Speaker 1: Welcome to Katie r h Garden Line with Skip Rictor.
Speaker 2: It's crazy Trim.
Speaker 3: Just watch him as Google.
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Speaker 5: Sun.
Speaker 2: Hey, good morning, Good Sunday morning. I hope this morning
Speaker 2: finds you well. Looking forward to visiting with you about
Speaker 2: the things that are of most interest to you regarding
Speaker 2: your garden. If you have a question you'd like to
Speaker 2: ask or visit about this morning, well, all you got
Speaker 2: to do is do this, pick up the phone seven
Speaker 2: one three two one two kt r H seven one
Speaker 2: three two one two k t r H and we
Speaker 2: will take it from there. If you if your question relates,
Speaker 2: let's say your question is something I really would need
Speaker 2: to see a picture about, like I got this weed,
Speaker 2: and well, we can't describe weeds on the air very
Speaker 2: well or accurately, so send me a picture. All you
Speaker 2: have to do is call Alejandro and get an email
Speaker 2: to send it, and then following sending me the picture,
Speaker 2: give me a call. That is the easiest way, the fastest,
Speaker 2: and I guess from what you would be very interested
Speaker 2: in the most accurate way for me to help you
Speaker 2: with a question that you might have. I can try
Speaker 2: to imagine what you're describing. But you know, maybe we
Speaker 2: get it right, maybe we don't, but if I see
Speaker 2: a picture, we can we can definitely nail it and
Speaker 2: get it just exactly right. The folks that you're around
Speaker 2: Houston are really specialists, you know, when it comes to corroeration, compost,
Speaker 2: stop dressing, and I render to a lot of people
Speaker 2: that will send me pictures and the lawn is just
Speaker 2: not doing well. I mean, it's thin, it's dead in areas.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's struggling in some areas, and I can see
Speaker 2: sometimes I can see, you know, where the foot traffic
Speaker 2: has gone across it, and those paths are compacted, and
Speaker 2: it's just struggling.
Speaker 6: Well.
Speaker 2: Compost, top dressing, following following a core aeration is the
Speaker 2: best way I think to bring along back fast like that.
Speaker 2: You can water, you can fertilize. Those are all important.
Speaker 2: But if the soil is compacted, then it's going to
Speaker 2: struggle period, and so it tends to get compact, especially
Speaker 2: as we walk on it or as pets go across it.
Speaker 2: Year round Houston dot Com that's the website, that's the
Speaker 2: name of the company. Year Round Houston dot Com eight
Speaker 2: three two eight eight four fifty three thirty five eight
Speaker 2: three two eight eight four fifty three thirty five. They
Speaker 2: use top quality compost that settles right down into the lawn,
Speaker 2: nice fine textured compost and basically serving this area inside
Speaker 2: the beltway around Houston. So if you live in that
Speaker 2: area and you're interested in giving them a call eight
Speaker 2: three to two eight eight four fifty three thirty five
Speaker 2: year round Houston dot Com. I think we're going to
Speaker 2: start on the phones this morning by going out to
Speaker 2: Katie and talking to Ralph. Hello, Ralph, welcome to Guardline.
Speaker 7: Come skip, good morning.
Speaker 8: How are you.
Speaker 2: I'm doing well?
Speaker 9: Thank you fantastic.
Speaker 7: Hey, I had a question on your schedule. I've been
Speaker 7: following it.
Speaker 10: The yard works great.
Speaker 7: And I noticed that it says either June July to
Speaker 7: do another slow release fertilization, even though I just did one,
Speaker 7: and I'm curious, is that necessary or is it just
Speaker 7: a suggestion?
Speaker 2: Right, It's just a suggest and it's based on you know,
Speaker 2: sometimes people using the word slow release. There's some slow
Speaker 2: releases that are really slow they last a long time,
Speaker 2: like four months, and then there's some that are not
Speaker 2: as long in terms of how long they last. So
Speaker 2: I put that on there just to carry us on
Speaker 2: forward a little further. Uh, depending on the rates you
Speaker 2: put it down. And when you got the first one down,
Speaker 2: you may or may not want to do the second
Speaker 2: one in June or July.
Speaker 10: The same with the barricade.
Speaker 11: You have it listed another time.
Speaker 10: Correct, Yes, so it works the same, right.
Speaker 2: Well, the bear another word that's list Go.
Speaker 8: Ahead, go ahead, you want, we.
Speaker 2: Got a time. We've got a timing delay here, so
Speaker 2: it's hard to not talk over each other. So the
Speaker 2: barricade that's listed in February that prevents that gets a
Speaker 2: out of all the warm season weed germination. That's what
Speaker 2: we're trying to do. The one barricade doesn't last forever,
Speaker 2: and you know when you get about ninety days out
Speaker 2: from it, you are going to be it's going to
Speaker 2: be breaking down and not continuing if you used at
Speaker 2: the proper rate. And so that's where another application can
Speaker 2: be used. Especially if you got a thin turf and
Speaker 2: you're struggling with weeds, you're trying to keep them out
Speaker 2: of there, you can do the second one that is
Speaker 2: not a requirement. Hopefully by then your lawn is looking
Speaker 2: good and it's filling in and it's not as needed,
Speaker 2: but in a lot of lawns, that second application carries
Speaker 2: it on further into the summer because things like grasper
Speaker 2: and there's some other warm season weeds that may germinate
Speaker 2: every month on through the summer.
Speaker 11: Got it, Thank you so much.
Speaker 12: Appreciate it, all right.
Speaker 2: You bet, thanks, thanks for the question. I appreciate that.
Speaker 2: All right, folks. Nitrofoss has a number of great products
Speaker 2: out there on the market, and I was just visiting
Speaker 2: with Den yesterday about some of the stuff that they
Speaker 2: have going and the nitrofive Super Turf nineteen four ten
Speaker 2: is like that, that's the elephant in the room for summer.
Speaker 2: It just really is it. As we were talking about
Speaker 2: how long does a slow release last, well, this one's
Speaker 2: going to go about sixteen weeks, about four months. And
Speaker 2: if you put down a good rate, a recommended rate,
Speaker 2: the proper rate for it, it will carry you through. Now,
Speaker 2: something I often say is, are you if you return
Speaker 2: your clippings, then you get even an extended release, because
Speaker 2: when you put on fertilizer and grow grass clippings and
Speaker 2: then chop those up, put them back down in the lawn,
Speaker 2: don't catch them in a bagger. Well that they begin
Speaker 2: to release their nutrients in our hot, warm, summer moist
Speaker 2: environment down there in the turf, and by doing that
Speaker 2: you get additional recycling of those nutrients. So that also
Speaker 2: carries you on further. Not everybody bags, and so that's
Speaker 2: another reason why on the schedules in the middle there,
Speaker 2: I'll put a second application of the slow release to
Speaker 2: carry on through summer. So those are all optional, and
Speaker 2: I realize everybody's in a different situation. But this Night
Speaker 2: five superturf is an is a very good product designed
Speaker 2: for our southern turf grass is designed for our soils
Speaker 2: here and it works. It's the bottom line. You're going
Speaker 2: to find it in places like plants and things in Brenham.
Speaker 2: You go out to Baytown, you'll find it at Fisher's
Speaker 2: Hardware there if you're done in Clute Lake Hardware and
Speaker 2: Clute on Dixie Drive carries night FoST products as well.
Speaker 2: I'm going to take a little break here and we
Speaker 2: will be back with your calls. If you would like
Speaker 2: to give me a call, it's seven one three two
Speaker 2: one two fifty eight seventy four or seven one three
Speaker 2: two one two kt r H Well good Sunday morning.
Speaker 2: Good to have you guys with us this morning. We
Speaker 2: are looking forward to answering questions all morning and talking
Speaker 2: to gardeners. That's what we do here online. We try
Speaker 2: to help you have a more bountiful garden, a more
Speaker 2: beautiful landscape, and more fun in the process. That is
Speaker 2: the important part. Enjoy it, have more fun, right all right?
Speaker 2: Well all you got to do seven one three two
Speaker 2: one two ktr h and you will be live here.
Speaker 2: Don't be afraid to call. I talk to people all
Speaker 2: the time. By the way, I had a good time
Speaker 2: yesterday out at the Ace Hardware Store Hardware City Ace
Speaker 2: on Memorial Drive. We had a lot of folks come through.
Speaker 2: Good to visit with everybody. Uh and uh. You know,
Speaker 2: when we're out at those events and we get to visit,
Speaker 2: a lot of times people will go, yeah, I don't
Speaker 2: call in because I don't know. I don't want to
Speaker 2: call in and be on the air and stuff. And
Speaker 2: it's come on, man, Look, if you've listened to Gardenline
Speaker 2: for one show, you know I don't bite. I used
Speaker 2: to say this all the time. I probably ought to
Speaker 2: say that more again, but I used to say, there's
Speaker 2: no such thing as a stupid question, just stupid answers.
Speaker 2: So the pressure's on me, not you, okay, And that's true.
Speaker 2: I mean if you were a brand new rookie gardener,
Speaker 2: or a rookie at growing some new thing, maybe a
Speaker 2: garden before, but you never grew catalia orkins before, you know,
Speaker 2: or whatever you call about, it's okay, that is all right,
Speaker 2: don't worry about it. We don't treat questions like their
Speaker 2: stupid questions. We try to help you with them. And
Speaker 2: so just give me a call because other people will
Speaker 2: have that question too. There are a lot of people,
Speaker 2: the vast majority of people listen to Garden Line. I
Speaker 2: mean vast majority never call in. They just listen because
Speaker 2: they like the listening here and do stuff. Well, you're
Speaker 2: welcome to call in. So anyway, that's my two cents
Speaker 2: worth on that. One of the things I just really
Speaker 2: enjoy here on guard Line is our feed store sponsors,
Speaker 2: and it's because I grew up going to feed stores
Speaker 2: and it's just a great memory. You know, you walk
Speaker 2: into a feed store and you smell the smell of
Speaker 2: that feed, and to me, that is just a I
Speaker 2: don't know, that's like Grandma's chocolate, cookies, bacon, bacon in
Speaker 2: the kitchen as you're a kid growing up or whatever
Speaker 2: your old factory sent related memories are. But I love
Speaker 2: feed stores and League City Feed is that kind of feedstore.
Speaker 2: It has been around for over forty years now, is
Speaker 2: built in an Okra patch and the third generation of
Speaker 2: Thunderbergs are now running the store Wes and Madison. You'll
Speaker 2: see them there when you go. The number if you
Speaker 2: only get MC call is two eight one three three
Speaker 2: two sixteen twelve. They're open Monday through Saturday, nine to
Speaker 2: six and six o'clock. That way, you can swing by
Speaker 2: after work and grab some things. Closed on Sundays. But
Speaker 2: League City Feed is located in League City. It's on
Speaker 2: Highway three, a few blocks south of Highway ninety six,
Speaker 2: so it's really easy to get to. As you head
Speaker 2: south from Highway ninety six, it'll be on the left
Speaker 2: down Highway three just a little bit. And all of
Speaker 2: those communities in the greater League City area, this is
Speaker 2: your hometown feed store. This is old time service where
Speaker 2: they carry the bags out for you and they have
Speaker 2: the stuff you're looking for, premium pet foods and the
Speaker 2: things to control pests in your garden, diseases in your garden,
Speaker 2: to prevent or control weeds in your garden. You hear
Speaker 2: me talk about nitrophoss and asmide and microlife and heirloom
Speaker 2: soils and nilson plant all of that. League City Feed.
Speaker 2: So you want to have a beautiful garden and a
Speaker 2: bountiful garden, League City Feeds the place to go, tell them,
Speaker 2: we said him skipped from Garden Line said high when
Speaker 2: you stop by there, Uh, the East Madison has a
Speaker 2: I hope, I hope still. I had a little Dalmatian
Speaker 2: called Roorschak, and I always thought that was the best
Speaker 2: name for a dog in the world. I mean, a
Speaker 2: Dalmation named Roorshak. Remember the Rorshak test where you look
Speaker 2: at an ink blot and they say what do you
Speaker 2: see when you see this spot? So you study the dog,
Speaker 2: I guess, and tell them what do you see? Good
Speaker 2: name for a Dalmatian? All right? I love dogs. We
Speaker 2: got a couple of them ourself, and we sure do
Speaker 2: love those dogs. If you have not been to Plants
Speaker 2: for all seasons, that's the garden center that's up on
Speaker 2: Highway two forty nine Tombull Parkway, just north of Luetta.
Speaker 2: So it's on Tomball Parkway, but it's just about a
Speaker 2: block north of Luetta on the right hand side there
Speaker 2: if you're going north. It's an incredible place. If you're
Speaker 2: a green thumb, well you probably already know about it.
Speaker 2: And if you have a brown thumb, or you think
Speaker 2: you do, then go in there and they will help
Speaker 2: your thumb turn green because you know what turns the
Speaker 2: thumb green. I tell you all the time on garden Line,
Speaker 2: it is information. When you educate your thumb, your thumb
Speaker 2: turns green. That's kind of how that works, if you
Speaker 2: want to talk brown and green thumbs. This is a
Speaker 2: full service retail garden center. It's been family owned and
Speaker 2: operated since nineteen seventy three. These folks are true lawn
Speaker 2: and garden experts. They are. You can take them pictures,
Speaker 2: you can take them samples of plants and they'll identify them.
Speaker 2: They'll points you to the right product if that's what's needed.
Speaker 2: Even just go into an area and go, hey, look
Speaker 2: at that patio. I want to put a container on it,
Speaker 2: and what would be some good plants for a container
Speaker 2: in this picture to go in this on this patio,
Speaker 2: and they can do that. They can direct you through
Speaker 2: it and take the time to walk you through select
Speaker 2: the plants. They have some great containers there as well.
Speaker 2: So as they say, get your green on at Plants
Speaker 2: for All Seasons and they can help you do just that.
Speaker 2: Plants for All Seasons dot com is the website. The
Speaker 2: phone number if you'd like to give them a call
Speaker 2: to eight one three seven six sixteen forty six two
Speaker 2: eight one three seven six one six four six. You're
Speaker 2: listening to Gardenline and I'm your host, Skip Richter. We're
Speaker 2: here to help you have a bountiful and beautiful place
Speaker 2: and it's not that difficult. You just follow a few
Speaker 2: simple principles. Think like a plant. How about that? That
Speaker 2: would be my advice. Think like a plant. So if
Speaker 2: you were a plant, what would you want? And that's
Speaker 2: how you have success with plants. So, for example, you
Speaker 2: are an azalea or you are a tomato plant. Okay,
Speaker 2: we're going to interview in azalea. What do you want? Well,
Speaker 2: I like light, but I don't want to be in
Speaker 2: the blazing sun all day. That's just too much. Okay,
Speaker 2: we'll provide that. I like moisture consistently, but I don't
Speaker 2: want to be in a swamp and I cannot get
Speaker 2: too dry for too long. That's what I want, all right.
Speaker 2: We can provide that. I'm really from forested regions where
Speaker 2: the soil is rich and organic y and just wonderful soil,
Speaker 2: and it's acidic, not highph soil. All right, we can
Speaker 2: provide you that, and you start doing that for the plant,
Speaker 2: not asalia is going to be as happy as a clam,
Speaker 2: as they say. I don't know why they say that.
Speaker 2: Why would a clam be happy? Anyway, that's how you
Speaker 2: do it. But the tomato plant, same interview. I want
Speaker 2: to be in the sun. The more sun, the better.
Speaker 2: You put me in less than six hours of sun,
Speaker 2: and you will not get as much production from me. Okay,
Speaker 2: we'll provide that, and on and on down the line.
Speaker 2: That's how you have successive plants. What does a plant want?
Speaker 2: Give them that? And as we were saying about the thumbs,
Speaker 2: the more you know what a plant wants and the
Speaker 2: more you provide it, the more people walk on around
Speaker 2: and go, well, you must have a green thumb. Well
Speaker 2: I have an informed thumb. Let's head out to the phones.
Speaker 2: We're gonna go all the way up to Willis Texas
Speaker 2: and talk to Ann. Hello, Anne, how are you today? Good?
Speaker 11: How are you?
Speaker 2: I'm doing well? Thank you?
Speaker 11: Good?
Speaker 12: Yellow circles on my lawn. I'm assuming that's fungus.
Speaker 6: Could be.
Speaker 2: It could be, well, we normally the normally is that
Speaker 2: brown patch that causes the yellow circles. It is primarily
Speaker 2: a cooler season disease, but there is a cousin of it,
Speaker 2: arise ac tonia that can attack in the warm summertime too.
Speaker 12: Okay, if do I need a fungus side.
Speaker 13: To get rid of it?
Speaker 2: Yes, probably not. Avoid over doing the nitrogen and avoid
Speaker 2: you adding water too frequently. Now you can't control the rain,
Speaker 2: but if you were to water your lawn every other day,
Speaker 2: you're going to promote that disease.
Speaker 13: Okay.
Speaker 12: So a lot of the the grass is it's new,
Speaker 12: it's it's been down maybe a month and a half so,
Speaker 12: and then of course we were watering because it was new,
Speaker 12: and then we had all this rain and now it's
Speaker 12: not very happy.
Speaker 2: When did you first notice the yellowing?
Speaker 12: When we had that first time we had a lot
Speaker 12: of rain. I think we had like in two days,
Speaker 12: we had like six inches.
Speaker 14: It was a lot.
Speaker 12: Okay, Okay, that's when I first started noticing it.
Speaker 2: Based on what I'm hearing, and of course I'm not
Speaker 2: seeing it, but based on what I'm hearing, I think
Speaker 2: that you're gonna be okay, just you know, let let's
Speaker 2: let it warm up and dry out a little bit,
Speaker 2: and I think it's going to be all right. If
Speaker 2: I saw a picture, I might see something else that's
Speaker 2: not occurring to me as we talk about it. But yeah,
Speaker 2: that that would be That would be my suggestion to you.
Speaker 12: Okay, all right, okay, sounds good.
Speaker 2: And another thing you might do is, uh, have you
Speaker 2: ever been to Growers Outlet. They're on Highway seventy five
Speaker 2: just south of Wales. Okay, well good, Yeah, you might
Speaker 2: take them a picture in there because they're very knowledgeable
Speaker 2: and visit with them and see see see what they see.
Speaker 2: They do carry some products as well, and so you
Speaker 2: know that that may be another backup on it. But
Speaker 2: you always need another used to go in there, because
Speaker 2: the place is great.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 12: Yeah, well I went in there. I actually went in
Speaker 12: there yesterday and I was looking at the fungus side
Speaker 12: and I was reading the back of the bag and
Speaker 12: it was talking about using it as a preventative, and
Speaker 12: I thought, well, yeah, well okay, but.
Speaker 2: In general that that's true of fundericides in general. Like
Speaker 2: when you get powdery mildew all over a leaf of
Speaker 2: a rosebush or whatever you have, it's a little late
Speaker 2: to spray and do much about it. Very few fundicides
Speaker 2: have curative properties, but they protect and prevent. And so
Speaker 2: with your lawn, if it were going to keep getting worse,
Speaker 2: you go ahead and do it anyway, even though you
Speaker 2: have a little bit of it, in order to prevent
Speaker 2: it from getting worse. That that's kind of how fungicides work.
Speaker 2: So it's a judgment call as to whether you want
Speaker 2: to treat it or not. And I can't see it,
Speaker 2: so it's hard for me to give that. But that's
Speaker 2: why I would suggest you go talk to them too,
Speaker 2: because you can take them a picture right there. I
Speaker 2: believe I lost I lost my collar there, all right.
Speaker 2: Well anyway, yeah, Growers Outlet for any of you up
Speaker 2: there around the lake area around certainly Conroe and Willis
Speaker 2: and New Waverley and that whole region up there, even
Speaker 2: the Woodlands Grows Outlet. You got to go check it out.
Speaker 2: It's Growers Outlet in Willis, Dot com Growers Outlet and
Speaker 2: Willis dot Com. It's on Hyset Highway seventy five south
Speaker 2: of Willis, north of Conrad, Okay. And you can go
Speaker 2: online to that website Growers Outlet and Willis dot com
Speaker 2: and you can see they list their availability on the
Speaker 2: web and they put the prices as well on the web,
Speaker 2: which is very unusual for a company to do that.
Speaker 2: But when you go in, you're going to see a
Speaker 2: lot of cool things. It's a full service garden center. Well,
Speaker 2: it looks like we're getting pretty close here to another
Speaker 2: little break in the action. As someone was asking me
Speaker 2: about Piercescapes of it in, I just wanted to comment
Speaker 2: about them. Piercecapes does anything you need done pretty much
Speaker 2: around the landscape, whether it's a design from the beginning
Speaker 2: from the ground up, whether it's some renovations, if the
Speaker 2: irrigation needs work, if you want lighting, if you need drainage,
Speaker 2: and you should know it by now after the rain
Speaker 2: we have Go to their website Puerscapes dot com and
Speaker 2: see their work and you will be sold on it
Speaker 2: as I was. Or call them two eight one three
Speaker 2: seven oh fifty sixty. I'm gonna take a break and
Speaker 2: we'll be right back. All right, there we go. There
Speaker 2: used to be a time before, probably almost all of
Speaker 2: our time listening to this when singing cowboys little things.
Speaker 2: Some of you may remember that. I remember it just
Speaker 2: as watching all movies that was in the day where
Speaker 2: you knew who to shoot at out in the West
Speaker 2: because they either wore a black or a white hat.
Speaker 2: If the guy on the other side of the big
Speaker 2: rock across the canyon had on a black hat and
Speaker 2: was shooting at you, that man, he was a bad guy.
Speaker 2: Oh boy, Hello, Genatry, Hey, welcome back to garden Line.
Speaker 2: And we do play a mix of music here. I
Speaker 2: know it's a gardening show, but I like to have
Speaker 2: some fun. I enjoy music. I enjoy a variety of things.
Speaker 2: We got, we got radio shows you can listen to
Speaker 2: that just play all the modern music all the time.
Speaker 2: But hey, let's mix it up a little bit. That's
Speaker 2: what we're doing, speaking and mixing it up a little bit.
Speaker 2: How about mixing it up with one of your calls
Speaker 2: seven one three two on two K t r H.
Speaker 2: What do you want to talk about? Real happy, We're
Speaker 2: happy to visit about all kinds of things related to plants. Uh,
Speaker 2: microlife fertilizers. You hear me talk about them all the time.
Speaker 2: You see them everywhere you go. I mean feed stores,
Speaker 2: garden centers, good quality mom and pop garden centers, and
Speaker 2: certainly Ace hardware stores, a Southwest fertilizer. You get the
Speaker 2: idea there everywhere. Well, micro Grow Liquid AF is a
Speaker 2: product for microlife. And I don't talk about this a lot,
Speaker 2: but I'm gonna right now and I want you to
Speaker 2: know about this. It is a product that has eight
Speaker 2: different beneficial microbes that dominate the soil situation and protect
Speaker 2: your plants. Did you know you know, people talk about
Speaker 2: microbes or bacteria, and you think, well with people when
Speaker 2: they say, well you got bacteria, that's like, oh that's
Speaker 2: a bad thing, right, that's a disease or whatever. Well,
Speaker 2: bacteria can cause plant disease. But there are a lot
Speaker 2: of bacteria that are out there preventing plant disease. That's
Speaker 2: why the bad guys don't run wild. We're talking about
Speaker 2: the bacteria now that wear the white hats, okay, strapped
Speaker 2: to mices and Trachiderma and Bacillus. There's a lot of
Speaker 2: good forms of all of those. I was just looking
Speaker 2: at a product this morning that actually it's a fungicide
Speaker 2: and it has basically the ingredient is Bacillus subtless and
Speaker 2: that's one of the things that you find in micro
Speaker 2: grow liquid. If there's a pile of research a mile
Speaker 2: high about the benefits of these bacteria and fighting disease,
Speaker 2: it's fighting disease naturally the way nature does. How does
Speaker 2: nature deal with certain diseases. Well, it has other microbes
Speaker 2: that defeat them or out out compete them on the
Speaker 2: plant's surface, or have other ways that they prevent problems. Well,
Speaker 2: that's exactly now microgrow liquid AF. We're not going to
Speaker 2: call it a fungicide. What it basically is, though, is
Speaker 2: it's a pack of eight different quality bacteria that you
Speaker 2: need to have in your soils, and you need to
Speaker 2: have active and by doing that you are tilting that
Speaker 2: you are tilting the playing field, if you will, in
Speaker 2: favor of the good bacteria that protect your plants. Micro
Speaker 2: grow liquid AF all right, now, that is a kind
Speaker 2: of a purplish, violent colored label. I gotta somebody needs
Speaker 2: to teach me about colors, because I'm not real good
Speaker 2: at describing colors. My wife finally taught me what Wedgewood
Speaker 2: Blue was in Dusty Rose. It took a long time though. Anyway, Violet,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna call it violet. Micro grow liquid afs by
Speaker 2: the gallon, it's by the court, and it works. And
Speaker 2: basically what you're doing is you're taking the bacteria that
Speaker 2: wear the white hats and putting them in the soil
Speaker 2: on the plant, so the bacteria that were the black
Speaker 2: hats going back to gene autry here so that they
Speaker 2: don't have the upper hand. That makes sense, all right,
Speaker 2: I hope it does. I hope it does. It is
Speaker 2: true though, and boy are we ever learning a lot
Speaker 2: about how to deal with problems and plants by just
Speaker 2: taking a minute and looking at what nature does about
Speaker 2: it and going along with those those systems. It's through microlife.
Speaker 2: You're listening to garden Line. The phone number is seven
Speaker 2: one three two one two kt r H. Seven one
Speaker 2: three two one two k t r H. And you
Speaker 2: were here to help you have a bountiful garden and
Speaker 2: a beautiful landscape and be happy to do just that.
Speaker 2: If you haven't been out to Kingwood Garden Center and
Speaker 2: Warren Southern Gardens, they're in Kingwood, and I don't know
Speaker 2: how you guys in Kingwood managed to get both of
Speaker 2: these gardens. But that's not fair because you got two
Speaker 2: of them. They're they're just excellent places to go visit
Speaker 2: Warrens Southern Gardens on North Park Drive and Kingwood Garden
Speaker 2: Center on Stone Hollow, and each has its own I'll
Speaker 2: say personality if you will. They're they're not cookie cutters
Speaker 2: of each other, but they're both well worth going to
Speaker 2: Kingwood Garden Center. The gift shop there, first of all,
Speaker 2: is just amazing. You ought to go see it. It's
Speaker 2: really cool for the gardener and even the non gardener
Speaker 2: on your list. They have a lot of nice things.
Speaker 2: You know how it is with people, It's like, what
Speaker 2: do you get somebody that has everything, Well, you go
Speaker 2: to Kingwoo Garden Center gift shop and find something they
Speaker 2: definitely don't have because they got plenty of that there.
Speaker 2: Warrens has got a lot of good deals going on
Speaker 2: right now. First of all, the color at Warren's is amazing.
Speaker 2: I was out there not too long ago, and it
Speaker 2: just you just stop and just turn on three hundred
Speaker 2: and sixty degrees around and everywhere you look there are lush,
Speaker 2: beautiful plants right now they've got their vinkas for twenty
Speaker 2: percent off. Vinca also called Madagascar periwinkle. I know that
Speaker 2: you're kind of going, what's that. Well, that's the name
Speaker 2: I prefer for Vinca. But anyway, we got other plants
Speaker 2: named Vinca too. But it's the flowers typically red and
Speaker 2: white and pink and kind of a here we go again,
Speaker 2: maybe kind of a hot pink kind of color that
Speaker 2: just go through summer like crazy. It's part of their
Speaker 2: Sinko to Mayo sale. It's twenty percent off the vinkas.
Speaker 2: You can get them, you know, in gallum pots, four
Speaker 2: inch pots, hanging baskets. They do so well and it
Speaker 2: never gets too hot for venka. They are happy colors,
Speaker 2: beautiful color in the summertime. So go by there and
Speaker 2: check them out. And why are you there? Look at
Speaker 2: all the other wonderful stuff they have, because they do
Speaker 2: have a lot.
Speaker 13: I was.
Speaker 2: I was amazed. It's just how beautiful it was when
Speaker 2: I was out there. Really cool. Alrighty Well, oh, by
Speaker 2: the way, when when you're out there, check out the
Speaker 2: supply of all the stuff you need to go with
Speaker 2: your plants. I always say brown stuff before green stuff.
Speaker 2: And you can do them both at the same time.
Speaker 2: When you go buy Warren Southern Gardens Kingwood Garden Center,
Speaker 2: they got Microlife products, they got Nitrovost products, Nelson Turf Star,
Speaker 2: they got products from Nelson Plant Food. In the jars
Speaker 2: they have the heirloom soils bags there all kinds of
Speaker 2: airloom soils and airloom Soluce has every kind of product
Speaker 2: you can imagine for every kind of plant you can imagine,
Speaker 2: and it's all quality stuff and you can pick it
Speaker 2: all up there at the same time. And this is important.
Speaker 2: If you like to buy Microlife or Nelson Plant Food
Speaker 2: by the jar, the big screw top lid jars, the
Speaker 2: clear jars, you can take the empty jars back in
Speaker 2: there and you can get them filled at either Warren
Speaker 2: Southern Gardens or Kingwood Garden Center, either one. You can
Speaker 2: get them filled right there. So I would recommend that
Speaker 2: you do that. It's very economical not throwing plastic away
Speaker 2: in the environment, and it's just simple. I think we
Speaker 2: ought to have more things that we do by just
Speaker 2: refilling them instead of buying a new package. I would
Speaker 2: do it. I don't know, maybe some people wouldn't, but
Speaker 2: I sure would I think it's a good idea in
Speaker 2: my landscape. This past week, I've been working on planting,
Speaker 2: getting a lot of stuff in the ground that I've
Speaker 2: been trying to get planted for a long time. I
Speaker 2: did some planting of some ginger type plants. The gingers.
Speaker 2: I love ginger. I just think it's so tropical, and
Speaker 2: I like the white butterfly, the hedicium and some of
Speaker 2: the other butterflies. I planted two different butterfly gingers near
Speaker 2: the back porch where I can enjoy the fragrance of
Speaker 2: them coming out, and that just makes me happy to
Speaker 2: get those things going. So anyway, and if you're going
Speaker 2: to do any planting, also did some containers. Potted up
Speaker 2: a lime tree for a container. When you're doing a container,
Speaker 2: you want to get a good quality soil that drains well,
Speaker 2: and an example of that would be jungle Land distributed
Speaker 2: by nitrofoss. Jungle Land is basically based on a blended
Speaker 2: Canadian blonde peat with four different sources of aged organic
Speaker 2: matter and micro rise of fungi. Microasa fungi connect to
Speaker 2: the roots of plants and they make those roots more
Speaker 2: efficient and more effective, and they protect the roots in
Speaker 2: different ways too, so you can't go wrong using the
Speaker 2: outdoor jungle land the flour and vegetable planting soil, or
Speaker 2: using the indoor jungle land, the one called water saving
Speaker 2: potting soil. Either way, it's a good way to go.
Speaker 2: You're going to find nitrofoss products in many places like
Speaker 2: down in Angleton. You'll go to Lake Hardware in Angleton
Speaker 2: of Alasco. If you're an Alvin Stanton shopping Center, or
Speaker 2: North Taylor, or maybe the clear Lake area M and
Speaker 2: D Clear Lake, the Bay Area Boulevard, all places that
Speaker 2: carry nitrofos products. Time for me to take a little
Speaker 2: break here. We'll be back with your questions if you'd
Speaker 2: like to be first up down now seven one three
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Speaker 2: are here to help you with your gardening endeavors. If
Speaker 2: you'd like to give me a call seven one three
Speaker 2: two one two fifty eight seventy four or KTRH if
Speaker 2: you like dialing by letters, easier to remember that way.
Speaker 2: If you've got some furniture outside and it's not so
Speaker 2: good shape, you know, the worse for the wear. As
Speaker 2: they say that the weather is taking its toll, you
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Speaker 2: it could be wrought iron, cast iron, aluminum, patio furniture,
Speaker 2: whatever kind of metal. They can coat it and they
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Speaker 2: mean that. And I talked about me being color challenge.
Speaker 2: They have over one hundred colors that could need I
Speaker 2: could probably name five, right, that's me. But anyway, they
Speaker 2: have any color you want, really, and you haven't come
Speaker 2: in and take care of it. What they do is
Speaker 2: they come pick it up and they deliver it. If
Speaker 2: you're in the Houston area. Now, if you're further out,
Speaker 2: you can bring it in to them. But what they'll
Speaker 2: do is they'll do a powder coat on it, which
Speaker 2: is way better than you trying to paint the stuff.
Speaker 2: I mean, it looks like new because they don't just
Speaker 2: put a coating on the metal. I mean, if you've
Speaker 2: got rusty hardware, you know, nuts and bolts, they put
Speaker 2: stainless steel hardware back on it. If you've got vinyl
Speaker 2: straps and sling fabric and things, depending on the kind
Speaker 2: of chair or whatever piece of furniture it is, they
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Speaker 2: the end caps on some of the tubular metal furniture,
Speaker 2: they replace that. They make it right. It needs a
Speaker 2: little weld here and there to kind of restrengthen they
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Speaker 2: a fence or something. You got some wrought iron kind
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Speaker 2: a rail or you know, a rail around a patio
Speaker 2: or something, or some stairs. If you've got a light
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Speaker 2: is metal. If it's a metal, they can do it.
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Speaker 2: They'll give you a quick quote and you can go
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Speaker 2: eight eighty eight. They're up in North Houston, North sut
Speaker 2: of Houston. Knew the intersection about Way eight and Hardy
Speaker 2: Toll Road, so it's easy to get to them. But
Speaker 2: I'm telling you, the work is amazing. You know. Every
Speaker 2: time I look at the stuff they've done, and this
Speaker 2: is tongue in cheek, but it's also I kind of
Speaker 2: really mean it. It's like I want to go find
Speaker 2: some old furniture so I can have it powder coated
Speaker 2: because it looks so good. They, you know, something that
Speaker 2: somebody else would be going like, yeah, let's throw this away.
Speaker 2: This is well, take it to Euston Powder Court to
Speaker 2: see what they can do with it. Really nice stuff. Anyway,
Speaker 2: I was talking to one of my neighbors who's doing
Speaker 2: a little bit of fertilized getting ready to do a
Speaker 2: little bit of fertilizing here for summer, and we're talking
Speaker 2: about some different products and things, and we're talking about
Speaker 2: the schedule of the different kinds of product you can
Speaker 2: put down in the sense of an immediate release or
Speaker 2: a slow release or whatever. And we discussed that they
Speaker 2: had tried the Sweet Green and really liked They just
Speaker 2: said it, I mean, everything just greened up so pretty,
Speaker 2: and of course it does. Sweet Green is an organic
Speaker 2: type fertilizer that has eleven percent nitrogen, which is a
Speaker 2: high nitrogen content, so you use a little bit less
Speaker 2: of it. And because you're always putting down about a
Speaker 2: pound of nitrogen actual nitrogen when you fertilize your lawnch
Speaker 2: so you get a concentrated fertilizer, you use less, you
Speaker 2: get a less concentrated you use more. That's just how
Speaker 2: that works. And anyway, the Sweet Green dissolves away with
Speaker 2: the moisture and it releases the compounds that have nitrogen,
Speaker 2: and a bacteria grab onto it. Bacteria love sugary substances.
Speaker 2: That's why organic gardeners have used molasses for years. They
Speaker 2: know the benefits of that. Well, they get a hold
Speaker 2: of it. They go crazy. They release the nitrogen to
Speaker 2: your plants, and the rest is all history. As I say,
Speaker 2: in other words, your place looks good, and you're going
Speaker 2: to find Sweet Green and other nitrofoss products all over town.
Speaker 2: You go down to the Sagemont area, M and D.
Speaker 2: Beamer on Beamer is going to have it. You go
Speaker 2: to Mount Bellevue Fisher Hardware on FM thirty one eighty.
Speaker 2: You head up to Dan Defeed and Tomball on twenty
Speaker 2: nine to twenty. You're going to find nitro fosh products,
Speaker 2: including this Sweet Green works really well. I wanted to
Speaker 2: visit a little bit about selecting sites for plants. And
Speaker 2: the reason I bring this up is I've got a
Speaker 2: yard that is more shade than sun, which when I'm
Speaker 2: sitting out in the yard, I like that. But so
Speaker 2: many of the plants I want to grow needs sun.
Speaker 2: It takes sun to grow fruit, a lot of sun.
Speaker 2: It doesn't take a lot of sun to grow leaves.
Speaker 2: Some it needs sun. But fruit, yes, whether it's a
Speaker 2: peach or a tomato, it takes a lot of sun.
Speaker 2: It takes sun to grow flowers, and some things like hibiscus,
Speaker 2: they really need a lot of sun to do well.
Speaker 2: Most salvias need quite a bit of sun to do well,
Speaker 2: and in order for that to happen, you got to
Speaker 2: have a spot that gets I would like to see
Speaker 2: six hours of sun, and I've got a lot of
Speaker 2: spots that don't quite get that. So what do you
Speaker 2: do well other than cut down a tree, which ain't
Speaker 2: going to happen. Because we love our trees. Here, we
Speaker 2: find the sunniest spot that we can. And so I've
Speaker 2: got also the option of putting some fruit in that's
Speaker 2: a little more tolerant of shade. Doesn't want to be
Speaker 2: in shade, but it can put up with some Blueberries
Speaker 2: can take a little more shade. They do great. And
Speaker 2: if you're a blueberry grower, you better put it in
Speaker 2: full sun if you want to make money on it.
Speaker 2: But if you're homegrower and you got some bright shade,
Speaker 2: they'll do better, but better than like a peach tree
Speaker 2: or something would in the same spot. Big trees will
Speaker 2: put up with some bright shade as well, And sometimes
Speaker 2: you just have to compromise and do the best you can.
Speaker 2: And that's kind of where we are right now. So
Speaker 2: I'm planning this back bed that goes all way across
Speaker 2: the back of my property and some areas. What I
Speaker 2: did is, and I suggest you consider this. I went
Speaker 2: out and I took pictures of the bed almost every
Speaker 2: hour from the morning through the afternoon. So it took
Speaker 2: me about four days to do it because I would forget,
Speaker 2: so I'd have to set a time er, oh tomorrow
Speaker 2: at nine am, and I take a picture two pm
Speaker 2: or whatever. And I look at all those pictures, and
Speaker 2: I see the pattern of the sun, and I can
Speaker 2: say that spot right there is the sunniest spot in
Speaker 2: that whole row. And over here that is it almost
Speaker 2: never gets sun over there. And you pick your plants
Speaker 2: accordingly to fit those areas rather than just go out
Speaker 2: and plant it because you like that spot right there.
Speaker 2: You got to make the plants happy. Remember the thing
Speaker 2: about having a green thumb is you just know what
Speaker 2: a plant wants. And you know this stuff a lot.
Speaker 2: You know, you know a lot of these things. So
Speaker 2: I'm me telling you, but that is a very important
Speaker 2: concept to keep in mind. You make the plants happy,
Speaker 2: the plants will make you happy. Okay, all right, I'm
Speaker 2: I'm a post that our social media here. Let's head
Speaker 2: out to Clear Lake Texas, and we're going to talk
Speaker 2: to Sarah. Hello, Sarah, welcome to Guardenline morning.
Speaker 14: Skip.
Speaker 15: You were just talking about venka and I can take
Speaker 15: the heat and all that stuff.
Speaker 2: I buy it every year.
Speaker 15: I've bought it from home depot, I've bought it from
Speaker 15: mass nursery. I've bought it everywhere. Every year I buy it,
Speaker 15: I plant it. It's wonderful, and then it just starts
Speaker 15: to wilt. Why it doesn't to me every single year?
Speaker 4: What am I doing wrong?
Speaker 15: I've got good dirt, all right, good part.
Speaker 2: I think, Okay, my best guess, and I'm about ninere
Speaker 2: on this one. Unless you're just it's going totally water logged.
Speaker 2: But I doubt that. I think it's a disease called
Speaker 2: aerial phytoptha blight, and there's no springing for that. What
Speaker 2: you need to do is you need to get a
Speaker 2: vinka that's been bred to be real resistent. Get all
Speaker 2: that old venca out of there, because it stays persistent
Speaker 2: in the soil in that bed for a good while.
Speaker 2: So either you're going to need to transition the bed
Speaker 2: to other types of worm seasoned flowers that don't get that,
Speaker 2: or you buy a type of a vinca called Cora
Speaker 2: co o r a. It's a series. There's trailing coras,
Speaker 2: there's upright coras, but the Cora vinca series is resistant
Speaker 2: to fight top there unless you've developed a a type
Speaker 2: in your in your beds that even cora gets attacked by.
Speaker 2: But that that's the way to keep getting growing vincas.
Speaker 2: To use the cora or so And if it's.
Speaker 15: In a pot, then I need to empty out the pot,
Speaker 15: sterilize the pot and start over.
Speaker 2: Yeah, empty the soil. You can use that soil for
Speaker 2: something else, not if I top their vecas the primary
Speaker 2: thing that it attacks. So I mean you can grow
Speaker 2: you know, marigols or something else in that soil, but
Speaker 2: clean it out real good and put some press soil
Speaker 2: in it and get some cor inca and you should
Speaker 2: be good.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, very good.
Speaker 15: Thanks for help.
Speaker 2: All righty Sarah, thanks for the call. Appreciate that, folks.
Speaker 2: I'll be right back after the news. Hey, good morning,
Speaker 2: good Sunday morning. Welcome to Garden Line. I'm your host,
Speaker 2: Skip Rictor, and we're here to help you have success
Speaker 2: in your garden. That's what we that's what we're all about.
Speaker 2: Oh you got to just give us a call. Seven
Speaker 2: one three two one two kt r H seven one
Speaker 2: three two one two k t r H. The folks
Speaker 2: at Nelson Plant Food have a number of different quality
Speaker 2: products available in jars. They're clear plastic jars, the big
Speaker 2: fat wide lid, and there's the color Star line, their
Speaker 2: most famous line. Been around for a long time. I'll
Speaker 2: leave over forty years now, sold all over not just Texas,
Speaker 2: but the whole country. Really, it's an amazing product and
Speaker 2: it works anything with color that you're going to grow.
Speaker 2: You're gonna grow with annual flowers or any kind of
Speaker 2: plant like that, perennials, shrubs and trees and other things.
Speaker 2: You can use it on a lot of different things.
Speaker 2: It's got fast acting effects, so it immediately gives you that,
Speaker 2: but it also has slow release, so it's going to
Speaker 2: feed for about three to four months as well. It's
Speaker 2: not just a one and done. Some organic nutrient sources
Speaker 2: that really enrich the soil. That's the color Star plus.
Speaker 2: Then there's the nutri Star line, which is jars for
Speaker 2: specific kinds of plants. There's a nutri Star for vegetables,
Speaker 2: there's one for hibiscus and flowering tropicals for example, and
Speaker 2: that would be a good one for this season right now.
Speaker 2: If you enjoy hibiscus, aboon and villias and flowering tropicals, plumerias.
Speaker 2: There's nutra star for all of those products or all
Speaker 2: of those plants, and you can find it. It's all
Speaker 2: over the place. It's easy to find Nelson by the
Speaker 2: jar and there are about a dozen places around town
Speaker 2: where you can take your jars in when you're emptying
Speaker 2: them and refill them. It's a little more economical and
Speaker 2: it avoids putting that plastic in the environment. Just makes
Speaker 2: good sense, which makes sense that Nelson would provide something
Speaker 2: like that. Let's dad out here to the phones. We
Speaker 2: are going to go to Bill and Kingwood. Hey, Bill,
Speaker 2: welcome to garden Line. Good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 14: I sent in some pictures yesterday, one of which is
Speaker 14: a pepper plant. I suspect that it might have bacterial
Speaker 14: leaf spot disease. If do you have your head the
Speaker 14: opportunity to look at that picture in the one of
Speaker 14: the tomato I.
Speaker 2: Have, the pepper has bactrial leaf spot on it, a
Speaker 2: really significant case of it. So for that disease, the
Speaker 2: best control, well, first of all, that plant hardly has
Speaker 2: a leaf without vactril leaf spot on it, and so
Speaker 2: the spots that it has are not going to get better.
Speaker 2: It would be you know, I would tell you pick
Speaker 2: all the leaves off that have spots on them, but
Speaker 2: you basically would be picking all the leaves off. But
Speaker 2: it splashes every time it rains, and it is a
Speaker 2: very difficult disease to manage. So if it were mine,
Speaker 2: as shocking as this is, I'd pick every leaf off
Speaker 2: that I see it on, including the leaves on the ground,
Speaker 2: because it's difficult. It even comes in by seeds. It
Speaker 2: may have been on the seed that were planted to
Speaker 2: make this plant, but anyway, then get a copper spray
Speaker 2: something with copper and get menko zeb Bone eye makes
Speaker 2: a type of men kazeb and the colination of those
Speaker 2: two m A n co zeb zs and zebra menkseebb
Speaker 2: by bon eye, and it's being bon eyed.
Speaker 14: You know.
Speaker 2: Those Their products are sold in a lot of different places.
Speaker 2: If you have trouble finding any of those, you can
Speaker 2: email me and I can help you find one. But
Speaker 2: menka is that by bonnight ought to be pretty pretty
Speaker 2: widely available in good garden centers. For example, I would
Speaker 2: check Kingwood Garden Center or the Warren Seven Gardens out there.
Speaker 2: There's also an ACE hardware store out there in that area.
Speaker 2: That would be another good place to check. So anywhere,
Speaker 2: in fact, you have several aces next year just makes
Speaker 2: you sure you're using good fresh seed. I would plant
Speaker 2: the peppers in another location in your garden beds. Try
Speaker 2: to avoid that exact spot because there are any kind
Speaker 2: of remnants it can be around, and then when we
Speaker 2: get splashy, rainy weather, it just goes everywhere. So anyway,
Speaker 2: after you do your spraying, if you see any leaves
Speaker 2: with spots, hopefully new leaves will be coming out. You
Speaker 2: want to spray those, make sure they're they're coated with
Speaker 2: the spray to protect them, and then pick off any
Speaker 2: other leaves that you see, and that's going to get
Speaker 2: the best we can try to get those. I believe
Speaker 2: jalapenos to a ripe state. Okay, second is what about so.
Speaker 14: Try to try to get rid of the leaves and
Speaker 14: try to spray everything or other plants like tomatoes or whatever,
Speaker 14: are they affected also with the same type of.
Speaker 2: Disease tomatoes can they do? Tomatoes have a bacterial leaf spot?
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's exactly the same strain. Is
Speaker 2: the one that attacks peppers?
Speaker 14: Are not?
Speaker 2: Uh so maybe yes, maybe no? On those they do
Speaker 2: get this disease. But diseases have strains that attack certain
Speaker 2: kinds of plants. The powdery mildew that attacks roses is
Speaker 2: not the powdery mildew that attacks crape myrtles, for example. Okay,
Speaker 2: the same name, same disease, but different strain. All right,
Speaker 2: So the tomato, that's a caterpillar that chewed that hole
Speaker 2: in it. If you got a lot of them, it's
Speaker 2: probably worth putting out a spray of a BT about
Speaker 2: every I don't know, maybe seven days on the plants
Speaker 2: to get good coverage on it. They eat it, they
Speaker 2: get sick, they die. That's the safest, lowest talks option
Speaker 2: for controlling the categoris out there. But that that's a caterpillar.
Speaker 2: It could be a tomato fruit worm is a likely one,
Speaker 2: but there are others that could do that.
Speaker 14: Okay, okay, all right, yes, sir, thank you so much
Speaker 14: for your help. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Uh you bet you, thanks thanks for your call. I
Speaker 2: appreciate that. Let's see here, oh, you know, talking about
Speaker 2: places to get things Southwest Fertilizer. You know some of
Speaker 2: these products that I come up with. It's like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't see that in many places around town, but
Speaker 2: you're always going to see it in Southwest Fertilizer. It's
Speaker 2: just because they carry everything. They don't have it, you
Speaker 2: don't need it. That's the way I like to put it.
Speaker 2: They're on the corner of bisin Nutt and Renwick. I've
Speaker 2: been around since nineteen fifty five, seventy years. Seventy years
Speaker 2: that place has been in business, and there's a reason
Speaker 2: for that. When you go by, you'll know those of
Speaker 2: you came out to see me. When I was at
Speaker 2: Southwest Fertilizer, I comments about, you know this place has everything. Well,
Speaker 2: yes it does, tools and products and fertilized. I mean,
Speaker 2: everything you need it's there, including good advice. You bring
Speaker 2: a sample or a photo in and they can help you.
Speaker 2: You know, if you'd haul this pepper with bactrail spot
Speaker 2: on the leaves in, they would have looked at it
Speaker 2: and they'd have told you what to put on it.
Speaker 2: Southwest Fertilizer dot Com seven to one three six sixty
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Speaker 2: six one seven four four. I'm gonna take a break.
Speaker 2: When we come back, Dwayne and Katie and John and
Speaker 2: Webster be our first two up. All right, welcome back
Speaker 2: to your guard Line. I'm your host, Skip Rickord. Good
Speaker 2: to have you with us. I know we got those
Speaker 2: people out there that are lurking on the outsides, on
Speaker 2: the edge. Don't want to call in. That's okay. You're
Speaker 2: welcome too. Glad you're listening this morning. I hope you're
Speaker 2: having a good Sunday morning. Feel free to call in
Speaker 2: if you like. It's like what the water's worms, take
Speaker 2: your toe in the water. It's good. Come on, let's
Speaker 2: do this. Let's head out to Katie. First thing here,
Speaker 2: we're going to go talk to Duane. Hello, Dwayne, and
Speaker 2: welcome to Guardline.
Speaker 1: Morning Strip. Send you an email with some pistures of
Speaker 1: my burrow tree. It's got some type of a larva
Speaker 1: in it. Not sure exactly what it is. I wonder
Speaker 1: if you could tell me what that is and if
Speaker 1: something to be concerned about or not.
Speaker 2: Okay, I did get your photos out there, and what
Speaker 2: that is. It's a like a leaf miner. A little
Speaker 2: insect feeds underneath the top surface of the leaf, and
Speaker 2: when it does that, it's protected by that cuticle that
Speaker 2: the top surface of the leaf, and most beneficials can't
Speaker 2: get to it. There are a few wasps that can
Speaker 2: lay in egg through that cuticle and get it. But
Speaker 2: it's a little it's a little caterpillar like insect that's
Speaker 2: down there. Actually maybe a fly larva in this case,
Speaker 2: I can't tell exactly, but that is a extremely minor
Speaker 2: issue for the tree. That tree produces so much leaf area,
Speaker 2: and your trees are in such good health, beautiful leaves
Speaker 2: that I wouldn't worry about it at all. It's you know,
Speaker 2: it's just a little bit of a cosmetic freckle. That's
Speaker 2: a mount on those trees, so don't worry about it.
Speaker 2: But that's what it is. Kind of interesting, a little creature.
Speaker 2: And did you notice them late when you looked at
Speaker 2: the spots, could you see the little larva inside there?
Speaker 1: Well, it's look at what they maaked eye. You can't
Speaker 1: if you see it on the picture, you can see
Speaker 1: it in there. But what I noticed there was war
Speaker 1: But when I squeezed the area, you could actually see
Speaker 1: it crush. Yeah, whatever it is in there.
Speaker 2: At some point that larva is going to drop out.
Speaker 2: It's going to eat its way out of there, or
Speaker 2: it may pupate in that spot and then come out.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it's a yeah. It's one of the hundreds
Speaker 2: of thousands of insects out there that really, really, we
Speaker 2: just don't even need to think about it. It's one
Speaker 2: of the less concerning leaf miners on the planet.
Speaker 1: All right, all right, well, thank you, sir, I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: You have a good day, Yes, sir, you as well,
Speaker 2: Thank you. I appreciate your call. Nelson Water Gardens, Nelson
Speaker 2: Nursery and water Gardens out there in Katie is a
Speaker 2: wonderful place to visit. They have so their selection of
Speaker 2: plants is outstanding. I know they're known for the water gardens.
Speaker 2: They're world famous for the water gardens because of the
Speaker 2: contribution they've made to that industry. For example, in the
Speaker 2: water gardens, they invented the disappearing fountain, you know, the
Speaker 2: big beautiful urn ceramic urn where the water's coming over
Speaker 2: the sides and recirculating. They designed that, and if you
Speaker 2: want to do one, they can set one up for you,
Speaker 2: or they can just see the pieces of barts and
Speaker 2: tell you how to put it together. And go home
Speaker 2: do it yourself if you want to do that. And
Speaker 2: that is true of a lot of things there. You know,
Speaker 2: the folks know what they're talking about, but don't. I
Speaker 2: want to get past the water garden just for a
Speaker 2: minute here and talk about the nursery the garden center.
Speaker 2: They have a wonderful garden center full of all kinds
Speaker 2: of flowers. First of all, when you walk in the building,
Speaker 2: right up front, you will see some of the prettiest
Speaker 2: little house plants you've ever seen, and really not some
Speaker 2: common houseplants, but some very uncommon, very uncommon houseplants that
Speaker 2: are there in beautiful shape. I mean, you could walk
Speaker 2: right out of there with a plant and give it
Speaker 2: as a gift. Drive somewhere and give it as a gift.
Speaker 2: It's ready to go. It's beautiful. You go out in
Speaker 2: the back, you see flowers, You see annuals and perennials,
Speaker 2: you see herbs and vegetables and just all kinds of
Speaker 2: bedding plants. You got shrubs, you got trees, you got fruit.
Speaker 2: It just if it oh in watercourse water plants as well.
Speaker 2: It's a great place to visit. Nelson Water Garden and
Speaker 2: Nursery is a destination. You need to take your friends
Speaker 2: and y'all need to just sit out there and visit
Speaker 2: and enjoy the south of Water. It'll make you want
Speaker 2: to do a water feature at your house there on
Speaker 2: Katie Fort Ben Road, just north of it Katie Freeway
Speaker 2: out in Katie. Nelson Watergardens dot com. That's the website,
Speaker 2: Nelsonwatergardens dot com. Let's head down to Webster now and
Speaker 2: we're going to visit with John. Hello, John, welcome to
Speaker 2: garden Line morning.
Speaker 8: Skip. Hey.
Speaker 3: I've got a bell pepper plants potted in a bucket,
Speaker 3: and one morning I went out there and noticed.
Speaker 10: A little trail on the leaf.
Speaker 14: So I Google lends it and said it was leafminers.
Speaker 1: So they said one of the treatment was to take
Speaker 1: off the leaves.
Speaker 13: So I've just yanked off those leaves.
Speaker 8: I don't see anymore on the leaves, but the plant
Speaker 8: is growing, it's got new leaves on it.
Speaker 1: The flowers they flower, but then they turn brown and
Speaker 1: fall off.
Speaker 2: I've got no peppers, okay. Well, the flowers falling off
Speaker 2: in the leaf minor are two different, unrelated things. The
Speaker 2: flowers falling off, they're either not getting pollinated or possibly
Speaker 2: some little insect is doing damage to them to causing
Speaker 2: them to a bort. I think the second it would
Speaker 2: require it would be a very tiny insect feeding in
Speaker 2: the flower or something that's snipping off the flowers, and
Speaker 2: that one. You know, I hate to send you out
Speaker 2: there to nuke your peppers every other day trying to
Speaker 2: kill anything that might show up, because a lot of
Speaker 2: things that show up you don't want to kill. I
Speaker 2: think I would. I would give them a little time,
Speaker 2: and I think they'll start setting better. You should have
Speaker 2: some pollinator activity around them. If you're not seeing any
Speaker 2: bees at all coming around, that might be a concern
Speaker 2: and you can't change that, and you can't go out
Speaker 2: and recruit bee, but that would be helpful if you
Speaker 2: had an increase in the pollinator activity. A lot of
Speaker 2: times I'll see peppers do some aboarding and then they'll
Speaker 2: start setting on their own. And so I think I'd
Speaker 2: be patient on this one and not jump to spray
Speaker 2: in chances are that most of the time it seems
Speaker 2: to fix itself. Now, the other thing is the leaf miner,
Speaker 2: and the leaf miner does such minor damage that it
Speaker 2: just isn't worth worrying about it really isn't the a
Speaker 2: little bit of a trail that they make. You know,
Speaker 2: they start off if you look real carefully, one into
Speaker 2: the trail is like a little thread, and then it
Speaker 2: gets bigger as it goes through the leaf. That's because
Speaker 2: the little critter eating eating that tunnel is getting eating
Speaker 2: and getting bigger, and so the critter is always at
Speaker 2: the big end of the tunnel. They drop out, they
Speaker 2: go to the soil, pup eate and fly back again.
Speaker 2: But the amount of solar panel that that insect imaged
Speaker 2: is so minor. The leaf is still producing a lot
Speaker 2: of carbohydrates to fuel the plant, and it's just not
Speaker 2: worth treating for those leaf miners. I've seen some pretty
Speaker 2: bad cases, but it's rare. Usually it's a little cosmetic
Speaker 2: and not costing you any pepper production.
Speaker 10: Okay, well, thank you very much.
Speaker 2: Have a good day, all right, John, Thanks for the call.
Speaker 2: Appreciate that I certainly do. Yesterday I was at Ace
Speaker 2: Hardware that's called the Hardware City on Memorial Drive. We
Speaker 2: had a good time. A lot of folks came in appreciate,
Speaker 2: but I'm in the folks that you know hosted us
Speaker 2: and brought us in there every time I go into
Speaker 2: an ACE, I'm just amazed. I mean, you know, we
Speaker 2: were walking around, I was, I was showing customers, you know, well,
Speaker 2: here's this product, or here's our product or whatnot, even
Speaker 2: some tools and things that are special. They just have
Speaker 2: an excellent selection. If you want a beautiful yard, if
Speaker 2: you want a bow, a full landscape and garden. Ace
Speaker 2: is a place they've got the products. They are loaded
Speaker 2: up on. All the fertilizers. You hear me talk about
Speaker 2: all these fertilizers all the time for your lawn. Well,
Speaker 2: ACE has got them, and a good selection of things
Speaker 2: to manage insects and diseases and pests. And they have
Speaker 2: got a sale going on with barbecue equipment right now
Speaker 2: and a select types of barbeque pits, select brands and things,
Speaker 2: and it is time for that. If you unless you
Speaker 2: just got a new barbecue pit recently, you need to
Speaker 2: go check out some of the brands at ACE Hardware.
Speaker 2: I mean at ACE you're going to find things like
Speaker 2: Big Green Egg. You're going to find trigger grills, the
Speaker 2: pellet grills for example. You're gonna find Weber and other
Speaker 2: brands as well, many other great brands there, and equipment
Speaker 2: to turn that outdoor living space into something special. You know,
Speaker 2: you get you a nice little porch or patio or
Speaker 2: an area underneath the big beautiful spreading tree for shade.
Speaker 2: We do love our shade around here once we get
Speaker 2: to May, especially all the way to at October. But
Speaker 2: Ace will turn that outdoor living area into something special. Now,
Speaker 2: there are Ace Hardware stores all over. You can go
Speaker 2: to Ace Hardware Texas dot com. Ace Hardware Texas dot com.
Speaker 2: That's the website and you can find Ace Hardware stores.
Speaker 2: I don't care where you live. If you are over
Speaker 2: and Humble, we've got a K and m Ace over there.
Speaker 2: You know. If you're up in Porter, you got Jnr's
Speaker 2: Ace up there. If you are a Spring Cyprus, there
Speaker 2: is Spring Ace. And if you are in League City,
Speaker 2: Kilgore Ace. And if you are on Highway six North,
Speaker 2: there's Hamilton Ace. You know, you go to the Katie area,
Speaker 2: you got Plantation Ace Hardware. Just these are just examples.
Speaker 2: You've got a lot more what I'm saying, But I'm
Speaker 2: just saying that there's Ace Hardware's everywhere. And if you
Speaker 2: go to Ace Hardware Texas dot com you can find
Speaker 2: your local Ace Hardware store and go check it out.
Speaker 2: They have wonderful gifts for indoors as well at Ace Hardware.
Speaker 2: It's always fun to visit. I do enjoy that you're
Speaker 2: listening to garden Line. If you got some gardening questions
Speaker 2: that we could help you with, feel free to give
Speaker 2: me a call. All you have to do is call
Speaker 2: seven to one three two one two katrh or if
Speaker 2: you like numbers, fifty eight seventy four, fifty eight seventy four.
Speaker 2: I was checking my mosquito buckets. I'm kind of obsessing
Speaker 2: over these mosquito buckets. I check them all the time
Speaker 2: to see, you know, if they got larv in them,
Speaker 2: they got larv in them. Normally you walk out in
Speaker 2: your landscape and you see mosquito wrigglers, larva, you know,
Speaker 2: wiggling around in water, and it's like, I got a problem,
Speaker 2: gotta pour out that water. And well not when you
Speaker 2: got a mosquito bucket. Mosquito buckets something you get from
Speaker 2: Pest to Brothers. Pest Brothers is a complete pest control
Speaker 2: service that covers the greater Houston area from the Woodlands
Speaker 2: all the way down to Texas City, you know, from
Speaker 2: out West and Katie all the way across to Baytown
Speaker 2: and they do the whole thing. Tomato, tomatoes, termites, termites.
Speaker 2: They've got some incredible state of the art products for termites.
Speaker 2: They pest Brothers. No hast knows how to do things
Speaker 2: that are effective, that really work, but how to do
Speaker 2: them in the safest manner and how to get the
Speaker 2: longest term results without the worries. And they have a
Speaker 2: new termite system that's like a ten year system and
Speaker 2: it's just a little trench they dig around the base
Speaker 2: of the base of the house. Ask them about it.
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Speaker 2: two eight one two o six forty six seventy Why
Speaker 2: are you there saying? What is this mosquito bucket that
Speaker 2: kick skip keeps rambling about. Well, they'll tell you about it,
Speaker 2: but I'll tell you this. When a mosquito comes to
Speaker 2: that bucket, not only is that mosquito history, the larvae
Speaker 2: lays in the buck That's why I'm excited to see
Speaker 2: lore their history, and that mosquito is going to carry
Speaker 2: mosquito controlled things to other spots. You didn't treat you, don't.
Speaker 2: You have the nuclear yard with a fogger. All these
Speaker 2: little spots that we got now because of the rain,
Speaker 2: we had those spots in my yard and my neighbor's yard.
Speaker 2: By the way, my mosquitos are making sure all those
Speaker 2: little water spots mosquitos aren't gonna be raised in them
Speaker 2: as well. Pretty cool system, Pretty cool system. Uh yeah.
Speaker 2: I was looking at some of the roses at RCW
Speaker 2: the other day when I was there, and r CW
Speaker 2: is just a there's just a one stop shop for roses.
Speaker 2: I mean, all the rosarians in used to know about it.
Speaker 2: You know, what's six pages I think of roses that
Speaker 2: they get in in February and they still have roses.
Speaker 2: There lots of good roses in that place. When you
Speaker 2: go to RCW. Now it's heating up and you still
Speaker 2: plant roses. By the way, it's still good to plant.
Speaker 2: They've got shrubs and trees and all kinds of things.
Speaker 2: But those hot weather flowers, you know, the hibiscus, they
Speaker 2: have wonderful line. They have perennial hibiscus, and they've got
Speaker 2: the tropical types that Cajun series that I like so much.
Speaker 2: We were talking earlier about Madagascar periwinkle also called vinka.
Speaker 2: They've got that as well, and other things that thrive
Speaker 2: in the heat. And they got good advice and good
Speaker 2: products to go with it. RCW Nursery is where Beltway
Speaker 2: eight and Highway two forty nine Tombo Parkway come together.
Speaker 2: I'll be right back, all right. How many of you
Speaker 2: remember the Archies? So when I was a kid, there
Speaker 2: was a cereal called super sugar cress, super Sugarcoats, I
Speaker 2: believe that was what it was called, something like that anyway,
Speaker 2: And at one time they actually printed into the back
Speaker 2: of the box a record, a grooved record. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: you cut out the cardboard record from the back of
Speaker 2: the box, and this song, triv Sure was the one
Speaker 2: that they played by the Archies. Isn't that crazy? All right?
Speaker 2: Well some of you are going, what's a record player?
Speaker 2: All right? Brad in Spring, welcome to garden Line. It
Speaker 2: is good to have you with us.
Speaker 9: What's really crazy is that I remember that box of
Speaker 9: cereal and that record.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I wonder who would remember that. Isn't
Speaker 2: that crazy?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I had that?
Speaker 9: And uh yeah, thanks? Now all right, now we're feeling
Speaker 9: Now we're feeling extra old this morning. No, no, no,
Speaker 9: I was.
Speaker 2: Nowhere around when they signed the Magna Carta. I'm not
Speaker 2: old at all. Go ahead, how can we help you tonight?
Speaker 9: Good morning. I have a southern facing yard.
Speaker 4: And I'm trying to Uh.
Speaker 9: I've planted some lantana.
Speaker 16: Uh.
Speaker 9: I wanted to see if you had any solid tips
Speaker 9: and tricks to uh to help that lantana get well
Speaker 9: established and h and fuller.
Speaker 2: I just put it in a.
Speaker 9: Week and a half, two weeks ago, and I'm a
Speaker 9: little behind the little behind the curve. So I'd like
Speaker 9: to see if there's something I can do to drop
Speaker 9: kick that and get it get it going a little faster.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would get some Medina has to grow. It's
Speaker 2: a six twelve six plant food. It's got an extra
Speaker 2: boost of phosphorus, which is helpful for root development. UH
Speaker 2: and uh. It mixes in water. You're not going to
Speaker 2: burn the plants with it. It's not salt based. Medina
Speaker 2: has to grow six twelve six uh and put in
Speaker 2: a watering can and drench those plants in and then
Speaker 2: about a week later, do it again. A week later,
Speaker 2: do it again, and those those three applications give it
Speaker 2: the best chance. The number one thing those plants that
Speaker 2: your house bread need to do is get a root
Speaker 2: system out there. You know, with that they were in
Speaker 2: that little confined pot, and now we need a root
Speaker 2: system that takes off and when it does, the top
Speaker 2: growth will follow and it can happen. And so that
Speaker 2: I would do that. They need lots of sunlight. So
Speaker 2: if they're in quite a bit of shade, they're not
Speaker 2: going to perform as well. And so the good sunlight,
Speaker 2: you know, other than cutting down a tree, where they
Speaker 2: are is where they are, and so I would think
Speaker 2: those two tips would be good. You might watch them.
Speaker 2: There's a few little pests that will suck the juice
Speaker 2: out of lentana leaves. You see these little tiny, little
Speaker 2: white tan speckles all through the leaf. That's indication that
Speaker 2: that's happening. You get enough of those, and it takes
Speaker 2: away some of the plant's ability to capture sunlight and
Speaker 2: support good growth. So if you start to see that,
Speaker 2: you might might need to do a treatment for that.
Speaker 4: What what are we what are we treating those with?
Speaker 2: Well, A perrethern type insecticide would be the organic end
Speaker 2: of it. A synthetic perrethroid would be the synthetic end
Speaker 2: of it, and both are available. You know, you go
Speaker 2: to your whatever garden centers or the ACE hardware stores
Speaker 2: and in places like that, they're going to have those
Speaker 2: kind of products. Most of the time you will not
Speaker 2: need to spray Lantanna. I'm just saying that something to
Speaker 2: watch for that can happen. Mainly, it's get them a
Speaker 2: good boost and get them going.
Speaker 9: Okay, sounds good.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much. Enjoyed that. Thanks Brad. Appreciate your
Speaker 2: Appreciate your call very much. Someone who was asking me
Speaker 2: when I was at Hardware City ACE which is on
Speaker 2: Memorial Drive in Houston yesterday about azamite, and they were saying, Okay,
Speaker 2: explain this to me. It's like, you know, what is it?
Speaker 2: Is it a fertilizer. Well, in a sense, yes that
Speaker 2: it has nutrients, but it's not like your lawn fertilizer.
Speaker 2: It's not like the fertilizers with the three numbers on
Speaker 2: the bag. You know, nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium. Those are needed
Speaker 2: in large amounts. We put them out to make the
Speaker 2: plant grow and thrive and get big. Azonite is a
Speaker 2: trace mineral supplement. It is essential that plants have trace minerals,
Speaker 2: but they only need a little that's why they're called trace.
Speaker 2: Are also called micro nutrients because they're just needed and
Speaker 2: micro amounts, but they're essential and so you can do aszmite.
Speaker 2: They asked me the question, well, when do you do asmite? Well,
Speaker 2: anytime of the year. Most people do it when they fertilize,
Speaker 2: because you're already fertilizing. You got the spreader out there,
Speaker 2: you just finish your fertilizing, come back, change the setting
Speaker 2: because asmite is a very small particle and you just
Speaker 2: need a little bit and then you put out your asmite.
Speaker 2: But you could put azmite out in January, you can
Speaker 2: put it out in July. I mean, it doesn't matter
Speaker 2: when you put it out. It's just easiest to go
Speaker 2: ahead and do it when you do your fertilizing, and
Speaker 2: that that makes it easiest to remember. Now you find
Speaker 2: more information on it if you want it asmite Texas
Speaker 2: dot com. And where are you going to find it?
Speaker 2: Pretty much everywhere, feed stores, garden centers, ace hardware stores,
Speaker 2: Southwest fertile all of these are places that typically will
Speaker 2: carry asmite. I'm going to head up to Tomball now
Speaker 2: and we're going to talk to David. Hello, David.
Speaker 10: Hey, good morning, sir.
Speaker 3: Hey, and uh, I too remember cutting out the cardboard
Speaker 3: record on the cereal box?
Speaker 2: Are you kidding me?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 10: I remember?
Speaker 3: I remember that coming out, Hey, and not the reason
Speaker 3: I called. But uh another little funny thing of some
Speaker 3: Kasey case On trivia about that particular song. I heard
Speaker 3: this from Kasey Caseum and it stuck with me that
Speaker 3: Sugar Sugar was the only song that went number one
Speaker 3: on the pop or whatever charts it was on at
Speaker 3: the time by a band that didn't exist. The Archies
Speaker 3: were not an actual band. They were a bunch of
Speaker 3: studio musicians. Song went number one, and so yeah it was.
Speaker 2: It went number one.
Speaker 3: It was by a band that really didn't even exist.
Speaker 9: But anyway, that's not real.
Speaker 4: Hey, I heard you one time.
Speaker 3: It seems like you mentioned some handheld little flower bed
Speaker 3: garden tools, a little spain and rake and fork that
Speaker 3: you hold with your hand, that you said. I think
Speaker 3: you said they had a lifetime warranty. What if you
Speaker 3: recall what is the name of that product? Are those
Speaker 3: what's the brand name?
Speaker 2: I do not remember saying that, And if you were
Speaker 2: asked me what tools have a lifetime warranty? What I
Speaker 2: what I would I would sugget, Well, there's a lot
Speaker 2: of good tools out there, and there's a lot of
Speaker 2: cheap tools out there, and you can look at them
Speaker 2: and tell that's a little tack. Well that's not going
Speaker 2: to hold up, you know, things like that. Uh, Corona
Speaker 2: Tools are very good line of tools.
Speaker 14: Uh.
Speaker 2: They that that would be an example of a good brand,
Speaker 2: but it is not the only brand of quality tools
Speaker 2: out there. So okay, that would be one one that
Speaker 2: comes to month.
Speaker 3: I got a birthday coming up, and I'm just gonna
Speaker 3: maybe put that on my waishlist.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's good. Well, and you know when it
Speaker 2: comes to pruners like ham pruners and loppers and saws
Speaker 2: and things, Corona is a good brand for that as well.
Speaker 2: And Bob, it's South. I was fertilized. I know, well
Speaker 2: your way up in Tomball. But don Bob's got a
Speaker 2: number of different brands that are all quality that he
Speaker 2: carries down there, including Corona. You're gonna find Corona up
Speaker 2: in your area, though I know some of the garden
Speaker 2: centers will carry Corona up there in Tomball.
Speaker 4: I'll look for it all right, thank you, sir.
Speaker 2: All right, thank you. Appreciate the call and the information.
Speaker 2: And by the way, you said, Casey Cason, there's another
Speaker 2: one that I bet not everybody remembers. We used to
Speaker 2: listen to his top forty all the time. Take care, David,
Speaker 2: appreciate your call. Alrighty, let's see where are we here?
Speaker 2: Watching my time. I'm gonna take a little break here,
Speaker 2: so Alex and Richmond and fred In Spring you will
Speaker 2: be our first two up when we come back. All right,
Speaker 2: welcome back. Hey. I was talking to somebody a minute
Speaker 2: ago about Medina recommending, you know, getting a lantana established
Speaker 2: and fast and getting it growing fast and on its way. Well,
Speaker 2: Medina has to grow six twelve six plot food. It
Speaker 2: is one of the many products from Medina that is
Speaker 2: very very effective. It works, and I use it myself.
Speaker 2: If I'm in a plant of plant, you want to
Speaker 2: mix it up, I put mine in the water and
Speaker 2: can and I just plant the plant and drench it
Speaker 2: really good, wet that area. Sometimes I'll set the plant
Speaker 2: in the whole drench the whole hole, and then fill
Speaker 2: in soil and drench it again, and then a week
Speaker 2: later do it and a week later, do it again.
Speaker 2: So three times a good soaking about a week part week,
Speaker 2: ten days or so apart, and you get your plants
Speaker 2: off to a good start. And you're going to find
Speaker 2: Medina has to Grow six twelve six all over the place. Now,
Speaker 2: they have other products from Medina that work very well,
Speaker 2: and I don't have time talking about all of them
Speaker 2: that they have, but you can go to Medina agg
Speaker 2: and you can find out more about these good product.
Speaker 2: One that I really like is Medina has to Grow
Speaker 2: for lawns. It's a twelve four to eight formulation. It's
Speaker 2: got that three to one to two ratio. You hook
Speaker 2: it up to a garden hose and go over your lawn.
Speaker 2: Maybe your lawn has some spots that aren't doing so
Speaker 2: good and you want to just kind of treat those areas.
Speaker 2: It's real easy with the end of a garden hose
Speaker 2: to just water those areas, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 2: rather than have a spreader with granular where you're trying
Speaker 2: to just cover those areas and you can just kind
Speaker 2: of give them an extra boost with that, or you
Speaker 2: can do the whole lawn. I mean, it's good for
Speaker 2: the whole lawn. But I'm just saying one of the
Speaker 2: advantage of that hose in with Medina has to grow
Speaker 2: lawn food six twelve six is that you can do
Speaker 2: some spot extra treatments if you need to give a
Speaker 2: little boost to those areas. Let's go out to Richmond,
Speaker 2: Texas now and we're gonna talk to Alex. Hello Alex,
Speaker 2: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 7: Thanks give good morning.
Speaker 16: I found morny build its farm worm moth caterpillar.
Speaker 4: It was on one of my genius so it's the
Speaker 4: only one I found.
Speaker 13: I got rid of it.
Speaker 4: But my concern is more for the turf grass.
Speaker 16: Saint Augustine, I know you're not a big fan of
Speaker 16: sort of preemptively throwing down grub control or pest aside.
Speaker 16: Uh yeah, from what from what Google told me is
Speaker 16: it can be pretty detrimental to the to the turf.
Speaker 2: What do you think, Well, number one, it's not super
Speaker 2: common to see velvet army worm around here. Normally we
Speaker 2: deal with fall army worm, and and there are other caterpillars,
Speaker 2: and in a sense it kind of doesn't But no
Speaker 2: matter what kind of caterpillar it is, they eat leaves
Speaker 2: and they they are controlled by the same products. So uh,
Speaker 2: I when when you say the word grub, then that's
Speaker 2: not at all connected to caterpillar. That's a beatle larvae
Speaker 2: and so that's a separate thing. But the caterpillars that
Speaker 2: are worth eating in a lawn or pretty much just
Speaker 2: the army worm typically the fall one here late season
Speaker 2: army worm mostly and the sod webworm, which occurs some
Speaker 2: years and other years you don't see them hardly at all.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: And so are we are? Is your main concern? I
Speaker 2: may have missed this, But is your main concern your lawn?
Speaker 2: Or is it the flowers and things?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 17: My lawn?
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I I don't think that what you're seeing
Speaker 2: is going to be a big concern. You can watch
Speaker 2: your lawn and if you see foliage of the grass
Speaker 2: being eaten and things, then go ahead and jump in
Speaker 2: at the first of it. And I would use a
Speaker 2: product containing probably there's two options. The organic option is
Speaker 2: spin no said s P I N O s A
Speaker 2: D like spin the letter O and SAD. That's the
Speaker 2: organic option for caterpillars in the lawn. And the synthetic
Speaker 2: would be by fen Thren b I F E N
Speaker 2: T h R I N Thren by fen thrin. Nitrofoss
Speaker 2: has it by fen thren product that you can put
Speaker 2: down on your line to granule, and then the spinosaid,
Speaker 2: typically is going to be something that you spray onto
Speaker 2: the turf, but the spino said doesn't last forever, and
Speaker 2: so doing it ahead of time and then having the
Speaker 2: caterpillars really show up in masks later you would have
Speaker 2: to do it again.
Speaker 4: Got okay, So I was I was more concerned for
Speaker 4: what sign to look for.
Speaker 18: So I guess I expected more of a grub sign,
Speaker 18: so just kind of dead patches, but I'm looking for
Speaker 18: more the same thing you'd see on a plant from
Speaker 18: a caterpillar, holes and leaves signs that they've been eating
Speaker 18: on the leaf of the grass plant correctly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and not even in the in the in the lawn,
Speaker 2: it won't be holds. It will be like the caterpillar
Speaker 2: grabs the side of the leaf blade and it chews
Speaker 2: it away. And so if you kind of look at
Speaker 2: your lawn, it's like something's wrong right there. You can't retell,
Speaker 2: and you get on your hands and knees and start
Speaker 2: looking at grass blades. When you see those jagged, chewed
Speaker 2: up sides of the grass blades. That means you got
Speaker 2: the caterpillars, and that's plenty of time to jump in
Speaker 2: and take care of them. Lawn is resilient. A little
Speaker 2: caterpillar damage here and there isn't gonna be a deal.
Speaker 2: You just don't want them to defoliate the whole thing,
Speaker 2: and so jump in early on that. But I'm gonna,
Speaker 2: I would say, eighty five percent chance this is not
Speaker 2: going to become a problem in your lawn, but it might.
Speaker 2: Just keep an eye on it. All right, all right, Skip,
Speaker 2: I appreciate it, sir.
Speaker 13: We'll talk to you later.
Speaker 2: Hey, thanks for the call, Alex. I appreciate that very much.
Speaker 2: Thank you. Super turf from nitro foss is an outstanding
Speaker 2: product for giving you a long term nutrient release of
Speaker 2: that nitrogen and other nutrients for your lawn. And I
Speaker 2: mean so it takes like four months for all the
Speaker 2: super turf to be released out of the out of
Speaker 2: the product, so it goes a long time. You're gonna
Speaker 2: find super turf at places like plants for all seasons.
Speaker 2: Right there on Luettah, you are gonna you know two
Speaker 2: forty nine in Luetta right where they come together. Uh,
Speaker 2: you're gonna find it d and de feed up in
Speaker 2: tomball Fisher's Hardware on Southmore down in Pasadena, as well
Speaker 2: as the one on Broadway and Laport. Many places carry
Speaker 2: nitrophoss products likes the super turf. Let's see, We're gonna
Speaker 2: go down to Spring and talk to Fred. Hey, Fred,
Speaker 2: Welcome to garden line, Good bonning, mourning help.
Speaker 5: Yes, sir, I'll send you a picture of some Saint
Speaker 5: august thing that's called it yellow it maybe lime green spots.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I had developed last year and I.
Speaker 14: Spry some.
Speaker 5: Iron liquid, you know, Hosing iron on it last year
Speaker 5: didn't seem to do anything to it. Okay, Now it
Speaker 5: looks like I'm getting spots, little spots all over my yard.
Speaker 5: So I don't know what you know.
Speaker 4: I mean, I've read that it's an iron deficiency, but
Speaker 4: I don't know what do you think.
Speaker 2: What I think is it is an iron deficiency because
Speaker 2: roots are being killed and iron is taken up at
Speaker 2: the tip of roots. So when you don't have new
Speaker 2: root growth going, you're going to see iron deficiency in
Speaker 2: Saint Augustine. The pattern of it in your lawn, it
Speaker 2: does not look like there's a lack of iron in
Speaker 2: the soil. It looks to me. My first guess would
Speaker 2: be a disease called take all root rot that kills
Speaker 2: root tips. And if you go to my schedule for
Speaker 2: lawn pest disease and weed management, I've got take all
Speaker 2: listed there in the disease row across the January through
Speaker 2: December schedule, and it tells you what to use and
Speaker 2: when to use it. So that would be the first
Speaker 2: thought that I yeah. The second possibility would be if
Speaker 2: something was done in those areas that added a lot
Speaker 2: of phosphorus or raised the pH like And this isn't likely,
Speaker 2: but you know, if you had dumped lime or in
Speaker 2: that area, or if you'd put some extra hyphosphorus fertilizers
Speaker 2: just thrown it out in those areas, that would do it.
Speaker 2: And and that is very unlikely that you anyone would
Speaker 2: do that. So I think the takeoll root rot is
Speaker 2: going to be your culprit. But if you go to
Speaker 2: gardening with Skip dot Com gardening with skip my Scouts
Speaker 2: on the page download.
Speaker 5: I have your schedule pulled up here.
Speaker 6: I just got it.
Speaker 2: Okay, good, So what you'll see is we do a
Speaker 2: little take all treatment treatment in the spring, and we
Speaker 2: do a little take all treatment in the fall. What
Speaker 2: you might want to try to do is there is
Speaker 2: a fertile loan product and the exact name escapes me
Speaker 2: at this moment, but it's a fertile loan product that
Speaker 2: has micro nutrients in it like manganese and iron. It's
Speaker 2: a gray bottle, it's a micro nutriant. You mix it
Speaker 2: up and I would spray that on those areas and
Speaker 2: see if it improves. I think it will. And then
Speaker 2: you if you get a little bit of shredded shredded
Speaker 2: peat moss, not the sphagnum, the you know, big long
Speaker 2: strings of peat moss, but the shredded up and you
Speaker 2: put it about an half inch deep over those areas,
Speaker 2: I think you're going to see green up and that'll
Speaker 2: carry you into the fall season. When you would apply
Speaker 2: the product for take all root rot, I think you'll
Speaker 2: see a results. And I would like to hear back
Speaker 2: from you if you do one or both of those,
Speaker 2: as to how that's looking on your long care of
Speaker 2: take all. Okay, so on the law, not long care,
Speaker 2: but long pest disease and weed management. It's the second
Speaker 2: schedule that's on there, Pest disease and weed management. Go
Speaker 2: across to October on the disease row. All right, hey,
Speaker 2: the music says, I gotta quit talking. Good luck with that,
Speaker 2: but do send me a picture if you do, either
Speaker 2: the pete moss or that fertile on micronutrient alrighty, welcome back,
Speaker 2: Welcome back, on a beautiful Sunday morning. I hope you
Speaker 2: have some plans this afternoon to go visit a garden center,
Speaker 2: pick up some of the wonderfulness that's available this time
Speaker 2: of the year to make your place beautiful and bountiful
Speaker 2: and everything you want it to be. There's all kinds
Speaker 2: of plants out there and all kinds of things for
Speaker 2: every situation where you're trying to grow to have success.
Speaker 2: So get out there and have a good time. Okay,
Speaker 2: that would be nice. Hey, Nature's Way resources visiting with
Speaker 2: Ian the other day, Ian who now runs the place there.
Speaker 2: You know John Ferguson a lot of y'all know John.
Speaker 2: He started Nature's Way many years ago based on the
Speaker 2: principle of how do we cooperate with nature do things
Speaker 2: the way nature does to make plants successful. And if
Speaker 2: anybody knew that brown stuff comes before green stuff, it
Speaker 2: was John Ferguson. You take care of the soil and
Speaker 2: the plants do good. That's what that means. Brown stuff
Speaker 2: before green stuff. And he created all these things that
Speaker 2: were born at Nature's weall, you know, rose oil and
Speaker 2: leaf more compost just examples of things born in Nature's Way.
Speaker 2: Well intront in the place now and him, him and
Speaker 2: the whole he and the whole team out there in
Speaker 2: Nature's Way continues that tradition and the products. I was
Speaker 2: out visiting. We looked some products and things. It just
Speaker 2: as good as it always was. And uh, you know,
Speaker 2: I've tried a number of Nature's Way products and they
Speaker 2: just work. Now. Everybody knows about rose oil. Roaset soil
Speaker 2: is famous.
Speaker 13: You know.
Speaker 2: The Houston Roase Society helped design that particular mix and
Speaker 2: it's just as good as it ever was. But they
Speaker 2: have the leaf mole compost in a fine and a
Speaker 2: course texture. If you're going to do some do it
Speaker 2: yourself aeration and top tre seeing, well, get their fine
Speaker 2: textured leaf boll compost. It is the one you want
Speaker 2: to use. They also have a fungal compost which you
Speaker 2: can use for compost stop dressing two. By the way,
Speaker 2: you can and the fungal compost is on sale every Friday.
Speaker 2: It's called Fungal Fridays. Ten percent off bags, twenty percent
Speaker 2: off bulk. You can go pick stuff up at Nature's Way,
Speaker 2: which is located on Interstate forty five North, just before
Speaker 2: you get to Conro. Just before you get up to Conro,
Speaker 2: fourteen eighty eight comes in from the left, that goes
Speaker 2: off to Magnolia. You turn right and go across the
Speaker 2: railroad tracks and that's you're going to get to Sherbrook
Speaker 2: Circle right there across the tracks and you'll see Nature's
Speaker 2: Way resources. Now you can do that. You can go
Speaker 2: to stores where they sell their bags, and you can
Speaker 2: find them around town. A lot of high quality stuff
Speaker 2: and available by the bag in town, or you can
Speaker 2: call them have it delivered for a reasonable fee. You know,
Speaker 2: it costs money to hold bulk products. I don't care
Speaker 2: what kind of bulk product you're dealing with. You try
Speaker 2: to get it delivered somewhere, and there's a signific that
Speaker 2: an expense for the company trying to get it to you.
Speaker 2: It just regulations and all kinds of things, but it's
Speaker 2: worth it. You buy a book, you get it delivered,
Speaker 2: and you know If you're going to just do a
Speaker 2: few bags here and there, that's fine. But if you're
Speaker 2: going to create a bed for growing things, if you're
Speaker 2: going to top dress the whole lawn, if you're gonna
Speaker 2: whatever like that, you need to do the You need
Speaker 2: to do the bulk route of it. Nature's Way Resources
Speaker 2: dot Com is a website, and here's the phone number.
Speaker 2: Nine three six two seven three twelve hundred nine three
Speaker 2: six two seven three twelve hundred. My wife and I
Speaker 2: were sitting outside on the back patio yesterday just watching
Speaker 2: birds coming to our feeder, and we had some interesting
Speaker 2: things going on. First of all, we had some beautiful redbirds,
Speaker 2: male and female redbirds were coming. A few other species
Speaker 2: of birds were coming to the feeder. And then I
Speaker 2: looked over in my vegetable garden and I saw a robin.
Speaker 2: And I have to tell you what this robin was doing.
Speaker 2: By the way, I have a apb out on that
Speaker 2: robin right now. It will be arrested and brought to justice.
Speaker 2: But anyway, the robin was eating my cherry tomatoes, just
Speaker 2: picking them off my cherry tomato plants. Well, you know,
Speaker 2: I get enough of them. I'm not too worried about that,
Speaker 2: so we sat and kind of chuckled and watched this
Speaker 2: marauding vandal bird steal my cherry tomatoes. Anyway, it just
Speaker 2: reminds me. You know, if you love birds, or if
Speaker 2: you want to learn more about birds, wild Birds Unlimited
Speaker 2: is the place to go.
Speaker 13: It is.
Speaker 2: I mean, wild Birds Unlimited has the experts that can
Speaker 2: answer any question that you have about birds, and they've
Speaker 2: got the products that you need to have success. You
Speaker 2: can buy cheap birds eat out there, full of those
Speaker 2: red bebies. By the time you look at how much
Speaker 2: do I actually get that the birds eat, it's not cheap.
Speaker 2: It's not cheap at all because they kick most of
Speaker 2: it out. Some of those cheap seeds are just anyway
Speaker 2: waste money. Anyway, the folks at wal Unlimited have a
Speaker 2: perfect blend for right now. It's called Nesting Super Blend.
Speaker 2: It's only available at Wildbirds Unlimited. Nesting Superblend has got
Speaker 2: all kinds of stuff that birds salivate overs. I mean,
Speaker 2: we're talking about dried mule worms and peanuts and sunflower
Speaker 2: chips and save flower tree nuts, bark butter bit. It's
Speaker 2: got that extra protein and it's got the calcium that's
Speaker 2: needed during this nesting season, and they are nesting right now.
Speaker 2: So when you're forming shells to lay eggs, when you're
Speaker 2: creating a skeletal structure for bird, it takes calcium to
Speaker 2: do that and the protein that is so important. You
Speaker 2: can buy Nesting super Blend and loose seed bags. You
Speaker 2: can buy it in the little compacted seed cylinders that
Speaker 2: the bird has to peck the seeds out of. You
Speaker 2: buy it either way, but the main thing is just
Speaker 2: buy it now. You're going to find Nesting super Blend
Speaker 2: at any of the six Wildbirds Unlimited stores here in
Speaker 2: the Greater Houston area. That includes the Kingwood Store in
Speaker 2: Kingwood Drive, the clear Lake Store on El Dorado, the
Speaker 2: Pearland Store on East Broadway, if you are in Cypress
Speaker 2: area on Barker Cypress, if you are in the south
Speaker 2: central area of Houston, well there's one on bel Air
Speaker 2: and there's one on Memorial Drive on the West side
Speaker 2: as well. That's six six Wildbirds Unlimited stores. Why are
Speaker 2: you there? Pick up the Wildbirds Unlimited high perch hummingbird feeder.
Speaker 2: Yesterday is the first hummingbird I've seen at my feeder,
Speaker 2: and maybe it's just because I was sitting out at
Speaker 2: the right time. But I loved that feeder. It really
Speaker 2: really works makes it easier to see the hummingbirds too.
Speaker 2: All right, let's do this. We are going to head
Speaker 2: out to Meadows Place and talk to Jim. Hello Jim,
Speaker 2: Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 8: Hello Skip. We talked about a week ago. I've got
Speaker 8: my tomatoes growing. I've got five plants. Two I bought
Speaker 8: as a plant, three I raised from seed, primarily cherry tomatoes.
Speaker 8: And I've been using Job's Organic, which is a two
Speaker 8: five three tomato and vegetable fertilizer. They recommended itself with fertilizer,
Speaker 8: and I've also been applying a little bit of coffee
Speaker 8: grounds EPs and salt and baking soda compound every other
Speaker 8: week that was recommended. Is there anything I should be
Speaker 8: doing different? I'm a little disappointed that the plants are
Speaker 8: doing well. They're producing tomatoes, but the tomatoes are very small.
Speaker 8: They're not growing very big as I think they should.
Speaker 8: So am I doing something wrong? Or do I need
Speaker 8: to change what I'm doing?
Speaker 2: Jim? What's the color look like on those plants? Is
Speaker 2: it deep deep green or is it kind of a
Speaker 2: light sharp truish yellowy green or where is it?
Speaker 8: No, they're all deep deep green.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, tomato fruit size is a function of getting
Speaker 2: as much sunlight as possible and of the way you
Speaker 2: prune tomatoes. Now, if you were to take a tomato
Speaker 2: and cut every sucker off of it and just have
Speaker 2: a single trump coming up a steak, you would have
Speaker 2: larger tomatoes. If you let it be in a cage
Speaker 2: and you take off almost no suckers, you have more tomatoes,
Speaker 2: but they're going to be smaller. So that's one factor
Speaker 2: in there. Other than that, the tomatoes sound like they
Speaker 2: look good. The stuff you're putting downs, I'll find. For
Speaker 2: the tomatoes, I just wait and give a little bit
Speaker 2: more time. But maybe taking out some more of those
Speaker 2: little sucker shoots that come out everywhere tomato produces a leaf,
Speaker 2: it also puts a shoot right there, and that may
Speaker 2: help a little bit. But those would be the two
Speaker 2: tips that I would give you.
Speaker 8: I've been working on that since the last time we talked,
Speaker 8: checking the suckers and every book. I just wanted to
Speaker 8: tell what's doing needed to do something different.
Speaker 2: I think that's it, other than sunlight. But hey, I'm
Speaker 2: up against a hard break, but thanks for the call
Speaker 2: and good luck getting those tomatoes, and that my advice works.
Speaker 2: You know, you got to bring me half the free
Speaker 2: that you get and drop it off at the station.
Speaker 2: We'll call it you bye bye, you bet. I'll be
Speaker 2: right back all right, welcome back to the guarden Line'm
Speaker 2: glad you are with us today. If you have not
Speaker 2: been to Arburgate recently, you need to go. Arbor Gate
Speaker 2: is a destination. It just is. And by the way,
Speaker 2: I'm going to be at Arbrogate next Saturday. This will
Speaker 2: be the last appearance that I do for the whole
Speaker 2: spring season next Saturday, so it's like last call, folks,
Speaker 2: come on out and see me. I will be there
Speaker 2: on Saturday. I'll give you even the date of it, Saturday,
Speaker 2: May tenth. I'll be there from twelve to answering your
Speaker 2: gardening questions. They got some great giveaways. They're going to
Speaker 2: have a peach ballini machine right next to me, so
Speaker 2: you got to come see me to get a bellini
Speaker 2: unless they're planning on moving at ors up it anyway,
Speaker 2: that is a fun place to go and they have
Speaker 2: lots of good stuff. By the way, on May seventeenth,
Speaker 2: that's the Saturday after this Tropical Dazzlers talk with Angela Chandler.
Speaker 2: And Angela is an expert on all kinds of things plants,
Speaker 2: and she brings a class that just it just goes
Speaker 2: into all those bold, almost gaudy, beautiful things that we
Speaker 2: can grow here in summer. There's tropical, you know, allocacious
Speaker 2: and colocacious, he may say, elephant ears on plants, kalladiums,
Speaker 2: and dance of soma. The zanthosoma especially pretty too. If
Speaker 2: you love showy plants that really thrive in the hot,
Speaker 2: humid climate in the Houstern area, this is your class.
Speaker 2: Now you've got a register. You got a register for
Speaker 2: the class. It's ten dollars per person and only forty people.
Speaker 2: There's only room for forty, so don't mess around. Give
Speaker 2: them a call two eight one three five one eighty
Speaker 2: eight fifty one two eight one three five one eight
Speaker 2: eight five one for the class two saturdays from this weekend,
Speaker 2: so May seventeenth, next Saturday, they tenth, I'll be at Arburgate.
Speaker 2: Come on out and see me. You got to see
Speaker 2: the stuff that they have. The selection is incredible and
Speaker 2: bring people with you on this. If you've got a
Speaker 2: non gardener friend. They will love the gift shops and
Speaker 2: they will find a plant that they will become a gardener.
Speaker 2: When they go to Arburgate, they'll get excited all the
Speaker 2: different products that are carried, all the different plants that
Speaker 2: are carried, and you know, here's here's probably the best.
Speaker 2: I don't know. It's hard to say the best thing
Speaker 2: when there's so many good things. But one of the
Speaker 2: very best things at Arburgate is you show up and
Speaker 2: people that know what they're talking about greet you, and
Speaker 2: they take time even to help you shop if you
Speaker 2: need that, if you want somebody to you know, put together.
Speaker 2: You say, I need a group of plants to go
Speaker 2: in a flower bed, and I want I kind of
Speaker 2: like these colors, and what would be good going into summer?
Speaker 2: What can I do right now? They'll take in there,
Speaker 2: show you that it's not like you're on your own.
Speaker 2: Remember to park in the back. It's off Trischel Road,
Speaker 2: goes around behind Arburgate. There's a parking lot back, perfect
Speaker 2: place to park, lots of space, easy safe access. It's
Speaker 2: the only way to go. The main thing is right now,
Speaker 2: oh wait, right on on your calendar. Next Saturday the tenth,
Speaker 2: the tenth of May, I'll be there at Arburgate for
Speaker 2: the final appearance that I'll do this whole spring. Come
Speaker 2: on out to see me. It is a plus plus.
Speaker 2: Let's just put this way. Everybody who shows up, I'll
Speaker 2: buy you a pink a peach Bellini. Not that I'm
Speaker 2: having to buy them, they're free. Come on out, let's
Speaker 2: have some fun at Arborgate. That's not hard to do.
Speaker 2: You are listening to Garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter.
Speaker 2: We are here to help you have a successful garden.
Speaker 2: The way I like to put it is a more
Speaker 2: bountiful garden, more beautiful landscape, and more fun in the process,
Speaker 2: because gardening should be fun, and it can be fun
Speaker 2: when you take care of your plants, when you do
Speaker 2: the things that plants want you to do. If you
Speaker 2: have not been recently to an Ace hardware store, you've
Speaker 2: not been to an Ace hardware store. This is not
Speaker 2: your grandfather's hardware store. Yeah, it has all the stuff
Speaker 2: grandpa's hardware store had, you know, things for lighting and
Speaker 2: things for electricity, and things for plumbing and all of
Speaker 2: that like a hardware store. Right, tools, but Ace, oh gosh,
Speaker 2: the tool lines that they have are amazing and I'm
Speaker 2: I am a big fan of power tools and I
Speaker 2: love those things. And Ace's got an excellent selection of
Speaker 2: all of the you know, we're talking about top brands,
Speaker 2: main top brand, but when it comes to your yard
Speaker 2: and your garden, fertilizers a good selection. If you're organic,
Speaker 2: if you're synthetic, it doesn't matter. Ace has got products
Speaker 2: for that, controlling pasts and diseases and weeds, all the
Speaker 2: things that want to mess up your plans out in
Speaker 2: the garden. They got this stuff for that. They got
Speaker 2: quality tools, garden hoses, you know, I mean the garden sprinklers.
Speaker 2: And then one of my favorite parts, and I've just
Speaker 2: gotten to become more of an outdoor living person, is
Speaker 2: yours go. I think I love to go out on
Speaker 2: the patio and set and we got a string of
Speaker 2: those lights. I call them beer garden lights, but they're
Speaker 2: basically there's little strings of a not so bright lights
Speaker 2: that glow and create that ambiance. It is so nice
Speaker 2: out there when you have that. And right now they
Speaker 2: got their barbecue pits on a special deal. There's certain
Speaker 2: certain varieties I sound like a plant person. There are
Speaker 2: certain brands of barbecue pits that have really good specials
Speaker 2: on them. And ACE carries all the big brands, the
Speaker 2: ones you can't live without. They're there at Ace harborre
Speaker 2: Go to ACE Hardware Texas dot com. That's the website
Speaker 2: you need to know. Ace Hardware Texas. Don't forget to
Speaker 2: put the Texas in there dot com. So, for example,
Speaker 2: if you're done in Deer Park, we got deer Park
Speaker 2: Lumber Ace Hardware on Center Street. If you were in Orange, Texas, Hey,
Speaker 2: shout out to all you folks out there in Orange
Speaker 2: Child's Building Supply on Sixteenth Street. Maybe you're up in
Speaker 2: Crosby at Crosby Ace Hardware on FM twenty one. Or
Speaker 2: how about this Cyprus Ace Hardware on Jones Road. There's
Speaker 2: another one. I mean, there's a lot of great Ace
Speaker 2: Hardware stores out there, and you can find yours by
Speaker 2: going to ACE Hardware Texas dot com. We're gonna head
Speaker 2: up to Conroe now and we're going to talk to Bill. Hey, Bill,
Speaker 2: welcome to Garden Line. Do we have a bill? All right?
Speaker 2: I'n put Bill back on hold and I'll come back
Speaker 2: to your bill. We'll try to get you back online.
Speaker 15: Here.
Speaker 2: Guess what I just did yesterday. I just attached a
Speaker 2: three sixty tree stabilizer to a tree in my landscape.
Speaker 2: I I you know I talk about I don't brag
Speaker 2: on products and talk about products I don't have personal
Speaker 2: experience with. Well. I've got two citrus trees right now
Speaker 2: that I have tree stabilizers on them. And when I
Speaker 2: first planted them, I came back the next day and
Speaker 2: those trees were at a forty five gangle because the
Speaker 2: wind blasted through there. Not anymore. They got tree stabilizers.
Speaker 2: It's going to hold them and it holds them in
Speaker 2: a way that lets them move, which is important. Movement
Speaker 2: creates strong trunks. Movement creates good anchorage with those top
Speaker 2: roots that help anchor that tree in. These trees are
Speaker 2: gonna develop strong and they're need They're not gonna need
Speaker 2: the stabilizer forever, but when you need it, I got it,
Speaker 2: and they last forever. You're gonna find them at RCW
Speaker 2: Nurseries at jorgesed and Gardens Don in Alvin. You can
Speaker 2: go to Siena Multch down the Siena area and find
Speaker 2: the three sixty tree stabilizers and the heights Buchanans on
Speaker 2: eleven street carries them and guess what the arborgate where
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be next Saturday. Come on and get your
Speaker 2: tree stabilizer three sixty Tree stabilizer out there. This is
Speaker 2: a great product. It just really it makes it easy.
Speaker 2: You don't got the wires to trip over. You're not
Speaker 2: cutting garden hose up into sections, so the wire didn't
Speaker 2: cut into the tree. Just get you one, Get you
Speaker 2: one and you'll like it. All right. We're gonna go
Speaker 2: back out and try Bill again. Here, Hey Bill, are
Speaker 2: you there?
Speaker 17: I am done?
Speaker 19: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Thanks quick.
Speaker 19: The rain is coming.
Speaker 13: Should I do the fun aside before or.
Speaker 2: After the rain? After? What are we spray in.
Speaker 19: Garden lawn?
Speaker 2: The lawn? Okay? So uh yeah, wait until after it
Speaker 2: rains and then put your fun aside down. Uh if
Speaker 2: we were to get a gully washer kind of rain,
Speaker 2: it could wash outuct and and that includes soluble fertilizer
Speaker 2: too away. So yeah, I would wait, and I think
Speaker 2: you'll be better off. But do it right away after
Speaker 2: the rain, because that wet conditions is where diseases thrive,
Speaker 2: all right, right?
Speaker 13: Or has to grow? Is there a differences to grow
Speaker 13: on versus they.
Speaker 2: Complimentary they're complementary uh asites, micro nutrients, strictly, strictly micro nutrients.
Speaker 2: It's a granule has Medina has to. Twelve four eight
Speaker 2: is a primarily putting on for the big three the nitrogen,
Speaker 2: phosphorus and potassium that you're going to get from that,
Speaker 2: so you can use us both. All right, did you
Speaker 2: have too much potassa phosphorus? Thank you?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: Eight it no, it's an it's an eight two.
Speaker 17: Two.
Speaker 2: Okay, this is right. No, No, it's a twelve four eight.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, my brain is not clicking here this morning. Yeah,
Speaker 2: twelve four eight is the one in Medina hast Grove
Speaker 2: for lawns, and that phosphorus is the middle number. It's
Speaker 2: the lowest number. That's how you want it to be.
Speaker 8: Okay, okay, very good, thank you very much.
Speaker 2: All right, you bet, thanks for the call. I appreciate
Speaker 2: I appreciate that very much. Enchanted Forest is a wonderful
Speaker 2: garden center down there in the Richmond Rosenberg area. In fact,
Speaker 2: if you were in Richmond and you were heading up
Speaker 2: sixty nine towards sugar Land, it'd be off to the
Speaker 2: Riot on FM twenty seven to fifty nine. Write this
Speaker 2: address down this web address. You need to see their website.
Speaker 2: It is outstanding and it gives you a big picture
Speaker 2: of everything. You'll find out what's going on there because
Speaker 2: there's weekends where you're gonna want to go out and
Speaker 2: hear somebody talk or whatever, or maybe they got a
Speaker 2: new kind of plan in which are always getting in.
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Speaker 2: TX dot com right now. They are loaded as als are,
Speaker 2: with pollinator plants and with plants, you know, to attract
Speaker 2: butterflies and hummingbirds and things like that. They have a
Speaker 2: selection of Salvius. I think it's something like ninety salvius
Speaker 2: that they carry ninety Salvia variety. I believe it's ninety one.
Speaker 2: In fact, Salvi's my favorite genus of plants, and they
Speaker 2: are loaded with them. They're and enchanted forest herb selection,
Speaker 2: incredible vegetable selections, incredible flowers everything, and big beautiful giant
Speaker 2: pecan trees. Just the shade. It is so nice to
Speaker 2: walk around and shop under those kinds of trees. Really
Speaker 2: really nice to be able to do that. I am
Speaker 2: coming up here on a heartbreak for the news, and
Speaker 2: when we come back we'll come back to your questions
Speaker 2: if you'd like to give me a call seven one
Speaker 2: three two one two kt RH. In the meantime, don't forget.
Speaker 2: I'm going to be at arbor Gate Garden Center this
Speaker 2: next Saturday from twelfth to two, and I hope you
Speaker 2: can come out and see me. There you go. I
Speaker 2: just had to let that play a little bit. Nothing
Speaker 2: like homegrown tomatoes, you know, in the garden tomatoes or
Speaker 2: the Queen of the garden. Nobody ever calls me about
Speaker 2: the Cole Robbie. We get a lot of questions about tomatoes.
Speaker 2: We're gonna go to one right now. We're gonna head
Speaker 2: out to Cyprus, Texas and talk to Matt. Matt, welcome
Speaker 2: to garden Line.
Speaker 6: Good morning, Skip, and thank you. I send you a
Speaker 6: picture of email about ten minutes ago about.
Speaker 5: I got it good good.
Speaker 6: I believe, I don't know for sure. It's only one picture,
Speaker 6: but it has I believe it's called frass on it,
Speaker 6: which is a doo dooo of some sort, or maybe
Speaker 6: it's a that was a lead.
Speaker 2: No, you're you're right. Frass means insect poop. Doodoo means
Speaker 2: insect poop, and it's insect poop on that lead and
Speaker 2: what a lovely thing to talk about on a nice
Speaker 2: Sunday morning. Sorry, you know, no, that's okay. Interestingly enough,
Speaker 2: we can have some fun, a little bit of fun
Speaker 2: with this. There are entomologists that specialize in bug poop identification,
Speaker 2: because sometimes you don't see the bug, you just see
Speaker 2: the poop, and believe it or not, they can identify
Speaker 2: bugs based on their poop. I am not one of those.
Speaker 2: I know a little bit about it, but not much,
Speaker 2: but they look at it. Caterpillars have a very unique
Speaker 2: poop and that it often has ridges in it. And
Speaker 2: the most delicate way I can put this Sunday morning
Speaker 2: is you remember those Plato machines where you put plato
Speaker 2: in and you press the handle down and you could
Speaker 2: get star You could put a star hole in front
Speaker 2: of it, or a half moon crescent and it would
Speaker 2: make that shape coming out. The back end of a
Speaker 2: caterpillar has similar mark, similar things, and they can look
Speaker 2: at that bug poop and they can tell you this
Speaker 2: is that kind of caterpillar or whatever. And they're used
Speaker 2: in like crime scene identification. You know, a body is
Speaker 2: found in the woods and they find this little bug
Speaker 2: poop on it and they can look and they go, oh, well,
Speaker 2: that's this bug, and therefore that bug occurs at this
Speaker 2: time of the year in New England, and so this
Speaker 2: is anyway, all right, I'm going too far with it,
Speaker 2: but you get the idea. Your yours looks a little
Speaker 2: bit like caterpillar, but it's it's extremely soft. I would
Speaker 2: look for some other pieces that are a little bit firmer,
Speaker 2: like little pellets. More so, to be sure on that one,
Speaker 2: I think you're dealing with a caterpillar that's feeding on it.
Speaker 2: It is possible that something else just came by and
Speaker 2: happened to stop on the leaf above it, or on
Speaker 2: that leaf, and that's why you have it. But I
Speaker 2: think that's a sign that you have some caterpillars. I
Speaker 2: see in the top right corner the.
Speaker 6: Skip, I don't see anything, and I get up pretty
Speaker 6: close with my glasses. I don't see a warm at all.
Speaker 6: Someone the black frost is like a little beebe and
Speaker 6: I just flick them off. There are holes in some
Speaker 6: of the leaves.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I'll tell you what else is. If you
Speaker 2: look at the picture you sent me in the top
Speaker 2: right corner, you never even notice it. If you weren't
Speaker 2: studying the whole picture. But there is a leaf that
Speaker 2: has been caterpillar chewed, the edges have been chewed off
Speaker 2: of it, there's a caterpillar feeds in from the sides,
Speaker 2: and I still think this is a caterpillar. What can
Speaker 2: happen is the number one caterpillar predator in the garden
Speaker 2: and landscape or paper wasps. Paper wasps the ones that
Speaker 2: build the nests under your eaves, that sting us. That
Speaker 2: is what they primarily eat is caterpillars, and they are
Speaker 2: flying through your garden all the time. And whoever poop
Speaker 2: this poop is probably paper wasp food right now if
Speaker 2: you're not finding a caterpillar on your plant, so I
Speaker 2: would not worry about it. If you're not seeing significant
Speaker 2: loss of foliage, I wouldn't think twice about it. Nature
Speaker 2: has a way of taking care of these things. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: one more question.
Speaker 6: Could it be flea beetles with holes and the leaves
Speaker 6: you know, round holes?
Speaker 2: Not this poop. This poop is not that, and I
Speaker 2: don't Flea beetles are primarily when a planet very young,
Speaker 2: they can do damage, but that plan out grows them
Speaker 2: in time. So I know. I don't think so. I
Speaker 2: think we covered all we can about it. And thank
Speaker 2: you for this venture into entomological scatology today on garden Line.
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Speaker 2: to Jerry.
Speaker 10: Hello, Jerry, Hey, Hello, how are you doing this morning?
Speaker 2: I'm doing well. How are you doing? Yes, sir, I
Speaker 2: am How can we help.
Speaker 10: My wife just discovered some green nodules on our pecan
Speaker 10: tree leaves that Google identified as Pontana, and I was
Speaker 10: wanting to know how to get rid of them.
Speaker 2: On palm tree leaves, green nodules con oh oh, those
Speaker 2: are called Phyloxa phylocera.
Speaker 8: And what it is.
Speaker 2: It's a little insect. It lays an egg in the
Speaker 2: leaf and the secretions cause the leaf to grow that
Speaker 2: little cancery cancerous looking bump on the leaf, and the
Speaker 2: insect grows up inside that and then flies out. Most
Speaker 2: of the time, phylocra are not worth treating. Nature has
Speaker 2: a way of keeping them in bounds. If you had
Speaker 2: a very young pecan tree and you had a severe
Speaker 2: philoxtra infestation, then I would say, okay, let's get out
Speaker 2: and start on a regular basis spraying it and try
Speaker 2: to break this up because it's taking away from the
Speaker 2: trees bigger on good growing, healthy pecan trees. Some philoxa
Speaker 2: here and there not worth it. They're not costing you
Speaker 2: anything on tree growth or production.
Speaker 10: Last year, we have three picone trees to pretty close
Speaker 10: proximity and two of the three or eight aproal bad
Speaker 10: fast kind of worms. Is that part of this.
Speaker 2: No, no, unrelated. All this insect does the only you
Speaker 2: don't even see the insect. It's very tiny, like a
Speaker 2: gnat size. All it does is cause the tree to
Speaker 2: expend energy growing that philoxra gall and taking away from
Speaker 2: the that area where the tree could have been making
Speaker 2: carbohydrates with the leaf out in the sunshine. So if
Speaker 2: you got annual severe infestations, yeah, go ahead and spray them.
Speaker 2: You've got to put a product on them. If it's
Speaker 2: a non bearing tree, you could use something like a
Speaker 2: bifendren product labeled for use in landscape. But if it's
Speaker 2: bearing pecans, I wouldn't I wouldn't do anything on it.
Speaker 10: Okay, okay, thank you so much.
Speaker 2: All right, good you bet, thank you for the call.
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Speaker 2: to garden Lines. Glad to have you with us this morning.
Speaker 2: Thanks for listening in on this lovely Sunday morning. I
Speaker 2: hope you're having a good time looking forward this afternoon.
Speaker 2: Maybe get out and do a little bit of nursery visiting,
Speaker 2: if not a few chores about the landscape. You'd like
Speaker 2: to go that route, you know, the one of the
Speaker 2: I talk about the every day is a good day
Speaker 2: for gardening. And I say that because even if it's
Speaker 2: pouring rain outside like it was recently here, you can
Speaker 2: still garden indoors. And what do I mean by that, Well,
Speaker 2: I mean there's all kinds of ways with garden indoors.
Speaker 2: You can grow orchids, you can you can start seeds,
Speaker 2: you can start cuttings for propagating plans. I mean, there's
Speaker 2: all that is something to do for gardening. Another thing
Speaker 2: is African violet. I remember when African violets were the
Speaker 2: things like, eh, but I had African violets, and then
Speaker 2: it kind of went out where people just weren't as enthusiastic.
Speaker 2: But I'm seeing an interest in African violets now and
Speaker 2: I just noticed must nursery done in Seabrook got a
Speaker 2: whole bunch of them. In beautiful African violets. And they're
Speaker 2: easy to grow. Again, like any plant, you give them
Speaker 2: what they want and they grow. If you've tried to
Speaker 2: grow one and it didn't work, it's because you didn't
Speaker 2: give it what it wants. It's not that difficult to do.
Speaker 2: But swing by moss if you don't have one, and
Speaker 2: they again, they're gorgeous. They got all the kinds of
Speaker 2: the purple and the pink and the reddish and the
Speaker 2: white and all that. And they're also fun to propagate.
Speaker 2: It is weird that some plants you can just break
Speaker 2: a leaf off and that leaf will root. And at
Speaker 2: the base of the leaf, an African violet leaf is
Speaker 2: like a spoon. You know, in your spoon, you got
Speaker 2: the little little metal rod or whatever that's holding it,
Speaker 2: and then you got the round spoon on the end.
Speaker 2: That's like an African violet leaf. And if you put
Speaker 2: the petiole of the leaf that is the equivalent of
Speaker 2: the little handle of the spoon down into the ground
Speaker 2: so that the base of the leaf touches the soil.
Speaker 2: It will form babies right there. It will. It works,
Speaker 2: it's fun to do. So if you haven't tried Africa Votives,
Speaker 2: just go to Moss Nursery and while you're there you're
Speaker 2: going to find a lot of good stuff. They have
Speaker 2: so many cool types of pottery, and right now they've
Speaker 2: got some of the small landscape fountains on sale. As
Speaker 2: a matter of fact, these would be jars. They look
Speaker 2: like a container, but then you go look at them
Speaker 2: as like there's a little hole in the top and
Speaker 2: the water circulates around. And it's easy to do. You
Speaker 2: just take them home, set them up. Not very difficult,
Speaker 2: not huge, easy to do. But go into the greenhouse
Speaker 2: when you're there, we're talking about indoor gardening. Of course,
Speaker 2: Moss has everything for outdoor gardening, but I'm just focusing
Speaker 2: on indoors for this moment. They've got some beautiful Epiphylum
Speaker 2: orkid cactus and these are big. They have flat you
Speaker 2: would call them leaves, but that technically they're not a leaf,
Speaker 2: but beautiful hot pink blooms with a whole lot of
Speaker 2: pedals on them. They're just gorgeous begonias. The house, their
Speaker 2: house plant greenhouse has got one of the best selection
Speaker 2: of all kinds of plants for indoors or tropicals for
Speaker 2: using outdoors that you're going to find anywhere. They're excellent.
Speaker 2: While you're there, stop in grab one of Jem's whimsicle shirts.
Speaker 2: Gem comes up with these these really fascinating designs and things.
Speaker 2: He has something called the eyeball Plan. If you haven't
Speaker 2: seen that, go say I need to see Gem's eyeball
Speaker 2: shirt eyeball plant shirt, and they'll show it to you
Speaker 2: there at mos nur Shoe. They're located in Seabrook, Texas. Seabrook,
Speaker 2: Texas uh and the website moss m aas nursery dot com.
Speaker 2: The phone number eight excuse me two eight one seven
Speaker 2: four gosh, let's try that again. Two eight one four
Speaker 2: seven four twenty four eighty eight. One more time two
Speaker 2: eight one four seven four twenty four eighty eight. That's
Speaker 2: must nursery done in Seabrook, Texas. Eight acres of Wonderfulness.
Speaker 2: Take a friend and allow yourself some time, because there's
Speaker 2: a lot to see down there. Out west to Tomball
Speaker 2: is one of our favorite feed stores, D and D
Speaker 2: Feed and Supply. They're about three miles west of Highway
Speaker 2: to forty nine on twenty nine to twenty. You just
Speaker 2: head out twenty nine to twenty about three miles look
Speaker 2: to the left, you'll see D and D Feed. D
Speaker 2: and D has got you covered on what you need
Speaker 2: for your law and your garden and your landscape. And
Speaker 2: I'm talking about fertilizer products from nitrofoss and from Microlife
Speaker 2: and Nelson turf Star and Medina products as well, and
Speaker 2: azamite as well. Uh, if you want the jars and
Speaker 2: Elson plant food, they got that. Two they got soils
Speaker 2: from Heirloom Soils, and that is a really nice thing
Speaker 2: to have. Just drive up there, grab them and you're good.
Speaker 2: Dandy Feed the phone number is two eight one three
Speaker 2: five one seventy one forty four. Now, if you're dealing
Speaker 2: with any kind of pest from rats running around outside,
Speaker 2: to bugs on your plants, to spider mites, to diseases
Speaker 2: on your plants, to weeds that you're preventing or weeds
Speaker 2: that you're killing because they are actively growing in your garden,
Speaker 2: D and D has a product for everything, and they
Speaker 2: can tell you how to use them and how to
Speaker 2: have success with them. Dandy Feed and Supply three miles
Speaker 2: west of Tombol and two forty nine. You need to
Speaker 2: go check that place out. I love that place. I
Speaker 2: always like going in talking to Jeff and the team,
Speaker 2: the Dover family there. You know, they've been I guess
Speaker 2: they've been around since what nineteen eighty nine that they
Speaker 2: first opened up, and a big expanded store that they
Speaker 2: have now is really really nice for shopping and of
Speaker 2: course high quality pet feed too. When you're in there,
Speaker 2: I was looking over some of the products that Microlife
Speaker 2: carries and yeah, I don't know how to say it
Speaker 2: other than just they have everything you need. That is
Speaker 2: probably the easiest way that I can put it. If
Speaker 2: you're looking for granule fertilizers, you know, like they're six
Speaker 2: to four, they've got it for your lawns, and I
Speaker 2: use that on everything. I mean, it really is good
Speaker 2: for everything. If you have acid loving plants, they have
Speaker 2: got a fertilizer product for acid loving plants, if you
Speaker 2: you know, like I said, I use the communities and
Speaker 2: blueberries and whatnot. They're fertilizers are not salt based, so
Speaker 2: they're not going to burn your plants. You use a
Speaker 2: lot of it, that's not going to hurt your plants.
Speaker 2: Then they have their liquid product line. One of my
Speaker 2: favorite in the liquid line is the orange label, the
Speaker 2: excuse me, I can't talk right now, the micro Life
Speaker 2: orange label. So if you've not used that product before,
Speaker 2: it's called Biomatrix and it's a seven to one three,
Speaker 2: so it's an extra boost of nitrogen. So any of
Speaker 2: your foliage plants, especially or anything you're trying to give
Speaker 2: a boost of nitrogen to. This is a good product.
Speaker 2: And all our house plants basically are foliage plants, almost
Speaker 2: all of them, so it works really good in the house.
Speaker 2: On houseplants, they've got their ocean harvest and their super seaweed.
Speaker 2: Now that our ocean harvest and super seaweed, that's essentially
Speaker 2: what we would call fish emulsion and seaweed. You know,
Speaker 2: organic gardeners have long known you mix fish emulsion and
Speaker 2: seaweed together, and that's your organic equivalent of like a
Speaker 2: synthetic the emix and water turns the water blue or
Speaker 2: green or whatever. It's the equivalent of that kind of
Speaker 2: thing and it works. It absolutely works. So check them out.
Speaker 2: You're going to find Microlife products garden centers, feed stores,
Speaker 2: ace hardware stores Southwest for They're all over town. They're
Speaker 2: easy to find and the products work. And I say
Speaker 2: that because I've used them, you know. I that's one
Speaker 2: thing that I try to say it here on guard Line,
Speaker 2: but I think sometimes people just think, oh, well, you know,
Speaker 2: they're just a sponsor. Now, I don't take sponsors if
Speaker 2: I don't believe in their product, and if the product
Speaker 2: doesn't work, if I haven't used it or seen research
Speaker 2: on it or something like that. So I'm telling you something.
Speaker 2: It's the results I've got from it. And I can
Speaker 2: tell you that about these micro Life products because I
Speaker 2: have music means I got to quit talking, and this
Speaker 2: particular music means. We got one hour left in garden
Speaker 2: Line today for the weekend. One hour left, So if
Speaker 2: you'd like to give us a call and talk about
Speaker 2: whatever's on your mind seven one three two one two
Speaker 2: kt H, we will entertain questions about lawn weeds for
Speaker 2: crying out loud. We even talked about bug poop this morning.
Speaker 2: So I mean, it looks like nothing's inappropriate for garden line.
Speaker 2: I don't know about that. I'm gonna I'm gonna read
Speaker 2: that statement. There's a lot that's not going to talk about.
Speaker 2: We'll be right back already there. We've got some fun
Speaker 2: music coming up here in this segment. We'll we look
Speaker 2: forward to that. But this is in the music show.
Speaker 2: This is a garden line. We talk about gardening. What
Speaker 2: kind of plant questions do you have? What do you
Speaker 2: what do you wanna talk about? Maybe we can help
Speaker 2: you have success. That certainly is what I would like
Speaker 2: to happen, along with having some fun in the process,
Speaker 2: but in order to really enjoy your landscape, you know what,
Speaker 2: what kinds of tips and things can we provide to
Speaker 2: help you have that kind of success. Gardening is supposed
Speaker 2: to be fun, and it is. It is a beautifying thing, Listen.
Speaker 2: I have often kidded different friends of mine that, including ministers,
Speaker 2: that I have the one I am in, the one
Speaker 2: profession that was created a design by God. How about
Speaker 2: that for a high follutant statement. Yeah, that's right. Was
Speaker 2: it the cubicle of Eden or what is it the
Speaker 2: garden of Eden? You know what I'm saying? That's right.
Speaker 2: Let's see, I'm gonna make man. I'm gonna make him
Speaker 2: a gardener. That's it, all right, Well, the rest of
Speaker 2: you can figure that out, do it at what you want.
Speaker 2: We're having some fun here on garden line, but I
Speaker 2: really believe that we are designed to have a green thumb,
Speaker 2: to get out and enjoy plants, to enjoy nature. And
Speaker 2: you know, there's so much psychological research to support the
Speaker 2: idea of interaction with nature with plants. I've said these
Speaker 2: things before, but patients in a hospital room that look
Speaker 2: out their window at a parking lot versus look out
Speaker 2: their window at nature, the healing rate measurably. In research
Speaker 2: has been different. Kids in a classroom that struggle with
Speaker 2: add ADHD and are trying to learn experiences with plants,
Speaker 2: plants outside plants in their schooling life. It makes a difference,
Speaker 2: and they're learning Folks as they get older, struggling with dementia,
Speaker 2: people that are having trouble moving around. As they aid,
Speaker 2: there are so many benefits of gardening mentally, physically, psychologically.
Speaker 2: It really is significant and it matters. And I know,
Speaker 2: as I like to say, I know I'm biased, but
Speaker 2: that don't mean I'm wrong. In fact, in this case,
Speaker 2: I know I'm right because research has proved it out.
Speaker 2: I am because any of us who garden, we know
Speaker 2: the feeling of going out and seeing the ability to
Speaker 2: create something beautiful in your homescape, to change, to change
Speaker 2: your lot in life to a place where you look
Speaker 2: and you enjoy. You eat fresh food that you grew yourself,
Speaker 2: so you know what has been sprayed on it or
Speaker 2: not sprayed on it. You've grown it yourself, and there's
Speaker 2: a satisfaction there. The way I like to put it is,
Speaker 2: vegetables out of your garden are about fifteen hundred miles
Speaker 2: fresher than the ones you're going to buy in most cases.
Speaker 2: All Right, there's a little speech. Cinamulch south of Houston
Speaker 2: is the place you go to set things up for success.
Speaker 2: You start with the soil and you get it right,
Speaker 2: and then you put a plant in it that wants
Speaker 2: to grow here or in the spot where you're planting it,
Speaker 2: and you're set up for success. And Cena Mulch is
Speaker 2: the place that is the foundation of success. And here's
Speaker 2: why I say that. They have mulches. They have composts,
Speaker 2: they have bed mixes for all kinds of plants, and
Speaker 2: they have the nutrients they go with them, so when
Speaker 2: you drive away from Siena, you have the makings of
Speaker 2: what it takes to create a wonderful place for plants
Speaker 2: to throw. That would include fertilizers from Microlife and Nielsen
Speaker 2: their turf Star line, as well as the jars, the
Speaker 2: plant food jars, Medina products, products from nitrofoss asamite I've
Speaker 2: talked about that today and airloomsol products as well. They're
Speaker 2: all there and you can if you're within twenty miles
Speaker 2: they'll deliver for a small fee. I just go to
Speaker 2: Siennamultch dot com Ciena multch dot com. They're open Monday
Speaker 2: through Friday seven thirty to five, Saturday seven thirty to two,
Speaker 2: close today, close on Sundays Siennamoltz dot com. And I
Speaker 2: promise you this. They are the friendliest, most helpful folks
Speaker 2: that you're gonna find you will enjoy, I'll say, shopping
Speaker 2: there at Cienamulch. We're going to head now out to
Speaker 2: Lakeside Estates and talk to Maureene this morning. Hello Maureen,
Speaker 2: and welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 11: Yes, I'm excited because I'm going to be a first
Speaker 11: time owner of a salsonium plant. I've always seen them,
Speaker 11: but just wasn't able to make a connection to buy one.
Speaker 11: So here I am today. My question is, okay, would
Speaker 11: it prefer a zalia soil or rose soil mix? And
Speaker 11: the label said something about a high fertilizer value, so
Speaker 11: not sure? Can you answer those for me so I
Speaker 11: can get off to a good start.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know you're not going to go wrong with
Speaker 2: either of those soils for delfinium, It's going to do
Speaker 2: well in either one.
Speaker 6: I I you know that.
Speaker 2: I love the big tall bloom spikes that they have.
Speaker 2: They can you just need to give them a good
Speaker 2: spot where they get a good sunlight. But a little
Speaker 2: late day sun wouldn't hurt, especially as things kind of
Speaker 2: get hot around here, you know that can that's a
Speaker 2: challenge for a lot of the plants that we do.
Speaker 2: But delfinium is not that difficult, not that terribly difficult
Speaker 2: to grow. It can take take a lot of the
Speaker 2: conditions we have, so I would probably give it slightly
Speaker 2: acidic soil. Rose soil is a little bit on the
Speaker 2: acidic side usually uh and the azalea types of soil,
Speaker 2: of course, those those are acidic. But it's not like
Speaker 2: an azalea or a blueberry or something where you just
Speaker 2: have to have really you know, more acidic conditions for
Speaker 2: it to thrive.
Speaker 13: Okay, and anything about.
Speaker 5: It.
Speaker 11: It's a big plant right now. The note dude say,
Speaker 11: don't break up the root ball. So should I still
Speaker 11: be using something to encourage the root to grow? There's
Speaker 11: a lot on the market. I can't remember ahead.
Speaker 2: I would give. I would, Yeah, I would get the
Speaker 2: Medina Medina product that I keep talking about all the time.
Speaker 2: I just I just find it be Okay, I know
Speaker 2: the yeah, great way to.
Speaker 11: Success every once in a while, but yeah, Medina is fine.
Speaker 11: Medina has to grow the one.
Speaker 2: That you or yeah, I would, I would. I would
Speaker 2: do the six twelve six has to grow plant food. Yeah,
Speaker 2: six twelve six, and watered in with that and do
Speaker 2: it again twice more about a week apart. And I
Speaker 2: think that is about all you need to do initially
Speaker 2: and then going forward, just moderate amounts of fertilizer. They're
Speaker 2: not super heavy feeders. You know, you're not going to
Speaker 2: have to go through uh, just extra fertilizing all the time.
Speaker 2: They A moderate amount is probably what you want. They're
Speaker 2: going to get pretty tall, so have you might want
Speaker 2: to have some way of supporting those bloomstalks, and there
Speaker 2: are different ways people do that, but if it's on
Speaker 2: the spot, I.
Speaker 11: Have long pals, I have long coals and the real
Speaker 11: skinny because I have orchards also, and so sometimes I
Speaker 11: have to but maybe I'll have to even resort to more.
Speaker 11: And so what's their blooming season?
Speaker 2: Primarily spring? Probably spring to early summer is primarily when
Speaker 2: we see those bloom the ones that I've dealt with before.
Speaker 2: Uh and by the way, I'm coming up here on
Speaker 2: a break, Maureene, so I'm gonna have to go, but
Speaker 2: uh it, congratulations on that.
Speaker 11: Yes, I'm very happy. Alrighty, I'm gonna give it a
Speaker 11: good try.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 2: All right, Well there you go, all right, take care,
Speaker 2: ay bye, all right, I'm gonna take a break. I'll
Speaker 2: be right back. All right, we're gonna leave that without comments.
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Speaker 2: interesting lyrics, right, welcome back to garden Line. My apologies
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Speaker 2: two kat r Ah, let's talk about the things that
Speaker 2: interest you. Nelson Plant Food in their turf Star line,
Speaker 2: which is all their products for lawns, have something called
Speaker 2: Bruce's Brew. Bruce's Brew is a unique product. I could
Speaker 2: call it a hybrid, but in some ways that's inaccurate.
Speaker 2: But here's what it is. It's a fertilizer that is
Speaker 2: both a fast release and a slow release. Okay, so
Speaker 2: there's some forms of nitrogen in it that are going
Speaker 2: to release right away for a good greenup, and then
Speaker 2: there's some forms of nitrogen that are going to take
Speaker 2: two or three months to do their release over time.
Speaker 2: And so when you put Bruceus Brew down, you're not
Speaker 2: only taking care of right now with a good boost,
Speaker 2: but you are taking care of a few months ahead
Speaker 2: of you there as well. Bruce's Brew from Nelson's, part
Speaker 2: of the turf Star line, is available in a lot
Speaker 2: of places around town. It's easy to find and the
Speaker 2: stuff works. It is a high quality product designed with
Speaker 2: forms of nitrogen that not only feed the micro in
Speaker 2: the soil, but provide that nice even release over time
Speaker 2: to help you have a good result, a nice, beautiful
Speaker 2: dnse lawn. And that's what we're really out to achieve, right,
Speaker 2: I mean, that is our goal as we do that.
Speaker 2: If you haven't been out to Enchanted Forest Garden Center,
Speaker 2: they're down in the Richmond Rosenberg area, specifically on the
Speaker 2: Katie Fulscher side of the Richmond Rosenberg area. So when
Speaker 2: you go out to Ingented Gardens Number One, jaw's gonna
Speaker 2: drop when you step out of the car and see
Speaker 2: that place. It is an expanse of all kinds of
Speaker 2: wonderful plants and pottery. I think the last time I
Speaker 2: was out there was just recently. They had some of
Speaker 2: their wire basket planters. And when I say basket, I
Speaker 2: don't mean a thin basket. I mean a real heavy
Speaker 2: duty kind of metal wire structure that you line with
Speaker 2: like a cocoa cocoa core liner and fill it with
Speaker 2: potting soil and you can plan anything. Then they have
Speaker 2: some that stand, they're on stands and they're you know,
Speaker 2: a waist higher. They have some that hang on chains
Speaker 2: from underneath the trees there. It's an old rustic look
Speaker 2: that is so attractive. They got plenty of those. And
Speaker 2: Chris they have a lot of other kinds of containers.
Speaker 2: When you go out there, you're going to find everything
Speaker 2: you need. They carry the fertilizer products, they carry the
Speaker 2: products for dealing with pests and diseases, and perhaps most
Speaker 2: importantly of all, they know their stuff. The Liniman family
Speaker 2: has been in business since what nineteen ninety five, I
Speaker 2: believe when the Antended Gardens Burst opened.
Speaker 19: Uh.
Speaker 2: And you know Joey running the place now. He's just
Speaker 2: just a wealth of information, very active in the bigger
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Speaker 2: just some citrus, they some citrus trees on hand. A
Speaker 2: really beautiful you know. One of the cool kind of
Speaker 2: hot new plants is the blue butterfly pee. That's one
Speaker 2: people love. It's got the deep deep indigo blue flowers
Speaker 2: that when you dry them and steep them in tea,
Speaker 2: it turns the turns the water of bluish color depending
Speaker 2: on the pH you if you make it, I can't remember.
Speaker 2: I believe it's well anyway. One one acidic I think
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Speaker 2: It's not one that you find in just ever place.
Speaker 2: They're a biscus selection, super super hot, all kinds of
Speaker 2: beautiful biscus, gorgeous cone flowers. I can just sit here
Speaker 2: and go on and on. Do you like succulents and cacti?
Speaker 2: You should see the collections that they have. They're really cool,
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Speaker 2: Gardens Richmond dot com. That's the website. Go check it out.
Speaker 2: While you're there, pick up fertilizers from Microlife, Nitroposs and
Speaker 2: Nelson plant Food, medina, soils from Nature's Way and Heirloom. So,
Speaker 2: I mean, they got everything you need. When you drive
Speaker 2: away from there, you got no excuse. You got the plants,
Speaker 2: you got the supplies to go with them, and you
Speaker 2: got the advice that you need. Now just go home
Speaker 2: and do it and you can enjoy and create that
Speaker 2: kind of miniature Eden right there at your place with
Speaker 2: intented gardens and a Richmond. We had a lot of
Speaker 2: storms last year that really hammered trees, took them down,
Speaker 2: took out our power. It was horrible, just a lot
Speaker 2: of devastation. You know, there's a lot that a good
Speaker 2: tree service can do to protect a tree against a storm,
Speaker 2: creating a good structure that has the best chance of surviving.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, you can't get a hurricane that
Speaker 2: knocks over anything, right, but there's a lot you can
Speaker 2: do with proper pruning and care. And Martin spoon Moore,
Speaker 2: you know he started. I don't know how long ago
Speaker 2: Martin's been in the business, but the fan it's ow
Speaker 2: fifty four years in the tree business. Martin's a third generation,
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Speaker 2: Whether you need just a consultation or whether you want
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Speaker 2: construction around a tree that includes sidewalks and driveways, anything
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Speaker 2: out first and advise you. After the damage is done,
Speaker 2: they can help, but you've taken a lot of the
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Speaker 2: of time. Pre construction care with some consultation very very important,
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Speaker 2: seven to one three six two six six three. We're
Speaker 2: going to head now out to Spring and talk to Ruth. Hello, Ruth,
Speaker 2: welcome to garden Mine.
Speaker 17: Thank you, good morning.
Speaker 20: We bought some drink goods at a at a box
Speaker 20: and about three days after we planted them, the leads
Speaker 20: started curling.
Speaker 17: The lengthwise of the leaf.
Speaker 20: Uh huh, not from a tip to thet so anyhow well,
Speaker 20: I was concerned.
Speaker 17: We've watered them, and then we thought, well, let's hold
Speaker 17: off on watering.
Speaker 14: But they still do it.
Speaker 17: Sometimes they don't, sometimes they do, but they're looking worse.
Speaker 14: The color is good.
Speaker 17: I was wondering the fungus that make us can get.
Speaker 2: It is not if it happened that fast in your bed.
Speaker 2: That is a stress response, and so it could happen
Speaker 2: if a lot of roots were damaged in the process
Speaker 2: of planting, maybe they dried out, maybe they broke, who
Speaker 2: knows what that could happen. It could happen if when
Speaker 2: you watered after that, you didn't get that little root
Speaker 2: ball that you put in the ground wet. You know,
Speaker 2: that's all the roots are in that little rootball. So
Speaker 2: if the soil is moist around them, the root ball
Speaker 2: still can pump out the water and dry out and
Speaker 2: go into a drop stress because it hasn't you know,
Speaker 2: it hasn't got roots out around it in the soil.
Speaker 2: So it could happen from that. Different kinds of stresses
Speaker 2: can do it, you know. But if you just keep
Speaker 2: taking care of them, try to keep the soil evenly moist.
Speaker 2: Because too much water is bad, so idi wet no
Speaker 2: oxygen in the roots, that's bad, but not enough water
Speaker 2: is bad. And so when you water for a while,
Speaker 2: make sure you're getting water right there in that root ball.
Speaker 2: Well and the soil around it a little bit too,
Speaker 2: but but mainly that rootball. Watch for that, and they
Speaker 2: should work out of it. I think they'll pick up.
Speaker 2: Unless the stress would were to lead to some sort
Speaker 2: of a root rod or something, well then they're going
Speaker 2: to go downhill and you can't stop that. But I
Speaker 2: think they'll be okay, I think they should.
Speaker 10: Yeah, they're still green.
Speaker 17: Okay, they're still green and buds.
Speaker 2: But it's not okay. Good look that's that's just a
Speaker 2: stress response and we get stressed and we live through it.
Speaker 2: It's okay. Thanks Ruth. I appreciate your call very much.
Speaker 2: Thanks a lot. If you're going to pot up any
Speaker 2: kind of plant on the patio or indoors, you need
Speaker 2: to know about jungle land distributed by nitrophoss. Outdoors, they've
Speaker 2: got the flower and vegetable planning soil. Indoors, they got
Speaker 2: the water saving planning sol Let's talk about that water
Speaker 2: saving planning soil. It's got crystals in it. They to me,
Speaker 2: they look like a little clear jello chunks, very tiny,
Speaker 2: very small, but they whole water much longer than the
Speaker 2: soil does. So when you forget the water, okay, you
Speaker 2: don't forget the water. When your neighbor forgets the water,
Speaker 2: and they their plants will have roots around those crystals
Speaker 2: and they can get a little bit extra out of
Speaker 2: that to carry them through until the plant owner remembers
Speaker 2: to go back and water. Am in really good anyway,
Speaker 2: That is jungle land, water saving, potting, soil a. Youre
Speaker 2: going to find jungle land products or excuse me, nitrovoss
Speaker 2: products many different places. You go up to Cyprus to
Speaker 2: m and Dace or down maybe the Ace Hardware Copperfield
Speaker 2: on FM five twenty nine Langham Creek Ace Hardware, or
Speaker 2: go down to the Kadi area to both the Pinoak
Speaker 2: location Kdace Hardware and the Ace Hardware Sinkle Ranch on
Speaker 2: Mason Road. All kinds of places where you're going to
Speaker 2: find nitrofos products. Let's head out now to Seabrook and
Speaker 2: we're gonna talk to Lisa this morning. Hello, Lisa, good morning.
Speaker 8: I have a question.
Speaker 13: We want to landscape the entire of a U shaped
Speaker 13: drive and we want to have a border of shrubs
Speaker 13: and then white drift roots wood roses. But okay, we're
Speaker 13: trying to decide on what to use for the border.
Speaker 13: I know we could try something like boxwood, but I
Speaker 13: had read that you could use rosemary as a border,
Speaker 13: which you recommend that.
Speaker 2: If the soil is very well drained. Rosemary makes a
Speaker 2: nice evergreen shrub that you can use. Now there's times
Speaker 2: when it gets looking a little ratty as it gets
Speaker 2: older and you do a little trimming on it, but
Speaker 2: it is an option. But with our rainfall here and
Speaker 2: in that enclosed U shaped drive, I just question whether
Speaker 2: the drainage would always be sufficient for it. But if
Speaker 2: it is, rosemary is an option another. I would not
Speaker 2: do boxwood. They just have a lot of They just
Speaker 2: are having more and more problems with a couple of
Speaker 2: diseases that affect them. You could do a orfeopon that
Speaker 2: would be an option to put in there. There's some
Speaker 2: there are some compact hollies that would do well in
Speaker 2: an area like that as well, if you just want
Speaker 2: a good green shrub, and of course there are many
Speaker 2: other kinds of shrubs. But that you're right in the
Speaker 2: back door of Moss Nursery, So swing by there and
Speaker 2: they're going to have eight hundred options for you that
Speaker 2: they could recommend for an area. I'm assuming it gets
Speaker 2: it gets good son.
Speaker 13: Right, Oh, all day, all day.
Speaker 2: It's okay.
Speaker 13: It's a lot of sun. Yeah, okay, yeah, I wanted well,
Speaker 13: but I read that they don't do good with roses.
Speaker 2: Well, it's not that they're with roses. They're going to
Speaker 2: be shorter statued and they'll do okay. I don't know
Speaker 2: where it said they wouldn't or what the reason was,
Speaker 2: but hey, I got about five seconds until a break here, Lisa.
Speaker 2: But thank you very much for the call. I do
Speaker 2: appreciate it. All right, folks, I'll be right back in
Speaker 2: just one second. Hang around all right, evoke you welcome
Speaker 2: back to garden Line. Good to have you with us.
Speaker 2: We're talking gardening and having fun here today, and I
Speaker 2: am glad you're around to be part of that. Thanks
Speaker 2: a lot for listening in. Uh, why don't we just
Speaker 2: let's see where are we here? Yeah, we're gonna go
Speaker 2: straight out here to Bay City and talk to Ross
Speaker 2: this morning. Hello Ross, and welcome to garden Mine.
Speaker 4: Hello Skip. How are you doing?
Speaker 2: I'm doing well? Thank you.
Speaker 4: I've got a question.
Speaker 21: I've got about ten live oak trees, and I got
Speaker 21: about three of.
Speaker 4: Them that just don't seem to be doing that.
Speaker 13: Good you know.
Speaker 2: And I was live oak.
Speaker 21: You said, yes, sir, live oak. And they're probably about
Speaker 21: I guess. I planted them when they were very small.
Speaker 21: Seven of them came up. I started from an acorn,
Speaker 21: and uh, they're probably about twenty years old almost, I guess.
Speaker 4: But for some reason the last couple of years, I
Speaker 4: got about three of them that just this seemed like
Speaker 4: you're going downhill for some reason.
Speaker 2: Okay, and uh, maybe when you started them ross, did
Speaker 2: you start them in a container and then transplant them
Speaker 2: out or did you just go out in the yard
Speaker 2: and drop an acron in the ground.
Speaker 21: I started them in a container and then once they
Speaker 21: got them about three four inches tall, I stuck them
Speaker 21: in the ground and kept them water and they did
Speaker 21: fine for years.
Speaker 4: Three of them had bought from Lamar Evans.
Speaker 21: Uh he's an oak tree guy in Bay City, and uh,
Speaker 21: well when I bought him to they was it was
Speaker 21: just a solid block of wood.
Speaker 4: Because when I took the uh.
Speaker 21: The two or three gallon container they were in, they
Speaker 21: were they it was down those are those you know
Speaker 21: doing all right?
Speaker 2: But okay, you so here, here's here's what I here's
Speaker 2: what I think is happening. This is my best shot,
Speaker 2: based on the information that you provided, I think that
Speaker 2: they have got a girdling root that is affecting the tree.
Speaker 2: So here's what happens when you put a plant and
Speaker 2: a container and it's the root hits the sides of
Speaker 2: the container and it can't do anything but turn and
Speaker 2: go around in a circle. And that little root is
Speaker 2: the size of a piece of spaghetti, and the trunk
Speaker 2: is a little bitty. But as that trunk gets bigger
Speaker 2: and bigger, and as the root gets bigger and bigger,
Speaker 2: the two come together and then that root becomes a
Speaker 2: strangling item around the trunk. Then the trunk, as it
Speaker 2: grows out and the root gets bigger, it just chokes
Speaker 2: it in the root. It's like you put a band
Speaker 2: of metal around the trunk, and you know at some
Speaker 2: point it's going to be a problem. And it starts
Speaker 2: not doing so good. It lacks, it's bigger, and you
Speaker 2: even start seeing die back where the shoot ends of shoots,
Speaker 2: you know, kind of die back. And the only way
Speaker 2: to check that for sure, to see if I'm right
Speaker 2: about that, is to go out and get you a
Speaker 2: strong blast of water and maybe even a little hand
Speaker 2: trowel and dig around the base of the plant, try
Speaker 2: to get down about six inches deep and go all
Speaker 2: the way around it and look for that. If you
Speaker 2: find it and it's not too late, meaning it's not
Speaker 2: so embedded that you can't fix it, you can take
Speaker 2: a saw. You can take a hamorrhnaches or whatever, just
Speaker 2: to cut a root and set that trunk free to
Speaker 2: go to resume expanding outward and growing healthy. If it's
Speaker 2: too far along, it's probably you're probably not going to
Speaker 2: be able to save it. But that that's just a
Speaker 2: matter of taking a look and trying. That's most likely
Speaker 2: what's happening. The only other thing would be to give
Speaker 2: it some nitrogen fertilizer, some lawn type fertilizer and water
Speaker 2: it in really good and kind of loosen up the soil.
Speaker 2: Put as big of a mult area around them as
Speaker 2: you can to keep the competition from grasses and we away. Uh,
Speaker 2: and also to keep the lawn mower in string trimor
Speaker 2: away because when they hit the bark they do damage.
Speaker 2: But that that's what based on what you said, I
Speaker 2: think that's what we're dealing with.
Speaker 21: Yeah, Well, the ones that the three that were root bound,
Speaker 21: I mean just a solid block of wood. This has been,
Speaker 21: like I said, about twenty years ago, and they've already
Speaker 21: got about a five inch trunk on them.
Speaker 4: And I had one tree that was my best and
Speaker 4: for some reason the main branch is just started dying
Speaker 4: off on me.
Speaker 21: And that tree is about dead almost, but it's got
Speaker 21: a thousands of shoots coming out off the.
Speaker 4: Bottom and some are coming out of the trunk, and
Speaker 4: I don't know those are healthiest.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a yeah, well you can. You can cut
Speaker 2: it back to there that that wound is going to
Speaker 2: leave exposed wood that will begin to decay, So that
Speaker 2: will be a weak spot in the trunk of that tree.
Speaker 2: If it were mine for lawn terms sake, I would
Speaker 2: get rid of that tree and and and get a good, healthy,
Speaker 2: fresh one and put it in there. So it's it's
Speaker 2: not just a matter can you keep it alive. Yes,
Speaker 2: you can probably keep it alive, but structurally you don't
Speaker 2: need something that the next big storm that comes through,
Speaker 2: when it's already a large tree, is gonna snap it off. Okay.
Speaker 2: So that that's my two cents worth. That's about That's
Speaker 2: that's all I know to tell you on that check
Speaker 2: for the girdling roots and then give it fertilizer about
Speaker 2: one or two cups per inch of trunk diameter, one
Speaker 2: or two cups per inch of trunk diameter watered and
Speaker 2: really good. And that's about what's within your power. Ross. Hey,
Speaker 2: I got a run, but thank you very much. I
Speaker 2: do appreciate calling, and I wish you well and getting
Speaker 2: that getting that work. And let me know if you
Speaker 2: do find some girdling roots that are embedded in the
Speaker 2: trunk like an inn a conda strangle in the thing.
Speaker 21: Okay, if if I put armon hammered litter around the trees,
Speaker 21: but that hurts the tree by any chance, you know,
Speaker 21: litter arm and hammer Uh, litter litter from a cat.
Speaker 2: I don't, I don't. I don't know what all might
Speaker 2: be in it. It probably won't hurt anything, but I
Speaker 2: just don't know on that one. But thanks a lot.
Speaker 2: I appreciate I appreciate your call.
Speaker 10: Hey.
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Speaker 2: potting soa. Do you need something for cactium's, cacti and
Speaker 2: succulentce Do you need a product that you would put
Speaker 2: out there as a landscape bed mix. Maybe you're gonna
Speaker 2: grow veggies and herbs, maybe you're gonna grow roses. Each
Speaker 2: thing I'm saying is a different product that they carry,
Speaker 2: and it's a quality product. Expanded shield, mold, compost, expanded
Speaker 2: shell with compost, you know, and then mulches, mulches, multius mulches.
Speaker 2: If you want to take care of the brown stuff,
Speaker 2: which is what I constantly recommend you do here on Guardenline.
Speaker 2: You need to know about airloom soils and you need
Speaker 2: to take advantage of it. Go to the website. It
Speaker 2: is awesome heirloomsoils dot com. There's a great calculator there
Speaker 2: for knowing how much to order. You can buy airloom
Speaker 2: soil stuff by the bag all over town and beyond down.
Speaker 2: I mean they extensive selection all over the place. Okay,
Speaker 2: you can buy it by the bulk. You can go
Speaker 2: get it at the porter location out there at Orange Rocket,
Speaker 2: Mulch and Porter, or you can have them deliver it
Speaker 2: to you and dump it on the driveway, or you
Speaker 2: can have them deliver it to you in the neat
Speaker 2: clean one Qbyard Supersack. That's right. They just pick this
Speaker 2: big sack up, set it on your driveway. I've done
Speaker 2: that before myself. It is neat clean and easy. I
Speaker 2: love that way. Airloom soils great products, great options, great prices,
Speaker 2: and most of all, they work. And I tell you
Speaker 2: that because I use them, I know that they work.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to Conra now we're going to talk
Speaker 2: to Carol. Hello, Carol, Welcome to guard Line.
Speaker 22: Hi Skip, I'd listen every weekend. Glad you're there. You're
Speaker 22: always so upbeat and exciting to listen to. I have
Speaker 22: a question about coconut core bricks. I see those on
Speaker 22: the Internet and various places, those brick shaped things you
Speaker 22: put in water and it expands. Are they the same
Speaker 22: from location to locations? You have to be careful where
Speaker 22: you buy them as far as what else is in them,
Speaker 22: or do they even work? Would you recommend using those
Speaker 22: probably in a raised bed or even in potted plants?
Speaker 2: All right, good question. As far as I know, they're
Speaker 2: about the same. Basically, they take coconuts and that shaggy
Speaker 2: stuff on the outside of coconuts gets stripped off and
Speaker 2: it gets formulated into the coconut core that we talk
Speaker 2: about liners for hanging baskets made out of coconut core.
Speaker 2: You can buy the bricks, or you can buy several
Speaker 2: different products that have coconut core in them. It's a
Speaker 2: replacement for peat moss because peat moss is a mine product,
Speaker 2: and we do know there's not an unlimited supply of
Speaker 2: peat moss in the world, and so people have been
Speaker 2: moving away toward a more renewable product like coconut core
Speaker 2: because your coconuts grow, you got more core, and so
Speaker 2: it's one that we can use for that. It holds
Speaker 2: water well, it drains. Okay, you probably would want to
Speaker 2: use something with it, like a pearlite or a vermiculite
Speaker 2: if you were going to make a potting mix from
Speaker 2: the coconut core, but it's up to you. Yes, it works,
Speaker 2: but however you want to go about it, it'll be fine.
Speaker 2: It's already been rinsed and washed, so it doesn't have
Speaker 2: the salt any kind of a salt content or anything
Speaker 2: in it, and it ought to be fine for whatever
Speaker 2: you're growing.
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, great, thanks all right, Thanks.
Speaker 2: For the call. Appreciate that. Appreciate you being a listener
Speaker 2: to Guardline. The Nitrofus super Turf, I've been telling you
Speaker 2: about it for a while. I'm gonna keep telling you
Speaker 2: about it because all summer long. Nitrofus Superturf is a
Speaker 2: product to put down. Now, if you haven't fertilized in
Speaker 2: six weeks with anything like the fast release, like the
Speaker 2: red Imperial Bag or whatever, you can put it on
Speaker 2: the Nitrofas superturf. When once you put it down you
Speaker 2: need it's gonna last. It'll last up to four months
Speaker 2: out there in the environment. And so we're kind of
Speaker 2: hitting a point now where putting it down may carry
Speaker 2: you on through most of the summer and then with
Speaker 2: the clipping decomposition, you're pretty good shaped there. I'll bet
Speaker 2: you can apply it a couple times during the summer.
Speaker 2: Usually I'll want to put it on sometime in April
Speaker 2: and then probably come back in a little later in
Speaker 2: the summer and do it again to carry into a fall.
Speaker 2: But it works, and you can find it in a
Speaker 2: lot of places. You can find it done in Chenny Forest,
Speaker 2: in Chanet Gardens down to Richmond, Rosenberg area. If you
Speaker 2: are near Plantation Ace Hardware, same area on FM three
Speaker 2: point fifty nine, you're going to find night Foss products there,
Speaker 2: Court Hardware and Stafford on South Maine. Let's see oh
Speaker 2: Hiding and feed up on Interstate forty five North area
Speaker 2: on Steuben or Airline another place you're going to get
Speaker 2: night Foss products like that super turf and it really
Speaker 2: does worry. It's easy to find two in the store.
Speaker 2: Just look for the silver bag Night to Foss Superturf
Speaker 2: silver bag. All right, let's do this. Let's go now
Speaker 2: in the Houston area. We're going to talk to Kbob. Hey, Kbob,
Speaker 2: what's up?
Speaker 11: Hi?
Speaker 19: Good morning. Someone had told me about a Japanese olive tree.
Speaker 19: Don't know anything about them, but if I put it
Speaker 19: close to the house, the root system is concerns me.
Speaker 19: And they tell me that you could throw it into
Speaker 19: a tree ten and twelve feet high, or you can
Speaker 19: keep it a bush. Any information on that.
Speaker 2: Japanese are live? Was there any any more information on
Speaker 2: the tag.
Speaker 19: I'm trying to This wasn't a tag. It was something
Speaker 19: that somebody has at their house. It looked pretty and
Speaker 19: they just referred to it as a Japanese olive tree.
Speaker 19: Now I don't know if it's okay, I'm no Japanese
Speaker 19: plum trees, but I never heard of Japanese olive trees.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm trying to think, well, there's there's olives are
Speaker 2: native to the Mediterranean area, but olive. Uh, there is
Speaker 2: a Japanese privet that is in the olive family but
Speaker 2: is not an olive tree, and.
Speaker 19: That supposedly doesn't grow at a grows fruit, but it's
Speaker 19: not really alas that it is an edible fruit. So
Speaker 19: I've been told.
Speaker 2: I think, yeah, I'm pretty sure you were talking about
Speaker 2: Japanese privet, that is my guess. Okay. Now, Japanese privet
Speaker 2: is a plant that we worry about because of invasiveness.
Speaker 2: It does produce little berries that uh you know, it's
Speaker 2: a fruit of that plant, but a lot of the
Speaker 2: a lot of the privets, it's a lugustrum. A lot
Speaker 2: of the lagustriums and privets and things have the potential
Speaker 2: for invasiveness, and and we're not real crazy about those.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 2: And so they are to the birds where the birds
Speaker 2: eat the berries. Wherever they poop, they plant a tree.
Speaker 2: And so I'm I'm not sure which plant you're talking about,
Speaker 2: because I don't I don't know a plant that we
Speaker 2: refer to as Japanese olive. Someone out there listening may
Speaker 2: may call a plant that, But Japanese privet is a possibility.
Speaker 2: I guess there's also an eliagnous. It's not Japanese though,
Speaker 2: but uh Eleagnus is uh sometimes referred to as an
Speaker 2: olive tree because that's what eliagnous means, but it's not
Speaker 2: a true olive either. Uh So anyway, those are thoughts.
Speaker 2: I just watch out for them if it's truly a
Speaker 2: If you go online and do a Google search or however,
Speaker 2: you search for a Japanese privet and see if that
Speaker 2: looks like your plant. The only comment I'd have about
Speaker 2: it is be careful. Those get kind of invasive.
Speaker 19: What about the root system if you're playing close to.
Speaker 2: The house, shrubs don't develop the same size and extensiveness
Speaker 2: of a root that a tree would, and so I
Speaker 2: wouldn't worry a lot about it as a foundation thing.
Speaker 2: But here's the deal with roots around a foundation. Let
Speaker 2: me just check our time. We're about to run out here.
Speaker 2: Roots around a foundation, It's not that the root goes
Speaker 2: under your slab and lifts it up like a root
Speaker 2: would lift a sidewalk or driveway. It's that the roots
Speaker 2: suck up all the moisture and so the ground is
Speaker 2: very wet after a rain with the rain coming off
Speaker 2: the roof, it's sopping wet. And then when it doesn't
Speaker 2: rain for a while, the roots are all through that
Speaker 2: area and they pump the little dry and that wetting
Speaker 2: and drying creates shrinking and swelling, and that's what does
Speaker 2: the damage to the foundation. So if you've got a
Speaker 2: tree or shrub anywhere near the house, they're gonna put
Speaker 2: roots over there because there's a lot of good water
Speaker 2: that comes off the house. And so it's not just
Speaker 2: that they're planted near the house that you're going to
Speaker 2: have a root issue over there. And that would be
Speaker 2: the thing I would be concerned about, and not the
Speaker 2: size of the root. Thank you so much, Well, thank
Speaker 2: you appreciate your final caller today. So congratulations. I wish
Speaker 2: we had a door prize, but so we tell it.
Speaker 2: Thanks a lot, Thanks a lot, Ky Bob, appreciate that.
Speaker 2: All right, folks, don't forget where am I going to
Speaker 2: be next Saturday for the final appearance of the Year, Arburgate, Arburgate,
Speaker 2: Tom Ball, you got to go Arbrogate anyway, I'm going
Speaker 2: to be there, and I'm told everybody tells me they're
Speaker 2: going to have a peach Bellini machine. So I'm going
Speaker 2: to set it to the side a little bit so
Speaker 2: I don't get run over by you trampling me down
Speaker 2: trying to get to the peach Balini maschine. Joking aside,
Speaker 2: You got to come out Arbrogate looks beautiful right now.
Speaker 2: They have so many plants, as they always do. Bring
Speaker 2: your friends, let's make a day out of this. They
Speaker 2: got great gift shops. I'll tell you this, if you
Speaker 2: got a friend that's not into plants, you bring them
Speaker 2: to Arbigate. We're gonna fix that because when they see
Speaker 2: the kinds of plants and the options, next thing you know,
Speaker 2: you've got a plant buddy. They're gonna be taking cuttings
Speaker 2: from your house. You gonna have to run them off.