WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.159 --> 00:00:06.679 Welcome to Katie r h. Garden Line with Skip rictor esmell. 2 00:00:06.919 --> 00:00:13.359 The basis the basis gas can you use shrim You 3 00:00:13.720 --> 00:00:18.120 just watching as worm got gassies and gas? 4 00:00:18.519 --> 00:00:20.280 Can you las? 5 00:00:20.640 --> 00:00:24.600 Many girl takes the sapback basic in the bay the 6 00:00:24.640 --> 00:00:28.600 bassis and gas and again you did the samos becubles 7 00:00:28.679 --> 00:00:29.239 back tacking. 8 00:00:29.800 --> 00:00:33.719 They're not a salmon. Credit the glasses and gas and. 9 00:00:35.520 --> 00:00:39.479 The sun beamon of tweets. 10 00:00:39.719 --> 00:00:41.960 The basis a gas baby can you jam? 11 00:00:42.399 --> 00:00:49.119 By first starting in and out of treating you. 12 00:00:53.000 --> 00:00:56.119 See Sunday. 13 00:01:00.560 --> 00:01:04.640 With the calendar. And here's why we know that the 14 00:01:04.719 --> 00:01:08.599 average frostedate arrives fill in the blank for your area. 15 00:01:09.079 --> 00:01:12.079 It varies a lot through the garden Line listening area, 16 00:01:12.640 --> 00:01:16.640 but when it's scheduled to generally arrive, that's probably on 17 00:01:16.680 --> 00:01:19.200 the average when it's going to arrive, and so we 18 00:01:19.319 --> 00:01:21.120 got to do things to be ready for it. Now 19 00:01:21.239 --> 00:01:24.319 that means we need to be fertilizing our lawns right now, 20 00:01:24.760 --> 00:01:26.879 Right now is the time to get out there and 21 00:01:27.000 --> 00:01:30.760 get your fall fertilization down. We are in the big 22 00:01:30.959 --> 00:01:34.680 prime time for getting that done. October big month, big 23 00:01:34.719 --> 00:01:38.200 month that as we go further into fall, grassroot growth 24 00:01:38.280 --> 00:01:41.760 slows down, and we would like to get those nutrients 25 00:01:41.799 --> 00:01:44.159 down so they can take them up so that grass 26 00:01:44.159 --> 00:01:46.519 plant can be as strong as possible going into winter 27 00:01:46.599 --> 00:01:49.439 and coming out in spring. And that's something that's hard 28 00:01:49.480 --> 00:01:54.920 for people to follow or to I guess, well, get 29 00:01:54.920 --> 00:01:57.799 their head around. Maybe is the idea that we think 30 00:01:57.799 --> 00:02:01.840 about fertilizing like we think about eating us for example, 31 00:02:01.879 --> 00:02:04.599 like if I go eat breakfast this morning, that food 32 00:02:04.840 --> 00:02:08.080 is taking care of me today, but not so much tomorrow. 33 00:02:08.280 --> 00:02:11.840 I have to eat again tomorrow. Well, when we fertilize 34 00:02:11.840 --> 00:02:15.280 our turf, we're not just feeding the grass in the 35 00:02:15.319 --> 00:02:17.039 sense of we put it down and the grass takes 36 00:02:17.080 --> 00:02:19.199 it all up and eats it like I would my breakfast. 37 00:02:19.240 --> 00:02:21.039 What we are doing is we're putting it in the 38 00:02:21.080 --> 00:02:24.280 soil so that as the grass day by day by 39 00:02:24.360 --> 00:02:28.000 day by day needs nutrient, it's taking those nutrients up 40 00:02:28.199 --> 00:02:30.400 day by day by day by day. So the sooner 41 00:02:30.439 --> 00:02:32.800 you get it down, the sooner it can begin to 42 00:02:32.840 --> 00:02:35.680 do that. And with our nice warm temperatures right now, 43 00:02:36.479 --> 00:02:38.960 it will take it up very rapidly. And as we 44 00:02:39.039 --> 00:02:40.919 go further and further in fall, once we get into 45 00:02:40.960 --> 00:02:44.840 mid November and so it slowed down a lot, a lot, 46 00:02:44.919 --> 00:02:48.960 and so get those fertilizations done now. Night Fist has 47 00:02:49.000 --> 00:02:52.800 their three step program. I like that term three step. 48 00:02:52.960 --> 00:02:54.840 It's kind of like you dance on the dance floor, 49 00:02:55.000 --> 00:02:57.919 the two step, you dance on the lawn. The three 50 00:02:57.960 --> 00:03:00.240 step and the three step is number one in the 51 00:03:00.280 --> 00:03:04.439 fall special fertilizer. It's a winneriser. It helps your grass 52 00:03:04.479 --> 00:03:08.360 get ready for winter and therefore come out better in spring. Secondly, 53 00:03:09.360 --> 00:03:12.879 the second step of the three step is barricade, which 54 00:03:12.919 --> 00:03:17.159 is a pre emergent weed prevention. All the weeds that 55 00:03:17.240 --> 00:03:20.879 you saw taking over your lawn last spring, late winter 56 00:03:20.960 --> 00:03:25.240 and spring, they sprouted in the fall, and barricade stops 57 00:03:25.240 --> 00:03:27.199 at If you put it down now watered in about 58 00:03:27.240 --> 00:03:30.680 a half inch of water, then those weed seeds. When 59 00:03:30.719 --> 00:03:32.240 we get a col front and a little bit of 60 00:03:32.240 --> 00:03:34.319 a rain and a cold front, those weeds are going 61 00:03:34.360 --> 00:03:36.560 to sprout because the sul tent drops down to where 62 00:03:36.599 --> 00:03:40.199 they can it triggers them to sprout. You want the 63 00:03:40.240 --> 00:03:43.360 barricade down before that because that way, when they try 64 00:03:43.400 --> 00:03:47.599 to sprout, barricade is there forming a barricade over the 65 00:03:47.599 --> 00:03:51.240 ground and they can't. Second or third excuse me Nitrifus 66 00:03:51.240 --> 00:03:55.639 eagle turf fungicide. Eagle turf fungicides is a stomach. And 67 00:03:56.199 --> 00:04:01.400 one thing about preventing diseases in the lawn that's different 68 00:04:01.560 --> 00:04:05.680 from preventing somewhat different from preventing diseases in our bodies, 69 00:04:06.479 --> 00:04:08.479 is that we get sick and you go the doctor 70 00:04:08.520 --> 00:04:10.479 and they give you medicine to fix it. Unless it's 71 00:04:10.479 --> 00:04:13.560 a virus or something well in the lawn. We have 72 00:04:13.599 --> 00:04:16.959 to put that down ahead of time, so when the 73 00:04:17.000 --> 00:04:21.759 disease shows up, the preventative is there in the grass plant, okay, 74 00:04:21.879 --> 00:04:24.720 or on the grass plant. In the case of nitrophoss eagle, 75 00:04:24.800 --> 00:04:27.720 it's a systemic It moves in the plant. So when 76 00:04:27.879 --> 00:04:30.199 again here comes a cold front, some cool temperatures, and 77 00:04:30.240 --> 00:04:33.040 those big brown circles start to appear in your lawn. 78 00:04:33.279 --> 00:04:35.439 When the circles are there, that means the leaves have 79 00:04:35.519 --> 00:04:37.920 been rotted off the runners and you're gonna have a 80 00:04:37.920 --> 00:04:40.560 brown circle all winter, and when it warms up in 81 00:04:40.680 --> 00:04:43.439 spring the grass will regreen. But you look at the 82 00:04:43.480 --> 00:04:46.920 circle all winter. The sunlight hits the soil all winter, 83 00:04:47.199 --> 00:04:50.759 the weeds are sprouting, and other issues happen. Go backwards 84 00:04:50.759 --> 00:04:54.600 in time before that, put the eagle down, and now 85 00:04:54.639 --> 00:04:58.519 when the disease shows up, it's prevented from infecting the grass. 86 00:04:58.639 --> 00:05:01.160 Same thing is true with take all root rot, which 87 00:05:01.319 --> 00:05:04.279 also occurs in the fall. So here's what I'm saying, 88 00:05:04.399 --> 00:05:08.000 do the three step and do it now, especially doing 89 00:05:08.079 --> 00:05:12.399 the barricade and especially getting the eagle turf fungicide down. 90 00:05:12.720 --> 00:05:12.959 Now. 91 00:05:13.079 --> 00:05:16.360 I would do all three right now, but time wise, 92 00:05:16.600 --> 00:05:19.319 the most important is getting the weed control ahead of 93 00:05:19.319 --> 00:05:24.759 time and the fungicide protection ahead of time. Nitrofoss Texas 94 00:05:24.759 --> 00:05:26.439 three step, It's as simple as that. You're going to 95 00:05:26.480 --> 00:05:29.759 find nitrofoss Texas three step at d and de Feed 96 00:05:29.759 --> 00:05:32.199 and Tumbull. You're going to find it at Plantation Ace 97 00:05:32.240 --> 00:05:34.879 Hardware out in Richmond, and you're going to find it 98 00:05:34.920 --> 00:05:37.600 at Sinco Ranch the Ace hardware out there as well. 99 00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:41.839 It's widely available and it works. I want to thank everybody, 100 00:05:42.319 --> 00:05:45.560 Buchanans and the folks that came out yesterday. We had 101 00:05:45.600 --> 00:05:49.639 a really good time there. Boy, their fall fest was outstanding, 102 00:05:49.680 --> 00:05:51.360 those of you who are there. I mean it was 103 00:05:52.040 --> 00:05:55.120 something every time everywhere I went, Every time I turned around, 104 00:05:55.439 --> 00:05:58.040 there was some kids activity and kids are getting their 105 00:05:58.720 --> 00:06:01.839 faces painted there were painting pumpkins. I mean, it was 106 00:06:01.959 --> 00:06:04.439 just on and on and on. It was a blast, 107 00:06:04.759 --> 00:06:07.240 had a good time. Loved meeting all the folks out there, 108 00:06:08.279 --> 00:06:09.959 and so it's kind of fun meeting people that listen 109 00:06:09.959 --> 00:06:12.839 to garden Line and helping folks with their questions and 110 00:06:12.920 --> 00:06:16.519 directing the things and quite the shindig there. Thank you 111 00:06:16.560 --> 00:06:20.199 Buchanons for having me out and for everybody for coming out. 112 00:06:20.399 --> 00:06:23.160 That was those of you who came, no just how 113 00:06:23.240 --> 00:06:26.120 much fun that was, and it really really was fun. 114 00:06:26.360 --> 00:06:26.560 You know. 115 00:06:26.600 --> 00:06:30.199 Buchanans is on Eleventh Street in the Heights and it's easy. 116 00:06:31.319 --> 00:06:33.560 It's easy to get to, it's easy to get in 117 00:06:33.639 --> 00:06:37.560 and out of the product they have there is outstanding. 118 00:06:37.600 --> 00:06:41.639 Oh my gosh, the fall color that they have is stupendous. 119 00:06:42.079 --> 00:06:45.399 The pumpkins and all the gourds and ornamentals and things. 120 00:06:45.399 --> 00:06:47.839 I mean, you could decorate a gymnasium of all the 121 00:06:47.839 --> 00:06:50.800 different things that they have. They're ready to go in 122 00:06:50.800 --> 00:06:53.319 the way of pumpkins, you know, the carving pumpkins if 123 00:06:53.360 --> 00:06:56.319 you want to do Jack O Lennard, the little fairy 124 00:06:56.319 --> 00:06:58.800 tail pumpkins which are flattened. They kind of look like 125 00:06:59.560 --> 00:07:03.399 What'srella's coach or something like that, miniature pumpkins and gourds 126 00:07:03.439 --> 00:07:06.600 and everything native plants. I was directing people to native 127 00:07:06.600 --> 00:07:10.360 plants all day out there lots of really cool things, 128 00:07:10.399 --> 00:07:14.519 including things to attract butterflies, things to attract hummingbirds. And 129 00:07:14.639 --> 00:07:17.839 of course we spend time in the houseplat Greenhouse. My 130 00:07:17.879 --> 00:07:21.480 wife loves strings, a string of If they created a 131 00:07:21.480 --> 00:07:23.639 new string of, I think we'd be out there buying 132 00:07:23.720 --> 00:07:26.480 it the next day because we love strings at our house. Anyway, 133 00:07:26.519 --> 00:07:28.839 They've got you set up for all that and more 134 00:07:29.399 --> 00:07:33.480 out there at Buchanans Native Plants in the Heights on 135 00:07:33.519 --> 00:07:36.759 eleven Street. By the way, Buchanans Plants dot COM's their 136 00:07:36.800 --> 00:07:39.680 website Buchanans Plants dot com. You need to go check 137 00:07:39.720 --> 00:07:44.519 that out. Their newsletter is outstanding, their website is outstanding. 138 00:07:44.879 --> 00:07:47.639 There are monthly to do lists on there. There are 139 00:07:48.920 --> 00:07:52.519 other kinds of resources, you know, how to videos, gardening articles, 140 00:07:52.560 --> 00:07:56.279 garden guides and so on. Makes it easy, makes it 141 00:07:56.360 --> 00:08:00.439 really really easy. This is a call in show, and 142 00:08:00.480 --> 00:08:02.199 you know what the first thing that a host should 143 00:08:02.199 --> 00:08:03.519 do on a call in show is give you the 144 00:08:03.519 --> 00:08:06.560 phone number. How about I do that? Maybe not first thing, 145 00:08:06.600 --> 00:08:11.279 how about second thing? Seven one three two one two 146 00:08:11.720 --> 00:08:15.480 KTRH seven one three two one two ktrh. You'd like 147 00:08:15.519 --> 00:08:17.480 to give me a call talk about the things that 148 00:08:17.519 --> 00:08:20.160 are of interest to you. Hey, let's do that. Let 149 00:08:20.279 --> 00:08:21.639 us do that. We're going to take a break right 150 00:08:21.680 --> 00:08:23.399 now and I'll be right back. 151 00:08:25.000 --> 00:08:30.199 Like while you still can don't even try. 152 00:08:30.199 --> 00:08:33.360 Well, well, welcome, welcome back to Guardenline. Good to have 153 00:08:33.440 --> 00:08:35.720 you with us. He our phone number seven one three 154 00:08:35.799 --> 00:08:38.320 two one two fifty eight seventy four. 155 00:08:38.799 --> 00:08:38.919 Uh. 156 00:08:39.240 --> 00:08:42.799 You know that when you're looking for supplies for anything 157 00:08:42.919 --> 00:08:46.360 to make your garden, landscaping, lawn beautiful, Ace Hardware is 158 00:08:46.360 --> 00:08:48.480 the place to go. ACE is the place, that's what 159 00:08:48.559 --> 00:08:50.600 they say, and it is a place for everything. It's 160 00:08:50.600 --> 00:08:53.559 a place for fertilizers like the fall fertilizers. It's a 161 00:08:53.559 --> 00:08:57.720 place for fire, ink control, mosquito control. It's the place 162 00:08:57.799 --> 00:09:01.440 to get your decorations for inc and for outside. It's 163 00:09:01.440 --> 00:09:04.320 a place to create that beautiful outdoor patio that you 164 00:09:04.399 --> 00:09:07.200 so much enjoy. And when you're dealing with pests and 165 00:09:07.200 --> 00:09:09.960 weeds and diseases, ACE is a place for that as well. 166 00:09:10.240 --> 00:09:13.519 Ace Hardware stores forty of them in the Greater Houston area. 167 00:09:13.600 --> 00:09:15.759 So if you're listening to Guardline, there's an ACE Hardware 168 00:09:15.759 --> 00:09:19.120 store near you. And ACE Hardware stores are going to 169 00:09:19.240 --> 00:09:22.799 stay stocked with those things that you need to have 170 00:09:22.840 --> 00:09:26.039 that gorgeous landscape, to have that bountiful garden. So just 171 00:09:26.120 --> 00:09:29.000 check it out Acehardware dot Com, find the store locator, 172 00:09:29.039 --> 00:09:31.960 find the store near you, and everything you need is there. 173 00:09:32.080 --> 00:09:36.120 And oh, the holidays are coming, holiday decorations, lands are 174 00:09:36.200 --> 00:09:38.399 lighting and all the I'll be taking a lot about 175 00:09:38.399 --> 00:09:41.759 that really soon because it's just around the corner and 176 00:09:42.080 --> 00:09:48.399 it's also available at ACE. I talk about fall fertilizing, 177 00:09:48.600 --> 00:09:51.080 and sometimes people get a little confused, like, well, why 178 00:09:51.159 --> 00:09:54.159 not just use your summer lawn fertilizer for fall. Well, 179 00:09:54.240 --> 00:09:58.120 here's why. You know, you can fertilize with a summer 180 00:09:58.159 --> 00:10:01.519 fertilizer all year round, but the best fertilizer for fall 181 00:10:01.919 --> 00:10:04.679 is one that's a little lower in nitrogen, a little 182 00:10:04.759 --> 00:10:08.519 higher in the third number, which is potassium, and nitrogen 183 00:10:08.559 --> 00:10:11.279 pushes growth. That makes things, you know, take off green, 184 00:10:11.399 --> 00:10:14.200 grow fast and in warm temperatures. That's what we're doing 185 00:10:14.240 --> 00:10:17.279 all summer to our lawns. But in the fall, we 186 00:10:17.360 --> 00:10:19.600 want things to slow down because they are slowing down, 187 00:10:19.679 --> 00:10:22.120 the days are getting shorter, the temperatures are cool enough, 188 00:10:22.639 --> 00:10:25.720 and we want less nitrogen and a little more potassium 189 00:10:25.720 --> 00:10:28.799 the third number. Those two nitrogen and potassium, the first 190 00:10:28.879 --> 00:10:31.000 number of the third number. They go into the grass 191 00:10:31.000 --> 00:10:34.440 plant together and they help build winter hardiness. They help 192 00:10:34.519 --> 00:10:40.279 the plant produce carbohydrates that prepare it for cold weather. Secondly, 193 00:10:40.840 --> 00:10:44.519 they stock that plant with carbohydrates. The grass plant so 194 00:10:44.679 --> 00:10:48.519 in the spring it can take off growing. In the spring, 195 00:10:48.919 --> 00:10:51.200 the old root system is going away and the new 196 00:10:51.279 --> 00:10:54.440 root system is beginning to get established, and that early 197 00:10:54.480 --> 00:10:58.120 growth needs carbs that are stored in the grass plant 198 00:10:58.519 --> 00:11:02.200 to take off and do its. So your best early 199 00:11:02.279 --> 00:11:07.600 spring growth spurring along is done by your fall fertilization. 200 00:11:08.600 --> 00:11:11.200 Very important, probably the most important fertilization of the year. 201 00:11:11.320 --> 00:11:13.639 That I would say, the fall fertilization. We want to 202 00:11:13.679 --> 00:11:17.399 get it down in October here in the gardenline listening area. 203 00:11:17.600 --> 00:11:19.679 That's the best time to do it. A little earlier 204 00:11:20.039 --> 00:11:22.519 better than is better than a little bit later. But 205 00:11:22.639 --> 00:11:24.840 go ahead and get those down and that's how those work. 206 00:11:24.879 --> 00:11:26.679 That's why we make that change in the fall. And 207 00:11:26.720 --> 00:11:30.360 it's all available on my schedule at gardening with Skip 208 00:11:30.639 --> 00:11:34.559 dot com. Youne see the whole thing right there. I 209 00:11:34.600 --> 00:11:36.320 was talking about things you could get at ACE Hardware. 210 00:11:36.799 --> 00:11:39.600 Another thing you can get at ACE Hardware is azomite. 211 00:11:39.639 --> 00:11:43.639 You know. Asi Mite is the micro nutrient supplement that 212 00:11:43.720 --> 00:11:47.480 we put down to build the bank account in the soil. 213 00:11:47.799 --> 00:11:51.440 So when grass needs those obscure nutrients that you may 214 00:11:51.480 --> 00:11:54.840 have heard of but you certainly never see on the 215 00:11:54.919 --> 00:11:58.320 numbers on a fertilizer bag, it's in the soil and 216 00:11:58.399 --> 00:12:01.559 the grass is able to just continue growth as normal. 217 00:12:02.440 --> 00:12:06.080 There's twenty nutrients that plants need to do well and 218 00:12:06.120 --> 00:12:08.120 they're essential. When I see need, I don't mean it 219 00:12:08.120 --> 00:12:10.039 would be nice. I mean they have to have them, 220 00:12:10.639 --> 00:12:13.000 and if you don't have them, if there's not enough, 221 00:12:13.000 --> 00:12:16.919 it limits plant growth. And asumite that's why we put 222 00:12:16.960 --> 00:12:19.799 that down to buy once a year's enough, do as 223 00:12:19.840 --> 00:12:21.919 sult test and then you know exactly what you need 224 00:12:21.960 --> 00:12:24.039 on every nutrient. That's the best. I mean, we give 225 00:12:24.039 --> 00:12:26.639 you guidelines and stuff, but in the absence of that, 226 00:12:27.559 --> 00:12:30.360 an ASMIE application about once a year is a good 227 00:12:30.360 --> 00:12:32.639 way to go. You can go to azmite Texas dot com. 228 00:12:33.120 --> 00:12:36.279 Just remember it's a small particle sized product, So don't 229 00:12:36.320 --> 00:12:40.440 mix it with your fertilize other fertilizers, because you know, 230 00:12:40.480 --> 00:12:43.000 when you got large particles and small particles, they don't 231 00:12:43.000 --> 00:12:45.720 all get spread at the same rate. One of them 232 00:12:45.759 --> 00:12:47.600 settles and one of them comes up in the in 233 00:12:47.639 --> 00:12:51.639 the hopper as it bounces along. So do your fertilization 234 00:12:51.840 --> 00:12:55.759 and do your asmite applications separately. Do them separately, but 235 00:12:55.799 --> 00:12:57.039 you can do them the same day, you can do 236 00:12:57.039 --> 00:13:00.440 them the same hour. Just just do them separately. As 237 00:13:00.519 --> 00:13:03.039 Mite's widely available, you're gonna find it pretty much everywhere 238 00:13:03.120 --> 00:13:05.240 you hear me talk about on garden line. Feed stores, 239 00:13:05.600 --> 00:13:11.240 garden centers, ace hardware stores, Southwest fertilizer, all those kinds 240 00:13:11.279 --> 00:13:16.879 of places and more will carry the asmite. You are 241 00:13:16.919 --> 00:13:19.200 listening to garden Line, I'm your host, Skip Richter, and 242 00:13:19.480 --> 00:13:20.879 the number, if you'd like to give us a call 243 00:13:20.960 --> 00:13:24.120 is seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy 244 00:13:24.159 --> 00:13:30.320 four seven one three two one two five eight seven four. Now, 245 00:13:31.200 --> 00:13:33.240 one of my favorite things to say on garden line 246 00:13:33.279 --> 00:13:35.919 is brown stuff before green stuff. And why do I 247 00:13:36.000 --> 00:13:39.799 do that? Well, here's why it's easy to go to 248 00:13:39.799 --> 00:13:42.399 a garden center and get excited about plants. You know, 249 00:13:42.440 --> 00:13:46.519 here's all these green, beautiful flowers. There's a tomato I'm 250 00:13:46.559 --> 00:13:48.639 gonna eat like a king. I can't wait to put 251 00:13:48.639 --> 00:13:50.519 it in the ground. It's easy to get and good 252 00:13:50.519 --> 00:13:53.320 for you. I mean, I get excited about that. But 253 00:13:54.120 --> 00:13:56.799 the success of any plant you bring home, and hopefully 254 00:13:56.799 --> 00:13:59.200 you're bringing one that's adapted and wants to grow here. 255 00:13:59.720 --> 00:14:02.320 This success up any plant is based on the soil. 256 00:14:02.799 --> 00:14:05.120 Think of it this way. Plants live in their roots. 257 00:14:05.399 --> 00:14:08.120 That's that's one way to think about it. That makes 258 00:14:08.159 --> 00:14:10.759 the point I'm trying to make, and that is when 259 00:14:10.799 --> 00:14:14.399 the soil is well aer rated, that could be expanded shale, 260 00:14:14.399 --> 00:14:18.039 that could be compost additions, bed mixes that you're buying 261 00:14:18.080 --> 00:14:20.559 to grow the plants in. When it's well aer rated 262 00:14:20.600 --> 00:14:23.159 and well drained, it's going to thrive. When it can 263 00:14:23.200 --> 00:14:27.960 hole water but drain well. Also, when it can hold 264 00:14:28.120 --> 00:14:31.519 nutrients and keep them available, the plants have a chance 265 00:14:31.559 --> 00:14:35.200 to thrive. It's setting them up for success. You know. 266 00:14:35.279 --> 00:14:37.320 It's like you want to go on a trip and 267 00:14:37.399 --> 00:14:39.720 what you're going to take your car, Well, your car's 268 00:14:39.759 --> 00:14:41.320 got to have tires on it. Your car's got to 269 00:14:41.320 --> 00:14:43.039 have gas in the tank. You know, you see what 270 00:14:43.039 --> 00:14:46.000 I'm saying. You need all that there, so when you 271 00:14:46.039 --> 00:14:48.360 go to go somewhere, you got everything you need to go. 272 00:14:48.879 --> 00:14:50.799 That is what we do. When we build the soil, 273 00:14:50.879 --> 00:14:53.960 we get those plants ready to go. The roots can thrive, 274 00:14:54.000 --> 00:14:56.679 they can grow in a big area. They have lots 275 00:14:56.679 --> 00:15:00.240 of zone to draw water and nutrients from. There's good 276 00:15:00.360 --> 00:15:04.399 root health. There's not soggy anaerobic conditions and root rots 277 00:15:04.399 --> 00:15:07.320 and stuff like that. It's all in the soil. Very 278 00:15:07.480 --> 00:15:12.600 very important. Cnamlts south of Houston, Ciena Malts is your 279 00:15:13.240 --> 00:15:16.840 bronze stuff place. That's the way I'll put it. That 280 00:15:16.960 --> 00:15:21.240 means the composts, that means the expanded shill, that means 281 00:15:21.480 --> 00:15:24.639 every fertilizer I talk about on Guardline is at Cienamalts. 282 00:15:24.960 --> 00:15:27.320 It is when you drive in there and drive out, 283 00:15:27.480 --> 00:15:31.200 you have the foundation for success. Whether you're growing a lawn, 284 00:15:31.279 --> 00:15:34.799 a flowerbed, herbs, vegetables, you name it, it's all there 285 00:15:35.320 --> 00:15:38.120 at Cenamalts. Now. They're down on Highway near Highway six 286 00:15:38.159 --> 00:15:40.320 and two eighty eight, just north of ROAs Sharon on 287 00:15:40.679 --> 00:15:44.759 FM five twenty one. Right down their website. Sienna Maltz 288 00:15:45.000 --> 00:15:48.879 dot com, cnamlts dot com Monday through Friday seven thirty 289 00:15:48.879 --> 00:15:51.799 to five, Saturday seven thirty to two, closed on Sundays. 290 00:15:52.440 --> 00:15:55.120 But when you come out of Cienamalts, you're ready to go. 291 00:15:55.559 --> 00:15:58.879 You're ready to get it ready for a successful planting 292 00:15:58.919 --> 00:16:01.639 falls the best planting season. Now's the time to build 293 00:16:01.679 --> 00:16:04.120 your beds. Get over there to see them all and 294 00:16:04.159 --> 00:16:07.879 get the stuff you need. I see so many people. 295 00:16:08.240 --> 00:16:10.840 One of the main reasons people fail when they plant 296 00:16:10.879 --> 00:16:13.360 things is because they don't prepare their soul first. That's 297 00:16:13.440 --> 00:16:16.799 one of the main things. Don't be that person. Get 298 00:16:16.840 --> 00:16:19.879 it ready to go before you get started. We're going 299 00:16:19.919 --> 00:16:23.720 to go out now to Kingwood and talk to Pamela. Hello, Pamela, 300 00:16:23.759 --> 00:16:24.799 welcome to garden Line. 301 00:16:27.679 --> 00:16:29.080 She started. 302 00:16:29.320 --> 00:16:30.799 Yes, can you hear me? Now? 303 00:16:32.039 --> 00:16:33.320 I can go ahead? 304 00:16:33.559 --> 00:16:38.000 Okay, great, Yes, I'm leaving for Spain for a month. 305 00:16:38.159 --> 00:16:43.519 And I lost the trees that shaded my azaleus and 306 00:16:43.600 --> 00:16:47.519 they're turning kind of a brighter light green with. 307 00:16:47.480 --> 00:16:48.159 A little bit of. 308 00:16:49.679 --> 00:16:53.639 Brown that not dying the stuff. What can I do 309 00:16:53.879 --> 00:16:58.200 to shave them? Could I put like that freeze cloth 310 00:16:58.279 --> 00:17:01.240 on top of them until it cool off. I've got 311 00:17:01.240 --> 00:17:04.960 somebody watering them every day while I'm gone, plus the 312 00:17:05.000 --> 00:17:09.440 sprinkler system. 313 00:17:09.640 --> 00:17:15.079 Well, I think I think if you're concerned about too 314 00:17:15.160 --> 00:17:19.839 much sun on those asalias, suddenly a shade cloth could 315 00:17:19.839 --> 00:17:22.400 be put over them. You can purchase shake cloth materials. 316 00:17:22.400 --> 00:17:25.880 It's very very thin, and it helps, you know, keep 317 00:17:25.920 --> 00:17:28.119 the some of the sun off. You don't want to 318 00:17:28.119 --> 00:17:29.759 get all the sun off, you just want to take 319 00:17:29.799 --> 00:17:33.200 it down a little bit. That's probably what I would use, 320 00:17:33.279 --> 00:17:37.039 Just lay that over them. But how long ago did 321 00:17:37.079 --> 00:17:38.480 these trees go away. 322 00:17:40.000 --> 00:17:40.400 Barrel? 323 00:17:42.559 --> 00:17:45.079 Well, that's been long. That's been a long time. Those 324 00:17:45.119 --> 00:17:47.720 azaleas ought to be okay for right now, I don't 325 00:17:47.759 --> 00:17:50.799 know that, you know, I mean certainly right after Barrel, 326 00:17:50.880 --> 00:17:53.640 through the hot, hot summer weathers and all that kind 327 00:17:53.640 --> 00:17:56.240 of stuff, that was a critical time. But I think 328 00:17:56.240 --> 00:17:57.960 we're kind of hitting a time now where I'm not 329 00:17:58.119 --> 00:18:01.279 as concerned about them. They've made it through up to now. 330 00:18:01.359 --> 00:18:03.160 I don't know. There's a lot more damage to be 331 00:18:03.200 --> 00:18:03.720 done on that. 332 00:18:05.039 --> 00:18:07.519 Okay, I'm going to have some trees planted when the 333 00:18:07.640 --> 00:18:11.839 Kingwood Garden Club has their Trees Sail in November. I'll 334 00:18:11.839 --> 00:18:15.279 buy some gonna put where they'll shade them. The other 335 00:18:15.359 --> 00:18:18.200 thing I wanted to talk to you because I've watched 336 00:18:18.279 --> 00:18:21.279 you told me about the power point you did about 337 00:18:21.359 --> 00:18:24.000 composting for kids. 338 00:18:25.279 --> 00:18:25.960 Why don't you. 339 00:18:26.000 --> 00:18:31.160 Think about, yeah, doing a children's hour once or twice 340 00:18:31.200 --> 00:18:36.480 a month on garden line and parents get parents get 341 00:18:36.519 --> 00:18:37.680 their grandchildren. 342 00:18:38.400 --> 00:18:38.640 You know. 343 00:18:38.759 --> 00:18:42.599 I bring my neighbors kids over because the parents won't 344 00:18:42.640 --> 00:18:48.240 listen to you, and fix some pancakes and then you 345 00:18:48.319 --> 00:18:51.400 can do some like the power points, you know, because 346 00:18:51.440 --> 00:18:56.559 everybody's got a laptop, computer, you know, tablet, and you 347 00:18:56.599 --> 00:18:58.759 know that you can see stuff. 348 00:19:00.079 --> 00:19:02.640 Yeah, I don't know. I don't know about that, but 349 00:19:02.640 --> 00:19:05.240 but that's a good that's a fun thought. Uh yeah, 350 00:19:05.400 --> 00:19:09.839 My my composting for kids PowerPoint thing is online at 351 00:19:09.880 --> 00:19:11.960 the Aggie Horticulture website. You just have to do a 352 00:19:12.000 --> 00:19:15.640 search for composting four kids and put my name in there. 353 00:19:15.680 --> 00:19:16.279 Skip Richter. 354 00:19:16.759 --> 00:19:21.240 Yeah, I've done by the way I've done it. The 355 00:19:21.359 --> 00:19:24.759 kids would love to dig those trenches and put the 356 00:19:24.839 --> 00:19:25.519 leads down. 357 00:19:25.720 --> 00:19:27.960 And what kid wouldn't learn to do that? 358 00:19:28.960 --> 00:19:31.720 Yeah, you gotta have to play in the dirt. That's right. Well, 359 00:19:31.799 --> 00:19:34.200 let me tell you another thing. There there is a 360 00:19:35.720 --> 00:19:39.160 some really good youth gardening stuff at the Aggie Horticulture 361 00:19:39.440 --> 00:19:45.640 website that the that if anybody goes there, oh my gosh, 362 00:19:45.759 --> 00:19:49.559 they have a ton of really really good stuff. 363 00:19:50.079 --> 00:19:50.240 Uh. 364 00:19:50.279 --> 00:19:53.200 And I would I would recommend that. I've I've worked 365 00:19:53.240 --> 00:19:56.599 on their youth with them on their youth programs a 366 00:19:56.759 --> 00:20:00.599 number of times. And it's it's top not it really 367 00:20:00.759 --> 00:20:04.839 is called. It's called j MG Junior Master Gardener j MG. 368 00:20:05.200 --> 00:20:07.839 Oh okay, god. 369 00:20:07.039 --> 00:20:10.279 Aggie Horticulture. There's a whole section, and there is a 370 00:20:10.599 --> 00:20:13.920 there's curriculums for teachers, you know if at homeschool or 371 00:20:14.200 --> 00:20:18.759 public school uses those both uh and lots of good stuff. 372 00:20:18.759 --> 00:20:20.839 So anybody wanted to gardening with kids, I would just 373 00:20:20.880 --> 00:20:23.920 start by going to the Junior Master Garden. The website's easy. 374 00:20:23.920 --> 00:20:28.680 It's j MG kids dot U s J do that. 375 00:20:29.720 --> 00:20:33.880 And you once said something and you had the dean 376 00:20:34.119 --> 00:20:34.440 of the. 377 00:20:34.400 --> 00:20:37.720 Horticultural school on yes. 378 00:20:37.559 --> 00:20:41.440 Man, the Horticultural school they only have about thirty students 379 00:20:41.839 --> 00:20:43.839 and basically if you go to A and M and 380 00:20:43.920 --> 00:20:45.799 go into that you get a full ride. 381 00:20:46.759 --> 00:20:49.480 And I checked, well, there's not there's more than thirty. 382 00:20:49.880 --> 00:20:52.480 There's way more than thirty students todaymore. 383 00:20:52.079 --> 00:20:56.160 Okay, okay, because I checked it out that. 384 00:20:59.160 --> 00:21:01.759 I'm hearing in my I'm here in my ear that 385 00:21:01.799 --> 00:21:03.519 I got to take a break for the news. For 386 00:21:03.559 --> 00:21:05.000 the news, I'm gonna have to run. I'm sorry I 387 00:21:05.079 --> 00:21:07.519 have to cut us off, but I'm up against a heartbreak. 388 00:21:07.559 --> 00:21:09.720 Thank you so much for your call, though I appreciate that. 389 00:21:09.759 --> 00:21:10.519 Thank you. 390 00:21:11.680 --> 00:21:16.960 Bye bye the cow. Not a little bit of yodling 391 00:21:17.079 --> 00:21:18.680 music this morning. You can thank me later. 392 00:21:20.559 --> 00:21:28.640 I want to be a Canbu site live the best audiari. 393 00:21:30.720 --> 00:21:33.759 All right, folks, welcome back to garden Line. Getting a 394 00:21:33.759 --> 00:21:38.039 little smooth start this morning before we play some weird stuff. 395 00:21:38.079 --> 00:21:40.119 By the way, stay tuned. I got some weird stuff 396 00:21:40.160 --> 00:21:42.960 coming up later. Thanks for being a listener to garden Line. 397 00:21:42.960 --> 00:21:46.160 We're glad to have you here with us today. If 398 00:21:46.160 --> 00:21:48.640 you've been out to in Channa Gardens recently, they're in 399 00:21:48.839 --> 00:21:52.079 Richmond on the Katie fullsher Side. It's up on FM 400 00:21:52.319 --> 00:21:55.640 three nine f three fifty nine, just north of Richmond. 401 00:21:56.240 --> 00:21:58.880 H In Channa Gardens is the kind of place you 402 00:21:58.960 --> 00:22:03.119 go just you could go there just to see right now, 403 00:22:03.240 --> 00:22:06.000 I'm just to see what they have because it is 404 00:22:06.160 --> 00:22:09.440 so cool. There is like the Pumpkin House, but just 405 00:22:09.519 --> 00:22:12.759 wall of pumpkins on a building. Go see it. You'll 406 00:22:12.759 --> 00:22:15.319 see what I'm talking about. There's things for photo shop 407 00:22:15.519 --> 00:22:18.039 or a field photoshop, photo taking with kids. You need 408 00:22:18.039 --> 00:22:19.720 to get your picture made by the Pumpkin House. There's 409 00:22:19.720 --> 00:22:21.480 a big old butterfly that you stand in front of. 410 00:22:21.559 --> 00:22:24.119 It looks like you got the wings. Kids are gonna 411 00:22:24.200 --> 00:22:27.000 like that kind of stuff. And then there's always plenty 412 00:22:27.039 --> 00:22:30.200 of things to do and purchase there. Right now, the 413 00:22:30.240 --> 00:22:35.039 fall color is unbe believable. You want, you want snap dragons, 414 00:22:35.119 --> 00:22:38.279 you want crotons, you want I mean, what are you 415 00:22:38.319 --> 00:22:41.440 looking for in the fall? It is? It is there 416 00:22:42.319 --> 00:22:45.079 at in Chanda Gardens and Chanted Gardens is the kind 417 00:22:45.079 --> 00:22:47.039 of place where you're gonna get good advice because they 418 00:22:47.079 --> 00:22:49.839 have trained people that know what they're talking about. And 419 00:22:49.880 --> 00:22:52.240 it's expensive. Grab a friend or tooth, throw them in 420 00:22:52.279 --> 00:22:56.359 the car. Head out there. If you're already in Richmond Rosenberg, congratulations, 421 00:22:56.799 --> 00:23:00.839 that's a great place. You're gonna find everything you need 422 00:23:00.920 --> 00:23:03.200 and you're going to really really enjoy your trip to 423 00:23:03.359 --> 00:23:06.240 They just make it fun. Their shops are cool, that 424 00:23:06.519 --> 00:23:12.119 the containers that they have are just outstanding, outstanding containers, 425 00:23:12.279 --> 00:23:15.480 really whimsicle. If you're looking for a gift for somebody 426 00:23:15.640 --> 00:23:18.640 through this holiday season, you're going to visit somebody, grab 427 00:23:18.720 --> 00:23:20.759 something from a Chenna garden to take it with you. 428 00:23:21.319 --> 00:23:23.519 But just know this that no matter what season you 429 00:23:23.559 --> 00:23:26.599 go out there, you're going to find the widest selection 430 00:23:26.680 --> 00:23:28.920 of all kinds of things. You're going to find any place. 431 00:23:29.079 --> 00:23:31.960 It is an outstanding place in Chenna gardens. Adam Richmond 432 00:23:32.039 --> 00:23:35.480 Rosenberg on three fifty nine FM three fifty nine just 433 00:23:35.759 --> 00:23:40.119 north of the of Richmond. What let's head out to 434 00:23:40.160 --> 00:23:42.440 the phones here. We're going to go to northwest Houston 435 00:23:42.480 --> 00:23:46.000 and talk to Paula. Hello, Paula, Welcome to garden Line. 436 00:23:46.279 --> 00:23:47.359 Thank you very much. 437 00:23:48.039 --> 00:23:53.359 Listen. I have three large spicebush plants that I had 438 00:23:53.440 --> 00:23:59.039 to attract spotsbush small tailed butterflies, and I bought I 439 00:23:59.079 --> 00:24:02.799 bought two all aer ones last spring because I wanted 440 00:24:02.799 --> 00:24:05.400 to do I don't know that for some reason, the 441 00:24:05.480 --> 00:24:09.079 spice this caterpillars must taste really good because they had 442 00:24:09.200 --> 00:24:11.640 so many predators, so I like to put them in 443 00:24:11.640 --> 00:24:14.279 cages and raise them in cages. So I bought two 444 00:24:14.359 --> 00:24:18.839 smaller spice bitch plants last spring, and they ended up 445 00:24:18.920 --> 00:24:22.640 dying in the pots. Before they even you know, grew 446 00:24:22.839 --> 00:24:28.680 very much and so with in Buchanan's last Friday, and 447 00:24:28.720 --> 00:24:31.640 they had some beautiful spice besh plants, so I bought 448 00:24:31.680 --> 00:24:36.160 some more. So my question is how long should I 449 00:24:36.279 --> 00:24:39.720 keep them in their original containers? And then when I 450 00:24:39.880 --> 00:24:44.200 do RePOP them, what is the best kind of potting 451 00:24:44.240 --> 00:24:47.279 full to use? Because I mean I'm going to be 452 00:24:47.319 --> 00:24:50.720 putting them in cages, you know for the cats. 453 00:24:53.039 --> 00:24:54.880 Yeah, there's no need to keep them in their containing 454 00:24:54.880 --> 00:24:57.559 I mean, you pot them up the day, bring them home. Uh, 455 00:24:57.640 --> 00:24:59.799 But just as you pot them up, noticed the rich 456 00:25:00.039 --> 00:25:01.920 on the outside. If they're kind of all packed on 457 00:25:01.960 --> 00:25:04.799 the outside of the pot, you can you can do 458 00:25:05.000 --> 00:25:07.680 some uh we say, teasing them apart. You know, you're 459 00:25:07.759 --> 00:25:10.599 kind of pulling them out with your fingers or with 460 00:25:10.680 --> 00:25:13.680 a little gardening car to open them up a little 461 00:25:13.680 --> 00:25:16.960 bit and then replant. If it's real packed, I would 462 00:25:16.960 --> 00:25:18.880 even cut some roots. But if you put them in 463 00:25:18.920 --> 00:25:22.079 the new container and watermen, well keep them moderately moist 464 00:25:22.119 --> 00:25:23.640 They don't want to be in a swamp, but they 465 00:25:23.640 --> 00:25:31.960 do need so moisture. Well you might have yeah, you 466 00:25:32.240 --> 00:25:36.599 absolutely might have their native from everywhere from over in 467 00:25:36.720 --> 00:25:41.640 central Texas across. They go the whole southeastern up to Oklahoma, 468 00:25:41.799 --> 00:25:43.920 all the way over to the east coast, even up 469 00:25:43.920 --> 00:25:48.200 into to Maine in Ontario. That's uh, spice bushes. It's 470 00:25:48.319 --> 00:25:53.160 got a wide area, it tolerates dry sites. Once it's established, 471 00:25:53.720 --> 00:25:57.000 can take you know a range of different conditions, which 472 00:25:57.039 --> 00:25:59.319 that wide area would would give them a range. 473 00:25:59.759 --> 00:25:59.880 Uh. 474 00:26:00.119 --> 00:26:03.680 But you know, just make sure there's drainer tolls, but 475 00:26:03.720 --> 00:26:06.400 then keep them adequately moist and they'll do good. Any 476 00:26:06.440 --> 00:26:09.559 point you put in a container is more stressed because 477 00:26:09.559 --> 00:26:13.279 its roots are confined, you know, as a nature where 478 00:26:13.279 --> 00:26:15.880 it has this wide root system, so you can grow 479 00:26:15.920 --> 00:26:18.440 them in a container. Just just keep in mind that 480 00:26:18.720 --> 00:26:21.720 you're watering and things have to be a little more regular. 481 00:26:22.960 --> 00:26:25.440 Is there any kind of soil, any specific kind of 482 00:26:25.480 --> 00:26:26.799 soil that they should. 483 00:26:26.519 --> 00:26:33.680 Have, just a good quality good quality blood well okay, okay, yeah, yeah, 484 00:26:33.759 --> 00:26:35.720 you could use you could use what they call rose 485 00:26:35.799 --> 00:26:38.920 soil around here, you know, for example, or whatever they 486 00:26:38.920 --> 00:26:43.720 grow and alkaline soils, soils they grow in both kinds 487 00:26:43.720 --> 00:26:46.559 of soils. So okay, I've got a I've got a 488 00:26:46.640 --> 00:26:49.640 run for a break here. But I hope that helps. 489 00:26:49.680 --> 00:26:51.960 And that's a great, you made a good choice. That's 490 00:26:51.960 --> 00:26:55.799 a great plant. Really is cool. Thanks, thanks a lot. 491 00:26:56.039 --> 00:27:05.480 All right, folks, I'll be right back. All right, Little 492 00:27:05.519 --> 00:27:08.960 Aretha Franklin this morning, on a good Sunday morning, Welcome 493 00:27:09.000 --> 00:27:10.839 to Guardline. Good to have you with us today. We 494 00:27:11.000 --> 00:27:14.720 are here to answer your gardening questions, whatever kinds of 495 00:27:14.799 --> 00:27:17.119 questions you might have to have a more beautiful lawn, 496 00:27:17.480 --> 00:27:21.400 more successful garden. Maybe you've never gardened before. This is 497 00:27:21.440 --> 00:27:25.440 a safe place. I say this often, but there's no 498 00:27:25.480 --> 00:27:28.160 stupid questions on garden Line. There's just stupid answer. So 499 00:27:28.200 --> 00:27:32.279 the pressure's on me. Give us a call. Seven one 500 00:27:32.359 --> 00:27:35.160 three two one two kt r H seven one three 501 00:27:35.240 --> 00:27:36.960 two two. Kid your age. I know, I know you're 502 00:27:36.960 --> 00:27:39.680 sitting there going, oh, I've heard stupid questions in life before. 503 00:27:39.720 --> 00:27:41.960 I well, okay, but we don't treat things that way. 504 00:27:42.119 --> 00:27:44.519 You know, if it's your question, if you're wondering about it, 505 00:27:44.559 --> 00:27:47.200 somebody else is too, and it's okay. We don't expect 506 00:27:47.200 --> 00:27:50.240 you to be experts here. We just expect you to 507 00:27:51.200 --> 00:27:54.000 ask me some questions. Let's help you have success. Gardening 508 00:27:54.119 --> 00:27:57.519 is the best hobby I think in the world. I'm biased, 509 00:27:57.759 --> 00:28:01.359 but that doesn't mean, I'm wrong. It is a great hobby. 510 00:28:01.400 --> 00:28:06.200 It's good physical exercise, it's good mental exercise, and the 511 00:28:06.319 --> 00:28:09.519 benefits of gardening go on and on and on, and 512 00:28:09.559 --> 00:28:13.519 I mean that I talk about this often, but if 513 00:28:13.559 --> 00:28:18.039 you're talking about senior adults struggling with dementia, gardening research 514 00:28:18.279 --> 00:28:21.880 proven huge, huge benefits. If you're talking about people that 515 00:28:21.920 --> 00:28:23.839 are trying to get out and get active but they 516 00:28:23.880 --> 00:28:27.880 can't play sports or go jogging or things, gardening is 517 00:28:27.960 --> 00:28:30.960 great exercise. I mean, we know we live sedentary lifestyles, 518 00:28:30.960 --> 00:28:32.599 and just getting up out of your chair and walking 519 00:28:32.640 --> 00:28:36.440 around over thirty minutes helps. We'll put gardening in there, 520 00:28:36.480 --> 00:28:38.680 and you've got even more of a benefit of that, 521 00:28:39.160 --> 00:28:41.759 and the peace of mind, the joy, the beauty, the hope. 522 00:28:42.160 --> 00:28:46.519 Gardeners are forever optimists because every year is going to 523 00:28:46.599 --> 00:28:49.160 be the best. When I plan a tomato, it's always 524 00:28:49.279 --> 00:28:51.920 I can already tell you how many fruit it's going 525 00:28:51.960 --> 00:28:53.799 to have and how good it's going to taste. Even 526 00:28:53.799 --> 00:28:56.839 if it's not right, I still think I know because 527 00:28:56.920 --> 00:29:00.279 I'm hopeful. That is what we do as gardeners, and 528 00:29:00.319 --> 00:29:02.880 that in and of itself, as they say, is worth 529 00:29:02.880 --> 00:29:07.519 the price of admission. Plants for All Seasons is your 530 00:29:07.599 --> 00:29:11.680 garden Center on FM two forty nine Tombo Parkway just 531 00:29:11.839 --> 00:29:15.240 north of Luata, right there on Tombo Parkway. It has 532 00:29:15.240 --> 00:29:17.480 been around since nineteen seventy three. And when you go 533 00:29:17.599 --> 00:29:19.680 in there, you're going to find all the plants of 534 00:29:19.720 --> 00:29:22.279 any season you need, like right now, fall color, yep, 535 00:29:22.319 --> 00:29:25.000 they got it. Do you need plant herbs followers for 536 00:29:25.039 --> 00:29:27.880 planting herbs, They've got it. Are you doing your fall 537 00:29:27.920 --> 00:29:30.960 fertilization of your lawn? They have a wide selection of 538 00:29:31.000 --> 00:29:33.720 the fertilizers I talk about on garden line. Do you 539 00:29:33.759 --> 00:29:36.200 need soil? Have I convinced you to fix the soil 540 00:29:36.240 --> 00:29:39.039 before you plant the plant? They have got you set 541 00:29:39.119 --> 00:29:42.119 up at Plants for All Seasons. That's the website too, 542 00:29:42.279 --> 00:29:45.359 Plants for All Seasons dot com. If you want to 543 00:29:45.359 --> 00:29:47.960 give them a call two eight one, three, seven six, 544 00:29:48.400 --> 00:29:51.039 sixteen forty six, get in there and they will help you. 545 00:29:51.079 --> 00:29:53.599 As they say, get your green on at Plants for 546 00:29:53.680 --> 00:29:58.839 All Seasons. That's true. I was talking to somebody the 547 00:29:58.880 --> 00:30:02.000 other day that had some issues where they saw cracks 548 00:30:02.039 --> 00:30:04.480 in the sheet rock of their house and then outside 549 00:30:04.480 --> 00:30:09.720 of their house on the brick call tie. That's what 550 00:30:09.759 --> 00:30:12.559 I tell people call Tie fix my slab foundation repair. 551 00:30:12.839 --> 00:30:14.559 And why do I say call Tie? I'll tell you why. 552 00:30:14.599 --> 00:30:16.160 He's been doing it for twenty three years. Here in 553 00:30:16.160 --> 00:30:20.720 the Greater Houston area. We have plenty of clay soils 554 00:30:20.720 --> 00:30:23.000 that shrink and swell as they get wet and dry 555 00:30:23.079 --> 00:30:25.880 and so on. When you see a crack, when a 556 00:30:25.960 --> 00:30:29.559 door is sticking, it's time to check into it. Tie 557 00:30:29.640 --> 00:30:33.119 will not jump to conclusions. He'll take a look at it. 558 00:30:33.200 --> 00:30:35.359 I talked to him one time about a situation. He said, 559 00:30:35.400 --> 00:30:38.319 you know what, Yes, that's movement, but it's not enough 560 00:30:38.359 --> 00:30:40.519 to worry about. Let's just keep an eye on it. 561 00:30:40.599 --> 00:30:43.319 And that's how he is an honest fellow Free estimates. 562 00:30:43.319 --> 00:30:45.240 By the way, if you tell him you're a gardenline listener, 563 00:30:45.559 --> 00:30:47.720 you got a driveway? Do you got a sidewalk that's 564 00:30:47.759 --> 00:30:51.599 heaving and cracking? Call Tie. Ty is a native Estonian, 565 00:30:51.680 --> 00:30:55.720 fifth generation Texan. He has three goals that I think 566 00:30:55.839 --> 00:30:59.440 I wish every service business in the world had, and 567 00:30:59.480 --> 00:31:03.799 that is he shows up on time, he fixes it right, 568 00:31:04.559 --> 00:31:07.799 and he charges a fair price. What more can you ask? 569 00:31:08.039 --> 00:31:12.799 Fixmislab dot com two eight one, two five, five forty 570 00:31:12.880 --> 00:31:15.119 nine forty nine. Don't delay, give him a call, have 571 00:31:15.200 --> 00:31:17.359 him look at it. He'll give you an honest assessment, 572 00:31:17.400 --> 00:31:21.000 and I really believe that he will two eight one 573 00:31:21.079 --> 00:31:24.720 two f five forty nine forty nine fix myslab dot com. 574 00:31:27.000 --> 00:31:29.880 Nobody wants to deal with foundation issues, but I'm telling you, 575 00:31:29.880 --> 00:31:32.119 putting your head in the sand doesn't make it get better. 576 00:31:32.319 --> 00:31:33.920 Let's go ahead and deal with it. Let's get a 577 00:31:33.920 --> 00:31:36.920 professional in there. Let's get some peace of mind. That 578 00:31:37.119 --> 00:31:41.839 is important. I was visiting with some of the folks 579 00:31:41.880 --> 00:31:45.440 from Microlife yesterday when I was at at Buchanan's Native Plants, 580 00:31:45.480 --> 00:31:49.160 and it just reminded me of the wide variety of 581 00:31:49.240 --> 00:31:52.640 products that Microlife has out there on the market. And 582 00:31:52.960 --> 00:31:55.200 they do. You know, we talk about the green fertilizer 583 00:31:55.240 --> 00:31:58.079 all summer, the six two four green bag, green fertilizer, 584 00:31:58.160 --> 00:32:02.680 green bag. In the fall we switch to the fall 585 00:32:02.720 --> 00:32:07.160 fertilizer and it's called Microlife brown Patch because brown patch 586 00:32:07.200 --> 00:32:11.200 occurs mostly in the fall. It can occur in the 587 00:32:11.240 --> 00:32:13.480 winter and a mile see part of the season. It 588 00:32:13.519 --> 00:32:16.440 can occur in the spring as well, but Microlife brown 589 00:32:16.440 --> 00:32:18.880 Patch is your fall fertilizer. If you go to my 590 00:32:18.960 --> 00:32:22.799 gardening schedule at gardening with skip dot com. My lawn schedule. 591 00:32:22.839 --> 00:32:25.680 Excuse me, my lawn schedule gardening with skip dot com. 592 00:32:25.960 --> 00:32:29.519 You'll see the microlife of brown patch on there. You 593 00:32:29.559 --> 00:32:31.240 need to get that down now, and you need to 594 00:32:31.279 --> 00:32:36.000 water it in because it's loaded with microbes that help 595 00:32:36.480 --> 00:32:39.720 populate the surfaces of your grass plant to make it 596 00:32:39.759 --> 00:32:44.160 a more hosp inhospitable place for something like a brown 597 00:32:44.240 --> 00:32:48.200 patch spore. Take all root rot things like that to infect. Now, 598 00:32:48.640 --> 00:32:54.240 microgrow bianoculant. Is there burgundy or maroon bag that is 599 00:32:54.599 --> 00:32:58.359 loaded with sixty three different strains of microbes, a lot 600 00:32:58.400 --> 00:33:01.759 of beneficial. There's microbes in there that produce antibiotics to 601 00:33:01.799 --> 00:33:05.039 help fight disease. There's microbes in there that work with 602 00:33:05.279 --> 00:33:08.680 plant roots to enhance the growth of the plant and 603 00:33:08.759 --> 00:33:11.519 the disease resistant. Did you know that there are microbes 604 00:33:11.880 --> 00:33:14.160 that make a plant more disease resistant? 605 00:33:14.920 --> 00:33:15.079 Here? 606 00:33:15.440 --> 00:33:18.599 Okay, for all you horticultural Cliff clavens s ja'll ever 607 00:33:18.680 --> 00:33:21.839 watch cheers. Yeah, you know Cliff Claven the middlement, Well, 608 00:33:21.920 --> 00:33:24.960 you can become the horticultural Cliff Claven. Just write this down. 609 00:33:25.359 --> 00:33:32.160 Basillis amelolycopations because on type yeah, we have BT for caterpillars. Right, 610 00:33:33.079 --> 00:33:36.240 we have basillis amelo licopations. It gets on the roots 611 00:33:36.240 --> 00:33:38.519 of plants. It gets on the plants, and it causes 612 00:33:38.559 --> 00:33:41.559 the plants to grow differently in a way that helps 613 00:33:41.559 --> 00:33:46.359 fight disease. Isn't that cool? Well, sixty three different strains 614 00:33:46.400 --> 00:33:51.000 I just named one right there of basillis and other 615 00:33:51.240 --> 00:33:55.079 good microbes. In micro grow bioanoculant, I would do both. 616 00:33:55.160 --> 00:33:58.680 I do the fertilization with brown patch and micro like 617 00:33:58.720 --> 00:34:01.119 brown patch, and then I do the bio ooculant. I 618 00:34:01.160 --> 00:34:03.480 think that you will find that to be very helpful 619 00:34:03.519 --> 00:34:06.000 for your long especially those of you wanting to garden 620 00:34:06.119 --> 00:34:08.880 organically and wanting to help suppress some of the issues 621 00:34:08.880 --> 00:34:12.119 that we do have here with diseases in our area. 622 00:34:14.440 --> 00:34:16.760 You are listening to Guarden Line, We're coming out pretty 623 00:34:16.760 --> 00:34:19.639 close here on a little break, and if you'd like 624 00:34:19.679 --> 00:34:21.800 to give us a call, our phone number is seven 625 00:34:21.840 --> 00:34:25.960 one three two one two k t r H. Seven 626 00:34:26.159 --> 00:34:30.159 one three two one two k t r H. If 627 00:34:30.199 --> 00:34:32.599 you get on the boards and we're not able to 628 00:34:32.599 --> 00:34:34.480 come to you'll be first up when we come back. 629 00:34:35.199 --> 00:34:37.280 But I would like to try to help with the 630 00:34:37.360 --> 00:34:40.079 kinds of questions that you do have, and I know 631 00:34:40.199 --> 00:34:43.840 I get by yesterday, I think I answered so many 632 00:34:43.920 --> 00:34:47.320 questions my brain turned to jello and kind of flowed 633 00:34:47.320 --> 00:34:49.800 out my ears. It was it was a great I 634 00:34:49.880 --> 00:34:52.679 love doing that. I love talking to gardeners and helping 635 00:34:52.679 --> 00:34:55.519 them have success because I know that when I give 636 00:34:55.559 --> 00:34:58.519 you a good answer to a question, one based on research, 637 00:34:58.599 --> 00:35:03.159 one based on my personal experience, that you can have success. 638 00:35:03.199 --> 00:35:05.559 The thing that breaks my heart most is to talk 639 00:35:05.599 --> 00:35:07.800 to a gardener who says things like, yeah, I just 640 00:35:07.840 --> 00:35:10.559 have a brown thumb, or I tried to grow gardening 641 00:35:10.639 --> 00:35:14.320 once and I just killed everything. Okay, you got to 642 00:35:14.400 --> 00:35:16.239 kill a lot of plants to be a good gardener. 643 00:35:16.480 --> 00:35:19.320 Just accept that. That's okay, you can do that. We 644 00:35:19.400 --> 00:35:22.320 can help you get better and have more success because 645 00:35:22.400 --> 00:35:25.599 gardening is fun and you don't have a brown thumb. 646 00:35:25.639 --> 00:35:28.559 I promise you you do not. You may have an 647 00:35:28.639 --> 00:35:32.400 uninformed thumb, and we know how to inform your thumbs. 648 00:35:32.519 --> 00:35:36.719 When your thumb gets smarter, it turns green. I'm just 649 00:35:36.760 --> 00:35:40.199 saying that's kind of how that works. It really and 650 00:35:40.239 --> 00:35:43.880 it really really does work. We're about to take a 651 00:35:43.880 --> 00:35:47.159 little break here. I can hear some music playing here 652 00:35:47.159 --> 00:35:50.639 in the background, So just a fun fact as we're 653 00:35:50.679 --> 00:35:55.559 heading out. Guess what happens next weekend. I'm going to 654 00:35:55.639 --> 00:35:59.639 be at Are you ready for this Nature's Way Resources 655 00:36:00.159 --> 00:36:03.559 up toward Conrod, Texas. Nature's Way is a place you 656 00:36:03.639 --> 00:36:08.360 go for high quality, high quality soil products. You want 657 00:36:08.360 --> 00:36:10.719 to make your soil good, to make your plants good, 658 00:36:10.760 --> 00:36:13.119 to make you look like you have a green thumb. Yes, 659 00:36:13.599 --> 00:36:16.320 Nature's Way Resource. I'm gonna be there there having their fallfest. 660 00:36:16.440 --> 00:36:20.039 It is one heck of a shin dig it is. 661 00:36:20.280 --> 00:36:22.639 They got bands, they got music, and food and all 662 00:36:22.719 --> 00:36:25.519 kinds of stuff for kids. It's gonna be a blast. 663 00:36:25.559 --> 00:36:29.440 I'll be there answering your gardening questions from eleven thirty 664 00:36:29.480 --> 00:36:33.039 to one thirty at Nature's Way Resources up Interstate forty 665 00:36:33.039 --> 00:36:36.679 five out where fourteen eighty eight comes in from Magnolia. 666 00:36:36.719 --> 00:36:38.239 I'll tell you more about that a little bit later 667 00:36:38.280 --> 00:36:38.760 this morning. 668 00:36:41.320 --> 00:36:45.159 Welcome to kt RH Garden Line with Scamp Rickard. 669 00:36:45.199 --> 00:36:56.239 It's just watch him as the world God. 670 00:37:00.280 --> 00:37:11.039 What so many a sign? 671 00:37:17.440 --> 00:37:20.360 Well, Hello, well, hello, welcome back. We are glad you're 672 00:37:20.400 --> 00:37:23.000 with us today. We got a lot to talk about. 673 00:37:23.079 --> 00:37:25.360 That's what we do here. On Guardline, we answer gardening 674 00:37:25.440 --> 00:37:27.239 questions and talk to you. What do you want to 675 00:37:27.320 --> 00:37:30.039 visit about? You tell me give us a call seven 676 00:37:30.039 --> 00:37:32.800 to one three two one two k t r H 677 00:37:32.880 --> 00:37:36.800 seven one three two one two k t r H. 678 00:37:36.840 --> 00:37:39.199 If you want to have success with your plants, you 679 00:37:39.360 --> 00:37:41.559 need to make those plants happy from the time they 680 00:37:41.599 --> 00:37:44.159 are roots hit the ground, and that means getting the 681 00:37:44.239 --> 00:37:48.880 soil right. If you're going to grow something like shrubs 682 00:37:48.960 --> 00:37:53.840 and and uh perennials and flowers and vegetables and herbs 683 00:37:53.880 --> 00:37:55.800 and all the things you'd want a plant, you got 684 00:37:55.800 --> 00:37:57.960 to have good soil to put them in. For example, 685 00:37:58.360 --> 00:38:02.320 Landscapeer's Pride they have a two dozen different kinds of 686 00:38:02.360 --> 00:38:06.519 blends of soils and mulches and things. Their planting mix 687 00:38:06.800 --> 00:38:10.320 is a blend of locally sourced pine bark, sandy loam, 688 00:38:10.400 --> 00:38:14.760 soil and organics, various types of decomposed organic materials, which 689 00:38:14.920 --> 00:38:17.679 just creates a root zone where plants can thrive. It 690 00:38:17.719 --> 00:38:21.280 is high quality stuff they're planting mixed from landscapers Pride. 691 00:38:21.320 --> 00:38:24.519 Now they also got something called compost Peat. It's made 692 00:38:24.519 --> 00:38:29.119 from locally sourced pine excellent soil additive. It helps with 693 00:38:29.199 --> 00:38:31.760 the structure in the soil, and that's important because that 694 00:38:31.800 --> 00:38:34.960 helps with internal drainage and getting oxygen in the roots. 695 00:38:35.039 --> 00:38:38.880 Roots have to have oxygen to thrive. It does it 696 00:38:39.159 --> 00:38:41.000 very very well. Now on top of the ground, you 697 00:38:41.039 --> 00:38:43.559 always want to have a mulch, and their black velvet 698 00:38:44.199 --> 00:38:46.960 is probably the prettiest maults you're going to see. It 699 00:38:47.039 --> 00:38:51.400 is not dyed. It is naturally just dark, soft, rich, 700 00:38:51.519 --> 00:38:56.039 velvety color material. It keeps the soil cooler in the summer, 701 00:38:56.119 --> 00:38:59.400 which is a deal. It keeps a moderate soel temperature 702 00:38:59.400 --> 00:39:01.840 in winter too, for that matter. But it blocks the 703 00:39:01.880 --> 00:39:05.519 sunlight and when sunlight can't hit the soil, read seats 704 00:39:05.559 --> 00:39:08.119 can't get started. And maltz takes a lot of the 705 00:39:08.159 --> 00:39:10.280 workout of things for you. Plus it just makes the 706 00:39:10.360 --> 00:39:14.960 place prettier. Also about maltz, it decomposes over time. So 707 00:39:15.239 --> 00:39:17.920 when you use black velvet after a while, if it's 708 00:39:17.920 --> 00:39:20.360 getting a little thinner, it's decomposing. Away. Put some more 709 00:39:20.400 --> 00:39:23.239 black velvet on top of it. Don't take the old away. 710 00:39:23.320 --> 00:39:26.360 The old is just getting to become good soil building stuff. 711 00:39:26.400 --> 00:39:28.519 Now throw some more on top and you do. Just 712 00:39:28.559 --> 00:39:32.320 find Landscaperspride dot Com is a website for all those products. 713 00:39:32.639 --> 00:39:35.840 As they say, with Landscaper's Pride, let's grow together, and 714 00:39:35.880 --> 00:39:38.880 you're going to find their products all over the greater 715 00:39:38.960 --> 00:39:42.559 Houston area. When I talk about garden centers and feed 716 00:39:42.599 --> 00:39:46.400 stores and ace hardware stores and Southwest Fertilizer, those are 717 00:39:46.440 --> 00:39:49.280 all the kinds of places where you find Landscaper's Pride 718 00:39:49.280 --> 00:39:55.000 products and they're widely available. Someone had asked me about 719 00:39:56.320 --> 00:40:00.440 fall fertilizer. What is fall fertilizer? What is fallfuri? What 720 00:40:00.519 --> 00:40:06.000 fall fertilizer is is it's basically a higher potassium a 721 00:40:06.039 --> 00:40:09.760 little bit lower nitrogen level fertilizer than we use in 722 00:40:09.800 --> 00:40:13.199 the summertime, and it's to help the plant build cold 723 00:40:13.199 --> 00:40:18.079 hardiness going into fall. That is very important. Now we 724 00:40:18.119 --> 00:40:20.360 don't need to push with nitrogen, but we need some 725 00:40:20.599 --> 00:40:24.400 nitrogen in the fall. So there is nitrogen in fall fertilizer. 726 00:40:24.880 --> 00:40:28.280 It's taken up with the potassium to create in the 727 00:40:28.320 --> 00:40:33.440 plant with sunlight carbohydrates that make winter hardiness and put 728 00:40:33.440 --> 00:40:35.800 the energy in the plant. So coming out in the 729 00:40:35.840 --> 00:40:38.159 fall when the root system in this coming out of 730 00:40:38.199 --> 00:40:41.280 the fall, when the root system in spring is not 731 00:40:41.400 --> 00:40:45.559 taking off early enough to really create that early growth spurt. 732 00:40:45.800 --> 00:40:48.639 It's using stored energy to do that, and that's exactly 733 00:40:48.639 --> 00:40:52.119 what faull fertilizers do. That's why on my schedule there 734 00:40:52.119 --> 00:40:55.280 are fertilizers for spring and summer, and then there's fertilizers 735 00:40:55.519 --> 00:40:57.199 for the fall. And that's why we go with a 736 00:40:57.199 --> 00:41:01.119 different blend. And that's why our quality fertilizer manufactur choose 737 00:41:01.159 --> 00:41:04.199 a different blend based on turf grass science and research 738 00:41:04.760 --> 00:41:07.119 for what's best for your lawn in the fall, and 739 00:41:07.159 --> 00:41:10.360 that is a fall type fertilizer. Some people call them 740 00:41:10.440 --> 00:41:13.280 win arisers. You can do that if you want fall 741 00:41:13.599 --> 00:41:16.280 type fertilizer. Look at my schedule guarding with skip dot 742 00:41:16.280 --> 00:41:20.639 com and you'll find out more about them there. I 743 00:41:25.280 --> 00:41:30.960 recently I was looking at a listing of mascots. Mascots, yeah, 744 00:41:31.280 --> 00:41:35.639 high school mascots. And you know, mascots are supposed to 745 00:41:35.679 --> 00:41:40.199 be some formidable thing, like the hornets. You know they're 746 00:41:40.199 --> 00:41:43.320 going to attack you and the wildcats that are going 747 00:41:43.400 --> 00:41:45.519 to eat you up and stuff. I want to tell 748 00:41:45.519 --> 00:41:47.960 you about a few of the mascots that I found 749 00:41:48.280 --> 00:41:54.800 across the country. The snails. The snails. Now, doesn't that 750 00:41:54.840 --> 00:41:57.320 strike terror in your heart? That you're going to go 751 00:41:57.440 --> 00:42:01.639 up against the snails. There's an the one. There's another 752 00:42:01.679 --> 00:42:04.039 one in Key West, Florida. The conks. Yeah, all that 753 00:42:04.159 --> 00:42:07.480 is is a saltwater snail underground. What are you gonna do? 754 00:42:07.679 --> 00:42:09.960 Slime them snails? I'd like to hear the fight song 755 00:42:10.000 --> 00:42:12.400 for that. Anyway. Hey, if any of you are from 756 00:42:12.480 --> 00:42:16.239 these places, my apologies, but really, you gotta you gotta 757 00:42:16.280 --> 00:42:20.039 work on your mascots. How about the mighty bunnies from Omaha, 758 00:42:20.119 --> 00:42:24.519 Nebraska eat their vegetable garden bunnies, go go go? What 759 00:42:24.639 --> 00:42:25.239 I come on? 760 00:42:25.360 --> 00:42:25.559 Man? 761 00:42:26.320 --> 00:42:29.679 Okay, let's let's let's uh, let's be fair here. How 762 00:42:29.679 --> 00:42:32.480 about some horticultural mascots. Well, but no, first I have 763 00:42:32.599 --> 00:42:36.599 to do an insect mascot. The crickets, the Fall Creek, 764 00:42:36.639 --> 00:42:40.320 Wisconsin crickets. What is the fight song? What is the chant? 765 00:42:41.440 --> 00:42:44.039 Make noise and keep them up all night? Crickets? I 766 00:42:44.320 --> 00:42:52.519 don't know. Okay, horticulture. The beat diggers from Sandy, Utah. 767 00:42:52.679 --> 00:42:55.320 Now there's one I can get behind, you know, help 768 00:42:55.360 --> 00:42:59.440 them garden. How about this the dustin California tillers. That's 769 00:42:59.480 --> 00:43:04.360 based on the farming community around Historically, the farming community 770 00:43:04.400 --> 00:43:07.800 they're on tusk in California. The tillers break up their soil, 771 00:43:08.000 --> 00:43:10.920 you know, dig up the weeds. I don't know, we 772 00:43:11.039 --> 00:43:13.639 need to work on that anyway, since it's football season. 773 00:43:13.679 --> 00:43:15.960 I thought you might get a kick out of that. 774 00:43:16.519 --> 00:43:18.320 Or it's just me. You know what do they say? 775 00:43:18.360 --> 00:43:22.360 Simple pleasure, simple minds. You're listening to garden Line the 776 00:43:22.360 --> 00:43:26.360 phone number seven one three two one two kt RH 777 00:43:26.400 --> 00:43:28.960 to give us a call. Spare your friends these bad jokes. 778 00:43:30.039 --> 00:43:35.079 Nelson plant Food has the fall fertilizer that will do 779 00:43:35.239 --> 00:43:38.760 two things in your lawn. Number one, it will provide 780 00:43:38.840 --> 00:43:42.320 the nutrients like I was just describing, little less nitrogen, 781 00:43:42.440 --> 00:43:45.800 little more potassium to get that plant ready to go. 782 00:43:45.840 --> 00:43:50.599 It's called carbo load because it helps your plant produce carbohydrates, 783 00:43:50.599 --> 00:43:54.280 which is winter hardiness and spring growth. That's what carbohydrates do. 784 00:43:54.679 --> 00:43:57.760 That's why sunlight shines on green leaves, and plants make 785 00:43:57.800 --> 00:44:01.719 carbohydrates for supporting that growth. Now, carbo load also has 786 00:44:01.840 --> 00:44:03.920 a pre emergent herbicide in it. You put it down, 787 00:44:03.960 --> 00:44:06.360 you watered in. You gotta water it in. Anytime you're 788 00:44:06.400 --> 00:44:09.280 doing fertilizers and pre emergent herbicides, you need get a 789 00:44:09.320 --> 00:44:11.440 little water on them, about a half inch or so, 790 00:44:11.559 --> 00:44:14.159 could be a little more, and move that down into 791 00:44:14.199 --> 00:44:17.480 the soil and that's where it does its work. Also, 792 00:44:17.719 --> 00:44:21.039 because carbo load has the pre emergent, don't delay on 793 00:44:21.159 --> 00:44:25.280 my schedule for fall fertilizers. You will see that the 794 00:44:25.320 --> 00:44:27.039 month of October is a good time to put those 795 00:44:27.079 --> 00:44:33.079 down as well as for weed prevention. But you won't 796 00:44:33.159 --> 00:44:35.400 do it sooner rather than later. Those things last a 797 00:44:35.440 --> 00:44:38.559 while in the soil, and if you wait until we 798 00:44:38.639 --> 00:44:41.119 get a call front, some rain and the weed sprout, well, 799 00:44:41.199 --> 00:44:43.800 now you're not needing a pre emergent, You're needing a 800 00:44:43.880 --> 00:44:47.920 post emergent fertilizer or herbicide. So carbo load, I'd get 801 00:44:47.920 --> 00:44:51.079 that done the next week or two. I'd do it 802 00:44:51.119 --> 00:44:54.280 in this week if I were you, Just to head 803 00:44:54.320 --> 00:44:57.360 your bet and get ahead of things. Because the analogy 804 00:44:57.400 --> 00:45:00.639 I use for fall disease in the garden fall weed 805 00:45:01.000 --> 00:45:05.639 control in the garden is baseball. You swing. You start 806 00:45:05.679 --> 00:45:09.039 your swing before the ball gets to the plate. If 807 00:45:09.079 --> 00:45:11.079 you wait until it's in the catcher's mitt to start 808 00:45:11.119 --> 00:45:13.159 your swing, you're never going to hit the ball. Right. 809 00:45:14.039 --> 00:45:16.119 Let's just put it this way. The ball is on 810 00:45:16.199 --> 00:45:18.880 the way for lawn weeds, and the ball is on 811 00:45:18.960 --> 00:45:23.760 the way already for the lawn diseases, and just you 812 00:45:23.840 --> 00:45:25.880 need to get out there, get ahead of it so 813 00:45:25.960 --> 00:45:29.119 that when they finally arrive and it's just around the corner, 814 00:45:29.440 --> 00:45:32.440 you're ready to go. And Nelson carbo Load can do 815 00:45:32.480 --> 00:45:35.440 you just that. And they're available widely all over the area. 816 00:45:35.679 --> 00:45:38.440 Let's go now to north west Houston. We're going to 817 00:45:38.480 --> 00:45:41.840 talk to Ralph. Good morning, Ralph, good morning. 818 00:45:41.880 --> 00:45:43.960 It is a good of a morning. Help and walk 819 00:45:44.039 --> 00:45:46.559 and you know, help me this old and all that. Anyway, 820 00:45:46.599 --> 00:45:50.480 my garden needs help too. So I need to put 821 00:45:50.519 --> 00:45:53.280 down a top saw on our guard cause the last 822 00:45:53.360 --> 00:45:57.119 year I just planted and this just didn't do right. No, 823 00:45:57.480 --> 00:46:00.280 so I need to really add some to it, like 824 00:46:00.360 --> 00:46:02.519 your c whatever you say. 825 00:46:03.679 --> 00:46:06.440 Yeah, what kind of do you have? Is it is 826 00:46:06.480 --> 00:46:08.519 your soil of clay or sand or what kind of 827 00:46:08.519 --> 00:46:09.039 soil do you have? 828 00:46:10.440 --> 00:46:16.360 It's bit noise, it's pretty, it's don't know it it's 829 00:46:16.400 --> 00:46:20.000 not sand. Is whole clay work like the front yard. 830 00:46:20.679 --> 00:46:21.079 I got it. 831 00:46:21.719 --> 00:46:24.760 It's really by front yard too. If I haven't grass 832 00:46:24.840 --> 00:46:28.000 won't even growing that whrse stuff. Well it's got hard 833 00:46:28.079 --> 00:46:30.639 this year, and I told you it's like growing. 834 00:46:32.000 --> 00:46:34.960 Yeah, Ralph, I would. I would get a compost material 835 00:46:34.960 --> 00:46:37.239 to put on your garden. Any kind of a decomposed 836 00:46:37.360 --> 00:46:39.760 organic matter compost. If you want to get a veggie, 837 00:46:39.760 --> 00:46:42.079 a nerd mix, that would be good. Put about two 838 00:46:42.119 --> 00:46:44.480 inches of compost out there, mix it into your garden. 839 00:46:44.519 --> 00:46:46.280 You may have to wet the soil a little a 840 00:46:46.480 --> 00:46:48.320 day or two ahead of time so that you can 841 00:46:48.440 --> 00:46:51.360 mix it in. But always, every time you get a chance, 842 00:46:51.440 --> 00:46:53.960 mix some compost into your garden soil. And I think 843 00:46:54.000 --> 00:46:55.639 that's going to do a world of good for you. 844 00:46:55.880 --> 00:46:59.719 All right, Okay, that's what I need you to do. Yes, 845 00:47:00.679 --> 00:47:02.400 you bet well. They're telling me I got to go 846 00:47:02.480 --> 00:47:05.639 to a break. Okay, they're telling me I got to 847 00:47:05.639 --> 00:47:08.239 go to a break. Thank you for the call, Ralph. 848 00:47:08.320 --> 00:47:16.840 Take care. I'll be right back. Folks. Just consider this 849 00:47:16.960 --> 00:47:20.840 your moment is zen. You can thank me later. 850 00:47:24.480 --> 00:47:24.719 Sorry. 851 00:47:24.760 --> 00:47:27.960 Everybody that's ever heard yodling chickens, raise your hand. That's 852 00:47:28.000 --> 00:47:31.639 what I thought. That's what I Welcome back to garden Line. Hey, 853 00:47:31.639 --> 00:47:33.079 we try to have a little bit of fun at 854 00:47:33.159 --> 00:47:38.440 least keep you on your toeser here. So yeah, send 855 00:47:38.480 --> 00:47:41.280 money if you don't ever want to hear that again, 856 00:47:41.679 --> 00:47:44.320 I'll be happy to be paid hush money for the 857 00:47:44.400 --> 00:47:48.320 yodling chickens. Oh gosh, our phone number seven one three 858 00:47:48.519 --> 00:47:51.360 two one two k t r H. Seven one three 859 00:47:51.400 --> 00:47:53.239 two one two k t r H. Let's have some 860 00:47:53.280 --> 00:47:56.320 fun together today on garden Line. Lots to talk about, 861 00:47:56.400 --> 00:47:59.559 you know, when it comes to every kind of supply 862 00:47:59.599 --> 00:48:02.480 of whatever, talk about here on guard Line, from fertilizers 863 00:48:02.519 --> 00:48:06.679 to pesticides, to disease control, insect control, weed control, you 864 00:48:06.800 --> 00:48:09.960 name it. Southwest Fertilizer has got it all and then 865 00:48:10.039 --> 00:48:13.159 some They stay so on top of things. When any 866 00:48:13.280 --> 00:48:17.400 kind of new technology in terms of pest management comes 867 00:48:17.440 --> 00:48:20.119 onto the market, they've got it. They just do. That's 868 00:48:20.159 --> 00:48:23.159 how Bob is there. Southwest been doing it since nineteen 869 00:48:23.199 --> 00:48:26.559 fifty five at Southwest Fertilizer, and they're still the place. 870 00:48:26.599 --> 00:48:29.719 People drive good distances really to go there because they 871 00:48:29.760 --> 00:48:32.079 know when they get there, they're gonna have options. They're 872 00:48:32.079 --> 00:48:33.760 gonna have people that know what they're talking about. You know, 873 00:48:33.800 --> 00:48:36.199 you walk into Southwest with a weed and you go, hey, 874 00:48:36.199 --> 00:48:38.679 what's this and how do I kill it? Or you 875 00:48:38.719 --> 00:48:40.840 take a picture of something you go is this some problem, 876 00:48:40.880 --> 00:48:42.360 and they'll say, no, that's not a problem, you don't 877 00:48:42.360 --> 00:48:44.360 need to worry about. Oh yeah, here it is, and 878 00:48:44.400 --> 00:48:46.920 they give you your options because they know their stuff. 879 00:48:47.239 --> 00:48:50.239 That's how that works. If you are organic, they have 880 00:48:50.320 --> 00:48:53.880 the largest selection of organic products pretty much anywhere you're 881 00:48:53.880 --> 00:48:57.119 going to find. If you don't care whether it's organic 882 00:48:57.199 --> 00:48:59.559 or synthetic, they've got the largest selection you're going to 883 00:48:59.599 --> 00:49:02.960 find any That's what they do. Eighty foot wall of tools, 884 00:49:03.000 --> 00:49:07.599 eighty feet of tools. My weed wiper, skips weedwiper on 885 00:49:07.639 --> 00:49:11.039 my website gardening with skip dot com. If you want 886 00:49:11.039 --> 00:49:13.079 to build one, they've got the little tool that has 887 00:49:13.079 --> 00:49:14.360 the section cops to build it with. 888 00:49:14.480 --> 00:49:14.719 There. 889 00:49:15.320 --> 00:49:18.360 That's what I'm talking about. They have everything there. We're 890 00:49:18.480 --> 00:49:21.039 entering fall, we're going to be putting that lawn mower up. 891 00:49:21.199 --> 00:49:23.559 Why not have them get that sharpened. They got a 892 00:49:23.599 --> 00:49:25.760 shop in the back. Do you need some engine repair? 893 00:49:26.039 --> 00:49:28.639 They got a shop in the back for that. Whatever 894 00:49:28.719 --> 00:49:31.599 you need is going to be there at Southwest Fertilizer. 895 00:49:32.119 --> 00:49:35.639 I have never mentioned a productor or a fertilizer that 896 00:49:35.719 --> 00:49:39.920 they already don't have there at Southwest Fertilizer. Southwest Fertilizer 897 00:49:39.960 --> 00:49:43.400 dot com. They're on the corner of Bissinet and Runwick 898 00:49:43.760 --> 00:49:46.719 in Southwest Houston. If you haven't been there, you need 899 00:49:46.760 --> 00:49:48.400 to go. And when you go, say I want to 900 00:49:48.400 --> 00:49:51.920 see your kneeling bench. One of my top five tools 901 00:49:52.079 --> 00:49:54.960 is the kneeling bench. You can sit on it, you 902 00:49:55.000 --> 00:49:57.519 can flip it over and kneel on it. The legs 903 00:49:57.559 --> 00:49:59.639 become handles to get up and down. If you're north 904 00:49:59.679 --> 00:50:03.639 of four years old, you will thank me for this tool. 905 00:50:04.039 --> 00:50:06.159 I promise you. It is wonderful. I'm talking to my 906 00:50:06.280 --> 00:50:08.719 sister the other day who I bought one for, and 907 00:50:09.480 --> 00:50:12.480 it'll change your life, it really will. It's a cool deal. 908 00:50:12.519 --> 00:50:14.920 And if you want a gift for somebody that's a gardener, 909 00:50:17.360 --> 00:50:20.360 go to Southwest grab tell Bobby you need to see 910 00:50:20.360 --> 00:50:22.760 the nailing men. Grab one of those and go home 911 00:50:22.800 --> 00:50:26.000 with it. And it is an awesome, awesome gift for you. 912 00:50:26.119 --> 00:50:28.519 In fact, I gave one to my sister who is 913 00:50:28.599 --> 00:50:30.559 older than me, a point that I love to point out. 914 00:50:31.559 --> 00:50:35.239 Uh and uh. After I gave a churist kind of 915 00:50:35.320 --> 00:50:37.320 like maybe I need one of those too, And I 916 00:50:37.400 --> 00:50:39.880 got one myself this years ago, and boy do I 917 00:50:39.920 --> 00:50:42.679 ever love that thing? All right? Well, I hope I 918 00:50:42.760 --> 00:50:46.840 convinced you, because trust me, you will like it. We're 919 00:50:46.840 --> 00:50:50.199 going to go to Spring Branch now and talk to Daisy. Hello, Daisy, 920 00:50:50.480 --> 00:50:51.440 welcome to garden Line. 921 00:50:52.880 --> 00:50:55.360 Hi, thank you. How are you today? 922 00:50:56.679 --> 00:50:57.639 I'm good, I'm good. 923 00:50:57.719 --> 00:50:58.599 How can we help today? 924 00:51:00.320 --> 00:51:01.079 Well, I'm calling. 925 00:51:01.159 --> 00:51:04.280 I've had on I guess an issue is needing to 926 00:51:04.360 --> 00:51:07.920 get some planting done in the back of the pool 927 00:51:08.039 --> 00:51:10.960 area I previously had I want to say, American hollies 928 00:51:11.039 --> 00:51:16.039 that died almost a year ago, and I bought two 929 00:51:16.960 --> 00:51:21.000 good sized bogun vas to just put color because it's 930 00:51:21.440 --> 00:51:25.239 maybe seven foot maximum area that wraps around the back 931 00:51:25.280 --> 00:51:25.760 of the pool. 932 00:51:28.119 --> 00:51:29.440 So our bogunv is a. 933 00:51:29.519 --> 00:51:31.400 Bad idea, a good idea or do you have any 934 00:51:31.440 --> 00:51:33.840 other suggestions for what we can put there? 935 00:51:35.079 --> 00:51:37.480 Yeah, they're a nice plant. They grow in the they 936 00:51:37.559 --> 00:51:40.719 bloom in the summertime when you're using the pool. A 937 00:51:40.800 --> 00:51:44.320 couple of other good color plants for summer are the 938 00:51:44.760 --> 00:51:50.000 Pride of Barbados. It is a orange, yellow, and red 939 00:51:50.360 --> 00:51:54.559 colored flower that attracts swallowtail one type of swallowtail, butterfly, 940 00:51:54.920 --> 00:51:58.320 and some others. It doesn't even want to really be 941 00:51:58.440 --> 00:52:01.199 growing and stuff until about May, so it's a great 942 00:52:01.280 --> 00:52:04.000 one for summer color all the way up until late 943 00:52:04.039 --> 00:52:08.239 in the season. There are other plants. The esperanza or 944 00:52:08.320 --> 00:52:12.239 yellowbells looks good. The fire bush fire bush is one 945 00:52:12.320 --> 00:52:15.719 that has red tubular flowers. Uh, and it's a it's 946 00:52:15.719 --> 00:52:18.199 an attractive little plant that does good in an area 947 00:52:18.360 --> 00:52:21.519 like that. If you were placing an American holly, that 948 00:52:21.599 --> 00:52:25.719 of course that would be a evergreen screen plant. So 949 00:52:26.239 --> 00:52:28.880 there are plants that will give you, you know, good 950 00:52:29.039 --> 00:52:32.480 foliage cover that block of you. If that's part of 951 00:52:32.559 --> 00:52:35.480 the strategy too. Those some of the other evergreen shrubs 952 00:52:35.559 --> 00:52:36.480 could be used like that. 953 00:52:38.119 --> 00:52:42.599 Okay, what about a tall evergreen shrub to be the backdrop. 954 00:52:42.679 --> 00:52:44.880 Do you have any suggestions for that that could kind 955 00:52:44.920 --> 00:52:47.280 of maybe go in back of the esperanzas. 956 00:52:48.639 --> 00:52:55.199 Something tall. The Japanese u ye w u does really good. 957 00:52:55.440 --> 00:52:58.320 It can be trimmed to make a hedge that's not 958 00:52:58.519 --> 00:53:01.320 too thick. You know, with with plants they get tall. 959 00:53:01.400 --> 00:53:03.719 If they get wide too, they're taking up all your 960 00:53:03.800 --> 00:53:07.320 area and that's not good. So Japanese you could be 961 00:53:07.400 --> 00:53:10.599 trimmed to make a very nice backdrop hedge that's evergreen. 962 00:53:11.480 --> 00:53:13.079 They could go behind whatever you're going. 963 00:53:13.079 --> 00:53:17.199 To plant that'll look pretty Okay. So on bogun villas, 964 00:53:17.199 --> 00:53:20.480 I didn't realize they all drop their flowers, is that? 965 00:53:21.039 --> 00:53:23.079 Why don't Why don't I see that all over town? 966 00:53:23.159 --> 00:53:26.320 You see them everywhere and they look gorgeous. But I 967 00:53:26.440 --> 00:53:28.599 have them home now and I'm noticing like a lot 968 00:53:28.679 --> 00:53:29.920 of their droppings all over. 969 00:53:31.760 --> 00:53:35.199 Yeah. Well, everything's that has a everything that has a bloom, 970 00:53:35.239 --> 00:53:38.559 Eventually that bloom falls off. And so with boogainvillias, as 971 00:53:38.599 --> 00:53:40.599 we get into cooler weather, you're going to see that. 972 00:53:40.800 --> 00:53:44.800 Of course it's not cooler weather yet, but different kinds 973 00:53:44.800 --> 00:53:47.920 of stresses can cause a plant to drop flowers earlier 974 00:53:48.079 --> 00:53:51.320 than it normally would. But yes, they can do that, 975 00:53:51.519 --> 00:53:57.199 they sure can, but that's not just unique to booginvillas. 976 00:53:58.559 --> 00:53:58.920 Got it? 977 00:53:59.199 --> 00:53:59.519 Okay? 978 00:54:00.360 --> 00:54:02.840 All right, Well I will definitely look into the use that. 979 00:54:03.079 --> 00:54:03.920 That'll look pretty. 980 00:54:05.159 --> 00:54:11.280 Yeah. Another another option to daisy is is to do 981 00:54:11.480 --> 00:54:16.239 a yopon, an upright burying type of yopon. Then you 982 00:54:16.280 --> 00:54:18.679 would have the beauty of the evergreen of the opon. 983 00:54:18.800 --> 00:54:22.039 Plus you would have the potential at least for berries 984 00:54:22.920 --> 00:54:25.400 on the plant during the cooler season, so you could 985 00:54:25.519 --> 00:54:29.039 enjoy that. And again with some sheer some sharing, the 986 00:54:29.159 --> 00:54:30.239 density gets better. 987 00:54:31.880 --> 00:54:34.119 Is that a tree or a shrub? 988 00:54:34.639 --> 00:54:37.360 It's a it's a shrub, but can also be a 989 00:54:37.519 --> 00:54:40.800 mini tree, you know, like the smaller types of crape 990 00:54:40.840 --> 00:54:45.039 myrtles that form a little tree shape. A yopon can 991 00:54:45.079 --> 00:54:47.199 be pruned into that kind of shape, or it can 992 00:54:47.280 --> 00:54:49.800 be sheared into just a shrub like shape. There's one 993 00:54:49.840 --> 00:54:52.960 called Pride of Houston. It's not real tall, but Pride 994 00:54:52.960 --> 00:54:55.519 of Houston is one that's real nice and has berries 995 00:54:55.559 --> 00:55:01.679 on it. Okay, Pride of Houston, upright, yocon, Yeah, and 996 00:55:02.119 --> 00:55:04.239 just go online and look at these take looks at 997 00:55:04.280 --> 00:55:06.679 pictures and see if I like that or not I 998 00:55:06.719 --> 00:55:09.159 don't like that, And you'll be able to find some 999 00:55:09.280 --> 00:55:11.920 good things that way too. And you're you're up there 1000 00:55:12.039 --> 00:55:14.480 in the Spring Branch area, so you've got a lot 1001 00:55:14.480 --> 00:55:16.400 of garden centers and places where you can get some 1002 00:55:16.480 --> 00:55:17.079 great plants. 1003 00:55:18.280 --> 00:55:21.119 Okay, perfect, okay, thank you so much. 1004 00:55:21.119 --> 00:55:25.159 All right, all right, thank you for the call. Appreciate that. 1005 00:55:25.960 --> 00:55:27.400 All right, if you'd like to give us a call 1006 00:55:27.440 --> 00:55:30.960 on garden line seven one three two one two k 1007 00:55:31.119 --> 00:55:34.039 t r H seven one three two one two k 1008 00:55:34.280 --> 00:55:36.599 t RH. I'm not good garden centers, you know, not 1009 00:55:36.719 --> 00:55:39.119 too far from Spring. I go out toward Tumball and 1010 00:55:39.280 --> 00:55:43.480 you've got Arburgate Nursery and Arburgate is a show place, 1011 00:55:43.559 --> 00:55:46.440 been around for a long time. Arburgate is the kind 1012 00:55:46.440 --> 00:55:49.760 of place that people from around Texas know about. People 1013 00:55:49.840 --> 00:55:52.239 come from a long way to go to Arburgate. I 1014 00:55:52.280 --> 00:55:54.440 can tell you that I'm out there, and I always 1015 00:55:54.480 --> 00:55:56.599 like to visit with customers when I'm at garden centers 1016 00:55:56.599 --> 00:55:58.559 and find out where you're from, what you're looking for, 1017 00:55:59.320 --> 00:56:03.360 stuff like that. You know, gardeners like to talk about plants. Well, 1018 00:56:03.639 --> 00:56:06.840 at Arburgate, you're going to find the best ball color 1019 00:56:07.079 --> 00:56:10.119 that you can imagine right now and it is. They 1020 00:56:10.159 --> 00:56:13.760 are loaded, They're ready. Do you need decorations? Their gift 1021 00:56:13.840 --> 00:56:18.239 shops are just taken off. They're even getting ready even 1022 00:56:18.320 --> 00:56:21.360 for some Christmas things coming up soon here at the 1023 00:56:21.400 --> 00:56:25.280 gift shops at Arburgate, the bling for the landscape is there. 1024 00:56:26.039 --> 00:56:29.079 But the plants, it's the plants year round. They sell 1025 00:56:29.119 --> 00:56:31.599 fruit trees at Arburgate. You always get a free tree 1026 00:56:31.599 --> 00:56:35.519 there at Arburgate. Shrubs and trees and herbs at everything. 1027 00:56:35.960 --> 00:56:39.719 Arborgate is the place that you find everything you need 1028 00:56:39.840 --> 00:56:44.280 to have that really unique, special place that's. 1029 00:56:44.360 --> 00:56:44.800 Just for you. 1030 00:56:45.360 --> 00:56:48.119 You know, that's one thing about gardens. We can create 1031 00:56:48.239 --> 00:56:50.800 whatever kind of garden we want, from a zen garden 1032 00:56:50.960 --> 00:56:54.639 to just a big edible garden of herbs, fruits and vegetables. 1033 00:56:54.840 --> 00:56:57.800 Arborgate can set you up for any direction you want, 1034 00:56:58.320 --> 00:57:01.119 knowledgeable staff and quality of trey. While you're there by 1035 00:57:01.119 --> 00:57:04.280 the way they're they're west of Tumbul get their organic 1036 00:57:04.360 --> 00:57:08.400 food complete, Organic soil complete, and organic compost complete. Those 1037 00:57:08.480 --> 00:57:11.559 three bags are what I call the brown stuff to 1038 00:57:11.719 --> 00:57:14.360 set the plants you take home from Arburgate up for 1039 00:57:14.840 --> 00:57:18.000 true success. Those products work. I'm going to take a 1040 00:57:18.079 --> 00:57:22.000 break and I'll be right back, folks. We've got money, 1041 00:57:25.719 --> 00:57:29.199 all right, folks, welcome back to guarden Line. Glad you're 1042 00:57:29.239 --> 00:57:31.159 listening in today. If you'd like to give us a call. 1043 00:57:31.239 --> 00:57:33.760 Got a gardening question, that'd be a good time to 1044 00:57:33.840 --> 00:57:37.119 do it. Seven one three two one two kt r 1045 00:57:37.400 --> 00:57:41.320 H seven one three two one two kt r H. 1046 00:57:41.920 --> 00:57:44.679 I want to remind you that if you are interested 1047 00:57:44.840 --> 00:57:50.199 in purchasing some quality composts this fall, Nature's Way Resources 1048 00:57:50.320 --> 00:57:54.199 still has their Fungal Friday sale going on every Friday. 1049 00:57:54.760 --> 00:57:57.880 You can save twenty percent off of their fungal compost. 1050 00:57:58.239 --> 00:58:01.000 This is good for top dressing of your lawn, this 1051 00:58:01.199 --> 00:58:04.360 is good for mixing into the soil. You can even 1052 00:58:04.360 --> 00:58:06.119 put on top of the soil as a malt if 1053 00:58:06.159 --> 00:58:09.880 you want. But fungal compost is just a high quality mix. 1054 00:58:09.960 --> 00:58:11.880 You know, everything they do at Nature's Way is high 1055 00:58:11.920 --> 00:58:15.480 quality mixes. They a lot of the things that now 1056 00:58:15.719 --> 00:58:20.599 just are like fixtures in the Houston area gardening world 1057 00:58:21.400 --> 00:58:24.119 had their birth at Nature's Way, things like rose soil, 1058 00:58:24.599 --> 00:58:29.079 things like leaf mole compost or the fungal compost. John 1059 00:58:29.159 --> 00:58:34.719 Ferguson has for decades been a student of the soil, 1060 00:58:34.840 --> 00:58:39.679 a student of quality composting, and I'm telling you the 1061 00:58:39.760 --> 00:58:43.480 products show it. Ian his son a run in operation 1062 00:58:43.639 --> 00:58:48.519 right now. It just continues that tradition. It always is 1063 00:58:48.559 --> 00:58:51.039 a good day to buy stuff for the soil. It's 1064 00:58:51.159 --> 00:58:52.840 always good to buy stuff with the soil. And I 1065 00:58:52.960 --> 00:58:56.000 really mean that. We get excited about leaves and flowers 1066 00:58:56.039 --> 00:58:58.199 and vegetables and fruits and things, and those are great, 1067 00:58:58.719 --> 00:59:01.480 but those only half and when the soil is right, 1068 00:59:01.639 --> 00:59:04.960 those only happen when you have provided the foundation for success. 1069 00:59:05.079 --> 00:59:08.519 And Nature's Way is the Foundation for success. By the way, 1070 00:59:08.800 --> 00:59:12.079 next Saturday, please write this on your calendar if you 1071 00:59:12.199 --> 00:59:16.199 are anywhere up north in the listening area. In fact, 1072 00:59:16.239 --> 00:59:18.719 I would say anywhere I find that. In these events 1073 00:59:18.840 --> 00:59:22.559 people come from all over. But the Fall Festival is 1074 00:59:22.719 --> 00:59:27.679 the Nature's Way Shindig next Saturday. Latin food, local vendors. 1075 00:59:27.840 --> 00:59:31.480 Of course, i have plant sales, live music, children's activities. 1076 00:59:31.679 --> 00:59:35.199 I'll be there from eleven thirty to one thirty. Eleven 1077 00:59:35.280 --> 00:59:37.440 thirty to one thirty next Saturday. Come and see me. 1078 00:59:37.840 --> 00:59:41.239 Those of you in Conrod, those of you in Willis, 1079 00:59:41.599 --> 00:59:45.760 the Woodlands, all through that region North Houston. Come from 1080 00:59:45.800 --> 00:59:48.880 wherever you want. Like I said, I'm always surprised. You know, 1081 00:59:48.960 --> 00:59:53.599 I was at Buchanans this yesterday and I can't remember 1082 00:59:53.679 --> 00:59:56.719 where it was. Somebody came from way down South Galveston 1083 00:59:56.800 --> 01:00:01.440 direction to come up there for their deal. Come on out, 1084 01:00:01.599 --> 01:00:05.960 let's meet. Bring me samples in plastic bags, Let's identify them, 1085 01:00:06.039 --> 01:00:10.280 Let's help you diagnose them. Bring me pictures on your 1086 01:00:10.320 --> 01:00:13.400 phone of things we can identify, diagnose. Or maybe you 1087 01:00:13.559 --> 01:00:16.280 just have an area you like some advice with. Here's 1088 01:00:16.320 --> 01:00:18.400 your chance. You know, on Guardline, we have a short 1089 01:00:18.440 --> 01:00:21.880 time to answer phone calls with you moving on to 1090 01:00:21.920 --> 01:00:26.039 another caller or other information. But to I there, this 1091 01:00:26.199 --> 01:00:29.559 is our opportunity to get your gardens in the best 1092 01:00:29.599 --> 01:00:31.920 shape that they can be. And I'll be there Nature's 1093 01:00:31.960 --> 01:00:36.280 Way next Saturday, that is the twelfth of October, and 1094 01:00:36.360 --> 01:00:38.239 I'll be there from eleven thirty to one thirty. By 1095 01:00:38.280 --> 01:00:40.239 the way, the event starts at nine in the morning 1096 01:00:40.280 --> 01:00:42.679 and goes till two. There's no charge for the event, 1097 01:00:43.159 --> 01:00:45.199 and it will be a good time. I've been there 1098 01:00:45.519 --> 01:00:48.119 those before and they're always a good time. Ian and 1099 01:00:48.199 --> 01:00:50.400 the team out there really knows how to put on 1100 01:00:50.840 --> 01:00:52.760 a really good event, so I hope you'll make it. 1101 01:00:53.079 --> 01:00:57.400 Come on out. I I've talked about a number of 1102 01:00:57.519 --> 01:01:00.400 different things, and you know, I like to take the 1103 01:01:00.559 --> 01:01:04.000 moment where we have a little bit of a break 1104 01:01:05.159 --> 01:01:09.440 in the calls just to I guess, discuss some of 1105 01:01:09.480 --> 01:01:13.559 the things that I think are important points to consider 1106 01:01:14.039 --> 01:01:17.559 that people really may not be aware of. And for example, 1107 01:01:18.000 --> 01:01:20.920 I want to talk a little bit about pre emergent 1108 01:01:21.000 --> 01:01:24.440 herbicide tips and I'm going to give you five and 1109 01:01:24.599 --> 01:01:27.679 I'll do them real quick. Number one, you've got to 1110 01:01:27.719 --> 01:01:29.920 get the right product for the weeds. There are pre 1111 01:01:29.960 --> 01:01:32.679 emergent herbicides that just work on broadleaf weeds. There's some 1112 01:01:32.840 --> 01:01:36.719 that work on broad leaf and grassy weeds. Barricade is 1113 01:01:36.760 --> 01:01:38.800 one of those. It does both, but you've got to 1114 01:01:38.800 --> 01:01:40.920 get the right product to go after the weeds you're 1115 01:01:40.960 --> 01:01:46.800 going after. Secondly, Tip two, Timing is everything. Like playing baseball. 1116 01:01:46.920 --> 01:01:49.039 You got to start swinging before the ball gets to 1117 01:01:49.119 --> 01:01:51.519 the plate or you're never going to hit the ball. Well. 1118 01:01:51.880 --> 01:01:54.480 If you don't get your pre emergence down ahead of 1119 01:01:54.599 --> 01:01:58.039 the seed sprouting, you're missing the boat. It's like swinging 1120 01:01:58.199 --> 01:02:00.920 after the catcher's got the ball. And as I am 1121 01:02:01.000 --> 01:02:03.960 saying these days, now that we're in October, the ball 1122 01:02:04.199 --> 01:02:06.599 is on the way. The picture has let go, and 1123 01:02:06.679 --> 01:02:08.559 the ball is on the way, it's time to get 1124 01:02:08.599 --> 01:02:12.840 that swing started, meaning get those things down. Third, put 1125 01:02:12.880 --> 01:02:16.360 them at the right rate. Rates are important. You don't 1126 01:02:16.360 --> 01:02:19.119 put enough, it doesn't work. You overdo a rate of 1127 01:02:19.159 --> 01:02:23.719 an insecticide, a fungicide, a herbicide, or a fertilizer and 1128 01:02:23.840 --> 01:02:27.760 you can damage plants. Follow the label. The right rate 1129 01:02:27.880 --> 01:02:33.599 is critical. Fourth, uniform application. It works. The product works, 1130 01:02:33.719 --> 01:02:35.760 but if you have twice as much in one spot, 1131 01:02:35.880 --> 01:02:39.000 and not enough in another that's not a uniform application 1132 01:02:39.159 --> 01:02:42.719 and you're going to get spotty results. Fifth, and finally 1133 01:02:42.960 --> 01:02:45.599 is watered in half inch of water or so to 1134 01:02:45.679 --> 01:02:49.800 get it down into the soil surface. They stick to 1135 01:02:49.880 --> 01:02:51.880 the surface right there in the soil, and when a 1136 01:02:51.960 --> 01:02:53.920 weed seed tries to come through, they shut it down. 1137 01:02:54.000 --> 01:02:57.039 For it gets started, for it's able to establish a plant. 1138 01:02:57.559 --> 01:03:01.320 You gotta water it in dry premerent herbicide sitting on 1139 01:03:01.400 --> 01:03:04.920 the soil doesn't control anything. When you watered in, it's 1140 01:03:05.039 --> 01:03:08.119 ready to go. And as they say, with the product barricade, 1141 01:03:08.199 --> 01:03:10.719 it forms a barricade over the surface and weeds can't 1142 01:03:10.719 --> 01:03:14.239 get through again. All five appropriate product for the weed 1143 01:03:14.320 --> 01:03:20.199 you have. Timing is everything rate follow the label number four, 1144 01:03:20.719 --> 01:03:25.079 uniform application number five watered in. There you go, ABC's 1145 01:03:25.519 --> 01:03:29.039 of Success five tips for premerger and herbicide. Let's go 1146 01:03:29.119 --> 01:03:32.039 out to Hurta in spring Brands. Hello Hurte, welcome to 1147 01:03:32.119 --> 01:03:32.599 garden line. 1148 01:03:33.599 --> 01:03:35.320 Thank you, good morning. 1149 01:03:36.519 --> 01:03:36.760 Morning. 1150 01:03:37.760 --> 01:03:42.880 About a Scheffeller it's in the yard. Well, I've actually 1151 01:03:43.079 --> 01:03:43.400 had it. 1152 01:03:43.599 --> 01:03:44.400 I talked to. 1153 01:03:46.239 --> 01:03:50.280 Our former garden about it, but he said it was 1154 01:03:50.360 --> 01:03:56.719 too large to leave it in the yard. But one 1155 01:03:56.800 --> 01:04:03.639 of the stams died, but well, okay, but at the 1156 01:04:03.840 --> 01:04:11.920 bottom of another stem about a whole crusher of leaves 1157 01:04:12.079 --> 01:04:13.039 or turning yellow. 1158 01:04:14.519 --> 01:04:20.440 Okay, okay, Well, if it's down low, it could be 1159 01:04:21.159 --> 01:04:23.920 a couple of things. Most likely hurta that is some 1160 01:04:24.119 --> 01:04:27.760 sort of a soul moisture, fluctuation, got a little dry 1161 01:04:28.519 --> 01:04:30.719 something like that, maybe stayed a little too soggy wet, 1162 01:04:30.800 --> 01:04:33.400 or maybe it fluctuated from one to the other. Those 1163 01:04:33.440 --> 01:04:35.880 are all things that will cause leaves to yellow. We 1164 01:04:35.960 --> 01:04:37.800 see that on our houseplants. If you get to water 1165 01:04:37.920 --> 01:04:39.960 your pathos and then you water it and suddenly you 1166 01:04:40.039 --> 01:04:42.679 see these yellow leaves, and that's just part of that 1167 01:04:42.760 --> 01:04:45.480 water fluctuation thing. It could also be a lack of 1168 01:04:45.599 --> 01:04:49.079 nitrogen that shows up on the older leaves, which would 1169 01:04:49.159 --> 01:04:51.559 be the lower ones on the branch, or the ones 1170 01:04:51.639 --> 01:04:54.480 closest to the toward the base of the plant. So 1171 01:04:54.599 --> 01:04:57.320 it could be a lack of nitrogen. At this point 1172 01:04:57.360 --> 01:04:59.800 in time, your chufflers are growing in the ground, right 1173 01:05:00.079 --> 01:05:04.239 it's not in a pot or okay, well, if it's 1174 01:05:04.280 --> 01:05:08.719 in the ground I don't want to push it with 1175 01:05:08.800 --> 01:05:11.760 a lot of fertilizer right now, because you know they're 1176 01:05:11.840 --> 01:05:15.159 not fully cold, hardy. You know, we get by get 1177 01:05:15.280 --> 01:05:17.360 you're getting by with them there. But in general, a 1178 01:05:17.400 --> 01:05:19.760 houseplant put outside is going to freeze in the winter, 1179 01:05:20.400 --> 01:05:22.719 and so I wouldn't want to give it a lot 1180 01:05:22.760 --> 01:05:25.639 of nitrogen because that just makes it more susceptible to 1181 01:05:25.800 --> 01:05:29.440 an early hard freeze. But it could be that there's 1182 01:05:29.559 --> 01:05:32.719 a little nutrient lacking. I think it's a soul moisture thing. 1183 01:05:33.400 --> 01:05:35.199 And you know that thing's been You've had it for 1184 01:05:35.239 --> 01:05:38.840 a long time. And plants, you know, over time, things happen. 1185 01:05:39.119 --> 01:05:41.280 You know, you can lose a branch, you can lose 1186 01:05:41.280 --> 01:05:44.719 a stem or. It's just kind of how plants are. 1187 01:05:45.119 --> 01:05:49.280 So who knows over over time the things that happen 1188 01:05:49.360 --> 01:05:51.719 in nature and just the age of the plant and stuff. 1189 01:05:52.239 --> 01:05:55.840 Things can, things can happen. I think overall the plant 1190 01:05:55.920 --> 01:05:56.920 looks good though, from what. 1191 01:05:56.960 --> 01:05:59.760 I'm hearing, right, Hey, yes, sir, yes, sir. 1192 01:06:00.239 --> 01:06:00.960 Oh, I'll love it. 1193 01:06:01.280 --> 01:06:05.239 Yeah, well, obviously you're taking care of it. It must 1194 01:06:05.360 --> 01:06:09.079 love you too if it's doing that good. All right, 1195 01:06:10.000 --> 01:06:16.159 thank you, thank you so much. I appreciate that. All right, Well, 1196 01:06:16.679 --> 01:06:18.480 let's see here, folks, I'm going to have to take 1197 01:06:18.519 --> 01:06:21.880 a break here and Paul and Laporte. You'll be our 1198 01:06:21.880 --> 01:06:23.159 first stup when we come back. 1199 01:06:30.400 --> 01:06:30.719 Cold. 1200 01:06:31.679 --> 01:06:34.960 Let any of you knew who Nat King Cole was. 1201 01:06:35.960 --> 01:06:39.440 That guy had a voice loud velvet. This is Doc 1202 01:06:42.679 --> 01:06:44.320 all right, folks, welcome back to the garden. I good 1203 01:06:44.320 --> 01:06:46.320 to have you with us. By the way, if you 1204 01:06:46.360 --> 01:06:48.360 can't tell, I like music and I like a variety 1205 01:06:48.400 --> 01:06:52.239 of things, typically stuff that people don't normally listen to. 1206 01:06:52.920 --> 01:06:55.880 But anyway, uh, if you've got a question on guardline, 1207 01:06:55.880 --> 01:06:57.639 you can give us call seven one three two one 1208 01:06:57.719 --> 01:07:00.639 two k t r H seven one three two one 1209 01:07:00.719 --> 01:07:05.599 two KTRH. Quality Home Products of Texas. You've heard me 1210 01:07:05.679 --> 01:07:09.880 talk about them. Their Generaic generators are outstanding. Their service 1211 01:07:10.119 --> 01:07:15.960 is unmatched. Quality Home is the best, absolutely the best 1212 01:07:17.000 --> 01:07:20.159 service company for people in the way that they get 1213 01:07:20.239 --> 01:07:22.440 treated and the way they get helped and then the 1214 01:07:22.480 --> 01:07:25.400 service after the sale. 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They train their people because they want you 1233 01:08:22.119 --> 01:08:24.560 to be the best when you go into somebody's home 1234 01:08:25.279 --> 01:08:28.079 or outside their home to help create the kinds of 1235 01:08:28.119 --> 01:08:30.640 products that they do and get them set up good 1236 01:08:30.680 --> 01:08:34.399 opportunities for career growth. Again, just go to QUALITYTX dot com. 1237 01:08:34.600 --> 01:08:38.439 That's where you're going to find more information. Alrighty, here, 1238 01:08:38.640 --> 01:08:42.159 let's go to find my right there we go, We're 1239 01:08:42.159 --> 01:08:44.319 going to go to Paul and Laporte. Hey, Paul, welcome 1240 01:08:44.359 --> 01:08:47.760 to Guardline. Good morning, skip How are you today, sir? 1241 01:08:49.000 --> 01:08:50.239 I'm doing well, sir. Thank you. 1242 01:08:50.720 --> 01:08:50.920 Well. 1243 01:08:51.079 --> 01:08:52.399 Good called. 1244 01:08:52.479 --> 01:08:55.039 Last weekend you said it's time to get my roses in. 1245 01:08:55.680 --> 01:08:59.000 I got my roses. I tilled up the soul around 1246 01:08:59.079 --> 01:09:02.079 my fence line. I'm going to put them the soil. 1247 01:09:02.159 --> 01:09:05.159 That's okay. But should I mend that with some composts 1248 01:09:05.359 --> 01:09:06.640 just fortify it? 1249 01:09:08.439 --> 01:09:10.960 You should, But instead of you could use compost, what 1250 01:09:11.079 --> 01:09:13.840 I would do is I would get some of Heirloom's soils. 1251 01:09:14.680 --> 01:09:18.920 It's called Roses and Bloomers Blend. It's a multipurpose. Rose 1252 01:09:19.000 --> 01:09:22.640 soil comes in one cubic foot bags. Some of these 1253 01:09:22.720 --> 01:09:25.399 products from airlom Mute and by Bulk as well, but 1254 01:09:26.000 --> 01:09:31.079 one cubic foot bags Heirloom soils. There rose soil is. 1255 01:09:31.479 --> 01:09:33.560 It's called Roses and Bloomers Blend. It's got a big 1256 01:09:33.600 --> 01:09:36.359 picture of a rose on the front that is outstanding 1257 01:09:36.600 --> 01:09:39.319 that I would put. I'd lay it about four inches 1258 01:09:39.399 --> 01:09:42.039 thick and mix it as deeply into the soil as 1259 01:09:42.079 --> 01:09:45.520 you can. And if your area is not high and dry, 1260 01:09:45.640 --> 01:09:48.560 if it's maybe a little poorly drained, I would then 1261 01:09:48.640 --> 01:09:50.880 add another four inches on top of that, just to 1262 01:09:50.960 --> 01:09:53.159 create a bed high enough to get those rose roots 1263 01:09:53.199 --> 01:09:56.359 out of soggy conditions. Okay, where would you suggest I 1264 01:09:56.399 --> 01:09:58.880 could buy that ad and report? You can buy it 1265 01:09:59.039 --> 01:10:02.800 all over the place. If you go to heirloomsoils dot com. 1266 01:10:03.159 --> 01:10:07.680 Heirloomsoils dot com, there's a little button where to buy 1267 01:10:08.680 --> 01:10:13.319 heirloom heirloom soils and so you know, whatever part of 1268 01:10:13.359 --> 01:10:15.399 the area, and you can fill out a little thing there. 1269 01:10:15.520 --> 01:10:18.520 But they they're widely available. You're going to find them, 1270 01:10:18.920 --> 01:10:20.560 you know, at these hardware stores. You're going to find 1271 01:10:20.560 --> 01:10:23.399 them at garden centers, you're going to find them. Southwest Fertilizer, 1272 01:10:23.840 --> 01:10:27.039 just a lot of places to their products. We've got 1273 01:10:27.079 --> 01:10:32.319 a great area report. So yeah, you sure do another question, 1274 01:10:33.439 --> 01:10:35.720 uh real quick? Yeah, okay. 1275 01:10:35.880 --> 01:10:40.520 I'm also ordered some hardy blueberries for this area. I 1276 01:10:40.720 --> 01:10:44.640 was told, okay, blueberries like acidic soil, and I don't 1277 01:10:44.680 --> 01:10:45.600 know how to tests that. 1278 01:10:46.439 --> 01:10:47.880 I was told that I could. 1279 01:10:47.720 --> 01:10:50.800 Put heat at the bottom of the whole before I 1280 01:10:50.920 --> 01:10:53.239 plant them with the blueberries and that would help with 1281 01:10:53.359 --> 01:10:54.079 the acidity. 1282 01:10:55.359 --> 01:10:57.840 We're going to change that. Yeah, we're going to change 1283 01:10:57.840 --> 01:10:59.560 that advice a little bit. What you want to do 1284 01:10:59.680 --> 01:11:03.079 is you can lay lay peat, spag and pete moss, 1285 01:11:03.079 --> 01:11:06.520 spread it out over a bed. Mix it in again, 1286 01:11:06.600 --> 01:11:08.399 like I was telling you, the roso mix it in 1287 01:11:08.640 --> 01:11:11.359 and then lay more peat a peat and sand mixes. 1288 01:11:11.960 --> 01:11:15.439 But you if you go, you know, wherever you get 1289 01:11:16.079 --> 01:11:20.359 the heirloom soil products, you're going to also find products 1290 01:11:20.439 --> 01:11:24.359 for acid loving plants. They've got some really good materials 1291 01:11:24.439 --> 01:11:27.760 for acid loving plants as well. There's a fruit berry 1292 01:11:27.880 --> 01:11:31.159 and citrus mix that would work really well for that also. 1293 01:11:32.239 --> 01:11:38.119 But anytime, yeah, anytime you can acidify, add organic matter 1294 01:11:38.359 --> 01:11:42.239 and get the roots out of soggy conditions. Your blueberries 1295 01:11:42.560 --> 01:11:45.000 are going to do really really well. They like that, 1296 01:11:45.279 --> 01:11:48.359 and then get you an acid loving plant food for 1297 01:11:48.479 --> 01:11:54.319 them as well. Okay, we'll skip. I appreciate your time today, sir, Yes, sir, 1298 01:11:54.560 --> 01:11:57.399 you bet, thank you. I appreciate that. Appreciate that call 1299 01:11:57.479 --> 01:12:02.319 a lot. Yeah, that is the case. Where are we now? 1300 01:12:02.560 --> 01:12:05.239 We are trying to watch the time and the callers. Okay, 1301 01:12:05.279 --> 01:12:09.000 we'll go now to Sharon West University. Hey, Sharon, how 1302 01:12:09.039 --> 01:12:09.800 can we help. 1303 01:12:11.239 --> 01:12:17.119 Well, Skip, I have a garden that is had multiple problems. 1304 01:12:17.520 --> 01:12:21.119 We've had sod web worms, We've had fungus, We've had 1305 01:12:24.880 --> 01:12:31.039 construction damage from the sidewalk being repaired where the water 1306 01:12:31.239 --> 01:12:34.800 was broken and we had no water on our lawn, 1307 01:12:35.880 --> 01:12:40.800 and my husband hired the construction guys who were replacing 1308 01:12:40.920 --> 01:12:47.279 the sidewalk to replace because the city was replacing sod 1309 01:12:47.720 --> 01:12:51.039 lawn uh and they just did a horrible job. So 1310 01:12:51.079 --> 01:12:54.159 so now my lawn just looks terrible, to the point 1311 01:12:54.239 --> 01:12:57.720 that my husband's thinking artificial turf would be better. 1312 01:12:59.560 --> 01:13:01.079 Oh I cankay, I. 1313 01:13:02.560 --> 01:13:03.039 Deny that. 1314 01:13:05.239 --> 01:13:09.600 Okay, Well, I saw the pictures you sent and the area. 1315 01:13:09.720 --> 01:13:11.720 First of all, the area is pretty shady, so when 1316 01:13:11.760 --> 01:13:15.159 you look at the actual hours of sunlight, it's somewhat limited, 1317 01:13:15.279 --> 01:13:17.680 especially under those trees where the lawn looks the worse. 1318 01:13:18.560 --> 01:13:21.359 I think you have a disease called take all root rot. Now, 1319 01:13:21.479 --> 01:13:24.439 looking at a picture and diagnosing take all is a 1320 01:13:24.479 --> 01:13:27.359 little bit of a stretch, but I've seen so many 1321 01:13:27.479 --> 01:13:29.520 yards with it that I've kind of gotten a pretty 1322 01:13:29.520 --> 01:13:31.960 good eye for it. And I'm ninety percent sure you 1323 01:13:32.039 --> 01:13:35.279 got some take all root rot in there. Fall is 1324 01:13:35.319 --> 01:13:36.840 the time to treat for that. And if you go 1325 01:13:36.960 --> 01:13:41.560 to my website, Gardening with Skip dot com, you'll see 1326 01:13:41.600 --> 01:13:44.159 the products to use, and you'll see the timing and 1327 01:13:44.239 --> 01:13:45.960 you're going to want to do that in October and 1328 01:13:46.079 --> 01:13:50.399 in November both twice. It's on the schedule that way, 1329 01:13:51.399 --> 01:13:54.520 and then you want to treat it really good. With that, 1330 01:13:54.760 --> 01:13:58.439 I would get some peat moss, some spagnum peat moss 1331 01:13:58.680 --> 01:14:02.640 that you buy in little compressed bag. They're like the 1332 01:14:02.720 --> 01:14:04.960 size of a hay bale almost, but it's a compressed 1333 01:14:05.000 --> 01:14:07.800 bag of se peat moss. You break it up and 1334 01:14:07.960 --> 01:14:10.199 just turn a rake upside down and spread it over 1335 01:14:10.279 --> 01:14:13.960 the lawn. Do you have a question, no, I said, 1336 01:14:13.960 --> 01:14:17.960 I'm familiar with peat moss like that. Yeah, okay, So 1337 01:14:18.239 --> 01:14:21.279 I turned like a soil rake upside down where the 1338 01:14:21.359 --> 01:14:23.520 times are pointing up, and then it's like you're playing 1339 01:14:23.600 --> 01:14:25.800 shuffleboard on the lawn, just spreading it around. Or you 1340 01:14:25.880 --> 01:14:29.840 can use a leaf rake to spread it around a bail. 1341 01:14:30.039 --> 01:14:32.479 A three point eight cubic foot bail should cover about 1342 01:14:32.479 --> 01:14:35.079 a thousand square feet. If you put it heavier than that, 1343 01:14:35.359 --> 01:14:38.840 that's fine. Spread it over that and watered in really well. 1344 01:14:39.720 --> 01:14:42.399 And with the first thing you're going to do, though, 1345 01:14:42.520 --> 01:14:46.000 is spray the grass with the fungicide for the peep moss. 1346 01:14:46.039 --> 01:14:49.640 It's on my schedule. Then I'm sorry for the take all, 1347 01:14:50.039 --> 01:14:53.479 then put the peat moss down and then watered in, 1348 01:14:54.199 --> 01:14:56.159 watered in a little bit. You just a little bit 1349 01:14:56.199 --> 01:14:58.159 of water to move that peete down around the root. 1350 01:14:58.560 --> 01:15:01.039 That's going to give it every chance to try to 1351 01:15:01.199 --> 01:15:05.199 start fighting that disease. And coming back. Now in areas 1352 01:15:05.279 --> 01:15:09.119 underneath the tree where there's just no grass, I would 1353 01:15:09.159 --> 01:15:11.319 look at making a big bed of some type of 1354 01:15:11.319 --> 01:15:14.800 a groundcover under there, because I think it's just too shady. 1355 01:15:14.920 --> 01:15:17.760 I see signs of some drought damage on it as well, 1356 01:15:18.640 --> 01:15:21.039 but that could be due to the take all killing 1357 01:15:21.119 --> 01:15:23.079 the roots. And if you don't have roots, even if 1358 01:15:23.079 --> 01:15:25.399 there's water in the soil, you have drought symptoms. 1359 01:15:27.039 --> 01:15:27.239 Yeah. 1360 01:15:27.319 --> 01:15:33.000 Skip, we know we've had funguses on one side of 1361 01:15:33.079 --> 01:15:37.520 the lawn and I was told that, of course, not 1362 01:15:37.680 --> 01:15:43.600 all fungicides kills all funguses. So in your recommendation, do 1363 01:15:43.680 --> 01:15:46.600 you think the one treatment of the fungicide's going to work? 1364 01:15:51.079 --> 01:15:54.399 Well, I would do too. At the degree of damage 1365 01:15:54.439 --> 01:16:00.399 you have. It's not quite like fungicides kills all funguses 1366 01:16:00.520 --> 01:16:04.239 that are out there, but they they do help. And 1367 01:16:05.199 --> 01:16:08.199 with take all, it's a tough disease. And the products 1368 01:16:08.239 --> 01:16:12.720 I've listed applied in October outer repeat them and in November, 1369 01:16:13.119 --> 01:16:14.920 I think is your better way to go on that. 1370 01:16:15.680 --> 01:16:18.159 And so it should take care of of like you 1371 01:16:18.159 --> 01:16:20.560 shouldn't have brown patch in your lawn this fall. If 1372 01:16:20.600 --> 01:16:26.039 you do those products, that's for sure too. But when 1373 01:16:26.079 --> 01:16:27.720 they when they work. 1374 01:16:28.600 --> 01:16:30.840 We had one other one other question was when they 1375 01:16:30.920 --> 01:16:33.039 worked on the lawn before they laid. 1376 01:16:32.840 --> 01:16:33.239 Down the. 1377 01:16:35.600 --> 01:16:39.119 Grass, we now, did they put in a layer of sand, 1378 01:16:39.199 --> 01:16:42.840 which it turns out to be construction sand. Would that 1379 01:16:43.039 --> 01:16:47.720 be a detriment to August now growing? 1380 01:16:49.159 --> 01:16:49.199 No? 1381 01:16:49.520 --> 01:16:52.119 I mean they they use sand on golf course greens 1382 01:16:52.239 --> 01:16:55.159 and other things for drainage and stuff, so that the 1383 01:16:55.279 --> 01:16:58.079 sand's not really a problem. You know, some compost top 1384 01:16:58.199 --> 01:17:01.000 dressing never hurts. We're going to pete moss though. If 1385 01:17:01.039 --> 01:17:03.640 you're going to do that for the for the take all. Uh, 1386 01:17:03.840 --> 01:17:06.720 some aerration in a small area like you have, you 1387 01:17:06.800 --> 01:17:10.279 could hand air rate at yourself. Uh, you know, punching 1388 01:17:10.359 --> 01:17:12.720 some holes and putting a top dressing on it. But 1389 01:17:12.800 --> 01:17:15.319 I think right now the big thing is the disease. 1390 01:17:15.479 --> 01:17:18.920 The grass is very much going downhill in a in 1391 01:17:19.039 --> 01:17:22.279 a mid to lighter stage of the disease killing it out. 1392 01:17:22.840 --> 01:17:24.720 And so you got to shut that down as a 1393 01:17:24.840 --> 01:17:27.560 p that's that's the first thing, because you don't at 1394 01:17:27.600 --> 01:17:29.399 the reside, and I'd hate to see you put a 1395 01:17:29.439 --> 01:17:35.520 plastic lawn in, but that's your yard, all right, Okay, 1396 01:17:35.760 --> 01:17:39.079 thank you, all right, thank you very much. You'll take care, 1397 01:17:39.840 --> 01:17:41.920 you bet if you put a plastic lawn in, I'm 1398 01:17:41.920 --> 01:17:43.439 going to show up with a hot glow gun and 1399 01:17:43.520 --> 01:17:48.279 put plastic weeds in your yard. Y'all have fun, Bye bye, 1400 01:17:50.119 --> 01:17:51.520 all right, folks, we'll be back. 1401 01:17:52.960 --> 01:17:56.800 Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Scip Richard. 1402 01:17:56.840 --> 01:18:14.319 It's just watch him as the world to see blocks 1403 01:18:22.000 --> 01:18:27.880 a sun. 1404 01:18:29.159 --> 01:18:32.039 All right, folks, welcome back to garden Line. Glad to 1405 01:18:32.119 --> 01:18:33.800 have you with us today. We're gonna run straight out 1406 01:18:33.840 --> 01:18:34.319 to the phones. 1407 01:18:34.319 --> 01:18:34.479 Here. 1408 01:18:34.520 --> 01:18:39.000 We got some boards of a ford full board of calls. 1409 01:18:39.239 --> 01:18:41.720 It's not easy for me to say. We're gonna go 1410 01:18:41.760 --> 01:18:44.359 to Sonya in Pariland. Hey, Sonya, how can we help today? 1411 01:18:44.399 --> 01:18:45.039 On guard line? 1412 01:18:46.199 --> 01:18:47.119 Good morning Skip. 1413 01:18:47.479 --> 01:18:50.920 I'm actually calling for my grandfather. He lives in the 1414 01:18:51.039 --> 01:18:55.359 Webster area and he has his house has some pecan 1415 01:18:55.439 --> 01:18:57.600 trees and peach trees in the backyard. But he's wanting 1416 01:18:57.680 --> 01:19:02.000 to add something orange or tangerine variety. Do you have 1417 01:19:02.079 --> 01:19:03.560 any recommendations for that? 1418 01:19:05.039 --> 01:19:10.159 Tell me again his area please, Webster where he is Webster, Yeah, 1419 01:19:10.159 --> 01:19:13.359 he's done. Yeah, there's a lot of things, yeah, Webster, 1420 01:19:13.520 --> 01:19:15.159 you know, I mean, you could do like a if 1421 01:19:15.199 --> 01:19:17.720 you wanted a blood orange. Those are really cool, kind 1422 01:19:17.760 --> 01:19:20.439 of different, not the heartiest of all our ceterrus, but 1423 01:19:21.000 --> 01:19:25.880 they would grow there. Satsumas are mandarin type oranges. They 1424 01:19:25.960 --> 01:19:29.600 got the baggy skin, not many seeds like the little 1425 01:19:29.640 --> 01:19:32.279 if you bought those little bags acuties in the store, 1426 01:19:32.359 --> 01:19:35.520 those little small things, it's like a big version of that. 1427 01:19:36.199 --> 01:19:39.359 So they are among the more hearty of the centrus 1428 01:19:39.560 --> 01:19:43.880 types of trees. You could certainly do limes and lemons, 1429 01:19:43.960 --> 01:19:47.279 but they are not very hardy. Usually people do those 1430 01:19:47.359 --> 01:19:50.640 in containers and so that they can put a little dolly, 1431 01:19:50.960 --> 01:19:52.840 strap it onto a dolly and roll it into a 1432 01:19:52.880 --> 01:19:56.039 garage when it's going to be real cold. With a dolly. 1433 01:19:56.079 --> 01:19:58.960 It's not hard to move a container ceterris. 1434 01:20:00.000 --> 01:20:04.000 Okay, So let's when would I think the tattoom is 1435 01:20:04.079 --> 01:20:08.600 probably what he's looking for. When would we plant something 1436 01:20:08.760 --> 01:20:08.920 like that? 1437 01:20:10.560 --> 01:20:13.319 You know, you could plan them now, you could plan 1438 01:20:13.399 --> 01:20:16.079 them in the spring. It doesn't really matter. They're they're 1439 01:20:16.119 --> 01:20:22.239 pretty flexible. Just know that the first year or two especially, 1440 01:20:22.680 --> 01:20:25.680 you need to be ready to protect them once a 1441 01:20:25.800 --> 01:20:29.319 satsuma is established, unless you just have a sudden, very 1442 01:20:29.439 --> 01:20:32.680 cold snap and the plants weren't ready for it. Once 1443 01:20:32.760 --> 01:20:35.640 asatsuma is established, it should take it down in the 1444 01:20:36.000 --> 01:20:40.600 definitely in the mid twenties and be okay, but not 1445 01:20:40.760 --> 01:20:41.800 the first year or two. 1446 01:20:42.279 --> 01:20:45.199 And so protecting would just be like frost blankets or 1447 01:20:45.560 --> 01:20:48.279 combination of that, and maybe some Christmas lights around the 1448 01:20:48.399 --> 01:20:49.159 base or something. 1449 01:20:50.600 --> 01:20:52.800 Yes, And in order to give you the best answer, 1450 01:20:52.920 --> 01:20:54.920 I'm going to refer you to a publication I put 1451 01:20:54.960 --> 01:20:58.439 on my website. It's a free download there and it's 1452 01:20:58.600 --> 01:21:02.199 it's protecting Landscape Plans from cold and it's my website 1453 01:21:02.319 --> 01:21:07.800 is Gardening with Skip dot com though Gardening with Skip. Yeah. 1454 01:21:08.079 --> 01:21:10.119 If you go down there, scroll down look for the 1455 01:21:10.199 --> 01:21:14.319 cold protection publication. It's full color, it's got pictures, and 1456 01:21:14.439 --> 01:21:16.520 it tells you a whole thing. And in a nutshell, 1457 01:21:16.720 --> 01:21:18.800 what it's going to tell you is you want to 1458 01:21:18.880 --> 01:21:21.960 drape a cover that the wind can't blow through from 1459 01:21:22.039 --> 01:21:24.119 the top of the plant straight down to the ground 1460 01:21:24.520 --> 01:21:28.439 and then secure it with bricks, rocks, soil, whatever around 1461 01:21:28.560 --> 01:21:33.159 the plant so that air is stagnant underneath there overnight. 1462 01:21:33.439 --> 01:21:35.319 Then you put a little bit of a heat source 1463 01:21:35.439 --> 01:21:38.279 under it, like a clamp light those things you get 1464 01:21:38.279 --> 01:21:42.159 at a hardware store that have ice. Hardware carries them, 1465 01:21:42.720 --> 01:21:44.840 and put about a one hundred and fifty flood light 1466 01:21:44.920 --> 01:21:48.239 bulb in there that produces enough heat and it goes 1467 01:21:48.319 --> 01:21:50.560 up around the plant and keeps it just warm enough. 1468 01:21:51.159 --> 01:21:52.960 We just have to remember we don't have to make 1469 01:21:52.960 --> 01:21:54.680 it warm under there. We have to make it above 1470 01:21:54.760 --> 01:21:57.439 thirty two under there. That's what we're aiming for, so 1471 01:21:58.439 --> 01:21:59.359 that that can be done. 1472 01:22:00.239 --> 01:22:02.159 And the only other thing I need to protect them 1473 01:22:02.159 --> 01:22:07.239 from our squirrels. Any recommendations from those pests, Well, I 1474 01:22:07.319 --> 01:22:08.119 have recipes. 1475 01:22:09.680 --> 01:22:16.479 Sorry, I get it, squirrel recipes. It's it was a joke. 1476 01:22:17.159 --> 01:22:19.279 Squirrels are a problem. You know. They come in and 1477 01:22:19.399 --> 01:22:22.319 they steal things, they take a bite out of something, 1478 01:22:22.479 --> 01:22:25.399 and you know, but I don't. I have not noticed 1479 01:22:25.399 --> 01:22:29.239 citrus having squirrel problems. Maybe someone else has, but I've 1480 01:22:29.319 --> 01:22:32.199 never had a squirrel problem on citrus. Uh, So I don't. 1481 01:22:32.199 --> 01:22:33.880 Maybe that's the. 1482 01:22:35.520 --> 01:22:40.000 Oh my gosh, your pecans are toes. Yeah, citrus pecans. 1483 01:22:40.199 --> 01:22:43.039 You don't get any pecans because of the squirrels in 1484 01:22:43.159 --> 01:22:45.800 our area pretty much. Uh if you live in a 1485 01:22:45.960 --> 01:22:50.760 in a in a city neighborhood kind of setting. But yeah, 1486 01:22:51.000 --> 01:22:53.399 that's that's the case. But I I will attest to 1487 01:22:53.439 --> 01:22:55.840 the fact that pecan fed squirrel is is very good, 1488 01:22:56.159 --> 01:22:57.680 very good to eat. 1489 01:22:58.199 --> 01:23:02.000 Get that little smooky flavor. So one last question on 1490 01:23:02.079 --> 01:23:04.079 the tree, where would you recommend we get one in 1491 01:23:04.159 --> 01:23:06.800 that area? I know Boss nurseries down there in Seabrook, 1492 01:23:07.279 --> 01:23:09.840 would they have any or is there a specific. 1493 01:23:09.520 --> 01:23:13.000 Absolutely they can recommend. No, mass would be an excellent, 1494 01:23:13.119 --> 01:23:15.039 excellent and just call them first. Make sure you know 1495 01:23:15.079 --> 01:23:17.319 they get shipments in and people buy out and they 1496 01:23:17.359 --> 01:23:19.479 get shipments in and so make sure they've got what 1497 01:23:19.560 --> 01:23:22.960 you're looking for. But Moss is a great place. Yeah, 1498 01:23:23.039 --> 01:23:28.800 that's a wonderful nursery. I love that point. All right, Well, 1499 01:23:28.880 --> 01:23:31.399 thank you so much, skip all right, Well, good luck, yeah, 1500 01:23:31.960 --> 01:23:35.000 and good luck with your dad and the plants. Appreciate 1501 01:23:35.039 --> 01:23:37.920 the call. Yes said, that is so true. 1502 01:23:38.239 --> 01:23:38.359 Uh. 1503 01:23:38.600 --> 01:23:41.199 Medina has a product called Medina Plus. And you know, 1504 01:23:41.279 --> 01:23:43.800 with fall being planting season, it just reminds me. I 1505 01:23:43.920 --> 01:23:47.159 want to remind you about Medina Plus because this one 1506 01:23:47.359 --> 01:23:48.840 has been around for a good long time. 1507 01:23:49.560 --> 01:23:49.680 Uh. 1508 01:23:49.800 --> 01:23:53.720 It's Medina soil activator plus over forty different trace elements. 1509 01:23:54.159 --> 01:23:57.159 So there's things like you know, there's natural growth hormones 1510 01:23:57.199 --> 01:24:00.359 and seaweed extract like side of kayans, they're in Medina plus, 1511 01:24:00.720 --> 01:24:03.279 things like magnesium and iron and on and on down 1512 01:24:03.319 --> 01:24:07.039 the line many other ingredients. Now, it's good for increasing blooming, 1513 01:24:07.479 --> 01:24:11.520 it's good for supporting good leap leaf growth for a 1514 01:24:11.600 --> 01:24:14.800 fruit set as well, it's good for that. I would 1515 01:24:14.840 --> 01:24:17.359 highly recommend it this time of the year for two things, 1516 01:24:17.520 --> 01:24:20.600 transplanting and seed treatments. Do you know you can actually 1517 01:24:20.680 --> 01:24:23.960 soak seeds in that and all of the growth hormones 1518 01:24:24.000 --> 01:24:26.479 and things that are in that material really helps with 1519 01:24:26.680 --> 01:24:28.399 getting seeds off to a good start. You can water 1520 01:24:28.479 --> 01:24:30.439 your little seedlings in with it when you're doing that 1521 01:24:30.479 --> 01:24:33.640 when you're starting your own seeds. But when you're doing transplanting, 1522 01:24:33.880 --> 01:24:37.800 just get your big watering can put about I would 1523 01:24:37.840 --> 01:24:42.039 say maybe six tablespoons or three ounces in a gallon 1524 01:24:42.079 --> 01:24:45.560 of water and just drench it right over those plants. 1525 01:24:45.600 --> 01:24:47.000 You can get it on the leaves, you can get 1526 01:24:47.039 --> 01:24:49.039 it on the roots, have it soak in, do it 1527 01:24:49.119 --> 01:24:52.399 about every two weeks and it works really well. I'll 1528 01:24:52.479 --> 01:24:55.399 often just take the little about an ounce of it 1529 01:24:55.680 --> 01:24:57.560 in a gallon of water and just pour it all 1530 01:24:57.640 --> 01:25:00.880 over the areas in a new transplant and it will 1531 01:25:00.920 --> 01:25:03.399 give you good results. Medina products are widely available. Were 1532 01:25:03.399 --> 01:25:05.439 going to find them all over the place, not hard 1533 01:25:05.479 --> 01:25:07.960 to find it all. And they do, they do really 1534 01:25:08.199 --> 01:25:13.199 really work, that is for sure. Well, I'm coming up 1535 01:25:13.239 --> 01:25:15.199 here on a hard break and so I'm not going 1536 01:25:15.279 --> 01:25:17.520 to grab the next call till we come back. But Anthony, 1537 01:25:17.600 --> 01:25:20.880 you'll be first up when we come back. And also 1538 01:25:21.199 --> 01:25:24.840 we've got a Runnie and Lake Jackson and rich In Spring. 1539 01:25:25.279 --> 01:25:27.039 If you can hang on, we'll talk to you right 1540 01:25:27.079 --> 01:25:31.239 after the break. All right, folks, welcome, Welcome back to Guardline. 1541 01:25:31.279 --> 01:25:33.159 We are going to get right to it here for 1542 01:25:33.279 --> 01:25:37.119 this hour. I was tugged about an RCW nurserries yesterday 1543 01:25:37.159 --> 01:25:39.680 and I wanted to mention it again. Fallows the time 1544 01:25:39.760 --> 01:25:43.199 to plant trees and shrubs. It is absolutely the best time. 1545 01:25:43.279 --> 01:25:44.800 The sooner you do it, the better off you are. 1546 01:25:45.119 --> 01:25:48.600 That's how that works. I mean, it really is. RCW 1547 01:25:49.199 --> 01:25:53.479 has some great deals going on. Our CW that's the 1548 01:25:53.560 --> 01:25:58.199 garden center that is where Beltway eight and Tomball Parkway 1549 01:25:58.439 --> 01:26:01.600 up them two forty nine they come together. And so 1550 01:26:01.840 --> 01:26:04.119 when you head to RCW, you are going to find 1551 01:26:04.239 --> 01:26:06.439 every kind of plant you would want. I mean fall 1552 01:26:06.560 --> 01:26:08.840 colors there, you know, snap dragons. I got some gorgeous 1553 01:26:08.840 --> 01:26:12.119 snap dragons there. They've got a lot of good deals 1554 01:26:12.159 --> 01:26:15.159 going on. You know, their Cajun hibiscus fifty percent off. 1555 01:26:15.680 --> 01:26:19.000 All their trees are fifteen percent off, all their shrubs 1556 01:26:19.039 --> 01:26:22.359 are twenty percent off. So do you want a tree, 1557 01:26:22.760 --> 01:26:24.840 maybe a smaller size that you can pick it up 1558 01:26:24.840 --> 01:26:27.319 and plant it yourself, They've got those. Do you want 1559 01:26:27.359 --> 01:26:29.600 something so big, they definitely gonta have to bring it 1560 01:26:29.640 --> 01:26:32.520 in and plant, like two hundred gallon borough or lace 1561 01:26:32.560 --> 01:26:36.439 bark elms. They've got those, and those are excellent trees. Listen. 1562 01:26:36.479 --> 01:26:38.840 They grow their own up in Plantersville at the Williamson 1563 01:26:38.880 --> 01:26:41.439 Tree Farm up there, And so when you get a 1564 01:26:41.479 --> 01:26:43.880 tree from RCW, you know you're getting a tree that, 1565 01:26:44.079 --> 01:26:46.880 through their decades and decades of experience in this business, 1566 01:26:47.439 --> 01:26:50.119 they know grows here and succeeds here. That's the only 1567 01:26:50.199 --> 01:26:52.239 thing they grow, and they grow them right, and they 1568 01:26:52.399 --> 01:26:56.000 will help you have success. Ceterris. They've got a good 1569 01:26:56.079 --> 01:26:58.600 selection of Ceterris that has come in. Another reason to 1570 01:26:58.680 --> 01:27:02.880 go to RCW website Rcwnursries dot com. You can follow 1571 01:27:02.920 --> 01:27:05.840 them on social media. Just remember they're the garden center 1572 01:27:05.920 --> 01:27:10.479 there where Beltway eight comes in to intersect with FM 1573 01:27:10.640 --> 01:27:14.680 two forty nine. Tombaw Parkway open Monday through Saturday eight 1574 01:27:14.760 --> 01:27:18.119 to five and today from ten am to five pm 1575 01:27:18.199 --> 01:27:21.079 as well. RCW they get it got a nursery. If 1576 01:27:21.079 --> 01:27:23.560 they don't have something, just ask, I bet they can 1577 01:27:23.600 --> 01:27:25.960 get it for you. We're going to head now out 1578 01:27:26.119 --> 01:27:30.720 to Westbury, Texas and talk to Anthony. Hello Anthony, Welcome 1579 01:27:30.760 --> 01:27:34.079 to garden Line. Good good morning. 1580 01:27:35.439 --> 01:27:39.800 I had a wallet tree fall over because of Hurricane Meryl, 1581 01:27:40.079 --> 01:27:44.079 and it was about sixty five feet tall. Anyway, it's 1582 01:27:44.079 --> 01:27:48.279 all dug out and the whole is about three feet 1583 01:27:48.359 --> 01:27:51.920 wide three feet seep and I burned out the roots 1584 01:27:52.119 --> 01:27:54.319 in that area and I'm looking to clean it all 1585 01:27:54.439 --> 01:27:57.560 out as far as the ash, and I'd like to 1586 01:27:57.720 --> 01:28:01.800 use what I have otherwise what you recommend. I want 1587 01:28:01.880 --> 01:28:05.520 to put it in a mixed jungle land and rose 1588 01:28:05.720 --> 01:28:09.920 tut soil, and I have a lot of cedar mulch. 1589 01:28:10.800 --> 01:28:12.359 What do you think about the soil I'm going to 1590 01:28:12.479 --> 01:28:17.680 use and a mulch? Okay? And you're you're wanting to 1591 01:28:17.960 --> 01:28:20.560 use your wanting to plant? What there? Please? 1592 01:28:21.600 --> 01:28:21.720 Uh? 1593 01:28:22.399 --> 01:28:24.119 It's the lady who gave it to me. 1594 01:28:24.239 --> 01:28:27.279 Call it a mandalina, which translates to tangerine. 1595 01:28:29.039 --> 01:28:29.479 Oh okay. 1596 01:28:30.119 --> 01:28:30.239 Uh. 1597 01:28:30.560 --> 01:28:33.359 When I got it, it was about it's about ten 1598 01:28:33.520 --> 01:28:34.159 twelve inches. 1599 01:28:35.119 --> 01:28:38.960 Right now it's about three feet gotcha? And what what 1600 01:28:39.279 --> 01:28:41.800 kind of wall? You said? It was a walnut that 1601 01:28:41.920 --> 01:28:43.920 was there? Do you know what kind of walnut it was? 1602 01:28:44.800 --> 01:28:44.840 No? 1603 01:28:47.239 --> 01:28:54.279 Big beautiful walnuts produce Okay, walnuts produce substances that can 1604 01:28:54.760 --> 01:28:58.079 be damaging to other plants in the area, but not 1605 01:28:58.199 --> 01:29:00.800 all plants, just certain types. I think your citrus should 1606 01:29:00.840 --> 01:29:05.039 be fine. I would use any kind of like a 1607 01:29:05.239 --> 01:29:08.920 rose soil, mix a blend. As far as the jungle land, 1608 01:29:09.399 --> 01:29:12.680 you know, that's more of a potting type soil. You 1609 01:29:12.760 --> 01:29:14.960 could put some down, but I would look for something 1610 01:29:15.239 --> 01:29:18.039 with a little more chunkiness to it, like a rose 1611 01:29:18.079 --> 01:29:20.920 soil for example, or some of the other blends that 1612 01:29:21.000 --> 01:29:23.520 are out there on the market. But you want to 1613 01:29:23.520 --> 01:29:25.159 spread it out over the area, you want to mix 1614 01:29:25.239 --> 01:29:27.119 it in as deeply as you can, and then you 1615 01:29:27.159 --> 01:29:30.039 want to spread more and end up creating a raised mound. 1616 01:29:30.119 --> 01:29:31.720 If you want to throw a little sand in there, 1617 01:29:31.760 --> 01:29:32.880 if you want to throw a little bit of a 1618 01:29:33.279 --> 01:29:36.520 sandy loam top soil in there, mixed mixing it in 1619 01:29:36.760 --> 01:29:39.279 with it, all of those things helped create that raised 1620 01:29:39.359 --> 01:29:41.399 mound that's going to be a little more stable over 1621 01:29:41.520 --> 01:29:44.479 time to help the extra water drain away when it 1622 01:29:44.640 --> 01:29:47.840 rains too much. So that'd be my recommendation there, Anthony. 1623 01:29:48.439 --> 01:29:53.000 Very good. And I'm using BGI brand Citrus Gain eight 1624 01:29:53.159 --> 01:29:54.680 or nine citrus food. 1625 01:29:55.159 --> 01:29:58.439 What do you think about that? I have never used it. 1626 01:29:58.760 --> 01:30:01.720 I'm not familiar with that one. Okay, I just don't know. 1627 01:30:02.279 --> 01:30:05.039 I know we got you know, we got quality citrus blends. 1628 01:30:05.119 --> 01:30:08.720 Microlife makes the citrus blend, night Foss Nelson Plant Food. 1629 01:30:08.760 --> 01:30:12.520 Those all make products for fruit trees or citrus that 1630 01:30:12.560 --> 01:30:15.640 would work just fine. By the way, another soil blend 1631 01:30:15.680 --> 01:30:18.199 that would be good to throw into that area would 1632 01:30:18.279 --> 01:30:22.840 be the citrus fruit and Citrus blend from Heirloom Soils. 1633 01:30:22.920 --> 01:30:24.880 Even buy that by the bag and bring it in 1634 01:30:25.039 --> 01:30:27.039 to create help create that mound. The fact that I 1635 01:30:27.079 --> 01:30:30.760 would definitely do that one. Okay, I'll see that. We're 1636 01:30:30.800 --> 01:30:34.159 at the place there on ruwink and yeah, that's it. 1637 01:30:34.279 --> 01:30:39.239 I forget the name, you bet Southwest Fertilizer carries them. Yeah, okay, 1638 01:30:39.239 --> 01:30:45.520 all right, sir, have fun, Bye bye. You take care trees. 1639 01:30:45.680 --> 01:30:48.039 People are concerned about their trees, and they should be. 1640 01:30:48.199 --> 01:30:50.439 The trees have got left after Hurricane Beryl and the 1641 01:30:50.520 --> 01:30:54.039 other storm that came through. Uh, it's tree pruning season 1642 01:30:54.520 --> 01:30:57.760 all the way up and through February. Really is the 1643 01:30:57.840 --> 01:31:01.119 best time to get trees pruned. The person you want 1644 01:31:01.159 --> 01:31:03.680 to hire is Martin spoon Moore from Affordable Tree. He 1645 01:31:03.840 --> 01:31:06.079 knows what he's doing. He does good work, but he 1646 01:31:06.119 --> 01:31:08.520 stays busy because he does good work. So you need 1647 01:31:08.600 --> 01:31:10.680 to give him a call and get on the schedule. 1648 01:31:10.760 --> 01:31:12.520 Don't delay even if you're not going to get pruning 1649 01:31:12.560 --> 01:31:15.359 done until February. Call him now and get on the schedule. 1650 01:31:15.439 --> 01:31:18.359 So you've got a spot. Okay, tell him you are 1651 01:31:18.399 --> 01:31:22.159 a guardenline listener. Here's the number seven one, three, six 1652 01:31:22.359 --> 01:31:26.000 nine twenty six sixty three. When you call, you're going 1653 01:31:26.079 --> 01:31:28.880 to get Martin or his wife Joe. They are the owners. 1654 01:31:29.079 --> 01:31:31.039 And if they don't answer, you call the wrong place. 1655 01:31:31.119 --> 01:31:35.079 Hang up at doll seven one three six nine nine 1656 01:31:35.720 --> 01:31:42.479 two six six three Affordable Tree Service Afftree Service dot Com. 1657 01:31:42.600 --> 01:31:45.359 Now he doesn't just do pruning, he'll do deep root feeding. 1658 01:31:45.439 --> 01:31:47.760 He'll check the overall health. They'll advise you if you're 1659 01:31:47.760 --> 01:31:49.880 going to do a trench or a patio or something 1660 01:31:49.920 --> 01:31:51.960 around a tree on how to not kill that tree. 1661 01:31:52.720 --> 01:31:54.960 Don't just let somebody who shows up with a pickup 1662 01:31:55.000 --> 01:31:56.880 a chainsaw on a business card, he sticks in your 1663 01:31:57.279 --> 01:32:00.960 stick in your door. Uh to be turned loose on 1664 01:32:01.039 --> 01:32:05.800 your trees. Bad pruning is forever need har Martin Affordable 1665 01:32:05.840 --> 01:32:08.039 Tree Service seven to one three six nine nine two 1666 01:32:08.199 --> 01:32:11.079 six six three. Now we're going to go to Spring, 1667 01:32:11.239 --> 01:32:14.119 Texas and talk to Rich. Hello, Rich, Welcome to garden Line. 1668 01:32:14.159 --> 01:32:15.840 Good good morning. Skits. 1669 01:32:16.479 --> 01:32:22.880 Questions regarding pre emergence and whether you could use a 1670 01:32:23.039 --> 01:32:27.520 combination of pre emergence such as prodiamine or the active 1671 01:32:27.720 --> 01:32:31.720 ingredient in pennet magnum metal la chlore. Can you mix 1672 01:32:31.800 --> 01:32:32.359 in mac. 1673 01:32:35.159 --> 01:32:39.920 What I do would not? Okay, go ahead, go ahead. 1674 01:32:44.279 --> 01:32:46.800 You're you were going to explain something why you want 1675 01:32:46.840 --> 01:32:47.960 to do it? Well? 1676 01:32:48.399 --> 01:32:51.159 Yes, what I have is in addition to my own 1677 01:32:51.239 --> 01:32:54.319 law and I help about five other people, and there 1678 01:32:54.359 --> 01:32:59.439 are various different problems in the lawns. So I looked 1679 01:32:59.479 --> 01:33:03.239 at look at both of these products, and there is 1680 01:33:03.359 --> 01:33:06.680 some overlapping, but then there are some unique things that 1681 01:33:06.800 --> 01:33:09.720 they focus on. So that's why I was wondering if 1682 01:33:09.760 --> 01:33:12.880 you could do both and then try to cover more 1683 01:33:12.960 --> 01:33:14.079 areas of problems. 1684 01:33:15.840 --> 01:33:18.319 There are times when you would switch to a different 1685 01:33:18.399 --> 01:33:22.680 pre emergent for certain problems, but in general, I would 1686 01:33:22.760 --> 01:33:26.600 say don't double up on things. A lot of the 1687 01:33:26.680 --> 01:33:29.800 pre emergence or sounds like you do a little research 1688 01:33:29.840 --> 01:33:32.079 online yourself, So I'll just tell you this. A lot 1689 01:33:32.119 --> 01:33:37.000 of the pre emergents are called DNA type herbicides, dinitro anolenes, 1690 01:33:37.640 --> 01:33:40.600 and those all work the same, and when you overdose 1691 01:33:40.920 --> 01:33:45.319 with those, you can have stunting of turf roots because 1692 01:33:45.520 --> 01:33:48.840 you know, overdosing is not following the label, and so 1693 01:33:49.000 --> 01:33:51.279 if you use two different ones that had the same 1694 01:33:51.399 --> 01:33:54.720 mode of action, you could create some problems. Now there's 1695 01:33:54.760 --> 01:33:55.279 some there. 1696 01:33:55.479 --> 01:33:55.640 You know. 1697 01:33:55.720 --> 01:33:59.479 They're products. A barricade does good against the broad leaf 1698 01:33:59.560 --> 01:34:05.000 and the gradsweeds. The fertilizer that called carbload that Nelson's 1699 01:34:05.079 --> 01:34:08.039 makes has a pre emergent in it as well. There 1700 01:34:08.159 --> 01:34:11.760 are some pre emergents that primarily focus on broadleaf. They 1701 01:34:11.760 --> 01:34:14.159 won't control grassy weeds. So if your problem is mainly 1702 01:34:14.239 --> 01:34:16.399 broad leaf, well, I could see an argument being made 1703 01:34:16.479 --> 01:34:20.399 for that, but I wouldn't start to mix and match. 1704 01:34:20.840 --> 01:34:23.199 I think you could run into some problems. 1705 01:34:23.760 --> 01:34:28.640 If the biggest problem among the lawns was doveweed and sedges, 1706 01:34:29.880 --> 01:34:32.560 is there one of the pre emergence you would recommend 1707 01:34:32.720 --> 01:34:33.279 over the other? 1708 01:34:34.720 --> 01:34:37.600 So nuts sedge we don't use pre emergence for because 1709 01:34:37.640 --> 01:34:41.399 it almost never comes from seed. It's usually tubers that 1710 01:34:42.039 --> 01:34:47.960 is coming from a kilinga and some of the other sedges. 1711 01:34:48.600 --> 01:34:51.479 Maybe a pre emergent, I'd have to go look at 1712 01:34:51.560 --> 01:34:54.840 what is the best label product for something like a kilinga. Said, 1713 01:34:55.520 --> 01:35:01.479 But doveweed, it's a warm season weed, and so that's 1714 01:35:01.520 --> 01:35:05.439 something we would talk about in the spring, when we're 1715 01:35:05.479 --> 01:35:07.960 coming out of winter, the soil's warming up, we would 1716 01:35:08.000 --> 01:35:11.560 put a pro emergent down for warm season weeds. Quite 1717 01:35:11.600 --> 01:35:15.159 different than now. I've got on my gardening schedule, the 1718 01:35:15.359 --> 01:35:18.960 pest disease and weed management schedule at gardening with Skip 1719 01:35:19.039 --> 01:35:22.079 dot com. I've got a list of some pro emergents 1720 01:35:22.479 --> 01:35:25.239 and the timing on them on there and I would 1721 01:35:25.279 --> 01:35:29.159 follow that. Okay, we'll do. I appreciate your help. SKIP. 1722 01:35:29.239 --> 01:35:32.399 Thank you all right, you take care. Thanks for the call. 1723 01:35:32.479 --> 01:35:36.279 Appreciate that you're listening to garden Line folks our phone 1724 01:35:36.359 --> 01:35:40.880 number seven one three two one two kt r H 1725 01:35:41.000 --> 01:35:43.159 seven to one three two one two KTRHA. You know, 1726 01:35:43.199 --> 01:35:47.039 a pre emergent, for example, would be barricade by Nitrofoss. 1727 01:35:47.439 --> 01:35:49.640 That's part of their Texas three step. You know the 1728 01:35:49.720 --> 01:35:54.680 Texas three Step by Nitrofoss that means fertilizer week prevention 1729 01:35:55.359 --> 01:35:59.640 and disease prevention. So it's the Nitrovoss Well Special that's 1730 01:35:59.680 --> 01:36:04.119 the first designed for fall. I've talked more than once 1731 01:36:04.199 --> 01:36:06.479 today about what's the differtine a summer fertilizer and a 1732 01:36:06.520 --> 01:36:10.840 fall fertilizer. This is a fall fertilizer Fall Special. Barricade 1733 01:36:10.960 --> 01:36:14.520 pre emergent controls most grassy and broad leaf weeds. It's 1734 01:36:14.560 --> 01:36:17.520 got a broad range of things that it will prevent. 1735 01:36:17.960 --> 01:36:21.119 It does not kill existing weeds. It is a pre emergent, 1736 01:36:21.319 --> 01:36:23.159 so you got to get it down and watered in 1737 01:36:23.800 --> 01:36:25.960 now so that when we get a cool spell and 1738 01:36:26.000 --> 01:36:29.319 the weeds start to sprout, the barricade is there, creating 1739 01:36:29.359 --> 01:36:32.199 a barricade to stop the weeds from coming through. And 1740 01:36:32.279 --> 01:36:35.399 then finally Nitroposs Fall Special. That's their turf fungicide. It's 1741 01:36:35.439 --> 01:36:38.880 a systemic it moves into the plant, so when brown 1742 01:36:38.960 --> 01:36:42.840 patch shows up, it's already there to prevent infection. When 1743 01:36:42.960 --> 01:36:45.680 take all root rot shows up, it's already there to 1744 01:36:45.800 --> 01:36:51.760 fight infection. And those three steps Fall Special Barricade, Eagle 1745 01:36:51.960 --> 01:36:55.479 Turf Fungicide by Nitrofoss, We'll do the trick. You can 1746 01:36:55.479 --> 01:36:57.439 get them at D and D Feed and Tambo. You 1747 01:36:57.479 --> 01:36:59.960 can get them at Ace Hardware, Single Ranch Arbigate Up 1748 01:37:00.039 --> 01:37:03.600 and Tomball carries nitofossproducts. Shades of Texas, by the way, 1749 01:37:03.920 --> 01:37:06.479 in Southeast Houston on Genoa Red Bluff for places you 1750 01:37:06.560 --> 01:37:11.920 can get those Nitrofoss type products there as well. I 1751 01:37:12.439 --> 01:37:16.439 was online the other day looking at Pierscapes because I 1752 01:37:16.479 --> 01:37:18.760 always like to look at Pierscape's website, by the way, 1753 01:37:18.840 --> 01:37:22.199 that's peerscapes dot Com, at the kind of work that 1754 01:37:22.279 --> 01:37:27.159 they do, because they they just create magical environments around 1755 01:37:27.159 --> 01:37:30.640 the home, like that lighting, that landscape lighting that just 1756 01:37:30.800 --> 01:37:33.760 sets the tone like the sound of water you know, 1757 01:37:33.840 --> 01:37:37.199 do you want a waterfall or something real nice when created? 1758 01:37:37.479 --> 01:37:42.319 They can do that like maybe an outdoor patio, hardscape, barbecue, 1759 01:37:42.359 --> 01:37:46.119 pet walkways. Do you need improved drainage, everything like that. 1760 01:37:46.239 --> 01:37:48.520 Pierscapes does it all and all you have to do 1761 01:37:48.840 --> 01:37:51.319 is go to the website piercescapes dot com see the 1762 01:37:51.399 --> 01:37:54.319 work that they do. They also do quarterly maintenance. If 1763 01:37:54.359 --> 01:37:55.720 you want to hire them just to come out once 1764 01:37:55.760 --> 01:37:58.520 a quarter and turn your flower beds into something special. 1765 01:37:58.840 --> 01:38:00.000 They will do that and you don't have to worry 1766 01:38:00.000 --> 01:38:02.119 wry about it. Or you can give Pierscapes a call 1767 01:38:02.199 --> 01:38:05.479 at three excuse me two eight one three seven oh 1768 01:38:05.920 --> 01:38:11.119 fifty sixty two eight one three seven oh five zero 1769 01:38:11.720 --> 01:38:15.000 six zero. I'm going to take a break here for 1770 01:38:15.399 --> 01:38:17.319 the halfway, not the top of the air or the 1771 01:38:17.319 --> 01:38:19.439 bottom of the hour, and I'll be right back with 1772 01:38:19.560 --> 01:38:23.159 your phone calls at seven one three two one two KTRH. 1773 01:38:27.319 --> 01:38:29.880 Welcome back, Welcome back to garden. I'm good to have 1774 01:38:30.000 --> 01:38:31.560 you with us. Hey, let's get going here. We got 1775 01:38:31.600 --> 01:38:33.680 plenty to talk about. When was the last time you 1776 01:38:33.720 --> 01:38:36.960 went to in Channet Forest. I love going in in 1777 01:38:37.079 --> 01:38:38.600 Chenneit forest, in fact, I'm going to be out there 1778 01:38:38.680 --> 01:38:40.760 this fall. I am gonna be out there. I'll tell 1779 01:38:40.760 --> 01:38:42.199 you more about it. We get a little bit closer 1780 01:38:42.279 --> 01:38:45.039 to it, and Channet Forest is on FM twenty seven 1781 01:38:45.199 --> 01:38:49.800 fifty nine Richmond address. If you're in Richmond heading towards 1782 01:38:49.880 --> 01:38:52.439 sugar Land, it's off to the right on FM twenty 1783 01:38:52.479 --> 01:38:54.600 seven fifty nine nine. Chennit Forest is the kind of 1784 01:38:54.640 --> 01:38:58.239 place where there's always cool stuff happening. I mean right now. 1785 01:38:58.359 --> 01:39:01.199 They are stocked up on vegeta for fall. And you 1786 01:39:01.279 --> 01:39:03.239 need to have a fall garden, even if it's just 1787 01:39:03.359 --> 01:39:05.800 a container on the patio for crying out loud. Have 1788 01:39:05.960 --> 01:39:09.520 some fall garden plants for good, healthy, yummy eating. They 1789 01:39:09.560 --> 01:39:13.600 have mixed planting containers for fall that are gorgeous. You 1790 01:39:13.680 --> 01:39:16.600 think mums are pretty, emboy, did they have mums. They 1791 01:39:16.680 --> 01:39:20.239 got mixed containers that just stop traffic. They are beautiful 1792 01:39:20.319 --> 01:39:21.680 And if you want to make your own, they'll tell 1793 01:39:21.680 --> 01:39:23.640 you how to do it. They'll help you combine them. 1794 01:39:23.680 --> 01:39:25.319 You know, they'll say, well, why don't you put some 1795 01:39:25.399 --> 01:39:26.720 of this with some of that with some of this. 1796 01:39:27.720 --> 01:39:30.760 You can get a container there from them and everything. Okay, 1797 01:39:30.840 --> 01:39:35.039 we're entering the season for Thanksgiving cactus, Christmas cactus, you 1798 01:39:35.119 --> 01:39:39.439 know those holiday cacti. Those things are blooming full of buds. 1799 01:39:40.000 --> 01:39:42.359 You need one for your house. I've got plenty from 1800 01:39:42.439 --> 01:39:45.840 I keep propagating and having fun with them. Those are 1801 01:39:45.960 --> 01:39:48.199 great plants and they're so easy to take care of 1802 01:39:48.319 --> 01:39:51.359 through the year, and they make good good gifts as well. 1803 01:39:51.600 --> 01:39:55.000 Do you need fall color for the landscape? Snap dragons, 1804 01:39:55.159 --> 01:39:57.520 dusty mell or you know those kinds of things like 1805 01:39:57.880 --> 01:40:02.479 Viola's and and whatnot. They've got it all asters. Oh 1806 01:40:02.560 --> 01:40:05.039 my gosh, you're so beautiful. And I already mentioned I 1807 01:40:05.199 --> 01:40:09.560 mentioned the beautiful, beautiful moms Tallivera pumpkins. If you've never 1808 01:40:09.680 --> 01:40:11.880 seen one, you got to go see one and go 1809 01:40:12.159 --> 01:40:14.880 just go straight out to in Channed Forest Garden Center 1810 01:40:15.079 --> 01:40:18.359 Channel Forest Nursery right out there in the Richmond Rosenberg 1811 01:40:18.439 --> 01:40:23.479 area FM twenty seven fifty nine. Look at the Talivera pumpkins. 1812 01:40:23.600 --> 01:40:25.079 You buy one of those now, you'll have it for 1813 01:40:25.239 --> 01:40:28.279 years and it is so cool. I mean, they you 1814 01:40:28.399 --> 01:40:31.319 cannot get more festive for a decoration for your front 1815 01:40:31.359 --> 01:40:33.800 porch or back patio or inside the house. And one 1816 01:40:33.800 --> 01:40:36.880 of their Talivera pumpkins that they have there. I love 1817 01:40:36.960 --> 01:40:40.960 that place. Let's send out and out to Pleasantville and 1818 01:40:41.000 --> 01:40:43.239 I'm going to talk to Deborah. Hello, Deborah, welcome to 1819 01:40:43.319 --> 01:40:43.800 garden Line. 1820 01:40:44.319 --> 01:40:47.319 Well, good Morne scoop. Did I send an email? 1821 01:40:47.600 --> 01:40:47.920 We help? 1822 01:40:50.359 --> 01:40:55.439 I saw that? I can I can saw it? 1823 01:40:55.560 --> 01:40:56.680 Cannot o. 1824 01:40:57.479 --> 01:40:59.239 I can hear you. Yeah. Do you have your radio 1825 01:40:59.319 --> 01:41:00.000 going in the background? 1826 01:41:00.600 --> 01:41:02.239 You no, I'm outside in the yard. 1827 01:41:03.520 --> 01:41:06.720 Oh okay, all right, Well I saw the pictures. Those 1828 01:41:06.840 --> 01:41:11.359 are not chinchbugs. It looks like roaches. As far as 1829 01:41:11.479 --> 01:41:14.239 the yard, there are a couple of things going on 1830 01:41:14.840 --> 01:41:18.840 the thing that I don't see. I see a little 1831 01:41:18.840 --> 01:41:21.479 bit of like a gray leaf spot in the yard. 1832 01:41:22.239 --> 01:41:24.560 You know, it's that time of the year where we are. 1833 01:41:24.880 --> 01:41:27.720 We often have some periods where some things are turning 1834 01:41:27.800 --> 01:41:31.199 brown or turning yellow, and they can bounce back. I 1835 01:41:31.239 --> 01:41:33.640 wouldn't worry about them a lot. I don't see any 1836 01:41:33.720 --> 01:41:36.840 active disease. And the pictures you sent me that are 1837 01:41:36.880 --> 01:41:39.279 a concern. But here's what I do see. And I've 1838 01:41:39.319 --> 01:41:41.840 got this in my yard, so I'm not after you. 1839 01:41:42.079 --> 01:41:44.960 I've got it in my yard. My lawnmower blade has 1840 01:41:45.000 --> 01:41:48.720 gotten really dull this year, and as a result, instead 1841 01:41:48.760 --> 01:41:51.399 of cutting the blade off with a nice clean cut. 1842 01:41:52.239 --> 01:41:55.279 It just sort of rips the end of the blade 1843 01:41:55.319 --> 01:41:58.520 off with that dull mower blade, and as a result, 1844 01:41:58.640 --> 01:42:01.520 there's real shaggy in the turn brown. And when you 1845 01:42:01.720 --> 01:42:05.079 multiply that times a billion, you look at your lawn 1846 01:42:05.279 --> 01:42:08.359 and it just has a tan hue to the whole lawn. 1847 01:42:09.000 --> 01:42:12.000 And and and just sharpening the blade up would help 1848 01:42:12.039 --> 01:42:14.359 without a lot. It's not making your grass sick, it 1849 01:42:14.479 --> 01:42:17.159 just makes it look bad, and so sharpening it would 1850 01:42:17.239 --> 01:42:19.760 make a lot of difference. Overall, it looks pretty good. 1851 01:42:20.159 --> 01:42:22.520 I would do. Have you done your fall fertilization yet? 1852 01:42:23.439 --> 01:42:27.479 I absolutely have that will emergence? 1853 01:42:29.680 --> 01:42:33.359 Yeah, emergent? Okay, Well, I mean your lawn has good density. 1854 01:42:33.880 --> 01:42:37.159 The pictures look good. I just think that color is 1855 01:42:37.840 --> 01:42:40.319 you know, hopefully the fall fertilization is going to kick 1856 01:42:40.399 --> 01:42:42.600 in and give you a little bit improvement on that. 1857 01:42:42.920 --> 01:42:46.119 But I don't see any diseases. I don't see anything 1858 01:42:46.159 --> 01:42:47.439 that I'd say, oh my gosh, you got to go 1859 01:42:47.560 --> 01:42:49.119 control this. It's about to kill your lawn. 1860 01:42:50.239 --> 01:42:53.119 The three photos of the grass that I set the 1861 01:42:53.239 --> 01:42:57.319 close up is my yard. The other two are neighbor's yards. 1862 01:42:58.279 --> 01:43:00.920 They probably at my blades sharpen. This year, I'll get 1863 01:43:00.960 --> 01:43:03.000 them sharpened again. They probably have not. 1864 01:43:04.760 --> 01:43:08.560 Yeah, okay, well the pictures look to me like they 1865 01:43:08.640 --> 01:43:12.920 have not. I just what I'm seeing. It's not that impressive. 1866 01:43:13.239 --> 01:43:15.359 When I look at your close up. I still I 1867 01:43:15.520 --> 01:43:18.560 also see a little bit of a shagginess on the cut. 1868 01:43:18.720 --> 01:43:21.359 But I just see some older leaves that are turning tan. 1869 01:43:21.520 --> 01:43:24.760 But there's lots of fresh new growth. And other than 1870 01:43:24.840 --> 01:43:29.039 a spot or two of a fungal spot, I just 1871 01:43:29.119 --> 01:43:31.359 don't see much in it. I don't see signs of 1872 01:43:32.319 --> 01:43:35.039 side web worms. I don't see signs of chinchbugs. 1873 01:43:38.520 --> 01:43:41.520 Those little bugs are sent shoes picture up. They're covering 1874 01:43:41.600 --> 01:43:43.319 my yard water they come up. 1875 01:43:43.520 --> 01:43:48.079 Well, I know, but that's that's nature. They're out there. 1876 01:43:48.760 --> 01:43:50.600 I mowed my lawn the other day and stopped just 1877 01:43:50.680 --> 01:43:52.800 to took pictures because every time I take a step 1878 01:43:52.840 --> 01:43:55.319 mow in the lawn more bugs had come up a lot. 1879 01:43:56.159 --> 01:43:58.439 That's that's just part of the deal. They are not 1880 01:43:58.760 --> 01:44:02.760 a pest of your none of that, the little tiny snails, 1881 01:44:03.000 --> 01:44:07.000 nor the insects or pestle r turf. Now the lantana 1882 01:44:07.520 --> 01:44:10.399 has got the chewing past that's attacking it and I 1883 01:44:10.520 --> 01:44:12.520 think it's a beetle. I can't see the past, I 1884 01:44:12.600 --> 01:44:15.279 see the damage at this point in the season. I 1885 01:44:15.319 --> 01:44:19.920 wouldn't know about it either. I just see holes in 1886 01:44:19.920 --> 01:44:21.199 the leaves. What are we talking about? 1887 01:44:21.279 --> 01:44:23.039 Yeah, yeah, I see a bug that. 1888 01:44:24.880 --> 01:44:25.159 I don't know. 1889 01:44:26.239 --> 01:44:31.439 A beetle. Wow, yeah, beetle. Okay. There are three things 1890 01:44:31.479 --> 01:44:34.800 that eat lead, well more than three. Grasshoppers can, slugs 1891 01:44:34.840 --> 01:44:37.399 and snails can. But the two things we have most 1892 01:44:37.439 --> 01:44:40.399 of our caterpillars and beetles. And these kinds of holes 1893 01:44:40.439 --> 01:44:43.319 in the lee for signs most likely of a beetle. 1894 01:44:43.760 --> 01:44:46.119 Could be a caterpillar, but probably a beatle. But I'm 1895 01:44:46.159 --> 01:44:48.920 telling you you've got so much good, healthy foliage. We're 1896 01:44:48.920 --> 01:44:50.960 about to go into winter her for too long. I 1897 01:44:51.000 --> 01:44:53.359 would not waste your time out there spraying. I don't 1898 01:44:53.359 --> 01:44:55.960 think it's worth it. That may be old damage anyway, 1899 01:44:56.199 --> 01:44:59.560 to be honest. In other words, the pests may already 1900 01:44:59.560 --> 01:45:02.319 have moved on. You're always going to have a few pests, 1901 01:45:02.840 --> 01:45:05.279 but they got to be around in high enough numbers 1902 01:45:05.319 --> 01:45:07.920 to warrant control. So I thank you. I think you 1903 01:45:07.960 --> 01:45:09.399 can relax and don't worry about that. 1904 01:45:11.159 --> 01:45:14.600 Okay, all right, thank you very much. 1905 01:45:14.960 --> 01:45:15.880 I'll keep listening. 1906 01:45:16.000 --> 01:45:18.720 Thank you for the call, all right. I appreciate that 1907 01:45:18.960 --> 01:45:20.680 you take care, have a good rest of your weekend, 1908 01:45:21.399 --> 01:45:24.319 that is for sure. Ace Hardware stores are where you 1909 01:45:24.439 --> 01:45:27.159 get supplies for everything. What if you did have beetles 1910 01:45:27.279 --> 01:45:31.319 and you need an insecticide or grasshoppers or caterpillars. Ace 1911 01:45:31.359 --> 01:45:34.159 has got you covered mosquitoes too. By the way, n O. 1912 01:45:34.359 --> 01:45:37.840 In fire ants and fire ance, Welcome to Texas. Fire 1913 01:45:37.880 --> 01:45:41.199 at bait. Fall is the time falls football season. Fall 1914 01:45:41.319 --> 01:45:44.239 is the time to tackle fire ants with fire ant bait, 1915 01:45:44.359 --> 01:45:47.479 and Ace Hardware has a variety of options for fire 1916 01:45:47.520 --> 01:45:50.840 at baits. It's fall fertilizing time. I keep I've talked 1917 01:45:50.840 --> 01:45:52.960 about that so much today I'm about to turn blue 1918 01:45:52.960 --> 01:45:55.520 in the face as I say. Ace Hardware has every 1919 01:45:55.560 --> 01:45:58.399 fertilizer you would possibly want to buy a need that 1920 01:45:58.600 --> 01:46:01.039 is going to give you success in your lawn. They 1921 01:46:01.119 --> 01:46:04.199 got the fall fertilizers, They got the night fass, three steps, 1922 01:46:04.239 --> 01:46:08.039 the barricade, and the Eagle turf funge asides at Ace Hardware, 1923 01:46:08.439 --> 01:46:11.720 and they are so nice. They put an Ace Hardware 1924 01:46:11.760 --> 01:46:15.239 store in your neighborhood. Forty stores in the Greater Houston area. 1925 01:46:15.239 --> 01:46:16.760 You can throw a rock and hit one. Go to 1926 01:46:16.800 --> 01:46:20.199 Ace Hardware dot Com find the store locator there near you. 1927 01:46:20.880 --> 01:46:22.760 But I warn you when you go you think you're 1928 01:46:22.760 --> 01:46:25.319 going to go in there buy back a fertilizer, Allow 1929 01:46:25.439 --> 01:46:27.520 some time, because when you get inside, you were going 1930 01:46:27.600 --> 01:46:29.680 to see a lot of cool stuff you did not 1931 01:46:29.920 --> 01:46:32.560 know Ace Hardware carried, and you're going to find yourself 1932 01:46:32.600 --> 01:46:36.439 shopping and finding some great gifts too at Ace Hardware. 1933 01:46:38.199 --> 01:46:39.760 Let's it out now, What time is it? 1934 01:46:39.840 --> 01:46:40.039 Oop? 1935 01:46:40.079 --> 01:46:42.199 I got to stop. Time for break? Tom and Katie? 1936 01:46:42.279 --> 01:46:44.640 You were deep first up. When we come back, I 1937 01:46:44.760 --> 01:46:51.199 shall be right back, folks. Yea, alright, I'm gonna wait 1938 01:46:51.239 --> 01:46:53.479 a second. Let y'all finish your western sling in the 1939 01:46:53.520 --> 01:46:58.479 living room there. All right, there we go. Hey, welcome 1940 01:46:58.520 --> 01:47:01.399 back to Guardenline. Good to have you with, Good to 1941 01:47:01.479 --> 01:47:03.000 have you with us. Day. We got lots more to 1942 01:47:03.079 --> 01:47:06.079 talk about. You know, the show is not done yet. 1943 01:47:06.199 --> 01:47:08.840 Let's keep going here. I'm going to head straight out 1944 01:47:08.920 --> 01:47:10.880 to the phones and we're going to go to Katie 1945 01:47:10.960 --> 01:47:14.159 Texas and talk to Tom. Hello, Tom, Welcome to garden Line. 1946 01:47:15.399 --> 01:47:16.279 Hey Skiff, how are you? 1947 01:47:17.880 --> 01:47:19.199 I'm good sir. How can we help? 1948 01:47:20.479 --> 01:47:24.039 Quick question for you? I was mowing my grass yesterday 1949 01:47:24.840 --> 01:47:27.439 and just noticed a lot of moss all of a 1950 01:47:27.479 --> 01:47:30.520 sudden starting to fly up as I pushed lawnmow through 1951 01:47:30.560 --> 01:47:33.039 the yard. And I know a couple of years ago 1952 01:47:33.279 --> 01:47:37.239 we had a really bad problem with the web worms 1953 01:47:37.319 --> 01:47:40.199 I guess developed from those and I was just wondering 1954 01:47:40.239 --> 01:47:43.640 if there's anything that you should do or preventative or 1955 01:47:44.079 --> 01:47:45.159 to try to control them. 1956 01:47:46.560 --> 01:47:49.479 Well, we're getting a little late in the season for them. 1957 01:47:49.680 --> 01:47:52.399 They can still occur. I'm not saying they're not soid 1958 01:47:52.439 --> 01:47:54.760 web worms out there. They are. They can be, but 1959 01:47:55.439 --> 01:47:57.800 they'll get a little bit late. What I would suggest 1960 01:47:57.880 --> 01:47:59.680 you do is go out, drop down on your hands 1961 01:47:59.680 --> 01:48:02.199 and knee and look at the grass blades and if 1962 01:48:02.239 --> 01:48:05.000 you see grass blades that look like something's come along 1963 01:48:05.079 --> 01:48:07.000 and taken a bite out of the sides of them, 1964 01:48:07.279 --> 01:48:09.239 in a little chunks, out of the sides of both 1965 01:48:09.279 --> 01:48:12.720 sides of the grass blades, that side web worms. And 1966 01:48:12.880 --> 01:48:17.560 that means you should treat okay, the products containing spinose 1967 01:48:17.560 --> 01:48:22.279 said or the least toxic organic option for controlling side 1968 01:48:22.319 --> 01:48:25.239 web worms. There are many insecticides that will also kill them, 1969 01:48:26.039 --> 01:48:28.600 but you spray the spinosid with a hoseen sprayer get 1970 01:48:28.640 --> 01:48:30.960 it in the leaves. They it soaks into the grass 1971 01:48:31.000 --> 01:48:33.279 tissue and when the web worms come out at night, 1972 01:48:33.359 --> 01:48:38.520 it kills them. Now, I don't think that you have 1973 01:48:38.840 --> 01:48:42.079 side web worms, but you could so go check the 1974 01:48:42.199 --> 01:48:44.880 leaves if you don't see leaves being eaten. There's a 1975 01:48:45.000 --> 01:48:47.000 lot of different kinds of maths. I mowed my lawn 1976 01:48:47.079 --> 01:48:49.399 this week and there were moths coming up, and I 1977 01:48:49.479 --> 01:48:51.279 stopped several times to look at them, and they weren't 1978 01:48:51.279 --> 01:48:53.399 side web worm moths. There were other kinds of moths. 1979 01:48:53.640 --> 01:48:57.239 So let's just not rush to you know, spend the 1980 01:48:57.279 --> 01:48:59.880 money and time on applying a product until your sure, 1981 01:49:00.119 --> 01:49:01.159 and that's a way to be sure. 1982 01:49:02.279 --> 01:49:03.760 I appreciate your health, Thank you, sir. 1983 01:49:05.079 --> 01:49:08.720 All right, you take care, appreciate your call out there. 1984 01:49:10.439 --> 01:49:13.920 The sideweb worms is one of the things, and they 1985 01:49:14.000 --> 01:49:16.880 tend to come and go. Some years are horrible, horrible. 1986 01:49:17.159 --> 01:49:18.840 Some years are not bad at all. And we have 1987 01:49:19.000 --> 01:49:21.000 a bad year and you may have them really bad. 1988 01:49:21.079 --> 01:49:23.079 In your neighbor halfway across down doesn't have a single 1989 01:49:23.119 --> 01:49:26.159 one in the yard. Kind of weird, but that's how 1990 01:49:26.239 --> 01:49:30.279 that happens. Nelson plant Food has a wide variety of 1991 01:49:30.399 --> 01:49:33.359 brands a fertilizer, and it makes it easy because Nelson 1992 01:49:33.399 --> 01:49:36.159 has a fertilizer for everything. You got turf, they've got 1993 01:49:36.239 --> 01:49:39.840 Turf Star brand or Turf Star line. Excuse me, I've 1994 01:49:39.880 --> 01:49:42.079 been promoting their carbo Load because I believe in it 1995 01:49:42.199 --> 01:49:47.119 as a fall fertilization. If you have other flowering plants 1996 01:49:47.159 --> 01:49:50.000 and things that are foliage plants that you want to fertilize. 1997 01:49:50.039 --> 01:49:52.760 They have their Nutrius Star line. So there's a Neutral 1998 01:49:52.800 --> 01:49:57.079 Star for roses for example, Nutral Star for roses, something 1999 01:49:57.159 --> 01:49:59.760 you're going to apply pretty much monthly as a granular. 2000 01:50:00.199 --> 01:50:04.720 Any kind of roads you have, climbing flora, Bunda Grande Flora, miniatures, 2001 01:50:04.880 --> 01:50:07.880 knockout roads, it's for all of those. This blend can 2002 01:50:07.960 --> 01:50:10.439 be used for roses in beds. It can be used 2003 01:50:10.439 --> 01:50:13.359 if you've got roses in a container that works just fine. 2004 01:50:14.039 --> 01:50:17.720 It's got five different sources of nitrogen, and Nelson's really 2005 01:50:17.760 --> 01:50:22.359 good about providing these chemistries that cover all the bases. 2006 01:50:22.399 --> 01:50:24.960 And with five different sources of nitrogen, you are going 2007 01:50:25.039 --> 01:50:28.239 to get a gradual release of nitrogen over time to 2008 01:50:28.279 --> 01:50:32.439 your plants to encourage vigor and healthy growth. And with 2009 01:50:32.720 --> 01:50:37.680 roses they bloom, bloom, bloom, and it takes carbohydrates to 2010 01:50:37.800 --> 01:50:40.359 do that, and you've got to continue to push them 2011 01:50:40.399 --> 01:50:43.640 along with some nitrogen to get good leaf growth. Leaves 2012 01:50:43.680 --> 01:50:47.640 in the sun, keep those leaves healthy, and you make carbohydrategen. 2013 01:50:47.760 --> 01:50:50.800 You have a beautiful bloom and rose bush. And Nelson 2014 01:50:51.640 --> 01:50:54.920 Nutristar rose is a product that'll do just that. They 2015 01:50:55.000 --> 01:51:04.520 also have a nutristra Azalia for acid loving plants like azelias, blueberryes, camellias, dogwoods, Guardena's, hollies, adranges. 2016 01:51:05.520 --> 01:51:08.319 I would say use it on your magnolias, use it 2017 01:51:08.399 --> 01:51:12.359 on your color beds as well. If you've got strawberry plants, 2018 01:51:12.439 --> 01:51:15.119 that's another good one. I know it says acid loving, 2019 01:51:15.239 --> 01:51:19.319 but strawberries will benefit from the Azalea platfood. Believe it 2020 01:51:19.399 --> 01:51:22.279 or not, they do really well with that. I think 2021 01:51:22.279 --> 01:51:24.279 about things like that. People probably don't know, but yes, 2022 01:51:24.359 --> 01:51:27.119 you can do that. I don't know if I mentioned Holly's, 2023 01:51:27.159 --> 01:51:29.600 but yes, Holly's another good one for that one. All 2024 01:51:29.680 --> 01:51:33.960 from Nelson Plat Food. Let's head out to pass Sidena 2025 01:51:34.159 --> 01:51:36.560 and talk to Mary. Hey, Mary, welcome to Guardline. 2026 01:51:37.800 --> 01:51:41.960 Good morning. I think the previous collar had the same 2027 01:51:42.119 --> 01:51:46.359 question that I do. Okay, I was just lightly watering 2028 01:51:46.479 --> 01:51:51.880 my Saint Augustine front yard yesterday. Again this morning, I 2029 01:51:52.000 --> 01:51:55.319 went out to be sure, and I have a patch 2030 01:51:55.560 --> 01:51:59.560 of little, tiny, light colored mobs popping up out of 2031 01:51:59.600 --> 01:52:01.800 the grass, and I'm just wondering. 2032 01:52:01.880 --> 01:52:05.359 I heard you say this spinosa spray on the end 2033 01:52:05.399 --> 01:52:08.319 of the house. Is there. Is that the best rather 2034 01:52:08.439 --> 01:52:10.119 than any type of granule. 2035 01:52:11.680 --> 01:52:13.760 Well, there are a lot of things that will work. 2036 01:52:13.920 --> 01:52:16.319 They have those things hide down in the in the 2037 01:52:16.600 --> 01:52:20.600 in the thatch during the day and they come out 2038 01:52:20.640 --> 01:52:22.800 and feed at night. And that's why I was telling 2039 01:52:24.000 --> 01:52:26.359 Tom to get out there. And if you just drive 2040 01:52:26.399 --> 01:52:28.560 down on your knee in an area that looks like, yeah, 2041 01:52:28.880 --> 01:52:31.680 it's like the lawns not growing, or there's some grass 2042 01:52:31.720 --> 01:52:34.079 blades sort of missing, drip down on your knees and 2043 01:52:34.119 --> 01:52:36.640 look and you'll see it. I mean, it's like, you know, 2044 01:52:36.720 --> 01:52:39.279 it's like somebody just took a bite out of the 2045 01:52:39.359 --> 01:52:41.199 sides of the leaves, a whole bunch of bites. And 2046 01:52:41.279 --> 01:52:43.119 that's that's the sign. If you don't see that, you 2047 01:52:43.199 --> 01:52:46.399 don't need to worry about it. And I mentioned spinosa 2048 01:52:46.439 --> 01:52:49.920 because it's an organic product lower toxicity, and I like 2049 01:52:50.039 --> 01:52:52.359 to start there when I can. But you can use 2050 01:52:52.520 --> 01:52:55.359 a granule. You can use nitcrus bug out max granule 2051 01:52:55.479 --> 01:52:57.199 and then you have to water it to get the 2052 01:52:57.279 --> 01:53:00.600 pesticide off the granule into the thatch area where it 2053 01:53:00.680 --> 01:53:03.720 can help control those. There are a lot of insecticides 2054 01:53:03.760 --> 01:53:09.279 that will kill that particular pest. Okay, you know, I 2055 01:53:09.439 --> 01:53:12.720 just usually try to start with stuff that's a little simpler, 2056 01:53:12.920 --> 01:53:15.319 but always I start with making sure you have it, 2057 01:53:15.359 --> 01:53:18.279 because who wants to buy and apply pesticides when you 2058 01:53:18.319 --> 01:53:18.800 don't need them? 2059 01:53:19.520 --> 01:53:19.720 Right? 2060 01:53:19.920 --> 01:53:22.359 And make sure you know what you're treating. Be sure 2061 01:53:22.439 --> 01:53:23.680 it is the webrun. 2062 01:53:24.159 --> 01:53:26.880 Okay, Well, thank you so much. You have a blessed Sunday. 2063 01:53:26.960 --> 01:53:29.960 Appreciate it, and you as well, Mary, thank you. I 2064 01:53:30.000 --> 01:53:32.840 appreciate that. It's very kind of you to say that 2065 01:53:34.479 --> 01:53:36.960 I need to get back out to warren Southern Gardens. 2066 01:53:37.039 --> 01:53:38.520 You know, it has been a while since I've been 2067 01:53:38.600 --> 01:53:40.600 out there. I always trying to get around visit our 2068 01:53:40.640 --> 01:53:43.439 garden centers because I learn a lot when I go 2069 01:53:44.039 --> 01:53:46.439 and I see cool stop and out at Warren's right now, 2070 01:53:47.119 --> 01:53:49.000 they are loaded up on all the things you need 2071 01:53:49.079 --> 01:53:52.600 for fall. They've got the nitrofossipall special. They've got Nelson 2072 01:53:52.640 --> 01:53:55.039 plant food carbe load. You heard me talk about those today. 2073 01:53:55.520 --> 01:54:00.600 They've got products by Microlife. They have azamite for example, 2074 01:54:00.840 --> 01:54:02.840 all things you've been hearing me talk about today. You 2075 01:54:02.920 --> 01:54:05.720 can get those weeds with a pre emerging herbicide like 2076 01:54:05.800 --> 01:54:09.720 barricade out at Orange Southern Gardens. Now they've got moms 2077 01:54:09.920 --> 01:54:14.000 and ornamental kale, all kinds of beautiful fall plants in stock. 2078 01:54:14.119 --> 01:54:17.439 They have beautiful fall planters that are already pre planted 2079 01:54:17.520 --> 01:54:20.159 for you, or they'll help you pick out plants to 2080 01:54:20.199 --> 01:54:23.000 make your own if you want. The pumpkins have arrived. 2081 01:54:23.399 --> 01:54:26.960 Pumpkins have arrived. Oh my gosh, they're there. So get 2082 01:54:27.000 --> 01:54:29.119 out there and have fun. Remember when you go to warns, 2083 01:54:29.159 --> 01:54:31.479 tell them you spend one hundred bucks and say I 2084 01:54:31.640 --> 01:54:33.920 sent you SKIP sent me, and you get twenty bucks 2085 01:54:33.960 --> 01:54:37.359 off your purchase. Now that's not sales and clearance ies. 2086 01:54:37.399 --> 01:54:39.640 But you gotta tell them SKIP sent you a hundred bucks. 2087 01:54:40.079 --> 01:54:42.039 Sign up for the newsletter too. Where you're out there. 2088 01:54:42.279 --> 01:54:44.600 All right, Well, we're going to take a little break here. 2089 01:54:44.800 --> 01:54:48.239 It's time for the top of the hour. Get some news. 2090 01:54:48.319 --> 01:54:51.159 Don't forget next Saturday. Get your pin got a pin 2091 01:54:51.680 --> 01:54:54.439 right well? Or just take your phone out put it 2092 01:54:54.560 --> 01:54:59.880 on your calendar. Nature's Way Resources Saturday. Next Saturday, the twelfth, 2093 01:55:00.479 --> 01:55:02.920 eleven thirty to one thirty. I will be at Nature's 2094 01:55:02.920 --> 01:55:05.479 Way for the Fall Festival. Now, that Fall Festival goes 2095 01:55:05.479 --> 01:55:07.479 from nine in the morning till two in the afternoon. 2096 01:55:07.600 --> 01:55:11.680 It's free. There's music, there's food, there's fun, there's children activities, 2097 01:55:12.359 --> 01:55:15.840 and there's me answering your gardening questions. I let's shake 2098 01:55:15.880 --> 01:55:18.279 hands and let's help you have a more bountiful garden 2099 01:55:18.319 --> 01:55:19.800 and a more beautiful landscape. 2100 01:55:21.640 --> 01:55:24.479 Shut in a watermelon patchmom, but chicking me have that 2101 01:55:24.800 --> 01:55:28.600 you mind too. You can't grower skate abouffalow hard. 2102 01:55:28.920 --> 01:55:32.119 You can't grow all right, all right some wise words 2103 01:55:32.279 --> 01:55:35.239 from Roger Miller that you just can't argue with. I 2104 01:55:35.800 --> 01:55:39.119 believe he's right about this things. I believe he's right. 2105 01:55:39.880 --> 01:55:42.279 Micro Life fertilizers, you hear me talk about him all 2106 01:55:42.319 --> 01:55:45.279 the time. This is the season for microlife brown patch. 2107 01:55:45.520 --> 01:55:48.039 That's the fall fertilizer for MICROLFE. You gotta put it down. 2108 01:55:48.439 --> 01:55:53.079 I would add micro grow bioanoculant because it is loaded 2109 01:55:53.239 --> 01:55:56.159 sixty three different beneficial microbes. I was telling you about 2110 01:55:56.159 --> 01:55:59.359 some of the specific ones earlier today that do all 2111 01:55:59.439 --> 01:56:04.479 kinds of things that basically help fight, prevent, outcompete diseases 2112 01:56:04.760 --> 01:56:07.079 on your turf. And that is why I would recommend 2113 01:56:07.119 --> 01:56:07.520 those things. 2114 01:56:07.840 --> 01:56:08.000 Now. 2115 01:56:08.880 --> 01:56:12.359 They have some wonderful liquids too, and I would highly 2116 01:56:12.439 --> 01:56:14.960 recommend you start trying out there. Think about an ocean 2117 01:56:15.000 --> 01:56:18.920 harvest they've got which they've got a fish fertilized, they 2118 01:56:19.000 --> 01:56:23.039 got a seaweed fertilizer. Buy a liquid. They've got one, 2119 01:56:23.479 --> 01:56:26.880 the Biomatrix. It's a seven to one three seven three 2120 01:56:27.119 --> 01:56:29.560 one four. I'll get that last number anyway. I use 2121 01:56:29.600 --> 01:56:32.319 it all the time house plants especially, but I don't 2122 01:56:32.359 --> 01:56:34.840 know why I use it just on It goes out 2123 01:56:34.880 --> 01:56:37.920 in the garden, water things in fertilize them with it. 2124 01:56:38.039 --> 01:56:40.760 It is a natural product. Buy microlife so you know 2125 01:56:40.880 --> 01:56:43.520 it's good. You know it's going to help build your soil, 2126 01:56:43.560 --> 01:56:46.039 and you know it's loaded with microbes that you know 2127 01:56:46.199 --> 01:56:49.680 when you buy a Microlife now Microlife Fertilizer dot Com. 2128 01:56:50.119 --> 01:56:52.399 That is the website. You can go there and find 2129 01:56:52.439 --> 01:56:53.840 out where to get it, or I can just tell 2130 01:56:53.840 --> 01:56:57.479 you this, go to Ace hardware stores, go to Southwest Fertilizer, 2131 01:56:57.640 --> 01:57:01.720 go to our garden centers around town. Life products are widely, 2132 01:57:01.960 --> 01:57:06.239 widely available and they work. Let's head now out to 2133 01:57:07.039 --> 01:57:10.920 Silum Springs, Arkansas or Alaska. 2134 01:57:11.279 --> 01:57:18.000 Where are you from, Doug, Silom Springs, Arkansas, Kip, All right, well. 2135 01:57:17.920 --> 01:57:20.439 Welcome to garden Line. Now you're not up there right now? 2136 01:57:23.000 --> 01:57:23.479 Are you there? 2137 01:57:23.520 --> 01:57:23.960 And I am. 2138 01:57:25.680 --> 01:57:27.079 I'm in Kansas City today. 2139 01:57:27.239 --> 01:57:30.760 I drive a truck, so I listen to you every weekend. 2140 01:57:30.479 --> 01:57:33.960 While I'm working. Well, that is interesting. 2141 01:57:34.039 --> 01:57:34.159 You know. 2142 01:57:34.319 --> 01:57:36.840 I have one of our sponsors, plant Frell Seasons. I 2143 01:57:36.960 --> 01:57:40.880 was talking to them and they have a place up 2144 01:57:40.920 --> 01:57:44.239 in Arkansas where they go somewhere on the lakes up there, 2145 01:57:44.680 --> 01:57:47.079 and they actually say they get a bounce of the 2146 01:57:47.199 --> 01:57:49.479 station up there. I don't know how that happens, but 2147 01:57:49.760 --> 01:57:53.439 weird things happen in the stratosphere. So anyway, how are 2148 01:57:53.520 --> 01:57:56.760 we doing? And how can I help? I have a 2149 01:57:56.840 --> 01:57:58.000 couple of questions for you. 2150 01:57:58.800 --> 01:58:02.600 I read it a FLA, and I want to know 2151 01:58:02.960 --> 01:58:07.039 should I put down the landscape mat stuff and can 2152 01:58:07.119 --> 01:58:10.279 I use rock on top of that or should I 2153 01:58:10.439 --> 01:58:11.520 just use malt? 2154 01:58:13.399 --> 01:58:16.560 I would use mult, I don't care for the landscape fabrics. 2155 01:58:16.680 --> 01:58:20.399 Initially they work, they block weeds from coming up through them, 2156 01:58:20.960 --> 01:58:24.239 but then you end up with dust and seeds getting 2157 01:58:24.319 --> 01:58:27.279 on top and they sprout, and then those fabrics are 2158 01:58:27.319 --> 01:58:30.319 all intertwined with the roots of everything and it's just 2159 01:58:30.439 --> 01:58:32.079 kind of a mess. I don't like them as a 2160 01:58:32.119 --> 01:58:34.760 long term solution. I think it's more natural to have 2161 01:58:34.840 --> 01:58:36.920 a mulch anyway. So I would just get you a good, 2162 01:58:37.000 --> 01:58:40.079 high quality mulch, put that down, and I think you're 2163 01:58:40.119 --> 01:58:42.840 going to have really good success with that. I talk 2164 01:58:42.880 --> 01:58:45.199 about a lot of different products like airloom, soils in 2165 01:58:45.319 --> 01:58:48.720 Nature's Way and Landscaper's Pride. Those are all good examples 2166 01:58:49.199 --> 01:58:53.720 of mulches that will perform well. And I think here's 2167 01:58:53.720 --> 01:58:55.960 why I like it, Doug. It's how nature works. 2168 01:58:56.520 --> 01:58:56.680 You know. 2169 01:58:56.840 --> 01:59:01.560 Forests are naturally mulched, They're naturally by the plants themselves, 2170 01:59:01.800 --> 01:59:03.680 and I just think that's the way to go. 2171 01:59:05.159 --> 01:59:08.840 Okay, one other thing, real quick. I have a lawn 2172 01:59:08.960 --> 01:59:12.800 service that comes and fertilizes my lawn and I was 2173 01:59:12.880 --> 01:59:16.279 talking to the guy this spring and he said, if 2174 01:59:16.319 --> 01:59:19.720 I would scalp the grass and put about a quarter 2175 01:59:19.800 --> 01:59:22.600 of an inch of sand over top of that and 2176 01:59:22.680 --> 01:59:23.800 it's bermuda grass. 2177 01:59:25.039 --> 01:59:26.640 Would that do anything for me? 2178 01:59:26.800 --> 01:59:28.399 Or is that will waste the time? 2179 01:59:31.439 --> 01:59:35.000 Well, it would get old, dead brown top growth out 2180 01:59:35.039 --> 01:59:37.520 of the way, and yes, the bermuda would pop back through. 2181 01:59:38.680 --> 01:59:42.119 It is getting a little late in the season to 2182 01:59:42.239 --> 01:59:45.039 be doing that to your lawn, so I wouldn't recommend 2183 01:59:45.079 --> 01:59:47.720 it at this time. What exactly are you trying to 2184 01:59:47.800 --> 01:59:49.359 overcome in the grass? 2185 01:59:50.960 --> 01:59:54.600 Nothing, We were just talking. Well, he was doing my 2186 01:59:55.119 --> 01:59:59.880 fertilizing and he said that that might do good for 2187 02:00:00.079 --> 02:00:02.840 the bermuda because it would keep the heat in, is 2188 02:00:02.920 --> 02:00:03.479 what he said. 2189 02:00:05.800 --> 02:00:07.640 Yeah, I wouldn't do that, I don't think. 2190 02:00:07.680 --> 02:00:07.720 So. 2191 02:00:08.399 --> 02:00:10.279 What I would do in your bermuda just to get 2192 02:00:10.319 --> 02:00:14.039 a good, fresh, beautiful bermuda is in the spring when 2193 02:00:14.079 --> 02:00:17.920 it's time to put out the pre emergent. That is 2194 02:00:18.439 --> 02:00:22.479 what we're talking about February in the Houston Greater Houston 2195 02:00:22.520 --> 02:00:25.640 area down here, I would put that down, watered in 2196 02:00:25.800 --> 02:00:29.319 really good, and then I would probably after you've got 2197 02:00:29.399 --> 02:00:31.399 that in so you know you're not going to promote 2198 02:00:31.399 --> 02:00:35.920 weed seed growth, then I would cut your first mowing 2199 02:00:36.079 --> 02:00:40.279 on your bermuda. Mow it really low, maybe late sometime 2200 02:00:40.319 --> 02:00:42.880 in March you can mow it really, really low, and 2201 02:00:43.000 --> 02:00:45.880 you're going to get fresh new growth out and it's 2202 02:00:45.920 --> 02:00:47.680 going to look good. And the more often you know it, 2203 02:00:47.760 --> 02:00:50.640 the better Bermuda looks. So that's kind of the cry off. 2204 02:00:50.760 --> 02:00:52.239 I know, we don't like to mow every day, but 2205 02:00:52.359 --> 02:00:53.920 the more often you know, the better it looks. 2206 02:00:55.399 --> 02:00:58.000 All right, Well, that that's what I wanted to know. 2207 02:00:58.359 --> 02:00:59.079 Thank you very much. 2208 02:00:59.119 --> 02:01:02.159 I enjoy your child. All right. Hey, you'd be safe 2209 02:01:02.199 --> 02:01:05.840 out there on the roadways. All right, thanks for what 2210 02:01:06.000 --> 02:01:08.920 you do. I'm pretty I'm pretty. I'm pretty sure that 2211 02:01:09.079 --> 02:01:12.279 my wife keeps you and five other truckers in business 2212 02:01:12.520 --> 02:01:15.359 just with Amazon orders, judging from what hits the door 2213 02:01:15.399 --> 02:01:20.119 every day, so you can sell all right, Thank you sir, 2214 02:01:20.520 --> 02:01:26.039 all right, thank you bye. All right, I shouldn't have 2215 02:01:26.119 --> 02:01:29.920 said that. Uh oh, don't tell anybody. All right, you're 2216 02:01:29.960 --> 02:01:32.159 listening to Guardline. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we're 2217 02:01:32.239 --> 02:01:35.920 in here having more fun than we probably should have have. 2218 02:01:36.039 --> 02:01:38.680 You been A and A Plants and Produce up in Montgomery. 2219 02:01:38.960 --> 02:01:41.119 You know that is the garden center right there on 2220 02:01:41.199 --> 02:01:44.159 one oh five on the east side of Montgomery. So 2221 02:01:44.239 --> 02:01:46.640 if you're in Lake Conroe, if you're in Montgomery, if 2222 02:01:46.680 --> 02:01:51.000 you're in you know, Conroe itself, this is your hometown 2223 02:01:51.079 --> 02:01:53.720 garden center and they always have good stuff there. Right now, 2224 02:01:53.880 --> 02:01:55.680 fall color is great. I was out there the other 2225 02:01:55.760 --> 02:01:58.359 day and oh my gosh, the astors and the moms 2226 02:01:59.119 --> 02:02:01.399 just we're outstanding. And they had the annual plants you 2227 02:02:01.479 --> 02:02:03.560 put in your flower beds for good color. As we 2228 02:02:03.720 --> 02:02:06.119 enter this cool season, I can tell you this, it 2229 02:02:06.279 --> 02:02:09.399 is fall lawn care time. And A and A has 2230 02:02:09.560 --> 02:02:13.800 got you covered. They carry every fertilizer I talk about. 2231 02:02:13.800 --> 02:02:16.119 I'm talking about nitroposs, I'm talking about Nelson, I'm talking 2232 02:02:16.119 --> 02:02:21.239 about microlife. They carry both of the heirloom and the 2233 02:02:21.640 --> 02:02:25.880 Nature's Way resources soil products as well. Out there Nature's 2234 02:02:25.960 --> 02:02:29.479 Way Resources. They it's easy to get to, you know, 2235 02:02:29.720 --> 02:02:32.720 just one oh five. It's right there in between Conroe 2236 02:02:32.840 --> 02:02:36.079 and Montgomery. And just check it out from time to time, 2237 02:02:36.119 --> 02:02:38.079 because you know, every time I go there's a new 2238 02:02:38.119 --> 02:02:39.920 set of things that they brought in. Of course, they 2239 02:02:40.000 --> 02:02:42.319 got shrubs and trees and fruit and whatnot. I was 2240 02:02:42.359 --> 02:02:44.960 looking at some of the citrus that they had the 2241 02:02:45.039 --> 02:02:47.399 other day out there. A and A plants and produce 2242 02:02:47.479 --> 02:02:50.000 on one oh five in Montgomery. Go check them out. 2243 02:02:50.439 --> 02:02:53.600 It's a great place. You get good service, friendly people, 2244 02:02:54.119 --> 02:02:58.399 and it's so convenient to get in and out. I 2245 02:02:58.600 --> 02:03:01.720 am going to go now to Spring, Texas and we're 2246 02:03:01.760 --> 02:03:03.960 going to talk to Paul Hell. Paul, Welcome to Gardenline. 2247 02:03:05.039 --> 02:03:06.000 Thanks Jeff, I appreciate it. 2248 02:03:06.039 --> 02:03:06.439 Good morning. 2249 02:03:07.119 --> 02:03:11.439 Yes, i'd have some crab grass. I pulled it yesterday. 2250 02:03:11.600 --> 02:03:14.960 But I've gone to plants for all seasons over here, 2251 02:03:14.960 --> 02:03:17.119 and I've got the agrilo on the crab grass killer 2252 02:03:17.199 --> 02:03:20.680 that you sprinkle on and it turns it brown. But 2253 02:03:20.760 --> 02:03:23.079 it seems to it just it's not doing the tricks. 2254 02:03:23.119 --> 02:03:25.439 I didn't know if there's something I do. I have 2255 02:03:25.479 --> 02:03:27.640 a bunch of bear spots now about a ten by 2256 02:03:27.760 --> 02:03:31.000 ten area now after I pulled all the crabgrash yesterday. 2257 02:03:33.239 --> 02:03:36.479 Well, the agriline that they've got their plants for all seasons. 2258 02:03:36.560 --> 02:03:39.159 It works, but you need to get the weeds wet 2259 02:03:39.920 --> 02:03:42.279 and then you sprinkle it on. It sticks to the weed, 2260 02:03:42.560 --> 02:03:44.560 it doesn't just fall the dust doesn't just fall off, 2261 02:03:45.000 --> 02:03:47.159 and it works better. It works on dove weed and 2262 02:03:47.279 --> 02:03:50.359 crabgrass a lot of other things. But that's a that 2263 02:03:50.520 --> 02:03:52.479 is like what we would call it burned down. In 2264 02:03:52.560 --> 02:03:54.279 other words, you apply it, it kills that weed. But 2265 02:03:54.359 --> 02:03:57.640 crabgrass comes back from seed. And I'm assuming you do 2266 02:03:57.960 --> 02:04:00.399 have crabgrass, because there's a lot of other grass, and 2267 02:04:01.079 --> 02:04:03.399 just in my years of doing this, a lot of 2268 02:04:03.479 --> 02:04:06.600 things get called crabgrass that aren't cribgrass. But let's assume 2269 02:04:06.680 --> 02:04:08.880 it is the best way to deal with that is 2270 02:04:08.960 --> 02:04:13.000 in the spring to put a pre emergent herbicide down in. 2271 02:04:14.079 --> 02:04:17.279 Let's see, you were in Okay in mid February, put 2272 02:04:17.279 --> 02:04:20.039 a pre emergent herbicide down watered in, and then you 2273 02:04:20.159 --> 02:04:23.199 may need to repeat that about sixty to ninety days 2274 02:04:23.279 --> 02:04:26.479 later something like that, because crabgrass will keep sprouting on 2275 02:04:26.640 --> 02:04:30.680 through the summer and extend your coverage. The main thing, though, 2276 02:04:30.760 --> 02:04:32.680 and this is my approach to everything when it comes 2277 02:04:32.720 --> 02:04:35.439 to gardening, isn't just what chemical will kill it, but 2278 02:04:35.600 --> 02:04:38.079 let's culturally try to avoid it. And so the way 2279 02:04:38.159 --> 02:04:41.119 we avoid crabgrass is by getting that lawn so dense 2280 02:04:41.840 --> 02:04:44.640 that there's not enough light getting to the ground for 2281 02:04:44.720 --> 02:04:48.359 the seeds to come up and establish. And so low 2282 02:04:48.479 --> 02:04:51.399 water fertilize is your way to do that. So I 2283 02:04:51.760 --> 02:04:53.680 would do all the above in this case. 2284 02:04:54.479 --> 02:04:57.279 Okay, would you recommend me on the bare spots that 2285 02:04:57.359 --> 02:04:59.920 I pulled yesterday? Would you recommend putting some side down 2286 02:05:00.079 --> 02:05:01.439 or just wait until next year? 2287 02:05:03.359 --> 02:05:06.760 How big are these bear spots? How far across? 2288 02:05:07.840 --> 02:05:12.079 It's probably about probably about sinner twelve feet wide and 2289 02:05:12.159 --> 02:05:13.800 maybe two. 2290 02:05:13.760 --> 02:05:18.720 Feet and with or oh wow, okay, you got some 2291 02:05:18.760 --> 02:05:24.000 bigger areas. Yeah, so it's not going to cover over 2292 02:05:24.840 --> 02:05:26.439 for a long time. In fact, it'll be next summer 2293 02:05:26.520 --> 02:05:28.479 before it really gets to cover and over since our 2294 02:05:28.560 --> 02:05:33.199 grass growth is slowing down. I would, yeah, I would 2295 02:05:33.239 --> 02:05:36.279 reside areas that are that wide more than anything bigger 2296 02:05:36.319 --> 02:05:38.720 than a foot I would. You know, if you can 2297 02:05:38.760 --> 02:05:41.600 get some sod on it, that's good. Compost stop dressing 2298 02:05:41.720 --> 02:05:44.319 helps a little bit because it is also it's like 2299 02:05:44.359 --> 02:05:47.279 a molt on top of the ground. It's blocking some light, 2300 02:05:47.600 --> 02:05:50.720 not all of it, but some. But yeah, I would. 2301 02:05:50.760 --> 02:05:52.760 I would do the sod now. It's getting a little late, 2302 02:05:52.880 --> 02:05:54.760 so don't delay. Go ahead and get that sod down. 2303 02:05:54.840 --> 02:05:57.039 You're gonna want to water twice a day the first week, 2304 02:05:57.640 --> 02:06:00.119 once a day the second week, and then every the 2305 02:06:00.199 --> 02:06:02.880 day the third week, and it'll be established by then. 2306 02:06:04.920 --> 02:06:08.359 Appreciate it, all, right, sir, Yeah, good good luck with that. 2307 02:06:08.880 --> 02:06:13.399 Appreciate your call. Thanks a lot. Well, Uh, you are 2308 02:06:13.439 --> 02:06:16.640 listening to Gardenline. I'm your host, Skip Richter and our 2309 02:06:16.720 --> 02:06:20.239 phone number seven one three two one two k t 2310 02:06:20.800 --> 02:06:25.000 R H. I was outside yesterday and my bird feeder, 2311 02:06:25.159 --> 02:06:29.199 my favorite bird feeder, which is my Wabird's unlimited squirrel 2312 02:06:29.479 --> 02:06:31.840 excluding feeder. I know that's a lot of words, but 2313 02:06:32.039 --> 02:06:34.039 oh my gosh, it is so cool. You got to 2314 02:06:34.079 --> 02:06:37.960 have one. Uh it was empty and so shame on me. Anyway, 2315 02:06:38.000 --> 02:06:39.439 I got to get back out there and feed it. 2316 02:06:39.520 --> 02:06:41.399 But do you know Warbirds right now is having a 2317 02:06:41.520 --> 02:06:45.560 feeder swap. It's their annual feeder swap at the Wabirds 2318 02:06:45.640 --> 02:06:48.520 Unlimited stores. You know, we have six Wabirds Unlimited stores 2319 02:06:48.560 --> 02:06:50.880 in the Greater Houston area. You can go to the 2320 02:06:50.960 --> 02:06:57.600 website w b U dot com forward slash Houston WBU 2321 02:06:58.039 --> 02:07:00.680 dot com Forward Slash Houston. That'll get you to the 2322 02:07:00.720 --> 02:07:03.399 wild Bird store nearest you. And if you take in 2323 02:07:03.479 --> 02:07:05.359 your old feeder, I don't care what condition it's in, 2324 02:07:05.560 --> 02:07:07.119 just take it in. I saw a picture at a 2325 02:07:07.159 --> 02:07:10.600 Wallbird's store and they had apoll of feeders that look 2326 02:07:10.960 --> 02:07:15.439 like I mean, people brought in their old broke and 2327 02:07:15.760 --> 02:07:18.079 every kind of feeder you can imagine, and you get 2328 02:07:18.119 --> 02:07:20.760 twenty percent off a new feeder. And this would be 2329 02:07:20.800 --> 02:07:23.479 a good chance to get you a brand new feeder. 2330 02:07:23.560 --> 02:07:25.239 They've got all kinds of great feeders. You know, my 2331 02:07:25.359 --> 02:07:28.800 favorite feeder is the is the squirrel excluding But they've 2332 02:07:28.800 --> 02:07:31.720 got hummingbird feeders. They've got bird seed, you know, the 2333 02:07:31.800 --> 02:07:36.640 regular bird seed types of feeders of all kinds they've got. Well, 2334 02:07:36.920 --> 02:07:38.880 just go to wildbirds. They'll show you what they want. 2335 02:07:39.039 --> 02:07:40.920 You tell them what kind of birds you're trying to attract. 2336 02:07:41.039 --> 02:07:43.199 They'll show you the kinds of feeders that work best. 2337 02:07:43.399 --> 02:07:45.960 You know, for certain kinds of little tiny birds, the 2338 02:07:46.880 --> 02:07:50.439 thistle type feeding birds. They got feeders just for that. 2339 02:07:50.760 --> 02:07:53.560 Other things can't get the seeds out of the little feeders. 2340 02:07:54.199 --> 02:07:56.479 That's what I mean by they've got every kind in 2341 02:07:56.560 --> 02:08:00.279 the world. Now, just remember this is knocking to go 2342 02:08:00.399 --> 02:08:03.319 on forever, so go ahead and get that done. This 2343 02:08:03.520 --> 02:08:09.000 is a short time for the all annual feeder swap. 2344 02:08:09.039 --> 02:08:11.399 I couldn't say the word swap. Whatever kind of feeder 2345 02:08:11.479 --> 02:08:13.680 you have, it's old, bring it in, just give it 2346 02:08:13.720 --> 02:08:15.319 to him. Say hey, I want twenty percent off a 2347 02:08:15.359 --> 02:08:18.680 new feeder and get going, get talking to them. They're experts, 2348 02:08:18.680 --> 02:08:20.920 they know what they're doing, and they're really good at 2349 02:08:20.960 --> 02:08:22.760 what they do. Hey, it's time for me to take 2350 02:08:22.760 --> 02:08:25.000 a break. I'll be right back with your calls at 2351 02:08:25.279 --> 02:08:28.439 seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. 2352 02:08:29.439 --> 02:08:32.600 Witch Doctor, I was in love with you, and then 2353 02:08:32.800 --> 02:08:34.560 Witch Doctor, he told me what to do. 2354 02:08:34.760 --> 02:08:44.319 He said, all right, folks, welcome back to garden Line. 2355 02:08:44.840 --> 02:08:46.800 Good to have you with us. We're gonna run straight 2356 02:08:46.840 --> 02:08:49.439 out to the phone this summer and go to Lake 2357 02:08:49.840 --> 02:08:53.159 Side Estates to talk to Maureene. Hey, Maureene, welcome to 2358 02:08:53.239 --> 02:08:53.760 garden Line. 2359 02:08:54.920 --> 02:08:55.279 Thank you. 2360 02:08:55.399 --> 02:08:58.760 I'm so glad you're here for me. I had an 2361 02:08:59.000 --> 02:09:01.600 approached the time where I thought I should be putting 2362 02:09:01.640 --> 02:09:04.960 a fertilizer down. So I've been walking a lawn, looking 2363 02:09:05.039 --> 02:09:07.359 at the yard and thinking where do I need to 2364 02:09:07.479 --> 02:09:11.199 do anything extra? And that's when I discovered these little 2365 02:09:11.239 --> 02:09:13.279 white moths, not a thousand of them. 2366 02:09:14.399 --> 02:09:15.680 But I don't know what to do. 2367 02:09:16.000 --> 02:09:20.000 Attack the laws first or put on my fertilizer. 2368 02:09:22.479 --> 02:09:24.680 Any thought, Well, here's what we want to do. We 2369 02:09:24.800 --> 02:09:26.760 want there are a lot of kinds of moths that 2370 02:09:26.840 --> 02:09:29.520 are not eating your grass. They're just out there hiding 2371 02:09:29.600 --> 02:09:32.479 in the grass. And so if you will get on 2372 02:09:32.600 --> 02:09:35.000 your hands and knees in any area that the lawn 2373 02:09:35.119 --> 02:09:38.560 looks a little thinner, not as much leaf, air blades 2374 02:09:38.640 --> 02:09:40.760 and stuff, just get on your hands and knees. Look 2375 02:09:40.960 --> 02:09:43.439 and if you see the grass blades look like they've 2376 02:09:43.479 --> 02:09:46.239 had chunks taken out of the sides, like something has 2377 02:09:46.399 --> 02:09:49.000 bit chunks out, like they're eating around a sandwich or 2378 02:09:49.039 --> 02:09:52.720 something that is sideweb worm. And you do need to treat. 2379 02:09:52.960 --> 02:09:55.920 If you don't see that, ignore the moths. Nothing to 2380 02:09:55.960 --> 02:09:58.880 worry about. I've got moths in my lawn. I mowed 2381 02:09:58.920 --> 02:10:00.920 the other day. I was I'd stop every now and 2382 02:10:01.000 --> 02:10:02.800 then to look at the moth to see what it was, 2383 02:10:02.880 --> 02:10:05.399 and nothing was a solid web worm. So that I 2384 02:10:05.520 --> 02:10:07.319 mean you don't have it. Just means if you don't 2385 02:10:07.319 --> 02:10:10.800 see eating grass blades, you don't have webworm larvae out 2386 02:10:10.840 --> 02:10:12.680 there to treat. And we're getting late enough in the 2387 02:10:12.760 --> 02:10:16.960 season where they should be dwindling here if they haven't 2388 02:10:17.000 --> 02:10:19.760 already in your lawn, but they could still be around, 2389 02:10:19.840 --> 02:10:21.760 but you got checked. Once you check, then you know. 2390 02:10:22.159 --> 02:10:24.159 As far as fertilizing, it's time to put that fall 2391 02:10:24.239 --> 02:10:27.199 fertilizer down. You need to get your fall application down. 2392 02:10:27.560 --> 02:10:29.479 Now's a good time to do that, now that we're 2393 02:10:29.479 --> 02:10:30.119 in October. 2394 02:10:31.439 --> 02:10:35.399 Okay, tell me the formula again, please, well, a good one, 2395 02:10:35.520 --> 02:10:36.399 A good one to use. 2396 02:10:37.279 --> 02:10:42.920 Excuse me on the fertilizer, yes, yes, please, huh. Nitrofuss 2397 02:10:43.039 --> 02:10:47.039 has their fall special. It's a winter Riser fertilizer Nitrofuss 2398 02:10:47.159 --> 02:10:47.840 Fall Special. 2399 02:10:48.479 --> 02:10:48.600 Uh. 2400 02:10:48.840 --> 02:10:51.640 And you're going to find it all kinds of places 2401 02:10:51.720 --> 02:10:54.079 where you know, ace hardware stores typically are a good 2402 02:10:54.119 --> 02:10:58.520 place is to get those. Nitr Fuss has what they 2403 02:10:58.640 --> 02:11:01.760 call the three stone Up the Fall three step program, 2404 02:11:01.920 --> 02:11:04.600 and what that is is the fertilizer. It's also the 2405 02:11:04.880 --> 02:11:07.520 pre emergent barricade. If your lawn is thin and you 2406 02:11:07.840 --> 02:11:11.439 have ongoing weed problems, getting ahead of those before the 2407 02:11:11.479 --> 02:11:15.039 weed sprout is good and now October early October is 2408 02:11:15.079 --> 02:11:17.680 the time you want to get the barricade down if 2409 02:11:17.760 --> 02:11:20.199 you're dealing with weeds. And then the last step is 2410 02:11:20.239 --> 02:11:23.920 the fungicide, which is called eagle like the bird, and 2411 02:11:24.079 --> 02:11:26.520 that prevents if you in the past, if you had 2412 02:11:26.600 --> 02:11:29.479 big brown circles in the cool season in your lawn. 2413 02:11:29.600 --> 02:11:34.960 The brown patch or not. No, okay, we need to 2414 02:11:34.960 --> 02:11:36.880 worry about that. Yeah, okay. 2415 02:11:37.800 --> 02:11:42.760 Third step one, the one product nitroflawts fall and it 2416 02:11:42.880 --> 02:11:47.359 does those other things. Or am I buying nitra? And 2417 02:11:47.560 --> 02:11:49.079 then two more products? 2418 02:11:50.399 --> 02:11:50.760 I am. 2419 02:11:53.880 --> 02:11:58.399 The night Fuss is the company, and the three products 2420 02:11:58.439 --> 02:12:03.119 are fertilizer, pre emergent, weed control, and fungicide. That are 2421 02:12:03.199 --> 02:12:06.439 all three separate. You already said you don't need the fungicide, 2422 02:12:06.880 --> 02:12:09.760 if you don't need the barricade, which is the pre emergent, 2423 02:12:09.960 --> 02:12:11.840 then all you would want to put down is the 2424 02:12:12.039 --> 02:12:16.560 fall special winterizer fertilizer, and you put it down according 2425 02:12:16.600 --> 02:12:19.399 to the label instructions. If you've got an ACE hardware 2426 02:12:19.439 --> 02:12:21.800 store anywhere near you, they're going to have those nitrovi 2427 02:12:22.560 --> 02:12:26.840 nitroposs products. But it depends on what you're going after. Yeah, 2428 02:12:26.880 --> 02:12:29.199 those are the three. They put them together because people 2429 02:12:29.319 --> 02:12:31.600 deal with all those three things in fall. You know, 2430 02:12:31.760 --> 02:12:34.600 not everybody has everything, but those are the three things 2431 02:12:34.640 --> 02:12:36.239 that are important in the fall season. 2432 02:12:37.439 --> 02:12:41.319 Good enough, okay, I'm off to a great start. Thank 2433 02:12:41.359 --> 02:12:44.560 you so much, short and to the I love it. 2434 02:12:44.760 --> 02:12:46.439 I love it all right, thank you. We have a 2435 02:12:46.520 --> 02:12:46.880 great one. 2436 02:12:47.079 --> 02:12:48.319 Bye bye, Thank you. 2437 02:12:48.439 --> 02:12:50.680 Bet Mariene, you have a good rest of your weekend, 2438 02:12:51.119 --> 02:12:54.079 that's for sure. Nelson Water Gardens and Katie is a 2439 02:12:54.159 --> 02:12:57.680 place you need to go if you've never been. I 2440 02:12:58.000 --> 02:13:03.039 love the mini acidid things we enjoy outside in the 2441 02:13:03.159 --> 02:13:05.880 nature of our yard and garden. So that would be 2442 02:13:06.000 --> 02:13:09.159 the beauty of flowers. It would be the textures of plants, 2443 02:13:09.199 --> 02:13:13.720 from fine textured grasses to bold elephant ears, for example 2444 02:13:13.800 --> 02:13:17.079 in the garden. I like the fragrances of the garden, 2445 02:13:17.199 --> 02:13:20.880 from fragrant flowers wafting through the air, to the sounds 2446 02:13:21.079 --> 02:13:24.600 of the garden, like birds singing or the sound of water. 2447 02:13:25.000 --> 02:13:27.960 We put a little patio fountain out in our backyard 2448 02:13:28.479 --> 02:13:31.079 and it is just every time you walk outside, it 2449 02:13:31.279 --> 02:13:34.560 just changes the ambience of the setting to have the 2450 02:13:34.640 --> 02:13:38.279 sound of that running water going. And Nelson Water Gardens 2451 02:13:38.800 --> 02:13:42.199 and Nursery in Katie, Texas is the place to go 2452 02:13:42.359 --> 02:13:46.079 to see all of that in action. I jokingly say 2453 02:13:46.119 --> 02:13:48.359 they need to charge admission because when you go there 2454 02:13:48.399 --> 02:13:52.039 and you sit among all those waterfalls and fountains, you 2455 02:13:52.119 --> 02:13:54.760 know Nelson's are the folks that invented those big tall 2456 02:13:54.920 --> 02:13:57.159 vases in the garden that have water spilling over the 2457 02:13:57.239 --> 02:14:00.640 sides that recirculates back through. They're the ones in. They 2458 02:14:00.760 --> 02:14:02.880 got those too. They'll come do it at your house 2459 02:14:02.960 --> 02:14:04.560 if you want to haire them, or they'll tell you 2460 02:14:04.600 --> 02:14:06.039 how to do it. If you just want to buy 2461 02:14:06.159 --> 02:14:09.079 the parts and go make it yourself, they can tell 2462 02:14:09.079 --> 02:14:11.600 you how to do that too. Nelson Nursery and Water 2463 02:14:11.680 --> 02:14:14.319 Gardens is in Katie off I ten. You head out 2464 02:14:14.359 --> 02:14:17.399 to Katie Turn North on Katie Fort Ben Road and 2465 02:14:17.479 --> 02:14:19.359 it's just a hop, skipping or jump on the right 2466 02:14:19.399 --> 02:14:21.640 hand side. And while you're out there, check out the 2467 02:14:21.680 --> 02:14:25.439 plants because it is a nursery. Their houseplants section inside 2468 02:14:25.520 --> 02:14:29.399 the store is beautiful. They have the most beautiful houseplants 2469 02:14:29.439 --> 02:14:32.600 in the absolute best condition you can imagine. It's great. 2470 02:14:33.039 --> 02:14:35.600 And then you go outside and they've got their annuals, 2471 02:14:35.640 --> 02:14:40.119 their vegetables, their flowers, their herbs, their fruit trees or shrubs. 2472 02:14:40.960 --> 02:14:43.640 Nelson Water Garden and Nursery. Grab a friend when you go. 2473 02:14:43.800 --> 02:14:46.760 It's a destination garden center and just go out and 2474 02:14:46.960 --> 02:14:49.720 enjoy it and just tell them I said that they 2475 02:14:49.760 --> 02:14:52.399 should be charging to have you sit out there and 2476 02:14:52.560 --> 02:14:55.239 hear the sound of water, because I'm telling you it 2477 02:14:55.560 --> 02:15:01.359 is absolutely so comforting to hear that quote I said. 2478 02:15:01.479 --> 02:15:04.640 I think I said it yesterday or today. Is when 2479 02:15:04.840 --> 02:15:07.640 I'm overwhelmed and stressed and unable to think, I go 2480 02:15:07.760 --> 02:15:10.000 out in the garden. It's cheaper than a shrink. And 2481 02:15:10.119 --> 02:15:11.920 boy is that ever true when you got the sound 2482 02:15:12.000 --> 02:15:14.960 of water moving in the garden. All right, let's see here. 2483 02:15:15.079 --> 02:15:17.680 We are going to go now to Brian, Texas and 2484 02:15:17.760 --> 02:15:21.159 talk to Barb. Hell about Barb bye. 2485 02:15:22.119 --> 02:15:24.319 I have a real simple question I need. 2486 02:15:25.119 --> 02:15:29.479 I don't usually buy soil for my plants, but I 2487 02:15:30.760 --> 02:15:33.359 need some now. I want something that would be for 2488 02:15:33.520 --> 02:15:40.119 my houseplants and violets. Is there something that would do 2489 02:15:40.319 --> 02:15:40.760 for both? 2490 02:15:41.600 --> 02:15:43.520 Or do I need to get for both of them? 2491 02:15:44.760 --> 02:15:49.399 For both of them, you've got there is something called 2492 02:15:49.520 --> 02:15:53.159 the works potting soil by Heirloom Soils. I think they 2493 02:15:53.319 --> 02:15:55.920 may carry it up at Producers co Op. I haven't 2494 02:15:56.039 --> 02:15:59.520 looked recently, but they may have. If they have heirloom 2495 02:15:59.600 --> 02:16:03.159 soil other producers, they should have the works hunting sold there. 2496 02:16:03.239 --> 02:16:05.079 That's a good one. It covers all kinds of things. 2497 02:16:05.119 --> 02:16:07.479 You can use it for indoor and outdoor. And the 2498 02:16:07.560 --> 02:16:10.239 African violets will be very happy with it, you know. 2499 02:16:10.359 --> 02:16:12.920 For them. They just mainly want to have constant moisture 2500 02:16:13.000 --> 02:16:15.880 without being soggy, wet and causing rot and stuff. 2501 02:16:16.039 --> 02:16:18.439 So right, they'll be happy. 2502 02:16:18.920 --> 02:16:21.600 They'll be happy in the works. The works. Huh. It's 2503 02:16:21.600 --> 02:16:24.760 a it's an heirloom soils product. It's sold all over 2504 02:16:24.840 --> 02:16:28.479 the area. I just just haven't been in producers in 2505 02:16:28.520 --> 02:16:30.399 a good while to see if they if they have 2506 02:16:30.520 --> 02:16:31.199 that one up there. 2507 02:16:32.120 --> 02:16:35.479 Okay, thank you much, all. 2508 02:16:35.440 --> 02:16:38.200 Right, good luck, have fun. Thanks for the call. You 2509 02:16:38.319 --> 02:16:41.600 take care. Let's see here where are we? Yep, we've 2510 02:16:41.639 --> 02:16:43.959 got time to go to another call here, Donald in 2511 02:16:44.200 --> 02:16:46.280 north west Houston, Welcome to garden line. 2512 02:16:47.120 --> 02:16:49.399 Oh yes, sir, skip, I listen all the time and 2513 02:16:49.559 --> 02:16:52.280 I have I'm Donald who we listen all the way up. 2514 02:16:52.159 --> 02:16:54.520 And love lady with the with the farm proper. 2515 02:16:54.639 --> 02:16:57.600 Well there, I have ten table fillers here, I'm all 2516 02:16:57.680 --> 02:17:01.799 the five nine and jack rabbit root area. 2517 02:17:04.479 --> 02:17:05.399 Okay, tree I have. 2518 02:17:06.879 --> 02:17:07.879 It's not actually a tree. 2519 02:17:08.040 --> 02:17:10.120 Let me make go ahead. 2520 02:17:12.200 --> 02:17:12.280 Uh. 2521 02:17:12.440 --> 02:17:16.159 Let me ask you a question about those. Are you 2522 02:17:16.360 --> 02:17:19.559 seeing them in the branches where there's a fork in 2523 02:17:19.680 --> 02:17:23.079 the branch and they're webbing all around that fork in 2524 02:17:23.159 --> 02:17:24.920 the branch, or are you seeing them out in the 2525 02:17:24.959 --> 02:17:29.639 outer foliage eating the leaves outside. The webbing is around 2526 02:17:29.680 --> 02:17:30.120 the leaves. 2527 02:17:31.159 --> 02:17:32.920 They're in the fork of the branch, and it's not 2528 02:17:33.040 --> 02:17:35.680 a full sized tree. So I've cut all those branches 2529 02:17:35.719 --> 02:17:38.639 off and laid them on the grass last night. And 2530 02:17:38.840 --> 02:17:41.639 what I'm going to do is they're so they're they're 2531 02:17:41.680 --> 02:17:45.760 completely got im off the branch and out on the ground, 2532 02:17:46.079 --> 02:17:47.760 and I'm going to cut those branches up with the 2533 02:17:47.840 --> 02:17:49.840 caterpillars on them and put them in a trash cannon 2534 02:17:49.920 --> 02:17:50.879 port uh. 2535 02:17:52.559 --> 02:17:56.440 Clorox. Okay, well you wouldn't even have to do that. 2536 02:17:56.639 --> 02:18:00.280 I would just you know, chances of those caterpillars finding 2537 02:18:00.319 --> 02:18:02.440 their way back up where they can cause trouble or 2538 02:18:02.479 --> 02:18:04.840 pretty slam. Right now, there are a lot of things 2539 02:18:04.879 --> 02:18:07.879 out there after them, paper wasps. They're number one food 2540 02:18:08.000 --> 02:18:10.280 is caterpillars, and every time you see a paper wasp 2541 02:18:10.319 --> 02:18:13.559 flying around, that's what they're looking for. You know, one 2542 02:18:13.639 --> 02:18:17.799 paper wasp nesk will eat about seven thousand caterpillars during 2543 02:18:17.879 --> 02:18:20.840 the course of a growing season. That's a lot. But 2544 02:18:21.000 --> 02:18:23.879 a big, big nest can do that. So I wouldn't 2545 02:18:23.879 --> 02:18:26.360 worry about clarox in them or anything like that. They're 2546 02:18:26.399 --> 02:18:28.479 fine if you've removed them, that's fine. If they were 2547 02:18:28.479 --> 02:18:31.959 already in the in the branches, you could just blast 2548 02:18:32.079 --> 02:18:35.319 the web off with some water spray them while they're 2549 02:18:35.399 --> 02:18:38.719 up there in the branches. But it's an unusual time. 2550 02:18:38.799 --> 02:18:42.319 I usually don't see tench caterpillars this time of the year, right, 2551 02:18:42.639 --> 02:18:43.760 So that's kind of unusual. 2552 02:18:43.959 --> 02:18:47.799 But it was a small enough tree, not actually tree. 2553 02:18:47.799 --> 02:18:50.719 It's like a I don't know, it's a I don't 2554 02:18:50.760 --> 02:18:52.440 know what to call it. But it grows up about 2555 02:18:52.479 --> 02:18:55.000 six or eight feet. It's just something that came out 2556 02:18:55.079 --> 02:18:56.120 around So that's good. 2557 02:18:56.559 --> 02:18:58.120 Where can I get well. 2558 02:18:58.079 --> 02:19:01.399 Where can I get a house? 2559 02:19:01.719 --> 02:19:01.840 Get? 2560 02:19:01.879 --> 02:19:05.600 Whatily the wasp that eat the ten caterpillars? I want 2561 02:19:05.639 --> 02:19:06.520 to give them a home. 2562 02:19:07.760 --> 02:19:10.200 Oh well, they eaves of your house? Is giving them 2563 02:19:10.239 --> 02:19:13.440 a home as long as people don't kill them. Now 2564 02:19:13.559 --> 02:19:15.920 you know some people are allergic to them, so that's 2565 02:19:15.959 --> 02:19:18.200 a concern. If there was a nest right by my 2566 02:19:18.280 --> 02:19:20.239 front door I had to walk under, well, I would 2567 02:19:20.280 --> 02:19:23.680 get rid of it. But other wasp nests around the property, 2568 02:19:23.760 --> 02:19:26.440 I just leave them because that's what they're doing all day, 2569 02:19:26.600 --> 02:19:27.840 is bringing caterpillars home. 2570 02:19:28.799 --> 02:19:31.319 But ten caterpillars do what what do they actually do 2571 02:19:31.559 --> 02:19:33.760 just make more ten caterpillars or do they eat their 2572 02:19:33.840 --> 02:19:35.040 vegetables or yeah. 2573 02:19:34.920 --> 02:19:38.600 They you know, they hatch out and then they crawl 2574 02:19:38.719 --> 02:19:41.399 up typically in the foliage and eat the stage. We 2575 02:19:41.520 --> 02:19:44.959 see the webbing is there at the base kind of 2576 02:19:45.000 --> 02:19:46.840 at that we say, the crotch of the branch, the 2577 02:19:46.959 --> 02:19:50.200 fork and the branch, you know that area. We see them. 2578 02:19:50.559 --> 02:19:53.479 But generally you don't worry about them a lot, especially 2579 02:19:53.559 --> 02:19:55.239 this time of year. But if you see them on 2580 02:19:55.280 --> 02:19:57.360 the foliage, you can just spray your foliage with BT 2581 02:19:57.920 --> 02:20:01.719 bacillisther and gentsis BT. It's a very very safe spray 2582 02:20:02.319 --> 02:20:05.479 that will kill the caterpillars, but not other things. Okay, 2583 02:20:06.719 --> 02:20:07.680 all right, thank you for that. 2584 02:20:07.840 --> 02:20:10.760 All right, Donny, I've got them cut down and I'm 2585 02:20:10.760 --> 02:20:12.479 going to put them away. But if I see them again, 2586 02:20:12.520 --> 02:20:14.879 I know I can all right, too high to cut 2587 02:20:16.159 --> 02:20:16.719 I appreciate it. 2588 02:20:16.799 --> 02:20:19.719 Oh yeah, yeah, no need, no need to cut those out. 2589 02:20:19.920 --> 02:20:23.040 Thanks for the call and good luck with those. Appreciate 2590 02:20:23.079 --> 02:20:25.399 your call. Time for a break. I'll be right back. 2591 02:20:25.399 --> 02:20:32.239 We got a half hour left. Don't go away for 2592 02:20:32.360 --> 02:20:37.280 all our listeners over in Louisiana directions with a Cajun 2593 02:20:37.399 --> 02:20:41.520 sound of the music this morning. All right, folks, Mary 2594 02:20:41.639 --> 02:20:44.040 Chapin Carpenter, Hey, welcome back to Guardline. Good to have 2595 02:20:44.159 --> 02:20:47.239 you with us. You know, earlier today I was talking 2596 02:20:47.239 --> 02:20:50.000 about crazy high school mascot. Remember that. You remember the 2597 02:20:50.040 --> 02:20:54.840 fighting snails and the fighting conks in Florida, which is 2598 02:20:54.920 --> 02:20:58.760 basically a saltwater snail, underwater snail. What is it? What 2599 02:20:58.879 --> 02:21:02.399 do you say when your mascot is the snails. It's 2600 02:21:02.479 --> 02:21:05.760 like slime them snails or I don't know, eat their 2601 02:21:06.200 --> 02:21:10.200 vegetables during night when they're sleeping snails. That's crazy. I 2602 02:21:10.360 --> 02:21:13.760 forgot one. Of course, I was doing high schools, but colleges, Okay, 2603 02:21:13.840 --> 02:21:16.079 this is my favorite. You know I have an obsession 2604 02:21:16.120 --> 02:21:19.559 with Okra, That's true. I do. I love Okra. I 2605 02:21:19.719 --> 02:21:25.200 breed Okra, I grow Okra, I eat Okra, I love Okra. 2606 02:21:26.200 --> 02:21:30.959 There's a college in Mississippi, Delta State Mississippi College. Their 2607 02:21:31.040 --> 02:21:34.159 official mascot is the Statesman. Well, years ago they got 2608 02:21:34.239 --> 02:21:38.040 tired of that, and so the students created a secondary mascot, 2609 02:21:38.239 --> 02:21:41.479 the Fighting Okra. I'm not making us up. Go look 2610 02:21:41.559 --> 02:21:44.200 it up. T Shirts got a Okra with boxing gloves on, 2611 02:21:44.360 --> 02:21:46.799 and he does not look happy. I don't know what 2612 02:21:46.879 --> 02:21:50.479 their chant is. Maybe it's make them real itchy okra 2613 02:21:50.920 --> 02:21:54.719 or make it slimy okra. I don't know. Anyway, just 2614 02:21:54.799 --> 02:21:56.680 had to throw that in. I couldn't couldn't let that 2615 02:21:56.760 --> 02:21:59.719 go being a fan of Okra. Let's go to Galveston. 2616 02:22:00.040 --> 02:22:01.840 We're going to talk to Bill this morning. Hey, Bill, 2617 02:22:01.879 --> 02:22:07.319 welcome to guard Line. Thank you. I have a generic spreader. 2618 02:22:07.399 --> 02:22:10.920 I have no idea who made it. It's green in color, 2619 02:22:11.479 --> 02:22:14.600 but I have no idea how to set you know, 2620 02:22:14.719 --> 02:22:18.959 the settings for barricade and for fertilizer on this thing. Okay? 2621 02:22:20.799 --> 02:22:23.680 Is this a walk behind? Is this a walk behind 2622 02:22:24.159 --> 02:22:24.719 with wheels? 2623 02:22:26.159 --> 02:22:26.319 Yep? 2624 02:22:26.440 --> 02:22:29.239 Okay, So here here's what you do. Here's what you 2625 02:22:29.360 --> 02:22:33.479 do when you don't know if you're going to put 2626 02:22:34.120 --> 02:22:37.600 barricade out and anybody, everybody listening, I'm not talking about fertilizer. 2627 02:22:37.639 --> 02:22:41.159 I'm talking about barricade. Okay. This is a pre emergent herbicide. 2628 02:22:41.639 --> 02:22:44.959 So for those what I what I would recommend you 2629 02:22:45.040 --> 02:22:48.280 do is look at the total number of notches on 2630 02:22:48.399 --> 02:22:52.239 the spreader. So if for example, there are twenty notches, 2631 02:22:52.520 --> 02:22:54.719 you want to always put it at about a notch 2632 02:22:54.920 --> 02:22:58.120 above one quarter. So if there were twenty, that would 2633 02:22:58.159 --> 02:23:00.920 be five or six. If there ten, that would be 2634 02:23:01.440 --> 02:23:05.280 two or three somewhere in there. Okay. So for pre 2635 02:23:05.719 --> 02:23:10.000 emergent herbicides, about a notch above one quarter. If you're 2636 02:23:10.000 --> 02:23:13.360 doing fertilizers, that's a different way we figure it. It's 2637 02:23:13.479 --> 02:23:16.600 not a not a notch above one quarter. Does that help? Okay, 2638 02:23:16.680 --> 02:23:21.760 So you're doing fertilizer, what would that be For fertilizer, 2639 02:23:22.000 --> 02:23:27.280 you do it about one or two notches above half. 2640 02:23:28.280 --> 02:23:30.760 So to use my example of twenty notches, then it 2641 02:23:30.760 --> 02:23:35.120 would be eleven or twelve for fertilizer, not not pre 2642 02:23:35.200 --> 02:23:38.959 emergent says one or two notches above half. Okay, got it, 2643 02:23:39.040 --> 02:23:42.520 Thank you very much. Fertilized. Now let me offer one 2644 02:23:42.559 --> 02:23:46.000 more thing. It's always possible, you know, things are a 2645 02:23:46.000 --> 02:23:48.719 little off, and you don't want to over or under apply. 2646 02:23:49.200 --> 02:23:53.399 I often will put it way lower than that, and 2647 02:23:53.559 --> 02:23:56.600 I'll go north south across the yard, and then look 2648 02:23:56.600 --> 02:23:59.159 at how much I have left, and then go east west. 2649 02:24:00.520 --> 02:24:04.159 Those are just example directions. In other words, crossways, uh, 2650 02:24:04.280 --> 02:24:06.840 and that way you get a more even spread. If 2651 02:24:06.879 --> 02:24:08.440 you were a little off, you wouldn't want to run 2652 02:24:08.479 --> 02:24:10.159 out when you were three quarters of the way across 2653 02:24:10.200 --> 02:24:15.760 the yard, then you would have weigh over applied it. Okay, okay, okay, 2654 02:24:15.959 --> 02:24:18.840 all right, Bill, thanks you bet, thank you for the call. 2655 02:24:18.879 --> 02:24:20.840 Appreciate that We're going to go to Spring Branch and 2656 02:24:20.959 --> 02:24:23.760 talk to Cheryl. Hello, Cheryl, welcome to the garden line. 2657 02:24:25.079 --> 02:24:28.680 Hi there, can you bind me? 2658 02:24:30.479 --> 02:24:30.959 Yes, ma'am. 2659 02:24:32.159 --> 02:24:36.360 Fig tree. I bought what's supposed to be good for 2660 02:24:36.559 --> 02:24:41.680 a container fig tree called Pignomenal, and I bought it 2661 02:24:41.760 --> 02:24:45.239 from Burpie and it got here, a little tiny thing, 2662 02:24:45.399 --> 02:24:48.639 and it was doing really well. And I have it 2663 02:24:48.799 --> 02:24:55.520 in a round vigo vego planner and now it is 2664 02:24:55.639 --> 02:25:01.200 stopped doing well. It is shit almost all leaves, and 2665 02:25:01.360 --> 02:25:04.000 I've been careful just to water it from the bottom 2666 02:25:04.520 --> 02:25:07.959 and the particular planter I have had water reservoir in 2667 02:25:08.040 --> 02:25:08.479 the bottom. 2668 02:25:09.040 --> 02:25:11.280 But it's just it's just sticks. 2669 02:25:14.079 --> 02:25:14.280 Huh. 2670 02:25:15.399 --> 02:25:15.959 What can I do? 2671 02:25:16.479 --> 02:25:16.639 Uh? 2672 02:25:16.879 --> 02:25:18.719 What kind of soil? What kind of so mix do 2673 02:25:18.760 --> 02:25:19.360 you have in there? 2674 02:25:22.159 --> 02:25:22.959 Rose soils? 2675 02:25:24.319 --> 02:25:25.520 Okay, well that's a good one. 2676 02:25:27.479 --> 02:25:28.399 The other thing I can. 2677 02:25:30.440 --> 02:25:30.559 Oh. 2678 02:25:30.799 --> 02:25:34.000 I was going to say, it's it's my backyard faces 2679 02:25:34.079 --> 02:25:37.760 west and it's on a stone patio, but I thought 2680 02:25:37.840 --> 02:25:40.639 with the elevated planter that maybe that would stop it 2681 02:25:40.719 --> 02:25:41.319 from baking. 2682 02:25:41.399 --> 02:25:45.239 Do you think it's getting too much sun? Well, the 2683 02:25:45.360 --> 02:25:48.520 heat doesn't bother a fig tree. They can grow in 2684 02:25:48.600 --> 02:25:51.200 the brunt of the full sun here in southeast Texas, 2685 02:25:52.000 --> 02:25:56.120 I would prove. I would say it's always possible that 2686 02:25:56.239 --> 02:25:59.319 it didn't have enough water for a while. Uh, if 2687 02:25:59.760 --> 02:26:02.479 the drainage wasn't good, But in a vego planter, the 2688 02:26:02.600 --> 02:26:06.079 drainage should be adequate in those. But if it was 2689 02:26:06.680 --> 02:26:10.079 water log that would be a stress. It's not unusual 2690 02:26:10.120 --> 02:26:11.760 for fig trees toward at the end of the season 2691 02:26:11.920 --> 02:26:13.799 for the leaves just to kind of get old and 2692 02:26:13.920 --> 02:26:17.680 have some issues. The fact that it's completely defoliated. I'll 2693 02:26:17.760 --> 02:26:20.680 remove nematodes from the equation because you used a rose 2694 02:26:20.760 --> 02:26:23.719 soil to grow it rather than something some sandy soil. 2695 02:26:24.840 --> 02:26:27.440 So I'm just thinking somehow it's a water related thing. 2696 02:26:27.520 --> 02:26:29.600 I wouldn't worry about it. Figs are very tough. Just 2697 02:26:29.719 --> 02:26:33.600 continue to make sure it has adequate slow moisture, not soggy, 2698 02:26:33.680 --> 02:26:37.239 but just give it a good soaking periodically, and I 2699 02:26:37.319 --> 02:26:38.879 think it's going to be okay. I think it'll be 2700 02:26:39.000 --> 02:26:42.719 fine and come back. But that is an unusual symptom. 2701 02:26:42.920 --> 02:26:47.799 It just indicates something stressed the tree. And I don't 2702 02:26:47.840 --> 02:26:50.280 have the crystal ball broun. 2703 02:26:51.360 --> 02:26:54.840 Okay, the leaves got kind of brown spots, and like 2704 02:26:54.920 --> 02:26:58.719 I said, I think Burpie said they were prone to mildy, 2705 02:26:58.879 --> 02:27:00.760 so I was careful not to with the leaves. 2706 02:27:00.879 --> 02:27:07.879 But oh also yeah it could also yeah, I mean no, 2707 02:27:08.399 --> 02:27:12.520 not until spring. Wait until winter's over to print. You 2708 02:27:12.600 --> 02:27:15.399 don't want it to grow now because figs are semi tender. Anyway, 2709 02:27:15.600 --> 02:27:17.079 I'll tell you what else it could be. There's a 2710 02:27:17.200 --> 02:27:20.399 disease called rust that will affect figs and cause them 2711 02:27:20.479 --> 02:27:23.600 to drop their leaves. It's a leaf spot disease. And 2712 02:27:23.840 --> 02:27:27.520 maybe that hit it phenomenal is you know, not one 2713 02:27:27.559 --> 02:27:31.079 of our standard southern fig varieties, and so I don't know. 2714 02:27:31.479 --> 02:27:35.319 It probably doesn't have any rust resistance, but that could 2715 02:27:35.360 --> 02:27:37.879 have been it. Again, that's not a killer on the fig. 2716 02:27:38.319 --> 02:27:40.639 It may try to resprout, which is what we would 2717 02:27:40.760 --> 02:27:43.280 rather not do at this point in the season. But 2718 02:27:44.079 --> 02:27:46.159 I think it'll be okay, I think you'll be fine. 2719 02:27:47.719 --> 02:27:50.239 Okay, so just prun it in the spring. 2720 02:27:50.399 --> 02:27:53.239 Okay, I can do that in the spring. Yeah, get it. 2721 02:27:53.280 --> 02:27:55.559 The winter. Thank you, and remember if it does produce 2722 02:27:55.600 --> 02:27:57.840 figs on guardline. I don't charge for advice, but I 2723 02:27:57.879 --> 02:28:01.719 do ask for half your produce when its successful. Next ground. Okay, 2724 02:28:01.840 --> 02:28:04.799 that's all I ask. Thanks, Cheryl, appreciate that. Hey, folks, 2725 02:28:04.840 --> 02:28:06.280 got to go to a break. I'll be right back. 2726 02:28:07.600 --> 02:28:11.120 Kevin, that I have and see it good now, Well. 2727 02:28:11.120 --> 02:28:12.239 Well, good to have you back. 2728 02:28:12.520 --> 02:28:13.239 Good to be back. 2729 02:28:13.280 --> 02:28:15.200 All right, guys, we got a sprint for the finish. 2730 02:28:15.280 --> 02:28:16.680 We got a full board here. I'm got'ta see how 2731 02:28:16.719 --> 02:28:19.719 many I can get through, so we'll cut straight to 2732 02:28:19.879 --> 02:28:21.440 the chase. We're going to go to talk to you 2733 02:28:21.600 --> 02:28:24.959 Nancy first about watermelons. Hey, Nancy, how can we help? 2734 02:28:25.000 --> 02:28:26.600 Hey, good good morning. 2735 02:28:26.680 --> 02:28:29.360 I hope they are having a beautiful day. I started 2736 02:28:29.440 --> 02:28:33.000 out with it. I got about some seeds, eleven watermelons, 2737 02:28:33.920 --> 02:28:36.879 dunning me. Didn't write the date down that I planted them, 2738 02:28:38.159 --> 02:28:43.440 but actually they grew un chilled. Several of my raccoons 2739 02:28:43.520 --> 02:28:46.520 got in and killed a few a little be home. 2740 02:28:47.280 --> 02:28:49.600 But then of course I got more watermeltons turning back. 2741 02:28:49.680 --> 02:28:53.559 So I have nine left right now in the different varieties. 2742 02:28:54.040 --> 02:28:57.440 How do you know when a watermelon is ready. 2743 02:28:57.360 --> 02:28:57.959 To be picked. 2744 02:28:58.079 --> 02:29:01.600 I picked three and they were still pale, and one 2745 02:29:01.760 --> 02:29:02.440 turned out red. 2746 02:29:03.840 --> 02:29:07.639 Here's a fast answer. Where the watermelon attaches to the vine, 2747 02:29:07.879 --> 02:29:11.559 there's a tendril, a curlicue. When it turns brown, that's 2748 02:29:11.719 --> 02:29:15.040 one sign that the watermelon may be ripe. When you 2749 02:29:15.200 --> 02:29:17.959 turn the watermelon over where it sits on the ground, 2750 02:29:18.239 --> 02:29:21.079 that's called the ground spot. When it turns from kind 2751 02:29:21.120 --> 02:29:24.399 of a shark trouse green to a very creamy, almost 2752 02:29:24.479 --> 02:29:27.319 buttery yellow, that's a sign they may be ripe. And 2753 02:29:27.399 --> 02:29:29.360 the third sign is thumping them. But you just kind 2754 02:29:29.360 --> 02:29:30.760 of got to do that a little bit to know 2755 02:29:30.879 --> 02:29:37.120 what the right sound of a thump is. But thosem. 2756 02:29:37.000 --> 02:29:40.760 And okay, I. 2757 02:29:40.799 --> 02:29:43.719 Won't you won't smell anything. But that's that's the best 2758 02:29:43.799 --> 02:29:46.280 I can tell you. But hopefully the weather will stay 2759 02:29:46.319 --> 02:29:48.440 warm long enough for you to get some watermelons. And 2760 02:29:48.520 --> 02:29:50.079 if you do, I just asked that you bring me 2761 02:29:50.520 --> 02:29:53.000 half your watermelons to the station so I can enjoy 2762 02:29:53.040 --> 02:29:53.319 them too. 2763 02:29:53.399 --> 02:29:56.719 Okay, so much, so much fun. 2764 02:29:56.799 --> 02:30:02.840 When you want food, here comes another little bee. I 2765 02:30:02.920 --> 02:30:04.840 love learning and I just love these shows. 2766 02:30:05.239 --> 02:30:08.280 Thank you well, thank you, Nancy. Appreciate the call. I 2767 02:30:08.319 --> 02:30:10.239 appreciate that very much. We're going to go to Rufus 2768 02:30:10.319 --> 02:30:12.680 now in Cove, Texas. Ricks How can we help? 2769 02:30:14.120 --> 02:30:17.079 Well, it's real simple. I've been playing with my venkas 2770 02:30:17.079 --> 02:30:19.200 for all summer and all of a sudden they start 2771 02:30:19.479 --> 02:30:22.360 look like die back on roses, and I wondering what 2772 02:30:22.440 --> 02:30:23.040 I'm doing wrong. 2773 02:30:23.959 --> 02:30:24.719 We're doing fine. 2774 02:30:25.000 --> 02:30:29.319 Vinka the madagescar prairiewinkle, or vinca as they call it, 2775 02:30:29.399 --> 02:30:32.159 the annual flowers that are typically red, white or pink 2776 02:30:32.280 --> 02:30:36.879 or maybe coral. Okay, there's a disease that there's a 2777 02:30:36.959 --> 02:30:40.000 disease that can attack them, and it's an aerial blight 2778 02:30:40.440 --> 02:30:43.159 that causes the whole stem to turn like a chocolate 2779 02:30:43.239 --> 02:30:46.280 brown and die pretty quick. Is that what you're saying 2780 02:30:46.399 --> 02:30:52.079 that symptom? Okay, uh, okay, next year, nothing to do 2781 02:30:52.159 --> 02:30:54.760 about these. Pull them out, get all the plant material 2782 02:30:54.799 --> 02:30:57.000 out of there when you're done with the season, and 2783 02:30:57.200 --> 02:31:00.920 next year look for a variety call to Cora c 2784 02:31:01.399 --> 02:31:06.680 o R a cora that's resistant to that disease. And 2785 02:31:07.040 --> 02:31:11.120 unless the disease evolves and changes in which happens with diseases, 2786 02:31:11.639 --> 02:31:15.760 but cora is resistant to that phytopteral aerial blight, and 2787 02:31:16.000 --> 02:31:18.280 once you've had it, in the spot. You either need 2788 02:31:18.360 --> 02:31:21.280 to plant cora's there or plant some other flower. It 2789 02:31:21.360 --> 02:31:26.840 doesn't attack other flowers and put your vincas somewhere else. Okay, sir, very. 2790 02:31:26.719 --> 02:31:27.360 Good, very good. 2791 02:31:27.959 --> 02:31:29.760 Variety of colors or just one color? 2792 02:31:31.719 --> 02:31:34.559 Chorus? Come in many types, Yeah, they come in many types. 2793 02:31:34.600 --> 02:31:36.760 I think there's even some trailing coras that they put 2794 02:31:36.799 --> 02:31:39.440 in hanging baskets. Cora is a series, it's not a 2795 02:31:39.600 --> 02:31:43.239 single variety. I wasn't clear about that, but yes, that 2796 02:31:43.399 --> 02:31:48.639 venca's typically a pink, white, red flower, and that's how 2797 02:31:48.680 --> 02:31:52.799 they are. Thank you, Good luck with those, you bet. 2798 02:31:53.079 --> 02:31:55.760 We're going to run to Austin County and talk to Doris. Hey, Doris, 2799 02:31:55.840 --> 02:31:56.719 welcome to garden line. 2800 02:31:57.920 --> 02:31:58.879 Good morning, how are you. 2801 02:32:00.520 --> 02:32:08.200 I'm doing well? How can I help today? Doris? Would 2802 02:32:08.239 --> 02:32:11.280 you turn off the radio and let's see if we 2803 02:32:11.319 --> 02:32:16.719 can help you here right quick? All right, I'll tell 2804 02:32:16.760 --> 02:32:18.719 you what. I'm going to put you on hold. If 2805 02:32:18.760 --> 02:32:21.360 we've lost you, call right back. We'll try to get you, 2806 02:32:21.600 --> 02:32:24.120 get to you, and I'm going to go on to 2807 02:32:24.319 --> 02:32:27.360 Scott in Belleville. Hey, Scott, welcome to the garden line. 2808 02:32:28.120 --> 02:32:28.879 Hey, how are you doing? 2809 02:32:29.760 --> 02:32:30.120 All right? 2810 02:32:30.239 --> 02:32:32.799 So I have a I just moved into a house 2811 02:32:32.920 --> 02:32:35.959 up in outside of Belleville and a couple of akers, 2812 02:32:36.120 --> 02:32:41.200 and it's got We've come sam spurs or sugar burs, 2813 02:32:41.719 --> 02:32:44.079 you know what I'm talking about. They're like, yes, do 2814 02:32:44.239 --> 02:32:47.559 comic things that hurt like fire just by looking at them? 2815 02:32:47.559 --> 02:32:47.920 Almost? 2816 02:32:48.440 --> 02:32:52.440 Is there any way, yes, any possibility to control those? 2817 02:32:53.879 --> 02:32:57.079 Yes? Absolutely. There are a number of different pre emergence 2818 02:32:57.440 --> 02:33:01.600 herbicides that will control them. Barricade. You hear me talk 2819 02:33:01.639 --> 02:33:03.840 about barricade from night foss all the time. That's one. 2820 02:33:04.360 --> 02:33:07.200 There are other products on the market that are that 2821 02:33:07.280 --> 02:33:09.200 are pre emerging, but they have to be work, they 2822 02:33:09.239 --> 02:33:11.959 have to work on grassyweeds, but barricade is the one 2823 02:33:12.000 --> 02:33:15.440 I would suggest that you use. Now, if you go 2824 02:33:15.559 --> 02:33:19.600 online to my schedule at gardening with Skip dot com 2825 02:33:20.079 --> 02:33:25.079 gardening ski dot com dot com, Okay, skip gardening with 2826 02:33:25.280 --> 02:33:28.120 skip dot com. There are two schedules. There's a lawn 2827 02:33:28.239 --> 02:33:31.639 care schedule and then a lawn pest disease and weed 2828 02:33:31.799 --> 02:33:35.159 management schedule. If you look at the second one and 2829 02:33:35.319 --> 02:33:39.559 you go down to weeds prevention, not killing existing, but preventing, 2830 02:33:40.000 --> 02:33:43.559 you'll see that from late January through February, we put 2831 02:33:43.600 --> 02:33:46.959 pre emergence down for warm season weeds in your area. 2832 02:33:47.479 --> 02:33:50.360 I would say do it in about mid February would 2833 02:33:50.399 --> 02:33:56.760 be best. Then then one, two three, about two and 2834 02:33:56.879 --> 02:33:59.920 a half to three months later you would do it again. 2835 02:34:00.040 --> 02:34:04.719 And so that would be in May that you would again. Okay, 2836 02:34:04.959 --> 02:34:08.200 because those graspers will sprout all through the warm season. 2837 02:34:08.680 --> 02:34:11.879 And by doing those two applications, now after you apply them, 2838 02:34:11.920 --> 02:34:13.520 they have to be watered in. So if this is 2839 02:34:13.600 --> 02:34:15.479 a yard, you can do it. If it's a pasture, 2840 02:34:15.559 --> 02:34:17.920 you got to wait for a rainfall and then apply 2841 02:34:18.000 --> 02:34:20.319 it right for a rainfall to get it into the 2842 02:34:20.440 --> 02:34:22.280 soil surface. Okay. 2843 02:34:25.200 --> 02:34:28.959 Do they sell that stuff in like mass quantities, like 2844 02:34:29.360 --> 02:34:32.159 you know the costco sized version, because I get I 2845 02:34:32.280 --> 02:34:36.399 get two acres and probably about three quarters to three 2846 02:34:36.440 --> 02:34:39.280 quarters of an acre. I'm scared to walk through there 2847 02:34:39.319 --> 02:34:40.200 because they hurt. 2848 02:34:41.120 --> 02:34:46.440 Yeah. Yeah, well tell you I would. If I were you, 2849 02:34:46.520 --> 02:34:49.760 I would do this. I don't know the Belleville area, 2850 02:34:49.799 --> 02:34:51.840 all the stores and shops and feed stores and everything 2851 02:34:51.879 --> 02:34:55.239 out there. You you may want to call your county 2852 02:34:55.319 --> 02:35:00.760 Agro Life Extension office there in Belleville, K and UH 2853 02:35:01.200 --> 02:35:03.879 ask them what do you recommend for pasture? 2854 02:35:05.120 --> 02:35:05.239 Uh? 2855 02:35:05.920 --> 02:35:12.000 Graspburg Control and they can take county quantities Agro Life 2856 02:35:12.360 --> 02:35:16.600 Extension Office, County Extension Office. If I I'm going to 2857 02:35:16.680 --> 02:35:20.280 try to find it, yes, sir, okay, and I'm gonna 2858 02:35:20.280 --> 02:35:21.959 try to find it, and I'll say I'll say it 2859 02:35:22.040 --> 02:35:23.639 on the air if I can find it before we 2860 02:35:23.760 --> 02:35:26.120 get to the end of the show today. When when 2861 02:35:26.159 --> 02:35:27.959 you call them, they're going to give you what the 2862 02:35:28.159 --> 02:35:30.639 farm and ranchers would use. And that's going to be 2863 02:35:31.040 --> 02:35:34.399 a made for bigger quantities than just like the backyard 2864 02:35:34.559 --> 02:35:38.440 kind of thing. Okay, very good. All right, My timing 2865 02:35:38.520 --> 02:35:40.799 and my schedule is still the same. My timing is 2866 02:35:40.840 --> 02:35:42.079 still right for your area. 2867 02:35:42.360 --> 02:35:46.719 Okay, So it's just the timing. Give me, give me 2868 02:35:46.760 --> 02:35:48.639 that one more time. My wife's writing notes down. That's 2869 02:35:48.639 --> 02:35:50.159 why I keep trying to repeat a couple. 2870 02:35:50.000 --> 02:35:53.440 Of things that go to garden, go to gardening with 2871 02:35:53.879 --> 02:35:56.200 skip dot com and find. 2872 02:35:57.920 --> 02:36:00.639 And then there's that's our lawn care schedules. 2873 02:36:01.639 --> 02:36:05.280 Okay, Okay, thank. 2874 02:36:05.159 --> 02:36:05.440 You, sir. 2875 02:36:05.559 --> 02:36:08.680 I appreciate that call. All right, We're going to run 2876 02:36:08.760 --> 02:36:11.239 right here quick. Go back to Doris. Doris, do we 2877 02:36:11.319 --> 02:36:19.000 got you still? I cannot hear Doris? Oh, sorry, didn't 2878 02:36:19.079 --> 02:36:22.920 work out. Well, we tried. You've been listening to Guardline. 2879 02:36:23.399 --> 02:36:28.200 Next Saturday, Nature's Way Resources halfway up. Oh well, that's 2880 02:36:28.319 --> 02:36:31.639 halfway up to Conrod, Texas, right where fourteen eighty eight 2881 02:36:31.760 --> 02:36:35.440 comes in. You turn right and you go to Nature's 2882 02:36:35.440 --> 02:36:38.360 Way on Glennon. You know, let me, let me just 2883 02:36:38.440 --> 02:36:40.639 do this. Come on out there. I'm gonna be there 2884 02:36:40.639 --> 02:36:43.680 from eleven thirty to one thirty. They're having their Fall Festival. 2885 02:36:43.719 --> 02:36:45.840 It is going to be so much fun. We're gonna 2886 02:36:45.840 --> 02:36:48.479 have a blast, and I hope you'll come out because 2887 02:36:48.520 --> 02:36:51.120 when you get there, what you're gonna find is that, 2888 02:36:51.680 --> 02:36:54.840 you know, we can pretty much answer any question you got. 2889 02:36:54.920 --> 02:36:57.239 If you bring me a sample, if you you know, 2890 02:36:57.399 --> 02:37:00.559 bring me pictures of stuff, let's talk about it and 2891 02:37:00.719 --> 02:37:03.360 let's solve it. For those of you looking for your 2892 02:37:03.399 --> 02:37:08.760 ag Extension office, go to Agrolifepeople dot TAMU dot edu