is is to do
Speaker 5: a yopon, an upright burying type of yopon. Then you
Speaker 5: would have the beauty of the evergreen of the opon.
Speaker 5: Plus you would have the potential at least for berries
Speaker 5: on the plant during the cooler season, so you could
Speaker 5: enjoy that. And again with some sheer some sharing, the
Speaker 5: density gets better.
Speaker 15: Is that a tree or a shrub?
Speaker 5: It's a it's a shrub, but can also be a
Speaker 5: mini tree, you know, like the smaller types of crape
Speaker 5: myrtles that form a little tree shape. A yopon can
Speaker 5: be pruned into that kind of shape, or it can
Speaker 5: be sheared into just a shrub like shape. There's one
Speaker 5: called Pride of Houston. It's not real tall, but Pride
Speaker 5: of Houston is one that's real nice and has berries
Speaker 5: on it. Okay, Pride of Houston, upright, yocon, Yeah, and
Speaker 5: just go online and look at these take looks at
Speaker 5: pictures and see if I like that or not I
Speaker 5: don't like that, And you'll be able to find some
Speaker 5: good things that way too. And you're you're up there
Speaker 5: in the Spring Branch area, so you've got a lot
Speaker 5: of garden centers and places where you can get some
Speaker 5: great plants.
Speaker 15: Okay, perfect, okay, thank you so much.
Speaker 5: All right, all right, thank you for the call. Appreciate that.
Speaker 5: All right, if you'd like to give us a call
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Speaker 5: t RH. I'm not good garden centers, you know, not
Speaker 5: too far from Spring. I go out toward Tumball and
Speaker 5: you've got Arburgate Nursery and Arburgate is a show place,
Speaker 5: been around for a long time. Arburgate is the kind
Speaker 5: of place that people from around Texas know about. People
Speaker 5: come from a long way to go to Arburgate. I
Speaker 5: can tell you that I'm out there, and I always
Speaker 5: like to visit with customers when I'm at garden centers
Speaker 5: and find out where you're from, what you're looking for,
Speaker 5: stuff like that. You know, gardeners like to talk about plants. Well,
Speaker 5: at Arburgate, you're going to find the best ball color
Speaker 5: that you can imagine right now and it is. They
Speaker 5: are loaded, They're ready. Do you need decorations? Their gift
Speaker 5: shops are just taken off. They're even getting ready even
Speaker 5: for some Christmas things coming up soon here at the
Speaker 5: gift shops at Arburgate, the bling for the landscape is there.
Speaker 5: But the plants, it's the plants year round. They sell
Speaker 5: fruit trees at Arburgate. You always get a free tree
Speaker 5: there at Arburgate. Shrubs and trees and herbs at everything.
Speaker 5: Arborgate is the place that you find everything you need
Speaker 5: to have that really unique, special place that's.
Speaker 14: Just for you.
Speaker 5: You know, that's one thing about gardens. We can create
Speaker 5: whatever kind of garden we want, from a zen garden
Speaker 5: to just a big edible garden of herbs, fruits and vegetables.
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Speaker 5: those only happen when you have provided the foundation for success.
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Speaker 5: are anywhere up north in the listening area. In fact,
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Speaker 5: I'll be there from eleven thirty to one thirty. Eleven
Speaker 5: thirty to one thirty next Saturday. Come and see me.
Speaker 5: Those of you in Conrod, those of you in Willis,
Speaker 5: the Woodlands, all through that region North Houston. Come from
Speaker 5: wherever you want. Like I said, I'm always surprised. You know,
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Speaker 5: Let's help you diagnose them. Bring me pictures on your
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Speaker 5: your chance. You know, on Guardline, we have a short
Speaker 5: time to answer phone calls with you moving on to
Speaker 5: another caller or other information. But to I there, this
Speaker 5: is our opportunity to get your gardens in the best
Speaker 5: shape that they can be. And I'll be there Nature's
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Speaker 5: I'll be there from eleven thirty to one thirty. By
Speaker 5: the way, the event starts at nine in the morning
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Speaker 5: a really good event, so I hope you'll make it.
Speaker 5: Come on out. I I've talked about a number of
Speaker 5: different things, and you know, I like to take the
Speaker 5: moment where we have a little bit of a break
Speaker 5: in the calls just to I guess, discuss some of
Speaker 5: the things that I think are important points to consider
Speaker 5: that people really may not be aware of. And for example,
Speaker 5: I want to talk a little bit about pre emergent
Speaker 5: herbicide tips and I'm going to give you five and
Speaker 5: I'll do them real quick. Number one, you've got to
Speaker 5: get the right product for the weeds. There are pre
Speaker 5: emergent herbicides that just work on broadleaf weeds. There's some
Speaker 5: that work on broad leaf and grassy weeds. Barricade is
Speaker 5: one of those. It does both, but you've got to
Speaker 5: get the right product to go after the weeds you're
Speaker 5: going after. Secondly, Tip two, Timing is everything. Like playing baseball.
Speaker 5: You got to start swinging before the ball gets to
Speaker 5: the plate or you're never going to hit the ball. Well.
Speaker 5: If you don't get your pre emergence down ahead of
Speaker 5: the seed sprouting, you're missing the boat. It's like swinging
Speaker 5: after the catcher's got the ball. And as I am
Speaker 5: saying these days, now that we're in October, the ball
Speaker 5: is on the way. The picture has let go, and
Speaker 5: the ball is on the way, it's time to get
Speaker 5: that swing started, meaning get those things down. Third, put
Speaker 5: them at the right rate. Rates are important. You don't
Speaker 5: put enough, it doesn't work. You overdo a rate of
Speaker 5: an insecticide, a fungicide, a herbicide, or a fertilizer and
Speaker 5: you can damage plants. Follow the label. The right rate
Speaker 5: is critical. Fourth, uniform application. It works. The product works,
Speaker 5: but if you have twice as much in one spot,
Speaker 5: and not enough in another that's not a uniform application
Speaker 5: and you're going to get spotty results. Fifth, and finally
Speaker 5: is watered in half inch of water or so to
Speaker 5: get it down into the soil surface. They stick to
Speaker 5: the surface right there in the soil, and when a
Speaker 5: weed seed tries to come through, they shut it down.
Speaker 5: For it gets started, for it's able to establish a plant.
Speaker 5: You gotta water it in dry premerent herbicide sitting on
Speaker 5: the soil doesn't control anything. When you watered in, it's
Speaker 5: ready to go. And as they say, with the product barricade,
Speaker 5: it forms a barricade over the surface and weeds can't
Speaker 5: get through again. All five appropriate product for the weed
Speaker 5: you have. Timing is everything rate follow the label number four,
Speaker 5: uniform application number five watered in. There you go, ABC's
Speaker 5: of Success five tips for premerger and herbicide. Let's go
Speaker 5: out to Hurta in spring Brands. Hello Hurte, welcome to
Speaker 5: garden line.
Speaker 19: Thank you, good morning.
Speaker 11: Morning.
Speaker 19: About a Scheffeller it's in the yard. Well, I've actually
Speaker 19: had it.
Speaker 14: I talked to.
Speaker 19: Our former garden about it, but he said it was
Speaker 19: too large to leave it in the yard. But one
Speaker 19: of the stams died, but well, okay, but at the
Speaker 19: bottom of another stem about a whole crusher of leaves
Speaker 19: or turning yellow.
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, Well, if it's down low, it could be
Speaker 5: a couple of things. Most likely hurta that is some
Speaker 5: sort of a soul moisture, fluctuation, got a little dry
Speaker 5: something like that, maybe stayed a little too soggy wet,
Speaker 5: or maybe it fluctuated from one to the other. Those
Speaker 5: are all things that will cause leaves to yellow. We
Speaker 5: see that on our houseplants. If you get to water
Speaker 5: your pathos and then you water it and suddenly you
Speaker 5: see these yellow leaves, and that's just part of that
Speaker 5: water fluctuation thing. It could also be a lack of
Speaker 5: nitrogen that shows up on the older leaves, which would
Speaker 5: be the lower ones on the branch, or the ones
Speaker 5: closest to the toward the base of the plant. So
Speaker 5: it could be a lack of nitrogen. At this point
Speaker 5: in time, your chufflers are growing in the ground, right
Speaker 5: it's not in a pot or okay, well, if it's
Speaker 5: in the ground I don't want to push it with
Speaker 5: a lot of fertilizer right now, because you know they're
Speaker 5: not fully cold, hardy. You know, we get by get
Speaker 5: you're getting by with them there. But in general, a
Speaker 5: houseplant put outside is going to freeze in the winter,
Speaker 5: and so I wouldn't want to give it a lot
Speaker 5: of nitrogen because that just makes it more susceptible to
Speaker 5: an early hard freeze. But it could be that there's
Speaker 5: a little nutrient lacking. I think it's a soul moisture thing.
Speaker 5: And you know that thing's been You've had it for
Speaker 5: a long time. And plants, you know, over time, things happen.
Speaker 5: You know, you can lose a branch, you can lose
Speaker 5: a stem or. It's just kind of how plants are.
Speaker 5: So who knows over over time the things that happen
Speaker 5: in nature and just the age of the plant and stuff.
Speaker 5: Things can, things can happen. I think overall the plant
Speaker 5: looks good though, from what.
Speaker 19: I'm hearing, right, Hey, yes, sir, yes, sir.
Speaker 10: Oh, I'll love it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, obviously you're taking care of it. It must
Speaker 5: love you too if it's doing that good. All right,
Speaker 5: thank you, thank you so much. I appreciate that. All right, Well,
Speaker 5: let's see here, folks, I'm going to have to take
Speaker 5: a break here and Paul and Laporte. You'll be our
Speaker 5: first stup when we come back.
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Speaker 5: I'm doing well, sir. Thank you.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 5: Good called.
Speaker 20: Last weekend you said it's time to get my roses in.
Speaker 20: I got my roses. I tilled up the soul around
Speaker 20: my fence line. I'm going to put them the soil.
Speaker 20: That's okay. But should I mend that with some composts
Speaker 20: just fortify it?
Speaker 5: You should, But instead of you could use compost, what
Speaker 5: I would do is I would get some of Heirloom's soils.
Speaker 5: It's called Roses and Bloomers Blend. It's a multipurpose. Rose
Speaker 5: soil comes in one cubic foot bags. Some of these
Speaker 5: products from airlom Mute and by Bulk as well, but
Speaker 5: one cubic foot bags Heirloom soils. There rose soil is.
Speaker 5: It's called Roses and Bloomers Blend. It's got a big
Speaker 5: picture of a rose on the front that is outstanding
Speaker 5: that I would put. I'd lay it about four inches
Speaker 5: thick and mix it as deeply into the soil as
Speaker 5: you can. And if your area is not high and dry,
Speaker 5: if it's maybe a little poorly drained, I would then
Speaker 5: add another four inches on top of that, just to
Speaker 5: create a bed high enough to get those rose roots
Speaker 5: out of soggy conditions. Okay, where would you suggest I
Speaker 5: could buy that ad and report? You can buy it
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Speaker 5: Heirloomsoils dot com, there's a little button where to buy
Speaker 5: heirloom heirloom soils and so you know, whatever part of
Speaker 5: the area, and you can fill out a little thing there.
Speaker 5: But they they're widely available. You're going to find them,
Speaker 5: you know, at these hardware stores. You're going to find
Speaker 5: them at garden centers, you're going to find them. Southwest Fertilizer,
Speaker 5: just a lot of places to their products. We've got
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Speaker 5: uh real quick? Yeah, okay.
Speaker 20: I'm also ordered some hardy blueberries for this area. I
Speaker 20: was told, okay, blueberries like acidic soil, and I don't
Speaker 20: know how to tests that.
Speaker 5: I was told that I could.
Speaker 20: Put heat at the bottom of the whole before I
Speaker 20: plant them with the blueberries and that would help with
Speaker 20: the acidity.
Speaker 5: We're going to change that. Yeah, we're going to change
Speaker 5: that advice a little bit. What you want to do
Speaker 5: is you can lay lay peat, spag and pete moss,
Speaker 5: spread it out over a bed. Mix it in again,
Speaker 5: like I was telling you, the roso mix it in
Speaker 5: and then lay more peat a peat and sand mixes.
Speaker 5: But you if you go, you know, wherever you get
Speaker 5: the heirloom soil products, you're going to also find products
Speaker 5: for acid loving plants. They've got some really good materials
Speaker 5: for acid loving plants as well. There's a fruit berry
Speaker 5: and citrus mix that would work really well for that also.
Speaker 5: But anytime, yeah, anytime you can acidify, add organic matter
Speaker 5: and get the roots out of soggy conditions. Your blueberries
Speaker 5: are going to do really really well. They like that,
Speaker 5: and then get you an acid loving plant food for
Speaker 5: them as well. Okay, we'll skip. I appreciate your time today, sir, Yes, sir,
Speaker 5: you bet, thank you. I appreciate that. Appreciate that call
Speaker 5: a lot. Yeah, that is the case. Where are we now?
Speaker 5: We are trying to watch the time and the callers. Okay,
Speaker 5: we'll go now to Sharon West University. Hey, Sharon, how
Speaker 5: can we help.
Speaker 21: Well, Skip, I have a garden that is had multiple problems.
Speaker 21: We've had sod web worms, We've had fungus, We've had
Speaker 21: construction damage from the sidewalk being repaired where the water
Speaker 21: was broken and we had no water on our lawn,
Speaker 21: and my husband hired the construction guys who were replacing
Speaker 21: the sidewalk to replace because the city was replacing sod
Speaker 21: lawn uh and they just did a horrible job. So
Speaker 21: so now my lawn just looks terrible, to the point
Speaker 21: that my husband's thinking artificial turf would be better.
Speaker 5: Oh I cankay, I.
Speaker 21: Deny that.
Speaker 5: Okay, Well, I saw the pictures you sent and the area.
Speaker 5: First of all, the area is pretty shady, so when
Speaker 5: you look at the actual hours of sunlight, it's somewhat limited,
Speaker 5: especially under those trees where the lawn looks the worse.
Speaker 5: I think you have a disease called take all root rot. Now,
Speaker 5: looking at a picture and diagnosing take all is a
Speaker 5: little bit of a stretch, but I've seen so many
Speaker 5: yards with it that I've kind of gotten a pretty
Speaker 5: good eye for it. And I'm ninety percent sure you
Speaker 5: got some take all root rot in there. Fall is
Speaker 5: the time to treat for that. And if you go
Speaker 5: to my website, Gardening with Skip dot com, you'll see
Speaker 5: the products to use, and you'll see the timing and
Speaker 5: you're going to want to do that in October and
Speaker 5: in November both twice. It's on the schedule that way,
Speaker 5: and then you want to treat it really good. With that,
Speaker 5: I would get some peat moss, some spagnum peat moss
Speaker 5: that you buy in little compressed bag. They're like the
Speaker 5: size of a hay bale almost, but it's a compressed
Speaker 5: bag of se peat moss. You break it up and
Speaker 5: just turn a rake upside down and spread it over
Speaker 5: the lawn. Do you have a question, no, I said,
Speaker 5: I'm familiar with peat moss like that. Yeah, okay, So
Speaker 5: I turned like a soil rake upside down where the
Speaker 5: times are pointing up, and then it's like you're playing
Speaker 5: shuffleboard on the lawn, just spreading it around. Or you
Speaker 5: can use a leaf rake to spread it around a bail.
Speaker 5: A three point eight cubic foot bail should cover about
Speaker 5: a thousand square feet. If you put it heavier than that,
Speaker 5: that's fine. Spread it over that and watered in really well.
Speaker 5: And with the first thing you're going to do, though,
Speaker 5: is spray the grass with the fungicide for the peep moss.
Speaker 5: It's on my schedule. Then I'm sorry for the take all,
Speaker 5: then put the peat moss down and then watered in,
Speaker 5: watered in a little bit. You just a little bit
Speaker 5: of water to move that peete down around the root.
Speaker 5: That's going to give it every chance to try to
Speaker 5: start fighting that disease. And coming back. Now in areas
Speaker 5: underneath the tree where there's just no grass, I would
Speaker 5: look at making a big bed of some type of
Speaker 5: a groundcover under there, because I think it's just too shady.
Speaker 5: I see signs of some drought damage on it as well,
Speaker 5: but that could be due to the take all killing
Speaker 5: the roots. And if you don't have roots, even if
Speaker 5: there's water in the soil, you have drought symptoms.
Speaker 17: Yeah.
Speaker 22: Skip, we know we've had funguses on one side of
Speaker 22: the lawn and I was told that, of course, not
Speaker 22: all fungicides kills all funguses. So in your recommendation, do
Speaker 22: you think the one treatment of the fungicide's going to work?
Speaker 5: Well, I would do too. At the degree of damage
Speaker 5: you have. It's not quite like fungicides kills all funguses
Speaker 5: that are out there, but they they do help. And
Speaker 5: with take all, it's a tough disease. And the products
Speaker 5: I've listed applied in October outer repeat them and in November,
Speaker 5: I think is your better way to go on that.
Speaker 5: And so it should take care of of like you
Speaker 5: shouldn't have brown patch in your lawn this fall. If
Speaker 5: you do those products, that's for sure too. But when
Speaker 5: they when they work.
Speaker 22: We had one other one other question was when they
Speaker 22: worked on the lawn before they laid.
Speaker 5: Down the.
Speaker 22: Grass, we now, did they put in a layer of sand,
Speaker 22: which it turns out to be construction sand. Would that
Speaker 22: be a detriment to August now growing?
Speaker 14: No?
Speaker 5: I mean they they use sand on golf course greens
Speaker 5: and other things for drainage and stuff, so that the
Speaker 5: sand's not really a problem. You know, some compost top
Speaker 5: dressing never hurts. We're going to pete moss though. If
Speaker 5: you're going to do that for the for the take all. Uh,
Speaker 5: some aerration in a small area like you have, you
Speaker 5: could hand air rate at yourself. Uh, you know, punching
Speaker 5: some holes and putting a top dressing on it. But
Speaker 5: I think right now the big thing is the disease.
Speaker 5: The grass is very much going downhill in a in
Speaker 5: a mid to lighter stage of the disease killing it out.
Speaker 5: And so you got to shut that down as a
Speaker 5: p that's that's the first thing, because you don't at
Speaker 5: the reside, and I'd hate to see you put a
Speaker 5: plastic lawn in, but that's your yard, all right, Okay,
Speaker 5: thank you, all right, thank you very much. You'll take care,
Speaker 5: you bet if you put a plastic lawn in, I'm
Speaker 5: going to show up with a hot glow gun and
Speaker 5: put plastic weeds in your yard. Y'all have fun, Bye bye,
Speaker 5: all right, folks, we'll be back.
Speaker 1: Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Scip Richard.
Speaker 3: It's just watch him as the world to see blocks
Speaker 3: a sun.
Speaker 5: All right, folks, welcome back to garden Line. Glad to
Speaker 5: have you with us today. We're gonna run straight out
Speaker 5: to the phones.
Speaker 4: Here.
Speaker 5: We got some boards of a ford full board of calls.
Speaker 5: It's not easy for me to say. We're gonna go
Speaker 5: to Sonya in Pariland. Hey, Sonya, how can we help today?
Speaker 5: On guard line?
Speaker 23: Good morning Skip.
Speaker 13: I'm actually calling for my grandfather. He lives in the
Speaker 13: Webster area and he has his house has some pecan
Speaker 13: trees and peach trees in the backyard. But he's wanting
Speaker 13: to add something orange or tangerine variety. Do you have
Speaker 13: any recommendations for that?
Speaker 5: Tell me again his area please, Webster where he is Webster, Yeah,
Speaker 5: he's done. Yeah, there's a lot of things, yeah, Webster,
Speaker 5: you know, I mean, you could do like a if
Speaker 5: you wanted a blood orange. Those are really cool, kind
Speaker 5: of different, not the heartiest of all our ceterrus, but
Speaker 5: they would grow there. Satsumas are mandarin type oranges. They
Speaker 5: got the baggy skin, not many seeds like the little
Speaker 5: if you bought those little bags acuties in the store,
Speaker 5: those little small things, it's like a big version of that.
Speaker 5: So they are among the more hearty of the centrus
Speaker 5: types of trees. You could certainly do limes and lemons,
Speaker 5: but they are not very hardy. Usually people do those
Speaker 5: in containers and so that they can put a little dolly,
Speaker 5: strap it onto a dolly and roll it into a
Speaker 5: garage when it's going to be real cold. With a dolly.
Speaker 5: It's not hard to move a container ceterris.
Speaker 23: Okay, So let's when would I think the tattoom is
Speaker 23: probably what he's looking for. When would we plant something
Speaker 23: like that?
Speaker 5: You know, you could plan them now, you could plan
Speaker 5: them in the spring. It doesn't really matter. They're they're
Speaker 5: pretty flexible. Just know that the first year or two especially,
Speaker 5: you need to be ready to protect them once a
Speaker 5: satsuma is established, unless you just have a sudden, very
Speaker 5: cold snap and the plants weren't ready for it. Once
Speaker 5: asatsuma is established, it should take it down in the
Speaker 5: definitely in the mid twenties and be okay, but not
Speaker 5: the first year or two.
Speaker 23: And so protecting would just be like frost blankets or
Speaker 23: combination of that, and maybe some Christmas lights around the
Speaker 23: base or something.
Speaker 5: Yes, And in order to give you the best answer,
Speaker 5: I'm going to refer you to a publication I put
Speaker 5: on my website. It's a free download there and it's
Speaker 5: it's protecting Landscape Plans from cold and it's my website
Speaker 5: is Gardening with Skip dot com though Gardening with Skip. Yeah.
Speaker 5: If you go down there, scroll down look for the
Speaker 5: cold protection publication. It's full color, it's got pictures, and
Speaker 5: it tells you a whole thing. And in a nutshell,
Speaker 5: what it's going to tell you is you want to
Speaker 5: drape a cover that the wind can't blow through from
Speaker 5: the top of the plant straight down to the ground
Speaker 5: and then secure it with bricks, rocks, soil, whatever around
Speaker 5: the plant so that air is stagnant underneath there overnight.
Speaker 5: Then you put a little bit of a heat source
Speaker 5: under it, like a clamp light those things you get
Speaker 5: at a hardware store that have ice. Hardware carries them,
Speaker 5: and put about a one hundred and fifty flood light
Speaker 5: bulb in there that produces enough heat and it goes
Speaker 5: up around the plant and keeps it just warm enough.
Speaker 5: We just have to remember we don't have to make
Speaker 5: it warm under there. We have to make it above
Speaker 5: thirty two under there. That's what we're aiming for, so
Speaker 5: that that can be done.
Speaker 23: And the only other thing I need to protect them
Speaker 23: from our squirrels. Any recommendations from those pests, Well, I
Speaker 23: have recipes.
Speaker 5: Sorry, I get it, squirrel recipes. It's it was a joke.
Speaker 5: Squirrels are a problem. You know. They come in and
Speaker 5: they steal things, they take a bite out of something,
Speaker 5: and you know, but I don't. I have not noticed
Speaker 5: citrus having squirrel problems. Maybe someone else has, but I've
Speaker 5: never had a squirrel problem on citrus. Uh, So I don't.
Speaker 17: Maybe that's the.
Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, your pecans are toes. Yeah, citrus pecans.
Speaker 5: You don't get any pecans because of the squirrels in
Speaker 5: our area pretty much. Uh if you live in a
Speaker 5: in a in a city neighborhood kind of setting. But yeah,
Speaker 5: that's that's the case. But I I will attest to
Speaker 5: the fact that pecan fed squirrel is is very good,
Speaker 5: very good to eat.
Speaker 23: Get that little smooky flavor. So one last question on
Speaker 23: the tree, where would you recommend we get one in
Speaker 23: that area? I know Boss nurseries down there in Seabrook,
Speaker 23: would they have any or is there a specific.
Speaker 5: Absolutely they can recommend. No, mass would be an excellent,
Speaker 5: excellent and just call them first. Make sure you know
Speaker 5: they get shipments in and people buy out and they
Speaker 5: get shipments in and so make sure they've got what
Speaker 5: you're looking for. But Moss is a great place. Yeah,
Speaker 5: that's a wonderful nursery. I love that point. All right, Well,
Speaker 5: thank you so much, skip all right, Well, good luck, yeah,
Speaker 5: and good luck with your dad and the plants. Appreciate
Speaker 5: the call. Yes said, that is so true.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 5: Medina has a product called Medina Plus. And you know,
Speaker 5: with fall being planting season, it just reminds me. I
Speaker 5: want to remind you about Medina Plus because this one
Speaker 5: has been around for a good long time.
Speaker 24: Uh.
Speaker 5: It's Medina soil activator plus over forty different trace elements.
Speaker 5: So there's things like you know, there's natural growth hormones
Speaker 5: and seaweed extract like side of kayans, they're in Medina plus,
Speaker 5: things like magnesium and iron and on and on down
Speaker 5: the line many other ingredients. Now, it's good for increasing blooming,
Speaker 5: it's good for supporting good leap leaf growth for a
Speaker 5: fruit set as well, it's good for that. I would
Speaker 5: highly recommend it this time of the year for two things,
Speaker 5: transplanting and seed treatments. Do you know you can actually
Speaker 5: soak seeds in that and all of the growth hormones
Speaker 5: and things that are in that material really helps with
Speaker 5: getting seeds off to a good start. You can water
Speaker 5: your little seedlings in with it when you're doing that
Speaker 5: when you're starting your own seeds. But when you're doing transplanting,
Speaker 5: just get your big watering can put about I would
Speaker 5: say maybe six tablespoons or three ounces in a gallon
Speaker 5: of water and just drench it right over those plants.
Speaker 5: You can get it on the leaves, you can get
Speaker 5: it on the roots, have it soak in, do it
Speaker 5: about every two weeks and it works really well. I'll
Speaker 5: often just take the little about an ounce of it
Speaker 5: in a gallon of water and just pour it all
Speaker 5: over the areas in a new transplant and it will
Speaker 5: give you good results. Medina products are widely available. Were
Speaker 5: going to find them all over the place, not hard
Speaker 5: to find it all. And they do, they do really
Speaker 5: really work, that is for sure. Well, I'm coming up
Speaker 5: here on a hard break and so I'm not going
Speaker 5: to grab the next call till we come back. But Anthony,
Speaker 5: you'll be first up when we come back. And also
Speaker 5: we've got a Runnie and Lake Jackson and rich In Spring.
Speaker 5: If you can hang on, we'll talk to you right
Speaker 5: after the break. All right, folks, welcome, Welcome back to Guardline.
Speaker 5: We are going to get right to it here for
Speaker 5: this hour. I was tugged about an RCW nurserries yesterday
Speaker 5: and I wanted to mention it again. Fallows the time
Speaker 5: to plant trees and shrubs. It is absolutely the best time.
Speaker 5: The sooner you do it, the better off you are.
Speaker 5: That's how that works. I mean, it really is. RCW
Speaker 5: has some great deals going on. Our CW that's the
Speaker 5: garden center that is where Beltway eight and Tomball Parkway
Speaker 5: up them two forty nine they come together. And so
Speaker 5: when you head to RCW, you are going to find
Speaker 5: every kind of plant you would want. I mean fall
Speaker 5: colors there, you know, snap dragons. I got some gorgeous
Speaker 5: snap dragons there. They've got a lot of good deals
Speaker 5: going on. You know, their Cajun hibiscus fifty percent off.
Speaker 5: All their trees are fifteen percent off, all their shrubs
Speaker 5: are twenty percent off. So do you want a tree,
Speaker 5: maybe a smaller size that you can pick it up
Speaker 5: and plant it yourself, They've got those. Do you want
Speaker 5: something so big, they definitely gonta have to bring it
Speaker 5: in and plant, like two hundred gallon borough or lace
Speaker 5: bark elms. They've got those, and those are excellent trees. Listen.
Speaker 5: They grow their own up in Plantersville at the Williamson
Speaker 5: Tree Farm up there, And so when you get a
Speaker 5: tree from RCW, you know you're getting a tree that,
Speaker 5: through their decades and decades of experience in this business,
Speaker 5: they know grows here and succeeds here. That's the only
Speaker 5: thing they grow, and they grow them right, and they
Speaker 5: will help you have success. Ceterris. They've got a good
Speaker 5: selection of Ceterris that has come in. Another reason to
Speaker 5: go to RCW website Rcwnursries dot com. You can follow
Speaker 5: them on social media. Just remember they're the garden center
Speaker 5: there where Beltway eight comes in to intersect with FM
Speaker 5: two forty nine. Tombaw Parkway open Monday through Saturday eight
Speaker 5: to five and today from ten am to five pm
Speaker 5: as well. RCW they get it got a nursery. If
Speaker 5: they don't have something, just ask, I bet they can
Speaker 5: get it for you. We're going to head now out
Speaker 5: to Westbury, Texas and talk to Anthony. Hello Anthony, Welcome
Speaker 5: to garden Line. Good good morning.
Speaker 6: I had a wallet tree fall over because of Hurricane Meryl,
Speaker 6: and it was about sixty five feet tall. Anyway, it's
Speaker 6: all dug out and the whole is about three feet
Speaker 6: wide three feet seep and I burned out the roots
Speaker 6: in that area and I'm looking to clean it all
Speaker 6: out as far as the ash, and I'd like to
Speaker 6: use what I have otherwise what you recommend. I want
Speaker 6: to put it in a mixed jungle land and rose
Speaker 6: tut soil, and I have a lot of cedar mulch.
Speaker 5: What do you think about the soil I'm going to
Speaker 5: use and a mulch? Okay? And you're you're wanting to
Speaker 5: use your wanting to plant? What there? Please?
Speaker 25: Uh?
Speaker 17: It's the lady who gave it to me.
Speaker 6: Call it a mandalina, which translates to tangerine.
Speaker 5: Oh okay.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 6: When I got it, it was about it's about ten
Speaker 6: twelve inches.
Speaker 5: Right now it's about three feet gotcha? And what what
Speaker 5: kind of wall? You said? It was a walnut that
Speaker 5: was there? Do you know what kind of walnut it was?
Speaker 25: No?
Speaker 5: Big beautiful walnuts produce Okay, walnuts produce substances that can
Speaker 5: be damaging to other plants in the area, but not
Speaker 5: all plants, just certain types. I think your citrus should
Speaker 5: be fine. I would use any kind of like a
Speaker 5: rose soil, mix a blend. As far as the jungle land,
Speaker 5: you know, that's more of a potting type soil. You
Speaker 5: could put some down, but I would look for something
Speaker 5: with a little more chunkiness to it, like a rose
Speaker 5: soil for example, or some of the other blends that
Speaker 5: are out there on the market. But you want to
Speaker 5: spread it out over the area, you want to mix
Speaker 5: it in as deeply as you can, and then you
Speaker 5: want to spread more and end up creating a raised mound.
Speaker 5: If you want to throw a little sand in there,
Speaker 5: if you want to throw a little bit of a
Speaker 5: sandy loam top soil in there, mixed mixing it in
Speaker 5: with it, all of those things helped create that raised
Speaker 5: mound that's going to be a little more stable over
Speaker 5: time to help the extra water drain away when it
Speaker 5: rains too much. So that'd be my recommendation there, Anthony.
Speaker 6: Very good. And I'm using BGI brand Citrus Gain eight
Speaker 6: or nine citrus food.
Speaker 5: What do you think about that? I have never used it.
Speaker 5: I'm not familiar with that one. Okay, I just don't know.
Speaker 5: I know we got you know, we got quality citrus blends.
Speaker 5: Microlife makes the citrus blend, night Foss Nelson Plant Food.
Speaker 5: Those all make products for fruit trees or citrus that
Speaker 5: would work just fine. By the way, another soil blend
Speaker 5: that would be good to throw into that area would
Speaker 5: be the citrus fruit and Citrus blend from Heirloom Soils.
Speaker 5: Even buy that by the bag and bring it in
Speaker 5: to create help create that mound. The fact that I
Speaker 5: would definitely do that one. Okay, I'll see that. We're
Speaker 5: at the place there on ruwink and yeah, that's it.
Speaker 5: I forget the name, you bet Southwest Fertilizer carries them. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 5: all right, sir, have fun, Bye bye. You take care trees.
Speaker 5: People are concerned about their trees, and they should be.
Speaker 5: The trees have got left after Hurricane Beryl and the
Speaker 5: other storm that came through. Uh, it's tree pruning season
Speaker 5: all the way up and through February. Really is the
Speaker 5: best time to get trees pruned. The person you want
Speaker 5: to hire is Martin spoon Moore from Affordable Tree. He
Speaker 5: knows what he's doing. He does good work, but he
Speaker 5: stays busy because he does good work. So you need
Speaker 5: to give him a call and get on the schedule.
Speaker 5: Don't delay even if you're not going to get pruning
Speaker 5: done until February. Call him now and get on the schedule.
Speaker 5: So you've got a spot. Okay, tell him you are
Speaker 5: a guardenline listener. Here's the number seven one, three, six
Speaker 5: nine twenty six sixty three. When you call, you're going
Speaker 5: to get Martin or his wife Joe. They are the owners.
Speaker 5: And if they don't answer, you call the wrong place.
Speaker 5: Hang up at doll seven one three six nine nine
Speaker 5: two six six three Affordable Tree Service Afftree Service dot Com.
Speaker 5: Now he doesn't just do pruning, he'll do deep root feeding.
Speaker 5: He'll check the overall health. They'll advise you if you're
Speaker 5: going to do a trench or a patio or something
Speaker 5: around a tree on how to not kill that tree.
Speaker 5: Don't just let somebody who shows up with a pickup
Speaker 5: a chainsaw on a business card, he sticks in your
Speaker 5: stick in your door. Uh to be turned loose on
Speaker 5: your trees. Bad pruning is forever need har Martin Affordable
Speaker 5: Tree Service seven to one three six nine nine two
Speaker 5: six six three. Now we're going to go to Spring,
Speaker 5: Texas and talk to Rich. Hello, Rich, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 5: Good good morning. Skits.
Speaker 16: Questions regarding pre emergence and whether you could use a
Speaker 16: combination of pre emergence such as prodiamine or the active
Speaker 16: ingredient in pennet magnum metal la chlore. Can you mix
Speaker 16: in mac.
Speaker 5: What I do would not? Okay, go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 5: You're you were going to explain something why you want
Speaker 5: to do it? Well?
Speaker 16: Yes, what I have is in addition to my own
Speaker 16: law and I help about five other people, and there
Speaker 16: are various different problems in the lawns. So I looked
Speaker 16: at look at both of these products, and there is
Speaker 16: some overlapping, but then there are some unique things that
Speaker 16: they focus on. So that's why I was wondering if
Speaker 16: you could do both and then try to cover more
Speaker 16: areas of problems.
Speaker 5: There are times when you would switch to a different
Speaker 5: pre emergent for certain problems, but in general, I would
Speaker 5: say don't double up on things. A lot of the
Speaker 5: pre emergence or sounds like you do a little research
Speaker 5: online yourself, So I'll just tell you this. A lot
Speaker 5: of the pre emergents are called DNA type herbicides, dinitro anolenes,
Speaker 5: and those all work the same, and when you overdose
Speaker 5: with those, you can have stunting of turf roots because
Speaker 5: you know, overdosing is not following the label, and so
Speaker 5: if you use two different ones that had the same
Speaker 5: mode of action, you could create some problems. Now there's
Speaker 5: some there.
Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 5: They're products. A barricade does good against the broad leaf
Speaker 5: and the gradsweeds. The fertilizer that called carbload that Nelson's
Speaker 5: makes has a pre emergent in it as well. There
Speaker 5: are some pre emergents that primarily focus on broadleaf. They
Speaker 5: won't control grassy weeds. So if your problem is mainly
Speaker 5: broad leaf, well, I could see an argument being made
Speaker 5: for that, but I wouldn't start to mix and match.
Speaker 5: I think you could run into some problems.
Speaker 16: If the biggest problem among the lawns was doveweed and sedges,
Speaker 16: is there one of the pre emergence you would recommend
Speaker 16: over the other?
Speaker 5: So nuts sedge we don't use pre emergence for because
Speaker 5: it almost never comes from seed. It's usually tubers that
Speaker 5: is coming from a kilinga and some of the other sedges.
Speaker 5: Maybe a pre emergent, I'd have to go look at
Speaker 5: what is the best label product for something like a kilinga. Said,
Speaker 5: But doveweed, it's a warm season weed, and so that's
Speaker 5: something we would talk about in the spring, when we're
Speaker 5: coming out of winter, the soil's warming up, we would
Speaker 5: put a pro emergent down for warm season weeds. Quite
Speaker 5: different than now. I've got on my gardening schedule, the
Speaker 5: pest disease and weed management schedule at gardening with Skip
Speaker 5: dot com. I've got a list of some pro emergents
Speaker 5: and the timing on them on there and I would
Speaker 5: follow that. Okay, we'll do. I appreciate your help. SKIP.
Speaker 5: Thank you all right, you take care. Thanks for the call.
Speaker 5: Appreciate that you're listening to garden Line folks our phone
Speaker 5: number seven one three two one two kt r H
Speaker 5: seven to one three two one two KTRHA. You know,
Speaker 5: a pre emergent, for example, would be barricade by Nitrofoss.
Speaker 5: That's part of their Texas three step. You know the
Speaker 5: Texas three Step by Nitrofoss that means fertilizer week prevention
Speaker 5: and disease prevention. So it's the Nitrovoss Well Special that's
Speaker 5: the first designed for fall. I've talked more than once
Speaker 5: today about what's the differtine a summer fertilizer and a
Speaker 5: fall fertilizer. This is a fall fertilizer Fall Special. Barricade
Speaker 5: pre emergent controls most grassy and broad leaf weeds. It's
Speaker 5: got a broad range of things that it will prevent.
Speaker 5: It does not kill existing weeds. It is a pre emergent,
Speaker 5: so you got to get it down and watered in
Speaker 5: now so that when we get a cool spell and
Speaker 5: the weeds start to sprout, the barricade is there, creating
Speaker 5: a barricade to stop the weeds from coming through. And
Speaker 5: then finally Nitroposs Fall Special. That's their turf fungicide. It's
Speaker 5: a systemic it moves into the plant, so when brown
Speaker 5: patch shows up, it's already there to prevent infection. When
Speaker 5: take all root rot shows up, it's already there to
Speaker 5: fight infection. And those three steps Fall Special Barricade, Eagle
Speaker 5: Turf Fungicide by Nitrofoss, We'll do the trick. You can
Speaker 5: get them at D and D Feed and Tambo. You
Speaker 5: can get them at Ace Hardware, Single Ranch Arbigate Up
Speaker 5: and Tomball carries nitofossproducts. Shades of Texas, by the way,
Speaker 5: in Southeast Houston on Genoa Red Bluff for places you
Speaker 5: can get those Nitrofoss type products there as well. I
Speaker 5: was online the other day looking at Pierscapes because I
Speaker 5: always like to look at Pierscape's website, by the way,
Speaker 5: that's peerscapes dot Com, at the kind of work that
Speaker 5: they do, because they they just create magical environments around
Speaker 5: the home, like that lighting, that landscape lighting that just
Speaker 5: sets the tone like the sound of water you know,
Speaker 5: do you want a waterfall or something real nice when created?
Speaker 5: They can do that like maybe an outdoor patio, hardscape, barbecue,
Speaker 5: pet walkways. Do you need improved drainage, everything like that.
Speaker 5: Pierscapes does it all and all you have to do
Speaker 5: is go to the website piercescapes dot com see the
Speaker 5: work that they do. They also do quarterly maintenance. If
Speaker 5: you want to hire them just to come out once
Speaker 5: a quarter and turn your flower beds into something special.
Speaker 5: They will do that and you don't have to worry
Speaker 5: wry about it. Or you can give Pierscapes a call
Speaker 5: at three excuse me two eight one three seven oh
Speaker 5: fifty sixty two eight one three seven oh five zero
Speaker 5: six zero. I'm going to take a break here for
Speaker 5: the halfway, not the top of the air or the
Speaker 5: bottom of the hour, and I'll be right back with
Speaker 5: your phone calls at seven one three two one two KTRH.
Speaker 5: Welcome back, Welcome back to garden. I'm good to have
Speaker 5: you with us. Hey, let's get going here. We got
Speaker 5: plenty to talk about. When was the last time you
Speaker 5: went to in Channet Forest. I love going in in
Speaker 5: Chenneit forest, in fact, I'm going to be out there
Speaker 5: this fall. I am gonna be out there. I'll tell
Speaker 5: you more about it. We get a little bit closer
Speaker 5: to it, and Channet Forest is on FM twenty seven
Speaker 5: fifty nine Richmond address. If you're in Richmond heading towards
Speaker 5: sugar Land, it's off to the right on FM twenty
Speaker 5: seven fifty nine nine. Chennit Forest is the kind of
Speaker 5: place where there's always cool stuff happening. I mean right now.
Speaker 5: They are stocked up on vegeta for fall. And you
Speaker 5: need to have a fall garden, even if it's just
Speaker 5: a container on the patio for crying out loud. Have
Speaker 5: some fall garden plants for good, healthy, yummy eating. They
Speaker 5: have mixed planting containers for fall that are gorgeous. You
Speaker 5: think mums are pretty, emboy, did they have mums. They
Speaker 5: got mixed containers that just stop traffic. They are beautiful
Speaker 5: And if you want to make your own, they'll tell
Speaker 5: you how to do it. They'll help you combine them.
Speaker 5: You know, they'll say, well, why don't you put some
Speaker 5: of this with some of that with some of this.
Speaker 5: You can get a container there from them and everything. Okay,
Speaker 5: we're entering the season for Thanksgiving cactus, Christmas cactus, you
Speaker 5: know those holiday cacti. Those things are blooming full of buds.
Speaker 5: You need one for your house. I've got plenty from
Speaker 5: I keep propagating and having fun with them. Those are
Speaker 5: great plants and they're so easy to take care of
Speaker 5: through the year, and they make good good gifts as well.
Speaker 5: Do you need fall color for the landscape? Snap dragons,
Speaker 5: dusty mell or you know those kinds of things like
Speaker 5: Viola's and and whatnot. They've got it all asters. Oh
Speaker 5: my gosh, you're so beautiful. And I already mentioned I
Speaker 5: mentioned the beautiful, beautiful moms Tallivera pumpkins. If you've never
Speaker 5: seen one, you got to go see one and go
Speaker 5: just go straight out to in Channed Forest Garden Center
Speaker 5: Channel Forest Nursery right out there in the Richmond Rosenberg
Speaker 5: area FM twenty seven fifty nine. Look at the Talivera pumpkins.
Speaker 5: You buy one of those now, you'll have it for
Speaker 5: years and it is so cool. I mean, they you
Speaker 5: cannot get more festive for a decoration for your front
Speaker 5: porch or back patio or inside the house. And one
Speaker 5: of their Talivera pumpkins that they have there. I love
Speaker 5: that place. Let's send out and out to Pleasantville and
Speaker 5: I'm going to talk to Deborah. Hello, Deborah, welcome to
Speaker 5: garden Line.
Speaker 10: Well, good Morne scoop. Did I send an email?
Speaker 17: We help?
Speaker 5: I saw that? I can I can saw it?
Speaker 8: Cannot o.
Speaker 5: I can hear you. Yeah. Do you have your radio
Speaker 5: going in the background?
Speaker 10: You no, I'm outside in the yard.
Speaker 5: Oh okay, all right, Well I saw the pictures. Those
Speaker 5: are not chinchbugs. It looks like roaches. As far as
Speaker 5: the yard, there are a couple of things going on
Speaker 5: the thing that I don't see. I see a little
Speaker 5: bit of like a gray leaf spot in the yard.
Speaker 5: You know, it's that time of the year where we are.
Speaker 5: We often have some periods where some things are turning
Speaker 5: brown or turning yellow, and they can bounce back. I
Speaker 5: wouldn't worry about them a lot. I don't see any
Speaker 5: active disease. And the pictures you sent me that are
Speaker 5: a concern. But here's what I do see. And I've
Speaker 5: got this in my yard, so I'm not after you.
Speaker 5: I've got it in my yard. My lawnmower blade has
Speaker 5: gotten really dull this year, and as a result, instead
Speaker 5: of cutting the blade off with a nice clean cut.
Speaker 5: It just sort of rips the end of the blade
Speaker 5: off with that dull mower blade, and as a result,
Speaker 5: there's real shaggy in the turn brown. And when you
Speaker 5: multiply that times a billion, you look at your lawn
Speaker 5: and it just has a tan hue to the whole lawn.
Speaker 5: And and and just sharpening the blade up would help
Speaker 5: without a lot. It's not making your grass sick, it
Speaker 5: just makes it look bad, and so sharpening it would
Speaker 5: make a lot of difference. Overall, it looks pretty good.
Speaker 5: I would do. Have you done your fall fertilization yet?
Speaker 10: I absolutely have that will emergence?
Speaker 5: Yeah, emergent? Okay, Well, I mean your lawn has good density.
Speaker 5: The pictures look good. I just think that color is
Speaker 5: you know, hopefully the fall fertilization is going to kick
Speaker 5: in and give you a little bit improvement on that.
Speaker 5: But I don't see any diseases. I don't see anything
Speaker 5: that I'd say, oh my gosh, you got to go
Speaker 5: control this. It's about to kill your lawn.
Speaker 10: The three photos of the grass that I set the
Speaker 10: close up is my yard. The other two are neighbor's yards.
Speaker 10: They probably at my blades sharpen. This year, I'll get
Speaker 10: them sharpened again. They probably have not.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, well the pictures look to me like they
Speaker 5: have not. I just what I'm seeing. It's not that impressive.
Speaker 5: When I look at your close up. I still I
Speaker 5: also see a little bit of a shagginess on the cut.
Speaker 5: But I just see some older leaves that are turning tan.
Speaker 5: But there's lots of fresh new growth. And other than
Speaker 5: a spot or two of a fungal spot, I just
Speaker 5: don't see much in it. I don't see signs of
Speaker 5: side web worms. I don't see signs of chinchbugs.
Speaker 10: Those little bugs are sent shoes picture up. They're covering
Speaker 10: my yard water they come up.
Speaker 5: Well, I know, but that's that's nature. They're out there.
Speaker 5: I mowed my lawn the other day and stopped just
Speaker 5: to took pictures because every time I take a step
Speaker 5: mow in the lawn more bugs had come up a lot.
Speaker 5: That's that's just part of the deal. They are not
Speaker 5: a pest of your none of that, the little tiny snails,
Speaker 5: nor the insects or pestle r turf. Now the lantana
Speaker 5: has got the chewing past that's attacking it and I
Speaker 5: think it's a beetle. I can't see the past, I
Speaker 5: see the damage at this point in the season. I
Speaker 5: wouldn't know about it either. I just see holes in
Speaker 5: the leaves. What are we talking about?
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, I see a bug that.
Speaker 17: I don't know.
Speaker 5: A beetle. Wow, yeah, beetle. Okay. There are three things
Speaker 5: that eat lead, well more than three. Grasshoppers can, slugs
Speaker 5: and snails can. But the two things we have most
Speaker 5: of our caterpillars and beetles. And these kinds of holes
Speaker 5: in the lee for signs most likely of a beetle.
Speaker 5: Could be a caterpillar, but probably a beatle. But I'm
Speaker 5: telling you you've got so much good, healthy foliage. We're
Speaker 5: about to go into winter her for too long. I
Speaker 5: would not waste your time out there spraying. I don't
Speaker 5: think it's worth it. That may be old damage anyway,
Speaker 5: to be honest. In other words, the pests may already
Speaker 5: have moved on. You're always going to have a few pests,
Speaker 5: but they got to be around in high enough numbers
Speaker 5: to warrant control. So I thank you. I think you
Speaker 5: can relax and don't worry about that.
Speaker 17: Okay, all right, thank you very much.
Speaker 10: I'll keep listening.
Speaker 5: Thank you for the call, all right. I appreciate that
Speaker 5: you take care, have a good rest of your weekend,
Speaker 5: that is for sure. Ace Hardware stores are where you
Speaker 5: get supplies for everything. What if you did have beetles
Speaker 5: and you need an insecticide or grasshoppers or caterpillars. Ace
Speaker 5: has got you covered mosquitoes too. By the way, n O.
Speaker 5: In fire ants and fire ance, Welcome to Texas. Fire
Speaker 5: at bait. Fall is the time falls football season. Fall
Speaker 5: is the time to tackle fire ants with fire ant bait,
Speaker 5: and Ace Hardware has a variety of options for fire
Speaker 5: at baits. It's fall fertilizing time. I keep I've talked
Speaker 5: about that so much today I'm about to turn blue
Speaker 5: in the face as I say. Ace Hardware has every
Speaker 5: fertilizer you would possibly want to buy a need that
Speaker 5: is going to give you success in your lawn. They
Speaker 5: got the fall fertilizers, They got the night fass, three steps,
Speaker 5: the barricade, and the Eagle turf funge asides at Ace Hardware,
Speaker 5: and they are so nice. They put an Ace Hardware
Speaker 5: store in your neighborhood. Forty stores in the Greater Houston area.
Speaker 5: You can throw a rock and hit one. Go to
Speaker 5: Ace Hardware dot Com find the store locator there near you.
Speaker 5: But I warn you when you go you think you're
Speaker 5: going to go in there buy back a fertilizer, Allow
Speaker 5: some time, because when you get inside, you were going
Speaker 5: to see a lot of cool stuff you did not
Speaker 5: know Ace Hardware carried, and you're going to find yourself
Speaker 5: shopping and finding some great gifts too at Ace Hardware.
Speaker 5: Let's it out now, What time is it?
Speaker 17: Oop?
Speaker 5: I got to stop. Time for break? Tom and Katie?
Speaker 5: You were deep first up. When we come back, I
Speaker 5: shall be right back, folks. Yea, alright, I'm gonna wait
Speaker 5: a second. Let y'all finish your western sling in the
Speaker 5: living room there. All right, there we go. Hey, welcome
Speaker 5: back to Guardenline. Good to have you with, Good to
Speaker 5: have you with us. Day. We got lots more to
Speaker 5: talk about. You know, the show is not done yet.
Speaker 5: Let's keep going here. I'm going to head straight out
Speaker 5: to the phones and we're going to go to Katie
Speaker 5: Texas and talk to Tom. Hello, Tom, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 26: Hey Skiff, how are you?
Speaker 5: I'm good sir. How can we help?
Speaker 26: Quick question for you? I was mowing my grass yesterday
Speaker 26: and just noticed a lot of moss all of a
Speaker 26: sudden starting to fly up as I pushed lawnmow through
Speaker 26: the yard. And I know a couple of years ago
Speaker 26: we had a really bad problem with the web worms
Speaker 26: I guess developed from those and I was just wondering
Speaker 26: if there's anything that you should do or preventative or
Speaker 26: to try to control them.
Speaker 5: Well, we're getting a little late in the season for them.
Speaker 5: They can still occur. I'm not saying they're not soid
Speaker 5: web worms out there. They are. They can be, but
Speaker 5: they'll get a little bit late. What I would suggest
Speaker 5: you do is go out, drop down on your hands
Speaker 5: and knee and look at the grass blades and if
Speaker 5: you see grass blades that look like something's come along
Speaker 5: and taken a bite out of the sides of them,
Speaker 5: in a little chunks, out of the sides of both
Speaker 5: sides of the grass blades, that side web worms. And
Speaker 5: that means you should treat okay, the products containing spinose
Speaker 5: said or the least toxic organic option for controlling side
Speaker 5: web worms. There are many insecticides that will also kill them,
Speaker 5: but you spray the spinosid with a hoseen sprayer get
Speaker 5: it in the leaves. They it soaks into the grass
Speaker 5: tissue and when the web worms come out at night,
Speaker 5: it kills them. Now, I don't think that you have
Speaker 5: side web worms, but you could so go check the
Speaker 5: leaves if you don't see leaves being eaten. There's a
Speaker 5: lot of different kinds of maths. I mowed my lawn
Speaker 5: this week and there were moths coming up, and I
Speaker 5: stopped several times to look at them, and they weren't
Speaker 5: side web worm moths. There were other kinds of moths.
Speaker 5: So let's just not rush to you know, spend the
Speaker 5: money and time on applying a product until your sure,
Speaker 5: and that's a way to be sure.
Speaker 26: I appreciate your health, Thank you, sir.
Speaker 5: All right, you take care, appreciate your call out there.
Speaker 5: The sideweb worms is one of the things, and they
Speaker 5: tend to come and go. Some years are horrible, horrible.
Speaker 5: Some years are not bad at all. And we have
Speaker 5: a bad year and you may have them really bad.
Speaker 5: In your neighbor halfway across down doesn't have a single
Speaker 5: one in the yard. Kind of weird, but that's how
Speaker 5: that happens. Nelson plant Food has a wide variety of
Speaker 5: brands a fertilizer, and it makes it easy because Nelson
Speaker 5: has a fertilizer for everything. You got turf, they've got
Speaker 5: Turf Star brand or Turf Star line. Excuse me, I've
Speaker 5: been promoting their carbo Load because I believe in it
Speaker 5: as a fall fertilization. If you have other flowering plants
Speaker 5: and things that are foliage plants that you want to fertilize.
Speaker 5: They have their Nutrius Star line. So there's a Neutral
Speaker 5: Star for roses for example, Nutral Star for roses, something
Speaker 5: you're going to apply pretty much monthly as a granular.
Speaker 5: Any kind of roads you have, climbing flora, Bunda Grande Flora, miniatures,
Speaker 5: knockout roads, it's for all of those. This blend can
Speaker 5: be used for roses in beds. It can be used
Speaker 5: if you've got roses in a container that works just fine.
Speaker 5: It's got five different sources of nitrogen, and Nelson's really
Speaker 5: good about providing these chemistries that cover all the bases.
Speaker 5: And with five different sources of nitrogen, you are going
Speaker 5: to get a gradual release of nitrogen over time to
Speaker 5: your plants to encourage vigor and healthy growth. And with
Speaker 5: roses they bloom, bloom, bloom, and it takes carbohydrates to
Speaker 5: do that, and you've got to continue to push them
Speaker 5: along with some nitrogen to get good leaf growth. Leaves
Speaker 5: in the sun, keep those leaves healthy, and you make carbohydrategen.
Speaker 5: You have a beautiful bloom and rose bush. And Nelson
Speaker 5: Nutristar rose is a product that'll do just that. They
Speaker 5: also have a nutristra Azalia for acid loving plants like azelias, blueberryes, camellias, dogwoods, Guardena's, hollies, adranges.
Speaker 5: I would say use it on your magnolias, use it
Speaker 5: on your color beds as well. If you've got strawberry plants,
Speaker 5: that's another good one. I know it says acid loving,
Speaker 5: but strawberries will benefit from the Azalea platfood. Believe it
Speaker 5: or not, they do really well with that. I think
Speaker 5: about things like that. People probably don't know, but yes,
Speaker 5: you can do that. I don't know if I mentioned Holly's,
Speaker 5: but yes, Holly's another good one for that one. All
Speaker 5: from Nelson Plat Food. Let's head out to pass Sidena
Speaker 5: and talk to Mary. Hey, Mary, welcome to Guardline.
Speaker 24: Good morning. I think the previous collar had the same
Speaker 24: question that I do. Okay, I was just lightly watering
Speaker 24: my Saint Augustine front yard yesterday. Again this morning, I
Speaker 24: went out to be sure, and I have a patch
Speaker 24: of little, tiny, light colored mobs popping up out of
Speaker 24: the grass, and I'm just wondering.
Speaker 17: I heard you say this spinosa spray on the end
Speaker 17: of the house. Is there. Is that the best rather
Speaker 17: than any type of granule.
Speaker 5: Well, there are a lot of things that will work.
Speaker 5: They have those things hide down in the in the
Speaker 5: in the thatch during the day and they come out
Speaker 5: and feed at night. And that's why I was telling
Speaker 5: Tom to get out there. And if you just drive
Speaker 5: down on your knee in an area that looks like, yeah,
Speaker 5: it's like the lawns not growing, or there's some grass
Speaker 5: blades sort of missing, drip down on your knees and
Speaker 5: look and you'll see it. I mean, it's like, you know,
Speaker 5: it's like somebody just took a bite out of the
Speaker 5: sides of the leaves, a whole bunch of bites. And
Speaker 5: that's that's the sign. If you don't see that, you
Speaker 5: don't need to worry about it. And I mentioned spinosa
Speaker 5: because it's an organic product lower toxicity, and I like
Speaker 5: to start there when I can. But you can use
Speaker 5: a granule. You can use nitcrus bug out max granule
Speaker 5: and then you have to water it to get the
Speaker 5: pesticide off the granule into the thatch area where it
Speaker 5: can help control those. There are a lot of insecticides
Speaker 5: that will kill that particular pest. Okay, you know, I
Speaker 5: just usually try to start with stuff that's a little simpler,
Speaker 5: but always I start with making sure you have it,
Speaker 5: because who wants to buy and apply pesticides when you
Speaker 5: don't need them?
Speaker 7: Right?
Speaker 17: And make sure you know what you're treating. Be sure
Speaker 17: it is the webrun.
Speaker 24: Okay, Well, thank you so much. You have a blessed Sunday.
Speaker 24: Appreciate it, and you as well, Mary, thank you. I
Speaker 24: appreciate that. It's very kind of you to say that
Speaker 24: I need to get back out to warren Southern Gardens.
Speaker 24: You know, it has been a while since I've been
Speaker 24: out there. I always trying to get around visit our
Speaker 24: garden centers because I learn a lot when I go
Speaker 24: and I see cool stop and out at Warren's right now,
Speaker 24: they are loaded up on all the things you need
Speaker 24: for fall. They've got the nitrofossipall special. They've got Nelson
Speaker 24: plant food carbe load. You heard me talk about those today.
Speaker 24: They've got products by Microlife. They have azamite for example,
Speaker 24: all things you've been hearing me talk about today. You
Speaker 24: can get those weeds with a pre emerging herbicide like
Speaker 24: barricade out at Orange Southern Gardens. Now they've got moms
Speaker 24: and ornamental kale, all kinds of beautiful fall plants in stock.
Speaker 24: They have beautiful fall planters that are already pre planted
Speaker 24: for you, or they'll help you pick out plants to
Speaker 24: make your own if you want. The pumpkins have arrived.
Speaker 24: Pumpkins have arrived. Oh my gosh, they're there. So get
Speaker 24: out there and have fun. Remember when you go to warns,
Speaker 24: tell them you spend one hundred bucks and say I
Speaker 24: sent you SKIP sent me, and you get twenty bucks
Speaker 24: off your purchase. Now that's not sales and clearance ies.
Speaker 24: But you gotta tell them SKIP sent you a hundred bucks.
Speaker 24: Sign up for the newsletter too. Where you're out there.
Speaker 24: All right, Well, we're going to take a little break here.
Speaker 24: It's time for the top of the hour. Get some news.
Speaker 24: Don't forget next Saturday. Get your pin got a pin
Speaker 24: right well? Or just take your phone out put it
Speaker 24: on your calendar. Nature's Way Resources Saturday. Next Saturday, the twelfth,
Speaker 24: eleven thirty to one thirty. I will be at Nature's
Speaker 24: Way for the Fall Festival. Now, that Fall Festival goes
Speaker 24: from nine in the morning till two in the afternoon.
Speaker 5: It's free. There's music, there's food, there's fun, there's children activities,
Speaker 5: and there's me answering your gardening questions. I let's shake
Speaker 5: hands and let's help you have a more bountiful garden
Speaker 5: and a more beautiful landscape.
Speaker 3: Shut in a watermelon patchmom, but chicking me have that
Speaker 3: you mind too. You can't grower skate abouffalow hard.
Speaker 5: You can't grow all right, all right some wise words
Speaker 5: from Roger Miller that you just can't argue with. I
Speaker 5: believe he's right about this things. I believe he's right.
Speaker 5: Micro Life fertilizers, you hear me talk about him all
Speaker 5: the time. This is the season for microlife brown patch.
Speaker 5: That's the fall fertilizer for MICROLFE. You gotta put it down.
Speaker 5: I would add micro grow bioanoculant because it is loaded
Speaker 5: sixty three different beneficial microbes. I was telling you about
Speaker 5: some of the specific ones earlier today that do all
Speaker 5: kinds of things that basically help fight, prevent, outcompete diseases
Speaker 5: on your turf. And that is why I would recommend
Speaker 5: those things.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 5: They have some wonderful liquids too, and I would highly
Speaker 5: recommend you start trying out there. Think about an ocean
Speaker 5: harvest they've got which they've got a fish fertilized, they
Speaker 5: got a seaweed fertilizer. Buy a liquid. They've got one,
Speaker 5: the Biomatrix. It's a seven to one three seven three
Speaker 5: one four. I'll get that last number anyway. I use
Speaker 5: it all the time house plants especially, but I don't
Speaker 5: know why I use it just on It goes out
Speaker 5: in the garden, water things in fertilize them with it.
Speaker 5: It is a natural product. Buy microlife so you know
Speaker 5: it's good. You know it's going to help build your soil,
Speaker 5: and you know it's loaded with microbes that you know
Speaker 5: when you buy a Microlife now Microlife Fertilizer dot Com.
Speaker 5: That is the website. You can go there and find
Speaker 5: out where to get it, or I can just tell
Speaker 5: you this, go to Ace hardware stores, go to Southwest Fertilizer,
Speaker 5: go to our garden centers around town. Life products are widely,
Speaker 5: widely available and they work. Let's head now out to
Speaker 5: Silum Springs, Arkansas or Alaska.
Speaker 7: Where are you from, Doug, Silom Springs, Arkansas, Kip, All right, well.
Speaker 5: Welcome to garden Line. Now you're not up there right now?
Speaker 16: Are you there?
Speaker 5: And I am.
Speaker 7: I'm in Kansas City today.
Speaker 12: I drive a truck, so I listen to you every weekend.
Speaker 5: While I'm working. Well, that is interesting.
Speaker 14: You know.
Speaker 5: I have one of our sponsors, plant Frell Seasons. I
Speaker 5: was talking to them and they have a place up
Speaker 5: in Arkansas where they go somewhere on the lakes up there,
Speaker 5: and they actually say they get a bounce of the
Speaker 5: station up there. I don't know how that happens, but
Speaker 5: weird things happen in the stratosphere. So anyway, how are
Speaker 5: we doing? And how can I help? I have a
Speaker 5: couple of questions for you.
Speaker 7: I read it a FLA, and I want to know
Speaker 7: should I put down the landscape mat stuff and can
Speaker 7: I use rock on top of that or should I
Speaker 7: just use malt?
Speaker 5: I would use mult, I don't care for the landscape fabrics.
Speaker 5: Initially they work, they block weeds from coming up through them,
Speaker 5: but then you end up with dust and seeds getting
Speaker 5: on top and they sprout, and then those fabrics are
Speaker 5: all intertwined with the roots of everything and it's just
Speaker 5: kind of a mess. I don't like them as a
Speaker 5: long term solution. I think it's more natural to have
Speaker 5: a mulch anyway. So I would just get you a good,
Speaker 5: high quality mulch, put that down, and I think you're
Speaker 5: going to have really good success with that. I talk
Speaker 5: about a lot of different products like airloom, soils in
Speaker 5: Nature's Way and Landscaper's Pride. Those are all good examples
Speaker 5: of mulches that will perform well. And I think here's
Speaker 5: why I like it, Doug. It's how nature works.
Speaker 14: You know.
Speaker 5: Forests are naturally mulched, They're naturally by the plants themselves,
Speaker 5: and I just think that's the way to go.
Speaker 7: Okay, one other thing, real quick. I have a lawn
Speaker 7: service that comes and fertilizes my lawn and I was
Speaker 7: talking to the guy this spring and he said, if
Speaker 7: I would scalp the grass and put about a quarter
Speaker 7: of an inch of sand over top of that and
Speaker 7: it's bermuda grass.
Speaker 5: Would that do anything for me?
Speaker 7: Or is that will waste the time?
Speaker 5: Well, it would get old, dead brown top growth out
Speaker 5: of the way, and yes, the bermuda would pop back through.
Speaker 5: It is getting a little late in the season to
Speaker 5: be doing that to your lawn, so I wouldn't recommend
Speaker 5: it at this time. What exactly are you trying to
Speaker 5: overcome in the grass?
Speaker 7: Nothing, We were just talking. Well, he was doing my
Speaker 7: fertilizing and he said that that might do good for
Speaker 7: the bermuda because it would keep the heat in, is
Speaker 7: what he said.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I wouldn't do that, I don't think.
Speaker 24: So.
Speaker 5: What I would do in your bermuda just to get
Speaker 5: a good, fresh, beautiful bermuda is in the spring when
Speaker 5: it's time to put out the pre emergent. That is
Speaker 5: what we're talking about February in the Houston Greater Houston
Speaker 5: area down here, I would put that down, watered in
Speaker 5: really good, and then I would probably after you've got
Speaker 5: that in so you know you're not going to promote
Speaker 5: weed seed growth, then I would cut your first mowing
Speaker 5: on your bermuda. Mow it really low, maybe late sometime
Speaker 5: in March you can mow it really, really low, and
Speaker 5: you're going to get fresh new growth out and it's
Speaker 5: going to look good. And the more often you know it,
Speaker 5: the better Bermuda looks. So that's kind of the cry off.
Speaker 5: I know, we don't like to mow every day, but
Speaker 5: the more often you know, the better it looks.
Speaker 7: All right, Well, that that's what I wanted to know.
Speaker 7: Thank you very much.
Speaker 5: I enjoy your child. All right. Hey, you'd be safe
Speaker 5: out there on the roadways. All right, thanks for what
Speaker 5: you do. I'm pretty I'm pretty. I'm pretty sure that
Speaker 5: my wife keeps you and five other truckers in business
Speaker 5: just with Amazon orders, judging from what hits the door
Speaker 5: every day, so you can sell all right, Thank you sir,
Speaker 5: all right, thank you bye. All right, I shouldn't have
Speaker 5: said that. Uh oh, don't tell anybody. All right, you're
Speaker 5: listening to Guardline. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we're
Speaker 5: in here having more fun than we probably should have have.
Speaker 5: You been A and A Plants and Produce up in Montgomery.
Speaker 5: You know that is the garden center right there on
Speaker 5: one oh five on the east side of Montgomery. So
Speaker 5: if you're in Lake Conroe, if you're in Montgomery, if
Speaker 5: you're in you know, Conroe itself, this is your hometown
Speaker 5: garden center and they always have good stuff there. Right now,
Speaker 5: fall color is great. I was out there the other
Speaker 5: day and oh my gosh, the astors and the moms
Speaker 5: just we're outstanding. And they had the annual plants you
Speaker 5: put in your flower beds for good color. As we
Speaker 5: enter this cool season, I can tell you this, it
Speaker 5: is fall lawn care time. And A and A has
Speaker 5: got you covered. They carry every fertilizer I talk about.
Speaker 5: I'm talking about nitroposs, I'm talking about Nelson, I'm talking
Speaker 5: about microlife. They carry both of the heirloom and the
Speaker 5: Nature's Way resources soil products as well. Out there Nature's
Speaker 5: Way Resources. They it's easy to get to, you know,
Speaker 5: just one oh five. It's right there in between Conroe
Speaker 5: and Montgomery. And just check it out from time to time,
Speaker 5: because you know, every time I go there's a new
Speaker 5: set of things that they brought in. Of course, they
Speaker 5: got shrubs and trees and fruit and whatnot. I was
Speaker 5: looking at some of the citrus that they had the
Speaker 5: other day out there. A and A plants and produce
Speaker 5: on one oh five in Montgomery. Go check them out.
Speaker 5: It's a great place. You get good service, friendly people,
Speaker 5: and it's so convenient to get in and out. I
Speaker 5: am going to go now to Spring, Texas and we're
Speaker 5: going to talk to Paul Hell. Paul, Welcome to Gardenline.
Speaker 27: Thanks Jeff, I appreciate it.
Speaker 16: Good morning.
Speaker 27: Yes, i'd have some crab grass. I pulled it yesterday.
Speaker 27: But I've gone to plants for all seasons over here,
Speaker 27: and I've got the agrilo on the crab grass killer
Speaker 27: that you sprinkle on and it turns it brown. But
Speaker 27: it seems to it just it's not doing the tricks.
Speaker 27: I didn't know if there's something I do. I have
Speaker 27: a bunch of bear spots now about a ten by
Speaker 27: ten area now after I pulled all the crabgrash yesterday.
Speaker 5: Well, the agriline that they've got their plants for all seasons.
Speaker 5: It works, but you need to get the weeds wet
Speaker 5: and then you sprinkle it on. It sticks to the weed,
Speaker 5: it doesn't just fall the dust doesn't just fall off,
Speaker 5: and it works better. It works on dove weed and
Speaker 5: crabgrass a lot of other things. But that's a that
Speaker 5: is like what we would call it burned down. In
Speaker 5: other words, you apply it, it kills that weed. But
Speaker 5: crabgrass comes back from seed. And I'm assuming you do
Speaker 5: have crabgrass, because there's a lot of other grass, and
Speaker 5: just in my years of doing this, a lot of
Speaker 5: things get called crabgrass that aren't cribgrass. But let's assume
Speaker 5: it is the best way to deal with that is
Speaker 5: in the spring to put a pre emergent herbicide down in.
Speaker 5: Let's see, you were in Okay in mid February, put
Speaker 5: a pre emergent herbicide down watered in, and then you
Speaker 5: may need to repeat that about sixty to ninety days
Speaker 5: later something like that, because crabgrass will keep sprouting on
Speaker 5: through the summer and extend your coverage. The main thing, though,
Speaker 5: and this is my approach to everything when it comes
Speaker 5: to gardening, isn't just what chemical will kill it, but
Speaker 5: let's culturally try to avoid it. And so the way
Speaker 5: we avoid crabgrass is by getting that lawn so dense
Speaker 5: that there's not enough light getting to the ground for
Speaker 5: the seeds to come up and establish. And so low
Speaker 5: water fertilize is your way to do that. So I
Speaker 5: would do all the above in this case.
Speaker 27: Okay, would you recommend me on the bare spots that
Speaker 27: I pulled yesterday? Would you recommend putting some side down
Speaker 27: or just wait until next year?
Speaker 5: How big are these bear spots? How far across?
Speaker 27: It's probably about probably about sinner twelve feet wide and
Speaker 27: maybe two.
Speaker 5: Feet and with or oh wow, okay, you got some
Speaker 5: bigger areas. Yeah, so it's not going to cover over
Speaker 5: for a long time. In fact, it'll be next summer
Speaker 5: before it really gets to cover and over since our
Speaker 5: grass growth is slowing down. I would, yeah, I would
Speaker 5: reside areas that are that wide more than anything bigger
Speaker 5: than a foot I would. You know, if you can
Speaker 5: get some sod on it, that's good. Compost stop dressing
Speaker 5: helps a little bit because it is also it's like
Speaker 5: a molt on top of the ground. It's blocking some light,
Speaker 5: not all of it, but some. But yeah, I would.
Speaker 5: I would do the sod now. It's getting a little late,
Speaker 5: so don't delay. Go ahead and get that sod down.
Speaker 5: You're gonna want to water twice a day the first week,
Speaker 5: once a day the second week, and then every the
Speaker 5: day the third week, and it'll be established by then.
Speaker 5: Appreciate it, all, right, sir, Yeah, good good luck with that.
Speaker 5: Appreciate your call. Thanks a lot. Well, Uh, you are
Speaker 5: listening to Gardenline. I'm your host, Skip Richter and our
Speaker 5: phone number seven one three two one two k t
Speaker 5: R H. I was outside yesterday and my bird feeder,
Speaker 5: my favorite bird feeder, which is my Wabird's unlimited squirrel
Speaker 5: excluding feeder. I know that's a lot of words, but
Speaker 5: oh my gosh, it is so cool. You got to
Speaker 5: have one. Uh it was empty and so shame on me. Anyway,
Speaker 5: I got to get back out there and feed it.
Speaker 5: But do you know Warbirds right now is having a
Speaker 5: feeder swap. It's their annual feeder swap at the Wabirds
Speaker 5: Unlimited stores. You know, we have six Wabirds Unlimited stores
Speaker 5: in the Greater Houston area. You can go to the
Speaker 5: website w b U dot com forward slash Houston WBU
Speaker 5: dot com Forward Slash Houston. That'll get you to the
Speaker 5: wild Bird store nearest you. And if you take in
Speaker 5: your old feeder, I don't care what condition it's in,
Speaker 5: just take it in. I saw a picture at a
Speaker 5: Wallbird's store and they had apoll of feeders that look
Speaker 5: like I mean, people brought in their old broke and
Speaker 5: every kind of feeder you can imagine, and you get
Speaker 5: twenty percent off a new feeder. And this would be
Speaker 5: a good chance to get you a brand new feeder.
Speaker 5: They've got all kinds of great feeders. You know, my
Speaker 5: favorite feeder is the is the squirrel excluding But they've
Speaker 5: got hummingbird feeders. They've got bird seed, you know, the
Speaker 5: regular bird seed types of feeders of all kinds they've got. Well,
Speaker 5: just go to wildbirds. They'll show you what they want.
Speaker 5: You tell them what kind of birds you're trying to attract.
Speaker 5: They'll show you the kinds of feeders that work best.
Speaker 5: You know, for certain kinds of little tiny birds, the
Speaker 5: thistle type feeding birds. They got feeders just for that.
Speaker 5: Other things can't get the seeds out of the little feeders.
Speaker 5: That's what I mean by they've got every kind in
Speaker 5: the world. Now, just remember this is knocking to go
Speaker 5: on forever, so go ahead and get that done. This
Speaker 5: is a short time for the all annual feeder swap.
Speaker 5: I couldn't say the word swap. Whatever kind of feeder
Speaker 5: you have, it's old, bring it in, just give it
Speaker 5: to him. Say hey, I want twenty percent off a
Speaker 5: new feeder and get going, get talking to them. They're experts,
Speaker 5: they know what they're doing, and they're really good at
Speaker 5: what they do. Hey, it's time for me to take
Speaker 5: a break. I'll be right back with your calls at
Speaker 5: seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four.
Speaker 1: Witch Doctor, I was in love with you, and then
Speaker 1: Witch Doctor, he told me what to do.
Speaker 5: He said, all right, folks, welcome back to garden Line.
Speaker 5: Good to have you with us. We're gonna run straight
Speaker 5: out to the phone this summer and go to Lake
Speaker 5: Side Estates to talk to Maureene. Hey, Maureene, welcome to
Speaker 5: garden Line.
Speaker 16: Thank you.
Speaker 8: I'm so glad you're here for me. I had an
Speaker 8: approached the time where I thought I should be putting
Speaker 8: a fertilizer down. So I've been walking a lawn, looking
Speaker 8: at the yard and thinking where do I need to
Speaker 8: do anything extra? And that's when I discovered these little
Speaker 8: white moths, not a thousand of them.
Speaker 19: But I don't know what to do.
Speaker 8: Attack the laws first or put on my fertilizer.
Speaker 5: Any thought, Well, here's what we want to do. We
Speaker 5: want there are a lot of kinds of moths that
Speaker 5: are not eating your grass. They're just out there hiding
Speaker 5: in the grass. And so if you will get on
Speaker 5: your hands and knees in any area that the lawn
Speaker 5: looks a little thinner, not as much leaf, air blades
Speaker 5: and stuff, just get on your hands and knees. Look
Speaker 5: and if you see the grass blades look like they've
Speaker 5: had chunks taken out of the sides, like something has
Speaker 5: bit chunks out, like they're eating around a sandwich or
Speaker 5: something that is sideweb worm. And you do need to treat.
Speaker 5: If you don't see that, ignore the moths. Nothing to
Speaker 5: worry about. I've got moths in my lawn. I mowed
Speaker 5: the other day. I was I'd stop every now and
Speaker 5: then to look at the moth to see what it was,
Speaker 5: and nothing was a solid web worm. So that I
Speaker 5: mean you don't have it. Just means if you don't
Speaker 5: see eating grass blades, you don't have webworm larvae out
Speaker 5: there to treat. And we're getting late enough in the
Speaker 5: season where they should be dwindling here if they haven't
Speaker 5: already in your lawn, but they could still be around,
Speaker 5: but you got checked. Once you check, then you know.
Speaker 5: As far as fertilizing, it's time to put that fall
Speaker 5: fertilizer down. You need to get your fall application down.
Speaker 5: Now's a good time to do that, now that we're
Speaker 5: in October.
Speaker 8: Okay, tell me the formula again, please, well, a good one,
Speaker 8: A good one to use.
Speaker 5: Excuse me on the fertilizer, yes, yes, please, huh. Nitrofuss
Speaker 5: has their fall special. It's a winter Riser fertilizer Nitrofuss
Speaker 5: Fall Special.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 5: And you're going to find it all kinds of places
Speaker 5: where you know, ace hardware stores typically are a good
Speaker 5: place is to get those. Nitr Fuss has what they
Speaker 5: call the three stone Up the Fall three step program,
Speaker 5: and what that is is the fertilizer. It's also the
Speaker 5: pre emergent barricade. If your lawn is thin and you
Speaker 5: have ongoing weed problems, getting ahead of those before the
Speaker 5: weed sprout is good and now October early October is
Speaker 5: the time you want to get the barricade down if
Speaker 5: you're dealing with weeds. And then the last step is
Speaker 5: the fungicide, which is called eagle like the bird, and
Speaker 5: that prevents if you in the past, if you had
Speaker 5: big brown circles in the cool season in your lawn.
Speaker 5: The brown patch or not. No, okay, we need to
Speaker 5: worry about that. Yeah, okay.
Speaker 8: Third step one, the one product nitroflawts fall and it
Speaker 8: does those other things. Or am I buying nitra? And
Speaker 8: then two more products?
Speaker 3: I am.
Speaker 5: The night Fuss is the company, and the three products
Speaker 5: are fertilizer, pre emergent, weed control, and fungicide. That are
Speaker 5: all three separate. You already said you don't need the fungicide,
Speaker 5: if you don't need the barricade, which is the pre emergent,
Speaker 5: then all you would want to put down is the
Speaker 5: fall special winterizer fertilizer, and you put it down according
Speaker 5: to the label instructions. If you've got an ACE hardware
Speaker 5: store anywhere near you, they're going to have those nitrovi
Speaker 5: nitroposs products. But it depends on what you're going after. Yeah,
Speaker 5: those are the three. They put them together because people
Speaker 5: deal with all those three things in fall. You know,
Speaker 5: not everybody has everything, but those are the three things
Speaker 5: that are important in the fall season.
Speaker 8: Good enough, okay, I'm off to a great start. Thank
Speaker 8: you so much, short and to the I love it.
Speaker 8: I love it all right, thank you. We have a
Speaker 8: great one.
Speaker 1: Bye bye, Thank you.
Speaker 5: Bet Mariene, you have a good rest of your weekend,
Speaker 5: that's for sure. Nelson Water Gardens and Katie is a
Speaker 5: place you need to go if you've never been. I
Speaker 5: love the mini acidid things we enjoy outside in the
Speaker 5: nature of our yard and garden. So that would be
Speaker 5: the beauty of flowers. It would be the textures of plants,
Speaker 5: from fine textured grasses to bold elephant ears, for example
Speaker 5: in the garden. I like the fragrances of the garden,
Speaker 5: from fragrant flowers wafting through the air, to the sounds
Speaker 5: of the garden, like birds singing or the sound of water.
Speaker 5: We put a little patio fountain out in our backyard
Speaker 5: and it is just every time you walk outside, it
Speaker 5: just changes the ambience of the setting to have the
Speaker 5: sound of that running water going. And Nelson Water Gardens
Speaker 5: and Nursery in Katie, Texas is the place to go
Speaker 5: to see all of that in action. I jokingly say
Speaker 5: they need to charge admission because when you go there
Speaker 5: and you sit among all those waterfalls and fountains, you
Speaker 5: know Nelson's are the folks that invented those big tall
Speaker 5: vases in the garden that have water spilling over the
Speaker 5: sides that recirculates back through. They're the ones in. They
Speaker 5: got those too. They'll come do it at your house
Speaker 5: if you want to haire them, or they'll tell you
Speaker 5: how to do it. If you just want to buy
Speaker 5: the parts and go make it yourself, they can tell
Speaker 5: you how to do that too. Nelson Nursery and Water
Speaker 5: Gardens is in Katie off I ten. You head out
Speaker 5: to Katie Turn North on Katie Fort Ben Road and
Speaker 5: it's just a hop, skipping or jump on the right
Speaker 5: hand side. And while you're out there, check out the
Speaker 5: plants because it is a nursery. Their houseplants section inside
Speaker 5: the store is beautiful. They have the most beautiful houseplants
Speaker 5: in the absolute best condition you can imagine. It's great.
Speaker 5: And then you go outside and they've got their annuals,
Speaker 5: their vegetables, their flowers, their herbs, their fruit trees or shrubs.
Speaker 5: Nelson Water Garden and Nursery. Grab a friend when you go.
Speaker 5: It's a destination garden center and just go out and
Speaker 5: enjoy it and just tell them I said that they
Speaker 5: should be charging to have you sit out there and
Speaker 5: hear the sound of water, because I'm telling you it
Speaker 5: is absolutely so comforting to hear that quote I said.
Speaker 5: I think I said it yesterday or today. Is when
Speaker 5: I'm overwhelmed and stressed and unable to think, I go
Speaker 5: out in the garden. It's cheaper than a shrink. And
Speaker 5: boy is that ever true when you got the sound
Speaker 5: of water moving in the garden. All right, let's see here.
Speaker 5: We are going to go now to Brian, Texas and
Speaker 5: talk to Barb. Hell about Barb bye.
Speaker 10: I have a real simple question I need.
Speaker 12: I don't usually buy soil for my plants, but I
Speaker 12: need some now. I want something that would be for
Speaker 12: my houseplants and violets. Is there something that would do
Speaker 12: for both?
Speaker 5: Or do I need to get for both of them?
Speaker 5: For both of them, you've got there is something called
Speaker 5: the works potting soil by Heirloom Soils. I think they
Speaker 5: may carry it up at Producers co Op. I haven't
Speaker 5: looked recently, but they may have. If they have heirloom
Speaker 5: soil other producers, they should have the works hunting sold there.
Speaker 5: That's a good one. It covers all kinds of things.
Speaker 5: You can use it for indoor and outdoor. And the
Speaker 5: African violets will be very happy with it, you know.
Speaker 5: For them. They just mainly want to have constant moisture
Speaker 5: without being soggy, wet and causing rot and stuff.
Speaker 20: So right, they'll be happy.
Speaker 5: They'll be happy in the works. The works. Huh. It's
Speaker 5: a it's an heirloom soils product. It's sold all over
Speaker 5: the area. I just just haven't been in producers in
Speaker 5: a good while to see if they if they have
Speaker 5: that one up there.
Speaker 12: Okay, thank you much, all.
Speaker 5: Right, good luck, have fun. Thanks for the call. You
Speaker 5: take care. Let's see here where are we? Yep, we've
Speaker 5: got time to go to another call here, Donald in
Speaker 5: north west Houston, Welcome to garden line.
Speaker 28: Oh yes, sir, skip, I listen all the time and
Speaker 28: I have I'm Donald who we listen all the way up.
Speaker 5: And love lady with the with the farm proper.
Speaker 28: Well there, I have ten table fillers here, I'm all
Speaker 28: the five nine and jack rabbit root area.
Speaker 5: Okay, tree I have.
Speaker 28: It's not actually a tree.
Speaker 5: Let me make go ahead.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 5: Let me ask you a question about those. Are you
Speaker 5: seeing them in the branches where there's a fork in
Speaker 5: the branch and they're webbing all around that fork in
Speaker 5: the branch, or are you seeing them out in the
Speaker 5: outer foliage eating the leaves outside. The webbing is around
Speaker 5: the leaves.
Speaker 28: They're in the fork of the branch, and it's not
Speaker 28: a full sized tree. So I've cut all those branches
Speaker 28: off and laid them on the grass last night. And
Speaker 28: what I'm going to do is they're so they're they're
Speaker 28: completely got im off the branch and out on the ground,
Speaker 28: and I'm going to cut those branches up with the
Speaker 28: caterpillars on them and put them in a trash cannon
Speaker 28: port uh.
Speaker 5: Clorox. Okay, well you wouldn't even have to do that.
Speaker 5: I would just you know, chances of those caterpillars finding
Speaker 5: their way back up where they can cause trouble or
Speaker 5: pretty slam. Right now, there are a lot of things
Speaker 5: out there after them, paper wasps. They're number one food
Speaker 5: is caterpillars, and every time you see a paper wasp
Speaker 5: flying around, that's what they're looking for. You know, one
Speaker 5: paper wasp nesk will eat about seven thousand caterpillars during
Speaker 5: the course of a growing season. That's a lot. But
Speaker 5: a big, big nest can do that. So I wouldn't
Speaker 5: worry about clarox in them or anything like that. They're
Speaker 5: fine if you've removed them, that's fine. If they were
Speaker 5: already in the in the branches, you could just blast
Speaker 5: the web off with some water spray them while they're
Speaker 5: up there in the branches. But it's an unusual time.
Speaker 5: I usually don't see tench caterpillars this time of the year, right,
Speaker 5: So that's kind of unusual.
Speaker 28: But it was a small enough tree, not actually tree.
Speaker 28: It's like a I don't know, it's a I don't
Speaker 28: know what to call it. But it grows up about
Speaker 28: six or eight feet. It's just something that came out
Speaker 28: around So that's good.
Speaker 5: Where can I get well.
Speaker 28: Where can I get a house?
Speaker 6: Get?
Speaker 28: Whatily the wasp that eat the ten caterpillars? I want
Speaker 28: to give them a home.
Speaker 5: Oh well, they eaves of your house? Is giving them
Speaker 5: a home as long as people don't kill them. Now
Speaker 5: you know some people are allergic to them, so that's
Speaker 5: a concern. If there was a nest right by my
Speaker 5: front door I had to walk under, well, I would
Speaker 5: get rid of it. But other wasp nests around the property,
Speaker 5: I just leave them because that's what they're doing all day,
Speaker 5: is bringing caterpillars home.
Speaker 28: But ten caterpillars do what what do they actually do
Speaker 28: just make more ten caterpillars or do they eat their
Speaker 28: vegetables or yeah.
Speaker 5: They you know, they hatch out and then they crawl
Speaker 5: up typically in the foliage and eat the stage. We
Speaker 5: see the webbing is there at the base kind of
Speaker 5: at that we say, the crotch of the branch, the
Speaker 5: fork and the branch, you know that area. We see them.
Speaker 5: But generally you don't worry about them a lot, especially
Speaker 5: this time of year. But if you see them on
Speaker 5: the foliage, you can just spray your foliage with BT
Speaker 5: bacillisther and gentsis BT. It's a very very safe spray
Speaker 5: that will kill the caterpillars, but not other things. Okay,
Speaker 5: all right, thank you for that.
Speaker 28: All right, Donny, I've got them cut down and I'm
Speaker 28: going to put them away. But if I see them again,
Speaker 28: I know I can all right, too high to cut
Speaker 28: I appreciate it.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, no need, no need to cut those out.
Speaker 5: Thanks for the call and good luck with those. Appreciate
Speaker 5: your call. Time for a break. I'll be right back.
Speaker 5: We got a half hour left. Don't go away for
Speaker 5: all our listeners over in Louisiana directions with a Cajun
Speaker 5: sound of the music this morning. All right, folks, Mary
Speaker 5: Chapin Carpenter, Hey, welcome back to Guardline. Good to have
Speaker 5: you with us. You know, earlier today I was talking
Speaker 5: about crazy high school mascot. Remember that. You remember the
Speaker 5: fighting snails and the fighting conks in Florida, which is
Speaker 5: basically a saltwater snail, underwater snail. What is it? What
Speaker 5: do you say when your mascot is the snails. It's
Speaker 5: like slime them snails or I don't know, eat their
Speaker 5: vegetables during night when they're sleeping snails. That's crazy. I
Speaker 5: forgot one. Of course, I was doing high schools, but colleges, Okay,
Speaker 5: this is my favorite. You know I have an obsession
Speaker 5: with Okra, That's true. I do. I love Okra. I
Speaker 5: breed Okra, I grow Okra, I eat Okra, I love Okra.
Speaker 5: There's a college in Mississippi, Delta State Mississippi College. Their
Speaker 5: official mascot is the Statesman. Well, years ago they got
Speaker 5: tired of that, and so the students created a secondary mascot,
Speaker 5: the Fighting Okra. I'm not making us up. Go look
Speaker 5: it up. T Shirts got a Okra with boxing gloves on,
Speaker 5: and he does not look happy. I don't know what
Speaker 5: their chant is. Maybe it's make them real itchy okra
Speaker 5: or make it slimy okra. I don't know. Anyway, just
Speaker 5: had to throw that in. I couldn't couldn't let that
Speaker 5: go being a fan of Okra. Let's go to Galveston.
Speaker 5: We're going to talk to Bill this morning. Hey, Bill,
Speaker 5: welcome to guard Line. Thank you. I have a generic spreader.
Speaker 5: I have no idea who made it. It's green in color,
Speaker 5: but I have no idea how to set you know,
Speaker 5: the settings for barricade and for fertilizer on this thing. Okay?
Speaker 5: Is this a walk behind? Is this a walk behind
Speaker 5: with wheels?
Speaker 6: Yep?
Speaker 5: Okay, So here here's what you do. Here's what you
Speaker 5: do when you don't know if you're going to put
Speaker 5: barricade out and anybody, everybody listening, I'm not talking about fertilizer.
Speaker 5: I'm talking about barricade. Okay. This is a pre emergent herbicide.
Speaker 5: So for those what I what I would recommend you
Speaker 5: do is look at the total number of notches on
Speaker 5: the spreader. So if for example, there are twenty notches,
Speaker 5: you want to always put it at about a notch
Speaker 5: above one quarter. So if there were twenty, that would
Speaker 5: be five or six. If there ten, that would be
Speaker 5: two or three somewhere in there. Okay. So for pre
Speaker 5: emergent herbicides, about a notch above one quarter. If you're
Speaker 5: doing fertilizers, that's a different way we figure it. It's
Speaker 5: not a not a notch above one quarter. Does that help? Okay,
Speaker 5: So you're doing fertilizer, what would that be For fertilizer,
Speaker 5: you do it about one or two notches above half.
Speaker 5: So to use my example of twenty notches, then it
Speaker 5: would be eleven or twelve for fertilizer, not not pre
Speaker 5: emergent says one or two notches above half. Okay, got it,
Speaker 5: Thank you very much. Fertilized. Now let me offer one
Speaker 5: more thing. It's always possible, you know, things are a
Speaker 5: little off, and you don't want to over or under apply.
Speaker 5: I often will put it way lower than that, and
Speaker 5: I'll go north south across the yard, and then look
Speaker 5: at how much I have left, and then go east west.
Speaker 5: Those are just example directions. In other words, crossways, uh,
Speaker 5: and that way you get a more even spread. If
Speaker 5: you were a little off, you wouldn't want to run
Speaker 5: out when you were three quarters of the way across
Speaker 5: the yard, then you would have weigh over applied it. Okay, okay, okay,
Speaker 5: all right, Bill, thanks you bet, thank you for the call.
Speaker 5: Appreciate that We're going to go to Spring Branch and
Speaker 5: talk to Cheryl. Hello, Cheryl, welcome to the garden line.
Speaker 17: Hi there, can you bind me?
Speaker 5: Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 25: Fig tree. I bought what's supposed to be good for
Speaker 25: a container fig tree called Pignomenal, and I bought it
Speaker 25: from Burpie and it got here, a little tiny thing,
Speaker 25: and it was doing really well. And I have it
Speaker 25: in a round vigo vego planner and now it is
Speaker 25: stopped doing well. It is shit almost all leaves, and
Speaker 25: I've been careful just to water it from the bottom
Speaker 25: and the particular planter I have had water reservoir in
Speaker 25: the bottom.
Speaker 15: But it's just it's just sticks.
Speaker 5: Huh.
Speaker 14: What can I do?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 5: What kind of soil? What kind of so mix do
Speaker 5: you have in there?
Speaker 17: Rose soils?
Speaker 5: Okay, well that's a good one.
Speaker 17: The other thing I can.
Speaker 28: Oh.
Speaker 25: I was going to say, it's it's my backyard faces
Speaker 25: west and it's on a stone patio, but I thought
Speaker 25: with the elevated planter that maybe that would stop it
Speaker 25: from baking.
Speaker 5: Do you think it's getting too much sun? Well, the
Speaker 5: heat doesn't bother a fig tree. They can grow in
Speaker 5: the brunt of the full sun here in southeast Texas,
Speaker 5: I would prove. I would say it's always possible that
Speaker 5: it didn't have enough water for a while. Uh, if
Speaker 5: the drainage wasn't good, But in a vego planter, the
Speaker 5: drainage should be adequate in those. But if it was
Speaker 5: water log that would be a stress. It's not unusual
Speaker 5: for fig trees toward at the end of the season
Speaker 5: for the leaves just to kind of get old and
Speaker 5: have some issues. The fact that it's completely defoliated. I'll
Speaker 5: remove nematodes from the equation because you used a rose
Speaker 5: soil to grow it rather than something some sandy soil.
Speaker 5: So I'm just thinking somehow it's a water related thing.
Speaker 5: I wouldn't worry about it. Figs are very tough. Just
Speaker 5: continue to make sure it has adequate slow moisture, not soggy,
Speaker 5: but just give it a good soaking periodically, and I
Speaker 5: think it's going to be okay. I think it'll be
Speaker 5: fine and come back. But that is an unusual symptom.
Speaker 5: It just indicates something stressed the tree. And I don't
Speaker 5: have the crystal ball broun.
Speaker 25: Okay, the leaves got kind of brown spots, and like
Speaker 25: I said, I think Burpie said they were prone to mildy,
Speaker 25: so I was careful not to with the leaves.
Speaker 5: But oh also yeah it could also yeah, I mean no,
Speaker 5: not until spring. Wait until winter's over to print. You
Speaker 5: don't want it to grow now because figs are semi tender. Anyway,
Speaker 5: I'll tell you what else it could be. There's a
Speaker 5: disease called rust that will affect figs and cause them
Speaker 5: to drop their leaves. It's a leaf spot disease. And
Speaker 5: maybe that hit it phenomenal is you know, not one
Speaker 5: of our standard southern fig varieties, and so I don't know.
Speaker 5: It probably doesn't have any rust resistance, but that could
Speaker 5: have been it. Again, that's not a killer on the fig.
Speaker 5: It may try to resprout, which is what we would
Speaker 5: rather not do at this point in the season. But
Speaker 5: I think it'll be okay, I think you'll be fine.
Speaker 17: Okay, so just prun it in the spring.
Speaker 5: Okay, I can do that in the spring. Yeah, get it.
Speaker 5: The winter. Thank you, and remember if it does produce
Speaker 5: figs on guardline. I don't charge for advice, but I
Speaker 5: do ask for half your produce when its successful. Next ground. Okay,
Speaker 5: that's all I ask. Thanks, Cheryl, appreciate that. Hey, folks,
Speaker 5: got to go to a break. I'll be right back.
Speaker 17: Kevin, that I have and see it good now, Well.
Speaker 5: Well, good to have you back.
Speaker 20: Good to be back.
Speaker 5: All right, guys, we got a sprint for the finish.
Speaker 5: We got a full board here. I'm got'ta see how
Speaker 5: many I can get through, so we'll cut straight to
Speaker 5: the chase. We're going to go to talk to you
Speaker 5: Nancy first about watermelons. Hey, Nancy, how can we help?
Speaker 19: Hey, good good morning.
Speaker 29: I hope they are having a beautiful day. I started
Speaker 29: out with it. I got about some seeds, eleven watermelons,
Speaker 29: dunning me. Didn't write the date down that I planted them,
Speaker 29: but actually they grew un chilled. Several of my raccoons
Speaker 29: got in and killed a few a little be home.
Speaker 29: But then of course I got more watermeltons turning back.
Speaker 29: So I have nine left right now in the different varieties.
Speaker 29: How do you know when a watermelon is ready.
Speaker 5: To be picked.
Speaker 29: I picked three and they were still pale, and one
Speaker 29: turned out red.
Speaker 5: Here's a fast answer. Where the watermelon attaches to the vine,
Speaker 5: there's a tendril, a curlicue. When it turns brown, that's
Speaker 5: one sign that the watermelon may be ripe. When you
Speaker 5: turn the watermelon over where it sits on the ground,
Speaker 5: that's called the ground spot. When it turns from kind
Speaker 5: of a shark trouse green to a very creamy, almost
Speaker 5: buttery yellow, that's a sign they may be ripe. And
Speaker 5: the third sign is thumping them. But you just kind
Speaker 5: of got to do that a little bit to know
Speaker 5: what the right sound of a thump is. But thosem.
Speaker 8: And okay, I.
Speaker 5: Won't you won't smell anything. But that's that's the best
Speaker 5: I can tell you. But hopefully the weather will stay
Speaker 5: warm long enough for you to get some watermelons. And
Speaker 5: if you do, I just asked that you bring me
Speaker 5: half your watermelons to the station so I can enjoy
Speaker 5: them too.
Speaker 12: Okay, so much, so much fun.
Speaker 29: When you want food, here comes another little bee. I
Speaker 29: love learning and I just love these shows.
Speaker 5: Thank you well, thank you, Nancy. Appreciate the call. I
Speaker 5: appreciate that very much. We're going to go to Rufus
Speaker 5: now in Cove, Texas. Ricks How can we help?
Speaker 12: Well, it's real simple. I've been playing with my venkas
Speaker 12: for all summer and all of a sudden they start
Speaker 12: look like die back on roses, and I wondering what
Speaker 12: I'm doing wrong.
Speaker 27: We're doing fine.
Speaker 5: Vinka the madagescar prairiewinkle, or vinca as they call it,
Speaker 5: the annual flowers that are typically red, white or pink
Speaker 5: or maybe coral. Okay, there's a disease that there's a
Speaker 5: disease that can attack them, and it's an aerial blight
Speaker 5: that causes the whole stem to turn like a chocolate
Speaker 5: brown and die pretty quick. Is that what you're saying
Speaker 5: that symptom? Okay, uh, okay, next year, nothing to do
Speaker 5: about these. Pull them out, get all the plant material
Speaker 5: out of there when you're done with the season, and
Speaker 5: next year look for a variety call to Cora c
Speaker 5: o R a cora that's resistant to that disease. And
Speaker 5: unless the disease evolves and changes in which happens with diseases,
Speaker 5: but cora is resistant to that phytopteral aerial blight, and
Speaker 5: once you've had it, in the spot. You either need
Speaker 5: to plant cora's there or plant some other flower. It
Speaker 5: doesn't attack other flowers and put your vincas somewhere else. Okay, sir, very.
Speaker 20: Good, very good.
Speaker 26: Variety of colors or just one color?
Speaker 5: Chorus? Come in many types, Yeah, they come in many types.
Speaker 5: I think there's even some trailing coras that they put
Speaker 5: in hanging baskets. Cora is a series, it's not a
Speaker 5: single variety. I wasn't clear about that, but yes, that
Speaker 5: venca's typically a pink, white, red flower, and that's how
Speaker 5: they are. Thank you, Good luck with those, you bet.
Speaker 5: We're going to run to Austin County and talk to Doris. Hey, Doris,
Speaker 5: welcome to garden line.
Speaker 12: Good morning, how are you.
Speaker 5: I'm doing well? How can I help today? Doris? Would
Speaker 5: you turn off the radio and let's see if we
Speaker 5: can help you here right quick? All right, I'll tell
Speaker 5: you what. I'm going to put you on hold. If
Speaker 5: we've lost you, call right back. We'll try to get you,
Speaker 5: get to you, and I'm going to go on to
Speaker 5: Scott in Belleville. Hey, Scott, welcome to the garden line.
Speaker 12: Hey, how are you doing?
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 12: So I have a I just moved into a house
Speaker 12: up in outside of Belleville and a couple of akers,
Speaker 12: and it's got We've come sam spurs or sugar burs,
Speaker 12: you know what I'm talking about. They're like, yes, do
Speaker 12: comic things that hurt like fire just by looking at them?
Speaker 5: Almost?
Speaker 12: Is there any way, yes, any possibility to control those?
Speaker 5: Yes? Absolutely. There are a number of different pre emergence
Speaker 5: herbicides that will control them. Barricade. You hear me talk
Speaker 5: about barricade from night foss all the time. That's one.
Speaker 5: There are other products on the market that are that
Speaker 5: are pre emerging, but they have to be work, they
Speaker 5: have to work on grassyweeds, but barricade is the one
Speaker 5: I would suggest that you use. Now, if you go
Speaker 5: online to my schedule at gardening with Skip dot com
Speaker 5: gardening ski dot com dot com, Okay, skip gardening with
Speaker 5: skip dot com. There are two schedules. There's a lawn
Speaker 5: care schedule and then a lawn pest disease and weed
Speaker 5: management schedule. If you look at the second one and
Speaker 5: you go down to weeds prevention, not killing existing, but preventing,
Speaker 5: you'll see that from late January through February, we put
Speaker 5: pre emergence down for warm season weeds in your area.
Speaker 5: I would say do it in about mid February would
Speaker 5: be best. Then then one, two three, about two and
Speaker 5: a half to three months later you would do it again.
Speaker 5: And so that would be in May that you would again. Okay,
Speaker 5: because those graspers will sprout all through the warm season.
Speaker 5: And by doing those two applications, now after you apply them,
Speaker 5: they have to be watered in. So if this is
Speaker 5: a yard, you can do it. If it's a pasture,
Speaker 5: you got to wait for a rainfall and then apply
Speaker 5: it right for a rainfall to get it into the
Speaker 5: soil surface. Okay.
Speaker 12: Do they sell that stuff in like mass quantities, like
Speaker 12: you know the costco sized version, because I get I
Speaker 12: get two acres and probably about three quarters to three
Speaker 12: quarters of an acre. I'm scared to walk through there
Speaker 12: because they hurt.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, well tell you I would. If I were you,
Speaker 5: I would do this. I don't know the Belleville area,
Speaker 5: all the stores and shops and feed stores and everything
Speaker 5: out there. You you may want to call your county
Speaker 5: Agro Life Extension office there in Belleville, K and UH
Speaker 5: ask them what do you recommend for pasture?
Speaker 19: Uh?
Speaker 5: Graspburg Control and they can take county quantities Agro Life
Speaker 5: Extension Office, County Extension Office. If I I'm going to
Speaker 5: try to find it, yes, sir, okay, and I'm gonna
Speaker 5: try to find it, and I'll say I'll say it
Speaker 5: on the air if I can find it before we
Speaker 5: get to the end of the show today. When when
Speaker 5: you call them, they're going to give you what the
Speaker 5: farm and ranchers would use. And that's going to be
Speaker 5: a made for bigger quantities than just like the backyard
Speaker 5: kind of thing. Okay, very good. All right, My timing
Speaker 5: and my schedule is still the same. My timing is
Speaker 5: still right for your area.
Speaker 12: Okay, So it's just the timing. Give me, give me
Speaker 12: that one more time. My wife's writing notes down. That's
Speaker 12: why I keep trying to repeat a couple.
Speaker 5: Of things that go to garden, go to gardening with
Speaker 5: skip dot com and find.
Speaker 12: And then there's that's our lawn care schedules.
Speaker 5: Okay, Okay, thank.
Speaker 15: You, sir.
Speaker 5: I appreciate that call. All right, We're going to run
Speaker 5: right here quick. Go back to Doris. Doris, do we
Speaker 5: got you still? I cannot hear Doris? Oh, sorry, didn't
Speaker 5: work out. Well, we tried. You've been listening to Guardline.
Speaker 5: Next Saturday, Nature's Way Resources halfway up. Oh well, that's
Speaker 5: halfway up to Conrod, Texas, right where fourteen eighty eight
Speaker 5: comes in. You turn right and you go to Nature's
Speaker 5: Way on Glennon. You know, let me, let me just
Speaker 5: do this. Come on out there. I'm gonna be there
Speaker 5: from eleven thirty to one thirty. They're having their Fall Festival.
Speaker 5: It is going to be so much fun. We're gonna
Speaker 5: have a blast, and I hope you'll come out because
Speaker 5: when you get there, what you're gonna find is that,
Speaker 5: you know, we can pretty much answer any question you got.
Speaker 5: If you bring me a sample, if you you know,
Speaker 5: bring me pictures of stuff, let's talk about it and
Speaker 5: let's solve it. For those of you looking for your
Speaker 5: ag Extension office, go to Agrolifepeople dot TAMU dot edu